GR translation: squeak-stockinged

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Tue May 29 08:16:07 CDT 2012


My guess would have to do with the tightness of the fit
(squeaky-tight) and/or maybe the sound the stockings make as the inner
thighs rub against each other as she walks.

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 12:53 AM, Mike Jing
<gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> P171.13-24   Sometime during the annual PISCES Christmas Party,
> Pointsman is led by Maudie Chilkes to a closet full of belladonna,
> gauze, thistle tubes, and the scent of surgical rubber, where in a
> flash she’s down on her red knees, unbuttoning his trousers, as he,
> confused, good God, strokes her hair, clumsily shaking much of it
> loose from its wine-colored ribbon—here what’s this, an actual, slick
> and crimson, hot, squeak-stockinged slavegirl “gam” yes right among
> these winter-pale clinical halls, with the distant gramophone playing
> rumba music, basses, woodblocks, wearied blown sheets of tropic string
> cadences audible as everyone dances back there on the uncar-peted
> floors, and the old Palladian shell, conch of a thousand rooms, gives,
> resonates, shifting stresses along walls and joists . . .
>
> What is "squeak-stockinged" exactly?



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