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==Page 1063==

'''Rue du Départ'''<br>
Street in Montparnasse, Paris. The name means "street of departing or setting out." Piet Mondrian had a studio at No. 26. A film titled 
''Rue du Départ'' starring Gérard Depardieu was released in 1986.

==Page 1064==

==Page 1065==

'''Reynaldo Hahn'''<br>
1875-1947, French composer chiefly known for art songs.

'''''Ciboulette'''''<br>
???

'''''C'est pas Paris, c'est sa banlieue'''''<br>
French: It isn't Paris, it's a suburb of Paris.

==Page 1066==

'''"J'ai Deux Amants"'''<br>
French: I have two lovers.

'''Sacha Guitry'''<br>
1885-1957, French film actor and director.

'''ain't you that La Jarretière?'''<br>
In ''V.'' she died graphically around the time of the World War. Her stage name is French: The Garter.

'''''succès de scandale'''''<br>
French, literally: success of scandal. In this case, the hype that the show needed to put customers in the seats.

'''''Mon Dieu! . . . que les hommes sont bêtes'''''<br>
French: God, how stupid men are.

'''''Fossettes l'Enflammeuse'''''<br>
French: Dimples, the Inflamer. "Fossettes" has verbal echoes (as foreshadowing sound, so to speak) of [Bob] Fosse, much later American choreographer and director.

'''Jean-Raoul Oeuillade'''<br>
The surname is the name of a restaurant and a wine grape. It also appears to be a French misspelling of ''œillade'' = wink, leer.

'''''Dimples'''''<br>
R. Wilshire knows you can print a one-word title in bigger letters than a whole phrase.

'''Solange St.-Emilion'''<br>
Her surname is the name of a popular French cheese.

'''Casse-cou . . . n'importe quoi!'''<br>
Daredevil, that's me. / This little don't-give-a-damn. / Daredevil, husband, your women, / All the other men, no matter who!

==Page 1067==

'''"It won't be a stylish marriage"'''<br>
Quoting from the popular song [[ATD_644-677#Page_647|"Daisy Bell."]]

==Page 1068==

==Page 1069==

'''Italo-Turkish War'''<br>
Over control of Libya, 1911-12, important precursor of the Balkan Wars. An Italian flyer dropped history's first aerial bomb on Turkish troops.

'''''una picchiata'''''<br>
Italian: a nosedive as translated in text?

==Page 1070==

'''''Andiamo'''''<br>
Italian: Let's go.

'''''Macchè'''''<br>
Italian: Naw.

==Page 1071==

'''a Certain Word that would not quite exist for another year or two'''<br>
'Fascism'?

==Page 1072==

'''in uniform all the time. Eagles . . . a prominent motif'''<br>
eagles have been referred to often as predators in ATD.

'''''abrazo'''''<br>
Spanish: embrace.

'''''teleferiche'''''<br>
Cars suspended from cables, cableways.

==Page 1073==

'''agnolotti'''<br>
Italian, literally: priests' hats. A filled pasta similar to ravioli.

'''risotto'''<br>
The renowned northern Italian rice dish.

'''tagliarini'''<br>
Long, thin, narrow noodles.

'''Nebbiolo'''<br>
A wine grape originating in northern Italy.

==Page 1074==

'''''I,'' for Idiot'''<br>
Another character assuming the character of an idiot—a minor theme of ''AtD.''

'''I, also, in 'the immigrants they were pretending to be''''<br>
...soon obliterated.

'''"The Obliterator"'''<br>
A figure almost of legend, who causes unwelcome entries in your file to ''vanish without trace.'' But I once knew a bureaucrat, in a university registrar's office, who had the "oblit" code (she used her power only for good). --[[User:Volver|Volver]] 10:38, 31 January 2007 (PST)

==Page 1075==

'''Red Scare . . . Palmer raids'''<br>
Public and media panic over the ideas of communists, other leftists and Anarchists led to a government crackdown on these elements in the years after the World War. Alexander M. Palmer, U.S. Attorney General under Woodrow Wilson, was a leading figure in the campaign. The Red Scare led more or less directly to the supremacy of the F.B.I., which some may view as [[ATD_1018-1039#Page_1021|"the control of the evil and moronic,"]] and also to the founding of the American Civil Liberties Union.

==Page 1076==

'''Frank and Stray's daughter Ginger and the baby Plebecula'''<br>
"Ginger" is sometimes a nickname for Virginia but also sometimes for a redheaded person. "Plebecula" can mean "the common people" . . . or a species of ant. Both children (Jesse too, could be) have political given names.

'''Kitsap Peninsula'''<br>
Dissected peninsula in Puget Sound, Washington state. Not the northernmost point in the 48 states, but maybe the remotest.

==Page 1077==

'''It was Policarpe, an old acquaintance of Kit...Saint Polycarp of Smyrna'''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycarp]<br> was a Christian bishop of Smyrna (now İzmir in Turkey) in the second century.<br> He was stabbed and died a martyr after an attempt to burn him at the stake failed.'''

'''Lwow: A city in western Ukraine [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lwow]'''<br>
The city's emblem shows a lion in front of a castle wall with 3 towers. 
It is strikingly reminiscent of the Tibetan seal on the cover of ATD.
Recall that Venetia also claims the Lion (the winged Lion of St. Mark)
as its emblem.'''

'''E. Percy Movay'''<br>
When the Inquisition compelled Galileo to recant his ideas about the celestial realm (he had blasphemed by reporting that Jupiter's moons orbit the planet and by reasoning that the Earth moves around the Sun too), he left the courtroom muttering, "And yet it ''does'' move." In Italian: ''Eppur si muove.''

'''a fabled group of mathematicians in Lwów'''<br>
The Lwów School of Mathematics, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lw%C3%B3w_School_of_Mathematics] led by Stefan Banach, a founder of functional analysis, who became a professor there in 1920.

==Page 1078==
'''Scottish Café'''<br>
An extraordinarily talented group of mathematicians could be found in Lwow in the 1930s. Much of their best work was inspired by their meetings in the Scottish Café[http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Scottish_Book.html]. It's a shame that Kit got there early.

'''Zermelo's Axiom Of Choice'''<br>
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zermelo]

Here used to explain a variant of the Banach–Tarski paradox [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach%E2%80%93Tarski_paradox] which says in effect that it is possible to "carve up" a 3-dimensional solid unit ball into finitely many pieces and, using only rotation and translation, reassemble the pieces into two balls each with the same volume as the original. An infinitley re-asemblable universe?

'''the set of all sets that are not members of themselves'''<br>
Quick, does it contain itself? Bertrand Russell's pursuit of this paradox forced a major realignment of axiomatic set theory.

'''Q.E.D.'''<br>
Proofs in geometry and algebra used to end with this statement: ''Quod Erat Demonstrandum'' = which was to be proved.

==Page 1079==

'''Lemberg, Léopol, Lvov, Lviv and Lwów'''<br>
Names applied to the city by its various rulers. Today it's Lviv, but its citizens are sometimes called Leopolitans.

==Page 1080==

'''Glowny Dworzec'''<br>
Polish: Main Station.

'''There was music...attended to'''<br>
Thelonius Monk's music was once described this way. Quotation, reference being sought.

==Page 1081==

'''since the Spanish Lady passed through'''<br>
The great influenza pandemic of 1918-20. The disease got the name "Spanish flu" because Spain, neutral in the World War and therefore not censoring its press, was the country where the spread of the illness was most openly reported.

==Page 1082==

'''''bandoneón'''''<br>
Musical instrument similar to an accordion, named for its inventor Heinrich Band, heavily used in Argentine tango music.

'''the taxis, battered veterans of the mythic Marne'''<br>
World War, First Battle of the Marne, 1914. To shore up their Sixth Army the French commandeered 600 Paris taxicabs and used them to carry 6000 reserve troops to the front.

==Page 1083==

==Page 1084==

'''no longer a matter of gravity'''

==Page 1085==

'''grace'''<br>
Cf. what Lew Basnight "came to think of as grace". p. 42.

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