AtD translation: the spill of accursed meridians
Mike Jing
gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com
Sat Oct 24 12:19:43 UTC 2020
A figurative sense, of course, from the same origin.
On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 11:32 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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