GR translation: potato-mash lobotomy/liquid brain damage

[Mike Jing]

Thanks for replying, Jochen and Protomen. Just checking if my
interpretation makes sense.

Just for laughs, the published translation has the first one as
"fermented lobotomy product that resembles potato-mash", and the
second one as "liquid for curing brain damage".

On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 2:22 AM, Protomen <protomen at protonmail.com> wrote:
>
> Lobotomy/brain damage probably didn't have the association with acid/other
> things that they might have now? Don't think he'd have used them for
> anything other than hangover hyperbole.
>
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> V527.40-528.5, P536.38-537.1-2 Our captain, Frau Gnahb, heads into
> the Greifswalder Bodden, to comb the long firths for her quarry. After
> an hour (comical bassoon solos over close-ups of the old recreant
> guzzling some horrible fermented potato-mash lobotomy out of a
> jerrican, wiping her mouth on her sleeve, belching) of fruitless
> search, our modern-day pirates head out to sea again, and up the
> eastern coast of the island.
>
> V568.33-41, P578.26-35 Slothrop waits hidden behind the Roland, a
> particularly humorless, goggle-eyed, curly-headed, pinch-waisted
> specimen. With Slothrop is an arsenal of fireworks and his assistant
> Fritz, who’s about 8, and a Wilhelm Busch original. Slothrop is a
> little nervous, unaccustomed as he is to pigherofestivals. But Fritz
> is an old hand, and has thoughtfully brought along a glazed jug of
> some liquid brain damage flavored with dill and coriander and
> distilled, unless Haferschleim means something else, from oatmeal.
> “Haferschleim, Fritz?” He takes another belt, sorry he asked.
>
> Does lobotomy/brain damage allude to the effect of the fermented
> drinks, or something else altogether?
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