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

[Mike Jing]

I can't speak for Jochen, but his answer is usually completely straight.
I'm sure he'll correct me if I'm wrong here.


On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 8:23 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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