GR: baize fields and paper gaming

[Mike Jing]

Pg 14, Line 15-19
"Into the dossier it goes, and eventually the Firm, in Their tireless
search for negotiable skills, will summon him under Whitehall, to
observe him in his trances across the blue baize fields and the
terrible paper gaming, his eyes rolled back into his head reading old,
glyptic old graffiti on his own sockets...."

I too am mystified by this.  A search in the archive yields:
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 19:35:10 -0800 (PST)
From: Cometman <cometman_98@[omitted]>
Subject: GRGR 1,2 correction / blue baize
To: pynchon-l@[omitted]

maybe there's a blue baize blotter or something on the evaluator's
desk, covered with lots of paperwork.  It's "under Whitehall" so these
would be secret offices...and the paperwork would be terrible,
concerned as it would be with The Great Game
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Game)
Could it be a table covered in blue baize with miniature military models made of paper and used for war games?  Anyone has further insight into this?

 		 	   		  
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