AtD translation: the unspeakable business with the Rugby blue in hall

Will Reid willreid1871 at gmail.com
Tue May 18 18:12:15 UTC 2021


Rugby blue means you played rugby for either Cambridge or Oxford if I'm not
mistaken. Both have blue jerseys and award "blues" like in the link you
sent.

On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 12:33 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> P494.25-30   “Oh, old Cyps is all right,” demurred Yashmeen.
>        “For a pasty-faced sodomite with no control over his public
> impulses, you mean,” frowned Faun.
>        “He carries a parasol,” added Lorelei.
>        “And the unspeakable business with the Rugby blue in hall.”
>        “But he makes me laugh.”
>
> I've found the Wikipedia page for "Blue":
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_(university_sport)
>
> but I still don't know what this sentence is talking about. Any ideas?
> --
> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>


More information about the Pynchon-l mailing list