GR p.4 "with blue shadows to seal its passage"

[David Morris]

You have quoted a small segment of o much larger passage from GR.  The
whole needs quoting. This is a very important statement in GR.

On Saturday, September 7, 2013, Jonathan Post wrote:

> I'm attempting a very close rereading of GR and have already come upon a
> puzzling knot that has stumped me: in the long sentence at the top of p. 4,
> I'm not sure how to interpret "...maturing rust, developing through those
> emptying days brilliant and deep, especially at dawn, with blue shadows to
> seal its passage, to try to bring events to Absolute Zero ..."
>
> --What is "developing"? the various smells or the rust?
> --What does the "its" in "it's passage" refer to? the dawn? the
> development of the rust?
> --And so, what are the "blue shadows"?
>
> -J
>
>
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