GR translation: shaken skies pure as a cyclorama

[Mark Kohut]

Shaken skies may be a compressed Biblical allusion.....Mark 13:25 and Matthew 24:29 ...

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> On Sep 6, 2015, at 6:59 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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> 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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