Re: GR translation: some collar of love’s nettles now at him

[Mike Jing]

Yeah, I came upon that as well.

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 12:37 PM, James Kyllo <jkyllo at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think "at engage" is a metaphorical use of the fencing term
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> see: http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/united-states-war-dept/manual-for-noncommissioned-officers-and-privates-of-cavalry-of-the-army-of-the-u-tin/page-7-manual-for-noncommissioned-officers-and-privates-of-cavalry-of-the-army-of-the-u-tin.shtml
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> On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Mike Jing
> <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> And also, what is "at engage"?
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>> On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Mike Jing
>> <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> P36.36-P37.7   He will be scrupulous about never telling her. But
>>> there are times when it’s agony not to go to her feet, knowing she
>>> won’t leave Clive, crying you ‘re my last chance . . . if it can’t be
>>> you then there’s no more time. . . . Doesn’t he wish, against all
>>> hope, that he could let the poor, Western-man’s timetable go. . . but
>>> how does a man. . . where does he even begin, at age 33. . . . “But
>>> that’s just it” she’d have laughed, not so much annoyed (she would
>>> have laughed) as tickled by the unreality of the problem—herself too
>>> lost at the manic edge of him, always at engage, so taking, cleaving
>>> her (for more than when jerking off into an Army flannel in the
>>> Persian Gulf was some collar of love’s nettles now at him, at his
>>> cock), too unappeasable for her not to give in to the insanity of, but
>>> too insane really even to think of as any betrayal of Clive. . . .
>>>
>>> (for more than when jerking off into an Army flannel in the Persian
>>> Gulf was some collar of love’s nettles now at him, at his cock)
>>>
>>> I am having trouble parsing this part in the parentheses.  What is
>>> this all about?
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