AtD translation: perils of extravagance

[David Morris]

Makes perfect sense.  One dome inside the other.  Two layers to penetrate.
All classical revival domes are built that way. Fun!

David Morris

On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 8:45 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> According to Green's Dictionary of Slang:
>
> double dome (n.) (also big dome) an intellectual, a scholar, esp. one who
> seems to hold eccentric or impractical opinions.
>
> https://greensdictofslang.com/search/basic?q=double-dome
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 5:12 AM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > My 1st question would be: What are these damned touchy double-domes?
> >
> > Am So., 11. Okt. 2020 um 09:00 Uhr schrieb Mike Jing <
> > gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>:
> >
> >> P359.1-7 . . . Reef need act as no more than bunco-steerer, all the
> >> research chores and assumptions of risk to be borne by Archie as
> principal
> >> party, “thankless tasks, all of them, but no risk, no reward, ain’t that
> >> how it goes?”
> >>        “Ever thus in the world of affairs,” Reef agreed, trying to look
> >> just quizzical enough to suggest the perils of extravagance, yet not
> >> enough
> >> to offer provocation—these double-domes being in Reef’s experience never
> >> quite as retiring as they looked, some of them damned touchy, as a
> matter
> >> of fact.
> >>
> >> What does "perils of extravagance" refer to here?
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