GR translation: the male embodiment of a technologique

[Mike Jing]

Thanks for the confirmation. I'm still finding my own mistakes, so I
thought I'd better ask. Looks like a fourth pass will be needed later for
the final polish, but I'm feeling pretty good about it now.


On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 11:27 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I lean to the Master. It's chain sex/domination: we know Ilse was
> conceived after Alpdrucken aroused Pokler; here he delights in *his own*
> submissions to the Master (both a mythic abstraction and *Dominus*
> Blicero), who as we saw at 's Gravenhage is more aroused the more abject
> the surrender of his partners.
>
> On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 11:12 PM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> V578.21-33, P588.19-31   A curious potency. Whatever it was the real
>> visionaries were picking up out of the hard tessitura of those days and
>> city streets, whatever Käthe Kollwitz saw that brought her lean Death down
>> to hump Its women from behind, and they to love it so, seemed now and then
>> to have touched Pökler too, in his deeper excursions into the Mare
>> Nocturnum. He found delight not unlike a razor sweeping his skin and
>> nerves, scalp to soles, in ritual submissions to the Master of this night
>> space and of himself, the male embodiment of a technologique that embraced
>> power not for its social uses but for just those chances of surrender,
>> personal and dark surrender, to the Void, to delicious and screaming
>> collapse. . . . To Attila the Hun, as a matter of fact, come west out of
>> the steppes to smash the precious structure of magic and incest that held
>> together the kingdom of the Burgundians.
>>
>> Does "the male embodiment of a technologique..." refer to "the Master of
>> this night space and of himself", or does it simply refer to Pökler himself?
>>
>> The published translation has it as the latter, but I'm not so sure.
>>
>>
>
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