Gr translation: crackling-tower

[H. R. Riley]

Search "crackling tower." There are a variety of meanings, several of which
might be relevant. Robin, weren't you a soundman at some point? Do you know
the references to an audio tower crackling? Any lurking metaphors?


On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>wrote:

> V482.13-28   It was always easy for men to come and tell her who to be.
> Other girls of her generation grew up asking, “Who am I?” For them it was a
> question full of pain and struggle. For Gretel it was hardly even a
> question. She had more identities than she knew what to do with. Some of
> these Gretels have been only the sketchiest of surfaces—others are deeper.
> Many have incredible gifts, antigravity, dreams of prophecy . . . comatic
> images surround their faces, glowing in the air: the light itself is
> actually crying tears, weeping in this stylized way, as she is borne along
> through the mechanical cities, the meteorite walls draped in midair, every
> hollow and socket empty as a bone, and the failing shadow that shines black
> all around it . . . or is held in staring postures, long gowns, fringe and
> alchemical symbol, veils flowing from leather skullcaps padded concentric
> as a bike-racer’s helmet, with crackling-tower and obsidian helix, with
> drive belts and rollers, with strange airship passages that thread
> underneath arches, solemnly, past louvers and giant fins in the city mist.
> . . .
>
> What is "crackling-tower"?
>
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