GR translation: full of the Earth

[Mike Jing]

Thanks for the replay, Laura, Monte and Mark.

On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 12:01 PM, kelber at mindspring.com <
kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

> Fresh from the garden - the dirt still clinging to the leaves. Which,
> given the chemical processing involved, is a joke. Implying maybe that
> Saure's dealing with a source, if not actually in Peru, then fresh off the
> boat.
>
> Laura
>
>
> 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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