GR translation: zeros happening to coincide with eyes

Mike Jing gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com
Thu Feb 26 03:57:51 CST 2015


Never mind.  Those must be the holes that award scores.

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 4:41 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V583.17-26   After a lot of rigmarole at the door, Bland is finally
> allowed in and led through velvet poolrooms, elaborate polished-wood
> gambling setups, chrome bars, soft bedrooms, on to a large warehouse
> section in back, which is crammed ten high with more pinball machines than
> Bland’s ever seen in one place in his life, Oh Boys, Grand Slams, World
> Serieses, Lucky Lindies as far as the eye can reach.
>        “And every one is fucked up,” sez melancholy Tracy. “Look at this.”
> It’s a Folies-Bergeres: four-color lovelies doing the cancan all over it,
> zeros happening to coincide with eyes, nipples, and cunts, one of your
> racy-type games here, a little hostile toward the ladies but all in fun!
>
> What are the "zeros" here on the pinball machines exactly?
>
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