GR translation: wear their lung on their breasts

[Michael Bailey]

Makes me think of the Jethro Tull song “Aqualung”

https://youtu.be/N4zPu3ISCGs?si=24j6SEBWVQ1SXXGP


Drying in the cold sun
Watching as the frilly panties run, hey, Aqualung
Feeling like a dead duck
Spitting out pieces of his broken luck, oh, Aqualung

Sun streaking cold, an old man wandering lonely
Taking time, the only way he knows
Leg hurting bad as he bends to pick a dog end
He goes down to a bog and warms his feet



Freakin’ depressing lyrics but they sell it somehow





On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 8:40 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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