GR translation: opening as they were moved into new white abyss

alice wellintown alicewellintown at gmail.com
Wed May 16 19:31:07 CDT 2012


> Maybe it would be the ice crystals that are perilously deep, meaning
> dangerously thick on the wings????

That's how I read it.  The Angel apparently moved the thick and
dangerous ice off the wings. I can't be sure if the ice crystals open
or if the wings, perhaps impeded by the thick ice, open. My knowledge
of ice crystals and how they form is better than my knowledge of
military aircraft...so...maybe I read it as ice crystals open because
I don't now what kind of wings they have on their craft. Are they
wings that open?


> Is Basher St. Blaise's Angel interceding here, causing the ice crystals to
> detach themselves and zoom off into space (the white abyss)?



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