GR translation: shearing alongside for miles

[Mark Kohut]

Must disagree with See More....I see more when you do it as you have
been...esp when I am away from any copy of the book..

On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 10:03 AM, Seymour Landnau <seymourlandnau at gmail.com>
wrote:

> You know what I think would be excellent, if instead of asking about the
> meaning of certain words, you asked about the why of certain words.
>
> "Why did the Author choose this word?"  Who cares what it means.  I just
> want to know why it's there.
>
> Also, not to distract anything from the chemist's tremendous post here
> below, or I guess it will appear above me, but I have a suggestion, or a
> request.  Could you allcaps and bold the word that you want the meaning of
> (try why of instead!)?  The Rainbow is obnoxious enough reading when we are
> not searching for specific words (for surely that is what we all do, we
> jump to the bottom of your posts first, get the word you have in quotes,
> then go up and scan your quoted text for that word as fast as we can.)
>
> On that note, you could also massively shorten the quoted text.  We
> proported(?) literary types might like to holler about the imperative
> importance of context, but really?  Just give us the desired word, in
> allcaps and bold, and the first word on either side of it, and that's it.
> I guarantee you'll be fine...
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 6:44 PM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> V549.28-36, P559.5-13   . . . Sudetens and East Prussians shuttling
>> between Berlin and the DP camps in Mecklenburg, Czechs and Slovaks, Croats
>> and Serbs, Tosks and Ghegs, Macedonians, Magyars, Vlachs, Circassians,
>> Spaniols, Bulgars stirred and streaming over the surface of the Imperial
>> cauldron, colliding, shearing alongside for miles, sliding away, numb,
>> indifferent to all momenta but the deepest, the instability too far below
>> their itchy feet to give a shape to, white wrists and ankles incredibly
>> wasted poking from their striped prison-camp pajamas, footsteps light as
>> waterfowl’s in this inland dust . . .
>>
>> What does "shearing" mean here?
>>
>>
>
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