Atd translation: balloonheaded clarity

[Mike Jing]

Oh yes, definitely.  I even considered the possibility of it meaning "seen
from a balloon", but that seems to be too far away from the common meaning.

Another possibility is being feverish, so your head feels like a balloon.
But I'm not quite sure how that works here.

And the dictionary definition of "stupid" , I can't make sense of that here
either.


On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 4:49 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> i think the balloon--headed is a nice Chums internal allusion, so to
> speak.
>
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 2:55 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Definition of *balloon*-*headed* in US English - Having a large or round
>> head; (figurative) conceited; stupid.
>> Missing: clarity
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>> On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 2:47 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Definition of *balloon*-*headed* in US English - Having a large or
>>> round head; (figurative) conceited; stupid.
>>>
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>>> On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 2:37 PM, Mike Jing <
>>> gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> P176.10-18   The altitude, the scale of the country out here, put a
>>>> balloonheaded clarity onto vision when directed at mine owners and
>>>> workers
>>>> alike, revealing the Plutonic powers as they daily sent their legions of
>>>> gnomes underground to hollow out as much of that broken domain as they
>>>> could before the over-burden collapsed, often as not on top of their
>>>> heads,
>>>> though what did it matter to the Powers, who always had more dwarves
>>>> waiting, even eagerly, to be sent below. Scabs and Union men, Union and
>>>> scabs, round and round, changing sides, changing back again, sure didn’t
>>>> help with what he felt no embarrassment in thinking of as a contest for
>>>> his
>>>> soul.
>>>>
>>>> Why is this clarity "balloonheaded"? Is this good or bad?
>>>> --
>>>> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>>>>
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