☆Chapter 11-3☆ 引き続きキャスとジョーの会話。 Joe: You probably sell, what, $350,000 worth of books in year? Kath: How did you know that? Joe: I'm in the book business. Kath: I am in the book business. Joe: I see. And we are the Price Club. Only instead of a ten-gallon vat of olive oil for $3.99 that won't even fit under your kitchen cabinet, we sell cheap books. Me, a spy? Absolutely. I have in my possession the super-duper, secret printout of the sales figures of a bookstore so inconsequential, yet full of its own virtue that I was compelled to rush over for fear that it will put me out of business. vat 大おけ, inconsequential 重要でない, virtue 徳, compell 無理に〜させる, rush 突進する (キャスがジョーをじっと見る) Joe: What? What?
Joe: You probably sell,/ what, $350,000 worth of books/ in a year?
Kath: How did you know that?
Joe: I'm in the book business.
Kath: I am in the book business.
Joe: I see. And we are the Price Club.
Only instead of a ten-gallon vat/ of olive oil/ for $3.99/
that won't even fit/ under your kitchen cabinet,/ we sell cheap books./
Me, a spy? Absolutely. I have in my possession the super-duper,
secret printout/ of the sales figures/ of a bookstore/ so inconsequential,
yet full of its own virtue/ that I was compelled/ to rush over for fear/
that it will put me out of business./ What? What?
2.ジョーの最後のセリフ。yet full of its own virtue that I was compelled to rush over for fear that it will put me out of business.
キャスの店の魅力が、ジョーの仕事をしづらくするかも。ってことですかね。