GR translation: The last image was too immediate

[Mike Jing]

Thanks, Jochen and David.

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 7:52 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> The possible image of a figure is dreaming of the luminous early evening
> image of each capital.  "Each" means more than one.
>
> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 3:13 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Then does "dreaming of an early evening" means wanting to retire early?
>> And why "each"?
>>
>> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 2:06 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> immediate is used here in the sense "instantaneous", not longer than a
>>> moment, I would say.
>>>
>>> And luminous refers to each capital.
>>>
>>> 2016-05-13 7:52 GMT+02:00 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> Also, "luminous enough to tell him he will never die" describes "early
>>>> evening", is that correct?
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 1:24 AM, Mike Jing <
>>>> gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> V760.7-18, P775.20-31   The rhythmic clapping resonates inside these
>>>>> walls, which are hard and glossy as coal: Come-on! Start-the-show! Come-on!
>>>>> Start-the-show! The screen is a dim page spread before us, white and
>>>>> silent. The film has broken, or a projector bulb has burned out. It was
>>>>> difficult even for us, old fans who’ve always been at the movies (haven’t
>>>>> we?) to tell which before the darkness swept in. The last image was too
>>>>> immediate for any eye to register. It may have been a human figure,
>>>>> dreaming of an early evening in each great capital luminous enough to tell
>>>>> him he will never die, coming outside to wish on the first star. But it was
>>>>> not a star, it was falling, a bright angel of death. And in the darkening
>>>>> and awful expanse of screen something has kept on, a film we have not
>>>>> learned to see . . . it is now a closeup of the face, a face we all know—
>>>>>
>>>>> What does "immediate" mean here exactly?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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