GR translation: lethal and bright as sudden wire

[David Morris]

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Garrote

On Monday, October 22, 2012, Mike Jing wrote:

> P227.22-37  Their breaths are torn into phantoms out to sea. She has
> her hair combed high today in a pompadour, her fair eyebrows, plucked
> to wings, darkened, eyes rimmed in black, only the outboard few lashes
> missed and left blonde. Cloudlight comes slanting down across her
> face, taking away color, leaving little more than a formal snapshot,
> the kind that might appear on a passport. . . .
>        “A-and you were so far away then . . . I couldn’t reach you. . . .”
>        Then. Something like pity comes into her face and goes again.
> But her whisper is lethal and bright as sudden wire: “Maybe you’ll
> find out. Maybe in one of their bombed-out cities, beside one of their
> rivers or forests, even one day in the rain, it will come to you.
> You’ll remember the Himmler-Spielsaal, and the skirt I was wearing . .
> . memory will dance for you, and you can even make it my voice saying
> what I couldn’t say then. Or now.” Oh what is it she smiles here to
> him, only for that second? already gone. Back to the mask of no luck,
> no future—her face’s rest state, preferred, easiest. . . .
>
> What kind of wire are we talking about here?
>
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