AtD translation: the irregular of spirit

[David Morris]

Don’t miss the forest, the toilet humor of “frequented by the irregular of
spirit,” which so wonderfully pairs with “his face flattened into a lurid
two-dimensional chromo of itself.”  I’m serious: take that hit, please!

On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 11:59 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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