GR translation: clusters of blue dissonance

[Mike Jing]

Oh, I see.  It's the "opera", of course.  As well as the shelter.

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> Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 15:53:26 -0400 
> Subject: Re: GR translation: clusters of blue dissonance 
> From: kbob42 at gmail.com 
> To: mackin.paul at verizon.net 
> CC: pynchon-l at waste.org; mikezjing at hotmail.com 
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> "Blue steel" and "blue notes" 
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> On Oct 16, 2011 3:52 PM, "Keith Davis"  
> <kbob42 at gmail.com<mailto:kbob42 at gmail.com>> wrote: 
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> I think he's talking about "blue notes". 
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> On Oct 16, 2011 1:53 PM, "Paul Mackin"  
> <mackin.paul at verizon.net<mailto: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 ... 
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> What are those "clusters of blue dissonance", and why are they  
> "unperiodically stressed"? 
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> 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). 
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> 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. 
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> Or something like that.