GR translation: horn finger

[Mike Jing]

Thanks for replying, Mike, Mark and David.

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 8:56 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> horned
> hôrnd/
> *adjective*
>
>    1. *1*.
>    having a horn or horns.
>    "horned cattle"
>    2. *2*.
>    literary
>    crescent-shaped.
>    "the horned moon"
>
>
> Definition #2
>
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 7:53 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Shaped like a horn: horned-finger, like a hook to catch the crab.
>>
>> David Morris
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 3:51 AM, 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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