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'''A-and'''<br /> :Notable as a verbal tick of Tyrone Slothrop's in [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow'''].

134-35; uneven ice formed by pressure, currents and wind in the dynamic Arctic e ...ire planned to construct a Baghdad Railway under German control. It became a source of international tension and played some role in the origins of the

845; "noodle-thin and mournful Bulgarian"; at wedding, 947; '''Gage, Lyman Judson (1836-1927)'''<br />

...containing oil from Macassar, which is the former name of Ujung Pandang, a district on the island of Celebes in Indonesia. Exotic hair oil was quite '''Macchiavelli, Niccolò di Bernardo dei (1469-1527)'''<br />

95; area to be destroyed in a bomb explosion, as imagined by Reef Traverse a "small house band . . . tirelesssly 'ragging,'" 399;

...ydoe.htm Elizabeth "Baby Doe" Tabor] maintained for 36 years. She lived in a shack beside the mine until she froze to death in 1935. [http://en.wikipedi ...ce [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tableau_vivant], recalls Zoyd's fake-glass-breaking show in Vineland.

862; a ride Yashmeen took "centuries ago in her girlhood"; The Great Wheel of Earl '''Earp, Wyatt (1848-1929)'''<br />

435; Peter Carl Fabergé (1846-1920), Russian jeweller; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Carl_Faberg%C3% '''Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis'''<br/>

'''Hadamard, Jacques (1865-1963)'''<br /> ...-hahn.gif|thumb|Reynaldo Hahn|right]]<div id="hahn">'''Hahn, Reynaldo (1874-1947)'''</div>

...cal culture. The initial appearance of the Chums in ATD, in the sky aboard a hydrogen balloon, may recall the appearance of the three ''Knaben'' in Moza ...down his most important ideas in the late 1800's, argued that 'Chance' was a feature of the universe that can refute all determinisms.

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p> ...[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Egypt_(dancer) Wikipedia entry] Also a 1961 [[Little_Egypt|song]] by the Coasters.

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p> ...iple typefaces. The combination of traditional serif fonts with modern sans-serif fonts suggests the themes of time, past/present, etc.

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p> ...seem a tad complex for her age, if this is just after she was first seen, when she

Page 87 line 31-32 "ridegerunning" ...r of dictionaries yields no acknowledgement that polyhedral can be used as a noun. Should be "polyhedron"

...rence to the novel's setting, 1893 through World War I, and the book's mock-recreation of prose from that era. ...er is an older serif font, and the bottom layer is once again a modern sans-serif font. This corresponds nicely with the fact that the novel straddles t

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p> ...the general reader. These were the only official excerpts published before ATD itself, on 21 November 2006.

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p> '''to measure and map . . . that mysterious mathematical lattice-work'''<br>

:[http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/popus/pynchon.htm The Complete Review] ...ome in. Blog reviews are fine as long as they're substantial and more than a few paragraphs.'''

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p> '''the iron of their shoes . . . seeking the magnetic memory of that long-ago visit'''<br />

'''Note: please keep this analysis general and spoiler-free.''' David Hockney: "Contre-jour in the French Style - Against the Day dans le style français". Paris 1

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p> ...e 250 miles from Denver to the Utah-Nevada line; we learn that Jeshimon is a day's ride (say 100 miles?) from Nochecita, and also that you go south from

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p> One of half a dozen Pynchonian circumlocutions for "wouldn't know [blank] if it bit them

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p> '''the far-fallen object'''<br>

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p> When were the Chums last seen in AtD? As far back as page 142?

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p> ...gold and 4 million ounces of silver until 1990. [http://www.mindat.org/loc-8702.html Camp Bird].

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p> ...s, with 1847 Silver Ware (and other items) on E-Bay they seem to have been a leading maker of silverware and other silver products in the 1900's.

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p> ...on Arapahoe Street. From the native tribe. Also a county in eastern CO and a scattering of places in US.

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p> [[image:kenosha-kid.jpg|thumb|125px|"The Kenosha Kid"<br />by Forbes Parkhill (Aug 1931)<br>

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p> Just a literal translation of the English phrase. The Spanish equivalent could be

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p> '''R-girls'''<br />

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p> '''a dime novel . . . suffering in its name'''<br>

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p> syn·ton·ic (sĭn-tŏn'ĭk) adj.Psychology. Characterized by a high degree of emotional responsiveness to the environment.

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p> A theater has two directions called left. "Stage left" is to the left of the

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p> ...n 1771, is the fourth of twenty-one California Missions, and has long been a center for culture and art. As the original and oldest settlement north of

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p> ...t, arms, iron, and armor for gods and heroes. Mulciber is also the name of a character in John Milton's ''Paradise Lost'', the architect of the demon ci

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p> ...ium. Among English-speaking tourists, Ostend (or Ostende) is best known as a ferry port.

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p> Cf. [[ATD_397-428#Pafe 418|page 418]], where ''metaphor'' and ''lateral'' are also used in

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p> In ancient history, tanning was considered a noxious or "odiferous trade" and relegated to the outskirts of town, amongs

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p> Building housing auditoriums (and in this case a library).

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p> ...as a lookout for the attack of Juárez during the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920). The Depot now is listed in the National Register of Historic Commissi

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p> ferry-boat.

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p> Mountains, a sub-chain of the Alps, northeast Italy. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolomites

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p> Cf [[ATD_615-643#Page_633|page 633: Crotona in Magna Grecia]]. or [[ATD_695-723#Page_706|page 706: Crotona]].<br>

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p> The heart of the district is Whitechapel Road itself, named for a small chapel of ease dedicated to St. Mary. In Victorian era Whitechapel ar

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p> Cf [[ATD_489-524#Page_489|page 489: Cyprian Latewood]].

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p> Another bi-location: one world out here, another reflected one in the lake. Oh, and the

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p> '''''rishta''-doctors . . . guinea-worms'''<br>

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p> John of Asia, also called John of Ephesus, was a 6th-century church leader and historian. The ruins of Ephesus are located in wes

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p> -a marquise is a cocktail mixing rum, white wine, champagne and lemons.

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p> '''Bodeo-packing'''<br>

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p> ...ded an armed revolt to overthrow Diaz's dictatorship in November, 1910. In a span of six months, Madero was successful and Diaz was forced to resign and

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p> ...miners. The union's real target was the larger southern coalfield. A state-wide coal strike was called in September 1913 and lasted 14 months resulted

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p> ...accountant. And as the Tibetan seal on the cover shows, even Shambhala has a chamber of commerce.<br>

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p> A possible jump in time of the action. I can't find year-by-year weather records going back to the 1910s, though.

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p> ...ctives. It fits Pynchon's description of the building interior, but it is a stretch to call the Pacific Electric Building at Sixth and Main "Right down

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p> Piet Mondrian had a studio at No. 26. A film titled

This book is the anti-''Against the Day, appropriate to the 1893-era anti-anarchist Chums. * the nobility has a monopoly on fine feelings

This is a work in progress from [[User:WikiAdmin|WikiAdmin]] 15:44, 27 February 2007 ...ing backlighting of the subject. This effect usually hides details, causes a stronger contrast between light and dark, creates silhouettes and emphasize

...''' This is a work in progress. Feel free to offer pointers, surely. I saw a loose thread and started pulling, and pulling .... - and now I gotta run [[ ...at he accidentally kills with a spear. In his grief, Apollo turns him into a cypress tree. The Cypress was one of the trees Orpheus charmed. In Ovid's '

Published 1886 (James had published two others by 1893), a classic dealing with terrorists, anarchists, and bombings. It was the seque :Thematically, it's reactionary, the opposite of AtD.

...conosciuto con il nick di 'Ya Sam' ha [http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0612&msg=112066&keywords=Namgyal inviato] il seguente messaggio: ...to a capirci molto di più. Forse qualcuno di voi che l'ha letto riuscirà a svelare l'arcano?

'''razionalizzata in movimenti soltanto a linea retta e ad angolo retto, e in un ridursi progressivo delle scelte, fi ...hoices, until the final turn through the final gate that led to the killing-floor.'''<br />

...title=The_Hawaiian_Islands_and_Ukuleles ''Vineland''] e in [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=The_Hawaiian_Islands_and_Ukulel .../wiki/Samson_and_Delilah_%28opera%29 ''Sansone e Dalila'', op. 47 (1877)]. A disposizione anche un [http://themodernword.com/wiki/bacchanale.mp3 estratt

...gli incontri di Merle con i Compari del Caso, Dally dovrebbe avere circa 4-5 anni. '''a couple of professors at the Case Institute in Cleveland, who were planning