AtD translation: Best Boy at Colney Hatch

[Mike Jing]

Thanks for replying, Joseph, Mark and Mike.


On Tue, May 12, 2026 at 6:43 PM Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk> wrote:

> Best Boy organises electrical matters - main electrical association with
> insane asylums = administration of ECT (electro-convulsive treatment).
>
>
> On 10/05/2026 18:33, Mike Jing wrote:
>
> > P238.35-239.10   “It’s too good to pass up,” he groaned aloud to Grand
> > Cohen Nookshaft, his spiritual adviser. “Isn’t it?”
> >         “I’m thinking,” said the Cohen, whose money had been in
> > three-percent consols for longer than he could remember, or remember why,
> > “I’m thinking.”
> >         “I’ve never understood,” said Clive Crouchmas, “why, with all the
> > precognitive talent around this place, no one has ever . . .” He paused,
> as
> > if seeking a diplomatic way to go on.
> >         “Some serious dissonance between psychical gifts and modern
> > capitalism, I’d imagine,” said the Cohen, somewhat shortly. “Mutually
> > antagonistic, you’d have to say. We also do try not to become too mental,
> > like some in your own shop, over this railway Concession.”
> >         “Were I not out here walking free amongst you all,” declared
> Clive
> > Crouchmas, “I should be Best Boy at Colney Hatch. The other night, for
> just
> > half a second, I saw . . . I thought I saw . . .”
> >         “It’s all right, Crouchmas, one hears this sort of thing all the
> > time.”
> >
> > What does "Best Boy" mean here?
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