GR translation: womanly twisting the night-streaked yarn of her past

[David Morris]

http://www.greekmythology.com/Other_Gods/The_Fates/the_fates.html

The Fates have the subtle but awesome power of deciding a man's destiny.
They assign a man to good or evil. Their most obvious choice is choosing
how long a man lives. There are three Fates. Clotho, the spinner, who spins
the thread of life. Lachesis, the measurer, who choses the lot in life one
will have and measures off how long it is to be. Atropos, she who cannot be
turned, who at death with her shears cuts the thread of life.

On Monday, April 22, 2013, Mike Jing wrote:

> Of course, I just realized that twisting is needed when spinning yarn.
> Silly me.
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> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 5:36 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com');>
> > wrote:
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>> P212.5-14   “You were in London,” she will presently whisper, turning
>> back to her wheel and spinning it again, face averted, womanly twisting the
>> night-streaked yarn of her past, “while they were coming down I was in ’s
>> Gravenhage”—fricatives sighing, the name spoken with exile’s
>> lingering—“while they were going up. Between you and me is not only a
>> rocket trajectory, but also a life. You will come to understand that
>> between the two points, in the five minutes, it lives an entire life. You
>> haven’t even learned the data on our side of the flight profile, the
>> visible or trackable. Beyond them there’s so much more, so much none of us
>> know. . . .”
>>
>> First, I thought this obviously refers the spinning of the roulette
>> wheel, which is like a spinning wheel for yarn.  But then "the
>> night-streaked yarn of her past" seems to refer to the story of he past,
>> which she is "twisting" somehow.  Am I reading too much into this?  (Or is
>> that even possible?)
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