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> You seem to assume that we are incapable of multi-tasking. And that a
> woman can't be sexual and sensual and intelligent. >>
I think he was not, I think Lyle may have been saying math isn't for nice
people, and she was nice (at least as he discribed this character, sort of a
romantic, mushy, playboy jello desert) OR that the discipline required to
make one good at some hard science would have hardened her, ie: changed her
into something less fuckable (to him - it was a subjectivist rant IMHO).