GR translation: Teddy Bloat is mincing bananas with a great isosceles knife

[David Morris]

The blade edges are two sides of an isosceles triangle.

*https://books.google.com/books?id=wgwAAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA543&lpg=PA543&dq=what+is+an+isosceles+knife?&source=bl&ots=iqc2jWEMe_&sig=Gm9Z7P2Z2qppPvFrDskvKJxFqMg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwimvsK7k-bMAhXI7YMKHZ7MCPQQ6AEITzAJ#v=onepage&q=what%20is%20an%20isosceles%20knife%3F&f=false
<https://books.google.com/books?id=wgwAAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA543&lpg=PA543&dq=what+is+an+isosceles+knife?&source=bl&ots=iqc2jWEMe_&sig=Gm9Z7P2Z2qppPvFrDskvKJxFqMg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwimvsK7k-bMAhXI7YMKHZ7MCPQQ6AEITzAJ#v=onepage&q=what%20is%20an%20isosceles%20knife%3F&f=false>*

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 11:30 PM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V9.15-27, P9.29-10.1   In the kitchen, black-market marshmallows slide
> languid into syrup atop Pirate’s double boiler, and soon begin thickly to
> bubble. Coffee brews. On a wooden pub sign daringly taken, one daylight
> raid, by a drunken Bartley Gobbitch, across which still survives in
> intaglio the legend SNIPE AND SHAFT, Teddy Bloat is mincing bananas with a
> great isosceles knife, from beneath whose nervous blade Pirate with one
> hand shovels the blonde mash into waffle batter resilient with fresh hens’
> eggs, for which Osbie Feel has exchanged an equal number of golf balls,
> these being even rarer this winter than real eggs, other hand blending the
> fruit in, not overvigorously, with a wire whisk, whilst surly Osbie
> himself, sucking frequently at a half-pint milk bottle filled with Vat 69
> and water, tends to the bananas in the skillet and broiler.
>
> What is an "isosceles knife" exactly?
>
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