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jvandonseltoday at 12:46 AM1 replyview on HN

Despite reading the entire series twice, I never understood the porcupine line. Can someone ELI5?


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tclancytoday at 1:32 AM

It’s Jack talking through his hat again. I think he’s trying to determine if a woman is married or not and when it turns out they having a roving eye, he conflates “porcupine” (no idea what a porcupine-lay might be) with “concubine”.

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