"Countersunwise" -- Prelude to WPS
Posted by Rob Kafka on September 17, 1999 at 07:32:12:
Prelude to WPS, CP I, p. 241.
The passage where RJ is invoking one of the great storm-systems that are born in the Gulf of Alaska:
He says,
"I was calling one of the great dancers / Who wander down from the Aleutian rocks and the open Pacific / Pivoting countersunwise . . ."
Why "countersunwise"? I would understand counter-clockwise, since the low-pressure systems rotate that way . . .
In what sense is the motion of the storm counter to the sun's apparent motion (I suppose he means from east to west).
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Re: "Countersunwise" -- Prelude to WPS Leon Joffe 23:24:17 9/22/99
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