Re: GR translation: Slothrop’s Visitor

[David Morris]

All these Visitors have in common a form of another's presence (visit) that
is questionable as to its reality.  I firmly believe that Pynchon uses
these capitalized words very carefully, and that they can be triangulated.

David Morris

On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 9:49 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> The only other capitalized Visitors I find:
>
> (V262, in Zurich)
> "The spies and dealers have all gone indoors. Semyavin’s place is out,
> the Waxwing circle have been kind, no point bringing any heat down on them.
> How much weight do the Visitors have in this town? Can Slothrop risk
> checking in to another hotel? Probably not. It’s getting cold. A wind is
> coming in now off the lake."
>
> (V523, among Christian's gas-sniffing hallucinations - Moss Creature,
> Fungus Pygmies) "... or how about the Water Giant, a mile-high Visitor
> made all of flowing water who likes to dance, twisting from the waist, arms
> blowing loosely along the sky."
>
> Not sure what you can triangulate from that, but at least blazes on the
> trees...* in hoc signo vinces...*
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 4:15 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> V742.13-19, P756.39-757.4   Light in the sky is stretched and clear,
>> exactly like taffy after no more than the first two pulls.
>>        “Dying a weird death,” Slothrop’s Visitor by this time may be
>> scrawled lines of carbon on a wall, voices down a chimney, some human being
>> out on the road, “the object of life is to make sure you die a weird death.
>> To make sure that however it finds you, it will find you under very weird
>> circumstances. To live that kind of life. . . .”
>>
>> What is "Slothrop’s Visitor" exactly?
>>
>
>
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