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<p>Jackrmann: /* Page 975 */</p> <hr /> <div>:'''&lt;big&gt;Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.&lt;/big&gt;'''&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Page XX==<br /> <br /> '''Sample entry'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Please format like this.<br /> <br /> ==Page 946==<br /> <br /> '''''Interdikt'' line'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> That horizontal line on the map again.<br /> <br /> '''Veliko Târnovo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> North central Bulgaria on north side of Stara Planina range. Just for Bulgarian Pynchon uses at least two transliteration systems; where you see the letter ''â'' in this system, another will have ''u.'' Present-day transliteration from Bulgarian uses the letter ''ǔ.'' The sound resembles the U in &quot;bump&quot;; it's represented by Ъ in the Bulgarian Cyrillic alphabet.<br /> <br /> '''''ruchenitsa'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Bulgarian: a folk dance. The ''u'' represents the &quot;uh&quot; sound.<br /> <br /> '''St. Tryphon's Day'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> St. Tryphon or Trypho is the protector of fields. Feast day is Feb. 1 in the Orthodox calendar; at the time of the action the western and eastern calendars had drifted 12 or 13 days apart, throwing the Gregorian (western) date toward mid-February.<br /> <br /> ==Page 947==<br /> <br /> '''Dimyat'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Bulgarian wine made from grapes grown near the Black Sea coast.<br /> <br /> '''Misket'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Muscatel wine.<br /> <br /> '''May, I think'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 1912. The date gets pegged a few pages further on.<br /> <br /> '''Kazanlâk'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Central Bulgaria, south slope of Stara Planina range, halfway between Plovdiv and Veliko Târnovo.<br /> <br /> '''Rozovata Dolina'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Bulgarian: rose valley. The Dimitrov Dam may have filled part of the valley with a reservoir.<br /> <br /> '''between the Balkan range and the Sredna Gora'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Mountain ranges running east-west across Bulgaria, the Balkan (Stara Planina) to the north. ''Stara Planina'' = Old Range, ''Sredna Gora'' = Central Mountains.<br /> <br /> '''''mutri'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Bulgarian, literally: mugs, wry faces.<br /> <br /> ==Page 948==<br /> <br /> '''Petrich'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Extreme southwestern Bulgaria, near the Bulgaria/Greece/Macedonia triple point.<br /> <br /> '''on Macedonian border'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Today's maps reflect another century of boundary fights and negotiations. Petrich is not right on the present border, for example.<br /> <br /> '''between Plovdiv and Petrich'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Southwest quarter of Bulgaria.<br /> <br /> '''the music stopped two years ago'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> I.e., in 1910.<br /> <br /> ==Page 949==<br /> <br /> '''called out to, by their diminutives'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> You can make a list of &quot;nicknames&quot; from most any Slavic name. In Russian, for example, ''Aleksandr'' is informally called Alyosha, Sasha, Sashenka, etc. The irregulars are boys from the neighborhood and get addressed as such.<br /> <br /> '''crossing ''R. damascena'' with ''R. alba'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Species of roses. The species most used in attar-making is ''Rosa damascena.''<br /> <br /> ==Page 950==<br /> <br /> '''named the baby Ljubica'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Croatian: violet (the flower). Commemorating Cyprian's toilette at Carnesalve, I suggest; see pages 881 and 891. '''Important: the name is pronounced LYOO-beet-sah.''' --[[User:Volver|Volver]] 08:00, 26 January 2007 (PST)<br /> <br /> '''toroidal black iron antenna . . . one of those Tesla rigs'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> I.e., made to transmit or receive energy wirelessly.<br /> <br /> ==Page 951==<br /> <br /> '''Mihály Vámos'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Hungarian name, but ''vámos'' is also Spanish = go!<br /> <br /> '''''Szia, haver'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Hungarian: Hello buddy!<br /> <br /> ==Page 952==<br /> <br /> '''''Zabraneno'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Bulgarian: the forbidden. Same meaning as ''Interdikt.''<br /> <br /> '''an attar-factory rep from Philippopolis'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Attar: attar of roses, a fragrant extract of the petals. Philippopolis is now Plovdiv, located 40-50 miles south of the valley.<br /> <br /> '''casemate'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> In a fortification, an armored room or emplacement for artillery.<br /> <br /> ==Page 953==<br /> <br /> '''it's only chlorine . . . you get phosgene'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Accurate account of the process then used to produce phosgene. Today an activated carbon catalyst replaces the sunlight.<br /> <br /> '''''motoros'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cyclist, biker, referring here to Mihaly Vamos.<br /> <br /> '''light is..the destructive element'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Thematic,of course, when non-natural light is created....studies back to<br /> 'city illumination'. Cf. Telluride chapter.<br /> <br /> '''millions of candles per square inch'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Not easily converted to other units of measurement. Since the International Candle was defined as the light output from a specified wax candle, imagine a source emitting as much light as a million candles. Then imagine the sky covered with such sources, one to a square inch. No, it's unimaginably bright—disorienting, blinding, probably scorching.<br /> <br /> '''''Sok szerencsét'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Hungarian: good luck.<br /> <br /> ==Page 954==<br /> <br /> ==Page 955==<br /> <br /> '''''folie à trois'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ''Folie à deux'' describes delusional behavior displayed by two people; here it's by three.<br /> <br /> '''hebephrenic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Involving delusions, hallucinations, pointless and childish behavior.<br /> <br /> '''raptors'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> birds of prey.<br /> <br /> '''Sliven'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> East of Kazanlâk, Bulgaria.<br /> <br /> '''the ''Halkata'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Bulgarian ''khalka'': ring. The suffix ''-ta'' is a definite article.<br /> <br /> '''Ulitsa Rakovsky'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Bulgarian: Rakovsky Street. Georgi Rakovsky (1821-67), Bulgarian freedom fighter.<br /> <br /> ==Page 956==<br /> <br /> '''''krâchma'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pronounced like CRUTCH-mah. Bulgarian: tavern.<br /> <br /> '''Byal Sredets'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cigarettes?<br /> <br /> '''''Zdrave . . . kakvo ima?'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Bulgarian: Good health . . . what's the matter?<br /> <br /> '''Bogomils'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Heretical sect in Balkans with doctrinal links to Cathars and Albigensians.<br /> <br /> '''''Pavlikeni'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Sources differ on the meaning: (1) Bulgarian Catholics; (2) members of a heretical sect with dualist (Manichean) doctrines influenced by beliefs of the Bogomils.<br /> <br /> '''Hebrus River . . . Maritza'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Maritza or Maritsa flows west to east, draining Bulgaria between the Stara Planina (Balkan range) and the Rhodopes, then turns south and west to the Aegean Sea. The port at its mouth, in Greece, is called Evros, a name derived from Hebrus.<br /> <br /> ==Page 957==<br /> <br /> '''Pythagorean ''akousmata'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Avoid beans.&quot; Go to &quot;A&quot; in the alphabetical index for a definition.<br /> <br /> '''hegumen'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> In the Greek Orthodox Church, head of a religious community.<br /> <br /> '''Zalmoxis'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> This passage could almost have been drawn from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalmoxis Wikipedia entry.]<br /> <br /> '''Krâstova Gora'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Bulgarian: name of a mountain or range.<br /> <br /> Is this sentence the orphan of some narrative that's been cut? Disclosure of the baby's sex is on p. 949 and has neither a mountain nor a church in it. --[[User:Volver|Volver]] 14:33, 26 January 2007 (PST)<br /> <br /> '''narthex'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lobby or portico of a church.<br /> <br /> ==Page 958==<br /> <br /> '''sympathetic spirits who had dug spaces beneath their own precarious dwellings to harbor her for a night or two at a time'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Compare the annotations on ''stranniki'' and ''podpol'niki'' [[ATD_644-677#Page_663|(page 663).]]<br /> <br /> '''Bernadette o' Lourdes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> young woman who is reputed to have seen visions of the Mother of the Divine at Lourdes in France. See Wikipedia.<br /> <br /> ==Page 959==<br /> <br /> '''Oh, there won't be any war'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cyprian's self-discovered religiousness seems to make him overly optimistic--blind--to historical reality. <br /> <br /> '''σχημα'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> In English, ''schema.''<br /> <br /> '''Νυξ'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> In English, ''Nux'' or ''Nyx.''<br /> <br /> '''Talking, for women, is a form of breathing'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Compare p. 501: &quot;a hundred women . . . all silent.&quot; Tying Noellyn/Yashmeen to Cyprian?<br /> <br /> '''What is it that is born of light?'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cyprian trying to make sense of his epiphany on page 953.<br /> <br /> ==Page 960==<br /> <br /> '''Hesychasts'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Contemplative hermits in Orthodox Church; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesychasts see Wikipedia entry.]<br /> From the concise Brittanica: Hesychasm <br /> in Eastern Christianity, type of monastic life in which practitioners seek divine quietness (Greek hesychia) through the contemplation of God in uninterrupted prayer. Such prayer, involving the entire human being—soul, mind, and body—is often called “pure,” or “intellectual,” prayer or the Jesus prayer. St. John Climacus, one of the greatest writers of the Hesychast tradition, wrote, “Let the remembrance of Jesus be present with each breath, and then you will know the value of the hesychia.” In the late 13th century, St. Nicephorus the Hesychast produced an even more precise “method of prayer,” advising novices to fix their eyes during prayer on the “middle of the body,” in order to achieve a more total attention, and to “attach the prayer to their breathing.” This practice was violently attacked in the first half of the 14th century by Barlaam the Calabrian, who called the Hesychasts omphalopsychoi, or people having their souls in their navels.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''omphalopsychoi'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> see above. &quot;Hesychasts condemned as &quot;having their souls in their navel&quot;.<br /> <br /> '''Shekhinah'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Kabbala calls this Spirit, Shekkinah, which, according to Harold Bloom, refers to the &quot;feminine element in Yahweh.&quot; Shekkinah is God's maternal nature, Mother God, who broods over the Earth searching for and gathering the world's orphans and outcasts under her wings.&lt;br&gt;<br /> The author of Genesis tells us this Spirit hovered over the earth before creation. <br /> <br /> '''shiny black accoutrements'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [[ATD_678-694#Page_678|See the delicious annotation to page 678.]]<br /> <br /> '''Cosmas of Jerusalem'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Cosmas See the concise Wikipedia article.]<br /> <br /> ==Page 961==<br /> <br /> '''metempsychosis'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Habitation by a soul of a different (or new) body; non-Orthodox concept related to reincarnation.<br /> <br /> '''[i]f self-similarity proves to be a built-in property of the universe'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> As it does seem to be. Example: a map of streams draining the side of a mountain is similar (though on a different scale) to a map of rivers draining half a continent.<br /> :any mountain,any continent?&lt;br&gt;<br /> Moon and electron and sleep, death as text examples, are 'universe(al)' analogies.<br /> <br /> '''Brides of Night'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A name (used by whom?) of the order Cyprian seeks to join.&lt;br&gt;<br /> This 'order' seems to be a creation of Pynchon's, an important metaphorical one. In Hesychasism, massive humility is stressed, as is the<br /> linked notion that God is light and can never be known (not even after the Beatific Vision). So, a Bride of Night is a humble 'nun' who is married to the darkness of the Unknown God.<br /> <br /> ==Page 962==<br /> <br /> '''don't look back . . . or he'll take you below . . . down to America'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Orpheus and Eurydice again.<br /> <br /> ==Page 963==<br /> <br /> '''Plain of Thrace . . . Rhodopes . . . Pirin range'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> From the convent/castle in the Stara Planina or Sredna Gora, south across the Maritsa valley, south and west across the Rhodope mountain range, west and south through the higher Pirins. Close to the present Bulgarian-Greek-Macedonian borders, on a generally westward track.<br /> <br /> '''In mid-October . . . invaded Macedonia'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 1912, First Balkan War. The text does not mention Montenegro, which was active as well. Insofar as war aims played any role, everybody aimed to get Turkey out of the Balkans, but there was little unity beyond that.<br /> <br /> '''Kumanovo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Northern Macedonia near present-day border with Serbia.<br /> <br /> '''Adrianople'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Now called Edirne. At the present-day Turkish-Greek frontier near the Turkey/Greece/Bulgaria triple point.<br /> <br /> '''from Philippopolis . . . Adrianople'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> From Plovdiv east and south down the Maritsa to Edirne.<br /> <br /> ==Page 964==<br /> <br /> '''west through Strumica and Valandova . . . the Vardar'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Strumica is in the southeast of present-day Macedonia, Valandovo to the south. The Vardar is the major river of Macedonia, flowing north to south more or less.<br /> <br /> '''the Tikveš wine country'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A plain in the center of present-day Macedonia.<br /> <br /> '''Monastir'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Now Bitola in southwest Macedonia.<br /> <br /> '''between Veles and Prilep'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> In central Macedonia.<br /> <br /> ==Page 965==<br /> <br /> '''by way of Kičevo and Prilep'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Kičevo is in western present-day Macedonia, Prilep more in the middle. Two Serbian columns?<br /> <br /> '''Babuna Pass'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> North of Prilep.<br /> <br /> ==Page 966==<br /> <br /> ==Page 967==<br /> <br /> '''Sarakatsàni'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Not a place but a people, Greek-speaking shepherds well beyond the present-day borders of Greece.<br /> <br /> '''Bukovo Pass'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''down into Ohrid'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Extreme southwest of present-day Macedonia, on a large lake.<br /> <br /> '''Liman von Sanders'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Otto Liman von Sanders (1855-1929), German advisor to Turkish military. In overall command of Turkish victories at the Dardanelles in 1915.<br /> <br /> ==Page 968==<br /> <br /> '''Sveti Naum'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Macedonian: St. Naum. Large monastery on the lakefront south of Ohrid.<br /> <br /> '''Yanina'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Now Ioánnina, in the Epirus province of present-day Greece.<br /> <br /> '''Pogradeci, on the road to Korça'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Now Pogradec, Albania, across the lake from Ohrid, and Korcë, southeastern Albania near present-day Greek border.<br /> <br /> ==Page 969==<br /> <br /> '''Erseka'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Now Ersekë, southeastern Albania near the Greek border.<br /> <br /> '''Gramoz Range . . . Pindus'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Grámmos and Pindos on present-day maps. The Pindos range runs mainly north-south in northwestern Greece; Mt. Grámmos marks the boundary of Greece and Albania (and also the boundary between two Greek provinces, one of them named Macedonia).<br /> <br /> '''šarplaninec'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Or šarplaninac. Named for the Šar Planina mountain range. It's a largeish working breed. Compare the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0arplaninac Wikipedia article] with the description of Kseniya's temperament.<br /> <br /> '''Kseniya'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The name (here in Macedonian form; elsewhere Xenia) means &quot;guest, stranger.&quot;<br /> <br /> ==Page 970==<br /> <br /> '''''tungjatjeta'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Albanian: hello! Literally: &quot;may you have a long life&quot;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> '''''një rosë vdekuri'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Albanian: &quot;What we call a rose&quot;...Allusion to Juliet's line from Romeo &amp; Juliet: &quot;that what we call a rose/ by any other name would smell as sweet&quot;<br /> <br /> '''''Vëlla'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Albanian: brother<br /> <br /> ==Page 971==<br /> <br /> '''''Gëzuar'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Albanian: ???<br /> <br /> '''Tosk'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Principal southern dialect of Albanian, basis of the literary language.<br /> <br /> '''Përmeti'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Përmet on present-day maps.<br /> <br /> '''Gjirokastra'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Argyrokastron on old maps, Gjirokastër on new ones.<br /> <br /> '''Vjosa'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Vijosë on present-day maps.<br /> <br /> ==Page 972==<br /> <br /> '''Muzina Pass'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> In Southern Albania it is 572 meters high.It connects Sarande [below] with the Drinos Valley. Wikipedia, German edition.<br /> <br /> '''Agli Saranta'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Present-day maps identify this Albanian Riviera town as Sarandë.<br /> <br /> '''Corfu'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Western Greek island off the Greek/Albanian coast.<br /> <br /> '''Pantokratoras'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> South of Mouzaki, Greece. Famous for Byzantine icon screens. <br /> <br /> '''XI'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Eleven: a cricket team.<br /> <br /> '''Lefkas'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Or Levkás, Leucas or Lefkada, the next sizable island down the Greek coast from Corfu. Corinth and Lefkás were allies in the Peloponnesian War. Lefkás later was the capital of the Acarnanian League (3d cent. B.C.). The island was captured (1697) from the Ottoman Turks by Venice, which held it until 1797. There are ruins of Cyclopean walls and a temple to Apollo Leukates. Sappho is said, probably falsely, to have committed suicide by plunging into the sea from a cliff of the island. Lefkás is also known as Santa Maura. Columbia Encyclopedia.<br /> <br /> ==Page 973==<br /> <br /> '''hot-pepper salamis'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> are often paired with fragrant bunches of oregano. The hot pepper is present in salamis as well. They are big and red or as in the typical soppressata version, have a squashed shape due to their ageing under weights.<br /> <br /> '''the Compassionate'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''fiacre'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A small hackney carriage. [French, after the Hôtel de Saint Fiacre in Paris.]<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Durazzo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Now Durrës, Albania, nearest coastal city to the capital, Tiranë.<br /> <br /> '''casus belli'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An occasion or cause for war.<br /> <br /> ==Page 974==<br /> <br /> '''Volodya'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Diminutive form of ''Vladimir.'' Not Colonel Prokladka.<br /> <br /> '''a transaction in jade'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> bought/got jade low, sold high.<br /> <br /> '''one of those turns'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> . . . And aren't there a lot of them through here.<br /> <br /> ==Page 975==<br /> <br /> '''Garitsa'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Latitude 39.6139 Longitude 19.9197 Altitude (feet) 3 <br /> Lat (DMS) 39° 36' 50N Long (DMS) 19° 55' 11E Altitude (meters) 0 <br /> <br /> '''Leadville Fan-Tan'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A card game, played no doubt in the gambling halls of Leadville, Colorado. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan-Tan#The_Card_Game_Fantan Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''leptas'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Bastard plural of ''lepton'' (Greek = a low-denomination coin). Plural in Greek is ''lepta.''<br /> <br /> '''tsingarelli'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''polenta'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Originally Italian; dish similar to cornmeal mush.<br /> <br /> '''yaprakia'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Stuffed grape leaves (similar to dolmathes).<br /> <br /> '''stoufado'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Possibly an alternative spelling of ''stifado'' (Greek = beef and onion stew)?<br /> <br /> '''Mavrodaphne'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Red wine made in the Achaia region of Greece.<br /> <br /> '''Hrisoula'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The cat bears the name of King Yrjö's wife (GR 119).<br /> <br /> '''karsilamas'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> a traditional Greek dance<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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<p>Jackrmann: /* Page 823 */</p> <hr /> <div>:'''&lt;big&gt;Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.&lt;/big&gt;'''&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Page XX==<br /> <br /> '''Sample entry'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Please format like this.<br /> <br /> ==Page 821==<br /> <br /> '''''John of Asia'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> John of Asia, also called John of Ephesus, was a 6th-century church leader and historian. The ruins of Ephesus are located in western Asia Minor, now in Turkey.<br /> <br /> '''coastline approaching infinite length'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Another reference to the &quot;crisis&quot; in mathematics. The closer you look at the coastline, the longer it gets. If you could view it from infinitely close up, it would become infinitely long. <br /> Although this pov is true, might this line mean that the &quot;coastline&quot; of the Adreatic Sea, which is where Bocche di Cattaro is, circling as it does on the inside, almost connects with itself? When it would be &quot;infinite&quot;. See Wikipedia.<br /> <br /> ==Page 822==<br /> <br /> '''Jacintha Drulov'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The surname suggests the necessity of wiping the &quot;drool off&quot; the gentlemen's chins.<br /> <br /> '''Lady Quethlock'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Quethlock is/was a place in Australia in 1915. <br /> <br /> '''Zhenski Tzrnogorski Institut'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Montenegrin: Montenegrin Female Institute. Женски Црногорски Институт. The use of &quot;tz&quot; in the transliteration (instead of present-day &quot;ts&quot;) signals an old source and may indicate that Pynchon has found a real school. Differences between the Montenegrin and Serbian languages are relatively slight. --[[User:Volver|Volver]] 09:06, 5 February 2007 (PST)<br /> <br /> ==Page 823==<br /> <br /> '''Baden-Powell'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pronounced BAY-den POLE (other branches of the family say POOL). British officer and spy who after service in the Boer Wars founded the Boy Scouts.<br /> <br /> '''Applied Idiotics'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> I suggest this is a minor theme of ''AtD.'' Every couple of chapters we have a reference to someone learning to act like an idiot (never a fool, a zany, an imbecile, a twit—always an idiot). Is there a connection to the notion of the &quot;holy fool&quot; here? --[[User:Volver|Volver]] 08:17, 21 January 2007 (PST)<br /> <br /> '''Chipping Sodbury'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipping_Sodbury A real town] in the west of England, birthplace of J. K. Rowling. Throughout ''AtD'' &quot;sod&quot; is a derogatory name for sodomite, homosexual.<br /> <br /> ==Page 824==<br /> <br /> '''a Tsarist school'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See the [[ATD_821-848#Page_822|annotation to page 822.]]<br /> <br /> ==Page 825==<br /> <br /> ==Page 826==<br /> <br /> ==Page 827==<br /> <br /> '''Black Hand'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Street name for &quot;Union or Death&quot; (Уједињење или Смрт, Ujedinjenje ili Smrt), founded 1911, secret society to promote formation of a Greater Serbia. I.e., freedom fighters or terrorists depending on your point of view.<br /> <br /> '''Evidenzbüro'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Another information-collating agency. German: evidence office.<br /> <br /> ==Page 828==<br /> <br /> ==Page 829==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;set to spy&quot; seems a typo for &quot;sent to spy&quot; because of next phrase.<br /> <br /> '''Careva Ulica'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Croatian: Emperor Street.<br /> <br /> '''Žilavka'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A wine from Macedonia.<br /> <br /> ==Page 830==<br /> <br /> '''Kiprskni'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Misha and Grisha are perfectly capable of saying &quot;Cyprian&quot; or the Russian counterpart &quot;Kiprian&quot;; is this superconsonantal garble just their private joke?<br /> <br /> '''''tchistka'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Or ''chistka.'' Russian: the cleanup.<br /> <br /> '''...left him alone...with a loaded pistol, expecting a...traditional suicide'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Though Colonel Max Khäutsch uses the pistol to shoot his way out, this - and much of what we have learned of Khäutsch‘s career - strongly recalls the fate of Oberst (german for Colonel) Alfred Redl (1864-1913), whose suicide has &quot;entered the folklore of the business&quot; as well. Redl was an Austrian officer who rose to head the counter-intelligence efforts of Austria-Hungary. His term in office was marked by innovation, and he used very high technology for the time to ensnare foreign intelligence agents. When the Russians learned that he was a homosexual, they blackmailed him into committing treason against his homeland, although the Russians made quite substantial cash payments. The Austrian found out about this much too late and by chance only. In the early hours of Sunday morning May 25, 1913, Colonel Alfred Redl blew his brains out in a room at the Hotel Klomser, in the fashionable Herrengasse district of Vienna. He was permitted to &quot;judge himself&quot; after interrogation. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Redl Wikipedia] [http://www.trivia-library.com/a/world-war-i-russian-spy-col-alfred-redl.htm 1] [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/a_centur.htm 2] [http://www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/redl_a.html 3] [http://p205.ezboard.com/Redl-Scandal/faustrohungarianlandforcesdiscussionforumfrm0.showMessage?topicID=1422.topic forum entry 1] [http://p205.ezboard.com/a-few-questions-about-Colonel-Alfred-Redl/faustrohungarianlandforcesdiscussionforumfrm0.showMessage?topicID=1730.topic forum entry 2] [http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/(s1i30045ss4d5w45hfkmsd45)/app/home/contribution.asp?referrer=parent&amp;backto=issue,6,13;journal,7,33;linkingpublicationresults,1:102465,1 paysite] <br /> <br /> '''Platz Am Hof...Kredit-Anstalt...the Hofburg briefly became Dodge City'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Hof = german court. Some geographical confusion here: the War Ministry resided at &quot;Platz Am Hof&quot; 17 (later 2) [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofkriegsrat german Wikipedia] [http://www.planet-vienna.com/spots/AmHof/am_hof.htm 2] from 1776 until 1912. The building was demolished &quot;a short time before WW1&quot; and replaced with the headquarters of the &quot;Länderbank&quot;, by now owned by the &quot;Bank Austria - Creditanstalt&quot;. At the given time the only building &quot;next door&quot; to the one of the War-Ministry was a church. The contributor is not sure whether there was a bank at &quot;Platz Am Hof&quot; yet when the Colonel fled. Furthermore, the &quot;Platz Am Hof&quot; is not to be confused with the &quot;Hofburg&quot;. At &quot;Am Hof&quot; the Dukes of Babenberg [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babenberg Wikipedia] resided until 1246. When the Habsburgs took over, they took residence much closer to the city-walls about 600 meters away to the south in what was to become he &quot;Hofburg&quot;. [http://www.vienna.at/engine.aspx/page/vienna-features-stadtplan interactive map] <br /> <br /> '''Fehim Pasha'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Head of Turkish secret police, assassinated after the 1908 revolution.<br /> <br /> ==Page 831==<br /> <br /> '''arificial'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Error for ''artificial.''<br /> <br /> '''''tsiftê-télli'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Greek, derived from Turkish: belly dancing. [http://www.shira.net/glossary.htm See this site for an explanation.]<br /> <br /> ==Page 832==<br /> <br /> '''fezzes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Aside from the magical explanation in the text, isn't this a silent movie gag too?<br /> <br /> ==Page 833==<br /> <br /> ==Page 834==<br /> <br /> '''''Zdravo, gospodini'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Serbian/Croatian: Hello, gentlemen.<br /> <br /> '''''Ne razumen'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Croatian/Serbian: not reasonable.<br /> <br /> ==Page 835==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Union or Death&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [[ATD_821-848#Page_827|See annotations to page 827.]]<br /> <br /> '''lignite'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Also called &quot;brown coal,&quot; a dirty-burning fuel.<br /> <br /> ==Page 836==<br /> <br /> '''''poljes'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Serbian/Croatian? As explained in text.<br /> <br /> '''''Djavola'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Croatian/Serbian? &quot;The Devil!&quot;<br /> <br /> ==Page 837==<br /> <br /> '''Mauser'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German-made rifle.<br /> <br /> '''''En tu kulo Dio!'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> I just don't believe this is Serbian or Croatian; one of Danilo's many other languages? --[[User:Volver|Volver]] 15:43, 21 January 2007 (PST)<br /> <br /> ==Page 838==<br /> <br /> ==Page 839==<br /> <br /> ==Page 840==<br /> <br /> ==Page 841==<br /> <br /> '''''konak'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Apparently Turkish: mansion.<br /> <br /> ==Page 842==<br /> <br /> '''Vesna'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Whatever her name may signify in Greek, it also corresponds to the Russian word for &quot;spring&quot; (the season).<br /> <br /> ==Page 843==<br /> <br /> '''the mosqueless idea of a city . . . orthogonal'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> When the Young Turks abandon the mosque as the center of civic life, they must adopt the European model with streets meeting at right angles.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf. Cartesian grid of Chicago.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Precisely.<br /> <br /> '''iconostasis'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The screen in an Orthodox church where icons are hung.<br /> <br /> '''''merakloú'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Greek: coquette.<br /> <br /> '''''Tha spáso koúpes'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''argilés'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Bastard plural (i.e., English ''-s'' grafted to singular) of a Greek word argilé or arghilé: water pipe, nargileh, hookah.<br /> <br /> ==Page 844==<br /> <br /> '''''kombolói'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''karsilamás'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A face-to-face couple dance.<br /> <br /> '''''Amán'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An exclmation of mercy, Turkish in origin. From online Glossary of Greek.<br /> <br /> '''''Stin ipochí'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''bottom dead center of the European Question'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> In a rotary system like the crankshaft of an engine, angles and times are reckoned from one of two points: top dead center and bottom dead center. Bottom dead center occurs when the piston is at its lowest point and stationary for an instant.<br /> <br /> ==Page 845==<br /> <br /> '''''dervisidhes'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Dervish boys? See later use. <br /> <br /> '''Gabrovo Slim'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Gabrovo is a city in northern central Bulgaria, 100 miles east of Sofia. Another ''AtD'' character named for his physique (like, e.g., Flaco = &quot;slim&quot; in Spanish).&lt;br&gt;<br /> Apropos of Flaco: [http://www.netdotcom.com/revmexpc/fortune.htm This web site] remarks on the number of people named Slim who were involved in the Mexican Revolution.<br /> <br /> '''''rembetes'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> rembet (pl. rembetes): The most well-known name given a member of the Greek urban sub-culture of the early 20th century. Originally thought to derive from the Turkish, Stathis Gauntlet has presented an analysis that throws this into doubt. from: Online glossary of Greek Slang<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Gotse Deltchev'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Or Delchev (1872-1903), killed in the St. Ilya's Day uprising against Turkish rule in Macedonia.<br /> <br /> '''Big Bulgaria'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> I.e., Bulgaria as it existed then plus all areas considered by Bulgarians to be inhabited by other Bulgarians, Macedonia above all.<br /> <br /> ==Page 846==<br /> <br /> '''''Tsoupra mou'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Karakas Effendi'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Dervish Boys'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> dervisi (pl. dervisades): In Turkish, a dervish, member of the Mevlevi sect. In rembetika,-a musical unerworld-- used to denote a hash smoker.<br /> <br /> '''Exarch'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> In the Eastern Orthodox Church, deputy to a patriarch.<br /> <br /> '''The City'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Constantinople. Its present name, Istanbul (Stambul), comes from the Greek phrase ''eis ten polin'' (είς την πολιν): into the City.<br /> <br /> '''Eminönü'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Dock area of Constantinople at the mouth of the Golden Horn, on the south (Stambul) side of that inlet.<br /> <br /> '''Stamboul'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Former English spelling of Stambul or Istanbul.<br /> <br /> ==Page 847==<br /> <br /> ==Page 848==<br /> <br /> '''Ultraviolet Catastrophe'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Rayleigh-Jeans law says that the intensity of radiation emitted at any wavelength λ by a body at a temperature T is proportional to T/λ&lt;sup&gt;4&lt;/sup&gt;. Jacintha, &quot;carelessly radiant,&quot; is following the law into the short-wavelength region (small λ) where it does not apply. The failure of Rayleigh-Jeans in the ultraviolet or short-wavelength range—it predicts infinitely intense radiation, contrary to observation—is referred to as the Ultraviolet Catastrophe.<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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<p>Jackrmann: </p> <hr /> <div>:'''&lt;big&gt;Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.&lt;/big&gt;'''&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Page XX==<br /> <br /> '''Sample entry'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Please format like this.<br /> <br /> ==Page 768==<br /> <br /> '''fourteeners'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Affectionate name applied by Coloradans to mountain peaks 14,000 feet (approx. 4200 m) high.<br /> <br /> '''Baikal'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Another bi-location: one world out here, another reflected one in the lake.<br /> <br /> ==Page 769==<br /> <br /> '''a maze of slot canyons'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The ground is crumpled rather like Kovalevskaia's handkerchief on page 634.<br /> <br /> ==Page 770==<br /> <br /> '''followed by the whizzing sound'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> As the impact of the V-2 was in ''Gravity's Rainbow.''<br /> <br /> ==Page 771==<br /> <br /> '''You are released'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Echoes ''Ite, missa est'' on page 668.<br /> <br /> '''samovars . . . gasping and puffing'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Samovar: a double urn containing a large amount of hot water and a small amount of super-strong tea. Passengers mixed their own to taste. Many Russian railroad cars had samovars.<br /> <br /> '''nephrite'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Fibrous silicate mineral, one of the constituents of jade.<br /> <br /> ==Page 773==<br /> <br /> '''''kupechestvo'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Russian: the merchant community.<br /> <br /> ==Page 774==<br /> <br /> '''Club Golomyanka'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A golomyanka is a viviparous fish of the perch family, unique to Lake Baikal.<br /> <br /> '''NAUSHNIKI'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> As translated in the text.<br /> <br /> ==Page 775==<br /> <br /> '''Ilimpiya'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Presumably the Ilimpeya River, a left-bank tributary of the Lower Tunguska, is named for them.<br /> <br /> '''''siberyaki'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Standard spelling ''sibiryaki.'' Russian: Siberians.<br /> <br /> '''embouchure'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> French word denoting the conformation of the mouth (in speaking, playing the clarinet, etc.).<br /> <br /> ==Page 776==<br /> <br /> '''taiga'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Coniferous boreal forest; supports logging, trapping, hunting/gathering.<br /> <br /> '''Tierra del Fuego'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Not exactly the other side of the world, but the closest land to that point.<br /> <br /> ==Page 777==<br /> <br /> '''shamanism'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Decentralized religion. The village shaman engaged in spirit travel and communicated with animals, ancestors, etc., for the benefit of the people, often using bizarrely excessive amounts of drugs.<br /> <br /> ==Page 779==<br /> <br /> '''poods'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Russian measure of weight. One pood = 16.38 kilograms; 30 poods = 491 kg = 1081 pounds, pretty close to half a ton.<br /> <br /> '''''ekipazh'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Russian: crew, team.<br /> <br /> '''''Právil'no'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Russian: all ''right!''<br /> <br /> '''Russian design philosophy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> . . . which is perpetuated in Soviet and Russian space technology.<br /> <br /> '''Razvedka'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Russian: intelligence (in the military-political sense).<br /> <br /> '''pogroms'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Terror campaigns, usually against Jews.<br /> <br /> ==Page 780==<br /> <br /> '''Ofitser Nauchny'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Russian: science officer.<br /> <br /> '''''umnik'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Russian: clever man.<br /> <br /> '''General Sukhomlinoff'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> V.A. Sukhomlinov (1848-1926), cavalry officer; chief of general staff 1908-9, minister of war 1909-15, imprisoned for failure to prepare army for World War One 1917-18, emigrated.<br /> <br /> '''''Zi!'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''butterfly . . . angel'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The description of the damage pattern is accurate; see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event Wikipedia article.]<br /> <br /> ==Page 781==<br /> <br /> '''''zastolye'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Russian: group of regulars.<br /> <br /> '''''Khuy'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Impolite Russian: cock!<br /> <br /> '''&quot;potentially a hole in the earth&quot;'''<br /> One of the theories regarding the real Tungaska Event is that a small black hole entered the earth. Flaw in theory: an exit has never been found. See Wikipedia.<br /> <br /> '''Bezumyoff'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The name derives from Russian ''bezumets'': madman.<br /> <br /> '''''vseznaǐka'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Russian: as translated in text. In keeping with the sources he must have used—many of them contemporary—Pynchon applies a bewildering assortment of rules in transliterating Russian words.<br /> <br /> '''Tsarskoe Selo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Now Pushkin; &quot;country&quot; home of the tsars.<br /> <br /> ==Page 782==<br /> <br /> '''''Nichevo'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Russian: nothing.<br /> <br /> ==Page 784==<br /> <br /> '''Raskol'niki'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Russian: schismatics, dissenters. Raskol'nikov in ''Crime and Punishment'' derives his name from this word.<br /> <br /> '''Tchernobyl . . . Wormwood'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Now rendered more commonly as Chernobyl (Russian), Chornobyl (Ukrainian).<br /> <br /> '''heat . . . tended to flow unpredictably'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Laws of Thermodynamics have taken a brief holiday.<br /> <br /> '''Old Slavonic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Or Old Church Slavonic; liturgical language of Russian Orthodox Church, closely related to Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian.<br /> <br /> ==Page 785==<br /> <br /> '''''izba'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Russian: hut.<br /> <br /> ==Page 786==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;borbanngadyr&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> throat singing..like a flute: from the context.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;the heart of Earth&quot;&lt;br&gt;<br /> '''&quot;all's I see's a bunch of sheep&quot; &lt;br&gt;<br /> '''&quot;Exactly.&quot;<br /> <br /> ==Page 787==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Bo Peep&quot;&lt;br&gt;<br /> she who has lost her sheep, as in the rhyme. <br /> <br /> '''&quot;Never work,&quot;, muttered Darby. &quot;They'll squash you like bugs.&quot;&lt;br&gt;<br /> Darby, now a lawyer, now cynical, presents the archetypal response to <br /> Prance's visiting &quot; deities&quot; as in classic sci-fi books and movies.<br /> <br /> ==Page 788==<br /> <br /> '''''brodyagi'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Russian: tramps.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Topor&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Russian: The Ax.<br /> <br /> '''fusel oils'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Toxic byproducts of fermentation, sometimes still present in bad liquor.<br /> <br /> '''strange mottled red mushrooms'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ''Amanita muscaria'', an hallucinogenic mushroom. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''drank one another's urine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Shamanistic practice also observed in some &quot;mystery&quot; religions. The person who ingests the drug partly metabolizes it and excretes it; followers can get a, hrmm, watered-down dose by drinking his urine.<br /> <br /> ==Page 789==<br /> <br /> '''''brodyagi'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See page 788.<br /> <br /> '''Christian propaganda mill down south'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A college?<br /> <br /> '''Pacific Coast League'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Minor league (Triple-A) baseball league that at the time was the only professional baseball league west of St. Louis. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Coast_League Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> ==Page 790==<br /> <br /> '''Krasnoyarsk'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Town on the Yenisei River upstream of Yeniseisk.<br /> <br /> '''arival'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Misspelling of ''arrival.''<br /> <br /> ==Page 791==<br /> <br /> '''the Vormance people'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Vormance polar expedition was mentioned on page 130 and elsewhere.<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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<p>Jackrmann: /* Page 655 */</p> <hr /> <div>:'''&lt;big&gt;Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.&lt;/big&gt;'''&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> ==Page 644==<br /> <br /> '''E.B. Soltera'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ''Soltera'' is Spanish: spinster. Estrella Briggs, Unmarried.<br /> <br /> '''Regeneration Equipment'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> In chemical technology &quot;regeneration&quot; means taking a spent product out of the system and cleaning it up for reuse.<br /> <br /> '''whiteness'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> stressed motif. Cf. alabaster temples at the Columbian Exposition.Cf. whiteness in GR.<br /> <br /> ==Page 645==<br /> <br /> '''E.P.T.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> El Paso, Texas.<br /> <br /> ==Page 646==<br /> <br /> ==Page 647==<br /> <br /> '''For really it was the sidekick who presented the problem. Restless type. Fair hair, hat back on his head so the big brim sort of haloed his face, shiny eyes and low-set, pointed ears like an elf's...'''&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> Billy the Kid?<br /> <br /> '''Daisy, Daisy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Daisy Bell&quot; is a popular song whose lyrics (&quot;Daisy, Daisy, Give me your answer do...I'm half crazy, all for the love of you...&quot; as well as the line &quot;...a bicycle built for two&quot;) are considerably better known than the song's actual title.<br /> &quot;Daisy Bell&quot; was composed by Harry Dacre in 1892. As David Ewen writes in American Popular Songs: &quot;When Dacre, an English popular composer, first came to the United States, he brought with him a bicycle, for which he was charged duty. His friend (the songwriter William Jerome) remarked lightly: 'It's lucky you didn't bring a bicycle built for two, otherwise you'd have to pay double duty.' Dacre was so taken with the phrase 'bicycle built for two' that he decided to use it in a song. That song, Daisy Bell, first became successful in a London music hall, in a performance by Kate Lawrence. Tony Pastor was the first one to sing it in the United States. Its success in America began when Jennie Lindsay brought down the house with it at the Atlantic Gardens on the Bowery early in 1892.&quot; Wikipedia....see this for memorable occasions of its use. <br /> It was evidently sung at the OK Corral gunfight, if TRP says so but I have not substantiated this yet.<br /> <br /> ==Page 648==<br /> <br /> ==Page 649==<br /> '''Rosie's Cantina'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> As found in Marty Robbins's 1959 hit song &quot;El Paso&quot; (a song frequently covered by the Grateful Dead). When the exiled narrator attempts to return to the cantina, he sees to his right &quot;five mounted cowboys/Off to my left ride a dozen or more.&quot;<br /> <br /> ==Page 650==<br /> <br /> ==Page 651==<br /> <br /> ==Page 652==<br /> <br /> '''Karawankenbahn . . . Tauern . . . Wochein'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A series of tunnels constructed as part of [http://historicaltextarchive.com/books.php?op=viewbook&amp;bookid=2&amp;cid=13 a huge Austrian public works project] in the first years of the 20th century. They are named for ranges of mountains and hills they pass through. The objective was to develop rail transport to the port of Trieste. It's possible the Wochein tunnel is now in Italy under another name.<br /> <br /> '''Brigue'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Also spelled Brig.<br /> <br /> ==Page 653==<br /> '''League of Prizren'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Aimed for Albanian unity and autonomy; 1878; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Prizren Wikipedia article.]<br /> <br /> '''many superstitions inside this mountain'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Tunnelers and miners were among the most superstitious trades. Small wonder.<br /> <br /> ==Page 654==<br /> <br /> ==Page 655==<br /> '''Tatzelwurm'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A/k/a Swiss dragon. A mythical creature or cryptid, depending on who you believe. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatzelwurm Wikipedia entry]; [http://www.newanimal.org/tatzel.htm Cryptid zoo website.]<br /> <br /> '''[S]ometimes a Tatzelwurm is only a Tatzelwurm.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Echoing the comment attributed to Freud, the cigar-loving alienist who would have been on the faculty of the University of Vienna at this time.<br /> <br /> ==Page 656==<br /> '''favogn'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Also known as a ''föhn,'' a dry wind blowing up the lee side of the Alps.<br /> <br /> '''balneomaniacs'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> People avid for mineral baths and spas like those at . . .<br /> <br /> '''Baden-Baden . . . Wagga Wagga'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> In Germany and New South Wales (Australia) respectively.<br /> Names, of course, which suggest bilocation.<br /> <br /> '''Moazagotl clouds'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A persistent cloud formation associated with the föhn. [http://amsglossary.allenpress.com/glossary/search?id=moazagotl1 Technical definition.]<br /> <br /> ==Page 657==<br /> <br /> '''''Macchè, gioia mia'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Italian: No way, my joy!<br /> <br /> '''''Càlmati'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Italian: Take it easy.<br /> <br /> '''''Tutto va bene. Un amico di pochi anni fa'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Italian: It's all right. A friend from years ago.<br /> <br /> '''Ambroid'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Synthetic amber used for costume jewelry.<br /> <br /> '''''Tesoro'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Italian: treasure.<br /> <br /> ==Page 658==<br /> <br /> '''Petite Roquette'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A Paris prison later used as a reformatory for boys.<br /> <br /> '''''Tatzelwurm'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cryptozoologists also use the term &quot;Swiss dragon&quot; for this mythical Alpine beast. Its habitation is not said to be limited to mines and tunnels. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatzelwurm Mostly uninformative Wikipedia entry.]<br /> <br /> '''''spital'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Various languages: hospital, infirmary.<br /> <br /> ==Page 659==<br /> <br /> '''''bien sûr'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> French: certainly. Here &quot;Of ''course'' you did.&quot;<br /> <br /> ==Page 660==<br /> <br /> ==Page 661==<br /> <br /> '''Intra'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Now Verbania, on the shore of Lago Maggiore.<br /> <br /> ==Page 662==<br /> <br /> '''shadows with undulating tails and moving wings'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''the revenge of Deep Germany'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> We have seen an earlier [[ATD 615-643#Page 632|reference]] to deeper Germany, to the pre-Christian, pre-rational Germany, here supposed to be avenging itself upon the mechanised, rational order that has supplanted it.<br /> <br /> ==Page 663==<br /> <br /> '''''stranniki'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Dissenters from the Russian Orthodox Church; a sect of Old Believers who rejected the Orthodox priesthood and sacraments.<br /> <br /> '''''podpol'niki,'' underground men'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Russian word does mean that, but the present use is especially interesting because they are ''pod pole,'' under the floor.<br /> <br /> ==Page 664==<br /> <br /> '''anterooms of death'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The metaphor repeated from page 526, now possibly with a different meaning.<br /> <br /> ==Page 665==<br /> <br /> '''tunnel Italian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The pidgin Reef learned in the tunnels.<br /> <br /> '''repeated figure being played on an alpenhorn'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Ri-i-co-la!<br /> <br /> ==Page 666==<br /> '''Reader, she bit him.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Reef has failed, both literally and figuratively, to screw the pooch. (and, of course, a parody of the opening sentence of the final chapter of &quot;Jane Eyre&quot;)<br /> <br /> ==Page 667==<br /> <br /> '''skeezicks'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Affectionate term for a man. The foundling Skeezix was the protagonist of the comic strip &quot;Gasoline Alley.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''''vint'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A real game.<br /> <br /> '''''avantyuristka'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Unfortunate placement of the hyphen makes it look as if it's ''avant-'' something, but it's a single Russian word, авантюристка, meaning &quot;adventuress.&quot;<br /> <br /> ==Page 668==<br /> <br /> '''reticule'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lady's handbag, especially one made by netting or tatting.<br /> <br /> '''''Ite, missa est'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Last words of the Latin mass: Go, you are sent.<br /> <br /> ==Page 669==<br /> <br /> '''Pinks'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pinkerton agents.<br /> <br /> ==Page 670==<br /> <br /> '''glowing giant amœbas that leave sticky residues'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A recent book, ''Spook,'' by Mary Roach, tells how 19th-century mediums prepared these cheesecloth apparitions and secreted them in their vaginas.<br /> <br /> ==Page 671==<br /> <br /> '''''Bozhe moi!'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Russian: My God.<br /> <br /> '''speakin as an old bunco man . . . it was him talkin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Reef displaying the kind of skepticism that would eventually explode the whole spiritualist enterprise.<br /> <br /> ==Page 672==<br /> <br /> ==Page 673==<br /> <br /> ==Page 674==<br /> <br /> '''swamper'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> One who performs general, menial duties.<br /> <br /> '''''vis inertiæ'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Latin: force of inertia. Not considered a &quot;force&quot; since Newton.<br /> <br /> ==Page 675==<br /> '''As light began to steep in...'''<br /> <br /> Like on page 566, this dream-passage seems to contain a top-down examination of Kit's progress; of his motives and awareness of complicity in the Traverse vengeance-quest against the Vibes. Similar to Kit's earlier dream(s?), it's a thematic reduction and feels like a significant 'clue': <br /> <br /> &lt;blockquote&gt;As light began to steep in around the edges of the window blinds, Kit fell asleep again and dreamed of a bullet en route to the heart of an enemy, traveling for many years and many miles, hitting something now and then and ricocheting off at a different angle but continuing its journey as if conscious of where it must go, and he understood that this zigzagging around through four-dimensional space-time might be expressed as a vector in five dimensions. Whatever the number of ''n'' dimensions it inhabited, an observer would need one extra, ''n'' + 1, to see it and connect the end points to make a single result.&lt;/blockquote&gt; <br /> <br /> In addition to the broad narrative summary, there appears to be a metatextual implication here. Regarding the reader in Pynchon's overall 'Against The Day' scheme: the novel ''n'' must be observed from an ''n'' +1 perspective (that is: dimensionally distinct) to connect end-points and weave a single result, to engage and correlate strands and twines into a coherent narrative whole. Without an overarching consciousness there's apparent anarchy: with said consciousness there's meaning and vector. <br /> <br /> [[User:Bean|remy]] 10:52, 28 December 2006 (PST)<br /> ==Page 676==<br /> <br /> ==Page 677==<br /> <br /> '''Buda-Pesth'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Budapest. The cities of Buda and Pest (archaic spelling Pesth) were unified in 1872; the hyphenated spelling persisted for many years.<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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<p>Jackrmann: /* Page 613 */</p> <hr /> <div>:'''&lt;big&gt;Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.&lt;/big&gt;'''&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Page 588==<br /> <br /> '''tannery'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> In ancient history, tanning was considered a noxious or &quot;odiferous trade&quot; and relegated to the outskirts of town, amongst the poor. Indeed, tanning by ancient methods is so foul smelling that tanneries are still isolated from those towns today where the old methods are used.<br /> <br /> '''Gauss's brain'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> After Carl Friedrich Gauss died in 1855, his brain was preserved for research purposes. To this day, it is in the possession of the University of Göttingen.<br /> <br /> '''impervious to the wind'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Attribute of tanned leather?)<br /> <br /> '''''&quot;Heiliger Bimbam!&quot;'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A German expression of surprise, translated elsewhere as &quot;Holy Moly!&quot;<br /> <br /> '''It is she, she!'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> In [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Rider_Haggard H. Rider Haggard's] ''She'', the she in question rises, like Venus, from the sea. In ''Against the day'', she rises from the swamp. Carl Jung, who used the novel ''She'' (1887) as an example of anima, posited the anima is an archetypical form, expressing the fact that a man has a minority of female genes. Haggard's Queen Ayesha is an unmistakable anima type &amp;#151; the ultimate guide and mediator to the inner world. The idea has also connections with the observations of James Frazer in his classical study ''The Golden Bough''. Haggard's idea of a journey into the &quot;darkest Africa,&quot; which turns into a spiritual search, has been used by a number of writers, including Joseph Conrad in ''Heart of Darkness'' (1902).&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;I am of thy imagination&quot;, She says in the novel, &quot;She&quot;. <br /> <br /> '''Roentgen-ray spectacles'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The X-ray glasses that used to be advertised in comic books.<br /> <br /> '''''natürlich'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German: naturally.<br /> <br /> '''rim'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Kit pretends to think he's referring to monocle as 'chichi' (stylish).<br /> <br /> ==Page 589==<br /> <br /> '''Those curves . . . ''Noli me tangere'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A well-turned wordplay: The operation of differentiating a curve involves drawing ''tangents'' to it at selected points. The curves in question are continuous, but the injunction ''Noli me tangere'' means you can't draw the tangents.<br /> <br /> '''''Noli me tangere'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Latin for 'don't touch me'<br /> <br /> '''''Hausknochen'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German: a giant housekey, as defined, literally House Bone,with perhaps a<br /> double entendre on bone?<br /> <br /> ==Page 590==<br /> <br /> '''Hadamard... Poussin... Prime Number Theorem'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''patent ''Kühlbox'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> patent here, as adjective, means ACCESSIBLE, EXPOSED: Archaic<br /> : readily visible or intelligible : OBVIOUS<br /> synonym see EVIDENT. If the Kuhlbox were a patented invention, TRP would have written &quot;patented Kuhlbox&quot;<br /> <br /> icebox..this last an English-German meld or Archaic, it seems.<br /> <br /> [http://www.dhm.de/datenbank/index.html?/datenbank/rb00/rb000891.html pic of a ca. 1920 Eiskiste-model]. According to german Wikipedia, the mobile &quot;Eiskiste&quot; (icebox) had to be filled with (natural) ice, while its successor, the Kühlbox, worked/works with &quot;Kühlaggregate&quot; (cooling units). The contributor is not sure if suchlike were around at that time. German Wikipedia on [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiskiste Eiskiste] and [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%BChlbox Kühlbox]. <br /> <br /> '''beleaguered subset'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> a group (from the whole) under attack<br /> <br /> '''Prime Number Theorem'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Gives an estimate of the number of primes less than a whole number ''n.'' For example, if ''n'' is 20 then there are nine primes less than it (1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19). The Prime Number Theorem is closely related to the Riemann Hypothesis.<br /> <br /> ==Page 591==<br /> <br /> '''prats'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Literally the buttocks. As a slang term, a 'prat' is an idiot.<br /> <br /> '''''Die Nullstellen der ζ-Funktion'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German: the zeroes of the ζ function. (Null = zero; Stelle = location.) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_zeta_function#Zeros_of_the_Riemann_zeta_function Wikipedia] on the &quot;Zeros of the Riemann zeta-function&quot;. <br /> <br /> '''not all that hard to prove'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Kit will upset the applecart if he can prove the Riemann Hypothesis; Yashmeen's research topic will shrink to triviality. (Last time I checked, no one had yet proved the hypothesis.) --[[User:Volver|Volver]] 19:37, 9 January 2007 (PST)<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Richard Harding Davis&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Popular writer of fiction and drama, journalist/war-correspondent and a major male-role-model of his time (1864 - 1916). He was considered the model for illustrator Charles Dana Gibson's dashing Gibson man, the male equivalent of his famous Gibson Girl. He is also referenced early in Sinclair Lewis's book, ''Dodsworth'' as the example of an exciting, adventure-seeking legitimate hero. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Harding_Davis Wikipedia] <br /> <br /> '''seldom, if ever'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf p559 re Umeki!?<br /> <br /> '''tetralatry'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> made up from greek &quot;tettares&quot; (prefix -tetra) = four and &quot;latreia&quot; = worship<br /> <br /> '''C. Howard Hinton'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Charles Howard Hinton (1853 – 1907) was a British mathematician and writer of science fiction works titled ''Scientific Romances''. He was interested in higher dimensions, particularly the fourth dimension, and is known for coining the word ''tesseract'' and for his work on methods of visualising the geometry of higher dimensions. He also had a strong interest in theosophy. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Howard_Hinton Wikipedia Entry]<br /> <br /> '''Johann K.F. Zöllner'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner (1834–1882) was a German astrophysicist. Studied Photometrie and optical illusions. He insisted a fourth dimension should be considered in Physics and tried to scientifically explain spiritist phenomena. <br /> <br /> '''vogue... 'vague''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Nice wordplay as Yashmeen seems to think the vogue of mysticism is not very precise, is 'vague' intellectually.<br /> <br /> ==Page 592==<br /> <br /> '''upside-down triangles'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Also Pléiade p538. In mathematics that would be the operator ''del'' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del Wikipedia]. Since pre-history and across most cultures the upside-down triangle is a symbol for the female (genitals).<br /> <br /> '''screamingly obvious fallacy in this . . . &quot;proof&quot; of yours'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Yashmeen reacts in a slight panic to Kit's threat (page 591).<br /> <br /> '''metallic banging'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Hausknochen on doors, with 'banging' entendre.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;metric interval&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> In Euclidean (three-dimensional) space a distance is just what you think it is. In other geometrical systems the term &quot;metric interval&quot; is preferred as a generalized distance.<br /> <br /> '''Prinzenstrasse and Weenderstrasse'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A street corner at the very center of Göttingen ([http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;q=g%C3%B6ttingen,+germany&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;om=1&amp;z=17&amp;ll=51.534284,9.935417&amp;spn=0.006107,0.010793&amp;t=h Google Maps]), &quot;known to mathematicians here as the origin of the city of Göttingen's coordinate system&quot;.<br /> <br /> ==Page 593==<br /> <br /> '''twenty marks'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A mark is short for deutschemark, a German monetary unit. <br /> <br /> '''''der Pistolenheld'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German: the pistol hero.<br /> <br /> '''''das Nichtharmonischestrahlenbündel'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Or ''das nichtharmonische Strahlenbündel.'' German: the anharmonic pencil. A &quot;pencil&quot; is the set of lines passing through a point.<br /> <br /> '''Euler'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Leonhard Euler (pronounced Oiler; IPA [ˈɔʏlɐ]) (April 15, 1707 – September 7, 1783) was a Russian-German mathematician and physicist of Swiss descent. From Wikipedia and below:<br /> <br /> Euler made important discoveries in fields as diverse as calculus, number theory, and topology. He also introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, particularly for mathematical analysis, such as the notion of a mathematical function. [1] He is also renowned for his work in mechanics, optics, and astronomy.<br /> <br /> Euler is considered to be the preeminent mathematician of the 18th century and one of the greatest of all time. <br /> <br /> '''''Mathematical Theory of the Top'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Published in the U.S. in 1897. Compare Felix Klein and Arnold Sommerfeld, ''Über die Theorie des Kreisels,'' 4 volumes, 1897-1910.<br /> <br /> '''Leopold Kronecker''' and '''Cantor'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The &quot;monumental quarrel between Kronecker and Cantor&quot; is also referred to as a &quot;religious war,&quot; appropriately enough. It's based in a disagreement over the legitimacy of numbers. Kronecker held that &quot;'the positive integers were created by God, and all else is the work of man.'&quot; This is contradicted by &quot;'Cantor with his ''Kontinuum'', professing an equally strong belief in just those regions, infinitely divisible, which lie ''between'' the whole numbers so demanding of all Kronecker's devotion.'&quot;<br /> <br /> The disagreement between the two mathematicians is reminiscent of (or does it anticipate?) the rift between Pointsman and Mexico in ''Gravity's Rainbow''. Kronecker's integers &quot;created by God&quot; have become a Pavlovian digital binary for Pointsman, but the two oppositions track faithfully right down to the italicized &quot;between.&quot; <br /> <br /> &quot;The young statistician [Mexico] is devoted to number and to method, not table-rapping or wishful thinking. But in the domain of zero to one, not-something to something, Pointsman can only possess the zero and the one. He cannot, like Mexico, survive anyplace in between. Like his master I. P. Pavlov before him, he imagines the cortex of the brain as a mosaic of tiny on/off elements.... But to Mexico belongs the domain ''between'' zero and one.&quot; [Page 55]<br /> <br /> It should be noted, however, that the continuous number line was a modern innovation. In Greek number theory, a number is a collection of indivisible units. Irrationals, such as the square root of 2 are not numbers but &quot;magnitudes.&quot; One is not even a number for it is not a number of units. There are no negative numbers as well. (see Klein's &lt;i&gt;Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra.&lt;/i&gt;) So Kronecker's position may be less of a crazy innovation as much as a maintenance of ancient theory.<br /> <br /> (That last paragraph makes an excellent point. --[[User:Volver|Volver]] 19:45, 9 January 2007 (PST))<br /> <br /> '''''Kontinuum'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> This passage closely parallels the one about the &quot;microcosm of Venice&quot; on page 575.<br /> <br /> ==Page 594==<br /> <br /> '''''Nervenklinik'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German: nerve clinic. Three-dollar word for a mental hospital.<br /> <br /> '''boundless epsilonic world'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Epsilon, Greek letter like E. In mathematics (particularly calculus), an arbitrary (or nearly so) small positive quantity is commonly denoted ε; see limit. <br /> By analogy with this, the late mathematician Paul Erdős also used the term &quot;epsilons&quot; to refer to children (Hoffman 1998, p. 4). Wikipdeia<br /> <br /> '''Der Finsterzwerg'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The choice of the tavern &quot;The Dwarf of Darkness&quot; may have been meant as a dig at five-foot-tall Kronecker.<br /> <br /> '''chloral hydrate'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A/k/a &quot;knockout drops&quot; a/k/a a &quot;Mickey Finn&quot;. Hence the ''Mickifest''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloral_hydrate Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''''Kneipe'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German: dive.<br /> <br /> '''Gauss passing to Weber a remark'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Carl Friedrich Gauss (Gauß)(30 April 1777 – 23 February 1855) was a German mathematician and scientist of profound genius who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, magnetism, astronomy and optics. Sometimes known as &quot;the prince of mathematicians&quot; and &quot;greatest mathematician since antiquity&quot;, Gauss had a remarkable influence in many fields of mathematics and science and is ranked as one of history's most influential mathematicians.<br /> In 1831 Gauss developed a fruitful collaboration with the physics professor Wilhelm Weber; it led to new knowledge in the field of magnetism (including finding a representation for the unit of magnetism in terms of mass, length and time) and the discovery of Kirchhoff's circuit laws in electricity. Gauss and Weber constructed the first electromagnetic telegraph in 1833, which connected the observatory with the institute for physics in Göttingen. Gauss ordered a magnetic observatory to be built in the garden of the observatory and with Weber founded the magnetischer Verein (&quot;magnetic club&quot;), which supported measurements of earth's magnetic field in many regions of the world. He developed a method of measuring the horizontal intensity of the magnetic field which has been in use well into the second half of the 20th century and worked out the mathematical theory for separating the inner (core and crust) and outer (magnetospheric) sources of Earth's magnetic field<br /> <br /> '''crisis in mathematics . . . Weierstrass functions, Cantor's continuum, Russell's inexhaustible capacity for mischief'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A genuine crisis as well-established ideas were challenged. Weierstrass functions have the unheard-of property that they are &quot;continuous but nowhere differentiable.&quot; Cantor's ideas about the continuum violated a longstanding prohibition against infinite quantities. Bertrand Russell around this time was setting the cat among the pigeons by identifying paradoxes and inconsistencies in set theory and number theory.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;the infinite&quot; was all but a conjuror's convenience'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> There is a very good book relating how the infinite, between the 18th and early 20th centuries, finally found a place in mathematics: ''In Search of Infinity'' by N.Ya. Vilenkin (translated by Abe Shenitzer).<br /> <br /> ==Page 595==<br /> <br /> '''That winter, in St. Petersburg'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 22 Jan 1905 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution_of_1905 Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''Kronstadt'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Kronstadt rebellion of March 1921<br /> <br /> '''Black Hundreds'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Anti-Semitic vigilantes.<br /> <br /> '''Japanese won'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Japanese destroyed the bulk of the Russian Baltic Fleet in the Battle of Tsushima Straight on May 27-28, 1905. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''Muslim rebellion'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The downfall of the Ottoman Empire by Turkey? <br /> <br /> '''the year that followed'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Seemingly 1918.<br /> Russian Revolution of 1917, which included: <br /> February Revolution, resulting in the abdication of Nicholas II of Russia <br /> October Revolution, resulting in the coming to power of the Bolshevik party <br /> Third Russian Revolution, the failed anarchist revolution against the Bolsheviks and the White movement 1918 - 1922 <br /> <br /> '''Peter and Paul Fortress'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> At St. Petersburg, established by Peter the Great. Political prisoners were confined there from the first half of the 1700s. Conditions were notoriously harsh.<br /> <br /> '''kazatsky'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A Cossack dance, stereotypical Russian behavior.<br /> <br /> '''raid....Waziristan'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Waziristan (Pashto: وزیرستان) is a mountainous region of northwest Pakistan, bordering Afghanistan and covering some 11 585 km² (4,473 mi²). It comprises the area west and southwest of Peshawar between the Tochi River to the north and the Gomal River to the south, forming part of Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas. The North-West Frontier Province lies immediately to the east. The region was an independent tribal territory from 1893, remaining outside of British-ruled empire and Afghanistan. Tribal raiding into British-ruled territory was a constant problem for the British, eliciting frequent punitive expeditions between 1860 and 1945. Wikipedia<br /> <br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 596==<br /> <br /> '''as-ever transcendentally interesting hair'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Perhaps a reference to Albert Einstein?)<br /> <br /> Possibly, but given the numerous mentions of the Zeta function it is most likely a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_number/ transcendental numbers]. These are irrational numbers that do not exist as the zero (or solution) to any algebraic function. A number of groundbreaking results regarding transcendentalism were made around the time the novel is set, and most if not all of the mathematicians and mathematical methods mentioned in the book revolve around transcendental numbers and functions.<br /> <br /> Given that these numbers are often expressed as an infinite series, in which successive terms add ever-more-miniscule amounts to the value of the number, yet each digit is fascinatingly unique (since the decimal never repeats), it seems to me that Pynchon is suggesting that Yashmeen's hair has the quality of being endlessly fascinating, that even the observation of a single hair (or even a portion of a single hair) is involving and invigorating. This would mirror Kit's fascination and infatuation with Yashmeen, and the term would likely spring readily to the mind of a mathematician of the era.[[User:Dharper|Dharper]] 08:15, 16 January 2007 (PST)<br /> <br /> ''''gen''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> British military slang for information. To gen-up is to learn quickly. OED gives earliest recorded use of the word as 1940.<br /> <br /> '''a soul impaled . . . as if to bisect me'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Harks back to the fate of La Jarretière in ''V.''<br /> <br /> '''Afghani dirhan'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An Afghani coin, more usually transliterated as &quot;dirham&quot;. [http://ghaznavid.ancients.info/ This site] has pictures and more information.<br /> <br /> '''Ghaznivid Empire'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Usually transliterated as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghaznavid_Empire Ghaznavid Empire] (Wikipedia)<br /> <br /> '''coffee scion'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Coffee motif.<br /> <br /> '''Günther von Quassel'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;quasseln&quot; is a German verb, meaning roughly &quot;to jabber&quot;<br /> <br /> '''less than universally respected Ludwig Boltzmann'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Boltzmann Boltzmann] proposed an explanation of thermodynamics based on the statistical behaviour of atoms. Many influential colleagues at the time did not believe in the reality of atoms and thus worked to discredit Boltzmann.<br /> <br /> ==Page 597==<br /> <br /> '''Gymnasium child'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A Gymnasium is a German secondary school<br /> <br /> '''''Ach, die Zetamanie'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German: Oh, the zeta-mania.<br /> <br /> '''one measure of the chaos'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf GR on entropy?<br /> <br /> '''Göttingen tradition'''...'''statue'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Like other university towns, Göttingen has developed its own folklore. On the day of their doctorate, postgraduate students are drawn in handcarts from the Great Hall to the Gänseliesel-Fountain in front of the Old Town Hall. There they have to climb the fountain and kiss the statue of the Gänseliesel (Goose girl). This practice is actually forbidden by law, but the law is not at all enforced. She is considered to be the most-kissed girl in the world. Wikipedia.<br /> <br /> Addendum of interest for GR and ATD.<br /> Nearly untouched by allied bombing in World War II (the informal understanding during World War 2 was that Germany wouldn't bomb Cambridge and Oxford and the allies wouldn't bomb Heidelberg and Göttingen).<br /> <br /> '''Rathaus square'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The square in front of City Hall.<br /> <br /> ==Page 598==<br /> <br /> '''Axioms of Zermelo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The basic axioms of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zermelo-Frankel_set_theory#The_axioms Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory].<br /> <br /> '''Poincaré'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Henri Poincaré ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Poincar%C3%A9 Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> '''Cauchy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Augustin Louis Cauchy ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustin_Louis_Cauchy Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> '''Whittaker and Watson'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A standard mathematics textbook of the time ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whittaker_and_Watson Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> '''two point one'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Cf Sondheim lyric, &quot;A Little Night Music&quot; [http://lynxfeather.net/nest/lyrics/nightmusic-nowlatersoon.html lyrics].)<br /> <br /> ==Page 599==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;What here is he ''doing?''&quot; . . . &quot;Obviously, we must now a duel fight.&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> In keeping with his name (see p. 596 annotations), Günther speaks in a stage-German accent.<br /> <br /> '''dueling-society cap'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Probably student corporation insignia.<br /> <br /> '''''Liebchen'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;sweetheart&quot;<br /> <br /> '''''Egal was, meine Schatze'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;No matter what, my darling&quot; - though &quot;meine Schatze&quot; is an improper femininization, which ought to be &quot;mein Schatz&quot;.<br /> <br /> '''''Schläger'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A specialized weapon for student duels. See Wikipedia's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_fencing Academic fencing] article.<br /> <br /> '''Krummsäbel'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;scimitar&quot;.<br /> <br /> '''Korbrapier'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A rapier with a basket (&quot;Korb&quot; in German) like protection hilt.<br /> <br /> '''épée'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A sharp-pointed duelling sword.<br /> <br /> ==Page 600==<br /> <br /> '''Colt six-shooters'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> I guess Kit's luggage beat him to Gottingen.<br /> <br /> '''''Verbindung'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German: connection, union. Here the student corps one belongs to.<br /> <br /> '''upon the face of the other, ''to inscribe one's mark'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> In several of his movies, the actor Erich von Stroheim appeared with a nasty scar on the left side of his face. Dueling was a pastime of honor at some universities, and the sword scar was the mark of having sustained one's honor there. Special weapons, masks and inflaming treatments were employed to produce this lifelong disfigurement.<br /> <br /> '''a Mexican tilde'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The wavy mark over the letter ñ in Spanish.<br /> <br /> '''restoring moment, elastic constants'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''wasn't going to converge . . . skipped a step . . . ''divided by zero'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Kit insults Günther by pointing out blunders in the proof he gave to Yashmeen.<br /> <br /> '''Geheimrat Hilbert'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German: confidential counsellor. A title of honor given to prominent civilian figures in Germany.<br /> <br /> ==Page 601==<br /> <br /> '''''Ehrenkodex'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;code of honor&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Tyrolean hats'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&amp;q=tirolerhut&amp;btnG=Search+Images Images]<br /> <br /> '''''Schnurrbartbinde'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A device to keep one's mustache safe from entanglement when sleeping, like [http://www.volkskrantblog.nl/pub/mm/2006/01/1137360569.70341.gif this].<br /> <br /> '''Zeiss &quot;Palmos Panoram&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An early panoramic camera, mentioned in the 1911 Britannica's [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Photography Photography] article.<br /> <br /> '''''&quot;Auf die Mensur!&quot;'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;to the duel&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Andaman Islands'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://www.openencyclopedia.net/index.php/Andaman_Islands Here]'s a mention of tattooing practices in the Andaman Islands<br /> <br /> '''Stephanie du Motel... group-theory godfather Évariste Galois'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Évariste Galois died in a duel at the age of 20. Though much confusion surrounds the affair, it is suspected that he provoked the duel after being rejected by one Stéphanie-Felice du Motel. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evariste_Galois#Final_days Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> ==Page 602==<br /> <br /> '''young Ouspensky'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Peter D. Ouspensky (1878-1947), Russian mystic and philosopher, author of ''The Fourth Dimension'', appropriate to Pynchon's themes in ''ATD''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Uspensky Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''Chong'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A strange and seemingly unlikely visitor to Göttingen. The name &quot;Chong&quot; is not the character's actual name, as one will find out within the next 50 pages. The name might be taken from the Chinese philosopher Wang Chong, or Wang Ch'ung.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Could be Cheech Marin's partner? (C.Marin alluded to earlier)<br /> <br /> '''&quot;The what?&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Precipitous drop in authorial expectations?)<br /> <br /> '''Sidney... Kensington Sid'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Sidney Webb, leading political theorist [socialist] and (later, I think) Labour Pary representative of the time? No &quot;Chinese Bolshevik&quot;, but with his wife Beatrice, an English supporter and defender of Russia See Wikipedia.<br /> Kensington is where elected officials worked.<br /> <br /> '''transtriadic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Beyond the three.<br /> <br /> ==Page 603==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Spiritual... At Göttingen?&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Gottingen is materialistic. Preserved brains as like in a tannery. <br /> <br /> '''Applied Mechanics Institute'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An institute of the University of Göttingen<br /> <br /> '''Prandtl's recent discovery of the boundary layer'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Ludwig Prandtl ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Prandtl Wikipedia]) in 1904 developed the theory of the boundary layer ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary%20layer Wikipedia]) in aerodynamics, greatly simplifying aerodynamic calculations. <br /> <br /> '''powered flight . . . at the edge of history'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> In 1905 already a reality, but the pioneering empirical work was taking place in Ohio, not Germany.<br /> <br /> '''brambled guttie'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A proto golf-ball, see [http://www.che.rochester.edu/users/dafoster/ChE243/SciAm%20GolfBall.pdf here].<br /> <br /> '''Bürgerstrasse'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;Citizen's Street&quot;, a street in Göttingen.<br /> <br /> '''Brauweg'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;Brewery Way&quot;, a street in Göttingen.<br /> <br /> '''Zhukovsky's Transformation'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joukowsky_transform Joukowsky Transform] maps the unit circle in the complex plane to a shape very much like an airfoil.<br /> <br /> '''Geheimrat Klein '''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Geheimrat = Privy councillor. In geometry, the Klein model, also called the projective model... is a model of n-dimensional hyperbolic geometry in which the points of the geometry are in an n-dimensional disk, or ball, and the lines of the geometry are line segments contained in the disk; that is, with endpoints on the boundary of the disk<br /> <br /> '''glass of tea'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Why not 'cup'?)<br /> because in Europe, as opposed to in England, tea may be drunk from glassware.<br /> <br /> '''draw pictures . . . flights of arrows . . . vectors without pictures'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Vectors can be visualized as arrows in a plane or three-dimensional space; more generally they can be represented as arrays of coefficients, and now they are not limited to three dimensions.<br /> <br /> '''''&quot;...according to Spiral Theory, up to infinity.&quot;&lt;br&gt; &quot;And beyond, &quot; added Gunther, nodding earnestly.'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Reference to Buzz Lightyear's stock character phrase in 1995's TOY STORY (Pixar/Disney):<br /> &quot;To Infinity... and Beyond!&quot;<br /> --[[User:Btchakir|Btchakir]] 07:43, 19 December 2006 (PST)<br /> <br /> ==Page 604==<br /> <br /> '''nontrivial zeroes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Riemann zeta function has two classes of zeros, the trivial zeroes being at negative even integers (-2, -4...), the non-trivial complex numbers, believed (but not proven) to have Re(z)=1/2. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_hypothesis Wikipedia].<br /> <br /> '''much-noted talk'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> At the 1900 International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris, Hilbert proposed a research programme of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_problems#Tabulated_information 23 problems]. The Riemann hypothesis is number 8 on the list. <br /> <br /> '''eigenvalues'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenvalue Wikipedia] Dudley Eigenvalue, D.D.S., was a character in ''V.''<br /> <br /> '''Hermitian operator'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A Hermitian operator generalises some of the ideas of symmetry when complex numbers are involved. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermitian_operator Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''spine of reality... ''&quot;Rückgrat von Wirklichkeit&quot;'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Probably a reference to the main diagonal of a Hermitian matrix, which can contain only real numbers. The German phrase is one accurate way to translate the English.<br /> <br /> '''Hilbert-Polya Conjecture'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The conjecture that the zeroes of the Riemann function would be the eigenvalues of a Hermitian operator, just what Yashmeen is suggesting.<br /> <br /> ==Page 605==<br /> <br /> '''Vance Aychrome'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The voracious detective is a stock figure in the mystery genre (Nero Wolfe, Mycroft Holmes, Inspector Dover, D.C.I. Dalziel and others).&lt;br&gt;<br /> Is his name pronounced Eye Chrome, as in private eye? Weak possible connection?-- a truck light called Big Eye Chrome. The name sounds like 'fancy chrome.'<br /> <br /> '''Full English Breakfast'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Bacon, eggs, tomato, toast... otherwise known as a fry-up.<br /> <br /> '''Pythagorean dietary'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The first prominent modern vegetarian was the Greek philosopher Pythagoras who lived towards the end of the 6th century BC. The Pythagorean diet came to mean an avoidance of the flesh of slaughtered animals. Pythagorean ethics first became a philosophical morality between 490-430 BC with a desire to create a universal and absolute law including injunctions not to kill &quot;living creatures,&quot; to abstain from &quot;harsh-sounding bloodshed,&quot; in particular animal sacrifice, and &quot;never to eat meat.&quot; (From a review of ''The Heretics Feast: a History of Vegetarianism'' by Colin Spencer, University Press of New England, 1995)<br /> <br /> '''kippers and bloaters'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Different words (both Scottish) for smoked herrings<br /> <br /> '''baps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> soft bread rolls - another Scottish word<br /> <br /> '''Spong machine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Appropriate technology. An English-made hand-cranked coffee grinder that doesn't light up, lacks a readout to tell when the beans are ready, and signally fails to function before the user wakes up. Only drawback is that some spouses compare its sound to half a load of cobbles being dumped on the roof.<br /> <br /> '''thinned'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> From full 78. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarot Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''vegetarian haggis'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> It exists: [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=%22vegetarian+haggis Google search]<br /> <br /> ==Page 606==<br /> <br /> '''Lamont Replevin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Replevin&quot; is a legal term for a form of civil action to recover possession of property being wrongfully held by another.<br /> <br /> '''Elflock Villa'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Locked elves? <br /> <br /> '''Stuffed Edge, Herts'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An imaginary village in the South-East English county of Hertfordshire. Stuffed hedge?<br /> <br /> '''kedgeree'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A hot breakfast dish of fish, rice, and eggs.<br /> <br /> '''Cesare Lombroso'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Anthropologist who devised a method of identifying criminal &quot;types&quot; from their facial structures.<br /> <br /> '''Trans-Oxanian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> From the other side of the Oxus River (now Amu-Darya) in Central Asia.<br /> <br /> '''Graeco-Buddhist'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The hybrid cultural background evidenced in Shambhala.<br /> <br /> '''bad hats'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A bad hat is a slang term for a rascal<br /> <br /> ==Page 607==<br /> <br /> '''Gas Office'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> As explained in the text, the Scotland Yard bureau that kept gas communications under surveillance.<br /> <br /> '''communication by means of coal-gas'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Nabokov's &quot;Ada&quot;. Also inverse of Tesla's energy-transmitter. A parallel to the Tristero, too. The description of communication by gas seems like a self-parody of ''The Crying of Lot 49.''<br /> <br /> '''bombs... Suffragettes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Did they bomb post offices?!?)post boxes:Suffragettes carried out direct action such as chaining themselves to railings, setting fire to the contents of mailboxes, smashing windows and on occasions setting off bombs. Wikipedia<br /> <br /> '''Persian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Majority language in Iran, now called Farsi.<br /> <br /> '''Pashto'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A language spoken in Afghanistan and nearby.<br /> <br /> '''Tadjik'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A language spoken in Tadjikistan. &quot;Mountain Tadjik&quot; presumably dominates in the 60% or so of the country that is in high mountains.<br /> <br /> '''Seven Dials'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> In Covent Garden, London - a place where 7 roads meet. An unsavory assignment for a policeman.<br /> <br /> ==Page 608==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Avoid beans&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pythagoreans follow a proscription against eating beans.<br /> <br /> '''spotted dick'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A suet pudding with raisins or currants<br /> <br /> '''Yarmouth bloater'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A cured herring from the port town of Yarmouth.<br /> <br /> '''queering the pitch'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The pitch in a medicine show is the audience; queering them means putting them onto the doc's game. In cricket, the pitch is the playing field; queering the pitch means disturbing the surface so that the ball bounces unpredictably.<br /> <br /> ''''shape''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> a doughnut,which comes in various shapes? Including the math-relevant<br /> shape: a torus. But probably just a bit of bun, scone, etc. listed as Vance's breakfast...no doughnut listed.<br /> <br /> '''blue lamps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Traditionally hung outside police stations in England.<br /> <br /> '''lamé surfaces'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lamé (fabric), a fabric inwoven metallic threads&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lamé, name of the electrically conductive jacket worn by foil and sabre fencers&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lamé (armor), an unarticulated component of a larger piece of armor &lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> <br /> '''yarmulke... high crown... dented Trilby style'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://www.wpclipart.com/clothes/hats/index.html Image of a Trilby hat.]<br /> <br /> ==Page 609==<br /> <br /> '''''Kelly's Suburban Dictionary'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The peerless ''London A to Z'' did not come along until the 1930s.<br /> <br /> '''wenlets'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Politician and journalist William Cobbett (1763-1835) called London &quot;the great wen.&quot; It was not a compliment, because ''wen'' means a sebaceous cyst. Wenlets are small versions of the &quot;great&quot; wen.<br /> <br /> ==Page 610==<br /> <br /> '''daylight oil'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> from the streetlamps, lit up for hours?<br /> <br /> '''refused to dim'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Nicely vivid.)<br /> <br /> '''Vontz's Universal Pick'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''alchemized coke'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Gas works that manufacture syngas also produce coke as an end product, called gas house coke.<br /> <br /> Fluid coking is a process by which heavy residual crude is converted into lighter products such as naptha, kerosene, heating oil, and hydrocarbon gases. The &quot;fluid&quot; term refers to the fact that coke particles are in a continuous system versus older batch coking technology. Wikipedia<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Lincrusta-Walton'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''hipshot'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> having one hip lower than the other: a Greek statue in hipshot pose.M-W.<br /> <br /> '''scalene polygons'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Polygons with sides of unequal length.<br /> <br /> '''jet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> jet black, a color.<br /> <br /> '''Apotheosis Sparkless Torch'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Page 611==<br /> <br /> '''magnalium'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An alloy of magnesium and aluminum.<br /> <br /> '''Lamont Replevin (for it was he)'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Formula from penny-dreadful literature.<br /> <br /> '''''The Slow and the Stupefied'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Daytime soap 'The Young and the Restless'.<br /> <br /> '''gas-head'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf pothead, acidhead, etc.<br /> <br /> '''Pike's Peak'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lew's old stompinground.<br /> <br /> '''Gus Swallowfield'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A curious pseudonym assumed by Lew Basnight while in the presence of Lamont Replevin. As Mr. Swallowfield, Lew professes to be an insurance salesman. The name is very overtly British and is possibly referential to the Swallowfield estate in Berkshire, which itself has a curious history.<br /> <br /> '''most theft policies'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Fact?)<br /> <br /> '''pantechnicon'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A closed van or carryall. (Is TRP trying to put a burr under S. Weisenburger's saddle by bringing this vehicle back? SW's gloss in the ''GR Companion,'' at page 19 of the Viking edition, is famously wrong.)<br /> <br /> '''legitimate bill of sale'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 612==<br /> <br /> '''''Pavonazzetto'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Phrygian marble'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Phrygia is an ancient region of west central Asia Minor, to the south of Bithynia. Marble from there was highly valued.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Atys... Agdistis'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''The Mutilation of Atys'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> No images: [http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;q=%22Mutilation%20of%20Atys&amp;btnG=Search&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=wi Google image search]<br /> <br /> '''Arturo Naunt, Chelsea's own, shocking the bourgeoisie since 1889'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Phrasing reminiscent of advertising.<br /> <br /> '''shocking the bourgeoisie'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A popular pastime for young and not-so-young soi-disant radicals (&quot;Epater le bourgeois&quot;).<br /> <br /> '''koumiss vessel'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''depending on the angle you hold it at, sometimes it doesn't look like anything at all'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A concise description of anamorphic and paramorphic images; this one needs the Paramorphoscope to interpret it.<br /> <br /> '''wrathful deities from Tantric Buddhism'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 613==<br /> <br /> '''tiny German hand camera'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Probably a Zeiss Ikon. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeiss Wikipedia Entry]<br /> <br /> '''raw light'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Gasophilia'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Love of gas.<br /> <br /> '''Schwärmer'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The name is a German word meaning visionary, zealot, raver.<br /> <br /> '''Waves in a timeless stream of Gas'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Replevin equates piped gas to the æther.<br /> <br /> '''Sensitive Flame'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A burner flame adjusted so that it responds to the tiniest disturbance in the air. Used by both physicists and spiritualists.<br /> <br /> '''Chidambaram'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Akaša'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Atman'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ''Sanskrit''. In Hinduisim, the innermost essence of each individual. Also, the soul. ''Cf.'' Weed Atman in ''Vineland''.<br /> <br /> ''''''Chaos''''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''van Helmont'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> He claimed to have coined the word &quot;gas&quot; in just the way described here.<br /> <br /> '''stridently unpopulated'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf p610.<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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<p>Jackrmann: /* Page 607 */</p> <hr /> <div>:'''&lt;big&gt;Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.&lt;/big&gt;'''&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Page 588==<br /> <br /> '''tannery'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> In ancient history, tanning was considered a noxious or &quot;odiferous trade&quot; and relegated to the outskirts of town, amongst the poor. Indeed, tanning by ancient methods is so foul smelling that tanneries are still isolated from those towns today where the old methods are used.<br /> <br /> '''Gauss's brain'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> After Carl Friedrich Gauss died in 1855, his brain was preserved for research purposes. To this day, it is in the possession of the University of Göttingen.<br /> <br /> '''impervious to the wind'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Attribute of tanned leather?)<br /> <br /> '''''&quot;Heiliger Bimbam!&quot;'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A German expression of surprise, translated elsewhere as &quot;Holy Moly!&quot;<br /> <br /> '''It is she, she!'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> In [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Rider_Haggard H. Rider Haggard's] ''She'', the she in question rises, like Venus, from the sea. In ''Against the day'', she rises from the swamp. Carl Jung, who used the novel ''She'' (1887) as an example of anima, posited the anima is an archetypical form, expressing the fact that a man has a minority of female genes. Haggard's Queen Ayesha is an unmistakable anima type &amp;#151; the ultimate guide and mediator to the inner world. The idea has also connections with the observations of James Frazer in his classical study ''The Golden Bough''. Haggard's idea of a journey into the &quot;darkest Africa,&quot; which turns into a spiritual search, has been used by a number of writers, including Joseph Conrad in ''Heart of Darkness'' (1902).&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;I am of thy imagination&quot;, She says in the novel, &quot;She&quot;. <br /> <br /> '''Roentgen-ray spectacles'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The X-ray glasses that used to be advertised in comic books.<br /> <br /> '''''natürlich'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German: naturally.<br /> <br /> '''rim'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Kit pretends to think he's referring to monocle as 'chichi' (stylish).<br /> <br /> ==Page 589==<br /> <br /> '''Those curves . . . ''Noli me tangere'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A well-turned wordplay: The operation of differentiating a curve involves drawing ''tangents'' to it at selected points. The curves in question are continuous, but the injunction ''Noli me tangere'' means you can't draw the tangents.<br /> <br /> '''''Noli me tangere'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Latin for 'don't touch me'<br /> <br /> '''''Hausknochen'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German: a giant housekey, as defined, literally House Bone,with perhaps a<br /> double entendre on bone?<br /> <br /> ==Page 590==<br /> <br /> '''Hadamard... Poussin... Prime Number Theorem'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''patent ''Kühlbox'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> patent here, as adjective, means ACCESSIBLE, EXPOSED: Archaic<br /> : readily visible or intelligible : OBVIOUS<br /> synonym see EVIDENT. If the Kuhlbox were a patented invention, TRP would have written &quot;patented Kuhlbox&quot;<br /> <br /> icebox..this last an English-German meld or Archaic, it seems.<br /> <br /> [http://www.dhm.de/datenbank/index.html?/datenbank/rb00/rb000891.html pic of a ca. 1920 Eiskiste-model]. According to german Wikipedia, the mobile &quot;Eiskiste&quot; (icebox) had to be filled with (natural) ice, while its successor, the Kühlbox, worked/works with &quot;Kühlaggregate&quot; (cooling units). The contributor is not sure if suchlike were around at that time. German Wikipedia on [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiskiste Eiskiste] and [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%BChlbox Kühlbox]. <br /> <br /> '''beleaguered subset'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> a group (from the whole) under attack<br /> <br /> '''Prime Number Theorem'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Gives an estimate of the number of primes less than a whole number ''n.'' For example, if ''n'' is 20 then there are nine primes less than it (1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19). The Prime Number Theorem is closely related to the Riemann Hypothesis.<br /> <br /> ==Page 591==<br /> <br /> '''prats'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Literally the buttocks. As a slang term, a 'prat' is an idiot.<br /> <br /> '''''Die Nullstellen der ζ-Funktion'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German: the zeroes of the ζ function. (Null = zero; Stelle = location.) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_zeta_function#Zeros_of_the_Riemann_zeta_function Wikipedia] on the &quot;Zeros of the Riemann zeta-function&quot;. <br /> <br /> '''not all that hard to prove'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Kit will upset the applecart if he can prove the Riemann Hypothesis; Yashmeen's research topic will shrink to triviality. (Last time I checked, no one had yet proved the hypothesis.) --[[User:Volver|Volver]] 19:37, 9 January 2007 (PST)<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Richard Harding Davis&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Popular writer of fiction and drama, journalist/war-correspondent and a major male-role-model of his time (1864 - 1916). He was considered the model for illustrator Charles Dana Gibson's dashing Gibson man, the male equivalent of his famous Gibson Girl. He is also referenced early in Sinclair Lewis's book, ''Dodsworth'' as the example of an exciting, adventure-seeking legitimate hero. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Harding_Davis Wikipedia] <br /> <br /> '''seldom, if ever'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf p559 re Umeki!?<br /> <br /> '''tetralatry'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> made up from greek &quot;tettares&quot; (prefix -tetra) = four and &quot;latreia&quot; = worship<br /> <br /> '''C. Howard Hinton'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Charles Howard Hinton (1853 – 1907) was a British mathematician and writer of science fiction works titled ''Scientific Romances''. He was interested in higher dimensions, particularly the fourth dimension, and is known for coining the word ''tesseract'' and for his work on methods of visualising the geometry of higher dimensions. He also had a strong interest in theosophy. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Howard_Hinton Wikipedia Entry]<br /> <br /> '''Johann K.F. Zöllner'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner (1834–1882) was a German astrophysicist. Studied Photometrie and optical illusions. He insisted a fourth dimension should be considered in Physics and tried to scientifically explain spiritist phenomena. <br /> <br /> '''vogue... 'vague''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Nice wordplay as Yashmeen seems to think the vogue of mysticism is not very precise, is 'vague' intellectually.<br /> <br /> ==Page 592==<br /> <br /> '''upside-down triangles'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Also Pléiade p538. In mathematics that would be the operator ''del'' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del Wikipedia]. Since pre-history and across most cultures the upside-down triangle is a symbol for the female (genitals).<br /> <br /> '''screamingly obvious fallacy in this . . . &quot;proof&quot; of yours'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Yashmeen reacts in a slight panic to Kit's threat (page 591).<br /> <br /> '''metallic banging'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Hausknochen on doors, with 'banging' entendre.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;metric interval&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> In Euclidean (three-dimensional) space a distance is just what you think it is. In other geometrical systems the term &quot;metric interval&quot; is preferred as a generalized distance.<br /> <br /> '''Prinzenstrasse and Weenderstrasse'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A street corner at the very center of Göttingen ([http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;q=g%C3%B6ttingen,+germany&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;om=1&amp;z=17&amp;ll=51.534284,9.935417&amp;spn=0.006107,0.010793&amp;t=h Google Maps]), &quot;known to mathematicians here as the origin of the city of Göttingen's coordinate system&quot;.<br /> <br /> ==Page 593==<br /> <br /> '''twenty marks'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A mark is short for deutschemark, a German monetary unit. <br /> <br /> '''''der Pistolenheld'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German: the pistol hero.<br /> <br /> '''''das Nichtharmonischestrahlenbündel'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Or ''das nichtharmonische Strahlenbündel.'' German: the anharmonic pencil. A &quot;pencil&quot; is the set of lines passing through a point.<br /> <br /> '''Euler'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Leonhard Euler (pronounced Oiler; IPA [ˈɔʏlɐ]) (April 15, 1707 – September 7, 1783) was a Russian-German mathematician and physicist of Swiss descent. From Wikipedia and below:<br /> <br /> Euler made important discoveries in fields as diverse as calculus, number theory, and topology. He also introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, particularly for mathematical analysis, such as the notion of a mathematical function. [1] He is also renowned for his work in mechanics, optics, and astronomy.<br /> <br /> Euler is considered to be the preeminent mathematician of the 18th century and one of the greatest of all time. <br /> <br /> '''''Mathematical Theory of the Top'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Published in the U.S. in 1897. Compare Felix Klein and Arnold Sommerfeld, ''Über die Theorie des Kreisels,'' 4 volumes, 1897-1910.<br /> <br /> '''Leopold Kronecker''' and '''Cantor'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The &quot;monumental quarrel between Kronecker and Cantor&quot; is also referred to as a &quot;religious war,&quot; appropriately enough. It's based in a disagreement over the legitimacy of numbers. Kronecker held that &quot;'the positive integers were created by God, and all else is the work of man.'&quot; This is contradicted by &quot;'Cantor with his ''Kontinuum'', professing an equally strong belief in just those regions, infinitely divisible, which lie ''between'' the whole numbers so demanding of all Kronecker's devotion.'&quot;<br /> <br /> The disagreement between the two mathematicians is reminiscent of (or does it anticipate?) the rift between Pointsman and Mexico in ''Gravity's Rainbow''. Kronecker's integers &quot;created by God&quot; have become a Pavlovian digital binary for Pointsman, but the two oppositions track faithfully right down to the italicized &quot;between.&quot; <br /> <br /> &quot;The young statistician [Mexico] is devoted to number and to method, not table-rapping or wishful thinking. But in the domain of zero to one, not-something to something, Pointsman can only possess the zero and the one. He cannot, like Mexico, survive anyplace in between. Like his master I. P. Pavlov before him, he imagines the cortex of the brain as a mosaic of tiny on/off elements.... But to Mexico belongs the domain ''between'' zero and one.&quot; [Page 55]<br /> <br /> It should be noted, however, that the continuous number line was a modern innovation. In Greek number theory, a number is a collection of indivisible units. Irrationals, such as the square root of 2 are not numbers but &quot;magnitudes.&quot; One is not even a number for it is not a number of units. There are no negative numbers as well. (see Klein's &lt;i&gt;Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra.&lt;/i&gt;) So Kronecker's position may be less of a crazy innovation as much as a maintenance of ancient theory.<br /> <br /> (That last paragraph makes an excellent point. --[[User:Volver|Volver]] 19:45, 9 January 2007 (PST))<br /> <br /> '''''Kontinuum'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> This passage closely parallels the one about the &quot;microcosm of Venice&quot; on page 575.<br /> <br /> ==Page 594==<br /> <br /> '''''Nervenklinik'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German: nerve clinic. Three-dollar word for a mental hospital.<br /> <br /> '''boundless epsilonic world'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Epsilon, Greek letter like E. In mathematics (particularly calculus), an arbitrary (or nearly so) small positive quantity is commonly denoted ε; see limit. <br /> By analogy with this, the late mathematician Paul Erdős also used the term &quot;epsilons&quot; to refer to children (Hoffman 1998, p. 4). Wikipdeia<br /> <br /> '''Der Finsterzwerg'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The choice of the tavern &quot;The Dwarf of Darkness&quot; may have been meant as a dig at five-foot-tall Kronecker.<br /> <br /> '''chloral hydrate'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A/k/a &quot;knockout drops&quot; a/k/a a &quot;Mickey Finn&quot;. Hence the ''Mickifest''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloral_hydrate Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''''Kneipe'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German: dive.<br /> <br /> '''Gauss passing to Weber a remark'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Carl Friedrich Gauss (Gauß)(30 April 1777 – 23 February 1855) was a German mathematician and scientist of profound genius who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, magnetism, astronomy and optics. Sometimes known as &quot;the prince of mathematicians&quot; and &quot;greatest mathematician since antiquity&quot;, Gauss had a remarkable influence in many fields of mathematics and science and is ranked as one of history's most influential mathematicians.<br /> In 1831 Gauss developed a fruitful collaboration with the physics professor Wilhelm Weber; it led to new knowledge in the field of magnetism (including finding a representation for the unit of magnetism in terms of mass, length and time) and the discovery of Kirchhoff's circuit laws in electricity. Gauss and Weber constructed the first electromagnetic telegraph in 1833, which connected the observatory with the institute for physics in Göttingen. Gauss ordered a magnetic observatory to be built in the garden of the observatory and with Weber founded the magnetischer Verein (&quot;magnetic club&quot;), which supported measurements of earth's magnetic field in many regions of the world. He developed a method of measuring the horizontal intensity of the magnetic field which has been in use well into the second half of the 20th century and worked out the mathematical theory for separating the inner (core and crust) and outer (magnetospheric) sources of Earth's magnetic field<br /> <br /> '''crisis in mathematics . . . Weierstrass functions, Cantor's continuum, Russell's inexhaustible capacity for mischief'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A genuine crisis as well-established ideas were challenged. Weierstrass functions have the unheard-of property that they are &quot;continuous but nowhere differentiable.&quot; Cantor's ideas about the continuum violated a longstanding prohibition against infinite quantities. Bertrand Russell around this time was setting the cat among the pigeons by identifying paradoxes and inconsistencies in set theory and number theory.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;the infinite&quot; was all but a conjuror's convenience'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> There is a very good book relating how the infinite, between the 18th and early 20th centuries, finally found a place in mathematics: ''In Search of Infinity'' by N.Ya. Vilenkin (translated by Abe Shenitzer).<br /> <br /> ==Page 595==<br /> <br /> '''That winter, in St. Petersburg'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 22 Jan 1905 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution_of_1905 Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''Kronstadt'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Kronstadt rebellion of March 1921<br /> <br /> '''Black Hundreds'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Anti-Semitic vigilantes.<br /> <br /> '''Japanese won'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Japanese destroyed the bulk of the Russian Baltic Fleet in the Battle of Tsushima Straight on May 27-28, 1905. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''Muslim rebellion'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The downfall of the Ottoman Empire by Turkey? <br /> <br /> '''the year that followed'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Seemingly 1918.<br /> Russian Revolution of 1917, which included: <br /> February Revolution, resulting in the abdication of Nicholas II of Russia <br /> October Revolution, resulting in the coming to power of the Bolshevik party <br /> Third Russian Revolution, the failed anarchist revolution against the Bolsheviks and the White movement 1918 - 1922 <br /> <br /> '''Peter and Paul Fortress'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> At St. Petersburg, established by Peter the Great. Political prisoners were confined there from the first half of the 1700s. Conditions were notoriously harsh.<br /> <br /> '''kazatsky'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A Cossack dance, stereotypical Russian behavior.<br /> <br /> '''raid....Waziristan'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Waziristan (Pashto: وزیرستان) is a mountainous region of northwest Pakistan, bordering Afghanistan and covering some 11 585 km² (4,473 mi²). It comprises the area west and southwest of Peshawar between the Tochi River to the north and the Gomal River to the south, forming part of Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas. The North-West Frontier Province lies immediately to the east. The region was an independent tribal territory from 1893, remaining outside of British-ruled empire and Afghanistan. Tribal raiding into British-ruled territory was a constant problem for the British, eliciting frequent punitive expeditions between 1860 and 1945. Wikipedia<br /> <br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 596==<br /> <br /> '''as-ever transcendentally interesting hair'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Perhaps a reference to Albert Einstein?)<br /> <br /> Possibly, but given the numerous mentions of the Zeta function it is most likely a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_number/ transcendental numbers]. These are irrational numbers that do not exist as the zero (or solution) to any algebraic function. A number of groundbreaking results regarding transcendentalism were made around the time the novel is set, and most if not all of the mathematicians and mathematical methods mentioned in the book revolve around transcendental numbers and functions.<br /> <br /> Given that these numbers are often expressed as an infinite series, in which successive terms add ever-more-miniscule amounts to the value of the number, yet each digit is fascinatingly unique (since the decimal never repeats), it seems to me that Pynchon is suggesting that Yashmeen's hair has the quality of being endlessly fascinating, that even the observation of a single hair (or even a portion of a single hair) is involving and invigorating. This would mirror Kit's fascination and infatuation with Yashmeen, and the term would likely spring readily to the mind of a mathematician of the era.[[User:Dharper|Dharper]] 08:15, 16 January 2007 (PST)<br /> <br /> ''''gen''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> British military slang for information. To gen-up is to learn quickly. OED gives earliest recorded use of the word as 1940.<br /> <br /> '''a soul impaled . . . as if to bisect me'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Harks back to the fate of La Jarretière in ''V.''<br /> <br /> '''Afghani dirhan'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An Afghani coin, more usually transliterated as &quot;dirham&quot;. [http://ghaznavid.ancients.info/ This site] has pictures and more information.<br /> <br /> '''Ghaznivid Empire'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Usually transliterated as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghaznavid_Empire Ghaznavid Empire] (Wikipedia)<br /> <br /> '''coffee scion'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Coffee motif.<br /> <br /> '''Günther von Quassel'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;quasseln&quot; is a German verb, meaning roughly &quot;to jabber&quot;<br /> <br /> '''less than universally respected Ludwig Boltzmann'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Boltzmann Boltzmann] proposed an explanation of thermodynamics based on the statistical behaviour of atoms. Many influential colleagues at the time did not believe in the reality of atoms and thus worked to discredit Boltzmann.<br /> <br /> ==Page 597==<br /> <br /> '''Gymnasium child'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A Gymnasium is a German secondary school<br /> <br /> '''''Ach, die Zetamanie'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German: Oh, the zeta-mania.<br /> <br /> '''one measure of the chaos'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf GR on entropy?<br /> <br /> '''Göttingen tradition'''...'''statue'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Like other university towns, Göttingen has developed its own folklore. On the day of their doctorate, postgraduate students are drawn in handcarts from the Great Hall to the Gänseliesel-Fountain in front of the Old Town Hall. There they have to climb the fountain and kiss the statue of the Gänseliesel (Goose girl). This practice is actually forbidden by law, but the law is not at all enforced. She is considered to be the most-kissed girl in the world. Wikipedia.<br /> <br /> Addendum of interest for GR and ATD.<br /> Nearly untouched by allied bombing in World War II (the informal understanding during World War 2 was that Germany wouldn't bomb Cambridge and Oxford and the allies wouldn't bomb Heidelberg and Göttingen).<br /> <br /> '''Rathaus square'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The square in front of City Hall.<br /> <br /> ==Page 598==<br /> <br /> '''Axioms of Zermelo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The basic axioms of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zermelo-Frankel_set_theory#The_axioms Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory].<br /> <br /> '''Poincaré'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Henri Poincaré ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Poincar%C3%A9 Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> '''Cauchy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Augustin Louis Cauchy ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustin_Louis_Cauchy Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> '''Whittaker and Watson'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A standard mathematics textbook of the time ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whittaker_and_Watson Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> '''two point one'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Cf Sondheim lyric, &quot;A Little Night Music&quot; [http://lynxfeather.net/nest/lyrics/nightmusic-nowlatersoon.html lyrics].)<br /> <br /> ==Page 599==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;What here is he ''doing?''&quot; . . . &quot;Obviously, we must now a duel fight.&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> In keeping with his name (see p. 596 annotations), Günther speaks in a stage-German accent.<br /> <br /> '''dueling-society cap'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Probably student corporation insignia.<br /> <br /> '''''Liebchen'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;sweetheart&quot;<br /> <br /> '''''Egal was, meine Schatze'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;No matter what, my darling&quot; - though &quot;meine Schatze&quot; is an improper femininization, which ought to be &quot;mein Schatz&quot;.<br /> <br /> '''''Schläger'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A specialized weapon for student duels. See Wikipedia's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_fencing Academic fencing] article.<br /> <br /> '''Krummsäbel'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;scimitar&quot;.<br /> <br /> '''Korbrapier'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A rapier with a basket (&quot;Korb&quot; in German) like protection hilt.<br /> <br /> '''épée'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A sharp-pointed duelling sword.<br /> <br /> ==Page 600==<br /> <br /> '''Colt six-shooters'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> I guess Kit's luggage beat him to Gottingen.<br /> <br /> '''''Verbindung'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German: connection, union. Here the student corps one belongs to.<br /> <br /> '''upon the face of the other, ''to inscribe one's mark'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> In several of his movies, the actor Erich von Stroheim appeared with a nasty scar on the left side of his face. Dueling was a pastime of honor at some universities, and the sword scar was the mark of having sustained one's honor there. Special weapons, masks and inflaming treatments were employed to produce this lifelong disfigurement.<br /> <br /> '''a Mexican tilde'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The wavy mark over the letter ñ in Spanish.<br /> <br /> '''restoring moment, elastic constants'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''wasn't going to converge . . . skipped a step . . . ''divided by zero'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Kit insults Günther by pointing out blunders in the proof he gave to Yashmeen.<br /> <br /> '''Geheimrat Hilbert'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German: confidential counsellor. A title of honor given to prominent civilian figures in Germany.<br /> <br /> ==Page 601==<br /> <br /> '''''Ehrenkodex'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;code of honor&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Tyrolean hats'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&amp;q=tirolerhut&amp;btnG=Search+Images Images]<br /> <br /> '''''Schnurrbartbinde'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A device to keep one's mustache safe from entanglement when sleeping, like [http://www.volkskrantblog.nl/pub/mm/2006/01/1137360569.70341.gif this].<br /> <br /> '''Zeiss &quot;Palmos Panoram&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An early panoramic camera, mentioned in the 1911 Britannica's [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Photography Photography] article.<br /> <br /> '''''&quot;Auf die Mensur!&quot;'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;to the duel&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Andaman Islands'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://www.openencyclopedia.net/index.php/Andaman_Islands Here]'s a mention of tattooing practices in the Andaman Islands<br /> <br /> '''Stephanie du Motel... group-theory godfather Évariste Galois'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Évariste Galois died in a duel at the age of 20. Though much confusion surrounds the affair, it is suspected that he provoked the duel after being rejected by one Stéphanie-Felice du Motel. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evariste_Galois#Final_days Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> ==Page 602==<br /> <br /> '''young Ouspensky'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Peter D. Ouspensky (1878-1947), Russian mystic and philosopher, author of ''The Fourth Dimension'', appropriate to Pynchon's themes in ''ATD''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Uspensky Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''Chong'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A strange and seemingly unlikely visitor to Göttingen. The name &quot;Chong&quot; is not the character's actual name, as one will find out within the next 50 pages. The name might be taken from the Chinese philosopher Wang Chong, or Wang Ch'ung.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Could be Cheech Marin's partner? (C.Marin alluded to earlier)<br /> <br /> '''&quot;The what?&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Precipitous drop in authorial expectations?)<br /> <br /> '''Sidney... Kensington Sid'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Sidney Webb, leading political theorist [socialist] and (later, I think) Labour Pary representative of the time? No &quot;Chinese Bolshevik&quot;, but with his wife Beatrice, an English supporter and defender of Russia See Wikipedia.<br /> Kensington is where elected officials worked.<br /> <br /> '''transtriadic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Beyond the three.<br /> <br /> ==Page 603==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Spiritual... At Göttingen?&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Gottingen is materialistic. Preserved brains as like in a tannery. <br /> <br /> '''Applied Mechanics Institute'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An institute of the University of Göttingen<br /> <br /> '''Prandtl's recent discovery of the boundary layer'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Ludwig Prandtl ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Prandtl Wikipedia]) in 1904 developed the theory of the boundary layer ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary%20layer Wikipedia]) in aerodynamics, greatly simplifying aerodynamic calculations. <br /> <br /> '''powered flight . . . at the edge of history'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> In 1905 already a reality, but the pioneering empirical work was taking place in Ohio, not Germany.<br /> <br /> '''brambled guttie'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A proto golf-ball, see [http://www.che.rochester.edu/users/dafoster/ChE243/SciAm%20GolfBall.pdf here].<br /> <br /> '''Bürgerstrasse'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;Citizen's Street&quot;, a street in Göttingen.<br /> <br /> '''Brauweg'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;Brewery Way&quot;, a street in Göttingen.<br /> <br /> '''Zhukovsky's Transformation'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joukowsky_transform Joukowsky Transform] maps the unit circle in the complex plane to a shape very much like an airfoil.<br /> <br /> '''Geheimrat Klein '''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Geheimrat = Privy councillor. In geometry, the Klein model, also called the projective model... is a model of n-dimensional hyperbolic geometry in which the points of the geometry are in an n-dimensional disk, or ball, and the lines of the geometry are line segments contained in the disk; that is, with endpoints on the boundary of the disk<br /> <br /> '''glass of tea'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Why not 'cup'?)<br /> because in Europe, as opposed to in England, tea may be drunk from glassware.<br /> <br /> '''draw pictures . . . flights of arrows . . . vectors without pictures'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Vectors can be visualized as arrows in a plane or three-dimensional space; more generally they can be represented as arrays of coefficients, and now they are not limited to three dimensions.<br /> <br /> '''''&quot;...according to Spiral Theory, up to infinity.&quot;&lt;br&gt; &quot;And beyond, &quot; added Gunther, nodding earnestly.'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Reference to Buzz Lightyear's stock character phrase in 1995's TOY STORY (Pixar/Disney):<br /> &quot;To Infinity... and Beyond!&quot;<br /> --[[User:Btchakir|Btchakir]] 07:43, 19 December 2006 (PST)<br /> <br /> ==Page 604==<br /> <br /> '''nontrivial zeroes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Riemann zeta function has two classes of zeros, the trivial zeroes being at negative even integers (-2, -4...), the non-trivial complex numbers, believed (but not proven) to have Re(z)=1/2. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_hypothesis Wikipedia].<br /> <br /> '''much-noted talk'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> At the 1900 International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris, Hilbert proposed a research programme of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_problems#Tabulated_information 23 problems]. The Riemann hypothesis is number 8 on the list. <br /> <br /> '''eigenvalues'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenvalue Wikipedia] Dudley Eigenvalue, D.D.S., was a character in ''V.''<br /> <br /> '''Hermitian operator'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A Hermitian operator generalises some of the ideas of symmetry when complex numbers are involved. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermitian_operator Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''spine of reality... ''&quot;Rückgrat von Wirklichkeit&quot;'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Probably a reference to the main diagonal of a Hermitian matrix, which can contain only real numbers. The German phrase is one accurate way to translate the English.<br /> <br /> '''Hilbert-Polya Conjecture'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The conjecture that the zeroes of the Riemann function would be the eigenvalues of a Hermitian operator, just what Yashmeen is suggesting.<br /> <br /> ==Page 605==<br /> <br /> '''Vance Aychrome'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The voracious detective is a stock figure in the mystery genre (Nero Wolfe, Mycroft Holmes, Inspector Dover, D.C.I. Dalziel and others).&lt;br&gt;<br /> Is his name pronounced Eye Chrome, as in private eye? Weak possible connection?-- a truck light called Big Eye Chrome. The name sounds like 'fancy chrome.'<br /> <br /> '''Full English Breakfast'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Bacon, eggs, tomato, toast... otherwise known as a fry-up.<br /> <br /> '''Pythagorean dietary'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The first prominent modern vegetarian was the Greek philosopher Pythagoras who lived towards the end of the 6th century BC. The Pythagorean diet came to mean an avoidance of the flesh of slaughtered animals. Pythagorean ethics first became a philosophical morality between 490-430 BC with a desire to create a universal and absolute law including injunctions not to kill &quot;living creatures,&quot; to abstain from &quot;harsh-sounding bloodshed,&quot; in particular animal sacrifice, and &quot;never to eat meat.&quot; (From a review of ''The Heretics Feast: a History of Vegetarianism'' by Colin Spencer, University Press of New England, 1995)<br /> <br /> '''kippers and bloaters'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Different words (both Scottish) for smoked herrings<br /> <br /> '''baps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> soft bread rolls - another Scottish word<br /> <br /> '''Spong machine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Appropriate technology. An English-made hand-cranked coffee grinder that doesn't light up, lacks a readout to tell when the beans are ready, and signally fails to function before the user wakes up. Only drawback is that some spouses compare its sound to half a load of cobbles being dumped on the roof.<br /> <br /> '''thinned'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> From full 78. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarot Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''vegetarian haggis'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> It exists: [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=%22vegetarian+haggis Google search]<br /> <br /> ==Page 606==<br /> <br /> '''Lamont Replevin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Replevin&quot; is a legal term for a form of civil action to recover possession of property being wrongfully held by another.<br /> <br /> '''Elflock Villa'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Locked elves? <br /> <br /> '''Stuffed Edge, Herts'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An imaginary village in the South-East English county of Hertfordshire. Stuffed hedge?<br /> <br /> '''kedgeree'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A hot breakfast dish of fish, rice, and eggs.<br /> <br /> '''Cesare Lombroso'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Anthropologist who devised a method of identifying criminal &quot;types&quot; from their facial structures.<br /> <br /> '''Trans-Oxanian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> From the other side of the Oxus River (now Amu-Darya) in Central Asia.<br /> <br /> '''Graeco-Buddhist'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The hybrid cultural background evidenced in Shambhala.<br /> <br /> '''bad hats'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A bad hat is a slang term for a rascal<br /> <br /> ==Page 607==<br /> <br /> '''Gas Office'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> As explained in the text, the Scotland Yard bureau that kept gas communications under surveillance.<br /> <br /> '''communication by means of coal-gas'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Nabokov's &quot;Ada&quot;. Also inverse of Tesla's energy-transmitter. A parallel to the Tristero, too. The description of communication by gas seems like a self-parody of ''The Crying of Lot 49.''<br /> <br /> '''bombs... Suffragettes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Did they bomb post offices?!?)post boxes:Suffragettes carried out direct action such as chaining themselves to railings, setting fire to the contents of mailboxes, smashing windows and on occasions setting off bombs. Wikipedia<br /> <br /> '''Persian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Majority language in Iran, now called Farsi.<br /> <br /> '''Pashto'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A language spoken in Afghanistan and nearby.<br /> <br /> '''Tadjik'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A language spoken in Tadjikistan. &quot;Mountain Tadjik&quot; presumably dominates in the 60% or so of the country that is in high mountains.<br /> <br /> '''Seven Dials'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> In Covent Garden, London - a place where 7 roads meet. An unsavory assignment for a policeman.<br /> <br /> ==Page 608==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Avoid beans&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pythagoreans follow a proscription against eating beans.<br /> <br /> '''spotted dick'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A suet pudding with raisins or currants<br /> <br /> '''Yarmouth bloater'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A cured herring from the port town of Yarmouth.<br /> <br /> '''queering the pitch'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The pitch in a medicine show is the audience; queering them means putting them onto the doc's game. In cricket, the pitch is the playing field; queering the pitch means disturbing the surface so that the ball bounces unpredictably.<br /> <br /> ''''shape''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> a doughnut,which comes in various shapes? Including the math-relevant<br /> shape: a torus. But probably just a bit of bun, scone, etc. listed as Vance's breakfast...no doughnut listed.<br /> <br /> '''blue lamps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Traditionally hung outside police stations in England.<br /> <br /> '''lamé surfaces'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lamé (fabric), a fabric inwoven metallic threads&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lamé, name of the electrically conductive jacket worn by foil and sabre fencers&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lamé (armor), an unarticulated component of a larger piece of armor &lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> <br /> '''yarmulke... high crown... dented Trilby style'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://www.wpclipart.com/clothes/hats/index.html Image of a Trilby hat.]<br /> <br /> ==Page 609==<br /> <br /> '''''Kelly's Suburban Dictionary'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The peerless ''London A to Z'' did not come along until the 1930s.<br /> <br /> '''wenlets'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Politician and journalist William Cobbett (1763-1835) called London &quot;the great wen.&quot; It was not a compliment, because ''wen'' means a sebaceous cyst. Wenlets are small versions of the &quot;great&quot; wen.<br /> <br /> ==Page 610==<br /> <br /> '''daylight oil'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> from the streetlamps, lit up for hours?<br /> <br /> '''refused to dim'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Nicely vivid.)<br /> <br /> '''Vontz's Universal Pick'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''alchemized coke'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Gas works that manufacture syngas also produce coke as an end product, called gas house coke.<br /> <br /> Fluid coking is a process by which heavy residual crude is converted into lighter products such as naptha, kerosene, heating oil, and hydrocarbon gases. The &quot;fluid&quot; term refers to the fact that coke particles are in a continuous system versus older batch coking technology. Wikipedia<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Lincrusta-Walton'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''hipshot'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> having one hip lower than the other: a Greek statue in hipshot pose.M-W.<br /> <br /> '''scalene polygons'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Polygons with sides of unequal length.<br /> <br /> '''jet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> jet black, a color.<br /> <br /> '''Apotheosis Sparkless Torch'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Page 611==<br /> <br /> '''magnalium'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An alloy of magnesium and aluminum.<br /> <br /> '''Lamont Replevin (for it was he)'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Formula from penny-dreadful literature.<br /> <br /> '''''The Slow and the Stupefied'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Daytime soap 'The Young and the Restless'.<br /> <br /> '''gas-head'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf pothead, acidhead, etc.<br /> <br /> '''Pike's Peak'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lew's old stompinground.<br /> <br /> '''Gus Swallowfield'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A curious pseudonym assumed by Lew Basnight while in the presence of Lamont Replevin. As Mr. Swallowfield, Lew professes to be an insurance salesman. The name is very overtly British and is possibly referential to the Swallowfield estate in Berkshire, which itself has a curious history.<br /> <br /> '''most theft policies'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Fact?)<br /> <br /> '''pantechnicon'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A closed van or carryall. (Is TRP trying to put a burr under S. Weisenburger's saddle by bringing this vehicle back? SW's gloss in the ''GR Companion,'' at page 19 of the Viking edition, is famously wrong.)<br /> <br /> '''legitimate bill of sale'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 612==<br /> <br /> '''''Pavonazzetto'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Phrygian marble'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Phrygia is an ancient region of west central Asia Minor, to the south of Bithynia. Marble from there was highly valued.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Atys... Agdistis'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''The Mutilation of Atys'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> No images: [http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;q=%22Mutilation%20of%20Atys&amp;btnG=Search&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=wi Google image search]<br /> <br /> '''Arturo Naunt, Chelsea's own, shocking the bourgeoisie since 1889'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Phrasing reminiscent of advertising.<br /> <br /> '''shocking the bourgeoisie'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A popular pastime for young and not-so-young soi-disant radicals (&quot;Epater le bourgeois&quot;).<br /> <br /> '''koumiss vessel'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''depending on the angle you hold it at, sometimes it doesn't look like anything at all'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A concise description of anamorphic and paramorphic images; this one needs the Paramorphoscope to interpret it.<br /> <br /> '''wrathful deities from Tantric Buddhism'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 613==<br /> <br /> '''tiny German hand camera'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Probably a Zeiss Ikon. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeiss Wikipedia Entry]<br /> <br /> '''raw light'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Gasophilia'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Love of gas.<br /> <br /> '''Schwärmer'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The name is a German word meaning visionary, zealot, raver.<br /> <br /> '''Waves in a timeless stream of Gas'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Replevin equates piped gas to the æther.<br /> <br /> '''Sensitive Flame'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A burner flame adjusted so that it responds to the tiniest disturbance in the air. Used by both physicists and spiritualists.<br /> <br /> '''Chidambaram'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Akaša'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Atman'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''''Chaos''''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''van Helmont'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> He claimed to have coined the word &quot;gas&quot; in just the way described here.<br /> <br /> '''stridently unpopulated'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf p610.<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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<p>Jackrmann: /* Page 583 */</p> <hr /> <div>:'''&lt;big&gt;Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.&lt;/big&gt;'''&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Page 557==<br /> <br /> '''Viktor Mulciber'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''bespoke'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> made to order, hence hand-made and expensive. Somewhere in the novel is a reference to 1 Savile Row, the address of Gieves and Hawkes, a very traditional English tailor.<br /> <br /> '''Basil Zaharoff'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''trains of history... run'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Q-weapon'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Allusion to Professor Kokintz's &quot;Q-bomb&quot; in ''The Mouse That Roared'' (1959).<br /> <br /> '''Balkan ''komitadji'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Bulgarian: revolutionaries. This equivalent comes from a communist-era dictionary, and it is quite possible the word meant something a little different before World War I.<br /> <br /> '''waybill'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Ancestor of what Fedex and UPS call &quot;shipping document&quot;; it identifies the article shipped and contains necessary addresses and instructions.<br /> <br /> '''metamorphosed into an American Negro'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf honorary Negro (Frank above).<br /> <br /> '''Nipponese'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Japanese<br /> <br /> '''Hertzian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Electromagnetic waves, first demonstrated by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Rudolf_Hertz Heinrich Hertz]<br /> <br /> '''they cannot strictly . . . longitudinal as well as transverse'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Hertz's theory and Maxwell's equations describe ''transverse'' waves in which the electric and magnetic fields are perpendicular to the direction of travel; no longitudinal waves--with vibrations parallel to the direction of travel--are permitted. In air, sound waves are longitudinal; what's suggested here is a new wave that does not fit the Hertz-Maxwell paradigm.<br /> <br /> ==Page 558==<br /> <br /> '''scalar part'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Quaternion equivalent of the real part.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Time is a scaler term. <br /> <br /> '''baritone in a barbershop quartet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://www.barbershop.org/web/groups/public/documents/pages/pub_id_000827.hcsp Quote]:Technically speaking, barbershop harmony is a style of unaccompanied singing with three voices harmonizing to the melody. The lead usually sings the melody, with the tenor harmonizing above the lead. The bass sings the lowest harmonizing notes and the baritone provides in-between notes, either above or below the lead to make chords (specifically, dominant-type or &quot;barbershop&quot; sevenths) that give barbershop its distinctive, &quot;full&quot; sound.<br /> <br /> '''viola in a string quartet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Two violins, a viola, and a violoncello make up a string quartet. The viola is between the others in pitch and is generally considered to have been given the least interesting parts in Classical and Romantic music for string quartet.<br /> <br /> '''Further Term'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The three parts of a quaternion that are multiples of '''i''', '''j''' and '''k'''<br /> <br /> '''the fulfiller of the Trinity'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> the name of the first atom bomb detonated at Los Alamos. Alluded to earlier. The origin of the name Trinity for this event is uncertain. It is commonly thought that Robert Oppenheimer provided the name, which would seem logical, but even this is not definitely known. A leading theory is that Oppenhimer did select it, and that he did so with reference to the divine Hindu trinity of Brahma (the Creator), Vishnu (the Preserver), and Shiva (the Destroyer). Oppenheimer had an avid interest in Sanskrit literature (which he had taught himself to read), and following the Trinity test is reported to have recited a passage from the Bhagavad-Gita that is quoted earlier in this wiki.&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> The usage of the Tibetan Mount Kailash, the holy dwelling place of Shiva, God of destruction and regeneration, on p. 437 seems to support this.<br /> <br /> Also, a religious allusion to the three-person Godhead in Christian theology. &lt;br&gt;<br /> Also, third ADT meaning!, a college in Dublin mentioned on page 560.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> '''the pulselessness of salvation'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> salvation lies outside of time?<br /> <br /> '''A weapon based on Time'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Time is why there is entropy, that key Pynchonian term. Pynchon has created a brilliant metaphor that uses the concept uniquely.<br /> <br /> '''laterite'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A mineral structure formed by erosion, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laterite Wikipedia]. Laterite is typically rich in metal oxides and poor in organic matter.<br /> <br /> '''Ostend'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Ostend (Dutch: Oostende, French &amp; German: Ostende) is a Belgian municipality located in the Flemish province of West Flanders. It comprises the villages of Mariakerke, Stene and Zandvoorde, and the city of Ostend proper – the largest at the Belgian coast. Wikipedia.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Inner Boulevards'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> streets in Brussels.&quot;In spite of the competition of the Central or Inner Boulevards, the Montagne de la Cour still remains the principal street for shopping in Brussels.&quot; &quot;Brussels&quot;, Antiques Digest, 1904.<br /> <br /> '''Gare du Midi'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The largest railway station in Brussels and a haunt of prostitutes.<br /> <br /> '''Edouard Gevaert'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (No ligature?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 559==<br /> <br /> '''Krupp field-piece'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Krupps are an ancient German family, famous for making weapons. A field-piece is a light-cannon.<br /> <br /> '''vaguely glandular'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Describes Belgium, it seems.<br /> <br /> '''''ostinato'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A continually repeated musical phrase or rhythm.<br /> <br /> '''poleaxed'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Stunned, brought to a mental standstill. (I believe a poleaxe was used in slaughterhouses. --[[User:Volver|Volver]] 11:31, 3 January 2007 (PST))<br /> <br /> '''lost to silence'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Not silent, or very?)Very<br /> <br /> ==Page 560==<br /> <br /> '''Estacade'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''mousmée... mouchard'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> French: a young Japanese woman; a police spy.<br /> <br /> '''always lead an irregular life'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf GR.<br /> <br /> '''Maria Bayley Hamilton'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''council meeting'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 561==<br /> <br /> '''Brougham Bridge'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''pulls a knife'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Folklore, really later?)<br /> <br /> '''on the stone'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The bridge is evidently a stone bridge. Stone, a natural thing, is a good for Pynchon. Hamilton's action is metaphorically a deeply religious moment. &quot;Pentecostal&quot; wherein the Quaternions 'descend' to earth [in the thoughts of men].<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Pentecostal'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pentecost (&lt; Greek πεντηκοστή [ἡμέρα], pentekostē [hēmera], &quot;the fiftieth day&quot;) is the fiftieth day after Easter Sunday, which corresponds to the tenth day after Ascension Thursday. It is a feast in the Christian liturgical calendar — symbolically related to the Jewish festival of Shavuot — that commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles and the followers of Jesus on that day, as described in the Book of Acts, Chapter 2. Pentecost is also called &quot;Whitsunday&quot; (deriving from &quot;Wit Sunday&quot;) in UK and other English-speaking areas.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> '''official Mischief Opportunity'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> like 'shore leave', it seems. To leave the rules of the Organization and create mischief.<br /> <br /> '''absinthe spoons'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> absinthe spoons have slits whereon are placed sugar cubes through which one pours the absinthe<br /> <br /> '''cravats'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A cravat is the neckband forerunner of the modern, tailored necktie. From the end of the 16th century, the term &quot;band&quot; applied to any long-strip neckcloth that was not a &quot;ruff&quot;; the ruff—a starched, pleated white linen strip—started its fashion career earlier in the 16th century as neckcloth that could be changed-a-fresh to keep the neck of a doublet from becoming too-soiled or as a bib or a napkin. A &quot;band&quot; could indicate a plain, attached shirt collar or a detachable &quot;falling band&quot; that draped over the doublet collar. <br /> Necktie fashions have changed over time.The modern cravat originated in the 1630s. <br /> <br /> <br /> '''&quot;four-door farce&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (See eg Bogdanovich's &quot;What's Up, Doc?&quot;)<br /> This is also a pun on the name of Georges Feydeau, French writer of farces who was writing when Pynchon's novel is set. One of the recurring physical jokes involves sets with many doors and people coming in and out, just missing each other....<br /> <br /> ==Page 562==<br /> <br /> '''Minque'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> the fish auction house<br /> <br /> '''carillons... carilloneur'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> bells...bellringer<br /> <br /> '''Hanseatic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Hansa or Hanseatic League (definitely a creation of &quot;the Christian North,&quot; next paragraph) was a great mercantile system that held itself above national rule.<br /> <br /> '''burghers'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> middle-class married men<br /> <br /> '''silted up'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> backed up, underwater, with mud<br /> <br /> '''Damme and Sluis'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Port cities near Bruges, heavily dependent on them from the 14th Century.<br /> <br /> ==Page 563==<br /> <br /> '''trusted his intuitiveness'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Woevre is a natural killer.<br /> <br /> '''''&quot;Jou moerskont!&quot;''... Afrikaans'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Possibly &quot;you horse's ass&quot;? --Rather something about a mother.<br /> <br /> ==Page 564==<br /> <br /> '''immense choir'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Voetsak'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Dutch or Afrikaans, &quot;Go away!&quot;, also spelled &quot;voertsek&quot; or &quot;voetsek&quot;<br /> <br /> '''starers'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''tobacco-stricken'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> a smoker's deep voice?<br /> <br /> '''half-silvering'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A design for an optical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beam_splitter beam splitter] that causes half of the incident light to be transmitted and the other half to be reflected.<br /> <br /> '''four cusps... index-surface'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''co-conscious'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> third use, I think. Who/what is co-conscious here?<br /> <br /> ==Page 565==<br /> <br /> '''true icosahedron'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Probably an regular icosahedron, where the sides are formed by 20 equilateral triangles<br /> <br /> '''12+8... pyrites'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pyrite crystals form a structure that can be decomposed into unit cells that contain (part of) 12 sulphur atoms and 8 iron atoms.<br /> <br /> '''Riemann sphere'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_sphere Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''Felix Klein'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German mathematician ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Klein Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> '''ebonite'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An early plastic([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebonite Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> '''Ohmic Drift'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ohm = : the practical meter-kilogram-second unit of electric resistance equal to the resistance of a circuit in which a potential difference of one volt produces a current of one ampere <br /> <br /> '''speed of the earth... kinetic energy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Einstein in 1905 showed most of this argument to be nonsense, but if Lorentz's paper is still recent (next entry) the shift in thinking may not have happened yet.<br /> <br /> '''Recently Lorentz's paper'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lorentz's 1904 &quot;Electromagnetic phenomena in a system moving with any velocity less than that of light&quot; ([http://www.soso.ch/wissen/hist/SRT/L-1904.pdf PDF])<br /> <br /> '''Lorentz . . . Fitzgerald . . . along the axis of motion'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> It was the phenomenon of the Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction, together with the abolition of the æther by Michelson and Morley, that led Einstein to his theory of special relativity.<br /> <br /> '''Lord Rayleigh'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> British physicist ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Rayleigh Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> ==Page 566==<br /> <br /> '''In a dream...'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> This passage, describing Kit's dream of Umeki and the message it conveys, pulls together many of the main themes of ''Against the Day'', tying things together in a way that Pynchon seldom does, almost as if he's providing a rather large piece of the puzzle to help the reader understand the novel:<br /> <br /> :&quot;Deep among the equations describing the behavor of light, field equations, Vector and Quaternion equations, lies a set of directions, an intinerary, a map to a hidden space. Double refraction appears again and again as a key element, permitting a view into a Creation set just to the side of this one, so close as to overlap, where the membrane between the worlds, in many places, has become too frail, too permeable, for safety.... Within the mirror, with the scalar term, within the daylit and obvious and taken-for-granted has always lain, as if in wait, the dark intinerary, the corrupted pilgrim's guide, the nameless Station before the first, in the lightless uncreated, where salvation does not yet exist.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''analogies'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Pynchonian heuristics.)<br /> <br /> '''the corrupted pilgrim's guide, the nameless Station before the first'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf. p. 436 '''holy pilgrimages. One defines a destination, proceeds through a series of stations...<br /> <br /> <br /> '''lightless uncreated'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Gnostic heresy?)<br /> <br /> '''stuffed sinus'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> sinus/nasal congestion. It is like looking out onto a new world when one's sinus finally clears after days of congestion.<br /> <br /> '''''Konichiwa'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Japanese greeting<br /> <br /> ==Page 567==<br /> <br /> '''new Puccini opera'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Obviously, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Butterfly Madame Butterfly]<br /> <br /> '''[Americans] can't ever die of shame'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> shameless, unlike the Japanese<br /> <br /> '''Kimura-san'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Kimura ( &quot;tree village&quot;) is the 18th most common Japanese surname.<br /> -san is used as a courtesy title in Japanese-speaking areas as a suffix to the given name, surname, or title of the person being addressed, regardless of age or gender: Yamamoto san; sensei-san.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Chimera-san?<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Borel-Clerc... &quot;La Matchiche&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Popular vaudeville song from 1903. &quot;La Matchiche&quot; is French for the Brazilian dance Maxixe.<br /> <br /> '''western anchor'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> What about France, Spain, Portugal? Belgium is a port country with a highly developed transportation system into all of these countries. .....it was the first country to industrialize in Europe....Wikipedia. <br /> <br /> '''Compaignie Internationale des Wagons-Lits'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;International Sleeping-Car Company&quot;, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlson_Wagonlit Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''two hundred francs'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;None of that, Hakkabut. Hold your tongue.&quot; And, turning to Rosette, the captain said, &quot;If, sir, I understand right, you require some silver five-franc pieces for your operation?&quot;<br /> &quot;Forty,&quot; said Rosette, surlily.<br /> &quot;Two hundred francs!&quot; whined Hakkabut.-- On a Comet, Jules Verne<br /> <br /> <br /> '''theory of sets'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Set theory is the mathematical theory of sets, which represent collections of abstract objects. It encompasses the everyday notions, introduced in primary school, of collections of objects, and the elements of, and membership in, such collections. In most modern mathematical formalisms, set theory provides the language in which mathematical objects are described. It is (along with logic and the predicate calculus) one of the axiomatic foundations for mathematics, allowing mathematical objects to be constructed formally from the undefined terms of &quot;set&quot; and &quot;set membership&quot;. It is in its own right a branch of mathematics and an active field of mathematical research. Wikipedia<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Bruges Canal'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Belgium: Bruges canal.<br /> <br /> ==Page 568==<br /> <br /> '''vaporetto'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A Venetian water-bus.<br /> <br /> '''Grand Canal'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The main canal that runs through the heart of Venice and down past San Marco, the city's main square.<br /> <br /> '''San Marco end'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See above. This is where Florian's (appears in the novel) is situated.<br /> <br /> '''Piazzetta'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''San Giorgio Maggiore'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A rather over-ornate church on the Grand Canal opposite San Marco.<br /> <br /> '''spreading... cloak'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cliche/allusion?<br /> <br /> '''live here forever'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pynchon special-pleading that Dally isn't just another tourist.<br /> Or is this just a typical reaction of the tourist? And a Pynchonesque longing for home?<br /> ==Page 569==<br /> <br /> '''Malibran... Polo's house'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Teatro Malibran, built at the site of Marco Polo's house, which was destroyed in 1596.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;pincette&quot; pass'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Probably from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pincer_movement pincer movement] of military strategy.<br /> <br /> '''profondes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Large pockets in tail coats which can be used for vanishes or productions&quot;, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conjuring_terms Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''Vincenzo Miserere'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''train to Trieste'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Svegli'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''shark leather'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Different from sharkskin?<br /> <br /> '''''Specchiere'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Mirror-maker<br /> <br /> '''glassmakers on Murano'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murano Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''today'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> when is that?<br /> <br /> ==Page 570==<br /> <br /> '''another one of his stories'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Jackson Pynchon should highlight all the AtD passages that originated as bedtime stories.)<br /> <br /> '''TERAPIA'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Italian, &quot;therapy&quot;<br /> <br /> '''San Servolo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An island in the Venetian archipelago, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Servolo Wikipedia], [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;q=45.418654+N,+12.35698+E&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;z=17&amp;ll=45.418651,12.35698&amp;spn=0.006891,0.010793&amp;t=k&amp;om=1&amp;iwloc=addr Google Maps]<br /> <br /> '''Palazzo Ducale'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Ducal Palace in Venice, residence of the Doge. It's by San Marco.<br /> <br /> '''''manicomio'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Italian, &quot;madhouse&quot;<br /> <br /> '''uterine vellum'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vellum Vellum] produced from the skin of an unborn calf<br /> <br /> '''pitch, rouge'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Products used in the grinding of lenses and mirrors.<br /> <br /> ==Page 571==<br /> <br /> '''La Doppiatrice'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Italian: the Doubler.<br /> <br /> '''Ettore Sananzolo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Maskelyne cabinet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> After Neville Maskelyne, from ''Mason and Dixon.'' Maskelyne sent M and D to record the Transit of Venus.<br /> <br /> More likely a descendant, Jasper M., famous stage magician and designer of dazzle camouflage.[[User:Volver|Volver]] 15:34, 2 January 2007 (PST)<br /> <br /> ==Page 572==<br /> <br /> '''smoke back into a cigar'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Time's arrow/ entropy motif.<br /> <br /> '''hard-as-a-rock black cigar'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The quality of a cigar is usually higher with dark, more tightly-wrapped tobacco. Vincenzo has a fine one, it seems. <br /> <br /> '''thumping'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> sound/feeling of a water-bus?<br /> <br /> '''''salso'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Longest river in Sicily.Its small deltaic system there is dominated by marine processes rather than fluvial ones. It is a seasonal torrent, with brief but violent floods during the winter rains (from November to February), Is this what riding the salso in and back out again means? Riding the floods from the winter rains?<br /> <br /> '''''sandoli'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''trains pulling in'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Famous early film.<br /> <br /> ==Page 573==<br /> <br /> '''Cannareggio'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannaregio Cannaregio]<br /> <br /> ==Page 574==<br /> <br /> '''thirty years older'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> About 65yo?<br /> <br /> '''that day'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> In NYC when Dally showed up.<br /> <br /> '''when she was born'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Pretenders/Chryssie Hynde.<br /> <br /> '''Stronzo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Italian curse word, roughly &quot;asshole&quot;<br /> <br /> '''''In bocc' al lupo!'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> From the Roman dialect, in which the Italians - including Rocco and Pino - seem to speak. Meaning, literally, &quot;In the <br /> mouth of the wolf,&quot; and idiomatically, &quot;Good luck.&quot; <br /> <br /> Specifically the good-luck wish among actors: &quot;Break a leg!&quot; [[User:Volver|Volver]] 15:36, 2 January 2007 (PST)<br /> <br /> '''''campielli'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 575==<br /> <br /> '''Riva'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''middy blouses'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''not yet been rebuilt'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Remember p256.<br /> <br /> '''''lucciole'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''fondamenta'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A waterside street in Venice<br /> <br /> '''''ombreta'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''light's good here'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Old joke about drunk looking for car keys under streetlight though he dropped them somewhere else.<br /> <br /> '''inside that labyrinth . . . microcosm of all Venice'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A hologram has this property, that a little chip broken off it contains the entire image.<br /> <br /> ==Page 576==<br /> <br /> '''twelve soldi'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''franc... ten francs'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Canaletto'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Beppo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''pitch'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Bauer-Grünwald'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An expensive hotel near San Marco in Venice.<br /> <br /> ==Page 577==<br /> <br /> ''''Safe''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Recent art-movie title? I think safe here means safe without allusion.<br /> <br /> '''neutral hour?'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Is any moment in Time apolitical?<br /> <br /> '''Castello'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Castello is the largest of the six sestieri of Venice. The district grew up from the thirteenth century around a naval dockyard on what was originally the Isole Gemini.<br /> <br /> '''Evening Gun'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;At reveille the morning gun goes off; and at retreat, the evening&quot;. From <br /> a history description. Here is a site with picture.http://www.ziplink.net/~edkreutz/1f.html<br /> <br /> '''Dr. Grace'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Renowned, full-bearded 19th-century English cricket player.<br /> <br /> ==Page 578==<br /> <br /> '''Dorsoduro'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An area of Venice.<br /> <br /> '''''pensione'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A cheap Italian hotel, like a bed and breakfast.<br /> <br /> '''La Calcina'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Zattere'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An area of wide waterfront pavements in Venice.<br /> <br /> '''''cimici'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''bora'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 579==<br /> <br /> '''Tintoretto's ''Abduction...'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See [http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=3374 here]<br /> <br /> '''Accademia'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The major art-gallery in Venice<br /> <br /> '''Titian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 16th century Venetian painter.<br /> <br /> '''Infancy Gospel of Thomas'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 580==<br /> <br /> '''Pentecost story in Acts'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Galilean dialect'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Of Aramaic.<br /> <br /> '''''rii'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Plural of ''rio''.<br /> <br /> ==Page 581==<br /> <br /> '''''sotopòrteghi'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An open doorway for public access.<br /> <br /> '''Bodeo 10.4 mm'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A mass-produced Italian-made service revolver, initially made around 1889. Demand for them as guns was low, causing thousands of the weapons to be converted to table lamps. An interesting Pynchonian connection between light, manufacture, weapons, and war.<br /> <br /> ==Page 582==<br /> <br /> '''''foschetta'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''masègni'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''patrone'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''wine trains up from Puglia'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Winter'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 1904-1905?<br /> <br /> '''Principessa Spongiatosta'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Is Pugnax's book from p6 at all relevant here?<br /> <br /> '''Ca''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Abbreviated form of &quot;Casa,&quot; Italian for &quot;house.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Roman Composite order'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''japonica'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 583==<br /> <br /> '''Iron Bridge'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Le Havre'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> French port city on the Atlantic.<br /> <br /> '''''ma via'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''third eyes touching'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The third eye, as existing on some reptiles is a dorsal organ that is receptive to light, otherwise known as the ''pineal eye''. Since the two half-sisters are obviously not reptiles, this reference might allude to the figurative third eye, or the eye of the mind, heart or soul. When the two touch foreheads, they are able to peer into each other consciences, by way of these third eyes. [http://www.thefreedictionary.com/third+eye /Dictionary Entry]<br /> <br /> ==Page 584==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Swiss insurance salesman. Wolf. No, Putzi.&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Bria's had so many beaux she gets them confused? One was a wolf; the other a putz?<br /> <br /> '''''topo'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A topo is a guide for a crag or climbing area.<br /> <br /> '''Dogana'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Andrea Tancredi'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An artist and acquaintence made by Hunter Penhallow in Venice. His name is likely derived from the Gioacchino Rossini opera ''Tancredi'' or the Voltaire play by the same name. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tancredi Wikipedia Entry]&lt;br&gt;<br /> Tancredi, restored, is a tragedy. the soldier Tancredi and his family have been stripped of their estates and inheritances, and he himself has been banished since his youth. Two more noble families — headed by Argirio and Orbazzano — have been warring for years. Wikipedia.<br /> Tancredi presides in exile...he is mortally wounded at the end after learning the person he thought betrayed the heroine did not. <br /> <br /> '''Seurat and Signac'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> George Seurat (1859-1891) and Paul Signac (1863-1935), French painters who developed pointillism. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointillism Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''Divisionism'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Term invented by Paul Signac to describe the Neo-Impressionist separation of colour into dots or patches applied directly to the canvas. From Grove Dictionary of Art. <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Marinetti'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti was the first among [the Futurists] to produce a manifesto of their artistic philosophy in his Manifesto of Futurism (1909)(see below).<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Futurists&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Practitioners or followers of Futurism, an early 20th century art movement that is considered the genesis of Cubism, Dada and Art Deco. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurism_%28art%29 Wikipedia entry].Marinetti summed up the major principles of the Futurists, including a passionate loathing of ideas from the past, especially political and artistic traditions. He and others also espoused a love of speed, technology and violence. The car, the plane, the industrial town were all legendary for the Futurists, because they represented the technological triumph of man over nature.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''brutalism'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See above and The Futurists were often condemned as fascistic in their manifestos and outlook. <br /> <br /> '''Torcello'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A lonely Venetian island: very peaceful and beautiful with a church and little else.<br /> <br /> '''primitivo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 585==<br /> <br /> '''green-and-lavender'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Another clashing color scheme.<br /> <br /> '''sirocco'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A hot dust-laden wind from the Libyan deserts that blows on the northern Mediterranean coast chiefly in Italy, Malta, and Sicily. <br /> <br /> '''San Michele'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> San Michele, nicknamed The Island of the Dead, is the cemetery island of Venice. It is associated with the sestiere of Cannaregio from which it lies a short distance north east. <br /> Walls of San Michele.Along with neighbouring San Cristoforo della Pace, the island was a popular place for local travellers and fishermen to land. Mauro Codussi's Chiesa di San Michele in Isola of 1469, the first Renaissance church in Venice, and a monastery lie on the island.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''futuristic vehicle'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> P155. Of course, the machine-inspired Futurists would remind Hunter of this vehicle that 'had borne him to safety'!<br /> <br /> '''''Preliminary Studies...'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Artists often do 'preliminary studies'..'infernal machine' comes out of Futurism's ideas.<br /> <br /> ==Page 586==<br /> <br /> '''Always with us.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Gospel of Matthew. &quot;The poor you will always have with you&quot;. Here reference is to born-again Christers.<br /> <br /> '''''vero?'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> True, genuine,real? Dally asks.<br /> <br /> '''orpiment yellow'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A yellow color pigment ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpiment Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> '''Nürnberg violet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An artificial color pigment discovered in 1868 in the city of Nuremberg<br /> <br /> ==Page 587==<br /> <br /> '''''nebbia, nebbietta, foschia, caligo, sfumato'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''speed of sound'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Air temperature is more important that density.<br /> <br /> '''''La Velocità del Suono'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Italian, &quot;speed of sound&quot;<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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<p>Jackrmann: /* Page 554 */</p> <hr /> <div>:'''&lt;big&gt;Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.&lt;/big&gt;'''&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Page 525==<br /> <br /> '''Boulevard van Isenghem'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''street-plausible'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Presentable.<br /> <br /> '''Quai de l'empereur'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''estaminet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> According to the OED - A café in which smoking is allowed. Now, any small establishment selling alcoholic liquor. <br /> <br /> '''twelve-centime'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Kellner'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German: waiter, barman. Use of the German word would be insulting to the Belgian barman.<br /> <br /> '''''demi'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Half glass.<br /> <br /> '''Lambic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pron. ''lahm-BEEK.'' Unique Belgian beer style, sour and often thin in body.<br /> <br /> '''skimmer'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Straw hat (&quot;Panama&quot;).<br /> <br /> ==Page 526==<br /> <br /> <br /> '''biquaternion'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Double quaternion.<br /> <br /> '''Barry Nebulay'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pun on a term from heraldry, ''barry nebuly.'' Barry (rhymes with &quot;starry,&quot; not &quot;carry&quot;) refers to a shield divided into an even number of parts by horizontal lines. Nebuly signals that the lines are deformed into stylized &quot;cloud&quot; shapes. [http://www.rarebooks.nd.edu/digital/heraldry/partitions.html Here you can see an example.] If a British author had a character with a heraldic name, it would suggest a pseudonym.<br /> <br /> '''University of Dublin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> If University College, Dublin, then Joyce had graduated in 1902.<br /> <br /> '''Tasmania'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Hamiltonian devotees'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Quaternion faction, after William Hamilton, who devised the scheme.<br /> <br /> '''Grand Hôtel de la Nouvelle Digue'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> There is a Hotel Digue in the Seychelles; this is a New Hotel Digue by Pynchon? <br /> <br /> '''anterooms of death'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> This metaphor is sometimes applied to concentration camps. Here the lyric &quot;feel like I'm fixin' to die&quot; seems more apposite.<br /> <br /> '''Belgian Art Nouveau'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 527==<br /> <br /> '''dossing'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> British slang for &quot;sleeping&quot;, &quot;staying overnight&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Russian nihilists'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Eugénie, Fatou'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Females.<br /> <br /> '''Denis, and Policarpe'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Males.<br /> <br /> '''Young Congo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Probably in reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Turks Young Turks], a Turkish revolutionary movement<br /> <br /> '''Garde Civique'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A part of the Belgian army. According to the [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Belgium 1911 Britannica], &quot;the mass of the garde civique does not pretend to possess military value. It is a defence against sedition and socialism.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''French Second Bureau boys'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Deuxieme Bureau; French Intelligence.<br /> <br /> '''''phalange'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> French: phalanx. A military (here mock-military) group ready for combat.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;...until something had happened, something too terrible to remember...&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Again this theme of an unknowable past transgression, here invoked almost as if the unknown signifies the other 'lateral' (a word which has cropped up at least a dozen times already) 'vector'.<br /> <br /> '''the Digue'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> French for &quot;dyke&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Congo... Belgians'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Belgian colonisation of the Congo was, as Conrad's &quot;Heart of Darkness&quot; makes clear, notable for its greed and brutality.<br /> <br /> '''Leopold, King of the Belgians'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 1835-1909, reigned 1865-1909. In the Congo he acted as sole proprietor and absolute ruler.<br /> <br /> '''co-conscious'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Force Publique'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Belgian armed forces operating in the Belgian Congo ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_Publique Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> '''rubber worker'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See above: One of the early missions of the FP was to increase rubber export quotas through forced labor and related atrocities.<br /> <br /> ==Page 528==<br /> <br /> '''''khâgne'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Reclus'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Stirnerite'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Follower of Max Stirner, 19th century German philosopher and author of ''The Ego and Its Own,'' a work influential in anarchist thought. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Stirner Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''''Anarcho-individualiste'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> i.e. he has doctrinal differernces with Stirnerism, strictly speaking; see P. 324, and &quot;Eigenheit&quot;.<br /> <br /> '''Leopold'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See p. 527.<br /> <br /> '''going down lately'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Being assassaniated.<br /> <br /> '''Sipido'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Prince... of Wales'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Maud Gonne's husband claimed to have been involved in another such plot.)<br /> <br /> '''Royal Bathing Hut... twenty francs'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''twenty francs'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 529==<br /> <br /> '''picric family'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The explosive picric acid (2,4,6-trinitrophenol) and its derivatives. For picric acid, Brugère's powder and Designolle's powder, [http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/PER_PIG/PICRIC_ACID_or_TRINITROPHENOL_C.html see this Britannica article.]<br /> <br /> '''Brugère's powder'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See &quot;picric family&quot; above.<br /> <br /> '''Designolle's'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See &quot;picric family&quot; above.<br /> <br /> '''Monsieur Santos-Dumont'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Alberto Santos-Dumont (1873-1932), a pioneer of aviation from Brasil. Check out [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Santos-Dumont Wikipedia] to get a look at the way he was wearing his &quot;trademark Panama hat&quot;. <br /> <br /> '''Green Hour''' and '''''l'heure vertigineuse'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Absinthe-drinking time. The liqueur is green. In French, ''l'heure verte,'' so ''vertigineuse'' (vertiginous, causing dizziness) is a pun on the word for &quot;green.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Rocco and Pino'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Rabid Quaternionists and sudden friends of Kit Traverse.<br /> <br /> '''Whitehead works in Fiume'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Anticipating GR's V2 works.<br /> <br /> Fiume is now Rijeka, Croatia. Trieste is on the northern shore of the Istra Peninsula, Rijeka on the southern shore.<br /> <br /> '''''Alberta'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Siluro Dirigible a Lenta Corsa'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> or S.L.C. &quot;slow course torpedo&quot;, &quot;slow-running torpedo&quot;. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manned_torpedo Wikipedia] Italy‘s Navy was among the first to experiment with manned torpedos. Though according to [http://web.ukonline.co.uk/chalcraft/sm/chariots.html this site] this did not happen until 1935, Italian frogmen as early as October 31, 1918 made it into the harbour of Pula with the help of a modified german torpedo and sank the former Austrian but by then since a few hours Croatian/Slovenian/Bosnian battleship SMS ''Viribus Unitis''. [http://www.geocities.com/tegetthoff66/viribus.html website]<br /> <br /> Italian ''dirigibile'' means &quot;steerable.&quot; The word suggests the torpedo is a counterpart of the dirigible ''Inconvenience.''<br /> <br /> ==Page 530==<br /> <br /> '''exfiltrate'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Make a surreptitious escape (as &quot;infiltrate&quot; means to make a surreptitious entrance).<br /> <br /> '''''Macchè'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Ehi, stugazz', categoria'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''mezzogiornismo'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Denigrating the Italian South<br /> <br /> ==Page 531==<br /> <br /> '''Bruges'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An exceptionally beautiful Belgian town of canals which is thus one of several towns known as the 'Venice of the north'.<br /> <br /> '''Raoul's Atelier de la Vitesse'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> French: Ralph's Speed Shop.<br /> <br /> '''Ghent'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Belgian city on the rail line about halfway between Ostend and Brussels.<br /> <br /> '''Daimler six-cylinder'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''a hundred horsepower'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''guaglion'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Umeki Tsurigane'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Umeki is typically made with some combination of the various kanji for &quot;plum&quot; (ume) and &quot;tree&quot; (ki), though one has the ki being the character for &quot;ghost/devil&quot; and one obscure reading that's entirely redundant, where ume is &quot;plant&quot; (usually read ue). There is one where ume is the kanji for &quot;buried or embedded&quot;. Tsurigane, means a &quot;temple bell&quot;, which can stand alone or be followed by the grass kanji to mean &quot;bellflower&quot; (lots of botanical stuff happening here, if that means anything; hardly the only example in ''AtD''). Given the search for Shambhala going on, &quot;Buried Temple Bell&quot; seems a likely translation, at least at this point; the botanical meanings could perhaps emerge later.<br /> <br /> '''Professor Knott'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 532==<br /> <br /> '''drover's sombrero'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cowboy hat.<br /> <br /> '''furoshiki'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''taupe'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A brownish gray.<br /> <br /> '''boilermakers and their helpers'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A shot of straight scotch followed by a beer chaser, plus other drinks.<br /> <br /> '''''Comptes rendus'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Les Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences Francais.<br /> <br /> ==Page 533==<br /> <br /> '''aniline teal'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The wallpaper dye; aniline dyes were the products of I.G. Farben, significant in ''GR''.<br /> <br /> '''Heavisiders'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Oliver Heaviside (May 18, 1850 – February 3, 1925) was a self-taught English electrical engineer, mathematician and physicist who adapted complex numbers to the study of electrical circuits, developed techniques for applying Laplace transforms to the solution of differential equations, reformulated Maxwell's field equations in terms of electric and magnetic forces and energy flux, and independently co-formulated vector analysis. Although at odds with the scientific establishment for most of his life, Heaviside changed the face of mathematics and science for years to come.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaviside].<br /> <br /> '''Grassmanniacs'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Nineteenth century German mathematician and linguist, essentially the inventor/discoverer of vector space. Grassmann showed that once geometry is put into the algebraic form he advocated, then the number three has no privileged role as the number of spatial dimensions; the number of possible dimensions is in fact unbounded.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Grassmann].<br /> <br /> '''in the mood for a clambake'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Anachronistic Broadway show tune? If so, the clambake in ''Carousel'' turns into a brawl; the assmebled factions of mathematicians could be in the mood for either a party or a brawl, apparently. <br /> <br /> '''Monopole de la Maison'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Idiom Neutral'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An invented language, like Esperanto. Idiom Neutral dictionaries first appeard in 1902. It looks like a simplified Latinate language and it grew out of Volapuk, another &quot;auxiliary language.&quot; It was abandoned by the ''Akademi Internasional de Lingu Universal'' in 1908.<br /> <br /> For a list of all the invented languages that linguists are keeping track of, including Klingon, try [http://linguistlist.org/forms/langs/GetListOfConstructedLgs.html Eastern Michigan's Linguist List]. And don't forget to click on the link to &quot;Browse sites devoted to constructed languages.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''phatic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Basically, small talk or chatter. Words used to convey fellow-feeling rather than to impart information.<br /> <br /> '''''Kampf ums Dasein'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German: struggle for existence.<br /> <br /> '''Q-brother'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;My fellow Quaternion&quot;?<br /> <br /> ==Page 534==<br /> <br /> '''Poiret gown'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''green and long'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pickle, or... what?<br /> <br /> ==Page 535==<br /> <br /> '''no-name wine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 1970s idiom for common European practice?<br /> <br /> '''Hamilton... first love'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 536==<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Oscar Wilde'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Note that Wilde's Dorian Gray also undergoes a kind of bilocation.<br /> <br /> '''Kursaal'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Spa.<br /> <br /> '''Curls'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Laplacians'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace (March 23, 1749 – March 5, 1827); French mathematician and astronomer who summarized and extended the work of his predecessors in his five volume Mécanique Céleste (Celestial Mechanics) (1799-1825), translating the geometrical study of mechanics used by Isaac Newton to one based on calculus, known as physical mechanics.<br /> <br /> He is also the discoverer of Laplace's equation. Although the Laplace transform is named in honor of Laplace, who used the transform in his work on probability theory, the transform was discovered originally by Leonhard Euler. The Laplace transform appears in all branches of mathematical physics — a field he took a leading role in forming. The Laplacian differential operator, much relied-upon in applied mathematics, is likewise named after him. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace].<br /> <br /> '''scream'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Scream motif.<br /> <br /> '''beginning to appal'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> By 1905 there had been years of outrage at conditions in the Belgian Congo, King Leopold's private fief. Conrad's ''Heart of Darkness'' had been published as a serial in Backwood's Magazine in 1899 and as a book in 1902. There were missionaries' accounts of the brutality, and newspaper reports. Leopold and his apologists published rebuttals. The Norton Critical Edition of ''Heart of Darkness'' contains an extensive collection of both.<br /> <br /> '''baize'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Baize is a course woolen felt.<br /> <br /> ==Page 537==<br /> <br /> '''broken symmetries'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''sphinxe Khnopffienne'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Pléiade Lafrisée'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Conseilleuse'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Female consultant?<br /> <br /> ==Page 538==<br /> <br /> '''retroversion matrix'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Ma foi'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Literally &quot;My faith&quot;, i.e. &quot;By my faith!&quot;, a mild exclamation of incredulity.<br /> <br /> '''ten thousand francs'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''piker'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Someone cheap or cautious, possibly named after people from PIke County, Missouri, who came to California in the 1800s, looking for work. They were poor, hence cheap. <br /> <br /> ''''Mad Dog''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Hegel... puns'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 539==<br /> <br /> '''vector quotient'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''Triangle Asana''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A basic yoga pose. <br /> <br /> [http://yoga.org.nz/postures/yoga_positions_images_page.htm Here are images of several basic poses.]<br /> <br /> ''''Quadrantal Versor Asana''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A triangle pose taken that extra dimension.<br /> <br /> '''''&quot;Uwe moer!&quot;'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''noncommutative'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A term typical to mathematics. A commutative equation is one that can operate in exact reverse and still yield the same results. 'Noncommutative' then suggests unidirectionality. The ability to go from point A to point B, but not from B to A.<br /> <br /> '''reticule'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A woman's drawstring handbag; usually made of net or beading or brocade; also: A system of lines forming a pattern of squares at the focal plane of a telescope, used in micrometers.<br /> [www.astunit.com/tutorials/glossary.htm] <br /> <br /> '''Vacheron &amp; Constantin watch'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''hunting-case'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 540==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;haar rekening, ja?&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The bill, yes? (Dutch)?<br /> <br /> ''Her'' bill, yes? I.e., give the check to the lady.<br /> <br /> Given the presence of Chris 'Kit' Traverse here, this very much suggests a reference to Christopher 'Kit' Marlowe, Elizabethan poet, playwright and contemporary of Shakespeare. Marlowe was stabbed to death in 1593, in murky circumstances, ostensibly over a bill or 'reckoning', though he was widely believed to have been involved in some form of espionage.<br /> <br /> '''Piet Woevre'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pete Weaver?<br /> <br /> '''made him reach'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Possible allusion to a famous line, &quot;When I hear the word culture I reach for my gun.&quot; From Hanns Johst's biographical play ''Schlageter''. The original line is slightly different: &quot;Wenn ich Kultur höre ... entsichere ich meinen Browning,&quot; &quot;Whenever I hear of culture... I release the safety-catch of my Browning!&quot; (Act 1, Scene 1). It is spoken by another character in conversation with the young Schlageter. In the scene Schlageter and his wartime comrade Friedrich Thiemann are studying for a college examination, but then start disputing whether it's worthwhile doing so when the nation is not free. <br /> <br /> The line is often misattributed to better-known Nazis and others [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanns_Johst].<br /> <br /> '''not unambiguous'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Ie, ambiguous.<br /> <br /> '''''rastaquoueres'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 8???<br /> <br /> '''de Decker'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> In Dutch/Flemish, the name means &quot;roofer.&quot; (''De'' in these names almost never means &quot;of, from&quot; as in French; it's nearly always the definite article.)<br /> <br /> ==Page 541==<br /> <br /> '''''bobbejaan'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''MKIV/ODC... Mark Four'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''your remit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''gatkruiper'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Dutch/Flemish: brownnose, ass-kisser.<br /> <br /> '''one on her wrist'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''over the day'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Title motif?<br /> <br /> ==Page 542==<br /> <br /> '''trans-horizontic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Edmund Whittaker'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Sir Edmund Whittaker Memorial Prize is awarded every four years by the Edinburgh Mathematical Society to an outstanding young mathematician having a specified connection with Scotland [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Edmund_Whittaker_Memorial_Prize]. <br /> <br /> '''foaming louche'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''cheval-glass'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Standing mirror in a freestanding vertical frame.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''as if someone'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Sound-cancelling vs opacity-cancelling?<br /> <br /> ==Page 543==<br /> <br /> '''monitory'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Admonitory.<br /> <br /> '''He Who Must Come'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''General Boulanger'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Boulanger Georges Boulanger], French War Minister urging an attack on Germany<br /> <br /> '''what death and what transfiguration'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Allusion to Richard Strauss' tone poem &quot;Death and Transfiguration&quot; (''Tod und Verklärung''), premiered in 1890.<br /> <br /> '''''&quot;Zeker&quot;'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Dutch, &quot;certainly&quot;<br /> <br /> '''''dead cert'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Dead certainty, sure thing.<br /> <br /> '''Von Schlieffen'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Alfred von Schlieffen was the author of a German war plan to win a two-front war against both France and Russia by quickly defeating France before Russian troops could be mobilized. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlieffen_Plan Schlieffen Plan] included an attack on France through Belgium, disregarding its neutrality.<br /> <br /> '''Wilhelm has offered Leopold part of France, the ancient Duchy of Burgundy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/fr-bg.html History of the duchy.] [http://www.freiburg-madison.de/freiburg_history/1386-1517_The%20Early%20Habsburgs.htm Map,] with portrait of Duke Charles the Rash.<br /> <br /> '''lowlands'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Title of Pynchon's first published story. Here, ass?<br /> <br /> ==Page 544==<br /> <br /> '''Place d'Armes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Main square of Ostend; literally &quot;drill field&quot;.<br /> <br /> '''peau de soie'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Skin of silk&quot; A heavy, smooth satin with very fine ribbing; somewhat dull in sheen compared with traditional silk finishes.<br /> <br /> '''Krafft-Ebing'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, Austro-German psychiatrist and author of ''Psychopathia Sexualis'' (1886), a pioneering study of deviant sexual behavior and fetishism. Coined both ''sadism'' and ''masochism'' as terms for these respective behaviors. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Freiherr_von_Krafft-Ebing Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''toque'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A chef's hat<br /> <br /> '''guipure'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''midinette'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''sous'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''mayonnaise'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Brautigan's &quot;Trout Fishing in America&quot; famously ends with the word mayonnaise. [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0395500761&amp;id=rbEjDovfyNMC&amp;pg=RA2-PA111&amp;lpg=RA2-PA111&amp;ots=ELKl5b_6Tx&amp;dq=mayonnaise+trout.fishing&amp;num=100&amp;sig=BiyXRqJXRGrMWbrBNgn8de2kpCo#PRA2-PA112,M1 GoogleBooks]<br /> <br /> '''ovoöleaginous'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Another Pynchonic word combination, here denoting the two main ingredients of mayonnaise: 1) eggs, and 2) oil. It's not &quot;fecoventilatory collision&quot; as seen in &quot;Vineland,&quot; but it's nice.<br /> <br /> '''Grenache'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Chantilly'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''attainder'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''''Aux armes, citoyens''''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Not &quot;Le Marseillaise,&quot; you nitwit!<br /> <br /> '''Louis XV'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> King of France 1715-1774 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XV]. <br /> <br /> '''Cléo de Mérode'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Glamorous French ballerina, later Follies Bergere dancer and famous beauty. Her reputed intimacy with King Leopold was only a rumor [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleo_de_Merode].<br /> <br /> '''marquise de Pompadour'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Mistress of Louis XV,once friend of Voltaire and a power behind official scenes.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_de_Pompadour].<br /> <br /> ==Page 545==<br /> <br /> '''dubious 'victory' in 1756'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''the ill-fated Admiral Byng'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> John Byng, convicted by court-martial of failure &quot;to do his utmost&quot; in the battle, shot in 1757. Remembered because of (1) his being the last officer of flag rank to be put to death for conduct in battle and (2) Voltaire's gag in ''Candide:'' &quot;In this country it is good to kill an admiral from time to time in order to encourage the others.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''cantharides'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Spanish fly,&quot; contact irritant sometimes ill-advisedly used as aphrodisiac.<br /> <br /> '''Sadean'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pertaining to the Marquis de Sade. The acts the chef performs on the egg and oil have the same names as acts of Sadean sex. <br /> <br /> '''vetiver'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A grass (Vetiveria zizanioides) of tropical India, cultivated for its aromatic roots that yield an oil used in perfumery.<br /> [www.answers.com/topic/vetiver]. So, a perfume with, llterallly, roots in India.<br /> <br /> '''pip'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A beaut; in current parlance, a hottie.<br /> <br /> '''Q.P. system'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Quaternion Probability, p?.<br /> <br /> '''Usine Régionale'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> French: as translated in the text.<br /> <br /> ==Page 546==<br /> <br /> '''disjunctive effects of thunderstorms'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Folk wisdom says a thunderstorm will cause mayonnaise to separate (oil from yolks).<br /> <br /> '''lounge suit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''congress shoes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''dripping-heads'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''cuves d'agitation'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Clinique d'Urgence pour Sauvetage des Sauces'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> French: Emergency Clinic for Salvage of Sauces.<br /> <br /> ==Page 547==<br /> <br /> '''''Cazzo, cretino'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Literally, &quot;Dick, cretin.&quot; ''Cazzo'' is a common Italian interjectionary obscenity, especially in the south. &quot;Cazzo, cretino,&quot; is akin to someone saying, &quot;Well shit, dummy,&quot; or &quot;F-ing moron!&quot;<br /> <br /> '''''È il cowboy!'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Italian: It's the cowboy!<br /> <br /> '''''Le bambole anarchiste, porca miseria'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Italian: Anarchist babes, oh boy.<br /> <br /> '''Oudenberg'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Quai de l'Entrepôt'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''ragazzi'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Italian: boys, guys.<br /> <br /> ==Page 548==<br /> <br /> '''''timbres fictifs'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> French: fictive postage stamps. Cf &quot;Lot 49&quot;.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;IIIb&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> As explained in the text<br /> <br /> '''revanchist'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Policies based on revenge, or a person following such policies. In General Boulanger's case, revenge against Germany for the Franco-Prussian War.<br /> <br /> '''the somewhat discomposed General'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Having died in 1891, the General by the time of the action is certainly somewhat '''de'''composed; brief biographies do not suggest he was ''non compos mentis,'' that is, mentally discomposed.<br /> <br /> ==Page 549==<br /> <br /> '''cackled Darby'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (When did he lose his innocence?)<br /> <br /> '''a modification of any salsician metaphor toward the diminutive'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Salsician: pertaining to sausage. Lindsay says Suckling's penis is better compared to a wiener than a knockwurst.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Why you little–and I do mean 'little'–&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Another Simpsons reference? <br /> <br /> '''dunes between Nieuport and Dunkirk'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''power-receivers'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Not information, energy.<br /> <br /> ==Page 550==<br /> <br /> '''Italian grotto'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Carpathians'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Major mountain range running northwest-southeast through Poland, Slovakia, western Ukraine and Romania.<br /> <br /> '''Uhlans'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Uhlan regiments belonged to the light cavalry. They wore splendid uniforms (model for some U.S. marching band uniforms). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uhlan Wikipedia article.]<br /> <br /> '''Temesvár'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Now Timişoara, extreme western Romania.<br /> <br /> ==Page 551==<br /> <br /> '''securing the mess decks'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Chums follow U.S. Navy idiom in orders (frequently prefixed with &quot;Now&quot;) and shipboard activities (&quot;secure&quot; meaning &quot;whatever you did before, undo it now,&quot; in this case put away the dishes and fold up the tables).<br /> <br /> '''Ryder Thorn'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Tolkienesque name?<br /> <br /> '''He was at Candlebrow.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Presumably a 'trespasser.'<br /> <br /> '''the four-note chord in the context of timelessness'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A melody is formed by notes following one another in time; a chord on the ukulele violates that practice by having all the notes sound at once. A really clever little passage.<br /> <br /> ==Page 552==<br /> <br /> '''knuckle-duster'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Brass knuckles.<br /> <br /> '''Diksmuide'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 20 kilometers south of Ostend (about halfway to Ypres).<br /> <br /> ==Page 553==<br /> <br /> '''retted'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 554==<br /> <br /> '''Ypres and Menin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Municipalities in West Flanders that were sites of some of the bloodiest battles of WWI.<br /> <br /> '''Ten years from now'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (1914?)<br /> <br /> '''Bosch'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Hieronymous Bosch (1450-1516), Dutch painter of nightmares. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieronymus_Bosch Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''Brueghel'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pieter Brueghel the Elder(1525-1569), Flemish painter.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Brueghel_the_Elder Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''League'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> League of Nations? The League of Nations was formed after WWI to prevent future wars. Didn't succeed.<br /> <br /> '''where the needles went and which way to rotate them'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> I.e., how to push Thorn's buttons; the image is from acupuncture.<br /> <br /> ==Page 555==<br /> <br /> '''simpletons at the fair'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Making Pynchon's metaphor explicit.<br /> <br /> '''Chopin E-minor Nocturne'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''owl-light'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''plasmic hysteresis''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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<p>Jackrmann: /* Page 532 */</p> <hr /> <div>:'''&lt;big&gt;Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.&lt;/big&gt;'''&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Page 525==<br /> <br /> '''Boulevard van Isenghem'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''street-plausible'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Presentable.<br /> <br /> '''Quai de l'empereur'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''estaminet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> According to the OED - A café in which smoking is allowed. Now, any small establishment selling alcoholic liquor. <br /> <br /> '''twelve-centime'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Kellner'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German: waiter, barman. Use of the German word would be insulting to the Belgian barman.<br /> <br /> '''''demi'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Half glass.<br /> <br /> '''Lambic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pron. ''lahm-BEEK.'' Unique Belgian beer style, sour and often thin in body.<br /> <br /> '''skimmer'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Straw hat (&quot;Panama&quot;).<br /> <br /> ==Page 526==<br /> <br /> <br /> '''biquaternion'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Double quaternion.<br /> <br /> '''Barry Nebulay'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pun on a term from heraldry, ''barry nebuly.'' Barry (rhymes with &quot;starry,&quot; not &quot;carry&quot;) refers to a shield divided into an even number of parts by horizontal lines. Nebuly signals that the lines are deformed into stylized &quot;cloud&quot; shapes. [http://www.rarebooks.nd.edu/digital/heraldry/partitions.html Here you can see an example.] If a British author had a character with a heraldic name, it would suggest a pseudonym.<br /> <br /> '''University of Dublin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> If University College, Dublin, then Joyce had graduated in 1902.<br /> <br /> '''Tasmania'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Hamiltonian devotees'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Quaternion faction, after William Hamilton, who devised the scheme.<br /> <br /> '''Grand Hôtel de la Nouvelle Digue'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> There is a Hotel Digue in the Seychelles; this is a New Hotel Digue by Pynchon? <br /> <br /> '''anterooms of death'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> This metaphor is sometimes applied to concentration camps. Here the lyric &quot;feel like I'm fixin' to die&quot; seems more apposite.<br /> <br /> '''Belgian Art Nouveau'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 527==<br /> <br /> '''dossing'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> British slang for &quot;sleeping&quot;, &quot;staying overnight&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Russian nihilists'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Eugénie, Fatou'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Females.<br /> <br /> '''Denis, and Policarpe'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Males.<br /> <br /> '''Young Congo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Probably in reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Turks Young Turks], a Turkish revolutionary movement<br /> <br /> '''Garde Civique'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A part of the Belgian army. According to the [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Belgium 1911 Britannica], &quot;the mass of the garde civique does not pretend to possess military value. It is a defence against sedition and socialism.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''French Second Bureau boys'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Deuxieme Bureau; French Intelligence.<br /> <br /> '''''phalange'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> French: phalanx. A military (here mock-military) group ready for combat.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;...until something had happened, something too terrible to remember...&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Again this theme of an unknowable past transgression, here invoked almost as if the unknown signifies the other 'lateral' (a word which has cropped up at least a dozen times already) 'vector'.<br /> <br /> '''the Digue'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> French for &quot;dyke&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Congo... Belgians'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Belgian colonisation of the Congo was, as Conrad's &quot;Heart of Darkness&quot; makes clear, notable for its greed and brutality.<br /> <br /> '''Leopold, King of the Belgians'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 1835-1909, reigned 1865-1909. In the Congo he acted as sole proprietor and absolute ruler.<br /> <br /> '''co-conscious'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Force Publique'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Belgian armed forces operating in the Belgian Congo ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_Publique Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> '''rubber worker'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See above: One of the early missions of the FP was to increase rubber export quotas through forced labor and related atrocities.<br /> <br /> ==Page 528==<br /> <br /> '''''khâgne'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Reclus'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Stirnerite'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Follower of Max Stirner, 19th century German philosopher and author of ''The Ego and Its Own,'' a work influential in anarchist thought. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Stirner Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''''Anarcho-individualiste'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> i.e. he has doctrinal differernces with Stirnerism, strictly speaking; see P. 324, and &quot;Eigenheit&quot;.<br /> <br /> '''Leopold'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See p. 527.<br /> <br /> '''going down lately'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Being assassaniated.<br /> <br /> '''Sipido'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Prince... of Wales'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Maud Gonne's husband claimed to have been involved in another such plot.)<br /> <br /> '''Royal Bathing Hut... twenty francs'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''twenty francs'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 529==<br /> <br /> '''picric family'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The explosive picric acid (2,4,6-trinitrophenol) and its derivatives. For picric acid, Brugère's powder and Designolle's powder, [http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/PER_PIG/PICRIC_ACID_or_TRINITROPHENOL_C.html see this Britannica article.]<br /> <br /> '''Brugère's powder'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See &quot;picric family&quot; above.<br /> <br /> '''Designolle's'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See &quot;picric family&quot; above.<br /> <br /> '''Monsieur Santos-Dumont'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Alberto Santos-Dumont (1873-1932), a pioneer of aviation from Brasil. Check out [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Santos-Dumont Wikipedia] to get a look at the way he was wearing his &quot;trademark Panama hat&quot;. <br /> <br /> '''Green Hour''' and '''''l'heure vertigineuse'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Absinthe-drinking time. The liqueur is green. In French, ''l'heure verte,'' so ''vertigineuse'' (vertiginous, causing dizziness) is a pun on the word for &quot;green.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Rocco and Pino'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Rabid Quaternionists and sudden friends of Kit Traverse.<br /> <br /> '''Whitehead works in Fiume'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Anticipating GR's V2 works.<br /> <br /> Fiume is now Rijeka, Croatia. Trieste is on the northern shore of the Istra Peninsula, Rijeka on the southern shore.<br /> <br /> '''''Alberta'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Siluro Dirigible a Lenta Corsa'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> or S.L.C. &quot;slow course torpedo&quot;, &quot;slow-running torpedo&quot;. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manned_torpedo Wikipedia] Italy‘s Navy was among the first to experiment with manned torpedos. Though according to [http://web.ukonline.co.uk/chalcraft/sm/chariots.html this site] this did not happen until 1935, Italian frogmen as early as October 31, 1918 made it into the harbour of Pula with the help of a modified german torpedo and sank the former Austrian but by then since a few hours Croatian/Slovenian/Bosnian battleship SMS ''Viribus Unitis''. [http://www.geocities.com/tegetthoff66/viribus.html website]<br /> <br /> Italian ''dirigibile'' means &quot;steerable.&quot; The word suggests the torpedo is a counterpart of the dirigible ''Inconvenience.''<br /> <br /> ==Page 530==<br /> <br /> '''exfiltrate'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Make a surreptitious escape (as &quot;infiltrate&quot; means to make a surreptitious entrance).<br /> <br /> '''''Macchè'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Ehi, stugazz', categoria'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''mezzogiornismo'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Denigrating the Italian South<br /> <br /> ==Page 531==<br /> <br /> '''Bruges'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An exceptionally beautiful Belgian town of canals which is thus one of several towns known as the 'Venice of the north'.<br /> <br /> '''Raoul's Atelier de la Vitesse'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> French: Ralph's Speed Shop.<br /> <br /> '''Ghent'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Belgian city on the rail line about halfway between Ostend and Brussels.<br /> <br /> '''Daimler six-cylinder'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''a hundred horsepower'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''guaglion'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Umeki Tsurigane'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Umeki is typically made with some combination of the various kanji for &quot;plum&quot; (ume) and &quot;tree&quot; (ki), though one has the ki being the character for &quot;ghost/devil&quot; and one obscure reading that's entirely redundant, where ume is &quot;plant&quot; (usually read ue). There is one where ume is the kanji for &quot;buried or embedded&quot;. Tsurigane, means a &quot;temple bell&quot;, which can stand alone or be followed by the grass kanji to mean &quot;bellflower&quot; (lots of botanical stuff happening here, if that means anything; hardly the only example in ''AtD''). Given the search for Shambhala going on, &quot;Buried Temple Bell&quot; seems a likely translation, at least at this point; the botanical meanings could perhaps emerge later.<br /> <br /> '''Professor Knott'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 532==<br /> <br /> '''drover's sombrero'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cowboy hat.<br /> <br /> '''furoshiki'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''taupe'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A brownish gray.<br /> <br /> '''boilermakers and their helpers'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A shot of straight scotch followed by a beer chaser, plus other drinks.<br /> <br /> '''''Comptes rendus'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Les Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences Francais.<br /> <br /> ==Page 533==<br /> <br /> '''aniline teal'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The wallpaper dye; aniline dyes were the products of I.G. Farben, significant in ''GR''.<br /> <br /> '''Heavisiders'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Oliver Heaviside (May 18, 1850 – February 3, 1925) was a self-taught English electrical engineer, mathematician and physicist who adapted complex numbers to the study of electrical circuits, developed techniques for applying Laplace transforms to the solution of differential equations, reformulated Maxwell's field equations in terms of electric and magnetic forces and energy flux, and independently co-formulated vector analysis. Although at odds with the scientific establishment for most of his life, Heaviside changed the face of mathematics and science for years to come.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaviside].<br /> <br /> '''Grassmanniacs'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Nineteenth century German mathematician and linguist, essentially the inventor/discoverer of vector space. Grassmann showed that once geometry is put into the algebraic form he advocated, then the number three has no privileged role as the number of spatial dimensions; the number of possible dimensions is in fact unbounded.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Grassmann].<br /> <br /> '''in the mood for a clambake'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Anachronistic Broadway show tune? If so, the clambake in ''Carousel'' turns into a brawl; the assmebled factions of mathematicians could be in the mood for either a party or a brawl, apparently. <br /> <br /> '''Monopole de la Maison'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Idiom Neutral'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An invented language, like Esperanto. Idiom Neutral dictionaries first appeard in 1902. It looks like a simplified Latinate language and it grew out of Volapuk, another &quot;auxiliary language.&quot; It was abandoned by the ''Akademi Internasional de Lingu Universal'' in 1908.<br /> <br /> For a list of all the invented languages that linguists are keeping track of, including Klingon, try [http://linguistlist.org/forms/langs/GetListOfConstructedLgs.html Eastern Michigan's Linguist List]. And don't forget to click on the link to &quot;Browse sites devoted to constructed languages.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''phatic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Basically, small talk or chatter. Words used to convey fellow-feeling rather than to impart information.<br /> <br /> '''''Kampf ums Dasein'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German: struggle for existence.<br /> <br /> '''Q-brother'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;My fellow Quaternion&quot;?<br /> <br /> ==Page 534==<br /> <br /> '''Poiret gown'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''green and long'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pickle, or... what?<br /> <br /> ==Page 535==<br /> <br /> '''no-name wine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 1970s idiom for common European practice?<br /> <br /> '''Hamilton... first love'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 536==<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Oscar Wilde'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Note that Wilde's Dorian Gray also undergoes a kind of bilocation.<br /> <br /> '''Kursaal'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Spa.<br /> <br /> '''Curls'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Laplacians'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace (March 23, 1749 – March 5, 1827); French mathematician and astronomer who summarized and extended the work of his predecessors in his five volume Mécanique Céleste (Celestial Mechanics) (1799-1825), translating the geometrical study of mechanics used by Isaac Newton to one based on calculus, known as physical mechanics.<br /> <br /> He is also the discoverer of Laplace's equation. Although the Laplace transform is named in honor of Laplace, who used the transform in his work on probability theory, the transform was discovered originally by Leonhard Euler. The Laplace transform appears in all branches of mathematical physics — a field he took a leading role in forming. The Laplacian differential operator, much relied-upon in applied mathematics, is likewise named after him. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace].<br /> <br /> '''scream'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Scream motif.<br /> <br /> '''beginning to appal'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> By 1905 there had been years of outrage at conditions in the Belgian Congo, King Leopold's private fief. Conrad's ''Heart of Darkness'' had been published as a serial in Backwood's Magazine in 1899 and as a book in 1902. There were missionaries' accounts of the brutality, and newspaper reports. Leopold and his apologists published rebuttals. The Norton Critical Edition of ''Heart of Darkness'' contains an extensive collection of both.<br /> <br /> '''baize'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Baize is a course woolen felt.<br /> <br /> ==Page 537==<br /> <br /> '''broken symmetries'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''sphinxe Khnopffienne'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Pléiade Lafrisée'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Conseilleuse'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Female consultant?<br /> <br /> ==Page 538==<br /> <br /> '''retroversion matrix'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Ma foi'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Literally &quot;My faith&quot;, i.e. &quot;By my faith!&quot;, a mild exclamation of incredulity.<br /> <br /> '''ten thousand francs'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''piker'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Someone cheap or cautious, possibly named after people from PIke County, Missouri, who came to California in the 1800s, looking for work. They were poor, hence cheap. <br /> <br /> ''''Mad Dog''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Hegel... puns'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 539==<br /> <br /> '''vector quotient'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''Triangle Asana''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A basic yoga pose. <br /> <br /> [http://yoga.org.nz/postures/yoga_positions_images_page.htm Here are images of several basic poses.]<br /> <br /> ''''Quadrantal Versor Asana''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A triangle pose taken that extra dimension.<br /> <br /> '''''&quot;Uwe moer!&quot;'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''noncommutative'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A term typical to mathematics. A commutative equation is one that can operate in exact reverse and still yield the same results. 'Noncommutative' then suggests unidirectionality. The ability to go from point A to point B, but not from B to A.<br /> <br /> '''reticule'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A woman's drawstring handbag; usually made of net or beading or brocade; also: A system of lines forming a pattern of squares at the focal plane of a telescope, used in micrometers.<br /> [www.astunit.com/tutorials/glossary.htm] <br /> <br /> '''Vacheron &amp; Constantin watch'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''hunting-case'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 540==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;haar rekening, ja?&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The bill, yes? (Dutch)?<br /> <br /> ''Her'' bill, yes? I.e., give the check to the lady.<br /> <br /> Given the presence of Chris 'Kit' Traverse here, this very much suggests a reference to Christopher 'Kit' Marlowe, Elizabethan poet, playwright and contemporary of Shakespeare. Marlowe was stabbed to death in 1593, in murky circumstances, ostensibly over a bill or 'reckoning', though he was widely believed to have been involved in some form of espionage.<br /> <br /> '''Piet Woevre'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pete Weaver?<br /> <br /> '''made him reach'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Possible allusion to a famous line, &quot;When I hear the word culture I reach for my gun.&quot; From Hanns Johst's biographical play ''Schlageter''. The original line is slightly different: &quot;Wenn ich Kultur höre ... entsichere ich meinen Browning,&quot; &quot;Whenever I hear of culture... I release the safety-catch of my Browning!&quot; (Act 1, Scene 1). It is spoken by another character in conversation with the young Schlageter. In the scene Schlageter and his wartime comrade Friedrich Thiemann are studying for a college examination, but then start disputing whether it's worthwhile doing so when the nation is not free. <br /> <br /> The line is often misattributed to better-known Nazis and others [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanns_Johst].<br /> <br /> '''not unambiguous'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Ie, ambiguous.<br /> <br /> '''''rastaquoueres'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 8???<br /> <br /> '''de Decker'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> In Dutch/Flemish, the name means &quot;roofer.&quot; (''De'' in these names almost never means &quot;of, from&quot; as in French; it's nearly always the definite article.)<br /> <br /> ==Page 541==<br /> <br /> '''''bobbejaan'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''MKIV/ODC... Mark Four'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''your remit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''gatkruiper'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Dutch/Flemish: brownnose, ass-kisser.<br /> <br /> '''one on her wrist'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''over the day'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Title motif?<br /> <br /> ==Page 542==<br /> <br /> '''trans-horizontic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Edmund Whittaker'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Sir Edmund Whittaker Memorial Prize is awarded every four years by the Edinburgh Mathematical Society to an outstanding young mathematician having a specified connection with Scotland [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Edmund_Whittaker_Memorial_Prize]. <br /> <br /> '''foaming louche'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''cheval-glass'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Standing mirror in a freestanding vertical frame.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''as if someone'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Sound-cancelling vs opacity-cancelling?<br /> <br /> ==Page 543==<br /> <br /> '''monitory'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Admonitory.<br /> <br /> '''He Who Must Come'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''General Boulanger'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Boulanger Georges Boulanger], French War Minister urging an attack on Germany<br /> <br /> '''what death and what transfiguration'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Allusion to Richard Strauss' tone poem &quot;Death and Transfiguration&quot; (''Tod und Verklärung''), premiered in 1890.<br /> <br /> '''''&quot;Zeker&quot;'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Dutch, &quot;certainly&quot;<br /> <br /> '''''dead cert'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Dead certainty, sure thing.<br /> <br /> '''Von Schlieffen'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Alfred von Schlieffen was the author of a German war plan to win a two-front war against both France and Russia by quickly defeating France before Russian troops could be mobilized. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlieffen_Plan Schlieffen Plan] included an attack on France through Belgium, disregarding its neutrality.<br /> <br /> '''Wilhelm has offered Leopold part of France, the ancient Duchy of Burgundy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/fr-bg.html History of the duchy.] [http://www.freiburg-madison.de/freiburg_history/1386-1517_The%20Early%20Habsburgs.htm Map,] with portrait of Duke Charles the Rash.<br /> <br /> '''lowlands'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Title of Pynchon's first published story. Here, ass?<br /> <br /> ==Page 544==<br /> <br /> '''Place d'Armes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Main square of Ostend; literally &quot;drill field&quot;.<br /> <br /> '''peau de soie'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Skin of silk&quot; A heavy, smooth satin with very fine ribbing; somewhat dull in sheen compared with traditional silk finishes.<br /> <br /> '''Krafft-Ebing'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, Austro-German psychiatrist and author of ''Psychopathia Sexualis'' (1886), a pioneering study of deviant sexual behavior and fetishism. Coined both ''sadism'' and ''masochism'' as terms for these respective behaviors. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Freiherr_von_Krafft-Ebing Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''toque'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A chef's hat<br /> <br /> '''guipure'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''midinette'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''sous'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''mayonnaise'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Brautigan's &quot;Trout Fishing in America&quot; famously ends with the word mayonnaise. [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0395500761&amp;id=rbEjDovfyNMC&amp;pg=RA2-PA111&amp;lpg=RA2-PA111&amp;ots=ELKl5b_6Tx&amp;dq=mayonnaise+trout.fishing&amp;num=100&amp;sig=BiyXRqJXRGrMWbrBNgn8de2kpCo#PRA2-PA112,M1 GoogleBooks]<br /> <br /> '''ovoöleaginous'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Another Pynchonic word combination, here denoting the two main ingredients of mayonnaise: 1) eggs, and 2) oil. It's not &quot;fecoventilatory collision&quot; as seen in &quot;Vineland,&quot; but it's nice.<br /> <br /> '''Grenache'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Chantilly'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''attainder'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''''Aux armes, citoyens''''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Not &quot;Le Marseillaise,&quot; you nitwit!<br /> <br /> '''Louis XV'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> King of France 1715-1774 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XV]. <br /> <br /> '''Cléo de Mérode'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Glamorous French ballerina, later Follies Bergere dancer and famous beauty. Her reputed intimacy with King Leopold was only a rumor [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleo_de_Merode].<br /> <br /> '''marquise de Pompadour'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Mistress of Louis XV,once friend of Voltaire and a power behind official scenes.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_de_Pompadour].<br /> <br /> ==Page 545==<br /> <br /> '''dubious 'victory' in 1756'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''the ill-fated Admiral Byng'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> John Byng, convicted by court-martial of failure &quot;to do his utmost&quot; in the battle, shot in 1757. Remembered because of (1) his being the last officer of flag rank to be put to death for conduct in battle and (2) Voltaire's gag in ''Candide:'' &quot;In this country it is good to kill an admiral from time to time in order to encourage the others.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''cantharides'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Spanish fly,&quot; contact irritant sometimes ill-advisedly used as aphrodisiac.<br /> <br /> '''Sadean'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pertaining to the Marquis de Sade. The acts the chef performs on the egg and oil have the same names as acts of Sadean sex. <br /> <br /> '''vetiver'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A grass (Vetiveria zizanioides) of tropical India, cultivated for its aromatic roots that yield an oil used in perfumery.<br /> [www.answers.com/topic/vetiver]. So, a perfume with, llterallly, roots in India.<br /> <br /> '''pip'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A beaut; in current parlance, a hottie.<br /> <br /> '''Q.P. system'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Quaternion Probability, p?.<br /> <br /> '''Usine Régionale'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> French: as translated in the text.<br /> <br /> ==Page 546==<br /> <br /> '''disjunctive effects of thunderstorms'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Folk wisdom says a thunderstorm will cause mayonnaise to separate (oil from yolks).<br /> <br /> '''lounge suit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''congress shoes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''dripping-heads'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''cuves d'agitation'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Clinique d'Urgence pour Sauvetage des Sauces'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> French: Emergency Clinic for Salvage of Sauces.<br /> <br /> ==Page 547==<br /> <br /> '''''Cazzo, cretino'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Literally, &quot;Dick, cretin.&quot; ''Cazzo'' is a common Italian interjectionary obscenity, especially in the south. &quot;Cazzo, cretino,&quot; is akin to someone saying, &quot;Well shit, dummy,&quot; or &quot;F-ing moron!&quot;<br /> <br /> '''''È il cowboy!'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Italian: It's the cowboy!<br /> <br /> '''''Le bambole anarchiste, porca miseria'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Italian: Anarchist babes, oh boy.<br /> <br /> '''Oudenberg'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Quai de l'Entrepôt'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''ragazzi'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Italian: boys, guys.<br /> <br /> ==Page 548==<br /> <br /> '''''timbres fictifs'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> French: fictive postage stamps. Cf &quot;Lot 49&quot;.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;IIIb&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> As explained in the text<br /> <br /> '''revanchist'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Policies based on revenge, or a person following such policies. In General Boulanger's case, revenge against Germany for the Franco-Prussian War.<br /> <br /> '''the somewhat discomposed General'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Having died in 1891, the General by the time of the action is certainly somewhat '''de'''composed; brief biographies do not suggest he was ''non compos mentis,'' that is, mentally discomposed.<br /> <br /> ==Page 549==<br /> <br /> '''cackled Darby'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (When did he lose his innocence?)<br /> <br /> '''a modification of any salsician metaphor toward the diminutive'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Salsician: pertaining to sausage. Lindsay says Suckling's penis is better compared to a wiener than a knockwurst.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Why you little–and I do mean 'little'–&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Another Simpsons reference? <br /> <br /> '''dunes between Nieuport and Dunkirk'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''power-receivers'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Not information, energy.<br /> <br /> ==Page 550==<br /> <br /> '''Italian grotto'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Carpathians'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Major mountain range running northwest-southeast through Poland, Slovakia, western Ukraine and Romania.<br /> <br /> '''Uhlans'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Uhlan regiments belonged to the light cavalry. They wore splendid uniforms (model for some U.S. marching band uniforms). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uhlan Wikipedia article.]<br /> <br /> '''Temesvár'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Now Timişoara, extreme western Romania.<br /> <br /> ==Page 551==<br /> <br /> '''securing the mess decks'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Chums follow U.S. Navy idiom in orders (frequently prefixed with &quot;Now&quot;) and shipboard activities (&quot;secure&quot; meaning &quot;whatever you did before, undo it now,&quot; in this case put away the dishes and fold up the tables).<br /> <br /> '''Ryder Thorn'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Tolkienesque name?<br /> <br /> '''He was at Candlebrow.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Presumably a 'trespasser.'<br /> <br /> '''the four-note chord in the context of timelessness'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A melody is formed by notes following one another in time; a chord on the ukulele violates that practice by having all the notes sound at once. A really clever little passage.<br /> <br /> ==Page 552==<br /> <br /> '''knuckle-duster'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Brass knuckles.<br /> <br /> '''Diksmuide'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 20 kilometers south of Ostend (about halfway to Ypres).<br /> <br /> ==Page 553==<br /> <br /> '''retted'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 554==<br /> <br /> '''Ypres and Menin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Municipalities in West Flanders that were sites of some of the bloodiest battles of WWI.<br /> <br /> '''Ten years from now'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (1914?)<br /> <br /> '''Bosch'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Hieronymous Bosch (1450-1516), Dutch painter of nightmares. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieronymus_Bosch Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''Brueghel'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pieter Brueghel the Elder(1525-1569), Flemish painter.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Brueghel_the_Elder Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''League'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> League of Nations?<br /> <br /> '''where the needles went and which way to rotate them'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> I.e., how to push Thorn's buttons; the image is from acupuncture.<br /> <br /> ==Page 555==<br /> <br /> '''simpletons at the fair'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Making Pynchon's metaphor explicit.<br /> <br /> '''Chopin E-minor Nocturne'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''owl-light'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''plasmic hysteresis''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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<p>Jackrmann: /* Page 528 */</p> <hr /> <div>:'''&lt;big&gt;Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.&lt;/big&gt;'''&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Page 525==<br /> <br /> '''Boulevard van Isenghem'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''street-plausible'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Presentable.<br /> <br /> '''Quai de l'empereur'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''estaminet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> According to the OED - A café in which smoking is allowed. Now, any small establishment selling alcoholic liquor. <br /> <br /> '''twelve-centime'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Kellner'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German: waiter, barman. Use of the German word would be insulting to the Belgian barman.<br /> <br /> '''''demi'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Half glass.<br /> <br /> '''Lambic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pron. ''lahm-BEEK.'' Unique Belgian beer style, sour and often thin in body.<br /> <br /> '''skimmer'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Straw hat (&quot;Panama&quot;).<br /> <br /> ==Page 526==<br /> <br /> <br /> '''biquaternion'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Double quaternion.<br /> <br /> '''Barry Nebulay'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pun on a term from heraldry, ''barry nebuly.'' Barry (rhymes with &quot;starry,&quot; not &quot;carry&quot;) refers to a shield divided into an even number of parts by horizontal lines. Nebuly signals that the lines are deformed into stylized &quot;cloud&quot; shapes. [http://www.rarebooks.nd.edu/digital/heraldry/partitions.html Here you can see an example.] If a British author had a character with a heraldic name, it would suggest a pseudonym.<br /> <br /> '''University of Dublin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> If University College, Dublin, then Joyce had graduated in 1902.<br /> <br /> '''Tasmania'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Hamiltonian devotees'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Quaternion faction, after William Hamilton, who devised the scheme.<br /> <br /> '''Grand Hôtel de la Nouvelle Digue'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> There is a Hotel Digue in the Seychelles; this is a New Hotel Digue by Pynchon? <br /> <br /> '''anterooms of death'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> This metaphor is sometimes applied to concentration camps. Here the lyric &quot;feel like I'm fixin' to die&quot; seems more apposite.<br /> <br /> '''Belgian Art Nouveau'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 527==<br /> <br /> '''dossing'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> British slang for &quot;sleeping&quot;, &quot;staying overnight&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Russian nihilists'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Eugénie, Fatou'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Females.<br /> <br /> '''Denis, and Policarpe'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Males.<br /> <br /> '''Young Congo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Probably in reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Turks Young Turks], a Turkish revolutionary movement<br /> <br /> '''Garde Civique'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A part of the Belgian army. According to the [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Belgium 1911 Britannica], &quot;the mass of the garde civique does not pretend to possess military value. It is a defence against sedition and socialism.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''French Second Bureau boys'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Deuxieme Bureau; French Intelligence.<br /> <br /> '''''phalange'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> French: phalanx. A military (here mock-military) group ready for combat.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;...until something had happened, something too terrible to remember...&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Again this theme of an unknowable past transgression, here invoked almost as if the unknown signifies the other 'lateral' (a word which has cropped up at least a dozen times already) 'vector'.<br /> <br /> '''the Digue'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> French for &quot;dyke&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Congo... Belgians'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Belgian colonisation of the Congo was, as Conrad's &quot;Heart of Darkness&quot; makes clear, notable for its greed and brutality.<br /> <br /> '''Leopold, King of the Belgians'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 1835-1909, reigned 1865-1909. In the Congo he acted as sole proprietor and absolute ruler.<br /> <br /> '''co-conscious'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Force Publique'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Belgian armed forces operating in the Belgian Congo ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_Publique Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> '''rubber worker'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See above: One of the early missions of the FP was to increase rubber export quotas through forced labor and related atrocities.<br /> <br /> ==Page 528==<br /> <br /> '''''khâgne'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Reclus'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Stirnerite'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Follower of Max Stirner, 19th century German philosopher and author of ''The Ego and Its Own,'' a work influential in anarchist thought. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Stirner Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''''Anarcho-individualiste'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> i.e. he has doctrinal differernces with Stirnerism, strictly speaking; see P. 324, and &quot;Eigenheit&quot;.<br /> <br /> '''Leopold'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See p. 527.<br /> <br /> '''going down lately'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Being assassaniated.<br /> <br /> '''Sipido'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Prince... of Wales'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Maud Gonne's husband claimed to have been involved in another such plot.)<br /> <br /> '''Royal Bathing Hut... twenty francs'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''twenty francs'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 529==<br /> <br /> '''picric family'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The explosive picric acid (2,4,6-trinitrophenol) and its derivatives. For picric acid, Brugère's powder and Designolle's powder, [http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/PER_PIG/PICRIC_ACID_or_TRINITROPHENOL_C.html see this Britannica article.]<br /> <br /> '''Brugère's powder'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See &quot;picric family&quot; above.<br /> <br /> '''Designolle's'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See &quot;picric family&quot; above.<br /> <br /> '''Monsieur Santos-Dumont'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Alberto Santos-Dumont (1873-1932), a pioneer of aviation from Brasil. Check out [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Santos-Dumont Wikipedia] to get a look at the way he was wearing his &quot;trademark Panama hat&quot;. <br /> <br /> '''Green Hour''' and '''''l'heure vertigineuse'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Absinthe-drinking time. The liqueur is green. In French, ''l'heure verte,'' so ''vertigineuse'' (vertiginous, causing dizziness) is a pun on the word for &quot;green.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Rocco and Pino'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Rabid Quaternionists and sudden friends of Kit Traverse.<br /> <br /> '''Whitehead works in Fiume'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Anticipating GR's V2 works.<br /> <br /> Fiume is now Rijeka, Croatia. Trieste is on the northern shore of the Istra Peninsula, Rijeka on the southern shore.<br /> <br /> '''''Alberta'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Siluro Dirigible a Lenta Corsa'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> or S.L.C. &quot;slow course torpedo&quot;, &quot;slow-running torpedo&quot;. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manned_torpedo Wikipedia] Italy‘s Navy was among the first to experiment with manned torpedos. Though according to [http://web.ukonline.co.uk/chalcraft/sm/chariots.html this site] this did not happen until 1935, Italian frogmen as early as October 31, 1918 made it into the harbour of Pula with the help of a modified german torpedo and sank the former Austrian but by then since a few hours Croatian/Slovenian/Bosnian battleship SMS ''Viribus Unitis''. [http://www.geocities.com/tegetthoff66/viribus.html website]<br /> <br /> Italian ''dirigibile'' means &quot;steerable.&quot; The word suggests the torpedo is a counterpart of the dirigible ''Inconvenience.''<br /> <br /> ==Page 530==<br /> <br /> '''exfiltrate'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Make a surreptitious escape (as &quot;infiltrate&quot; means to make a surreptitious entrance).<br /> <br /> '''''Macchè'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Ehi, stugazz', categoria'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''mezzogiornismo'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Denigrating the Italian South<br /> <br /> ==Page 531==<br /> <br /> '''Bruges'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An exceptionally beautiful Belgian town of canals which is thus one of several towns known as the 'Venice of the north'.<br /> <br /> '''Raoul's Atelier de la Vitesse'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> French: Ralph's Speed Shop.<br /> <br /> '''Ghent'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Belgian city on the rail line about halfway between Ostend and Brussels.<br /> <br /> '''Daimler six-cylinder'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''a hundred horsepower'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''guaglion'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Umeki Tsurigane'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Umeki is typically made with some combination of the various kanji for &quot;plum&quot; (ume) and &quot;tree&quot; (ki), though one has the ki being the character for &quot;ghost/devil&quot; and one obscure reading that's entirely redundant, where ume is &quot;plant&quot; (usually read ue). There is one where ume is the kanji for &quot;buried or embedded&quot;. Tsurigane, means a &quot;temple bell&quot;, which can stand alone or be followed by the grass kanji to mean &quot;bellflower&quot; (lots of botanical stuff happening here, if that means anything; hardly the only example in ''AtD''). Given the search for Shambhala going on, &quot;Buried Temple Bell&quot; seems a likely translation, at least at this point; the botanical meanings could perhaps emerge later.<br /> <br /> '''Professor Knott'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 532==<br /> <br /> '''drover's sombrero'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cowboy hat.<br /> <br /> '''furoshiki'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''taupe'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''boilermakers and their helpers'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A shot of straight scotch followed by a beer chaser, plus other drinks.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''''Comptes rendus'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Les Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences Francais.<br /> <br /> ==Page 533==<br /> <br /> '''aniline teal'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The wallpaper dye; aniline dyes were the products of I.G. Farben, significant in ''GR''.<br /> <br /> '''Heavisiders'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Oliver Heaviside (May 18, 1850 – February 3, 1925) was a self-taught English electrical engineer, mathematician and physicist who adapted complex numbers to the study of electrical circuits, developed techniques for applying Laplace transforms to the solution of differential equations, reformulated Maxwell's field equations in terms of electric and magnetic forces and energy flux, and independently co-formulated vector analysis. Although at odds with the scientific establishment for most of his life, Heaviside changed the face of mathematics and science for years to come.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaviside].<br /> <br /> '''Grassmanniacs'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Nineteenth century German mathematician and linguist, essentially the inventor/discoverer of vector space. Grassmann showed that once geometry is put into the algebraic form he advocated, then the number three has no privileged role as the number of spatial dimensions; the number of possible dimensions is in fact unbounded.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Grassmann].<br /> <br /> '''in the mood for a clambake'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Anachronistic Broadway show tune? If so, the clambake in ''Carousel'' turns into a brawl; the assmebled factions of mathematicians could be in the mood for either a party or a brawl, apparently. <br /> <br /> '''Monopole de la Maison'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Idiom Neutral'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An invented language, like Esperanto. Idiom Neutral dictionaries first appeard in 1902. It looks like a simplified Latinate language and it grew out of Volapuk, another &quot;auxiliary language.&quot; It was abandoned by the ''Akademi Internasional de Lingu Universal'' in 1908.<br /> <br /> For a list of all the invented languages that linguists are keeping track of, including Klingon, try [http://linguistlist.org/forms/langs/GetListOfConstructedLgs.html Eastern Michigan's Linguist List]. And don't forget to click on the link to &quot;Browse sites devoted to constructed languages.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''phatic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Basically, small talk or chatter. Words used to convey fellow-feeling rather than to impart information.<br /> <br /> '''''Kampf ums Dasein'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German: struggle for existence.<br /> <br /> '''Q-brother'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;My fellow Quaternion&quot;?<br /> <br /> ==Page 534==<br /> <br /> '''Poiret gown'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''green and long'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pickle, or... what?<br /> <br /> ==Page 535==<br /> <br /> '''no-name wine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 1970s idiom for common European practice?<br /> <br /> '''Hamilton... first love'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 536==<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Oscar Wilde'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Note that Wilde's Dorian Gray also undergoes a kind of bilocation.<br /> <br /> '''Kursaal'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Spa.<br /> <br /> '''Curls'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Laplacians'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace (March 23, 1749 – March 5, 1827); French mathematician and astronomer who summarized and extended the work of his predecessors in his five volume Mécanique Céleste (Celestial Mechanics) (1799-1825), translating the geometrical study of mechanics used by Isaac Newton to one based on calculus, known as physical mechanics.<br /> <br /> He is also the discoverer of Laplace's equation. Although the Laplace transform is named in honor of Laplace, who used the transform in his work on probability theory, the transform was discovered originally by Leonhard Euler. The Laplace transform appears in all branches of mathematical physics — a field he took a leading role in forming. The Laplacian differential operator, much relied-upon in applied mathematics, is likewise named after him. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace].<br /> <br /> '''scream'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Scream motif.<br /> <br /> '''beginning to appal'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> By 1905 there had been years of outrage at conditions in the Belgian Congo, King Leopold's private fief. Conrad's ''Heart of Darkness'' had been published as a serial in Backwood's Magazine in 1899 and as a book in 1902. There were missionaries' accounts of the brutality, and newspaper reports. Leopold and his apologists published rebuttals. The Norton Critical Edition of ''Heart of Darkness'' contains an extensive collection of both.<br /> <br /> '''baize'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Baize is a course woolen felt.<br /> <br /> ==Page 537==<br /> <br /> '''broken symmetries'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''sphinxe Khnopffienne'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Pléiade Lafrisée'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Conseilleuse'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Female consultant?<br /> <br /> ==Page 538==<br /> <br /> '''retroversion matrix'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Ma foi'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Literally &quot;My faith&quot;, i.e. &quot;By my faith!&quot;, a mild exclamation of incredulity.<br /> <br /> '''ten thousand francs'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''piker'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Someone cheap or cautious, possibly named after people from PIke County, Missouri, who came to California in the 1800s, looking for work. They were poor, hence cheap. <br /> <br /> ''''Mad Dog''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Hegel... puns'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 539==<br /> <br /> '''vector quotient'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''Triangle Asana''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A basic yoga pose. <br /> <br /> [http://yoga.org.nz/postures/yoga_positions_images_page.htm Here are images of several basic poses.]<br /> <br /> ''''Quadrantal Versor Asana''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A triangle pose taken that extra dimension.<br /> <br /> '''''&quot;Uwe moer!&quot;'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''noncommutative'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A term typical to mathematics. A commutative equation is one that can operate in exact reverse and still yield the same results. 'Noncommutative' then suggests unidirectionality. The ability to go from point A to point B, but not from B to A.<br /> <br /> '''reticule'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A woman's drawstring handbag; usually made of net or beading or brocade; also: A system of lines forming a pattern of squares at the focal plane of a telescope, used in micrometers.<br /> [www.astunit.com/tutorials/glossary.htm] <br /> <br /> '''Vacheron &amp; Constantin watch'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''hunting-case'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 540==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;haar rekening, ja?&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The bill, yes? (Dutch)?<br /> <br /> ''Her'' bill, yes? I.e., give the check to the lady.<br /> <br /> Given the presence of Chris 'Kit' Traverse here, this very much suggests a reference to Christopher 'Kit' Marlowe, Elizabethan poet, playwright and contemporary of Shakespeare. Marlowe was stabbed to death in 1593, in murky circumstances, ostensibly over a bill or 'reckoning', though he was widely believed to have been involved in some form of espionage.<br /> <br /> '''Piet Woevre'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pete Weaver?<br /> <br /> '''made him reach'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Possible allusion to a famous line, &quot;When I hear the word culture I reach for my gun.&quot; From Hanns Johst's biographical play ''Schlageter''. The original line is slightly different: &quot;Wenn ich Kultur höre ... entsichere ich meinen Browning,&quot; &quot;Whenever I hear of culture... I release the safety-catch of my Browning!&quot; (Act 1, Scene 1). It is spoken by another character in conversation with the young Schlageter. In the scene Schlageter and his wartime comrade Friedrich Thiemann are studying for a college examination, but then start disputing whether it's worthwhile doing so when the nation is not free. <br /> <br /> The line is often misattributed to better-known Nazis and others [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanns_Johst].<br /> <br /> '''not unambiguous'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Ie, ambiguous.<br /> <br /> '''''rastaquoueres'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 8???<br /> <br /> '''de Decker'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> In Dutch/Flemish, the name means &quot;roofer.&quot; (''De'' in these names almost never means &quot;of, from&quot; as in French; it's nearly always the definite article.)<br /> <br /> ==Page 541==<br /> <br /> '''''bobbejaan'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''MKIV/ODC... Mark Four'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''your remit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''gatkruiper'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Dutch/Flemish: brownnose, ass-kisser.<br /> <br /> '''one on her wrist'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''over the day'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Title motif?<br /> <br /> ==Page 542==<br /> <br /> '''trans-horizontic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Edmund Whittaker'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Sir Edmund Whittaker Memorial Prize is awarded every four years by the Edinburgh Mathematical Society to an outstanding young mathematician having a specified connection with Scotland [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Edmund_Whittaker_Memorial_Prize]. <br /> <br /> '''foaming louche'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''cheval-glass'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Standing mirror in a freestanding vertical frame.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''as if someone'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Sound-cancelling vs opacity-cancelling?<br /> <br /> ==Page 543==<br /> <br /> '''monitory'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Admonitory.<br /> <br /> '''He Who Must Come'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''General Boulanger'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Boulanger Georges Boulanger], French War Minister urging an attack on Germany<br /> <br /> '''what death and what transfiguration'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Allusion to Richard Strauss' tone poem &quot;Death and Transfiguration&quot; (''Tod und Verklärung''), premiered in 1890.<br /> <br /> '''''&quot;Zeker&quot;'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Dutch, &quot;certainly&quot;<br /> <br /> '''''dead cert'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Dead certainty, sure thing.<br /> <br /> '''Von Schlieffen'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Alfred von Schlieffen was the author of a German war plan to win a two-front war against both France and Russia by quickly defeating France before Russian troops could be mobilized. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlieffen_Plan Schlieffen Plan] included an attack on France through Belgium, disregarding its neutrality.<br /> <br /> '''Wilhelm has offered Leopold part of France, the ancient Duchy of Burgundy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/fr-bg.html History of the duchy.] [http://www.freiburg-madison.de/freiburg_history/1386-1517_The%20Early%20Habsburgs.htm Map,] with portrait of Duke Charles the Rash.<br /> <br /> '''lowlands'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Title of Pynchon's first published story. Here, ass?<br /> <br /> ==Page 544==<br /> <br /> '''Place d'Armes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Main square of Ostend; literally &quot;drill field&quot;.<br /> <br /> '''peau de soie'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Skin of silk&quot; A heavy, smooth satin with very fine ribbing; somewhat dull in sheen compared with traditional silk finishes.<br /> <br /> '''Krafft-Ebing'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, Austro-German psychiatrist and author of ''Psychopathia Sexualis'' (1886), a pioneering study of deviant sexual behavior and fetishism. Coined both ''sadism'' and ''masochism'' as terms for these respective behaviors. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Freiherr_von_Krafft-Ebing Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''toque'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A chef's hat<br /> <br /> '''guipure'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''midinette'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''sous'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''mayonnaise'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Brautigan's &quot;Trout Fishing in America&quot; famously ends with the word mayonnaise. [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0395500761&amp;id=rbEjDovfyNMC&amp;pg=RA2-PA111&amp;lpg=RA2-PA111&amp;ots=ELKl5b_6Tx&amp;dq=mayonnaise+trout.fishing&amp;num=100&amp;sig=BiyXRqJXRGrMWbrBNgn8de2kpCo#PRA2-PA112,M1 GoogleBooks]<br /> <br /> '''ovoöleaginous'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Another Pynchonic word combination, here denoting the two main ingredients of mayonnaise: 1) eggs, and 2) oil. It's not &quot;fecoventilatory collision&quot; as seen in &quot;Vineland,&quot; but it's nice.<br /> <br /> '''Grenache'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Chantilly'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''attainder'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''''Aux armes, citoyens''''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Not &quot;Le Marseillaise,&quot; you nitwit!<br /> <br /> '''Louis XV'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> King of France 1715-1774 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XV]. <br /> <br /> '''Cléo de Mérode'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Glamorous French ballerina, later Follies Bergere dancer and famous beauty. Her reputed intimacy with King Leopold was only a rumor [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleo_de_Merode].<br /> <br /> '''marquise de Pompadour'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Mistress of Louis XV,once friend of Voltaire and a power behind official scenes.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_de_Pompadour].<br /> <br /> ==Page 545==<br /> <br /> '''dubious 'victory' in 1756'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''the ill-fated Admiral Byng'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> John Byng, convicted by court-martial of failure &quot;to do his utmost&quot; in the battle, shot in 1757. Remembered because of (1) his being the last officer of flag rank to be put to death for conduct in battle and (2) Voltaire's gag in ''Candide:'' &quot;In this country it is good to kill an admiral from time to time in order to encourage the others.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''cantharides'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Spanish fly,&quot; contact irritant sometimes ill-advisedly used as aphrodisiac.<br /> <br /> '''Sadean'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pertaining to the Marquis de Sade. The acts the chef performs on the egg and oil have the same names as acts of Sadean sex. <br /> <br /> '''vetiver'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A grass (Vetiveria zizanioides) of tropical India, cultivated for its aromatic roots that yield an oil used in perfumery.<br /> [www.answers.com/topic/vetiver]. So, a perfume with, llterallly, roots in India.<br /> <br /> '''pip'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A beaut; in current parlance, a hottie.<br /> <br /> '''Q.P. system'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Quaternion Probability, p?.<br /> <br /> '''Usine Régionale'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> French: as translated in the text.<br /> <br /> ==Page 546==<br /> <br /> '''disjunctive effects of thunderstorms'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Folk wisdom says a thunderstorm will cause mayonnaise to separate (oil from yolks).<br /> <br /> '''lounge suit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''congress shoes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''dripping-heads'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''cuves d'agitation'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Clinique d'Urgence pour Sauvetage des Sauces'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> French: Emergency Clinic for Salvage of Sauces.<br /> <br /> ==Page 547==<br /> <br /> '''''Cazzo, cretino'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Literally, &quot;Dick, cretin.&quot; ''Cazzo'' is a common Italian interjectionary obscenity, especially in the south. &quot;Cazzo, cretino,&quot; is akin to someone saying, &quot;Well shit, dummy,&quot; or &quot;F-ing moron!&quot;<br /> <br /> '''''È il cowboy!'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Italian: It's the cowboy!<br /> <br /> '''''Le bambole anarchiste, porca miseria'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Italian: Anarchist babes, oh boy.<br /> <br /> '''Oudenberg'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Quai de l'Entrepôt'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''ragazzi'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Italian: boys, guys.<br /> <br /> ==Page 548==<br /> <br /> '''''timbres fictifs'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> French: fictive postage stamps. Cf &quot;Lot 49&quot;.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;IIIb&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> As explained in the text<br /> <br /> '''revanchist'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Policies based on revenge, or a person following such policies. In General Boulanger's case, revenge against Germany for the Franco-Prussian War.<br /> <br /> '''the somewhat discomposed General'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Having died in 1891, the General by the time of the action is certainly somewhat '''de'''composed; brief biographies do not suggest he was ''non compos mentis,'' that is, mentally discomposed.<br /> <br /> ==Page 549==<br /> <br /> '''cackled Darby'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (When did he lose his innocence?)<br /> <br /> '''a modification of any salsician metaphor toward the diminutive'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Salsician: pertaining to sausage. Lindsay says Suckling's penis is better compared to a wiener than a knockwurst.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Why you little–and I do mean 'little'–&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Another Simpsons reference? <br /> <br /> '''dunes between Nieuport and Dunkirk'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''power-receivers'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Not information, energy.<br /> <br /> ==Page 550==<br /> <br /> '''Italian grotto'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Carpathians'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Major mountain range running northwest-southeast through Poland, Slovakia, western Ukraine and Romania.<br /> <br /> '''Uhlans'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Uhlan regiments belonged to the light cavalry. They wore splendid uniforms (model for some U.S. marching band uniforms). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uhlan Wikipedia article.]<br /> <br /> '''Temesvár'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Now Timişoara, extreme western Romania.<br /> <br /> ==Page 551==<br /> <br /> '''securing the mess decks'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Chums follow U.S. Navy idiom in orders (frequently prefixed with &quot;Now&quot;) and shipboard activities (&quot;secure&quot; meaning &quot;whatever you did before, undo it now,&quot; in this case put away the dishes and fold up the tables).<br /> <br /> '''Ryder Thorn'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Tolkienesque name?<br /> <br /> '''He was at Candlebrow.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Presumably a 'trespasser.'<br /> <br /> '''the four-note chord in the context of timelessness'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A melody is formed by notes following one another in time; a chord on the ukulele violates that practice by having all the notes sound at once. A really clever little passage.<br /> <br /> ==Page 552==<br /> <br /> '''knuckle-duster'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Brass knuckles.<br /> <br /> '''Diksmuide'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 20 kilometers south of Ostend (about halfway to Ypres).<br /> <br /> ==Page 553==<br /> <br /> '''retted'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 554==<br /> <br /> '''Ypres and Menin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Municipalities in West Flanders that were sites of some of the bloodiest battles of WWI.<br /> <br /> '''Ten years from now'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (1914?)<br /> <br /> '''Bosch'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Hieronymous Bosch (1450-1516), Dutch painter of nightmares. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieronymus_Bosch Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''Brueghel'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pieter Brueghel the Elder(1525-1569), Flemish painter.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Brueghel_the_Elder Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''League'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> League of Nations?<br /> <br /> '''where the needles went and which way to rotate them'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> I.e., how to push Thorn's buttons; the image is from acupuncture.<br /> <br /> ==Page 555==<br /> <br /> '''simpletons at the fair'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Making Pynchon's metaphor explicit.<br /> <br /> '''Chopin E-minor Nocturne'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''owl-light'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''plasmic hysteresis''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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<p>Jackrmann: /* Page 757 */</p> <hr /> <div>:'''&lt;big&gt;Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.&lt;/big&gt;'''&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Page XX==<br /> <br /> '''Sample entry'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Please format like this.<br /> <br /> ==Page 751==<br /> <br /> '''Constantza'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Constanţa, Romanian port on Black Sea.<br /> <br /> '''dukhans'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Inns.<br /> <br /> '''Qara Qum'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Now more often spelled Kara Kum, desert between Caspian Sea and Amu Darya River.<br /> <br /> ==Page 754==<br /> <br /> '''Prokladka'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The name is a common Russian word with two meanings: construction and gasket.<br /> <br /> '''Kalinka'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Russian soldiers' song.<br /> <br /> '''Ochi Chorniya'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Stereotypical Russian ballad, &quot;Dark Eyes.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Molokhovets'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> If the name were composed of Molokh + ovets, it might mean &quot;Moloch-sheep.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Orloff'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Also known as Oryol or Orel Trotter, a breed developed in the 19th century.<br /> <br /> ==Page 755==<br /> <br /> '''A.D.C. or ''lichnyi adiutant'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Aide-de-camp or (Russian:) personal adjutant.<br /> <br /> '''Klopski'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ''Klop'' is a Russian word for &quot;bug.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''''peculiar machines'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Arcade games?<br /> <br /> '''''zastolye'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Group of people around a table.<br /> <br /> ==Page 756==<br /> <br /> '''''Poshol ty na khuy'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Impolite Russian of uncertain meaning; &quot;You cocksucker&quot;?<br /> <br /> '''''denshchik'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Russian: batman.<br /> <br /> ==Page 757==<br /> <br /> '''Uyghur'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Member of an ethnic group in western China, sometimes described as Indo-European.<br /> <br /> '''Al Mar-Fuad'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Get a load of this character! He dresses in English hunting tweeds and a deerstalker cap, brandishes a shotgun, pronounces his &quot;r&quot;'s as w's, and says things like &quot;Weally?&quot; and &quot;I am going out after some gwouse.&quot; Maybe &quot;wabbits&quot; are next for this Uyghur version of ''Elmer Fudd'' (Al Mar-Fuad--get it?).<br /> <br /> ==Page 758==<br /> <br /> '''old Cavi ate the sausage at Kabul'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Sir Louis Cavagnari, British envoy to Afghanistan, killed on Sept. 3, 1879, in the course of an insurrection. If &quot;eat the sausage&quot; is some horrible detail, I have not found an online source that specifies. --[[User:Volver|Volver]] 15:26, 13 January 2007 (PST)<br /> <br /> '''''Polkovnik'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Russian: Colonel.<br /> <br /> '''''Polny pizdets'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Russian: a total fuckup.<br /> <br /> ==Page 761==<br /> <br /> '''subaltern'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A junior officer in the British army; now titled second lieutenant in most regiments.<br /> <br /> '''Guri Amir'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Guri Amir or Gur-e Amir is the mausoleum Tamerlane built for his family. It is a great monument of Islamic architecture.<br /> <br /> '''Craven A'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Craven A&quot; was a blend of pipe tobacco celebrated under the name &quot;Arcadia&quot; by James M. Barrie, but here the name is applied to cigars.<br /> <br /> '''Eurasia Irredenta'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Fighters for Italian statehood in the 19th century used the slogan &quot;Italia Irredenta&quot;: unredeemed Italy, that is, the lands still held by Habsburgs and other foreign powers. Their goal of course was to redeem it, place these areas under rule by Italians and fold them into one kingdom.<br /> <br /> ==Page 762==<br /> <br /> '''Beerbohm Tree'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1853-1917), noted English actor.<br /> <br /> ==Page 763==<br /> <br /> '''P&amp;O steamer'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pacific and Orient line, British steamship company.<br /> <br /> '''might as well all be on a Cook's tour'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cook's is still in business selling package tours. What cost Auberon months of hardship and danger, groups might now visit as tourists.<br /> <br /> ==Page 764==<br /> <br /> '''Kara Tagh'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> With a name meaning &quot;black mountain&quot; you would expect there to be more than one. Places going by this name or the similar name Karatau are dotted all over Central Asia. This one does not seem to be one of the mapped ones, lying in extreme western China.<br /> <br /> '''And when we try to return . . . [w]e may not be able to'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Kit had this experience when the liner ''Stupendica'' doubled herself.<br /> <br /> '''Buriat'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Buriats live in southwestern Siberia to northwestern China and Mongolia. They include Buddhists and shamanists.<br /> <br /> ==Page 766==<br /> <br /> '''when you come to a fork in the road, take it'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A maxim of America's foremost Yogi, the baseball player Yogi Berra.<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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<p>Jackrmann: /* Page 478 */</p> <hr /> <div>:'''&lt;big&gt;Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.&lt;/big&gt;'''&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Page 460==<br /> <br /> '''so close... rocking'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Fact?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 461==<br /> <br /> '''bust'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Eg 'gone bust'?<br /> <br /> '''day... set to the side'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Title motif.<br /> <br /> '''came by'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Page ref.)<br /> <br /> ==Page 462==<br /> <br /> ''''cute'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The word 'cute' is a shortened form of 'acute'.<br /> <br /> '''Fickle Creek'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''ice-points'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''red whiskey'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Noctambulo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Sleepwalker (Spanish).<br /> <br /> '''insomnia'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Parody of think tanks, etc?<br /> <br /> ==Page 463==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;echoed off the steep mountainside&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;q=%22echoed%20off%20the%20steep%20mountainside%22&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=wp One hit].<br /> <br /> '''for no more'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Solecism?<br /> <br /> '''Silent Gray Fellows'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Indian V-twins'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Motorcycles first produced in 1907 by the Indian Motorcycle Manufacturing Company [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Motorcycles Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''Joe Hill's &quot;Pie in the Sky&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A/k/a &quot;The Preacher and the Slave.&quot; Song written by IWW leader Joe Hill [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hill Wikipedia entry] in 1911 that was an attack on organized religion as a means for keeping the workers down: &quot;You get pie in the sky when you die.&quot; A parody of &quot;In the Sweet Bye and Bye.&quot; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Preacher_and_the_Slave Lyrics here]. Later recorded by Woody Guthrie.<br /> <br /> '''love lines, life lines, girdles of Venus'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lines in the palm figuring in palmistry. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmistry#The_Lines Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''overmapped'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''barbwire'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> AtD usually says 'bobwire'.<br /> <br /> '''Four Corners Gang'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Mentioned above?)<br /> <br /> '''Taos Lightning'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Zoltan'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Werner'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 464==<br /> <br /> '''Excelsior'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Vang Feeley'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''silencer bypass'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''multiple outcomes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Worldline motif.<br /> <br /> '''clock-seconds'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Interesting disambiguation.)<br /> <br /> '''routine as elaborate'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> I'm thinking maybe Ann Margaret in a 50s biker flick?<br /> <br /> ==Page 465==<br /> <br /> '''Ed Chase's town'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See page 176.<br /> <br /> '''Tortoni's'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See page 176.<br /> <br /> '''Bill Jones's'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''honorary Negro'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''ankle-biter'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''breakbeam stiff'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''couple wives'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Divorce, or bigamy?)<br /> <br /> '''Coahuila'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Northern Mexican state where Frank unexpectedly found--and shot--Sloat Fresno in a Cantina.<br /> <br /> '''Well.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Not an answer, apparently.<br /> <br /> ==Page 466==<br /> <br /> '''Hammers o' Hell'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Jephthah'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Alt. Jephtha. (Heb. יפתח). Israelite judge who semi-purposefully sacrificed his daughter to God following his victories of war against the Ammons. Judges 11-12.<br /> <br /> '''narrow-gauge'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''traitor to his class'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''mucker work'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''South Slavic knitted caps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Austrian boys'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''vengeful ghosts'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 467==<br /> <br /> '''fifteen years old... Julius'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Groucho Marx. Indeed born 1890, but didn't tour West until aged 20+. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groucho_Marx Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''Mr. Archer'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Victor'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Colorado mining town near Cripple Creek.<br /> <br /> '''East Ninety-third'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 468==<br /> <br /> '''Cone Amor'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 'Con amor' = 'with love' (Spanish). Ice cream cones were invented in 1904, so this is not quite anachronistic.<br /> <br /> '''me? lady'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Capitalisation typo, or stylistic?<br /> <br /> '''Fruita'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Town on Colorado's Western Slope.<br /> <br /> '''Lois... Poutine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 469==<br /> <br /> '''teeth were gone'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> It's only been a couple of years. She's about 50.<br /> <br /> ==Page 470==<br /> <br /> '''bengalines'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Barbary Coast'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''lettuce opium'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lactucarium, the milky fluid secreted by several species of lettuce, usually from the base of the stems. Lactucarium is known as lettuce opium because of its sedative and analgesic properties, and because it can be reduced to a thick smokeable solid. Long known in the U.S., regained popularity in the 1960's when people were looking for any cheap way to get high.<br /> <br /> ==Page 471==<br /> <br /> '''Hippodrome'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 472==<br /> <br /> '''reoccupation'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Replacing Indians?<br /> <br /> '''criminal palps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 473==<br /> <br /> '''Crystal... Oneida'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Oneida crystal is a type of glassware. [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=oneida+crystal Google search]<br /> <br /> '''sash-weights . . . casementing'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Extended and complicated figure likening, in part, a sky full of an approaching storm to a window in an old house. Specifically the sound of thunder is compared to sash-weights, the counter-balances built into all wooden windows (which enable an opened window, for example, to remain open instead of slamming shut), the sky itself the casement, or &quot;neatly carpentered&quot; frame, concealing those sash-weights.<br /> <br /> ==Page 474==<br /> <br /> '''inside the angle'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Echoes p258.<br /> <br /> ==Page 475==<br /> <br /> '''double-ought'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Deuce had been in Cripple Creek by 1895 (p195). He might have returned, or not been present.<br /> <br /> ==Page 476==<br /> <br /> '''put his head into'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://www.cartoonbank.com/product_details.asp?mscssid=NPEVMXGFPTVD8NHJDW4N28U7R8QD077A&amp;sitetype=1&amp;sid=123465&amp;did=4 pic]<br /> <br /> '''Wall o' Death'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''ellipses'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Not circular?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 477==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;For It Is Thou, Lord&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Eugene Boilster.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Happy Jack La Foam'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''police ticker'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Flor de Coahuila'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''twenty-five'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Would make him 15 in 1895 (p195).<br /> <br /> ==Page 478==<br /> <br /> '''''senorita chinga chinga'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Senorita fuck fuck<br /> <br /> '''''mas cerveza'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> No 'por favor'!<br /> <br /> '''co-conscious'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (What's Pynchon up to with this word?)<br /> <br /> '''more shit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Because shot through gut.<br /> <br /> '''surprisingly careful latchclick'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Nice!<br /> <br /> ==Page 479==<br /> <br /> '''Tace Boilster'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 480==<br /> <br /> '''Elsie Dinsmore'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Roy Mickie'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Salida'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''blue columbines'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''atole con el dedo'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 481==<br /> <br /> '''caps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pun.<br /> <br /> '''wall of death'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Mayva's not dead!?)<br /> <br /> '''a week or ten days'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Contradicts recent text?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 482==<br /> <br /> '''getting deep'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Wifely surrender is a con?<br /> <br /> ==Page 483==<br /> <br /> '''heeled'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Armed.<br /> <br /> '''Champagne'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pynchon consistently capitalises this. And he is grammatically correct so to do.<br /> <br /> ==Page 484==<br /> <br /> '''before the days'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Title motif?<br /> <br /> '''eyeball hydraulics'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Tears, not rolling eyes.<br /> <br /> '''Swede'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See p266.<br /> <br /> '''separate tracks'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Worldline motif.<br /> <br /> ==Page 485==<br /> <br /> '''delivered into his own life'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Born doomed, or early bad karma?)<br /> <br /> '''Furies'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Erinyes, or euphemistically the Eumenides: three Greek goddesses of vengeance: Tisiphone, Electa, Megaera.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;free&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''no little ones'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Fertility karma.<br /> <br /> '''Sioux... melancholy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Un-cliched?<br /> <br /> '''her belly'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Naked?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 486==<br /> <br /> '''Phoebe Sloper'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''seldom'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (With no kids, why not more free time?)<br /> <br /> '''all he talked about'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf pp196-197.<br /> <br /> ==Page 487==<br /> <br /> ''''Child of the Storm''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf p190.<br /> <br /> '''stove shovel'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> For emptying wood ashes.<br /> <br /> '''Greener shotgun'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''she lit up'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Anxiety, or freedom?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 488==<br /> <br /> '''cahoots'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Marriage as cahoots?<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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<p>Jackrmann: /* Page 610 */</p> <hr /> <div>:'''&lt;big&gt;Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.&lt;/big&gt;'''&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Page 588==<br /> <br /> '''tannery'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Gauss's brain'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> After Carl Friedrich Gauss died in 1855, his brain was preserved for research purposes. To this day, it is in the possession of the University of Göttingen.<br /> <br /> '''impervious to the wind'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Attribute of tanned leather?)<br /> <br /> '''''&quot;Heiliger Bimbam!&quot;'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A German expression of surprise, translated elsewhere as &quot;Holy Moly!&quot;<br /> <br /> '''rim'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Kit pretends to think he's referring to monocle as 'chichi' (stylish).<br /> <br /> ==Page 589==<br /> <br /> '''''Noli me tangere''''<br /> <br /> Latin for 'don't touch me'<br /> <br /> '''''Hausknochen'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 590==<br /> <br /> '''Hadamard... Poussin... Prime Number Theorem'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''patent ''Kühlbox'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''beleaguered subset'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 591==<br /> <br /> '''prats'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Literally the buttocks. As a slang term, a 'prat' is an idiot.<br /> <br /> '''''Die Nullstellen der [zeta]-Funktion'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> german: Null = zero; Stelle = location. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_zeta_function#Zeros_of_the_Riemann_zeta_function Wikipedia] on the &quot;Zeros of the Riemann zeta-function&quot;. <br /> <br /> '''&quot;Richard Harding Davis&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Popular writer of fiction and drama, journalist/war-correspondent and a major male-role-model of his time (1864 - 1916). He was considered the model for illustrator Charles Dana Gibson's dashing Gibson man, the male equivalent of his famous Gibson Girl. He is also referenced early in Sinclair Lewis's book, ''Dodsworth'' as the example of an exciting, adventure-seeking legitimate hero. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Harding_Davis Wikipedia] <br /> <br /> '''seldom, if ever'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf p559 re Umeki!?<br /> <br /> '''tetralatry'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> made up from greek &quot;tettares&quot; (prefix -tetra) = four and &quot;latreia&quot; = worship<br /> <br /> '''C. Howard Hinton'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Charles Howard Hinton (1853 – 1907) was a British mathematician and writer of science fiction works titled ''Scientific Romances''. He was interested in higher dimensions, particularly the fourth dimension, and is known for coining the word ''tesseract'' and for his work on methods of visualising the geometry of higher dimensions. He also had a strong interest in theosophy. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Howard_Hinton Wikipedia Entry]<br /> <br /> '''Johann K.F. Zöllner'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner (1834–1882) was a German astrophysicist. Studied Photometrie and optical illusions. He insisted a fourth dimension should be considered in Physics and tried to scientifically explain spiritist phenomena. <br /> <br /> '''vogue... 'vague''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 592==<br /> <br /> '''upside-down triangles'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Also Pléiade p538. In mathematics that would be the operator ''del'' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del Wikipedia]. Since pre-history and across most cultures the upside-down triangle is a symbol for the female (genitals).<br /> <br /> '''metallic banging'<br /> <br /> ''''metric interval''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Prinzenstrasse and Weenderstrasse'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A street corner at the very center of Göttingen ([http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;q=g%C3%B6ttingen,+germany&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;om=1&amp;z=17&amp;ll=51.534284,9.935417&amp;spn=0.006107,0.010793&amp;t=h Google Maps]), &quot;known to mathematicians here as the origin of the city of Göttingen's coordinate system&quot;.<br /> <br /> ==Page 593==<br /> <br /> '''twenty marks'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''der Pistolenheld'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German: the pistol hero.<br /> <br /> '''''das Nichtharmonischestrahlenbündel'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Latin... Euler'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Mathematical Theory of the Top'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Leopold Kronecker''' and '''Cantor'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The &quot;monumental quarrel between Kronecker and Cantor&quot; is also referred to as a &quot;religious war,&quot; appropriately enough. It's based in a disagreement over the legitimacy of numbers. Kronecker held that &quot;'the positive integers were created by God, and all else is the work of man.'&quot; This is contradicted by &quot;'Cantor with his ''Kontinuum'', professing an equally strong belief in just those regions, infinitely divisible, which lie ''between'' the whole numbers so demanding of all Kronecker's devotion.'&quot;<br /> <br /> The disagreement between the two mathematicians is reminiscent of (or does it anticipate?) the rift between Pointsman and Mexico in ''Gravity's Rainbow''. Kronecker's integers &quot;created by God&quot; have become a Pavlovian digital binary for Pointsman, but the two oppositions track faithfully right down to the italicized &quot;between.&quot; <br /> <br /> &quot;The young statistician [Mexico] is devoted to number and to method, not table-rapping or wishful thinking. But in the domain of zero to one, not-something to something, Pointsman can only possess the zero and the one. He cannot, like Mexico, survive anyplace in between. Like his master I. P. Pavlov before him, he imagines the cortex of the brain as a mosaic of tiny on/off elements.... But to Mexico belongs the domain ''between'' zero and one.&quot; [Page 55]<br /> <br /> It should be noted, however, that the continuous number line was a modern innovation. In Greek number theory, a number is a collection of indivisible units. Irrationals, such as the square root of 2 are not numbers but &quot;magnitudes.&quot; One is not even a number for it is not a number of units. There are no negative numbers as well. (see Klein's &lt;i&gt;Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra.&lt;/i&gt;) So Kronecker's position may be less of a crazy innovation as much as a maintenance of ancient theory.<br /> <br /> '''''Kontinuum'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 599==<br /> <br /> '''''Nervenklinik'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''boundless epsilonic world'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Der Finsterzwerg'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''chloral hydrate'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A/k/a &quot;knockout drops&quot; a/k/a a &quot;Mickey Finn&quot;. Hence the ''Mickifest''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloral_hydrate Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''''Kneipe'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Gauss passing to Weber a remark'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Weierstrass functions'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 595==<br /> <br /> '''That winter, in St. Petersburg'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 22 Jan 1905 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution_of_1905 Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''Japanese won'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 05 September 1905. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''Muslim rebellion'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''the year that followed'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Peter and Paul Fortress'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''kazatsky'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Waziristan'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 596==<br /> <br /> '''as-ever transcendentally interesting hair'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''gen''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Slang term for &quot;genuine&quot; maybe?<br /> <br /> '''Afghani dirhan'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An Afghani coin, more usually transliterated as &quot;dirham&quot;. [http://ghaznavid.ancients.info/ This site] has pictures and more information.<br /> <br /> '''Ghaznivid Empire'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Usually transliterated as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghaznavid_Empire Ghaznavid Empire] (Wikipedia)<br /> <br /> '''coffee scion'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Coffee motif.<br /> <br /> '''Günther von Quassel'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;quasseln&quot; is a German verb, meaning roughly &quot;to jabber&quot;<br /> <br /> '''less than universally respected Ludwig Boltzmann'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Boltzmann Boltzmann] proposed an explanation of thermodynamics based on the statistical behaviour of atoms. Many influential colleagues at the time did not believe in the reality of atoms and thus worked to discredit Boltzmann.<br /> <br /> ==Page 597==<br /> <br /> '''Gymnasium child'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A Gymnasium is a German secondary school<br /> <br /> '''one measure of the chaos'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf GR on entropy?<br /> <br /> '''Göttingen tradition'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''statue'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Rathaus square'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The square in front of City Hall.<br /> <br /> ==Page 598==<br /> <br /> '''Axioms of Zermelo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The basic axioms of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zermelo-Frankel_set_theory#The_axioms Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory].<br /> <br /> '''Poincaré'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Henri Poincaré ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Poincar%C3%A9 Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> '''Cauchy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Augustin Louis Cauchy ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustin_Louis_Cauchy Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> '''Whittaker and Watson'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A standard mathematics textbook of the time ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whittaker_and_Watson Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> '''two point one'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Cf Sondheim lyric.)<br /> <br /> ==Page 599==<br /> <br /> '''dueling-society cap'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Probably student corporation insignia.<br /> <br /> '''''Liebchen'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;sweetheart&quot;<br /> <br /> '''''Egal was, meine Schatze'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;No matter what, my darling&quot; - though &quot;meine Schatze&quot; is as far as I can tell an improper femininization, which ought to be &quot;mein Schatz&quot;.<br /> <br /> '''''Schläger'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A specialized weapon for student duels. See Wikipedia's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_fencing Academic fencing] article.<br /> <br /> '''Krummsäbel'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;scimitar&quot;.<br /> <br /> '''Korbrapier'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A rapier with a basket (&quot;Korb&quot; in German) like protection hilt.<br /> <br /> '''épée'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A sharp-pointed duelling sword.<br /> <br /> ==Page 600==<br /> <br /> '''Colt six-shooters'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> I guess Kit's luggage beat him to Gottingen.<br /> <br /> '''''Verbindung'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''restoring moment, elastic constants'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Geheimrat Hilbert'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 601==<br /> <br /> '''''Ehrenkodex'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;code of honor&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Tyrolean hats'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&amp;q=tirolerhut&amp;btnG=Search+Images Images]<br /> <br /> '''''Schnurrbartbinde'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A device to keep one's mustache safe from entanglement when sleeping, like [http://www.volkskrantblog.nl/pub/mm/2006/01/1137360569.70341.gif this].<br /> <br /> '''Zeiss &quot;Palmos Panoram&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An early panoramic camera, mentioned in the 1911 Britannica's [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Photography Photography] article.<br /> <br /> '''''&quot;Auf die Mensur!&quot;'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;to the duel&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Andaman Islands'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://www.openencyclopedia.net/index.php/Andaman_Islands Here]'s a mention of tattooing practices in the Andaman Islands<br /> <br /> '''Stephanie du Motel... group-theory godfather Évariste Galois'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Évariste Galois died in a duel at the age of 20. Though much confusion surrounds the affair, it is suspected that he provoked the duel after being rejected by one Stéphanie-Felice du Motel. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evariste_Galois#Final_days Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> ==Page 602==<br /> <br /> '''young Ouspensky'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Peter D. Ouspensky (1878-1947), Russian mystic and philosopher, author of ''The Fourth Dimension'', appropriate to Pynchon's themes in ''ATD''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Uspensky Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''Chong'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;The what?&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Precipitous drop in authorial expectations?)<br /> <br /> '''Sidney... Kensington Sid'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''transtriadic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Beyond the three.<br /> <br /> ==Page 603==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Spiritual... At Göttingen?&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Applied Mechanics Institute'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An institute of the University of Göttingen<br /> <br /> '''Prandtl's recent discovery of the boundary layer'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Ludwig Prandtl ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Prandtl Wikipedia]) in 1904 developed the theory of the boundary layer ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary%20layer Wikipedia]) in aerodynamics, greatly simplifying aerodynamic calculations. <br /> <br /> '''brambled guttie'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A proto golf-ball, see [http://www.che.rochester.edu/users/dafoster/ChE243/SciAm%20GolfBall.pdf here].<br /> <br /> '''Bürgerstrasse'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;Citizen's Street&quot;, a street in Göttingen.<br /> <br /> '''Brauweg'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;Brewery Way&quot;, a street in Göttingen.<br /> <br /> '''Zhukovsky's Transformation'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joukowsky_transform Joukowsky Transform] maps the unit circle in the complex plane to a shape very much like an airfoil.<br /> <br /> '''glass of tea'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Why not 'cup'?)because in Europe, as sopposed to in England, tea may be drunk from glassware.<br /> <br /> '''''&quot;...according to Spiral Theory, up to infinity.&quot;&lt;br&gt; &quot;And beyond, &quot; added Gunther, nodding earnestly.'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Reference to Buzz Lightyear's stock character phrase in 1995's TOY STORY (Pixar/Disney):<br /> &quot;To Infinity... and Beyond!&quot;<br /> --[[User:Btchakir|Btchakir]] 07:43, 19 December 2006 (PST)<br /> <br /> ==Page 604==<br /> <br /> '''nontrivial zeroes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Riemann zeta function has two classes of zeros, the trivial zeroes being at negative even integers (-2, -4...), the non-trivial complex numbers, believed (but not proven) to have Re(z)=1/2. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_hypothesis Wikipedia].<br /> <br /> '''much-noted talk'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> At the 1900 International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris, Hilbert proposed a research programme of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_problems#Tabulated_information 23 problems]. The Riemann hypothesis is number 8 on the list. <br /> <br /> '''eigenvalues'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenvalue Wikipedia] Dudley Eigenvalue, D.D.S., was a character in ''V.''<br /> <br /> '''Hermitian operator'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermitian_operator Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''spine of reality... ''&quot;Rückgrat von Wirklichkeit&quot;'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Probably a reference to the main diagonal of a Hermitian matrix, which can contain only real numbers. The German phrase is one accurate way to translate the English.<br /> <br /> '''Hilbert-Polya Conjecture'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The conjecture that the zeroes of the Riemann function would be the eigenvalues of a Hermitian operator, just what Yashmeen is suggesting.<br /> <br /> ==Page 605==<br /> <br /> '''Vance Aychrome'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Full English Breakfast'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Bacon, eggs, tomato, toast... otherwise know as a fry-up.<br /> <br /> '''Pythagorean dietary'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Possible missing word?)<br /> <br /> '''kippers and bloaters'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Different words (both Scottish) for smoked herrings<br /> <br /> '''baps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> soft bread rolls - another Scottish word<br /> <br /> '''Spong machine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Appropriate technology. An English-made hand-cranked coffee grinder that doesn't light up, lacks a readout to tell when the beans are ready, and signally fails to function before the user wakes up. Only drawback is that some spouses compare its sound to half a load of cobbles being dumped on the roof.<br /> <br /> '''thinned'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> From full 78. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarot Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''vegetarian haggis'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> It exists: [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=%22vegetarian+haggis Google search]<br /> <br /> ==Page 606==<br /> <br /> '''Lamont Replevin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Replevin&quot; is a legal term for a form of civil action to recover possession of property being wrongfully held by another.<br /> <br /> '''Elflock Villa'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Stuffed Edge, Herts'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An imaginary village in the South-East English county of Hertfordshire<br /> <br /> '''kedgeree'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A hot breakfast dish of fish, rice, and eggs.<br /> <br /> '''Cesare Lombroso'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Trans-Oxanian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Graeco-Buddhist'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''bad hats'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A bad hat is a slang term for a rascal<br /> <br /> ==Page 607==<br /> <br /> '''Gas Office'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''communication by means of coal-gas'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Nabokov's &quot;Ada&quot;. Also inverse of Tesla's energy-transmitter. A parallel to the Tristero, too.<br /> <br /> '''bombs... Suffragettes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Did they bomb post offices?!?)<br /> <br /> '''Pashto'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Tadjik'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Seven Dials'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> In Covent Garden, London - a place where 7 roads meet. An unsavory assignment for a policeman.<br /> <br /> ==Page 608==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Avoid beans&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pythagoreans follow a proscription against eating beans.<br /> <br /> '''spotted dick'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A suet pudding with raisins or currants<br /> <br /> '''Yarmouth bloater'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A cured herring from the port town of Yarmouth.<br /> <br /> ''''shape''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''blue lamps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Traditionally hung outside police stations in England.<br /> <br /> '''lamé surfaces'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''yarmulke... high crown... dented Trilby style'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 609==<br /> <br /> '''''Kelly's Suburban Dictionary'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The peerless ''London A to Z'' did not come along until the 1930s.<br /> <br /> '''wenlets'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Politician and journalist William Cobbett (1763-1835) called London &quot;the great wen.&quot; It was not a compliment, because ''wen'' means a sebaceous cyst. Wenlets are small versions of the &quot;great&quot; wen.<br /> <br /> ==Page 610==<br /> <br /> '''daylight oil'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''refused to dim'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Nicely vivid.)<br /> <br /> '''Vontz's Universal Pick'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''alchemized coke'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Lincrusta-Walton'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''hipshot'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''scalene polygons'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Polygons with sides of unequal length.<br /> <br /> '''jet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Apotheosis Sparkless Torch'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 611==<br /> <br /> '''magnalium'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An alloy of magnesium and aluminum.<br /> <br /> '''''The Slow and the Stupefied'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Daytime soap 'The Young and the Restless'.<br /> <br /> '''gas-head'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf pothead, acidhead, etc.<br /> <br /> '''Pike's Peak'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lew's old stompinground.<br /> <br /> '''Gus Swallowfield'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''most theft policies'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Fact?)<br /> <br /> '''pantechnicon'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A closed van or carryall. (Is TRP trying to put a burr under S. Weisenburger's saddle by bringing this vehicle back? SW's gloss in the ''GR Companion,'' at page 19 of the Viking edition, is famously wrong.)<br /> <br /> '''legitimate bill of sale'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 612==<br /> <br /> '''''Pavonazzetto'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Phrygian marble'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Phrygia is an ancient region of west central Asia Minor, to the south of Bithynia. Marble from there was highly valued.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Atys... Agdistis'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''The Mutilation of Atys'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> No images: [http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;q=%22Mutilation%20of%20Atys&amp;btnG=Search&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=wi Google image search]<br /> <br /> '''Arturo Naunt'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''shocking the bourgeoisie'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A popular pastime for young and not-so-young soi-disant radicals (&quot;Epater le bourgeois&quot;).<br /> <br /> '''koumiss vessel'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''wrathful deities from Tantric Buddhism'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 613==<br /> <br /> '''tiny German hand camera'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''raw light'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Gasophilia'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Schwärmer'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Chidambaram'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Akaša'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Atman'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''''Chaos''''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''van Helmont'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''stridently unpopulated'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf p610.<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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<p>Jackrmann: /* Page 608 */</p> <hr /> <div>:'''&lt;big&gt;Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.&lt;/big&gt;'''&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Page 588==<br /> <br /> '''tannery'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Gauss's brain'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> After Carl Friedrich Gauss died in 1855, his brain was preserved for research purposes. To this day, it is in the possession of the University of Göttingen.<br /> <br /> '''impervious to the wind'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Attribute of tanned leather?)<br /> <br /> '''''&quot;Heiliger Bimbam!&quot;'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A German expression of surprise, translated elsewhere as &quot;Holy Moly!&quot;<br /> <br /> '''rim'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Kit pretends to think he's referring to monocle as 'chichi' (stylish).<br /> <br /> ==Page 589==<br /> <br /> '''''Noli me tangere''''<br /> <br /> Latin for 'don't touch me'<br /> <br /> '''''Hausknochen'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 590==<br /> <br /> '''Hadamard... Poussin... Prime Number Theorem'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''patent ''Kühlbox'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''beleaguered subset'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 591==<br /> <br /> '''prats'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Literally the buttocks. As a slang term, a 'prat' is an idiot.<br /> <br /> '''''Die Nullstellen der [zeta]-Funktion'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> german: Null = zero; Stelle = location. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_zeta_function#Zeros_of_the_Riemann_zeta_function Wikipedia] on the &quot;Zeros of the Riemann zeta-function&quot;. <br /> <br /> '''&quot;Richard Harding Davis&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Popular writer of fiction and drama, journalist/war-correspondent and a major male-role-model of his time (1864 - 1916). He was considered the model for illustrator Charles Dana Gibson's dashing Gibson man, the male equivalent of his famous Gibson Girl. He is also referenced early in Sinclair Lewis's book, ''Dodsworth'' as the example of an exciting, adventure-seeking legitimate hero. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Harding_Davis Wikipedia] <br /> <br /> '''seldom, if ever'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf p559 re Umeki!?<br /> <br /> '''tetralatry'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> made up from greek &quot;tettares&quot; (prefix -tetra) = four and &quot;latreia&quot; = worship<br /> <br /> '''C. Howard Hinton'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Charles Howard Hinton (1853 – 1907) was a British mathematician and writer of science fiction works titled ''Scientific Romances''. He was interested in higher dimensions, particularly the fourth dimension, and is known for coining the word ''tesseract'' and for his work on methods of visualising the geometry of higher dimensions. He also had a strong interest in theosophy. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Howard_Hinton Wikipedia Entry]<br /> <br /> '''Johann K.F. Zöllner'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner (1834–1882) was a German astrophysicist. Studied Photometrie and optical illusions. He insisted a fourth dimension should be considered in Physics and tried to scientifically explain spiritist phenomena. <br /> <br /> '''vogue... 'vague''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 592==<br /> <br /> '''upside-down triangles'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Also Pléiade p538. In mathematics that would be the operator ''del'' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del Wikipedia]. Since pre-history and across most cultures the upside-down triangle is a symbol for the female (genitals).<br /> <br /> '''metallic banging'<br /> <br /> ''''metric interval''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Prinzenstrasse and Weenderstrasse'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A street corner at the very center of Göttingen ([http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;q=g%C3%B6ttingen,+germany&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;om=1&amp;z=17&amp;ll=51.534284,9.935417&amp;spn=0.006107,0.010793&amp;t=h Google Maps]), &quot;known to mathematicians here as the origin of the city of Göttingen's coordinate system&quot;.<br /> <br /> ==Page 593==<br /> <br /> '''twenty marks'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''der Pistolenheld'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German: the pistol hero.<br /> <br /> '''''das Nichtharmonischestrahlenbündel'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Latin... Euler'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Mathematical Theory of the Top'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Leopold Kronecker''' and '''Cantor'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The &quot;monumental quarrel between Kronecker and Cantor&quot; is also referred to as a &quot;religious war,&quot; appropriately enough. It's based in a disagreement over the legitimacy of numbers. Kronecker held that &quot;'the positive integers were created by God, and all else is the work of man.'&quot; This is contradicted by &quot;'Cantor with his ''Kontinuum'', professing an equally strong belief in just those regions, infinitely divisible, which lie ''between'' the whole numbers so demanding of all Kronecker's devotion.'&quot;<br /> <br /> The disagreement between the two mathematicians is reminiscent of (or does it anticipate?) the rift between Pointsman and Mexico in ''Gravity's Rainbow''. Kronecker's integers &quot;created by God&quot; have become a Pavlovian digital binary for Pointsman, but the two oppositions track faithfully right down to the italicized &quot;between.&quot; <br /> <br /> &quot;The young statistician [Mexico] is devoted to number and to method, not table-rapping or wishful thinking. But in the domain of zero to one, not-something to something, Pointsman can only possess the zero and the one. He cannot, like Mexico, survive anyplace in between. Like his master I. P. Pavlov before him, he imagines the cortex of the brain as a mosaic of tiny on/off elements.... But to Mexico belongs the domain ''between'' zero and one.&quot; [Page 55]<br /> <br /> It should be noted, however, that the continuous number line was a modern innovation. In Greek number theory, a number is a collection of indivisible units. Irrationals, such as the square root of 2 are not numbers but &quot;magnitudes.&quot; One is not even a number for it is not a number of units. There are no negative numbers as well. (see Klein's &lt;i&gt;Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra.&lt;/i&gt;) So Kronecker's position may be less of a crazy innovation as much as a maintenance of ancient theory.<br /> <br /> '''''Kontinuum'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 599==<br /> <br /> '''''Nervenklinik'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''boundless epsilonic world'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Der Finsterzwerg'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''chloral hydrate'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A/k/a &quot;knockout drops&quot; a/k/a a &quot;Mickey Finn&quot;. Hence the ''Mickifest''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloral_hydrate Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''''Kneipe'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Gauss passing to Weber a remark'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Weierstrass functions'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 595==<br /> <br /> '''That winter, in St. Petersburg'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 22 Jan 1905 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution_of_1905 Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''Japanese won'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 05 September 1905. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''Muslim rebellion'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''the year that followed'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Peter and Paul Fortress'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''kazatsky'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Waziristan'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 596==<br /> <br /> '''as-ever transcendentally interesting hair'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''gen''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Slang term for &quot;genuine&quot; maybe?<br /> <br /> '''Afghani dirhan'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An Afghani coin, more usually transliterated as &quot;dirham&quot;. [http://ghaznavid.ancients.info/ This site] has pictures and more information.<br /> <br /> '''Ghaznivid Empire'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Usually transliterated as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghaznavid_Empire Ghaznavid Empire] (Wikipedia)<br /> <br /> '''coffee scion'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Coffee motif.<br /> <br /> '''Günther von Quassel'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;quasseln&quot; is a German verb, meaning roughly &quot;to jabber&quot;<br /> <br /> '''less than universally respected Ludwig Boltzmann'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Boltzmann Boltzmann] proposed an explanation of thermodynamics based on the statistical behaviour of atoms. Many influential colleagues at the time did not believe in the reality of atoms and thus worked to discredit Boltzmann.<br /> <br /> ==Page 597==<br /> <br /> '''Gymnasium child'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A Gymnasium is a German secondary school<br /> <br /> '''one measure of the chaos'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf GR on entropy?<br /> <br /> '''Göttingen tradition'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''statue'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Rathaus square'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The square in front of City Hall.<br /> <br /> ==Page 598==<br /> <br /> '''Axioms of Zermelo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The basic axioms of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zermelo-Frankel_set_theory#The_axioms Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory].<br /> <br /> '''Poincaré'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Henri Poincaré ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Poincar%C3%A9 Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> '''Cauchy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Augustin Louis Cauchy ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustin_Louis_Cauchy Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> '''Whittaker and Watson'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A standard mathematics textbook of the time ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whittaker_and_Watson Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> '''two point one'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Cf Sondheim lyric.)<br /> <br /> ==Page 599==<br /> <br /> '''dueling-society cap'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Probably student corporation insignia.<br /> <br /> '''''Liebchen'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;sweetheart&quot;<br /> <br /> '''''Egal was, meine Schatze'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;No matter what, my darling&quot; - though &quot;meine Schatze&quot; is as far as I can tell an improper femininization, which ought to be &quot;mein Schatz&quot;.<br /> <br /> '''''Schläger'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A specialized weapon for student duels. See Wikipedia's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_fencing Academic fencing] article.<br /> <br /> '''Krummsäbel'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;scimitar&quot;.<br /> <br /> '''Korbrapier'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A rapier with a basket (&quot;Korb&quot; in German) like protection hilt.<br /> <br /> '''épée'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A sharp-pointed duelling sword.<br /> <br /> ==Page 600==<br /> <br /> '''Colt six-shooters'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> I guess Kit's luggage beat him to Gottingen.<br /> <br /> '''''Verbindung'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''restoring moment, elastic constants'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Geheimrat Hilbert'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 601==<br /> <br /> '''''Ehrenkodex'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;code of honor&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Tyrolean hats'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&amp;q=tirolerhut&amp;btnG=Search+Images Images]<br /> <br /> '''''Schnurrbartbinde'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A device to keep one's mustache safe from entanglement when sleeping, like [http://www.volkskrantblog.nl/pub/mm/2006/01/1137360569.70341.gif this].<br /> <br /> '''Zeiss &quot;Palmos Panoram&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An early panoramic camera, mentioned in the 1911 Britannica's [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Photography Photography] article.<br /> <br /> '''''&quot;Auf die Mensur!&quot;'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;to the duel&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Andaman Islands'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://www.openencyclopedia.net/index.php/Andaman_Islands Here]'s a mention of tattooing practices in the Andaman Islands<br /> <br /> '''Stephanie du Motel... group-theory godfather Évariste Galois'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Évariste Galois died in a duel at the age of 20. Though much confusion surrounds the affair, it is suspected that he provoked the duel after being rejected by one Stéphanie-Felice du Motel. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evariste_Galois#Final_days Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> ==Page 602==<br /> <br /> '''young Ouspensky'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Peter D. Ouspensky (1878-1947), Russian mystic and philosopher, author of ''The Fourth Dimension'', appropriate to Pynchon's themes in ''ATD''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Uspensky Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''Chong'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;The what?&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Precipitous drop in authorial expectations?)<br /> <br /> '''Sidney... Kensington Sid'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''transtriadic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Beyond the three.<br /> <br /> ==Page 603==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Spiritual... At Göttingen?&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Applied Mechanics Institute'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An institute of the University of Göttingen<br /> <br /> '''Prandtl's recent discovery of the boundary layer'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Ludwig Prandtl ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Prandtl Wikipedia]) in 1904 developed the theory of the boundary layer ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary%20layer Wikipedia]) in aerodynamics, greatly simplifying aerodynamic calculations. <br /> <br /> '''brambled guttie'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A proto golf-ball, see [http://www.che.rochester.edu/users/dafoster/ChE243/SciAm%20GolfBall.pdf here].<br /> <br /> '''Bürgerstrasse'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;Citizen's Street&quot;, a street in Göttingen.<br /> <br /> '''Brauweg'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;Brewery Way&quot;, a street in Göttingen.<br /> <br /> '''Zhukovsky's Transformation'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joukowsky_transform Joukowsky Transform] maps the unit circle in the complex plane to a shape very much like an airfoil.<br /> <br /> '''glass of tea'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Why not 'cup'?)because in Europe, as sopposed to in England, tea may be drunk from glassware.<br /> <br /> '''''&quot;...according to Spiral Theory, up to infinity.&quot;&lt;br&gt; &quot;And beyond, &quot; added Gunther, nodding earnestly.'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Reference to Buzz Lightyear's stock character phrase in 1995's TOY STORY (Pixar/Disney):<br /> &quot;To Infinity... and Beyond!&quot;<br /> --[[User:Btchakir|Btchakir]] 07:43, 19 December 2006 (PST)<br /> <br /> ==Page 604==<br /> <br /> '''nontrivial zeroes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Riemann zeta function has two classes of zeros, the trivial zeroes being at negative even integers (-2, -4...), the non-trivial complex numbers, believed (but not proven) to have Re(z)=1/2. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_hypothesis Wikipedia].<br /> <br /> '''much-noted talk'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> At the 1900 International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris, Hilbert proposed a research programme of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_problems#Tabulated_information 23 problems]. The Riemann hypothesis is number 8 on the list. <br /> <br /> '''eigenvalues'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenvalue Wikipedia] Dudley Eigenvalue, D.D.S., was a character in ''V.''<br /> <br /> '''Hermitian operator'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermitian_operator Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''spine of reality... ''&quot;Rückgrat von Wirklichkeit&quot;'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Probably a reference to the main diagonal of a Hermitian matrix, which can contain only real numbers. The German phrase is one accurate way to translate the English.<br /> <br /> '''Hilbert-Polya Conjecture'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The conjecture that the zeroes of the Riemann function would be the eigenvalues of a Hermitian operator, just what Yashmeen is suggesting.<br /> <br /> ==Page 605==<br /> <br /> '''Vance Aychrome'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Full English Breakfast'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Bacon, eggs, tomato, toast... otherwise know as a fry-up.<br /> <br /> '''Pythagorean dietary'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Possible missing word?)<br /> <br /> '''kippers and bloaters'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Different words (both Scottish) for smoked herrings<br /> <br /> '''baps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> soft bread rolls - another Scottish word<br /> <br /> '''Spong machine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Appropriate technology. An English-made hand-cranked coffee grinder that doesn't light up, lacks a readout to tell when the beans are ready, and signally fails to function before the user wakes up. Only drawback is that some spouses compare its sound to half a load of cobbles being dumped on the roof.<br /> <br /> '''thinned'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> From full 78. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarot Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''vegetarian haggis'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> It exists: [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=%22vegetarian+haggis Google search]<br /> <br /> ==Page 606==<br /> <br /> '''Lamont Replevin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Replevin&quot; is a legal term for a form of civil action to recover possession of property being wrongfully held by another.<br /> <br /> '''Elflock Villa'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Stuffed Edge, Herts'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An imaginary village in the South-East English county of Hertfordshire<br /> <br /> '''kedgeree'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A hot breakfast dish of fish, rice, and eggs.<br /> <br /> '''Cesare Lombroso'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Trans-Oxanian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Graeco-Buddhist'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''bad hats'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A bad hat is a slang term for a rascal<br /> <br /> ==Page 607==<br /> <br /> '''Gas Office'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''communication by means of coal-gas'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Nabokov's &quot;Ada&quot;. Also inverse of Tesla's energy-transmitter. A parallel to the Tristero, too.<br /> <br /> '''bombs... Suffragettes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Did they bomb post offices?!?)<br /> <br /> '''Pashto'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Tadjik'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Seven Dials'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> In Covent Garden, London - a place where 7 roads meet. An unsavory assignment for a policeman.<br /> <br /> ==Page 608==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Avoid beans&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pythagoreans follow a proscription against eating beans.<br /> <br /> '''spotted dick'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A suet pudding with raisins or currants<br /> <br /> '''Yarmouth bloater'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A cured herring from the port town of Yarmouth.<br /> <br /> ''''shape''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''blue lamps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Traditionally hung outside police stations in England.<br /> <br /> '''lamé surfaces'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''yarmulke... high crown... dented Trilby style'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 609==<br /> <br /> '''''Kelly's Suburban Dictionary'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The peerless ''London A to Z'' did not come along until the 1930s.<br /> <br /> '''wenlets'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Politician and journalist William Cobbett (1763-1835) called London &quot;the great wen.&quot; It was not a compliment, because ''wen'' means a sebaceous cyst. Wenlets are small versions of the &quot;great&quot; wen.<br /> <br /> ==Page 610==<br /> <br /> '''daylight oil'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''refused to dim'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Nicely vivid.)<br /> <br /> '''Vontz's Universal Pick'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''alchemized coke'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Lincrusta-Walton'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''hipshot'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''scalene polygons'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''jet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Apotheosis Sparkless Torch'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 611==<br /> <br /> '''magnalium'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An alloy of magnesium and aluminum.<br /> <br /> '''''The Slow and the Stupefied'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Daytime soap 'The Young and the Restless'.<br /> <br /> '''gas-head'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf pothead, acidhead, etc.<br /> <br /> '''Pike's Peak'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lew's old stompinground.<br /> <br /> '''Gus Swallowfield'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''most theft policies'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Fact?)<br /> <br /> '''pantechnicon'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A closed van or carryall. (Is TRP trying to put a burr under S. Weisenburger's saddle by bringing this vehicle back? SW's gloss in the ''GR Companion,'' at page 19 of the Viking edition, is famously wrong.)<br /> <br /> '''legitimate bill of sale'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 612==<br /> <br /> '''''Pavonazzetto'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Phrygian marble'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Phrygia is an ancient region of west central Asia Minor, to the south of Bithynia. Marble from there was highly valued.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Atys... Agdistis'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''The Mutilation of Atys'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> No images: [http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;q=%22Mutilation%20of%20Atys&amp;btnG=Search&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=wi Google image search]<br /> <br /> '''Arturo Naunt'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''shocking the bourgeoisie'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A popular pastime for young and not-so-young soi-disant radicals (&quot;Epater le bourgeois&quot;).<br /> <br /> '''koumiss vessel'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''wrathful deities from Tantric Buddhism'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 613==<br /> <br /> '''tiny German hand camera'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''raw light'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Gasophilia'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Schwärmer'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Chidambaram'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Akaša'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Atman'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''''Chaos''''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''van Helmont'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''stridently unpopulated'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf p610.<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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<p>Jackrmann: /* Page 606 */</p> <hr /> <div>:'''&lt;big&gt;Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.&lt;/big&gt;'''&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Page 588==<br /> <br /> '''tannery'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Gauss's brain'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> After Carl Friedrich Gauss died in 1855, his brain was preserved for research purposes. To this day, it is in the possession of the University of Göttingen.<br /> <br /> '''impervious to the wind'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Attribute of tanned leather?)<br /> <br /> '''''&quot;Heiliger Bimbam!&quot;'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A German expression of surprise, translated elsewhere as &quot;Holy Moly!&quot;<br /> <br /> '''rim'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Kit pretends to think he's referring to monocle as 'chichi' (stylish).<br /> <br /> ==Page 589==<br /> <br /> '''''Noli me tangere''''<br /> <br /> Latin for 'don't touch me'<br /> <br /> '''''Hausknochen'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 590==<br /> <br /> '''Hadamard... Poussin... Prime Number Theorem'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''patent ''Kühlbox'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''beleaguered subset'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 591==<br /> <br /> '''prats'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Literally the buttocks. As a slang term, a 'prat' is an idiot.<br /> <br /> '''''Die Nullstellen der [zeta]-Funktion'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> german: Null = zero; Stelle = location. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_zeta_function#Zeros_of_the_Riemann_zeta_function Wikipedia] on the &quot;Zeros of the Riemann zeta-function&quot;. <br /> <br /> '''&quot;Richard Harding Davis&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Popular writer of fiction and drama, journalist/war-correspondent and a major male-role-model of his time (1864 - 1916). He was considered the model for illustrator Charles Dana Gibson's dashing Gibson man, the male equivalent of his famous Gibson Girl. He is also referenced early in Sinclair Lewis's book, ''Dodsworth'' as the example of an exciting, adventure-seeking legitimate hero. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Harding_Davis Wikipedia] <br /> <br /> '''seldom, if ever'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf p559 re Umeki!?<br /> <br /> '''tetralatry'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> made up from greek &quot;tettares&quot; (prefix -tetra) = four and &quot;latreia&quot; = worship<br /> <br /> '''C. Howard Hinton'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Charles Howard Hinton (1853 – 1907) was a British mathematician and writer of science fiction works titled ''Scientific Romances''. He was interested in higher dimensions, particularly the fourth dimension, and is known for coining the word ''tesseract'' and for his work on methods of visualising the geometry of higher dimensions. He also had a strong interest in theosophy. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Howard_Hinton Wikipedia Entry]<br /> <br /> '''Johann K.F. Zöllner'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner (1834–1882) was a German astrophysicist. Studied Photometrie and optical illusions. He insisted a fourth dimension should be considered in Physics and tried to scientifically explain spiritist phenomena. <br /> <br /> '''vogue... 'vague''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 592==<br /> <br /> '''upside-down triangles'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Also Pléiade p538. In mathematics that would be the operator ''del'' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del Wikipedia]. Since pre-history and across most cultures the upside-down triangle is a symbol for the female (genitals).<br /> <br /> '''metallic banging'<br /> <br /> ''''metric interval''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Prinzenstrasse and Weenderstrasse'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A street corner at the very center of Göttingen ([http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;q=g%C3%B6ttingen,+germany&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;om=1&amp;z=17&amp;ll=51.534284,9.935417&amp;spn=0.006107,0.010793&amp;t=h Google Maps]), &quot;known to mathematicians here as the origin of the city of Göttingen's coordinate system&quot;.<br /> <br /> ==Page 593==<br /> <br /> '''twenty marks'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''der Pistolenheld'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German: the pistol hero.<br /> <br /> '''''das Nichtharmonischestrahlenbündel'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Latin... Euler'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Mathematical Theory of the Top'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Leopold Kronecker''' and '''Cantor'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The &quot;monumental quarrel between Kronecker and Cantor&quot; is also referred to as a &quot;religious war,&quot; appropriately enough. It's based in a disagreement over the legitimacy of numbers. Kronecker held that &quot;'the positive integers were created by God, and all else is the work of man.'&quot; This is contradicted by &quot;'Cantor with his ''Kontinuum'', professing an equally strong belief in just those regions, infinitely divisible, which lie ''between'' the whole numbers so demanding of all Kronecker's devotion.'&quot;<br /> <br /> The disagreement between the two mathematicians is reminiscent of (or does it anticipate?) the rift between Pointsman and Mexico in ''Gravity's Rainbow''. Kronecker's integers &quot;created by God&quot; have become a Pavlovian digital binary for Pointsman, but the two oppositions track faithfully right down to the italicized &quot;between.&quot; <br /> <br /> &quot;The young statistician [Mexico] is devoted to number and to method, not table-rapping or wishful thinking. But in the domain of zero to one, not-something to something, Pointsman can only possess the zero and the one. He cannot, like Mexico, survive anyplace in between. Like his master I. P. Pavlov before him, he imagines the cortex of the brain as a mosaic of tiny on/off elements.... But to Mexico belongs the domain ''between'' zero and one.&quot; [Page 55]<br /> <br /> It should be noted, however, that the continuous number line was a modern innovation. In Greek number theory, a number is a collection of indivisible units. Irrationals, such as the square root of 2 are not numbers but &quot;magnitudes.&quot; One is not even a number for it is not a number of units. There are no negative numbers as well. (see Klein's &lt;i&gt;Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra.&lt;/i&gt;) So Kronecker's position may be less of a crazy innovation as much as a maintenance of ancient theory.<br /> <br /> '''''Kontinuum'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 599==<br /> <br /> '''''Nervenklinik'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''boundless epsilonic world'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Der Finsterzwerg'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''chloral hydrate'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A/k/a &quot;knockout drops&quot; a/k/a a &quot;Mickey Finn&quot;. Hence the ''Mickifest''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloral_hydrate Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''''Kneipe'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Gauss passing to Weber a remark'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Weierstrass functions'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 595==<br /> <br /> '''That winter, in St. Petersburg'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 22 Jan 1905 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution_of_1905 Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''Japanese won'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 05 September 1905. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''Muslim rebellion'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''the year that followed'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Peter and Paul Fortress'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''kazatsky'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Waziristan'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 596==<br /> <br /> '''as-ever transcendentally interesting hair'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''gen''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Slang term for &quot;genuine&quot; maybe?<br /> <br /> '''Afghani dirhan'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An Afghani coin, more usually transliterated as &quot;dirham&quot;. [http://ghaznavid.ancients.info/ This site] has pictures and more information.<br /> <br /> '''Ghaznivid Empire'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Usually transliterated as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghaznavid_Empire Ghaznavid Empire] (Wikipedia)<br /> <br /> '''coffee scion'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Coffee motif.<br /> <br /> '''Günther von Quassel'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;quasseln&quot; is a German verb, meaning roughly &quot;to jabber&quot;<br /> <br /> '''less than universally respected Ludwig Boltzmann'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Boltzmann Boltzmann] proposed an explanation of thermodynamics based on the statistical behaviour of atoms. Many influential colleagues at the time did not believe in the reality of atoms and thus worked to discredit Boltzmann.<br /> <br /> ==Page 597==<br /> <br /> '''Gymnasium child'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A Gymnasium is a German secondary school<br /> <br /> '''one measure of the chaos'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf GR on entropy?<br /> <br /> '''Göttingen tradition'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''statue'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Rathaus square'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The square in front of City Hall.<br /> <br /> ==Page 598==<br /> <br /> '''Axioms of Zermelo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The basic axioms of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zermelo-Frankel_set_theory#The_axioms Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory].<br /> <br /> '''Poincaré'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Henri Poincaré ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Poincar%C3%A9 Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> '''Cauchy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Augustin Louis Cauchy ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustin_Louis_Cauchy Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> '''Whittaker and Watson'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A standard mathematics textbook of the time ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whittaker_and_Watson Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> '''two point one'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Cf Sondheim lyric.)<br /> <br /> ==Page 599==<br /> <br /> '''dueling-society cap'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Probably student corporation insignia.<br /> <br /> '''''Liebchen'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;sweetheart&quot;<br /> <br /> '''''Egal was, meine Schatze'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;No matter what, my darling&quot; - though &quot;meine Schatze&quot; is as far as I can tell an improper femininization, which ought to be &quot;mein Schatz&quot;.<br /> <br /> '''''Schläger'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A specialized weapon for student duels. See Wikipedia's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_fencing Academic fencing] article.<br /> <br /> '''Krummsäbel'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;scimitar&quot;.<br /> <br /> '''Korbrapier'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A rapier with a basket (&quot;Korb&quot; in German) like protection hilt.<br /> <br /> '''épée'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A sharp-pointed duelling sword.<br /> <br /> ==Page 600==<br /> <br /> '''Colt six-shooters'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> I guess Kit's luggage beat him to Gottingen.<br /> <br /> '''''Verbindung'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''restoring moment, elastic constants'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Geheimrat Hilbert'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 601==<br /> <br /> '''''Ehrenkodex'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;code of honor&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Tyrolean hats'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&amp;q=tirolerhut&amp;btnG=Search+Images Images]<br /> <br /> '''''Schnurrbartbinde'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A device to keep one's mustache safe from entanglement when sleeping, like [http://www.volkskrantblog.nl/pub/mm/2006/01/1137360569.70341.gif this].<br /> <br /> '''Zeiss &quot;Palmos Panoram&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An early panoramic camera, mentioned in the 1911 Britannica's [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Photography Photography] article.<br /> <br /> '''''&quot;Auf die Mensur!&quot;'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;to the duel&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Andaman Islands'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://www.openencyclopedia.net/index.php/Andaman_Islands Here]'s a mention of tattooing practices in the Andaman Islands<br /> <br /> '''Stephanie du Motel... group-theory godfather Évariste Galois'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Évariste Galois died in a duel at the age of 20. Though much confusion surrounds the affair, it is suspected that he provoked the duel after being rejected by one Stéphanie-Felice du Motel. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evariste_Galois#Final_days Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> ==Page 602==<br /> <br /> '''young Ouspensky'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Peter D. Ouspensky (1878-1947), Russian mystic and philosopher, author of ''The Fourth Dimension'', appropriate to Pynchon's themes in ''ATD''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Uspensky Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''Chong'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;The what?&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Precipitous drop in authorial expectations?)<br /> <br /> '''Sidney... Kensington Sid'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''transtriadic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Beyond the three.<br /> <br /> ==Page 603==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Spiritual... At Göttingen?&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Applied Mechanics Institute'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An institute of the University of Göttingen<br /> <br /> '''Prandtl's recent discovery of the boundary layer'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Ludwig Prandtl ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Prandtl Wikipedia]) in 1904 developed the theory of the boundary layer ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary%20layer Wikipedia]) in aerodynamics, greatly simplifying aerodynamic calculations. <br /> <br /> '''brambled guttie'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A proto golf-ball, see [http://www.che.rochester.edu/users/dafoster/ChE243/SciAm%20GolfBall.pdf here].<br /> <br /> '''Bürgerstrasse'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;Citizen's Street&quot;, a street in Göttingen.<br /> <br /> '''Brauweg'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;Brewery Way&quot;, a street in Göttingen.<br /> <br /> '''Zhukovsky's Transformation'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joukowsky_transform Joukowsky Transform] maps the unit circle in the complex plane to a shape very much like an airfoil.<br /> <br /> '''glass of tea'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Why not 'cup'?)because in Europe, as sopposed to in England, tea may be drunk from glassware.<br /> <br /> '''''&quot;...according to Spiral Theory, up to infinity.&quot;&lt;br&gt; &quot;And beyond, &quot; added Gunther, nodding earnestly.'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Reference to Buzz Lightyear's stock character phrase in 1995's TOY STORY (Pixar/Disney):<br /> &quot;To Infinity... and Beyond!&quot;<br /> --[[User:Btchakir|Btchakir]] 07:43, 19 December 2006 (PST)<br /> <br /> ==Page 604==<br /> <br /> '''nontrivial zeroes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Riemann zeta function has two classes of zeros, the trivial zeroes being at negative even integers (-2, -4...), the non-trivial complex numbers, believed (but not proven) to have Re(z)=1/2. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_hypothesis Wikipedia].<br /> <br /> '''much-noted talk'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> At the 1900 International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris, Hilbert proposed a research programme of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_problems#Tabulated_information 23 problems]. The Riemann hypothesis is number 8 on the list. <br /> <br /> '''eigenvalues'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenvalue Wikipedia] Dudley Eigenvalue, D.D.S., was a character in ''V.''<br /> <br /> '''Hermitian operator'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermitian_operator Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''spine of reality... ''&quot;Rückgrat von Wirklichkeit&quot;'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Probably a reference to the main diagonal of a Hermitian matrix, which can contain only real numbers. The German phrase is one accurate way to translate the English.<br /> <br /> '''Hilbert-Polya Conjecture'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The conjecture that the zeroes of the Riemann function would be the eigenvalues of a Hermitian operator, just what Yashmeen is suggesting.<br /> <br /> ==Page 605==<br /> <br /> '''Vance Aychrome'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Full English Breakfast'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Bacon, eggs, tomato, toast... otherwise know as a fry-up.<br /> <br /> '''Pythagorean dietary'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Possible missing word?)<br /> <br /> '''kippers and bloaters'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Different words (both Scottish) for smoked herrings<br /> <br /> '''baps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> soft bread rolls - another Scottish word<br /> <br /> '''Spong machine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Appropriate technology. An English-made hand-cranked coffee grinder that doesn't light up, lacks a readout to tell when the beans are ready, and signally fails to function before the user wakes up. Only drawback is that some spouses compare its sound to half a load of cobbles being dumped on the roof.<br /> <br /> '''thinned'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> From full 78. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarot Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''vegetarian haggis'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> It exists: [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=%22vegetarian+haggis Google search]<br /> <br /> ==Page 606==<br /> <br /> '''Lamont Replevin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Replevin&quot; is a legal term for a form of civil action to recover possession of property being wrongfully held by another.<br /> <br /> '''Elflock Villa'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Stuffed Edge, Herts'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An imaginary village in the South-East English county of Hertfordshire<br /> <br /> '''kedgeree'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A hot breakfast dish of fish, rice, and eggs.<br /> <br /> '''Cesare Lombroso'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Trans-Oxanian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Graeco-Buddhist'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''bad hats'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A bad hat is a slang term for a rascal<br /> <br /> ==Page 607==<br /> <br /> '''Gas Office'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''communication by means of coal-gas'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Nabokov's &quot;Ada&quot;. Also inverse of Tesla's energy-transmitter. A parallel to the Tristero, too.<br /> <br /> '''bombs... Suffragettes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Did they bomb post offices?!?)<br /> <br /> '''Pashto'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Tadjik'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Seven Dials'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> In Covent Garden, London - a place where 7 roads meet. An unsavory assignment for a policeman.<br /> <br /> ==Page 608==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Avoid beans&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''spotted dick'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A suet pudding with raisins or currants<br /> <br /> '''Yarmouth bloater'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A cured herring from the port town of Yarmouth.<br /> <br /> ''''shape''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''blue lamps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Traditionally hung outside police stations in England.<br /> <br /> '''lamé surfaces'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''yarmulke... high crown... dented Trilby style'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 609==<br /> <br /> '''''Kelly's Suburban Dictionary'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The peerless ''London A to Z'' did not come along until the 1930s.<br /> <br /> '''wenlets'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Politician and journalist William Cobbett (1763-1835) called London &quot;the great wen.&quot; It was not a compliment, because ''wen'' means a sebaceous cyst. Wenlets are small versions of the &quot;great&quot; wen.<br /> <br /> ==Page 610==<br /> <br /> '''daylight oil'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''refused to dim'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Nicely vivid.)<br /> <br /> '''Vontz's Universal Pick'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''alchemized coke'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Lincrusta-Walton'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''hipshot'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''scalene polygons'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''jet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Apotheosis Sparkless Torch'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 611==<br /> <br /> '''magnalium'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An alloy of magnesium and aluminum.<br /> <br /> '''''The Slow and the Stupefied'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Daytime soap 'The Young and the Restless'.<br /> <br /> '''gas-head'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf pothead, acidhead, etc.<br /> <br /> '''Pike's Peak'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lew's old stompinground.<br /> <br /> '''Gus Swallowfield'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''most theft policies'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Fact?)<br /> <br /> '''pantechnicon'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A closed van or carryall. (Is TRP trying to put a burr under S. Weisenburger's saddle by bringing this vehicle back? SW's gloss in the ''GR Companion,'' at page 19 of the Viking edition, is famously wrong.)<br /> <br /> '''legitimate bill of sale'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 612==<br /> <br /> '''''Pavonazzetto'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Phrygian marble'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Phrygia is an ancient region of west central Asia Minor, to the south of Bithynia. Marble from there was highly valued.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Atys... Agdistis'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''The Mutilation of Atys'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> No images: [http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;q=%22Mutilation%20of%20Atys&amp;btnG=Search&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=wi Google image search]<br /> <br /> '''Arturo Naunt'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''shocking the bourgeoisie'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A popular pastime for young and not-so-young soi-disant radicals (&quot;Epater le bourgeois&quot;).<br /> <br /> '''koumiss vessel'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''wrathful deities from Tantric Buddhism'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 613==<br /> <br /> '''tiny German hand camera'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''raw light'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Gasophilia'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Schwärmer'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Chidambaram'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Akaša'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Atman'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''''Chaos''''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''van Helmont'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''stridently unpopulated'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf p610.<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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<p>Jackrmann: /* Page 604 */</p> <hr /> <div>:'''&lt;big&gt;Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.&lt;/big&gt;'''&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Page 588==<br /> <br /> '''tannery'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Gauss's brain'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> After Carl Friedrich Gauss died in 1855, his brain was preserved for research purposes. To this day, it is in the possession of the University of Göttingen.<br /> <br /> '''impervious to the wind'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Attribute of tanned leather?)<br /> <br /> '''''&quot;Heiliger Bimbam!&quot;'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A German expression of surprise, translated elsewhere as &quot;Holy Moly!&quot;<br /> <br /> '''rim'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Kit pretends to think he's referring to monocle as 'chichi' (stylish).<br /> <br /> ==Page 589==<br /> <br /> '''''Noli me tangere''''<br /> <br /> Latin for 'don't touch me'<br /> <br /> '''''Hausknochen'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 590==<br /> <br /> '''Hadamard... Poussin... Prime Number Theorem'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''patent ''Kühlbox'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''beleaguered subset'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 591==<br /> <br /> '''prats'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Literally the buttocks. As a slang term, a 'prat' is an idiot.<br /> <br /> '''''Die Nullstellen der [zeta]-Funktion'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> german: Null = zero; Stelle = location. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_zeta_function#Zeros_of_the_Riemann_zeta_function Wikipedia] on the &quot;Zeros of the Riemann zeta-function&quot;. <br /> <br /> '''&quot;Richard Harding Davis&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Popular writer of fiction and drama, journalist/war-correspondent and a major male-role-model of his time (1864 - 1916). He was considered the model for illustrator Charles Dana Gibson's dashing Gibson man, the male equivalent of his famous Gibson Girl. He is also referenced early in Sinclair Lewis's book, ''Dodsworth'' as the example of an exciting, adventure-seeking legitimate hero. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Harding_Davis Wikipedia] <br /> <br /> '''seldom, if ever'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf p559 re Umeki!?<br /> <br /> '''tetralatry'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> made up from greek &quot;tettares&quot; (prefix -tetra) = four and &quot;latreia&quot; = worship<br /> <br /> '''C. Howard Hinton'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Charles Howard Hinton (1853 – 1907) was a British mathematician and writer of science fiction works titled ''Scientific Romances''. He was interested in higher dimensions, particularly the fourth dimension, and is known for coining the word ''tesseract'' and for his work on methods of visualising the geometry of higher dimensions. He also had a strong interest in theosophy. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Howard_Hinton Wikipedia Entry]<br /> <br /> '''Johann K.F. Zöllner'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner (1834–1882) was a German astrophysicist. Studied Photometrie and optical illusions. He insisted a fourth dimension should be considered in Physics and tried to scientifically explain spiritist phenomena. <br /> <br /> '''vogue... 'vague''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 592==<br /> <br /> '''upside-down triangles'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Also Pléiade p538. In mathematics that would be the operator ''del'' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del Wikipedia]. Since pre-history and across most cultures the upside-down triangle is a symbol for the female (genitals).<br /> <br /> '''metallic banging'<br /> <br /> ''''metric interval''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Prinzenstrasse and Weenderstrasse'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A street corner at the very center of Göttingen ([http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;q=g%C3%B6ttingen,+germany&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;om=1&amp;z=17&amp;ll=51.534284,9.935417&amp;spn=0.006107,0.010793&amp;t=h Google Maps]), &quot;known to mathematicians here as the origin of the city of Göttingen's coordinate system&quot;.<br /> <br /> ==Page 593==<br /> <br /> '''twenty marks'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''der Pistolenheld'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German: the pistol hero.<br /> <br /> '''''das Nichtharmonischestrahlenbündel'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Latin... Euler'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Mathematical Theory of the Top'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Leopold Kronecker''' and '''Cantor'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The &quot;monumental quarrel between Kronecker and Cantor&quot; is also referred to as a &quot;religious war,&quot; appropriately enough. It's based in a disagreement over the legitimacy of numbers. Kronecker held that &quot;'the positive integers were created by God, and all else is the work of man.'&quot; This is contradicted by &quot;'Cantor with his ''Kontinuum'', professing an equally strong belief in just those regions, infinitely divisible, which lie ''between'' the whole numbers so demanding of all Kronecker's devotion.'&quot;<br /> <br /> The disagreement between the two mathematicians is reminiscent of (or does it anticipate?) the rift between Pointsman and Mexico in ''Gravity's Rainbow''. Kronecker's integers &quot;created by God&quot; have become a Pavlovian digital binary for Pointsman, but the two oppositions track faithfully right down to the italicized &quot;between.&quot; <br /> <br /> &quot;The young statistician [Mexico] is devoted to number and to method, not table-rapping or wishful thinking. But in the domain of zero to one, not-something to something, Pointsman can only possess the zero and the one. He cannot, like Mexico, survive anyplace in between. Like his master I. P. Pavlov before him, he imagines the cortex of the brain as a mosaic of tiny on/off elements.... But to Mexico belongs the domain ''between'' zero and one.&quot; [Page 55]<br /> <br /> It should be noted, however, that the continuous number line was a modern innovation. In Greek number theory, a number is a collection of indivisible units. Irrationals, such as the square root of 2 are not numbers but &quot;magnitudes.&quot; One is not even a number for it is not a number of units. There are no negative numbers as well. (see Klein's &lt;i&gt;Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra.&lt;/i&gt;) So Kronecker's position may be less of a crazy innovation as much as a maintenance of ancient theory.<br /> <br /> '''''Kontinuum'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 599==<br /> <br /> '''''Nervenklinik'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''boundless epsilonic world'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Der Finsterzwerg'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''chloral hydrate'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A/k/a &quot;knockout drops&quot; a/k/a a &quot;Mickey Finn&quot;. Hence the ''Mickifest''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloral_hydrate Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''''Kneipe'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Gauss passing to Weber a remark'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Weierstrass functions'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 595==<br /> <br /> '''That winter, in St. Petersburg'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 22 Jan 1905 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution_of_1905 Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''Japanese won'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 05 September 1905. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''Muslim rebellion'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''the year that followed'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Peter and Paul Fortress'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''kazatsky'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Waziristan'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 596==<br /> <br /> '''as-ever transcendentally interesting hair'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''gen''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Slang term for &quot;genuine&quot; maybe?<br /> <br /> '''Afghani dirhan'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An Afghani coin, more usually transliterated as &quot;dirham&quot;. [http://ghaznavid.ancients.info/ This site] has pictures and more information.<br /> <br /> '''Ghaznivid Empire'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Usually transliterated as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghaznavid_Empire Ghaznavid Empire] (Wikipedia)<br /> <br /> '''coffee scion'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Coffee motif.<br /> <br /> '''Günther von Quassel'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;quasseln&quot; is a German verb, meaning roughly &quot;to jabber&quot;<br /> <br /> '''less than universally respected Ludwig Boltzmann'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Boltzmann Boltzmann] proposed an explanation of thermodynamics based on the statistical behaviour of atoms. Many influential colleagues at the time did not believe in the reality of atoms and thus worked to discredit Boltzmann.<br /> <br /> ==Page 597==<br /> <br /> '''Gymnasium child'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A Gymnasium is a German secondary school<br /> <br /> '''one measure of the chaos'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf GR on entropy?<br /> <br /> '''Göttingen tradition'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''statue'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Rathaus square'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The square in front of City Hall.<br /> <br /> ==Page 598==<br /> <br /> '''Axioms of Zermelo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The basic axioms of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zermelo-Frankel_set_theory#The_axioms Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory].<br /> <br /> '''Poincaré'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Henri Poincaré ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Poincar%C3%A9 Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> '''Cauchy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Augustin Louis Cauchy ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustin_Louis_Cauchy Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> '''Whittaker and Watson'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A standard mathematics textbook of the time ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whittaker_and_Watson Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> '''two point one'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Cf Sondheim lyric.)<br /> <br /> ==Page 599==<br /> <br /> '''dueling-society cap'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Probably student corporation insignia.<br /> <br /> '''''Liebchen'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;sweetheart&quot;<br /> <br /> '''''Egal was, meine Schatze'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;No matter what, my darling&quot; - though &quot;meine Schatze&quot; is as far as I can tell an improper femininization, which ought to be &quot;mein Schatz&quot;.<br /> <br /> '''''Schläger'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A specialized weapon for student duels. See Wikipedia's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_fencing Academic fencing] article.<br /> <br /> '''Krummsäbel'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;scimitar&quot;.<br /> <br /> '''Korbrapier'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A rapier with a basket (&quot;Korb&quot; in German) like protection hilt.<br /> <br /> '''épée'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A sharp-pointed duelling sword.<br /> <br /> ==Page 600==<br /> <br /> '''Colt six-shooters'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> I guess Kit's luggage beat him to Gottingen.<br /> <br /> '''''Verbindung'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''restoring moment, elastic constants'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Geheimrat Hilbert'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 601==<br /> <br /> '''''Ehrenkodex'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;code of honor&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Tyrolean hats'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&amp;q=tirolerhut&amp;btnG=Search+Images Images]<br /> <br /> '''''Schnurrbartbinde'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A device to keep one's mustache safe from entanglement when sleeping, like [http://www.volkskrantblog.nl/pub/mm/2006/01/1137360569.70341.gif this].<br /> <br /> '''Zeiss &quot;Palmos Panoram&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An early panoramic camera, mentioned in the 1911 Britannica's [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Photography Photography] article.<br /> <br /> '''''&quot;Auf die Mensur!&quot;'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;to the duel&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Andaman Islands'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://www.openencyclopedia.net/index.php/Andaman_Islands Here]'s a mention of tattooing practices in the Andaman Islands<br /> <br /> '''Stephanie du Motel... group-theory godfather Évariste Galois'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Évariste Galois died in a duel at the age of 20. Though much confusion surrounds the affair, it is suspected that he provoked the duel after being rejected by one Stéphanie-Felice du Motel. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evariste_Galois#Final_days Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> ==Page 602==<br /> <br /> '''young Ouspensky'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Peter D. Ouspensky (1878-1947), Russian mystic and philosopher, author of ''The Fourth Dimension'', appropriate to Pynchon's themes in ''ATD''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Uspensky Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''Chong'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;The what?&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Precipitous drop in authorial expectations?)<br /> <br /> '''Sidney... Kensington Sid'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''transtriadic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Beyond the three.<br /> <br /> ==Page 603==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Spiritual... At Göttingen?&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Applied Mechanics Institute'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An institute of the University of Göttingen<br /> <br /> '''Prandtl's recent discovery of the boundary layer'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Ludwig Prandtl ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Prandtl Wikipedia]) in 1904 developed the theory of the boundary layer ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary%20layer Wikipedia]) in aerodynamics, greatly simplifying aerodynamic calculations. <br /> <br /> '''brambled guttie'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A proto golf-ball, see [http://www.che.rochester.edu/users/dafoster/ChE243/SciAm%20GolfBall.pdf here].<br /> <br /> '''Bürgerstrasse'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;Citizen's Street&quot;, a street in Göttingen.<br /> <br /> '''Brauweg'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;Brewery Way&quot;, a street in Göttingen.<br /> <br /> '''Zhukovsky's Transformation'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joukowsky_transform Joukowsky Transform] maps the unit circle in the complex plane to a shape very much like an airfoil.<br /> <br /> '''glass of tea'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Why not 'cup'?)because in Europe, as sopposed to in England, tea may be drunk from glassware.<br /> <br /> '''''&quot;...according to Spiral Theory, up to infinity.&quot;&lt;br&gt; &quot;And beyond, &quot; added Gunther, nodding earnestly.'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Reference to Buzz Lightyear's stock character phrase in 1995's TOY STORY (Pixar/Disney):<br /> &quot;To Infinity... and Beyond!&quot;<br /> --[[User:Btchakir|Btchakir]] 07:43, 19 December 2006 (PST)<br /> <br /> ==Page 604==<br /> <br /> '''nontrivial zeroes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Riemann zeta function has two classes of zeros, the trivial zeroes being at negative even integers (-2, -4...), the non-trivial complex numbers, believed (but not proven) to have Re(z)=1/2. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_hypothesis Wikipedia].<br /> <br /> '''much-noted talk'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> At the 1900 International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris, Hilbert proposed a research programme of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_problems#Tabulated_information 23 problems]. The Riemann hypothesis is number 8 on the list. <br /> <br /> '''eigenvalues'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenvalue Wikipedia] Dudley Eigenvalue, D.D.S., was a character in ''V.''<br /> <br /> '''Hermitian operator'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermitian_operator Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''spine of reality... ''&quot;Rückgrat von Wirklichkeit&quot;'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Probably a reference to the main diagonal of a Hermitian matrix, which can contain only real numbers. The German phrase is one accurate way to translate the English.<br /> <br /> '''Hilbert-Polya Conjecture'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The conjecture that the zeroes of the Riemann function would be the eigenvalues of a Hermitian operator, just what Yashmeen is suggesting.<br /> <br /> ==Page 605==<br /> <br /> '''Vance Aychrome'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Full English Breakfast'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Bacon, eggs, tomato, toast... otherwise know as a fry-up.<br /> <br /> '''Pythagorean dietary'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Possible missing word?)<br /> <br /> '''kippers and bloaters'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Different words (both Scottish) for smoked herrings<br /> <br /> '''baps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> soft bread rolls - another Scottish word<br /> <br /> '''Spong machine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Appropriate technology. An English-made hand-cranked coffee grinder that doesn't light up, lacks a readout to tell when the beans are ready, and signally fails to function before the user wakes up. Only drawback is that some spouses compare its sound to half a load of cobbles being dumped on the roof.<br /> <br /> '''thinned'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> From full 78. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarot Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''vegetarian haggis'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> It exists: [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=%22vegetarian+haggis Google search]<br /> <br /> ==Page 606==<br /> <br /> '''Lamont replevin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Elflock Villa'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Stuffed Edge, Herts'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An imaginary village in the South-East English county of Hertfordshire<br /> <br /> '''kedgeree'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A hot breakfast dish of fish, rice, and eggs.<br /> <br /> '''Cesare Lombroso'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Trans-Oxanian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Graeco-Buddhist'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''bad hats'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A bad hat is a slang term for a rascal<br /> <br /> ==Page 607==<br /> <br /> '''Gas Office'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''communication by means of coal-gas'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Nabokov's &quot;Ada&quot;. Also inverse of Tesla's energy-transmitter. A parallel to the Tristero, too.<br /> <br /> '''bombs... Suffragettes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Did they bomb post offices?!?)<br /> <br /> '''Pashto'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Tadjik'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Seven Dials'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> In Covent Garden, London - a place where 7 roads meet. An unsavory assignment for a policeman.<br /> <br /> ==Page 608==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Avoid beans&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''spotted dick'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A suet pudding with raisins or currants<br /> <br /> '''Yarmouth bloater'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A cured herring from the port town of Yarmouth.<br /> <br /> ''''shape''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''blue lamps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Traditionally hung outside police stations in England.<br /> <br /> '''lamé surfaces'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''yarmulke... high crown... dented Trilby style'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 609==<br /> <br /> '''''Kelly's Suburban Dictionary'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The peerless ''London A to Z'' did not come along until the 1930s.<br /> <br /> '''wenlets'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Politician and journalist William Cobbett (1763-1835) called London &quot;the great wen.&quot; It was not a compliment, because ''wen'' means a sebaceous cyst. Wenlets are small versions of the &quot;great&quot; wen.<br /> <br /> ==Page 610==<br /> <br /> '''daylight oil'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''refused to dim'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Nicely vivid.)<br /> <br /> '''Vontz's Universal Pick'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''alchemized coke'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Lincrusta-Walton'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''hipshot'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''scalene polygons'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''jet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Apotheosis Sparkless Torch'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 611==<br /> <br /> '''magnalium'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An alloy of magnesium and aluminum.<br /> <br /> '''''The Slow and the Stupefied'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Daytime soap 'The Young and the Restless'.<br /> <br /> '''gas-head'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf pothead, acidhead, etc.<br /> <br /> '''Pike's Peak'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lew's old stompinground.<br /> <br /> '''Gus Swallowfield'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''most theft policies'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Fact?)<br /> <br /> '''pantechnicon'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A closed van or carryall. (Is TRP trying to put a burr under S. Weisenburger's saddle by bringing this vehicle back? SW's gloss in the ''GR Companion,'' at page 19 of the Viking edition, is famously wrong.)<br /> <br /> '''legitimate bill of sale'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 612==<br /> <br /> '''''Pavonazzetto'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Phrygian marble'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Phrygia is an ancient region of west central Asia Minor, to the south of Bithynia. Marble from there was highly valued.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Atys... Agdistis'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''The Mutilation of Atys'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> No images: [http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;q=%22Mutilation%20of%20Atys&amp;btnG=Search&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=wi Google image search]<br /> <br /> '''Arturo Naunt'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''shocking the bourgeoisie'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A popular pastime for young and not-so-young soi-disant radicals (&quot;Epater le bourgeois&quot;).<br /> <br /> '''koumiss vessel'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''wrathful deities from Tantric Buddhism'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 613==<br /> <br /> '''tiny German hand camera'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''raw light'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Gasophilia'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Schwärmer'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Chidambaram'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Akaša'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Atman'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''''Chaos''''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''van Helmont'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''stridently unpopulated'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf p610.<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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<p>Jackrmann: /* Page 602 */</p> <hr /> <div>:'''&lt;big&gt;Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.&lt;/big&gt;'''&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Page 588==<br /> <br /> '''tannery'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Gauss's brain'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> After Carl Friedrich Gauss died in 1855, his brain was preserved for research purposes. To this day, it is in the possession of the University of Göttingen.<br /> <br /> '''impervious to the wind'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Attribute of tanned leather?)<br /> <br /> '''''&quot;Heiliger Bimbam!&quot;'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A German expression of surprise, translated elsewhere as &quot;Holy Moly!&quot;<br /> <br /> '''rim'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Kit pretends to think he's referring to monocle as 'chichi' (stylish).<br /> <br /> ==Page 589==<br /> <br /> '''''Noli me tangere''''<br /> <br /> Latin for 'don't touch me'<br /> <br /> '''''Hausknochen'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 590==<br /> <br /> '''Hadamard... Poussin... Prime Number Theorem'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''patent ''Kühlbox'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''beleaguered subset'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 591==<br /> <br /> '''prats'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Literally the buttocks. As a slang term, a 'prat' is an idiot.<br /> <br /> '''''Die Nullstellen der [zeta]-Funktion'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> german: Null = zero; Stelle = location. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_zeta_function#Zeros_of_the_Riemann_zeta_function Wikipedia] on the &quot;Zeros of the Riemann zeta-function&quot;. <br /> <br /> '''&quot;Richard Harding Davis&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Popular writer of fiction and drama, journalist/war-correspondent and a major male-role-model of his time (1864 - 1916). He was considered the model for illustrator Charles Dana Gibson's dashing Gibson man, the male equivalent of his famous Gibson Girl. He is also referenced early in Sinclair Lewis's book, ''Dodsworth'' as the example of an exciting, adventure-seeking legitimate hero. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Harding_Davis Wikipedia] <br /> <br /> '''seldom, if ever'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf p559 re Umeki!?<br /> <br /> '''tetralatry'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> made up from greek &quot;tettares&quot; (prefix -tetra) = four and &quot;latreia&quot; = worship<br /> <br /> '''C. Howard Hinton'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Charles Howard Hinton (1853 – 1907) was a British mathematician and writer of science fiction works titled ''Scientific Romances''. He was interested in higher dimensions, particularly the fourth dimension, and is known for coining the word ''tesseract'' and for his work on methods of visualising the geometry of higher dimensions. He also had a strong interest in theosophy. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Howard_Hinton Wikipedia Entry]<br /> <br /> '''Johann K.F. Zöllner'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner (1834–1882) was a German astrophysicist. Studied Photometrie and optical illusions. He insisted a fourth dimension should be considered in Physics and tried to scientifically explain spiritist phenomena. <br /> <br /> '''vogue... 'vague''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 592==<br /> <br /> '''upside-down triangles'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Also Pléiade p538. In mathematics that would be the operator ''del'' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del Wikipedia]. Since pre-history and across most cultures the upside-down triangle is a symbol for the female (genitals).<br /> <br /> '''metallic banging'<br /> <br /> ''''metric interval''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Prinzenstrasse and Weenderstrasse'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A street corner at the very center of Göttingen ([http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;q=g%C3%B6ttingen,+germany&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;om=1&amp;z=17&amp;ll=51.534284,9.935417&amp;spn=0.006107,0.010793&amp;t=h Google Maps]), &quot;known to mathematicians here as the origin of the city of Göttingen's coordinate system&quot;.<br /> <br /> ==Page 593==<br /> <br /> '''twenty marks'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''der Pistolenheld'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German: the pistol hero.<br /> <br /> '''''das Nichtharmonischestrahlenbündel'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Latin... Euler'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Mathematical Theory of the Top'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Leopold Kronecker''' and '''Cantor'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The &quot;monumental quarrel between Kronecker and Cantor&quot; is also referred to as a &quot;religious war,&quot; appropriately enough. It's based in a disagreement over the legitimacy of numbers. Kronecker held that &quot;'the positive integers were created by God, and all else is the work of man.'&quot; This is contradicted by &quot;'Cantor with his ''Kontinuum'', professing an equally strong belief in just those regions, infinitely divisible, which lie ''between'' the whole numbers so demanding of all Kronecker's devotion.'&quot;<br /> <br /> The disagreement between the two mathematicians is reminiscent of (or does it anticipate?) the rift between Pointsman and Mexico in ''Gravity's Rainbow''. Kronecker's integers &quot;created by God&quot; have become a Pavlovian digital binary for Pointsman, but the two oppositions track faithfully right down to the italicized &quot;between.&quot; <br /> <br /> &quot;The young statistician [Mexico] is devoted to number and to method, not table-rapping or wishful thinking. But in the domain of zero to one, not-something to something, Pointsman can only possess the zero and the one. He cannot, like Mexico, survive anyplace in between. Like his master I. P. Pavlov before him, he imagines the cortex of the brain as a mosaic of tiny on/off elements.... But to Mexico belongs the domain ''between'' zero and one.&quot; [Page 55]<br /> <br /> It should be noted, however, that the continuous number line was a modern innovation. In Greek number theory, a number is a collection of indivisible units. Irrationals, such as the square root of 2 are not numbers but &quot;magnitudes.&quot; One is not even a number for it is not a number of units. There are no negative numbers as well. (see Klein's &lt;i&gt;Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra.&lt;/i&gt;) So Kronecker's position may be less of a crazy innovation as much as a maintenance of ancient theory.<br /> <br /> '''''Kontinuum'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 599==<br /> <br /> '''''Nervenklinik'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''boundless epsilonic world'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Der Finsterzwerg'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''chloral hydrate'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A/k/a &quot;knockout drops&quot; a/k/a a &quot;Mickey Finn&quot;. Hence the ''Mickifest''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloral_hydrate Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''''Kneipe'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Gauss passing to Weber a remark'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Weierstrass functions'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 595==<br /> <br /> '''That winter, in St. Petersburg'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 22 Jan 1905 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution_of_1905 Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''Japanese won'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 05 September 1905. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''Muslim rebellion'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''the year that followed'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Peter and Paul Fortress'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''kazatsky'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Waziristan'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 596==<br /> <br /> '''as-ever transcendentally interesting hair'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''gen''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Slang term for &quot;genuine&quot; maybe?<br /> <br /> '''Afghani dirhan'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An Afghani coin, more usually transliterated as &quot;dirham&quot;. [http://ghaznavid.ancients.info/ This site] has pictures and more information.<br /> <br /> '''Ghaznivid Empire'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Usually transliterated as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghaznavid_Empire Ghaznavid Empire] (Wikipedia)<br /> <br /> '''coffee scion'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Coffee motif.<br /> <br /> '''Günther von Quassel'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;quasseln&quot; is a German verb, meaning roughly &quot;to jabber&quot;<br /> <br /> '''less than universally respected Ludwig Boltzmann'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Boltzmann Boltzmann] proposed an explanation of thermodynamics based on the statistical behaviour of atoms. Many influential colleagues at the time did not believe in the reality of atoms and thus worked to discredit Boltzmann.<br /> <br /> ==Page 597==<br /> <br /> '''Gymnasium child'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A Gymnasium is a German secondary school<br /> <br /> '''one measure of the chaos'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf GR on entropy?<br /> <br /> '''Göttingen tradition'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''statue'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Rathaus square'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The square in front of City Hall.<br /> <br /> ==Page 598==<br /> <br /> '''Axioms of Zermelo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The basic axioms of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zermelo-Frankel_set_theory#The_axioms Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory].<br /> <br /> '''Poincaré'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Henri Poincaré ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Poincar%C3%A9 Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> '''Cauchy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Augustin Louis Cauchy ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustin_Louis_Cauchy Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> '''Whittaker and Watson'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A standard mathematics textbook of the time ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whittaker_and_Watson Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> '''two point one'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Cf Sondheim lyric.)<br /> <br /> ==Page 599==<br /> <br /> '''dueling-society cap'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Probably student corporation insignia.<br /> <br /> '''''Liebchen'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;sweetheart&quot;<br /> <br /> '''''Egal was, meine Schatze'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;No matter what, my darling&quot; - though &quot;meine Schatze&quot; is as far as I can tell an improper femininization, which ought to be &quot;mein Schatz&quot;.<br /> <br /> '''''Schläger'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A specialized weapon for student duels. See Wikipedia's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_fencing Academic fencing] article.<br /> <br /> '''Krummsäbel'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;scimitar&quot;.<br /> <br /> '''Korbrapier'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A rapier with a basket (&quot;Korb&quot; in German) like protection hilt.<br /> <br /> '''épée'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A sharp-pointed duelling sword.<br /> <br /> ==Page 600==<br /> <br /> '''Colt six-shooters'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> I guess Kit's luggage beat him to Gottingen.<br /> <br /> '''''Verbindung'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''restoring moment, elastic constants'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Geheimrat Hilbert'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 601==<br /> <br /> '''''Ehrenkodex'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;code of honor&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Tyrolean hats'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&amp;q=tirolerhut&amp;btnG=Search+Images Images]<br /> <br /> '''''Schnurrbartbinde'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A device to keep one's mustache safe from entanglement when sleeping, like [http://www.volkskrantblog.nl/pub/mm/2006/01/1137360569.70341.gif this].<br /> <br /> '''Zeiss &quot;Palmos Panoram&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An early panoramic camera, mentioned in the 1911 Britannica's [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Photography Photography] article.<br /> <br /> '''''&quot;Auf die Mensur!&quot;'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;to the duel&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Andaman Islands'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://www.openencyclopedia.net/index.php/Andaman_Islands Here]'s a mention of tattooing practices in the Andaman Islands<br /> <br /> '''Stephanie du Motel... group-theory godfather Évariste Galois'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Évariste Galois died in a duel at the age of 20. Though much confusion surrounds the affair, it is suspected that he provoked the duel after being rejected by one Stéphanie-Felice du Motel. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evariste_Galois#Final_days Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> ==Page 602==<br /> <br /> '''young Ouspensky'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Peter D. Ouspensky (1878-1947), Russian mystic and philosopher, author of ''The Fourth Dimension'', appropriate to Pynchon's themes in ''ATD''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Uspensky Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''Chong'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;The what?&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Precipitous drop in authorial expectations?)<br /> <br /> '''Sidney... Kensington Sid'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''transtriadic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Beyond the three.<br /> <br /> ==Page 603==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Spiritual... At Göttingen?&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Applied Mechanics Institute'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An institute of the University of Göttingen<br /> <br /> '''Prandtl's recent discovery of the boundary layer'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Ludwig Prandtl ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Prandtl Wikipedia]) in 1904 developed the theory of the boundary layer ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary%20layer Wikipedia]) in aerodynamics, greatly simplifying aerodynamic calculations. <br /> <br /> '''brambled guttie'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A proto golf-ball, see [http://www.che.rochester.edu/users/dafoster/ChE243/SciAm%20GolfBall.pdf here].<br /> <br /> '''Bürgerstrasse'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;Citizen's Street&quot;, a street in Göttingen.<br /> <br /> '''Brauweg'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;Brewery Way&quot;, a street in Göttingen.<br /> <br /> '''Zhukovsky's Transformation'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joukowsky_transform Joukowsky Transform] maps the unit circle in the complex plane to a shape very much like an airfoil.<br /> <br /> '''glass of tea'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Why not 'cup'?)because in Europe, as sopposed to in England, tea may be drunk from glassware.<br /> <br /> '''''&quot;...according to Spiral Theory, up to infinity.&quot;&lt;br&gt; &quot;And beyond, &quot; added Gunther, nodding earnestly.'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Reference to Buzz Lightyear's stock character phrase in 1995's TOY STORY (Pixar/Disney):<br /> &quot;To Infinity... and Beyond!&quot;<br /> --[[User:Btchakir|Btchakir]] 07:43, 19 December 2006 (PST)<br /> <br /> ==Page 604==<br /> <br /> '''nontrivial zeroes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Riemann zeta function has two classes of zeros, the trivial zeroes being at negative even integers (-2, -4...), the non-trivial complex numbers, believed (but not proven) to have Re(z)=1/2. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_hypothesis Wikipedia].<br /> <br /> '''much-noted talk'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> At the 1900 International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris, Hilbert proposed a research programme of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_problems#Tabulated_information 23 problems]. The Riemann hypothesis is number 8 on the list. <br /> <br /> '''eigenvalues'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenvalue Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''Hermitian operator'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermitian_operator Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''spine of reality... ''&quot;Rückgrat von Wirklichkeit&quot;'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Probably a reference to the main diagonal of a Hermitian matrix, which can contain only real numbers. The German phrase is one accurate way to translate the English.<br /> <br /> '''Hilbert-Polya Conjecture'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The conjecture that the zeroes of the Riemann function would be the eigenvalues of a Hermitian operator, just what Yashmeen is suggesting.<br /> <br /> ==Page 605==<br /> <br /> '''Vance Aychrome'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Full English Breakfast'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Bacon, eggs, tomato, toast... otherwise know as a fry-up.<br /> <br /> '''Pythagorean dietary'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Possible missing word?)<br /> <br /> '''kippers and bloaters'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Different words (both Scottish) for smoked herrings<br /> <br /> '''baps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> soft bread rolls - another Scottish word<br /> <br /> '''Spong machine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Appropriate technology. An English-made hand-cranked coffee grinder that doesn't light up, lacks a readout to tell when the beans are ready, and signally fails to function before the user wakes up. Only drawback is that some spouses compare its sound to half a load of cobbles being dumped on the roof.<br /> <br /> '''thinned'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> From full 78. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarot Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''vegetarian haggis'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> It exists: [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=%22vegetarian+haggis Google search]<br /> <br /> ==Page 606==<br /> <br /> '''Lamont replevin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Elflock Villa'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Stuffed Edge, Herts'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An imaginary village in the South-East English county of Hertfordshire<br /> <br /> '''kedgeree'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A hot breakfast dish of fish, rice, and eggs.<br /> <br /> '''Cesare Lombroso'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Trans-Oxanian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Graeco-Buddhist'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''bad hats'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A bad hat is a slang term for a rascal<br /> <br /> ==Page 607==<br /> <br /> '''Gas Office'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''communication by means of coal-gas'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Nabokov's &quot;Ada&quot;. Also inverse of Tesla's energy-transmitter. A parallel to the Tristero, too.<br /> <br /> '''bombs... Suffragettes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Did they bomb post offices?!?)<br /> <br /> '''Pashto'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Tadjik'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Seven Dials'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> In Covent Garden, London - a place where 7 roads meet. An unsavory assignment for a policeman.<br /> <br /> ==Page 608==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Avoid beans&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''spotted dick'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A suet pudding with raisins or currants<br /> <br /> '''Yarmouth bloater'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A cured herring from the port town of Yarmouth.<br /> <br /> ''''shape''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''blue lamps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Traditionally hung outside police stations in England.<br /> <br /> '''lamé surfaces'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''yarmulke... high crown... dented Trilby style'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 609==<br /> <br /> '''''Kelly's Suburban Dictionary'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The peerless ''London A to Z'' did not come along until the 1930s.<br /> <br /> '''wenlets'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Politician and journalist William Cobbett (1763-1835) called London &quot;the great wen.&quot; It was not a compliment, because ''wen'' means a sebaceous cyst. Wenlets are small versions of the &quot;great&quot; wen.<br /> <br /> ==Page 610==<br /> <br /> '''daylight oil'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''refused to dim'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Nicely vivid.)<br /> <br /> '''Vontz's Universal Pick'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''alchemized coke'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Lincrusta-Walton'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''hipshot'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''scalene polygons'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''jet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Apotheosis Sparkless Torch'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 611==<br /> <br /> '''magnalium'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An alloy of magnesium and aluminum.<br /> <br /> '''''The Slow and the Stupefied'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Daytime soap 'The Young and the Restless'.<br /> <br /> '''gas-head'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf pothead, acidhead, etc.<br /> <br /> '''Pike's Peak'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lew's old stompinground.<br /> <br /> '''Gus Swallowfield'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''most theft policies'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Fact?)<br /> <br /> '''pantechnicon'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A closed van or carryall. (Is TRP trying to put a burr under S. Weisenburger's saddle by bringing this vehicle back? SW's gloss in the ''GR Companion,'' at page 19 of the Viking edition, is famously wrong.)<br /> <br /> '''legitimate bill of sale'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 612==<br /> <br /> '''''Pavonazzetto'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Phrygian marble'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Phrygia is an ancient region of west central Asia Minor, to the south of Bithynia. Marble from there was highly valued.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Atys... Agdistis'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''The Mutilation of Atys'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> No images: [http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;q=%22Mutilation%20of%20Atys&amp;btnG=Search&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=wi Google image search]<br /> <br /> '''Arturo Naunt'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''shocking the bourgeoisie'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A popular pastime for young and not-so-young soi-disant radicals (&quot;Epater le bourgeois&quot;).<br /> <br /> '''koumiss vessel'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''wrathful deities from Tantric Buddhism'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 613==<br /> <br /> '''tiny German hand camera'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''raw light'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Gasophilia'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Schwärmer'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Chidambaram'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Akaša'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Atman'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''''Chaos''''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''van Helmont'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''stridently unpopulated'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf p610.<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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<p>Jackrmann: /* Page 599 */</p> <hr /> <div>:'''&lt;big&gt;Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.&lt;/big&gt;'''&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Page 588==<br /> <br /> '''tannery'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Gauss's brain'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> After Carl Friedrich Gauss died in 1855, his brain was preserved for research purposes. To this day, it is in the possession of the University of Göttingen.<br /> <br /> '''impervious to the wind'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Attribute of tanned leather?)<br /> <br /> '''''&quot;Heiliger Bimbam!&quot;'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A German expression of surprise, translated elsewhere as &quot;Holy Moly!&quot;<br /> <br /> '''rim'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Kit pretends to think he's referring to monocle as 'chichi' (stylish).<br /> <br /> ==Page 589==<br /> <br /> '''''Noli me tangere''''<br /> <br /> Latin for 'don't touch me'<br /> <br /> '''''Hausknochen'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 590==<br /> <br /> '''Hadamard... Poussin... Prime Number Theorem'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''patent ''Kühlbox'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''beleaguered subset'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 591==<br /> <br /> '''prats'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Literally the buttocks. As a slang term, a 'prat' is an idiot.<br /> <br /> '''''Die Nullstellen der [zeta]-Funktion'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> german: Null = zero; Stelle = location. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_zeta_function#Zeros_of_the_Riemann_zeta_function Wikipedia] on the &quot;Zeros of the Riemann zeta-function&quot;. <br /> <br /> '''&quot;Richard Harding Davis&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Popular writer of fiction and drama, journalist/war-correspondent and a major male-role-model of his time (1864 - 1916). He was considered the model for illustrator Charles Dana Gibson's dashing Gibson man, the male equivalent of his famous Gibson Girl. He is also referenced early in Sinclair Lewis's book, ''Dodsworth'' as the example of an exciting, adventure-seeking legitimate hero. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Harding_Davis Wikipedia] <br /> <br /> '''seldom, if ever'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf p559 re Umeki!?<br /> <br /> '''tetralatry'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> made up from greek &quot;tettares&quot; (prefix -tetra) = four and &quot;latreia&quot; = worship<br /> <br /> '''C. Howard Hinton'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Charles Howard Hinton (1853 – 1907) was a British mathematician and writer of science fiction works titled ''Scientific Romances''. He was interested in higher dimensions, particularly the fourth dimension, and is known for coining the word ''tesseract'' and for his work on methods of visualising the geometry of higher dimensions. He also had a strong interest in theosophy. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Howard_Hinton Wikipedia Entry]<br /> <br /> '''Johann K.F. Zöllner'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner (1834–1882) was a German astrophysicist. Studied Photometrie and optical illusions. He insisted a fourth dimension should be considered in Physics and tried to scientifically explain spiritist phenomena. <br /> <br /> '''vogue... 'vague''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 592==<br /> <br /> '''upside-down triangles'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Also Pléiade p538. In mathematics that would be the operator ''del'' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del Wikipedia]. Since pre-history and across most cultures the upside-down triangle is a symbol for the female (genitals).<br /> <br /> '''metallic banging'<br /> <br /> ''''metric interval''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Prinzenstrasse and Weenderstrasse'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A street corner at the very center of Göttingen ([http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;q=g%C3%B6ttingen,+germany&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;om=1&amp;z=17&amp;ll=51.534284,9.935417&amp;spn=0.006107,0.010793&amp;t=h Google Maps]), &quot;known to mathematicians here as the origin of the city of Göttingen's coordinate system&quot;.<br /> <br /> ==Page 593==<br /> <br /> '''twenty marks'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''der Pistolenheld'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German: the pistol hero.<br /> <br /> '''''das Nichtharmonischestrahlenbündel'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Latin... Euler'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Mathematical Theory of the Top'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Leopold Kronecker''' and '''Cantor'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The &quot;monumental quarrel between Kronecker and Cantor&quot; is also referred to as a &quot;religious war,&quot; appropriately enough. It's based in a disagreement over the legitimacy of numbers. Kronecker held that &quot;'the positive integers were created by God, and all else is the work of man.'&quot; This is contradicted by &quot;'Cantor with his ''Kontinuum'', professing an equally strong belief in just those regions, infinitely divisible, which lie ''between'' the whole numbers so demanding of all Kronecker's devotion.'&quot;<br /> <br /> The disagreement between the two mathematicians is reminiscent of (or does it anticipate?) the rift between Pointsman and Mexico in ''Gravity's Rainbow''. Kronecker's integers &quot;created by God&quot; have become a Pavlovian digital binary for Pointsman, but the two oppositions track faithfully right down to the italicized &quot;between.&quot; <br /> <br /> &quot;The young statistician [Mexico] is devoted to number and to method, not table-rapping or wishful thinking. But in the domain of zero to one, not-something to something, Pointsman can only possess the zero and the one. He cannot, like Mexico, survive anyplace in between. Like his master I. P. Pavlov before him, he imagines the cortex of the brain as a mosaic of tiny on/off elements.... But to Mexico belongs the domain ''between'' zero and one.&quot; [Page 55]<br /> <br /> It should be noted, however, that the continuous number line was a modern innovation. In Greek number theory, a number is a collection of indivisible units. Irrationals, such as the square root of 2 are not numbers but &quot;magnitudes.&quot; One is not even a number for it is not a number of units. There are no negative numbers as well. (see Klein's &lt;i&gt;Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra.&lt;/i&gt;) So Kronecker's position may be less of a crazy innovation as much as a maintenance of ancient theory.<br /> <br /> '''''Kontinuum'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 599==<br /> <br /> '''''Nervenklinik'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''boundless epsilonic world'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Der Finsterzwerg'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''chloral hydrate'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A/k/a &quot;knockout drops&quot; a/k/a a &quot;Mickey Finn&quot;. Hence the ''Mickifest''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloral_hydrate Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''''Kneipe'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Gauss passing to Weber a remark'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Weierstrass functions'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 595==<br /> <br /> '''That winter, in St. Petersburg'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 22 Jan 1905 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution_of_1905 Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''Japanese won'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 05 September 1905. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''Muslim rebellion'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''the year that followed'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Peter and Paul Fortress'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''kazatsky'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Waziristan'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 596==<br /> <br /> '''as-ever transcendentally interesting hair'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''gen''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Slang term for &quot;genuine&quot; maybe?<br /> <br /> '''Afghani dirhan'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An Afghani coin, more usually transliterated as &quot;dirham&quot;. [http://ghaznavid.ancients.info/ This site] has pictures and more information.<br /> <br /> '''Ghaznivid Empire'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Usually transliterated as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghaznavid_Empire Ghaznavid Empire] (Wikipedia)<br /> <br /> '''coffee scion'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Coffee motif.<br /> <br /> '''Günther von Quassel'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;quasseln&quot; is a German verb, meaning roughly &quot;to jabber&quot;<br /> <br /> '''less than universally respected Ludwig Boltzmann'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Boltzmann Boltzmann] proposed an explanation of thermodynamics based on the statistical behaviour of atoms. Many influential colleagues at the time did not believe in the reality of atoms and thus worked to discredit Boltzmann.<br /> <br /> ==Page 597==<br /> <br /> '''Gymnasium child'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A Gymnasium is a German secondary school<br /> <br /> '''one measure of the chaos'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf GR on entropy?<br /> <br /> '''Göttingen tradition'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''statue'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Rathaus square'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The square in front of City Hall.<br /> <br /> ==Page 598==<br /> <br /> '''Axioms of Zermelo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The basic axioms of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zermelo-Frankel_set_theory#The_axioms Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory].<br /> <br /> '''Poincaré'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Henri Poincaré ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Poincar%C3%A9 Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> '''Cauchy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Augustin Louis Cauchy ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustin_Louis_Cauchy Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> '''Whittaker and Watson'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A standard mathematics textbook of the time ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whittaker_and_Watson Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> '''two point one'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Cf Sondheim lyric.)<br /> <br /> ==Page 599==<br /> <br /> '''dueling-society cap'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Probably student corporation insignia.<br /> <br /> '''''Liebchen'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;sweetheart&quot;<br /> <br /> '''''Egal was, meine Schatze'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;No matter what, my darling&quot; - though &quot;meine Schatze&quot; is as far as I can tell an improper femininization, which ought to be &quot;mein Schatz&quot;.<br /> <br /> '''''Schläger'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A specialized weapon for student duels. See Wikipedia's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_fencing Academic fencing] article.<br /> <br /> '''Krummsäbel'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;scimitar&quot;.<br /> <br /> '''Korbrapier'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A rapier with a basket (&quot;Korb&quot; in German) like protection hilt.<br /> <br /> '''épée'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A sharp-pointed duelling sword.<br /> <br /> ==Page 600==<br /> <br /> '''Colt six-shooters'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> I guess Kit's luggage beat him to Gottingen.<br /> <br /> '''''Verbindung'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''restoring moment, elastic constants'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Geheimrat Hilbert'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 601==<br /> <br /> '''''Ehrenkodex'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;code of honor&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Tyrolean hats'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&amp;q=tirolerhut&amp;btnG=Search+Images Images]<br /> <br /> '''''Schnurrbartbinde'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A device to keep one's mustache safe from entanglement when sleeping, like [http://www.volkskrantblog.nl/pub/mm/2006/01/1137360569.70341.gif this].<br /> <br /> '''Zeiss &quot;Palmos Panoram&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An early panoramic camera, mentioned in the 1911 Britannica's [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Photography Photography] article.<br /> <br /> '''''&quot;Auf die Mensur!&quot;'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;to the duel&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Andaman Islands'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://www.openencyclopedia.net/index.php/Andaman_Islands Here]'s a mention of tattooing practices in the Andaman Islands<br /> <br /> '''Stephanie du Motel... group-theory godfather Évariste Galois'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Évariste Galois died in a duel at the age of 20. Though much confusion surrounds the affair, it is suspected that he provoked the duel after being rejected by one Stéphanie-Felice du Motel. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evariste_Galois#Final_days Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> ==Page 602==<br /> <br /> '''young Ouspensky'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Chong'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;The what?&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Precipitous drop in authorial expectations?)<br /> <br /> '''Sidney... Kensington Sid'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''transtriadic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Beyond the three.<br /> <br /> ==Page 603==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Spiritual... At Göttingen?&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Applied Mechanics Institute'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An institute of the University of Göttingen<br /> <br /> '''Prandtl's recent discovery of the boundary layer'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Ludwig Prandtl ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Prandtl Wikipedia]) in 1904 developed the theory of the boundary layer ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary%20layer Wikipedia]) in aerodynamics, greatly simplifying aerodynamic calculations. <br /> <br /> '''brambled guttie'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A proto golf-ball, see [http://www.che.rochester.edu/users/dafoster/ChE243/SciAm%20GolfBall.pdf here].<br /> <br /> '''Bürgerstrasse'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;Citizen's Street&quot;, a street in Göttingen.<br /> <br /> '''Brauweg'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German, &quot;Brewery Way&quot;, a street in Göttingen.<br /> <br /> '''Zhukovsky's Transformation'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joukowsky_transform Joukowsky Transform] maps the unit circle in the complex plane to a shape very much like an airfoil.<br /> <br /> '''glass of tea'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Why not 'cup'?)because in Europe, as sopposed to in England, tea may be drunk from glassware.<br /> <br /> '''''&quot;...according to Spiral Theory, up to infinity.&quot;&lt;br&gt; &quot;And beyond, &quot; added Gunther, nodding earnestly.'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Reference to Buzz Lightyear's stock character phrase in 1995's TOY STORY (Pixar/Disney):<br /> &quot;To Infinity... and Beyond!&quot;<br /> --[[User:Btchakir|Btchakir]] 07:43, 19 December 2006 (PST)<br /> <br /> ==Page 604==<br /> <br /> '''nontrivial zeroes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Riemann zeta function has two classes of zeros, the trivial zeroes being at negative even integers (-2, -4...), the non-trivial complex numbers, believed (but not proven) to have Re(z)=1/2. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_hypothesis Wikipedia].<br /> <br /> '''much-noted talk'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> At the 1900 International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris, Hilbert proposed a research programme of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_problems#Tabulated_information 23 problems]. The Riemann hypothesis is number 8 on the list. <br /> <br /> '''eigenvalues'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenvalue Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''Hermitian operator'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermitian_operator Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''spine of reality... ''&quot;Rückgrat von Wirklichkeit&quot;'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Probably a reference to the main diagonal of a Hermitian matrix, which can contain only real numbers. The German phrase is one accurate way to translate the English.<br /> <br /> '''Hilbert-Polya Conjecture'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The conjecture that the zeroes of the Riemann function would be the eigenvalues of a Hermitian operator, just what Yashmeen is suggesting.<br /> <br /> ==Page 605==<br /> <br /> '''Vance Aychrome'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Full English Breakfast'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Bacon, eggs, tomato, toast... otherwise know as a fry-up.<br /> <br /> '''Pythagorean dietary'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Possible missing word?)<br /> <br /> '''kippers and bloaters'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Different words (both Scottish) for smoked herrings<br /> <br /> '''baps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> soft bread rolls - another Scottish word<br /> <br /> '''Spong machine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Appropriate technology. An English-made hand-cranked coffee grinder that doesn't light up, lacks a readout to tell when the beans are ready, and signally fails to function before the user wakes up. Only drawback is that some spouses compare its sound to half a load of cobbles being dumped on the roof.<br /> <br /> '''thinned'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> From full 78. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarot Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''vegetarian haggis'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> It exists: [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=%22vegetarian+haggis Google search]<br /> <br /> ==Page 606==<br /> <br /> '''Lamont replevin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Elflock Villa'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Stuffed Edge, Herts'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An imaginary village in the South-East English county of Hertfordshire<br /> <br /> '''kedgeree'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A hot breakfast dish of fish, rice, and eggs.<br /> <br /> '''Cesare Lombroso'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Trans-Oxanian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Graeco-Buddhist'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''bad hats'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A bad hat is a slang term for a rascal<br /> <br /> ==Page 607==<br /> <br /> '''Gas Office'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''communication by means of coal-gas'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Nabokov's &quot;Ada&quot;. Also inverse of Tesla's energy-transmitter. A parallel to the Tristero, too.<br /> <br /> '''bombs... Suffragettes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Did they bomb post offices?!?)<br /> <br /> '''Pashto'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Tadjik'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Seven Dials'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> In Covent Garden, London - a place where 7 roads meet. An unsavory assignment for a policeman.<br /> <br /> ==Page 608==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Avoid beans&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''spotted dick'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A suet pudding with raisins or currants<br /> <br /> '''Yarmouth bloater'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A cured herring from the port town of Yarmouth.<br /> <br /> ''''shape''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''blue lamps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Traditionally hung outside police stations in England.<br /> <br /> '''lamé surfaces'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''yarmulke... high crown... dented Trilby style'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 609==<br /> <br /> '''''Kelly's Suburban Dictionary'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The peerless ''London A to Z'' did not come along until the 1930s.<br /> <br /> '''wenlets'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Politician and journalist William Cobbett (1763-1835) called London &quot;the great wen.&quot; It was not a compliment, because ''wen'' means a sebaceous cyst. Wenlets are small versions of the &quot;great&quot; wen.<br /> <br /> ==Page 610==<br /> <br /> '''daylight oil'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''refused to dim'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Nicely vivid.)<br /> <br /> '''Vontz's Universal Pick'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''alchemized coke'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Lincrusta-Walton'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''hipshot'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''scalene polygons'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''jet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Apotheosis Sparkless Torch'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 611==<br /> <br /> '''magnalium'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An alloy of magnesium and aluminum.<br /> <br /> '''''The Slow and the Stupefied'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Daytime soap 'The Young and the Restless'.<br /> <br /> '''gas-head'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf pothead, acidhead, etc.<br /> <br /> '''Pike's Peak'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lew's old stompinground.<br /> <br /> '''Gus Swallowfield'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''most theft policies'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Fact?)<br /> <br /> '''pantechnicon'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A closed van or carryall. (Is TRP trying to put a burr under S. Weisenburger's saddle by bringing this vehicle back? SW's gloss in the ''GR Companion,'' at page 19 of the Viking edition, is famously wrong.)<br /> <br /> '''legitimate bill of sale'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 612==<br /> <br /> '''''Pavonazzetto'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Phrygian marble'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Phrygia is an ancient region of west central Asia Minor, to the south of Bithynia. Marble from there was highly valued.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Atys... Agdistis'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''The Mutilation of Atys'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> No images: [http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;q=%22Mutilation%20of%20Atys&amp;btnG=Search&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=wi Google image search]<br /> <br /> '''Arturo Naunt'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''shocking the bourgeoisie'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A popular pastime for young and not-so-young soi-disant radicals (&quot;Epater le bourgeois&quot;).<br /> <br /> '''koumiss vessel'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''wrathful deities from Tantric Buddhism'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 613==<br /> <br /> '''tiny German hand camera'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''raw light'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Gasophilia'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Schwärmer'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Chidambaram'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Akaša'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Atman'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''''Chaos''''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''van Helmont'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''stridently unpopulated'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf p610.<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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<p>Jackrmann: /* Page 585 */</p> <hr /> <div>:'''&lt;big&gt;Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.&lt;/big&gt;'''&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Page 557==<br /> <br /> '''Viktor Mulciber'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''bespoke'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> made to order, hence hand-made and expensive. Somewhere in the novel is a reference to 1 Savile Row, the address of Gieves and Hawkes, a very traditional English tailor.<br /> <br /> '''Basil Zaharoff'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''trains of history... run'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Balkan ''komitadji'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''waybill'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''metamorphosed into an American Negro'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf honorary Negro (Frank above).<br /> <br /> '''Nipponese'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Japanese<br /> <br /> '''Hertzian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Electromagnetic waves, first demonstrated by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Rudolf_Hertz Heinrich Hertz]<br /> <br /> ==Page 558==<br /> <br /> '''scalar part'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Quaternion equivalent of the real part<br /> <br /> '''baritone in a barbershop quartet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://www.barbershop.org/web/groups/public/documents/pages/pub_id_000827.hcsp Quote]:Technically speaking, barbershop harmony is a style of unaccompanied singing with three voices harmonizing to the melody. The lead usually sings the melody, with the tenor harmonizing above the lead. The bass sings the lowest harmonizing notes and the baritone provides in-between notes, either above or below the lead to make chords (specifically, dominant-type or &quot;barbershop&quot; sevenths) that give barbershop its distinctive, &quot;full&quot; sound.<br /> <br /> '''viola in a string quartet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Two violins, a viola, and a violoncello make up a string quartet. The viola is between the others in pitch and is generally considered to have been given the least interesting parts in Classical and Romantic music for string quartet.<br /> <br /> '''Further Term'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The three parts of a quaternion that are multiples of '''i''', '''j''' and '''k'''<br /> <br /> '''laterite'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A mineral structure formed by erosion, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laterite Wikipedia].<br /> <br /> '''Inner Boulevards'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Gare du Midi'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The largest railway station in Brussels and a haunt of prostitutes.<br /> <br /> '''Edouard Gevaert'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (No ligature?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 559==<br /> <br /> '''Krupp field-piece'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Krupps are an ancient German family, famous for making weapons. A field-piece is a light-cannon.<br /> <br /> '''vaguely glandular'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''ostinato'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A continually repeated musical phrase or rhythm.<br /> <br /> '''poleaxed'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Stunned, brought to a mental standstill. (I believe a poleaxe was used in slaughterhouses. --[[User:Volver|Volver]] 11:31, 3 January 2007 (PST))<br /> <br /> '''lost to silence'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Not silent, or very?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 560==<br /> <br /> '''Estacade'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''mousmée... mouchard'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''always lead an irregular life'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf GR.<br /> <br /> '''Maria Bayley Hamilton'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''council meeting'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 561==<br /> <br /> '''Brougham Bridge'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''pulls a knife'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Folklore, really later?)<br /> <br /> '''on the stone'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Pentecostal'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''official Mischief Opportunity'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''absinthe spoons'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''cravats'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;four-door farce&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (See eg Bogdanovich's &quot;What's Up, Doc?&quot;)<br /> This is also a pun on the name of Georges Feydeau, French writer of farces who was writing when Pynchon's novel is set. One of the recurring physical jokes involves sets with many doors and people coming in and out, just missing each other....<br /> <br /> ==Page 562==<br /> <br /> '''Minque'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''carillons... carilloneur'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Hanseatic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''burghers'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''silted up'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Damme and Sluis'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 563==<br /> <br /> '''trusted his intuitiveness'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''&quot;Jou moerskont!&quot;''... Afrikaans'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Possibly &quot;you horse's ass&quot;?<br /> <br /> ==Page 564==<br /> <br /> '''immense choir'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Voetsak'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Dutch or Afrikaans, &quot;Go away!&quot;, also spelled &quot;voertsek&quot; or &quot;voetsek&quot;<br /> <br /> '''starers'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''tobacco-stricken'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''half-silvering'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A design for an optical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beam_splitter beam splitter] that causes half of the incident light to be transmitted and the other half to be reflected.<br /> <br /> '''four cusps... index-surface'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''co-conscious'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 565==<br /> <br /> '''true icosahedron'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Probably an regular icosahedron, where the sides are formed by 20 equilateral triangles<br /> <br /> '''12+8... pyrites'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pyrite crystals form a structure that can be decomposed into unit cells that contain (part of) 12 sulphur atoms and 8 iron atoms.<br /> <br /> '''Riemann sphere'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_sphere Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''Felix Klein'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German mathematician ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Klein Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> '''ebonite'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An early plastic([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebonite Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> '''Ohmic Drift'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''speed of the earth... kinetic energy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Recently Lorentz's paper'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lorentz's 1904 &quot;Electromagnetic phenomena in a system moving with any velocity less than that of light&quot; ([http://www.soso.ch/wissen/hist/SRT/L-1904.pdf PDF])<br /> <br /> '''Lord Rayleigh'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> British physicist ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Rayleigh Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> ==Page 566==<br /> <br /> '''In a dream...'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> This passage, describing Kit's dream of Umeki and the message it conveys, pulls together many of the main themes of ''Against the Day'', tying things together in a way that Pynchon seldom does, almost as if he's providing a rather large piece of the puzzle to help the reader understand the novel:<br /> <br /> :&quot;Deep among the equations describing the behavor of light, field equations, Vector and Quaternion equations, lies a set of directions, an intinerary, a map to a hidden space. Double refraction appears again and again as a key element, permitting a view into a Creation set just to the side of this one, so close as to overlap, where the membrane between the worlds, in many places, has become too frail, too permeable, for safety.... Within the mirror, with the scalar term, within the daylit and obvious and taken-for-granted has always lain, as if in wait, the dark intinerary, the corrupted pilgrim's guide, the nameless Station before the first, in the lightless uncreated, where salvation does not yet exist.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''analogies'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Pynchonian heuristics.)<br /> <br /> '''nameless Station'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''lightless uncreated'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Gnostic heresy?)<br /> <br /> '''stuffed sinus'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Konichiwa'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Japanese greeting<br /> <br /> ==Page 567==<br /> <br /> '''new Puccini opera'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Obviously, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Butterfly Madame Butterfly]<br /> <br /> '''Borel-Clerc... &quot;La Matchiche&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Popular vaudeville song from 1903. &quot;La Matchiche&quot; is French for the Brazilian dance Maxixe.<br /> <br /> '''western anchor'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> What about France, Spain, Portugal?<br /> <br /> '''Compaignie Internationale des Wagons-Lits'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;International Sleeping-Car Company&quot;, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlson_Wagonlit Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''two hundred francs'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''theory of sets'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Bruges Canal'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 568==<br /> <br /> '''vaporetto'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A Venetian water-bus.<br /> <br /> '''Grand Canal'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The main canal that runs through the heart of Venice and down past San Marco, the city's main square.<br /> <br /> '''San Marco end'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See above. This is where Florian's (appears in the novel) is situated.<br /> <br /> '''Piazzetta'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''San Giorgio Maggiore'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A rather over-ornate church on the Grand Canal opposite San Marco.<br /> <br /> '''spreading... cloak'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cliche/allusion?<br /> <br /> '''live here forever'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pynchon special-pleading that Dally isn't just another tourist.<br /> Or is this just a typical reaction of the tourist? And a Pynchonesque longing for home?<br /> ==Page 569==<br /> <br /> '''Malibran... Polo's house'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Teatro Malibran, built at the site of Marco Polo's house, which was destroyed in 1596.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;pincette&quot; pass'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Probably from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pincer_movement pincer movement] of military strategy.<br /> <br /> '''profondes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Large pockets in tail coats which can be used for vanishes or productions&quot;, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conjuring_terms Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''Vincenzo Miserere'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''train to Trieste'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Svegli'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''shark leather'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Different from sharkskin?<br /> <br /> '''''Specchiere'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Mirror-maker<br /> <br /> '''glassmakers on Murano'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murano Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> ==Page 570==<br /> <br /> '''another one of his stories'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Jackson Pynchon should highlight all the AtD passages that originated as bedtime stories.)<br /> <br /> '''TERAPIA'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Italian, &quot;therapy&quot;<br /> <br /> '''San Servolo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An island in the Venetian archipelago, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Servolo Wikipedia], [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;q=45.418654+N,+12.35698+E&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;z=17&amp;ll=45.418651,12.35698&amp;spn=0.006891,0.010793&amp;t=k&amp;om=1&amp;iwloc=addr Google Maps]<br /> <br /> '''Palazzo Ducale'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Ducal Palace in Venice, residence of the Doge. It's by San Marco.<br /> <br /> '''''manicomio'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Italian, &quot;madhouse&quot;<br /> <br /> '''uterine vellum'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vellum Vellum] produced from the skin of an unborn calf<br /> <br /> '''pitch, rouge'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Products used in the grinding of lenses and mirrors.<br /> <br /> ==Page 571==<br /> <br /> '''La Doppiatrice'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Ettore Sananzolo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Maskelyne cabinet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> After Neville Maskelyne, from ''Mason and Dixon.'' Maskelyne sent M and D to record the Transit of Venus.<br /> <br /> More likely a descendant, Jasper M., famous stage magician and designer of dazzle camouflage.[[User:Volver|Volver]] 15:34, 2 January 2007 (PST)<br /> <br /> ==Page 572==<br /> <br /> '''smoke back into a cigar'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Time's arrow/ entropy motif.<br /> <br /> '''hard-as-a-rock black cigar'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''thumping'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''salso'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''sandoli'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''trains pulling in'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Famous early film.<br /> <br /> ==Page 573==<br /> <br /> '''Cannareggio'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannaregio Cannaregio]<br /> <br /> ==Page 574==<br /> <br /> '''thirty years older'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> About 65yo?<br /> <br /> '''that day'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> In NYC when Dally showed up.<br /> <br /> '''when she was born'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Pretenders/Chryssie Hynde.<br /> <br /> '''Stronzo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Italian curse word, roughly &quot;asshole&quot;<br /> <br /> '''''In bocc' al lupo!'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> From the Roman dialect, in which the Italians - including Rocco and Pino - seem to speak. Meaning, literally, &quot;In the <br /> mouth of the wolf,&quot; and idiomatically, &quot;Good luck.&quot; <br /> <br /> Specifically the good-luck wish among actors: &quot;Break a leg!&quot; [[User:Volver|Volver]] 15:36, 2 January 2007 (PST)<br /> <br /> '''''campielli'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 575==<br /> <br /> '''Riva'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''middy blouses'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''not yet been rebuilt'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Remember p256.<br /> <br /> '''''lucciole'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''fondamenta'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A waterside street in Venice<br /> <br /> '''''ombreta'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''light's good here'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Old joke about drunk looking for car keys under streetlight though he dropped them somewhere else.<br /> <br /> '''microcosm'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 576==<br /> <br /> '''twelve soldi'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''franc... ten francs'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Canaletto'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Beppo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''pitch'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Bauer-Grünwald'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An expensive hotel near San Marco in Venice.<br /> <br /> ==Page 577==<br /> <br /> ''''Safe''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Recent art-movie title?<br /> <br /> '''Castello'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Evening Gun'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''importunate'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Dr. Grace'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Renowned, full-bearded 19th-century English cricket player.<br /> <br /> ==Page 578==<br /> <br /> '''Dorsoduro'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An area of Venice.<br /> <br /> '''''pensione'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A cheap Italian hotel, like a bed and breakfast.<br /> <br /> '''La Calcina'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Zattere'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An area of wide waterfront pavements in Venice.<br /> <br /> '''''cimici'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''bora'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 579==<br /> <br /> '''Tintoretto's ''Abduction...'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Accademia'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The major art-gallery in Venice<br /> <br /> '''Titian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 16th century Venetian painter.<br /> <br /> '''Infancy Gospel of Thomas'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 580==<br /> <br /> '''Pentecost story in Acts'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Galilean dialect'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Of Aramaic.<br /> <br /> '''''rii'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Plural of ''rio''.<br /> <br /> ==Page 581==<br /> <br /> '''''sotopòrteghi'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An open doorway for public access.<br /> <br /> '''Bodeo 10.4 mm'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 582==<br /> <br /> '''''foschetta'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''masègni'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''patrone'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''wine trains up from Puglia'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Winter'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 1904-1905?<br /> <br /> '''Principessa Spongiatosta'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Is Pugnax's book from p6 at all relevant here?<br /> <br /> '''Ca''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Roman Composite order'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''japonica'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 583==<br /> <br /> '''Iron Bridge'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Le Havre'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''ma via'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''third eyes touching'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 584==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Swiss insurance salesman. Wolf. No, Putzi.&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Bria's had so many beaux she gets them confused?<br /> <br /> '''''topo'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Dogana'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Andrea Tancredi'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Seurat and Signac'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> George Seurat (1859-1891) and Paul Signac (1863-1935), French painters who developed pointillism. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointillism Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''Divisionism'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Marinetti'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Futurists&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Practitioners or followers of Futurism, an early 20th century art movement that is considered the genesis of Cubism, Dada and Art Deco. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurism_%28art%29 Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''brutalism'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Torcello'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A lonely Venetian island: very peaceful and beautiful with a church and little else.<br /> <br /> '''primitivo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 585==<br /> <br /> '''green-and-lavender'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Another clashing color scheme.<br /> <br /> '''sirocco'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A hot dust-laden wind from the Libyan deserts that blows on the northern Mediterranean coast chiefly in Italy, Malta, and Sicily. <br /> <br /> '''San Michele'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''futuristic vehicle'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> P155.<br /> <br /> '''''Preliminary Studies...'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 586==<br /> <br /> '''Always with us.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Gospel of ?.<br /> <br /> '''''vero'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf 'verdad'.<br /> <br /> '''orpiment yellow'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A yellow color pigment ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpiment Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> '''Nürnberg violet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An artificial color pigment discovered in 1868 in the city of Nuremberg<br /> <br /> ==Page 587==<br /> <br /> '''''nebbia, nebbietta, foschia, caligo, sfumato'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''speed of sound'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Air temperature is more important that density.<br /> <br /> '''''La Velocità del Suono'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Italian, &quot;speed of sound&quot;<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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<p>Jackrmann: /* Page 584 */</p> <hr /> <div>:'''&lt;big&gt;Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.&lt;/big&gt;'''&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Page 557==<br /> <br /> '''Viktor Mulciber'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''bespoke'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> made to order, hence hand-made and expensive. Somewhere in the novel is a reference to 1 Savile Row, the address of Gieves and Hawkes, a very traditional English tailor.<br /> <br /> '''Basil Zaharoff'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''trains of history... run'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Balkan ''komitadji'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''waybill'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''metamorphosed into an American Negro'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf honorary Negro (Frank above).<br /> <br /> '''Nipponese'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Japanese<br /> <br /> '''Hertzian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Electromagnetic waves, first demonstrated by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Rudolf_Hertz Heinrich Hertz]<br /> <br /> ==Page 558==<br /> <br /> '''scalar part'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Quaternion equivalent of the real part<br /> <br /> '''baritone in a barbershop quartet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://www.barbershop.org/web/groups/public/documents/pages/pub_id_000827.hcsp Quote]:Technically speaking, barbershop harmony is a style of unaccompanied singing with three voices harmonizing to the melody. The lead usually sings the melody, with the tenor harmonizing above the lead. The bass sings the lowest harmonizing notes and the baritone provides in-between notes, either above or below the lead to make chords (specifically, dominant-type or &quot;barbershop&quot; sevenths) that give barbershop its distinctive, &quot;full&quot; sound.<br /> <br /> '''viola in a string quartet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Two violins, a viola, and a violoncello make up a string quartet. The viola is between the others in pitch and is generally considered to have been given the least interesting parts in Classical and Romantic music for string quartet.<br /> <br /> '''Further Term'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The three parts of a quaternion that are multiples of '''i''', '''j''' and '''k'''<br /> <br /> '''laterite'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A mineral structure formed by erosion, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laterite Wikipedia].<br /> <br /> '''Inner Boulevards'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Gare du Midi'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The largest railway station in Brussels and a haunt of prostitutes.<br /> <br /> '''Edouard Gevaert'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (No ligature?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 559==<br /> <br /> '''Krupp field-piece'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Krupps are an ancient German family, famous for making weapons. A field-piece is a light-cannon.<br /> <br /> '''vaguely glandular'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''ostinato'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A continually repeated musical phrase or rhythm.<br /> <br /> '''poleaxed'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Stunned, brought to a mental standstill. (I believe a poleaxe was used in slaughterhouses. --[[User:Volver|Volver]] 11:31, 3 January 2007 (PST))<br /> <br /> '''lost to silence'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Not silent, or very?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 560==<br /> <br /> '''Estacade'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''mousmée... mouchard'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''always lead an irregular life'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf GR.<br /> <br /> '''Maria Bayley Hamilton'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''council meeting'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 561==<br /> <br /> '''Brougham Bridge'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''pulls a knife'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Folklore, really later?)<br /> <br /> '''on the stone'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Pentecostal'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''official Mischief Opportunity'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''absinthe spoons'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''cravats'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;four-door farce&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (See eg Bogdanovich's &quot;What's Up, Doc?&quot;)<br /> This is also a pun on the name of Georges Feydeau, French writer of farces who was writing when Pynchon's novel is set. One of the recurring physical jokes involves sets with many doors and people coming in and out, just missing each other....<br /> <br /> ==Page 562==<br /> <br /> '''Minque'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''carillons... carilloneur'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Hanseatic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''burghers'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''silted up'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Damme and Sluis'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 563==<br /> <br /> '''trusted his intuitiveness'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''&quot;Jou moerskont!&quot;''... Afrikaans'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Possibly &quot;you horse's ass&quot;?<br /> <br /> ==Page 564==<br /> <br /> '''immense choir'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Voetsak'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Dutch or Afrikaans, &quot;Go away!&quot;, also spelled &quot;voertsek&quot; or &quot;voetsek&quot;<br /> <br /> '''starers'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''tobacco-stricken'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''half-silvering'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A design for an optical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beam_splitter beam splitter] that causes half of the incident light to be transmitted and the other half to be reflected.<br /> <br /> '''four cusps... index-surface'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''co-conscious'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 565==<br /> <br /> '''true icosahedron'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Probably an regular icosahedron, where the sides are formed by 20 equilateral triangles<br /> <br /> '''12+8... pyrites'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pyrite crystals form a structure that can be decomposed into unit cells that contain (part of) 12 sulphur atoms and 8 iron atoms.<br /> <br /> '''Riemann sphere'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_sphere Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''Felix Klein'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German mathematician ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Klein Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> '''ebonite'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An early plastic([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebonite Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> '''Ohmic Drift'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''speed of the earth... kinetic energy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Recently Lorentz's paper'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lorentz's 1904 &quot;Electromagnetic phenomena in a system moving with any velocity less than that of light&quot; ([http://www.soso.ch/wissen/hist/SRT/L-1904.pdf PDF])<br /> <br /> '''Lord Rayleigh'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> British physicist ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Rayleigh Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> ==Page 566==<br /> <br /> '''In a dream...'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> This passage, describing Kit's dream of Umeki and the message it conveys, pulls together many of the main themes of ''Against the Day'', tying things together in a way that Pynchon seldom does, almost as if he's providing a rather large piece of the puzzle to help the reader understand the novel:<br /> <br /> :&quot;Deep among the equations describing the behavor of light, field equations, Vector and Quaternion equations, lies a set of directions, an intinerary, a map to a hidden space. Double refraction appears again and again as a key element, permitting a view into a Creation set just to the side of this one, so close as to overlap, where the membrane between the worlds, in many places, has become too frail, too permeable, for safety.... Within the mirror, with the scalar term, within the daylit and obvious and taken-for-granted has always lain, as if in wait, the dark intinerary, the corrupted pilgrim's guide, the nameless Station before the first, in the lightless uncreated, where salvation does not yet exist.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''analogies'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Pynchonian heuristics.)<br /> <br /> '''nameless Station'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''lightless uncreated'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Gnostic heresy?)<br /> <br /> '''stuffed sinus'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Konichiwa'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Japanese greeting<br /> <br /> ==Page 567==<br /> <br /> '''new Puccini opera'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Obviously, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Butterfly Madame Butterfly]<br /> <br /> '''Borel-Clerc... &quot;La Matchiche&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Popular vaudeville song from 1903. &quot;La Matchiche&quot; is French for the Brazilian dance Maxixe.<br /> <br /> '''western anchor'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> What about France, Spain, Portugal?<br /> <br /> '''Compaignie Internationale des Wagons-Lits'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;International Sleeping-Car Company&quot;, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlson_Wagonlit Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''two hundred francs'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''theory of sets'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Bruges Canal'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 568==<br /> <br /> '''vaporetto'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A Venetian water-bus.<br /> <br /> '''Grand Canal'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The main canal that runs through the heart of Venice and down past San Marco, the city's main square.<br /> <br /> '''San Marco end'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See above. This is where Florian's (appears in the novel) is situated.<br /> <br /> '''Piazzetta'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''San Giorgio Maggiore'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A rather over-ornate church on the Grand Canal opposite San Marco.<br /> <br /> '''spreading... cloak'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cliche/allusion?<br /> <br /> '''live here forever'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pynchon special-pleading that Dally isn't just another tourist.<br /> Or is this just a typical reaction of the tourist? And a Pynchonesque longing for home?<br /> ==Page 569==<br /> <br /> '''Malibran... Polo's house'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Teatro Malibran, built at the site of Marco Polo's house, which was destroyed in 1596.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;pincette&quot; pass'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Probably from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pincer_movement pincer movement] of military strategy.<br /> <br /> '''profondes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Large pockets in tail coats which can be used for vanishes or productions&quot;, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conjuring_terms Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''Vincenzo Miserere'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''train to Trieste'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Svegli'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''shark leather'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Different from sharkskin?<br /> <br /> '''''Specchiere'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Mirror-maker<br /> <br /> '''glassmakers on Murano'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murano Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> ==Page 570==<br /> <br /> '''another one of his stories'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Jackson Pynchon should highlight all the AtD passages that originated as bedtime stories.)<br /> <br /> '''TERAPIA'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Italian, &quot;therapy&quot;<br /> <br /> '''San Servolo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An island in the Venetian archipelago, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Servolo Wikipedia], [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;q=45.418654+N,+12.35698+E&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;z=17&amp;ll=45.418651,12.35698&amp;spn=0.006891,0.010793&amp;t=k&amp;om=1&amp;iwloc=addr Google Maps]<br /> <br /> '''Palazzo Ducale'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Ducal Palace in Venice, residence of the Doge. It's by San Marco.<br /> <br /> '''''manicomio'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Italian, &quot;madhouse&quot;<br /> <br /> '''uterine vellum'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vellum Vellum] produced from the skin of an unborn calf<br /> <br /> '''pitch, rouge'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Products used in the grinding of lenses and mirrors.<br /> <br /> ==Page 571==<br /> <br /> '''La Doppiatrice'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Ettore Sananzolo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Maskelyne cabinet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> After Neville Maskelyne, from ''Mason and Dixon.'' Maskelyne sent M and D to record the Transit of Venus.<br /> <br /> More likely a descendant, Jasper M., famous stage magician and designer of dazzle camouflage.[[User:Volver|Volver]] 15:34, 2 January 2007 (PST)<br /> <br /> ==Page 572==<br /> <br /> '''smoke back into a cigar'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Time's arrow/ entropy motif.<br /> <br /> '''hard-as-a-rock black cigar'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''thumping'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''salso'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''sandoli'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''trains pulling in'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Famous early film.<br /> <br /> ==Page 573==<br /> <br /> '''Cannareggio'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannaregio Cannaregio]<br /> <br /> ==Page 574==<br /> <br /> '''thirty years older'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> About 65yo?<br /> <br /> '''that day'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> In NYC when Dally showed up.<br /> <br /> '''when she was born'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Pretenders/Chryssie Hynde.<br /> <br /> '''Stronzo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Italian curse word, roughly &quot;asshole&quot;<br /> <br /> '''''In bocc' al lupo!'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> From the Roman dialect, in which the Italians - including Rocco and Pino - seem to speak. Meaning, literally, &quot;In the <br /> mouth of the wolf,&quot; and idiomatically, &quot;Good luck.&quot; <br /> <br /> Specifically the good-luck wish among actors: &quot;Break a leg!&quot; [[User:Volver|Volver]] 15:36, 2 January 2007 (PST)<br /> <br /> '''''campielli'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 575==<br /> <br /> '''Riva'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''middy blouses'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''not yet been rebuilt'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Remember p256.<br /> <br /> '''''lucciole'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''fondamenta'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A waterside street in Venice<br /> <br /> '''''ombreta'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''light's good here'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Old joke about drunk looking for car keys under streetlight though he dropped them somewhere else.<br /> <br /> '''microcosm'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 576==<br /> <br /> '''twelve soldi'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''franc... ten francs'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Canaletto'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Beppo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''pitch'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Bauer-Grünwald'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An expensive hotel near San Marco in Venice.<br /> <br /> ==Page 577==<br /> <br /> ''''Safe''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Recent art-movie title?<br /> <br /> '''Castello'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Evening Gun'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''importunate'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Dr. Grace'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Renowned, full-bearded 19th-century English cricket player.<br /> <br /> ==Page 578==<br /> <br /> '''Dorsoduro'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An area of Venice.<br /> <br /> '''''pensione'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A cheap Italian hotel, like a bed and breakfast.<br /> <br /> '''La Calcina'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Zattere'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An area of wide waterfront pavements in Venice.<br /> <br /> '''''cimici'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''bora'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 579==<br /> <br /> '''Tintoretto's ''Abduction...'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Accademia'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The major art-gallery in Venice<br /> <br /> '''Titian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 16th century Venetian painter.<br /> <br /> '''Infancy Gospel of Thomas'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 580==<br /> <br /> '''Pentecost story in Acts'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Galilean dialect'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Of Aramaic.<br /> <br /> '''''rii'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Plural of ''rio''.<br /> <br /> ==Page 581==<br /> <br /> '''''sotopòrteghi'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An open doorway for public access.<br /> <br /> '''Bodeo 10.4 mm'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 582==<br /> <br /> '''''foschetta'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''masègni'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''patrone'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''wine trains up from Puglia'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Winter'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 1904-1905?<br /> <br /> '''Principessa Spongiatosta'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Is Pugnax's book from p6 at all relevant here?<br /> <br /> '''Ca''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Roman Composite order'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''japonica'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 583==<br /> <br /> '''Iron Bridge'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Le Havre'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''ma via'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''third eyes touching'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 584==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Swiss insurance salesman. Wolf. No, Putzi.&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Bria's had so many beaux she gets them confused?<br /> <br /> '''''topo'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Dogana'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Andrea Tancredi'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Seurat and Signac'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> George Seurat (1859-1891) and Paul Signac (1863-1935), French painters who developed pointillism. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointillism Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''Divisionism'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Marinetti'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Futurists&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Practitioners or followers of Futurism, an early 20th century art movement that is considered the genesis of Cubism, Dada and Art Deco. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurism_%28art%29 Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''brutalism'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Torcello'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A lonely Venetian island: very peaceful and beautiful with a church and little else.<br /> <br /> '''primitivo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 585==<br /> <br /> '''green-and-lavender'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''sirocco'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''San Michele'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''futuristic vehicle'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> P155.<br /> <br /> '''''Preliminary Studies...'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 586==<br /> <br /> '''Always with us.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Gospel of ?.<br /> <br /> '''''vero'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf 'verdad'.<br /> <br /> '''orpiment yellow'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A yellow color pigment ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpiment Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> '''Nürnberg violet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An artificial color pigment discovered in 1868 in the city of Nuremberg<br /> <br /> ==Page 587==<br /> <br /> '''''nebbia, nebbietta, foschia, caligo, sfumato'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''speed of sound'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Air temperature is more important that density.<br /> <br /> '''''La Velocità del Suono'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Italian, &quot;speed of sound&quot;<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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<p>Jackrmann: /* Page 554 */</p> <hr /> <div>:'''&lt;big&gt;Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.&lt;/big&gt;'''&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Page 525==<br /> <br /> '''Boulevard van Isenghem'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''street-plausible'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Quai de l'empereur'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''estaminet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''twelve-centime'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Kellner'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German: waiter, barman. Use of the German word would be insulting to the Belgian barman.<br /> <br /> '''''demi'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Lambic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pron. ''lahm-BEEK.'' Unique Belgian beer style, sour and often thin in body.<br /> <br /> '''skimmer'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 526==<br /> <br /> '''universal sign'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Monopoly game card.<br /> <br /> '''biquaternion'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Barry Nebulay'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pun on a term from heraldry, ''barry nebuly.'' Barry (pron. ''BAR-ree,'' not like the name) refers to a shield divided into an even number of parts by horizontal lines. Nebuly signals that the lines are deformed into stylized &quot;cloud&quot; shapes. [http://www.rarebooks.nd.edu/digital/heraldry/partitions.html Here you can see an example.] If a British author had a character with a heraldic name, it would suggest a pseudonym.<br /> <br /> '''University of Dublin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> If University College, Dublin, then Joyce had graduated in 1902.<br /> <br /> '''Tasmania'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Hamiltonian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Grand Hôtel de la Nouvelle Digue'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Belgian Art Nouveau'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 527==<br /> <br /> '''dossing'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> British slang for &quot;sleeping&quot;, &quot;staying overnight&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Russian nihilists'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Eugénie, Fatou'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Females.<br /> <br /> '''Denis, and Policarpe'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Males.<br /> <br /> '''Young Congo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Probably in reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Turks Young Turks], a Turkish revolutionary movement<br /> <br /> '''Garde Civique'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A part of the Belgian army. According to the [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Belgium 1911 Britannica], &quot;the mass of the garde civique does not pretend to possess military value. It is a defence against sedition and socialism.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''''phalange'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''the Digue'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> French for &quot;dyke&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Congo... Belgians'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Belgian colonisation of the Congo was, as Conrad's &quot;Heart of Darkness&quot; makes clear, notable for its greed and brutality.<br /> <br /> '''co-conscious'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Force Publique'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Belgian armed forces operating in the Belgian Congo ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_Publique Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> '''rubber worker'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See above: One of the early missions of the FP was to increase rubber export quotas through forced labor and related atrocities.<br /> <br /> ==Page 528==<br /> <br /> '''''khâgne'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Reclus'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Stirnerite'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Follower of Max Stirner, 19th century German philosopher and author of ''The Ego and Its Own,'' a work influential in anarchist thought. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Stirner Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''''Anarcho-individualiste'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Leopold'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''going down lately'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Sipido'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Prince... of Wales'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Maud Gonne's husband claimed to have been involved in another such plot.)<br /> <br /> '''Royal Bathing Hut... twenty francs'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''twenty francs'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 529==<br /> <br /> ''''picric''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Brugère's powder'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Designolle's'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Monsieur Santos-Dumont'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Green Hour''' and '''''l'heure vertigineuse'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Absinthe-drinking time. The liqueur is green. In French, ''l'heure verte,'' so ''vertigineuse'' (vertiginous, causing dizziness) is a pun on the word for &quot;green.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Rocco and Pino'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Whitehead works in Fiume'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Anticipating GR's V2 works.<br /> <br /> '''''Alberta'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Siluro Dirigible a Lenta Corsa'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> or S.L.C. &quot;slow course torpedo&quot;, &quot;slow-running torpedo&quot;. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manned_torpedo Wikipedia] Italy‘s Navy was among the first to experiment with manned torpedos. Though according to [http://web.ukonline.co.uk/chalcraft/sm/chariots.html this site] this did not happen until 1935, Italian frogmen as early as October 31, 1918 made it into the harbour of Pula with the help of a modified german torpedo and sank the former Austrian but by then since a few hours Croatian/Slovenian/Bosnian battleship SMS ''Viribus Unitis''. [http://www.geocities.com/tegetthoff66/viribus.html website]<br /> <br /> ==Page 530==<br /> <br /> '''exfiltrate'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Macchè'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Ehi, stugazz', categoria'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''mezzogiornismo'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 531==<br /> <br /> '''Bruges'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An exceptionally beautiful Belgian town of canals which is thus one of several towns known as the 'Venice of the north'.<br /> <br /> '''Raoul's Atelier de la Vitesse'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> French: Ralph's Speed Shop.<br /> <br /> '''Ghent'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Daimler six-cylinder'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''a hundred horsepower'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''guaglion'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Umeki Tsurigane'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Professor Knott'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 532==<br /> <br /> '''drover's sombrero'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''furoshiki'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''taupe'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''boilermakers and their helpers'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Comptes rendus'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 533==<br /> <br /> '''aniline teal'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Heavisiders'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Grassmanniacs'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''in the mood for a clambake'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Anachronistic Broadway show tune?<br /> <br /> '''Monopole de la Maison'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Idiom Neutral'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An invented language, like Esperanto. Idiom Neutral dictionaries first appeard in 1902. It looks like a simplified Latinate language and it grew out of Volapuk, another &quot;auxiliary language.&quot; It was abandoned by the ''Akademi Internasional de Lingu Universal'' in 1908.<br /> <br /> For a list of all the invented languages that linguists are keeping track of, including Klingon, try [http://linguistlist.org/forms/langs/GetListOfConstructedLgs.html Eastern Michigan's Linguist List]. And don't forget to click on the link to &quot;Browse sites devoted to constructed languages.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''phatic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Basically, small talk or chatter. Words used to convey fellow-feeling rather than to impart information.<br /> <br /> '''''Kampf ums Dasein'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German: struggle for existence.<br /> <br /> '''Q-brother'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;My fellow Quaternion&quot;?<br /> <br /> ==Page 534==<br /> <br /> '''Poiret gown'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''green and long'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pickle, or... what?<br /> <br /> ==Page 535==<br /> <br /> '''no-name wine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 1970s idiom for common European practice?<br /> <br /> '''Hamilton... first love'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 536==<br /> <br /> '''Kursaal'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Curls'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Laplacians'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''scream'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Scream motif.<br /> <br /> '''beginning to appal'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''baize'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 537==<br /> <br /> '''broken symmetries'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''sphinxe Khnopffienne'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Pléiade Lafrisée'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Conseilleuse'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Female consultant?<br /> <br /> ==Page 538==<br /> <br /> '''retroversion matrix'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Ma foi'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''ten thousand francs'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''piker'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Someone cheap or cautious, possibly named after people from PIke County, Missouri, who came to California in the 1800s, looking for work. They were poor, hence cheap. <br /> <br /> ''''Mad Dog''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Hegel... puns'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 539==<br /> <br /> '''vector quotient'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''Triangle Asana''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A basic yoga pose. <br /> <br /> [http://yoga.org.nz/postures/yoga_positions_images_page.htm Here are images of several basic poses.]<br /> <br /> ''''Quadrantal Versor Asana''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A triangle pose taken that extra dimension.<br /> <br /> '''''&quot;Uwe moer!&quot;'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''noncommutative'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''reticule'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Vacheron &amp; Constantin watch'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''hunting-case'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 540==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;haar rekening, ja?&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The bill, yes? (Dutch)?<br /> <br /> ''Her'' bill, yes? (She has skipped on it.) Dutch/Flemish. [[User:Volver|Volver]] 15:43, 2 January 2007 (PST)<br /> <br /> Given the presence of Chris 'Kit' Traverse here, this very much suggests a reference to Christopher 'Kit' Marlowe, Elizabethan poet, playwright and contemporary of Shakespeare. Marlowe was stabbed to death in 1593, in murky circumstances, ostensibly over a bill or 'recokning', though he was widely believed to have been involved in some form of espionage.<br /> <br /> '''Piet Woevre'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pete Weaver?<br /> <br /> '''made him reach'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Cf Ezra Pound?)<br /> <br /> '''not unambiguous'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Ie, ambiguous.<br /> <br /> '''''rastaquoueres'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 8???<br /> <br /> '''de Decker'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> In Dutch/Flemish, the name means &quot;roofer.&quot; (''De'' in these names almost never means &quot;of, from&quot; as in French; it's nearly always the definite article.)<br /> <br /> ==Page 541==<br /> <br /> '''''bobbejaan'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''MKIV/ODC... Mark Four'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''your remit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''gatkruiper'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Dutch/Flemish: brownnose, ass-kisser.<br /> <br /> '''one on her wrist'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''over the day'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Title motif?<br /> <br /> ==Page 542==<br /> <br /> '''trans-horizontic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Edmund Whittaker'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''foaming louche'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''cheval-glass'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''as if someone'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Sound-cancelling vs opacity-cancelling?<br /> <br /> ==Page 543==<br /> <br /> '''monitory'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''He Who Must Come'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''General Boulanger'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Boulanger Georges Boulanger], French War Minister urging an attack on Germany<br /> <br /> '''''&quot;Zeker&quot;'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Dutch, &quot;certainly&quot;<br /> <br /> '''''dead cert'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Dead certainty, sure thing.<br /> <br /> '''Von Schlieffen'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Alfred von Schlieffen was the author of a German war plan to win a two-front war against both France and Russia by quickly defeating France before Russina troops could be mobilized. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlieffen_Plan Schlieffen Plan] included an attack on France through Belgium, disregarding its neutrality.<br /> <br /> '''Wilhelm has offered'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''lowlands'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Title of Pynchon's first published story. Here, ass?<br /> <br /> ==Page 544==<br /> <br /> '''Place d'Armes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''peau de soie'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Krafft-Ebing'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, Austro-German psychiatrist and author of ''Psychopathia Sexualis'' (1886), a pioneering study of deviant sexual behavior and fetishism. Coined both ''sadism'' and ''masochism'' as terms for these respective behaviors. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Freiherr_von_Krafft-Ebing Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''toque'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A chef's hat<br /> <br /> '''guipure'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''midinette'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''sous'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''mayonnaise'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> One of Brautigan's books famously ends with the word mayonnaise.<br /> <br /> '''ovoöleaginous'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Another Pynchonic word combination, here denoting the two main ingredients of mayonnaise: 1) eggs, and 2) oil. It's not &quot;fecoventilatory collision&quot; as seen in &quot;Vineland,&quot; but it's nice.<br /> <br /> '''Grenache'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Chantilly'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''attainder'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''''Aux armes, citoyens''''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Not &quot;Le Marseillaise,&quot; you nitwit!<br /> <br /> '''Louis XV'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Cléo de Mérode'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''marquise de Pompadour'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 545==<br /> <br /> '''dubious 'victory' in 1756'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''cantharides'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Spanish fly,&quot; contact irritant sometimes ill-advisedly used as aphrodisiac.<br /> <br /> '''Sadean'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pertaining to the Marquis de Sade. The acts the chef performs on the egg and oil have the same names as acts of Sadean sex. <br /> <br /> '''vetiver'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''pip'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Q.P. system'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Quaternion Probability, p?.<br /> <br /> '''Usine Régionale'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> French: as translated in the text.<br /> <br /> ==Page 546==<br /> <br /> '''lounge suit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''congress shoes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''dripping-heads'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''cuves d'agitation'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Clinique d'Urgence pour Sauvetage des Sauces'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 547==<br /> <br /> '''''Cazzo, cretino'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Literally, &quot;Dick, cretin.&quot; ''Cazzo'' is a common Italian interjectionary obscenity, especially in the south. &quot;Cazzo, cretino,&quot; is akin to someone saying, &quot;Well shit, dummy,&quot; or &quot;F-ing moron!&quot;<br /> <br /> '''''bambole'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Oudenberg'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Quai de l'Entrepôt'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 548==<br /> <br /> '''''timbres fictifs'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf &quot;Lot 49&quot;.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;IIIb&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''revanchist'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 549==<br /> <br /> '''cackled Darby'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (When did he lose his innocence?)<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Why you little–and I do mean 'little'–&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Another Simpsons reference? <br /> <br /> '''dunes between Nieuport and Dunkirk'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''power-receivers'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Not information, energy.<br /> <br /> ==Page 550==<br /> <br /> '''Italian grotto'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Carpathians'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Uhlans'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Temesvár'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 551==<br /> <br /> '''Ryder Thorn'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Tolkienesque name?<br /> <br /> '''He was at Candlebrow.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Was he?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 552==<br /> <br /> '''knuckle-duster'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Brass knuckles.<br /> <br /> '''Diksmuide'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 553==<br /> <br /> '''retted'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 554==<br /> <br /> '''Ypres and Menin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Municipalities in West Flanders that were sites of some of the bloodiest battles of WWI.<br /> <br /> '''Ten years from now'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (1914?)<br /> <br /> '''Bosch'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Hieronymous Bosch (1450-1516), Dutch painter of nightmares. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieronymus_Bosch Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''Brueghel'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pieter Brueghel the Elder(1525-1569), Flemish painter.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Brueghel_the_Elder Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''League'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> League of Nations?<br /> <br /> ==Page 555==<br /> <br /> '''simpletons at the fair'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Making Pynchon's metaphor explicit.<br /> <br /> '''Chopin E-minor Nocturne'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''owl-light'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''plasmic hysteresis''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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<p>Jackrmann: /* Page 554 */</p> <hr /> <div>:'''&lt;big&gt;Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.&lt;/big&gt;'''&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Page 525==<br /> <br /> '''Boulevard van Isenghem'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''street-plausible'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Quai de l'empereur'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''estaminet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''twelve-centime'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Kellner'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German: waiter, barman. Use of the German word would be insulting to the Belgian barman.<br /> <br /> '''''demi'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Lambic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pron. ''lahm-BEEK.'' Unique Belgian beer style, sour and often thin in body.<br /> <br /> '''skimmer'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 526==<br /> <br /> '''universal sign'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Monopoly game card.<br /> <br /> '''biquaternion'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Barry Nebulay'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pun on a term from heraldry, ''barry nebuly.'' Barry (pron. ''BAR-ree,'' not like the name) refers to a shield divided into an even number of parts by horizontal lines. Nebuly signals that the lines are deformed into stylized &quot;cloud&quot; shapes. [http://www.rarebooks.nd.edu/digital/heraldry/partitions.html Here you can see an example.] If a British author had a character with a heraldic name, it would suggest a pseudonym.<br /> <br /> '''University of Dublin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> If University College, Dublin, then Joyce had graduated in 1902.<br /> <br /> '''Tasmania'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Hamiltonian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Grand Hôtel de la Nouvelle Digue'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Belgian Art Nouveau'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 527==<br /> <br /> '''dossing'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> British slang for &quot;sleeping&quot;, &quot;staying overnight&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Russian nihilists'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Eugénie, Fatou'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Females.<br /> <br /> '''Denis, and Policarpe'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Males.<br /> <br /> '''Young Congo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Probably in reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Turks Young Turks], a Turkish revolutionary movement<br /> <br /> '''Garde Civique'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A part of the Belgian army. According to the [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Belgium 1911 Britannica], &quot;the mass of the garde civique does not pretend to possess military value. It is a defence against sedition and socialism.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''''phalange'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''the Digue'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> French for &quot;dyke&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Congo... Belgians'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Belgian colonisation of the Congo was, as Conrad's &quot;Heart of Darkness&quot; makes clear, notable for its greed and brutality.<br /> <br /> '''co-conscious'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Force Publique'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Belgian armed forces operating in the Belgian Congo ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_Publique Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> '''rubber worker'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See above: One of the early missions of the FP was to increase rubber export quotas through forced labor and related atrocities.<br /> <br /> ==Page 528==<br /> <br /> '''''khâgne'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Reclus'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Stirnerite'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Follower of Max Stirner, 19th century German philosopher and author of ''The Ego and Its Own,'' a work influential in anarchist thought. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Stirner Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''''Anarcho-individualiste'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Leopold'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''going down lately'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Sipido'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Prince... of Wales'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Maud Gonne's husband claimed to have been involved in another such plot.)<br /> <br /> '''Royal Bathing Hut... twenty francs'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''twenty francs'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 529==<br /> <br /> ''''picric''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Brugère's powder'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Designolle's'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Monsieur Santos-Dumont'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Green Hour''' and '''''l'heure vertigineuse'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Absinthe-drinking time. The liqueur is green. In French, ''l'heure verte,'' so ''vertigineuse'' (vertiginous, causing dizziness) is a pun on the word for &quot;green.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Rocco and Pino'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Whitehead works in Fiume'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Anticipating GR's V2 works.<br /> <br /> '''''Alberta'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Siluro Dirigible a Lenta Corsa'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> or S.L.C. &quot;slow course torpedo&quot;, &quot;slow-running torpedo&quot;. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manned_torpedo Wikipedia] Italy‘s Navy was among the first to experiment with manned torpedos. Though according to [http://web.ukonline.co.uk/chalcraft/sm/chariots.html this site] this did not happen until 1935, Italian frogmen as early as October 31, 1918 made it into the harbour of Pula with the help of a modified german torpedo and sank the former Austrian but by then since a few hours Croatian/Slovenian/Bosnian battleship SMS ''Viribus Unitis''. [http://www.geocities.com/tegetthoff66/viribus.html website]<br /> <br /> ==Page 530==<br /> <br /> '''exfiltrate'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Macchè'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Ehi, stugazz', categoria'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''mezzogiornismo'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 531==<br /> <br /> '''Bruges'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An exceptionally beautiful Belgian town of canals which is thus one of several towns known as the 'Venice of the north'.<br /> <br /> '''Raoul's Atelier de la Vitesse'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> French: Ralph's Speed Shop.<br /> <br /> '''Ghent'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Daimler six-cylinder'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''a hundred horsepower'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''guaglion'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Umeki Tsurigane'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Professor Knott'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 532==<br /> <br /> '''drover's sombrero'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''furoshiki'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''taupe'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''boilermakers and their helpers'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Comptes rendus'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 533==<br /> <br /> '''aniline teal'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Heavisiders'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Grassmanniacs'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''in the mood for a clambake'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Anachronistic Broadway show tune?<br /> <br /> '''Monopole de la Maison'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Idiom Neutral'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An invented language, like Esperanto. Idiom Neutral dictionaries first appeard in 1902. It looks like a simplified Latinate language and it grew out of Volapuk, another &quot;auxiliary language.&quot; It was abandoned by the ''Akademi Internasional de Lingu Universal'' in 1908.<br /> <br /> For a list of all the invented languages that linguists are keeping track of, including Klingon, try [http://linguistlist.org/forms/langs/GetListOfConstructedLgs.html Eastern Michigan's Linguist List]. And don't forget to click on the link to &quot;Browse sites devoted to constructed languages.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''phatic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Basically, small talk or chatter. Words used to convey fellow-feeling rather than to impart information.<br /> <br /> '''''Kampf ums Dasein'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German: struggle for existence.<br /> <br /> '''Q-brother'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;My fellow Quaternion&quot;?<br /> <br /> ==Page 534==<br /> <br /> '''Poiret gown'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''green and long'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pickle, or... what?<br /> <br /> ==Page 535==<br /> <br /> '''no-name wine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 1970s idiom for common European practice?<br /> <br /> '''Hamilton... first love'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 536==<br /> <br /> '''Kursaal'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Curls'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Laplacians'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''scream'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Scream motif.<br /> <br /> '''beginning to appal'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''baize'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 537==<br /> <br /> '''broken symmetries'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''sphinxe Khnopffienne'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Pléiade Lafrisée'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Conseilleuse'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Female consultant?<br /> <br /> ==Page 538==<br /> <br /> '''retroversion matrix'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Ma foi'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''ten thousand francs'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''piker'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Someone cheap or cautious, possibly named after people from PIke County, Missouri, who came to California in the 1800s, looking for work. They were poor, hence cheap. <br /> <br /> ''''Mad Dog''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Hegel... puns'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 539==<br /> <br /> '''vector quotient'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''Triangle Asana''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A basic yoga pose. <br /> <br /> [http://yoga.org.nz/postures/yoga_positions_images_page.htm Here are images of several basic poses.]<br /> <br /> ''''Quadrantal Versor Asana''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A triangle pose taken that extra dimension.<br /> <br /> '''''&quot;Uwe moer!&quot;'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''noncommutative'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''reticule'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Vacheron &amp; Constantin watch'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''hunting-case'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 540==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;haar rekening, ja?&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The bill, yes? (Dutch)?<br /> <br /> ''Her'' bill, yes? (She has skipped on it.) Dutch/Flemish. [[User:Volver|Volver]] 15:43, 2 January 2007 (PST)<br /> <br /> Given the presence of Chris 'Kit' Traverse here, this very much suggests a reference to Christopher 'Kit' Marlowe, Elizabethan poet, playwright and contemporary of Shakespeare. Marlowe was stabbed to death in 1593, in murky circumstances, ostensibly over a bill or 'recokning', though he was widely believed to have been involved in some form of espionage.<br /> <br /> '''Piet Woevre'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pete Weaver?<br /> <br /> '''made him reach'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Cf Ezra Pound?)<br /> <br /> '''not unambiguous'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Ie, ambiguous.<br /> <br /> '''''rastaquoueres'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 8???<br /> <br /> '''de Decker'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> In Dutch/Flemish, the name means &quot;roofer.&quot; (''De'' in these names almost never means &quot;of, from&quot; as in French; it's nearly always the definite article.)<br /> <br /> ==Page 541==<br /> <br /> '''''bobbejaan'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''MKIV/ODC... Mark Four'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''your remit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''gatkruiper'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Dutch/Flemish: brownnose, ass-kisser.<br /> <br /> '''one on her wrist'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''over the day'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Title motif?<br /> <br /> ==Page 542==<br /> <br /> '''trans-horizontic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Edmund Whittaker'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''foaming louche'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''cheval-glass'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''as if someone'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Sound-cancelling vs opacity-cancelling?<br /> <br /> ==Page 543==<br /> <br /> '''monitory'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''He Who Must Come'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''General Boulanger'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Boulanger Georges Boulanger], French War Minister urging an attack on Germany<br /> <br /> '''''&quot;Zeker&quot;'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Dutch, &quot;certainly&quot;<br /> <br /> '''''dead cert'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Dead certainty, sure thing.<br /> <br /> '''Von Schlieffen'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Alfred von Schlieffen was the author of a German war plan to win a two-front war against both France and Russia by quickly defeating France before Russina troops could be mobilized. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlieffen_Plan Schlieffen Plan] included an attack on France through Belgium, disregarding its neutrality.<br /> <br /> '''Wilhelm has offered'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''lowlands'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Title of Pynchon's first published story. Here, ass?<br /> <br /> ==Page 544==<br /> <br /> '''Place d'Armes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''peau de soie'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Krafft-Ebing'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, Austro-German psychiatrist and author of ''Psychopathia Sexualis'' (1886), a pioneering study of deviant sexual behavior and fetishism. Coined both ''sadism'' and ''masochism'' as terms for these respective behaviors. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Freiherr_von_Krafft-Ebing Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''toque'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A chef's hat<br /> <br /> '''guipure'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''midinette'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''sous'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''mayonnaise'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> One of Brautigan's books famously ends with the word mayonnaise.<br /> <br /> '''ovoöleaginous'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Another Pynchonic word combination, here denoting the two main ingredients of mayonnaise: 1) eggs, and 2) oil. It's not &quot;fecoventilatory collision&quot; as seen in &quot;Vineland,&quot; but it's nice.<br /> <br /> '''Grenache'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Chantilly'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''attainder'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''''Aux armes, citoyens''''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Not &quot;Le Marseillaise,&quot; you nitwit!<br /> <br /> '''Louis XV'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Cléo de Mérode'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''marquise de Pompadour'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 545==<br /> <br /> '''dubious 'victory' in 1756'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''cantharides'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Spanish fly,&quot; contact irritant sometimes ill-advisedly used as aphrodisiac.<br /> <br /> '''Sadean'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pertaining to the Marquis de Sade. The acts the chef performs on the egg and oil have the same names as acts of Sadean sex. <br /> <br /> '''vetiver'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''pip'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Q.P. system'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Quaternion Probability, p?.<br /> <br /> '''Usine Régionale'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> French: as translated in the text.<br /> <br /> ==Page 546==<br /> <br /> '''lounge suit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''congress shoes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''dripping-heads'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''cuves d'agitation'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Clinique d'Urgence pour Sauvetage des Sauces'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 547==<br /> <br /> '''''Cazzo, cretino'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Literally, &quot;Dick, cretin.&quot; ''Cazzo'' is a common Italian interjectionary obscenity, especially in the south. &quot;Cazzo, cretino,&quot; is akin to someone saying, &quot;Well shit, dummy,&quot; or &quot;F-ing moron!&quot;<br /> <br /> '''''bambole'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Oudenberg'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Quai de l'Entrepôt'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 548==<br /> <br /> '''''timbres fictifs'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf &quot;Lot 49&quot;.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;IIIb&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''revanchist'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 549==<br /> <br /> '''cackled Darby'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (When did he lose his innocence?)<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Why you little–and I do mean 'little'–&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Another Simpsons reference? <br /> <br /> '''dunes between Nieuport and Dunkirk'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''power-receivers'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Not information, energy.<br /> <br /> ==Page 550==<br /> <br /> '''Italian grotto'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Carpathians'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Uhlans'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Temesvár'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 551==<br /> <br /> '''Ryder Thorn'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Tolkienesque name?<br /> <br /> '''He was at Candlebrow.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Was he?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 552==<br /> <br /> '''knuckle-duster'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Brass knuckles.<br /> <br /> '''Diksmuide'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 553==<br /> <br /> '''retted'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 554==<br /> <br /> '''Ypres and Menin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Municipalities in West Flanders that were sites of some of the bloodiest battles of WWI.<br /> <br /> '''Ten years from now'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (1914?)<br /> <br /> '''Bosch'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Heironymous Bosch (1450-1516), Dutch painter of nightmares. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieronymus_Bosch Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''Brueghel'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pieter Brueghel the Elder(1525-1569), Flemish painter.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Brueghel_the_Elder Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''League'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> League of Nations?<br /> <br /> ==Page 555==<br /> <br /> '''simpletons at the fair'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Making Pynchon's metaphor explicit.<br /> <br /> '''Chopin E-minor Nocturne'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''owl-light'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''plasmic hysteresis''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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<p>Jackrmann: /* Page 544 */</p> <hr /> <div>:'''&lt;big&gt;Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.&lt;/big&gt;'''&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Page 525==<br /> <br /> '''Boulevard van Isenghem'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''street-plausible'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Quai de l'empereur'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''estaminet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''twelve-centime'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Kellner'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German: waiter, barman. Use of the German word would be insulting to the Belgian barman.<br /> <br /> '''''demi'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Lambic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pron. ''lahm-BEEK.'' Unique Belgian beer style, sour and often thin in body.<br /> <br /> '''skimmer'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 526==<br /> <br /> '''universal sign'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Monopoly game card.<br /> <br /> '''biquaternion'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Barry Nebulay'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pun on a term from heraldry, ''barry nebuly.'' Barry (pron. ''BAR-ree,'' not like the name) refers to a shield divided into an even number of parts by horizontal lines. Nebuly signals that the lines are deformed into stylized &quot;cloud&quot; shapes. [http://www.rarebooks.nd.edu/digital/heraldry/partitions.html Here you can see an example.] If a British author had a character with a heraldic name, it would suggest a pseudonym.<br /> <br /> '''University of Dublin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> If University College, Dublin, then Joyce had graduated in 1902.<br /> <br /> '''Tasmania'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Hamiltonian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Grand Hôtel de la Nouvelle Digue'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Belgian Art Nouveau'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 527==<br /> <br /> '''dossing'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> British slang for &quot;sleeping&quot;, &quot;staying overnight&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Russian nihilists'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Eugénie, Fatou'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Females.<br /> <br /> '''Denis, and Policarpe'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Males.<br /> <br /> '''Young Congo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Probably in reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Turks Young Turks], a Turkish revolutionary movement<br /> <br /> '''Garde Civique'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A part of the Belgian army. According to the [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Belgium 1911 Britannica], &quot;the mass of the garde civique does not pretend to possess military value. It is a defence against sedition and socialism.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''''phalange'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''the Digue'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> French for &quot;dyke&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Congo... Belgians'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Belgian colonisation of the Congo was, as Conrad's &quot;Heart of Darkness&quot; makes clear, notable for its greed and brutality.<br /> <br /> '''co-conscious'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Force Publique'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Belgian armed forces operating in the Belgian Congo ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_Publique Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> '''rubber worker'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See above: One of the early missions of the FP was to increase rubber export quotas through forced labor and related atrocities.<br /> <br /> ==Page 528==<br /> <br /> '''''khâgne'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Reclus'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Stirnerite'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Follower of Max Stirner, 19th century German philosopher and author of ''The Ego and Its Own,'' a work influential in anarchist thought. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Stirner Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''''Anarcho-individualiste'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Leopold'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''going down lately'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Sipido'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Prince... of Wales'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Maud Gonne's husband claimed to have been involved in another such plot.)<br /> <br /> '''Royal Bathing Hut... twenty francs'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''twenty francs'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 529==<br /> <br /> ''''picric''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Brugère's powder'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Designolle's'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Monsieur Santos-Dumont'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Green Hour''' and '''''l'heure vertigineuse'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Absinthe-drinking time. The liqueur is green. In French, ''l'heure verte,'' so ''vertigineuse'' (vertiginous, causing dizziness) is a pun on the word for &quot;green.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Rocco and Pino'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Whitehead works in Fiume'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Anticipating GR's V2 works.<br /> <br /> '''''Alberta'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Siluro Dirigible a Lenta Corsa'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> or S.L.C. &quot;slow course torpedo&quot;, &quot;slow-running torpedo&quot;. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manned_torpedo Wikipedia] Italy‘s Navy was among the first to experiment with manned torpedos. Though according to [http://web.ukonline.co.uk/chalcraft/sm/chariots.html this site] this did not happen until 1935, Italian frogmen as early as October 31, 1918 made it into the harbour of Pula with the help of a modified german torpedo and sank the former Austrian but by then since a few hours Croatian/Slovenian/Bosnian battleship SMS ''Viribus Unitis''. [http://www.geocities.com/tegetthoff66/viribus.html website]<br /> <br /> ==Page 530==<br /> <br /> '''exfiltrate'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Macchè'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Ehi, stugazz', categoria'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''mezzogiornismo'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 531==<br /> <br /> '''Bruges'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An exceptionally beautiful Belgian town of canals which is thus one of several towns known as the 'Venice of the north'.<br /> <br /> '''Raoul's Atelier de la Vitesse'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> French: Ralph's Speed Shop.<br /> <br /> '''Ghent'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Daimler six-cylinder'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''a hundred horsepower'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''guaglion'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Umeki Tsurigane'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Professor Knott'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 532==<br /> <br /> '''drover's sombrero'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''furoshiki'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''taupe'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''boilermakers and their helpers'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Comptes rendus'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 533==<br /> <br /> '''aniline teal'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Heavisiders'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Grassmanniacs'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''in the mood for a clambake'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Anachronistic Broadway show tune?<br /> <br /> '''Monopole de la Maison'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Idiom Neutral'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An invented language, like Esperanto. Idiom Neutral dictionaries first appeard in 1902. It looks like a simplified Latinate language and it grew out of Volapuk, another &quot;auxiliary language.&quot; It was abandoned by the ''Akademi Internasional de Lingu Universal'' in 1908.<br /> <br /> For a list of all the invented languages that linguists are keeping track of, including Klingon, try [http://linguistlist.org/forms/langs/GetListOfConstructedLgs.html Eastern Michigan's Linguist List]. And don't forget to click on the link to &quot;Browse sites devoted to constructed languages.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''phatic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Basically, small talk or chatter. Words used to convey fellow-feeling rather than to impart information.<br /> <br /> '''''Kampf ums Dasein'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German: struggle for existence.<br /> <br /> '''Q-brother'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;My fellow Quaternion&quot;?<br /> <br /> ==Page 534==<br /> <br /> '''Poiret gown'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''green and long'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pickle, or... what?<br /> <br /> ==Page 535==<br /> <br /> '''no-name wine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 1970s idiom for common European practice?<br /> <br /> '''Hamilton... first love'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 536==<br /> <br /> '''Kursaal'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Curls'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Laplacians'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''scream'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Scream motif.<br /> <br /> '''beginning to appal'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''baize'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 537==<br /> <br /> '''broken symmetries'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''sphinxe Khnopffienne'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Pléiade Lafrisée'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Conseilleuse'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Female consultant?<br /> <br /> ==Page 538==<br /> <br /> '''retroversion matrix'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Ma foi'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''ten thousand francs'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''piker'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Someone cheap or cautious, possibly named after people from PIke County, Missouri, who came to California in the 1800s, looking for work. They were poor, hence cheap. <br /> <br /> ''''Mad Dog''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Hegel... puns'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 539==<br /> <br /> '''vector quotient'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''Triangle Asana''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A basic yoga pose. <br /> <br /> [http://yoga.org.nz/postures/yoga_positions_images_page.htm Here are images of several basic poses.]<br /> <br /> ''''Quadrantal Versor Asana''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A triangle pose taken that extra dimension.<br /> <br /> '''''&quot;Uwe moer!&quot;'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''noncommutative'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''reticule'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Vacheron &amp; Constantin watch'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''hunting-case'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 540==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;haar rekening, ja?&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The bill, yes? (Dutch)?<br /> <br /> ''Her'' bill, yes? (She has skipped on it.) Dutch/Flemish. [[User:Volver|Volver]] 15:43, 2 January 2007 (PST)<br /> <br /> Given the presence of Chris 'Kit' Traverse here, this very much suggests a reference to Christopher 'Kit' Marlowe, Elizabethan poet, playwright and contemporary of Shakespeare. Marlowe was stabbed to death in 1593, in murky circumstances, ostensibly over a bill or 'recokning', though he was widely believed to have been involved in some form of espionage.<br /> <br /> '''Piet Woevre'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pete Weaver?<br /> <br /> '''made him reach'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Cf Ezra Pound?)<br /> <br /> '''not unambiguous'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Ie, ambiguous.<br /> <br /> '''''rastaquoueres'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 8???<br /> <br /> '''de Decker'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> In Dutch/Flemish, the name means &quot;roofer.&quot; (''De'' in these names almost never means &quot;of, from&quot; as in French; it's nearly always the definite article.)<br /> <br /> ==Page 541==<br /> <br /> '''''bobbejaan'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''MKIV/ODC... Mark Four'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''your remit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''gatkruiper'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Dutch/Flemish: brownnose, ass-kisser.<br /> <br /> '''one on her wrist'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''over the day'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Title motif?<br /> <br /> ==Page 542==<br /> <br /> '''trans-horizontic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Edmund Whittaker'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''foaming louche'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''cheval-glass'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''as if someone'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Sound-cancelling vs opacity-cancelling?<br /> <br /> ==Page 543==<br /> <br /> '''monitory'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''He Who Must Come'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''General Boulanger'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Boulanger Georges Boulanger], French War Minister urging an attack on Germany<br /> <br /> '''''&quot;Zeker&quot;'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Dutch, &quot;certainly&quot;<br /> <br /> '''''dead cert'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Dead certainty, sure thing.<br /> <br /> '''Von Schlieffen'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Alfred von Schlieffen was the author of a German war plan to win a two-front war against both France and Russia by quickly defeating France before Russina troops could be mobilized. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlieffen_Plan Schlieffen Plan] included an attack on France through Belgium, disregarding its neutrality.<br /> <br /> '''Wilhelm has offered'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''lowlands'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Title of Pynchon's first published story. Here, ass?<br /> <br /> ==Page 544==<br /> <br /> '''Place d'Armes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''peau de soie'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Krafft-Ebing'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, Austro-German psychiatrist and author of ''Psychopathia Sexualis'' (1886), a pioneering study of deviant sexual behavior and fetishism. Coined both ''sadism'' and ''masochism'' as terms for these respective behaviors. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Freiherr_von_Krafft-Ebing Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''toque'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A chef's hat<br /> <br /> '''guipure'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''midinette'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''sous'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''mayonnaise'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> One of Brautigan's books famously ends with the word mayonnaise.<br /> <br /> '''ovoöleaginous'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Another Pynchonic word combination, here denoting the two main ingredients of mayonnaise: 1) eggs, and 2) oil. It's not &quot;fecoventilatory collision&quot; as seen in &quot;Vineland,&quot; but it's nice.<br /> <br /> '''Grenache'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Chantilly'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''attainder'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''''Aux armes, citoyens''''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Not &quot;Le Marseillaise,&quot; you nitwit!<br /> <br /> '''Louis XV'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Cléo de Mérode'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''marquise de Pompadour'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 545==<br /> <br /> '''dubious 'victory' in 1756'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''cantharides'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Spanish fly,&quot; contact irritant sometimes ill-advisedly used as aphrodisiac.<br /> <br /> '''Sadean'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pertaining to the Marquis de Sade. The acts the chef performs on the egg and oil have the same names as acts of Sadean sex. <br /> <br /> '''vetiver'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''pip'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Q.P. system'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Quaternion Probability, p?.<br /> <br /> '''Usine Régionale'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> French: as translated in the text.<br /> <br /> ==Page 546==<br /> <br /> '''lounge suit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''congress shoes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''dripping-heads'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''cuves d'agitation'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Clinique d'Urgence pour Sauvetage des Sauces'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 547==<br /> <br /> '''''Cazzo, cretino'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Literally, &quot;Dick, cretin.&quot; ''Cazzo'' is a common Italian interjectionary obscenity, especially in the south. &quot;Cazzo, cretino,&quot; is akin to someone saying, &quot;Well shit, dummy,&quot; or &quot;F-ing moron!&quot;<br /> <br /> '''''bambole'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Oudenberg'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Quai de l'Entrepôt'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 548==<br /> <br /> '''''timbres fictifs'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf &quot;Lot 49&quot;.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;IIIb&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''revanchist'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 549==<br /> <br /> '''cackled Darby'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (When did he lose his innocence?)<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Why you little–and I do mean 'little'–&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Another Simpsons reference? <br /> <br /> '''dunes between Nieuport and Dunkirk'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''power-receivers'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Not information, energy.<br /> <br /> ==Page 550==<br /> <br /> '''Italian grotto'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Carpathians'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Uhlans'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Temesvár'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 551==<br /> <br /> '''Ryder Thorn'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Tolkienesque name?<br /> <br /> '''He was at Candlebrow.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Was he?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 552==<br /> <br /> '''knuckle-duster'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Brass knuckles.<br /> <br /> '''Diksmuide'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 553==<br /> <br /> '''retted'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 554==<br /> <br /> '''Ypres and Menin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Ten years from now'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (1914?)<br /> <br /> '''Bosch'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Brueghel'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''League'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 555==<br /> <br /> '''simpletons at the fair'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Making Pynchon's metaphor explicit.<br /> <br /> '''Chopin E-minor Nocturne'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''owl-light'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''plasmic hysteresis''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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<p>Jackrmann: /* Page 528 */</p> <hr /> <div>:'''&lt;big&gt;Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.&lt;/big&gt;'''&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Page 525==<br /> <br /> '''Boulevard van Isenghem'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''street-plausible'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Quai de l'empereur'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''estaminet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''twelve-centime'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Kellner'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German: waiter, barman. Use of the German word would be insulting to the Belgian barman.<br /> <br /> '''''demi'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Lambic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pron. ''lahm-BEEK.'' Unique Belgian beer style, sour and often thin in body.<br /> <br /> '''skimmer'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 526==<br /> <br /> '''universal sign'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Monopoly game card.<br /> <br /> '''biquaternion'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Barry Nebulay'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pun on a term from heraldry, ''barry nebuly.'' Barry (pron. ''BAR-ree,'' not like the name) refers to a shield divided into an even number of parts by horizontal lines. Nebuly signals that the lines are deformed into stylized &quot;cloud&quot; shapes. [http://www.rarebooks.nd.edu/digital/heraldry/partitions.html Here you can see an example.] If a British author had a character with a heraldic name, it would suggest a pseudonym.<br /> <br /> '''University of Dublin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> If University College, Dublin, then Joyce had graduated in 1902.<br /> <br /> '''Tasmania'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Hamiltonian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Grand Hôtel de la Nouvelle Digue'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Belgian Art Nouveau'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 527==<br /> <br /> '''dossing'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> British slang for &quot;sleeping&quot;, &quot;staying overnight&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Russian nihilists'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Eugénie, Fatou'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Females.<br /> <br /> '''Denis, and Policarpe'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Males.<br /> <br /> '''Young Congo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Probably in reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Turks Young Turks], a Turkish revolutionary movement<br /> <br /> '''Garde Civique'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A part of the Belgian army. According to the [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Belgium 1911 Britannica], &quot;the mass of the garde civique does not pretend to possess military value. It is a defence against sedition and socialism.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''''phalange'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''the Digue'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> French for &quot;dyke&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Congo... Belgians'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Belgian colonisation of the Congo was, as Conrad's &quot;Heart of Darkness&quot; makes clear, notable for its greed and brutality.<br /> <br /> '''co-conscious'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Force Publique'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Belgian armed forces operating in the Belgian Congo ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_Publique Wikipedia])<br /> <br /> '''rubber worker'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See above: One of the early missions of the FP was to increase rubber export quotas through forced labor and related atrocities.<br /> <br /> ==Page 528==<br /> <br /> '''''khâgne'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Reclus'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Stirnerite'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Follower of Max Stirner, 19th century German philosopher and author of ''The Ego and Its Own,'' a work influential in anarchist thought. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Stirner Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''''Anarcho-individualiste'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Leopold'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''going down lately'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Sipido'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Prince... of Wales'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Maud Gonne's husband claimed to have been involved in another such plot.)<br /> <br /> '''Royal Bathing Hut... twenty francs'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''twenty francs'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 529==<br /> <br /> ''''picric''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Brugère's powder'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Designolle's'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Monsieur Santos-Dumont'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Green Hour''' and '''''l'heure vertigineuse'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Absinthe-drinking time. The liqueur is green. In French, ''l'heure verte,'' so ''vertigineuse'' (vertiginous, causing dizziness) is a pun on the word for &quot;green.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Rocco and Pino'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Whitehead works in Fiume'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Anticipating GR's V2 works.<br /> <br /> '''''Alberta'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Siluro Dirigible a Lenta Corsa'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> or S.L.C. &quot;slow course torpedo&quot;, &quot;slow-running torpedo&quot;. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manned_torpedo Wikipedia] Italy‘s Navy was among the first to experiment with manned torpedos. Though according to [http://web.ukonline.co.uk/chalcraft/sm/chariots.html this site] this did not happen until 1935, Italian frogmen as early as October 31, 1918 made it into the harbour of Pula with the help of a modified german torpedo and sank the former Austrian but by then since a few hours Croatian/Slovenian/Bosnian battleship SMS ''Viribus Unitis''. [http://www.geocities.com/tegetthoff66/viribus.html website]<br /> <br /> ==Page 530==<br /> <br /> '''exfiltrate'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Macchè'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Ehi, stugazz', categoria'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''mezzogiornismo'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 531==<br /> <br /> '''Bruges'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An exceptionally beautiful Belgian town of canals which is thus one of several towns known as the 'Venice of the north'.<br /> <br /> '''Raoul's Atelier de la Vitesse'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> French: Ralph's Speed Shop.<br /> <br /> '''Ghent'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Daimler six-cylinder'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''a hundred horsepower'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''guaglion'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Umeki Tsurigane'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Professor Knott'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 532==<br /> <br /> '''drover's sombrero'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''furoshiki'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''taupe'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''boilermakers and their helpers'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Comptes rendus'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 533==<br /> <br /> '''aniline teal'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Heavisiders'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Grassmanniacs'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''in the mood for a clambake'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Anachronistic Broadway show tune?<br /> <br /> '''Monopole de la Maison'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Idiom Neutral'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An invented language, like Esperanto. Idiom Neutral dictionaries first appeard in 1902. It looks like a simplified Latinate language and it grew out of Volapuk, another &quot;auxiliary language.&quot; It was abandoned by the ''Akademi Internasional de Lingu Universal'' in 1908.<br /> <br /> For a list of all the invented languages that linguists are keeping track of, including Klingon, try [http://linguistlist.org/forms/langs/GetListOfConstructedLgs.html Eastern Michigan's Linguist List]. And don't forget to click on the link to &quot;Browse sites devoted to constructed languages.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''phatic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Basically, small talk or chatter. Words used to convey fellow-feeling rather than to impart information.<br /> <br /> '''''Kampf ums Dasein'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> German: struggle for existence.<br /> <br /> '''Q-brother'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;My fellow Quaternion&quot;?<br /> <br /> ==Page 534==<br /> <br /> '''Poiret gown'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''green and long'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pickle, or... what?<br /> <br /> ==Page 535==<br /> <br /> '''no-name wine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 1970s idiom for common European practice?<br /> <br /> '''Hamilton... first love'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 536==<br /> <br /> '''Kursaal'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Curls'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Laplacians'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''scream'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Scream motif.<br /> <br /> '''beginning to appal'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''baize'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 537==<br /> <br /> '''broken symmetries'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''sphinxe Khnopffienne'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Pléiade Lafrisée'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Conseilleuse'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Female consultant?<br /> <br /> ==Page 538==<br /> <br /> '''retroversion matrix'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Ma foi'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''ten thousand francs'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''piker'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Someone cheap or cautious, possibly named after people from PIke County, Missouri, who came to California in the 1800s, looking for work. They were poor, hence cheap. <br /> <br /> ''''Mad Dog''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Hegel... puns'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 539==<br /> <br /> '''vector quotient'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''Triangle Asana''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A basic yoga pose. <br /> <br /> [http://yoga.org.nz/postures/yoga_positions_images_page.htm Here are images of several basic poses.]<br /> <br /> ''''Quadrantal Versor Asana''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A triangle pose taken that extra dimension.<br /> <br /> '''''&quot;Uwe moer!&quot;'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''noncommutative'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''reticule'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Vacheron &amp; Constantin watch'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''hunting-case'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 540==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;haar rekening, ja?&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The bill, yes? (Dutch)?<br /> <br /> ''Her'' bill, yes? (She has skipped on it.) Dutch/Flemish. [[User:Volver|Volver]] 15:43, 2 January 2007 (PST)<br /> <br /> Given the presence of Chris 'Kit' Traverse here, this very much suggests a reference to Christopher 'Kit' Marlowe, Elizabethan poet, playwright and contemporary of Shakespeare. Marlowe was stabbed to death in 1593, in murky circumstances, ostensibly over a bill or 'recokning', though he was widely believed to have been involved in some form of espionage.<br /> <br /> '''Piet Woevre'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pete Weaver?<br /> <br /> '''made him reach'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Cf Ezra Pound?)<br /> <br /> '''not unambiguous'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Ie, ambiguous.<br /> <br /> '''''rastaquoueres'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 8???<br /> <br /> '''de Decker'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> In Dutch/Flemish, the name means &quot;roofer.&quot; (''De'' in these names almost never means &quot;of, from&quot; as in French; it's nearly always the definite article.)<br /> <br /> ==Page 541==<br /> <br /> '''''bobbejaan'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''MKIV/ODC... Mark Four'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''your remit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''gatkruiper'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Dutch/Flemish: brownnose, ass-kisser.<br /> <br /> '''one on her wrist'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''over the day'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Title motif?<br /> <br /> ==Page 542==<br /> <br /> '''trans-horizontic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Edmund Whittaker'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''foaming louche'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''cheval-glass'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''as if someone'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Sound-cancelling vs opacity-cancelling?<br /> <br /> ==Page 543==<br /> <br /> '''monitory'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''He Who Must Come'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''General Boulanger'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Boulanger Georges Boulanger], French War Minister urging an attack on Germany<br /> <br /> '''''&quot;Zeker&quot;'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Dutch, &quot;certainly&quot;<br /> <br /> '''''dead cert'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Dead certainty, sure thing.<br /> <br /> '''Von Schlieffen'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Alfred von Schlieffen was the author of a German war plan to win a two-front war against both France and Russia by quickly defeating France before Russina troops could be mobilized. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlieffen_Plan Schlieffen Plan] included an attack on France through Belgium, disregarding its neutrality.<br /> <br /> '''Wilhelm has offered'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''lowlands'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Title of Pynchon's first published story. Here, ass?<br /> <br /> ==Page 544==<br /> <br /> '''Place d'Armes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''peau de soie'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Krafft-Ebing'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''toque'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A chef's hat<br /> <br /> '''guipure'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''midinette'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''sous'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''mayonnaise'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> One of Brautigan's books famously ends with the word mayonnaise.<br /> <br /> '''ovoöleaginous'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Another Pynchonic word combination, here denoting the two main ingredients of mayonnaise: 1) eggs, and 2) oil. It's not &quot;fecoventilatory collision&quot; as seen in &quot;Vineland,&quot; but it's nice.<br /> <br /> '''Grenache'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Chantilly'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''attainder'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''''Aux armes, citoyens''''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Not &quot;Le Marseillaise,&quot; you nitwit!<br /> <br /> '''Louis XV'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Cléo de Mérode'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''marquise de Pompadour'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 545==<br /> <br /> '''dubious 'victory' in 1756'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''cantharides'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Spanish fly,&quot; contact irritant sometimes ill-advisedly used as aphrodisiac.<br /> <br /> '''Sadean'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pertaining to the Marquis de Sade. The acts the chef performs on the egg and oil have the same names as acts of Sadean sex. <br /> <br /> '''vetiver'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''pip'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Q.P. system'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Quaternion Probability, p?.<br /> <br /> '''Usine Régionale'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> French: as translated in the text.<br /> <br /> ==Page 546==<br /> <br /> '''lounge suit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''congress shoes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''dripping-heads'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''cuves d'agitation'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Clinique d'Urgence pour Sauvetage des Sauces'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 547==<br /> <br /> '''''Cazzo, cretino'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Literally, &quot;Dick, cretin.&quot; ''Cazzo'' is a common Italian interjectionary obscenity, especially in the south. &quot;Cazzo, cretino,&quot; is akin to someone saying, &quot;Well shit, dummy,&quot; or &quot;F-ing moron!&quot;<br /> <br /> '''''bambole'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Oudenberg'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Quai de l'Entrepôt'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 548==<br /> <br /> '''''timbres fictifs'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf &quot;Lot 49&quot;.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;IIIb&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''revanchist'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 549==<br /> <br /> '''cackled Darby'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (When did he lose his innocence?)<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Why you little–and I do mean 'little'–&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Another Simpsons reference? <br /> <br /> '''dunes between Nieuport and Dunkirk'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''power-receivers'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Not information, energy.<br /> <br /> ==Page 550==<br /> <br /> '''Italian grotto'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Carpathians'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Uhlans'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Temesvár'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 551==<br /> <br /> '''Ryder Thorn'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Tolkienesque name?<br /> <br /> '''He was at Candlebrow.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Was he?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 552==<br /> <br /> '''knuckle-duster'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Brass knuckles.<br /> <br /> '''Diksmuide'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 553==<br /> <br /> '''retted'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 554==<br /> <br /> '''Ypres and Menin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Ten years from now'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (1914?)<br /> <br /> '''Bosch'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Brueghel'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''League'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 555==<br /> <br /> '''simpletons at the fair'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Making Pynchon's metaphor explicit.<br /> <br /> '''Chopin E-minor Nocturne'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''owl-light'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''plasmic hysteresis''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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<p>Jackrmann: /* Page 470 */</p> <hr /> <div>==Page 460==<br /> <br /> '''so close... rocking'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Fact?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 461==<br /> <br /> '''bust'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Eg 'gone bust'?<br /> <br /> '''day... set to the side'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Title motif.<br /> <br /> '''came by'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Page ref.)<br /> <br /> ==Page 462==<br /> <br /> ''''cute'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The word 'cute' is a shortened form of 'acute'.<br /> <br /> '''Fickle Creek'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''ice-points'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''red whiskey'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Noctambulo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Sleepwalker (Spanish).<br /> <br /> '''insomnia'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Parody of think tanks, etc?<br /> <br /> ==Page 463==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;echoed off the steep mountainside&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;q=%22echoed%20off%20the%20steep%20mountainside%22&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=wp One hit].<br /> <br /> '''for no more'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Solecism?<br /> <br /> '''Silent Gray Fellows'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Indian V-twins'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Motorcycles first produced in 1907 by the Indian Motorcycle Manufacturing Company [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Motorcycles Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''Joe Hill's &quot;Pie in the Sky&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A/k/a &quot;The Preacher and the Slave.&quot; Song written by IWW leader Joe Hill [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hill Wikipedia entry] in 1911 that was an attack on organized religion as a means for keeping the workers down: &quot;You get pie in the sky when you die.&quot; A parody of &quot;In the Sweet Bye and Bye.&quot; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Preacher_and_the_Slave Lyrics here]. Later recorded by Woody Guthrie.<br /> <br /> '''love lines, life lines, girdles of Venus'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lines in the palm figuring in palmistry. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmistry#The_Lines Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''overmapped'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''barbwire'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> AtD usually says 'bobwire'.<br /> <br /> '''Four Corners Gang'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Mentioned above?)<br /> <br /> '''Taos Lightning'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Zoltan'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Werner'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 464==<br /> <br /> '''Excelsior'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Vang Feeley'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''silencer bypass'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''multiple outcomes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Worldline motif.<br /> <br /> '''clock-seconds'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Interesting disambiguation.)<br /> <br /> '''routine as elaborate'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> I'm thinking maybe Ann Margaret in a 50s biker flick?<br /> <br /> ==Page 465==<br /> <br /> '''Ed Chase's town'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See page 176.<br /> <br /> '''Tortoni's'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See page 176.<br /> <br /> '''Bill Jones's'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''honorary Negro'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''ankle-biter'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''breakbeam stiff'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''couple wives'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Divorce, or bigamy?)<br /> <br /> '''Coahuila'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Well.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Not an answer, apparently.<br /> <br /> ==Page 466==<br /> <br /> '''Hammers o' Hell'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Jephthah'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''narrow-gauge'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''traitor to his class'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''mucker work'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''South Slavic knitted caps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Austrian boys'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''vengeful ghosts'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 467==<br /> <br /> '''fifteen years old... Julius'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Indeed born 1890, but didn't tour West until aged 20+. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groucho_Marx Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''Mr. Archer'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Victor'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Colorado mining town near Cripple Creek.<br /> <br /> '''East Ninety-third'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 468==<br /> <br /> '''Cone Amor'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 'Con amor' = 'with love' (Spanish). Ice cream cones were invented in 1904, so this is not quite anachronistic.<br /> <br /> '''me? lady'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Capitalisation typo, or stylistic?<br /> <br /> '''Fruita'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Town on Colorado's Western Slope.<br /> <br /> '''Lois... Poutine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 469==<br /> <br /> '''teeth were gone'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> It's only been a couple of years. She's about 50.<br /> <br /> ==Page 470==<br /> <br /> '''bengalines'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Barbary Coast'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''lettuce opium'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lactucarium, the milky fluid secreted by several species of lettuce, usually from the base of the stems. Lactucarium is known as lettuce opium because of its sedative and analgesic properties, and because it can be reduced to a thick smokeable solid. Long known in the U.S., regained popularity in the 1960's when people were looking for any cheap way to get high.<br /> <br /> ==Page 471==<br /> <br /> '''Hippodrome'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 472==<br /> <br /> '''reoccupation'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Replacing Indians?<br /> <br /> '''criminal palps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 473==<br /> <br /> '''Crystal... Oneida'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Oneida crystal is a type of glassware. [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=oneida+crystal Google search]<br /> <br /> '''sash-weights'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''casementing'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 474==<br /> <br /> '''inside the angle'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Echoes p258.<br /> <br /> ==Page 475==<br /> <br /> '''double-ought'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Deuce had been in Cripple Creek by 1895 (p195). He might have returned, or not been present.<br /> <br /> ==Page 476==<br /> <br /> '''put his head into'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://www.cartoonbank.com/product_details.asp?mscssid=NPEVMXGFPTVD8NHJDW4N28U7R8QD077A&amp;sitetype=1&amp;sid=123465&amp;did=4 pic]<br /> <br /> '''Wall o' Death'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''ellipses'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Not circular?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 477==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;For It Is Thou, Lord&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Eugene Boilster.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Happy Jack La Foam'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''police ticker'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Flor de Coahuila'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''twenty-five'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Would make him 15 in 1895 (p195).<br /> <br /> ==Page 478==<br /> <br /> '''''senorita chinga chinga'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''mas cerveza'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> No 'por favor'!<br /> <br /> '''co-conscious'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (What's Pynchon up to with this word?)<br /> <br /> '''more shit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Because shot through gut.<br /> <br /> '''surprisingly careful latchclick'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Nice!<br /> <br /> ==Page 479==<br /> <br /> '''Tace Boilster'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 480==<br /> <br /> '''Elsie Dinsmore'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Roy Mickie'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Salida'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''blue columbines'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''atole con el dedo'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 481==<br /> <br /> '''caps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pun.<br /> <br /> '''wall of death'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Mayva's not dead!?)<br /> <br /> '''a week or ten days'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Contradicts recent text?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 482==<br /> <br /> '''getting deep'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Wifely surrender is a con?<br /> <br /> ==Page 483==<br /> <br /> '''heeled'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Armed.<br /> <br /> '''Champagne'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pynchon consistently capitalises this.<br /> <br /> ==Page 484==<br /> <br /> '''before the days'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Title motif?<br /> <br /> '''eyeball hydraulics'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Tears, not rolling eyes.<br /> <br /> '''Swede'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See p266.<br /> <br /> '''separate tracks'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Worldline motif.<br /> <br /> ==Page 485==<br /> <br /> '''delivered into his own life'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Born doomed, or early bad karma?)<br /> <br /> '''Furies'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;free&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''no little ones'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Fertility karma.<br /> <br /> '''Sioux... melancholy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Un-cliched?<br /> <br /> '''her belly'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Naked?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 486==<br /> <br /> '''Phoebe Sloper'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''seldom'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (With no kids, why not more free time?)<br /> <br /> '''all he talked about'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf pp196-197.<br /> <br /> ==Page 487==<br /> <br /> ''''Child of the Storm''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf p190.<br /> <br /> '''stove shovel'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> For emptying wood ashes.<br /> <br /> '''Greener shotgun'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''she lit up'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Anxiety, or freedom?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 488==<br /> <br /> '''cahoots'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Marriage as cahoots?<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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<p>Jackrmann: /* Page 468 */</p> <hr /> <div>==Page 460==<br /> <br /> '''so close... rocking'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Fact?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 461==<br /> <br /> '''bust'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Eg 'gone bust'?<br /> <br /> '''day... set to the side'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Title motif.<br /> <br /> '''came by'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Page ref.)<br /> <br /> ==Page 462==<br /> <br /> ''''cute'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The word 'cute' is a shortened form of 'acute'.<br /> <br /> '''Fickle Creek'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''ice-points'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''red whiskey'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Noctambulo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Sleepwalker (Spanish).<br /> <br /> '''insomnia'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Parody of think tanks, etc?<br /> <br /> ==Page 463==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;echoed off the steep mountainside&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;q=%22echoed%20off%20the%20steep%20mountainside%22&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=wp One hit].<br /> <br /> '''for no more'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Solecism?<br /> <br /> '''Silent Gray Fellows'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Indian V-twins'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Motorcycles first produced in 1907 by the Indian Motorcycle Manufacturing Company [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Motorcycles Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''Joe Hill's &quot;Pie in the Sky&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A/k/a &quot;The Preacher and the Slave.&quot; Song written by IWW leader Joe Hill [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hill Wikipedia entry] in 1911 that was an attack on organized religion as a means for keeping the workers down: &quot;You get pie in the sky when you die.&quot; A parody of &quot;In the Sweet Bye and Bye.&quot; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Preacher_and_the_Slave Lyrics here]. Later recorded by Woody Guthrie.<br /> <br /> '''love lines, life lines, girdles of Venus'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lines in the palm figuring in palmistry. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmistry#The_Lines Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''overmapped'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''barbwire'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> AtD usually says 'bobwire'.<br /> <br /> '''Four Corners Gang'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Mentioned above?)<br /> <br /> '''Taos Lightning'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Zoltan'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Werner'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 464==<br /> <br /> '''Excelsior'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Vang Feeley'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''silencer bypass'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''multiple outcomes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Worldline motif.<br /> <br /> '''clock-seconds'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Interesting disambiguation.)<br /> <br /> '''routine as elaborate'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> I'm thinking maybe Ann Margaret in a 50s biker flick?<br /> <br /> ==Page 465==<br /> <br /> '''Ed Chase's town'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See page 176.<br /> <br /> '''Tortoni's'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See page 176.<br /> <br /> '''Bill Jones's'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''honorary Negro'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''ankle-biter'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''breakbeam stiff'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''couple wives'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Divorce, or bigamy?)<br /> <br /> '''Coahuila'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Well.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Not an answer, apparently.<br /> <br /> ==Page 466==<br /> <br /> '''Hammers o' Hell'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Jephthah'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''narrow-gauge'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''traitor to his class'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''mucker work'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''South Slavic knitted caps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Austrian boys'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''vengeful ghosts'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 467==<br /> <br /> '''fifteen years old... Julius'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Indeed born 1890, but didn't tour West until aged 20+. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groucho_Marx Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''Mr. Archer'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Victor'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Colorado mining town near Cripple Creek.<br /> <br /> '''East Ninety-third'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 468==<br /> <br /> '''Cone Amor'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 'Con amor' = 'with love' (Spanish). Ice cream cones were invented in 1904, so this is not quite anachronistic.<br /> <br /> '''me? lady'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Capitalisation typo, or stylistic?<br /> <br /> '''Fruita'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Town on Colorado's Western Slope.<br /> <br /> '''Lois... Poutine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 469==<br /> <br /> '''teeth were gone'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> It's only been a couple of years. She's about 50.<br /> <br /> ==Page 470==<br /> <br /> '''bengalines'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Barbary Coast'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''lettuce opium'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 471==<br /> <br /> '''Hippodrome'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 472==<br /> <br /> '''reoccupation'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Replacing Indians?<br /> <br /> '''criminal palps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 473==<br /> <br /> '''Crystal... Oneida'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Oneida crystal is a type of glassware. [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=oneida+crystal Google search]<br /> <br /> '''sash-weights'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''casementing'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 474==<br /> <br /> '''inside the angle'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Echoes p258.<br /> <br /> ==Page 475==<br /> <br /> '''double-ought'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Deuce had been in Cripple Creek by 1895 (p195). He might have returned, or not been present.<br /> <br /> ==Page 476==<br /> <br /> '''put his head into'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://www.cartoonbank.com/product_details.asp?mscssid=NPEVMXGFPTVD8NHJDW4N28U7R8QD077A&amp;sitetype=1&amp;sid=123465&amp;did=4 pic]<br /> <br /> '''Wall o' Death'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''ellipses'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Not circular?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 477==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;For It Is Thou, Lord&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Eugene Boilster.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Happy Jack La Foam'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''police ticker'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Flor de Coahuila'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''twenty-five'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Would make him 15 in 1895 (p195).<br /> <br /> ==Page 478==<br /> <br /> '''''senorita chinga chinga'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''mas cerveza'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> No 'por favor'!<br /> <br /> '''co-conscious'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (What's Pynchon up to with this word?)<br /> <br /> '''more shit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Because shot through gut.<br /> <br /> '''surprisingly careful latchclick'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Nice!<br /> <br /> ==Page 479==<br /> <br /> '''Tace Boilster'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 480==<br /> <br /> '''Elsie Dinsmore'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Roy Mickie'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Salida'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''blue columbines'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''atole con el dedo'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 481==<br /> <br /> '''caps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pun.<br /> <br /> '''wall of death'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Mayva's not dead!?)<br /> <br /> '''a week or ten days'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Contradicts recent text?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 482==<br /> <br /> '''getting deep'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Wifely surrender is a con?<br /> <br /> ==Page 483==<br /> <br /> '''heeled'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Armed.<br /> <br /> '''Champagne'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pynchon consistently capitalises this.<br /> <br /> ==Page 484==<br /> <br /> '''before the days'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Title motif?<br /> <br /> '''eyeball hydraulics'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Tears, not rolling eyes.<br /> <br /> '''Swede'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See p266.<br /> <br /> '''separate tracks'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Worldline motif.<br /> <br /> ==Page 485==<br /> <br /> '''delivered into his own life'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Born doomed, or early bad karma?)<br /> <br /> '''Furies'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;free&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''no little ones'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Fertility karma.<br /> <br /> '''Sioux... melancholy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Un-cliched?<br /> <br /> '''her belly'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Naked?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 486==<br /> <br /> '''Phoebe Sloper'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''seldom'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (With no kids, why not more free time?)<br /> <br /> '''all he talked about'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf pp196-197.<br /> <br /> ==Page 487==<br /> <br /> ''''Child of the Storm''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf p190.<br /> <br /> '''stove shovel'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> For emptying wood ashes.<br /> <br /> '''Greener shotgun'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''she lit up'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Anxiety, or freedom?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 488==<br /> <br /> '''cahoots'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Marriage as cahoots?<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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<p>Jackrmann: /* Page 444 */</p> <hr /> <div>==Page 431==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Turkish Corner&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Bactrian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Cameling'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 432==<br /> <br /> '''fatal word'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Wife&quot;.<br /> <br /> '''Gamomania'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> A gammomaniac, I guess, means a 'leg man'.<br /> <br /> '''H.M.S.F.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> His Majesty's Subdesertine Frigate (p425).<br /> <br /> '''Balaam's ass'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''reported... Polo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 433==<br /> <br /> '''pan-spectral fields'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Euphrates&quot; poplars'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''aryq'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''B.I.N.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Biometric Institute of Neuropathy (p432).<br /> <br /> '''seventeen-syllable'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 434==<br /> <br /> '''Eta/Nu Transformators'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''pari passu'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 435==<br /> <br /> '''Gurkhas'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''General Forrest'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''archiepiscopal'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Faberge'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Russian jewelers. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Faberg%C3%A9 Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''subarenaceous'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 436==<br /> <br /> '''limen'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''transmundane'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''lamaseries'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Torriform'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Urban terrain'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (But only cities unwisely built on sand.)<br /> <br /> '''Stilton Gaspereaux'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Sven Hedin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Aurel Stein'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''first known maps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 437==<br /> <br /> '''Nernst lamps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''level of encryption'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Cf Heisenberg?)<br /> <br /> '''Mount Kailash'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''polarize... in time'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Manichaeans'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 438==<br /> <br /> '''expanded sense... Maxwell... Hertz'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''Perfects''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Graeco-Buddhist'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Italo-Islamic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 439==<br /> <br /> '''Nuovo Rialto'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''no earlier than'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Where'd they go?)<br /> <br /> '''Passing of the Remarks'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Steeplechase Park'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 440==<br /> <br /> '''screaming'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Screaming motif.<br /> <br /> '''''chong pir'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Uyghur'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''skeleton rig'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Concealed weapon?<br /> <br /> '''andante'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Sandman Saloon'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 441==<br /> <br /> '''Leonard and Lyle'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''teke'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Spindletop'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Groznyi'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''calyx bits'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''adults'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Chums not adults, then?<br /> <br /> '''''assalamu alaykum'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''anticline'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 442==<br /> <br /> '''''equine altitude'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> High horse.<br /> <br /> '''Veneto-Uyghur'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''2 percent... most of them'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Implies at least 150 in crew.<br /> <br /> '''Marco Querini'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Terrenascondite'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Pozzo San Vito'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 443==<br /> <br /> '''peterman option'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Consomme Imperial'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Timbales de Supremes de Volailles'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Gigot Grille a la Sauce Piquante'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''aubergines a la Sauce Mousseline'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Pouilly-Fuisse'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Graves'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 444==<br /> <br /> '''Oasi'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Plural of &quot;oasis.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''cataplexy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Sudden loss of muscle power following a strong emotional stimulus.<br /> <br /> '''Nobel brothers'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Robert and Ludvig Nobel, brothers of Alfred Nobel of dynamite and prize fame, co-founders of Branobel, an important early oil company that controlled a large amount of Russian output. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branobel Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''shaft-alley'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''the balloon is up'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A phrase also used in ''V.''<br /> <br /> '''F.O.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Daily Mail'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> London tabloid.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Sands of Inner Asia&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Taklamakan'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 445==<br /> <br /> '''Kashgar to Urumchi'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''fell into the hand of'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf modern Taliban, etc.<br /> <br /> '''World-Island'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''discreet summons'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Eg &quot;paging Dr Blue&quot;.<br /> <br /> '''far wicket'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''wog'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ''Chiefly British.'' An ethnic slur used for any dark-skinned peoples. Alleged to stand for &quot;Western Oriental Gentleman&quot;, but mainly applied to Indians, Pakistanis, Arabs, and other brown-skinned Asians.<br /> <br /> '''Vic removal'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''eating an explosive'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Lew's Cyclomite.<br /> <br /> ==Page 446==<br /> <br /> '''St Martin le Grand'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Angel Street'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''G.P.O. West'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''pneumatic dispatches'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An extensive 'pneumatic dispatch' system existed on London during the Victorian era, started in 1851 and carrying on at least into the 1930's. By 1886 London had 94 telegram tubes totaling 34 1/2 miles and around 4.5 million telegraph messages were carried in cylinders at around 20mph. At its height the network extended some 57 miles connecting 67 branch offices via a central sorting office. See [http://www.capsu.org/history/telegram_conveyors.html] and <br /> [http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/COMMS/pneumess/pneumess.htm] (with illustrations).<br /> <br /> '''drill suits'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''chars'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''clicks and rests'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Northern Temple of Connexion'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''marblework'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Bloggins'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''allegro vivatchy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 447==<br /> <br /> '''grease-paint'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Wog-colored.<br /> <br /> '''cylinder of gutta-percha'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pneumatic dispatches were carried in cylinders of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutta-percha Gutta-Percha] -- an inelastic latex made from the sap of the Gutta-Percha tree -- covered in felt. See [http://www.capsu.org/history/telegram_conveyors.html]. <br /> <br /> '''its &quot;D&quot; box'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The receiving mechanism on the end of pneumatic dispatch pipe.<br /> <br /> &quot;The somewhat complicated pattern of double sluice valve originally used at the central stations has been superseded by a simpler form, known as the D box, so named Despatching from the shape of its cross section. This box is of and cast iron, and is provided with a close-fitting, Receiving brass-framed, sliding lid with a glass panel. This Apparatus, lid fits air-tight, and closes the box after a carrier has been inserted into the mouth of the tube; the latter enters at one end of the box and is there bell-mouthed. A supply pipe, to which is connected a 3-way cock, is joined on to the box and allows communication at will with either the pressure or vacuum mains, so that the apparatus becomes available for either sending (by pressure) or receiving (by vacuum) a carrier. Automatic working, by which the air supply is automatically turned on on the introduction of the carrier into a tube and on closing of the D box, and is cut off when the carrier arrives, was introduced in 1909.&quot; From the 1911 Encyclopedia Brittanica entry on Pneumatic Dispatch, cited at [http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/COMMS/pneumess/pneumess.htm]<br /> <br /> '''Holborn'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Saffron Hill'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''tantum dic verbo'' isn't it'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''intact'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Did I miss this?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 448==<br /> <br /> '''because I'm mad'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''half-sovereign case'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Mr. Campbell-Bannerman'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 449==<br /> <br /> '''Clarabella'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Audacity, Iowa'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 450==<br /> <br /> '''DREAMTIME MOVY'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Misspelling is dreamlike?<br /> <br /> '''log... waterfall'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf DW Griffith?<br /> <br /> '''lens-brother'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Like masonic sign?)<br /> <br /> '''Powers movement'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Geneva'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Wilt Flambo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Flambeau = torch (French).<br /> <br /> '''acetylene'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 451==<br /> <br /> '''nitro in the film'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''the tip'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''strange relation'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf GR on calculus.<br /> <br /> '''dark perplexity'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Gen X?<br /> <br /> '''dilapidated'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Why?<br /> <br /> '''queen-of-the-prairie'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 452==<br /> <br /> '''Sempitern'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''siegecraft of Time'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Paris Commune siege, above.<br /> <br /> '''between Cleveland and Denver'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Merle's idiosyncratic choice of endpoints?<br /> <br /> '''automorphic functions'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 453==<br /> <br /> '''Lobatchevskian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Automorphic Dispensation'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''distressing regularity'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Explains dilapidation?<br /> <br /> '''Thorvald'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''thresher dinners'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 454==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;gaff&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Giant Airships of 1896 and '7'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Image:Mysterious-airship.jpg Photo and info here]<br /> <br /> '''Chick'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> First Chum to appear in non-Chums chapter?<br /> <br /> '''Cleveland... trial'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See p67<br /> <br /> '''Somble, Strool, and Fleshway'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''paranoia querulans'... P.Q.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''blasting agent'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''detonans'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 456==<br /> <br /> '''aigrette'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Pencil'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''equivalent of a shrug'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Nice anthropomorphism.<br /> <br /> '''lost mines'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Factual?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 457==<br /> <br /> '''tourbillon'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''patent pencils'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''zephyr gingham'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''lawn'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''pongee'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 458==<br /> <br /> '''professors... engineers'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Theory vs practice.<br /> <br /> '''Latinate token of prestige'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> PhD, summa cum laude, etc.<br /> <br /> '''current... purity'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Free of noise?<br /> <br /> '''Minkowski'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Three times ten... minus one seconds'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''other expression'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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<p>Jackrmann: /* Page 445 */</p> <hr /> <div>==Page 431==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Turkish Corner&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Bactrian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Cameling'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 432==<br /> <br /> '''fatal word'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Wife&quot;.<br /> <br /> '''Gamomania'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> A gammomaniac, I guess, means a 'leg man'.<br /> <br /> '''H.M.S.F.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> His Majesty's Subdesertine Frigate (p425).<br /> <br /> '''Balaam's ass'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''reported... Polo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 433==<br /> <br /> '''pan-spectral fields'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Euphrates&quot; poplars'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''aryq'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''B.I.N.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Biometric Institute of Neuropathy (p432).<br /> <br /> '''seventeen-syllable'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 434==<br /> <br /> '''Eta/Nu Transformators'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''pari passu'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 435==<br /> <br /> '''Gurkhas'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''General Forrest'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''archiepiscopal'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Faberge'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Russian jewelers. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Faberg%C3%A9 Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''subarenaceous'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 436==<br /> <br /> '''limen'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''transmundane'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''lamaseries'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Torriform'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Urban terrain'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (But only cities unwisely built on sand.)<br /> <br /> '''Stilton Gaspereaux'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Sven Hedin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Aurel Stein'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''first known maps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 437==<br /> <br /> '''Nernst lamps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''level of encryption'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Cf Heisenberg?)<br /> <br /> '''Mount Kailash'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''polarize... in time'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Manichaeans'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 438==<br /> <br /> '''expanded sense... Maxwell... Hertz'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''Perfects''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Graeco-Buddhist'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Italo-Islamic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 439==<br /> <br /> '''Nuovo Rialto'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''no earlier than'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Where'd they go?)<br /> <br /> '''Passing of the Remarks'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Steeplechase Park'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 440==<br /> <br /> '''screaming'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Screaming motif.<br /> <br /> '''''chong pir'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Uyghur'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''skeleton rig'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Concealed weapon?<br /> <br /> '''andante'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Sandman Saloon'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 441==<br /> <br /> '''Leonard and Lyle'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''teke'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Spindletop'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Groznyi'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''calyx bits'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''adults'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Chums not adults, then?<br /> <br /> '''''assalamu alaykum'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''anticline'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 442==<br /> <br /> '''''equine altitude'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> High horse.<br /> <br /> '''Veneto-Uyghur'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''2 percent... most of them'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Implies at least 150 in crew.<br /> <br /> '''Marco Querini'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Terrenascondite'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Pozzo San Vito'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 443==<br /> <br /> '''peterman option'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Consomme Imperial'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Timbales de Supremes de Volailles'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Gigot Grille a la Sauce Piquante'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''aubergines a la Sauce Mousseline'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Pouilly-Fuisse'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Graves'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 444==<br /> <br /> '''Oasi'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Typo?<br /> <br /> '''cataplexy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Nobel brothers'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''shaft-alley'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''the balloon is up'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''F.O.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Daily Mail'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Sands of Inner Asia&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Taklamakan'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 445==<br /> <br /> '''Kashgar to Urumchi'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''fell into the hand of'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf modern Taliban, etc.<br /> <br /> '''World-Island'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''discreet summons'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Eg &quot;paging Dr Blue&quot;.<br /> <br /> '''far wicket'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''wog'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ''Chiefly British.'' An ethnic slur used for any dark-skinned peoples. Alleged to stand for &quot;Western Oriental Gentleman&quot;, but mainly applied to Indians, Pakistanis, Arabs, and other brown-skinned Asians.<br /> <br /> '''Vic removal'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''eating an explosive'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Lew's Cyclomite.<br /> <br /> ==Page 446==<br /> <br /> '''St Martin le Grand'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Angel Street'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''G.P.O. West'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''pneumatic dispatches'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An extensive 'pneumatic dispatch' system existed on London during the Victorian era, started in 1851 and carrying on at least into the 1930's. By 1886 London had 94 telegram tubes totaling 34 1/2 miles and around 4.5 million telegraph messages were carried in cylinders at around 20mph. At its height the network extended some 57 miles connecting 67 branch offices via a central sorting office. See [http://www.capsu.org/history/telegram_conveyors.html] and <br /> [http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/COMMS/pneumess/pneumess.htm] (with illustrations).<br /> <br /> '''drill suits'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''chars'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''clicks and rests'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Northern Temple of Connexion'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''marblework'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Bloggins'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''allegro vivatchy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 447==<br /> <br /> '''grease-paint'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Wog-colored.<br /> <br /> '''cylinder of gutta-percha'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pneumatic dispatches were carried in cylinders of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutta-percha Gutta-Percha] -- an inelastic latex made from the sap of the Gutta-Percha tree -- covered in felt. See [http://www.capsu.org/history/telegram_conveyors.html]. <br /> <br /> '''its &quot;D&quot; box'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The receiving mechanism on the end of pneumatic dispatch pipe.<br /> <br /> &quot;The somewhat complicated pattern of double sluice valve originally used at the central stations has been superseded by a simpler form, known as the D box, so named Despatching from the shape of its cross section. This box is of and cast iron, and is provided with a close-fitting, Receiving brass-framed, sliding lid with a glass panel. This Apparatus, lid fits air-tight, and closes the box after a carrier has been inserted into the mouth of the tube; the latter enters at one end of the box and is there bell-mouthed. A supply pipe, to which is connected a 3-way cock, is joined on to the box and allows communication at will with either the pressure or vacuum mains, so that the apparatus becomes available for either sending (by pressure) or receiving (by vacuum) a carrier. Automatic working, by which the air supply is automatically turned on on the introduction of the carrier into a tube and on closing of the D box, and is cut off when the carrier arrives, was introduced in 1909.&quot; From the 1911 Encyclopedia Brittanica entry on Pneumatic Dispatch, cited at [http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/COMMS/pneumess/pneumess.htm]<br /> <br /> '''Holborn'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Saffron Hill'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''tantum dic verbo'' isn't it'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''intact'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Did I miss this?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 448==<br /> <br /> '''because I'm mad'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''half-sovereign case'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Mr. Campbell-Bannerman'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 449==<br /> <br /> '''Clarabella'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Audacity, Iowa'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 450==<br /> <br /> '''DREAMTIME MOVY'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Misspelling is dreamlike?<br /> <br /> '''log... waterfall'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf DW Griffith?<br /> <br /> '''lens-brother'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Like masonic sign?)<br /> <br /> '''Powers movement'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Geneva'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Wilt Flambo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Flambeau = torch (French).<br /> <br /> '''acetylene'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 451==<br /> <br /> '''nitro in the film'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''the tip'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''strange relation'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf GR on calculus.<br /> <br /> '''dark perplexity'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Gen X?<br /> <br /> '''dilapidated'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Why?<br /> <br /> '''queen-of-the-prairie'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 452==<br /> <br /> '''Sempitern'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''siegecraft of Time'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Paris Commune siege, above.<br /> <br /> '''between Cleveland and Denver'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Merle's idiosyncratic choice of endpoints?<br /> <br /> '''automorphic functions'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 453==<br /> <br /> '''Lobatchevskian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Automorphic Dispensation'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''distressing regularity'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Explains dilapidation?<br /> <br /> '''Thorvald'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''thresher dinners'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 454==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;gaff&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Giant Airships of 1896 and '7'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Image:Mysterious-airship.jpg Photo and info here]<br /> <br /> '''Chick'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> First Chum to appear in non-Chums chapter?<br /> <br /> '''Cleveland... trial'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See p67<br /> <br /> '''Somble, Strool, and Fleshway'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''paranoia querulans'... P.Q.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''blasting agent'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''detonans'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 456==<br /> <br /> '''aigrette'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Pencil'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''equivalent of a shrug'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Nice anthropomorphism.<br /> <br /> '''lost mines'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Factual?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 457==<br /> <br /> '''tourbillon'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''patent pencils'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''zephyr gingham'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''lawn'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''pongee'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 458==<br /> <br /> '''professors... engineers'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Theory vs practice.<br /> <br /> '''Latinate token of prestige'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> PhD, summa cum laude, etc.<br /> <br /> '''current... purity'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Free of noise?<br /> <br /> '''Minkowski'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Three times ten... minus one seconds'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''other expression'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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<p>Jackrmann: /* Page 454 */</p> <hr /> <div>==Page 431==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Turkish Corner&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Bactrian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Cameling'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 432==<br /> <br /> '''fatal word'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Wife&quot;.<br /> <br /> '''Gamomania'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> A gammomaniac, I guess, means a 'leg man'.<br /> <br /> '''H.M.S.F.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> His Majesty's Subdesertine Frigate (p425).<br /> <br /> '''Balaam's ass'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''reported... Polo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 433==<br /> <br /> '''pan-spectral fields'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Euphrates&quot; poplars'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''aryq'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''B.I.N.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Biometric Institute of Neuropathy (p432).<br /> <br /> '''seventeen-syllable'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 434==<br /> <br /> '''Eta/Nu Transformators'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''pari passu'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 435==<br /> <br /> '''Gurkhas'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''General Forrest'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''archiepiscopal'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Faberge'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Russian jewelers. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Faberg%C3%A9 Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''subarenaceous'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 436==<br /> <br /> '''limen'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''transmundane'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''lamaseries'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Torriform'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Urban terrain'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (But only cities unwisely built on sand.)<br /> <br /> '''Stilton Gaspereaux'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Sven Hedin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Aurel Stein'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''first known maps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 437==<br /> <br /> '''Nernst lamps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''level of encryption'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Cf Heisenberg?)<br /> <br /> '''Mount Kailash'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''polarize... in time'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Manichaeans'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 438==<br /> <br /> '''expanded sense... Maxwell... Hertz'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''Perfects''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Graeco-Buddhist'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Italo-Islamic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 439==<br /> <br /> '''Nuovo Rialto'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''no earlier than'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Where'd they go?)<br /> <br /> '''Passing of the Remarks'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Steeplechase Park'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 440==<br /> <br /> '''screaming'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Screaming motif.<br /> <br /> '''''chong pir'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Uyghur'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''skeleton rig'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Concealed weapon?<br /> <br /> '''andante'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Sandman Saloon'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 441==<br /> <br /> '''Leonard and Lyle'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''teke'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Spindletop'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Groznyi'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''calyx bits'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''adults'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Chums not adults, then?<br /> <br /> '''''assalamu alaykum'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''anticline'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 442==<br /> <br /> '''''equine altitude'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> High horse.<br /> <br /> '''Veneto-Uyghur'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''2 percent... most of them'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Implies at least 150 in crew.<br /> <br /> '''Marco Querini'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Terrenascondite'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Pozzo San Vito'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 443==<br /> <br /> '''peterman option'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Consomme Imperial'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Timbales de Supremes de Volailles'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Gigot Grille a la Sauce Piquante'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''aubergines a la Sauce Mousseline'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Pouilly-Fuisse'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Graves'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 444==<br /> <br /> '''Oasi'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Typo?<br /> <br /> '''cataplexy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Nobel brothers'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''shaft-alley'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''the balloon is up'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''F.O.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Daily Mail'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Sands of Inner Asia&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Taklamakan'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 445==<br /> <br /> '''Kashgar to Urumchi'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''fell into the hand of'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf modern Taliban, etc.<br /> <br /> '''World-Island'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''discreet summons'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Eg &quot;paging Dr Blue&quot;.<br /> <br /> '''far wicket'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''wog'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Vic removal'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''eating an explosive'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Lew's Cyclomite.<br /> <br /> ==Page 446==<br /> <br /> '''St Martin le Grand'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Angel Street'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''G.P.O. West'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''pneumatic dispatches'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An extensive 'pneumatic dispatch' system existed on London during the Victorian era, started in 1851 and carrying on at least into the 1930's. By 1886 London had 94 telegram tubes totaling 34 1/2 miles and around 4.5 million telegraph messages were carried in cylinders at around 20mph. At its height the network extended some 57 miles connecting 67 branch offices via a central sorting office. See [http://www.capsu.org/history/telegram_conveyors.html] and <br /> [http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/COMMS/pneumess/pneumess.htm] (with illustrations).<br /> <br /> '''drill suits'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''chars'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''clicks and rests'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Northern Temple of Connexion'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''marblework'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Bloggins'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''allegro vivatchy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 447==<br /> <br /> '''grease-paint'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Wog-colored.<br /> <br /> '''cylinder of gutta-percha'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pneumatic dispatches were carried in cylinders of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutta-percha Gutta-Percha] -- an inelastic latex made from the sap of the Gutta-Percha tree -- covered in felt. See [http://www.capsu.org/history/telegram_conveyors.html]. <br /> <br /> '''its &quot;D&quot; box'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The receiving mechanism on the end of pneumatic dispatch pipe.<br /> <br /> &quot;The somewhat complicated pattern of double sluice valve originally used at the central stations has been superseded by a simpler form, known as the D box, so named Despatching from the shape of its cross section. This box is of and cast iron, and is provided with a close-fitting, Receiving brass-framed, sliding lid with a glass panel. This Apparatus, lid fits air-tight, and closes the box after a carrier has been inserted into the mouth of the tube; the latter enters at one end of the box and is there bell-mouthed. A supply pipe, to which is connected a 3-way cock, is joined on to the box and allows communication at will with either the pressure or vacuum mains, so that the apparatus becomes available for either sending (by pressure) or receiving (by vacuum) a carrier. Automatic working, by which the air supply is automatically turned on on the introduction of the carrier into a tube and on closing of the D box, and is cut off when the carrier arrives, was introduced in 1909.&quot; From the 1911 Encyclopedia Brittanica entry on Pneumatic Dispatch, cited at [http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/COMMS/pneumess/pneumess.htm]<br /> <br /> '''Holborn'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Saffron Hill'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''tantum dic verbo'' isn't it'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''intact'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Did I miss this?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 448==<br /> <br /> '''because I'm mad'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''half-sovereign case'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Mr. Campbell-Bannerman'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 449==<br /> <br /> '''Clarabella'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Audacity, Iowa'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 450==<br /> <br /> '''DREAMTIME MOVY'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Misspelling is dreamlike?<br /> <br /> '''log... waterfall'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf DW Griffith?<br /> <br /> '''lens-brother'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Like masonic sign?)<br /> <br /> '''Powers movement'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Geneva'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Wilt Flambo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Flambeau = torch (French).<br /> <br /> '''acetylene'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 451==<br /> <br /> '''nitro in the film'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''the tip'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''strange relation'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf GR on calculus.<br /> <br /> '''dark perplexity'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Gen X?<br /> <br /> '''dilapidated'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Why?<br /> <br /> '''queen-of-the-prairie'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 452==<br /> <br /> '''Sempitern'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''siegecraft of Time'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Paris Commune siege, above.<br /> <br /> '''between Cleveland and Denver'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Merle's idiosyncratic choice of endpoints?<br /> <br /> '''automorphic functions'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 453==<br /> <br /> '''Lobatchevskian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Automorphic Dispensation'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''distressing regularity'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Explains dilapidation?<br /> <br /> '''Thorvald'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''thresher dinners'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 454==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;gaff&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Giant Airships of 1896 and '7'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Image:Mysterious-airship.jpg Photo and info here]<br /> <br /> '''Chick'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> First Chum to appear in non-Chums chapter?<br /> <br /> '''Cleveland... trial'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See p67<br /> <br /> '''Somble, Strool, and Fleshway'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''paranoia querulans'... P.Q.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''blasting agent'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''detonans'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 456==<br /> <br /> '''aigrette'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Pencil'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''equivalent of a shrug'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Nice anthropomorphism.<br /> <br /> '''lost mines'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Factual?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 457==<br /> <br /> '''tourbillon'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''patent pencils'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''zephyr gingham'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''lawn'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''pongee'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 458==<br /> <br /> '''professors... engineers'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Theory vs practice.<br /> <br /> '''Latinate token of prestige'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> PhD, summa cum laude, etc.<br /> <br /> '''current... purity'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Free of noise?<br /> <br /> '''Minkowski'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Three times ten... minus one seconds'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''other expression'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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<p>Jackrmann: /* Page 435 */</p> <hr /> <div>==Page 431==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Turkish Corner&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Bactrian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Cameling'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 432==<br /> <br /> '''fatal word'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Wife&quot;.<br /> <br /> '''Gamomania'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> A gammomaniac, I guess, means a 'leg man'.<br /> <br /> '''H.M.S.F.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> His Majesty's Subdesertine Frigate (p425).<br /> <br /> '''Balaam's ass'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''reported... Polo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 433==<br /> <br /> '''pan-spectral fields'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Euphrates&quot; poplars'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''aryq'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''B.I.N.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Biometric Institute of Neuropathy (p432).<br /> <br /> '''seventeen-syllable'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 434==<br /> <br /> '''Eta/Nu Transformators'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''pari passu'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 435==<br /> <br /> '''Gurkhas'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''General Forrest'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''archiepiscopal'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Faberge'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Russian jewelers. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Faberg%C3%A9 Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''subarenaceous'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 436==<br /> <br /> '''limen'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''transmundane'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''lamaseries'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Torriform'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Urban terrain'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (But only cities unwisely built on sand.)<br /> <br /> '''Stilton Gaspereaux'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Sven Hedin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Aurel Stein'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''first known maps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 437==<br /> <br /> '''Nernst lamps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''level of encryption'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Cf Heisenberg?)<br /> <br /> '''Mount Kailash'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''polarize... in time'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Manichaeans'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 438==<br /> <br /> '''expanded sense... Maxwell... Hertz'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''Perfects''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Graeco-Buddhist'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Italo-Islamic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 439==<br /> <br /> '''Nuovo Rialto'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''no earlier than'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Where'd they go?)<br /> <br /> '''Passing of the Remarks'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Steeplechase Park'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 440==<br /> <br /> '''screaming'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Screaming motif.<br /> <br /> '''''chong pir'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Uyghur'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''skeleton rig'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Concealed weapon?<br /> <br /> '''andante'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Sandman Saloon'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 441==<br /> <br /> '''Leonard and Lyle'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''teke'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Spindletop'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Groznyi'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''calyx bits'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''adults'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Chums not adults, then?<br /> <br /> '''''assalamu alaykum'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''anticline'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 442==<br /> <br /> '''''equine altitude'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> High horse.<br /> <br /> '''Veneto-Uyghur'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''2 percent... most of them'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Implies at least 150 in crew.<br /> <br /> '''Marco Querini'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Terrenascondite'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Pozzo San Vito'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 443==<br /> <br /> '''peterman option'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Consomme Imperial'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Timbales de Supremes de Volailles'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Gigot Grille a la Sauce Piquante'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''aubergines a la Sauce Mousseline'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Pouilly-Fuisse'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Graves'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 444==<br /> <br /> '''Oasi'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Typo?<br /> <br /> '''cataplexy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Nobel brothers'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''shaft-alley'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''the balloon is up'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''F.O.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Daily Mail'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Sands of Inner Asia&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Taklamakan'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 445==<br /> <br /> '''Kashgar to Urumchi'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''fell into the hand of'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf modern Taliban, etc.<br /> <br /> '''World-Island'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''discreet summons'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Eg &quot;paging Dr Blue&quot;.<br /> <br /> '''far wicket'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''wog'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Vic removal'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''eating an explosive'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Lew's Cyclomite.<br /> <br /> ==Page 446==<br /> <br /> '''St Martin le Grand'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Angel Street'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''G.P.O. West'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''pneumatic dispatches'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An extensive 'pneumatic dispatch' system existed on London during the Victorian era, started in 1851 and carrying on at least into the 1930's. By 1886 London had 94 telegram tubes totaling 34 1/2 miles and around 4.5 million telegraph messages were carried in cylinders at around 20mph. At its height the network extended some 57 miles connecting 67 branch offices via a central sorting office. See [http://www.capsu.org/history/telegram_conveyors.html] and <br /> [http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/COMMS/pneumess/pneumess.htm] (with illustrations).<br /> <br /> '''drill suits'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''chars'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''clicks and rests'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Northern Temple of Connexion'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''marblework'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Bloggins'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''allegro vivatchy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 447==<br /> <br /> '''grease-paint'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Wog-colored.<br /> <br /> '''cylinder of gutta-percha'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pneumatic dispatches were carried in cylinders of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutta-percha Gutta-Percha] -- an inelastic latex made from the sap of the Gutta-Percha tree -- covered in felt. See [http://www.capsu.org/history/telegram_conveyors.html]. <br /> <br /> '''its &quot;D&quot; box'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The receiving mechanism on the end of pneumatic dispatch pipe.<br /> <br /> &quot;The somewhat complicated pattern of double sluice valve originally used at the central stations has been superseded by a simpler form, known as the D box, so named Despatching from the shape of its cross section. This box is of and cast iron, and is provided with a close-fitting, Receiving brass-framed, sliding lid with a glass panel. This Apparatus, lid fits air-tight, and closes the box after a carrier has been inserted into the mouth of the tube; the latter enters at one end of the box and is there bell-mouthed. A supply pipe, to which is connected a 3-way cock, is joined on to the box and allows communication at will with either the pressure or vacuum mains, so that the apparatus becomes available for either sending (by pressure) or receiving (by vacuum) a carrier. Automatic working, by which the air supply is automatically turned on on the introduction of the carrier into a tube and on closing of the D box, and is cut off when the carrier arrives, was introduced in 1909.&quot; From the 1911 Encyclopedia Brittanica entry on Pneumatic Dispatch, cited at [http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/COMMS/pneumess/pneumess.htm]<br /> <br /> '''Holborn'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Saffron Hill'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''tantum dic verbo'' isn't it'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''intact'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Did I miss this?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 448==<br /> <br /> '''because I'm mad'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''half-sovereign case'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Mr. Campbell-Bannerman'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 449==<br /> <br /> '''Clarabella'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Audacity, Iowa'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 450==<br /> <br /> '''DREAMTIME MOVY'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Misspelling is dreamlike?<br /> <br /> '''log... waterfall'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf DW Griffith?<br /> <br /> '''lens-brother'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Like masonic sign?)<br /> <br /> '''Powers movement'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Geneva'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Wilt Flambo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Flambeau = torch (French).<br /> <br /> '''acetylene'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 451==<br /> <br /> '''nitro in the film'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''the tip'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''strange relation'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf GR on calculus.<br /> <br /> '''dark perplexity'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Gen X?<br /> <br /> '''dilapidated'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Why?<br /> <br /> '''queen-of-the-prairie'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 452==<br /> <br /> '''Sempitern'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''siegecraft of Time'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Paris Commune siege, above.<br /> <br /> '''between Cleveland and Denver'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Merle's idiosyncratic choice of endpoints?<br /> <br /> '''automorphic functions'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 453==<br /> <br /> '''Lobatchevskian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Automorphic Dispensation'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''distressing regularity'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Explains dilapidation?<br /> <br /> '''Thorvald'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''thresher dinners'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 454==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;gaff&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Giant Airships of 1896 and '7'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Chick'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> First Chum to appear in non-Chums chapter?<br /> <br /> '''Cleveland... trial'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See p67<br /> <br /> '''Somble, Strool, and Fleshway'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''paranoia querulans'... P.Q.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''blasting agent'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''detonans'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 456==<br /> <br /> '''aigrette'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Pencil'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''equivalent of a shrug'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Nice anthropomorphism.<br /> <br /> '''lost mines'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Factual?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 457==<br /> <br /> '''tourbillon'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''patent pencils'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''zephyr gingham'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''lawn'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''pongee'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 458==<br /> <br /> '''professors... engineers'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Theory vs practice.<br /> <br /> '''Latinate token of prestige'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> PhD, summa cum laude, etc.<br /> <br /> '''current... purity'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Free of noise?<br /> <br /> '''Minkowski'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Three times ten... minus one seconds'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''other expression'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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<p>Jackrmann: /* Page 467 */</p> <hr /> <div>==Page 460==<br /> <br /> '''so close... rocking'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Fact?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 461==<br /> <br /> '''bust'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Eg 'gone bust'?<br /> <br /> '''day... set to the side'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Title motif.<br /> <br /> '''came by'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Page ref.)<br /> <br /> ==Page 462==<br /> <br /> ''''cute'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The word 'cute' is a shortened form of 'acute'.<br /> <br /> '''Fickle Creek'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''ice-points'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''red whiskey'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Noctambulo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Sleepwalker (Spanish).<br /> <br /> '''insomnia'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Parody of think tanks, etc?<br /> <br /> ==Page 463==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;echoed off the steep mountainside&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;q=%22echoed%20off%20the%20steep%20mountainside%22&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=wp One hit].<br /> <br /> '''for no more'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Solecism?<br /> <br /> '''Silent Gray Fellows'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Indian V-twins'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Motorcycles first produced in 1907 by the Indian Motorcycle Manufacturing Company [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Motorcycles Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''Joe Hill's &quot;Pie in the Sky&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A/k/a &quot;The Preacher and the Slave.&quot; Song written by IWW leader Joe Hill [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hill Wikipedia entry] in 1911 that was an attack on organized religion as a means for keeping the workers down: &quot;You get pie in the sky when you die.&quot; A parody of &quot;In the Sweet Bye and Bye.&quot; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Preacher_and_the_Slave Lyrics here]. Later recorded by Woody Guthrie.<br /> <br /> '''love lines, life lines, girdles of Venus'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lines in the palm figuring in palmistry. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmistry#The_Lines Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''overmapped'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''barbwire'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> AtD usually says 'bobwire'.<br /> <br /> '''Four Corners Gang'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Mentioned above?)<br /> <br /> '''Taos Lightning'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Zoltan'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Werner'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 464==<br /> <br /> '''Excelsior'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Vang Feeley'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''silencer bypass'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''multiple outcomes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Worldline motif.<br /> <br /> '''clock-seconds'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Interesting disambiguation.)<br /> <br /> '''routine as elaborate'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> I'm thinking maybe Ann Margaret in a 50s biker flick?<br /> <br /> ==Page 465==<br /> <br /> '''Ed Chase's town'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See page 176.<br /> <br /> '''Tortoni's'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See page 176.<br /> <br /> '''Bill Jones's'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''honorary Negro'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''ankle-biter'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''breakbeam stiff'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''couple wives'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Divorce, or bigamy?)<br /> <br /> '''Coahuila'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Well.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Not an answer, apparently.<br /> <br /> ==Page 466==<br /> <br /> '''Hammers o' Hell'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Jephthah'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''narrow-gauge'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''traitor to his class'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''mucker work'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''South Slavic knitted caps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Austrian boys'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''vengeful ghosts'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 467==<br /> <br /> '''fifteen years old... Julius'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Indeed born 1890, but didn't tour West until aged 20+. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groucho_Marx Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''Mr. Archer'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Victor'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Colorado mining town near Cripple Creek.<br /> <br /> '''East Ninety-third'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 468==<br /> <br /> '''Cone Amor'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 'Con amor' = 'with love' (Spanish). Icecream cones were invented in 1904, so this is not quite anachronistic.<br /> <br /> '''me? lady'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Capitalisation typo, or stylistic?<br /> <br /> '''Fruita'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Lois... Poutine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 469==<br /> <br /> '''teeth were gone'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> It's only been a couple of years. She's about 50.<br /> <br /> ==Page 470==<br /> <br /> '''bengalines'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Barbary Coast'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''lettuce opium'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 471==<br /> <br /> '''Hippodrome'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 472==<br /> <br /> '''reoccupation'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Replacing Indians?<br /> <br /> '''criminal palps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 473==<br /> <br /> '''Crystal... Oneida'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Oneida crystal is a type of glassware. [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=oneida+crystal Google search]<br /> <br /> '''sash-weights'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''casementing'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 474==<br /> <br /> '''inside the angle'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Echoes p258.<br /> <br /> ==Page 475==<br /> <br /> '''double-ought'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Deuce had been in Cripple Creek by 1895 (p195). He might have returned, or not been present.<br /> <br /> ==Page 476==<br /> <br /> '''put his head into'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://www.cartoonbank.com/product_details.asp?mscssid=NPEVMXGFPTVD8NHJDW4N28U7R8QD077A&amp;sitetype=1&amp;sid=123465&amp;did=4 pic]<br /> <br /> '''Wall o' Death'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''ellipses'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Not circular?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 477==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;For It Is Thou, Lord&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Eugene Boilster.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Happy Jack La Foam'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''police ticker'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Flor de Coahuila'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''twenty-five'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Would make him 15 in 1895 (p195).<br /> <br /> ==Page 478==<br /> <br /> '''''senorita chinga chinga'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''mas cerveza'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> No 'por favor'!<br /> <br /> '''co-conscious'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (What's Pynchon up to with this word?)<br /> <br /> '''more shit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Because shot through gut.<br /> <br /> '''surprisingly careful latchclick'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Nice!<br /> <br /> ==Page 479==<br /> <br /> '''Tace Boilster'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 480==<br /> <br /> '''Elsie Dinsmore'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Roy Mickie'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Salida'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''blue columbines'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''atole con el dedo'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 481==<br /> <br /> '''caps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pun.<br /> <br /> '''wall of death'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Mayva's not dead!?)<br /> <br /> '''a week or ten days'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Contradicts recent text?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 482==<br /> <br /> '''getting deep'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Wifely surrender is a con?<br /> <br /> ==Page 483==<br /> <br /> '''heeled'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Armed.<br /> <br /> '''Champagne'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pynchon consistently capitalises this.<br /> <br /> ==Page 484==<br /> <br /> '''before the days'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Title motif?<br /> <br /> '''eyeball hydraulics'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Tears, not rolling eyes.<br /> <br /> '''Swede'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See p266.<br /> <br /> '''separate tracks'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Worldline motif.<br /> <br /> ==Page 485==<br /> <br /> '''delivered into his own life'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Born doomed, or early bad karma?)<br /> <br /> '''Furies'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;free&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''no little ones'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Fertility karma.<br /> <br /> '''Sioux... melancholy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Un-cliched?<br /> <br /> '''her belly'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Naked?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 486==<br /> <br /> '''Phoebe Sloper'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''seldom'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (With no kids, why not more free time?)<br /> <br /> '''all he talked about'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf pp196-197.<br /> <br /> ==Page 487==<br /> <br /> ''''Child of the Storm''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf p190.<br /> <br /> '''stove shovel'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> For emptying wood ashes.<br /> <br /> '''Greener shotgun'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''she lit up'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Anxiety, or freedom?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 488==<br /> <br /> '''cahoots'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Marriage as cahoots?<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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<p>Jackrmann: /* Page 463 */</p> <hr /> <div>==Page 460==<br /> <br /> '''so close... rocking'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Fact?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 461==<br /> <br /> '''bust'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Eg 'gone bust'?<br /> <br /> '''day... set to the side'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Title motif.<br /> <br /> '''came by'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Page ref.)<br /> <br /> ==Page 462==<br /> <br /> ''''cute'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The word 'cute' is a shortened form of 'acute'.<br /> <br /> '''Fickle Creek'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''ice-points'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''red whiskey'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Noctambulo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Sleepwalker (Spanish).<br /> <br /> '''insomnia'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Parody of think tanks, etc?<br /> <br /> ==Page 463==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;echoed off the steep mountainside&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;q=%22echoed%20off%20the%20steep%20mountainside%22&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=wp One hit].<br /> <br /> '''for no more'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Solecism?<br /> <br /> '''Silent Gray Fellows'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Indian V-twins'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Motorcycles first produced in 1907 by the Indian Motorcycle Manufacturing Company [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Motorcycles Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''Joe Hill's &quot;Pie in the Sky&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A/k/a &quot;The Preacher and the Slave.&quot; Song written by IWW leader Joe Hill [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hill Wikipedia entry] in 1911 that was an attack on organized religion as a means for keeping the workers down: &quot;You get pie in the sky when you die.&quot; A parody of &quot;In the Sweet Bye and Bye.&quot; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Preacher_and_the_Slave Lyrics here]. Later recorded by Woody Guthrie.<br /> <br /> '''love lines, life lines, girdles of Venus'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lines in the palm figuring in palmistry. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmistry#The_Lines Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''overmapped'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''barbwire'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> AtD usually says 'bobwire'.<br /> <br /> '''Four Corners Gang'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Mentioned above?)<br /> <br /> '''Taos Lightning'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Zoltan'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Werner'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 464==<br /> <br /> '''Excelsior'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Vang Feeley'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''silencer bypass'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''multiple outcomes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Worldline motif.<br /> <br /> '''clock-seconds'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Interesting disambiguation.)<br /> <br /> '''routine as elaborate'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> I'm thinking maybe Ann Margaret in a 50s biker flick?<br /> <br /> ==Page 465==<br /> <br /> '''Ed Chase's town'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See page 176.<br /> <br /> '''Tortoni's'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See page 176.<br /> <br /> '''Bill Jones's'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''honorary Negro'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''ankle-biter'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''breakbeam stiff'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''couple wives'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Divorce, or bigamy?)<br /> <br /> '''Coahuila'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Well.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Not an answer, apparently.<br /> <br /> ==Page 466==<br /> <br /> '''Hammers o' Hell'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Jephthah'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''narrow-gauge'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''traitor to his class'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''mucker work'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''South Slavic knitted caps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Austrian boys'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''vengeful ghosts'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 467==<br /> <br /> '''fifteen years old... Julius'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Indeed born 1890, but didn't tour West until aged 20+. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groucho_Marx Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''Mr. Archer'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Victor'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''East Ninety-third'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 468==<br /> <br /> '''Cone Amor'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 'Con amor' = 'with love' (Spanish). Icecream cones were invented in 1904, so this is not quite anachronistic.<br /> <br /> '''me? lady'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Capitalisation typo, or stylistic?<br /> <br /> '''Fruita'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Lois... Poutine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 469==<br /> <br /> '''teeth were gone'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> It's only been a couple of years. She's about 50.<br /> <br /> ==Page 470==<br /> <br /> '''bengalines'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Barbary Coast'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''lettuce opium'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 471==<br /> <br /> '''Hippodrome'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 472==<br /> <br /> '''reoccupation'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Replacing Indians?<br /> <br /> '''criminal palps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 473==<br /> <br /> '''Crystal... Oneida'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Oneida crystal is a type of glassware. [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=oneida+crystal Google search]<br /> <br /> '''sash-weights'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''casementing'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 474==<br /> <br /> '''inside the angle'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Echoes p258.<br /> <br /> ==Page 475==<br /> <br /> '''double-ought'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Deuce had been in Cripple Creek by 1895 (p195). He might have returned, or not been present.<br /> <br /> ==Page 476==<br /> <br /> '''put his head into'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://www.cartoonbank.com/product_details.asp?mscssid=NPEVMXGFPTVD8NHJDW4N28U7R8QD077A&amp;sitetype=1&amp;sid=123465&amp;did=4 pic]<br /> <br /> '''Wall o' Death'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''ellipses'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Not circular?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 477==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;For It Is Thou, Lord&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Eugene Boilster.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Happy Jack La Foam'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''police ticker'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Flor de Coahuila'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''twenty-five'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Would make him 15 in 1895 (p195).<br /> <br /> ==Page 478==<br /> <br /> '''''senorita chinga chinga'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''mas cerveza'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> No 'por favor'!<br /> <br /> '''co-conscious'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (What's Pynchon up to with this word?)<br /> <br /> '''more shit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Because shot through gut.<br /> <br /> '''surprisingly careful latchclick'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Nice!<br /> <br /> ==Page 479==<br /> <br /> '''Tace Boilster'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 480==<br /> <br /> '''Elsie Dinsmore'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Roy Mickie'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Salida'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''blue columbines'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''atole con el dedo'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 481==<br /> <br /> '''caps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pun.<br /> <br /> '''wall of death'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Mayva's not dead!?)<br /> <br /> '''a week or ten days'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Contradicts recent text?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 482==<br /> <br /> '''getting deep'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Wifely surrender is a con?<br /> <br /> ==Page 483==<br /> <br /> '''heeled'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Armed.<br /> <br /> '''Champagne'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pynchon consistently capitalises this.<br /> <br /> ==Page 484==<br /> <br /> '''before the days'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Title motif?<br /> <br /> '''eyeball hydraulics'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Tears, not rolling eyes.<br /> <br /> '''Swede'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See p266.<br /> <br /> '''separate tracks'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Worldline motif.<br /> <br /> ==Page 485==<br /> <br /> '''delivered into his own life'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Born doomed, or early bad karma?)<br /> <br /> '''Furies'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;free&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''no little ones'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Fertility karma.<br /> <br /> '''Sioux... melancholy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Un-cliched?<br /> <br /> '''her belly'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Naked?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 486==<br /> <br /> '''Phoebe Sloper'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''seldom'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (With no kids, why not more free time?)<br /> <br /> '''all he talked about'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf pp196-197.<br /> <br /> ==Page 487==<br /> <br /> ''''Child of the Storm''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf p190.<br /> <br /> '''stove shovel'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> For emptying wood ashes.<br /> <br /> '''Greener shotgun'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''she lit up'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Anxiety, or freedom?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 488==<br /> <br /> '''cahoots'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Marriage as cahoots?<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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<p>Jackrmann: </p> <hr /> <div>:'''&lt;big&gt;Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.&lt;/big&gt;'''&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Page 174==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;your own brother&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Unabomber Ted Kaczynski was turned in by his brother. (&quot;Kaczynski&quot; means 'ducky' or 'duckman'. Did TRP hide this somewhere?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 176==<br /> '''Tortoni's on Arapahoe'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Italian restaurant located in the 1500 block of Arapahoe Street in downtown Denver. [http://www.rootsweb.com/~codenver/miracle/104.htm Photo]<br /> <br /> '''Gahan's saloon across the street from City Hall'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Saloon operated by William Gahan, a Denver City Councilman, and his brothers conveniently located at 1401 Larimer Street in Denver, across the street from City Hall. Gahan operated two other saloons, including one at 1133 Larimer Street, which he supposedly kept open on Sundays, harbored gambling, and sponsored a boys' baseball team that played for beer.<br /> <br /> '''Ed Chase, the boss of the red-light district'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Edward &quot;Big Ed&quot; Chase (1838-1921) was a New Yorker from Saratoga Springs who became the leader of criminal activities in Denver from 1860 on, and as such was an influential and respected man. He ran saloons, gambling houses, bordellos, and theaters (specializing in &quot;burlesque&quot;), and served on the Denver City Council from 1866-1869. After that, he was a behind-the-scenes ward boss and power broker for the Republican party, which dominated Denver politics at the time. Nearly every 19th century election in Denver was clouded by charges that Chase had organized an army of voters out of riffraff, vagrants, prostitutes, barflies and gamblers. By the time of his death in 1921, Chase had come to be regarded as a respected real estate investor and capitalist. For more info, consult ''The City &amp; The Saloon: Denver 1858-1918'' by Thomas J. Noel.<br /> <br /> ==Page 179==<br /> <br /> '''different tempos and keys'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf 'anarchist miracle' in &quot;Lot 49&quot; (chapter 5).<br /> <br /> ==Page 180==<br /> <br /> '''Valley Tan'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Mormon whiskey reported by Mark Twain. [http://historytogo.utah.gov/salt_lake_tribune/in_another_time/091795.html cite]<br /> <br /> ==Page 182==<br /> <br /> '''P.E.T.N.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Ingredient of Semtex, discovered 1891. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PETN Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> ==Page 185==<br /> <br /> '''excursion'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Wilde's US lecture tour was in 1882.<br /> <br /> ==Page 186==<br /> <br /> '''''grifa'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Marijuana. [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Grifa cite]<br /> <br /> '''Miss Colman-Smith is West Indian [tarot cards]'''<br /> <br /> From Wikipedia: Pamela Colman Smith (1878—1951) was an artist, illustrator, and writer. She is best known for designing the Rider-Waite-Smith deck of tarot cards for Arthur Edward Waite. Smith was born in England, the daughter of an American merchant from Brooklyn, Charles Edward Smith and his Jamaican wife Corinne Colman. Due to her father’s job with the West India Improvement Company, the family often moved, spending time in London, Kingston, Jamaica and Brooklyn, New York.<br /> <br /> Pynchon's interest in the tarot is evident in Gravity's Rainbow. Two tarot cards are referred to here -- The Hanged Man card can be seen at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rider-Waite. The Knight of Swords can be seen at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_arcana#Swords<br /> <br /> The reference is an anachronism, as the deck wasn't published until 1909.<br /> <br /> '''Perseid'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> August (1900).<br /> <br /> ==Page 188==<br /> <br /> '''Galveston Hurricane'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An historical event (8th September 1900, 6000 dead).<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galveston_Hurricane_of_1900 [Wikipedia]]<br /> <br /> ==Page 192==<br /> <br /> '''nearly twenty'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 1883 + 19yo = 1902?<br /> <br /> ==Page 193==<br /> <br /> '''Uncompahgre'''<br /> <br /> A Plateau in Western Colorado, named after the Uncompahgre Ute Indian Tribe. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncompahgre_%28disambiguation%29 [Wikipedia]]<br /> <br /> '''three-dollar sack suit'''<br /> <br /> That is, a suit one might buy at a store where one fills a sack with clothes and then pays three dollars for the lot.<br /> A sack suit is an ordinary 19th-c. business suit which &quot;evolved into the modern three piece suit.&quot;<br /> [http://www.lahacal.org/gentleman/sack.html]<br /> <br /> ==Page 194==<br /> <br /> '''Dallas Divide'''<br /> <br /> Mountain Pass dividing the Uncompahgre Plateau from the San Juan Mountains. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_Divide [Wikipedia]]<br /> <br /> ==Page 195==<br /> <br /> '''Sloat Fresno'''<br /> <br /> Possibly named for Commodore John D. Sloat, American naval officer who claimed California, then a territory of Mexico, as part of the United States on July 7, 1846. The text of the declaration can be found [http://www.dmwv.org/mexwar/documents/sloat.htm [here]]. Another source may be the Sloat Lumber Co. of Quincy, CA, which used an uncommon 30 gauge track, about which all I can find is [http://members.tripod.com/~Sloat_Lumber_Co/PROTOTYP.HTM [here]]. Fresno is presumably a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresno%2C_CA [city in California]], though its direct relation to either the Commodore or the Sloat Lumber Co. is unclear.<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Sloat [Wikipedia Site on John D. Sloat]]<br /> <br /> Sloat is another term for slat, a narrow piece of wood. Fresno is Spanish for ash.<br /> <br /> '''Montrose'''<br /> <br /> Montrose, CO. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montrose%2C_Colorado [Wikipedia]]<br /> <br /> ==Page 197==<br /> <br /> '''coupling pin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://www.clan-line.org.uk/html/overhaul_2005_pt2_15.html pic]<br /> <br /> ==Page 198==<br /> <br /> '''The Light Over the Ranges'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Repeats the title of Part One and also suggests Tesla's 03 July 1899 'vision'. (The singular 'range' seems called for-- so why plural here?)<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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<p>Jackrmann: /* Page 465 */</p> <hr /> <div>==Page 460==<br /> <br /> '''so close... rocking'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Fact?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 461==<br /> <br /> '''bust'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Eg 'gone bust'?<br /> <br /> '''day... set to the side'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Title motif.<br /> <br /> '''came by'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Page ref.)<br /> <br /> ==Page 462==<br /> <br /> ''''cute'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The word 'cute' is a shortened form of 'acute'.<br /> <br /> '''Fickle Creek'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''ice-points'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''red whiskey'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Noctambulo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Sleepwalker (Spanish).<br /> <br /> '''insomnia'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Parody of think tanks, etc?<br /> <br /> ==Page 463==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;echoed off the steep mountainside&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;q=%22echoed%20off%20the%20steep%20mountainside%22&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=wp One hit].<br /> <br /> '''for no more'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Solecism?<br /> <br /> '''Silent Gray Fellows'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Indian V-twins'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Pie in the Sky&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''love lines, life lines, girdles of Venus'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''overmapped'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''barbwire'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> AtD usually says 'bobwire'.<br /> <br /> '''Four Corners Gang'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Mentioned above?)<br /> <br /> '''Taos Lightning'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Zoltan'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Werner'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 464==<br /> <br /> '''Excelsior'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Vang Feeley'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''silencer bypass'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''multiple outcomes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Worldline motif.<br /> <br /> '''clock-seconds'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Interesting disambiguation.)<br /> <br /> '''routine as elaborate'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> I'm thinking maybe Ann Margaret in a 50s biker flick?<br /> <br /> ==Page 465==<br /> <br /> '''Ed Chase's town'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See page 176.<br /> <br /> '''Tortoni's'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See page 176.<br /> <br /> '''Bill Jones's'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''honorary Negro'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''ankle-biter'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''breakbeam stiff'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''couple wives'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Divorce, or bigamy?)<br /> <br /> '''Coahuila'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Well.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Not an answer, apparently.<br /> <br /> ==Page 466==<br /> <br /> '''Hammers o' Hell'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Jephthah'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''narrow-gauge'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''traitor to his class'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''mucker work'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''South Slavic knitted caps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Austrian boys'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''vengeful ghosts'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 467==<br /> <br /> '''fifteen years old... Julius'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Indeed born 1890, but didn't tour West until aged 20+. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groucho_Marx Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''Mr. Archer'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Victor'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''East Ninety-third'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 468==<br /> <br /> '''Cone Amor'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 'Con amor' = 'with love' (Spanish). Icecream cones were invented in 1904, so this is not quite anachronistic.<br /> <br /> '''me? lady'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Capitalisation typo, or stylistic?<br /> <br /> '''Fruita'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Lois... Poutine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 469==<br /> <br /> '''teeth were gone'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> It's only been a couple of years. She's about 50.<br /> <br /> ==Page 470==<br /> <br /> '''bengalines'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Barbary Coast'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''lettuce opium'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 471==<br /> <br /> '''Hippodrome'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 472==<br /> <br /> '''reoccupation'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Replacing Indians?<br /> <br /> '''criminal palps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 473==<br /> <br /> '''Crystal... Oneida'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Oneida crystal is a type of glassware. [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=oneida+crystal Google search]<br /> <br /> '''sash-weights'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''casementing'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 474==<br /> <br /> '''inside the angle'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Echoes p258.<br /> <br /> ==Page 475==<br /> <br /> '''double-ought'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Deuce had been in Cripple Creek by 1895 (p195). He might have returned, or not been present.<br /> <br /> ==Page 476==<br /> <br /> '''put his head into'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://www.cartoonbank.com/product_details.asp?mscssid=NPEVMXGFPTVD8NHJDW4N28U7R8QD077A&amp;sitetype=1&amp;sid=123465&amp;did=4 pic]<br /> <br /> '''Wall o' Death'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''ellipses'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Not circular?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 477==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;For It Is Thou, Lord&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Eugene Boilster.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Happy Jack La Foam'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''police ticker'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Flor de Coahuila'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''twenty-five'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Would make him 15 in 1895 (p195).<br /> <br /> ==Page 478==<br /> <br /> '''''senorita chinga chinga'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''mas cerveza'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> No 'por favor'!<br /> <br /> '''co-conscious'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (What's Pynchon up to with this word?)<br /> <br /> '''more shit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Because shot through gut.<br /> <br /> '''surprisingly careful latchclick'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Nice!<br /> <br /> ==Page 479==<br /> <br /> '''Tace Boilster'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 480==<br /> <br /> '''Elsie Dinsmore'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Roy Mickie'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Salida'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''blue columbines'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''atole con el dedo'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 481==<br /> <br /> '''caps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pun.<br /> <br /> '''wall of death'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Mayva's not dead!?)<br /> <br /> '''a week or ten days'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Contradicts recent text?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 482==<br /> <br /> '''getting deep'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Wifely surrender is a con?<br /> <br /> ==Page 483==<br /> <br /> '''heeled'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Armed.<br /> <br /> '''Champagne'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pynchon consistently capitalises this.<br /> <br /> ==Page 484==<br /> <br /> '''before the days'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Title motif?<br /> <br /> '''eyeball hydraulics'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Tears, not rolling eyes.<br /> <br /> '''Swede'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See p266.<br /> <br /> '''separate tracks'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Worldline motif.<br /> <br /> ==Page 485==<br /> <br /> '''delivered into his own life'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Born doomed, or early bad karma?)<br /> <br /> '''Furies'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;free&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''no little ones'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Fertility karma.<br /> <br /> '''Sioux... melancholy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Un-cliched?<br /> <br /> '''her belly'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Naked?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 486==<br /> <br /> '''Phoebe Sloper'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''seldom'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (With no kids, why not more free time?)<br /> <br /> '''all he talked about'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf pp196-197.<br /> <br /> ==Page 487==<br /> <br /> ''''Child of the Storm''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf p190.<br /> <br /> '''stove shovel'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> For emptying wood ashes.<br /> <br /> '''Greener shotgun'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''she lit up'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Anxiety, or freedom?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 488==<br /> <br /> '''cahoots'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Marriage as cahoots?<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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<p>Jackrmann: /* Page 465 */</p> <hr /> <div>==Page 460==<br /> <br /> '''so close... rocking'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Fact?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 461==<br /> <br /> '''bust'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Eg 'gone bust'?<br /> <br /> '''day... set to the side'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Title motif.<br /> <br /> '''came by'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Page ref.)<br /> <br /> ==Page 462==<br /> <br /> ''''cute'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The word 'cute' is a shortened form of 'acute'.<br /> <br /> '''Fickle Creek'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''ice-points'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''red whiskey'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Noctambulo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Sleepwalker (Spanish).<br /> <br /> '''insomnia'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Parody of think tanks, etc?<br /> <br /> ==Page 463==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;echoed off the steep mountainside&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;q=%22echoed%20off%20the%20steep%20mountainside%22&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=wp One hit].<br /> <br /> '''for no more'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Solecism?<br /> <br /> '''Silent Gray Fellows'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Indian V-twins'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Pie in the Sky&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''love lines, life lines, girdles of Venus'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''overmapped'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''barbwire'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> AtD usually says 'bobwire'.<br /> <br /> '''Four Corners Gang'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Mentioned above?)<br /> <br /> '''Taos Lightning'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Zoltan'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Werner'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 464==<br /> <br /> '''Excelsior'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Vang Feeley'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''silencer bypass'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''multiple outcomes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Worldline motif.<br /> <br /> '''clock-seconds'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Interesting disambiguation.)<br /> <br /> '''routine as elaborate'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> I'm thinking maybe Ann Margaret in a 50s biker flick?<br /> <br /> ==Page 465==<br /> <br /> '''Ed Chase's town'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See page 76.<br /> <br /> '''Tortoni's'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See page 76.<br /> <br /> '''Bill Jones's'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''honorary Negro'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''ankle-biter'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''breakbeam stiff'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''couple wives'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Divorce, or bigamy?)<br /> <br /> '''Coahuila'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Well.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Not an answer, apparently.<br /> <br /> ==Page 466==<br /> <br /> '''Hammers o' Hell'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Jephthah'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''narrow-gauge'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''traitor to his class'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''mucker work'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''South Slavic knitted caps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Austrian boys'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''vengeful ghosts'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 467==<br /> <br /> '''fifteen years old... Julius'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Indeed born 1890, but didn't tour West until aged 20+. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groucho_Marx Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''Mr. Archer'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Victor'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''East Ninety-third'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 468==<br /> <br /> '''Cone Amor'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 'Con amor' = 'with love' (Spanish). Icecream cones were invented in 1904, so this is not quite anachronistic.<br /> <br /> '''me? lady'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Capitalisation typo, or stylistic?<br /> <br /> '''Fruita'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Lois... Poutine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 469==<br /> <br /> '''teeth were gone'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> It's only been a couple of years. She's about 50.<br /> <br /> ==Page 470==<br /> <br /> '''bengalines'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Barbary Coast'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''lettuce opium'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 471==<br /> <br /> '''Hippodrome'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 472==<br /> <br /> '''reoccupation'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Replacing Indians?<br /> <br /> '''criminal palps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 473==<br /> <br /> '''Crystal... Oneida'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Oneida crystal is a type of glassware. [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=oneida+crystal Google search]<br /> <br /> '''sash-weights'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''casementing'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 474==<br /> <br /> '''inside the angle'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Echoes p258.<br /> <br /> ==Page 475==<br /> <br /> '''double-ought'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Deuce had been in Cripple Creek by 1895 (p195). He might have returned, or not been present.<br /> <br /> ==Page 476==<br /> <br /> '''put his head into'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://www.cartoonbank.com/product_details.asp?mscssid=NPEVMXGFPTVD8NHJDW4N28U7R8QD077A&amp;sitetype=1&amp;sid=123465&amp;did=4 pic]<br /> <br /> '''Wall o' Death'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''ellipses'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Not circular?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 477==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;For It Is Thou, Lord&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Eugene Boilster.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Happy Jack La Foam'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''police ticker'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Flor de Coahuila'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''twenty-five'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Would make him 15 in 1895 (p195).<br /> <br /> ==Page 478==<br /> <br /> '''''senorita chinga chinga'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''mas cerveza'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> No 'por favor'!<br /> <br /> '''co-conscious'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (What's Pynchon up to with this word?)<br /> <br /> '''more shit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Because shot through gut.<br /> <br /> '''surprisingly careful latchclick'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Nice!<br /> <br /> ==Page 479==<br /> <br /> '''Tace Boilster'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 480==<br /> <br /> '''Elsie Dinsmore'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Roy Mickie'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Salida'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''blue columbines'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''atole con el dedo'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 481==<br /> <br /> '''caps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pun.<br /> <br /> '''wall of death'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Mayva's not dead!?)<br /> <br /> '''a week or ten days'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Contradicts recent text?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 482==<br /> <br /> '''getting deep'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Wifely surrender is a con?<br /> <br /> ==Page 483==<br /> <br /> '''heeled'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Armed.<br /> <br /> '''Champagne'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pynchon consistently capitalises this.<br /> <br /> ==Page 484==<br /> <br /> '''before the days'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Title motif?<br /> <br /> '''eyeball hydraulics'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Tears, not rolling eyes.<br /> <br /> '''Swede'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See p266.<br /> <br /> '''separate tracks'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Worldline motif.<br /> <br /> ==Page 485==<br /> <br /> '''delivered into his own life'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Born doomed, or early bad karma?)<br /> <br /> '''Furies'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;free&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''no little ones'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Fertility karma.<br /> <br /> '''Sioux... melancholy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Un-cliched?<br /> <br /> '''her belly'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Naked?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 486==<br /> <br /> '''Phoebe Sloper'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''seldom'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (With no kids, why not more free time?)<br /> <br /> '''all he talked about'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf pp196-197.<br /> <br /> ==Page 487==<br /> <br /> ''''Child of the Storm''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf p190.<br /> <br /> '''stove shovel'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> For emptying wood ashes.<br /> <br /> '''Greener shotgun'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''she lit up'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Anxiety, or freedom?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 488==<br /> <br /> '''cahoots'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Marriage as cahoots?<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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<p>Jackrmann: /* Page 392 */</p> <hr /> <div>:'''&lt;big&gt;Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.&lt;/big&gt;'''&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Page 374==<br /> <br /> '''already fallen'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Ewball Oust'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Eyeball? Cueball?<br /> <br /> '''Toplady Oust'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Patio method'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 375==<br /> <br /> '''Washoe process'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Espato... espanto... Espantoso'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 376==<br /> <br /> '''General Huerta'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> General labor-strike (Spanish).<br /> <br /> '''Bajio... Torreon... Zacatecas... Leon... Silao'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''tlachiqueros'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''maguey juice'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Juice from the maguey, or century plant.<br /> <br /> '''Vera Cruz puros'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''zinc'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Galvanized iron doesn't rust?<br /> <br /> '''Empresas Oustianas, S.A.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 377==<br /> <br /> '''pulque'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A Mexican alcoholic beverage made from the fermented sap of various agaves.<br /> <br /> '''''callejon... subida'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Semana Santa'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Holy Week (week before Easter) (Spanish).<br /> <br /> '''''juzgado'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Sp. court, likely orgin of hoosegow.<br /> <br /> '''''Mordida'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Sp. bribe.<br /> <br /> '''Broomhandle'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf German self-loader.<br /> <br /> '''''esposas'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Spouses.<br /> <br /> '''Panteon'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Cerro del trozado'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''El Palacio de Cristal'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Crystal Palace (Spanish).<br /> <br /> ==Page 379==<br /> <br /> '''''chinches'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Dwayne Provecho'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''No say prayo-coopy, compadre'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;No se preoccupe&quot;? Don't worry?<br /> <br /> ==Page 380==<br /> <br /> '''Amparo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 381==<br /> <br /> '''''lisonjeros'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''bolillos'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Mexican rolls.<br /> <br /> '''El Chinganariz'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The nosefuck?<br /> <br /> '''''paredon'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''P.L.M.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Flores Magon'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Camilo Arriaga'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''potosino'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 382==<br /> <br /> '''''mu&amp;ntilde;eca'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''caldereros y sus macheteros'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 383==<br /> <br /> '''''cuchillo'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Knife.<br /> <br /> '''''momias'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 384==<br /> <br /> '''Marfil'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''compinche'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Ay, Jalisco'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Not italic?)<br /> <br /> '''El &amp;Ntilde;ato'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Also a character in ''Gravity's Rainbow'', where he was the leader of the Argentinians trying to emigrate to Germany.<br /> <br /> ==Page 385==<br /> <br /> '''''pendejo'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A Mexican obscenity used an an insult, roughly translates to &quot;dick.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''''sin embargo'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Nevertheless (Spanish).<br /> <br /> '''''el Famoso Chavalito del Quiselgur'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The famous Kieselguhr Kid (Spanish).<br /> <br /> ==Page 386==<br /> <br /> '''''copa'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cup (of coffee).<br /> <br /> '''''pues'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Well (Spanish)<br /> <br /> '''uninflected'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Que guapa, que tetas fantasticas, verdad'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 387==<br /> <br /> '''Cuban claro'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Partidos wrapper'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''tropa'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''huevon'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''psitticide'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Parrot-murder.<br /> <br /> '''''Caray'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''loco... lucas'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 388==<br /> <br /> '''jack'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Monte el Refugio'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Huertistas'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Huerta's troops.<br /> <br /> '''Sombrerete'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Tarahumares'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 389==<br /> <br /> '''Yaquis'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Central American Indian tribe. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaqui Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''Mayas'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Mausers'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''fandango saloon'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 390==<br /> <br /> '''''Hasta lueguito'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See you in a little bit?<br /> <br /> '''El Espinero'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The thorn-man (Spanish).<br /> <br /> '''''shabotshi'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Que toza tienes alla'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 391==<br /> <br /> '''nopales'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Prickly pear cacti.<br /> <br /> '''scalenohedral'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 392==<br /> <br /> '''''Hikuli'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Peyote. This scene, with the ''brujo'' giving Frank peyote, followed by him barfing and then flying, is highly reminiscent of Carlos Castaneda's works, esp. ''Tales of Power''.<br /> <br /> '''while it was alive'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Most vegetables?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 394==<br /> <br /> '''Tears of Job'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 395==<br /> <br /> '''Bolson de Mapimi'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Budweiser'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''blood'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Peckinpah tribute?<br /> <br /> '''''El se fue'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> He left (Spanish).<br /> <br /> '''''jarrito'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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<p>Jackrmann: /* Page 465 */</p> <hr /> <div>==Page 460==<br /> <br /> '''so close... rocking'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Fact?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 461==<br /> <br /> '''bust'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Eg 'gone bust'?<br /> <br /> '''day... set to the side'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Title motif.<br /> <br /> '''came by'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Page ref.)<br /> <br /> ==Page 462==<br /> <br /> ''''cute'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The word 'cute' is a shortened form of 'acute'.<br /> <br /> '''Fickle Creek'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''ice-points'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''red whiskey'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Noctambulo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Sleepwalker (Spanish).<br /> <br /> '''insomnia'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Parody of think tanks, etc?<br /> <br /> ==Page 463==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;echoed off the steep mountainside&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;q=%22echoed%20off%20the%20steep%20mountainside%22&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=wp One hit].<br /> <br /> '''for no more'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Solecism?<br /> <br /> '''Silent Gray Fellows'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Indian V-twins'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Pie in the Sky&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''love lines, life lines, girdles of Venus'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''overmapped'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''barbwire'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> AtD usually says 'bobwire'.<br /> <br /> '''Four Corners Gang'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Mentioned above?)<br /> <br /> '''Taos Lightning'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Zoltan'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Werner'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 464==<br /> <br /> '''Excelsior'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Vang Feeley'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''silencer bypass'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''multiple outcomes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Worldline motif.<br /> <br /> '''clock-seconds'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Interesting disambiguation.)<br /> <br /> '''routine as elaborate'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> I'm thinking maybe Ann Margaret in a 50s biker flick?<br /> <br /> ==Page 465==<br /> <br /> '''Ed Chase's town'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Denver.<br /> <br /> '''Tortoni's'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Bill Jones's'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''honorary Negro'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''ankle-biter'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''breakbeam stiff'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''couple wives'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Divorce, or bigamy?)<br /> <br /> '''Coahuila'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Well.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Not an answer, apparently.<br /> <br /> ==Page 466==<br /> <br /> '''Hammers o' Hell'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Jephthah'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''narrow-gauge'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''traitor to his class'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''mucker work'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''South Slavic knitted caps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Austrian boys'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''vengeful ghosts'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 467==<br /> <br /> '''fifteen years old... Julius'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Indeed born 1890, but didn't tour West until aged 20+. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groucho_Marx Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''Mr. Archer'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Victor'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''East Ninety-third'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 468==<br /> <br /> '''Cone Amor'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 'Con amor' = 'with love' (Spanish). Icecream cones were invented in 1904, so this is not quite anachronistic.<br /> <br /> '''me? lady'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Capitalisation typo, or stylistic?<br /> <br /> '''Fruita'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Lois... Poutine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 469==<br /> <br /> '''teeth were gone'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> It's only been a couple of years. She's about 50.<br /> <br /> ==Page 470==<br /> <br /> '''bengalines'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Barbary Coast'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''lettuce opium'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 471==<br /> <br /> '''Hippodrome'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 472==<br /> <br /> '''reoccupation'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Replacing Indians?<br /> <br /> '''criminal palps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 473==<br /> <br /> '''Crystal... Oneida'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Oneida crystal is a type of glassware. [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=oneida+crystal Google search]<br /> <br /> '''sash-weights'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''casementing'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 474==<br /> <br /> '''inside the angle'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Echoes p258.<br /> <br /> ==Page 475==<br /> <br /> '''double-ought'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Deuce had been in Cripple Creek by 1895 (p195). He might have returned, or not been present.<br /> <br /> ==Page 476==<br /> <br /> '''put his head into'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://www.cartoonbank.com/product_details.asp?mscssid=NPEVMXGFPTVD8NHJDW4N28U7R8QD077A&amp;sitetype=1&amp;sid=123465&amp;did=4 pic]<br /> <br /> '''Wall o' Death'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''ellipses'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Not circular?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 477==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;For It Is Thou, Lord&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Eugene Boilster.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Happy Jack La Foam'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''police ticker'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Flor de Coahuila'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''twenty-five'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Would make him 15 in 1895 (p195).<br /> <br /> ==Page 478==<br /> <br /> '''''senorita chinga chinga'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''mas cerveza'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> No 'por favor'!<br /> <br /> '''co-conscious'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (What's Pynchon up to with this word?)<br /> <br /> '''more shit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Because shot through gut.<br /> <br /> '''surprisingly careful latchclick'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Nice!<br /> <br /> ==Page 479==<br /> <br /> '''Tace Boilster'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 480==<br /> <br /> '''Elsie Dinsmore'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Roy Mickie'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Salida'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''blue columbines'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''atole con el dedo'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 481==<br /> <br /> '''caps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pun.<br /> <br /> '''wall of death'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Mayva's not dead!?)<br /> <br /> '''a week or ten days'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Contradicts recent text?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 482==<br /> <br /> '''getting deep'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Wifely surrender is a con?<br /> <br /> ==Page 483==<br /> <br /> '''heeled'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Armed.<br /> <br /> '''Champagne'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pynchon consistently capitalises this.<br /> <br /> ==Page 484==<br /> <br /> '''before the days'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Title motif?<br /> <br /> '''eyeball hydraulics'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Tears, not rolling eyes.<br /> <br /> '''Swede'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See p266.<br /> <br /> '''separate tracks'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Worldline motif.<br /> <br /> ==Page 485==<br /> <br /> '''delivered into his own life'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Born doomed, or early bad karma?)<br /> <br /> '''Furies'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;free&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''no little ones'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Fertility karma.<br /> <br /> '''Sioux... melancholy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Un-cliched?<br /> <br /> '''her belly'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Naked?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 486==<br /> <br /> '''Phoebe Sloper'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''seldom'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (With no kids, why not more free time?)<br /> <br /> '''all he talked about'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf pp196-197.<br /> <br /> ==Page 487==<br /> <br /> ''''Child of the Storm''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf p190.<br /> <br /> '''stove shovel'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> For emptying wood ashes.<br /> <br /> '''Greener shotgun'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''she lit up'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Anxiety, or freedom?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 488==<br /> <br /> '''cahoots'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Marriage as cahoots?<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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<p>Jackrmann: /* Page 377 */</p> <hr /> <div>:'''&lt;big&gt;Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.&lt;/big&gt;'''&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Page 374==<br /> <br /> '''already fallen'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Ewball Oust'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Eyeball? Cueball?<br /> <br /> '''Toplady Oust'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Patio method'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 375==<br /> <br /> '''Washoe process'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Espato... espanto... Espantoso'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 376==<br /> <br /> '''General Huerta'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> General labor-strike (Spanish).<br /> <br /> '''Bajio... Torreon... Zacatecas... Leon... Silao'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''tlachiqueros'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''maguey juice'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Juice from the maguey, or century plant.<br /> <br /> '''Vera Cruz puros'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''zinc'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Galvanized iron doesn't rust?<br /> <br /> '''Empresas Oustianas, S.A.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 377==<br /> <br /> '''pulque'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A Mexican alcoholic beverage made from the fermented sap of various agaves.<br /> <br /> '''''callejon... subida'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Semana Santa'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Holy Week (week before Easter) (Spanish).<br /> <br /> '''''juzgado'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Sp. court, likely orgin of hoosegow.<br /> <br /> '''''Mordida'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Sp. bribe.<br /> <br /> '''Broomhandle'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf German self-loader.<br /> <br /> '''''esposas'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Spouses.<br /> <br /> '''Panteon'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Cerro del trozado'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''El Palacio de Cristal'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Crystal Palace (Spanish).<br /> <br /> ==Page 379==<br /> <br /> '''''chinches'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Dwayne Provecho'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''No say prayo-coopy, compadre'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;No se preoccupe&quot;? Don't worry?<br /> <br /> ==Page 380==<br /> <br /> '''Amparo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 381==<br /> <br /> '''''lisonjeros'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''bolillos'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Mexican rolls.<br /> <br /> '''El Chinganariz'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The nosefuck?<br /> <br /> '''''paredon'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''P.L.M.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Flores Magon'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Camilo Arriaga'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''potosino'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 382==<br /> <br /> '''''mu&amp;ntilde;eca'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''caldereros y sus macheteros'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 383==<br /> <br /> '''''cuchillo'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Knife.<br /> <br /> '''''momias'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 384==<br /> <br /> '''Marfil'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''compinche'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Ay, Jalisco'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Not italic?)<br /> <br /> '''El &amp;Ntilde;ato'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Also a character in ''Gravity's Rainbow'', where he was the leader of the Argentinians trying to emigrate to Germany.<br /> <br /> ==Page 385==<br /> <br /> '''''pendejo'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A Mexican obscenity used an an insult, roughly translates to &quot;dick.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''''sin embargo'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Nevertheless (Spanish).<br /> <br /> '''''el Famoso Chavalito del Quiselgur'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The famous Kieselguhr Kid (Spanish).<br /> <br /> ==Page 386==<br /> <br /> '''''copa'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cup (of coffee).<br /> <br /> '''''pues'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Well (Spanish)<br /> <br /> '''uninflected'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Que guapa, que tetas fantasticas, verdad'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 387==<br /> <br /> '''Cuban claro'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Partidos wrapper'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''tropa'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''huevon'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''psitticide'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Parrot-murder.<br /> <br /> '''''Caray'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''loco... lucas'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 388==<br /> <br /> '''jack'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Monte el Refugio'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Huertistas'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Huerta's troops.<br /> <br /> '''Sombrerete'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Tarahumares'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 389==<br /> <br /> '''Yaquis'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Central American Indian tribe. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaqui Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''Mayas'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Mausers'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''fandango saloon'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 390==<br /> <br /> '''''Hasta lueguito'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See you in a little bit?<br /> <br /> '''El Espinero'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The thorn-man (Spanish).<br /> <br /> '''''shabotshi'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Que toza tienes alla'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 391==<br /> <br /> '''nopales'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Prickly pear cacti.<br /> <br /> '''scalenohedral'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 392==<br /> <br /> '''''Hikuli'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Peyote. This scene, with the ''brujo'' giving Reef peyote, followed by him barfing and then flying, is highly reminiscent of Carlos Castaneda's works.<br /> <br /> '''while it was alive'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Most vegetables?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 394==<br /> <br /> '''Tears of Job'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 395==<br /> <br /> '''Bolson de Mapimi'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Budweiser'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''blood'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Peckinpah tribute?<br /> <br /> '''''El se fue'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> He left (Spanish).<br /> <br /> '''''jarrito'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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<p>Jackrmann: /* Page 377 */</p> <hr /> <div>:'''&lt;big&gt;Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.&lt;/big&gt;'''&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Page 374==<br /> <br /> '''already fallen'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Ewball Oust'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Eyeball? Cueball?<br /> <br /> '''Toplady Oust'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Patio method'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 375==<br /> <br /> '''Washoe process'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Espato... espanto... Espantoso'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 376==<br /> <br /> '''General Huerta'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> General labor-strike (Spanish).<br /> <br /> '''Bajio... Torreon... Zacatecas... Leon... Silao'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''tlachiqueros'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''maguey juice'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Juice from the maguey, or century plant.<br /> <br /> '''Vera Cruz puros'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''zinc'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Galvanized iron doesn't rust?<br /> <br /> '''Empresas Oustianas, S.A.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 377==<br /> <br /> '''pulque'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A Mexican alcoholic beverage made from the fermented sap of various agaves.<br /> <br /> '''''callejon... subida'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Semana Santa'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Holy Week (week before Easter) (Spanish).<br /> <br /> '''''juzgado'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Sp. court, likely orgin of hoosegow.<br /> <br /> '''''Mordida'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Died.<br /> <br /> '''Broomhandle'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf German self-loader.<br /> <br /> '''''esposas'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Spouses.<br /> <br /> '''Panteon'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Cerro del trozado'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''El Palacio de Cristal'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Crystal Palace (Spanish).<br /> <br /> ==Page 379==<br /> <br /> '''''chinches'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Dwayne Provecho'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''No say prayo-coopy, compadre'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;No se preoccupe&quot;? Don't worry?<br /> <br /> ==Page 380==<br /> <br /> '''Amparo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 381==<br /> <br /> '''''lisonjeros'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''bolillos'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Mexican rolls.<br /> <br /> '''El Chinganariz'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The nosefuck?<br /> <br /> '''''paredon'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''P.L.M.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Flores Magon'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Camilo Arriaga'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''potosino'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 382==<br /> <br /> '''''mu&amp;ntilde;eca'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''caldereros y sus macheteros'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 383==<br /> <br /> '''''cuchillo'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Knife.<br /> <br /> '''''momias'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 384==<br /> <br /> '''Marfil'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''compinche'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Ay, Jalisco'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Not italic?)<br /> <br /> '''El &amp;Ntilde;ato'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Also a character in ''Gravity's Rainbow'', where he was the leader of the Argentinians trying to emigrate to Germany.<br /> <br /> ==Page 385==<br /> <br /> '''''pendejo'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A Mexican obscenity used an an insult, roughly translates to &quot;dick.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''''sin embargo'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Nevertheless (Spanish).<br /> <br /> '''''el Famoso Chavalito del Quiselgur'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The famous Kieselguhr Kid (Spanish).<br /> <br /> ==Page 386==<br /> <br /> '''''copa'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cup (of coffee).<br /> <br /> '''''pues'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Well (Spanish)<br /> <br /> '''uninflected'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Que guapa, que tetas fantasticas, verdad'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 387==<br /> <br /> '''Cuban claro'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Partidos wrapper'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''tropa'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''huevon'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''psitticide'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Parrot-murder.<br /> <br /> '''''Caray'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''loco... lucas'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 388==<br /> <br /> '''jack'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Monte el Refugio'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Huertistas'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Huerta's troops.<br /> <br /> '''Sombrerete'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Tarahumares'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 389==<br /> <br /> '''Yaquis'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Central American Indian tribe. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaqui Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''Mayas'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Mausers'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''fandango saloon'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 390==<br /> <br /> '''''Hasta lueguito'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See you in a little bit?<br /> <br /> '''El Espinero'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The thorn-man (Spanish).<br /> <br /> '''''shabotshi'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Que toza tienes alla'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 391==<br /> <br /> '''nopales'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Prickly pear cacti.<br /> <br /> '''scalenohedral'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 392==<br /> <br /> '''''Hikuli'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Peyote. This scene, with the ''brujo'' giving Reef peyote, followed by him barfing and then flying, is highly reminiscent of Carlos Castaneda's works.<br /> <br /> '''while it was alive'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Most vegetables?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 394==<br /> <br /> '''Tears of Job'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 395==<br /> <br /> '''Bolson de Mapimi'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Budweiser'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''blood'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Peckinpah tribute?<br /> <br /> '''''El se fue'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> He left (Spanish).<br /> <br /> '''''jarrito'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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<p>Jackrmann: /* Page 409 */</p> <hr /> <div>:'''&lt;big&gt;Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.&lt;/big&gt;'''&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Page 397==<br /> <br /> '''syntonic wireless'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''street-Arab'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Columbian ''Half-Dollar'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 398==<br /> <br /> '''nuncio'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Evening Quarters'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''H.G. Wells'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Herbert George Wells (1866-1946), one of the 19th Century science fiction writers whom Pynchon is both emulating and parodying in ''ATD''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.G._Wells Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''jeu d'esprit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''on the subject'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''National Imprest'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Plug&quot; Loafsley'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Plug-ugly loafer/oaf?<br /> <br /> '''Lollipop Lounge'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''turned out'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (When? Before or after first visit?)<br /> <br /> '''Tenderloin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''squalid empire'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Alan Parker's 1976 movie &quot;Bugsy Malone&quot;. [http://imdb.com/title/tt0074256/ IMDb]<br /> <br /> ==Page 399==<br /> <br /> '''indigo... yellow'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Clashing-colors motif.<br /> <br /> '''dicer'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''opopanax'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Typo for 'opoponax'. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opoponax Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''vervain'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''slide cornet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''mandola'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An eight-stringed instrument shaped like a mandolin but tuned the same as a viola.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;tin pan&quot; piano'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''houris'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Darby'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Over 21yo, if he's aged.<br /> <br /> ==Page 400==<br /> <br /> '''paillettes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''louche'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;jazz&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (When did the spelling change?)<br /> <br /> '''high-hats'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Missus Grundy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''ying''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Yen&quot;?<br /> <br /> ==Page 401==<br /> <br /> '''Angela Grace'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Angel of Grace?<br /> <br /> '''Gophiz... Hudson Dustuhs'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Gophers, Hudson Dusters.<br /> <br /> '''slickin up'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Gentrification.<br /> <br /> '''Mr. Mawgin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> J. Pierpont Morgan.<br /> <br /> '''stanchion'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''find it'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Small-penis joke.)<br /> <br /> '''I AM THE WAY'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''triatomic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Ozone = O3.<br /> <br /> ==Page 402==<br /> <br /> '''solenoidal relay'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Dr. Zoot'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''pale'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Even tough-guy Plug fears time machine.<br /> <br /> '''dynamo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Grandmother's day'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pre-Civil War.<br /> <br /> '''Breguet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Date?)<br /> <br /> '''shimming'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''revenue diverted'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Why not no-revenue?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 403==<br /> <br /> '''coaming'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''undog this hatch'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''faith'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Blind, not humble.)<br /> <br /> '''nervous organizations'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf drugs.<br /> <br /> '''pillioned'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''horses'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''arrays of metallic points'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 404==<br /> <br /> '''shockwaves of the Creation'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Anachronistic Big Bang theory?<br /> <br /> '''chamber shook'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (It didn't on p403.)<br /> <br /> '''not beasts'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Airplanes?<br /> <br /> '''smell'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf GR on Passchendaele.<br /> <br /> ==Page 405==<br /> <br /> '''latest Oldsmobile'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Dates.)<br /> <br /> '''Candlebrow U.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''double-domes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''drumming'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Traveling salesmanship.<br /> <br /> '''Ball in Hand'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Alonzo Meatman'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 406==<br /> <br /> '''''Imum Coeli'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Gideon Candlebrow'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Grossdale'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 407==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Smegmo&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''margarine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Candlebow + margarine reminds me of Camille Paglia on Renee Zellwegger as &quot;margarine-browed&quot; (which I don't really understand).<br /> <br /> '''four thousand years'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''this year'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''flammivomous'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''1925'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lindsay c47yo?<br /> <br /> '''Randolph'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Has he been absent?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 408==<br /> <br /> '''telegraphic messages'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Why at night, particularly? Email parody?)<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Goes with everything&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Al Capp's Shmoos?<br /> <br /> '''in the way that certain odors can instantly return us to earlier years'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Recalls Proust's &lt;i&gt;À la recherche du temps perdu&lt;/i&gt; in which the taste and smell of a madeleine cookie summons a collection of childhood memories.<br /> <br /> '''Finney Hall'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''florescent'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 409==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Why you insufferable little --&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> This line, paired with St. Cosmo's observation at the end of the following paragraph: &quot;And might I add, Mr. Noseworth, that these constant attempts to strangle Suckling do our public image little good,&quot; seem a fairly direct reference to a well-worn trope from the Simpsons, in which the splenetic Homer, as played here by Noseworth, expresses his no-longer-controllable frustration with Bart, here the increasingly smartalecky Suckling. Pynchon, as has been widely reported, has appeared on The Simpsons a few times. <br /> <br /> More than even &quot;Vineland,&quot; it seems, this book is fraught with pop culture/low comedy asides.&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> '''Wellesianism'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Typo, unless he means Orson.<br /> <br /> '''Asimov Transecular'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Interesting to find one of Isaac Asimov's time travel machines on the pile of &quot;picked-over hulks of failed time machines.&quot; Of course, it would have to have been deposited there from some time in the future.<br /> <br /> &lt;b&gt;to transecular&lt;/b&gt; &lt;i&gt;adj&lt;/i&gt; &quot;that is made through the centuries&quot; (Portuguese) [[User:Btchakir|Btchakir]] 16:48, 19 December 2006 (PST)<br /> <br /> '''Q-98s'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> FM station?<br /> <br /> '''vulcanite'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Heusler's alloy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''bonzoline'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''electrum'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An alloy of gold and silver, presumably not the same as ''argentaurum''.<br /> <br /> '''lignum vitae'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The very hard heavy wood of any of several tropical American guaiacum trees. In Latin, literally &quot;wood of life.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''platinoid'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''magnalium'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''packfong silver'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''safe harbor'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Paradoxical, I think.<br /> <br /> '''automorphic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 410==<br /> <br /> '''revenance'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Symmes Street'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''gaslit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lightfuel motif.<br /> <br /> '''St. Louis Fair'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 1904.<br /> <br /> '''fantan'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;preserver&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Gun?<br /> <br /> '''magenta-and-green'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Clashing-colors motif.<br /> <br /> ==Page 411==<br /> <br /> '''Hawaiian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Zennist'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Practitioners of Zen Buddhism.<br /> <br /> '''''Caged Women of Yokohama'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 412==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Does a dog possess the Buddha-nature?&quot; [...] &quot;Yes, obviously&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> According to the Zen parable the answer to the question is &quot;Mu&quot;, which is both &quot;No&quot; and the sound of a dog's bark, thus neither simply yes nor no.<br /> <br /> '''apricot and aquamarine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Clashing-colors motif.<br /> <br /> '''Bohr... Mach... Einstein... Spengler... Wells... McTaggart'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''young Einstein'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Perhaps a reference to the 1988 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Einstein movie] of the same name. At the time of the F.I.C.O.T.T. (1895 at the earliest), Einstein would have already published &quot;[http://www.worldscibooks.com/phy_etextbook/4454/4454_chap1.pdf The Investigation of the State of Aether in Magnetic Fields].&quot; Ironically, Einstein's special theory of relativity would later essentially invalidate theories of luminiferous aether.<br /> <br /> '''neo-Augustinian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''vertical distance'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Of pudding-drop?<br /> <br /> '''Old Stearinery Bell Tower'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 413==<br /> <br /> '''322 feet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''disordered'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Eg clocktower assassins?<br /> <br /> '''homeopathist'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;the ''lycopodium'' type&quot;... Fear'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''sky-brother'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''other Promise... resurrected... two millennia'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 414==<br /> <br /> '''purlieus'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''millwork'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''penumbrae'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Is the ligatured-ae appropriate here?)<br /> <br /> '''interfered with'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Sexually molested.<br /> <br /> '''vacant'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (So signs of occupancy are faked?)<br /> <br /> '''dust'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Clear sign of vacancy.)<br /> <br /> '''systematically deluded'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Descartes.<br /> <br /> '''quiescence'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Meatman is cyborg?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 415==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Mr. Ace&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Master race; ace of spades; Mr Earl?<br /> <br /> '''phatic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''denounced'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Capitalism has failed but failure still can't be mentioned.)<br /> <br /> '''certain of your great dynamos'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Fraternity of the Venturesome'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Mistranslated 'Chums of Chance'.<br /> <br /> '''''nzzt'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Electrical short?<br /> <br /> '''mission assignments'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pynchon seems to explain Chums backstory.<br /> <br /> ==Page 416==<br /> <br /> '''Squanto and the Pilgrims'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 417==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;we're totally--&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ...fucked.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;He is not what he says he is.&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pynchon denies Chums backstory/explanation.<br /> <br /> '''trespassers'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''enigmatic object'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Plotpoint?<br /> <br /> ==Page 418==<br /> <br /> '''Trespass'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> With a capital T.<br /> <br /> '''evidence... everywhere'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf ''Crying of Lot 49''.<br /> <br /> '''neuropathy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An abnormal and usually degenerative state of the nervous system or nerves.<br /> <br /> '''contracts'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> With Devil.<br /> <br /> '''Other Units'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (So our five gossiped to others?)<br /> <br /> '''exhaustive'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Trekkies.<br /> <br /> '''came to recall'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf PK Dick.<br /> <br /> '''red and indigo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Clashing?<br /> <br /> ==Page 419==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;El Capitan&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Sousa march.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Whistling Rufus&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''consecrated'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Richardson Romanesque'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Style of American Romanesque architecture from 1880s-1890s, named after architect Henry Robson Richardson, notable for use of brown stone, rounded corners, arches and cylindrical turrets. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richardson_Romanesque Wikipedia Entry].<br /> <br /> '''modal theory'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''chit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Bing Spooninger'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Like &quot;Bing&quot; Crosby, a crooner.<br /> <br /> '''rack'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 420==<br /> <br /> '''every note'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Om?<br /> <br /> '''say &quot;Wall&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''difficult vocal feat'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''cakewalk'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An African-American entertainment having a cake as prize for the most accomplished steps and figures in walking; also, a stage dance developed from walking steps and figures typically involving a high prance with backward tilt. From this, slang for a one-sided contest or an easy task.<br /> <br /> '''draw-note'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Note played on harmonica by &quot;drawing&quot; air through reed by sucking in rather than blowing out (insert crude sex joke here).<br /> <br /> ==Page 421==<br /> <br /> '''popularity'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Masochistic love of oppressors.<br /> <br /> '''''cover identity'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Burden of resistance.<br /> <br /> '''Lombardy poplars.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Chromatic Harp'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A harmonica that plays all notes in an octave rather than a scale in a certain key. [http://www.hohnerusa.com/hchromatic.htm Examples].<br /> <br /> '''Pitch Integrity Guard'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''harmonica-reed files'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 422==<br /> <br /> '''I.G. Mundharfwerke'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''drifted'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Slothrop's desk.<br /> <br /> '''Offenbach'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), French composer of operettas.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Offenbach Wikipedia Entry].<br /> <br /> '''into the Latrine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Slothrop's hallucination.<br /> <br /> '''vapor bearing... minerals'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''A.D.C.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 423==<br /> <br /> '''None of them...'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf butterfly dreaming it's monk?<br /> <br /> '''volunteer decoys'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Fan-meme.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;At a Georgia Camp Meeting&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;deps&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''route out of the past'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The nostalgia trap.<br /> <br /> ==Page 424==<br /> <br /> ''''coon' material'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''isotropy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''presently'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> R. Crumb did a comic like this.<br /> <br /> '''opposition'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Was unconscious, now conscious?)<br /> <br /> '''dropped from altitudes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Cf pudding above)<br /> <br /> ==Page 425==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;After the Ball&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Bukhara'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''T.D.Y.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Saksaul'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Q. Zane Toadflax'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Sounds like Douglas Adams?)<br /> <br /> '''Hypopsammotic... Hypops'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 426==<br /> <br /> '''beating their prices'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Contradicts p425 &quot;no further expenditure&quot;.<br /> <br /> ==Page 427==<br /> <br /> '''temporarily lapsing'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''pigs fly'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lindsay = pig.<br /> <br /> '''legalistic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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<p>Jackrmann: /* Page 420 */</p> <hr /> <div>:'''&lt;big&gt;Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.&lt;/big&gt;'''&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Page 397==<br /> <br /> '''syntonic wireless'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''street-Arab'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Columbian ''Half-Dollar'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 398==<br /> <br /> '''nuncio'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Evening Quarters'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''H.G. Wells'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Herbert George Wells (1866-1946), one of the 19th Century science fiction writers whom Pynchon is both emulating and parodying in ''ATD''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.G._Wells Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''jeu d'esprit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''on the subject'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''National Imprest'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Plug&quot; Loafsley'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Plug-ugly loafer/oaf?<br /> <br /> '''Lollipop Lounge'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''turned out'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (When? Before or after first visit?)<br /> <br /> '''Tenderloin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''squalid empire'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Alan Parker's 1976 movie &quot;Bugsy Malone&quot;. [http://imdb.com/title/tt0074256/ IMDb]<br /> <br /> ==Page 399==<br /> <br /> '''indigo... yellow'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Clashing-colors motif.<br /> <br /> '''dicer'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''opopanax'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Typo for 'opoponax'. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opoponax Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''vervain'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''slide cornet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''mandola'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An eight-stringed instrument shaped like a mandolin but tuned the same as a viola.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;tin pan&quot; piano'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''houris'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Darby'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Over 21yo, if he's aged.<br /> <br /> ==Page 400==<br /> <br /> '''paillettes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''louche'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;jazz&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (When did the spelling change?)<br /> <br /> '''high-hats'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Missus Grundy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''ying''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Yen&quot;?<br /> <br /> ==Page 401==<br /> <br /> '''Angela Grace'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Angel of Grace?<br /> <br /> '''Gophiz... Hudson Dustuhs'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Gophers, Hudson Dusters.<br /> <br /> '''slickin up'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Gentrification.<br /> <br /> '''Mr. Mawgin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> J. Pierpont Morgan.<br /> <br /> '''stanchion'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''find it'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Small-penis joke.)<br /> <br /> '''I AM THE WAY'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''triatomic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Ozone = O3.<br /> <br /> ==Page 402==<br /> <br /> '''solenoidal relay'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Dr. Zoot'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''pale'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Even tough-guy Plug fears time machine.<br /> <br /> '''dynamo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Grandmother's day'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pre-Civil War.<br /> <br /> '''Breguet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Date?)<br /> <br /> '''shimming'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''revenue diverted'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Why not no-revenue?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 403==<br /> <br /> '''coaming'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''undog this hatch'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''faith'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Blind, not humble.)<br /> <br /> '''nervous organizations'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf drugs.<br /> <br /> '''pillioned'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''horses'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''arrays of metallic points'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 404==<br /> <br /> '''shockwaves of the Creation'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Anachronistic Big Bang theory?<br /> <br /> '''chamber shook'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (It didn't on p403.)<br /> <br /> '''not beasts'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Airplanes?<br /> <br /> '''smell'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf GR on Passchendaele.<br /> <br /> ==Page 405==<br /> <br /> '''latest Oldsmobile'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Dates.)<br /> <br /> '''Candlebrow U.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''double-domes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''drumming'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Traveling salesmanship.<br /> <br /> '''Ball in Hand'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Alonzo Meatman'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 406==<br /> <br /> '''''Imum Coeli'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Gideon Candlebrow'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Grossdale'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 407==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Smegmo&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''margarine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Candlebow + margarine reminds me of Camille Paglia on Renee Zellwegger as &quot;margarine-browed&quot; (which I don't really understand).<br /> <br /> '''four thousand years'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''this year'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''flammivomous'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''1925'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lindsay c47yo?<br /> <br /> '''Randolph'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Has he been absent?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 408==<br /> <br /> '''telegraphic messages'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Why at night, particularly? Email parody?)<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Goes with everything&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Al Capp's Shmoos?<br /> <br /> '''in the way that certain odors can instantly return us to earlier years'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Recalls Proust's &lt;i&gt;À la recherche du temps perdu&lt;/i&gt; in which the taste and smell of a madeleine cookie summons a collection of childhood memories.<br /> <br /> '''Finney Hall'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''florescent'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 409==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Why you insufferable little --&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> This line, paired with St. Cosmo's observation at the end of the following paragraph: &quot;And might I add, Mr. Noseworth, that these constant attempts to strangle Suckling do our public image little good,&quot; seem a fairly direct reference to a well-worn trope from the Simpsons, in which the splenetic Homer, as played here by Noseworth, expresses his no-longer-controllable frustration with Bart, here the increasingly smartalecky Suckling. Pynchon, as has been widely reported, has appeared on The Simpsons a few times. <br /> <br /> More than even &quot;Vineland,&quot; it seems, this book is fraught with pop culture/low comedy asides.&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> '''Wellesianism'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Typo, unless he means Orson.<br /> <br /> '''Asimov Transecular'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Interesting to find one of Isaac Asimov's time travel machines on the pile of &quot;picked-over hulks of failed time machines.&quot; Of course, it would have to have been deposited there from some time in the future.<br /> <br /> &lt;b&gt;to transecular&lt;/b&gt; &lt;i&gt;adj&lt;/i&gt; &quot;that is made through the centuries&quot; (Portuguese) [[User:Btchakir|Btchakir]] 16:48, 19 December 2006 (PST)<br /> <br /> '''Q-98s'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> FM station?<br /> <br /> '''vulcanite'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Heusler's alloy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''bonzoline'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''electrum'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''lignum vitae'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The very hard heavy wood of any of several tropical American guaiacum trees. In Latin, literally &quot;wood of life.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''platinoid'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''magnalium'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''packfong silver'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''safe harbor'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Paradoxical, I think.<br /> <br /> '''automorphic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 410==<br /> <br /> '''revenance'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Symmes Street'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''gaslit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lightfuel motif.<br /> <br /> '''St. Louis Fair'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 1904.<br /> <br /> '''fantan'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;preserver&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Gun?<br /> <br /> '''magenta-and-green'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Clashing-colors motif.<br /> <br /> ==Page 411==<br /> <br /> '''Hawaiian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Zennist'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Practitioners of Zen Buddhism.<br /> <br /> '''''Caged Women of Yokohama'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 412==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Does a dog possess the Buddha-nature?&quot; [...] &quot;Yes, obviously&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> According to the Zen parable the answer to the question is &quot;Mu&quot;, which is both &quot;No&quot; and the sound of a dog's bark, thus neither simply yes nor no.<br /> <br /> '''apricot and aquamarine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Clashing-colors motif.<br /> <br /> '''Bohr... Mach... Einstein... Spengler... Wells... McTaggart'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''young Einstein'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Perhaps a reference to the 1988 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Einstein movie] of the same name. At the time of the F.I.C.O.T.T. (1895 at the earliest), Einstein would have already published &quot;[http://www.worldscibooks.com/phy_etextbook/4454/4454_chap1.pdf The Investigation of the State of Aether in Magnetic Fields].&quot; Ironically, Einstein's special theory of relativity would later essentially invalidate theories of luminiferous aether.<br /> <br /> '''neo-Augustinian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''vertical distance'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Of pudding-drop?<br /> <br /> '''Old Stearinery Bell Tower'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 413==<br /> <br /> '''322 feet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''disordered'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Eg clocktower assassins?<br /> <br /> '''homeopathist'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;the ''lycopodium'' type&quot;... Fear'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''sky-brother'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''other Promise... resurrected... two millennia'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 414==<br /> <br /> '''purlieus'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''millwork'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''penumbrae'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Is the ligatured-ae appropriate here?)<br /> <br /> '''interfered with'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Sexually molested.<br /> <br /> '''vacant'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (So signs of occupancy are faked?)<br /> <br /> '''dust'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Clear sign of vacancy.)<br /> <br /> '''systematically deluded'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Descartes.<br /> <br /> '''quiescence'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Meatman is cyborg?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 415==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Mr. Ace&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Master race; ace of spades; Mr Earl?<br /> <br /> '''phatic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''denounced'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Capitalism has failed but failure still can't be mentioned.)<br /> <br /> '''certain of your great dynamos'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Fraternity of the Venturesome'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Mistranslated 'Chums of Chance'.<br /> <br /> '''''nzzt'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Electrical short?<br /> <br /> '''mission assignments'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pynchon seems to explain Chums backstory.<br /> <br /> ==Page 416==<br /> <br /> '''Squanto and the Pilgrims'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 417==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;we're totally--&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ...fucked.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;He is not what he says he is.&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pynchon denies Chums backstory/explanation.<br /> <br /> '''trespassers'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''enigmatic object'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Plotpoint?<br /> <br /> ==Page 418==<br /> <br /> '''Trespass'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> With a capital T.<br /> <br /> '''evidence... everywhere'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf ''Crying of Lot 49''.<br /> <br /> '''neuropathy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An abnormal and usually degenerative state of the nervous system or nerves.<br /> <br /> '''contracts'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> With Devil.<br /> <br /> '''Other Units'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (So our five gossiped to others?)<br /> <br /> '''exhaustive'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Trekkies.<br /> <br /> '''came to recall'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf PK Dick.<br /> <br /> '''red and indigo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Clashing?<br /> <br /> ==Page 419==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;El Capitan&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Sousa march.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Whistling Rufus&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''consecrated'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Richardson Romanesque'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Style of American Romanesque architecture from 1880s-1890s, named after architect Henry Robson Richardson, notable for use of brown stone, rounded corners, arches and cylindrical turrets. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richardson_Romanesque Wikipedia Entry].<br /> <br /> '''modal theory'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''chit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Bing Spooninger'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Like &quot;Bing&quot; Crosby, a crooner.<br /> <br /> '''rack'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 420==<br /> <br /> '''every note'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Om?<br /> <br /> '''say &quot;Wall&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''difficult vocal feat'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''cakewalk'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An African-American entertainment having a cake as prize for the most accomplished steps and figures in walking; also, a stage dance developed from walking steps and figures typically involving a high prance with backward tilt. From this, slang for a one-sided contest or an easy task.<br /> <br /> '''draw-note'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Note played on harmonica by &quot;drawing&quot; air through reed by sucking in rather than blowing out (insert crude sex joke here).<br /> <br /> ==Page 421==<br /> <br /> '''popularity'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Masochistic love of oppressors.<br /> <br /> '''''cover identity'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Burden of resistance.<br /> <br /> '''Lombardy poplars.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Chromatic Harp'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A harmonica that plays all notes in an octave rather than a scale in a certain key. [http://www.hohnerusa.com/hchromatic.htm Examples].<br /> <br /> '''Pitch Integrity Guard'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''harmonica-reed files'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 422==<br /> <br /> '''I.G. Mundharfwerke'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''drifted'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Slothrop's desk.<br /> <br /> '''Offenbach'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), French composer of operettas.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Offenbach Wikipedia Entry].<br /> <br /> '''into the Latrine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Slothrop's hallucination.<br /> <br /> '''vapor bearing... minerals'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''A.D.C.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 423==<br /> <br /> '''None of them...'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf butterfly dreaming it's monk?<br /> <br /> '''volunteer decoys'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Fan-meme.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;At a Georgia Camp Meeting&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;deps&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''route out of the past'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The nostalgia trap.<br /> <br /> ==Page 424==<br /> <br /> ''''coon' material'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''isotropy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''presently'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> R. Crumb did a comic like this.<br /> <br /> '''opposition'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Was unconscious, now conscious?)<br /> <br /> '''dropped from altitudes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Cf pudding above)<br /> <br /> ==Page 425==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;After the Ball&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Bukhara'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''T.D.Y.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Saksaul'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Q. Zane Toadflax'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Sounds like Douglas Adams?)<br /> <br /> '''Hypopsammotic... Hypops'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 426==<br /> <br /> '''beating their prices'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Contradicts p425 &quot;no further expenditure&quot;.<br /> <br /> ==Page 427==<br /> <br /> '''temporarily lapsing'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''pigs fly'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lindsay = pig.<br /> <br /> '''legalistic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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<p>Jackrmann: /* Page 422 */</p> <hr /> <div>:'''&lt;big&gt;Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.&lt;/big&gt;'''&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Page 397==<br /> <br /> '''syntonic wireless'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''street-Arab'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Columbian ''Half-Dollar'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 398==<br /> <br /> '''nuncio'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Evening Quarters'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''H.G. Wells'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Herbert George Wells (1866-1946), one of the 19th Century science fiction writers whom Pynchon is both emulating and parodying in ''ATD''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.G._Wells Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''jeu d'esprit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''on the subject'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''National Imprest'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Plug&quot; Loafsley'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Plug-ugly loafer/oaf?<br /> <br /> '''Lollipop Lounge'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''turned out'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (When? Before or after first visit?)<br /> <br /> '''Tenderloin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''squalid empire'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Alan Parker's 1976 movie &quot;Bugsy Malone&quot;. [http://imdb.com/title/tt0074256/ IMDb]<br /> <br /> ==Page 399==<br /> <br /> '''indigo... yellow'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Clashing-colors motif.<br /> <br /> '''dicer'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''opopanax'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Typo for 'opoponax'. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opoponax Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''vervain'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''slide cornet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''mandola'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An eight-stringed instrument shaped like a mandolin but tuned the same as a viola.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;tin pan&quot; piano'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''houris'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Darby'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Over 21yo, if he's aged.<br /> <br /> ==Page 400==<br /> <br /> '''paillettes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''louche'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;jazz&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (When did the spelling change?)<br /> <br /> '''high-hats'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Missus Grundy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''ying''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Yen&quot;?<br /> <br /> ==Page 401==<br /> <br /> '''Angela Grace'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Angel of Grace?<br /> <br /> '''Gophiz... Hudson Dustuhs'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Gophers, Hudson Dusters.<br /> <br /> '''slickin up'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Gentrification.<br /> <br /> '''Mr. Mawgin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> J. Pierpont Morgan.<br /> <br /> '''stanchion'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''find it'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Small-penis joke.)<br /> <br /> '''I AM THE WAY'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''triatomic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Ozone = O3.<br /> <br /> ==Page 402==<br /> <br /> '''solenoidal relay'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Dr. Zoot'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''pale'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Even tough-guy Plug fears time machine.<br /> <br /> '''dynamo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Grandmother's day'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pre-Civil War.<br /> <br /> '''Breguet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Date?)<br /> <br /> '''shimming'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''revenue diverted'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Why not no-revenue?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 403==<br /> <br /> '''coaming'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''undog this hatch'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''faith'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Blind, not humble.)<br /> <br /> '''nervous organizations'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf drugs.<br /> <br /> '''pillioned'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''horses'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''arrays of metallic points'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 404==<br /> <br /> '''shockwaves of the Creation'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Anachronistic Big Bang theory?<br /> <br /> '''chamber shook'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (It didn't on p403.)<br /> <br /> '''not beasts'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Airplanes?<br /> <br /> '''smell'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf GR on Passchendaele.<br /> <br /> ==Page 405==<br /> <br /> '''latest Oldsmobile'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Dates.)<br /> <br /> '''Candlebrow U.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''double-domes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''drumming'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Traveling salesmanship.<br /> <br /> '''Ball in Hand'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Alonzo Meatman'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 406==<br /> <br /> '''''Imum Coeli'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Gideon Candlebrow'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Grossdale'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 407==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Smegmo&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''margarine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Candlebow + margarine reminds me of Camille Paglia on Renee Zellwegger as &quot;margarine-browed&quot; (which I don't really understand).<br /> <br /> '''four thousand years'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''this year'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''flammivomous'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''1925'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lindsay c47yo?<br /> <br /> '''Randolph'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Has he been absent?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 408==<br /> <br /> '''telegraphic messages'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Why at night, particularly? Email parody?)<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Goes with everything&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Al Capp's Shmoos?<br /> <br /> '''in the way that certain odors can instantly return us to earlier years'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Recalls Proust's &lt;i&gt;À la recherche du temps perdu&lt;/i&gt; in which the taste and smell of a madeleine cookie summons a collection of childhood memories.<br /> <br /> '''Finney Hall'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''florescent'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 409==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Why you insufferable little --&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> This line, paired with St. Cosmo's observation at the end of the following paragraph: &quot;And might I add, Mr. Noseworth, that these constant attempts to strangle Suckling do our public image little good,&quot; seem a fairly direct reference to a well-worn trope from the Simpsons, in which the splenetic Homer, as played here by Noseworth, expresses his no-longer-controllable frustration with Bart, here the increasingly smartalecky Suckling. Pynchon, as has been widely reported, has appeared on The Simpsons a few times. <br /> <br /> More than even &quot;Vineland,&quot; it seems, this book is fraught with pop culture/low comedy asides.&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> '''Wellesianism'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Typo, unless he means Orson.<br /> <br /> '''Asimov Transecular'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Interesting to find one of Isaac Asimov's time travel machines on the pile of &quot;picked-over hulks of failed time machines.&quot; Of course, it would have to have been deposited there from some time in the future.<br /> <br /> &lt;b&gt;to transecular&lt;/b&gt; &lt;i&gt;adj&lt;/i&gt; &quot;that is made through the centuries&quot; (Portuguese)<br /> <br /> '''Q-98s'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> FM station?<br /> <br /> '''vulcanite'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Heusler's alloy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''bonzoline'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''electrum'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''lignum vitae'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The very hard heavy wood of any of several tropical American guaiacum trees. In Latin, literally &quot;wood of life.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''platinoid'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''magnalium'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''packfong silver'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''safe harbor'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Paradoxical, I think.<br /> <br /> '''automorphic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 410==<br /> <br /> '''revenance'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Symmes Street'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''gaslit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lightfuel motif.<br /> <br /> '''St. Louis Fair'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 1904.<br /> <br /> '''fantan'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;preserver&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Gun?<br /> <br /> '''magenta-and-green'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Clashing-colors motif.<br /> <br /> ==Page 411==<br /> <br /> '''Hawaiian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Zennist'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Practitioners of Zen Buddhism.<br /> <br /> '''''Caged Women of Yokohama'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 412==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Does a dog possess the Buddha-nature?&quot; [...] &quot;Yes, obviously&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> According to the Zen parable the answer to the question is &quot;Mu&quot;, which is both &quot;No&quot; and the sound of a dog's bark, thus neither simply yes nor no.<br /> <br /> '''apricot and aquamarine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Clashing-colors motif.<br /> <br /> '''Bohr... Mach... Einstein... Spengler... Wells... McTaggart'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''young Einstein'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Perhaps a reference to the 1988 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Einstein movie] of the same name. At the time of the F.I.C.O.T.T. (1895 at the earliest), Einstein would have already published &quot;[http://www.worldscibooks.com/phy_etextbook/4454/4454_chap1.pdf The Investigation of the State of Aether in Magnetic Fields].&quot; Ironically, Einstein's special theory of relativity would later essentially invalidate theories of luminiferous aether.<br /> <br /> '''neo-Augustinian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''vertical distance'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Of pudding-drop?<br /> <br /> '''Old Stearinery Bell Tower'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 413==<br /> <br /> '''322 feet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''disordered'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Eg clocktower assassins?<br /> <br /> '''homeopathist'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;the ''lycopodium'' type&quot;... Fear'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''sky-brother'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''other Promise... resurrected... two millennia'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 414==<br /> <br /> '''purlieus'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''millwork'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''penumbrae'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Is the ligatured-ae appropriate here?)<br /> <br /> '''interfered with'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Sexually molested.<br /> <br /> '''vacant'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (So signs of occupancy are faked?)<br /> <br /> '''dust'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Clear sign of vacancy.)<br /> <br /> '''systematically deluded'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Descartes.<br /> <br /> '''quiescence'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Meatman is cyborg?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 415==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Mr. Ace&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Master race; ace of spades; Mr Earl?<br /> <br /> '''phatic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''denounced'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Capitalism has failed but failure still can't be mentioned.)<br /> <br /> '''certain of your great dynamos'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Fraternity of the Venturesome'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Mistranslated 'Chums of Chance'.<br /> <br /> '''''nzzt'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Electrical short?<br /> <br /> '''mission assignments'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pynchon seems to explain Chums backstory.<br /> <br /> ==Page 416==<br /> <br /> '''Squanto and the Pilgrims'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 417==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;we're totally--&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ...fucked.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;He is not what he says he is.&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pynchon denies Chums backstory/explanation.<br /> <br /> '''trespassers'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''enigmatic object'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Plotpoint?<br /> <br /> ==Page 418==<br /> <br /> '''Trespass'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> With a capital T.<br /> <br /> '''evidence... everywhere'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf ''Crying of Lot 49''.<br /> <br /> '''neuropathy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An abnormal and usually degenerative state of the nervous system or nerves.<br /> <br /> '''contracts'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> With Devil.<br /> <br /> '''Other Units'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (So our five gossiped to others?)<br /> <br /> '''exhaustive'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Trekkies.<br /> <br /> '''came to recall'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf PK Dick.<br /> <br /> '''red and indigo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Clashing?<br /> <br /> ==Page 419==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;El Capitan&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Sousa march.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Whistling Rufus&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''consecrated'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Richardson Romanesque'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Style of American Romanesque architecture from 1880s-1890s, named after architect Henry Robson Richardson, notable for use of brown stone, rounded corners, arches and cylindrical turrets. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richardson_Romanesque Wikipedia Entry].<br /> <br /> '''modal theory'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''chit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Bing Spooninger'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Like &quot;Bing&quot; Crosby, a crooner.<br /> <br /> '''rack'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 420==<br /> <br /> '''every note'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Om?<br /> <br /> '''say &quot;Wall&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''difficult vocal feat'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''cakewalk'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A black American entertainment having a cake as prize for the most accomplished steps and figures in walking; also, a stage dance developed from walking steps and figures typically involving a high prance with backward tilt. From this, slang for a one-sided contest or an easy task.<br /> <br /> '''draw-note'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Note played on harmonica by &quot;drawing&quot; air through reed by sucking in rather than blowing out (insert sex joke here).<br /> <br /> ==Page 421==<br /> <br /> '''popularity'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Masochistic love of oppressors.<br /> <br /> '''''cover identity'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Burden of resistance.<br /> <br /> '''Lombardy poplars.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Chromatic Harp'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A harmonica that plays all notes in an octave rather than a scale in a certain key. [http://www.hohnerusa.com/hchromatic.htm Examples].<br /> <br /> '''Pitch Integrity Guard'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''harmonica-reed files'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 422==<br /> <br /> '''I.G. Mundharfwerke'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''drifted'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Slothrop's desk.<br /> <br /> '''Offenbach'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), French composer of operettas.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Offenbach Wikipedia Entry].<br /> <br /> '''into the Latrine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Slothrop's hallucination.<br /> <br /> '''vapor bearing... minerals'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''A.D.C.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 423==<br /> <br /> '''None of them...'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf butterfly dreaming it's monk?<br /> <br /> '''volunteer decoys'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Fan-meme.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;At a Georgia Camp Meeting&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;deps&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''route out of the past'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The nostalgia trap.<br /> <br /> ==Page 424==<br /> <br /> ''''coon' material'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''isotropy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''presently'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> R. Crumb did a comic like this.<br /> <br /> '''opposition'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Was unconscious, now conscious?)<br /> <br /> '''dropped from altitudes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Cf pudding above)<br /> <br /> ==Page 425==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;After the Ball&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Bukhara'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''T.D.Y.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Saksaul'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Q. Zane Toadflax'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Sounds like Douglas Adams?)<br /> <br /> '''Hypopsammotic... Hypops'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 426==<br /> <br /> '''beating their prices'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Contradicts p425 &quot;no further expenditure&quot;.<br /> <br /> ==Page 427==<br /> <br /> '''temporarily lapsing'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''pigs fly'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lindsay = pig.<br /> <br /> '''legalistic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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<p>Jackrmann: /* Page 420 */</p> <hr /> <div>:'''&lt;big&gt;Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.&lt;/big&gt;'''&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Page 397==<br /> <br /> '''syntonic wireless'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''street-Arab'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Columbian ''Half-Dollar'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 398==<br /> <br /> '''nuncio'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Evening Quarters'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''H.G. Wells'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Herbert George Wells (1866-1946), one of the 19th Century science fiction writers whom Pynchon is both emulating and parodying in ''ATD''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.G._Wells Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''jeu d'esprit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''on the subject'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''National Imprest'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Plug&quot; Loafsley'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Plug-ugly loafer/oaf?<br /> <br /> '''Lollipop Lounge'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''turned out'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (When? Before or after first visit?)<br /> <br /> '''Tenderloin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''squalid empire'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Alan Parker's 1976 movie &quot;Bugsy Malone&quot;. [http://imdb.com/title/tt0074256/ IMDb]<br /> <br /> ==Page 399==<br /> <br /> '''indigo... yellow'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Clashing-colors motif.<br /> <br /> '''dicer'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''opopanax'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Typo for 'opoponax'. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opoponax Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''vervain'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''slide cornet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''mandola'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An eight-stringed instrument shaped like a mandolin but tuned the same as a viola.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;tin pan&quot; piano'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''houris'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Darby'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Over 21yo, if he's aged.<br /> <br /> ==Page 400==<br /> <br /> '''paillettes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''louche'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;jazz&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (When did the spelling change?)<br /> <br /> '''high-hats'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Missus Grundy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''ying''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Yen&quot;?<br /> <br /> ==Page 401==<br /> <br /> '''Angela Grace'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Angel of Grace?<br /> <br /> '''Gophiz... Hudson Dustuhs'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Gophers, Hudson Dusters.<br /> <br /> '''slickin up'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Gentrification.<br /> <br /> '''Mr. Mawgin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> J. Pierpont Morgan.<br /> <br /> '''stanchion'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''find it'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Small-penis joke.)<br /> <br /> '''I AM THE WAY'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''triatomic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Ozone = O3.<br /> <br /> ==Page 402==<br /> <br /> '''solenoidal relay'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Dr. Zoot'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''pale'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Even tough-guy Plug fears time machine.<br /> <br /> '''dynamo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Grandmother's day'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pre-Civil War.<br /> <br /> '''Breguet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Date?)<br /> <br /> '''shimming'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''revenue diverted'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Why not no-revenue?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 403==<br /> <br /> '''coaming'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''undog this hatch'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''faith'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Blind, not humble.)<br /> <br /> '''nervous organizations'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf drugs.<br /> <br /> '''pillioned'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''horses'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''arrays of metallic points'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 404==<br /> <br /> '''shockwaves of the Creation'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Anachronistic Big Bang theory?<br /> <br /> '''chamber shook'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (It didn't on p403.)<br /> <br /> '''not beasts'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Airplanes?<br /> <br /> '''smell'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf GR on Passchendaele.<br /> <br /> ==Page 405==<br /> <br /> '''latest Oldsmobile'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Dates.)<br /> <br /> '''Candlebrow U.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''double-domes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''drumming'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Traveling salesmanship.<br /> <br /> '''Ball in Hand'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Alonzo Meatman'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 406==<br /> <br /> '''''Imum Coeli'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Gideon Candlebrow'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Grossdale'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 407==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Smegmo&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''margarine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Candlebow + margarine reminds me of Camille Paglia on Renee Zellwegger as &quot;margarine-browed&quot; (which I don't really understand).<br /> <br /> '''four thousand years'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''this year'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''flammivomous'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''1925'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lindsay c47yo?<br /> <br /> '''Randolph'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Has he been absent?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 408==<br /> <br /> '''telegraphic messages'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Why at night, particularly? Email parody?)<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Goes with everything&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Al Capp's Shmoos?<br /> <br /> '''in the way that certain odors can instantly return us to earlier years'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Recalls Proust's &lt;i&gt;À la recherche du temps perdu&lt;/i&gt; in which the taste and smell of a madeleine cookie summons a collection of childhood memories.<br /> <br /> '''Finney Hall'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''florescent'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 409==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Why you insufferable little --&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> This line, paired with St. Cosmo's observation at the end of the following paragraph: &quot;And might I add, Mr. Noseworth, that these constant attempts to strangle Suckling do our public image little good,&quot; seem a fairly direct reference to a well-worn trope from the Simpsons, in which the splenetic Homer, as played here by Noseworth, expresses his no-longer-controllable frustration with Bart, here the increasingly smartalecky Suckling. Pynchon, as has been widely reported, has appeared on The Simpsons a few times. <br /> <br /> More than even &quot;Vineland,&quot; it seems, this book is fraught with pop culture/low comedy asides.&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> '''Wellesianism'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Typo, unless he means Orson.<br /> <br /> '''Asimov Transecular'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Interesting to find one of Isaac Asimov's time travel machines on the pile of &quot;picked-over hulks of failed time machines.&quot; Of course, it would have to have been deposited there from some time in the future.<br /> <br /> &lt;b&gt;to transecular&lt;/b&gt; &lt;i&gt;adj&lt;/i&gt; &quot;that is made through the centuries&quot; (Portuguese)<br /> <br /> '''Q-98s'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> FM station?<br /> <br /> '''vulcanite'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Heusler's alloy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''bonzoline'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''electrum'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''lignum vitae'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The very hard heavy wood of any of several tropical American guaiacum trees. In Latin, literally &quot;wood of life.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''platinoid'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''magnalium'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''packfong silver'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''safe harbor'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Paradoxical, I think.<br /> <br /> '''automorphic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 410==<br /> <br /> '''revenance'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Symmes Street'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''gaslit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lightfuel motif.<br /> <br /> '''St. Louis Fair'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 1904.<br /> <br /> '''fantan'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;preserver&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Gun?<br /> <br /> '''magenta-and-green'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Clashing-colors motif.<br /> <br /> ==Page 411==<br /> <br /> '''Hawaiian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Zennist'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Practitioners of Zen Buddhism.<br /> <br /> '''''Caged Women of Yokohama'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 412==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Does a dog possess the Buddha-nature?&quot; [...] &quot;Yes, obviously&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> According to the Zen parable the answer to the question is &quot;Mu&quot;, which is both &quot;No&quot; and the sound of a dog's bark, thus neither simply yes nor no.<br /> <br /> '''apricot and aquamarine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Clashing-colors motif.<br /> <br /> '''Bohr... Mach... Einstein... Spengler... Wells... McTaggart'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''young Einstein'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Perhaps a reference to the 1988 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Einstein movie] of the same name. At the time of the F.I.C.O.T.T. (1895 at the earliest), Einstein would have already published &quot;[http://www.worldscibooks.com/phy_etextbook/4454/4454_chap1.pdf The Investigation of the State of Aether in Magnetic Fields].&quot; Ironically, Einstein's special theory of relativity would later essentially invalidate theories of luminiferous aether.<br /> <br /> '''neo-Augustinian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''vertical distance'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Of pudding-drop?<br /> <br /> '''Old Stearinery Bell Tower'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 413==<br /> <br /> '''322 feet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''disordered'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Eg clocktower assassins?<br /> <br /> '''homeopathist'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;the ''lycopodium'' type&quot;... Fear'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''sky-brother'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''other Promise... resurrected... two millennia'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 414==<br /> <br /> '''purlieus'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''millwork'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''penumbrae'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Is the ligatured-ae appropriate here?)<br /> <br /> '''interfered with'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Sexually molested.<br /> <br /> '''vacant'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (So signs of occupancy are faked?)<br /> <br /> '''dust'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Clear sign of vacancy.)<br /> <br /> '''systematically deluded'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Descartes.<br /> <br /> '''quiescence'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Meatman is cyborg?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 415==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Mr. Ace&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Master race; ace of spades; Mr Earl?<br /> <br /> '''phatic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''denounced'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Capitalism has failed but failure still can't be mentioned.)<br /> <br /> '''certain of your great dynamos'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Fraternity of the Venturesome'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Mistranslated 'Chums of Chance'.<br /> <br /> '''''nzzt'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Electrical short?<br /> <br /> '''mission assignments'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pynchon seems to explain Chums backstory.<br /> <br /> ==Page 416==<br /> <br /> '''Squanto and the Pilgrims'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 417==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;we're totally--&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ...fucked.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;He is not what he says he is.&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pynchon denies Chums backstory/explanation.<br /> <br /> '''trespassers'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''enigmatic object'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Plotpoint?<br /> <br /> ==Page 418==<br /> <br /> '''Trespass'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> With a capital T.<br /> <br /> '''evidence... everywhere'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf ''Crying of Lot 49''.<br /> <br /> '''neuropathy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An abnormal and usually degenerative state of the nervous system or nerves.<br /> <br /> '''contracts'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> With Devil.<br /> <br /> '''Other Units'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (So our five gossiped to others?)<br /> <br /> '''exhaustive'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Trekkies.<br /> <br /> '''came to recall'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf PK Dick.<br /> <br /> '''red and indigo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Clashing?<br /> <br /> ==Page 419==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;El Capitan&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Sousa march.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Whistling Rufus&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''consecrated'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Richardson Romanesque'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Style of American Romanesque architecture from 1880s-1890s, named after architect Henry Robson Richardson, notable for use of brown stone, rounded corners, arches and cylindrical turrets. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richardson_Romanesque Wikipedia Entry].<br /> <br /> '''modal theory'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''chit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Bing Spooninger'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Like &quot;Bing&quot; Crosby, a crooner.<br /> <br /> '''rack'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 420==<br /> <br /> '''every note'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Om?<br /> <br /> '''say &quot;Wall&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''difficult vocal feat'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''cakewalk'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A black American entertainment having a cake as prize for the most accomplished steps and figures in walking; also, a stage dance developed from walking steps and figures typically involving a high prance with backward tilt. From this, slang for a one-sided contest or an easy task.<br /> <br /> '''draw-note'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Note played on harmonica by &quot;drawing&quot; air through reed by sucking in rather than blowing out (insert sex joke here).<br /> <br /> ==Page 421==<br /> <br /> '''popularity'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Masochistic love of oppressors.<br /> <br /> '''''cover identity'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Burden of resistance.<br /> <br /> '''Lombardy poplars.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Chromatic Harp'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A harmonica that plays all notes in an octave rather than a scale in a certain key. [http://www.hohnerusa.com/hchromatic.htm Examples].<br /> <br /> '''Pitch Integrity Guard'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''harmonica-reed files'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 422==<br /> <br /> '''I.G. Mundharfwerke'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''drifted'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Slothrop's desk.<br /> <br /> '''Offenbach'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''into the Latrine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Slothrop's hallucination.<br /> <br /> '''vapor bearing... minerals'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''A.D.C.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 423==<br /> <br /> '''None of them...'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf butterfly dreaming it's monk?<br /> <br /> '''volunteer decoys'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Fan-meme.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;At a Georgia Camp Meeting&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;deps&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''route out of the past'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The nostalgia trap.<br /> <br /> ==Page 424==<br /> <br /> ''''coon' material'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''isotropy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''presently'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> R. Crumb did a comic like this.<br /> <br /> '''opposition'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Was unconscious, now conscious?)<br /> <br /> '''dropped from altitudes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Cf pudding above)<br /> <br /> ==Page 425==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;After the Ball&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Bukhara'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''T.D.Y.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Saksaul'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Q. Zane Toadflax'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Sounds like Douglas Adams?)<br /> <br /> '''Hypopsammotic... Hypops'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 426==<br /> <br /> '''beating their prices'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Contradicts p425 &quot;no further expenditure&quot;.<br /> <br /> ==Page 427==<br /> <br /> '''temporarily lapsing'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''pigs fly'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lindsay = pig.<br /> <br /> '''legalistic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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<p>Jackrmann: /* Page 419 */</p> <hr /> <div>:'''&lt;big&gt;Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.&lt;/big&gt;'''&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Page 397==<br /> <br /> '''syntonic wireless'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''street-Arab'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Columbian ''Half-Dollar'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 398==<br /> <br /> '''nuncio'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Evening Quarters'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''H.G. Wells'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Herbert George Wells (1866-1946), one of the 19th Century science fiction writers whom Pynchon is both emulating and parodying in ''ATD''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.G._Wells Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''jeu d'esprit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''on the subject'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''National Imprest'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Plug&quot; Loafsley'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Plug-ugly loafer/oaf?<br /> <br /> '''Lollipop Lounge'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''turned out'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (When? Before or after first visit?)<br /> <br /> '''Tenderloin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''squalid empire'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Alan Parker's 1976 movie &quot;Bugsy Malone&quot;. [http://imdb.com/title/tt0074256/ IMDb]<br /> <br /> ==Page 399==<br /> <br /> '''indigo... yellow'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Clashing-colors motif.<br /> <br /> '''dicer'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''opopanax'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Typo for 'opoponax'. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opoponax Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''vervain'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''slide cornet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''mandola'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An eight-stringed instrument shaped like a mandolin but tuned the same as a viola.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;tin pan&quot; piano'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''houris'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Darby'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Over 21yo, if he's aged.<br /> <br /> ==Page 400==<br /> <br /> '''paillettes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''louche'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;jazz&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (When did the spelling change?)<br /> <br /> '''high-hats'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Missus Grundy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''ying''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Yen&quot;?<br /> <br /> ==Page 401==<br /> <br /> '''Angela Grace'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Angel of Grace?<br /> <br /> '''Gophiz... Hudson Dustuhs'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Gophers, Hudson Dusters.<br /> <br /> '''slickin up'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Gentrification.<br /> <br /> '''Mr. Mawgin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> J. Pierpont Morgan.<br /> <br /> '''stanchion'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''find it'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Small-penis joke.)<br /> <br /> '''I AM THE WAY'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''triatomic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Ozone = O3.<br /> <br /> ==Page 402==<br /> <br /> '''solenoidal relay'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Dr. Zoot'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''pale'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Even tough-guy Plug fears time machine.<br /> <br /> '''dynamo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Grandmother's day'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pre-Civil War.<br /> <br /> '''Breguet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Date?)<br /> <br /> '''shimming'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''revenue diverted'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Why not no-revenue?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 403==<br /> <br /> '''coaming'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''undog this hatch'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''faith'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Blind, not humble.)<br /> <br /> '''nervous organizations'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf drugs.<br /> <br /> '''pillioned'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''horses'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''arrays of metallic points'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 404==<br /> <br /> '''shockwaves of the Creation'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Anachronistic Big Bang theory?<br /> <br /> '''chamber shook'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (It didn't on p403.)<br /> <br /> '''not beasts'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Airplanes?<br /> <br /> '''smell'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf GR on Passchendaele.<br /> <br /> ==Page 405==<br /> <br /> '''latest Oldsmobile'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Dates.)<br /> <br /> '''Candlebrow U.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''double-domes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''drumming'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Traveling salesmanship.<br /> <br /> '''Ball in Hand'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Alonzo Meatman'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 406==<br /> <br /> '''''Imum Coeli'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Gideon Candlebrow'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Grossdale'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 407==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Smegmo&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''margarine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Candlebow + margarine reminds me of Camille Paglia on Renee Zellwegger as &quot;margarine-browed&quot; (which I don't really understand).<br /> <br /> '''four thousand years'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''this year'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''flammivomous'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''1925'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lindsay c47yo?<br /> <br /> '''Randolph'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Has he been absent?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 408==<br /> <br /> '''telegraphic messages'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Why at night, particularly? Email parody?)<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Goes with everything&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Al Capp's Shmoos?<br /> <br /> '''in the way that certain odors can instantly return us to earlier years'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Recalls Proust's &lt;i&gt;À la recherche du temps perdu&lt;/i&gt; in which the taste and smell of a madeleine cookie summons a collection of childhood memories.<br /> <br /> '''Finney Hall'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''florescent'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 409==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Why you insufferable little --&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> This line, paired with St. Cosmo's observation at the end of the following paragraph: &quot;And might I add, Mr. Noseworth, that these constant attempts to strangle Suckling do our public image little good,&quot; seem a fairly direct reference to a well-worn trope from the Simpsons, in which the splenetic Homer, as played here by Noseworth, expresses his no-longer-controllable frustration with Bart, here the increasingly smartalecky Suckling. Pynchon, as has been widely reported, has appeared on The Simpsons a few times. <br /> <br /> More than even &quot;Vineland,&quot; it seems, this book is fraught with pop culture/low comedy asides.&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> '''Wellesianism'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Typo, unless he means Orson.<br /> <br /> '''Asimov Transecular'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Interesting to find one of Isaac Asimov's time travel machines on the pile of &quot;picked-over hulks of failed time machines.&quot; Of course, it would have to have been deposited there from some time in the future.<br /> <br /> &lt;b&gt;to transecular&lt;/b&gt; &lt;i&gt;adj&lt;/i&gt; &quot;that is made through the centuries&quot; (Portuguese)<br /> <br /> '''Q-98s'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> FM station?<br /> <br /> '''vulcanite'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Heusler's alloy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''bonzoline'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''electrum'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''lignum vitae'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The very hard heavy wood of any of several tropical American guaiacum trees. In Latin, literally &quot;wood of life.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''platinoid'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''magnalium'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''packfong silver'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''safe harbor'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Paradoxical, I think.<br /> <br /> '''automorphic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 410==<br /> <br /> '''revenance'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Symmes Street'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''gaslit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lightfuel motif.<br /> <br /> '''St. Louis Fair'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 1904.<br /> <br /> '''fantan'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;preserver&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Gun?<br /> <br /> '''magenta-and-green'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Clashing-colors motif.<br /> <br /> ==Page 411==<br /> <br /> '''Hawaiian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Zennist'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Practitioners of Zen Buddhism.<br /> <br /> '''''Caged Women of Yokohama'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 412==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Does a dog possess the Buddha-nature?&quot; [...] &quot;Yes, obviously&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> According to the Zen parable the answer to the question is &quot;Mu&quot;, which is both &quot;No&quot; and the sound of a dog's bark, thus neither simply yes nor no.<br /> <br /> '''apricot and aquamarine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Clashing-colors motif.<br /> <br /> '''Bohr... Mach... Einstein... Spengler... Wells... McTaggart'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''young Einstein'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Perhaps a reference to the 1988 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Einstein movie] of the same name. At the time of the F.I.C.O.T.T. (1895 at the earliest), Einstein would have already published &quot;[http://www.worldscibooks.com/phy_etextbook/4454/4454_chap1.pdf The Investigation of the State of Aether in Magnetic Fields].&quot; Ironically, Einstein's special theory of relativity would later essentially invalidate theories of luminiferous aether.<br /> <br /> '''neo-Augustinian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''vertical distance'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Of pudding-drop?<br /> <br /> '''Old Stearinery Bell Tower'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 413==<br /> <br /> '''322 feet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''disordered'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Eg clocktower assassins?<br /> <br /> '''homeopathist'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;the ''lycopodium'' type&quot;... Fear'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''sky-brother'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''other Promise... resurrected... two millennia'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 414==<br /> <br /> '''purlieus'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''millwork'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''penumbrae'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Is the ligatured-ae appropriate here?)<br /> <br /> '''interfered with'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Sexually molested.<br /> <br /> '''vacant'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (So signs of occupancy are faked?)<br /> <br /> '''dust'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Clear sign of vacancy.)<br /> <br /> '''systematically deluded'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Descartes.<br /> <br /> '''quiescence'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Meatman is cyborg?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 415==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Mr. Ace&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Master race; ace of spades; Mr Earl?<br /> <br /> '''phatic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''denounced'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Capitalism has failed but failure still can't be mentioned.)<br /> <br /> '''certain of your great dynamos'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Fraternity of the Venturesome'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Mistranslated 'Chums of Chance'.<br /> <br /> '''''nzzt'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Electrical short?<br /> <br /> '''mission assignments'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pynchon seems to explain Chums backstory.<br /> <br /> ==Page 416==<br /> <br /> '''Squanto and the Pilgrims'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 417==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;we're totally--&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ...fucked.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;He is not what he says he is.&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pynchon denies Chums backstory/explanation.<br /> <br /> '''trespassers'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''enigmatic object'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Plotpoint?<br /> <br /> ==Page 418==<br /> <br /> '''Trespass'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> With a capital T.<br /> <br /> '''evidence... everywhere'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf ''Crying of Lot 49''.<br /> <br /> '''neuropathy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An abnormal and usually degenerative state of the nervous system or nerves.<br /> <br /> '''contracts'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> With Devil.<br /> <br /> '''Other Units'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (So our five gossiped to others?)<br /> <br /> '''exhaustive'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Trekkies.<br /> <br /> '''came to recall'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf PK Dick.<br /> <br /> '''red and indigo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Clashing?<br /> <br /> ==Page 419==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;El Capitan&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Sousa march.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Whistling Rufus&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''consecrated'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Richardson Romanesque'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Style of American Romanesque architecture from 1880s-1890s, named after architect Henry Robson Richardson, notable for use of brown stone, rounded corners, arches and cylindrical turrets. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richardson_Romanesque Wikipedia Entry].<br /> <br /> '''modal theory'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''chit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Bing Spooninger'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Like &quot;Bing&quot; Crosby, a crooner.<br /> <br /> '''rack'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 420==<br /> <br /> '''every note'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Om?<br /> <br /> '''say &quot;Wall&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''difficult vocal feat'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''cakewalk'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''draw-note'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 421==<br /> <br /> '''popularity'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Masochistic love of oppressors.<br /> <br /> '''''cover identity'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Burden of resistance.<br /> <br /> '''Lombardy poplars.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Chromatic Harp'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A harmonica that plays all notes in an octave rather than a scale in a certain key. [http://www.hohnerusa.com/hchromatic.htm Examples].<br /> <br /> '''Pitch Integrity Guard'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''harmonica-reed files'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 422==<br /> <br /> '''I.G. Mundharfwerke'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''drifted'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Slothrop's desk.<br /> <br /> '''Offenbach'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''into the Latrine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Slothrop's hallucination.<br /> <br /> '''vapor bearing... minerals'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''A.D.C.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 423==<br /> <br /> '''None of them...'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf butterfly dreaming it's monk?<br /> <br /> '''volunteer decoys'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Fan-meme.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;At a Georgia Camp Meeting&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;deps&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''route out of the past'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The nostalgia trap.<br /> <br /> ==Page 424==<br /> <br /> ''''coon' material'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''isotropy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''presently'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> R. Crumb did a comic like this.<br /> <br /> '''opposition'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Was unconscious, now conscious?)<br /> <br /> '''dropped from altitudes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Cf pudding above)<br /> <br /> ==Page 425==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;After the Ball&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Bukhara'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''T.D.Y.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Saksaul'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Q. Zane Toadflax'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Sounds like Douglas Adams?)<br /> <br /> '''Hypopsammotic... Hypops'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 426==<br /> <br /> '''beating their prices'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Contradicts p425 &quot;no further expenditure&quot;.<br /> <br /> ==Page 427==<br /> <br /> '''temporarily lapsing'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''pigs fly'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lindsay = pig.<br /> <br /> '''legalistic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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<p>Jackrmann: /* Page 419 */</p> <hr /> <div>:'''&lt;big&gt;Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.&lt;/big&gt;'''&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Page 397==<br /> <br /> '''syntonic wireless'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''street-Arab'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Columbian ''Half-Dollar'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 398==<br /> <br /> '''nuncio'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Evening Quarters'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''H.G. Wells'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Herbert George Wells (1866-1946), one of the 19th Century science fiction writers whom Pynchon is both emulating and parodying in ''ATD''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.G._Wells Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''jeu d'esprit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''on the subject'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''National Imprest'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Plug&quot; Loafsley'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Plug-ugly loafer/oaf?<br /> <br /> '''Lollipop Lounge'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''turned out'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (When? Before or after first visit?)<br /> <br /> '''Tenderloin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''squalid empire'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Alan Parker's 1976 movie &quot;Bugsy Malone&quot;. [http://imdb.com/title/tt0074256/ IMDb]<br /> <br /> ==Page 399==<br /> <br /> '''indigo... yellow'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Clashing-colors motif.<br /> <br /> '''dicer'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''opopanax'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Typo for 'opoponax'. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opoponax Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''vervain'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''slide cornet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''mandola'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An eight-stringed instrument shaped like a mandolin but tuned the same as a viola.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;tin pan&quot; piano'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''houris'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Darby'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Over 21yo, if he's aged.<br /> <br /> ==Page 400==<br /> <br /> '''paillettes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''louche'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;jazz&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (When did the spelling change?)<br /> <br /> '''high-hats'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Missus Grundy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''ying''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Yen&quot;?<br /> <br /> ==Page 401==<br /> <br /> '''Angela Grace'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Angel of Grace?<br /> <br /> '''Gophiz... Hudson Dustuhs'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Gophers, Hudson Dusters.<br /> <br /> '''slickin up'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Gentrification.<br /> <br /> '''Mr. Mawgin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> J. Pierpont Morgan.<br /> <br /> '''stanchion'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''find it'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Small-penis joke.)<br /> <br /> '''I AM THE WAY'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''triatomic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Ozone = O3.<br /> <br /> ==Page 402==<br /> <br /> '''solenoidal relay'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Dr. Zoot'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''pale'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Even tough-guy Plug fears time machine.<br /> <br /> '''dynamo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Grandmother's day'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pre-Civil War.<br /> <br /> '''Breguet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Date?)<br /> <br /> '''shimming'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''revenue diverted'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Why not no-revenue?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 403==<br /> <br /> '''coaming'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''undog this hatch'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''faith'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Blind, not humble.)<br /> <br /> '''nervous organizations'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf drugs.<br /> <br /> '''pillioned'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''horses'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''arrays of metallic points'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 404==<br /> <br /> '''shockwaves of the Creation'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Anachronistic Big Bang theory?<br /> <br /> '''chamber shook'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (It didn't on p403.)<br /> <br /> '''not beasts'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Airplanes?<br /> <br /> '''smell'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf GR on Passchendaele.<br /> <br /> ==Page 405==<br /> <br /> '''latest Oldsmobile'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Dates.)<br /> <br /> '''Candlebrow U.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''double-domes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''drumming'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Traveling salesmanship.<br /> <br /> '''Ball in Hand'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Alonzo Meatman'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 406==<br /> <br /> '''''Imum Coeli'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Gideon Candlebrow'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Grossdale'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 407==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Smegmo&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''margarine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Candlebow + margarine reminds me of Camille Paglia on Renee Zellwegger as &quot;margarine-browed&quot; (which I don't really understand).<br /> <br /> '''four thousand years'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''this year'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''flammivomous'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''1925'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lindsay c47yo?<br /> <br /> '''Randolph'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Has he been absent?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 408==<br /> <br /> '''telegraphic messages'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Why at night, particularly? Email parody?)<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Goes with everything&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Al Capp's Shmoos?<br /> <br /> '''in the way that certain odors can instantly return us to earlier years'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Recalls Proust's &lt;i&gt;À la recherche du temps perdu&lt;/i&gt; in which the taste and smell of a madeleine cookie summons a collection of childhood memories.<br /> <br /> '''Finney Hall'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''florescent'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 409==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Why you insufferable little --&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> This line, paired with St. Cosmo's observation at the end of the following paragraph: &quot;And might I add, Mr. Noseworth, that these constant attempts to strangle Suckling do our public image little good,&quot; seem a fairly direct reference to a well-worn trope from the Simpsons, in which the splenetic Homer, as played here by Noseworth, expresses his no-longer-controllable frustration with Bart, here the increasingly smartalecky Suckling. Pynchon, as has been widely reported, has appeared on The Simpsons a few times. <br /> <br /> More than even &quot;Vineland,&quot; it seems, this book is fraught with pop culture/low comedy asides.&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> '''Wellesianism'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Typo, unless he means Orson.<br /> <br /> '''Asimov Transecular'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Interesting to find one of Isaac Asimov's time travel machines on the pile of &quot;picked-over hulks of failed time machines.&quot; Of course, it would have to have been deposited there from some time in the future.<br /> <br /> &lt;b&gt;to transecular&lt;/b&gt; &lt;i&gt;adj&lt;/i&gt; &quot;that is made through the centuries&quot; (Portuguese)<br /> <br /> '''Q-98s'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> FM station?<br /> <br /> '''vulcanite'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Heusler's alloy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''bonzoline'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''electrum'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''lignum vitae'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The very hard heavy wood of any of several tropical American guaiacum trees. In Latin, literally &quot;wood of life.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''platinoid'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''magnalium'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''packfong silver'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''safe harbor'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Paradoxical, I think.<br /> <br /> '''automorphic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 410==<br /> <br /> '''revenance'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Symmes Street'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''gaslit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lightfuel motif.<br /> <br /> '''St. Louis Fair'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 1904.<br /> <br /> '''fantan'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;preserver&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Gun?<br /> <br /> '''magenta-and-green'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Clashing-colors motif.<br /> <br /> ==Page 411==<br /> <br /> '''Hawaiian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Zennist'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Practitioners of Zen Buddhism.<br /> <br /> '''''Caged Women of Yokohama'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 412==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Does a dog possess the Buddha-nature?&quot; [...] &quot;Yes, obviously&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> According to the Zen parable the answer to the question is &quot;Mu&quot;, which is both &quot;No&quot; and the sound of a dog's bark, thus neither simply yes nor no.<br /> <br /> '''apricot and aquamarine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Clashing-colors motif.<br /> <br /> '''Bohr... Mach... Einstein... Spengler... Wells... McTaggart'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''young Einstein'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Perhaps a reference to the 1988 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Einstein movie] of the same name. At the time of the F.I.C.O.T.T. (1895 at the earliest), Einstein would have already published &quot;[http://www.worldscibooks.com/phy_etextbook/4454/4454_chap1.pdf The Investigation of the State of Aether in Magnetic Fields].&quot; Ironically, Einstein's special theory of relativity would later essentially invalidate theories of luminiferous aether.<br /> <br /> '''neo-Augustinian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''vertical distance'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Of pudding-drop?<br /> <br /> '''Old Stearinery Bell Tower'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 413==<br /> <br /> '''322 feet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''disordered'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Eg clocktower assassins?<br /> <br /> '''homeopathist'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;the ''lycopodium'' type&quot;... Fear'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''sky-brother'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''other Promise... resurrected... two millennia'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 414==<br /> <br /> '''purlieus'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''millwork'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''penumbrae'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Is the ligatured-ae appropriate here?)<br /> <br /> '''interfered with'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Sexually molested.<br /> <br /> '''vacant'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (So signs of occupancy are faked?)<br /> <br /> '''dust'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Clear sign of vacancy.)<br /> <br /> '''systematically deluded'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Descartes.<br /> <br /> '''quiescence'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Meatman is cyborg?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 415==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Mr. Ace&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Master race; ace of spades; Mr Earl?<br /> <br /> '''phatic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''denounced'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Capitalism has failed but failure still can't be mentioned.)<br /> <br /> '''certain of your great dynamos'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Fraternity of the Venturesome'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Mistranslated 'Chums of Chance'.<br /> <br /> '''''nzzt'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Electrical short?<br /> <br /> '''mission assignments'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pynchon seems to explain Chums backstory.<br /> <br /> ==Page 416==<br /> <br /> '''Squanto and the Pilgrims'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 417==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;we're totally--&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ...fucked.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;He is not what he says he is.&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pynchon denies Chums backstory/explanation.<br /> <br /> '''trespassers'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''enigmatic object'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Plotpoint?<br /> <br /> ==Page 418==<br /> <br /> '''Trespass'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> With a capital T.<br /> <br /> '''evidence... everywhere'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf ''Crying of Lot 49''.<br /> <br /> '''neuropathy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An abnormal and usually degenerative state of the nervous system or nerves.<br /> <br /> '''contracts'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> With Devil.<br /> <br /> '''Other Units'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (So our five gossiped to others?)<br /> <br /> '''exhaustive'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Trekkies.<br /> <br /> '''came to recall'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf PK Dick.<br /> <br /> '''red and indigo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Clashing?<br /> <br /> ==Page 419==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;El Capitan&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Sousa march.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Whistling Rufus&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''consecrated'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Richardson Romanesque'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Style of American Romanesque architecture in from 1880s-1890s, named after architect Henry Robson Richardson, notable for use of brown stone, rounded corners, arches and cylindrical turrets. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richardson_Romanesque Wikipedia Entry].<br /> <br /> '''modal theory'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''chit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Bing Spooninger'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Like &quot;Bing&quot; Crosby, a crooner.<br /> <br /> '''rack'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 420==<br /> <br /> '''every note'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Om?<br /> <br /> '''say &quot;Wall&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''difficult vocal feat'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''cakewalk'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''draw-note'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 421==<br /> <br /> '''popularity'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Masochistic love of oppressors.<br /> <br /> '''''cover identity'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Burden of resistance.<br /> <br /> '''Lombardy poplars.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Chromatic Harp'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A harmonica that plays all notes in an octave rather than a scale in a certain key. [http://www.hohnerusa.com/hchromatic.htm Examples].<br /> <br /> '''Pitch Integrity Guard'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''harmonica-reed files'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 422==<br /> <br /> '''I.G. Mundharfwerke'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''drifted'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Slothrop's desk.<br /> <br /> '''Offenbach'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''into the Latrine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Slothrop's hallucination.<br /> <br /> '''vapor bearing... minerals'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''A.D.C.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 423==<br /> <br /> '''None of them...'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf butterfly dreaming it's monk?<br /> <br /> '''volunteer decoys'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Fan-meme.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;At a Georgia Camp Meeting&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;deps&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''route out of the past'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The nostalgia trap.<br /> <br /> ==Page 424==<br /> <br /> ''''coon' material'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''isotropy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''presently'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> R. Crumb did a comic like this.<br /> <br /> '''opposition'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Was unconscious, now conscious?)<br /> <br /> '''dropped from altitudes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Cf pudding above)<br /> <br /> ==Page 425==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;After the Ball&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Bukhara'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''T.D.Y.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Saksaul'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Q. Zane Toadflax'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Sounds like Douglas Adams?)<br /> <br /> '''Hypopsammotic... Hypops'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 426==<br /> <br /> '''beating their prices'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Contradicts p425 &quot;no further expenditure&quot;.<br /> <br /> ==Page 427==<br /> <br /> '''temporarily lapsing'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''pigs fly'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lindsay = pig.<br /> <br /> '''legalistic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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<p>Jackrmann: /* Page 418 */</p> <hr /> <div>:'''&lt;big&gt;Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.&lt;/big&gt;'''&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Page 397==<br /> <br /> '''syntonic wireless'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''street-Arab'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Columbian ''Half-Dollar'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 398==<br /> <br /> '''nuncio'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Evening Quarters'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''H.G. Wells'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Herbert George Wells (1866-1946), one of the 19th Century science fiction writers whom Pynchon is both emulating and parodying in ''ATD''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.G._Wells Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''jeu d'esprit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''on the subject'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''National Imprest'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Plug&quot; Loafsley'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Plug-ugly loafer/oaf?<br /> <br /> '''Lollipop Lounge'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''turned out'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (When? Before or after first visit?)<br /> <br /> '''Tenderloin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''squalid empire'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Alan Parker's 1976 movie &quot;Bugsy Malone&quot;. [http://imdb.com/title/tt0074256/ IMDb]<br /> <br /> ==Page 399==<br /> <br /> '''indigo... yellow'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Clashing-colors motif.<br /> <br /> '''dicer'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''opopanax'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Typo for 'opoponax'. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opoponax Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''vervain'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''slide cornet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''mandola'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An eight-stringed instrument shaped like a mandolin but tuned the same as a viola.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;tin pan&quot; piano'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''houris'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Darby'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Over 21yo, if he's aged.<br /> <br /> ==Page 400==<br /> <br /> '''paillettes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''louche'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;jazz&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (When did the spelling change?)<br /> <br /> '''high-hats'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Missus Grundy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''ying''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Yen&quot;?<br /> <br /> ==Page 401==<br /> <br /> '''Angela Grace'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Angel of Grace?<br /> <br /> '''Gophiz... Hudson Dustuhs'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Gophers, Hudson Dusters.<br /> <br /> '''slickin up'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Gentrification.<br /> <br /> '''Mr. Mawgin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> J. Pierpont Morgan.<br /> <br /> '''stanchion'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''find it'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Small-penis joke.)<br /> <br /> '''I AM THE WAY'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''triatomic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Ozone = O3.<br /> <br /> ==Page 402==<br /> <br /> '''solenoidal relay'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Dr. Zoot'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''pale'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Even tough-guy Plug fears time machine.<br /> <br /> '''dynamo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Grandmother's day'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pre-Civil War.<br /> <br /> '''Breguet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Date?)<br /> <br /> '''shimming'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''revenue diverted'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Why not no-revenue?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 403==<br /> <br /> '''coaming'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''undog this hatch'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''faith'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Blind, not humble.)<br /> <br /> '''nervous organizations'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf drugs.<br /> <br /> '''pillioned'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''horses'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''arrays of metallic points'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 404==<br /> <br /> '''shockwaves of the Creation'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Anachronistic Big Bang theory?<br /> <br /> '''chamber shook'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (It didn't on p403.)<br /> <br /> '''not beasts'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Airplanes?<br /> <br /> '''smell'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf GR on Passchendaele.<br /> <br /> ==Page 405==<br /> <br /> '''latest Oldsmobile'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Dates.)<br /> <br /> '''Candlebrow U.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''double-domes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''drumming'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Traveling salesmanship.<br /> <br /> '''Ball in Hand'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Alonzo Meatman'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 406==<br /> <br /> '''''Imum Coeli'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Gideon Candlebrow'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Grossdale'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 407==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Smegmo&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''margarine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Candlebow + margarine reminds me of Camille Paglia on Renee Zellwegger as &quot;margarine-browed&quot; (which I don't really understand).<br /> <br /> '''four thousand years'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''this year'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''flammivomous'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''1925'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lindsay c47yo?<br /> <br /> '''Randolph'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Has he been absent?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 408==<br /> <br /> '''telegraphic messages'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Why at night, particularly? Email parody?)<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Goes with everything&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Al Capp's Shmoos?<br /> <br /> '''in the way that certain odors can instantly return us to earlier years'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Recalls Proust's &lt;i&gt;À la recherche du temps perdu&lt;/i&gt; in which the taste and smell of a madeleine cookie summons a collection of childhood memories.<br /> <br /> '''Finney Hall'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''florescent'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 409==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Why you insufferable little --&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> This line, paired with St. Cosmo's observation at the end of the following paragraph: &quot;And might I add, Mr. Noseworth, that these constant attempts to strangle Suckling do our public image little good,&quot; seem a fairly direct reference to a well-worn trope from the Simpsons, in which the splenetic Homer, as played here by Noseworth, expresses his no-longer-controllable frustration with Bart, here the increasingly smartalecky Suckling. Pynchon, as has been widely reported, has appeared on The Simpsons a few times. <br /> <br /> More than even &quot;Vineland,&quot; it seems, this book is fraught with pop culture/low comedy asides.&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> '''Wellesianism'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Typo, unless he means Orson.<br /> <br /> '''Asimov Transecular'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Interesting to find one of Isaac Asimov's time travel machines on the pile of &quot;picked-over hulks of failed time machines.&quot; Of course, it would have to have been deposited there from some time in the future.<br /> <br /> &lt;b&gt;to transecular&lt;/b&gt; &lt;i&gt;adj&lt;/i&gt; &quot;that is made through the centuries&quot; (Portuguese)<br /> <br /> '''Q-98s'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> FM station?<br /> <br /> '''vulcanite'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Heusler's alloy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''bonzoline'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''electrum'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''lignum vitae'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The very hard heavy wood of any of several tropical American guaiacum trees. In Latin, literally &quot;wood of life.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''platinoid'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''magnalium'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''packfong silver'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''safe harbor'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Paradoxical, I think.<br /> <br /> '''automorphic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 410==<br /> <br /> '''revenance'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Symmes Street'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''gaslit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lightfuel motif.<br /> <br /> '''St. Louis Fair'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 1904.<br /> <br /> '''fantan'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;preserver&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Gun?<br /> <br /> '''magenta-and-green'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Clashing-colors motif.<br /> <br /> ==Page 411==<br /> <br /> '''Hawaiian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Zennist'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Practitioners of Zen Buddhism.<br /> <br /> '''''Caged Women of Yokohama'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 412==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Does a dog possess the Buddha-nature?&quot; [...] &quot;Yes, obviously&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> According to the Zen parable the answer to the question is &quot;Mu&quot;, which is both &quot;No&quot; and the sound of a dog's bark, thus neither simply yes nor no.<br /> <br /> '''apricot and aquamarine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Clashing-colors motif.<br /> <br /> '''Bohr... Mach... Einstein... Spengler... Wells... McTaggart'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''young Einstein'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Perhaps a reference to the 1988 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Einstein movie] of the same name. At the time of the F.I.C.O.T.T. (1895 at the earliest), Einstein would have already published &quot;[http://www.worldscibooks.com/phy_etextbook/4454/4454_chap1.pdf The Investigation of the State of Aether in Magnetic Fields].&quot; Ironically, Einstein's special theory of relativity would later essentially invalidate theories of luminiferous aether.<br /> <br /> '''neo-Augustinian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''vertical distance'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Of pudding-drop?<br /> <br /> '''Old Stearinery Bell Tower'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 413==<br /> <br /> '''322 feet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''disordered'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Eg clocktower assassins?<br /> <br /> '''homeopathist'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;the ''lycopodium'' type&quot;... Fear'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''sky-brother'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''other Promise... resurrected... two millennia'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 414==<br /> <br /> '''purlieus'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''millwork'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''penumbrae'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Is the ligatured-ae appropriate here?)<br /> <br /> '''interfered with'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Sexually molested.<br /> <br /> '''vacant'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (So signs of occupancy are faked?)<br /> <br /> '''dust'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Clear sign of vacancy.)<br /> <br /> '''systematically deluded'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Descartes.<br /> <br /> '''quiescence'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Meatman is cyborg?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 415==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Mr. Ace&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Master race; ace of spades; Mr Earl?<br /> <br /> '''phatic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''denounced'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Capitalism has failed but failure still can't be mentioned.)<br /> <br /> '''certain of your great dynamos'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Fraternity of the Venturesome'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Mistranslated 'Chums of Chance'.<br /> <br /> '''''nzzt'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Electrical short?<br /> <br /> '''mission assignments'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pynchon seems to explain Chums backstory.<br /> <br /> ==Page 416==<br /> <br /> '''Squanto and the Pilgrims'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 417==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;we're totally--&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ...fucked.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;He is not what he says he is.&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pynchon denies Chums backstory/explanation.<br /> <br /> '''trespassers'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''enigmatic object'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Plotpoint?<br /> <br /> ==Page 418==<br /> <br /> '''Trespass'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> With a capital T.<br /> <br /> '''evidence... everywhere'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf ''Crying of Lot 49''.<br /> <br /> '''neuropathy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An abnormal and usually degenerative state of the nervous system or nerves.<br /> <br /> '''contracts'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> With Devil.<br /> <br /> '''Other Units'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (So our five gossiped to others?)<br /> <br /> '''exhaustive'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Trekkies.<br /> <br /> '''came to recall'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf PK Dick.<br /> <br /> '''red and indigo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Clashing?<br /> <br /> ==Page 419==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;El Capitan&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Sousa march.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Whistling Rufus&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''consecrated'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Richardson Romanesque'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''modal theory'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''chit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Bing Spooninger'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''rack'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 420==<br /> <br /> '''every note'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Om?<br /> <br /> '''say &quot;Wall&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''difficult vocal feat'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''cakewalk'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''draw-note'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 421==<br /> <br /> '''popularity'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Masochistic love of oppressors.<br /> <br /> '''''cover identity'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Burden of resistance.<br /> <br /> '''Lombardy poplars.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Chromatic Harp'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A harmonica that plays all notes in an octave rather than a scale in a certain key. [http://www.hohnerusa.com/hchromatic.htm Examples].<br /> <br /> '''Pitch Integrity Guard'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''harmonica-reed files'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 422==<br /> <br /> '''I.G. Mundharfwerke'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''drifted'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Slothrop's desk.<br /> <br /> '''Offenbach'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''into the Latrine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Slothrop's hallucination.<br /> <br /> '''vapor bearing... minerals'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''A.D.C.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 423==<br /> <br /> '''None of them...'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf butterfly dreaming it's monk?<br /> <br /> '''volunteer decoys'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Fan-meme.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;At a Georgia Camp Meeting&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;deps&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''route out of the past'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The nostalgia trap.<br /> <br /> ==Page 424==<br /> <br /> ''''coon' material'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''isotropy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''presently'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> R. Crumb did a comic like this.<br /> <br /> '''opposition'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Was unconscious, now conscious?)<br /> <br /> '''dropped from altitudes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Cf pudding above)<br /> <br /> ==Page 425==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;After the Ball&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Bukhara'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''T.D.Y.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Saksaul'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Q. Zane Toadflax'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Sounds like Douglas Adams?)<br /> <br /> '''Hypopsammotic... Hypops'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 426==<br /> <br /> '''beating their prices'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Contradicts p425 &quot;no further expenditure&quot;.<br /> <br /> ==Page 427==<br /> <br /> '''temporarily lapsing'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''pigs fly'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lindsay = pig.<br /> <br /> '''legalistic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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<p>Jackrmann: /* Page 421 */</p> <hr /> <div>:'''&lt;big&gt;Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.&lt;/big&gt;'''&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Page 397==<br /> <br /> '''syntonic wireless'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''street-Arab'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Columbian ''Half-Dollar'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 398==<br /> <br /> '''nuncio'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Evening Quarters'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''H.G. Wells'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Herbert George Wells (1866-1946), one of the 19th Century science fiction writers whom Pynchon is both emulating and parodying in ''ATD''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.G._Wells Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''jeu d'esprit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''on the subject'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''National Imprest'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Plug&quot; Loafsley'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Plug-ugly loafer/oaf?<br /> <br /> '''Lollipop Lounge'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''turned out'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (When? Before or after first visit?)<br /> <br /> '''Tenderloin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''squalid empire'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Alan Parker's 1976 movie &quot;Bugsy Malone&quot;. [http://imdb.com/title/tt0074256/ IMDb]<br /> <br /> ==Page 399==<br /> <br /> '''indigo... yellow'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Clashing-colors motif.<br /> <br /> '''dicer'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''opopanax'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Typo for 'opoponax'. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opoponax Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''vervain'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''slide cornet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''mandola'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An eight-stringed instrument shaped like a mandolin but tuned the same as a viola.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;tin pan&quot; piano'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''houris'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Darby'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Over 21yo, if he's aged.<br /> <br /> ==Page 400==<br /> <br /> '''paillettes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''louche'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;jazz&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (When did the spelling change?)<br /> <br /> '''high-hats'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Missus Grundy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''ying''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Yen&quot;?<br /> <br /> ==Page 401==<br /> <br /> '''Angela Grace'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Angel of Grace?<br /> <br /> '''Gophiz... Hudson Dustuhs'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Gophers, Hudson Dusters.<br /> <br /> '''slickin up'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Gentrification.<br /> <br /> '''Mr. Mawgin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> J. Pierpont Morgan.<br /> <br /> '''stanchion'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''find it'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Small-penis joke.)<br /> <br /> '''I AM THE WAY'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''triatomic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Ozone = O3.<br /> <br /> ==Page 402==<br /> <br /> '''solenoidal relay'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Dr. Zoot'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''pale'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Even tough-guy Plug fears time machine.<br /> <br /> '''dynamo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Grandmother's day'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pre-Civil War.<br /> <br /> '''Breguet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Date?)<br /> <br /> '''shimming'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''revenue diverted'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Why not no-revenue?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 403==<br /> <br /> '''coaming'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''undog this hatch'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''faith'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Blind, not humble.)<br /> <br /> '''nervous organizations'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf drugs.<br /> <br /> '''pillioned'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''horses'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''arrays of metallic points'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 404==<br /> <br /> '''shockwaves of the Creation'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Anachronistic Big Bang theory?<br /> <br /> '''chamber shook'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (It didn't on p403.)<br /> <br /> '''not beasts'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Airplanes?<br /> <br /> '''smell'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf GR on Passchendaele.<br /> <br /> ==Page 405==<br /> <br /> '''latest Oldsmobile'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Dates.)<br /> <br /> '''Candlebrow U.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''double-domes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''drumming'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Traveling salesmanship.<br /> <br /> '''Ball in Hand'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Alonzo Meatman'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 406==<br /> <br /> '''''Imum Coeli'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Gideon Candlebrow'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Grossdale'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 407==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Smegmo&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''margarine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Candlebow + margarine reminds me of Camille Paglia on Renee Zellwegger as &quot;margarine-browed&quot; (which I don't really understand).<br /> <br /> '''four thousand years'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''this year'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''flammivomous'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''1925'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lindsay c47yo?<br /> <br /> '''Randolph'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Has he been absent?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 408==<br /> <br /> '''telegraphic messages'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Why at night, particularly? Email parody?)<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Goes with everything&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Al Capp's Shmoos?<br /> <br /> '''in the way that certain odors can instantly return us to earlier years'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Recalls Proust's &lt;i&gt;À la recherche du temps perdu&lt;/i&gt; in which the taste and smell of a madeleine cookie summons a collection of childhood memories.<br /> <br /> '''Finney Hall'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''florescent'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 409==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Why you insufferable little --&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> This line, paired with St. Cosmo's observation at the end of the following paragraph: &quot;And might I add, Mr. Noseworth, that these constant attempts to strangle Suckling do our public image little good,&quot; seem a fairly direct reference to a well-worn trope from the Simpsons, in which the splenetic Homer, as played here by Noseworth, expresses his no-longer-controllable frustration with Bart, here the increasingly smartalecky Suckling. Pynchon, as has been widely reported, has appeared on The Simpsons a few times. <br /> <br /> More than even &quot;Vineland,&quot; it seems, this book is fraught with pop culture/low comedy asides.&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> '''Wellesianism'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Typo, unless he means Orson.<br /> <br /> '''Asimov Transecular'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Interesting to find one of Isaac Asimov's time travel machines on the pile of &quot;picked-over hulks of failed time machines.&quot; Of course, it would have to have been deposited there from some time in the future.<br /> <br /> &lt;b&gt;to transecular&lt;/b&gt; &lt;i&gt;adj&lt;/i&gt; &quot;that is made through the centuries&quot; (Portuguese)<br /> <br /> '''Q-98s'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> FM station?<br /> <br /> '''vulcanite'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Heusler's alloy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''bonzoline'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''electrum'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''lignum vitae'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The very hard heavy wood of any of several tropical American guaiacum trees. In Latin, literally &quot;wood of life.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''platinoid'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''magnalium'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''packfong silver'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''safe harbor'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Paradoxical, I think.<br /> <br /> '''automorphic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 410==<br /> <br /> '''revenance'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Symmes Street'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''gaslit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lightfuel motif.<br /> <br /> '''St. Louis Fair'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 1904.<br /> <br /> '''fantan'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;preserver&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Gun?<br /> <br /> '''magenta-and-green'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Clashing-colors motif.<br /> <br /> ==Page 411==<br /> <br /> '''Hawaiian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Zennist'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Practitioners of Zen Buddhism.<br /> <br /> '''''Caged Women of Yokohama'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 412==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Does a dog possess the Buddha-nature?&quot; [...] &quot;Yes, obviously&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> According to the Zen parable the answer to the question is &quot;Mu&quot;, which is both &quot;No&quot; and the sound of a dog's bark, thus neither simply yes nor no.<br /> <br /> '''apricot and aquamarine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Clashing-colors motif.<br /> <br /> '''Bohr... Mach... Einstein... Spengler... Wells... McTaggart'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''young Einstein'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Perhaps a reference to the 1988 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Einstein movie] of the same name. At the time of the F.I.C.O.T.T. (1895 at the earliest), Einstein would have already published &quot;[http://www.worldscibooks.com/phy_etextbook/4454/4454_chap1.pdf The Investigation of the State of Aether in Magnetic Fields].&quot; Ironically, Einstein's special theory of relativity would later essentially invalidate theories of luminiferous aether.<br /> <br /> '''neo-Augustinian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''vertical distance'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Of pudding-drop?<br /> <br /> '''Old Stearinery Bell Tower'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 413==<br /> <br /> '''322 feet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''disordered'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Eg clocktower assassins?<br /> <br /> '''homeopathist'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;the ''lycopodium'' type&quot;... Fear'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''sky-brother'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''other Promise... resurrected... two millennia'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 414==<br /> <br /> '''purlieus'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''millwork'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''penumbrae'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Is the ligatured-ae appropriate here?)<br /> <br /> '''interfered with'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Sexually molested.<br /> <br /> '''vacant'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (So signs of occupancy are faked?)<br /> <br /> '''dust'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Clear sign of vacancy.)<br /> <br /> '''systematically deluded'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Descartes.<br /> <br /> '''quiescence'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Meatman is cyborg?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 415==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Mr. Ace&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Master race; ace of spades; Mr Earl?<br /> <br /> '''phatic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''denounced'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Capitalism has failed but failure still can't be mentioned.)<br /> <br /> '''certain of your great dynamos'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Fraternity of the Venturesome'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Mistranslated 'Chums of Chance'.<br /> <br /> '''''nzzt'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Electrical short?<br /> <br /> '''mission assignments'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pynchon seems to explain Chums backstory.<br /> <br /> ==Page 416==<br /> <br /> '''Squanto and the Pilgrims'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 417==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;we're totally--&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ...fucked.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;He is not what he says he is.&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pynchon denies Chums backstory/explanation.<br /> <br /> '''trespassers'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''enigmatic object'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Plotpoint?<br /> <br /> ==Page 418==<br /> <br /> '''Trespass'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> With a capital T.<br /> <br /> '''evidence... everywhere'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf &quot;Crying of Lot 49&quot;.<br /> <br /> '''neuropathy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''contracts'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> With Devil.<br /> <br /> '''Other Units'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (So our five gossiped to others?)<br /> <br /> '''exhaustive'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Trekkies.<br /> <br /> '''came to recall'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf PK Dick.<br /> <br /> '''red and indigo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Clashing?<br /> <br /> ==Page 419==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;El Capitan&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Sousa march.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Whistling Rufus&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''consecrated'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Richardson Romanesque'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''modal theory'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''chit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Bing Spooninger'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''rack'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 420==<br /> <br /> '''every note'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Om?<br /> <br /> '''say &quot;Wall&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''difficult vocal feat'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''cakewalk'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''draw-note'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 421==<br /> <br /> '''popularity'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Masochistic love of oppressors.<br /> <br /> '''''cover identity'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Burden of resistance.<br /> <br /> '''Lombardy poplars.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Chromatic Harp'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A harmonica that plays all notes in an octave rather than a scale in a certain key. [http://www.hohnerusa.com/hchromatic.htm Examples].<br /> <br /> '''Pitch Integrity Guard'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''harmonica-reed files'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 422==<br /> <br /> '''I.G. Mundharfwerke'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''drifted'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Slothrop's desk.<br /> <br /> '''Offenbach'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''into the Latrine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Slothrop's hallucination.<br /> <br /> '''vapor bearing... minerals'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''A.D.C.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 423==<br /> <br /> '''None of them...'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf butterfly dreaming it's monk?<br /> <br /> '''volunteer decoys'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Fan-meme.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;At a Georgia Camp Meeting&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;deps&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''route out of the past'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The nostalgia trap.<br /> <br /> ==Page 424==<br /> <br /> ''''coon' material'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''isotropy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''presently'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> R. Crumb did a comic like this.<br /> <br /> '''opposition'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Was unconscious, now conscious?)<br /> <br /> '''dropped from altitudes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Cf pudding above)<br /> <br /> ==Page 425==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;After the Ball&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Bukhara'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''T.D.Y.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Saksaul'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Q. Zane Toadflax'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Sounds like Douglas Adams?)<br /> <br /> '''Hypopsammotic... Hypops'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 426==<br /> <br /> '''beating their prices'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Contradicts p425 &quot;no further expenditure&quot;.<br /> <br /> ==Page 427==<br /> <br /> '''temporarily lapsing'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''pigs fly'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lindsay = pig.<br /> <br /> '''legalistic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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<p>Jackrmann: /* Page 409 */</p> <hr /> <div>:'''&lt;big&gt;Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.&lt;/big&gt;'''&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Page 397==<br /> <br /> '''syntonic wireless'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''street-Arab'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Columbian ''Half-Dollar'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 398==<br /> <br /> '''nuncio'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Evening Quarters'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''H.G. Wells'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Herbert George Wells (1866-1946), one of the 19th Century science fiction writers whom Pynchon is both emulating and parodying in ''ATD''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.G._Wells Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''jeu d'esprit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''on the subject'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''National Imprest'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Plug&quot; Loafsley'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Plug-ugly loafer/oaf?<br /> <br /> '''Lollipop Lounge'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''turned out'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (When? Before or after first visit?)<br /> <br /> '''Tenderloin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''squalid empire'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Alan Parker's 1976 movie &quot;Bugsy Malone&quot;. [http://imdb.com/title/tt0074256/ IMDb]<br /> <br /> ==Page 399==<br /> <br /> '''indigo... yellow'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Clashing-colors motif.<br /> <br /> '''dicer'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''opopanax'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Typo for 'opoponax'. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opoponax Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''vervain'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''slide cornet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''mandola'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An eight-stringed instrument shaped like a mandolin but tuned the same as a viola.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;tin pan&quot; piano'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''houris'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Darby'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Over 21yo, if he's aged.<br /> <br /> ==Page 400==<br /> <br /> '''paillettes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''louche'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;jazz&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (When did the spelling change?)<br /> <br /> '''high-hats'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Missus Grundy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''ying''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Yen&quot;?<br /> <br /> ==Page 401==<br /> <br /> '''Angela Grace'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Angel of Grace?<br /> <br /> '''Gophiz... Hudson Dustuhs'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Gophers, Hudson Dusters.<br /> <br /> '''slickin up'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Gentrification.<br /> <br /> '''Mr. Mawgin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> J. Pierpont Morgan.<br /> <br /> '''stanchion'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''find it'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Small-penis joke.)<br /> <br /> '''I AM THE WAY'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''triatomic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Ozone = O3.<br /> <br /> ==Page 402==<br /> <br /> '''solenoidal relay'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Dr. Zoot'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''pale'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Even tough-guy Plug fears time machine.<br /> <br /> '''dynamo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Grandmother's day'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pre-Civil War.<br /> <br /> '''Breguet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Date?)<br /> <br /> '''shimming'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''revenue diverted'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Why not no-revenue?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 403==<br /> <br /> '''coaming'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''undog this hatch'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''faith'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Blind, not humble.)<br /> <br /> '''nervous organizations'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf drugs.<br /> <br /> '''pillioned'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''horses'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''arrays of metallic points'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 404==<br /> <br /> '''shockwaves of the Creation'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Anachronistic Big Bang theory?<br /> <br /> '''chamber shook'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (It didn't on p403.)<br /> <br /> '''not beasts'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Airplanes?<br /> <br /> '''smell'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf GR on Passchendaele.<br /> <br /> ==Page 405==<br /> <br /> '''latest Oldsmobile'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Dates.)<br /> <br /> '''Candlebrow U.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''double-domes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''drumming'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Traveling salesmanship.<br /> <br /> '''Ball in Hand'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Alonzo Meatman'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 406==<br /> <br /> '''''Imum Coeli'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Gideon Candlebrow'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Grossdale'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 407==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Smegmo&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''margarine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Candlebow + margarine reminds me of Camille Paglia on Renee Zellwegger as &quot;margarine-browed&quot; (which I don't really understand).<br /> <br /> '''four thousand years'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''this year'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''flammivomous'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''1925'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lindsay c47yo?<br /> <br /> '''Randolph'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Has he been absent?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 408==<br /> <br /> '''telegraphic messages'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Why at night, particularly? Email parody?)<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Goes with everything&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Al Capp's Shmoos?<br /> <br /> '''in the way that certain odors can instantly return us to earlier years'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Recalls Proust's &lt;i&gt;À la recherche du temps perdu&lt;/i&gt; in which the taste and smell of a madeleine cookie summons a collection of childhood memories.<br /> <br /> '''Finney Hall'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''florescent'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 409==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Why you insufferable little --&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> This line, paired with St. Cosmo's observation at the end of the following paragraph: &quot;And might I add, Mr. Noseworth, that these constant attempts to strangle Suckling do our public image little good,&quot; seem a fairly direct reference to a well-worn trope from the Simpsons, in which the splenetic Homer, as played here by Noseworth, expresses his no-longer-controllable frustration with Bart, here the increasingly smartalecky Suckling. Pynchon, as has been widely reported, has appeared on The Simpsons a few times. <br /> <br /> More than even &quot;Vineland,&quot; it seems, this book is fraught with pop culture/low comedy asides.&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> '''Wellesianism'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Typo, unless he means Orson.<br /> <br /> '''Asimov Transecular'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Interesting to find one of Isaac Asimov's time travel machines on the pile of &quot;picked-over hulks of failed time machines.&quot; Of course, it would have to have been deposited there from some time in the future.<br /> <br /> &lt;b&gt;to transecular&lt;/b&gt; &lt;i&gt;adj&lt;/i&gt; &quot;that is made through the centuries&quot; (Portuguese)<br /> <br /> '''Q-98s'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> FM station?<br /> <br /> '''vulcanite'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Heusler's alloy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''bonzoline'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''electrum'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''lignum vitae'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The very hard heavy wood of any of several tropical American guaiacum trees. In Latin, literally &quot;wood of life.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''platinoid'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''magnalium'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''packfong silver'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''safe harbor'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Paradoxical, I think.<br /> <br /> '''automorphic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 410==<br /> <br /> '''revenance'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Symmes Street'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''gaslit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lightfuel motif.<br /> <br /> '''St. Louis Fair'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 1904.<br /> <br /> '''fantan'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;preserver&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Gun?<br /> <br /> '''magenta-and-green'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Clashing-colors motif.<br /> <br /> ==Page 411==<br /> <br /> '''Hawaiian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Zennist'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Practitioners of Zen Buddhism.<br /> <br /> '''''Caged Women of Yokohama'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 412==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Does a dog possess the Buddha-nature?&quot; [...] &quot;Yes, obviously&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> According to the Zen parable the answer to the question is &quot;Mu&quot;, which is both &quot;No&quot; and the sound of a dog's bark, thus neither simply yes nor no.<br /> <br /> '''apricot and aquamarine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Clashing-colors motif.<br /> <br /> '''Bohr... Mach... Einstein... Spengler... Wells... McTaggart'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''young Einstein'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Perhaps a reference to the 1988 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Einstein movie] of the same name. At the time of the F.I.C.O.T.T. (1895 at the earliest), Einstein would have already published &quot;[http://www.worldscibooks.com/phy_etextbook/4454/4454_chap1.pdf The Investigation of the State of Aether in Magnetic Fields].&quot; Ironically, Einstein's special theory of relativity would later essentially invalidate theories of luminiferous aether.<br /> <br /> '''neo-Augustinian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''vertical distance'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Of pudding-drop?<br /> <br /> '''Old Stearinery Bell Tower'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 413==<br /> <br /> '''322 feet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''disordered'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Eg clocktower assassins?<br /> <br /> '''homeopathist'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;the ''lycopodium'' type&quot;... Fear'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''sky-brother'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''other Promise... resurrected... two millennia'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 414==<br /> <br /> '''purlieus'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''millwork'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''penumbrae'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Is the ligatured-ae appropriate here?)<br /> <br /> '''interfered with'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Sexually molested.<br /> <br /> '''vacant'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (So signs of occupancy are faked?)<br /> <br /> '''dust'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Clear sign of vacancy.)<br /> <br /> '''systematically deluded'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Descartes.<br /> <br /> '''quiescence'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Meatman is cyborg?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 415==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Mr. Ace&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Master race; ace of spades; Mr Earl?<br /> <br /> '''phatic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''denounced'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Capitalism has failed but failure still can't be mentioned.)<br /> <br /> '''certain of your great dynamos'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Fraternity of the Venturesome'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Mistranslated 'Chums of Chance'.<br /> <br /> '''''nzzt'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Electrical short?<br /> <br /> '''mission assignments'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pynchon seems to explain Chums backstory.<br /> <br /> ==Page 416==<br /> <br /> '''Squanto and the Pilgrims'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 417==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;we're totally--&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ...fucked.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;He is not what he says he is.&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pynchon denies Chums backstory/explanation.<br /> <br /> '''trespassers'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''enigmatic object'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Plotpoint?<br /> <br /> ==Page 418==<br /> <br /> '''Trespass'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> With a capital T.<br /> <br /> '''evidence... everywhere'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf &quot;Crying of Lot 49&quot;.<br /> <br /> '''neuropathy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''contracts'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> With Devil.<br /> <br /> '''Other Units'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (So our five gossiped to others?)<br /> <br /> '''exhaustive'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Trekkies.<br /> <br /> '''came to recall'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf PK Dick.<br /> <br /> '''red and indigo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Clashing?<br /> <br /> ==Page 419==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;El Capitan&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Sousa march.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Whistling Rufus&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''consecrated'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Richardson Romanesque'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''modal theory'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''chit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Bing Spooninger'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''rack'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 420==<br /> <br /> '''every note'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Om?<br /> <br /> '''say &quot;Wall&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''difficult vocal feat'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''cakewalk'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''draw-note'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 421==<br /> <br /> '''popularity'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Masochistic love of oppressors.<br /> <br /> '''''cover identity'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Burden of resistance.<br /> <br /> '''Lombardy poplars.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Chromatic Harp'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Pitch Integrity Guard'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''harmonica-reed files'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 422==<br /> <br /> '''I.G. Mundharfwerke'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''drifted'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Slothrop's desk.<br /> <br /> '''Offenbach'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''into the Latrine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Slothrop's hallucination.<br /> <br /> '''vapor bearing... minerals'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''A.D.C.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 423==<br /> <br /> '''None of them...'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf butterfly dreaming it's monk?<br /> <br /> '''volunteer decoys'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Fan-meme.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;At a Georgia Camp Meeting&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;deps&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''route out of the past'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The nostalgia trap.<br /> <br /> ==Page 424==<br /> <br /> ''''coon' material'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''isotropy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''presently'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> R. Crumb did a comic like this.<br /> <br /> '''opposition'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Was unconscious, now conscious?)<br /> <br /> '''dropped from altitudes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Cf pudding above)<br /> <br /> ==Page 425==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;After the Ball&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Bukhara'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''T.D.Y.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Saksaul'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Q. Zane Toadflax'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Sounds like Douglas Adams?)<br /> <br /> '''Hypopsammotic... Hypops'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 426==<br /> <br /> '''beating their prices'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Contradicts p425 &quot;no further expenditure&quot;.<br /> <br /> ==Page 427==<br /> <br /> '''temporarily lapsing'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''pigs fly'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lindsay = pig.<br /> <br /> '''legalistic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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<p>Jackrmann: /* Page 409 */</p> <hr /> <div>:'''&lt;big&gt;Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.&lt;/big&gt;'''&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Page 397==<br /> <br /> '''syntonic wireless'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''street-Arab'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Columbian ''Half-Dollar'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 398==<br /> <br /> '''nuncio'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Evening Quarters'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''H.G. Wells'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Herbert George Wells (1866-1946), one of the 19th Century science fiction writers whom Pynchon is both emulating and parodying in ''ATD''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.G._Wells Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''jeu d'esprit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''on the subject'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''National Imprest'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Plug&quot; Loafsley'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Plug-ugly loafer/oaf?<br /> <br /> '''Lollipop Lounge'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''turned out'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (When? Before or after first visit?)<br /> <br /> '''Tenderloin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''squalid empire'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Alan Parker's 1976 movie &quot;Bugsy Malone&quot;. [http://imdb.com/title/tt0074256/ IMDb]<br /> <br /> ==Page 399==<br /> <br /> '''indigo... yellow'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Clashing-colors motif.<br /> <br /> '''dicer'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''opopanax'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Typo for 'opoponax'. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opoponax Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''vervain'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''slide cornet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''mandola'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An eight-stringed instrument shaped like a mandolin but tuned the same as a viola.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;tin pan&quot; piano'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''houris'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Darby'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Over 21yo, if he's aged.<br /> <br /> ==Page 400==<br /> <br /> '''paillettes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''louche'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;jazz&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (When did the spelling change?)<br /> <br /> '''high-hats'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Missus Grundy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ''''ying''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Yen&quot;?<br /> <br /> ==Page 401==<br /> <br /> '''Angela Grace'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Angel of Grace?<br /> <br /> '''Gophiz... Hudson Dustuhs'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Gophers, Hudson Dusters.<br /> <br /> '''slickin up'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Gentrification.<br /> <br /> '''Mr. Mawgin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> J. Pierpont Morgan.<br /> <br /> '''stanchion'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''find it'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Small-penis joke.)<br /> <br /> '''I AM THE WAY'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''triatomic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Ozone = O3.<br /> <br /> ==Page 402==<br /> <br /> '''solenoidal relay'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Dr. Zoot'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''pale'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Even tough-guy Plug fears time machine.<br /> <br /> '''dynamo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Grandmother's day'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pre-Civil War.<br /> <br /> '''Breguet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Date?)<br /> <br /> '''shimming'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''revenue diverted'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Why not no-revenue?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 403==<br /> <br /> '''coaming'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''undog this hatch'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''faith'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Blind, not humble.)<br /> <br /> '''nervous organizations'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf drugs.<br /> <br /> '''pillioned'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''horses'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''arrays of metallic points'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 404==<br /> <br /> '''shockwaves of the Creation'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Anachronistic Big Bang theory?<br /> <br /> '''chamber shook'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (It didn't on p403.)<br /> <br /> '''not beasts'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Airplanes?<br /> <br /> '''smell'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf GR on Passchendaele.<br /> <br /> ==Page 405==<br /> <br /> '''latest Oldsmobile'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Dates.)<br /> <br /> '''Candlebrow U.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''double-domes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''drumming'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Traveling salesmanship.<br /> <br /> '''Ball in Hand'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Alonzo Meatman'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 406==<br /> <br /> '''''Imum Coeli'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Gideon Candlebrow'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Grossdale'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 407==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Smegmo&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''margarine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Candlebow + margarine reminds me of Camille Paglia on Renee Zellwegger as &quot;margarine-browed&quot; (which I don't really understand).<br /> <br /> '''four thousand years'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''this year'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''flammivomous'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''1925'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lindsay c47yo?<br /> <br /> '''Randolph'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Has he been absent?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 408==<br /> <br /> '''telegraphic messages'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Why at night, particularly? Email parody?)<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Goes with everything&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Al Capp's Shmoos?<br /> <br /> '''in the way that certain odors can instantly return us to earlier years'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Recalls Proust's &lt;i&gt;À la recherche du temps perdu&lt;/i&gt; in which the taste and smell of a madeleine cookie summons a collection of childhood memories.<br /> <br /> '''Finney Hall'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''florescent'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 409==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Why you insufferable little --&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> This line, paired with St. Cosmo's observation at the end of the following paragraph: &quot;And might I add, Mr. Noseworth, that these constant attempts to strangle Suckling do our public image little good,&quot; seem a fairly direct reference to a well-worn trope from the Simpsons, in which the splenetic Homer, as played here by Noseworth, expresses his no-longer-controllable frustration with Bart, here the increasingly smartalecky Suckling. Pynchon, as has been widely reported, has appeared on The Simpsons a few times. <br /> <br /> More than even &quot;Vineland,&quot; it seems, this book is fraught with pop culture/low comedy asides.&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> '''Wellesianism'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Typo, unless he means Orson.<br /> <br /> '''Asimov Transecular'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Interesting to find one of Isaac Asimov's time travel machines on the pile of &quot;picked-over hulks of failed time machines.&quot; Of course, it would have to have been deposited there from some time in the future.<br /> <br /> &lt;b&gt;to transecular&lt;/b&gt; &lt;i&gt;adj&lt;/i&gt; &quot;that is made through the centuries&quot; (Portuguese)<br /> <br /> '''Q-98s'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> FM station?<br /> <br /> '''vulcanite'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Heusler's alloy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''bonzoline'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''electrum'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''lignum vitae'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The very hard heavy wood of any of several tropical American guaiacums.<br /> <br /> '''platinoid'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''magnalium'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''packfong silver'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''safe harbor'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Paradoxical, I think.<br /> <br /> '''automorphic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 410==<br /> <br /> '''revenance'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Symmes Street'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''gaslit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lightfuel motif.<br /> <br /> '''St. Louis Fair'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> 1904.<br /> <br /> '''fantan'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;preserver&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Gun?<br /> <br /> '''magenta-and-green'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Clashing-colors motif.<br /> <br /> ==Page 411==<br /> <br /> '''Hawaiian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Zennist'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Practitioners of Zen Buddhism.<br /> <br /> '''''Caged Women of Yokohama'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 412==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Does a dog possess the Buddha-nature?&quot; [...] &quot;Yes, obviously&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> According to the Zen parable the answer to the question is &quot;Mu&quot;, which is both &quot;No&quot; and the sound of a dog's bark, thus neither simply yes nor no.<br /> <br /> '''apricot and aquamarine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Clashing-colors motif.<br /> <br /> '''Bohr... Mach... Einstein... Spengler... Wells... McTaggart'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''young Einstein'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Perhaps a reference to the 1988 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Einstein movie] of the same name. At the time of the F.I.C.O.T.T. (1895 at the earliest), Einstein would have already published &quot;[http://www.worldscibooks.com/phy_etextbook/4454/4454_chap1.pdf The Investigation of the State of Aether in Magnetic Fields].&quot; Ironically, Einstein's special theory of relativity would later essentially invalidate theories of luminiferous aether.<br /> <br /> '''neo-Augustinian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''vertical distance'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Of pudding-drop?<br /> <br /> '''Old Stearinery Bell Tower'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 413==<br /> <br /> '''322 feet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''disordered'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Eg clocktower assassins?<br /> <br /> '''homeopathist'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;the ''lycopodium'' type&quot;... Fear'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''sky-brother'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''other Promise... resurrected... two millennia'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 414==<br /> <br /> '''purlieus'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''millwork'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''penumbrae'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Is the ligatured-ae appropriate here?)<br /> <br /> '''interfered with'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Sexually molested.<br /> <br /> '''vacant'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (So signs of occupancy are faked?)<br /> <br /> '''dust'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Clear sign of vacancy.)<br /> <br /> '''systematically deluded'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Descartes.<br /> <br /> '''quiescence'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Meatman is cyborg?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 415==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Mr. Ace&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Master race; ace of spades; Mr Earl?<br /> <br /> '''phatic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''denounced'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Capitalism has failed but failure still can't be mentioned.)<br /> <br /> '''certain of your great dynamos'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Fraternity of the Venturesome'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Mistranslated 'Chums of Chance'.<br /> <br /> '''''nzzt'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Electrical short?<br /> <br /> '''mission assignments'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pynchon seems to explain Chums backstory.<br /> <br /> ==Page 416==<br /> <br /> '''Squanto and the Pilgrims'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 417==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;we're totally--&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ...fucked.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;He is not what he says he is.&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Pynchon denies Chums backstory/explanation.<br /> <br /> '''trespassers'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''enigmatic object'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Plotpoint?<br /> <br /> ==Page 418==<br /> <br /> '''Trespass'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> With a capital T.<br /> <br /> '''evidence... everywhere'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf &quot;Crying of Lot 49&quot;.<br /> <br /> '''neuropathy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''contracts'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> With Devil.<br /> <br /> '''Other Units'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (So our five gossiped to others?)<br /> <br /> '''exhaustive'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Trekkies.<br /> <br /> '''came to recall'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf PK Dick.<br /> <br /> '''red and indigo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Clashing?<br /> <br /> ==Page 419==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;El Capitan&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Sousa march.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Whistling Rufus&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''consecrated'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Richardson Romanesque'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''modal theory'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''chit'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Bing Spooninger'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''rack'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 420==<br /> <br /> '''every note'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Om?<br /> <br /> '''say &quot;Wall&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''difficult vocal feat'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''cakewalk'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''draw-note'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 421==<br /> <br /> '''popularity'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Masochistic love of oppressors.<br /> <br /> '''''cover identity'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Burden of resistance.<br /> <br /> '''Lombardy poplars.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Chromatic Harp'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Pitch Integrity Guard'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''harmonica-reed files'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 422==<br /> <br /> '''I.G. Mundharfwerke'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''drifted'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Slothrop's desk.<br /> <br /> '''Offenbach'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''into the Latrine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Slothrop's hallucination.<br /> <br /> '''vapor bearing... minerals'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''A.D.C.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 423==<br /> <br /> '''None of them...'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf butterfly dreaming it's monk?<br /> <br /> '''volunteer decoys'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Fan-meme.<br /> <br /> '''&quot;At a Georgia Camp Meeting&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;deps&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''route out of the past'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The nostalgia trap.<br /> <br /> ==Page 424==<br /> <br /> ''''coon' material'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''isotropy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''presently'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> R. Crumb did a comic like this.<br /> <br /> '''opposition'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Was unconscious, now conscious?)<br /> <br /> '''dropped from altitudes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Cf pudding above)<br /> <br /> ==Page 425==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;After the Ball&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Bukhara'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''T.D.Y.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Saksaul'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Q. Zane Toadflax'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Sounds like Douglas Adams?)<br /> <br /> '''Hypopsammotic... Hypops'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 426==<br /> <br /> '''beating their prices'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Contradicts p425 &quot;no further expenditure&quot;.<br /> <br /> ==Page 427==<br /> <br /> '''temporarily lapsing'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''pigs fly'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Lindsay = pig.<br /> <br /> '''legalistic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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<p>Jackrmann: /* Page 373 */</p> <hr /> <div>:'''&lt;big&gt;Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.&lt;/big&gt;'''&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Page 358==<br /> <br /> '''Camp Bird'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Archie Dipple'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''imported years ago'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''cylindrical hats'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> pic?<br /> <br /> ==Page 359==<br /> <br /> '''bunco-steerer'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A con man or fraudster, but the use here seems less malicious than usual.<br /> <br /> '''Macking for a mack'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 360==<br /> <br /> '''across the day'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''taken in'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Out = alive; in = living dead.<br /> <br /> '''Saturday nights'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Since &quot;V&quot; Pynchon has presented heavy drinking as a virtue.<br /> <br /> '''sanctuary'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Why leave free places at all, though?)<br /> <br /> '''Chicago-built'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Railway hub leads to manufacture of heavy goods.<br /> <br /> '''Sean O'Farrells'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''army &quot;A&quot; tents'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''bars had toothmarks'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Patrons so drunk they sit on floor and gnaw edge of bar?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 361==<br /> <br /> '''cowboy-dancing'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (I can't picture this.)<br /> <br /> '''undeniable miracle'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Hipster resuscitates sappy cliche.<br /> <br /> '''Willow'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 363==<br /> <br /> '''the Wall'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Death?<br /> <br /> '''''chavalitos'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Kids (Spanish).<br /> <br /> '''calico recital'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> IE, wife's conventional plea.<br /> <br /> ==Page 364==<br /> <br /> '''Denver'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Actually mine school at Golden, 15 miles west?<br /> <br /> '''purple... orange'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Clashing colors keep turning up as a motif.)<br /> <br /> '''January colt'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Borrasca'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Borrasca in Spanish means storm, squall, depression, or area of low pressure. But apparently it can also mean an exhausted mine, and 'Going borrasca' means &quot;becoming mined-out&quot;. Interestingly, this is very close to the English word 'borassic', ie. out of cash. This comes from Cockney Rhyming Slang: 'boracic lint' meaning 'skint', ie without any money.<br /> <br /> ==Page 365==<br /> <br /> '''Bridget McGonigal'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''fill the day'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Day motif.)<br /> <br /> ==Page 366==<br /> <br /> '''sled'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Cf Dally and Frank.)<br /> <br /> '''Jake'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Okay (slang).<br /> <br /> ==Page 367==<br /> <br /> '''Thrapston Cheesely III'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Madame Aubergine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Aubergine&quot; is French for eggplant.<br /> <br /> '''Ruperta Chirpingdon-Groin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Yup Toy'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Expensive yuppie gadget, eg iPod.<br /> <br /> '''naphtha-light'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Obscure fuel-into-light motif variant.<br /> <br /> ==Page 368==<br /> <br /> '''$3.50-a-quart'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> About $75 today.<br /> <br /> '''an exquisite'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Monsieur Peychaud'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Sazeracs'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A New Orleans cocktail. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sazerac Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''Bob Stockton'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''bengaline'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Medici collar'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''bastard chinchilla'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 369==<br /> <br /> '''cheurice'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Italian Troubles'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Va fongool-a'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Maman Tant Gras Hall'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Mama-So-Fat Hall.<br /> <br /> '''''guignette'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Dope&quot; Breedlove and his Merry Coons'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''traps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 370==<br /> <br /> '''Ramos gin fizz'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Another New Orleans cocktail. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramos_gin_fizz Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''Benjamin Tucker'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Land League'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Wolfe Tone O'Rooney'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Fenian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''invented boycotting'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''tenor'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 371==<br /> <br /> '''Red Onion'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Deux Esp&amp;egrave;ces'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Flaco'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Skinny man (Spanish).<br /> <br /> ==Page 372==<br /> <br /> '''Montjuich'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''latifundios'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''assassinated'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Date.)<br /> <br /> '''readily found'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Why?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 373==<br /> <br /> '''conjugate... spill'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''Despedida'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''beignets'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> New Orleans-style square, holeless doughnuts usually sprinkled with powdered sugar, famously served at Cafe Du Monde. [http://www.cafedumonde.com/ Website].<br /> <br /> '''Bakunin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876), Russian anarchist and revolutionary. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakunin Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''Kropotkin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Peter Kropotkin (1942-1921), Russian prince and anarchist, author of ''Mutual Aid.'' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kropotkin Wikipedia entry].<br /> <br /> '''Eusebio G&amp;oacute;mez'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''''a sus &amp;oacute;rdenes'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Sp., &quot;at your service.&quot;<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> {{ATD PbP}}</div>

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