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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