GR translation: pick up the reflexes for Intent to Gawk

[Mike Jing]

So in this context, does it mean that the newcomers have downgraded
their active gawking to mere Intent to Gawk?

On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 6:53 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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