GR translation: who was crossing the great Rio forever

[Mark Kohut]

Right or wrong, I have always read this line as about an archetypal faro
dealer....unlike
Whappo and Crutchfield he has no name, he is a constant type and his type
is one who
is always, has always, crossed the great Rio over and over. Forever.

On Sun, Jun 5, 2022 at 12:24 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V69.10-13, P70.28-31   Whappo is wearing chaps of imported gazelle hide
> that Crutchfield bought for him in Eagle Pass from a faro dealer with a
> laudanum habit who was crossing the great Rio forever, into the blank
> furnace of the wild Mexico.
>
> What does it mean for the faro dealer to be "crossing the great Rio
> forever"? Did he actually cross it, or was he forever in the process of
> crossing it?
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