GR translation: clusters of blue dissonance

[Mark Kohut]

Growing up in Pittsburgh when they still made steel, there is a process known as 'bluing steel' which toughens
it to preserve it from rust....which would fit nicely into the overtones of the shelter part of the line.
 
And, speaking of blue notes, they can be played on a trademarked "Blue Steel" tm guitar, but I do not know
how far back that trademark goes....
 
And I remember from my rereading of 1984 that blue is a stressed bad shit color in 1984.....
the uniform of the 'authorities'/cops
 
this is how pynchon is like Shakespeare--and other greats. He finds so many resonances with
so many word/image choices........................
 

From: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
To: Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com>; pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2011 4:03 PM
Subject: Re: GR translation: clusters of blue dissonance


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> 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 ...
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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.
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