NP | ZK translation: They were clinging to the surface

[Mark Kohut]

Not even trying to look up, or to rise above it, so to speak...the
transcendence line.

(man, working the earth as M & D are, with all of the words about
transcendence or not in M &D is resonant)

On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 2:06 PM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com> wrote:

> the everyday, mortal, world?  Seizing the day and that sort of thing.
>
> On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 12:10 PM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> P242.20-30   He said, “Who are they without their wars? These event have
>> become insistent clusters that touch and spread and bring us all into range
>> of a monodrama far larger, worldwide, than we’ve ever witnessed.”
>>        Zara was watching him now and I was watching her. They were
>> clinging to the surface, weren’t they, both of them? Earth in all its
>> meanings, third planet from the sun, realm of mortal existence, every
>> definition in between. I didn’t want to forget that she needed a surname. I
>> owed her this. Isn’t that why I was here, to subvert the dance of
>> transcendence with my tricks and games?
>>
>> What does "They were clinging to the surface" mean here?
>>
>>
>
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