GR translation: lying beside a stranger in a pig disguise

[Mike Jing]

Thanks, Jochen and Mark.

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Mark Wright <washoepete at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
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>> 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>:
>>
>>> 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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