GR translation: under the tanks snailing whitely to heaven

[Mike Jing]

Got it.  Thanks all for responding.


On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 11:41 AM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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