GR translation: A giant white fly
Jochen Stremmel
jstremmel at gmail.com
Sat Apr 30 05:21:18 CDT 2016
Fly is the insect as metaphor for the penis in white lace which is later
linked to the rocket.
Although one should think it possible to decide whether it's blood or sperm
that the lace is clotted with ...
2016-04-30 11:52 GMT+02:00 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>:
> V750.24-31, P765.16-23 A giant white fly: an erect penis buzzing in
> white lace, clotted with blood or sperm. Deathlace is the boy’s bridal
> costume. His smooth feet, bound side by side, are in white satin slippers
> with white bows. His red nipples are erect. The golden hairs on his back,
> alloyed German gold, pale yellow to white, run symmetric about his spine,
> run in arches fine and whirled as the arches of a fingerprint, as filings
> along magnetic lines of force. Each freckle or mole is a dark,
> precisely-set anomaly in the field. Sweat gathers at his nape.
>
> What is the first sentence describing? And does "fly" refer to the insect?
>
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