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Dan2: Dhmitris/Dimitrios in Smyrna

'''''dagga rooker''''' 
169; South African colloquial term for a person who smokes ''dagga'', a South African word for marijuana (''rooker'' is Afrikaans: smoker, pronounced ROW-kur);

'''Dahlia''' 
28; daughter of Merle Rideout, flaming red hair.

'''Dalmation revolutionists''' 
862;

'''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]

'''Darrow, Brother''' 
1058;

'''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; "dreamland of his death," 214; "is a region of metaphor" 230; "white riders of the borderline" 362; and the State, 372; counter-death, aka Chemistry, 372; "''momias''," i.e., "mummies," 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; and Time, 784; and self-similarity, 961; ghosts, 1023;

'''De Bottle, Coombs''' 
234; in Cheapside, London, 691; 935;

'''Decena Trágica''' 
994; ten-day battle in Mexico City;

'''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; his triode, 1036;

'''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).

'''Deliverance''' 
413;

'''Δ-t''' 
815; "a still-bracing Δt"

'''Deltchev, Gotse''' 
845; of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (I.M.R.O.)

'''de Mérode''' 
544;

'''Denza, Luigi (1846-1922)''' 
353; Italian composer, born in Castellammare di Stabia, Italy. He studied music under Saverio Mercadante and Paolo Serrao at the Naples Conservatory. Later, he moved to London and became a professor of singing at the Royal Academy of Music in 1898. Denza wrote an opera, ''Wallenstein'', and hundreds of songs. The most popular of these was the Neapolitan song ''Funiculì, Funiculà''; 741;

'''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; Parisian explosives specialist who came up with ''Designolle's Powder'', made at Bouchon, consisting of picrate of potash, saltpetre, and charcoal. It was made in three varieties, viz., for rifles, big guns, and torpedoes and shells. These powders are made much in the same way as gunpowder. The advantages claimed for them over gunpowder are, greater strength, comparative absence of smoke, and freedom from injurious action on the bores of guns.

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

'''Destiny'''
41; "'''Es mi destino, Pancho'''," 389;

'''Deuce''' 
See Kindred, Deuce

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

'''Devil''' 
212; upsidedown star; 226; "dust-devil," 434;

'''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".

'''Dhimitris''' 
846; Vesna's gangster boyfriend in Smyrna. In Eric Ambler's 1939 novel MASK OF DIMITRIOS (aka A COFFIN FOR DIMITRIOS) the eponymous criminal first comes to the notice of the authorities in Smyrna.

'''Dias, Felix''' 
994; Porfirio's nephew

'''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; 982; [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

'''Dime Novels''' 
5; 157; 398;

'''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

'''Ditters''' 
915; Heide's husband in ''The Burgher King'';

'''Divine Walt''' 
492; Whitman, not Disney;

'''Divisionism''' 
584;

'''Doddling''' 
1060; "old school spagyrist"; a spagyrist is a chemist, particularly one devoted to alchemistic pursuits. The spagyrists historically preceded the iatrochemists.

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

'''Dog Star Sirius''' 
901;

'''Dominico''' 
1072; flier friend of Kit's and Reef's

'''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; prophet in Taklamakan, 756;
[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; 756; mushrooms, 757; Hassan's ganja, 772-73; mushrooms, 788; hasheesh, 843; "Blackstuff" 846; ''hikuli'', 924;

'''Doppiatrice, La''' 
571;

'''Dora and Germane''' 
944; student volunteers in Professor Sleepcoat's party

'''Dorzhieff''' 
776; Tibetan Lama who was rumored to actually be Gurdjieff; and from [http://forum.skadi.net/otto_rahn_ss_mystic_grail_quester-t32997.html?s=d6d82b67e04b82e8c79454b35c865c61& this website]:

:A little before 1880 a young lama arrived in Lhasa. He had been born in Azochozki, on the shore of Lake Baikal in Siberia, of the Mongolian Buriat race. In Tibet he was known as Comang Lobzang, later called Khende-chega and later still Tsannyis Khan-po. Also known as Ngaku-wang-dorje and Akohwan Darjilikoff. In Russia he was known as Hambro Akvan Dorzhieff or Dorjieff. This latter name is a Russian verion of the Tibetan word for thunderbolt. On his arrival in Tibet as a young man he entered the Drepung monastery. After years of study he became professor of metaphysics.

:In 1898 he was sent back to Russia. He made futher trips back and forth and returned towards the end of 1901 with a draft treaty between Tibet and Russia. The British invaded Tibet in December 1904. Dorjieff disappeared but evidence that he returned to Tibet and was visited there by Karl Haushofer in 1903, 1905, 1906, 1907 and 1908. Haushofer went on to found the Thule group, which was moulded on similar esoteric Tibetan groups, studying the Stanzas of Dzyan, the cornerstone of Blavatsky's "Secret Doctrine". The Thule-Gesellschaft was instrumental in shaping the Nazi movement.

'''Dottore''' 
252;

'''Double Refraction''' 
387;

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

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

'''Dreams''' 
"at once dream-like and real," 36; "the voices of ice entered their dreams," 129; "not a dreamer in the lot," 141; "our cloud of self-deluding and dream," "Vain dream!" 145; 148; "dreamland of his death," 214; 250; 377; 379; 393; 418; "dreams of falling," 437; "maps begin as dreams," "Dreamtime Movy" (theater, see below), 450; Frank's of Estrella, 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; trade's "strenuous irrelevance to dream" 732; "territory unredeemed" 761; Halfcourt, of Yashmeen, 766; Kit's of stepping through the Prophet's Gate, 770; Fleetwood Vibe's, 791; Reef of Webb, 887; dream maps, 735; Frank Traverse's in Tenochtitlán; Deuce, 1054; Lake, 1055;

'''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;

'''Drulov, Jacintha''' 
822; "spritely young creature" aboard the ''John of Asia''; in Cetinje with Bevis Moistleigh, 847;

'''Duse, Eleanora (1858-1924)''' 
730; born in Vigevano, Italy, Duse entered acting (her family's profession) as a child. She came to fame in Italian versions of rôles made famous by Sarah Bernhardt. As an adult she toured Europe and America, and was particularly associated with the plays of Gabriele d'Annunzio. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanora_Duse Wikipedia entry]

'''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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