GR translation: a ground that by now has gathered

[Michael Bailey]

also, consider the phrase "gathered in"  (as opposed to the system
gathering, in his eyes -- rather, the "system of burst capillaries"
etc has gathered his eyes into itself, made them part of itself,
changed them from (what he momentarily remembers as) the "simple
direct eyes"

everybody else probably caught that right away...

(I think of the song in the movie "How to Succeed in Business Without
Really Trying" where the guy is standing in the executive washroom
looking in the mirror and singing to himself, "you've got the clear,
clean eyes of a seeker of wisdom and truth")

anyway, but then he abandons the idea that his eyes were ever that
clear, that he was ever that innocent -- after all, They saw his
potential for evil!  (victim taught to blame himself)



On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 12:07 AM, Mike Jing
<gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> V425.12-20 (P432.12-20)   Pökler scratches at a graying 48-hour beard, bites
> at lips very chapped, as if he has spent most of the late winter outside: he
> has a winter look. Around his eyes, over the years, has grown a ruinous
> system of burst capillaries, shadows, folds, crowsfeet, a ground that by now
> has gathered in the simple, direct eyes of his younger and poorer days . . .
> no. Something was in them, even then, something others saw and knew they
> could use, and found how to. Something Pökler missed. He’s spent enough of
> his life looking into mirrors. He really ought to remember. . . .
>
> What is the meaning of the word "ground" here?