GR translation: But the meanness, the cynicism

[Mark Kohut]

Or a simple statement of fact as your interpretative words imply.

On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 6:41 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V412.16-21, P419.3-8   Kekulé dreams the Great Serpent holding its own tail
> in its mouth, the dreaming Serpent which surrounds the World. But the
> meanness, the cynicism with which this dream is to be used. The Serpent
> that announces, “The World is a closed thing, cyclical, resonant,
> eternally-returning,” is to be delivered into a system whose only aim is to
> violate the Cycle.
>
> The second sentence here, "But the meanness, the cynicism with which this
> dream is to be used", is an exclamation, a lament, is that correct?
>
> The second edition of the published translation treated it as a
> continuation of the first, i.e. "the dreaming Serpent which surrounds the
> World *but* the meanness, the cynicism with which this dream is to be
> used", which doesn't seem right to me.
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