GR translation: Attitude 8.11, Torpor, Undergraduate.

[Mark Kohut]

This is one of those, very fitting for GR, psychological measurment "tests" that attempt to
map all kinds of psychological states, often--maybe always--by their physical 
manisfestations, it seems.  Academic psychology (In the English-speaking world at least)
is behaviourist at base.--P.S.  (James' Psycholgy contains another lost conscept that
TRP resurrects in AtD--co-conscious--not able to fall under behaviourist science's
narrowness).
Here begins, in the link, the giveaway LISTS OF MEASURES:
 4.51
California Brief Multicultural Competence Scale (CBMCS) 384.5.2  
Multicultural Awareness, Knowledge, and Skills Survey—
4.5.3 
Multicultural Mental Health Awareness Scale (MMHAS) 424.5.4 eTc.
 
MK: 
under 8.11 we get8.11.1 
Machismo Measure (M-Measure) 341
 8.11.10 
Hypermasculinity Inventory (HMI)
 
Slothrop's attitude is slouching masculine cool, undergrad-like. Don't we
ALL---especially the females on the plist!---know that 'attitude"....
 
As Paul M. oberves, there is an academic, classifying mind being exhibited here...
 
 
 
From: Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
To: Pynchon Mailing List <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 11:14 PM
Subject: Re: GR translation: Attitude 8.11, Torpor, Undergraduate.
  
I did.  But I couldn't make much sense of it.  Anyone care to explain?

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 4:04 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Please open this link and read 8.11....it explains the allusion.
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> From: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2012 10:54 AM
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> Subject: Re: GR translation: Attitude 8.11, Torpor, Undergraduate.
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> 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
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> 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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