GR translation: Has to go through the usual long, long routine

[David Morris]

The “long, long routine” would refer to the number of phone-bureaucratic
levels (put on hold, etc) he would have to go through after “ringing up
Stanmore” before he got the correct information about the rocket.

On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 10:06 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V8.18-24, P8.29-35   Pirate goes to the phone and rings up Stanmore after
> all. Has to go through the usual long, long routine, but knows he’s already
> stopped believing in the rocket he saw. God has plucked it for him, out of
> its airless sky, like a steel banana. “Prentice here, did you have anything
> like a pip from Holland a moment ago. Aha. Aha. Yes, we saw it.” This could
> ruin a man’s taste for sunrises. He rings off. “They lost it over the
> coast. They’re calling it premature Brennschluss.”
>
> Here "the usual long, long routine" refers to him cooking the banana
> breakfast, is that correct?
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