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

[Mike Jing]

Ah, I missed it completely then. Somehow I thought "Mass" was referring to
the religious ceremony, and people are celebrating it while listening to
Father Rapier's "passionate demonstrations".

On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 10:13 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
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>> 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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