GR translation: sunfishing in the clouds

[jochen stremmel]

fyi, German translation of that passage:

Der Chor, der sich für diesen Abend zusammengefunden hatte, bestand
nur aus Männern. Betreßte Schultern waren in den weißen
Halsausschnitten der weißen Roben zu erkennen, und viele der Gesichter
waren fast genauso weiß, erschöpft in feuchten Schlammfeldern, auf
nächtlichen Flakwachen, an vibrierenden Halteseilen von nervösen
Ballonen, die in den Wolken nach der Sonne fischten, in Zelten, aus
welchen Lichter in der Dämmerung, verlorenen Seelen gleich, radioaktiv
durch die Kreuzschraffur der Leinwand glommen, die sie in feine Gaze
verwandelten, ein Trommelfell für den Wind.

p. 208 of the first edition.

J

2012/5/12 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>:
> Thanks.  I'll check it out.
>
> Mike
>
> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 2:29 PM, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Bravo, Mike! You handled that exchange quite well. And I'm sure your
>> translation will be at least as good as the German, that is quite
>> okay.
>>
>> And you don't have to be a cowboy, of course, to use his slang.
>>
>> By the way, I remember a wonderful movie by John Boorman where you
>> could see these balloons, Hope and Glory. If you don't know it, you
>> should see it asap. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093209/)
>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>> Jochen
>>
>> 2012/5/11 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>:
>>> I may well be wrong.  I'm just saying that you don't have to be a dick about it.
>>>
>>> Anyway, I think your argument does make a lot of sense.  And I'm still
>>> trying to sort it all out.
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 11:46 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> You are obviously under no obligatin to agree, nor even pay any
>>>> attention to my thoughts on your translation.  But you did ask...
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Mike Jing
>>>> <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> I hereby bow to your stellar qualifications and superior intellect.
>>>>> Meanwhile, I will try to find a measure of consolation in the fact
>>>>> that at least my translation may not be the stinkiest.