GR translation: the long rain in silicon and freezing descent

[Jed Kelestron]

As far as translation goes, it probably should be translated literally.

Perhaps silicon descent = descent to the ground. Silicon representing
the ground for all the reasons alice alluded to. Silicon makes up over
25% of the Earth's crust.

Also, in the paragraph, there are many references to glass and
windows, mirrors. The rain's silicon descent is smacking against a
window.

"particularly when Katje passes before a window and the rainlight
coming through changes it for a few brief unshutterings to murky
glass, charcoal-saturated, antique and weather-worn, frock, face,
hair, hands, slender calves all gone to glass and glazing, for the
celluloid instant poised---the translucent guardian of a rainfall
shaken through all day by rocket blasts near and far, downward, dark
and ruinous behind her the ground which, for the frames' passage,
defines her."