AtD translation: opium-pipe special

[Mike Jing]

Thanks for the reply, Paul and Jamie.

On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 1:27 AM Jamie McKittrick <jamiemckit at gmail.com>
wrote:

> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pipe_dream
>
> On 7 May 2018 at 16:16, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > without looking into the context of the thing I'd say it was just
> something
> > dreamed up without any reality behind it.
> >
> > On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 12:51 AM, Mike Jing <
> gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > P180.36-39   “All this time out here, so far, far from the lights of
> > > Michigan Avenue, and never once suspecting . . . why it was just some
> > damn
> > > opium-pipe special’s all it ever was—”
> > >        “Sure wouldn’t want any hard feelings, Lew—”
> > >
> > > What is an "opium-pipe special" exactly?
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