GR translation: and guts resonate, hard as stone

[Mike Jing]

Thanks, Jochen.

On Sat, Jul 8, 2017 at 1:25 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:

> yes.
>
> 2017-07-08 6:47 GMT+02:00 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>:
>
>> V500.29-501.2, P509.4-18   And this is how their desperate enterprise
>> goes a-rollicking up the coast of Usedom, under a hazy summer sky. On
>> shore, the green downs roll up in two gentle steps: above them is a chain
>> of hills thick with pines and oaks. Little resort towns with white beaches
>> and forlorn jetties wheel abeam rheumatically slow. Military-looking craft,
>> probably Russian PT boats, will be seen now and then lying dead in the
>> water. None challenge the Frau’s passage. The sun is in and out, turning
>> the decks a stark moment’s yellow around everyone’s shadow. There’s a late
>> time of day when all shadows are thrown along the same east-northeast
>> bearing as the test rockets were always fired out to sea from Peenemünde.
>> The exact clock time, which varies through the year, is known as Rocket
>> Noon . . . and the sound that must at that moment fill the air for its
>> devout can only be compared with a noontime siren the whole town believes
>> in . . . and guts resonate, hard as stone. . . .
>>
>> Does "hard as stone" describe "guts" here?
>>
>>
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