GR translation: but all in the distracted style of the period

[David Morris]

This scene in GR is one of my favorites.  It is a meta-reality meeting of
all guilty parties in the game of Life/Love/War.  Everything about this
scene is confusion circus, and very darkly funny.

David Morris

On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 1:46 AM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:

> not concentrated on the task at hand and slightly confused
>
> 2017-07-21 5:51 GMT+02:00 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>:
>
>> V544.40-545.7, P554.7-15   “Is there room here for the dead?” He hears
>> the question before he can see her asking it. He isn’t sure how she came
>> into this room. From all the others now flow impressions of male jealousy,
>> a gruff sort of women-on-ships-is-bad-luck chill and withdrawal. And here’s
>> Pirate left alone with her and her question. He holds out to her the ball
>> of taffy he’s been carrying, boobish as young Porky Pig holding out the
>> anarchist’s ticking bomb to him. But there’s to be no sweetness. They are
>> here instead to trade some pain and a few truths, but all in the distracted
>> style of the period:
>>
>> What does "distracted" mean here?
>>
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