GR translation: her European darkness

Mike Jing gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com
Tue Jun 19 23:09:13 CDT 2012


P211.3-14   She shakes her head. He understands that it’s something
back in Holland, before Arnhem—an impedance permanently wired into the
circuit of themselves. How many ears smelling of Palmolive and Camay
has he crooned songs into, outside-the-bowling-alley songs,
behind-the-Moxie-billboard songs, Saturdaynight open-me-another-quart
songs, all saying, honey, it don’t matter where you’ve been, let’s not
live in the past, right now’s all there is. . . .
Fine for back there. But not in here, tapping on her bare shoulder,
peering in at her European darkness, bewildered with it, himself with
his straight hair barely combable and shaven face without a wrinkle
such a chaste intrusion in the Himmler-Spielsaal all crowded with
German-Baroque perplexities of shape...

What does "her European darkness" refer to exactly?



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