GR translation: mounting, across the empty canyons and passes

[Michael Bailey]

Hypothesis:

Penstocks are the gates opened to allow water to flow into a hydroelectric
generator…

So the image is they open the sluices or whatever, and the sheer raging
power of the water (and/or the electricity it’s generating) makes them
shudder…

All this is in aid of power to the aforementioned radios & it is the
radios’ screaming which mounts across the empty canyons and passes

- that’s the way it strikes me…

Then again, it could just be the whole electrification project which
“mounts”

Gaming/growing

Then - isn’t this still “early Stalin days”? So the white canopies would be
paratroopers on training missions, or sorties, not yet organized into part
of a world war, but headed in that direction?



Contrast between black and white, Tchitcherine & Enzian, day with
paratroopers, and night with screamingly urgent radio messages?


I now want to reread the section - who th’ heck is Galina again?



On Sun, Jan 19, 2025 at 10:50 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V341.39-342.8, P346.40-347.9   Facing east, the black face keeping watch
> from some winter embankment or earth-colored wall of a fine-grained stone
> into low wastes of Prussia, of Poland, the leagues of meadow waiting, just
> as Tchitcherine grows each month now more taut and windsmooth at his
> westward flank, seeing History and Geopolitics move them surely into
> confrontation as the radios go screaming higher, new penstocks in the night
> shudder to the touch with hydroelectric rage, mounting, across the empty
> canyons and passes, skies in the day go thick with miles of falling
> canopies, white as visions of rich men’s heavenly džurts, gaming now and
> still awkward, but growing, each strewn pattern, less and less at play. . .
> .
>
> What's the subject of "mounting" here? Is it "hydroelectric rage"?
>
> Also, is the subject of "gaming" and "growing" in the last part of the
> sentence "falling canopies"?
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