GR words question

[Bryan Snyder]

man.... picking up GR at any point you're likely to find something like
this... so amazing.



On 2/22/07, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've been re-reading this beautiful passage, and ,to my horror, realised
> that I don't get certain things, namely
>
> Who are these 'gentle beings from the country'? Someting out of folklore?
>
> '...thousands of children who pestled foam up out of soft mortars of
> mouths,
> who lost easily a thousand times as many words among the chalky
> bubbles--bedgoing complaints, timid announcements of love, news of fat or
> translucent, fuzzy or gentle beings from the country under the counterpane
> ...'
>
> 'gland pie'?
>
> '... the morning mouths growing with the day tobacco and fish-furred, dry
> with fear, foul with idleness, flooded at thoughts of impossible meals,
> settling instead for the week's offal in gland pies, ...'
>
>
> 'smokeshriek linings'?
>
>
> '... heaps of dimly fragrant metal, phantoms of peppermint in the winter
> shacks, each tube
> wrinkled or embossed by the unconscious hands of London, written over in
> interference-patterns, hand against hand, waiting now--it is true
> return--to
> be melted for solder, for plate, alloyed for castings, bearings, gasketry,
> hidden smokeshriek linings the children of that other domestic
> incarnation will never see. '
>
> (p. 130, Peguin ed.)
>
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