GR translation: clusters of blue dissonance

[Keith Davis]

"Blue steel" and "blue notes"
 On Oct 16, 2011 3:52 PM, "Keith Davis" <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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