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==Annotation Index== | ==Annotation Index== | ||
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Revision as of 13:01, 29 December 2006
- Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.
Contents
- 1 Page 557
- 2 Page 558
- 3 Page 559
- 4 Page 560
- 5 Page 561
- 6 Page 562
- 7 Page 563
- 8 Page 564
- 9 Page 565
- 10 Page 566
- 11 Page 567
- 12 Page 568
- 13 Page 569
- 14 Page 570
- 15 Page 571
- 16 Page 572
- 17 Page 573
- 18 Page 574
- 19 Page 575
- 20 Page 576
- 21 Page 577
- 22 Page 578
- 23 Page 579
- 24 Page 580
- 25 Page 581
- 26 Page 582
- 27 Page 583
- 28 Page 584
- 29 Page 585
- 30 Page 586
- 31 Page 587
- 32 Annotation Index
Page 557
Viktor Mulciber
???
bespoke
made to order, hence hand-made and expensive. Somewhere in the novel is a reference to 1 Savile Row, the address of Gieves and Hawkes, a very traditional English tailor.
Basil Zaharoff
???
trains of history... run
???
Balkan komitadji
???
waybill
???
metamorphosed into an American Negro
Cf honorary Negro (Frank above).
Nipponese
Japanese
Hertzian
Electromagnetic waves, first demonstrated by Heinrich Hertz
Page 558
scalar part
Quaternion equivalent of the real part
baritone in a barbershop quartet
Quote:Technically speaking, barbershop harmony is a style of unaccompanied singing with three voices harmonizing to the melody. The lead usually sings the melody, with the tenor harmonizing above the lead. The bass sings the lowest harmonizing notes and the baritone provides in-between notes, either above or below the lead to make chords (specifically, dominant-type or "barbershop" sevenths) that give barbershop its distinctive, "full" sound.
viola in a string quartet
Two violins, a viola, and a violoncello make up a string quartet. The viola is between the others in pitch and is generally considered to have been given the least interesting parts in Classical and Romantic music for string quartet.
Further Term
The three parts of a quaternion that are multiples of i, j and k
laterite
A mineral structure formed by erosion, see Wikipedia.
Inner Boulevards
???
Gare du Midi
The largest railway station in Brussels and a haunt of prostitutes.
Edouard Gevaert
(No ligature?)
Page 559
Krupp field-piece
The Krupps are an ancient German family, famous for making weapons. A field-piece is a light-cannon.
vaguely glandular
???
ostinato
A continually repeated musical phrase or rhythm.
poleaxed
???
lost to silence
(Not silent, or very?)
Page 560
Estacade
???
mousmée... mouchard
???
always lead an irregular life
Cf GR.
Maria Bayley Hamilton
???
council meeting
???
Page 561
Brougham Bridge
???
pulls a knife
(Folklore, really later?)
on the stone
???
Pentecostal
???
official Mischief Opportunity
???
absinthe spoons
???
cravats
???
"four-door farce"
(See eg Bogdanovich's "What's Up, Doc?")
This is also a pun on the name of Georges Feydeau, French writer of farces who was writing when Pynchon's novel is set. One of the recurring physical jokes involves sets with many doors and people coming in and out, just missing each other....
Page 562
Minque
???
carillons... carilloneur
???
Hanseatic
???
burghers
???
silted up
???
Damme and Sluis
???
Page 563
trusted his intuitiveness
???
"Jou moerskont!"... Afrikaans
???
Page 564
immense choir
???
Voetsak
???
starers
???
tobacco-stricken
???
half-silvering
???
four cusps... index-surface
???
co-conscious
???
Page 565
true icosahedron
Probably an regular icosahedron, where the sides are formed by 20 equilateral triangles
12+8... pyrites
Pyrite crystals form a structure that can be decomposed into unit cells that contain (part of) 12 sulphur atoms and 8 iron atoms.
Riemann sphere
Wikipedia
Felix Klein
German mathematician (Wikipedia)
ebonite
An early plastic(Wikipedia)
Ohmic Drift
???
speed of the earth... kinetic energy
???
Recently Lorentz's paper
Lorentz's 1904 "Electromagnetic phenomena in a system moving with any velocity less than that of light" (PDF)
Lord Rayleigh
British physicist (Wikipedia)
Page 566
In a dream...
This passage, describing Kit's dream of Umeki and the message it conveys, pulls together many of the main themes of Against the Day, tying things together in a way that Pynchon seldom does, almost as if he's providing a rather large piece of the puzzle to help the reader understand the novel:
- "Deep among the equations describing the behavor of light, field equations, Vector and Quaternion equations, lies a set of directions, an intinerary, a map to a hidden space. Double refraction appears again and again as a key element, permitting a view into a Creation set just to the side of this one, so close as to overlap, where the membrane between the worlds, in many places, has become too frail, too permeable, for safety.... Within the mirror, with the scalar term, within the daylit and obvious and taken-for-granted has always lain, as if in wait, the dark intinerary, the corrupted pilgrim's guide, the nameless Station before the first, in the lightless uncreated, where salvation does not yet exist."
analogies
(Pynchonian heuristics.)
nameless Station
???
lightless uncreated
(Gnostic heresy?)
stuffed sinus
???
Konichiwa
???
Page 567
new Puccini opera
Obviously, Madame Butterfly
Borel-Clerc... "La Matchiche"
Popular vaudeville song from 1903. "La Matchiche" is French for the Brazilian dance Maxixe.
western anchor
What about France, Spain, Portugal?
Compaignie Internationale des Wagons-Lits
"International Sleeping-Car Company", Wikipedia
two hundred francs
???
theory of sets
???
Bruges Canal
???
Page 568
vaporetto
A Venetian water-bus.
Grand Canal
The main canal that runs through the heart of Venice and down past San Marco, the city's main square.
San Marco end
See above. This is where Florian's (appears in the novel) is situated.
Piazzetta
???
San Giorgio Maggiore
A rather over-ornate church on the Grand Canal opposite San Marco.
spreading... cloak
Cliche/allusion?
live here forever
Pynchon special-pleading that Dally isn't just another tourist.
Or is this just a typical reaction of the tourist? And a Pynchonesque longing for home?
Page 569
Malibran... Polo's house
The Teatro Malibran, built at the site of Marco Polo's house, which was destroyed in 1596.
"pincette" pass
Probably from the pincer movement of military strategy.
profondes
"Large pockets in tail coats which can be used for vanishes or productions", Wikipedia
Vincenzo Miserere
???
train to Trieste
???
Svegli
???
shark leather
Different from sharkskin?
Specchiere
Mirror-maker
glassmakers on Murano
Wikipedia
Page 570
another one of his stories
(Jackson Pynchon should highlight all the AtD passages that originated as bedtime stories.)
TERAPIA
Italian, "therapy"
San Servolo
An island in the Venetian archipelago, Wikipedia, Google Maps
Palazzo Ducale
The Ducal Palace in Venice, residence of the Doge. It's by San Marco.
manicomio
Italian, "madhouse"
uterine vellum
Vellum produced from the skin of an unborn calf
pitch, rouge
???
Page 571
La Doppiatrice
???
Ettore Sananzolo
???
Maskelyne cabinet
After Neville Maskelyne, from Mason and Dixon. Maskelyne sent M and D to record the Transit of Venus.
Page 572
smoke back into a cigar
Time's arrow/ entropy motif.
hard-as-a-rock black cigar
???
thumping
???
salso
???
sandoli
???
trains pulling in
Famous early film.
Page 573
Cannareggio
Cannaregio
Page 574
thirty years older
About 65yo?
that day
In NYC when Dally showed up.
when she was born
Cf Pretenders/Chryssie Hynde.
Stronzo
Italian curse word, roughly "asshole"
In bocc' al lupo!
From the Roman dialect, in which the Italians - including Rocco and Pino - seem to speak. Meaning, literally, "In the
mouth of the wolf," and idiomatically, "Good luck."
campielli
???
Page 575
Riva
???
middy blouses
???
not yet been rebuilt
Remember p256.
lucciole
???
fondamenta
A waterside street in Venice
ombreta
???
light's good here
Old joke about drunk looking for car keys under streetlight though he dropped them somewhere else.
microcosm
???
Page 576
twelve soldi
???
franc... ten francs
???
Canaletto
???
Beppo
???
pitch
???
Bauer-Grünwald
An expensive hotel near San Marco in Venice.
Page 577
'Safe'
Recent art-movie title?
Castello
???
Evening Gun
???
importunate
???
Dr. Grace
???
Page 578
Dorsoduro
An area of Venice.
pensione
A cheap Italian hotel, like a bed and breakfast.
La Calcina
???
Zattere
An area of wide waterfront pavements in Venice.
cimici
???
bora
???
Page 579
Tintoretto's Abduction...
???
Accademia
The major art-gallery in Venice
Titian
16th century Venetian painter.
Infancy Gospel of Thomas
???
Page 580
Pentecost story in Acts
???
Galilean dialect
Of Aramaic.
rii
Plural of rio.
Page 581
sotopòrteghi
An open doorway for public access.
Bodeo 10.4 mm
???
Page 582
foschetta
???
masègni
???
patrone
???
wine trains up from Puglia
???
Winter
1904-1905?
Principessa Spongiatosta
Is Pugnax's book from p6 at all relevant here?
Ca'
???
Roman Composite order
???
japonica
???
Page 583
Iron Bridge
???
Le Havre
???
ma via
???
third eyes touching
???
Page 584
"Swiss insurance salesman. Wolf. No, Putzi."
Bria's had so many beaux she gets them confused?
topo
???
Dogana
???
Andrea Tancredi
???
Seurat and Signac
???
Divisionism
???
Marinetti
???
"Futurists"
???
brutalism
???
Torcello
A lonely Venetian island: very peaceful and beautiful with a church and little else.
primitivo
???
Page 585
green-and-lavender
???
sirocco
???
San Michele
???
futuristic vehicle
P155.
Preliminary Studies...
???
Page 586
Always with us.
Gospel of ?.
vero
Cf 'verdad'.
orpiment yellow
???
Nürnberg violet
???
Page 587
nebbia, nebbietta, foschia, caligo, sfumato
???
speed of sound
Air temperature is more important that density.
La Velocità del Suono
Italian, "speed of sound"
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 |
