GR translation: with edges fine and combed as rain

[alice wellintown]

Are you saying the text has been combed through, its mistakes and
typographicals corrected?

On 3/17/13, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Simple question: if you think there is a typo in that passage, do you think
> TRP and Ms. Jackson have never noticed it, nor have had it pointed out so
> that it could be corrected In later editions? That Penguin Classics w
> approved cover edition ( at least)...as well as later printings of earlier
> editions...could have been changed.
>
> ????
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Mar 17, 2013, at 10:56 AM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Yes, as any brick man knows, the mud or mortar a mason slings is clear,
>> that is, it is clean dirt, light in hue,  when mixed to a clear
>> consistency,  though tile setters color it, add hints of tints then trowel
>> blade the mud clear and clean. The mud of baseball too, the clay of
>> Chesapeake Bay, the mud on the face of ladies lounging in Adirondacks,
>> Chinese girls in paper masks attending to their crusty digits, the mud of
>> two cities, a tale of that pulls and pushes the post to splattered
>> victims.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sunday, March 17, 2013, David Morris wrote:
>>> Clear as mud.
>>>
>>> On Saturday, March 16, 2013, alice wellintown wrote:
>>>> A simile, such as the one you've provided, is a type of metaphor, in
>>>> this case the simile is constructed with "as", though it can be made
>>>> with "like' as well, and without either.
>>>>
>>>> Though most students are taught that a simile always uses one or the
>>>> other, this is false.
>>>>
>>>> The comparison is all that is needed.
>>>>
>>>> A non-simile metaphor or a metaphor that is not a similie will not
>>>> make the comparison but the claim, so if we take your example and
>>>> apply it to me,  thus, "Alice is a box of rocks", we see that it is
>>>> not  a matter of obscurity but of effect.
>>>>
>>>> The former, yours, is surely more obscure, for it compares two
>>>> un-alike things as it wedges "as" or "like" betwixt them.
>>>>
>>>> And, as "as" and "like" are given grammar's conscriptive usage, and
>>>> this obscures both from the vulgar tongue we are used to using, this
>>>> compounds, not obscures the matter.
>>>>
>>>> The matter, as Hamlet tells Polonius, is words, words, words.
>>>>
>>>> Nothing, as far as we know, is more prone to abscure turdity
>>>> scatalogically,  than words.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> > Dumb as a box of rocks.
>>>> >
>>>> > Metaphor.
>>>> >
>>>> > Why make this obscure?
>