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

[Mark Kohut]

Just want to note this use of 'mindless' here by the writer who
had Mindless Pleasures as the title of this novel for most of its
working existence.

On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 10:03 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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> >
> >
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