GR translation: ride him a green-doped and silent hound

[Mark Kohut]

"Green-doped' has a lot of chemical, even aerodynamic, uses and meanings
via Google.

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 7:09 AM, Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk> wrote:

> I read it as Jochen,
> You hunt (locate) and then you ride down your prey (catch up and
> overcome)- what I've been puzzling over is the 'green doped hound' not sure
> whether the reference is to (model aircraft) paint or some specific drug.
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> Has anyone got access to the article by Chambers, Judith. "A Dazzle of
> Violet and a Green-Doped Hound: Pynchon's Miracle of De-struction in
> Gravity's Rainbow."
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> Any clues in there?
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>  Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote :
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> > I have always read this as Morris sez, I think. But I have thought there
> was an implied 'like' or 'as' missing, as when one dropsfor
> effect those words indicating a metaphor is coming. In a different context
> one might write "He is a hound dog" or "He is a hound"
> and we know that is a metaphor. I have also, and this might be personal and
> not objectively IN P's meanings---but with him every allusion might be
> real---have always thought of the very historically famous poem "the
> Hound of Heaven" subversively, heretically,  alluded to here. (a
> Catholic favorite I think)
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