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'''Hamilton had experienced at Brougham Bridge''' 
William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865)was an Irish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer who made important contributions to the development of optics, dynamics, and algebra. His discovery of quaternions is perhaps his best known investigation. 

The discovery of quaternions reportedly occurred during a walk with his wife by the Royal Canal in Dublin. Upon having the inspiration for the formula, he promptly carved it into the bricks on the side of the canal. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rowan_Hamilton Wikipedia entry]

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'''blindness at the heart of a diamond''' 
This enigmatic imagery is reflected (no pun intended) in a few references: 

"where the light came down sifted through so many emerald screens that it was as flawless as the heart of a diamond. " (''Anne of Green Gables'', Chapt. 15, by Lucy Maud Montgomery) 

"It was a singularly sharp night, and clear as the heart of a diamond."'' A Story that is Untrue'' by Ambrose Bierce 

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'''my harmless little intraterrestrial scherzo''' 
Once again, the unseen narrator appears. By inference, the narrator is also the author of the various Chums of Chance... books referenced in ATD.

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'''Hamilton had experienced at Brougham Bridge''' 
William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865)was an Irish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer who made important contributions to the development of optics, dynamics, and algebra. His discovery of quaternions is perhaps his best known investigation. 

The discovery of quaternions reportedly occurred during a walk with his wife by the Royal Canal in Dublin. Upon having the inspiration for the formula, he promptly carved it into the bricks on the side of the canal. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rowan_Hamilton Wikipedia entry]

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'''blindness at the heart of a diamond''' 
This enigmatic imagery is reflected (no pun intended) in a few references: 

"where the light came down sifted through so many emerald screens that it was as flawless as the heart of a diamond. " (Anne of Green Gables Chapt. 15 by Lucy Maud Montgomery) 

"It was a singularly sharp night, and clear as the heart of a diamond." A Story that is Untrue by Ambrose Bierce

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==Added Annotation by Page==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Change of logo/cover image==

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

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

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

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

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

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'''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] Also a 1961 [[Little_Egypt|song]] by the Coasters.

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'''''Imbottigliata!''''' Italian for "bottled"?

'''Dahlia Rideout''' 
A child who drinks and the unexpectedly sexual nature of her father and Chick's discussion of her recall Bianca from ''Gravity's Rainbow,'' another child given certain adult characteristics.

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'''a l'étouffée''' 
French, meaning a dish fried in a pan. So, pan-fried alligator meat.

'''Khartoum... Mahdi's army... Oltre Giubba, instead of down in Alex''' 
Khartoum is the capital of Sudan. The Mahdi army was an Islamic group in the 1880s that advocated a return to strict Islamic values and battled with the government of Khartoum and Egyptian armies. More on these convoluted events at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Sudan_(1884-1898) Wikipedia entry].

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'''kazoos''' 
This silly instrument appears in many (all?) Pynchon novels.

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'''Kinsley's''' 
A famous steakhouse at 105-107 Adams St. in downtown Chicago. The building was erected in 1885.

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'''Packer's Inn''' 
31;

'''Paco''' 
375; trumpet player

'''Padzhitnoff, Igor ("Padzy")''' 
123; Randolph St. Cosmo's "mysterious Russian counterpart"

'''''Palacio del Cristal, El''''' 
378; in Guanajuato;

'''Palmer House''' 
30;

'''pantechnicon''' 
611;

'''Paramorphoscope''' 
435; 436; ''paramorfico'', 568; used to view map of Shambhala, 609;

'''Paranoia''' 
33; "counter-transformer" 34; 54; 94; "Something" 132; 180; paranoia querulans ([[Paranoia Querulans|litigious paranoia]]), 455; Ostend as "western anchors of a continental system" 567; "silent army of operatives" from Hell, 586; 624; 681;

'''Paris Commune''' 
372;

'''Parry, Hubert''' 
49; Blake's ''Jerusalem'' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Parry Wikpedia Entry]

'''Patio Method''' 
374; silver extraction method

'''Pearl Street''' 
333; location of Vibe Corp.

'''Peary, Robert Edwin (1856-1920)''' 
149; Peary was an American explorer who claimed to have been the first person, on April 6, 1909, to reach the geographic North Pole; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Peary Wikipedia entry]

'''''pelota'' games''' 
7; Pelota (in Basque and Catalan, pilota; in French pelote, from Latin pila) is a name for a variety of court sports played with a ball using one's hand, a racket, a wooden bat (pala), or a basket propulsor, against a wall (frontón in Spanish, frontoi in Basque, frontó in Catalan) or, more traditionally, with two teams face to face separated by a line on the ground or a net.

'''Penhallow, Constance''' 
127; Iceland spar magnates, in Iceland

'''Penhallow, Hunter''' 
127; grandson of Constance; witnessing Tunguska, 154; "English painter type" 575; one of the Trespassers? 576; switch to nocturnes, 580;

'''''permanent siege''''' 
19;

'''perpetual-motion machine''' 
6; Perpetual motion refers to a condition in which an object continues to move indefinitely without being driven by an external source of energy. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_motion Wikipedia entry]

'''Peter and Paul Fortress''' 
595; in Russia

'''''pétroleurs'' of Paris''' 
19;

'''P.E.T.N.''' 
182; PETN (''Pentaerythritol Tetranitrate'', also known as ''Penthrite'') is one of the strongest known high explosives, with a relative effectiveness factor (R.E. factor) of 1.66. It is more sensitive to shock or friction than TNT or tetryl, and it is never used alone as a booster; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PETN Wikipedia entry]

'''Peychaud, Monsieur''' 
368; It is said that the Sazerac drink was invented by Antoine Amadie Peychaud, a Creole apothecary who moved to New Orleans from the West Indies and set up shop in the French Quarter in the early 1800s. He dispensed a proprietary mix of aromatic bitters from an old family recipe, to relieve the ails of his clients (Peychaud's Bitters are still made in New Orleans and sold today, and are an essential component of any truly complete bar), and around the 1830s he became famous for a toddy he made for his friends. It consisted of French brandy mixed with his secret blend of bitters, a splash of water and a bit of sugar. According to legend he served his drink in the large end of an egg cup that was called a coquetier in French, and some say that the Americanized pronunciation of this as "cocktail" gave this type of drink its name (unlikely as that may be); ([http://www.gumbopages.com/food/beverages/sazerac.html From The Gumbo Pages. Read on...])

'''Philippe''' 
655; in Swiss Alps, drilling with Reef; alumnus of Petit Roquette child's prison, 658;

'''Philosopher's Stone''' 
77; The philosopher's stone, in Latin ''philosophi lapis'', is a legendary substance that supposedly could turn inexpensive metals such as lead into gold ("chrysopoeia") and/or create an elixir that would make humans younger, thus delaying death. It was a longtime "holy grail" of Western alchemy; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosopher's_stone Wikipedia entry]

'''Philosophic Mercury''' 
77; Mercury minus "everything not essential"

'''Piggot's''' 
678;

'''Pigs''' 
"pigs can fly" 427; "'''P'''itch '''I'''ntegrity '''G'''uard" 421;

'''Pike's Peak''' 
112;

'''Pinkerton, Allan (1819-1884)''' 
43; Allan Pinkerton was a U.S. detective and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton Agency, the first detective agency.; "The Unsleeping Eye" 51; 112; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Pinkerton Wikipedia entry]

'''''Plafond Luminex''''' 
687;

'''plasmic hysteresis''' 
555;

'''P.L.M.''' 
381;

'''''podpol'niki''''' 
663; "underground men" in Russia

'''Polo, Marco (1254-1324)''' 
432; the Venetian, greatest of medieval travellers. Venetian genealogies and traditions of uncertain value trace the Polo family to Sebenico in Dalmatia, and before the end of the 11th century one Domenico Polo is found in the great council of the republic (1094). But the ascertained line of the traveller begins only with his grandfather.

Polo was the first traveller to trace a route across the whole longitude of Asia, naming and describing kingdom after kingdom which he had seen; the first to speak of the new and brilliant court which had been established at Peking; the first to reveal China in all its wealth and vastness, and to tell of the nations on its borders; the first to tell more of Tibet than its name, to speak of Burma, of Laos, of Siam, of Cochin-China, of Japan, of Java, of Sumatra and of other islands of the archipelago, of the Nicobar and Andaman Islands, of Ceylon and its sacred peak, of India but as a country seen and partially explored; the first in medieval times to give any distinct account of the secluded Christian Empire of Abyssinia, and of the semi-Christian island of Sokotra, and to speak, however dimly, of Zanzibar, and of the vast and distant Madagascar; whilst he carries us also to the remotely opposite region of Siberia and the Arctic shores, to speak of dog-sledges, white bears and reindeerriding Tunguses; [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Marco_Polo From the 11th Edition of the Encyclopedia Brittanica]; 569;

'''Ponghill, Brad''' 
174; youngest brother of Burke

'''Ponghill, Buddy''' 
174; brother of Burke

'''Ponghill, Burke''' 
172; Editor of the ''Lodazal Weekly Tidings''

'''''Poussin''''' 
590;

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

'''Prandtl''' 
603; discovery of boundary layer

'''Priest, Judas''' 
656;

'''Prime Number Theorem''' 
590;

'''''Princess Casamassima, The''''' 
6; an Italian Romance; ''The Princess Casamassima'' is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in ''The Atlantic Monthly'' in 1885-1886 and then as a book in 1886. It is the story of an intelligent but confused young London bookbinder, Hyacinth Robinson, who becomes involved in radical politics and a terrorist assassination plot. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Princess_Casamassima Wikipedia entry]

'''Privett, Nate''' 
24; White City Investigations, 43; in Denver, 179;

'''Propaganda of Deed''' 
81; Propaganda of the deed is an anarchist doctrine that promotes the practical application of anarchist ideas in hopes that such actions will set an example and inspire others. A violent variant of the concept was popular around the world in the late 19th century. According to the 19th century take, it was thought that a spectacular action, such as a political assassination, would ignite a revolutionary fervor among the working classes. Peter Kropotkin, an early proponent of propaganda by the deed, wrote that "A single deed is better propaganda than a thousand pamphlets." [http://www.infoshop.org/wiki/index.php/Propaganda_of_the_deed From the InfoShop Open Wiki]

'''Provecho, Dwayne''' 
379; in cell with Frank Traverse and Ewball; in Mexico, 642;

'''Provenance, Wren''' 
anthropologist...922;

'''Pugnax''' 
5; (Latin: ''pugnax'' = fond of fighting) sentient canine aboard ''The Inconvenience''; 17; Also, there's a bird called the Ruff (''Philomachus pugnax'') which is a medium-sized wader; cuisine, 111; 143; Buddha nature, 412; "sophisticated defensive system" 550;

'''Pullman Strike''' 
177;

'''Pythagoras''' 
500; Pythagoreans, 633;

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'''Kabbalists''' 
227; the "Tree of Life" tattoo-ed on Eskimoff; 318;

'''Kaffirs''' 
169; "Kaffir" was used in English and Dutch, from the 16th century to the early 20th century as a blanket term for several different peoples of southern Africa. Outside this limited historical context, the word is used today only as a derogatory and offensive term of abuse; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaffir_%28Historical_usage_in_southern_Africa%29 Wikipedia entry]

'''Kailash, Mt.''' 
437; a mountain located in far western Tibet that over 22,000 feet. It is the world's most venerated holy place but also the least visited. The sacred site of four religions, fewer than a thousand people make pilgrimage to Kalish every year--the only way to get there is by all-terrain vehicle, and the journey takes weeks, as no planes, trains or buses travel in the region. Mythologically, Kalish is the Axis Mundi, the center and birth place of the world.

'''Kaiser Wilhelm''' 
367; hair pomade;

'''Kali''' 
709; goddess with a long and complex history in Hinduism (although sometimes presented in the West as dark and violent). Her earliest history as a figure of annihilation still has some influence, while more complex Tantric beliefs sometimes extend her role so far as to be the Ultimate Reality and Source of Being; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali Wikipedia entry]

'''Kanuni''' 
653; ancient code of conduct in Albania

'''Kashgar''' 
676; an oasis city in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashgar Wikipedia entry]

'''Katie''' 
337; waitress in Yew York City restaurant, Schultz's Vegetarian Brauhaus, from Chillicothe, Ohio; aspiring actress, 338;

'''Katie bar the door''' 
8; The phrase "Katie bar the door!" (also as "Katie bar the gate!"; sometimes written as Katy) is a very American exclamation, more common in the South than elsewhere, meaning that disaster impends—“watch out”, “get ready for trouble” or “a desperate situation is at hand”. [http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-kat1.htm From WorldWideWords.org]

'''Keeley Cure''' 
Devised by Leslie Keeley, this was a proprietary system of treatment for the alcohol and opium habits. The Keeley Cure was a forerunner of certain measures adopted by Alcoholics Anonymous. Relying heavily on injections of Bichloride of Gold (a chemical impossibility), it was so well-known in its day that several popular songs, such as an Irish comic song, entitled "The Keeley Cure," parodied it unmercifully. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Keeley More on Wikipedia]

'''Kellner''' 
525;

'''Kennedy, John Fitzgerald''' 
626; "Ich bin ein Berliner" ("I am a citizen of Berlin") is a famous quotation from a June 26, 1963 speech of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in West Berlin. He was underlining the support of the United States for democratic West Germany shortly after the Soviet-supported Communist state of East Germany erected the Berlin Wall as a barrier to prevent movement between East and West. There is an urban myth that he should have said "Ich bin Berliner" ("I am from Berlin") and that by adding the article "ein" ("a"), he was a non-human Berliner; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ich_bin_ein_Berliner More about this at Wikipedia]

'''Kensington Sid''' 
602;

'''Kepler''' 
115;

'''Khan, Jenghiz''' 
439; in Nuovo Rialto

'''Khartoum''' 
29;

'''Khäutsch, Max''' 
47; a captain in the Trabants, and field chief of K&K Special Security, who had "proven himself useful at home as an assassin"; 679;

'''Kieselguhr Kid''' 
171; "notorious dynamiter of the San Juans"; Dynamite, a blasting explosive, was invented in 1867 by Alfred P. Nobel by mixing nitroglycerin with '''kieselguhr''', a porous silica-containing earth, in proportions that left an essentially dry and granular material, producing a solid that was resistant to shock but readily explodable by heat or sudden impact; Webb Traverse?, 214; 361; 370; Frank Traverse, 382;

'''Kimura, Mr. Shunkichi''' 
29; 318; translated Tsurigane into English, 532; 567;

'''Kindred, Deuce''' 
193; hired by mine owners to kill Webb Traverse; 261; and Lake Traverse, 260; on the move with Lake, 472;

'''Kindred, Hope''' 
473; Deuce's sister;

'''Kinsley's''' 
49; Famous Restaurant at 105-107 Adams St.;

'''Kipling, Rudyard (1895-1936)''' 
227; "The Great Game"; a British author and poet, born in India, and best known today for his children's books, his poems, and his many short stories; "The Great Game," a term usually attributed to Arthur Conolly, was used to describe the rivalry and strategic conflict between the British Empire and the Tsarist Russian Empire for supremacy in Central Asia. Kipling popularized the term in his novel ''Kim''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling Wikipedia entry]

'''Kipperville''' 
348; "Saturday night in..."

'''Klein, Felix (1849-1925)''' 
324; German mathematician, known for his work in group theory, function theory, non-Euclidean geometry, and on the connections between geometry and group theory. His 1872 Erlangen Program, classifying geometries by their underlying symmetry groups, was a hugely influential synthesis of much of the mathematics of the day. He was appointed lecturer at Göttingen in early 1871; 565; 593; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Klein Wikipedia entry]

'''Klu Klux Klan ("KKK")''' 
7; the name of a number of past and present fraternal organizations in the United States that have advocated white supremacy, anti-Semitism, racism, anti-Catholicism, homophobia, and nativism; 178; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klu_Klux_Klan Wikipedia entry]

'''Knott, Professor''' 
531; from the Imperial University of Japan

'''Kovalevskaia, Sofia 
500; Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (also known as Sonia Kovalevsky) (1850-1891) was the first major Russian female mathematician and a student of Karl Weierstrass in Berlin. In 1884, she was appointed professor at Stockholm University, the third woman in Europe to become a professor; 601; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia_Kovalevskaya Wikipedia entry]

'''Krakatoa''' 
506; Indonesian island group where a volcano erupted in 1883, the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krakatoa Wikipedia entry]

'''Kronecker, Leopold''' 
593; "sinister influence of..."; "the positive integers were created by God, and all else is the work of man" 593;

'''Kropotkin''' 
373;

'''Kundschaftsstelle''' 
716; Austrian
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