Difference between revisions of "D"

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dagga rooker
169; South African colloquial term for a person who smokes dagga, a South African word for marijuana;

Dance of Lavalava, the Volcano Goddess
27; performed by Miss McAdoo

Dante (1265-1321)
154; Durante degli Alighieri, better known as Dante Alighieri or simply Dante, was an Italian Florentine poet; 226; Wikipedia entry

Dash, Mayva
88; saloon girl at Pap Wyman's Saloon; married Webb Traverse

Dawes, Linnet
204; schoolteacher friend of Stray's

Death
Jeshimon, 209-210; "region of metaphor" 230;

De Bottle, Coombs
234

Dee, Curly
260; runs a road ranch for n'er-do-wells in Telluride

De Forest
29;

delirium
41; comes from the Latin de, meaning down or away from, and lira, a furrow or track in the fields; that is, to be off the track, or out of the groove.

10; René Descartes, also known as Cartesius, was a noted French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. Dubbed the "Founder of Modern Philosophy" and the "Father of Modern Mathematics," he ranks as one of the most important and influential thinkers of modern times. For good or bad, much of subsequent western philosophy is a reaction to his writings, which have been closely studied from his time down to the present day; Wikipedia entry

Deuce
260; sidekick of Sloat;

Devil
212; upsidedown star; 226;

de Wolfe, Elsie
161; interior designer

Diaz, President Porfirio
7; José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori (15 September 1830 – 2 July 1915), Mexican war hero and President (later considered a dictator), ruled Mexico from 1876 until 1911 (with the exception of a four-year period); Wikipedia entry

Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)
167; Charles John Huffam Dickens, pen-name "Boz", was an English novelist. Wikipedia entry

Dieter
292; the barkeep at Cosmopolitan Saloon

Disco, Ellmore
283; in Telluride, maybe from Mexico, or Finland; maybe "music-hall Chinese" 285;

Disco, Loomis
286; son of Ellmore

Dishforth's Illustrated Weekly
75; in which Merle Rideout reads an article about Erlys

Dope
368; grifa, 375; hikuli, 392; pot, 419; 431; 433; 473; laudanum, 473, 483; opium, 484, 545; opium beer, 490; 496; hashish, 522; absinthe, 529;

Dottore
252;

Drave
39;

Dreams
250; "maps begin as dreams";

198; "notorious local gunhand"; "longtime associate" of Reef Traverse, 206; 216; confrontation with Willis Turnstone, 309;

duck soup
25; cinch: any undertaking that is easy to do;

duendes
308; Spanish: spirits;

dynamite
81;