Re: GR translation: Contrasting wood x’s on closed doors

[Monte Davis]

Colors of paint:  fairly common here, using an accent color on the diagonal
stiffener boards. Common in Germany 1945? Idunno, but I never underestimate
P's research

https://img0.etsystatic.com/070/0/8603220/il_fullxfull.821508946_70f0.jpg

http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/red-barn-door-double-white-rhe-coutry-32520483.jpg

http://www.tritonbarns.com/images/sliding_doors_finished/barn_doors_sliding_2600.jpg

On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 12:49 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V706.26-34, P720.28-36   Ensign Morituri, Carroll Eventyr, Thomas
> Gwenhidwy, and Roger Mexico are sitting at a table on the redbrick terrace
> of Der Grob Säugling, an inn by the edge of a little blue Holstein lake.
> The sun makes the water sparkle. The housetops are red, the steeples are
> white. Everything is miniature, neat, gently pastoral, locked into the rise
> and fall of seasons. Contrasting wood x’s on closed doors. The brink of
> autumn. A cow sez moo. The milkmaid farts at the milk pail, which echoes
> with a very slight clang, and the geese honk or hiss. The four envoys drink
> watered Moselle and talk mandalas.
>
> The word "Contrasting" is referring to the colors of the wood, is that
> correct?
>
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