GR translation: powdered eggs still going one and three a dozen

[Mike Jing]

Or is that too much?


On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>wrote:

> P255.18-25   Out of the room: going noplace special, moving to a slow
> drumbeat in his stomach muscles see what happens, be ready. . . . In the
> Casino restaurant, not the slightest impedance at all to getting in, no
> drop in temperature perceptible to his skin, Slothrop sits down at a table
> where somebody has left last Tuesday’s London Times. Hmmm. Hasn’t seen one
> of them in a while. . . . Leafing through, dum, dum, de-doo, yeah, the
> War’s still on, Allies closing in east and west on Berlin, powdered eggs
> still going one and three a dozen, . . .
>
> I assume "one and three" means one pound and three shillings, is that
> correct?
>
>
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