Difference between revisions of "D"

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dagga rooker
169; South African colloquial term for a person who smokes dagga, a South African word for marijuana;

Dance of Lavalava, the Volcano Goddess
27; performed by Miss McAdoo

Dante (1265-1321)
154; Durante degli Alighieri, better known as Dante Alighieri or simply Dante, was an Italian Florentine poet; 226; 401; Wikipedia entry

Dash, Mayva
88; saloon girl at Pap Wyman's Saloon; married Webb Traverse

Davis, Richard Harding
591; Wikipedia entry

Dazzle-Painting
122; A camouflage painting technique used on WWI ships, both war ships and commercial liners. A series of bright colours and diagonal lines, intersecting shapes, influenced by cubism, that made it difficult for someone looking through a periscope to tell what direction the ship was moving. Try printing some of the pictures on the linked page and looking at them through a piece of Icelandic Spar (optical calcite) Link: [1] Wikipedia: [2]

Dawes, Linnet
204; schoolteacher friend of Stray's; "had picked up a kind of glaze" 461;

Death
Jeshimon, 209-210; "dreamland of his death," 214; "is a region of metaphor" 230; "white riders of the borderline" 362; and the State, 372; counter-death, aka Chemistry, 372; momias, 383; 392; 436; 461; 478; anterooms of, 526; Japanese character for "death" is four, 564; the dead in Venice, 572; the "died-again" 586; 664; country of, 671; 720;

De Bottle, Coombs
234; in Cheapside, London, 691;

de Decker
540; Woevre's section officer; 549; 561;

Dedication
None. DISCUSSION

Dee, Curly
260; runs a road ranch for n'er-do-wells in Telluride

Deep Blavatsky
434; under-sand mountain ranges

De Forest, Lee
29; at Yale; 532; 675;

delirium
41; comes from the Latin de, meaning down or away from, and lira, a furrow or track in the fields; that is, to be off the track, or out of the groove. See "The Crying of Lot 49", p. 128, Library Binding edition (1997).

de Mérode
544;

Denza, Luigi
353; singer;

de Pompadoura, Marquis
544;

de Richelieu, duc
545;

10; René Descartes, also known as Cartesius, was a noted French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. Dubbed the "Founder of Modern Philosophy" and the "Father of Modern Mathematics," he ranks as one of the most important and influential thinkers of modern times. For good or bad, much of subsequent western philosophy is a reaction to his writings, which have been closely studied from his time down to the present day; Wikipedia entry

Designolle
529; Parisian explosives specialist who came up with Designolle's Powder, made at Bouchon, consisting of picrate of potash, saltpetre, and charcoal. It was made in three varieties, viz., for rifles, big guns, and torpedoes and shells. These powders are made much in the same way as gunpowder. The advantages claimed for them over gunpowder are, greater strength, comparative absence of smoke, and freedom from injurious action on the bores of guns.

Despedida
373; "tramp steamer"

Deuce
See Kindred, Deuce

Deux Espéces
372; French: two species;

Devil
212; upsidedown star; 226;

de Wolfe, Elsie (20 Dec. 1865 - 12 July 1950)
161; interior designer. De Wolfe was an actress and a member of the New York 'Society'. She stopped acting in 1905 and published in 1913 "The House in Good Taste".

Diaz, President Porfirio (1830-1915)
7; José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori was a Mexican war hero and President (later considered a dictator), ruled Mexico from 1876 until 1911 (with the exception of a four-year period); 379; Wikipedia entry

Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)
167; Charles John Huffam Dickens, pen-name "Boz", was an English novelist. Wikipedia entry

Dieter
292; the barkeep at Cosmopolitan Saloon

Dingkopf, Dr. Willi
anti-Semitic doctor in Göttingen hospital, 623;

Dinsmore, Elsie
480; a character in a series of books written by Martha Finley (1828-1909), between 1867 and 1894, that chart Elsie's life from the age of 8 till she's married. They're wholesome and shot through with Christian values; The Elsie Dinsmore website...

Dipple, Archie
358; friend of Stray's, involved in Camel scheme

Disco, Ellmore
283; in Telluride, maybe from Mexico, or Finland; maybe "music-hall Chinese" 285; 383;

Disco, Loomis
286; son of Ellmore

Dishforth's Illustrated Weekly
75; in which Merle Rideout reads an article about Erlys

Divine Walt
492;

Divisionism
584;

doggo
631; quietly in concealment

Doosra, The
756; In cricket the 'doosra' (from Urdu, meaning 'the other one' or 'the second one') is a delivery bowled by an off-spinner. It is a relatively recent invention (by Saqlain Mushtaq of Pakistan in the mid 1990s) involving spinning the ball from leg to off. Wikipedia entry

Dope
368; grifa, 375; grifa peddlers and opium joints, 380; hikuli, 392; pot, 419; 431; 433; "a little lettuc opium" 470; 473; laudanum, 473, 483; opium, 484, 545; opium beer, 490; 496; hashish, 522; absinthe, 529; 678; morphotuss cough syrup, 680; 684;

Doppiatrice, La
571;

Dottore
252;

Dragshaw, Mrs.
337; hiring in New York restaurant

Drave
39; "We can teach you"; Lew's "teacher" back in Chicago, 689;

Dreams
"dreamland of his death," 214; 250; "maps begin as dreams"; "Dreamtime Movy" (theater, see below), 450; 460; 471; Deuces, 475; Lake Traverse's, 480; 504; Dally's, 508, 523; Kit's, 511; Kit's of Umeki, 566; "one of those mathematicians' dreams that arise now and then in the folklore" 566; Umeki's of Kit flying away on an airship, 566; 577; 578; lucid, 592; Kit's "the great never-sleep hydropathic" 674; classic nightmare scene, 683;

Dreamtime Movy
450; The theater in which Merle Rideout picks up a job for a while. In the booth are many of the novel's overarching themes: the harnessing of light, the use of nitro in the film itself, a kind of alchemical transformation of the darkness. Fisk talks about "too much energy loose in that little room."

198; "notorious local gunhand"; "longtime associate" of Reef Traverse, 206; 216; confrontation with Willis Turnstone, 309;

Duck, Mock
338; his "boys", Chinese; "rogue gunman" of Hip Sing, 340;

duck soup
25; cinch: any undertaking that is easy to do;

duendes
308; Spanish: spirits;

du Motel, Stephanie
601;

Dvindler
713;

Dymphna
492; Crake's girlfriend

dynamite
81;