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==Page 243==

'''''fumaioli''''' 
see picture in [http://www.fotolia.it/id/1371786].

'''''certo''''' 
sure, certain.

'''''Seccature''''' 
''Inconvenience'' in Italian.

==Page 244==

'''''ragazza''''' 
Italian 'girl'.

'''Picardy thirds''' 
The use of a major chord at the end of a musical section in a minor key. Miles seems just as moved by them as Lew. [[ATD_26-56#Page_50 | Cf p50]]

'''''stabilimento''''' 
establishment

==Page 245==
'''Garibaldi''' 
Famous Italian leader, major figure in the Italian Unification. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garibaldi Wikipedia]

'''''"Ehi, sugo!"''''' 
"Hey, sauce!" Does this make sense to anyone?

'''twentyfold''' 
5 chums times 4 suspects each.

'''''osteria''''' 
tavern.

'''San Polo''' 
The smallest district/area in Venice, and among the oldest. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Polo Wikipedia]

'''''calli''''' 
Venetian 'street' or 'lane'.

==Page 246==

'''''sotoporteghi''''' 
passageways. See picture for one example [http://www.dialetto-veneto.it/images/FotoComano/Comano-Cattognano.jpg].

'''''"Sa stai, O! Lungo, ehi!"''''' 
???

'''''cameriere''''' 
waitresses.

'''''pallonisti''''' 
ballonists.

'''''Ehi, macche, Pina!''''' 
???

'''''giadrul''''' 
???

'''"with all the spaghetti-joints in this town to choose from, are you saying those dadblame Russians have come in ''here''?"''' 
reminiscent of a similar line from the film ''Casablanca'', spoken by Humphrey Bogart: "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."

==Page 247==

'''tacchino''' 
turkey.

'''''Dum vivimus, bibamus''''' 
While we live, let us drink. Corruption of "Dum vivimus, vivamus".

'''vini frizzanti''' 
sparkling wine.

'''SANGUIS RUBER, MENS PURA''' 
Latin: Red blood, clean mind.

'''''Serrata del Maggior Consiglio''''' 
Great Council Lockout, 1297. Link to the "Maggior Consiglio" entry on Reference.com [http://www.reference.com/browse/all/Maggior%20Consiglio]

'''Napoleon's abolition''' 
1797. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge_of_Venice Wikipedia]

'''Polos' return''' 
1295. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Polo Wikipedia]

==Page 248==

'''''Attenzione al culo''''' 
"Pay attention to your rear." Likely meant as "watch your ass."

[[image:doge.jpg|thumb|100px|Doge by Giovanni Bellini|right]]'''Doge's hat''' 
For some thousand years, the chief magistrate and leader of the Most Serene Republic of Venice was styled the Doge, a rare but not unique Italian title derived from the Latin Dux, as the major Italian parallel Duce and the English Duke. Doges of Venice were elected for life by the city-state's aristocracy. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge_of_Venice Wikipedia entry]

==Page 249==

'''"Those whose enduring object is power in this world are only too happy to use without remorse the others, whose aim is of course to transcend all question of power. Each regards the other as a pack of deluded fools."''' 
Over time, Pynchon appears to have come to a belief in a massive conflict between cultures "valuing anaysis and differentiation" and those valuing "unity and integration". The two alternate maps of Asia could be a reference to these disparate worldviews.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V. Wikipedia]

'''paramorphoscope''' 
AtD is itself a paramorphoscope; satire and science fiction typically hold up a distorting mirror to the world in which they are written, and present worlds "set to the side of the one we have taken". In the end the correct paramorphic "mirror" shows the world clearly.

'''Clifford's term''' 
WK Clifford. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kingdon_Clifford Wikipedia]

==Page 250==

For a brief history of the compound-lens microscope, including a reference to the role played by Italians and the Dutch, including Griendl von Ach, see:
http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Microscope

==Page 252==

'''Glagolitic''' 
The Glagolitic Alphabet is the oldest known Slavic alphabet (9th c.). It originated as a tactic to lessen the dependence of the subjects of the Prince of Greater Moravia on Frankish priests, who banned it but could not suppress it; it played a similar role in preserving Bulgarian independence from Byzantium. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glagolitic] It appears to be a nexus of the kind of simultaneous temporal and spiritual tasks the Chums of Chance are now involved in. In this, it raises the issues first explored by Pynchon in the "Tchitcherine in Kyrghizia" sections of ''Gravity's Rainbow'' in which the introduction of a written alphabet causes immense political and social change.

'''Gauloise''' 
famous French cigarette. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauloise Wikipedia].

'''''scusi''''' 
excuse me.

'''''Affascinante, caro''''' 
Fascinating, dear.

'''''ragazzo''''' 
boy.

'''''Mattoidi''''' 
Borderland cases between sanity and insanity.

'''''Prego''''' 
Please.

==Page 253==

'''Pozzuoli''' 
A city in the Province of Naples (''Napoli'') in the region of Campania. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pozzuoli Wikipedia].

'''''sfumato''''' 
It refers to a well known painting method which blends so subtly the colors and tones that no perceptible transition as demonstrated by Leonardo da Vince's ''Mona Lisa''. See [http://en/wikipedia.org/wiki/Sfumato Wikipedia].
The context seems to imply ''smoke'', then '''''fumo''''' instead should be used.

==Page 254==

'''''Pax tibi''''' 
Peace to you.

'''"Chums of Chance were expected to die on the job. Or else live forever, there being two schools of thought, actually."''' 
Possibly a reference to the fact that the Chums seem to live simultaneously in the "real" world of the novel and also in fictional stories within the novel.

==Page 255==

'''Bastille Day''' 
The Campanile di San Marco collapsed 14 July 1902. [http://europeforvisitors.com/venice/articles/campanile_di_san_marco.htm cite and pic]

'''''lasagnoni''''' 
Lasagne, a long-cut pasta with rectangular section. But what's the true meaning the author used here?

==Page 256==

'''"four-brick groupings''' 
Padzhitnoff sees the Campanile come apart as a game of Tetris! The "four-brick groupings [...] begin their gentle, undeadly descent, rotating and translating in all available modes". (See [[ATD_119-148|page 123]] for more on Tetris.)

==Page 258==

'''Tetralith''' 
Modern math term for three dimensional solid formed by merging three hyperbolic paraboloids in a manner that they have a common midpoint. See [http://www.tetranometry.com/#tetralith Tetralith Photo #2]. Pynchon just means a Tetris-shaped projectile.

'''Ryohei Uchida''' 
Ultra-nationalist, founder of the Black Dragon Soceity (see below), a right-wing, paramilitary organization. See [http://members.tripod.com/ravenshrine/uchida.html Ryohei Uchida].

'''''polny pizdets''''' 
sad state of affairs.

'''Black Dragon Society''' 
A paramiltary, ultra-nationalist, right-wing organization founded in 1901 by Ryohei Uchida. It's initial public goal was to support Janpanese expansion in Manchuria. Therefore, during the period from 1901 to the end of World War I, it aimed to help the Janpanese government to drive the Russian presence out of that region. During the Russo-Janpanese War of 1904-1905 (a war fought over Manchuria and the Russian was soundly defeated) it was active in espionage, sabotage and assassination against the Russian. During 20's, 30's and later period the Black Dragon Society evolved and expanded its activities around the world including the United States. It was finally disbanded in 1946 by General MacArthur after World War II. For more information about the Black Dragon Society see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokuryu-kai Wikipedia].

'''''Smirno''''' 
???

'''''Japanese character for 'four' being same as that for 'death' 
Not quite true. The Japanese characters for four and death are quite distinct, but can be pronounced in the same way, hence the taboo.

==Page 259==

'''''dov'era, com'era''''' 
where it was, as it was. See [http://veniceblog.typepad.com/veniceblog/2003/12/comera_dovera.html veniceblog]. On July 14, 1902 the St. Mark's Campanile in Piazza San Marco, Venice, mysteriously and totally collapsed. Under the 'battle cry' of '''''com'era, dov'era''''' it was rebuilt. The Campanile was reopened on April 25 (St. Mark's Day) 1912. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mark's_Campanile Wikipedia]. Also, Cf p.255.

==Page 260==

'''Curly Dee''' 
???

'''Jew Fanny''' 
???

'''inside out''' 
Optical illusion.

'''Hsiang-Chao''' 
???

==Page 261==

'''lard smoke''' 
Cf. p. 10, "tall smokestacks unceasingly vomiting black grease-smoke," and p. 216, "Just greasy ashes by the trailside."

'''biscuit-shooter''' 
I.e., a cook.

'''Canon City''' 
Site of the Colorado State Penitentiary, meant to suggest Deuce and Sloat had done time there.

'''gong''' 
???
17:18, 1 January 2007 (PST)[[User:Bklyn48|Bklyn48]]

==Page 262==

'''Willis Turnstone''' 
???

==Page 263==

'''"Crazier."''' 
Cf Bonnie and Clyde.

'''Oleander Prudge''' 
???

==Page 264==

'''single-jacker''' 
A miner who with a hammer and spike cuts a hole into rock for placement of a stick of dynamite. A set of holes are cut for each "synchronized" blast.
(Double jackers work as a team.)
Infer (this) one as a loner, a bit crazy, single minded, silent, easily hurt or misunderstood, doesn't play well with others...

==Page 265==

'''gullet of days''' 
???

==Page 266==

'''white-throated swift''' 
A swift is a small plainly colored bird similar to swallow.

'''November''' 
November 1903.

'''nymph du pave''' 
should probably read "nymphE du pave": [http://dict.die.net/nymphe%20du%20pave/ street-whore]. Theoretically this could also translate as: (image of a) nymph on a mosaic (tesselated floor) - like the huge roman one of Ariadne in the Rue du Pavé in Avenche (Switzerland) [http://www.stub.unibe.ch/welten/texte/herzig.html german weblink]

'''geometric episode''' 
Vaguely reminiscent of Proust on Combray: "And on one of the longest walks we ever took from Combray there was a spot where the narrow road emerged suddenly on to an immense plain, closed at the horizon by strips of forest over which rose and stood alone the fine point of Saint-Hilaire's steeple, but so sharpened and so pink that it seemed to be no more than sketched on the sky by the finger-nail of a painter anxious to give to such a landscape, to so pure a piece of 'nature,' this little sign of art, this single indication of human existence." [http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/8swnn10.txt etext]

'''Engelmann spruce''' 
[http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/syllabus/factsheet.cfm?ID=175 Picea engelmannii] A short biography of Dr. Engelmann (lit. Angel-Man) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Engelmann Wikipedia-Entry], more elaborated on [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Engelmann german site]

'''albatross cloth''' 
Evidently a distinct color/design for a wedding or wedding party dress in the West at the time. I have no OED at the moment, but there are at least two online "diaries" or descriptions using the phrase. Here is one: "We were married August 6, 1896 at 7:30 AM at my folk’s residence among friends and relatives. To honor the event, my folks had our parlor decorated with many flowers including roses, myrtle and geraniums. I wore an elegant gown of white silk and albatross cloth."

==Page 267==

'''Jemt-land''' 
A Province in the center of Sweden [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A4mtland Wikipedia]

==Page 268==

'''side hobbles''' 
???

==Page 269==

'''items, nearly always stolen''' 
Cf bower-bird.

'''the dirt, the blood-red dirt''' 
This line recalls Homer's "wine-dark sea" first found in The Iliad (Bk VII) in a scene in which Achilles grieves for the death of Patroclus. Given the context here, it might be thought of as "mock-heroic."

'''marmot''' 
According to Merriam-Webster: a stout-bodied, short-legged rodent of the genus Marmota that has coarse fur, a short bushy tail, and very short ears, lives in burrows, and hibernates in winter; also: a prairie dog or one of the larger ground squirrels. 

Marmots are native to Colorado and live at the higher altitudes. They are larger than squirrels, prairie dogs or ground squirrels (a/k/a chipmunks), about the size of a weasel but smaller than an otter

'''''"huevón"''''' 
From hueva (egg). According to [http://juantornoe.blogs.com/hispanictrending/2004/06/huevon_and_guey.html this blog] huevon "literally refers to the size of a mans "cojones" (another pseudo decent word that has seen a lot of mainstream play). It is commonly used to indicate how lazy someone is. The bigger the "huevon" you are, the lazier. As with "guey", however, this too has often been used to say dude or buddy."

'''''pinche cabron''''' 
fucking asshole.

==Page 271==

'''skip''' 
A wagon or basket on a track in a mine, or generally any scooter.

'''ex-Danite''' 
Danites were Joseph Smith's vigilantes, "Armies of Israel", during the Mormon War 1838 in Missouri, i.e., before travel to Utah.

'''"Avenging Angels"''' 
Brigham Young's group with similar purpose as Danite above, sometimes called Danites as well.

==Page 272==

'''the Delores''' 
Dolores River runs through Cortez (where Deuce seems to be, next to exploding cactus p270). "We woke up in the Dolores... [VALLEY/REGION/HOTEL]"

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

ATD 243-272

2007-01-13T15:06:40Z

Benny229: /* Page 246 */

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

==Page 243==

'''''fumaioli''''' 
see picture in [http://www.fotolia.it/id/1371786].

'''''certo''''' 
sure, certain.

'''''Seccature''''' 
''Inconvenience'' in Italian.

==Page 244==

'''''ragazza''''' 
Italian 'girl'.

'''Picardy thirds''' 
The use of a major chord at the end of a musical section in a minor key. Miles seems just as moved by them as Lew. [[ATD_26-56#Page_50 | Cf p50]]

'''''stabilimento''''' 
establishment

==Page 245==
'''Garibaldi''' 
Famous Italian leader, major figure in the Italian Unification. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garibaldi Wikipedia]

'''''"Ehi, sugo!"''''' 
"Hey, sauce!" Does this make sense to anyone?

'''twentyfold''' 
5 chums times 4 suspects each.

'''''osteria''''' 
tavern.

'''San Polo''' 
The smallest district/area in Venice, and among the oldest. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Polo Wikipedia]

'''''calli''''' 
Venetian 'street' or 'lane'.

==Page 246==

'''''sotoporteghi''''' 
passageways. See picture for one example [http://www.dialetto-veneto.it/images/FotoComano/Comano-Cattognano.jpg].

'''''"Sa stai, O! Lungo, ehi!"''''' 
???

'''''cameriere''''' 
waitresses.

'''''pallonisti''''' 
ballonists.

'''''Ehi, macche, Pina!''''' 
???

'''''giadrul''''' 
???

'''"with all the spaghetti-joints in this town to choose from, are you saying those dadblame Russians have come in ''here''?"''' 
reminiscent of a similar line from the film ''Casablanca'', spoken by Humphrey Bogart: "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."

==Page 247==

'''tacchino''' 
turkey.

'''''Dum vivimus, bibamus''''' 
While we live, let us drink. Corruption of "Dum vivimus, vivamus".

'''vini frizzanti''' 
sparkling wine.

'''SANGUIS RUBER, MENS PURA''' 
Latin: Red blood, clean mind.

'''''Serrata del Maggior Consiglio''''' 
Great Council Lockout. (?)

'''Napoleon's abolition''' 
1797. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge_of_Venice Wikipedia]

'''Polos' return''' 
1295. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Polo Wikipedia]

==Page 248==

'''''Attenzione al culo''''' 
"Pay attention to your rear." Likely meant as "watch your ass."

[[image:doge.jpg|thumb|100px|Doge by Giovanni Bellini|right]]'''Doge's hat''' 
For some thousand years, the chief magistrate and leader of the Most Serene Republic of Venice was styled the Doge, a rare but not unique Italian title derived from the Latin Dux, as the major Italian parallel Duce and the English Duke. Doges of Venice were elected for life by the city-state's aristocracy. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge_of_Venice Wikipedia entry]

==Page 249==

'''"Those whose enduring object is power in this world are only too happy to use without remorse the others, whose aim is of course to transcend all question of power. Each regards the other as a pack of deluded fools."''' 
Over time, Pynchon appears to have come to a belief in a massive conflict between cultures "valuing anaysis and differentiation" and those valuing "unity and integration". The two alternate maps of Asia could be a reference to these disparate worldviews.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V. Wikipedia]

'''paramorphoscope''' 
AtD is itself a paramorphoscope; satire and science fiction typically hold up a distorting mirror to the world in which they are written, and present worlds "set to the side of the one we have taken". In the end the correct paramorphic "mirror" shows the world clearly.

'''Clifford's term''' 
WK Clifford. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kingdon_Clifford Wikipedia]

==Page 250==

For a brief history of the compound-lens microscope, including a reference to the role played by Italians and the Dutch, including Griendl von Ach, see:
http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Microscope

==Page 252==

'''Glagolitic''' 
The Glagolitic Alphabet is the oldest known Slavic alphabet (9th c.). It originated as a tactic to lessen the dependence of the subjects of the Prince of Greater Moravia on Frankish priests, who banned it but could not suppress it; it played a similar role in preserving Bulgarian independence from Byzantium. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glagolitic] It appears to be a nexus of the kind of simultaneous temporal and spiritual tasks the Chums of Chance are now involved in. In this, it raises the issues first explored by Pynchon in the "Tchitcherine in Kyrghizia" sections of ''Gravity's Rainbow'' in which the introduction of a written alphabet causes immense political and social change.

'''Gauloise''' 
famous French cigarette. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauloise Wikipedia].

'''''scusi''''' 
excuse me.

'''''Affascinante, caro''''' 
Fascinating, dear.

'''''ragazzo''''' 
boy.

'''''Mattoidi''''' 
Borderland cases between sanity and insanity.

'''''Prego''''' 
Please.

==Page 253==

'''Pozzuoli''' 
A city in the Province of Naples (''Napoli'') in the region of Campania. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pozzuoli Wikipedia].

'''''sfumato''''' 
It refers to a well known painting method which blends so subtly the colors and tones that no perceptible transition as demonstrated by Leonardo da Vince's ''Mona Lisa''. See [http://en/wikipedia.org/wiki/Sfumato Wikipedia].
The context seems to imply ''smoke'', then '''''fumo''''' instead should be used.

==Page 254==

'''''Pax tibi''''' 
Peace to you.

'''"Chums of Chance were expected to die on the job. Or else live forever, there being two schools of thought, actually."''' 
Possibly a reference to the fact that the Chums seem to live simultaneously in the "real" world of the novel and also in fictional stories within the novel.

==Page 255==

'''Bastille Day''' 
The Campanile di San Marco collapsed 14 July 1902. [http://europeforvisitors.com/venice/articles/campanile_di_san_marco.htm cite and pic]

'''''lasagnoni''''' 
Lasagne, a long-cut pasta with rectangular section. But what's the true meaning the author used here?

==Page 256==

'''"four-brick groupings''' 
Padzhitnoff sees the Campanile come apart as a game of Tetris! The "four-brick groupings [...] begin their gentle, undeadly descent, rotating and translating in all available modes". (See [[ATD_119-148|page 123]] for more on Tetris.)

==Page 258==

'''Tetralith''' 
Modern math term for three dimensional solid formed by merging three hyperbolic paraboloids in a manner that they have a common midpoint. See [http://www.tetranometry.com/#tetralith Tetralith Photo #2]. Pynchon just means a Tetris-shaped projectile.

'''Ryohei Uchida''' 
Ultra-nationalist, founder of the Black Dragon Soceity (see below), a right-wing, paramilitary organization. See [http://members.tripod.com/ravenshrine/uchida.html Ryohei Uchida].

'''''polny pizdets''''' 
sad state of affairs.

'''Black Dragon Society''' 
A paramiltary, ultra-nationalist, right-wing organization founded in 1901 by Ryohei Uchida. It's initial public goal was to support Janpanese expansion in Manchuria. Therefore, during the period from 1901 to the end of World War I, it aimed to help the Janpanese government to drive the Russian presence out of that region. During the Russo-Janpanese War of 1904-1905 (a war fought over Manchuria and the Russian was soundly defeated) it was active in espionage, sabotage and assassination against the Russian. During 20's, 30's and later period the Black Dragon Society evolved and expanded its activities around the world including the United States. It was finally disbanded in 1946 by General MacArthur after World War II. For more information about the Black Dragon Society see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokuryu-kai Wikipedia].

'''''Smirno''''' 
???

'''''Japanese character for 'four' being same as that for 'death' 
Not quite true. The Japanese characters for four and death are quite distinct, but can be pronounced in the same way, hence the taboo.

==Page 259==

'''''dov'era, com'era''''' 
where it was, as it was. See [http://veniceblog.typepad.com/veniceblog/2003/12/comera_dovera.html veniceblog]. On July 14, 1902 the St. Mark's Campanile in Piazza San Marco, Venice, mysteriously and totally collapsed. Under the 'battle cry' of '''''com'era, dov'era''''' it was rebuilt. The Campanile was reopened on April 25 (St. Mark's Day) 1912. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mark's_Campanile Wikipedia]. Also, Cf p.255.

==Page 260==

'''Curly Dee''' 
???

'''Jew Fanny''' 
???

'''inside out''' 
Optical illusion.

'''Hsiang-Chao''' 
???

==Page 261==

'''lard smoke''' 
Cf. p. 10, "tall smokestacks unceasingly vomiting black grease-smoke," and p. 216, "Just greasy ashes by the trailside."

'''biscuit-shooter''' 
I.e., a cook.

'''Canon City''' 
Site of the Colorado State Penitentiary, meant to suggest Deuce and Sloat had done time there.

'''gong''' 
???
17:18, 1 January 2007 (PST)[[User:Bklyn48|Bklyn48]]

==Page 262==

'''Willis Turnstone''' 
???

==Page 263==

'''"Crazier."''' 
Cf Bonnie and Clyde.

'''Oleander Prudge''' 
???

==Page 264==

'''single-jacker''' 
A miner who with a hammer and spike cuts a hole into rock for placement of a stick of dynamite. A set of holes are cut for each "synchronized" blast.
(Double jackers work as a team.)
Infer (this) one as a loner, a bit crazy, single minded, silent, easily hurt or misunderstood, doesn't play well with others...

==Page 265==

'''gullet of days''' 
???

==Page 266==

'''white-throated swift''' 
A swift is a small plainly colored bird similar to swallow.

'''November''' 
November 1903.

'''nymph du pave''' 
should probably read "nymphE du pave": [http://dict.die.net/nymphe%20du%20pave/ street-whore]. Theoretically this could also translate as: (image of a) nymph on a mosaic (tesselated floor) - like the huge roman one of Ariadne in the Rue du Pavé in Avenche (Switzerland) [http://www.stub.unibe.ch/welten/texte/herzig.html german weblink]

'''geometric episode''' 
Vaguely reminiscent of Proust on Combray: "And on one of the longest walks we ever took from Combray there was a spot where the narrow road emerged suddenly on to an immense plain, closed at the horizon by strips of forest over which rose and stood alone the fine point of Saint-Hilaire's steeple, but so sharpened and so pink that it seemed to be no more than sketched on the sky by the finger-nail of a painter anxious to give to such a landscape, to so pure a piece of 'nature,' this little sign of art, this single indication of human existence." [http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/8swnn10.txt etext]

'''Engelmann spruce''' 
[http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/syllabus/factsheet.cfm?ID=175 Picea engelmannii] A short biography of Dr. Engelmann (lit. Angel-Man) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Engelmann Wikipedia-Entry], more elaborated on [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Engelmann german site]

'''albatross cloth''' 
Evidently a distinct color/design for a wedding or wedding party dress in the West at the time. I have no OED at the moment, but there are at least two online "diaries" or descriptions using the phrase. Here is one: "We were married August 6, 1896 at 7:30 AM at my folk’s residence among friends and relatives. To honor the event, my folks had our parlor decorated with many flowers including roses, myrtle and geraniums. I wore an elegant gown of white silk and albatross cloth."

==Page 267==

'''Jemt-land''' 
A Province in the center of Sweden [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A4mtland Wikipedia]

==Page 268==

'''side hobbles''' 
???

==Page 269==

'''items, nearly always stolen''' 
Cf bower-bird.

'''the dirt, the blood-red dirt''' 
This line recalls Homer's "wine-dark sea" first found in The Iliad (Bk VII) in a scene in which Achilles grieves for the death of Patroclus. Given the context here, it might be thought of as "mock-heroic."

'''marmot''' 
According to Merriam-Webster: a stout-bodied, short-legged rodent of the genus Marmota that has coarse fur, a short bushy tail, and very short ears, lives in burrows, and hibernates in winter; also: a prairie dog or one of the larger ground squirrels. 

Marmots are native to Colorado and live at the higher altitudes. They are larger than squirrels, prairie dogs or ground squirrels (a/k/a chipmunks), about the size of a weasel but smaller than an otter

'''''"huevón"''''' 
From hueva (egg). According to [http://juantornoe.blogs.com/hispanictrending/2004/06/huevon_and_guey.html this blog] huevon "literally refers to the size of a mans "cojones" (another pseudo decent word that has seen a lot of mainstream play). It is commonly used to indicate how lazy someone is. The bigger the "huevon" you are, the lazier. As with "guey", however, this too has often been used to say dude or buddy."

'''''pinche cabron''''' 
fucking asshole.

==Page 271==

'''skip''' 
A wagon or basket on a track in a mine, or generally any scooter.

'''ex-Danite''' 
Danites were Joseph Smith's vigilantes, "Armies of Israel", during the Mormon War 1838 in Missouri, i.e., before travel to Utah.

'''"Avenging Angels"''' 
Brigham Young's group with similar purpose as Danite above, sometimes called Danites as well.

==Page 272==

'''the Delores''' 
Dolores River runs through Cortez (where Deuce seems to be, next to exploding cactus p270). "We woke up in the Dolores... [VALLEY/REGION/HOTEL]"

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

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

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

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

'''Davis, Richard Harding''' 
591; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Harding_Davis Wikipedia entry]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''delirium''' 
41; comes from the Latin ''de'', meaning down or away from, and ''lira'', a furrow or track in the fields; that is, to be off the track, or out of the groove. See "The Crying of Lot 49", p. 128, Library Binding edition (1997).

'''de Mérode''' 
544;

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

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

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

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

'''Designolle''' 
529;

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

'''Deuce''' 
See Kindred, Deuce

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Divine Walt''' 
492;

'''Divisionism''' 
584;

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

'''Doosra, The''' 
756; In cricket the 'doosra' (from Urdu, meaning 'the other one' or 'the second one') is a delivery bowled by an off-spinner. It is a relatively recent invention (by Saqlain Mushtaq of Pakistan in the mid 1990s) involving spinning the ball from leg to off.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doosra Wikipedia entry]

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

'''Doppiatrice, La''' 
571;

'''Dottore''' 
252;

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

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

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

'''Dreamtime Movy''' 
450; The theater in which Merle Rideout picks up a job for a while. In the booth are many of the novel's overarching themes: the harnessing of light, the use of nitro in the film itself, a kind of alchemical transformation of the darkness. Fisk talks about "too much energy loose in that little room."

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

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

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

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

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

'''Dvindler''' 
713;

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

'''dynamite''' 
81;

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

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

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

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

'''Davis, Richard Harding''' 
591; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Harding_Davis Wikipedia entry]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''delirium''' 
41; comes from the Latin ''de'', meaning down or away from, and ''lira'', a furrow or track in the fields; that is, to be off the track, or out of the groove. See "The Crying of Lot 49", p. 128, Library Binding edition (1997): "She knew, because she had held him, that he suffered DT's. Behind the initials was a metaphor, a delirium tremens, a trembling unfurrowing of the mind's plowshare. The saint whose water can light lamps, the clairovoyant whose lapse in recall is the breath of God, the true paranoid for whom all is organized in spheres joyful or threatening about the central pulse of himself, the dreamer whose puns probe ancient fetid shafts and tunnels of truth all act in the same special relevance to the word, or whatever it is the word is there, buffering, to protect us from".

'''de Mérode''' 
544;

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

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

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

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

'''Designolle''' 
529;

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

'''Deuce''' 
See Kindred, Deuce

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Divine Walt''' 
492;

'''Divisionism''' 
584;

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

'''Doosra, The''' 
756; In cricket the 'doosra' (from Urdu, meaning 'the other one' or 'the second one') is a delivery bowled by an off-spinner. It is a relatively recent invention (by Saqlain Mushtaq of Pakistan in the mid 1990s) involving spinning the ball from leg to off.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doosra Wikipedia entry]

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

'''Doppiatrice, La''' 
571;

'''Dottore''' 
252;

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

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

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

'''Dreamtime Movy''' 
450; The theater in which Merle Rideout picks up a job for a while. In the booth are many of the novel's overarching themes: the harnessing of light, the use of nitro in the film itself, a kind of alchemical transformation of the darkness. Fisk talks about "too much energy loose in that little room."

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

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

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

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

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

'''Dvindler''' 
713;

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

'''dynamite''' 
81;

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