GR translation: solid-set against the purple mountainslope

[Paul Mackin]

On 4/5/2012 2:07 AM, Mike Jing wrote:
> P69.21-28  This Crutchfield here is browned by sun, wind and
> dirt—against the deep brown slats of the barn or stable wall he is
> wood of a different grain and finish. He is good-humored, solid-set
> against the purple mountainslope, and looking half into the sun. His
> shadow is carried strained coarsely back through the network of wood
> inside the stable—beams, lodgepoles, stall uprights,
> trough-trestlework, rafters, wood ceiling-slats the sun comes through:
> blinding empyrean even at this failing hour of the day.
>
> What does "solid-set against the purple mountainslope" mean?
>

appearing unmovable

in sharp contrast to the mountain slope