GR translation: admirers of Dr. Freud the Adenoid clearly had no use for

[Michael Lee Bailey]

A little of each?

“Have no use for” as a straightforward phrase, indicating the adenoid wants the cocaine but not the analysis

And then, “have no use for” as a disparaging colloquialism which displays a negative attitude as a reason for having no use for the alienists

On Sat, Sep 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM, Mike Jing <[gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com](mailto:On Sat, Sep 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM, Mike Jing <<a href=)> wrote:

> V16.22-29, P16.39-17.5 As the two of them snuffled back and forth,
> alienists in black seven-button suits, admirers of Dr. Freud the Adenoid
> clearly had no use for, stood on stepladders up against its loathsome
> grayish flank shoveling the new wonderdrug cocaine—bringing hods full of
> the white substance, in relays, up the ladders to smear on the throbbing
> gland-creature, and into the germ toxins bubbling nastily inside its
> crypts, with no visible effects at all (though who knows how that Adenoid
> felt, eh?).
>
> Which meaning of the phrase "to have no use for" is being used here?
>
> P.14.a. To be without need of something.
> P.14.b. Originally U.S. To have no respect, admiration, or patience for, to
> dislike.
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