GR translation: in lonely Thesean brushings
Mark Kohut
mark.kohut at gmail.com
Mon Jul 4 05:37:33 CDT 2016
Also: a notion of time as "corridors of years". I get the image of those
time travel corridors from SF books and movies, see *Contact* for example
and articles on wormholes but NOT linear here obviously: of time as a
labyrinth of those corridors which he has just imagined the way out of
often before now.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/brushing
On Sun, Jul 3, 2016 at 4:12 AM, János Széky <miksaapja at gmail.com> wrote:
> Brushing against the walls of the Labyrinth while finding his way out (it
> refers to Theseus getting out after killing the Minotaur).
>
> 2016-07-03 9:49 GMT+02:00 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>:
>
>> V141.28-32, P144.5-10 As his luck has always known, his subcortical,
>> brute luck, his gift of survival while other and better men are
>> snatched away into Death, here’s the door, one he’s imagined so often
>> in lonely Thesean brushings down his polished corridors of years: an
>> exit out of the orthodox-Pavlovian, showing him vistas of Norrmalm,
>> Södermalm, Deer Park and Old City. . . .
>>
>> What does "brushings" mean here?
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