GR translation: hung about with rigid portraits

[jochen stremmel]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pudelpointer_on_point.jpg (right leg) or
http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Bahia_c_d_beskuren.jpg&filetimestamp=20070805085717
(left leg)

2011/12/21 János Széky <miksaapja at gmail.com>:
> "Hung about" means there are such portraits all over the room.
> When a gun dog (any English hunting breed) is "at point" it is in a
> special posture having caught the smell of the prey, with forelegs
> raised, body tense, and nose pointing in the direction of the prey,
> indicating silently to the hunter where the animal is.
>
> János
>
> 2011/12/21 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>:
>> And what is "at point" exactly?
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 3:46 AM, Mike Jing
>> <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> P59.7-18   “I’m not angry. No. He’s right. It is cheap. All right, but
>>> what does he want then—” stalking now this stuffed, dim little parlor,
>>> hung about with rigid portraits of favorite gun dogs at point in
>>> fields that never existed save in certain fantasies about death, leas
>>> more golden as their linseed oil ages, even more autumnal,
>>> necropolitical, than prewar hopes—for an end to all change, for a long
>>> static afternoon and the grouse forever in blurred takeoff, the sights
>>> taking their lead aslant purple hills to pallid sky, the good dog
>>> alerted by the eternal scent, the explosion over his head always just
>>> about to come—these hopes so patently, defenselessly there that Roger
>>> even at his most cheaply nihilistic couldn’t quite bring himself to
>>> take the pictures down, turn them to the wallpaper—
>>>
>>> What does "hung about" mean here?  And does it describe the parlor, or
>>> something else?