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

[Mark Kohut]

Mike,

What Joseph writes in the first paragraph is what I may not have said as
clearly over a couple of rushed emails,
but it is what I think too, as I keep rereading--and looking up room
diagonals EXACTLY!

I guess it leads to Jochen's straight-on, single word answer, I guess.

Mark

On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 12:25 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> Seems to me that the comma is  a way  of insuring that the reference is
> not to the circles , but it could be to ‘staggering' or 'the two of them'.
> I still don’t get how you stagger around and line up with diagonals. There
> would, however,  be other ways of runnng all over around a suite than lined
> up with the diagonals,  like parrallel to the right angles or in circular
> or non geometric frenzy.
>  Perhaps he deliberately uses a confused  image to amplify the frantic
> state of the runners. The line has the effect for me of being a setup for
> the more directly comical line about Jamf’s celebrated molecule with the so
> called Pokler singularity. It sort of connects a crazed translogical state
> to the peculiarities of the drug. This fits with the translogical effects
> of the drug on Slothrop and hs predictive map.
>   I also connects the imipolex G to Pokler and his part in the swartzgerat.
>
> > On 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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