GR translation: fashioned of brown twilight

[Mike Jing]

Thanks, Joe. That's very helpful.

On Sun, Jun 4, 2017 at 9:39 AM, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:
> I like this image. Think of barn swallows or chimney swifts coming out at
> dusk to feed on flying insects. Rapid, darting flight with quick,
> unpredictable direction changes. In the dying light, they seem to be part of
> the air itself. They are hard to follow with the eyes.
>
> The souls in question, I believe, are like barn swallows. In the tumult of
> the Zone, they are as displaced as the living and may not even know their
> own status. They dart about haphazardly as they rise.
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> On Sun, Jun 4, 2017 at 6:51 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> V303.24-41, P308.11-29   . . . it was always easy, in open and lonely
>> places, to be visited by Panic wilderness fear, but these are the
>> urban fantods here, that come to get you when you are lost or isolate
>> inside the way time is passing, when there is no more History, no
>> time-traveling capsule to find your way back to, only the lateness and
>> the absence that fill a great railway shed after the capital has been
>> evacuated, and the goat-god’s city cousins wait for you at the edges
>> of the light, playing the tunes they always played, but more audible
>> now, because everything else has gone away or fallen silent . . .
>> barn-swallow souls, fashioned of brown twilight, rise toward the white
>> ceilings . . . they are unique to the Zone, they answer to the new
>> Uncertainty. Ghosts used to be either likenesses of the dead or
>> wraiths of the living. But here in the Zone categories have been
>> blurred badly. The status of the name you miss, love, and search for
>> now has grown ambiguous and remote, but this is even more than the
>> bureaucracy of mass absence—some still live, some have died, but many,
>> many have forgotten which they are. Their likenesses will not serve.
>> Down here are only wrappings left in the light, in the dark: images of
>> the Uncertainty. . . .
>>
>> What does "fashioned of" mean here? And are these souls of
>> barn-swallows, or just barn-swallow-like?
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