GR translation: the dark increase of the river

[Monte Davis]

Maybe just pathetic fallacy: to accord with lowering sky, departed wildlife
and industry, and Slothrop's angry sorrow, the river is rising (threatening
flood).

On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 3:17 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V444.18-30, P451.28-40   In a dream from this time, his father has
> come to find him. Slothrop has been wandering at sundown by the
> Mungahannock, near a rotting old paper mill, abandoned back in the
> nineties. A heron rises in silhouette against luminous and dying
> orange. “Son,” a falling tower of words tumbling over and over
> themselves, “the president died three months ago.” Slothrop stands and
> curses him. “Why didn’t you tell me? Pop, I loved him. You only wanted
> to sell me to the IG. You sold me out.” The old man’s eyes fill with
> tears. “Oh son . . .” trying to take his hand. But the sky is dark,
> the heron gone, the empty skeleton of the mill and the dark increase
> of the river saying it is time to go . . . then his father is gone
> too, no time to say good-by, though his face stays, Broderick who sold
> him out, long after waking, and the sadness Slothrop brought into it,
> fool loudmouth kid.
>
> What does "increase" mean here?
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