GRGR(16) Some Questions

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

Peter Petto schrieb:

> TRP translates Line 20 of Rilke's Tenth Duino Elegy "to trample spoorless 
> the white marketplace." 341.18,341.38 Weisenberger cites Leishman and 
> Spenders translation, "tread beyond trace the market of comfort." Doesn't 
> it seem odd that TRP would see a white market as a market of comfort? 
> Elsewhere in GR it is black markets that seem friendly, organic. Aren't 
> white markets markets-of-pain?


  In the original it says "wie spurlos zerträte ein Engel ihnen den Trostmarkt, 
  den die Kirche begrenzt". In m.o.p.a.t.: "how spoorless would an angel trample 
  their market of consolation, which is limited by the church". Since "church"  
  seeems to be modelled by RMR as an restricting major organization, I also   
  would imagine the "market of consolation" as a black one. So Pynchon's change 
  in translation seems indeed pretty odd. Anyone for clarification? - KFL