GR translation: clusters of blue dissonance

[Paul Mackin]

On 10/16/2011 3:52 PM, Keith Davis wrote:
>
> I think he's talking about "blue notes".
>

Could be.

Pynchon's so inclined to throw technological stuff into the mix of 
whatever is going on.  Even a recurring dream.

It's his crotchet.

P
> 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:
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>         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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