GR translation: paper specialties

[Mike Jing]

Thanks for the reply, Bruno and Laura.

On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 10:04 AM, kelber at mindspring.com
<kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> I read it as hyper-specialization. "You want toilet paper for your barracks?
> You gotta order it from Corporal X, over in GHQ. He's  the guy in charge of
> the Toilet Paper Requisitioning Forms."
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> Laura
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> Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID
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> Bruno Nogueira <bruno.laze at gmail.com> wrote:
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> It seems to me it means "skill". Not skills with paper, but skills with
> value decided by bureaucratic documents (I guess that's the meaning of paper
> here).
>
> 2016-06-30 9:22 GMT-03:00 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>:
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>> V130.35-40   Yet the continuity, flesh to kindred metals, home to
>> hedgeless sea, has persisted. It is not death that separates these
>> incarnations, but paper: paper specialties, paper routines. The War,
>> the Empire, will expedite such barriers between our lives. The War
>> needs to divide this way, and to subdivide, though its propaganda will
>> always stress unity, alliance, pulling together.
>>
>> What does "specialties" mean here exactly?
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