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ATD 489-524

2007-01-01T00:24:09Z

Bean: /* Page 499 */

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>''' 

==Page 489==

'''desolate sighs''' 
(They're not gay?)

'''Apostlet''' 
???

'''Cyprian Latewood''' 
Possibly named after third-century Saint Cyprian, during his lifetime made Bishop of Carthage and eventually martyred under a Valerian persecution of Christians. Saint Cyprian is notable for having ordered his executioner to be paid twenty-five pieces of gold, then having stripped himself of clothes and awaiting, in prayer, his beheading. There are a number of thematic resonances between Pynchon's Cyrian and the biblical one; notably their primary characterization as men of submission and servitude. Additionally, etymologically, 'cyprian' signifies both ''Aphrodite-worshiper'' and ''prostitute''. [[User:Bean|remy]] 07:33, 29 December 2006 (PST)

'''Eastern wog''' 
Cf p222.

'''The German Sea''' 
???

'''sub-Clerkenwell''' 
???

'''annoyance''' 
(Why?)

==Page 490==

'''gyps''' 
???

'''Byron's Pool''' 
???

'''"Div!"''' 
???

'''"Whizzo!"''' 
???

'''''"That'' is that of which ''I'' speak!"''' 
prob. homosexuality. cf. "I am the Love that dare not speak its name." -- Lord Arthur Douglas's poem 'Two Loves' in ''Chameleon'' ca. 1896.

Made more famous as an utterance by Oscar Wilde during his trial for sodomy. His response: '"The Love that dare not speak its name" in this century is such a great affection of an elder for a younger man as there was between David and Jonathan, such as Plato made the very basis of his philosophy, and such as you find in the sonnets of Michelangelo and Shakespeare.[...]. It is intellectual, and it repeatedly exists between an elder and a younger man, when the elder man has intellect, and the younger man has all the joy, hope and glamour of life before him."

A rendition of ''That's what I'm talkinabout!''

'''Cloisters Court''' 
???

'''King's''' 
???

'''Queen Anne's Gate''' 
???

'''Newnham''' 
???

'''Wrangleresses''' 
???

'''Phillippa Fawcett''' 
???

'''Grace Chisolm and Will Young''' 
???

'''nautch-girl''' 
???

'''socio-acrobatic aggrandizement''' 
'social climbing'

'''''opium beer''''' 
???

'''duc de Richelieu''' 
???

==Page 491==

'''the City''' 
???

'''can't ''ever'' tell''' 
Dog-eat-dog capitalism?

'''Reginald "Ratty" McHugh''' 
???

'''one more flag''' 
IE, his father's wallpaper brand.

'''Balkan Sobranies''' 
An upscale brand of cigarette.

'''lilies-and-lassitude humor of the '90s''' 
Cult of Oscar Wilde?

'''table d'hôte''' 
???

'''Very well, I contradict myself.''' 
???

==Page 492==

'''divine... prosaic''' 
(Walt was of course prosaic himself before he became divine.)

'''xanthrocroid''' 
???

'''Capsheaf''' 
Is this a third speaker, or another name for Ratty?

'''viva''' 
Slangy short form of ''viva voce,'' an oral examination.

'''Crayke''' 
???

'''''D'accord''''' 
French: right, OK.

'''reputation for viciousness''' 
???

'''croft''' 
???

'''Mavis Grind''' 
???

'''orthopædic journals''' 
???

'''Dymphna''' 
???

'''decks full of hearts''' 
(52 or 13 per deck?)

==Page 493==

'''Thucydides... remind me''' 
Thucydides' book is an account of the Peloponnesian war, organized in a rather difficult method in which all the actions of one season are described before proceeding to the next. Here are some erotic possibilities in it, however: 
-Pericles, in his famous funeral oration, says the citizen ought to have an eros for the city. 
-At one point some Athenians are lured out of a garrison by way of a gymnastic (that is male, nude) demonstration. 
-On the eve of the fateful Sicilian expedition, all the oversized phalloi of the hermes are mysteriously knocked off. One of the generals on the expedition, Alcibiades, is accused of the offense and is eventually called called back. In Plato's Symposium Alcibiades drunkenly crashes the party and confesses that Socrates has consistently spurned his sexual advances.

'''McHugh''' 
Talking to self?

'''alfresceehwh''' 
???

'''Lorelei, Noellyn, and Faun''' 
???

'''High Albedo''' 
Albedo: power of reflecting light. Blondes reflect more light than brunettes.

'''white veils''' 
???

'''Pinky''' 
Nicknames opposite of truth?

''''''sans merci'''''' 
a reference to Keats's 19th century Romantic ballad 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci'. The lady of the title entraps men by making them fall in love with her and abandoning them.

==Page 494==

'''wrong altar''' 
???

'''gnomic tenses''' 
???

'''circs''' 
???

''''If she's not content with a vegetable love'''' 
a reference to Marvell's bitterly ironic seventeenth century poem 'To His Coy Mistress'. The phrase 'vegetable love' refers, comically, to a Platonic love between man and woman, assuirng the coty mistress that, had he 'world enough and time', he would not threaten her physically.

'''Rugby blue''' 
To be a 'Rugby blue' means to have represented Oxford (colour: dark blue) or Cambridge (light blue) at Rugby, which is a major European sport, invented, supposedly, at Rugby school in England in the nineteenth century.

'''Mâconnais''' 
???

'''George Grossmith...and that jolly Weedon''' 

George and Weedon Grossmith, authors of the sublime, hillarious 'Diary of a Nobody', which gave the world the adjective 'pooterish'. Undoubtedly an influence on Pynchon's depictions of the 'oh dear' side of Englishness. Pooter is a 'nobody' who decides to publish his diaries, even though he is of no interest and nothing of any note occurs. A prototypical blogger, some might suggest. Originally published in Punch magazine (I think), set in late 19th Century. Don't know if the Grossmiths went to Cambridge, will check....

[plenty of info here: http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/english/DON/Diary_Home.htm]

==Page 495==

'''Junior or Senior?''' 
expressions used at traditional English (independent) schools to refer to younger and older brothers. Thus Smith Junior or Smith Senior.

'''cp. Wilhelm II file''' 
???

'''"Map of the World"''' 
???

'''Newmarket''' 
A famous English race-course, hence the following reference to the 'racing season'.

'''Morse and Vassilev''' 
???

'''East Rumelian''' 
???

'''''zadruga''''' 
???

'''''tchifliks''''' 
???

'''''gradinarski druzhini''''' 
???

'''gossamer''' 
Pynchon draws him as 'wet' as possible?

==Page 496==

'''sod... pouffe''' 
???

'''failed canards''' 
???

'''Lent... Easter... Long Vacation''' 
???

'''Colonial Office''' 
???

'''Okhrana''' 
a secret police force of the Russian Empire and part of the Ministry of Internal Affairs [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okhrana Wikipedia Entry]

'''Ballhausplatz''' 
Location of the Austrian State Chancellery and Foreign Ministry [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballhausplatz Wikipedia Entry]

'''Wilhelmstrasse''' 
Administrative Center of the Kingdom of Prussia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelmstrasse Wikipedia Entry]

'''G.F.B. Riemann''' 
???

'''Zeta function... conjecture''' 
???

''''joint'''' 
???

'''Bob's your uncle''' 
???

'''Limehouse''' 
???

==Page 497==

'''excess''' 
(So not wholly gossamer?)

'''Coronation Red''' 
???

'''Ranji and C.B. Fry''' 
Two notable cricketers who would have been in their prime when the novel is set. Both played for England. 'Ranji' is short for Ranjitsinhji and is how he was familiarly known.

'''Australian season''' 
A reference to the Australian cricket season which runs throughout their summer and the Eurpopean winter.

'''New Court''' 
???

'''Tavernier-Gravet slide rules''' 
???

'''High Church''' 
???

'''Mags and Nuncs and Matins''' 
???

'''not Zion''' 
???

'''Compline hour''' 
???

'''Te Deum''' 
???

'''Khaki Election''' 
???

'''Filtham''' 
???

==Page 498==

'''chromaticism... Richard Strauss''' 
???

'''Staindrop''' 
???

'''"Filtham's Tedium"''' 
(Talk about overlabored puns...)

'''dress regulations''' 
???

'''Gauss''' 
???

'''Ramanujan''' 
???

'''display of hurt feelings''' 
Cf p30.

==Page 499==

'''light up''' 
Dark world vs spark of value.

'''ζ-function''' 
???

'''Hilbert thinks of nothing else''' 
???

'''desire... of rather a specialized sort''' 
???

'''Great Eastern''' 
???

==Page 500==

'''Weierstrass and Sofia Kovalevskaia''' 
???

'''sounds like maths''' 
???

'''folio''' 
???

'''four-color chromolithograph''' 
???

'''Snazzbury''' 
???

'''Silent Frock''' 
Cf noise-canceling headphones.

'''toilette''' 
???

==Page 501==

'''green, white, and mauve stripes''' 
???

'''black crepon''' 
???

'''Italian-cloth''' 
???

==Page 502==

'''modern lettering''' 
???

'''L'ARIMEAUX ET QUEURLIS''' 
Larry, Moe, and Curly's

'''twilling''' 
???

==Page 502==

'''Earl's Court Wheel''' 
???

'''whelks''' 
???

'''Chinese Turkestan railway shares''' 
???

'''jellied eel''' 
???

'''West Ham, the Park, Upton Lane, lads all in claret and blue''' 
The "lads in claret and blue" are kicking a football around, as they are players of current Premiership side West Ham United. Found in 1895, the "Hammers" are playing their home games at Boleyn Ground aka "Upton Park". Yep, soccer.

'''lupine liminality''' 
???

'''hydrangeas''' 
???

'''Hardy, whimsical''' 
???

==Page 504==

'''Harwich... German Sea''' 
???

'''Hook of Holland''' 
???

'''madhouse at Osnabrück''' 
???

==Page 505==

'''plug hats''' 
???

'''Cobh''' 
???

==Page 506==

'''Euclid''' 
???

'''elms in Cleveland''' 
(Before Dutch elm disease?)

'''went on for years''' 
???

'''Shorty''' 
???

==Page 507==

'''how little I cared''' 
(Blaming Krakatoa???)

'''palm upward''' 
???

'''Prospect Avenue''' 
???

'''leaf-spring suspension''' 
???

'''overrun''' 
???

'''Flats''' 
???

==Page 508==

'''Cuyahoga''' 
???

'''your exact face''' 
(How common?)

==Page 509==

'''descending minor triad''' 
???

'''Svengali''' 
In George Du Maurier's novel ''Trilby'' (1894), the hypnotist who makes the title character a great singer but keeps her under rigorous control.

'''tea roses''' 
???

'''cosmos''' 
???

==Page 510==

'''first momentous glance''' 
Page 349 only?

'''Elis''' 
Yale University students, called so after founder Eli Yale.

==Page 511==

'''preferring''' 
Cf Rose in "Titanic".

'''Root Tubsmith''' 
???

'''Fuchs, Schwarz... Frobenius''' 
???

'''Professor Manning''' 
???

'''Marseilles''' 
???

'''species of tarantella''' 
???

'''dreamed it''' 
(Page?)

'''Cigar Deck''' 
???

==Page 512==

'''how to stop looking''' 
Cf p27.

'''fooling''' 
(They both miss it?)

'''lobelias''' 
???

'''Victor Herbert''' 
???

'''Wolf-Ferrari''' 
???

==Page 513==

'''1st Edition Typo''' 
"She smlld falsely"

==Page 515==

'''high-hatting''' 
Snubbing, cutting.

'''twenty-knot''' 
???

'''uncreated''' 
Featureless?

'''after 1914''' 
Still 10 years away.

'''S.M.S. ''Emperor Maximilian''''' 
S.M.S.: Seines Majestäts Schiff, His Majesty's Ship (German or, as in this case, Austrian). One Habsburg Emperor Maximilian was set up in Mexico, then deposed and killed.

'''25,000-ton''' 
???

'''dreadnoughts''' 
???

'''Slavonian''' 
???

'''Schultz-Thorneycroft''' 
???

'''Parsons turbines''' 
???

'''British men-o'-war''' 
Warships.

==Page 516==

'''shell-rooms-to-be''' 
???

'''twelve-inch barrels''' 
???

'''shelter deck''' 
???

'''casemates''' 
???

'''freeboard''' 
The amount of the ship above the water. You need a certain amount of freeboard to maintain balance, but battleships try to limit it as much as possible (so as to present a smaller target).

'''"Dazzle" camouflage''' 
Patterns as described in the text, meant to confuse enemy eyes. Camouflage techniques used in World War I were developed in part by magician Jasper Maskelyne, a descendant of the Astronomer Royal in ''Mason & Dixon.''

'''dihedrals''' 
A dihedral is the figure formed by two planes intersecting in a line. The bow of a ship is pretty close.

'''Fangsley''' 
???

'''horizontally disposed''' 
???

'''Lloyd Arsenale''' 
???

'''Stabilimento Tecnico''' 
???

==Page 517==

'''Promontorio''' 
???

'''O.I.C. Bodine''' 
Stands for...? [http://onelook.com/?w=o*+i*+c*&ls=a nope]

'''fermented potato mash''' 
Cf Veikko's vodka p82.

'''four shafts''' 
???

'''''Mauretania''''' 
???

'''''Zu befehl, Herr Hauptheitzer''''' 
???

'''Black Gang''' 
???

'''Oberhauptheitzer''' 
???

'''Mannlicher''' 
???

'''''"Dampf mehr!"''''' 
???

'''singlet''' 
???

==Page 518==

'''Marconi room''' 
???

'''design maximum of nine degrees''' 
???

'''nymphs''' 
???

'''''"Porca miseria"''''' 
???

==Page 519==

'''tight circle''' 
Military as inane as circus clowns.

'''deeper levels''' 
(Eg particle vs wave?)

'''Chinese''' 
???

'''''nicht wahr''''' 
???

'''Graz''' 
???

'''bilge-crab''' 
???

==Page 520==

'''Teutonic''' 
???

'''Mulai Ahmed er-Raisuli''' 
???

'''Agadir, Queen of the Iron Coast''' 
???

'''Sus... Susi''' 
???

'''Abdel Aziz''' 
???

'''Canaries''' 
???

'''Lübeck''' 
???

'''Berbers''' 
???

==Page 521==

'''tree-climbing goats''' 
???

'''argan trees''' 
???

'''Gnaoua''' 
???

'''''mlouk gnaoui''''' 
???

'''Seigneurs Noirs''' 
???

'''Habsburg navy''' 
???

'''Mogador road''' 
???

'''Tawil Balak''' 
???

'''Rahman''' 
???

'''''Formalhaut''''' 
???

'''Moïsés''' 
???

'''Jonah... Massa''' 
???

==Page 522==

'''kashbah''' 
???

'''Ighir Ufrani''' 
???

'''''alimzah''''' 
???

'''''tasargelt''''' 
???

'''scruff''' 
???

'''Staketsel''' 
???

'''lazarettes''' 
???

'''''mon chou''''' 
"My cabbage." A french term of affection.

==Page 523==

'''moon deck''' 
???

'''lower orlop''' 
???

'''lateen-riggers''' 
???

==Page 524==

'''exhilirated'''
Second occurrence of this misspelling of ''exhilarated.''

'''Piazza Grande''' 
???

'''Denza''' 
???

'''Antonio Smareglia''' 
???

==Annotation Index==
{{ATD PbP}}

"Help me find the place where..." -DISCUSSION

2006-12-29T19:55:49Z

Bean:

I'm looking for a few passages without luck... perhaps somebody else could provide page refs for me?

1) The one-paragraph section in which the Chums of Chance achieve a Siberian rescue of Kit's traveling companion

2) The scene in which (loosely related to the Cyprian subplot) some sort of secret-service op. rambles on & on about secret texts, hidden texts, the overlay of one text with another, books hidden within books... the kind of thing TP puts in just to needle overzealous readers into conviction of a crypto-story in AtD.

[[User:Bean|remy]] 11:55, 29 December 2006 (PST)

ATD 489-524

2006-12-29T15:33:45Z

Bean: /* Page 489 */

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>''' 

==Page 489==

'''desolate sighs''' 
(They're not gay?)

'''Apostlet''' 
???

'''Cyprian Latewood''' 
Possibly named after third-century Saint Cyprian, during his lifetime made Bishop of Carthage and eventually martyred under a Valerian persecution of Christians. Saint Cyprian is notable for having ordered his executioner to be paid twenty-five pieces of gold, then having stripped himself of clothes and awaiting, in prayer, his beheading. There are a number of thematic resonances between Pynchon's Cyrian and the biblical one; notably their primary characterization as men of submission and servitude. Additionally, etymologically, 'cyprian' signifies both ''Aphrodite-worshiper'' and ''prostitute''. [[User:Bean|remy]] 07:33, 29 December 2006 (PST)

'''Eastern wog''' 
Cf p222.

'''The German Sea''' 
???

'''sub-Clerkenwell''' 
???

'''annoyance''' 
(Why?)

==Page 490==

'''gyps''' 
???

'''Byron's Pool''' 
???

'''"Div!"''' 
???

'''"Whizzo!"''' 
???

'''''"That'' is that of which ''I'' speak!"''' 
prob. homosexuality. cf. "I am the Love that dare not speak its name." -- Lord Arthur Douglas's poem 'Two Loves' in ''Chameleon'' ca. 1896.

Made more famous as an utterance by Oscar Wilde during his trial for sodomy. His response: '"The Love that dare not speak its name" in this century is such a great affection of an elder for a younger man as there was between David and Jonathan, such as Plato made the very basis of his philosophy, and such as you find in the sonnets of Michelangelo and Shakespeare.[...]. It is intellectual, and it repeatedly exists between an elder and a younger man, when the elder man has intellect, and the younger man has all the joy, hope and glamour of life before him."

'''Cloisters Court''' 
???

'''King's''' 
???

'''Queen Anne's Gate''' 
???

'''Newnham''' 
???

'''Wrangleresses''' 
???

'''Phillippa Fawcett''' 
???

'''Grace Chisolm and Will Young''' 
???

'''nautch-girl''' 
???

'''socio-acrobatic aggrandizement''' 
'social climbing'

'''''opium beer''''' 
???

'''duc de Richelieu''' 
???

==Page 491==

'''the City''' 
???

'''can't ''ever'' tell''' 
Dog-eat-dog capitalism?

'''Reginald "Ratty" McHugh''' 
???

'''one more flag''' 
IE, his father's wallpaper brand.

'''Balkan Sobranies''' 
???

'''lilies-and-lassitude humor of the '90s''' 
Cult of Oscar Wilde?

'''table d'hôte''' 
???

'''Very well, I contradict myself.''' 
???

==Page 492==

'''divine... prosaic''' 
(Walt was of course prosaic himself before he became divine.)

'''xanthrocroid''' 
???

'''Capsheaf''' 
Is this a third speaker, or another name for Ratty?

'''viva''' 
???

'''Crayke''' 
???

'''''D'accord''''' 
???

'''reputation for viciousness''' 
???

'''croft''' 
???

'''Mavis Grind''' 
???

'''orthopædic journals''' 
???

'''Dymphna''' 
???

'''decks full of hearts''' 
(52 or 13 per deck?)

==Page 493==

'''Thucydides... remind me''' 
Thucydides' book is an account of the Peloponnesian war, organized in a rather difficult method in which all the actions of one season are described before proceeding to the next. Here are some erotic possibilities in it, however: 
-Pericles, in his famous funeral oration, says the citizen ought to have an eros for the city. 
-At one point some Athenians are lured out of a garrison by way of a gymnastic (that is male, nude) demonstration. 
-On the eve of the fateful Sicilian expedition, all the oversized phalloi of the hermes are mysteriously knocked off. One of the generals on the expedition, Alcibiades, is accused of the offense and is eventually called called back. In Plato's Symposium Alcibiades drunkenly crashes the party and confesses that Socrates has consistently spurned his sexual advances.

'''McHugh''' 
Talking to self?

'''alfresceehwh''' 
???

'''Lorelei, Noellyn, and Faun''' 
???

'''High Albedo''' 
???

'''white veils''' 
???

'''Pinky''' 
Nicknames opposite of truth?

''''''sans merci'''''' 
a reference to Keats's 19th century Romantic ballad 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci'. The lady of the title entraps men by making them fall in love with her and abandoning them.

==Page 494==

'''wrong altar''' 
???

'''gnomic tenses''' 
???

'''circs''' 
???

''''If she's not content with a vegetable love'''' 
a reference to Marvell's bitterly ironic seventeenth century poem 'To His Coy Mistress'. The phrase 'vegetable love' refers, comically, to a Platonic love between man and woman, assuirng the coty mistress that, had he 'world enough and time', he would not threaten her physically.

'''Rugby blue''' 
To be a 'Rugby blue' means to have represented Oxford (colour: dark blue) or Cambridge (light blue) at Rugby, which is a major European sport, invented, supposedly, at Rugby school in England in the nineteenth century.

'''Mâconnais''' 
???

'''George Grossmith...and that jolly Weedon''' 

George and Weedon Grossmith, authors of the sublime, hillarious 'Diary of a Nobody', which gave the world the adjective 'pooterish'. Undoubtedly an influence on Pynchon's depictions of the 'oh dear' side of Englishness. Pooter is a 'nobody' who decides to publish his diaries, even though he is of no interest and nothing of any note occurs. A prototypical blogger, some might suggest. Originally published in Punch magazine (I think), set in late 19th Century. Don't know if the Grossmiths went to Cambridge, will check....

[plenty of info here: http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/english/DON/Diary_Home.htm]

==Page 495==

'''Junior or Senior?''' 
expressions used at traditional English (independent) schools to refer to younger and older brothers. Thus Smith Junior or Smith Senior.

'''cp. Wilhelm II file''' 
???

'''"Map of the World"''' 
???

'''Newmarket''' 
A famous English race-course, hence the following reference to the 'racing season'.

'''Morse and Vassilev''' 
???

'''East Rumelian''' 
???

'''''zadruga''''' 
???

'''''tchifliks''''' 
???

'''''gradinarski druzhini''''' 
???

'''gossamer''' 
Pynchon draws him as 'wet' as possible?

==Page 496==

'''sod... pouffe''' 
???

'''failed canards''' 
???

'''Lent... Easter... Long Vacation''' 
???

'''Colonial Office''' 
???

'''Okhrana''' 
???

'''Ballhausplatz''' 
???

'''Wilhelmstrasse''' 
???

'''G.F.B. Riemann''' 
???

'''Zeta function... conjecture''' 
???

''''joint'''' 
???

'''Bob's your uncle''' 
???

'''Limehouse''' 
???

==Page 497==

'''excess''' 
(So not wholly gossamer?)

'''Coronation Red''' 
???

'''Ranji and C.B. Fry''' 
Two notable cricketers who would have been in their prime when the novel is set. Both played for England. 'Ranji' is short for Ranjitsinhji and is how he was familiarly known.

'''Australian season''' 
A reference to the Australian cricket season which runs throughout their summer and the Eurpopean winter.

'''New Court''' 
???

'''Tavernier-Gravet slide rules''' 
???

'''High Church''' 
???

'''Mags and Nuncs and Matins''' 
???

'''not Zion''' 
???

'''Compline hour''' 
???

'''Te Deum''' 
???

'''Khaki Election''' 
???

'''Filtham''' 
???

==Page 498==

'''chromaticism... Richard Strauss''' 
???

'''Staindrop''' 
???

'''"Filtham's Tedium"''' 
(Talk about overlabored puns...)

'''dress regulations''' 
???

'''Gauss''' 
???

'''Ramanujan''' 
???

'''display of hurt feelings''' 
Cf p30.

==Page 499==

'''light up''' 
Dark world vs spark of value.

'''[zeta]-function''' 
???

'''Hilbert thinks of nothing else''' 
???

'''desire... of rather a specialized sort''' 
???

'''Great Eastern''' 
???

==Page 500==

'''Weierstrass and Sofia Kovalevskaia''' 
???

'''sounds like maths''' 
???

'''folio''' 
???

'''four-color chromolithograph''' 
???

'''Snazzbury''' 
???

'''Silent Frock''' 
Cf noise-canceling headphones.

'''toilette''' 
???

==Page 501==

'''green, white, and mauve stripes''' 
???

'''black crepon''' 
???

'''Italian-cloth''' 
???

==Page 502==

'''modern lettering''' 
???

'''L'ARIMEAUX ET QUEURLIS''' 
Larry, Moe, and Curly's

'''twilling''' 
???

==Page 502==

'''Earl's Court Wheel''' 
???

'''whelks''' 
???

'''Chinese Turkestan railway shares''' 
???

'''jellied eel''' 
???

'''West Ham, the Park, Upton Lane, lads all in claret and blue''' 
The "lads in claret and blue" are kicking a football around, as they are players of current Premiership side West Ham United. Found in 1895, the "Hammers" are playing their home games at Boleyn Ground aka "Upton Park". Yep, soccer.

'''lupine liminality''' 
???

'''hydrangeas''' 
???

'''Hardy, whimsical''' 
???

==Page 504==

'''Harwich... German Sea''' 
???

'''Hook of Holland''' 
???

'''madhouse at Osnabrück''' 
???

==Page 505==

'''plug hats''' 
???

'''Cobh''' 
???

==Page 506==

'''Euclid''' 
???

'''elms in Cleveland''' 
(Before Dutch elm disease?)

'''went on for years''' 
???

'''Shorty''' 
???

==Page 507==

'''how little I cared''' 
(Blaming Krakatoa???)

'''palm upward''' 
???

'''Prospect Avenue''' 
???

'''leaf-spring suspension''' 
???

'''overrun''' 
???

'''Flats''' 
???

==Page 508==

'''Cuyahoga''' 
???

'''your exact face''' 
(How common?)

==Page 509==

'''descending minor triad''' 
???

'''Svengali''' 
???

'''tea roses''' 
???

'''cosmos''' 
???

==Page 510==

'''first momentous glance''' 
Page 349 only?

'''Elis''' 
???

==Page 511==

'''preferring''' 
Cf Rose in "Titanic".

'''Root Tubsmith''' 
???

'''Fuchs, Schwarz... Frobenius''' 
???

'''Professor Manning''' 
???

'''Marseilles''' 
???

'''species of tarantella''' 
???

'''dreamed it''' 
(Page?)

'''Cigar Deck''' 
???

==Page 512==

'''how to stop looking''' 
Cf p27.

'''fooling''' 
(They both miss it?)

'''lobelias''' 
???

'''Victor Herbert''' 
???

'''Wolf-Ferrari''' 
???

==Page 513==

'''1st Edition Typo''' 
"She smlld falsely"

==Page 515==

'''high-hatting''' 
???

'''twenty-knot''' 
???

'''uncreated''' 
Featureless?

'''after 1914''' 
Still 10 years away.

'''S.M.S. ''Emperor Maximilian''''' 
???

'''25,000-ton''' 
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'''dreadnoughts''' 
???

'''Slavonian''' 
???

'''Schultz-Thorneycroft''' 
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'''Parsons turbines''' 
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'''British men-o'-war''' 
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'''shell-rooms-to-be''' 
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'''twelve-inch barrels''' 
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'''shelter deck''' 
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'''casemates''' 
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'''freeboard''' 
The amount of the ship above the water. You need a certain amount of freeboard to maintain balance, but battleships try to limit it as much as possible.

'''"Dazzle" camouflage''' 
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'''dihedrals''' 
???

'''Fangsley''' 
???

'''horizontally disposed''' 
???

'''Lloyd Arsenale''' 
???

'''Stabilimento Tecnico''' 
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'''Promontorio''' 
???

'''O.I.C. Bodine''' 
Stands for...? [http://onelook.com/?w=o*+i*+c*&ls=a nope]

'''fermented potato mash''' 
Cf Veikko's vodka p82.

'''four shafts''' 
???

'''''Mauretania''''' 
???

'''''Zu befehl, Herr Hauptheitzer''''' 
???

'''Black Gang''' 
???

'''Oberhauptheitzer''' 
???

'''Mannlicher''' 
???

'''''"Dampf mehr!"''''' 
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'''singlet''' 
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'''Marconi room''' 
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'''design maximum of nine degrees''' 
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'''nymphs''' 
???

'''''"Porca miseria"''''' 
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'''tight circle''' 
Military as inane as circus clowns.

'''deeper levels''' 
(Eg particle vs wave?)

'''Chinese''' 
???

'''''nicht wahr''''' 
???

'''Graz''' 
???

'''bilge-crab''' 
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'''Teutonic''' 
???

'''Mulai Ahmed er-Raisuli''' 
???

'''Agadir, Queen of the Iron Coast''' 
???

'''Sus... Susi''' 
???

'''Abdel Aziz''' 
???

'''Canaries''' 
???

'''Lübeck''' 
???

'''Berbers''' 
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'''tree-climbing goats''' 
???

'''argan trees''' 
???

'''Gnaoua''' 
???

'''''mlouk gnaoui''''' 
???

'''Seigneurs Noirs''' 
???

'''Habsburg navy''' 
???

'''Mogador road''' 
???

'''Tawil Balak''' 
???

'''Rahman''' 
???

'''''Formalhaut''''' 
???

'''Moïsés''' 
???

'''Jonah... Massa''' 
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'''kashbah''' 
???

'''Ighir Ufrani''' 
???

'''''alimzah''''' 
???

'''''tasargelt''''' 
???

'''scruff''' 
???

'''Staketsel''' 
???

'''lazarettes''' 
???

'''''mon chou''''' 
"My cabbage." A french term of affection.

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'''moon deck''' 
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'''lower orlop''' 
???

'''lateen-riggers''' 
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'''Piazza Grande''' 
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'''Denza''' 
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'''Antonio Smareglia''' 
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          In the dream they were no longer in the ghostly canyons of the McElmo but in the city, not Venice but noplace American either, with an umappable operational endlessless (sic) to its streets, the same ancient, disquieting pictures engraved on its walls as back in the McElmo, spelling out a story whose pitiless truth couldn't be admitted officially by the authorities here because of the danger to the public sanity.... It was darker out here than he had any idea of. In the distance Reef caught sight of a procession of miners in their long rubber coats, only one of them, about halfway along, with the candle stub in his hat lit. Like postulants in habits, they proceeded single file down a narrow street like a humid drift lit back or front by a yellow lamp. As Reef came closer he saw the bearer of the light was Webb. 
        "Small victories," Webb greeted him. "Just to come away with one or two. To praise and to honor the small victories where and however they happen." 
        "Hasn't been too many of htem lately, Pa," Reef tried to say. 
        "Not talking about yours, you numbskull." 
        Understanding that this was Webb's attempt to pass on another message, like up the séance in the Alps, Reef saw just for one lucid instant that this was the precise intelligence he needed to get him back to where he had wandered off the trail, so long ago. And then he was awake and trying to remember why it was important.</blockquote>

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          In the dream they were no longer in the ghostly canyons of the McElmo but in the city, not Venice but noplace American either, with an umappable operational endlessless (sic) to its streets, the same ancient, disquieting pictures engraved on its walls as back in the McElmo, spelling out a story whose pitiless truth couldn't be admitted officially by the authorities here because of the danger to the public sanity.... It was darker out here than he had any idea of. In the distance Reef caught sight of a procession of miners in their long rubber coats, only one of them, about halfway along, with the candle stub in his hat lit. Like postulants in habits, they proceeded single file down a narrow street like a humid drift lit back or front by a yellow lamp. As Reef came closer he saw the bearer of the light was Webb. 
        "Small victories," Webb greeted him. "Just to come away with one or two. To praise and to honor the small victories where and however they happen." 
        "Hasn't been too many of htem lately, Pa," Reef tried to say. 
        "Not talking about yours, you numbskull." 
        Understanding that this was Webb's attempt to pass on another message, like up the séance in the Alps, Reef saw just for one lucid instant that this was the precise intelligence he needed to get him back to where he had wandered off the trail, so long ago. And then he was awake and trying to remember why it was important.</blockquote>

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Something about the situation he [Reef] was in with Yash and Cyprian must have loosened up a seam, and the dream came and found him. He had thought once that being the Kieselguhr Kid in Webb's place would take care of all his mortal illusions, and now look at this that he'd come stepping into. Webb. even on that trail back from Jeshimon so long ago, that luminous and strident hallucination–would Webb recognize him now, recognize his politics anymore, his compulsions? In the dream they were no longer in the ghostly canyons of the McElmo but in the city, not Venice but noplace American either, with an umappable operational endlessless (sic) to its streets, the same ancient, disquieting pictures engraved on its walls as back in the McElmo, spelling out a story whose pitiless truth couldn't be admitted officially by the authorities here because of the danger to the public sanity.... It was darker out here than he had any idea of. In the distance Reef caught sight of a procession of miners in their long rubber coats, only one of them, about halfway along, with the candle stub in his hat lit. Like postulants in habits, they proceeded single file down a narrow street like a humid drift lit back or front by a yellow lamp. As Reef came closer he saw the bearer of the light was Webb. 
"Small victories," Webb greeted him. "Just to come away with one or two. To praise and to honor the small victories where and however they happen." 
"Hasn't been too many of htem lately, Pa," Reef tried to say. 
"Not talking about yours, you numbskull." 
Understanding that this was Webb's attempt to pass on another message, like up the séance in the Alps, Reef saw just for one lucid instant that this was the prcise intelligence he needed to get him back to where he had wandered off the trail, so long ago. And then he was awake and trying to remember why it was important.</blockquote>

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'''Odo''' 
Ictibus's assistant; 344;

'''Offenbach''' 
422; "Halls of Montezoo-HOO-ma"

'''Ohmic Drift Compensator''' 
565;

'''Okhrana''' 
716; secret police force of the Russian Empire and part of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) in late 1800s, aided by Special Corps of Gendarmes. The primary purpose of the agency was the security of the tsar and royal family, including, but not limited to, fighting hostile organizations: terrorists ("bombists"), socialists, and revolutionaries.

'''"Old Zip Coon"''' 
33; Sung to the tune of "Turkey In The Straw," "Old Zip Coon" was written around 1829 by either George Washington Dixon, Bob Farrell or George Nichols, as the composer credit is disputed. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey_in_the_Straw Wikipedia entry]; [[Old_Zip_Coon|The Lyrics]]

'''Old Gideon''' 
40; bourbon

'''Old Stearinery Bell Tower''' 
412;

'''Oltre Giubba''' 
30; Oltre Giuba (Italian Jubaland) is a strip of land 50 to 100 miles in width, west of the Juba River in East Africa. It was ceded to Italy by Great Britain in 1924. Oltre Giuba was incorporated into Italian Somaliland on July 1 that year, and stamps for Oltre Giuba were discontinued. In 1936 it became part of Italian East Africa.

'''One-Tooth Elsie''' 
345;

'''Oneida''' 
473; Crystal's cousin; the [http://oneida-nation.net/ Oneida] are an American Indian tribe in New York;

'''opopanax and vervain''' 
399; opopanax, also called "sweet myrhh", is an odorous gum resin formerly used in medicines; the highly flammable resin can be burned as incense to produce a scent somewhat like balsam or lavender. '''Vervain''' is believed to be a galactagogue (promotes secretion of milk). Folk legend states that vervain (Common Vervain V. officinalis) was used to staunch Jesus's wounds after his removal from the cross. Tea can also be made from vervain, as a remedy for insomnia.

'''orange phosphate''' 
47;

'''Oriental Presence''' 
682;

'''Original Sin''' 
87; 145; "no such thing as," 223; responsible for the Southwestern desert, 393;

'''O'Rooney, Wolfe Tone''' 
370; "travelling insurrectionist" in Maman in New Orleans; "Way of the Potato" 373; "after weapons for the Irish cause" 642; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theobald_Wolfe_Tone Theobald Wolfe Tone], commonly known as Wolfe Tone (1763-1798) was a leading figure in the United Irishmen Irish independence movement and is regarded as the father of Irish republicans. He died, allegedly by cutting his own throat, following an illness after being sentenced to death for his part in the Irish Rebellion of 1798;

A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_tone wolf tone], or simply a "wolf", is a noise that is produced when a note played on a stringed instrument matches the natural resonating frequency of the instrument, producing a tone that is loud and harsh, and basically unwelcomed by most musicians.

'''Orthogonal''' 
(need other page numbers); 632; ''"a wild exclusion from the primly orthogonal floor-plans...;'' 843; ''"mosqueless idea of a city is nearly upon us, dull, modern, orthogonal..."'' Of or relating to right angles, also of or relating to a linear transformation preserving vector lengths. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal Wikipedia entry]

'''Other Side, the''' 
381; 389;

'''Otzovists''' 
616; radical wing of the Bolsheviks, led by Alexander Bogdanov; the God-builders, 616; "anti-Leninist Bolshies" 631; 719;

'''Ouspensky, Peter D. (1878-1947)''' 
602; Russian philosopher with an analytic and mystical bent who combined geometry and psychology in his discussion of higher dimensions of existence. During his years in Moscow he wrote for several newspapers, and was particularly interested in the then-fashionable idea of the fourth dimension. He is best known, however, for his expositions of the early work of the Greek-Armenian mystic, G.I. Gurdjieff. ''The Fourth Dimension'', 602; 616; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._D._Ouspensky Wikipedia entry]

'''Oust, Ewball''' 
374; in Mexico; now in arms procurement, with Frank Traverse in Mexico, 637; 921

'''Oust, Toplady''' 
374; Ewball's uncle "Top"

'''Outer Indianoplace''' 
29; "Indianoplace is generally regarded as derogatory name for Indianapolis, Indiana. Comes from the evident lack of anything to do other than get drunk and watch sports and the appearant resistance of many of its inhabitants to allow culture, change, or diversity into the mix; [http://www.urbandictionary.com From Urban Dictionary]

'''Oyswharf, Dr.''' 
182; [[Dr. Osywharf | DISCUSSION]]

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'''A-and''' 
5; 13; 109; 183

'''absquatulate''' 
8; run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along; 343;

'''Ace, Mr.''' 
415; visitor from the future (Trespasser); 555;

'''''Achphanomen''''' 
616;

'''Adam of Bremen''' 
128; (also: Adam Bremensis) One of the most important German medieval chroniclers. He lived and worked in the second half of the 11th century. He is most famous for his chronicle ''Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum'' (''Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church''); [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_of_Bremen Wikipedia entry]

'''Adams, Maude (1872-1953)''' 
338; American stage actress, most noted for her signature role, Peter Pan; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maude_Adams Wikipedia entry]

'''Addle, Ed''' 
60; regular at Oil Well Saloon;

'''aeronaut''': the pilot of a balloon or airship; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_Columbian_Exposition Chicago World's Fair, 1893] and [http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA96/WCE/title.html more here]

'''Aether''' 
55; 58; 132-133; 140; 306; 320; "sounds like light" 426; 458; 557; 565-66; 595; aka ''Akasa'', 613; 620; aka ''Luminiferous aether ''; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminiferous_aether Wikipedia article on Luminferous aether]

'''aigrette''' 
456; 721; 748; 813; Aigrette (from the French for egret, or lesser white heron), the tufted crest, or head-plumes of the egret, used for adorning a woman's head-dress, the term being also given to any similar ornament, in gems, &c. An aigrette is also worn by certain ranks of officers in the French army. By analogy the word is used in various sciences for feathery excrescences of like appearance, as for the tufts on the heads of insects, the feathery down of the dandelion, the luminous rays at the end of electrified bodies, or the luminous rays seen in solar eclipses, diverging from, the moon's edge. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aigrette Wikipedia entry]

'''Akashi, Baron''' 
294; "roving military attaché" and "famous international spy"

'''''akousmata''''' 
232; Greek: "things heard"; holds a much more secretive connotation like ‘signs’, or even perhaps ‘passwords’. These were explained as a set of rules of conduct used by the Pythagoreans. A few examples as given by Aristotle’s testimonies, like “abstain from beans as being due either to the fact that they resemble the genitals in shape, or because they resemble the gates of Hades." Also noted in this passage was “not to touch a white cock” and “not to touch any sacred fish” probably due to the earlier discussion on sacrifice.

'''Albert Lea''' 
71; Pronounced "Albert Lee," a town in south-central Minnesota. It is also mentioned in passing in ''Gravity's Rainbow'' as the hometown of a minor character, "where the speed limit is lickety split"; [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Albert+Lea,+MN+56007&ie=UTF8&z=9&ll=43.65123,-93.369026&spn=1.007532,2.768555&om=1 Google Map]

'''alchemy''' 
76-77; Alchemy refers to both an early form of the investigation of nature and an early philosophical and spiritual discipline, both combining elements of chemistry, metallurgy, physics, medicine, astrology, semiotics, mysticism, spiritualism, and art; and photography, 80; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy Wikipedia entry]

'''Alfonsito''' 
310; [[ATD-D#drop|Jimmy Drop's]] lieutenant

'''Algernon''' 
369; Ruperta's driver (?)

'''Algie''' 
672; "flaneur of Ruperta's acquaintance"; a flaneur is a detached pedestrian observer of a metropolis, a 'gentleman stroller of city streets', first identified by Charles Baudelaire; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fl%C3%A2neur Wikipedia entry]

'''Alkali''' 
Any of a group of basic, soluble salts. The term is derived etymologically from the Arabic for calcined ashes, from which the first alkalis were derived. They form a principle ingredient in soap production. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkali Citation]. "alkali dust, 207; "all the alkaline day," 214;

''"All Pimps Look Alike to Me"''' 
48; an 1896 barroom ditty that was "cleaned up" to become "All Coons Look Alike to Me" and recorded by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Collins Arthur Collins] in 1899 and considered by some to be the First Rock 'n' Roll Record. [[All_Pimps_Look_Alike_to_Me|Read the whole story...]]

'''A.M.E.''' 
702; Alternate Means of Egress

'''America''' 
219; "innocent, all but oppressively wholesome"; and shame, 567; American light, 580; "delivered yourselves into the hands of capitalists and Christers" 643;

'''Amsterdam''' 
107; Indian Ocean island; M''egaera'' shipwrecked, 108;

[[image:anamorphoscope.jpg|thumb|Anamorphoscope|right]]'''anamorphoscope''' 
249; a curved mirror or other optical device for giving a correct image of a picture or the like distorted by anamorphosis; paramorphic, 249;

'''Anarchism''' 
6; "the inexorable rising tide of World Anarchism..."; 37; 43; 49-51; 60; 66; 87; 175 (as terrorists); 179; bomb factory in London, 235; 370; Barcelona in 1890s, 372;  [http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/index.html Anarchy Archives]

'''Anarcho-syndicalists''' 
14; Anarcho-syndicalism is a branch of anarchism which focuses on the labor movement. ''Syndicalisme'' is a French word meaning "trade unionism" – hence, the "syndicalism" qualification. Anarcho-syndicalists view labor unions as a potential force for revolutionary social change, replacing capitalism and the State with a new society democratically self-managed by workers. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-syndicalism Wikipedia entry]

'''Anemometer''' 
6; An instrument for measuring wind speed; Robinson anemometer, 6 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anemometer Wikipedia entry]

'''Angels''' 
10; "''helples angel''," 27; 42; "God's wing" (?), 211; "agencies of the angelic," 221; "Avenging Angels" 271; creatures, 277; H. Vanderjuice, 322; 332; birds, 336; 379; 389; 446; 531; in Venice, 575; "too bright to look at directly" 616; of deep shit, 619; 632; 642; Gentleman Bomber, as "messenger" 692; wings, 699;

'''Anglo-Russian Entente''' 
631; the 1907 diplomatic accord between England and Russia to respect the integrity and independence of Persia.

'''Anharmonic Pencil''' 
455; a "pencil" in this context refers to a figure formed by a set of straight lines or light rays meeting at a point, a figure that is not harmonic, i.e., not a multiple of its component parts; 532; 593;

'''Anti-Stone''' 
78;

'''Apostles' Creed''' 
58; The Apostles' Creed (circa 700 AD) (Latin: Symbolum Apostolorum), sometimes titled Symbol of the Apostles, is an early statement of Christian belief, a creed or "symbol." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostles'_Creed Wikipedia entry]

'''Arbuckles''' 
638; It was in the United States where coffee initially started to be commercialized. In 1865, John Arbuckle marketed the first commercially available packages of ground, roasted coffee. His brand, 'Ariosa', was sold over a far larger area then any other coffee roaster. Instead of being confined to a small area close to his roasting factory, Arbuckle was able to establish his coffee as a regional brand. Others soon followed suit and, by World War I, there were a number of regional roasters including companies such as Folgers, Hill Brothers, and Maxwell House; [http://www.gallacoffee.co.uk/acatalog/History_of_Coffee_Pt_IV.html From Galla Coffee website]

'''Archer, Mr.''' 
467;

'''argentaurum''' 
305-07; 375;

[[Image:arkansas-toothpick1.jpg|thumb|Arkansas Toothpick, made by Harvey McBurnette - 9.5" blade|left]]'''Arkansas Toothpick''' 
31; The Arkansas Toothpick is essentially a heavy dagger with a pointed, straight 12-20 inch blade. The "toothpick" is balanced and weighted for throwing and can also be used for thrusting and slashing. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_toothpick Wikipedia entry]

'''arnophilia''' 
211; A word invented by Pynchon. According to this [http://www.basarchive.org/sample/bswbBrowse.asp?PubID=BSBR&Volume=19&Issue=6&ArticleID=5 website] the greek word ''arnos'' generally refers to a lamb or sheep, but occasionally to a goat, too. Suffixes with the common part -phil- (-phile, -philia, -philic) are used to specify some kind of attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-phil- Wikipedia]

'''Arriaga, Camilo''' 
381; ''potosino''; a leader of Mexican anarchist group founded by Enrico and Ricardo Flores Magon in 1882; on August 30, 1900, he published the manifesto ''Invitación al Partido Liberal'' in San Luis Potosi. This document sparked a movement leading to formation of the ''Partido Liberal Mexicano'' (PLM) five years later, and was Ricardo Flores Magón's main vehicle for organizing the anti-Diaz struggle and for spreading the ideals of anarchism throughout Mexico; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism_in_Mexico Wikipedia - Anarchism in Mexico]

'''Arvin''' 
264; in the Nonpareil;

'''aryq''' 
441; The Russian Turcologists Malov and Tenishev mention a Western Yugur word ''Aryq'', meaning Chinese or muslim Turk. This is a loanword from Tibetan, ''A-rig'', the name of a country of nomadic herdsmen situated to the west of Amdo. It originally may have referred to the local Tibetan population. But Pynchon's use suggests it is a drink. Hmmm. 
Arak or araq is an anise-flavored liquor popular in the Middle East; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arak_(liqueur) Wikipedia entry]

'''ässalamu äläykum''' 
441; As-Salāmu `Alaykum (السلام عليكم) is an Arabic language greeting used in both Muslim and Christian cultures. It means "Peace be upon you." It is also transliterated as Assalamu 'Alaikum or As-salaamu Alaikum. The traditional response is "wa `Alaykum As-Salām", meaning "and peace on you". [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As-Salamu_Alaykum Wikipedia entry]

'''"as above [...] so below"''' 
797; This phrase comes from the beginning of [http://www.alchemylab.com/what_is_the_tablet.htm The Emerald Tablet] and embraces the entire system of traditional and modern magic which was inscribed upon the tablet in cryptic wording by Hermes Trismegistus. The significance of this phrase is that it is believed to hold the key to all mysteries. All systems of magic are claimed to function by this formula. "'That which is above is the same as that which is below'...Macrocosmos is the same as microcosmos. The universe is the same as God, God is the same as man, man is the same as the cell, the cell is the same as the atom, the atom is the same as...and so on, ad infinitum." [http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/a/below_above.html]

'''Astarte-Bad''' 
714; in Vienna, with lurid mosaics of pre-biblical orgies; Astarte is a pre-biblical goddess of fertility, sexuality and war; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astarte Wikipedia entry]

'''"at silly point"''' 
222; "silly point" is a position in the game of cricket, played close to the batsman

'''Aubergine, Madame''' 
367, gives Reef Traverse dancing lessons in Denver, "aubergine" means eggplant, both the vegetable and the color;

[[Image:Audumla.jpg|thumb|Audhumla -
N. A. Abilgaard, 1790|right]]'''Audumla''' 
142; The primeval cow. Audumla (Audhumla) was born from rime at Ginnungagap. The primeval giant Ymir (Aurgelmir) lived on the milk that flow from the cow's teats. Audumla also provided nourishment to Ymir's six-headed son. Audumla received nourishment through licking the salty rime-stones. Audumla licked the stone until it was shaped into a man. This stone became Buri, grandfather of the Aesir gods: Odin, Vili and Ve.

'''Aughrim''' 
231; The Battle of Aughrim was the decisive battle of the Williamite War in Ireland. It was fought between the Jacobites and the forces of William III on 12 July 1691, near the village of Aughrim in County Galway; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Aughrim Wikipedia entry]

'''August, Ernst''' 
230; Crown Prince Ernst August II of Hanover, 3rd Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale, (Ernst August Wilhelm Adolf Georg Friedrich) (21 September 1845-14 November 1923), was the eldest child and only son of King George V of Hanover and his wife, Princess Marie of Saxe-Altenburg. Ernst August had the misfortune of being deprived of the thrones of Hanover upon its annexation by Prussia in 1866 and later the Duchy of Brunswick in 1884. Although he was the senior male-line great grandson of King George III, the Duke of Cumberland was deprived of his British peerages and honours for having sided with Germany in World War I; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_August_of_Hanover%2C_3rd_Duke_of_Cumberland]

'''Automorphic Dispensation''' 
453;

'''Avery''' 
193; a company inspector or spy (indeterminate)

'''Aychrome, Police Inspector Vance''' 
605; at Chunxton Crescent;

'''Azeff, Monsieur Yevno''' 
720; Yevno Azef (also spelled Azev) was a double agent in a big way, working for both Russia's turn-of-the-century revolutionaries and the Czar's Okhrana. He was convicted of attempting to assassinate Tsar Nicholas II and was executed in 1911. He was also a founder of the Social Revolutionary Party.

'''Aziz, Abdel''' 
520; "young sultan" in Morocco

'''Aztecs''' 
394; "foundation story of the eagle and the serpent"

'''Aztlàn''' 
214; "ghosts of..."; 277;

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'''For really it was the sidekick who presented the problem. Restless type. Fair hair, hat back on his head so the big brim sort of haloed his face, shiny eyes and low-set, pointed ears like an elf's...''' 

Who is this? Some sort of strange tommyknocker, mine-sprite, or brownie? Or an oblique reference to a named character whose identity I can't discern? [[User:Bean|remy]] 10:52, 28 December 2006 (PST)

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==Page 666==
'''Reader, she bit him.''' 
Reef has failed, both literally and figuratively, to screw the pooch.

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==Page 675==
'''As light began to steep in...'''

Like on page 566, this dream-passage seems to contain a top-down examination of Kit's progress; of his motives and awareness of complicity in the Traverse vengeance-quest against the Vibes. Similar to Kit's earlier dream(s?), it's a thematic reduction and feels like a significant 'clue':

<blockquote>As light began to steep in around the edges of the window blinds, Kit fell asleep again and dreamed of a bullet en route to the heart of an enemy, traveling for many years and many miles, hitting something now and then and ricocheting off at a different angle but continuing its journey as if conscious of where it must go, and he understood that this zigzagging around through four-dimensional space-time might be expressed as a vector in five dimensions. Whatever the number of ''n'' dimensions it inhabited, an observer would need one extra, ''n'' + 1, to see it and connect the end points to make a single result.</blockquote>

In addition to the broad narrative summary, there appears to be a metatextual implication here. Regarding the reader in Pynchon's overall 'Against The Day' scheme: the novel ''n'' must be observed from an ''n'' +1 perspective (that is: dimensionally distinct) to connect end-points and weave a single result, to engage and correlate strands and twines into a coherent narrative whole. Without an overarching consciousness there's apparent anarchy: with said consciousness there's meaning and vector.

[[User:Bean|remy]] 10:52, 28 December 2006 (PST)
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'''<blockquote>For really it was the sidekick who presented the problem. Restless type. Fair hair, hat back on his head so the big brim sort of haloed his face, shiny eyes and low-set, pointed ears like an elf's...''' 

Who is this? Some sort of strange tommyknocker, mine-sprite, or brownie? Or an oblique reference to a named character whose identity I can't discern? 
[[User:Bean|remy]] 10:06, 28 December 2006 (PST)

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'''<blockquote>For really it was the sidekick who presented the problem. Restless type. Fair hair, hat back on his head so the big brim sort of haloed his face, shiny eyes and low-set, pointed ears like an elf's...''' 

Who is this? Some sort of strange tommyknocker, mine-sprite, or brownie? Or an oblique reference to a named character whose identity I can't discern?
[[User:Bean|remy]] 09:59, 28 December 2006 (PST)

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'''Ich Bin Ein Berliner''' 
JFK said "Ich bin ein Berliner" at the Berlin wall in 1963. According to Wikipedia, there is an urban legend: 
<blockquote>Kennedy should have said "Ich bin Berliner" to mean "I am a person from Berlin." By adding the indefinite article ein, his statement implied he was a non-human Berliner, thus "I am a jelly doughnut". The statement was followed by uproarious laughter.</blockquote> 
However, Wikipedia goes on to state: <blockquote>There is no grammatical error in Kennedy's statement; the indefinite article does not change its meaning. In German, the statement of origin "Ich bin ein Brandenburger" (I am a Brandenburger) is more common than "Ich bin Brandenburger" (I am Brandenburger), but both are correct. The article "ein" can be used as a form of emphasis: it implies "just one of many." As Kennedy did stress the "ein", the usage was, according to German linguist Jürgen Eichhoff [1], "not only correct, but the one and only correct way of expressing in German what the President intended to say."</blockquote> 
--[[User:Btchakir|Btchakir]] 07:51, 19 December 2006 (PST)

==Page 638==

'''[S]louching away into the yellow opacity, he invited them all up to a wingding [...] that evening.''' 
Compare with T.S. Eliot's ''Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'':

<blockquote>
The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes 
Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening</blockquote>
[[User:Bean|remy]] 09:52, 28 December 2006 (PST)

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==Page 525==

'''Boulevard van Isenghem''' 
???

'''street-plausible''' 
???

'''Quai de l'empereur''' 
???

'''estaminet''' 
???

'''twelve-centime''' 
???

'''Kellner''' 
???

'''''demi''''' 
???

'''Lambic''' 
???

'''skimmer''' 
???

==Page 526==

'''universal sign''' 
Cf Monopoly game card.

'''biquaternion''' 
???

'''Barry Nebulay''' 
???

'''University of Dublin''' 
If University College, Dublin, then Joyce had graduated in 1902.

'''Tasmania''' 
???

'''Hamiltonion''' 
???

'''Grand Hôtel de la Nouvelle Digue''' 
???

'''Belgian Art Nouveau''' 
???

==Page 527==

'''dossing''' 
???

'''nihilists''' 
???

'''Eugénie, Fatou''' 
Females.

'''Denis, and Policarpe''' 
Males.

'''Young Congo''' 
???

'''Garde Civique''' 
???

'''''phalange''''' 
???

'''the Digue''' 
???

'''Congo... Belgians''' 
The Belgian colonisation of the Congo was, as Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" makes clear, notable for its greed and brutality.

'''co-conscious''' 
???

'''Force Publique''' 
???

'''rubber worker''' 
???

==Page 528==

'''''khâgne''''' 
???

'''Reclus''' 
???

'''Stirnerite''' 
???

'''''Anarcho-individualiste''''' 
???

'''Leopold''' 
???

'''going down lately''' 
???

'''Sipido''' 
???

'''Prince... of Wales''' 
(Maud Gonne's husband claimed to have been involved in another such plot.)

'''Royal Bathing Hut... twenty francs''' 
???

'''twenty francs''' 
???

==Page 529==

''''picric'' 
???

'''Brugère's powder''' 
???

'''Designolle's''' 
???

'''Monsieur Santos-Dumont''' 
???

'''Green Hour''' 
???

'''''l'heure vertigineuse''''' 
???

'''Rocco and Pino''' 
???

'''Whitehead works in Fiume''' 
Anticipating GR's V2 works.

'''''Alberta''''' 
???

'''Siluro Dirigible a Lenta Corsa''' 
???

==Page 530==

'''exfiltrate''' 
???

'''''Macchè''''' 
???

'''''Ehi, stugazz', categoria''''' 
???

'''''mezzogiornismo''''' 
???

==Page 531==

'''Bruges''' 
An exceptionally beautiful Belgian town of canals which is thus one of several towns known as the 'Venice of the north'.

'''Raoul's Atelier de la Vitesse''' 
???

'''Ghent''' 
???

'''Daimler six-cylinder''' 
???

'''a hundred horsepower''' 
???

'''''guaglion''''' 
???

'''Umeki Tsurigane''' 
???

'''Professor Knott''' 
???

==Page 532==

'''drover's sombrero''' 
???

'''furoshiki''' 
???

'''taupe''' 
???

'''boilermakers and their helpers''' 
???

'''''Comptes rendus''''' 
???

==Page 533==

'''aniline teal''' 
???

'''Heavisiders''' 
???

'''Grassmanniacs''' 
???

'''in the mood for a clambake''' 
Anachronistic Broadway show tune?

'''Monopole de la Maison''' 
???

'''Idiom Neutral''' 
An invented language, like Esperanto. Idiom Neutral dictionaries first appeard in 1902. It looks like a simplified Latinate language and it grew out of Volapuk, another "auxiliary language." It was abandoned by the ''Akademi Internasional de Lingu Universal'' in 1908.

For a list of all the invented languages that linguists are keeping track of, including Klingon, try [http://linguistlist.org/forms/langs/GetListOfConstructedLgs.html Eastern Michigan's Linguist List]. And don't forget to click on the link to "Browse sites devoted to constructed languages."

'''phatic''' 
Basically, small talk or chatter. Words used to convey fellow-feeling rather than to impart information.

'''''Kampf ums Dasein''''' 
???

'''Q-brother''' 
"My fellow Quaternion"?

==Page 534==

'''Poiret gown''' 
???

'''''green and long''''' 
Pickle, or... what?

==Page 535==

'''no-name wine''' 
1970s idiom for common European practice?

'''Hamilton... first love''' 
???

==Page 536==

'''Kursaal''' 
???

'''Curls''' 
???

'''Laplacians''' 
???

'''scream''' 
Scream motif.

'''beginning to appal''' 
???

'''baize''' 
???

==Page 537==

'''broken symmetries''' 
???

'''''sphinxe Khnopffienne''''' 
???

'''Pléiade Lafrisée''' 
???

'''''Conseilleuse''''' 
Female consultant?

==Page 538==

'''retroversion matrix''' 
???

'''''Ma foi''''' 
???

'''ten thousand francs''' 
???

'''piker''' 
Someone cheap or cautious, possibly named after people from PIke County, Missouri, who came to California in the 1800s, looking for work. They were poor, hence cheap.

''''Mad Dog'''' 
???

'''Hegel... puns''' 
???

==Page 539==

'''vector quotient''' 
???

''''Triangle Asana'''' 
A basic yoga pose.

[http://yoga.org.nz/postures/yoga_positions_images_page.htm Here are images of several basic poses.]

''''Quadrantal Versor Asana'''' 
A triangle pose taken that extra dimension.

'''''"Uwe moer!"''''' 
???

'''noncommutative''' 
???

'''reticule''' 
???

'''Vacheron & Constantin watch''' 
???

'''hunting-case''' 
???

==Page 540==

'''"haar rekening, ja?"''' 
The bill, yes? (Dutch)?

Given the presence of Chris 'Kit' Traverse here, this very much suggests a reference to Christopher 'Kit' Marlowe, Elizabethan poet, playwright and contemporary of Shakespeare. Marlowe was stabbed to death in 1593, in murky circumstances, ostensibly over a bill or 'recokning', though he was widely believed to have been involved in some form of espionage.

'''Piet Woevre''' 
Pete Weaver?

'''made him reach''' 
(Cf Ezra Pound?)

'''not unambiguous''' 
Ie, ambiguous.

'''''rastaquoueres''''' 
8???

'''de Decker''' 
???

==Page 541==

'''''bobbejaan''''' 
???

'''MKIV/ODC... Mark Four''' 
???

'''your remit''' 
???

'''''gatkruiper''''' 
???

'''one on her wrist''' 
???

'''over the day''' 
Title motif?

==Page 542==

'''trans-horizontic''' 
???

'''Edmund Whittaker''' 
???

'''foaming louche''' 
???

'''cheval-glass''' 
???

'''as if someone''' 
Sound-cancelling vs opacity-cancelling?

==Page 543==

'''monitory''' 
???

'''He Who Must Come''' 
???

'''General Boulanger''' 
???

'''''"Zeker"''''' 
???

'''''dead cert''''' 
Dead certainty, sure thing.

'''Von Schlieffen''' 
???

'''Wilhelm has offered''' 
???

'''lowlands''' 
Title of Pynchon's first published story. Here, ass?

==Page 544==

'''Place d'Armes''' 
???

'''peau de soie''' 
???

'''Krafft-Ebing''' 
???

'''toque''' 
A chef's hat

'''guipure''' 
???

'''midinette''' 
???

'''sous''' 
???

'''mayonnaise''' 
One of Brautigan's books famously ends with the word mayonnaise.

'''ovoöleaginous''' 
Another Pynchonic word combination, here denoting the two main ingredients of mayonnaise: 1) eggs, and 2) oil. It's not "fecoventilatory collision" as seen in "Vineland," but it's nice.

'''Grenache''' 
???

'''Chantilly''' 
???

'''attainder''' 
???

''''''Aux armes, citoyens'''''' 
Not "Le Marseillaise," you nitwit!

'''Louis XV''' 
???

'''Cléo de Mérode''' 
???

'''marquise de Pompadour''' 
???

==Page 545==

'''dubious 'victory' in 1756''' 
???

'''cantharides''' 
???

'''Sadean''' 
???

'''vetiver''' 
???

'''pip''' 
???

'''Q.P. system''' 
Quaternion Probability, p?.

'''Usine Régionale''' 
???

==Page 546==

'''lounge suit''' 
???

'''congress shoes''' 
???

'''dripping-heads''' 
???

'''''cuves d'agitation''''' 
???

'''Clinique d'Urgence pour Sauvetage des Sauces''' 
???

==Page 547==

'''''Cazzo, cretino''''' 
Literally, "Dick, cretin." ''Cazzo'' is a common Italian interjectionary obscenity, especially in the south. "Cazzo, cretino," is akin to someone saying, "Well shit, dummy," or "F-ing moron!"

'''''bambole''''' 
???

'''Oudenberg''' 
???

'''Quai de l'Entrepôt''' 
???

==Page 548==

'''''timbres fictifs''''' 
Cf "Lot 49".

'''"IIIb"''' 
???

'''revanchist''' 
???

==Page 549==

'''cackled Darby''' 
(When did he lose his innocence?)

'''"Why you little–and I do mean 'little'–"''' 
Another Simpsons reference?

'''dunes between Nieuport and Dunkirk''' 
???

'''power-receivers''' 
Not information, energy.

==Page 550==

'''Italian grotto''' 
???

'''Carpathians''' 
???

'''Uhlans''' 
???

'''Temesvár''' 
???

==Page 551==

'''Ryder Thorn''' 
Tolkienesque name?

'''He was at Candlebrow.''' 
(Was he?)

==Page 552==

'''knuckle-duster''' 
Brass knuckles.

'''Diksmuide''' 
???

==Page 553==

'''retted''' 
???

==Page 554==

'''Ypres and Menin''' 
???

'''Ten years from now''' 
(1914?)

'''Bosch''' 
???

'''Brueghel''' 
???

'''League''' 
???

==Page 555==

'''simpletons at the fair''' 
Making Pynchon's metaphor explicit.

'''Chopin E-minor Nocturne''' 
???

'''owl-light''' 
???

''''plasmic hysteresis'''' 
???

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'''desolate sighs''' 
(They're not gay?)

'''Apostlet''' 
???

'''Cyprian Latewood''' 
???

'''Eastern wog''' 
Cf p222.

'''The German Sea''' 
???

'''sub-Clerkenwell''' 
???

'''annoyance''' 
(Why?)

==Page 490==

'''gyps''' 
???

'''Byron's Pool''' 
???

'''"Div!"''' 
???

'''"Whizzo!"''' 
???

'''''"That'' is that of which ''I'' speak!"''' 
prob. homosexuality. cf. "I am the Love that dare not speak its name." -- Lord Arthur Douglas's poem 'Two Loves' in ''Chameleon'' ca. 1896.

Made more famous as an utterance by Oscar Wilde during his trial for sodomy. His response: '"The Love that dare not speak its name" in this century is such a great affection of an elder for a younger man as there was between David and Jonathan, such as Plato made the very basis of his philosophy, and such as you find in the sonnets of Michelangelo and Shakespeare.[...]. It is intellectual, and it repeatedly exists between an elder and a younger man, when the elder man has intellect, and the younger man has all the joy, hope and glamour of life before him."

'''Cloisters Court''' 
???

'''King's''' 
???

'''Queen Anne's Gate''' 
???

'''Newnham''' 
???

'''Wrangleresses''' 
???

'''Phillippa Fawcett''' 
???

'''Grace Chisolm and Will Young''' 
???

'''nautch-girl''' 
???

'''socio-acrobatic aggrandizement''' 
'social climbing'

'''''opium beer''''' 
???

'''duc de Richelieu''' 
???

==Page 491==

'''the City''' 
???

'''can't ''ever'' tell''' 
Dog-eat-dog capitalism?

'''Reginald "Ratty" McHugh''' 
???

'''one more flag''' 
IE, his father's wallpaper brand.

'''Balkan Sobranies''' 
???

'''lilies-and-lassitude humor of the '90s''' 
Cult of Oscar Wilde?

'''table d'hôte''' 
???

'''Very well, I contradict myself.''' 
???

==Page 492==

'''divine... prosaic''' 
(Walt was of course prosaic himself before he became divine.)

'''xanthrocroid''' 
???

'''Capsheaf''' 
Is this a third speaker, or another name for Ratty?

'''viva''' 
???

'''Crayke''' 
???

'''''D'accord''''' 
???

'''reputation for viciousness''' 
???

'''croft''' 
???

'''Mavis Grind''' 
???

'''orthopædic journals''' 
???

'''Dymphna''' 
???

'''decks full of hearts''' 
(52 or 13 per deck?)

==Page 493==

'''Thucydides... remind me''' 
Thucydides' book is an account of the Peloponnesian war, organized in a rather difficult method in which all the actions of one season are described before proceeding to the next. Here are some erotic possibilities in it, however: 
-Pericles, in his famous funeral oration, says the citizen ought to have an eros for the city. 
-At one point some Athenians are lured out of a garrison by way of a gymnastic (that is male, nude) demonstration. 
-On the eve of the fateful Sicilian expedition, all the oversized phalloi of the hermes are mysteriously knocked off. One of the generals on the expedition, Alcibiades, is accused of the offense and is eventually called called back. In Plato's Symposium Alcibiades drunkenly crashes the party and confesses that Socrates has consistently spurned his sexual advances.

'''McHugh''' 
Talking to self?

'''alfresceehwh''' 
???

'''Lorelei, Noellyn, and Faun''' 
???

'''High Albedo''' 
???

'''white veils''' 
???

'''Pinky''' 
Nicknames opposite of truth?

''''''sans merci'''''' 
a reference to Keats's 19th century Romantic ballad 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci'. The lady of the title entraps men by making them fall in love with her and abandoning them.

==Page 494==

'''wrong altar''' 
???

'''gnomic tenses''' 
???

'''circs''' 
???

''''If she's not content with a vegetable love'''' 
a reference to Marvell's bitterly ironic seventeenth century poem 'To His Coy Mistress'. The phrase 'vegetable love' refers, comically, to a Platonic love between man and woman, assuirng the coty mistress that, had he 'world enough and time', he would not threaten her physically.

'''Rugby blue''' 
To be a 'Rugby blue' means to have represented Oxford (colour: dark blue) or Cambridge (light blue) at Rugby, which is a major European sport, invented, supposedly, at Rugby school in England in the nineteenth century.

'''Mâconnais''' 
???

'''George Grossmith...and that jolly Weedon''' 

George and Weedon Grossmith, authors of the sublime, hillarious 'Diary of a Nobody', which gave the world the adjective 'pooterish'. Undoubtedly an influence on Pynchon's depictions of the 'oh dear' side of Englishness. Pooter is a 'nobody' who decides to publish his diaries, even though he is of no interest and nothing of any note occurs. A prototypical blogger, some might suggest. Originally published in Punch magazine (I think), set in late 19th Century. Don't know if the Grossmiths went to Cambridge, will check....

[plenty of info here: http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/english/DON/Diary_Home.htm]

==Page 495==

'''Junior or Senior?''' 
expressions used at traditional English (independent) schools to refer to younger and older brothers. Thus Smith Junior or Smith Senior.

'''cp. Wilhelm II file''' 
???

'''"Map of the World"''' 
???

'''Newmarket''' 
A famous English race-course, hence the following reference to the 'racing season'.

'''Morse and Vassilev''' 
???

'''East Rumelian''' 
???

'''''zadruga''''' 
???

'''''tchifliks''''' 
???

'''''gradinarski druzhini''''' 
???

'''gossamer''' 
Pynchon draws him as 'wet' as possible?

==Page 496==

'''sod... pouffe''' 
???

'''failed canards''' 
???

'''Lent... Easter... Long Vacation''' 
???

'''Colonial Office''' 
???

'''Okhrana''' 
???

'''Ballhausplatz''' 
???

'''Wilhelmstrasse''' 
???

'''G.F.B. Riemann''' 
???

'''Zeta function... conjecture''' 
???

''''joint'''' 
???

'''Bob's your uncle''' 
???

'''Limehouse''' 
???

==Page 497==

'''excess''' 
(So not wholly gossamer?)

'''Coronation Red''' 
???

'''Ranji and C.B. Fry''' 
Two notable cricketers who would have been in their prime when the novel is set. Both played for England. 'Ranji' is short for Ranjitsinhji and is how he was familiarly known.

'''Australian season''' 
A reference to the Australian cricket season which runs throughout their summer and the Eurpopean winter.

'''New Court''' 
???

'''Tavernier-Gravet slide rules''' 
???

'''High Church''' 
???

'''Mags and Nuncs and Matins''' 
???

'''not Zion''' 
???

'''Compline hour''' 
???

'''Te Deum''' 
???

'''Khaki Election''' 
???

'''Filtham''' 
???

==Page 498==

'''chromaticism... Richard Strauss''' 
???

'''Staindrop''' 
???

'''"Filtham's Tedium"''' 
(Talk about overlabored puns...)

'''dress regulations''' 
???

'''Gauss''' 
???

'''Ramanujan''' 
???

'''display of hurt feelings''' 
Cf p30.

==Page 499==

'''light up''' 
Dark world vs spark of value.

'''[zeta]-function''' 
???

'''Hilbert thinks of nothing else''' 
???

'''desire... of rather a specialized sort''' 
???

'''Great Eastern''' 
???

==Page 500==

'''Weierstrass and Sofia Kovalevskaia''' 
???

'''sounds like maths''' 
???

'''folio''' 
???

'''four-color chromolithograph''' 
???

'''Snazzbury''' 
???

'''Silent Frock''' 
Cf noise-canceling headphones.

'''toilette''' 
???

==Page 501==

'''green, white, and mauve stripes''' 
???

'''black crepon''' 
???

'''Italian-cloth''' 
???

==Page 502==

'''modern lettering''' 
???

'''L'ARIMEAUX ET QUEURLIS''' 
???

'''twilling''' 
???

==Page 502==

'''Earl's Court Wheel''' 
???

'''whelks''' 
???

'''Chinese Turkestan railway shares''' 
???

'''jellied eel''' 
???

'''West Ham, the Park, Upton Lane, lads all in claret and blue''' 
The "lads in claret and blue" are kicking a football around, as they are players of current Premiership side West Ham United. Found in 1895, the "Hammers" are playing their home games at Boleyn Ground aka "Upton Park". Yep, soccer.

'''lupine liminality''' 
???

'''hydrangeas''' 
???

'''Hardy, whimsical''' 
???

==Page 504==

'''Harwich... German Sea''' 
???

'''Hook of Holland''' 
???

'''madhouse at Osnabrück''' 
???

==Page 505==

'''plug hats''' 
???

'''Cobh''' 
???

==Page 506==

'''Euclid''' 
???

'''elms in Cleveland''' 
(Before Dutch elm disease?)

'''went on for years''' 
???

'''Shorty''' 
???

==Page 507==

'''how little I cared''' 
(Blaming Krakatoa???)

'''palm upward''' 
???

'''Prospect Avenue''' 
???

'''leaf-spring suspension''' 
???

'''overrun''' 
???

'''Flats''' 
???

==Page 508==

'''Cuyahoga''' 
???

'''your exact face''' 
(How common?)

==Page 509==

'''descending minor triad''' 
???

'''Svengali''' 
???

'''tea roses''' 
???

'''cosmos''' 
???

==Page 510==

'''first momentous glance''' 
Page 349 only?

'''Elis''' 
???

==Page 511==

'''preferring''' 
Cf Rose in "Titanic".

'''Root Tubsmith''' 
???

'''Fuchs, Schwarz... Frobenius''' 
???

'''Professor Manning''' 
???

'''Marseilles''' 
???

'''species of tarantella''' 
???

'''dreamed it''' 
(Page?)

'''Cigar Deck''' 
???

==Page 512==

'''how to stop looking''' 
Cf p27.

'''fooling''' 
(They both miss it?)

'''lobelias''' 
???

'''Victor Herbert''' 
???

'''Wolf-Ferrari''' 
???

==Page 513==

'''1st Edition Typo''' 
"She smlld falsely"

==Page 515==

'''high-hatting''' 
???

'''twenty-knot''' 
???

'''uncreated''' 
Featureless?

'''after 1914''' 
Still 10 years away.

'''S.M.S. ''Emperor Maximilian''''' 
???

'''25,000-ton''' 
???

'''dreadnoughts''' 
???

'''Slavonian''' 
???

'''Schultz-Thorneycroft''' 
???

'''Parsons turbines''' 
???

'''British men-o'-war''' 
???

==Page 516==

'''shell-rooms-to-be''' 
???

'''twelve-inch barrels''' 
???

'''shelter deck''' 
???

'''casemates''' 
???

'''freeboard''' 
The amount of the ship above the water. You need a certain amount of freeboard to maintain balance, but battleships try to limit it as much as possible.

'''"Dazzle" camouflage''' 
???

'''dihedrals''' 
???

'''Fangsley''' 
???

'''horizontally disposed''' 
???

'''Lloyd Arsenale''' 
???

'''Stabilimento Tecnico''' 
???

==Page 517==

'''Promontorio''' 
???

'''O.I.C. Bodine''' 
Stands for...? [http://onelook.com/?w=o*+i*+c*&ls=a nope]

'''fermented potato mash''' 
Cf Veikko's vodka p82.

'''four shafts''' 
???

'''''Mauretania''''' 
???

'''''Zu befehl, Herr Hauptheitzer''''' 
???

'''Black Gang''' 
???

'''Oberhauptheitzer''' 
???

'''Mannlicher''' 
???

'''''"Dampf mehr!"''''' 
???

'''singlet''' 
???

==Page 518==

'''Marconi room''' 
???

'''design maximum of nine degrees''' 
???

'''nymphs''' 
???

'''''"Porca miseria"''''' 
???

==Page 519==

'''tight circle''' 
Military as inane as circus clowns.

'''deeper levels''' 
(Eg particle vs wave?)

'''Chinese''' 
???

'''''nicht wahr''''' 
???

'''Graz''' 
???

'''bilge-crab''' 
???

==Page 520==

'''Teutonic''' 
???

'''Mulai Ahmed er-Raisuli''' 
???

'''Agadir, Queen of the Iron Coast''' 
???

'''Sus... Susi''' 
???

'''Abdel Aziz''' 
???

'''Canaries''' 
???

'''Lübeck''' 
???

'''Berbers''' 
???

==Page 521==

'''tree-climbing goats''' 
???

'''argan trees''' 
???

'''Gnaoua''' 
???

'''''mlouk gnaoui''''' 
???

'''Seigneurs Noirs''' 
???

'''Habsburg navy''' 
???

'''Mogador road''' 
???

'''Tawil Balak''' 
???

'''Rahman''' 
???

'''''Formalhaut''''' 
???

'''Moïsés''' 
???

'''Jonah... Massa''' 
???

==Page 522==

'''kashbah''' 
???

'''Ighir Ufrani''' 
???

'''''alimzah''''' 
???

'''''tasargelt''''' 
???

'''scruff''' 
???

'''Staketsel''' 
???

'''lazarettes''' 
???

'''''mon chou''''' 
"My cabbage." A french term of affection.

==Page 523==

'''moon deck''' 
???

'''lower orlop''' 
???

'''lateen-riggers''' 
???

==Page 524==

'''Piazza Grande''' 
???

'''Denza''' 
???

'''Antonio Smareglia''' 
???

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'''so close... rocking''' 
(Fact?)

==Page 461==

'''bust''' 
Eg 'gone bust'?

'''day... set to the side''' 
Title motif.

'''came by''' 
(Page ref.)

==Page 462==

''''cute''' 
The word 'cute' is a shortened form of 'acute'.

'''Fickle Creek''' 
???

'''ice-points''' 
???

'''red whiskey''' 
???

'''Noctambulo''' 
Sleepwalker (Spanish).

'''insomnia''' 
Parody of think tanks, etc?

==Page 463==

'''"echoed off the steep mountainside"''' 
[http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&q=%22echoed%20off%20the%20steep%20mountainside%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wp One hit].

'''for no more''' 
Solecism?

'''Silent Gray Fellows''' 
???

'''Indian V-twins''' 
Motorcycles first produced in 1907 by the Indian Motorcycle Manufacturing Company [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Motorcycles Wikipedia entry].

'''Joe Hill's "Pie in the Sky"''' 
A/k/a "The Preacher and the Slave." Song written by IWW leader Joe Hill [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hill Wikipedia entry] in 1911 that was an attack on organized religion as a means for keeping the workers down: "You get pie in the sky when you die." A parody of "In the Sweet Bye and Bye." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Preacher_and_the_Slave Lyrics here]. Later recorded by Woody Guthrie.

'''love lines, life lines, girdles of Venus''' 
Lines in the palm figuring in palmistry. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmistry#The_Lines Wikipedia entry].

'''overmapped''' 
???

'''barbwire''' 
AtD usually says 'bobwire'.

'''Four Corners Gang''' 
(Mentioned above?)

'''Taos Lightning''' 
???

'''Zoltan''' 
???

'''Werner''' 
???

==Page 464==

'''Excelsior''' 
???

'''Vang Feeley''' 
???

'''silencer bypass''' 
???

'''multiple outcomes''' 
Worldline motif.

'''clock-seconds''' 
(Interesting disambiguation.)

'''routine as elaborate''' 
I'm thinking maybe Ann Margaret in a 50s biker flick?

==Page 465==

'''Ed Chase's town''' 
See page 176.

'''Tortoni's''' 
See page 176.

'''Bill Jones's''' 
???

'''honorary Negro''' 
???

'''ankle-biter''' 
???

'''breakbeam stiff''' 
???

'''couple wives''' 
(Divorce, or bigamy?)

'''Coahuila''' 
???

'''Well.''' 
Not an answer, apparently.

==Page 466==

'''Hammers o' Hell''' 
???

'''Jephthah''' 
Alt. Jephtha. (Heb. יפתח). Israelite judge who semi-purposefully sacrificed his daughter to God following his victories of war against the Ammons. Judges 11-12.

'''narrow-gauge''' 
???

'''traitor to his class''' 
???

'''mucker work''' 
???

'''South Slavic knitted caps''' 
???

'''Austrian boys''' 
???

'''vengeful ghosts''' 
???

==Page 467==

'''fifteen years old... Julius''' 
Groucho Marx. Indeed born 1890, but didn't tour West until aged 20+. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groucho_Marx Wikipedia]

'''Mr. Archer''' 
???

'''Victor''' 
Colorado mining town near Cripple Creek.

'''East Ninety-third''' 
???

==Page 468==

'''Cone Amor''' 
'Con amor' = 'with love' (Spanish). Ice cream cones were invented in 1904, so this is not quite anachronistic.

'''me? lady''' 
Capitalisation typo, or stylistic?

'''Fruita''' 
Town on Colorado's Western Slope.

'''Lois... Poutine''' 
???

==Page 469==

'''teeth were gone''' 
It's only been a couple of years. She's about 50.

==Page 470==

'''bengalines''' 
???

'''Barbary Coast''' 
???

'''lettuce opium''' 
Lactucarium, the milky fluid secreted by several species of lettuce, usually from the base of the stems. Lactucarium is known as lettuce opium because of its sedative and analgesic properties, and because it can be reduced to a thick smokeable solid. Long known in the U.S., regained popularity in the 1960's when people were looking for any cheap way to get high.

==Page 471==

'''Hippodrome''' 
???

==Page 472==

'''reoccupation''' 
Replacing Indians?

'''criminal palps''' 
???

==Page 473==

'''Crystal... Oneida''' 
Oneida crystal is a type of glassware. [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=oneida+crystal Google search]

'''sash-weights''' 
???

'''casementing''' 
???

==Page 474==

'''inside the angle''' 
Echoes p258.

==Page 475==

'''double-ought''' 
Deuce had been in Cripple Creek by 1895 (p195). He might have returned, or not been present.

==Page 476==

'''put his head into''' 
[http://www.cartoonbank.com/product_details.asp?mscssid=NPEVMXGFPTVD8NHJDW4N28U7R8QD077A&sitetype=1&sid=123465&did=4 pic]

'''Wall o' Death''' 
???

'''ellipses''' 
(Not circular?)

==Page 477==

'''"For It Is Thou, Lord"''' 
???

'''Eugene Boilster.''' 
???

'''Happy Jack La Foam''' 
???

'''police ticker''' 
???

'''Flor de Coahuila''' 
???

'''twenty-five''' 
Would make him 15 in 1895 (p195).

==Page 478==

'''''senorita chinga chinga''''' 
???

'''''mas cerveza''''' 
No 'por favor'!

'''co-conscious''' 
(What's Pynchon up to with this word?)

'''more shit''' 
Because shot through gut.

'''surprisingly careful latchclick''' 
Nice!

==Page 479==

'''Tace Boilster''' 
???

==Page 480==

'''Elsie Dinsmore''' 
???

'''Roy Mickie''' 
???

'''Salida''' 
???

'''blue columbines''' 
???

'''''atole con el dedo''''' 
???

==Page 481==

'''caps''' 
Pun.

'''wall of death''' 
(Mayva's not dead!?)

'''a week or ten days''' 
(Contradicts recent text?)

==Page 482==

'''getting deep''' 
Wifely surrender is a con?

==Page 483==

'''heeled''' 
Armed.

'''Champagne''' 
Pynchon consistently capitalises this.

==Page 484==

'''before the days''' 
Title motif?

'''eyeball hydraulics''' 
Tears, not rolling eyes.

'''Swede''' 
See p266.

'''separate tracks''' 
Worldline motif.

==Page 485==

'''delivered into his own life''' 
(Born doomed, or early bad karma?)

'''Furies''' 
???

'''"free"''' 
???

'''no little ones''' 
Fertility karma.

'''Sioux... melancholy''' 
Un-cliched?

'''her belly''' 
(Naked?)

==Page 486==

'''Phoebe Sloper''' 
???

'''seldom''' 
(With no kids, why not more free time?)

'''all he talked about''' 
Cf pp196-197.

==Page 487==

''''Child of the Storm'''' 
Cf p190.

'''stove shovel''' 
For emptying wood ashes.

'''Greener shotgun''' 
???

'''she lit up''' 
(Anxiety, or freedom?)

==Page 488==

'''cahoots''' 
Marriage as cahoots?

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==Page 431==

'''"Turkish Corner"''' 
???

'''Bactrian''' 
''Camel''. Even-toed ungulate, two-humped (twin-peaked) as compared with the one-humped dromedary.

'''Cameling''' 
???

'''''secret determinant of history''''' 

==Page 432==

'''fatal word''' 
"Wife".

'''Gamomania''' 
"Gamos" is greek for "marriage," and mania means "mania" or "madness."

'''H.M.S.F.''' 
His Majesty's Subdesertine Frigate (p425).

'''Balaam's ass''' 
refers to Num. 22:21-34 - Balaam rides out with the princes of Moab, but the Lord sends an angel to prevent him. Balaam does not see the angel but his ass does and will not go further. Balaam smites the ass three times, to no avail, until "the Lord opened the mouth of the ass, and she said to Balaam: What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?" Balaam's ass and the serpent (in the Garden of Eden) are the only speaking animals in the bible.

'''reported... Polo''' 
???

==Page 433==

'''pan-spectral fields''' 
???

'''"Euphrates" poplars''' 
???

'''aryq''' 
???

'''B.I.N.''' 
Biometric Institute of Neuropathy (p432).

'''seventeen-syllable''' 
Haiku - japanese poems consisting of 17 syllables, classically arranged in three lines of 5 - 7 - 5 syllables each

==Page 434==

'''Eta/Nu Transformators''' 
???

'''pari passu''' 
???

==Page 435==

'''Gurkhas''' 
???

'''General Forrest''' 
???

'''archiepiscopal''' 
???

'''Faberge''' 
Russian jewelers. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Faberg%C3%A9 Wikipedia entry].

'''subarenaceous''' 
Below or beneath the sand (sub) + (arenaceous).

==Page 436==

'''limen''' 
???

'''transmundane''' 
???

'''lamaseries''' 
???

'''Torriform''' 
???

'''Urban terrain''' 
(But only cities unwisely built on sand.)

'''Stilton Gaspereaux''' 
???

'''Sven Hedin''' 
???

'''Aurel Stein''' 
Sir Marc Aurel Stein. Hungarian-born explorer later knighted as a British citizen. Credited with the discovery, and arguably the exploitation, of the Mogao Grottoes in China. A rock-carved repository of ancient Buddhist texts and murals, the grottoes are known collectively as 'The Cave of a Thousand Buddhas' and protected a copy of the Mahayana Diamond sutra, acknowledged as the oldest book in existence. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Aurel_Stein Wikipedia entry].

'''first known maps''' 
???

==Page 437==

'''Nernst lamps''' 
???

'''level of encryption''' 
(Cf Heisenberg?)

'''Mount Kailash''' 
???

'''polarize... in time''' 
???

'''Manichaeans''' 
???

==Page 438==

'''expanded sense... Maxwell... Hertz''' 
???

''''Perfects'''' 
???

'''Graeco-Buddhist''' 
???

'''Italo-Islamic''' 
???

==Page 439==

'''Nuovo Rialto''' 
???

'''no earlier than''' 
(Where'd they go?)

'''Passing of the Remarks''' 
???

'''Steeplechase Park''' 
???

==Page 440==

'''screaming''' 
Screaming motif.

'''''chong pir''''' 
???

'''Uyghur''' 
???

'''skeleton rig''' 
Concealed weapon?

'''andante''' 
???

'''Sandman Saloon''' 
???

==Page 441==

'''Leonard and Lyle''' 
???

'''''teke''''' 
???

'''Spindletop''' 
???

'''Groznyi''' 
???

'''calyx bits''' 
???

'''adults''' 
Chums not adults, then?

'''''assalamu alaykum''''' 
???

'''anticline''' 
???

==Page 442==

'''''equine altitude''''' 
High horse.

'''Veneto-Uyghur''' 
???

'''2 percent... most of them''' 
Implies at least 150 in crew.

'''Marco Querini''' 
???

'''Terrenascondite''' 
???

'''Pozzo San Vito''' 
???

==Page 443==

'''peterman option''' 
???

'''Consomme Imperial''' 
???

'''Timbales de Supremes de Volailles''' 
???

'''Gigot Grille a la Sauce Piquante''' 
???

'''aubergines a la Sauce Mousseline''' 
???

'''Pouilly-Fuisse''' 
???

'''Graves''' 
???

==Page 444==

'''Oasi''' 
Plural of "oasis."

'''cataplexy''' 
Sudden loss of muscle power following a strong emotional stimulus.

'''Nobel brothers''' 
Robert and Ludvig Nobel, brothers of Alfred Nobel of dynamite and prize fame, co-founders of Branobel, an important early oil company that controlled a large amount of Russian output. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branobel Wikipedia entry].

'''shaft-alley''' 
???

'''the balloon is up''' 
A phrase also used in ''V.''

'''F.O.''' 
???

'''''Daily Mail''''' 
London tabloid, staunch early supporters of Alolf HItler. Today specialises in stirring up hatred of immigrants and other minorities.

'''"Sands of Inner Asia"''' 
???

'''Taklamakan''' 
???

==Page 445==

'''Kashgar to Urumchi''' 
???

'''fell into the hand of''' 
Cf modern Taliban, etc.

'''World-Island''' 
???

'''discreet summons''' 
Eg "paging Dr Blue".

'''far wicket''' 
???

'''wog''' 
''Chiefly British.'' An ethnic slur used for any dark-skinned peoples. Alleged to stand for "Western Oriental Gentleman", but mainly applied to Indians, Pakistanis, Arabs, and other brown-skinned Asians.

'''Vic removal''' 
???

'''eating an explosive''' 
Cf Lew's Cyclomite.

==Page 446==

'''St Martin le Grand''' 
???

'''Angel Street''' 
???

'''G.P.O. West''' 
???

'''pneumatic dispatches''' 
An extensive 'pneumatic dispatch' system existed on London during the Victorian era, started in 1851 and carrying on at least into the 1930's. By 1886 London had 94 telegram tubes totaling 34 1/2 miles and around 4.5 million telegraph messages were carried in cylinders at around 20mph. At its height the network extended some 57 miles connecting 67 branch offices via a central sorting office. See [http://www.capsu.org/history/telegram_conveyors.html] and
[http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/COMMS/pneumess/pneumess.htm] (with illustrations).

'''drill suits''' 
???

'''chars''' 
???

'''clicks and rests''' 
???

'''Northern Temple of Connexion''' 
???

'''marblework''' 
???

'''Bloggins''' 
???

'''allegro vivatchy''' 
???

==Page 447==

'''grease-paint''' 
Wog-colored.

'''cylinder of gutta-percha''' 
Pneumatic dispatches were carried in cylinders of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutta-percha Gutta-Percha] -- an inelastic latex made from the sap of the Gutta-Percha tree -- covered in felt. See [http://www.capsu.org/history/telegram_conveyors.html]. Gutta-percha crops up a number of times in ATD, possibly enough to suggest some sort of motif or connection?

'''its "D" box''' 
The receiving mechanism on the end of pneumatic dispatch pipe.

"The somewhat complicated pattern of double sluice valve originally used at the central stations has been superseded by a simpler form, known as the D box, so named Despatching from the shape of its cross section. This box is of and cast iron, and is provided with a close-fitting, Receiving brass-framed, sliding lid with a glass panel. This Apparatus, lid fits air-tight, and closes the box after a carrier has been inserted into the mouth of the tube; the latter enters at one end of the box and is there bell-mouthed. A supply pipe, to which is connected a 3-way cock, is joined on to the box and allows communication at will with either the pressure or vacuum mains, so that the apparatus becomes available for either sending (by pressure) or receiving (by vacuum) a carrier. Automatic working, by which the air supply is automatically turned on on the introduction of the carrier into a tube and on closing of the D box, and is cut off when the carrier arrives, was introduced in 1909." From the 1911 Encyclopedia Brittanica entry on Pneumatic Dispatch, cited at [http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/COMMS/pneumess/pneumess.htm]

'''Holborn''' 
???

'''Saffron Hill''' 
???

'''''tantum dic verbo'' isn't it''' 
???

'''''intact''''' 
(Did I miss this?)

==Page 448==

'''because I'm mad''' 
???

'''half-sovereign case''' 
???

'''Mr. Campbell-Bannerman''' 
???

==Page 449==

'''Clarabella''' 
???

'''Audacity, Iowa''' 
???

==Page 450==

'''DREAMTIME MOVY''' 
Misspelling is dreamlike? Or, more possibly, the spelling hadn't yet been standardized.

'''log... waterfall''' 
Cf DW Griffith?

'''lens-brother''' 
(Like masonic sign?)(Also reminiscent of the lens (the K/kid/d) carries in Delaney's ''Dhalgren'')

'''Powers movement''' 
???

'''Geneva''' 
???

'''Wilt Flambo''' 
Flambeau = torch (French).

'''acetylene''' 
???

==Page 451==

'''nitro in the film''' 
???

'''the tip''' 
???

'''strange relation''' 
Cf GR on calculus.

'''dark perplexity''' 
Cf Gen X?

'''dilapidated''' 
Why?

'''queen-of-the-prairie''' 
???

==Page 452==

'''Sempitern''' 
???

'''siegecraft of Time''' 
Cf Paris Commune siege, above.

'''between Cleveland and Denver''' 
Merle's idiosyncratic choice of endpoints?

'''automorphic functions''' 
???

==Page 453==

'''Lobatchevskian''' 
???

'''Automorphic Dispensation''' 
???

'''distressing regularity''' 
Explains dilapidation?

'''Thorvald''' 
???

'''''thresher dinners''''' 
???

==Page 454==

'''"gaff"''' 
???

'''Giant Airships of 1896 and '7''' 
[http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Image:Mysterious-airship.jpg Photo and info here]

'''Chick''' 
First Chum to appear in non-Chums chapter?

'''Cleveland... trial''' 
See p67

'''Somble, Strool, and Fleshway''' 
???

''''paranoia querulans'... P.Q.''' 
???

'''blasting agent''' 
???

'''detonans''' 
???

==Page 456==

'''aigrette''' 
???

'''Pencil''' 
???

'''equivalent of a shrug''' 
Nice anthropomorphism.

'''lost mines''' 
(Factual?)

==Page 457==

'''tourbillon''' 
???

'''patent pencils''' 
???

'''zephyr gingham''' 
???

'''lawn''' 
???

'''pongee''' 
???

==Page 458==

'''professors... engineers''' 
Theory vs practice.

'''Latinate token of prestige''' 
PhD, summa cum laude, etc.

'''current... purity''' 
Free of noise?

'''Minkowski''' 
???

'''Three times ten... minus one seconds''' 
???

'''other expression''' 
???

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==Page 431==

'''"Turkish Corner"''' 
???

'''Bactrian''' 
''Camel''. Even-toed ungulate, two-humped (twin-peaked) as compared with the one-humped dromedary.

'''Cameling''' 
???

'''''secret determinant of history''''' 

==Page 432==

'''fatal word''' 
"Wife".

'''Gamomania''' 
"Gamos" is greek for "marriage," and mania means "mania" or "madness."

'''H.M.S.F.''' 
His Majesty's Subdesertine Frigate (p425).

'''Balaam's ass''' 
refers to Num. 22:21-34 - Balaam rides out with the princes of Moab, but the Lord sends an angel to prevent him. Balaam does not see the angel but his ass does and will not go further. Balaam smites the ass three times, to no avail, until "the Lord opened the mouth of the ass, and she said to Balaam: What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?" Balaam's ass and the serpent (in the Garden of Eden) are the only speaking animals in the bible.

'''reported... Polo''' 
???

==Page 433==

'''pan-spectral fields''' 
???

'''"Euphrates" poplars''' 
???

'''aryq''' 
???

'''B.I.N.''' 
Biometric Institute of Neuropathy (p432).

'''seventeen-syllable''' 
Haiku - japanese poems consisting of 17 syllables, classically arranged in three lines of 5 - 7 - 5 syllables each

==Page 434==

'''Eta/Nu Transformators''' 
???

'''pari passu''' 
???

==Page 435==

'''Gurkhas''' 
???

'''General Forrest''' 
???

'''archiepiscopal''' 
???

'''Faberge''' 
Russian jewelers. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Faberg%C3%A9 Wikipedia entry].

'''subarenaceous''' 
Below or beneath the sand (sub) + (arenaceous).

==Page 436==

'''limen''' 
???

'''transmundane''' 
???

'''lamaseries''' 
???

'''Torriform''' 
???

'''Urban terrain''' 
(But only cities unwisely built on sand.)

'''Stilton Gaspereaux''' 
???

'''Sven Hedin''' 
???

'''Aurel Stein''' 
Sir Marc Aurel Stein. Hungarian-born explorer later knighted as a British citizen. Credited with the discovery, and arguably the exploitation, of the Mogao Grottoes in China. A rock-carved repository of ancient Buddhist texts and murals, the grottoes are known collectively as 'The Cave of a Thousand Buddhas' and protected a copy of the Mahayana Diamond sutra, acknowledged as the oldest book in existence. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Aurel_Stein Wikipedia entry].

'''first known maps''' 
???

==Page 437==

'''Nernst lamps''' 
???

'''level of encryption''' 
(Cf Heisenberg?)

'''Mount Kailash''' 
???

'''polarize... in time''' 
???

'''Manichaeans''' 
???

==Page 438==

'''expanded sense... Maxwell... Hertz''' 
???

''''Perfects'''' 
???

'''Graeco-Buddhist''' 
???

'''Italo-Islamic''' 
???

==Page 439==

'''Nuovo Rialto''' 
???

'''no earlier than''' 
(Where'd they go?)

'''Passing of the Remarks''' 
???

'''Steeplechase Park''' 
???

==Page 440==

'''screaming''' 
Screaming motif.

'''''chong pir''''' 
???

'''Uyghur''' 
???

'''skeleton rig''' 
Concealed weapon?

'''andante''' 
???

'''Sandman Saloon''' 
???

==Page 441==

'''Leonard and Lyle''' 
???

'''''teke''''' 
???

'''Spindletop''' 
???

'''Groznyi''' 
???

'''calyx bits''' 
???

'''adults''' 
Chums not adults, then?

'''''assalamu alaykum''''' 
???

'''anticline''' 
???

==Page 442==

'''''equine altitude''''' 
High horse.

'''Veneto-Uyghur''' 
???

'''2 percent... most of them''' 
Implies at least 150 in crew.

'''Marco Querini''' 
???

'''Terrenascondite''' 
???

'''Pozzo San Vito''' 
???

==Page 443==

'''peterman option''' 
???

'''Consomme Imperial''' 
???

'''Timbales de Supremes de Volailles''' 
???

'''Gigot Grille a la Sauce Piquante''' 
???

'''aubergines a la Sauce Mousseline''' 
???

'''Pouilly-Fuisse''' 
???

'''Graves''' 
???

==Page 444==

'''Oasi''' 
Plural of "oasis."

'''cataplexy''' 
Sudden loss of muscle power following a strong emotional stimulus.

'''Nobel brothers''' 
Robert and Ludvig Nobel, brothers of Alfred Nobel of dynamite and prize fame, co-founders of Branobel, an important early oil company that controlled a large amount of Russian output. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branobel Wikipedia entry].

'''shaft-alley''' 
???

'''the balloon is up''' 
A phrase also used in ''V.''

'''F.O.''' 
???

'''''Daily Mail''''' 
London tabloid, staunch early supporters of Alolf HItler. Today specialises in stirring up hatred of immigrants and other minorities.

'''"Sands of Inner Asia"''' 
???

'''Taklamakan''' 
???

==Page 445==

'''Kashgar to Urumchi''' 
???

'''fell into the hand of''' 
Cf modern Taliban, etc.

'''World-Island''' 
???

'''discreet summons''' 
Eg "paging Dr Blue".

'''far wicket''' 
???

'''wog''' 
''Chiefly British.'' An ethnic slur used for any dark-skinned peoples. Alleged to stand for "Western Oriental Gentleman", but mainly applied to Indians, Pakistanis, Arabs, and other brown-skinned Asians.

'''Vic removal''' 
???

'''eating an explosive''' 
Cf Lew's Cyclomite.

==Page 446==

'''St Martin le Grand''' 
???

'''Angel Street''' 
???

'''G.P.O. West''' 
???

'''pneumatic dispatches''' 
An extensive 'pneumatic dispatch' system existed on London during the Victorian era, started in 1851 and carrying on at least into the 1930's. By 1886 London had 94 telegram tubes totaling 34 1/2 miles and around 4.5 million telegraph messages were carried in cylinders at around 20mph. At its height the network extended some 57 miles connecting 67 branch offices via a central sorting office. See [http://www.capsu.org/history/telegram_conveyors.html] and
[http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/COMMS/pneumess/pneumess.htm] (with illustrations).

'''drill suits''' 
???

'''chars''' 
???

'''clicks and rests''' 
???

'''Northern Temple of Connexion''' 
???

'''marblework''' 
???

'''Bloggins''' 
???

'''allegro vivatchy''' 
???

==Page 447==

'''grease-paint''' 
Wog-colored.

'''cylinder of gutta-percha''' 
Pneumatic dispatches were carried in cylinders of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutta-percha Gutta-Percha] -- an inelastic latex made from the sap of the Gutta-Percha tree -- covered in felt. See [http://www.capsu.org/history/telegram_conveyors.html]. Gutta-percha crops up a number of times in ATD, possibly enough to suggest some sort of motif or connection?

'''its "D" box''' 
The receiving mechanism on the end of pneumatic dispatch pipe.

"The somewhat complicated pattern of double sluice valve originally used at the central stations has been superseded by a simpler form, known as the D box, so named Despatching from the shape of its cross section. This box is of and cast iron, and is provided with a close-fitting, Receiving brass-framed, sliding lid with a glass panel. This Apparatus, lid fits air-tight, and closes the box after a carrier has been inserted into the mouth of the tube; the latter enters at one end of the box and is there bell-mouthed. A supply pipe, to which is connected a 3-way cock, is joined on to the box and allows communication at will with either the pressure or vacuum mains, so that the apparatus becomes available for either sending (by pressure) or receiving (by vacuum) a carrier. Automatic working, by which the air supply is automatically turned on on the introduction of the carrier into a tube and on closing of the D box, and is cut off when the carrier arrives, was introduced in 1909." From the 1911 Encyclopedia Brittanica entry on Pneumatic Dispatch, cited at [http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/COMMS/pneumess/pneumess.htm]

'''Holborn''' 
???

'''Saffron Hill''' 
???

'''''tantum dic verbo'' isn't it''' 
???

'''''intact''''' 
(Did I miss this?)

==Page 448==

'''because I'm mad''' 
???

'''half-sovereign case''' 
???

'''Mr. Campbell-Bannerman''' 
???

==Page 449==

'''Clarabella''' 
???

'''Audacity, Iowa''' 
???

==Page 450==

'''DREAMTIME MOVY''' 
Misspelling is dreamlike?

'''log... waterfall''' 
Cf DW Griffith?

'''lens-brother''' 
(Like masonic sign?)

'''Powers movement''' 
???

'''Geneva''' 
???

'''Wilt Flambo''' 
Flambeau = torch (French).

'''acetylene''' 
???

==Page 451==

'''nitro in the film''' 
???

'''the tip''' 
???

'''strange relation''' 
Cf GR on calculus.

'''dark perplexity''' 
Cf Gen X?

'''dilapidated''' 
Why?

'''queen-of-the-prairie''' 
???

==Page 452==

'''Sempitern''' 
???

'''siegecraft of Time''' 
Cf Paris Commune siege, above.

'''between Cleveland and Denver''' 
Merle's idiosyncratic choice of endpoints?

'''automorphic functions''' 
???

==Page 453==

'''Lobatchevskian''' 
???

'''Automorphic Dispensation''' 
???

'''distressing regularity''' 
Explains dilapidation?

'''Thorvald''' 
???

'''''thresher dinners''''' 
???

==Page 454==

'''"gaff"''' 
???

'''Giant Airships of 1896 and '7''' 
[http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Image:Mysterious-airship.jpg Photo and info here]

'''Chick''' 
First Chum to appear in non-Chums chapter?

'''Cleveland... trial''' 
See p67

'''Somble, Strool, and Fleshway''' 
???

''''paranoia querulans'... P.Q.''' 
???

'''blasting agent''' 
???

'''detonans''' 
???

==Page 456==

'''aigrette''' 
???

'''Pencil''' 
???

'''equivalent of a shrug''' 
Nice anthropomorphism.

'''lost mines''' 
(Factual?)

==Page 457==

'''tourbillon''' 
???

'''patent pencils''' 
???

'''zephyr gingham''' 
???

'''lawn''' 
???

'''pongee''' 
???

==Page 458==

'''professors... engineers''' 
Theory vs practice.

'''Latinate token of prestige''' 
PhD, summa cum laude, etc.

'''current... purity''' 
Free of noise?

'''Minkowski''' 
???

'''Three times ten... minus one seconds''' 
???

'''other expression''' 
???

==Annotation Index==
{{ATD PbP}}

ATD 429-459

2006-12-27T03:21:26Z

Bean: /* Page 435 */

==Page 431==

'''"Turkish Corner"''' 
???

'''Bactrian''' 
''Camel''. Even-toed ungulate, two-humped (twin-peaked) as compared with the one-humped dromedary.

'''Cameling''' 
???

'''''secret determinant of history''''' 

==Page 432==

'''fatal word''' 
"Wife".

'''Gamomania''' 
"Gamos" is greek for "marriage," and mania means "mania" or "madness."

'''H.M.S.F.''' 
His Majesty's Subdesertine Frigate (p425).

'''Balaam's ass''' 
refers to Num. 22:21-34 - Balaam rides out with the princes of Moab, but the Lord sends an angel to prevent him. Balaam does not see the angel but his ass does and will not go further. Balaam smites the ass three times, to no avail, until "the Lord opened the mouth of the ass, and she said to Balaam: What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?" Balaam's ass and the serpent (in the Garden of Eden) are the only speaking animals in the bible.

'''reported... Polo''' 
???

==Page 433==

'''pan-spectral fields''' 
???

'''"Euphrates" poplars''' 
???

'''aryq''' 
???

'''B.I.N.''' 
Biometric Institute of Neuropathy (p432).

'''seventeen-syllable''' 
Haiku - japanese poems consisting of 17 syllables, classically arranged in three lines of 5 - 7 - 5 syllables each

==Page 434==

'''Eta/Nu Transformators''' 
???

'''pari passu''' 
???

==Page 435==

'''Gurkhas''' 
???

'''General Forrest''' 
???

'''archiepiscopal''' 
???

'''Faberge''' 
Russian jewelers. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Faberg%C3%A9 Wikipedia entry].

'''subarenaceous''' 
Below or beneath the sand (sub) + (arenaceous).

==Page 436==

'''limen''' 
???

'''transmundane''' 
???

'''lamaseries''' 
???

'''Torriform''' 
???

'''Urban terrain''' 
(But only cities unwisely built on sand.)

'''Stilton Gaspereaux''' 
???

'''Sven Hedin''' 
???

'''Aurel Stein''' 
?? R.L. Stein is a teen horror-pulp novelist and television writer, author of the Fear Street, Goosebumps, and Nightmare Room series. ??

'''first known maps''' 
???

==Page 437==

'''Nernst lamps''' 
???

'''level of encryption''' 
(Cf Heisenberg?)

'''Mount Kailash''' 
???

'''polarize... in time''' 
???

'''Manichaeans''' 
???

==Page 438==

'''expanded sense... Maxwell... Hertz''' 
???

''''Perfects'''' 
???

'''Graeco-Buddhist''' 
???

'''Italo-Islamic''' 
???

==Page 439==

'''Nuovo Rialto''' 
???

'''no earlier than''' 
(Where'd they go?)

'''Passing of the Remarks''' 
???

'''Steeplechase Park''' 
???

==Page 440==

'''screaming''' 
Screaming motif.

'''''chong pir''''' 
???

'''Uyghur''' 
???

'''skeleton rig''' 
Concealed weapon?

'''andante''' 
???

'''Sandman Saloon''' 
???

==Page 441==

'''Leonard and Lyle''' 
???

'''''teke''''' 
???

'''Spindletop''' 
???

'''Groznyi''' 
???

'''calyx bits''' 
???

'''adults''' 
Chums not adults, then?

'''''assalamu alaykum''''' 
???

'''anticline''' 
???

==Page 442==

'''''equine altitude''''' 
High horse.

'''Veneto-Uyghur''' 
???

'''2 percent... most of them''' 
Implies at least 150 in crew.

'''Marco Querini''' 
???

'''Terrenascondite''' 
???

'''Pozzo San Vito''' 
???

==Page 443==

'''peterman option''' 
???

'''Consomme Imperial''' 
???

'''Timbales de Supremes de Volailles''' 
???

'''Gigot Grille a la Sauce Piquante''' 
???

'''aubergines a la Sauce Mousseline''' 
???

'''Pouilly-Fuisse''' 
???

'''Graves''' 
???

==Page 444==

'''Oasi''' 
Plural of "oasis."

'''cataplexy''' 
Sudden loss of muscle power following a strong emotional stimulus.

'''Nobel brothers''' 
Robert and Ludvig Nobel, brothers of Alfred Nobel of dynamite and prize fame, co-founders of Branobel, an important early oil company that controlled a large amount of Russian output. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branobel Wikipedia entry].

'''shaft-alley''' 
???

'''the balloon is up''' 
A phrase also used in ''V.''

'''F.O.''' 
???

'''''Daily Mail''''' 
London tabloid, staunch early supporters of Alolf HItler. Today specialises in stirring up hatred of immigrants and other minorities.

'''"Sands of Inner Asia"''' 
???

'''Taklamakan''' 
???

==Page 445==

'''Kashgar to Urumchi''' 
???

'''fell into the hand of''' 
Cf modern Taliban, etc.

'''World-Island''' 
???

'''discreet summons''' 
Eg "paging Dr Blue".

'''far wicket''' 
???

'''wog''' 
''Chiefly British.'' An ethnic slur used for any dark-skinned peoples. Alleged to stand for "Western Oriental Gentleman", but mainly applied to Indians, Pakistanis, Arabs, and other brown-skinned Asians.

'''Vic removal''' 
???

'''eating an explosive''' 
Cf Lew's Cyclomite.

==Page 446==

'''St Martin le Grand''' 
???

'''Angel Street''' 
???

'''G.P.O. West''' 
???

'''pneumatic dispatches''' 
An extensive 'pneumatic dispatch' system existed on London during the Victorian era, started in 1851 and carrying on at least into the 1930's. By 1886 London had 94 telegram tubes totaling 34 1/2 miles and around 4.5 million telegraph messages were carried in cylinders at around 20mph. At its height the network extended some 57 miles connecting 67 branch offices via a central sorting office. See [http://www.capsu.org/history/telegram_conveyors.html] and
[http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/COMMS/pneumess/pneumess.htm] (with illustrations).

'''drill suits''' 
???

'''chars''' 
???

'''clicks and rests''' 
???

'''Northern Temple of Connexion''' 
???

'''marblework''' 
???

'''Bloggins''' 
???

'''allegro vivatchy''' 
???

==Page 447==

'''grease-paint''' 
Wog-colored.

'''cylinder of gutta-percha''' 
Pneumatic dispatches were carried in cylinders of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutta-percha Gutta-Percha] -- an inelastic latex made from the sap of the Gutta-Percha tree -- covered in felt. See [http://www.capsu.org/history/telegram_conveyors.html]. Gutta-percha crops up a number of times in ATD, possibly enough to suggest some sort of motif or connection?

'''its "D" box''' 
The receiving mechanism on the end of pneumatic dispatch pipe.

"The somewhat complicated pattern of double sluice valve originally used at the central stations has been superseded by a simpler form, known as the D box, so named Despatching from the shape of its cross section. This box is of and cast iron, and is provided with a close-fitting, Receiving brass-framed, sliding lid with a glass panel. This Apparatus, lid fits air-tight, and closes the box after a carrier has been inserted into the mouth of the tube; the latter enters at one end of the box and is there bell-mouthed. A supply pipe, to which is connected a 3-way cock, is joined on to the box and allows communication at will with either the pressure or vacuum mains, so that the apparatus becomes available for either sending (by pressure) or receiving (by vacuum) a carrier. Automatic working, by which the air supply is automatically turned on on the introduction of the carrier into a tube and on closing of the D box, and is cut off when the carrier arrives, was introduced in 1909." From the 1911 Encyclopedia Brittanica entry on Pneumatic Dispatch, cited at [http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/COMMS/pneumess/pneumess.htm]

'''Holborn''' 
???

'''Saffron Hill''' 
???

'''''tantum dic verbo'' isn't it''' 
???

'''''intact''''' 
(Did I miss this?)

==Page 448==

'''because I'm mad''' 
???

'''half-sovereign case''' 
???

'''Mr. Campbell-Bannerman''' 
???

==Page 449==

'''Clarabella''' 
???

'''Audacity, Iowa''' 
???

==Page 450==

'''DREAMTIME MOVY''' 
Misspelling is dreamlike?

'''log... waterfall''' 
Cf DW Griffith?

'''lens-brother''' 
(Like masonic sign?)

'''Powers movement''' 
???

'''Geneva''' 
???

'''Wilt Flambo''' 
Flambeau = torch (French).

'''acetylene''' 
???

==Page 451==

'''nitro in the film''' 
???

'''the tip''' 
???

'''strange relation''' 
Cf GR on calculus.

'''dark perplexity''' 
Cf Gen X?

'''dilapidated''' 
Why?

'''queen-of-the-prairie''' 
???

==Page 452==

'''Sempitern''' 
???

'''siegecraft of Time''' 
Cf Paris Commune siege, above.

'''between Cleveland and Denver''' 
Merle's idiosyncratic choice of endpoints?

'''automorphic functions''' 
???

==Page 453==

'''Lobatchevskian''' 
???

'''Automorphic Dispensation''' 
???

'''distressing regularity''' 
Explains dilapidation?

'''Thorvald''' 
???

'''''thresher dinners''''' 
???

==Page 454==

'''"gaff"''' 
???

'''Giant Airships of 1896 and '7''' 
[http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Image:Mysterious-airship.jpg Photo and info here]

'''Chick''' 
First Chum to appear in non-Chums chapter?

'''Cleveland... trial''' 
See p67

'''Somble, Strool, and Fleshway''' 
???

''''paranoia querulans'... P.Q.''' 
???

'''blasting agent''' 
???

'''detonans''' 
???

==Page 456==

'''aigrette''' 
???

'''Pencil''' 
???

'''equivalent of a shrug''' 
Nice anthropomorphism.

'''lost mines''' 
(Factual?)

==Page 457==

'''tourbillon''' 
???

'''patent pencils''' 
???

'''zephyr gingham''' 
???

'''lawn''' 
???

'''pongee''' 
???

==Page 458==

'''professors... engineers''' 
Theory vs practice.

'''Latinate token of prestige''' 
PhD, summa cum laude, etc.

'''current... purity''' 
Free of noise?

'''Minkowski''' 
???

'''Three times ten... minus one seconds''' 
???

'''other expression''' 
???

==Annotation Index==
{{ATD PbP}}

ATD 429-459

2006-12-27T03:15:50Z

Bean: /* Page 431 */

==Page 431==

'''"Turkish Corner"''' 
???

'''Bactrian''' 
''Camel''. Even-toed ungulate, two-humped (twin-peaked) as compared with the one-humped dromedary.

'''Cameling''' 
???

'''''secret determinant of history''''' 

==Page 432==

'''fatal word''' 
"Wife".

'''Gamomania''' 
"Gamos" is greek for "marriage," and mania means "mania" or "madness."

'''H.M.S.F.''' 
His Majesty's Subdesertine Frigate (p425).

'''Balaam's ass''' 
refers to Num. 22:21-34 - Balaam rides out with the princes of Moab, but the Lord sends an angel to prevent him. Balaam does not see the angel but his ass does and will not go further. Balaam smites the ass three times, to no avail, until "the Lord opened the mouth of the ass, and she said to Balaam: What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?" Balaam's ass and the serpent (in the Garden of Eden) are the only speaking animals in the bible.

'''reported... Polo''' 
???

==Page 433==

'''pan-spectral fields''' 
???

'''"Euphrates" poplars''' 
???

'''aryq''' 
???

'''B.I.N.''' 
Biometric Institute of Neuropathy (p432).

'''seventeen-syllable''' 
Haiku - japanese poems consisting of 17 syllables, classically arranged in three lines of 5 - 7 - 5 syllables each

==Page 434==

'''Eta/Nu Transformators''' 
???

'''pari passu''' 
???

==Page 435==

'''Gurkhas''' 
???

'''General Forrest''' 
???

'''archiepiscopal''' 
???

'''Faberge''' 
Russian jewelers. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Faberg%C3%A9 Wikipedia entry].

'''subarenaceous''' 
???

==Page 436==

'''limen''' 
???

'''transmundane''' 
???

'''lamaseries''' 
???

'''Torriform''' 
???

'''Urban terrain''' 
(But only cities unwisely built on sand.)

'''Stilton Gaspereaux''' 
???

'''Sven Hedin''' 
???

'''Aurel Stein''' 
?? R.L. Stein is a teen horror-pulp novelist and television writer, author of the Fear Street, Goosebumps, and Nightmare Room series. ??

'''first known maps''' 
???

==Page 437==

'''Nernst lamps''' 
???

'''level of encryption''' 
(Cf Heisenberg?)

'''Mount Kailash''' 
???

'''polarize... in time''' 
???

'''Manichaeans''' 
???

==Page 438==

'''expanded sense... Maxwell... Hertz''' 
???

''''Perfects'''' 
???

'''Graeco-Buddhist''' 
???

'''Italo-Islamic''' 
???

==Page 439==

'''Nuovo Rialto''' 
???

'''no earlier than''' 
(Where'd they go?)

'''Passing of the Remarks''' 
???

'''Steeplechase Park''' 
???

==Page 440==

'''screaming''' 
Screaming motif.

'''''chong pir''''' 
???

'''Uyghur''' 
???

'''skeleton rig''' 
Concealed weapon?

'''andante''' 
???

'''Sandman Saloon''' 
???

==Page 441==

'''Leonard and Lyle''' 
???

'''''teke''''' 
???

'''Spindletop''' 
???

'''Groznyi''' 
???

'''calyx bits''' 
???

'''adults''' 
Chums not adults, then?

'''''assalamu alaykum''''' 
???

'''anticline''' 
???

==Page 442==

'''''equine altitude''''' 
High horse.

'''Veneto-Uyghur''' 
???

'''2 percent... most of them''' 
Implies at least 150 in crew.

'''Marco Querini''' 
???

'''Terrenascondite''' 
???

'''Pozzo San Vito''' 
???

==Page 443==

'''peterman option''' 
???

'''Consomme Imperial''' 
???

'''Timbales de Supremes de Volailles''' 
???

'''Gigot Grille a la Sauce Piquante''' 
???

'''aubergines a la Sauce Mousseline''' 
???

'''Pouilly-Fuisse''' 
???

'''Graves''' 
???

==Page 444==

'''Oasi''' 
Plural of "oasis."

'''cataplexy''' 
Sudden loss of muscle power following a strong emotional stimulus.

'''Nobel brothers''' 
Robert and Ludvig Nobel, brothers of Alfred Nobel of dynamite and prize fame, co-founders of Branobel, an important early oil company that controlled a large amount of Russian output. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branobel Wikipedia entry].

'''shaft-alley''' 
???

'''the balloon is up''' 
A phrase also used in ''V.''

'''F.O.''' 
???

'''''Daily Mail''''' 
London tabloid, staunch early supporters of Alolf HItler. Today specialises in stirring up hatred of immigrants and other minorities.

'''"Sands of Inner Asia"''' 
???

'''Taklamakan''' 
???

==Page 445==

'''Kashgar to Urumchi''' 
???

'''fell into the hand of''' 
Cf modern Taliban, etc.

'''World-Island''' 
???

'''discreet summons''' 
Eg "paging Dr Blue".

'''far wicket''' 
???

'''wog''' 
''Chiefly British.'' An ethnic slur used for any dark-skinned peoples. Alleged to stand for "Western Oriental Gentleman", but mainly applied to Indians, Pakistanis, Arabs, and other brown-skinned Asians.

'''Vic removal''' 
???

'''eating an explosive''' 
Cf Lew's Cyclomite.

==Page 446==

'''St Martin le Grand''' 
???

'''Angel Street''' 
???

'''G.P.O. West''' 
???

'''pneumatic dispatches''' 
An extensive 'pneumatic dispatch' system existed on London during the Victorian era, started in 1851 and carrying on at least into the 1930's. By 1886 London had 94 telegram tubes totaling 34 1/2 miles and around 4.5 million telegraph messages were carried in cylinders at around 20mph. At its height the network extended some 57 miles connecting 67 branch offices via a central sorting office. See [http://www.capsu.org/history/telegram_conveyors.html] and
[http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/COMMS/pneumess/pneumess.htm] (with illustrations).

'''drill suits''' 
???

'''chars''' 
???

'''clicks and rests''' 
???

'''Northern Temple of Connexion''' 
???

'''marblework''' 
???

'''Bloggins''' 
???

'''allegro vivatchy''' 
???

==Page 447==

'''grease-paint''' 
Wog-colored.

'''cylinder of gutta-percha''' 
Pneumatic dispatches were carried in cylinders of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutta-percha Gutta-Percha] -- an inelastic latex made from the sap of the Gutta-Percha tree -- covered in felt. See [http://www.capsu.org/history/telegram_conveyors.html]. Gutta-percha crops up a number of times in ATD, possibly enough to suggest some sort of motif or connection?

'''its "D" box''' 
The receiving mechanism on the end of pneumatic dispatch pipe.

"The somewhat complicated pattern of double sluice valve originally used at the central stations has been superseded by a simpler form, known as the D box, so named Despatching from the shape of its cross section. This box is of and cast iron, and is provided with a close-fitting, Receiving brass-framed, sliding lid with a glass panel. This Apparatus, lid fits air-tight, and closes the box after a carrier has been inserted into the mouth of the tube; the latter enters at one end of the box and is there bell-mouthed. A supply pipe, to which is connected a 3-way cock, is joined on to the box and allows communication at will with either the pressure or vacuum mains, so that the apparatus becomes available for either sending (by pressure) or receiving (by vacuum) a carrier. Automatic working, by which the air supply is automatically turned on on the introduction of the carrier into a tube and on closing of the D box, and is cut off when the carrier arrives, was introduced in 1909." From the 1911 Encyclopedia Brittanica entry on Pneumatic Dispatch, cited at [http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/COMMS/pneumess/pneumess.htm]

'''Holborn''' 
???

'''Saffron Hill''' 
???

'''''tantum dic verbo'' isn't it''' 
???

'''''intact''''' 
(Did I miss this?)

==Page 448==

'''because I'm mad''' 
???

'''half-sovereign case''' 
???

'''Mr. Campbell-Bannerman''' 
???

==Page 449==

'''Clarabella''' 
???

'''Audacity, Iowa''' 
???

==Page 450==

'''DREAMTIME MOVY''' 
Misspelling is dreamlike?

'''log... waterfall''' 
Cf DW Griffith?

'''lens-brother''' 
(Like masonic sign?)

'''Powers movement''' 
???

'''Geneva''' 
???

'''Wilt Flambo''' 
Flambeau = torch (French).

'''acetylene''' 
???

==Page 451==

'''nitro in the film''' 
???

'''the tip''' 
???

'''strange relation''' 
Cf GR on calculus.

'''dark perplexity''' 
Cf Gen X?

'''dilapidated''' 
Why?

'''queen-of-the-prairie''' 
???

==Page 452==

'''Sempitern''' 
???

'''siegecraft of Time''' 
Cf Paris Commune siege, above.

'''between Cleveland and Denver''' 
Merle's idiosyncratic choice of endpoints?

'''automorphic functions''' 
???

==Page 453==

'''Lobatchevskian''' 
???

'''Automorphic Dispensation''' 
???

'''distressing regularity''' 
Explains dilapidation?

'''Thorvald''' 
???

'''''thresher dinners''''' 
???

==Page 454==

'''"gaff"''' 
???

'''Giant Airships of 1896 and '7''' 
[http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Image:Mysterious-airship.jpg Photo and info here]

'''Chick''' 
First Chum to appear in non-Chums chapter?

'''Cleveland... trial''' 
See p67

'''Somble, Strool, and Fleshway''' 
???

''''paranoia querulans'... P.Q.''' 
???

'''blasting agent''' 
???

'''detonans''' 
???

==Page 456==

'''aigrette''' 
???

'''Pencil''' 
???

'''equivalent of a shrug''' 
Nice anthropomorphism.

'''lost mines''' 
(Factual?)

==Page 457==

'''tourbillon''' 
???

'''patent pencils''' 
???

'''zephyr gingham''' 
???

'''lawn''' 
???

'''pongee''' 
???

==Page 458==

'''professors... engineers''' 
Theory vs practice.

'''Latinate token of prestige''' 
PhD, summa cum laude, etc.

'''current... purity''' 
Free of noise?

'''Minkowski''' 
???

'''Three times ten... minus one seconds''' 
???

'''other expression''' 
???

==Annotation Index==
{{ATD PbP}}

ATD 429-459

2006-12-26T22:26:49Z

Bean: /* Page 436 */

==Page 431==

'''"Turkish Corner"''' 
???

'''Bactrian''' 
???

'''Cameling''' 
???

==Page 432==

'''fatal word''' 
"Wife".

'''Gamomania''' 

A gammomaniac, I guess, means a 'leg man'.

'''H.M.S.F.''' 
His Majesty's Subdesertine Frigate (p425).

'''Balaam's ass''' 
refers to Num. 22:21-34 - Balaam rides out with the princes of Moab, but the Lord sends an angel to prevent him. Balaam does not see the angel but his ass does and will not go further. Balaam smites the ass three times, to no avail, until "the Lord opened the mouth of the ass, and she said to Balaam: What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?" Balaam's ass and the serpent (in the Garden of Eden) are the only speaking animals in the bible.

'''reported... Polo''' 
???

==Page 433==

'''pan-spectral fields''' 
???

'''"Euphrates" poplars''' 
???

'''aryq''' 
???

'''B.I.N.''' 
Biometric Institute of Neuropathy (p432).

'''seventeen-syllable''' 
Haiku - japanese poems consisting of 17 syllables, classically arranged in three lines of 5 - 7 - 5 syllables each

==Page 434==

'''Eta/Nu Transformators''' 
???

'''pari passu''' 
???

==Page 435==

'''Gurkhas''' 
???

'''General Forrest''' 
???

'''archiepiscopal''' 
???

'''Faberge''' 
Russian jewelers. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Faberg%C3%A9 Wikipedia entry].

'''subarenaceous''' 
???

==Page 436==

'''limen''' 
???

'''transmundane''' 
???

'''lamaseries''' 
???

'''Torriform''' 
???

'''Urban terrain''' 
(But only cities unwisely built on sand.)

'''Stilton Gaspereaux''' 
???

'''Sven Hedin''' 
???

'''Aurel Stein''' 
?? R.L. Stein is a teen horror-pulp novelist and television writer, author of the Fear Street, Goosebumps, and Nightmare Room series. ??

'''first known maps''' 
???

==Page 437==

'''Nernst lamps''' 
???

'''level of encryption''' 
(Cf Heisenberg?)

'''Mount Kailash''' 
???

'''polarize... in time''' 
???

'''Manichaeans''' 
???

==Page 438==

'''expanded sense... Maxwell... Hertz''' 
???

''''Perfects'''' 
???

'''Graeco-Buddhist''' 
???

'''Italo-Islamic''' 
???

==Page 439==

'''Nuovo Rialto''' 
???

'''no earlier than''' 
(Where'd they go?)

'''Passing of the Remarks''' 
???

'''Steeplechase Park''' 
???

==Page 440==

'''screaming''' 
Screaming motif.

'''''chong pir''''' 
???

'''Uyghur''' 
???

'''skeleton rig''' 
Concealed weapon?

'''andante''' 
???

'''Sandman Saloon''' 
???

==Page 441==

'''Leonard and Lyle''' 
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'''''teke''''' 
???

'''Spindletop''' 
???

'''Groznyi''' 
???

'''calyx bits''' 
???

'''adults''' 
Chums not adults, then?

'''''assalamu alaykum''''' 
???

'''anticline''' 
???

==Page 442==

'''''equine altitude''''' 
High horse.

'''Veneto-Uyghur''' 
???

'''2 percent... most of them''' 
Implies at least 150 in crew.

'''Marco Querini''' 
???

'''Terrenascondite''' 
???

'''Pozzo San Vito''' 
???

==Page 443==

'''peterman option''' 
???

'''Consomme Imperial''' 
???

'''Timbales de Supremes de Volailles''' 
???

'''Gigot Grille a la Sauce Piquante''' 
???

'''aubergines a la Sauce Mousseline''' 
???

'''Pouilly-Fuisse''' 
???

'''Graves''' 
???

==Page 444==

'''Oasi''' 
Plural of "oasis."

'''cataplexy''' 
Sudden loss of muscle power following a strong emotional stimulus.

'''Nobel brothers''' 
Robert and Ludvig Nobel, brothers of Alfred Nobel of dynamite and prize fame, co-founders of Branobel, an important early oil company that controlled a large amount of Russian output. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branobel Wikipedia entry].

'''shaft-alley''' 
???

'''the balloon is up''' 
A phrase also used in ''V.''

'''F.O.''' 
???

'''''Daily Mail''''' 
London tabloid, staunch early supporters of Alolf HItler. Today specialises in stirring up hatred of immigrants and other minorities.

'''"Sands of Inner Asia"''' 
???

'''Taklamakan''' 
???

==Page 445==

'''Kashgar to Urumchi''' 
???

'''fell into the hand of''' 
Cf modern Taliban, etc.

'''World-Island''' 
???

'''discreet summons''' 
Eg "paging Dr Blue".

'''far wicket''' 
???

'''wog''' 
''Chiefly British.'' An ethnic slur used for any dark-skinned peoples. Alleged to stand for "Western Oriental Gentleman", but mainly applied to Indians, Pakistanis, Arabs, and other brown-skinned Asians.

'''Vic removal''' 
???

'''eating an explosive''' 
Cf Lew's Cyclomite.

==Page 446==

'''St Martin le Grand''' 
???

'''Angel Street''' 
???

'''G.P.O. West''' 
???

'''pneumatic dispatches''' 
An extensive 'pneumatic dispatch' system existed on London during the Victorian era, started in 1851 and carrying on at least into the 1930's. By 1886 London had 94 telegram tubes totaling 34 1/2 miles and around 4.5 million telegraph messages were carried in cylinders at around 20mph. At its height the network extended some 57 miles connecting 67 branch offices via a central sorting office. See [http://www.capsu.org/history/telegram_conveyors.html] and
[http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/COMMS/pneumess/pneumess.htm] (with illustrations).

'''drill suits''' 
???

'''chars''' 
???

'''clicks and rests''' 
???

'''Northern Temple of Connexion''' 
???

'''marblework''' 
???

'''Bloggins''' 
???

'''allegro vivatchy''' 
???

==Page 447==

'''grease-paint''' 
Wog-colored.

'''cylinder of gutta-percha''' 
Pneumatic dispatches were carried in cylinders of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutta-percha Gutta-Percha] -- an inelastic latex made from the sap of the Gutta-Percha tree -- covered in felt. See [http://www.capsu.org/history/telegram_conveyors.html]. Gutta-percha crops up a number of times in ATD, possibly enough to suggest some sort of motif or connection?

'''its "D" box''' 
The receiving mechanism on the end of pneumatic dispatch pipe.

"The somewhat complicated pattern of double sluice valve originally used at the central stations has been superseded by a simpler form, known as the D box, so named Despatching from the shape of its cross section. This box is of and cast iron, and is provided with a close-fitting, Receiving brass-framed, sliding lid with a glass panel. This Apparatus, lid fits air-tight, and closes the box after a carrier has been inserted into the mouth of the tube; the latter enters at one end of the box and is there bell-mouthed. A supply pipe, to which is connected a 3-way cock, is joined on to the box and allows communication at will with either the pressure or vacuum mains, so that the apparatus becomes available for either sending (by pressure) or receiving (by vacuum) a carrier. Automatic working, by which the air supply is automatically turned on on the introduction of the carrier into a tube and on closing of the D box, and is cut off when the carrier arrives, was introduced in 1909." From the 1911 Encyclopedia Brittanica entry on Pneumatic Dispatch, cited at [http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/COMMS/pneumess/pneumess.htm]

'''Holborn''' 
???

'''Saffron Hill''' 
???

'''''tantum dic verbo'' isn't it''' 
???

'''''intact''''' 
(Did I miss this?)

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'''because I'm mad''' 
???

'''half-sovereign case''' 
???

'''Mr. Campbell-Bannerman''' 
???

==Page 449==

'''Clarabella''' 
???

'''Audacity, Iowa''' 
???

==Page 450==

'''DREAMTIME MOVY''' 
Misspelling is dreamlike?

'''log... waterfall''' 
Cf DW Griffith?

'''lens-brother''' 
(Like masonic sign?)

'''Powers movement''' 
???

'''Geneva''' 
???

'''Wilt Flambo''' 
Flambeau = torch (French).

'''acetylene''' 
???

==Page 451==

'''nitro in the film''' 
???

'''the tip''' 
???

'''strange relation''' 
Cf GR on calculus.

'''dark perplexity''' 
Cf Gen X?

'''dilapidated''' 
Why?

'''queen-of-the-prairie''' 
???

==Page 452==

'''Sempitern''' 
???

'''siegecraft of Time''' 
Cf Paris Commune siege, above.

'''between Cleveland and Denver''' 
Merle's idiosyncratic choice of endpoints?

'''automorphic functions''' 
???

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'''Lobatchevskian''' 
???

'''Automorphic Dispensation''' 
???

'''distressing regularity''' 
Explains dilapidation?

'''Thorvald''' 
???

'''''thresher dinners''''' 
???

==Page 454==

'''"gaff"''' 
???

'''Giant Airships of 1896 and '7''' 
[http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Image:Mysterious-airship.jpg Photo and info here]

'''Chick''' 
First Chum to appear in non-Chums chapter?

'''Cleveland... trial''' 
See p67

'''Somble, Strool, and Fleshway''' 
???

''''paranoia querulans'... P.Q.''' 
???

'''blasting agent''' 
???

'''detonans''' 
???

==Page 456==

'''aigrette''' 
???

'''Pencil''' 
???

'''equivalent of a shrug''' 
Nice anthropomorphism.

'''lost mines''' 
(Factual?)

==Page 457==

'''tourbillon''' 
???

'''patent pencils''' 
???

'''zephyr gingham''' 
???

'''lawn''' 
???

'''pongee''' 
???

==Page 458==

'''professors... engineers''' 
Theory vs practice.

'''Latinate token of prestige''' 
PhD, summa cum laude, etc.

'''current... purity''' 
Free of noise?

'''Minkowski''' 
???

'''Three times ten... minus one seconds''' 
???

'''other expression''' 
???

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