Re: GR translation: Slothrop’s Visitor

[Mark Kohut]

Thinking of Morris's obServation, Davis's examples--that Visitor of flowing water uses some wind......and more this hit me 

VIsitor very like The Trespassers (from AtD)? 

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> On Apr 22, 2016, at 11:14 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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