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

[Jochen Stremmel]

Yes, Mike, you were, David and Robert are right: on second third and fourth
thought I think so, too, it's primarily the smell.

(What a great passage!)

2016-02-06 3:49 GMT+01:00 Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com>:

> 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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