GR translation: crossover point

[Paul Mackin]

On 12/11/2011 7:48 PM, Paul Mackin wrote:
> 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

But to be far I wouldn't rule out zebra crossings in fantasies.

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>> 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.
>> >
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>> >> 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.
>> >>
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