GR translation: under the tanks snailing whitely to heaven

[David Morris]

This passage is being told by Christian who seems to be having a
psychedelic trip or psychotic perspective, seeing a Moss Creature, a Water
Giant, and thousands of pygmies. And a mountain has just appeared. The
tanks are at a gas refinery. They must be arranged in long rows heading
uphill, toward heaven.  "Snailing" is not an English word, but a poetic
one. Snails move slowly, leaving trails. "Trails" are something one sees
during an acid trip:  http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QJeysC17PyI

So I would translate it all as literally as possible.

On Sunday, April 20, 2014, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:

> V524.30-34   They ride on up to where Pavel’s sniffing synthetic gasoline
> on the side of the lampless beige hill, under the tanks snailing whitely to
> heaven, here he is, one of the IG’s happiest customers. . . .
>        Does Pavel know something the rest of us don’t? If the IG wanted
> this to be a cover-up for something else, why not the breath of Mukuru?
>
> What does "snailing whitely to heaven" mean here?
>
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