GR translation: but knowing more together than they ever have so far

Paul Mackin mackin.paul at gmail.com
Fri Dec 25 13:48:07 CST 2015


You're correct.

On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm not sure if I'm reading you correctly, but here it's the eyes of
> Christian and Enzian that now meet, unless I'm terribly mistaken.
>
> On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 7:01 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am not too confident but I guess I have read it almost
>> impressionistically, phenomenologically; that since they have the closeness
>> of siblings and since one's dream life is a good in Pynchon, that she
>> entered his dream with such a message of no revenge, trust and love, when
>> their eyes now meet, he is not " amused" enough to accept the dream, she
>> can see that, ( one way they know more together) yet he is not disagreeing,
>> " challenging" and she can see that, so their combined self-awareness of
>> sorta everything, but I guess each other but maybe rocket and revenge also
>> ( or most)
>> I'd like to hear what another translator on the Plist thinks.
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> On Dec 24, 2015, at 6:13 AM, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I didn't see your question posted initially. I hope someone else chimes
>> in because I really don't know.  I was trying to find the section in my
>> copy but our page numbers do not line up. Does this come before or after
>> Byron the bulb?
>>
>> On Thursday, December 24, 2015, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Does this mean they know more about the Rocket and Blicero? About each
>>> other? Or something else?  The first seems to be the most likely.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 12:38 AM, Mike Jing <
>>> gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> V673.30-39   Christian comes past, downhill adjusting a web belt, not
>>>> quite swaggering—night before last his sister Maria visited him in a dream
>>>> to tell him she wished no revenge against anyone, and wanted him to trust
>>>> and love the Nguarorerue—so their eyes now meet not quite amused nor quite
>>>> yet in a challenge, but knowing more together than they ever have so far,
>>>> and Christian’s hand at the moment of passing cocks out half in salute,
>>>> half in celebration, aimed toward the Heath, northwesterly,
>>>> Kingdom-of-Deathward, and Enzian’s goes out the same way, iya, ’kurandye!
>>>> as, at some point, the two palms do slide and brush, do touch, and it is
>>>> touch and trust enough, for this moment . . .
>>>>
>>>> what does "but knowing more together than they ever have so far“ mean
>>>> here?
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>
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