GR translation: under the tanks snailing whitely to heaven

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Those large tanks with the outside stairs spiraling around them could be seen as having a snail-like design.

Laura

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From: Monte Davis 

Sent: Apr 20, 2014 10:52 AM

To: Mike Jing 

Cc: Pynchon Mailing List 

Subject: Re: GR translation: under the tanks snailing whitely to heaven



Scroll down for some (not very snail-like) fuel tanks half-buried in an embankment.

http://www.ww2-landmarkscout.com/2012/10/kraftwerk-peenemunde-museum-usedom.html

Service roads, rail spurs, or downhill leakage from tanks might form the snail trails, but I can't find contemporary photos to confirm that.


On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 3:22 AM, 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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