GR translation: her scrawled face streaming with lube-green shadow, yellow light

Arthur Fuller fuller.artful at gmail.com
Mon Jul 17 13:30:19 CDT 2017


Mike,

"Scrawled" more accurately means "etched on a wall without benefit of a
pen", as one might to on a the wall of a prison cell, or long ago, on the
walls of a cave in Southern France or even Africa.

Arthur

On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 1:54 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Scrawled would mean roughly written or marked, with the colorful shadows
> and light.
>
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 12:14 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> V532.16-19, P541.16-19   The Frau heads south, along the other coast of
>> Rügen, into the straits by way of the Bug. The storm keeps pace, as night
>> comes down. “We’ll put in at Stralsund,” her scrawled face streaming with
>> lube-green shadow, yellow light, as the oil-lantern sways in the pilot
>> house.
>>
>> What does "scrawled" mean here?
>>
>


-- 
Arthur
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