GR translation: What passes are these, so blurred, so old and perfect?

[Paul Mackin]

On 6/15/2012 2:59 AM, Mike Jing wrote:
> So you already have it on Kindle?  I'm almost tempted to get one of those...

yep, I thought I might reread the book. Otherwise impossible. I highly 
recommend having a Kindle.

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> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote:
>> On 6/14/2012 11:33 AM, jochen stremmel wrote:
>>> This really wasn't easy, Mike, but now I think, apropos corruptions,
>>> that in "rooms fall of dust" is a typo, that there should be "rooms
>>> full of" like in the line before; that "Forbidden" refers to the
>>> Forbidden Wing in line 4 of the song; and that the passes are
>>> movements of the hands that deal the unknown game.
>>>
>>> Don't hesitate to ask if anything of the above isn't clear.
>>
>> the new Kindle edition does read "full."
>>
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>>> 2012/6/14 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>:
>>>> P205.32-206.3   Why here? Why should the rainbow edges of what is
>>>> almost on him be rippling most intense here in this amply coded room?
>>>> say why should walking in here be almost the same as entering the
>>>> Forbidden itself—here are the same long rooms, rooms of old paralysis
>>>> and evil distillery, of condensations and residues you are afraid to
>>>> smell from forgotten corruptions, rooms full of upright grayfeathered
>>>> statues with wings spread, indistinct faces in dust—rooms fall of dust
>>>> that will cloud the shapes of inhabitants around the corners or deeper
>>>> inside, that will settle on their black formal lapels, that will
>>>> soften to sugar the white faces, white shirt fronts, gems and gowns,
>>>> white hands that move too quickly to be seen . . . what game do They
>>>> deal? What passes are these, so blurred, so old and perfect?
>>>>
>>>> What are these "passes"?  Anything specifically related to gambling,
>>>> magic, or just card games?
>>>>
>>>> And what is "the Forbidden"?
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