AtD translation: masses

[Mark Kohut]

Tough call.

All I want to do here is urge a reading around this passage, from a
paragraph or two before
the railroads sentence to the natural break...resonant.

On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 1:33 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> P689.29-35   "The railroads seem to be the key. If one keeps looking at the
> map while walking slowly backward across the room, at a certain precise
> distance the structural principle leaps into visibility—how the different
> lines connect, how they do not, where varying interests may want them to
> connect, all of this defining patterns of flow, not only actual but also
> invisible, potential, and such rates of change as how quickly one’s
> relevant masses can be moved to a given frontier . . .
>
> Is this what the word "masses" mean here:
>
> *b.* *Military*. A close formation of troops, *esp.* one in which the
> battalions, etc., are arranged one behind another.
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