GR translation: long dying afternoons through conservatory windows

[James Kyllo]

I'd say the windows nail it as the garden variety:
http://www.everest.co.uk/conservatories/ (despite the two following musical
references)

J

On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 2:22 PM, 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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