GR translation: long cell or skin shapes

Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com
Mon Aug 17 18:34:27 CDT 2015


Google " long cell" in quotes and you will get long cell images as well as uses. 

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> On Aug 17, 2015, at 6:54 PM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> What does the word "cell" mean here exactly?
> 
>> On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 6:14 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> This refers to the visual appearance of the clouds:
>> 
>> "long cell" would be thin long shaped clouds.
>> "skin shapes" woul be just as the immediately following words say, "tissue-thin." 
>> 
>>> On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 4:57 PM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> V602.5-13   Putzi’s turns out to be a sprawling, half-fortified manor house dating from the last century, off the Dorum road and seaward down a sandy pair of wheel-tracks with reeds and tough dune grass growing in between, the house perched like a raft atop a giant comber of a sandhill that sweeps upward from a beach whose grade is so subtle that it becomes water only by surprise, tranquil, salt-pale, stretching miles into the North Sea like clouds, here and there more silver, long cell or skin shapes, tissue-thin, stilled under the moon, reaching out toward Helgoland.
>>> 
>>> What are "long cell or skin shapes"?
> 
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