GR translation: shaken skies pure as a cyclorama

[David Morris]

A cyclorama is an artificial 3D 360 portrayal attempting to display
reality. Virtual History. An early attempt at a Disney small-world ride.

On Sunday, September 6, 2015, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Again, this is poetry. But the contrast is pre versus post Hiroshima
> explosion. And the message portrayed as a color shift in the perceptible
> field of reality. A new reality.
>
> David Morris
>
> On Sunday, September 6, 2015, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>> The moment the comb contacts his head, the colonel begins to speak.
>> “Ordinarily, we’d spend no more than 24 hours on a house-to-house sweep.
>> Sundown to sundown, house to house. There’s a quality of black and gold to
>> either end of it, that way, silhouettes, shaken skies pure as a cyclorama.
>> But these sunsets, out here, I don’t know. Do you suppose something has
>> exploded somewhere? Really—somewhere in the East? Another Krakatoa? Another
>> name at least that exotic . . the colors are so different now. Volcanic
>> ash, or any finely-divided substance, suspended in the atmosphere, can
>> diffract the colors strangely. Did you know that, son? Hard to believe,
>> isn’t it?
>>
>> What does "shaken" indicate here?
>>
>
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