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'''L.&O.L.''' 
649; Law and Order League

'''labor unions''' 
43; 50; 178; 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 County''' 
364; in Colorado, the county seat is Leadville, and it's named for the Twin Lakes south of Leadville; In 1878 the name "Leadville" became synonymous with one of the world’s greatest silver-producing regions. During the 1880s, when Leadville’s economy was at its peak, the town was the second largest in Colorado, a mecca for prospectors, gamblers, retailers, performing artists, and entrepreneurs. In many respects, its history epitomizes the volatile character of Colorado’s mining industry-from the rush to establish businesses, schools, churches, and newspapers in a booming mining camp to the conflict and violence of the miner’s strike of 1896.

'''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; 1887 saw the introduction of the Margarine Act in Great Britain, which required margarine to be labeled as such. This was in response to the adulteration of butter by oleomargarine (made from animal fats).

'''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.

'''Lateral World Sets''' 
"Lateral world-sets, other parts of Creation," 221; "Let us imagine a lateral world, set infintesimally to the side," 230; "spirited, in a swift cascade of light-flashes . . . in the dark," 293; "other worlds," 394; "water . . . as a facilitator of passage between worlds," 433; "lateral jumps from one continuum to another," 438; 464; 594; 682;
::Cf., also the transdimensional travel of Buckaroo Bonzai in the Pynchon inspired film, ''The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai Across the 8th Dimension'' (1984), especially the images of 8th-Dimensional creatures that Bonzai sees as he passes through the mountain. [http://imdb.com/title/tt0086856/ IMDB entry].
::Cf., further, the notion of a "multiverse," that is, a physical ur-structure, comprised of many, if not infinite universes, of which ours is only one. Several contemporary cosmological theories require that a multiverse exist, though its existence remains highly conjectural. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse Wikipedia entry].

'''Latewood, Cyprian''' 
489; [[Cambridge Apostles|"embryo Apostlet"]], a sod (short for "sodomite", i.e., gay man) at Cambridge; to Trieste, 697; 705; in Vienna, 698; 712; in Venice, 706; talking gibberish, 713; "a catamite these last few years" 721; 722; summoned to Venice, 722; in Trieste with Bevis Moistleigh, 799; leaving Venice for the Balkans (Sarajevo), 815; Jacintha Drulov on the ''John of Asia'', 821; bringing Danilo out of Bosnia, 829; "You have come to Sarajevo on a dummy assignment. All to lure you out here to Bosnia, where it is easier for the Austrians to take you" (spoken by Danilo), 832; at Grand-Hôtel in Jayce, 833; "on an ancient bridge, above its pure arch in silhouette, stood a figure, cloaked, solitary, unmoving, not waiting, not beckoning, not even regarding the spectacle up on the mountainside, yet containing in its severe contours a huge compressed quantity of attention" and Danilo breaks his leg, 836; in Salonica, 842; back to Trieste, 847; back in Vienna, 864; meets Yashmeen and Reef in Venice, 869; becomes invisible, 871; a bit of SM with Yashmeen, 877-78; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9nage_%C3%A0_trois ''ménage à trois''] with Reef and Yashmeen, 882; at Yz-les-Bains with Reef and Yashmeen, 931; main task to locate the ''Interdikt'' line and disable it, 946; arrives at convent in the Balkan Range ("Welcome home"), 956; Brides of Night, 961; "And Cyprian was taken behind a great echoless door" 962; [[Cyprian Latewood|Latewood speculations...]]

'''Law and Order League'''
644;

'''Law of Deterministic Insufficiency''' 
862;

'''"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]

'''Leadville''' 
283, 'back when it was till Leadville"(?); 374;

'''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;

'''Le Prince, Louis Aimé Augustin (1841-1890)''' 
1050; Frenchman who was an inventor and is generally recognized as the first person to record motion images on film. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Le_Prince Wikipedia]

'''LeStreet, Chester''' 
1042; black jazz musician client of Lew Basnight, named after Chester-le-Street, a small town between Durham and Newcastle in Co. Durham, UK. No doubt TRP noted this wonderful name while researching [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Mason & Dixon''] in Durham. Other local place-names he may have been tempted by but didn't use include Thornton-le-Beans and Hetton-le-Hole (which as Hetty-le-Hole could have been an appropriate moniker for
[[ATD-C#chirpingdon-groin|Ruperta Chirpingdon-Groin]]).

'''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; 901; [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; to Indians of Chiapas is "''living tissue''" 992;

'''Lightarian''' 
60;

'''lightning''' 
73; sentient ball lightning, 73;

'''light reading''' 
926; Note the pun. Frank's reading "pamphlets ... hand-tinted heliographs in luminescent violets" (from [[ATD_919-945#Page_925|p. 925]]) Wren hands him "the exact same periodical"

'''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.

'''Linderfelt''' 
1013; lieutenant in the National Guard at tent city in Ludlow

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

'''Lisp''' 
"'Mr. Scarsdale Vibe's Lieutenants of Industry Scholarship Program," 100; "'difficulty with phonology, notably the voiced interdental fricative,'" 440;

'''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]; [[Little Nemo|DISCUSSION]]

'''Littlewood, John Edensor (1885-1977)''' 
815; British mathematician. Most of his work was in the field of mathematical analysis. He began research under the supervision of Ernest William Barnes, who suggested that he attempt to prove the Riemann hypothesis: Littlewood showed that if the Riemann hypothesis is true then the Prime Number Theorem follows and obtained the error term. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Edensor_Littlewood Wikipedia]

'''Ljubica''' 
950; Serbo-Croatian: ''violet''; pron. LYOO beet sah; daughter of Reef Traverse and Yashmeen Halfcourt; the name Ljubica turns up on page 731 (Viking Ed.) of [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow''], as a Herero girl's name. According to Professor Don Larsson (in his [http://english2.mnsu.edu/larsson/gr4.html Companion's Companion to ''Gravity's Rainbow'']), "Ljubica" is a common Slavic name and was also fairly common as a Herero name, as Hereros in Südwest (now Namibia) often bore German and Slavic names.

'''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]

'''Loïc''' 
941; bartender in Yz-les-Bain, pouring Crocodiles

'''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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vineland/ ''Vineland''], arch-villain FBI agent Brock Vond is a fan of Lombroso's work.

'''Long chalk, not by a''' 
870; The phrase "not by a long chalk" precedes "not by a long shot" and is still preferred by the Brits.

'''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]

'''loss''' 
760; "axes of sorrow and loss" 771;

'''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]

'''Luccheni''' 
739; anarchist gunhand;

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

'''Lucien''' 
931; concierge at Yz-les-Bains

'''Lucrezia''' 
1070; "very large triplane bomber" named after the homicidal Borgia Heiress; Lucrezia Borgia (1480 - 1519) was the daughter of Rodrigo Borgia, the powerful Renaissance Valencian who later became Pope Alexander VI, and Vannozza dei Cattanei. Her brothers included Cesare Borgia, Giovanni Borgia, and Gioffre Borgia. Lucrezia's family later came to epitomize the ruthless Machiavellian politics and sexual corruption alleged to be characteristic of the Renaissance Papacy. Her family was also suspected of various murders in which Lucrezia's involvement is ambiguous. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucrezia_Borgia Wikipedia]

'''Lueger, Dr. Karl (1844-1910)''' 
807; "Jew-hating perennial Burgomeister" heads Christian-Socialist party in Vienna; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Lueger Wikipedia]

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

'''Luigi''' 
446;

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

'''Lutine''' 
122; of the HMS Lutine [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Lutine Wikipedia]

'''Luz Blanco, Don José de la''' 
920;

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'''Packer's Inn''' 
31; where Professor Vanderjuice is staying while visiting the Chicago Fair, "right in the middle of the Stockyards"

'''Paco''' 
375; trumpet player

'''Padzhitnoff, Igor ("Padzy")''' 
123; Randolph St. Cosmo's "mysterious Russian counterpart"; "semi-mythical aeronaut" 761; disappearance in 1914, 1022; c.f. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexey_Pajitnov Alexey Pazhitnov], inventor of Tetris.

'''Païsi''' 
904; the "archimandrite" (a title in the Eastern Orthodox Church for a superior abbot who has the supervision of several abbots and monasteries appointed by a bishop. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimandrite Wikipedia entry])

'''''Palacio del Cristal, El''''' 
378; in Guanajuato; the London Crystal Palace is mentioned in Pynchon's [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=C#crystal-palace ''Gravity's Rainbow'']

'''Palmer House''' 
30; this refers to the second of three Palmer House Hotels at the corner of State and Monroe Streets in Chicago. The first (known as "The Palmer") was built as a wedding present from Potter Palmer to his bride Bertha Honoré. It opened on September 26, 1871, but burned down just thirteen days later October 9,1871 in the Great Chicago Fire. Palmer immediately set to work rebuilding, and with a $1.7 million signature loan (believed to be the largest individual loan ever secured at the time) constructed one of the fanciest hotels in post-fire Chicago. Designed by architect John M. Van Osdel, the new hotel was seven stories. Its amenities included oversized rooms, luxurious decor, and sumptuous meals served in grand style. The floor of its barber shop was reputedly tiled with silver dollars. Constructed mainly of iron and brick, the hotel was widely advertised as "the World's only Fire Proof Hotel". Famous visitors included presidential hopefuls James Garfield, Grover Cleveland, Ulysses S. Grant, William Jennings Bryan and William McKinley; writers Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, and Oscar Wilde; and actress Sarah Bernhardt. It was completed in 1875. Between 1924 and 1927 a new, larger hotel was built on the same site. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_House Wikipedia entry]

'''Palmer raids''' 
1075; After World War I there was a Red Scare among many Americans. There are many explanations for this: rampant inflation, a tough job market, strikes, race riots, and the public’s need for a scapegoat. When Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer’s home was bombed he immediately believed it was the Communists and went after all of them. In November of 1919, and December of 1920 the U.S. Department of Justice under Palmer’s direction conducted raids in a number of prominent cities. Many persons were arrested without warrants, and without being given proper rights. Over five thousand people were arrested, and a total of two hundred and forty nine people were deported. After these raids and unlawful arrests, Palmer was called before the House Rules Committee and Senate Judiciary Committee and convicted of using Government funds in an improper way causing the end of the first Red Scare. [http://www.msu.edu/course/mc/112/1920s/Palmer/newsandpalmer.html]

'''Pancho''' 
991; ''cucuji''' beetle that is Frank's soul

[[image:Pankhurst-brooch.jpg|thumb|Pankhurst Holloway Brooch|right]]'''Pankhurst, Sylvia (1882-1960)''' 
933; designed "brooch of honor" for veterans of Holloway prison; Pankhurst was a campaigner in the suffragette movement in the United Kingdom, and a prominent left communist. She directed a campaign that included massed rallies, hunger strikes and physical action. In 1908, her sister Christabel was sentenced to a period in Holloway prison for her political actions. Sylvia Pankhurst was more or less the official artist for the British suffragette movement, the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). She used the colors to create not only banners but also memorabilia for the public, including badges and tea sets. In his 1979 biography of his mother, ''Sylvia Pankhurst, Artist and Crusader'', Richard Pankhurst mentions several times his mother's use of the official colors of the movement in her designs. For example, in describing the famous Holloway brooch, given to those who had been imprisoned for the sake of the cause, Pankhurst notes that his mother "designed it in the Suffragette colours, purple, white and green." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Pankhurst Wikipedia entry]

'''pantechnicon''' 
611; Pantechnicon is an old British word for a furniture removal van. It was originally coined in 1830 as the name of a craft shop or bazaar, in Motcomb Street in Belgravia, London; the name is Greek for "pertaining to all the arts or crafts". The shop soon closed down and the building was turned into a furniture warehouse, but the name was kept. Vehicles transporting furniture to and from the building, known as pantechnicon vans, soon came to be known simply as pantechnicons. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantechnicon Wikipedia]

'''Pan-Turanian''' 
756; Pan-Turanism is a political movement aiming at uniting the various Turkic peoples of the Russian empire. The name is derived from Turan an ancient Persian name for the land to the east of Iran.

'''Paramorphoscope''' 
"'induced paramorphism,'" 114; "paramorphic distortions," 249; 435; 436; ''paramorfico'', 570; used to view map of Shambhala, 609;

'''Paranoia''' 
33; "counter-transformer" 34; 54; 94; "Something" 132; 180; paranoia querulans ([[Paranoia Querulans|litigious paranoia]]), 455, 1050; 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"

'''Pasha, Fehim (1873 - 1908)''' 
830; "old head of espionage" in Turkey; chief of the secret police under the Ottoman sultan Abdül-Hamid II; When, on July 24, 1908, the sultan yielded to the demands of the Young Turks, issued an ''irade'', restoring the constitution of 1876, and ordered the election of a chamber of deputies. Various other reforms, notably the abolition of the spy system and the censorship, were announced soon afterwards. Some of the more unpopular officials associated with the old regime were assassinated, among them Fehim Pasha, the former head of the espionage department, who had been exiled to Brusa in 1907 at the request of the British and German ambassadors. [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Turkey 1911 Encyclopedia Brittanica]

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

'''Patrizia''' 
728; with Dally in Venice

'''Pearls''' 
Pearl Street, in lower Manhattan financial district, location of Vibe Corp., 333-34; "pearl-gray bowlers, 399;

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

[[image:Federico-Peliti.jpg|thumb|Federico Peliti|right]]'''Peliti's veranda''' 
758; Federico Peliti (1844-1914) was born near Turin, in Northern Italy, and went to India in 1868 as a caterer to the Viceroy, the Earl of Mayo. After the assassination of the Viceroy, he established himself as an independent caterer and hotel director, with establishments in Calcutta and Simla. His Simla restaurant is mentioned in Rudyard Kipling's short story "The Phantom Reekshaw" (1880). He had been trained as a sculptor in his youth, and while sculpting from time to time as a hobby, he became a more and more passionate photographer as time went on. A great part of his production now belongs to the Calcografia Nazionale in Rome. [http://www.geocities.com/lupeliti/]

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

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

'''Penhallow, Hunter''' 
127; grandson of Constance; witnessing the destruction of the city, 154; "English painter type" 575; one of the Trespassers? 576; switch to nocturnes, 580; in Venice with Dally, 729; "failing to retrieve memories" (c.f. Lew Basnight's similar condition...), 798; one of his paintings, "The Iron Gateway," hanging in Ca' Spongiatosta, 867; with Dally in London, 892;

'''pennsilvoney''' 
Phonetic play on the Italian word ''pensione'', inexpensive lodging, usually with shared bathroom, or dormitory style.

'''''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;

'''Philolaus of Tarentum (ca. 470 BC - ca. 385 BC)''' 
1021; postulated an Anti-Earth (Antichthon); a Greek Pythagorean and Presocratic. From Wikipedia:

:A popular misconception about Philolaus is that he supposed that a sphere of the fixed stars, the five planets, the Sun, Moon and Earth, all moved round his Central Fire, but as these made up only nine revolving bodies, he conceived in accordance with his number theory a tenth, which he called Counter-Earth. This fallacy grows largely out of Aristole's attempt to lampoon his ideas in his book, Metaphysics.

:In reality, Philolaus' ideas predated the idea of spheres by hundreds of years, and the Counter-Earth was conceived to explain his revolutionary ideas about the lack of up or down in space to the Pythagorean community. He never recognized the fixed stars as any kind of sphere or object. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philolaus_of_Tarentum Wikipedia entry];

From [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/philolaus/ the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]:

:Aristotle suggests that [the Counter-Earth] was introduced to raise the number of heavenly bodies around the central fire from nine to ten, which the Pythagoreans regarded as the perfect number (Arist., Metaph. 986a8-12). Some scholars have objected that, if we count the central fire, the introduction of the counter earth makes eleven bodies in Philolaus' system (Kingsley 1995, 174); the ancient evidence consistently talks in terms of bodies arranged or moving around the central fire, however, and obviously the central fire cannot be counted as one of these (Aetius 2.7.7; Arist., Fr. 203 and Metaph. 986a10), so that Aristotle's explanation retains considerable plausibility.

:[...]

:Thus an obvious objection to the system is that we never observe the central fire at the center of the universe. Philolaus explained this by supposing that the earth rotates once on its axis as it orbits the central fire, so that our side of the earth is always turned away from the central fire and hence we never see it. This is also why we never see the counter earth, which is evidently supposed to move at the same speed as the earth.

'''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"

'''Phosgene''' 
953; means "born of light" - Chlorine + CO

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

'''Piggot's''' 
678;

'''Pigs''' 
Circe, 117; "pigs can fly" 427; "'''P'''itch '''I'''ntegrity '''G'''uard" 421; 847; 1051;

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

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

'''Pino and Rocco''' 
854; back in Venice;

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

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

'''Pityu''' 
914; telepathic waiter at Café-Restaurant Otthon.

'''Pivoine, Professeur''' 
851; "neighborhood couturier of flesh wounds" in Nice;

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

'''plasmic hysteresis''' 
555;

'''Plebecula''' 
1076; Reef's and Yashmeen's baby

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

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

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

'''Policarpe''' 
527, member of Young Congo in Ostend same hotel as Kit;1077, acquaintance of Kit's, with Dally in Paris

'''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''

'''Ponko, Father''' 
957; hegumen at convent, with the Tetractys tattoed on his forehead

'''Porfirio, Don (1830-1915)''' 
923; José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori (sometimes Díaz Mory) was a Mexican-American War volunteer, French Intervention hero, and President. He ruled Mexico from 1876 to 1880 and from 1884 to 1911.

'''Poussin''' 
590; In 1896, both [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Jean_de_la_Vall%C3%A9e-Poussin Charles-Jean de la Vallée Poussin] (1866-1962) of Belgium and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Hadamard Jacques-Salomon Hadamard] (1865-1963) of France independently proved the Prime Number Theorem which states that as ''n'' approaches infinity, π(''n'') approaches ''n''ln ''n'', where π(n) is the number of positive prime numbers not greater than ''n''.

'''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].

'''Prance, Lieutenant Dwight''' 
761; "scholar of geography and languages at Cambridge"; working for Whitehall, 778;

'''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; at Gottingen, 911;

'''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; retired to Lincolnwood, 1041;

'''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]

'''Prokladka, Colonel Yevgeny''' 
754; Auberon Halfcourt's "Russian opposite number"

'''Promio, Albert (1868-1928)''' 
854; French filmmaker "and his crew from Lumière of Paris" - his film, shot from a gondola, in the Malibran theatre; Lumière operator, often known as just A. Promio, mistakenly called Eugène Promio in some sources (also Georges, Albert etc.). In 1897, he made the first traveling shot of cinema history by placing his camera on a gondola in Venice, Italy.

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

'''Provenance, Wren''' 
"girl anthropologist" 275; Frank Traverse's "favorite back-east girl anthropologist" 922;

'''Prudge, Oleander''' 
263; hash-slinger at Nonpareil Eating House;

'''Premulkoff, Namaz''' 
752; escaped prisoner in Samarkand

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

'''Pugnax''' 
5; (Latin: ''pugnax'' = fond of fighting) sentient canine aboard ''The Inconvenience''; 17; Also, there's a bird called the Ruff (''Philomachus pugnax'') which is a medium-sized wader; cuisine, 111; 143; Buddha nature, 412; security of ''Inconvenience'' left to, 443; "sophisticated defensive system" 550;

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

'''Putyanin''' 
755; "cavalry rogue" who said he'd had Vanya's girlfriend Feodora in St. Petersburg;

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

'''Pythagoras''' 
500; Pythagoreans, 633; mathematician, philosopher and mystic (c. 569 BCE–c. 475 BCE). Born in Samos, Ionia, he traveled in Egypt and eventually founded a school in Croton, located in what is now southern Italy. He is the earliest person known to have given a systematic proof of the geometrical proposition now called the Pythagorean Theorem; he or his close followers discovered the irrational numbers and the three-dimensional shape called the [http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/dodecahedron/ dodecahedron]. Furthermore, Pythagoras coined the term ''cosmos'' to express the order and patterning of nature, was the first to give observations showing that the Earth is spherical, and performed significant early experiments in judging how humans perceive sound. Any of these accomplishments would have earned Pythagoras an honorable place in the history of science, but his behavior and that of his followers contained "deep ironies and contradictions," to use Carl Sagan's phrase. Pythagorean doctrine taught that knowledge should be kept secret from the masses, and moreover that the only way to understand the Cosmos was inner contemplation of mathematical ideas without observation or experiment. This attitude stands in stark contrast to the practical approach of Thales (c. 624 BCE - c. 547), Democritus (c. 460 BCE - c. 370 BCE) and other Ionians who grounded their speculations much more fully in observation. Elaborated and immortalized by Plato (c. 428 BCE - c. 348 BCE), the Pythagorean doctrine became a font of anti-rationalism. [http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Pythagoras.html MacTutor biography]; [[Pythagorean Theory of Music and Color]]; [[Pythagorean Numbers]]; 749; and music, 940; 957;

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'''St. Barbara''' 
81; According to legend, Saint Barbara was the extremely beautiful daughter of a wealthy heathen named Dioscorus, who lived near Nicomedia in Asia Minor, in the 4th Century AD. Because of her singular beauty and fearful that she be demanded in marriage and taken away from him, he jealously shut her up in a tower to protect her from the outside world. When Barbara converted to Christianity, her enraged father killed her and was subsequently struck down by lightening. St. Barbara was venerated as early as the seventh century. The legend of the lightning bolt which struck down her father caused her to be regarded as the patron saint in time of danger from thunderstorms, fires and sudden death. When gunpowder made its appearance in the Western world, Saint Barbara was invoked for aid against accidents resulting from explosions since some of the earlier artillery pieces often blew up instead of firing their projectile, Saint Barbara became the patroness of the artillerymen.[http://sill-www.army.mil/pao/pabarbar.htm From this website.] According to Codex Vaticanos 866 ([http://www.bergbaumuseum.at/Barbaralegende.htm german translation]) and the [http://www.aug.edu/augusta/iconography/goldenLegend/barbara.htm Golden Legend], St. Barbara, when fleeing her father prayed and "marvellously" a stone/rock took her in and released her on top of a mountain. That^s probably why she is patroness of miners, too. The [http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/book/dec4.html wilsonalmanac] lists some interesting facts about St. Barbara customs around the world. There seems to be a special icelandic St. Barbara legend but all i could find out is that [http://scandinavian.wisc.edu/wolf/index.html Kirsten Wolf] edited a book called "The Old Norse-Icelandic Legend of Saint Barbara"

'''St. Cosmo, Randolph''' 
24; Ship Commander of ''The Inconvenience''

'''St. Masque''' 
108; Indian Ocean island; volcano, 109;

'''St. Paul''' 
107; Indian Ocean island

'''Saint-Saëns, Camille''' 
27; his "wonderful 'Bacchanale'"; from his opera "Samson and Delila which premiered in Weimar, Germany on December 2, 1877; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Saint-Sa%C3%ABns Wikipedia entry]

'''''Saksaul'', H.M.S.F.''' 
425; The ''saksaul'' is a plant/tree native to the deserts of Central Asia, particularly the Gobi desert where some believe Shambhala lies underground; it has a very hard wood and is covered with knobs [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxaul Wikipedia] [http://www.pbase.com/william_sokolenko/image/68724037 pic]; "subdesertine craft" 432; 434; attacked, 444;

'''Salisbury, Lord (1830-1903)''' 
58; Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, known as Lord Robert Cecil before 1865 and as Viscount Cranborne from 1865 until 1868, was a British statesman and Prime Minister on three occasions, for a total of over 13 years; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gascoyne-Cecil%2C_3rd_Marquess_of_Salisbury Wikipedia entry]

'''Sananzolo, Ettore''' 
571; engineer at mirror factory in Venice

'''Sanatorium Böfli-Spazzoletta''' 
692; "Bright red private hostel stamp"

'''sand-fleas''' 
440; aka ''Chong pir'' ("big lice"), live under the desert and feed on human blood; ''Pulex'';

'''Sands, Captain''' 
444; aka Inspector at Whitehall in London; 607; "Inspector Sands" is a code phrase used on the London Underground to alert authorities of a potential emergency without causing panic amongst travellers. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_Sands Wikipedia entry]

'''San Miguel County''' 
80; where Merle Rideout and Dally lived, in Colorado

'''Santos-Dumont, Monsieur''' 
529; 576;

'''sap-head''' 
7; a fool: a person who lacks good judgment

'''Saracens''' 
436; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saracen Wikipedia entry]

'''Saratoga chips''' 
39; Potato chips; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saratoga_chips Wikipedia entry]

'''Satan''' 
"some ruler of some underworld," 231; "the Evil One," 333; Darby's and Chick's faith that Dr. Zoot "will prove not altogether diabolical," 403; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satan Wikipedia entry]

'''Scent''' 
See '''Smell''', below.

'''''Schicksal, das''''' 
635; german: fate, destiny

'''Schiff, Jacob Henry''' 
131; banker [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Schiff Wikipedia Entry]

'''Schmidt, Chief''' 
59; Cleveland cop

'''Schwärmer''' 
613; gas pressure;

'''Schwartz''' 
511; mathematician at University of Berlin

'''Scioto''' 
66;

'''Scorcher cap''' 
42; "In […]1892 [… a] bicyclist to be considered genuine had to be dressed in bicycle clothes. A man had to wear bicycle pants which were baggy at the top and tight to the legs below. Then he had to have bicycle socks and shoes. The shoes were made of canvass. Then he had to have a loose fitting grey colored shirt which we would designate now as a sport shirt. Then on his head he had to wear a tight fitting cap with a long bill in front, the longer the better up to a certain ceiling length. With this outfit and a bicycle with drop handlebars he was ready to appear in public as a real cyclist. If he could make 20 miles an hour on a good track he was called a "scorcher," the idea being that he was going so fast that he would scorch at least the end of his nose if nothing else." (From [http://www.velorution.biz/?p=1288 this website...])

'''Screaming''' 
145; 404; 440;

'''scuttlebutt''' 
3; The origin of the word scuttlebutt which is nautical parlance for a rumor, comes from a combination of scuttle - to make a hole in the ship's side causing her to sink - and butt - a cask or hogshead used in the days of wooden ships to hold drinking water; thus the term scuttlebutt means a cask with a hole in it. Scuttle; describes what most rumors accomplish if not to the ship, at least to morale. (from [http://www.goatlocker.org The Goat Locker Website])

'''Secret Service''' 
94; "to keep the President from gettin shot [...] and go after counterfeiters"

'''Self-reference''' 
117; "my harmless little intraterrestrial scherzo"; "Hundreds, by now thousands, of narratives, all equally valid what can this mean?" 681-82;

'''Semana Santa''' 
376; Easter or Holy Week; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semana_Santa Wikipedia entry]

'''Sempitern''' 
452; Candlebrow's canoeable river

'''Sentience''' 
177;

'''Sentient Rocksters''' 
133; 149;

'''Sergei, Grand Duke''' 
595; assassinated;

'''Serpents'''
"serpentine hypnosis," "serpent-like," 141; 145; 195; "Serpent in the Garden was never symbolic," 223; "Aztec foundation story of the eagle and the serpent

'''Seurat, Georges-Pierre (1859-1891)''' 
584; French painter and the founder of Neoimpressionism. His large work ''Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte'' is one of the icons of 19th century painting; 587; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Seurat Wikipedia entry]

'''Seven Sisters''' 
159;

'''Sfinciuno Itinerary''' 
248; "a map or chart of post-Polo routes into Asia, believed by many to lead to the hidden city of Shambhala itself" 248; "not a geographical map at all"? 425; Alonzo Meatman arrives with a copy of the "enigmatic map." 436; "additional level of encryption" 437; [[Sfinciuno Itinerary|DISCUSSION]]

'''''Shabotshi''''' 
390; The Tarahumare Indians of the Sierra Madre, one of the least known among the Mexican tribes, live in caves to such an extent that they may properly be termed the American Cave-Dwellers of today. In their iconography, the devil is always represented with a beard, and the Tarahumari call Mexicans "Shabotshi" ("the bearded ones"); [[Tarahumare Indians|About the Tarahumare Indians]]

'''Shakespeare''' 
344; 385;

'''Shambhala''' 
248; 259; 435; In Tibetan Buddhist tradition, Shambhala (also spelled Shambala or Shamballa) is a mystical kingdom hidden somewhere beyond the snowpeaks of the Himalayas; 441; 609; "An ancient metropolis of the spiritual, some say inhabited by the living, others say empty, in ruins, buried someplace beneath the desert sands of Inner Asia. And of course there are always those who'll tell you that the true Shambhala lies within."" 628; 631; "the Pure Land" 686; 718; 793; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shambhala Wikipedia entry] [[Shambhala|Notes on Shambhala in the Gobi Desert]]

'''Shambles''' 
The Chicago Stockyards, 10; "'End of the line for you all,'" 82; "Ireland has become a literal shambles," 230; "great planetary killing-floor," 443;

'''Shorty''' 
506; ship's cook near Krakatoa

'''Siege of Paris''' 
19;

'''Signat''' 
584;

'''Sigurd, King''' 
127;

'''Sillery''' 
162; drinking;

'''Siluro Dirigibile a Lenta Corsa''' 
529; 706;

<div id="silveract">'''Silver Act'''</div>
89; repeal of in 1893, 89; President Cleveland, convinced that the Sherman Silver Act, passed in 1890, was the cause of the drain on the U.S. gold reserves, called a special session of congress and convinced them to repeal the Act. [[Sherman Silver Act|Read more...]]; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Silver_Purchase_Act Wikipedia entry]

'''single up all lines''' 
3; 442;

'''Sipido''' 
528; Anarchist assassin

[[Image:ball-lightning.jpg|thumb|Ball Lightning|right]]'''Skip''' 
73; sentient ball lightning; Ball lightning reportedly takes the form of a short-lived, glowing, floating object often the size and shape of a basketball, but it can also be golf ball sized or smaller. It is sometimes associated with thunderstorms, but unlike lightning flashes arcing between two points, which last a small fraction of a second, ball lightning reportedly lasts many seconds. There have been some reports of production of a similar phenomenon in the laboratory, but some still disagree on whether it is a real phenomenon; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning Wikipedia entry]

'''sky-dogs''' 
14; canines who rode in the airships

'''Sloane laboratory''' 
29;

'''Sloper, Phoebe''' 
486; childhood friend of Tace Boilster's;

'''''Slow and the Stupified, The''''' 
611;

'''"Smegmo"''' 
407; "an artificial substitute for everything in the edible-fat category, including margarine"

'''Smell''' 
6; 70; Chums "guided only by their sense of smell," 115; "a ''scent'', a sea-smell of deep decay and reproduction," 127; "scentless snow walls," 142; 144; 297; 382; 388; "a strong polyaromatic gust, exhaled from the lungs of Depravity herself," 399; "'Gotta use ah snoot,'" "'till ah snoot tells us we're dere,'" 401; "odor of spilled . . . whiskey," 403; "the smell of excrement and dead tissue," 404; "Nasotemporal Transit," 408;

'''Smoked Haddock''' 
447; one of Gaspereaux's many "locals" in London

'''Smokestacks''' 
10; 243; cf., '''Towers of Silence'''

'''Snakes''' 
See '''Serpent''', above.

'''Snazzbury, Dr.''' 
500; of Oxford University, "Snazzbury's Silent Frock";

'''Snidell, Bert''' 
75; former husband of Erlys; Dally's biological dad who died before she was born, 357;

'''Snidell sisters''' 
573;

'''Socialism''' 
32;

'''Soltera, E. B.''' 
644; Dwayne's contact in Juarez Regeneration Equipment;

'''Somble, Strool & Fleshway''' 
34; Scarsdale Vibe's attorneys; 455;

'''South Seas Pavilion''' 
26; at the Chicago World's Fair

'''Spazzoletta''' 
669; 670;

'''Ssagan (talking reindeer) 
785;

'''Spectral Theory''' 
603;

'''Spengler, Dr.''' 
412;

'''Spielmacher, Herr''' 
615; International Manager - Bank of Prussia;

'''Spongiatosta, Principessa''' 
582; semi-notorious aquaintance of H. Penhallow; Spongia Toasta ("roasted sponge") is a homeopathic remedy for goitre and other thyroid problems. [http://www.elixirs.com/spongia.cfm elixirs.com]

'''Spooninger, Bing''' 
419; "Mouthorganman Apprentice"

'''Squanto and the Pilgrims''' 
416;

'''Standard Oil''' 
101;

'''Stein, Aurel''' 
436;

'''Steve, aka Ramon''' 
638; in Mexico (recall Foppl's in ''V.'');

'''Stiftskaserne''' 
703; Military barracks area in Vienna; The Stiftskaserne tower was the most heavily-armed Vienna flak tower, mounting four twin 128mm guns.

'''Stinerite''' 
528;

'''Stockmen's Hotel''' 
31;

'''Stockyards''' 
See '''Shambles''', above.

'''Stockton, Bob''' 
368; his bar in Denver

'''''stranniki''''' 
663; wandering men in Russia

'''Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)''' 
498; German composer of the late Romantic era, particularly noted for his tone poems and operas. He was also a noted conductor; ''Salome'' opera, 626; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Strauss Wikipedia entry]; [http://www.richardstrauss.at/html/index.html The Official Richard Strauss Website]

'''straw "skimmer"''' 
13; straw hat with a narrow brim, popular boating hat during the 1890's;

'''Stuffed Edge''' 
609; "remote and horrible town of..."; a perversely English pizza reference; [http://www.google.com/search?q=%22stuffed+edge%22+pizza Google search]

'''''Stupendica, S.S.''''' 
356; liner takes Zombini's to Europe; distinct versions of, 514; "latent identity as the battleship H.M.S. ''Emperor Maximilian''" 515; "Liner-to-Battleship Effect" 518; "Two-''Stupendica'' problem" 521;

'''sub-Clerkenwell trinket''' 
489;

'''Suckling, Darby''' 
3; the baby of the ''Inconvenience'' crew who serves "as both factotum and mascotte"; 109-110; as "Ship's Legal Officer," 398;

'''Sue, Marie Eugène (1804-1857)''' 
125; a ''roman-feuilleton'' by; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Sue M. Eugène Sue] was a French novelist, born in Paris. A ''feuilleton'' (a diminutive of French ''feuillet'', the leaf of a book) was originally a kind of supplement attached to the political portion of French newspapers. A ''roman-feuilleton'' is a serialized novel;

'''Svegli, Professore''' 
569; University of Pisa

'''Swedes''' 
441;

'''Swinburne''' 
535;

'''Swome, Lionel''' 
628; T.W.I.T. travel coordinator; 668; 720;

'''Symmetry''' 
537;

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'''''Kreditbrief''''' 
German: letter of credit.

==Page 616==

'''Auditorienhaus''' 
Building housing auditoriums (and in this case a library).

'''''Habilitationsschrift''''' 
In Germany a new faculty member presents a lecture or, in this case, a thesis on taking up office.

'''''Achphänomen''''' 
German: the "aha" phenomenon.

'''''Tchetvyortoye Izmereniye''''' 
Today more likely transliterated ''Chetvertoe izmerenie.'' Russian: (the) fourth dimension.

'''''"Yob tvoyu mat'"''''' 
Russian: Fuck your mother. It's as impolite as it looks, but used way more often than in English.

'''Otzovists''' 
A splinter Bolshevik faction. The name comes from the noun ''otzyv'' meaning "recall"; it does not mean "god-builders." The group (existing under this name only in 1908-9) demanded the recall of Social Democrats from the national legislature.

==Page 617==

'''above this galley-slave repetition of days''' 
ATD motif i.e. rebel against the quotidian day.

'''the already seen''' 
. . . which we know better under the French term ''déjà vu.''

'''Staring at the wallpaper.'''
A parallel to Kovalevskaya, whose father used Ostrogradsky notes to cover
the walls. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia_Kovalevskaia wiki]

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'''''Schnitte''''' 
Plural of ''Schnitt.'' German: cuts.

'''''nichevo''''' 
Russian: nothing.

'''if it doesn't work with gold, the next step will be lead''' 
Cowboy alchemy. If you can't settle your dispute with money, you will have to shoot it out.

'''it's this damned English practice of talking in code''' 
Refers to commonly noted English cultural tendency to avoid direct expression in conversation.

==Page 619==

'''''Bierstube''''' 
German: tavern, beer hall.

==Page 620==

'''eidolon'''
From Greek: image, picture.

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'''Reckon ''yo tengo que'' get ''el'' fuck out of ''aquí''''' 
Macaronic Spanish/English: Reckon I'd better get the fuck out of here.

'''''Zum Mickifest! Komm, komm!''''' 
German: To the Mickey party, come, come! "Mickey Finn" = knockout drops such as chloral hydrate (see any film noir).

'''''K.O.-Tropfen''''' 
German: K.O. (= knockout) drops.

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'''Group-theoretical implications''' 
Introductions to group theory often use "symmetry under rotation" as an illustration. You can rotate a square 90 degrees and get the same square, and likewise 180 and 270 degrees, so the square has fourfold symmetry. Here Gottlob applies a similar concept to the printed words ''pun'' and ''und,'' which alternate with every 180 degree rotation.

'''''Gottlob! Wo ist deine Spritze?''''' 
German: Gottlob, where is your syringe?

'''''"Streng reserviert für den Elefanten!"''''' 
German: Strictly reserved for the elephant (not elephants).

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'''Noncommutative . . . Asymmetric''' 
A relation like "cures" is ''commutative'' if "A cures B" implies that "B cures A" and vice versa. Here the situation is fuzzier because a total cure is not at issue: "Chloral alleviates the effects of strychnine" and "Strychnine alleviates the effects of chloral" are both true, so ''noncommutative'' doesn't quite apply, but one is more true than the other, so ''asymmetric'' is a better choice of word.

'''''Verfluchte cowboy!''''' 
German: Damn cowboy! (should be ''Verfluchter Cowboy'')

'''''Achtung, Schwester!''''' 
German: Hey, Nurse!

'''''Klapsmühle''''' 
German: nut factory. (''Er hat einen Klaps'' means "He's nutty"; ''Mühle'' is a mill.)

'''one of his canonical outfits''' 
"Canonicals" is a term for priestly vestments. 
But also, in the psychology of perception, means 'typical' or 'most easily recognised as'

'''Dr. Willi Dingkopf''' 
German: Thinghead. Possibly, given other meanings of "thing", Dickhead.

==Page 625==

'''"Cantor is a practicing Lutheran." "With a name like that? Please." 
The church of St. Thomas (Thomaskirche) in Leipzig had a staff member called Cantor or Kantor. Noted Lutheran Johann Sebastian Bach held the position in his prime years. On the other hand, ''Kantor'' is a rather common family name among Jews of Polish origin.

'''''Kolonie''''' 
German: colony, compound.

'''certain odors''' 
cf. p. 408

'''someone . . . whom Kit . . . assumed was a guard''' 
Outright grammatical errors ''in the narrative voice'' are quite rare. Parse this as "someone who/whom (Kit assumed) was a guard" and the correct choice of pronoun becomes clearer. Another way of looking at the phrase: did Kit assume someone? No, he assumed a proposition about someone: "someone was a guard." When the subject of that is transformed to "who/whom" for the purpose of linking it into the sentence, it remains the subject, not the object: "who was a guard." [[User:Volver|Volver]] 06:47, 3 January 2007 (PST)

'''''So Gut Wie Neu''''' 
German: as good as new.

'''Dirigible Field''' 
The inmates' occupational therapy is a disguise for constructing this landing facility.

'''a real Dirigible''' 
The inmates have established a cargo cult [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult Wikipedia article] or maybe more of a [http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/ufos.html UFO cult.]

'''Doofland''' 
German ''doof'' means comically stupid (possibly an origin of English "doofus").

'''O Tempora, O Mores''' 
Latin: Oh, the times! Oh, the customs! (Was there really music under this title?)

'''The Black Whale of Askalon''' 
"Im Schwarzen Walfisch zu Askalon," comic song. The "Black Whale" is a tavern in the ancient Persian town of Askalon. [http://www.grainger.de/music/songs/schwarzenwalfisch.html A paraphrase of the lyrics.]

==Page 626==

'''the head of Jochanaan''' 
In Strauss' opera ''Salome'' the title character asks for and receives as tribute John the Baptist's head on a platter. John in the opera is called Jochanaan.

'''the Five Jews''' 
???

'''''Judeamus igitur, Judenes dum su-hu-mus''''' 
German university students used to sing ''Gaudeamus igitur, juvenes dum sumus'' ("Then let us be joyful while we are young men"); the melody forms the climax of Brahms' "Academic Festival" overture. Dr. Dingkopf, obsessed or haunted, sings in bastard Latin, "Then let us Jew while we are Jews."

'''Ich Bin Ein Berliner''' 
JFK said "Ich bin ein Berliner" at the Berlin wall in 1963. According to Wikipedia, there is an urban legend: 
<blockquote>Kennedy should have said "Ich bin Berliner" to mean "I am a person from Berlin." By adding the indefinite article ein, his statement implied he was a non-human Berliner, thus "I am a jelly doughnut". The statement was followed by uproarious laughter.</blockquote> 
However, Wikipedia goes on to state: <blockquote>There is no grammatical error in Kennedy's statement; the indefinite article does not change its meaning. In German, the statement of origin "Ich bin ein Brandenburger" (I am a Brandenburger) is more common than "Ich bin Brandenburger" (I am Brandenburger), but both are correct. The article "ein" can be used as a form of emphasis: it implies "just one of many." As Kennedy did stress the "ein", the usage was, according to German linguist Jürgen Eichhoff [1], "not only correct, but the one and only correct way of expressing in German what the President intended to say."</blockquote> 
--[[User:Btchakir|Btchakir]] 07:51, 19 December 2006 (PST)

And Kennedy's motto drew tumultuous cheers, not laughter; the Berliners had no trouble understanding what he meant. --[[User:Volver|Volver]] 07:49, 3 January 2007 (PST)

'''''Konditerei''''' 
German: pastry shop.

'''''Puderzucker''''' 
German: powdered sugar.

==Page 628==

'''Halfcourt? what kind of a name is that?''' 
This is Dingkopf speaking, in the context of his obsession with Jewish infiltration of British society. "What kind of a name is that?" has the subtext "Is that a ''Jewish'' name?"

'''''Der Wall''''' 
In German there are at least three words for "wall": ''Wand'' (the wall of a room), ''Mauer'' (a masonry wall) and ''Wall'' (a wall of a fortification).

'''dotted quarter rest''' 
Musical notation: brief pause.

==Page 629==

'''Rheinpfalz''' 
A wine from the Rhine-Palatinate region in northern Germany.

'''Deidesheimer...Herrgottsacker...Hofstück''' 
Three different wines.

'''do a bunk''' 
Flee.

==Page 630==

'''Sidney Reilly''' 
Sidney Reilly, aka The Ace of Spies--a real early 20th century British--and other--intelligence agent [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Reilly].

'''hoosier''' 
Bumpkin; capitalized, it has a different meaning.

'''stans''' 
Countries of Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Turkestan, etc.). Possible anachronism; term gained currency after the breakup of the Soviet Union.

'''Kashgar''' 
Now called Kashi, a city in the extreme west of China; at the western end of the Taklimakan desert; a principal town of Chinese Turkestan.

'''Auberon Halfcourt''' 
The name Auberon is derived from Oberon and related to Alberich, the dwarf in Wagner's ''Ring'' cycle.

==Page 631==
'''"One vision ... spiritual, and the other, capitalist."''' 
Competing visions as to the significance of what lies buried beneath the sands in Central Asia. We have already seen a map that reflects [[ATD 243-272#Page 249|dual visions]] of the area. The Great Game competition shaping up in Asia is a continuation of a global 'metaphysical' conflict between materialist and integrationist tendencies.

'''lie doggo''' 
Go underground, maintain a low profile.

==Page 632==

'''Museum der Monstrositäten''' 
German: museum of monstrosities. ''Mathematical'' monstrosities.

'''motor diligence''' 
Motor taxi, as opposed to horse-drawn.

'''"An older Germany .... Deeper"''' 
Meaning pre-Christian Germany, as referenced earlier in the passage with the description 'witchlike'.

'''weapons somehow ''not yet decipherable''''' 
Rayguns.

==Page 633==

'''Knipfler...von Imbiss''' 
Neither one existed. Imbiss is German: snacks, fast food.

'''''Kot!''''' 
German: shit.

'''''zone of dual nature''''' 
One place that is two places: this peculiar Pynchonian form of bilocation again.

'''part "real"...part "pictorial" or let us say "fictional"''' 
Complex numbers are made up of a real number and an imaginary number (e.g "one plus the square root of negative one"), as AtD is made up of real and imaginary (fictional) parts, the effect of which (continuing into P.635) is described as "taking one beyond four dimensional environs...out into a timeless region..." This seems to be the goal of the protagonists, the author, and the reader.

==Page 634==

'''''Mengenlehre''''' 
German: set theory.

'''one is thrust . . . into a timeless region''' 
Like one of those funhouse rooms where gravity is reversed.

'''ZU DEN QUATERNIONEN''' 
German railway stations all have a big sign: ZU DEN ZÜGEN, to the trains. Here it's to the quaternions.

'''complex knife''' 
"part real and part imaginary", and there is a "real" reproduction nearby. These are ''aides memoires'', inspirations--perhaps the dimensions beyond are literally located in imagination, mental spaces.

==Page 635==

'''The Kaiser now seeks in Mexico . . . opportunities for mischief toward the U.S.''' 
Now and for years to come: America's entry into World War One was spurred in part by the Kaiser's offer to return part of the Southwest to Mexico.

'''''Rosinenkacker''''' 
German: one who shits raisins. More commonly "Korinthenkacker", insulting term for a very pedantic person.

'''a world line...never travel''' 
A world line is a tensor, a four-dimensional vector through space ''and'' time, therefore a history.

'''''Ach, das Schicksal''''' 
German: ah, fate.

'''chloral to coffee''' 
A depressant to a stimulant, antipodal (opposite) effects on neuronal function.

==Page 636==

'''Children''' 
The preceding sections are a concise, riotous, poignant summary of life at an institute of higher learning; students and to some extent faculty are, notoriously, children at play. Yashmeen, Kit and Gunther are graduating, without diplomas but going out of the hothouse atmosphere of the University into the "real world". But given the preceding 5 pages, how real is that?

'''The next time you visit...''' 
The University never looks the same after graduation; also, nothing ever does: Heraclitus' dictum that no man ever steps in the same river twice. Time (''pace'' Proust) cannot be reclaimed (even if you can find the tesseract's entrance again)because even if you go back in time, you are not the same person you were; you have been changed by experience.

'''"You know who I am."''' 
??

==Page 637==

'''"El Atildado"''' 
Spanish: the neat man. But it also suggests "the man marked with a tilde" (see page 600). When reading this passage aloud, think about how to stress the word "also" in "a gift Günther von Quassel had ''also'' been blessed with."

In mathematical notation, the tilde "~" means "approximately".

==Page 638==

'''''Bohnen''''' 
German: beans

'''Maragogype''' 
As Gunther says, a variety of coffee bean, large in size, grown in Mexico and Central America [http://coffeeplus.com.au/coffees/7443.html].

'''Arbuckles''' 
Not only a brand of coffee, but a method of preparation also known as "Cowboy Coffee" similar to Turkish/Greek coffee in that boiling the grounds in the water [http://www.ineedcoffee.com/02/04/cowboycoffee/]. Synonymous here with "plain old, unfancified coffee"--perhaps a swipe at 21st century coffee gourmets and at Starbucks. Another paramorphic-mirror image of the early 21st century in the early 20th.

'''''el otro lado''''' 
Spanish: the other side (in one sense or other).

'''bucket shop''' 
A stock swindle, in which one set of trades is reported to the customer, while the brokerage is really using the money in other, usually riskier trades ("bucketing").

'''[S]louching away into the yellow opacity, he invited them all up to a wingding [...] that evening.''' 
Compare with T.S. Eliot's ''Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'':

<blockquote>
The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes 
Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening</blockquote>
[[User:Bean|remy]] 09:52, 28 December 2006 (PST)

==Page 639==

'''''adios chingamadre''''' 
Spanish: goodbye, motherfucker.

'''unnatural boom''' 
Another paramorphic mirroring of the 21st/20th centuries; tech stock boom/bust of ~2000.

==Page 640==

'''Schnecken rigs''' 
Circular magazine resembling a schnecken pastry?

'''anti-Porfiristas''' 
Opponents of the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz, hence left wing. Eventually, ten years later, to become the Mexican Revolution led by Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata.

==Page 641==

'''Mondragóns will get you through''' 
Echoes the wonderful 1970s slogan "Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope."

==Page 642==

'''La Fotinga Huasteca''' 
''Fotinga'' is Spanish: jalopy. ''Huasteca'' is a region of the Sierra Madre Oriental north of San Luis Potosí. A local equivalent to "Tijuana Taxi"?

'''''batería''''' 
Spanish: battery (collection of percussion instruments).

'''[T]hat dirty li'l back-shootin Bob Ford.''' 
Ford shot notorious outlaw Jesse James in the back on April 3, 1882; Ford himself was shotgunned to death in 1892. The event inspired one Billy Gashade to pen the verse that became the popular folk ballad "Jesse James," recorded by Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen, and many others. 
[[User:bnilsson|bnilsson]] 01:41, 2 January 2007 (EDT)

'''eight seconds . . . rodeo''' 
A bull rider must stay aboard for eight seconds to score.

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==Page 615==

'''''Kreditbrief''''' 
German: letter of credit.

==Page 616==

'''Auditorienhaus''' 
Building housing auditoriums (and in this case a library).

'''''Habilitationsschrift''''' 
In Germany a new faculty member presents a lecture or, in this case, a thesis on taking up office.

'''''Achphänomen''''' 
German: the "aha" phenomenon.

'''''Tchetvyortoye Izmereniye''''' 
Today more likely transliterated ''Chetvertoe izmerenie.'' Russian: (the) fourth dimension.

'''''"Yob tvoyu mat'"''''' 
Russian: Fuck your mother. It's as impolite as it looks, but used way more often than in English.

'''Otzovists''' 
A splinter Bolshevik faction. The name comes from the noun ''otzyv'' meaning "recall"; it does not mean "god-builders." The group (existing under this name only in 1908-9) demanded the recall of Social Democrats from the national legislature.

==Page 617==

'''above this galley-slave repetition of days''' 
ATD motif i.e. rebel against the quotidian day.

'''the already seen''' 
. . . which we know better under the French term ''déjà vu.''

'''Staring at the wallpaper.'''
A parallel to Kovalevskaya, whose father used Ostrogradsky notes to cover the walls.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia_Kovalevskaia wiki]

==Page 618==

'''''Schnitte''''' 
Plural of ''Schnitt.'' German: cuts.

'''''nichevo''''' 
Russian: nothing.

'''if it doesn't work with gold, the next step will be lead''' 
Cowboy alchemy. If you can't settle your dispute with money, you will have to shoot it out.

'''it's this damned English practice of talking in code''' 
Refers to commonly noted English cultural tendency to avoid direct expression in conversation.

==Page 619==

'''''Bierstube''''' 
German: tavern, beer hall.

==Page 620==

'''eidolon'''
From Greek: image, picture.

==Page 621==

'''Reckon ''yo tengo que'' get ''el'' fuck out of ''aquí''''' 
Macaronic Spanish/English: Reckon I'd better get the fuck out of here.

'''''Zum Mickifest! Komm, komm!''''' 
German: To the Mickey party, come, come! "Mickey Finn" = knockout drops such as chloral hydrate (see any film noir).

'''''K.O.-Tropfen''''' 
German: K.O. (= knockout) drops.

==Page 622==

'''Group-theoretical implications''' 
Introductions to group theory often use "symmetry under rotation" as an illustration. You can rotate a square 90 degrees and get the same square, and likewise 180 and 270 degrees, so the square has fourfold symmetry. Here Gottlob applies a similar concept to the printed words ''pun'' and ''und,'' which alternate with every 180 degree rotation.

'''''Gottlob! Wo ist deine Spritze?''''' 
German: Gottlob, where is your syringe?

'''''"Streng reserviert für den Elefanten!"''''' 
German: Strictly reserved for the elephant (not elephants).

==Page 623==

'''Noncommutative . . . Asymmetric''' 
A relation like "cures" is ''commutative'' if "A cures B" implies that "B cures A" and vice versa. Here the situation is fuzzier because a total cure is not at issue: "Chloral alleviates the effects of strychnine" and "Strychnine alleviates the effects of chloral" are both true, so ''noncommutative'' doesn't quite apply, but one is more true than the other, so ''asymmetric'' is a better choice of word.

'''''Verfluchte cowboy!''''' 
German: Damn cowboy! (should be ''Verfluchter Cowboy'')

'''''Achtung, Schwester!''''' 
German: Hey, Nurse!

'''''Klapsmühle''''' 
German: nut factory. (''Er hat einen Klaps'' means "He's nutty"; ''Mühle'' is a mill.)

'''one of his canonical outfits''' 
"Canonicals" is a term for priestly vestments. 
But also, in the psychology of perception, means 'typical' or 'most easily recognised as'

'''Dr. Willi Dingkopf''' 
German: Thinghead. Possibly, given other meanings of "thing", Dickhead.

==Page 625==

'''"Cantor is a practicing Lutheran." "With a name like that? Please." 
The church of St. Thomas (Thomaskirche) in Leipzig had a staff member called Cantor or Kantor. Noted Lutheran Johann Sebastian Bach held the position in his prime years. On the other hand, ''Kantor'' is a rather common family name among Jews of Polish origin.

'''''Kolonie''''' 
German: colony, compound.

'''certain odors''' 
cf. p. 408

'''someone . . . whom Kit . . . assumed was a guard''' 
Outright grammatical errors ''in the narrative voice'' are quite rare. Parse this as "someone who/whom (Kit assumed) was a guard" and the correct choice of pronoun becomes clearer. Another way of looking at the phrase: did Kit assume someone? No, he assumed a proposition about someone: "someone was a guard." When the subject of that is transformed to "who/whom" for the purpose of linking it into the sentence, it remains the subject, not the object: "who was a guard." [[User:Volver|Volver]] 06:47, 3 January 2007 (PST)

'''''So Gut Wie Neu''''' 
German: as good as new.

'''Dirigible Field''' 
The inmates' occupational therapy is a disguise for constructing this landing facility.

'''a real Dirigible''' 
The inmates have established a cargo cult [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult Wikipedia article] or maybe more of a [http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/ufos.html UFO cult.]

'''Doofland''' 
German ''doof'' means comically stupid (possibly an origin of English "doofus").

'''O Tempora, O Mores''' 
Latin: Oh, the times! Oh, the customs! (Was there really music under this title?)

'''The Black Whale of Askalon''' 
"Im Schwarzen Walfisch zu Askalon," comic song. The "Black Whale" is a tavern in the ancient Persian town of Askalon. [http://www.grainger.de/music/songs/schwarzenwalfisch.html A paraphrase of the lyrics.]

==Page 626==

'''the head of Jochanaan''' 
In Strauss' opera ''Salome'' the title character asks for and receives as tribute John the Baptist's head on a platter. John in the opera is called Jochanaan.

'''the Five Jews''' 
???

'''''Judeamus igitur, Judenes dum su-hu-mus''''' 
German university students used to sing ''Gaudeamus igitur, juvenes dum sumus'' ("Then let us be joyful while we are young men"); the melody forms the climax of Brahms' "Academic Festival" overture. Dr. Dingkopf, obsessed or haunted, sings in bastard Latin, "Then let us Jew while we are Jews."

'''Ich Bin Ein Berliner''' 
JFK said "Ich bin ein Berliner" at the Berlin wall in 1963. According to Wikipedia, there is an urban legend: 
<blockquote>Kennedy should have said "Ich bin Berliner" to mean "I am a person from Berlin." By adding the indefinite article ein, his statement implied he was a non-human Berliner, thus "I am a jelly doughnut". The statement was followed by uproarious laughter.</blockquote> 
However, Wikipedia goes on to state: <blockquote>There is no grammatical error in Kennedy's statement; the indefinite article does not change its meaning. In German, the statement of origin "Ich bin ein Brandenburger" (I am a Brandenburger) is more common than "Ich bin Brandenburger" (I am Brandenburger), but both are correct. The article "ein" can be used as a form of emphasis: it implies "just one of many." As Kennedy did stress the "ein", the usage was, according to German linguist Jürgen Eichhoff [1], "not only correct, but the one and only correct way of expressing in German what the President intended to say."</blockquote> 
--[[User:Btchakir|Btchakir]] 07:51, 19 December 2006 (PST)

And Kennedy's motto drew tumultuous cheers, not laughter; the Berliners had no trouble understanding what he meant. --[[User:Volver|Volver]] 07:49, 3 January 2007 (PST)

'''''Konditerei''''' 
German: pastry shop.

'''''Puderzucker''''' 
German: powdered sugar.

==Page 628==

'''Halfcourt? what kind of a name is that?''' 
This is Dingkopf speaking, in the context of his obsession with Jewish infiltration of British society. "What kind of a name is that?" has the subtext "Is that a ''Jewish'' name?"

'''''Der Wall''''' 
In German there are at least three words for "wall": ''Wand'' (the wall of a room), ''Mauer'' (a masonry wall) and ''Wall'' (a wall of a fortification).

'''dotted quarter rest''' 
Musical notation: brief pause.

==Page 629==

'''Rheinpfalz''' 
A wine from the Rhine-Palatinate region in northern Germany.

'''Deidesheimer...Herrgottsacker...Hofstück''' 
Three different wines.

'''do a bunk''' 
Flee.

==Page 630==

'''Sidney Reilly''' 
Sidney Reilly, aka The Ace of Spies--a real early 20th century British--and other--intelligence agent [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Reilly].

'''hoosier''' 
Bumpkin; capitalized, it has a different meaning.

'''stans''' 
Countries of Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Turkestan, etc.). Possible anachronism; term gained currency after the breakup of the Soviet Union.

'''Kashgar''' 
Now called Kashi, a city in the extreme west of China; at the western end of the Taklimakan desert; a principal town of Chinese Turkestan.

'''Auberon Halfcourt''' 
The name Auberon is derived from Oberon and related to Alberich, the dwarf in Wagner's ''Ring'' cycle.

==Page 631==
'''"One vision ... spiritual, and the other, capitalist."''' 
Competing visions as to the significance of what lies buried beneath the sands in Central Asia. We have already seen a map that reflects [[ATD 243-272#Page 249|dual visions]] of the area. The Great Game competition shaping up in Asia is a continuation of a global 'metaphysical' conflict between materialist and integrationist tendencies.

'''lie doggo''' 
Go underground, maintain a low profile.

==Page 632==

'''Museum der Monstrositäten''' 
German: museum of monstrosities. ''Mathematical'' monstrosities.

'''motor diligence''' 
Motor taxi, as opposed to horse-drawn.

'''"An older Germany .... Deeper"''' 
Meaning pre-Christian Germany, as referenced earlier in the passage with the description 'witchlike'.

'''weapons somehow ''not yet decipherable''''' 
Rayguns.

==Page 633==

'''Knipfler...von Imbiss''' 
Neither one existed. Imbiss is German: snacks, fast food.

'''''Kot!''''' 
German: shit.

'''''zone of dual nature''''' 
One place that is two places: this peculiar Pynchonian form of bilocation again.

'''part "real"...part "pictorial" or let us say "fictional"''' 
Complex numbers are made up of a real number and an imaginary number (e.g "one plus the square root of negative one"), as AtD is made up of real and imaginary (fictional) parts, the effect of which (continuing into P.635) is described as "taking one beyond four dimensional environs...out into a timeless region..." This seems to be the goal of the protagonists, the author, and the reader.

==Page 634==

'''''Mengenlehre''''' 
German: set theory.

'''one is thrust . . . into a timeless region''' 
Like one of those funhouse rooms where gravity is reversed.

'''ZU DEN QUATERNIONEN''' 
German railway stations all have a big sign: ZU DEN ZÜGEN, to the trains. Here it's to the quaternions.

'''complex knife''' 
"part real and part imaginary", and there is a "real" reproduction nearby. These are ''aides memoires'', inspirations--perhaps the dimensions beyond are literally located in imagination, mental spaces.

==Page 635==

'''The Kaiser now seeks in Mexico . . . opportunities for mischief toward the U.S.''' 
Now and for years to come: America's entry into World War One was spurred in part by the Kaiser's offer to return part of the Southwest to Mexico.

'''''Rosinenkacker''''' 
German: one who shits raisins. More commonly "Korinthenkacker", insulting term for a very pedantic person.

'''a world line...never travel''' 
A world line is a tensor, a four-dimensional vector through space ''and'' time, therefore a history.

'''''Ach, das Schicksal''''' 
German: ah, fate.

'''chloral to coffee''' 
A depressant to a stimulant, antipodal (opposite) effects on neuronal function.

==Page 636==

'''Children''' 
The preceding sections are a concise, riotous, poignant summary of life at an institute of higher learning; students and to some extent faculty are, notoriously, children at play. Yashmeen, Kit and Gunther are graduating, without diplomas but going out of the hothouse atmosphere of the University into the "real world". But given the preceding 5 pages, how real is that?

'''The next time you visit...''' 
The University never looks the same after graduation; also, nothing ever does: Heraclitus' dictum that no man ever steps in the same river twice. Time (''pace'' Proust) cannot be reclaimed (even if you can find the tesseract's entrance again)because even if you go back in time, you are not the same person you were; you have been changed by experience.

'''"You know who I am."''' 
??

==Page 637==

'''"El Atildado"''' 
Spanish: the neat man. But it also suggests "the man marked with a tilde" (see page 600). When reading this passage aloud, think about how to stress the word "also" in "a gift Günther von Quassel had ''also'' been blessed with."

In mathematical notation, the tilde "~" means "approximately".

==Page 638==

'''''Bohnen''''' 
German: beans

'''Maragogype''' 
As Gunther says, a variety of coffee bean, large in size, grown in Mexico and Central America [http://coffeeplus.com.au/coffees/7443.html].

'''Arbuckles''' 
Not only a brand of coffee, but a method of preparation also known as "Cowboy Coffee" similar to Turkish/Greek coffee in that boiling the grounds in the water [http://www.ineedcoffee.com/02/04/cowboycoffee/]. Synonymous here with "plain old, unfancified coffee"--perhaps a swipe at 21st century coffee gourmets and at Starbucks. Another paramorphic-mirror image of the early 21st century in the early 20th.

'''''el otro lado''''' 
Spanish: the other side (in one sense or other).

'''bucket shop''' 
A stock swindle, in which one set of trades is reported to the customer, while the brokerage is really using the money in other, usually riskier trades ("bucketing").

'''[S]louching away into the yellow opacity, he invited them all up to a wingding [...] that evening.''' 
Compare with T.S. Eliot's ''Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'':

<blockquote>
The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes 
Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening</blockquote>
[[User:Bean|remy]] 09:52, 28 December 2006 (PST)

==Page 639==

'''''adios chingamadre''''' 
Spanish: goodbye, motherfucker.

'''unnatural boom''' 
Another paramorphic mirroring of the 21st/20th centuries; tech stock boom/bust of ~2000.

==Page 640==

'''Schnecken rigs''' 
Circular magazine resembling a schnecken pastry?

'''anti-Porfiristas''' 
Opponents of the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz, hence left wing. Eventually, ten years later, to become the Mexican Revolution led by Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata.

==Page 641==

'''Mondragóns will get you through''' 
Echoes the wonderful 1970s slogan "Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope."

==Page 642==

'''La Fotinga Huasteca''' 
''Fotinga'' is Spanish: jalopy. ''Huasteca'' is a region of the Sierra Madre Oriental north of San Luis Potosí. A local equivalent to "Tijuana Taxi"?

'''''batería''''' 
Spanish: battery (collection of percussion instruments).

'''[T]hat dirty li'l back-shootin Bob Ford.''' 
Ford shot notorious outlaw Jesse James in the back on April 3, 1882; Ford himself was shotgunned to death in 1892. The event inspired one Billy Gashade to pen the verse that became the popular folk ballad "Jesse James," recorded by Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen, and many others. 
[[User:bnilsson|bnilsson]] 01:41, 2 January 2007 (EDT)

'''eight seconds . . . rodeo''' 
A bull rider must stay aboard for eight seconds to score.

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==Page 273==

'''the electric''' 
The Denver Tramway Company, beginning in 1886, operated electric railcars between central Denver and outlying communities. [http://www.denvergov.org/AboutDenver/history_narrative_3.asp Citation]

==Page 274==

'''Arapahoe''' 
Since Frank is at the moment in Denver, "on Arapahoe" would mean on Arapahoe Street. From the native tribe. Also a county in eastern CO and a scattering of places in US.

'''drygulched''' 
Ambushed, betrayed.

'''after Repeal in '93''' 
Refers to the Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890, which required the U.S. government to purchase an additional 4.5 million ounces of silver bullion every month with notes that could be redeemed for either silver or gold. Repealed by Congress after the Panic of 1893 to prevent depletion of the country's gold reserves. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Silver_Purchase_Act Wikipedia entry].

'''Lake County''' 
Colorado county of which Leadville is the county seat.

'''Haw Tabor''' 
Horace Tabor, a prospector, businessman, politician, and one of the wealthiest men in Colorado in the 19th Century. Tabor moved to Denver in 1859, later settling in Leadville in 1877. With the wealth he accumulated from his silver mine, Tabor established newspapers, a bank, and an opera house in Leadville (which still stands), and the Tabor Grand Opera House and the Tabor Block in Denver. In 1878, Tabor was elected Lieutenant Governor of Colorado and served in that post until January 1884. He served as U.S. Senator from Colorado for two months in 1883. Tabor ran unsuccessfully for Colorado governor in 1884, 1886, and 1888. In 1893, the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act devastated Tabor's fortune and his far-flung holdings were sold off. He died from appendicitis in 1899, and his legend still persists in Colorado.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Tabor Wikipedia entry].

'''Matchless''' 
The Matchless Mine in Leadville, formerly owned by Horace Tabor. Oscar Wilde visited the Matchless in 1882. The "widow" is Elizabeth Bonduel McCourt Doe, a/k/a "Baby Doe" Tabor, Horace Tabor's second wife (and his mistress before he married her in 1883). Baby Doe and her stubborn retention of the Matchless Mine is another Colorado legend. When Horace Tabor fell ill with appendicitis in 1899, his final request of Baby Doe was that she "hold onto the Matchless." This she did, with tragic results. After living in a shack beside the mine for 36 years, she froze to death one night in March 1935 after she ran out of firewood. Her body was found frozen with her arms crossed peacefully across her chest. After her death, 17 iron trunks that had been placed in storage in Denver were opened, as well as several gunny sacks and four trunks that had been left at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Leadville. All that was left from the Tabor fortune were several bolts of unique, untouched and exquisite cloth, several pieces of china, a tea service and some jewelry, including a diamond and sapphire ring. Baby Doe's story has inspired numerous works, including a movie and an opera by Douglas Moore, ''The Ballad of Baby Doe.'' More on Baby Doe Tabor, including pictures of the Matchless and the shack she lived and died in, can be found at these links: [http://www.babydoetabor.com/ Baby Doe Tabor.com]; [http://www.babydoe.org/index.php BabyDoe.org]

'''Zinc Rush''' 
Leadville had "rushes" on gold, silver, molybdenim, zinc...

'''some bright engineer''' 
???

==Page 275==

'''Molly-be-damned''' 
Molybdenum, which is still mined outside of Leadville.

'''Wren Provenance''' 
???

'''heaps''' 
pic?

'''Sons of Heaven section''' 
???

==Page 276==

'''Jennie Rogers's House of Mirrors''' 
Jennie Rogers (1843-1909) was a notorious Denver madam who built the "House of Mirrors" at 1946 Market Street in Denver in 1889 and ran it until her death in 1909. The House of Mirrors embodies the Romanesque architecture of the era, and was specifically designed as a bordello. It was later taken over by the even more notorious Mattie Silks (1846-1929), who operated it until 1915, when it fell victim to so-called "reformers." The House of Mirrors still stands, and today operates as a bar and restauant. (This contributor has been drinking there many times.) More on its history, including pictures, and on the history of Denver's Market Street red-light district, can be found at [http://www.mattieshouseofmirrors.com/index.html this website].

'''dress cavalry helmet''' 
pic?

==Page 277==

'''Aztlán''' 
???

'''thirteenth century''' 
???

'''images of creatures''' 
pic?

==Page 278==

'''the report''' 
???

'''Albany... bar mirror''' 
???

'''Booth Virbling''' 
???

==Page 279==

'''Bulkley Wells''' 
???

'''Ice Saw murder''' 
???

'''sparking''' 
???

==Page 280==

'''South Pacific islands''' 
Cf Margaret Mead.

==Page 281==

'''first city''' 
???

'''"Beside the tracks at one bend stood a local lunatic"''' 
Like starting a Disney land ride.
:how so? [[User:Bleakhaus|Bleakhaus]] 14:46, 4 December 2006 (PST)

==Page 282==

'''level of hatred''' 
Cf capacitance?

'''vagging bee''' 
Neologism?

==Page 283==

'''''"joven"''''' 
Young fellow (Spanish).

'''Ellmore Disco''' 
???

'''when it was still Leadville''' 
???

'''Seven-Toed Pete''' 
Seven Card Stud

==Page 284==

'''jaconet... tartalan... crepe lissé''' 
jaconet 1.a soft, white, lightweight cotton textile 2. cotton cloth glazed on one side and dyed

'''Liberty's of London''' 
???

'''Grand Rapids style''' 
???

'''Four Corners Boys''' 
???

==Page 285==

'''million apiece''' 
Current values?

'''wackyzacky''' 
???

'''Cal Rutan''' 
???

==Page 286==

'''Loomis''' 
Loomis Disco.

'''lowland alkali''' 
???

'''hardpan''' 
???

==Page 287==

'''chicharrones''' 
Fried pork skins.

'''''Ristras''''' 
Strings of dried red chiles.

'''sixty-degree wedges''' 
One-sixth of a pie.

'''''"Por poco te faltó La Blanca"''''' 
Translates to "You just missed La Blanca."

==Page 288==

'''Montrose''' 
A city on Colorado's Western Slope. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montrose%2C_Colorado Wikipedia entry].

'''popcorn snows''' 
???

'''vanning''' 
???

'''''comal''''' 
???

==Page 289==

'''half a cubic foot''' 
12" by 12" by 6".

==Page 290==

'''miner's gad''' 
According to the OED, "1. a steel wedge, 2. a small iron punch with a wooden handle used to break up ore."

'''McBryan's''' 
???

'''trick animal''' 
???

==Page 291==

'''Cosmopolitan''' 
Cf p260.

'''Mr. Edison's scheme... static electricity''' 
???

'''Wetherill's magnet''' 
If electric, that's Kit's domain.

==Page 292==

'''Hieronymus Wheel''' 
This may be a stretch but one of the paintings of Hieronymous Bosch is called the Circle of Hell which contains an assortment of odd creatures. As a central image there is a wheel coming out of (or going into) the mouth of a fishlike creature. The reference to hell seems appropriate for Telluride and a Japanese trade delegation in a Colorado bar may suggest the odd creatures. Just to stretch the connection a bit further, there was another Bosch, Robert, a Germany engineer who perfected a magneto ignition device in 1897 that became the standard for creating electrical sparks to start internal combustion engines. The modern Bosch Group is a leading manufacturer of automotive and industrial technology.

Context suggests that this is a roulette wheel.

'''bellows''' 
pic?

==Page 293==

'''''"Sumimasen... Bobusan desu... Gonnusuringaa... mottomo abunai desu"''''' 
Don't know the rest, but "Bobusan" refers to Bob and "Gonnusuringaa" is likely "Gunslinger."
 
Translation from e2535: 
mottomo abunai desu = "he is extremely dangerous" 
Sumimasen = "Pardon me" or "Excuse me" 

'''''"Anna koto"''''' 
???

'''fulgurescence''' 
A neologism, I think -- it does not appear in the OED. 'Fulgur' is Latin for lightning, 'fulgurite' being, e.g., according to the OED, "any rocky substance that has been fused or vitrified by lightning. More strictly applied to a bore or tube produced by the passage of lightning into a sandy soil."

'''"some distant geography where creatures as yet unknown thrashed about, howling affrightedly, in the dark"''' 
See the note for Hieronymous wheel on page 292. This further enhances the Circle of Hell connection for the Hieronymous wheel note above. The painting includes several unknown creatures, including a barrel with legs, while “thrashed about” suggests the central fish monster image of the painting.

'''packing out pyrites''' 
Mining fool's gold

'''katana''' 
Japanese samurai sword
 

==Page 294==

'''Baron Akashi''' 
A Japanese general whose career included spying, but, anachronistically, his career did not begin until 1889. He was a spy in Europe during RussoJapanese War-1900? So would he've been famous even to the lengths of backwoods CO? How much spyin' can a poor boy do if he's famous?

'''Squirrel and sarsaparilla''' 
Squirrel Whiskey and Sarsaparilla Soda. Squirrel whiskey was so called because it was supposedly so strong it would drive its drinkers up a tree. Sarparilla, by contrast, is derived from the roots of the Sarsparilla tree.

==Page 295==

'''summer of '89''' 
???

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