GR translation: more steeply than the waking will ever need

[Bekah]

Could be -  I was thinking that only a dreaming person could think of walking up those hills.  ??

Bekah

On Oct 22, 2012, at 8:42 AM, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:

> or "the sleeping" (on the benches)?
> 
> 2012/10/22 Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>:
>> Could that be "the waking" as opposed to "the dreaming"?
>> 
>> Bekah
>> 
>> 
>> On Oct 21, 2012, at 11:56 PM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> P227.38-228.7  They are standing among black curly skeletons of iron
>>> benches, on the empty curve of this esplanade, banked much more
>>> steeply than the waking will ever need: vertiginous, trying to spill
>>> them into the sea and be rid of this. The day has grown colder.
>>> Neither of them can stay balanced for long, every few seconds one or
>>> the other must find a new footing. He reaches and turns up the collar
>>> of her coat, holds her cheeks then in his palms . . . is he trying to
>>> bring back the color of flesh? He looks down, trying to see into her
>>> eyes, and is puzzled to find tears coming up to fill each one, soaking
>>> in among her lashes, mascara bleeding out in fine black swirls . . .
>>> translucent stones, trembling in their sockets. . . .
>>> 
>>> What does "the waking" refer to here?
>>