AtD translation: read us off your list of complaints

[Laura Kelber]

I would interpret it as: read [about] us off [of] your list of complaints.

Off has the meaning of "from," and connects to "list" not "read."

So the meaning is: Go ahead and read your complaints about us out loud,
from your long list of complaints.

On Mon, May 10, 2021, 2:47 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Makes sense. Thanks, David.
>
>
> On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 1:33 AM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > A simpler explanation would be "to scratch us off your list of
> complaints."
> >
> > On Sun, May 9, 2021 at 11:54 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> To "read us off your list of complaints," means to resolve the
> complaints
> >> by destroying "wrecking," eliminating, the source/cause of the
> complaints:
> >> revenge justice.
> >>
> >> David Morris
> >>
> >> On Sun, May 9, 2021 at 11:25 PM Mike Jing <
> gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> P481.5   “You do your best,” she cried out at her mother, “to wreck us,
> >>> and
> >>> then you run away, out of reach, behind the wall of death.”
> >>>        “You want to come out after us, out there beside the old dark
> >>> river,
> >>> find us, read us off your list of complaints? Somebody sooner or
> later’ll
> >>> be happy enough to help you do that. Swear, Lake, you’ve gone sour in
> >>> your
> >>> old age.”
> >>>        Lake woke up, but so slowly it seemed for a while that Mayva was
> >>> really there in the room.
> >>>
> >>> What does "read us off" mean here?
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> >>> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
> >>>
> >>
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