GR translation: whisky glass tipped at the bright subarctic sky

[Mark Kohut]

Tipped means tilted high and upward to drink, head back--
 "here's to you then, chaps"
a kind of spontaneous informal toast as one tips the glass....

On Sat, Jul 23, 2022 at 2:11 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V142.8-12, P144.26-30   Here’s a medium shot, himself backlit, alone at the
> high window in the Grand Hotel, whisky glass tipped at the bright subarctic
> sky and here’s to you then, chaps, it’ll be all of us up there onstage
> tomorrow, Ned Pointsman only happened to survive that’s all . . .
>
> What does "tipped" mean here?
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