GR translation:

[David Morris]

Like etching. "precisely, attentively" imply very fine linework.

https://www.google.com/search?q=etching&rlz=1C1EODB_enUS601US601&espv=2&biw=1051&bih=937&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0CGMQsARqFQoTCMOllreL6scCFYXRgAod1qQOtQ

On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 8:32 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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