GR translation: bearing his loneliness

[Mike Jing]

P152.32-35  Among these nights' faint and lusting couples, Ronald
Cherrycoke's laughing and bearing his loneliness, brittle, easily
crazed, oozing gum from the cracks, a strange mac of most unstable
plastic...

Even I can see it now, here "bearing" is another one of those words
that evokes so many different shades of meaning that it is almost
impossible to translate properly.

What about "gum"?  Does it have double meaning here as well?