AtD translation: the spill of accursed meridians

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Sat Oct 24 03:32:43 UTC 2020


But not oil here, “meridians,” which are invisible lines, a form of
geometry, but a chaotic jumbled geometry in this case, like a tangle of
lines.

On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 9:07 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> OK, so it's in the sense of an oil spill.  Thanks, David.
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 12:14 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Spill here is in contrast to the desired order of geometry and
>> conjugate.  A spill is disorder, entropy.
>>
>> David Morris
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 10:59 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> P373.3-7   . . . a place promised them, not by God, which’d be asking too
>>> much of the average Anarchist, but by certain hidden geometries of
>>> History,
>>> which must include, somewhere, at least at a single point, a safe
>>> conjugate
>>> to all the spill of accursed meridians, passing daily, desolate, one upon
>>> the next.
>>>
>>> What does the word "spill" mean here?
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>>


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