Difference between revisions of "R"

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radius of annihilation
95; area to be destroyed in a bomb explosion, as imagined by Reef Traverse DISCUSSION

Rahman
521; barkeep at Tawil Balak

Ramanujan
498; mathematician

Ramiz
653; in the Swiss Alps; and the Tatzelwurm, 658;

Rand shares
146; 167;

Ranji and C. B. Fry
497; cricketeers

Rao, V. Ganeshi
130; "noted Quaternionist" of Calcutta University; disappearing act at Kursaal, 539; "metamorphosed as an American Negro" 557;

Raoul's Atelier de la Vitesse
531; in Ostend, Belgium

rationalization / routinization
10: "unshaped freedom being rationalized into movement..."; Venice, 575;

89; Finn who Webb Traverse finds "holding a vodka jug in one hand while battling a number of camp guards with the other"; 197;

Rayleigh, Lord
565;

Rebellion, The
7; aka the Civil War; the Civil War was not called such during the time it was happening; the South called it "the war between the states" to emphasize both their right to secede from the union and that this was a war between sovereign states; the North called it "the Rebellion of 1861" or, after termination of hostilities, "the Rebellion of 1861-1865," appellations that did not recognize the South's right to secede; 61; 92;

Reclus
528;  See Élisée Reclus on Wikipedia

Red Onion
371; club in New Orleans where the Merry Coons played and survived;

Renfrew, Professor P. Jotham
226; as "opposite number" of Professor Werfner; 495; at Cambridge; 602; "co-tenant of Tarot card XV" 679; Balkans map, 689;

Repeal
89; of the Silver Act in 1893; See Silver Act

Replevin, Lamont
606; antiques dealer; "communication by means of coal-gas" 607; has map of Shambhala, 608; "life-size sculpture groups exhibited the more disreputable of classical and biblical themes" 610;

Republicans
93; victors, 334; 469;

Richardsonian Romanesque
419;

Rideout, Dahlia ("Dally")
27; daughter "4 or 5"; in New York City, 336; "white-slave simulation industry" 339; red hair and freckles, 339; rescued by magicians, 350; to Europe with Erlys and the Zombini's, 505;

Rideout, Erlys
28; wife of Merle who ran off with Zombini; 57, aka Erlys Mills; 67, aka Erlys Mills Snidell; in Smokefoot's, 347; at R. W. Vibe's party, 350; to Europe on Stupendica, 506; 573;

Rideout, Merle
26; photographer; Museum dream, 57; from NW Connecticutt, 59; lightning rod salesman, 73; heading east, 449; arrives at Candlebrow, 451; fixture at summer Tim bazaar at Candlebrow, 451; and Chick Counterfly and Roswell Bounce, 454;

Reilly, Sidney
630; aka Chong

Riemann, Georg Friedrich Bernhard (1826-1866)
12; (pronounced REE mahn or in IPA: ['ri:man]) was a German mathematician who made important contributions to analysis and differential geometry, some of them paving the way for the later development of general relativity; space, 131; "göttingen eminence" 496; Riemann sphere, 565, 628; Riemann's Hypothesis, 589; 596; Habilitationsschrift of 1854, 616; 618; Riemann Elipsoid, 626; Wikipedia entry

Riley
18; member of the Bindlestiffs of the Blue A.C.

Rinehart
156;

rishta
792; In Arabic-speaking countries, the word for macaroni during the 12th and 13th centuries was either rishta (or erishte in Turkish), from the Persian word for "threads," or itriya, as well as a few other words mentioned above. The fourteenth-century Arab traveler Ibn Batutta described the rishta he encountered in Anatolia as a kind of shu’ayriya, a word that even today means vermicelli. Also, the Urdu word for engagement (as in pre-marriage commitment) is rishta, but Pynchon's use here suggests the Arabic word for "worm" or "snake", although "threads" and "tying the knot" seem related, so perhaps rishta, meaning "engagement," is later meaning of the word.

River of Time
412;

Rocco and Pino
529; Italian naval renegades; 546; 561;

Rodolfo
656; with Ruperta Chirpingdon-Groin;

Rosie's Cantina
649; in El Paso, just like that Marty Robbins song...

Roxana
67; Zombini's stage assistant

681; the son of Emperor Franz Joseph I. In 1887, Rudolf bought Mayerling and adapted it into a hunting lodge. In the autumn of 1888, the 30-year-old crown prince met the 17-year-old Baroness Marie Vetsera, known by the more fashionable Anglophile name Mary. From the start, Mary adored him, and was ready to do anything for him. It was almost certainly not the great romance of his life, but Rudolf did have feelings for her, and was touched by her limitless, almost fanatical, love for him. When Franz Joseph demanded that Rudolf end the relationship, the Crown Prince, as part of a suicide pact, shot his mistress in the head, then himself. This has been referred to as the "Tragedy of Mayerling." Wikipedia entry

R.U.S.H.
708; "Rapid Unit for Shadowing and Harassment" - motorcyclist crew in Vienna

Ruskin
578;

Russell, Bertrand
538; 594; Wikipedia entry

Russell, Lillian
345; hat Wikipedia entry