GR translation: horn finger

[Mike Weaver]

Tough with callouses - as in the 'horny handed son of toil'?

Or just index finger, as in putting the both by the side of you brow (and waggling them) to make the devil's horns?

Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote :

> V710.38-711.8, P724.41-12   “Just a humble guy,” the swarthy doughboy of the deep scratching in his groin after an elusive crab with a horn finger, rippling the ballooning pleats and fabric of his trousers, “just a freckleface kid from Albert Lea, Minnesota, down there on Route 69 where the speed limit’s lickety-split all night long, just tryin’ t’ make it in the Zone here, kind of a freckleface kid used a safety pin through a cork for a catwhisker and stayed up listened to the voices coast to coast before I was 10 and none of them ever recommended gettin’ into any of them gang wars, buddih. Be glad you’re still so fuckin’ naïve, Rog, wait’ll you see your first European-gangster hit, they like to use 3 rounds: head, stomach, and heart You dig that stomach? Over here stomach’s no second-class organ, podner ’n’ that’s a good autumn kind of thought to keep in mind.”What's a "horn finger"?





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