What is 'BB' here? Trout wrote a story one time about another race riot. It was on a planet twice as big as Earth, orbiting Puke, a star the size of a BB, two billion years ago.

What is 'can't draw for sour apples'? And just get a load of this: My big brother Bernie, who can’t draw for sour apples， and who at his most objectionable used to say he didn^ like paintings because they didnJt do anything, just hung there year after year, has this summer become an artist!

What is ' never having asked to be born in the first place'? In the book Timequake, the author describes: In my salad days, when I was green in judgment, and never having asked to be born in the first place, I sought the advice of my then literary agent as to how to end stories without killing all the characters. He had been fic tion editor of an important magazine, and a story con sultant for a Hollywood studio as well. What is 'never having asked to be born in the first place' here?

Please help with the following sentences. The author is not good at ending a story to satisfy the readers, then: 1) OK, I could handle that. But after I had a character change and/or learn something and/or apologize, that left the cast standing around with their thumbs up their asses. That is no way to tell a reader the show is over. What is 'left the cast standing around with their thumbs up their asses"? 2) In my salad days, when I was green in judgment, and never having asked to be born in the first place, I sought the advice of my then literary agent as to how to end stories without killing all the characters. He had been fic tion editor of an important magazine, and a story con sultant for a Hollywood studio as well. What is 'when I was green in judgment, and never having asked to be born in the first place'?

Please help with the understanding of the following sentences. I don’t think I missed the boat when I failed to write a novel about Albert Lieber, and how he was largely re sponsible for my mothers suicide on Mothers Day Eve, 1944. German-Americans in Indianapolis lack universality. They have never been sympathetically, or even villain ously, stereotyped in movies or books or plays. I would have had to explain them from scratch. 1) German-Americans in Indianapolis lack universality. Does it mean 1) there are few German-Americans in Indianapolis? OR 2) German-Americans in Indianapolis share no same charateristics? 2) They have never been sympathetically, or even villain ously, stereotyped in movies or books or plays. Does it mean 1) They have never been described as sympathy or villainous? OR 2) out of sympathy or villainous purpose, they have never been stereotyped as a certain kind of people?

Please help with the understanding of the following sentences. I rode past houses and shopping complexes that were half-built and already sold, as if hope itself had finally found a price. And long lines of crawling traffic stitched those patches of aspiration to acres of ambition: streets of cars that ran like scars on the face and forehead of the thing we made of the Earth. 1) found a price Does it mean that make it worthy? 2)And long lines of crawling traffic stitched those patches of aspiration to acres of ambition What is 'those patches of aspiration to acres of ambition"? 3)streets of cars that ran like scars on the face and forehead of the thing we made of the Earth. What is 'of the thing we made of the Earth"?

What is Company torturer? The Taureg was a retired specialist, who’d worked for years in the Khaderbhai Company. He was a full Council member, with a vote, but was never present at Council meetings, because he was the Company torturer. In a novel describes gangsters, it introduces a man named Taureg. I wonder what 'Company torturer' mean here? The leader of the Company?

What is 't'ee'? Presently he was met by an elderly parson astride on a gray mare, who, as he rode, hummed a wandering tune. "Good night t'ee," said the man with the basket. "Good night, Sir John," said the parson.

Please help with the understanding of the paragraph below On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore, or Blackmoor. The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias in his gait which inclined him somewhat to the left of a straight line. He occasionally gave a smart nod, as if in confirmation of some opinion,though he was not thinking of anything in particular. An empty egg-basket wa sslung upon his arm, the nap of his hat was ruffled, a patch being quite worn away at its brim where his thumb came in taking it off. Please help with the sentences below: 1) How to interpret the second sentence? His legs are almost broken and he shifts to the left of the road? 2) How to interpret the last sentence? 'where his thumb came in taking it off.' means his thumb could go through the hole on the brim and take the hat away from his head?