GR translation: the sus. per coll. crowd dangling

[Mike Jing]

I just want to point out that the same phrase was also used elsewhere in
the book:

V207.25-27, P210.7-10   Sir Stephen considers this, seeming pleased. Did
They choose him because of all those word-smitten Puritans dangling off of
Slothrop’s family tree? Were They trying to seduce his brain now, his
reading eye too?

I don't suppose it was implied that these bloodlines abruptly ended in this
case.


On Thu, Jan 16, 2025 at 4:34 PM J Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> Not sure I agree with your interpretation or Michael’s. I think the
> dangling is continuing the sentence followed by a participial phrase set
> off by commas but  connecting directly  to “ off the Skothrop family tree.
>  So the idea is his Witch -ancestor was one of several (back through the
> centuries’ couplings) dangling off the Slothrop family tree.   Meaning, to
> be literal, that she was among those where the bloodline stopped abruptly
> for one reason or another.
>
> > On Jan 11, 2025, at 3:05 PM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > V329.19-24, P334.14-19   “For the devil’s kiss, of course,” Geli
> snuggling
> > oh-you-old-silly up to his armpit there, and Slothrop feeling a little
> icky
> > and square for not knowing. But then he knows next to nothing about
> > witches, even though there was, in his ancestry, one genuine Salem Witch,
> > one of the last to join the sus. per coll. crowd dangling, several of
> them
> > back through the centuries’ couplings, off of the Slothrop family tree.
> >
> > Does the "the sus. per coll. crowd" refer to the people so punished
> within
> > the Slothrop family tree, or is it the such crowd at large? It appears to
> > be the former if "dangling" modifies "crowd" here, is that correct?
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