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

[Mike Jing]

That makes more sense. Thanks.


On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 10:23 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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