Re: GR translation: feathering out like trailing edges of hawks’ wings

[Mark Kohut]

Hawks wings end as feathers.

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On Thu, Apr 3, 2025 at 10:51 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V464.20-24, P472.4-8   “Beg pardon?” Slothrop looks around and finds Miklos
> Thanatz, full beard, eyebrows feathering out like trailing edges of hawks’
> wings, drinking absinthe out of a souvenir stein on which, in colors made
> ghastly by the carnival lights on deck, bony and giggling Death is about to
> surprise two lovers in bed.
>
> What does "feathering out" mean here?
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