GR translation: being routed now past points which may arc through the silence

Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com
Thu Mar 6 09:19:30 UTC 2025


I think so.....

On Thu, Mar 6, 2025 at 4:16 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Metaphorically or otherwise, I feel a strong case can be made, since a
> couple sentences earlier, it says:
>
> Doesn’t that imply a switching-path of some kind?
>
> Also, is the verb "arc" here transitive, with "an imperfect, a human
> light" as its object?
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2025 at 4:07 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I do not think so except metaphorically maybe.....'points [of light']
>> maybe....
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 6, 2025 at 3:49 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> V411.2-7, P417.28-34   Kekulé’s dream here’s being routed now past points
>>> which may arc through the silence, in bright reluctance to live inside
>>> the
>>> moving moment, an imperfect, a human light, over here interfering with
>>> the
>>> solemn binary decisions of these agents, who are now allowing the cosmic
>>> Serpent, in the violet splendor of its scales, shining that is definitely
>>> not human, to pass—without feeling, without wonder
>>>
>>> Does the "points" here refer to the points on a railway?
>>>
>>> P seems to be rather fond of this word. After all, it gave us the name
>>> Pointsman.
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