GR translation: A gentle, precarious soft-shoe out the door

[Mark Kohut]

Reminder: Pynchon on kazoos NOT in the collected works: 'the book comes on
like the Hallelujah Chorus done by 200 kazoo players with perfect
pitch".....'a fine brassy bunch of irreverence"....
Pynchon on *Been Down So Long It Looks Like up To Me.*

Just imagine THAT Hallelujah Chorus!

On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 1:22 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dancing their way out (with the quartet -- previously classical --
> acquiring a kazoo and joining them) is pure musical comedy, in the same
> vein as  the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup: raucous disrespect breaking through
> dignified settings and critical affairs of state. Bodine, Pynchon's
> archetypal Badass, is the ultimate embodiment (with Rossini's comic operas
> a close second).
>
> I know nothing about Chinese usages of respectful vs. familiar address, or
> "high" vs. "low" vocabulary. But in addition to the disgusting menu they
> offer, you really can't go too far in making *everything* about the
> intruders' language as slangy and playground-insulting as possible.
>
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 6:03 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> V717.4-11, P731.18-25   A gentle, precarious soft-shoe out the door,
>> Bodine waving his wide-brim gangster hat. Ta-ta, foax. The only guest still
>> seated is Constance Flamp, who is still roaring out dessert possibilities:
>> “Crotch custard! Phlegm fudge! Mold muffins!” Will she catch hell tomorrow.
>> Pools of this and that glitter across the floor like water-mirages at the
>> Sixth Antechamber to the Throne. Gustav and the rest of the quartet have
>> abandoned Haydn and are all following Roger and Bodine out the door, kazoos
>> and strings accompanying the Disgusting Duo:
>>
>> So Bodine sort of tap-dances his way out, is that the image here?
>>
>
>
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