GR translation: television images flickering across their toenails

[David Morris]

The toenails modify "these turnouts" (outfits).

On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 2:02 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V296.21-30, P301.3-13   A popular attraction is the elegant Raumwaffe
> spacesuit wardrobe, designed by famous military couturier Heini of
> Berlin. Not only are there turnouts dazzling enough to thrill even the
> juvenile leads of a space-operetta, down to the oddly-colored
> television images flickering across their toenails, but Heini has even
> thought of silks for the amusing little Space-Jockeys (Raum-Jockeier)
> with their electric whips, who will someday zoom about just outside
> the barrier-glow of the Raketen-Stadt, astride “horses” of polished
> meteorite all with the same stylized face (a high-contrast imago of
> the horse that follows you, emphasis on its demented eyes, its teeth,
> the darkness under its hindquarters . . .)
>
> I assume these "oddly-colored television images flickering across
> their toenails" are part of the spacesuit wardrobe, is that correct?
>
> Or are they a curious feature of the "juvenile leads" themselves, as
> the published translation has it?
> -
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