Re: GR translation: freemason’s night to night

[Mike Weaver]

Very metaphorical.

  Freemasons almost always meet at night - is their existence like a 
reversed strobe effect?

On 15/08/2025 09:00, Mike Jing wrote:
> V571.26-572.3, P581.22-40   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.
> They kept the German Wobbly traditions, they didn’t go along with Hitler
> though all the other unions were falling into line. It touches Slothrop’s
> own Puritan hopes for the Word, the Word made printer’s ink, dwelling along
> with antibodies and iron-bound breath in a good man’s blood, though the
> World for him be always the World on Monday, with its cold cutting edge,
> slicing away every poor illusion of comfort the bourgeois takes for
> real . . . did he run off leaflets against his country’s insanity? was he
> busted, beaten, killed? She has a snapshot of him on holiday, someplace
> Bavarian, waterfalled, white-peaked, a tanned and ageless face, Tyrolean
> hat, galluses, feet planted perpetually set to break into a run: the image
> stopped, preserved here, the only way they could keep him, running room to
> room down all his cold Red suburbs, freemason’s night to night . . .
>
> Here "freemason’s night" is just a metaphor, and doesn't mean there were
> actually freemasons involved, is that correct?
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