GR translation: when the sun has dried the ruts and crowns again by noon

[Monte Davis]

Yes. For drainage, well-made roads are either crowned -- water draining to
both sides -- or banked to one side. ("Ruts," though, suggests a dirt
surface on which the crown may bepnly theoretical.)

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 3:46 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V727.23-36, P741.39-742.11   Here are the objectives. To make the run over
> tracks that may end abruptly at riverside or in carbonized trainyard, over
> roads even the unpaved alternates to which are patrolled now by Russian and
> British and American troops in a hardening occupation, a fear of winter
> bleaching the men all more formal, into braces of Attention they ignored
> during the summer, closer adherence now to the paperwork as colors of trees
> and brush begin their change, as purple blurs out over miles of heath and
> nights come sooner. To have to stay out in the rains of early Virgo: the
> children who stowed away on the trek against all orders are down now with
> coughs and fevers, sniffling at night, hoarse little voices inside oversize
> uniform jackets. To brew tea for them from fennel, betony, Whitsun roses,
> sunflowers, mallow leaves—to loot sulfa drugs and penicillin. To avoid
> raising road-dust when the sun has dried the ruts and crowns again by noon.
>
> What are the "crowns" here? I found:
>
> 26. c. The highest or central part of an arch or of any arched surface, as
> a road, bridge, ridge in a field, etc.
>
> Is this the correct meaning?
>
>
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