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They were making money running a paper-celluloid whorehouse.
What does the " paper-celluloid" mean?
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I googled and found the term is a quotation from Vonnegut's novel Slaughter-house Five. The wording is They were making money running a paper-and-celluloid whorehouse. This means They were running a store that sold pornographic magazines and books (ie on paper) and pornographic films (ie on celluloid).
- I googled and found the term is a quotation from Vonnegut's novel Slaughter-house Five.
- The wording is They were making money running a paper-and-celluloid whorehouse.
- This means They were running a store that sold pornographic magazines and books (ie on paper) and pornographic films (ie on celluloid).
- Clive
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I googled and found the term is a quotation from Vonnegut's novel Slaughter-house Five. The wording is They were making money running a paper-and-celluloid whorehouse.
This means They were running a store that sold pornographic magazines and books (ie on paper)
and pornographic films (ie on celluloid).
Clive
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