GR translation:
Mike Jing
gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com
Thu Sep 8 21:35:01 CDT 2016
I don't think so. The three "like"'s are in parallel: like the
mountains, like the young women, like the earthquakes and the wind,
which are things he will also hardly be
able to remember.
And the "young exiled women" most likely refer to Galina and Luba.
And, "exhaled" love?
On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 9:55 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> "Their certain love" is a category of love described by the the words that
> follow. It is an exhaled love.
>
>
> On Thursday, September 8, 2016, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> V359.10-20, P364.31-365.3 Tchitcherine will reach the Kirghiz Light,
>> but not his birth. He is no aqyn, and his heart was never ready. He
>> will see It just before dawn. He will spend 12 hours then, face-up on
>> the desert, a prehistoric city greater than Babylon lying in stifled
>> mineral sleep a kilometer below his back, as the shadow of the tall
>> rock, rising to a point, dances west to east and Džaqyp Qulan tends
>> him, anxious as child and doll, and drying foam laces the necks of the
>> two horses. But someday, like the mountains, like the young exiled
>> women in their certain love, in their innocence of him, like the
>> morning earthquakes and the cloud-driving wind, a purge, a war, and
>> millions after millions of souls gone behind him, he will hardly be
>> able to remember It.
>>
>> What's the meaning of "in their certain love" and "in their innocence of
>> him"?
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