AtD translation: the irregular of spirit

[Mark Kohut]

"either “pigeon” or “dove,” but the birds themselves symbolize the human
spirit and the people of Israel according to Judaism."

so pigeon shit, full of acid and not nitrates, is the mineral element? And
we know birds shit pretty irregularly, sort of "when the spirit moves
them", we might say?

On Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 10:50 AM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> I am fairly sure he’s talking about pigeons. I tried to think what would
> make any  human visitors come to see a statue of a minor Austro Hungarian
> dignitary and why they might be called  irregular of spirit. Seems a
> serious stretch to me. Perhaps it is a way of mocking his self image
> compared with the attitudes of those who actually come and go from his
> life.. Pigeons and birds come and go from any statue, so are “irregular”.
> The phrase    "of spirit" is more of a stretch, but birds are definitely
> not motivated by loyalty of spirit to an empire.  How you would translate
> this is another issue. But I think it would be better to err on the side of
> pigeons. I think that is the intended joke.
>
> > On Feb 3, 2022, at 3:08 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > P679.21-28   The moving field came to rest at length on whom but the
> > co-tenant of Tarot card XV, Professor P. Jotham Renfrew, apparently down
> > from Cambridge taking in a show, his face flattened into a lurid
> > two-dimensional chromo of itself,  sitting in a box with somebody in a
> > foreign uniform, whom it took Lew only a moment more to recognize as his
> > former fellow Archduke-minder, the Trabant Captain, now regular K. & K.
> > Landwehr Colonel, Max Khäutsch,  hardly changed from the Chicago days,
> > unless perhaps grown slightly more mineral, toward the condition of a
> > statue in a park frequented by the irregular of spirit.
> >
> > What does "the irregular of spirit" mean here?
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