GR translation: snarling inward toward that famous S-curve

[Monte Davis]

"Snarling" (like the later "shrieking") works for the noise of racing
automobile engines, and "inward" reinforces the idea from the sentence
before your quotation:

 

"The drivers are out tonight because They need them where they are, forming
a deadly barrier." 

 

Something is drawing traffic in from all over Berlin.

 

Maybe it's the awkwardly inserted "promising a lively sprint for Slothrop"
that causes trouble - read the passage without that, or move it elsewhere,
and it's clear enough.

 

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Subject: GR translation: snarling inward toward that famous S-curve

 

P386.9-16   Amateur Fritz von Opels all over the place here, promising a
lively sprint for Slothrop snarling inward toward that famous S-curve where
maniacs in white helmets and dark goggles once witched their wind-faired
machinery around the banked brick in shrieking drifts (admiring eyes of
colonels in dress uniforms, colonels' ladies in Garbo fedoras, all safe up
in their white towers yet belonging to the day's adventure, each waiting for
his own surfacing of the same mother-violence underneath . . .).

Who or what is doing the "snarling" here?

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