AtD translation: a white horse borne against the sky

[Mike Jing]

Thanks everyone for replying. Very much appreciated.


On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 8:43 AM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> He isn’t seeing anything, he is is waiting for a sign of some kind, these
> being examples of the kinds of things he imagines he might see. The phrase
> "borne against the sky”  is a fairly traditional use of born/borne meaning
> carried, in this case carried aloft.  The black rush is another darker
> option of what his imagination is waiting to see.
> > On May 8, 2019, at 11:53 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > The question I have is how he sees the white horse in the sky transition
> > into "a black rush of hair streaming unruly."  It seems his seeing a
> > dramatic mythical statue scene. But that is his analogy to what he really
> > sees.
> >
> > David Morris
> >
> > On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 8:42 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> P297.5-10   The longer he stayed in this town, the less he was finding
> out.
> >> The point of diminishing returns was fast approaching. Yet now, as the
> >> trail ascended, as snowlines drew nearer and the wind became sovereign,
> he
> >> found himself waiting for some split-second flare out there at the
> edges of
> >> what he could see, a white horse borne against the sky, a black rush of
> >> hair streaming unruly as the smoke that marbles the flames of Perdition.
> >>
> >> What does the word "borne" mean here? (I do know it's the past
> participle
> >> of "bear".)
> >>
> >> According to the OED:
> >>
> >> bear, v.1
> >>
> >> Main senses: I. to carry; II. to sustain; III. to thrust, press; IV. to
> >> bring forth.
> >>
> >> In which sense is it used here?
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