AtD translation: too fair to be alone, too crazy for town/exploding into the dark

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Tue Jan 11 05:47:22 UTC 2022


If you want translation rather than interpretation, I’d suggest you
translate as written.  There are too many subjective interpretations
possible.

On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 11:04 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> P651.23-29   . . . yet she couldn’t see her luck as other than purchased in
> the worn unlucky coin of all those girls
> who hadn’t kept coming back, who’d gone down before their time, Dixies and
> Fans and Mignonettes, too fair to be alone, too crazy for town, ending
> their days too soon in barrelhouses, in shelters dug not quite deep enough
> into the unyielding freeze of the hillside, for the sake of boys too
> stupefied with their own love of exploding into the dark, . . .
>
> What does "too fair to be alone, too crazy for town" imply here, especially
> "too crazy for town"? And what does "exploding into the dark" refer to,
> apart from the obvious?
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