GR translation: their own pitiable contingency here, in its midst

[David Morris]

https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/contingency

The noun *contingency* describes something that might or might not happen.
We use it to describe an event or situation that is a possible outcome but
one that's impossible to predict with certainty. A company might have a
*contingency* plan for what to do if something goes wrong with their
primary strategy, also known as "plan B." They might even have plans C, D,
and E, to prepare for multiple contingencies.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/contingency

Recent Examples of contingency from the web

   - Former Red Wing Kris Draper and former Maple Leaf Gary Roberts slashed
   and shoved each other for real ominous weather forecasts Monday led the NHL
   to devise *contingency* plans for the Winter Classic — the Blues’
   —Helene Elliott, latimes.com, What we learned in the NHL, 2 January 2017
   <http://www.latimes.com/sports/ducks/la-sp-nhl-what-we-learned-20170102-story.html>
   - One *contingency* is to line up a third-party spokesman who can help
   if the brand’s image is dinged.
   —Zach Schonbrun, New York Times, Brands Start Planning for Unexpected
   Criticism by Trump, 25 December 2016
   <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/25/business/media/advertising-brands-criticism-by-trump.html>
   - The day the Brexit negotiations begin then banks have to decide on
   whether to press the button on their *contingency* plans, says Simon
   Gleeson a partner at law firm Clifford Chance.
   —Max Colchester, WSJ, Banks Accelerate Contingency Plans as Brexit Gets
   Real, 6 October 2016
   <http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-k-financial-firms-beef-up-contingency-plans-ahead-of-brexit-deadline-1475746698>



Sat, May 6, 2017 at 9:23 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> "Their own pitiable contingency [plan]"
>
> Refers to their "preserving routine" enacted (pitiably) as protection
> against the real War of chance going on outside.
>
>
>    - a provision for an unforeseen event or circumstance.
>    "a contingency reserve"
>
>
> David Morris
>
> Sat, May 6, 2017 at 7:22 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> V96.5-16, P97.40-98.10   How seriously is she playing? In a conquered
>> country, one’s own occupied country, it’s better, she believes, to
>> enter into some formal, rationalized version of what, outside,
>> proceeds without form or decent limit day and night, the summary
>> executions, the roustings, beatings, subterfuge, paranoia, shame . . .
>> though it is never discussed among them openly, it would seem Katje,
>> Gottfried, and Captain Blicero have agreed that this Northern and
>> ancient form, one they all know and are comfortable with—the strayed
>> children, the wood-wife in the edible house, the captivity, the
>> fattening, the Oven—shall be their preserving routine, their shelter,
>> against what outside none of them can bear—the War, the absolute rule
>> of chance, their own pitiable contingency here, in its midst. . . .
>>
>> What does "contingency" mean here?
>> -
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>>
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