GR translation: or communicate through the gray quadrilles

jochen stremmel jstremmel at gmail.com
Sun Nov 4 02:23:02 CST 2012


Yes, I think so, too.

(quadrille 3 |kwäˈdril|
noun
a ruled grid of small squares, esp. on paper.
ORIGIN late 19th cent.: from French quadrillé, from quadrille ‘small
square,’ from Spanish cuadrillo ‘small block.’)

2012/11/4 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>:
> P232.16-26   From overhead, from a German camera-angle, it occurs to Webley
> Silvernail, this lab here is also a maze, i’n’t it now . . . behaviorists
> run these aisles of tables and consoles just like rats ‘n’ mice.
> Reinforcement for them is not a pellet of food, but a successful experiment.
> But who watches from above, who notes their responses? Who hears the small
> animals in the cages as they mate, or nurse, or communicate through the gray
> quadrilles, or, as now, begin to sing . . . come out of their enclosures, in
> fact, grown to Webley Silvernail-size (though none of the lab people seem to
> be noticing) to dance him down the long aisles and metal apparatus, with
> conga drums and a peppy tropical orchestra taking up the very popular beat
> and melody of:
>
> Are these "gray quadrilles" the wires of the cages?
>



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