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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