AtD translation: camming

[Douglas Johnson]

Bit late on this, but:

Mike Jing wrote on July 7:

>"while camming the safe itself harmlessly away toward the nearest 
>curbside."
>
>What does "camming" mean here?

I recently came across "cam" used as a verb in rereading of _Lot 49_, in 
the scene where Oedipa meets the sailor with the post horn tattoo:

"The eyes closed. Cammed each night out of that safe furrow the bulk of 
this city's walking each sunrise again set virtuously to plowing, what 
rich soils had he turned, what concentric planets uncovered?"

(Chapter 5, pp. 125--156 in the 1990 Harper Perennial edition.)

-- 
Douglas Johnson
dmj at panix.com