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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 />