GR translation: lying beside a stranger in a pig disguise

[Mark Wright]

flying. as in flight, to flee swiftly. also flying as in flight of bird,
aspiration, missile

On Thursday, February 5, 2015, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:

> The stranger in the pig disguise is Slothrop as you certainly know, and
> the problem of the sentence is I think the shifting pov, Slothrop seeing
> himself with her eyes for a moment, he lying here flightless beside her,
> but at the same time flying as her father for ten years now ...
>
> 2015-02-05 8:45 GMT+01:00 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com');>>:
>
>> V572.8-21  Even now, lying beside a stranger in a pig disguise, her
>> father is the flying element of Slothrop, of whoever else has lain here
>> before, flightless, and heard the same promise: “I’d go anywhere with you.”
>> He sees them walking a railroad trestle, pines on long slanted mountains
>> all around, autumn sunlight and cold, purple rainclouds, mid-afternoon, her
>> face against some tall concrete structure, the light of the concrete coming
>> down oblique both sides of her cheekbones, blending into her skin, blending
>> with its own light. Her motionless figure above him in a black greatcoat,
>> blonde hair against the sky, himself at the top of a metal ladder in a
>> trainyard, gazing up at her, all their shining steel roads below
>> crisscrossing and peeling off to all parts of the Zone. Both of them on the
>> run. That’s what she wants. But Slothrop only wants to lie still with her
>> heartbeat awhile . . . isn’t that every paranoid’s wish? to perfect methods
>> of immobility?
>>
>> I assume the person "lying beside a stranger in a pig disguise" is the
>> girl because "in a pig disguise" should describe "stranger", is that
>> correct?
>>
>> Also, what is the meaning of "the flying element of Slothrop"?
>>
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