GR translation: this semicivilized colony of

Mike Jing gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com
Mon Sep 8 00:32:15 UTC 2025


V591.27-35, P602.5-14   Walking at a brisk pace, but out of step, across
the lorry-scarred spaces of the old Krupp works here, Doctors Muffage and
Spontoon look anything but conspiratorial. You take them immediately for
what they seem: a tiny beachhead of London respectability here in benighted
Cuxhaven—tourists in this semicivilized colony of sulfa shaken into the
wells of blood, syrettes and tourniquets, junkie M.O.s and sadistic
corpsmen, a colony they were spared for the Duration, thank heaven,
Muffage’s brother being highly placed in a certain Ministry, Spontoon
having been technically disqualified because of a strange hysterical
stigma, . . .

Here the phrases "sulfa shaken into the wells of blood", "syrettes and
tourniquets", "junkie M.O.s and sadistic corpsmen" are in parallel, is that
correct? The published translation treated "syrettes and tourniquets,
junkie M.O.s and sadistic corpsmen" as parallel to "blood", which seems
clearly wrong to me.


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