GR translation: under the tanks snailing whitely to heaven

[alice malice]

Snailing is an English verb.  It has several meanings. Check your OED.

 Not sure what the phrase, "snailing whitely to heaven" means, but it
might mean moving slothfully. sluggishly, snailishly or it might mean
moving in a spiral form, then add the whitely, the adv. as David
Morris describes it.

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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