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'''Eigenheit'''''<br> | '''Eigenheit'''''<br> | ||
| − | + | "Own-ness" or "Self-Ownership" [http://flag.blackened.net/daver/anarchism/stirner/theego9.html], a concept of the German individualist-anarchist Max Stirner (Johann Caspar Schmidt)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Stirner], an issue of real concern to Kit, both in his immediate situation vis a vis Scarsdale Vibe, and perhaps also because of Stirner's radical individualist concept of trade union activity. | |
'''Hamburg Amerika Line'''''<br> | '''Hamburg Amerika Line'''''<br> | ||
Revision as of 19:56, 3 January 2007
- Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.
Contents
Page 318
Shunkichi Kimura
???
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.
Page 319
leafy ambuscade
eyes hiding in ambush.
Page 320
scout
In British universities, a housekeeper/valet. At Yale too?
Proximus
???
Quincke
???
Page 322
Moriarty's
???
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
???
ten years before
The meeting between Vibe and Vanderjuice in Chicago in 1892.
Page 323
"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
???
'lamp' this
"Look at this" ; "Check this out".
Grossman's Ausdehnungslehre
???
Eigenheit
"Own-ness" or "Self-Ownership" [1], a concept of the German individualist-anarchist Max Stirner (Johann Caspar Schmidt)[2], an issue of real concern to Kit, both in his immediate situation vis a vis Scarsdale Vibe, and perhaps also because of Stirner's radical individualist concept of trade union activity.
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.
Page 325
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." 'Fax also suggests a copy [of his father]?
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
In various Slavic languages: boundary.
Page 327
one day
???
Parthian
from Parthia, 'an ancient country corresponding to modern northeast Iran,however, Parthian also means "delivered in of as if in retreat", according to the American Heritage Dictionary. The use cited comes from Bret Harte, American writer about the West of this book's time: "a Parthian volley of expletives from Uncle Billy".
Page 330
Neofungoline
???
have that long
Vibe is about 60 years old.
trying not to speak too carefully
Cf phony Yale posing.
Page 334
Nellie Noonan or Anna Held
???
Page 335
Cold Harbor
Where Foley Walker, acting as Civil War Substitute, "took a Reb bullet" for Scarsdale Vibe - see p.100/101.
Annotation Index
| Part One: The Light Over the Ranges |
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| Part Two: Iceland Spar |
119-148, 149-170, 171-198, 199-218, 219-242, 243-272, 273-295, 296-317, 318-335, 336-357, 358-373, 374-396, 397-428 |
| Part Three: Bilocations |
429-459, 460-488, 489-524, 525-556, 557-587, 588-614, 615-643, 644-677, 678-694 |
| Part Four: Against the Day |
695-723, 724-747, 748-767, 768-791, 792-820, 821-848, 849-863, 864-891, 892-918, 919-945, 946-975, 976-999, 1000-1017, 1018-1039, 1040-1062 |
| Part Five: Rue du Départ |
