GR translation: Far from rag, snow, lacerated streets

[Mark Kohut]

Why is it snow not snowy? 

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> On Jun 9, 2017, at 6:06 PM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
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> this piece is still mysterious for me, "rag" – pointedly singular and without article – one of your most diverse homonyms; the snow is simply the snow, referring to the passage 2 pages before that Monte quotes, and the lacerated streets and the snow (and the rag?) point to the Revolution, capitalized, the last word in the sentence before Mike's title quote ... 
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> 2017-06-09 21:43 GMT+02:00 Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:
>> One meaning of rag is remnant(s) ; a meaning of snow is, actually, "like ice crystals" , like the pattern snowing can make---the 'snow' on old tv screens, for example...so the streets are remnants of streets; lacerated in snow-patterns.
>> Is one possible reading, I think.
>> 
>> Another verbal image feat of genius, I think, if you think of some pockmarked [the cliche] concrete streets lacerated to pieces.
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>> > On Jun 9, 2017, at 8:58 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > V343.15-21, P348.17-23   . . . even now in her grownup dreams, to
>> > anxious Galina comes the winged rider, red Sagittarius off the
>> > childhood placards of the Revolution. Far from rag, snow, lacerated
>> > streets she huddles here in the Asian dust with her buttocks arched
>> > skyward, awaiting the first touch of him—of it. . . . Steel hooves,
>> > teeth, some whistling sweep of quills across her spine . . . the
>> > ringing bronze of an equestrian statue in a square, and her face,
>> > pressed into the seismic earth. . . .
>> >
>> > The word "rag" here means "ragstone", is that correct?
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