GR translation: long dying afternoons through conservatory windows

[Mike Jing]

OK. Good thing I asked. Thank you both for responding.

On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 9:42 AM, James Kyllo <jkyllo at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd say the windows nail it as the garden variety:
> http://www.everest.co.uk/conservatories/ (despite the two following
> musical references)
>
> J
>
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 2:22 PM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> V646.32-40   . . . and who’s this come strolling down the
>> Schokoladestrasse? Why, it’s Laszlo Jamf himself, grown to a prolonged old
>> age, preserved like a ’37 Ford against the World’s ups and downs, which are
>> never more than damped-out changes in smile, wide-pearly to wistfully
>> gauze, inside Happyville here. Dr. Jamf is wearing a bow tie of a certain
>> limp grayish lavender, a color for long dying afternoons through
>> conservatory windows, minor-keyed lieder about days gone by, plaintive
>> pianos, pipesmoke in a stuffy parlor, overcast Sunday walks by canals . . .
>>
>> Is the conservatory here the musical kind?  It certainly seems so from
>> what follows.  Just want to be sure.
>>
>
>
>
> --
> http://www.last.fm/user/Auto_Da_Fe
> http://www.pop.nu/en/show_collection.asp?user=2412
> http://www.librarything.com/profile/Auto_Da_Fe
> http://www.thedetails.co.uk/
> http://big-game.tumblr.com/
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://waste.org/pipermail/pynchon-l/attachments/20150909/cc695aaa/attachment.html>