GR translation: shaken skies pure as a cyclorama

Dave Monroe against.the.dave at gmail.com
Sun Sep 6 23:23:23 CDT 2015


"pure as a cyclorama"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclorama

E.g., ...

http://www.nps.gov/gett/learn/historyculture/gettysburg-cyclorama.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Cyclorama

See, e.g., ...

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/panorama

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/illusions-motion


On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 11:16 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> ... just sent a response to the "shaken skies" post, but can't find it
> in my "sent," can't even find the original e-mail, but it IS in the
> archive, so ...
>
> https://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=1509&msg=189312
>
> ... also ...
>
> "Then shall thy still unbroken spirit grow
> Strong in its silent suffering and more wise;
> And,—as the drenched and thunder-shaken skies
> Pass into golden sunset,—thou shalt know
> An end of calm, when evening breezes blow;
> And, looking on thy life with vision fine,
> Shalt see the shadow of a hand divine."
>
> https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:The_poems_of_Richard_Watson_Gilder,_Gilder,_1908.djvu/73
>
> http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9501E3D6153EE73BBC4051DFB4678383669FDE
>
> ... not to mention ...
>
> "She wipes the last tear from my grief-dazed eyes. And points a
> rainbow in my storm-shaken skies. And leads me, so gently, thro'
> twilights and dreams Past the borders of Lethe to Helicon streams."
> (!)
>
> http://www.forgottenbooks.com/readbook_text/Poems_of_Orelia_Key_Bell_1000432881/27
>
> https://archive.org/details/poemsoforeliakey00bell
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