GR translation: the hollow of an upended trunk

[Bekah]

Almost -  the tree is upended - up out of the ground with the roots dangling around -  but the hollow is in the tree trunk.   This hollow in the tree is where he finds Emil and the two girls with the star.  It must be a big hollow - like it was a big tree which fell down an has a big chunked out part in its side.    Somewhat bigger than this: 

http://feridasbackyard.blogspot.com/2010/10/sometimes-it-takes-tree.html

So Emil and the girls were just sitting in a hollow  in the trunk like it was a bench or something - not all hidden down in a little hole like owls. 

This is the way I read it,  anyway -  hope you can see what is in my mind.  (heh)

Bekah 

On Jul 6, 2013, at 12:25 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:

> OK, that makes sense.  So they are really sitting in a shallow hole in the ground left by the tree, with roots dangling above from the tree trunk lying on its side.
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> On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> It's out of the ground, for sure - whether it's on its side or not is a ? but I'd say probably - I mean,  how else?
> http://www.everystockphoto.com/photo.php?imageId=3409766
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> Bekah
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> On Jun 30, 2013, at 9:29 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Yes, but upended trunk is more likely on its side.
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> > On Sunday, June 30, 2013, Mike Jing wrote:
> > P371.12-19   Sure enough, in the hollow of an upended trunk, long roots fringing the scene like a leprechaun outpost, Slothrop finds one Emil (“Säure”) Bummer, once the Weimar Republic’s most notorious cat burglar and doper, flanked by two beautiful girls, handing around a cheerful little orange star. The depraved old man. Slothrop’s on top of them before they notice. Bummer smiles, reaches up an arm, offering the remainder of what they’ve been smoking to Slothrop, who receives it in long dirty fingernails. Oboy. He hunkers down.
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> > Does this actually refer to a tree trunk that's standing upside down and partially hollowed out?
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