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<div>:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p><br><br />
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==Page 588==<br />
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'''tannery'''<br><br />
In ancient history, tanning was considered a noxious or "odiferous trade" and relegated to the outskirts of town, amongst the poor. Indeed, tanning by ancient methods is so foul smelling that tanneries are still isolated from those towns today where the old methods are used.<br />
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'''Gottlob'''<br><br />
Literally "praise to God", as an exclamation also "Thank God!". Though it is rare, it is a real German name.<br />
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'''Humfried'''<br><br />
A German translation of Humphrey. This was not an existing German name any time after the medieval, though.<br />
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'''Gauss's brain'''<br><br />
After Carl Friedrich Gauss died in 1855, his brain was preserved for research purposes. To this day, it is in the possession of the University of Göttingen.<br />
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'''impervious to the wind'''<br><br />
(Attribute of tanned leather?)<br />
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'''''"Heiliger Bimbam!"'''''<br><br />
A German expression of surprise, translated elsewhere as "Holy Moly!"<br />
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'''It is she, she!'''<br><br />
In [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Rider_Haggard H. Rider Haggard's] ''She'', the she in question rises, like Venus, from the sea. In ''Against the day'', she rises from the swamp. Carl Jung, who used the novel ''She'' (1887) as an example of anima, posited the anima is an archetypical form, expressing the fact that a man has a minority of female genes. Haggard's Queen Ayesha is an unmistakable anima type &#151; the ultimate guide and mediator to the inner world. The idea has also connections with the observations of James Frazer in his classical study ''The Golden Bough''. Haggard's idea of a journey into the "darkest Africa," which turns into a spiritual search, has been used by a number of writers, including Joseph Conrad in ''Heart of Darkness'' (1902).<br><br />
"I am of thy imagination", She says in the novel, "She". <br />
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'''Kovalevskaia'''<br><br />
Sofia Kovalevskaia, 1850-1891. Russian mathematician, in 1884 appointed professor in Stockholm. The third female professor in Europe ever. (Wikipedia)<br />
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'''Roentgen-ray spectacles'''<br><br />
The X-ray glasses that used to be advertised in comic books.<br />
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'''''natürlich'''''<br><br />
German: naturally.<br />
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'''rim'''<br><br />
Kit pretends to think he's referring to monocle as 'chichi' (stylish).<br />
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==Page 589==<br />
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'''Those curves . . . ''Noli me tangere'''''<br><br />
A well-turned wordplay: The operation of differentiating a curve involves drawing ''tangents'' to it at selected points. The curves in question are continuous, but the injunction ''Noli me tangere'' means you can't draw the tangents.<br />
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'''''Noli me tangere'''''<br><br />
Latin for 'don't touch me'<br />
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'''''Hausknochen'''''<br><br />
German: a giant housekey, as defined, literally House Bone,with perhaps a<br />
double entendre on bone?<br />
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==Page 590==<br />
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'''Hadamard... Poussin... Prime Number Theorem'''<br><br />
Hadamard and Poussin independently proved the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number_theorem prime number theorem] in 1896, relying on Riemann's Zeta function.<br />
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'''patent ''Kühlbox'''''<br><br />
patent here, as adjective, means ACCESSIBLE, EXPOSED: Archaic<br />
: readily visible or intelligible : OBVIOUS<br />
synonym see EVIDENT. If the Kuhlbox were a patented invention, TRP would have written "patented Kuhlbox"<br />
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Advertising of the time used "patent something" as a moniker for anything patented, to signify its novelty and exclusiveness, so the meaning of "patented" appears rather likely, even though it's not strictly correct. See [http://images.google.com/images?q=patent+advertising this search] for some anecdotal evidence.<br />
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icebox..this last an English-German meld or Archaic, it seems.<br />
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[http://www.dhm.de/datenbank/index.html?/datenbank/rb00/rb000891.html pic of a ca. 1920 Eiskiste-model]. According to german Wikipedia, the mobile "Eiskiste" (icebox) had to be filled with (natural) ice, while its successor, the Kühlbox, worked/works with "Kühlaggregate" (cooling units). The contributor is not sure if suchlike were around at that time. German Wikipedia on [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiskiste Eiskiste] and [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%BChlbox Kühlbox]. <br />
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'''beleaguered subset'''<br><br />
a group (from the whole) under attack<br />
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'''Prime Number Theorem'''<br><br />
Gives an estimate of the number of primes less than a whole number ''n.'' For example, if ''n'' is 20 then there are nine primes less than it (1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19). The Prime Number Theorem is closely related to the Riemann Hypothesis.<br />
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==Page 591==<br />
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'''prats'''<br><br />
Literally the buttocks. As a slang term, a 'prat' is an idiot.<br />
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'''''Die Nullstellen der ζ-Funktion'''''<br><br />
German: the zeroes of the ζ function. (Null = zero; Stelle = location.) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_zeta_function#Zeros_of_the_Riemann_zeta_function Wikipedia] on the "Zeros of the Riemann zeta-function". <br />
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'''not all that hard to prove'''<br><br />
Kit will upset the applecart if he can prove the Riemann Hypothesis; Yashmeen's research topic will shrink to triviality. (Last time I checked, no one had yet proved the hypothesis.) --[[User:Volver|Volver]] 19:37, 9 January 2007 (PST)<br />
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'''"Richard Harding Davis"'''<br><br />
Popular writer of fiction and drama, journalist/war-correspondent and a major male-role-model of his time (1864 - 1916). He was considered the model for illustrator Charles Dana Gibson's dashing Gibson man, the male equivalent of his famous Gibson Girl. He is also referenced early in Sinclair Lewis's book, ''Dodsworth'' as the example of an exciting, adventure-seeking legitimate hero. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Harding_Davis Wikipedia] <br />
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'''seldom, if ever'''<br><br />
Cf p559 re Umeki!?<br />
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'''tetralatry'''<br><br />
made up from greek "tettares" (prefix -tetra) = four and "latreia" = worship<br />
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'''C. Howard Hinton'''<br><br />
Charles Howard Hinton (1853 – 1907) was a British mathematician and writer of science fiction works titled ''Scientific Romances''. He was interested in higher dimensions, particularly the fourth dimension, and is known for coining the word ''tesseract'' and for his work on methods of visualising the geometry of higher dimensions. He also had a strong interest in theosophy. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Howard_Hinton Wikipedia Entry]<br />
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'''Johann K.F. Zöllner'''<br><br />
Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner (1834–1882) was a German astrophysicist. Studied Photometrie and optical illusions. He insisted a fourth dimension should be considered in Physics and tried to scientifically explain spiritist phenomena. <br />
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'''vogue... 'vague''''<br><br />
Nice wordplay as Yashmeen seems to think the vogue of mysticism is not very precise, is 'vague' intellectually.<br />
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==Page 592==<br />
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'''upside-down triangles'''<br><br />
Also Pléiade p538. In mathematics that would be the operator ''del'' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del Wikipedia]. Since pre-history and across most cultures the upside-down triangle is a symbol for the female (genitals).<br />
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'''screamingly obvious fallacy in this . . . "proof" of yours'''<br><br />
Yashmeen reacts in a slight panic to Kit's threat (page 591).<br />
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'''metallic banging'''<br><br />
Hausknochen on doors, with 'banging' entendre.<br />
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'''"metric interval"'''<br><br />
In Euclidean (three-dimensional) space a distance is just what you think it is. In other geometrical systems the term "metric interval" is preferred as a generalized distance.<br />
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'''social life is unpredictable'''<br><br />
mirrors the situation in the "Hotel Noctambulo", p. 462. Are all these guys "chums of chance"?<br />
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'''Prinzenstrasse and Weenderstrasse'''<br><br />
A street corner at the very center of Göttingen ([http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=g%C3%B6ttingen,+germany&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=17&ll=51.534284,9.935417&spn=0.006107,0.010793&t=h Google Maps]), "known to mathematicians here as the origin of the city of Göttingen's coordinate system".<br />
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==Page 593==<br />
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'''twenty marks'''<br><br />
A mark is short for deutschemark, a German monetary unit. <br />
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'''''der Pistolenheld'''''<br><br />
German: the pistol hero.<br />
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'''''das Nichtharmonischestrahlenbündel'''''<br><br />
Or ''das nichtharmonische Strahlenbündel.'' German: the anharmonic pencil. A "pencil" is the set of lines passing through a point.<br />
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'''Euler'''<br><br />
Leonhard Euler (pronounced Oiler; IPA [ˈɔʏlɐ]) (April 15, 1707 – September 7, 1783) was a Russian-German mathematician and physicist of Swiss descent. From Wikipedia and below:<br />
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Euler made important discoveries in fields as diverse as calculus, number theory, and topology. He also introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, particularly for mathematical analysis, such as the notion of a mathematical function. [1] He is also renowned for his work in mechanics, optics, and astronomy.<br />
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Euler is considered to be the preeminent mathematician of the 18th century and one of the greatest of all time. <br />
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'''''Mathematical Theory of the Top'''''<br><br />
Published in the U.S. in 1897. Compare Felix Klein and Arnold Sommerfeld, ''Über die Theorie des Kreisels,'' 4 volumes, 1897-1910.<br />
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'''Leopold Kronecker''' and '''Cantor'''<br><br />
The "monumental quarrel between Kronecker and Cantor" is also referred to as a "religious war," appropriately enough. It's based in a disagreement over the legitimacy of numbers. Kronecker held that "'the positive integers were created by God, and all else is the work of man.'" This is contradicted by "'Cantor with his ''Kontinuum'', professing an equally strong belief in just those regions, infinitely divisible, which lie ''between'' the whole numbers so demanding of all Kronecker's devotion.'"<br />
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The disagreement between the two mathematicians is reminiscent of (or does it anticipate?) the rift between Pointsman and Mexico in ''Gravity's Rainbow''. Kronecker's integers "created by God" have become a Pavlovian digital binary for Pointsman, but the two oppositions track faithfully right down to the italicized "between." <br />
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"The young statistician [Mexico] is devoted to number and to method, not table-rapping or wishful thinking. But in the domain of zero to one, not-something to something, Pointsman can only possess the zero and the one. He cannot, like Mexico, survive anyplace in between. Like his master I. P. Pavlov before him, he imagines the cortex of the brain as a mosaic of tiny on/off elements.... But to Mexico belongs the domain ''between'' zero and one." [Page 55]<br />
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It should be noted, however, that the continuous number line was a modern innovation. In Greek number theory, a number is a collection of indivisible units. Irrationals, such as the square root of 2 are not numbers but "magnitudes." One is not even a number for it is not a number of units. There are no negative numbers as well. (see Klein's <i>Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra.</i>) So Kronecker's position may be less of a crazy innovation as much as a maintenance of ancient theory.<br />
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(That last paragraph makes an excellent point. --[[User:Volver|Volver]] 19:45, 9 January 2007 (PST))<br />
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'''''Kontinuum'''''<br><br />
This passage closely parallels the one about the "microcosm of Venice" on page 575.<br />
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==Page 594==<br />
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'''''Nervenklinik'''''<br><br />
German: nerve clinic. Three-dollar word for a mental hospital.<br />
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'''boundless epsilonic world'''<br><br />
Epsilon, Greek letter like E. In mathematics (particularly calculus), an arbitrary (or nearly so) small positive quantity is commonly denoted ε; see limit. <br />
By analogy with this, the late mathematician Paul Erdős also used the term "epsilons" to refer to children (Hoffman 1998, p. 4). Wikipedia<br />
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'''Der Finsterzwerg'''<br><br />
The choice of the tavern "The Dwarf of Darkness" may have been meant as a dig at five-foot-tall Kronecker.<br />
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'''chloral hydrate'''<br><br />
A/k/a "knockout drops" a/k/a a "Mickey Finn". Hence the ''Mickifest''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloral_hydrate Wikipedia entry].<br />
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'''''Kneipe'''''<br><br />
German: dive.<br />
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'''Gauss passing to Weber a remark'''<br><br />
Carl Friedrich Gauss (Gauß)(30 April 1777 – 23 February 1855) was a German mathematician and scientist of profound genius who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, magnetism, astronomy and optics. Sometimes known as "the prince of mathematicians" and "greatest mathematician since antiquity", Gauss had a remarkable influence in many fields of mathematics and science and is ranked as one of history's most influential mathematicians.<br />
In 1831 Gauss developed a fruitful collaboration with the physics professor Wilhelm Weber; it led to new knowledge in the field of magnetism (including finding a representation for the unit of magnetism in terms of mass, length and time) and the discovery of Kirchhoff's circuit laws in electricity. Gauss and Weber constructed the first electromagnetic telegraph in 1833, which connected the observatory with the institute for physics in Göttingen. Gauss ordered a magnetic observatory to be built in the garden of the observatory and with Weber founded the magnetischer Verein ("magnetic club"), which supported measurements of earth's magnetic field in many regions of the world. He developed a method of measuring the horizontal intensity of the magnetic field which has been in use well into the second half of the 20th century and worked out the mathematical theory for separating the inner (core and crust) and outer (magnetospheric) sources of Earth's magnetic field<br />
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'''crisis in mathematics . . . Weierstrass functions, Cantor's continuum, Russell's inexhaustible capacity for mischief'''<br><br />
A genuine crisis as well-established ideas were challenged. Weierstrass functions have the unheard-of property that they are "continuous but nowhere differentiable." Cantor's ideas about the continuum violated a longstanding prohibition against infinite quantities. Bertrand Russell around this time was setting the cat among the pigeons by identifying paradoxes and inconsistencies in set theory and number theory.<br />
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'''"the infinite" was all but a conjuror's convenience'''<br><br />
There is a very good book relating how the infinite, between the 18th and early 20th centuries, finally found a place in mathematics: ''In Search of Infinity'' by N.Ya. Vilenkin (translated by Abe Shenitzer).<br />
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==Page 595==<br />
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'''That winter, in St. Petersburg'''<br><br />
22 Jan 1905 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution_of_1905 Wikipedia]<br />
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'''Kronstadt'''<br><br />
The Kronstadt rebellion of March 1921<br />
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'''Black Hundreds'''<br><br />
Anti-Semitic vigilantes.<br />
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'''Japanese won'''<br><br />
The Japanese destroyed the bulk of the Russian Baltic Fleet in the Battle of Tsushima Straight on May 27-28, 1905. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War Wikipedia]<br />
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'''Muslim rebellion'''<br><br />
The downfall of the Ottoman Empire by Turkey? <br />
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'''the year that followed'''<br><br />
Seemingly 1918.<br />
Russian Revolution of 1917, which included: <br />
February Revolution, resulting in the abdication of Nicholas II of Russia <br />
October Revolution, resulting in the coming to power of the Bolshevik party <br />
Third Russian Revolution, the failed anarchist revolution against the Bolsheviks and the White movement 1918 - 1922 <br />
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'''Peter and Paul Fortress'''<br><br />
At St. Petersburg, established by Peter the Great. Political prisoners were confined there from the first half of the 1700s. Conditions were notoriously harsh.<br />
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'''kazatsky'''<br><br />
A Cossack dance, stereotypical Russian behavior.<br />
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'''raid....Waziristan'''<br><br />
Waziristan (Pashto: وزیرستان) is a mountainous region of northwest Pakistan, bordering Afghanistan and covering some 11 585 km² (4,473 mi²). It comprises the area west and southwest of Peshawar between the Tochi River to the north and the Gomal River to the south, forming part of Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas. The North-West Frontier Province lies immediately to the east. The region was an independent tribal territory from 1893, remaining outside of British-ruled empire and Afghanistan. Tribal raiding into British-ruled territory was a constant problem for the British, eliciting frequent punitive expeditions between 1860 and 1945. Wikipedia<br />
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???<br />
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==Page 596==<br />
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'''as-ever transcendentally interesting hair'''<br><br />
(Perhaps a reference to Albert Einstein?)<br />
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Possibly, but given the numerous mentions of the Zeta function it is most likely a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_number/ transcendental numbers]. These are irrational numbers that do not exist as the zero (or solution) to any algebraic function. A number of groundbreaking results regarding transcendentalism were made around the time the novel is set, and most if not all of the mathematicians and mathematical methods mentioned in the book revolve around transcendental numbers and functions.<br />
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Given that these numbers are often expressed as an infinite series, in which successive terms add ever-more-miniscule amounts to the value of the number, yet each digit is fascinatingly unique (since the decimal never repeats), it seems to me that Pynchon is suggesting that Yashmeen's hair has the quality of being endlessly fascinating, that even the observation of a single hair (or even a portion of a single hair) is involving and invigorating. This would mirror Kit's fascination and infatuation with Yashmeen, and the term would likely spring readily to the mind of a mathematician of the era.[[User:Dharper|Dharper]] 08:15, 16 January 2007 (PST)<br />
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''''gen''''<br><br />
British military slang for information. To gen-up is to learn quickly. OED gives earliest recorded use of the word as 1940.<br />
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'''a soul impaled . . . as if to bisect me'''<br><br />
Harks back to the fate of La Jarretière in ''V.''<br />
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'''Afghani dirhan'''<br><br />
An Afghani coin, more usually transliterated as "dirham". [http://ghaznavid.ancients.info/ This site] has pictures and more information.<br />
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'''Ghaznivid Empire'''<br><br />
Usually transliterated as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghaznavid_Empire Ghaznavid Empire] (Wikipedia)<br />
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'''coffee scion'''<br><br />
Coffee motif.<br />
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'''Günther von Quassel'''<br><br />
"quasseln" is a German verb, meaning roughly "to jabber"<br />
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'''less than universally respected Ludwig Boltzmann'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Boltzmann Boltzmann] proposed an explanation of thermodynamics based on the statistical behaviour of atoms. Many influential colleagues at the time did not believe in the reality of atoms and thus worked to discredit Boltzmann.<br />
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==Page 597==<br />
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'''Gymnasium child'''<br><br />
A Gymnasium is a German secondary school<br />
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'''''Ach, die Zetamanie'''''<br><br />
German: Oh, the zeta-mania.<br />
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'''one measure of the chaos'''<br><br />
Cf GR on entropy?<br />
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'''crime...narrative puzzle'''<br><br />
Hinting at Webb's role in the novel?<br />
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'''Göttingen tradition'''...'''statue'''<br><br />
Like other university towns, Göttingen has developed its own folklore. On the day of their doctorate, postgraduate students are drawn in handcarts from the Great Hall to the Gänseliesel-Fountain in front of the Old Town Hall. There they have to climb the fountain and kiss the statue of the Gänseliesel (Goose girl). This practice is actually forbidden by law, but the law is not at all enforced. She is considered to be the most-kissed girl in the world. Wikipedia.<br />
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Addendum of interest for GR and ATD.<br />
Nearly untouched by allied bombing in World War II (the informal understanding during World War 2 was that Germany wouldn't bomb Cambridge and Oxford and the allies wouldn't bomb Heidelberg and Göttingen).<br />
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'''Rathaus square'''<br><br />
The square in front of City Hall.<br />
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==Page 598==<br />
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'''Axioms of Zermelo'''<br><br />
The basic axioms of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zermelo-Frankel_set_theory#The_axioms Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory].<br />
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'''Poincaré'''<br><br />
Henri Poincaré ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Poincar%C3%A9 Wikipedia])<br />
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'''Cauchy'''<br><br />
Augustin Louis Cauchy ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustin_Louis_Cauchy Wikipedia])<br />
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'''Whittaker and Watson'''<br><br />
A standard mathematics textbook of the time ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whittaker_and_Watson Wikipedia])<br />
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'''two point one'''<br><br />
(Cf Sondheim lyric, "A Little Night Music" [http://lynxfeather.net/nest/lyrics/nightmusic-nowlatersoon.html lyrics].)<br />
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==Page 599==<br />
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'''"What here is he ''doing?''" . . . "Obviously, we must now a duel fight."'''<br><br />
In keeping with his name (see p. 596 annotations), Günther speaks in a stage-German accent.<br />
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'''dueling-society cap'''<br><br />
Probably student corporation insignia.<br />
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'''''Liebchen'''''<br><br />
German, "sweetheart"<br />
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'''''Egal was, meine Schatze'''''<br><br />
German, "No matter what, my darling" - though "meine Schatze" is an improper femininization, which ought to be "mein Schatz".<br />
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'''''Schläger'''''<br><br />
A specialized weapon for student duels. See Wikipedia's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_fencing Academic fencing] article.<br />
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'''Krummsäbel'''<br><br />
German, "scimitar".<br />
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'''Korbrapier'''<br><br />
A rapier with a basket ("Korb" in German) like protection hilt.<br />
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'''épée'''<br><br />
A sharp-pointed duelling sword.<br />
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==Page 600==<br />
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'''Colt six-shooters'''<br><br />
I guess Kit's luggage beat him to Gottingen.<br />
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'''''Verbindung'''''<br><br />
German: connection, union. Here the student corps one belongs to.<br />
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'''upon the face of the other, ''to inscribe one's mark'''''<br><br />
In several of his movies, the actor Erich von Stroheim appeared with a nasty scar on the left side of his face. Dueling was a pastime of honor at some universities, and the sword scar was the mark of having sustained one's honor there. Special weapons, masks and inflaming treatments were employed to produce this lifelong disfigurement.<br />
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'''a Mexican tilde'''<br><br />
The wavy mark over the letter ñ in Spanish.<br />
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'''restoring moment, elastic constants'''<br><br />
???<br />
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'''wasn't going to converge . . . skipped a step . . . ''divided by zero'''''<br><br />
Kit insults Günther by pointing out blunders in the proof he gave to Yashmeen.<br />
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'''Geheimrat Hilbert'''<br><br />
German: confidential counsellor. A title of honor given to prominent civilian figures in Germany.<br />
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==Page 601==<br />
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'''''Ehrenkodex'''''<br><br />
German, "code of honor"<br />
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'''Tyrolean hats'''<br><br />
[http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=tirolerhut&btnG=Search+Images Images]<br />
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'''''Schnurrbartbinde'''''<br><br />
A device to keep one's mustache safe from entanglement when sleeping, like [http://www.volkskrantblog.nl/pub/mm/2006/01/1137360569.70341.gif this].<br />
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'''Zeiss "Palmos Panoram"'''<br><br />
An early panoramic camera, mentioned in the 1911 Britannica's [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Photography Photography] article.<br />
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'''''"Auf die Mensur!"'''''<br><br />
German, "to the duel"<br />
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'''Andaman Islands'''<br><br />
[http://www.openencyclopedia.net/index.php/Andaman_Islands Here]'s a mention of tattooing practices in the Andaman Islands<br />
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'''Stephanie du Motel... group-theory godfather Évariste Galois'''<br><br />
Évariste Galois died in a duel at the age of 20. Though much confusion surrounds the affair, it is suspected that he provoked the duel after being rejected by one Stéphanie-Felice du Motel. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evariste_Galois#Final_days Wikipedia])<br />
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==Page 602==<br />
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'''young Ouspensky'''<br><br />
Peter D. Ouspensky (1878-1947), Russian mystic and philosopher, author of ''The Fourth Dimension'', appropriate to Pynchon's themes in ''ATD''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Uspensky Wikipedia entry].<br />
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'''Chong'''<br><br />
A strange and seemingly unlikely visitor to Göttingen. The name "Chong" is not the character's actual name, as one will find out within the next 50 pages. The name might be taken from the Chinese philosopher Wang Chong, or Wang Ch'ung.<br><br />
Could be Cheech Marin's partner? (C.Marin alluded to earlier)<br />
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'''"The what?"'''<br><br />
(Precipitous drop in authorial expectations?)<br />
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'''Sidney... Kensington Sid'''<br><br />
Sidney Webb, leading political theorist [socialist] and (later, I think) Labour Pary representative of the time? No "Chinese Bolshevik", but with his wife Beatrice, an English supporter and defender of Russia See Wikipedia.<br />
Kensington is where elected officials worked.<br />
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'''transtriadic'''<br><br />
Beyond the three.<br />
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==Page 603==<br />
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'''"Spiritual... At Göttingen?"'''<br><br />
Gottingen is materialistic. Preserved brains as like in a tannery. <br />
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'''Applied Mechanics Institute'''<br><br />
An institute of the University of Göttingen<br />
<br />
'''Prandtl's recent discovery of the boundary layer'''<br><br />
Ludwig Prandtl ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Prandtl Wikipedia]) in 1904 developed the theory of the boundary layer ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary%20layer Wikipedia]) in aerodynamics, greatly simplifying aerodynamic calculations. <br />
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'''powered flight . . . at the edge of history'''<br><br />
In 1905 already a reality, but the pioneering empirical work was taking place in Ohio, not Germany.<br />
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'''brambled guttie'''<br><br />
A proto golf-ball, see [http://www.che.rochester.edu/users/dafoster/ChE243/SciAm%20GolfBall.pdf here].<br />
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'''Bürgerstrasse'''<br><br />
German, "Citizen's Street", a street in Göttingen.<br />
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'''Brauweg'''<br><br />
German, "Brewery Way", a street in Göttingen.<br />
<br />
'''Zhukovsky's Transformation'''<br><br />
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joukowsky_transform Joukowsky Transform] maps the unit circle in the complex plane to a shape very much like an airfoil.<br />
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'''Geheimrat Klein '''<br><br />
Geheimrat = Privy councillor. In geometry, the Klein model, also called the projective model... is a model of n-dimensional hyperbolic geometry in which the points of the geometry are in an n-dimensional disk, or ball, and the lines of the geometry are line segments contained in the disk; that is, with endpoints on the boundary of the disk<br />
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'''glass of tea'''<br><br />
(Why not 'cup'?)<br />
because in Europe, as opposed to in England, tea may be drunk from glassware.<br />
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'''draw pictures . . . flights of arrows . . . vectors without pictures'''<br><br />
Vectors can be visualized as arrows in a plane or three-dimensional space; more generally they can be represented as arrays of coefficients, and now they are not limited to three dimensions.<br />
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'''''"...according to Spiral Theory, up to infinity."<br> "And beyond, " added Gunther, nodding earnestly.'''''<br><br />
Reference to Buzz Lightyear's stock character phrase in 1995's TOY STORY (Pixar/Disney):<br />
"To Infinity... and Beyond!"<br />
--[[User:Btchakir|Btchakir]] 07:43, 19 December 2006 (PST)<br />
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==Page 604==<br />
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'''nontrivial zeroes'''<br><br />
The Riemann zeta function has two classes of zeros, the trivial zeroes being at negative even integers (-2, -4...), the non-trivial complex numbers, believed (but not proven) to have Re(z)=1/2. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_hypothesis Wikipedia].<br />
<br />
'''much-noted talk'''<br><br />
At the 1900 International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris, Hilbert proposed a research programme of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_problems#Tabulated_information 23 problems]. The Riemann hypothesis is number 8 on the list. <br />
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'''eigenvalues'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenvalue Wikipedia] Dudley Eigenvalue, D.D.S., was a character in ''V.''<br />
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'''Hermitian operator'''<br><br />
A Hermitian operator generalises some of the ideas of symmetry when complex numbers are involved. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermitian_operator Wikipedia]<br />
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'''spine of reality... ''"Rückgrat von Wirklichkeit"'''''<br><br />
Probably a reference to the main diagonal of a Hermitian matrix, which can contain only real numbers. The German phrase is one accurate way to translate the English.<br />
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'''Hilbert-Polya Conjecture'''<br><br />
The conjecture that the zeroes of the Riemann function would be the eigenvalues of a Hermitian operator, just what Yashmeen is suggesting.<br />
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==Page 605==<br />
<br />
'''Vance Aychrome'''<br><br />
The voracious detective is a stock figure in the mystery genre (Nero Wolfe, Mycroft Holmes, Inspector Dover, D.C.I. Dalziel and others).<br><br />
Is his name pronounced Eye Chrome, as in private eye? Weak possible connection?-- a truck light called Big Eye Chrome. The name sounds like 'fancy chrome.'<br />
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'''Full English Breakfast'''<br><br />
Bacon, eggs, tomato, toast... otherwise known as a fry-up.<br />
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'''Pythagorean dietary'''<br><br />
The first prominent modern vegetarian was the Greek philosopher Pythagoras who lived towards the end of the 6th century BC. The Pythagorean diet came to mean an avoidance of the flesh of slaughtered animals. Pythagorean ethics first became a philosophical morality between 490-430 BC with a desire to create a universal and absolute law including injunctions not to kill "living creatures," to abstain from "harsh-sounding bloodshed," in particular animal sacrifice, and "never to eat meat." (From a review of ''The Heretics Feast: a History of Vegetarianism'' by Colin Spencer, University Press of New England, 1995)<br />
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'''kippers and bloaters'''<br><br />
Different words (both Scottish) for smoked herrings<br />
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'''baps'''<br><br />
soft bread rolls - another Scottish word<br />
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'''Spong machine'''<br><br />
Appropriate technology. An English-made hand-cranked coffee grinder that doesn't light up, lacks a readout to tell when the beans are ready, and signally fails to function before the user wakes up. Only drawback is that some spouses compare its sound to half a load of cobbles being dumped on the roof.<br />
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'''thinned'''<br><br />
From full 78. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarot Wikipedia]<br />
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'''vegetarian haggis'''<br><br />
It exists: [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22vegetarian+haggis Google search]<br />
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==Page 606==<br />
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'''Lamont Replevin'''<br><br />
"Replevin" is a legal term for a form of civil action to recover possession of property being wrongfully held by another.<br />
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'''Elflock Villa'''<br><br />
Locked elves? <br />
<br />
'''Stuffed Edge, Herts'''<br><br />
An imaginary village in the South-East English county of Hertfordshire. Stuffed hedge?<br />
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'''kedgeree'''<br><br />
A hot breakfast dish of fish, rice, and eggs.<br />
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'''Cesare Lombroso'''<br><br />
Anthropologist who devised a method of identifying criminal "types" from their facial structures.<br />
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'''Trans-Oxanian'''<br><br />
From the other side of the Oxus River (now Amu-Darya) in Central Asia.<br />
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'''Graeco-Buddhist'''<br><br />
The hybrid cultural background evidenced in Shambhala.<br />
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'''bad hats'''<br><br />
A bad hat is a slang term for a rascal<br />
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==Page 607==<br />
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'''Gas Office'''<br><br />
As explained in the text, the Scotland Yard bureau that kept gas communications under surveillance.<br />
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'''communication by means of coal-gas'''<br><br />
Cf Nabokov's "Ada". Also inverse of Tesla's energy-transmitter. A parallel to the Tristero, too. The description of communication by gas seems like a self-parody of ''The Crying of Lot 49.''<br />
<br />
'''bombs... Suffragettes'''<br><br />
(Did they bomb post offices?!?)post boxes:Suffragettes carried out direct action such as chaining themselves to railings, setting fire to the contents of mailboxes, smashing windows and on occasions setting off bombs. Wikipedia<br />
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'''Persian'''<br><br />
Majority language in Iran, now called Farsi.<br />
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'''Pashto'''<br><br />
A language spoken in Afghanistan and nearby.<br />
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'''Tadjik'''<br><br />
A language spoken in Tadjikistan. "Mountain Tadjik" presumably dominates in the 60% or so of the country that is in high mountains.<br />
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'''Seven Dials'''<br><br />
In Covent Garden, London - a place where 7 roads meet. An unsavory assignment for a policeman.<br />
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==Page 608==<br />
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'''"Avoid beans"'''<br><br />
Pythagoreans follow a proscription against eating beans.<br />
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'''spotted dick'''<br><br />
A suet pudding with raisins or currants<br />
<br />
'''Yarmouth bloater'''<br><br />
A cured herring from the port town of Yarmouth.<br />
<br />
'''queering the pitch'''<br><br />
The pitch in a medicine show is the audience; queering them means putting them onto the doc's game. In cricket, the pitch is the playing field; queering the pitch means disturbing the surface so that the ball bounces unpredictably.<br />
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''''shape''''<br><br />
a doughnut,which comes in various shapes? Including the math-relevant<br />
shape: a torus. But probably just a bit of bun, scone, etc. listed as Vance's breakfast...no doughnut listed.<br />
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'''blue lamps'''<br><br />
Traditionally hung outside police stations in England.<br />
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'''lamé surfaces'''<br><br />
Lamé (fabric), a fabric inwoven metallic threads<br><br />
Lamé, name of the electrically conductive jacket worn by foil and sabre fencers<br><br />
Lamé (armor), an unarticulated component of a larger piece of armor <br><br />
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<br />
'''yarmulke... high crown... dented Trilby style'''<br><br />
[http://www.wpclipart.com/clothes/hats/index.html Image of a Trilby hat.]<br />
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==Page 609==<br />
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'''''Kelly's Suburban Dictionary'''''<br><br />
The peerless ''London A to Z'' did not come along until the 1930s.<br />
<br />
'''wenlets'''<br><br />
Politician and journalist William Cobbett (1763-1835) called London "the great wen." It was not a compliment, because ''wen'' means a sebaceous cyst. Wenlets are small versions of the "great" wen.<br />
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==Page 610==<br />
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'''daylight oil'''<br><br />
from the streetlamps, lit up for hours?<br />
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'''a moon no one could see'''<br><br />
Note that the ''Inconvenience'' is repeatedly referred to as a "second moon". <br />
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'''refused to dim'''<br><br />
(Nicely vivid.)<br />
<br />
'''Vontz's Universal Pick'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''alchemized coke'''<br><br />
Gas works that manufacture syngas also produce coke as an end product, called gas house coke.<br />
<br />
Fluid coking is a process by which heavy residual crude is converted into lighter products such as naptha, kerosene, heating oil, and hydrocarbon gases. The "fluid" term refers to the fact that coke particles are in a continuous system versus older batch coking technology. Wikipedia<br />
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<br />
<br />
'''Lincrusta-Walton'''<br><br />
an embossed fabric used for covering walls, invented in 1877 by Frederick Walton as an alternative to more expensive wallpapers (wikipedia).<br />
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'''hipshot'''<br><br />
having one hip lower than the other: a Greek statue in hipshot pose.M-W.<br />
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'''captive maiden'''<br><br />
In ''The Crying of Lot 49'', Oedipa Maas is referred to as a "captive maiden" in the scene where she's standing in front of the Remedios Varo painting. It would certainly be worth while to examine the parallels more closely. <br />
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'''scalene polygons'''<br><br />
Polygons with sides of unequal length.<br />
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'''jet'''<br><br />
jet black, a color.<br />
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'''Apotheosis Sparkless Torch'''<br><br />
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==Page 611==<br />
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'''magnalium'''<br><br />
An alloy of magnesium and aluminum.<br />
<br />
'''Lamont Replevin (for it was he)'''<br><br />
Formula from penny-dreadful literature.<br />
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'''''The Slow and the Stupefied'''''<br><br />
Daytime soap 'The Young and the Restless'.<br />
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'''gas-head'''<br><br />
Cf pothead, acidhead, etc.<br />
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'''Pike's Peak'''<br><br />
Lew's old stompinground.<br />
<br />
'''Gus Swallowfield'''<br><br />
A curious pseudonym assumed by Lew Basnight while in the presence of Lamont Replevin. As Mr. Swallowfield, Lew professes to be an insurance salesman. The name is very overtly British and is possibly referential to the Swallowfield estate in Berkshire, which itself has a curious history.<br />
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'''most theft policies'''<br><br />
(Fact?)<br />
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'''pantechnicon'''<br><br />
A closed van or carryall. (Is TRP trying to put a burr under S. Weisenburger's saddle by bringing this vehicle back? SW's gloss in the ''GR Companion,'' at page 19 of the Viking edition, is famously wrong.)<br />
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'''legitimate bill of sale'''<br><br />
???<br />
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==Page 612==<br />
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'''''Pavonazzetto'''''<br><br />
???<br />
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'''Phrygian marble'''<br><br />
Phrygia is an ancient region of west central Asia Minor, to the south of Bithynia. Marble from there was highly valued.<br />
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'''Atys... Agdistis'''<br><br />
???<br />
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'''''The Mutilation of Atys'''''<br><br />
No images: [http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Mutilation%20of%20Atys&btnG=Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi Google image search]<br />
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'''Arturo Naunt, Chelsea's own, shocking the bourgeoisie since 1889'''<br><br />
Phrasing reminiscent of advertising.<br />
<br />
'''shocking the bourgeoisie'''<br><br />
A popular pastime for young and not-so-young soi-disant radicals ("Epater le bourgeois").<br />
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'''koumiss vessel'''<br><br />
a horse. Koumiss is derived from horse's milk. See wikipedia.<br />
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'''depending on the angle you hold it at, sometimes it doesn't look like anything at all'''<br><br />
A concise description of anamorphic and paramorphic images; this one needs the Paramorphoscope to interpret it.<br />
<br />
'''wrathful deities from Tantric Buddhism'''<br><br />
Tantric Buddhism is also known as Varjayana Buddhism. In Varjayana Buddhism, a dharmapāla (Tibetan drag-gshed) is a type of wrathful deity. The name means "Dharma-defender" in Sanskrit, and the dharmapalas are also known as the Defenders of the Law (Dharma) or the Protectors of the Law in English.<br />
In Buddhist iconography, they are invariably depicted as fearsome beings, often with many heads, hands or feet; blue, black or red skin; and a fierce expression with protruding fangs. Though dharmapalas have a terrifying appearance, they are all bodhisattvas or buddhas- embodiments of compassion that act in a wrathful way for the sake of sentient beings.Wikipedia<br />
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==Page 613==<br />
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'''tiny German hand camera'''<br><br />
Probably a Zeiss Ikon. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeiss Wikipedia Entry]<br />
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'''raw light'''<br><br />
light from a gaslight is not 'artificial' as from electric lights, streetlamps, etc. Cf. Telleruide section.<br />
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'''Gasophilia'''<br><br />
Love of gas.<br />
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'''Schwärmer'''<br><br />
The name is a German word meaning visionary, zealot, raver.<br />
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'''Waves in a timeless stream of Gas'''<br><br />
Replevin equates piped gas to the æther.<br />
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'''Sensitive Flame'''<br><br />
A burner flame adjusted so that it responds to the tiniest disturbance in the air. Used by both physicists and spiritualists.<br />
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'''Chidambaram'''<br><br />
A city in south India and Chidambaram is one of the Panchabhoota Sthalams - temples built for the 5 elements said to embody Shiva - at Chidambaram (space), Kalahasti (wind), Thiruvanaikaval (water), Tiruvannamalai (fire) and Kanchipuram (earth).<br />
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<br />
'''''Akaša'''''<br><br />
Akasa is the fifth element,the ether, unseen and invisible but an important element permeating the whole universe. It is also considered<br />
to be indentical with Brahma, the creator.....<br><br />
Akasa is 'simple,continuous infinite substance and is the substratum of sound.' Both from Indian Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 1999.<br />
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'''Atman'''<br><br />
''Sanskrit''. In Hinduisim, the innermost essence of each individual. Also, the soul. ''Cf.'' Weed Atman in ''Vineland''.<br />
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''''''Chaos''''''<br><br />
allusion is seems to Genesis. "Chaos" is in fact the Greek word [for without form and void], says this site. <br />
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth<br />
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.<br />
And God said, Let there be light; and there was light.<br />
And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness."<br />
-- Genesis 1: 1-4 (KJV) <br />
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<br />
'''van Helmont'''<br><br />
He claimed to have coined the word "gas" in just the way described here.<br />
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'''stridently unpopulated'''<br><br />
Cf p610.<br />
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==Annotation Index==<br />
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==Page 588==<br />
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'''tannery'''<br><br />
In ancient history, tanning was considered a noxious or "odiferous trade" and relegated to the outskirts of town, amongst the poor. Indeed, tanning by ancient methods is so foul smelling that tanneries are still isolated from those towns today where the old methods are used.<br />
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'''Gottlob'''<br><br />
Literally "praise to God", as an exclamation also "Thank God!". Though it is rare, it is a real German name.<br />
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'''Humfried'''<br><br />
A German translation of Humphrey. This was not an existing German name any time after the medieval, though.<br />
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'''Gauss's brain'''<br><br />
After Carl Friedrich Gauss died in 1855, his brain was preserved for research purposes. To this day, it is in the possession of the University of Göttingen.<br />
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'''impervious to the wind'''<br><br />
(Attribute of tanned leather?)<br />
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'''''"Heiliger Bimbam!"'''''<br><br />
A German expression of surprise, translated elsewhere as "Holy Moly!"<br />
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'''It is she, she!'''<br><br />
In [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Rider_Haggard H. Rider Haggard's] ''She'', the she in question rises, like Venus, from the sea. In ''Against the day'', she rises from the swamp. Carl Jung, who used the novel ''She'' (1887) as an example of anima, posited the anima is an archetypical form, expressing the fact that a man has a minority of female genes. Haggard's Queen Ayesha is an unmistakable anima type &#151; the ultimate guide and mediator to the inner world. The idea has also connections with the observations of James Frazer in his classical study ''The Golden Bough''. Haggard's idea of a journey into the "darkest Africa," which turns into a spiritual search, has been used by a number of writers, including Joseph Conrad in ''Heart of Darkness'' (1902).<br><br />
"I am of thy imagination", She says in the novel, "She". <br />
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'''Kovalevskaia'''<br><br />
Sofia Kovalevskaia, 1850-1891. Russian mathematician, in 1884 appointed professor in Stockholm. The third female professor in Europe ever. (Wikipedia)<br />
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'''Roentgen-ray spectacles'''<br><br />
The X-ray glasses that used to be advertised in comic books.<br />
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'''''natürlich'''''<br><br />
German: naturally.<br />
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'''rim'''<br><br />
Kit pretends to think he's referring to monocle as 'chichi' (stylish).<br />
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==Page 589==<br />
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'''Those curves . . . ''Noli me tangere'''''<br><br />
A well-turned wordplay: The operation of differentiating a curve involves drawing ''tangents'' to it at selected points. The curves in question are continuous, but the injunction ''Noli me tangere'' means you can't draw the tangents.<br />
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'''''Noli me tangere'''''<br><br />
Latin for 'don't touch me'<br />
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'''''Hausknochen'''''<br><br />
German: a giant housekey, as defined, literally House Bone,with perhaps a<br />
double entendre on bone?<br />
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==Page 590==<br />
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'''Hadamard... Poussin... Prime Number Theorem'''<br><br />
Hadamard and Poussin independently proved the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number_theorem prime number theorem] in 1896, relying on Riemann's Zeta function.<br />
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'''patent ''Kühlbox'''''<br><br />
patent here, as adjective, means ACCESSIBLE, EXPOSED: Archaic<br />
: readily visible or intelligible : OBVIOUS<br />
synonym see EVIDENT. If the Kuhlbox were a patented invention, TRP would have written "patented Kuhlbox"<br />
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icebox..this last an English-German meld or Archaic, it seems.<br />
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[http://www.dhm.de/datenbank/index.html?/datenbank/rb00/rb000891.html pic of a ca. 1920 Eiskiste-model]. According to german Wikipedia, the mobile "Eiskiste" (icebox) had to be filled with (natural) ice, while its successor, the Kühlbox, worked/works with "Kühlaggregate" (cooling units). The contributor is not sure if suchlike were around at that time. German Wikipedia on [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiskiste Eiskiste] and [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%BChlbox Kühlbox]. <br />
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'''beleaguered subset'''<br><br />
a group (from the whole) under attack<br />
<br />
'''Prime Number Theorem'''<br><br />
Gives an estimate of the number of primes less than a whole number ''n.'' For example, if ''n'' is 20 then there are nine primes less than it (1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19). The Prime Number Theorem is closely related to the Riemann Hypothesis.<br />
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==Page 591==<br />
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'''prats'''<br><br />
Literally the buttocks. As a slang term, a 'prat' is an idiot.<br />
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'''''Die Nullstellen der ζ-Funktion'''''<br><br />
German: the zeroes of the ζ function. (Null = zero; Stelle = location.) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_zeta_function#Zeros_of_the_Riemann_zeta_function Wikipedia] on the "Zeros of the Riemann zeta-function". <br />
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'''not all that hard to prove'''<br><br />
Kit will upset the applecart if he can prove the Riemann Hypothesis; Yashmeen's research topic will shrink to triviality. (Last time I checked, no one had yet proved the hypothesis.) --[[User:Volver|Volver]] 19:37, 9 January 2007 (PST)<br />
<br />
'''"Richard Harding Davis"'''<br><br />
Popular writer of fiction and drama, journalist/war-correspondent and a major male-role-model of his time (1864 - 1916). He was considered the model for illustrator Charles Dana Gibson's dashing Gibson man, the male equivalent of his famous Gibson Girl. He is also referenced early in Sinclair Lewis's book, ''Dodsworth'' as the example of an exciting, adventure-seeking legitimate hero. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Harding_Davis Wikipedia] <br />
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'''seldom, if ever'''<br><br />
Cf p559 re Umeki!?<br />
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'''tetralatry'''<br><br />
made up from greek "tettares" (prefix -tetra) = four and "latreia" = worship<br />
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'''C. Howard Hinton'''<br><br />
Charles Howard Hinton (1853 – 1907) was a British mathematician and writer of science fiction works titled ''Scientific Romances''. He was interested in higher dimensions, particularly the fourth dimension, and is known for coining the word ''tesseract'' and for his work on methods of visualising the geometry of higher dimensions. He also had a strong interest in theosophy. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Howard_Hinton Wikipedia Entry]<br />
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'''Johann K.F. Zöllner'''<br><br />
Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner (1834–1882) was a German astrophysicist. Studied Photometrie and optical illusions. He insisted a fourth dimension should be considered in Physics and tried to scientifically explain spiritist phenomena. <br />
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'''vogue... 'vague''''<br><br />
Nice wordplay as Yashmeen seems to think the vogue of mysticism is not very precise, is 'vague' intellectually.<br />
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==Page 592==<br />
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'''upside-down triangles'''<br><br />
Also Pléiade p538. In mathematics that would be the operator ''del'' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del Wikipedia]. Since pre-history and across most cultures the upside-down triangle is a symbol for the female (genitals).<br />
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'''screamingly obvious fallacy in this . . . "proof" of yours'''<br><br />
Yashmeen reacts in a slight panic to Kit's threat (page 591).<br />
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'''metallic banging'''<br><br />
Hausknochen on doors, with 'banging' entendre.<br />
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'''"metric interval"'''<br><br />
In Euclidean (three-dimensional) space a distance is just what you think it is. In other geometrical systems the term "metric interval" is preferred as a generalized distance.<br />
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'''social life is unpredictable'''<br><br />
mirrors the situation in the "Hotel Noctambulo", p. 462. Are all these guys "chums of chance"?<br />
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'''Prinzenstrasse and Weenderstrasse'''<br><br />
A street corner at the very center of Göttingen ([http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=g%C3%B6ttingen,+germany&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=17&ll=51.534284,9.935417&spn=0.006107,0.010793&t=h Google Maps]), "known to mathematicians here as the origin of the city of Göttingen's coordinate system".<br />
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==Page 593==<br />
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'''twenty marks'''<br><br />
A mark is short for deutschemark, a German monetary unit. <br />
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'''''der Pistolenheld'''''<br><br />
German: the pistol hero.<br />
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'''''das Nichtharmonischestrahlenbündel'''''<br><br />
Or ''das nichtharmonische Strahlenbündel.'' German: the anharmonic pencil. A "pencil" is the set of lines passing through a point.<br />
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'''Euler'''<br><br />
Leonhard Euler (pronounced Oiler; IPA [ˈɔʏlɐ]) (April 15, 1707 – September 7, 1783) was a Russian-German mathematician and physicist of Swiss descent. From Wikipedia and below:<br />
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Euler made important discoveries in fields as diverse as calculus, number theory, and topology. He also introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, particularly for mathematical analysis, such as the notion of a mathematical function. [1] He is also renowned for his work in mechanics, optics, and astronomy.<br />
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Euler is considered to be the preeminent mathematician of the 18th century and one of the greatest of all time. <br />
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'''''Mathematical Theory of the Top'''''<br><br />
Published in the U.S. in 1897. Compare Felix Klein and Arnold Sommerfeld, ''Über die Theorie des Kreisels,'' 4 volumes, 1897-1910.<br />
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'''Leopold Kronecker''' and '''Cantor'''<br><br />
The "monumental quarrel between Kronecker and Cantor" is also referred to as a "religious war," appropriately enough. It's based in a disagreement over the legitimacy of numbers. Kronecker held that "'the positive integers were created by God, and all else is the work of man.'" This is contradicted by "'Cantor with his ''Kontinuum'', professing an equally strong belief in just those regions, infinitely divisible, which lie ''between'' the whole numbers so demanding of all Kronecker's devotion.'"<br />
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The disagreement between the two mathematicians is reminiscent of (or does it anticipate?) the rift between Pointsman and Mexico in ''Gravity's Rainbow''. Kronecker's integers "created by God" have become a Pavlovian digital binary for Pointsman, but the two oppositions track faithfully right down to the italicized "between." <br />
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"The young statistician [Mexico] is devoted to number and to method, not table-rapping or wishful thinking. But in the domain of zero to one, not-something to something, Pointsman can only possess the zero and the one. He cannot, like Mexico, survive anyplace in between. Like his master I. P. Pavlov before him, he imagines the cortex of the brain as a mosaic of tiny on/off elements.... But to Mexico belongs the domain ''between'' zero and one." [Page 55]<br />
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It should be noted, however, that the continuous number line was a modern innovation. In Greek number theory, a number is a collection of indivisible units. Irrationals, such as the square root of 2 are not numbers but "magnitudes." One is not even a number for it is not a number of units. There are no negative numbers as well. (see Klein's <i>Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra.</i>) So Kronecker's position may be less of a crazy innovation as much as a maintenance of ancient theory.<br />
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(That last paragraph makes an excellent point. --[[User:Volver|Volver]] 19:45, 9 January 2007 (PST))<br />
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'''''Kontinuum'''''<br><br />
This passage closely parallels the one about the "microcosm of Venice" on page 575.<br />
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==Page 594==<br />
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'''''Nervenklinik'''''<br><br />
German: nerve clinic. Three-dollar word for a mental hospital.<br />
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'''boundless epsilonic world'''<br><br />
Epsilon, Greek letter like E. In mathematics (particularly calculus), an arbitrary (or nearly so) small positive quantity is commonly denoted ε; see limit. <br />
By analogy with this, the late mathematician Paul Erdős also used the term "epsilons" to refer to children (Hoffman 1998, p. 4). Wikipedia<br />
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'''Der Finsterzwerg'''<br><br />
The choice of the tavern "The Dwarf of Darkness" may have been meant as a dig at five-foot-tall Kronecker.<br />
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'''chloral hydrate'''<br><br />
A/k/a "knockout drops" a/k/a a "Mickey Finn". Hence the ''Mickifest''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloral_hydrate Wikipedia entry].<br />
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'''''Kneipe'''''<br><br />
German: dive.<br />
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'''Gauss passing to Weber a remark'''<br><br />
Carl Friedrich Gauss (Gauß)(30 April 1777 – 23 February 1855) was a German mathematician and scientist of profound genius who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, magnetism, astronomy and optics. Sometimes known as "the prince of mathematicians" and "greatest mathematician since antiquity", Gauss had a remarkable influence in many fields of mathematics and science and is ranked as one of history's most influential mathematicians.<br />
In 1831 Gauss developed a fruitful collaboration with the physics professor Wilhelm Weber; it led to new knowledge in the field of magnetism (including finding a representation for the unit of magnetism in terms of mass, length and time) and the discovery of Kirchhoff's circuit laws in electricity. Gauss and Weber constructed the first electromagnetic telegraph in 1833, which connected the observatory with the institute for physics in Göttingen. Gauss ordered a magnetic observatory to be built in the garden of the observatory and with Weber founded the magnetischer Verein ("magnetic club"), which supported measurements of earth's magnetic field in many regions of the world. He developed a method of measuring the horizontal intensity of the magnetic field which has been in use well into the second half of the 20th century and worked out the mathematical theory for separating the inner (core and crust) and outer (magnetospheric) sources of Earth's magnetic field<br />
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'''crisis in mathematics . . . Weierstrass functions, Cantor's continuum, Russell's inexhaustible capacity for mischief'''<br><br />
A genuine crisis as well-established ideas were challenged. Weierstrass functions have the unheard-of property that they are "continuous but nowhere differentiable." Cantor's ideas about the continuum violated a longstanding prohibition against infinite quantities. Bertrand Russell around this time was setting the cat among the pigeons by identifying paradoxes and inconsistencies in set theory and number theory.<br />
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'''"the infinite" was all but a conjuror's convenience'''<br><br />
There is a very good book relating how the infinite, between the 18th and early 20th centuries, finally found a place in mathematics: ''In Search of Infinity'' by N.Ya. Vilenkin (translated by Abe Shenitzer).<br />
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==Page 595==<br />
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'''That winter, in St. Petersburg'''<br><br />
22 Jan 1905 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution_of_1905 Wikipedia]<br />
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'''Kronstadt'''<br><br />
The Kronstadt rebellion of March 1921<br />
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'''Black Hundreds'''<br><br />
Anti-Semitic vigilantes.<br />
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'''Japanese won'''<br><br />
The Japanese destroyed the bulk of the Russian Baltic Fleet in the Battle of Tsushima Straight on May 27-28, 1905. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War Wikipedia]<br />
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'''Muslim rebellion'''<br><br />
The downfall of the Ottoman Empire by Turkey? <br />
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'''the year that followed'''<br><br />
Seemingly 1918.<br />
Russian Revolution of 1917, which included: <br />
February Revolution, resulting in the abdication of Nicholas II of Russia <br />
October Revolution, resulting in the coming to power of the Bolshevik party <br />
Third Russian Revolution, the failed anarchist revolution against the Bolsheviks and the White movement 1918 - 1922 <br />
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'''Peter and Paul Fortress'''<br><br />
At St. Petersburg, established by Peter the Great. Political prisoners were confined there from the first half of the 1700s. Conditions were notoriously harsh.<br />
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'''kazatsky'''<br><br />
A Cossack dance, stereotypical Russian behavior.<br />
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'''raid....Waziristan'''<br><br />
Waziristan (Pashto: وزیرستان) is a mountainous region of northwest Pakistan, bordering Afghanistan and covering some 11 585 km² (4,473 mi²). It comprises the area west and southwest of Peshawar between the Tochi River to the north and the Gomal River to the south, forming part of Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas. The North-West Frontier Province lies immediately to the east. The region was an independent tribal territory from 1893, remaining outside of British-ruled empire and Afghanistan. Tribal raiding into British-ruled territory was a constant problem for the British, eliciting frequent punitive expeditions between 1860 and 1945. Wikipedia<br />
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???<br />
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==Page 596==<br />
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'''as-ever transcendentally interesting hair'''<br><br />
(Perhaps a reference to Albert Einstein?)<br />
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Possibly, but given the numerous mentions of the Zeta function it is most likely a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_number/ transcendental numbers]. These are irrational numbers that do not exist as the zero (or solution) to any algebraic function. A number of groundbreaking results regarding transcendentalism were made around the time the novel is set, and most if not all of the mathematicians and mathematical methods mentioned in the book revolve around transcendental numbers and functions.<br />
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Given that these numbers are often expressed as an infinite series, in which successive terms add ever-more-miniscule amounts to the value of the number, yet each digit is fascinatingly unique (since the decimal never repeats), it seems to me that Pynchon is suggesting that Yashmeen's hair has the quality of being endlessly fascinating, that even the observation of a single hair (or even a portion of a single hair) is involving and invigorating. This would mirror Kit's fascination and infatuation with Yashmeen, and the term would likely spring readily to the mind of a mathematician of the era.[[User:Dharper|Dharper]] 08:15, 16 January 2007 (PST)<br />
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''''gen''''<br><br />
British military slang for information. To gen-up is to learn quickly. OED gives earliest recorded use of the word as 1940.<br />
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'''a soul impaled . . . as if to bisect me'''<br><br />
Harks back to the fate of La Jarretière in ''V.''<br />
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'''Afghani dirhan'''<br><br />
An Afghani coin, more usually transliterated as "dirham". [http://ghaznavid.ancients.info/ This site] has pictures and more information.<br />
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'''Ghaznivid Empire'''<br><br />
Usually transliterated as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghaznavid_Empire Ghaznavid Empire] (Wikipedia)<br />
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'''coffee scion'''<br><br />
Coffee motif.<br />
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'''Günther von Quassel'''<br><br />
"quasseln" is a German verb, meaning roughly "to jabber"<br />
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'''less than universally respected Ludwig Boltzmann'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Boltzmann Boltzmann] proposed an explanation of thermodynamics based on the statistical behaviour of atoms. Many influential colleagues at the time did not believe in the reality of atoms and thus worked to discredit Boltzmann.<br />
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==Page 597==<br />
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'''Gymnasium child'''<br><br />
A Gymnasium is a German secondary school<br />
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'''''Ach, die Zetamanie'''''<br><br />
German: Oh, the zeta-mania.<br />
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'''one measure of the chaos'''<br><br />
Cf GR on entropy?<br />
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'''crime...narrative puzzle'''<br><br />
Hinting at Webb's role in the novel?<br />
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'''Göttingen tradition'''...'''statue'''<br><br />
Like other university towns, Göttingen has developed its own folklore. On the day of their doctorate, postgraduate students are drawn in handcarts from the Great Hall to the Gänseliesel-Fountain in front of the Old Town Hall. There they have to climb the fountain and kiss the statue of the Gänseliesel (Goose girl). This practice is actually forbidden by law, but the law is not at all enforced. She is considered to be the most-kissed girl in the world. Wikipedia.<br />
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Addendum of interest for GR and ATD.<br />
Nearly untouched by allied bombing in World War II (the informal understanding during World War 2 was that Germany wouldn't bomb Cambridge and Oxford and the allies wouldn't bomb Heidelberg and Göttingen).<br />
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'''Rathaus square'''<br><br />
The square in front of City Hall.<br />
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==Page 598==<br />
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'''Axioms of Zermelo'''<br><br />
The basic axioms of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zermelo-Frankel_set_theory#The_axioms Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory].<br />
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'''Poincaré'''<br><br />
Henri Poincaré ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Poincar%C3%A9 Wikipedia])<br />
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'''Cauchy'''<br><br />
Augustin Louis Cauchy ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustin_Louis_Cauchy Wikipedia])<br />
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'''Whittaker and Watson'''<br><br />
A standard mathematics textbook of the time ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whittaker_and_Watson Wikipedia])<br />
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'''two point one'''<br><br />
(Cf Sondheim lyric, "A Little Night Music" [http://lynxfeather.net/nest/lyrics/nightmusic-nowlatersoon.html lyrics].)<br />
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==Page 599==<br />
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'''"What here is he ''doing?''" . . . "Obviously, we must now a duel fight."'''<br><br />
In keeping with his name (see p. 596 annotations), Günther speaks in a stage-German accent.<br />
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'''dueling-society cap'''<br><br />
Probably student corporation insignia.<br />
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'''''Liebchen'''''<br><br />
German, "sweetheart"<br />
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'''''Egal was, meine Schatze'''''<br><br />
German, "No matter what, my darling" - though "meine Schatze" is an improper femininization, which ought to be "mein Schatz".<br />
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'''''Schläger'''''<br><br />
A specialized weapon for student duels. See Wikipedia's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_fencing Academic fencing] article.<br />
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'''Krummsäbel'''<br><br />
German, "scimitar".<br />
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'''Korbrapier'''<br><br />
A rapier with a basket ("Korb" in German) like protection hilt.<br />
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'''épée'''<br><br />
A sharp-pointed duelling sword.<br />
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==Page 600==<br />
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'''Colt six-shooters'''<br><br />
I guess Kit's luggage beat him to Gottingen.<br />
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'''''Verbindung'''''<br><br />
German: connection, union. Here the student corps one belongs to.<br />
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'''upon the face of the other, ''to inscribe one's mark'''''<br><br />
In several of his movies, the actor Erich von Stroheim appeared with a nasty scar on the left side of his face. Dueling was a pastime of honor at some universities, and the sword scar was the mark of having sustained one's honor there. Special weapons, masks and inflaming treatments were employed to produce this lifelong disfigurement.<br />
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'''a Mexican tilde'''<br><br />
The wavy mark over the letter ñ in Spanish.<br />
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'''restoring moment, elastic constants'''<br><br />
???<br />
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'''wasn't going to converge . . . skipped a step . . . ''divided by zero'''''<br><br />
Kit insults Günther by pointing out blunders in the proof he gave to Yashmeen.<br />
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'''Geheimrat Hilbert'''<br><br />
German: confidential counsellor. A title of honor given to prominent civilian figures in Germany.<br />
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==Page 601==<br />
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'''''Ehrenkodex'''''<br><br />
German, "code of honor"<br />
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'''Tyrolean hats'''<br><br />
[http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=tirolerhut&btnG=Search+Images Images]<br />
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'''''Schnurrbartbinde'''''<br><br />
A device to keep one's mustache safe from entanglement when sleeping, like [http://www.volkskrantblog.nl/pub/mm/2006/01/1137360569.70341.gif this].<br />
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'''Zeiss "Palmos Panoram"'''<br><br />
An early panoramic camera, mentioned in the 1911 Britannica's [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Photography Photography] article.<br />
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'''''"Auf die Mensur!"'''''<br><br />
German, "to the duel"<br />
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'''Andaman Islands'''<br><br />
[http://www.openencyclopedia.net/index.php/Andaman_Islands Here]'s a mention of tattooing practices in the Andaman Islands<br />
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'''Stephanie du Motel... group-theory godfather Évariste Galois'''<br><br />
Évariste Galois died in a duel at the age of 20. Though much confusion surrounds the affair, it is suspected that he provoked the duel after being rejected by one Stéphanie-Felice du Motel. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evariste_Galois#Final_days Wikipedia])<br />
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==Page 602==<br />
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'''young Ouspensky'''<br><br />
Peter D. Ouspensky (1878-1947), Russian mystic and philosopher, author of ''The Fourth Dimension'', appropriate to Pynchon's themes in ''ATD''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Uspensky Wikipedia entry].<br />
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'''Chong'''<br><br />
A strange and seemingly unlikely visitor to Göttingen. The name "Chong" is not the character's actual name, as one will find out within the next 50 pages. The name might be taken from the Chinese philosopher Wang Chong, or Wang Ch'ung.<br><br />
Could be Cheech Marin's partner? (C.Marin alluded to earlier)<br />
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'''"The what?"'''<br><br />
(Precipitous drop in authorial expectations?)<br />
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'''Sidney... Kensington Sid'''<br><br />
Sidney Webb, leading political theorist [socialist] and (later, I think) Labour Pary representative of the time? No "Chinese Bolshevik", but with his wife Beatrice, an English supporter and defender of Russia See Wikipedia.<br />
Kensington is where elected officials worked.<br />
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'''transtriadic'''<br><br />
Beyond the three.<br />
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==Page 603==<br />
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'''"Spiritual... At Göttingen?"'''<br><br />
Gottingen is materialistic. Preserved brains as like in a tannery. <br />
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'''Applied Mechanics Institute'''<br><br />
An institute of the University of Göttingen<br />
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'''Prandtl's recent discovery of the boundary layer'''<br><br />
Ludwig Prandtl ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Prandtl Wikipedia]) in 1904 developed the theory of the boundary layer ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary%20layer Wikipedia]) in aerodynamics, greatly simplifying aerodynamic calculations. <br />
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'''powered flight . . . at the edge of history'''<br><br />
In 1905 already a reality, but the pioneering empirical work was taking place in Ohio, not Germany.<br />
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'''brambled guttie'''<br><br />
A proto golf-ball, see [http://www.che.rochester.edu/users/dafoster/ChE243/SciAm%20GolfBall.pdf here].<br />
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'''Bürgerstrasse'''<br><br />
German, "Citizen's Street", a street in Göttingen.<br />
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'''Brauweg'''<br><br />
German, "Brewery Way", a street in Göttingen.<br />
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'''Zhukovsky's Transformation'''<br><br />
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joukowsky_transform Joukowsky Transform] maps the unit circle in the complex plane to a shape very much like an airfoil.<br />
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'''Geheimrat Klein '''<br><br />
Geheimrat = Privy councillor. In geometry, the Klein model, also called the projective model... is a model of n-dimensional hyperbolic geometry in which the points of the geometry are in an n-dimensional disk, or ball, and the lines of the geometry are line segments contained in the disk; that is, with endpoints on the boundary of the disk<br />
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'''glass of tea'''<br><br />
(Why not 'cup'?)<br />
because in Europe, as opposed to in England, tea may be drunk from glassware.<br />
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'''draw pictures . . . flights of arrows . . . vectors without pictures'''<br><br />
Vectors can be visualized as arrows in a plane or three-dimensional space; more generally they can be represented as arrays of coefficients, and now they are not limited to three dimensions.<br />
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'''''"...according to Spiral Theory, up to infinity."<br> "And beyond, " added Gunther, nodding earnestly.'''''<br><br />
Reference to Buzz Lightyear's stock character phrase in 1995's TOY STORY (Pixar/Disney):<br />
"To Infinity... and Beyond!"<br />
--[[User:Btchakir|Btchakir]] 07:43, 19 December 2006 (PST)<br />
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==Page 604==<br />
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'''nontrivial zeroes'''<br><br />
The Riemann zeta function has two classes of zeros, the trivial zeroes being at negative even integers (-2, -4...), the non-trivial complex numbers, believed (but not proven) to have Re(z)=1/2. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_hypothesis Wikipedia].<br />
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'''much-noted talk'''<br><br />
At the 1900 International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris, Hilbert proposed a research programme of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_problems#Tabulated_information 23 problems]. The Riemann hypothesis is number 8 on the list. <br />
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'''eigenvalues'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenvalue Wikipedia] Dudley Eigenvalue, D.D.S., was a character in ''V.''<br />
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'''Hermitian operator'''<br><br />
A Hermitian operator generalises some of the ideas of symmetry when complex numbers are involved. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermitian_operator Wikipedia]<br />
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'''spine of reality... ''"Rückgrat von Wirklichkeit"'''''<br><br />
Probably a reference to the main diagonal of a Hermitian matrix, which can contain only real numbers. The German phrase is one accurate way to translate the English.<br />
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'''Hilbert-Polya Conjecture'''<br><br />
The conjecture that the zeroes of the Riemann function would be the eigenvalues of a Hermitian operator, just what Yashmeen is suggesting.<br />
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==Page 605==<br />
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'''Vance Aychrome'''<br><br />
The voracious detective is a stock figure in the mystery genre (Nero Wolfe, Mycroft Holmes, Inspector Dover, D.C.I. Dalziel and others).<br><br />
Is his name pronounced Eye Chrome, as in private eye? Weak possible connection?-- a truck light called Big Eye Chrome. The name sounds like 'fancy chrome.'<br />
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'''Full English Breakfast'''<br><br />
Bacon, eggs, tomato, toast... otherwise known as a fry-up.<br />
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'''Pythagorean dietary'''<br><br />
The first prominent modern vegetarian was the Greek philosopher Pythagoras who lived towards the end of the 6th century BC. The Pythagorean diet came to mean an avoidance of the flesh of slaughtered animals. Pythagorean ethics first became a philosophical morality between 490-430 BC with a desire to create a universal and absolute law including injunctions not to kill "living creatures," to abstain from "harsh-sounding bloodshed," in particular animal sacrifice, and "never to eat meat." (From a review of ''The Heretics Feast: a History of Vegetarianism'' by Colin Spencer, University Press of New England, 1995)<br />
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'''kippers and bloaters'''<br><br />
Different words (both Scottish) for smoked herrings<br />
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'''baps'''<br><br />
soft bread rolls - another Scottish word<br />
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'''Spong machine'''<br><br />
Appropriate technology. An English-made hand-cranked coffee grinder that doesn't light up, lacks a readout to tell when the beans are ready, and signally fails to function before the user wakes up. Only drawback is that some spouses compare its sound to half a load of cobbles being dumped on the roof.<br />
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'''thinned'''<br><br />
From full 78. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarot Wikipedia]<br />
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'''vegetarian haggis'''<br><br />
It exists: [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22vegetarian+haggis Google search]<br />
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==Page 606==<br />
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'''Lamont Replevin'''<br><br />
"Replevin" is a legal term for a form of civil action to recover possession of property being wrongfully held by another.<br />
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'''Elflock Villa'''<br><br />
Locked elves? <br />
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'''Stuffed Edge, Herts'''<br><br />
An imaginary village in the South-East English county of Hertfordshire. Stuffed hedge?<br />
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'''kedgeree'''<br><br />
A hot breakfast dish of fish, rice, and eggs.<br />
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'''Cesare Lombroso'''<br><br />
Anthropologist who devised a method of identifying criminal "types" from their facial structures.<br />
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'''Trans-Oxanian'''<br><br />
From the other side of the Oxus River (now Amu-Darya) in Central Asia.<br />
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'''Graeco-Buddhist'''<br><br />
The hybrid cultural background evidenced in Shambhala.<br />
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'''bad hats'''<br><br />
A bad hat is a slang term for a rascal<br />
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==Page 607==<br />
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'''Gas Office'''<br><br />
As explained in the text, the Scotland Yard bureau that kept gas communications under surveillance.<br />
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'''communication by means of coal-gas'''<br><br />
Cf Nabokov's "Ada". Also inverse of Tesla's energy-transmitter. A parallel to the Tristero, too. The description of communication by gas seems like a self-parody of ''The Crying of Lot 49.''<br />
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'''bombs... Suffragettes'''<br><br />
(Did they bomb post offices?!?)post boxes:Suffragettes carried out direct action such as chaining themselves to railings, setting fire to the contents of mailboxes, smashing windows and on occasions setting off bombs. Wikipedia<br />
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'''Persian'''<br><br />
Majority language in Iran, now called Farsi.<br />
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'''Pashto'''<br><br />
A language spoken in Afghanistan and nearby.<br />
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'''Tadjik'''<br><br />
A language spoken in Tadjikistan. "Mountain Tadjik" presumably dominates in the 60% or so of the country that is in high mountains.<br />
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'''Seven Dials'''<br><br />
In Covent Garden, London - a place where 7 roads meet. An unsavory assignment for a policeman.<br />
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==Page 608==<br />
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'''"Avoid beans"'''<br><br />
Pythagoreans follow a proscription against eating beans.<br />
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'''spotted dick'''<br><br />
A suet pudding with raisins or currants<br />
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'''Yarmouth bloater'''<br><br />
A cured herring from the port town of Yarmouth.<br />
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'''queering the pitch'''<br><br />
The pitch in a medicine show is the audience; queering them means putting them onto the doc's game. In cricket, the pitch is the playing field; queering the pitch means disturbing the surface so that the ball bounces unpredictably.<br />
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''''shape''''<br><br />
a doughnut,which comes in various shapes? Including the math-relevant<br />
shape: a torus. But probably just a bit of bun, scone, etc. listed as Vance's breakfast...no doughnut listed.<br />
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'''blue lamps'''<br><br />
Traditionally hung outside police stations in England.<br />
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'''lamé surfaces'''<br><br />
Lamé (fabric), a fabric inwoven metallic threads<br><br />
Lamé, name of the electrically conductive jacket worn by foil and sabre fencers<br><br />
Lamé (armor), an unarticulated component of a larger piece of armor <br><br />
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'''yarmulke... high crown... dented Trilby style'''<br><br />
[http://www.wpclipart.com/clothes/hats/index.html Image of a Trilby hat.]<br />
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==Page 609==<br />
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'''''Kelly's Suburban Dictionary'''''<br><br />
The peerless ''London A to Z'' did not come along until the 1930s.<br />
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'''wenlets'''<br><br />
Politician and journalist William Cobbett (1763-1835) called London "the great wen." It was not a compliment, because ''wen'' means a sebaceous cyst. Wenlets are small versions of the "great" wen.<br />
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==Page 610==<br />
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'''daylight oil'''<br><br />
from the streetlamps, lit up for hours?<br />
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'''a moon no one could see'''<br><br />
Note that the ''Inconvenience'' is repeatedly referred to as a "second moon". <br />
<br />
'''refused to dim'''<br><br />
(Nicely vivid.)<br />
<br />
'''Vontz's Universal Pick'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''alchemized coke'''<br><br />
Gas works that manufacture syngas also produce coke as an end product, called gas house coke.<br />
<br />
Fluid coking is a process by which heavy residual crude is converted into lighter products such as naptha, kerosene, heating oil, and hydrocarbon gases. The "fluid" term refers to the fact that coke particles are in a continuous system versus older batch coking technology. Wikipedia<br />
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<br />
<br />
'''Lincrusta-Walton'''<br><br />
an embossed fabric used for covering walls, invented in 1877 by Frederick Walton as an alternative to more expensive wallpapers (wikipedia).<br />
<br />
'''hipshot'''<br><br />
having one hip lower than the other: a Greek statue in hipshot pose.M-W.<br />
<br />
'''captive maiden'''<br><br />
In ''The Crying of Lot 49'', Oedipa Maas is referred to as a "captive maiden" in the scene where she's standing in front of the Remedios Varo painting. It would certainly be worth while to examine the parallels more closely. <br />
<br />
'''scalene polygons'''<br><br />
Polygons with sides of unequal length.<br />
<br />
'''jet'''<br><br />
jet black, a color.<br />
<br />
'''Apotheosis Sparkless Torch'''<br><br />
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==Page 611==<br />
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'''magnalium'''<br><br />
An alloy of magnesium and aluminum.<br />
<br />
'''Lamont Replevin (for it was he)'''<br><br />
Formula from penny-dreadful literature.<br />
<br />
'''''The Slow and the Stupefied'''''<br><br />
Daytime soap 'The Young and the Restless'.<br />
<br />
'''gas-head'''<br><br />
Cf pothead, acidhead, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Pike's Peak'''<br><br />
Lew's old stompinground.<br />
<br />
'''Gus Swallowfield'''<br><br />
A curious pseudonym assumed by Lew Basnight while in the presence of Lamont Replevin. As Mr. Swallowfield, Lew professes to be an insurance salesman. The name is very overtly British and is possibly referential to the Swallowfield estate in Berkshire, which itself has a curious history.<br />
<br />
'''most theft policies'''<br><br />
(Fact?)<br />
<br />
'''pantechnicon'''<br><br />
A closed van or carryall. (Is TRP trying to put a burr under S. Weisenburger's saddle by bringing this vehicle back? SW's gloss in the ''GR Companion,'' at page 19 of the Viking edition, is famously wrong.)<br />
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'''legitimate bill of sale'''<br><br />
???<br />
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==Page 612==<br />
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'''''Pavonazzetto'''''<br><br />
???<br />
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'''Phrygian marble'''<br><br />
Phrygia is an ancient region of west central Asia Minor, to the south of Bithynia. Marble from there was highly valued.<br />
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<br />
'''Atys... Agdistis'''<br><br />
???<br />
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'''''The Mutilation of Atys'''''<br><br />
No images: [http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Mutilation%20of%20Atys&btnG=Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi Google image search]<br />
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'''Arturo Naunt, Chelsea's own, shocking the bourgeoisie since 1889'''<br><br />
Phrasing reminiscent of advertising.<br />
<br />
'''shocking the bourgeoisie'''<br><br />
A popular pastime for young and not-so-young soi-disant radicals ("Epater le bourgeois").<br />
<br />
'''koumiss vessel'''<br><br />
a horse. Koumiss is derived from horse's milk. See wikipedia.<br />
<br />
'''depending on the angle you hold it at, sometimes it doesn't look like anything at all'''<br><br />
A concise description of anamorphic and paramorphic images; this one needs the Paramorphoscope to interpret it.<br />
<br />
'''wrathful deities from Tantric Buddhism'''<br><br />
Tantric Buddhism is also known as Varjayana Buddhism. In Varjayana Buddhism, a dharmapāla (Tibetan drag-gshed) is a type of wrathful deity. The name means "Dharma-defender" in Sanskrit, and the dharmapalas are also known as the Defenders of the Law (Dharma) or the Protectors of the Law in English.<br />
In Buddhist iconography, they are invariably depicted as fearsome beings, often with many heads, hands or feet; blue, black or red skin; and a fierce expression with protruding fangs. Though dharmapalas have a terrifying appearance, they are all bodhisattvas or buddhas- embodiments of compassion that act in a wrathful way for the sake of sentient beings.Wikipedia<br />
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==Page 613==<br />
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'''tiny German hand camera'''<br><br />
Probably a Zeiss Ikon. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeiss Wikipedia Entry]<br />
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'''raw light'''<br><br />
light from a gaslight is not 'artificial' as from electric lights, streetlamps, etc. Cf. Telleruide section.<br />
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'''Gasophilia'''<br><br />
Love of gas.<br />
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'''Schwärmer'''<br><br />
The name is a German word meaning visionary, zealot, raver.<br />
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'''Waves in a timeless stream of Gas'''<br><br />
Replevin equates piped gas to the æther.<br />
<br />
'''Sensitive Flame'''<br><br />
A burner flame adjusted so that it responds to the tiniest disturbance in the air. Used by both physicists and spiritualists.<br />
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'''Chidambaram'''<br><br />
A city in south India and Chidambaram is one of the Panchabhoota Sthalams - temples built for the 5 elements said to embody Shiva - at Chidambaram (space), Kalahasti (wind), Thiruvanaikaval (water), Tiruvannamalai (fire) and Kanchipuram (earth).<br />
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<br />
<br />
'''''Akaša'''''<br><br />
Akasa is the fifth element,the ether, unseen and invisible but an important element permeating the whole universe. It is also considered<br />
to be indentical with Brahma, the creator.....<br><br />
Akasa is 'simple,continuous infinite substance and is the substratum of sound.' Both from Indian Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 1999.<br />
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'''Atman'''<br><br />
''Sanskrit''. In Hinduisim, the innermost essence of each individual. Also, the soul. ''Cf.'' Weed Atman in ''Vineland''.<br />
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''''''Chaos''''''<br><br />
allusion is seems to Genesis. "Chaos" is in fact the Greek word [for without form and void], says this site. <br />
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth<br />
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.<br />
And God said, Let there be light; and there was light.<br />
And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness."<br />
-- Genesis 1: 1-4 (KJV) <br />
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<br />
'''van Helmont'''<br><br />
He claimed to have coined the word "gas" in just the way described here.<br />
<br />
'''stridently unpopulated'''<br><br />
Cf p610.<br />
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==Annotation Index==<br />
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==Page 588==<br />
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'''tannery'''<br><br />
In ancient history, tanning was considered a noxious or "odiferous trade" and relegated to the outskirts of town, amongst the poor. Indeed, tanning by ancient methods is so foul smelling that tanneries are still isolated from those towns today where the old methods are used.<br />
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'''Gottlob'''<br><br />
Literally "praise to God", as an exclamation also "Thank God!". Though it is rare, it is a real German name.<br />
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'''Humfried'''<br><br />
A German translation of Humphrey. This was not an existing German name any time after the medieval, though.<br />
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'''Gauss's brain'''<br><br />
After Carl Friedrich Gauss died in 1855, his brain was preserved for research purposes. To this day, it is in the possession of the University of Göttingen.<br />
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'''impervious to the wind'''<br><br />
(Attribute of tanned leather?)<br />
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'''''"Heiliger Bimbam!"'''''<br><br />
A German expression of surprise, translated elsewhere as "Holy Moly!"<br />
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'''It is she, she!'''<br><br />
In [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Rider_Haggard H. Rider Haggard's] ''She'', the she in question rises, like Venus, from the sea. In ''Against the day'', she rises from the swamp. Carl Jung, who used the novel ''She'' (1887) as an example of anima, posited the anima is an archetypical form, expressing the fact that a man has a minority of female genes. Haggard's Queen Ayesha is an unmistakable anima type &#151; the ultimate guide and mediator to the inner world. The idea has also connections with the observations of James Frazer in his classical study ''The Golden Bough''. Haggard's idea of a journey into the "darkest Africa," which turns into a spiritual search, has been used by a number of writers, including Joseph Conrad in ''Heart of Darkness'' (1902).<br><br />
"I am of thy imagination", She says in the novel, "She". <br />
<br />
'''Kovalevskaia'''<br><br />
Sofia Kovalevskaia, 1850-1891. Russian mathematician, in 1884 appointed professor in Stockholm. The third female professor in Europe ever. (Wikipedia)<br />
<br />
'''Roentgen-ray spectacles'''<br><br />
The X-ray glasses that used to be advertised in comic books.<br />
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'''''natürlich'''''<br><br />
German: naturally.<br />
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'''rim'''<br><br />
Kit pretends to think he's referring to monocle as 'chichi' (stylish).<br />
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==Page 589==<br />
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'''Those curves . . . ''Noli me tangere'''''<br><br />
A well-turned wordplay: The operation of differentiating a curve involves drawing ''tangents'' to it at selected points. The curves in question are continuous, but the injunction ''Noli me tangere'' means you can't draw the tangents.<br />
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'''''Noli me tangere'''''<br><br />
Latin for 'don't touch me'<br />
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'''''Hausknochen'''''<br><br />
German: a giant housekey, as defined, literally House Bone,with perhaps a<br />
double entendre on bone?<br />
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==Page 590==<br />
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'''Hadamard... Poussin... Prime Number Theorem'''<br><br />
???<br />
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'''patent ''Kühlbox'''''<br><br />
patent here, as adjective, means ACCESSIBLE, EXPOSED: Archaic<br />
: readily visible or intelligible : OBVIOUS<br />
synonym see EVIDENT. If the Kuhlbox were a patented invention, TRP would have written "patented Kuhlbox"<br />
<br />
icebox..this last an English-German meld or Archaic, it seems.<br />
<br />
[http://www.dhm.de/datenbank/index.html?/datenbank/rb00/rb000891.html pic of a ca. 1920 Eiskiste-model]. According to german Wikipedia, the mobile "Eiskiste" (icebox) had to be filled with (natural) ice, while its successor, the Kühlbox, worked/works with "Kühlaggregate" (cooling units). The contributor is not sure if suchlike were around at that time. German Wikipedia on [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiskiste Eiskiste] and [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%BChlbox Kühlbox]. <br />
<br />
'''beleaguered subset'''<br><br />
a group (from the whole) under attack<br />
<br />
'''Prime Number Theorem'''<br><br />
Gives an estimate of the number of primes less than a whole number ''n.'' For example, if ''n'' is 20 then there are nine primes less than it (1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19). The Prime Number Theorem is closely related to the Riemann Hypothesis.<br />
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==Page 591==<br />
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'''prats'''<br><br />
Literally the buttocks. As a slang term, a 'prat' is an idiot.<br />
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'''''Die Nullstellen der ζ-Funktion'''''<br><br />
German: the zeroes of the ζ function. (Null = zero; Stelle = location.) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_zeta_function#Zeros_of_the_Riemann_zeta_function Wikipedia] on the "Zeros of the Riemann zeta-function". <br />
<br />
'''not all that hard to prove'''<br><br />
Kit will upset the applecart if he can prove the Riemann Hypothesis; Yashmeen's research topic will shrink to triviality. (Last time I checked, no one had yet proved the hypothesis.) --[[User:Volver|Volver]] 19:37, 9 January 2007 (PST)<br />
<br />
'''"Richard Harding Davis"'''<br><br />
Popular writer of fiction and drama, journalist/war-correspondent and a major male-role-model of his time (1864 - 1916). He was considered the model for illustrator Charles Dana Gibson's dashing Gibson man, the male equivalent of his famous Gibson Girl. He is also referenced early in Sinclair Lewis's book, ''Dodsworth'' as the example of an exciting, adventure-seeking legitimate hero. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Harding_Davis Wikipedia] <br />
<br />
'''seldom, if ever'''<br><br />
Cf p559 re Umeki!?<br />
<br />
'''tetralatry'''<br><br />
made up from greek "tettares" (prefix -tetra) = four and "latreia" = worship<br />
<br />
'''C. Howard Hinton'''<br><br />
Charles Howard Hinton (1853 – 1907) was a British mathematician and writer of science fiction works titled ''Scientific Romances''. He was interested in higher dimensions, particularly the fourth dimension, and is known for coining the word ''tesseract'' and for his work on methods of visualising the geometry of higher dimensions. He also had a strong interest in theosophy. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Howard_Hinton Wikipedia Entry]<br />
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'''Johann K.F. Zöllner'''<br><br />
Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner (1834–1882) was a German astrophysicist. Studied Photometrie and optical illusions. He insisted a fourth dimension should be considered in Physics and tried to scientifically explain spiritist phenomena. <br />
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'''vogue... 'vague''''<br><br />
Nice wordplay as Yashmeen seems to think the vogue of mysticism is not very precise, is 'vague' intellectually.<br />
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==Page 592==<br />
<br />
'''upside-down triangles'''<br><br />
Also Pléiade p538. In mathematics that would be the operator ''del'' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del Wikipedia]. Since pre-history and across most cultures the upside-down triangle is a symbol for the female (genitals).<br />
<br />
'''screamingly obvious fallacy in this . . . "proof" of yours'''<br><br />
Yashmeen reacts in a slight panic to Kit's threat (page 591).<br />
<br />
'''metallic banging'''<br><br />
Hausknochen on doors, with 'banging' entendre.<br />
<br />
'''"metric interval"'''<br><br />
In Euclidean (three-dimensional) space a distance is just what you think it is. In other geometrical systems the term "metric interval" is preferred as a generalized distance.<br />
<br />
'''social life is unpredictable'''<br><br />
mirrors the situation in the "Hotel Noctambulo", p. 462. Are all these guys "chums of chance"?<br />
<br />
'''Prinzenstrasse and Weenderstrasse'''<br><br />
A street corner at the very center of Göttingen ([http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=g%C3%B6ttingen,+germany&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=17&ll=51.534284,9.935417&spn=0.006107,0.010793&t=h Google Maps]), "known to mathematicians here as the origin of the city of Göttingen's coordinate system".<br />
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==Page 593==<br />
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'''twenty marks'''<br><br />
A mark is short for deutschemark, a German monetary unit. <br />
<br />
'''''der Pistolenheld'''''<br><br />
German: the pistol hero.<br />
<br />
'''''das Nichtharmonischestrahlenbündel'''''<br><br />
Or ''das nichtharmonische Strahlenbündel.'' German: the anharmonic pencil. A "pencil" is the set of lines passing through a point.<br />
<br />
'''Euler'''<br><br />
Leonhard Euler (pronounced Oiler; IPA [ˈɔʏlɐ]) (April 15, 1707 – September 7, 1783) was a Russian-German mathematician and physicist of Swiss descent. From Wikipedia and below:<br />
<br />
Euler made important discoveries in fields as diverse as calculus, number theory, and topology. He also introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, particularly for mathematical analysis, such as the notion of a mathematical function. [1] He is also renowned for his work in mechanics, optics, and astronomy.<br />
<br />
Euler is considered to be the preeminent mathematician of the 18th century and one of the greatest of all time. <br />
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'''''Mathematical Theory of the Top'''''<br><br />
Published in the U.S. in 1897. Compare Felix Klein and Arnold Sommerfeld, ''Über die Theorie des Kreisels,'' 4 volumes, 1897-1910.<br />
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'''Leopold Kronecker''' and '''Cantor'''<br><br />
The "monumental quarrel between Kronecker and Cantor" is also referred to as a "religious war," appropriately enough. It's based in a disagreement over the legitimacy of numbers. Kronecker held that "'the positive integers were created by God, and all else is the work of man.'" This is contradicted by "'Cantor with his ''Kontinuum'', professing an equally strong belief in just those regions, infinitely divisible, which lie ''between'' the whole numbers so demanding of all Kronecker's devotion.'"<br />
<br />
The disagreement between the two mathematicians is reminiscent of (or does it anticipate?) the rift between Pointsman and Mexico in ''Gravity's Rainbow''. Kronecker's integers "created by God" have become a Pavlovian digital binary for Pointsman, but the two oppositions track faithfully right down to the italicized "between." <br />
<br />
"The young statistician [Mexico] is devoted to number and to method, not table-rapping or wishful thinking. But in the domain of zero to one, not-something to something, Pointsman can only possess the zero and the one. He cannot, like Mexico, survive anyplace in between. Like his master I. P. Pavlov before him, he imagines the cortex of the brain as a mosaic of tiny on/off elements.... But to Mexico belongs the domain ''between'' zero and one." [Page 55]<br />
<br />
It should be noted, however, that the continuous number line was a modern innovation. In Greek number theory, a number is a collection of indivisible units. Irrationals, such as the square root of 2 are not numbers but "magnitudes." One is not even a number for it is not a number of units. There are no negative numbers as well. (see Klein's <i>Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra.</i>) So Kronecker's position may be less of a crazy innovation as much as a maintenance of ancient theory.<br />
<br />
(That last paragraph makes an excellent point. --[[User:Volver|Volver]] 19:45, 9 January 2007 (PST))<br />
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'''''Kontinuum'''''<br><br />
This passage closely parallels the one about the "microcosm of Venice" on page 575.<br />
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==Page 594==<br />
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'''''Nervenklinik'''''<br><br />
German: nerve clinic. Three-dollar word for a mental hospital.<br />
<br />
'''boundless epsilonic world'''<br><br />
Epsilon, Greek letter like E. In mathematics (particularly calculus), an arbitrary (or nearly so) small positive quantity is commonly denoted ε; see limit. <br />
By analogy with this, the late mathematician Paul Erdős also used the term "epsilons" to refer to children (Hoffman 1998, p. 4). Wikipedia<br />
<br />
'''Der Finsterzwerg'''<br><br />
The choice of the tavern "The Dwarf of Darkness" may have been meant as a dig at five-foot-tall Kronecker.<br />
<br />
'''chloral hydrate'''<br><br />
A/k/a "knockout drops" a/k/a a "Mickey Finn". Hence the ''Mickifest''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloral_hydrate Wikipedia entry].<br />
<br />
'''''Kneipe'''''<br><br />
German: dive.<br />
<br />
'''Gauss passing to Weber a remark'''<br><br />
Carl Friedrich Gauss (Gauß)(30 April 1777 – 23 February 1855) was a German mathematician and scientist of profound genius who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, magnetism, astronomy and optics. Sometimes known as "the prince of mathematicians" and "greatest mathematician since antiquity", Gauss had a remarkable influence in many fields of mathematics and science and is ranked as one of history's most influential mathematicians.<br />
In 1831 Gauss developed a fruitful collaboration with the physics professor Wilhelm Weber; it led to new knowledge in the field of magnetism (including finding a representation for the unit of magnetism in terms of mass, length and time) and the discovery of Kirchhoff's circuit laws in electricity. Gauss and Weber constructed the first electromagnetic telegraph in 1833, which connected the observatory with the institute for physics in Göttingen. Gauss ordered a magnetic observatory to be built in the garden of the observatory and with Weber founded the magnetischer Verein ("magnetic club"), which supported measurements of earth's magnetic field in many regions of the world. He developed a method of measuring the horizontal intensity of the magnetic field which has been in use well into the second half of the 20th century and worked out the mathematical theory for separating the inner (core and crust) and outer (magnetospheric) sources of Earth's magnetic field<br />
<br />
'''crisis in mathematics . . . Weierstrass functions, Cantor's continuum, Russell's inexhaustible capacity for mischief'''<br><br />
A genuine crisis as well-established ideas were challenged. Weierstrass functions have the unheard-of property that they are "continuous but nowhere differentiable." Cantor's ideas about the continuum violated a longstanding prohibition against infinite quantities. Bertrand Russell around this time was setting the cat among the pigeons by identifying paradoxes and inconsistencies in set theory and number theory.<br />
<br />
'''"the infinite" was all but a conjuror's convenience'''<br><br />
There is a very good book relating how the infinite, between the 18th and early 20th centuries, finally found a place in mathematics: ''In Search of Infinity'' by N.Ya. Vilenkin (translated by Abe Shenitzer).<br />
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==Page 595==<br />
<br />
'''That winter, in St. Petersburg'''<br><br />
22 Jan 1905 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution_of_1905 Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''Kronstadt'''<br><br />
The Kronstadt rebellion of March 1921<br />
<br />
'''Black Hundreds'''<br><br />
Anti-Semitic vigilantes.<br />
<br />
'''Japanese won'''<br><br />
The Japanese destroyed the bulk of the Russian Baltic Fleet in the Battle of Tsushima Straight on May 27-28, 1905. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War Wikipedia]<br />
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'''Muslim rebellion'''<br><br />
The downfall of the Ottoman Empire by Turkey? <br />
<br />
'''the year that followed'''<br><br />
Seemingly 1918.<br />
Russian Revolution of 1917, which included: <br />
February Revolution, resulting in the abdication of Nicholas II of Russia <br />
October Revolution, resulting in the coming to power of the Bolshevik party <br />
Third Russian Revolution, the failed anarchist revolution against the Bolsheviks and the White movement 1918 - 1922 <br />
<br />
'''Peter and Paul Fortress'''<br><br />
At St. Petersburg, established by Peter the Great. Political prisoners were confined there from the first half of the 1700s. Conditions were notoriously harsh.<br />
<br />
'''kazatsky'''<br><br />
A Cossack dance, stereotypical Russian behavior.<br />
<br />
'''raid....Waziristan'''<br><br />
Waziristan (Pashto: وزیرستان) is a mountainous region of northwest Pakistan, bordering Afghanistan and covering some 11 585 km² (4,473 mi²). It comprises the area west and southwest of Peshawar between the Tochi River to the north and the Gomal River to the south, forming part of Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas. The North-West Frontier Province lies immediately to the east. The region was an independent tribal territory from 1893, remaining outside of British-ruled empire and Afghanistan. Tribal raiding into British-ruled territory was a constant problem for the British, eliciting frequent punitive expeditions between 1860 and 1945. Wikipedia<br />
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???<br />
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==Page 596==<br />
<br />
'''as-ever transcendentally interesting hair'''<br><br />
(Perhaps a reference to Albert Einstein?)<br />
<br />
Possibly, but given the numerous mentions of the Zeta function it is most likely a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_number/ transcendental numbers]. These are irrational numbers that do not exist as the zero (or solution) to any algebraic function. A number of groundbreaking results regarding transcendentalism were made around the time the novel is set, and most if not all of the mathematicians and mathematical methods mentioned in the book revolve around transcendental numbers and functions.<br />
<br />
Given that these numbers are often expressed as an infinite series, in which successive terms add ever-more-miniscule amounts to the value of the number, yet each digit is fascinatingly unique (since the decimal never repeats), it seems to me that Pynchon is suggesting that Yashmeen's hair has the quality of being endlessly fascinating, that even the observation of a single hair (or even a portion of a single hair) is involving and invigorating. This would mirror Kit's fascination and infatuation with Yashmeen, and the term would likely spring readily to the mind of a mathematician of the era.[[User:Dharper|Dharper]] 08:15, 16 January 2007 (PST)<br />
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''''gen''''<br><br />
British military slang for information. To gen-up is to learn quickly. OED gives earliest recorded use of the word as 1940.<br />
<br />
'''a soul impaled . . . as if to bisect me'''<br><br />
Harks back to the fate of La Jarretière in ''V.''<br />
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'''Afghani dirhan'''<br><br />
An Afghani coin, more usually transliterated as "dirham". [http://ghaznavid.ancients.info/ This site] has pictures and more information.<br />
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'''Ghaznivid Empire'''<br><br />
Usually transliterated as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghaznavid_Empire Ghaznavid Empire] (Wikipedia)<br />
<br />
'''coffee scion'''<br><br />
Coffee motif.<br />
<br />
'''Günther von Quassel'''<br><br />
"quasseln" is a German verb, meaning roughly "to jabber"<br />
<br />
'''less than universally respected Ludwig Boltzmann'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Boltzmann Boltzmann] proposed an explanation of thermodynamics based on the statistical behaviour of atoms. Many influential colleagues at the time did not believe in the reality of atoms and thus worked to discredit Boltzmann.<br />
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==Page 597==<br />
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'''Gymnasium child'''<br><br />
A Gymnasium is a German secondary school<br />
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'''''Ach, die Zetamanie'''''<br><br />
German: Oh, the zeta-mania.<br />
<br />
'''one measure of the chaos'''<br><br />
Cf GR on entropy?<br />
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'''crime...narrative puzzle'''<br><br />
Hinting at Webb's role in the novel?<br />
<br />
'''Göttingen tradition'''...'''statue'''<br><br />
Like other university towns, Göttingen has developed its own folklore. On the day of their doctorate, postgraduate students are drawn in handcarts from the Great Hall to the Gänseliesel-Fountain in front of the Old Town Hall. There they have to climb the fountain and kiss the statue of the Gänseliesel (Goose girl). This practice is actually forbidden by law, but the law is not at all enforced. She is considered to be the most-kissed girl in the world. Wikipedia.<br />
<br />
Addendum of interest for GR and ATD.<br />
Nearly untouched by allied bombing in World War II (the informal understanding during World War 2 was that Germany wouldn't bomb Cambridge and Oxford and the allies wouldn't bomb Heidelberg and Göttingen).<br />
<br />
'''Rathaus square'''<br><br />
The square in front of City Hall.<br />
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==Page 598==<br />
<br />
'''Axioms of Zermelo'''<br><br />
The basic axioms of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zermelo-Frankel_set_theory#The_axioms Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory].<br />
<br />
'''Poincaré'''<br><br />
Henri Poincaré ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Poincar%C3%A9 Wikipedia])<br />
<br />
'''Cauchy'''<br><br />
Augustin Louis Cauchy ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustin_Louis_Cauchy Wikipedia])<br />
<br />
'''Whittaker and Watson'''<br><br />
A standard mathematics textbook of the time ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whittaker_and_Watson Wikipedia])<br />
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'''two point one'''<br><br />
(Cf Sondheim lyric, "A Little Night Music" [http://lynxfeather.net/nest/lyrics/nightmusic-nowlatersoon.html lyrics].)<br />
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==Page 599==<br />
<br />
'''"What here is he ''doing?''" . . . "Obviously, we must now a duel fight."'''<br><br />
In keeping with his name (see p. 596 annotations), Günther speaks in a stage-German accent.<br />
<br />
'''dueling-society cap'''<br><br />
Probably student corporation insignia.<br />
<br />
'''''Liebchen'''''<br><br />
German, "sweetheart"<br />
<br />
'''''Egal was, meine Schatze'''''<br><br />
German, "No matter what, my darling" - though "meine Schatze" is an improper femininization, which ought to be "mein Schatz".<br />
<br />
'''''Schläger'''''<br><br />
A specialized weapon for student duels. See Wikipedia's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_fencing Academic fencing] article.<br />
<br />
'''Krummsäbel'''<br><br />
German, "scimitar".<br />
<br />
'''Korbrapier'''<br><br />
A rapier with a basket ("Korb" in German) like protection hilt.<br />
<br />
'''épée'''<br><br />
A sharp-pointed duelling sword.<br />
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==Page 600==<br />
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'''Colt six-shooters'''<br><br />
I guess Kit's luggage beat him to Gottingen.<br />
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'''''Verbindung'''''<br><br />
German: connection, union. Here the student corps one belongs to.<br />
<br />
'''upon the face of the other, ''to inscribe one's mark'''''<br><br />
In several of his movies, the actor Erich von Stroheim appeared with a nasty scar on the left side of his face. Dueling was a pastime of honor at some universities, and the sword scar was the mark of having sustained one's honor there. Special weapons, masks and inflaming treatments were employed to produce this lifelong disfigurement.<br />
<br />
'''a Mexican tilde'''<br><br />
The wavy mark over the letter ñ in Spanish.<br />
<br />
'''restoring moment, elastic constants'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''wasn't going to converge . . . skipped a step . . . ''divided by zero'''''<br><br />
Kit insults Günther by pointing out blunders in the proof he gave to Yashmeen.<br />
<br />
'''Geheimrat Hilbert'''<br><br />
German: confidential counsellor. A title of honor given to prominent civilian figures in Germany.<br />
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==Page 601==<br />
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'''''Ehrenkodex'''''<br><br />
German, "code of honor"<br />
<br />
'''Tyrolean hats'''<br><br />
[http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=tirolerhut&btnG=Search+Images Images]<br />
<br />
'''''Schnurrbartbinde'''''<br><br />
A device to keep one's mustache safe from entanglement when sleeping, like [http://www.volkskrantblog.nl/pub/mm/2006/01/1137360569.70341.gif this].<br />
<br />
'''Zeiss "Palmos Panoram"'''<br><br />
An early panoramic camera, mentioned in the 1911 Britannica's [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Photography Photography] article.<br />
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'''''"Auf die Mensur!"'''''<br><br />
German, "to the duel"<br />
<br />
'''Andaman Islands'''<br><br />
[http://www.openencyclopedia.net/index.php/Andaman_Islands Here]'s a mention of tattooing practices in the Andaman Islands<br />
<br />
'''Stephanie du Motel... group-theory godfather Évariste Galois'''<br><br />
Évariste Galois died in a duel at the age of 20. Though much confusion surrounds the affair, it is suspected that he provoked the duel after being rejected by one Stéphanie-Felice du Motel. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evariste_Galois#Final_days Wikipedia])<br />
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==Page 602==<br />
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'''young Ouspensky'''<br><br />
Peter D. Ouspensky (1878-1947), Russian mystic and philosopher, author of ''The Fourth Dimension'', appropriate to Pynchon's themes in ''ATD''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Uspensky Wikipedia entry].<br />
<br />
'''Chong'''<br><br />
A strange and seemingly unlikely visitor to Göttingen. The name "Chong" is not the character's actual name, as one will find out within the next 50 pages. The name might be taken from the Chinese philosopher Wang Chong, or Wang Ch'ung.<br><br />
Could be Cheech Marin's partner? (C.Marin alluded to earlier)<br />
<br />
'''"The what?"'''<br><br />
(Precipitous drop in authorial expectations?)<br />
<br />
'''Sidney... Kensington Sid'''<br><br />
Sidney Webb, leading political theorist [socialist] and (later, I think) Labour Pary representative of the time? No "Chinese Bolshevik", but with his wife Beatrice, an English supporter and defender of Russia See Wikipedia.<br />
Kensington is where elected officials worked.<br />
<br />
'''transtriadic'''<br><br />
Beyond the three.<br />
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==Page 603==<br />
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'''"Spiritual... At Göttingen?"'''<br><br />
Gottingen is materialistic. Preserved brains as like in a tannery. <br />
<br />
'''Applied Mechanics Institute'''<br><br />
An institute of the University of Göttingen<br />
<br />
'''Prandtl's recent discovery of the boundary layer'''<br><br />
Ludwig Prandtl ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Prandtl Wikipedia]) in 1904 developed the theory of the boundary layer ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary%20layer Wikipedia]) in aerodynamics, greatly simplifying aerodynamic calculations. <br />
<br />
'''powered flight . . . at the edge of history'''<br><br />
In 1905 already a reality, but the pioneering empirical work was taking place in Ohio, not Germany.<br />
<br />
'''brambled guttie'''<br><br />
A proto golf-ball, see [http://www.che.rochester.edu/users/dafoster/ChE243/SciAm%20GolfBall.pdf here].<br />
<br />
'''Bürgerstrasse'''<br><br />
German, "Citizen's Street", a street in Göttingen.<br />
<br />
'''Brauweg'''<br><br />
German, "Brewery Way", a street in Göttingen.<br />
<br />
'''Zhukovsky's Transformation'''<br><br />
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joukowsky_transform Joukowsky Transform] maps the unit circle in the complex plane to a shape very much like an airfoil.<br />
<br />
'''Geheimrat Klein '''<br><br />
Geheimrat = Privy councillor. In geometry, the Klein model, also called the projective model... is a model of n-dimensional hyperbolic geometry in which the points of the geometry are in an n-dimensional disk, or ball, and the lines of the geometry are line segments contained in the disk; that is, with endpoints on the boundary of the disk<br />
<br />
'''glass of tea'''<br><br />
(Why not 'cup'?)<br />
because in Europe, as opposed to in England, tea may be drunk from glassware.<br />
<br />
'''draw pictures . . . flights of arrows . . . vectors without pictures'''<br><br />
Vectors can be visualized as arrows in a plane or three-dimensional space; more generally they can be represented as arrays of coefficients, and now they are not limited to three dimensions.<br />
<br />
'''''"...according to Spiral Theory, up to infinity."<br> "And beyond, " added Gunther, nodding earnestly.'''''<br><br />
Reference to Buzz Lightyear's stock character phrase in 1995's TOY STORY (Pixar/Disney):<br />
"To Infinity... and Beyond!"<br />
--[[User:Btchakir|Btchakir]] 07:43, 19 December 2006 (PST)<br />
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==Page 604==<br />
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'''nontrivial zeroes'''<br><br />
The Riemann zeta function has two classes of zeros, the trivial zeroes being at negative even integers (-2, -4...), the non-trivial complex numbers, believed (but not proven) to have Re(z)=1/2. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_hypothesis Wikipedia].<br />
<br />
'''much-noted talk'''<br><br />
At the 1900 International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris, Hilbert proposed a research programme of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_problems#Tabulated_information 23 problems]. The Riemann hypothesis is number 8 on the list. <br />
<br />
'''eigenvalues'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenvalue Wikipedia] Dudley Eigenvalue, D.D.S., was a character in ''V.''<br />
<br />
'''Hermitian operator'''<br><br />
A Hermitian operator generalises some of the ideas of symmetry when complex numbers are involved. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermitian_operator Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''spine of reality... ''"Rückgrat von Wirklichkeit"'''''<br><br />
Probably a reference to the main diagonal of a Hermitian matrix, which can contain only real numbers. The German phrase is one accurate way to translate the English.<br />
<br />
'''Hilbert-Polya Conjecture'''<br><br />
The conjecture that the zeroes of the Riemann function would be the eigenvalues of a Hermitian operator, just what Yashmeen is suggesting.<br />
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==Page 605==<br />
<br />
'''Vance Aychrome'''<br><br />
The voracious detective is a stock figure in the mystery genre (Nero Wolfe, Mycroft Holmes, Inspector Dover, D.C.I. Dalziel and others).<br><br />
Is his name pronounced Eye Chrome, as in private eye? Weak possible connection?-- a truck light called Big Eye Chrome. The name sounds like 'fancy chrome.'<br />
<br />
'''Full English Breakfast'''<br><br />
Bacon, eggs, tomato, toast... otherwise known as a fry-up.<br />
<br />
'''Pythagorean dietary'''<br><br />
The first prominent modern vegetarian was the Greek philosopher Pythagoras who lived towards the end of the 6th century BC. The Pythagorean diet came to mean an avoidance of the flesh of slaughtered animals. Pythagorean ethics first became a philosophical morality between 490-430 BC with a desire to create a universal and absolute law including injunctions not to kill "living creatures," to abstain from "harsh-sounding bloodshed," in particular animal sacrifice, and "never to eat meat." (From a review of ''The Heretics Feast: a History of Vegetarianism'' by Colin Spencer, University Press of New England, 1995)<br />
<br />
'''kippers and bloaters'''<br><br />
Different words (both Scottish) for smoked herrings<br />
<br />
'''baps'''<br><br />
soft bread rolls - another Scottish word<br />
<br />
'''Spong machine'''<br><br />
Appropriate technology. An English-made hand-cranked coffee grinder that doesn't light up, lacks a readout to tell when the beans are ready, and signally fails to function before the user wakes up. Only drawback is that some spouses compare its sound to half a load of cobbles being dumped on the roof.<br />
<br />
'''thinned'''<br><br />
From full 78. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarot Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''vegetarian haggis'''<br><br />
It exists: [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22vegetarian+haggis Google search]<br />
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==Page 606==<br />
<br />
'''Lamont Replevin'''<br><br />
"Replevin" is a legal term for a form of civil action to recover possession of property being wrongfully held by another.<br />
<br />
'''Elflock Villa'''<br><br />
Locked elves? <br />
<br />
'''Stuffed Edge, Herts'''<br><br />
An imaginary village in the South-East English county of Hertfordshire. Stuffed hedge?<br />
<br />
'''kedgeree'''<br><br />
A hot breakfast dish of fish, rice, and eggs.<br />
<br />
'''Cesare Lombroso'''<br><br />
Anthropologist who devised a method of identifying criminal "types" from their facial structures.<br />
<br />
'''Trans-Oxanian'''<br><br />
From the other side of the Oxus River (now Amu-Darya) in Central Asia.<br />
<br />
'''Graeco-Buddhist'''<br><br />
The hybrid cultural background evidenced in Shambhala.<br />
<br />
'''bad hats'''<br><br />
A bad hat is a slang term for a rascal<br />
<br />
==Page 607==<br />
<br />
'''Gas Office'''<br><br />
As explained in the text, the Scotland Yard bureau that kept gas communications under surveillance.<br />
<br />
'''communication by means of coal-gas'''<br><br />
Cf Nabokov's "Ada". Also inverse of Tesla's energy-transmitter. A parallel to the Tristero, too. The description of communication by gas seems like a self-parody of ''The Crying of Lot 49.''<br />
<br />
'''bombs... Suffragettes'''<br><br />
(Did they bomb post offices?!?)post boxes:Suffragettes carried out direct action such as chaining themselves to railings, setting fire to the contents of mailboxes, smashing windows and on occasions setting off bombs. Wikipedia<br />
<br />
'''Persian'''<br><br />
Majority language in Iran, now called Farsi.<br />
<br />
'''Pashto'''<br><br />
A language spoken in Afghanistan and nearby.<br />
<br />
'''Tadjik'''<br><br />
A language spoken in Tadjikistan. "Mountain Tadjik" presumably dominates in the 60% or so of the country that is in high mountains.<br />
<br />
'''Seven Dials'''<br><br />
In Covent Garden, London - a place where 7 roads meet. An unsavory assignment for a policeman.<br />
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==Page 608==<br />
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'''"Avoid beans"'''<br><br />
Pythagoreans follow a proscription against eating beans.<br />
<br />
'''spotted dick'''<br><br />
A suet pudding with raisins or currants<br />
<br />
'''Yarmouth bloater'''<br><br />
A cured herring from the port town of Yarmouth.<br />
<br />
'''queering the pitch'''<br><br />
The pitch in a medicine show is the audience; queering them means putting them onto the doc's game. In cricket, the pitch is the playing field; queering the pitch means disturbing the surface so that the ball bounces unpredictably.<br />
<br />
''''shape''''<br><br />
a doughnut,which comes in various shapes? Including the math-relevant<br />
shape: a torus. But probably just a bit of bun, scone, etc. listed as Vance's breakfast...no doughnut listed.<br />
<br />
'''blue lamps'''<br><br />
Traditionally hung outside police stations in England.<br />
<br />
'''lamé surfaces'''<br><br />
Lamé (fabric), a fabric inwoven metallic threads<br><br />
Lamé, name of the electrically conductive jacket worn by foil and sabre fencers<br><br />
Lamé (armor), an unarticulated component of a larger piece of armor <br><br />
<br />
<br />
'''yarmulke... high crown... dented Trilby style'''<br><br />
[http://www.wpclipart.com/clothes/hats/index.html Image of a Trilby hat.]<br />
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==Page 609==<br />
<br />
'''''Kelly's Suburban Dictionary'''''<br><br />
The peerless ''London A to Z'' did not come along until the 1930s.<br />
<br />
'''wenlets'''<br><br />
Politician and journalist William Cobbett (1763-1835) called London "the great wen." It was not a compliment, because ''wen'' means a sebaceous cyst. Wenlets are small versions of the "great" wen.<br />
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==Page 610==<br />
<br />
'''daylight oil'''<br><br />
from the streetlamps, lit up for hours?<br />
<br />
'''a moon no one could see'''<br><br />
Note that the ''Inconvenience'' is repeatedly referred to as a "second moon". <br />
<br />
'''refused to dim'''<br><br />
(Nicely vivid.)<br />
<br />
'''Vontz's Universal Pick'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''alchemized coke'''<br><br />
Gas works that manufacture syngas also produce coke as an end product, called gas house coke.<br />
<br />
Fluid coking is a process by which heavy residual crude is converted into lighter products such as naptha, kerosene, heating oil, and hydrocarbon gases. The "fluid" term refers to the fact that coke particles are in a continuous system versus older batch coking technology. Wikipedia<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Lincrusta-Walton'''<br><br />
an embossed fabric used for covering walls, invented in 1877 by Frederick Walton as an alternative to more expensive wallpapers (wikipedia).<br />
<br />
'''hipshot'''<br><br />
having one hip lower than the other: a Greek statue in hipshot pose.M-W.<br />
<br />
'''captive maiden'''<br><br />
In ''The Crying of Lot 49'', Oedipa Maas is referred to as a "captive maiden" in the scene where she's standing in front of the Remedios Varo painting. It would certainly be worth while to examine the parallels more closely. <br />
<br />
'''scalene polygons'''<br><br />
Polygons with sides of unequal length.<br />
<br />
'''jet'''<br><br />
jet black, a color.<br />
<br />
'''Apotheosis Sparkless Torch'''<br><br />
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==Page 611==<br />
<br />
'''magnalium'''<br><br />
An alloy of magnesium and aluminum.<br />
<br />
'''Lamont Replevin (for it was he)'''<br><br />
Formula from penny-dreadful literature.<br />
<br />
'''''The Slow and the Stupefied'''''<br><br />
Daytime soap 'The Young and the Restless'.<br />
<br />
'''gas-head'''<br><br />
Cf pothead, acidhead, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Pike's Peak'''<br><br />
Lew's old stompinground.<br />
<br />
'''Gus Swallowfield'''<br><br />
A curious pseudonym assumed by Lew Basnight while in the presence of Lamont Replevin. As Mr. Swallowfield, Lew professes to be an insurance salesman. The name is very overtly British and is possibly referential to the Swallowfield estate in Berkshire, which itself has a curious history.<br />
<br />
'''most theft policies'''<br><br />
(Fact?)<br />
<br />
'''pantechnicon'''<br><br />
A closed van or carryall. (Is TRP trying to put a burr under S. Weisenburger's saddle by bringing this vehicle back? SW's gloss in the ''GR Companion,'' at page 19 of the Viking edition, is famously wrong.)<br />
<br />
'''legitimate bill of sale'''<br><br />
???<br />
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==Page 612==<br />
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'''''Pavonazzetto'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Phrygian marble'''<br><br />
Phrygia is an ancient region of west central Asia Minor, to the south of Bithynia. Marble from there was highly valued.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Atys... Agdistis'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''The Mutilation of Atys'''''<br><br />
No images: [http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Mutilation%20of%20Atys&btnG=Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi Google image search]<br />
<br />
'''Arturo Naunt, Chelsea's own, shocking the bourgeoisie since 1889'''<br><br />
Phrasing reminiscent of advertising.<br />
<br />
'''shocking the bourgeoisie'''<br><br />
A popular pastime for young and not-so-young soi-disant radicals ("Epater le bourgeois").<br />
<br />
'''koumiss vessel'''<br><br />
a horse. Koumiss is derived from horse's milk. See wikipedia.<br />
<br />
'''depending on the angle you hold it at, sometimes it doesn't look like anything at all'''<br><br />
A concise description of anamorphic and paramorphic images; this one needs the Paramorphoscope to interpret it.<br />
<br />
'''wrathful deities from Tantric Buddhism'''<br><br />
Tantric Buddhism is also known as Varjayana Buddhism. In Varjayana Buddhism, a dharmapāla (Tibetan drag-gshed) is a type of wrathful deity. The name means "Dharma-defender" in Sanskrit, and the dharmapalas are also known as the Defenders of the Law (Dharma) or the Protectors of the Law in English.<br />
In Buddhist iconography, they are invariably depicted as fearsome beings, often with many heads, hands or feet; blue, black or red skin; and a fierce expression with protruding fangs. Though dharmapalas have a terrifying appearance, they are all bodhisattvas or buddhas- embodiments of compassion that act in a wrathful way for the sake of sentient beings.Wikipedia<br />
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==Page 613==<br />
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'''tiny German hand camera'''<br><br />
Probably a Zeiss Ikon. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeiss Wikipedia Entry]<br />
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'''raw light'''<br><br />
light from a gaslight is not 'artificial' as from electric lights, streetlamps, etc. Cf. Telleruide section.<br />
<br />
'''Gasophilia'''<br><br />
Love of gas.<br />
<br />
'''Schwärmer'''<br><br />
The name is a German word meaning visionary, zealot, raver.<br />
<br />
'''Waves in a timeless stream of Gas'''<br><br />
Replevin equates piped gas to the æther.<br />
<br />
'''Sensitive Flame'''<br><br />
A burner flame adjusted so that it responds to the tiniest disturbance in the air. Used by both physicists and spiritualists.<br />
<br />
'''Chidambaram'''<br><br />
A city in south India and Chidambaram is one of the Panchabhoota Sthalams - temples built for the 5 elements said to embody Shiva - at Chidambaram (space), Kalahasti (wind), Thiruvanaikaval (water), Tiruvannamalai (fire) and Kanchipuram (earth).<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Akaša'''''<br><br />
Akasa is the fifth element,the ether, unseen and invisible but an important element permeating the whole universe. It is also considered<br />
to be indentical with Brahma, the creator.....<br><br />
Akasa is 'simple,continuous infinite substance and is the substratum of sound.' Both from Indian Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 1999.<br />
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<br />
'''Atman'''<br><br />
''Sanskrit''. In Hinduisim, the innermost essence of each individual. Also, the soul. ''Cf.'' Weed Atman in ''Vineland''.<br />
<br />
''''''Chaos''''''<br><br />
allusion is seems to Genesis. "Chaos" is in fact the Greek word [for without form and void], says this site. <br />
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth<br />
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.<br />
And God said, Let there be light; and there was light.<br />
And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness."<br />
-- Genesis 1: 1-4 (KJV) <br />
<br />
<br />
'''van Helmont'''<br><br />
He claimed to have coined the word "gas" in just the way described here.<br />
<br />
'''stridently unpopulated'''<br><br />
Cf p610.<br />
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==Annotation Index==<br />
{{ATD PbP}}</div>Themelhttps://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_429-459&diff=7058ATD 429-4592007-01-22T21:00:05Z<p>Themel: /* Page 434 */</p>
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==Page 431==<br />
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'''metaphorical way''' and '''lateral resurrection'''<br /><br />
Cf. [[ATD_397-428#Pafe 418|page 418]], where ''metaphor'' and ''lateral'' are also used in quick succession.<br />
<br />
'''"Turkish Corner"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Bactrian'''<br><br />
''Camel''. Even-toed ungulate, two-humped (twin-peaked) as compared with the one-humped dromedary. <br />
<br />
'''Cameling'''<br><br />
Seems to mean riding on a camel, contextually. <br />
<br />
'''light might be a ''secret determinant of history'''''<br><br />
One of the averarching themes of the book, it seems. Natural light<br />
vs. artificial and what it means for we humans.<br />
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==Page 432==<br />
<br />
'''fatal word'''<br><br />
"Wife".<br />
<br />
'''C.A.C.A.'''<br><br />
Caca; Spanish for "shit". The Chums have already begun to suspect the "shit", i.e. the malevolent organization that lies behind their boys' book heroics; the reader is now made aware of a large organization (see B.I.N., below) standing behind the massive airships and their crews. We all know what about the dynamics of large organizations, and the percentage of the time they spend in serving their purported purposes. Reminiscent of Van Vogt's Law: "90% of everything is shit (caca)". <br />
<br />
'''Gamomania'''<br><br />
"Gamos" is Greek for "marriage," and mania means "mania" or "madness."<br />
<br />
'''H.M.S.F.'''<br><br />
His Majesty's Subdesertine Frigate (p425).<br />
<br />
'''Balaam's ass'''<br><br />
refers to Num. 22:21-34 - Balaam rides out with the princes of Moab, but the Lord sends an angel to prevent him. Balaam does not see the angel but his ass does and will not go further. Balaam smites the ass three times, to no avail, until "the Lord opened the mouth of the ass, and she said to Balaam: What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?" Balaam's ass and the serpent (in the Garden of Eden) are the only speaking animals in the bible.<br />
<br />
'''reported as long ago as Marco Polo'''<br><br />
From Marco Polo's book ''The Travels of Marco Polo'' (1298-99): "When a man is riding through this desert by night and for some reason - falling asleep or anything else - he gets separated from his companions and wants to rejoin them, he hears spirit voices talking to him as if they were his companions, sometimes even calling him by name. Often these voices lure him away from the path and he never finds it again, and many travelers have got lost and died because of this. Sometimes in the night travelers hear a noise like the clatter of a great company of riders away from the road; if they believe that these are some of their own compnay and head for the noise, they find themselves in deep trouble when daylight comes and they realize their mistake. . . Even by daylight men hear these spirit voices, and often you fancy you are listening to the strains of many instruments, especially drums, and the clash of arms. . . . ." For more see Cf. [[ATD_243-272#Page 247|page 247]] and [http://www.silk-road.com/artl/marcopolo.shtml Marco Polo and His Travels].<br />
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==Page 433==<br />
<br />
'''mutatis mutandis'''<br><br />
''Medieval Latin.'' A direct translation from Latin of mutatis mutandis would read, 'with those things having been changed which need to be changed'. More colloquially, it can be interpreted as 'the necessary changes having been made,' where "the necessary changes" are usually implied by a prior statement assumed to be understood by the reader. It carries the connotation that the reader should pay attention to the corresponding differences between the current statement and a previous one, although they are analogous. This term is used frequently in economics and in law, to parameterize a statement with a new term, or note the application of an implied, mutually understood set of changes. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutatis_mutandis].<br />
<br />
This suggests we should view communication from the camel with the same skepticism with which we view the voices, or possibly view this communication as we would that from Balaam's ass.<br />
<br />
'''''polygamy'''''<br><br />
Cf. Lake's conversion to (de facto) polyandry in Colorado Springs, p. 268. In both cases aquifers are the scene of the activity.<br />
<br />
'''pan-spectral fields'''<br><br />
Well, ''pan'' means universal. As in ''panorama'', ''Pan-Am''. <br />
<br />
Another suggestion of possible worlds.<br />
<br />
'''"Euphrates" poplars'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''aryq'''<br><br />
Most likely variant of Arrack (OED): name applied in Eastern countries to any liquour of native manufacture, usually distilled coconut palm sap.<br />
<br />
'''B.I.N.'''<br><br />
Biometric Institute of Neuropathy, see p. 432. <br />
<br />
As in "Loony bin".<br />
<br />
'''seventeen-syllable'''<br><br />
Haiku - japanese poems consisting of 17 syllables, classically arranged in three lines of 5 - 7 - 5 syllables each<br />
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<br />
'''Eta/Nu Transformators'''<br><br />
Probably an imaginary scientific device. Eta is most likely a reference to the metric tensor of (four dimensional) Minkowski space.<br />
<br />
'''pari passu'''<br><br />
on an equal footing<br />
<br />
'''Deep Blavatsky'''<br><br />
Named for Madame Helena Blavatsky (Helena Petrovna Hahn), founder of the Theosophical Society [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blavatsky]. Cf. [[ATD_219-242#Page 219|page 219]].<br />
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==Page 435==<br />
<br />
'''Gurkhas'''<br><br />
Nepalese forces that have fought alongside British troops.<br />
<br />
'''German professors'''<br><br />
Likely a double allusion, first to Professor Werfner of Göttingen, referenced on p. 226, and also to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Schliemann Heinrich Schliemann], the German treasure hunter (not actually a professor) who first established the true historical location of Troy, the site of the Trojan War. His accomplishments are sadly underscored by his extremely amateurish excavation technique which destroyed as much as it extracted from the site.<br />
<br />
'''General Forrest'''<br><br />
Nathan Bedford Forrest, rebel leader in U.S. Civil War. Although he pioneered high-mobility tactics, he may never have uttered the famous quotation; see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Bedford_Forrest Wikipedia entry.]<br />
<br />
'''archiepiscopal'''<br><br />
Pertaining to an archbishop.<br />
<br />
'''Fabergé'''<br><br />
Russian jewelers. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Faberg%C3%A9 Wikipedia entry].<br />
<br />
'''"appealing though they be or, shall I say, as they are"'''<br><br />
Captain Toadflax's corrects his grammatical mistake, an error that is partially obscured by the inverted construction he employs. If one straightens out his words into a more conventional form, e.g., "though they [secular pleasures] be appealing," the error is clearer: ''they'', the third person plural pronoun, requires ''are'' as a verb, i.e. ''pleasures are'' rather than ''pleasures be''. The ''OED'' lists many examples of ''be'' taking the place of ''are'' in similar contexts, but notes that this usage is either dialectal or archaic. <br />
:Why Toadflax commits this error is less clear than what the error itself is. One possibility is that Pynchon is making an allusion to Captains Bildad and Peleg of ''Moby-Dick'', who speak in an archaic vernacular typical of New England Puritans.<br />
::For more information, see the ''OED'', "be, v.," sub-entry, A.I.h.¶.<br />
<br />
'''subarenaceous'''<br><br />
Below or beneath the sand (sub) + (arenaceous).<br />
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'''limen'''<br><br />
threshold<br />
<br />
'''transmundane'''<br><br />
literally: beyond the mundane, beyond the world<br />
<br />
'''lamaseries'''<br><br />
Domiciles of Buddhist lamas (as in "monasteries").<br />
<br />
'''Torriform Inclusion'''<br><br />
A made-up condition from Torus==Arch.: a large convex molding, semicircular in cross section, located at the base of a classical column?<br />
From the American Heritage Dictionary.<br />
St. Cosmo has just seen, he thinks, a "watchtower". <br />
'Watchtower'-Cf. the name of the magazine (and building in Brooklyn) that the Jehovah's Witnesses use. <br />
'distinguishing man-made from God-made'...<br />
<br />
'''Urban terrain'''<br><br />
(But only cities unwisely built on sand.)<br />
<br />
'''Stilton Gaspereaux'''<br><br />
??? stilton is type of blue cheese from England.<br />
<br />
'''Sven Hedin'''<br><br />
Swedish explorer, especially of the Asian countries, and excavator of ruins of ancient cities. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sven_Hedin wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''Aurel Stein'''<br><br />
Sir Marc Aurel Stein. Hungarian-born explorer later knighted as a British citizen. Credited with the discovery, and arguably the exploitation, of the Mogao Grottoes in China. A rock-carved repository of ancient Buddhist texts and murals, the grottoes are known collectively as 'The Cave of a Thousand Buddhas' and protected a copy of the Mahayana Diamond sutra, acknowledged as the oldest book in existence. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Aurel_Stein Wikipedia entry].<br />
<br />
'''crusades begin as holy pilgrimages'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''first known maps'''<br><br />
None of Ptolemy's maps has survived the classical period. They were, however, reconstructed in manuscript and engraved on copper or carved in wood for editions of the Ptolemy atlas. In 1482, the first woodcut edition, containing the first map of the world to include contemporary discoveries, was published in Ulm, Germany. It contains a brightly handcolored map of the Holy Land.... <br />
<br />
Allusion to the Map/Territory relation—the relationship between symbol and object. Coined by Alfred Korzybski, “The map is not the territory” is a related expression meaning that an abstraction derived from something, or a reaction to it, is not the thing itself, e.g., the pain from a stone falling on your foot is not the stone; one's opinion of a politician, favorable or unfavorable, is not that person; a metaphorical representation of a concept is not the concept itself; and so on. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_map_is_not_the_territory]Here, the (abstract) map itself could be a guide to a spritual quest or to conquest.<br />
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<br />
'''Nernst lamps'''<br><br />
Nernst = German physicist and chemist who formulated the third law of thermodynamics (1864-1941)<br />
Synonym: Walther Hermann Nernst<br />
<br />
'''range-finder'''<br><br />
Cf. 'range', passim<br />
<br />
'''level of encryption'''<br><br />
(Cf Heisenberg?)Does not seem to allude to Heisenberg and his Uncertainty Principle so much as buried layers of meaning that can hide to invisibility. <br />
<br />
'''Mount Kailash'''<br><br />
A mountain located in the Chinese Himalayas with great religious significance in Hinduism and Buddhism. In Hinduism, it is seen as the residence of Shiva, God of destruction and regeneration. The mountain is visited every year by many religious pilgrims. In Buddhism, the mountain was believed to be the location of a battle between two ancient sorcerers: Milarepa (Tantric Buddhism) and Naro-Bonchung (Tibetan Bön religion). Pynchon is perhaps alluding to the population dividing nature of religions. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Kailash wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''polarize light... in time'''<br><br />
Thematic.<br />
<br />
'''Manichaeans'''<br><br />
A gnostic sect that followed the third century Persian prophet Mani. Their<br />
main theological belief was in a stark divide between Good and Evil. <br />
<br />
Very relevant here in ADT: one could call their theology, BINARY.<br />
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==Page 438==<br />
<br />
'''expanded sense... Maxwell... Hertz'''<br><br />
All forms of electromagnetic radiation form a spectrum, of which visible light is a small part; all such radiation shares fundamental physical properties.<br />
Cf. range as spectrum.<br />
<br />
''''Perfects''''<br><br />
Perfects are the priests of the Cathar, a pantheistic manicheistic sect from the middle ages.<br />
<br />
'''Graeco-Buddhist'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Italo-Islamic'''<br><br />
???<br />
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==Page 439==<br />
<br />
'''Nuovo Rialto'''<br><br />
Seems like Pynchon creating a "New Rialto" city under these sands as many<br />
cities take the name of an older city and add New....<br />
<br />
From Wikipedia: Rialto is an area of the San Polo sestiere of Venice, known for its markets and for the Rialto Bridge.<br />
<br />
The area was settled by the ninth century, when a small area in the middle of the Realtine Islands either side of the Rio Businiacus was known as the Rivoaltus. Soon, the Businiacus became known as the Grand Canal, and the district became the Rialto, referring to only the area on the left bank.<br />
<br />
The Rialto became an important district in 1097, when Venice's market moved there, and in the following century a boat bridge was set up across the Grand Canal providing access to it. This was soon replaced by the Rialto Bridge. <br />
<br />
Pynchon seems to love Venice so Nuovo Rialto is very ironically intended given this scene.<br />
<br />
'''crystallography of the silica medium'''<br><br />
Computer-base [silicon] allusion!?<br />
<br />
'''clearly a thousand years more recent than they ought to have been'''<br /><br />
That is, the Manichean shrines date from the fourteenth Century, not the fourth Century when Mani, the founder, started Manicheanism. Pynchon dating 'when it went bad' in history? <br />
<br />
'''Passing of the Remarks'''<br><br />
Sounds like a humorous reification of what gets said between sailors. Modeled after Changing of the Guard? <br />
<br />
'''Steeplechase Park'''<br><br />
???<br />
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==Page 440==<br />
<br />
'''screaming...with blood'''<br><br />
Screaming motif.<br />
<br />
'''''chong pir'''''<br><br />
Presumably Uyghur for "big lice."<br />
<br />
'''Uyghur'''<br><br />
Member of an ethnic group in western China. It is sometimes claimed that the Uyghurs are Indo-European in one sense or another.<br />
<br />
''voiced interdental fricative''<br /><br />
The ''th'' sound, as in "the" or "with." Basically, the lice lisp. This could be meant to suggest that their speech contains static or noise.<br />
<br />
'''skeleton rig'''<br><br />
The skeleton rig is a shoulder holster for carrying a concealed handgun. They were developed in the 1890s. A very nice looking one, as well as a description thereof, can be purchased at [http://www.holster-connection.com/html/ted_blocker/tb_Skeleton.html First American Ordnance website], which also just so happens to be my source for the above info.<br />
<br />
'''andante'''<br><br />
Literally "walking." An Italian word typically seen in notation for classical music. It denotes a moderately slow pace.<br />
<br />
'''Sandman Saloon'''<br><br />
Tavern for the 'sandmen', without those great tavern names in the above-ground world. Negative associations to this saloon, it seems, unlike the usual saloons in TRP's world.<br />
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==Page 441==<br />
<br />
'''Leonard and Lyle'''<br><br />
Resonates with Leopold and Loeb?-- two young American murderers in a famous case from early in the Century [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold-Loeb Wikipedia]. Probably a stretch: Google comes up with mentioning Sir Leonard Lyle [http://www.parkexplorer.org.uk/park_intro.asp?ID=new16 1], sugar-magnate and heir to Abram Lyle [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abram_Lyle 2] and "Lyle‘s Golden Syrup" [http://www.lylesgoldensyrup.com/LylesGoldenSyrup/PastPresent/default.htm 3]. Thats one interesting logo, what with the dead lion/bees and the tibetan stamp on ATD, btw. Golden Syrup = oil? <br />
<br />
'''''teke'''''<br><br />
From this [http://home.earthlink.net/~lkritikos/glossary.html glossary on greek rembetiko music]: "teke (pl. tekedhes): A club where one could buy hashish and the use of a narghile in which to smoke it" <br />
<br />
An American fraternity or a member thereof. Tau Kappa Epsilon. Founded in the 1890s; has had a reputation for being a bit wilder than many fraternities.<br />
<br />
'''Spindletop'''<br><br />
From wikipedia: Spindletop is a salt dome oil field located in south Beaumont, Texas (approx. 30.02 -94.07) in the United States. On January 10, 1901, the well "Lucas 1" came in at Spindletop, marking the birthdate of the modern petroleum industry. At 100,000 barrels of oil a day, the gusher tripled U.S. oil production overnight, ensuring the second industrial revolution would be fueled not by wood and coal but by oil and its byproducts. Some of the companies chartered to exploit the wealth of Spindletop are some of today's largest and well known corporations such as ExxonMobil, and Texaco.<br />
<br />
'''Groznyi'''<br><br />
Grozny or Groznyy (Russian: Гро́зный; Chechen: Соьлж-ГIала, Syolzh-Ghaala) is the capital of the Chechen Republic in Russia. The city lies on the Sunzha River....As most of the residents there were Terek Cossacks, the town grew slowly until the development of Oil reserves in the early 20th century. This spiralled development of industry and petrochemical production. In addition to the oil drilled in the city itself, the city became a geographical centre of Russia's network of oil fields, and also in 1893 became part of the Transcaucasia - Russia Proper railway. From wikipedia<br />
<br />
'''calyx bits'''<br><br />
SYLLABICATION: ca·lyx <br />
PRONUNCIATION: klks, klks <br />
NOUN: Inflected forms: pl. ca·lyx·es or ca·ly·ces ( kl-sz, kl-)<br />
1. The sepals of a flower considered as a group. 2. A cuplike structure or organ, such as one of the cuplike divisions of the pelvis or of the kidney. 3. A collecting structure in the kidney. <br />
ETYMOLOGY: Latin calyx, calyc-, from Greek kalux <br />
From ''The American Heritage Dictionary''.<br />
<br />
'''adults'''<br><br />
Chums not adults, then? No,they do not age, it seems.<br />
<br />
'''''assalamu alaykum'''''<br><br />
A muslim greeting. Translates to "Peace be with you."<br />
<br />
'''anticline'''<br><br />
SUFFIX: Slope: anticline. <br />
ETYMOLOGY: Back-formation from –clinal. From American Heritage Dictionary.<br />
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==Page 442==<br />
<br />
'''''equine altitude'''''<br><br />
High horse.<br />
<br />
'''allure of Veneto-Uyghur women'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriatic_Veneti Veneti] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanais Veneto] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghurs Uyghurs] Long distance trade (like wars and tourism in general) is very likely to enforce the intermingling of different [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_pool Gene Pools], which, more often than not, results in particularily beautiful specimens of the kinds involved. Travels of mediterrenean merchants along the various branches of the Silk Road seem to have been pretty common from at least 14th century on - see [http://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/texts/pegol.html Pegelotti‘s Merchant Handbook] (ca. 1340) which partially reads like a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonely_planet Lonely Planet Guide] of back then. During the Renaissance most of the merchants (from Florence/Venice/Geneva) set out from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanais Tana/Tanais] which some sources put as a trade-post if not colony of the "West". <br />
<br />
'''2 percent . . . most of them'''<br><br />
Implies at least 150 in crew.<br />
<br />
'''Marco Querini'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Terrenascondite'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Pozzo San Vito'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''all that incarnation and slaughter will transpire in silence'''<br /><br />
Calls to mind the silent battle scene in Akira Kurosawa's samurai retelling of ''King Lear'', titled ''Ran'', which translates roughly to "chaos."<br />
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==Page 443==<br />
<br />
'''peterman option'''<br><br />
A 'peterman' is a slang term for a safe-blower.<br />
<br />
'''Consomme Imperial'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Timbales de Supremes de Volailles'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Gigot Grille a la Sauce Piquante'''<br><br />
A 'gigot' is a leg of lamb or haunch of veal. 'Sauce Piquante' is a spicy sauce.<br />
<br />
'''aubergines a la Sauce Mousseline'''<br><br />
Eggplants with mussel sauce.<br />
<br />
'''Pouilly-Fuisse'''<br><br />
A white Burgundy made from the Chardonnay grape.<br />
<br />
'''Graves'''<br><br />
A white wine from the Graves district of France.<br />
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<br />
'''Oasi'''<br><br />
Plural of "oasis."<br />
<br />
'''cataplexy'''<br><br />
Sudden loss of muscle power following a strong emotional stimulus.<br />
<br />
'''Nobel brothers'''<br><br />
Robert and Ludvig Nobel, brothers of Alfred Nobel of dynamite and prize fame, co-founders of Branobel, an important early oil company that controlled a large amount of Russian output. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branobel Wikipedia entry].<br />
<br />
'''shaft-alley'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''the balloon is up'''<br><br />
British metaphor: The action has started. A phrase also used in ''V.''<br />
<br />
'''F.O.'''<br><br />
Foreign Office<br />
<br />
'''''Daily Mail'''''<br><br />
London tabloid, staunch early supporters of Adolf Hitler. Today specialises in stirring up hatred of immigrants and other minorities.<br />
<br />
'''Inspector Sands'''<br><br />
A code word used in London to alert authorities without causing panic amongst the general public. Generally the alert is raised by the fire alarm. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_Sands Wikipedia entry].<br />
<br />
'''"Sands of Inner Asia"'''<br><br />
Captain, now Inspector Sands, seems to be being compared for his achievements to "Lawrence of Arabia" parodistically.<br />
<br />
'''Taklamakan'''<br><br />
The Taklamakan (also Taklimakan) is a desert of Central Asia, in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. It is known as the largest sand-only desert in the world. Some references fancifully state that Taklamakan means "if you go in, you won't come out"; others state that it means "Desert of Death" or "Place of No Return". Wikipedia.<br />
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==Page 445==<br />
<br />
'''Kashgar to Urumchi'''<br><br />
Two cities currently on the far western border of China. Presumably in this context they were two points inside the general area within which the 'Great Powers' competed to try and find Shambhala.<br />
<br />
'''fell into the hand of'''<br><br />
Ana analogy with the present-day situation in Central Asia in particular. throughout the book, there are references to Anarchist/Terrorists, to the spread of dynamite and other kinds of phenomena. These are all technologies that allow, or cause, power to flow into the hands of the powerless to use for their own purposes.<br />
<br />
'''World-Island'''<br><br />
The Earth.<br />
<br />
'''discreet summons'''<br><br />
Eg "paging Dr Blue".<br />
It doesn't seem to me to be a phrase that needs a gloss: a discreet summons is simply what it says and made be made in any number of ways.<br />
<br />
'''far wicket'''<br><br />
A 'wicket' may simply be a gate; but in the context of a novel and the bomber at Headingly cricket ground and Fenners, the Cambridge cricket ground, a 'wicket' is the three stumps at one end of a cricket pitch. ("The Gentleman Bomber of Headingly" - see p.236.)<br />
<br />
'''wog'''<br><br />
''Chiefly British.'' An ethnic slur used for any dark-skinned peoples. Alleged to stand for "Western Oriental Gentleman", but mainly applied to Indians, Pakistanis, Arabs, and other brown-skinned Asians.<br />
I have heard it comes from 'wily oriental gentleman'; but the Oxford English Dictionary states that the origin is uncertain and defines a 'wog' as someone especially of Arab extraction.<br />
<br />
'''Vic removal'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''eating an explosive'''<br><br />
Cf Lew's Cyclomite.<br />
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==Page 446==<br />
<br />
'''St Martin le Grand'''<br><br />
A street in the City of London.<br />
<br />
'''Angel Street'''<br><br />
Another street in the City which meets St Martin le Grand at right-angles.<br />
<br />
'''G.P.O. West'''<br><br />
G.P.O - General Post Office<br />
<br />
'''pneumatic dispatches'''<br><br />
An extensive 'pneumatic dispatch' system existed on London during the Victorian era, started in 1851 and carrying on at least into the 1930's. By 1886 London had 94 telegram tubes totaling 34 1/2 miles and around 4.5 million telegraph messages were carried in cylinders at around 20mph. At its height the network extended some 57 miles connecting 67 branch offices via a central sorting office. See [http://www.capsu.org/history/telegram_conveyors.html] and <br />
[http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/COMMS/pneumess/pneumess.htm] (with illustrations).<br />
<br />
'''drill suits'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''chars'''<br><br />
Charwomen. Maids, cleaners. <br />
<br />
'''clicks and rests'''<br><br />
Presumably the clicks of a telegraphic system and the rests or silences in between.<br />
<br />
'''Northern Temple of Connexion'''<br><br />
It's in the north of the City; and the phrase suggests the religious intensity of the need to connect or communicate as well as mildly satirising it.<br />
<br />
'''marblework'''<br><br />
Such buildings would have used quantities of marble; hence the image of a 'temple' above.<br />
<br />
'''Bloggins'''<br><br />
An archetypal ordinary man; an everyman figure.<br />
<br />
'''allegro vivatchy'''<br><br />
phonetic of 'allegro vivace' - a musical term for a quick tempo<br />
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==Page 447==<br />
<br />
'''grease-paint'''<br><br />
'Grease-paint' refers to old-fashioned stage make-up.<br />
<br />
'''cylinder of gutta-percha'''<br><br />
Pneumatic dispatches were carried in cylinders of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutta-percha Gutta-Percha] -- an inelastic latex made from the sap of the Gutta-Percha tree -- covered in felt. See [http://www.capsu.org/history/telegram_conveyors.html]. Gutta-percha crops up a number of times in ATD, possibly enough to suggest some sort of motif or connection? <br />
<br />
Gutta percha per se is a Victorian equivalent to rubber. <br />
<br />
'''its "D" box'''<br><br />
The receiving mechanism on the end of pneumatic dispatch pipe.<br />
<br />
"The somewhat complicated pattern of double sluice valve originally used at the central stations has been superseded by a simpler form, known as the D box, so named Despatching from the shape of its cross section. This box is of and cast iron, and is provided with a close-fitting, Receiving brass-framed, sliding lid with a glass panel. This Apparatus, lid fits air-tight, and closes the box after a carrier has been inserted into the mouth of the tube; the latter enters at one end of the box and is there bell-mouthed. A supply pipe, to which is connected a 3-way cock, is joined on to the box and allows communication at will with either the pressure or vacuum mains, so that the apparatus becomes available for either sending (by pressure) or receiving (by vacuum) a carrier. Automatic working, by which the air supply is automatically turned on on the introduction of the carrier into a tube and on closing of the D box, and is cut off when the carrier arrives, was introduced in 1909." From the 1911 Encyclopedia Brittanica entry on Pneumatic Dispatch, cited at [http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/COMMS/pneumess/pneumess.htm]<br />
<br />
'''Holborn'''<br><br />
Holborn is between the Strand (at the northern end of Waterloo Bridge) and Bloomsbury.<br />
<br />
'''Saffron Hill'''<br><br />
is in the City, an area named Farringdon, east of Holborn.<br />
<br />
'''''tantum dic verbo'' isn't it'''<br><br />
Might be derived from that part of the Mass where it's said: "Domine, non sum dignus, ut intres sub tectum meum: sed '''tantum dic verbo''' et sanabitur anima mea" ("Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but '''speak the word''' only, and my soul shall be healed")<br />
<br />
Sands seems to be telling Gaspereaux to "just say the word".<br />
<br />
'''''intact'''''<br><br />
(Did I miss this?)<br />
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==Page 448==<br />
<br />
'''because I'm mad'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''half-sovereign case'''<br><br />
A sovereign is old English money for one pound, i.e 20 shillings. A half-sovereign is ten shillings old money. <br />
<br />
'''Mr. Campbell-Bannerman'''<br><br />
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1836-1908) was a Liberal MP and then Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1905 to 1908. I'm not sure when he was knighted; but he's not the only character in the novel connected with Trinity College, Cambridge.<br />
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==Page 449==<br />
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'''Clarabella'''<br><br />
Clarabelle=name of the clown on The Howdy Doody Show [TV] in the fifties.<br />
<br />
'''Audacity, Iowa'''<br><br />
???<br />
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==Page 450==<br />
<br />
'''DREAMTIME MOVY'''<br><br />
Misspelling is dreamlike? Or, more possibly, the spelling hadn't yet been standardized.<br />
:The ''OED'' an cites an occurance of this spelling as late as 1919.<br />
<br />
'''log... waterfall'''<br><br />
Cf. DW Griffith?<br />
<br />
'''lens-brother'''<br><br />
(Like masonic sign?)(Also reminiscent of the lens (the K/kid/d) carries in Delaney's ''Dhalgren'')<br />
<br />
'''Powers movement'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Geneva'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Wilt Flambo'''<br><br />
Flambeau = torch (French).<br />
<br />
'''acetylene'''<br><br />
When the flammable gas was used for illumination, it was often generated on the spot by dripping water onto lumps of calcium carbide.<br />
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==Page 451==<br />
<br />
'''nitro in the film'''<br><br />
Cellulose nitrate, also known as collodion, was the predecessor to modern photographic films. The collodion was the substratum to the chemistry that made the image.<br />
<br />
'''the tip'''<br><br />
The audience. Pynchon uses the word many times in ''AtD.''<br />
<br />
'''strange relation'''<br><br />
Cf GR on calculus.<br />
<br />
'''dark perplexity'''<br><br />
Cf Gen X?<br />
<br />
'''dilapidated portals'''<br><br />
See p.406: the West Gate's "two flanking towers of rusticated stone and Gothical aspect... an aspect of terrible antiquity..."<br />
<br />
'''queen-of-the-prairie'''<br><br />
???<br />
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==Page 452==<br />
<br />
'''Sempitern'''<br><br />
An archaic term meaning 'eternal', a poetic but appropriate name for a river? Echoing "Serpentine," the lake in London's Hyde Park.<br />
<br />
'''siegecraft of Time'''<br><br />
Cf Paris Commune siege, p.19.<br />
<br />
'''between Cleveland and Denver'''<br><br />
Merle's idiosyncratic choice of endpoints?<br />
<br />
'''automorphic functions'''<br><br />
Auto= self; same as in autogamy. American Heritage Dict. -morph = Form, structure, function. Self-forming, self-structuring-- or self-organizing as Pynchon says elsewhere in ADT.<br />
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==Page 453==<br />
'''We thus enter the whirlwind'''<br><br />
God is sometimes referred to this way. Often Capitalized, but here the speaker is using it literally, but Pynchon maybe metaphorically?<br />
<br />
'''Lobatchevskian'''<br><br />
of Nikolai Lobachevsky, a Russian Mathematician, known for work into non-Euclidean geometry. <br />
<br />
'''Automorphic Dispensation'''<br><br />
Self-forming, self-organizing dispensation.<br />
<br />
'''distressing regularity'''<br><br />
Explains dilapidation?<br />
<br />
'''Thorvald'''<br><br />
Scandinavian name from the Old Norse name ''Þórvaldr''. It combines the name "Thor" (thunder) and scandinavian word "valdr" (ruler), to create the meaning "thunder ruler" or "ruler of the tunder". Either would be apt, in this case.<br />
<br />
The persisting storm also occurs in ''Mason & Dixon'' and in at least one of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels.<br />
<br />
'''''thresher dinners'''''<br><br />
Hearty communal midday meals for men taking part in harvest. Here a sacrifice to Thorvald.<br />
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==Page 454==<br />
<br />
'''"gaff"'''<br><br />
A deceptive feature like the rabbit-concealing false bottom in a magician's top hat.<br />
<br />
'''Giant Airships of 1896 and '7'''<br><br />
[http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Image:Mysterious-airship.jpg Photo and info here]<br />
<br />
'''Chick'''<br><br />
First Chum to appear in non-Chums chapter? Chick is the Chum we know, besides Pugnax if we count him, to have come aboard The Inconvenience from the real world. Another meaning to Counterfly? More earthbound?<br />
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==Page 455==<br />
<br />
'''Cleveland... trial... Bounce v. Vibe'''<br><br />
See p67 & 426<br />
<br />
'''Somble, Strool, and Fleshway'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
''''paranoia querulans'... P.Q.'''<br><br />
A made-up noun to mean the psychological disease of constant questioning of one's paranoia?...<br />
<br />
'''blasting agent'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''detonans'''<br><br />
That which is detonated - cod latin<br />
<br />
'''"I'm just another nutty inventor"'''<br><br />
Roswell has been discussing his plans to dynamite the Vibe Corp. which has used its power to harrass him. Throught his work, esp. ''Gravity's Rainbow'', Pynchon has dealt with themes involving the split between elect and preterite, or to use a more simplified phrase, winners and losers. Dynamite offers the small and powerless, the "long-shot opponents of the mills of Capital" referred to earlier in the page, an expression of power of their own. In this way it is like the AK-47 today which has made it far more difficult for powers (e.g. the United States in Iraq) to exert control over populations.<br />
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==Page 456==<br />
<br />
'''aigrette'''<br><br />
Literally an egret or aigrette (or Lesser White Heron); hence a tuft of feathers such as an egret has and hence a spray of gems worn on the head and finally luminous rays seen emerging from the moon in solar eclipses or, to quote the OED, "at the ends of electrified bodies".<br />
<br />
'''Pencil'''<br><br />
To mathematicians, a pencil is a family of geometric objects sharing a common property, such as a collection of lines that pass through a common point. (Of course, constipated mathematicians also find pencils useful for working out logs).<br />
<br />
'''equivalent of a shrug'''<br><br />
Nice anthropomorphism.<br />
<br />
'''lost mines'''<br><br />
(Factual?)<br />
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==Page 457==<br />
<br />
'''tourbillon'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''make time impervious to gravity'''<br><br />
Thematic to this book and GR?<br />
<br />
'''patent pencils'''<br><br />
patent here to describe pencils seems to mean 1) of high quality, Archaic 2) open to general inspection... American Heritage Dictionary - because the pencils we all know and use were never "patented"... "He [Ebenezer Wood] constructed the first hexagon- and octagon-shaped pencil cases that we have today. Ebenezer did not patent his invention and shared his techniques with whoever asked." from Wikipedia.<br />
<br />
'''zephyr gingham'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''lawn'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''pongee'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 458==<br />
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'''professors... engineers'''<br><br />
Theory vs practice.<br />
<br />
'''Latinate token of prestige'''<br><br />
PhD, summa cum laude, etc.<br />
<br />
'''suspicious of night horizons'''<br><br />
(sunsets?)Absence of light horizons?<br />
<br />
'''current... purity'''<br><br />
Free of noise?<br />
<br />
'''Minkowski'''<br><br />
Hermann Minkowski was a German mathematician who made useful contributions in the development of relativity, amongst other things. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Minkowski]<br />
<br />
'''Three times ten... minus one seconds'''<br><br />
Three times ten to the fifth refers to the speed of light. The square root of minus 1 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_unit Wikipedia] is also known as the Imaginary Unit or i. i is sometimes also expressed as the square root of -1, as here. Complex numbers [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_number Wikipedia] can be expressed as a + bi where a is the real part of the complex number and b is the imaginary part. Complex numbers were an important element of the work of both Minkowski and Einstein.<br />
<br />
''Against the Day'' takes place at the time when Newtonian physics were being supplanted, at least in theory, by physics based on Relativity. This equation touches on that. But also, the use of a real and an imaginary number returns to the theme of duality that arises throughout the book. The spacetime measured by imaginary or complex numbers would seem to be something different though co-existent with 'our' spacetime.<br />
<br />
'''other expression'''<br><br />
Contextually, Roswell seems to be refering to the other side of the above equation...'that other expression 'over there'...they are at a slate "blackboard."<br />
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==Page 318==<br />
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'''Shunkichi Kimura'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''war with Russia'''<br><br />
10 February 1904. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''Gibbs had died'''<br><br />
28 April 1903. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_Gibbs Wikipedia] Pynchon's interest in Gibbs may stem from Gibbs's work in thermodynamics, particularly entropy, a theme that pervades Pynchon's work.<br />
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==Page 319==<br />
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'''leafy ambuscade'''<br><br />
eyes hiding in ambush.<br />
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==Page 320==<br />
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'''scout'''<br><br />
In British universities, a housekeeper/valet. At Yale too?<br />
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'''Proximus'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Quincke'''<br><br />
???<br />
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==Page 322==<br />
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'''Moriarty's'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Louis Lassen'''<br><br />
Founder of Louis' Lunch, located at 261-263 Crown Street, New Haven, CT, and still operating today. Founded in 1895, Louis' Lunch is widely believed to be where the hamburger was first served, although without ketchup or mustard. [http://www.louislunch.com/ Website].<br />
<br />
'''West Rock'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''ten years before'''<br><br />
The meeting between Vibe and Vanderjuice in Chicago in 1892.<br />
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==Page 323==<br />
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'''"apizza"'''<br><br />
A style of pizza common in New Haven, CT. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apizza Wikipedia entry] Many maintain that pizza as we know it was first served in New Haven--that is, if you consider something with white sauce and clams a "pizza."<br />
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==Page 324==<br />
<br />
'''P.G. Tait on Quaternions'''<br><br />
Peter Guthrie Tait, a Scottish physicist and mathematician, wrote two books on Quaternions, "An Elementary Treatise on Quaternions" and "Introduction to Quaternions"<br />
<br />
''''lamp' this'''<br><br />
"Look at this" ; "Check this out".<br />
<br />
'''Grassman's ''Ausdehnungslehre'''''<br><br />
A treatise on the foundations of linear algebra (including vector spaces) by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Grassmann Hermann Grassmann]<br />
<br />
'''Eigenheit'''''<br><br />
"Own-ness" or "Self-Ownership" [http://flag.blackened.net/daver/anarchism/stirner/theego9.html], a concept of the German individualist-anarchist Max Stirner (Johann Caspar Schmidt)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Stirner], an issue of real concern to Kit, both in his immediate situation vis a vis Scarsdale Vibe, and perhaps also because of Stirner's radical individualist concept of trade union activity.<br />
<br />
'''Hamburg Amerika Line'''''<br><br />
Transatlantic shipping company established in Hamburg, Germany in 1847 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg_America_Line Wiki]. By 1872 the company was making weekly passages to New York from Hamburg via Southampton.<br />
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==Page 325==<br />
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'''problem-set'''<br><br />
A set of physics problems to be worked out as homework.<br />
<br />
'''wanted to trust 'Fax'''<br />
Suggests that he also wanted to trust "facts." 'Fax also suggests<br />
a copy [of his father]?<br />
<br />
'''good skate'''<br><br />
A good guy.<br />
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'''McKim, Mead, and White'''<br><br />
Architectural firm established by Charles McKim, William Mead, and Stanford White. Introducing the Roman and Italian Renaissance style to public architecture and urban planning on the east coast around 1900. Asscociated with the "American Renaissance", "Beaux Arts" and the "City Beautiful" movement [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKim,_Mead,_and_White Wiki].<br />
<br />
'''Granitza'''<br><br />
In various Slavic languages: boundary.<br />
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==Page 327==<br />
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'''one day'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Parthian'''<br><br />
from Parthia, 'an ancient country corresponding to modern northeast Iran,however, Parthian also means "delivered in of as if in retreat", according to the American Heritage Dictionary. The use cited comes from Bret Harte, American writer about the West of this book's time: "a Parthian volley of expletives from Uncle Billy".<br />
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==Page 330==<br />
<br />
'''Neofungoline'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''have that long'''<br><br />
Vibe is about 60 years old.<br />
<br />
'''trying not to speak too carefully'''<br><br />
Cf phony Yale posing.<br />
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==Page 334==<br />
<br />
'''Nellie Noonan or Anna Held'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 335==<br />
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'''Cold Harbor'''<br><br />
Where Foley Walker, acting as Civil War Substitute, "took a Reb bullet" for Scarsdale Vibe - see p.100/101.<br />
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==Page 588==<br />
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'''tannery'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Gauss's brain'''<br><br />
After Carl Friedrich Gauss died in 1855, his brain was preserved for research purposes. To this day, it is in the possession of the University of Göttingen.<br />
<br />
'''impervious to the wind'''<br><br />
(Attribute of tanned leather?)<br />
<br />
'''''"Heiliger Bimbam!"'''''<br><br />
A German expression of surprise, translated elsewhere as "Holy Moly!"<br />
<br />
'''rim'''<br><br />
Kit pretends to think he's referring to monocle as 'chichi' (stylish).<br />
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==Page 589==<br />
<br />
'''''Noli me tangere''''<br />
<br />
Latin for 'don't touch me'<br />
<br />
'''''Hausknochen'''''<br><br />
???<br />
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==Page 590==<br />
<br />
'''Hadamard... Poussin... Prime Number Theorem'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''patent ''Kühlbox'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''beleaguered subset'''<br><br />
???<br />
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==Page 591==<br />
<br />
'''prats'''<br><br />
Literally the buttocks. As a slang term, a 'prat' is an idiot.<br />
<br />
'''''Die Nullstellen der [zeta]-Funktion'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''"Richard Harding Davis"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''seldom, if ever'''<br><br />
Cf p559 re Umeki!?<br />
<br />
'''tetralatry'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''C. Howard Hinton'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Johann K.F. Zöllner'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''vogue... 'vague''''<br><br />
???<br />
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==Page 592==<br />
<br />
'''upside-down triangles'''<br><br />
Also Pléiade p538.<br />
<br />
'''metallic banging'<br />
<br />
''''metric interval''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Prinzenstrasse and Weenderstrasse'''<br><br />
A street corner at the very center of Göttingen ([http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=g%C3%B6ttingen,+germany&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=17&ll=51.534284,9.935417&spn=0.006107,0.010793&t=h Google Maps]), "known to mathematicians here as the origin of the city of Göttingen's coordinate system".<br />
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==Page 593==<br />
<br />
'''twenty marks'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''der Pistolenheld'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''das Nichtharmonischestrahlenbündel'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Latin... Euler'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Mathematical Theory of the Top'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Leopold Kronecker''' and '''Cantor'''<br><br />
The "monumental quarrel between Kronecker and Cantor" is also referred to as a "religious war," appropriately enough. It's based in a disagreement over the legitimacy of numbers. Kronecker held that "'the positive integers were created by God, and all else is the work of man.'" This is contradicted by "'Cantor with his ''Kontinuum'', professing an equally strong belief in just those regions, infinitely divisible, which lie ''between'' the whole numbers so demanding of all Kronecker's devotion.'"<br />
<br />
The disagreement between the two mathematicians is reminiscent of (or does it anticipate?) the rift between Pointsman and Mexico in ''Gravity's Rainbow''. Kronecker's integers "created by God" have become a Pavlovian digital binary for Pointsman, but the two oppositions track faithfully right down to the italicized "between." <br />
<br />
"The young statistician [Mexico] is devoted to number and to method, not table-rapping or wishful thinking. But in the domain of zero to one, not-something to something, Pointsman can only possess the zero and the one. He cannot, like Mexico, survive anyplace in between. Like his master I. P. Pavlov before him, he imagines the cortex of the brain as a mosaic of tiny on/off elements.... But to Mexico belongs the domain ''between'' zero and one." [Page 55]<br />
<br />
It should be noted, however, that the continuous number line was a modern innovation. In Greek number theory, a number is a collection of indivisible units. Irrationals, such as the square root of 2 are not numbers but "magnitudes." One is not even a number for it is not a number of units. There are no negative numbers as well. (see Klein's <i>Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra.</i>) So Kronecker's position may be less of a crazy innovation as much as a maintenance of ancient theory.<br />
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'''''Kontinuum'''''<br><br />
???<br />
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==Page 599==<br />
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'''''Nervenklinik'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''boundless epsilonic world'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Der Finsterzwerg'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''chloral hydrate'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Kneipe'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Gauss passing to Weber a remark'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Weierstrass functions'''<br><br />
???<br />
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==Page 595==<br />
<br />
'''That winter, in St. Petersburg'''<br><br />
22 Jan 1905 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution_of_1905 Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''Japanese won'''<br><br />
05 September 1905. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''Muslim rebellion'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''the year that followed'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Peter and Paul Fortress'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''kazatsky'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Waziristan'''<br><br />
???<br />
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==Page 596==<br />
<br />
'''as-ever transcendentally interesting hair'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
''''gen''''<br><br />
Slang term for "genuine" maybe?<br />
<br />
'''Afghani dirhan'''<br><br />
An Afghani coin, more usually transliterated as "dirham". [http://ghaznavid.ancients.info/ This site] has pictures and more information.<br />
<br />
'''Ghaznivid Empire'''<br><br />
Usually transliterated as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghaznavid_Empire Ghaznavid Empire] (Wikipedia)<br />
<br />
'''coffee scion'''<br><br />
Coffee motif.<br />
<br />
'''Günther von Quassel'''<br><br />
"quasseln" is a German verb, meaning roughly "to jabber"<br />
<br />
'''less than universally respected Ludwig Boltzmann'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Boltzmann Boltzmann] proposed an explanation of thermodynamics based on the statistical behaviour of atoms. Many influential colleagues at the time did not believe in the reality of atoms and thus worked to discredit Boltzmann.<br />
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==Page 597==<br />
<br />
'''Gymnasium child'''<br><br />
A Gymnasium is a German secondary school<br />
<br />
'''one measure of the chaos'''<br><br />
Cf GR on entropy?<br />
<br />
'''Göttingen tradition'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''statue'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Rathaus square'''<br><br />
???<br />
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==Page 598==<br />
<br />
'''Axioms of Zermelo'''<br><br />
The basic axioms of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zermelo-Frankel_set_theory#The_axioms Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory].<br />
<br />
'''Poincaré'''<br><br />
Henri Poincaré ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Poincar%C3%A9 Wikipedia])<br />
<br />
'''Cauchy'''<br><br />
Augustin Louis Cauchy ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustin_Louis_Cauchy Wikipedia])<br />
<br />
'''Whittaker and Watson'''<br><br />
A standard mathematics textbook of the time ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whittaker_and_Watson Wikipedia])<br />
<br />
'''two point one'''<br><br />
(Cf Sondheim lyric.)<br />
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==Page 599==<br />
<br />
'''dueling-society cap'''<br><br />
Probably student corporation insignia.<br />
<br />
'''''Liebchen'''''<br><br />
German, "sweetheart"<br />
<br />
'''''Egal was, meine Schatze'''''<br><br />
German, "No matter what, my darling" - though "meine Schatze" is as far as I can tell an improper femininization, which ought to be "mein Schatz".<br />
<br />
'''''Schläger'''''<br><br />
A specialized weapon for student duels. See Wikipedia's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_fencing Academic fencing] article.<br />
<br />
'''Krummsäbel'''<br><br />
German, "scimitar".<br />
<br />
'''Korbrapier'''<br><br />
A rapier with a basket ("Korb" in German) like protection hilt.<br />
<br />
'''épée'''<br><br />
A sharp-pointed duelling sword.<br />
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==Page 600==<br />
<br />
'''Colt six-shooters'''<br><br />
I guess Kit's luggage beat him to Gottingen.<br />
<br />
'''''Verbindung'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''restoring moment, elastic constants'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Geheimrat Hilbert'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 601==<br />
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'''''Ehrenkodex'''''<br><br />
German, "code of honor"<br />
<br />
'''Tyrolean hats'''<br><br />
[http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=tirolerhut&btnG=Search+Images Images]<br />
<br />
'''''Schnurrbartbinde'''''<br><br />
A device to keep one's mustache safe from entanglement when sleeping, like [http://www.volkskrantblog.nl/pub/mm/2006/01/1137360569.70341.gif this].<br />
<br />
'''Zeiss "Palmos Panoram"'''<br><br />
An early panoramic camera, mentioned in the 1911 Britannica's [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Photography Photography] article.<br />
<br />
'''''"Auf die Mensur!"'''''<br><br />
German, "to the duel"<br />
<br />
'''Andaman Islands'''<br><br />
[http://www.openencyclopedia.net/index.php/Andaman_Islands Here]'s a mention of tattooing practices in the Andaman Islands<br />
<br />
'''Stephanie du Motel... group-theory godfather Évariste Galois'''<br><br />
Évariste Galois died in a duel at the age of 20. Though much confusion surrounds the affair, it is suspected that he provoked the duel after being rejected by one Stéphanie-Felice du Motel. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evariste_Galois#Final_days Wikipedia])<br />
<br />
==Page 602==<br />
<br />
'''young Ouspensky'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Chong'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''"The what?"'''<br><br />
(Precipitous drop in authorial expectations?)<br />
<br />
'''Sidney... Kensington Sid'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''transtriadic'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 603==<br />
<br />
'''"Spiritual... At Göttingen?"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Applied Mechanics Institute'''<br><br />
An institute of the University of Göttingen<br />
<br />
'''Prandtl's recent discovery of the boundary layer'''<br><br />
Ludwig Prandtl ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Prandtl Wikipedia]) in 1904 developed the theory of the boundary layer ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary%20layer Wikipedia]) in aerodynamics, greatly simplifying aerodynamic calculations. <br />
<br />
'''brambled guttie'''<br><br />
A proto golf-ball, see [http://www.che.rochester.edu/users/dafoster/ChE243/SciAm%20GolfBall.pdf here].<br />
<br />
'''Bürgerstrasse'''<br><br />
German, "Citizen's Street", a street in Göttingen.<br />
<br />
'''Brauweg'''<br><br />
German, "Brewery Way", a street in Göttingen.<br />
<br />
'''Zhukovsky's Transformation'''<br><br />
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joukowsky_transform Joukowsky Transform] maps the unit circle in the complex plane to a shape very much like an airfoil.<br />
<br />
'''glass of tea'''<br><br />
(Why not 'cup'?)because in Europe, as sopposed to in England, tea may be drunk from glassware.<br />
<br />
'''''"...according to Spiral Theory, up to infinity."<br> "And beyond, " added Gunther, nodding earnestly.'''''<br><br />
Reference to Buzz Lightyear's stock character phrase in 1995's TOY STORY (Pixar/Disney):<br />
"To Infinity... and Beyond!"<br />
--[[User:Btchakir|Btchakir]] 07:43, 19 December 2006 (PST)<br />
<br />
==Page 604==<br />
<br />
'''nontrivial zeroes'''<br><br />
The Riemann zeta function has two classes of zeros, the trivial zeroes being at negative even integers (-2, -4...), the non-trivial complex numbers, believed (but not proven) to have Re(z)=1/2. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_hypothesis Wikipedia].<br />
<br />
'''much-noted talk'''<br><br />
At the 1900 International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris, Hilbert proposed a research programme of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_problems#Tabulated_information 23 problems]. The Riemann hypothesis is number 8 on the list. <br />
<br />
'''eigenvalues'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenvalue Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''Hermitian operator'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermitian_operator Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''spine of reality... ''"Rückgrat von Wirklichkeit"'''''<br><br />
Probably a reference to the main diagonal of a Hermitian matrix, which can contain only real numbers.<br />
<br />
'''Hilbert-Polya Conjecture'''<br><br />
The conjecture that the zeroes of the Riemann function would be the eigenvalues of a Hermitian operator, just what Yashmeen is suggesting.<br />
<br />
==Page 605==<br />
<br />
'''Vance Aychrome'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Full English Breakfast'''<br><br />
Bacon, eggs, tomato, toast... otherwise know as a fry-up.<br />
<br />
'''Pythagorean dietary'''<br><br />
(Possible missing word?)<br />
<br />
'''kippers and bloaters'''<br><br />
Different words (both Scottish) for smoked herrings<br />
<br />
'''baps'''<br><br />
soft bread rolls - another Scottish word<br />
<br />
'''Spong machine'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''thinned'''<br><br />
From full 78. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarot Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''vegetarian haggis'''<br><br />
It exists: [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22vegetarian+haggis Google search]<br />
<br />
==Page 606==<br />
<br />
'''Lamont replevin'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Elflock Villa'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Stuffed Edge, Herts'''<br><br />
An imaginary village in the South-East English county of Hertfordshire<br />
<br />
'''kedgeree'''<br><br />
A hot breakfast dish of fish, rice, and eggs.<br />
<br />
'''Cesare Lombroso'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Trans-Oxanian'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Graeco-Buddhist'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''bad hats'''<br><br />
A bad hat is a slang term for a rascal<br />
<br />
==Page 607==<br />
<br />
'''Gas Office'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''communication by means of coal-gas'''<br><br />
Cf Nabokov's "Ada". Also inverse of Tesla's energy-transmitter.<br />
<br />
'''bombs... Suffragettes'''<br><br />
(Did they bomb post offices?!?)<br />
<br />
'''Pashto'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Tadjik'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Seven Dials'''<br><br />
In Covent Garden, London - a place where 7 roads meet<br />
<br />
==Page 608==<br />
<br />
'''"Avoid beans"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''spotted dick'''<br><br />
A suet pudding with raisins or currants<br />
<br />
'''Yarmouth bloater'''<br><br />
A cured herring from the port town of Yarmouth.<br />
<br />
''''shape''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''blue lamps'''<br><br />
Traditionally hung outside police stations in England.<br />
<br />
'''lamé surfaces'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''yarmulke... high crown... dented Trilby style'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 609==<br />
<br />
'''''Kelly's Suburban Dictionary'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''wenlets'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 610==<br />
<br />
'''daylight oil'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''refused to dim'''<br><br />
(Nicely vivid.)<br />
<br />
'''Vontz's Universal Pick'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''alchemized coke'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Lincrusta-Walton'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''hipshot'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''scalene polygons'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''jet'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Apotheosis Sparkless Torch'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 611==<br />
<br />
'''magnalium'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''The Slow and the Stupefied'''''<br><br />
Daytime soap 'The Young and the Restless'.<br />
<br />
'''gas-head'''<br><br />
Cf pothead, acidhead, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Pike's Peak'''<br><br />
Lew's old stompinground.<br />
<br />
'''Gus Swallowfield'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''most theft policies'''<br><br />
(Fact?)<br />
<br />
'''pantechnicon'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''legitimate bill of sale'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 612==<br />
<br />
'''''Pavonazzetto'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Phrygian marble'''<br><br />
Phrygia is an ancient region of west central Asia Minor, to the south of Bithynia. Marble from there was highly valued.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Atys... Agdistis'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''The Mutilation of Atys'''''<br><br />
No images: [http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Mutilation%20of%20Atys&btnG=Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi Google image search]<br />
<br />
'''Arturo Naunt'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''shocking the bourgeoisie'''<br><br />
A popular pastime for young and not-so-young soi-disant radicals ("Epater le bourgeois").<br />
<br />
'''koumiss vessel'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''wrathful deities from Tantric Buddhism'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 613==<br />
<br />
'''tiny German hand camera'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''raw light'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Gasophilia'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Schwärmer'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Chidambaram'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Akaša'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Atman'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
''''''Chaos''''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''van Helmont'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''stridently unpopulated'''<br><br />
Cf p610.<br />
<br />
==Annotation Index==<br />
{{ATD PbP}}</div>Themelhttps://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_588-614&diff=4745ATD 588-6142006-12-29T22:00:05Z<p>Themel: /* Page 601 */</p>
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<div>:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p><br><br />
<br />
==Page 588==<br />
<br />
'''tannery'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Gauss's brain'''<br><br />
After Carl Friedrich Gauss died in 1855, his brain was preserved for research purposes. To this day, it is in the possession of the University of Göttingen.<br />
<br />
'''impervious to the wind'''<br><br />
(Attribute of tanned leather?)<br />
<br />
'''''"Heiliger Bimbam!"'''''<br><br />
A German expression of surprise, translated elsewhere as "Holy Moly!"<br />
<br />
'''rim'''<br><br />
Kit pretends to think he's referring to monocle as 'chichi' (stylish).<br />
<br />
==Page 589==<br />
<br />
'''''Noli me tangere''''<br />
<br />
Latin for 'don't touch me'<br />
<br />
'''''Hausknochen'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 590==<br />
<br />
'''Hadamard... Poussin... Prime Number Theorem'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''patent ''Kühlbox'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''beleaguered subset'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 591==<br />
<br />
'''prats'''<br><br />
Literally the buttocks. As a slang term, a 'prat' is an idiot.<br />
<br />
'''''Die Nullstellen der [zeta]-Funktion'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''"Richard Harding Davis"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''seldom, if ever'''<br><br />
Cf p559 re Umeki!?<br />
<br />
'''tetralatry'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''C. Howard Hinton'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Johann K.F. Zöllner'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''vogue... 'vague''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 592==<br />
<br />
'''upside-down triangles'''<br><br />
Also Pléiade p538.<br />
<br />
'''metallic banging'<br />
<br />
''''metric interval''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Prinzenstrasse and Weenderstrasse'''<br><br />
A street corner at the very center of Göttingen ([http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=g%C3%B6ttingen,+germany&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=17&ll=51.534284,9.935417&spn=0.006107,0.010793&t=h Google Maps]), "known to mathematicians here as the origin of the city of Göttingen's coordinate system".<br />
<br />
==Page 593==<br />
<br />
'''twenty marks'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''der Pistolenheld'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''das Nichtharmonischestrahlenbündel'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Latin... Euler'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Mathematical Theory of the Top'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Leopold Kronecker''' and '''Cantor'''<br><br />
The "monumental quarrel between Kronecker and Cantor" is also referred to as a "religious war," appropriately enough. It's based in a disagreement over the legitimacy of numbers. Kronecker held that "'the positive integers were created by God, and all else is the work of man.'" This is contradicted by "'Cantor with his ''Kontinuum'', professing an equally strong belief in just those regions, infinitely divisible, which lie ''between'' the whole numbers so demanding of all Kronecker's devotion.'"<br />
<br />
The disagreement between the two mathematicians is reminiscent of (or does it anticipate?) the rift between Pointsman and Mexico in ''Gravity's Rainbow''. Kronecker's integers "created by God" have become a Pavlovian digital binary for Pointsman, but the two oppositions track faithfully right down to the italicized "between." <br />
<br />
"The young statistician [Mexico] is devoted to number and to method, not table-rapping or wishful thinking. But in the domain of zero to one, not-something to something, Pointsman can only possess the zero and the one. He cannot, like Mexico, survive anyplace in between. Like his master I. P. Pavlov before him, he imagines the cortex of the brain as a mosaic of tiny on/off elements.... But to Mexico belongs the domain ''between'' zero and one." [Page 55]<br />
<br />
It should be noted, however, that the continuous number line was a modern innovation. In Greek number theory, a number is a collection of indivisible units. Irrationals, such as the square root of 2 are not numbers but "magnitudes." One is not even a number for it is not a number of units. There are no negative numbers as well. (see Klein's <i>Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra.</i>) So Kronecker's position may be less of a crazy innovation as much as a maintenance of ancient theory.<br />
<br />
'''''Kontinuum'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 599==<br />
<br />
'''''Nervenklinik'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''boundless epsilonic world'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Der Finsterzwerg'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''chloral hydrate'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Kneipe'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Gauss passing to Weber a remark'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Weierstrass functions'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 595==<br />
<br />
'''That winter, in St. Petersburg'''<br><br />
22 Jan 1905 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution_of_1905 Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''Japanese won'''<br><br />
05 September 1905. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''Muslim rebellion'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''the year that followed'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Peter and Paul Fortress'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''kazatsky'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Waziristan'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 596==<br />
<br />
'''as-ever transcendentally interesting hair'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
''''gen''''<br><br />
Slang term for "genuine" maybe?<br />
<br />
'''Afghani dirhan'''<br><br />
An Afghani coin, more usually transliterated as "dirham". [http://ghaznavid.ancients.info/ This site] has pictures and more information.<br />
<br />
'''Ghaznivid Empire'''<br><br />
Usually transliterated as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghaznavid_Empire Ghaznavid Empire] (Wikipedia)<br />
<br />
'''coffee scion'''<br><br />
Coffee motif.<br />
<br />
'''Günther von Quassel'''<br><br />
"quasseln" is a German verb, meaning roughly "to jabber"<br />
<br />
'''less than universally respected Ludwig Boltzmann'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Boltzmann Boltzmann] proposed an explanation of thermodynamics based on the statistical behaviour of atoms. Many influential colleagues at the time did not believe in the reality of atoms and thus worked to discredit Boltzmann.<br />
<br />
==Page 597==<br />
<br />
'''Gymnasium child'''<br><br />
A Gymnasium is a German secondary school<br />
<br />
'''one measure of the chaos'''<br><br />
Cf GR on entropy?<br />
<br />
'''Göttingen tradition'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''statue'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Rathaus square'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 598==<br />
<br />
'''Axioms of Zermelo'''<br><br />
The basic axioms of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zermelo-Frankel_set_theory#The_axioms Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory].<br />
<br />
'''Poincaré'''<br><br />
Henri Poincaré ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Poincar%C3%A9 Wikipedia])<br />
<br />
'''Cauchy'''<br><br />
Augustin Louis Cauchy ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustin_Louis_Cauchy Wikipedia])<br />
<br />
'''Whittaker and Watson'''<br><br />
A standard mathematics textbook of the time ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whittaker_and_Watson Wikipedia])<br />
<br />
'''two point one'''<br><br />
(Cf Sondheim lyric.)<br />
<br />
==Page 599==<br />
<br />
'''dueling-society cap'''<br><br />
Probably student corporation insignia.<br />
<br />
'''''Liebchen'''''<br><br />
German, "sweetheart"<br />
<br />
'''''Egal was, meine Schatze'''''<br><br />
German, "No matter what, my darling" - though "meine Schatze" is as far as I can tell an improper femininization, which ought to be "mein Schatz".<br />
<br />
'''''Schläger'''''<br><br />
A specialized weapon for student duels. See Wikipedia's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_fencing Academic fencing] article.<br />
<br />
'''Krummsäbel'''<br><br />
German, "scimitar".<br />
<br />
'''Korbrapier'''<br><br />
A rapier with a basket ("Korb" in German) like protection hilt.<br />
<br />
'''épée'''<br><br />
A sharp-pointed duelling sword.<br />
<br />
==Page 600==<br />
<br />
'''Colt six-shooters'''<br><br />
I guess Kit's luggage beat him to Gottingen.<br />
<br />
'''''Verbindung'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''restoring moment, elastic constants'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Geheimrat Hilbert'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 601==<br />
<br />
'''''Ehrenkodex'''''<br><br />
German, "code of honor"<br />
<br />
'''Tyrolean hats'''<br><br />
[http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=tirolerhut&btnG=Search+Images Images]<br />
<br />
'''''Schnurrbartbinde'''''<br><br />
A device to keep one's mustache safe from entanglement when sleeping, like [http://www.volkskrantblog.nl/pub/mm/2006/01/1137360569.70341.gif this].<br />
<br />
'''Zeiss "Palmos Panoram"'''<br><br />
An early panoramic camera, mentioned in the 1911 Britannica's [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Photography Photography] article.<br />
<br />
'''''"Auf die Mensur!"'''''<br><br />
German, "to the duel"<br />
<br />
'''Andaman Islands'''<br><br />
[http://www.openencyclopedia.net/index.php/Andaman_Islands Here]'s a mention of tattooing practices in the Andaman Islands<br />
<br />
'''Stephanie du Motel... group-theory godfather Évariste Galois'''<br><br />
Évariste Galois died in a duel at the age of 20. Though much confusion surrounds the affair, it is suspected that he provoked the duel after being rejected by one Stéphanie-Felice du Motel. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evariste_Galois#Final_days Wikipedia])<br />
<br />
==Page 602==<br />
<br />
'''young Ouspensky'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Chong'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''"The what?"'''<br><br />
(Precipitous drop in authorial expectations?)<br />
<br />
'''Sidney... Kensington Sid'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''transtriadic'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 603==<br />
<br />
'''"Spiritual... At Göttingen?"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Applied Mechanics Institute'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Prandtl's recent discovery of the boundary layer'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''brambled guttie'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Bürgerstrasse'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Brauweg'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Zhukovsky's Transformation'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''glass of tea'''<br><br />
(Why not 'cup'?)because in Europe, as sopposed to in England, tea may be drunk from glassware.<br />
<br />
'''''"...according to Spiral Theory, up to infinity."<br> "And beyond, " added Gunther, nodding earnestly.'''''<br><br />
Reference to Buzz Lightyear's stock character phrase in 1995's TOY STORY (Pixar/Disney):<br />
"To Infinity... and Beyond!"<br />
--[[User:Btchakir|Btchakir]] 07:43, 19 December 2006 (PST)<br />
<br />
==Page 604==<br />
<br />
'''nontrivial zeroes'''<br><br />
The Riemann zeta function has two classes of zeros, the trivial zeroes being at negative even integers (-2, -4...), the non-trivial complex numbers, believed (but not proven) to have Re(z)=1/2. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_hypothesis Wikipedia].<br />
<br />
'''much-noted talk'''<br><br />
At the 1900 International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris, Hilbert proposed a research programme of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_problems#Tabulated_information 23 problems]. The Riemann hypothesis is number 8 on the list. <br />
<br />
'''eigenvalues'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenvalue Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''Hermitian operator'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermitian_operator Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''spine of reality... ''"Rückgrat von Wirklichkeit"'''''<br><br />
Probably a reference to the main diagonal of a Hermitian matrix, which can contain only real numbers.<br />
<br />
'''Hilbert-Polya Conjecture'''<br><br />
The conjecture that the zeroes of the Riemann function would be the eigenvalues of a Hermitian operator, just what Yashmeen is suggesting.<br />
<br />
==Page 605==<br />
<br />
'''Vance Aychrome'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Full English Breakfast'''<br><br />
Bacon, eggs, tomato, toast... otherwise know as a fry-up.<br />
<br />
'''Pythagorean dietary'''<br><br />
(Possible missing word?)<br />
<br />
'''kippers and bloaters'''<br><br />
Different words (both Scottish) for smoked herrings<br />
<br />
'''baps'''<br><br />
soft bread rolls - another Scottish word<br />
<br />
'''Spong machine'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''thinned'''<br><br />
From full 78. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarot Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''vegetarian haggis'''<br><br />
It exists: [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22vegetarian+haggis Google search]<br />
<br />
==Page 606==<br />
<br />
'''Lamont replevin'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Elflock Villa'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Stuffed Edge, Herts'''<br><br />
An imaginary village in the South-East English county of Hertfordshire<br />
<br />
'''kedgeree'''<br><br />
A hot breakfast dish of fish, rice, and eggs.<br />
<br />
'''Cesare Lombroso'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Trans-Oxanian'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Graeco-Buddhist'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''bad hats'''<br><br />
A bad hat is a slang term for a rascal<br />
<br />
==Page 607==<br />
<br />
'''Gas Office'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''communication by means of coal-gas'''<br><br />
Cf Nabokov's "Ada". Also inverse of Tesla's energy-transmitter.<br />
<br />
'''bombs... Suffragettes'''<br><br />
(Did they bomb post offices?!?)<br />
<br />
'''Pashto'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Tadjik'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Seven Dials'''<br><br />
In Covent Garden, London - a place where 7 roads meet<br />
<br />
==Page 608==<br />
<br />
'''"Avoid beans"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''spotted dick'''<br><br />
A suet pudding with raisins or currants<br />
<br />
'''Yarmouth bloater'''<br><br />
A cured herring from the port town of Yarmouth.<br />
<br />
''''shape''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''blue lamps'''<br><br />
Traditionally hung outside police stations in England.<br />
<br />
'''lamé surfaces'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''yarmulke... high crown... dented Trilby style'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 609==<br />
<br />
'''''Kelly's Suburban Dictionary'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''wenlets'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 610==<br />
<br />
'''daylight oil'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''refused to dim'''<br><br />
(Nicely vivid.)<br />
<br />
'''Vontz's Universal Pick'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''alchemized coke'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Lincrusta-Walton'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''hipshot'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''scalene polygons'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''jet'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Apotheosis Sparkless Torch'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 611==<br />
<br />
'''magnalium'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''The Slow and the Stupefied'''''<br><br />
Daytime soap 'The Young and the Restless'.<br />
<br />
'''gas-head'''<br><br />
Cf pothead, acidhead, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Pike's Peak'''<br><br />
Lew's old stompinground.<br />
<br />
'''Gus Swallowfield'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''most theft policies'''<br><br />
(Fact?)<br />
<br />
'''pantechnicon'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''legitimate bill of sale'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 612==<br />
<br />
'''''Pavonazzetto'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Phrygian marble'''<br><br />
Phrygia is an ancient region of west central Asia Minor, to the south of Bithynia. Marble from there was highly valued.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Atys... Agdistis'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''The Mutilation of Atys'''''<br><br />
No images: [http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Mutilation%20of%20Atys&btnG=Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi Google image search]<br />
<br />
'''Arturo Naunt'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''shocking the bourgeoisie'''<br><br />
A popular pastime for young and not-so-young soi-disant radicals ("Epater le bourgeois").<br />
<br />
'''koumiss vessel'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''wrathful deities from Tantric Buddhism'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 613==<br />
<br />
'''tiny German hand camera'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''raw light'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Gasophilia'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Schwärmer'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Chidambaram'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Akaša'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Atman'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
''''''Chaos''''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''van Helmont'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''stridently unpopulated'''<br><br />
Cf p610.<br />
<br />
==Annotation Index==<br />
{{ATD PbP}}</div>Themelhttps://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_588-614&diff=4739ATD 588-6142006-12-29T21:43:46Z<p>Themel: /* Page 599 */</p>
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<div>:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p><br><br />
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==Page 588==<br />
<br />
'''tannery'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Gauss's brain'''<br><br />
After Carl Friedrich Gauss died in 1855, his brain was preserved for research purposes. To this day, it is in the possession of the University of Göttingen.<br />
<br />
'''impervious to the wind'''<br><br />
(Attribute of tanned leather?)<br />
<br />
'''''"Heiliger Bimbam!"'''''<br><br />
A German expression of surprise, translated elsewhere as "Holy Moly!"<br />
<br />
'''rim'''<br><br />
Kit pretends to think he's referring to monocle as 'chichi' (stylish).<br />
<br />
==Page 589==<br />
<br />
'''''Noli me tangere''''<br />
<br />
Latin for 'don't touch me'<br />
<br />
'''''Hausknochen'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 590==<br />
<br />
'''Hadamard... Poussin... Prime Number Theorem'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''patent ''Kühlbox'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''beleaguered subset'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 591==<br />
<br />
'''prats'''<br><br />
Literally the buttocks. As a slang term, a 'prat' is an idiot.<br />
<br />
'''''Die Nullstellen der [zeta]-Funktion'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''"Richard Harding Davis"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''seldom, if ever'''<br><br />
Cf p559 re Umeki!?<br />
<br />
'''tetralatry'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''C. Howard Hinton'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Johann K.F. Zöllner'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''vogue... 'vague''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 592==<br />
<br />
'''upside-down triangles'''<br><br />
Also Pléiade p538.<br />
<br />
'''metallic banging'<br />
<br />
''''metric interval''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Prinzenstrasse and Weenderstrasse'''<br><br />
A street corner at the very center of Göttingen ([http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=g%C3%B6ttingen,+germany&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=17&ll=51.534284,9.935417&spn=0.006107,0.010793&t=h Google Maps]), "known to mathematicians here as the origin of the city of Göttingen's coordinate system".<br />
<br />
==Page 593==<br />
<br />
'''twenty marks'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''der Pistolenheld'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''das Nichtharmonischestrahlenbündel'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Latin... Euler'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Mathematical Theory of the Top'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Leopold Kronecker''' and '''Cantor'''<br><br />
The "monumental quarrel between Kronecker and Cantor" is also referred to as a "religious war," appropriately enough. It's based in a disagreement over the legitimacy of numbers. Kronecker held that "'the positive integers were created by God, and all else is the work of man.'" This is contradicted by "'Cantor with his ''Kontinuum'', professing an equally strong belief in just those regions, infinitely divisible, which lie ''between'' the whole numbers so demanding of all Kronecker's devotion.'"<br />
<br />
The disagreement between the two mathematicians is reminiscent of (or does it anticipate?) the rift between Pointsman and Mexico in ''Gravity's Rainbow''. Kronecker's integers "created by God" have become a Pavlovian digital binary for Pointsman, but the two oppositions track faithfully right down to the italicized "between." <br />
<br />
"The young statistician [Mexico] is devoted to number and to method, not table-rapping or wishful thinking. But in the domain of zero to one, not-something to something, Pointsman can only possess the zero and the one. He cannot, like Mexico, survive anyplace in between. Like his master I. P. Pavlov before him, he imagines the cortex of the brain as a mosaic of tiny on/off elements.... But to Mexico belongs the domain ''between'' zero and one." [Page 55]<br />
<br />
It should be noted, however, that the continuous number line was a modern innovation. In Greek number theory, a number is a collection of indivisible units. Irrationals, such as the square root of 2 are not numbers but "magnitudes." One is not even a number for it is not a number of units. There are no negative numbers as well. (see Klein's <i>Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra.</i>) So Kronecker's position may be less of a crazy innovation as much as a maintenance of ancient theory.<br />
<br />
'''''Kontinuum'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 599==<br />
<br />
'''''Nervenklinik'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''boundless epsilonic world'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Der Finsterzwerg'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''chloral hydrate'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Kneipe'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Gauss passing to Weber a remark'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Weierstrass functions'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 595==<br />
<br />
'''That winter, in St. Petersburg'''<br><br />
22 Jan 1905 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution_of_1905 Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''Japanese won'''<br><br />
05 September 1905. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''Muslim rebellion'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''the year that followed'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Peter and Paul Fortress'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''kazatsky'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Waziristan'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 596==<br />
<br />
'''as-ever transcendentally interesting hair'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
''''gen''''<br><br />
Slang term for "genuine" maybe?<br />
<br />
'''Afghani dirhan'''<br><br />
An Afghani coin, more usually transliterated as "dirham". [http://ghaznavid.ancients.info/ This site] has pictures and more information.<br />
<br />
'''Ghaznivid Empire'''<br><br />
Usually transliterated as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghaznavid_Empire Ghaznavid Empire] (Wikipedia)<br />
<br />
'''coffee scion'''<br><br />
Coffee motif.<br />
<br />
'''Günther von Quassel'''<br><br />
"quasseln" is a German verb, meaning roughly "to jabber"<br />
<br />
'''less than universally respected Ludwig Boltzmann'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Boltzmann Boltzmann] proposed an explanation of thermodynamics based on the statistical behaviour of atoms. Many influential colleagues at the time did not believe in the reality of atoms and thus worked to discredit Boltzmann.<br />
<br />
==Page 597==<br />
<br />
'''Gymnasium child'''<br><br />
A Gymnasium is a German secondary school<br />
<br />
'''one measure of the chaos'''<br><br />
Cf GR on entropy?<br />
<br />
'''Göttingen tradition'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''statue'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Rathaus square'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 598==<br />
<br />
'''Axioms of Zermelo'''<br><br />
The basic axioms of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zermelo-Frankel_set_theory#The_axioms Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory].<br />
<br />
'''Poincaré'''<br><br />
Henri Poincaré ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Poincar%C3%A9 Wikipedia])<br />
<br />
'''Cauchy'''<br><br />
Augustin Louis Cauchy ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustin_Louis_Cauchy Wikipedia])<br />
<br />
'''Whittaker and Watson'''<br><br />
A standard mathematics textbook of the time ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whittaker_and_Watson Wikipedia])<br />
<br />
'''two point one'''<br><br />
(Cf Sondheim lyric.)<br />
<br />
==Page 599==<br />
<br />
'''dueling-society cap'''<br><br />
Probably student corporation insignia.<br />
<br />
'''''Liebchen'''''<br><br />
German, "sweetheart"<br />
<br />
'''''Egal was, meine Schatze'''''<br><br />
German, "No matter what, my darling" - though "meine Schatze" is as far as I can tell an improper femininization, which ought to be "mein Schatz".<br />
<br />
'''''Schläger'''''<br><br />
A specialized weapon for student duels. See Wikipedia's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_fencing Academic fencing] article.<br />
<br />
'''Krummsäbel'''<br><br />
German, "scimitar".<br />
<br />
'''Korbrapier'''<br><br />
A rapier with a basket ("Korb" in German) like protection hilt.<br />
<br />
'''épée'''<br><br />
A sharp-pointed duelling sword.<br />
<br />
==Page 600==<br />
<br />
'''Colt six-shooters'''<br><br />
I guess Kit's luggage beat him to Gottingen.<br />
<br />
'''''Verbindung'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''restoring moment, elastic constants'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Geheimrat Hilbert'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 601==<br />
<br />
'''''Ehrenkodex'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Tyrolean hats'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Schnurrbartbinde'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Zeiss "Palmos Panoram"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''"Auf die Mensur!"'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Andaman Islands'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Stephanie du Motel... group-theory godfather Evariste Galois'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 602==<br />
<br />
'''young Ouspensky'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Chong'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''"The what?"'''<br><br />
(Precipitous drop in authorial expectations?)<br />
<br />
'''Sidney... Kensington Sid'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''transtriadic'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 603==<br />
<br />
'''"Spiritual... At Göttingen?"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Applied Mechanics Institute'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Prandtl's recent discovery of the boundary layer'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''brambled guttie'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Bürgerstrasse'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Brauweg'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Zhukovsky's Transformation'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''glass of tea'''<br><br />
(Why not 'cup'?)because in Europe, as sopposed to in England, tea may be drunk from glassware.<br />
<br />
'''''"...according to Spiral Theory, up to infinity."<br> "And beyond, " added Gunther, nodding earnestly.'''''<br><br />
Reference to Buzz Lightyear's stock character phrase in 1995's TOY STORY (Pixar/Disney):<br />
"To Infinity... and Beyond!"<br />
--[[User:Btchakir|Btchakir]] 07:43, 19 December 2006 (PST)<br />
<br />
==Page 604==<br />
<br />
'''nontrivial zeroes'''<br><br />
The Riemann zeta function has two classes of zeros, the trivial zeroes being at negative even integers (-2, -4...), the non-trivial complex numbers, believed (but not proven) to have Re(z)=1/2. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_hypothesis Wikipedia].<br />
<br />
'''much-noted talk'''<br><br />
At the 1900 International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris, Hilbert proposed a research programme of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_problems#Tabulated_information 23 problems]. The Riemann hypothesis is number 8 on the list. <br />
<br />
'''eigenvalues'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenvalue Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''Hermitian operator'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermitian_operator Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''spine of reality... ''"Rückgrat von Wirklichkeit"'''''<br><br />
Probably a reference to the main diagonal of a Hermitian matrix, which can contain only real numbers.<br />
<br />
'''Hilbert-Polya Conjecture'''<br><br />
The conjecture that the zeroes of the Riemann function would be the eigenvalues of a Hermitian operator, just what Yashmeen is suggesting.<br />
<br />
==Page 605==<br />
<br />
'''Vance Aychrome'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Full English Breakfast'''<br><br />
Bacon, eggs, tomato, toast... otherwise know as a fry-up.<br />
<br />
'''Pythagorean dietary'''<br><br />
(Possible missing word?)<br />
<br />
'''kippers and bloaters'''<br><br />
Different words (both Scottish) for smoked herrings<br />
<br />
'''baps'''<br><br />
soft bread rolls - another Scottish word<br />
<br />
'''Spong machine'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''thinned'''<br><br />
From full 78. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarot Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''vegetarian haggis'''<br><br />
It exists: [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22vegetarian+haggis Google search]<br />
<br />
==Page 606==<br />
<br />
'''Lamont replevin'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Elflock Villa'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Stuffed Edge, Herts'''<br><br />
An imaginary village in the South-East English county of Hertfordshire<br />
<br />
'''kedgeree'''<br><br />
A hot breakfast dish of fish, rice, and eggs.<br />
<br />
'''Cesare Lombroso'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Trans-Oxanian'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Graeco-Buddhist'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''bad hats'''<br><br />
A bad hat is a slang term for a rascal<br />
<br />
==Page 607==<br />
<br />
'''Gas Office'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''communication by means of coal-gas'''<br><br />
Cf Nabokov's "Ada". Also inverse of Tesla's energy-transmitter.<br />
<br />
'''bombs... Suffragettes'''<br><br />
(Did they bomb post offices?!?)<br />
<br />
'''Pashto'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Tadjik'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Seven Dials'''<br><br />
In Covent Garden, London - a place where 7 roads meet<br />
<br />
==Page 608==<br />
<br />
'''"Avoid beans"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''spotted dick'''<br><br />
A suet pudding with raisins or currants<br />
<br />
'''Yarmouth bloater'''<br><br />
A cured herring from the port town of Yarmouth.<br />
<br />
''''shape''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''blue lamps'''<br><br />
Traditionally hung outside police stations in England.<br />
<br />
'''lamé surfaces'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''yarmulke... high crown... dented Trilby style'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 609==<br />
<br />
'''''Kelly's Suburban Dictionary'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''wenlets'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 610==<br />
<br />
'''daylight oil'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''refused to dim'''<br><br />
(Nicely vivid.)<br />
<br />
'''Vontz's Universal Pick'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''alchemized coke'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Lincrusta-Walton'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''hipshot'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''scalene polygons'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''jet'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Apotheosis Sparkless Torch'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 611==<br />
<br />
'''magnalium'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''The Slow and the Stupefied'''''<br><br />
Daytime soap 'The Young and the Restless'.<br />
<br />
'''gas-head'''<br><br />
Cf pothead, acidhead, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Pike's Peak'''<br><br />
Lew's old stompinground.<br />
<br />
'''Gus Swallowfield'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''most theft policies'''<br><br />
(Fact?)<br />
<br />
'''pantechnicon'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''legitimate bill of sale'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 612==<br />
<br />
'''''Pavonazzetto'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Phrygian marble'''<br><br />
Phrygia is an ancient region of west central Asia Minor, to the south of Bithynia. Marble from there was highly valued.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Atys... Agdistis'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''The Mutilation of Atys'''''<br><br />
No images: [http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Mutilation%20of%20Atys&btnG=Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi Google image search]<br />
<br />
'''Arturo Naunt'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''shocking the bourgeoisie'''<br><br />
A popular pastime for young and not-so-young soi-disant radicals ("Epater le bourgeois").<br />
<br />
'''koumiss vessel'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''wrathful deities from Tantric Buddhism'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 613==<br />
<br />
'''tiny German hand camera'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''raw light'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Gasophilia'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Schwärmer'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Chidambaram'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Akaša'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Atman'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
''''''Chaos''''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''van Helmont'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''stridently unpopulated'''<br><br />
Cf p610.<br />
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==Page 588==<br />
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'''tannery'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Gauss's brain'''<br><br />
After Carl Friedrich Gauss died in 1855, his brain was preserved for research purposes. To this day, it is in the possession of the University of Göttingen.<br />
<br />
'''impervious to the wind'''<br><br />
(Attribute of tanned leather?)<br />
<br />
'''''"Heiliger Bimbam!"'''''<br><br />
A German expression of surprise, translated elsewhere as "Holy Moly!"<br />
<br />
'''rim'''<br><br />
Kit pretends to think he's referring to monocle as 'chichi' (stylish).<br />
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==Page 589==<br />
<br />
'''''Noli me tangere''''<br />
<br />
Latin for 'don't touch me'<br />
<br />
'''''Hausknochen'''''<br><br />
???<br />
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==Page 590==<br />
<br />
'''Hadamard... Poussin... Prime Number Theorem'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''patent ''Kühlbox'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''beleaguered subset'''<br><br />
???<br />
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==Page 591==<br />
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'''prats'''<br><br />
Literally the buttocks. As a slang term, a 'prat' is an idiot.<br />
<br />
'''''Die Nullstellen der [zeta]-Funktion'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''"Richard Harding Davis"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''seldom, if ever'''<br><br />
Cf p559 re Umeki!?<br />
<br />
'''tetralatry'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''C. Howard Hinton'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Johann K.F. Zöllner'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''vogue... 'vague''''<br><br />
???<br />
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==Page 592==<br />
<br />
'''upside-down triangles'''<br><br />
Also Pléiade p538.<br />
<br />
'''metallic banging'<br />
<br />
''''metric interval''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Prinzenstrasse and Weenderstrasse'''<br><br />
A street corner at the very center of Göttingen ([http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=g%C3%B6ttingen,+germany&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=17&ll=51.534284,9.935417&spn=0.006107,0.010793&t=h Google Maps]), "known to mathematicians here as the origin of the city of Göttingen's coordinate system".<br />
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==Page 593==<br />
<br />
'''twenty marks'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''der Pistolenheld'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''das Nichtharmonischestrahlenbündel'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Latin... Euler'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Mathematical Theory of the Top'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Leopold Kronecker''' and '''Cantor'''<br><br />
The "monumental quarrel between Kronecker and Cantor" is also referred to as a "religious war," appropriately enough. It's based in a disagreement over the legitimacy of numbers. Kronecker held that "'the positive integers were created by God, and all else is the work of man.'" This is contradicted by "'Cantor with his ''Kontinuum'', professing an equally strong belief in just those regions, infinitely divisible, which lie ''between'' the whole numbers so demanding of all Kronecker's devotion.'"<br />
<br />
The disagreement between the two mathematicians is reminiscent of (or does it anticipate?) the rift between Pointsman and Mexico in ''Gravity's Rainbow''. Kronecker's integers "created by God" have become a Pavlovian digital binary for Pointsman, but the two oppositions track faithfully right down to the italicized "between." <br />
<br />
"The young statistician [Mexico] is devoted to number and to method, not table-rapping or wishful thinking. But in the domain of zero to one, not-something to something, Pointsman can only possess the zero and the one. He cannot, like Mexico, survive anyplace in between. Like his master I. P. Pavlov before him, he imagines the cortex of the brain as a mosaic of tiny on/off elements.... But to Mexico belongs the domain ''between'' zero and one." [Page 55]<br />
<br />
It should be noted, however, that the continuous number line was a modern innovation. In Greek number theory, a number is a collection of indivisible units. Irrationals, such as the square root of 2 are not numbers but "magnitudes." One is not even a number for it is not a number of units. There are no negative numbers as well. (see Klein's <i>Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra.</i>) So Kronecker's position may be less of a crazy innovation as much as a maintenance of ancient theory.<br />
<br />
'''''Kontinuum'''''<br><br />
???<br />
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==Page 599==<br />
<br />
'''''Nervenklinik'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''boundless epsilonic world'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Der Finsterzwerg'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''chloral hydrate'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Kneipe'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Gauss passing to Weber a remark'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Weierstrass functions'''<br><br />
???<br />
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==Page 595==<br />
<br />
'''That winter, in St. Petersburg'''<br><br />
22 Jan 1905 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution_of_1905 Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''Japanese won'''<br><br />
05 September 1905. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''Muslim rebellion'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''the year that followed'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Peter and Paul Fortress'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''kazatsky'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Waziristan'''<br><br />
???<br />
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==Page 596==<br />
<br />
'''as-ever transcendentally interesting hair'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
''''gen''''<br><br />
Slang term for "genuine" maybe?<br />
<br />
'''Afghani dirhan'''<br><br />
An Afghani coin, more usually transliterated as "dirham". [http://ghaznavid.ancients.info/ This site] has pictures and more information.<br />
<br />
'''Ghaznivid Empire'''<br><br />
Usually transliterated as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghaznavid_Empire Ghaznavid Empire] (Wikipedia)<br />
<br />
'''coffee scion'''<br><br />
Coffee motif.<br />
<br />
'''Günther von Quassel'''<br><br />
"quasseln" is a German verb, meaning roughly "to jabber"<br />
<br />
'''less than universally respected Ludwig Boltzmann'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Boltzmann Boltzmann] proposed an explanation of thermodynamics based on the statistical behaviour of atoms. Many influential colleagues at the time did not believe in the reality of atoms and thus worked to discredit Boltzmann.<br />
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==Page 597==<br />
<br />
'''Gymnasium child'''<br><br />
A Gymnasium is a German secondary school<br />
<br />
'''one measure of the chaos'''<br><br />
Cf GR on entropy?<br />
<br />
'''Göttingen tradition'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''statue'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Rathaus square'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 598==<br />
<br />
'''Axioms of Zermelo'''<br><br />
The basic axioms of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zermelo-Frankel_set_theory#The_axioms Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory].<br />
<br />
'''Poincaré'''<br><br />
Henri Poincaré ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Poincar%C3%A9 Wikipedia])<br />
<br />
'''Cauchy'''<br><br />
Augustin Louis Cauchy ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustin_Louis_Cauchy Wikipedia])<br />
<br />
'''Whittaker and Watson'''<br><br />
A standard mathematics textbook of the time ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whittaker_and_Watson Wikipedia])<br />
<br />
'''two point one'''<br><br />
(Cf Sondheim lyric.)<br />
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==Page 599==<br />
<br />
'''dueling-society cap'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Liebchen'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Egal was, meine Schatze'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Schläger'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Krummsäbel'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Korbrapier'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''épée'''<br><br />
A sharp-pointed duelling sword.<br />
<br />
==Page 600==<br />
<br />
'''Colt six-shooters'''<br><br />
I guess Kit's luggage beat him to Gottingen.<br />
<br />
'''''Verbindung'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''restoring moment, elastic constants'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Geheimrat Hilbert'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 601==<br />
<br />
'''''Ehrenkodex'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Tyrolean hats'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Schnurrbartbinde'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Zeiss "Palmos Panoram"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''"Auf die Mensur!"'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Andaman Islands'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Stephanie du Motel... group-theory godfather Evariste Galois'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 602==<br />
<br />
'''young Ouspensky'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Chong'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''"The what?"'''<br><br />
(Precipitous drop in authorial expectations?)<br />
<br />
'''Sidney... Kensington Sid'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''transtriadic'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 603==<br />
<br />
'''"Spiritual... At Göttingen?"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Applied Mechanics Institute'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Prandtl's recent discovery of the boundary layer'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''brambled guttie'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Bürgerstrasse'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Brauweg'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Zhukovsky's Transformation'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''glass of tea'''<br><br />
(Why not 'cup'?)because in Europe, as sopposed to in England, tea may be drunk from glassware.<br />
<br />
'''''"...according to Spiral Theory, up to infinity."<br> "And beyond, " added Gunther, nodding earnestly.'''''<br><br />
Reference to Buzz Lightyear's stock character phrase in 1995's TOY STORY (Pixar/Disney):<br />
"To Infinity... and Beyond!"<br />
--[[User:Btchakir|Btchakir]] 07:43, 19 December 2006 (PST)<br />
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==Page 604==<br />
<br />
'''nontrivial zeroes'''<br><br />
The Riemann zeta function has two classes of zeros, the trivial zeroes being at negative even integers (-2, -4...), the non-trivial complex numbers, believed (but not proven) to have Re(z)=1/2. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_hypothesis Wikipedia].<br />
<br />
'''much-noted talk'''<br><br />
At the 1900 International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris, Hilbert proposed a research programme of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_problems#Tabulated_information 23 problems]. The Riemann hypothesis is number 8 on the list. <br />
<br />
'''eigenvalues'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenvalue Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''Hermitian operator'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermitian_operator Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''spine of reality... ''"Rückgrat von Wirklichkeit"'''''<br><br />
Probably a reference to the main diagonal of a Hermitian matrix, which can contain only real numbers.<br />
<br />
'''Hilbert-Polya Conjecture'''<br><br />
The conjecture that the zeroes of the Riemann function would be the eigenvalues of a Hermitian operator, just what Yashmeen is suggesting.<br />
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==Page 605==<br />
<br />
'''Vance Aychrome'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Full English Breakfast'''<br><br />
Bacon, eggs, tomato, toast... otherwise know as a fry-up.<br />
<br />
'''Pythagorean dietary'''<br><br />
(Possible missing word?)<br />
<br />
'''kippers and bloaters'''<br><br />
Different words (both Scottish) for smoked herrings<br />
<br />
'''baps'''<br><br />
soft bread rolls - another Scottish word<br />
<br />
'''Spong machine'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''thinned'''<br><br />
From full 78. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarot Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''vegetarian haggis'''<br><br />
It exists: [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22vegetarian+haggis Google search]<br />
<br />
==Page 606==<br />
<br />
'''Lamont replevin'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Elflock Villa'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Stuffed Edge, Herts'''<br><br />
An imaginary village in the South-East English county of Hertfordshire<br />
<br />
'''kedgeree'''<br><br />
A hot breakfast dish of fish, rice, and eggs.<br />
<br />
'''Cesare Lombroso'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Trans-Oxanian'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Graeco-Buddhist'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''bad hats'''<br><br />
A bad hat is a slang term for a rascal<br />
<br />
==Page 607==<br />
<br />
'''Gas Office'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''communication by means of coal-gas'''<br><br />
Cf Nabokov's "Ada". Also inverse of Tesla's energy-transmitter.<br />
<br />
'''bombs... Suffragettes'''<br><br />
(Did they bomb post offices?!?)<br />
<br />
'''Pashto'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Tadjik'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Seven Dials'''<br><br />
In Covent Garden, London - a place where 7 roads meet<br />
<br />
==Page 608==<br />
<br />
'''"Avoid beans"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''spotted dick'''<br><br />
A suet pudding with raisins or currants<br />
<br />
'''Yarmouth bloater'''<br><br />
A cured herring from the port town of Yarmouth.<br />
<br />
''''shape''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''blue lamps'''<br><br />
Traditionally hung outside police stations in England.<br />
<br />
'''lamé surfaces'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''yarmulke... high crown... dented Trilby style'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 609==<br />
<br />
'''''Kelly's Suburban Dictionary'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''wenlets'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 610==<br />
<br />
'''daylight oil'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''refused to dim'''<br><br />
(Nicely vivid.)<br />
<br />
'''Vontz's Universal Pick'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''alchemized coke'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Lincrusta-Walton'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''hipshot'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''scalene polygons'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''jet'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Apotheosis Sparkless Torch'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 611==<br />
<br />
'''magnalium'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''The Slow and the Stupefied'''''<br><br />
Daytime soap 'The Young and the Restless'.<br />
<br />
'''gas-head'''<br><br />
Cf pothead, acidhead, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Pike's Peak'''<br><br />
Lew's old stompinground.<br />
<br />
'''Gus Swallowfield'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''most theft policies'''<br><br />
(Fact?)<br />
<br />
'''pantechnicon'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''legitimate bill of sale'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 612==<br />
<br />
'''''Pavonazzetto'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Phrygian marble'''<br><br />
Phrygia is an ancient region of west central Asia Minor, to the south of Bithynia. Marble from there was highly valued.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Atys... Agdistis'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''The Mutilation of Atys'''''<br><br />
No images: [http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Mutilation%20of%20Atys&btnG=Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi Google image search]<br />
<br />
'''Arturo Naunt'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''shocking the bourgeoisie'''<br><br />
A popular pastime for young and not-so-young soi-disant radicals ("Epater le bourgeois").<br />
<br />
'''koumiss vessel'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''wrathful deities from Tantric Buddhism'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 613==<br />
<br />
'''tiny German hand camera'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''raw light'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Gasophilia'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Schwärmer'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Chidambaram'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Akaša'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Atman'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
''''''Chaos''''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''van Helmont'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''stridently unpopulated'''<br><br />
Cf p610.<br />
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==Page 557==<br />
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'''Viktor Mulciber'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''bespoke'''<br><br />
made to order, hence hand-made and expensive. Somewhere in the novel is a reference to 1 Savile Row, the address of Gieves and Hawkes, a very traditional English tailor.<br />
<br />
'''Basil Zaharoff'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''trains of history... run'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Balkan ''komitadji'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''waybill'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''metamorphosed into an American Negro'''<br><br />
Cf honorary Negro (Frank above).<br />
<br />
'''Nipponese'''<br><br />
Japanese<br />
<br />
'''Hertzian'''<br><br />
Electromagnetic waves, first demonstrated by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Rudolf_Hertz Heinrich Hertz]<br />
<br />
==Page 558==<br />
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'''scalar part'''<br><br />
Quaternion equivalent of the real part<br />
<br />
'''baritone in a barbershop quartet'''<br><br />
[http://www.barbershop.org/web/groups/public/documents/pages/pub_id_000827.hcsp Quote]:Technically speaking, barbershop harmony is a style of unaccompanied singing with three voices harmonizing to the melody. The lead usually sings the melody, with the tenor harmonizing above the lead. The bass sings the lowest harmonizing notes and the baritone provides in-between notes, either above or below the lead to make chords (specifically, dominant-type or "barbershop" sevenths) that give barbershop its distinctive, "full" sound.<br />
<br />
'''viola in a string quartet'''<br><br />
Two violins, a viola, and a violoncello make up a string quartet. The viola is between the others in pitch and is generally considered to have been given the least interesting parts in Classical and Romantic music for string quartet.<br />
<br />
'''Further Term'''<br><br />
The three parts of a quaternion that are multiples of '''i''', '''j''' and '''k'''<br />
<br />
'''laterite'''<br><br />
A mineral structure formed by erosion, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laterite Wikipedia].<br />
<br />
'''Inner Boulevards'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Gare du Midi'''<br><br />
The largest railway station in Brussels and a haunt of prostitutes.<br />
<br />
'''Edouard Gevaert'''<br><br />
(No ligature?)<br />
<br />
==Page 559==<br />
<br />
'''Krupp field-piece'''<br><br />
The Krupps are an ancient German family, famous for making weapons. A field-piece is a light-cannon.<br />
<br />
'''vaguely glandular'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''ostinato'''''<br><br />
A continually repeated musical phrase or rhythm.<br />
<br />
'''poleaxed'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''lost to silence'''<br><br />
(Not silent, or very?)<br />
<br />
==Page 560==<br />
<br />
'''Estacade'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''mousmée... mouchard'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''always lead an irregular life'''<br><br />
Cf GR.<br />
<br />
'''Maria Bayley Hamilton'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''council meeting'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 561==<br />
<br />
'''Brougham Bridge'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''pulls a knife'''<br><br />
(Folklore, really later?)<br />
<br />
'''on the stone'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Pentecostal'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''official Mischief Opportunity'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''absinthe spoons'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''cravats'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''"four-door farce"'''<br><br />
(See eg Bogdanovich's "What's Up, Doc?")<br />
This is also a pun on the name of Georges Feydeau, French writer of farces who was writing when Pynchon's novel is set. One of the recurring physical jokes involves sets with many doors and people coming in and out, just missing each other....<br />
<br />
==Page 562==<br />
<br />
'''Minque'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''carillons... carilloneur'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Hanseatic'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''burghers'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''silted up'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Damme and Sluis'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 563==<br />
<br />
'''trusted his intuitiveness'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''"Jou moerskont!"''... Afrikaans'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 564==<br />
<br />
'''immense choir'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Voetsak'''''<br><br />
Dutch or Afrikaans, "Go away!", also spelled "voertsek" or "voetsek"<br />
<br />
'''starers'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''tobacco-stricken'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''half-silvering'''<br><br />
A design for an optical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beam_splitter beam splitter] that causes half of the incident light to be transmitted and the other half to be reflected.<br />
<br />
'''four cusps... index-surface'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''co-conscious'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 565==<br />
<br />
'''true icosahedron'''<br><br />
Probably an regular icosahedron, where the sides are formed by 20 equilateral triangles<br />
<br />
'''12+8... pyrites'''<br><br />
Pyrite crystals form a structure that can be decomposed into unit cells that contain (part of) 12 sulphur atoms and 8 iron atoms.<br />
<br />
'''Riemann sphere'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_sphere Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''Felix Klein'''<br><br />
German mathematician ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Klein Wikipedia])<br />
<br />
'''ebonite'''<br><br />
An early plastic([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebonite Wikipedia])<br />
<br />
'''Ohmic Drift'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''speed of the earth... kinetic energy'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Recently Lorentz's paper'''<br><br />
Lorentz's 1904 "Electromagnetic phenomena in a system moving with any velocity less than that of light" ([http://www.soso.ch/wissen/hist/SRT/L-1904.pdf PDF])<br />
<br />
'''Lord Rayleigh'''<br><br />
British physicist ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Rayleigh Wikipedia])<br />
<br />
==Page 566==<br />
<br />
'''In a dream...'''<br><br />
<br />
This passage, describing Kit's dream of Umeki and the message it conveys, pulls together many of the main themes of ''Against the Day'', tying things together in a way that Pynchon seldom does, almost as if he's providing a rather large piece of the puzzle to help the reader understand the novel:<br />
<br />
:"Deep among the equations describing the behavor of light, field equations, Vector and Quaternion equations, lies a set of directions, an intinerary, a map to a hidden space. Double refraction appears again and again as a key element, permitting a view into a Creation set just to the side of this one, so close as to overlap, where the membrane between the worlds, in many places, has become too frail, too permeable, for safety.... Within the mirror, with the scalar term, within the daylit and obvious and taken-for-granted has always lain, as if in wait, the dark intinerary, the corrupted pilgrim's guide, the nameless Station before the first, in the lightless uncreated, where salvation does not yet exist."<br />
<br />
'''analogies'''<br><br />
(Pynchonian heuristics.)<br />
<br />
'''nameless Station'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''lightless uncreated'''<br><br />
(Gnostic heresy?)<br />
<br />
'''stuffed sinus'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Konichiwa'''''<br><br />
Japanese greeting<br />
<br />
==Page 567==<br />
<br />
'''new Puccini opera'''<br><br />
Obviously, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Butterfly Madame Butterfly]<br />
<br />
'''Borel-Clerc... "La Matchiche"'''<br><br />
Popular vaudeville song from 1903. "La Matchiche" is French for the Brazilian dance Maxixe.<br />
<br />
'''western anchor'''<br><br />
What about France, Spain, Portugal?<br />
<br />
'''Compaignie Internationale des Wagons-Lits'''<br><br />
"International Sleeping-Car Company", [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlson_Wagonlit Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''two hundred francs'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''theory of sets'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Bruges Canal'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 568==<br />
<br />
'''vaporetto'''<br><br />
A Venetian water-bus.<br />
<br />
'''Grand Canal'''<br><br />
The main canal that runs through the heart of Venice and down past San Marco, the city's main square.<br />
<br />
'''San Marco end'''<br><br />
See above. This is where Florian's (appears in the novel) is situated.<br />
<br />
'''Piazzetta'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''San Giorgio Maggiore'''<br><br />
A rather over-ornate church on the Grand Canal opposite San Marco.<br />
<br />
'''spreading... cloak'''<br><br />
Cliche/allusion?<br />
<br />
'''live here forever'''<br><br />
Pynchon special-pleading that Dally isn't just another tourist.<br />
Or is this just a typical reaction of the tourist? And a Pynchonesque longing for home?<br />
==Page 569==<br />
<br />
'''Malibran... Polo's house'''<br><br />
The Teatro Malibran, built at the site of Marco Polo's house, which was destroyed in 1596.<br />
<br />
'''"pincette" pass'''<br><br />
Probably from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pincer_movement pincer movement] of military strategy.<br />
<br />
'''profondes'''<br><br />
"Large pockets in tail coats which can be used for vanishes or productions", [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conjuring_terms Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''Vincenzo Miserere'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''train to Trieste'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Svegli'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''shark leather'''<br><br />
Different from sharkskin?<br />
<br />
'''''Specchiere'''''<br><br />
Mirror-maker<br />
<br />
'''glassmakers on Murano'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murano Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
==Page 570==<br />
<br />
'''another one of his stories'''<br><br />
(Jackson Pynchon should highlight all the AtD passages that originated as bedtime stories.)<br />
<br />
'''TERAPIA'''<br><br />
Italian, "therapy"<br />
<br />
'''San Servolo'''<br><br />
An island in the Venetian archipelago, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Servolo Wikipedia], [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=45.418654+N,+12.35698+E&ie=UTF8&z=17&ll=45.418651,12.35698&spn=0.006891,0.010793&t=k&om=1&iwloc=addr Google Maps]<br />
<br />
'''Palazzo Ducale'''<br><br />
The Ducal Palace in Venice, residence of the Doge. It's by San Marco.<br />
<br />
'''''manicomio'''''<br><br />
Italian, "madhouse"<br />
<br />
'''uterine vellum'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vellum Vellum] produced from the skin of an unborn calf<br />
<br />
'''pitch, rouge'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 571==<br />
<br />
'''La Doppiatrice'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Ettore Sananzolo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Maskelyne cabinet'''<br><br />
After Neville Maskelyne, from ''Mason and Dixon.'' Maskelyne sent M and D to record the Transit of Venus.<br />
<br />
==Page 572==<br />
<br />
'''smoke back into a cigar'''<br><br />
Time's arrow/ entropy motif.<br />
<br />
'''hard-as-a-rock black cigar'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''thumping'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''salso'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''sandoli'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''trains pulling in'''<br><br />
Famous early film.<br />
<br />
==Page 573==<br />
<br />
'''Cannareggio'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannaregio Cannaregio]<br />
<br />
==Page 574==<br />
<br />
'''thirty years older'''<br><br />
About 65yo?<br />
<br />
'''that day'''<br><br />
In NYC when Dally showed up.<br />
<br />
'''when she was born'''<br><br />
Cf Pretenders/Chryssie Hynde.<br />
<br />
'''Stronzo'''<br><br />
Italian curse word, roughly "asshole"<br />
<br />
'''''In bocc' al lupo!'''''<br><br />
From the Roman dialect, in which the Italians - including Rocco and Pino - seem to speak. Meaning, literally, "In the <br />
mouth of the wolf," and idiomatically, "Good luck." <br />
<br />
'''''campielli'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 575==<br />
<br />
'''Riva'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''middy blouses'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''not yet been rebuilt'''<br><br />
Remember p256.<br />
<br />
'''''lucciole'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''fondamenta'''''<br><br />
A waterside street in Venice<br />
<br />
'''''ombreta'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''light's good here'''<br><br />
Old joke about drunk looking for car keys under streetlight though he dropped them somewhere else.<br />
<br />
'''microcosm'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 576==<br />
<br />
'''twelve soldi'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''franc... ten francs'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Canaletto'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Beppo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''pitch'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Bauer-Grünwald'''<br><br />
An expensive hotel near San Marco in Venice.<br />
<br />
==Page 577==<br />
<br />
''''Safe''''<br><br />
Recent art-movie title?<br />
<br />
'''Castello'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Evening Gun'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''importunate'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Dr. Grace'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 578==<br />
<br />
'''Dorsoduro'''<br><br />
An area of Venice.<br />
<br />
'''''pensione'''''<br><br />
A cheap Italian hotel, like a bed and breakfast.<br />
<br />
'''La Calcina'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Zattere'''<br><br />
An area of wide waterfront pavements in Venice.<br />
<br />
'''''cimici'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''bora'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 579==<br />
<br />
'''Tintoretto's ''Abduction...'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Accademia'''<br><br />
The major art-gallery in Venice<br />
<br />
'''Titian'''<br><br />
16th century Venetian painter.<br />
<br />
'''Infancy Gospel of Thomas'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 580==<br />
<br />
'''Pentecost story in Acts'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Galilean dialect'''<br><br />
Of Aramaic.<br />
<br />
'''''rii'''''<br><br />
Plural of ''rio''.<br />
<br />
==Page 581==<br />
<br />
'''''sotopòrteghi'''''<br><br />
An open doorway for public access.<br />
<br />
'''Bodeo 10.4 mm'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 582==<br />
<br />
'''''foschetta'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''masègni'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''patrone'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''wine trains up from Puglia'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Winter'''<br><br />
1904-1905?<br />
<br />
'''Principessa Spongiatosta'''<br><br />
Is Pugnax's book from p6 at all relevant here?<br />
<br />
'''Ca''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Roman Composite order'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''japonica'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 583==<br />
<br />
'''Iron Bridge'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Le Havre'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''ma via'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''third eyes touching'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 584==<br />
<br />
'''"Swiss insurance salesman. Wolf. No, Putzi."'''<br><br />
Bria's had so many beaux she gets them confused?<br />
<br />
'''''topo'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Dogana'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Andrea Tancredi'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Seurat and Signac'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Divisionism'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Marinetti'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''"Futurists"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''brutalism'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Torcello'''<br><br />
A lonely Venetian island: very peaceful and beautiful with a church and little else.<br />
<br />
'''primitivo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 585==<br />
<br />
'''green-and-lavender'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''sirocco'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''San Michele'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''futuristic vehicle'''<br><br />
P155.<br />
<br />
'''''Preliminary Studies...'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 586==<br />
<br />
'''Always with us.'''<br><br />
Gospel of ?.<br />
<br />
'''''vero'''''<br><br />
Cf 'verdad'.<br />
<br />
'''orpiment yellow'''<br><br />
A yellow color pigment ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpiment Wikipedia])<br />
<br />
'''Nürnberg violet'''<br><br />
An artificial color pigment discovered in 1868 in the city of Nuremberg<br />
<br />
==Page 587==<br />
<br />
'''''nebbia, nebbietta, foschia, caligo, sfumato'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''speed of sound'''<br><br />
Air temperature is more important that density.<br />
<br />
'''''La Velocità del Suono'''''<br><br />
Italian, "speed of sound"<br />
<br />
==Annotation Index==<br />
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<div>:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p><br><br />
<br />
==Page 557==<br />
<br />
'''Viktor Mulciber'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''bespoke'''<br><br />
made to order, hence hand-made and expensive. Somewhere in the novel is a reference to 1 Savile Row, the address of Gieves and Hawkes, a very traditional English tailor.<br />
<br />
'''Basil Zaharoff'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''trains of history... run'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Balkan ''komitadji'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''waybill'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''metamorphosed into an American Negro'''<br><br />
Cf honorary Negro (Frank above).<br />
<br />
'''Nipponese'''<br><br />
Japanese<br />
<br />
'''Hertzian'''<br><br />
Electromagnetic waves, first demonstrated by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Rudolf_Hertz Heinrich Hertz]<br />
<br />
==Page 558==<br />
<br />
'''scalar part'''<br><br />
Quaternion equivalent of the real part<br />
<br />
'''baritone in a barbershop quartet'''<br><br />
[http://www.barbershop.org/web/groups/public/documents/pages/pub_id_000827.hcsp Quote]:Technically speaking, barbershop harmony is a style of unaccompanied singing with three voices harmonizing to the melody. The lead usually sings the melody, with the tenor harmonizing above the lead. The bass sings the lowest harmonizing notes and the baritone provides in-between notes, either above or below the lead to make chords (specifically, dominant-type or "barbershop" sevenths) that give barbershop its distinctive, "full" sound.<br />
<br />
'''viola in a string quartet'''<br><br />
Two violins, a viola, and a violoncello make up a string quartet. The viola is between the others in pitch and is generally considered to have been given the least interesting parts in Classical and Romantic music for string quartet.<br />
<br />
'''Further Term'''<br><br />
The three parts of a quaternion that are multiples of '''i''', '''j''' and '''k'''<br />
<br />
'''laterite'''<br><br />
A mineral structure formed by erosion, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laterite Wikipedia].<br />
<br />
'''Inner Boulevards'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Gare du Midi'''<br><br />
The largest railway station in Brussels and a haunt of prostitutes.<br />
<br />
'''Edouard Gevaert'''<br><br />
(No ligature?)<br />
<br />
==Page 559==<br />
<br />
'''Krupp field-piece'''<br><br />
The Krupps are an ancient German family, famous for making weapons. A field-piece is a light-cannon.<br />
<br />
'''vaguely glandular'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''ostinato'''''<br><br />
A continually repeated musical phrase or rhythm.<br />
<br />
'''poleaxed'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''lost to silence'''<br><br />
(Not silent, or very?)<br />
<br />
==Page 560==<br />
<br />
'''Estacade'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''mousmée... mouchard'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''always lead an irregular life'''<br><br />
Cf GR.<br />
<br />
'''Maria Bayley Hamilton'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''council meeting'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 561==<br />
<br />
'''Brougham Bridge'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''pulls a knife'''<br><br />
(Folklore, really later?)<br />
<br />
'''on the stone'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Pentecostal'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''official Mischief Opportunity'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''absinthe spoons'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''cravats'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''"four-door farce"'''<br><br />
(See eg Bogdanovich's "What's Up, Doc?")<br />
This is also a pun on the name of Georges Feydeau, French writer of farces who was writing when Pynchon's novel is set. One of the recurring physical jokes involves sets with many doors and people coming in and out, just missing each other....<br />
<br />
==Page 562==<br />
<br />
'''Minque'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''carillons... carilloneur'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Hanseatic'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''burghers'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''silted up'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Damme and Sluis'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 563==<br />
<br />
'''trusted his intuitiveness'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''"Jou moerskont!"''... Afrikaans'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 564==<br />
<br />
'''immense choir'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Voetsak'''''<br><br />
Dutch or Afrikaans, "Go away!", also spelled "voertsek" or "voetsek"<br />
<br />
'''starers'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''tobacco-stricken'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''half-silvering'''<br><br />
A design for an optical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beam_splitter beam splitter] that causes half of the incident light to be transmitted and the other half to be reflected.<br />
<br />
'''four cusps... index-surface'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''co-conscious'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 565==<br />
<br />
'''true icosahedron'''<br><br />
Probably an regular icosahedron, where the sides are formed by 20 equilateral triangles<br />
<br />
'''12+8... pyrites'''<br><br />
Pyrite crystals form a structure that can be decomposed into unit cells that contain (part of) 12 sulphur atoms and 8 iron atoms.<br />
<br />
'''Riemann sphere'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_sphere Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''Felix Klein'''<br><br />
German mathematician ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Klein Wikipedia])<br />
<br />
'''ebonite'''<br><br />
An early plastic([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebonite Wikipedia])<br />
<br />
'''Ohmic Drift'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''speed of the earth... kinetic energy'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Recently Lorentz's paper'''<br><br />
Lorentz's 1904 "Electromagnetic phenomena in a system moving with any velocity less than that of light" ([http://www.soso.ch/wissen/hist/SRT/L-1904.pdf PDF])<br />
<br />
'''Lord Rayleigh'''<br><br />
British physicist ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Rayleigh Wikipedia])<br />
<br />
==Page 566==<br />
<br />
'''In a dream...'''<br><br />
<br />
This passage, describing Kit's dream of Umeki and the message it conveys, pulls together many of the main themes of ''Against the Day'', tying things together in a way that Pynchon seldom does, almost as if he's providing a rather large piece of the puzzle to help the reader understand the novel:<br />
<br />
:"Deep among the equations describing the behavor of light, field equations, Vector and Quaternion equations, lies a set of directions, an intinerary, a map to a hidden space. Double refraction appears again and again as a key element, permitting a view into a Creation set just to the side of this one, so close as to overlap, where the membrane between the worlds, in many places, has become too frail, too permeable, for safety.... Within the mirror, with the scalar term, within the daylit and obvious and taken-for-granted has always lain, as if in wait, the dark intinerary, the corrupted pilgrim's guide, the nameless Station before the first, in the lightless uncreated, where salvation does not yet exist."<br />
<br />
'''analogies'''<br><br />
(Pynchonian heuristics.)<br />
<br />
'''nameless Station'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''lightless uncreated'''<br><br />
(Gnostic heresy?)<br />
<br />
'''stuffed sinus'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Konichiwa'''''<br><br />
Japanese greeting<br />
<br />
==Page 567==<br />
<br />
'''new Puccini opera'''<br><br />
Obviously, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Butterfly Madame Butterfly]<br />
<br />
'''Borel-Clerc... "La Matchiche"'''<br><br />
Popular vaudeville song from 1903. "La Matchiche" is French for the Brazilian dance Maxixe.<br />
<br />
'''western anchor'''<br><br />
What about France, Spain, Portugal?<br />
<br />
'''Compaignie Internationale des Wagons-Lits'''<br><br />
"International Sleeping-Car Company", [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlson_Wagonlit Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''two hundred francs'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''theory of sets'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Bruges Canal'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 568==<br />
<br />
'''vaporetto'''<br><br />
A Venetian water-bus.<br />
<br />
'''Grand Canal'''<br><br />
The main canal that runs through the heart of Venice and down past San Marco, the city's main square.<br />
<br />
'''San Marco end'''<br><br />
See above. This is where Florian's (appears in the novel) is situated.<br />
<br />
'''Piazzetta'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''San Giorgio Maggiore'''<br><br />
A rather over-ornate church on the Grand Canal opposite San Marco.<br />
<br />
'''spreading... cloak'''<br><br />
Cliche/allusion?<br />
<br />
'''live here forever'''<br><br />
Pynchon special-pleading that Dally isn't just another tourist.<br />
Or is this just a typical reaction of the tourist? And a Pynchonesque longing for home?<br />
==Page 569==<br />
<br />
'''Malibran... Polo's house'''<br><br />
The Teatro Malibran, built at the site of Marco Polo's house, which was destroyed in 1596.<br />
<br />
'''"pincette" pass'''<br><br />
Probably from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pincer_movement pincer movement] of military strategy.<br />
<br />
'''profondes'''<br><br />
"Large pockets in tail coats which can be used for vanishes or productions", [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conjuring_terms Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''Vincenzo Miserere'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''train to Trieste'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Svegli'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''shark leather'''<br><br />
Different from sharkskin?<br />
<br />
'''''Specchiere'''''<br><br />
Mirror-maker<br />
<br />
'''glassmakers on Murano'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murano Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
==Page 570==<br />
<br />
'''another one of his stories'''<br><br />
(Jackson Pynchon should highlight all the AtD passages that originated as bedtime stories.)<br />
<br />
'''TERAPIA'''<br><br />
Italian, "therapy"<br />
<br />
'''San Servolo'''<br><br />
An island in the Venetian archipelago, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Servolo Wikipedia], [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=45.418654+N,+12.35698+E&ie=UTF8&z=17&ll=45.418651,12.35698&spn=0.006891,0.010793&t=k&om=1&iwloc=addr Google Maps]<br />
<br />
'''Palazzo Ducale'''<br><br />
The Ducal Palace in Venice, residence of the Doge. It's by San Marco.<br />
<br />
'''''manicomio'''''<br><br />
Italian, "madhouse"<br />
<br />
'''uterine vellum'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vellum Vellum] produced from the skin of an unborn calf<br />
<br />
'''pitch, rouge'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 571==<br />
<br />
'''La Doppiatrice'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Ettore Sananzolo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Maskelyne cabinet'''<br><br />
After Neville Maskelyne, from ''Mason and Dixon.'' Maskelyne sent M and D to record the Transit of Venus.<br />
<br />
==Page 572==<br />
<br />
'''smoke back into a cigar'''<br><br />
Time's arrow/ entropy motif.<br />
<br />
'''hard-as-a-rock black cigar'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''thumping'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''salso'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''sandoli'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''trains pulling in'''<br><br />
Famous early film.<br />
<br />
==Page 573==<br />
<br />
'''Cannareggio'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannaregio Cannaregio]<br />
<br />
==Page 574==<br />
<br />
'''thirty years older'''<br><br />
About 65yo?<br />
<br />
'''that day'''<br><br />
In NYC when Dally showed up.<br />
<br />
'''when she was born'''<br><br />
Cf Pretenders/Chryssie Hynde.<br />
<br />
'''Stronzo'''<br><br />
Italian curse word, roughly "asshole"<br />
<br />
'''''In bocc' al lupo!'''''<br><br />
From the Roman dialect, in which the Italians - including Rocco and Pino - seem to speak. Meaning, literally, "In the <br />
mouth of the wolf," and idiomatically, "Good luck." <br />
<br />
'''''campielli'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 575==<br />
<br />
'''Riva'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''middy blouses'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''not yet been rebuilt'''<br><br />
Remember p256.<br />
<br />
'''''lucciole'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''fondamenta'''''<br><br />
A waterside street in Venice<br />
<br />
'''''ombreta'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''light's good here'''<br><br />
Old joke about drunk looking for car keys under streetlight though he dropped them somewhere else.<br />
<br />
'''microcosm'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 576==<br />
<br />
'''twelve soldi'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''franc... ten francs'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Canaletto'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Beppo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''pitch'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Bauer-Grünwald'''<br><br />
An expensive hotel near San Marco in Venice.<br />
<br />
==Page 577==<br />
<br />
''''Safe''''<br><br />
Recent art-movie title?<br />
<br />
'''Castello'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Evening Gun'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''importunate'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Dr. Grace'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 578==<br />
<br />
'''Dorsoduro'''<br><br />
An area of Venice.<br />
<br />
'''''pensione'''''<br><br />
A cheap Italian hotel, like a bed and breakfast.<br />
<br />
'''La Calcina'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Zattere'''<br><br />
An area of wide waterfront pavements in Venice.<br />
<br />
'''''cimici'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''bora'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 579==<br />
<br />
'''Tintoretto's ''Abduction...'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Accademia'''<br><br />
The major art-gallery in Venice<br />
<br />
'''Titian'''<br><br />
16th century Venetian painter.<br />
<br />
'''Infancy Gospel of Thomas'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 580==<br />
<br />
'''Pentecost story in Acts'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Galilean dialect'''<br><br />
Of Aramaic.<br />
<br />
'''''rii'''''<br><br />
Plural of ''rio''.<br />
<br />
==Page 581==<br />
<br />
'''''sotopòrteghi'''''<br><br />
An open doorway for public access.<br />
<br />
'''Bodeo 10.4 mm'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 582==<br />
<br />
'''''foschetta'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''masègni'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''patrone'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''wine trains up from Puglia'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Winter'''<br><br />
1904-1905?<br />
<br />
'''Principessa Spongiatosta'''<br><br />
Is Pugnax's book from p6 at all relevant here?<br />
<br />
'''Ca''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Roman Composite order'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''japonica'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 583==<br />
<br />
'''Iron Bridge'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Le Havre'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''ma via'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''third eyes touching'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 584==<br />
<br />
'''"Swiss insurance salesman. Wolf. No, Putzi."'''<br><br />
Bria's had so many beaux she gets them confused?<br />
<br />
'''''topo'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Dogana'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Andrea Tancredi'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Seurat and Signac'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Divisionism'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Marinetti'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''"Futurists"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''brutalism'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Torcello'''<br><br />
A lonely Venetian island: very peaceful and beautiful with a church and little else.<br />
<br />
'''primitivo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 585==<br />
<br />
'''green-and-lavender'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''sirocco'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''San Michele'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''futuristic vehicle'''<br><br />
P155.<br />
<br />
'''''Preliminary Studies...'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 586==<br />
<br />
'''Always with us.'''<br><br />
Gospel of ?.<br />
<br />
'''''vero'''''<br><br />
Cf 'verdad'.<br />
<br />
'''orpiment yellow'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Nürnberg violet'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 587==<br />
<br />
'''''nebbia, nebbietta, foschia, caligo, sfumato'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''speed of sound'''<br><br />
Air temperature is more important that density.<br />
<br />
'''''La Velocità del Suono'''''<br><br />
Italian, "speed of sound"<br />
<br />
==Annotation Index==<br />
{{ATD PbP}}</div>Themelhttps://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_557-587&diff=4728ATD 557-5872006-12-29T21:06:12Z<p>Themel: /* Page 566 */</p>
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<div>:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p><br><br />
<br />
==Page 557==<br />
<br />
'''Viktor Mulciber'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''bespoke'''<br><br />
made to order, hence hand-made and expensive. Somewhere in the novel is a reference to 1 Savile Row, the address of Gieves and Hawkes, a very traditional English tailor.<br />
<br />
'''Basil Zaharoff'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''trains of history... run'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Balkan ''komitadji'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''waybill'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''metamorphosed into an American Negro'''<br><br />
Cf honorary Negro (Frank above).<br />
<br />
'''Nipponese'''<br><br />
Japanese<br />
<br />
'''Hertzian'''<br><br />
Electromagnetic waves, first demonstrated by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Rudolf_Hertz Heinrich Hertz]<br />
<br />
==Page 558==<br />
<br />
'''scalar part'''<br><br />
Quaternion equivalent of the real part<br />
<br />
'''baritone in a barbershop quartet'''<br><br />
[http://www.barbershop.org/web/groups/public/documents/pages/pub_id_000827.hcsp Quote]:Technically speaking, barbershop harmony is a style of unaccompanied singing with three voices harmonizing to the melody. The lead usually sings the melody, with the tenor harmonizing above the lead. The bass sings the lowest harmonizing notes and the baritone provides in-between notes, either above or below the lead to make chords (specifically, dominant-type or "barbershop" sevenths) that give barbershop its distinctive, "full" sound.<br />
<br />
'''viola in a string quartet'''<br><br />
Two violins, a viola, and a violoncello make up a string quartet. The viola is between the others in pitch and is generally considered to have been given the least interesting parts in Classical and Romantic music for string quartet.<br />
<br />
'''Further Term'''<br><br />
The three parts of a quaternion that are multiples of '''i''', '''j''' and '''k'''<br />
<br />
'''laterite'''<br><br />
A mineral structure formed by erosion, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laterite Wikipedia].<br />
<br />
'''Inner Boulevards'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Gare du Midi'''<br><br />
The largest railway station in Brussels and a haunt of prostitutes.<br />
<br />
'''Edouard Gevaert'''<br><br />
(No ligature?)<br />
<br />
==Page 559==<br />
<br />
'''Krupp field-piece'''<br><br />
The Krupps are an ancient German family, famous for making weapons. A field-piece is a light-cannon.<br />
<br />
'''vaguely glandular'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''ostinato'''''<br><br />
A continually repeated musical phrase or rhythm.<br />
<br />
'''poleaxed'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''lost to silence'''<br><br />
(Not silent, or very?)<br />
<br />
==Page 560==<br />
<br />
'''Estacade'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''mousmée... mouchard'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''always lead an irregular life'''<br><br />
Cf GR.<br />
<br />
'''Maria Bayley Hamilton'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''council meeting'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 561==<br />
<br />
'''Brougham Bridge'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''pulls a knife'''<br><br />
(Folklore, really later?)<br />
<br />
'''on the stone'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Pentecostal'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''official Mischief Opportunity'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''absinthe spoons'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''cravats'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''"four-door farce"'''<br><br />
(See eg Bogdanovich's "What's Up, Doc?")<br />
This is also a pun on the name of Georges Feydeau, French writer of farces who was writing when Pynchon's novel is set. One of the recurring physical jokes involves sets with many doors and people coming in and out, just missing each other....<br />
<br />
==Page 562==<br />
<br />
'''Minque'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''carillons... carilloneur'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Hanseatic'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''burghers'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''silted up'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Damme and Sluis'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 563==<br />
<br />
'''trusted his intuitiveness'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''"Jou moerskont!"''... Afrikaans'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 564==<br />
<br />
'''immense choir'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Voetsak'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''starers'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''tobacco-stricken'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''half-silvering'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''four cusps... index-surface'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''co-conscious'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 565==<br />
<br />
'''true icosahedron'''<br><br />
Probably an regular icosahedron, where the sides are formed by 20 equilateral triangles<br />
<br />
'''12+8... pyrites'''<br><br />
Pyrite crystals form a structure that can be decomposed into unit cells that contain (part of) 12 sulphur atoms and 8 iron atoms.<br />
<br />
'''Riemann sphere'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_sphere Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''Felix Klein'''<br><br />
German mathematician ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Klein Wikipedia])<br />
<br />
'''ebonite'''<br><br />
An early plastic([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebonite Wikipedia])<br />
<br />
'''Ohmic Drift'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''speed of the earth... kinetic energy'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Recently Lorentz's paper'''<br><br />
Lorentz's 1904 "Electromagnetic phenomena in a system moving with any velocity less than that of light" ([http://www.soso.ch/wissen/hist/SRT/L-1904.pdf PDF])<br />
<br />
'''Lord Rayleigh'''<br><br />
British physicist ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Rayleigh Wikipedia])<br />
<br />
==Page 566==<br />
<br />
'''In a dream...'''<br><br />
<br />
This passage, describing Kit's dream of Umeki and the message it conveys, pulls together many of the main themes of ''Against the Day'', tying things together in a way that Pynchon seldom does, almost as if he's providing a rather large piece of the puzzle to help the reader understand the novel:<br />
<br />
:"Deep among the equations describing the behavor of light, field equations, Vector and Quaternion equations, lies a set of directions, an intinerary, a map to a hidden space. Double refraction appears again and again as a key element, permitting a view into a Creation set just to the side of this one, so close as to overlap, where the membrane between the worlds, in many places, has become too frail, too permeable, for safety.... Within the mirror, with the scalar term, within the daylit and obvious and taken-for-granted has always lain, as if in wait, the dark intinerary, the corrupted pilgrim's guide, the nameless Station before the first, in the lightless uncreated, where salvation does not yet exist."<br />
<br />
'''analogies'''<br><br />
(Pynchonian heuristics.)<br />
<br />
'''nameless Station'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''lightless uncreated'''<br><br />
(Gnostic heresy?)<br />
<br />
'''stuffed sinus'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Konichiwa'''''<br><br />
Japanese greeting<br />
<br />
==Page 567==<br />
<br />
'''new Puccini opera'''<br><br />
Obviously, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Butterfly Madame Butterfly]<br />
<br />
'''Borel-Clerc... "La Matchiche"'''<br><br />
Popular vaudeville song from 1903. "La Matchiche" is French for the Brazilian dance Maxixe.<br />
<br />
'''western anchor'''<br><br />
What about France, Spain, Portugal?<br />
<br />
'''Compaignie Internationale des Wagons-Lits'''<br><br />
"International Sleeping-Car Company", [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlson_Wagonlit Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''two hundred francs'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''theory of sets'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Bruges Canal'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 568==<br />
<br />
'''vaporetto'''<br><br />
A Venetian water-bus.<br />
<br />
'''Grand Canal'''<br><br />
The main canal that runs through the heart of Venice and down past San Marco, the city's main square.<br />
<br />
'''San Marco end'''<br><br />
See above. This is where Florian's (appears in the novel) is situated.<br />
<br />
'''Piazzetta'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''San Giorgio Maggiore'''<br><br />
A rather over-ornate church on the Grand Canal opposite San Marco.<br />
<br />
'''spreading... cloak'''<br><br />
Cliche/allusion?<br />
<br />
'''live here forever'''<br><br />
Pynchon special-pleading that Dally isn't just another tourist.<br />
Or is this just a typical reaction of the tourist? And a Pynchonesque longing for home?<br />
==Page 569==<br />
<br />
'''Malibran... Polo's house'''<br><br />
The Teatro Malibran, built at the site of Marco Polo's house, which was destroyed in 1596.<br />
<br />
'''"pincette" pass'''<br><br />
Probably from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pincer_movement pincer movement] of military strategy.<br />
<br />
'''profondes'''<br><br />
"Large pockets in tail coats which can be used for vanishes or productions", [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conjuring_terms Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''Vincenzo Miserere'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''train to Trieste'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Svegli'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''shark leather'''<br><br />
Different from sharkskin?<br />
<br />
'''''Specchiere'''''<br><br />
Mirror-maker<br />
<br />
'''glassmakers on Murano'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murano Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
==Page 570==<br />
<br />
'''another one of his stories'''<br><br />
(Jackson Pynchon should highlight all the AtD passages that originated as bedtime stories.)<br />
<br />
'''TERAPIA'''<br><br />
Italian, "therapy"<br />
<br />
'''San Servolo'''<br><br />
An island in the Venetian archipelago, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Servolo Wikipedia], [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=45.418654+N,+12.35698+E&ie=UTF8&z=17&ll=45.418651,12.35698&spn=0.006891,0.010793&t=k&om=1&iwloc=addr Google Maps]<br />
<br />
'''Palazzo Ducale'''<br><br />
The Ducal Palace in Venice, residence of the Doge. It's by San Marco.<br />
<br />
'''''manicomio'''''<br><br />
Italian, "madhouse"<br />
<br />
'''uterine vellum'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vellum Vellum] produced from the skin of an unborn calf<br />
<br />
'''pitch, rouge'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 571==<br />
<br />
'''La Doppiatrice'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Ettore Sananzolo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Maskelyne cabinet'''<br><br />
After Neville Maskelyne, from ''Mason and Dixon.'' Maskelyne sent M and D to record the Transit of Venus.<br />
<br />
==Page 572==<br />
<br />
'''smoke back into a cigar'''<br><br />
Time's arrow/ entropy motif.<br />
<br />
'''hard-as-a-rock black cigar'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''thumping'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''salso'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''sandoli'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''trains pulling in'''<br><br />
Famous early film.<br />
<br />
==Page 573==<br />
<br />
'''Cannareggio'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannaregio Cannaregio]<br />
<br />
==Page 574==<br />
<br />
'''thirty years older'''<br><br />
About 65yo?<br />
<br />
'''that day'''<br><br />
In NYC when Dally showed up.<br />
<br />
'''when she was born'''<br><br />
Cf Pretenders/Chryssie Hynde.<br />
<br />
'''Stronzo'''<br><br />
Italian curse word, roughly "asshole"<br />
<br />
'''''In bocc' al lupo!'''''<br><br />
From the Roman dialect, in which the Italians - including Rocco and Pino - seem to speak. Meaning, literally, "In the <br />
mouth of the wolf," and idiomatically, "Good luck." <br />
<br />
'''''campielli'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 575==<br />
<br />
'''Riva'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''middy blouses'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''not yet been rebuilt'''<br><br />
Remember p256.<br />
<br />
'''''lucciole'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''fondamenta'''''<br><br />
A waterside street in Venice<br />
<br />
'''''ombreta'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''light's good here'''<br><br />
Old joke about drunk looking for car keys under streetlight though he dropped them somewhere else.<br />
<br />
'''microcosm'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 576==<br />
<br />
'''twelve soldi'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''franc... ten francs'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Canaletto'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Beppo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''pitch'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Bauer-Grünwald'''<br><br />
An expensive hotel near San Marco in Venice.<br />
<br />
==Page 577==<br />
<br />
''''Safe''''<br><br />
Recent art-movie title?<br />
<br />
'''Castello'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Evening Gun'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''importunate'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Dr. Grace'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 578==<br />
<br />
'''Dorsoduro'''<br><br />
An area of Venice.<br />
<br />
'''''pensione'''''<br><br />
A cheap Italian hotel, like a bed and breakfast.<br />
<br />
'''La Calcina'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Zattere'''<br><br />
An area of wide waterfront pavements in Venice.<br />
<br />
'''''cimici'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''bora'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 579==<br />
<br />
'''Tintoretto's ''Abduction...'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Accademia'''<br><br />
The major art-gallery in Venice<br />
<br />
'''Titian'''<br><br />
16th century Venetian painter.<br />
<br />
'''Infancy Gospel of Thomas'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 580==<br />
<br />
'''Pentecost story in Acts'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Galilean dialect'''<br><br />
Of Aramaic.<br />
<br />
'''''rii'''''<br><br />
Plural of ''rio''.<br />
<br />
==Page 581==<br />
<br />
'''''sotopòrteghi'''''<br><br />
An open doorway for public access.<br />
<br />
'''Bodeo 10.4 mm'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 582==<br />
<br />
'''''foschetta'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''masègni'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''patrone'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''wine trains up from Puglia'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Winter'''<br><br />
1904-1905?<br />
<br />
'''Principessa Spongiatosta'''<br><br />
Is Pugnax's book from p6 at all relevant here?<br />
<br />
'''Ca''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Roman Composite order'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''japonica'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 583==<br />
<br />
'''Iron Bridge'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Le Havre'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''ma via'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''third eyes touching'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 584==<br />
<br />
'''"Swiss insurance salesman. Wolf. No, Putzi."'''<br><br />
Bria's had so many beaux she gets them confused?<br />
<br />
'''''topo'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Dogana'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Andrea Tancredi'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Seurat and Signac'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Divisionism'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Marinetti'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''"Futurists"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''brutalism'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Torcello'''<br><br />
A lonely Venetian island: very peaceful and beautiful with a church and little else.<br />
<br />
'''primitivo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 585==<br />
<br />
'''green-and-lavender'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''sirocco'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''San Michele'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''futuristic vehicle'''<br><br />
P155.<br />
<br />
'''''Preliminary Studies...'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 586==<br />
<br />
'''Always with us.'''<br><br />
Gospel of ?.<br />
<br />
'''''vero'''''<br><br />
Cf 'verdad'.<br />
<br />
'''orpiment yellow'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Nürnberg violet'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 587==<br />
<br />
'''''nebbia, nebbietta, foschia, caligo, sfumato'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''speed of sound'''<br><br />
Air temperature is more important that density.<br />
<br />
'''''La Velocità del Suono'''''<br><br />
Italian, "speed of sound"<br />
<br />
==Annotation Index==<br />
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==Page 557==<br />
<br />
'''Viktor Mulciber'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''bespoke'''<br><br />
made to order, hence hand-made and expensive. Somewhere in the novel is a reference to 1 Savile Row, the address of Gieves and Hawkes, a very traditional English tailor.<br />
<br />
'''Basil Zaharoff'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''trains of history... run'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Balkan ''komitadji'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''waybill'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''metamorphosed into an American Negro'''<br><br />
Cf honorary Negro (Frank above).<br />
<br />
'''Nipponese'''<br><br />
Japanese<br />
<br />
'''Hertzian'''<br><br />
Electromagnetic waves, first demonstrated by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Rudolf_Hertz Heinrich Hertz]<br />
<br />
==Page 558==<br />
<br />
'''scalar part'''<br><br />
Quaternion equivalent of the real part<br />
<br />
'''baritone in a barbershop quartet'''<br><br />
[http://www.barbershop.org/web/groups/public/documents/pages/pub_id_000827.hcsp Quote]:Technically speaking, barbershop harmony is a style of unaccompanied singing with three voices harmonizing to the melody. The lead usually sings the melody, with the tenor harmonizing above the lead. The bass sings the lowest harmonizing notes and the baritone provides in-between notes, either above or below the lead to make chords (specifically, dominant-type or "barbershop" sevenths) that give barbershop its distinctive, "full" sound.<br />
<br />
'''viola in a string quartet'''<br><br />
Two violins, a viola, and a violoncello make up a string quartet. The viola is between the others in pitch and is generally considered to have been given the least interesting parts in Classical and Romantic music for string quartet.<br />
<br />
'''Further Term'''<br><br />
The three parts of a quaternion that are multiples of '''i''', '''j''' and '''k'''<br />
<br />
'''laterite'''<br><br />
A mineral structure formed by erosion, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laterite Wikipedia].<br />
<br />
'''Inner Boulevards'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Gare du Midi'''<br><br />
The largest railway station in Brussels and a haunt of prostitutes.<br />
<br />
'''Edouard Gevaert'''<br><br />
(No ligature?)<br />
<br />
==Page 559==<br />
<br />
'''Krupp field-piece'''<br><br />
The Krupps are an ancient German family, famous for making weapons. A field-piece is a light-cannon.<br />
<br />
'''vaguely glandular'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''ostinato'''''<br><br />
A continually repeated musical phrase or rhythm.<br />
<br />
'''poleaxed'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''lost to silence'''<br><br />
(Not silent, or very?)<br />
<br />
==Page 560==<br />
<br />
'''Estacade'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''mousmée... mouchard'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''always lead an irregular life'''<br><br />
Cf GR.<br />
<br />
'''Maria Bayley Hamilton'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''council meeting'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 561==<br />
<br />
'''Brougham Bridge'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''pulls a knife'''<br><br />
(Folklore, really later?)<br />
<br />
'''on the stone'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Pentecostal'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''official Mischief Opportunity'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''absinthe spoons'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''cravats'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''"four-door farce"'''<br><br />
(See eg Bogdanovich's "What's Up, Doc?")<br />
This is also a pun on the name of Georges Feydeau, French writer of farces who was writing when Pynchon's novel is set. One of the recurring physical jokes involves sets with many doors and people coming in and out, just missing each other....<br />
<br />
==Page 562==<br />
<br />
'''Minque'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''carillons... carilloneur'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Hanseatic'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''burghers'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''silted up'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Damme and Sluis'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 563==<br />
<br />
'''trusted his intuitiveness'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''"Jou moerskont!"''... Afrikaans'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 564==<br />
<br />
'''immense choir'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Voetsak'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''starers'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''tobacco-stricken'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''half-silvering'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''four cusps... index-surface'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''co-conscious'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 565==<br />
<br />
'''true icosahedron'''<br><br />
Probably an regular icosahedron, where the sides are formed by 20 equilateral triangles<br />
<br />
'''12+8... pyrites'''<br><br />
Pyrite crystals form a structure that can be decomposed into unit cells that contain (part of) 12 sulphur atoms and 8 iron atoms.<br />
<br />
'''Riemann sphere'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_sphere Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''Felix Klein'''<br><br />
German mathematician ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Klein Wikipedia])<br />
<br />
'''ebonite'''<br><br />
An early plastic([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebonite Wikipedia])<br />
<br />
'''Ohmic Drift'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''speed of the earth... kinetic energy'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Recently Lorentz's paper'''<br><br />
Lorentz's 1904 "Electromagnetic phenomena in a system moving with any velocity less than that of light" ([http://www.soso.ch/wissen/hist/SRT/L-1904.pdf PDF])<br />
<br />
'''Lord Rayleigh'''<br><br />
British physicist ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Rayleigh Wikipedia])<br />
<br />
==Page 566==<br />
<br />
'''In a dream...'''<br><br />
<br />
This passage, describing Kit's dream of Umeki and the message it conveys, pulls together many of the main themes of ''Against the Day'', tying things together in a way that Pynchon seldom does, almost as if he's providing a rather large piece of the puzzle to help the reader understand the novel:<br />
<br />
:"Deep among the equations describing the behavor of light, field equations, Vector and Quaternion equations, lies a set of directions, an intinerary, a map to a hidden space. Double refraction appears again and again as a key element, permitting a view into a Creation set just to the side of this one, so close as to overlap, where the membrane between the worlds, in many places, has become too frail, too permeable, for safety.... Within the mirror, with the scalar term, within the daylit and obvious and taken-for-granted has always lain, as if in wait, the dark intinerary, the corrupted pilgrim's guide, the nameless Station before the first, in the lightless uncreated, where salvation does not yet exist."<br />
<br />
'''analogies'''<br><br />
(Pynchonian heuristics.)<br />
<br />
'''nameless Station'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''lightless uncreated'''<br><br />
(Gnostic heresy?)<br />
<br />
'''stuffed sinus'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Konichiwa'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 567==<br />
<br />
'''new Puccini opera'''<br><br />
Obviously, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Butterfly Madame Butterfly]<br />
<br />
'''Borel-Clerc... "La Matchiche"'''<br><br />
Popular vaudeville song from 1903. "La Matchiche" is French for the Brazilian dance Maxixe.<br />
<br />
'''western anchor'''<br><br />
What about France, Spain, Portugal?<br />
<br />
'''Compaignie Internationale des Wagons-Lits'''<br><br />
"International Sleeping-Car Company", [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlson_Wagonlit Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''two hundred francs'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''theory of sets'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Bruges Canal'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 568==<br />
<br />
'''vaporetto'''<br><br />
A Venetian water-bus.<br />
<br />
'''Grand Canal'''<br><br />
The main canal that runs through the heart of Venice and down past San Marco, the city's main square.<br />
<br />
'''San Marco end'''<br><br />
See above. This is where Florian's (appears in the novel) is situated.<br />
<br />
'''Piazzetta'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''San Giorgio Maggiore'''<br><br />
A rather over-ornate church on the Grand Canal opposite San Marco.<br />
<br />
'''spreading... cloak'''<br><br />
Cliche/allusion?<br />
<br />
'''live here forever'''<br><br />
Pynchon special-pleading that Dally isn't just another tourist.<br />
Or is this just a typical reaction of the tourist? And a Pynchonesque longing for home?<br />
==Page 569==<br />
<br />
'''Malibran... Polo's house'''<br><br />
The Teatro Malibran, built at the site of Marco Polo's house, which was destroyed in 1596.<br />
<br />
'''"pincette" pass'''<br><br />
Probably from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pincer_movement pincer movement] of military strategy.<br />
<br />
'''profondes'''<br><br />
"Large pockets in tail coats which can be used for vanishes or productions", [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conjuring_terms Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''Vincenzo Miserere'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''train to Trieste'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Svegli'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''shark leather'''<br><br />
Different from sharkskin?<br />
<br />
'''''Specchiere'''''<br><br />
Mirror-maker<br />
<br />
'''glassmakers on Murano'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murano Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
==Page 570==<br />
<br />
'''another one of his stories'''<br><br />
(Jackson Pynchon should highlight all the AtD passages that originated as bedtime stories.)<br />
<br />
'''TERAPIA'''<br><br />
Italian, "therapy"<br />
<br />
'''San Servolo'''<br><br />
An island in the Venetian archipelago, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Servolo Wikipedia], [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=45.418654+N,+12.35698+E&ie=UTF8&z=17&ll=45.418651,12.35698&spn=0.006891,0.010793&t=k&om=1&iwloc=addr Google Maps]<br />
<br />
'''Palazzo Ducale'''<br><br />
The Ducal Palace in Venice, residence of the Doge. It's by San Marco.<br />
<br />
'''''manicomio'''''<br><br />
Italian, "madhouse"<br />
<br />
'''uterine vellum'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vellum Vellum] produced from the skin of an unborn calf<br />
<br />
'''pitch, rouge'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 571==<br />
<br />
'''La Doppiatrice'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Ettore Sananzolo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Maskelyne cabinet'''<br><br />
After Neville Maskelyne, from ''Mason and Dixon.'' Maskelyne sent M and D to record the Transit of Venus.<br />
<br />
==Page 572==<br />
<br />
'''smoke back into a cigar'''<br><br />
Time's arrow/ entropy motif.<br />
<br />
'''hard-as-a-rock black cigar'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''thumping'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''salso'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''sandoli'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''trains pulling in'''<br><br />
Famous early film.<br />
<br />
==Page 573==<br />
<br />
'''Cannareggio'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannaregio Cannaregio]<br />
<br />
==Page 574==<br />
<br />
'''thirty years older'''<br><br />
About 65yo?<br />
<br />
'''that day'''<br><br />
In NYC when Dally showed up.<br />
<br />
'''when she was born'''<br><br />
Cf Pretenders/Chryssie Hynde.<br />
<br />
'''Stronzo'''<br><br />
Italian curse word, roughly "asshole"<br />
<br />
'''''In bocc' al lupo!'''''<br><br />
From the Roman dialect, in which the Italians - including Rocco and Pino - seem to speak. Meaning, literally, "In the <br />
mouth of the wolf," and idiomatically, "Good luck." <br />
<br />
'''''campielli'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 575==<br />
<br />
'''Riva'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''middy blouses'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''not yet been rebuilt'''<br><br />
Remember p256.<br />
<br />
'''''lucciole'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''fondamenta'''''<br><br />
A waterside street in Venice<br />
<br />
'''''ombreta'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''light's good here'''<br><br />
Old joke about drunk looking for car keys under streetlight though he dropped them somewhere else.<br />
<br />
'''microcosm'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 576==<br />
<br />
'''twelve soldi'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''franc... ten francs'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Canaletto'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Beppo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''pitch'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Bauer-Grünwald'''<br><br />
An expensive hotel near San Marco in Venice.<br />
<br />
==Page 577==<br />
<br />
''''Safe''''<br><br />
Recent art-movie title?<br />
<br />
'''Castello'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Evening Gun'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''importunate'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Dr. Grace'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 578==<br />
<br />
'''Dorsoduro'''<br><br />
An area of Venice.<br />
<br />
'''''pensione'''''<br><br />
A cheap Italian hotel, like a bed and breakfast.<br />
<br />
'''La Calcina'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Zattere'''<br><br />
An area of wide waterfront pavements in Venice.<br />
<br />
'''''cimici'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''bora'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 579==<br />
<br />
'''Tintoretto's ''Abduction...'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Accademia'''<br><br />
The major art-gallery in Venice<br />
<br />
'''Titian'''<br><br />
16th century Venetian painter.<br />
<br />
'''Infancy Gospel of Thomas'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 580==<br />
<br />
'''Pentecost story in Acts'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Galilean dialect'''<br><br />
Of Aramaic.<br />
<br />
'''''rii'''''<br><br />
Plural of ''rio''.<br />
<br />
==Page 581==<br />
<br />
'''''sotopòrteghi'''''<br><br />
An open doorway for public access.<br />
<br />
'''Bodeo 10.4 mm'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 582==<br />
<br />
'''''foschetta'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''masègni'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''patrone'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''wine trains up from Puglia'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Winter'''<br><br />
1904-1905?<br />
<br />
'''Principessa Spongiatosta'''<br><br />
Is Pugnax's book from p6 at all relevant here?<br />
<br />
'''Ca''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Roman Composite order'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''japonica'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 583==<br />
<br />
'''Iron Bridge'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Le Havre'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''ma via'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''third eyes touching'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 584==<br />
<br />
'''"Swiss insurance salesman. Wolf. No, Putzi."'''<br><br />
Bria's had so many beaux she gets them confused?<br />
<br />
'''''topo'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Dogana'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Andrea Tancredi'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Seurat and Signac'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Divisionism'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Marinetti'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''"Futurists"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''brutalism'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Torcello'''<br><br />
A lonely Venetian island: very peaceful and beautiful with a church and little else.<br />
<br />
'''primitivo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
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<br />
'''green-and-lavender'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''sirocco'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''San Michele'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''futuristic vehicle'''<br><br />
P155.<br />
<br />
'''''Preliminary Studies...'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 586==<br />
<br />
'''Always with us.'''<br><br />
Gospel of ?.<br />
<br />
'''''vero'''''<br><br />
Cf 'verdad'.<br />
<br />
'''orpiment yellow'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Nürnberg violet'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
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<br />
'''''nebbia, nebbietta, foschia, caligo, sfumato'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''speed of sound'''<br><br />
Air temperature is more important that density.<br />
<br />
'''''La Velocità del Suono'''''<br><br />
Italian, "speed of sound"<br />
<br />
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==Page 557==<br />
<br />
'''Viktor Mulciber'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''bespoke'''<br><br />
made to order, hence hand-made and expensive. Somewhere in the novel is a reference to 1 Savile Row, the address of Gieves and Hawkes, a very traditional English tailor.<br />
<br />
'''Basil Zaharoff'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''trains of history... run'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Balkan ''komitadji'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''waybill'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''metamorphosed into an American Negro'''<br><br />
Cf honorary Negro (Frank above).<br />
<br />
'''Nipponese'''<br><br />
Japanese<br />
<br />
'''Hertzian'''<br><br />
Electromagnetic waves, first demonstrated by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Rudolf_Hertz Heinrich Hertz]<br />
<br />
==Page 558==<br />
<br />
'''scalar part'''<br><br />
Quaternion equivalent of the real part<br />
<br />
'''baritone in a barbershop quartet'''<br><br />
[http://www.barbershop.org/web/groups/public/documents/pages/pub_id_000827.hcsp Quote]:Technically speaking, barbershop harmony is a style of unaccompanied singing with three voices harmonizing to the melody. The lead usually sings the melody, with the tenor harmonizing above the lead. The bass sings the lowest harmonizing notes and the baritone provides in-between notes, either above or below the lead to make chords (specifically, dominant-type or "barbershop" sevenths) that give barbershop its distinctive, "full" sound.<br />
<br />
'''viola in a string quartet'''<br><br />
Two violins, a viola, and a violoncello make up a string quartet. The viola is between the others in pitch and is generally considered to have been given the least interesting parts in Classical and Romantic music for string quartet.<br />
<br />
'''Further Term'''<br><br />
The three parts of a quaternion that are multiples of '''i''', '''j''' and '''k'''<br />
<br />
'''laterite'''<br><br />
A mineral structure formed by erosion, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laterite Wikipedia].<br />
<br />
'''Inner Boulevards'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Gare du Midi'''<br><br />
The largest railway station in Brussels and a haunt of prostitutes.<br />
<br />
'''Edouard Gevaert'''<br><br />
(No ligature?)<br />
<br />
==Page 559==<br />
<br />
'''Krupp field-piece'''<br><br />
The Krupps are an ancient German family, famous for making weapons. A field-piece is a light-cannon.<br />
<br />
'''vaguely glandular'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''ostinato'''''<br><br />
A continually repeated musical phrase or rhythm.<br />
<br />
'''poleaxed'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''lost to silence'''<br><br />
(Not silent, or very?)<br />
<br />
==Page 560==<br />
<br />
'''Estacade'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''mousmée... mouchard'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''always lead an irregular life'''<br><br />
Cf GR.<br />
<br />
'''Maria Bayley Hamilton'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''council meeting'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 561==<br />
<br />
'''Brougham Bridge'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''pulls a knife'''<br><br />
(Folklore, really later?)<br />
<br />
'''on the stone'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Pentecostal'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''official Mischief Opportunity'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''absinthe spoons'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''cravats'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''"four-door farce"'''<br><br />
(See eg Bogdanovich's "What's Up, Doc?")<br />
This is also a pun on the name of Georges Feydeau, French writer of farces who was writing when Pynchon's novel is set. One of the recurring physical jokes involves sets with many doors and people coming in and out, just missing each other....<br />
<br />
==Page 562==<br />
<br />
'''Minque'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''carillons... carilloneur'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Hanseatic'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''burghers'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''silted up'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Damme and Sluis'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 563==<br />
<br />
'''trusted his intuitiveness'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''"Jou moerskont!"''... Afrikaans'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 564==<br />
<br />
'''immense choir'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Voetsak'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''starers'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''tobacco-stricken'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''half-silvering'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''four cusps... index-surface'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''co-conscious'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 565==<br />
<br />
'''true icosahedron'''<br><br />
Probably an regular icosahedron, where the sides are formed by 20 equilateral triangles<br />
<br />
'''12+8... pyrites'''<br><br />
Pyrite crystals form a structure that can be decomposed into unit cells that contain (part of) 12 sulphur atoms and 8 iron atoms.<br />
<br />
'''Riemann sphere'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_sphere Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''Felix Klein'''<br><br />
German mathematician ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Klein Wikipedia])<br />
<br />
'''ebonite'''<br><br />
An early plastic([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebonite Wikipedia])<br />
<br />
'''Ohmic Drift'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''speed of the earth... kinetic energy'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Recently Lorentz's paper'''<br><br />
Lorentz's 1904 "Electromagnetic phenomena in a system moving with any velocity less than that of light" ([http://www.soso.ch/wissen/hist/SRT/L-1904.pdf PDF])<br />
<br />
'''Lord Rayleigh'''<br><br />
British physicist ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Rayleigh Wikipedia])<br />
<br />
==Page 566==<br />
<br />
'''In a dream...'''<br><br />
<br />
This passage, describing Kit's dream of Umeki and the message it conveys, pulls together many of the main themes of ''Against the Day'', tying things together in a way that Pynchon seldom does, almost as if he's providing a rather large piece of the puzzle to help the reader understand the novel:<br />
<br />
:"Deep among the equations describing the behavor of light, field equations, Vector and Quaternion equations, lies a set of directions, an intinerary, a map to a hidden space. Double refraction appears again and again as a key element, permitting a view into a Creation set just to the side of this one, so close as to overlap, where the membrane between the worlds, in many places, has become too frail, too permeable, for safety.... Within the mirror, with the scalar term, within the daylit and obvious and taken-for-granted has always lain, as if in wait, the dark intinerary, the corrupted pilgrim's guide, the nameless Station before the first, in the lightless uncreated, where salvation does not yet exist."<br />
<br />
'''analogies'''<br><br />
(Pynchonian heuristics.)<br />
<br />
'''nameless Station'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''lightless uncreated'''<br><br />
(Gnostic heresy?)<br />
<br />
'''stuffed sinus'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Konichiwa'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 567==<br />
<br />
'''new Puccini opera'''<br><br />
Obviously, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Butterfly Madame Butterfly]<br />
<br />
'''Borel-Clerc... "La Matchiche"'''<br><br />
Popular vaudeville song from 1903. "La Matchiche" is French for the Brazilian dance Maxixe.<br />
<br />
'''western anchor'''<br><br />
What about France, Spain, Portugal?<br />
<br />
'''Compaignie Internationale des Wagons-Lits'''<br><br />
"International Sleeping-Car Company", [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlson_Wagonlit Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''two hundred francs'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''theory of sets'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Bruges Canal'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 568==<br />
<br />
'''vaporetto'''<br><br />
A Venetian water-bus.<br />
<br />
'''Grand Canal'''<br><br />
The main canal that runs through the heart of Venice and down past San Marco, the city's main square.<br />
<br />
'''San Marco end'''<br><br />
See above. This is where Florian's (appears in the novel) is situated.<br />
<br />
'''Piazzetta'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''San Giorgio Maggiore'''<br><br />
A rather over-ornate church on the Grand Canal opposite San Marco.<br />
<br />
'''spreading... cloak'''<br><br />
Cliche/allusion?<br />
<br />
'''live here forever'''<br><br />
Pynchon special-pleading that Dally isn't just another tourist.<br />
Or is this just a typical reaction of the tourist? And a Pynchonesque longing for home?<br />
==Page 569==<br />
<br />
'''Malibran... Polo's house'''<br><br />
The Teatro Malibran, built at the site of Marco Polo's house, which was destroyed in 1596.<br />
<br />
'''"pincette" pass'''<br><br />
Probably from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pincer_movement pincer movement] of military strategy.<br />
<br />
'''profondes'''<br><br />
"Large pockets in tail coats which can be used for vanishes or productions", [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conjuring_terms Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''Vincenzo Miserere'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''train to Trieste'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Svegli'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''shark leather'''<br><br />
Different from sharkskin?<br />
<br />
'''''Specchiere'''''<br><br />
Mirror-maker<br />
<br />
'''glassmakers on Murano'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murano Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
==Page 570==<br />
<br />
'''another one of his stories'''<br><br />
(Jackson Pynchon should highlight all the AtD passages that originated as bedtime stories.)<br />
<br />
'''TERAPIA'''<br><br />
Italian, "therapy"<br />
<br />
'''San Servolo'''<br><br />
An island in the Venetian archipelago, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Servolo Wikipedia], [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=45.418654+N,+12.35698+E&ie=UTF8&z=17&ll=45.418651,12.35698&spn=0.006891,0.010793&t=k&om=1&iwloc=addr Google Maps]<br />
<br />
'''Palazzo Ducale'''<br><br />
The Ducal Palace in Venice, residence of the Doge. It's by San Marco.<br />
<br />
'''''manicomio'''''<br><br />
Italian, "madhouse"<br />
<br />
'''uterine vellum'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vellum Vellum] produced from the skin of an unborn calf<br />
<br />
'''pitch, rouge'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 571==<br />
<br />
'''La Doppiatrice'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Ettore Sananzolo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Maskelyne cabinet'''<br><br />
After Neville Maskelyne, from ''Mason and Dixon.'' Maskelyne sent M and D to record the Transit of Venus.<br />
<br />
==Page 572==<br />
<br />
'''smoke back into a cigar'''<br><br />
Time's arrow/ entropy motif.<br />
<br />
'''hard-as-a-rock black cigar'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''thumping'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''salso'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''sandoli'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''trains pulling in'''<br><br />
Famous early film.<br />
<br />
==Page 573==<br />
<br />
'''Cannareggio'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannaregio Cannaregio]<br />
<br />
==Page 574==<br />
<br />
'''thirty years older'''<br><br />
About 65yo?<br />
<br />
'''that day'''<br><br />
In NYC when Dally showed up.<br />
<br />
'''when she was born'''<br><br />
Cf Pretenders/Chryssie Hynde.<br />
<br />
'''Stronzo'''<br><br />
Italian curse word, roughly "asshole"<br />
<br />
'''''In bocc' al lupo!'''''<br><br />
From the Roman dialect, in which the Italians - including Rocco and Pino - seem to speak. Meaning, literally, "In the <br />
mouth of the wolf," and idiomatically, "Good luck." <br />
<br />
'''''campielli'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 575==<br />
<br />
'''Riva'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''middy blouses'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''not yet been rebuilt'''<br><br />
Remember p256.<br />
<br />
'''''lucciole'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''fondamenta'''''<br><br />
A waterside street in Venice<br />
<br />
'''''ombreta'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''light's good here'''<br><br />
Old joke about drunk looking for car keys under streetlight though he dropped them somewhere else.<br />
<br />
'''microcosm'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 576==<br />
<br />
'''twelve soldi'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''franc... ten francs'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Canaletto'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Beppo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''pitch'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Bauer-Grünwald'''<br><br />
An expensive hotel near San Marco in Venice.<br />
<br />
==Page 577==<br />
<br />
''''Safe''''<br><br />
Recent art-movie title?<br />
<br />
'''Castello'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Evening Gun'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''importunate'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Dr. Grace'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 578==<br />
<br />
'''Dorsoduro'''<br><br />
An area of Venice.<br />
<br />
'''''pensione'''''<br><br />
A cheap Italian hotel, like a bed and breakfast.<br />
<br />
'''La Calcina'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Zattere'''<br><br />
An area of wide waterfront pavements in Venice.<br />
<br />
'''''cimici'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''bora'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 579==<br />
<br />
'''Tintoretto's ''Abduction...'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Accademia'''<br><br />
The major art-gallery in Venice<br />
<br />
'''Titian'''<br><br />
16th century Venetian painter.<br />
<br />
'''Infancy Gospel of Thomas'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 580==<br />
<br />
'''Pentecost story in Acts'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Galilean dialect'''<br><br />
Of Aramaic.<br />
<br />
'''''rii'''''<br><br />
Plural of ''rio''.<br />
<br />
==Page 581==<br />
<br />
'''''sotopòrteghi'''''<br><br />
An open doorway for public access.<br />
<br />
'''Bodeo 10.4 mm'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 582==<br />
<br />
'''''foschetta'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''masègni'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''patrone'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''wine trains up from Puglia'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Winter'''<br><br />
1904-1905?<br />
<br />
'''Principessa Spongiatosta'''<br><br />
Is Pugnax's book from p6 at all relevant here?<br />
<br />
'''Ca''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Roman Composite order'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''japonica'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 583==<br />
<br />
'''Iron Bridge'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Le Havre'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''ma via'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''third eyes touching'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 584==<br />
<br />
'''"Swiss insurance salesman. Wolf. No, Putzi."'''<br><br />
Bria's had so many beaux she gets them confused?<br />
<br />
'''''topo'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Dogana'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Andrea Tancredi'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Seurat and Signac'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Divisionism'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Marinetti'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''"Futurists"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''brutalism'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Torcello'''<br><br />
A lonely Venetian island: very peaceful and beautiful with a church and little else.<br />
<br />
'''primitivo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 585==<br />
<br />
'''green-and-lavender'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''sirocco'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''San Michele'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''futuristic vehicle'''<br><br />
P155.<br />
<br />
'''''Preliminary Studies...'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 586==<br />
<br />
'''Always with us.'''<br><br />
Gospel of ?.<br />
<br />
'''''vero'''''<br><br />
Cf 'verdad'.<br />
<br />
'''orpiment yellow'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Nürnberg violet'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 587==<br />
<br />
'''''nebbia, nebbietta, foschia, caligo, sfumato'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''speed of sound'''<br><br />
Air temperature is more important that density.<br />
<br />
'''''La Velocità del Suono'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
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<br />
'''Viktor Mulciber'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''bespoke'''<br><br />
made to order, hence hand-made and expensive. Somewhere in the novel is a reference to 1 Savile Row, the address of Gieves and Hawkes, a very traditional English tailor.<br />
<br />
'''Basil Zaharoff'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''trains of history... run'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Balkan ''komitadji'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''waybill'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''metamorphosed into an American Negro'''<br><br />
Cf honorary Negro (Frank above).<br />
<br />
'''Nipponese'''<br><br />
Japanese<br />
<br />
'''Hertzian'''<br><br />
Electromagnetic waves, first demonstrated by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Rudolf_Hertz Heinrich Hertz]<br />
<br />
==Page 558==<br />
<br />
'''scalar part'''<br><br />
Quaternion equivalent of the real part<br />
<br />
'''baritone in a barbershop quartet'''<br><br />
[http://www.barbershop.org/web/groups/public/documents/pages/pub_id_000827.hcsp Quote]:Technically speaking, barbershop harmony is a style of unaccompanied singing with three voices harmonizing to the melody. The lead usually sings the melody, with the tenor harmonizing above the lead. The bass sings the lowest harmonizing notes and the baritone provides in-between notes, either above or below the lead to make chords (specifically, dominant-type or "barbershop" sevenths) that give barbershop its distinctive, "full" sound.<br />
<br />
'''viola in a string quartet'''<br><br />
Two violins, a viola, and a violoncello make up a string quartet. The viola is between the others in pitch and is generally considered to have been given the least interesting parts in Classical and Romantic music for string quartet.<br />
<br />
'''Further Term'''<br><br />
The three parts of a quaternion that are multiples of '''i''', '''j''' and '''k'''<br />
<br />
'''laterite'''<br><br />
A mineral structure formed by erosion, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laterite Wikipedia].<br />
<br />
'''Inner Boulevards'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Gare du Midi'''<br><br />
The largest railway station in Brussels and a haunt of prostitutes.<br />
<br />
'''Edouard Gevaert'''<br><br />
(No ligature?)<br />
<br />
==Page 559==<br />
<br />
'''Krupp field-piece'''<br><br />
The Krupps are an ancient German family, famous for making weapons. A field-piece is a light-cannon.<br />
<br />
'''vaguely glandular'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''ostinato'''''<br><br />
A continually repeated musical phrase or rhythm.<br />
<br />
'''poleaxed'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''lost to silence'''<br><br />
(Not silent, or very?)<br />
<br />
==Page 560==<br />
<br />
'''Estacade'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''mousmée... mouchard'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''always lead an irregular life'''<br><br />
Cf GR.<br />
<br />
'''Maria Bayley Hamilton'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''council meeting'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 561==<br />
<br />
'''Brougham Bridge'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''pulls a knife'''<br><br />
(Folklore, really later?)<br />
<br />
'''on the stone'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Pentecostal'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''official Mischief Opportunity'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''absinthe spoons'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''cravats'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''"four-door farce"'''<br><br />
(See eg Bogdanovich's "What's Up, Doc?")<br />
This is also a pun on the name of Georges Feydeau, French writer of farces who was writing when Pynchon's novel is set. One of the recurring physical jokes involves sets with many doors and people coming in and out, just missing each other....<br />
<br />
==Page 562==<br />
<br />
'''Minque'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''carillons... carilloneur'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Hanseatic'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''burghers'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''silted up'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Damme and Sluis'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 563==<br />
<br />
'''trusted his intuitiveness'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''"Jou moerskont!"''... Afrikaans'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 564==<br />
<br />
'''immense choir'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Voetsak'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''starers'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''tobacco-stricken'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''half-silvering'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''four cusps... index-surface'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''co-conscious'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 565==<br />
<br />
'''true icosahedron'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''12+8... pyrites'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Riemann sphere'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Felix Klein'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''ebonite'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Ohmic Drift'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''speed of the earth... kinetic energy'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Recently Lorentz's paper'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Lord Rayleigh'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 566==<br />
<br />
'''In a dream...'''<br><br />
<br />
This passage, describing Kit's dream of Umeki and the message it conveys, pulls together many of the main themes of ''Against the Day'', tying things together in a way that Pynchon seldom does, almost as if he's providing a rather large piece of the puzzle to help the reader understand the novel:<br />
<br />
:"Deep among the equations describing the behavor of light, field equations, Vector and Quaternion equations, lies a set of directions, an intinerary, a map to a hidden space. Double refraction appears again and again as a key element, permitting a view into a Creation set just to the side of this one, so close as to overlap, where the membrane between the worlds, in many places, has become too frail, too permeable, for safety.... Within the mirror, with the scalar term, within the daylit and obvious and taken-for-granted has always lain, as if in wait, the dark intinerary, the corrupted pilgrim's guide, the nameless Station before the first, in the lightless uncreated, where salvation does not yet exist."<br />
<br />
'''analogies'''<br><br />
(Pynchonian heuristics.)<br />
<br />
'''nameless Station'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''lightless uncreated'''<br><br />
(Gnostic heresy?)<br />
<br />
'''stuffed sinus'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Konichiwa'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 567==<br />
<br />
'''new Puccini opera'''<br><br />
Obviously, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Butterfly Madame Butterfly]<br />
<br />
'''Borel-Clerc... "La Matchiche"'''<br><br />
Popular vaudeville song from 1903. "La Matchiche" is French for the Brazilian dance Maxixe.<br />
<br />
'''western anchor'''<br><br />
What about France, Spain, Portugal?<br />
<br />
'''Compaignie Internationale des Wagons-Lits'''<br><br />
"International Sleeping-Car Company", [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlson_Wagonlit Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''two hundred francs'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''theory of sets'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Bruges Canal'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 568==<br />
<br />
'''vaporetto'''<br><br />
A Venetian water-bus.<br />
<br />
'''Grand Canal'''<br><br />
The main canal that runs through the heart of Venice and down past San Marco, the city's main square.<br />
<br />
'''San Marco end'''<br><br />
See above. This is where Florian's (appears in the novel) is situated.<br />
<br />
'''Piazzetta'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''San Giorgio Maggiore'''<br><br />
A rather over-ornate church on the Grand Canal opposite San Marco.<br />
<br />
'''spreading... cloak'''<br><br />
Cliche/allusion?<br />
<br />
'''live here forever'''<br><br />
Pynchon special-pleading that Dally isn't just another tourist.<br />
Or is this just a typical reaction of the tourist? And a Pynchonesque longing for home?<br />
==Page 569==<br />
<br />
'''Malibran... Polo's house'''<br><br />
The Teatro Malibran, built at the site of Marco Polo's house, which was destroyed in 1596.<br />
<br />
'''"pincette" pass'''<br><br />
Probably from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pincer_movement pincer movement] of military strategy.<br />
<br />
'''profondes'''<br><br />
"Large pockets in tail coats which can be used for vanishes or productions", [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conjuring_terms Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''Vincenzo Miserere'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''train to Trieste'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Svegli'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''shark leather'''<br><br />
Different from sharkskin?<br />
<br />
'''''Specchiere'''''<br><br />
Mirror-maker<br />
<br />
'''glassmakers on Murano'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murano Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
==Page 570==<br />
<br />
'''another one of his stories'''<br><br />
(Jackson Pynchon should highlight all the AtD passages that originated as bedtime stories.)<br />
<br />
'''TERAPIA'''<br><br />
Italian, "therapy"<br />
<br />
'''San Servolo'''<br><br />
An island in the Venetian archipelago, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Servolo Wikipedia], [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=45.418654+N,+12.35698+E&ie=UTF8&z=17&ll=45.418651,12.35698&spn=0.006891,0.010793&t=k&om=1&iwloc=addr Google Maps]<br />
<br />
'''Palazzo Ducale'''<br><br />
The Ducal Palace in Venice, residence of the Doge. It's by San Marco.<br />
<br />
'''''manicomio'''''<br><br />
Italian, "madhouse"<br />
<br />
'''uterine vellum'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vellum Vellum] produced from the skin of an unborn calf<br />
<br />
'''pitch, rouge'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 571==<br />
<br />
'''La Doppiatrice'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Ettore Sananzolo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Maskelyne cabinet'''<br><br />
After Neville Maskelyne, from ''Mason and Dixon.'' Maskelyne sent M and D to record the Transit of Venus.<br />
<br />
==Page 572==<br />
<br />
'''smoke back into a cigar'''<br><br />
Time's arrow/ entropy motif.<br />
<br />
'''hard-as-a-rock black cigar'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''thumping'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''salso'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''sandoli'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''trains pulling in'''<br><br />
Famous early film.<br />
<br />
==Page 573==<br />
<br />
'''Cannareggio'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannaregio Cannaregio]<br />
<br />
==Page 574==<br />
<br />
'''thirty years older'''<br><br />
About 65yo?<br />
<br />
'''that day'''<br><br />
In NYC when Dally showed up.<br />
<br />
'''when she was born'''<br><br />
Cf Pretenders/Chryssie Hynde.<br />
<br />
'''Stronzo'''<br><br />
Italian curse word, roughly "asshole"<br />
<br />
'''''In bocc' al lupo!'''''<br><br />
From the Roman dialect, in which the Italians - including Rocco and Pino - seem to speak. Meaning, literally, "In the <br />
mouth of the wolf," and idiomatically, "Good luck." <br />
<br />
'''''campielli'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 575==<br />
<br />
'''Riva'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''middy blouses'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''not yet been rebuilt'''<br><br />
Remember p256.<br />
<br />
'''''lucciole'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''fondamenta'''''<br><br />
A waterside street in Venice<br />
<br />
'''''ombreta'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''light's good here'''<br><br />
Old joke about drunk looking for car keys under streetlight though he dropped them somewhere else.<br />
<br />
'''microcosm'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 576==<br />
<br />
'''twelve soldi'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''franc... ten francs'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Canaletto'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Beppo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''pitch'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Bauer-Grünwald'''<br><br />
An expensive hotel near San Marco in Venice.<br />
<br />
==Page 577==<br />
<br />
''''Safe''''<br><br />
Recent art-movie title?<br />
<br />
'''Castello'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Evening Gun'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''importunate'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Dr. Grace'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 578==<br />
<br />
'''Dorsoduro'''<br><br />
An area of Venice.<br />
<br />
'''''pensione'''''<br><br />
A cheap Italian hotel, like a bed and breakfast.<br />
<br />
'''La Calcina'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Zattere'''<br><br />
An area of wide waterfront pavements in Venice.<br />
<br />
'''''cimici'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''bora'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 579==<br />
<br />
'''Tintoretto's ''Abduction...'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Accademia'''<br><br />
The major art-gallery in Venice<br />
<br />
'''Titian'''<br><br />
16th century Venetian painter.<br />
<br />
'''Infancy Gospel of Thomas'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 580==<br />
<br />
'''Pentecost story in Acts'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Galilean dialect'''<br><br />
Of Aramaic.<br />
<br />
'''''rii'''''<br><br />
Plural of ''rio''.<br />
<br />
==Page 581==<br />
<br />
'''''sotopòrteghi'''''<br><br />
An open doorway for public access.<br />
<br />
'''Bodeo 10.4 mm'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 582==<br />
<br />
'''''foschetta'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''masègni'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''patrone'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''wine trains up from Puglia'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Winter'''<br><br />
1904-1905?<br />
<br />
'''Principessa Spongiatosta'''<br><br />
Is Pugnax's book from p6 at all relevant here?<br />
<br />
'''Ca''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Roman Composite order'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''japonica'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 583==<br />
<br />
'''Iron Bridge'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Le Havre'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''ma via'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''third eyes touching'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 584==<br />
<br />
'''"Swiss insurance salesman. Wolf. No, Putzi."'''<br><br />
Bria's had so many beaux she gets them confused?<br />
<br />
'''''topo'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Dogana'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Andrea Tancredi'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Seurat and Signac'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Divisionism'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Marinetti'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''"Futurists"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''brutalism'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Torcello'''<br><br />
A lonely Venetian island: very peaceful and beautiful with a church and little else.<br />
<br />
'''primitivo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 585==<br />
<br />
'''green-and-lavender'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''sirocco'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''San Michele'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''futuristic vehicle'''<br><br />
P155.<br />
<br />
'''''Preliminary Studies...'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 586==<br />
<br />
'''Always with us.'''<br><br />
Gospel of ?.<br />
<br />
'''''vero'''''<br><br />
Cf 'verdad'.<br />
<br />
'''orpiment yellow'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Nürnberg violet'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 587==<br />
<br />
'''''nebbia, nebbietta, foschia, caligo, sfumato'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''speed of sound'''<br><br />
Air temperature is more important that density.<br />
<br />
'''''La Velocità del Suono'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Annotation Index==<br />
{{ATD PbP}}</div>Themelhttps://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_557-587&diff=4719ATD 557-5872006-12-29T20:29:23Z<p>Themel: /* Page 574 */</p>
<hr />
<div>:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p><br><br />
<br />
==Page 557==<br />
<br />
'''Viktor Mulciber'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''bespoke'''<br><br />
made to order, hence hand-made and expensive. Somewhere in the novel is a reference to 1 Savile Row, the address of Gieves and Hawkes, a very traditional English tailor.<br />
<br />
'''Basil Zaharoff'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''trains of history... run'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Balkan ''komitadji'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''waybill'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''metamorphosed into an American Negro'''<br><br />
Cf honorary Negro (Frank above).<br />
<br />
'''Nipponese'''<br><br />
Japanese<br />
<br />
'''Hertzian'''<br><br />
Electromagnetic waves, first demonstrated by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Rudolf_Hertz Heinrich Hertz]<br />
<br />
==Page 558==<br />
<br />
'''scalar part'''<br><br />
Quaternion equivalent of the real part<br />
<br />
'''baritone in a barbershop quartet'''<br><br />
[http://www.barbershop.org/web/groups/public/documents/pages/pub_id_000827.hcsp Quote]:Technically speaking, barbershop harmony is a style of unaccompanied singing with three voices harmonizing to the melody. The lead usually sings the melody, with the tenor harmonizing above the lead. The bass sings the lowest harmonizing notes and the baritone provides in-between notes, either above or below the lead to make chords (specifically, dominant-type or "barbershop" sevenths) that give barbershop its distinctive, "full" sound.<br />
<br />
'''viola in a string quartet'''<br><br />
Two violins, a viola, and a violoncello make up a string quartet. The viola is between the others in pitch and is generally considered to have been given the least interesting parts in Classical and Romantic music for string quartet.<br />
<br />
'''Further Term'''<br><br />
The three parts of a quaternion that are multiples of '''i''', '''j''' and '''k'''<br />
<br />
'''laterite'''<br><br />
A mineral structure formed by erosion, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laterite Wikipedia].<br />
<br />
'''Inner Boulevards'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Gare du Midi'''<br><br />
The largest railway station in Brussels and a haunt of prostitutes.<br />
<br />
'''Edouard Gevaert'''<br><br />
(No ligature?)<br />
<br />
==Page 559==<br />
<br />
'''Krupp field-piece'''<br><br />
The Krupps are an ancient German family, famous for making weapons. A field-piece is a light-cannon.<br />
<br />
'''vaguely glandular'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''ostinato'''''<br><br />
A continually repeated musical phrase or rhythm.<br />
<br />
'''poleaxed'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''lost to silence'''<br><br />
(Not silent, or very?)<br />
<br />
==Page 560==<br />
<br />
'''Estacade'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''mousmée... mouchard'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''always lead an irregular life'''<br><br />
Cf GR.<br />
<br />
'''Maria Bayley Hamilton'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''council meeting'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 561==<br />
<br />
'''Brougham Bridge'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''pulls a knife'''<br><br />
(Folklore, really later?)<br />
<br />
'''on the stone'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Pentecostal'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''official Mischief Opportunity'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''absinthe spoons'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''cravats'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''"four-door farce"'''<br><br />
(See eg Bogdanovich's "What's Up, Doc?")<br />
This is also a pun on the name of Georges Feydeau, French writer of farces who was writing when Pynchon's novel is set. One of the recurring physical jokes involves sets with many doors and people coming in and out, just missing each other....<br />
<br />
==Page 562==<br />
<br />
'''Minque'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''carillons... carilloneur'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Hanseatic'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''burghers'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''silted up'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Damme and Sluis'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 563==<br />
<br />
'''trusted his intuitiveness'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''"Jou moerskont!"''... Afrikaans'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 564==<br />
<br />
'''immense choir'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Voetsak'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''starers'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''tobacco-stricken'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''half-silvering'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''four cusps... index-surface'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''co-conscious'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 565==<br />
<br />
'''true icosahedron'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''12+8... pyrites'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Riemann sphere'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Felix Klein'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''ebonite'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Ohmic Drift'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''speed of the earth... kinetic energy'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Recently Lorentz's paper'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Lord Rayleigh'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 566==<br />
<br />
'''In a dream...'''<br><br />
<br />
This passage, describing Kit's dream of Umeki and the message it conveys, pulls together many of the main themes of ''Against the Day'', tying things together in a way that Pynchon seldom does, almost as if he's providing a rather large piece of the puzzle to help the reader understand the novel:<br />
<br />
:"Deep among the equations describing the behavor of light, field equations, Vector and Quaternion equations, lies a set of directions, an intinerary, a map to a hidden space. Double refraction appears again and again as a key element, permitting a view into a Creation set just to the side of this one, so close as to overlap, where the membrane between the worlds, in many places, has become too frail, too permeable, for safety.... Within the mirror, with the scalar term, within the daylit and obvious and taken-for-granted has always lain, as if in wait, the dark intinerary, the corrupted pilgrim's guide, the nameless Station before the first, in the lightless uncreated, where salvation does not yet exist."<br />
<br />
'''analogies'''<br><br />
(Pynchonian heuristics.)<br />
<br />
'''nameless Station'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''lightless uncreated'''<br><br />
(Gnostic heresy?)<br />
<br />
'''stuffed sinus'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Konichiwa'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 567==<br />
<br />
'''new Puccini opera'''<br><br />
Obviously, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Butterfly Madame Butterfly]<br />
<br />
'''Borel-Clerc... "La Matchiche"'''<br><br />
Popular vaudeville song from 1903. "La Matchiche" is French for the Brazilian dance Maxixe.<br />
<br />
'''western anchor'''<br><br />
What about France, Spain, Portugal?<br />
<br />
'''Compaignie Internationale des Wagons-Lits'''<br><br />
"International Sleeping-Car Company", [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlson_Wagonlit Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''two hundred francs'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''theory of sets'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Bruges Canal'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 568==<br />
<br />
'''vaporetto'''<br><br />
A Venetian water-bus.<br />
<br />
'''Grand Canal'''<br><br />
The main canal that runs through the heart of Venice and down past San Marco, the city's main square.<br />
<br />
'''San Marco end'''<br><br />
See above. This is where Florian's (appears in the novel) is situated.<br />
<br />
'''Piazzetta'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''San Giorgio Maggiore'''<br><br />
A rather over-ornate church on the Grand Canal opposite San Marco.<br />
<br />
'''spreading... cloak'''<br><br />
Cliche/allusion?<br />
<br />
'''live here forever'''<br><br />
Pynchon special-pleading that Dally isn't just another tourist.<br />
Or is this just a typical reaction of the tourist? And a Pynchonesque longing for home?<br />
==Page 569==<br />
<br />
'''Malibran... Polo's house'''<br><br />
The Teatro Malibran, built at the site of Marco Polo's house, which was destroyed in 1596.<br />
<br />
'''"pincette" pass'''<br><br />
Probably from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pincer_movement pincer movement] of military strategy.<br />
<br />
'''profondes'''<br><br />
"Large pockets in tail coats which can be used for vanishes or productions", [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conjuring_terms Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''Vincenzo Miserere'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''train to Trieste'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Svegli'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''shark leather'''<br><br />
Different from sharkskin?<br />
<br />
'''''Specchiere'''''<br><br />
Mirror-maker<br />
<br />
'''glassmakers on Murano'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murano Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
==Page 570==<br />
<br />
'''another one of his stories'''<br><br />
(Jackson Pynchon should highlight all the AtD passages that originated as bedtime stories.)<br />
<br />
'''TERAPIA'''<br><br />
Italian, "therapy"<br />
<br />
'''San Servolo'''<br><br />
An island in the Venetian archipelago, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Servolo Wikipedia], [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=45.418654+N,+12.35698+E&ie=UTF8&z=17&ll=45.418651,12.35698&spn=0.006891,0.010793&t=k&om=1&iwloc=addr Google Maps]<br />
<br />
'''Palazzo Ducale'''<br><br />
The Ducal Palace in Venice, residence of the Doge. It's by San Marco.<br />
<br />
'''''manicomio'''''<br><br />
Italian, "madhouse"<br />
<br />
'''uterine vellum'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vellum Vellum] produced from the skin of an unborn calf<br />
<br />
'''pitch, rouge'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 571==<br />
<br />
'''La Doppiatrice'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Ettore Sananzolo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Maskelyne cabinet'''<br><br />
After Neville Maskelyne, from ''Mason and Dixon.'' Maskelyne sent M and D to record the Transit of Venus.<br />
<br />
==Page 572==<br />
<br />
'''smoke back into a cigar'''<br><br />
Time's arrow/ entropy motif.<br />
<br />
'''hard-as-a-rock black cigar'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''thumping'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''salso'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''sandoli'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''trains pulling in'''<br><br />
Famous early film.<br />
<br />
==Page 573==<br />
<br />
'''Cannareggio'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannaregio Cannaregio]<br />
<br />
==Page 574==<br />
<br />
'''thirty years older'''<br><br />
About 65yo?<br />
<br />
'''that day'''<br><br />
In NYC when Dally showed up.<br />
<br />
'''when she was born'''<br><br />
Cf Pretenders/Chryssie Hynde.<br />
<br />
'''Stronzo'''<br><br />
Italian curse word, roughly "asshole"<br />
<br />
'''''In bocc' al lupo!'''''<br><br />
From the Roman dialect, in which the Italians - including Rocco and Pino - seem to speak. Meaning, literally, "In the <br />
mouth of the wolf," and idiomatically, "Good luck." <br />
<br />
'''''campielli'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 575==<br />
<br />
'''Riva'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''middy blouses'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''not yet been rebuilt'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''lucciole'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''fondamenta'''''<br><br />
A waterside street in Venice<br />
<br />
'''''ombreta'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''light's good here'''<br><br />
Old joke about drunk looking for car keys under streetlight though he dropped them somewhere else.<br />
<br />
'''microcosm'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 576==<br />
<br />
'''twelve soldi'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''franc... ten francs'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Canaletto'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Beppo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''pitch'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Bauer-Grünwald'''<br><br />
An expensive hotel near San Marco in Venice.<br />
<br />
==Page 577==<br />
<br />
''''Safe''''<br><br />
Recent art-movie title?<br />
<br />
'''Castello'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Evening Gun'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''importunate'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Dr. Grace'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 578==<br />
<br />
'''Dorsoduro'''<br><br />
An area of Venice.<br />
<br />
'''''pensione'''''<br><br />
A cheap Italian hotel, like a bed and breakfast.<br />
<br />
'''La Calcina'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Zattere'''<br><br />
An area of wide waterfront pavements in Venice.<br />
<br />
'''''cimici'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''bora'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 579==<br />
<br />
'''Tintoretto's ''Abduction...'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Accademia'''<br><br />
The major art-gallery in Venice<br />
<br />
'''Titian'''<br><br />
16th century Venetian painter.<br />
<br />
'''Infancy Gospel of Thomas'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 580==<br />
<br />
'''Pentecost story in Acts'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Galilean dialect'''<br><br />
Of Aramaic.<br />
<br />
'''''rii'''''<br><br />
Plural of ''rio''.<br />
<br />
==Page 581==<br />
<br />
'''''sotopòrteghi'''''<br><br />
An open doorway for public access.<br />
<br />
'''Bodeo 10.4 mm'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 582==<br />
<br />
'''''foschetta'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''masègni'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''patrone'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''wine trains up from Puglia'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Winter'''<br><br />
1904-1905?<br />
<br />
'''Principessa Spongiatosta'''<br><br />
Is Pugnax's book from p6 at all relevant here?<br />
<br />
'''Ca''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Roman Composite order'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''japonica'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 583==<br />
<br />
'''Iron Bridge'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Le Havre'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''ma via'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''third eyes touching'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 584==<br />
<br />
'''"Swiss insurance salesman. Wolf. No, Putzi."'''<br><br />
Bria's had so many beaux she gets them confused?<br />
<br />
'''''topo'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Dogana'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Andrea Tancredi'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Seurat and Signac'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Divisionism'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Marinetti'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''"Futurists"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''brutalism'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Torcello'''<br><br />
A lonely Venetian island: very peaceful and beautiful with a church and little else.<br />
<br />
'''primitivo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 585==<br />
<br />
'''green-and-lavender'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''sirocco'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''San Michele'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''futuristic vehicle'''<br><br />
P155.<br />
<br />
'''''Preliminary Studies...'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 586==<br />
<br />
'''Always with us.'''<br><br />
Gospel of ?.<br />
<br />
'''''vero'''''<br><br />
Cf 'verdad'.<br />
<br />
'''orpiment yellow'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Nürnberg violet'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 587==<br />
<br />
'''''nebbia, nebbietta, foschia, caligo, sfumato'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''speed of sound'''<br><br />
Air temperature is more important that density.<br />
<br />
'''''La Velocità del Suono'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Annotation Index==<br />
{{ATD PbP}}</div>Themelhttps://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_557-587&diff=4718ATD 557-5872006-12-29T20:22:33Z<p>Themel: /* Page 573 */</p>
<hr />
<div>:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p><br><br />
<br />
==Page 557==<br />
<br />
'''Viktor Mulciber'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''bespoke'''<br><br />
made to order, hence hand-made and expensive. Somewhere in the novel is a reference to 1 Savile Row, the address of Gieves and Hawkes, a very traditional English tailor.<br />
<br />
'''Basil Zaharoff'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''trains of history... run'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Balkan ''komitadji'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''waybill'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''metamorphosed into an American Negro'''<br><br />
Cf honorary Negro (Frank above).<br />
<br />
'''Nipponese'''<br><br />
Japanese<br />
<br />
'''Hertzian'''<br><br />
Electromagnetic waves, first demonstrated by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Rudolf_Hertz Heinrich Hertz]<br />
<br />
==Page 558==<br />
<br />
'''scalar part'''<br><br />
Quaternion equivalent of the real part<br />
<br />
'''baritone in a barbershop quartet'''<br><br />
[http://www.barbershop.org/web/groups/public/documents/pages/pub_id_000827.hcsp Quote]:Technically speaking, barbershop harmony is a style of unaccompanied singing with three voices harmonizing to the melody. The lead usually sings the melody, with the tenor harmonizing above the lead. The bass sings the lowest harmonizing notes and the baritone provides in-between notes, either above or below the lead to make chords (specifically, dominant-type or "barbershop" sevenths) that give barbershop its distinctive, "full" sound.<br />
<br />
'''viola in a string quartet'''<br><br />
Two violins, a viola, and a violoncello make up a string quartet. The viola is between the others in pitch and is generally considered to have been given the least interesting parts in Classical and Romantic music for string quartet.<br />
<br />
'''Further Term'''<br><br />
The three parts of a quaternion that are multiples of '''i''', '''j''' and '''k'''<br />
<br />
'''laterite'''<br><br />
A mineral structure formed by erosion, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laterite Wikipedia].<br />
<br />
'''Inner Boulevards'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Gare du Midi'''<br><br />
The largest railway station in Brussels and a haunt of prostitutes.<br />
<br />
'''Edouard Gevaert'''<br><br />
(No ligature?)<br />
<br />
==Page 559==<br />
<br />
'''Krupp field-piece'''<br><br />
The Krupps are an ancient German family, famous for making weapons. A field-piece is a light-cannon.<br />
<br />
'''vaguely glandular'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''ostinato'''''<br><br />
A continually repeated musical phrase or rhythm.<br />
<br />
'''poleaxed'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''lost to silence'''<br><br />
(Not silent, or very?)<br />
<br />
==Page 560==<br />
<br />
'''Estacade'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''mousmée... mouchard'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''always lead an irregular life'''<br><br />
Cf GR.<br />
<br />
'''Maria Bayley Hamilton'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''council meeting'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 561==<br />
<br />
'''Brougham Bridge'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''pulls a knife'''<br><br />
(Folklore, really later?)<br />
<br />
'''on the stone'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Pentecostal'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''official Mischief Opportunity'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''absinthe spoons'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''cravats'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''"four-door farce"'''<br><br />
(See eg Bogdanovich's "What's Up, Doc?")<br />
This is also a pun on the name of Georges Feydeau, French writer of farces who was writing when Pynchon's novel is set. One of the recurring physical jokes involves sets with many doors and people coming in and out, just missing each other....<br />
<br />
==Page 562==<br />
<br />
'''Minque'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''carillons... carilloneur'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Hanseatic'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''burghers'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''silted up'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Damme and Sluis'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 563==<br />
<br />
'''trusted his intuitiveness'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''"Jou moerskont!"''... Afrikaans'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 564==<br />
<br />
'''immense choir'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Voetsak'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''starers'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''tobacco-stricken'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''half-silvering'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''four cusps... index-surface'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''co-conscious'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 565==<br />
<br />
'''true icosahedron'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''12+8... pyrites'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Riemann sphere'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Felix Klein'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''ebonite'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Ohmic Drift'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''speed of the earth... kinetic energy'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Recently Lorentz's paper'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Lord Rayleigh'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 566==<br />
<br />
'''In a dream...'''<br><br />
<br />
This passage, describing Kit's dream of Umeki and the message it conveys, pulls together many of the main themes of ''Against the Day'', tying things together in a way that Pynchon seldom does, almost as if he's providing a rather large piece of the puzzle to help the reader understand the novel:<br />
<br />
:"Deep among the equations describing the behavor of light, field equations, Vector and Quaternion equations, lies a set of directions, an intinerary, a map to a hidden space. Double refraction appears again and again as a key element, permitting a view into a Creation set just to the side of this one, so close as to overlap, where the membrane between the worlds, in many places, has become too frail, too permeable, for safety.... Within the mirror, with the scalar term, within the daylit and obvious and taken-for-granted has always lain, as if in wait, the dark intinerary, the corrupted pilgrim's guide, the nameless Station before the first, in the lightless uncreated, where salvation does not yet exist."<br />
<br />
'''analogies'''<br><br />
(Pynchonian heuristics.)<br />
<br />
'''nameless Station'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''lightless uncreated'''<br><br />
(Gnostic heresy?)<br />
<br />
'''stuffed sinus'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Konichiwa'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 567==<br />
<br />
'''new Puccini opera'''<br><br />
Obviously, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Butterfly Madame Butterfly]<br />
<br />
'''Borel-Clerc... "La Matchiche"'''<br><br />
Popular vaudeville song from 1903. "La Matchiche" is French for the Brazilian dance Maxixe.<br />
<br />
'''western anchor'''<br><br />
What about France, Spain, Portugal?<br />
<br />
'''Compaignie Internationale des Wagons-Lits'''<br><br />
"International Sleeping-Car Company", [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlson_Wagonlit Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''two hundred francs'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''theory of sets'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Bruges Canal'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 568==<br />
<br />
'''vaporetto'''<br><br />
A Venetian water-bus.<br />
<br />
'''Grand Canal'''<br><br />
The main canal that runs through the heart of Venice and down past San Marco, the city's main square.<br />
<br />
'''San Marco end'''<br><br />
See above. This is where Florian's (appears in the novel) is situated.<br />
<br />
'''Piazzetta'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''San Giorgio Maggiore'''<br><br />
A rather over-ornate church on the Grand Canal opposite San Marco.<br />
<br />
'''spreading... cloak'''<br><br />
Cliche/allusion?<br />
<br />
'''live here forever'''<br><br />
Pynchon special-pleading that Dally isn't just another tourist.<br />
Or is this just a typical reaction of the tourist? And a Pynchonesque longing for home?<br />
==Page 569==<br />
<br />
'''Malibran... Polo's house'''<br><br />
The Teatro Malibran, built at the site of Marco Polo's house, which was destroyed in 1596.<br />
<br />
'''"pincette" pass'''<br><br />
Probably from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pincer_movement pincer movement] of military strategy.<br />
<br />
'''profondes'''<br><br />
"Large pockets in tail coats which can be used for vanishes or productions", [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conjuring_terms Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''Vincenzo Miserere'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''train to Trieste'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Svegli'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''shark leather'''<br><br />
Different from sharkskin?<br />
<br />
'''''Specchiere'''''<br><br />
Mirror-maker<br />
<br />
'''glassmakers on Murano'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murano Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
==Page 570==<br />
<br />
'''another one of his stories'''<br><br />
(Jackson Pynchon should highlight all the AtD passages that originated as bedtime stories.)<br />
<br />
'''TERAPIA'''<br><br />
Italian, "therapy"<br />
<br />
'''San Servolo'''<br><br />
An island in the Venetian archipelago, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Servolo Wikipedia], [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=45.418654+N,+12.35698+E&ie=UTF8&z=17&ll=45.418651,12.35698&spn=0.006891,0.010793&t=k&om=1&iwloc=addr Google Maps]<br />
<br />
'''Palazzo Ducale'''<br><br />
The Ducal Palace in Venice, residence of the Doge. It's by San Marco.<br />
<br />
'''''manicomio'''''<br><br />
Italian, "madhouse"<br />
<br />
'''uterine vellum'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vellum Vellum] produced from the skin of an unborn calf<br />
<br />
'''pitch, rouge'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 571==<br />
<br />
'''La Doppiatrice'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Ettore Sananzolo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Maskelyne cabinet'''<br><br />
After Neville Maskelyne, from ''Mason and Dixon.'' Maskelyne sent M and D to record the Transit of Venus.<br />
<br />
==Page 572==<br />
<br />
'''smoke back into a cigar'''<br><br />
Time's arrow/ entropy motif.<br />
<br />
'''hard-as-a-rock black cigar'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''thumping'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''salso'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''sandoli'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''trains pulling in'''<br><br />
Famous early film.<br />
<br />
==Page 573==<br />
<br />
'''Cannareggio'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannaregio Cannaregio]<br />
<br />
==Page 574==<br />
<br />
'''thirty years older'''<br><br />
About 65yo?<br />
<br />
'''that day'''<br><br />
In NYC when Dally showed up.<br />
<br />
'''when she was born'''<br><br />
Cf Pretenders/Chryssie Hynde.<br />
<br />
'''Stronzo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''In bocc' al lupo!'''''<br><br />
From the Roman dialect, in which the Italians - including Rocco and Pino - seem to speak. Meaning, literally, "In the <br />
mouth of the wolf," and idiomatically, "Good luck." <br />
<br />
'''''campielli'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 575==<br />
<br />
'''Riva'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''middy blouses'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''not yet been rebuilt'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''lucciole'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''fondamenta'''''<br><br />
A waterside street in Venice<br />
<br />
'''''ombreta'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''light's good here'''<br><br />
Old joke about drunk looking for car keys under streetlight though he dropped them somewhere else.<br />
<br />
'''microcosm'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 576==<br />
<br />
'''twelve soldi'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''franc... ten francs'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Canaletto'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Beppo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''pitch'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Bauer-Grünwald'''<br><br />
An expensive hotel near San Marco in Venice.<br />
<br />
==Page 577==<br />
<br />
''''Safe''''<br><br />
Recent art-movie title?<br />
<br />
'''Castello'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Evening Gun'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''importunate'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Dr. Grace'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 578==<br />
<br />
'''Dorsoduro'''<br><br />
An area of Venice.<br />
<br />
'''''pensione'''''<br><br />
A cheap Italian hotel, like a bed and breakfast.<br />
<br />
'''La Calcina'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Zattere'''<br><br />
An area of wide waterfront pavements in Venice.<br />
<br />
'''''cimici'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''bora'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 579==<br />
<br />
'''Tintoretto's ''Abduction...'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Accademia'''<br><br />
The major art-gallery in Venice<br />
<br />
'''Titian'''<br><br />
16th century Venetian painter.<br />
<br />
'''Infancy Gospel of Thomas'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 580==<br />
<br />
'''Pentecost story in Acts'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Galilean dialect'''<br><br />
Of Aramaic.<br />
<br />
'''''rii'''''<br><br />
Plural of ''rio''.<br />
<br />
==Page 581==<br />
<br />
'''''sotopòrteghi'''''<br><br />
An open doorway for public access.<br />
<br />
'''Bodeo 10.4 mm'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 582==<br />
<br />
'''''foschetta'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''masègni'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''patrone'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''wine trains up from Puglia'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Winter'''<br><br />
1904-1905?<br />
<br />
'''Principessa Spongiatosta'''<br><br />
Is Pugnax's book from p6 at all relevant here?<br />
<br />
'''Ca''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Roman Composite order'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''japonica'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 583==<br />
<br />
'''Iron Bridge'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Le Havre'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''ma via'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''third eyes touching'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 584==<br />
<br />
'''"Swiss insurance salesman. Wolf. No, Putzi."'''<br><br />
Bria's had so many beaux she gets them confused?<br />
<br />
'''''topo'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Dogana'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Andrea Tancredi'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Seurat and Signac'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Divisionism'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Marinetti'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''"Futurists"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''brutalism'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Torcello'''<br><br />
A lonely Venetian island: very peaceful and beautiful with a church and little else.<br />
<br />
'''primitivo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 585==<br />
<br />
'''green-and-lavender'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''sirocco'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''San Michele'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''futuristic vehicle'''<br><br />
P155.<br />
<br />
'''''Preliminary Studies...'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 586==<br />
<br />
'''Always with us.'''<br><br />
Gospel of ?.<br />
<br />
'''''vero'''''<br><br />
Cf 'verdad'.<br />
<br />
'''orpiment yellow'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Nürnberg violet'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 587==<br />
<br />
'''''nebbia, nebbietta, foschia, caligo, sfumato'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''speed of sound'''<br><br />
Air temperature is more important that density.<br />
<br />
'''''La Velocità del Suono'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Annotation Index==<br />
{{ATD PbP}}</div>Themelhttps://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=%22Help_me_find_the_place_where...%22_-DISCUSSION&diff=4717"Help me find the place where..." -DISCUSSION2006-12-29T20:16:54Z<p>Themel: </p>
<hr />
<div>I'm looking for a few passages without luck... perhaps somebody else could provide page refs for me?<br />
<br />
1) The one-paragraph section in which the Chums of Chance achieve a Siberian rescue of Kit's traveling companion<br />
<br />
That'd be page 787? [[User:Themel|Themel]] 12:16, 29 December 2006 (PST)<br />
<br />
2) The scene in which (loosely related to the Cyprian subplot) some sort of secret-service op. rambles on & on about secret texts, hidden texts, the overlay of one text with another, books hidden within books... the kind of thing TP puts in just to needle overzealous readers into conviction of a crypto-story in AtD.<br />
<br />
[[User:Bean|remy]] 11:55, 29 December 2006 (PST)</div>Themelhttps://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_557-587&diff=4714ATD 557-5872006-12-29T20:10:16Z<p>Themel: /* Page 570 */ Whoops.</p>
<hr />
<div>:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p><br><br />
<br />
==Page 557==<br />
<br />
'''Viktor Mulciber'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''bespoke'''<br><br />
made to order, hence hand-made and expensive. Somewhere in the novel is a reference to 1 Savile Row, the address of Gieves and Hawkes, a very traditional English tailor.<br />
<br />
'''Basil Zaharoff'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''trains of history... run'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Balkan ''komitadji'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''waybill'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''metamorphosed into an American Negro'''<br><br />
Cf honorary Negro (Frank above).<br />
<br />
'''Nipponese'''<br><br />
Japanese<br />
<br />
'''Hertzian'''<br><br />
Electromagnetic waves, first demonstrated by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Rudolf_Hertz Heinrich Hertz]<br />
<br />
==Page 558==<br />
<br />
'''scalar part'''<br><br />
Quaternion equivalent of the real part<br />
<br />
'''baritone in a barbershop quartet'''<br><br />
[http://www.barbershop.org/web/groups/public/documents/pages/pub_id_000827.hcsp Quote]:Technically speaking, barbershop harmony is a style of unaccompanied singing with three voices harmonizing to the melody. The lead usually sings the melody, with the tenor harmonizing above the lead. The bass sings the lowest harmonizing notes and the baritone provides in-between notes, either above or below the lead to make chords (specifically, dominant-type or "barbershop" sevenths) that give barbershop its distinctive, "full" sound.<br />
<br />
'''viola in a string quartet'''<br><br />
Two violins, a viola, and a violoncello make up a string quartet. The viola is between the others in pitch and is generally considered to have been given the least interesting parts in Classical and Romantic music for string quartet.<br />
<br />
'''Further Term'''<br><br />
The three parts of a quaternion that are multiples of '''i''', '''j''' and '''k'''<br />
<br />
'''laterite'''<br><br />
A mineral structure formed by erosion, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laterite Wikipedia].<br />
<br />
'''Inner Boulevards'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Gare du Midi'''<br><br />
The largest railway station in Brussels and a haunt of prostitutes.<br />
<br />
'''Edouard Gevaert'''<br><br />
(No ligature?)<br />
<br />
==Page 559==<br />
<br />
'''Krupp field-piece'''<br><br />
The Krupps are an ancient German family, famous for making weapons. A field-piece is a light-cannon.<br />
<br />
'''vaguely glandular'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''ostinato'''''<br><br />
A continually repeated musical phrase or rhythm.<br />
<br />
'''poleaxed'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''lost to silence'''<br><br />
(Not silent, or very?)<br />
<br />
==Page 560==<br />
<br />
'''Estacade'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''mousmée... mouchard'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''always lead an irregular life'''<br><br />
Cf GR.<br />
<br />
'''Maria Bayley Hamilton'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''council meeting'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 561==<br />
<br />
'''Brougham Bridge'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''pulls a knife'''<br><br />
(Folklore, really later?)<br />
<br />
'''on the stone'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Pentecostal'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''official Mischief Opportunity'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''absinthe spoons'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''cravats'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''"four-door farce"'''<br><br />
(See eg Bogdanovich's "What's Up, Doc?")<br />
This is also a pun on the name of Georges Feydeau, French writer of farces who was writing when Pynchon's novel is set. One of the recurring physical jokes involves sets with many doors and people coming in and out, just missing each other....<br />
<br />
==Page 562==<br />
<br />
'''Minque'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''carillons... carilloneur'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Hanseatic'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''burghers'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''silted up'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Damme and Sluis'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 563==<br />
<br />
'''trusted his intuitiveness'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''"Jou moerskont!"''... Afrikaans'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 564==<br />
<br />
'''immense choir'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Voetsak'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''starers'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''tobacco-stricken'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''half-silvering'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''four cusps... index-surface'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''co-conscious'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 565==<br />
<br />
'''true icosahedron'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''12+8... pyrites'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Riemann sphere'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Felix Klein'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''ebonite'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Ohmic Drift'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''speed of the earth... kinetic energy'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Recently Lorentz's paper'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Lord Rayleigh'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 566==<br />
<br />
'''In a dream...'''<br><br />
<br />
This passage, describing Kit's dream of Umeki and the message it conveys, pulls together many of the main themes of ''Against the Day'', tying things together in a way that Pynchon seldom does, almost as if he's providing a rather large piece of the puzzle to help the reader understand the novel:<br />
<br />
:"Deep among the equations describing the behavor of light, field equations, Vector and Quaternion equations, lies a set of directions, an intinerary, a map to a hidden space. Double refraction appears again and again as a key element, permitting a view into a Creation set just to the side of this one, so close as to overlap, where the membrane between the worlds, in many places, has become too frail, too permeable, for safety.... Within the mirror, with the scalar term, within the daylit and obvious and taken-for-granted has always lain, as if in wait, the dark intinerary, the corrupted pilgrim's guide, the nameless Station before the first, in the lightless uncreated, where salvation does not yet exist."<br />
<br />
'''analogies'''<br><br />
(Pynchonian heuristics.)<br />
<br />
'''nameless Station'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''lightless uncreated'''<br><br />
(Gnostic heresy?)<br />
<br />
'''stuffed sinus'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Konichiwa'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 567==<br />
<br />
'''new Puccini opera'''<br><br />
Obviously, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Butterfly Madame Butterfly]<br />
<br />
'''Borel-Clerc... "La Matchiche"'''<br><br />
Popular vaudeville song from 1903. "La Matchiche" is French for the Brazilian dance Maxixe.<br />
<br />
'''western anchor'''<br><br />
What about France, Spain, Portugal?<br />
<br />
'''Compaignie Internationale des Wagons-Lits'''<br><br />
"International Sleeping-Car Company", [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlson_Wagonlit Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''two hundred francs'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''theory of sets'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Bruges Canal'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 568==<br />
<br />
'''vaporetto'''<br><br />
A Venetian water-bus.<br />
<br />
'''Grand Canal'''<br><br />
The main canal that runs through the heart of Venice and down past San Marco, the city's main square.<br />
<br />
'''San Marco end'''<br><br />
See above. This is where Florian's (appears in the novel) is situated.<br />
<br />
'''Piazzetta'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''San Giorgio Maggiore'''<br><br />
A rather over-ornate church on the Grand Canal opposite San Marco.<br />
<br />
'''spreading... cloak'''<br><br />
Cliche/allusion?<br />
<br />
'''live here forever'''<br><br />
Pynchon special-pleading that Dally isn't just another tourist.<br />
Or is this just a typical reaction of the tourist? And a Pynchonesque longing for home?<br />
==Page 569==<br />
<br />
'''Malibran... Polo's house'''<br><br />
The Teatro Malibran, built at the site of Marco Polo's house, which was destroyed in 1596.<br />
<br />
'''"pincette" pass'''<br><br />
Probably from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pincer_movement pincer movement] of military strategy.<br />
<br />
'''profondes'''<br><br />
"Large pockets in tail coats which can be used for vanishes or productions", [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conjuring_terms Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''Vincenzo Miserere'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''train to Trieste'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Svegli'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''shark leather'''<br><br />
Different from sharkskin?<br />
<br />
'''''Specchiere'''''<br><br />
Mirror-maker<br />
<br />
'''glassmakers on Murano'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murano Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
==Page 570==<br />
<br />
'''another one of his stories'''<br><br />
(Jackson Pynchon should highlight all the AtD passages that originated as bedtime stories.)<br />
<br />
'''TERAPIA'''<br><br />
Italian, "therapy"<br />
<br />
'''San Servolo'''<br><br />
An island in the Venetian archipelago, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Servolo Wikipedia], [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=45.418654+N,+12.35698+E&ie=UTF8&z=17&ll=45.418651,12.35698&spn=0.006891,0.010793&t=k&om=1&iwloc=addr Google Maps]<br />
<br />
'''Palazzo Ducale'''<br><br />
The Ducal Palace in Venice, residence of the Doge. It's by San Marco.<br />
<br />
'''''manicomio'''''<br><br />
Italian, "madhouse"<br />
<br />
'''uterine vellum'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vellum Vellum] produced from the skin of an unborn calf<br />
<br />
'''pitch, rouge'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 571==<br />
<br />
'''La Doppiatrice'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Ettore Sananzolo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Maskelyne cabinet'''<br><br />
After Neville Maskelyne, from ''Mason and Dixon.'' Maskelyne sent M and D to record the Transit of Venus.<br />
<br />
==Page 572==<br />
<br />
'''smoke back into a cigar'''<br><br />
Time's arrow/ entropy motif.<br />
<br />
'''hard-as-a-rock black cigar'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''thumping'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''salso'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''sandoli'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''trains pulling in'''<br><br />
Famous early film.<br />
<br />
==Page 573==<br />
<br />
'''Cannareggio'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 574==<br />
<br />
'''thirty years older'''<br><br />
About 65yo?<br />
<br />
'''that day'''<br><br />
In NYC when Dally showed up.<br />
<br />
'''when she was born'''<br><br />
Cf Pretenders/Chryssie Hynde.<br />
<br />
'''Stronzo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''In bocc' al lupo!'''''<br><br />
From the Roman dialect, in which the Italians - including Rocco and Pino - seem to speak. Meaning, literally, "In the <br />
mouth of the wolf," and idiomatically, "Good luck." <br />
<br />
'''''campielli'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 575==<br />
<br />
'''Riva'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''middy blouses'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''not yet been rebuilt'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''lucciole'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''fondamenta'''''<br><br />
A waterside street in Venice<br />
<br />
'''''ombreta'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''light's good here'''<br><br />
Old joke about drunk looking for car keys under streetlight though he dropped them somewhere else.<br />
<br />
'''microcosm'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 576==<br />
<br />
'''twelve soldi'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''franc... ten francs'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Canaletto'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Beppo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''pitch'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Bauer-Grünwald'''<br><br />
An expensive hotel near San Marco in Venice.<br />
<br />
==Page 577==<br />
<br />
''''Safe''''<br><br />
Recent art-movie title?<br />
<br />
'''Castello'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Evening Gun'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''importunate'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Dr. Grace'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 578==<br />
<br />
'''Dorsoduro'''<br><br />
An area of Venice.<br />
<br />
'''''pensione'''''<br><br />
A cheap Italian hotel, like a bed and breakfast.<br />
<br />
'''La Calcina'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Zattere'''<br><br />
An area of wide waterfront pavements in Venice.<br />
<br />
'''''cimici'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''bora'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 579==<br />
<br />
'''Tintoretto's ''Abduction...'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Accademia'''<br><br />
The major art-gallery in Venice<br />
<br />
'''Titian'''<br><br />
16th century Venetian painter.<br />
<br />
'''Infancy Gospel of Thomas'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 580==<br />
<br />
'''Pentecost story in Acts'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Galilean dialect'''<br><br />
Of Aramaic.<br />
<br />
'''''rii'''''<br><br />
Plural of ''rio''.<br />
<br />
==Page 581==<br />
<br />
'''''sotopòrteghi'''''<br><br />
An open doorway for public access.<br />
<br />
'''Bodeo 10.4 mm'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 582==<br />
<br />
'''''foschetta'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''masègni'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''patrone'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''wine trains up from Puglia'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Winter'''<br><br />
1904-1905?<br />
<br />
'''Principessa Spongiatosta'''<br><br />
Is Pugnax's book from p6 at all relevant here?<br />
<br />
'''Ca''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Roman Composite order'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''japonica'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 583==<br />
<br />
'''Iron Bridge'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Le Havre'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''ma via'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''third eyes touching'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 584==<br />
<br />
'''"Swiss insurance salesman. Wolf. No, Putzi."'''<br><br />
Bria's had so many beaux she gets them confused?<br />
<br />
'''''topo'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Dogana'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Andrea Tancredi'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Seurat and Signac'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Divisionism'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Marinetti'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''"Futurists"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''brutalism'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Torcello'''<br><br />
A lonely Venetian island: very peaceful and beautiful with a church and little else.<br />
<br />
'''primitivo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 585==<br />
<br />
'''green-and-lavender'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''sirocco'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''San Michele'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''futuristic vehicle'''<br><br />
P155.<br />
<br />
'''''Preliminary Studies...'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 586==<br />
<br />
'''Always with us.'''<br><br />
Gospel of ?.<br />
<br />
'''''vero'''''<br><br />
Cf 'verdad'.<br />
<br />
'''orpiment yellow'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Nürnberg violet'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 587==<br />
<br />
'''''nebbia, nebbietta, foschia, caligo, sfumato'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''speed of sound'''<br><br />
Air temperature is more important that density.<br />
<br />
'''''La Velocità del Suono'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
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==Page 557==<br />
<br />
'''Viktor Mulciber'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''bespoke'''<br><br />
made to order, hence hand-made and expensive. Somewhere in the novel is a reference to 1 Savile Row, the address of Gieves and Hawkes, a very traditional English tailor.<br />
<br />
'''Basil Zaharoff'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''trains of history... run'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Balkan ''komitadji'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''waybill'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''metamorphosed into an American Negro'''<br><br />
Cf honorary Negro (Frank above).<br />
<br />
'''Nipponese'''<br><br />
Japanese<br />
<br />
'''Hertzian'''<br><br />
Electromagnetic waves, first demonstrated by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Rudolf_Hertz Heinrich Hertz]<br />
<br />
==Page 558==<br />
<br />
'''scalar part'''<br><br />
Quaternion equivalent of the real part<br />
<br />
'''baritone in a barbershop quartet'''<br><br />
[http://www.barbershop.org/web/groups/public/documents/pages/pub_id_000827.hcsp Quote]:Technically speaking, barbershop harmony is a style of unaccompanied singing with three voices harmonizing to the melody. The lead usually sings the melody, with the tenor harmonizing above the lead. The bass sings the lowest harmonizing notes and the baritone provides in-between notes, either above or below the lead to make chords (specifically, dominant-type or "barbershop" sevenths) that give barbershop its distinctive, "full" sound.<br />
<br />
'''viola in a string quartet'''<br><br />
Two violins, a viola, and a violoncello make up a string quartet. The viola is between the others in pitch and is generally considered to have been given the least interesting parts in Classical and Romantic music for string quartet.<br />
<br />
'''Further Term'''<br><br />
The three parts of a quaternion that are multiples of '''i''', '''j''' and '''k'''<br />
<br />
'''laterite'''<br><br />
A mineral structure formed by erosion, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laterite Wikipedia].<br />
<br />
'''Inner Boulevards'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Gare du Midi'''<br><br />
The largest railway station in Brussels and a haunt of prostitutes.<br />
<br />
'''Edouard Gevaert'''<br><br />
(No ligature?)<br />
<br />
==Page 559==<br />
<br />
'''Krupp field-piece'''<br><br />
The Krupps are an ancient German family, famous for making weapons. A field-piece is a light-cannon.<br />
<br />
'''vaguely glandular'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''ostinato'''''<br><br />
A continually repeated musical phrase or rhythm.<br />
<br />
'''poleaxed'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''lost to silence'''<br><br />
(Not silent, or very?)<br />
<br />
==Page 560==<br />
<br />
'''Estacade'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''mousmée... mouchard'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''always lead an irregular life'''<br><br />
Cf GR.<br />
<br />
'''Maria Bayley Hamilton'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''council meeting'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 561==<br />
<br />
'''Brougham Bridge'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''pulls a knife'''<br><br />
(Folklore, really later?)<br />
<br />
'''on the stone'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Pentecostal'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''official Mischief Opportunity'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''absinthe spoons'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''cravats'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''"four-door farce"'''<br><br />
(See eg Bogdanovich's "What's Up, Doc?")<br />
This is also a pun on the name of Georges Feydeau, French writer of farces who was writing when Pynchon's novel is set. One of the recurring physical jokes involves sets with many doors and people coming in and out, just missing each other....<br />
<br />
==Page 562==<br />
<br />
'''Minque'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''carillons... carilloneur'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Hanseatic'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''burghers'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''silted up'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Damme and Sluis'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 563==<br />
<br />
'''trusted his intuitiveness'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''"Jou moerskont!"''... Afrikaans'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 564==<br />
<br />
'''immense choir'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Voetsak'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''starers'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''tobacco-stricken'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''half-silvering'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''four cusps... index-surface'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''co-conscious'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 565==<br />
<br />
'''true icosahedron'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''12+8... pyrites'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Riemann sphere'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Felix Klein'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''ebonite'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Ohmic Drift'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''speed of the earth... kinetic energy'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Recently Lorentz's paper'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Lord Rayleigh'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 566==<br />
<br />
'''In a dream...'''<br><br />
<br />
This passage, describing Kit's dream of Umeki and the message it conveys, pulls together many of the main themes of ''Against the Day'', tying things together in a way that Pynchon seldom does, almost as if he's providing a rather large piece of the puzzle to help the reader understand the novel:<br />
<br />
:"Deep among the equations describing the behavor of light, field equations, Vector and Quaternion equations, lies a set of directions, an intinerary, a map to a hidden space. Double refraction appears again and again as a key element, permitting a view into a Creation set just to the side of this one, so close as to overlap, where the membrane between the worlds, in many places, has become too frail, too permeable, for safety.... Within the mirror, with the scalar term, within the daylit and obvious and taken-for-granted has always lain, as if in wait, the dark intinerary, the corrupted pilgrim's guide, the nameless Station before the first, in the lightless uncreated, where salvation does not yet exist."<br />
<br />
'''analogies'''<br><br />
(Pynchonian heuristics.)<br />
<br />
'''nameless Station'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''lightless uncreated'''<br><br />
(Gnostic heresy?)<br />
<br />
'''stuffed sinus'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Konichiwa'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 567==<br />
<br />
'''new Puccini opera'''<br><br />
Obviously, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Butterfly Madame Butterfly]<br />
<br />
'''Borel-Clerc... "La Matchiche"'''<br><br />
Popular vaudeville song from 1903. "La Matchiche" is French for the Brazilian dance Maxixe.<br />
<br />
'''western anchor'''<br><br />
What about France, Spain, Portugal?<br />
<br />
'''Compaignie Internationale des Wagons-Lits'''<br><br />
"International Sleeping-Car Company", [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlson_Wagonlit Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''two hundred francs'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''theory of sets'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Bruges Canal'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 568==<br />
<br />
'''vaporetto'''<br><br />
A Venetian water-bus.<br />
<br />
'''Grand Canal'''<br><br />
The main canal that runs through the heart of Venice and down past San Marco, the city's main square.<br />
<br />
'''San Marco end'''<br><br />
See above. This is where Florian's (appears in the novel) is situated.<br />
<br />
'''Piazzetta'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''San Giorgio Maggiore'''<br><br />
A rather over-ornate church on the Grand Canal opposite San Marco.<br />
<br />
'''spreading... cloak'''<br><br />
Cliche/allusion?<br />
<br />
'''live here forever'''<br><br />
Pynchon special-pleading that Dally isn't just another tourist.<br />
Or is this just a typical reaction of the tourist? And a Pynchonesque longing for home?<br />
==Page 569==<br />
<br />
'''Malibran... Polo's house'''<br><br />
The Teatro Malibran, built at the site of Marco Polo's house, which was destroyed in 1596.<br />
<br />
'''"pincette" pass'''<br><br />
Probably from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pincer_movement pincer movement] of military strategy.<br />
<br />
'''profondes'''<br><br />
"Large pockets in tail coats which can be used for vanishes or productions", [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conjuring_terms Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''Vincenzo Miserere'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''train to Trieste'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Svegli'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''shark leather'''<br><br />
Different from sharkskin?<br />
<br />
'''''Specchiere'''''<br><br />
Mirror-maker<br />
<br />
'''glassmakers on Murano'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murano Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
==Page 570==<br />
<br />
'''another one of his stories'''<br><br />
(Jackson Pynchon should highlight all the AtD passages that originated as bedtime stories.)<br />
<br />
'''TERAPIA'''<br><br />
Italian, "therapy"<br />
<br />
'''San Servolo'''<br><br />
An island in the Venetian archipelago, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Servolo Wikipedia], [<br />
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=45.418654+N,+12.35698+E&ie=UTF8&z=17&ll=45.418651,12.35698&spn=0.006891,0.010793&t=k&om=1&iwloc=addr Google Maps]<br />
<br />
'''Palazzo Ducale'''<br><br />
The Ducal Palace in Venice, residence of the Doge. It's by San Marco.<br />
<br />
'''''manicomio'''''<br><br />
Italian, "madhouse"<br />
<br />
'''uterine vellum'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vellum Vellum] produced from the skin of an unborn calf<br />
<br />
'''pitch, rouge'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 571==<br />
<br />
'''La Doppiatrice'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Ettore Sananzolo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Maskelyne cabinet'''<br><br />
After Neville Maskelyne, from ''Mason and Dixon.'' Maskelyne sent M and D to record the Transit of Venus.<br />
<br />
==Page 572==<br />
<br />
'''smoke back into a cigar'''<br><br />
Time's arrow/ entropy motif.<br />
<br />
'''hard-as-a-rock black cigar'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''thumping'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''salso'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''sandoli'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''trains pulling in'''<br><br />
Famous early film.<br />
<br />
==Page 573==<br />
<br />
'''Cannareggio'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 574==<br />
<br />
'''thirty years older'''<br><br />
About 65yo?<br />
<br />
'''that day'''<br><br />
In NYC when Dally showed up.<br />
<br />
'''when she was born'''<br><br />
Cf Pretenders/Chryssie Hynde.<br />
<br />
'''Stronzo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''In bocc' al lupo!'''''<br><br />
From the Roman dialect, in which the Italians - including Rocco and Pino - seem to speak. Meaning, literally, "In the <br />
mouth of the wolf," and idiomatically, "Good luck." <br />
<br />
'''''campielli'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 575==<br />
<br />
'''Riva'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''middy blouses'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''not yet been rebuilt'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''lucciole'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''fondamenta'''''<br><br />
A waterside street in Venice<br />
<br />
'''''ombreta'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''light's good here'''<br><br />
Old joke about drunk looking for car keys under streetlight though he dropped them somewhere else.<br />
<br />
'''microcosm'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 576==<br />
<br />
'''twelve soldi'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''franc... ten francs'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Canaletto'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Beppo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''pitch'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Bauer-Grünwald'''<br><br />
An expensive hotel near San Marco in Venice.<br />
<br />
==Page 577==<br />
<br />
''''Safe''''<br><br />
Recent art-movie title?<br />
<br />
'''Castello'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Evening Gun'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''importunate'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Dr. Grace'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 578==<br />
<br />
'''Dorsoduro'''<br><br />
An area of Venice.<br />
<br />
'''''pensione'''''<br><br />
A cheap Italian hotel, like a bed and breakfast.<br />
<br />
'''La Calcina'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Zattere'''<br><br />
An area of wide waterfront pavements in Venice.<br />
<br />
'''''cimici'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''bora'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 579==<br />
<br />
'''Tintoretto's ''Abduction...'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Accademia'''<br><br />
The major art-gallery in Venice<br />
<br />
'''Titian'''<br><br />
16th century Venetian painter.<br />
<br />
'''Infancy Gospel of Thomas'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 580==<br />
<br />
'''Pentecost story in Acts'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Galilean dialect'''<br><br />
Of Aramaic.<br />
<br />
'''''rii'''''<br><br />
Plural of ''rio''.<br />
<br />
==Page 581==<br />
<br />
'''''sotopòrteghi'''''<br><br />
An open doorway for public access.<br />
<br />
'''Bodeo 10.4 mm'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 582==<br />
<br />
'''''foschetta'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''masègni'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''patrone'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''wine trains up from Puglia'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Winter'''<br><br />
1904-1905?<br />
<br />
'''Principessa Spongiatosta'''<br><br />
Is Pugnax's book from p6 at all relevant here?<br />
<br />
'''Ca''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Roman Composite order'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''japonica'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 583==<br />
<br />
'''Iron Bridge'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Le Havre'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''ma via'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''third eyes touching'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 584==<br />
<br />
'''"Swiss insurance salesman. Wolf. No, Putzi."'''<br><br />
Bria's had so many beaux she gets them confused?<br />
<br />
'''''topo'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Dogana'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Andrea Tancredi'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Seurat and Signac'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Divisionism'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Marinetti'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''"Futurists"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''brutalism'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Torcello'''<br><br />
A lonely Venetian island: very peaceful and beautiful with a church and little else.<br />
<br />
'''primitivo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 585==<br />
<br />
'''green-and-lavender'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''sirocco'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''San Michele'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''futuristic vehicle'''<br><br />
P155.<br />
<br />
'''''Preliminary Studies...'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 586==<br />
<br />
'''Always with us.'''<br><br />
Gospel of ?.<br />
<br />
'''''vero'''''<br><br />
Cf 'verdad'.<br />
<br />
'''orpiment yellow'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Nürnberg violet'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 587==<br />
<br />
'''''nebbia, nebbietta, foschia, caligo, sfumato'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''speed of sound'''<br><br />
Air temperature is more important that density.<br />
<br />
'''''La Velocità del Suono'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
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==Page 557==<br />
<br />
'''Viktor Mulciber'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''bespoke'''<br><br />
made to order, hence hand-made and expensive. Somewhere in the novel is a reference to 1 Savile Row, the address of Gieves and Hawkes, a very traditional English tailor.<br />
<br />
'''Basil Zaharoff'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''trains of history... run'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Balkan ''komitadji'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''waybill'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''metamorphosed into an American Negro'''<br><br />
Cf honorary Negro (Frank above).<br />
<br />
'''Nipponese'''<br><br />
Japanese<br />
<br />
'''Hertzian'''<br><br />
Electromagnetic waves, first demonstrated by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Rudolf_Hertz Heinrich Hertz]<br />
<br />
==Page 558==<br />
<br />
'''scalar part'''<br><br />
Quaternion equivalent of the real part<br />
<br />
'''baritone in a barbershop quartet'''<br><br />
[http://www.barbershop.org/web/groups/public/documents/pages/pub_id_000827.hcsp Quote]:Technically speaking, barbershop harmony is a style of unaccompanied singing with three voices harmonizing to the melody. The lead usually sings the melody, with the tenor harmonizing above the lead. The bass sings the lowest harmonizing notes and the baritone provides in-between notes, either above or below the lead to make chords (specifically, dominant-type or "barbershop" sevenths) that give barbershop its distinctive, "full" sound.<br />
<br />
'''viola in a string quartet'''<br><br />
Two violins, a viola, and a violoncello make up a string quartet. The viola is between the others in pitch and is generally considered to have been given the least interesting parts in Classical and Romantic music for string quartet.<br />
<br />
'''Further Term'''<br><br />
The three parts of a quaternion that are multiples of '''i''', '''j''' and '''k'''<br />
<br />
'''laterite'''<br><br />
A mineral structure formed by erosion, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laterite Wikipedia].<br />
<br />
'''Inner Boulevards'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Gare du Midi'''<br><br />
The largest railway station in Brussels and a haunt of prostitutes.<br />
<br />
'''Edouard Gevaert'''<br><br />
(No ligature?)<br />
<br />
==Page 559==<br />
<br />
'''Krupp field-piece'''<br><br />
The Krupps are an ancient German family, famous for making weapons. A field-piece is a light-cannon.<br />
<br />
'''vaguely glandular'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''ostinato'''''<br><br />
A continually repeated musical phrase or rhythm.<br />
<br />
'''poleaxed'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''lost to silence'''<br><br />
(Not silent, or very?)<br />
<br />
==Page 560==<br />
<br />
'''Estacade'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''mousmée... mouchard'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''always lead an irregular life'''<br><br />
Cf GR.<br />
<br />
'''Maria Bayley Hamilton'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''council meeting'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 561==<br />
<br />
'''Brougham Bridge'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''pulls a knife'''<br><br />
(Folklore, really later?)<br />
<br />
'''on the stone'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Pentecostal'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''official Mischief Opportunity'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''absinthe spoons'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''cravats'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''"four-door farce"'''<br><br />
(See eg Bogdanovich's "What's Up, Doc?")<br />
This is also a pun on the name of Georges Feydeau, French writer of farces who was writing when Pynchon's novel is set. One of the recurring physical jokes involves sets with many doors and people coming in and out, just missing each other....<br />
<br />
==Page 562==<br />
<br />
'''Minque'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''carillons... carilloneur'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Hanseatic'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''burghers'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''silted up'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Damme and Sluis'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 563==<br />
<br />
'''trusted his intuitiveness'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''"Jou moerskont!"''... Afrikaans'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 564==<br />
<br />
'''immense choir'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Voetsak'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''starers'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''tobacco-stricken'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''half-silvering'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''four cusps... index-surface'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''co-conscious'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 565==<br />
<br />
'''true icosahedron'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''12+8... pyrites'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Riemann sphere'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Felix Klein'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''ebonite'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Ohmic Drift'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''speed of the earth... kinetic energy'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Recently Lorentz's paper'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Lord Rayleigh'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 566==<br />
<br />
'''In a dream...'''<br><br />
<br />
This passage, describing Kit's dream of Umeki and the message it conveys, pulls together many of the main themes of ''Against the Day'', tying things together in a way that Pynchon seldom does, almost as if he's providing a rather large piece of the puzzle to help the reader understand the novel:<br />
<br />
:"Deep among the equations describing the behavor of light, field equations, Vector and Quaternion equations, lies a set of directions, an intinerary, a map to a hidden space. Double refraction appears again and again as a key element, permitting a view into a Creation set just to the side of this one, so close as to overlap, where the membrane between the worlds, in many places, has become too frail, too permeable, for safety.... Within the mirror, with the scalar term, within the daylit and obvious and taken-for-granted has always lain, as if in wait, the dark intinerary, the corrupted pilgrim's guide, the nameless Station before the first, in the lightless uncreated, where salvation does not yet exist."<br />
<br />
'''analogies'''<br><br />
(Pynchonian heuristics.)<br />
<br />
'''nameless Station'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''lightless uncreated'''<br><br />
(Gnostic heresy?)<br />
<br />
'''stuffed sinus'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Konichiwa'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 567==<br />
<br />
'''new Puccini opera'''<br><br />
Obviously, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Butterfly Madame Butterfly]<br />
<br />
'''Borel-Clerc... "La Matchiche"'''<br><br />
Popular vaudeville song from 1903. "La Matchiche" is French for the Brazilian dance Maxixe.<br />
<br />
'''western anchor'''<br><br />
What about France, Spain, Portugal?<br />
<br />
'''Compaignie Internationale des Wagons-Lits'''<br><br />
"International Sleeping-Car Company", [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlson_Wagonlit Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''two hundred francs'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''theory of sets'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Bruges Canal'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 568==<br />
<br />
'''vaporetto'''<br><br />
A Venetian water-bus.<br />
<br />
'''Grand Canal'''<br><br />
The main canal that runs through the heart of Venice and down past San Marco, the city's main square.<br />
<br />
'''San Marco end'''<br><br />
See above. This is where Florian's (appears in the novel) is situated.<br />
<br />
'''Piazzetta'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''San Giorgio Maggiore'''<br><br />
A rather over-ornate church on the Grand Canal opposite San Marco.<br />
<br />
'''spreading... cloak'''<br><br />
Cliche/allusion?<br />
<br />
'''live here forever'''<br><br />
Pynchon special-pleading that Dally isn't just another tourist.<br />
Or is this just a typical reaction of the tourist? And a Pynchonesque longing for home?<br />
==Page 569==<br />
<br />
'''Malibran... Polo's house'''<br><br />
The Teatro Malibran, built at the site of Marco Polo's house, which was destroyed in 1596.<br />
<br />
'''"pincette" pass'''<br><br />
Probably from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pincer_movement pincer movement] of military strategy.<br />
<br />
'''profondes'''<br><br />
"Large pockets in tail coats which can be used for vanishes or productions", [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conjuring_terms Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''Vincenzo Miserere'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''train to Trieste'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Svegli'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''shark leather'''<br><br />
Different from sharkskin?<br />
<br />
'''''Specchiere'''''<br><br />
Mirror-maker<br />
<br />
'''glassmakers on Murano'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murano Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
==Page 570==<br />
<br />
'''another one of his stories'''<br><br />
(Jackson Pynchon should highlight all the AtD passages that originated as bedtime stories.)<br />
<br />
'''TERAPIA'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''San Servolo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Palazzo Ducale'''<br><br />
The Ducal Palace in Venice, residence of the Doge. It's by San Marco.<br />
<br />
'''''manicomio'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''uterine vellum'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''pitch, rouge'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 571==<br />
<br />
'''La Doppiatrice'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Ettore Sananzolo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Maskelyne cabinet'''<br><br />
After Neville Maskelyne, from ''Mason and Dixon.'' Maskelyne sent M and D to record the Transit of Venus.<br />
<br />
==Page 572==<br />
<br />
'''smoke back into a cigar'''<br><br />
Time's arrow/ entropy motif.<br />
<br />
'''hard-as-a-rock black cigar'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''thumping'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''salso'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''sandoli'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''trains pulling in'''<br><br />
Famous early film.<br />
<br />
==Page 573==<br />
<br />
'''Cannareggio'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 574==<br />
<br />
'''thirty years older'''<br><br />
About 65yo?<br />
<br />
'''that day'''<br><br />
In NYC when Dally showed up.<br />
<br />
'''when she was born'''<br><br />
Cf Pretenders/Chryssie Hynde.<br />
<br />
'''Stronzo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''In bocc' al lupo!'''''<br><br />
From the Roman dialect, in which the Italians - including Rocco and Pino - seem to speak. Meaning, literally, "In the <br />
mouth of the wolf," and idiomatically, "Good luck." <br />
<br />
'''''campielli'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 575==<br />
<br />
'''Riva'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''middy blouses'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''not yet been rebuilt'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''lucciole'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''fondamenta'''''<br><br />
A waterside street in Venice<br />
<br />
'''''ombreta'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''light's good here'''<br><br />
Old joke about drunk looking for car keys under streetlight though he dropped them somewhere else.<br />
<br />
'''microcosm'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 576==<br />
<br />
'''twelve soldi'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''franc... ten francs'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Canaletto'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Beppo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''pitch'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Bauer-Grünwald'''<br><br />
An expensive hotel near San Marco in Venice.<br />
<br />
==Page 577==<br />
<br />
''''Safe''''<br><br />
Recent art-movie title?<br />
<br />
'''Castello'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Evening Gun'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''importunate'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Dr. Grace'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 578==<br />
<br />
'''Dorsoduro'''<br><br />
An area of Venice.<br />
<br />
'''''pensione'''''<br><br />
A cheap Italian hotel, like a bed and breakfast.<br />
<br />
'''La Calcina'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Zattere'''<br><br />
An area of wide waterfront pavements in Venice.<br />
<br />
'''''cimici'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''bora'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 579==<br />
<br />
'''Tintoretto's ''Abduction...'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Accademia'''<br><br />
The major art-gallery in Venice<br />
<br />
'''Titian'''<br><br />
16th century Venetian painter.<br />
<br />
'''Infancy Gospel of Thomas'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 580==<br />
<br />
'''Pentecost story in Acts'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Galilean dialect'''<br><br />
Of Aramaic.<br />
<br />
'''''rii'''''<br><br />
Plural of ''rio''.<br />
<br />
==Page 581==<br />
<br />
'''''sotopòrteghi'''''<br><br />
An open doorway for public access.<br />
<br />
'''Bodeo 10.4 mm'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 582==<br />
<br />
'''''foschetta'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''masègni'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''patrone'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''wine trains up from Puglia'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Winter'''<br><br />
1904-1905?<br />
<br />
'''Principessa Spongiatosta'''<br><br />
Is Pugnax's book from p6 at all relevant here?<br />
<br />
'''Ca''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Roman Composite order'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''japonica'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 583==<br />
<br />
'''Iron Bridge'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Le Havre'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''ma via'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''third eyes touching'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 584==<br />
<br />
'''"Swiss insurance salesman. Wolf. No, Putzi."'''<br><br />
Bria's had so many beaux she gets them confused?<br />
<br />
'''''topo'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Dogana'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Andrea Tancredi'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Seurat and Signac'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Divisionism'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Marinetti'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''"Futurists"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''brutalism'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Torcello'''<br><br />
A lonely Venetian island: very peaceful and beautiful with a church and little else.<br />
<br />
'''primitivo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 585==<br />
<br />
'''green-and-lavender'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''sirocco'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''San Michele'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''futuristic vehicle'''<br><br />
P155.<br />
<br />
'''''Preliminary Studies...'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 586==<br />
<br />
'''Always with us.'''<br><br />
Gospel of ?.<br />
<br />
'''''vero'''''<br><br />
Cf 'verdad'.<br />
<br />
'''orpiment yellow'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Nürnberg violet'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 587==<br />
<br />
'''''nebbia, nebbietta, foschia, caligo, sfumato'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''speed of sound'''<br><br />
Air temperature is more important that density.<br />
<br />
'''''La Velocità del Suono'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Annotation Index==<br />
{{ATD PbP}}</div>Themelhttps://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_557-587&diff=4707ATD 557-5872006-12-29T19:18:36Z<p>Themel: /* Page 567 */</p>
<hr />
<div>:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p><br><br />
<br />
==Page 557==<br />
<br />
'''Viktor Mulciber'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''bespoke'''<br><br />
made to order, hence hand-made and expensive. Somewhere in the novel is a reference to 1 Savile Row, the address of Gieves and Hawkes, a very traditional English tailor.<br />
<br />
'''Basil Zaharoff'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''trains of history... run'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Balkan ''komitadji'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''waybill'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''metamorphosed into an American Negro'''<br><br />
Cf honorary Negro (Frank above).<br />
<br />
'''Nipponese'''<br><br />
Japanese<br />
<br />
'''Hertzian'''<br><br />
Electromagnetic waves, first demonstrated by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Rudolf_Hertz Heinrich Hertz]<br />
<br />
==Page 558==<br />
<br />
'''scalar part'''<br><br />
Quaternion equivalent of the real part<br />
<br />
'''baritone in a barbershop quartet'''<br><br />
[http://www.barbershop.org/web/groups/public/documents/pages/pub_id_000827.hcsp Quote]:Technically speaking, barbershop harmony is a style of unaccompanied singing with three voices harmonizing to the melody. The lead usually sings the melody, with the tenor harmonizing above the lead. The bass sings the lowest harmonizing notes and the baritone provides in-between notes, either above or below the lead to make chords (specifically, dominant-type or "barbershop" sevenths) that give barbershop its distinctive, "full" sound.<br />
<br />
'''viola in a string quartet'''<br><br />
Two violins, a viola, and a violoncello make up a string quartet. The viola is between the others in pitch and is generally considered to have been given the least interesting parts in Classical and Romantic music for string quartet.<br />
<br />
'''Further Term'''<br><br />
The three parts of a quaternion that are multiples of '''i''', '''j''' and '''k'''<br />
<br />
'''laterite'''<br><br />
A mineral structure formed by erosion, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laterite Wikipedia].<br />
<br />
'''Inner Boulevards'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Gare du Midi'''<br><br />
The largest railway station in Brussels and a haunt of prostitutes.<br />
<br />
'''Edouard Gevaert'''<br><br />
(No ligature?)<br />
<br />
==Page 559==<br />
<br />
'''Krupp field-piece'''<br><br />
The Krupps are an ancient German family, famous for making weapons. A field-piece is a light-cannon.<br />
<br />
'''vaguely glandular'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''ostinato'''''<br><br />
A continually repeated musical phrase or rhythm.<br />
<br />
'''poleaxed'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''lost to silence'''<br><br />
(Not silent, or very?)<br />
<br />
==Page 560==<br />
<br />
'''Estacade'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''mousmée... mouchard'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''always lead an irregular life'''<br><br />
Cf GR.<br />
<br />
'''Maria Bayley Hamilton'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''council meeting'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 561==<br />
<br />
'''Brougham Bridge'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''pulls a knife'''<br><br />
(Folklore, really later?)<br />
<br />
'''on the stone'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Pentecostal'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''official Mischief Opportunity'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''absinthe spoons'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''cravats'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''"four-door farce"'''<br><br />
(See eg Bogdanovich's "What's Up, Doc?")<br />
This is also a pun on the name of Georges Feydeau, French writer of farces who was writing when Pynchon's novel is set. One of the recurring physical jokes involves sets with many doors and people coming in and out, just missing each other....<br />
<br />
==Page 562==<br />
<br />
'''Minque'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''carillons... carilloneur'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Hanseatic'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''burghers'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''silted up'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Damme and Sluis'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 563==<br />
<br />
'''trusted his intuitiveness'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''"Jou moerskont!"''... Afrikaans'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 564==<br />
<br />
'''immense choir'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Voetsak'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''starers'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''tobacco-stricken'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''half-silvering'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''four cusps... index-surface'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''co-conscious'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 565==<br />
<br />
'''true icosahedron'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''12+8... pyrites'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Riemann sphere'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Felix Klein'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''ebonite'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Ohmic Drift'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''speed of the earth... kinetic energy'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Recently Lorentz's paper'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Lord Rayleigh'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 566==<br />
<br />
'''In a dream...'''<br><br />
<br />
This passage, describing Kit's dream of Umeki and the message it conveys, pulls together many of the main themes of ''Against the Day'', tying things together in a way that Pynchon seldom does, almost as if he's providing a rather large piece of the puzzle to help the reader understand the novel:<br />
<br />
:"Deep among the equations describing the behavor of light, field equations, Vector and Quaternion equations, lies a set of directions, an intinerary, a map to a hidden space. Double refraction appears again and again as a key element, permitting a view into a Creation set just to the side of this one, so close as to overlap, where the membrane between the worlds, in many places, has become too frail, too permeable, for safety.... Within the mirror, with the scalar term, within the daylit and obvious and taken-for-granted has always lain, as if in wait, the dark intinerary, the corrupted pilgrim's guide, the nameless Station before the first, in the lightless uncreated, where salvation does not yet exist."<br />
<br />
'''analogies'''<br><br />
(Pynchonian heuristics.)<br />
<br />
'''nameless Station'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''lightless uncreated'''<br><br />
(Gnostic heresy?)<br />
<br />
'''stuffed sinus'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Konichiwa'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 567==<br />
<br />
'''new Puccini opera'''<br><br />
Obviously, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Butterfly Madame Butterfly]<br />
<br />
'''Borel-Clerc... "La Matchiche"'''<br><br />
Popular vaudeville song from 1903. "La Matchiche" is French for the Brazilian dance Maxixe.<br />
<br />
'''western anchor'''<br><br />
What about France, Spain, Portugal?<br />
<br />
'''Compaignie Internationale des Wagons-Lits'''<br><br />
"International Sleeping-Car Company", [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlson_Wagonlit Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''two hundred francs'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''theory of sets'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Bruges Canal'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 568==<br />
<br />
'''vaporetto'''<br><br />
A Venetian water-bus.<br />
<br />
'''Grand Canal'''<br><br />
The main canal that runs through the heart of Venice and down past San Marco, the city's main square.<br />
<br />
'''San Marco end'''<br><br />
See above. This is where Florian's (appears in the novel) is situated.<br />
<br />
'''Piazzetta'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''San Giorgio Maggiore'''<br><br />
A rather over-ornate church on the Grand Canal opposite San Marco.<br />
<br />
'''spreading... cloak'''<br><br />
Cliche/allusion?<br />
<br />
'''live here forever'''<br><br />
Pynchon special-pleading that Dally isn't just another tourist.<br />
Or is this just a typical reaction of the tourist? And a Pynchonesque longing for home?<br />
==Page 569==<br />
<br />
'''Malibran... Polo's house'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''"pincette"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''profondes'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Vincenzo Miserere'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''train to Trieste'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Svegli'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''shark leather'''<br><br />
Different from sharkskin?<br />
<br />
'''''Specchiere'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''glassmakers on Murano'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 570==<br />
<br />
'''another one of his stories'''<br><br />
(Jackson Pynchon should highlight all the AtD passages that originated as bedtime stories.)<br />
<br />
'''TERAPIA'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''San Servolo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Palazzo Ducale'''<br><br />
The Ducal Palace in Venice, residence of the Doge. It's by San Marco.<br />
<br />
'''''manicomio'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''uterine vellum'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''pitch, rouge'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 571==<br />
<br />
'''La Doppiatrice'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Ettore Sananzolo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Maskelyne cabinet'''<br><br />
After Neville Maskelyne, from ''Mason and Dixon.'' Maskelyne sent M and D to record the Transit of Venus.<br />
<br />
==Page 572==<br />
<br />
'''smoke back into a cigar'''<br><br />
Time's arrow/ entropy motif.<br />
<br />
'''hard-as-a-rock black cigar'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''thumping'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''salso'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''sandoli'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''trains pulling in'''<br><br />
Famous early film.<br />
<br />
==Page 573==<br />
<br />
'''Cannareggio'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 574==<br />
<br />
'''thirty years older'''<br><br />
About 65yo?<br />
<br />
'''that day'''<br><br />
In NYC when Dally showed up.<br />
<br />
'''when she was born'''<br><br />
Cf Pretenders/Chryssie Hynde.<br />
<br />
'''Stronzo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''In bocc' al lupo!'''''<br><br />
From the Roman dialect, in which the Italians - including Rocco and Pino - seem to speak. Meaning, literally, "In the <br />
mouth of the wolf," and idiomatically, "Good luck." <br />
<br />
'''''campielli'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 575==<br />
<br />
'''Riva'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''middy blouses'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''not yet been rebuilt'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''lucciole'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''fondamenta'''''<br><br />
A waterside street in Venice<br />
<br />
'''''ombreta'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''light's good here'''<br><br />
Old joke about drunk looking for car keys under streetlight though he dropped them somewhere else.<br />
<br />
'''microcosm'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 576==<br />
<br />
'''twelve soldi'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''franc... ten francs'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Canaletto'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Beppo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''pitch'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Bauer-Grünwald'''<br><br />
An expensive hotel near San Marco in Venice.<br />
<br />
==Page 577==<br />
<br />
''''Safe''''<br><br />
Recent art-movie title?<br />
<br />
'''Castello'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Evening Gun'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''importunate'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Dr. Grace'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 578==<br />
<br />
'''Dorsoduro'''<br><br />
An area of Venice.<br />
<br />
'''''pensione'''''<br><br />
A cheap Italian hotel, like a bed and breakfast.<br />
<br />
'''La Calcina'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Zattere'''<br><br />
An area of wide waterfront pavements in Venice.<br />
<br />
'''''cimici'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''bora'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 579==<br />
<br />
'''Tintoretto's ''Abduction...'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Accademia'''<br><br />
The major art-gallery in Venice<br />
<br />
'''Titian'''<br><br />
16th century Venetian painter.<br />
<br />
'''Infancy Gospel of Thomas'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 580==<br />
<br />
'''Pentecost story in Acts'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Galilean dialect'''<br><br />
Of Aramaic.<br />
<br />
'''''rii'''''<br><br />
Plural of ''rio''.<br />
<br />
==Page 581==<br />
<br />
'''''sotopòrteghi'''''<br><br />
An open doorway for public access.<br />
<br />
'''Bodeo 10.4 mm'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 582==<br />
<br />
'''''foschetta'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''masègni'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''patrone'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''wine trains up from Puglia'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Winter'''<br><br />
1904-1905?<br />
<br />
'''Principessa Spongiatosta'''<br><br />
Is Pugnax's book from p6 at all relevant here?<br />
<br />
'''Ca''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Roman Composite order'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''japonica'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 583==<br />
<br />
'''Iron Bridge'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Le Havre'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''ma via'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''third eyes touching'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 584==<br />
<br />
'''"Swiss insurance salesman. Wolf. No, Putzi."'''<br><br />
Bria's had so many beaux she gets them confused?<br />
<br />
'''''topo'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Dogana'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Andrea Tancredi'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Seurat and Signac'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Divisionism'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Marinetti'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''"Futurists"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''brutalism'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Torcello'''<br><br />
A lonely Venetian island: very peaceful and beautiful with a church and little else.<br />
<br />
'''primitivo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 585==<br />
<br />
'''green-and-lavender'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''sirocco'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''San Michele'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''futuristic vehicle'''<br><br />
P155.<br />
<br />
'''''Preliminary Studies...'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 586==<br />
<br />
'''Always with us.'''<br><br />
Gospel of ?.<br />
<br />
'''''vero'''''<br><br />
Cf 'verdad'.<br />
<br />
'''orpiment yellow'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Nürnberg violet'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 587==<br />
<br />
'''''nebbia, nebbietta, foschia, caligo, sfumato'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''speed of sound'''<br><br />
Air temperature is more important that density.<br />
<br />
'''''La Velocità del Suono'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Annotation Index==<br />
{{ATD PbP}}</div>Themelhttps://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_557-587&diff=4704ATD 557-5872006-12-29T19:03:24Z<p>Themel: /* Page 558 */</p>
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<div>:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p><br><br />
<br />
==Page 557==<br />
<br />
'''Viktor Mulciber'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''bespoke'''<br><br />
made to order, hence hand-made and expensive. Somewhere in the novel is a reference to 1 Savile Row, the address of Gieves and Hawkes, a very traditional English tailor.<br />
<br />
'''Basil Zaharoff'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''trains of history... run'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Balkan ''komitadji'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''waybill'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''metamorphosed into an American Negro'''<br><br />
Cf honorary Negro (Frank above).<br />
<br />
'''Nipponese'''<br><br />
Japanese<br />
<br />
'''Hertzian'''<br><br />
Electromagnetic waves, first demonstrated by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Rudolf_Hertz Heinrich Hertz]<br />
<br />
==Page 558==<br />
<br />
'''scalar part'''<br><br />
Quaternion equivalent of the real part<br />
<br />
'''baritone in a barbershop quartet'''<br><br />
[http://www.barbershop.org/web/groups/public/documents/pages/pub_id_000827.hcsp Quote]:Technically speaking, barbershop harmony is a style of unaccompanied singing with three voices harmonizing to the melody. The lead usually sings the melody, with the tenor harmonizing above the lead. The bass sings the lowest harmonizing notes and the baritone provides in-between notes, either above or below the lead to make chords (specifically, dominant-type or "barbershop" sevenths) that give barbershop its distinctive, "full" sound.<br />
<br />
'''viola in a string quartet'''<br><br />
Two violins, a viola, and a violoncello make up a string quartet. The viola is between the others in pitch and is generally considered to have been given the least interesting parts in Classical and Romantic music for string quartet.<br />
<br />
'''Further Term'''<br><br />
The three parts of a quaternion that are multiples of '''i''', '''j''' and '''k'''<br />
<br />
'''laterite'''<br><br />
A mineral structure formed by erosion, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laterite Wikipedia].<br />
<br />
'''Inner Boulevards'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Gare du Midi'''<br><br />
The largest railway station in Brussels and a haunt of prostitutes.<br />
<br />
'''Edouard Gevaert'''<br><br />
(No ligature?)<br />
<br />
==Page 559==<br />
<br />
'''Krupp field-piece'''<br><br />
The Krupps are an ancient German family, famous for making weapons. A field-piece is a light-cannon.<br />
<br />
'''vaguely glandular'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''ostinato'''''<br><br />
A continually repeated musical phrase or rhythm.<br />
<br />
'''poleaxed'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''lost to silence'''<br><br />
(Not silent, or very?)<br />
<br />
==Page 560==<br />
<br />
'''Estacade'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''mousmée... mouchard'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''always lead an irregular life'''<br><br />
Cf GR.<br />
<br />
'''Maria Bayley Hamilton'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''council meeting'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 561==<br />
<br />
'''Brougham Bridge'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''pulls a knife'''<br><br />
(Folklore, really later?)<br />
<br />
'''on the stone'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Pentecostal'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''official Mischief Opportunity'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''absinthe spoons'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''cravats'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''"four-door farce"'''<br><br />
(See eg Bogdanovich's "What's Up, Doc?")<br />
This is also a pun on the name of Georges Feydeau, French writer of farces who was writing when Pynchon's novel is set. One of the recurring physical jokes involves sets with many doors and people coming in and out, just missing each other....<br />
<br />
==Page 562==<br />
<br />
'''Minque'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''carillons... carilloneur'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Hanseatic'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''burghers'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''silted up'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Damme and Sluis'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 563==<br />
<br />
'''trusted his intuitiveness'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''"Jou moerskont!"''... Afrikaans'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 564==<br />
<br />
'''immense choir'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Voetsak'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''starers'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''tobacco-stricken'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''half-silvering'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''four cusps... index-surface'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''co-conscious'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 565==<br />
<br />
'''true icosahedron'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''12+8... pyrites'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Riemann sphere'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Felix Klein'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''ebonite'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Ohmic Drift'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''speed of the earth... kinetic energy'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Recently Lorentz's paper'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Lord Rayleigh'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 566==<br />
<br />
'''In a dream...'''<br><br />
<br />
This passage, describing Kit's dream of Umeki and the message it conveys, pulls together many of the main themes of ''Against the Day'', tying things together in a way that Pynchon seldom does, almost as if he's providing a rather large piece of the puzzle to help the reader understand the novel:<br />
<br />
:"Deep among the equations describing the behavor of light, field equations, Vector and Quaternion equations, lies a set of directions, an intinerary, a map to a hidden space. Double refraction appears again and again as a key element, permitting a view into a Creation set just to the side of this one, so close as to overlap, where the membrane between the worlds, in many places, has become too frail, too permeable, for safety.... Within the mirror, with the scalar term, within the daylit and obvious and taken-for-granted has always lain, as if in wait, the dark intinerary, the corrupted pilgrim's guide, the nameless Station before the first, in the lightless uncreated, where salvation does not yet exist."<br />
<br />
'''analogies'''<br><br />
(Pynchonian heuristics.)<br />
<br />
'''nameless Station'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''lightless uncreated'''<br><br />
(Gnostic heresy?)<br />
<br />
'''stuffed sinus'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Konichiwa'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 567==<br />
<br />
'''new Puccini opera'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Borel-Clerc... "La Matchiche"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''western anchor'''<br><br />
What about France, Spain, Portugal?<br />
<br />
'''Compaignie Internationale des Wagons-Lits'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''two hundred francs'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''theory of sets'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Bruges Canal'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 568==<br />
<br />
'''vaporetto'''<br><br />
A Venetian water-bus.<br />
<br />
'''Grand Canal'''<br><br />
The main canal that runs through the heart of Venice and down past San Marco, the city's main square.<br />
<br />
'''San Marco end'''<br><br />
See above. This is where Florian's (appears in the novel) is situated.<br />
<br />
'''Piazzetta'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''San Giorgio Maggiore'''<br><br />
A rather over-ornate church on the Grand Canal opposite San Marco.<br />
<br />
'''spreading... cloak'''<br><br />
Cliche/allusion?<br />
<br />
'''live here forever'''<br><br />
Pynchon special-pleading that Dally isn't just another tourist.<br />
Or is this just a typical reaction of the tourist? And a Pynchonesque longing for home?<br />
==Page 569==<br />
<br />
'''Malibran... Polo's house'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''"pincette"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''profondes'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Vincenzo Miserere'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''train to Trieste'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Svegli'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''shark leather'''<br><br />
Different from sharkskin?<br />
<br />
'''''Specchiere'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''glassmakers on Murano'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 570==<br />
<br />
'''another one of his stories'''<br><br />
(Jackson Pynchon should highlight all the AtD passages that originated as bedtime stories.)<br />
<br />
'''TERAPIA'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''San Servolo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Palazzo Ducale'''<br><br />
The Ducal Palace in Venice, residence of the Doge. It's by San Marco.<br />
<br />
'''''manicomio'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''uterine vellum'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''pitch, rouge'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 571==<br />
<br />
'''La Doppiatrice'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Ettore Sananzolo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Maskelyne cabinet'''<br><br />
After Neville Maskelyne, from ''Mason and Dixon.'' Maskelyne sent M and D to record the Transit of Venus.<br />
<br />
==Page 572==<br />
<br />
'''smoke back into a cigar'''<br><br />
Time's arrow/ entropy motif.<br />
<br />
'''hard-as-a-rock black cigar'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''thumping'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''salso'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''sandoli'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''trains pulling in'''<br><br />
Famous early film.<br />
<br />
==Page 573==<br />
<br />
'''Cannareggio'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 574==<br />
<br />
'''thirty years older'''<br><br />
About 65yo?<br />
<br />
'''that day'''<br><br />
In NYC when Dally showed up.<br />
<br />
'''when she was born'''<br><br />
Cf Pretenders/Chryssie Hynde.<br />
<br />
'''Stronzo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''In bocc' al lupo!'''''<br><br />
From the Roman dialect, in which the Italians - including Rocco and Pino - seem to speak. Meaning, literally, "In the <br />
mouth of the wolf," and idiomatically, "Good luck." <br />
<br />
'''''campielli'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 575==<br />
<br />
'''Riva'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''middy blouses'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''not yet been rebuilt'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''lucciole'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''fondamenta'''''<br><br />
A waterside street in Venice<br />
<br />
'''''ombreta'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''light's good here'''<br><br />
Old joke about drunk looking for car keys under streetlight though he dropped them somewhere else.<br />
<br />
'''microcosm'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 576==<br />
<br />
'''twelve soldi'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''franc... ten francs'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Canaletto'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Beppo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''pitch'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Bauer-Grünwald'''<br><br />
An expensive hotel near San Marco in Venice.<br />
<br />
==Page 577==<br />
<br />
''''Safe''''<br><br />
Recent art-movie title?<br />
<br />
'''Castello'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Evening Gun'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''importunate'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Dr. Grace'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 578==<br />
<br />
'''Dorsoduro'''<br><br />
An area of Venice.<br />
<br />
'''''pensione'''''<br><br />
A cheap Italian hotel, like a bed and breakfast.<br />
<br />
'''La Calcina'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Zattere'''<br><br />
An area of wide waterfront pavements in Venice.<br />
<br />
'''''cimici'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''bora'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 579==<br />
<br />
'''Tintoretto's ''Abduction...'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Accademia'''<br><br />
The major art-gallery in Venice<br />
<br />
'''Titian'''<br><br />
16th century Venetian painter.<br />
<br />
'''Infancy Gospel of Thomas'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 580==<br />
<br />
'''Pentecost story in Acts'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Galilean dialect'''<br><br />
Of Aramaic.<br />
<br />
'''''rii'''''<br><br />
Plural of ''rio''.<br />
<br />
==Page 581==<br />
<br />
'''''sotopòrteghi'''''<br><br />
An open doorway for public access.<br />
<br />
'''Bodeo 10.4 mm'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 582==<br />
<br />
'''''foschetta'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''masègni'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''patrone'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''wine trains up from Puglia'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Winter'''<br><br />
1904-1905?<br />
<br />
'''Principessa Spongiatosta'''<br><br />
Is Pugnax's book from p6 at all relevant here?<br />
<br />
'''Ca''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Roman Composite order'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''japonica'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 583==<br />
<br />
'''Iron Bridge'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Le Havre'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''ma via'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''third eyes touching'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 584==<br />
<br />
'''"Swiss insurance salesman. Wolf. No, Putzi."'''<br><br />
Bria's had so many beaux she gets them confused?<br />
<br />
'''''topo'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Dogana'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Andrea Tancredi'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Seurat and Signac'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Divisionism'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Marinetti'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''"Futurists"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''brutalism'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Torcello'''<br><br />
A lonely Venetian island: very peaceful and beautiful with a church and little else.<br />
<br />
'''primitivo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 585==<br />
<br />
'''green-and-lavender'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''sirocco'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''San Michele'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''futuristic vehicle'''<br><br />
P155.<br />
<br />
'''''Preliminary Studies...'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 586==<br />
<br />
'''Always with us.'''<br><br />
Gospel of ?.<br />
<br />
'''''vero'''''<br><br />
Cf 'verdad'.<br />
<br />
'''orpiment yellow'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Nürnberg violet'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 587==<br />
<br />
'''''nebbia, nebbietta, foschia, caligo, sfumato'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''speed of sound'''<br><br />
Air temperature is more important that density.<br />
<br />
'''''La Velocità del Suono'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
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==Page 557==<br />
<br />
'''Viktor Mulciber'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''bespoke'''<br><br />
made to order, hence hand-made and expensive. Somewhere in the novel is a reference to 1 Savile Row, the address of Gieves and Hawkes, a very traditional English tailor.<br />
<br />
'''Basil Zaharoff'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''trains of history... run'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Balkan ''komitadji'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''waybill'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''metamorphosed into an American Negro'''<br><br />
Cf honorary Negro (Frank above).<br />
<br />
'''Nipponese'''<br><br />
Japanese<br />
<br />
'''Hertzian'''<br><br />
Electromagnetic waves, first demonstrated by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Rudolf_Hertz Heinrich Hertz]<br />
<br />
==Page 558==<br />
<br />
'''scalar part'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''baritone in a barbershop quartet'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''viola in a string quartet'''<br><br />
Two violins, a viola, and a violoncello make up a string quartet. The viola is between the others in pitch and is generally considered to have been given the least interesting parts in Classical and Romantic music for string quartet.<br />
<br />
'''Further Term'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''laterite'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Inner Boulevards'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Gare du Midi'''<br><br />
The largest railway station in Brussels and a haunt of prostitutes.<br />
<br />
'''Edouard Gevaert'''<br><br />
(No ligature?)<br />
<br />
==Page 559==<br />
<br />
'''Krupp field-piece'''<br><br />
The Krupps are an ancient German family, famous for making weapons. A field-piece is a light-cannon.<br />
<br />
'''vaguely glandular'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''ostinato'''''<br><br />
A continually repeated musical phrase or rhythm.<br />
<br />
'''poleaxed'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''lost to silence'''<br><br />
(Not silent, or very?)<br />
<br />
==Page 560==<br />
<br />
'''Estacade'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''mousmée... mouchard'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''always lead an irregular life'''<br><br />
Cf GR.<br />
<br />
'''Maria Bayley Hamilton'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''council meeting'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 561==<br />
<br />
'''Brougham Bridge'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''pulls a knife'''<br><br />
(Folklore, really later?)<br />
<br />
'''on the stone'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Pentecostal'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''official Mischief Opportunity'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''absinthe spoons'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''cravats'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''"four-door farce"'''<br><br />
(See eg Bogdanovich's "What's Up, Doc?")<br />
This is also a pun on the name of Georges Feydeau, French writer of farces who was writing when Pynchon's novel is set. One of the recurring physical jokes involves sets with many doors and people coming in and out, just missing each other....<br />
<br />
==Page 562==<br />
<br />
'''Minque'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''carillons... carilloneur'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Hanseatic'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''burghers'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''silted up'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Damme and Sluis'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 563==<br />
<br />
'''trusted his intuitiveness'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''"Jou moerskont!"''... Afrikaans'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 564==<br />
<br />
'''immense choir'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Voetsak'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''starers'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''tobacco-stricken'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''half-silvering'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''four cusps... index-surface'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''co-conscious'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 565==<br />
<br />
'''true icosahedron'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''12+8... pyrites'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Riemann sphere'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Felix Klein'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''ebonite'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Ohmic Drift'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''speed of the earth... kinetic energy'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Recently Lorentz's paper'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Lord Rayleigh'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 566==<br />
<br />
'''In a dream...'''<br><br />
<br />
This passage, describing Kit's dream of Umeki and the message it conveys, pulls together many of the main themes of ''Against the Day'', tying things together in a way that Pynchon seldom does, almost as if he's providing a rather large piece of the puzzle to help the reader understand the novel:<br />
<br />
:"Deep among the equations describing the behavor of light, field equations, Vector and Quaternion equations, lies a set of directions, an intinerary, a map to a hidden space. Double refraction appears again and again as a key element, permitting a view into a Creation set just to the side of this one, so close as to overlap, where the membrane between the worlds, in many places, has become too frail, too permeable, for safety.... Within the mirror, with the scalar term, within the daylit and obvious and taken-for-granted has always lain, as if in wait, the dark intinerary, the corrupted pilgrim's guide, the nameless Station before the first, in the lightless uncreated, where salvation does not yet exist."<br />
<br />
'''analogies'''<br><br />
(Pynchonian heuristics.)<br />
<br />
'''nameless Station'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''lightless uncreated'''<br><br />
(Gnostic heresy?)<br />
<br />
'''stuffed sinus'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Konichiwa'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 567==<br />
<br />
'''new Puccini opera'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Borel-Clerc... "La Matchiche"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''western anchor'''<br><br />
What about France, Spain, Portugal?<br />
<br />
'''Compaignie Internationale des Wagons-Lits'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''two hundred francs'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''theory of sets'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Bruges Canal'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 568==<br />
<br />
'''vaporetto'''<br><br />
A Venetian water-bus.<br />
<br />
'''Grand Canal'''<br><br />
The main canal that runs through the heart of Venice and down past San Marco, the city's main square.<br />
<br />
'''San Marco end'''<br><br />
See above. This is where Florian's (appears in the novel) is situated.<br />
<br />
'''Piazzetta'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''San Giorgio Maggiore'''<br><br />
A rather over-ornate church on the Grand Canal opposite San Marco.<br />
<br />
'''spreading... cloak'''<br><br />
Cliche/allusion?<br />
<br />
'''live here forever'''<br><br />
Pynchon special-pleading that Dally isn't just another tourist.<br />
Or is this just a typical reaction of the tourist? And a Pynchonesque longing for home?<br />
==Page 569==<br />
<br />
'''Malibran... Polo's house'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''"pincette"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''profondes'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Vincenzo Miserere'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''train to Trieste'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Svegli'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''shark leather'''<br><br />
Different from sharkskin?<br />
<br />
'''''Specchiere'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''glassmakers on Murano'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 570==<br />
<br />
'''another one of his stories'''<br><br />
(Jackson Pynchon should highlight all the AtD passages that originated as bedtime stories.)<br />
<br />
'''TERAPIA'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''San Servolo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Palazzo Ducale'''<br><br />
The Ducal Palace in Venice, residence of the Doge. It's by San Marco.<br />
<br />
'''''manicomio'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''uterine vellum'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''pitch, rouge'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 571==<br />
<br />
'''La Doppiatrice'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Ettore Sananzolo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Maskelyne cabinet'''<br><br />
After Neville Maskelyne, from ''Mason and Dixon.'' Maskelyne sent M and D to record the Transit of Venus.<br />
<br />
==Page 572==<br />
<br />
'''smoke back into a cigar'''<br><br />
Time's arrow/ entropy motif.<br />
<br />
'''hard-as-a-rock black cigar'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''thumping'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''salso'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''sandoli'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''trains pulling in'''<br><br />
Famous early film.<br />
<br />
==Page 573==<br />
<br />
'''Cannareggio'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 574==<br />
<br />
'''thirty years older'''<br><br />
About 65yo?<br />
<br />
'''that day'''<br><br />
In NYC when Dally showed up.<br />
<br />
'''when she was born'''<br><br />
Cf Pretenders/Chryssie Hynde.<br />
<br />
'''Stronzo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''In bocc' al lupo!'''''<br><br />
From the Roman dialect, in which the Italians - including Rocco and Pino - seem to speak. Meaning, literally, "In the <br />
mouth of the wolf," and idiomatically, "Good luck." <br />
<br />
'''''campielli'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 575==<br />
<br />
'''Riva'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''middy blouses'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''not yet been rebuilt'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''lucciole'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''fondamenta'''''<br><br />
A waterside street in Venice<br />
<br />
'''''ombreta'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''light's good here'''<br><br />
Old joke about drunk looking for car keys under streetlight though he dropped them somewhere else.<br />
<br />
'''microcosm'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 576==<br />
<br />
'''twelve soldi'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''franc... ten francs'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Canaletto'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Beppo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''pitch'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Bauer-Grünwald'''<br><br />
An expensive hotel near San Marco in Venice.<br />
<br />
==Page 577==<br />
<br />
''''Safe''''<br><br />
Recent art-movie title?<br />
<br />
'''Castello'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Evening Gun'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''importunate'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Dr. Grace'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 578==<br />
<br />
'''Dorsoduro'''<br><br />
An area of Venice.<br />
<br />
'''''pensione'''''<br><br />
A cheap Italian hotel, like a bed and breakfast.<br />
<br />
'''La Calcina'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Zattere'''<br><br />
An area of wide waterfront pavements in Venice.<br />
<br />
'''''cimici'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''bora'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 579==<br />
<br />
'''Tintoretto's ''Abduction...'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Accademia'''<br><br />
The major art-gallery in Venice<br />
<br />
'''Titian'''<br><br />
16th century Venetian painter.<br />
<br />
'''Infancy Gospel of Thomas'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 580==<br />
<br />
'''Pentecost story in Acts'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Galilean dialect'''<br><br />
Of Aramaic.<br />
<br />
'''''rii'''''<br><br />
Plural of ''rio''.<br />
<br />
==Page 581==<br />
<br />
'''''sotopòrteghi'''''<br><br />
An open doorway for public access.<br />
<br />
'''Bodeo 10.4 mm'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 582==<br />
<br />
'''''foschetta'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''masègni'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''patrone'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''wine trains up from Puglia'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Winter'''<br><br />
1904-1905?<br />
<br />
'''Principessa Spongiatosta'''<br><br />
Is Pugnax's book from p6 at all relevant here?<br />
<br />
'''Ca''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Roman Composite order'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''japonica'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 583==<br />
<br />
'''Iron Bridge'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Le Havre'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''ma via'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''third eyes touching'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 584==<br />
<br />
'''"Swiss insurance salesman. Wolf. No, Putzi."'''<br><br />
Bria's had so many beaux she gets them confused?<br />
<br />
'''''topo'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Dogana'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Andrea Tancredi'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Seurat and Signac'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Divisionism'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Marinetti'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''"Futurists"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''brutalism'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Torcello'''<br><br />
A lonely Venetian island: very peaceful and beautiful with a church and little else.<br />
<br />
'''primitivo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 585==<br />
<br />
'''green-and-lavender'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''sirocco'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''San Michele'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''futuristic vehicle'''<br><br />
P155.<br />
<br />
'''''Preliminary Studies...'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 586==<br />
<br />
'''Always with us.'''<br><br />
Gospel of ?.<br />
<br />
'''''vero'''''<br><br />
Cf 'verdad'.<br />
<br />
'''orpiment yellow'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Nürnberg violet'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 587==<br />
<br />
'''''nebbia, nebbietta, foschia, caligo, sfumato'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''speed of sound'''<br><br />
Air temperature is more important that density.<br />
<br />
'''''La Velocità del Suono'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
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==Page 273==<br />
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'''the electric'''<br><br />
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]<br />
<br />
==Page 274==<br />
<br />
'''Arapahoe'''<br><br />
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.<br />
<br />
'''drygulched'''<br><br />
Ambushed, betrayed.<br />
<br />
'''after Repeal in '93'''<br><br />
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].<br />
<br />
'''Lake County'''<br><br />
Colorado county of which Leadville is the county seat.<br />
<br />
'''Haw Tabor'''<br><br />
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].<br />
<br />
'''Matchless'''<br><br />
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]<br />
<br />
'''Zinc Rush'''<br><br />
Leadville had "rushes" on gold, silver, molybdenim, zinc...<br />
<br />
'''some bright engineer'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 275==<br />
<br />
'''Molly-be-damned'''<br><br />
Molybdenum, which is still mined outside of Leadville.<br />
<br />
'''Wren Provenance'''<br><br />
Let's not forget that one manifestation of '''V.''' was Victoria Wren. There appear to be many allusions to '''V.''' in ATD.<br />
<br />
'''heaps'''<br><br />
pic?<br />
<br />
'''Sons of Heaven section'''<br><br />
This is a term for the emperors of China.<br />
<br />
==Page 276==<br />
<br />
'''Jennie Rogers's House of Mirrors'''<br><br />
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].<br />
<br />
'''dress cavalry helmet'''<br><br />
pic?<br />
<br />
==Page 277==<br />
<br />
'''Aztl&aacute;n'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''thirteenth century'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''images of creatures'''<br><br />
pic?<br />
<br />
==Page 278==<br />
<br />
'''the report'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Albany... bar mirror'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Booth Virbling'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 279==<br />
<br />
'''Bulkley Wells'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Ice Saw murder'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''sparking'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 280==<br />
<br />
'''South Pacific islands'''<br><br />
Cf Margaret Mead.<br />
<br />
==Page 281==<br />
<br />
'''first city'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''"Beside the tracks at one bend stood a local lunatic"'''<br><br />
Like starting a Disney land ride.<br />
:how so? [[User:Bleakhaus|Bleakhaus]] 14:46, 4 December 2006 (PST)<br />
<br />
==Page 282==<br />
<br />
'''level of hatred'''<br><br />
Cf capacitance?<br />
<br />
'''vagging bee'''<br><br />
Neologism?<br />
<br />
==Page 283==<br />
<br />
'''''"joven"'''''<br><br />
Young fellow (Spanish).<br />
<br />
'''Ellmore Disco'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''when it was still Leadville'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Seven-Toed Pete'''<br><br />
Seven Card Stud<br />
<br />
==Page 284==<br />
<br />
'''jaconet... tartalan... crepe liss&eacute;'''<br><br />
jaconet 1.a soft, white, lightweight cotton textile 2. cotton cloth glazed on one side and dyed<br />
<br />
'''Liberty's of London'''<br><br />
A famous department store in Regent Street, London, notable for its prints and fabrics. Opened in 1875 in a mock-Tudor building.<br />
<br />
'''Grand Rapids style'''<br><br />
A simple, non-ornamental design style of furniture, with heavy emphasis<br />
on office furniture. Mostly oak, it seems. From the 1860's, the office furniture was "mass-produced", whatever that means for the times. A kind of furniture allowing no "moral turpitude", as one online remark has it. (see Time.com use in 1978 below!)<br />
Grand Rapids was a furniture center and major location for regular furniture exhibitions for decades before and after the time of ATD. Source: Grand Rapids Public Library catalog, passim.<br />
"The rooms are furnished in Grand Rapids style. The beds have pallets, but no springs, no Western-style mattresses, no top sheets; maid service consists of dumping a clean sheet and a blanket on the bed, to be made up by the guest."---Time.com...1978...on certain hotel rooms in China.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Four Corners Boys'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 285==<br />
<br />
'''million apiece'''<br><br />
Current values?<br />
<br />
'''...it's out with that wackyzacky...'''<br />
<br />
The 'wakizashi' is a Japanese sword - 12 to 24 inches - often worn by a Samurai together with a Katana - another sword - and the two together are then called a Daish or somesuch. Although it would appear that this sword would have sometimes been used during Hari Kiri it is not the normal Hari Kiri weapon. That is usually a short - 6 to 12 inches long - double edged knife/sword called a Tant.'<br><br />
<br />
'''hari-kari'''<br />
<br />
'''''Trans'''. belly cutting''<br />
<br />
What became a ritualised form of suicide in Japan cheifly amongst the nobility. It was sometimes offered to a nobleman as an honorable alternative to execution. A short knife or sword is plunged into the abdomen, drawn through and across the bowel laterally, with a small upwards twist at the end. Now extremely rare in Japan. More commonly referred to by the Chinese name for belly cutting - Seppuku - because eventually the Ritual was seen as being somewhat distastaeful, even dishonourable<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Cal Rutan'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 286==<br />
<br />
'''Loomis'''<br><br />
Loomis Disco.<br />
<br />
'''lowland alkali'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''hardpan'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 287==<br />
<br />
'''chicharrones'''<br><br />
Fried pork skins.<br />
<br />
'''''Ristras'''''<br><br />
Strings of dried red chiles.<br />
<br />
'''sixty-degree wedges'''<br><br />
One-sixth of a pie.<br />
<br />
'''''"Por poco te falt&oacute; La Blanca"'''''<br><br />
Translates to "You just missed La Blanca."<br />
<br />
==Page 288==<br />
<br />
'''Montrose'''<br><br />
A city on Colorado's Western Slope. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montrose%2C_Colorado Wikipedia entry].<br />
<br />
'''popcorn snows'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''vanning'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''comal'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 289==<br />
<br />
'''half a cubic foot'''<br><br />
12" by 12" by 6".<br />
<br />
==Page 290==<br />
<br />
'''miner's gad'''<br><br />
According to the OED, "1. a steel wedge, 2. a small iron punch with a wooden handle used to break up ore."<br />
<br />
'''McBryan's'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''trick animal'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 291==<br />
<br />
'''Cosmopolitan'''<br><br />
Cf p260.<br />
<br />
'''Mr. Edison's scheme... static electricity'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Wetherill's magnet'''<br><br />
If electric, that's Kit's domain.<br />
<br />
==Page 292==<br />
'''pocket Kodak'''<br><br />
Possibly the "No. 3 Folding Pocket KODAK Camera" produced by Eastman Kodak from 1900 to 1915.<br />
<br />
'''Hieronymus Wheel'''<br><br />
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.<br />
:While there is most certainly something Boschean about Pynchon's aesthetic, nothing in the context of this passage suggests an association with either the painting described above or the machinist Robert Bosch. Instead, the passage indicates that the term describes a roulette wheel. Neither Google nor the OED recognize the term in any meaningful way, though it may be a back formation from the term "jerry," meaning to tumble, Hieronymous being the latinate form of Jerome. This etymology is still a considerable stretch, but it fits the passage better. For an example of an AtD passage that '''does''' conjure Old Master depictions of Hell (of which Bosch painted several), albeit without suggesting Bosch specifically, see p. 210-11, "the first glimpse of Jeshimon . . . . advanced the hour."<br />
<br />
'''Dieter'''<br><br />
German first name. Pronunciation: [diːtər]. Short for Dietrich. A Old High German combination of 'thioda' (ger: das Volk, engl: the nation) and 'heri' (ger: das Heer, engl: the army). Popular male name in Germany after WWII. Outfashioned today ''Dieter'' is referred to as comic and/or queer.<br />
:Since "Dieter" is "the barkeep" the English word ''dieter'' for someone who prescibes a diet comes to mind.<br />
<br />
'''bellows'''<br><br />
pic?<br />
<br />
==Page 293==<br />
<br />
'''''"Sumimasen... Bobusan desu... Gonnusuringaa... mottomo abunai desu"'''''<br><br />
Don't know the rest, but "Bobusan" refers to Bob and "Gonnusuringaa" is likely "Gunslinger."<br />
<br><br />
Translation from e2535: <br><br />
mottomo abunai desu = "he is extremely dangerous" <br><br />
Sumimasen = "Pardon me" or "Excuse me"<br><br />
<br />
'''''"Anna koto"'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''fulgurescence'''<br><br />
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." In this context, "fulgerescence," refers to bright, lightening-like flashes.<br />
<br />
'''"The loss of clarity . . . . in the dark"'''<br><br />
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.<br />
:Cf., also, p. 221, "Lateral world-sets, other parts of the Creation, lie all around us, each with its crossover points or gates of transfer from one to another, and they can be anywhere, really . . . . An unscheduled Explosion, introduced into the accustomed flow of the day, may easily open, now and then, passages to elsewhere," as well as p. 230, "'Let us imagine a lateral world, set only infintesimally to the side of the one we think we know.'"<br />
::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].<br />
::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].<br />
<br />
'''packing out pyrites'''<br><br />
Mining fool's gold.<br />
<br />
'''katana'''<br><br />
Japanese samurai sword.<br />
<br />
==Page 294==<br />
<br />
'''Baron Akashi'''<br><br />
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?<br />
<br />
'''Squirrel and sarsaparilla'''<br><br />
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.<br />
<br />
==Page 295==<br />
<br />
'''summer of '89'''<br><br />
Butch Cassidy and his accomplices robbed the San Miguel Valley Bank in Telluride on 24 June 1889 ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_Cassidy#1889.E2.80.931894_.E2.80.94_early_robberies.2C_going_to_prison Wikipedia])<br />
<br />
==Annotation Index==<br />
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==Page 525==<br />
<br />
'''Boulevard van Isenghem'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''street-plausible'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Quai de l'empereur'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''estaminet'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''twelve-centime'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Kellner'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''demi'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Lambic'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''skimmer'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 526==<br />
<br />
'''universal sign'''<br><br />
Cf Monopoly game card.<br />
<br />
'''biquaternion'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Barry Nebulay'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''University of Dublin'''<br><br />
If University College, Dublin, then Joyce had graduated in 1902.<br />
<br />
'''Tasmania'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Hamiltonion'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Grand Hôtel de la Nouvelle Digue'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Belgian Art Nouveau'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 527==<br />
<br />
'''dossing'''<br><br />
British slang for "sleeping", "staying overnight"<br />
<br />
'''Russian nihilists'''<br><br />
<br />
<br />
'''Eugénie, Fatou'''<br><br />
Females.<br />
<br />
'''Denis, and Policarpe'''<br><br />
Males.<br />
<br />
'''Young Congo'''<br><br />
Probably in reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Turks Young Turks], a Turkish revolutionary movement<br />
<br />
'''Garde Civique'''<br><br />
A part of the Belgian army. According to the [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Belgium 1911 Britannica], "the mass of the garde civique does not pretend to possess military value. It is a defence against sedition and socialism."<br />
<br />
'''''phalange'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''the Digue'''<br><br />
French for "dyke"<br />
<br />
'''Congo... Belgians'''<br><br />
The Belgian colonisation of the Congo was, as Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" makes clear, notable for its greed and brutality.<br />
<br />
'''co-conscious'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Force Publique'''<br><br />
Belgian armed forces operating in the Belgian Congo ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_Publique Wikipedia])<br />
<br />
'''rubber worker'''<br><br />
See above: One of the early missions of the FP was to increase rubber export quotas through forced labor and related atrocities.<br />
<br />
==Page 528==<br />
<br />
'''''khâgne'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Reclus'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Stirnerite'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Anarcho-individualiste'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Leopold'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''going down lately'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Sipido'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Prince... of Wales'''<br><br />
(Maud Gonne's husband claimed to have been involved in another such plot.)<br />
<br />
'''Royal Bathing Hut... twenty francs'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''twenty francs'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 529==<br />
<br />
''''picric''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Brugère's powder'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Designolle's'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Monsieur Santos-Dumont'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Green Hour'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''l'heure vertigineuse'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Rocco and Pino'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Whitehead works in Fiume'''<br><br />
Anticipating GR's V2 works.<br />
<br />
'''''Alberta'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Siluro Dirigible a Lenta Corsa'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 530==<br />
<br />
'''exfiltrate'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Macchè'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Ehi, stugazz', categoria'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''mezzogiornismo'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 531==<br />
<br />
'''Bruges'''<br><br />
An exceptionally beautiful Belgian town of canals which is thus one of several towns known as the 'Venice of the north'.<br />
<br />
'''Raoul's Atelier de la Vitesse'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Ghent'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Daimler six-cylinder'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''a hundred horsepower'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''guaglion'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Umeki Tsurigane'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Professor Knott'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 532==<br />
<br />
'''drover's sombrero'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''furoshiki'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''taupe'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''boilermakers and their helpers'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Comptes rendus'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 533==<br />
<br />
'''aniline teal'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Heavisiders'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Grassmanniacs'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''in the mood for a clambake'''<br><br />
Anachronistic Broadway show tune?<br />
<br />
'''Monopole de la Maison'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Idiom Neutral'''<br><br />
An invented language, like Esperanto. Idiom Neutral dictionaries first appeard in 1902. It looks like a simplified Latinate language and it grew out of Volapuk, another "auxiliary language." It was abandoned by the ''Akademi Internasional de Lingu Universal'' in 1908.<br />
<br />
For a list of all the invented languages that linguists are keeping track of, including Klingon, try [http://linguistlist.org/forms/langs/GetListOfConstructedLgs.html Eastern Michigan's Linguist List]. And don't forget to click on the link to "Browse sites devoted to constructed languages."<br />
<br />
'''phatic'''<br><br />
Basically, small talk or chatter. Words used to convey fellow-feeling rather than to impart information.<br />
<br />
'''''Kampf ums Dasein'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Q-brother'''<br><br />
"My fellow Quaternion"?<br />
<br />
==Page 534==<br />
<br />
'''Poiret gown'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''green and long'''''<br><br />
Pickle, or... what?<br />
<br />
==Page 535==<br />
<br />
'''no-name wine'''<br><br />
1970s idiom for common European practice?<br />
<br />
'''Hamilton... first love'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 536==<br />
<br />
'''Kursaal'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Curls'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Laplacians'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''scream'''<br><br />
Scream motif.<br />
<br />
'''beginning to appal'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''baize'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 537==<br />
<br />
'''broken symmetries'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''sphinxe Khnopffienne'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Pléiade Lafrisée'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Conseilleuse'''''<br><br />
Female consultant?<br />
<br />
==Page 538==<br />
<br />
'''retroversion matrix'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Ma foi'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''ten thousand francs'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''piker'''<br><br />
Someone cheap or cautious, possibly named after people from PIke County, Missouri, who came to California in the 1800s, looking for work. They were poor, hence cheap. <br />
<br />
''''Mad Dog''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Hegel... puns'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 539==<br />
<br />
'''vector quotient'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
''''Triangle Asana''''<br><br />
A basic yoga pose. <br />
<br />
[http://yoga.org.nz/postures/yoga_positions_images_page.htm Here are images of several basic poses.]<br />
<br />
''''Quadrantal Versor Asana''''<br><br />
A triangle pose taken that extra dimension.<br />
<br />
'''''"Uwe moer!"'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''noncommutative'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''reticule'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Vacheron & Constantin watch'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''hunting-case'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 540==<br />
<br />
'''"haar rekening, ja?"'''<br><br />
The bill, yes? (Dutch)?<br />
<br />
Given the presence of Chris 'Kit' Traverse here, this very much suggests a reference to Christopher 'Kit' Marlowe, Elizabethan poet, playwright and contemporary of Shakespeare. Marlowe was stabbed to death in 1593, in murky circumstances, ostensibly over a bill or 'recokning', though he was widely believed to have been involved in some form of espionage.<br />
<br />
'''Piet Woevre'''<br><br />
Pete Weaver?<br />
<br />
'''made him reach'''<br><br />
(Cf Ezra Pound?)<br />
<br />
'''not unambiguous'''<br><br />
Ie, ambiguous.<br />
<br />
'''''rastaquoueres'''''<br><br />
8???<br />
<br />
'''de Decker'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 541==<br />
<br />
'''''bobbejaan'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''MKIV/ODC... Mark Four'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''your remit'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''gatkruiper'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''one on her wrist'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''over the day'''<br><br />
Title motif?<br />
<br />
==Page 542==<br />
<br />
'''trans-horizontic'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Edmund Whittaker'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''foaming louche'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''cheval-glass'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''as if someone'''<br><br />
Sound-cancelling vs opacity-cancelling?<br />
<br />
==Page 543==<br />
<br />
'''monitory'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''He Who Must Come'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''General Boulanger'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Boulanger Georges Boulanger], French War Minister urging an attack on Germany<br />
<br />
'''''"Zeker"'''''<br><br />
Dutch, "certainly"<br />
<br />
'''''dead cert'''''<br><br />
Dead certainty, sure thing.<br />
<br />
'''Von Schlieffen'''<br><br />
Alfred von Schlieffen was the author of a German war plan to win a two-front war against both France and Russia by quickly defeating France before Russina troops could be mobilized. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlieffen_Plan Schlieffen Plan] included an attack on France through Belgium, disregarding its neutrality.<br />
<br />
'''Wilhelm has offered'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''lowlands'''<br><br />
Title of Pynchon's first published story. Here, ass?<br />
<br />
==Page 544==<br />
<br />
'''Place d'Armes'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''peau de soie'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Krafft-Ebing'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''toque'''<br><br />
A chef's hat<br />
<br />
'''guipure'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''midinette'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''sous'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''mayonnaise'''<br><br />
One of Brautigan's books famously ends with the word mayonnaise.<br />
<br />
'''ovoöleaginous'''<br><br />
Another Pynchonic word combination, here denoting the two main ingredients of mayonnaise: 1) eggs, and 2) oil. It's not "fecoventilatory collision" as seen in "Vineland," but it's nice.<br />
<br />
'''Grenache'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Chantilly'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''attainder'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
''''''Aux armes, citoyens''''''<br><br />
Not "Le Marseillaise," you nitwit!<br />
<br />
'''Louis XV'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Cléo de Mérode'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''marquise de Pompadour'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 545==<br />
<br />
'''dubious 'victory' in 1756'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''cantharides'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Sadean'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''vetiver'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''pip'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Q.P. system'''<br><br />
Quaternion Probability, p?.<br />
<br />
'''Usine Régionale'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 546==<br />
<br />
'''lounge suit'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''congress shoes'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''dripping-heads'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''cuves d'agitation'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Clinique d'Urgence pour Sauvetage des Sauces'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 547==<br />
<br />
'''''Cazzo, cretino'''''<br><br />
Literally, "Dick, cretin." ''Cazzo'' is a common Italian interjectionary obscenity, especially in the south. "Cazzo, cretino," is akin to someone saying, "Well shit, dummy," or "F-ing moron!"<br />
<br />
'''''bambole'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Oudenberg'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Quai de l'Entrepôt'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 548==<br />
<br />
'''''timbres fictifs'''''<br><br />
Cf "Lot 49".<br />
<br />
'''"IIIb"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''revanchist'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 549==<br />
<br />
'''cackled Darby'''<br><br />
(When did he lose his innocence?)<br />
<br />
'''"Why you little–and I do mean 'little'–"'''<br><br />
Another Simpsons reference? <br />
<br />
'''dunes between Nieuport and Dunkirk'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''power-receivers'''<br><br />
Not information, energy.<br />
<br />
==Page 550==<br />
<br />
'''Italian grotto'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Carpathians'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Uhlans'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Temesvár'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 551==<br />
<br />
'''Ryder Thorn'''<br><br />
Tolkienesque name?<br />
<br />
'''He was at Candlebrow.'''<br><br />
(Was he?)<br />
<br />
==Page 552==<br />
<br />
'''knuckle-duster'''<br><br />
Brass knuckles.<br />
<br />
'''Diksmuide'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 553==<br />
<br />
'''retted'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 554==<br />
<br />
'''Ypres and Menin'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Ten years from now'''<br><br />
(1914?)<br />
<br />
'''Bosch'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Brueghel'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''League'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 555==<br />
<br />
'''simpletons at the fair'''<br><br />
Making Pynchon's metaphor explicit.<br />
<br />
'''Chopin E-minor Nocturne'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''owl-light'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
''''plasmic hysteresis''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Annotation Index==<br />
{{ATD PbP}}</div>Themelhttps://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_525-556&diff=4699ATD 525-5562006-12-29T18:00:30Z<p>Themel: /* Page 543 */</p>
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==Page 525==<br />
<br />
'''Boulevard van Isenghem'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''street-plausible'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Quai de l'empereur'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''estaminet'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''twelve-centime'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Kellner'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''demi'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Lambic'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''skimmer'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 526==<br />
<br />
'''universal sign'''<br><br />
Cf Monopoly game card.<br />
<br />
'''biquaternion'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Barry Nebulay'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''University of Dublin'''<br><br />
If University College, Dublin, then Joyce had graduated in 1902.<br />
<br />
'''Tasmania'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Hamiltonion'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Grand Hôtel de la Nouvelle Digue'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Belgian Art Nouveau'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 527==<br />
<br />
'''dossing'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''nihilists'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Eugénie, Fatou'''<br><br />
Females.<br />
<br />
'''Denis, and Policarpe'''<br><br />
Males.<br />
<br />
'''Young Congo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Garde Civique'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''phalange'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''the Digue'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Congo... Belgians'''<br><br />
The Belgian colonisation of the Congo was, as Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" makes clear, notable for its greed and brutality.<br />
<br />
'''co-conscious'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Force Publique'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''rubber worker'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 528==<br />
<br />
'''''khâgne'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Reclus'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Stirnerite'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Anarcho-individualiste'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Leopold'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''going down lately'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Sipido'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Prince... of Wales'''<br><br />
(Maud Gonne's husband claimed to have been involved in another such plot.)<br />
<br />
'''Royal Bathing Hut... twenty francs'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''twenty francs'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 529==<br />
<br />
''''picric''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Brugère's powder'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Designolle's'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Monsieur Santos-Dumont'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Green Hour'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''l'heure vertigineuse'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Rocco and Pino'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Whitehead works in Fiume'''<br><br />
Anticipating GR's V2 works.<br />
<br />
'''''Alberta'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Siluro Dirigible a Lenta Corsa'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 530==<br />
<br />
'''exfiltrate'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Macchè'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Ehi, stugazz', categoria'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''mezzogiornismo'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 531==<br />
<br />
'''Bruges'''<br><br />
An exceptionally beautiful Belgian town of canals which is thus one of several towns known as the 'Venice of the north'.<br />
<br />
'''Raoul's Atelier de la Vitesse'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Ghent'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Daimler six-cylinder'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''a hundred horsepower'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''guaglion'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Umeki Tsurigane'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Professor Knott'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 532==<br />
<br />
'''drover's sombrero'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''furoshiki'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''taupe'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''boilermakers and their helpers'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Comptes rendus'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 533==<br />
<br />
'''aniline teal'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Heavisiders'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Grassmanniacs'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''in the mood for a clambake'''<br><br />
Anachronistic Broadway show tune?<br />
<br />
'''Monopole de la Maison'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Idiom Neutral'''<br><br />
An invented language, like Esperanto. Idiom Neutral dictionaries first appeard in 1902. It looks like a simplified Latinate language and it grew out of Volapuk, another "auxiliary language." It was abandoned by the ''Akademi Internasional de Lingu Universal'' in 1908.<br />
<br />
For a list of all the invented languages that linguists are keeping track of, including Klingon, try [http://linguistlist.org/forms/langs/GetListOfConstructedLgs.html Eastern Michigan's Linguist List]. And don't forget to click on the link to "Browse sites devoted to constructed languages."<br />
<br />
'''phatic'''<br><br />
Basically, small talk or chatter. Words used to convey fellow-feeling rather than to impart information.<br />
<br />
'''''Kampf ums Dasein'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Q-brother'''<br><br />
"My fellow Quaternion"?<br />
<br />
==Page 534==<br />
<br />
'''Poiret gown'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''green and long'''''<br><br />
Pickle, or... what?<br />
<br />
==Page 535==<br />
<br />
'''no-name wine'''<br><br />
1970s idiom for common European practice?<br />
<br />
'''Hamilton... first love'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 536==<br />
<br />
'''Kursaal'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Curls'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Laplacians'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''scream'''<br><br />
Scream motif.<br />
<br />
'''beginning to appal'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''baize'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 537==<br />
<br />
'''broken symmetries'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''sphinxe Khnopffienne'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Pléiade Lafrisée'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Conseilleuse'''''<br><br />
Female consultant?<br />
<br />
==Page 538==<br />
<br />
'''retroversion matrix'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Ma foi'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''ten thousand francs'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''piker'''<br><br />
Someone cheap or cautious, possibly named after people from PIke County, Missouri, who came to California in the 1800s, looking for work. They were poor, hence cheap. <br />
<br />
''''Mad Dog''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Hegel... puns'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 539==<br />
<br />
'''vector quotient'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
''''Triangle Asana''''<br><br />
A basic yoga pose. <br />
<br />
[http://yoga.org.nz/postures/yoga_positions_images_page.htm Here are images of several basic poses.]<br />
<br />
''''Quadrantal Versor Asana''''<br><br />
A triangle pose taken that extra dimension.<br />
<br />
'''''"Uwe moer!"'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''noncommutative'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''reticule'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Vacheron & Constantin watch'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''hunting-case'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 540==<br />
<br />
'''"haar rekening, ja?"'''<br><br />
The bill, yes? (Dutch)?<br />
<br />
Given the presence of Chris 'Kit' Traverse here, this very much suggests a reference to Christopher 'Kit' Marlowe, Elizabethan poet, playwright and contemporary of Shakespeare. Marlowe was stabbed to death in 1593, in murky circumstances, ostensibly over a bill or 'recokning', though he was widely believed to have been involved in some form of espionage.<br />
<br />
'''Piet Woevre'''<br><br />
Pete Weaver?<br />
<br />
'''made him reach'''<br><br />
(Cf Ezra Pound?)<br />
<br />
'''not unambiguous'''<br><br />
Ie, ambiguous.<br />
<br />
'''''rastaquoueres'''''<br><br />
8???<br />
<br />
'''de Decker'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 541==<br />
<br />
'''''bobbejaan'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''MKIV/ODC... Mark Four'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''your remit'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''gatkruiper'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''one on her wrist'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''over the day'''<br><br />
Title motif?<br />
<br />
==Page 542==<br />
<br />
'''trans-horizontic'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Edmund Whittaker'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''foaming louche'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''cheval-glass'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''as if someone'''<br><br />
Sound-cancelling vs opacity-cancelling?<br />
<br />
==Page 543==<br />
<br />
'''monitory'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''He Who Must Come'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''General Boulanger'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Boulanger Georges Boulanger], French War Minister urging an attack on Germany<br />
<br />
'''''"Zeker"'''''<br><br />
Dutch, "certainly"<br />
<br />
'''''dead cert'''''<br><br />
Dead certainty, sure thing.<br />
<br />
'''Von Schlieffen'''<br><br />
Alfred von Schlieffen was the author of a German war plan to win a two-front war against both France and Russia by quickly defeating France before Russina troops could be mobilized. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlieffen_Plan Schlieffen Plan] included an attack on France through Belgium, disregarding its neutrality.<br />
<br />
'''Wilhelm has offered'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''lowlands'''<br><br />
Title of Pynchon's first published story. Here, ass?<br />
<br />
==Page 544==<br />
<br />
'''Place d'Armes'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''peau de soie'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Krafft-Ebing'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''toque'''<br><br />
A chef's hat<br />
<br />
'''guipure'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''midinette'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''sous'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''mayonnaise'''<br><br />
One of Brautigan's books famously ends with the word mayonnaise.<br />
<br />
'''ovoöleaginous'''<br><br />
Another Pynchonic word combination, here denoting the two main ingredients of mayonnaise: 1) eggs, and 2) oil. It's not "fecoventilatory collision" as seen in "Vineland," but it's nice.<br />
<br />
'''Grenache'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Chantilly'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''attainder'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
''''''Aux armes, citoyens''''''<br><br />
Not "Le Marseillaise," you nitwit!<br />
<br />
'''Louis XV'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Cléo de Mérode'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''marquise de Pompadour'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 545==<br />
<br />
'''dubious 'victory' in 1756'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''cantharides'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Sadean'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''vetiver'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''pip'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Q.P. system'''<br><br />
Quaternion Probability, p?.<br />
<br />
'''Usine Régionale'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 546==<br />
<br />
'''lounge suit'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''congress shoes'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''dripping-heads'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''cuves d'agitation'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Clinique d'Urgence pour Sauvetage des Sauces'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 547==<br />
<br />
'''''Cazzo, cretino'''''<br><br />
Literally, "Dick, cretin." ''Cazzo'' is a common Italian interjectionary obscenity, especially in the south. "Cazzo, cretino," is akin to someone saying, "Well shit, dummy," or "F-ing moron!"<br />
<br />
'''''bambole'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Oudenberg'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Quai de l'Entrepôt'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 548==<br />
<br />
'''''timbres fictifs'''''<br><br />
Cf "Lot 49".<br />
<br />
'''"IIIb"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''revanchist'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 549==<br />
<br />
'''cackled Darby'''<br><br />
(When did he lose his innocence?)<br />
<br />
'''"Why you little–and I do mean 'little'–"'''<br><br />
Another Simpsons reference? <br />
<br />
'''dunes between Nieuport and Dunkirk'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''power-receivers'''<br><br />
Not information, energy.<br />
<br />
==Page 550==<br />
<br />
'''Italian grotto'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Carpathians'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Uhlans'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Temesvár'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 551==<br />
<br />
'''Ryder Thorn'''<br><br />
Tolkienesque name?<br />
<br />
'''He was at Candlebrow.'''<br><br />
(Was he?)<br />
<br />
==Page 552==<br />
<br />
'''knuckle-duster'''<br><br />
Brass knuckles.<br />
<br />
'''Diksmuide'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 553==<br />
<br />
'''retted'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 554==<br />
<br />
'''Ypres and Menin'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Ten years from now'''<br><br />
(1914?)<br />
<br />
'''Bosch'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Brueghel'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''League'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 555==<br />
<br />
'''simpletons at the fair'''<br><br />
Making Pynchon's metaphor explicit.<br />
<br />
'''Chopin E-minor Nocturne'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''owl-light'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
''''plasmic hysteresis''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
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==Page 588==<br />
<br />
'''tannery'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Gauss's brain'''<br><br />
After Carl Friedrich Gauss died in 1855, his brain was preserved for research purposes. To this day, it is in the possession of the University of Göttingen.<br />
<br />
'''impervious to the wind'''<br><br />
(Attribute of tanned leather?)<br />
<br />
'''''"Heiliger Bimbam!"'''''<br><br />
A German expression of surprise, translated elsewhere as "Holy Moly!"<br />
<br />
'''rim'''<br><br />
Kit pretends to think he's referring to monocle as 'chichi' (stylish).<br />
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==Page 589==<br />
<br />
'''''Noli me tangere''''<br />
<br />
Latin for 'don't touch me'<br />
<br />
'''''Hausknochen'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 590==<br />
<br />
'''Hadamard... Poussin... Prime Number Theorem'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''patent ''Kühlbox'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''beleaguered subset'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 591==<br />
<br />
'''prats'''<br><br />
Literally the buttocks. As a slang term, a 'prat' is an idiot.<br />
<br />
'''''Die Nullstellen der [zeta]-Funktion'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''"Richard Harding Davis"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''seldom, if ever'''<br><br />
Cf p559 re Umeki!?<br />
<br />
'''tetralatry'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''C. Howard Hinton'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Johann K.F. Zöllner'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''vogue... 'vague''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 592==<br />
<br />
'''upside-down triangles'''<br><br />
Also Pléiade p538.<br />
<br />
'''metallic banging'<br />
<br />
''''metric interval''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Prinzenstrasse and Weenderstrasse'''<br><br />
A street corner at the very center of Göttingen ([http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=g%C3%B6ttingen,+germany&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=17&ll=51.534284,9.935417&spn=0.006107,0.010793&t=h Google Maps]), "known to mathematicians here as the origin of the city of Göttingen's coordinate system".<br />
<br />
==Page 593==<br />
<br />
'''twenty marks'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''der Pistolenheld'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''das Nichtharmonischestrahlenbündel'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Latin... Euler'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Mathematical Theory of the Top'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Leopold Kronecker''' and '''Cantor'''<br><br />
The "monumental quarrel between Kronecker and Cantor" is also referred to as a "religious war," appropriately enough. It's based in a disagreement over the legitimacy of numbers. Kronecker held that "'the positive integers were created by God, and all else is the work of man.'" This is contradicted by "'Cantor with his ''Kontinuum'', professing an equally strong belief in just those regions, infinitely divisible, which lie ''between'' the whole numbers so demanding of all Kronecker's devotion.'"<br />
<br />
The disagreement between the two mathematicians is reminiscent of (or does it anticipate?) the rift between Pointsman and Mexico in ''Gravity's Rainbow''. Kronecker's integers "created by God" have become a Pavlovian digital binary for Pointsman, but the two oppositions track faithfully right down to the italicized "between." <br />
<br />
"The young statistician [Mexico] is devoted to number and to method, not table-rapping or wishful thinking. But in the domain of zero to one, not-something to something, Pointsman can only possess the zero and the one. He cannot, like Mexico, survive anyplace in between. Like his master I. P. Pavlov before him, he imagines the cortex of the brain as a mosaic of tiny on/off elements.... But to Mexico belongs the domain ''between'' zero and one." [Page 55]<br />
<br />
It should be noted, however, that the continuous number line was a modern innovation. In Greek number theory, a number is a collection of indivisible units. Irrationals, such as the square root of 2 are not numbers but "magnitudes." One is not even a number for it is not a number of units. There are no negative numbers as well. (see Klein's <i>Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra.</i>) So Kronecker's position may be less of a crazy innovation as much as a maintenance of ancient theory.<br />
<br />
'''''Kontinuum'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 599==<br />
<br />
'''''Nervenklinik'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''boundless epsilonic world'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Der Finsterzwerg'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''chloral hydrate'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Kneipe'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Gauss passing to Weber a remark'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Weierstrass functions'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 595==<br />
<br />
'''That winter, in St. Petersburg'''<br><br />
22 Jan 1905 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution_of_1905 Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''Japanese won'''<br><br />
05 September 1905. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''Muslim rebellion'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''the year that followed'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Peter and Paul Fortress'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''kazatsky'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Waziristan'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 596==<br />
<br />
'''as-ever transcendentally interesting hair'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
''''gen''''<br><br />
Slang term for "genuine" maybe?<br />
<br />
'''Afghani dirhan'''<br><br />
An Afghani coin, more usually transliterated as "dirham". [http://ghaznavid.ancients.info/ This site] has pictures and more information.<br />
<br />
'''Ghaznivid Empire'''<br><br />
Usually transliterated as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghaznavid_Empire Ghaznavid Empire] (Wikipedia)<br />
<br />
'''coffee scion'''<br><br />
Coffee motif.<br />
<br />
'''Günther von Quassel'''<br><br />
"quasseln" is a German verb, meaning roughly "to jabber"<br />
<br />
'''less than universally respected Ludwig Boltzmann'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Boltzmann Boltzmann] proposed an explanation of thermodynamics based on the statistical behaviour of atoms. Many influential colleagues at the time did not believe in the reality of atoms and thus worked to discredit Boltzmann.<br />
<br />
==Page 597==<br />
<br />
'''Gymnasium child'''<br><br />
A Gymnasium is a German secondary school<br />
<br />
'''one measure of the chaos'''<br><br />
Cf GR on entropy?<br />
<br />
'''Göttingen tradition'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''statue'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Rathaus square'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 598==<br />
<br />
'''Axioms of Zermelo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Poincaré'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Cauchy'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Whittaker and Watson'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''two point one'''<br><br />
(Cf Sondheim lyric.)<br />
<br />
==Page 599==<br />
<br />
'''dueling-society cap'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Liebchen'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Egal was, meine Schatze'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Schläger'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Krummsäbel'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Korbrapier'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''épée'''<br><br />
A sharp-pointed duelling sword.<br />
<br />
==Page 600==<br />
<br />
'''Colt six-shooters'''<br><br />
I guess Kit's luggage beat him to Gottingen.<br />
<br />
'''''Verbindung'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''restoring moment, elastic constants'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Geheimrat Hilbert'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 601==<br />
<br />
'''''Ehrenkodex'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Tyrolean hats'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Schnurrbartbinde'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Zeiss "Palmos Panoram"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''"Auf die Mensur!"'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Andaman Islands'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Stephanie du Motel... group-theory godfather Evariste Galois'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 602==<br />
<br />
'''young Ouspensky'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Chong'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''"The what?"'''<br><br />
(Precipitous drop in authorial expectations?)<br />
<br />
'''Sidney... Kensington Sid'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''transtriadic'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 603==<br />
<br />
'''"Spiritual... At Göttingen?"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Applied Mechanics Institute'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Prandtl's recent discovery of the boundary layer'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''brambled guttie'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Bürgerstrasse'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Brauweg'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Zhukovsky's Transformation'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''glass of tea'''<br><br />
(Why not 'cup'?)because in Europe, as sopposed to in England, tea may be drunk from glassware.<br />
<br />
'''''"...according to Spiral Theory, up to infinity."<br> "And beyond, " added Gunther, nodding earnestly.'''''<br><br />
Reference to Buzz Lightyear's stock character phrase in 1995's TOY STORY (Pixar/Disney):<br />
"To Infinity... and Beyond!"<br />
--[[User:Btchakir|Btchakir]] 07:43, 19 December 2006 (PST)<br />
<br />
==Page 604==<br />
<br />
'''nontrivial zeroes'''<br><br />
The Riemann zeta function has two classes of zeros, the trivial zeroes being at negative even integers (-2, -4...), the non-trivial complex numbers, believed (but not proven) to have Re(z)=1/2. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_hypothesis Wikipedia].<br />
<br />
'''much-noted talk'''<br><br />
At the 1900 International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris, Hilbert proposed a research programme of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_problems#Tabulated_information 23 problems]. The Riemann hypothesis is number 8 on the list. <br />
<br />
'''eigenvalues'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenvalue Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''Hermitian operator'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermitian_operator Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''spine of reality... ''"Rückgrat von Wirklichkeit"'''''<br><br />
Probably a reference to the main diagonal of a Hermitian matrix, which can contain only real numbers.<br />
<br />
'''Hilbert-Polya Conjecture'''<br><br />
The conjecture that the zeroes of the Riemann function would be the eigenvalues of a Hermitian operator, just what Yashmeen is suggesting.<br />
<br />
==Page 605==<br />
<br />
'''Vance Aychrome'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Full English Breakfast'''<br><br />
Bacon, eggs, tomato, toast... otherwise know as a fry-up.<br />
<br />
'''Pythagorean dietary'''<br><br />
(Possible missing word?)<br />
<br />
'''kippers and bloaters'''<br><br />
Different words (both Scottish) for smoked herrings<br />
<br />
'''baps'''<br><br />
soft bread rolls - another Scottish word<br />
<br />
'''Spong machine'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''thinned'''<br><br />
From full 78. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarot Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''vegetarian haggis'''<br><br />
It exists: [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22vegetarian+haggis Google search]<br />
<br />
==Page 606==<br />
<br />
'''Lamont replevin'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Elflock Villa'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Stuffed Edge, Herts'''<br><br />
An imaginary village in the South-East English county of Hertfordshire<br />
<br />
'''kedgeree'''<br><br />
A hot breakfast dish of fish, rice, and eggs.<br />
<br />
'''Cesare Lombroso'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Trans-Oxanian'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Graeco-Buddhist'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''bad hats'''<br><br />
A bad hat is a slang term for a rascal<br />
<br />
==Page 607==<br />
<br />
'''Gas Office'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''communication by means of coal-gas'''<br><br />
Cf Nabokov's "Ada". Also inverse of Tesla's energy-transmitter.<br />
<br />
'''bombs... Suffragettes'''<br><br />
(Did they bomb post offices?!?)<br />
<br />
'''Pashto'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Tadjik'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Seven Dials'''<br><br />
In Covent Garden, London - a place where 7 roads meet<br />
<br />
==Page 608==<br />
<br />
'''"Avoid beans"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''spotted dick'''<br><br />
A suet pudding with raisins or currants<br />
<br />
'''Yarmouth bloater'''<br><br />
A cured herring from the port town of Yarmouth.<br />
<br />
''''shape''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''blue lamps'''<br><br />
Traditionally hung outside police stations in England.<br />
<br />
'''lamé surfaces'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''yarmulke... high crown... dented Trilby style'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 609==<br />
<br />
'''''Kelly's Suburban Dictionary'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''wenlets'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 610==<br />
<br />
'''daylight oil'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''refused to dim'''<br><br />
(Nicely vivid.)<br />
<br />
'''Vontz's Universal Pick'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''alchemized coke'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Lincrusta-Walton'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''hipshot'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''scalene polygons'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''jet'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Apotheosis Sparkless Torch'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 611==<br />
<br />
'''magnalium'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''The Slow and the Stupefied'''''<br><br />
Daytime soap 'The Young and the Restless'.<br />
<br />
'''gas-head'''<br><br />
Cf pothead, acidhead, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Pike's Peak'''<br><br />
Lew's old stompinground.<br />
<br />
'''Gus Swallowfield'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''most theft policies'''<br><br />
(Fact?)<br />
<br />
'''pantechnicon'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''legitimate bill of sale'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 612==<br />
<br />
'''''Pavonazzetto'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Phrygian marble'''<br><br />
Phrygia is an ancient region of west central Asia Minor, to the south of Bithynia. Marble from there was highly valued.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Atys... Agdistis'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''The Mutilation of Atys'''''<br><br />
No images: [http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Mutilation%20of%20Atys&btnG=Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi Google image search]<br />
<br />
'''Arturo Naunt'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''shocking the bourgeoisie'''<br><br />
A popular pastime for young and not-so-young soi-disant radicals ("Epater le bourgeois").<br />
<br />
'''koumiss vessel'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''wrathful deities from Tantric Buddhism'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 613==<br />
<br />
'''tiny German hand camera'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''raw light'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Gasophilia'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Schwärmer'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Chidambaram'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Akaša'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Atman'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
''''''Chaos''''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''van Helmont'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''stridently unpopulated'''<br><br />
Cf p610.<br />
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==Page 588==<br />
<br />
'''tannery'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Gauss's brain'''<br><br />
After Carl Friedrich Gauss died in 1855, his brain was preserved for research purposes. To this day, it is in the possession of the University of Göttingen.<br />
<br />
'''impervious to the wind'''<br><br />
(Attribute of tanned leather?)<br />
<br />
'''''"Heiliger Bimbam!"'''''<br><br />
A German expression of surprise, translated elsewhere as "Holy Moly!"<br />
<br />
'''rim'''<br><br />
Kit pretends to think he's referring to monocle as 'chichi' (stylish).<br />
<br />
==Page 589==<br />
<br />
'''''Noli me tangere''''<br />
<br />
Latin for 'don't touch me'<br />
<br />
'''''Hausknochen'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 590==<br />
<br />
'''Hadamard... Poussin... Prime Number Theorem'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''patent ''Kühlbox'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''beleaguered subset'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 591==<br />
<br />
'''prats'''<br><br />
Literally the buttocks. As a slang term, a 'prat' is an idiot.<br />
<br />
'''''Die Nullstellen der [zeta]-Funktion'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''"Richard Harding Davis"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''seldom, if ever'''<br><br />
Cf p559 re Umeki!?<br />
<br />
'''tetralatry'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''C. Howard Hinton'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Johann K.F. Zöllner'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''vogue... 'vague''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 592==<br />
<br />
'''upside-down triangles'''<br><br />
Also Pléiade p538.<br />
<br />
'''metallic banging'<br />
<br />
''''metric interval''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Prinzenstrasse and Weenderstrasse'''<br><br />
A street corner at the very center of Göttingen ([http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=g%C3%B6ttingen,+germany&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=17&ll=51.534284,9.935417&spn=0.006107,0.010793&t=h Google Maps]), "known to mathematicians here as the origin of the city of Göttingen's coordinate system".<br />
<br />
==Page 593==<br />
<br />
'''twenty marks'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''der Pistolenheld'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''das Nichtharmonischestrahlenbündel'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Latin... Euler'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Mathematical Theory of the Top'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Leopold Kronecker''' and '''Cantor'''<br><br />
The "monumental quarrel between Kronecker and Cantor" is also referred to as a "religious war," appropriately enough. It's based in a disagreement over the legitimacy of numbers. Kronecker held that "'the positive integers were created by God, and all else is the work of man.'" This is contradicted by "'Cantor with his ''Kontinuum'', professing an equally strong belief in just those regions, infinitely divisible, which lie ''between'' the whole numbers so demanding of all Kronecker's devotion.'"<br />
<br />
The disagreement between the two mathematicians is reminiscent of (or does it anticipate?) the rift between Pointsman and Mexico in ''Gravity's Rainbow''. Kronecker's integers "created by God" have become a Pavlovian digital binary for Pointsman, but the two oppositions track faithfully right down to the italicized "between." <br />
<br />
"The young statistician [Mexico] is devoted to number and to method, not table-rapping or wishful thinking. But in the domain of zero to one, not-something to something, Pointsman can only possess the zero and the one. He cannot, like Mexico, survive anyplace in between. Like his master I. P. Pavlov before him, he imagines the cortex of the brain as a mosaic of tiny on/off elements.... But to Mexico belongs the domain ''between'' zero and one." [Page 55]<br />
<br />
It should be noted, however, that the continuous number line was a modern innovation. In Greek number theory, a number is a collection of indivisible units. Irrationals, such as the square root of 2 are not numbers but "magnitudes." One is not even a number for it is not a number of units. There are no negative numbers as well. (see Klein's <i>Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra.</i>) So Kronecker's position may be less of a crazy innovation as much as a maintenance of ancient theory.<br />
<br />
'''''Kontinuum'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 599==<br />
<br />
'''''Nervenklinik'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''boundless epsilonic world'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Der Finsterzwerg'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''chloral hydrate'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Kneipe'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Gauss passing to Weber a remark'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Weierstrass functions'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 595==<br />
<br />
'''That winter, in St. Petersburg'''<br><br />
22 Jan 1905 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution_of_1905 Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''Japanese won'''<br><br />
05 September 1905. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''Muslim rebellion'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''the year that followed'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Peter and Paul Fortress'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''kazatsky'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Waziristan'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 596==<br />
<br />
'''as-ever transcendentally interesting hair'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
''''gen''''<br><br />
Slang term for "genuine" maybe?<br />
<br />
'''Afghani dirhan'''<br><br />
An Afghani coin, more usually transliterated as "dirham". [http://ghaznavid.ancients.info/ This site] has pictures and more information.<br />
<br />
'''Ghaznivid Empire'''<br><br />
Usually transliterated as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghaznavid_Empire Ghaznavid Empire] (Wikipedia)<br />
<br />
'''coffee scion'''<br><br />
Coffee motif.<br />
<br />
'''Günther von Quassel'''<br><br />
"quasseln" is a German verb, meaning roughly "to jabber"<br />
<br />
'''less than universally respected Ludwig Boltzmann'''<br><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Boltzmann Boltzmann] proposed an explanation of thermodynamics based on the statistical behaviour of atoms. Many influential colleagues at the time did not believe in the reality of atoms and thus worked to discredit Boltzmann.<br />
<br />
==Page 597==<br />
<br />
'''Gymnasium child'''<br><br />
A Gymnasium is a German secondary school<br />
<br />
'''one measure of the chaos'''<br><br />
Cf GR on entropy?<br />
<br />
'''Göttingen tradition'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''statue'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Rathaus square'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 598==<br />
<br />
'''Axioms of Zermelo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Poincaré'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Cauchy'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Whittaker and Watson'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''two point one'''<br><br />
(Cf Sondheim lyric.)<br />
<br />
==Page 599==<br />
<br />
'''dueling-society cap'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Liebchen'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Egal was, meine Schatze'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Schläger'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Krummsäbel'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Korbrapier'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''épée'''<br><br />
A sharp-pointed duelling sword.<br />
<br />
==Page 600==<br />
<br />
'''Colt six-shooters'''<br><br />
I guess Kit's luggage beat him to Gottingen.<br />
<br />
'''''Verbindung'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''restoring moment, elastic constants'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Geheimrat Hilbert'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 601==<br />
<br />
'''''Ehrenkodex'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Tyrolean hats'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Schnurrbartbinde'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Zeiss "Palmos Panoram"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''"Auf die Mensur!"'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Andaman Islands'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Stephanie du Motel... group-theory godfather Evariste Galois'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 602==<br />
<br />
'''young Ouspensky'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Chong'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''"The what?"'''<br><br />
(Precipitous drop in authorial expectations?)<br />
<br />
'''Sidney... Kensington Sid'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''transtriadic'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 603==<br />
<br />
'''"Spiritual... At Göttingen?"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Applied Mechanics Institute'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Prandtl's recent discovery of the boundary layer'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''brambled guttie'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Bürgerstrasse'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Brauweg'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Zhukovsky's Transformation'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''glass of tea'''<br><br />
(Why not 'cup'?)because in Europe, as sopposed to in England, tea may be drunk from glassware.<br />
<br />
'''''"...according to Spiral Theory, up to infinity."<br> "And beyond, " added Gunther, nodding earnestly.'''''<br><br />
Reference to Buzz Lightyear's stock character phrase in 1995's TOY STORY (Pixar/Disney):<br />
"To Infinity... and Beyond!"<br />
--[[User:Btchakir|Btchakir]] 07:43, 19 December 2006 (PST)<br />
<br />
==Page 604==<br />
<br />
'''nontrivial zeroes'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''much-noted talk'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''eigenvalues'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Hermitian operator'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''spine of reality... ''"Rückgrat von Wirklichkeit"'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Hilbert-Polya Conjecture'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 605==<br />
<br />
'''Vance Aychrome'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Full English Breakfast'''<br><br />
Bacon, eggs, tomato, toast... otherwise know as a fry-up.<br />
<br />
'''Pythagorean dietary'''<br><br />
(Possible missing word?)<br />
<br />
'''kippers and bloaters'''<br><br />
Different words (both Scottish) for smoked herrings<br />
<br />
'''baps'''<br><br />
soft bread rolls - another Scottish word<br />
<br />
'''Spong machine'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''thinned'''<br><br />
From full 78. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarot Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''vegetarian haggis'''<br><br />
It exists: [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22vegetarian+haggis Google search]<br />
<br />
==Page 606==<br />
<br />
'''Lamont replevin'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Elflock Villa'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Stuffed Edge, Herts'''<br><br />
An imaginary village in the South-East English county of Hertfordshire<br />
<br />
'''kedgeree'''<br><br />
A hot breakfast dish of fish, rice, and eggs.<br />
<br />
'''Cesare Lombroso'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Trans-Oxanian'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Graeco-Buddhist'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''bad hats'''<br><br />
A bad hat is a slang term for a rascal<br />
<br />
==Page 607==<br />
<br />
'''Gas Office'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''communication by means of coal-gas'''<br><br />
Cf Nabokov's "Ada". Also inverse of Tesla's energy-transmitter.<br />
<br />
'''bombs... Suffragettes'''<br><br />
(Did they bomb post offices?!?)<br />
<br />
'''Pashto'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Tadjik'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Seven Dials'''<br><br />
In Covent Garden, London - a place where 7 roads meet<br />
<br />
==Page 608==<br />
<br />
'''"Avoid beans"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''spotted dick'''<br><br />
A suet pudding with raisins or currants<br />
<br />
'''Yarmouth bloater'''<br><br />
A cured herring from the port town of Yarmouth.<br />
<br />
''''shape''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''blue lamps'''<br><br />
Traditionally hung outside police stations in England.<br />
<br />
'''lamé surfaces'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''yarmulke... high crown... dented Trilby style'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 609==<br />
<br />
'''''Kelly's Suburban Dictionary'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''wenlets'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 610==<br />
<br />
'''daylight oil'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''refused to dim'''<br><br />
(Nicely vivid.)<br />
<br />
'''Vontz's Universal Pick'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''alchemized coke'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Lincrusta-Walton'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''hipshot'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''scalene polygons'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''jet'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Apotheosis Sparkless Torch'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 611==<br />
<br />
'''magnalium'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''The Slow and the Stupefied'''''<br><br />
Daytime soap 'The Young and the Restless'.<br />
<br />
'''gas-head'''<br><br />
Cf pothead, acidhead, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Pike's Peak'''<br><br />
Lew's old stompinground.<br />
<br />
'''Gus Swallowfield'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''most theft policies'''<br><br />
(Fact?)<br />
<br />
'''pantechnicon'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''legitimate bill of sale'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 612==<br />
<br />
'''''Pavonazzetto'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Phrygian marble'''<br><br />
Phrygia is an ancient region of west central Asia Minor, to the south of Bithynia. Marble from there was highly valued.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Atys... Agdistis'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''The Mutilation of Atys'''''<br><br />
No images: [http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Mutilation%20of%20Atys&btnG=Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi Google image search]<br />
<br />
'''Arturo Naunt'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''shocking the bourgeoisie'''<br><br />
A popular pastime for young and not-so-young soi-disant radicals ("Epater le bourgeois").<br />
<br />
'''koumiss vessel'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''wrathful deities from Tantric Buddhism'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 613==<br />
<br />
'''tiny German hand camera'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''raw light'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Gasophilia'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Schwärmer'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Chidambaram'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Akaša'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Atman'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
''''''Chaos''''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''van Helmont'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''stridently unpopulated'''<br><br />
Cf p610.<br />
<br />
==Annotation Index==<br />
{{ATD PbP}}</div>Themelhttps://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_588-614&diff=4696ATD 588-6142006-12-29T16:39:15Z<p>Themel: /* Page 592 */</p>
<hr />
<div>:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p><br><br />
<br />
==Page 588==<br />
<br />
'''tannery'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Gauss's brain'''<br><br />
After Carl Friedrich Gauss died in 1855, his brain was preserved for research purposes. To this day, it is in the possession of the University of Göttingen.<br />
<br />
'''impervious to the wind'''<br><br />
(Attribute of tanned leather?)<br />
<br />
'''''"Heiliger Bimbam!"'''''<br><br />
A German expression of surprise, translated elsewhere as "Holy Moly!"<br />
<br />
'''rim'''<br><br />
Kit pretends to think he's referring to monocle as 'chichi' (stylish).<br />
<br />
==Page 589==<br />
<br />
'''''Noli me tangere''''<br />
<br />
Latin for 'don't touch me'<br />
<br />
'''''Hausknochen'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 590==<br />
<br />
'''Hadamard... Poussin... Prime Number Theorem'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''patent ''Kühlbox'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''beleaguered subset'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 591==<br />
<br />
'''prats'''<br><br />
Literally the buttocks. As a slang term, a 'prat' is an idiot.<br />
<br />
'''''Die Nullstellen der [zeta]-Funktion'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''"Richard Harding Davis"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''seldom, if ever'''<br><br />
Cf p559 re Umeki!?<br />
<br />
'''tetralatry'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''C. Howard Hinton'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Johann K.F. Zöllner'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''vogue... 'vague''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 592==<br />
<br />
'''upside-down triangles'''<br><br />
Also Pléiade p538.<br />
<br />
'''metallic banging'<br />
<br />
''''metric interval''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Prinzenstrasse and Weenderstrasse'''<br><br />
A street corner at the very center of Göttingen ([http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=g%C3%B6ttingen,+germany&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=17&ll=51.534284,9.935417&spn=0.006107,0.010793&t=h Google Maps]), "known to mathematicians here as the origin of the city of Göttingen's coordinate system".<br />
<br />
==Page 593==<br />
<br />
'''twenty marks'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''der Pistolenheld'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''das Nichtharmonischestrahlenbündel'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Latin... Euler'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Mathematical Theory of the Top'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Leopold Kronecker''' and '''Cantor'''<br><br />
The "monumental quarrel between Kronecker and Cantor" is also referred to as a "religious war," appropriately enough. It's based in a disagreement over the legitimacy of numbers. Kronecker held that "'the positive integers were created by God, and all else is the work of man.'" This is contradicted by "'Cantor with his ''Kontinuum'', professing an equally strong belief in just those regions, infinitely divisible, which lie ''between'' the whole numbers so demanding of all Kronecker's devotion.'"<br />
<br />
The disagreement between the two mathematicians is reminiscent of (or does it anticipate?) the rift between Pointsman and Mexico in ''Gravity's Rainbow''. Kronecker's integers "created by God" have become a Pavlovian digital binary for Pointsman, but the two oppositions track faithfully right down to the italicized "between." <br />
<br />
"The young statistician [Mexico] is devoted to number and to method, not table-rapping or wishful thinking. But in the domain of zero to one, not-something to something, Pointsman can only possess the zero and the one. He cannot, like Mexico, survive anyplace in between. Like his master I. P. Pavlov before him, he imagines the cortex of the brain as a mosaic of tiny on/off elements.... But to Mexico belongs the domain ''between'' zero and one." [Page 55]<br />
<br />
It should be noted, however, that the continuous number line was a modern innovation. In Greek number theory, a number is a collection of indivisible units. Irrationals, such as the square root of 2 are not numbers but "magnitudes." One is not even a number for it is not a number of units. There are no negative numbers as well. (see Klein's <i>Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra.</i>) So Kronecker's position may be less of a crazy innovation as much as a maintenance of ancient theory.<br />
<br />
'''''Kontinuum'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 599==<br />
<br />
'''''Nervenklinik'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''boundless epsilonic world'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Der Finsterzwerg'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''chloral hydrate'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Kneipe'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Gauss passing to Weber a remark'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Weierstrass functions'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 595==<br />
<br />
'''That winter, in St. Petersburg'''<br><br />
22 Jan 1905 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution_of_1905 Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''Japanese won'''<br><br />
05 September 1905. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''Muslim rebellion'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''the year that followed'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Peter and Paul Fortress'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''kazatsky'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Waziristan'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 596==<br />
<br />
'''as-ever transcendentally interesting hair'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
''''gen''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Afghani dirhan'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Ghaznivid Empire'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''coffee scion'''<br><br />
Coffee motif.<br />
<br />
'''Günther von Quassel'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''less than universally respected Ludwig Boltzmann'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 597==<br />
<br />
'''Gymnasium child'''<br><br />
A Gymnasium is a German secondary school<br />
<br />
'''one measure of the chaos'''<br><br />
Cf GR on entropy?<br />
<br />
'''Göttingen tradition'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''statue'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Rathaus square'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 598==<br />
<br />
'''Axioms of Zermelo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Poincaré'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Cauchy'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Whittaker and Watson'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''two point one'''<br><br />
(Cf Sondheim lyric.)<br />
<br />
==Page 599==<br />
<br />
'''dueling-society cap'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Liebchen'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Egal was, meine Schatze'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Schläger'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Krummsäbel'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Korbrapier'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''épée'''<br><br />
A sharp-pointed duelling sword.<br />
<br />
==Page 600==<br />
<br />
'''Colt six-shooters'''<br><br />
I guess Kit's luggage beat him to Gottingen.<br />
<br />
'''''Verbindung'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''restoring moment, elastic constants'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Geheimrat Hilbert'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 601==<br />
<br />
'''''Ehrenkodex'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Tyrolean hats'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Schnurrbartbinde'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Zeiss "Palmos Panoram"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''"Auf die Mensur!"'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Andaman Islands'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Stephanie du Motel... group-theory godfather Evariste Galois'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 602==<br />
<br />
'''young Ouspensky'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Chong'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''"The what?"'''<br><br />
(Precipitous drop in authorial expectations?)<br />
<br />
'''Sidney... Kensington Sid'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''transtriadic'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 603==<br />
<br />
'''"Spiritual... At Göttingen?"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Applied Mechanics Institute'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Prandtl's recent discovery of the boundary layer'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''brambled guttie'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Bürgerstrasse'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Brauweg'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Zhukovsky's Transformation'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''glass of tea'''<br><br />
(Why not 'cup'?)because in Europe, as sopposed to in England, tea may be drunk from glassware.<br />
<br />
'''''"...according to Spiral Theory, up to infinity."<br> "And beyond, " added Gunther, nodding earnestly.'''''<br><br />
Reference to Buzz Lightyear's stock character phrase in 1995's TOY STORY (Pixar/Disney):<br />
"To Infinity... and Beyond!"<br />
--[[User:Btchakir|Btchakir]] 07:43, 19 December 2006 (PST)<br />
<br />
==Page 604==<br />
<br />
'''nontrivial zeroes'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''much-noted talk'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''eigenvalues'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Hermitian operator'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''spine of reality... ''"Rückgrat von Wirklichkeit"'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Hilbert-Polya Conjecture'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 605==<br />
<br />
'''Vance Aychrome'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Full English Breakfast'''<br><br />
Bacon, eggs, tomato, toast... otherwise know as a fry-up.<br />
<br />
'''Pythagorean dietary'''<br><br />
(Possible missing word?)<br />
<br />
'''kippers and bloaters'''<br><br />
Different words (both Scottish) for smoked herrings<br />
<br />
'''baps'''<br><br />
soft bread rolls - another Scottish word<br />
<br />
'''Spong machine'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''thinned'''<br><br />
From full 78. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarot Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''vegetarian haggis'''<br><br />
It exists: [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22vegetarian+haggis Google search]<br />
<br />
==Page 606==<br />
<br />
'''Lamont replevin'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Elflock Villa'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Stuffed Edge, Herts'''<br><br />
An imaginary village in the South-East English county of Hertfordshire<br />
<br />
'''kedgeree'''<br><br />
A hot breakfast dish of fish, rice, and eggs.<br />
<br />
'''Cesare Lombroso'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Trans-Oxanian'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Graeco-Buddhist'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''bad hats'''<br><br />
A bad hat is a slang term for a rascal<br />
<br />
==Page 607==<br />
<br />
'''Gas Office'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''communication by means of coal-gas'''<br><br />
Cf Nabokov's "Ada". Also inverse of Tesla's energy-transmitter.<br />
<br />
'''bombs... Suffragettes'''<br><br />
(Did they bomb post offices?!?)<br />
<br />
'''Pashto'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Tadjik'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Seven Dials'''<br><br />
In Covent Garden, London - a place where 7 roads meet<br />
<br />
==Page 608==<br />
<br />
'''"Avoid beans"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''spotted dick'''<br><br />
A suet pudding with raisins or currants<br />
<br />
'''Yarmouth bloater'''<br><br />
A cured herring from the port town of Yarmouth.<br />
<br />
''''shape''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''blue lamps'''<br><br />
Traditionally hung outside police stations in England.<br />
<br />
'''lamé surfaces'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''yarmulke... high crown... dented Trilby style'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 609==<br />
<br />
'''''Kelly's Suburban Dictionary'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''wenlets'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 610==<br />
<br />
'''daylight oil'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''refused to dim'''<br><br />
(Nicely vivid.)<br />
<br />
'''Vontz's Universal Pick'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''alchemized coke'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Lincrusta-Walton'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''hipshot'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''scalene polygons'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''jet'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Apotheosis Sparkless Torch'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 611==<br />
<br />
'''magnalium'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''The Slow and the Stupefied'''''<br><br />
Daytime soap 'The Young and the Restless'.<br />
<br />
'''gas-head'''<br><br />
Cf pothead, acidhead, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Pike's Peak'''<br><br />
Lew's old stompinground.<br />
<br />
'''Gus Swallowfield'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''most theft policies'''<br><br />
(Fact?)<br />
<br />
'''pantechnicon'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''legitimate bill of sale'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 612==<br />
<br />
'''''Pavonazzetto'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Phrygian marble'''<br><br />
Phrygia is an ancient region of west central Asia Minor, to the south of Bithynia. Marble from there was highly valued.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Atys... Agdistis'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''The Mutilation of Atys'''''<br><br />
No images: [http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Mutilation%20of%20Atys&btnG=Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi Google image search]<br />
<br />
'''Arturo Naunt'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''shocking the bourgeoisie'''<br><br />
A popular pastime for young and not-so-young soi-disant radicals ("Epater le bourgeois").<br />
<br />
'''koumiss vessel'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''wrathful deities from Tantric Buddhism'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 613==<br />
<br />
'''tiny German hand camera'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''raw light'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Gasophilia'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Schwärmer'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Chidambaram'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Akaša'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Atman'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
''''''Chaos''''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''van Helmont'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''stridently unpopulated'''<br><br />
Cf p610.<br />
<br />
==Annotation Index==<br />
{{ATD PbP}}</div>Themelhttps://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_588-614&diff=4695ATD 588-6142006-12-29T16:32:24Z<p>Themel: /* Page 588 */ Some answers</p>
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<div>:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>'''<p><br><br />
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==Page 588==<br />
<br />
'''tannery'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Gauss's brain'''<br><br />
After Carl Friedrich Gauss died in 1855, his brain was preserved for research purposes. To this day, it is in the possession of the University of Göttingen.<br />
<br />
'''impervious to the wind'''<br><br />
(Attribute of tanned leather?)<br />
<br />
'''''"Heiliger Bimbam!"'''''<br><br />
A German expression of surprise, translated elsewhere as "Holy Moly!"<br />
<br />
'''rim'''<br><br />
Kit pretends to think he's referring to monocle as 'chichi' (stylish).<br />
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==Page 589==<br />
<br />
'''''Noli me tangere''''<br />
<br />
Latin for 'don't touch me'<br />
<br />
'''''Hausknochen'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 590==<br />
<br />
'''Hadamard... Poussin... Prime Number Theorem'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''patent ''Kühlbox'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''beleaguered subset'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 591==<br />
<br />
'''prats'''<br><br />
Literally the buttocks. As a slang term, a 'prat' is an idiot.<br />
<br />
'''''Die Nullstellen der [zeta]-Funktion'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''"Richard Harding Davis"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''seldom, if ever'''<br><br />
Cf p559 re Umeki!?<br />
<br />
'''tetralatry'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''C. Howard Hinton'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Johann K.F. Zöllner'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''vogue... 'vague''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 592==<br />
<br />
'''upside-down triangles'''<br><br />
Also Pléiade p538.<br />
<br />
'''metallic banging'<br />
<br />
''''metric interval''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Prinzenstrasse and Weenderstrasse'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 593==<br />
<br />
'''twenty marks'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''der Pistolenheld'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''das Nichtharmonischestrahlenbündel'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Latin... Euler'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Mathematical Theory of the Top'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Leopold Kronecker''' and '''Cantor'''<br><br />
The "monumental quarrel between Kronecker and Cantor" is also referred to as a "religious war," appropriately enough. It's based in a disagreement over the legitimacy of numbers. Kronecker held that "'the positive integers were created by God, and all else is the work of man.'" This is contradicted by "'Cantor with his ''Kontinuum'', professing an equally strong belief in just those regions, infinitely divisible, which lie ''between'' the whole numbers so demanding of all Kronecker's devotion.'"<br />
<br />
The disagreement between the two mathematicians is reminiscent of (or does it anticipate?) the rift between Pointsman and Mexico in ''Gravity's Rainbow''. Kronecker's integers "created by God" have become a Pavlovian digital binary for Pointsman, but the two oppositions track faithfully right down to the italicized "between." <br />
<br />
"The young statistician [Mexico] is devoted to number and to method, not table-rapping or wishful thinking. But in the domain of zero to one, not-something to something, Pointsman can only possess the zero and the one. He cannot, like Mexico, survive anyplace in between. Like his master I. P. Pavlov before him, he imagines the cortex of the brain as a mosaic of tiny on/off elements.... But to Mexico belongs the domain ''between'' zero and one." [Page 55]<br />
<br />
It should be noted, however, that the continuous number line was a modern innovation. In Greek number theory, a number is a collection of indivisible units. Irrationals, such as the square root of 2 are not numbers but "magnitudes." One is not even a number for it is not a number of units. There are no negative numbers as well. (see Klein's <i>Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra.</i>) So Kronecker's position may be less of a crazy innovation as much as a maintenance of ancient theory.<br />
<br />
'''''Kontinuum'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 599==<br />
<br />
'''''Nervenklinik'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''boundless epsilonic world'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Der Finsterzwerg'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''chloral hydrate'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Kneipe'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Gauss passing to Weber a remark'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Weierstrass functions'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 595==<br />
<br />
'''That winter, in St. Petersburg'''<br><br />
22 Jan 1905 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution_of_1905 Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''Japanese won'''<br><br />
05 September 1905. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''Muslim rebellion'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''the year that followed'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Peter and Paul Fortress'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''kazatsky'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Waziristan'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 596==<br />
<br />
'''as-ever transcendentally interesting hair'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
''''gen''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Afghani dirhan'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Ghaznivid Empire'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''coffee scion'''<br><br />
Coffee motif.<br />
<br />
'''Günther von Quassel'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''less than universally respected Ludwig Boltzmann'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 597==<br />
<br />
'''Gymnasium child'''<br><br />
A Gymnasium is a German secondary school<br />
<br />
'''one measure of the chaos'''<br><br />
Cf GR on entropy?<br />
<br />
'''Göttingen tradition'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''statue'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Rathaus square'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 598==<br />
<br />
'''Axioms of Zermelo'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Poincaré'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Cauchy'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Whittaker and Watson'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''two point one'''<br><br />
(Cf Sondheim lyric.)<br />
<br />
==Page 599==<br />
<br />
'''dueling-society cap'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Liebchen'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Egal was, meine Schatze'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Schläger'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Krummsäbel'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Korbrapier'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''épée'''<br><br />
A sharp-pointed duelling sword.<br />
<br />
==Page 600==<br />
<br />
'''Colt six-shooters'''<br><br />
I guess Kit's luggage beat him to Gottingen.<br />
<br />
'''''Verbindung'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''restoring moment, elastic constants'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Geheimrat Hilbert'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 601==<br />
<br />
'''''Ehrenkodex'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Tyrolean hats'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Schnurrbartbinde'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Zeiss "Palmos Panoram"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''"Auf die Mensur!"'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Andaman Islands'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Stephanie du Motel... group-theory godfather Evariste Galois'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 602==<br />
<br />
'''young Ouspensky'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Chong'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''"The what?"'''<br><br />
(Precipitous drop in authorial expectations?)<br />
<br />
'''Sidney... Kensington Sid'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''transtriadic'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 603==<br />
<br />
'''"Spiritual... At Göttingen?"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Applied Mechanics Institute'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Prandtl's recent discovery of the boundary layer'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''brambled guttie'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Bürgerstrasse'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Brauweg'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Zhukovsky's Transformation'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''glass of tea'''<br><br />
(Why not 'cup'?)because in Europe, as sopposed to in England, tea may be drunk from glassware.<br />
<br />
'''''"...according to Spiral Theory, up to infinity."<br> "And beyond, " added Gunther, nodding earnestly.'''''<br><br />
Reference to Buzz Lightyear's stock character phrase in 1995's TOY STORY (Pixar/Disney):<br />
"To Infinity... and Beyond!"<br />
--[[User:Btchakir|Btchakir]] 07:43, 19 December 2006 (PST)<br />
<br />
==Page 604==<br />
<br />
'''nontrivial zeroes'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''much-noted talk'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''eigenvalues'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Hermitian operator'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''spine of reality... ''"Rückgrat von Wirklichkeit"'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Hilbert-Polya Conjecture'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 605==<br />
<br />
'''Vance Aychrome'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Full English Breakfast'''<br><br />
Bacon, eggs, tomato, toast... otherwise know as a fry-up.<br />
<br />
'''Pythagorean dietary'''<br><br />
(Possible missing word?)<br />
<br />
'''kippers and bloaters'''<br><br />
Different words (both Scottish) for smoked herrings<br />
<br />
'''baps'''<br><br />
soft bread rolls - another Scottish word<br />
<br />
'''Spong machine'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''thinned'''<br><br />
From full 78. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarot Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''vegetarian haggis'''<br><br />
It exists: [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22vegetarian+haggis Google search]<br />
<br />
==Page 606==<br />
<br />
'''Lamont replevin'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Elflock Villa'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Stuffed Edge, Herts'''<br><br />
An imaginary village in the South-East English county of Hertfordshire<br />
<br />
'''kedgeree'''<br><br />
A hot breakfast dish of fish, rice, and eggs.<br />
<br />
'''Cesare Lombroso'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Trans-Oxanian'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Graeco-Buddhist'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''bad hats'''<br><br />
A bad hat is a slang term for a rascal<br />
<br />
==Page 607==<br />
<br />
'''Gas Office'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''communication by means of coal-gas'''<br><br />
Cf Nabokov's "Ada". Also inverse of Tesla's energy-transmitter.<br />
<br />
'''bombs... Suffragettes'''<br><br />
(Did they bomb post offices?!?)<br />
<br />
'''Pashto'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Tadjik'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Seven Dials'''<br><br />
In Covent Garden, London - a place where 7 roads meet<br />
<br />
==Page 608==<br />
<br />
'''"Avoid beans"'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''spotted dick'''<br><br />
A suet pudding with raisins or currants<br />
<br />
'''Yarmouth bloater'''<br><br />
A cured herring from the port town of Yarmouth.<br />
<br />
''''shape''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''blue lamps'''<br><br />
Traditionally hung outside police stations in England.<br />
<br />
'''lamé surfaces'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''yarmulke... high crown... dented Trilby style'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 609==<br />
<br />
'''''Kelly's Suburban Dictionary'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''wenlets'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 610==<br />
<br />
'''daylight oil'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''refused to dim'''<br><br />
(Nicely vivid.)<br />
<br />
'''Vontz's Universal Pick'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''alchemized coke'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Lincrusta-Walton'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''hipshot'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''scalene polygons'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''jet'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Apotheosis Sparkless Torch'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 611==<br />
<br />
'''magnalium'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''The Slow and the Stupefied'''''<br><br />
Daytime soap 'The Young and the Restless'.<br />
<br />
'''gas-head'''<br><br />
Cf pothead, acidhead, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Pike's Peak'''<br><br />
Lew's old stompinground.<br />
<br />
'''Gus Swallowfield'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''most theft policies'''<br><br />
(Fact?)<br />
<br />
'''pantechnicon'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''legitimate bill of sale'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 612==<br />
<br />
'''''Pavonazzetto'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Phrygian marble'''<br><br />
Phrygia is an ancient region of west central Asia Minor, to the south of Bithynia. Marble from there was highly valued.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Atys... Agdistis'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''The Mutilation of Atys'''''<br><br />
No images: [http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Mutilation%20of%20Atys&btnG=Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi Google image search]<br />
<br />
'''Arturo Naunt'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''shocking the bourgeoisie'''<br><br />
A popular pastime for young and not-so-young soi-disant radicals ("Epater le bourgeois").<br />
<br />
'''koumiss vessel'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''wrathful deities from Tantric Buddhism'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
==Page 613==<br />
<br />
'''tiny German hand camera'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''raw light'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Gasophilia'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Schwärmer'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Chidambaram'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''''Akaša'''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''Atman'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
''''''Chaos''''''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''van Helmont'''<br><br />
???<br />
<br />
'''stridently unpopulated'''<br><br />
Cf p610.<br />
<br />
==Annotation Index==<br />
{{ATD PbP}}</div>Themelhttps://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:ATD_864-891&diff=4640Talk:ATD 864-8912006-12-28T22:52:55Z<p>Themel: </p>
<hr />
<div>= Cyprian's "very nice indeed" excerpts (p888 for me) =<br />
<br />
Number one is given as the William Tell ouverture. For a while I was pretty certain that number two was from "Carmen", but the longer I look at it, the less certain I become. Number three, I have no idea. Does anyone have a good explanation?<br />
<br />
[[User:Themel|Themel]] 14:52, 28 December 2006 (PST)</div>Themel