GR translation: Wear-the-Pantsers

[Paul Mackin]

The Deciders, those who are so won over by the evidence FOR, they can't see
the countervailing evidence AGAINST.  W marching into Iraq.

On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 3:33 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V676.34-677.6   This is less a fighting team than nest full of snits,
> blues, crotchets and grudges, not a rare or fabled bird in the lot. Its
> survival seems, after all, only a mutter of blind fortune groping through
> the heavy marbling of skies one Titanic-Night at a time. Which is why
> Slothrop now observes his coalition with hopes for success and hopes for
> disaster about equally high (and no, that doesn’t cancel out to apathy—it
> makes a loud dissonance that dovetails inside you sharp as knives). It does
> annoy him that he can be so divided, so perfectly unable to come down on
> one side or another. Those whom the old Puritan sermons denounced as “the
> glozing neuters of the world” have no easy road to haul down,
> Wear-the-Pantsers, just cause you can’t see it doesn’t mean it’s not there!
> Energy inside is just as real, just as binding and inescapable, as energy
> that shows. When’s the last time you felt intensely lukewarm? eh?
>
> I assume "Wear-the-Pantsers" are the opposites of the "glozing neuters",
> is that correct?
>
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