GR translation: long dying afternoons through conservatory windows

[David Morris]

I would say it is the room kind (looking at a dying afternoon through its
windows).  What follows is a list of things only tenuously connected.
Walks by canals? How is that connected to the previous?

David

con·serv·a·to·ry
kənˈsərvəˌtôrē/
*noun*

   1. *1*.
   NORTH AMERICAN
   a college for the study of classical music or other arts.
   synonyms:conservatoire
   <https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1EODB_enUS601US601&espv=2&biw=1051&bih=937&q=define+conservatoire&sa=X&ved=0CB8Q_SowAGoVChMI_-mix4jqxwIVAg-SCh3WPwp5>,
music
   school, drama school
   "a teaching job at the conservatory"
   2. *2*.
   a room with a glass roof and walls, attached to a house at one side and
   used as a greenhouse or a sun parlor.
   synonyms:summer house, belvedere
   <https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1EODB_enUS601US601&espv=2&biw=1051&bih=937&q=define+belvedere&sa=X&ved=0CCEQ_SowAGoVChMI_-mix4jqxwIVAg-SCh3WPwp5>
   ;
   glasshouse
   <https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1EODB_enUS601US601&espv=2&biw=1051&bih=937&q=define+glasshouse&sa=X&ved=0CCMQ_SowAGoVChMI_-mix4jqxwIVAg-SCh3WPwp5>
   , greenhouse
   <https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1EODB_enUS601US601&espv=2&biw=1051&bih=937&q=define+greenhouse&sa=X&ved=0CCQQ_SowAGoVChMI_-mix4jqxwIVAg-SCh3WPwp5>
   , hothouse
   <https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1EODB_enUS601US601&espv=2&biw=1051&bih=937&q=define+hothouse&sa=X&ved=0CCUQ_SowAGoVChMI_-mix4jqxwIVAg-SCh3WPwp5>
   "a frost-free conservatory"






On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 8:22 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V646.32-40   . . . and who’s this come strolling down the
> Schokoladestrasse? Why, it’s Laszlo Jamf himself, grown to a prolonged old
> age, preserved like a ’37 Ford against the World’s ups and downs, which are
> never more than damped-out changes in smile, wide-pearly to wistfully
> gauze, inside Happyville here. Dr. Jamf is wearing a bow tie of a certain
> limp grayish lavender, a color for long dying afternoons through
> conservatory windows, minor-keyed lieder about days gone by, plaintive
> pianos, pipesmoke in a stuffy parlor, overcast Sunday walks by canals . . .
>
> Is the conservatory here the musical kind?  It certainly seems so from
> what follows.  Just want to be sure.
>
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