GR translation: jingling his gastric jewelry
Bled Welder
bledwelder at gmail.com
Thu Jan 3 13:12:32 CST 2013
You got me, I admit it. I was hoping nobody called me on it, but I love
that you did.
I was speaking, so to speak, out of my ass.
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 4:40 AM, Ruth Flatscher <ruflatsch at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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