GR translation: Wear-the-Pantsers
Mike Jing
gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com
Fri Dec 25 12:14:35 CST 2015
Thanks for the reply, Perry and Paul. Just wanted to make sure.
On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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