NP | ZK translation: into the pitch of street noise
Mark Kohut
mark.kohut at gmail.com
Sat Nov 11 10:47:52 CST 2017
We're pitching together in the rain.
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> On Nov 11, 2017, at 10:55 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> You could well be right, but to my ear pitch was an attribute of a thing (sound) standing for the thing itself. However I may be all wet.
>
>> On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 7:54 PM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I think I figured it out.
>>
>> 23. fig. The highest or supreme point or degree of something; the acme, the climax.
>>
>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 7:42 PM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> P207.20-208.5 Here we are, all this and more, things that normally escape the inquiring eye, a single searching look, so much to see, each of us looking at both of us, and then we shake it all off and walk down four flights into the pitch of street noise that tells us we’re back among the others, in unsparing space.
>>>
>>> In what sense is the word "pitch" used here?
>
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