GR translation: Around the bloom

[Mike Jing]

Got it. Looks like a nice double meaning going on here. Thanks, Michael.


On Fri, Nov 29, 2024 at 5:23 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> It’s the primary meaning, but the passage develops a sense that “paying
> attention to something makes it bloom in your mind, while the rest of the
> surroundings tend to fade”
>
> At the end of the poem, a bomb blast in a city is referred to as a bloom,
> whereas lights in windows having been turned off all around in observance
> of blackout demonstrate the “fade.”
>
> Pointsman’s poetry elaborates on his and Pavlov’s concepts of neurology,
> taking off from a Pavlov lecture quoted right before the poem:
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> “Ordinarily in our behavior, we react not singly, but complexly, to fit the
> ever present contents of our environment. In old people,” Pavlov was
> lecturing at the age of 83, “the matter is altogether different.
> Concentrating on one stimulus we exclude by negative induction other
> collateral and simultaneous stimuli because they often do not suit the
> circumstances, are not complementary reactions in the given setting.”
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> On Sun, Nov 24, 2024 at 2:18 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > V226.23-30, P229.13-20
> > Thus [Pointsman never shows these excursions of his to
> > anyone], reaching for some flower on my table,
> > I know the cool mosaic of my room
> > Begin its slow, inhibitory dissolve
> > Around the bloom, the stimulus, the need
> > That brighter burns, as brightness, quickly sucked
> > From objects all around, now concentrates
> > (Yet less than blinding), focuses to flame.
> >
> > Here the word "bloom" means "flower", is that correct?
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