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

Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com
Sat Jul 22 11:24:00 CDT 2017


Just want to overexplain an aspect of my take, which is minor compared to
Morris's finely-expressed appreciation.

Given what this period IS, everything is a distraction but none explained
so, as such " a dark cartoon".

On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 10:05 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> But DIS-traction!  In this GR scene it is at top knotch.  A very dark
> cartoon.  My favorite kind.  Flannery O'Conner, anyone?
>
> David Morris
>
> On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 9:55 AM Seymour Landnau <seymourlandnau at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> A tract is like an area, a section, a region, a parameter, some type of
>> focus?  So distracted would be like being out of focus?  Or maybe
>> off-kilter?  Tractors, tractor beams, attractors, traction.
>>
>> Whatever the hell "kilter" means.  Oh, it must mean tract.
>>
>> Intractable.
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 10:51 PM, Mike Jing <
>> gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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