GR translation: reaches into the true Night of the Other

[Mike Jing]

That makes more sense.  Thanks everyone for responding.

On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 5:24 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> the structure seems to be:
>
> his mother Brenda in the kitchen *who talks of hashish hush puppies*,
> *dildos* rigged to pump floods of paregoric orgasm to the capillaries of
> the womb, *prayers* to Astarte and Lilith, queen of the night, *reaches*
> into the true Night of the Other
>
> hush puppies ... dildos ... prayers ... reaches ... being the things
> Brenda talks of.
>
> (and Wernher Siemens is Werner von Siemens)
>
> 2015-10-10 4:34 GMT+02:00 David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>:
>
>> Byron is immortal, the light(bulb) that is an eternal witness, connected
>> to a web of all other witness-bulbs of light.  They die, but he knows their
>> information.  They live on through him.
>>
>> Like Slothrup, his imortality was unintended, feared.  They cannot kill
>> him, but they will do their best to keep him hidden.  He is their
>> Frankenstien, their creation that accidentally lives eternally, beyond
>> their puny lives.
>>
>> David Morris
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 9:51 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Laura,
>>>
>>> I agree, noun meaning connections of genealogy, mythology, dark-shadow
>>> archetypes of vaginal origin. The "cold and naked linoleum floors" suggest
>>> rape or other states of helplessness.
>>>
>>> These light bulbs are witnesses of those things they illuminate. And
>>> they are a network of information.  NSA before it existed.
>>>
>>> David Morris
>>>
>>>
>>> On Friday, October 9, 2015, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Seems like "reaches" is a noun here.
>>>>
>>>> LK
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>
>>>> From: Mike Jing
>>>>
>>>> Sent: Oct 9, 2015 9:26 PM
>>>>
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>>>> Subject: GR translation: reaches into the true Night of the Other
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> V649.25-36   But Phoebus doesn’t know yet that Byron is immortal. He
>>>> starts out his career at an all-girl opium den in Charlottenburg, almost
>>>> within sight of the statue of Wernher Siemens, burning up in a sconce, one
>>>> among many bulbs witnessing the more languorous forms of Republican
>>>> decadence. He gets to know all the bulbs in the place, Benito the Bulb over
>>>> in the next sconce who’s always planning an escape, Bernie down the hall in
>>>> the toilet, who has all kinds of urolagnia jokes to tell, his mother Brenda
>>>> in the kitchen who talks of hashish hush puppies, dildos rigged to pump
>>>> floods of paregoric orgasm to the capillaries of the womb, prayers to
>>>> Astarte and Lilith, queen of the night, reaches into the true Night of the
>>>> Other, cold and naked on linoleum floors after days without sleep, the
>>>> dreams and tears become a natural state . . . .
>>>>
>>>> Is "reaches" used as a verb here?  And if so, what is the subject?
>>>> -
>>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>>>>
>>>
>>
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