Re: GR translation: Contrasting wood x’s on closed doors

[Mike Jing]

By the way, the published Chinese translation mistook the Gross Suckling
for a suckling pig.

On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 9:23 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Not underestimating P's research, in fact often enough in awe of it, I
> still think it wouldn't have taken much more to realize that "Der Grob
> Säugling" is a grammatically impossible name for a German inn.
>
> 2016-01-24 15:03 GMT+01:00 Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>:
>
>> Colors of paint:  fairly common here, using an accent color on the
>> diagonal stiffener boards. Common in Germany 1945? Idunno, but I never
>> underestimate P's research
>>
>> https://img0.etsystatic.com/070/0/8603220/il_fullxfull.821508946_70f0.jpg
>>
>>
>> http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/red-barn-door-double-white-rhe-coutry-32520483.jpg
>>
>>
>> http://www.tritonbarns.com/images/sliding_doors_finished/barn_doors_sliding_2600.jpg
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 12:49 AM, Mike Jing <
>> gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> V706.26-34, P720.28-36   Ensign Morituri, Carroll Eventyr, Thomas
>>> Gwenhidwy, and Roger Mexico are sitting at a table on the redbrick terrace
>>> of Der Grob Säugling, an inn by the edge of a little blue Holstein lake.
>>> The sun makes the water sparkle. The housetops are red, the steeples are
>>> white. Everything is miniature, neat, gently pastoral, locked into the rise
>>> and fall of seasons. Contrasting wood x’s on closed doors. The brink of
>>> autumn. A cow sez moo. The milkmaid farts at the milk pail, which echoes
>>> with a very slight clang, and the geese honk or hiss. The four envoys drink
>>> watered Moselle and talk mandalas.
>>>
>>> The word "Contrasting" is referring to the colors of the wood, is that
>>> correct?
>>>
>>
>>
>
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