GR translation: black as a hand in an evening glove

[Mark Kohut]

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Basic evening gloves are basic black....and his running-mate is black, is
why...probably a much darker West Indian

On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 3:04 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V62.29-32, P64.12-16   two bartenders, a very fair West Indian, slight,
> with a mustache, and his running-mate black as a hand in an evening glove,
> are moving endlessly in front of the deep, the oceanic mirror that swallows
> most of the room into metal shadows
>
> What is an "evening glove"? And why would a hand in it be black?
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