GR translation: already listed for taking

[David Morris]

Passenger list on a holiday cruise?

On Sunday, July 28, 2013, Mike Jing wrote:

> V398.25-31  (P404.41-405.6)  If there is music for this it’s windy strings
> and reed sections standing in bright shirt fronts and black ties all along
> the beach, a robed organist by the breakwater—itself broken, crusted with
> tides—whose languets and flues gather and shape the resonant spooks here,
> the candleflame memories, all trace, particle and wave, of the sixty
> thousand who passed, already listed for taking, once or twice this way. Did
> you ever go on holiday to Zwölfkinder? . . .
>
> Why are these sixty thousand described as "already listed for taking"?
>
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