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

[Mark Kohut]

No, I think that's where I end up too....

On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 10:51 PM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> ”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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