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

[Mike Jing]

Thanks, David.

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 8:43 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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