GR translation: their furnished dustbin

[Mark Kohut]

>From an 1882 Treatise on Public Health:

 Until quite recently , dustbins were large receptacles constructed of
brickwork , backing upon a wall in the yard , or against the side of the
house ...

On Sun, Aug 7, 2022 at 2:15 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V160.12-15, P162.38-41   He’d been out all day, the proletarian husband,
> out pasting up bills to advertise some happy Max Schlepzig film fantasy,
> while Leni lay pregnant, forced to turn when the pain in her back got too
> bad, inside their furnished dustbin in the last of the tenement’s
> Hinterhöfe.
>
> The published translation thinks they were literally living in a dustbin,
> which I find hard to believe. It gotta be a metaphor, right?
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