GR translation: crossover point

[Mark Kohut]

	* Thank you, Paul.....More learning in the endless annotating of TRP.
	* "crossover point' seems to have that meaning to dream studiers....
 
	* Einstein's dream: the search for a unified theory of the universe - Google Books Result
Barry Parker, Barry R. Parker- 2001 - 304 pages
The crossover point (the point where the two lobes join) is particularly 
important; it is called the Lagrangian point (L). If any matter from star A 
passes ...books.google.com/books?isbn=0738205753
	* Dream cultures: explorations in the comparative history of dreaming - Google Books Result
David Dean Shulman, Guy G. Stroumsa- 1999 - 325 pages
At this crossover point complex synesthesias — visual, auditory, and tactile — 
often occur as a new dream entity emerges. This new dream, which often ...books.google.com/books?isbn=0195123360
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	* Jeffrey D. Thompson, D.C., B.F.A. - Welcome to the Center for ...
	* It is not so much what people are saying in a dream, but the emotional scenario ... 
a second important crossover point in consciousness: The Alpha/Theta Bridge. ...
From: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
To: Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>; pynchon-l at waste.org 
Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2011 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: GR translation: crossover point

On 12/10/2011 3:17 AM, Mike Jing wrote:
> P14.40-15.8  At last, one proper Sherlock Holmes London evening, the
> unmistakable smell of gas came to Pirate from a dark street lamp, and
> out of the fog ahead materialized a giant, organlike form. Carefully,
> black-shod step by step, Pirate approached the thing. It began to
> slide forward to meet him, over the cobblestones slow as a snail,
> leaving behind some slime brightness of street-wake that could not
> have been from fog. In the space between them was a crossover point,
> which Pirate, being a bit faster, reached first. He reeled back, in
> horror, back past the point—but such recognitions are not reversible.
> It was a giant Adenoid.
>
> What exactly is the "crossover point" here?
>
Sounds like the point in time at which one becomes fully conscious of a 
fantasy.

Pirate's  efforts to stop short of this point--avoid the fantasy--are 
unsuccessful.

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