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2006-12-09T06:37:33Z

Bluemountain:

==Review aggregators==

:[http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/popus/pynchon.htm The Complete Review]

:[http://www.metacritic.com/books/authors/pynchonthomas/againsttheday Metacritic]

==Reviews==

'''Please add any relevant reviews as they come in. Blog reviews are acceptable as long as they're substantial and more than just a few paragraphs.'''

12/07/06 - '''[http://www.faz.net/s/Rub79A33397BE834406A5D2BFA87FD13913/Doc~EE48B15855A78439DA1BA2F70FE335DE9~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung]'''-Dietmar Dath: "Freiheit ist Vergangenheit"

12/08/06 - '''[http://pynchonwiki.com/wiki/mp3/nytpynpod.mp3 New York Times podcast discussion of ATD, provided by Toby G. Levy]'''

12/11/06 - '''[http://nymag.com/arts/books/reviews/24728/ New York Magazine]''' - Keith Gessen: "''Against the Day'' is exhausting, twisted, and paranoid. But that doesn’t mean Pynchon can’t also be fun."

12/7/06 - '''[http://www.villagevoice.com/books/0650,haskell,75247,10.html The Village Voice]''' - John Haskell: "The cloud of foreboding that hangs over this book is a fear, a Pynchonian paranoia, that the martial instincts of capitalism, having already corrupted Tesla's idea of free electricity, will come to control and limit the very act of thinking."

12/4/06 - '''[http://www.newstatesman.com/200612040051 New Statesman (UK))]''' - Rachel Aspden: "The deluge of science can blind us to the fact that he is, temperamentally, a mystic rather than a technician. He writes ''Against the Day'', but seeks what lies beyond or under or above the quotidian."

12/3/06 - '''[http://www.nypost.com/seven/12032006/entertainment/tom__duly_entertainment_quentin_rowan.htm New York Post]''' - Quentin Rowan: "Yet amid all the charms and expert entertainments and quizzical truths of ''Against the Day,'' there is little that sticks in the mind as involuntarily real, as having been other than intellectually achieved."

12/3/06 - '''[http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/entertainment/books/16147270.htm Miami Herald]''' - Ariel Gonzalez: "This is the sort of novel that is displayed on coffee tables by pseudo-intellectuals. But the water is warm enough to merit a toe-dipping, and who knows, you may then want to dive right in."

12/3/06 - '''[http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/entertainment/16134463.htm Kansas City Star]''' - Chris Packham: "...[W]ith Against the Day, Pynchon seems to be addressing the reader directly, without the evasive ironies of past work....With each successively more approachable novel, Pynchon suggests more hopeful possibilities. Or seems to."

12/2/06 - '''[http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20061202.BKPYNC02/TPStory/Entertainment The Globe and Mail (CA)]''' - Greg Hollingshead: "The development from ''Gravity's Rainbow'' to ''Against the Day'' has not been so much organic as a translation to another version, at another time. The result remains extraordinary, but it's at once darker and paler, and less substantial."

12/2/06 - '''[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,923-2480352,00.html The Times (UK)]''' - Douglas Kennedy: "Certainly, Pynchon’s new novel displays, for all to see, his “lost in the funhouse” narrative proclivities, his intellectual super-nova fireworks and his delight in the arcane, the base, the idiotic."

12/1/06 - '''[http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/books/reviews/4372349.html Houston Chronicle]''' - Terrence Doody: "It is a messy omnium gatherum rather than the summa theologica that at least I was hoping for....Even Homer nods, they say, and Pynchon's gotten slack and sleepy here."

12/1/06 - '''[http://www.ft.com/cms/s/9415c2b4-8040-11db-9096-0000779e2340.html Financial Times (UK)]''' - Ludovic Hunter-Tilney: "There remains much to admire in the workings of his singularly brilliant literary consciousness, but the suspicion remains that Pynchon’s self-removal from public life now extends to the page."

12/1/06 - '''[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15996230/site/newsweek/ Newsweek Pt. III]''' - Malcom Jones: "Thomas Pynchon’s latest novel is long, densely plotted, long, silly, profound, long—everything most modern novels aren’t—and yet it still works."

12/1/06 - '''[http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/bookreviews/061201/ Chicago Reader]''' - Jonathan Rosenbaum: "The momentary pleasures of reading ''Against the Day'' often come close to seeming random, and reconciling the book's larger aims with all the jazzy improvs is no easy matter -- though that's what Pynchon's game is all about."

12/06-1/07 - '''[http://www.bookforum.net/leclair.html Bookforum]''' - Tom LeClair: "I hope some future scholar will read the novel twenty times and
either illustrate how it recapitulates the whole history of narrative or demonstrate how every piece fits together into a fourfold design that will replace four-base genetics as a model of all life."

11/29/06 - '''[http://tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25339-2477997,00.html The Times Literary Supplement (UK)]''' - Sophie Ratcliffe: "This is not to say Pynchon suggests any solution. What he does is highlight how invisible our claims for salvation are, thus disturbing all the familiar comforts they might offer, including the comforts of the novel’s structure. This gets its clearest exposition in his handling of the relentlessly optimistic airborne crew at the novel’s end."

11/28/06 - '''[http://www.ew.com/ew/article/review/book/0,6115,1560896_5_0_,00.html Entertainment Weekly]''' - Ken Tucker: "Beyond his literary accomplishments, this wily 69-year-old's work has influenced, consciously or unconsciously, much of our pop culture, from ''Lost'' to ''The Matrix'' to ''Arrested Development'' to ''Lemony Snicket'' (for what are the Baudelaire children but grimmer Chums of Chance?)."

11/27/06 - '''[http://www.scifi.com/sfw/books/column/sfw14197.html Sci Fi Weekly]''' - John Clute: "The hundreds of figures who jam into ''Against the Day'' are not in fact characters at all, because Pynchon has evacuated his book of that degree of hope. They are ''utterands'': people-shaped utterances who illuminate the stories of the old world that their Author has placed before us in funeral array; they are codes to spell his book with."

11/26/06 - '''[http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20061126/news_mz1v26day.html San Diego Union-Tribune]''' - James Leigh: "Pynchon's books are hugely entertaining; they are also without question heroic attempts to deal with our whole world, and ''Against the Day'' may well be his best yet."

11/26/06 - '''[http://living.scotsman.com/books.cfm?id=1751072006 The Scotsman (UK), Scotland on Sunday]''' - Stuart Kelly: "It is, in places, a raggedy, meandering novel....You might as well complain that a Jackson Pollock painting is a bit splattery, or that Miles Davis sounds a little improvised."

11/26/06 - '''[http://www.projo.com/books/content/BOOK-PYNCHON_11-26-06_K02SPUI.2799ad7.html Providence Journal]''' - Sam Coale: "This is Pynchon’s nightmarish vision of hell, peopled by predatory capitalists, eager anarchists, and stray ghosts. Pynchon imagines a world run amuck. And it is awesome."

11/26/06 - '''[http://www.oregonlive.com/entertainment/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/entertainment/1164056114252360.xml&coll=7 The Oregonian]''' - Richard Melo: "With a writer as publicity-shy as Pynchon, there is no way if with this novel he is calling it a day. If he is, then he's going out with a bang louder than an obliterating asteroid screaming across the Siberian sky."

11/26/06 - '''[http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/generalfiction/0,,1956983,00.html The Observer (UK)]''' - David Gale: "None of this detracts from the unique pleasures of a mighty novel that will delight Pynchonians and seduce newcomers....The scale of the novel induces memory loss but as with balloon flight, or fever, the return to terra firma is accompanied by feelings of wise, wide contentment."

11/26/06 - '''[http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/article2016608.ece The Independent (UK]''' - Tim Martin: "Against the Day is a startlingly discontinuous novel, a work of full-spectrum intelligence and erudition that is at times bafflingly tiresome and ungenerous to the reader....Something in it will mean something important to almost anybody. But the parts make a chaotic whole."

11/26/06 - '''[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/26/books/review/Schillinger.t.html New York Times] (Sunday book review)''' - Liesl Schillinger: "In ''Against the Day,'' Pynchon’s voice seems uncharacteristically earnest. He interrupts his narrative from time to time to lay down pronouncements that, taken together, probably constitute the fullest elaboration of his philosophy yet seen in print."

11/25/06 - '''[http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/generalfiction/0,,1956362,00.html The Guardian (UK)]''' - James Lasdun: "...the book itself has no particular reason to end where it does, other than perhaps the adhesive limits of book-binding glue."

11/25/06 - '''[http://living.scotsman.com/books.cfm?id=1746102006 The Scotsman]''' - Tom Adair: "...a gaze that holds you in its grip for a thousand pages. Quite a feat."

11/24/06 - '''[http://spectatorpynchon.blogspot.com/ The Spectator (UK)]''' - Sam Leith: "It is virtuoso nonsense; it is a giant shaggy dog story, serious as history; it is by turns mind-crushingly tedious and utterly exhilarating; it is remorselessly facetious and yet deeply moving."

11/24/06 - '''[http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=534435 Milwaukee Sentinel Journal]''' - Mike Fischer: "Ever since ''V.'' rocked the literary world in 1963, Pynchon has sought this crest with a single-minded intensity unmatched by any American writer since Melville. ''Against the Day,'' his brilliant new novel, gets him there."

11/23/06 - '''[http://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/books/article.html?in_article_id=26438&in_page_id=28 Metro (UK)]''' - Robert Murphy: "...the novel is longer than even Pynchon's energies can justify but nonetheless, it is an unmistakable masterpiece."

11/22/06 - '''[http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061211/leonard/ The Nation]''' - John Leonard: "It's a Perils of Pauline plot as pulpy and fibrous, as gnarly and pantophagic, as a thicket of bamboo."

11/21/06 - '''[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15841357/site/newsweek/ Newsweek Pt. II]''' - Malcom Jones: "Now halfway through, the reviewer knows the new Thomas Pynchon novel is full of doubles, an ocean liner that morphs into a destroyer and the kind of detail that's only fun if you slow down and enjoy it."

11/21/06 - '''[http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6393529.html Library Journal]''' - Barbara Hoffert: "Brilliant if sometimes exasperating, Pynchon's latest is highly recommended for any library that takes its fiction seriously, with the warning that it does not yield easy pleasures and should not be read on deadline."

11/21/06 - '''[http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/john_crace/2006/11/gravitys_author_just_got_heavi.html The Guardian/Comment Is Free (UK)]''' - John Crace: "You can read it or you can weigh it. My guess is that most people will opt for the latter."

11/21/06 - '''[http://www.salon.com/books/review/2006/11/21/pynchon/index_np.html Salon]''' - Laura Miller: "[I]t's obvious [Pynchon's] disciples now write better Big Idea novels than he does."

11/20/06 - '''[http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Nov06/Jacobs20.htm Dissident Voice'''] - Ron Jacobs: "Despite the bleakness of the times that these tales are told, an indomitable beauty resides within them, thanks in large part to the characters Mr. Pynchon creates, the stories that they live, and the approach to the telling by the author."

11/20/06 - '''[http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=ab6WLEn2ciGU&refer=muse Bloomberg News]''' - Craig Seligman: "...I felt like an exhausted swimmer crawling onto the far shore of a body of water that turned out to be even wider than it looked. And like the swimmer, I remember more about the effort than the scenery I passed along the way."

11/20/06 - '''[http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/reviews/2006-11-20-thomas-pynchon_x.htm USA Today]''' - Bob Minzesheimer: "Falling into a novel can be like enjoying a weekend trip to a place you've never been. Against the Day is more like going away for a month, getting lost on your way there and back, returning exhausted, but with bags full of stories."

11/20/06 - '''[http://www.themodernword.com/reviews/pynchon_atd.html The Modern Word]''' - Allen Ruch: "[F]or those willing to suspend disbelief and leave the ground behind, Pynchon’s great Inconvenience proves to be one hell of a ride."

11/20/06 - '''[http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/articles/061127crbo_books New Yorker]''' - Louis Menand: "[W]ith this one there is the feeling that the magician has fallen in love with his own stunts, as though Pynchon were composing a pastiche of a Pynchon novel."

11/20/06 - '''[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/20/books/20kaku.html New York Times]''' - Michiko Kakutani: "It is a humongous, bloated jigsaw puzzle of a story, pretentious without being provocative, elliptical without being illuminating, complicated without being rewardingly complex." (Written by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michiko_Kakutani Michiko Kakutani], so let the reader ''definitely'' beware!)

11/19/06 - '''[http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/entertainment/16037282.htm Philadelphia Inquirer]''' - Carlin Romano: "''Positive adjectives:'' Audacious, bodacious, entropic, synoptic, electric, eclectic, entertaining, hyperbraining, high-roller, tripolar. ''Negative adjectives:'' Rambling, shambling, self-indulgent, non-refulgent, overlong, full-of-bad-song, seriously scattered, plainly mad-hattered."

11/19/06 - '''[http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/1163842776251970.xml&coll=2 Cleveland Plain-Dealer]''' - Jean Dubail: " All I can say is that the novel ends the way a Shakespearean comedy does, in which a measure of happiness redeems much of the horror and heartache that precede it. So, is the book worth the trouble? It was for me, but I'm a Pynchon fan, and bafflement comes with the territory."

11/19/06 - '''[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/16/AR2006111601252.html Washington Post]''' - Steven Moore: “Pynchon fans will accept this gift from the author with gratitude, but I’m not so sure about mainstream readers.”

11/19/06 - '''[http://www.calendarlive.com/books/bookreview/cl-bk-sorrentino19nov19,0,3649673.htmlstory?coll=cl-books-features Los Angeles Times]''' - Christopher Sorrentino: “A book this long that amazes even 50% of the time is amazing.”

11/19/06 - '''[http://www.statesman.com/life/content/life/stories/books/11/19/19pynchon.html Austin American-Statesman]''' - Roger Gathman: "Forget it, fellow Pynchonians. [Against the Day] isn’t “Gravity’s Rainbow II.” That time, that place and that writer won’t ever come together again.”

11/19/06 - '''[http://www.newsday.com/features/booksmags/ny-bkcov4977785nov19,0,7633389.story?coll=ny-bookreview-headlines Newsday]''' - Scott McLemee: "[A] novel as exhilarating, tiresome, unnerving and exhausting as all the others put together.”

11/19/06 - '''[http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2006/11/19/inspired_chaos/?page=full Boston Globe]''' - Mark Feeney: "There's a bop electricity to Pynchon: the furious tempos and difficult harmonies, the maverick stance and hipster attitude....[M]aybe another Pynchon novel? If one comes, let it be as rich and sweeping, wild and thrilling, as this one."

11/17/06 - '''[http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/artsentertainment/2003433850_pynchon19.html Seattle Times]''' - John Freeman: "It's like dropping a penny into an open manhole — the novel simply swallows the time and asks for more. And yet, Pynchon does reward the effort."

11/17/06 - '''[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15771953/site/newsweek/ Newsweek Pt. I]''' - Malcom Jones: "But you’ve got to understand that this novelistic mountain we’re climbing, well, I’ve never been to the top either. Just a reminder. Stay tuned. Next time: are Thomas Pynchon and Bob Dylan the same person? "

11/16/06 - '''[http://www.timeout.com/newyork/Details.do?page=1&xyurl=xyl://TONYWebArticles1/581/books/against_the_day.xml Time Out New York]''' - Joshua Rothkopf: "Pynchon’s gift for language remains undiminished, a roiling, imaginative flood that makes his voice utterly unique, and his latest a must-read."

11/15/06 - '''[http://www.nysun.com/article/43545 New York Sun]''' - Adam Kirsch: "The silliness of "Against the Day" about the very subjects where we are most urgently in quest of wisdom proves that, whatever he once was, Thomas Pynchon is no longer the novelist we need."

11/14/06 - '''[http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/popus/pynchon.htm The Complete Review]''': "[I]mpressive in its parts, but near confounding as a whole."

11/14/06 - '''[http://www.thephoenix.com/article_ektid27434.aspx The Phoenix]''' - Peter Keough: “Undaunted in the past by the big questions that bug a guy, he here takes on, in addition to the elusive quality of light... time travel, multiple universes, the death struggle between anarchism and capitalism, the dance of order and chaos.”

11/13/06 - '''[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1558326-1,00.html Time]''' - Richard Lacayo: “More than in any of Pynchon’s previous books, just what it all means is a problem in Against the Day, where plots and ideas and fantastic developments pile up in exhausting profusion.”

11/3/06 - '''[http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/paper_earlyatd.html The Modern Word]''' (first impressions): "It seems like the logical evolution/conclusion to Pynchon’s career as a prose experimentalist."

10/24/06 - '''[http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6384205.html?rssid=105 Publisher's Weekly]''': "[R]eads like half a dozen books duking it out for his, and the reader’s, attention. Most of them shine with a surreal incandescence, but even Pynchon fans may find their fealty tested now and again."

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2006-11-24T15:53:55Z

Bluemountain:

'''L.&O.L.''' 
649;

'''labor unions''' 
43; 50; Western Federation of Miners, 92; 98; St. Petersburg Strike, 595;

'''La Foam, Happy Jack''' 
477; local pharmicist in Wall o' Death; 485;

'''Lafrisée, Pléiade''' 
537; ''sphinxe Khnopffiene'' in Kursaal in Ostend; with Woevre, 560; Fernand Edmond Jean Marie Khnopff (1858-1921) was a Belgian symbolist painter. A sphinx is a mythical creature with the head of a human (or bird) and the body of a cat; A ''sphinxe Khnopffiene'' would then be someone cat-like in the style of Khnopff [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernand_Khnopff Wikipedia entry];

[[image:khnopff.jpg|center|thumb|500px|''The Caress'', Khnopff's most famous painting]]

'''Lambert, Joe''' 
283; shot by Hair-Trigger Bob

'''Laplacian''' 
239; bar in Cambridge;

'''Lard Scandal of the '80s, the great''' 
406; there actually ''was'' a lard scandal during the Taft Administration, in 1912;

'''lateener''' 
250; a ship rigged with a lateen which is a triangular sail, suspended by a long yard at an angle of 45° to the mast.

'''Latewood, Cyprian''' 
489; [[Cambridge Apostles|"embryo Apostlet"]], a sod (short for "sodomite", i.e., gay man) at Cambridge; to Trieste, 705; talking gibberish, 713;

'''"laying on tells"''' 
218; God, in poker game; "tells" are gestures or words by a player that give away the value of his/her hand;

'''League of Prizren''' 
653; created on June 10, 1878 in a mosque in Prizren, Kosovo, by 300 Albanian nationalist leaders, mostly from Kosovo, Albania, Western part of former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and Muslim leaders from Bosnia-Hercegovina and the Sandzak, in order to achieve an autonomous Albanian state, representing the former Ottoman vilayets of Shkodër or Skutari centered near Montenegro, the Illyria region, the Chameria region, Janina or Janjevo centered in Northern Epirus, Bitola in Republic of Macedonia and Kosovo; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Prizren Wikipedia entry]

'''Lee, Tom''' 
339; his "tong, the On Leong"

'''Leghorn strawhats''' 
42;

'''Leonard and Lyle''' 
441; "oil prospectors" in Sandman Saloon

'''Leopold''' 
528; King of the Belgians; 543;

'''Levi''' 
473; Hope Kindred's husband

'''Levi, Eliphaz (1810-1875)''' 
232; or Eliphas; pseudonym of French occultist and magician Alphonse Louis Constant. Levi incorporated the Tarot cards into his magical system, and as a result the Tarot has been an important part of the paraphernalia of Western magicians. He had a deep impact on the magic of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and later Aleister Crowley (who believed himself to be the reincarnation of Levi), and it was largely through this impact that Lévi is remembered as one of the key founders of the twentieth century revival of magic; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abb%C3%A9_Constant Wikipedia entry]

'''Lieutenants of Industry Scholarship Program''' 
100;

'''light''' 
59; "corner light" 61; 62; electric v. gas in London, 232; 431; 437-38; and film, 451; its future, in California, 456; counter-light, 581; 687-88;

'''lightning''' 
72; sentient ball lightning, 72;

'''Lincrusta-Walton''' 
610; Lincrusta is an embossed fabric used for covering walls, similar in style to anaglypta. It was invented by Frederick Walton in 1877 and is also called Lincrusta-Walton or Lincrusta Walton. It was designed to emulate more expensive materials and hence be more oriented to a mass market. These materials were used to enrich the interiors of late Victorian architecture and now used for historic restoration projects.

'''lines of force''' 
55; 122;

'''Little Egypt''' 
26; at the Chicago World's Fair; 29; Little Egypt was the stage name for two popular exotic dancers, Ashea Wabe who danced at the Seeley banquet at the 1893 World's Fair and Farida Mazar Spyropoulos, also performing under the stage name Fatima, appeared at the "Street in Cairo" exhibition on the Midway at the World's Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Egypt_(dancer) Wikipedia entry]; [[Little_Egypt|And then there was that song by The Coasters...]]

[[image:goose-girl.jpg|thumb|Little Goose-Girls Statue in Göttingen|right]]'''little goose-girl statue''' 
597; in Göttingen;

'''Little Hellkite''' 
76; mine in Colorado

'''''Little Nemo''''' 
352; Little Nemo is the main fictional character in a series of weekly comic strips by Winsor McCay (1871-1934) that appeared in the New York Herald and William Randolph Hearst's New York American newspapers from October 15, 1905—April 23, 1911 and April 30, 1911—1913; respectively; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Nemo Wikipedia entry]

'''Loafsley, "Plug"''' 
397; "street-Arab" who delivers note to Chums of Chance

'''Lobatchevskian''' 
453; function worked up by Vectorists and Quaternionists; named for the Russian mathematician Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (1792-1856) who developed non-Euclidean geometry; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Ivanovich_Lobachevsky Wikipedia entry]

'''Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph (1851-1940)''' 
58; Born at Penkhull near Stoke-on-Trent and educated at Adams' Grammar School, Sir Oliver Lodge was a physicist and writer involved in the development of the wireless telegraph; 228; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Lodge Wikipedia entry]

'''Lois''' 
468; little girl in Mayva's ice-cream parlor, Cone Amor

'''Lollipop Lounge''' 
398; personal headquarters of Plug - a "child bordello"

'''Lombroso, Dr. Cesare (1835-1909)''' 
172; Born in Verona, Italy, Dr. Lombroso, using concepts drawn from Physiognomy, early Eugenics, Psychiatry and Social Darwinism, devised the theory that criminality was inherited, and that the born criminal could be identified by physical defects, which confirmed a criminal as savage, or atavistic; 252; 606; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Lombroso Wikipedia entry]

'''Longfellow''' 
536;

'''Lorelei''' 
493; blond at Cambridge

'''Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon (1853-1928)''' 
565; Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and elucidation of the Zeeman effect. In 1895 in an attempt to explain the Michelson-Morley experiment, Lorentz proposed that moving bodies contract in the direction of motion ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Length_contraction see length contraction]; George FitzGerald had already arrived at this conclusion, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FitzGerald-Lorentz_Contraction see FitzGerald-Lorentz Contraction]). He introduced the term local time which expresses the relativity of simultaneity between reference frames in relative motion; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrik_Lorentz Wikipedia entry]

'''Lost City''' 
435;

'''Lottchen''' 
621; girl at chloro party in Göttingen;

'''Louis XV''' 
544;

'''Lowry, Nellie''' 
60; Blinky Morgan's "lady friend"

'''Lübeck''' 
520; City in northern Germany at the Baltic sea

'''Lucia''' 
246; waitress in Osteria in San Polo;

'''Luigi''' 
446;

'''Lupita's''' 
286; in Telluride, "where the menudo can't be beat"

'''Lutine''' 
122;

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