Re: GR translation: he just isn’t out-of-the-tree about anything

[Monte Davis]

Like many status-competitive humans and especially style-conscious teenage
girls, i.e. 'subdebs' or not-yet-debutantes, they're making a virtue of
changes forced on them, and looking down on those who lag behind... IOW who
are still as they themselves recently were. (Technically I guess we should
expect the trolls to say "out-of-the-bridge" and dryads "out-of-the-tree,"
but there's a lot of odd mixing in Berlin these days).

On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 1:19 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V367.30-41, P373.24-35   “Fine for you folks.” The girls are laughing.
> Grandiose Slothrop limps along after everybody, a network of clear
> interweaving ripples now like rain all through his vision, hands
> turning to stone, out of the Tiergarten, past shellstruck lime and
> chestnut trees, into the streets, or what is serving for them. Patrols
> of all nations keep coming by, and this mindless quartet have to hit
> the dirt often, trying not to laugh too much. Slothrop’s sox are
> sodden with dew. Tanks manoeuvre in the street, chewing parallel
> ridges of asphalt and stonedust. Trolls and dryads play in the open
> spaces. They were blasted back in May out of bridges, out of trees
> into liberation, and are now long citified. “Oh, that drip,” say the
> subdeb trolls about those who are not as hep, “he just isn’t
> out-of-thetree about anything.”
>
> What does "out-of-the-tree" mean here?
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