GR translation: rag-sorrowful

Mike Jing mikezjing at hotmail.com
Thu Oct 20 22:50:48 CDT 2011


P147.21-24  ..., one morning on the Embankment, between strokes of a pavement artist's two pastels, salmon darkening to fawn, and a score of lank human figures, rag-sorrowful in the distances interlacing with ironwork and river smoke, ...

What is "rag-sorrowful" exactly?  More specifically, what is the meaning of "rag" here?

 		 	   		  


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