GR translation: shaken skies pure as a cyclorama

[David Morris]

The panorama/cyclorama is virtual reality pre-movies, which (film) in GR P
calls pornography, a false reality, which ties in nicely with his
fetish-focus in V. Pynchon is obsessed with mankind's creation
of artificial realities, in all its forms.  Some have likened fiction to
creating false realities, lies.  This is a very broad subject, which I
won't attempt to corral. But it is clearly very much on Pynchon's mind.

David Morris

On Monday, September 7, 2015, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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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