GR translation: slime stone

[David Morris]

In combination with "green shoals" the slime is likely algae.

On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 11:19 PM, Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 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.
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> On Nov 19, 2011, at 9:03 PM, Mike Jing wrote:
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>> 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 . . .
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>> Is "slime stone" stone covered in slime, or something else entirely?
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