It means to be silly or stupid.
Ex. "Don't constantly badger people with inane questions."
One for an author to manipulate time in a passage is by Using Flashback to manipulate time.
With flashback, the author could manipulate thee flow of the story, revealing what happen in different timeline to create one connecting story line
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Odysseus is speaking. He is saying this to Nausicaa saying that she looks like a goddess.
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