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'''Pegamoid traveler's satchel''' 
Pegamoid: a fabric coated with [http://www.kwhplast.com/Default.aspx?id=454043 plasticized nitrocellulose;] used for early aircraft fuselages, convertible roofs and wallets. There is a [http://www.londontown.com/LondonStreets/pegamoid_road_6f6.html Pegamoid Road] in the borough of Enfield, London.

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'''Charlie Sykes'''

Charles Robinson Sykes was a sculptor who designed the hood ornament for Rolls Royce, called "The Spirit of Ecstasy." See also p. 1074.

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'''Ralph Vaughan Williams''' 
English composer, 1872-1958 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Vaughan_Williams]. He premiered the [http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/works/v-w/tallisfantasia.html Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis] in 1910.

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'''Charlie Sykes'''

Charles Robinson Sykes was a sculptor who designed the hood ornament for Rolls Royce, called "The Spirit of Ecstasy."

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'''Ralph Vaughan Williams''' 
English composer, 1872-1958 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Vaughan_Williams]

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'''Charlie Sykes'''

Charles Robinson Sykes was a sculptor who designed the hood ornament for Rolls Royce, called "The Spirit of Ecstasy."

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'''Ralph Vaughan Williams''' 
English composer, 1872-1958 [[Wikipedia entry]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Vaughan_Williams]

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'''Charlie Sykes'''

Charles Robinson Sykes was a sculptor who designed the hood ornament for Rolls Royce, called "The Spirit of Ecstasy."

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

'''Paco''' 
375; trumpet player

'''Padzhitnoff, Igor ("Padzy")''' 
123; Randolph St. Cosmo's "mysterious Russian counterpart". c.f. Alexy Pazhitnov, inventor of Tetris.

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

'''Palmer House''' 
30; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_House Wikipedia entry]

'''pantechnicon''' 
611;

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

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

'''Paris Commune''' 
372;

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

'''Parsons-Short Auxetophone''' 
228; used to record "all T.W.I.T.-sanctioned sittings"

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

'''Pearls''' 
"Pearl Street," location of Vibe Corp, 333-34; "pearl-gray bowlers, 399;

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

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

'''Penhallow, Constance''' 
127; Iceland spar magnates, in Iceland; Hallow means to reserve as holy.

'''Penhallow, Hunter''' 
127; grandson of Constance; witnessing the destruction of the city, 154; "English painter type" 575; one of the Trespassers? 576; switch to nocturnes, 580; in Venice with Dally, 729; one of his paintings, "The Iron Gateway," hanging in Ca' Spongiatosta, 867; with Dally in London, 892;

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

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

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

'''''pétroleurs'' of Paris''' 
19;

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

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

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

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

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

'''Piggot's''' 
678;

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

'''Pike's Peak''' 
112; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pike%27s_Peak Wikipedia entry]

'''Pinkerton, Allan (1819-1884)''' 
43; Allan Pinkerton was a U.S. detective and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton Agency, the first detective agency.; "The Unsleeping Eye" 51; 112; 171; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Pinkerton Wikipedia entry]

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

'''plasmic hysteresis''' 
555;

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

'''Pluto''' 
"Chthonica, Princess of Plutonia," 117; "plutes," 93; "some Plutonian bargain," 154; "plutes," "some ruler of some underwoekd," 231; 362; see also, '''Satan'''

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Poutine''' 
468; little girl in Mayva's ice-cream parlor, Cone Amor; also the name of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poutine French-Canadian dish].

'''Prandtl, Ludwig''' 
603; Bavarian physicist (1875–1953) who made key contributions to aerodynamics, most famously the discovery of the "boundary layer" (an zone of still air around a moving object, the physical phenomenon behind the dust which accumulates on fan blades).

'''Priest, Judas''' 
656;

'''Prime Number Theorem''' 
590, 597; a theorem giving an approximation to the number of prime numbers less than any given integer ''N.'' The specific theorem most commonly invoked under this name is the result by Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855), who in an 1849 letter to Johann Franz Encke (1791–1865) proved that the number of primes less than ''N'' is approximately given by the integral from 2 to ''N'' of 1 over the natural logarithm of ''x.'' (Earlier, at the age of 15, Gauss had proposed that the number of primes less than ''N'' was approximately ''N'' divided by the natural logarithm of ''N.'') Jacques Hadamard (1865–1963) and Charles De la Vallée Poussin (1866–1962) both proved this result independently in 1896. Knowing this result, one can prove that the ''N''th prime number is roughly ''N'' log ''N,'' for sufficiently large ''N.'' The Riemann hypothesis is equivalent to the assertion that the difference between Gauss's later estimate and the true value is never greater than ''cN''1/2log ''N,'' for some number ''c.'' [http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PrimeNumberTheorem.html Wolfram MathWorld entry]

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

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

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

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

'''Provenance, Wren''' 
"girl anthropologist" 275; 922;

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

'''Pullman Strike''' 
177; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullman_strike Wikipedia entry]

'''Pynchon, Edwin''' 
possibly inventor of an airship, the "Albatross"; [[Edwin Pynchon Discussion|DISCUSSION]]

'''Pythagoras''' 
500; Pythagoreans, 633; mathematician, philosopher and mystic (c. 569 BCE–c. 475 BCE). Born in Samos, Ionia, he traveled in Egypt and eventually founded a school in Croton, located in what is now southern Italy. He is the earliest person known to have given a systematic proof of the geometrical proposition now called the Pythagorean Theorem; he or his close followers discovered the irrational numbers and the three-dimensional shape called the [http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/dodecahedron/ dodecahedron]. Furthermore, Pythagoras coined the term ''cosmos'' to express the order and patterning of nature, was the first to give observations showing that the Earth is spherical, and performed significant early experiments in judging how humans perceive sound. Any of these accomplishments would have earned Pythagoras an honorable place in the history of science, but his behavior and that of his followers contained "deep ironies and contradictions," to use Carl Sagan's phrase. Pythagorean doctrine taught that knowledge should be kept secret from the masses, and moreover that the only way to understand the Cosmos was inner contemplation of mathematical ideas without observation or experiment. This attitude stands in stark contrast to the practical approach of Thales (c. 624 BCE–c. 547), Democritus (c. 460 BCE–c. 370 BCE) and other Ionians who grounded their speculations much more fully in observation. Elaborated and immortalized by Plato (c. 428 BCE–c. 348 BCE), the Pythagorean doctrine became a font of anti-rationalism. [http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Pythagoras.html MacTutor biography]

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

'''Paco''' 
375; trumpet player

'''Padzhitnoff, Igor ("Padzy")''' 
123; Randolph St. Cosmo's "mysterious Russian counterpart". c.f. Alexy Pazhitnov, inventor of Tetris.

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

'''Palmer House''' 
30; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_House Wikipedia entry]

'''pantechnicon''' 
611;

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

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

'''Paris Commune''' 
372;

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

'''Parsons-Short Auxetophone''' 
228; used to record "all T.W.I.T.-sanctioned sittings"

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

'''Pearls''' 
"Pearl Street," location of Vibe Corp, 333-34; "pearl-gray bowlers, 399;

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

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

'''Penhallow, Constance''' 
127; Iceland spar magnates, in Iceland; Hallow means to reserve as holy.

'''Penhallow, Hunter''' 
127; grandson of Constance; witnessing the destruction of the city, 154; "English painter type" 575; one of the Trespassers? 576; switch to nocturnes, 580; in Venice with Dally, 729; one of his paintings, "The Iron Gateway," hanging in Ca' Spongiatosta, 867;

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

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

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

'''''pétroleurs'' of Paris''' 
19;

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

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

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

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

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

'''Piggot's''' 
678;

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

'''Pike's Peak''' 
112; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pike%27s_Peak Wikipedia entry]

'''Pinkerton, Allan (1819-1884)''' 
43; Allan Pinkerton was a U.S. detective and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton Agency, the first detective agency.; "The Unsleeping Eye" 51; 112; 171; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Pinkerton Wikipedia entry]

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

'''plasmic hysteresis''' 
555;

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

'''Pluto''' 
"Chthonica, Princess of Plutonia," 117; "plutes," 93; "some Plutonian bargain," 154; "plutes," "some ruler of some underwoekd," 231; 362; see also, '''Satan'''

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Poutine''' 
468; little girl in Mayva's ice-cream parlor, Cone Amor; also the name of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poutine French-Canadian dish].

'''Prandtl, Ludwig''' 
603; Bavarian physicist (1875–1953) who made key contributions to aerodynamics, most famously the discovery of the "boundary layer" (an zone of still air around a moving object, the physical phenomenon behind the dust which accumulates on fan blades).

'''Priest, Judas''' 
656;

'''Prime Number Theorem''' 
590, 597; a theorem giving an approximation to the number of prime numbers less than any given integer ''N.'' The specific theorem most commonly invoked under this name is the result by Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855), who in an 1849 letter to Johann Franz Encke (1791–1865) proved that the number of primes less than ''N'' is approximately given by the integral from 2 to ''N'' of 1 over the natural logarithm of ''x.'' (Earlier, at the age of 15, Gauss had proposed that the number of primes less than ''N'' was approximately ''N'' divided by the natural logarithm of ''N.'') Jacques Hadamard (1865–1963) and Charles De la Vallée Poussin (1866–1962) both proved this result independently in 1896. Knowing this result, one can prove that the ''N''th prime number is roughly ''N'' log ''N,'' for sufficiently large ''N.'' The Riemann hypothesis is equivalent to the assertion that the difference between Gauss's later estimate and the true value is never greater than ''cN''1/2log ''N,'' for some number ''c.'' [http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PrimeNumberTheorem.html Wolfram MathWorld entry]

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

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

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

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

'''Provenance, Wren''' 
"girl anthropologist" 275; 922;

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

'''Pullman Strike''' 
177; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullman_strike Wikipedia entry]

'''Pynchon, Edwin''' 
possibly inventor of an airship, the "Albatross"; [[Edwin Pynchon Discussion|DISCUSSION]]

'''Pythagoras''' 
500; Pythagoreans, 633; mathematician, philosopher and mystic (c. 569 BCE–c. 475 BCE). Born in Samos, Ionia, he traveled in Egypt and eventually founded a school in Croton, located in what is now southern Italy. He is the earliest person known to have given a systematic proof of the geometrical proposition now called the Pythagorean Theorem; he or his close followers discovered the irrational numbers and the three-dimensional shape called the [http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/dodecahedron/ dodecahedron]. Furthermore, Pythagoras coined the term ''cosmos'' to express the order and patterning of nature, was the first to give observations showing that the Earth is spherical, and performed significant early experiments in judging how humans perceive sound. Any of these accomplishments would have earned Pythagoras an honorable place in the history of science, but his behavior and that of his followers contained "deep ironies and contradictions," to use Carl Sagan's phrase. Pythagorean doctrine taught that knowledge should be kept secret from the masses, and moreover that the only way to understand the Cosmos was inner contemplation of mathematical ideas without observation or experiment. This attitude stands in stark contrast to the practical approach of Thales (c. 624 BCE–c. 547), Democritus (c. 460 BCE–c. 370 BCE) and other Ionians who grounded their speculations much more fully in observation. Elaborated and immortalized by Plato (c. 428 BCE–c. 348 BCE), the Pythagorean doctrine became a font of anti-rationalism. [http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Pythagoras.html MacTutor biography]

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

'''Paco''' 
375; trumpet player

'''Padzhitnoff, Igor ("Padzy")''' 
123; Randolph St. Cosmo's "mysterious Russian counterpart". c.f. Alexy Pazhitnov, inventor of Tetris.

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

'''Palmer House''' 
30; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_House Wikipedia entry]

'''pantechnicon''' 
611;

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

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

'''Paris Commune''' 
372;

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

'''Parsons-Short Auxetophone''' 
228; used to record "all T.W.I.T.-sanctioned sittings"

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

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

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

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

'''Penhallow, Constance''' 
127; Iceland spar magnates, in Iceland; Hallow means to reserve as holy.

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

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

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

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

'''''pétroleurs'' of Paris''' 
19;

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

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

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

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

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

'''Piggot's''' 
678;

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

'''Pike's Peak''' 
112; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pike%27s_Peak Wikipedia entry]

'''Pinkerton, Allan (1819-1884)''' 
43; Allan Pinkerton was a U.S. detective and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton Agency, the first detective agency.; "The Unsleeping Eye" 51; 112; 171; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Pinkerton Wikipedia entry]

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

'''plasmic hysteresis''' 
555;

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

'''Pluto''' 
"Chthonica, Princess of Plutonia," 117; "plutes," 93; "plutes," "some ruler of some underwoekd," 231; 362; see also, '''Satan'''

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Poutine''' 
468; little girl in Mayva's ice-cream parlor, Cone Amor; also the name of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poutine French-Canadian dish].

'''Prandtl, Ludwig''' 
603; Bavarian physicist (1875–1953) who made key contributions to aerodynamics, most famously the discovery of the "boundary layer" (an zone of still air around a moving object, the physical phenomenon behind the dust which accumulates on fan blades).

'''Priest, Judas''' 
656;

'''Prime Number Theorem''' 
590, 597; a theorem giving an approximation to the number of prime numbers less than any given integer ''N.'' The specific theorem most commonly invoked under this name is the result by Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855), who in an 1849 letter to Johann Franz Encke (1791–1865) proved that the number of primes less than ''N'' is approximately given by the integral from 2 to ''N'' of 1 over the natural logarithm of ''x.'' (Earlier, at the age of 15, Gauss had proposed that the number of primes less than ''N'' was approximately ''N'' divided by the natural logarithm of ''N.'') Jacques Hadamard (1865–1963) and Charles De la Vallée Poussin (1866–1962) both proved this result independently in 1896. Knowing this result, one can prove that the ''N''th prime number is roughly ''N'' log ''N,'' for sufficiently large ''N.'' The Riemann hypothesis is equivalent to the assertion that the difference between Gauss's later estimate and the true value is never greater than ''cN''1/2log ''N,'' for some number ''c.'' [http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PrimeNumberTheorem.html Wolfram MathWorld entry]

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

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

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

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

'''Provenance, Wren''' 
"girl anthropologist" 275; 922;

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

'''Pullman Strike''' 
177; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullman_strike Wikipedia entry]

'''Pynchon, Edwin''' 
possibly inventor of an airship, the "Albatross"; [[Edwin Pynchon Discussion|DISCUSSION]]

'''Pythagoras''' 
500; Pythagoreans, 633; mathematician, philosopher and mystic (c. 569 BCE–c. 475 BCE). Born in Samos, Ionia, he traveled in Egypt and eventually founded a school in Croton, located in what is now southern Italy. He is the earliest person known to have given a systematic proof of the geometrical proposition now called the Pythagorean Theorem; he or his close followers discovered the irrational numbers and the three-dimensional shape called the [http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/dodecahedron/ dodecahedron]. Furthermore, Pythagoras coined the term ''cosmos'' to express the order and patterning of nature, was the first to give observations showing that the Earth is spherical, and performed significant early experiments in judging how humans perceive sound. Any of these accomplishments would have earned Pythagoras an honorable place in the history of science, but his behavior and that of his followers contained "deep ironies and contradictions," to use Carl Sagan's phrase. Pythagorean doctrine taught that knowledge should be kept secret from the masses, and moreover that the only way to understand the Cosmos was inner contemplation of mathematical ideas without observation or experiment. This attitude stands in stark contrast to the practical approach of Thales (c. 624 BCE–c. 547), Democritus (c. 460 BCE–c. 370 BCE) and other Ionians who grounded their speculations much more fully in observation. Elaborated and immortalized by Plato (c. 428 BCE–c. 348 BCE), the Pythagorean doctrine became a font of anti-rationalism. [http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Pythagoras.html MacTutor biography]

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'''Wackett Punches''' 
53; used to quiet cattle or horses

'''Wagwheel, Tansy''' 
178;

'''Waite, Arthur Edward (1857 - 1942)''' 
225; occultist and co-creator of the Rider-Waite Tarot deck. "This was notable for being one of the first decks to illustrate all 78 cards fully, as opposed to the 22 major arcana. Golden Dawn member Pamela Colman Smith illustrated the cards. The deck was first published in 1910." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Edward_Waite Wikipedia entry]

'''Walker, Foley''' 
31; special assistant to Scarsdale Vibe, 99; [[Substitute conscripts during the American Civil War|substitute conscript for Vibes during the Civil War]], subsequently taking a bullet to the head, which gives him the ability to hear "communications from far, far away," 100ff; 156; 330-333; "righteous men who believed it was God they heard whispering" 334; in Göttingen "the angel, if not of death at least of deep shit," 619;

'''Wall o' Death''' 
476; town in Missouri

[[image:Cycledrome.jpg|thumb|Cycledrome, aka Wall of Death|right]]'''Wall of Death''' 
184; The Wall of Death is a circus sideshow featuring a drum- or barrel-shaped wooden board wall around which stunt motorcyclists drive and carry out tricks. The audience views from the top of the drum looking down. The bikes start in the middle at the bottom of the drum and drive up an initial ramped section until they gain enough velocity to drive horizontal to the floor, defying gravity. this is a famous act in British society and is often scene in towns and fairs. In modern society there are only a few remaining tours of the wall of death, the most notable of which is [http://www.wall-of-death.co.uk "the wall of death world tour", created and run by the Fox family]. [http://thewallofdeath.com Wall of Death Website]

'''Wardenclyffe''' 
326; on Long Island, where Tesla built his Tower

'''Washoe process''' 
375;

'''Wave functions''' 
426; 536;

'''Waziri's from Waziristan''' 
23;

'''Weedon''' 
495; at Cambridge

'''Weierstrass, Karl (1815-1897)''' 
500; a German mathematician who is often cited as the "father of modern analysis"; Weierstrass functions, 594; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Weierstrass Wikipedia entry]

'''Wells, Bulkley''' 
179; referred to as "Buck Wells" by Lew Basnight; "mine manager and cavalry commander at Telluride"; 285; "Cap'n Wells"; Wells was the (real life) manager of Smuggler Mine c. 1911 [http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/co/sanmiguel/directories/1911-smuggler.txt]; the book, [http://www.spesindeopublications.com/corpse.html ''Corpse on Boomerang Road: Telluride's War on Labor, 1899-1908''] gives a lot more information on Wells and Bob Meldrum.

'''Wells, H. G.''' 
398; 407; 412; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.g._wells Wikipedia entry]

'''Wensleydale''' 
37; confronts Baslight

'''Werfner, Dr.''' 
226; Renfrew's "opposite number"; 499; 602; 680; 719;

'''Western Reserve''' 
59; in Ohio

'''Whiskey Hill''' 
60; in Cleveland; 62;

'''Whistler''' 
578;

'''Whitechapel''' 
678; Whitechapel is a place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, England. It is a built-up inner city district located 3.4 miles (5.5 km) east of Charing Cross and roughly bounded by the Bishopsgate thoroughfare on the west, Hanbury Street on the north, Brady Street and Cavell Street on the east and Commercial Road on the south. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_the_Ripper Jack the Ripper], the unidentified serial killer (or killers), was active in the largely impoverished Whitechapel area and adjacent districts of London in the latter half of 1888. The name "Jack the Ripper" is taken from a letter to the Central News Agency by someone claiming to be the murderer, published at the time of the killings; Rippercetta, 680; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitechapel Wikipedia entry]]

'''White City, The''' 
[[Image:whitecity.jpg|thumb|The White City, Chicago, 1893|right]]3; Costing over a half billion in today's dollars and covering 686 acres, the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and Fair in Chicago was a grand sight to its 27 million visitors -- a planned layout of large, classically inspired buildings (what we now call the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaux-Arts_architecture Beaux Arts] style) all built on the same scale and all painted white -- hence, the nickname of "The White City." And within and around those white buildings was the most amazing display of 65,000 exhibits depicting (to quote the Exposition promoters) "all of the highest and best achievements of modern civilization; all that was strange, beautiful, artistic, and inspiring; a vast and wonderful university of the arts and sciences, teaching a noble lesson in history, art, science, discovery and invention, designed to stimulate the youth of this and future generations to greater and more heroic endeavor." 10; 36; Dally think about, in Chicago, 336; [http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1386.html More from the "Encyclopedia of Chicago"]

'''White City Investigations''' 
36;

'''Whitehall''' 
444; Whitehall is a road in Westminster in London, the capital of the United Kingdom. It is the main artery running north from Parliament Square, centre of national government, towards the traditional Charing Cross, now at the southern end of Trafalgar Square and marked by the statue of Charles I, which is often regarded as the heart of London for its residents and tourists. Along its way it is lined by many government ministries; "Whitehall" is therefore also frequently used as a metonym for governmental administration, as well as being a geographic name for the surrounding district; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitehall Wikipedia entry]

'''White Wings''' 
150;

'''Whittaker, Edmund''' 
542; English mathematician;

'''Wilde, Oscar''' 
185; 536;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde Wikipedia entry]; Wilde's lecture tour of the USA in 1882 took him to Leadville; while there he was invited by the mayor to tour the Matchless silver mine and open their new lode. It was in a Leadville bar that Wilde saw the notice,
"Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadville,_Colorado Wikipedia entry (Leadville)]

'''Wilhelm''' 
543;

'''Wilhelmstrausse''' 
686; 690;

'''Williams and Walker''' 
344; "coon review"; Bert Williams and George Walker, in the first decade of the twentieth century, became the most famous black entertainers in the world. They had teamed up in California in 1893, came to New York in 1896 as "Two Real Coons," and two years later were making a dance called the cakewalk all the rage. Williams and Walker, as they were then known, made American theatrical history by bringing the first black musical, In Dahomey, to Broadway in 1902.

'''Windy City''' 
3; aka Chicago the origins of the nickname are in dispute and they are explored in this [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windy_City%2C_Origin_of_Name_(Chicago) Wikipedia entry].

'''Witherspoon Street''' 
159, in Princeton, NJ [[Witherspoon Street|DISCUSSION]]

'''Woevre, Piet''' 
540; formerly of the Force Publique; 558;

'''Wolf-Ferrari''' 
512;

'''Wordsworth''' 
535'

'''''Workers' Own Songbook''''' 
49; [[ Workers' Own Songbook|DISCUSSION ]]

'''World-System''' 
33; Tesla's free power; [[Tesla's_World_System|Read Tesla's "World System of Wireless Transmission of Energy"]]

'''World War I''' 
578;

'''Wyman, Pap''' 
88; Owns the eponymous Pap Wyman's Saloon where Mayva is working when she meets Webb Traverse. Bartenders at the saloon are "Adolph" and "Ernst".

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==Page 557==

'''Viktor Mulciber''' 
???

'''bespoke''' 
???

'''Basil Zaharoff''' 
???

'''trains of history... run''' 
???

'''Balkan ''komitadji''''' 
???

'''waybill''' 
???

'''metamorphosed into an American Negro''' 
Cf honorary Negro (Frank above).

'''Nipponese''' 
???

'''Hertzian''' 
???

==Page 558==

'''scalar part''' 
???

'''baritone in a barbershop quartet''' 
???

'''viola in a string quartet''' 
???

'''Further Term''' 
???

'''laterite''' 
???

'''Inner Boulevards''' 
???

'''Gare du Midi''' 
???

'''Edouard Gevaert''' 
(No ligature?)

==Page 559==

'''Krupp field-piece''' 
???

'''vaguely glandular''' 
???

'''''ostinato''''' 
???

'''poleaxed''' 
???

'''lost to silence''' 
(Not silent, or very?)

==Page 560==

'''Estacade''' 
???

'''''mousmée... mouchard''' 
???

'''always lead an irregular life''' 
Cf GR.

'''Maria Bayley Hamilton''' 
???

'''council meeting''' 
???

==Page 561==

'''Brougham Bridge''' 
???

'''pulls a knife''' 
(Folklore, really later?)

'''on the stone''' 
???

'''Pentecostal''' 
???

'''official Mischief Opportunity''' 
???

'''absinthe spoons''' 
???

'''cravats''' 
???

'''"four-door farce"''' 
(See eg Bogdanovich's "What's Up, Doc?")

==Page 562==

'''Minque''' 
???

'''carillons... carilloneur''' 
???

'''Hanseatic''' 
???

'''burghers''' 
???

'''silted up''' 
???

'''Damme and Sluis''' 
???

==Page 563==

'''trusted his intuitiveness''' 
???

'''''"Jou moerskont!"''... Afrikaans''' 
???

==Page 564==

'''immense choir''' 
???

'''''Voetsak''''' 
???

'''starers''' 
???

'''tobacco-stricken''' 
???

'''half-silvering''' 
???

'''four cusps... index-surface''' 
???

'''co-conscious''' 
???

==Page 565==

'''true icosahedron''' 
???

'''12+8... pyrites''' 
???

'''Riemann sphere''' 
???

'''Felix Klein''' 
???

'''ebonite''' 
???

'''Ohmic Drift''' 
???

'''speed of the earth... kinetic energy''' 
???

'''Recently Lorentz's paper''' 
???

'''Lord Rayleigh''' 
???

==Page 566==

'''In a dream...''' 

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:

:"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."

'''analogies''' 
(Pynchonian heuristics.)

'''nameless Station''' 
???

'''lightless uncreated''' 
(Gnostic heresy?)

'''stuffed sinus''' 
???

'''''Konichiwa''''' 
???

==Page 567==

'''new Puccini opera''' 
???

'''Borel-Clerc... "La Matchiche"''' 
???

'''western anchor''' 
What about France, Spain, Portugal?

'''Compaignie Internationale des Wagons-Lits''' 
???

'''two hundred francs''' 
???

'''theory of sets''' 
???

'''Bruges Canal''' 
???

==Page 568==

'''vaporetto''' 
???

'''Grand Canal''' 
???

'''San Marco end''' 
???

'''Piazzetta''' 
???

'''San Giorgio Maggiore''' 
???

'''spreading... cloak''' 
Cliche/allusion?

'''live here forever''' 
Pynchon special-pleading that Dally isn't just another tourist.

==Page 569==

'''Malibran... Polo's house''' 
???

'''"pincette"''' 
???

'''profondes''' 
???

'''Vincenzo Miserere''' 
???

'''train to Trieste''' 
???

'''Svegli''' 
???

'''shark leather''' 
Different from sharkskin?

'''''Specchiere''''' 
???

'''glassmakers on Murano''' 
???

==Page 570==

'''another one of his stories''' 
(Jackson Pynchon should highlight all the AtD passages that originated as bedtime stories.)

'''TERAPIA''' 
???

'''San Servolo''' 
???

'''Palazzo Ducale''' 
???

'''''manicomio''''' 
???

'''uterine vellum''' 
???

'''pitch, rouge''' 
???

==Page 571==

'''La Doppiatrice''' 
???

'''Ettore Sananzolo''' 
???

'''Maskelyne cabinet''' 
After Neville Maskelyne, from ''Mason and Dixon.'' Maskelyne sent M and D to record the Transit of Venus.

==Page 572==

'''smoke back into a cigar''' 
Time's arrow/ entropy motif.

'''hard-as-a-rock black cigar''' 
???

'''thumping''' 
???

'''''salso''''' 
???

'''''sandoli''''' 
???

'''trains pulling in''' 
Famous early film.

==Page 573==

'''Cannareggio''' 
???

==Page 574==

'''thirty years older''' 
About 65yo?

'''that day''' 
In NYC when Dally showed up.

'''when she was born''' 
Cf Pretenders/Chryssie Hynde.

'''Stronzo''' 
???

'''''In bocc' al lupo!''''' 
From the Roman dialect, in which the Italians - including Rocco and Pino - seem to speak. Meaning, literally, "In the
mouth of the wolf," and idiomatically, "Good luck."

'''''campielli''''' 
???

==Page 575==

'''Riva''' 
???

'''middy blouses''' 
???

'''not yet been rebuilt''' 
???

'''''lucciole''''' 
???

'''''fondamenta''''' 
???

'''''ombreta''''' 
???

'''light's good here''' 
Old joke about drunk looking for car keys under streetlight though he dropped them somewhere else.

'''microcosm''' 
???

==Page 576==

'''twelve soldi''' 
???

'''franc... ten francs''' 
???

'''Canaletto''' 
???

'''Beppo''' 
???

'''pitch''' 
???

'''Bauer-Grünwald''' 
???

==Page 577==

''''Safe'''' 
Recent art-movie title?

'''Castello''' 
???

'''Evening Gun''' 
???

'''importunate''' 
???

'''Dr. Grace''' 
???

==Page 578==

'''Dorsoduro''' 
???

'''''pensione''''' 
???

'''La Calcina''' 
???

'''Zattere''' 
???

'''''cimici''''' 
???

'''bora''' 
???

==Page 579==

'''Tintoretto's ''Abduction...''''' 
???

'''Accademia''' 
???

'''Titian''' 
???

'''Infancy Gospel of Thomas''' 
???

==Page 580==

'''Pentecost story in Acts''' 
???

'''Galilean dialect''' 
Of Aramaic.

'''''rii''''' 
Plural of ''rio''.

==Page 581==

'''''sotopòrteghi''''' 
???

'''Bodeo 10.4 mm''' 
???

==Page 582==

'''''foschetta''''' 
???

'''''masègni''''' 
???

'''''patrone''''' 
???

'''wine trains up from Puglia''' 
???

'''Winter''' 
1904-1905?

'''Principessa Spongiatosta''' 
Is Pugnax's book from p6 at all relevant here?

'''Ca'''' 
???

'''Roman Composite order''' 
???

'''japonica''' 
???

==Page 583==

'''Iron Bridge''' 
???

'''Le Havre''' 
???

'''''ma via''''' 
???

'''third eyes touching''' 
???

==Page 584==

'''"Swiss insurance salesman. Wolf. No, Putzi."''' 
Bria's had so many beaux she gets them confused?

'''''topo''''' 
???

'''Dogana''' 
???

'''Andrea Tancredi''' 
???

'''Seurat and Signac''' 
???

'''Divisionism''' 
???

'''Marinetti''' 
???

'''"Futurists"''' 
???

'''brutalism''' 
???

'''Torcello''' 
???

'''primitivo''' 
???

==Page 585==

'''green-and-lavender''' 
???

'''sirocco''' 
???

'''San Michele''' 
???

'''futuristic vehicle''' 
P155.

'''''Preliminary Studies...''''' 
???

==Page 586==

'''Always with us.''' 
Gospel of ?.

'''''vero''''' 
Cf 'verdad'.

'''orpiment yellow''' 
???

'''Nürnberg violet''' 
???

==Page 587==

'''''nebbia, nebbietta, foschia, caligo, sfumato''''' 
???

'''speed of sound''' 
Air temperature is more important that density.

'''''La Velocità del Suono''''' 
???

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'''tannery''' 
???

'''Gauss's brain''' 
???

'''impervious to the wind''' 
(Attribute of tanned leather?)

'''''"Heiliger Bimbam!"''''' 
???

'''rim''' 
Kit pretends to think he's referring to monocle as 'chichi' (stylish).

==Page 589==

'''''Noli me tangere''''' 
???

'''''Hausknochen''''' 
???

==Page 590==

'''Hadamard... Poussin... Prime Number Theorem''' 
???

'''patent ''Kühlbox''''' 
???

'''beleaguered subset''' 
???

==Page 591==

'''prats''' 
???

'''''Die Nullstellen der [zeta]-Funktion''''' 
???

'''"Richard Harding Davis"''' 
???

'''seldom, if ever''' 
Cf p559 re Umeki!?

'''tetralatry''' 
???

'''C. Howard Hinton''' 
???

'''Johann K.F. Zöllner''' 
???

'''vogue... 'vague'''' 
???

==Page 592==

'''upside-down triangles''' 
Also Pléiade p538.

'''metallic banging''' 
Oddly echoes Finnegans Wake.

''''metric interval'''' 
???

'''Prinzenstrasse and Weenderstrasse''' 
???

==Page 593==

'''twenty marks''' 
???

'''''der Pistolenheld''''' 
???

'''''das Nichtharmonischestrahlenbündel''''' 
???

'''Latin... Euler''' 
???

'''''Mathematical Theory of the Top''''' 
???

'''Leopold Kronecker''' and '''Cantor''' 
The "monumental quarrel between Kronecker and Cantor" is also referred to as a "religious war," appropriately enough. It's based in a disagreement over the legitimacy of numbers. Kronecker held that "'the positive integers were created by God, and all else is the work of man.'" This is contradicted by "'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.'"

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 "created by God" have become a Pavlovian digital binary for Pointsman, but the two oppositions track faithfully right down to the italicized "between."

"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." [Page 55]

'''''Kontinuum''''' 
???

==Page 599==

'''''Nervenklinik''''' 
???

'''boundless epsilonic world''' 
???

'''Der Finsterzwerg''' 
???

'''chloral hydrate''' 
???

'''''Kneipe''''' 
???

'''Gauss passing to Weber a remark''' 
???

'''Weierstrass functions''' 
???

==Page 595==

'''That winter, in St. Petersburg''' 
22 Jan 1905 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution_of_1905 Wikipedia]

'''Japanese won''' 
05 September 1905. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War Wikipedia]

'''Muslim rebellion''' 
???

'''the year that followed''' 
???

'''Peter and Paul Fortress''' 
???

'''kazatsky''' 
???

'''Waziristan''' 
???

==Page 596==

'''as-ever transcendentally interesting hair''' 
???

''''gen'''' 
???

'''Afghani dirhan''' 
???

'''Ghaznivid Empire''' 
???

'''coffee scion''' 
Coffee motif.

'''Günther von Quassel''' 
???

'''less than universally respected Ludwig Boltzmann''' 
???

==Page 597==

'''Gymnasium child''' 
???

'''one measure of the chaos''' 
Cf GR on entropy?

'''Göttingen tradition''' 
???

'''statue''' 
???

'''Rathaus square''' 
???

==Page 598==

'''Axioms of Zermelo''' 
???

'''Poincaré''' 
???

'''Cauchy''' 
???

'''Whittaker and Watson''' 
???

'''two point one''' 
(Cf Sondheim lyric.)

==Page 599==

'''dueling-society cap''' 
???

'''''Liebchen''''' 
???

'''''Egal was, meine Schatze''''' 
???

'''''Schläger''''' 
???

'''Krummsäbel''' 
???

'''Korbrapier''' 
???

'''épée''' 
???

==Page 600==

'''Colt six-shooters''' 
I guess Kit's luggage beat him to Gottingen.

'''''Verbindung''''' 
???

'''restoring moment, elastic constants''' 
???

'''Geheimrat Hilbert''' 
???

==Page 601==

'''''Ehrenkodex''''' 
???

'''Tyrolean hats''' 
???

'''''Schnurrbartbinde''''' 
???

'''Zeiss "Palmos Panoram"''' 
???

'''''"Auf die Mensur!"''''' 
???

'''Andaman Islands''' 
???

'''Stephanie du Motel... group-theory godfather Evariste Galois''' 
???

==Page 602==

'''young Ouspensky''' 
???

'''Chong''' 
???

'''"The what?"''' 
(Precipitous drop in authorial expectations?)

'''Sidney... Kensington Sid''' 
???

'''transtriadic''' 
???

==Page 603==

'''"Spiritual... At Göttingen?"''' 
???

'''Applied Mechanics Institute''' 
???

'''Prandtl's recent discovery of the boundary layer''' 
???

'''brambled guttie''' 
???

'''Bürgerstrasse''' 
???

'''Brauweg''' 
???

'''Zhukovsky's Transformation''' 
???

'''glass of tea''' 
(Why not 'cup'?)

'''''"...according to Spiral Theory, up to infinity." "And beyond, " added Gunther, nodding earnestly.''''' 
Reference to Buzz Lightyear's stock character phrase in 1995's TOY STORY (Pixar/Disney):
"To Infinity... and Beyond!"
--[[User:Btchakir|Btchakir]] 07:43, 19 December 2006 (PST)

==Page 604==

'''nontrivial zeroes''' 
???

'''much-noted talk''' 
???

'''eigenvalues''' 
???

'''Hermitian operator''' 
???

'''spine of reality... ''"Rückgrat von Wirklichkeit"''''' 
???

'''Hilbert-Polya Conjecture''' 
???

==Page 605==

'''Vance Aychrome''' 
???

'''Full English Breakfast''' 
???

'''Pythagorean dietary''' 
(Possible missing word?)

'''kippers and bloaters''' 
???

'''baps''' 
???

'''Spong machine''' 
???

'''thinned''' 
From full 78. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarot Wikipedia]

'''vegetarian haggis''' 
It exists: [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22vegetarian+haggis Google search]

==Page 606==

'''Lamont replevin''' 
???

'''Elflock Villa''' 
???

'''Stuffed Edge, Herts''' 
???

'''kedgeree''' 
???

'''Cesare Lombroso''' 
???

'''Trans-Oxanian''' 
???

'''Graeco-Buddhist''' 
???

'''bad hats''' 
???

==Page 607==

'''Gas Office''' 
???

'''communication by means of coal-gas''' 
Cf Nabokov's "Ada". Also inverse of Tesla's energy-transmitter.

'''bombs... Suffragettes''' 
(Did they bomb post offices?!?)

'''Pashto''' 
???

'''Tadjik''' 
???

'''Seven Dials''' 
???

==Page 608==

'''"Avoid beans"''' 
???

'''spotted dick''' 
???

'''Yarmouth bloater''' 
???

''''shape'''' 
???

'''blue lamps''' 
???

'''lamé surfaces''' 
???

'''yarmulke... high crown... dented Trilby style''' 
???

==Page 609==

'''''Kelly's Suburban Dictionary''''' 
???

'''wenlets''' 
???

==Page 610==

'''daylight oil''' 
???

'''refused to dim''' 
(Nicely vivid.)

'''Vontz's Universal Pick''' 
???

'''alchemized coke''' 
???

'''Lincrusta-Walton''' 
???

'''hipshot''' 
???

'''scalene polygons''' 
???

'''jet''' 
???

'''Apotheosis Sparkless Torch''' 
???

==Page 611==

'''magnalium''' 
???

'''''The Slow and the Stupefied''''' 
Daytime soap 'The Young and the Restless'.

'''gas-head''' 
Cf pothead, acidhead, etc.

'''Pike's Peak''' 
Lew's old stompinground.

'''Gus Swallowfield''' 
???

'''most theft policies''' 
(Fact?)

'''pantechnicon''' 
???

'''legitimate bill of sale''' 
???

==Page 612==

'''''Pavonazzetto''''' 
???

'''Phrygian marble''' 
???

'''Atys... Agdistis''' 
???

'''''The Mutilation of Atys''''' 
No images: [http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Mutilation%20of%20Atys&btnG=Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi Google image search]

'''Arturo Naunt''' 
???

'''shocking the bourgeoisie''' 
???

'''koumiss vessel''' 
???

'''wrathful deities from Tantric Buddhism''' 
???

==Page 613==

'''tiny German hand camera''' 
???

'''raw light''' 
???

'''Gasophilia''' 
???

'''Schwärmer''' 
???

'''Chidambaram''' 
???

'''''Akaša''''' 
???

'''Atman''' 
???

''''''Chaos'''''' 
???

'''van Helmont''' 
???

'''stridently unpopulated''' 
Cf p610.

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

ATD 588-614

2006-12-23T05:13:37Z

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==Page 588==

'''tannery''' 
???

'''Gauss's brain''' 
???

'''impervious to the wind''' 
(Attribute of tanned leather?)

'''''"Heiliger Bimbam!"''''' 
???

'''rim''' 
Kit pretends to think he's referring to monocle as 'chichi' (stylish).

==Page 589==

'''''Noli me tangere''''' 
???

'''''Hausknochen''''' 
???

==Page 590==

'''Hadamard... Poussin... Prime Number Theorem''' 
???

'''patent ''Kühlbox''''' 
???

'''beleaguered subset''' 
???

==Page 591==

'''prats''' 
???

'''''Die Nullstellen der [zeta]-Funktion''''' 
???

'''"Richard Harding Davis"''' 
???

'''seldom, if ever''' 
Cf p559 re Umeki!?

'''tetralatry''' 
???

'''C. Howard Hinton''' 
???

'''Johann K.F. Zöllner''' 
???

'''vogue... 'vague'''' 
???

==Page 592==

'''upside-down triangles''' 
Also Pléiade p538.

'''metallic banging''' 
Oddly echoes Finnegans Wake.

''''metric interval'''' 
???

'''Prinzenstrasse and Weenderstrasse''' 
???

==Page 593==

'''twenty marks''' 
???

'''''der Pistolenheld''''' 
???

'''''das Nichtharmonischestrahlenbündel''''' 
???

'''Latin... Euler''' 
???

'''''Mathematical Theory of the Top''''' 
???

'''Leopold Kronecker''' and '''Cantor''' 
The ongoing war between the two mathematicians is reminiscent of (or does it anticipate?) the rift between Pointsman and Mexico in ''Gravity's Rainbow.''

"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." [Page 55]

'''''Kontinuum''''' 
???

==Page 599==

'''''Nervenklinik''''' 
???

'''boundless epsilonic world''' 
???

'''Der Finsterzwerg''' 
???

'''chloral hydrate''' 
???

'''''Kneipe''''' 
???

'''Gauss passing to Weber a remark''' 
???

'''Weierstrass functions''' 
???

==Page 595==

'''That winter, in St. Petersburg''' 
22 Jan 1905 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution_of_1905 Wikipedia]

'''Japanese won''' 
05 September 1905. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War Wikipedia]

'''Muslim rebellion''' 
???

'''the year that followed''' 
???

'''Peter and Paul Fortress''' 
???

'''kazatsky''' 
???

'''Waziristan''' 
???

==Page 596==

'''as-ever transcendentally interesting hair''' 
???

''''gen'''' 
???

'''Afghani dirhan''' 
???

'''Ghaznivid Empire''' 
???

'''coffee scion''' 
Coffee motif.

'''Günther von Quassel''' 
???

'''less than universally respected Ludwig Boltzmann''' 
???

==Page 597==

'''Gymnasium child''' 
???

'''one measure of the chaos''' 
Cf GR on entropy?

'''Göttingen tradition''' 
???

'''statue''' 
???

'''Rathaus square''' 
???

==Page 598==

'''Axioms of Zermelo''' 
???

'''Poincaré''' 
???

'''Cauchy''' 
???

'''Whittaker and Watson''' 
???

'''two point one''' 
(Cf Sondheim lyric.)

==Page 599==

'''dueling-society cap''' 
???

'''''Liebchen''''' 
???

'''''Egal was, meine Schatze''''' 
???

'''''Schläger''''' 
???

'''Krummsäbel''' 
???

'''Korbrapier''' 
???

'''épée''' 
???

==Page 600==

'''Colt six-shooters''' 
I guess Kit's luggage beat him to Gottingen.

'''''Verbindung''''' 
???

'''restoring moment, elastic constants''' 
???

'''Geheimrat Hilbert''' 
???

==Page 601==

'''''Ehrenkodex''''' 
???

'''Tyrolean hats''' 
???

'''''Schnurrbartbinde''''' 
???

'''Zeiss "Palmos Panoram"''' 
???

'''''"Auf die Mensur!"''''' 
???

'''Andaman Islands''' 
???

'''Stephanie du Motel... group-theory godfather Evariste Galois''' 
???

==Page 602==

'''young Ouspensky''' 
???

'''Chong''' 
???

'''"The what?"''' 
(Precipitous drop in authorial expectations?)

'''Sidney... Kensington Sid''' 
???

'''transtriadic''' 
???

==Page 603==

'''"Spiritual... At Göttingen?"''' 
???

'''Applied Mechanics Institute''' 
???

'''Prandtl's recent discovery of the boundary layer''' 
???

'''brambled guttie''' 
???

'''Bürgerstrasse''' 
???

'''Brauweg''' 
???

'''Zhukovsky's Transformation''' 
???

'''glass of tea''' 
(Why not 'cup'?)

'''''"...according to Spiral Theory, up to infinity." "And beyond, " added Gunther, nodding earnestly.''''' 
Reference to Buzz Lightyear's stock character phrase in 1995's TOY STORY (Pixar/Disney):
"To Infinity... and Beyond!"
--[[User:Btchakir|Btchakir]] 07:43, 19 December 2006 (PST)

==Page 604==

'''nontrivial zeroes''' 
???

'''much-noted talk''' 
???

'''eigenvalues''' 
???

'''Hermitian operator''' 
???

'''spine of reality... ''"Rückgrat von Wirklichkeit"''''' 
???

'''Hilbert-Polya Conjecture''' 
???

==Page 605==

'''Vance Aychrome''' 
???

'''Full English Breakfast''' 
???

'''Pythagorean dietary''' 
(Possible missing word?)

'''kippers and bloaters''' 
???

'''baps''' 
???

'''Spong machine''' 
???

'''thinned''' 
From full 78. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarot Wikipedia]

'''vegetarian haggis''' 
It exists: [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22vegetarian+haggis Google search]

==Page 606==

'''Lamont replevin''' 
???

'''Elflock Villa''' 
???

'''Stuffed Edge, Herts''' 
???

'''kedgeree''' 
???

'''Cesare Lombroso''' 
???

'''Trans-Oxanian''' 
???

'''Graeco-Buddhist''' 
???

'''bad hats''' 
???

==Page 607==

'''Gas Office''' 
???

'''communication by means of coal-gas''' 
Cf Nabokov's "Ada". Also inverse of Tesla's energy-transmitter.

'''bombs... Suffragettes''' 
(Did they bomb post offices?!?)

'''Pashto''' 
???

'''Tadjik''' 
???

'''Seven Dials''' 
???

==Page 608==

'''"Avoid beans"''' 
???

'''spotted dick''' 
???

'''Yarmouth bloater''' 
???

''''shape'''' 
???

'''blue lamps''' 
???

'''lamé surfaces''' 
???

'''yarmulke... high crown... dented Trilby style''' 
???

==Page 609==

'''''Kelly's Suburban Dictionary''''' 
???

'''wenlets''' 
???

==Page 610==

'''daylight oil''' 
???

'''refused to dim''' 
(Nicely vivid.)

'''Vontz's Universal Pick''' 
???

'''alchemized coke''' 
???

'''Lincrusta-Walton''' 
???

'''hipshot''' 
???

'''scalene polygons''' 
???

'''jet''' 
???

'''Apotheosis Sparkless Torch''' 
???

==Page 611==

'''magnalium''' 
???

'''''The Slow and the Stupefied''''' 
Daytime soap 'The Young and the Restless'.

'''gas-head''' 
Cf pothead, acidhead, etc.

'''Pike's Peak''' 
Lew's old stompinground.

'''Gus Swallowfield''' 
???

'''most theft policies''' 
(Fact?)

'''pantechnicon''' 
???

'''legitimate bill of sale''' 
???

==Page 612==

'''''Pavonazzetto''''' 
???

'''Phrygian marble''' 
???

'''Atys... Agdistis''' 
???

'''''The Mutilation of Atys''''' 
No images: [http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Mutilation%20of%20Atys&btnG=Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi Google image search]

'''Arturo Naunt''' 
???

'''shocking the bourgeoisie''' 
???

'''koumiss vessel''' 
???

'''wrathful deities from Tantric Buddhism''' 
???

==Page 613==

'''tiny German hand camera''' 
???

'''raw light''' 
???

'''Gasophilia''' 
???

'''Schwärmer''' 
???

'''Chidambaram''' 
???

'''''Akaša''''' 
???

'''Atman''' 
???

''''''Chaos'''''' 
???

'''van Helmont''' 
???

'''stridently unpopulated''' 
Cf p610.

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

ATD 557-587

2006-12-23T03:31:51Z

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==Page 557==

'''Viktor Mulciber''' 
???

'''bespoke''' 
???

'''Basil Zaharoff''' 
???

'''trains of history... run''' 
???

'''Balkan ''komitadji''''' 
???

'''waybill''' 
???

'''metamorphosed into an American Negro''' 
Cf honorary Negro (Frank above).

'''Nipponese''' 
???

'''Hertzian''' 
???

==Page 558==

'''scalar part''' 
???

'''baritone in a barbershop quartet''' 
???

'''viola in a string quartet''' 
???

'''Further Term''' 
???

'''laterite''' 
???

'''Inner Boulevards''' 
???

'''Gare du Midi''' 
???

'''Edouard Gevaert''' 
(No ligature?)

==Page 559==

'''Krupp field-piece''' 
???

'''vaguely glandular''' 
???

'''''ostinato''''' 
???

'''poleaxed''' 
???

'''lost to silence''' 
(Not silent, or very?)

==Page 560==

'''Estacade''' 
???

'''''mousmée... mouchard''' 
???

'''always lead an irregular life''' 
Cf GR.

'''Maria Bayley Hamilton''' 
???

'''council meeting''' 
???

==Page 561==

'''Brougham Bridge''' 
???

'''pulls a knife''' 
(Folklore, really later?)

'''on the stone''' 
???

'''Pentecostal''' 
???

'''official Mischief Opportunity''' 
???

'''absinthe spoons''' 
???

'''cravats''' 
???

'''"four-door farce"''' 
(See eg Bogdanovich's "What's Up, Doc?")

==Page 562==

'''Minque''' 
???

'''carillons... carilloneur''' 
???

'''Hanseatic''' 
???

'''burghers''' 
???

'''silted up''' 
???

'''Damme and Sluis''' 
???

==Page 563==

'''trusted his intuitiveness''' 
???

'''''"Jou moerskont!"''... Afrikaans''' 
???

==Page 564==

'''immense choir''' 
???

'''''Voetsak''''' 
???

'''starers''' 
???

'''tobacco-stricken''' 
???

'''half-silvering''' 
???

'''four cusps... index-surface''' 
???

'''co-conscious''' 
???

==Page 565==

'''true icosahedron''' 
???

'''12+8... pyrites''' 
???

'''Riemann sphere''' 
???

'''Felix Klein''' 
???

'''ebonite''' 
???

'''Ohmic Drift''' 
???

'''speed of the earth... kinetic energy''' 
???

'''Recently Lorentz's paper''' 
???

'''Lord Rayleigh''' 
???

==Page 566==

'''In a dream...''' 

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:

:"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."

'''analogies''' 
(Pynchonian heuristics.)

'''nameless Station''' 
???

'''lightless uncreated''' 
(Gnostic heresy?)

'''stuffed sinus''' 
???

'''''Konichiwa''''' 
???

==Page 567==

'''new Puccini opera''' 
???

'''Borel-Clerc... "La Matchiche"''' 
???

'''western anchor''' 
What about France, Spain, Portugal?

'''Compaignie Internationale des Wagons-Lits''' 
???

'''two hundred francs''' 
???

'''theory of sets''' 
???

'''Bruges Canal''' 
???

==Page 568==

'''vaporetto''' 
???

'''Grand Canal''' 
???

'''San Marco end''' 
???

'''Piazzetta''' 
???

'''San Giorgio Maggiore''' 
???

'''spreading... cloak''' 
Cliche/allusion?

'''live here forever''' 
Pynchon special-pleading that Dally isn't just another tourist.

==Page 569==

'''Malibran... Polo's house''' 
???

'''"pincette"''' 
???

'''profondes''' 
???

'''Vincenzo Miserere''' 
???

'''train to Trieste''' 
???

'''Svegli''' 
???

'''shark leather''' 
Different from sharkskin?

'''''Specchiere''''' 
???

'''glassmakers on Murano''' 
???

==Page 570==

'''another one of his stories''' 
(Jackson Pynchon should highlight all the AtD passages that originated as bedtime stories.)

'''TERAPIA''' 
???

'''San Servolo''' 
???

'''Palazzo Ducale''' 
???

'''''manicomio''''' 
???

'''uterine vellum''' 
???

'''pitch, rouge''' 
???

==Page 571==

'''La Doppiatrice''' 
???

'''Ettore Sananzolo''' 
???

'''Maskelyne cabinet''' 
After Neville Maskelyne, from ''Mason and Dixon.'' Maskelyne sent M and D to record the Transit of Venus.

==Page 572==

'''smoke back into a cigar''' 
Time's arrow/ entropy motif.

'''hard-as-a-rock black cigar''' 
???

'''thumping''' 
???

'''''salso''''' 
???

'''''sandoli''''' 
???

'''trains pulling in''' 
Famous early film.

==Page 573==

'''Cannareggio''' 
???

==Page 574==

'''thirty years older''' 
About 65yo?

'''that day''' 
In NYC when Dally showed up.

'''when she was born''' 
Cf Pretenders/Chryssie Hynde.

'''Stronzo''' 
???

'''''In bocc' al lupo!''''' 
From the Roman dialect, which the Italians - including Rocco and Pino - seem to speak in. Meaning literally "In the mouth of the wolf," and idiomatically, "Good luck."

'''''campielli''''' 
???

==Page 575==

'''Riva''' 
???

'''middy blouses''' 
???

'''not yet been rebuilt''' 
???

'''''lucciole''''' 
???

'''''fondamenta''''' 
???

'''''ombreta''''' 
???

'''light's good here''' 
Old joke about drunk looking for car keys under streetlight though he dropped them somewhere else.

'''microcosm''' 
???

==Page 576==

'''twelve soldi''' 
???

'''franc... ten francs''' 
???

'''Canaletto''' 
???

'''Beppo''' 
???

'''pitch''' 
???

'''Bauer-Grünwald''' 
???

==Page 577==

''''Safe'''' 
Recent art-movie title?

'''Castello''' 
???

'''Evening Gun''' 
???

'''importunate''' 
???

'''Dr. Grace''' 
???

==Page 578==

'''Dorsoduro''' 
???

'''''pensione''''' 
???

'''La Calcina''' 
???

'''Zattere''' 
???

'''''cimici''''' 
???

'''bora''' 
???

==Page 579==

'''Tintoretto's ''Abduction...''''' 
???

'''Accademia''' 
???

'''Titian''' 
???

'''Infancy Gospel of Thomas''' 
???

==Page 580==

'''Pentecost story in Acts''' 
???

'''Galilean dialect''' 
Of Aramaic.

'''''rii''''' 
Plural of ''rio''.

==Page 581==

'''''sotopòrteghi''''' 
???

'''Bodeo 10.4 mm''' 
???

==Page 582==

'''''foschetta''''' 
???

'''''masègni''''' 
???

'''''patrone''''' 
???

'''wine trains up from Puglia''' 
???

'''Winter''' 
1904-1905?

'''Principessa Spongiatosta''' 
Is Pugnax's book from p6 at all relevant here?

'''Ca'''' 
???

'''Roman Composite order''' 
???

'''japonica''' 
???

==Page 583==

'''Iron Bridge''' 
???

'''Le Havre''' 
???

'''''ma via''''' 
???

'''third eyes touching''' 
???

==Page 584==

'''"Swiss insurance salesman. Wolf. No, Putzi."''' 
Bria's had so many beaux she gets them confused?

'''''topo''''' 
???

'''Dogana''' 
???

'''Andrea Tancredi''' 
???

'''Seurat and Signac''' 
???

'''Divisionism''' 
???

'''Marinetti''' 
???

'''"Futurists"''' 
???

'''brutalism''' 
???

'''Torcello''' 
???

'''primitivo''' 
???

==Page 585==

'''green-and-lavender''' 
???

'''sirocco''' 
???

'''San Michele''' 
???

'''futuristic vehicle''' 
P155.

'''''Preliminary Studies...''''' 
???

==Page 586==

'''Always with us.''' 
Gospel of ?.

'''''vero''''' 
Cf 'verdad'.

'''orpiment yellow''' 
???

'''Nürnberg violet''' 
???

==Page 587==

'''''nebbia, nebbietta, foschia, caligo, sfumato''''' 
???

'''speed of sound''' 
Air temperature is more important that density.

'''''La Velocità del Suono''''' 
???

==Annotation Index==
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==Page 557==

'''Viktor Mulciber''' 
???

'''bespoke''' 
???

'''Basil Zaharoff''' 
???

'''trains of history... run''' 
???

'''Balkan ''komitadji''''' 
???

'''waybill''' 
???

'''metamorphosed into an American Negro''' 
Cf honorary Negro (Frank above).

'''Nipponese''' 
???

'''Hertzian''' 
???

==Page 558==

'''scalar part''' 
???

'''baritone in a barbershop quartet''' 
???

'''viola in a string quartet''' 
???

'''Further Term''' 
???

'''laterite''' 
???

'''Inner Boulevards''' 
???

'''Gare du Midi''' 
???

'''Edouard Gevaert''' 
(No ligature?)

==Page 559==

'''Krupp field-piece''' 
???

'''vaguely glandular''' 
???

'''''ostinato''''' 
???

'''poleaxed''' 
???

'''lost to silence''' 
(Not silent, or very?)

==Page 560==

'''Estacade''' 
???

'''''mousmée... mouchard''' 
???

'''always lead an irregular life''' 
Cf GR.

'''Maria Bayley Hamilton''' 
???

'''council meeting''' 
???

==Page 561==

'''Brougham Bridge''' 
???

'''pulls a knife''' 
(Folklore, really later?)

'''on the stone''' 
???

'''Pentecostal''' 
???

'''official Mischief Opportunity''' 
???

'''absinthe spoons''' 
???

'''cravats''' 
???

'''"four-door farce"''' 
(See eg Bogdanovich's "What's Up, Doc?")

==Page 562==

'''Minque''' 
???

'''carillons... carilloneur''' 
???

'''Hanseatic''' 
???

'''burghers''' 
???

'''silted up''' 
???

'''Damme and Sluis''' 
???

==Page 563==

'''trusted his intuitiveness''' 
???

'''''"Jou moerskont!"''... Afrikaans''' 
???

==Page 564==

'''immense choir''' 
???

'''''Voetsak''''' 
???

'''starers''' 
???

'''tobacco-stricken''' 
???

'''half-silvering''' 
???

'''four cusps... index-surface''' 
???

'''co-conscious''' 
???

==Page 565==

'''true icosahedron''' 
???

'''12+8... pyrites''' 
???

'''Riemann sphere''' 
???

'''Felix Klein''' 
???

'''ebonite''' 
???

'''Ohmic Drift''' 
???

'''speed of the earth... kinetic energy''' 
???

'''Recently Lorentz's paper''' 
???

'''Lord Rayleigh''' 
???

==Page 566==

'''In a dream...''' 

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:

:"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."

'''analogies''' 
(Pynchonian heuristics.)

'''nameless Station''' 
???

'''lightless uncreated''' 
(Gnostic heresy?)

'''stuffed sinus''' 
???

'''''Konichiwa''''' 
???

==Page 567==

'''new Puccini opera''' 
???

'''Borel-Clerc... "La Matchiche"''' 
???

'''western anchor''' 
What about France, Spain, Portugal?

'''Compaignie Internationale des Wagons-Lits''' 
???

'''two hundred francs''' 
???

'''theory of sets''' 
???

'''Bruges Canal''' 
???

==Page 568==

'''vaporetto''' 
???

'''Grand Canal''' 
???

'''San Marco end''' 
???

'''Piazzetta''' 
???

'''San Giorgio Maggiore''' 
???

'''spreading... cloak''' 
Cliche/allusion?

'''live here forever''' 
Pynchon special-pleading that Dally isn't just another tourist.

==Page 569==

'''Malibran... Polo's house''' 
???

'''"pincette"''' 
???

'''profondes''' 
???

'''Vincenzo Miserere''' 
???

'''train to Trieste''' 
???

'''Svegli''' 
???

'''shark leather''' 
Different from sharkskin?

'''''Specchiere''''' 
???

'''glassmakers on Murano''' 
???

==Page 570==

'''another one of his stories''' 
(Jackson Pynchon should highlight all the AtD passages that originated as bedtime stories.)

'''TERAPIA''' 
???

'''San Servolo''' 
???

'''Palazzo Ducale''' 
???

'''''manicomio''''' 
???

'''uterine vellum''' 
???

'''pitch, rouge''' 
???

==Page 571==

'''La Doppiatrice''' 
???

'''Ettore Sananzolo''' 
???

'''Maskelyne cabinet''' 
After Neville Maskelyne, from ''Mason and Dixon.'' Maskelyne sent M and D to record the Transit of Venus.

==Page 572==

'''smoke back into a cigar''' 
Time's arrow/ entropy motif.

'''hard-as-a-rock black cigar''' 
???

'''thumping''' 
???

'''''salso''''' 
???

'''''sandoli''''' 
???

'''trains pulling in''' 
Famous early film.

==Page 573==

'''Cannareggio''' 
???

==Page 574==

'''thirty years older''' 
About 65yo?

'''that day''' 
In NYC when Dally showed up.

'''when she was born''' 
Cf Pretenders/Chryssie Hynde.

'''Stronzo''' 
???

'''''In bocc' al lupo!''''' 
???

'''''campielli''''' 
???

==Page 575==

'''Riva''' 
???

'''middy blouses''' 
???

'''not yet been rebuilt''' 
???

'''''lucciole''''' 
???

'''''fondamenta''''' 
???

'''''ombreta''''' 
???

'''light's good here''' 
Old joke about drunk looking for car keys under streetlight though he dropped them somewhere else.

'''microcosm''' 
???

==Page 576==

'''twelve soldi''' 
???

'''franc... ten francs''' 
???

'''Canaletto''' 
???

'''Beppo''' 
???

'''pitch''' 
???

'''Bauer-Grünwald''' 
???

==Page 577==

''''Safe'''' 
Recent art-movie title?

'''Castello''' 
???

'''Evening Gun''' 
???

'''importunate''' 
???

'''Dr. Grace''' 
???

==Page 578==

'''Dorsoduro''' 
???

'''''pensione''''' 
???

'''La Calcina''' 
???

'''Zattere''' 
???

'''''cimici''''' 
???

'''bora''' 
???

==Page 579==

'''Tintoretto's ''Abduction...''''' 
???

'''Accademia''' 
???

'''Titian''' 
???

'''Infancy Gospel of Thomas''' 
???

==Page 580==

'''Pentecost story in Acts''' 
???

'''Galilean dialect''' 
Of Aramaic.

'''''rii''''' 
Plural of ''rio''.

==Page 581==

'''''sotopòrteghi''''' 
???

'''Bodeo 10.4 mm''' 
???

==Page 582==

'''''foschetta''''' 
???

'''''masègni''''' 
???

'''''patrone''''' 
???

'''wine trains up from Puglia''' 
???

'''Winter''' 
1904-1905?

'''Principessa Spongiatosta''' 
Is Pugnax's book from p6 at all relevant here?

'''Ca'''' 
???

'''Roman Composite order''' 
???

'''japonica''' 
???

==Page 583==

'''Iron Bridge''' 
???

'''Le Havre''' 
???

'''''ma via''''' 
???

'''third eyes touching''' 
???

==Page 584==

'''"Swiss insurance salesman. Wolf. No, Putzi."''' 
Bria's had so many beaux she gets them confused?

'''''topo''''' 
???

'''Dogana''' 
???

'''Andrea Tancredi''' 
???

'''Seurat and Signac''' 
???

'''Divisionism''' 
???

'''Marinetti''' 
???

'''"Futurists"''' 
???

'''brutalism''' 
???

'''Torcello''' 
???

'''primitivo''' 
???

==Page 585==

'''green-and-lavender''' 
???

'''sirocco''' 
???

'''San Michele''' 
???

'''futuristic vehicle''' 
P155.

'''''Preliminary Studies...''''' 
???

==Page 586==

'''Always with us.''' 
Gospel of ?.

'''''vero''''' 
Cf 'verdad'.

'''orpiment yellow''' 
???

'''Nürnberg violet''' 
???

==Page 587==

'''''nebbia, nebbietta, foschia, caligo, sfumato''''' 
???

'''speed of sound''' 
Air temperature is more important that density.

'''''La Velocità del Suono''''' 
???

==Annotation Index==
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==Page 525==

'''Boulevard van Isenghem''' 
???

'''street-plausible''' 
???

'''Quai de l'empereur''' 
???

'''estaminet''' 
???

'''twelve-centime''' 
???

'''Kellner''' 
???

'''''demi''''' 
???

'''Lambic''' 
???

'''skimmer''' 
???

==Page 526==

'''universal sign''' 
Cf Monopoly game card.

'''biquaternion''' 
???

'''Barry Nebulay''' 
???

'''University of Dublin''' 
If University College, Dublin, then Joyce had graduated in 1902.

'''Tasmania''' 
???

'''Hamiltonion''' 
???

'''Grand Hôtel de la Nouvelle Digue''' 
???

'''Belgian Art Nouveau''' 
???

==Page 527==

'''dossing''' 
???

'''nihilists''' 
???

'''Eugénie, Fatou''' 
Females.

'''Denis, and Policarpe''' 
Males.

'''Young Congo''' 
???

'''Garde Civique''' 
???

'''''phalange''''' 
???

'''the Digue''' 
???

'''Congo... Belgians''' 
???

'''co-conscious''' 
???

'''Force Publique''' 
???

'''rubber worker''' 
???

==Page 528==

'''''khâgne''''' 
???

'''Reclus''' 
???

'''Stirnerite''' 
???

'''''Anarcho-individualiste''''' 
???

'''Leopold''' 
???

'''going down lately''' 
???

'''Sipido''' 
???

'''Prince... of Wales''' 
(Maud Gonne's husband claimed to have been involved in another such plot.)

'''Royal Bathing Hut... twenty francs''' 
???

'''twenty francs''' 
???

==Page 529==

''''picric'' 
???

'''Brugère's powder''' 
???

'''Designolle's''' 
???

'''Monsieur Santos-Dumont''' 
???

'''Green Hour''' 
???

'''''l'heure vertigineuse''''' 
???

'''Rocco and Pino''' 
???

'''Whitehead works in Fiume''' 
Anticipating GR's V2 works.

'''''Alberta''''' 
???

'''Siluro Dirigible a Lenta Corsa''' 
???

==Page 530==

'''exfiltrate''' 
???

'''''Macchè''''' 
???

'''''Ehi, stugazz', categoria''''' 
???

'''''mezzogiornismo''''' 
???

==Page 531==

'''Bruges''' 
???

'''Raoul's Atelier de la Vitesse''' 
???

'''Ghent''' 
???

'''Daimler six-cylinder''' 
???

'''a hundred horsepower''' 
???

'''''guaglion''''' 
???

'''Umeki Tsurigane''' 
???

'''Professor Knott''' 
???

==Page 532==

'''drover's sombrero''' 
???

'''furoshiki''' 
???

'''taupe''' 
???

'''boilermakers and their helpers''' 
???

'''''Comptes rendus''''' 
???

==Page 533==

'''aniline teal''' 
???

'''Heavisiders''' 
???

'''Grassmanniacs''' 
???

'''in the mood for a clambake''' 
Anachronistic Broadway show tune?

'''Monopole de la Maison''' 
???

'''Idiom Neutral''' 
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 "auxiliary language." It was abandoned by the ''Akademi Internasional de Lingu Universal'' in 1908.

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 "Browse sites devoted to constructed languages."

'''phatic''' 
Basically, small talk or chatter. Words used to convey fellow-feeling rather than to impart information.

'''''Kampf ums Dasein''''' 
???

'''Q-brother''' 
"My fellow Quaternion"?

==Page 534==

'''Poiret gown''' 
???

'''''green and long''''' 
Pickle, or... what?

==Page 535==

'''no-name wine''' 
1970s idiom for common European practice?

'''Hamilton... first love''' 
???

==Page 536==

'''Kursaal''' 
???

'''Curls''' 
???

'''Laplacians''' 
???

'''scream''' 
Scream motif.

'''beginning to appal''' 
???

'''baize''' 
???

==Page 537==

'''broken symmetries''' 
???

'''''sphinxe Khnopffienne''''' 
???

'''Pléiade Lafrisée''' 
???

'''''Conseilleuse''''' 
Female consultant?

==Page 538==

'''retroversion matrix''' 
???

'''''Ma foi''''' 
???

'''ten thousand francs''' 
???

'''piker''' 
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.

''''Mad Dog'''' 
???

'''Hegel... puns''' 
???

==Page 539==

'''vector quotient''' 
???

''''Triangle Asana'''' 
A basic yoga pose.

[http://yoga.org.nz/postures/yoga_positions_images_page.htm Here are images of several basic poses.]

''''Quadrantal Versor Asana'''' 
A triangle pose taken that extra dimension.

'''''"Uwe moer!"''''' 
???

'''noncommutative''' 
???

'''reticule''' 
???

'''Vacheron & Constantin watch''' 
???

'''hunting-case''' 
???

==Page 540==

'''"haar rekening, ja?"''' 
The bill, yes? (Dutch)?

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.

'''Piet Woevre''' 
Pete Weaver?

'''made him reach''' 
(Cf Ezra Pound?)

'''not unambiguous''' 
Ie, ambiguous.

'''''rastaquoueres''''' 
8???

'''de Decker''' 
???

==Page 541==

'''''bobbejaan''''' 
???

'''MKIV/ODC... Mark Four''' 
???

'''your remit''' 
???

'''''gatkruiper''''' 
???

'''one on her wrist''' 
???

'''over the day''' 
Title motif?

==Page 542==

'''trans-horizontic''' 
???

'''Edmund Whittaker''' 
???

'''foaming louche''' 
???

'''cheval-glass''' 
???

'''as if someone''' 
Sound-cancelling vs opacity-cancelling?

==Page 543==

'''monitory''' 
???

'''He Who Must Come''' 
???

'''General Boulanger''' 
???

'''''"Zeker"''''' 
???

'''''dead cert''''' 
Dead certainty, sure thing.

'''Von Schlieffen''' 
???

'''Wilhelm has offered''' 
???

'''lowlands''' 
Title of Pynchon's first published story. Here, ass?

==Page 544==

'''Place d'Armes''' 
???

'''peau de soie''' 
???

'''Krafft-Ebing''' 
???

'''toque''' 
A chef's hat

'''guipure''' 
???

'''midinette''' 
???

'''sous''' 
???

'''mayonnaise''' 
One of Brautigan's books famously ends with the word mayonnaise.

'''ovoöleaginous''' 
Another Pynchonic word combination, here denoting the two main ingredients of mayonnaise: 1) eggs, and 2) oil. It's not "fecoventilatory collision" as seen in "Vineland," but it's nice.

'''Grenache''' 
???

'''Chantilly''' 
???

'''attainder''' 
???

''''''Aux armes, citoyens'''''' 
Not "Le Marseillaise," you nitwit!

'''Louis XV''' 
???

'''Cléo de Mérode''' 
???

'''marquise de Pompadour''' 
???

==Page 545==

'''dubious 'victory' in 1756''' 
???

'''cantharides''' 
???

'''Sadean''' 
???

'''vetiver''' 
???

'''pip''' 
???

'''Q.P. system''' 
Quaternion Probability, p?.

'''Usine Régionale''' 
???

==Page 546==

'''lounge suit''' 
???

'''congress shoes''' 
???

'''dripping-heads''' 
???

'''''cuves d'agitation''''' 
???

'''Clinique d'Urgence pour Sauvetage des Sauces''' 
???

==Page 547==

'''''Cazzo, cretino''''' 
Literally, "Dick, cretin." ''Cazzo'' is a common Italian interjectionary obscenity, especially in the south. "Cazzo, cretino," is akin to someone saying, "Well shit, dummy," or "F-ing moron!"

'''''bambole''''' 
???

'''Oudenberg''' 
???

'''Quai de l'Entrepôt''' 
???

==Page 548==

'''''timbres fictifs''''' 
Cf "Lot 49".

'''"IIIb"''' 
???

'''revanchist''' 
???

==Page 549==

'''cackled Darby''' 
(When did he lose his innocence?)

'''dunes between Nieuport and Dunkirk''' 
???

'''power-receivers''' 
Not information, energy.

==Page 550==

'''Italian grotto''' 
???

'''Carpathians''' 
???

'''Uhlans''' 
???

'''Temesvár''' 
???

==Page 551==

'''Ryder Thorn''' 
Tolkienesque name?

'''He was at Candlebrow.''' 
(Was he?)

==Page 552==

'''knuckle-duster''' 
Brass knuckles.

'''Diksmuide''' 
???

==Page 553==

'''retted''' 
???

==Page 554==

'''Ypres and Menin''' 
???

'''Ten years from now''' 
(1914?)

'''Bosch''' 
???

'''Brueghel''' 
???

'''League''' 
???

==Page 555==

'''simpletons at the fair''' 
Making Pynchon's metaphor explicit.

'''Chopin E-minor Nocturne''' 
???

'''owl-light''' 
???

''''plasmic hysteresis'''' 
???

==Annotation Index==
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2006-12-22T20:32:36Z

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==Page 525==

'''Boulevard van Isenghem''' 
???

'''street-plausible''' 
???

'''Quai de l'empereur''' 
???

'''estaminet''' 
???

'''twelve-centime''' 
???

'''Kellner''' 
???

'''''demi''''' 
???

'''Lambic''' 
???

'''skimmer''' 
???

==Page 526==

'''universal sign''' 
Cf Monopoly game card.

'''biquaternion''' 
???

'''Barry Nebulay''' 
???

'''University of Dublin''' 
If University College, Dublin, then Joyce had graduated in 1902.

'''Tasmania''' 
???

'''Hamiltonion''' 
???

'''Grand Hôtel de la Nouvelle Digue''' 
???

'''Belgian Art Nouveau''' 
???

==Page 527==

'''dossing''' 
???

'''nihilists''' 
???

'''Eugénie, Fatou''' 
Females.

'''Denis, and Policarpe''' 
Males.

'''Young Congo''' 
???

'''Garde Civique''' 
???

'''''phalange''''' 
???

'''the Digue''' 
???

'''Congo... Belgians''' 
???

'''co-conscious''' 
???

'''Force Publique''' 
???

'''rubber worker''' 
???

==Page 528==

'''''khâgne''''' 
???

'''Reclus''' 
???

'''Stirnerite''' 
???

'''''Anarcho-individualiste''''' 
???

'''Leopold''' 
???

'''going down lately''' 
???

'''Sipido''' 
???

'''Prince... of Wales''' 
(Maud Gonne's husband claimed to have been involved in another such plot.)

'''Royal Bathing Hut... twenty francs''' 
???

'''twenty francs''' 
???

==Page 529==

''''picric'' 
???

'''Brugère's powder''' 
???

'''Designolle's''' 
???

'''Monsieur Santos-Dumont''' 
???

'''Green Hour''' 
???

'''''l'heure vertigineuse''''' 
???

'''Rocco and Pino''' 
???

'''Whitehead works in Fiume''' 
Anticipating GR's V2 works.

'''''Alberta''''' 
???

'''Siluro Dirigible a Lenta Corsa''' 
???

==Page 530==

'''exfiltrate''' 
???

'''''Macchè''''' 
???

'''''Ehi, stugazz', categoria''''' 
???

'''''mezzogiornismo''''' 
???

==Page 531==

'''Bruges''' 
???

'''Raoul's Atelier de la Vitesse''' 
???

'''Ghent''' 
???

'''Daimler six-cylinder''' 
???

'''a hundred horsepower''' 
???

'''''guaglion''''' 
???

'''Umeki Tsurigane''' 
???

'''Professor Knott''' 
???

==Page 532==

'''drover's sombrero''' 
???

'''furoshiki''' 
???

'''taupe''' 
???

'''boilermakers and their helpers''' 
???

'''''Comptes rendus''''' 
???

==Page 533==

'''aniline teal''' 
???

'''Heavisiders''' 
???

'''Grassmanniacs''' 
???

'''in the mood for a clambake''' 
Anachronistic Broadway show tune?

'''Monopole de la Maison''' 
???

'''Idiom Neutral''' 
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 "auxiliary language." It was abandoned by the ''Akademi Internasional de Lingu Universal'' in 1908.

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 "Browse sites devoted to constructed languages."

'''phatic''' 
Basically, small talk or chatter. Words used to convey fellow-feeling rather than to impart information.

'''''Kampf ums Dasein''''' 
???

'''Q-brother''' 
"My fellow Quaternion"?

==Page 534==

'''Poiret gown''' 
???

'''''green and long''''' 
Pickle, or... what?

==Page 535==

'''no-name wine''' 
1970s idiom for common European practice?

'''Hamilton... first love''' 
???

==Page 536==

'''Kursaal''' 
???

'''Curls''' 
???

'''Laplacians''' 
???

'''scream''' 
Scream motif.

'''beginning to appal''' 
???

'''baize''' 
???

==Page 537==

'''broken symmetries''' 
???

'''''sphinxe Khnopffienne''''' 
???

'''Pléiade Lafrisée''' 
???

'''''Conseilleuse''''' 
Female consultant?

==Page 538==

'''retroversion matrix''' 
???

'''''Ma foi''''' 
???

'''ten thousand francs''' 
???

'''piker''' 
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.

''''Mad Dog'''' 
???

'''Hegel... puns''' 
???

==Page 539==

'''vector quotient''' 
???

''''Triangle Asana'''' 
A basic yoga pose.

[http://yoga.org.nz/postures/yoga_positions_images_page.htm Here are images of several basic poses.]

''''Quadrantal Versor Asana'''' 
A triangle pose taken that extra dimension.

'''''"Uwe moer!"''''' 
???

'''noncommutative''' 
???

'''reticule''' 
???

'''Vacheron & Constantin watch''' 
???

'''hunting-case''' 
???

==Page 540==

'''"haar rekening, ja?"''' 
The bill, yes? (Dutch)?

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.

'''Piet Woevre''' 
Pete Weaver?

'''made him reach''' 
(Cf Ezra Pound?)

'''not unambiguous''' 
Ie, ambiguous.

'''''rastaquoueres''''' 
8???

'''de Decker''' 
???

==Page 541==

'''''bobbejaan''''' 
???

'''MKIV/ODC... Mark Four''' 
???

'''your remit''' 
???

'''''gatkruiper''''' 
???

'''one on her wrist''' 
???

'''over the day''' 
Title motif?

==Page 542==

'''trans-horizontic''' 
???

'''Edmund Whittaker''' 
???

'''foaming louche''' 
???

'''cheval-glass''' 
???

'''as if someone''' 
Sound-cancelling vs opacity-cancelling?

==Page 543==

'''monitory''' 
???

'''He Who Must Come''' 
???

'''General Boulanger''' 
???

'''''"Zeker"''''' 
???

'''''dead cert''''' 
Dead certainty, sure thing.

'''Von Schlieffen''' 
???

'''Wilhelm has offered''' 
???

'''lowlands''' 
Title of Pynchon's first published story. Here, ass?

==Page 544==

'''Place d'Armes''' 
???

'''peau de soie''' 
???

'''Krafft-Ebing''' 
???

'''toque''' 
A chef's hat

'''guipure''' 
???

'''midinette''' 
???

'''sous''' 
???

'''mayonnaise''' 
One of Brautigan's books famously ends with the word mayonnaise.

'''ovoöleaginous''' 
Another Pynchonic word combination, here denoting the two main ingredients of mayonnaise: 1) eggs, and 2) oil. It's not "fecoventilatory collision" as seen in "Vineland," but it's nice.

'''Grenache''' 
???

'''Chantilly''' 
???

'''attainder''' 
???

''''''Aux armes, citoyens'''''' 
Not "Le Marseillaise," you nitwit!

'''Louis XV''' 
???

'''Cléo de Mérode''' 
???

'''marquise de Pompadour''' 
???

==Page 545==

'''dubious 'victory' in 1756''' 
???

'''cantharides''' 
???

'''Sadean''' 
???

'''vetiver''' 
???

'''pip''' 
???

'''Q.P. system''' 
Quaternion Probability, p?.

'''Usine Régionale''' 
???

==Page 546==

'''lounge suit''' 
???

'''congress shoes''' 
???

'''dripping-heads''' 
???

'''''cuves d'agitation''''' 
???

'''Clinique d'Urgence pour Sauvetage des Sauces''' 
???

==Page 547==

'''''Cazzo, cretino''''' 
???

'''''bambole''''' 
???

'''Oudenberg''' 
???

'''Quai de l'Entrepôt''' 
???

==Page 548==

'''''timbres fictifs''''' 
Cf "Lot 49".

'''"IIIb"''' 
???

'''revanchist''' 
???

==Page 549==

'''cackled Darby''' 
(When did he lose his innocence?)

'''dunes between Nieuport and Dunkirk''' 
???

'''power-receivers''' 
Not information, energy.

==Page 550==

'''Italian grotto''' 
???

'''Carpathians''' 
???

'''Uhlans''' 
???

'''Temesvár''' 
???

==Page 551==

'''Ryder Thorn''' 
Tolkienesque name?

'''He was at Candlebrow.''' 
(Was he?)

==Page 552==

'''knuckle-duster''' 
Brass knuckles.

'''Diksmuide''' 
???

==Page 553==

'''retted''' 
???

==Page 554==

'''Ypres and Menin''' 
???

'''Ten years from now''' 
(1914?)

'''Bosch''' 
???

'''Brueghel''' 
???

'''League''' 
???

==Page 555==

'''simpletons at the fair''' 
Making Pynchon's metaphor explicit.

'''Chopin E-minor Nocturne''' 
???

'''owl-light''' 
???

''''plasmic hysteresis'''' 
???

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

ATD 525-556

2006-12-22T20:01:39Z

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==Page 525==

'''Boulevard van Isenghem''' 
???

'''street-plausible''' 
???

'''Quai de l'empereur''' 
???

'''estaminet''' 
???

'''twelve-centime''' 
???

'''Kellner''' 
???

'''''demi''''' 
???

'''Lambic''' 
???

'''skimmer''' 
???

==Page 526==

'''universal sign''' 
Cf Monopoly game card.

'''biquaternion''' 
???

'''Barry Nebulay''' 
???

'''University of Dublin''' 
If University College, Dublin, then Joyce had graduated in 1902.

'''Tasmania''' 
???

'''Hamiltonion''' 
???

'''Grand Hôtel de la Nouvelle Digue''' 
???

'''Belgian Art Nouveau''' 
???

==Page 527==

'''dossing''' 
???

'''nihilists''' 
???

'''Eugénie, Fatou''' 
Females.

'''Denis, and Policarpe''' 
Males.

'''Young Congo''' 
???

'''Garde Civique''' 
???

'''''phalange''''' 
???

'''the Digue''' 
???

'''Congo... Belgians''' 
???

'''co-conscious''' 
???

'''Force Publique''' 
???

'''rubber worker''' 
???

==Page 528==

'''''khâgne''''' 
???

'''Reclus''' 
???

'''Stirnerite''' 
???

'''''Anarcho-individualiste''''' 
???

'''Leopold''' 
???

'''going down lately''' 
???

'''Sipido''' 
???

'''Prince... of Wales''' 
(Maud Gonne's husband claimed to have been involved in another such plot.)

'''Royal Bathing Hut... twenty francs''' 
???

'''twenty francs''' 
???

==Page 529==

''''picric'' 
???

'''Brugère's powder''' 
???

'''Designolle's''' 
???

'''Monsieur Santos-Dumont''' 
???

'''Green Hour''' 
???

'''''l'heure vertigineuse''''' 
???

'''Rocco and Pino''' 
???

'''Whitehead works in Fiume''' 
Anticipating GR's V2 works.

'''''Alberta''''' 
???

'''Siluro Dirigible a Lenta Corsa''' 
???

==Page 530==

'''exfiltrate''' 
???

'''''Macchè''''' 
???

'''''Ehi, stugazz', categoria''''' 
???

'''''mezzogiornismo''''' 
???

==Page 531==

'''Bruges''' 
???

'''Raoul's Atelier de la Vitesse''' 
???

'''Ghent''' 
???

'''Daimler six-cylinder''' 
???

'''a hundred horsepower''' 
???

'''''guaglion''''' 
???

'''Umeki Tsurigane''' 
???

'''Professor Knott''' 
???

==Page 532==

'''drover's sombrero''' 
???

'''furoshiki''' 
???

'''taupe''' 
???

'''boilermakers and their helpers''' 
???

'''''Comptes rendus''''' 
???

==Page 533==

'''aniline teal''' 
???

'''Heavisiders''' 
???

'''Grassmanniacs''' 
???

'''in the mood for a clambake''' 
Anachronistic Broadway show tune?

'''Monopole de la Maison''' 
???

'''Idiom Neutral''' 
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 "auxiliary language." It was abandoned by the ''Akademi Internasional de Lingu Universal'' in 1908.

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 "Browse sites devoted to constructed languages."

'''phatic''' 
Basically, small talk or chatter. Words used to convey fellow-feeling rather than to impart information.

'''''Kampf ums Dasein''''' 
???

'''Q-brother''' 
"My fellow Quaternion"?

==Page 534==

'''Poiret gown''' 
???

'''''green and long''''' 
Pickle, or... what?

==Page 535==

'''no-name wine''' 
1970s idiom for common European practice?

'''Hamilton... first love''' 
???

==Page 536==

'''Kursaal''' 
???

'''Curls''' 
???

'''Laplacians''' 
???

'''scream''' 
Scream motif.

'''beginning to appal''' 
???

'''baize''' 
???

==Page 537==

'''broken symmetries''' 
???

'''''sphinxe Khnopffienne''''' 
???

'''Pléiade Lafrisée''' 
???

'''''Conseilleuse''''' 
Female consultant?

==Page 538==

'''retroversion matrix''' 
???

'''''Ma foi''''' 
???

'''ten thousand francs''' 
???

'''piker''' 
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.

''''Mad Dog'''' 
???

'''Hegel... puns''' 
???

==Page 539==

'''vector quotient''' 
???

''''Triangle Asana'''' 
A basic yoga pose.

[http://yoga.org.nz/postures/yoga_positions_images_page.htm Here are images of several basic poses.]

''''Quadrantal Versor Asana'''' 
A triangle pose taken that extra dimension.

'''''"Uwe moer!"''''' 
???

'''noncommutative''' 
???

'''reticule''' 
???

'''Vacheron & Constantin watch''' 
???

'''hunting-case''' 
???

==Page 540==

'''"haar rekening, ja?"''' 
The bill, yes? (Dutch)?

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.

'''Piet Woevre''' 
Pete Weaver?

'''made him reach''' 
(Cf Ezra Pound?)

'''not unambiguous''' 
Ie, ambiguous.

'''''rastaquoueres''''' 
8???

'''de Decker''' 
???

==Page 541==

'''''bobbejaan''''' 
???

'''MKIV/ODC... Mark Four''' 
???

'''your remit''' 
???

'''''gatkruiper''''' 
???

'''one on her wrist''' 
???

'''over the day''' 
Title motif?

==Page 542==

'''trans-horizontic''' 
???

'''Edmund Whittaker''' 
???

'''foaming louche''' 
???

'''cheval-glass''' 
???

'''as if someone''' 
Sound-cancelling vs opacity-cancelling?

==Page 543==

'''monitory''' 
???

'''He Who Must Come''' 
???

'''General Boulanger''' 
???

'''''"Zeker"''''' 
???

'''''dead cert''''' 
Dead certainty, sure thing.

'''Von Schlieffen''' 
???

'''Wilhelm has offered''' 
???

'''lowlands''' 
Title of Pynchon's first published story. Here, ass?

==Page 544==

'''Place d'Armes''' 
???

'''peau de soie''' 
???

'''Krafft-Ebing''' 
???

'''toque''' 
???

'''guipure''' 
???

'''midinette''' 
???

'''sous''' 
???

'''mayonnaise''' 
One of Brautigan's books famously ends with the word mayonnaise.

'''ovoöleaginous''' 
???

'''Grenache''' 
???

'''Chantilly''' 
???

'''attainder''' 
???

''''''Aux armes, citoyens'''''' 
Not Marseillais, you nitwit!

'''Louis XV''' 
???

'''Cléo de Mérode''' 
???

'''marquise de Pompadour''' 
???

==Page 545==

'''dubious 'victory' in 1756''' 
???

'''cantharides''' 
???

'''Sadean''' 
???

'''vetiver''' 
???

'''pip''' 
???

'''Q.P. system''' 
Quaternion Probability, p?.

'''Usine Régionale''' 
???

==Page 546==

'''lounge suit''' 
???

'''congress shoes''' 
???

'''dripping-heads''' 
???

'''''cuves d'agitation''''' 
???

'''Clinique d'Urgence pour Sauvetage des Sauces''' 
???

==Page 547==

'''''Cazzo, cretino''''' 
???

'''''bambole''''' 
???

'''Oudenberg''' 
???

'''Quai de l'Entrepôt''' 
???

==Page 548==

'''''timbres fictifs''''' 
Cf "Lot 49".

'''"IIIb"''' 
???

'''revanchist''' 
???

==Page 549==

'''cackled Darby''' 
(When did he lose his innocence?)

'''dunes between Nieuport and Dunkirk''' 
???

'''power-receivers''' 
Not information, energy.

==Page 550==

'''Italian grotto''' 
???

'''Carpathians''' 
???

'''Uhlans''' 
???

'''Temesvár''' 
???

==Page 551==

'''Ryder Thorn''' 
Tolkienesque name?

'''He was at Candlebrow.''' 
(Was he?)

==Page 552==

'''knuckle-duster''' 
Brass knuckles.

'''Diksmuide''' 
???

==Page 553==

'''retted''' 
???

==Page 554==

'''Ypres and Menin''' 
???

'''Ten years from now''' 
(1914?)

'''Bosch''' 
???

'''Brueghel''' 
???

'''League''' 
???

==Page 555==

'''simpletons at the fair''' 
Making Pynchon's metaphor explicit.

'''Chopin E-minor Nocturne''' 
???

'''owl-light''' 
???

''''plasmic hysteresis'''' 
???

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

ATD 525-556

2006-12-22T19:57:20Z

Mcdeeder1969: /* Page 538 */

==Page 525==

'''Boulevard van Isenghem''' 
???

'''street-plausible''' 
???

'''Quai de l'empereur''' 
???

'''estaminet''' 
???

'''twelve-centime''' 
???

'''Kellner''' 
???

'''''demi''''' 
???

'''Lambic''' 
???

'''skimmer''' 
???

==Page 526==

'''universal sign''' 
Cf Monopoly game card.

'''biquaternion''' 
???

'''Barry Nebulay''' 
???

'''University of Dublin''' 
If University College, Dublin, then Joyce had graduated in 1902.

'''Tasmania''' 
???

'''Hamiltonion''' 
???

'''Grand Hôtel de la Nouvelle Digue''' 
???

'''Belgian Art Nouveau''' 
???

==Page 527==

'''dossing''' 
???

'''nihilists''' 
???

'''Eugénie, Fatou''' 
Females.

'''Denis, and Policarpe''' 
Males.

'''Young Congo''' 
???

'''Garde Civique''' 
???

'''''phalange''''' 
???

'''the Digue''' 
???

'''Congo... Belgians''' 
???

'''co-conscious''' 
???

'''Force Publique''' 
???

'''rubber worker''' 
???

==Page 528==

'''''khâgne''''' 
???

'''Reclus''' 
???

'''Stirnerite''' 
???

'''''Anarcho-individualiste''''' 
???

'''Leopold''' 
???

'''going down lately''' 
???

'''Sipido''' 
???

'''Prince... of Wales''' 
(Maud Gonne's husband claimed to have been involved in another such plot.)

'''Royal Bathing Hut... twenty francs''' 
???

'''twenty francs''' 
???

==Page 529==

''''picric'' 
???

'''Brugère's powder''' 
???

'''Designolle's''' 
???

'''Monsieur Santos-Dumont''' 
???

'''Green Hour''' 
???

'''''l'heure vertigineuse''''' 
???

'''Rocco and Pino''' 
???

'''Whitehead works in Fiume''' 
Anticipating GR's V2 works.

'''''Alberta''''' 
???

'''Siluro Dirigible a Lenta Corsa''' 
???

==Page 530==

'''exfiltrate''' 
???

'''''Macchè''''' 
???

'''''Ehi, stugazz', categoria''''' 
???

'''''mezzogiornismo''''' 
???

==Page 531==

'''Bruges''' 
???

'''Raoul's Atelier de la Vitesse''' 
???

'''Ghent''' 
???

'''Daimler six-cylinder''' 
???

'''a hundred horsepower''' 
???

'''''guaglion''''' 
???

'''Umeki Tsurigane''' 
???

'''Professor Knott''' 
???

==Page 532==

'''drover's sombrero''' 
???

'''furoshiki''' 
???

'''taupe''' 
???

'''boilermakers and their helpers''' 
???

'''''Comptes rendus''''' 
???

==Page 533==

'''aniline teal''' 
???

'''Heavisiders''' 
???

'''Grassmanniacs''' 
???

'''in the mood for a clambake''' 
Anachronistic Broadway show tune?

'''Monopole de la Maison''' 
???

'''Idiom Neutral''' 
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 "auxiliary language." It was abandoned by the ''Akademi Internasional de Lingu Universal'' in 1908.

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 "Browse sites devoted to constructed languages."

'''phatic''' 
Basically, small talk or chatter. Words used to convey fellow-feeling rather than to impart information.

'''''Kampf ums Dasein''''' 
???

'''Q-brother''' 
"My fellow Quaternion"?

==Page 534==

'''Poiret gown''' 
???

'''''green and long''''' 
Pickle, or... what?

==Page 535==

'''no-name wine''' 
1970s idiom for common European practice?

'''Hamilton... first love''' 
???

==Page 536==

'''Kursaal''' 
???

'''Curls''' 
???

'''Laplacians''' 
???

'''scream''' 
Scream motif.

'''beginning to appal''' 
???

'''baize''' 
???

==Page 537==

'''broken symmetries''' 
???

'''''sphinxe Khnopffienne''''' 
???

'''Pléiade Lafrisée''' 
???

'''''Conseilleuse''''' 
Female consultant?

==Page 538==

'''retroversion matrix''' 
???

'''''Ma foi''''' 
???

'''ten thousand francs''' 
???

'''piker''' 
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.

''''Mad Dog'''' 
???

'''Hegel... puns''' 
???

==Page 539==

'''vector quotient''' 
???

''''Triangle Asana'''' 
???

''''Quadrantal Versor Asana'''' 
???

'''''"Uwe moer!"''''' 
???

'''noncommutative''' 
???

'''reticule''' 
???

'''Vacheron & Constantin watch''' 
???

'''hunting-case''' 
???

==Page 540==

'''"haar rekening, ja?"''' 
The bill, yes? (Dutch)?

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.

'''Piet Woevre''' 
Pete Weaver?

'''made him reach''' 
(Cf Ezra Pound?)

'''not unambiguous''' 
Ie, ambiguous.

'''''rastaquoueres''''' 
8???

'''de Decker''' 
???

==Page 541==

'''''bobbejaan''''' 
???

'''MKIV/ODC... Mark Four''' 
???

'''your remit''' 
???

'''''gatkruiper''''' 
???

'''one on her wrist''' 
???

'''over the day''' 
Title motif?

==Page 542==

'''trans-horizontic''' 
???

'''Edmund Whittaker''' 
???

'''foaming louche''' 
???

'''cheval-glass''' 
???

'''as if someone''' 
Sound-cancelling vs opacity-cancelling?

==Page 543==

'''monitory''' 
???

'''He Who Must Come''' 
???

'''General Boulanger''' 
???

'''''"Zeker"''''' 
???

'''''dead cert''''' 
Dead certainty, sure thing.

'''Von Schlieffen''' 
???

'''Wilhelm has offered''' 
???

'''lowlands''' 
Title of Pynchon's first published story. Here, ass?

==Page 544==

'''Place d'Armes''' 
???

'''peau de soie''' 
???

'''Krafft-Ebing''' 
???

'''toque''' 
???

'''guipure''' 
???

'''midinette''' 
???

'''sous''' 
???

'''mayonnaise''' 
One of Brautigan's books famously ends with the word mayonnaise.

'''ovoöleaginous''' 
???

'''Grenache''' 
???

'''Chantilly''' 
???

'''attainder''' 
???

''''''Aux armes, citoyens'''''' 
Not Marseillais, you nitwit!

'''Louis XV''' 
???

'''Cléo de Mérode''' 
???

'''marquise de Pompadour''' 
???

==Page 545==

'''dubious 'victory' in 1756''' 
???

'''cantharides''' 
???

'''Sadean''' 
???

'''vetiver''' 
???

'''pip''' 
???

'''Q.P. system''' 
Quaternion Probability, p?.

'''Usine Régionale''' 
???

==Page 546==

'''lounge suit''' 
???

'''congress shoes''' 
???

'''dripping-heads''' 
???

'''''cuves d'agitation''''' 
???

'''Clinique d'Urgence pour Sauvetage des Sauces''' 
???

==Page 547==

'''''Cazzo, cretino''''' 
???

'''''bambole''''' 
???

'''Oudenberg''' 
???

'''Quai de l'Entrepôt''' 
???

==Page 548==

'''''timbres fictifs''''' 
Cf "Lot 49".

'''"IIIb"''' 
???

'''revanchist''' 
???

==Page 549==

'''cackled Darby''' 
(When did he lose his innocence?)

'''dunes between Nieuport and Dunkirk''' 
???

'''power-receivers''' 
Not information, energy.

==Page 550==

'''Italian grotto''' 
???

'''Carpathians''' 
???

'''Uhlans''' 
???

'''Temesvár''' 
???

==Page 551==

'''Ryder Thorn''' 
Tolkienesque name?

'''He was at Candlebrow.''' 
(Was he?)

==Page 552==

'''knuckle-duster''' 
Brass knuckles.

'''Diksmuide''' 
???

==Page 553==

'''retted''' 
???

==Page 554==

'''Ypres and Menin''' 
???

'''Ten years from now''' 
(1914?)

'''Bosch''' 
???

'''Brueghel''' 
???

'''League''' 
???

==Page 555==

'''simpletons at the fair''' 
Making Pynchon's metaphor explicit.

'''Chopin E-minor Nocturne''' 
???

'''owl-light''' 
???

''''plasmic hysteresis'''' 
???

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

ATD 525-556

2006-12-22T19:46:47Z

Mcdeeder1969: /* Page 533 */

==Page 525==

'''Boulevard van Isenghem''' 
???

'''street-plausible''' 
???

'''Quai de l'empereur''' 
???

'''estaminet''' 
???

'''twelve-centime''' 
???

'''Kellner''' 
???

'''''demi''''' 
???

'''Lambic''' 
???

'''skimmer''' 
???

==Page 526==

'''universal sign''' 
Cf Monopoly game card.

'''biquaternion''' 
???

'''Barry Nebulay''' 
???

'''University of Dublin''' 
If University College, Dublin, then Joyce had graduated in 1902.

'''Tasmania''' 
???

'''Hamiltonion''' 
???

'''Grand Hôtel de la Nouvelle Digue''' 
???

'''Belgian Art Nouveau''' 
???

==Page 527==

'''dossing''' 
???

'''nihilists''' 
???

'''Eugénie, Fatou''' 
Females.

'''Denis, and Policarpe''' 
Males.

'''Young Congo''' 
???

'''Garde Civique''' 
???

'''''phalange''''' 
???

'''the Digue''' 
???

'''Congo... Belgians''' 
???

'''co-conscious''' 
???

'''Force Publique''' 
???

'''rubber worker''' 
???

==Page 528==

'''''khâgne''''' 
???

'''Reclus''' 
???

'''Stirnerite''' 
???

'''''Anarcho-individualiste''''' 
???

'''Leopold''' 
???

'''going down lately''' 
???

'''Sipido''' 
???

'''Prince... of Wales''' 
(Maud Gonne's husband claimed to have been involved in another such plot.)

'''Royal Bathing Hut... twenty francs''' 
???

'''twenty francs''' 
???

==Page 529==

''''picric'' 
???

'''Brugère's powder''' 
???

'''Designolle's''' 
???

'''Monsieur Santos-Dumont''' 
???

'''Green Hour''' 
???

'''''l'heure vertigineuse''''' 
???

'''Rocco and Pino''' 
???

'''Whitehead works in Fiume''' 
Anticipating GR's V2 works.

'''''Alberta''''' 
???

'''Siluro Dirigible a Lenta Corsa''' 
???

==Page 530==

'''exfiltrate''' 
???

'''''Macchè''''' 
???

'''''Ehi, stugazz', categoria''''' 
???

'''''mezzogiornismo''''' 
???

==Page 531==

'''Bruges''' 
???

'''Raoul's Atelier de la Vitesse''' 
???

'''Ghent''' 
???

'''Daimler six-cylinder''' 
???

'''a hundred horsepower''' 
???

'''''guaglion''''' 
???

'''Umeki Tsurigane''' 
???

'''Professor Knott''' 
???

==Page 532==

'''drover's sombrero''' 
???

'''furoshiki''' 
???

'''taupe''' 
???

'''boilermakers and their helpers''' 
???

'''''Comptes rendus''''' 
???

==Page 533==

'''aniline teal''' 
???

'''Heavisiders''' 
???

'''Grassmanniacs''' 
???

'''in the mood for a clambake''' 
Anachronistic Broadway show tune?

'''Monopole de la Maison''' 
???

'''Idiom Neutral''' 
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 "auxiliary language." It was abandoned by the ''Akademi Internasional de Lingu Universal'' in 1908.

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 "Browse sites devoted to constructed languages."

'''phatic''' 
Basically, small talk or chatter. Words used to convey fellow-feeling rather than to impart information.

'''''Kampf ums Dasein''''' 
???

'''Q-brother''' 
"My fellow Quaternion"?

==Page 534==

'''Poiret gown''' 
???

'''''green and long''''' 
Pickle, or... what?

==Page 535==

'''no-name wine''' 
1970s idiom for common European practice?

'''Hamilton... first love''' 
???

==Page 536==

'''Kursaal''' 
???

'''Curls''' 
???

'''Laplacians''' 
???

'''scream''' 
Scream motif.

'''beginning to appal''' 
???

'''baize''' 
???

==Page 537==

'''broken symmetries''' 
???

'''''sphinxe Khnopffienne''''' 
???

'''Pléiade Lafrisée''' 
???

'''''Conseilleuse''''' 
Female consultant?

==Page 538==

'''retroversion matrix''' 
???

'''''Ma foi''''' 
???

'''ten thousand francs''' 
???

'''piker''' 
???

''''Mad Dog'''' 
???

'''Hegel... puns''' 
???

==Page 539==

'''vector quotient''' 
???

''''Triangle Asana'''' 
???

''''Quadrantal Versor Asana'''' 
???

'''''"Uwe moer!"''''' 
???

'''noncommutative''' 
???

'''reticule''' 
???

'''Vacheron & Constantin watch''' 
???

'''hunting-case''' 
???

==Page 540==

'''"haar rekening, ja?"''' 
The bill, yes? (Dutch)?

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.

'''Piet Woevre''' 
Pete Weaver?

'''made him reach''' 
(Cf Ezra Pound?)

'''not unambiguous''' 
Ie, ambiguous.

'''''rastaquoueres''''' 
8???

'''de Decker''' 
???

==Page 541==

'''''bobbejaan''''' 
???

'''MKIV/ODC... Mark Four''' 
???

'''your remit''' 
???

'''''gatkruiper''''' 
???

'''one on her wrist''' 
???

'''over the day''' 
Title motif?

==Page 542==

'''trans-horizontic''' 
???

'''Edmund Whittaker''' 
???

'''foaming louche''' 
???

'''cheval-glass''' 
???

'''as if someone''' 
Sound-cancelling vs opacity-cancelling?

==Page 543==

'''monitory''' 
???

'''He Who Must Come''' 
???

'''General Boulanger''' 
???

'''''"Zeker"''''' 
???

'''''dead cert''''' 
Dead certainty, sure thing.

'''Von Schlieffen''' 
???

'''Wilhelm has offered''' 
???

'''lowlands''' 
Title of Pynchon's first published story. Here, ass?

==Page 544==

'''Place d'Armes''' 
???

'''peau de soie''' 
???

'''Krafft-Ebing''' 
???

'''toque''' 
???

'''guipure''' 
???

'''midinette''' 
???

'''sous''' 
???

'''mayonnaise''' 
One of Brautigan's books famously ends with the word mayonnaise.

'''ovoöleaginous''' 
???

'''Grenache''' 
???

'''Chantilly''' 
???

'''attainder''' 
???

''''''Aux armes, citoyens'''''' 
Not Marseillais, you nitwit!

'''Louis XV''' 
???

'''Cléo de Mérode''' 
???

'''marquise de Pompadour''' 
???

==Page 545==

'''dubious 'victory' in 1756''' 
???

'''cantharides''' 
???

'''Sadean''' 
???

'''vetiver''' 
???

'''pip''' 
???

'''Q.P. system''' 
Quaternion Probability, p?.

'''Usine Régionale''' 
???

==Page 546==

'''lounge suit''' 
???

'''congress shoes''' 
???

'''dripping-heads''' 
???

'''''cuves d'agitation''''' 
???

'''Clinique d'Urgence pour Sauvetage des Sauces''' 
???

==Page 547==

'''''Cazzo, cretino''''' 
???

'''''bambole''''' 
???

'''Oudenberg''' 
???

'''Quai de l'Entrepôt''' 
???

==Page 548==

'''''timbres fictifs''''' 
Cf "Lot 49".

'''"IIIb"''' 
???

'''revanchist''' 
???

==Page 549==

'''cackled Darby''' 
(When did he lose his innocence?)

'''dunes between Nieuport and Dunkirk''' 
???

'''power-receivers''' 
Not information, energy.

==Page 550==

'''Italian grotto''' 
???

'''Carpathians''' 
???

'''Uhlans''' 
???

'''Temesvár''' 
???

==Page 551==

'''Ryder Thorn''' 
Tolkienesque name?

'''He was at Candlebrow.''' 
(Was he?)

==Page 552==

'''knuckle-duster''' 
Brass knuckles.

'''Diksmuide''' 
???

==Page 553==

'''retted''' 
???

==Page 554==

'''Ypres and Menin''' 
???

'''Ten years from now''' 
(1914?)

'''Bosch''' 
???

'''Brueghel''' 
???

'''League''' 
???

==Page 555==

'''simpletons at the fair''' 
Making Pynchon's metaphor explicit.

'''Chopin E-minor Nocturne''' 
???

'''owl-light''' 
???

''''plasmic hysteresis'''' 
???

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''delirium''' 
41; comes from the Latin ''de'', meaning down or away from, and ''lira'', a furrow or track in the fields; that is, to be off the track, or out of the groove.

'''de Mérode''' 
544;

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

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

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

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

'''Designolle''' 
529;

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

'''Deuce''' 
See Kindred, Deuce

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Divine Walt''' 
492;

'''Divisionism''' 
584;

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

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

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

'''Doppiatrice, La''' 
571;

'''Dottore''' 
252;

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

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

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

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

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

'''Duck, Mock''' 
338; his "boys", Chinese; "rogue gunman" of Hip Sing, 340;
'''duck soup''' 
25; cinch: any undertaking that is easy to do;

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

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

'''Dvindler''' 
713;

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

'''dynamite''' 
81;

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==Page 408==

'''in the way that certain odors can instantly return us to earlier years''' 
Recalls Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu in which the taste and smell of a madeleine cookie summons a collection of childhood memories.

==Page 409==

'''"Why you insufferable little --"''' 
This line, paired with St. Cosmo's observation at the end of the following paragraph: "And might I add, Mr. Noseworth, that these constant attempts to strangle Suckling do our public image little good," 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.

More than even "Vineland," it seems, this book is fraught with pop culture/low comedy asides. 

'''Asimov Transecular''' 
Interesting to find one of Isaac Asimov's time travel machines on the pile of "picked-over hulks of failed time machines." Of course, it would have to have been deposited there from some time in the future.

to transecular adj "that is made through the centuries" (Portuguese)

==Page 412==
'''"Does a dog possess the Buddha-nature?" [...] "Yes, obviously"''' 
According to the Zen parable the answer to the question is "Mu", which is both "No" and the sound of a dog's bark, thus neither simply yes nor no.

'''young Einstein''' 
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 "[http://www.worldscibooks.com/phy_etextbook/4454/4454_chap1.pdf The Investigation of the State of Aether in Magnetic Fields]." Ironically, Einstein's special theory of relativity would later essentially invalidate theories of luminiferous aether.