GR translation: or is held in staring postures

[David Morris]

Staring is what she is doing with her eyes in those postures.
Bike could mean bicycle or motorcycle.  The style of the helmet might tell
you which.

David Morris

On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 6:37 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V482.13-28, P490.17-32   It was always easy for men to come and tell
> her who to be. Other girls of her generation grew up asking, “Who am
> I?” For them it was a question full of pain and struggle. For Gretel
> it was hardly even a question. She had more identities than she knew
> what to do with. Some of these Gretels have been only the sketchiest
> of surfaces—others are deeper. Many have incredible gifts,
> antigravity, dreams of prophecy . . . comatic images surround their
> faces, glowing in the air: the light itself is actually crying tears,
> weeping in this stylized way, as she is borne along through the
> mechanical cities, the meteorite walls draped in midair, every hollow
> and socket empty as a bone, and the failing shadow that shines black
> all around it . . . or is held in staring postures, long gowns, fringe
> and alchemical symbol, veils flowing from leather skullcaps padded
> concentric as a bike-racer’s helmet, with crackling-tower and obsidian
> helix, with drive belts and rollers, with strange airship passages
> that thread underneath arches, solemnly, past louvers and giant fins
> in the city mist. . . .
>
> Does "staring" mean "conspicuous" here? And does "bike" here mean
> "motorcycle"?
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