GR translation: His eyes are steelies that never lose.
Mike Jing
gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com
Thu Dec 1 20:16:14 CST 2016
Thanks, Monte.
On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 1:37 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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