GR translation: scaling the walls of an honest ceremonial plexus
Mike Jing
gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com
Mon Jul 10 14:33:40 CDT 2017
And what does "greeting" mean here?
On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 3:20 PM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:
> V509.35-510.5, P518.13-24 No, but even That only flickers now briefly
> across a bit of Slothropian lobe-terrain, and melts into its surface,
> vanishing. So here passes for him one more negligence . . . and likewise
> groweth his Preterition sure. . . . There is no good reason to hope for any
> turn, any surprise I-see-it, not from Slothrop. Here he is, scaling the
> walls of an honest ceremonial plexus, set down on a good enough vision of
> what’s shadowless noon and what isn’t. But oh, Egg the flying Rocket
> hatched from, navel of the 50-meter radio sky, all proper ghosts of
> place—forgive him his numbness, his glozing neutrality. Forgive the fist
> that doesn’t tighten in his chest, the heart that can’t stiffen in any
> greeting. . . . Forgive him as you forgave Tchitcherine at the Kirghiz
> Light. . . . Better days are coming.
>
> The "ceremonial plexus" here would be the "Holy Center", right? And what
> does the "50-meter" in "50-meter radio sky" refer to?
>
>
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