GR translation: His eyes are steelies that never lose.

[Monte Davis]

Yes. Keep in mind the pinball machines -- V273, 581-586 -- and ball
bearings (295) critical to teachnology, and other spheres subject to chance
and necessity:

"It’s that familiar division between return and one-shot visitation. If
Katspiel had enough energy to leave the sun’s field forever, then it has
left these kind round beings in eternal exile, with no chance of ever being
gathered back home, doomed to masquerade as ball bearings, as steelies in a
thousand marble games... " (584)

On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 1:09 PM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V526.9-21, P535.5-19   The Springer is his old chipper self: “Fresh
> eggs and coffee in the pilot house—fall to. We’re due out of here in
> 15 minutes.”
>        “Well just belay that ‘we,’ Ace.”
>        “But I need your help.” Springer’s wearing a suit of fine tweed
> this morning, very Savile Row, fits perfectly—
>        “Närrisch needed your help.”
>        “You don’t know what you’re talking about.” His eyes are
> steelies that never lose. His laugh, subtitled Humoring the Fools, is
> Mitteleuropäisch and mirthless. “All right, all right. How much do you
> want?”
>        “Everything’s got a price, right?” But he’s not being noble
> here, no, what it is is that his own price has just occurred to him,
> and he needs to shim the talk here, give it a second to breathe and
> develop.
>        “Everything.”
>
> The word "lose" here refers to a game of marbles, is that correct?
> -
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