Re: AtD translation: just for a still-bracing Δt

[Mike Jing]

Thanks, Michael. That's what I thought as well.


On Sun, Jul 5, 2026 at 1:26 PM Michael Bailey via Pynchon-l <
pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:

> I read it as, "even though it was just for (infinitesimally small unit of
> time by definition) delta t, it was still quite a bracing experience"
>
>   *
> Bracing meaning something like "it buoyed her up" or "gave her aid and
> comfort"
>   *
> Merriam Webster: "The meaning of BRACING is giving strength, vigor, or
> freshness."
>
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>
> P815.26-31   One day Yashmeen, out in the bora, just for a still-bracing
> Δt, had a relapse into her old Zetamania. She remembered that Littlewood,
> after struggling with a reluctant lemma one winter at Davos, through weeks
> of föhn—the bora’s opposite, a wind so dry and warm that in some parts of
> the Swiss Alps it is called a “scirocco”—had reported that when that wind
> dropped for a day, the solution, as if by magic, was there.
>
> What does "still-bracing" mean here?
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