GR translation: thick palatals of their hunger

[David Morris]

Tounge ssmacking:

Palatal consonants are consonants articulated with the body of the
tongue raised against the hard palate (the middle part of the roof of
the mouth).

On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 11:45 PM, Mike Jing
<gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> P11.33-39   He gazes through sunlight’s buttresses, back down the
> refectory at the others, wallowing in their plenitude of bananas,
> thick palatals of their hunger lost somewhere in the stretch of
> morning between them and himself. A hundred miles of it, so suddenly.
> Solitude, even among the meshes of this war, can when it wishes so
> take him by the blind gut and touch, as now, possessively. Pirate’s
> again some other side of a window, watching strangers eat breakfast.
>
> What are these "thick palatals of their hunger"?  Is it the sound of chewing?