Help me please - a dialogue in GR

[Natália Maranca]

Thanks, Michael. I hadn't understood it as well, and my portuguese version
wasn't much help...

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 6:40 AM, Michael Bailey <
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> It is Krypton who is saying that Rocketman is hot
>
> Slothrop is agreeing,
>
> and Shirley is turning down the cocaine which Krypton is offering her.
>
>
>
> On 10/14/08, János Székely <miksaapja at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The more simple, the more difficult for a non-native.
> >
> > In the scene where Slothrop, Bodine, Krypton and Shirley are aboard a Red
> > Cross Clubmobile (Penguin/V p. 600), and the girl, who a minute earlier
> was
> > panicking about "dope fiends", has helped them out with the gears, there
> > comes this dialogue:
> >
> > "You're really hot, Rocketman, wow," Krypton lying in back offering ankle
> > and taped cocaine bottle to Shirley with a smile.
> > "Do tell."
> > "No thanks," sez Shirley. "I'd really better not."
> >  "C'mon . . . aw . . ."
> >
> > Now what's happening here exactly? Why "Do tell"?
> >
> > Thx in advance
> > János
> >
>
>
> --
> "He ain't crazy, he's a-makin' pottery" - Finley Pater Dunne
>
>
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