GR translation: clusters of blue dissonance

[Keith Davis]

I think he's talking about "blue notes".
On Oct 16, 2011 1:53 PM, "Paul Mackin" <mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote:

> On 10/16/2011 2:04 AM, Mike Jing wrote:
>
>> P145.17-20  ..., into a shelter lying steel-clad miles below the city, an
>> opera of Balkan intrigue, in whose hermetic safety, among whose clusters of
>> blue dissonance unperiodically stressed he's unable to escape completely
>> because of ...
>>
>> What are those "clusters of blue dissonance", and why are they
>> "unperiodically stressed"?
>>
>>
>>
> Sounds like what is being described is some kind of sound masking process
> based on noise generating processes whose clusters are non repeating (very
> mysterious).
>
> Although we're getting first person impressions of Pointsman's dream, they
> are being filtered though what I would assume is Pynchon's  70s era
> knowledge of white and other colored noise phenomena.
>
> Or something like that.
>
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