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

[Mark Kohut]

Perhaps condescendingly  unnecessary to notice it " screamed over his head" ...with that echo. 

Railroads, part of the bad shit in P's worlds. 

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On Apr 20, 2016, at 6:48 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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