GR translation: with edges fine and combed as rain

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I doesn't carry great meaning. To me it's more direct- an image in words. Slothrop is picturing the city from up high; high enough to make it seem like a painting. The passage is a painting in words- not oil, but watercolor.



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From: Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
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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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