GR translation: with Death as validator

[Markekohut]

Online Dict
validate. =  to substantiate, to confirm. example given: Time validated my suspicions....
Which seems to fit nicely.....

I want to know as much about What Caesar really said? 



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On Apr 16, 2013, at 6:18 PM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:

> Maybe there's some sense of Death's making the insight (whatever it is) valid for eternity, i.e. unmediated or untempered by any experiences or changing of viewpoints to follow.
> 
> Laura
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: jochen stremmel 
> Sent: Apr 16, 2013 6:02 PM 
> To: Mike Jing 
> Cc: Pynchon Mailing List 
> Subject: Re: GR translation: with Death as validator 
> 
> Death punches the ticket of the assassinated? 
> 
> Not sure.
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> 
> 2013/4/16 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
>> P167.11-23   Why do they want Rathenau tonight? What did Caesar really whisper to his protégé as he fell? Et tu, Brute, the official lie, is about what you’d expect to get from them—it says exactly nothing. The moment of assassination is the moment when power and the ignorance of power come together, with Death as validator. When one speaks to the other then it is not to pass the time of day with et-tu-Brutes. What passes is a truth so terrible that history—at best a conspiracy, not always among gentlemen, to defraud—will never admit it. The truth will be repressed or in ages of particular elegance be disguised as something else. What will Rathenau, past the moment, years into a new otherside existence, have to say about the old dispensation? Probably nothing as incredible as what he might have said just as the shock flashed his mortal nerves, as the Angel swooped in. . . .
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>> I searched through the source given in the Companion: Waite, Pictorial Key ( http://www.sacred-texts.com/tarot/pkt/ ) and could not find the word "validator" anywhere.  And I am wondering if the explanation given even makes sense here.  Could the "validator" mean something else?  Anyone can shed some light on this?
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