GR translation: trains full of their own hanging off the cars that lumber overhead

[jochen stremmel]

Sorry for being so late, I was 10 days away from home and my books, but: I
think this very long paragraph serves as a kind of
Völkerwanderungs-Panopticon – David's amalgam, not in different historic
modes, but at the end of WWII, Slothrop's synopsis – and there it is quite
possible that on the Autobahns are caravans with Gypsies, drawn by horses,
while overhead trains with Gypsies are passing, on a viaduct, railway
bridge, sort of thing.

2015-01-15 6:42 GMT+01:00 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>:

> I have indeed considered that.  Then what exactly are "the cars that
> lumber overhead"? (and overhead relative to what?)  Are they caravan wagons
> or actual automobiles?  In fact, are we talking about actual Gypsies here,
> or is it metaphorical?
>
> On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 4:12 PM, James Kyllo <jkyllo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> yes, these are trains in the sense that predates the railway (wagon
>> trains, camel trains &c)
>>
>> J
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 4:08 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I think this imagery is a amalgam of many historic modes of egress from
>>> war zones. All of these people are fleeing in whatever mode is available in
>>> their own times. So, no, there are no train tracks above the Autobahn.
>>>
>>> David Morris
>>>
>>> On Saturday, January 10, 2015, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> V549.36-550.3   . . . caravans of Gypsies, axles or linchpins failing,
>>>> horses dying, families leaving the vehicles beside the roads for others to
>>>> come live in a night, a day, over the white hot Autobahns, trains full of
>>>> their own hanging off the cars that lumber overhead, squeezing aside for
>>>> army convoys when they come through, . . .
>>>>
>>>> So the Gypsy caravans are on the Autobahn, there are train tracks
>>>> running above the Autobahn, and the caravans have to squeeze aside when
>>>> army convoys come through.  Is this the correct picture here, or did I
>>>> misunderstand completely?
>>>>
>>>
>>
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