GR translation: ride him a green-doped and silent hound
Jochen Stremmel
jstremmel at gmail.com
Mon Mar 21 03:06:53 CDT 2016
I read it as a metaphor for the personal Rocket, and doped is from the 2nd
meaning of the verb:
(2 smear or cover with varnish or other thick liquid: she doped the surface
with photographic emulsion.)
2016-03-21 8:13 GMT+01:00 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>:
> V727.15-22, P741.31-38 But these heretics will be sought and the
> dominion of silence will enlarge as each one goes down . . . they will all
> be sought out. Each will have his personal Rocket. Stored in its
> target-seeker will be the heretic’s EEG, the spikes and susurrations of
> heartbeat, the ghost-blossomings of personal infrared, each Rocket will
> know its intended and hunt him, ride him a green-doped and silent hound,
> through our World, shining and pointed in the sky at his back, his guardian
> executioner rushing in, rushing closer . . . .
>
> What does "ride him a green-doped and silent hound" mean? What is
> "green-doped"?
>
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