GR translation: snootful

[Michael Lee Bailey]

Yes

On Wed, Aug 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM, Mike Jing <[gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com](mailto:On Wed, Aug 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM, Mike Jing <<a href=)> wrote:

> V593.9-16, P603.26-34 Under a cold umbrella of naked light bulbs are
> gathered a crowd of Army personnel, American sailors, NAAFI girls, and
> German fräuleins. Fraternizing, every last one of them, shamefully, amid
> noise which becomes, as Muffage and Spontoon reach the edge of the
> gathering, a song, at whose center, with a good snootful, each arm circling
> a smiling and disheveled young tootsie, ruddy face under these lights gone
> an apoplectic mauve, and leading the glee, is the same General Wivern they
> last saw in Pointsman’s office back at Twelfth House.
>
> The "snootful" here refers to the alcohol he has already had, not whatever
> he may have in his hand, is that correct?
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