GR translation: the mark of Youthful Folly

[Ian Livingston]

I always took this as the “mark of Cain” every young fool imagines others perceive but he cannot because the mark is only on  his own forehead. 

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> On Apr 16, 2022, at 4:36 PM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> V12.38-13.2, P13.13-17   The scenes are highlights from Pirate’s career as
> a fantasist-surrogate, and go back to when he was carrying, everywhere he
> went, the mark of Youthful Folly growing in an unmistakable Mongoloid
> point, right out of the middle of his head.
> 
> Here, is "the mark of Youthful Folly" the "Mongoloid point" itself, or is
> it actually a hexagram or whatever growing inside said Mongoloid point? I
> find the latter scenario strange and unlikely, but that's just me.
> 
> I thought this sentence is just a funny way of saying when Pirate was young
> and inexperienced, is that correct?
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