GR translation: jingling his gastric jewelry

[Lemuel Underwing]

Hmm there is a special place in Pynchon for the fullness/tension/depletion
of Bowels, and this may be another, tho more Peculiar, turning of that
image...?
 that planted, after a meal, and it's Turning over upon contemplating a
Larger Topic.
I like Bled's idea that it's a really good fart, however far-fetched, it
does seem to be some sort of ornament, medal (I can't think of any medals
that would be pinn'd to the belly tho?), probably a belt-buckle/utilitybelt?

On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Bled Welder <bledwelder at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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