GR translation: shaken skies pure as a cyclorama

[Mike Jing]

Thanks to all who responded.

On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 6:13 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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> 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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