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[QUOTE]Originally posted by TORI: [QB] I see you are big fans of smoothies. Good for you. *** 33 Chevette had found the trainer her second day here, and she'd ride two or three times a day or, like now, late at night. Nobody else seemed to be interested in it or ever to come into this little room off the garage, next to the laundry room, and that was fine with her. Living on the bridge, she'd been used to people being around, but everybody had always had something to do up there. The sharehouse was full of USC media sciences students, and they got on her nerves. They sat around accessing media all day and talking about it, and nothing ever seemed to get done. She felt sweat run between the headband of the interface visor and her forehead, then down the side of her nose. She was getting a good burn on now; she could feel groups of muscles working in her back, ones that didn't usually get it. ??? She was getting a good burn on now 142 She'd started on Creedmore's Redback out of boredom, when she spotted the singer himself headed their way. He had borrowed someone's meshbacked cap and pulled it on backward, over his weirdly wet-looking bleach-blonde hair. He was wearing an electric-blue cowboy shirt with the store creases still in it, horizontal across the chest, and the white pearlized snaps open halfway down the front, revealing a pale, white, decidedly concave chest that wasn't at all the color of his face, which she figured was painted on. He had what looked like tomato juice in each hand, in a tall glass with ice. "How do," he said. "Saw that Maryalice over here. Thought I'd bring the old girl a drink. I'm Buell Creedmore. You ladies enjoyin' your beer?" ??? decidedly concave chest 48 Fontaine leaves nothing of value in the window at night, but he dislikes the idea of an entirely empty display. He doesn't like to think of someone passing and glimpsing that vacancy. It makes him think of death. So each night he leaves out a few items of relatively little value, ostensibly to indicate the nature of the shop's stock, but really as a private act of propitiatory magic. ??? propitiatory magic 52 Fontaine picks up the watch, affords himself a quick squint through the loupe. 'Whistles in spite of himself. "Jaeger LeCoultre." He unsquints, checking; the boy hasn't moved. Squints again, this time at the ordnance markings on the caseback. "Royal Australian Air Force, 1953," he translates. "Where'd you steal this?" Nothing. "This is near mint." Fontaine feels, all at once, profoundly and unexpectedly lost. "This a redial?" Nothing. ??? translates – he is translating the markings and symbols into verbal language, right? (Because if it was verbal, it would have been in English…) ??? This a redial? – “has the dial been replaced?” 58 "Hard to get good help these days." Laney kills the projector and removes the massive eyephones. In the sudden gloom, his face is reduced to a child's drawing, smudged black eyeholes against a pallid smear. "The man who was taking that call-" "The one who spoke?" "He owns the world. Near as anyone does." ??? Near as anyone does = “If someone owns the world, it is him.” 66 "I've got three more in the car," Tessa said, pulling a sleazy-looking black control glove over her right hand. She experimented with the touch pads, revving the platform's miniature props and swinging it through a twenty-foot circle. ???sleazy-looking = apparently worn or heavily used? 69 "Camera loves you. You've got a body makes boys chew carpet." ???… makes boys chew carpet – is it a common expression (or an idiom) or would you recommend to translate this literally? 79 She'd watched the maker craft and braise a hilt of brass, rivet slabs of laminated circuit board and shape them on a belt grinder. ???braise thanks T. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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