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Edwin Pynchon Discussion

2006-12-14T22:55:57Z

Pynchonoid: added more inventions from Google Patent Search to Edwin Pynchon DISCUSSION

Edwin Pynchon – not known yet if this is a genuine Pynchon ancestor – appears to have invented an airship in 1893. Scroll down for link to Google Patent Search results.

This appears to be a picture of it:
[http://aerofiles.com/pynchon.jpg]

Here's a description:
[...] The Pynchon, designed by Edwin Pynchon. National Archives
Albatross 1893 = Yes, that date is correct, and this patented airborne hotel — the 747 of a century ago — is included in Aerofiles as an interesting example of the creative approach to manned flight taken by one of the early, albeit obscure, visionaries. Data unknown, but note the suitcase rollers for ground movement. [...]

[http://pynchonoid.org] supplies the following links:

[http://www.aerofiles.com/_pl.html]

[http://www.lib.iup.edu/depts/speccol/ead/mg31.html]
[...] Edwin Pynchon: Air Ship November 14, 1893[...]

[http://glennhcurtiss.com/id50.htm]
[...] In 1993 the Library of Congress published its"FLIGHT BEFORE WRIGHT" calendar, Susan Sharp, editor: "…History also shows that, alas, pivotal
accomplishments are not always immediately recognized or appreciated. For the Wright brothers, it took more than four years - from late 1903 to early 1908 - for the world to become fully aware that they had achieved sustained mechanical flight. Thus Flight before Wright in a practical sense encompasses the continuing experimentation that took place through the years leading up to 1908…" with an interesting assemblage of photographs and drawings:
[...] "Edwin Pynchon's `Albatross,' Patented November 14, 1893;" [...]

Not airship related, but also of interest, perhaps:

Also this one, from The Laryngoscope (founded 1894)called "On the Origin of Tonsillectomy and the Dissection Method"; the Abstract mentions an "attempt
to remove the entire tonsil intact was described by Edwin Pynchon in 1890 with the use of galvanocautery."

<http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0041-462X(197510)21%3A3%3C278%3ATQFP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-9>
"Admirers of Dr. Schoenmaker's nose job in V. may not be surprised to learn of a Dr. Edwin Pynchon (1856-1914), who invented numerous surgical instruments..."

Google Patent Search Results for Edwin Pynchon

[http://www.google.com/patents?q=Pynchon&btnG=Search+Patents]

ADJUSTABLE CHAIR
US Pat. 443197 - Filed May 27, 1886
EDWIN PYNCHON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. ADJUSTABLE CHAIR. ... concern: Be it known
that I, EDWIN PYNCHON, a citi-zen of the United States, residing at Chicago, ...

ADJUSTABLE CHAIR
US Pat. 374628 - Filed October 14, 1886
UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE, EDWIN PYNCHON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. ... To all whom
it may concern: Be it known that I, EDWIN PYNCHON, a citizen of the United ...

ADJUSTABLE CHAIR
US Pat. 484571 - Filed February 24, 1888
... , E. PYNCHON. ADJUSTABLE CHAIR. Patented Oct. 18, 1892. ...

CAR-AXLE LUBRICATOR
US Pat. 357999 - Filed October 11, 1886
CAR ...

ASPIRATOR
US Pat. 869262 - Filed December 10, 1906
ASPIRATOE ...

& etc. Quite the inventor, Edwin.

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2006-12-13T20:41:05Z

Pynchonoid: added tableau vivant Index item

'''Tabor, Horace Austin Warner ("Haw")''' 
274; Became mayor of Leadville in 1878, the year of the Colorado Silver Boom, in which he made his fortune. Owned the Matchless silver mine, which, after his death in 1899, his widow, [http://www.babydoe.org/babydoe.htm Elizabeth "Baby Doe" Tabor] maintained for 36 years. She lived in a shack beside the mine until she froze to death in 1935. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAW_Tabor Wikipedia entry]

'''tableau vivant''' 
344; French for "living picture", a kind of performance [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tableau_vivant], recalls Zoyd's fake-glass-breaking show in Vineland.

[[image:Tait.jpg|thumb|P. G. Tait|right]]'''Tait, Peter Guthrie (P. G.) (1831-1901)''' 
324; Scottish mathematician who helped formulate [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/knot_theory knot theory] (the study of the way a closed curve can be embedded in three dimensional space without intersecting itself. Intuitively, one may "make a knot" by tying a knot in an ordinary piece of string and then fusing together the free ends of the string. Associated with any knot is its knot group which is the fundamental group of the space obtained by removing the knot from the R3 in which it is embedded). He studied at the University of Edinburgh where he studied with [[ATD-M#maxwell|James Clerk Maxwell]]. Beginning in 1854, he taught at Queen's College, Belfast. When [[ATD-H#hamilton|Hamilton]] died in 1865, Tait took over the crusade to give quaternions a leading role in mathematical physics. [http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Tait.html Biography of P. G. Tait]; [[Tait Discussion|DISCUSSION]]

'''Taklamakan War''' 
444; The Taklamakan (also Taklimakan) is a desert of Central Asia, in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. It is known as the largest sand-only desert in the world. Some references fancifully state that Taklamakan means "if you go in, you won't come out"; others state that it means "Desert of Death" or "Place of No Return". "Makan" is a Turkic word meaning "place", of Arabic origin: the word may mean something different if treated as original pre-Islamic native Turkic; It is crossed at its northern and at its southern edge by two branches of the Silk Road; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taklamakan Wikpedia entry]

'''Talking Creatures''' 
Parrot, 385, 387; rabbits, 579; reindeer, 785; dog, 969;

'''Tammanoid''' 
150; creatures, 150; Tammany Hall was the name given to the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in New York City politics from the 1790s to the 1960s. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammany_Hall Wikipedia entry]

'''Tancredi, Andrea''' 
584; Anarchist in Venice, and painter; the "infernal machine" 586;

Tancredi is a time-traveling character in ''City of Death'', a four-part serial in the British science fiction television series ''Dr. Who'' which involves time travel and bilocation. Tancredi is the sole survivor of the Jagaroth race, an evil people who destroyed themselves in a war some 400 million years ago. Tancredi explains that a few escaped in a dilapidated spacecraft and found Earth in a primeval, lifeless stage of its development. The ship disintegrated upon takeoff and [[Scaroth]] tells of how he was fractured in time, splinters of his being were scattered across time and space, all identical, none complete. Whereas, in ''City of Death'', Tancredi, one of the Scaroff "splinters" living in Renaissance Italy, is plotting to create multiple Mona Lisa's for fraudulent purposes, ''Against the Day'''s Tancredi is fighting art fraud. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Death Read the synopsis of ''City of Death'']; The name "Andrea" ''could'' be a reference to the protagonist Andrea Marsh, a time-traveler in the 1889 novel, ''Timeless Love'' by Judy Hinson ([[Timeless Love|synopsis]]).

'''''tantum dic verbo''''' 
447; typically translated to English as the imperative "only say the word," appears in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulgate Vulgate] [http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/vul/mat008.htm Matthew 8] (the Centurion's response to Christ) as well as during the [http://www.catholicliturgy.com/index.cfm/FuseAction/Text/Index/4/SubIndex/67/ContentIndex/11/Start/9 Liturgy of the Eucharist] (at least in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_liturgy Catholic Liturgy].)

'''Tarahumare Indians''' 
23; Indian tribe of Northern New Mexico, in the Sierra Madres; 388; [[Tarahumare Indians|About the Tarahumare Indians]]; [http://www.native-languages.org/tarahumara.htm more].

'''Tarot''' 
186; 253; Hanged Man (XII), 605-06; "Number XV, The Devil" 686;

'''Tate, Professor''' 
131; three dimensions

'''Tatzelwurm''' 
655; a stubby cryptid, a rumored animal two to six feet in length, possessing two front legs, while the rest of the body resembles that of a snake. Local folklore says the creature breathes deadly fumes that can kill a person. The creature has been said to exist for hundreds of years in tales of the Alps of Austria, Bavaria and Switzerland; "a snake with paws" 655; speaks, 659; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatzelwurm Wikpedia entry]

'''Tavernier-Gravet slide rules''' 
497; Tavernier-Gravet were preeminent Parisian makers of logarithmic slide rules (an analog computer) in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Originally Lenoir, the firm became Gravet-Lenoir, then Tavernier-Gravet.

'''Tawil Balak''' 
521; bar in Morocco

'''Tears of Job''' 
"sky-pale translucent seeds" 394;

'''Teatro Malibran''' 
355; in Venice

'''Telluric Interior''' 
114;

'''Ten-Day Miner''' 
302; The terms "ten-day miner," "ten-day man," "ten-dayer" and "ten-day stiff" are common names for the "hobo miner," who worked in a camp only long enough to get a roadstake before setting out for the next camp. Such miners are also commonly referred to as "boomers," "ramblers," and "floaters," and less commonly as "grubstakers." An older designation, dating from the early mining history of the West ... is "Overlander." From "The Folklore, Customs, and Traditions of the Butte Miner" by Wayland D. Hand, ''California Folk Quaterly'', Vol. 5, No.1 (Jan 1946), pp.1-25.

'''Tennyson''' 
535;

'''Terapia''' 
570;

'''Teresa''' 
87; girl Webb fancies on his way to Colorado

'''Terrorism''' 
85; "monsters that Did the Deed" 85; innocent victims, 87; "radius of annihilation" 95;

'''Tesla, Dr. Nikola''' (1856-1943) 
33; 97 - "Tesla logged in his diary on July 3, 1899 that a separate resonance transformer tuned to the same high frequency as a larger high-voltage resonance transformer would transceive energy from the larger coil, acting as a transmitter of wireless energy, which was used to confirm Tesla's patent for radio during later disputes in the courts. These air core high-frequency resonate coils were the predecessors of systems from radio to radar and medical magnetic resonance imaging devices." [http://www.crystalinks.com/tesla.html from this nice Tesla page] - This information was later used to confirm his patent for radio which he received posthumously in 1946, 3 years after his death - [http://www.resonanceresearch.com/nikola-tesla-coils-picture-colorado-1899-labratory.htm from this Tesla page]; Kit Traverse working for, 97; 326; tower, 401; 425; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla Wikipedia entry]; [[Tesla's_Death_Ray|Read this article about Tesla's Death Ray and the Tunguska Event...]]

'''Tesseract''' 
633; four-dimensional analog of a cube; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract Wikipedia entry]

'''Theign, Derrick''' 
701; "tall and careworn fuctionary" in Vienna; In Henry James' novel ''The Outcry'', there's a widowed Lord Theign, who to cover the gambling debts of his daughter Kitty Imber, is planning to sell his beautiful painting ''Duchess of Waterbridge'' by Sir Joshua Reynolds to American billionaire Breckinridge Bender; code name "Good Shepherd" in Vienna, 705; Cyprian Latewood's "field advisor" 705;

'''Theosophy''' 
630; "A formal definition from the Concise Oxford Dictionary describes Theosophy as 'any of various philosophies professing to achieve a knowledge of God by spiritual ecstasy, direct intuition, or special individual revelation; esp. a modern movement following Hindu and Buddhist teachings, and seeking universal brotherhood.' Madame Blavatsky's theosophy would, however, not fall under this definiton, as it is non-theistic." -from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theosophy Wikipedia entry]

'''They''' 
410; 483; 719;

'''Thick Bush''' 
8; town where Chick Counterfly was recognized as the son of "Dick" Counterfly

'''Thorn, Ryder''' 
553; "one of the Trespassers" at ukulele workshop; Mr. Ace and "his people" 415; what if they are not benign? 416;

'''Thorvald''' 
453; recurring sentient tornado at Candlebrow;

'''Throyle, Hastings''' 
131; collegial nemesis of T. Blope

'''Thucydides''' 
493; "ancient Greek historian, and the author of the History of the Peloponnesian War, which recounts the 5th century BC war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 BCE. This is widely considered the first work of scientific history, describing the human world as produced by men acting from ordinary motives, without the intervention of the gods." --from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thucydides wikipedia entry]

'''Time''' 
33; 54; 111; colonizing, 131; "at right angles to the flow of" 132; 143; 252, 256; 355; time travel, 398; Nasotemporal Travel, 408; "Chronoclipses, Asimov Transeculars, Tempomorph Q-98s" 409; River of Time, 410; 415; wave functions, 426; "our fate, our lord, our destroyer" 427; 428; conference at Candlebrow, 452; time machine, 453; bazaar of Time, 454; clock-wise/one-way time, 457; and gravity, 457; and ukuleles, 552; time-travel, 577; 602; 612; 616; "future, past, and present <nowiki>[...]</nowiki> all together" 617; 623; 636; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel Wikipedia Time Travel entry]; [[Time in Old Japan|Time in Old Japan]]

[[image:Tintoretto_St-Mark.jpg|thumb|''The Abduction of the Body of St. Mark''|right]]'''Tintoretto (1518-1594)''' 
579; Tintoretto (real name Jacopo Robusti) was one of the greatest painters of the Venetian school and probably the last great painter of the Italian Renaissance; ''Abduction of the Body of St. Mark'', 579; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintoretto Wikipedia entry]

'''Tiny''' 
399; bouncer at Lollipop Lounge;

'''Titian''' 
579; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titian Wikipedia entry]

'''Toadflax, Captain Q. Zane''' 
425; '''Saksaul''' frigate, 434;

'''Toilet Travel''' 
422;

'''tommyknocker''' 
391; Tommyknockers are the spirit creatures of the underground. No one knows exactly when or where these tales began. They were present by medieval times in the area that is now Germany and Austria. Germans call them ''Berggeister'' or ''Bergmännlein'', meaning “mountain ghosts” or “little miners.” They watch over the earth’s precious ores and metals. They look like men, but are two feet tall or less. They wear the traditional miner’s outfit. They are believed to be active in gold, silver, and other metal mines. These spirits can be good or bad, helping or hurting miners. [http://www.blm.gov/heritage/HE_Kids/tommy_knock.htm More BLM info on Tommyknockers]

'''tong war''' 
340; in Chinatown in New York City; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tong_%28organization%29 Wikipedia entry for Tong]

'''toroidal dispensation''' 
128;

'''Tonio''' 
581; in Venice, hitting on Dally

'''Tovarishchi Slutchainyi''' 
123; Russian counterparts to the Chums of Chance

[[image:topler-influence-machine.jpg|thumb|Töpler Influence Machine|right]]'''Töpler Influence Machine''' 
58; An electric machine consisting of the combination of two materials, which when rubbed together produce static electricity, and of a third material or object which acts as a collector for the charges. August Joseph Ignaz Töpler (1836-1912) was a German physicist known for his experiments in electrostatics. In 1864 he applied Foucault's knife-edge test for telescope mirrors to the analysis of fluid flow and the shock wave. He developed the Toepler machine, an electrostatic influence machine, in 1865 for use in X-ray photography. Improved versions were produced by Wilhelm Holtz, Roger and J. Robert Voss; [[Töpler influence machine]]

'''Toy, Yup''' 
367; "ice-girl" in Denver

'''Trabants''' 
45; German: ''satellite''; The Trabant was an automobile formerly produced by East German auto maker VEB Sachsenring Automobilwerke Zwickau in Zwickau (today in Saxony). It was the most common vehicle in East Germany, and was also exported to other socialist countries. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabant Wikipedia entry]

'''tragedy at Mayerling''' 
681; refers to the double suicide of Crown Prince Rudolf and his mistress at Mayerling in Austria. [[ATD-R#rudolf|See Rudolf, Archduke, Crown Prince of Austria.]]

'''Traverse family tree''' 
It seems certain that the Traverses of ''Against the Day'' are the progenitors of the Traverses of ''Vineland'', described therein: "These were old, proud and strong union people, surviving in one of the world's worst antinunion environments - spool tenders, zooglers, water bucks and bull punchers [all logging jobs, btw] some had fought in the Everett mill wars, others from the Becker side had personally known [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hill Joe Hill], and had not mourned, and organized......" [[Traverse Family Tree|More on the Traverse Family Tree...]]

'''Traverse, Cooley''' 
105; Webb's father

'''Traverse, Frank''' 
90; Webb's son; 374; working at Empresas Oustianas, S.A.,376; dreams of a counterpart, 377; 380; shoots Sloat Fresno, 395; in Nochecita, "his own ghost" 461; back in Denver, 465; and Dally, 512; working out of Tampico, Mexico, 637; recurring dream of Webb, 649;

'''Traverse, Jesse''' 
360; son of Reef and Stray (and a character in Vineland); with Willow and Holt, 646; 650;

'''Traverse, Kit''' 
90; Webb's youngest son who goes to Yale; vectorist, 97; 156; at Vibe Corp., 330; on ''Stupendica'' to Germany, and Dally, 510; to Bruges with Pino and Rocco, 562; attacked by Woevre, 563; dueling Günther, 600-01; in the ''Klapsmühle'', 626-27; meets Reef in Switzerland, 664; seance, 671;

'''Traverse, Lake''' 
90; Webb's daughter; and Deuce, 472; Child of the Storm, 487;

'''Traverse, Mayva''' 
480; conversing with animals

'''Traverse, Reef''' 
89; Webb's first-born son; Stray and Reef (now a card sharp) drifting from town to town, 358-61; dynamiting, 361; in Denver, 367; seen in New Orleans by W.T. Rooney, 646; with Flaco in Austria, 652;

'''Traverse, Webb''' 
76; "sort of mine engineer in Colorado" 76; from South Pennsylvania, 87; [[Traverse Family Tree]]

'''Trespassers''' 
424; time-travellers from The Future;

'''Trilby hat''' 
185; "a soft felt men's hat with a narrow brim and a deeply indented crown. It is traditionally made from rabbit fur felt, but may also be made of other materials such as tweed" -from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilby Wikipedia entry]

'''Trouvé''' 
28; screw unit;

'''Trumper's''' 
224; Gentleman's barbers. "Established 1875 in Curzon Street, Mayfair, by Mr George Trumper, the business has served the needs of London gentlemen and members of the Royal Court for over 125 years, and has been honoured with the Royal Warrant of Queen Victoria and five subsequent monarchs." [http://www.trumpers.com/ Website]

'''Tsangpo-Brahmaputra''' 
130; The Yarlung Tsangpo/Brahmaputra river drains a large portion of the eastern Himalaya and southern Tibetan plateau as well as the eastern Himalayan syntaxis, one of the most tectonically active areas of the globe.

'''Tsurigane, Miss Umeki''' 
531; female Quaternionist; 560;

'''Tubby''' 
161; trained pig

'''Tubsmith, Root''' 
511; mathematician on Stupendica; in Ostend, 535;

'''Tucker, Benjamin''' 
370; wrote of Land League;

'''Tungus Reindeer herders''' 
23;

<div id="tunguska"></div>'''Tunguska Event''' 
145, 782, 792, passim; an explosion that occurred at 60°55′N 101°57′E, near the Podkamennaya (Under Rock) Tunguska River in what is now Evenk Autonomous Okrug, at 7:17 AM on June 30, 1908. The event is sometimes referred to as the great Siberian explosion. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_Event Wikipedia entry]; [[Tesla's_Death_Ray|Read this article about Tesla's Death Ray and the Tunguska Event...]]

'''Turkish Corner''' 
431;

'''Turner, Freddie''' 
52; professor at Harvard. It turns out that there is a present-day academic with the name Fred Turner ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Turner_%28academic%29 Wikipedia entry]
) who used to teach Communication at Harvard's JFK School of Government between 1989-2000, before moving to MIT and Stanford. Interestingly enough, he is the author of a book titled ''From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism''. 

'''Turner, Frederick Jackson (1861-1932)''' 
Unlike Freddie, Frederick Jackson Turner didn't make it to Harvard until 1910. Nonetheless, FJT did deliver his famous [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier_Thesis "frontier thesis"] in a paper to the American Historical Association on July 12, 1893, during the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbian_Exposition Columbian Exposition] and on the site of the present-day Art Institute of Chicago, a scant couple of blocks away from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_House Palmer House]. The apocalyptic tone of the Inconvenience's tour of the Chicago stockyards fits well with Turner's claim that the closure of the frontier marks an end of America—or at least the end of a first period of American history—as well as the virtuous individualism, democracy, and freedom of movement that defined that America. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Jackson_Turner Frederick Jackson Turner Wikipedia entry]

'''Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851)''' 
578; English Romantic landscape painter and watercolourist, whose style can be said to have laid the foundation for Impressionism; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._M._W._Turner Wikipedia entry]

'''Turnstone, Willis''' 
and Lake Traverse, 262; an appreciative nod to poet and translator [http://web.whittier.edu/barnstone/willis.html Willis Barnstone] whose works include the vast collection of Jewish pseudepigrapha, early Kabbalah, Haggadah, Midrash, Christian Apocrypha and Gnostic scriptures entitled [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0062500309 'The Other Bible']?

'''Twin Vibes, The''' 
102; Foley Walker and Scarsdale Vibe "in matching sport ensembles of a certain canary-and-indigo check"

'''T.W.I.T.''' 
219; True Worshippers of the Ineffable Tetractys, headquartered in London, north of Hyde Park; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetractys The Tetractys] is a triangular figure consisting of ten points arranged in four rows: one, two, three, and four points in each row. As a mystical symbol, it was very important to the followers of the secret worship of the Pythagoreans; 591; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetractys Wikpedia entry]

'''''Tzigane''''' 
18; (French: ''gypsy'') Bindelstiffs of the Blue A.C.'s balloon-ship

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Con McVeety DISCUSSION

2006-12-13T20:32:14Z

Pynchonoid:

McVeety's appearance, on page 342, "carrying what appeared to be a sack of soup bones" apparently in hopes of attracting "unsigned dog acts" for the illegitimate stage, recalls Pointsman's entry in Gravity's Rainbow on page 42, trying to catch a dog.

Con McVeety DISCUSSION

2006-12-13T20:31:01Z

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2006-12-13T20:22:10Z

Pynchonoid: added Con McVeety DISCUSSION page

'''Macassar Oil''' 
16; Macassar oil is an oil used primarily by men in Victorian and Edwardian times to smooth their hair. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macassar_oil Wikipedia entry]

'''Macchiavelli''' 
669; 669; Italian "facility for creeping about" 706;

'''Macedonian Question''' 
690; 697;

'''Mach, Ernst''' 
412; 616; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach%2C_Ernst Wikipedia entry]

'''"Macking for a mack"''' 
359;

'''Madame Butterfly (opera)''' 
567;

'''Magic Crystal''' 
133;

'''magnetism''' 
97; 121;

'''Mags and Nuncs and Matins''' 
497; different types of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canticles canticles]

'''Magyakan''' 
143;

'''Mahdi''' 
29; "the expected one" - a Muslim leader who assumes a messianic role; [http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/v/alpha/m.html#mahdi The mahdi in ''V.'']

'''mail''' 
173; [[mail|DISCUSSION]]

'''Mainan Tant Gras Hall''' 
369; concert saloon in New Orleans

'''Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building''' 
24; at the Chicago World's Fair

'''Malus, Etienne-Louis (1775-1812)''' 
126; "Napoleonic army engineer and physicist [...] looking through a piece of Iceland spar [...] discovered polarized light"; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etienne-Louis_Malus Wikipedia entry]

'''Manicheans''' 
437-39; Followers of Mani, who taught that the universe is controlled by two antagonistic powers, light or goodness (identified with God), and darkness, chaos, or evil. One of Mani's claims was that, though Christ had been sent into the world to restore it to light and banish darkness, His apostles had perverted his doctrine, and he, Mani, was sent as the Paraclete to restore it; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manichaeism Wikipedia entry]

'''Manning, Professor''' 
511; at Brown University

'''Mañuela''' 
642; waitress at Doña Cecilia

'''maragogype''' 
638; a kind of arabica coffee with grains twice to 3 times as big as arabica grains. In Mexico, it is grown at 1400 meters high in the chiapas State close to the Pacific coast and the Guatemala border; sweet and nicely shaped;

'''Marcello''' 
667; with Ruperta

'''Marching Academy Harmonica Band''' 
418-424; "aberration in <nowiki>[Chums of Chance's]</nowiki> history"

'''Marin, Officer C.''' 
477; reporting officer at cantina where Sloat was killed by Frank Traverse

'''Marinetti''' 
584; Futurists; 587;

'''Marx, Groucho (Julius)''' 
467-468; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groucho_marx Wikipedia entry]

'''Marx, Karl (1818-1883)''' 
624; immensely influential philosopher, political economist, and socialist revolutionary. While Marx addressed a wide range of issues, he is most famous for his analysis of history in terms of class struggles, summed up in the opening line of the introduction to the ''Communist Manifesto'': "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx Wikipedia entry]

'''Maskelyne cabinet''' 
571;

'''Mathematics''' 
122; 147;

'''Matteawan''' 
145; Matteawan State Hospital, originally the Asylum for Insane Criminals in Auburn, relocated to the village of Matteawan (between the Hudson River and the Fishkill Mountains) in 1891 and renamed the following year.

'''Maxim whirling machines''' 
27;

'''Maxwell Field Equations''' 
58; In electromagnetics, Maxwell's equations are a set of four equations, developed by James Clerk Maxwell, that describe the behavior of both the electric and magnetic fields, as well as their interactions with matter. Maxwell's four equations express, respectively, how electric charges produce electric fields (Gauss' law), the experimental absence of magnetic monopoles, how currents and changing electric fields produce magnetic fields (the Ampere-Maxwell law), and how changing magnetic fields produce electric fields (Faraday's law of induction).330; 438; 532; 533; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell's_equations Wikipedia entry]

<div id="maxwell"></div>'''Maxwell, James Clerk (1831-1879)''' 
98; Scottish mathematical physicist, born in Edinburgh. Maxwell formulated a set of equations expressing the basic laws of electricity and magnetism and developed the Maxwell distribution in the kinetic theory of gases. He was the last representative of a younger branch of the well-known Scottish family of Clerk of Penicuik. He is also credited with developing the first permanent colour photograph in 1861. "''Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism'' of 1873", 98; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell Wikipedia entry]

'''mayonnaise''' 
284; thunderstorm-proof; 544; cult of, in Belgium; etymology, 545; 560;

'''McAdoo, Chevrolette''' 
26;

'''McDivott, Katie''' 
505;

'''McGonigal, Bridget''' 
365; a slide in the San Juans named after a mine owner's wife;

'''McHugh, Reginald "Ratty"''' 
491; friend of Cyprian Latewood's; in Vienna, 700; 717-18;

'''McKim, Mead and White''' 
326; The most dazzling architect triumvirate in America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was that of of New York City's Charles Follen McKim, William Rutherford Mead, and Stanford White. The brilliance of McKim, Mead, and White changed the course of American architecture. Of the three, it was the genius of Stanford White that most importantly influenced the architectural scene in Buffalo. McKim, Mead, and White was formed in 1878 when Charles Follen McKim (1847-1909) formed a partnership with William Rutherford Mead (1846-1928) and William B. Bigelow. Bigelow retired the following year when Stanford White (1853-1906) joined the firm and the firm's name was established.

'''McKinley, President William (1843-1901)''' 
109; the 25th President of the United States; figurehead, 109; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McKinley Wikipedia entry]

'''McTaggart Hall''' 
452; headquarters of Metaphysics Department at Candlebrow

'''McTaggart, M. E. (1866-1925)''' 
412; an Idealist metaphysician of great range, invention, precision, and power. McTaggart developed his own, highly original, metaphysical system. In his two-volume ''Nature of Existence'', the most famous element is his argument for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreality_of_Time unreality of time]. In a famous paper The Unreality of Time (1908), McTaggart had [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/time/#4 argued] that our perception of time is an illusion, and that time itself is merely ideal. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.M.E._McTaggart Wikipedia entry]

'''McVeety, Con''' 
342; works for R. W. Vibe; "Olio of Oddities" 343;[[Con McVeety DISCUSSION| DISCUSSION]]

'''Meat Olaf''' 
129; a fictional Norwegian dish, a variant of meatloaf, perhaps; 135;

'''Meatman, Alonzo R.''' 
405; (first appearance misspelled "Meattman"); sold Zoot the time machine; 410; 412; ''lycopodium'' type, 413;

'''Meldrum, Bob''' 
282; 383; aka Hair-Trigger Bob, in Colorado. Not much is known about the real life Robert D. Meldrum. Born in 1866 in England, Meldrum walked a fine line between gun-for-hire and law officer and was said to have shot over 14 men. He was employed by the Pinkerton's and was Deputy Town Marshal of Telluride during the early 1900s. Eventually arrested in 1912 for murder, although he only received a sentence of five to seven years in the Wyoming State Penitentiary. [http://www.museumnwco.org/lookBackArticle.php?lookBackID=35 "Bad Man" Bob Meldrum]

'''Merriwell, Frank''' 
100; fictional, Yale attending, football playing, pulp magazine character created by Burt L. Standish, alluded to by Kit Traverse

'''Metropole''' 
705; hotel in Trieste where Derrick Theign stays, previously known as Buon Pastore

'''Michelson''' 
58; Michelson-Morley Experiment, 59; 132;

'''Midway Plaisance''' 
29;

'''Mikimoto, Dr.''' 
114; cultured pearls;

'''Minié ball''' 
101; Prior to the development of the minie ball, rifles were not used in combat due to the difficulty in loading. The ammunition used by rifles was the same diameter as the barrel in order for the bullet to engage the groves of the rifled barrel. As a result the ball had to be forced into the barrel. The minie ball, originally designed by Captain Claude-Etienne Minie of France and improved on by manufacturers in the United States, changed warfare. Since the minie ball was smaller than the diameter of the barrel, it could be loaded quickly by dropping the bullet down the barrel. This conical lead bullet had two or three grooves and a conical cavity in its base. The gases, formed by the burning of powder once the firearm was fired, expanded the base of the bullet so that it engaged the rifling in the barrel. Thus, rifles could be loaded quickly and yet fired accurately; 620; [http://www.civilwar.si.edu/weapons_minieball.html From the Smithsonian website]

'''Minkowski, Hermann (1864-1909)''' 
324; mathematician who developed the geometrical theory of numbers and who used geometrical methods to solve difficult problems in number theory, mathematical physics, and the theory of relativity; Hilbert's co-adjutor; at Candlebrow, 458; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Minkowski Wikipedia entry]

'''Mirrors''' 
Isola degli Specchi (Isle of Mirrors), 244; symmetry, 337; 347; 351; 353; 354; Isle of Mirrors "in that Lagoon over in Venice" where they make the "finest conjuror's mirrors" 422; 463; 498; 537; 553; 564; 569; 651; 706;

'''Miskolci''' 
713; vampirish

'''Miserere, Vincenzo''' 
569; sales rep from mirror factory

'''Misha and Grisha''' 
699; in Prater with Cyprian

'''MKIV/ODC''' 
541; "Mark Four something or other"

'''Modestine ("Moddie")''' 
339; actress Dally's replacing, in New York City; 342;

'''Moises''' 
521; "resident Jewish mystic" in Morocco

'''Mondragön semiautomatics''' 
640; from Germany

'''Morgan, Blinky''' 
59; "a walking interferometer", 62; Charles "Blinky" Morgan, fur store burglar and cop killer, arrested June 1887, hanged Columbus, Ohio, March 1888; [http://www.clevelandmemory.org/ebooks/kennedy/c17.html From ''A History of the City of Cleveland'' by James Harrison Kennedy]; execution of, 65;

'''Morgan, John Pierpont (J.P.) (1837-1913) 
34; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._P._Morgan J.P. Morgan] originally provided Tesla $150,000 (although he needed $1M) in 1900 to build the Wardenclyff laboratory, but abandoned Tesla when he found out what Tesla's true purpose for Wardenclyff was &151; Tesla's vision of free power did not agree with Morgan's financial worldview; [http://educate-yourself.org/fe/radiantenergystory.shtml From Educate-Yourself.com:] "Undreamed of therapeutic applications to improve human health and to eliminate disease conditions could have been achieved fully 100 years ago had Tesla been allowed to complete his commercial development of Radiant Energy. But powerful barons of industry, chiefly in the person of John Pierpont Morgan, colluded to deny him the financial backing he needed and in doing so, effectively denied mankind one of Nature’s most abundant and inexhaustible gifts of free energy"; 326; "safe as the Morgan Bank" 379;

'''Morley, Professor Edward''' 
62; and Blinky Morgan, 62;

'''Moss, Reverend''' 
91; Webb Traverse's minister

'''''mouchard''''' 
560; a police spy;

'''Mouffette''' 
665; French: "skunk"; Ruperta's sexy poodle

'''''mousmée''''' 
560; a type of hydrangea (flower)

'''Montennuovo, Count''' 
681; "Emperor's chambermaid"

'''mufti''' 
16; civilian dress worn by a person who is entitled to wear a military uniform

'''Mulciber, Victor''' 
557; "arms tycoon" at the Kursaal

'''Multiple Worlds''' 
464; 594; 682;

'''Murray Hill''' 
68; in Cleveland

'''Museum der Monstrositäten''' 
632; "dedicated to the current 'Crisis' in European mathematics"

'''Museum of Museumology''' 
149;

'''Music''' 
ukulele: 15 (Miles plays it), 324, 408, 410, 451, 553, 567, 678 (quartet), 684; accordian, 49; 52; 57; 126; singing, 138; in ''The Inconvenience'', 140; 160; 163; 178; 266; 315; "That Göttingen Rag" 324; Tin Pan Alley, 342; harpist, 347; "Her Mother Never Told Her" 347; "Oh, When You Talk That Talk" 349; "Funiculi, Funiculá" 349; ''La Forza del Destino'', 352; in New Orleans, 368; "Jass" 370; "La Cucaracha" 375, 389; 399; song in Lollipop Lounge, 400; 418; "El Capitán" 419; "Whistling Rufus" 419; "My Country 'Tis of Thee" 419; "'Zo Meatman's Gone A-WOL" 420; "At a Georgia Camp Meeting" 423; "After the Ball" 425; 436; Joe Hill's "Pie in the Sky" 463; "For It Is Thou, Lord" 477; hymn-writing, 497-98; "five-pound note" song, 503; 510; 522; 524; "Quizzical Queer Quaternioneer" 534; and Q-waves, 566; Puccini's ''Madame Butterfly'', 567; Borel-Clerc's "La Matchiche" 567; Günther's song, 598; "O Tempora, O Mores" and "The Black Whale of Askalon" 625-26; house band, 642; "Daisy, Daisy" 647; alpenborn figure, 665; ''Waltzing in Whitechappel'' 679; ''liebestod'' (German: "love death"), 681; "Chinese harmony" 682; "Singing Bird of Spitalfields" 684; "Ritter Georg Hoch!" (old German anthem), 700; ''Fiakerlieder'', 703; Mozart Adagio, 712; 714; 716;

'''Muspellheim''' 
128; In Norse/Germanic cosmology, Muspellheim is the Land of Fire. It is one of the first two primal worlds created in a vortex around the World Tree, and the collision between Muspellheim and Niflheim - fire and water, fire and ice, heat and cold - created the energy that formed the basis for the other seven worlds; [http://www.cauldronfarm.com/nine/index.html Website on Norse/German cosmology]

'''Myrna''' 
473;

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Pynchonoid:

On page 332 of Against the Day, Scarsdale Vibe says, "I wanted so to believe. Even knowing my own seed was cursed, I wanted the eugenics argument to be faulty somehow. At the same time I coveted the bloodline of my enemy."

No doubt much to be said about this passage, but among other things it recalls this enigmatic passage from Gravity's Rainbow:

on Page 739:
"... Between two station-marks, yellow crayon through the years of grease and passage, 1966 and 1971, I tasted my first blood. Do you want to put this part in?] We drank the blood of our enemies. That's why you see Gnostics ..."

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'''Bagdad Railway Concession''' 
228; In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Ottoman Empire planned to construct a Baghdad Railway under German control. It became a source of international tension and played some role in the origins of the First World War; 238; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad_Railway Wikipedia entry]

'''Baku''' 
441; Located on the Caspian Sea, Baku or Baky (Baki), capital and largest city of Azerbaijan. Since 1873 an oil belt of Baku began to be formed which was known as a Black City. Within a short period of time departments and representations of Swiss, English, French, Belgian, German and American firms were established in Baku, among them were the firms of the Nobels and Rothschilds. By the beginning of the 20th century almost half of the oil reserves in the world had been extracted in Baku; 631; "with skeeters" 639; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baku Wikipedia entry] [[Discussion]]

'''Bakunin, Mikhail (1814-1876)''' 
373; well-known Russian revolutionary, and often considered one of the fathers of modern anarchism; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Bakunin Wikipedia entry]

<div id="balaam"></div>'''Balaam's ass''' 
432; From the Bible, Numbers Chapter 22, wherein Balaam, a seer and Gentile, is sent by Balak, King of Moab, to confront the Israelites who, after 40 years in the desert, were camped on the plains of Moab. An angel, invisible to Balaam but visible to the ass, blocks the road and the ass won't proceed. Balaam repeatedly whips the ass until, by divine intervention, the ass is given the power of speech and speaks to Balaam, asking him why he treats him so badly. Balaam is taken aback and then sees the angel with sword drawn and falls to the ground, contrite. But the angel, instead of stopping him from his journey, tells Balaam to proceed on his mission. When Balaam reaches the top of a hill and sees the Israelites camped out below, a blessing unexpectedly issues from his lips. Two things here: 1) it's possible for a non-Hebrew to be a prophet and 2) this is one of only two instances in the Bible where animals speak, the other being the serpent in the Garden of Eden. [http://www.trivia-library.com/a/origins-of-the-term-balaam-ass.htm More from the Trivia Library]

'''Balkin ''komitadji''''' 
557; Komitadji, Comitadji or Komitaji (Turkish: Komitacı, "a rebel, member of a secret revolutionary society") is a member of a guerrilla band in Macedonia or the Balkan countries.

'''Ball in Hand''' 
405; saloon where Dr. Zoot met Meatman; on West Symmes Street, 410;

'''[[Basnight, Lewis ("Lew")]]''' 
36-51; a "spotter" from White City Investigations; "couldn't remember what he 'd done, or hadn't done, or even when", Upstate-Downstate Beast, 37; "a kind of ''waking swoon''" 38; "a condition he had no memory of having sought, which he later came to think of as grace", "a luminosity new to him", "things were exactly what they were", 42; extraordinary ability of noticing things, 42; "a keen sympathy for the invisible" 43; "the side of the day" 44; transfer to Denver, 51; 171; Cryptomite trip, 182; emergence out of explosion, 221; 496; at Chunxton Crescent "Gus Swallowfield, Senior Underwriter" 611;

'''Basnight, Troth''' 
38; Lew's wife, who leaves him;

'''Battle of Puebla''' 
315; The Battle of Puebla took place on May 5, 1862 near the city of Puebla, Mexico, during the French intervention in Mexico. It was a major Mexican victory, and is commemorated every year as Cinco de Mayo; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Puebla Wikipedia entry]

'''Bauer, Grünewald''' 
136;

'''Beaufort Scale''' 
15; a scale to measure wind speed; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort_scale Wikipedia entry]

'''Beaver Saloon''' 
193;

'''"Beavers of the Brain"''' 
183; song by the beings inhabiting Lew Basright's steak

'''Becker, Mr.''' 
1076; Jesse Traverse's school teacher, and possibly his future father-in-law; see the [[Traverse Family Tree]]

'''Belgian nihilists''' 
527; "Eugénie, Fatou, Denis, and Policarpe, styling themselves 'Young Congo'"

'''Bengal lights''' 
144; A steady bright blue light; formerly used as a signal but now a firework.

'''Beppo''' 
576; Dally's alter-ego; Beppo is the subject of the poem "Beppo" by Lord Byron; [[Beppo|Read the poem]]

'''Berlin Conference of 1878''' 
226; The Congress of Berlin was a meeting of the European Great Powers' and the Ottoman Empire's leading statesmen in Berlin in 1878. In the wake of the Russo-Turkish War, 1877–78, the meeting's aim was to reorganize conditions in the Balkans. Otto von Bismarck, who led the Congress, undertook to balance the distinct interests of Great Britain, Russia and Austria-Hungary. As a consequence, however, differences between Russia and Austria-Hungary intensified, as did the nationality question in the Balkans; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Berlin Wikipedia entry]

'''Bible''' 
86; Second Corinthians, 32; 223; St. Mark, 250; "Let there be light" 354; Judas Iscariot, 377; 413; [[#balaam|Balaam's ass]], 432; Sodom and Gomorrah, 441; 441; 452; Jonah and Agadir, 521; Judas Priest, 525; Lot's wife, 550; Lucifer, 575; Infancy Gospel of Thomas, 579; Pentacost story from Acts of the Apostles (Jesus and the dyes), 579-80;

'''Big Billy's''' 
260;

[[Image:Billy-the-Kid.jpg|thumb|Billy the Kid, painting by Jacques Moitoret|right]]'''Billy the Kid (1859-1881)''' 
263; Henry McCarty, better known as Billy the Kid, but also known by the aliases Henry Antrim and William Harrison Bonney, was a 19th century American frontier outlaw and gunmen who was a participant in the Lincoln County War. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_the_Kid Wikipedia entry]

'''bilocation''' 
143; the ability (said of certain Roman Catholic saints) to exist simultaneously in two locations; "there are two distinct versions of 'Asia' out there" 249; Estrella, double of Stray Briggs, 393; Chums of Chance and the Marching Academy Harmonica Band, 418-24; "enough to divide a fellow into two" 464; two Agadirs, 521-22; ''Stupendica'', 514; Dally, 524; doubling, 564; multiple identities, 570; sawed-in-half folks, 571-72; Principessa Spongiatosta, 583; Werfner/Renfrew, 683, 685; Orphic and Pythagorean religionns, 686; Lew Basright, 688, 690; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilocation Wikipedia entry]

'''Bindlestiffs of the Blue A.C.''' 
18; aeronautical club from Oregon ("A.C." for alternating current?); a bindelstiff is a hobo, especially one who carries a bedroll.

'''Bing, Liu''' 
345; "tong warrior's girlfriend"

'''Biometric Institute of Neuropathy''' 
433;

'''Black Gang''' 
517; the stokers; 519;

'''Black Hundreds''' 
595; pogrom

'''Black, Miss Penelope ("Penny")''' 
18; distaff member of the Bindlestiffs of the Blue A.C.

'''Blanca, La''' 
287; "local name" for [[ATD-M#meldrum|Bob Meldrum's]] wife;

'''Blaskó, Béla''' 
915; the original name of the Hungarian actor Bela Lugosi (1882-1956) whose most famous role was that of Dracula; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bela_lugosi Wikipedia entry]

'''Blavatsky, Madame''' (1831-1891) 
219; Helena Petrovna Hahn (also Hélène), better known as Helena Blavatsky (Russian: Елена Блаватская) or Madame Blavatsky, born Helena von Hahn, was a founder of the Theosophical Society; "working for the Tsarist secret service" aka Third Section, aka Okhrana, 631; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Blavatsky Wikipedia entry]

'''Blitz Instruments''' 
53; Blitz is a manufacturer of musical instruments and accessories

'''Bloggins''' 
446;

'''bloodline of my enemy''' 
332; [["bloodline of my enemy" DISCUSSION |DISCUSSION]]

'''Blope, Dr. Templeton''' 
131; of the University of the Outer Hebrides

'''Blue Ivory''' 
125;

'''Blundell, Miles''' 
4; Handyman Apprentice aboard the ''Inconvenience''; 107; nonsense speaking, 110-13; the Book, 251; 417; "temporarily lapsing into English" 427; recognizes the Trespassers, Mr. Ace, 417; "extra-temporal excursions" 443; and Pugnax, 550; "prefiguration of the Holy City" 551;

'''Bly, Nellie (1864-1922)''' 
37; Born May 5, 1864, to Judge Michael Cochran and Mary Jane Kennedy Cochran, part of the large Cochran family of Apollo, Pennsylvania, Elizabeth Jane Cochrane revolutionized journalism for women. She is better known by her pen name, "Nellie Bly," which she adapted from the Stephen Foster song, "Nelly Bly." Daring and innovative, she gained world fame when she beat Jules Verne's fictional character Phileas Fogg's record for traveling around the world in 80 days by more than a week, departing on November 14, 1889 and returning to New York on January 25, 1890; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Bly Wikipedia entry]

'''Bobrikoff, General''' 
83; "evil viceroy" of Russian Tsar

'''Bodine, O. I. C. (Officer in Charge)''' 
517; American stoker aboard the ''Stupendica''; 519;

'''Bohr, Niels (Henrik David) (1885-1962)''' 
412; Danish physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics. Bohr is widely considered one of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr Wikipedia entry]

'''Boilster, Eugene''' 
477; sheriff of Wall o' Death;

'''Boilster, Tace''' 
479; Eugene's wife;

'''Boilster, Roy Mickey''' 
480; Tace's brother;

'''Boilster, Chloe''' 
485; Eugene's & Tace's daughter

'''Boll Weevil Lounge''' 
47;

'''''Bol'shaia Igra''''' 
122; Padzhy's ship, at the North Pole; in Venice, 245;

'''Boltzmann, Ludwig (1844–1906)''' 
596; Austrian physicist who made pivotal contributions to thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, inventing several of the key notions of the latter field. The son of a taxation official, Boltzmann attended the University of Vienna and in 1866 earned a doctorate under the tutelage of Josef Stefan (1835–1893), whose empirical work on blackbody radiation Boltzmann would later put on a firm thermodynamic grounding. (Consequently, the statement that the total radiation from a blackbody goes as the fourth power of its temperature is today known as the Stefan–Boltzmann law.) After Stefan's death, Boltzmann took over his position as theoretical physics chair, but soon quit Vienna due to personal conflicts with the new chair of history and philosophy of science, Ernst Mach (1838–1916). He moved to Leipzig in 1900, where disputes over his theories led him to attempt suicide, unsuccessfully. Boltzmann returned to Vienna the following year, after Mach retired for health reasons, and in fact gained renown for his philosophy lectures — teaching the very class taught by Mach shortly before. In 1904, he traveled the United States, visiting the World's Fair in St. Louis; however, after his return to Europe, the attacks on his statistical mechanics work continued. Boltzmann committed suicide in Trieste, during a family vacation.

It is unknown whether Boltzmann's eventual suicide resulted from the scientific community's hostility to his work, a history of mental illness and melancholy, or some combination of both. [http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Boltzmann.html (MacTutor biography)]

Today, Boltzmann is renowned for having established a mathematical foundation of statistical physics, the study of large quantities of particles (such as atoms in a gas). To make calculations possible, Boltzmann devised the concept of an "ensemble", a set of many systems prepared in the same way. Thinking in terms of ensembles, one could calculate probabilities by working out what fraction of the ensemble's systems will exist in a given state. Each member of an ensemble satisfies the same macroscopic conditions; for example, they each have the same total energy. However, there are many different ways the atoms in a gas can move and still have the same total energy. Many ''microstates'' can be part of a single ''macrostate.'' The ensemble approach gave the first real understanding of what ''entropy'' means in statistical terms: the entropy of a macrostate is, up to a multiplicative factor, the logarithm of its number of microstates. (The multiplicative factor, known as Boltzmann's constant, sets the size of the degree marks on the temperature scale.)

Boltzmann also studied the way in which the entropy of a system rises with time. His mathematical deduction known as the ''H''-theorem provided the first way to understand the Second Law of Thermodynamics in terms of individual atoms in motion.

'''Bonnet, Charles (1720-1793)''' 
307; Swiss naturalist and philosophical writer who first described what became known as the Charles Bonnet syndrome (or CBS for short), a term used to describe the situation when people with sight problems start to see things which they know aren't real. Sometimes called visual hallucinations, the things people see can take all kinds of forms from simple patterns of straight lines to detailed -pictures of people or buildings. These can be enjoyable or sometimes upsetting; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bonnet Wikipedia entry]

'''Boot Hill''' 
648;

Bopfli 
669; 670;

'''Borrasca''' 
364; Reef's colt;

'''Borowicz, Professor Bogoslaw''' 
343; at McVeety's Theater "Floor Shows"

'''Bosanquet, Bernard James Tindal (1877-1936)''' 
237; "this Middlesex spinner"; an English cricketer, perhaps most renowned as the inventor of the googly (sometimes called the Bosie or, in Australia, the Wrong'un ), born in Bull's Cross, Enfield, Middlesex; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Bosanquet_(cricketer) Wikipedia entry]

'''Bosch''' 
554; the artist

'''Boulanger, General Georges Ernest Jean-Marie (April 29, 1837 – September 30, 1891)''' 
543; anniversary of his suicide and the Chums of Chance; Boulanger was a French general and reactionary politician. Very popular with the military, He rose through the ranks to general, and began his own political movement, an ecclectic one that capitalized on the frustrations of French conservatism, advocating the three principles of ''Revanche'' (Revenge on Germany), ''Révision'' (Revision of the Constitution), ''Restauration'' (the return to monarchy). The common reference to it has become ''Boulangisme'', a term used by its partisans and adversaries alike. A failed coup began his downfall. He was charged with conspiracy and treason and a warrant for his death was issued. He committed suicide by a bullet to the head on the grave of his mistress. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Boulanger Wikipedia entry]

'''Bounce, Roswell''' 
60; photographer; Hypop Apparatus, 425; Scarsdale Vibe trial in Cleveland, 455; Hercules, 455;

'''''boutonniere''''' 
33; A boutonniere, also buttonhole, is a flower or floral decoration pushed or pinned through the button hole of a lapel of a suit.

'''Boyne''' 
231;

'''brambled guttie''' 
603; gutta-percha ball (a golf ball), a brambled spheroid

'''Breedlove, "Dope"''' 
369; "and his Merry Coons" - houseband at Maman Tant Gras Hall in New Orleans;

'''Breguet''' 
457; the tourbillion

'''Briggs, Estrella (Stray)''' 
200; in Nochecita; Aunt Adelina; at a "small ranch outside Fickle Creek" 462; 920-921;

'''Briggs, Willow''' 
361; Stray's sister; husband Holt, 367;

'''British craving for the dark and shiny''' 
678; Perhaps an [[Dark and Shiny|Orwellian reference?]]

'''Brocken''' 
632;

'''Brownian Movement''' 
587; The random motion of small particles, such as dust specks or pollen grains, suspended in a fluid. Because the atoms in the fluid are constantly jostling with thermal energy — ''heat'' being nothing but the kinetic energy of atoms in random movement — the larger objects floating in the fluid are bombarded this way and that, like a beach ball being attacked on all sides by peashooters. First observed by the British botanist Robert Brown (1773–1858) in 1827, this jittery behavior provided the first direct evidence that atoms existed. The [http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/great1.htm young Albert Einstein] (1879–1955) worked out the [http://lorentz.phl.jhu.edu/AnnusMirabilis/AeReserveArticles/ed_brownian.pdf theory behind Brownian motion,] producing in 1905 an equation which gave the size of atoms in terms of quantities one could observe about Brownian motion. In 1908, the French physicist Jean-Baptiste Perrin (1870–1942) succeeded in measuring these variables, discovering that atoms are roughly one ten-billionth of a meter in diameter.

'''Brownie''' 
277; Kodak camera introduced in 1900 for one dollar

'''Browning''' 
578; the poet

'''Brueghel''' 
554;

'''Brugere's power''' 
529; Brugere's powder uses '''picric acid''' which, when ignited, burns quietly with a smoky flame and is very difficult to detonate by percussion; its salts, however, are more readily detonated. Part of the picric family, Brugere's powder is a mixture of 54 parts of ammonium picrate and 45 parts of saltpetre; '''Designolle's powder''', composed of potassium picrate, saltpetre and charcoal is also a member of this family of explosives. [[Picric Acid|More on picric acid]]

'''Bruno''' 
101; Scarsdale Vibe's bodyguard

'''buck-and-wing artist''' 
303; "buck-and-wing" is a solo tap dance emphasizing sharp taps

'''Buffalo Bill''' 
[[ATD-C#buffalo|See Cody, Buffalo Bill]]

'''Burchell, Mrs.''' 
228; medium at Stead séance; her "prophetic account of the Serbian outrage" 719;

'''Burgess''' 
a sheriff Reef argues with; Laureen, his wife;

'''Buri''' 
142; "grandfather of Odin and the first gods"

'''Busted Flush''' 
313; Jimmy Drop's hangout in Telluride

'''Byng, Admiral''' 
545;

'''Byron's Pool''' 
490; where Yashmeen bathed nude;

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'''Bagdad Railway Concession''' 
228; In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Ottoman Empire planned to construct a Baghdad Railway under German control. It became a source of international tension and played some role in the origins of the First World War; 238; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad_Railway Wikipedia entry]

'''Baku''' 
441; Located on the Caspian Sea, Baku or Baky (Baki), capital and largest city of Azerbaijan. Since 1873 an oil belt of Baku began to be formed which was known as a Black City. Within a short period of time departments and representations of Swiss, English, French, Belgian, German and American firms were established in Baku, among them were the firms of the Nobels and Rothschilds. By the beginning of the 20th century almost half of the oil reserves in the world had been extracted in Baku; 631; "with skeeters" 639; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baku Wikipedia entry] [[Discussion]]

'''Bakunin, Mikhail (1814-1876)''' 
373; well-known Russian revolutionary, and often considered one of the fathers of modern anarchism; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Bakunin Wikipedia entry]

<div id="balaam"></div>'''Balaam's ass''' 
432; From the Bible, Numbers Chapter 22, wherein Balaam, a seer and Gentile, is sent by Balak, King of Moab, to confront the Israelites who, after 40 years in the desert, were camped on the plains of Moab. An angel, invisible to Balaam but visible to the ass, blocks the road and the ass won't proceed. Balaam repeatedly whips the ass until, by divine intervention, the ass is given the power of speech and speaks to Balaam, asking him why he treats him so badly. Balaam is taken aback and then sees the angel with sword drawn and falls to the ground, contrite. But the angel, instead of stopping him from his journey, tells Balaam to proceed on his mission. When Balaam reaches the top of a hill and sees the Israelites camped out below, a blessing unexpectedly issues from his lips. Two things here: 1) it's possible for a non-Hebrew to be a prophet and 2) this is one of only two instances in the Bible where animals speak, the other being the serpent in the Garden of Eden. [http://www.trivia-library.com/a/origins-of-the-term-balaam-ass.htm More from the Trivia Library]

'''Balkin ''komitadji''''' 
557; Komitadji, Comitadji or Komitaji (Turkish: Komitacı, "a rebel, member of a secret revolutionary society") is a member of a guerrilla band in Macedonia or the Balkan countries.

'''Ball in Hand''' 
405; saloon where Dr. Zoot met Meatman; on West Symmes Street, 410;

'''[[Basnight, Lewis ("Lew")]]''' 
36-51; a "spotter" from White City Investigations; "couldn't remember what he 'd done, or hadn't done, or even when", Upstate-Downstate Beast, 37; "a kind of ''waking swoon''" 38; "a condition he had no memory of having sought, which he later came to think of as grace", "a luminosity new to him", "things were exactly what they were", 42; extraordinary ability of noticing things, 42; "a keen sympathy for the invisible" 43; "the side of the day" 44; transfer to Denver, 51; 171; Cryptomite trip, 182; emergence out of explosion, 221; 496; at Chunxton Crescent "Gus Swallowfield, Senior Underwriter" 611;

'''Basnight, Troth''' 
38; Lew's wife, who leaves him;

'''Battle of Puebla''' 
315; The Battle of Puebla took place on May 5, 1862 near the city of Puebla, Mexico, during the French intervention in Mexico. It was a major Mexican victory, and is commemorated every year as Cinco de Mayo; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Puebla Wikipedia entry]

'''Bauer, Grünewald''' 
136;

'''Beaufort Scale''' 
15; a scale to measure wind speed; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort_scale Wikipedia entry]

'''Beaver Saloon''' 
193;

'''"Beavers of the Brain"''' 
183; song by the beings inhabiting Lew Basright's steak

'''Becker, Mr.''' 
1076; Jesse Traverse's school teacher, and possibly his future father-in-law; see the [[Traverse Family Tree]]

'''Belgian nihilists''' 
527; "Eugénie, Fatou, Denis, and Policarpe, styling themselves 'Young Congo'"

'''Bengal lights''' 
144; A steady bright blue light; formerly used as a signal but now a firework.

'''Beppo''' 
576; Dally's alter-ego; Beppo is the subject of the poem "Beppo" by Lord Byron; [[Beppo|Read the poem]]

'''Berlin Conference of 1878''' 
226; The Congress of Berlin was a meeting of the European Great Powers' and the Ottoman Empire's leading statesmen in Berlin in 1878. In the wake of the Russo-Turkish War, 1877–78, the meeting's aim was to reorganize conditions in the Balkans. Otto von Bismarck, who led the Congress, undertook to balance the distinct interests of Great Britain, Russia and Austria-Hungary. As a consequence, however, differences between Russia and Austria-Hungary intensified, as did the nationality question in the Balkans; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Berlin Wikipedia entry]

'''Bible''' 
86; Second Corinthians, 32; 223; St. Mark, 250; "Let there be light" 354; Judas Iscariot, 377; 413; [[#balaam|Balaam's ass]], 432; Sodom and Gomorrah, 441; 441; 452; Jonah and Agadir, 521; Judas Priest, 525; Lot's wife, 550; Lucifer, 575; Infancy Gospel of Thomas, 579; Pentacost story from Acts of the Apostles (Jesus and the dyes), 579-80;

'''Big Billy's''' 
260;

[[Image:Billy-the-Kid.jpg|thumb|Billy the Kid, painting by Jacques Moitoret|right]]'''Billy the Kid (1859-1881)''' 
263; Henry McCarty, better known as Billy the Kid, but also known by the aliases Henry Antrim and William Harrison Bonney, was a 19th century American frontier outlaw and gunmen who was a participant in the Lincoln County War. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_the_Kid Wikipedia entry]

'''bilocation''' 
143; the ability (said of certain Roman Catholic saints) to exist simultaneously in two locations; "there are two distinct versions of 'Asia' out there" 249; Estrella, double of Stray Briggs, 393; Chums of Chance and the Marching Academy Harmonica Band, 418-24; "enough to divide a fellow into two" 464; two Agadirs, 521-22; ''Stupendica'', 514; Dally, 524; doubling, 564; multiple identities, 570; sawed-in-half folks, 571-72; Principessa Spongiatosta, 583; Werfner/Renfrew, 683, 685; Orphic and Pythagorean religionns, 686; Lew Basright, 688, 690; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilocation Wikipedia entry]

'''Bindlestiffs of the Blue A.C.''' 
18; aeronautical club from Oregon ("A.C." for alternating current?); a bindelstiff is a hobo, especially one who carries a bedroll.

'''Bing, Liu''' 
345; "tong warrior's girlfriend"

'''Biometric Institute of Neuropathy''' 
433;

'''Black Gang''' 
517; the stokers; 519;

'''Black Hundreds''' 
595; pogrom

'''Black, Miss Penelope ("Penny")''' 
18; distaff member of the Bindlestiffs of the Blue A.C.

'''Blanca, La''' 
287; "local name" for [[ATD-M#meldrum|Bob Meldrum's]] wife;

'''Blaskó, Béla''' 
915; the original name of the Hungarian actor Bela Lugosi (1882-1956) whose most famous role was that of Dracula; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bela_lugosi Wikipedia entry]

'''Blavatsky, Madame''' (1831-1891) 
219; Helena Petrovna Hahn (also Hélène), better known as Helena Blavatsky (Russian: Елена Блаватская) or Madame Blavatsky, born Helena von Hahn, was a founder of the Theosophical Society; "working for the Tsarist secret service" aka Third Section, aka Okhrana, 631; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Blavatsky Wikipedia entry]

'''Blitz Instruments''' 
53; Blitz is a manufacturer of musical instruments and accessories

'''Bloggins''' 
446;

'''bloodline''' 
332; [["bloodline of my enemy" DISCUSSION |DISCUSSION]]

'''Blope, Dr. Templeton''' 
131; of the University of the Outer Hebrides

'''Blue Ivory''' 
125;

'''Blundell, Miles''' 
4; Handyman Apprentice aboard the ''Inconvenience''; 107; nonsense speaking, 110-13; the Book, 251; 417; "temporarily lapsing into English" 427; recognizes the Trespassers, Mr. Ace, 417; "extra-temporal excursions" 443; and Pugnax, 550; "prefiguration of the Holy City" 551;

'''Bly, Nellie (1864-1922)''' 
37; Born May 5, 1864, to Judge Michael Cochran and Mary Jane Kennedy Cochran, part of the large Cochran family of Apollo, Pennsylvania, Elizabeth Jane Cochrane revolutionized journalism for women. She is better known by her pen name, "Nellie Bly," which she adapted from the Stephen Foster song, "Nelly Bly." Daring and innovative, she gained world fame when she beat Jules Verne's fictional character Phileas Fogg's record for traveling around the world in 80 days by more than a week, departing on November 14, 1889 and returning to New York on January 25, 1890; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Bly Wikipedia entry]

'''Bobrikoff, General''' 
83; "evil viceroy" of Russian Tsar

'''Bodine, O. I. C. (Officer in Charge)''' 
517; American stoker aboard the ''Stupendica''; 519;

'''Bohr, Niels (Henrik David) (1885-1962)''' 
412; Danish physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics. Bohr is widely considered one of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr Wikipedia entry]

'''Boilster, Eugene''' 
477; sheriff of Wall o' Death;

'''Boilster, Tace''' 
479; Eugene's wife;

'''Boilster, Roy Mickey''' 
480; Tace's brother;

'''Boilster, Chloe''' 
485; Eugene's & Tace's daughter

'''Boll Weevil Lounge''' 
47;

'''''Bol'shaia Igra''''' 
122; Padzhy's ship, at the North Pole; in Venice, 245;

'''Boltzmann, Ludwig (1844–1906)''' 
596; Austrian physicist who made pivotal contributions to thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, inventing several of the key notions of the latter field. The son of a taxation official, Boltzmann attended the University of Vienna and in 1866 earned a doctorate under the tutelage of Josef Stefan (1835–1893), whose empirical work on blackbody radiation Boltzmann would later put on a firm thermodynamic grounding. (Consequently, the statement that the total radiation from a blackbody goes as the fourth power of its temperature is today known as the Stefan–Boltzmann law.) After Stefan's death, Boltzmann took over his position as theoretical physics chair, but soon quit Vienna due to personal conflicts with the new chair of history and philosophy of science, Ernst Mach (1838–1916). He moved to Leipzig in 1900, where disputes over his theories led him to attempt suicide, unsuccessfully. Boltzmann returned to Vienna the following year, after Mach retired for health reasons, and in fact gained renown for his philosophy lectures — teaching the very class taught by Mach shortly before. In 1904, he traveled the United States, visiting the World's Fair in St. Louis; however, after his return to Europe, the attacks on his statistical mechanics work continued. Boltzmann committed suicide in Trieste, during a family vacation.

It is unknown whether Boltzmann's eventual suicide resulted from the scientific community's hostility to his work, a history of mental illness and melancholy, or some combination of both. [http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Boltzmann.html (MacTutor biography)]

Today, Boltzmann is renowned for having established a mathematical foundation of statistical physics, the study of large quantities of particles (such as atoms in a gas). To make calculations possible, Boltzmann devised the concept of an "ensemble", a set of many systems prepared in the same way. Thinking in terms of ensembles, one could calculate probabilities by working out what fraction of the ensemble's systems will exist in a given state. Each member of an ensemble satisfies the same macroscopic conditions; for example, they each have the same total energy. However, there are many different ways the atoms in a gas can move and still have the same total energy. Many ''microstates'' can be part of a single ''macrostate.'' The ensemble approach gave the first real understanding of what ''entropy'' means in statistical terms: the entropy of a macrostate is, up to a multiplicative factor, the logarithm of its number of microstates. (The multiplicative factor, known as Boltzmann's constant, sets the size of the degree marks on the temperature scale.)

Boltzmann also studied the way in which the entropy of a system rises with time. His mathematical deduction known as the ''H''-theorem provided the first way to understand the Second Law of Thermodynamics in terms of individual atoms in motion.

'''Bonnet, Charles (1720-1793)''' 
307; Swiss naturalist and philosophical writer who first described what became known as the Charles Bonnet syndrome (or CBS for short), a term used to describe the situation when people with sight problems start to see things which they know aren't real. Sometimes called visual hallucinations, the things people see can take all kinds of forms from simple patterns of straight lines to detailed -pictures of people or buildings. These can be enjoyable or sometimes upsetting; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bonnet Wikipedia entry]

'''Boot Hill''' 
648;

Bopfli 
669; 670;

'''Borrasca''' 
364; Reef's colt;

'''Borowicz, Professor Bogoslaw''' 
343; at McVeety's Theater "Floor Shows"

'''Bosanquet, Bernard James Tindal (1877-1936)''' 
237; "this Middlesex spinner"; an English cricketer, perhaps most renowned as the inventor of the googly (sometimes called the Bosie or, in Australia, the Wrong'un ), born in Bull's Cross, Enfield, Middlesex; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Bosanquet_(cricketer) Wikipedia entry]

'''Bosch''' 
554; the artist

'''Boulanger, General Georges Ernest Jean-Marie (April 29, 1837 – September 30, 1891)''' 
543; anniversary of his suicide and the Chums of Chance; Boulanger was a French general and reactionary politician. Very popular with the military, He rose through the ranks to general, and began his own political movement, an ecclectic one that capitalized on the frustrations of French conservatism, advocating the three principles of ''Revanche'' (Revenge on Germany), ''Révision'' (Revision of the Constitution), ''Restauration'' (the return to monarchy). The common reference to it has become ''Boulangisme'', a term used by its partisans and adversaries alike. A failed coup began his downfall. He was charged with conspiracy and treason and a warrant for his death was issued. He committed suicide by a bullet to the head on the grave of his mistress. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Boulanger Wikipedia entry]

'''Bounce, Roswell''' 
60; photographer; Hypop Apparatus, 425; Scarsdale Vibe trial in Cleveland, 455; Hercules, 455;

'''''boutonniere''''' 
33; A boutonniere, also buttonhole, is a flower or floral decoration pushed or pinned through the button hole of a lapel of a suit.

'''Boyne''' 
231;

'''brambled guttie''' 
603; gutta-percha ball (a golf ball), a brambled spheroid

'''Breedlove, "Dope"''' 
369; "and his Merry Coons" - houseband at Maman Tant Gras Hall in New Orleans;

'''Breguet''' 
457; the tourbillion

'''Briggs, Estrella (Stray)''' 
200; in Nochecita; Aunt Adelina; at a "small ranch outside Fickle Creek" 462; 920-921;

'''Briggs, Willow''' 
361; Stray's sister; husband Holt, 367;

'''British craving for the dark and shiny''' 
678; Perhaps an [[Dark and Shiny|Orwellian reference?]]

'''Brocken''' 
632;

'''Brownian Movement''' 
587; The random motion of small particles, such as dust specks or pollen grains, suspended in a fluid. Because the atoms in the fluid are constantly jostling with thermal energy — ''heat'' being nothing but the kinetic energy of atoms in random movement — the larger objects floating in the fluid are bombarded this way and that, like a beach ball being attacked on all sides by peashooters. First observed by the British botanist Robert Brown (1773–1858) in 1827, this jittery behavior provided the first direct evidence that atoms existed. The [http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/great1.htm young Albert Einstein] (1879–1955) worked out the [http://lorentz.phl.jhu.edu/AnnusMirabilis/AeReserveArticles/ed_brownian.pdf theory behind Brownian motion,] producing in 1905 an equation which gave the size of atoms in terms of quantities one could observe about Brownian motion. In 1908, the French physicist Jean-Baptiste Perrin (1870–1942) succeeded in measuring these variables, discovering that atoms are roughly one ten-billionth of a meter in diameter.

'''Brownie''' 
277; Kodak camera introduced in 1900 for one dollar

'''Browning''' 
578; the poet

'''Brueghel''' 
554;

'''Brugere's power''' 
529; Brugere's powder uses '''picric acid''' which, when ignited, burns quietly with a smoky flame and is very difficult to detonate by percussion; its salts, however, are more readily detonated. Part of the picric family, Brugere's powder is a mixture of 54 parts of ammonium picrate and 45 parts of saltpetre; '''Designolle's powder''', composed of potassium picrate, saltpetre and charcoal is also a member of this family of explosives. [[Picric Acid|More on picric acid]]

'''Bruno''' 
101; Scarsdale Vibe's bodyguard

'''buck-and-wing artist''' 
303; "buck-and-wing" is a solo tap dance emphasizing sharp taps

'''Buffalo Bill''' 
[[ATD-C#buffalo|See Cody, Buffalo Bill]]

'''Burchell, Mrs.''' 
228; medium at Stead séance; her "prophetic account of the Serbian outrage" 719;

'''Burgess''' 
a sheriff Reef argues with; Laureen, his wife;

'''Buri''' 
142; "grandfather of Odin and the first gods"

'''Busted Flush''' 
313; Jimmy Drop's hangout in Telluride

'''Byng, Admiral''' 
545;

'''Byron's Pool''' 
490; where Yashmeen bathed nude;

{{ATD_Alpha_Nav}}

Edwin Pynchon Discussion

2006-12-13T16:19:19Z

Pynchonoid:

Edwin Pynchon – not known yet if this is a genuine Pynchon ancestor – appears to have invented an airship in 1893.

This appears to be a picture of it:
[http://aerofiles.com/pynchon.jpg]

Here's a description:
[...] The Pynchon, designed by Edwin Pynchon. National Archives
Albatross 1893 = Yes, that date is correct, and this patented airborne hotel — the 747 of a century ago — is included in Aerofiles as an interesting example of the creative approach to manned flight taken by one of the early, albeit obscure, visionaries. Data unknown, but note the suitcase rollers for ground movement. [...]

[http://pynchonoid.org] supplies the following links:

[http://www.aerofiles.com/_pl.html]

[http://www.lib.iup.edu/depts/speccol/ead/mg31.html]
[...] Edwin Pynchon: Air Ship November 14, 1893[...]

[http://glennhcurtiss.com/id50.htm]
[...] In 1993 the Library of Congress published its"FLIGHT BEFORE WRIGHT" calendar, Susan Sharp, editor: "…History also shows that, alas, pivotal
accomplishments are not always immediately recognized or appreciated. For the Wright brothers, it took more than four years - from late 1903 to early 1908 - for the world to become fully aware that they had achieved sustained mechanical flight. Thus Flight before Wright in a practical sense encompasses the continuing experimentation that took place through the years leading up to 1908…" with an interesting assemblage of photographs and drawings:
[...] "Edwin Pynchon's `Albatross,' Patented November 14, 1893;" [...]

Not airship related, but also of interest, perhaps:

Also this one, from The Laryngoscope (founded 1894)called "On the Origin of Tonsillectomy and the Dissection Method"; the Abstract mentions an "attempt
to remove the entire tonsil intact was described by Edwin Pynchon in 1890 with the use of galvanocautery."

<http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0041-462X(197510)21%3A3%3C278%3ATQFP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-9>
"Admirers of Dr. Schoenmaker's nose job in V. may not be surprised to learn of a Dr. Edwin Pynchon (1856-1914), who invented numerous surgical instruments..."

Edwin Pynchon Discussion

2006-12-13T15:33:32Z

Pynchonoid:

Edwin Pynchon – not known yet if this is a genuine Pynchon ancestor – appears to have invented an airship in 1893.

This appears to be a picture of it:
[http://aerofiles.com/pynchon.jpg]

Here's a description:
The Pynchon, designed by Edwin Pynchon. National Archives [...]
Albatross 1893 = Yes, that date is correct, and this patented airborne hotel — the 747 of a century ago — is included in Aerofiles as an interesting example of the creative approach to manned flight taken by one of the early, albeit obscure, visionaries. Data unknown, but note the suitcase rollers for ground movement. [...]

[http://pynchonoid.org] supplies the following links:

[http://www.aerofiles.com/_pl.html]

[http://www.lib.iup.edu/depts/speccol/ead/mg31.html]
[...] Edwin Pynchon: Air Ship November 14, 1893[...]

[http://glennhcurtiss.com/id50.htm]
[...] In 1993 the Library of Congress published its"FLIGHT BEFORE WRIGHT" calendar, Susan Sharp, editor: "…History also shows that, alas, pivotal
accomplishments are not always immediately recognized or appreciated. For the Wright brothers, it took more than four years - from late 1903 to early 1908 - for the world to become fully aware that they had achieved sustained mechanical flight. Thus Flight before Wright in a practical sense encompasses the continuing experimentation that took place through the years leading up to 1908…" with an interesting assemblage of photographs and drawings:

January: "R. J. Spaulding's Flying Machine,
Patented March 5, 1889;"
February: "Israel Ludlow's
`New Aeroplane,' July 15, 1905;"
March: "Gustave
Whitehead's Triplane, September 19, 1903;"
April:
"Henri Giffard Balloon Ascension, 1878;"
May: "Otto
Lilienthal (1848-1896) In His Plane No. 14, 1895;"
June: "Wright Brothers' Glider, Wrecked by wind,
1900;" July: "G. Curtis Gillespie's Aeroplane, June
24, 1905;" August: "Frederick R. Merritt's Airship,
Patented December 6, 1898," and "Edwin Pynchon's
`Albatross,' Patented November 14, 1893;" [...]

Also this one, from The Laryngoscope (founded 1894)
called "On the Origin of Tonsillectomy and the
Dissection Method"; the Abstract mentions an "attempt
to remove the entire tonsil intact was described by
Edwin Pynchon in 1890 with the use of galvanocautery."

<http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0041-462X(197510)21%3A3%3C278%3ATQFP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-9>
"Admirers of Dr. Schoenmaker's nose job in V. may not
be sur- prised to learn of a Dr. Edwin Pynchon
(1856-1914), who invented numerous surgical
instruments ..."

P

2006-12-13T15:26:03Z

Pynchonoid:

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

'''Paco''' 
375; trumpet player

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

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

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

'''pantechnicon''' 
611;

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

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

'''Paris Commune''' 
372;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''''pétroleurs'' of Paris''' 
19;

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

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

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

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

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

'''Piggot's''' 
678;

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

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

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

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

'''plasmic hysteresis''' 
555;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Poutine''' 
468; little girl in Mayva's ice-cream parlor, Cone Amor; 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''' 
anthropologist...922;

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

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

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

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

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P

2006-12-13T15:24:10Z

Pynchonoid: added Edwin Pynchon index item & Discussion page

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

'''Paco''' 
375; trumpet player

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

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

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

'''pantechnicon''' 
611;

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

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

'''Paris Commune''' 
372;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''''pétroleurs'' of Paris''' 
19;

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

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

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

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

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

'''Piggot's''' 
678;

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

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

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

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

'''plasmic hysteresis''' 
555;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Poutine''' 
468; little girl in Mayva's ice-cream parlor, Cone Amor; 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''' 
anthropologist...922;

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

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

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

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

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Neville and Nigel

2006-12-04T16:47:56Z

Pynchonoid:

Their visit with Lew to Dr. Coombs De Bottle's lab recalls the standard trip through Q's workshop in a James Bond movie.

Neville and Nigel

2006-12-04T16:45:52Z

Pynchonoid: added brief comment to DISCUSSION page re Neville and Nigel

Sheer speculation: did Pynchon's niece, Tristan Taormino [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_Taormino Wikipediaentry], have any influence on these passages with Lake, Deuce, Sloat? Recalls Frenesi and Brock in Vineland, but rougher.

N

2006-12-04T16:40:35Z

Pynchonoid: added DISCUSSION page re Neville and Nigel

'''Nameless creature''' 
124;

'''Naming''' 
129; 134; 153;

'''Nansen, Fridtjof (1861-1930)''' 
138; Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansenm was a Norwegian explorer, scientist and diplomat; 147; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fridtjof_Nansen Wikipedia entry]

'''naphtha engines''' 
27; Naphtha is a clear liquid hydrocarbon that is produced during the fractional distillation of crude petroleum oil or coal tar. Naphtha distills off between gasoline and kerosene. There are two basic types of naphtha engines: an internal combustion engine, and an external combusion engine used exclusively for powering small boats and yachts just before the turn of the century. From the [http://www.gasenginemagazine.com/complete-archive/3336/ Gas Engine Magazine Website]

'''Napoleon I, born Napoleone di Buonaparte (1869-1821)''' 
543; a general during the French Revolution, the ruler of France as First Consul (Premier Consul) of the French Republic from 11 November 1799 to 18 May 1804, Emperor of the French (Empereur des Français) under the name Napoleon I (Napoléon 1er) from 18 May 1804 to 6 April 1814, and was briefly restored as Emperor from 20 March to 22 June 1815; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon Wikipedia entry]

'''Napoleon III, aka Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte (1808-1873)''' 
635; President of France from 1849 to 1852, and then Emperor of the French under the name Napoléon III from 1852 to 1870. He was the last monarch to rule France. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_III Wikipedia entry]

'''Narvik's Mush-It-Away Northern Cuisine''' 
134;

'''Ñato, El''' 
384; in New Mexico;

'''Naunt, Arturo''' 
612; Chelsea painter, ''The Mutilation of Atys''; the Greek goddess Cybele fell in love with Atys and made him her priest. Before Atys took his vows, he could not resist having a final affair with the nymph Sagaritis. In a fit of jealousy, Cybele punished Atys for this and drove him temporarily insane. When he recovered, Atys was mortified to discover that he had emasculated himself during his insanity. He then wanted to commit suicide, but Cybele turned him into a fir tree. After these events, all priests in Cybeles service had to castrated themselves, and the fir tree became her holy tree.

'''Nebulay, Barry''' 
526; Quaternionist in Ostend, from University of Dublin; 557;

'''Neville and Nigel''' 
185; "creatures ministering to" Lew Rideout after a blast; youngsters, 489; 678; ''impersonating British idiots'', 685; [[Neville and Nigel| DISCUSSION]]

'''Newburgh''' 
59; insane asylum in Northern Ohio. [http://ech.case.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=CSH More information here.]

'''Newnham and Girton''' 
490; 493;

'''Nicol prism''' 
139; a type of polarizer, an optical device used to generate a beam of polarized light; 354; 391; 538; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicol_prism Wikipedia entry]

'''Niflheim''' 
128; Niflheim ("Land of Mists") is the realm of ice and cold in Norse mythology. It is located north of Ginnungagap and there dwells the hrimthursar (Frost Giants) and here is also located Hel. The tree Yggdrasill has a root here in the spring Hvergelmir, and it is gnawed away at by the serpent Nidhogg; 142; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niflheim Wikipedia entry]

'''Nihilism''' 
110;

'''Nikos''' 
653; drilling in the Swiss Alps, with Reef

'''Nobel brothers''' 
444;

'''Noellyn''' 
493; blond at Cambridge

'''Nookshaft, Grand Cohen Nick''' 
608; as "Little Nemo" 683;

'''Noonan, Nellie''' 
334;

'''Noseworth, Lindsay''' 
4; Master At Arms on [[ATD-I#inconvenience|''The Inconvenience'']]; 107; Communications Officer, 116; Unit Treasurer, 398; 432;

'''Northern Temple of Connexion''' 
446;

'''''nunatak''''' 
139; Eskimo: "land connected"; sentient rock;

'''Nuovo Rialto''' 
439; sub-desert port; Rialto is an area of the San Polo sestiere of Venice, known for its markets and for the Rialto Bridge; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rialto Wikipedia entry]

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L

2006-12-04T16:35:56Z

Pynchonoid: added Lake (Traverse) to Index, + brief commentary

'''L.&O.L.''' 
649;

'''labor unions''' 
43; 50; Western Federation of Miners, 92; 98; St. Petersburg Strike, 595;

'''La Foam, Happy Jack''' 
477; local pharmicist in Wall o' Death; 485;

'''Lafrisée, Pléiade''' 
537; ''sphinxe Khnopffiene'' in Kursaal in Ostend; with Woevre, 560; Fernand Edmond Jean Marie Khnopff (1858-1921) was a Belgian symbolist painter. A sphinx is a mythical creature with the head of a human (or bird) and the body of a cat; A ''sphinxe Khnopffiene'' would then be someone cat-like in the style of Khnopff [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernand_Khnopff Wikipediaentry];

[[image:khnopff.jpg|center|thumb|500px|''The Caress'', Khnopff's most famous painting]]

'''Lake''' 
262; Wonder if Pynchon's niece had any influence on these passages with Lake, Deuce, Sloat? Also recalls Frenesi and Brock in Vineland, but rougher.

'''Lambert, Joe''' 
283; shot by Hair-Trigger Bob

'''Laplacian''' 
239; bar in Cambridge;

'''Lard Scandal of the '80s, the great''' 
406; there actually ''was'' a lard scandal during the Taft Administration, in 1912;

'''lateener''' 
250; a ship rigged with a lateen which is a triangular sail, suspended by a long yard at an angle of 45° to the mast.

'''Latewood, Cyprian''' 
489; [[Cambridge Apostles|"embryo Apostlet"]], a sod (short for "sodomite", i.e., gay man) at Cambridge; to Trieste, 705; talking gibberish, 713;

'''"laying on tells"''' 
218; God, in poker game; "tells" are gestures or words by a player that give away the value of his/her hand; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tell_%28poker%29 Wikipedia entry]

'''League of Prizren''' 
653; created on June 10, 1878 in a mosque in Prizren, Kosovo, by 300 Albanian nationalist leaders, mostly from Kosovo, Albania, Western part of former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and Muslim leaders from Bosnia-Hercegovina and the Sandzak, in order to achieve an autonomous Albanian state, representing the former Ottoman vilayets of Shkodër or Skutari centered near Montenegro, the Illyria region, the Chameria region, Janina or Janjevo centered in Northern Epirus, Bitola in Republic of Macedonia and Kosovo; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Prizren Wikipedia entry]

'''Lee, Tom''' 
339; his "tong, the On Leong"

'''Leghorn strawhats''' 
42; a stiff straw hat with a flat crown. See [http://www.blockaderunner.com/nlc/17.html photo].

'''Leonard and Lyle''' 
441; "oil prospectors" in Sandman Saloon

'''Leopold''' 
528; King of the Belgians; 543;

'''Levi''' 
473; Hope Kindred's husband

'''Levi, Eliphaz (1810-1875)''' 
232; or Eliphas; pseudonym of French occultist and magician Alphonse Louis Constant. Levi incorporated the Tarot cards into his magical system, and as a result the Tarot has been an important part of the paraphernalia of Western magicians. He had a deep impact on the magic of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and later Aleister Crowley (who believed himself to be the reincarnation of Levi), and it was largely through this impact that Lévi is remembered as one of the key founders of the twentieth century revival of magic; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abb%C3%A9_Constant Wikipedia entry]

'''Lieutenants of Industry Scholarship Program''' 
100;

'''light''' 
59; "corner light" 61; 62; electric v. gas in London, 232; 431; 437-38; and film, 451; its future, in California, 456; counter-light, 581; 687-88;

'''Lightarian''' 
60;

'''lightning''' 
72; sentient ball lightning, 72;

'''Lincrusta-Walton''' 
610; Lincrusta is an embossed fabric used for covering walls, similar in style to anaglypta. It was invented by Frederick Walton in 1877 and is also called Lincrusta-Walton or Lincrusta Walton. It was designed to emulate more expensive materials and hence be more oriented to a mass market. These materials were used to enrich the interiors of late Victorian architecture and now used for historic restoration projects.

'''lines of force''' 
55; 122;

'''Little Egypt''' 
26; at the Chicago World's Fair; 29; Little Egypt was the stage name for two popular exotic dancers, Ashea Wabe who danced at the Seeley banquet at the 1893 World's Fair and Farida Mazar Spyropoulos, also performing under the stage name Fatima, appeared at the "Street in Cairo" exhibition on the Midway at the World's Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Egypt_(dancer) Wikipedia entry]; [[Little_Egypt|And then there was that song by The Coasters...]]

[[image:goose-girl.jpg|thumb|Little Goose-Girls Statue in Göttingen|right]]'''little goose-girl statue''' 
597; in Göttingen;

'''Little Hellkite''' 
76; mine in Colorado

'''''Little Nemo''''' 
352; Little Nemo is the main fictional character in a series of weekly comic strips by Winsor McCay (1871-1934) that appeared in the New York Herald and William Randolph Hearst's New York American newspapers from October 15, 1905—April 23, 1911 and April 30, 1911—1913; respectively; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Nemo Wikipedia entry]

'''Loafsley, "Plug"''' 
397; "street-Arab" who delivers note to Chums of Chance

'''Lobatchevskian''' 
453; function worked up by Vectorists and Quaternionists; named for the Russian mathematician Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (1792-1856) who developed non-Euclidean geometry; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Ivanovich_Lobachevsky Wikipedia entry]

'''local lunatic''' 
281; for train travelers entering Telluride, like starting a Disneyland ride with this warning: "Beside the tracks at one bend stood a local lunatic"

'''Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph (1851-1940)''' 
58; Born at Penkhull near Stoke-on-Trent and educated at Adams' Grammar School, Sir Oliver Lodge was a physicist and writer involved in the development of the wireless telegraph; 228; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Lodge Wikipedia entry]

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

'''Lollipop Lounge''' 
398; personal headquarters of Plug - a "child bordello"

'''Lombroso, Dr. Cesare (1835-1909)''' 
172; Born in Verona, Italy, Dr. Lombroso, using concepts drawn from Physiognomy, early Eugenics, Psychiatry and Social Darwinism, devised the theory that criminality was inherited, and that the born criminal could be identified by physical defects, which confirmed a criminal as savage, or atavistic; 252; 606; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Lombroso Wikipedia entry]

In Vineland, arch-villain FBI agent Brock Vond is a fan of Lombroso's work.

'''Longfellow''' 
536;

'''Lorelei''' 
493; blond at Cambridge

'''Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon (1853-1928)''' 
565; Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and elucidation of the Zeeman effect. In 1895 in an attempt to explain the Michelson-Morley experiment, Lorentz proposed that moving bodies contract in the direction of motion ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Length_contraction see length contraction]; George FitzGerald had already arrived at this conclusion, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FitzGerald-Lorentz_Contraction see FitzGerald-Lorentz Contraction]). He introduced the term local time which expresses the relativity of simultaneity between reference frames in relative motion; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrik_Lorentz Wikipedia entry]

'''Lost City''' 
435;

'''Lottchen''' 
621; girl at chloro party in Göttingen;

'''Louis XV''' 
544; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_xv Wikipedia entry]

'''Lowry, Nellie''' 
60; Blinky Morgan's "lady friend"

'''Lübeck''' 
520; City in northern Germany at the Baltic sea; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubeck Wikipedia entry]

'''Lucia''' 
246; waitress in Osteria in San Polo;

'''Lugosi, Bela''' 
915; see Blaskó, Belá

'''Luigi''' 
446;

'''Lupita's''' 
286; in Telluride, "where the menudo can't be beat"

'''Lutine''' 
122;

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'''L.&O.L.''' 
649;

'''labor unions''' 
43; 50; Western Federation of Miners, 92; 98; St. Petersburg Strike, 595;

'''La Foam, Happy Jack''' 
477; local pharmicist in Wall o' Death; 485;

'''Lafrisée, Pléiade''' 
537; ''sphinxe Khnopffiene'' in Kursaal in Ostend; with Woevre, 560; Fernand Edmond Jean Marie Khnopff (1858-1921) was a Belgian symbolist painter. A sphinx is a mythical creature with the head of a human (or bird) and the body of a cat; A ''sphinxe Khnopffiene'' would then be someone cat-like in the style of Khnopff [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernand_Khnopff Wikipedia entry];

[[image:khnopff.jpg|center|thumb|500px|''The Caress'', Khnopff's most famous painting]]

'''Lambert, Joe''' 
283; shot by Hair-Trigger Bob

'''Laplacian''' 
239; bar in Cambridge;

'''Lard Scandal of the '80s, the great''' 
406; there actually ''was'' a lard scandal during the Taft Administration, in 1912;

'''lateener''' 
250; a ship rigged with a lateen which is a triangular sail, suspended by a long yard at an angle of 45° to the mast.

'''Latewood, Cyprian''' 
489; [[Cambridge Apostles|"embryo Apostlet"]], a sod (short for "sodomite", i.e., gay man) at Cambridge; to Trieste, 705; talking gibberish, 713;

'''"laying on tells"''' 
218; God, in poker game; "tells" are gestures or words by a player that give away the value of his/her hand; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tell_%28poker%29 Wikipedia entry]

'''League of Prizren''' 
653; created on June 10, 1878 in a mosque in Prizren, Kosovo, by 300 Albanian nationalist leaders, mostly from Kosovo, Albania, Western part of former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and Muslim leaders from Bosnia-Hercegovina and the Sandzak, in order to achieve an autonomous Albanian state, representing the former Ottoman vilayets of Shkodër or Skutari centered near Montenegro, the Illyria region, the Chameria region, Janina or Janjevo centered in Northern Epirus, Bitola in Republic of Macedonia and Kosovo; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Prizren Wikipedia entry]

'''Lee, Tom''' 
339; his "tong, the On Leong"

'''Leghorn strawhats''' 
42; a stiff straw hat with a flat crown. See [http://www.blockaderunner.com/nlc/17.html photo].

'''Leonard and Lyle''' 
441; "oil prospectors" in Sandman Saloon

'''Leopold''' 
528; King of the Belgians; 543;

'''Levi''' 
473; Hope Kindred's husband

'''Levi, Eliphaz (1810-1875)''' 
232; or Eliphas; pseudonym of French occultist and magician Alphonse Louis Constant. Levi incorporated the Tarot cards into his magical system, and as a result the Tarot has been an important part of the paraphernalia of Western magicians. He had a deep impact on the magic of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and later Aleister Crowley (who believed himself to be the reincarnation of Levi), and it was largely through this impact that Lévi is remembered as one of the key founders of the twentieth century revival of magic; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abb%C3%A9_Constant Wikipedia entry]

'''Lieutenants of Industry Scholarship Program''' 
100;

'''light''' 
59; "corner light" 61; 62; electric v. gas in London, 232; 431; 437-38; and film, 451; its future, in California, 456; counter-light, 581; 687-88;

'''Lightarian''' 
60;

'''lightning''' 
72; sentient ball lightning, 72;

'''Lincrusta-Walton''' 
610; Lincrusta is an embossed fabric used for covering walls, similar in style to anaglypta. It was invented by Frederick Walton in 1877 and is also called Lincrusta-Walton or Lincrusta Walton. It was designed to emulate more expensive materials and hence be more oriented to a mass market. These materials were used to enrich the interiors of late Victorian architecture and now used for historic restoration projects.

'''lines of force''' 
55; 122;

'''Little Egypt''' 
26; at the Chicago World's Fair; 29; Little Egypt was the stage name for two popular exotic dancers, Ashea Wabe who danced at the Seeley banquet at the 1893 World's Fair and Farida Mazar Spyropoulos, also performing under the stage name Fatima, appeared at the "Street in Cairo" exhibition on the Midway at the World's Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Egypt_(dancer) Wikipedia entry]; [[Little_Egypt|And then there was that song by The Coasters...]]

[[image:goose-girl.jpg|thumb|Little Goose-Girls Statue in Göttingen|right]]'''little goose-girl statue''' 
597; in Göttingen;

'''Little Hellkite''' 
76; mine in Colorado

'''''Little Nemo''''' 
352; Little Nemo is the main fictional character in a series of weekly comic strips by Winsor McCay (1871-1934) that appeared in the New York Herald and William Randolph Hearst's New York American newspapers from October 15, 1905—April 23, 1911 and April 30, 1911—1913; respectively; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Nemo Wikipedia entry]

'''Loafsley, "Plug"''' 
397; "street-Arab" who delivers note to Chums of Chance

'''Lobatchevskian''' 
453; function worked up by Vectorists and Quaternionists; named for the Russian mathematician Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (1792-1856) who developed non-Euclidean geometry; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Ivanovich_Lobachevsky Wikipedia entry]

'''local lunatic''' 
281; for train travelers entering Telluride, like starting a Disneyland ride with this warning: "Beside the tracks at one bend stood a local lunatic"

'''Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph (1851-1940)''' 
58; Born at Penkhull near Stoke-on-Trent and educated at Adams' Grammar School, Sir Oliver Lodge was a physicist and writer involved in the development of the wireless telegraph; 228; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Lodge Wikipedia entry]

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

'''Lollipop Lounge''' 
398; personal headquarters of Plug - a "child bordello"

'''Lombroso, Dr. Cesare (1835-1909)''' 
172; Born in Verona, Italy, Dr. Lombroso, using concepts drawn from Physiognomy, early Eugenics, Psychiatry and Social Darwinism, devised the theory that criminality was inherited, and that the born criminal could be identified by physical defects, which confirmed a criminal as savage, or atavistic; 252; 606; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Lombroso Wikipedia entry]

In Vineland, arch-villain FBI agent Brock Vond is a fan of Lombroso's work.

'''Longfellow''' 
536;

'''Lorelei''' 
493; blond at Cambridge

'''Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon (1853-1928)''' 
565; Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and elucidation of the Zeeman effect. In 1895 in an attempt to explain the Michelson-Morley experiment, Lorentz proposed that moving bodies contract in the direction of motion ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Length_contraction see length contraction]; George FitzGerald had already arrived at this conclusion, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FitzGerald-Lorentz_Contraction see FitzGerald-Lorentz Contraction]). He introduced the term local time which expresses the relativity of simultaneity between reference frames in relative motion; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrik_Lorentz Wikipedia entry]

'''Lost City''' 
435;

'''Lottchen''' 
621; girl at chloro party in Göttingen;

'''Louis XV''' 
544; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_xv Wikipedia entry]

'''Lowry, Nellie''' 
60; Blinky Morgan's "lady friend"

'''Lübeck''' 
520; City in northern Germany at the Baltic sea; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubeck Wikipedia entry]

'''Lucia''' 
246; waitress in Osteria in San Polo;

'''Lugosi, Bela''' 
915; see Blaskó, Belá

'''Luigi''' 
446;

'''Lupita's''' 
286; in Telluride, "where the menudo can't be beat"

'''Lutine''' 
122;

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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;

'''pantechnicon''' 
611;

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

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

'''Paris Commune''' 
372;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''''pétroleurs'' of Paris''' 
19;

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

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

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

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

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

'''Piggot's''' 
678;

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

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

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

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

'''plasmic hysteresis''' 
555;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Priest, Judas''' 
656;

'''Prime Number Theorem''' 
590; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number_theory Wikipedia 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''' 
anthropologist...922;

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

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

'''Pythagoras''' 
500; Pythagoreans, 633; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras Wikipedia entry]

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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 Saloon''' 
302; in Telluride; 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" 87; 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 crickett ground, 691;

'''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;

'''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; 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''' 
640; "acting as a subagent" in Mexico; 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, Angela''' 
399-400; 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

'''Grand Cohen''' 
499;A cohen, or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohen Kohen], is a member of the Jewish priestly class.

'''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]

'''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 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 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; some kind of vehicle, but what kind?

'''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''' 
376; Frank Traverse and Ewball in;

'''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); 611;

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

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'''Uckenfays''' 
225; familial expression of Temperance, following the Icosadyad scheme, and perhaps not the author's favorite Quality, judging from the embedded pig Latin.

'''ukulele''' 
27;

'''Uncompahgre''' 
172; The Uncompahgre National Forest lies in the heart of American alpine country, in Colorado. It's a land of 14,000-foot peaks, fast-flowing creeks, alpine lakes, deep spruce forests, red rock gorges, and lots of black bears. It's also a land of gold. Abandoned mine shafts and ghost towns dot the landscape, emblems of the Uncompahgre's Gold Rush past.

'''uniforms''' 
18; Bindlestiffs' uniforms: "indigo mohair brilliantine with scarlet pinstripes, and headgear which had failed to achieve the simpler geometry of the well-known Shriner fez" ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shriners the Shriners are a Masonic offshoot]); Foley Walker's and Scarsdale Vibe's, 74;

'''Union With the All''' 
77; Skip's, 74;

'''Utahan''' 
485; a person from Utah;

'''Uyghur''' 
440; a Turkic language spoken by the Uyghur people in Xinjiang (also called East Turkestan or Uyghuristan), formerly also “Sinkiang” and “Chinese Turkestan,” a Central Asian region administered by China; this is a language spoken where the subterranean Shambhala is supposedly located, beneath the Gobi desert; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_language Wikipedia entry]

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G

2006-12-02T07:07:35Z

Pynchonoid: added gaver du visage to index

'''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 Saloon''' 
302; in Telluride; 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" 87; 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 crickett ground, 691;

'''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;

'''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; 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''' 
640; "acting as a subagent" in Mexico; 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, Angela''' 
399-400; 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

'''Grand Cohen''' 
499;A cohen, or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohen Kohen], is a member of the Jewish priestly class.

'''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]

'''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 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 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

'''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''' 
376; Frank Traverse and Ewball in;

'''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); 611;

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

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U

2006-12-02T07:05:13Z

Pynchonoid: added Uckenfays to index

'''Uckenfays''' 
225; familial expression of Temperance, following the Icosadyad scheme, and perhaps not the author's favorite Quality, judging from the inverted epithet.

'''ukulele''' 
27;

'''Uncompahgre''' 
172; The Uncompahgre National Forest lies in the heart of American alpine country, in Colorado. It's a land of 14,000-foot peaks, fast-flowing creeks, alpine lakes, deep spruce forests, red rock gorges, and lots of black bears. It's also a land of gold. Abandoned mine shafts and ghost towns dot the landscape, emblems of the Uncompahgre's Gold Rush past.

'''uniforms''' 
18; Bindlestiffs' uniforms: "indigo mohair brilliantine with scarlet pinstripes, and headgear which had failed to achieve the simpler geometry of the well-known Shriner fez" ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shriners the Shriners are a Masonic offshoot]); Foley Walker's and Scarsdale Vibe's, 74;

'''Union With the All''' 
77; Skip's, 74;

'''Utahan''' 
485; a person from Utah;

'''Uyghur''' 
440; a Turkic language spoken by the Uyghur people in Xinjiang (also called East Turkestan or Uyghuristan), formerly also “Sinkiang” and “Chinese Turkestan,” a Central Asian region administered by China; this is a language spoken where the subterranean Shambhala is supposedly located, beneath the Gobi desert; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_language Wikipedia entry]

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ATD cover analysis

2006-12-01T18:17:10Z

Pynchonoid:

[[Image:ATD_oldcover.jpg|thumb|An earlier version of the cover. ANYONE GOT A BIGGER COPY OF THIS?|right]]
[[Image:ATD_finalcover.jpg|250px|thumb|''Against the Day'' Final cover - design by Michael Ian Kaye|right]]

The final cover of ''Against the Day'' is pretty minimalist, depicting an aged, slightly yellowing book or manuscript in reference to the novel's setting, 1893 through World War I, and the book's mock-recreation of prose from that era.

The writing on the cover seems to cast shadows behind it. The shadows are no doubt meant to simulate the double refraction one experiences when looking through a piece of Iceland Spar, but on closer inspection the writing is not doubled, but tripled, and the typefaces are different. The upper layer is a modern sans-serif font, the middle layer is an older serif font, and the bottom layer is once again a modern sans-serif font. This may indicate that the novel straddles the period where the world moved from the 19th century into the modern age. It also may represent the book in parallel universes seen through the spar.

The mysterious red seal on the cover is Tibetan, and the image in the center of the seal is a Tibetan Snow Lion in front of three mountain peaks. The Snow Lion is a mythical creature which also appears in Tibet's flag.

The generally white color of the cover ties in with the light/dark metaphor that Pynchon weaves into the novel. Perhaps the cover is also largely bare so that the "reader can decide," as Pynchon writes in the book's [[Against_the_Day_description|description]], with minimal outside interference from anything but the text itself.

The book cover is designed by Michael Ian Kaye, who also designed the cover for the current paperback edition of ''Slow Learner''. This could indicate that Pynchon likes Kaye's previous work.

We also know that an earlier version of the cover was circulated in promotional material before the novel's release. Note that in the earlier cover, the mysterious red seal looks slightly different, with the writing continuing in an unbroken circle.

What exactly the seal means is no doubt revealed in the book, but the slight changes indicate that Pynchon was probably involved in the design process, as he was with ''Mason & Dixon'' (where the ampersand was changed at his request), and the cover is thus fair game in any textual analysis.

The seal appears to be written in Tibetan language, according to somebody who posts regularly to Pynchon-l under the name "Ya Sam", who reports, at :

I contacted the Tibetan Cultural Centre with the request to translate
the mysterious legend on the AtD seal. They were kind enough to forward my
request to the Tibetan tranlsator Tenzin Namgyal to whose generosity we
owe the solution of one more ATD related mystery.

It is the Tibetan language, alright, and it means ...... Tibetan
Government Chamber of Commerce.

Read their response below:

:Dear Ya Sam, 
:I showed the seal you sent to our Tibetan translator, Tenzin Namgyal. He says the word to word translation is: Tibetan Government Commerce Chamber in other words: Tibetan Government Chamber of commerce. Why Pynchon has chosen to place this on the cover of his book is anyones guess. Reading the book reviews gave no insight into the reason. Perhaps after one has read it?

:Best wishes,

:Sandy Belth 
:Tibetan Cultural Center

ATD cover analysis

2006-12-01T17:55:46Z

Pynchonoid:

[[Image:ATD_oldcover.jpg|thumb|An earlier version of the cover. ANYONE GOT A BIGGER COPY OF THIS?|right]]
[[Image:ATD_finalcover.jpg|250px|thumb|Against the Day, final cover, design by Michael Ian Kaye|right]]

The final cover of ''Against the Day'' is pretty minimalist, depicting an aged, slightly yellowing book or manuscript in reference to the novel's setting, 1893 through World War I, and the book's mock-recreation of prose from that era.

The writing on the cover seems to cast shadows behind it. The shadows are no doubt meant to simulate the double refraction one experiences when looking through a piece of Iceland Spar, but on closer inspection the writing is not doubled, but tripled, and the typefaces are different. The upper layer is a modern sans-serif font, the middle layer is an older serif font, and the bottom layer is once again a modern sans-serif font. This may indicate that the novel straddles the period where the world moved from the 19th century into the modern age. It also may represent the book in parallel universes seen through the spar.

The mysterious red seal on the cover is Tibetan, and the image in the center of the seal is a Tibetan Snow Lion in front of three mountain peaks. The Snow Lion is a mythical creature which also appears in Tibet's flag.

The generally white color of the cover ties in with the light/dark metaphor that Pynchon weaves into the novel. Perhaps the cover is also largely bare so that the "reader can decide," as Pynchon writes in the book's [[Against_the_Day_description|description]], with minimal outside interference from anything but the text itself.

The book cover is designed by Michael Ian Kaye, who also designed the cover for the current paperback edition of ''Slow Learner''. This could indicate that Pynchon likes Kaye's previous work.

We also know that an earlier version of the cover was circulated in promotional material before the novel's release. Note that in the earlier cover, the mysterious red seal looks slightly different, with the writing continuing in an unbroken circle.

What exactly the seal means is no doubt revealed in the book, but the slight changes indicate that Pynchon was probably involved in the design process, as he was with ''Mason & Dixon'' (where the ampersand was changed at his request), and the cover is thus fair game in any textual analysis.

The seal appears to be written in Tibetan language, according to somebody who posts regularly to Pynchon-l under the name "Ya Sam", who reports, at :

I contacted the Tibetan Cultural Centre with the request to translate
the mysterious legend on the AtD seal. They were kind enough to forward my
request to the Tibetan tranlsator Tenzin Namgyal to whose generosity we
owe the solution of one more ATD related mystery.

It is the Tibetan language, alright, and it means ...... Tibetan
Government Chamber of Commerce.

Read their response below:

Dear Ya Sam,
I showed the seal you sent to our Tibetan translator, Tenzin
Namgyal. He says the word to word translation is: Tibetan Government Commerce
Chamber in other words: Tibetan Government Chamber of commerce. Why Pynchon
has chosen to place this on the cover of his book is anyones guess. Reading
the book reviews gave no insight into the reason. Perhaps after one has
read it?

Best wishes,

Sandy Belth
Tibetan Cultural Center

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RE: New Request for Prayer/Puja
From: "Ya Sam"
Date: Fri, December 01, 2006 10:43 am
To: tcc@tibetancc.com

Thank you very much for your speedy reply. Please find the scanned
image of the seal in the attachment.

Best regards,

Y.S.

>From: tcc@tibetancc.com
>To: takoitov@hotmail.com
>Subject: RE: New Request for Prayer/Puja
>Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:40:03 -0700
>
>Dear Ya Sam,
> go ahead and send it and we will see what we can do.
>
>Sandy Belth
>TCC
>
>
>
>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject: New Request for Prayer/Puja
>From: takoitov@hotmail.com
>Date: Fri, December 01, 2006 6:49 am
>To:
>Cc:
>
>NameYa Sam
>Emailtakoitov@hotmail.com
>DetailsDear Tibetan language specialists, There is a mysterious
Tibetan
>seal with a legend most probably in the Tibetan language on the cover,
as >well as a front matter page of Thomas Pynchon's novel 'Against the
Day'. I >have a scanned image of this seal. If I were to send it to you via
e-mail, >could you be so kind as to tell me what word or phrase is written on
the >seal?
Best wishes, Ya Sam
>

Cyclomite

2006-12-01T17:23:24Z

Pynchonoid:

Joe Varo reports, on Pynchon-l at [http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0612&msg=112054&sort=date,] regarding Cyclopropane, "At first I thought that this was just something the TP made up. But just for the hell of it I looked it up and found that it is an explosive with anaesthetic properties, or vice versa."

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclopropane Wikipedia entry]

Quoting page 184, Varo also asks, " 'From then on, whenever a dynamite blast went off, even far away out of earshot, something concurrent was triggered somewhere in Lew's consciousness...after awhile even if one was only ''about'' [italics in original] to go off. Anywhere.' Am I missing something or reading too much into it? Or does this make cyclomite akin to another pynchonian compound?"

Is Cyclomite somehow related to Imipolex G?

Anville Azote responds to Varo:
[...]
There's a darkly comic scene hinging on this property in the first
episode of James Burke's series **Connections** (1978), wherein the
Great Northeastern Blackout strikes just when a woman is giving birth
to twins --- under cyclopropane anaesthesia. In the darkness, a nurse
walks into the room with a lighted candle. . . .
[...]
[http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0612&msg=112055&sort=date] to

Cyclomite

2006-12-01T17:22:59Z

Pynchonoid:

Joe Varo reports, on Pynchon-l at [http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0612&msg=112054&sort=date,] regarding Cyclopropane, "At first I thought that this was just something the TP made up. But just for the hell of it I looked it up and found that it is an explosive with anaesthetic properties, or vice versa."

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclopropane Wikipedia entry]

Quoting page 184, Varo also asks, " 'From then on, whenever a dynamite blast went off, even far away out of earshot, something concurrent was triggered somewhere in Lew's consciousness...after awhile even if one was only ''about'' [italics in original] to go off. Anywhere.' Am I missing something or reading too much into it? Or does this make cyclomite akin to another pynchonian compound?"

Is Cyclomite somehow related to Imipolex G?

Anville Azote responds Varo:
[...]
There's a darkly comic scene hinging on this property in the first
episode of James Burke's series **Connections** (1978), wherein the
Great Northeastern Blackout strikes just when a woman is giving birth
to twins --- under cyclopropane anaesthesia. In the darkness, a nurse
walks into the room with a lighted candle. . . .
[...]
[http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0612&msg=112055&sort=date] to

Cyclomite

2006-12-01T17:13:00Z

Pynchonoid:

C

2006-12-01T17:05:22Z

Pynchonoid: added Discussion page for cyclomte

'''California Peg''' 
303; ''sous-maîtresse'' of the Silver Orchid in Telluride;

'''''camera lucida''''' 
141; A camera lucida is an optical device used as a drawing aid by artists. It was patented in 1806 by William Hyde Wollaston; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_lucida Wikipedia entry]

'''Camp, Walter (1859-1925)''' 
159; sports writer and football coach known as the "Father of American Football". Along with John Heisman, Amos Alonzo Stagg, and Glenn Scobey Warner, and George Halas, Camp was one of the most significant person in the history of American football. He attended Yale from 1876-1890; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Camp Wikipedia entry]

'''Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry (1836-1908)''' 
448; British Liberal statesman who served as Prime Minister from December 5, 1905 until resigning due to ill health on April 3, 1908. No previous First Lord of the Treasury had been officially called "Prime Minister"; this term only came into official usage after he took office; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Campbell-Bannerman Wikipedia entry]

'''Canaletto (1697-1768)''' 
576; Giovanni Antonio Canale, better known as Canaletto, was a Venetian artist famous for his landscapes, or ''vedute'' of Venice. He was a son of the painter Bernardo Canale, hence his nickname Canaletto. His nephew Bernardo Bellotto was also a landscape painter; he sometimes used the name of Canaletto to further his own career; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaletto Wikipedia entry]

'''Candlebrow, Mr. Gideon''' 
406;

'''Candlebrow University''' 
405; "institute of higher learning in the heartland"; 451;

'''Cantor, Georg (1845-1918)''' 
593-94; German mathematician who is best known as the creator of set theory. Cantor established the importance of one-to-one correspondence between sets, defined infinite and well-ordered sets, and proved that the real numbers are "more numerous" than the natural numbers. In fact, Cantor's theorem implies the existence of an "infinity of infinities." He defined the cardinal and ordinal numbers, and their arithmetic. Cantor's work is of great philosophical interest, a fact of which he was well aware. After his father's death in 1863, Cantor shifted his studies to the University of Berlin, attending lectures by Weierstrass, Kummer, and Kronecker, and befriending his fellow student Hermann Schwarz. He spent a summer at the University of Göttingen, then and later a very important center for mathematical research. In 1867, Berlin granted him the Ph.D. for a thesis on number theory, De aequationibus secundi gradus indeterminatis. After teaching one year in a Berlin girls' school, Cantor took up a position at the University of Halle, where he spent his entire career; "the ''Beast of Halle''" 624;

'''Capitalism''' 
79; and modern chemistry; and the Tsar, 83; 147; collapse of, 415; 419; "If it doesn't work with gold, the next step will be lead" 618; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism Wikipedia entry]

'''Capsheaf''' 
492; pal of Cyprian Latewood

'''Capunizer''' 
698; a "caponizer" would be a castrator;

'''Carnal, Reverend Lube''' 
210; "of the Second Lutheran (Missouri Synod) Church"
'''carnival theory''' 
184-185;

'''Cartesian''' 
[[ATD-D#descarte|See Descarte, René]]

'''Case Institute''' 
58; in Cleveland

'''Cassidy, Butch (1866-1908?)''' 
172; a notorious train and bank robber.; 180; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_Cassidy Wikipedia entry]

'''Cathedral of the Prefiguration''' 
153;

'''Celluloid''' 
86; a thermoplastic compound of cellulose nitrate and camphor, originally developed and patented by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wesley_Hyatt John Wesley Hyatt] as a substitute for ivory in billiard balls. It was later used as the film base for photosensitive emulsion, seminal in the use of photographic plates and especially in motion pictures. Nowadays, it is found principally in ping-pong balls and in some guitar (perhaps also ukelele?) picks and pickguards. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celluloid Wikipedia entry]; 103;

'''Chandrasekhar, O.D.''' 
63; from Bombay, India; Perhaps a nod to Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910-1995), an Indian-American physicist, astrophysicist and mathematician, known to the world as Chandra, who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics. He calculated and discovered the Chandrasekhar Limit which is the maximum mass possible for a white dwarf star (one of the end stages of stars that have exhausted their fuel) supported by electron degeneracy pressure, and is approximately 3 × 1030 kg, around 1.44 times the mass of the Sun.

'''charabanc''' 
53; bus: a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charabanc Wikipedia entry]

'''Chase, Ed''' 
176; "boss of the redlight district" in Denver; 465;

'''Chavalito, Señor''' 
387; what El Ñato calls Frank

'''Cheesely, Thrapston III''' 
367; Reef Traverse's alter-ego - "East Coast nerve case"

'''Chess''' 
543; "war in miniature"; 558; 594; 689;

<div id="chicagofair"></div>'''Chicago World's Fair''' 
21; held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Columbus's "discovery" of America; eulogy, 56; 476; 503; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_Columbian_Exposition Wikipedia entry]

'''Chinchito''' 
350; "jumped-up circus midget" on the Bowery stage, at R. W. Vibe's party;

'''Chinese Gong Effect''' 
356;

'''Chirpingdon-Groin, Ruperta ("Pert")''' 
367; "touring English woman" in Denver; 656; levitation during performance of new work by Ralph Vaughan Williams, 896;

'''Chisholm, Grace''' 
490;

'''chloral hydrate''' 
621; drug of choice at University of Göttingen - ''Mickifests'' - chloralomania

'''Chong''' 
602; Theosophoid at Göttingen

'''Christianity''' 
453; born-again; 675;

'''Chthonica, Princess of Plutonia''' 
117; chthonic = "dwelling in or under the earth; also, pertaining to the underworld";
Plutonia? Well, TNT and Plutonia are two "alternate" versions of DooM 2, i.e. they have the same story line as DooM 2, but completely different level designs, and some new music and textures; alternately, there's the Plutonia Dilemma: an eccentric trillionaire gathers 20 people together, and tells them that if one and only one of them sends him a telegram (reverse charges) by noon the next day, that person will receive a billion dollars. If he receives more than one telegram, or none at all, no-one will get any money, and cooperation between players is forbidden. In this situation, the superrational thing to do is to send a telegram with probability 1/20.

'''Chuck''' 
347; harpist at Smokefoot's

'''Chums of Chance''' 
3; "celebrated aeronautics club"; 6, 7; 54; 107; "agents of ''extrahuman'' justice" 215; in Murano, 243; retirement, 254; in the Arsenale battle with Padzy, 254; [[Campanile|toppling the Campanile]], 257; in New York City, 397; Upper Command (aka Hierarchy), 398, 407; at Candlebrow University, 407; the anti-Chums, 415; infiltrated by Trespassers, 418; their "Tesla machine" 425; under the sand, 434; in Brussels, 548; recalled, in Venice, 575;

'''Chums of Chance books''' 
''Chums of Chance and The Evil Halfwit'', 5; ''Chums of Chance and The Curse of the Great Kahuna'', 5; ''Chums of Chance at Krakatoa'', 6; ''Chums of Chance Search for Atlantis'', 6; ''Chums of Chance in Old Mexico'', 7; ''Chums of Chance and the Bowels of the Earth'', 117; ''The Chums of Chance and the Ice Pirates'', 123; ''The Chums of Chance Nearly Crash into the Kremlin'', 123; ''Chums of Chance at the Ends of the Earth'', ready by Reef Traverse, 214; ''Chums of Chance and the Caged Women of Yokahama'', 411;

'''Cinema / Film''' 
"Dreamtime Movy" (theater), 450; 456-57;

'''Clarabella''' 
249; Dally's doll

'''Clifford''' 
632; invisible

'''climber''' 
131; 167;

'''Coeur d'Alene''' 
333; 362; 463; 
History of miners' disputes in:
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coeur_d%27Alene_miners%27_dispute Wikipedia entry] 

'''Cold Harbor''' 
335;

'''Coleman-Smith, Miss''' 
186;

<div id="buffalo"></div>'''Cody, Buffalo Bill (1845-1917)''' 
22; William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody was an American soldier, buffalo hunter and showman. He was born in the American state of Iowa, near Le Claire. He was one of the most colorful figures of the Old West, and mostly famous for the shows he organized with cowboy themes; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Bill Wikipedia entry]; 53;

'''Colonel, the''' 
699; in Leopoldstadt, in the Jewish quarter north of the Prater, in Vienna; solicits Sado-Masochistic sex from Cyprian Latewood; 704; surveilled by the Russians, 711;

'''Colonialism''' 
527; in the Belgian Congo;

'''color''' 
160; 162; 200; 211; mauve, 226; muffins, 236; green, 269; "suit of acid magenta and saffron" 342; Erlys? 347; "Congo violet" 349; 394; indigo and yellow, 399; magenta and green, 410; apricot and aquamarine, 412; Chinese red and indigo, 418; heliotrope, 493; green, white and mauve, 501; Coronation Red, 497; claret and blue, 503; indigoes and aquas, 526; Chinese red, 526; blue, taupe, Chinese red, 532; "analine teal and a bright though sour orange" 533; 537; pale violet, 544; taupe and damaged rose, 551; 568; duck-green, 574; Jesus, 580; 584; 585; orpiment yellow, scarlet vermilion, Nürnberg violet, 586; 608; Foley Walker's suit, 619; 625; green and magenta, 633; 689; 715;

'''Colorado''' 
83; commenting on its shape;

'''Columbian Exposition of 1893''' 
3; See [[#chicagofair|Chicago World's Fair]]; 10

'''Commandant of Earthly Days''' 
17; a "potent though invisible" entity that dictates human behavior

'''"commonwealth of toil that is to be"''' 
361; from the song "The Commonwealth of Toil" written by Ralph Chaplin in 1905 and included in the International Workers of the World Little Red Songbook - [[The Commonwealth of Toil|The Lyrics...]] [http://staff.science.uva.nl/~sgenseme/music/RedPlanet/commonwe.mp3 A recording...]

'''Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits''' 
567; Carlson Wagonlit is a chain of travel agencies. The company was founded in Belgium in 1876 by Georges Nagelmackers as the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (the International Sleeping-Car Company). Originally, the company deployed sleeping- and dining-cars in Europe. In 1883 the company started with a service to Constantinople, now Istanbul in Turkey, called the Orient Express; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compagnie_Internationale_des_Wagons-Lits Wikipedia entry]

'''''Comptes Rendus''''' 
532; ''Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences'', or simply ''Comptes rendus'', is a French scientific journal which has been published since 1835. It is the proceedings of the French Academy of Sciences. It is currently split into seven sections, published by the Academy and Elsevier: Mathematique, Mecanique, Physique, Geoscience, Palevol, Chimie, and Biologies; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comptes_rendus Wikipedia entry]

'''Cone Amor''' 
468; Mayva's ice-cream parlor, a quite common name for ice-cream parlors, as it turns out, being a pun on ''con amor'', Spanish for "with love"...

'''Consuelo''' 
161; ''bandida'' in ''Mischief in Mexico''

'''Control''' 
34; Rational Systems of;

'''Cooper''' 
202; at Stray's, courting Sage

'''counter-City''' 
585;

'''Counterfly, Chick''' 
4; member of the Chums of Chance; 108; 139;

'''Counterfly, Richard "Dick"''' 
7; father of Chick Counterfly; 17

'''''Courage'', Camille''' 
345; "Courage Camille" is a game in which three players are required. Two of the players face each other and lock hands. The third person stiffens and falls backwards into their arms. This should be done several times, with the person falling farther backwards each time (the players locking their hands should lower them each time). Other players can then try.

'''Cowboy's Christmas''' 
81;

'''Coxey's Army''' 
79; Coxey's Army was a protest march by unemployed workers from the United States, led by the populist Jacob Coxey. They marched on Washington D.C. in 1894, the second year of a four-year economic depression that was the worst in United States history to that time. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coxey's_Army Wikipedia entry]

'''Crack of Doom''' 
12; The phrase at the crack of doom, meaning "at the striking of the fateful hour", is derived from Macbeth by William Shakespeare and has entered common usage. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crack_of_Doom Wikipedia entry]

'''Cracker Jack''' 
24; caramel-coated popcorn

'''Crayke''' 
492; fond of Shetland ponies

'''Creede''' 
650;

'''Cripple Creek''' 
82; in Colorado - strike for an 8-hour day;

'''Crookes, Sir William (1832-1919)''' 
228; English chemist and physicist. Sir William attended the Royal College of Chemistry, in London, and worked on spectroscopy; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Crookes Wikipedia entry]

'''Crusades''' 
436; counter-Crusades, 437;

'''Crystal''' 
473; 565;

'''cubeb''' 
17; the name for the berry and for the oil obtained from the unripe berry of the East Indian climbing shrub P. cubeba. The dried fruits are sometimes used as a condiment or are ground and smoked in cigarette form as a catarrh remedy. The oil is used medicinally and also in soap manufacture. The masticated roots of kava, P. methysticum, widely grown in its native Pacific islands, are made into a beverage called kavakava, which contains soporific alkaloids. It is an integral part of religious and social life there. A preparation of kava for commerce, also called kavakava, is sold widely as an herbal remedy for anxiety and insomnia. -- From [http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/pepper The Free Dictionary]

'''Culpepper, Madge and Mia''' 
60; worked at the Hamilton Street establishment of Nelly Lowry; 66;

'''Curly''' 
183; Waiter at a Chicago hotel;

'''Custozza''' 
661; the summer of;

'''Cyclomite''' 
182-185; combo of cyclopropane plus dynamite, and psychotropic; "reality-modifying explosive" 233; 683;[[Cyclomite|DISCUSSION]]

'''Czolgosz''' 
372; assassin of President McKinley;

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Dr. Oyswharf

2006-12-01T02:11:12Z

Pynchonoid:

Osywharf carries an echo of "Owsley" - August Owsley Styanley III, described as the "undisputed king of the illicit LSD trade" in Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond, by Martin A. Lee and Bruce Shlain.

Lew's hallucinations after failing to wash his hands recall the legend of Dr. Albert Hofman's discovery of the effects of LSD, after accidentally absorbing a small dose through his skin, according to Lee and Shlain. The "Beavers of the Brain" episode that follows sounds like something out of an LSD trip, those "ever-more-polycrystalline luminosities of meaning" [183].

Osywharf also recalls Osbie Feel, a doper in Gravity's Rainbow.

O

2006-12-01T01:48:44Z

Pynchonoid: added Dr. Osywharf DISCUSSION page and brief comment

'''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;

'''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.

'''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; in Mexico; now in arms procurement, with Frank Traverse in Mexico, 637; 921

'''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. Osywharf | DISCUSSION]]

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Mail

2006-11-30T22:31:19Z

Pynchonoid:

It may be a stretch, but this reader at least finds this whole discussion between Basnight and Ponghill, pp.173-174, recalls, somehow, the Unabomber and his letter bombs, his continued residence in jail and the letters he receives (and the missives he published while a fugitive from justice), and the fact that Pynchon was somehow mixed up in it by suspicious FBI or Department of Justice types, however that story goes.

M

2006-11-30T22:28:24Z

Pynchonoid: added "mail" to Index + Discussion

'''Macassar Oil''' 
16; Macassar oil is an oil used primarily by men in Victorian and Edwardian times to smooth their hair. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macassar_oil Wikipedia entry]

'''Macchiavelli''' 
669; 669; Italian "facility for creeping about" 706;

'''Macedonian Question''' 
690; 697;

'''Mach, Ernst''' 
412; 616; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach%2C_Ernst Wikipedia entry]

'''"Macking for a mack"''' 
359;

'''Madame Butterfly (opera)''' 
567;

'''Magic Crystal''' 
133;

'''magnetism''' 
97; 121;

'''Mags and Nuncs and Matins''' 
497; different types of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canticles canticles]

'''Magyakan''' 
143;

'''Mahdi''' 
29; "the expected one" - a Muslim leader who assumes a messianic role; [http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/v/alpha/m.html#mahdi The mahdi in ''V.'']

'''mail''' 
173; [[mail|DISCUSSION]]

'''Mainan Tant Gras Hall''' 
369; concert saloon in New Orleans

'''Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building''' 
24; at the Chicago World's Fair

'''Malus, Etienne-Louis (1775-1812)''' 
126; "Napoleonic army engineer and physicist [...] looking through a piece of Iceland spar [...] discovered polarized light"; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etienne-Louis_Malus Wikipedia entry]

'''Manicheans''' 
437-39; Followers of Mani, who taught that the universe is controlled by two antagonistic powers, light or goodness (identified with God), and darkness, chaos, or evil. One of Mani's claims was that, though Christ had been sent into the world to restore it to light and banish darkness, His apostles had perverted his doctrine, and he, Mani, was sent as the Paraclete to restore it; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manichaeism Wikipedia entry]

'''Manning, Professor''' 
511; at Brown University

'''Mañuela''' 
642; waitress at Doña Cecilia

'''maragogype''' 
638; a kind of arabica coffee with grains twice to 3 times as big as arabica grains. In Mexico, it is grown at 1400 meters high in the chiapas State close to the Pacific coast and the Guatemala border; sweet and nicely shaped;

'''Marcello''' 
667; with Ruperta

'''Marching Academy Harmonica Band''' 
418-424; "aberration in <nowiki>[Chums of Chance's]</nowiki> history"

'''Marin, Officer C.''' 
477; reporting officer at cantina where Sloat was killed by Frank Traverse

'''Marinetti''' 
584; Futurists; 587;

'''Marx, Groucho (Julius)''' 
467-468; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groucho_marx Wikipedia entry]

'''Marx, Karl (1818-1883)''' 
624; immensely influential philosopher, political economist, and socialist revolutionary. While Marx addressed a wide range of issues, he is most famous for his analysis of history in terms of class struggles, summed up in the opening line of the introduction to the ''Communist Manifesto'': "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx Wikipedia entry]

'''Maskelyne cabinet''' 
571;

'''Mathematics''' 
122; 147;

'''Matteawan''' 
145; mental hospital

'''Maxim whirling machines''' 
27;

'''Maxwell Field Equations''' 
58; In electromagnetics, Maxwell's equations are a set of four equations, developed by James Clerk Maxwell, that describe the behavior of both the electric and magnetic fields, as well as their interactions with matter. Maxwell's four equations express, respectively, how electric charges produce electric fields (Gauss' law), the experimental absence of magnetic monopoles, how currents and changing electric fields produce magnetic fields (the Ampere-Maxwell law), and how changing magnetic fields produce electric fields (Faraday's law of induction).330; 438; 532; 533; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell's_equations Wikipedia entry]

<div id="maxwell"></div>'''Maxwell, James Clerk (1831-1879)''' 
98; Scottish mathematical physicist, born in Edinburgh. Maxwell formulated a set of equations expressing the basic laws of electricity and magnetism and developed the Maxwell distribution in the kinetic theory of gases. He was the last representative of a younger branch of the well-known Scottish family of Clerk of Penicuik. He is also credited with developing the first permanent colour photograph in 1861. "''Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism'' of 1873", 98; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell Wikipedia entry]

'''mayonnaise''' 
544; cult of, in Belgium; etymology, 545; 560;

'''McAdoo, Chevrolette''' 
26;

'''McDivott, Katie''' 
505;

'''McGonigal, Bridget''' 
365; a slide in the San Juans named after a mine owner's wife;

'''McHugh, Reginald "Ratty"''' 
491; friend of Cyprian Latewood's; in Vienna, 700; 717-18;

'''McKim, Mead and White''' 
326; The most dazzling architect triumvirate in America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was that of of New York City's Charles Follen McKim, William Rutherford Mead, and Stanford White. The brilliance of McKim, Mead, and White changed the course of American architecture. Of the three, it was the genius of Stanford White that most importantly influenced the architectural scene in Buffalo. McKim, Mead, and White was formed in 1878 when Charles Follen McKim (1847-1909) formed a partnership with William Rutherford Mead (1846-1928) and William B. Bigelow. Bigelow retired the following year when Stanford White (1853-1906) joined the firm and the firm's name was established.

'''McKinley, President William (1843-1901)''' 
109; the 25th President of the United States; figurehead, 109; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McKinley Wikipedia entry]

'''McTaggart Hall''' 
452; headquarters of Metaphysics Department at Candlebrow

'''McTaggart, M. E. (1866-1925)''' 
412; an Idealist metaphysician of great range, invention, precision, and power. McTaggart developed his own, highly original, metaphysical system. In his two-volume ''Nature of Existence'', the most famous element is his argument for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreality_of_Time unreality of time]. In a famous paper The Unreality of Time (1908), McTaggart had argued that our perception of time is an illusion, and that time itself is merely ideal. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.M.E._McTaggart Wikipedia entry]

'''McVeety, Con''' 
342; works for R. W. Vibe; "Olio of Oddities" 343;

'''Meat Olaf''' 
129; Norwegian dish, a variant of meatloaf, perhaps; 135;

'''Meatman, Alonzo R.''' 
405; (first appearance misspelled "Meattman"); sold Zoot the time machine; 410; 412; ''lycopodium'' type, 413;

'''Meldrum, Bob''' 
383; aka Hair-Trigger Bob, in Colorado

'''Metropole''' 
705; hotel in Trieste where Derrick Theign stays, previously known as Buon Pastore
'''Michelson''' 
58; Michelson-Morley Experiment, 59; 132;

'''Midway Plaisance''' 
29;

'''Mikimoto, Dr.''' 
114; cultured pearls;

'''Minié ball''' 
101; Prior to the development of the minie ball, rifles were not used in combat due to the difficulty in loading. The ammunition used by rifles was the same diameter as the barrel in order for the bullet to engage the groves of the rifled barrel. As a result the ball had to be forced into the barrel. The minie ball, originally designed by Captain Claude-Etienne Minie of France and improved on by manufacturers in the United States, changed warfare. Since the minie ball was smaller than the diameter of the barrel, it could be loaded quickly by dropping the bullet down the barrel. This conical lead bullet had two or three grooves and a conical cavity in its base. The gases, formed by the burning of powder once the firearm was fired, expanded the base of the bullet so that it engaged the rifling in the barrel. Thus, rifles could be loaded quickly and yet fired accurately; 620; [http://www.civilwar.si.edu/weapons_minieball.html From the Smithsonian website]

'''Minkowski, Hermann (1864-1909)''' 
324; mathematician who developed the geometrical theory of numbers and who used geometrical methods to solve difficult problems in number theory, mathematical physics, and the theory of relativity; Hilbert's co-adjutor; at Candlebrow, 458; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Minkowski Wikipedia entry]

'''Mirrors''' 
Isola degli Specchi (Isle of Mirrors), 244; symmetry, 337; 347; 351; 353; 354; Isle of Mirrors "in that Lagoon over in Venice" where they make the "finest conjuror's mirrors" 422; 463; 498; 537; 553; 564; 569; 651; 706;

'''Miskolci''' 
713; vampirish

'''Miserere, Vincenzo''' 
569; sales rep from mirror factory

'''Misha and Grisha''' 
699; in Prater with Cyprian

'''MKIV/ODC''' 
541; "Mark Four something or other"

'''Modestine ("Moddie")''' 
339; actress Dally's replacing, in New York City; 342;

'''Moises''' 
521; "resident Jewish mystic" in Morocco

'''Mondragön semiautomatics''' 
640; from Germany

'''Morgan, Blinky''' 
59; execution of, 65;

'''Morgan, John Pierpont (J.P.) (1837-1913) 
34; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._P._Morgan J.P. Morgan] originally provided Tesla $150,000 (although he needed $1M) in 1900 to build the Wardenclyff laboratory, but abandoned Tesla when he found out what Tesla's true purpose for Wardenclyff was &151; Tesla's vision of free power did not agree with Morgan's financial worldview; [http://educate-yourself.org/fe/radiantenergystory.shtml From Educate-Yourself.com:] "Undreamed of therapeutic applications to improve human health and to eliminate disease conditions could have been achieved fully 100 years ago had Tesla been allowed to complete his commercial development of Radiant Energy. But powerful barons of industry, chiefly in the person of John Pierpont Morgan, colluded to deny him the financial backing he needed and in doing so, effectively denied mankind one of Nature’s most abundant and inexhaustible gifts of free energy"; 326; "safe as the Morgan Bank" 379;

'''Morley, Professor Edward''' 
62; and Blinky Morgan, 62;

'''Moss, Reverend''' 
91; Webb Traverse's minister

'''''mouchard''''' 
560; a police spy;

'''Mouffette''' 
665; French: "skunk"; Ruperta's sexy poodle

'''''mousmée''''' 
560; a type of hydrangea (flower)

'''Montennuovo, Count''' 
681; "Emperor's chambermaid"

'''mufti''' 
16; civilian dress worn by a person who is entitled to wear a military uniform

'''Mulciber, Victor''' 
557; "arms tycoon" at the Kursaal

'''Multiple Worlds''' 
464; 594; 682;

'''Murray Hill''' 
68; in Cleveland

'''Museum der Monstrositäten''' 
632; "dedicated to the current 'Crisis' in European mathematics"

'''Museum of Museumology''' 
149;

'''Music''' 
ukulele: 15 (Miles plays it), 324, 408, 410, 451, 553, 567, 678 (quartet), 684; accordian, 49; 52; 57; 126; singing, 138; in ''The Inconvenience'', 140; 160; 163; 178; 266; 315; "That Göttingen Rag" 324; Tin Pan Alley, 342; harpist, 347; "Her Mother Never Told Her" 347; "Oh, When You Talk That Talk" 349; "Funiculi, Funiculá" 349; ''La Forza del Destino'', 352; in New Orleans, 368; "Jass" 370; "La Cucaracha" 375, 389; 399; song in Lollipop Lounge, 400; 418; "El Capitán" 419; "Whistling Rufus" 419; "My Country 'Tis of Thee" 419; "'Zo Meatman's Gone A-WOL" 420; "At a Georgia Camp Meeting" 423; "After the Ball" 425; 436; Joe Hill's "Pie in the Sky" 463; "For It Is Thou, Lord" 477; hymn-writing, 497-98; "five-pound note" song, 503; 510; 522; 524; "Quizzical Queer Quaternioneer" 534; and Q-waves, 566; Puccini's ''Madame Butterfly'', 567; Borel-Clerc's "La Matchiche" 567; Günther's song, 598; "O Tempora, O Mores" and "The Black Whale of Askalon" 625-26; house band, 642; "Daisy, Daisy" 647; alpenborn figure, 665; ''Waltzing in Whitechappel'' 679; ''liebestod'' (German: "love death"), 681; "Chinese harmony" 682; "Singing Bird of Spitalfields" 684; "Ritter Georg Hoch!" (old German anthem), 700; ''Fiakerlieder'', 703; Mozart Adagio, 712; 714; 716;

'''Muspellheim''' 
128; In Norse/Germanic cosmology, Muspellheim is the Land of Fire. It is one of the first two primal worlds created in a vortex around the World Tree, and the collision between Muspellheim and Niflheim - fire and water, fire and ice, heat and cold - created the energy that formed the basis for the other seven worlds; [http://www.cauldronfarm.com/nine/index.html Website on Norse/German cosmology]

'''Myrna''' 
473;

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W

2006-11-30T22:01:57Z

Pynchonoid:

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

'''Wagwheel, Tansy''' 
178;

'''Walker, Foley''' 
31; special assistant to Scarsdale Vibe, 99; substitute conscript for Vibes during the Civil War, subsequently taking a bullet to the head, which gives him the ability to hear "communications from far, far away," 100ff; 156; 330-333; "righteous men who believed it was God they heard whispering" 334; in Göttingen, 619;

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

'''Wall of Death''' 
184;

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

'''Washoe process''' 
375;

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

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

'''Weedon''' 
495; at Cambridge

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

'''Wells, Buck''' 
179; "mine manager and cavalry commander at Telluride"

'''Wells, H. G.''' 
398; 407; 412;

'''Wensleydale''' 
37; confronts Baslight

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

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

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

'''Whistler''' 
578;

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

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

'''White City Investigations''' 
36;

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

'''White Wings''' 
150;

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

'''Wilde, Oscar''' 
185; 536;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde Wikipedia entry]

'''Wilhelm''' 
543;

'''Wilhelmstrausse''' 
686; 690;

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

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

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

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

'''Wolf-Ferrari''' 
512;

'''Wordsworth''' 
535'

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

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

'''World War I''' 
578;

{{ATD_Alpha_Nav}}

Workers' Own Songbook

2006-11-30T21:38:38Z

Pynchonoid:

Wonder which song book?

Workers' Own Songbook

2006-11-30T21:37:20Z

Pynchonoid:

The narrator may refer to this I.W.W. songbook, at http://digital.library.arizona.edu/bisbee/docs/027.php

I.W.W. SONGS
TO FAN THE FLAMES OF DISCONTENT

A.F. of L. Sympathy
Banner of Labor, The
Bonehead Workingman, The
Casey Jones--The Union Scab
Christians at War
Come Join the One Big Union, Do
Don't Take My Papa Away From Me
Dream, A
Dump the Bosses Off Your Back
Everybody's Joining It
Gone Are the Days
Hark, the Battle Cry is Ringing
Harvest War SongHold the Fort
Hope of the Ages, The
Internationale, The
It Is the Union
Joe Hill's Last Will
John Golden and the Lawrence Strike
Labor's Dixie
Liberty Forever
Marseillaise, The Workers'
Mr. Block
Ninety and Nine, The
November Nineteenth
One Big Industrial Union
Optimistic Laborites, The
Overalls and Snuff
Paint 'Er Red
Parasites, The
Preacher and the Slave, The
Rebel Girl, The
Red Flag, The
Road to Emancipation, The
Scissor Bill
Should I Ever Be a Soldier
Solidarity Forever
Stand Up, Ye Workers
Stung Right
Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay
There is Power in a Union
They Are All Fighters
Tramp, The
Unite, Workers of the World
Up From Your Knees
Wage Workers, Come Join the Union
Walking on the Grass
We Come
We Will Sing One Song
We're Ready
What We Want
White Slave, The
Where the Fraser River Flows
Workers of the World, Awaken
Workingman, Unite
Workers of the World
Workers' Battle Cry for Freedom
Workers Are Now Awaking

Workers' Own Songbook

2006-11-30T21:36:45Z

Pynchonoid:

The narrator may refer to this I.W.W. songbook, at http://digital.library.arizona.edu/bisbee/docs/027.php:
I.W.W. SONGS

TO FAN THE FLAMES OF DISCONTENT

INDEX.

A.F. of L. Sympathy
Banner of Labor, The
Bonehead Workingman, The
Casey Jones--The Union Scab
Christians at War
Come Join the One Big Union, Do
Don't Take My Papa Away From Me
Dream, A
Dump the Bosses Off Your Back
Everybody's Joining It
Gone Are the Days
Hark, the Battle Cry is Ringing
Harvest War SongHold the Fort
Hope of the Ages, The
Internationale, The
It Is the Union
Joe Hill's Last Will
John Golden and the Lawrence Strike
Labor's Dixie
Liberty Forever
Marseillaise, The Workers'
Mr. Block
Ninety and Nine, The
November Nineteenth
One Big Industrial Union
Optimistic Laborites, The
Overalls and Snuff
Paint 'Er Red
Parasites, The
Preacher and the Slave, The
Rebel Girl, The
Red Flag, The
Road to Emancipation, The
Scissor Bill
Should I Ever Be a Soldier
Solidarity Forever
Stand Up, Ye Workers
Stung Right
Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay
There is Power in a Union
They Are All Fighters
Tramp, The
Unite, Workers of the World
Up From Your Knees
Wage Workers, Come Join the Union
Walking on the Grass
We Come
We Will Sing One Song
We're Ready
What We Want
White Slave, The
Where the Fraser River Flows
Workers of the World, Awaken
Workingman, Unite
Workers of the World
Workers' Battle Cry for Freedom
Workers Are Now Awaking

Workers' Own Songbook

2006-11-30T21:36:09Z

Pynchonoid:

The narrator may refer to this I.W.W. songbook, at [http://digital.library.arizona.edu/bisbee/docs/027.php]:
I.W.W. SONGS

TO FAN THE FLAMES OF DISCONTENT

INDEX.

A.F. of L. Sympathy
Banner of Labor, The
Bonehead Workingman, The
Casey Jones--The Union Scab
Christians at War
Come Join the One Big Union, Do
Don't Take My Papa Away From Me
Dream, A
Dump the Bosses Off Your Back
Everybody's Joining It
Gone Are the Days
Hark, the Battle Cry is Ringing
Harvest War SongHold the Fort
Hope of the Ages, The
Internationale, The
It Is the Union
Joe Hill's Last Will
John Golden and the Lawrence Strike
Labor's Dixie
Liberty Forever
Marseillaise, The Workers'
Mr. Block
Ninety and Nine, The
November Nineteenth
One Big Industrial Union
Optimistic Laborites, The
Overalls and Snuff
Paint 'Er Red
Parasites, The
Preacher and the Slave, The
Rebel Girl, The
Red Flag, The
Road to Emancipation, The
Scissor Bill
Should I Ever Be a Soldier
Solidarity Forever
Stand Up, Ye Workers
Stung Right
Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay
There is Power in a Union
They Are All Fighters
Tramp, The
Unite, Workers of the World
Up From Your Knees
Wage Workers, Come Join the Union
Walking on the Grass
We Come
We Will Sing One Song
We're Ready
What We Want
White Slave, The
Where the Fraser River Flows
Workers of the World, Awaken
Workingman, Unite
Workers of the World
Workers' Battle Cry for Freedom
Workers Are Now Awaking

W

2006-11-30T21:29:11Z

Pynchonoid: added Workers' Own Songbook discussion page

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

'''Wagwheel, Tansy''' 
178;

'''Walker, Foley''' 
31; special assistant to Scarsdale Vibe, 99; substitute conscript for Vibes during the Civil War, subsequently taking a bullet to the head, which gives him the ability to hear "communications from far, far away," 100ff; 156; 330-333; "righteous men who believed it was God they heard whispering" 334; in Göttingen, 619;

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

'''Wall of Death''' 
184;

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

'''Washoe process''' 
375;

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

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

'''Weedon''' 
495; at Cambridge

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

'''Wells, Buck''' 
179; "mine manager and cavalry commander at Telluride"

'''Wells, H. G.''' 
398; 407; 412;

'''Wensleydale''' 
37; confronts Baslight

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

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

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

'''Whistler''' 
578;

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

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

'''White City Investigations''' 
36;

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

'''White Wings''' 
150;

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

'''Wilde, Oscar''' 
185; 536;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde Wikipedia entry]

'''Wilhelm''' 
543;

'''Wilhelmstrausse''' 
686; 690;

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

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

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

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

'''Wolf-Ferrari''' 
512;

'''Wordsworth''' 
535'

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

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

'''World War I''' 
578;

{{ATD_Alpha_Nav}}

Witherspoon Street

2006-11-30T20:00:09Z

Pynchonoid:

Pynchon provided a support quote (blurb) that appeared on the dust jacket of Einstein on Race and Racism, by Fred Jerome and Rodger Taylor, published in 2005 (first edition harcover; the trade paperback edition does not contain Pynchon's quote) by Rutgers University Press. The quote reads:

"A fascinating and timely upgrade to our current perceptions of Einstein, redeemed from the careful silences of official narrative. Allowing the voices of the people who lived it to tell the story, Jerome and Taylor have brilliantly given us back a part of our history, refocusing attention on the heart and soul of what Einstein's life was always about."

Part 1 of Einstein on Race and Racism is entitled "Einstein and Robeson on Witherspoon Street".

"...Einstein only had to walk a few blocks down Witherspoon Street to be reminded of how fleeting freedom could be." [p. 33]

The authors have collected many anecdotes about Einstein in this African-American community, and fond reminiscences of the scientist by local residents.

W

2006-11-30T19:51:18Z

Pynchonoid:

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

'''Wagwheel, Tansy''' 
178;

'''Walker, Foley''' 
31; special assistant to Scarsdale Vibe, 99; substitute conscript for Vibes during the Civil War, subsequently taking a bullet to the head, which gives him the ability to hear "communications from far, far away," 100ff; 156; 330-333; "righteous men who believed it was God they heard whispering" 334; in Göttingen, 619;

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

'''Wall of Death''' 
184;

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

'''Washoe process''' 
375;

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

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

'''Weedon''' 
495; at Cambridge

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

'''Wells, Buck''' 
179; "mine manager and cavalry commander at Telluride"

'''Wells, H. G.''' 
398; 407; 412;

'''Wensleydale''' 
37; confronts Baslight

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

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

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

'''Whistler''' 
578;

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

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

'''White City Investigations''' 
36;

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

'''White Wings''' 
150;

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

'''Wilde, Oscar''' 
185; 536;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde Wikipedia entry]

'''Wilhelm''' 
543;

'''Wilhelmstrausse''' 
686; 690;

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

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

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

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

'''Wolf-Ferrari''' 
512;

'''Wordsworth''' 
535'

'''''Workers' Own Songbook''''' 
49;

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

'''World War I''' 
578;

{{ATD_Alpha_Nav}}

W

2006-11-30T19:48:16Z

Pynchonoid: added Witherspoon Street to index +

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

'''Wagwheel, Tansy''' 
178;

'''Walker, Foley''' 
31; special assistant to Scarsdale Vibe, 99; substitute conscript for Vibes during the Civil War, subsequently taking a bullet to the head, which gives him the ability to hear "communications from far, far away," 100ff; 156; 330-333; "righteous men who believed it was God they heard whispering" 334; in Göttingen, 619;

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

'''Wall of Death''' 
184;

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

'''Washoe process''' 
375;

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

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

'''Weedon''' 
495; at Cambridge

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

'''Wells, Buck''' 
179; "mine manager and cavalry commander at Telluride"

'''Wells, H. G.''' 
398; 407; 412;

'''Wensleydale''' 
37; confronts Baslight

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

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

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

'''Whistler''' 
578;

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

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

'''White City Investigations''' 
36;

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

'''White Wings''' 
150;

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

'''Wilde, Oscar''' 
185; 536;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde Wikipedia entry]

'''Wilhelm''' 
543;

'''Wilhelmstrausse''' 
686; 690;

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

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

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

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

'''Wolf-Ferrari''' 
512;

'''Wordsworth''' 
535'

'''''Workers' Own Songbook''''' 
49;

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

'''World War I''' 
578;

{{ATD_Alpha_Nav}}

Hypodermic syringe

2006-11-30T18:45:21Z

Pynchonoid:

"Scientific exhibit here boys, latest improvements to the hypodermic syringe and its many uses!"

This carnival barker-style cry on page 23, in the context of Against the Day's frequent references to opium smoking, point to an interesting dynamic in the history of narcotic drug use in the 19th and 20th centuries.

In their 2004 book, Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China, published by the University of Chicago Press, authors Frank Dikotter, Lars Laamann, and Zhou Xun trace the history of opium use in China, with particular emphasis on the way that, under the pressure of foreign anti-opium activists, the relatively benign practice of opium smoking was replaced by the far more dangerous and unhealthy injection of morphine and other synthetic drugs with hypodermic syringes. The net effect was to take away an effective medicine (opium) and replace it with much more addictive substances and a risky new drug delivery technology, with devastating consequences.

In Narcotic Culture, the authors ask why the syringe became a popular way of administering drugs in China late in the 19th century, observing that "not only was it cheap and effective, but it also encountered relatively few cultural obstacles since an existing needle lore endowed the hypodermic with positive attributes....the almost magical properties attributed to the syringe in both elite medical culture and popular drug consumption in modern China."

....from the Amazon.com description of [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0226149056/pynchonoid-20 Narcotic Culture : A History of Drugs in China:]

"To this day, the perception persists that China was a civilization defeated by imperialist Britain's most desirable trade commodity, opium--a drug that turned the Chinese into cadaverous addicts in the iron grip of dependence. Britain, in an effort to reverse the damage caused by opium addiction, launched its own version of the "war on drugs," which lasted roughly sixty years, from 1880 to World War II and the beginning of Chinese communism. But, as Narcotic Culture brilliantly shows, the real scandal in Chinese history was not the expansion of the drug trade by Britain in the early nineteenth century, but rather the failure of the British to grasp the consequences of prohibition." In a stunning historical reversal, Frank Dikötter, Lars Laamann, and Zhou Xun tell this different story of the relationship between opium and the Chinese. They reveal that opium actually had few harmful effects on either health or longevity; in fact, it was prepared and appreciated in highly complex rituals with inbuilt constraints preventing excessive use. Opium was even used as a medicinal panacea in China before the availability of aspirin and penicillin. But as a result of the British effort to eradicate opium, the Chinese turned from the relatively benign use of that drug to heroin, morphine, cocaine, and countless other psychoactive substances. Narcotic Culture provides abundant evidence that the transition from a tolerated opium culture to a system of prohibition produced a "cure" that was far worse than the disease. Delving into a history of drugs and their abuses, Narcotic Culture is part revisionist history of imperial and twentieth-century Britain and part sobering portrait of the dangers of prohibition.

H

2006-11-30T18:28:11Z

Pynchonoid: aded Hypodermic syringe to alpha index plus Discussion page with article

'''Hadamard, Jacques (1865-1963)''' 
590; French mathematician best known for his proof of the prime number theorem in 1896; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Hadamard Wikipedia entry]

'''Hadley, Dr. Edgar''' 
311; at Miners' Hospital

'''Halfcourt, Lietenant-Colonel G. Auberon''' 
222; "formerly a squadron commander in the Eighteenth Hussars"; stationed in Kashgar ("spiritual capital of Inner Asia"), 630;

'''Halfcourt, Yashmeen''' 
221-222; at T.W.I.T., and daughter of G. Auberon Halfcourt; 489; aka "Pinky" 493; discussing Göttingen with Cyprian Latewood, 499; to Göttingen, 503; in Göttingen, 589; parents were Russian, 595; "''she'' is the world" 596; inspiration for Hilbert-Póya Conjecture, 604; "grandiose coat of arms" 677; encounters Cyprian in Vienna, 716; "bedeviled by two or three powers at once" 717-18; letter to her father, 748-750;

'''Halley, Edmond (1656-1742)''' 
115; English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist who proposed, in 1692, that the earth was hollow; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_Halley Wikipedia entry]

'''Hamilton, Maria Bayley''' 
560; Sir Hamilton's wife;

<div id="hamilton"></div>'''Hamilton, Sir William Rowan (1805-1865)''' 
99; Sir Hamilton was an Irish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer who made important contributions to the development of optics, dynamics, and algebra. His discovery of [[ATD-Q#quaternions|quaternions]] is perhaps his best known investigation; his illumination "at [[Brougham_Bridge|Brougham Bridge]] in Ireland in 1845, 99; 132; 526; 535; Quaternions discover ''him'', 560-61; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rowan_Hamilton Wikipedia entry]

'''Hardy, Professor Godfrey Harold "G. H." (1877-1947)''' 
239; a prominent English mathematician, known for his achievements in number theory and mathematical analysis. He was called "Harold" by a few close friends, and otherwise "G. H."; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._H._Hardy Wikipedia entry]

'''Harald the Ruthless (1015-1066)''' 
127; Norwegian Harald Hardraade, or Hardråde king of Norway (1045–66). His harsh suppression of lesser Norwegian chieftains cost him their military support in his unsuccessful struggle to conquer Denmark (1045–62). The son of Sigurd Sow (Syr), a chieftain in eastern Norway, and of Estrid, mother of the Norwegian king Olaf II Haraldsson (St. Olaf), Harald fought at the age of 15 against the Danes.

'''Hardy, Godfrey Harold "G. H." (1877-1947)''' 
498; prominent English mathematician, known for his achievements in number theory and mathematical analysis. He was called "Harold" by a few close friends, and otherwise "G. H.".; 499; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._H._Hardy Wikipedia entry]

'''Harriman, Brother''' 
130; works for Scarsdale Vibe
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'''Hatch''' 
646;

'''''Hausknochen''''' 
589; 592;

'''Hawaii''' 
69; South Sea islands tattoo artists; volcano, 411; [[ATD-U#uke|See also Ukuleles]]

'''Haymarket Bomb''' 
25; The Haymarket Riot on May 4, 1886, in Chicago is the origin of international May Day observances and in popular literature inspired the caricature of "a bomb-throwing anarchist." The causes of the incident are still controversial, although deeply polarized attitudes separating the business class and the working class in late 19th century Chicago are generally acknowledged as having precipitated the tragedy and its aftermath; 111; 176; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_bombing Wikipedia entry]

'''Headingly bomb''' 
608; and Lew Basright;

'''''head of Jochanaan''''' 
626; from the opera "Salome" by Richard Strauss, the head of John the Baptist; Salome, who demanded of King Herod, who lusted after her, John the Baptist's head on a platter as the price for her allowing him to have her; Salome had desired John the Baptist, but had been rebuffed.

'''Heavenly City, The''' 
165;

'''Heaviside, Oliver (1850-1925)''' 
98; English electrical engineer who adapted complex numbers to the study of electrical circuits, and was co-discoverer of the rate of energy transfer by an electromagnetic field; ''Electromagnetic Theory'' (1893); 533; "Walt Whitman of English Physics" 535; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Heaviside Wikipedia entry]; [[Heaviside|A good article on Heaviside]]

'''Heden, Sven''' 
436;

'''Hegel''' 
538;

'''Heinrich''' 
597; Gunther von Quassel's "intimate"

'''Held, Anna''' 
334;

'''Helgustaðir''' 
126; Located in East Iceland, one of the world's best-known sources of Icelandic spar.
[http://giantcrystals.strahlen.org/europe/helgustadir.htm| web page about the site, with photos]

'''Henry, Emile (1872-1894)''' 
87; French anarchist, who on February 12, 1894 detonated a bomb at the Café Terminus in the Parisian Gare Saint-Lazare killing one person and wounding twenty; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile_Henry Wikipedia entry]

'''Herbert, Victory''' 
512;

'''Herman''' 
182; bartender at Anarchists' Saloon

'''Hershel''' 
39; bellman at the Esthonia Hotel

'''Hertz, Heinrich Rudolf (1857-1894)''' 
121; "extra Hertzian rays"; German physicist and mechanician for whom the hertz, an SI unit, is named. In 1888, he was the first to demonstrate the existence of electromagnetic radiation by building an apparatus to produce UHF radio waves; 318; 330; 438; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Rudolf_Hertz Wikipedia entry]

'''Hierarchy''' 
417; Chums of Chance's invisible superiors

'''High Albedo''' 
493; A property of a surface that describes its ability to reflect and reject heat. High albedo surfaces have both a light color (high solar reflectance) and a high emmittance (can reject heat back to the environment).

'''high-grading''' 
196; In mining, high grading is the theft and concealement of valuable ore by miners for personal profit. Common during the United States gold rush, high graders would usually conceal gold ore in a pocket or lunch pail, or internally within the body, and later attempt to fence it on the black market; 486;

'''Hilbert, Dr. David (1862-1943)''' 
324; German mathematician, recognized as one of the most influential and universal mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He invented or developed a broad range of fundamental ideas, in invariant theory, the axiomatization of geometry, and with the notion of Hilbert space, one of the foundations of functional analysis. Among the students of Hilbert, there were Hermann Weyl, the champion of chess Emanuel Lasker, Ernst Zermelo, and Carl Gustav Hempel. John von Neumann was his assistant. At the University of Göttingen, Hilbert was surrounded by a social circle of some of the most important mathematicians of the 20th century, such as Emmy Noether and Alonzo Church; "Spectral Theory" 499; 600; 625; 633; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hilbert Wikipedia entry]

'''Hill, Joe (1879-1915)''' 
216; born Joel Emmanuel Hägglund, and also known as Joseph Hillström, Joe Hill was a radical songwriter, labor activist and member of the Industrial Workers of the World, also known as the Wobblies. He was executed for murder after a controversial trial. After his death, he became the subject of a folksong; 463; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hill Wikipedia entry]

'''Hindoo Shuffle''' 
357; magic trick

'''Hinton, C. Howard''' 
591;

'''Hip Sing''' 
340; rival tong of On Leong, New York City

'''History''' 
223; 373; 559;

'''H.M.S. ''Megaera''''' 
108; frigate; Megaera (Greek: Μεγαιρα, "the jealous one") is one of the Erinyes in Greek Mythology. She is the cause of jealousy and envy, and causes people to commit crimes, especially marital infidelity. Like her sisters Alecto and Tisiphone, she was born of the blood of Uranus when Cronus castrated him.

'''hole card''' 
684; In blackjack, the facedown card that the dealer gets. In stud and hold ‘em poker, the facedown cards dealt to each player.

'''Hole-in-the-Wall Gang''' 
287; name given to a gang in the American Wild West, which took its name from the Hole-in-the-Wall Pass in Johnson County, Wyoming, where several outlaw gangs had their hideouts. The Gang was not simply one large organized gang of outlaws, but rather was made up of several separate gangs, all operating out of the Hole-in-the-Wall Pass, using it as their base of operations. The gangs formed a coalition, each planning and carrying out its own robberies with very little interaction with the other gangs. At times, members of one gang would ride along with other gangs, but usually each gang operated separately, meeting up only when they were each at the hideout at the same time; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hole_in_the_Wall_Gang Wikipedia entry]

'''Holliday, Doc (1851-1887)''' 
25; John Henry "Doc" Holliday was an American dentist, gambler and gunfighter of the Old West frontier, who is usually remembered for his associations with Wyatt Earp and the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral; "rejoinder to Frank McLaury at the O.K. Corral" 647-48; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Holliday Wikipedia entry]

'''Hollow Earth''' 
115; Chums of Chance's journey into, 115; H. Penhallow's journey, 155; 274; 327; hoosegow in Guanojuana, 380; 391; "hidden cave of rainwater" 393; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_earth Wikipedia entry]

'''Holmes, Sherlock''' 
689;

'''Hotel Borealis''' 
129; where Vormance Expedition set up headquarters;

'''Hotel Noctambulo''' 
462; where insomnia prevails, in Fickle Creek

'''Hotel Neue Mutzenbacher''' 
702, aka "The Mutzi" in Vienna "near the Imperial Stables"

'''Houdini, Harry''' 
355;

'''Hour of the Rat''' 
675; according to the [[Time_in_OldJapan|time keeping in pre-modern Japan]], the Hour of the Rat was from 11pm till 1am.

'''Hsiang-Chiao''' 
260; Deuce Kindred's "on-again-off-again romance with"

'''Huerta, General''' 
376; "brutal heart, bloody mind"; "goes after Yaquis or Mayas" 389;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoriano_Huerta Wikipedia entry]

'''Humfried''' 
588; at Göttingen; 592; 597; muttering in strange language, 622;

'''Hungarians''' 
46;

'''Hypatia (AD 370(?)-415)''' 
717; Hypatia of Alexandria was a Greek mathematician, astronomer, teacher, and head of the Platonist school at Alexandria about AD 400. Hypatia wrote commentaries on the astronomical canon of Ptolemy and did work on conic sections . Her works are lost, but are referred to in the Suda lexicon. She was the daughter of the mathematician and philosopher Theon of Alexandria (he was also the last head of the Museum at Alexandria); [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia/ Wikipedia entry]

'''hypodermic syringe''' 
23; [[hypodermic syringe | DISCUSSION ]]

'''Hypopsammotic Survival Apparatus''' 
425; invented by Roswell Bounce, "providing a practical way to submerge oneself beneath the sands and still be able to breath, walk around, and so forth"

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==Pages 154-155==
Hunter Penhallow's escape might be read as a happy ending getaway inversion of the claustrophobic opening sequence of Gravity's Rainbow, where nobody gets saved; "in this world brought low" echoes "the Light that hath brought the Towers low" on the final page of Gravity's Rainbow..."Light" may prefigure Against the Day's treatment of that subject, too.

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"like Baku with giraffes"

Gravity's Rainbow mentions Baku by name three times, according to the Pynchon Pages index (http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/alpha/b.html):

352; seaport capital of Azerbaydzhanskaya SSR, Soviet Union, on the west coast of the Caspian Sea; 353; Blobadjian "pursued through the black end of Baku by a passel of screaming Arabists" 354

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Gravity's Rainbow mentions Baku by name three times, according to the Pynchon Pages index (http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/alpha/b.html):

352; seaport capital of Azerbaydzhanskaya SSR, Soviet Union, on the west coast of the Caspian Sea; 353; Blobadjian "pursued through the black end of Baku by a passel of screaming Arabists" 354

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'''Bagdad Railway Concession''' 
228; In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Ottoman Empire planned to construct a Baghdad Railway under German control. It became a source of international tension and played some role in the origins of the First World War; 238; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad_Railway Wikipedia entry]

'''Baku''' 
441; Located on the Caspian Sea, Baku or Baky (Baki), capital and largest city of Azerbaijan. Since 1873 an oil belt of Baku began to be formed which was known as a Black City. Within a short period of time departments and representations of Swiss, English, French, Belgian, German and American firms were established in Baku, among them were the firms of the Nobels and Rothschilds. By the beginning of the 20th century almost half of the oil reserves in the world had been extracted in Baku; 631; "with skeeters" 639; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baku Wikipedia entry] [[Discussion]]

'''Bakunin, Mikhail (1814-1876)''' 
373; well-known Russian revolutionary, and often considered one of the fathers of modern anarchism; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Bakunin Wikipedia entry]

<div id="balaam"></div>'''Balaam's ass''' 
432; From the Bible, Numbers Chapter 22, wherein Balaam, a seer and Gentile, is sent by Balak, King of Moab, to confront the Israelites who, after 40 years in the desert, were camped on the plains of Moab. An angel, invisible to Balaam but visible to the ass, blocks the road and the ass won't proceed. Balaam repeatedly whips the ass until, by divine intervention, the ass is given the power of speech and speaks to Balaam, asking him why he treats him so badly. Balaam is taken aback and then sees the angel with sword drawn and falls to the ground, contrite. But the angel, instead of stopping him from his journey, tells Balaam to proceed on his mission. When Balaam reaches the top of a hill and sees the Israelites camped out below, a blessing unexpectedly issues from his lips. Two things here: 1) it's possible for a non-Hebrew to be a prophet and 2) this is one of only two instances in the Bible where animals speak, the other being the serpent in the Garden of Eden. [http://www.trivia-library.com/a/origins-of-the-term-balaam-ass.htm More from the Trivia Library]

'''Balkin ''komitadji''''' 
557; Komitadji, Comitadji or Komitaji (Turkish: Komitacı, "a rebel, member of a secret revolutionary society") is a member of a guerrilla band in Macedonia or the Balkan countries.

'''Ball in Hand''' 
405; saloon where Dr. Zoot met Meatman; on West Symmes Street, 410;

'''Basnight, Lewis ("Lew")''' 
36-51; a "spotter" from White City Investigations; Upstate-Downstate Beast, 37; "a keen sympathy for the invisible" 43; "the side of the day" 44; transfer to Denver, 51; 171; Cryptomite trip, 182; emergence out of explosion, 221; 496; at Chunxton Crescent "Gus Swallowfield, Senior Underwriter" 611;

'''Basnight, Troth''' 
38; Lew's wife, who leaves him;

'''Battle of Puebla''' 
315; The Battle of Puebla took place on May 5, 1862 near the city of Puebla, Mexico, during the French intervention in Mexico. It was a major Mexican victory, and is commemorated every year as Cinco de Mayo; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Puebla Wikipedia entry]

'''Bauer, Grünewald''' 
136;

'''Beaufort Scale''' 
15; a scale to measure wind speed; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort_scale Wikipedia entry]

'''Beaver Saloon''' 
193;

'''"Beavers of the Brain"''' 
183; song by the beings inhabiting Lew Basright's steak

'''Becker, Mr.''' 
1076; Jesse Traverse's school teacher, and possibly his future father-in-law; see the [[Traverse Family Tree]]

'''Belgian nihilists''' 
527; "Eugénie, Fatou, Denis, and Policarpe, styling themselves 'Young Congo'"

'''Beppo''' 
576; Dally's alter-ego; Beppo is the subject of the poem "Beppo" by Lord Byron; [[Beppo|Read the poem]]

'''Berlin Conference of 1878''' 
226; The Congress of Berlin was a meeting of the European Great Powers' and the Ottoman Empire's leading statesmen in Berlin in 1878. In the wake of the Russo-Turkish War, 1877–78, the meeting's aim was to reorganize conditions in the Balkans. Otto von Bismarck, who led the Congress, undertook to balance the distinct interests of Great Britain, Russia and Austria-Hungary. As a consequence, however, differences between Russia and Austria-Hungary intensified, as did the nationality question in the Balkans; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Berlin Wikipedia entry]

'''Bible''' 
86; Second Corinthians, 32; 223; St. Mark, 250; "Let there be light" 354; Judas Iscariot, 377; 413; [[#balaam|Balaam's ass]], 432; Sodom and Gomorrah, 441; 441; 452; Jonah and Agadir, 521; Judas Priest, 525; Lot's wife, 550; Lucifer, 575; Infancy Gospel of Thomas, 579; Pentacost story from Acts of the Apostles (Jesus and the dyes), 579-80;

'''Big Billy's''' 
260;

[[Image:Billy-the-Kid.jpg|thumb|Billy the Kid, painting by Jacques Moitoret|right]]'''Billy the Kid (1859-1881)''' 
263; Henry McCarty, better known as Billy the Kid, but also known by the aliases Henry Antrim and William Harrison Bonney, was a 19th century American frontier outlaw and gunmen who was a participant in the Lincoln County War. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_the_Kid Wikipedia entry]

'''bilocation''' 
143; the ability (said of certain Roman Catholic saints) to exist simultaneously in two locations; "there are two distinct versions of 'Asia' out there" 249; Estrella, double of Stray Briggs, 393; Chums of Chance and the Marching Academy Harmonica Band, 418-24; "enough to divide a fellow into two" 464; two Agadirs, 521-22; ''Stupendica'', 514; Dally, 524; doubling, 564; multiple identities, 570; sawed-in-half folks, 571-72; Principessa Spongiatosta, 583; Werfner/Renfrew, 683, 685; Orphic and Pythagorean religionns, 686; Lew Basright, 688, 690; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilocation Wikipedia entry]

'''Bindlestiffs of the Blue A.C.''' 
18; aeronautical club from Oregon ("A.C." for alternating current?); a bindelstiff is a hobo, especially one who carries a bedroll.

'''Bing, Liu''' 
345; "tong warrior's girlfriend"

'''Biometric Institute of Neuropathy''' 
433;

'''Black Gang''' 
517; the stokers; 519;

'''Black Hundreds''' 
595; pogrom

'''Black, Miss Penelope ("Penny")''' 
18; distaff member of the Bindlestiffs of the Blue A.C.

'''Blanca, La''' 
287; "local name" for [[ATD-M#meldrum|Bob Meldrum's]] wife;

'''Blaskó, Béla''' 
915; the original name of the Hungarian actor Bela Lugosi (1882-1956) whose most famous role was that of Dracula; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bela_lugosi Wikipedia entry]

'''Blavatsky, Madame''' (1831-1891) 
219; Helena Petrovna Hahn (also Hélène), better known as Helena Blavatsky (Russian: Елена Блаватская) or Madame Blavatsky, born Helena von Hahn, was a founder of the Theosophical Society; "working for the Tsarist secret service" aka Third Section, aka Okhrana, 631; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Blavatsky Wikipedia entry]

'''Blitz Instruments''' 
53; Blitz is a manufacturer of musical instruments and accessories

'''Bloggins''' 
446;

'''Blope, Dr. Templeton''' 
131; of the University of the Outer Hebrides

'''Blue Ivory''' 
125;

'''Blundell, Miles''' 
4; Handyman Apprentice aboard the ''Inconvenience''; 107; nonsense speaking, 110-13; the Book, 251; 417; "temporarily lapsing into English" 427; recognizes the Trespassers, Mr. Ace, 417; "extra-temporal excursions" 443; and Pugnax, 550; "prefiguration of the Holy City" 551;

'''Bly, Nellie (1864-1922)''' 
37; Born May 5, 1864, to Judge Michael Cochran and Mary Jane Kennedy Cochran, part of the large Cochran family of Apollo, Pennsylvania, Elizabeth Jane Cochrane revolutionized journalism for women. She is better known by her pen name, "Nellie Bly," which she adapted from the Stephen Foster song, "Nelly Bly." Daring and innovative, she gained world fame when she beat Jules Verne's fictional character Phileas Fogg's record for traveling around the world in 80 days by more than a week, departing on November 14, 1889 and returning to New York on January 25, 1890; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Bly Wikipedia entry]

'''Bobrikoff, General''' 
83; "evil viceroy" of Russian Tsar

'''Bodine, O. I. C. (Officer in Charge)''' 
517; American stoker aboard the ''Stupendica''; 519;

'''Bohr, Niels (Henrik David) (1885-1962)''' 
412; Danish physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics. Bohr is widely considered one of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr Wikipedia entry]

'''Boilster, Eugene''' 
477; sheriff of Wall o' Death;

'''Boilster, Tace''' 
479; Eugene's wife;

'''Boilster, Roy Mickey''' 
480; Tace's brother;

'''Boilster, Chloe''' 
485; Eugene's & Tace's daughter

'''Boll Weevil Lounge''' 
47;

'''''Bol'shaia Igra''''' 
122; Padzhy's ship, at the North Pole; in Venice, 245;

'''Boltzmann, Ludwig''' 
596;

'''Bonnet, Charles (1720-1793)''' 
307; Swiss naturalist and philosophical writer who first described what became known as the Charles Bonnet syndrome (or CBS for short), a term used to describe the situation when people with sight problems start to see things which they know aren't real. Sometimes called visual hallucinations, the things people see can take all kinds of forms from simple patterns of straight lines to detailed -pictures of people or buildings. These can be enjoyable or sometimes upsetting; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bonnet Wikipedia entry]

'''Boot Hill''' 
648;

Bopfli 
669; 670;

'''Borrasca''' 
364; Reef's colt;

'''Borowicz, Professor Bogoslaw''' 
343; at McVeety's Theater "Floor Shows"

'''Bosanquet, Bernard James Tindal (1877-1936)''' 
237; "this Middlesex spinner"; an English cricketer, perhaps most renowned as the inventor of the googly (sometimes called the Bosie or, in Australia, the Wrong'un ), born in Bull's Cross, Enfield, Middlesex; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Bosanquet_(cricketer) Wikipedia entry]

'''Bosch''' 
554; the artist

'''Boulanger, General Georges Ernest Jean-Marie (April 29, 1837 – September 30, 1891)''' 
543; anniversary of his suicide and the Chums of Chance; Boulanger was a French general and reactionary politician. Very popular with the military, He rose through the ranks to general, and began his own political movement, an ecclectic one that capitalized on the frustrations of French conservatism, advocating the three principles of ''Revanche'' (Revenge on Germany), ''Révision'' (Revision of the Constitution), ''Restauration'' (the return to monarchy). The common reference to it has become ''Boulangisme'', a term used by its partisans and adversaries alike. A failed coup began his downfall. He was charged with conspiracy and treason and a warrant for his death was issued. He committed suicide by a bullet to the head on the grave of his mistress. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Boulanger Wikipedia entry]

'''Bounce, Roswell''' 
60; photographer; Hypop Apparatus, 425; Scarsdale Vibe trial in Cleveland, 455; Hercules, 455;

'''''boutonniere''''' 
33; A boutonniere, also buttonhole, is a flower or floral decoration pushed or pinned through the button hole of a lapel of a suit.

'''Boyne''' 
231;

'''brambled guttie''' 
603; gutta-percha ball (a golf ball), a brambled spheroid

'''Breedlove, "Dope"''' 
369; "and his Merry Coons" - houseband at Maman Tant Gras Hall in New Orleans;

'''Breguet''' 
457; the tourbillion

'''Briggs, Estrella (Stray)''' 
200; in Nochecita; Aunt Adelina; at a "small ranch outside Fickle Creek" 462; 920-921;

'''Briggs, Willow''' 
361; Stray's sister; husband Holt, 367;

'''British craving for the dark and shiny''' 
678; Perhaps an [[Dark and Shiny|Orwellian reference?]]

'''Brocken''' 
632;

'''Brownian Movement''' 
587;

'''Browning''' 
578; the poet

'''Brueghel''' 
554;

'''Brugere's power''' 
529; Brugere's powder uses '''picric acid''' which, when ignited, burns quietly with a smoky flame and is very difficult to detonate by percussion; its salts, however, are more readily detonated. Part of the picric family, Brugere's powder is a mixture of 54 parts of ammonium picrate and 45 parts of saltpetre; '''Designolle's powder''', composed of potassium picrate, saltpetre and charcoal is also a member of this family of explosives. [[Picric Acid|More on picric acid]]

'''Bruno''' 
101; Scarsdale Vibe's bodyguard

'''buck-and-wing artist''' 
303; "buck-and-wing" is a solo tap dance emphasizing sharp taps

'''Buffalo Bill''' 
[[ATD-C#buffalo|See Cody, Buffalo Bill]]

'''Burchell, Mrs.''' 
228; medium at Stead séance; her "prophetic account of the Serbian outrage" 719;

'''Burgess''' 
a sheriff Reef argues with; Laureen, his wife;

'''Buri''' 
142; "grandfather of Odin and the first gods"

'''Busted Flush''' 
313; Jimmy Drop's hangout in Telluride

'''Byng, Admiral''' 
545;

'''Byron's Pool''' 
490; where Yashmeen bathed nude;

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==Pages 154-155==
Hunter Penhallow's escape might be read as a happy ending getaway inversion of the claustrophobic opening sequence of Gravity's Rainbow, where nobody gets saved.

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pp. 154-155
Hunter Penhallow's escape might be read as a happy ending getaway inversion of the claustrophobic opening sequence of Gravity's Rainbow, where nobody gets saved.