GR translation: crossover point

[Paul Mackin]

On 12/11/2011 7:06 PM, David Morris wrote:
> I thought it meant a crosswalk (like Abbey Rd).

seemed like a mental thing to me

p
>
> On Sunday, December 11, 2011, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net 
> <mailto:mackin.paul at verizon.net>> wrote:
> > 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 
> <http://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 
> <http://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 
> <mailto:mackin.paul at verizon.net>>
> >> To: Mike Jing<gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com 
> <mailto:gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>>; pynchon-l at waste.org 
> <mailto: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.
> >>
> >> P
> >>
> >
> > 

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