GR translation: Attitude 8.11, Torpor, Undergraduate.

[Mike Jing]

Yes, but what exactly does 8.11 indicate?  I can't find any reference
for such usage.  Also, how does that relate to Torpor and
Undergraduate?

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 8:59 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> Attitude:
> Aeronautics . the inclination of the three principal axes of an
> aircraft relative to the wind, to the ground, etc.
>
> On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Mike Jing
> <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hmmm...  It seems Attitude is an art term:
>>
>> http://machaut.uchicago.edu/?resource=Webster%27s&word=attitude&use1913=on
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attitude_%28art%29
>>
>> Still not sure where the 8.11 and Undergraduate came from.  Some
>> undergraduate art course maybe?
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 5:55 AM, Prashant Kumar
>> <p.kumar at physics.usyd.edu.au> wrote:
>>> So the best I've got is this. "Attitude 8.11" might be an angle of attack,
>>> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angle_of_attack), if we interpret "flung
>>> himself" literally. Otherwise maybe it's a rating of some sort? And Torpor
>>> and Undergraduate could refer to the esteem in which Dodson-Truck holds
>>> Slothrop (he's teaching him German or something IIRC, right?)
>>>
>>> Sorry I couldn't be of more help; this passage is rather abstruse.
>>>
>>> Prashant
>>>
>>> On 16 June 2012 16:32, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> 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?
>>>
>>>