GR translation:

[Mike Jing]

V646.40-647.3   . . . here the two men are, dry-scratched precisely,
attentively on this afternoon, and the bells across the canal are tolling
the hour: the men have come from very far away, after a journey neither
quite remembers, on a mission of some kind. But each has been kept ignorant
of the other’s role . . . .

What exactly is "dry-scratched"?

I have found one reference that might be relevant:

https://books.google.ca/books?id=t9n14bcARecC&pg=PA65&dq=%22dry-scratched%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CB8Q6AEwATgeahUKEwjarfrD_unHAhULXZIKHQlFAbk#v=onepage&q=%22dry-scratched%22&f=false

I guess it would apply to media other than pottery as well?
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