GR translation: television images flickering across their toenails

[Mike Jing]

That's what I thought. Thanks as always, David.

More obvious questions coming. Just want to be absolutely sure I'm not
the one getting it wrong.

On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 5:17 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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