GR translation: A Raketen-Stadt Charlie Noble

[Mike Jing]

Right.  I guess the engineer does make some kind of sense, although he
seemed to be in charge at Oak Ridge, where the uranium enrichment plants
are, not Los Alamos as stated in the Companion.

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 5:38 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Either way, you have to leave the name in the translation (same as with
> microcosm, if you ask me [a rhetorical question, of course]).
>
> 2016-04-14 10:28 GMT+02:00 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>:
>
>> V738.37-739.5, P753.23-32   I recall the time Christian found an old
>> alarm clock, and we salvaged the radium, to coat our plumb-bob strings
>> with. They shone in the twilight. You’ve seen them holding bobs, hands
>> characteristically gathered near the crotch. A dark figure with a stream of
>> luminescent piss falling to the ground fifty meters away . . . “The
>> Presence, pissing,” that became a standard joke on the apprentices. A
>> Raketen-Stadt Charlie Noble, you might say . . . [Yes. A cute way of
>> putting it. I am betraying them all . . . the worst of it is that I know
>> what your editors want, exactly what they want.
>>
>> In the Companion, Weisenburger says Charlie Noble refers to Charles
>> Carmine[sic] Noble, atomic engineer (see
>> http://apps.westpointaog.org/Memorials/Article/11847/ ), but it seems
>> far-fetched to me.
>>
>> A quick search shows that it's a slang term for a ship's smokestack:
>>
>>
>> https://books.google.ca/books?id=yXY0yQnvmmUC&pg=PA199&dq=charlie+noble&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjP6I661o3MAhWJm4MKHYwrC2s4HhDoAQgyMAQ#v=onepage&q=charlie%20noble&f=false
>>
>>
>> https://books.google.ca/books?id=h0mcBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA152&dq=charlie+noble&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjP6I661o3MAhWJm4MKHYwrC2s4HhDoAQhAMAc#v=onepage&q=charlie%20noble&f=false
>>
>> Does this make more sense here?
>>
>
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