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grladams at teleport.com grladams at teleport.com
Thu Feb 15 19:19:32 CST 2007


Would anyone like to read my scrawlings, quotes that stood out on
occasional morning train rides for the past couple three weeks? usually a
lurker, i merely foray here and don't know if it's against rules to discuss
the future parts of this book at this time...


and you will see spoilers








but

-- some are probably paraphrased, and I quote without exact quotations if
you do forgiveme..




p 492 Meeting of the jazzes, jazz players, hilarious double entendre story
about the wished for and reluctance against pairings... so well written &
with an eye of experience, i wonder if TRP is himself a player. <no beavis
and butthead laughter please. ha!>

...they wanted you to feel guilt out of proportion to the offense, which
was only peeping.

...travellers have decended on our shores to haunt us down capture our
innocence and take it away with them into the future.

it is in this complicity that we see bands of mathmaticians and
scienticians involved in the complex of enterprise feel guilt, if they have
to embrace their own enlightenment...

....How to translate the class of themerochemical reactions once known as
irreversible processes notable among them human aging and death so as
actually reverse them... (could speak to so many levels 

the description where the lense is swoouping down onto the map -- that day
I went to the rock hound shop and got a piece of pink iceland spar and had
fun looking at stuff with it.

Not to embrace the time travellers would be to deny yourself the embrace.
because it really might actually be.. us.. that we are seeing. ON the other
side of the fat edge..

Cyprian is assumed a sod, but is the object of Yashmeen's interest. 

The Chums are there to divert rather than to corruptly embrace the time
raider/travellers who have have got to get themselves back to the garden...

Yashmeen has a penchant for being able to see the flicker of the flipside,
to observe with time travellors who are the already seen. (this makes this
nonmathematician think of a Moebius strip.> one whose bowlike fatnesses are
able to flex and the outcome still occurr.. and you get really close to the
other side and it starts to flip. and if you're right there on the edge of
it, then mayyybe you _can_ see the other side.

is that like peeping? are we seeing it now? 

wow...

i'm on the coast of Oregon enjoying some of North California's finest.
overlooking the rocky shores.  

this book is beautiful sometimes, maddening other times. there's a
mathematician who comes in my building and has vodka breath. he uses the
word processor and is working on a game with prime numbers using excel. 

-grladams

"Superman" by REM just played on my tunes.







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