GR translation: green spring equal nights

[Mike Jing]

That's certainly possible. Thanks, Mark.


On Thu, Jan 1, 2026 at 8:56 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think the published translation is what Pynchon intended unless he
> "forgot" punctuation....it is
> another bit of P's original mind since all that Mike says resonates,
> explodes a little in our minds
> and the "awkwardness' is the poetry....
>
> If it was what Mike worked out, and the meanings are OK, it should read
>
> "green spring, equal nights" in my often wrong opinion....
>
> On Thu, Jan 1, 2026 at 7:51 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> OK. I was asking because that's how the published translation interpreted
>> it, and I thought it was awkward.
>>
>> Thanks, Mike
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 31, 2025 at 5:35 PM Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > No. It's late March, new growth = green spring, it being the equinox
>> > means equal length nights and days, equal nights is just a shortening,
>> > 'and days' implied and unsaid.
>> >
>> > On 31/12/2025 04:02, Mike Jing wrote:
>> > > V720.11-15, P734.25-30   remember didn’t you sneak away from camp to
>> > have a
>> > > moment alone with What you felt stirring across the land . . . it was
>> the
>> > > equinox . . . green spring equal nights . . . canyons are opening up,
>> at
>> > > the bottoms are steaming fumaroles, steaming the tropical life there
>> like
>> > > greens in a pot, rank, dope-perfume, a hood of smell . . .
>> > >
>> > > Is "green spring equal nights" one long phrase where "spring" modifies
>> > > "nights" along with "green" and "equal"?
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