GR translation: jingling his gastric jewelry

[Ruth Flatscher]

since Hillary Bounce is a captain, I imagined the "gastric jewellery" to be
a (deliberately ironic and somewhat respectless) circumscription of
military decorations and medals pinned to the belly of his uniform....


On 2 January 2013 07:21, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:

> P244.7-14  Bounce stares at him, jingling his gastric jewelry, not knowing
> what to make of Slothrop, exactly.
> “I mean,” Slothrop now working himself into a fuss over something that
> only disturbs him, dimly, nothing to kick up a row over, is it? “doesn’t it
> strike you as just a bit odd, you Shell chaps working on your liquid engine
> your side of the Channel you know, and their chaps firing their bloody
> things at you with your own . . . blasted . . . Shell transmitter tower,
> you see.”
>
> What exactly is his "gastric jewelry"?  Or does this mean something else
> entirely?
>
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