GR translation: slime stone

[Bekah]

I'd say it's a stone covered with slime,  but it could be a limestone rock with slime on it so it makes a kind of word play with s-lime stone.   

Bekah


On Nov 19, 2011, at 9:03 PM, Mike Jing wrote:

> P171.35-41   . . . and Maud, dear Maudie, swallowing, wastes not a
> drop . . . smiling quietly, unplugged at last, she returns the
> unstiffening hawk to its cold bachelor nest but kneels still a bit
> longer in the closet of this moment, the drafty, whitelit moment, some
> piece by Ernesto Lecuona, “Siboney” perhaps, now reaching them down
> corridors long as the sea-lanes back to the green shoals, slime stone
> battlements, and palm evenings of Cuba . . .
> 
> Is "slime stone" stone covered in slime, or something else entirely?