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

[David Morris]

Definition of scrawl

   1. transitive verb
   <https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/transitive>
   2.

   :  to write or draw awkwardly, hastily, or carelessly *scrawl**ed* his
   name
   3. intransitive verb
   <https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intransitive>
   4.

   :  to write awkwardly or carelessly


On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 1:30 PM, Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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