AtD translation: more cosmically annoyed

[Mike Jing]

Gotcha. Thanks for the reply, Michael.


On Fri, Jun 26, 2026 at 12:09 PM Michael Bailey <mi256118 at ucf.edu> wrote:

> Neat passage, not one I've ever noticed before - thanks for bringing it up
>
> The husband is annoyed in earthly way
>
> More cosmically annoyed suggests the voice of God, or some transcendent
> "cosmic" entity, doesn't it? Especially when the light chimes in.
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> P802.16-28   Reef, recently among them, happened to be in Mentone in and
> out of the hazardous bed of one Magdika, the blonde wife of a Hungarian
> cavalry officer noted as much for his readiness to take offense as his
> skill with dueling weapons. Since his arrival Reef had become intimate with
> the rooftiles and laundry chutes of the Splendide, and was indeed at the
> moment stuck like a fly to the façade of that establishment, inching along
> a perilous window-ledge as the exercised voice of the unexpectedly-arrived
> husband slowly faded, to be replaced by one more cosmically annoyed, and
> seeming to proceed, how peculiar, from the sky, which now Reef
> noticed—risking, at the most precarious step of his passage, a look upward
> and freezing and breathless at what he saw—was an evening sky which had
> refused the dusk, chosen a nacreous glow instead, an equivalent in light of
> the invitation to attend that Reef was now receiving from the overhead
> voice—
>
> What does "more cosmically annoyed" mean here?
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