GR translation: their breaths foul with hours-old fish

[David Morris]

yes

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Mike Jing
<gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> P52.26-32   Yet for all his agonizing all Pointsman will score,
> presently, is an octopus—yes a gigantic, horror-movie devilfish name
> of Grigori: gray, slimy, never still, shivering slow-motion in his
> makeshift pen down by the Ick Regis jetty . . . a terrible wind that
> day off the Channel, Pointsman in his Balaclava helmet, eyes freezing,
> Dr. Porkyevitch with greatcoat collar up and fur hat down around his
> ears, their breaths foul with hours-old fish, and what the hell can
> Pointsman do with this animal?
>
> Does this mean they have eaten fish a few hours ago?