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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 '''Bakunin, Mikhail (1814-1876)'''<br />

'''Macchiavelli, Niccolò di Bernardo dei (1469-1527)'''<br /> ...e Macedonian Question], ''Journal of Modern Greek Studies'' 14.2 (1996) 253-301</ref>; 697; 845; 871;

...ce [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tableau_vivant], recalls Zoyd's fake-glass-breaking show in Vineland. [[image:Tait.jpg|thumb|P. G. Tait|right]]'''Tait, Peter Guthrie (P. G.) (1831-1901)'''<br />

'''Earp, Wyatt (1848-1929)'''<br /> ...Teamster, sometime buffalo hunter, officer of the law, gambler, and saloon-keeper in the Wild West and the U.S. mining frontier from California to Alas

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p> ...?title=The_Hawaiian_Islands_and_Ukuleles ''Vineland''] and [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=The_Hawaiian_Islands_and_Ukulel

:'''<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> ...as awarded the Nobel Prize in 1907. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson-Morley_experiment Wikipedia entry]

Page 82 line 30 "Cour d'Alene" Page 87 line 31-32 "ridegerunning"

:'''<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] ...Against the Day'', Pynchon’s freewheeling, coruscating, triumphantly life-affirming epic, was far and away the best book to be published in 2006, and

:'''<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> ...o and Nevada) or Nevada proper. It's some 250 miles from Denver to the Utah-Nevada line; we learn that Jeshimon is a day's ride (say 100 miles?) from No

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p> ...s as the irrational sphere, or inferior world. <ref>From [http://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/sta/ ''The Secret Teachings of All Ages''] by Manly P. Hall (1

:'''<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> 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 pr

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p> ...l of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act devastated Tabor's fortune and his far-flung holdings were sold off. He died from appendicitis in 1899, and his le

:'''<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> Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857-94), German physicist, born at Hamburg, studied under Kirchhoff and Helmholt

:'''<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> ...presumably, ''The Chums of Chance in Old Mexico'', as described on [[ATD 1-25#Page 7|p. 7]].

:'''<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 respon

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p> ...ven charm the trees, and Rilke (who figures prominently in [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow'']) in the first of his ''

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

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p> made to order, hence hand-made and expensive. Somewhere in the novel is a reference to 1 Savile Row, t

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p> ...#Page 521|page 521: Ostend]], a seaport in northwest Belgium. 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> ...day, it is in the possession of the University of Göttingen. Cf [[ATD_489-524#Page 498|page 498:Gauss]].

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p> ...aper he made what later was called the ''Riemann Hypothesis'' (Cf [[ATD_489-524#Page 496|page 496:conjecture]]). Today, after nearly 150 years of carefu

:'''<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> 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> ...ng that does it,' she said, ripping off the scarlet sash of the Junior Anti-Sex League and flinging it on to a bough. Then, as though touching her waist

:'''<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> '''''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> '''''trois-six'' chasers'''<br>

:'''<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> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_I._Madero Francisco Madero] (1873-1913) was a Mexico's liberal political leader. He denounced President Porfir

:'''<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> ...you see the letter ''â'' in this system, another will have ''u.'' Present-day transliteration from Bulgarian uses the letter ''ǔ.'' The sound resembl

:'''<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> '''Rue du Départ'''<br>

...term ''contre-jour'' ("against the day" or "against the daylight"). "Contre-jour" is also a photographic effect that refers to photographs where the cam ...Q = Quaternion) is, it appears, a camera of some sort, that uses an eyeball-size icosahedron (see at right). And there actually are Quarternion cameras:

...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: La pagina dei diritti d'autore della versione inglese sostiene che ''Against the Day'' sia pubblica

...hoices, until the final turn through the final gate that led to the killing-floor.'''<br /> ...l carisma è un tema ricorrente in Pynchon, soprattutto in [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Routinization_of_Charisma ''L'A

"La Piccola Egiziana" era il nome d'arte di due ballerine esotiche: Ashea Wabe che tenne il suo spettacolo al b ...title=The_Hawaiian_Islands_and_Ukuleles ''Vineland''] e in [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=The_Hawaiian_Islands_and_Ukulel

...gli incontri di Merle con i Compari del Caso, Dally dovrebbe avere circa 4-5 anni. ...i risultati di questo esperimento. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson-Morley_experiment Wikipedia entry]