GR translation: coaltar-impossible orange-brown

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That's the one, thanks. A little googling would have saved my blushes.

Cheers,

Peter

> Sorry Peter, You remember wrongly.
> Pears soap is made from glycerine (from tallow) and is translucent. It is
> Wright's Coal Tar Soap and that is dull orange in colour if my memory is
> working.
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> My favourite soaps from childhood, those two.
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> Pfm at aspeon.com wrote :
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>> I remember a product called "Pears Coal-tar Soap". It was exactly that
>> orange-brown colour but you could see right through it. This might be
>> the
>> reference?
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>> Cheers,
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>> Peter
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>> > V693.8-19, P706.31-707.2   There were men called “army chaplains.”
>> > They
>> > preached inside some of these buildings. There were actually soldiers,
>> > dead
>> > now, who sat or stood, and listened. Holding on to what they could.
>> Then
>> > they went out, and some died before they got back inside a
>> garrison-church
>> > again. Clergymen, working for the army, stood up and talked to the men
>> who
>> > were going to die about God, death, nothingness, redemption,
>> salvation.
>> > It really happened. It was quite common.
>> >        Even in a street used for that, still there will be one time,
>> one
>> > dyed afternoon (coaltar-impossible orange-brown, clear all the way
>> > through), or one day of rain and clearing before bedtime, and in the
>> yard
>> > one hollyhock, circling in the wind, fresh with raindrops fat enough
>> to be
>> > chewed . . .
>> >
>> > What does "coaltar-impossible" mean here?
>> >
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