GR translation: the brass moire of diamond-blurs passing

[Monte Davis]

Likely these pantograph safety gates very common in elevators at the time,
seen in rapid succession

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On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 5:37 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V735.8-22, P749.32-750.10   By now the City is grown so tall that
> elevators are long-haul affairs, with lounges inside: padded seats and
> benches, snack bars, newsstands where you can browse through a whole issue
> of Life between stops. For those faint hearts who first thing on entering
> seek out the Certificate of Inspection on the elevator wall, there are
> young women in green overseas caps, green velvet basques, and tapered
> yellowstripe trousers—a feminine zootsuit effect—who’ve been well-tutored
> in all kinds of elevator lore, and whose job it is to set you at ease. “In
> the early days,” pipes young Mindy Bloth of Carbon City, Illinois, smiling
> vacantly away in profile, close by the brass moire of diamond-blurs
> passing, passing in vertical thousands—her growing-up face, dreamy and
> practical as the Queen of Cups, never quite looks for you, is always
> refracted away some set angle in the gold-brown medium between you . . .
> it’s morning, and the flower man at the rear of the elevator, down a step
> or two behind the little fountain, has brought lilacs and irises fresh and
> early—
>
> What does "the brass moire of diamond-blurs" refer to exactly?
>
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