GR translation: Errol Flynn frisks his mustache

[Mike Jing]

Gotcha. Slothrop did grow a longish moustache by this point. Thanks for the
reply, Mike.


On Mon, Dec 2, 2024 at 1:45 PM Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk> wrote:

> Works only with long moustaches - twirl the ends into a point and pull
> them out to the side, or down if emulating Frank Zappa. That sort of
> thing. Demonstrative grooming!
>
> Probably not referring to an Errol Flynn's moustache as he favoured the
> pencil style - rather difficult to frisk. So Slothrop as Errol Flynn the
> debonair rescuer of damsels, frisking his own, possibly imaginary,
> moustache. Or maybe he was just searching it for drugs.
>
> On 02/12/2024 17:42, Mike Jing wrote:
> > V248.31-35, P251.36-40
> >     “You were right. You are the man.”
> >     “That’s nothing.” Errol Flynn frisks his mustache. “I saved a dame
> from
> > an octopus not so long ago, how about that?”
> >     “With one difference,” sez Blodgett Waxwing. “This really happened
> > tonight. But that octopus didn’t.”
> >
> > What does "frisk" mean here?
> > --
> > Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>