GR translation: the usual loud-mouthed American ass-banditry

Mike Jing gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com
Fri Apr 22 05:27:11 UTC 2022


I think I found it:

ass-bandit  n.  *(a) *a man who actively seeks women for casual sex (now
chiefly *disused*);


On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 1:21 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V22.32-36, P23.12-16  The map does puzzle Tantivy. It cannot be put down
> to the usual loud-mouthed American ass-banditry, except as a fraternity-boy
> reflex in a vacuum, a reflex Slothrop can’t help, barking on into an empty
> lab, into a wormholing of echoing hallways, long after the need has
> vanished and the brothers gone to WW II and their chances for death.
>
> What does "ass-banditry" mean here?
>
>


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