AtD translation: read us off your list of complaints

[David Morris]

The context is a long term goalplan of “wrecking” us. Not neutral reading.

DM

On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 8:10 AM Laura Kelber <laurakelber at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
> > >>> --
> > >>> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
> > >>>
> > >>
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> >
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