GR translation: a legend to be deciphered

[David Morris]

“Story” seems more correct than “inscription.”  This legend is told via an
artifact which is foreign to the observer, and needs to be deciphered and
interpreted.  It might be a kind inscription, but it’s the story that needs
to be made clear.

On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 3:42 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V72.34-73.3, P74.13-17   At The White Visitation the walls read ice.
> Graffiti of ice the sunless day, glazing the darkening blood brick and
> terra cotta as if the house is to be preserved weatherless in some skin of
> clear museum plastic, an architectural document, an old-fashioned apparatus
> whose use is forgotten. Ice of varying thickness, wavy, blurred, a legend
> to be deciphered by lords of the winter, Glacists of the region, and argued
> over in their journals.
>
> In what sense is the word "legend" used here? I've always thought it means
> "inscription", but the published translation interprets it as "story".
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