AtD translation: find one’s way inside the moment
Mike Jing
gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com
Wed Jul 29 17:28:54 UTC 2026
P835.10-20 That evening they bought a trout and some cooked crayfish in a
bag and had just entered an olive grove where they were thinking of
settling for the night, when with no warning the air was filled with the
high-speed purring of 9 mm Parabellum ammunition striking, for the moment,
surfaces other than human and bouncing mercifully elsewhere, though it was
now of the essence to find one’s way inside the moment, with death
invisible and everywhere, “like God,” it occurred to Danilo afterward.
Plaster was spalled off the stone walls by the road. Patches of white dust
were kicked up into the air. They went running through the olive grove,
leaves of the trees twitching in the invisible storm, nearly ripened fruit
falling. Geese somewhere woke up and began to clamor, as if this sort of
thing was supposed to go on only in the daytime.
What does "find one’s way inside the moment" mean here?
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