GR translation: with blue shadows to seal its passage

[Michael Bailey]

> using that as a lever, how about the different smells being the
> subject of "developing" -- ie the different smells are what is
> developing

ie -
smells begun of coal,...
smells of naphtha winters,...
a sour smell of rolling-stock absence,...
developing through those emptying days ---- not sure what that's
called, a multiple or distributed subject?

essentially, like Paul said, the smell of a poorly tended industrial
landscape through which the train is passing

 "unsurpled political power"
I do like that phrase, though...


>>> P4.1-10  —they go in under archways, secret entrances of rotted
>>> concrete that only looked like loops of an underpass . . . certain
>>> trestles of blackened wood have moved slowly by overhead, and the
>>> smells begun of coal from days far to the past, smells of naphtha
>>> winters, of Sundays when no traffic came through, of the coral-like
>>> and mysteriously vital growth, around the blind curves
>>> and out the lonely spurs, a sour smell of rolling-stock absence, of
>>> maturing rust, developing through those emptying days brilliant and
>>> deep, especially at dawn, with blue shadows to seal its passage, to
>>> try to bring events to Absolute Zero . . .
>>>
>>> What is this "coral-like and mysteriously vital growth"?
>>>
>>> What is "developing through those emptying days brilliant and deep"?
>>> Is it the rust?  Why are the days "emptying", and yet "brilliant and
>>> deep"?
>>>
>>> "with blue shadows to seal its passage"  Whose passage?  And what is
>>> trying to "bring events to Absolute Zero"?
>>>
>> I get the impression the infrastructure used to transport the poor
>> preterite souls about the city is  long abandoned, on its last legs, in
>> a state of final decay, as near to death (0 absolute) as the poor souls
>> themselves, trotted out from disuse for this special wartime purpose.
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>> The vital growth is parasitic, what you find on the hull of a ship long
>> in the water.
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>> Emptying days are passing days.
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>> "It" is the process of decay, abandonment, being passed over, damnation.
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>> An addition to Michael's contribution.
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