GR translation: shining, running secure and always close enough, always tangible

Mike Jing gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com
Fri Dec 19 16:06:41 UTC 2025


Also, what are "chain-link fields" exactly?


On Sat, Dec 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V705.13-16, P719.14-17   He doesn’t recognize her. Not that it matters.
> Not at this level of things. But it’s Galina, come back to the cities, out
> of the silences after all, in again to the chain-link fields of the Word,
> shining, running secure and always close enough, always tangible. . . .
>
> The part "shining, running secure and always close enough, always
> tangible" modifies "the chain-link fields of the Word", is that correct?
> The published translation treated it as if it describes Galina, which
> doesn't seem right to me.
>
>


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