Re: GR translation: lined up with the rooms’ diagonals

[Mike Jing]

”How else would one run around a suite but lined up with the diagonals if
done 'all over' the suite....“

I can't really make sense of that. I don't see how "running all over the
suite" necessarily has anything to do with "lining up with the room's
diagonals". Do you mean the running MUST be done in diagonals if it's "all
over"? if so, why?

If "staggering around in circles" were not there, "lined up" does not sound
grammatical to me. But maybe that's just my poor English speaking.




On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 10:25 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, in simple grammar, the sentence works, doesn't it, if "staggering
> around in circles" were not there? So, "run screaming all over the suite"
> might be what is lined up with the room's diagonals?..but I don't know what
> that means, I guess...How else would one run around a suite but lined up
> with the diagonals if done 'all over' the suite....
> ...until I see them staggering around in circles that are lined up, etc....
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 7:10 PM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I have no idea. If you have anything in mind, I'd be glad to hear it.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 5:10 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Why the comma after circles?
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 2:34 PM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yes.
>>>>
>>>> 2017-12-19 20:09 GMT+01:00 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>>> V702.29-35, P716.26-32   For 15 minutes the two of them run screaming
>>>>> all over the suite, staggering around in circles, lined up with the rooms’
>>>>> diagonals. There is in Laszlo Jamf’s celebrated molecule a particular
>>>>> twist, the so-called “Pökler singularity,” occurring in a certain crippled
>>>>> indole ring, which later Oneirinists, academician and working professional
>>>>> alike, are generally agreed is responsible for the hallucinations which are
>>>>> unique to this drug.
>>>>>
>>>>> What does "lined up with the rooms’ diagonals" describe here? Does it
>>>>> refer to the circles?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
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