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

[Mike Weaver]

I think so, Mike, but also think 'field', although a reference to the 
countryside from which Galina returns, is more mathematical in meaning, 
rather than an enclosed space. Chain link fence is the normal phrase and 
the use of 'field' instead of 'fence' suggests something occupying 
rather than just enclosing the city spaces. But then I'm a country boy...

Cheers
Mike

On 19/12/2025 16:00, Mike Jing 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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