Difference between revisions of "ATD 318-335"

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Shunkichi Kimura
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war with Russia
10 February 1904. Wikipedia

Gibbs had died
28 April 1903. Wikipedia Pynchon's interest in Gibbs may stem from Gibbs's work in thermodynamics, particularly entropy, a theme that pervades Pynchon's work.

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leafy ambuscade
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Page 320

scout
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Proximus
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Quincke
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Page 322

Moriarty's
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Louis Lassen
Founder of Louis' Lunch, located at 261-263 Crown Street, New Haven, CT, and still operating today. Founded in 1895, Louis' Lunch is widely believed to be where the hamburger was first served, although without ketchup or mustard. Website.

West Rock
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ten years before
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"apizza"
A style of pizza common in New Haven, CT. Wikipedia entry Many maintain that pizza as we know it was first served in New Haven--that is, if you consider something with white sauce and clams a "pizza."

Page 324

P.G. Tait on Quaternions
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'lamp' this
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Grossman's Ausdehnungslehre
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Eigenheit
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Hamburg Amerika Line
Transatlantic shipping company established in Hamburg, Germany in 1847 Wiki. By 1872 the company was making weekly passages to New York from Hamburg via Southampton.

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problem-set
A set of physics problems to be worked out as homework.

wanted to trust 'Fax Suggests that he also wanted to trust "facts."

good skate
A good guy.

Page 326

McKim, Mead, and White
Architectural firm established by Charles McKim, William Mead, and Stanford White. Introducing the Roman and Italian Renaissance style to public architecture and urban planning on the east coast around 1900. Asscociated with the "American Renaissance", "Beaux Arts" and the "City Beautiful" movement Wiki.

Granitza
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one day
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Parthian
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Page 330

Neofungoline
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have that long
Vibe is about 60 years old.

trying not to speak too carefully
Cf phony Yale posing.

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Nellie Noonan or Anna Held
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Cold Harbor
Where Foley Walker, acting as Civil War Substitute, "took a Reb bullet" for Scarsdale Vibe - see p.100/101.

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