GR translation: human harvests rippling out of sight

[Mike Jing]

Perfect. Thanks, Monte.

On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 3:57 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Nazi_party_rally_grounds_(1934)_3.jpg
> 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.
>
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> On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 12:14 PM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> 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?
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