AtD translation: and many began to edge away, anticipating trouble up the tracks

[Jochen Stremmel]

I think yes, Mike: expecting trouble from the girl whose mind is an open
book for them, and "up the tracks" meaning no more than "ahead".


> On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 4:20 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks for the reply, Arthur. It just seems to me totally out of place
> in
> >> the given context, and I'm still puzzled why it's even there. Are people
> >> expecting Yup Toy to cause trouble, or is it something else entirely?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 8:05 AM Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > "Up the tracks" refers to railway tracks, most often, but could in an
> >> > urban situation mean subway tracks. As to "trouble", that's purposely
> >> > ambiguous. In a Hollywood Western, it might mean Commanches about to
> >> attack
> >> > the train, or a gang of train-robbers a la Jesse James. In more modern
> >> > times, it could mean that the tracks have been blocked with logs by a
> >> First
> >> > Nations tribe demonstrating against some corporate  takeover of their
> >> > lands. And again in an urban context, it could ne  a body left on the
> >> > tracks to be severed by the wheels.
> >> >
> >> > On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 11:27 PM Mike Jing <
> >> gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> P367.33-38   Yup Toy herself, waiting by a huge ice machine among a
> >> row of
> >> >> Oriental ice-girls in abbreviated sequined getups, her painted face a
> >> >> porcelain mask in the naphtha-light streaming from somewhere beneath,
> >> >> gazed, sucking at a scarlet fingernail, failing to look inscrutable
> to
> >> any
> >> >> but the habitually dismissive, such as Ruperta. To others more
> >> >> appreciative
> >> >> of her virtues, her mind was an open book, and many began to edge
> away,
> >> >> anticipating trouble up the tracks.
> >> >>
> >> >> What is this last part of the sentence about? What kind of trouble is
> >> >> being
> >> >> expected? And what is "up the tracks" exactly?
> >> >> --
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> >> >
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Arthur
> >> >
> >> >
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