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ATD 976-999

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==Page 976==

'''the coalfield troubles in southern Colorado''' 
The United Mine Workers called a stike in Colorado's coalfields north of Denver in 1910 winning a 10 percent wage increase for ten thousand Colorado miners. The union's real target was the larger southern coalfield. A state-wide coal strike was called in September 1913 and lasted 14 months resulted in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_massacre the Ludlow Massacre] of April 20, 1914, in which 20 people were killed.

'''the Madero revolution''' 
in 1910, out of Mexico, led by Madera. Ramifications felt in El Paso, where a Senate Committee investigated in 1912 and found Standard Oil partly responsible. 
Relevant?--a Mormon settlement was investigated as part of the investigation. 
[http://www.mexconnect.com/MEX/austin/revolution.html The Madero (Mexican) Revolution] was brought on by, among other factors, tremendous disagreement among the Mexican people over the dictatorship of President Porfirio Diaz. Madero was one of the strongest believers that Diaz should renounce his power and not seek re-election in 1910. He was jailed by Diaz but was able to escape on October 4, 1910, to the US. In San Antonio, Texas, he issued his Plan of San Luis Potosi proclaiming the 1910 election null and void and called for an armed revolution on November 20, 1910 against the "illegitimate" presidency of Diaz. Madero also promised agrarian land reforms to attract Mexico's peasants to his cause. The revolution spread, the Maderista troops, with Pancho Villa in the North and Emiliano Zapata in the South, defeated the army of Diaz within six months, and Diaz resigned on May 25, 1911. Francisco Madero was elected President on October 1, 1911 and assumed power on November 6.

==Page 977==

'''cross-gable''' 
Two perpendicular gable roofs; [http://www.roofingchildsplay.com/articles/the_gable_roof.php pic and more]

'''Baby Doe Tabor ... Haw Tabor''' 
cf [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=T alphabetical index T] and [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_273-295#Page_274 page 274]

'''I'm Going..Salome''' 
Stanley Murphy, lyricist, written before 1909. 
"I'm going to get myself a black Salome" 
Composer: Wynn, Ed 1886-1966
Lyrics: Big Bill Jefferson a railroad man (first line of text)
Contributors: Murphy, Stanley 1875-1919
Publication Date: 1908
For voice and piano.
Cover ill.: African American man watching a belly dancer. Photo of Ed. Wynn. [http://www.thehackley.org/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?e=d-000-00---0dplhacsm--00-0-0-0prompt-10---4---Document---0-1l--1-en-50---20-about---001-011-1-0utfZz-8-0&a=d&cl=CL6.15&d=HASH01fdd49fdb3579dd874ac2c1 link] 

Ed Wynn, billed as ''The Perfect Fool,'' voiced the Mad Hatter in Disney's ''Alice in Wonderland'' and may be best remembered for his role as Uncle Albert in ''Mary Poppins.''

'''majolica''' 
A particular type of white colour glaze for earthenware ceramics that was known for its ability to mimic (poorly) historically expensive porcelain. Its name comes from the practice of importing it into Europe through the ports of the Balearic island Majorca from the Mid-east. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majolica Wikipedia]

==Page 978==

''''''Tá bien, no te preocupes, m'hija''''' 
Spanish: It's all right, don't trouble yourself, my dear.

'''Galluses''' 
a pair of suspenders for trousers. "Braces" in British English.

'''Czolgosz''' 
Cf [[ATD_358-373#Page_372|page 372: Anarchist Czolgosz had assassinated McKinley]]. 
Leon Frank Czolgosz (January 24, 1873 – October 29, 1901) was the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley. In the last few years of his short life he was heavily influenced by anarchists like Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Frank_Czolgosz From Wikipedia]

'''President McKinley''' 
Cf [[ATD_358-373#Page_372|page 372: Anarchist Czolgosz had assassinated McKinley]]. 
William McKinley, Jr. (January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901) was the 25th President of the United States. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McKinley from Wikipedia] McKinley as president placed the US on the gold standard (remember Dally and the poster for bimetallism).

'''One thousand Fast Lake Navigation, 158 Fast Express, and 206 Automobile Inverts''' 
[http://www.filbert.com/stamplistopedia/us_inverts/default.htm Here] is a page with images of the stamp. Also, an interesting little [http://www.topix.net/forum/hobbies/stamp-collecting/TAN9GV5A1E1LCSGDV online tidbit] which references this stamp with the inverted center to which this page refers.

These misprinted ("alternate") stamps, associated with Anarchism, and the philatelically-named Jenny Invert with her similar association to the Anarchist collective at Yz-le-Bans, inevitably call to mind the subtly altered stamps of the anarchist (or at any rate anti-government) Trystero in ''Lot 49'', postage in an alternative, underground communication system.
We have, then, the theme of underground, alternative communication introduced again (the first time in AtD is with the London gas pipes). 
Another philatelically-named female character is Penny Black.

==Page 979==

'''Hanna's miserable stooge''' 
Mark Hanna (September 24, 1837–February 15, 1904), born Marcus Alonzo Hanna, was an industrialist and Republican politician from Ohio. He rose to fame as the campaign manager of the successful Republican Presidential candidate William McKinley in the U.S. Presidential election of 1896, in what is considered the forerunner of the modern political campaign, and subsequently became one of the most powerful members of the U.S. Senate. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Hanna From Wikipedia]. Obviously, the stooge refers to McKinley. Strongly suggestive of a parallel to Karl Rove and his miserable stooge.

'''henriettia''' 
A fine diagonal twilled (ribbed) dress fabric made with silk warp (vertical threads) and fine worsted (firm-textured) weft (horizontal threads), which makes it resemble Cashmere cloth. 
Weave: Twill 
Characteristics: Originally consisted of worsted filling and silk warp. Today, it can be found in a variety of blends. It has excellent drapability. It's weight and quality vary with fibres, however, when created with silk and wool it is lustrous and soft.
Uses: Dress goods. Textile Dictionary

'''Œdipal''' 
From the myth of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus#Homer.27s_Oedipus Oedipus] Rex, about a returning son killing his father, rendered infamous through Freud's interpretation of its significance to men and rendered famous by the Sophocles plays in the 5th century B.C.

And perhaps a Pynchon in-joke of sorts. The protagonist of ''Lot 49'' is Oedipa Maas (it has been suggested: "More Oedipal"), also in trouble over stamps; in fact "Lot 49" refers to the auction lot of Trystero-altered stamps in the collection of Pierce Inverarity (it has been suggested: "Inverse Rarity"), for whose estate Oedipa is executor. A few pages from here the issue of alternate communication forms will be introduced; these references to the issues in ''Lot 49'' could serve to alert the experienced reader of Pynchon to their importance in AtD.

==Page 980==

==Page 981==

'''the one with the destiny''' 
Do we learn anything about this odd Oust child?

(Presumably Ewball?). No, this one is apparently a little child when Ewball is a grownup.

Maybe [[ATD_119-148#Page_140|a child born with a caul?]] It would not take much of a prophet to say that such a child has a destiny.

'''tintypes''' 
A cheap, common and durable form of black and white photographic image where a sensitised collodion is poured upon a thin sheet of soot blackened tin, exposed and developed. Often hand-coloured. The most notable practitioners and teachers of the process in the US are [http://www.collodion.org/ Mark Osterman and France Scully Osterman]. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintype tintype wikipedia entry].

==Page 982==

'''the Madero Revolution had moved on''' 
Madero took office as president in November, 1911. However, he was no longer the universal and unquestioned leader he once had been. He turned his back on the forces that had brought him to power. His refusal to enact land reforms caused a break with Emiliano Zapata (1879-1919) and other revolutionary leaders and losing much of his popular support gained during the revolution. The rural working class, who had supported Madero, now took up arms against him.

''' Many were rebelling in the name of disaffected ex-minister Emilio Vázquez''' 
Emilio Vázquez Gómez (1888-1913). An anti-Madero figure. 
With the collapse of Diaz regime in May 1911 an interim government was formed and a national election was called for in October the same year. Emilio Vazquez Gomez (1888-1913) was the Interior Minister of the interim government and a leader of an important wing of initial Maderista movement. He and his followers, wth the support of several revolutionary leaders, demand the immediate adopttion of the Plan de San Luis. Vazquistas began an open rebellion to dissolve the interim government and put Madero himself in the presidency before the upcoming election. The revolt, begun at the end of June, reached a new level on August 2, 1911 when Vazquez Gomez resigned as Interior Minister. Three weeks later Vazquista presented a plan in which the interim government was not to be recognized, the command of the revolution was to be handed over to Vazquez Gomez, large landholdings were to be broken up, etc. Madero's dissolving the original anti Diaz party replaced by a new one led to the split with Vazquez Gomez. During the October elections the Vazquista rebellion created unrest in the northern states and attracted several ex-Maderista ''caudillos'' such as Emilio Campas and José Inés Salazar. After the election, the Vazquista rebellion continued and flared up in Chihuahua City in January 1912 against the Madero government. Toward the end of February that revolt spread to several places in the state. In early May, Vazquez Gomez proclaimed himself provisional president, with his capital in Juarez. But his "government" did not obtain much strong support and he was forced to leave the country for the US shortly thereafter. By the fall of 1912, the Vazquista movement had dissolved.

'''Magonistas''' 
Mexican anarchists, followers of brothers Enrique and Ricardo Flores Magón (1874-1922). During the [http://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/99winter/magonista.htm "Magonista" Revolt] of 1911, a short-lived revolutionary commune was set-up in Baja California. In present Mexico, the Flores Magon brothers are considered left wing political icons nearly as notable as Emiliano Zapata, and numerous streets, towns and neighborhoods are named for them.

==Page 983==

'''Morelos''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morelos A state] in southern Mexico.

'''Emiliano Zapata had . . . begun a serious insurrection against the government''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emiliano_Zapata Emiliano Zapata] (1879-1919) was a leading figure in the 1910-11 Madero Revolution against the dictatorship of President Porfirio Diaz. Zapata's discontent with Madero started before the latter became the president. The Ciudad Juárez peace treaty of May 21, 1911 between the Maderistas and Porfirian force ending the military phase of the Madero revolution failed to mention land reforms at all; it turned over the power to an interim government not to the revolutionary forces, as if the fall of the Diaz government had been achieved through secret cabinet pressure according to existing laws not as a result of a revolution; furthermore, the treaty acknowledged the power of federal army and specified to disarmed and demobilized the revolutionary armed groups including Zapatistas. Vazquistas revolted as early as June against the interim government and Zapata openly did so in Morelos on November 25, 1911 against the Madero regime. The Zapatista armed insurrection was the longest-lasting of the rebellions of 1911, and would extend itself throughout Madero's term (1911-13) untill merging with the new insurrectional wave of 1913.

'''Pascual Orozco''' 
1882-1915, importer of armaments from U.S., maderista, revolted against Madero government in 1912. 
[http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/OO/for8.html Pascual Orozco,Jr.] (1882-1915) was a Mexican revolutionary hero and leader. In his early life he was a muleteer working for several large mining companies in the Chihuahua mountains. He soon involved in anti-Diaz activities in 1909 of purchaing arms and ammunition in the U.S. and taking them to Mexico on half of the Magónistas. After Madero called for armed uprising in October 1910 Orozco became the revolutionary chief in the District of Guerrero. On May 10, 1911, Orozco and Pancho Villa won a major military victory in the war against the Porfirian government by taking Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, which led to the signing of the Peace Treaty and the resignation of Diaz. However, for the reasons stated above (Zapata), Orozco announced his revolt against the Madero government on March 3, 1912 lending the anti-Madero movement instant credibility. The Orozquistas won a series of victories for the rest of the month, and the Battle of Rellano (pp. 984-985 of AtD) of March 23 was the high-water mark of the Orozquista military campaign. Orozco and his followers was decisively defeated at the Second Battle of Rellano of May 22-23 by Victoriano Huerta, the new field commnader of Madero ''federales''. By the beginning of October, the Orozquista rebellion had ended and Orozco himself had crossed over to the U.S. acknowledging his defeat.

'''José Inés Salazar''' 
A longtime colleague of Pascual Orozco and later one of the leading Orozquista generals. In May 1909 he and Orozco smuggled arms from the U.S. to Mexico on behalf of the Magonistas. Later fought with Orozco against Madero.

'''Braulio Hernández''' 
A prominent Maderista but later became a radical Orozquista. [http://www.texancultures.utsa.edu/library/bakerPhotos.htm Here] is a great set of photos capturing many of the Mexican revolutionary leaders (including Braulio Hernández) and a visual glimpse into the revolution.

'''Pancho Villa''' 
Christened [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancho_Villa Doroteo Arango Arámbula]. Pancho Villa (1878-1923) was one of the foremost leaders of the Mexican Revolution (1911-1920). His charisma and battle victories and his raid on Columbus, New Mexico, made him an idol of the masses and a folk hero. 
He spend his early years in the mountains in the Northern Mexico running from the law. He answered Madero's call for an armed uprising against the Diaz regime and helped defeat the federal army of Diaz in the first Battle of Ciudad Juáez of April-May 1911. At the beginning of Orozco's revolt Pancho Villa was still loyal to the Madero government and fought along with Victoriano Huerta against the Orozquistas. But after Huerta's murdering of Madero and usurpation of the power on February 22, 1913, Villa allied himself with Carranza and fought against Huerta. Villa's revolutionary aims (other than military goals), unlike those of Emiliano Zapata's, were never clearly defined. He was the provisional governor of Chihuahua (1913-14). His 1916 raid on Columbus, New Mexico, provoked the Punitive Expedition by General John Pershing. At this time Pancho Villa was fighting against Carranza until 1920 when the latter was assassinated. Pancho Villa himself, retired from revolutionary life in 1920, was gunned down in his car on July 20, 1923.

'''José Gonzáles Salas''' 
Maderista general in command against Orozco; replaced by Huerta, to Madero's later discomfiture.

'''the country around Jiménez . . .''' 
The region around Jiménez, a mining center in Chihuahua 130 miles south of Chihuahua City, is known for large number of meteorites, some of them discovered by the Spaniards in 16th and 17th centuries, and now exhibited in Palacio de Mineria (Minery Palace) in Mexico city.

'''Chupaderos''' 
There are two Chupaderos meteorites. Both were found in 1852 in the area around Jiménez. With a weight of 14.114 tons, Chupaderos I is ranked as the 10th largest meteorite in the world; and Chupaderos II with a weight of 6.767 tons ranked 14th. Photos of [http://www.jensenmeteorites.com/Chupaderos/Chupad(1)-3.jpg Chupaderos I] and [http://www.jensenmeteorites.com/Chupaderos/Chupad(II)-1.jpg Chupaderos II].

'''the Bolsón de Mapimí''' 
A small desert area east of Jiménez, the habitat of the Mexican Bolsón Tortoise, one of the four North American tortoise species. cf [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=B Alphabetical Index B] and [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_374-396#Page_395 page 395].

==Page 984==

'''''máquina loca''''' 
Spanish: crazy machine. The translation of ''máquina'' is often tuned to the context: here, "locomotive."

One might go so far as to say that Frank was "going down the rails on a crazy train . . ."

'''''a sus órdenes''''' 
Spanish: (ready) for your orders. In English one would say, "at your service."

'''One prong of the government attack . . . between Corralitos and Rellano . . .''' 
''The Battle of Rellano''. On March 23, 1912, in Rellano, an intermediate point between Torreón and Chihuahua, there was the formal battle between the Orozuistas and the Madero government forces, with a disatrous result for the ''federales''. Its commander, General José Gonzáles Salas, humiliated by the defeat, committed suicide during the retreat. The Battle of Rellano was the high-water mark of the Orozquista military campaign.

'''''Andale, muchachos''''' 
Spanish: let's go, boys.

==Page 985==

'''Parral''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parral%2C_Chihuahua Parral] is where Pancho Villa was assassinated on July 20, 1923. Apparently someone remembered the sacking, dynamiting, looting, and killing.

==Page 986==

'''Victoriano Huerta''' 
Cf [[ATD_374-396#Page_376|page 376: General Huerta]]. 
After the defeat at the Battle of Rellano (pp.984-985 AtD) on March 23, 1912, Madero appointed Victoriano Huerta, an able and competent professional soldier, head of the federal forces on April 1. On May 22-23 Huerta crushed the Orozquistas at the Second Battle of Rellano. This battle was the turning point in the campaign against Orozco. In five consecutive engagements Huerta drove the badly beaten Orozco crossed into the U.S. in September. As a man almost too bad to be true, he began laying plans for Madero's overthrow and the usurpation of presidential power, which he accomplished in ''la decena trágica'', the Ten Tragic Days, of February 1913 and thus earned himself a permanent spot in Mexico's hall of infamy.

'''Günther von Quassel''' 
cf [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=V alpha index V] (page down to von Quassel) and [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_588-614#Page_596 page 596]

'''Tampico''' 
cf. [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_615-643#Page_637 page 637], where (and when) Frank first meets Günther.

'''Orizaba product''' 
One of the leading industries of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orizaba Orizaba] is the Cervecería Moctezuma brewery which was established in 1896.

'''Chiapas''' 
cf. [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_615-643#Page_637 page 637]

==Page 987==

'''Oaxaca''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oaxaca Wikipedia]

'''cafetal''' 
Spanish: coffee plantation.

'''jefe politico''' 
Spanish: political boss.

'''Juchitán''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juchitan Juchitán]

'''Benito Juárez Maza''' 
Governor of Oaxaca from 1911 until his death the next year. He was the
[http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Ju%25C3%25A1rez_Maza&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=7&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3DBenito%2BJu%25C3%25A1rez%2BMaza%26num%3D100%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff son] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Ju%C3%A1rez Benito Juárez], the beloved President of Mexico for five different terms from 1858-1872 (so before Porfirio Díaz).

==Page 988==

'''chegomista''' 
Follower of Che Gómez, identified on page 987.

'''"El Reparador"''' 
Spanish: "The Fixer." Epithet of a hundred operators in crime literature. Or, as the text eventually suggests, "The Repairman."

'''Ibargüengoitia''' 
Speculation on this surname: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Ibarg%C3%BCengoitia Jorge Ibargüengoitia] was a novelist and playwright who wrote, among other things, Los Relámpagos de Agosto (The Lightning of August, 1964), which uses cartoonish mayhem to debunk the Mexican Revolution's heroic myths; improbably it won for its author the Premio Casa de las Américas, despite or because of the consternation which its flippancy caused.

Ibargüengoitia is also the name of the "Genevan contact" that Slothrop meets on behalf of Squalidozzi the Argentine anarchist in GR.

On p. 384 Squalidozzi's shipmate Belaustegui asks why he didn't deliver the message himself: 
"Why didn't you go to Geneva and try to get through to us?" 
"I didn't want to lead them to Ibargüengoitia. I sent someone else."

'''Chapultepec Park''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapultepec Chapultepec] Park is an enormous green area in the middle of Mexico City covering 2,000 acres, containing three of the city's most importnat museums, an amusement park, several lakes, the only genuine castle in North America,, Mexico's largest zoo and the residence of the President of Mexico, Los Pinos. Chapultepec Castle is also known as "The Halls of Montezuma."

'''''Wie geht's, mein alter Kumpel''''' 
German: How are you, my old workmate?

==Page 989==

'''the new Monument to National Independence''' 
Mexico City's No.1 landmark. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_%C3%81ngel ''Monumento de la Independencia''], situated on a roundabout at the ''Paseo de la Reforma'' (Reform Avenue) in Mexico City's downtown area, was inaugurated in 1910. The sculptures that surround the base represent Law, Justice, War and Peace. On top of the monument is a winged and gilded angel, known as ''Angel de la Independencia'', or just ''El Angel''. See photo of 
[http://www.zanzig.com/travel/mexico-photos/m005-070.htm ''El Angel''].

'''''a face he recognized''''' 
Another angel modeled on Dally? El Angel was sculpted by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrique_Alciati Enrique Alciati].

'''''"máquina loca," "muerte"'' and ''"tú"''''' 
Spanish: "crazy locomotive," "dead" and "you."

'''When his eyes refocused, whoever had spoken had moved on''' 
Frank has, at recognizing Dally's face, gone into the same kind of trance, a merger with the moment, or with the machine, that had almost taken him into the collision with the Federal train on P.985. The warning words seem to be "crazy machine", "dead" and "you". A warning from the Angel of Death, via another Alternate Communication channel.

:Why the Angel of Death rather than the Angel of Light?

'''''abrazo''''' 
Spanish: hug.

'''''sinvergüencistas''''' 
From ''sin vergüenza,'' Spanish: without shame. The ''-istas'' ending makes it refer to a group of adherents.

'''out of Vera Cruz, down to Frontera . . . to Villahermosa, Tuxtla Gutiérrez . . . and across the Sierra to the Pacific coast''' 
From Mexico City by land roughly 200 miles east to Veracruz on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, continued east 230 miles by sea to Frontera, a small town on the Gulf coast, turned south by land 20 miles to Villahermosa, the capital of Chiapas, continue 40 miles to Tuxtla Gutiérrez and came 80 miles over the Sierra Madre de Chiapas and reached the Pacific coast around Tapachula near the border with Guatemala.

'''''Tu madre chingada puta''''' 
Rude, rude Spanish: Your mother's a fucking whore.

==Page 990==

'''Machine-Age nightmare . . . the future of coffee''' 
Another Crazy Machine, or perhaps "Out of Control" machine (the governor on the locomotive on P.985 "no longer regulated anything"). Coffee is being industrialized, contributing to the ubiquity of outlets on P. 817, not to mention today, with overwhelming consequences for the indigenous growers.

'''Chamulan Indians''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzotzil_people Tzotzil] Maya.

'''San Cristóbal''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Crist%C3%B3bal_de_las_Casas Wikipedia]

'''Tuxtla''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuxtla_Guti%C3%A9rrez Wikipedia]

'''Tapachula''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapachula Wikipedia]

'''El Quetzal Dormido''' 
The Sleeping [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetzal Quetzal]. Quetzals are elaborately-plumed birds of the genera ''Pharomachrus'' and ''Euptilotis,'' and are in the trogon family.

'''Melpómene''' 
Name of the Greek muse of tragedy. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melpomene Wikipedia]

'''Palenque''' 
A Chiapas small town roughly 20 miles southeast of Villahermosa, 70 miles notheast of Tuxtla Gutiérrez. From 500 to 800 A.D. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palenque Palenque] was a major power in the Maya world. Today it remains shrouded in the mist of a tropical jungle and a significant archealogical site dominating by the ''Temple of the Inscription'' with the tomb of Lord Pacal, the ruler from 615-653 A.D. inside.

==Page 991==

'''''guayuleros''''' 
From ''guayule'': Those who made a living harvesting wild rubber early in the Century. 
'''Guayule''', the desert shrub from which natural rubber can be extracted, has been a subject of interest in this country for better than a century. At one time-admittedly long ago-guayule rubber accounted for 10 percent of the rubber used in the U.S. 
But that was wild rubber, in really wild times, before the Hevea rubber plantations took off in Southeast Asia. Guayule couldn´t compete with the plantation rubber in volume or consistency, expiring just like the profession of collecting of wild Hevea rubber did. 
Pancho Villa´s cross-border raids prior to World War I, by the way, scared off "guayuleros" in Southwestern U.S. and also contributed to guayule´s decline. [http://www.rubbernews.com/subscriber/editorial2.phtml?cat=4&id=1187365271 rubbernews]

'''''cucuji''''' 
According to the text they are "giant luminous beetles."
Pynchon seems to have read this "Handbook for Travellers" [http://books.google.com/books?id=9AczAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA568&lpg=PA568&dq=cucuji+beetles&source=web&ots=wJwpt6gbTM&sig=bpU3x_5UnawTGnLkpqqMjLQbv7Y Google Books scan] to Mexico, written in 1907, by Thomas Phillip Terry. This passage includes descriptions of reading by their light, simultaneous flashing, use by women under thin veils, and small cages containing several beetles acting as torches. 
See '''Beetles''' in ''Mason & Dixon'': [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_7:_58-76 M & D wiki]

'''''tinterillo''''' 
Legal scribe. A "writer to prepare papers, collect and adduce evidence in legal cases, such as was to be submitted to illiterate judges of such tribunals as then existed." (From [http://books.google.com/books?id=zKYOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA156&lpg=PA156&dq=tinterillo&source=web&ots=GNd26U3HmM&sig=zqBFQy2xb8-Q8OUB8dZuR87XJms#PPA160,M1 here], p 160.)

'''''Ahora, apágate''''' 
Spanish: Now put yourself out, extinguish yourself.

'''''Bueno''' 
Good.

==Page 992==

'''''instantaneously''''' 
In violation of Einstein's special theory of relativity. 
a wireless, immediate, human way of communicating.

'''''Caray . . . novio . . .''''' 
Spanish: Good heavens . . . boyfriend . . .

'''Mazatán''' 
There's a map with Mazatán on this web [http://www.travelpost.com/NA/Mexico/Chiapas/Mazatan/7645531 page].

'''''Qué''''' 
Spanish: What, as in "what the fuck?"

'''''querida''''' 
Spanish: dear, darling.

==Page 993==

'''It is like the telephone exchange . . . the single greater organism remains intact, coherent, connected.''' 
Actually not like the telephone exchange. On P. 708, Derrick Theign worries that in case of war, telephone and telegraph will become unreliable; this is his reason for creating the R.U.S.H. This telepathic network, like an unfailing cell phone network, is far more reliable.

'''Tenochtitlán''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenochtitlan Tenochtitlán] was the capital of the Aztec empire, built on an island in Lake Texcoco in what is now the Federal District in central Mexico. At its height, Tenochtitlán was one of the largest cities in the world, with over 200,000 inhabitants. The city was destroyed in 1521 by Spanish conquistadors. Mexico City was erected on top of the ruin.

'''Angel of the Fourth Glorieta on Reforma''' 
''Glorieta'' is a monument. See the angel, pg. 989.

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'''He knew what it was but could not find its name in his memory''' 
Presumably the unknown menace from which Aztlan's inhabitants fled. But suggestive both of air attack and the menace of North American industrialization in 1900 and NAFTA in 2000.

'''tezontle''' 
The colonists and Indian artisans employed local [http://www.britannica.com/eb/topic-589541/tezontle tezontle], a light and porous volcanic rock, to create elaborate facades on buildings.

'''tepetate''' 
A porous whitish-yellow rock used in building construction when cut into blocks. As a construction material tepetate has played a major role in the development of modern Mexico.

'''indicative world''' 
Very potent phrase. The world of everyday reality, indicating the deepeer reality of the visions? The indicative mood in grammar is the mood of simple declarative statements, plain facts: there was Melpomene, here is a chair. A mood incommensurate with Frank's trance.

'''the Huerta coup''' 
Against Madero, who was shot, February 1913.

'''Ciudadela''' 
The [http://archaeology.asu.edu/teo/intro/ciudad.htm Ciudadela] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teotihuacan Teotihuacán].

'''Félix Díaz''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9lix_D%C3%ADaz Wikipedia]

'''Decena Trágica''' 
Spanish: the tragic ten days.

'''Zócalo''' 
A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zocalo zócalo] is a central town square or plaza.

'''''el palacio blanco''''' 
Spanish: the white palace

'''Pino Suárez''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Mar%C3%ADa_Pino_Su%C3%A1rez Wikipedia]

==Page 995==

'''It was the first time he was aware of getting paid for being stupid. Could there be a future in this?''' 

Sounds like another Pynchonian 'in-joke'. In "Vineland", Zoyd Wheeler is getting his yearly cheques for precisely that, i.e. doing something stupid.

==Page 996==

'''''¡Epa!''''' 
Spanish: Whoa! Soccer (fútbol) announcers interject ¡Epa! when two players have a very physical coming together.

'''Since last September the mine workers' union had been out on strike''' 
The Colorado "coal war" of September 1913 to April 1914; [http://www.du.edu/anthro/ludlow/cfhist.html here is an eye-opening account.]

==Page 997==

'''Pagosa Springs''' 
South Central Colorado town in the heart of the San Juan Forest.

==Page 998==

'''...over Wolf Creek Pass, into the San Luis Valley...San Luis Basin...through Fort Garland...up the Sangre de Cristos over North La Veta Pass...the first rooftops of Walsenburg.''' 
The route described would take them from the presumably UMW-sympathetic mining country in the San Juans, north and east along current US highway 160 (called the Navaho Trail), across the San Luis Valley and Basin to North La Veta Pass, with Walsenburg and the prairies and canyons of the coal country beyond to the east (the only safe approach to the striking mines).

The geography of this journey is as carefully described as the various characters' journeys through the Balkans (the description of the view of the Spanish Peaks and Culebra Range are absolutely accurate), and there must be a reason, something these regions have in common.

The San Luis Valley and immediately adjacent areas are the furthest northeastern reaches of the Spanish Empire in North America, part of the Province of Nueva Mexico del Norte of New Spain, later Mexico (part of which became the state of New Mexico in 1912). The area around Telluride would be the northern border of Pynchon's vision of Aztlan (it is in fact the northern border of the Pueblo settlements). These are, therefore, like the Balkans, borders between newly industrializing empires and older, tribally-organized, "pre-scientific" cultures (both with indigenous mystical/spiritual traditions, with which the characters interact). Here and in nearby Mexico, mechanization and industrialization of resource extraction are causing heartbreaking exploitation and violence, and the indigenous shamanism and mysticism and their unmediated power are being destroyed by advancing industrial civilization, exactly as described by Dwight Prance on P.777.

Niall Ferguson(''The War of the World: Twentieth Century Conflict and the Descent of the West'', Penguin Press, 2006) points to three demonstrated conditions for becoming a conflict flashpoint: (1) Multi-ethnic population (2) location at the border of a failing empire (3) economic volatility (See note to P.939). Both the Balkans and the American Southwest/Mexico fulfilled those conditions.

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'''A-and''' 
5; 13; 109; 183; 420; 666
:Notable as a verbal tick of Tyrone Slothrop's in ''Gravity's Rainbow'''.

'''absquatulate''' 
8; run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along; 343; appears Latinate but is actually a 19th c. Americanism (compounded of two words), often used jocularly; thus deception & doubleness & humor in a single word, very Pynchonian!

'''Ace, Mr.''' 
415; visitor from the future (Trespasser); 555;

'''''Achphanomen''''' 
616;

'''Adam of Bremen''' 
128; (also: Adam Bremensis) One of the most important German medieval chroniclers. He lived and worked in the second half of the 11th century. He is most famous for his chronicle ''Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum'' (''Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church''); [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_of_Bremen Wikipedia entry]

'''Adams, Maude (1872-1953)''' 
338; American stage actress, most noted for her signature role, Peter Pan; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maude_Adams Wikipedia entry]

'''Addle, Ed''' 
60; regular at Oil Well Saloon;

'''aeronaut''': the pilot of a balloon or airship; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_Columbian_Exposition Chicago World's Fair, 1893] and [http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA96/WCE/title.html more here]

'''Aether''' 
55; 58; 132-133; 140; 306; 320; "sounds like light" 426; 458; 557; 565-66; 595; aka ''Akasa'', 613; 620; aka ''Luminiferous aether ''; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminiferous_aether Wikipedia article on Luminferous aether]

'''aigrette''' 
456; 721; 748; 813; Aigrette (from the French for egret, or lesser white heron), the tufted crest, or head-plumes of the egret, used for adorning a woman's head-dress, the term being also given to any similar ornament, in gems, &c. An aigrette is also worn by certain ranks of officers in the French army. By analogy the word is used in various sciences for feathery excrescences of like appearance, as for the tufts on the heads of insects, the feathery down of the dandelion, the luminous rays at the end of electrified bodies, or the luminous rays seen in solar eclipses, diverging from, the moon's edge. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aigrette Wikipedia entry]

'''Akashi, Baron''' 
294; "roving military attaché" and "famous international spy"

'''''akousmata''''' 
232; Greek: "things heard"; holds a much more secretive connotation like ‘signs’, or even perhaps ‘passwords’. These were explained as a set of rules of conduct used by the Pythagoreans. A few examples as given by Aristotle’s testimonies, like “abstain from beans as being due either to the fact that they resemble the genitals in shape, or because they resemble the gates of Hades." Also noted in this passage was “not to touch a white cock” and “not to touch any sacred fish” probably due to the earlier discussion on sacrifice.

'''Albert Lea''' 
71; Pronounced "Albert Lee," a town in south-central Minnesota. It is also mentioned in passing in ''Gravity's Rainbow'' as the unlikely hometown of Pig Bodine: ''"Just a humble guy," the swarthy doughboy of the deep scratching in his groin after an elusive crab with a horn finger, rippling the ballooning pleats and fabric of his trousers, "just a freckleface kid from Albert Lea, Minnesota, down there on Route 69 where the speed limit's lickety-split.."''; [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Albert+Lea,+MN+56007&ie=UTF8&z=9&ll=43.65123,-93.369026&spn=1.007532,2.768555&om=1 Google Map]

'''alchemy''' 
76-77; Alchemy refers to both an early form of the investigation of nature and an early philosophical and spiritual discipline, both combining elements of chemistry, metallurgy, physics, medicine, astrology, semiotics, mysticism, spiritualism, and art; and photography, 80; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy Wikipedia entry]

'''Alfonsito''' 
310; [[ATD-D#drop|Jimmy Drop's]] lieutenant

'''Algernon''' 
369; Ruperta's driver (?)

'''Algie''' 
672; "flaneur of Ruperta's acquaintance"; a flaneur is a detached pedestrian observer of a metropolis, a 'gentleman stroller of city streets', first identified by Charles Baudelaire; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fl%C3%A2neur Wikipedia entry]

'''Alkali''' 
Any of a group of basic, soluble salts. The term is derived etymologically from the Arabic for calcined ashes, from which the first alkalis were derived. They form a principle ingredient in soap production. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkali Citation]. "alkali dust, 207; "all the alkaline day," 214;

''"All Pimps Look Alike to Me"''' 
48; an 1896 barroom ditty that was "cleaned up" to become "All Coons Look Alike to Me" and recorded by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Collins Arthur Collins] in 1899 and considered by some to be the First Rock 'n' Roll Record. [[All_Pimps_Look_Alike_to_Me|Read the whole story...]]

'''A.M.E.''' 
702; Alternate Means of Egress

'''America''' 
219; "innocent, all but oppressively wholesome"; and shame, 567; American light, 580; "delivered yourselves into the hands of capitalists and Christers" 643;

'''Amsterdam''' 
107; Indian Ocean island; M''egaera'' shipwrecked, 108;

[[image:anamorphoscope.jpg|thumb|Anamorphoscope|right]]'''anamorphoscope''' 
249; a curved mirror or other optical device for giving a correct image of a picture or the like distorted by anamorphosis; paramorphic, 249;

'''Anarchism''' 
6; "the inexorable rising tide of World Anarchism..."; 37; 43; 49-51; 60; 66; 87; 175 (as terrorists); 179; bomb factory in London, 235; 370; Barcelona in 1890s, 372;  [http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/index.html Anarchy Archives]

'''Anarcho-syndicalists''' 
14; Anarcho-syndicalism is a branch of anarchism which focuses on the labor movement. ''Syndicalisme'' is a French word meaning "trade unionism" – hence, the "syndicalism" qualification. Anarcho-syndicalists view labor unions as a potential force for revolutionary social change, replacing capitalism and the State with a new society democratically self-managed by workers. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-syndicalism Wikipedia entry]

'''Anemometer''' 
6; An instrument for measuring wind speed; Robinson anemometer, 6 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anemometer Wikipedia entry]

'''Angels''' 
10; "''helples angel''," 27; 42; "Archangels of municipal vengence," 150; "God's wing" (?), 211; "agencies of the angelic," 221; "Avenging Angels" 271; creatures, 277; H. Vanderjuice, 322; 332; birds, 336; 379; 389; Angel Street, 446; 531; in Venice, 575; "too bright to look at directly" 616; of deep shit, 619; 632; 642; Gentleman Bomber, as "messenger" 692; wings, 699;

'''Anglo-Russian Entente''' 
631; the 1907 diplomatic accord between England and Russia to respect the integrity and independence of Persia.

'''Anharmonic Pencil''' 
455; a "pencil" in this context refers to a figure formed by a set of straight lines or light rays meeting at a point, a figure that is not harmonic, i.e., not a multiple of its component parts; 532; 593;

'''Anti-Stone''' 
78;

'''Apostles' Creed''' 
58; The Apostles' Creed (circa 700 AD) (Latin: Symbolum Apostolorum), sometimes titled Symbol of the Apostles, is an early statement of Christian belief, a creed or "symbol." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostles'_Creed Wikipedia entry]

'''Arbuckles''' 
638; It was in the United States where coffee initially started to be commercialized. In 1865, John Arbuckle marketed the first commercially available packages of ground, roasted coffee. His brand, 'Ariosa', was sold over a far larger area then any other coffee roaster. Instead of being confined to a small area close to his roasting factory, Arbuckle was able to establish his coffee as a regional brand. Others soon followed suit and, by World War I, there were a number of regional roasters including companies such as Folgers, Hill Brothers, and Maxwell House; [http://www.gallacoffee.co.uk/acatalog/History_of_Coffee_Pt_IV.html From Galla Coffee website]

'''Archer, Mr.''' 
467;

'''argentaurum''' 
305-07; 375;

[[Image:arkansas-toothpick1.jpg|thumb|Arkansas Toothpick, made by Harvey McBurnette - 9.5" blade|left]]'''Arkansas Toothpick''' 
31; The Arkansas Toothpick is essentially a heavy dagger with a pointed, straight 12-20 inch blade. The "toothpick" is balanced and weighted for throwing and can also be used for thrusting and slashing. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_toothpick Wikipedia entry]

'''arnophilia''' 
211; A word invented by Pynchon. According to this [http://www.basarchive.org/sample/bswbBrowse.asp?PubID=BSBR&Volume=19&Issue=6&ArticleID=5 website] the greek word ''arnos'' generally refers to a lamb or sheep, but occasionally to a goat, too. Suffixes with the common part -phil- (-phile, -philia, -philic) are used to specify some kind of attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-phil- Wikipedia]

'''Arriaga, Camilo''' 
381; ''potosino''; a leader of Mexican anarchist group founded by Enrico and Ricardo Flores Magon in 1882; on August 30, 1900, he published the manifesto ''Invitación al Partido Liberal'' in San Luis Potosi. This document sparked a movement leading to formation of the ''Partido Liberal Mexicano'' (PLM) five years later, and was Ricardo Flores Magón's main vehicle for organizing the anti-Diaz struggle and for spreading the ideals of anarchism throughout Mexico; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism_in_Mexico Wikipedia - Anarchism in Mexico]

'''Arvin''' 
264; in the Nonpareil;

'''aryq''' 
441; The Russian Turcologists Malov and Tenishev mention a Western Yugur word ''Aryq'', meaning Chinese or muslim Turk. This is a loanword from Tibetan, ''A-rig'', the name of a country of nomadic herdsmen situated to the west of Amdo. It originally may have referred to the local Tibetan population. But Pynchon's use suggests it is a drink. Hmmm. 
Arak or araq is an anise-flavored liquor popular in the Middle East; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arak_(liqueur) Wikipedia entry]

'''ässalamu äläykum''' 
441; As-Salāmu `Alaykum (السلام عليكم) is an Arabic language greeting used in both Muslim and Christian cultures. It means "Peace be upon you." It is also transliterated as Assalamu 'Alaikum or As-salaamu Alaikum. The traditional response is "wa `Alaykum As-Salām", meaning "and peace on you". [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As-Salamu_Alaykum Wikipedia entry]

'''"as above [...] so below"''' 
439; 797; This phrase comes from the beginning of [http://www.alchemylab.com/what_is_the_tablet.htm The Emerald Tablet] and embraces the entire system of traditional and modern magic which was inscribed upon the tablet in cryptic wording by Hermes Trismegistus. The significance of this phrase is that it is believed to hold the key to all mysteries. All systems of magic are claimed to function by this formula. "'That which is above is the same as that which is below'...Macrocosmos is the same as microcosmos. The universe is the same as God, God is the same as man, man is the same as the cell, the cell is the same as the atom, the atom is the same as...and so on, ad infinitum." [http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/a/below_above.html]

'''Astarte-Bad''' 
714; in Vienna, with lurid mosaics of pre-biblical orgies; Astarte is a pre-biblical goddess of fertility, sexuality and war; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astarte Wikipedia entry]

'''"at silly point"''' 
222; "silly point" is a position in the game of cricket, played close to the batsman

'''Aubergine, Madame''' 
367, gives Reef Traverse dancing lessons in Denver, "aubergine" means eggplant, both the vegetable and the color;

[[Image:Audumla.jpg|thumb|Audhumla -
N. A. Abilgaard, 1790|right]]'''Audumla''' 
142; The primeval cow. Audumla (Audhumla) was born from rime at Ginnungagap. The primeval giant Ymir (Aurgelmir) lived on the milk that flow from the cow's teats. Audumla also provided nourishment to Ymir's six-headed son. Audumla received nourishment through licking the salty rime-stones. Audumla licked the stone until it was shaped into a man. This stone became Buri, grandfather of the Aesir gods: Odin, Vili and Ve.

'''Aughrim''' 
231; The Battle of Aughrim was the decisive battle of the Williamite War in Ireland. It was fought between the Jacobites and the forces of William III on 12 July 1691, near the village of Aughrim in County Galway; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Aughrim Wikipedia entry]

'''August, Ernst''' 
230; Crown Prince Ernst August II of Hanover, 3rd Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale, (Ernst August Wilhelm Adolf Georg Friedrich) (21 September 1845-14 November 1923), was the eldest child and only son of King George V of Hanover and his wife, Princess Marie of Saxe-Altenburg. Ernst August had the misfortune of being deprived of the thrones of Hanover upon its annexation by Prussia in 1866 and later the Duchy of Brunswick in 1884. Although he was the senior male-line great grandson of King George III, the Duke of Cumberland was deprived of his British peerages and honours for having sided with Germany in World War I; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_August_of_Hanover%2C_3rd_Duke_of_Cumberland]

'''Automorphic Dispensation''' 
453;

'''Avery''' 
193; a company inspector or spy (indeterminate)

'''Aychrome, Police Inspector Vance''' 
605; at Chunxton Crescent;

'''Azeff, Monsieur Yevno''' 
720; Yevno Azef (also spelled Azev) was a double agent in a big way, working for both Russia's turn-of-the-century revolutionaries and the Czar's Okhrana. He was convicted of attempting to assassinate Tsar Nicholas II and was executed in 1911. He was also a founder of the Social Revolutionary Party.

'''Aziz, Abdel''' 
520; "young sultan" in Morocco

'''Aztecs''' 
394; "foundation story of the eagle and the serpent"

'''Aztlàn''' 
214; Aztlán (believed to mean "place of whiteness" or "place of herons," derived from the Nahuatl words "aztatl" (herons or white-plumed birds) and "tlan" ("place among") is the legendary ancestral home of the Nahua peoples, one of the main cultural groups in Mesoamerica. "Azteca" is the Nahuatl word for "people from Aztlan." While some legends describe Aztlán as a paradise, the Aubin Codex says that the Aztecs were subject to a tyrant elite called the Azteca Chicomoztoca. Guided by their priest, the Aztec fled, and on the road, their god Huitzilopochtli forbade them to call themselves Azteca, telling them that they should be known as Mexica (pronounced /meʃiko/). Ironically, the scholars of the 19th century would name them Aztec; "ghosts of..."; 277; "mythical homeland of" 923; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztl%C3%A1n Wikipedia]

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==Page 81==
'''July Fourth started hot and grew hotter,...''' 

[[image:Gpynch.jpg|thumb|Guardan Review|right]] On Saturday, 18 November 2006, the UK's Guardian newspaper, in a Review section which featured a drawing of what Pynchon might now look like on its cover, published a full-page excerpt from ''Against the Day''. This comprised pages 81 to 85 (up to "he wondered sometimes if he would've ever signed on."), with the addition of the final paragraph from page 96, ending with "Happy Fourth of July, Webb." This was a much more substantial excerpt than the one which appeared in the Penguin Press catalogue, and was arguably a more alluring one in terms of attracting the general reader. These were the only official excerpts published before ATD itself, on 21 November 2006.

'''Feast of St. Barbara''' 
According to legend, Saint Barbara was the extremely beautiful daughter of a wealthy heathen named Dioscorus, who lived near Nicomedia in Asia Minor, in the 4th Century AD. Because of her singular beauty and fearful that she be demanded in marriage and taken away from him, he jealously shut her up in a tower to protect her from the outside world. When Barbara converted to Christianity, her enraged father killed her and was subsequently struck down by lightening. St. Barbara was venerated as early as the seventh century. The legend of the lightning bolt which struck down her father caused her to be regarded as the patron saint in time of danger from thunderstorms, fires and sudden death. When gunpowder made its appearance in the Western world, Saint Barbara was invoked for aid against accidents resulting from explosions since some of the earlier artillery pieces often blew up instead of firing their projectile, Saint Barbara became the patroness of the artillerymen. [http://sill-www.army.mil/pao/pabarbar.htm]

'''Propaganda of the Deed''' 
Anarchist terrorism.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_of_the_deed [Wikipedia]]

'''Zarzuela''' 
Spanish genre of musical theater. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarzuela [Wikipedia]]

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'''Skinner''' 
A person who drives mules.

'''Chinaman''' 
This is the latest of many allusions to China or Chinese in an exotic, oriental way. This may simply be imitating Gilded Age and early 20th century American fiction and films, which often featured mystical Chinese as characters and villains. It also recalls the use of Feng Shui in ''Mason & Dixon''.

'''Cour d'Alene bullpens''' 
Usually 'Coeur'. Striking miners in 1892 were illegal confined in bullpens. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coeur_d'Alene_miners'_dispute [Wikipedia]]

'''Cripple Creek''' 
Cripple Creek was the location of a miner's strike in 1894. It was a significant labor event and it was the first time that a state Militia was called out in support of the miners. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cripple_Creek_miners'_strike_of_1894 Wikipedia entry]

==Page 84==

'''1900''' 
So the current Fourth of July must be 1901 or later (not 1899).

'''''Minneskort''''' 
Modern Finnish word for computer memory cards. (TRP likely saw it on a Nokia phone.)

==Page 85==
'''Innocent Victims...Monsters That Did the Deed''' 
Use of capitals seems to emphasize the fact that these persons are simply convenient stock characters in the forwarding of the owners'/government's agenda.

'''"Which left precious few targets except for the railroad."''' 
Frank Norris's 1901 novel ''The Octopus'' is summed up in one short paragraph. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Octopus_%28Frank_Norris%29 Wikipedia entry].

==Page 86==
'''Shorty's Billiard Saloon''' 
This is based on real accounts of billiard balls sparking and exploding in saloons. The balls in question used a then-new thermoplastic compound of cellulose nitrate and camphor developed and patented under the trademark "celluloid" by John Wesley Hyatt as a substitute for ivory. See [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=C Celluloid] for Wikipedia links to Hyatt and Celluloid.

==Page 87==
Rev. Moss Gatlin's rhetorical question "How can anyone set off a bomb that will take innocent lives?" and its wisecrack response, "Long fuse" seems a calculated echo of Kubrick's 'Full Metal Jacket.' ("How can you shoot women and children?" "Easy -- don't lead 'em so much.")

'''Emile Henry, Vaillant''' 
Emile Henry (1872 - May 21, 1894) was a French anarchist who on February 12, 1894 detonated a bomb at the Café Terminus in the Parisian Gare Saint-Lazare killing one person and wounding twenty. Henry was angered over the execution of another Anarchist, Auguste Vaillant, for the destruction of a government building that hurt no one, and took it upon himself to strike back to avenge his fellow revolutionary's death. He saw the Cafe as a representation of the bourgeois itself and his intent was to kill as many people as possible in the bombing. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile_Henry Wikipedia entry].

'''Mason-Dixon line''' 
We learn that the Traverse family had been "an old ridegerunning clan from southern Pennsylvania, close to the Mason-Dixon." No Traverses appear, however, in Pynchon's ''Mason & Dixon,'' but one can speculate that had they been, the Traverse ancestors may have been victims of the Line's bad Feng Shui. From this, one could infer a connection between the Line and Colorado Anarchism.

==Page 89==

'''silver-boom babies''' 
Assuming the silver boom of 1890-1892 is meant, Webb's kids were aged about 9 to 16. [[Timeline|Timeline with spoilers]]

'''Bob Ford's Funeral''' 
June 1892 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ford_(outlaw) [Wikipedia]]

'''repeal of the Silver Act''' 

Prior to 1892, both Silver and Gold were used as a metallic standard for currency in the United States. The Sherman Act authorized the treasury to purchase 4.5 million ounces of silver per month. This inflated the price of silver, causing eastern investors to start hoarding gold as a hedge. The unrest this caused in the Colorado mines resulted in the repeal of the Act. When this happened, the mining of silver began to rapidly decline, causing further destabilization in the silver mining industry.

==Page 90==

'''before he got shot''' 
1899. [http://www.butchandsundance.com/players/ketchumgang.htm [cite]]

'''Lake''' 
Lake Traverse is between Minnesota and South Dakota. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Traverse Wikipedia]

==Page 91==

'''"Sleep? is when you sleep...." "Only that I wouldn't want it..."''' 
(Looks like typos to me.)

==Page 93==
'''plutes''' 
Plutocrats: members of the wealthy class controlling a government

'''Labor produces all wealth. Wealth belongs to the producer thereof.''' 
Reviewers of ATD have quoted this line, [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/16/AR2006111601252.html] but Pynchon did not make it up. It comes from authentic miner's union literature of the time. [http://laborarts.org/collections/item.cfm?itemid=178]

'''Republicans''' 
William McKinley was elected in 1896 on the Republican ticket, defeating Democrat William Jennings Bryan, ushering in a chain of Republican Presidents until Woodrow Wilson was elected in 1912. Obviously, could also be interpreted as a jab at the current Republican Party.

==Page 94==

'''duster''' 
Long coat. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duster_(clothing) {Wikipedia]]

==Page 95==

'''dynamite rounders''' 
Rounders was a precursor to baseball. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rounders [Wikipedia]]

'''waiting for the rest of the joke''' 
Cf Dally and Lindsay, p27.

==Page 96==

'''"We ready?"''' 
The destruction of the railroad bridge is reminiscent of scenes in Edward Abbey's anarchistic 1975 novel ''The Monkey Wrench Gang.'' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monkey_Wrench_Gang Wikipedia entry].

'''Sufficient unto the day''' 

From The Gospel According to Saint Matthew: 6:34. "Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall
take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." (The New Testament of the King James Bible)

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Candlebrow University''' 
130, Dr Vormance on sabbatical; 405; "institute of higher learning in the heartland"; 451;

'''Cantor, Georg (1845-1918)''' 
250; 593-94; German mathematician who is best known as the creator of set theory. Cantor established the importance of one-to-one correspondence between sets, defined infinite and well-ordered sets, and proved that the real numbers are "more numerous" than the natural numbers. In fact, Cantor's theorem implies the existence of an "infinity of infinities." He defined the cardinal and ordinal numbers, and their arithmetic. Cantor's work is of great philosophical interest, a fact of which he was well aware. After his father's death in 1863, Cantor shifted his studies to the University of Berlin, attending lectures by Weierstrass, Kummer, and Kronecker, and befriending his fellow student Hermann Schwarz. He spent a summer at the University of Göttingen, then and later a very important center for mathematical research. In 1867, Berlin granted him the Ph.D. for a thesis on number theory, De aequationibus secundi gradus indeterminatis. After teaching one year in a Berlin girls' school, Cantor took up a position at the University of Halle, where he spent his entire career; "the ''Beast of Halle''" 624;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Celluloid''' 
86; a thermoplastic compound of cellulose nitrate and camphor, originally developed and patented by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wesley_Hyatt John Wesley Hyatt] as a substitute for ivory in billiard balls. It was later used as the film base for photosensitive emulsion, seminal in the use of photographic plates and especially in motion pictures. Nowadays, it is found principally in ping-pong balls and in some guitar (perhaps also ukelele?) picks and pickguards. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celluloid Wikipedia entry]; 103; 570;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Chinese Gong Effect''' 
356;

<div id="chirpingdon-groin"></div>'''Chirpingdon-Groin, Ruperta ("Pert")''' 
367; "touring English woman" in Denver; 656; levitation during performance of new work by Ralph Vaughan Williams, 896;

'''Chisholm, Grace''' 
490;

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

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

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

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

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

'''Chums of Chance''' 
3; "celebrated aeronautics club"; 6, 7; 54; observing the impact of Tesla's Colorado experiments from the Indian Ocean, 107; intercepting the Vormance Expedition, 114-149; "agents of ''extrahuman'' justice" 215; in Murano, 243; retirement, 254; in the Arsenale battle with Padzy, 254; [[Campanile|toppling the Campanile]], 257; in New York City, 397; Upper Command (aka Hierarchy), 398, 407; at Candlebrow University, 407; the anti-Chums, 415; infiltrated by Trespassers, 418; their "Tesla machine" 425; under the sand, 434; in Brussels, 548; recalled, in Venice, 575;

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

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

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

'''Clifford''' 
632; invisible

'''climber''' 
131; 167;

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

'''Cold Harbor''' 
335;

'''Coleman Smith, Pamela (1878-1951)''' 
186;225; artist, illustrator, and writer best known for designing the Rider-Waite deck (also known as the Rider-Waite-Smith, Waite-Smith, Waite-Colman Smith or Rider deck) of tarot cards for Arthur Edward Waite in 1910. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Colman_Smith Wikipedia entry]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''counter-City''' 
585;

'''Counterfly, Chick''' 
4; member of the Chums of Chance; 108; now "Dr. Counterfly", 139;

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

'''''Courage'', Camille''' 
345; "Courage Camille" is a game in which three players are required. Two of the players face each other and lock hands. The third person stiffens and falls backwards into their arms. This should be done several times, with the person falling farther backwards each time (the players locking their hands should lower them each time). Other players can then try. 
Also, a line masterfully delivered by Bob Hope as radio personality and craven muckraker Lawrence Lawrence Lawrence in the 1940 horror-comedy [http://eric.b.olsen.tripod.com/break.html ''The Ghost Breakers''].

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

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

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

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

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

'''Creede''' 
650;

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

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

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

'''Crystal''' 
473; 565;

'''cubeb''' 
17; the name for the berry and for the oil obtained from the unripe berry of the East Indian climbing shrub P. cubeba. The dried fruits are sometimes used as a condiment or are ground and smoked in cigarette form as a catarrh remedy. The oil is used medicinally and also in soap manufacture. The masticated roots of kava, P. methysticum, widely grown in its native Pacific islands, are made into a beverage called kavakava, which contains soporific alkaloids. It is an integral part of religious and social life there. A preparation of kava for commerce, also called kavakava, is sold widely as an herbal remedy for anxiety and insomnia. -- From [http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/pepper The Free Dictionary] 
And let us not forget, part of the Disgusting English Candy Drill: "turns out to be luscious pepsin–flavored nougat, chock–full of tangy candied cubeb berries, and a chewy camphor–gum center" (GR, 118)

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

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

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

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

'''Czolgosz, Leon (1873-1901)''' 
372; assassin of President McKinley;
Leon Czolgosz As a young man, Leon Czolgosz worked in a wire mill in Cleveland, Ohio. He was a good employee, retaining his job even through an economic depression. In 1898 he suffered a breakdown, and returned to the family farm. He made trips to hear the anarchist leader Emma Goldman speak, and approached several anarchist groups, who rebuffed him. In 1901, Czolgosz moved to Buffalo, New York, site of the Pan American Exposition. There, in a receiving line on September 6, he shot President McKinley two times. Czolgosz who gave his name to police as Fred Nieman, or Fred Nobody later stated in reference to his decision to assassinate McKinley, "I didn't believe one man should have so much service, and another man have none." After a brief trial, Czolgosz was convicted. He was executed on October 29, 1901.

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2006-12-06T13:49:17Z

Zutphen:

There's a "that" which should be "than", as well as a missing quotation mark, somewhere in the first 800 pages, but I was too foolish to note where I found them. Don't I feel like a schmuck. [[User:BlakeStacey|BlakeStacey]] 16:42, 2 December 2006 (PST)

== Updates ==

How do you think I feel mistyping the line for an error right in front of me?

(Thanks for the catch, Bleakhaus!)

I have all sympathy for Penguin (as long as they correct 'em.) This must have been a bear to proof, and perfection is not given to mortals... [[User:monte.davis|monte.davis]] 04:25, 3 December 2006 (EST)

:We are, after all, doing Penguin's work for free. :-/ [[User:BlakeStacey|BlakeStacey]] 07:52, 4 December 2006 (PST)

I'm not sure the most recent additions to the errata list (four dots instead of three) can be counted as 'proper' errors. The ellipsis has always been one of Pynchon's favorite rhetorical devices, and the way I see it, the number of dots simply signifies how large the ellipsis is meant to be. Gravity's Rainbow is full of ellipses with both three and four dots, and this shouldn't be considered an error, IMO. Unless anyone objects, I'll remove the four/three dots-entries in a day or two. [[User:Torerye|Torerye]] 01:39, 6 December 2006 (PST)

I agree abt removing the three/four dot corrections. An ellipsis is always three periods. In standard American usage (unlike British), a terminal period is added to the ellipsis if the ellipsis occurs at the end of the sentence, whereas it will stand alone, three periods, when occurring within a sentence. Some good examples of this are on page 47, lines 12 and 14, and again on lines 18 and 19. Four periods (at the end of a sentence), three periods (within the sentence). In British usage, on the other hand, the ellipsis always stands alone, regardless of its placement in a sentence. So the British editions of ATD would always show "..." and never "....".... [[User:Zutphen|Zutphen]] 08:48, 6 December 2006 (EST)

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2006-12-06T13:48:35Z

Zutphen: ellipsis

Errata

2006-12-04T23:35:51Z

Zutphen: page 348

== Errata in first printing (Nov. 2006), first US edition ==

[[Against the Day description|Front flap]]: "Nikolai" Tesla, elsewhere (and conventionally) "Nikola"

Page 63 line 14 "Unless," Ed pointed out, ["]it ''is'' God."

Page 82 line 1 "richochets"

Page 87 line 12 "be" doubled

Page 87 line 31-32 "ridegerunning"

Page 92 line 15 "what" doubled

Page 116 line 39 "de[c]lared"

Page 236 line 38: "exhiliration"

Page 240 line 8 "Re[n]frew"

Page 248 line 18: ''Culo'',[']"

Page 254 line 31 "recon[n]aissance"

Page 307 line 14 how about that?["]

Page 334 line 19 "of" doubled

Page 348 line 1 "sixth" should be "Sixth"

Page 420 line 28 "opportunit[i]es"

Page 427 line 7 "esssential"

Page 440 line 33 "sib[i]lance"

Page 444 line 8 "Oasi[s]"

Page 505 line 1 "momument"

Page 513 line 11 "smlled"

Page 515 line 32 "th[r]oughout"

Page 518 line 1 "off" for "of"

Page 524 line 10 "exhilirated"

Page 531 Line 13 "rende[z]vous"

Page 548 line 24 "harbors," comma should be period

Page 552 line 22 "be" doubled

Page 563 line 36 "''mo[d]erskont''" (?)

Page 616 line 21 dueling transliterations: "Izmeren[i]ye"

Page 636 line 4 "f[r]om"

Page 652 line 12 "opportunit[i]es"

Page 680 line 10 "Colonnel"

Page 782 line 16 "when" doubled

Page 786 line 5 "th[r]ough"

Page 790 line 5-6 "interrested"

Page 790 line 24 "a[r]rival"

Page 799 line 4 "st[r]eet"

Page 801 line 12 "susceptib[i]lity"

Page 831 line 5 "ar[t]ificial"

Page 880 line 38 "Gradengio" for Gradenigo

Page 896 line 37 "''Tallis'' Fantasia" [of Vaughan Williams]: misleading italics

Page 900 line 19 "the" doubled

Page 915 line 16 "perfo[r]ming"

Page 943 line 4 "Ou[t]side"

Page 943 line 36 "unfor[e]seen [variant, 'fore' used elsewhere]

Page 968 line 27 "every[b]ody"

Page 971 line 4 "were" doubled

Page 1000 line 14 final period omitted from L.A.H.D.I.H.D.A[]

Page 1034 line 7 "Thickbush" [vs. "Thick Bush" at 8.3]

Page 1036 line 36 "querelans" [vs. "querulans" at 455.16]

Page 1037 line 29 "tran[s]parencies"

Page 1071 line 35 "''Um''" for "''Un''"

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2006-12-04T15:37:57Z

Zutphen: page 307

== Errata in first printing (Nov. 2006), first US edition ==

[[Against the Day description|Front flap]]: "Nikolai" Tesla, elsewhere (and conventionally) "Nikola"

Page 63 line 14 "Unless," Ed pointed out, ["]it ''is'' God."

Page 82 line 1 "richochets"

Page 87 line 12 "be" doubled

Page 87 line 31-32 "ridegerunning"

Page 92 line 15 "what" doubled

Page 116 line 39 "de[c]lared"

Page 236 line 38: "exhiliration"

Page 240 line 8 "Re[n]frew"

Page 248 line 18: ''Culo'',[']"

Page 254 line 31 "recon[n]aissance"

Page 307 line 14 how about that?["]

Page 334 line 19 "of" doubled

Page 420 line 28 "opportunit[i]es"

Page 427 line 7 "esssential"

Page 440 line 33 "sib[i]lance"

Page 444 line 8 "Oasi[s]"

Page 505 line 1 "momument"

Page 513 line 11 "smlled"

Page 515 line 32 "th[r]oughout"

Page 518 line 1 "off" for "of"

Page 524 line 10 "exhilirated"

Page 531 Line 13 "rende[z]vous"

Page 548 line 24 "harbors," comma should be period

Page 552 line 22 "be" doubled

Page 563 line 36 "''mo[d]erskont''" (?)

Page 616 line 21 dueling transliterations: "Izmeren[i]ye"

Page 636 line 4 "f[r]om"

Page 652 line 12 "opportunit[i]es"

Page 680 line 10 "Colonnel"

Page 782 line 16 "when" doubled

Page 786 line 5 "th[r]ough"

Page 790 line 5-6 "interrested"

Page 790 line 24 "a[r]rival"

Page 799 line 4 "st[r]eet"

Page 801 line 12 "susceptib[i]lity"

Page 831 line 5 "ar[t]ificial"

Page 880 line 38 "Gradengio" for Gradenigo

Page 896 line 37 "''Tallis'' Fantasia" [of Vaughan Williams]: misleading italics

Page 900 line 19 "the" doubled

Page 915 line 16 "perfo[r]ming"

Page 943 line 4 "Ou[t]side"

Page 943 line 36 "unfor[e]seen [variant, 'fore' used elsewhere]

Page 968 line 27 "every[b]ody"

Page 971 line 4 "were" doubled

Page 1000 line 14 final period omitted from L.A.H.D.I.H.D.A[]

Page 1034 line 7 "Thickbush" [vs. "Thick Bush" at 8.3]

Page 1036 line 36 "querelans" [vs. "querulans" at 455.16]

Page 1037 line 29 "tran[s]parencies"

Page 1071 line 35 "''Um''" for "''Un''"

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==Page 122==

'''dazzle-painting''' 
A camouflage painting technique used on WWI ships. Link: [http://www.gotouring.com/razzledazzle/articles/dazzle.html] 

'''intelligence centers on the surface such as the Inter-Group Laboratory for Opticomagnetic Observation (I.G.L.O.O.), a radiational clearing-house in Northern Alaska''' 
Perhaps a reference to the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) site in Gakonka, AK, which is ostensibly engaged in ionospheric research [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haarp (Wikipedia entry)]. Also suggestive of the ECHELON network [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON (Wikipedia entry)], comprising a number of signals intelligence sites, which are capable of intercepting a wide variety of communications signals throughout the world. 

'''Lloyd's of the high spectrum [...] the next fateful Lutine announcement.''' The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutine HMS Lutine] (Lutine translates as "the tease") was a ship commissioned in the French Royal Navy which was later given to the English Royal Navy during the Revolution. In 1799 she sank in the North Sea while blockading Holland; her hold was full of gold. Lloyd's of London, an independent insurance market still known for being willing to assume large insurance risks for the right price, had insured the gold, and paid the claim in full, acquiring nominal ownership of the still-unsalvaged cargo.

==Page 123==

'''Igor Padzhitnoff''' 
The whole passage that introduces the rival airship captain is a play on Tetris. Igor's surname is similar to that of the creator of Tetris, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexey_Pazhitnov Alexey Pazhitnov]. Also, the captain himself flies a ship called "The Great Game" and drops "bricks and masonry, always in the four-block fragments which had become his "signature," to fall on and damage targets designated by his superiors."

'''Tovarishchi Slutchainyi''' 
Tovarishchi translates as comrades; the literal translation of "Slutchainyi" is "accidental", leading to one possible reading of the phrase being: Chums of Chance. The phrase "Tovarishchi Slutchainyi" could also mean someone who is friends, but not intentionally, ie: perhaps people who are conscripted into a situation where they are forced to be communal. (Thanks to Anna Zaytseva for the idiomatic help!) A third reading is introduced when the homophonic correspondence between the final two syllables of Slutchainyi and Vice-President Cheney's name is noted.

'''Ice Pirates''' 
This turn of phrase echoes the spoof [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087451/ movie] of camraderie and dangerous "space herpes" that was released in the 1980s. There's no textual evidence that Pynchon means to refer to the movie, but the satirical humor and outlandish situations presented in the film might be attractive to someone with his sensibilities.

==Page 126==
'''They passed around rumors--the Captain was insane again, ice-pirates were hunting the ''Malus'' like whalers...''' 
This phrase seems evocative of ''Moby Dick'', not only in the intimation that the Captain might be insane and the rumors that might result, but also with the explicit references to "whalers" in the subsequent clause, "the subtle insanity of Ahab." ''Moby Dick'' of course contains many scenes when two whaling ships come together to exchange messages. Chapter 131, "The Pequod Meets the Delight," features particularly sinister omens. It is safe to say, however, that none of the captains who meets Ahab quite resembles Padzhitnoff or has a "signature" resembling the game of Tetris! Pynchon once again lightly tweaks the "line" linking his body of work to Melville's (cf. p. 73).

'''Étienne-Louis Malus''' 
Etienne-Louis Malus (July 23, 1775 – February 24, 1812) was a French officer, engineer, physicist, and mathematician. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etienne-Louis_Malus Wikipedia Entry] Malus is best known for his law describing intensity of light as it passes through polarized materials. There are delicious metaphorical implications for any reader of a Pynchon novel.

==Page 127==

'''Constance Penhallow''' 
Hallow: to set apart as holy, to honor greatly. Her name then pairs the virtue of canstancy with honoring the pen. Note also that her grandson, mentioned on page 128, is named Hunter and is an artist--In the hunt for the consecrated pen.

Alternatively, the prefix ''pen-'' is Gaelic for ''head, principal,'' or ''chief,'' in which case the name would mean "Holiest." It is also Latin for ''nearly, almost'' (as in "penultimate" or "peninsula"), rendering the name "nearly holy." Given the Nordic origin of the Penhallow family, and the Germanic etymology of "hallow," the Gaelic prefix may be more likely. On the other hand, the Latinate prefix suggests the state of preterition -- not quite holy and perhaps not saved...

==Page 128==

'''Hunter Penhallow''' 
See above, Constance Penhallow.

==Page 133==

'''Ynglingsaga''' 
See also Ynglinga Saga, or the story of the ancient Norse kings. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ynglinga_saga Wikipedia entry]

'''... even of days not yet transpired.''' 
Reminiscent of the Borges short story "The Library of Babel" about an "infinite library" which contains every possible book. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_babel Wikipedia entry]

==Page 134==
'''visitors from elsewhere, of non-human aspect''' 
Extraterrestrials. "Visitors", in popular culture, is a term sometimes used to describe ETs. The alien race from the television miniseries ''V'' was named The Visitors. In the fictional world of ''South Park'', aliens are referred to as "visitors".

'''the sea-green, the ice-green, glass-green sea.''' 
In ''Ulysses'', James Joyce repeatedly describes the "snotgreen sea" (cf. Gabler edition, p. 4), itself an allusion to Homer's evocation of the "wine-dark sea".

==Page 136==

'''kedgework''' 
A set of pilings used to move a ship by hauling on it's mooring or anchoring lines.

==Page 138==
'''Nesselrode pudding''' 
From ''The Penguin Book of Food and Drink'', ed. Paul Levy: 
"An iced pudding flavoured with chestnuts and dried fruit was invented by Monsieur Mony, chef for many years to the Russian diplomat, Count Nesselrode, in Paris [...] Glacé fruit and peel were a further embellishment to the Nesselrode by the time Proust was old enough to notice such things.

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'''Dr. Counterfly''' 
Last seen as a boy with low rank. How much time has elapsed?

'''lenses proved to be...Nicol prisms''' 
A Nicol Prism is a device to produce polarized light. It is made from a crystal of calcite (Iceland spar), which is cut along a precisely determined plane and then cemented back together with Canada balsam. A picture can be found [http://web.grinnell.edu/physics/PMuseum/Nicol%20Prisms.html here], detailed diagrams of Nicol and other polarizing prisms are availabe [http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/phyopt/polpri.html here].

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'''a large brass speaking-trumpet''' 
As in the ubiquitous W.A.S.T.E. symbolism in The Crying of Lot 49.

'''Bréguet-style arrowheads''' 
A distinctive fine watch of French design. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breguet_(watch) Wikipedia entry]

'''Poulson's Telegraphone''' 
Invented in 1898, the first magnetic recording machine was patented by Valdemar Poulson. The theory behind this machine was worked out theoretically by Oberlin Smith of the UK in 1888. Poulson's machine recorded by passing a thin wire across an electromagnet. Each minute section of the wire would retain its electromagnetic charge, thus recording the sound. Sound could be both recorded and played back. Unfortunately, because the machine's output wasn't very loud and there was no way to amplify the signal, the Telegraphone was not much of a success. [http://www.wou.edu/las/creativearts/music/MUS%20206%20Text.pdf External link]

'''a human caul''' 
caul (Latin: Caput galeatum, literally, "head helmet") is a thin, filmy membrane, the remnants of the amniotic sac, that covers or partly covers the newborn mammal immediately after birth. It is also the membrane enclosing the paunch of mammals, particularly as in pork and mutton butchery. In butchery, the caul is used as offal. A third meaning refers to a type of women's headdress.

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'''misfortunes of certain Egyptologists''' 
Possibly a reference to the curse supposed to be attendant on the tomb of Tutankhamen, and upon which the death of George Herbert, who financed the expedition, was blamed. The tomb was breached in Feb 1923, though, and that seems later than this episode, so it may just be a reference to general myth.

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'''lines''' 
The description of the single-file line at the train station basically describes current security conditions at American airports. A single line (i.e. linear thinking) does not seem to be a 'positive' in the Pynchon world.

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Page 518 line 1 "off" for "of"

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[[Against the Day description|Front flap]]: "Nikolai" Tesla, elsewhere (and conventionally) "Nikola"

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Page 444 line 8 "Oasi[s]"

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'''absquatulate''' 
8; run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along; 343;

'''Ace, Mr.''' 
415; visitor from the future (Trespasser); 555;

'''''Achphanomen''''' 
616;

'''Adam of Bremen''' 
128; (also: Adam Bremensis) One of the most important German medieval chroniclers. He lived and worked in the second half of the 11th century. He is most famous for his chronicle ''Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum'' (''Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church''); [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_of_Bremen Wikipedia entry]

'''Adams, Maude (1872-1953)''' 
338; American stage actress, most noted for her signature role, Peter Pan; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maude_Adams Wikipedia entry]

'''Addle, Ed''' 
60; regular at Oil Well Saloon;

'''aeronaut''': the pilot of a balloon or airship; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_Columbian_Exposition Chicago World's Fair, 1893] and [http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA96/WCE/title.html more here]

'''Aether''' 
55; 58; 132-133; 140; 306; 320; "sounds like light" 426; 458; 557; 565-66; 595; aka ''Akasa'', 613; 620; aka ''Luminiferous aether ''; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminiferous_aether Wikipedia article on Luminferous aether]

'''aigrette''' 
456; Aigrette (from the French for egret, or lesser white heron), the tufted crest, or head-plumes of the egret, used for adorning a woman's head-dress, the term being also given to any similar ornament, in gems, &c. An aigrette is also worn by certain ranks of officers in the French army. By analogy the word is used in various sciences for feathery excrescences of like appearance, as for the tufts on the heads of insects, the feathery down of the dandelion, the luminous rays at the end of electrified bodies, or the luminous rays seen in solar eclipses, diverging from, the moon's edge. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aigrette Wikipedia entry]

'''Akashi, Baron''' 
294; "roving military attaché

'''''akousmata''''' 
232; Greek: "things heard"; holds a much more secretive connotation like ‘signs’, or even perhaps ‘passwords’. These were explained as a set of rules of conduct used by the Pythagoreans. A few examples as given by Aristotle’s testimonies, like “abstain from beans as being due either to the fact that they resemble the genitals in shape, or because they resemble the gates of Hades." Also noted in this passage was “not to touch a white cock” and “not to touch any sacred fish” probably due to the earlier discussion on sacrifice.

'''Albert Lea''' 
71; Pronounced "Albert Lee," a town in south-central Minnesota. It is also mentioned in passing in ''Gravity's Rainbow'' as the hometown of a minor character, "where the speed limit is lickety split"; [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Albert+Lea,+MN+56007&ie=UTF8&z=9&ll=43.65123,-93.369026&spn=1.007532,2.768555&om=1 Google Map]

'''alchemy''' 
76-77; Alchemy refers to both an early form of the investigation of nature and an early philosophical and spiritual discipline, both combining elements of chemistry, metallurgy, physics, medicine, astrology, semiotics, mysticism, spiritualism, and art; and photography, 80; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy Wikipedia entry]

'''Algernon''' 
369; Ruperta's driver (?)

'''Algie''' 
672; "flaneur of Ruperta's acquaintance"; a flaneur is a detached pedestrian observer of a metropolis, a 'gentleman stroller of city streets', first identified by Charles Baudelaire; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fl%C3%A2neur Wikipedia entry]

'''"All Pimps Look Alike to Me"''' 
48; an 1896 barroom ditty that was "cleaned up" to become "All Coons Look Alike to Me" and recorded by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Collins Arthur Collins] in 1899 and considered by some to be the First Rock 'n' Roll Record. [[All_Pimps_Look_Alike_to_Me|Read the whole story...]]

'''Alphonsito''' 
310; [[ATD-D#drop|Jimmy Drop's]] lieutenant

'''A.M.E.''' 
702; Alternate Means of Egress

'''America''' 
219; "innocent, all but oppressively wholesome"; and shame, 567; American light, 580; "delivered yourselves into the hands of capitalists and Christers" 643;

'''Amsterdam''' 
107; Indian Ocean island; M''egaera'' shipwrecked, 108;

[[image:anamorphoscope.jpg|thumb|Anamorphoscope|right]]'''anamorphoscope''' 
249; a curved mirror or other optical device for giving a correct image of a picture or the like distorted by anamorphosis; paramorphic, 249;

'''Anarchism''' 
6; "the inexorable rising tide of World Anarchism..."; 37; 43; 49-51; 60; 66; 87; 175 (as terrorists); 179; bomb factory in London, 235; 370; Barcelona in 1890s, 372;

'''Anarcho-syndicalists''' 
14; Anarcho-syndicalism is a branch of anarchism which focuses on the labor movement. ''Syndicalisme'' is a French word meaning "trade unionism" – hence, the "syndicalism" qualification. Anarcho-syndicalists view labor unions as a potential force for revolutionary social change, replacing capitalism and the State with a new society democratically self-managed by workers. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-syndicalism Wikipedia entry]

'''Anemometer''' 
6; An instrument for measuring wind speed; Robinson anemometer, 6 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anemometer Wikipedia entry]

'''Angels''' 
42; "Avenging Angels" 271; creatures, 277; H. Vanderjuice, 322; 332; birds, 336; 379; 389; 446; 531; in Venice, 575; "too bright to look at directly" 616; of deep shit, 619; 632; 642; Gentleman Bomber, as "messenger" 692; wings, 699;

'''Anglo-Russian Entente''' 
631; the 1907 diplomatic accord between England and Russia to respect the integrity and independence of Persia.

'''Anharmonic Pencil''' 
455; a "pencil" in this context refers to a figure formed by a set of straight lines or light rays meeting at a point, a figure that is not harmonic, i.e., not a multiple of its component parts; 532; 593;

'''Anti-Stone''' 
78;

'''Apostles' Creed''' 
58; The Apostles' Creed (circa 700 AD) (Latin: Symbolum Apostolorum), sometimes titled Symbol of the Apostles, is an early statement of Christian belief, a creed or "symbol." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostles'_Creed Wikipedia entry]

'''Arbuckles''' 
638; It was in the United States where coffee initially started to be commercialized. In 1865, John Arbuckle marketed the first commercially available packages of ground, roasted coffee. His brand, 'Ariosa', was sold over a far larger area then any other coffee roaster. Instead of being confined to a small area close to his roasting factory, Arbuckle was able to establish his coffee as a regional brand. Others soon followed suit and, by World War I, there were a number of regional roasters including companies such as Folgers, Hill Brothers, and Maxwell House; [http://www.gallacoffee.co.uk/acatalog/History_of_Coffee_Pt_IV.html From Galla Coffee website]

'''Archer, Mr.''' 
467;

'''argentaurum''' 
375;

[[Image:arkansas-toothpick1.jpg|thumb|Arkansas Toothpick, made by Harvey McBurnette - 9.5" blade|left]]'''Arkansas Toothpick''' 
31; The Arkansas Toothpick is essentially a heavy dagger with a pointed, straight 12-20 inch blade. The "toothpick" is balanced and weighted for throwing and can also be used for thrusting and slashing. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_toothpick Wikipedia entry]

'''arnophilia''' 
211;

'''Arriaga, Camilo''' 
381; ''potosino''; a leader of Mexican anarchist group founded by Enrico and Ricardo Flores Magon in 1882; on August 30, 1900, he published the manifesto ''Invitación al Partido Liberal'' in San Luis Potosi. This document sparked a movement leading to formation of the ''Partido Liberal Mexicano'' (PLM) five years later, and was Ricardo Flores Magón's main vehicle for organizing the anti-Diaz struggle and for spreading the ideals of anarchism throughout Mexico; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism_in_Mexico Wikipedia - Anarchism in Mexico]

'''Arvin''' 
264; in the Nonpareil;

'''aryq''' 
441; The Russian Turcologists Malov and Tenishev mention a Western Yugur word ''Aryq'', meaning Chinese or muslim Turk. This is a loanword from Tibetan, ''A-rig'', the name of a country of nomadic herdsmen situated to the west of Amdo. It originally may have referred to the local Tibetan population. But Pynchon's use suggests it is a drink. Hmmm. 
Arak or araq is an anise-flavored liquor popular in the Middle East; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arak_(liqueur) Wikipedia entry] 
'''ässalamu äläykum''' 
441; As-Salāmu `Alaykum (السلام عليكم) is an Arabic language greeting used in both Muslim and Christian cultures. It means "Peace be upon you." It is also transliterated as Assalamu 'Alaikum or As-salaamu Alaikum. The traditional response is "wa `Alaykum As-Salām", meaning "and peace on you". [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As-Salamu_Alaykum Wikipedia entry]

'''Astarte-Bad''' 
714; in Vienna, with lurid mosaics of pre-biblical orgies; Astarte is a pre-biblical goddess of fertility, sexuality and war; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astarte Wikipedia entry]

'''"at silly point"''' 
222; "silly point" is a position in the game of cricket, played close to the batsman

'''Aubergine, Madame''' 
gives Reef Traverse dancing lessons in Denver;

[[Image:Audumla.jpg|thumb|Audhumla -
N. A. Abilgaard, 1790|right]]'''Audumla''' 
142; The primeval cow. Audumla (Audhumla) was born from rime at Ginnungagap. The primeval giant Ymir (Aurgelmir) lived on the milk that flow from the cow's teats. Audumla also provided nourishment to Ymir's six-headed son. Audumla received nourishment through licking the salty rime-stones. Audumla licked the stone until it was shaped into a man. This stone became Buri, grandfather of the Aesir gods: Odin, Vili and Ve.

'''Aughrim''' 
231; The Battle of Aughrim was the decisive battle of the Williamite War in Ireland. It was fought between the Jacobites and the forces of William III on 12 July 1691, near the village of Aughrim in County Galway; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Aughrim Wikipedia entry]

'''August, Ernst''' 
230; Crown Prince Ernst August II of Hanover, 3rd Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale, (Ernst August Wilhelm Adolf Georg Friedrich) (21 September 1845-14 November 1923), was the eldest child and only son of King George V of Hanover and his wife, Princess Marie of Saxe-Altenburg. Ernst August had the misfortune of being deprived of the thrones of Hanover upon its annexation by Prussia in 1866 and later the Duchy of Brunswick in 1884. Although he was the senior male-line great grandson of King George III, the Duke of Cumberland was deprived of his British peerages and honours for having sided with Germany in World War I; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_August_of_Hanover%2C_3rd_Duke_of_Cumberland]

'''Automorphic Dispensation''' 
453;

'''Avery''' 
193;

'''Aychrome, Police Inspector Vance''' 
605; at Chunxton Crescent;

'''Azeff, Monsieur Yevno''' 
720; Yevno Azef (also spelled Azev) was a double agent in a big way, working for both Russia's turn-of-the-century revolutionaries and the Czar's Okhrana. He was convicted of attempting to assassinate Tsar Nicholas II and was executed in 1911. He was also a founder of the Social Revolutionary Party.

'''Aziz, Abdel''' 
520; "young sultan" in Morocco

'''Aztecs''' 
394; "foundation story of the eagle and the serpent"

'''Aztlàn''' 
214; "ghosts of..."; 277;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Chinese Gong Effect''' 
356;

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

'''Chisholm, Grace''' 
490;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Clifford''' 
632; invisible

'''climber''' 
131; 167;

'''Coeur d'Alene''' 
333; 362; 463;

'''Cold Harbor''' 
335;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''counter-City''' 
585;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Creede''' 
650;

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

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

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

'''Crystal''' 
473; 565;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Chinese Gong Effect''' 
356;

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

'''Chisholm, Grace''' 
490;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Clifford''' 
632; invisible

'''climber''' 
131; 167;

'''Coeur d'Alene''' 
333; 362; 463;

'''Cold Harbor''' 
335;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''counter-City''' 
585;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Creede''' 
650;

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

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

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

'''Crystal''' 
473; 565;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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