GR: the translation continues

[Paul Mackin]

On 5/16/2011 11:34 PM, Mike Jing wrote:
> P31.25-27  Brass throats and breasts warm to her blood, quake in the 
> hollow of her hand.
>
> What are the "brass throats and breasts"?  And why is there a "quake 
> in the hollow of her hand"?
>
> Any help is appreciated. 
She's imagining the dart in her hand is the still-beating breast of the 
live bird from which the feathers came.

The throat is part of the dart as well as of bird.

That's how it sounded to me.

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