GR translation: wear their lung on their breasts

Mike Jing gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com
Tue Feb 18 01:40:16 UTC 2025


V373.11-12, P379.10-11   Old men with their tins searching the ground for
cigarette butts wear their lung on their breasts.

What does "wear their lung on their breasts" mean exactly?

The second edition of the published translation revised "lung" to mean
"respirator", which of course is nonsense,


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