GR translation: hands heavy with rings of all colors, opacities and uglinesses

[alice wellintown]

Agreed. Those rings are jewelry.


On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 12:04 AM, Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> No,  I think in this case the rings are jewelry because the other things
> in that sentence lend themselves to that idea -  teeny plucked eyebrows,
>  streaked hair and Chanel suit,  flowers. etc. and lots of costume jewelry
> rings on her fingers.     Think Morticia Adams.
>
> Bekah
>
> On Jun 29, 2013, at 8:04 PM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > P370.22-36     As a matter of fact, he is also just about to run into
> his Lisaura: someone he will be with for a while and then leave again. The
> Minnesinger abandoned his poor woman to suicide. What Slothrop will be
> leaving Greta Erdmann to is not so clear. Along the Havel in Neubabelsberg
> she waits, less than the images of herself that survive in an indeterminate
> number of release prints here and there about the Zone, and even across the
> sea. . . . Every kind technician who ever threw a magenta gel across her
> key light for her has gone to war or death, and she is left nothing but
> God’s indifferent sunlight in all its bleaching and terror. . . . Eyebrows
> plucked to pen-strokes, long hair streaked with gray, hands heavy with
> rings of all colors, opacities and uglinesses, wearing her dark prewar
> Chanel suits, no hat, scarves, always a flower, she is haunted by Central
> European night-whispers that blow, like the skin curtains of Berlin, more
> ghostly around her fattening, wrecked beauty the closer she and Slothrop
> draw. . . .
> >
> > I'm quite positive that the published translation is wrong again on this
> one, but just to be absolutely sure: these rings are not jewellery, but
> imperfections of the skin, is that correct?
>
>
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