GR translation: the Slothropian Run-together

Mike Jing gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com
Tue Jul 19 07:19:30 CDT 2016


That's my assumption, yes.

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 8:18 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> The unexplained to me is why there are almost no uses of it as a noun in all
> of Google Books.
>
> So, Pynchon kinda coined it as a noun if the above definition is correct. We
> know he can.
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 8:04 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> to run together
>>
>> 2. intr.
>>
>>  a. Of liquid, esp. milk: to coagulate, solidify; to curdle. Also
>> trans.: to cause (milk, etc.) to solidify or curdle. Cf. senses 41a,
>> 41b. Now rare.Later instances are more usually interpreted as sense
>> 2b.
>>
>>  b. Of substances: to combine, coalesce, esp. when in a liquid state
>> or through the addition of liquid; (also, of soil, etc.) to bind
>> together. Also trans.: to cause to combine or coalesce. Cf. sense 50.
>>
>>  c. gen. To (cause to) combine, merge, or unite. Also trans.
>>
>> Here, used as a noun, run-together seems to mean some kind of
>> combination or mixture. That's my best guess.
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 5:57 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Uneven and run-together distributions dominate overall.
>> >
>> > Prehension and Hafting Traces on Flint Tools: A Methodology - Page 85
>> >
>> >
>> > Seems to mean an intense rubbing against each other. Just about nothing
>> > in
>> > dictionaries or elsewhere.
>> >
>> > On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 12:40 AM, Mike Jing
>> > <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> V196.34-197.1   . . . as they fuck she quakes, body strobing miles
>> >> beneath him in cream and night-blue, all sound suppressed, eyes in
>> >> crescents behind the gold lashes, jet earrings, long, octahedral,
>> >> flying without a sound, beating against her cheeks, black sleet, his
>> >> face above her unmoved, full of careful technique—is it for her? or
>> >> wired into the Slothropian Run-together they briefed her on—she will
>> >> move him, she will not be mounted by a plastic shell . . .
>> >>
>> >> What does "Run-together" mean here?
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