GR translation: and guts resonate, hard as stone

[Jochen Stremmel]

yes.

2017-07-08 6:47 GMT+02:00 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>:

> V500.29-501.2, P509.4-18   And this is how their desperate enterprise goes
> a-rollicking up the coast of Usedom, under a hazy summer sky. On shore, the
> green downs roll up in two gentle steps: above them is a chain of hills
> thick with pines and oaks. Little resort towns with white beaches and
> forlorn jetties wheel abeam rheumatically slow. Military-looking craft,
> probably Russian PT boats, will be seen now and then lying dead in the
> water. None challenge the Frau’s passage. The sun is in and out, turning
> the decks a stark moment’s yellow around everyone’s shadow. There’s a late
> time of day when all shadows are thrown along the same east-northeast
> bearing as the test rockets were always fired out to sea from Peenemünde.
> The exact clock time, which varies through the year, is known as Rocket
> Noon . . . and the sound that must at that moment fill the air for its
> devout can only be compared with a noontime siren the whole town believes
> in . . . and guts resonate, hard as stone. . . .
>
> Does "hard as stone" describe "guts" here?
>
>
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