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Revision as of 13:17, 18 December 2006
Contents
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- 18 Page 448
- 19 Page 449
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- 23 Page 453
- 24 Page 454
- 25 Page 456
- 26 Page 457
- 27 Page 458
- 28 Annotation Index
Page 431
"Turkish Corner"
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Bactrian
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Cameling
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Page 432
fatal word
"Wife".
Gamomania
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H.M.S.F.
His Majesty's Subdesertine Frigate (p425).
Balaam's ass
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reported... Polo
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Page 433
pan-spectral fields
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"Euphrates" poplars
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aryq
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B.I.N.
Biometric Institute of Neuropathy (p432).
seventeen-syllable
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Page 434
Eta/Nu Transformators
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pari passu
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Page 435
Gurkhas
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General Forrest
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archiepiscopal
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Faberge
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subarenaceous
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Page 436
limen
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transmundane
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lamaseries
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Torriform
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Urban terrain
(But only cities unwisely built on sand.)
Stilton Gaspereaux
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Sven Hedin
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Aurel Stein
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first known maps
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Page 437
Nernst lamps
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level of encryption
(Cf Heisenberg?)
Mount Kailash
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polarize... in time
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Manichaeans
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Page 438
expanded sense... Maxwell... Hertz
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'Perfects'
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Graeco-Buddhist
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Italo-Islamic
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Page 439
Nuovo Rialto
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no earlier than
(Where'd they go?)
Passing of the Remarks
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Steeplechase Park
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Page 440
screaming
Screaming motif.
chong pir
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Uyghur
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skeleton rig
Concealed weapon?
andante
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Sandman Saloon
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Page 441
Leonard and Lyle
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teke
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Spindletop
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Groznyi
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calyx bits
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adults
Chums not adults, then?
assalamu alaykum
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anticline
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Page 442
equine altitude
High horse.
Veneto-Uyghur
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2 percent... most of them
Implies at least 150 in crew.
Marco Querini
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Terrenascondite
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Pozzo San Vito
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Page 443
peterman option
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Consomme Imperial
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Timbales de Supremes de Volailles
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Gigot Grille a la Sauce Piquante
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aubergines a la Sauce Mousseline
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Pouilly-Fuisse
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Graves
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Page 444
Oasi
Typo?
cataplexy
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Nobel brothers
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shaft-alley
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the balloon is up
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F.O.
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Daily Mail
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"Sands of Inner Asia"
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Taklamakan
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Page 445
Kashgar to Urumchi
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fell into the hand of
Cf modern Taliban, etc.
World-Island
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discreet summons
Eg "paging Dr Blue".
far wicket
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wog
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Vic removal
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eating an explosive
Cf Lew's Cyclomite.
Page 446
St Martin le Grand
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Angel Street
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G.P.O. West
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pneumatic dispatches
An extensive 'pneumatic dispatch' system existed on London during the Victorian era, started in 1851 and carrying on at least into the 1930's. By 1886 London had 94 telegram tubes totaling 34 1/2 miles and around 4.5 million telegraph messages were carried in cylinders at around 20mph. At its height the network extended some 57 miles connecting 67 branch offices via a central sorting office. See [1] and
[2] (with illustrations).
drill suits
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chars
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clicks and rests
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Northern Temple of Connexion
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marblework
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Bloggins
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allegro vivatchy
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Page 447
grease-paint
Wog-colored.
cylinder of gutta-percha
Pneumatic dispatches were catteid in cylinders of Percha -- an inelastic latex made form the sap of the Gutta-Percha tree -- coverd in felt. See [ http://www.capsu.org/history/telegram_conveyors.html].
its "D" box
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Holborn
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Saffron Hill
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tantum dic verbo isn't it
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intact
(Did I miss this?)
Page 448
because I'm mad
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half-sovereign case
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Mr. Campbell-Bannerman
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Page 449
Clarabella
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Audacity, Iowa
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Page 450
DREAMTIME MOVY
Misspelling is dreamlike?
log... waterfall
Cf DW Griffith?
lens-brother
(Like masonic sign?)
Powers movement
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Geneva
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Wilt Flambo
Flambeau = torch (French).
acetylene
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Page 451
nitro in the film
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the tip
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strange relation
Cf GR on calculus.
dark perplexity
Cf Gen X?
dilapidated
Why?
queen-of-the-prairie
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Page 452
Sempitern
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siegecraft of Time
Cf Paris Commune siege, above.
between Cleveland and Denver
Merle's idiosyncratic choice of endpoints?
automorphic functions
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Page 453
Lobatchevskian
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Automorphic Dispensation
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distressing regularity
Explains dilapidation?
Thorvald
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thresher dinners
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Page 454
"gaff"
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Giant Airships of 1896 and '7
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Chick
First Chum to appear in non-Chums chapter?
Cleveland... trial
See p67
Somble, Strool, and Fleshway
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'paranoia querulans'... P.Q.
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blasting agent
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detonans
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Page 456
aigrette
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Pencil
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equivalent of a shrug
Nice anthropomorphism.
lost mines
(Factual?)
Page 457
tourbillon
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patent pencils
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zephyr gingham
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lawn
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pongee
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Page 458
professors... engineers
Theory vs practice.
Latinate token of prestige
PhD, summa cum laude, etc.
current... purity
Free of noise?
Minkowski
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Three times ten... minus one seconds
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other expression
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Annotation Index
| Part One: The Light Over the Ranges |
|
|---|---|
| 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 |
