Fwd: GR translation: pick up the reflexes for Intent to Gawk

[Jochen Stremmel]

Sorry, was meant for all of you:

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From: Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
Date: 2016-10-02 12:53 GMT+02:00
Subject: Re: GR translation: pick up the reflexes for Intent to Gawk
To: Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>


you know, this could be really interesting: because P used the majuscule I
looked up "Intent to Gawk" which sounded like a legal term for me and found
"mopery with intent to gawk" which led me to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Mopery where I found P (GR) (and Heller's Catch 22) mentioned – the wiki
has only appearances of the word after p.417:

Slang: a trivial, imaginary violation of law (also seen defined as: act of
moping; vagrancy, dawdling); "The War must've been lean times for crowd
control, murder and mopery was the best you could do" 570; "Magda was
picked up on first-degree mopery" 742; "Edelman [...] accused last year of
an 11569 (Attempted Mopery with a Subversive Instrument)" 755;

Nice is the definition by R. Baker, quoted by the wikipedia after Safire:
"mopery isn't a crime, but only an old policemen's joke in which it's
defined as the act of displaying yourself in the nude to a blind person."

One could argue that you are born with Intent to Gawk, there's nothing to
pick up later.

2016-10-02 5:54 GMT+02:00 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>:

> V411.2-14, P417.28-40   Kekulé’s dream here’s being routed now past
> points which may arc through the silence, in bright reluctance to live
> inside the moving moment, an imperfect, a human light, over here
> interfering with the solemn binary decisions of these agents, who are
> now allowing the cosmic Serpent, in the violet splendor of its scales,
> shining that is definitely not human, to pass—without feeling, without
> wonder (after you get a little time in—whatever that means over
> here—one of these archetypes gets to look pretty much like any other,
> oh you hear some of these new hires, the seersucker crowd come in the
> first day, “Wow! Hey—that’s th-th’ Tree o Creation! Huh? Ain’t it!
> Je-eepers!” but they calm down fast enough, pick up the reflexes for
> Intent to Gawk, you know self-criticism’s an amazing technique, it
> shouldn’t work but it does . . . .
>
> What does "pick up the reflexes for Intent to Gawk" mean?
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