GR translation: to take this most immachinate of techniques, the Rocket

[Mark Kohut]

It has always made me think of 'immaculate' as in, for example, "immaculate
conception" with all the religious imagery in this section of GR. It does
not mean immaculate but seems to be an intensifier of Machinate--see
below---as in impassioned. Signaled by 'most immachinate' of techniques.
The Rocket is....a special technique of intrigue, of plot (against the
world, others)--not a pure technique (In a value-neutral way)

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/machinate



On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 6:44 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V728.2-7,  P742.19-24   To keep faith that it is not trek this time, nor
> struggle, but truly Destiny, the 00001 sliding like an oiled bolt into the
> receivership of the railway system prepared for it last spring, a route
> only apparently in ruins, carefully crafted by the War, by special
> techniques of bombardment, to take this most immachinate of techniques, the
> Rocket—the Rocket, this most terribly potential of bombardments. . . .
>
> What does "immachinate" mean?
>
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