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

[Paul Mackin]

you might even say they were distracted by thoughts of their own asses.
Saving them, that is. Like Pudding maybe

On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 12:24 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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