AtD translation: the glaring night

[Mike Jing]

Thanks all for replying.


On Sat, Jul 3, 2021 at 5:22 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would slipstream all Joseph said in this way: From early in V,
> streetlight(s), unnatural light,  piercingly 'hurt' the black-as-night
> night sky. It is a motif throughout the works.
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> Also, because of TRP's genius this word functions as a kind of intensifier
> or magnificent modifier: The night projects stronger because of all the
> surrounding diminishment.
> The OED has examples of this shade, these shades of meaning: "glaring
> compliance" is one.....a "glaring contradiction" is the most famous
> perhaps......a few others.
>
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> On Sat, Jul 3, 2021 at 1:39 PM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
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>> I don’t think it is anything too tricky.  Though they have taken a canal
>> into a ghostly disused area, they are in a busy port town on a foggy night
>> and the sound is coming from the middle of  the  more lit-up  part of town
>> where there is probably a lot of glare and odd light from the combination
>> of street lights, building lights  and fog.
>>
>> > On Jul 3, 2021, at 11:32 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > P562.19-24   Out in the middle of the glaring night, somewhere
>> disguised in
>> > echo and phase-interference, chimes had begun to sound, a harmonic-minor
>> > nocturne too desolately precise to be attributable to human timing and
>> > muscle-power, more likely one of the clockwork carillons peculiar to
>> this
>> > part of Belgium, replacing a live carillonneur, whose art was said to
>> be in
>> > decline. . . .
>> >
>> > What does "glaring" mean here?
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