GR translation: pale sweaters with pits

alice wellintown alicewellintown at gmail.com
Sun Jun 12 08:56:41 CDT 2011


A fine example of the imagery P uses throught the novel; here the
sweaters, pale and heaped without care,  evoke a paranoid and
accidental (or not) gesture of opposites (to embrace or to slink).
Pointsman's obsession with Pudding, his plotting, his control, his
seniority is contrasted with this fantacy.


> P52.22-23  ..., pale sweaters with the pits heaped in a corner, in some
> accidental gesture, slink or embrace.



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