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

[Mike Jing]

Got it. Thanks, Monte.

On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 1:48 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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