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

[Mike Jing]

I'm finally able to make sense of this part of the sentence and come up
with a reasonable translation, which I consider to be the "correct"
translation. Again, my initial difficulty came about because I did not
understand it correctly, and that's what almost all my questions are about.
I wasn't looking for translation, I was looking for understanding, and like
it or not, it often involves interpretation.

Thanks everyone for responding. I sure can't do it without your help.


On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 12:47 AM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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