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

Mike Jing gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com
Wed Jun 7 09:29:20 CDT 2017


Got it. Thanks, David and Monte.

On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 9:10 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> [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.
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 7:21 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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 :
>>> >
>>> >> 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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