GR translation: sugar faces

[Markekohut]

Bekah's gone deep enough....

Sugar faces are faces made of sugar some egg whites, maybe nothing else in cakes and cupcakes, prob avly cookies...etc.....

Yes, thin, frail, fragile....like old punch cards....

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On Mar 3, 2013, at 10:22 AM, Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> I doubt "sugar faces"  is something tangible -  it brings to my mind cookies of some sort -  white cookies with faces on them - but very fragile.  
> http://www.bakingandmistaking.com/2011/04/coconut-lace-cookies.html  -  but I've never seen a white one -  maybe OBA's mom had a recipe.  
> 
> I suspect the "files of cards pierced frail as sugar faces"  are old computer punch cards so full of holes they look like lace cookies (white of course).  These cards were in use both during WWII and in the early '70s,  when GR was written.   
> 
> Surely TPR could have found a more appropriate metaphor, but … . 
> 
> Bekah
> 
> 
> On Mar 2, 2013, at 10:03 PM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> P254.21   Here Slothrop stages a brilliant Commando raid, along with faithful companion Blodgett Waxwing, on Shell Mex House itself—right into the heart of the Rocket’s own branch office in London. Mowing down platoons of heavy security with his little Sten, kicking aside nubile and screaming WRAC secretaries (how else is there to react, even in play?), savagely looting files, throwing Molotov cocktails, the Zoot-suit Zanies at last crashing into the final sanctum with their trousers up around their armpits, smelling of singed hair, spilled blood, to find not Mr. Duncan Sandys cowering before their righteousness, nor open window, gypsy flight, scattered fortune cards, nor even a test of wills with the great Consortium itself—but only a rather dull room, business machines arrayed around the walls calmly blinking, files of cards pierced frail as sugar faces, frail as the last German walls standing without support after the bombs have been and now twisting high above, threatening to fold down out of the sky from the force of the wind that has blown the smoke away. . . .
>> 
>> What are "sugar faces"?
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