GR translation: angels of exaltation, of languid surrender

[Mike Jing]

Thanks, Mark and Joseph.


On Sun, Mar 23, 2025 at 9:32 AM J Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> To my thinking the” of..., of...” construction  followed by the dash means
> both terms refers  " the steel angels” as you suggest.  The entire sequence
> is referring to what has long worked at his face,  with the Us at the
> underground station and whatever their magnetism brings down  being the
> final item in that list . I don't  see “others”  being  directly affected
> in this description of Saure and the things that have aged and affected (
> worked at) his face.. Indirectly, others by seeing his face, may be
> affected by what is there, but that is not directly indicated in the
> sentence.
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> On Mar 23, 2025, at 1:27 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
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> > V437.25-34, P444.35-445.4   Säure is on his side, quite still, a shrunken
> > child, face long worked at by leaps from second-story windows, “first
> > rubdowns” under gloved and womanish sergeants’ fists in the precinct
> > stations, golden light in the afternoons over the racetrack at
> Karlshorst,
> > black light from the pavements of boulevards at night finely wrinkled
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> > leather stretched over stone, white light from satin dresses, glasses
> > stacked shining in front of bar mirrors, sans-serif Us at the entrances
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> > underground stations pointing in smooth magnetism at the sky to bring
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> > steel angels of exaltation, of languid surrender—a face that in sleep is
> > awesomely old, abandoned to its city’s history. . . .
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> > Do "exaltation" and "languid surrender" describe the angels themselves?
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> > published translation interpreted this as their effect on others, which I
> > don't think is quite correct.
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