GR translation: iron roadstead

[Mark Kohut]

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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is
grooved to run.

On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 8:29 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for replying, David and Mark.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 6:26 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The depth and coherence of P's vision. Iron. Part of a major phrase of
>> Weber's deep understanding. Iron cage....and from GR.
>>
>> "Above him lift girders as old as an iron queen"----page 1.......Iron
>> headboard, iron roadstead a hundred pages later......
>>
>> In sociology, the iron cage is a concept introduced by Max Weber to
>> describe the increased rationalization inherent in social life,
>> particularly in Western capitalist societies. The "iron cage" thus traps
>> individuals in systems based purely on teleological efficiency, rational
>> calculation and control.
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 1:02 AM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Iron would be the metal, but what is the iron roadstead?  It must be the
>>> name of a bay or port.
>>>
>>> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadstead
>>>
>>> A *roadstead* (or roads – the earlier form)[a]
>>> <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadstead#cite_note-3> is a body of
>>> water
>>> sheltered from rip currents <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rip_current
>>> >,
>>> spring tides, or ocean swell where ships
>>> <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship> can lie reasonably safely at
>>> anchor
>>> <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor> without dragging or
>>> snatching.[3]
>>> <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadstead#cite_note-TM5360-4>[4]
>>> <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadstead#cite_note-5> It can be open
>>> or
>>> natural, usually estuary <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estuary
>>> >-based,
>>> or may be created artificially.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 10:44 PM Mike Jing <
>>> gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > V99.36-38, P101.32-35    . . . and he came ashore in a high-prowed
>>> wooden
>>> > boat that had 20 years earlier brought blue-trousered troops in from
>>> the
>>> > iron roadstead to crush the great Herero Rising.
>>> >
>>> > What does the word "iron" indicate here?
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>>> >
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