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'''Kabbalists''' 
227; the "Tree of Life" tattoo-ed on Eskimoff; 318; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabbalah Wikipedia entry]

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

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

'''Kaiser Wilhelm (1859-1949)''' 
367; William II or Wilhelm II (born Frederick William Albert Victor; German: Friedrich Wilhelm Albert Victor) was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia, ruling both the German Empire and Prussia from June 15, 1888 to November 9, 1918; hair pomade, 367; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiser_Wilhelm Wikipedia entry]

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

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

'''Karl''' 
897; model, along with Dally, for a sodomistic work by Arturo Naunt

'''Kashgar''' 
630; an oasis city in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China; 631; 676; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashgar Wikipedia entry]

'''Katie''' 
337; waitress in Yew York City restaurant, Schultz's Vegetarian Brauhaus, from Chillicothe, Ohio; aspiring actress, 338; 894;

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

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

'''Kellner''' 
525;

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

'''Kensington Sid''' 
602;

'''Kepler''' 
115;

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

'''Khartoum''' 
29;

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

'''Kieselguhr''' 
171; also known as: Diatomaceous earth, DE, diatomite, diahydro, Kieselgur and Celite; a porous silica-containing earth, mixed with nitroglycerine into dynamite in proportions that leaves an essentially dry and granular material, producing a solid that is resistant to shock but readily explodable by heat or sudden impact. Also used in tooth-paste and polishes, as insecticide and a main ingredient for certain kinds of cat-litter etc. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kieselgur Wikipedia Entry]

<div id="kieselguhr"></div>'''Kieselguhr Kid''' 
171; "notorious dynamiter of the San Juans"; Dynamite, a blasting explosive, was invented in 1867 by Alfred P. Nobel by mixing nitroglycerin with '''kieselguhr'''; Webb Traverse?, 214; 361; 370; Frank Traverse, 382;
:Note also the connection with a [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ '''Gravity's Rainbow'''] identity, probably a pseudonym/alternate identity for Tyrone Slothrop, the "Kenosha Kid."

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

'''Kindred, Deuce''' 
193; hired by mine owners to kill Webb Traverse; 260; 267; weds Lake Traverse; 395; on the move with Lake, 472;

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

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

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

'''Kipperville''' 
348; "Saturday night in..."; likely not a reference to an original pynchonwiki envisioner, David Kipen, "Kipperville" is most likely a reference to the story ''Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel'' by Virginia Lee Burton, wherein Mike and promises to dig the cellar for Popperville's new town hall in one day using his steam shovel Mary Anne. The citizens from Kipperville and other nearby towns all come to watch. [[Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel|Read the Amazon description]].

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

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

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

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

'''Kronecker, Leopold''' 
593; "sinister influence of..."; "the positive integers were created by God, and all else is the work of man" 593; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronecker Wikipedia entry]

'''Kropotkin''' 
373;

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

'''Kundschaftsstelle''' 
715; 716; Austrian

'''Kuppelei''' 
704; ''simple or qualified...'' From the [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Prostitution 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica]: "Kuppelei is a penal offence. ''Simple'' Kuppelei include (1) harbouring prostitutes for the purpose of pursuing their trade, (2) procuration, (3) having any connexion with the traffic - penalty, three to six months' imprisonment; ''qualified'' Kuppelei is (1) procuration of innocent persons (equivalent to use of false pretences), (2) procuration by parents, guardians, &c. - penalty, one to five years. The police regulations and procedure (in Austria) are similar to those in Germany, but less strict. In all these countries a special service of police is employed."

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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''' 
"'induced paramorphism,'" 114; "paramorphic distortions," 249; 435; 436; ''paramorfico'', 570; 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, in lower Manhattan financial district, 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"

'''picnic''' 
4; 82; 138; 503;

'''Piggot's''' 
678;

'''Pigs''' 
Circe, 117; "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]

'''Piper, Leonora''' 
medium/psychic, 228; Leonora Piper's spiritualistic abilities (or extrasensory perception — the exact nature of her powers was, maybe naturally, unresolved) convinced William James of the truth in Spiritualism; James dubbed her "the white crow."

'''Piprake, Giles''' 
866; colleague of Ratty McHugh

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

'''plasmic hysteresis''' 
555;

'''Plush, Fiona''' 
894; model for Arturo Naunt sculpture

'''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;

'''Psitticide''' 
387; the murder of a parrot: (Latin order Psittaciformes = parrot). "The commandante, sensing psitticide in the air, came hurrying up."

'''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; security of ''Inconvenience'' left to, 443; "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]; [[Pythagorean Theory of Music and Color]]; [[Pythagorean Numbers]]

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==Page 892==

'''Bodeo-packing''' 
The Bodeo was the Italian [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_pistol service pistol]; this suggests police.

'''''coglioni''''' 
Means testicle literally, with the connotation of a dumb person. I guess in American English you would translate it as ''dork''.

'''Bloomsbury''' 
Fashionable London district including the British Museum and University College London.

'''west of Regents Park''' 
The huge park is in northern central London. To the west are Lisson, Paddington, Westbourne Green, Kensal Town and other districts.

Parts of ''The Princess Casamassima'' are set in Lisson Grove.

==Page 893==

'''taximeter cab''' 
The taximeter is the device that measures and totalizes miles traveled.

'''Fedora''' 
Capitalized because at the time it was recognized as a proper name: from Sardou's play ''Fédora.'' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_(hat) Description, picture and history on Wikipedia.]

'''Lampo''' 
Italian-made pistol.

'''Peckham Rye''' 
District in southeast London.

Perhaps of significance, perhaps not: site of Muriel Sparks' 1960 novel ''The Ballad of Peckham Rye'', in which one character, around whom the action revolves, may or may not be teh Devil, but who is certainly disruptive of normal middle class values.

Perhaps more pertinently where William Blake first had a vision of angels in 1767.

'''Henry Newbolt''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Newbolt Sir Henry Newbolt] (1862-1938) was an English author and poet.

'''"Vitaï Lampada"''' 
Dally noting passages from [[Vitai Lampada|the Newbolt poem]] quoted by Cyprian on [[ATD_792-820#Page_813|page 813]] and by Dr. De Bottle on [[ATD_219-242#Page_236|page 236.]]

'''pietà''' 
Works so titled commonly show Mary, the mother of Jesus, with his body after its removal from the cross.

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'''predators' wings''' 
Western art mostly depicts angels with the wings of prey species, namely doves.

'''Angel of Death''' 
This angel appears in ''V.'' and ''GR'' too.

'''Katie bar the door''' 
Slang expression dating from the late 1800's meaning, Look out! For a possible etymology see: [http://www.word-detective.com/111703.html]

'''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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'''capitalist temples . . . those of us who do''' 
Is Dally a concrete being or an abstraction? Here she is flipping back and forth.

'''''The Spirit of Bimetallism''''' 
Beautiful title: invented image for a perfectly spiritless policy.

And one that had turned to blood in the Colorado mines.

A bimetallic strip was the moving part in a thermostat.

'''''semeuse''''' 
French: girl sowing seeds.

'''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.

==Page 896==

'''Three Choirs Festival ... Phrygian resonances''' 
Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis" was composed in 1910 for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Choirs_Festival Three Choirs Festival], a British music festival held each August alternately at the cathedrals of Hereford, Gloucester and Worcester and originally featuring their three choirs. The theme on which Vaughan Williams based his work is in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrygian_mode Phrygian mode] which, in Greek music theory, was based on the Phrygian tetrachord, a series of rising intervals of a whole tone, followed by a semitone, followed by a whole tone. Applied to a whole octave, the Phrygian mode was built upon two Phrygian tetrachords separated by a whole tone (playing all the white keys on a piano keyboard from D to D sounds the Greek Phrygian mode). However, when the early Christian church developed its eight modes, the medieval modes were given the wrong Greek names, resulting in a ''second'' Phrygian mode, one that sounds quite different (played on the white keys from E to E) from the Greek mode of the same name, a more "exotic," Arabic sound (The 1960s hit "White Rabbit" has a Phrygian feel and the mode was actually fairly popular in the 60s). Thus, in ''Against the Day'', another incidence of doubling. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasia_on_a_Theme_of_Thomas_Tallis More from Wikipedia on "Fantasia on a Theme"]. [[Pythagorean Theory of Music and Color]]

'''very slowly Ruperta began to levitate...''' 
Ruperta's levitation, caused or triggered by the Phrygian music she is hearing, has a Pythagorean precedent:

:Pythagoras discovered that the seven modes — or keys — of the Greek system of music had the power to incite or allay the various emotions. It is related that while observing the stars one night he encountered a young man befuddled with strong drink and mad with jealousy who was piling faggots about his mistress' door with the intention of burning the house. The frenzy of the youth was accentuated by a flutist a short distance away who was playing a tune in the stirring Phrygian mode. Pythagoras induced the musician to change his air to the slow, and rhythmic Spondaic mode, whereupon the intoxicated youth immediately became composed and, gathering up his bundles of wood, returned quietly to his own home. From [[Pythagorean Theory of Music and Color]]

However, whereas in the Pythagoras story the Phrygian mode causes the young man to become agitated, in Ruperta's case, the effect is physically and spiritually uplifting.

'''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.

'''Somehow, I alone, for every single wrong act of my life, must find a right one to balance it''' 
Ruperta retuns to earth a Buddhist; her first step is to restore karmic balance in her life. If any music in the world could produce such a transformation, it is Vaughan Williams' ''Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis'', heard in an English cathedral's acoustics. This, too, produces alternate histories.
:That is one of the most elegant entries in this whole wiki.

==Page 897==

'''imprimatura''' 
The unfilled white ground of a canvas, painted only with white primer. (It can be other than white, especially in Venetian painting.)

'''immoderate light-space . . . ''Dido Building Carthage''''' 
[http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/turner/paintings/carthage.html 1815 painting in the National Gallery, London.]

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'''West End''' 
Area, centered roughly on Shaftesbury Avenue, where London legitimate theaters concentrate. British equivalent of Broadway.

'''''mitzvah''''' 
Hebrew: good or worthy deed.

'''character juvenile''' 
In a theater company the "juvenile" played a young, eligible man, counterpart to the ingenue. "Character" is almost an antonym for a stock player, having the ability to play many roles without limitation by physical type.

'''vocal range was half an octave''' 
A song as simple as "Home on the Range" calls for a full octave of range. Half an octave is not much more than inflected humming.

'''Shaftesbury Avenue, the Strand, Haymarket, and Kings Way''' 
The rough quadrangle bounded by these streets lies west of the City and includes Covent Garden, the Royal Opera House, the National Portrait Gallery and one entrance to Charing Cross railway station.

'''from Camberwell Green to Notting Hill Gate''' 
Camberwell Green is in southeast London, Notting Hill Gate in the west central part of the area.

'''Scotch eggs''' 
A delicacy Americans often just refuse to believe: a hard-boiled egg enrobed in sausage meat and deep-fried.

'''chip-shop newspaper''' 
The newspaper used to wrap the fish and chips (US: French Fries); very greasy, naturally, but the only paper that may come to hand.

==Page 899==

'''laddered stockings''' 
Britishism; in US parlance, stockings ruined by a run (producing a laddered effect).

'''beauties of photogravuredom''' 
When newspapers used the gravure process, costs dictated they reserve it for pictorial material of special value, often publishing a separate section or even a magazine showing fashionably dressed women.

'''Lalique''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Lalique René Lalique] (1860-1945) was one of the world's greatest glass makers and jewellery designers, renowned for his stunning creations of perfume bottles, vases, jewellery, chandeliers, clocks, and automobile hood ornaments.

'''Turkish railway intrigues''' 
Refers to the international machinations among the Powers over the proposed (Berlin to) Baghdad Railway, in fact the Basra railway. Such a rail link would give Germany access to development of a large swath of the Ottoman Empire, and make possible a naval presence in the Persian Gulf, seen by Britain as a threat to routes to India in case of war. Elsewhere in AtD there are references to the proposed routes for this rail network (routes through East Roumelia,; the Orient Express route), which was eventually completed--the last link being put in place under Vichy France in Syria in 1940 [http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/boshtml/bos139.htm].

The meaning within AtD of such a network, linking Europe and Asia, widens to potential links to Russian railways, e.g. the Trans-Caucasian Kit rides, and the Trans-Siberian; and via Palestine and Cairo, to Cecil Rhodes' proposed Cape to Cairo Railway. Add the recently completed Channel Tunnel and a recently proposed Bering Strait Tunnel, and there is a potential for a world-spanning network of steel rails, binding everywhere to everywhere--a 19th Century dream come true--and the old routes languish, as in Ostend.

'''From Turkish railway intrigues, Crouchmas had . . .''' 
See pp. 237-239.

==Page 900==

'''Finsbury''' 
North of the City of London and near the suggestively named Shoreditch.

'''Northumberland Avenue''' 
Upscale street near Charing Cross and Scotland Yard.

'''in expensive ''déshabillé''''' 
''Déshabillé'' is French: undressed. I.e., dressed (expensively) but not dressed to go out.
:neglige — a loose dressing gown for women.

'''Oxfordshire''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxfordshire Oxfordshire], where the University of Oxford is located, is a county in the south-central of England.

'''Overlunch''' 
Dally and Lew meet over lunch. Nice.

'''Moon, Sun''' 
Which Dally held in her balance as the Spirit of Bimetallism, P.895.

==Page 901==

'''Vionnet-gowned''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Vionnet Madeleine Vionnet] (June 22, 1876 - 1975) was a French fashion designer. Called the "Queen of the bias cut" and "the architect among dressmakers," Vionnet is best-known today for her elegant Grecian-style dresses and for introducing the bias cut to the fashion world. The bias cut and absence of padding allowed a new freedom of movement.

'''the Dog Star Sirius, which ruled this part of the summer''' 
A sky enigma [[ATD_792-820#Page_796|(see the annotations to page 796 for another)]]. In old beliefs, Sirius "ruled" late summer (the "Dog Days") by lining up with the Sun so that their heats added together. In this season Sirius and the Earth are on opposite sides of the Sun, so that you look toward the Sun and see Sirius near it and behind it; Sirius sets a little time before or after sunset rather than ascending throughout the evening.

I suggest it is worth the effort to seek a way this passage can be technically and thematically right. --[[User:Volver|Volver]] 14:44, 28 January 2007 (PST)

==Page 902==

'''playing now in 3/4, too fast to be called a waltz...''' 
Disaster in 3/4 time--see P.809 and note. Once again the pace of movement toward the European Disaster is picking up; here again there is an echo of Ravel's chaotic ''La Valse''.

==Page 903==

'''the King is the Kaiser's uncle''' 
British Queen Victoria's eldest child, Princess Victoria, married Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia in 1857. Their eldest son became Germany's last Kaiser in 1888. When Queen Victoria died in 1901, her eldest son (second child), Prince Albert Edward, became King Edward VII. 
It is interesting to know that through Queen Victoria's daughters, British King, German Kaiser and Russia Tsar were related. Queen Victoria's second daughter (third child), Princess Alice, had a daughter, Alix, who was the wife of Russia's last Tsar, Nicholas II.

'''rapid changes in Turkish politics''' 
The Turkish oscillations between the other Powers, here principally England and Germany, the Berlin to Baghdad Railway being one among the issues at stake.

'''level of 'reality' at which nations, like money in the bank, are merged and indistinguishable''' 
This rather cryptic line will take on more meaning on P.904, where there is reference to alternate historical possibilities (note teh partail quotes areound 'reality'), literally merging England and Germany, victor and vanquished in the First World War. This is also an Anarchist tenet, the equally evil nature of all governments.

'''St.Paul's''' 
[http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A4187568 St.Paul's Cathedral], London. The current St Paul's Cathedral is the fourth one to occupy its site on Ludgate Hill. Designed by Sir Christopher Wren, it's first stone was laid in 1675 and the final stone was not laid until 1710. The height of St Paul's from the pavement to the top of the cross is 365 feet.

==Page 904==

'''A royal charter . . . illuminating gas''' 
Ernest Augustus (1771-1851) was a younger son of British and Hanoverian King George III. In Britain he had a substantial military career and, as Duke of Cumberland, began to pursue a political one as well. His niece Victoria acceded to the British throne in 1837—the crown passing to her as heiress of an older son of George III—but Hanover's laws said a woman could not serve as monarch there, so the royal dynasty split. Ernest Augustus was named King of Hanover and occupied the throne until his death. He evidently used the name Ernst-August in Hannover.

(Göttingen, by the way, lay in this kingdom. Its university was founded by Ernest Augustus' great-grandfather George II.)

The tunnel in question would link Galloway in Scotland to Ulster in Ireland, burrowing under 20 miles of seabed in waters some 100 fathoms (over 150 m) deep. In 1837-51 it was laughably unfeasible, and indeed it would not become an economic proposition until over a century later. (From most parts of Britain it would be harder to get to Galloway than Ireland anyway.)

So the "charter" mentioned in the text was granted for an impossible project by a monarch who, our history tells us, had no jurisdiction in the countries affected. It is essential to read this bit of text in conjunction with the Grand Cohen's speculations on pages 230-231.

(What is suggested here is that the building houses files from alternate timelines, alternate histories,; or: from alternate Possibilities that collapsed into the certainty of a single timeline).

'''A railroad . . . East Roumelia''' 
As in ''Mason & Dixon,'' another straight line cast across the land.

And part of the proposed German financed Berlin to Baghdad network outflanking Britain's sea routes, through some territory of doubtful and disputed sovereignty.

'''guilloche''' 
Or guilloché, a pattern of interlaced curved lines.

'''A deed . . . Buckinghamshire . . . east of Wolverton and north of Bletchley''' 
Is it coincidence that this area contains the designed town of Milton Keynes? Bletchley has another resonance: Alan Turing worked during WWII at Bletchley Park, the center for British code-breaking. 
Buckinghamshire is the eastern neighbor of Oxfordshire.

'''Obock''' 
A real French colony in present-day Djibouti; sovereignty is not made clear by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obock Wikipedia entry.]

'''Sagallo''' 
A Russian colony near Obock; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagallo another Wikipedia article.]

'''Atchinoff''' 
Or Achinov: adventurer who sought in 1889 to establish the colony of Sagallo.

'''the archimandrite Païsi''' 
Archimandrite: a ranking priest in the Orthodox Church.

==Page 905==

'''lunes''' 
A lune is the surface formed by cutting a sphere with two planes each including the center.

'''nacreous''' 
Having the luster of pearl or mother-of-pearl.

'''Madame Entrevue''' 
Mrs. Interview.

==Page 906==

'''but it's ''they'' who want to sell ''him'' something''' 
Uh-oh. The device that Umeki took away is coming back.

==Page 907==

'''condition of sin''' 
Possible reference to the (perhaps hopeless) intertwining of spiritual and temporal quests, like the search for Shambhala. The seeking of knowledge seems hopelessly entwined with the seeking of power.

==Page 908==

'''what some were beginning to call Istanbul''' 
[[ATD_821-848#Page_846|See annotation to page 846.]]

'''Cağaloğlu''' 
District in Istanbul somewhat west of Aya Sophia.

'''Byzantine schemes''' 
Wonderful play on words. Constantinople was the capital of the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire until the Turkish conquest of 1458; any complex intrigue, said to be typical of the old and very sophisticated Empire, is called "Byzantine" in complexity. Here of course the schemes are both complex and, located in Constantinople, literally Byzantine. A good example of Pynchonian "Temporal Bandwidth"; this is a multicultural, multitemporal joke.

'''Imi and Ernö''' 
Imi is the diminutive for Imre (Emery); Ernő (with double long accent) is the Hungarian equivalent for Ernest.

'''Szeged''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szeged Szeged] is a city in southern border of Hungary, a major center of paprika production.

'''Wagons-Lits''' 
Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits et des Grands Express Européens (the International Sleeping-Car Company and Great European Expresses). Originally, the company deployed sleeping- and dining-cars in Europe, similar to the Pullman company in the US. The company deployed the first sleeping and dining cars for long-distance train travel in Europe. In 1883 the company started with a service to Constantinople called the Orient Express [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compagnie_Internationale_des_Wagons-Lits]. The train followed several routes in its storied history ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orient_Express]). Kit and Dally are both on the luxury Wagons-Lits version, running by way of Vienna and Budapest [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orient_Express]. The European sections of the route were as much subject to political machinations as the proposed Ottoman Empire continuations on to Baghdad and beyond.

==Page 909==

'''Zaharoff ''úr''''' 
Hungarian: Mr. Zaharoff.

'''''Fönök''''' 
Hungarian: chief, boss. Also a slangish form of address, showing friendly intentions to a (male) stranger.

==Page 910==

'''''Bocsánat''''' 
Hungarian: pardon!

'''Euphorbia''' 
Quick thinking, but she may not be flattered. The genus ''Euphorbia'' comprises the spurges, large-leafed plants with milky sap.

'''''chef de brigade''''' 
French: crew chief.

'''''kalabriás''''' 
Hungarian: the complicated card game ''klaberjas'' or "klob." Kalábriász is a more common spelling.

'''Porta Orientalis''' 
The Eastern Gate Pass in the Southern Carpathians (Transylvanian Alps), complete with railway tunnel, connecting historical Translyvania with the Danubian Plain in Walachia (southern Romania).

'''Széchenyi-Tér tramline''' 
Széchenyi tér is a central city square in Szeged, where the first tramline (electric streetcar) was inaugurated in 1908. Recall Merle Rideout's work with streetcars.

'''Kiskúnfélegyháza''' 
Town 70 miles southeast of Budapest on the route to Szeged.

==Page 911==

'''the invisible city ahead of him gripping him ever more surely in its field''' 
Istanbul (was Constantinople...) is another city, like Venice, with enormous Temporal Bandwidth. Ancient, multicultural, politically and historically complex, it (its "field"?) grips Kit as Venice gripped Dally. It is, in fact historically connected to Venice (two poles of the medieval Mediterannean) by trade and competition. Venice had a hand in the destruction of Constantinople during a Crusade; Venetian
mercenaries were among its last defenders in the Turkish siege of 1458.

'''Galata Tower''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galata_Tower Galata Tower], one of Istanbul's most striking landmarks, is located on the Galata side of the Golden Horn. It was built in 1348, with a height of 220 ft the tallest structure when built.

'''Eminönü''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emin%C3%B6n%C3%BC Eminönü], a district of Istanbul, is the heart of the walled city of Constantine, the focus of a history of incredible richness and a seaport.

'''the Sultan's threatened counterrevolution''' 
April 1909.

'''Pera Palace''' 
[http://www.allaboutturkey.com/perapalas.htm Pera Palas Hotel] in Galata district of Istanbul was originally founded in 1892 for the specific purpose of hosting passengers arriving on the ''Orient Express''. Room 411 of the hotel is now preserved as "Agatha Christie Room" because it was said Agatha Christie wrote ''Murder on the Orient Express'' in that room.

'''the Committee of Union and Progress''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_of_Union_and_Progress The Committee of Union and Progress] (C.U.P.), an umbrella political organization, was found in 1906 by various underground revolutionary factions with the common goal of disolving the Ottoman Empire. It came to power between 1908 and 1918.

'''''komitadji''''' 
Cf [[ATD_557-587#Page_557|page 557: Balkan ''komitadji'']].

'''Viktor Mulciber''' 
Cf [[ATD_557-587#Page_557|page 557: Viktor Mulciber]].

==Page 912==

'''drummer''' 
Salesman.

'''air show in Brescia last year''' 
The competition took place in September 1909.

'''pilots like Calderara and Cobianchi''' 
Mario Calderara (1879-1944) and Mario Cobianchi (1881-1944), Italian pioneers of aviation. For an eerie foreshadowing of ''Inconvenience'' and the Campanile, [http://www.earlyaviators.com/ecobianc.htm look at the photo near the middle of this page.]

'''''meyhane''''' 
A Turkish tavern.

'''''politissas''''' 
???

==Page 913==

'''the promise . . . year before last''' 
So the promise and Dally and Kit's goodbye took place in 1908?

'''Grand-Hôtel Tisza''' 
Named for the Tisza River.

'''''újházaspár''''' 
Hungarian: new wedded couple (literally). The formation is perfect but there is no such compound word in common usage; seems to be a calque for "newlyweds"

'''Varosi Színház''' 
Hungarian: ''Municipal Theater''. The correct spelling should be Városi.

'''Béla Blaskó . . . from Lugos''' 
In the same way that a man from Miskolc took the name Miskolci, this successful actor in another life will take a new stage name.

==Page 914==

'''Pityu''' 
Diminutive for István (Stephen).

'''''hálaszlé''''' 
Hungarian: fisherman soup.

'''Temesvár''' 
In Romanian, Timişoara, in Transylvania, another political football in 19th and early 20th century politics; reinforces the Bela Lugosi reference. - In the strict sense Temesvár/Timişoara does not belong to Transylvania proper but to Banat, a particularly multi-ethnic region between the Danube and the southernmost reaches of the Carpathians. Under Habsburg rule it was a garrison town with mostly German population, and in 1989 it was the birthplace of the Romanian revolution.

'''''The Burgher King''''' 
I.e., middle-class.

Also, of course, a play on the fast food chain, similar to the character Muller Hoch-Leben (MIller High Life) in ''GR''.

Interplay between the aristocracy and the middle (or lower) classes was a central theme in the Austro-Hugarian operetta of the age, with titles like Prince Bob, Baroness Lili, Countess Marica, the Count of Luxemburg, the Princess of Circus, and last but not least, the Queen of Csárdás, a perennial classic.

'''Schleppingsdorff''' 
Comic German name: a shlep from shlepville.

'''Machen wir . . . nichts kaufen''' 
German: Let's go for a window-shopping stroll; / Put on something fiddly (or fancy). / In streets and lanes let's just run— / Stare at everything but don't buy anything.

In addition, the German here is not correct. The second line should read "Überwirf Dir irgendeinen Fummel" or "Wirf Dir einen Fummel über", or something like that.

==Page 915==

'''''molto agitato''''' 
Italian musical direction: highly agitated.

'''''ucca''''' 
Hungarian: street.

'''So super-ficially deep...Good time girl from the K and K''' 
The plot is a mash-up of countless operettas and Mozart light opera. As far as "good time girls, superficially deep": at this point (1900-1910) the art and literature of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was replete with complicated women in complicated relationships (cf. the paintings of Gustav Klimt, the stories of Robert Musil, Stefan Zweig; not to mention Sigmund Freud's case histories, particularly "Dora"); mistresses and prostitutes did figure heavily as well.

K and K (k.u.k) stands for kaiserlich und königlich, imperial (Austrian) and royal (Hungarian).

The lyrics resemble (maybe by accident, maybe not) one of the all-time operetta hits, "Girls are angels", basically about flirtation and extramarital sex with chorus girls, from ''The Queen of Csárdás'' (see note to The Burgher King on page 914). The song is traditionally performed "wearing a silk hat at a rakish angle", and contains "superficially deep" lines like "here all existence is just an appearance / here everyone is allowed to play a role".

(the passage reads like a very Pynchonian take on the whole tradition, in a way comparable to "The Courier's Tragedy" in "Lot 49".)

==Page 916==

'''up the river''' 
The Tisza.

'''Szolnok''' 
Town east of Budapest.

'''Lake Balaton''' 
Long narrow lake in west central Hungary, with reputedly the finest beaches in Central Europe. Popular holiday resorts.

'''Pragerhof''' 
Pragersko in present-day Slovenia.

'''Venezia''' 
Venice.

'''Siófok''' 
Town on the southern shore of Lake Balaton.

==Page 917==

'''gaff-riggers''' 
A gaff-rigger is a boat or ship with gaff-rigged sails. Gaff-rigged denotes a fore-and-aft sail bent to a mast, to a boom at the lower edge, and to a gaff (inclined spar) extending from the mast at the top.

'''''fogások''''' 
Hungarian: zanders (''Lucioperca lucioperca'' or ''sandra''). The correct spelling is ''fogasok'', without an accent.

==Page 918==

==Annotation Index==
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'''Odo''' 
Ictibus's assistant; 344;

'''Offenbach''' 
422; "Halls of Montezoo-HOO-ma"

'''Ohmic Drift Compensator''' 
565;

'''Okhrana''' 
716; secret police force of the Russian Empire and part of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) in late 1800s, aided by Special Corps of Gendarmes. The primary purpose of the agency was the security of the tsar and royal family, including, but not limited to, fighting hostile organizations: terrorists ("bombists"), socialists, and revolutionaries.

'''"Old Zip Coon"''' 
33; Sung to the tune of "Turkey In The Straw," "Old Zip Coon" was written around 1829 by either George Washington Dixon, Bob Farrell or George Nichols, as the composer credit is disputed. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey_in_the_Straw Wikipedia entry]; [[Old_Zip_Coon|The Lyrics]]

'''Old Gideon''' 
40; bourbon

'''Old Stearinery Bell Tower''' 
412;

'''Oltre Giubba''' 
30; Oltre Giuba (Italian Jubaland) is a strip of land 50 to 100 miles in width, west of the Juba River in East Africa. It was ceded to Italy by Great Britain in 1924. Oltre Giuba was incorporated into Italian Somaliland on July 1 that year, and stamps for Oltre Giuba were discontinued. In 1936 it became part of Italian East Africa.

'''One-Tooth Elsie''' 
345;

'''Oneida''' 
473; Crystal's cousin; the [http://oneida-nation.net/ Oneida] are an American Indian tribe in New York;

'''opopanax and vervain''' 
399; opopanax, also called "sweet myrhh", is an odorous gum resin formerly used in medicines; the highly flammable resin can be burned as incense to produce a scent somewhat like balsam or lavender. '''Vervain''' is believed to be a galactagogue (promotes secretion of milk). Folk legend states that vervain (Common Vervain V. officinalis) was used to staunch Jesus's wounds after his removal from the cross. Tea can also be made from vervain, as a remedy for insomnia.

'''orange phosphate''' 
47;

'''Oriental Presence''' 
682;

'''Original Sin''' 
87; 145; "no such thing as," 223; responsible for the Southwestern desert, 393;

'''O'Rooney, Wolfe Tone''' 
370; "travelling insurrectionist" in Maman in New Orleans; "Way of the Potato" 373; "after weapons for the Irish cause" 642; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theobald_Wolfe_Tone Theobald Wolfe Tone], commonly known as Wolfe Tone (1763-1798) was a leading figure in the United Irishmen Irish independence movement and is regarded as the father of Irish republicans. He died, allegedly by cutting his own throat, following an illness after being sentenced to death for his part in the Irish Rebellion of 1798;

A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_tone wolf tone], or simply a "wolf", is a noise that is produced when a note played on a stringed instrument matches the natural resonating frequency of the instrument, producing a tone that is loud and harsh, and basically unwelcomed by most musicians.

'''Orthogonal''' 
(need other page numbers); 632; ''"a wild exclusion from the primly orthogonal floor-plans...;'' 843; ''"mosqueless idea of a city is nearly upon us, dull, modern, orthogonal..."'' Of or relating to right angles, also of or relating to a linear transformation preserving vector lengths. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal Wikipedia entry]

'''Other Side, the''' 
381; 389;

'''Ottician, Vastroslav''' 
871; Zlatko's brother

'''Ottician, Zlatko''' 
862; Vlado Clissan's cousin

'''Otzovists''' 
616; radical wing of the Bolsheviks, led by Alexander Bogdanov; the God-builders, 616; "anti-Leninist Bolshies" 631; 719;

'''Ouspensky, Peter D. (1878-1947)''' 
602; Russian philosopher with an analytic and mystical bent who combined geometry and psychology in his discussion of higher dimensions of existence. During his years in Moscow he wrote for several newspapers, and was particularly interested in the then-fashionable idea of the fourth dimension. He is best known, however, for his expositions of the early work of the Greek-Armenian mystic, G.I. Gurdjieff. ''The Fourth Dimension'', 602; 616; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._D._Ouspensky Wikipedia entry]

'''Oust, Ewball''' 
374; Anarchist and "a young fellow from Lake County, on the way down to the Veta Madre"; in Mexico; now in arms procurement, with Frank Traverse in Mexico, 637; with Stray, 921; "Stray had grown increasingly fascinated with Ewball, even though, as she reminded him every chance she got, he wasn’t really her type." 926; parting with Stray, 977;

'''Oust, Toplady''' 
374; Ewball's uncle "Top"

'''Outer Indianoplace''' 
29; "Indianoplace is generally regarded as derogatory name for Indianapolis, Indiana. Comes from the evident lack of anything to do other than get drunk and watch sports and the appearant resistance of many of its inhabitants to allow culture, change, or diversity into the mix; [http://www.urbandictionary.com From Urban Dictionary]

'''Oyswharf, Dr.''' 
182; [[Dr. Oyswharf | DISCUSSION]]

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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''' 
"'induced paramorphism,'" 114; "paramorphic distortions," 249; 435; 436; ''paramorfico'', 570; 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, in lower Manhattan financial district, 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"

'''picnic''' 
4; 82; 138; 503;

'''Piggot's''' 
678;

'''Pigs''' 
Circe, 117; "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]

'''Piper, Leonora''' 
medium/psychic, 228; Leonora Piper's spiritualistic abilities (or extrasensory perception — the exact nature of her powers was, maybe naturally, unresolved) convinced William James of the truth in Spiritualism; James dubbed her "the white crow."

'''Piprake, Giles''' 
866; colleague of Ratty McHugh

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

'''plasmic hysteresis''' 
555;

'''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;

'''Psitticide''' 
387; the murder of a parrot: (Latin order Psittaciformes = parrot). "The commandante, sensing psitticide in the air, came hurrying up."

'''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; security of ''Inconvenience'' left to, 443; "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]; [[Pythagorean Theory of Music and Color]]; [[Pythagorean Numbers]]

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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''' 
"'induced paramorphism,'" 114; "paramorphic distortions," 249; 435; 436; ''paramorfico'', 570; 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, in lower Manhattan financial district, 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"

'''picnic''' 
4; 82; 138; 503;

'''Piggot's''' 
678;

'''Pigs''' 
Circe, 117; "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]

'''Piper, Leonora''' 
medium/psychic, 228; Leonora Piper's spiritualistic abilities (or extrasensory perception — the exact nature of her powers was, maybe naturally, unresolved) convinced William James of the truth in Spiritualism; James dubbed her "the white crow."

'''Piprake, Giles''' 
colleague of Ratty McHugh

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

'''plasmic hysteresis''' 
555;

'''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;

'''Psitticide''' 
387; the murder of a parrot: (Latin order Psittaciformes = parrot). "The commandante, sensing psitticide in the air, came hurrying up."

'''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; security of ''Inconvenience'' left to, 443; "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]; [[Pythagorean Theory of Music and Color]]; [[Pythagorean Numbers]]

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'''Iamblichus of Chalcis (ca 245 - ca 325)''' 
232; also known as Iamblichus Chalcidensis, was a Greek neoplatonist philosopher who determined the direction taken by later Neoplatonic philosophy, and perhaps western Paganism itself. He is perhaps best known for his compendium on Pythagorean philosophy; 620; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iamblichus_(philosopher) Wikipedia entry]

'''Iceland spar''' 
126; Iceland spar is a calcite, which gets its name from "chalix" the Greek word for lime, a most amazing and yet, most common mineral. It is one of the most common minerals on the face of the Earth, comprising about 4% by weight of the Earth's crust and is formed in many different geological environments. Iceland spar is basically clear cleaved fragments of completely colorless (ice-like) calcite, originally discovered and named after Eskifjord, Iceland where the calcite is found in basalt cavities. It best demonstrates the unique property of calcite called double refraction where, when a ray of light enters the crystal and due to calcite's unique optical properties, the ray is split into fast and slow beams. As these two beams exit the crystal they are bent into two different angles (known as angles of refraction) because the angle is affected by the speed of the beams. A person viewing into the crystal will see two images ... of everything. Note that the text of the dust jacket of the book is split into three, not two overlapping images. A strategic mineral during WWII used for the sighting equipment of bombardiers and gunners. See [http://www.galleries.com/minerals/carbonat/calcite/calcite.htm this website.] There is a nifty Java applet [http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/birefringence/index.html here] that demonstrates what Iceland Spar looks like when it refracts something and another [http://geology.about.com/library/bl/images/blcalcite.htm here] that shows actual Iceland Spar at work. Also of interest is the fact that some scientists and historians have argued that the "sunstone," a mysterious item that mentioned in Norse sagas which aided Viking sailors in navigation, might be Iceland Spar. There exists [http://www.polarization.com/viking/viking.html a page] that lays out the basis of the theory, though without much detail as to how the process would work."The Book of..." 133; "paramorphoscopes of" 250; ''Schieferspath'', 305-06; Zombini's, 355; aka ''espato'' or ''espanto'', 375; double-refraction, 375; 387; 391; 437; 564; "expression in crystal form of Earth's velocity" 688;

[[image:Tarot_Judgement.jpg|thumb|Judgement|right]]'''Icosadyad''' 
225; the "Company of Twenty-two," meaning the Major Arcana in the Tarot deck. "They are the ones most capable of damage"; Greek: Icosa- = 20; Dyad, according to the Pythagoreans, is the principle of "twoness" or "otherness" and, generally, is any two entities regarded as a unit; in the Tarot context, "icosadyad" would refer a doubling of Number XX of the Major Arcana of the Tarot deck, Judgement; 231; 496; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgement_(Tarot_card) Wikipedia entry]

'''icosahedron''' 
565; polyhedron having 20 faces, but usually a regular icosahedron is implied, which has equilateral triangles as faces. [Etymology: 16th Century: from Greek eikosaedron, from eikosi twenty + -edron -hedron]; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icosahedron Wikipedia entry]

'''Ictibus, The Phenominal Dr.''' 
344; "and His Safe-Deflector Hat"; ictibus is the ablative case for the Latin word "ictus" meaning a "blow" or "strike" - thus, away from a strike, appropriately

'''Idiom Neutral''' 
533; an international auxiliary language, published in 1902 by the International Academy of the Universal Language under the leadership of Waldemar Rosenberger, a St. Petersburg engineer; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiom_Neutral Wikipedia entry]

'''I.G.L.O.O.''' 
122; Inter-Group Laboratory for Opticomagnetic Observation, a "radiational clearinghouse in Northern Alaska"

'''images of creatures''' 
277; The ancient Puebloans of both the Mesa Verde and Chaco centers left numerous images, called petroglyphs [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroglyph]. They include figures of humans and other creatures, and of comets and the 1054 supernova now known as the Crab Nebula.

'''''Imbottigliata''''' 
28; Italian = bottled;

'''Imperium of Steam''' 
567; 680;

'''''Imum Coeli''''' 
406; In astrology, the ''Imum Coeli'' (Latin for "bottom of the sky"), IC, is the point in space where the ecliptic crosses the meridian in the north, exactly opposite the Midheaven. It is said to refer to our roots and also to the least conscious part of ourselves. It symbolizes foundations, beginnings in life, what may have been experienced through parental inheritance and homeland influences, need for security and relationships with the home and family life; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imum_Coeli Wikipedia entry]

<div id="inconvenience"></div>'''''Inconvenience, The''''' 
3; Chums of Chance's hydrogen skyship; in ''[[Mason & Dixon]]'' H.M.S. Inconvenience was a ship that [[Fender-Belly Bodine]] once sailed in.

'''Inner American Sea''' 
71;

'''Innocence''' 
87; 148; 151; 153; 203; 219; 223; "Innocent bourgeois lives," 235; ''corrupting youth'', 335; 362; 371; 416; Chums of Chance, 418; 444; 502; mathematicians, 540; "hunger for young bodies" 581; 674;

'''''Interdikt, das''''' 
690; 200-mile phosgene (poison gas) line: "'[Werfner's] plan [...] is insanely to install all across the Peninsula, from a little east of Sofia, here, roughly along the Balkan Range and the Sredna Gora, coincident with the upper border of the former Eastern Roumelia, and continuing on, at last to the Black Sea ''das Interdikt'', as he calls it, two hundred miles long, invisible, waiting for certain unconsidered footfalls and, once triggered, irreversible—pitiless. . . .'"

'''Interface''' 
53-54;

'''inukshuk''' 
126; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inukshuk Wikipedia entry]

'''Invert, Jenny''' 
866; wife of Ratty McHugh and president of the Inanimate Bird Association chapter; see also p.866:[http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_864-891 Pynchonwiki entry]

'''Invisibility''' 
"a sacred condition" 43; desks, 39; hawk, 55; "intervals of" 61; "emerged from" 62; "the pale invisible" 64; of the wind, 75; detectives at Colorado mines, 92; duster, 94; "window into" for Kit Traverse, 99; "...distance" 106; Islands disappearing, 108; fireworks, 112; "imperceptable war" 122; extra man, 125; 127; invisible heckler, 133; Hidden People, 134; 135; 142; 144; 150; 153; 160; 163; Fleetwood, 164; home, 165; 176; Major Arcana, 223; 242; 245; 249; 252; 266; chili's, 289; 327; workers at I.J. & K. Smokefoot, 345-46; in New Orleans, 369; 522; Chums of Chance, 549; Invisiblism, 625; 627; cloak of invisibility, 716;
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisibility Wikipedia entry]

'''Ipsow, Ray''' 
29; colleague of Professor Heino Vanderjuice of Yale University; in Latin, ''re ipso'' translates to "the thing itself."

'''Ironworkers Union''' 
43; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Association_of_Bridge%2C_Structural%2C_Ornamental_and_Reinforcing_Iron_Workers Wikipedia entry]

'''Isafjoror''' 
125;

'''Isandhlwana''' 
22; "massacre of British troops at"; On January 22, 1879, Isandlwana was the site of the Battle of Isandlwana, where over 20,000 Zulu warriors defeated a contingent of British soldiers in the first engagement of the Anglo-Zulu War. Almost the entire column of about 1,200 British soldiers was killed, and the regimental colours were lost; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isandhlwana Wikipedia entry]

'''Isola degli Specchi, aka Isle of Mirrors''' 
244; island of mirror-makers in Venice, 569;

'''Italian Troubles''' 
369; in New Orleans

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'''Iamblichus of Chalcis (ca 245 - ca 325)''' 
232; also known as Iamblichus Chalcidensis, was a Greek neoplatonist philosopher who determined the direction taken by later Neoplatonic philosophy, and perhaps western Paganism itself. He is perhaps best known for his compendium on Pythagorean philosophy; 620; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iamblichus_(philosopher) Wikipedia entry]

'''Iceland spar''' 
126; Iceland spar is a calcite, which gets its name from "chalix" the Greek word for lime, a most amazing and yet, most common mineral. It is one of the most common minerals on the face of the Earth, comprising about 4% by weight of the Earth's crust and is formed in many different geological environments. Iceland spar is basically clear cleaved fragments of completely colorless (ice-like) calcite, originally discovered and named after Eskifjord, Iceland where the calcite is found in basalt cavities. It best demonstrates the unique property of calcite called double refraction where, when a ray of light enters the crystal and due to calcite's unique optical properties, the ray is split into fast and slow beams. As these two beams exit the crystal they are bent into two different angles (known as angles of refraction) because the angle is affected by the speed of the beams. A person viewing into the crystal will see two images ... of everything. Note that the text of the dust jacket of the book is split into three, not two overlapping images. A strategic mineral during WWII used for the sighting equipment of bombardiers and gunners. See [http://www.galleries.com/minerals/carbonat/calcite/calcite.htm this website.] There is a nifty Java applet [http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/birefringence/index.html here] that demonstrates what Iceland Spar looks like when it refracts something and another [http://geology.about.com/library/bl/images/blcalcite.htm here] that shows actual Iceland Spar at work. Also of interest is the fact that some scientists and historians have argued that the "sunstone," a mysterious item that mentioned in Norse sagas which aided Viking sailors in navigation, might be Iceland Spar. There exists [http://www.polarization.com/viking/viking.html a page] that lays out the basis of the theory, though without much detail as to how the process would work."The Book of..." 133; "paramorphoscopes of" 250; ''Schieferspath'', 305-06; Zombini's, 355; aka ''espato'' or ''espanto'', 375; double-refraction, 375; 387; 391; 437; 564; "expression in crystal form of Earth's velocity" 688;

[[image:Tarot_Judgement.jpg|thumb|Judgement|right]]'''Icosadyad''' 
225; the "Company of Twenty-two," meaning the Major Arcana in the Tarot deck. "They are the ones most capable of damage"; Greek: Icosa- = 20; Dyad, according to the Pythagoreans, is the principle of "twoness" or "otherness" and, generally, is any two entities regarded as a unit; in the Tarot context, "icosadyad" would refer a doubling of Number XX of the Major Arcana of the Tarot deck, Judgement; 231; 496; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgement_(Tarot_card) Wikipedia entry]

'''icosahedron''' 
565; polyhedron having 20 faces, but usually a regular icosahedron is implied, which has equilateral triangles as faces. [Etymology: 16th Century: from Greek eikosaedron, from eikosi twenty + -edron -hedron]; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icosahedron Wikipedia entry]

'''Ictibus, The Phenominal Dr.''' 
344; "and His Safe-Deflector Hat"; ictibus is the ablative case for the Latin word "ictus" meaning a "blow" or "strike" - thus, away from a strike, appropriately

'''Idiom Neutral''' 
533; an international auxiliary language, published in 1902 by the International Academy of the Universal Language under the leadership of Waldemar Rosenberger, a St. Petersburg engineer; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiom_Neutral Wikipedia entry]

'''I.G.L.O.O.''' 
122; Inter-Group Laboratory for Opticomagnetic Observation, a "radiational clearinghouse in Northern Alaska"

'''images of creatures''' 
277; The ancient Puebloans of both the Mesa Verde and Chaco centers left numerous images, called petroglyphs [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroglyph]. They include figures of humans and other creatures, and of comets and the 1054 supernova now known as the Crab Nebula.

'''''Imbottigliata''''' 
28; Italian = bottled;

'''Imperium of Steam''' 
567; 680;

'''''Imum Coeli''''' 
406; In astrology, the ''Imum Coeli'' (Latin for "bottom of the sky"), IC, is the point in space where the ecliptic crosses the meridian in the north, exactly opposite the Midheaven. It is said to refer to our roots and also to the least conscious part of ourselves. It symbolizes foundations, beginnings in life, what may have been experienced through parental inheritance and homeland influences, need for security and relationships with the home and family life; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imum_Coeli Wikipedia entry]

<div id="inconvenience"></div>'''''Inconvenience, The''''' 
3; Chums of Chance's hydrogen skyship; in ''[[Mason & Dixon]]'' H.M.S. Inconvenience was a ship that [[Fender-Belly Bodine]] once sailed in.

'''Inner American Sea''' 
71;

'''Innocence''' 
87; 148; 151; 153; 203; 219; 223; "Innocent bourgeois lives," 235; ''corrupting youth'', 335; 362; 371; 416; Chums of Chance, 418; 444; 502; mathematicians, 540; "hunger for young bodies" 581; 674;

'''''Interdikt, das''''' 
690; 200-mile phosgene (poison gas) line: "'[Werfner's] plan [...] is insanely to install all across the Peninsula, from a little east of Sofia, here, roughly along the Balkan Range and the Sredna Gora, coincident with the upper border of the former Eastern Roumelia, and continuing on, at last to the Black Sea ''das Interdikt'', as he calls it, two hundred miles long, invisible, waiting for certain unconsidered footfalls and, once triggered, irreversible—pitiless. . . .'"

'''Interface''' 
53-54;

'''inukshuk''' 
126; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inukshuk Wikipedia entry]

'''Invert, Jenny''' 
866; wife of Ratty McHugh and president of the Inanimate Bird Association chapter; see also p.866 entry [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_864-891 Pynchonwiki entry]

'''Invisibility''' 
"a sacred condition" 43; desks, 39; hawk, 55; "intervals of" 61; "emerged from" 62; "the pale invisible" 64; of the wind, 75; detectives at Colorado mines, 92; duster, 94; "window into" for Kit Traverse, 99; "...distance" 106; Islands disappearing, 108; fireworks, 112; "imperceptable war" 122; extra man, 125; 127; invisible heckler, 133; Hidden People, 134; 135; 142; 144; 150; 153; 160; 163; Fleetwood, 164; home, 165; 176; Major Arcana, 223; 242; 245; 249; 252; 266; chili's, 289; 327; workers at I.J. & K. Smokefoot, 345-46; in New Orleans, 369; 522; Chums of Chance, 549; Invisiblism, 625; 627; cloak of invisibility, 716;
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisibility Wikipedia entry]

'''Ipsow, Ray''' 
29; colleague of Professor Heino Vanderjuice of Yale University; in Latin, ''re ipso'' translates to "the thing itself."

'''Ironworkers Union''' 
43; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Association_of_Bridge%2C_Structural%2C_Ornamental_and_Reinforcing_Iron_Workers Wikipedia entry]

'''Isafjoror''' 
125;

'''Isandhlwana''' 
22; "massacre of British troops at"; On January 22, 1879, Isandlwana was the site of the Battle of Isandlwana, where over 20,000 Zulu warriors defeated a contingent of British soldiers in the first engagement of the Anglo-Zulu War. Almost the entire column of about 1,200 British soldiers was killed, and the regimental colours were lost; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isandhlwana Wikipedia entry]

'''Isola degli Specchi, aka Isle of Mirrors''' 
244; island of mirror-makers in Venice, 569;

'''Italian Troubles''' 
369; in New Orleans

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'''Iamblichus of Chalcis (ca 245 - ca 325)''' 
232; also known as Iamblichus Chalcidensis, was a Greek neoplatonist philosopher who determined the direction taken by later Neoplatonic philosophy, and perhaps western Paganism itself. He is perhaps best known for his compendium on Pythagorean philosophy; 620; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iamblichus_(philosopher) Wikipedia entry]

'''Iceland spar''' 
126; Iceland spar is a calcite, which gets its name from "chalix" the Greek word for lime, a most amazing and yet, most common mineral. It is one of the most common minerals on the face of the Earth, comprising about 4% by weight of the Earth's crust and is formed in many different geological environments. Iceland spar is basically clear cleaved fragments of completely colorless (ice-like) calcite, originally discovered and named after Eskifjord, Iceland where the calcite is found in basalt cavities. It best demonstrates the unique property of calcite called double refraction where, when a ray of light enters the crystal and due to calcite's unique optical properties, the ray is split into fast and slow beams. As these two beams exit the crystal they are bent into two different angles (known as angles of refraction) because the angle is affected by the speed of the beams. A person viewing into the crystal will see two images ... of everything. Note that the text of the dust jacket of the book is split into three, not two overlapping images. A strategic mineral during WWII used for the sighting equipment of bombardiers and gunners. See [http://www.galleries.com/minerals/carbonat/calcite/calcite.htm this website.] There is a nifty Java applet [http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/birefringence/index.html here] that demonstrates what Iceland Spar looks like when it refracts something and another [http://geology.about.com/library/bl/images/blcalcite.htm here] that shows actual Iceland Spar at work. Also of interest is the fact that some scientists and historians have argued that the "sunstone," a mysterious item that mentioned in Norse sagas which aided Viking sailors in navigation, might be Iceland Spar. There exists [http://www.polarization.com/viking/viking.html a page] that lays out the basis of the theory, though without much detail as to how the process would work."The Book of..." 133; "paramorphoscopes of" 250; ''Schieferspath'', 305-06; Zombini's, 355; aka ''espato'' or ''espanto'', 375; double-refraction, 375; 387; 391; 437; 564; "expression in crystal form of Earth's velocity" 688;

[[image:Tarot_Judgement.jpg|thumb|Judgement|right]]'''Icosadyad''' 
225; the "Company of Twenty-two," meaning the Major Arcana in the Tarot deck. "They are the ones most capable of damage"; Greek: Icosa- = 20; Dyad, according to the Pythagoreans, is the principle of "twoness" or "otherness" and, generally, is any two entities regarded as a unit; in the Tarot context, "icosadyad" would refer a doubling of Number XX of the Major Arcana of the Tarot deck, Judgement; 231; 496; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgement_(Tarot_card) Wikipedia entry]

'''icosahedron''' 
565; polyhedron having 20 faces, but usually a regular icosahedron is implied, which has equilateral triangles as faces. [Etymology: 16th Century: from Greek eikosaedron, from eikosi twenty + -edron -hedron]; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icosahedron Wikipedia entry]

'''Ictibus, The Phenominal Dr.''' 
344; "and His Safe-Deflector Hat"; ictibus is the ablative case for the Latin word "ictus" meaning a "blow" or "strike" - thus, away from a strike, appropriately

'''Idiom Neutral''' 
533; an international auxiliary language, published in 1902 by the International Academy of the Universal Language under the leadership of Waldemar Rosenberger, a St. Petersburg engineer; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiom_Neutral Wikipedia entry]

'''I.G.L.O.O.''' 
122; Inter-Group Laboratory for Opticomagnetic Observation, a "radiational clearinghouse in Northern Alaska"

'''images of creatures''' 
277; The ancient Puebloans of both the Mesa Verde and Chaco centers left numerous images, called petroglyphs [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroglyph]. They include figures of humans and other creatures, and of comets and the 1054 supernova now known as the Crab Nebula.

'''''Imbottigliata''''' 
28; Italian = bottled;

'''Imperium of Steam''' 
567; 680;

'''''Imum Coeli''''' 
406; In astrology, the ''Imum Coeli'' (Latin for "bottom of the sky"), IC, is the point in space where the ecliptic crosses the meridian in the north, exactly opposite the Midheaven. It is said to refer to our roots and also to the least conscious part of ourselves. It symbolizes foundations, beginnings in life, what may have been experienced through parental inheritance and homeland influences, need for security and relationships with the home and family life; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imum_Coeli Wikipedia entry]

<div id="inconvenience"></div>'''''Inconvenience, The''''' 
3; Chums of Chance's hydrogen skyship; in ''[[Mason & Dixon]]'' H.M.S. Inconvenience was a ship that [[Fender-Belly Bodine]] once sailed in.

'''Inner American Sea''' 
71;

'''Innocence''' 
87; 148; 151; 153; 203; 219; 223; "Innocent bourgeois lives," 235; ''corrupting youth'', 335; 362; 371; 416; Chums of Chance, 418; 444; 502; mathematicians, 540; "hunger for young bodies" 581; 674;

'''''Interdikt, das''''' 
690; 200-mile phosgene (poison gas) line: "'[Werfner's] plan [...] is insanely to install all across the Peninsula, from a little east of Sofia, here, roughly along the Balkan Range and the Sredna Gora, coincident with the upper border of the former Eastern Roumelia, and continuing on, at last to the Black Sea ''das Interdikt'', as he calls it, two hundred miles long, invisible, waiting for certain unconsidered footfalls and, once triggered, irreversible—pitiless. . . .'"

'''Interface''' 
53-54;

'''inukshuk''' 
126; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inukshuk Wikipedia entry]

'''Invert, Jenny''' 
866; wife of Ratty McHugh and president of the Inanimate Bird Association chapter; see also p.866 entry [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_864-891]

'''Invisibility''' 
"a sacred condition" 43; desks, 39; hawk, 55; "intervals of" 61; "emerged from" 62; "the pale invisible" 64; of the wind, 75; detectives at Colorado mines, 92; duster, 94; "window into" for Kit Traverse, 99; "...distance" 106; Islands disappearing, 108; fireworks, 112; "imperceptable war" 122; extra man, 125; 127; invisible heckler, 133; Hidden People, 134; 135; 142; 144; 150; 153; 160; 163; Fleetwood, 164; home, 165; 176; Major Arcana, 223; 242; 245; 249; 252; 266; chili's, 289; 327; workers at I.J. & K. Smokefoot, 345-46; in New Orleans, 369; 522; Chums of Chance, 549; Invisiblism, 625; 627; cloak of invisibility, 716;
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisibility Wikipedia entry]

'''Ipsow, Ray''' 
29; colleague of Professor Heino Vanderjuice of Yale University; in Latin, ''re ipso'' translates to "the thing itself."

'''Ironworkers Union''' 
43; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Association_of_Bridge%2C_Structural%2C_Ornamental_and_Reinforcing_Iron_Workers Wikipedia entry]

'''Isafjoror''' 
125;

'''Isandhlwana''' 
22; "massacre of British troops at"; On January 22, 1879, Isandlwana was the site of the Battle of Isandlwana, where over 20,000 Zulu warriors defeated a contingent of British soldiers in the first engagement of the Anglo-Zulu War. Almost the entire column of about 1,200 British soldiers was killed, and the regimental colours were lost; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isandhlwana Wikipedia entry]

'''Isola degli Specchi, aka Isle of Mirrors''' 
244; island of mirror-makers in Venice, 569;

'''Italian Troubles''' 
369; in New Orleans

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'''Gage, Lyman Judson (1836-1927)''' 
307; "that old Gold Standard hand and bank president"; Gage was president of the First National Bank of Chicago; in 1892, he was chosen president of the board of directors of the World's Columbian Exposition, the successful financing of which was due more to him than to any other man. As Secretary of the Treasury under President Grover Cleveland, Gage was influential in securing passage of the Gold Standard Act of March 14, 1900, which reestablished a currency backed solely by gold; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyman_J._Gage Wikipedia entry]

'''Galandronome''' 
374; a type of bassoon developed by French instrument maker Galander in the mid-19th century;

'''Galois, Evariste''' 
601;

'''Gallows Frame''' 
"Gallows Frame Saloon," in Telluride, 302; "broken gallow-frames," 391;
:The Gallows Frame is the structural frame, usually made of steel or timber, at the top of an underground mine shaft. These frames hold the hoisting equipment which raise and lower equipment and miners into the underground mine.

'''Gamomania''' 
432; "the abnormal desire to be married"

'''Garçons de '71''' 
19;

'''Gas Office''' 
607

'''Gaspereaux, Stilton''' 
436; civilian passenger on ''Saksaul''; in London, 445;

'''Gatlin, Reverend Moss''' 
49; Anarchist preacher; "we are Stripes and Solids on the pool table of earthly existence" 86; The New York Times, commenting on the Haymarket Square riots in Chicago in 1886, offered the following solution to the anarchist threat, “In the early stages of an acute outbreak of anarchy a Gatling gun, or if the case be severe, two, is the sovereign remedy"; in Denver with his "Anarchist Heaven" car, 465;

[[image:Gauss-Weber_Statue.jpg|thumb|Gauss & Weber Statue]]'''Gauss''' 
498; 588; statue of Gauss and Weber, 594;

'''gaver du visage''' 
225; French for something like "stuff your face", appropriately enough for a "form of gluttony"

'''Geheimrat''' 
603; title of the highest officials of a German royal or principal court. It has its roots in 17th century Europe when governmental administration was established. The English language equivalent is Privy Councillor. The title disappeared after the destruction of the German Empire in 1918, when the various royal courts in Germany were replaced by the Weimar Republic.

'''Gentleman Bomber of Headingly''' 
236; cricket-ball bombs; 241; 605; 690; spotted at Fenner's cricket ground, 691;
:Possibly a nod to "The Girl Who Was Death," a particularly hallucinogenic episode of the late 60s cult TV series, ''The Prisoner'', which begins with a cricket-playing colonel being blown up by a cricket ball bomb.

'''Gerasimoff, Dr.''' 
258; Chick Counterfly's "opposite number"

'''Gerhardt''' 
517; Austrian Chief Stoker aboard ''Stupendica'', ''Herr Hauptheitzer''; in Swiss Alps, drilling, 655;

'''German Sea, The''' 
489; 504;

'''Geronimo''' 
195;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geronimo Wikipedia entry]

'''Gevaert, Edouard''' 
558; sells Q-98 to Woevre; "unworldly go-between," 559;

[[image:dirhan.jpg|thumb|Afghani dirham|right]]'''Ghaznivid Empire''' 
596; Sunni Muslim state in Khorasan in modern day Afghanistan that existed from 962 to 1187. It was created by Alp Tigin, a former Turkic slave general, with the city Ghazna (Ghazni) as capital, replacing the ruling Samanids; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghaznavid_Empire Wikipedia entry]

'''Ghloix, Dr. Otto''' 
132; "Expedition alienist"; "psychomedical officer" 143; visiting alienist from Switzerland, 686;

'''Ghosts''' 
132; Icelanders long tradition of, 133; "bad ice, blizzards, malevolent ghosts," 151; 218; Victoria's "ghostly stand-in," 231; "ghost-light," 306; 373; 375; "haunted," 384;

'''Giambolognese, Signora''' 
865; Venetian ''pensione'' resident

'''Giant-Wheel''' 
699; The Giant Wheel in the Prater is an important Viennese landmark, providing a view over the city. The wheel was the brain child of Gabor Steiner (1858-1944) and was built in 1896 by the English engineer Walter B. Basset, who produced similar designs in London and Paris. It was erected in the record time of eight months and was operated for the first time on June 21 1897; [http://www.technologystudent.com/culture1/ferris1.htm More on this website]

'''Gibbs, Professor Willard''' 
29; 158; 318-19; 532-3; 793; Gibbsian, 526; 532; Josiah Willard Gibbs was arguably the greatest American scientist of the 19th century, bringing the power of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics to what had been cookbook and rule-of-thumb chemistry. He demonstrated and extended the value of modeling in "phase space," a graph in which each physical state of a system is represented by a point representing pressure, volume, temperature, etc. ("water in all its phases," 368)
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_Gibbs Wikipedia entry]

'''Gibson Girls''' 
409; The Gibson Girl was the personification of the feminine ideal as portrayed in the satirical pen and ink illustrated stories created by illustrator Charles Dana Gibson during over 15 years spanning the late nineteenth and early twentieth century; 512; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibson_Girl Wikipedia entry]

'''Gigg, Jack''' 
99; Kit Traverse's sidekick

'''Gilmore, Mr.''' 
187; conductor in New Mexico

'''Ginnungagap''' 
127; "the lightless abyss"; Ginnungagap ("seeming emptiness"), in the cosmology of Norse mythology, is the primordial void separating Niflheim and Muspell, the land of eternal ice and snow and the land of eternal heat and flame; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginnungagap Wikipedia entry]

'''Girtonian''' 
492; 498; Of or pertaining to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girton_College%2C_Cambridge Girton College].

'''Giuseppina''' 
246; waitress at ''Osteria'' in San Polo

'''Glagolitic''' 
252; The Glagolitic alphabet was invented during the 9th century by the missionaries St Cyril (827-869 AD) and St Methodius (826-885 AD) in order to translate the bible and other religious works into the language of the Great Moravia region. They probably modelled Glagolitic on a cursive form of the Greek alphabet, and based their translations on a Slavic dialect of the Thessalonika area, which formed the basis of the literary standard known as Old Church Slavonic; [http://www.omniglot.com/writing/glagolitic.htm More from this website]

'''God''' "
87; "God's ledger; "God-possesed fugitives," 127; "God dwells in His Heavenly City," 131; rocks as "post-godhead" 209; under God's wing, 211; ''shin'', 237; 534;

'''Gold Standard''' 
89; The "gold standard" is a monetary system in which the standard economic unit of account is a fixed weight of gold; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_standard Wikipedia entry]

'''Golden Age''' 
561;

'''Gomez, Eusebio''' 
373; "acting as a subagent" in Mexico, 640; aka Wolfe Tone O'Reilly, 641;

'''Gordon, Charles George (1833-1885)''' 
240; known as Chinese Gordon, Gordon Pasha, and Gordon of Khartoum, was a British army officer and administrator. He is remembered for his exploits in China and northern Africa. Gordon was killed in Khartoum while defending it against the uprising led by Mahdi Mohammed Ahmed who decapitated Gordon and displayed his head on a spear; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_George_Gordon Wikipedia entry]

'''Göttingen''' 
226; Werfner at Göttingen; 594; during war with Prussia

'''Gottlob''' 
588; at Göttingen;

'''Grace'''
70; 213; 374; Angela Grace, 399-402;

'''Grace, Angela''' 
399-402; songstress at Lollypop Lounge who's "ten summers old";

'''Grace, Dr.''' 
577; appeared to Hunter in a dream, "the mass-grave-to-be of Europe";

'''Gradenigo, Doge Pietro''' 
247; 880

<div id="grandcohen">'''Grand Cohen'''</div>
499; A cohen, or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohen Kohen], is a member of the Jewish priestly class; 720;

'''Grand Hotel de la Nouvelle Digue''' 
526; in Ostend, Belgium; 531;

'''Granitza''' 
326; small town "above Adriatic Coast in the Velebit range"

'''grapnel''' 
13; a tool consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding; often thrown with a rope

'''Grassmann, Hermann (1809-1877)''' 
324; German polymath, renowned in his day as a linguist and now admired as a mathematician. He was also a physicist, neohumanist, all-round scholar, and publisher; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_grassmann Wikipedia entry]; Grassmann's 1862 ''Ausdehnungslehre'' (literally, "Theory of Extension") is one of the great mathematical works of the nineteenth century. In it the foundations of linear and multilinear algebra are laid and much of the superstructure too is constructed. It is regrettable that such a book on such a subject should, from the moment of publication, have been not much read. Indeed, Grassmann's reputation for impenetrability has persisted to this day; 535; [http://www.maths.utas.edu.au/People/dfs/Papers/GrassmannTranslation/node3.html More about ''Ausdehnungslehre'' here]

<div id="gravity">'''Gravity'''</div>
"The soles of Lew's feet began to ache, as if wanting to be taken all the way to the center of the Earth," 41; "a secret imperative, like the force of gravity," 80; Time vulnerable to, 457;

'''Great Airships of 1896 and '7''' 
454; On November 17, 1896 in Sacramento, California, there appeared, on a rainy night, a bright light. It moved slowly west appearing to be about a thousand feet above the rooftops. Hundreds of people saw the light including George Scott, an assistant to the Secretary of State of California. Scott persuaded some friends to join him on the observation deck above the capitol dome and from there they thought they could see three lights, not one. Above the lights was a dark, oblong shape. In 1897 there were many sightings of great airships from California to
Texas, however the airplane would not be invented for another 6 years,
and neither had large dirigibles or blimps yet been flown. In Aurora,
Texas one such ship supposedly crashed into a windmill or tower and exploded. [http://ufocasebook.com/Aurora.html Read more about the 1897 incident] and [http://www.unmuseum.org/airship.htm the Mysterious Airship of 1896]

'''Great Game''' 
"BOL'SHAIA IGRA, or, The Great Game,'" 123; 227;

'''Great Wife Bazaar of the World-Island''' 
432;

'''Gretchen''' 
640; Günther's date at Steve/Ramón's ("the restless Valkyrie")

'''Grimsford, Wes''' 
211; marshal of Jeshimon

'''Griswold, Uncle''' 
497; Cyprian's corrupting sodomite uncle

'''Grossmith, George''' 
494; at Cambridge

'''growler''' 
226; An old-fashioned siren, the kind that takes awhile to start. By extension, a police car carrying such a siren.

'''Groznyi''' 
441;

'''Grundy, Mrs.''' 
400; Mrs Grundy is the personification of the tyranny of conventional propriety (from Thomas Morton's play ''Speed the Plough'', which appeared in 1798), a person who is too much concerned with being proper, modest, or righteous; 427;

'''Guanajuato''' 
127; Iceland Spar mined in, 306; Frank Traverse and Ewball in, 376;

'''guncotton''' 
27; guncotton is Nitrocellulose (Cellulose nitrate) is a highly flammable compound formed by nitrating cellulose (e.g. through exposure to nitric acid or powerful nitrating agent), used in explosives

'''gutta-percha''' 
603; Gutta-percha (Palaquium) is genus of tropical trees native to southeast Asia and northern Australasia, from Taiwan south to Malaya and east to the Solomon Islands. It is also an inelastic natural latex produced from the sap of these trees, particularly from the species Palaquium gutta. Chemically, gutta-percha is a polyterpene, a polymer of isoprene (trans-1,4-polyisoprene);[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutta-percha]. It was often used an early insulating material on telegraphs and other electrical equipment. 611;

'''gynecophobia''' 
501; fear of women

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'''Odo''' 
Ictibus's assistant; 344;

'''Offenbach''' 
422; "Halls of Montezoo-HOO-ma"

'''Ohmic Drift Compensator''' 
565;

'''Okhrana''' 
716; secret police force of the Russian Empire and part of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) in late 1800s, aided by Special Corps of Gendarmes. The primary purpose of the agency was the security of the tsar and royal family, including, but not limited to, fighting hostile organizations: terrorists ("bombists"), socialists, and revolutionaries.

'''"Old Zip Coon"''' 
33; Sung to the tune of "Turkey In The Straw," "Old Zip Coon" was written around 1829 by either George Washington Dixon, Bob Farrell or George Nichols, as the composer credit is disputed. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey_in_the_Straw Wikipedia entry]; [[Old_Zip_Coon|The Lyrics]]

'''Old Gideon''' 
40; bourbon

'''Old Stearinery Bell Tower''' 
412;

'''Oltre Giubba''' 
30; Oltre Giuba (Italian Jubaland) is a strip of land 50 to 100 miles in width, west of the Juba River in East Africa. It was ceded to Italy by Great Britain in 1924. Oltre Giuba was incorporated into Italian Somaliland on July 1 that year, and stamps for Oltre Giuba were discontinued. In 1936 it became part of Italian East Africa.

'''One-Tooth Elsie''' 
345;

'''Oneida''' 
473; Crystal's cousin; the [http://oneida-nation.net/ Oneida] are an American Indian tribe in New York;

'''opopanax and vervain''' 
399; opopanax, also called "sweet myrhh", is an odorous gum resin formerly used in medicines; the highly flammable resin can be burned as incense to produce a scent somewhat like balsam or lavender. '''Vervain''' is believed to be a galactagogue (promotes secretion of milk). Folk legend states that vervain (Common Vervain V. officinalis) was used to staunch Jesus's wounds after his removal from the cross. Tea can also be made from vervain, as a remedy for insomnia.

'''orange phosphate''' 
47;

'''Oriental Presence''' 
682;

'''Original Sin''' 
87; 145; "no such thing as," 223; responsible for the Southwestern desert, 393;

'''O'Rooney, Wolfe Tone''' 
370; "travelling insurrectionist" in Maman in New Orleans; "Way of the Potato" 373; "after weapons for the Irish cause" 642; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theobald_Wolfe_Tone Theobald Wolfe Tone], commonly known as Wolfe Tone (1763-1798) was a leading figure in the United Irishmen Irish independence movement and is regarded as the father of Irish republicans. He died, allegedly by cutting his own throat, following an illness after being sentenced to death for his part in the Irish Rebellion of 1798;

A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_tone wolf tone], or simply a "wolf", is a noise that is produced when a note played on a stringed instrument matches the natural resonating frequency of the instrument, producing a tone that is loud and harsh, and basically unwelcomed by most musicians.

'''Orthogonal''' 
(need other page numbers); 632; ''"a wild exclusion from the primly orthogonal floor-plans...;'' 843; ''"mosqueless idea of a city is nearly upon us, dull, modern, orthogonal..."'' Of or relating to right angles, also of or relating to a linear transformation preserving vector lengths. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal Wikipedia entry]

'''Other Side, the''' 
381; 389;

'''Ottician, Zlatko''' 
862; Vlado Clissan's cousin

'''Otzovists''' 
616; radical wing of the Bolsheviks, led by Alexander Bogdanov; the God-builders, 616; "anti-Leninist Bolshies" 631; 719;

'''Ouspensky, Peter D. (1878-1947)''' 
602; Russian philosopher with an analytic and mystical bent who combined geometry and psychology in his discussion of higher dimensions of existence. During his years in Moscow he wrote for several newspapers, and was particularly interested in the then-fashionable idea of the fourth dimension. He is best known, however, for his expositions of the early work of the Greek-Armenian mystic, G.I. Gurdjieff. ''The Fourth Dimension'', 602; 616; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._D._Ouspensky Wikipedia entry]

'''Oust, Ewball''' 
374; Anarchist and "a young fellow from Lake County, on the way down to the Veta Madre"; in Mexico; now in arms procurement, with Frank Traverse in Mexico, 637; with Stray, 921; "Stray had grown increasingly fascinated with Ewball, even though, as she reminded him every chance she got, he wasn’t really her type." 926; parting with Stray, 977;

'''Oust, Toplady''' 
374; Ewball's uncle "Top"

'''Outer Indianoplace''' 
29; "Indianoplace is generally regarded as derogatory name for Indianapolis, Indiana. Comes from the evident lack of anything to do other than get drunk and watch sports and the appearant resistance of many of its inhabitants to allow culture, change, or diversity into the mix; [http://www.urbandictionary.com From Urban Dictionary]

'''Oyswharf, Dr.''' 
182; [[Dr. Oyswharf | DISCUSSION]]

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'''Fabergé;, Monsieur''' 
435; Peter Carl Fabergé (1846-1920), Russian jeweller; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Carl_Faberg%C3%A9 Wikipedia]

'''Fabrizio;, Signor''' 
858; Venetian hair stylist consulted by Yasmeen Halfcourt

'''Fame''' 
276; girl at House of Mirrors

'''Fangsley''' 
516; imagined ship's captain about to be torpedoed by the ''Stupendica''

'''Fanshawe, Noellyn''' 
677; at Girton with Yashmeen Halfcourt

'''Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis''' 
896; The Ralph Vaughan Williams composition “Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis” was written for the Three Choirs Festival in 1910. The primary theme for the composition comes from the third of nine tunes Tallis composed in 1567 as part of a psalter for the first Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, Matthew Parker. The words Tallis set to this tune are as follows:

:Why fum’th in fight the gentiles spite, in fury raging stout? 
:Why tak’th in hand the people fond, vain things to bring about? 
:The kings arise, the lords devise, in counsels met thereto 
:against the Lord with false accord, against his Christ they go.

The work is set for three string groups, one a full orchestral string choir, another a smaller string group, the last a quartet. The work is composed in the manner of the fantasies for viol consort, such as those witten by John Dowland, Thomas Tallis, William Byrd and others during Elizabethan times.

'''Faraday, Michael, FRS (1791-1867)''' 
98; English chemist and physicist (or natural philosopher, in the terminology of that time) who contributed significantly to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. He established that magnetism could affect rays of light and that there was an underlying relationship between the two phenomena; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Faraday Wikipedia entry]

'''Farr, Ed''' 
90; sheriff of Huerfano County in Colorado

'''fata morgana''' 
19; a mirage and optical phenomenon

'''Faun''' 
493; blond at Cambridge

'''favogn''' 
656; local (western Swiss) name for ''föhn, foehn'': a warm, dry, downslope wind descending the lee side of the Alps as a result of synoptic-scale, cross-barrier flow over the mountain range. The föhn is both enervating and alarming; firefighters go on special alert when it blows.

'''Fawcett, Phillippa''' 
490

'''Feeley, Vang''' 
464; Stray's "lover boy" in Fickle City "looking almost too legendary"

'''Fenian''' 
370;

'''F.I.C.O.T.T.''' 
412; First International Conference on Time Travel;

'''Filtham''' 
497-98; Hymn ridiculed as "Filtham's Tedium"

'''Finesse''' 
276; girl at House of Mirrors

'''Finsterzwerg, Der''' 
594; beer-hall where Cantorian cult meets in Göttingen; german: "Dwarf of Darkness" or "dark dwarf";

'''F.I.P.''' 
714; Faradically Induced Peristalsis; "Faradically induced" would mean induced by a thyratron (a type of gas filled tube used as a high energy electrical switch) generating rectangular currents of short duration at a wide variety of frequencies; "Peristalsis" is a procedure which causes wave-like muscle contractions that spread or push food and liquid naturally through the digestive tract.
:The text explains the device without using a thyratron (which had not been invented at the time of the action anyway). I once built a similar device, though without the rectal probe; it was extremely cheap, ran on a flashlight battery (instead of Leclanché cells) and induced very satisfactory muscle contractions in my roommate's back. The technique is "Faradic" because it uses a capacitor to store and release energy.

'''Fisk''' 
450; movie house proprietor in Audacity, Iowa

'''FitzGerald, George Francis (1851-1901)''' 
32; professor of "natural and experimental philosophy" (i.e., physics) at Trinity College, Dublin. He is best known for his conjecture in 1889 that if all moving objects were foreshortened in the direction of their motion, it would account for the curious result of the Michelson-Morley experiment. FitzGerald based this idea in part on the way electromagnetic forces were known to be affected by motion; in particular, he drew on equations that had been derived a short time before by his friend Oliver Heaviside. The Dutch physicist Hendrik Lorentz hit on a very similar idea in 1892 and developed it more fully the in connection with his theory of electrons. The so-called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz-FitzGerald_contraction_hypothesis Lorentz-FitzGerald contraction hypothesis] later became an important part of Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity, published in 1905.; "shrinkage of dimension"; 565; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_FitzGerald Wikipedia entry]

'''Fiume''' 
529; 697; nowadays Rijeka (Croatia) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiume Wikipedia]

'''Flaco''' 
371; with O'Rooney; 652;

'''Flagg''' 
212; Governor of Jeshimon's "clemency secretary"

'''Flambo, Wilt''' 
450; operates projector at Dreamtime Movy

'''Flannelette, Dodge''' 
130; "American bucket-shop desperado";

'''Fletcher, Uncle''' 
88; Webb Traverse's uncle

'''Floradora Girls''' 
190; a female sextet in turn-of-the-century New York. In 1901, the musical ''Floradora'' was a great success and continued to be for years. Everyone saw it, everyone talked about it, and everyone followed the beauties in the Floradora Sextette. When the men chorus members got on their knees and sang to the beauties in the sextette: "Tell me, pretty maiden, are there any more at home like you?" the house came down in cheers and tears. After each performance crowds of "stage-door johnnies" hung around the exit with offers of presents, parties and proposals. Every Floradora girl had hundreds of admirers. One of the original Floradora Girls was Evelyn Nesbitt Thaw, whose jealous husband Harry K. Thaw had shot famous architect Stanford White; another original member was Daisy Dell;

'''Flores Magón brothers''' 
381; , Enrico Flores Magón and Ricardo Flores Magón (1874-1922) were Mexican anarchists; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Flores_Magon Wikipedia entry]

'''Flynn, Fireman Jim''' 
189; Lake Traverse bets on him in a fight

'''Fomalhaut''' 
521; steam trawler out of Ostend; from arabic Fum (or Fam)al-Hut, "mouth of the fish" or "mouth of the whale", Name of the astronomical constellation Psces Austrini [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fomalhaut Wikipedia]

'''Fong Ding, Charlie''' 
303; "does laundry for the parlor housegirls" in Telluride

'''Force Publique''' 
The Force Publique (FP) was the official armed force for what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1885, (when the territory was known as the Congo Free State), through the period of direct Belgian rule (1908-60), until the beginning of the Second Republic in 1965. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_Publique Wikipedia entry]

'''Ford, Bob (1860-1892)''' 
89; Robert Newton Ford, was an outlaw sensationalized by assassinating Jesse James in 1882; 642; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ford_%28outlaw%29 Wikipedia entry]

'''Forrest, General''' 
435; "fustest with the mostest"

'''Fotinga Huasteca, La''' 
642; cantina and gambling den in Dona Cecilia, in Mexico

'''Four''' 
564; four-space, 571; "hard to imagine a less interesting number" 591; "neo-Pythagorean cult of tetralatry" 591; ''Fourth Dimension'', 602; 616;

'''Four-Color Problem''' 
325; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_color_problem Wikipedia entry]

'''Four Corners Boys''' 
284; bikers in Fickle Creek, 463;

'''Four-door farce''' 
561; A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farce farce] is a light comedy, often employing "broad physical humour, and deliberate absurdity or nonsense." (Sound like anyone we know?) According to actor/director Charles Whitman, a farce is "characterized by a lot of mistakes, mistaken identities, near misses. You can always tell a farce, because the actors are always coming in or going out a door." Sometimes referred to as slamming- or banging-door farce. 

'''fractals''' 
575; self-similar Venice;

'''''Fram''''' 
138; [[ATD-N#nansen|Fridtjof Nansen's]] and [[ATD-J#johansen|Hjalmar Johansen's]] ship; [[Fridtjof_Nansen|Article about Nansen]]; Norwegian for '''''Forward'''''

'''Franz (Francis) Ferdinand (1863-1914)''' 
45; Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria-Este (German: Franz Ferdinand Karl Ludwig Josef von Habsburg-Lothringen, Erzherzog von Österreich-Este) was an Archduke of Austria, Prince Imperial of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia, and from 1896 until his death, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne. His assassination in Sarajevo precipitated the Austrian declaration of war against Serbia which triggered World War I; 680; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Ferdinand Wikipedia entry]; [http://www.btinternet.com/~J.Pasteur/FFINDEX.html J. Pasteur Web-Essay]

'''Franz Josef Land''' 
215; an archipelago located in the far north of Russia. It is found in the Arctic Ocean north of Novaya Zemlya and east of Svalbard, and is administered by Arkhangelsk Oblast. It consists of 191 ice-covered islands with an area of 16,134 km² and is largely uninhabited; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Josef_Land Wikipedia entry]

'''French drop''' 
357; magic trick [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_drop Wikipedia]

'''Fresno, Sloat Eddie''' 
Deuce Kindred's sidekick, 195; 261; killed by Frank Traverse, 395; 478;

'''Freud, Sigmund''' 
624;

'''Frobenius, Ferdinand Georg (1849-1917)''' 
511; mathematician at University of Berlin; German mathematician, best-known for his contributions to the theory of differential equations and to group theory. Frobenius was born in Charlottenburg, a suburb of Berlin, and was educated at the University of Berlin. His thesis was on the solution of differential equations, under the direction of Weierstrass. After its completion in 1870, he taught in Berlin for a few years before receiving an appointment at the Polytechnicum in Zurich (now ETH Zurich). In 1893 he returned to Berlin, where he was elected to the Prussian Academy of Sciences. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Frobenius Wikipedia entry]

'''Fuchs, Lazarus (1833-1902)''' 
511; mathematician at University of Berlin; Lazarus Fuchs attended the Friedrich Wilhelm Gymnasium in Berlin where his remarkable abilities at mathematics became very clear to his teachers while he was still young. Mathematics became the subject which, even at this early stage, Fuchs knew was going to dominate the rest of his life. [[Lazarus Fuchs|Article about Fuchs]]

'''Fulvio''' 
653; in Swiss Alps drilling, railroad map scar

'''Fung, Hop''' 
339; "enterprising Celestial"

'''Furies''' 
485; 620;

'''furoshiki''' 
532; a type of traditional Japanese wrapping cloth frequently used to transport clothes, gifts, or other goods. Although possibly dating back as far as the Nara period, the name, meaning "bath spread", derives from the Edo period practice of using them to bundle clothes while at the sentō (public baths); [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furoshiki Wikipedia entry]

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