GR translation: roundhouses

[Mike Jing]

Thanks for replying, Mike and Mark.


On Thu, Aug 14, 2025 at 5:34 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

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> round·house
> /ˈroundˌ(h)ous/
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> *noun*
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>    1. 1.
>    a locomotive
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>     maintenance shed built around a turntable
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> On Thu, Aug 14, 2025 at 4:46 AM Mike Weaver via Pynchon-l <
> pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:
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>> One meaning is a lockup
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Village_lock-up> which fits here.
>>
>> On 14/08/2025 03:59, Mike Jing wrote:
>> > V571.23-31, P581.19-27   She tells how her parents lived, her father a
>> > printer, married during his journeymanship, his wanderyears now
>> stretched
>> > out to ten, no word where he’s been since ‘42, when they had a note from
>> > Neukölln, where he had dossed down the night with a friend. Always a
>> > friend, God knows how many back rooms, roundhouses, print shops he slept
>> > single nights in, shivering wrapped in back numbers of Die Welt am
>> Montag,
>> > sure of at least shelter, like everybody in the Buchdrucherverband,
>> often a
>> > meal, almost certainly some kind of police trouble if the stay lasted
>> too
>> > long—it was a good union.
>> >
>> > What does "roundhouse" mean here?
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