GR translation: Closet Intellectual Book & candycane control room

[Mark Kohut]

p. 448...Figure 15-1

https://books.google.com/books?id=EpuaUEQaeoUC&pg=PA448&dq='candycane+control+room'&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjehseE3YvKAhVLkh4KHeVJDzUQ6AEITzAG#v=onepage&q='candycane%20control%20room'&f=false

On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 10:16 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com> wrote:
> 1. Either a book written by or intended for an intellectual who doesn't want
> his intellectualism known.  The former being sort of a contradiction.  It's
> all very jokey.
>
> 2. A toy control room. Synonym: Mickey Mouse control room.  Or, perhaps a
> control room with inferior, second rate equipment.
>
> Don't remember enough about the context.  Too long unread.
>
> On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 2:00 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> V680.25-35, P693.33-694.3   Maximilian is way down in the bottom of the
>> orchestra pit posing as the C-melody saxophone player, complete with Closet
>> Intellectual Book, The Wisdom of the Great Kamikaze Pilots, with
>> illustrations by Walt Disney—screaming, hairy-nosed, front teeth in white
>> dihedral, slant-eyed (long, elaborate curlicued shapes) round black licorice
>> dognosed Japs, zoomin’ through ev’ry page! and any time he’s not playing
>> that saxophone, you can be sure Maximilian will be, to the casual observer,
>> immersed in this diffuse, though rewarding, work. Myrtle meantime is back in
>> the candycane control room, manning the switchboard and ready to swoop in at
>> any time to save the others, who are sure (through their own folly if
>> nothing else) to be in deep trouble soon.
>>
>> 1. Is the purpose of the Closet Intellectual Book to hide the fact that
>> one is actually an intellectual?
>>
>> 2. What is a "candycane control room"?
>
>
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