Re: GR translation: what hep humorists here are already calling “Critical Mass”

[David Morris]

Umm,  my take on the term in this context means the instant that
ejaculation becomes inevitable.

David Morris


On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 7:38 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V539.10-24, P548.12-26   DEVIL’S ADVOCATE’S what the shingle sez, yes
> inside is a Jesuit here to act in that capacity, here to preach, like his
> colleague Teilhard de Chardin, against return. Here to say that critical
> mass cannot be ignored. Once the technical means of control have reached a
> certain size, a certain degree of being connected one to another, the
> chances for freedom are over for good. The word has ceased to have meaning.
> It’s a potent case Father Rapier makes here, not without great moments of
> eloquence, moments when he himself is clearly moved . . . no need even to
> be there, at the office, for visitors may tune in from anywhere in the
> Convention to his passionate demonstrations, which often come in the midst
> of celebrating what hep humorists here are already calling “Critical Mass”
> (get it? not too many did in 1945, the Cosmic Bomb was still trembling in
> its earliness, not yet revealed to the People, so you heard the term only
> in the very superhepcat-to-hepcat exchanges).
>
> Does the word "critical" here refer to the nature of Father Rapier's
> sermon, as in "given to adverse or unfavourable criticism"?
> I'm aware of the pun, of course.
>
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