GR translation: hands heavy with rings of all colors, opacities and uglinesses

[Mike Jing]

P370.22-36     As a matter of fact, he is also just about to run into his
Lisaura: someone he will be with for a while and then leave again. The
Minnesinger abandoned his poor woman to suicide. What Slothrop will be
leaving Greta Erdmann to is not so clear. Along the Havel in Neubabelsberg
she waits, less than the images of herself that survive in an indeterminate
number of release prints here and there about the Zone, and even across the
sea. . . . Every kind technician who ever threw a magenta gel across her
key light for her has gone to war or death, and she is left nothing but
God’s indifferent sunlight in all its bleaching and terror. . . . Eyebrows
plucked to pen-strokes, long hair streaked with gray, hands heavy with
rings of all colors, opacities and uglinesses, wearing her dark prewar
Chanel suits, no hat, scarves, always a flower, she is haunted by Central
European night-whispers that blow, like the skin curtains of Berlin, more
ghostly around her fattening, wrecked beauty the closer she and Slothrop
draw. . . .

I'm quite positive that the published translation is wrong again on this
one, but just to be absolutely sure: these rings are not jewellery, but
imperfections of the skin, is that correct?
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