Thunder Dome No one's telling me the cure

"i believe the moon is very beautiful," she concedes. "but intangible.  it is unattainable and abstract, an idea.  we idolize what we cannot fully rationalize." natshana certainly knows he had not asked for such an extraneous observation, but it isn't in her nature to care.  her mind doesn't deal with imagery and prose; she thinks in concrete facts and analyses.  needless to say, she often finds herself fitted with descriptors like 'buzzkill' or 'pretentious.'  they aren't incorrect.

"i see we both employ similar tactics of diversion," she comments as a result of derg sharing his own origins. "what can you tell me about the politics here?  i should like to know who to be wary of." who to trust - if any.