Fwd: GR translation: Though thy Glass today be run

[Mark Kohut]

have we, anyone, ever annotated the closing poem?

Hand---like God's on the Sistine Chapel. Hand of God--colloquial use.

Light = God, Jesus Christ (famously in John's Gospel but elsewhere)

Towers--below is a later (than supposed time of the text) example of towers
in history. Towers being churches or
military most everywhere.
Martello Towers Worldwide - Page 178
<https://books.google.com/books?id=hLX7kXj-lrsC&pg=PA178&dq=The+Towers&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjawcaGmdfMAhWJGT4KHeB7CJ44KBDoAQgbMAA>
<https://books.google.com/books?id=hLX7kXj-lrsC&pg=PA178&dq=The+Towers&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjawcaGmdfMAhWJGT4KHeB7CJ44KBDrAQgcMAA>
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1848845359
Bill Clements
<https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&safe=active&sa=N&biw=1301&bih=876&tbm=bks&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Bill+Clements%22&ved=0ahUKEwjawcaGmdfMAhWJGT4KHeB7CJ44KBD0CAgdMAA>,
‎William Holliwell Clements
<https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&safe=active&sa=N&biw=1301&bih=876&tbm=bks&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22William+Holliwell+Clements%22&ved=0ahUKEwjawcaGmdfMAhWJGT4KHeB7CJ44KBD0CAgeMAA>
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2011 - ‎Preview
<https://books.google.com/books?id=hLX7kXj-lrsC&pg=PA178&dq=The+Towers&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjawcaGmdfMAhWJGT4KHeB7CJ44KBC7BQgfMAA>
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‎More editions
<https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&safe=active&sa=N&biw=1301&bih=876&tbm=bks&q=editions:0QhoICbM_nsC&ved=0ahUKEwjawcaGmdfMAhWJGT4KHeB7CJ44KBCYFgggMAA>
England, Scotland and Wales Although the towers described in the previous
chapter were the last gun towers to be built, their popularity as a means
of coastal defence was such that in the period from 1800 to 1860 numerous
towers were ...

YEATS

 in the story of the Tower of BabeL The Riders, the Four Horsemen of the
Apocalypse, sleep - or are dead - by every road .

Zone.....alludes indirectly to Zone in this book?

Last two lines = animism?...would be a Calvinist heresy from ancestor
Slothrop, no?



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, May 13, 2016 at 3:22 AM
Subject: GR translation: Though thy Glass today be run
To: Pynchon Mailing List <pynchon-l at waste.org>


V760.28-35, P776.1-8
There is a Hand to turn the time,
Though thy Glass today be run,
Till the Light that hath brought the Towers low
Find the last poor Pret’rite one . . .
Till the Riders sleep by ev’ry road,
All through our crippl’d Zone,
With a face on ev’ry mountainside,
And a Soul in ev’ry stone. . . .

I assume the "Glass" means hourglass, is that correct?

Also, is the "Hand" the Hand of God?  And what exactly is the sense of
"Though" here?
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