GR translation: no, you nasty little wet-mouthed prig

[Charles Albert]

Perhaps illustrating a fundamental contradiction of "priggishness"....

love,
cfa



On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 9:42 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Salivating, slobbering, sort of out of control.  But it doesn't seem to go
> well with "prig" which implies an uptightness.
>
> David Morris
>
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 12:38 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> V694.30-34, P708.16-20   Everything freezes. The sweet, icky chord hangs
>> in the air . . . there is no way to be at ease with it. If you try the “Are
>> you quite finished, Superintendent?” gambit, the man will answer, “No, as a
>> matter of fact . . . no, you nasty little wet-mouthed prig, I’m not half
>> finished, not with you . . . .”
>>
>> What does "wet-mouthed" mean here?
>>
>
>
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