GR translation: with edges fine and combed as rain

[Mike Jing]

Yes, a most beautifully visual passage indeed.


On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> That passage is very visual to me.    A very fine rain - really a rain,
>  not a drizzle -  will look like tiny little lines coming down. Reflections
> in a lake,  even a very, very smooth lake,  will have really tiny lines at
> the edges -   I can see it in my mind.  Minnesota lake with little cottages
> around - reflections in the totally "mirror smooth" lake except there are
> tiny,  tiny lines at the edges of the reflections.   Think of seeing your
> own reflection in the mirror-smooth lake.  The edges are just a bit off.
>
> Bekah
>
>
>
> On Mar 13, 2013, at 6:58 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > P272.29-36   The city below him, bathed now in a partial light, is a
> necropolis of church spires and weathercocks, white castle-keep towers,
> broad buildings with mansard roofs and windows glimmering by thousands.
> This forenoon the mountains are as translucent as ice. Later in the day
> they will be blue heaps of wrinkled satin. The lake is mirror-smooth but
> mountains and houses reflected down there remain strangely blurred, with
> edges fine and combed as rain: a dream of Atlantis, of the Suggenthal. Toy
> villages, desolate city of painted alabaster. . . .
> >
> > What does "combed" mean here?
>
>
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