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[[Image:ATD-French-Edition.jpg|100px|thumb|left]]<h2>French Translation Now Available</ ...Day description|book description]] written by Pynchon himself, read the [[ATD Reviews|reviews]], [[Against the Day Title|entertain some theories on the s

310; [[ATD-D#drop|Jimmy Drop's]] lieutenant In ATD, Pynchon uses the expression ''"all but" + adjective'' over and over. Any i

See [[ATD-M|'''Meat''']]. 287; "local name" for [[ATD-M#meldrum|Bob Meldrum's]] wife;

...'s concern for humanity. To be in a state of grace is to be redeemed. In AtD, several characters attain or approach states of grace, beginning with Lew ...s|Lyrics +]]. The composer [[H#hahn|Reynaldo Hahn]] (see also ''ATD'' at [[ATD 1063-1085#Page_1065|page 1065]]) wrote the music for his operetta ''Mozart'

'''Madero, Francisco I. (1873-1913)'''<br /> 467-468; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groucho_marx Wikipedia entry][[ATD-J#julius|See also Julius]]

The specific reference in ''ATD'' is to Lord Rayleigh's paper published in the ''Proceedings of the Royal S ...odified, though this point is hardly ripe for discussion. In the meantime, I still use the term silica glass.

...xwell]]. Beginning in 1854, he taught at Queen's College, Belfast. When [[ATD-H#hamilton|Hamilton]] died in 1865, Tait took over the crusade to give quat ...n four rows: one, two, three, and four points in each row. [[#twit|See T.W.I.T.]]

...w element which fills the "vacant space existing in the sub-group of Group I", and which he thought to be the intermediate matter from which silver and ...e Rapture of the Sands," 433; Armageddon to be silent, 443-44; See also, [[ATD-XYZ#Z|Zion]].

'''Ferdinand I, Emperor'''<br /> '''F.I.C.O.T.T.'''<br />

221-222; at T.W.I.T., and ward (not biological daughter) of G. Auberon Halfcourt; 489; aka "P ...ns to the development of optics, dynamics, and algebra. His discovery of [[ATD-Q#quaternions|quaternions]] is perhaps his best known investigation; his il

...olate the rules of a local culture. The initial appearance of the Chums in ATD, in the sky aboard a hydrogen balloon, may recall the appearance of the thr ...enience stands for the book itself (the airship launches at the opening of AtD, it grows larger as the book progresses, it travels all over the map, u.s.w

'''“I greatly admire the music of the region,” said Miles, “the ukulele in pa ...a number of real flying apparati: [http://invention.psychology.msstate.edu/i/Chanute/library/Prog_Aero_Oct1893.html This article] from October 1893 desc

"I contacted the Tibetan Cultural Centre with the request to translate the mysterious legend on the AtD seal. They were kind enough to forward my

I don't know. An idea: in addition to the Mason & Dixon connection, Ohio dom In ATD p. 63 O.D.Chandrasekhar mentions akasa as the solution for the problems the

Page 420 line 28 "opportunit[i]es" Page 440 line 33 "sib[i]lance"

...or manuscript in reference to the novel's setting, 1893 through World War I, and the book's mock-recreation of prose from that era. I contacted the Tibetan Cultural Centre with the request to translate

...the general reader. These were the only official excerpts published before ATD itself, on 21 November 2006. Although no sexual metaphor is too crude for Pynchon, in this case I think he is sticking to 19th Century Colorado usage. [http://www.wordnik.co

...the orbits of satellites used for navigation and positioning (i.e., GPS). AtD is interested in Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry throughout, as well a ...surface such as the Inter-Group Laboratory for Opticomagnetic Observation (I.G.L.O.O.), a radiational clearing-house in Northern Alaska''' <br>

...more pure reading pleasure than any book I've read in the past few years. I only wished it were a thousand pages longer. ...c to the hallucinatory to the comical — to transcend mortality. At least I think it is."

I can't identify this as to title or date, but the subject appeared in lithog ...ges coming from a world the Chums don't inhabit? From outside their novel, I suggest, specifically from their author, who is preparing to take over the

...b 38, since that whole chapter of the Bible contains many of the themes of AtD. God (speaking out of a whirlwind)is basically asking Job who does he think ...treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail, which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and wa

...Consulta?TIPO_BUS=3&LEMA=nochecita nochecita] as "Crepúsculo vespertino", i.e. evening twilight. Frank will not be the last ''AtD'' character to hold himself out as an [[Idiots and Idiocy in Against the Da

The acronym T.W.I.T is most appropriate: a twit is an ineffectual buffoon. Neville and Nigel ...[ATD 171-198#Page 183|"Beavers of the Brain"]]). Its male counterpart is [[ATD 397-428#Page 405|Candlebrow U.]], to be encountered down the road apiece (a

And behind both AtD and GR, there are strong overtones from the ''Book of Revelation:'' :9:1 -''The fifth angel blew his trumpet. I saw a star, that had fallen down from Heaven to earth, and he was given the

When were the Chums last seen in AtD? As far back as page 142? ...mean "[http://notes.tranq.com/archives/2004/01/23/zuccone/ pumpkinhead]". I guess we're looking for something phallic, given the context.<br>

I.e., wife's conventional plea. ...pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_2 ''The Crying of Lot 49''] ("I Want to Kiss Your Feet" by Sick Dick and the Volkswagens), but is most [[F#

Wells committed suicide in 1931. <i>Ibid.</i> ...e to Canada to work tough outdoors jobs, he was also a banker, a World War I Correspondent (WWI), and a wealthy world traveler who left the Yukon in 191

...appear to be many allusions to [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki ''V.''] in ''ATD''. ...a bear's claw. Octopus Ink seems to be a joking reference to the coffee. [I think the speaker here (Wren) is making a joking reference to the strange f

...post 9/11 George W. Bush use of the term, once again relating the time of AtD, with its "unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic feckles ...most prominent and outspoken luddites. Sale later said, "The Unabomber and I share a great many views about the pernicious effect of the Industrial Revo

"I have to get the fuck out of here." ...rase. The Spanish equivalent could be "Tengo que salir cagando de aquí" ("I have to go shitting out of here").

...sting in light of the Butch Cassidy references in the Telluride section of ATD. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Woo#Trivia [wikipedia]] ...edictionary.com/] which explains the origins of a lot of the words used in AtD:

...l is, presumably, ''The Chums of Chance in Old Mexico'', as described on [[ATD 1-25#Page 7|p. 7]]. ...n Library Edition 2001, p. 34) (See [[ATD 81-96#Page_92|here]] for more on AtD and ''Blood Meridian'')

...science fiction writers whom Pynchon is both emulating and parodying in ''ATD''. H.G. Wells was an English novelist, sociologist, journalist, and histori I.e., Angel of Grace

...usal. The origin of this word can be traced back to the explanation above (i.e. Aphrodite). As for Late''wood'', well, that's kind of self-explanatory, '''''"That'' is that of which ''I'' speak!"'''<br>

...logists until the 1960s. Probably just another anachronism in the world of AtD. ..., Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.

..., the director and chairman of the Vickers munitions firm during World War I [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaharoff_Basil]. He also turns up as an inte The three parts of a quaternion that are multiples of '''i''', '''j''' and '''k''' (Cf [[ATD_525-556#Page 525|page 525: Quaternions]].

...]), led to the phrases of "the ''ijk'' lot" of page 533 and "creature of ''i-j-k''" of page 534. Well, I don't think it may sound insulting for the waiter, as Ostend is in the part

...book heroics; the reader is now made aware of a large organization (see B.I.N., below) standing behind the massive airships and their crews. We all kno ...l "the Lord opened the mouth of the ass, and she said to Balaam: What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?" Balaam's ass

...e is of thy imagination", She says in the novel, "She". Cf. a line, [which I am checking] in "The Crying of Lot 49". ...the long run, despite her obvious erotic influence on the men and women in ATD. - Tommaso

...s for giving a person the right to teach university courses independently (i.e. without a formal assignment) and supervise doctoral candidates. This rig ...only substance and it is inherently and objectively dialectical in nature, i.e. it is in constant development due to the interactions of conflicting for

...l" is a popular song whose lyrics ("Daisy, Daisy, Give me your answer do...I'm half crazy, all for the love of you..." as well as the line "...a bicycle It was evidently sung at the OK Corral gunfight, if TRP says so but I have not substantiated this yet.

Concerned with clay pigeons, i.e., trapshooting. Macedonian: I fuck your father.

I suspect this is a typo, and should be ''carolina'' which is a small boat, a I.e., none of her beeswax (American slang for "business").

...to me''', but as there still remains a great deal for me to do, I suppose I ought rather to think of doing this than of my future, and leave the rest t ...to above. Pynchon would know this as/if he read Nietzsche, I must assume. I think the "dark future" Nietzshe writes of in that letter, if it is quoted

I ...''Ich gehe sowieso'' - I'm going anyway). As a standalone as in this case I (Austrian German speaker) know it only in the sense of ''of course,'' ''cer

:No. A "Kapuziner" in Vienna is a Mocca to which a bit of liquid (i.e. unwhipped) whipping cream is added. What you probably mean is usually ca Persons interested in such practices, among whom I would never *ever* be numbered, might look askance at an author who muddies

OK, I have no idea what happened here. Since this is the non-spoiler section, may :Two of the stranger hypotheses about the Event have special ''AtD'' connections. (1) The cosmic object was a chunk of antimatter, and the ene

...monly in and around Kurnool. 1973 T. Pynchon ''Gravity's Rainbow'' (1975) i. 13 "Dracunculiasis and Oriental sore rampant among the troops, no beer for ...nts that preceded the attempted advances on the Western Front in World War I. The word is a calque of German ''Trommelfeuer.''

Perhaps erroneously, I took this to be a joke about like southeast Asian sex tourism. ...2 miles directly south of Trieste. From the 19th century through World War I, Pola was the headquarters of the Austro-Hungarian Navy.

...chon sometimes has problems with Italian articles, also considering that ''I Zingari'' should be ''Gli Zingari''). "Squalaccio" also name-connects with ...1)!, is defined as the product (''p'' – 1) x (''p'' – 2) ... x 2 x 1; i.e.,<br>

...a foolishly annoying person, which the British might translate as "twit". I guess in American English you would translate it as ''dork''. ...em of the pop history they taught in Scottish schools back in the fifties (I was there!), like Bruce and the Spider, King Alfred and the Cakes, Washingt

[[ATD 374-396#Page 395|See p.395: Bolsón de Mapimi]] Is the biplane on ATD p. 927 Hamilton’s flight? Here are the clues:

'''I'm Going..Salome'''<br> "I'm going to get myself a black Salome"<br>

'''May, I think'''<br> ...Dimitrov Dam (completed in 1955, so not yet in existence at this point in AtD) may have filled part of the valley with a reservoir. Mild confusion: The [

A possible jump in time of the action. I can't find year-by-year weather records going back to the 1910s, though. ..."anchors" as weather, wars and expositions. A major heat wave in the book, I expect to find reflecting a historical one. Still . . . .

I imagine TRP keeping long lists of potential character names from odd termin ...of this particular cigarette brand also echoes the phrase "smoke a fatty", i.e. a big joint of marijuana.''

French: I have two lovers. ...re as <i>African Antics, Shanghai Scampers </i> and <i> Roguish Redheads.</i>

.... I'm trying to get my article on this overlap published so, sadly enough, I can't reveal all my research and conclusions here, though. My point is just It isn't hard to find parallels between ''PC'' and ''AtD.'' The young assassin who fails and dies is an undeniable one (as noted at

[[ATD 1-25#Page 22|'''p. 22''']]<br /> [[ATD 57-80#Page 72|'''p. 72''']]<br />

...rely. I saw a loose thread and started pulling, and pulling .... - and now I gotta run [[User:WikiAdmin|WikiAdmin]] 10:57, 25 March 2007 (PDT) ...s bolts hurled on Phlegraean plains. But now I need the gentler touch; for I would sing of boys, the favorites of Gods, and even of maids who had to pay

...—would seem to preclude the "lube" reading.) He is, after all, the first AtD character to move from one world to the next, which is why he does not reme I haven't figured him out, but there's something there....

:'''<big>I testi ove possibile sono riportati sia in lingua originale che nella traduz "Ho contattato il Centro Culturale Tibetano e ho chiesto loro di tradurre i caratteri presenti sul sigillo di Contro il Giorno. Sono stati molto gentil

:'''<big>I testi ove possibile sono riportati sia in lingua originale che nella traduz ...ro peso e minore del peso del fluido che spostano (per questo si riempiono i palloni aerostatici con gas leggeri come l'idrogeno o l'elio). Una volta ch

:'''<big>I testi ove possibile sono riportati sia in lingua originale che nella traduz '''“I greatly admire the music of the region,” said Miles, “the ukulele in pa

:'''<big>I testi ove possibile sono riportati sia in lingua originale che nella traduz ...che questo paragrafo dovrebbe situarsi poco dopo gli incontri di Merle con i Compari del Caso, Dally dovrebbe avere circa 4-5 anni.