Fwd: GR translation: paper specialties

[Bruno Nogueira]

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>:

> 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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