AtD translation: the irregular of spirit

[Michael Bailey]

To be described as becoming mineralized like a statue in a park, yes, that
could seem degrading.

But also that his features are strong and handsome, (like those von Trapps
in “The Sound of Music”) and would make a good statue?

Looking at the context, Khäutsch is not such a terrible guy. His theory,
which he shares with Lew during the intermission, that grey eminences (the
Koch Brothers of Austria-Hungary) had imported Jack the Ripper to kill the
putative heir Rudolf in Mayerling, thus making Frank Ferdinand succeed
instead, and also making FF aware that his empery & even his survival were
conditional on being chauvinistic, tolerant of corruption, militaristic,
and anti-Semitic, is interesting. And advances the idea that Khäutsch
himself would have much preferred Rudolf and his progressive ideas.

(Werfner and Neville & Nigel use their dubiety as to this theory to advance
the idea of multiple universes in only some of which was JtR the Mayerling
killer.)



On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 11:25 AM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> I was definitely reading it as though the statue was being frequented
> rather than the park, but that is not necessarily true, so maybe Michael
> has a better take on this.The analogy should apply to Khautsch’s current
> status, which is clearly being demeaned.
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