Re: AtD translation: that’s a whole range of luxury items right there

[David Morris]

Yes.  Yash responds to Kit’s statement of Vectorism’s “practical
abstinence” with “But [there’s all these distractions, too!]”. Because Yash
is also a vectorist, and she’s pointing out that SHE has not been required
to practice abstinence.  And Kit shoots  back, “helps being easy on the
eyeballs, no doubt.”

And, of course the whole conversation is laden with the unstated temptation
they both find in each other.

David Morris

On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 1:01 PM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> The "But … “ paragraph  is Yashmeen taliking as far as I can tell.( there
> is a paragraph change coming after Kit speaks and  before "But… " and
> another following in which is Kit speaking again).   She is respoding to
> his version of himself as”pretty practical” and that his focus on Vectors
> did not allow much luxury including sexual indulgence. In other words,
> Yashmeen wonders if he, like her, was distracted despite his mathematical
> devotion,  there always being something or someone to distract. It sounds
> like Yashmeen is disclosing her own extra-curricular distractions and
> fishing for sexual interest and Kit is very interested but wary.
>
> > On Jan 23, 2022, at 12:51 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > P668.18-22   “No money in Vectors,” he blurted, “that’s a whole range of
> > luxury items right there. Abstinence takes care of itself, pretty much.”
> >       “But there was no end to the distraction. Did you expect quite so
> > much? I didn’t. There always seemed to be something.” She glanced his
> way,
> > experimentally. “Someone.”
> >
> > What is Kit talking about in this sentence?
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