GR translation: names of wheelhorses that will pay him off enough for a certain getaway

[Mike Jing]

Betting on horses, that actually makes some kind of sense.  Thanks, Mark.

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 5:32 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Fantasizing 'paraphrases of himself'.....it is the names [of
> wheelhorses] that will pay him off....if he bets on those wheel
> horses,
> his surreal associations tell him, he will have enough to get out of
> there...to not have to 'work' anymore is my reading.
>
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 11:12 PM, Mike Jing
> <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I did look up the word.  But who/what does it refer to here?  Why would
> they
> > want to pay off Slothrop?  What are they trying to get away from?
> >
> > On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 11:05 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> http://www.thefreedictionary.com/wheel+horses
> >>
> >>
> >> On Saturday, August 29, 2015, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> V625.37-626.3   Crosses, swastikas, Zone-mandalas, how can they not
> speak
> >>> to Slothrop? He’s sat in Säure Bummer’s kitchen, the air streaming
> with kif
> >>> moirés, reading soup recipes and finding in every bone and cabbage leaf
> >>> paraphrases of himself . . . news flashes, names of wheelhorses that
> will
> >>> pay him off enough for a certain getaway . . . . He used to pick and
> shovel
> >>> at the spring roads of Berkshire, April afternoons he’s lost, “Chapter
> 81
> >>> work,” they called it, following the scraper that clears the winter’s
> >>> crystal attack-from-within, its white necropolizing . . .
> >>>
> >>> Who are these "wheelhorses" exactly?  And whose "getaway" is it?  I
> >>> assume it's the wheelhorses'.  And I assume "certain" means "sure".
> >
> >
>
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