Re: GR translation: "then I defected for nothing, didn’t I?"

Mike Jing gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com
Tue Jul 22 11:22:38 UTC 2025


I'm still wondering about this one.


On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 12:02 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V542.20-25, P551.25-30   “Prentice, really it’s all right,” it’s St.-Just
> Grossout, whom the others call “Sam Juiced” when they want to shout him
> down, during the passages in here when there is nothing for it but a spot
> of rowdyism.
>        “I . . . just can’t . . . I mean if it is true, then,” a laugh it
> hurts him, deep in his windpipe, to make, “then I defected for nothing,
> didn’t I? I mean, if I haven’t really defected at all. . . .”
>
> What act of defection is Pirate Prentice talking about here exactly?
>
>


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