Back to AtD Reimann maths ain't life. p.891
Paul Mackin
mackin.paul at verizon.net
Sun Jun 3 08:53:58 CDT 2012
On 6/2/2012 3:05 PM, Michael Bailey wrote:
> quoth Mark --
>
> "a hunter arrived at last, a trainer of
> desert eagles, to unmask against her soul, the predatory descent that
> would seize her, fetch her away,
> fetch her back, held fast in the talons of communion, blood, destiny,
> to be plucked off the defective
> Reimann sphere she had been taking for everything that was"
>
>
> a little close reading -
>
> a hunter arrived *at last* (it's like, hey, this is what she's been
> waiting for all this time)
>
> a trainer of desert eagles (why desert eagles?)
>
> to unmask against her soul (*against* like against the day, against
> the backdrop of her soul, like maybe her soul is a vasty expanse
> around her self like the desert sky - sort of getting into the concept
> of the soul as all the non-material parts of a person, not just
> wishes and desires but all the times and places one has been or might
> be going, thoughts, abilities, the soul this huge expanse of stuff not
> limited by the confines of the body, but rather a huge expanse like
> the desert sky (do I repeat myself? very well, I repeat myself...I am
> a vasty soul and I contain redundancies...) which the eagle is
> unmasked against
>
> and thus the eagle, after being unmasked against it, would discern the
> physical form within that landandskyscape as a human form - not as I
> was thinking a lowly vole or hmm not even a rattlesnake like in the
> mural in the pub where Frank shoots Sloat...
>
> but as a human form to be carried off - this is one puissant eagle -
> perhaps even a roc like in Sinbad
>
> (a-and Reef does the eagle roc with style and grace, having actually
> balled that jack* under the mountain pass in der Schweiz)
>
> fetch her back (like as if she had been truant or escaped from the seraglio)
>
> held fast in the talons of communion, blood, destiny --- (resistance
> is futile)(lex talionis)
>
> to be plucked off the defective Riemann sphere she had been taking for
> everything that was (not just "defective Riemann sphere" because she
> had imperfectly conceived it due to all the distractions, but also a
> sphere with a Riemannian defect, not a simple ball that could be
> fabricated in any normal factory or tossed in any normal kind of game
> but a weird-butt entity that was as yet only being talked about)
I think this is correct. The eagle's blindfold is removed so it can find
Yashmeen's soul and carry it away.
P
>
>
> -- balln' the jack --
> Now, first, you put your two knees close up tight,
> then you sway 'em to the left, and you sway 'em to the right.
> Step around the floor kinda nice
> and light then you twist around and twist around with all of your might.
> Stretch your lovin' arms straight out in space,
> then you do the Eagle Rock with style and grace.
> Swing your foot way 'round and bring it back,
> now that's what I call Ballin' the Jack
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jk1vofEmCQ
> (ballin' the jack on ukelele)
>
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