ATD 864-891
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- 31 Annotation Index
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Sample entry
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galleggianti
Boathouses.
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cicerone
Guide, especially for a single woman.
Inglesi
Italian: Englishmen.
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Gorblimey
Representing a Cockney pronunciation of "God blind me!"; in medieval times, people would curse using contractions rather than breaking the third commandment (Do not use the Lord's name in vain oaths). Compare strewth, zounds, 'sblood. -- Wiktionary
Jenny Invert
This is not her first occurrence. Part of the printing of 1918 24-cent airmail stamps showed an inverted image of a Curtis JN-4 Jenny airplane. It's a famous and valuable stamp.
Inanimate Bird Association
Concerned with clay pigeons, i.e., trapshooting.
Oca ti jebem
Macedonian: I fuck your father.
Giles Piprake
Is he aping Chico Marx?
A small rake with women? See his remark about Ratty's wife.
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remember not to wear yellow
Cyprian thinks he was seen hiding because he was wearing yellow?
valletto
Italian: valet, attendant.
Facciam' il porco
You smell of new customs?
Il mio ragazzo è molto geloso
Italian: My little guy is very jealous.
Qualsiasi, Ciprianino
Italian: Whatever, little Cyprian.
The Iron Gateway
an imaginary internal 'Symbolist' artwork embodying vivid hallucinatory visions within ATD?
Also a real structure:
Iron Gateway & Draghut Mosque, Tripoli Medina
Iron Gateway, Tripoli Medina
Iron Gateway & Draghut Mosque, Tripoli Medina
Carlo Zen furniture
Designed by Carlo Zen (Italian, 1851-1918)
Among the more prolific designers and cabinet-makers of the period was the firm of Carlo Zen. Some of his decorations suggest the strong influence of continental symbolism, while other objects reveal a keen awareness of geometric simplification.
Galileo Chini
Galileo CHINI , famous italian painter and ceramist, was born in Florence on December 2nd 1873 and died on August 23rd 1956.
In 1896, he funded "The Art of Ceramics" (later called "Factory Fornaci S.Lorenzo). He introduced the Liberty style in Italy.
As a painter he took part at the"Biennale di Venezia" from 1901 till 1936.
In 1911 he was in Bangkok to decorate Siam King's palace.
He remained there till 1913: it was a triumph! Back in Italy, he taught at the "Accademia di Belle Arti"in Florence. Some of his beautiful works of Art can be found at the Modern Art Gallery in Rome, at the Uffizi in Florence and at the Modern Art Gallery in Palazzo Pitti.
Bugatti
Carlo Bugatti (1856-1940), world-famous furniture designer from Milan.
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corno
The "horned" cap worn by Doges of Venice.
lo stato
???
penance
incredible thematic paragraph that relates to revenge motif?
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salizzada
???
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Not by a long chalk
This mainly British expression means “not by any means”, “not at all” and often turns up in conventional expressions such as they weren’t beaten yet, not by a long chalk.
It goes back to the days in which a count or score of almost any kind was marked up on a convenient surface using chalk. At a pub or ale house this might be a note of the amount of credit you had been given (often called the chalk in the early nineteenth century), which Charles Dickens refers to in Great Expectations: “There was a bar at the Jolly Bargemen, with some alarmingly long chalk scores in it on the wall at the side of the door, which seemed to me to be never paid off.”-- Yahoo answers.
gibanica
Croatian: a rolled pastry filled with cheese or fruit.
kadulja
Croatian, literally: garden sage.
coastal Čakavština
Speech of a region in coastal Croatia.
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bàcari
???
formulæ
Spells.
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Altezza
Italian: Highness.
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gentleman ops
A tradition in thrillers. Bulldog Drummond and Tommy Hambledon are just two in the crowd.
dittoes
"A suit of dittoes" is an outfit of coat, vest (waistcoat) and trousers from the same fabric.
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brisance
A French word now fully adopted in English. In the context of explosives it means "shattering power."
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the least clairvoyante
The (woman) friend least able to exercise occult powers such as seeing the future.
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Carnesalve
If Carnevale means "goodbye to meat" (beginning of the Lenten fast), Carnesalve means "hello there, meat!"
Signori di Notte
Italian: night lords.
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Parma violets
A delicate variety of the flower produced in the Italian city. The blossoms are sometimes sold candied, too.
loggie
Plural of loggia. Italian: theater box or similar feature in a formal room.
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amoretti
Italian: "Cupids" used as space fillers or decorative elements.
tesoro
Italian: treasure.
Quickly now ....
The conception described here is technically immaculate: Reef fulfills the role of the Father, Yashmeen that of Mary, and Cyprian that of the Holy Ghost.
fellatrice
Italian: fellatrix (denoting Cyprian's role, not his physiology).
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nasal intrusion
Sticking one's nose into something.
chavalitos
Spanish: kids.
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Grand Army of the Matrimonial Republic
The Grand Army of the Republic comprised Union veterans of the American Civil War. Its heyday came around 1890-1910.
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[T]he dream came and found him...
Reef's contribution to the hallucination/dream motif previously referenced in the Traverse sections of the novel. The color yellow seems to be significant here and elsewhere, especially coded to Webb Traverse. [More forthcoming]
In the dream they were no longer in the ghostly canyons of the McElmo but in the city, not Venice but noplace American either, with an umappable operational endlessless (sic) to its streets, the same ancient, disquieting pictures engraved on its walls as back in the McElmo, spelling out a story whose pitiless truth couldn't be admitted officially by the authorities here because of the danger to the public sanity.... It was darker out here than he had any idea of. In the distance Reef caught sight of a procession of miners in their long rubber coats, only one of them, about halfway along, with the candle stub in his hat lit. Like postulants in habits, they proceeded single file down a narrow street like a humid drift lit back or front by a yellow lamp. As Reef came closer he saw the bearer of the light was Webb.
Understanding that this was Webb's attempt to pass on another message, like up the séance in the Alps, Reef saw just for one lucid instant that this was the precise intelligence he needed to get him back to where he had wandered off the trail, so long ago. And then he was awake and trying to remember why it was important.
"Small victories," Webb greeted him. "Just to come away with one or two. To praise and to honor the small victories where and however they happen."
"Hasn't been too many of them lately, Pa," Reef tried to say.
"Not talking about yours, you numbskull."
remy 13:15, 28 December 2006 (PST)
Bagni di Lucca
Notable only because of the similarity in name to Banjaluka (or Banja Luka), Croatia, mentioned on page 834.
homeopathic principle
Like cures like. To alleviate an allergy, according to homeopathic doctrine, administer the allergen in an exceedingly dilute form.
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Say surly topple
You can't help thinking Reef does this on purpose. French C'est sur la table: It's on the table.
pasta asciutta
Pasta dish with potatoes and green beans.
pasta fazool
Officially pasta e fagioli; "fazool" imitates the pronunciation in a regional dialect of Italian. Pasta with cannellini beans.
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al dente
Italian, literally: resisting the tooth. Fully cooked but not yet rendered gluey.
línea del fuego
Spanish: line of (the) fire. This may be a naive translation of "firing line" or "line of fire" (note the satisfying ambiguity); línea de tiro seems to be preferred.
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bal musette
French: dance hall.
in some auxiliary sense . . . his own
Review details of the encounter at Carnesalve (page 881).
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 |
