GR translation:

ish mailian ishmailian at gmail.com
Sat Sep 10 12:31:35 CDT 2016


Not sure, but I think it is possible that we can never know what is
meant by these phrases. They seem to characterize T in juxtaposition
to something in the song or to the singers ...., but the element of
the story or song alluded to, has been omitted. We might assume that
women of certain love were mentioned in the omitted part, but we can't
know for sure. That's all I can make of it? Maybe someone else has a
better read?

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 8:53 PM, 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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