" слизано"

[Ksenia Adamovitch]

I don't have the full context here, so basing this on just that line, but
my assumption would be that it has nothing to do with the forehead - лоб is
another word for person. I would interpret it as, 30 people were stolen and
reported as defective.
If he does talk about actual body parts (not familiar with this work), I
would still say that слизано would mean, stolen and reported as defective.
It was/is a relatively common factory practice.


On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 12:31 PM, R. M. Cleminson <rmcleminson at post.sk>
wrote:

> 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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