GR translation: human harvests rippling out of sight

[Monte Davis]

With the "newsreels" setup, I'd say the alabaster necropolises are (at
first) Speer's Third Reich's stadiums and public plazas, meant to be filled
with cheering crowds and armies 'harvested' by organization and propaganda

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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Nazi_party_rally_grounds_(1934)_3.jpg
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http://www.reichsparteitagsgelaende.de/bilder/LuiHain_Kranz.jpg

But as always in Slothrop's Berlin, there's also a strong suggestion of
literal necropolis, a vast cemetery with endless rows of tombstones, a
harvest of the dead.


On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 12:14 PM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V372.33-41, P378.32-40   Where’s the city Slothrop used to see back in
> those newsreels and that National Geographic? Parabolas weren’t all
> that New German Architecture went in for—there were the spaces—the
> necropolism of blank alabaster in the staring sun, meant to be filled
> with human harvests rippling out of sight, making no sense without
> them. If there is such a thing as the City Sacramental, the city as
> outward and visible sign of inward and spiritual illness or health,
> then there may have been, even here, some continuity of sacrament,
> through the terrible surface of May.
>
> What does "human harvests" refer to here?
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
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