First line of Against the Day?

[the Robot Vegetable]

On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Ya Sam wrote:

> white goes twisting peppermint-stick down
> > > thousands of feet of night. "
> > >
> 
> One of the sentences I have problems understanding. Is he comparing 
> snowflakes to the peppermint-sticks or is 'white' something else?

	The cables are like ropes, braided in a spiral.  The snow
has stuck to parts the cables, perhaps in the crevices, or just in the
crevices on their top slope.