GR translation: crossover point

[David Morris]

I think your thought is better.

On Sunday, December 11, 2011, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote:
> On 12/11/2011 7:48 PM, Paul Mackin wrote:
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> On 12/11/2011 7:06 PM, David Morris wrote:
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> I thought it meant a crosswalk (like Abbey Rd).
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> seemed like a mental thing to me
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> 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> wrote:
>> On 12/10/2011 3:36 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:
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>>>        * 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. ...
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>> We might extend the idea to even more cataclysmic passages of the book.
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>> But it is too late.
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>> It is a judgement from which there is no appeal.
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>> Death.
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>>> 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
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>>> On 12/10/2011 3:17 AM, Mike Jing wrote:
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>>>> 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.
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>>>> What exactly is the "crossover point" here?
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>>> Sounds like the point in time at which one becomes fully conscious of a
>>> fantasy.
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>>> Pirate's  efforts to stop short of this point--avoid the fantasy--are
>>> unsuccessful.
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