" слизано"

[R. M. Cleminson]

If one looks at the complete poem, one sees that the bullet is supposed to pass 10 mm. from the foreheads, and the thirty which are rejected are evidently those where it has not done so?  So what has it done to them?  Grazed them?  (If so, this might be an acceptable translation.)  Or more serious damage?  (Given that слизать generally implies the complete removal of whatever is слизано, this may well be the case, and would certainly require their rejection.)  Only Gastev really knows.  There is no way of checking by objective criteria: with this sort of text one just has to make up one's mind and hope for the best.
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