GR translation: patient as shoe grease against the rain

[Mark Kohut]

"grill smoke working onto the windows"

as patient as

"Shoe grease against the rain."

Not windows, you are correct.

On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V471.33-36, P479.26-30    she looked at him once, of course he still
> remembers, from down at the end of a lunchwagon counter, grill smoke
> working onto the windows patient as shoe grease against the rain for the
> plaid, hunched-up leaky handful inside,
>
> What does the phrase "patient as shoe grease against the rain" modify here?
> Is it "the windows", or is it "grill smoke"? The 2nd edition of the
> published translation treated it as modifying the windows, which doesn't
> seem right to me.
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