GR translation: a sermon on vanity

Mike Jing gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com
Tue Dec 13 00:59:43 CST 2011


P25.25-29   Ruins he goes daily to look in are each a sermon on
vanity. That he finds, as weeks wear on, no least fragment of any
rocket, preaches how indivisible is the act of death . . . Slothrop’s
Progress: London the secular city instructs him: turn any corner and
he can find himself inside a parable.

What is the meaning of "vanity" here?



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