GR translation: Attitude 8.11, Torpor, Undergraduate.

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I think this may have to do with the MMPI scales.  Scale 8 addresses schizophrenia



-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
To: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tue, Jun 19, 2012 9:19 am
Subject: Re: GR translation: Attitude 8.11, Torpor, Undergraduate.


On 6/19/2012 8:33 AM, David Morris wrote:
> 8.11 is the attitude of his body (see areonautics definition above).
>
> Torpor and Undergraduate would be additional non-aeronautic attitudes.
>   He's launched himself toward Slothrop in a big flop.

Yes, it sounds like Sir Stephen is typing or typecasting Slothrop in 
accordance with some psychological and physical classification system he 
is familiar with.

Sir Stephen is a high order polymath. He needs to use such codifications 
as a means of adjusting himself to the wave lengths of lesser beings.

Mark referenced something on these line that I didn't really get--like Mike.

Also Stephen recognizes Slothrop as a reader--Plasticman.  Are there two 
of the human brain lobes that are associated with interpreting the 
word?  That might be a lead.  The Slothrops were people of the book or 
the word-- Holy Scripture--a fact mentioned close by in the text.

P


>
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 12:47 AM, Lemuel Underwing
> <luunderwing at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hmm could be some Numerology thing, 8 & 11 are both important numbers....
>> but it could also be some sort of File... ah yes this is 8point11,
>> T.Slothrop, ho-oning in on L-T. Slothrop.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:16 PM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> 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?
>>>>>>
>>



 
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