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

Mike Jing gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com
Fri Mar 7 09:15:54 UTC 2025


Thanks for replying, Joseph.  It probably should also go to the list.


On Thu, Mar 6, 2025 at 10:18 AM J Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> Kekule’s Dream
>
>
> CONTEXT
>
> Pokler is thinking about whether his daughter Ilse is ok under his care as
> he works on the rocket and it crash lands; an event that makes her begin to
> cling to him. He does not tell her it’s destructive intent and she imagines
> flying it to the moon which becomes in her imagination a haven. He does not
> tell her there is no Lunar air to breathe. He wonders would she be better
> off in the care of Reich? He thinks they probably know what a child needs
> and after -all  have “re-education” camps. He imagines the Reich and IG
> Farben as part of a cosmic swithching path to get the right information to
> the right person. Why shouldn’t IG go to seances? they ought to be quite
> familiar with the bureaucracies of the other side. (This cosmological
> vision is not unique to the axis powers, and we have seen it in GR both in
> English military intel and state sponsored Nazi style behahioral science ;
> also in  calvinism.
>
>
> I question whether the next section starting with Kekule’s dream is still
> Pokler’s thought’s or if it is Pynchon/narrator’s comment or maybe a
> reflective merging  of Pokler and Pynchon) on the connection with the
> worm of the Orobouros and the chemical /industrial. technological vision of
> human transcendence which is part of the allure of fascism. He seems to be
> saying  as you read the rest of the long sentence that this vision ( The
> chemistry, self eating serpent,  rocket fuel,  post-organic plastic,  non
> feeling modular Internal Guidance model)  is tran-shuman,  does not want to
> be too tied to any particular archetype or social model. He, Pynchon/
> POKLER observes himself  and other initiates to this body of knowledge( the
> seersucker crowd) at first going “Hey.. Tree o’ creation…” then quieting
> themselves in disciplined self criticism. (be rational, serve the cause,
> calculate).
>
>
> *So to my mind “the points “are human decisions that might bind the
> Serpent of sublime and perfectly contained  self-consumption to “ the
> moving moment, an imperfect , a human light”. ( Is his daughter a human
> light that might crash land the arc of the Reich?).  It  does make sense to
> see the points  as a continuation of the switching path metaphor. They are
> also the points of chemical bonds, or the theoretical “points” of Euclidean
> geometry. * Benzene itself is mostly an intermediary chemical to
> facilitate making dyes, plastics, hydrocarbon fuels etc. It is volatile,
> toxic , carcinogenic.
>
>
> Sorry for such a long comment but this got me thinking about similar
> questions surrounding the UAP disclosures and technologies, a topic  which
> I have taken an interest in particularly enjoying the wry combination of
> possible interpretations of Jacques Valee, and wishing Pynchon would do a
> novel where greenpeacers tangle with  antigravity military or private
> sector  scientists, or something along those lines.
>
>
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> On Mar 6, 2025, at 3:49 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> 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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