GR translation: rum-smoky, dynamite man

Mike Jing mikezjing at hotmail.com
Fri Aug 26 20:15:44 CDT 2011


P131.5-8  ... -- from singing his childhood along the rum-smoky saloons of High Holborn Street where the sailers throw mammoth red firecrackers, quarter of a stick of dynamite man, ...

I assume "rum-smoky" means "full of rum smell and cigarette smoke", is that correct? And what is "dynamite man"?

 		 	   		  


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