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2006-11-30T18:49:35Z

Ande:

==Added Annotation by Page==

Hey, I've started to add a different type of annotation that the Alphabetical Index. I like this method because it gives the reader all the references on the page, as he reads, in a non-spoilerish fashion. No idea if this will take off aside from my contributions, and also no idea how to integrate it with the Alphabetical Index, but these problems I leave to future Pynchonwiki contributors as well as my future self.

I also have not followed the naming guidelines on the main page, for the simple reason that I don't know how...! These pages can be renamed and moved by whoever knows how to do so.

[[User:Bleakhaus|Bleakhaus]] 08:51, 22 November 2006 (PST)

: I would name the page-by-page pages eg: ATD 1-25, etc. Ultimately, all Pynchon's works will be in the Wiki, so it's important to establish this convention. I have moved the three pages you created to reflect this naming.

: I changed the page number headers to a 2nd level from a 1st level, to reflect semantically their heirarchy on the page (they appeared at the same level as "Pages 1-25"; thus, for example, I changed

::<nowiki>=Page 1=</nowiki>

::to

::<nowiki>==Page1==</nowiki>

: I would suggest that eventually we have a link to the ToC for the page-by-page, as it will be a '''very long''' ToC!

:[[User:WikiAdmin|Tim]] November 22, 2006

:::good call! I'll handle that ToC soon. [[User:Bleakhaus|Bleakhaus]] 12:26, 23 November 2006 (PST)

I think the page-by-page (can we now call that the PbP?) is a lot more fun to edit, since it follows the way I am reading the book.
--[[User:Fblau|Fblau]] 09:03, 25 November 2006 (PST)

==What can the Pynchonwiki do better than Amazon.com full text search?==

I note that Amazon.com's full text search of Pynchon's novels does exactly the same thing as one function of Thomaspynchon.com's previous guides: giving the page numbers where a given character or thing is mentioned. That said, I think we need to articulate what the guides and Pynchon wiki do ''in addition'' to justify all the human labor involved, and then communicate that to potential wiki contributors. (also, Amazon doesn't do this for AtD yet, but since it's available for all his other works, I assume it's just a matter of time). Thoughts? [[User:Bleakhaus|Bleakhaus]] 12:26, 23 November 2006 (PST)

==Change of logo/cover image==

Shouldn't we change the cover image/logo for Pynchon wiki (upper left corner) to the final version of the cover? And, for accuracy's sake, shouldn't we include the white border around the cover? [[User:Torerye|Torerye]] 01:21, 24 November 2006 (PST)

:agreed-- Tim will have to take care of that, though. [[User:Bleakhaus|Bleakhaus]] 14:17, 24 November 2006 (PST)

'''Tim sez:''' 
This brings up the general branding of this site. I would like to have Wikis for all the works, and use the Category namespace to separate them. Having them all in this wiki means that a user can search in all the novels.

So, I'm thinking I just create a "logo" image that's general, for "Pynchon Wiki".

I'd surely love to hear anyone's thoughts on this so we can brainstorm the best decision. Email me directly at tim (at) hyperarts (dot com).

--[[User:WikiAdmin|WikiAdmin]] 15:00, 24 November 2006 (PST)

==Missing caption?==

Um, was the picture caption removed as a spoiler, or what? [[User:Bleakhaus|Bleakhaus]] 22:49, 27 November 2006 (PST)

: No, I just took it off to free up the image, jettisoning signifiers. As I looked at it, I just thought it worked better if the reader just sort of recognizes it as that Chums of Chance bit without being too literal.

: [[User:WikiAdmin|WikiAdmin]] 23:28, 27 November 2006 (PST)

== The impending anarchist miracle ==

:''The following is copied from [http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0611&msg=111809&sort=date A. A.'s message on PYNCHON-L].''

Jasper Fidget <jasper.fidget@[omitted]> wrote:
> [...] I anticipate the wiki turning into a junkyard full of people's
> half-baked opinions and
> Kinbote-esque commentary (i.e. worse than useless).

In reply to which, pynchonoid <pynchonoid@[omitted]> wrote:
> That's Pynchon-l you're describing, certainly.
>
> I think you're wrong about the potential for
> http://pynchonwiki.com. So far, it is nothing like
> your description and is instead a useful resource that
> will grow more so as more people contribute useful
> information.
>

And in reply to the above, I say:

First of all, Kinbote's commentary isn't "worse than useless". His digressions on Zembla have blasted little to do with John Shade's Appalachia, but leaving aside the value of the Forward (which gives the reader their first brush with Shade and, in some respects, a more complete visual impression), the Commentary and Index provide a counterpart and complement to the 999 lines of the poem itself. The book in its entirety is an artifice, deceptive and illuminating; if pynchonwiki.com produces anything like ''Pale Fire,'' its authors would have every right to be proud.

"[http://burks.brighton.ac.uk/burks/foldoc/6/51.htm Ha ha, only serious.]"

Second, the pynchonwiki has the potential to become something I wished Wikipedia could provide: a place to provide factual material of scholarly use, backed up with pointers to papers and books, ''plus'' the opportunity to generate new literary talk with kindred folks. You can't do that over at WP. Even applying the bread-and-butter methods of lit-crit one learns in the undergraduate years is a sin, or in the argot, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research Original Research]. In WP territory, you can't discuss a new book, even with old methods, only report what other people have said about old books. This is appropriate for an encyclopedia, but it can't constitute the whole of discourse.

Human behavior implies some basic facts about wiki life. Foremost is the under-acknowledged issue that in any situation where the wiki grows by people contributing their free time, the majority of edits will be minor ones, affecting (and affected by) only their immediate environment. Lists can grow item by item, for example, much more easily than entire articles can be overhauled. Thus, even in cases where a page contains all the ''facts'' one needs, the organization will often be poor. Also, ensuring coordination among multiple pages can be difficult and tiresome to achieve.

These societal traits make wikis a good repository for things like lists of typos, catalogs of character names and so forth. In these cases, small edits ''can'' build a workable and useful whole by incremental additions. However, there is an unhappy flipside. Most of the really good articles on WP (say, those listed in "Featured Articles") are the work of one person or a small group, say a couple-three editors, who assemble a clear and thorough exposition of a topic which interests them. Remarkably often, such people can do a really terrific job. They push the article up to Featured status (I
did this five times — all it takes is energy and care), where it can sit and bask in the glory. . . . And attract a stream of well-meaning editors who come along, adding their favorite tidbit of information, little drops of this or that which may well be completely accurate but which don't fit into the scheme painfully worked out by the original authors.

After this goes on for long enough, the original authors or others with a like-minded sense of dedication have to go through and clean up the cruft.

I saw several cycles of this happen with the article ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_and_Hobbes Calvin and Hobbes]''. Everybody has their own favorite ''Calvin and Hobbes'' strip, and damn if they don't want to talk about it! This sort of thing is a big reason why WP has "Featured Article Review", a mechanism for forcing cruft patrol and, if necessary, taking pages off the honor roll.

If pynchonwiki is to be a going concern, it'll need mechanisms for keeping track of good content. Somebody will also have to institute ground rules for keeping debate fair and dealing with the inevitable hotheads and trolls (trust me, no subject is too obscure to attract crackpottery). Otherwise, we're just prayin' for that anarchist miracle.

Pirate Prentice wrote:

> There's basically 3 things the wiki does at the moment: 1) straight up
> reference (what was the Chicago World's Fair and when did it happen?),
> 2) connections to other Pynchon novels ("single up all lines" also
> appears on these pages of GR and V., "entropy" was a major theme in
> GR, etc), and 3) interpretation.

I think that any work people do on #3 (which is what Wikipediphiles call "original research") should be credited to the people who do it, since it is after all value generated by labor. To an extent, #2 shades into #3, depending upon how much one has to squint to draw the connections. The many avatars of Pig Bodine are less subtle than the postage-stamp references in ATD, for example.

[[User:BlakeStacey|BlakeStacey]] 15:44, 29 November 2006 (PST)

:What do we do about interpretation? As you say, the Pynchonwiki differs from Wikipedia in that there's room for people to add their own interpretations. Jasper on Pynchon-L warned that this could easily turn into a BS free-for-all, and maybe he's right. Who knows? This is one grand experiment! I foresee that someday, perhaps soon, we will need to agree on some hard and fast rules regarding opinions/interpretation (i.e. should users sign their opinions, do we keep interpretation in the discussion pages, etc), but for now, I for one say let's just sit back and see what the 125+ registered users we've got come up with. [[User:Bleakhaus|Bleakhaus]] 19:58, 29 November 2006 (PST)

::I floated an idea on PYNCHON-L which seems reasonable, at first glance. What if we institute a rule like Wikipedia's "No original research" policy for the articles themselves, allow a free-for-all on the ''discussion'' side, and then host periodic debates on issues of interest? We pick a topic relating to ATD, people who want to throw lit-crit around write their positions, and after a week, the moderator (''i.e.,'' a screwball with scholarly pretensions and too much free time) writes up the debate's "greatest hits" as an article. Giving proper attribution to all participants, naturally. This way, we can cover whatever issues arise naturally in close-reading ATD, letting everyone who wants to rant do so, while making sure important ideas don't get lost. [[User:BlakeStacey|BlakeStacey]] 08:37, 30 November 2006 (PST)

[[User:Ande|Ande]]+++Not quite sure how to "discuss" here yet---but since I stirred the pot on the pynchon-l site, I will try to move my musings here. As always with Wikipedia and actually anything (see recent gatt.org hacks of WTO, news stories about faked research at the university level, etc.) Reader Beware! It seems that when speculating, there is speculating language properly employed (wiggle words like "seems to me, mayhaps, IMHO--if you are partial to internet convention) that can signal departure from fact to opinion. But the "facts" are only so good too--there is nothing to stop me from presenting myself as a scholar of esoteric Sanskrit calligraphy and providing translation of the text of the seal, nefariously if I wish, to promote some pet close reading. On the other hand, part of the joy of reading,esp reading Pynchon, is the unexpected depth gained by digging just a bit-- I'm not a WWI naval buff--my experience being limited to loving __Riddle of the Sands__ and a quick read of __Dreadnought__, so my initial read of 'dazzle painting'(AtD 122) had more Star Trek NG-Romulan Ships appearing off the aft deck-type connotations, but I marked it, looked it up, found it to be fascinating (esp when you consider that the periscopes looking at the painted patterns were made of Iceland Spar), and found that the wiki was a great place to share my discovery--without feeling too shy about the "well duh, of course everyone knows that..." responses that one might subject oneself to in an open forum...

As to attribution, I started this discussion of speculation on the wiki on the P-List, because I found an off-hand comment I made in the course of (what I had assumed) was a less than serious discussion, suddenly "attributed" to me on the wiki--now, I understand that I can "edit" said attribution into wiki oblivion (or into a wiki war) but last vestiges of my Mother's WASPish upbringing cause me to hesitate to disturb the work of others...I could just retreat into politeness and not talk to strangers at all.

So, as to the issue of No. 3--Interpretation--I agree with A.A., No.2 will bleed into No. 3, attribution is essential--and such posts should include a signature--preferably not just the digital signature available if you dig in the wiki history. We may even want to create a system so that people can discreetly mark posts as 1, 2 or 3, if they forget to use speculative language. And in the meantime, I would ask that until we have a moderated discussion, where Ideas are tempered in the furnace of debate, we be careful about "attributing" passing thoughts as "original research." Ande [[User:Ande|Ande]] 10:49, 30 November 2006 (PST)

:Quick hints about the mechanics of wiki-work: you can indent paragraphs by using colons, ''italicize text'' by using double apostrophes (<nowiki>''</nowiki>), '''bold text''' by using triple apostrophes (<nowiki>'''</nowiki>), sign your name by using four tildes (<nowiki>~~~~</nowiki> for me gives [[User:BlakeStacey|BlakeStacey]] 10:10, 30 November 2006 (PST)) and make "wikilinks" to other pages by using double square brackets. <nowiki>[[Thomas Pynchon]]</nowiki>, for example, gives [[Thomas Pynchon]]. Wikipedia has a "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cheatsheet Cheatsheet]" on these matters; all of those tricks should work the same here. Best wishes, [[User:BlakeStacey|BlakeStacey]] 10:10, 30 November 2006 (PST)

:I think Ande's ideas are all good ones, and particularly like the idea of keeping separate the discussion and annotation sections. Of course, with Pynchon, there's plenty to draw connections with, and I think it's worthwhile to bracket non-obvious connections with contingent language. Not only does this indicate their interprative nature, it also more fully allows the possiblity of other readings.[[User:Ahpsp|Ahpsp]] 10:42, 30 November 2006 (PST)

Talk:Main Page

2006-11-30T18:01:52Z

Ande: /* The impending anarchist miracle */

==Added Annotation by Page==

Hey, I've started to add a different type of annotation that the Alphabetical Index. I like this method because it gives the reader all the references on the page, as he reads, in a non-spoilerish fashion. No idea if this will take off aside from my contributions, and also no idea how to integrate it with the Alphabetical Index, but these problems I leave to future Pynchonwiki contributors as well as my future self.

I also have not followed the naming guidelines on the main page, for the simple reason that I don't know how...! These pages can be renamed and moved by whoever knows how to do so.

[[User:Bleakhaus|Bleakhaus]] 08:51, 22 November 2006 (PST)

: I would name the page-by-page pages eg: ATD 1-25, etc. Ultimately, all Pynchon's works will be in the Wiki, so it's important to establish this convention. I have moved the three pages you created to reflect this naming.

: I changed the page number headers to a 2nd level from a 1st level, to reflect semantically their heirarchy on the page (they appeared at the same level as "Pages 1-25"; thus, for example, I changed

::<nowiki>=Page 1=</nowiki>

::to

::<nowiki>==Page1==</nowiki>

: I would suggest that eventually we have a link to the ToC for the page-by-page, as it will be a '''very long''' ToC!

:[[User:WikiAdmin|Tim]] November 22, 2006

:::good call! I'll handle that ToC soon. [[User:Bleakhaus|Bleakhaus]] 12:26, 23 November 2006 (PST)

I think the page-by-page (can we now call that the PbP?) is a lot more fun to edit, since it follows the way I am reading the book.
--[[User:Fblau|Fblau]] 09:03, 25 November 2006 (PST)

==What can the Pynchonwiki do better than Amazon.com full text search?==

I note that Amazon.com's full text search of Pynchon's novels does exactly the same thing as one function of Thomaspynchon.com's previous guides: giving the page numbers where a given character or thing is mentioned. That said, I think we need to articulate what the guides and Pynchon wiki do ''in addition'' to justify all the human labor involved, and then communicate that to potential wiki contributors. (also, Amazon doesn't do this for AtD yet, but since it's available for all his other works, I assume it's just a matter of time). Thoughts? [[User:Bleakhaus|Bleakhaus]] 12:26, 23 November 2006 (PST)

==Change of logo/cover image==

Shouldn't we change the cover image/logo for Pynchon wiki (upper left corner) to the final version of the cover? And, for accuracy's sake, shouldn't we include the white border around the cover? [[User:Torerye|Torerye]] 01:21, 24 November 2006 (PST)

:agreed-- Tim will have to take care of that, though. [[User:Bleakhaus|Bleakhaus]] 14:17, 24 November 2006 (PST)

'''Tim sez:''' 
This brings up the general branding of this site. I would like to have Wikis for all the works, and use the Category namespace to separate them. Having them all in this wiki means that a user can search in all the novels.

So, I'm thinking I just create a "logo" image that's general, for "Pynchon Wiki".

I'd surely love to hear anyone's thoughts on this so we can brainstorm the best decision. Email me directly at tim (at) hyperarts (dot com).

--[[User:WikiAdmin|WikiAdmin]] 15:00, 24 November 2006 (PST)

==Missing caption?==

Um, was the picture caption removed as a spoiler, or what? [[User:Bleakhaus|Bleakhaus]] 22:49, 27 November 2006 (PST)

: No, I just took it off to free up the image, jettisoning signifiers. As I looked at it, I just thought it worked better if the reader just sort of recognizes it as that Chums of Chance bit without being too literal.

: [[User:WikiAdmin|WikiAdmin]] 23:28, 27 November 2006 (PST)

== The impending anarchist miracle ==

:''The following is copied from [http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0611&msg=111809&sort=date A. A.'s message on PYNCHON-L].''

Jasper Fidget <jasper.fidget@[omitted]> wrote:
> [...] I anticipate the wiki turning into a junkyard full of people's
> half-baked opinions and
> Kinbote-esque commentary (i.e. worse than useless).

In reply to which, pynchonoid <pynchonoid@[omitted]> wrote:
> That's Pynchon-l you're describing, certainly.
>
> I think you're wrong about the potential for
> http://pynchonwiki.com. So far, it is nothing like
> your description and is instead a useful resource that
> will grow more so as more people contribute useful
> information.
>

And in reply to the above, I say:

First of all, Kinbote's commentary isn't "worse than useless". His digressions on Zembla have blasted little to do with John Shade's Appalachia, but leaving aside the value of the Forward (which gives the reader their first brush with Shade and, in some respects, a more complete visual impression), the Commentary and Index provide a counterpart and complement to the 999 lines of the poem itself. The book in its entirety is an artifice, deceptive and illuminating; if pynchonwiki.com produces anything like ''Pale Fire,'' its authors would have every right to be proud.

"[http://burks.brighton.ac.uk/burks/foldoc/6/51.htm Ha ha, only serious.]"

Second, the pynchonwiki has the potential to become something I wished Wikipedia could provide: a place to provide factual material of scholarly use, backed up with pointers to papers and books, ''plus'' the opportunity to generate new literary talk with kindred folks. You can't do that over at WP. Even applying the bread-and-butter methods of lit-crit one learns in the undergraduate years is a sin, or in the argot, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research Original Research]. In WP territory, you can't discuss a new book, even with old methods, only report what other people have said about old books. This is appropriate for an encyclopedia, but it can't constitute the whole of discourse.

Human behavior implies some basic facts about wiki life. Foremost is the under-acknowledged issue that in any situation where the wiki grows by people contributing their free time, the majority of edits will be minor ones, affecting (and affected by) only their immediate environment. Lists can grow item by item, for example, much more easily than entire articles can be overhauled. Thus, even in cases where a page contains all the ''facts'' one needs, the organization will often be poor. Also, ensuring coordination among multiple pages can be difficult and tiresome to achieve.

These societal traits make wikis a good repository for things like lists of typos, catalogs of character names and so forth. In these cases, small edits ''can'' build a workable and useful whole by incremental additions. However, there is an unhappy flipside. Most of the really good articles on WP (say, those listed in "Featured Articles") are the work of one person or a small group, say a couple-three editors, who assemble a clear and thorough exposition of a topic which interests them. Remarkably often, such people can do a really terrific job. They push the article up to Featured status (I
did this five times — all it takes is energy and care), where it can sit and bask in the glory. . . . And attract a stream of well-meaning editors who come along, adding their favorite tidbit of information, little drops of this or that which may well be completely accurate but which don't fit into the scheme painfully worked out by the original authors.

After this goes on for long enough, the original authors or others with a like-minded sense of dedication have to go through and clean up the cruft.

I saw several cycles of this happen with the article ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_and_Hobbes Calvin and Hobbes]''. Everybody has their own favorite ''Calvin and Hobbes'' strip, and damn if they don't want to talk about it! This sort of thing is a big reason why WP has "Featured Article Review", a mechanism for forcing cruft patrol and, if necessary, taking pages off the honor roll.

If pynchonwiki is to be a going concern, it'll need mechanisms for keeping track of good content. Somebody will also have to institute ground rules for keeping debate fair and dealing with the inevitable hotheads and trolls (trust me, no subject is too obscure to attract crackpottery). Otherwise, we're just prayin' for that anarchist miracle.

Pirate Prentice wrote:

> There's basically 3 things the wiki does at the moment: 1) straight up
> reference (what was the Chicago World's Fair and when did it happen?),
> 2) connections to other Pynchon novels ("single up all lines" also
> appears on these pages of GR and V., "entropy" was a major theme in
> GR, etc), and 3) interpretation.

I think that any work people do on #3 (which is what Wikipediphiles call "original research") should be credited to the people who do it, since it is after all value generated by labor. To an extent, #2 shades into #3, depending upon how much one has to squint to draw the connections. The many avatars of Pig Bodine are less subtle than the postage-stamp references in ATD, for example.

[[User:BlakeStacey|BlakeStacey]] 15:44, 29 November 2006 (PST)

:What do we do about interpretation? As you say, the Pynchonwiki differs from Wikipedia in that there's room for people to add their own interpretations. Jasper on Pynchon-L warned that this could easily turn into a BS free-for-all, and maybe he's right. Who knows? This is one grand experiment! I foresee that someday, perhaps soon, we will need to agree on some hard and fast rules regarding opinions/interpretation (i.e. should users sign their opinions, do we keep interpretation in the discussion pages, etc), but for now, I for one say let's just sit back and see what the 125+ registered users we've got come up with. [[User:Bleakhaus|Bleakhaus]] 19:58, 29 November 2006 (PST)

::I floated an idea on PYNCHON-L which seems reasonable, at first glance. What if we institute a rule like Wikipedia's "No original research" policy for the articles themselves, allow a free-for-all on the ''discussion'' side, and then host periodic debates on issues of interest? We pick a topic relating to ATD, people who want to throw lit-crit around write their positions, and after a week, the moderator (''i.e.,'' a screwball with scholarly pretensions and too much free time) writes up the debate's "greatest hits" as an article. Giving proper attribution to all participants, naturally. This way, we can cover whatever issues arise naturally in close-reading ATD, letting everyone who wants to rant do so, while making sure important ideas don't get lost. [[User:BlakeStacey|BlakeStacey]] 08:37, 30 November 2006 (PST)

+++Not quite sure how to "discuss" here yet---but since I stirred the pot on the pynchon-l site, I will try to move my musings here. As always with Wikipedia and actually anything (see recent gatt.org hacks of WTO, news stories about faked research at the university level, etc.) Reader Beware! It seems that when speculating, there is speculating language properly employed (wiggle words like "seems to me, mayhaps, IMHO--if you are partial to internet convention) that can signal departure from fact to opinion. But the "facts" are only so good too--there is nothing to stop me from presenting myself as a scholar of esoteric Sanskrit calligraphy and providing translation of the text of the seal, nefariously if I wish, to promote some pet close reading. On the other hand, part of the joy of reading,esp reading Pynchon, is the unexpected depth gained by digging just a bit-- I'm not a WWI naval buff--my experience being limited to loving __Riddle of the Sands__ and a quick read of __Dreadnought__, so my initial read of 'dazzle painting'(AtD 122) had more Star Trek NG-Romulan Ships appearing off the aft deck-type connotations, but I marked it, looked it up, found it to be fascinating (esp when you consider that the periscopes looking at the painted patterns were made of Iceland Spar), and found that the wiki was a great place to share my discovery--without feeling too shy about the "well duh, of course everyone knows that..." responses that one might subject oneself to in an open forum...

As to attribution, I started this discussion of speculation on the wiki on the P-List, because I found an off-hand comment I made in the course of (what I had assumed) was a less than serious discussion, suddenly "attributed" to me on the wiki--now, I understand that I can "edit" said attribution into wiki oblivion (or into a wiki war) but last vestiges of my Mother's WASPish upbringing cause me to hesitate to disturb the work of others...I could just retreat into politeness and not talk to strangers at all.

So, as to the issue of No. 3--Interpretation--I agree with A.A., No.2 will bleed into No. 3, attribution is essential--and such posts should include a signature--preferably not just the digital signature available if you dig in the wiki history. We may even want to create a system so that people can discreetly mark posts as 1, 2 or 3, if they forget to use speculative language. And in the meantime, I would ask that until we have a moderated discussion, where Ideas are tempered in the furnace of debate, we be careful about "attributing" passing thoughts as "original research." Ande

D

2006-11-27T07:22:37Z

Ande:

'''''dagga rooker''''' 
169; South African colloquial term for a person who smokes ''dagga'', a South African word for marijuana;

'''Dance of Lavalava, the Volcano Goddess''' 
27; performed by Miss McAdoo

'''Dante (1265-1321)''' 
154; Durante degli Alighieri, better known as Dante Alighieri or simply Dante, was an Italian Florentine poet; 226; 401; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante_Alighieri Wikipedia entry]

'''Dash, Mayva''' 
88; saloon girl at Pap Wyman's Saloon; married Webb Traverse

'''Davis, Richard Harding''' 
591;

'''Dazzle-Painting''' 
122; A camouflage painting technique used on WWI ships, both war ships and commercial liners. A series of bright colours and diagonal lines, intersecting shapes, influenced by cubism, that made it difficult for someone looking through a periscope to tell what direction the ship was moving. Try printing some of the pictures on the linked page and looking at them through a piece of Icelandic Spar (optical calcite) Link: [http://www.gotouring.com/razzledazzle/articles/dazzle.html] Wikipedia: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage]

'''Dawes, Linnet''' 
204; schoolteacher friend of Stray's; "had picked up a kind of glaze" 461;

'''Death''' 
Jeshimon, 209-210; "region of metaphor" 230; "white riders of the borderline" 362; and the State, 372; counter-death, aka Chemistry, 372; '''momias''', 383; 392; 436; 461; 478; anterooms of, 526; Japanese character for "death" is four, 564; the dead in Venice, 572; the "died-again" 586; 664; country of, 671; 720;

'''De Bottle, Coombs''' 
234; in Cheapside, London, 691;

'''de Decker''' 
540; Woevre's section officer; 549; 561;

'''Dedication''' 
None. [[DISCUSSION]]

'''Dee, Curly''' 
260; runs a road ranch for n'er-do-wells in Telluride

'''Deep Blavatsky''' 
434; under-sand mountain ranges

'''De Forest, Lee''' 
29; at Yale; 532; 675;

'''delirium''' 
41; comes from the Latin ''de'', meaning down or away from, and ''lira'', a furrow or track in the fields; that is, to be off the track, or out of the groove.

'''de Mérode''' 
544;

'''Denza, Luigi''' 
353; singer;

'''de Pompadoura, Marquis''' 
544;

'''de Richelieu, duc''' 
545;

<div id="descarte"></div>'''Descarte, René (1596-1650)''' 
10; René Descartes, also known as Cartesius, was a noted French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. Dubbed the "Founder of Modern Philosophy" and the "Father of Modern Mathematics," he ranks as one of the most important and influential thinkers of modern times. For good or bad, much of subsequent western philosophy is a reaction to his writings, which have been closely studied from his time down to the present day; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Descartes Wikipedia entry]

'''Designolle''' 
529;

'''''Despedida''''' 
373; "tramp steamer"

'''Deuce''' 
260; sidekick of Sloat;

'''Deux Espéces''' 
372; French: two species;

'''Devil''' 
212; upsidedown star; 226;

'''de Wolfe, Elsie (20 Dec. 1865 - 12 July 1950)''' 
161; interior designer. De Wolfe was an actress and a member of the New York 'Society'. She stopped acting in 1905 and published in 1913 "The House in Good Taste".

'''Diaz, President Porfirio (1830-1915)''' 
7; José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori was a Mexican war hero and President (later considered a dictator), ruled Mexico from 1876 until 1911 (with the exception of a four-year period); 379; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porfirio_Diaz Wikipedia entry]

'''Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)''' 
167; Charles John Huffam Dickens, pen-name "Boz", was an English novelist. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickens Wikipedia entry]

'''Dieter''' 
292; the barkeep at Cosmopolitan Saloon

'''Dingkopf, Dr. Willi''' 
anti-Semitic doctor in Göttingen hospital, 623;

'''Dinsmore, Elsie''' 
480; a character in a series of books written by Martha Finley (1828-1909), between 1867 and 1894, that chart Elsie's life from the age of 8 till she's married. They're wholesome and shot through with Christian values; [http://www.elsiedinsmore.com/ The Elsie Dinsmore website...]

'''Dipple, Archie''' 
358; friend of Stray's, involved in Camel scheme

'''Disco, Ellmore''' 
283; in Telluride, maybe from Mexico, or Finland; maybe "music-hall Chinese" 285; 383;

'''Disco, Loomis''' 
286; son of Ellmore

'''''Dishforth's Illustrated Weekly''''' 
75; in which Merle Rideout reads an article about Erlys

'''Divine Walt''' 
492;

'''Divisionism''' 
584;

'''doggo''' 
631; quietly in concealment

'''Dope''' 
368; ''grifa'', 375; ''grifa'' peddlers and opium joints, 380; hikuli, 392; pot, 419; 431; 433; "a little lettuc opium" 470; 473; laudanum, 473, 483; opium, 484, 545; ''opium beer'', 490; 496; hashish, 522; absinthe, 529; 678; morphotuss cough syrup, 680; 684;

'''Doppiatrice, La''' 
571;

'''Dottore''' 
252;

'''Dragshaw, Mrs.''' 
337; hiring in New York restaurant

'''Drave''' 
39; "We can teach you"; Lew's "teacher" back in Chicago, 689;

'''Dreams''' 
250; "maps begin as dreams"; "Dreamtime Movy" (theater), 450; 460; 471; Deuces, 475; Lake Traverse's, 480; 504; Dally's, 508, 523; Kit's, 511; Kit's of Umeki, 566; "one of those mathematicians' dreams that arise now and then in the folklore" 566; Umeki's of Kit flying away on an airship, 566; 577; 578; lucid, 592; Kit's "the great never-sleep hydropathic" 674; classic nightmare scene, 683;

<div id="drop"></div>'''Drop, Jimmy''' 
198; "notorious local gunhand"; "longtime associate" of Reef Traverse, 206; 216; confrontation with Willis Turnstone, 309;

'''Duck, Mock''' 
338; his "boys", Chinese; "rogue gunman" of Hip Sing, 340;

'''duck soup''' 
25; cinch: any undertaking that is easy to do;

'''''duendes''''' 
308; Spanish: spirits;

'''du Motel, Stephanie''' 
601;

'''Dvindler''' 
713;

'''Dymphna''' 
492; Crake's girlfriend

'''dynamite''' 
81;

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'''''dagga rooker''''' 
169; South African colloquial term for a person who smokes ''dagga'', a South African word for marijuana;

'''Dance of Lavalava, the Volcano Goddess''' 
27; performed by Miss McAdoo

'''Dante (1265-1321)''' 
154; Durante degli Alighieri, better known as Dante Alighieri or simply Dante, was an Italian Florentine poet; 226; 401; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante_Alighieri Wikipedia entry]

'''Dash, Mayva''' 
88; saloon girl at Pap Wyman's Saloon; married Webb Traverse

'''Davis, Richard Harding''' 
591;

'''Dazzle-Painting''' 
122; A camouflage painting technique used on WWI ships, both war ships and commercial liners. A series of bright colours and diagonal lines, intersecting shapes, influenced by cubism, that made it difficult for someone looking through a periscope to tell what direction the ship was moving. Try printing some of the pictures on the linked page and looking at them through a piece of Icelandic Spar (optical calcite) Link: [http://www.gotouring.com/razzledazzle/articles/dazzle.html]

'''Dawes, Linnet''' 
204; schoolteacher friend of Stray's; "had picked up a kind of glaze" 461;

'''Death''' 
Jeshimon, 209-210; "region of metaphor" 230; "white riders of the borderline" 362; and the State, 372; counter-death, aka Chemistry, 372; '''momias''', 383; 392; 436; 461; 478; anterooms of, 526; Japanese character for "death" is four, 564; the dead in Venice, 572; the "died-again" 586; 664; country of, 671; 720;

'''De Bottle, Coombs''' 
234; in Cheapside, London, 691;

'''de Decker''' 
540; Woevre's section officer; 549; 561;

'''Dedication''' 
None. [[DISCUSSION]]

'''Dee, Curly''' 
260; runs a road ranch for n'er-do-wells in Telluride

'''Deep Blavatsky''' 
434; under-sand mountain ranges

'''De Forest, Lee''' 
29; at Yale; 532; 675;

'''delirium''' 
41; comes from the Latin ''de'', meaning down or away from, and ''lira'', a furrow or track in the fields; that is, to be off the track, or out of the groove.

'''de Mérode''' 
544;

'''Denza, Luigi''' 
353; singer;

'''de Pompadoura, Marquis''' 
544;

'''de Richelieu, duc''' 
545;

<div id="descarte"></div>'''Descarte, René (1596-1650)''' 
10; René Descartes, also known as Cartesius, was a noted French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. Dubbed the "Founder of Modern Philosophy" and the "Father of Modern Mathematics," he ranks as one of the most important and influential thinkers of modern times. For good or bad, much of subsequent western philosophy is a reaction to his writings, which have been closely studied from his time down to the present day; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Descartes Wikipedia entry]

'''Designolle''' 
529;

'''''Despedida''''' 
373; "tramp steamer"

'''Deuce''' 
260; sidekick of Sloat;

'''Deux Espéces''' 
372; French: two species;

'''Devil''' 
212; upsidedown star; 226;

'''de Wolfe, Elsie (20 Dec. 1865 - 12 July 1950)''' 
161; interior designer. De Wolfe was an actress and a member of the New York 'Society'. She stopped acting in 1905 and published in 1913 "The House in Good Taste".

'''Diaz, President Porfirio (1830-1915)''' 
7; José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori was a Mexican war hero and President (later considered a dictator), ruled Mexico from 1876 until 1911 (with the exception of a four-year period); 379; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porfirio_Diaz Wikipedia entry]

'''Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)''' 
167; Charles John Huffam Dickens, pen-name "Boz", was an English novelist. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickens Wikipedia entry]

'''Dieter''' 
292; the barkeep at Cosmopolitan Saloon

'''Dingkopf, Dr. Willi''' 
anti-Semitic doctor in Göttingen hospital, 623;

'''Dinsmore, Elsie''' 
480; a character in a series of books written by Martha Finley (1828-1909), between 1867 and 1894, that chart Elsie's life from the age of 8 till she's married. They're wholesome and shot through with Christian values; [http://www.elsiedinsmore.com/ The Elsie Dinsmore website...]

'''Dipple, Archie''' 
358; friend of Stray's, involved in Camel scheme

'''Disco, Ellmore''' 
283; in Telluride, maybe from Mexico, or Finland; maybe "music-hall Chinese" 285; 383;

'''Disco, Loomis''' 
286; son of Ellmore

'''''Dishforth's Illustrated Weekly''''' 
75; in which Merle Rideout reads an article about Erlys

'''Divine Walt''' 
492;

'''Divisionism''' 
584;

'''doggo''' 
631; quietly in concealment

'''Dope''' 
368; ''grifa'', 375; ''grifa'' peddlers and opium joints, 380; hikuli, 392; pot, 419; 431; 433; "a little lettuc opium" 470; 473; laudanum, 473, 483; opium, 484, 545; ''opium beer'', 490; 496; hashish, 522; absinthe, 529; 678; morphotuss cough syrup, 680; 684;

'''Doppiatrice, La''' 
571;

'''Dottore''' 
252;

'''Dragshaw, Mrs.''' 
337; hiring in New York restaurant

'''Drave''' 
39; "We can teach you"; Lew's "teacher" back in Chicago, 689;

'''Dreams''' 
250; "maps begin as dreams"; "Dreamtime Movy" (theater), 450; 460; 471; Deuces, 475; Lake Traverse's, 480; 504; Dally's, 508, 523; Kit's, 511; Kit's of Umeki, 566; "one of those mathematicians' dreams that arise now and then in the folklore" 566; Umeki's of Kit flying away on an airship, 566; 577; 578; lucid, 592; Kit's "the great never-sleep hydropathic" 674; classic nightmare scene, 683;

<div id="drop"></div>'''Drop, Jimmy''' 
198; "notorious local gunhand"; "longtime associate" of Reef Traverse, 206; 216; confrontation with Willis Turnstone, 309;

'''Duck, Mock''' 
338; his "boys", Chinese; "rogue gunman" of Hip Sing, 340;

'''duck soup''' 
25; cinch: any undertaking that is easy to do;

'''''duendes''''' 
308; Spanish: spirits;

'''du Motel, Stephanie''' 
601;

'''Dvindler''' 
713;

'''Dymphna''' 
492; Crake's girlfriend

'''dynamite''' 
81;

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2006-11-27T07:14:14Z

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==Page 122==

'''dazzle-painting''' 
A camouflage painting technique used on WWI ships. Link: [http://www.gotouring.com/razzledazzle/articles/dazzle.html]

==Page 146==

'''lines''' 
The description of the single-file line at the train station basically describes current security conditions at American airports. A single line (i.e. linear thinking) does not seem to be a 'positive' in the Pynchon world.

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2006-11-27T07:06:35Z

Ande:

'''''dagga rooker''''' 
169; South African colloquial term for a person who smokes ''dagga'', a South African word for marijuana;

'''Dance of Lavalava, the Volcano Goddess''' 
27; performed by Miss McAdoo

'''Dante (1265-1321)''' 
154; Durante degli Alighieri, better known as Dante Alighieri or simply Dante, was an Italian Florentine poet; 226; 401; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante_Alighieri Wikipedia entry]

'''Dash, Mayva''' 
88; saloon girl at Pap Wyman's Saloon; married Webb Traverse

'''Davis, Richard Harding''' 
591;

'''Dazzle-Painting''' 
pg 121. A camouflage painting technique used on WWI ships, both war ships and commercial liners. A series of bright colours and diagonal lines, intersecting shapes, influenced by cubism, that made it difficult for someone looking through a periscope to tell what direction the ship was moving. Try printing some of the pictures on the linked page and looking at them through a piece of Icelandic Spar (optical calcite) Link: [http://www.gotouring.com/razzledazzle/articles/dazzle.html]

'''Dawes, Linnet''' 
204; schoolteacher friend of Stray's; "had picked up a kind of glaze" 461;

'''Death''' 
Jeshimon, 209-210; "region of metaphor" 230; "white riders of the borderline" 362; and the State, 372; counter-death, aka Chemistry, 372; '''momias''', 383; 392; 436; 461; 478; anterooms of, 526; Japanese character for "death" is four, 564; the dead in Venice, 572; the "died-again" 586; 664; country of, 671; 720;

'''De Bottle, Coombs''' 
234; in Cheapside, London, 691;

'''de Decker''' 
540; Woevre's section officer; 549; 561;

'''Dedication''' 
None. [[DISCUSSION]]

'''Dee, Curly''' 
260; runs a road ranch for n'er-do-wells in Telluride

'''Deep Blavatsky''' 
434; under-sand mountain ranges

'''De Forest, Lee''' 
29; at Yale; 532; 675;

'''delirium''' 
41; comes from the Latin ''de'', meaning down or away from, and ''lira'', a furrow or track in the fields; that is, to be off the track, or out of the groove.

'''de Mérode''' 
544;

'''Denza, Luigi''' 
353; singer;

'''de Pompadoura, Marquis''' 
544;

'''de Richelieu, duc''' 
545;

<div id="descarte"></div>'''Descarte, René (1596-1650)''' 
10; René Descartes, also known as Cartesius, was a noted French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. Dubbed the "Founder of Modern Philosophy" and the "Father of Modern Mathematics," he ranks as one of the most important and influential thinkers of modern times. For good or bad, much of subsequent western philosophy is a reaction to his writings, which have been closely studied from his time down to the present day; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Descartes Wikipedia entry]

'''Designolle''' 
529;

'''''Despedida''''' 
373; "tramp steamer"

'''Deuce''' 
260; sidekick of Sloat;

'''Deux Espéces''' 
372; French: two species;

'''Devil''' 
212; upsidedown star; 226;

'''de Wolfe, Elsie (20 Dec. 1865 - 12 July 1950)''' 
161; interior designer. De Wolfe was an actress and a member of the New York 'Society'. She stopped acting in 1905 and published in 1913 "The House in Good Taste".

'''Diaz, President Porfirio (1830-1915)''' 
7; José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori was a Mexican war hero and President (later considered a dictator), ruled Mexico from 1876 until 1911 (with the exception of a four-year period); 379; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porfirio_Diaz Wikipedia entry]

'''Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)''' 
167; Charles John Huffam Dickens, pen-name "Boz", was an English novelist. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickens Wikipedia entry]

'''Dieter''' 
292; the barkeep at Cosmopolitan Saloon

'''Dingkopf, Dr. Willi''' 
anti-Semitic doctor in Göttingen hospital, 623;

'''Dinsmore, Elsie''' 
480; a character in a series of books written by Martha Finley (1828-1909), between 1867 and 1894, that chart Elsie's life from the age of 8 till she's married. They're wholesome and shot through with Christian values; [http://www.elsiedinsmore.com/ The Elsie Dinsmore website...]

'''Dipple, Archie''' 
358; friend of Stray's, involved in Camel scheme

'''Disco, Ellmore''' 
283; in Telluride, maybe from Mexico, or Finland; maybe "music-hall Chinese" 285; 383;

'''Disco, Loomis''' 
286; son of Ellmore

'''''Dishforth's Illustrated Weekly''''' 
75; in which Merle Rideout reads an article about Erlys

'''Divine Walt''' 
492;

'''Divisionism''' 
584;

'''doggo''' 
631; quietly in concealment

'''Dope''' 
368; ''grifa'', 375; ''grifa'' peddlers and opium joints, 380; hikuli, 392; pot, 419; 431; 433; "a little lettuc opium" 470; 473; laudanum, 473, 483; opium, 484, 545; ''opium beer'', 490; 496; hashish, 522; absinthe, 529; 678; morphotuss cough syrup, 680; 684;

'''Doppiatrice, La''' 
571;

'''Dottore''' 
252;

'''Dragshaw, Mrs.''' 
337; hiring in New York restaurant

'''Drave''' 
39; "We can teach you"; Lew's "teacher" back in Chicago, 689;

'''Dreams''' 
250; "maps begin as dreams"; "Dreamtime Movy" (theater), 450; 460; 471; Deuces, 475; Lake Traverse's, 480; 504; Dally's, 508, 523; Kit's, 511; Kit's of Umeki, 566; "one of those mathematicians' dreams that arise now and then in the folklore" 566; Umeki's of Kit flying away on an airship, 566; 577; 578; lucid, 592; Kit's "the great never-sleep hydropathic" 674; classic nightmare scene, 683;

<div id="drop"></div>'''Drop, Jimmy''' 
198; "notorious local gunhand"; "longtime associate" of Reef Traverse, 206; 216; confrontation with Willis Turnstone, 309;

'''Duck, Mock''' 
338; his "boys", Chinese; "rogue gunman" of Hip Sing, 340;

'''duck soup''' 
25; cinch: any undertaking that is easy to do;

'''''duendes''''' 
308; Spanish: spirits;

'''du Motel, Stephanie''' 
601;

'''Dvindler''' 
713;

'''Dymphna''' 
492; Crake's girlfriend

'''dynamite''' 
81;

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2006-11-27T07:04:30Z

Ande:

'''''dagga rooker''''' 
169; South African colloquial term for a person who smokes ''dagga'', a South African word for marijuana;

'''Dance of Lavalava, the Volcano Goddess''' 
27; performed by Miss McAdoo

'''Dante (1265-1321)''' 
154; Durante degli Alighieri, better known as Dante Alighieri or simply Dante, was an Italian Florentine poet; 226; 401; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante_Alighieri Wikipedia entry]

'''Dash, Mayva''' 
88; saloon girl at Pap Wyman's Saloon; married Webb Traverse

'''Davis, Richard Harding''' 
591;

'''Dazzle-Painting''' 
pg 121. A camouflage painting technique used on WWI ships, both war ships and commercial liners. A series of bright colours and diagonal lines, intersecting shapes, influenced by cubism, that made it difficult for someone looking through a periscope to tell what direction the ship was moving. Link[http://www.gotouring.com/razzledazzle/articles/dazzle.html]
Try printing some of these pictures and looking at them through a piece of Iceland Spar (optical calcite).

'''Dawes, Linnet''' 
204; schoolteacher friend of Stray's; "had picked up a kind of glaze" 461;

'''Death''' 
Jeshimon, 209-210; "region of metaphor" 230; "white riders of the borderline" 362; and the State, 372; counter-death, aka Chemistry, 372; '''momias''', 383; 392; 436; 461; 478; anterooms of, 526; Japanese character for "death" is four, 564; the dead in Venice, 572; the "died-again" 586; 664; country of, 671; 720;

'''De Bottle, Coombs''' 
234; in Cheapside, London, 691;

'''de Decker''' 
540; Woevre's section officer; 549; 561;

'''Dedication''' 
None. [[DISCUSSION]]

'''Dee, Curly''' 
260; runs a road ranch for n'er-do-wells in Telluride

'''Deep Blavatsky''' 
434; under-sand mountain ranges

'''De Forest, Lee''' 
29; at Yale; 532; 675;

'''delirium''' 
41; comes from the Latin ''de'', meaning down or away from, and ''lira'', a furrow or track in the fields; that is, to be off the track, or out of the groove.

'''de Mérode''' 
544;

'''Denza, Luigi''' 
353; singer;

'''de Pompadoura, Marquis''' 
544;

'''de Richelieu, duc''' 
545;

<div id="descarte"></div>'''Descarte, René (1596-1650)''' 
10; René Descartes, also known as Cartesius, was a noted French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. Dubbed the "Founder of Modern Philosophy" and the "Father of Modern Mathematics," he ranks as one of the most important and influential thinkers of modern times. For good or bad, much of subsequent western philosophy is a reaction to his writings, which have been closely studied from his time down to the present day; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Descartes Wikipedia entry]

'''Designolle''' 
529;

'''''Despedida''''' 
373; "tramp steamer"

'''Deuce''' 
260; sidekick of Sloat;

'''Deux Espéces''' 
372; French: two species;

'''Devil''' 
212; upsidedown star; 226;

'''de Wolfe, Elsie (20 Dec. 1865 - 12 July 1950)''' 
161; interior designer. De Wolfe was an actress and a member of the New York 'Society'. She stopped acting in 1905 and published in 1913 "The House in Good Taste".

'''Diaz, President Porfirio (1830-1915)''' 
7; José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori was a Mexican war hero and President (later considered a dictator), ruled Mexico from 1876 until 1911 (with the exception of a four-year period); 379; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porfirio_Diaz Wikipedia entry]

'''Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)''' 
167; Charles John Huffam Dickens, pen-name "Boz", was an English novelist. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickens Wikipedia entry]

'''Dieter''' 
292; the barkeep at Cosmopolitan Saloon

'''Dingkopf, Dr. Willi''' 
anti-Semitic doctor in Göttingen hospital, 623;

'''Dinsmore, Elsie''' 
480; a character in a series of books written by Martha Finley (1828-1909), between 1867 and 1894, that chart Elsie's life from the age of 8 till she's married. They're wholesome and shot through with Christian values; [http://www.elsiedinsmore.com/ The Elsie Dinsmore website...]

'''Dipple, Archie''' 
358; friend of Stray's, involved in Camel scheme

'''Disco, Ellmore''' 
283; in Telluride, maybe from Mexico, or Finland; maybe "music-hall Chinese" 285; 383;

'''Disco, Loomis''' 
286; son of Ellmore

'''''Dishforth's Illustrated Weekly''''' 
75; in which Merle Rideout reads an article about Erlys

'''Divine Walt''' 
492;

'''Divisionism''' 
584;

'''doggo''' 
631; quietly in concealment

'''Dope''' 
368; ''grifa'', 375; ''grifa'' peddlers and opium joints, 380; hikuli, 392; pot, 419; 431; 433; "a little lettuc opium" 470; 473; laudanum, 473, 483; opium, 484, 545; ''opium beer'', 490; 496; hashish, 522; absinthe, 529; 678; morphotuss cough syrup, 680; 684;

'''Doppiatrice, La''' 
571;

'''Dottore''' 
252;

'''Dragshaw, Mrs.''' 
337; hiring in New York restaurant

'''Drave''' 
39; "We can teach you"; Lew's "teacher" back in Chicago, 689;

'''Dreams''' 
250; "maps begin as dreams"; "Dreamtime Movy" (theater), 450; 460; 471; Deuces, 475; Lake Traverse's, 480; 504; Dally's, 508, 523; Kit's, 511; Kit's of Umeki, 566; "one of those mathematicians' dreams that arise now and then in the folklore" 566; Umeki's of Kit flying away on an airship, 566; 577; 578; lucid, 592; Kit's "the great never-sleep hydropathic" 674; classic nightmare scene, 683;

<div id="drop"></div>'''Drop, Jimmy''' 
198; "notorious local gunhand"; "longtime associate" of Reef Traverse, 206; 216; confrontation with Willis Turnstone, 309;

'''Duck, Mock''' 
338; his "boys", Chinese; "rogue gunman" of Hip Sing, 340;

'''duck soup''' 
25; cinch: any undertaking that is easy to do;

'''''duendes''''' 
308; Spanish: spirits;

'''du Motel, Stephanie''' 
601;

'''Dvindler''' 
713;

'''Dymphna''' 
492; Crake's girlfriend

'''dynamite''' 
81;

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