NP but Joseph Heller's Good as Gold

[Becky Lindroos]

And I just now saw Laura’s previous post -  good!   


Becky
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> On Dec 22, 2018, at 2:30 PM, Becky Lindroos <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> I checked what I could and find nothing really fits in that context if they’re in the US.  Hopper here is a grain bin - but it is a container of sorts - very large and metal.  Or it’s a funnel kind of thing used in food preparation  The other thing is it’s a Sri Lankan dish similar to a crepe but usually based on eggs.  
> 
> Given what you sent it could be a nonsense word chosen to match the rhyme and meter of the other lines and still fit if you’re not reading closely.  
> 
> Interesting. 
> 
> Becky -  a part-time foodie - 
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>> On Dec 21, 2018, at 10:54 PM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> This is a sentence from Joseph Heller's Good as Gold:
>> 
>> There were pans of biscuits and baskets of eggs, rashers of bacon and
>> kettles of fish, creamers and crocks and gallipots brimming, compotes and
>> hoppers and casseroles steaming, dry cereals in bushels and hot ones in
>> cauldrons, platters of sausage and trays of beef, kegs of butter and bins
>> of cheese, urns of fresh milk and jugs of hot coffee, and condiments in
>> cruets, flagons, and flasks.
>> 
>> What does the word "hopper" mean here? I can't seem to find anything that
>> makes sense from the dictionary.
>> 
>> I'm still putting the finishing touches on the three books I've been
>> working on, Good as Gold being one of them. They should all be getting
>> published sometime next year. It appears that I need to improve my Chinese
>> writing skills a lot in order to be a really good translator, but I'm
>> improving and doing the best I can as always. It also turns out revision is
>> really the key to a good translation, I think I read that from an article
>> Mark recommended. So thanks Mark.
>> 
>> I'll probably be back for my regular AtD questions in a month or two, after
>> all this is done.
>> 
>> Mike Jing
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