GR translation: She missed the International Brigades

[Mike Jing]

It certainly could be, yes.


On Wed, Sep 3, 2025 at 3:39 AM Michael Lee Bailey via Pynchon-l <
pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:

> In addition to that parade, it might refer to a friendly culture overall?
>
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 10:24 PM, Mike Jing <[
> gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com](mailto:On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 10:24 PM,
> Mike Jing <<a href=)> wrote:
>
> > I see. So "the flowers, children, kisses, and many tongues of Barcelona"
> > must be referring to the farewell parade held for the volunteers
> > in Barcelona on November 15, 1938.
> >
> > Thanks, Mike.
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 9:18 AM Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk>
> wrote:
> >
> >> It means she wasn't involved with the International Brigades, but was a
> >> guerilla in the already fascist occupied mountains of Asturia, the IB
> >> being based in republican areas to the south.
> >>
> >> On 29/08/2025 07:43, Mike Jing wrote:
> >> > V605.25-38, P616.9-22 Manuela doesn’t feel obliged to join in.
> Valencia
> >> > was one of the last cities to fall to Franco. She herself is really
> from
> >> > the Asturias, which knew him first, felt his cruelty two years before
> the
> >> > civil war even began for the rest of Spain. She watches Marvy’s face
> as
> >> he
> >> > pays Monika, watches him in this primal American act, paying, more
> deeply
> >> > himself than when coming, or asleep, or maybe even dying. Marvy isn’t
> her
> >> > first, but almost her first, American. The clientele here at Putzi’s
> is
> >> > mostly British. During the War—how many camps and cities since her
> >> capture
> >> > in ’38?—it was German. She missed the International Brigades, shut
> away
> >> up
> >> > in her cold green mountains and fighting hit-and-run long after the
> >> > Fascists had occupied all the north—missed the flowers, children,
> kisses,
> >> > and many tongues of Barcelona, of Valencia where she’s never been,
> >> > Valencia, this evening’s home. . . . Ya salimos de España. . . . Pa’
> >> luchar
> >> > en otros frentes, ay, Manuela, ay, Manuela. . . .
> >> >
> >> > What does "missed" mean here? Was she actually a guerrilla, "shut
> away up
> >> > in her cold green mountains and fighting hit-and-run long after the
> >> > Fascists had occupied all the north?"
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