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

[David Morris]

I'd say it is primarily the smell, since the product of fumaroles steaming
the tropical growth being like the steam from a pot of greens is what is
being described.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fumarole

David Morris

On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 6:46 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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