1) “And the absence of active lust in me had also given me a new peaceful life that I was enjoying a great deal. (29)”
Ray felt uncomfortable taking off his clothes in front of other guys because he only likes one other person in the room and prefers females. When the other two guys, Alvah and Japhy took off their clothes right away to be intimate to with a girl who was practically a child to them. He had felt bad that she was young but she did not refuse. When Japhy first showed up with a random girl with him it was weird that she was there just to have sex with them, and he believed it was wrong. The other three were trying to convince him that its all perfectly fine to do and there wasn’t anything to worry about.
2) “By the time I went to bed I wasn’t taken in by no Princess or no desire for no Princess and nobody’s disapproval and I felt glad and slept well. (35)”
Ray and Alvah had got into an argument about all of them and Princess. Alvah did not understand why Ray had a problem with all of them doing what they were doing. He believed it was perfectly fine and it wasn’t a big deal. Alvah accused of Ray’s religion of Buddhism the way he is such as being mean about the whole thing and afraid of taking off his clothes in front of people. Once Ray went to bed he made the whole thing as a bad dream it was all over and he didn’t have to worry about it anymore. He had forgotten about everything about his argument with Alvah when he had went to bed.
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