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

[Keith Davis]

Yes, got that.

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> On Mar 22, 2016, at 9:58 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
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> This passage is just so full of simultaneous contradictions that it defies any simple reading.  But "immachinate" would mean the opposite of "machinate."
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>> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 8:55 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Could it mean that there is a certain randomness about where the rocket will strike? Machinate seems to implies something carefully planned, whereas, as was discussed earlier, once the rocket reaches a certain point during flight, there is no control over it.
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>>> On Mar 22, 2016, at 9:10 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> "a route only apparently in ruins, carefully crafted by the War, by special techniques of bombardment, to take this most immachinate of techniques,"
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>>> It would seem to mean the opposite of "machinate," referring to the "special techniques of bombardment" of the rail system to create "apparent" ruins, which aren't ruins, but are "carefully crafted by the War."  Lots of opposites and contradictions in a very short space.  "Immachinate" would thus mean a "technique" (bombing) which is unplanned (and probably benign) that created apparent (but not really) ruins, which are actually carefully crafted.  This is a koan if there ever was one.
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>>> David Morris
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>>>> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 5:44 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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