GR translation: booming over air-shafts

[Mike Jing]

Interesting. These were my leanings as well in the beginning, but I was
talked out of it the first time around. Seeing the word "booming" again in
AtD prompted me to have another look. It seems a 4th pass is definitely
necessary.

Thanks, Monte.


On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 7:26 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> For "booming", my reading is that while the ghosts are too tenuous to
> generate directly sounds we can hear, they can do so through amplification
> in resonant spaces such as chimneys and air shafts. For the second,
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repouss%C3%A9_and_chasing
>
> seems closest -- if not quite apt, as neither ghosts nor wind actually
> depress the roofing material. I think he's going for their fine
> "engraving-like" patterns rather than the mechanism.
>
> On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 2:20 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thinking it over yet again, I feel "making a deep, prolonged, resonant
>> sound" is the correct meaning after all. What follows is "too tenuous
>> _themselves_ for sound", which suggests that they are using air-shafts to
>> make the booming sound since they cannot make any sound by themselves.
>>
>> Does this make any sense?
>>
>>
>> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 11:47 PM, Mike Jing <
>> gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> P140.32-35  Now ghosts crowd beneath the eaves. Stretched among snowy
>>> soot chimneys, booming over air-shafts, too tenuous themselves for
>>> sound, dry now forever in this wet gusting, stretched and never
>>> breaking, whipped in glassy French-curved chase across the rooftops,
>>> along the silver downs, skimming where the sea combs freezing in to
>>> shore.
>>>
>>> Does "booming" mean "making a deep, prolonged, resonant sound" here?
>>> The published translation went with the other meaning, which doesn't
>>> feel quite right to me.  I could be very wrong, of course.
>>>
>>> Also, what exactly is "chase" here?  I have found:
>>>
>>> 1. a rectangular iron frame in which composed type is secured or
>>> locked for printing or platemaking.
>>> 2. Building Trades . a space or groove in a masonry wall or through a
>>> floor for pipes or ducts.
>>> 3. a groove, furrow, or trench; a lengthened hollow.
>>>
>>> and I am leaning towards #3.
>>>
>>
>>
>
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