By which point uniformed guards were approaching at a clip you could call moderate.
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"uniformed guards were approaching"
The guards of the Newburgh asylum. Ed Addle might know how light travels through the Æther but he apparently has no understanding of how sound travels through the air. Some employees at the asylum might not care about losing a patient or two but I've seen One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest so I know the guards would rather have one more patient to beat on than less work.
"at a clip you could call moderate"
This is a pace chosen to indicate that the guards aren't curiously investigating the sounds but excitedly moving toward a victim of their future violence. They're excited for what's about to come! One might argue with my characterization of the "uniformed guards" as overly critical but have you read Pynchon's other novels? Pynchon agrees with me: cops and guards are violent bastards who love violence for the sake of violence.
Proof that Asylum staff love to beat the shit out of inmates courtesy of another fictional source, Batman: Shadow of the Bat #3 (by Alan Grant and Norm Breyfogle).
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