GR translation: eyes riveted on blue Thanatz

[Mike Weaver]

Maybe dual purpose, cold and unhappy.

On 29/11/2025 17:45, Mike Jing wrote:
> V671.17-24, P684.23-30   One day they come for him: he is lifted from the
> straw as black with coal-dust as they—lifted easy as an infant, a roach
> flicked in kindness off of his face—and transported shivering, gathered
> moaning south to the Erdschweinhöhle where now they are all sitting around
> a fire, smoking and munching, eyes riveted on blue Thanatz, who has been
> gabbing for seven hours nonstop. He is the only one privileged, in a way,
> to tell this much of the story, he’s the fella who lost out, the loser,
>
> The word "blue" here refers to his emotional state, is that correct?
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