GR translation: three-foot falls at the edge of sleep

[David Morris]

The trope of hair cutting is about fate foremost. If all of Eddie's hair
were cut exactly equal, the hair message would be nil. Modulation of hair
length is the equivalent of a message, or fate, sent by the hair cutter.
Hair length differences is a message medium.

David Morris

On Monday, September 7, 2015, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V643.16-27   Each long haircut is a passage. Hair is yet another kind of
> modulated frequency. Assume a state of grace in which all hairs were once
> distributed perfectly even, a time of innocence when they fell perfectly
> straight, all over the colonel’s head. Winds of the day, gestures of
> distraction, sweat, itchings, sudden surprises, three-foot falls at the
> edge of sleep, watched skies, remembered shames, all have since written on
> that perfect grating. Passing through it tonight, restructuring it, Eddie
> Pensiero is an agent of History. Along with the reworking of the colonel’s
> head runs the shiver-borne blues—long runs in number 2 and 3 hole
> correspond, tonight anyway, to passages in the deep reaches of hair, birch
> trunks in a very humid summer night, approaches to a stone house in a
> wooded park, stags paralyzed beside the high flagged walks . . . .
>
> Does this refer to the falling sensation you sometimes get while falling
> asleep, and it wakes you up?  Or is it something else I'm not aware of?
>
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