Re: GR translation: like a bürger’s silk mantle

[János Széky]

A member of the burghers' estate in a given town or city, with rights and
privileges, or some office. A merchant or a well-to-do craftsman.

János

2017-07-08 9:49 GMT+02:00 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>:

> V501.14-27, P509.31-510.3   Low, burned-out buildings now, ash images of
> camouflage nets burned onto the concrete (they had only a minute to glow,
> like a bürger’s silk mantle—to light this coastal indoors, this engineers’
> parlor full of stodgy shapes and neutral tones . . . didn’t it only flare?
> no need to put right, nothing monitory, no new levels to be reached . . .
> but who would that be, watching so civil and mild over the modeltop? face
> all in these chromo sunset colors, eyes inside blackrim lenses which, like
> the flaring nets, now are seen to have served as camouflage for who but the
> Bicycle Rider in the Sky, the black and fatal Edwardian silhouette on the
> luminous breast of sky, of today’s Rocket Noon, two circular explosions
> inside the rush hour, in the death-scene of the sky’s light. How the rider
> twirls up there, terminal and serene. In the Tarot he is known as The Fool,
> but around the Zone here they call him Slick. It’s 1945. Still early, still
> innocent. Some of it is).
>
> What does "bürger" mean here?
>
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