GR translation: Attitude 8.11, Torpor, Undergraduate.

[Paul Mackin]

On 6/16/2012 10:18 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
> See 8.11 below.....
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> http://sage-ereference.com/view/hdbk_multiculturalmeasures/pdfs/Reading_d4.pdf

Sir Stephen has a very orderly, classifying, academic mind.

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> From: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2012 6:45 AM
> Subject: Re: GR translation: Attitude 8.11, Torpor, Undergraduate.
>
> On 6/16/2012 2:32 AM, Mike Jing wrote:
>> P209.13-26  Well, no, Slothrop doesn’t see, not exactly. He hears
>> this sort of thing from Dodson-Truck nearly every time they get
>> together. The man just materialized one day, out on the beach in a
>> black suit, shoulders starred with dandruff from thinning carrot hair,
>> coming into view against the white face of the Casino, which trembled
>> over him as he approached. Slothrop was reading a Plasticman comic.
>> Katje was dozing in the sun, face-up. But when his footpads reached
>> her hearing, she turned on one elbow to wave hello. The peer flung
>> himself at full length, Attitude 8.11, Torpor, Undergraduate. “So this
>> is Lieutenant Slothrop.”
>> Four-color Plasticman goes oozing out of a keyhole, around a corner
>> and up through piping that leads to a sink in the mad Nazi scientist’s
>> lab, out of whose faucet Plas’s head now, blank carapaced eyes and
>> unplastic jaw, is just emerging. “Yeah. Who’re you, Ace?”
>>
>> What does "flung himself at full length" mean?  And what is "Attitude
>> 8.11, Torpor, Undergraduate."?  Military slang?  Rocketry jargon?
>> What?
>>
> sounds like Sir Stephen lies down on the beach
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