ATD 557-587

Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.

Page 557

Viktor Mulciber
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bespoke
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Basil Zaharoff
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trains of history... run
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Balkan komitadji
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waybill
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metamorphosed into an American Negro
Cf honorary Negro (Frank above).

Nipponese
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Hertzian
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Page 558

scalar part
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baritone in a barbershop quartet
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viola in a string quartet
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Further Term
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laterite
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Inner Boulevards
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Gare du Midi
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Edouard Gevaert
(No ligature?)

Page 559

Krupp field-piece
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vaguely glandular
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ostinato
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poleaxed
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lost to silence
(Not silent, or very?)

Page 560

Estacade
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mousmée... mouchard
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always lead an irregular life
Cf GR.

Maria Bayley Hamilton
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council meeting
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Page 561

Brougham Bridge
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pulls a knife
(Folklore, really later?)

on the stone
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Pentecostal
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official Mischief Opportunity
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absinthe spoons
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cravats
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"four-door farce"
(See eg Bogdanovich's "What's Up, Doc?")

Page 562

Minque
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carillons... carilloneur
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Hanseatic
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burghers
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silted up
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Damme and Sluis
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Page 563

trusted his intuitiveness
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"Jou moerskont!"... Afrikaans
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Page 564

immense choir
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Voetsak
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starers
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tobacco-stricken
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half-silvering
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four cusps... index-surface
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co-conscious
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Page 565

true icosahedron
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12+8... pyrites
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Riemann sphere
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Felix Klein
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ebonite
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Ohmic Drift
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speed of the earth... kinetic energy
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Recently Lorentz's paper
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Lord Rayleigh
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Page 566

In a dream...

This passage, describing Kit's dream of Umeki and the message it conveys, pulls together many of the main themes of Against the Day, tying things together in a way that Pynchon seldom does, almost as if he's providing a rather large piece of the puzzle to help the reader understand the novel:

"Deep among the equations describing the behavor of light, field equations, Vector and Quaternion equations, lies a set of directions, an intinerary, a map to a hidden space. Double refraction appears again and again as a key element, permitting a view into a Creation set just to the side of this one, so close as to overlap, where the membrane between the worlds, in many places, has become too frail, too permeable, for safety.... Within the mirror, with the scalar term, within the daylit and obvious and taken-for-granted has always lain, as if in wait, the dark intinerary, the corrupted pilgrim's guide, the nameless Station before the first, in the lightless uncreated, where salvation does not yet exist."

analogies
(Pynchonian heuristics.)

nameless Station
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lightless uncreated
(Gnostic heresy?)

stuffed sinus
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Konichiwa
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Page 567

new Puccini opera
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Borel-Clerc... "La Matchiche"
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western anchor
What about France, Spain, Portugal?

Compaignie Internationale des Wagons-Lits
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two hundred francs
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theory of sets
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Bruges Canal
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Page 568

vaporetto
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Grand Canal
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San Marco end
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Piazzetta
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San Giorgio Maggiore
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spreading... cloak
Cliche/allusion?

live here forever
Pynchon special-pleading that Dally isn't just another tourist.

Page 569

Malibran... Polo's house
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"pincette"
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profondes
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Vincenzo Miserere
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train to Trieste
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Svegli
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shark leather
Different from sharkskin?

Specchiere
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glassmakers on Murano
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Page 570

another one of his stories
(Jackson Pynchon should highlight all the AtD passages that originated as bedtime stories.)

TERAPIA
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San Servolo
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Palazzo Ducale
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manicomio
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uterine vellum
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pitch, rouge
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Page 571

La Doppiatrice
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Ettore Sananzolo
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Maskelyne cabinet
After Neville Maskelyne, from Mason and Dixon. Maskelyne sent M and D to record the Transit of Venus.

Page 572

smoke back into a cigar
Time's arrow/ entropy motif.

hard-as-a-rock black cigar
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thumping
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salso
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sandoli
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trains pulling in
Famous early film.

Page 573

Cannareggio
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Page 574

thirty years older
About 65yo?

that day
In NYC when Dally showed up.

when she was born
Cf Pretenders/Chryssie Hynde.

Stronzo
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In bocc' al lupo!
From the Roman dialect, in which the Italians - including Rocco and Pino - seem to speak. Meaning, literally, "In the mouth of the wolf," and idiomatically, "Good luck."

campielli
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Page 575

Riva
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middy blouses
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not yet been rebuilt
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lucciole
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fondamenta
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ombreta
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light's good here
Old joke about drunk looking for car keys under streetlight though he dropped them somewhere else.

microcosm
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Page 576

twelve soldi
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franc... ten francs
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Canaletto
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Beppo
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pitch
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Bauer-Grünwald
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Page 577

'Safe'
Recent art-movie title?

Castello
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Evening Gun
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importunate
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Dr. Grace
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Page 578

Dorsoduro
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pensione
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La Calcina
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Zattere
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cimici
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bora
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Page 579

Tintoretto's Abduction...
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Accademia
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Titian
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Infancy Gospel of Thomas
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Page 580

Pentecost story in Acts
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Galilean dialect
Of Aramaic.

rii
Plural of rio.

Page 581

sotopòrteghi
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Bodeo 10.4 mm
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Page 582

foschetta
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masègni
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patrone
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wine trains up from Puglia
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Winter
1904-1905?

Principessa Spongiatosta
Is Pugnax's book from p6 at all relevant here?

Ca'
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Roman Composite order
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japonica
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Page 583

Iron Bridge
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Le Havre
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ma via
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third eyes touching
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Page 584

"Swiss insurance salesman. Wolf. No, Putzi."
Bria's had so many beaux she gets them confused?

topo
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Dogana
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Andrea Tancredi
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Seurat and Signac
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Divisionism
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Marinetti
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"Futurists"
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brutalism
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Torcello
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primitivo
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Page 585

green-and-lavender
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sirocco
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San Michele
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futuristic vehicle
P155.

Preliminary Studies...
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Page 586

Always with us.
Gospel of ?.

vero
Cf 'verdad'.

orpiment yellow
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Nürnberg violet
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Page 587

nebbia, nebbietta, foschia, caligo, sfumato
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speed of sound
Air temperature is more important that density.

La Velocità del Suono
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Annotation Index

Part One: The Light Over the Ranges	1-25, 26-56, 57-80, 81-96, 97-118
Part Two: Iceland Spar	119-148, 149-170, 171-198, 199-218, 219-242, 243-272, 273-295, 296-317, 318-335, 336-357, 358-373, 374-396, 397-428
Part Three: Bilocations	429-459, 460-488, 489-524, 525-556, 557-587, 588-614, 615-643, 644-677, 678-694
Part Four: Against the Day	695-723, 724-747, 748-767, 768-791, 792-820, 821-848, 849-863, 864-891, 892-918, 919-945, 946-975, 976-999, 1000-1017, 1018-1039, 1040-1062
Part Five: Rue du Départ	1063-1085