GR translation: paper specialties

[kelber at mindspring.com]

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."

Laura 

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Bruno Nogueira <bruno.laze at gmail.com> wrote:

>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).
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>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.
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>What does "specialties" mean here exactly?
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