"Ah, they do bother him, these free women in their teens, their spirits are so contagious" and to the side of a 'song', the sidenote "Where did the swing band come from? She's bouncing up and down, she wants to be jitterbugged, he sees she wants to (italics) lose her gravity (end italics)" from page 547 (ya, I still don't know how to do italics...)

This seems to imply that teen women are spirited, and by the dance theme, happy. Teens may be the children of the war, seeing as we haven't actually been introduced to any children who didn't behave like teenagers if not adults. Even Bianca and Ilse, as far as I know the youngest characters, hardly have any child-like attributes. This would mean that teens are the most innocent of all the characters, which as we've talked about is not the case. A teen is also an age between child and adult, between a 0 and a 1.

This particular teen girl also seems to want to "lose her gravity". Gravity is the one of the most controlling aspects of our natural world: its rules aren't bent for anyone, whether they be preterite or elect. The control of gravity, and wanting to lose it, signifies a desire to live life without rigid rules. To me, this implies living between a 0 of no control and the 1 of absolute rules. Slothrop says that these teens "do bother him" which is strange because it seems that having a contagious spirit wouldn't be a bad thing. Maybe he is scared to adopt this spirit and that's why it bugs him....