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

[Robert Mahnke]

Agree, and also because what immediately follows -- "dope-perfume, a hood
of smell" -- is about odor as well.

On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 5:57 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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