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

[kelber at mindspring.com]

I agree with the implied comma.

Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

>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 drops
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>for 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. 
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>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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>On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 2:39 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
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>Laura, Monte, Marks, anybody up to help Mike and me and perhaps David to understand that P sentence better? Would you, too, say that there's an implied comma between "him" and "a green-doped and silent hound"? It's part of GR after all. 
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>2016-03-22 1:32 GMT+01:00 David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>:
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>You sure? I think Ur wrong. There's an implied comma after "ride him." The silent hound is the rocket at the "intended's" back, hunting him. It's not that complicated.
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>David Morris 
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>On Monday, March 21, 2016, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
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>"To ride, to hound, to hunt."  These are what the personally calibrated rocket has been programmed to do "its intended."
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>You don't seem to understand what I mean. In P's sentence "hound" is not a verb; ride him is not like hunt him; you'd have to explain what is meant by: ride him a hound. 
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>2016-03-21 21:09 GMT+01:00 David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>:
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>"each Rocket will know its intended and hunt him, ride him a green-doped and silent hound, through our World, shining and pointed in the sky at his back, his guardian executioner rushing in, rushing closer . . . ."
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>"To ride, to hound, to hunt."  These are what the personally calibrated rocket has been programmed to do "its intended."
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