GR translation: nags him on stumbling as badly as 20 years ago

[David Morris]

[It] nags him on, [he is] stumbling.
On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 7:51 AM Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> the pattern cries and nags him on [his onward movement stumbling] as badly
> as it cried and nagged him on 20 years ago.
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> On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 7:21 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> So the verbal phrase here is "nags him on", which is then modified by
>> "stumbling", is that correct?
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 7:05 AM, Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk>
>> wrote:
>> > Mondaugen's story in V is set in 1922, 20 years before, so the pattern
>> Weismann feels emerging in 1942 are nagging at him in the same way as the
>> significance he grasped for in Mondaugen's work in SW Africa.
>> >
>> > Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote :
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>> >> V322.30-38, P327.17-26   And Enzian’s found the name Bleicheröde close
>> >> enough to “Blicker,” the nickname the early Germans gave to Death.
>> >> They saw him white: bleaching and blankness. The name was later
>> >> Latinized to “Dominus Blicero.” Weissmann, enchanted, took it as his
>> >> SS code name. Enzian was in Germany by then. Weissmann brought the new
>> >> name home to his pet, not showing it off so much as indicating to
>> >> Enzian yet another step to be taken toward the Rocket, toward a
>> >> destiny he still cannot see past this sinister cryptography of naming,
>> >> a sparse pattern but one that harshly will not be denied, that cries
>> >> and nags him on stumbling as badly as 20 years ago. . . .
>> >>
>> >> Does this mean it's nagging him about something happened 20 years ago,
>> >> or is it something else?
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