GR translation: She is a blonde image of your mother dead

[Mike Weaver]

Blonde = yellow haired

Travestied means image warped so as to be a hostile caricature of the 
real person.

On 26/12/2025 12:08, Mike Jing wrote:
> V712.15-20, P726.20-25   She is a blonde image of your mother dead: if you
> have ever seen her travestied in beaten gold, the cheeks curving too far,
> deformed, the eyebrows too dark and whites too white, some zero
> indifference that in the end is truly evil in the way They’ve distorted her
> face, then you know the look: Nalline Slothrop just before her first
> martini is right here, in spirit, at this Kruppfest.
>
> What does "blonde" mean here?
>
> And "travesty" here means:
> 1.transitive. To change (a person's) dress or appearance, esp. so as to
> make him or her unrecognizable; (hence) to disguise (a person or thing).
> Now rare.
> Frequently in past participle.
>
> Is that correct?
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