GR translation: faunish slant

Paul Mackin mackin.paul at verizon.net
Sun Nov 13 07:57:54 CST 2011


On 11/12/2011 11:53 PM, Mike Jing wrote:
> P167.3-5  “You can put Ilse to sleep in one of the bedrooms. Can we
> talk later?” There is to his eyes tonight a definite faunish slant.
> Will he accept that she is not his, any more than she belonged to
> Franz?
>
> What is this "faunish slant"?
>
upward and outward as if heavily made up, glamorous, sexy.

Isn't that the way fauns are depicted?

just guessing of course

P



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