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

[Mike Weaver]

I reckon points on an electrical circuit. Reluctance is giving human 
agency to circuit, and the moment is just the now.

cheers

Mike

On 06/03/2025 09:30, Mike Jing wrote:
> Never mind. It seems to be intransitive after all, with the meaning "to
> form an electric arc."
>
> By the way, the second edition of the published translation interpreted
> "reluctance" and "moment" as physics terms, which seems nonsensical to me.
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2025 at 4:19 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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>>>>>
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