GR translation: her glassy wastes

[Michael Bailey]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 4:37 AM, Mike Jing
<gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> P153.16-18 ...: he has to admire it, even if he can't accept her
> glassy wastes, her appeals to a day not of wrath but of final
> indifference...
>
> What exactly are "her glassy wastes"?
>

again, maybe not germane? but...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitrification

In a wider sense, the embedding of material in a glassy matrix is also
called vitrification. An important application is the vitrification of
radioactive waste to obtain a stable compound that is suitable for
ultimate disposal.