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[[Image:ATD-French-Edition.jpg|100px|thumb|left]]<h2>French Translation Now Available</ ...pers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1086671 Literary Sleuths Online: e-Research Collaboration on the Pynchon Wiki]. Feel free to add [[Oxford arti

...ts of the time, Mantegna experimented with perspective as he thought best, e.g., by lowering the horizon in order to create a sense of greater monumenta 467-468; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groucho_marx Wikipedia entry][[ATD-J#julius|See also Julius]]

'''Rap&eacute;e, Erno'''<br /> ...e Clara Elizabeth La Touche, eldest daughter of Captain Richard Vicars, R. E. He was one of the very few members of higher nobility who won fame as an o

...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 ...7. Perhaps, he is more commonly known by his pejorative Persian name Timur-e Lang (Persian: تیمور لنگ) which translates to Timur the Lame, as he

the mysterious legend on the AtD seal. They were kind enough to forward my owe the solution of one more ATD related mystery.

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...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 ...world. Also, Pynchon often creates humorous or fanciful acronyms: W.A.S.T.E. (''The Crying of Lot 49''), A.C.H.T.U.N.G. (''Gravity's Rainbow''), etc.

...e from Colonel John Jacob Astor. Tesla's friend and patent lawyer, Leonard E. Curtis, persuaded the El Paso Power Company to supply Tesla with all the e :I interpreted it as lots of light = blindness; i.e., again the distinction between seeing, learning, understanding vs. light.

...[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 qualities that silver possesses." (Alchemy and Symbols, By M. E. Glidewell, Epsilon.)

And behind both AtD and GR, there are strong overtones from the ''Book of Revelation:'' ...that history, somehow plotted in advance, is about to go off its rails? ''AtD'' refers several times to the idea of an already settled history being disr

spelled Rogers Brothers, with 1847 Silver Ware (and other items) on E-Bay they seem to have been a leading maker of silverware and other silver p ...ved in and researched for Vineland. Here's another Gaddis article that has ATD imagery: sentient lightning and the photography of etheric bodies [http://j

...appear to be many allusions to [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki ''V.''] in ''ATD''. Cf. references to the Chinese as 'the celestials', e.g. in the HBO series [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadwood_(TV_series) ''D

...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 ...er than the person playing it, patented by Adolphe Sax in 1846. Pitched in E-flat—if you are keeping track—two octaves below the alto sax. [http://e

...logists until the 1960s. Probably just another anachronism in the world of AtD. i.e., 'gone bust'

Also, third ATD meaning!, a college in Dublin mentioned on page 560. '''''mousmée... mouchard'''''<br>

...rty refers to ''i j = −j i = k; j k = −k j = i; k i = −i k = j''. (i.e. ''i j ≠ j i; j k ≠ k j; k i ≠ i k''; etc.) The using of ''i, j, k'', ...umber of parts by horizontal lines. Nebuly, possibly also spelled ''nebulée,'' signals that the lines are deformed into stylized "cloud" shapes. (Actua

...the long run, despite her obvious erotic influence on the men and women in ATD. - Tommaso Jacques Hadamard and Charles de la Vallée-Poussin independently proved the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number

Concerned with clay pigeons, i.e., trapshooting. A code depending upon changes in the starting point for shifts in the text (e.g a book with a different starting page depending on the date, groups of le

I.e., none of her beeswax (American slang for "business"). ...is indeed "chamber-servant", both male (cameriere/i) and female (cameriera/e), but nowadays it is most commonly used to indicate a waiter (waitress) or

...rs. Forster-Nietzsche - [http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/spzar10.txt e-text at Project Gutenberg]</ref> (''Emphasis added'') ...vector in three dimensions plus the time dimension. Looking out from it, i.e. at ninety degrees to its direction of travel, may involve axes with comple

usually worded differently (i.e. "cherchez la femme" = "look for the woman"). "Cherchons" is first person p A scale with five notes per octave. C-D-E-G-A(-C) or A-C-D-E-G(-A), for example. Western listeners sense this as an "Oriental" scale—R

Cantoris (another print error in AtD?) is the side of a church choir occupied by the Cantor. In English churches ..." note, consists of the notes e-f-g-a-b-c-d-e. You don't have to start on "e," but you must maintain the relationship of the intervals: half-step, whole

...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 [ I.e., in 1910.

...tation (Gare Montparnasse). The street opposite is called "rue de l'arrivée" (arrival street). Therefore this may also be an echo to "the melancholy of ...toranti.asp?id=2 Ristorante del Cambio], known locally as 'the old lady'" (ATD, p. 1073), is a famous restaurant in Turin, in operation since 1757, whe

...'spato islandese', generando il tipico effetto di moltiplicazione di ombre e immagini che si possono intravedere dietro il soggetto osservato usando il ...ratteri presenti sul sigillo di Contro il Giorno. Sono stati molto gentili e hanno girato la mia richiesta al traduttore dal tibetano Tenzin Namgyal al

'''razionalizzata in movimenti soltanto a linea retta e ad angolo retto, e in un ridursi progressivo delle scelte, fino alla curva finale di là dalla

...luppano le loro piume più pregiate durante la stagione dell'accoppiamento e quindi venivano cacciati proprio prima di riprodursi. ...uo spettacolo al banchetto Seeley durante l'Esposizione Mondiale del 1893, e Farida Mazar Spyropoulos, anche nota come Fatima sul palco, che partecipò

...Morley in quello che oggi è chiamata la Case Western Reserve University. E' considerata la prima prova forte a confutazione della teoria dell'etere lu ...sso modo dello strumento o che la luce non era un'onda immersa nell'etere. E se l'etere non conduceva le onde luminose allora non c'era motivo di includ