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

[Mike Jing]

Right.  I woke up this morning and realized that I was probably wrong.  I
stand corrected and glad i asked.  Thanks.


On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 7:28 AM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com
> wrote:

> 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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