Re: GR translation: each man’s wind

[Mark Kohut]

If it is anything else, how does the analogy with motor work?...."wind and
motor"???

On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 8:38 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V521.41-522.5, P530.36-41   Well, this is stimulant talk here, yes Enzian’s
> been stuffing down Nazi surplus Pervitins these days like popcorn at the
> movies, and by now the bulk of the refinery—named, incidentally, for the
> famous discoverer of Oneirine—is behind them, and Enzian is on into some
> other paranoid terror, talking, talking, though each man’s wind and motor
> cuts him off from conversation.
>
> What does "wind" mean here? The published translation interpreted it as
> "breath", which doesn't seem right to me.
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