GR translation: rank, dope-perfume, a hood of smell

[Jochen Stremmel]

No, in my eyes it refers to the greens in a pot, the first definition in
the following dictionary entry:

rank 2 |raNGk|
adjective
1 (of vegetation) growing too thickly and coarsely.
2 (especially of air or water) having a foul or offensive smell.
• informal very unpleasant: the tea at work is nice but the coffee's pretty
rank.
3 [ attrib. ] (especially of something bad or deficient) complete and utter
(used for emphasis): rank stupidity | rank amateurs | a rank outsider.




2016-02-02 13:14 GMT+01:00 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>:

> V720.9-20, P734.23-34   Finally past the futile guesses at what might
> happen . . . now and then re-erasing brain to keep it clean for the Visit .
> . . yes wasn’t it close to here? remember didn’t you sneak away from camp
> to have a moment alone with What you felt stirring across the land . . . it
> was the equinox . . . green spring equal nights . . . canyons are opening
> up, at the bottoms are steaming fumaroles, steaming the tropical life there
> like greens in a pot, rank, dope-perfume, a hood of smell . . . human
> consciousness, that poor cripple, that deformed and doomed thing, is about
> to be born. This is the World just before men. Too violently pitched alive
> in constant flow ever to be seen by men directly. They are meant only to
> look at it dead, in still strata, transputrefied to oil or coal.
>
> Does "rank" here refer to the smell?
>
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