GR translation: full of the Earth

[Mark Kohut]

It’s still a mystery how all of those chemicals are getting into lakes
in the first place, but Ferrey suspects that some may be riding on
specks of dust in the air. One study in Italy found that cocaine
attaches to particles that are about 2.5 microns in size, and more
cocaine floats through the air in places where cocaine use is more
prevalent.

On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 11:30 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I read it as more of the drug connoisseurship we had between Säure and
> Gustav on V442. Wine experts speak of_terroir_, how a particular region's
> soil and microclimate are reflected in the flavor. Presumably Saure can
> taste every nuance along the way from coca leaves through the extracted
> paste to the highly refined Merck of Darmstadt product...
>
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> V683.21-32, P696.35-697.7   Säure got a lotta gall picking on other
>> people’s language like this. One night, back when he was a second-story man,
>> he had the incredible luck to break into the affluent home of Minne
>> Khlaetsch, an astrologer of the Hamburg School, who was, congenitally it
>> seems, unable to pronounce, even perceive, umlauts over vowels. That night
>> she was just coming on to what would prove to be an overdose of Hieropon,
>> when Säure, who back in those days was a curly-haired and good-looking kid,
>> surprised her in her own bedroom with his hand around an ivory chess Läufer
>> with a sarcastic smile on its face, and filled with good raw Peruvian
>> cocaine still full of the Earth—“Don’t call for help,” advises Säure
>> flashing his phony acid bottle, “or that pretty face goes flowing off of its
>> bones like vanilla pudding.”
>>
>> What does "full of the Earth" mean here?
>
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