GR words question

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

> >'... 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. '
> >

>ie brake linings -- they melt the metal and make it into stuff 
>including brake linings that smoke and shriek when suddenly slammed on 
>(as in a jeep driving on a battleground) 

---- or, and more pertinently, these kids that were evacuated from London
to avoid the bombing are seeing animals & stuff which is a new experience;

the metal otoh is going to become castings, bearings, gasketry - sounds 
like a parts list for a _rocket_ which --hmm, egad -- "smokeshriek lining" 
is a very figure-ground innovative foreheadslapping way to describe. 
(every cloud has a silver lining; every smoke-shriek has a rocket lining?)
And the kids will never see them because they've been evacuated? 

Thanks for pointing out these passages, Ya Sam!