AtD translation: almost as if he were whispering to her

[Mike Jing]

Never mind, I guess getting naked could come after tiptoeing into the room,
but still.


On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 2:24 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> It was indeed an all female college, although I'm not sure if she can take
> classes together with male students or not. And I'm not sure how easy it
> would be for a male student to slip into a girl's room totally naked.
>
>
> On Sun, May 23, 2021 at 10:47 AM rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I had thought it was a girl, too this being Girton which was all female
>> college back in the day.
>>
>> rich
>>
>> On Sun, May 23, 2021 at 4:08 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On second thought, that's probably about something else, and I'm not sure
>>> what.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, May 23, 2021 at 3:43 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com
>>> >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > I didn't consider that possibility since down the page the person in
>>> her
>>> > bed is a girl, and she is supposed to prefer her own sex. So this must
>>> be
>>> > the "one or two boys in Hardy’s classes" mentioned on the next page
>>> > (P499.6) then?
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Sun, May 23, 2021 at 2:57 AM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> I had assumed the first he was the classmate who slipped into her bed.
>>> >>
>>> >> Am So., 23. Mai 2021 um 05:42 Uhr schrieb Mike Jing <
>>> >> gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>:
>>> >>
>>> >>> P498.11-17   She took refuge more and more in the Zeta-function
>>> problem,
>>> >>> to
>>> >>> which she found herself adverting even as the classmate whose gaze
>>> during
>>> >>> the day she had met and held came tiptoeing in after curfew, slipping
>>> >>> naked
>>> >>> into Yashmeen’s own narrow bed, even in that rare and wordless
>>> moment,
>>> >>> she
>>> >>> was not quite able to ignore the question, almost as if he were
>>> >>> whispering
>>> >>> to her, of why Riemann had simply asserted the figure of one-half at
>>> the
>>> >>> outset instead of deriving it later. . . . “One would of course like
>>> to
>>> >>> have a rigorous proof of this,” he wrote, “but I have put aside the
>>> >>> search
>>> >>> . . . after some fleeting vain attempts because it is not necessary
>>> for
>>> >>> the
>>> >>> immediate objective of my investigation.”
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I assume the "he" here is the same "he" a bit later in "he wrote",
>>> which
>>> >>> refers to Riemann. Is that correct?
>>> >>> --
>>> >>> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>>> >>>
>>> >>
>>> --
>>> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>>>
>>