GR translation: Procalowski-down-out-of-the-sky-in-a-machine

[Mike Jing]

Thanks for responding, Monte, Mark, and Kal.  I get the deus ex machina
part, and I guess Procalowski must be involved.

On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 5:32 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:

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> On 18.12.2015 11:04, Mark Kohut wrote:
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> Perhaps that " so clearly" is there to indicate awareness that the
> deus-ex-machina IS kinda clumsy, arbitrary, so much so that it led him to
> think the disposing of Blicero was only conditional then Pynchon twists the
> metal ( of a machine, of machina) into flesh.
> Another genius way of telling us: This is real. He was a body.
>
>
> I think that this reading makes sense.
>
>
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> On Dec 17, 2015, at 9:21 PM, Monte Davis < <montedavis49 at gmail.com>
> montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Deus ex machina.. Greek or Latin theater, a god is introduced "from the
> sky" (a hoist and/or ropes), usually at a climactic point in the drama
>
> Has come to connote arbitrary, clumsy storytelling, although I don't get
> that here
>
> On Thursday, December 17, 2015, Mike Jing <
> <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> V672.7-16   He lost Blicero, but it wasn’t quite as real. After the last
>> firing, the unremembered night-hours to Hamburg, the hop from Hamburg to
>> Bydgoszcz in a purloined P-51 Mustang was so clearly
>> Procalowskidown-out-of-the-sky-in-a-machine, that Thanatz came to imagine
>> he had disposed of Blicero too only in that same very conditional, metallic
>> way. And sure enough, the metal has given way to flesh, and sweat, and long
>> chattering night encounters, Blicero cross-legged stammering down at his
>> crotch I cuh-cuh-cuh-cuh—”Can’t,” Blicero? “Couldn’t”? “Care”? “Cry”?
>> Blicero that night was offering all his weapons, laying down all maps of
>> his revetments and labyrinths.
>>
>> What is "Procalowski-down-out-of-the-sky-in-a-machine"?
>>
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