First line of Against the Day?

[John Keiller]

>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 will be of twisted wire .. the ice following the twist, like the
stripes on a candy-cane

 

 

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