Re: GR translation: that 6:02 was screamin’ over my head

Monte Davis montedavis49 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 20 05:48:15 CDT 2016


Railroad trains, named for their arrival or departure time at the local
station. The lonesome, or mournful, or memory-provoking, or
wanderlust-inspiring sound -- often the whistle -- of a train was a trope
of US country & western songs for a hundred years.

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 3:48 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V739.37-740.7, P754.24-33   Not included in the Book of Memorabilia is
> this footnote. The piece of cloth was given to Slothrop by Seaman Bodine,
> one night in the Chicago Bar. In a way, the evening was a reprise of their
> first meeting. Bodine, smoldering fat reefer stuck in under the strings at
> the neck of his guitar, singing mournfully a song that’s part Roger
> Mexico’s and part some nameless sailor stuck in wartime San Diego:
>        Last week I threw a pie at someone’s Momma,
>        Last night I threw a party for my mind,
>        Last thing I knew that 6:02 was screamin’ over my head,
>        Or it might’ve been th’ 11:59 . . .
>
> What are the last two lines of this verse referring to?
>
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