GR translation: We have to play the patterns.

[Markekohut]

For what it is worth, (but probably nothing for Jing's translation work), the protagonist of THE DEFENSE, seeing patterns in his whole social life, which is another way to define paranoia, perhaps, gets more and more fearful and finally dies of fear-caused misjudgment, so to speak.

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On Mar 6, 2013, at 11:25 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:

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> Or maybe "the patterns" are social expectations?
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> On 06.03.2013 14:09, Markekohut wrote:
>> Waxwing may be a Nabokov allusion and in his chess novel, THE DEFENSE, the protagonist
>> Begins to see (chess) patterns everywhere in his life. 
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>> On Mar 6, 2013, at 8:00 AM, "Monte Davis" <montedavis at verizon.net> wrote:
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>>> The first thing that occurs to me is the gambler’s fallacy, as GR is largely populated with people who see grand conspiracies in randomness -- and vice versa. Also chess (cf. Der Springer), in which skilled players acquire a gestalt grasp of the array on the board; also perhaps a hint of spatial formations – deployments on the field -- in team sports.  
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>>> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf Of Mike Jing
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>>> Subject: GR translation: We have to play the patterns.
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>>> It dawns on Slothrop, literally, through the yellowbrown window shade, that this is his first day Outside. His first free morning. He doesn’t have to go back. Free? What’s free? He falls asleep at last. A little before noon a young woman lets herself in with a passkey and leaves him the papers. He is now an English war correspondent named Ian Scuffling.
>>> “This is the address of one of our people in Zürich. Waxwing wishes you good luck and asks what kept you so long.”
>>> “You mean he wants an answer?”
>>> “He said you’d have to think about it.”
>>> “Sa-a-a-ay.” It’s just occurred to him. “Why are all you folks helping me like this? For free and all?”
>>> “Who knows? We have to play the patterns. There must be a pattern you’re in, right now.”
>>> 
>>> What is the meaning of "play the patterns"?
>>> 
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