GR translation: crossover point

[Paul Mackin]

On 12/10/2011 3:36 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:
> 	* 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
> 	*  
> 	*  
> 	* 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. ...

We might extend the idea to even more cataclysmic passages of the book.

But it is too late.

It is a judgement from which there is no appeal.

Death.

P

> 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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