GR translation: the mark of Youthful Folly

[Mike Jing]

That's interesting. And Wikipedia says:

Some interpretations view this as a physical mark, whereas other
interpretations see the "mark" as a sign, and not as a physical mark on
Cain himself.


On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 11:56 AM Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > 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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