GR translation: her affliction was more direct

[Mike Jing]

Gotcha. Thanks.


On Mon, Apr 7, 2025 at 12:01 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Totally.
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> So "affliction" here is still mostly in the astrological sense, and not
>> as misery or distress.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 7, 2025 at 11:55 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Here is what Neptune being afflicted means:
>>>
>>> "Manifestations. Illusions and deception. Neptune's influence, when
>>> afflicted, can lead to a tendency to be easily deceived or to engage in
>>> self-deception, resulting in confusion. Exhaustion and
>>> sleep-disturbances."
>>>
>>> Hence whose isn't?
>>>
>>> Her "more direct, purer, clearer" affliction is Pynchon saying "she
>>> lives on another planet" in that colloquial phrase...
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Right. So "her affliction" would be her pain or distress caused by her
>>>> Neptune being afflicted, is that correct?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Apr 6, 2025 at 5:29 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> She lived on another planet, so to speak.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Apr 5, 2025 at 9:16 PM Mike Jing <
>>>>> gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> V463.31-34, P471.17-20   “ . . .her Neptune is afflicted. Whose
>>>>>> isn’t? some
>>>>>> will ask. Ah. But as residents on this planet, usually. Greta lived,
>>>>>> most
>>>>>> of the time, on Neptune—her affliction was more direct, purer,
>>>>>> clearer than
>>>>>> we know it here.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The word "afflicted" in "her Neptune is afflicted" is obviously used
>>>>>> in the
>>>>>> astrological sense. In what sense is the word "affliction" used later
>>>>>> in
>>>>>> the paragraph?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>>>>>>
>>>>>