GR translation: patches will flash up now and then

[David Morris]

This passage is trying to relate a drug induced experience, and thus is
impossible to translate into a normal experience, except by extreme
analogies, which is what Pynchon so often does. So throw out normal
analogies.

In extreme drug-induced experience, "patches" of perception will flash
brightly. Messages from the paranoid beyond, which might, or might not, be
crucial to survival. And which you might forget having received in the next
second.

David Morris

On Saturday, September 5, 2015, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V640.30-641.2   On the mountainsides, patches will flash up now and then,
> bright as dittany in July at the Zippo’s ceremonial touch. Pfc. Eddie
> Pensiero, a replacement here in the 89th Division, also an amphetamine
> enthusiast, sits huddling nearly on top of the fire, shivering and watching
> the divisional patch on his arm, which ordinarily resembles a cluster of
> rocketnoses seen out of a dilating asshole, all in black and olive-drab,
> but which now looks like something even stranger than that, which Eddie
> will think of in a minute.
>
> Are these patches of vegetation, or something else entirely?
>
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