GR translation: deny him/deny his gift

[Mike Jing]

What about "on the short end of 5-to-2 deny his gift" then? I know "5-to-2"
refers to the odds Lamplighter offered earlier. In what way did Nora "deny
his gift"? Did she actually bet against it? It seems unlikely since she was
the one who first witnessed it.


On Sun, Jul 31, 2022 at 5:38 AM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Deny consummation
>
> On Sun, Jul 31, 2022 at 2:37 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> V149.36-39, P152.17-21   For . . . if she does love him: if all her words,
>> this decade of rooms and conversations meant anything . . . if she loves
>> him and still will deny him, on the short end of 5-to-2 deny his gift,
>> deny
>> what’s distributed in his every cell . . . then . . .
>>
>> In what sense is the word "deny" used here? Do the two instances of the
>> word have the same meaning?
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