Re: GR translation: Tchitcherine’s first glimpse after the years of training

[Mike Jing]

The published translation interpreted it as Tchitcherine’s training, but I
feel the context seems to indicate it refers to Death instead.


On Fri, Dec 19, 2025 at 1:18 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V704.19-28, P718.17-26   Tchitcherine means he’s had to fight to believe
> in his mortality. As his body fought to accept its steel. Fight down all
> his hopes, fight his way into that bitterest of freedoms. Not till recently
> did he come to look for comfort in the dialectical ballet of force,
> counterforce, collision, and new order—not till the War came and Death
> appeared across the ring, Tchitcherine’s first glimpse after the years of
> training: taller, more beautifully muscled, less waste motion than he’d
> ever expected—only in the ring, feeling the terrible cold each blow brought
> with it, only then did he turn to a Theory of History—of all pathetic cold
> comforts—to try and make sense of it.
>
> Whose training is it talking about here?
>
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