GR translation: shaken skies pure as a cyclorama

[Monte Davis]

For its first century or so, the word "panorama" signified the 360-degree
paintings later called "cyclorama." _Pynchon's Against the Day: A Corrupted
Pilgrim's Guide_ includes Justin St. Clair's "Binocular Disparity and
Pynchon's Panoramic Paradigm." I started the essay with misgivings because
of the archness of the title, but it proved a wonderful exercise in P's
narratology, from Foppl's siege party in V. --

"...everyone had rushed to the roof. A battle, a real one, was in progress
across the ravine. Such was their elevation that they could see everything
spread out in panorama, as if for their amusement..."

to AtD's multiple cycloramas -- at the Chicago fair, the math museum, etc.
St. Clair makes a stong case that the "cycloramc" perspective is as much a
part of P as the more familiar filmic/TV perspective.

On Sun, 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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