GR translation: White Visitation

Paul Mackin mackin.paul at verizon.net
Sun Jun 26 06:11:55 CDT 2011


Mike

I had a thought during the night.

Is there a comical phrase in Chinese that means roughly what we mean in 
the U.S. (and maybe Britain too) when we say "the men in the white coats 
are coming to get you."  It means you're alarmingly psychotic and have 
to be institutionalized.  That's the image I think I receive when I hear 
"The White Visitation" in the context of what's going on in GR.  The 
place formerly, in now sadly gone peacetime,  housed mental patients.  
Now it houses another groups of nuts who are trying every possible 
scheme they can think of to help win the war. Could you think up a place 
name that would be suggestive of that?

I do also hear the religious, devotional overtones of a care-giving 
facility (like St. Verionica's) so if that could be worked in, all the 
better.

P







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