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==Page 423==
'''idiot-surfant''' 
Play on idiot-savant.

==Page 424==
'''Depending of course what your definition of the word 'is' is''' 
President Bill Clinton said something close to this while trying to explain that he had not lied when he denied having sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky: "It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is..." 
You can hear it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4XT-l-_3y0 here].

'''the kid in the teen horror movie who turns out to be possessed''' 
A likely candidate for which teen horror film Pynchon is referencing here is ''Night of the Demons'' (1988) (aka ''Halloween Party''). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Demons_(1988_film) Wikipedia]

==Page 425==
'''air in a can''' 
CFC's (chlorofluorocarbons) were banned in Europe in 1990 and in the U.S. in 1994, with a phase-out period. Fluoroethane (R-134a, no chlorine) was one of the replacements and can be purchased compressed in a small canister (with a nozzle) for removal of dust from camera lenses and other optical equipment. Since it's a refrigerant, fluoroethane cools down to something like -50 C when it expands, so even if it had psychoactive properties (which afaik it doesn't) it wouldn't be much good for spraying up your nose. Most photographers use compressed air instead (for lens cleaning, not as a recreational pharmaceutical). Maybe a play on "ice", who appears again in the next paragraph.

'''patafamiliarass around here''' 
A pun on ''pater familias'', defined below. Avi becoming a “patafamiliarass around here” is Pynchon punning on it with “pat a familiar ass” which would be Avi’s being treated in condescending or patronizing way in a place where he's taken for granted. A "pet" of sorts, not totally unlike Chandler Platt's assistant Darren, whose rap on [[Chapter_26#Page_283|page 282-283]] is so defiant while Darren himself remains, essentially, Platt's subservient pet.

The ''pater familias'', also written as ''paterfamilias'' (plural ''patres familias''), was the head of a family in ancient Rome. The ''paterfamilias'' was the oldest living male in a household, and had complete control of all family members until he died. Once the ''paterfamilias'' died the next oldest male would then have control. The pater familias was always a Roman citizen. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paterfamilias WIKI].

'''lunchhooks''' 
1940s-era slang for "hands" often seen in the pulp/hardboiled/noir/detective fiction of the time.

To understand the origins of this slang term, hold an imaginary sandwich, with both hands, in front of you. A couple of hooks, eh?

==Page 426==
'''the company tambourine''' 
The company's moneymaker. "Shake your moneymaker" is an old blues lyric, recycled, just like blues riffs, throughout the history of the blues and rock 'n' roll. Variations include "shake your tailfeather" and "shake your tambourine." [http://everything2.com/title/Shake+your+money+maker]

Similarly, the rapper Eve in her 2007 song "Tambourine" used both "shake your tambourine" (shake your ass) and "shake your tambourines" (shake your tits). [http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/eve/tambourine.html]

'''RPG heretics''' 
RPGs are Role-Playing Games

==Page 428==
'''Mrs. Cheung's bleak announcement''' 
cf. p. 335: "Ms. Cheung, an English teacher who if Kugelblitz were a town would be the neighborhood scold, has announced that there shall be no more fictional reading assignments."

==Page 429==
'''Eddie Fisher''' 
Edwin John "Eddie" Fisher (August 10, 1928 – September 22, 2010) was an American entertainer. He was the most successful pop singles artist of the first half of the 1950s, selling millions of records and hosting his own TV show. Fisher left his first wife, actress Debbie Reynolds, to marry Reynolds's best friend, actress Elizabeth Taylor, when Taylor's husband, film producer Mike Todd, died. This event garnered scandalous and unwelcome publicity for Fisher. He later married Connie Stevens. Fisher is the father of actresses Carrie Fisher (with Reynolds), Joely Fisher (with Stevens), and Tricia Leigh Fisher (with Stevens). From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Fisher_%28singer%29 WIKI].

[[File:Goomba.PNG|80px|thumb|caption|A Goomba|left]]'''factual elements have started popping up like li'l goombas''' 
Goombas, known in Japan as Kuribo ("Chestnut People"), are a fictional species of sentient mushrooms from Nintendo's Mario franchise. Their appearance is based on shiitake mushrooms. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goomba Wikipedia]

==Page 430==
'''here comes a plastic top from a nine-inch aluminum take-out container...''' 
When Maxine sees the plastic top from a take-out container rolling on its edge down Broadway, seemingly with a mind of its own, reader Diana Poskrop recalled that in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 1970 novel [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Hundred_Years_of_Solitude ''One Hundred Years of Solitude''], after Jose Arcadio's murder his blood took a direct route through town to Ursula, his mother. (HarperPerennial Classics, 2006, pp. 131-132).

==Page 431==
'''meet my man Ketone''' 
In chemistry, a ketone is an organic compound with the structure RC(=O)R', where R and R' can be a variety of carbon-containing substituents. Ketones feature a carbonyl group (C=O) bonded to two other carbon atoms. Many ketones are known and many are of great importance in industry and in biology. Examples include many sugars (ketoses) and the industrial solvent acetone. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketone WIKI].

''ketones, when inhaled, also produce a sort of high, as discovered by glue-sniffers. The disadvantage is that inhalation of ketones (including acetone) causes significant, permanent and irreversible brain damage.''

==Page 432==
'''strange feeling about the Internet, that it's over''' 
Sounds like a replay of Doc Sportello's thoughts about the Sixties at the end of ''Inherent Vice''?

==Page 433==
'''Wagnerian brass section''' 
Wagner's writing for the orchestra's horn section has always been sublime, and (at least in my short and long term memory) never "blaring". Perhaps Maxine is thinking of the helicopter scene in Apocalypse Now, where Ride of the Valkyries does blare from the mobile speakers.

One of Wagner's contributions to music was the invention of the "Wagner tuba", an instrument about halfway between a tuba and a French horn. It was derived from an instrument popular in German military bands of the day, and as a result his music probably would have had a distinct martial feel to operagoers of the time, but I don't think that's what TP is getting at here.

==Page 433==

'''''Granada Asbury Park Uncertainty Question''''' 
From the lyrics of "At Long Last Love" (written by Cole Porter for the 1938 musical *You Never Know*; first sung by Clifton Webb; recorded by Frank Sinatra for the 1957 album *A Swingin' Affair!* and the 1962 album *Sinatra and Swingin' Brass*)
 
''Is it for all time or simply a lark?''
 
''Is it Granada I see or only Asbury Park?''

==Page 435==
'''''sillage''''' 
From this [http://boisdejasmin.com/2011/02/perfume-vocabulary-fragrance-terms-sillage.html page:] a term used to describe a scented trail left by the fragrance wearer.

'''''The Ray Milland Story''''' 
Ray Milland (3 January 1907 – 10 March 1986) was a Welsh actor and director. His screen career ran from 1929 to 1985, and he is best remembered for his Academy Award–winning portrayal of an alcoholic writer in ''The Lost Weekend'' (1945), a sophisticated leading man opposite a corrupt John Wayne in ''Reap the Wild Wind'' (1942), the murder-plotting husband in ''Dial M for Murder'' (1954), and as Oliver Barrett III in ''Love Story'' (1970). Milland, who was at one time Paramount Pictures highest paid actor, co-starred alongside many of the most popular actresses of the time including Gene Tierney, Grace Kelly, Lana Turner, Marlene Dietrich, Ginger Rogers, Jane Wyman, Loretta Young and Veronica Lake. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Milland WIKI].

==Page 436==
'''breaker breaker good buddy''' 
"breaker breaker" is trucker CB-radio talk for a request to interrupt the conversations on a channel and start a new one with anyone on the channel, in this case Maxine. "Good buddy" is also common CB-radio vernacular used by truckers in addressing each other.

'''Redmond campus''' 
a.k.a., Microsoft headquarters

'''racks of electronic gear receding into infinity''' 
Describing the ''Bleeding Edge'' front and back cover photograph. On the next page, Eric speaks of "Bleeding-edge developments"...

''and another tardis-like "bigger-inside-than-outside" shot''

'''going as you might expect for rock bottom prices''' 
After the dotcom bust of 2000, all of the hardware bought by now-bankrupt tech startups was released onto the used equipment market, and this did cause a big drop in the going price for both new and used servers.

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'''Ray Milland...''The Thing with Two Heads''''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Milland Ray Milland] starred in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_with_Two_Heads ''The Thing with Two Heads'',] whose movie poster reads "They transplanted a WHITE BIGOT'S HEAD onto a SOUL BROTHER'S BODY!"

'''not even Fort Sumter''' 
The first battle of the American Civil War. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Sumter Wikipedia]

'''Bleeding-edge development phase''' 
On the previous page, Pynchon describes a server farm that matches the ''Bleeding Edge'' cover photo.

'''We could be heading anywhere, Alberta, Northwest Territories, Alaska''' 
If Horst is correct, they are westbound on I-90 in southern Montana. At Butte, they could head north on I-15 to get to all of these places. Looking for cold weather to run their server farm?

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==Page 423==
'''idiot-surfant''' 
Play on idiot-savant.

==Page 424==
'''Depending of course what your definition of the word 'is' is''' 
President Bill Clinton said something close to this while trying to explain that he had not lied when he denied having sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky: "It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is..." 
You can hear it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4XT-l-_3y0 here].

'''the kid in the teen horror movie who turns out to be possessed''' 
A likely candidate for which teen horror film Pynchon is referencing here is ''Night of the Demons'' (1988) (aka ''Halloween Party''). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Demons_(1988_film) Wikipedia]

==Page 425==
'''air in a can''' 
CFC's (chlorofluorocarbons) were banned in Europe in 1990 and in the U.S. in 1994, with a phase-out period. Fluoroethane (R-134a, no chlorine) was one of the replacements and can be purchased compressed in a small canister (with a nozzle) for removal of dust from camera lenses and other optical equipment. Since it's a refrigerant, fluoroethane cools down to something like -50 C when it expands, so even if it had psychoactive properties (which afaik it doesn't) it wouldn't be much good for spraying up your nose. Most photographers use compressed air instead (for lens cleaning, not as a recreational pharmaceutical). Maybe a play on "ice", who appears again in the next paragraph.

'''patafamiliarass around here''' 
A pun on ''pater familias'', defined below. Avi becoming a “patafamiliarass around here” is Pynchon punning on it with “pat a familiar ass” which would be Avi’s being treated in condescending or patronizing way in a place where he's taken for granted. A "pet" of sorts, not totally unlike Chandler Platt's assistant Darren, whose rap on [[Chapter_26#Page_283|page 282-283]] is so defiant while Darren himself remains, essentially, Platt's subservient pet.

The ''pater familias'', also written as ''paterfamilias'' (plural ''patres familias''), was the head of a family in ancient Rome. The ''paterfamilias'' was the oldest living male in a household, and had complete control of all family members until he died. Once the ''paterfamilias'' died the next oldest male would then have control. The pater familias was always a Roman citizen. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paterfamilias WIKI].

'''lunchhooks''' 
1940s-era slang for "hands" often seen in the pulp/hardboiled/noir/detective fiction of the time.

To understand the origins of this slang term, hold an imaginary sandwich, with both hands, in front of you. A couple of hooks, eh?

==Page 426==
'''the company tambourine''' 
The company's moneymaker. "Shake your moneymaker" is an old blues lyric, recycled, just like blues riffs, throughout the history of the blues and rock 'n' roll. Variations include "shake your tailfeather" and "shake your tambourine." [http://everything2.com/title/Shake+your+money+maker]

Similarly, the rapper Eve in her 2007 song "Tambourine" used both "shake your tambourine" (shake your ass) and "shake your tambourines" (shake your tits). [http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/eve/tambourine.html]

'''RPG heretics''' 
RPGs are Role-Playing Games

==Page 428==
'''Mrs. Cheung's bleak announcement''' 
cf. p. 335: "Ms. Cheung, an English teacher who if Kugelblitz were a town would be the neighborhood scold, has announced that there shall be no more fictional reading assignments."

==Page 429==
'''Eddie Fisher''' 
Edwin John "Eddie" Fisher (August 10, 1928 – September 22, 2010) was an American entertainer. He was the most successful pop singles artist of the first half of the 1950s, selling millions of records and hosting his own TV show. Fisher left his first wife, actress Debbie Reynolds, to marry Reynolds's best friend, actress Elizabeth Taylor, when Taylor's husband, film producer Mike Todd, died. This event garnered scandalous and unwelcome publicity for Fisher. He later married Connie Stevens. Fisher is the father of actresses Carrie Fisher (with Reynolds), Joely Fisher (with Stevens), and Tricia Leigh Fisher (with Stevens). From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Fisher_%28singer%29 WIKI].

[[File:Goomba.PNG|80px|thumb|caption|A Goomba|left]]'''factual elements have started popping up like li'l goombas''' 
Goombas, known in Japan as Kuribo ("Chestnut People"), are a fictional species of sentient mushrooms from Nintendo's Mario franchise. Their appearance is based on shiitake mushrooms. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goomba Wikipedia]

==Page 430==
'''here comes a plastic top from a nine-inch aluminum take-out container...''' 
When Maxine sees the plastic top from a take-out container rolling on its edge down Broadway, seemingly with a mind of its own, reader Diana Poskrop recalled that in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 1970 novel [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Hundred_Years_of_Solitude ''One Hundred Years of Solitude''], after Jose Arcadio's murder his blood took a direct route through town to Ursula, his mother. (HarperPerennial Classics, 2006, pp. 131-132).

==Page 431==
'''meet my man Ketone''' 
In chemistry, a ketone is an organic compound with the structure RC(=O)R', where R and R' can be a variety of carbon-containing substituents. Ketones feature a carbonyl group (C=O) bonded to two other carbon atoms. Many ketones are known and many are of great importance in industry and in biology. Examples include many sugars (ketoses) and the industrial solvent acetone. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketone WIKI].

''ketones, when inhaled, also produce a sort of high, as discovered by glue-sniffers. The disadvantage is that inhalation of ketones (including acetone) causes significant, permanent and irreversible brain damage.''

==Page 432==
'''strange feeling about the Internet, that it's over''' 
Sounds like a replay of Doc Sportello's thoughts about the Sixties at the end of ''Inherent Vice''?

==Page 433==
'''Wagnerian brass section''' 
Wagner's writing for the orchestra's horn section has always been sublime, and (at least in my short and long term memory) never "blaring". Perhaps Maxine is thinking of the helicopter scene in Apocalypse Now, where Ride of the Valkyries does blare from the mobile speakers.

One of Wagner's contributions to music was the invention of the "Wagner tuba", an instrument about halfway between a tuba and a French horn. It was derived from an instrument popular in German military bands of the day, and as a result his music probably would have had a distinct martial feel to operagoers of the time, but I don't think that's what TP is getting at here.

==Page 433==

'''''Granada Asbury Park Uncertainty Question''''' 
From the lyrics of "At Long Last Love" (written by Cole Porter for the 1938 musical *You Never Know*; first sung by Clifton Webb; recorded by Frank Sinatra for the 1957 album *A Swingin' Affair!* and the 1962 album *Sinatra and Swingin' Brass*)
 
''Is it for all time or simply a lark?''
 
''Is it Granada I see or only Asbury Park?''

==Page 435==
'''''sillage''''' 
From this [http://boisdejasmin.com/2011/02/perfume-vocabulary-fragrance-terms-sillage.html page:] a term used to describe a scented trail left by the fragrance wearer.

'''''The Ray Milland Story''''' 
Ray Milland (3 January 1907 – 10 March 1986) was a Welsh actor and director. His screen career ran from 1929 to 1985, and he is best remembered for his Academy Award–winning portrayal of an alcoholic writer in ''The Lost Weekend'' (1945), a sophisticated leading man opposite a corrupt John Wayne in ''Reap the Wild Wind'' (1942), the murder-plotting husband in ''Dial M for Murder'' (1954), and as Oliver Barrett III in ''Love Story'' (1970). Milland, who was at one time Paramount Pictures highest paid actor, co-starred alongside many of the most popular actresses of the time including Gene Tierney, Grace Kelly, Lana Turner, Marlene Dietrich, Ginger Rogers, Jane Wyman, Loretta Young and Veronica Lake. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Milland WIKI].

==Page 436==
'''breaker breaker good buddy''' 
"breaker breaker" is trucker CB-radio talk for a request to interrupt the conversations on a channel and start a new one with anyone on the channel, in this case Maxine. "Good buddy" is also common CB-radio vernacular used by truckers in addressing each other.

'''Redmond campus''' 
a.k.a., Microsoft headquarters

'''racks of electronic gear receding into infinity''' 
Describing the ''Bleeding Edge'' front and back cover photograph. On the next page, Eric speaks of "Bleeding-edge developments"...

''and another tardis-like "bigger-inside-than-outside" shot''

'''going as you might expect for rock bottom prices''' 
After the dotcom bust of 2000, all of the hardware bought by now-bankrupt tech startups was released onto the used equipment market, and this did cause a big drop in the going price for both new and used servers.

==Page 437==
'''Ray Milland...''The Thing with Two Heads''''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Milland Ray Milland] starred in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_with_Two_Heads ''The Thing with Two Heads'',] whose movie poster reads "They transplanted a WHITE BIGOT'S HEAD onto a SOUL BROTHER'S BODY!"

'''Bleeding-edge development phase''' 
On the previous page, Pynchon describes a server farm that matches the ''Bleeding Edge'' cover photo.

'''not even Fort Sumter''' 
The first battle of the American Civil War. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Sumter Wikipedia]

'''We could be heading anywhere, Alberta, Northwest Territories, Alaska''' 
If Horst is correct, they are westbound on I-90 in southern Montana. At Butte, they could head north on I-15 to get to all of these places. Looking for cold weather to run their server farm?

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'''Twelfth Night''' 
''Twelfth Night''; or, ''What You Will'' is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–02 as a Twelfth Night's entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. The play expanded on the musical interludes and riotous disorder expected of the occasion, with plot elements drawn from the short story "Of Apollonius and Silla" by Barnabe Rich, based on a story by Matteo Bandello. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_night WIKI].

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'''shoulder surfers''' 
In computer security, shoulder surfing refers to using direct observation techniques, such as looking over someone's shoulder, to get information. It is commonly used to obtain passwords, PINs, security codes, and similar data. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoulder_surfing_%28computer_security%29 Wikipedia]

==Page 397==
'''in loco Santaclausis''' 
A play on the Latin phrase "in loco parentis," which means "in the place of a parent" and refers to the legal responsibility of an organization (e.g., a university) to take on some of the functions and responsibilities of a parent.

==Page 398==
'''friends who warbike around town''' 
Warbiking is, in Internet vernacular, searching for unsecured wireless networks by bicycle. [http://www.sophos.com/en-us/security-news-trends/security-trends/bottom-line/project-warbike.aspx]

==Page 401==

'''''All About Eve'' and shit''' 
The 1950 film is about a successful actress and her young fan Eve Harrington, who insinuates herself into the older actress's life.

==Page 402==
'''mohel''' 
A mohel is a Jewish person trained in the practice of brit milah, the "covenant of circumcision." From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohel WIKI].

'''Out there somewhere in that nomad's field of indifference, riding the Chinese bus into a futurity of imprecise schedules and reduced options''' 
This is reminiscent of the fate of Tyrone Slothrop, in [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ''Gravity's Rainbow''], pages 738-742 (original Viking editions), where he is "scattered" and eventually sort of disappears from the action, dissolves.

Windust's fate echoes Slothrop's:
<blockquote>He's silent, wherever he is. One more American sheep the shepherds have temporarily lost track of, somewhere in the high country of this ruinous hour, cragfast in the storm.</blockquote>

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'''wadis of deep purity''' 
Wadi is the Arabic term traditionally referring to a valley. In some cases, it may refer to a dry (ephemeral) riverbed that contains water only during times of heavy rain or simply an intermittent stream. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadis WIKI].

'''Omar Sharif''' 
Another ''Lawrence of Arabia'' reference, following from convo with Vyrva on p. 400. See Sharif's info and a photo on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Sharif WIKI].

'''melismas of desert wind''' 
Melisma is the singing of a single syllable of text while moving between several different notes in succession. Music sung in this style is referred to as melismatic, as opposed to syllabic, in which each syllable of text is matched to a single note. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melismas WIKI].

==Page 404==
'''SVG Alice Blue''' 
SVG is Scalable Vector Graphics, an image format used on the web, dating from 1999. Alice Blue is one of the standard colors in SVG. It is a very pale blue, 240,248,255 in rgb.

"Alice blue is a pale tint of azure that was favored by Alice Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, which sparked a fashion sensation in the United States." [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_blue Wikipedia] Pynchon's wife is a great-granddaughter of Theodore Roosevelt, and thus this could be read as a small family allusion in a novel which numerous critics have interpreted as Pynchon's most personal.

==Page 405==
'''Citroen Sahara''' 
1962 model, 24 hp, top speed 65 mph on two engines.

'''a pair of fishhooks''' 
"Fishhook" is gambling lingo for a Jack of any suit.

==Page 406==
'''a music track heavy on the hijaz scale''' 
The hijaz scale aka the Phrygian Dominant, Hijaz-Nahawand, Fraigish is distinguished by the augmented interval between the 2nd and 3rd degrees of the scale, which is commonly heard in Jewish, Greek, Turkish, Arab, Persian, and Flamenco music. The scale is: D Eb F# G A Bb C. [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrygian_dominant_scale Wikipedia]

'''Omar Sharif ... playing bridge''' 
Not only an actor, Sharif was also an international-level bridge player.

==Page 407==
'''his careless gift of boy's cruelty''' 
A "careless" gift is a meaningless gift given with little thought. It's Windust giving the Montauk Project his gift of "boy's cruelty" which was nurtured and developed. See [[Chapter_31#Page_339|page 339]] Windust would be "a preadolescent boy [...] abducted circa 1960" by the Montauk Project, as described on [[Chapter_22#Page_243|page 243]].

'''GS-1800-series job''' 

General Service 1800 series numbers are used to designate various government special agents. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_agent#Federal_government WIKI].
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'''Reg Despard''' 
As for name connections... Edward Marcus Despard (1751 – 21 February 1803) was an Irish soldier
who served in the British Army. During the American War of Independence Despard led a force to victory at the Battle of the Black River, securing the British presence on the Mosquito Coast. Following the war Despard was appointed Superintendent of what became British Honduras. He was recalled to London in 1790 after questions were raised about his conduct. Despard soon found himself in jail for debt. He later took up revolutionary politics, becoming involved with the United Britons movement, and was executed for high treason for his part in the failed Despard Plot. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Despard Wikpedia]

And there is the fictional foreign wizard named Dragomir Despard, in the 7th Harry Potter novel by J.K. Rowlings, and in the movie "Deathly Hallows Part 2." Ron Weasley is disguised as Despard when, with Hermoine, disguised as Bellatrix Lestrange, and Harry, in his cloak of invisibility, they break into Gringotts. Hermoine introduces Dragomir thus, "This is Dragomir Despard. He speaks very little English, But he is in sympathy with the Dark Lord's aims. He has travelled here from Transylvania to see our new regime."

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'''with your neo-Brechtain subversion of the diegesis''' 
Bertolt Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956) was a German poet, playwright, theatre director, and Marxist. Most likely Pynchon is referring to one of Brecht's most important principles called the Verfremdungseffekt (translated as "defamiliarization effect", "distancing effect", or "estrangement effect", and often mistranslated as "alienation effect").[62] This involved, Brecht wrote, "stripping the event of its self-evident, familiar, obvious quality and creating a sense of astonishment and curiosity about them".[63] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertolt_Brecht#Theory_and_practice_of_theatre
Oh, and diegesis means a narrative or plot found in film. (Greek orgin. diēgēsis means 'narrative'). http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/diegesis

:More than one Pynchon commentator has discussed how especially Pynchon's perennially crazy names can be interpreted as an example of Brecht's alienation effect. [[User:Benvolio|Benvolio]] ([[User talk:Benvolio|talk]])

'''leading edge''' 
Rhymes with "Bleeding Edge."

'''HotBot, AltaVista''' 
Hotbot and Altavista were early search engines, before Google became popular. LexisNexis was, and remains, a specialized search engine for legal, business, and journalistic information.

'''Stuyvesant genius''' 
Stuyvesant H.S. is a magnet school in Manhattan. The school is noted for its many Nobel Laureates in math and science. http://www.stuy.edu/ The school moved from its old building at 345 E 15th street (near 1st Avenue) to 345 Chambers Street (right next to Ground Zero). The first day of classes in the new building was September 10, 2001.

'''Eric Outfield''' 
Eric Outfield may refer to Eric Lander, 1974 Stuyvesant H.S. graduate. He was captain of the math team, a silver medalist at the International Math Olympiad and winner of the Westinghouse Prize for a paper on quasiperfect numbers. In H.S. he started a cult around the number 17. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Lander

==Page 10==

'''certified badass''' 
In an essay, Pynchon once defined a badass:
:"There is a long folk history of this figure, the Badass. He is usually male, and while sometimes earning the quizzical tolerance of women, is almost universally admired by men for two basic virtues: he is Bad, and he is Big. Bad meaning not morally evil, necessarily, more like able to work mischief on a large scale. What is important here is the amplifying of scale, the multiplication of effect." From Pynchon, [http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-luddite.html Is it O.K. to be a Luddite?]

'''hashslingrz''' 
A hash slinger is a cook or food server in a cheap restaurant, especially one who is discourteous or inattentive to customers. However "hash" has a very different meaning on the Internet:

From [http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/H/hashing.html Webopedia]:
<blockquote>
Producing hash values for accessing data or for security. A hash value (or simply hash), also called a message digest, is a number generated from a string of text. The hash is substantially smaller than the text itself, and is generated by a formula in such a way that it is extremely unlikely that some other text will produce the same hash value.
Hashes play a role in security systems where they're used to ensure that transmitted messages have not been tampered with. The sender generates a hash of the message, encrypts it, and sends it with the message itself. The recipient then decrypts both the message and the hash, produces another hash from the received message, and compares the two hashes. If they're the same, there is a very high probability that the message was transmitted intact.
Hashing is also a common method of accessing data records. Consider, for example, a list of names:

*John Smith
*Sarah Jones
*Roger Adams

To create an index, called a hash table, for these records, you would apply a formula to each name to produce a unique numeric value. So you might get something like:

*1345873 John smith
*3097905 Sarah Jones
*4060964 Roger Adams

Then to search for the record containing Sarah Jones, you just need to reapply the formula, which directly yields the index key to the record. This is much more efficient than searching through all the records till the matching record is found.
</blockquote>

'''p/e ratio''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price%E2%80%93earnings_ratio Price-earnings ratio]. Market price per share divided by annual earnings per share.

==Page 11==
'''Except maybe for 666''' 
"This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. That number is 666." (Revelation 13:18)

Also, for what it's worth, some biblical scholars agree that 666 is in fact gematria for Nero.

'''paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen . . .''' 
Maybe we can add this to the [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=P Proverbs for Paranoids] in ''Gravity's Rainbow''?

==Page 12==
'''Horst Loeffler''' 
"Loeffler" is the German name of a bird, the Eurasian Spoonbill. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_Spoonbill Wikipedia]

'''tramp container vessel M/V Aristide Olt''' 
A "tramp" vessel means that a ship has no fixed schedule or published ports of call. "Hungarian" may be a joke as Hungary, a landlocked country, has no ports. Aristide Olt was a stage name used by Bela Lugosi when he made silent films in Hungary. [http://biographies.knoji.com/bela-lugosi-the-man-who-brought-dracula-to-life/ Source] The Marshall Islands is an island country located in the northern Pacific Ocean, part of the larger island group of Micronesia.

==Page 13==
'''SonyVX 2000''' 
Pynchon here continues his display of camera wonk knowledge and reference to popular, populist cameras, see Frenesi's Canon Scoopic 16 [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_10#Page_200] The SonyVX2000 was a popular model of the time first among skate videos of the 90s before its aesthetic appeal expanded and the convenience of digital video made it the shooting standard. Fits perfectly with Reg's listed filmography.

[[File:SonyVX2000.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Sony VX2000''']] 
'''Filene's Basement''' 
Dating back to 1909, this was one of the first "bargain basements", with locations throughout New England. Separate from (but affiliated with) Filene's Department Store, the Basement bought and resold surplus, factory clearance, overstock, or closeout merchandise, with an aggressive, fixed schedule of price reductions to ensure rapid turnover.
 

==Page 14==
'''Duck stamps''' 
Pynchon mentions rare stamps and stamp collecting in many of his works. Bill Gross is a a billionaire fund manager who owns a leading stamp collection. Apparently duck stamp collecting is [http://brookmanstamps.com/welcome.htm a real thing]. Robert Steiner is an American artist known as the master of duck-themed stamp artwork. [http://www.steinerprints.com/master_of_duck_stamps.pdf An article on Steiner]

'''Dynasty''' 
Season 1 of the soap opera Dynasty (1981) features the protagonist Krystle pawning her jewelry. This recalls the gaggle of 1980s TV references in Pynchon's ''Vineland'', and David Foster Wallace's funny comment that "I get the strong sense [Pynchon] spent twenty years smoking pot and watching T.V." during the years between ''GR'' and ''Vineland''.

'''"the 301 point 83"''' 
301.83 is the classification number of borderline personality disorder in the World Health Organization's International Classification of Diseases (ICD).

'''DSM''' 
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is the standard classification of mental disorders used by mental health professionals in the U.S. So if it's not in the DSM, it's either not considered "real", or not distinct from another, similar disorder.

==Page 15==
'''walked away from the table with enough, had it been real money, for a short trip to Saks''' 
Popular and pricey clothier and luxury department store chain, with a flagship store on Fifth Avenue. Just shopping at Saks is itself a status symbol among New Yorkers.

'''literal geographic borderlines''' 
Geographical borderlines are a fundamental thematic concern of Pynchon's novel "Mason & Dixon", mentioned here.

==Page 16==
'''the Perejil Massacre''' 
Also called the "Parsley Massacre." A 1937 massacre of Haitians living on the border, ordered by Dominican President Rafael Trujillo. It resulted in the death of 20,000 ethnic Haitians.

According to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsley_Massacre Wikipedia], Dominican soldiers would hold up a sprig of parsley to someone and ask "What is this?"; how the person would pronounce the Spanish word for parsley (perejil) would determine his/her fate. French and Haitian Creole pronounce the word differently than Dominicans, so if the person could pronounce "perejil" with a trill, the person was considered to be Dominican and allowed to live, but if the person pronounced "perejil" without the trill, the person was considered to be Haitian and executed.

'''Manzanillo Bay . . . Pepillo Salcedo''' 
This is a port in the Dominican Republic.

'''yaniqueques''' 
AKA "Johnnycakes" (also jonnycake, johnny cake, journey cake, shawnee cake and johnny bread) is a cornmeal flatbread that was an early American staple food and is prepared on the Atlantic coast from Newfoundland to Jamaica.[1] The food probably originates from the native inhabitants of North America. It is still eaten in the West Indies, Dominican Republic, Bahamas, Colombia, and Bermuda[2] as well as in the United States.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnnycake

'''chimichurros''' 
Possibly a misspelling of "chimichurris"? The Chimichurri burger (usually called "Chimi burger", "Dominican burger", or simply "chimi") is a traditional snack dish (sandwich) served in the Dominican Republic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimichurris

'''mamajuana''' 
A drink from the Dominican Republic that is concocted by allowing rum, red wine, and honey to soak in a bottle with tree bark and herbs. The taste is similar to port wine and the color is a deep red. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mama_Juana

'''Love, exciting and new, as they used to sing on ''The Love Boat''''' 
''The Love Boat'' was an American TV show (1977-86) about a cruise ship. The first words of the theme song were "Love, exciting and new . . ." You can hear it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_wFEB4Oxlo here].

==Page 17==

'''Leptandra''' 
Leptandra is a plant used in herbal medicine as a laxative. This may be saying something about her personality, but it is more likely referring to her name, as Leptandra's common name is Veronica

'''mitvzah''' 
In Judaism, a biblical commandment. Also, more colloquially, a good deed.

'''real estate injustice''' 
By way of explanation to readers unfamiliar with NYC real estate, many people live in apartment buildings where rent is controlled and managed by co-op boards, which can have large amounts of control over things like transferring the property. NYC is famous for long, protracted legal battles involving co-op boards, divorces, and/or trusts. RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) is a law used to combat organized crime.

==Page 18==
'''Eight Circle''' 
in Dante's ''Inferno'', the eighth circle of hell was reserved for those who commit fraud or
treachery.

'''... jittery mess, the atomic clock...''' 
I think this is playing on Heisenberg's uncertainty relation. There is no real fix point in the jittery world of quantum mechanics.

==Page 19==

'''Bad Accountant''' 
Perhaps an allusion to the 1992 NC-17 film starring Harvey Kietel, a gritty crime-drama with heavy religious overtones about a corrupt NYC policeman's struggles to change his ways.

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==Page 8==
'''Reg Despard''' 
As for name connections... Edward Marcus Despard (1751 – 21 February 1803) was an Irish soldier
who served in the British Army. During the American War of Independence Despard led a force to victory at the Battle of the Black River, securing the British presence on the Mosquito Coast. Following the war Despard was appointed Superintendent of what became British Honduras. He was recalled to London in 1790 after questions were raised about his conduct. Despard soon found himself in jail for debt. He later took up revolutionary politics, becoming involved with the United Britons movement, and was executed for high treason for his part in the failed Despard Plot. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Despard Wikpedia]

And there is the fictional foreign wizard named Dragomir Despard, in the 7th Harry Potter novel by J.K. Rowlings, and in the movie "Deathly Hallows Part 2." Ron Weasley is disguised as Despard when, with Hermoine, disguised as Bellatrix Lestrange, and Harry, in his cloak of invisibility, they break into Gringotts. Hermoine introduces Dragomir thus, "This is Dragomir Despard. He speaks very little English, But he is in sympathy with the Dark Lord's aims. He has travelled here from Transylvania to see our new regime."

==Page 9==

'''with your neo-Brechtain subversion of the diegesis''' 
Bertolt Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956) was a German poet, playwright, theatre director, and Marxist. Most likely Pynchon is referring to one of Brecht's most important principles called the Verfremdungseffekt (translated as "defamiliarization effect", "distancing effect", or "estrangement effect", and often mistranslated as "alienation effect").[62] This involved, Brecht wrote, "stripping the event of its self-evident, familiar, obvious quality and creating a sense of astonishment and curiosity about them".[63] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertolt_Brecht#Theory_and_practice_of_theatre
Oh, and diegesis means a narrative or plot found in film. (Greek orgin. diēgēsis means 'narrative'). http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/diegesis

:More than one Pynchon commentator has discussed how especially Pynchon's perennially crazy names can be interpreted as an example of Brecht's alienation effect. [[User:Benvolio|Benvolio]] ([[User talk:Benvolio|talk]])

'''leading edge''' 
Rhymes with "Bleeding Edge."

'''HotBot, AltaVista''' 
Hotbot and Altavista were early search engines, before Google became popular. LexisNexis was, and remains, a specialized search engine for legal, business, and journalistic information.

'''Stuyvesant genius''' 
Stuyvesant H.S. is a magnet school in Manhattan. The school is noted for its many Nobel Laureates in math and science. http://www.stuy.edu/ The school moved from its old building at 345 E 15th street (near 1st Avenue) to 345 Chambers Street (right next to Ground Zero). The first day of classes in the new building was September 10, 2001.

'''Eric Outfield''' 
Eric Outfield may refer to Eric Lander, 1974 Stuyvesant H.S. graduate. He was captain of the math team, a silver medalist at the International Math Olympiad and winner of the Westinghouse Prize for a paper on quasiperfect numbers. In H.S. he started a cult around the number 17. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Lander

==Page 10==

'''certified badass''' 
In an essay, Pynchon once defined a badass:
:"There is a long folk history of this figure, the Badass. He is usually male, and while sometimes earning the quizzical tolerance of women, is almost universally admired by men for two basic virtues: he is Bad, and he is Big. Bad meaning not morally evil, necessarily, more like able to work mischief on a large scale. What is important here is the amplifying of scale, the multiplication of effect." From Pynchon, [http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-luddite.html Is it O.K. to be a Luddite?]

'''hashslingrz''' 
A hash slinger is a cook or food server in a cheap restaurant, especially one who is discourteous or inattentive to customers. However "hash" has a very different meaning on the Internet:

From [http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/H/hashing.html Webopedia]:
<blockquote>
Producing hash values for accessing data or for security. A hash value (or simply hash), also called a message digest, is a number generated from a string of text. The hash is substantially smaller than the text itself, and is generated by a formula in such a way that it is extremely unlikely that some other text will produce the same hash value.
Hashes play a role in security systems where they're used to ensure that transmitted messages have not been tampered with. The sender generates a hash of the message, encrypts it, and sends it with the message itself. The recipient then decrypts both the message and the hash, produces another hash from the received message, and compares the two hashes. If they're the same, there is a very high probability that the message was transmitted intact.
Hashing is also a common method of accessing data records. Consider, for example, a list of names:

*John Smith
*Sarah Jones
*Roger Adams

To create an index, called a hash table, for these records, you would apply a formula to each name to produce a unique numeric value. So you might get something like:

*1345873 John smith
*3097905 Sarah Jones
*4060964 Roger Adams

Then to search for the record containing Sarah Jones, you just need to reapply the formula, which directly yields the index key to the record. This is much more efficient than searching through all the records till the matching record is found.
</blockquote>

'''p/e ratio''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price%E2%80%93earnings_ratio Price-earnings ratio]. Market price per share divided by annual earnings per share.

==Page 11==
'''Except maybe for 666''' 
"This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. That number is 666." (Revelation 13:18)

Also, for what it's worth, some biblical scholars agree that 666 is in fact gematria for Nero.

'''paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen . . .''' 
Maybe we can add this to the [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=P Proverbs for Paranoids] in ''Gravity's Rainbow''?

==Page 12==
'''Horst Loeffler''' 
"Loeffler" is the German name of a bird, the Eurasian Spoonbill. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_Spoonbill Wikipedia]

'''tramp container vessel M/V Aristide Olt''' 
A "tramp" vessel means that a ship has no fixed schedule or published ports of call. "Hungarian" may be a joke as Hungary, a landlocked country, has no ports. Aristide Olt was a stage name used by Bela Lugosi when he made silent films in Hungary. [http://biographies.knoji.com/bela-lugosi-the-man-who-brought-dracula-to-life/ Source] The Marshall Islands is an island country located in the northern Pacific Ocean, part of the larger island group of Micronesia.

==Page 13==
'''SonyVX 2000''' 
Pynchon here continues his display of camera wonk knowledge and reference to popular, populist cameras, see Frenesi's Canon Scoopic 16 [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_10#Page_200] The SonyVX2000 was a popular model of the time first among skate videos of the 90s before its aesthetic appeal expanded and the convenience of digital video made it the shooting standard. Fits perfectly with Reg's listed filmography.

[[File:SonyVX2000.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Sony VX2000''']] 
'''Filene's Basement''' 
Dating back to 1909, this was one of the first "bargain basements", with locations throughout New England. Separate from (but affiliated with) Filene's Department Store, the Basement bought and resold surplus, factory clearance, overstock, or closeout merchandise, with an aggressive, fixed schedule of price reductions to ensure rapid turnover.
 

==Page 14==
'''Duck stamps''' 
Pynchon mentions rare stamps and stamp collecting in many of his works. Bill Gross is a a billionaire fund manager who owns a leading stamp collection. Apparently duck stamp collecting is [http://brookmanstamps.com/welcome.htm a real thing]. Robert Steiner is an American artist known as the master of duck-themed stamp artwork. [http://www.steinerprints.com/master_of_duck_stamps.pdf An article on Steiner]

'''"the 301 point 83"''' 
301.83 is the classification number of borderline personality disorder in the World Health Organization's International Classification of Diseases (ICD).

'''DSM''' 
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is the standard classification of mental disorders used by mental health professionals in the U.S. So if it's not in the DSM, it's either not considered "real", or not distinct from another, similar disorder.

==Page 15==
'''walked away from the table with enough, had it been real money, for a short trip to Saks''' 
Popular and pricey clothier and luxury department store chain, with a flagship store on Fifth Avenue. Just shopping at Saks is itself a status symbol among New Yorkers.

'''literal geographic borderlines''' 
Geographical borderlines are a fundamental thematic concern of Pynchon's novel "Mason & Dixon", mentioned here.

==Page 16==
'''the Perejil Massacre''' 
Also called the "Parsley Massacre." A 1937 massacre of Haitians living on the border, ordered by Dominican President Rafael Trujillo. It resulted in the death of 20,000 ethnic Haitians.

According to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsley_Massacre Wikipedia], Dominican soldiers would hold up a sprig of parsley to someone and ask "What is this?"; how the person would pronounce the Spanish word for parsley (perejil) would determine his/her fate. French and Haitian Creole pronounce the word differently than Dominicans, so if the person could pronounce "perejil" with a trill, the person was considered to be Dominican and allowed to live, but if the person pronounced "perejil" without the trill, the person was considered to be Haitian and executed.

'''Manzanillo Bay . . . Pepillo Salcedo''' 
This is a port in the Dominican Republic.

'''yaniqueques''' 
AKA "Johnnycakes" (also jonnycake, johnny cake, journey cake, shawnee cake and johnny bread) is a cornmeal flatbread that was an early American staple food and is prepared on the Atlantic coast from Newfoundland to Jamaica.[1] The food probably originates from the native inhabitants of North America. It is still eaten in the West Indies, Dominican Republic, Bahamas, Colombia, and Bermuda[2] as well as in the United States.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnnycake

'''chimichurros''' 
Possibly a misspelling of "chimichurris"? The Chimichurri burger (usually called "Chimi burger", "Dominican burger", or simply "chimi") is a traditional snack dish (sandwich) served in the Dominican Republic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimichurris

'''mamajuana''' 
A drink from the Dominican Republic that is concocted by allowing rum, red wine, and honey to soak in a bottle with tree bark and herbs. The taste is similar to port wine and the color is a deep red. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mama_Juana

'''Love, exciting and new, as they used to sing on ''The Love Boat''''' 
''The Love Boat'' was an American TV show (1977-86) about a cruise ship. The first words of the theme song were "Love, exciting and new . . ." You can hear it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_wFEB4Oxlo here].

==Page 17==

'''Leptandra''' 
Leptandra is a plant used in herbal medicine as a laxative. This may be saying something about her personality, but it is more likely referring to her name, as Leptandra's common name is Veronica

'''mitvzah''' 
In Judaism, a biblical commandment. Also, more colloquially, a good deed.

'''real estate injustice''' 
By way of explanation to readers unfamiliar with NYC real estate, many people live in apartment buildings where rent is controlled and managed by co-op boards, which can have large amounts of control over things like transferring the property. NYC is famous for long, protracted legal battles involving co-op boards, divorces, and/or trusts. RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) is a law used to combat organized crime.

==Page 18==
'''Eight Circle''' 
in Dante's ''Inferno'', the eighth circle of hell was reserved for those who commit fraud or
treachery.

'''... jittery mess, the atomic clock...''' 
I think this is playing on Heisenberg's uncertainty relation. There is no real fix point in the jittery world of quantum mechanics.

==Page 19==

'''Bad Accountant''' 
Perhaps an allusion to the 1992 NC-17 film starring Harvey Kietel, a gritty crime-drama with heavy religious overtones about a corrupt NYC policeman's struggles to change his ways.

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==Page 8==
'''Reg Despard''' 
As for name connections... Edward Marcus Despard (1751 – 21 February 1803) was an Irish soldier
who served in the British Army. During the American War of Independence Despard led a force to victory at the Battle of the Black River, securing the British presence on the Mosquito Coast. Following the war Despard was appointed Superintendent of what became British Honduras. He was recalled to London in 1790 after questions were raised about his conduct. Despard soon found himself in jail for debt. He later took up revolutionary politics, becoming involved with the United Britons movement, and was executed for high treason for his part in the failed Despard Plot. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Despard Wikpedia]

And there is the fictional foreign wizard named Dragomir Despard, in the 7th Harry Potter novel by J.K. Rowlings, and in the movie "Deathly Hallows Part 2." Ron Weasley is disguised as Despard when, with Hermoine, disguised as Bellatrix Lestrange, and Harry, in his cloak of invisibility, they break into Gringotts. Hermoine introduces Dragomir thus, "This is Dragomir Despard. He speaks very little English, But he is in sympathy with the Dark Lord's aims. He has travelled here from Transylvania to see our new regime."

==Page 9==

'''with your neo-Brechtain subversion of the diegesis''' 
Bertolt Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956) was a German poet, playwright, theatre director, and Marxist. Most likely Pynchon is referring to one of Brecht's most important principles called the Verfremdungseffekt (translated as "defamiliarization effect", "distancing effect", or "estrangement effect", and often mistranslated as "alienation effect").[62] This involved, Brecht wrote, "stripping the event of its self-evident, familiar, obvious quality and creating a sense of astonishment and curiosity about them".[63] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertolt_Brecht#Theory_and_practice_of_theatre
Oh, and diegesis means a narrative or plot found in film. (Greek orgin. diēgēsis means 'narrative'). http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/diegesis

:More than one Pynchon commentator has discussed how especially Pynchon's perennially crazy names can be interpreted as an example of Brecht's alienation effect. [[User:Benvolio|Benvolio]] ([[User talk:Benvolio|talk]])

'''leading edge''' 
Rhymes with "Bleeding Edge."

'''HotBot, AltaVista''' 
Hotbot and Altavista were early search engines, before Google became popular. LexisNexis was, and remains, a specialized search engine for legal, business, and journalistic information.

'''Stuyvesant genius''' 
Stuyvesant H.S. is a magnet school in Manhattan. The school is noted for its many Nobel Laureates in math and science. http://www.stuy.edu/ The school moved from its old building at 345 E 15th street (near 1st Avenue) to 345 Chambers Street (right next to Ground Zero). The first day of classes in the new building was September 10, 2001.

'''Eric Outfield''' 
Eric Outfield may refer to Eric Lander, 1974 Stuyvesant H.S. graduate. He was captain of the math team, a silver medalist at the International Math Olympiad and winner of the Westinghouse Prize for a paper on quasiperfect numbers. In H.S. he started a cult around the number 17. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Lander

==Page 10==

'''certified badass''' 
In an essay, Pynchon once defined a badass:
:"There is a long folk history of this figure, the Badass. He is usually male, and while sometimes earning the quizzical tolerance of women, is almost universally admired by men for two basic virtues: he is Bad, and he is Big. Bad meaning not morally evil, necessarily, more like able to work mischief on a large scale. What is important here is the amplifying of scale, the multiplication of effect." From Pynchon, [http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-luddite.html Is it O.K. to be a Luddite?]

'''hashslingrz''' 
A hash slinger is a cook or food server in a cheap restaurant, especially one who is discourteous or inattentive to customers. However "hash" has a very different meaning on the Internet:

From [http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/H/hashing.html Webopedia]:
<blockquote>
Producing hash values for accessing data or for security. A hash value (or simply hash), also called a message digest, is a number generated from a string of text. The hash is substantially smaller than the text itself, and is generated by a formula in such a way that it is extremely unlikely that some other text will produce the same hash value.
Hashes play a role in security systems where they're used to ensure that transmitted messages have not been tampered with. The sender generates a hash of the message, encrypts it, and sends it with the message itself. The recipient then decrypts both the message and the hash, produces another hash from the received message, and compares the two hashes. If they're the same, there is a very high probability that the message was transmitted intact.
Hashing is also a common method of accessing data records. Consider, for example, a list of names:

*John Smith
*Sarah Jones
*Roger Adams

To create an index, called a hash table, for these records, you would apply a formula to each name to produce a unique numeric value. So you might get something like:

*1345873 John smith
*3097905 Sarah Jones
*4060964 Roger Adams

Then to search for the record containing Sarah Jones, you just need to reapply the formula, which directly yields the index key to the record. This is much more efficient than searching through all the records till the matching record is found.
</blockquote>

'''p/e ratio''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price%E2%80%93earnings_ratio Price-earnings ratio]. Market price per share divided by annual earnings per share.

==Page 11==
'''Except maybe for 666''' 
"This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. That number is 666." (Revelation 13:18)

Also, for what it's worth, some biblical scholars agree that 666 is in fact gematria for Nero.

'''paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen . . .''' 
Maybe we can add this to the [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=P Proverbs for Paranoids] in ''Gravity's Rainbow''?

==Page 12==
'''Horst Loeffler''' 
"Loeffler" is the German name of a bird, the Eurasian Spoonbill. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_Spoonbill Wikipedia]

'''tramp container vessel M/V Aristide Olt''' 
A "tramp" vessel means that a ship has no fixed schedule or published ports of call. "Hungarian" may be a joke as Hungary, a landlocked country, has no ports. Aristide Olt was a stage name used by Bela Lugosi when he made silent films in Hungary. [http://biographies.knoji.com/bela-lugosi-the-man-who-brought-dracula-to-life/ Source] The Marshall Islands is an island country located in the northern Pacific Ocean, part of the larger island group of Micronesia.

==Page 13==
'''SonyVX 2000''' 
Pynchon here continues his display of camera wonk knowledge and reference to popular, populist cameras, see Frenesi's Canon Scoopic 16 [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_10#Page_200] The SonyVX2000 was a popular model of the time first among skate videos of the 90s before its aesthetic appeal expanded and the convenience of digital video made it the shooting standard. Fits perfectly with Reg's listed filmography.

[[File:SonyVX2000.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Sony VX2000''']] 
'''Filene's Basement''' 
Dating back to 1909, this was one of the first "bargain basements", with locations throughout New England. Separate from (but affiliated with) Filene's Department Store, the Basement bought and resold surplus, factory clearance, overstock, or closeout merchandise, with an aggressive, fixed schedule of price reductions to ensure rapid turnover.
 

==Page 14==
'''Duck stamps''' 
Pynchon mentions rare stamps and stamp collecting in many of his works. Bill Gross is a a billionaire fund manager who owns a leading stamp collection. Apparently duck stamp collecting is [http://brookmanstamps.com/welcome.htm a real thing]. Robert Steiner is an American artist known as the master of duck-themed stamp artwork. [http://www.steinerprints.com/master_of_duck_stamps.pdf An article on Steiner]

'''"the 301 point 83"''' 
301.83 is the classification number of borderline personality disorder in the World Health Organization's International Classification of Diseases (ICD).

'''DSM''' 
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is the standard classification of mental disorders used by mental health professionals in the U.S. So if it's not in the DSM, it's either not considered "real", or not distinct from another, similar disorder.

==Page 15==
'''walked away from the table with enough, had it been real money, for a short trip to Saks''' 
Popular and pricey clothier and luxury department store chain, with a flagship store on Fifth Avenue. Just shopping at Saks is itself a status symbol among New Yorkers.

'''Mason-Dixon Line''' 
Possibly an allusion to Pynchon's novel, "Mason & Dixon" (1997).

==Page 16==
'''the Perejil Massacre''' 
Also called the "Parsley Massacre." A 1937 massacre of Haitians living on the border, ordered by Dominican President Rafael Trujillo. It resulted in the death of 20,000 ethnic Haitians.

According to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsley_Massacre Wikipedia], Dominican soldiers would hold up a sprig of parsley to someone and ask "What is this?"; how the person would pronounce the Spanish word for parsley (perejil) would determine his/her fate. French and Haitian Creole pronounce the word differently than Dominicans, so if the person could pronounce "perejil" with a trill, the person was considered to be Dominican and allowed to live, but if the person pronounced "perejil" without the trill, the person was considered to be Haitian and executed.

'''Manzanillo Bay . . . Pepillo Salcedo''' 
This is a port in the Dominican Republic.

'''yaniqueques''' 
AKA "Johnnycakes" (also jonnycake, johnny cake, journey cake, shawnee cake and johnny bread) is a cornmeal flatbread that was an early American staple food and is prepared on the Atlantic coast from Newfoundland to Jamaica.[1] The food probably originates from the native inhabitants of North America. It is still eaten in the West Indies, Dominican Republic, Bahamas, Colombia, and Bermuda[2] as well as in the United States.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnnycake

'''chimichurros''' 
Possibly a misspelling of "chimichurris"? The Chimichurri burger (usually called "Chimi burger", "Dominican burger", or simply "chimi") is a traditional snack dish (sandwich) served in the Dominican Republic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimichurris

'''mamajuana''' 
A drink from the Dominican Republic that is concocted by allowing rum, red wine, and honey to soak in a bottle with tree bark and herbs. The taste is similar to port wine and the color is a deep red. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mama_Juana

'''Love, exciting and new, as they used to sing on ''The Love Boat''''' 
''The Love Boat'' was an American TV show (1977-86) about a cruise ship. The first words of the theme song were "Love, exciting and new . . ." You can hear it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_wFEB4Oxlo here].

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'''Leptandra''' 
Leptandra is a plant used in herbal medicine as a laxative. This may be saying something about her personality, but it is more likely referring to her name, as Leptandra's common name is Veronica

'''mitvzah''' 
In Judaism, a biblical commandment. Also, more colloquially, a good deed.

'''real estate injustice''' 
By way of explanation to readers unfamiliar with NYC real estate, many people live in apartment buildings where rent is controlled and managed by co-op boards, which can have large amounts of control over things like transferring the property. NYC is famous for long, protracted legal battles involving co-op boards, divorces, and/or trusts. RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) is a law used to combat organized crime.

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'''Eight Circle''' 
in Dante's ''Inferno'', the eighth circle of hell was reserved for those who commit fraud or
treachery.

'''... jittery mess, the atomic clock...''' 
I think this is playing on Heisenberg's uncertainty relation. There is no real fix point in the jittery world of quantum mechanics.

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'''Bad Accountant''' 
Perhaps an allusion to the 1992 NC-17 film starring Harvey Kietel, a gritty crime-drama with heavy religious overtones about a corrupt NYC policeman's struggles to change his ways.

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==Title==
"Bleeding Edge" has a number of meanings. See [[Bleeding Edge Title]]. The phrase first appears on pg. 78 "What's known as bleeding-edge technology. [...] No proven use, high risk, something only early-adoption addicts feel comfortable with."

==Cover==
The cover photograph is of a server farm. I found it [http://www.wallpapervortex.com/wallpaper-18727_miscellaneous_server_farm_at_night.html here]. It's entitled "Server Farm at Night." Note how the image also evokes the World Trade Center, and the cover of Pynchon's [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ''V.''] ...

More info at [[Bleeding Edge cover analysis]]

==Book jacket description==
Pynchon likely wrote [[Bleeding_Edge|the copy]] for the book jacket description of ''Bleeding Edge'' and he likely did the same for [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ''Inherent Vice''].

==Epigraph==
This Westlake quote is in [http://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/31/nyregion/they-love-new-york.html?src=pm&pagewanted=3 a ''New York Times'' article, dated October 31, 1999], about New York City. In the article, credit is given thus: "Tucker Coe (a.k.a. Donald E. Westlake writing about a cop, a brick wall and guilt. Out of print.)." So it's most likely from Westlake's (writing as Tucker Coe) "Mitch Tobin" series.

From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_E._Westlake Westlake's Wikipedia entry]:

:Tucker Coe: 5 mystery novels featuring the character of Mitch Tobin: ''Kinds of Love, 'Kinds of Death'', 1966; ''Murder Among Children'', 1967; ''Wax Apple'' and ''A Jade in Aries'', both 1970; ''Don't Lie to Me'', 1972.

From [http://www.mystericale.com/index.php?issue=104&body=file&file=like_em_tough.htm this website]:

:Donald Westlake adopted the pseudonym Tucker Coe for a series of five superb novels about guilt-ridden ex-cop Mitch Tobin, thrown off the NYPD after his partner was killed while Tobin was spending duty time enjoying the adulterous bed of a lady whose husband was in prison. Tobin's wife forgave the infidelity, but Tobin couldn't forgive himself. He spent his time in the backyard, slowly building a brick wall to keep out a world he no longer believed he had a place in. He supported himself and his family by taking on occasional investigations, but he does so with great reluctance. Slowly, though, the casework had the therapeutic effect of forcing him to come to terms with his guilt and deal with it. Tobin was introduced in ''Kinds of Love, Kinds of Death'' (Random, 1966). By his last appearance, ''Don't Lie to Me'' (Random, 1972), Tobin had obtained a P.I. license (thus making himself no longer eligible for consideration in this column), gotten a part-time job as a night security guard at an art museum, and was well on the way to psychological recovery. Largely on the strength of the Tobin series, Westlake was awarded the P.W.A. “Eye” award for Lifetime Achievement as a private eye writer.

Donald Westlake (1933-2008) was an American writer, with over a hundred novels and non-fiction books to his credit. He specialized in crime fiction, especially comic capers, with an occasional foray into science fiction or other genres.

In the below video (at :58), Donald Westlake refers to an "article" where one of the questions being asked was: "If New York City itself were a character itself in a mystery novel, what would that character be? And I said it wouldn't be the detective, because the detective cares who killed, and NY doesn't care. And it wouldn't be the murderer because the murderer has to care about someone he kills. So I think the character New York would be would be the enigmatic blond who knows the answer but isn't going to tell you."
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==Title Page==
'''Flatiron Building''' 
The title page feature a photograph of the Flatiron Building, a skyscraper in NYC. "The neighborhood around it is called the Flatiron District after its signature building, which has become an icon of New York City." [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatiron_Building Wikipedia]

==Dedication==
Like ''Inherent Vice'' and ''Against the Day'', ''Bleeding Edge'' has no dedication. Pynchon dedicated three of his earlier novels to friends and family: ''Mason & Dixon'' ("For Melanie, and for Jackson"), ''Vineland'' ("For my mother and father"), and ''Gravity's Rainbow'' ("For Richard Fariña").

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'''"the first day of spring, 2001"''' 
three instances of beginnings: the first day, of spring (the season of beginning and renewal), of the new millennium.

'''"though some still have her in their system"''' 
the novel's first sentence invokes the topic of personal data held in various databases or systems.

'''Loeffler''' 
Literally translated from German, it means 'someone who eats with a spoon'. It is not an uncommon last name in Germany; it is also the German name of a bird, the Eurasian Spoonbill. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_Spoonbill Wikipedia]

Loeffler is also the name of a German composer, Charles Martin Loeffler. Very interesting to note that the composer's father wrote journalism under the name 'Tornov' or 'Tornow' while the son sometimes used it as a middle name. [http://mldd.blogspot.com/2011/07/charles-martin-loeffler-150-years.html]

'''"walking her boys to school"''' 
This scene -- a parent walking children to school in the Upper West Side of New York City -- is, more than any of Pynchon's novels, evocative of what is reported of Pynchon's biography.
:This could be an early hint that the novel has a more autobiographical element than any of his previous works? [[User:Benvolio|Benvolio]] ([[User talk:Benvolio|talk]])

[[File:Callerypear.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Callery pear trees blooming in NYC, Creative Commons licensed photo from [http://www.flickr.com/photos/kamekame/5621004054/sizes/z/in/photostream/ here]]]'''

'''Callery Pear trees''' 
Planted extensively in NYC due to its fast-growing nature and tolerance of pollution and other extreme conditions. [http://www.centralparknyc.org/visit/trees-blooms/tree-database/callery-pear.html Central Park Conservancy] Their blooming is a first sign of spring.
:Much has been written on how Callery trees smell like semen. E.g., [http://www.theawl.com/2013/04/this-spring-new-york-city-smells-much-less-like-sperm article]

'''she drifts into a pick''' 
A "pick" is a basketball term. It refers to an offensive player blocking a defensive player.

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'''unsheltered''' 
a term meaning those homeless who sleep in such places as doorways and lobbies. "The word unhoused refers to that segment of a homeless community who do not have ordinary lawful access to buildings in which to sleep, as referred to in the HUD [United States Department of Housing and Urban Development] definition as persons occupying "place not designed for ... sleeping accommodation for human beings." "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness#Unsheltered_or_unhoused_people Wikipedia]

:added thought: Pynchon has tickled his creatures with Heideggerian thought throughout his writing. Unsheltered is not the "normal" way in which we describe our "homeless".

:I'd contest the interpretation of "unsheltered" as somehow related to Heidegger. All of Pynchon's novels feature specialized language, e.g. military, scientific, accounting, law. The use of "unsheltered", a word used by professionals dealing with homeless people, can more readily be read as simply one more example of that. [[User:Benvolio|Benvolio]] ([[User talk:Benvolio|talk]])

'''Razor scooters''' 
a popular brand of scooter, but note how the word "razor" echoes/evokes the title, ''Bleeding Edge''.

'''Otto Kugelblitz''' 
A fictitious character, i.e. no real person. Maybe Otto Rank [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Rank] was the blueprint for Otto Kugelblitz. 
German, "ball lightning". The Kugelblitz was also the name of a tank in WWII. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kugelblitz Wikipedia]
:Many references to Germany, German words, names and German history run throughout Pynchon's oeuvre, to the point where Pynchon scholar David Cowart posits that "Pynchon seems to have had a German period, a post-German period, and a neo-Continental or global period. During his German phase he produced his first three novels... His next work, the long-awaited Vineland, represents a new phase in which the almost obsessive attention to German more seems to have faded." ''Thomas Pynchon and the Dark Passages of History'' (2012), at p. 59. [[User:Benvolio|Benvolio]] ([[User talk:Benvolio|talk]])
:A character name Skip the sentient ball lightning appears in ''Against the Day. [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=S]

'''the human life span runs through varieties of mental disorder as understood in his day- the solipsism of infancy, the sexual hysterias of adolescence and enty-level adulthood, the paranoia of middle age, the dementia of late life... all working up to death, which at last turns out to be "sanity"''' 
This theory may of further importance, i.e. could it be a kind of program for this novel? 
Solipsism > sexual hysteria > paranoia > dementia > deatch > sanity 

'''on a cross street ''Law & Order'' has so far managed not to film on''' 
''Law & Order'' was the longest running crime drama on TV. It ran for 20 seasons and filmed its episodes on the streets of New York City. Of course, this adds to building sense of paranoia and fear in this opening description.

'''Berggasse 19''' 
The address in Vienna where Freud lived. It is now the site of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud_Museum_%28Vienna%29 Sigmund Freud Museum].

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'''Vyrva''' 
The name sounds like the German word "Wirrwarr", meaning something like "muddle", "huddle", etc.

'''"Maxi, hi?'''" 
Vyrva speaks in uptalk, or phrasing statements like questions, a linguistic characteristic found (among other places) in Southern California, especially among so-called "Valley girls". [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uptalk Wikipedia]

'''Pomona''' 
Pomona College, a prestigious, private liberal arts college in Southern California

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'''real-estate envy attack''' 
A combination of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis_envy penis envy], which is one of Freud's theories, and a heart attack.

'''Maxine runs a small fraud-investigation agency''' 
"Fraud" sounds quite similar to the name of the psychologist "Freud" who was mentioned on the previous pages. So is Maxine perhaps a "Freud-investigator"?

'''antennas for the unspoken''' 
Cf, a letter by Pynchon: "Given the British genius for coded utterance, this could all be about something else entirely, impossible on this side of the ocean to appreciate in any nuanced way..." [http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/08/thomas-pynchon-on-plagiarism.html Source] 
Also brings to mind ''Inherent Vice'''s protagonist, who claims "if acid tripping was good for anything, it helped tune you to different unlisted frequencies." [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_5 (62)] Another person whose profession affords them a kind of social ESP, it seems.

'''a dating service called Yenta Expresso''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yenta Yenta] is a Yiddish loanword which generally means a busybody or someone who spreads gossip. Given that it's seen in the name of a dating service, it's likely a reference to the musical/film [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddler_on_the_Roof Fiddler on the Roof], where the village matchmaker's name is Yenta. Y'know, it's a shame real life could never be as hyper-referential as Pynchon's reality.

==Page 5==
'''Krispy Kreme''' 
Krispy Kreme is set to go public on NASDAQ only days from Maxine's message, and ironically centering around a company whose intellectual property (the recipes!) were bought and not developed. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krispy_Kreme#History].

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'''the gates of Danbury''' 
a federal prison. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Correctional_Institution,_Danbury Wikipedia]

'''Crazy Eddie''' 
American electronics store famous for its radio and TV ads in the 60s and 70s, featuring the slogan, "his prices are insane". The T-shirt in question was designed by, of all people, Robert Crumb. The TV ads featured New York disc jockey Jerry Carroll as the pitchman. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Crazyeddie.jpg Wikipedia]

[[File:Crazyeddieshirt.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Crazy Eddie T-Shirt, designed by the legendary Robert Crumb''']]

"Crazy Eddie" also features prominently in the science fiction novel ''The Mote In God's Eye'' by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (1974), signifying both an archetype of insane optimism and a spatial gateway for interdimensional travel.

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'''as Britney always sez''' 
"Oops! I Did It Again" was a huge pop hit in 2000 for Britney Spears.

'''"Help Me Rhonda"''' 
1965 song by the Beach Boys. [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pynchon_and_Brian_Wilson Pynchon reportedly recommended] that Jules Siegel listen to the Beach Boys' ''Pet Sounds'', as recounted in Siegel's article, "Who is Thomas Pynchon, and Why Did He Take Off With My Wife" (1977). Pynchon mentions "Help Me Rhonda" and two other Beach Boys hits in ''Inherent Vice''. [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Songs_mentioned_in_Inherent_Vice]

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'''when WYNY switched formats overnight from country to classic disco''' 
Some anachronistic joshing from Pynchon here, perhaps an old WYNY country fan, as per [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYNY_%28AM%29 WIKI] on July 5, 2012 WYNY changed their format from country to adult contemporary.

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'''what Jodi Della Femina might call shortcuts''' 
In 1999 Jodi Della Femina published a book ("Jodi's Shortcuts") about the Hamptons. "The book outraged plenty of Hamptons folks who aren't blue-chip Maidstone types, since it revealed all the sacred backroads detours through leafy neighborhoods off the Montauk highway." (NY Mag)

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'''some Meat Loaf reference''' 
Bat Out of Hell?

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'''schadenfreudefest''' 
The enjoyment, and making it a festive occasion, of others's failures and misfortunes.

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'''Cheatin side of town, as the Eagles like to say''' 
Here are some lyrics from the song "Lyin' Eyes" by the Eagles: "She is headed for the cheatin' side of town." See the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Van_%28actor%29 WIKI].

'''where a man can kick out the jambs''' 
A play on "Kick Out the Jams," an album and song by the band MC5. And Pynchon has used this before, see [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_9#Page_191 Vineland pg. 191].

'''Penthouse Forum''' 
The letters page of Penthouse magazine was famous for people writing in with funny/crazy stories about sex. Or so I've been told.

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'''Bobby Van's people''' 
Bobby Van was born Robert Jack Stein to vaudeville parents in The Bronx, New York City, and grew up backstage, witnessing many memorable Depression-era acts. See the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Van_%28actor%29 WIKI].

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'''Gurney's''' 
Gurney's Inn is a historic oceanfront resort on the very tip of Long Island, located on 290 Old Montauk Highway in Montauk, New York. U.S. President Richard Nixon wrote his acceptance speech at the Skippers Cottage. It has a famous Thalasso spa. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurney%27s WIKI].

'''Har-Tru tennis court''' 
American-style green clay court. Clay courts aren't made of clay, by the way. Instead they are made of "shale, stone, or brick." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_court WIKI.] Har-Tru courts are typically constructed with crushed Pre-Cambrian metabasalt.
More trivia: the Har-Tru company got its odd name by combining the first initials of the owner's name "Henry Alexander Robinson" and a variant spelling of "true" that stressed the "true bounce" of the court. [http://hartru.com/about-har-tru/history/ Company history page.]

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'''Bluebeard's Castle''' 
Bluebeard is a French folk tale, in which a wealthy aristocrat leaves his castle and tells his wife not to enter a mysterious locked room in the castle under any circumstances. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebeard Wikipedia]

:[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebeard Bluebeard,] thank you, wiki, is possibly based on a real man, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_de_Rais Gilles de Rais,] who lived in France in the early 1400s. He was executed in 1440, having been found guilty of committing numerous child murders. Centuries later, in 1697 Paris, Charles Perrault published a fairy tale that really got the Bluebeard legend rolling. In the [http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/bluebeard/ Perrault] version, Bluebeard is slain and the story has a happy ending.

'''phonetic letters including Whisky, Tango, and Foxtrot''' 
a.k.a., WTF or What The Fuck 

But we later learn what they stand for. See [http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_24#Page_261 Page 261].

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'''her coordinates all at once shift ninety degrees, so that she can't tell if she's staring vertically down uncountable levels or straight ahead down another long hallway. It lasts only a heartbeat, but how does it have to?''' 
About 33 seconds into this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je0NhvAQ6fM clip] from Hitchcock's "Vertigo" see something similar, an effect created, by the way, with a model of the stairwell laid down horizontally on the floor. [http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/hitchcock/pages/stills-vertigo/shot.html More] on the "Vertigo Effect."

'''a child? Something in a child-size fatigue uniform...rising as if on wings''' 
Very Korean horror.

And, 1:32 into this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-sWReV2DDQ clip] from, yes, "Vertigo" again, see a small, but quickly enlarging, frightening form emerge from the darkness, a creature that evokes great fear in a woman.

'''Vosne-Romanée''' 
Vosne-Romanée wine is produced in the commune of Vosne-Romanée in Côte de Nuits of Burgundy as well as in the neighbouring commune of Flagey-Échezeaux. The Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) Vosne-Romanée may only be used for red wine with Pinot noir as the main grape. There are a total of 15 Premier Cru vineyards in the two communes, as well as six Grand Cru vineyards in Vosne-Romanée and two in Flagey-Échezeaux. These Grand Cru vineyards include Burgundy's most iconic, sought-after and expensive red wines, with Romanée-Conti of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti at the pinnacle: "There can be little doubt that in the firmament of the Cote de nuits, Vosne-Romanée is the brightest star." From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vosne-Roman%C3%A9e_wine WIKI].

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'''Roll on, four-wheeler, roll on.''' 
Riffing on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEL7nGyQ_iA Charley Pride?] Randy Newman's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPmjTG8NLuw Burn On,] as in, "burn on, big river, burn on"? The possibilities must be legion.

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'''Woodbury Common, Paramus''' 
Shopping malls.

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''''85 Sassicaia''' 
Tenuta San Guido is an Italian wine producer in the DOC Bolgheri in Toscana, known as a producer of "Super Tuscan" wine. Its wine Sassicaia is considered one of Italy's leading Bordeaux-style red wines. Tenuta San Guido is member of the Primum Familiae Vini. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sassicaia WIKI].

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'''riyals''' 
Unit of currency in the Middle East.

==Page 174==
'''Eternal September''' 
A foreboding name. The Eternal September started September 1993, the month that internet service provider America Online (AOL) began offering Usenet access to its (very many) members . Before then, every year in September, a large number of new university freshmen acquired access to Usenet for the first time, and thongs took some time to calm down as they become accustomed to Usenet's standards of conduct. After Eternal September the calm never came as more and more people came on line.

==Page 177==
'''"Up to whom they must never miss a chance to suck"''' 
Perhaps Pynchon is riffing on Winston Churchill's alleged marginal note of 27 February 1944, to a priggish civil servant's memo objecting to the ending of a sentences with prepositions: "This is the kind of tedious nonsense up with which I will not put!"

'''Motor City psychobilly Elvis Hitler''' 
Yes. There really is a band called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Hitler Elvis Hitler]. And they're from Detroit (a.k.a., the "Motor City").

'''singing the ''Green Acres'' theme to the tune of "Purple Haze"''' 
And yes, Elvis Hitler really did a version of the ''Green Acres'' theme to the tune of Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze." You can hear it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FFgxJsjqkg here].

The bizzaro song in question is called "Green Haze, Parts 1 and 2," from their 1988 album "Disgraceland." Is Maxine feeling nostalgia from this particular song, or for "Green Acres" and/or "Purple Haze"? Maxine doesn't strike me as a psychobilly person, but maybe. Also, "Green Haze" is the name of an early Miles Davis tune, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYHoT0ofEjQ YouTube], found on "The Musings of Miles." Who knew?

'''zaftig body''' 
Slightly fat in an attractive way.

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'''''Jules and Jim''''' 
a 1962 French film by François Truffaut, a classic film about a love triangle. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_and_Jim Wikipedia].

'''hours on the LIE''' 
Long Island Expressway

'''money shot''' 
In film-making usage the shot that cannot be repeated (or only at great costs); in porn movies naturally the "cum shot"

'''"sub-vaudville routine"''' 
So bad, it's not even up to vaudeville's corny standards

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'''Tanger Outlets''' 
An outlet mall with locations throughout the US.

'''"Where could this tape have come from?"''' 
Recalls the mysterious film reels in ''Gravity's Rainbow'' that are used to convey hidden messages to certain characters.

'''Mrs. Grundy''' 
A figurative name for a holier-than-thou, self-righteous person, a goody-two-shoes. Named after a minor character in Thomas Morton's play ''Speed the Plough'' (1798).

According to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs_Grundy Wiki,] she (Pynchonesquely?) never makes an appearance in the play, and is merely talked about.

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'''begins idly to channel-surf. A form of meditating.''' 
Interesting to note the shift from ''Vineland''s 80's Tube addicts to ''Bleeding Edge''s 00's new form of meditating. Could it have to do with the availability of channels?

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'''Homer strangling Bart . . .''' 
Refers to characters from the animated TV show ''The Simpsons'', in which the father (Homer) often gets angry and strangles his son Bart. Pynchon himself (well, his voice, at least) has appeared a couple of times on this television program.

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'''Buddhist Parable of the Burning Coal''' 
Some [http://www.fakebuddhaquotes.com/fake-buddha-quote-holding-on-to-anger-is-like-grasping-a-hot-coal/ musings] on this Buddhist story and similar ones on a "Fake Buddha Quotes" site. Follow the link to see how coal relates to sensuality and excrement. Where have you gone, Brigadier Pudding?

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'''when WYNY switched formats overnight from country to classic disco''' 
Some anachronistic joshing from Pynchon here, perhaps an old WYNY country fan, as per [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYNY_%28AM%29 WIKI] on July 5, 2012 WYNY changed their format from country to adult contemporary.

==Page 186==
'''what Jodi Della Femina might call shortcuts''' 
In 1999 Jodi Della Femina published a book ("Jodi's Shortcuts") about the Hamptons. "The book outraged plenty of Hamptons folks who aren't blue-chip Maidstone types, since it revealed all the sacred backroads detours through leafy neighborhoods off the Montauk highway." (NY Mag)

==Page 187==
'''some Meat Loaf reference''' 
Bat Out of Hell?

==Page 188==
'''schadenfreudefest''' 
The enjoyment, and making it a festive occasion, of others's failures and misfortunes.

==Page 189==
'''Cheatin side of town, as the Eagles like to say''' 
Here are some lyrics from the song "Lyin' Eyes" by the Eagles: "She is headed for the cheatin' side of town." See the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Van_%28actor%29 WIKI].

'''where a man can kick out the jambs''' 
A play on "Kick Out the Jams," an album and song by the band MC5. And Pynchon has used this before, see [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_9#Page_191 Vineland pg. 191].

'''Penthouse Forum''' 
The letters page of Penthouse magazine was famous for people writing in with funny/crazy stories about sex. Or so I've been told.

==Page 190==
'''Bobby Van's people''' 
Bobby Van was born Robert Jack Stein to vaudeville parents in The Bronx, New York City, and grew up backstage, witnessing many memorable Depression-era acts. See the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Van_%28actor%29 WIKI].

==Page 191==
'''Gurney's''' 
Gurney's Inn is a historic oceanfront resort on the very tip of Long Island, located on 290 Old Montauk Highway in Montauk, New York. U.S. President Richard Nixon wrote his acceptance speech at the Skippers Cottage. It has a famous Thalasso spa. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurney%27s WIKI].

'''Har-Tru tennis court''' 
American-style green clay court. Clay courts aren't made of clay, by the way. Instead they are made of "shale, stone, or brick." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_court WIKI.] Har-Tru courts are typically constructed with crushed Pre-Cambrian metabasalt.
More trivia: the Har-Tru company got its odd name by combining the first initials of the owner's name "Henry Alexander Robinson" and a variant spelling of "true" that stressed the "true bounce" of the court. [http://hartru.com/about-har-tru/history/ Company history page.]

==Page 193==
'''Bluebeard's Castle''' 
Judith and Bluebeard arrive at his castle, which is all dark. Bluebeard asks Judith if she wants to stay and even offers her an opportunity to leave, but she decides to stay. Judith insists that all the doors be opened, to allow light to enter into the forbidding interior, insisting further that her demands are based on her love for Bluebeard. Bluebeard refuses, saying that they are private places not to be explored by others, and asking Judith to love him but ask no questions. Judith persists, and eventually prevails over his resistance. The first door opens to reveal a torture chamber, stained with blood. Repelled, but then intrigued, Judith pushes on. Behind the second door is a storehouse of weapons, and behind the third a storehouse of riches. Bluebeard urges her on. Behind the fourth door is a secret garden of great beauty; behind the fifth, a window onto Bluebeard's vast kingdom. All is now sunlit, but blood has stained the riches, watered the garden, and grim clouds throw blood-red shadows over Bluebeard's kingdom. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebeard%27s_Castle WIKI].

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebeard Bluebeard,] thank you, wiki, is possibly based on a real man, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_de_Rais Gilles de Rais,] who lived in France in the early 1400s. He was executed in 1440, having been found guilty of committing numerous child murders. Centuries later, in 1697 Paris, Charles Perrault published a fairy tale that really got the Bluebeard legend rolling. In the [http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/bluebeard/ Perrault] version, Bluebeard is slain and the story has a happy ending.

'''phonetic letters including Whisky, Tango, and Foxtrot''' 
a.k.a., WTF or What The Fuck 

But we later learn what they stand for. See [http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_24#Page_261 Page 261].

==Page 194==
'''her coordinates all at once shift ninety degrees, so that she can't tell if she's staring vertically down uncountable levels or straight ahead down another long hallway. It lasts only a heartbeat, but how does it have to?''' 
About 33 seconds into this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je0NhvAQ6fM clip] from Hitchcock's "Vertigo" see something similar, an effect created, by the way, with a model of the stairwell laid down horizontally on the floor. [http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/hitchcock/pages/stills-vertigo/shot.html More] on the "Vertigo Effect."

'''a child? Something in a child-size fatigue uniform...rising as if on wings''' 
Very Korean horror.

And, 1:32 into this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-sWReV2DDQ clip] from, yes, "Vertigo" again, see a small, but quickly enlarging, frightening form emerge from the darkness, a creature that evokes great fear in a woman.

'''Vosne-Romanée''' 
Vosne-Romanée wine is produced in the commune of Vosne-Romanée in Côte de Nuits of Burgundy as well as in the neighbouring commune of Flagey-Échezeaux. The Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) Vosne-Romanée may only be used for red wine with Pinot noir as the main grape. There are a total of 15 Premier Cru vineyards in the two communes, as well as six Grand Cru vineyards in Vosne-Romanée and two in Flagey-Échezeaux. These Grand Cru vineyards include Burgundy's most iconic, sought-after and expensive red wines, with Romanée-Conti of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti at the pinnacle: "There can be little doubt that in the firmament of the Cote de nuits, Vosne-Romanée is the brightest star." From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vosne-Roman%C3%A9e_wine WIKI].

==Page 195==
'''Roll on, four-wheeler, roll on.''' 
Riffing on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEL7nGyQ_iA Charley Pride?] Randy Newman's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPmjTG8NLuw Burn On,] as in, "burn on, big river, burn on"? The possibilities must be legion.

==Page 196==

'''Woodbury Common, Paramus''' 
Shopping malls.

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==Page 185==
'''when WYNY switched formats overnight from country to classic disco''' 
Some anachronistic joshing from Pynchon here, perhaps an old WYNY country fan, as per [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYNY_%28AM%29 WIKI] on July 5, 2012 WYNY changed their format from country to adult contemporary.

==Page 186==
'''what Jodi Della Femina might call shortcuts''' 
In 1999 Jodi Della Femina published a book ("Jodi's Shortcuts") about the Hamptons. "The book outraged plenty of Hamptons folks who aren't blue-chip Maidstone types, since it revealed all the sacred backroads detours through leafy neighborhoods off the Montauk highway." (NY Mag)

==Page 187==
'''some Meat Loaf reference''' 
Bat Out of Hell?

==Page 188==
'''schadenfreudefest''' 
The enjoyment, and making it a festive occasion, of others's failures and misfortunes.

==Page 189==
'''Cheatin side of town, as the Eagles like to say''' 
Here are some lyrics from the song "Lyin' Eyes" by the Eagles: "She is headed for the cheatin' side of town." See the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Van_%28actor%29 WIKI].

'''where a man can kick out the jambs''' 
A play on "Kick Out the Jams," an album and song by the band MC5. And Pynchon has used this before, see [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_9#Page_191 Vineland pg. 191].

'''Penthouse Forum''' 
The letters page of Penthouse magazine was famous for people writing in with funny/crazy stories about sex. Or so I've been told.

==Page 190==
'''Bobby Van's people''' 
Bobby Van was born Robert Jack Stein to vaudeville parents in The Bronx, New York City, and grew up backstage, witnessing many memorable Depression-era acts. See the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Van_%28actor%29 WIKI].

==Page 191==
'''Gurney's''' 
Gurney's Inn is a historic oceanfront resort on the very tip of Long Island, located on 290 Old Montauk Highway in Montauk, New York. U.S. President Richard Nixon wrote his acceptance speech at the Skippers Cottage. It has a famous Thalasso spa. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurney%27s WIKI].

'''Har-Tru tennis court''' 
American-style green clay court. Clay courts aren't made of clay, by the way. Instead they are made of "shale, stone, or brick." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_court WIKI.] Har-Tru courts are typically constructed with crushed Pre-Cambrian metabasalt.
More trivia: the Har-Tru company got its odd name by combining the first initials of the owner's name "Henry Alexander Robinson" and a variant spelling of "true" that stressed the "true bounce" of the court. [http://hartru.com/about-har-tru/history/ Company history page.]

==Page 193==
'''Bluebeard's Castle''' 
Judith and Bluebeard arrive at his castle, which is all dark. Bluebeard asks Judith if she wants to stay and even offers her an opportunity to leave, but she decides to stay. Judith insists that all the doors be opened, to allow light to enter into the forbidding interior, insisting further that her demands are based on her love for Bluebeard. Bluebeard refuses, saying that they are private places not to be explored by others, and asking Judith to love him but ask no questions. Judith persists, and eventually prevails over his resistance. The first door opens to reveal a torture chamber, stained with blood. Repelled, but then intrigued, Judith pushes on. Behind the second door is a storehouse of weapons, and behind the third a storehouse of riches. Bluebeard urges her on. Behind the fourth door is a secret garden of great beauty; behind the fifth, a window onto Bluebeard's vast kingdom. All is now sunlit, but blood has stained the riches, watered the garden, and grim clouds throw blood-red shadows over Bluebeard's kingdom. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebeard%27s_Castle WIKI].

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebeard Bluebeard,] thank you, wiki, is possibly based on a real man, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_de_Rais Gilles de Rais,] who lived in France in the early 1400s. He was executed in 1440, having been found guilty of committing numerous child murders. Centuries later, in 1697 Paris, Charles Perrault published a fairy tale that really got the Bluebeard legend rolling. In the [http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/bluebeard/ Perrault] version, Bluebeard is slain and the story has a happy ending.

'''phonetic letters including Whisky, Tango, and Foxtrot''' 
a.k.a., WTF or What The Fuck 

But we later learn what they stand for. See [http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_24#Page_261 Page 261].

==Page 194==
'''her coordinates all at once shift ninety degrees, so that she can't tell if she's staring vertically down uncountable levels or straight ahead down another long hallway. It lasts only a heartbeat, but how does it have to?''' 
About 33 seconds into this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je0NhvAQ6fM clip] from Hitchcock's "Vertigo" see something similar, an effect created, by the way, with a model of the stairwell laid down horizontally on the floor. [http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/hitchcock/pages/stills-vertigo/shot.html More] on the "Vertigo Effect."

'''a child? Something in a child-size fatigue uniform...rising as if on wings''' 
Very Korean horror.

And, 1:32 into this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-sWReV2DDQ clip] from, yes, "Vertigo" again, see a small, but quickly enlarging, frightening form emerge from the darkness, a creature that evokes great fear in a woman.

'''Vosne-Romanée''' 
Vosne-Romanée wine is produced in the commune of Vosne-Romanée in Côte de Nuits of Burgundy as well as in the neighbouring commune of Flagey-Échezeaux. The Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) Vosne-Romanée may only be used for red wine with Pinot noir as the main grape. There are a total of 15 Premier Cru vineyards in the two communes, as well as six Grand Cru vineyards in Vosne-Romanée and two in Flagey-Échezeaux. These Grand Cru vineyards include Burgundy's most iconic, sought-after and expensive red wines, with Romanée-Conti of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti at the pinnacle: "There can be little doubt that in the firmament of the Cote de nuits, Vosne-Romanée is the brightest star." From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vosne-Roman%C3%A9e_wine WIKI].

==Page 195==
'''Roll on, four-wheeler, roll on.''' 
Riffing on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEL7nGyQ_iA Charley Pride?] Randy Newman's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPmjTG8NLuw Burn On,] as in, "burn on, big river, burn on"? The possibilities must be legion.

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'''Woodbury Common, Paramus''' 
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==Page 185==
'''when WYNY switched formats overnight from country to classic disco''' 
Some anachronistic joshing from Pynchon here, perhaps an old WYNY country fan, as per [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYNY_%28AM%29 WIKI] on July 5, 2012 WYNY changed their format from country to adult contemporary.

==Page 186==
'''what Jodi Della Femina might call shortcuts''' 
In 1999 Jodi Della Femina published a book ("Jodi's Shortcuts") about the Hamptons. "The book outraged plenty of Hamptons folks who aren't blue-chip Maidstone types, since it revealed all the sacred backroads detours through leafy neighborhoods off the Montauk highway." (NY Mag)

==Page 187==
'''some Meat Loaf reference''' 
Bat Out of Hell?

==Page 188==
'''schadenfreudefest''' 
The enjoyment, and making it a festive occasion, of others's failures and misfortunes.

==Page 189==
'''Cheatin side of town, as the Eagles like to say''' 
Here are some lyrics from the song "Lyin' Eyes" by the Eagles: "She is headed for the cheatin' side of town." See the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Van_%28actor%29 WIKI].

'''where a man can kick out the jambs''' 
A play on "Kick Out the Jams," an album and song by the band MC5. And Pynchon has used this before, see [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_9#Page_191 Vineland pg. 191].

'''Penthouse Forum''' 
The letters page of Penthouse magazine was famous for people writing in with funny/crazy stories about sex. Or so I've been told.

==Page 190==
'''Bobby Van's people''' 
Bobby Van was born Robert Jack Stein to vaudeville parents in The Bronx, New York City, and grew up backstage, witnessing many memorable Depression-era acts. See the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Van_%28actor%29 WIKI].

==Page 191==
'''Gurney's''' 
Gurney's Inn is a historic oceanfront resort on the very tip of Long Island, located on 290 Old Montauk Highway in Montauk, New York. U.S. President Richard Nixon wrote his acceptance speech at the Skippers Cottage. It has a famous Thalasso spa. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurney%27s WIKI].

'''Har-Tru tennis court''' 
American-style green clay court. Clay courts aren't made of clay, by the way. Instead they are made of "shale, stone, or brick." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_court WIKI.] Har-Tru courts are typically constructed with crushed Pre-Cambrian metabasalt.
More trivia: the Har-Tru company got its odd name by combining the first initials of the owner's name "Henry Alexander Robinson" and a variant spelling of "true" that stressed the "true bounce" of the court. [http://hartru.com/about-har-tru/history/ Company history page.]

==Page 193==
'''Bluebeard's Castle''' 
Judith and Bluebeard arrive at his castle, which is all dark. Bluebeard asks Judith if she wants to stay and even offers her an opportunity to leave, but she decides to stay. Judith insists that all the doors be opened, to allow light to enter into the forbidding interior, insisting further that her demands are based on her love for Bluebeard. Bluebeard refuses, saying that they are private places not to be explored by others, and asking Judith to love him but ask no questions. Judith persists, and eventually prevails over his resistance. The first door opens to reveal a torture chamber, stained with blood. Repelled, but then intrigued, Judith pushes on. Behind the second door is a storehouse of weapons, and behind the third a storehouse of riches. Bluebeard urges her on. Behind the fourth door is a secret garden of great beauty; behind the fifth, a window onto Bluebeard's vast kingdom. All is now sunlit, but blood has stained the riches, watered the garden, and grim clouds throw blood-red shadows over Bluebeard's kingdom. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebeard%27s_Castle WIKI].

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebeard Bluebeard,] thank you, wiki, is possibly based on a real man, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_de_Rais Gilles de Rais,] who lived in France in the early 1400s. He was executed in 1440, having been found guilty of committing numerous child murders. Centuries later, in 1697 Paris, Charles Perrault published a fairy tale that really got the Bluebeard legend rolling. In the [http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/bluebeard/ Perrault] version, Bluebeard is slain and the story has a happy ending.

'''phonetic letters including Whisky, Tango, and Foxtrot''' 
a.k.a., WTF or What The Fuck 

But we later learn what they stand for. See [http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_24#Page_261 Page 261].

==Page 194==
'''her coordinates all at once shift ninety degrees, so that she can't tell if she's staring vertically down uncountable levels or straight ahead down another long hallway. It lasts only a heartbeat, but how does it have to?''' 
About 33 seconds into this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je0NhvAQ6fM clip] from Hitchcock's "Vertigo" see something similar, an effect created, by the way, with a model of the stairwell laid down horizontally on the floor. [http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/hitchcock/pages/stills-vertigo/shot.html More] on the "Vertigo Effect."

'''a child? Something in a child-size fatigue uniform...rising as if on wings''' 
Very Korean horror.

And, 1:32 into this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-sWReV2DDQ clip] from, yes, "Vertigo" again, see a small, but quickly enlarging, frightening form emerge from the darkness, a creature that evokes great fear in a woman.

'''Vosne-Romanée''' 
Vosne-Romanée wine is produced in the commune of Vosne-Romanée in Côte de Nuits of Burgundy as well as in the neighbouring commune of Flagey-Échezeaux. The Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) Vosne-Romanée may only be used for red wine with Pinot noir as the main grape. There are a total of 15 Premier Cru vineyards in the two communes, as well as six Grand Cru vineyards in Vosne-Romanée and two in Flagey-Échezeaux. These Grand Cru vineyards include Burgundy's most iconic, sought-after and expensive red wines, with Romanée-Conti of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti at the pinnacle: "There can be little doubt that in the firmament of the Cote de nuits, Vosne-Romanée is the brightest star." From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vosne-Roman%C3%A9e_wine WIKI].

==Page 195==
'''Roll on, four-wheeler, roll on.''' 
Riffing on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEL7nGyQ_iA Charley Pride?] Randy Newman's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPmjTG8NLuw Burn On,] as in, "burn on, big river, burn on"? The possibilities must be legion.

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==Page 185==
'''when WYNY switched formats overnight from country to classic disco''' 
Some anachronistic joshing from Pynchon here, perhaps an old WYNY country fan, as per [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYNY_%28AM%29 WIKI] on July 5, 2012 WYNY changed their format from country to adult contemporary.

==Page 186==
'''what Jodi Della Femina might call shortcuts''' 
In 1999 Jodi Della Femina published a book ("Jodi's Shortcuts") about the Hamptons. "The book outraged plenty of Hamptons folks who aren't blue-chip Maidstone types, since it revealed all the sacred backroads detours through leafy neighborhoods off the Montauk highway." (NY Mag)

==Page 187==
'''some Meat Loaf reference''' 
Bat Out of Hell?

==Page 188==
'''schadenfreudefest''' 
The enjoyment, and making it a festive occasion, of others's failures and misfortunes.

==Page 189==
'''Cheatin side of town, as the Eagles like to say''' 
Here are some lyrics from the song "Lyin' Eyes" by the Eagles: "She is headed for the cheatin' side of town." See the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Van_%28actor%29 WIKI].

'''where a man can kick out the jambs''' 
A play on "Kick Out the Jams," an album and song by the band MC5. And Pynchon has used this before, see [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_9#Page_191 Vineland pg. 191].

==Page 190==
'''Bobby Van's people''' 
Bobby Van was born Robert Jack Stein to vaudeville parents in The Bronx, New York City, and grew up backstage, witnessing many memorable Depression-era acts. See the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Van_%28actor%29 WIKI].

==Page 191==
'''Gurney's''' 
Gurney's Inn is a historic oceanfront resort on the very tip of Long Island, located on 290 Old Montauk Highway in Montauk, New York. U.S. President Richard Nixon wrote his acceptance speech at the Skippers Cottage. It has a famous Thalasso spa. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurney%27s WIKI].

'''Har-Tru tennis court''' 
American-style green clay court. Clay courts aren't made of clay, by the way. Instead they are made of "shale, stone, or brick." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_court WIKI.] Har-Tru courts are typically constructed with crushed Pre-Cambrian metabasalt.
More trivia: the Har-Tru company got its odd name by combining the first initials of the owner's name "Henry Alexander Robinson" and a variant spelling of "true" that stressed the "true bounce" of the court. [http://hartru.com/about-har-tru/history/ Company history page.]

==Page 193==
'''Bluebeard's Castle''' 
Judith and Bluebeard arrive at his castle, which is all dark. Bluebeard asks Judith if she wants to stay and even offers her an opportunity to leave, but she decides to stay. Judith insists that all the doors be opened, to allow light to enter into the forbidding interior, insisting further that her demands are based on her love for Bluebeard. Bluebeard refuses, saying that they are private places not to be explored by others, and asking Judith to love him but ask no questions. Judith persists, and eventually prevails over his resistance. The first door opens to reveal a torture chamber, stained with blood. Repelled, but then intrigued, Judith pushes on. Behind the second door is a storehouse of weapons, and behind the third a storehouse of riches. Bluebeard urges her on. Behind the fourth door is a secret garden of great beauty; behind the fifth, a window onto Bluebeard's vast kingdom. All is now sunlit, but blood has stained the riches, watered the garden, and grim clouds throw blood-red shadows over Bluebeard's kingdom. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebeard%27s_Castle WIKI].

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebeard Bluebeard,] thank you, wiki, is possibly based on a real man, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_de_Rais Gilles de Rais,] who lived in France in the early 1400s. He was executed in 1440, having been found guilty of committing numerous child murders. Centuries later, in 1697 Paris, Charles Perrault published a fairy tale that really got the Bluebeard legend rolling. In the [http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/bluebeard/ Perrault] version, Bluebeard is slain and the story has a happy ending.

'''phonetic letters including Whisky, Tango, and Foxtrot''' 
a.k.a., WTF or What The Fuck 

But we later learn what they stand for. See [http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_24#Page_261 Page 261].

==Page 194==
'''her coordinates all at once shift ninety degrees, so that she can't tell if she's staring vertically down uncountable levels or straight ahead down another long hallway. It lasts only a heartbeat, but how does it have to?''' 
About 33 seconds into this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je0NhvAQ6fM clip] from Hitchcock's "Vertigo" see something similar, an effect created, by the way, with a model of the stairwell laid down horizontally on the floor. [http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/hitchcock/pages/stills-vertigo/shot.html More] on the "Vertigo Effect."

'''a child? Something in a child-size fatigue uniform...rising as if on wings''' 
Very Korean horror.

And, 1:32 into this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-sWReV2DDQ clip] from, yes, "Vertigo" again, see a small, but quickly enlarging, frightening form emerge from the darkness, a creature that evokes great fear in a woman.

'''Vosne-Romanée''' 
Vosne-Romanée wine is produced in the commune of Vosne-Romanée in Côte de Nuits of Burgundy as well as in the neighbouring commune of Flagey-Échezeaux. The Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) Vosne-Romanée may only be used for red wine with Pinot noir as the main grape. There are a total of 15 Premier Cru vineyards in the two communes, as well as six Grand Cru vineyards in Vosne-Romanée and two in Flagey-Échezeaux. These Grand Cru vineyards include Burgundy's most iconic, sought-after and expensive red wines, with Romanée-Conti of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti at the pinnacle: "There can be little doubt that in the firmament of the Cote de nuits, Vosne-Romanée is the brightest star." From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vosne-Roman%C3%A9e_wine WIKI].

==Page 195==
'''Roll on, four-wheeler, roll on.''' 
Riffing on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEL7nGyQ_iA Charley Pride?] Randy Newman's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPmjTG8NLuw Burn On,] as in, "burn on, big river, burn on"? The possibilities must be legion.

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''''85 Sassicaia''' 
Tenuta San Guido is an Italian wine producer in the DOC Bolgheri in Toscana, known as a producer of "Super Tuscan" wine. Its wine Sassicaia is considered one of Italy's leading Bordeaux-style red wines. Tenuta San Guido is member of the Primum Familiae Vini. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sassicaia WIKI].

==Page 173==

'''riyals''' 
Unit of currency in the Middle East.

==Page 174==
'''Eternal September''' 
A foreboding name. The Eternal September started September 1993, the month that internet service provider America Online (AOL) began offering Usenet access to its (very many) members . Before then, every year in September, a large number of new university freshmen acquired access to Usenet for the first time, and thongs took some time to calm down as they become accustomed to Usenet's standards of conduct. After Eternal September the calm never came as more and more people came on line.

==Page 177==
'''"Up to whom they must never miss a chance to suck"''' 
Perhaps Pynchon is riffing on Winston Churchill's alleged marginal note of 27 February 1944, to a priggish civil servant's memo objecting to the ending of a sentences with prepositions: "This is the kind of tedious nonsense up with which I will not put!"

'''Motor City psychobilly Elvis Hitler''' 
Yes. There really is a band called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Hitler Elvis Hitler]. And they're from Detroit (a.k.a., the "Motor City").

'''singing the ''Green Acres'' theme to the tune of "Purple Haze"''' 
And yes, Elvis Hitler really did a version of the ''Green Acres'' theme to the tune of Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze." You can hear it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FFgxJsjqkg here].

The bizzaro song in question is called "Green Haze, Parts 1 and 2," from their 1988 album "Disgraceland." Is Maxine feeling nostalgia from this particular song, or for "Green Acres" and/or "Purple Haze"? Maxine doesn't strike me as a psychobilly person, but maybe. Also, "Green Haze" is the name of an early Miles Davis tune, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYHoT0ofEjQ YouTube], found on "The Musings of Miles." Who knew?

'''zaftig body''' 
Slightly fat in an attractive way.

==Page 178==
'''''Jules and Jim''''' 
a 1962 French film by François Truffaut, a classic film about a love triangle. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_and_Jim Wikipedia].

'''hours on the LIE''' 
Long Island Expressway

'''money shot''' 
In film-making usage the shot that cannot be repeated (or only at great costs); in porn movies naturally the "cum shot"

'''"sub-vaudville routine"''' 
So bad, it's not even up to vaudeville's corny standards

==Page 179==

'''Tanger Outlets''' 
An outlet mall an hour outside NYC.

'''"Where could this tape have come from?"''' 
Recalls the mysterious film reels in ''Gravity's Rainbow'' that are used to convey hidden messages to certain characters.

'''Mrs. Grundy''' 
A figurative name for a holier-than-thou, self-righteous person, a goody-two-shoes. Named after a minor character in Thomas Morton's play ''Speed the Plough'' (1798).

According to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs_Grundy Wiki,] she (Pynchonesquely?) never makes an appearance in the play, and is merely talked about.

==Page 180==
'''begins idly to channel-surf. A form of meditating.''' 
Interesting to note the shift from ''Vineland''s 80's Tube addicts to ''Bleeding Edge''s 00's new form of meditating. Could it have to do with the availability of channels?

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'''Homer strangling Bart . . .''' 
Refers to characters from the animated TV show ''The Simpsons'', in which the father (Homer) often gets angry and strangles his son Bart. Pynchon himself (well, his voice, at least) has appeared a couple of times on this television program.

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'''Buddhist Parable of the Burning Coal''' 
Some [http://www.fakebuddhaquotes.com/fake-buddha-quote-holding-on-to-anger-is-like-grasping-a-hot-coal/ musings] on this Buddhist story and similar ones on a "Fake Buddha Quotes" site. Follow the link to see how coal relates to sensuality and excrement. Where have you gone, Brigadier Pudding?

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''''85 Sassicaia''' 
Tenuta San Guido is an Italian wine producer in the DOC Bolgheri in Toscana, known as a producer of "Super Tuscan" wine. Its wine Sassicaia is considered one of Italy's leading Bordeaux-style red wines. Tenuta San Guido is member of the Primum Familiae Vini. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sassicaia WIKI].

==Page 173==

'''riyals''' 
Unit of currency in the Middle East.

==Page 174==
'''Eternal September''' 
A foreboding name. The Eternal September started September 1993, the month that internet service provider America Online (AOL) began offering Usenet access to its (very many) members . Before then, every year in September, a large number of new university freshmen acquired access to Usenet for the first time, and thongs took some time to calm down as they become accustomed to Usenet's standards of conduct. After Eternal September the calm never came as more and more people came on line.

==Page 177==
'''"Up to whom they must never miss a chance to suck"''' 
Perhaps Pynchon is riffing on Winston Churchill's alleged marginal note of 27 February 1944, to a priggish civil servant's memo objecting to the ending of a sentences with prepositions: "This is the kind of tedious nonsense up with which I will not put!"

'''Motor City psychobilly Elvis Hitler''' 
Yes. There really is a band called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Hitler Elvis Hitler]. And they're from Detroit (a.k.a., the "Motor City").

'''singing the ''Green Acres'' theme to the tune of "Purple Haze"''' 
And yes, Elvis Hitler really did a version of the ''Green Acres'' theme to the tune of Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze." You can hear it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FFgxJsjqkg here].

The bizzaro song in question is called "Green Haze, Parts 1 and 2," from their 1988 album "Disgraceland." Is Maxine feeling nostalgia from this particular song, or for "Green Acres" and/or "Purple Haze"? Maxine doesn't strike me as a psychobilly person, but maybe. Also, "Green Haze" is the name of an early Miles Davis tune, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYHoT0ofEjQ YouTube], found on "The Musings of Miles." Who knew?

'''zaftig body''' 
Slightly fat in an attractive way.

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'''''Jules and Jim''''' 
a 1962 French film by François Truffaut, a classic film about a love triangle. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_and_Jim Wikipedia].

'''hours on the LIE''' 
Long Island Expressway

'''money shot''' 
In film-making usage the shot that cannot be repeated (or only at great costs); in porn movies naturally the "cum shot"

'''"sub-vaudville routine"''' 
So bad, it's not even up to vaudeville's corny standards

==Page 179==
'''Mrs. Grundy''' 
A figurative name for a holier-than-thou, self-righteous person, a goody-two-shoes. Named after a minor character in Thomas Morton's play ''Speed the Plough'' (1798).

According to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs_Grundy Wiki,] she (Pynchonesquely?) never makes an appearance in the play, and is merely talked about.

==Page 180==
'''begins idly to channel-surf. A form of meditating.''' 
Interesting to note the shift from ''Vineland''s 80's Tube addicts to ''Bleeding Edge''s 00's new form of meditating. Could it have to do with the availability of channels?

==Page 181==
'''Homer strangling Bart . . .''' 
Refers to characters from the animated TV show ''The Simpsons'', in which the father (Homer) often gets angry and strangles his son Bart. Pynchon himself (well, his voice, at least) has appeared a couple of times on this television program.

==Page 182==
'''Buddhist Parable of the Burning Coal''' 
Some [http://www.fakebuddhaquotes.com/fake-buddha-quote-holding-on-to-anger-is-like-grasping-a-hot-coal/ musings] on this Buddhist story and similar ones on a "Fake Buddha Quotes" site. Follow the link to see how coal relates to sensuality and excrement. Where have you gone, Brigadier Pudding?

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==Page 20==
'''Pinot E-Grigio''' 
Pinot grigio is a kind of white wine. A very popular easy-drinking wine, often light, dry, and crisp. An egregious pun here?

'''Night Train''' 
Common abbreviation for Night Train Express, a cheap, sweet, high alcohol content, fortified wine made by E & J Gallo.

'''plotzing''' 
In Yiddish, to plotz literally means to crack, split, or burst. In slang it means "to
collapse or be beside oneself with frustration, annoyance, or other strong emotion."

==Page 21==
'''paraphrasing Jimi Hendrix''' 
"mayonnaise! All in your brain" cf. "Purple haze! all in my brain"

'''Maid-Rite''' 
Casual dining restaurant chain founded in 1926. Centered in the Midwest with headquarters in Iowa. Home of the "loose meat sandwich," which looks like a sloppy joe minus the tomato sauce.

==Page 22==

'''cheongsam''' 
Tight-fitting one-piece [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheongsam Chinese dress] for females. Very common in films and television.

''''59 Impala''' 
A 1965 Impala appears in ''Inherent Vice''.

'''three-month LIBOR''' 
a banking term. The average interest rate estimated by banks in London for borrowing from other banks.

==Page 23==
'''Ceres''' 
Roman goddess of agriculture, fitting name for the Board of Trade (i.e. commodities) bar.

==Page 24==
'''French roundoff'''
Computer fraud in which all interest income amounts less than half a cent are systematically credited to the perpetrator’s account. From [http://www.larry-adams.com/199309_article.htm].

'''Kashruth''' 
set of Jewish dietary laws.

'''Meyer Lansky''' 
Known as the "Mob's Accountant," was a major organized crime figure who, along with his associate Charles "Lucky" Luciano, was instrumental in the development of the "National Crime Syndicate" in the United States. For decades he was thought to be one of the most powerful individuals in the country. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meyer_Lansky WIKI].

'''"it's a truth universally acknowledged"''' 
First sentence of ''Pride and Prejudice'': "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."

==Page 25==
'''alexithymic lug''' 
describing Horst; alexithymia is a personality construct characterized by the sub-clinical inability to identify and describe emotions in the self. The core characteristics of alexithymia are marked dysfunction in emotional awareness, social attachment, and interpersonal relating.

==Page 26==
'''least enjoyable maybe the one between Hochdeutsch and Ashkenazi''' 
Hochdeutsch generally means the standard German language (as opposed to regional dialects). Ashkenazi Jews historically spoke Yiddish.

'''Galician, actually''' 
The Galicia referred to here is the eastern European area that today forms most of western Ukraine and was part of the Austrian Empire from the late eighteenth to early twentieth century. During that time, the Jewish population of Galicia swelled significantly. After the Great War, Galicia passed to Poland. The Polish government prohibited both Galician Jews and Ukrainians from working in the state enterprises, institutions, railway, post, telegraph etc. These measures were applied in their strictest form. Galician Jews and Ukrainians experienced ethnic oppression by undergoing a forceful Polonization. In September 1939, most of Galicia passed to Soviet Ukraine. The majority of Galician Jews perished during the Holocaust. Most survivors immigrated to Israel, the United States, the United Kingdom or Australia. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Galicia_%28Eastern_Europe%29 Wikipedia]

'''Helvetia''' 
Helvetia is the female national personification of Switzerland, officially Confœderatio Helvetica, the Swiss Confederation. The allegory is typically pictured in a flowing gown, with a spear and a shield emblazoned with the Swiss flag, and commonly with braided hair, commonly with a wreath as a symbol of confederation. The name is a derivation of the ethnonym Helvetii, the name of the Gaulish tribe inhabiting the Swiss Plateau prior to the Roman conquest. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvetia WIKI].

'''Certain lobes of Heidi's spirit may have been compromised''' 
You mean servers?

'''Mexican divorce''' 
In the 1960s, some New Yorkers traveled south to obtain a "Mexican divorce". A Mexican divorce was easier, quicker, and less expensive than a divorce in most U.S. states. Celebrities who obtained a Mexican divorce include Johnny Carson, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, and Don Hewitt. It is also mentioned in the Jack Kerouac book ''On The Road''. It was often referred to as a quickie (or quicky) divorce. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_divorce WIKI].

==Page 27==
'''echt Latina... boricua''' 
Echt = German (and Yiddish?) for "genuine, real". Boricua = Puerto Rican.

'''Gracy Kelly...''Rear Window''...Thelma Ritter...Wendell Corey.''' 
All references to Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 film "Rear Window." Oddly, the star of the film, James Stewart, doesn't get his name dropped. Thelma Ritter played Stewart's earthy, commonsensical nurse, a bit like the talkative Nurse from Romeo and Juliet. Wendell Corey played Stewart's skeptical policeman friend who helps save the day in the dramatic ending. You could say that Stewart, more than anyone else, is the one who 'saves' Grace Kelly from a murderer by calling the police at a crucial moment, and in general Kelly interacts more with Stewart than with Ritter or Corey, so I don't understand why Maxine is being identified more with them than with Stewart. Anyone have a better handle on this and can rewrite this entry?

'''The Deseret''' 
Boris Kachka, [http://www.vulture.com/2013/08/thomas-pynchon-bleeding-edge.html writing for New York Magazine], writes that this building is "obviously the Apthorp". Although the Apthorp building does not have turrents and gargoyles from pictures available, its courtyard ([http://nymag.com/realestate/vu/2007/10/38348/ photos here]) closely matches Pynchon's description of the Deseret. Kachka writes that Pynchon himself lived in an apartment facing this building for years.

The etymology of the term "deseret" [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deseret_(Book_of_Mormon) begins in the LDS scripture Book of Mormon, where the term is defined as honeybee], and used as an industrious symbol along with a beehive by Mormon leader Brigham Young.

==Page 28==
'''carrying street Chanel bags''' 
These could be Chanel bags designed for casual use. "Street" fashion is emerges not from studios, but from the grassroots, and is aimed at youth culture. OR Pynchon might be saying that those Chanel bags are knock-offs purchased on the street. It's ambiguous.
:It's the latter: a knockoff bag. Chanel bags start at a couple grand. From the context it's made clear that the characters can't afford them.

'''When Irish eyes are ''not'' smiling . . .''' 
"When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" is a song first published in 1912.

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'''Yenta''' 
A busybody/gossip

'''Benford's Law''' 
Heavy handed editing? Not like Pynchon to explicitly define jargon (hash total and Luhn checks slip past without comment on the very next page).

==Page 42==
'''False Lunchmeat''' 
Phony baloney

==Page 43==
'''Korobushka''' 
Traditional Russian song used as a musical track on Tetris. Pynchon also referenced Tetris in ''Against the Day'' [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_119-148#Page_123] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD1k_b4KsQ8 Hear it.]

'''the plaintive folk tune''' 
Referring to the song above. Any connection to the passage from page 1 of ''The Crying of Lot 49'' that mentions "a dry, disconsolate tune from the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0pUyqUqwuE fourth movement] of the Bartok Concerto for Orchestra"?
:I doubt it. Pynchon is pretty well-versed in classical music, and "plaintive folk tune" clearly refers, as noted, to the Korobushka.

==Page 45==
'''the li'l goombas of Web design''' 
a reference to ''Super Mario Bros.''

'''Zima's the bitch drink of the nineties''' 
This lemon-lime malt beverage was immensely popular in the years following its 1993 debut by Coors. It eventually gained a reputation as a girl's drink and was discontinued in 2008. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zima Wikipedia entry]

'''Fabian's Bit Bucket''' 
In computing, the '''bit bucket''' is jargon for where lost computerized data has gone, by any means; any data which does not end up where it is supposed to, being lost in transmission, a computer crash, or the like, is said to have gone to the bit bucket — that mysterious place on a computer where lost documents go, as in: "What happened to that important spreadsheet that I was just editing?" OR "Oh, it went into the bit bucket." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_bucket Wikipedia entry]

==Page 46==
'''Dr. Zizmor''' 
A physician whose subway ads were all over the NYC subway for 30 years.

==Page 47==
'''a single over on Rikers''' 
a year in prison

'''Time is what the Stones call on their side, yes it is.''' 
"Time Is on My Side" is a song written by Jerry Ragovoy (under the pseudonym of Norman Meade)and made famous by the Rolling Stones in 1964. The chorus: "Time is on my side, yes it is."

==Page 48==
'''quants''' 
Quantitative analysts

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'''E-rated video game''' 
E is for "everyone", i.e. a non-age-restricted rating.

'''James Bond at the baccarat table''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNWGbZlDPlQ See] ultra-cool Bond introduce himself at the baccarat table, a game he played often throughout the books and films.

==Page 147==
'''Lennie on ''Law & Order''''' 
Lennie Briscoe was a detective for 12 seasons on the TV show ''Law & Order''.

==Page 148==
'''Zabar's''' 
Zabar's is a specialty food store at 2245 Broadway and 80th Street, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, founded by Louis Zabar. It is one of the best known commercial landmarks of the neighborhood, and is known for its selection of bagels, smoked fish, olives, and cheeses. Zabar's is frequently referenced in popular culture. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zabar%27s WIKI].

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'''''noraebang''''' 
Karaoke establishment that has many different rooms for rent with karaoke equipment.

'''Regulation D''' 
Reserve Requirements for Depository Institutions (Regulation D) is a Federal Reserve Board regulation that limits the number of preauthorized withdrawals and transfers from a savings account or money market account. The regulation applies to all United States banking institutions offering such accounts. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_D_%28FRB%29 WIKI].

'''Filene's Basement''' 
A store where designer clothes are sold on discount.

==Page 150==
'''Mikimoto''' 
Japanese jewelry company, pretty much top of the line in pearls.

'''Tim Horton's''' 
A ubiquitous doughnut/coffee shop in Canada.

==Page 151==
'''we're trying to go legit . . . like Michael Corleone''' 
The main character in the ''Godfather'' films. After he becomes the head of his family, he tries to make his family's business legitimate.

'''''Amy & Joey'', an Off-Broadway musical''' 
This fictional musical is about Joey Buttafuoco (from Massapequa, NY). In 1992, he had an affair with Amy Fisher, who then shot Buttafuoco's wife Mary Jo. Mary Jo survived.
:Funny, we're 150 pages into a Pynchon novel and this is the first song. Must be some kinda record.

==Page 153==
'''like Gloria Grahame in ''Oklahoma!''''' 
Gloria Grahame starred in the 1955 musical film ''Oklahoma!''

==Page 154==

'''Soju Wallbangers''' 
Soju is Korean rice liquor. A "Harvey Wallbanger" is a cocktail made with vodka, Galliano, and orange juice.

'''Darkeden''' 
DarkEden is a free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing computer game that's big in Korea. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkeden WIKI].

'''Cohiba''' 
Brando of Cuban cigars.

'''"Volare" . . . Domenico Modugno on ''Ed Sullivan'' back in '58''' 
This happened. Watch it [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4IjJav7xbg here].

:Pynchon's commentary on Volare lightly recalls a central theme of ''Gravity's Rainbow''-- flying in the sky, above it all, defying gravity...

'''Young man dreams he's flying . . .''' 
This paragraph is a faithful summary of the lyrics of "Volare" (which means "to fly"). Knowing that 9/11 is right around the corner, I found this unsettling.

'''I don't think it's 'I left my brains down in Africa'''' 
Spud is singing "Africa" by Toto. The actual lyrics are "I bless the rains down in Africa."

==Page 155==
'''Gematria''' 
Gematria is a traditional Jewish system of assigning numerical value to a word or phrase. From [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gematria Wikipedia]: "The best-known example of Gematria is the Hebrew word Chai ("life"), which is composed of two letters which (using the assignments in the Mispar gadol table) add up to 18. This has made 18 a "lucky number" among Jews, and gifts in multiples of 18 are very common."

'''tables versus CSS''' 
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used for describing the presentation semantics (the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language. CSS is designed primarily to enable the separation of document content (written in HTML or a similar markup language) from document presentation, including elements such as the layout, colors, and fonts. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS WIKI].

==Page 156==
'''some telltale fidgeting of the Florsheims''' 
Florsheim is a brand of shoes.
:Brings to mind the comment of Lucas or Justin in regard to getting out of DeepArcher, i.e. just gotta click your heels three times. Also, all of the special focus on shoes so far... And the comment at one point of Maxine, I believe, that in NYC shoes told everything, or something to that effect.

'''Daikatana''' 
''John Romero's Daikatana'', or simply ''Daikatana'', is a first-person shooter video game developed by Ion Storm and published by Eidos Interactive. The game is known as one of the major commercial failures of the video game industry. ''Daikatana'' was delayed multiple times from its conception in early 1997 to its eventual release in 2000. By this time, numerous games based on more advanced graphical technology (such as id Software's ''Quake III'' and Epic MegaGames' ''Unreal Tournament'') had already been released, causing ''Daikatana'' to lag technologically in the market with its dated ''Quake II'' game engine. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daikatana WIKI].

==Page 158==
'''"Are You with Me, Dr. Wu"''' 
Actually, the song is simply called "Doctor Wu," from Steely Dan's 1975 album [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katy_Lied Katy Lied.] Does [http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=6519 Doctor Wu] metaphorically stand for a drug habit?
The harmony lyrics in question are: 
Are you with me Doctor Wu? 
Are you really just a shadow 
Of the man that I once knew? 
Are you crazy; are you high? 
Or just an ordinary guy? 
Have you done all you can do? 
Are you with me, Doctor? 

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'''E-rated video game''' 
E is for "everyone", i.e. a non-age-restricted rating.

'''James Bond at the baccarat table''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNWGbZlDPlQ See] ultra-cool Bond introduce himself at the baccarat table, a game he played often throughout the books and films.

==Page 147==
'''Lennie on ''Law & Order''''' 
Lennie Briscoe was a detective for 12 seasons on the TV show ''Law & Order''.

==Page 148==
'''Zabar's''' 
Zabar's is a specialty food store at 2245 Broadway and 80th Street, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, founded by Louis Zabar. It is one of the best known commercial landmarks of the neighborhood, and is known for its selection of bagels, smoked fish, olives, and cheeses. Zabar's is frequently referenced in popular culture. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zabar%27s WIKI].

==Page 149==
'''''noraebang''''' 
Karaoke establishment that has many different rooms for rent with karaoke equipment.

'''Regulation D''' 
Reserve Requirements for Depository Institutions (Regulation D) is a Federal Reserve Board regulation that limits the number of preauthorized withdrawals and transfers from a savings account or money market account. The regulation applies to all United States banking institutions offering such accounts. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_D_%28FRB%29 WIKI].

'''Filene's Basement''' 
A store where designer clothes are sold on discount.

==Page 150==
'''Mikimoto''' 
Japanese jewelry company, pretty much top of the line in pearls.

'''Tim Horton's''' 
A ubiquitous doughnut/coffee shop in Canada.

==Page 151==
'''we're trying to go legit . . . like Michael Corleone''' 
The main character in the ''Godfather'' films. After he becomes the head of his family, he tries to make his family's business legitimate.

'''''Amy & Joey'', an Off-Broadway musical''' 
This fictional musical is about Joey Buttafuoco (from Massapequa, NY). In 1992, he had an affair with Amy Fisher, who then shot Buttafuoco's wife Mary Jo. Mary Jo survived.
:Funny, we're 150 pages into a Pynchon novel and this is the first song. Must be some kinda record.

==Page 153==
'''like Gloria Grahame in ''Oklahoma!''''' 
Gloria Grahame starred in the 1955 musical film ''Oklahoma!''

==Page 154==

'''Soju Wallbangers''' 
Soju is Korean rice liquor. A "Harvey Wallbanger" is a cocktail made with vodka, Galliano, and orange juice.

'''Darkeden''' 
DarkEden is a free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing computer game that's big in Korea. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkeden WIKI].

'''Cohiba''' 
Brando of Cuban cigars.

'''"Volare" . . . Domenico Modugno on ''Ed Sullivan'' back in '58''' 
This happened. Watch it [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4IjJav7xbg here].

:Pynchon's commentary on Volare lightly recalls a central theme of ''Gravity's Rainbow''-- flying in the sky, above it all, defying gravity...

'''Young man dreams he's flying . . .''' 
This paragraph is a faithful summary of the lyrics of "Volare" (which means "to fly"). Knowing that 9/11 is right around the corner, I found this unsettling.

'''I don't think it's 'I left my brains down in Africa'''' 
Spud is singing "Africa" by Toto. The actual lyrics are "I bless the rains down in Africa."

==Page 155==
'''Gematria''' 
Gematria is a traditional Jewish system of assigning numerical value to a word or phrase. From [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gematria Wikipedia]: "The best-known example of Gematria is the Hebrew word Chai ("life"), which is composed of two letters which (using the assignments in the Mispar gadol table) add up to 18. This has made 18 a "lucky number" among Jews, and gifts in multiples of 18 are very common."

'''tables versus CSS''' 
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used for describing the presentation semantics (the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language. CSS is designed primarily to enable the separation of document content (written in HTML or a similar markup language) from document presentation, including elements such as the layout, colors, and fonts. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS WIKI].

==Page 156==
'''some telltale fidgeting of the Florsheims''' 
Brings to mind the comment of Lucas or Justin in regard to getting out of DeepArcher, i.e. just gotta click your heels three times. Also, all of the special focus on shoes so far... And the comment at one point of Maxine, I believe, that in NYC shoes told everything, or something to that effect.

'''Daikatana''' 
''John Romero's Daikatana'', or simply ''Daikatana'', is a first-person shooter video game developed by Ion Storm and published by Eidos Interactive. The game is known as one of the major commercial failures of the video game industry. ''Daikatana'' was delayed multiple times from its conception in early 1997 to its eventual release in 2000. By this time, numerous games based on more advanced graphical technology (such as id Software's ''Quake III'' and Epic MegaGames' ''Unreal Tournament'') had already been released, causing ''Daikatana'' to lag technologically in the market with its dated ''Quake II'' game engine. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daikatana WIKI].

==Page 158==
'''"Are You with Me, Dr. Wu"''' 
Actually, the song is simply called "Doctor Wu," from Steely Dan's 1975 album [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katy_Lied Katy Lied.] Does [http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=6519 Doctor Wu] metaphorically stand for a drug habit?
The harmony lyrics in question are: 
Are you with me Doctor Wu? 
Are you really just a shadow 
Of the man that I once knew? 
Are you crazy; are you high? 
Or just an ordinary guy? 
Have you done all you can do? 
Are you with me, Doctor? 

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'''E-rated video game''' 
E is for "everyone", i.e. a non-age-restricted rating.

'''James Bond at the baccarat table''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNWGbZlDPlQ See] ultra-cool Bond introduce himself at the baccarat table, a game he played often throughout the books and films.

==Page 147==
'''Lennie on ''Law & Order''''' 
Lennie Briscoe was a detective for 12 seasons on the TV show ''Law & Order''.

==Page 148==
'''Zabar's''' 
Zabar's is a specialty food store at 2245 Broadway and 80th Street, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, founded by Louis Zabar. It is one of the best known commercial landmarks of the neighborhood, and is known for its selection of bagels, smoked fish, olives, and cheeses. Zabar's is frequently referenced in popular culture. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zabar%27s WIKI].

==Page 149==
'''''noraebang''''' 
Karaoke establishment that has many different rooms for rent with karaoke equipment.

'''Regulation D''' 
Reserve Requirements for Depository Institutions (Regulation D) is a Federal Reserve Board regulation that limits the number of preauthorized withdrawals and transfers from a savings account or money market account. The regulation applies to all United States banking institutions offering such accounts. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_D_%28FRB%29 WIKI].

'''Filene's Basement''' 
A store where designer clothes are sold on discount.

==Page 150==
'''Mikimoto''' 
Japanese jewelry company, pretty much top of the line in pearls.

'''Tim Horton's''' 
A ubiquitous doughnut/coffee shop in Canada.

==Page 151==
'''we're trying to go legit . . . like Michael Corleone''' 
The main character in the ''Godfather'' films. After he becomes the head of his family, he tries to make his family's business legitimate.

'''''Amy & Joey'', an Off-Broadway musical''' 
This fictional musical is about Joey Buttafuoco (from Massapequa, NY). In 1992, he had an affair with Amy Fisher, who then shot Buttafuoco's wife Mary Jo. Mary Jo survived.
:Funny, we're 150 pages into a Pynchon novel and this is the first song. Must be some kinda record.

==Page 153==
'''like Gloria Grahame in ''Oklahoma!''''' 
Gloria Grahame starred in the 1955 musical film ''Oklahoma!''

==Page 154==

'''Soju Wallbangers''' 
Soju is Korean rice liquor. A "Harvey Wallbanger" is a cocktail made with vodka, Galliano, and orange juice.

'''Darkeden''' 
DarkEden is a free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing computer game that's big in Korea. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkeden WIKI].

'''Cohiba''' 
Brando of Cuban cigars.

'''"Volare" . . . Domenico Modugno on ''Ed Sullivan'' back in '58''' 
This happened. Watch it [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4IjJav7xbg here].

:Pynchon's commentary on Volare lightly recalls a central theme of ''Gravity's Rainbow''-- flying in the sky, above it all, defying gravity...

'''Young man dreams he's flying . . .''' 
This paragraph is a faithful summary of the lyrics of "Volare" (which means "to fly"). Knowing that 9/11 is right around the corner, I found this unsettling.

'''I don't think it's 'I left my brains down in Africa'''' 
Spud is singing "Africa" by Toto. The actual lyrics are "I bless the rains down in Africa."

==Page 155==
'''tables versus CSS''' 
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used for describing the presentation semantics (the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language. CSS is designed primarily to enable the separation of document content (written in HTML or a similar markup language) from document presentation, including elements such as the layout, colors, and fonts. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS WIKI].

==Page 156==
'''some telltale fidgeting of the Florsheims''' 
Brings to mind the comment of Lucas or Justin in regard to getting out of DeepArcher, i.e. just gotta click your heels three times. Also, all of the special focus on shoes so far... And the comment at one point of Maxine, I believe, that in NYC shoes told everything, or something to that effect.

'''Daikatana''' 
''John Romero's Daikatana'', or simply ''Daikatana'', is a first-person shooter video game developed by Ion Storm and published by Eidos Interactive. The game is known as one of the major commercial failures of the video game industry. ''Daikatana'' was delayed multiple times from its conception in early 1997 to its eventual release in 2000. By this time, numerous games based on more advanced graphical technology (such as id Software's ''Quake III'' and Epic MegaGames' ''Unreal Tournament'') had already been released, causing ''Daikatana'' to lag technologically in the market with its dated ''Quake II'' game engine. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daikatana WIKI].

==Page 158==
'''"Are You with Me, Dr. Wu"''' 
Actually, the song is simply called "Doctor Wu," from Steely Dan's 1975 album [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katy_Lied Katy Lied.] Does [http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=6519 Doctor Wu] metaphorically stand for a drug habit?
The harmony lyrics in question are: 
Are you with me Doctor Wu? 
Are you really just a shadow 
Of the man that I once knew? 
Are you crazy; are you high? 
Or just an ordinary guy? 
Have you done all you can do? 
Are you with me, Doctor? 

{{Bleeding Edge PbP}}

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2013-10-07T10:40:34Z

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==Page 146==

'''E-rated video game''' 
E is for "everyone", i.e. a non-age-restricted rating.

'''James Bond at the baccarat table''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNWGbZlDPlQ See] ultra-cool Bond introduce himself at the baccarat table, a game he played often throughout the books and films.

==Page 147==
'''Lennie on ''Law & Order''''' 
Lennie Briscoe was a detective for 12 seasons on the TV show ''Law & Order''.

==Page 148==
'''Zabar's''' 
Zabar's is a specialty food store at 2245 Broadway and 80th Street, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, founded by Louis Zabar. It is one of the best known commercial landmarks of the neighborhood, and is known for its selection of bagels, smoked fish, olives, and cheeses. Zabar's is frequently referenced in popular culture. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zabar%27s WIKI].

==Page 149==
'''''noraebang''''' 
Karaoke establishment that has many different rooms for rent with karaoke equipment.

'''Regulation D''' 
Reserve Requirements for Depository Institutions (Regulation D) is a Federal Reserve Board regulation that limits the number of preauthorized withdrawals and transfers from a savings account or money market account. The regulation applies to all United States banking institutions offering such accounts. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_D_%28FRB%29 WIKI].

'''Filene's Basement''' 
A store where designer clothes are sold on discount.

==Page 150==
'''Mikimoto''' 
Japanese jewelry company, pretty much top of the line in pearls.

'''Tim Horton's''' 
A ubiquitous doughnut/coffee shop in Canada.

==Page 151==
'''we're trying to go legit . . . like Michael Corleone''' 
The main character in the ''Godfather'' films. After he becomes the head of his family, he tries to make his family's business legitimate.

'''''Amy & Joey'', an Off-Broadway musical''' 
This fictional musical is about Joey Buttafuoco (from Massapequa, NY). In 1992, he had an affair with Amy Fisher, who then shot Buttafuoco's wife Mary Jo. Mary Jo survived.
:Funny, we're 150 pages into a Pynchon novel and this is the first song. Must be some kinda record.

==Page 153==
'''like Gloria Grahame in ''Oklahoma!''''' 
Gloria Grahame starred in the 1955 musical film ''Oklahoma!''

==Page 154==
'''Darkeden''' 
DarkEden is a free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing computer game in isometric projection or 3/4 perspective developed and published by SOFTON. The game has a horror theme based on a war between humans (Slayers), vampires and Ousters in a region called Helea located in a fictional country of Eastern Europe known as Eslania. The original version of the game, and the most advanced one, is the Korean one from which several other versions have been derived from such as the Japanese, Chinese, Thai and International versions. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkeden WIKI].

'''"Volare" . . . Domenico Modugno on ''Ed Sullivan'' back in '58''' 
This happened. Watch it [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4IjJav7xbg here].

'''Young man dreams he's flying . . .''' 
This paragraph is a faithful summary of the lyrics of "Volare" (which means "to fly"). Knowing that 9/11 is right around the corner, I found this unsettling.

'''I don't think it's 'I left my brains down in Africa'''' 
Spud is singing "Africa" by Toto. The actual lyrics are "I bless the rains down in Africa."

==Page 155==
'''tables versus CSS''' 
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used for describing the presentation semantics (the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language. CSS is designed primarily to enable the separation of document content (written in HTML or a similar markup language) from document presentation, including elements such as the layout, colors, and fonts. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS WIKI].

==Page 156==
'''some telltale fidgeting of the Florsheims''' 
Brings to mind the comment of Lucas or Justin in regard to getting out of DeepArcher, i.e. just gotta click your heels three times. Also, all of the special focus on shoes so far... And the comment at one point of Maxine, I believe, that in NYC shoes told everything, or something to that effect.

'''Daikatana''' 
''John Romero's Daikatana'', or simply ''Daikatana'', is a first-person shooter video game developed by Ion Storm and published by Eidos Interactive. The game is known as one of the major commercial failures of the video game industry. ''Daikatana'' was delayed multiple times from its conception in early 1997 to its eventual release in 2000. By this time, numerous games based on more advanced graphical technology (such as id Software's ''Quake III'' and Epic MegaGames' ''Unreal Tournament'') had already been released, causing ''Daikatana'' to lag technologically in the market with its dated ''Quake II'' game engine. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daikatana WIKI].

==Page 158==
'''"Are You with Me, Dr. Wu"''' 
Actually, the song is simply called "Doctor Wu," from Steely Dan's 1975 album [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katy_Lied Katy Lied.] Does [http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=6519 Doctor Wu] metaphorically stand for a drug habit?
The harmony lyrics in question are: 
Are you with me Doctor Wu? 
Are you really just a shadow 
Of the man that I once knew? 
Are you crazy; are you high? 
Or just an ordinary guy? 
Have you done all you can do? 
Are you with me, Doctor? 

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2013-10-07T10:23:27Z

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{{BE PxP Header}}
==Page 146==

'''E-rated video game''' 
E is for "everyone", i.e. a non-age-restricted rating.

'''James Bond at the baccarat table''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNWGbZlDPlQ See] ultra-cool Bond introduce himself at the baccarat table, a game he played often throughout the books and films.

==Page 147==
'''Lennie on ''Law & Order''''' 
Lennie Briscoe was a detective for 12 seasons on the TV show ''Law & Order''.

==Page 148==
'''Zabar's''' 
Zabar's is a specialty food store at 2245 Broadway and 80th Street, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, founded by Louis Zabar. It is one of the best known commercial landmarks of the neighborhood, and is known for its selection of bagels, smoked fish, olives, and cheeses. Zabar's is frequently referenced in popular culture. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zabar%27s WIKI].

==Page 149==
'''''noraebang''''' 
Karaoke establishment that has many different rooms for rent with karaoke equipment.

'''Regulation D''' 
Reserve Requirements for Depository Institutions (Regulation D) is a Federal Reserve Board regulation that limits the number of preauthorized withdrawals and transfers from a savings account or money market account. The regulation applies to all United States banking institutions offering such accounts. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_D_%28FRB%29 WIKI].

'''Filene's Basement''' 
A store where designer clothes are sold on discount.

==Page 150==
'''Mikimoto''' 
Japanese jewelry company, pretty much top of the line in pearls.

'''Tim Horton's''' 
A ubiquitous doughnut/coffee shop in Canada.

==Page 151==
'''we're trying to go legit . . . like Michael Corleone''' 
The main character in the ''Godfather'' films. After he becomes the head of his family, he tries to make his family's business legitimate.

'''''Amy & Joey'', an Off-Broadway musical''' 
This fictional musical is about Joey Buttafuoco (from Massapequa, NY). In 1992, he had an affair with Amy Fisher, who then shot Buttafuoco's wife Mary Jo. Mary Jo survived.

==Page 153==
'''like Gloria Grahame in ''Oklahoma!''''' 
Gloria Grahame starred in the 1955 musical film ''Oklahoma!''

==Page 154==
'''Darkeden''' 
DarkEden is a free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing computer game in isometric projection or 3/4 perspective developed and published by SOFTON. The game has a horror theme based on a war between humans (Slayers), vampires and Ousters in a region called Helea located in a fictional country of Eastern Europe known as Eslania. The original version of the game, and the most advanced one, is the Korean one from which several other versions have been derived from such as the Japanese, Chinese, Thai and International versions. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkeden WIKI].

'''"Volare" . . . Domenico Modugno on ''Ed Sullivan'' back in '58''' 
This happened. Watch it [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4IjJav7xbg here].

'''Young man dreams he's flying . . .''' 
This paragraph is a faithful summary of the lyrics of "Volare" (which means "to fly"). Knowing that 9/11 is right around the corner, I found this unsettling.

'''I don't think it's 'I left my brains down in Africa'''' 
Spud is singing "Africa" by Toto. The actual lyrics are "I bless the rains down in Africa."

==Page 155==
'''tables versus CSS''' 
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used for describing the presentation semantics (the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language. CSS is designed primarily to enable the separation of document content (written in HTML or a similar markup language) from document presentation, including elements such as the layout, colors, and fonts. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS WIKI].

==Page 156==
'''some telltale fidgeting of the Florsheims''' 
Brings to mind the comment of Lucas or Justin in regard to getting out of DeepArcher, i.e. just gotta click your heels three times. Also, all of the special focus on shoes so far... And the comment at one point of Maxine, I believe, that in NYC shoes told everything, or something to that effect.

'''Daikatana''' 
''John Romero's Daikatana'', or simply ''Daikatana'', is a first-person shooter video game developed by Ion Storm and published by Eidos Interactive. The game is known as one of the major commercial failures of the video game industry. ''Daikatana'' was delayed multiple times from its conception in early 1997 to its eventual release in 2000. By this time, numerous games based on more advanced graphical technology (such as id Software's ''Quake III'' and Epic MegaGames' ''Unreal Tournament'') had already been released, causing ''Daikatana'' to lag technologically in the market with its dated ''Quake II'' game engine. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daikatana WIKI].

==Page 158==
'''"Are You with Me, Dr. Wu"''' 
Actually, the song is simply called "Doctor Wu," from Steely Dan's 1975 album [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katy_Lied Katy Lied.] Does [http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=6519 Doctor Wu] metaphorically stand for a drug habit?
The harmony lyrics in question are: 
Are you with me Doctor Wu? 
Are you really just a shadow 
Of the man that I once knew? 
Are you crazy; are you high? 
Or just an ordinary guy? 
Have you done all you can do? 
Are you with me, Doctor? 

{{Bleeding Edge PbP}}

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2013-10-07T10:18:35Z

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{{BE PxP Header}}
==Page 146==

'''E-rated video game''' 
E is for "everyone", i.e. a non-age-restricted rating.

'''James Bond at the baccarat table''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNWGbZlDPlQ See] ultra-cool Bond introduce himself at the baccarat table, a game he played often throughout the books and films.

==Page 147==
'''Lennie on ''Law & Order''''' 
Lennie Briscoe was a detective for 12 seasons on the TV show ''Law & Order''.

==Page 148==
'''Zabar's''' 
Zabar's is a specialty food store at 2245 Broadway and 80th Street, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, founded by Louis Zabar. It is one of the best known commercial landmarks of the neighborhood, and is known for its selection of bagels, smoked fish, olives, and cheeses. Zabar's is frequently referenced in popular culture. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zabar%27s WIKI].

==Page 149==
'''''noraebang''''' 
Karaoke establishment that has many different rooms for rent with karaoke equipment.

'''Regulation D''' 
Reserve Requirements for Depository Institutions (Regulation D) is a Federal Reserve Board regulation that limits the number of preauthorized withdrawals and transfers from a savings account or money market account. The regulation applies to all United States banking institutions offering such accounts. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_D_%28FRB%29 WIKI].

'''Filene's Basement''' 
A store where designer clothes are sold on discount.

==Page 150==
'''Tim Horton's''' 
A ubiquitous doughnut/coffee shop in Canada.

==Page 151==
'''we're trying to go legit . . . like Michael Corleone''' 
The main character in the ''Godfather'' films. After he becomes the head of his family, he tries to make his family's business legitimate.

'''''Amy & Joey'', an Off-Broadway musical''' 
This fictional musical is about Joey Buttafuoco (from Massapequa, NY). In 1992, he had an affair with Amy Fisher, who then shot Buttafuoco's wife Mary Jo. Mary Jo survived.

==Page 153==
'''like Gloria Grahame in ''Oklahoma!''''' 
Gloria Grahame starred in the 1955 musical film ''Oklahoma!''

==Page 154==
'''Darkeden''' 
DarkEden is a free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing computer game in isometric projection or 3/4 perspective developed and published by SOFTON. The game has a horror theme based on a war between humans (Slayers), vampires and Ousters in a region called Helea located in a fictional country of Eastern Europe known as Eslania. The original version of the game, and the most advanced one, is the Korean one from which several other versions have been derived from such as the Japanese, Chinese, Thai and International versions. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkeden WIKI].

'''"Volare" . . . Domenico Modugno on ''Ed Sullivan'' back in '58''' 
This happened. Watch it [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4IjJav7xbg here].

'''Young man dreams he's flying . . .''' 
This paragraph is a faithful summary of the lyrics of "Volare" (which means "to fly"). Knowing that 9/11 is right around the corner, I found this unsettling.

'''I don't think it's 'I left my brains down in Africa'''' 
Spud is singing "Africa" by Toto. The actual lyrics are "I bless the rains down in Africa."

==Page 155==
'''tables versus CSS''' 
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used for describing the presentation semantics (the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language. CSS is designed primarily to enable the separation of document content (written in HTML or a similar markup language) from document presentation, including elements such as the layout, colors, and fonts. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS WIKI].

==Page 156==
'''some telltale fidgeting of the Florsheims''' 
Brings to mind the comment of Lucas or Justin in regard to getting out of DeepArcher, i.e. just gotta click your heels three times. Also, all of the special focus on shoes so far... And the comment at one point of Maxine, I believe, that in NYC shoes told everything, or something to that effect.

'''Daikatana''' 
''John Romero's Daikatana'', or simply ''Daikatana'', is a first-person shooter video game developed by Ion Storm and published by Eidos Interactive. The game is known as one of the major commercial failures of the video game industry. ''Daikatana'' was delayed multiple times from its conception in early 1997 to its eventual release in 2000. By this time, numerous games based on more advanced graphical technology (such as id Software's ''Quake III'' and Epic MegaGames' ''Unreal Tournament'') had already been released, causing ''Daikatana'' to lag technologically in the market with its dated ''Quake II'' game engine. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daikatana WIKI].

==Page 158==
'''"Are You with Me, Dr. Wu"''' 
Actually, the song is simply called "Doctor Wu," from Steely Dan's 1975 album [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katy_Lied Katy Lied.] Does [http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=6519 Doctor Wu] metaphorically stand for a drug habit?
The harmony lyrics in question are: 
Are you with me Doctor Wu? 
Are you really just a shadow 
Of the man that I once knew? 
Are you crazy; are you high? 
Or just an ordinary guy? 
Have you done all you can do? 
Are you with me, Doctor? 

{{Bleeding Edge PbP}}

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{{BE PxP Header}}
==Page 146==

'''E-rated video game''' 
E is for "everyone", i.e. a non-age-restricted rating.

'''James Bond at the baccarat table''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNWGbZlDPlQ See] ultra-cool Bond introduce himself at the baccarat table, a game he played often throughout the books and films.

==Page 147==
'''Lennie on ''Law & Order''''' 
Lennie Briscoe was a detective for 12 seasons on the TV show ''Law & Order''.

==Page 148==
'''Zabar's''' 
Zabar's is a specialty food store at 2245 Broadway and 80th Street, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, founded by Louis Zabar. It is one of the best known commercial landmarks of the neighborhood, and is known for its selection of bagels, smoked fish, olives, and cheeses. Zabar's is frequently referenced in popular culture. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zabar%27s WIKI].

==Page 149==
'''''noraebang''''' 
Karaoke establishment that has many different rooms for rent with karaoke equipment.

'''Regulation D''' 
Reserve Requirements for Depository Institutions (Regulation D) is a Federal Reserve Board regulation that limits the number of preauthorized withdrawals and transfers from a savings account or money market account. The regulation applies to all United States banking institutions offering such accounts. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_D_%28FRB%29 WIKI].

==Page 150==
'''Tim Horton's''' 
A ubiquitous doughnut/coffee shop in Canada.

==Page 151==
'''we're trying to go legit . . . like Michael Corleone''' 
The main character in the ''Godfather'' films. After he becomes the head of his family, he tries to make his family's business legitimate.

'''''Amy & Joey'', an Off-Broadway musical''' 
This fictional musical is about Joey Buttafuoco (from Massapequa, NY). In 1992, he had an affair with Amy Fisher, who then shot Buttafuoco's wife Mary Jo. Mary Jo survived.

==Page 153==
'''like Gloria Grahame in ''Oklahoma!''''' 
Gloria Grahame starred in the 1955 musical film ''Oklahoma!''

==Page 154==
'''Darkeden''' 
DarkEden is a free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing computer game in isometric projection or 3/4 perspective developed and published by SOFTON. The game has a horror theme based on a war between humans (Slayers), vampires and Ousters in a region called Helea located in a fictional country of Eastern Europe known as Eslania. The original version of the game, and the most advanced one, is the Korean one from which several other versions have been derived from such as the Japanese, Chinese, Thai and International versions. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkeden WIKI].

'''"Volare" . . . Domenico Modugno on ''Ed Sullivan'' back in '58''' 
This happened. Watch it [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4IjJav7xbg here].

'''Young man dreams he's flying . . .''' 
This paragraph is a faithful summary of the lyrics of "Volare" (which means "to fly"). Knowing that 9/11 is right around the corner, I found this unsettling.

'''I don't think it's 'I left my brains down in Africa'''' 
Spud is singing "Africa" by Toto. The actual lyrics are "I bless the rains down in Africa."

==Page 155==
'''tables versus CSS''' 
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used for describing the presentation semantics (the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language. CSS is designed primarily to enable the separation of document content (written in HTML or a similar markup language) from document presentation, including elements such as the layout, colors, and fonts. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS WIKI].

==Page 156==
'''some telltale fidgeting of the Florsheims''' 
Brings to mind the comment of Lucas or Justin in regard to getting out of DeepArcher, i.e. just gotta click your heels three times. Also, all of the special focus on shoes so far... And the comment at one point of Maxine, I believe, that in NYC shoes told everything, or something to that effect.

'''Daikatana''' 
''John Romero's Daikatana'', or simply ''Daikatana'', is a first-person shooter video game developed by Ion Storm and published by Eidos Interactive. The game is known as one of the major commercial failures of the video game industry. ''Daikatana'' was delayed multiple times from its conception in early 1997 to its eventual release in 2000. By this time, numerous games based on more advanced graphical technology (such as id Software's ''Quake III'' and Epic MegaGames' ''Unreal Tournament'') had already been released, causing ''Daikatana'' to lag technologically in the market with its dated ''Quake II'' game engine. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daikatana WIKI].

==Page 158==
'''"Are You with Me, Dr. Wu"''' 
Actually, the song is simply called "Doctor Wu," from Steely Dan's 1975 album [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katy_Lied Katy Lied.] Does [http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=6519 Doctor Wu] metaphorically stand for a drug habit?
The harmony lyrics in question are: 
Are you with me Doctor Wu? 
Are you really just a shadow 
Of the man that I once knew? 
Are you crazy; are you high? 
Or just an ordinary guy? 
Have you done all you can do? 
Are you with me, Doctor? 

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'''She stays till the flight is called''' 
This is significant because after 9/11 (only a couple months away now), only ticketed passengers can go through security in an airport and wait by the gate.

==Page 135==
'''machinima''' 
Fan-made videos that use video from video games as footage for the story.

'''My best to Siegfried and Roy.''' 
A popular Vegas magic act until 2003 when Roy was bitten by a tiger.

==Page 137==
'''Bringing them to a standoff, ethnicity of your choice.''' 
Plays on the idea of a Mexican standoff--a situation in which three armed people are all pointing guns at each other. Read more [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_standoff here].

==Page 138==
'''Igor Dashkov''' 
This fictional character appears to possibly be based on the real-life Yegor Lavroff. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egor_Lavrov here].

==Page 139==
'''''padonki''''' 
Riffraff

'''Marie of Roumania''' 
Marie of Romania (Marie Alexandra Victoria, previously Princess Marie of Edinburgh; 29 October 1875 – 18 July 1938) was Queen consort of Romania from 1914 to 1927, as the wife of Ferdinand I of Romania. She was called Missy by her family.
<blockquote>
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, 
A medley of extemporanea; 
And love is a thing that can never go wrong; 
And I am Marie of Romania.</blockquote>

Dorothy Parker, ''Not So Deep as a Well'' (1937), "Comment"

'''Deimos and Phobos''' 
Mars has two known moons, Phobos and Deimos.

'''mi gratto la pancia''' 
Italian for "I scratch his belly."

'''khuem grushi okolachivat''' 
Russian, literally means "knocking pears out of a pear tree with your dick." But it's used in Russian to refer to someone who's being lazy or messing around unproductively or (see Italian phrase above) scratching his belly.

'''Spetsnaz''' 
Russian Special Forces. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spetsnaz WIKI].

'''HALO jump''' 
High Altitude - Low Opening

==Page 140==
'''Bernie Madoff''' 
Operated the largest Ponzi scheme in U.S. history. Arrested in 2008. Read more [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Madoff here].

==Page 141==
'''Detsl''' 
Kirill Aleksandrovich Tolmatskiy (born July 22, 1983), better known by his stage name Detsl, is a Russian hip hop artist. He graduated in Switzerland and the British International School in Moscow. In 1999, Detsl made his debut in the Russian rap scene with the album Who Are You?. In 2001, he released his second album, "Street Fighter". Detsl is a pseudonym Kirill Tolmatskiy gained because of his small height. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detsl WIKI].

Here's the vid for "Party at Detsl's" which is mentioned by Misha and Grisha:
{{#ev:youtube|lzcD46kfgk4}}

'''Yaponchik's circle''' 
Vyacheslav Kirillovich Ivankov (January 2, 1940 - October 9, 2009) was a notorious member of the Russian Mafia who was believed to have connections with Russian state intelligence organizations and their organized crime partners. He has operated in both the Soviet Union and the United States. His nickname, "Yaponchik," translates from Russian as "Little Japanese," due to his faintly Asian facial features. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyacheslav_Ivankov WIKI].

==Page 142==
'''Oxide Pang''' 
The Pang Brothers are Danny Pang Phat and Oxide Pang Chun, twin-brother screenwriters and film directors, born in 1965 in Hong Kong. Among their films is the hit Asian horror film, ''The Eye'', which has spawned two sequels, as well as a Hollywood remake and a Hindi remake. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxide_Pang WIKI].

==Page 143==
'''Think of me as the prophet of that''' 
Reg predicts Youtube.

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==Page 134==
'''She stays till the flight is called''' 
This is significant because after 9/11 (only a couple months away now), only ticketed passengers can go through security in an airport and wait by the gate.

==Page 135==
'''machinima''' 
Fan-made videos that use video from video games as footage for the story.

'''My best to Siegfried and Roy.''' 
A popular Vegas magic act until 2003 when Roy was bitten by a tiger.

==Page 137==
'''Bringing them to a standoff, ethnicity of your choice.''' 
Plays on the idea of a Mexican standoff--a situation in which three armed people are all pointing guns at each other. Read more [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_standoff here].

==Page 138==
'''Igor Dashkov''' 
This fictional character appears to possibly be based on the real-life Yegor Lavroff. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egor_Lavrov here].

==Page 139==
'''''padonki''''' 
Riffraff

'''Marie of Roumania''' 
Marie of Romania (Marie Alexandra Victoria, previously Princess Marie of Edinburgh; 29 October 1875 – 18 July 1938) was Queen consort of Romania from 1914 to 1927, as the wife of Ferdinand I of Romania. She was called Missy by her family.
<blockquote>
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, 
A medley of extemporanea; 
And love is a thing that can never go wrong; 
And I am Marie of Romania.</blockquote>

Dorothy Parker, ''Not So Deep as a Well'' (1937), "Comment"

'''Deimos and Phobos''' 
Mars has two known moons, Phobos and Deimos.

'''mi gratto la pancia''' 
Italian for "I scratch his belly."

'''khuem grushi okolachivat''' 
Russian, literally means "knocking pears out of a pear tree with your dick." But it's used in Russian to refer to someone who's being lazy or messing around unproductively or (see Italian phrase above) scratching his belly.

'''Spetsnaz''' 
Spetsnaz is an umbrella term for any special forces in Russian, literally "special purpose forces". Historically, the term referred to the military special units controlled by the military intelligence service GRU, the Spetsnaz GRU. Currently, the term is also used to describe any special purpose units or task forces of other ministries (even the Ministry of Emergency Situations special rescue unit), also in some other post-Soviet countries. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spetsnaz WIKI].

'''HALO jump''' 
High Altitude - Low Opening

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'''Bernie Madoff''' 
Operated the largest Ponzi scheme in U.S. history. Arrested in 2008. Read more [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Madoff here].

==Page 141==
'''Detsl''' 
Kirill Aleksandrovich Tolmatskiy (born July 22, 1983), better known by his stage name Detsl, is a Russian hip hop artist. He graduated in Switzerland and the British International School in Moscow. In 1999, Detsl made his debut in the Russian rap scene with the album Who Are You?. In 2001, he released his second album, "Street Fighter". Detsl is a pseudonym Kirill Tolmatskiy gained because of his small height. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detsl WIKI].

Here's the vid for "Party at Detsl's" which is mentioned by Misha and Grisha:
{{#ev:youtube|lzcD46kfgk4}}

'''Yaponchik's circle''' 
Vyacheslav Kirillovich Ivankov (January 2, 1940 - October 9, 2009) was a notorious member of the Russian Mafia who was believed to have connections with Russian state intelligence organizations and their organized crime partners. He has operated in both the Soviet Union and the United States. His nickname, "Yaponchik," translates from Russian as "Little Japanese," due to his faintly Asian facial features. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyacheslav_Ivankov WIKI].

==Page 142==
'''Oxide Pang''' 
The Pang Brothers are Danny Pang Phat and Oxide Pang Chun, twin-brother screenwriters and film directors, born in 1965 in Hong Kong. Among their films is the hit Asian horror film, ''The Eye'', which has spawned two sequels, as well as a Hollywood remake and a Hindi remake. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxide_Pang WIKI].

==Page 143==
'''Think of me as the prophet of that''' 
Reg predicts Youtube.

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'''She stays till the flight is called''' 
This is significant because after 9/11 (only a couple months away now), only ticketed passengers can go through security in an airport and wait by the gate.

==Page 135==
'''machinima''' 
Fan-made videos that use video from video games as footage for the story.

'''My best to Siegfried and Roy.''' 
A popular Vegas magic act until 2003 when Roy was bitten by a tiger.

==Page 137==
'''Bringing them to a standoff, ethnicity of your choice.''' 
Plays on the idea of a Mexican standoff--a situation in which three armed people are all pointing guns at each other. Read more [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_standoff here].

==Page 138==
'''Igor Dashkov''' 
This fictional character appears to possibly be based on the real-life Yegor Lavroff. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egor_Lavrov here].

==Page 139==
'''''padonki''''' 
Riffraff

'''Marie of Roumania''' 
Marie of Romania (Marie Alexandra Victoria, previously Princess Marie of Edinburgh; 29 October 1875 – 18 July 1938) was Queen consort of Romania from 1914 to 1927, as the wife of Ferdinand I of Romania. She was called Missy by her family.
<blockquote>
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, 
A medley of extemporanea; 
And love is a thing that can never go wrong; 
And I am Marie of Romania.</blockquote>

Dorothy Parker, ''Not So Deep as a Well'' (1937), "Comment"

'''mi gratto la pancia''' 
Italian for "I scratch his belly."

'''khuem grushi okolachivat''' 
Russian, literally means "knocking pears out of a pear tree with your dick." But it's used in Russian to refer to someone who's being lazy or messing around unproductively or (see Italian phrase above) scratching his belly.

'''Spetsnaz''' 
Spetsnaz is an umbrella term for any special forces in Russian, literally "special purpose forces". Historically, the term referred to the military special units controlled by the military intelligence service GRU, the Spetsnaz GRU. Currently, the term is also used to describe any special purpose units or task forces of other ministries (even the Ministry of Emergency Situations special rescue unit), also in some other post-Soviet countries. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spetsnaz WIKI].

'''HALO jump''' 
High Altitude - Low Opening

==Page 140==
'''Bernie Madoff''' 
Operated the largest Ponzi scheme in U.S. history. Arrested in 2008. Read more [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Madoff here].

==Page 141==
'''Detsl''' 
Kirill Aleksandrovich Tolmatskiy (born July 22, 1983), better known by his stage name Detsl, is a Russian hip hop artist. He graduated in Switzerland and the British International School in Moscow. In 1999, Detsl made his debut in the Russian rap scene with the album Who Are You?. In 2001, he released his second album, "Street Fighter". Detsl is a pseudonym Kirill Tolmatskiy gained because of his small height. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detsl WIKI].

Here's the vid for "Party at Detsl's" which is mentioned by Misha and Grisha:
{{#ev:youtube|lzcD46kfgk4}}

'''Yaponchik's circle''' 
Vyacheslav Kirillovich Ivankov (January 2, 1940 - October 9, 2009) was a notorious member of the Russian Mafia who was believed to have connections with Russian state intelligence organizations and their organized crime partners. He has operated in both the Soviet Union and the United States. His nickname, "Yaponchik," translates from Russian as "Little Japanese," due to his faintly Asian facial features. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyacheslav_Ivankov WIKI].

==Page 142==
'''Oxide Pang''' 
The Pang Brothers are Danny Pang Phat and Oxide Pang Chun, twin-brother screenwriters and film directors, born in 1965 in Hong Kong. Among their films is the hit Asian horror film, ''The Eye'', which has spawned two sequels, as well as a Hollywood remake and a Hindi remake. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxide_Pang WIKI].

==Page 143==
'''Think of me as the prophet of that''' 
Reg predicts Youtube.

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'''Dogen''' 
Dōgen Zenji (1200 – 1253) was a Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher.

==Page 122==
'''For you suffer fools gladly, seeing you yourselves are wise''' 
2 Corinthians 11:19. Apparently, the American King James Version.

==Page 123==
'''Julia Richman High''' 
Julia Richman High School is a defunct comprehensive high school in Manhattan, New York. Built in 1923 and located at East 67th Street and Second Avenue, the building was the only public high school in the Upper East Side of New York. The school is named after Julia Richman, the first woman district superintendent of schools in New York City. For much of the school's history it was a girl's high school; it changed to co-educational in 1967. In 1995, after years of academic decline, the city reorganized the school into six separately functioning small schools within a building renamed as the Julia Richman Education Complex. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Richman_High_School WIKI].

==Page 124==
'''Cy Twombley''' 
Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly, Jr. was an American artist well known for his large-scale, freely scribbled, calligraphic-style graffiti paintings, on solid fields of mostly gray, tan, or off-white colors. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cy_Twombly WIKI].
:Twombley paintings sell for millions and he is an example of a painter whose works are often bought for financial and/or status reasons by the ultra-rich today.

'''Bösendorfer Imperial''' 
Massive, expensive [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_B%C3%B6sendorfer_%28piano%29 piano] that has 97 keys and is even larger than the Steinway concert grand. The extra keys, by the way, are on the bass end of the keyboard.

'''Omar the Owl wall clocks''' 
Cute indeed. You can see one [http://www.amazon.com/George-Nelson-Zoo-Timer-Omar/dp/B005DPTTE0 here].

==Page 125==
'''Me, I want a hula hoop''' 
The lyrics to a popular Christmas [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGOMvHtlzOI song by The Chipmunks]. A paragraph earlier, Tallis is descdribed as having a "sub-Chipmunk voice."

'''bagpipes''' 
The men who founded the institutions now merged as Carnegie Mellon were Scottish (Andrew Carnegie) and Scotch-Irish (Andrew Mellon).

==Page 127==
'''Al-vinnn?''' 
Another Chipmunks reference. A running joke throughout the Chipmunks cartoons is that the Chipmunk named Alvin is always late or screwing up. So he is often yelled at.

'''But Ricky, it's only a hat''' 
An allusion to the TV show ''I Love Lucy'', which often featured matrimonial dispute. Specifically, this line refers to the 1954 episode "Ricky Loses His Temper."

'''Smith & Wollensky''' 
Smith & Wollensky is the name of several high-end American steakhouses, with locations in New York, Philadelphia, Houston, Columbus, Las Vegas, Miami, Chicago, Boston and Washington D.C. The first Smith and Wollensky steakhouse was founded in 1977 by Alan Stillman, best known for creating T.G.I. Friday's, and Ben Benson, who later opened his own steakhouse at 123 West 52nd Street, in a distinctive building on 49th Street & 3rd Avenue (once occupied by Manny Wolf's Steakhouse). Many of the restaurants have a wooden exterior with its trademark green and white colors. The individual Smith and Wollensky restaurants operate using slightly varied menus. In 1997, Ruth Reichl, then-restaurant reviewer for the New York Times, called Smith & Wollensky "A steakhouse to end all arguments." From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_%26_Wollensky WIKI].

==Page 132==
'''''Scream, Blacula, Scream''''' 
''Scream Blacula Scream'' is a 1973 blaxploitation horror film, made under the working titles ''Blacula Is Beautiful'' and ''Blacula Lives Again!''. This is the only sequel to the 1972 film ''Blacula''. The movie was produced by American International Pictures (AIP) and Power Productions. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scream_Blacula_Scream WIKI].

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'''Dogen''' 
Dōgen Zenji (1200 – 1253) was a Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher.

==Page 122==
'''For you suffer fools gladly, seeing you yourselves are wise''' 
2 Corinthians 11:19. Apparently, the American King James Version.

==Page 123==
'''Julia Richman High''' 
Julia Richman High School is a defunct comprehensive high school in Manhattan, New York. Built in 1923 and located at East 67th Street and Second Avenue, the building was the only public high school in the Upper East Side of New York. The school is named after Julia Richman, the first woman district superintendent of schools in New York City. For much of the school's history it was a girl's high school; it changed to co-educational in 1967. In 1995, after years of academic decline, the city reorganized the school into six separately functioning small schools within a building renamed as the Julia Richman Education Complex. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Richman_High_School WIKI].

==Page 124==
'''Cy Twombley''' 
Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly, Jr. was an American artist well known for his large-scale, freely scribbled, calligraphic-style graffiti paintings, on solid fields of mostly gray, tan, or off-white colors. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cy_Twombly WIKI].
:Twombley paintings sell for millions and he is an example of a painter whose works are often bought for financial and/or status reasons by the ultra-rich today.

'''Bösendorfer Imperial''' 
Massive, expensive [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_B%C3%B6sendorfer_%28piano%29 piano] that has 97 keys and is even larger than the Steinway concert grand. The extra keys, by the way, are on the bass end of the keyboard.

'''Omar the Owl wall clocks''' 
Cute indeed. You can see one [http://www.amazon.com/George-Nelson-Zoo-Timer-Omar/dp/B005DPTTE0 here].

==Page 125==
'''Me, I want a hula hoop''' 
The lyrics to a popular Christmas [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGOMvHtlzOI song by The Chipmunks]. A paragraph earlier, Tallis is descdribed as having a "sub-Chipmunk voice."

==Page 127==
'''Al-vinnn?''' 
Another Chipmunks reference. A running joke throughout the Chipmunks cartoons is that the Chipmunk named Alvin is always late or screwing up. So he is often yelled at.

'''But Ricky, it's only a hat''' 
An allusion to the TV show ''I Love Lucy'', which often featured matrimonial dispute. Specifically, this line refers to the 1954 episode "Ricky Loses His Temper."

'''Smith & Wollensky''' 
Smith & Wollensky is the name of several high-end American steakhouses, with locations in New York, Philadelphia, Houston, Columbus, Las Vegas, Miami, Chicago, Boston and Washington D.C. The first Smith and Wollensky steakhouse was founded in 1977 by Alan Stillman, best known for creating T.G.I. Friday's, and Ben Benson, who later opened his own steakhouse at 123 West 52nd Street, in a distinctive building on 49th Street & 3rd Avenue (once occupied by Manny Wolf's Steakhouse). Many of the restaurants have a wooden exterior with its trademark green and white colors. The individual Smith and Wollensky restaurants operate using slightly varied menus. In 1997, Ruth Reichl, then-restaurant reviewer for the New York Times, called Smith & Wollensky "A steakhouse to end all arguments." From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_%26_Wollensky WIKI].

==Page 132==
'''''Scream, Blacula, Scream''''' 
''Scream Blacula Scream'' is a 1973 blaxploitation horror film, made under the working titles ''Blacula Is Beautiful'' and ''Blacula Lives Again!''. This is the only sequel to the 1972 film ''Blacula''. The movie was produced by American International Pictures (AIP) and Power Productions. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scream_Blacula_Scream WIKI].

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==Page 121==
'''Dogen''' 
Dōgen Zenji (1200 – 1253) was a Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher.

==Page 122==
'''For you suffer fools gladly, seeing you yourselves are wise''' 
2 Corinthians 11:19. Apparently, the American King James Version.

==Page 123==
'''Julia Richman High''' 
Julia Richman High School is a defunct comprehensive high school in Manhattan, New York. Built in 1923 and located at East 67th Street and Second Avenue, the building was the only public high school in the Upper East Side of New York. The school is named after Julia Richman, the first woman district superintendent of schools in New York City. For much of the school's history it was a girl's high school; it changed to co-educational in 1967. In 1995, after years of academic decline, the city reorganized the school into six separately functioning small schools within a building renamed as the Julia Richman Education Complex. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Richman_High_School WIKI].

==Page 124==
'''Cy Twombley''' 
Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly, Jr. was an American artist well known for his large-scale, freely scribbled, calligraphic-style graffiti paintings, on solid fields of mostly gray, tan, or off-white colors. He exhibited his paintings worldwide. Twombly used the nickname "Cy", after his father (also nicknamed Cy) who was briefly a pitcher in Major League Baseball, and the star baseball pitcher Cy Young. Twombly's paintings blur the line between drawing and painting. Many of his best-known paintings of the late 1960s are reminiscent of a school blackboard on which someone has practiced cursive "e"s. Twombly had at this point discarded painting figurative, representational subject-matter, citing the line or smudge – each mark with its own history – as its proper subject. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cy_Twombly WIKI].

'''Bösendorfer Imperial''' 
Massive, expensive [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_B%C3%B6sendorfer_%28piano%29 piano] that has 97 keys and is even larger than the Steinway concert grand. The extra keys, by the way, are on the bass end of the keyboard.

'''Omar the Owl wall clocks''' 
Cute indeed. You can see one [http://www.amazon.com/George-Nelson-Zoo-Timer-Omar/dp/B005DPTTE0 here].

==Page 125==
'''Me, I want a hula hoop''' 
The lyrics to a popular Christmas [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGOMvHtlzOI song by The Chipmunks]. A paragraph earlier, Tallis is descdribed as having a "sub-Chipmunk voice."

==Page 127==
'''Al-vinnn?''' 
Another Chipmunks reference. A running joke throughout the Chipmunks cartoons is that the Chipmunk named Alvin is always late or screwing up. So he is often yelled at.

'''But Ricky, it's only a hat''' 
An allusion to the TV show ''I Love Lucy'', which often featured matrimonial dispute. Specifically, this line refers to the 1954 episode "Ricky Loses His Temper."

'''Smith & Wollensky''' 
Smith & Wollensky is the name of several high-end American steakhouses, with locations in New York, Philadelphia, Houston, Columbus, Las Vegas, Miami, Chicago, Boston and Washington D.C. The first Smith and Wollensky steakhouse was founded in 1977 by Alan Stillman, best known for creating T.G.I. Friday's, and Ben Benson, who later opened his own steakhouse at 123 West 52nd Street, in a distinctive building on 49th Street & 3rd Avenue (once occupied by Manny Wolf's Steakhouse). Many of the restaurants have a wooden exterior with its trademark green and white colors. The individual Smith and Wollensky restaurants operate using slightly varied menus. In 1997, Ruth Reichl, then-restaurant reviewer for the New York Times, called Smith & Wollensky "A steakhouse to end all arguments." From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_%26_Wollensky WIKI].

==Page 132==
'''''Scream, Blacula, Scream''''' 
''Scream Blacula Scream'' is a 1973 blaxploitation horror film, made under the working titles ''Blacula Is Beautiful'' and ''Blacula Lives Again!''. This is the only sequel to the 1972 film ''Blacula''. The movie was produced by American International Pictures (AIP) and Power Productions. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scream_Blacula_Scream WIKI].

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'''Billie's Bounce''' 
A bebop classic written by Charlie Parker. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4mRaEzwTYo Here you go].

'''March Kelleher''' 
Totally a stretch, but some kind of crazy mashup of "March Hare" (from Alice in Wonderland) and "killer hair" (meaning great hair)???

'''who liked to creep''' 
How often has this word appeared already? It's starting to seem important.
:How often? According to my eBook search, this is the sixth time.

'''a parable nobody is supposed to get''' 
A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story_within_a_story story within a story] in the vein of [http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Making_sense_of_The_Courier%27s_Tragedy ''The Courier's Tragedy''] in ''Crying of Lot 49'', "Byron the Bulb" (among many, many others) in ''Gravity's Rainbow'', and could probably sustain a 10- to 20-page paper analyzing its significance within Pynchon's oeuvre. An outsider who refuses to sell out and a soulless, powerful force are at the core of this parable as well as pretty much all of Pynchon's books.

==Page 114==
'''tabloidofthedamned.com''' 
In case you missed the chapter six annotation, [http://tabloidofthedamned.com tabloidofthedamned.com] takes you to [http://www.thomaspynchon.com/ www.thomaspynchon.com].

:There's two pretty radically different interpretations of Pynchon linking to Pynchon Wiki's sister site in the text of ''Bleeding Edge''. One, it could simply be a shout-out to his most prominent fan page. Two, he detests the page, given the pretty angrily negative connotations of "tabloid" and "of the damned" (hopefully not meaning us-- will let you know in the afterlife, if able). "Is this gonna be on the Internet now?" on the following page is a fairly negative response to so many private details of Pynchon's life being posted openly on the web, indeed often by those who believe themselves to be his biggest fans.

:Allow this commentator to submit that we, the Pynchon readers and fans, take this reference as a reminder: It is up to us more than anyone else to give this great writer the privacy he deserves, including through our web sites, Pynchon Wiki commentary, and whatever.

'''Sterling Hayden''' 
Sterling Walter Hayden (born Sterling Relyea Walter; March 26, 1916 – May 23, 1986) was an American actor and author. For most of his career as a leading man, he specialized in westerns and film noir, such as ''Johnny Guitar'', ''The Asphalt Jungle'' and ''The Killing''. Later on he became noted as a character actor for such roles as Gen. Jack D. Ripper in ''Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb'' (1964). He also played the Irish-American policeman, Captain McCluskey, in Francis Ford Coppola's ''The Godfather'' in 1972, and the novelist Roger Wade in 1973's ''The Long Goodbye''. He played the role of Leo Dalcò in Bernardo Bertolucci's ''1900'' in 1976. At six feet five inches, he was taller than most actors. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling_Hayden WIKI].

==Page 115==
'''Some Nazi name''' 
Horst shares his first name with Horst Wessel, author of the lyrics to the Nazi anthem "Die Fahne Hoch", also known as the Horst Wessel Lied. This was effectively the German national anthem during the Nazi years. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb5MjWZ7kxk

'''CFE''' 
Certified Fraud Examiner

==Page 116==
'''Newspaper of Record''' 
New York Times

'''"I like the streak, I'm keeping it"''' 
Writer Susan Sontag's famous streak:

[[File:Susansontag.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Susan Sontag and her hair, Creative Commons licensed photo from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Susan_Sontag,_Miami_Book_Fair_International,_1994.jpg here]]]'''

'''"a deep sympathy modified by contempt"''' 
In her ''Notes on "Camp"'' (1964), Sontag writes "To name a sensibility, to draw its contours and to recount its history, requires a deep sympathy modified by revulsion." [http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/theory/sontag-notesoncamp-1964.html ''Notes on "Camp"'']

<blockquote>
A sensibility (as distinct from an idea) is one of the hardest things to talk about; but there are special reasons why Camp, in particular, has never been discussed. It is not a natural mode of sensibility, if there be any such. Indeed the essence of Camp is its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration. And Camp is esoteric -- something of a private code, a badge of identity even, among small urban cliques. Apart from a lazy two-page sketch in Christopher Isherwood's novel ''The World in the Evening'' (1954), it has hardly broken into print. To talk about Camp is therefore to betray it. If the betrayal can be defended, it will be for the edification it provides, or the dignity of the conflict it resolves. For myself, I plead the goal of self-edification, and the goad of a sharp conflict in my own sensibility. I am strongly drawn to Camp, and almost as strongly offended by it. That is why I want to talk about it, and why I can. For no one who wholeheartedly shares in a given sensibility can analyze it; he can only, whatever his intention, exhibit it. To name a sensibility, to draw its contours and to recount its history, requires a deep sympathy modified by revulsion.</blockquote>

==Page 117==
'''The Montauk Project''' 
The Montauk Project is alleged to have been a series of secret United States government projects conducted at Camp Hero or Montauk Air Force Station on Montauk, Long Island for the purpose of developing psychological warfare techniques and exotic research including time travel. Jacques Vallée describes allegations of the Montauk Project as an outgrowth of stories about the Philadelphia Experiment. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montauk_Project WIKI].

==Page 118==
'''TWA Flight 800''' 
Trans World Airlines Flight 800, a Boeing 747-100, exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, on July 17, 1996, at about 8:31 PM EDT, 12 minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport on a scheduled international passenger flight to Rome, with a stopover in Paris. All 230 people on board were killed, the third-deadliest aviation accident to occur in U.S. territory. While accident investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) traveled to the scene, arriving the following morning, there was much initial speculation that a terrorist attack was the cause of the crash. Consequently, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) initiated a parallel criminal investigation. Sixteen months later the FBI announced that no evidence had been found of a criminal act and closed its active investigation. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Flight_800 WIKI].

'''Larry Ellison''' 
CEO of Oracle.

'''Bill Gross''' 
Called "the nation's most prominent bond investor" by the New York Times, Gross co-founded Pacific Investment Management (PIMCO) and currently manages PIMCO's Total Return fund (the world's largest bond fund) and several smaller ones. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gross WIKI].

'''Jebel Ali Free Zone''' 
Jebel Ali Free Zone is a free economic zone located in the Jebel Ali area at the far western end of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, near Abu Dhabi. Created under an Emiri Decree, Jafza commenced operations in 1985 with standard size office units and warehouses to provide ready built facilities to customers. In 1990 Jafza expanded its facilities to include light industrial units. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jebel_ali_free_zone WIKI].

==Page 119==
'''Kind of fuckin pathetic... [like] that Barbara Stanwyck movie...''' 
Reference to the end of the film ''Stella Dallas'' (1937). See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella_Dallas_%281937_film%29 WIKI].

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'''Billie's Bounce''' 
A bebop classic written by Charlie Parker. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4mRaEzwTYo Here you go].

'''March Kelleher''' 
Totally a stretch, but some kind of crazy mashup of "March Hare" (from Alice in Wonderland) and "killer hair" (meaning great hair)???

'''who liked to creep''' 
How often has this word appeared already? It's starting to seem important.
:How often? According to my eBook search, this is the sixth time.

'''a parable nobody is supposed to get''' 
A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story_within_a_story story within a story] in the vein of [http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Making_sense_of_The_Courier%27s_Tragedy ''The Courier's Tragedy''] in ''Crying of Lot 49'', "Byron the Bulb" (among many, many others) in ''Gravity's Rainbow'', and could probably sustain a 10- to 20-page paper analyzing its significance within Pynchon's oeuvre. An outsider who refuses to sell out and a soulless, powerful force are at the core of this parable as well as pretty much all of Pynchon's books.

==Page 114==
'''tabloidofthedamned.com''' 
In case you missed the chapter six annotation, [http://tabloidofthedamned.com tabloidofthedamned.com] takes you to [http://www.thomaspynchon.com/ www.thomaspynchon.com].

:There's two pretty radically different interpretations of Pynchon linking to Pynchon Wiki's sister site in the text of ''Bleeding Edge''. One, it could simply be a shout-out to his most prominent fan page. Two, he detests the page, given the pretty angrily negative connotations of "tabloid" and "of the damned" (hopefully not meaning us-- will let you know in the afterlife, if able). "Is this gonna be on the Internet now?" on the following page is a fairly negative response to so many private details of Pynchon's life being posted openly on the web, indeed often by those who believe themselves to be his biggest fans.

:Allow this commentator to submit that we, the Pynchon readers and fans, take this reference as a reminder: It is up to us more than anyone else to give this great writer the privacy he deserves, including through our web sites, Pynchon Wiki commentary, and whatever.

'''Sterling Hayden''' 
Sterling Walter Hayden (born Sterling Relyea Walter; March 26, 1916 – May 23, 1986) was an American actor and author. For most of his career as a leading man, he specialized in westerns and film noir, such as ''Johnny Guitar'', ''The Asphalt Jungle'' and ''The Killing''. Later on he became noted as a character actor for such roles as Gen. Jack D. Ripper in ''Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb'' (1964). He also played the Irish-American policeman, Captain McCluskey, in Francis Ford Coppola's ''The Godfather'' in 1972, and the novelist Roger Wade in 1973's ''The Long Goodbye''. He played the role of Leo Dalcò in Bernardo Bertolucci's ''1900'' in 1976. At six feet five inches, he was taller than most actors. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling_Hayden WIKI].

==Page 115==
'''Some Nazi name''' 
Horst shares his first name with Horst Wessel, author of the lyrics to the Nazi anthem "Die Fahne Hoch", also known as the Horst Wessel Lied. This was effectively the German national anthem during the Nazi years. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb5MjWZ7kxk

'''CFE''' 
Certified Fraud Examiner

==Page 116==
'''Newspaper of Record''' 
New York Times

'''"a deep sympathy modified by contempt"''' 
In her ''Notes on "Camp"'' (1964), Sontag writes "To name a sensibility, to draw its contours and to recount its history, requires a deep sympathy modified by revulsion." [http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/theory/sontag-notesoncamp-1964.html ''Notes on "Camp"'']

<blockquote>
A sensibility (as distinct from an idea) is one of the hardest things to talk about; but there are special reasons why Camp, in particular, has never been discussed. It is not a natural mode of sensibility, if there be any such. Indeed the essence of Camp is its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration. And Camp is esoteric -- something of a private code, a badge of identity even, among small urban cliques. Apart from a lazy two-page sketch in Christopher Isherwood's novel ''The World in the Evening'' (1954), it has hardly broken into print. To talk about Camp is therefore to betray it. If the betrayal can be defended, it will be for the edification it provides, or the dignity of the conflict it resolves. For myself, I plead the goal of self-edification, and the goad of a sharp conflict in my own sensibility. I am strongly drawn to Camp, and almost as strongly offended by it. That is why I want to talk about it, and why I can. For no one who wholeheartedly shares in a given sensibility can analyze it; he can only, whatever his intention, exhibit it. To name a sensibility, to draw its contours and to recount its history, requires a deep sympathy modified by revulsion.</blockquote>

==Page 117==
'''The Montauk Project''' 
The Montauk Project is alleged to have been a series of secret United States government projects conducted at Camp Hero or Montauk Air Force Station on Montauk, Long Island for the purpose of developing psychological warfare techniques and exotic research including time travel. Jacques Vallée describes allegations of the Montauk Project as an outgrowth of stories about the Philadelphia Experiment. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montauk_Project WIKI].

==Page 118==
'''TWA Flight 800''' 
Trans World Airlines Flight 800, a Boeing 747-100, exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, on July 17, 1996, at about 8:31 PM EDT, 12 minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport on a scheduled international passenger flight to Rome, with a stopover in Paris. All 230 people on board were killed, the third-deadliest aviation accident to occur in U.S. territory. While accident investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) traveled to the scene, arriving the following morning, there was much initial speculation that a terrorist attack was the cause of the crash. Consequently, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) initiated a parallel criminal investigation. Sixteen months later the FBI announced that no evidence had been found of a criminal act and closed its active investigation. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Flight_800 WIKI].

'''Larry Ellison''' 
CEO of Oracle.

'''Bill Gross''' 
Called "the nation's most prominent bond investor" by the New York Times, Gross co-founded Pacific Investment Management (PIMCO) and currently manages PIMCO's Total Return fund (the world's largest bond fund) and several smaller ones. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gross WIKI].

'''Jebel Ali Free Zone''' 
Jebel Ali Free Zone is a free economic zone located in the Jebel Ali area at the far western end of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, near Abu Dhabi. Created under an Emiri Decree, Jafza commenced operations in 1985 with standard size office units and warehouses to provide ready built facilities to customers. In 1990 Jafza expanded its facilities to include light industrial units. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jebel_ali_free_zone WIKI].

==Page 119==
'''Kind of fuckin pathetic... [like] that Barbara Stanwyck movie...''' 
Reference to the end of the film ''Stella Dallas'' (1937). See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella_Dallas_%281937_film%29 WIKI].

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==Page 112==
'''Billie's Bounce''' 
A bebop classic written by Charlie Parker. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4mRaEzwTYo Here you go].

'''who liked to creep''' 
How often has this word appeared already? It's starting to seem important.
:How often? According to my eBook search, this is the sixth time.

'''a parable nobody is supposed to get''' 
A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story_within_a_story story within a story] in the vein of [http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Making_sense_of_The_Courier%27s_Tragedy ''The Courier's Tragedy''] in ''Crying of Lot 49'', "Byron the Bulb" (among many, many others) in ''Gravity's Rainbow'', and could probably sustain a 10- to 20-page paper analyzing its significance within Pynchon's oeuvre. An outsider who refuses to sell out and a soulless, powerful force are at the core of this parable as well as pretty much all of Pynchon's books.

==Page 114==
'''tabloidofthedamned.com''' 
In case you missed the chapter six annotation, [http://tabloidofthedamned.com tabloidofthedamned.com] takes you to [http://www.thomaspynchon.com/ www.thomaspynchon.com].

:There's two pretty radically different interpretations of Pynchon linking to Pynchon Wiki's sister site in the text of ''Bleeding Edge''. One, it could simply be a shout-out to his most prominent fan page. Two, he detests the page, given the pretty angrily negative connotations of "tabloid" and "of the damned" (hopefully not meaning us-- will let you know in the afterlife, if able). "Is this gonna be on the Internet now?" on the following page is a fairly negative response to so many private details of Pynchon's life being posted openly on the web, indeed often by those who believe themselves to be his biggest fans.

:Allow this commentator to submit that we, the Pynchon readers and fans, take this reference as a reminder: It is up to us more than anyone else to give this great writer the privacy he deserves, including through our web sites, Pynchon Wiki commentary, and whatever.

'''Sterling Hayden''' 
Sterling Walter Hayden (born Sterling Relyea Walter; March 26, 1916 – May 23, 1986) was an American actor and author. For most of his career as a leading man, he specialized in westerns and film noir, such as ''Johnny Guitar'', ''The Asphalt Jungle'' and ''The Killing''. Later on he became noted as a character actor for such roles as Gen. Jack D. Ripper in ''Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb'' (1964). He also played the Irish-American policeman, Captain McCluskey, in Francis Ford Coppola's ''The Godfather'' in 1972, and the novelist Roger Wade in 1973's ''The Long Goodbye''. He played the role of Leo Dalcò in Bernardo Bertolucci's ''1900'' in 1976. At six feet five inches, he was taller than most actors. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling_Hayden WIKI].

==Page 115==
'''Some Nazi name''' 
Horst shares his first name with Horst Wessel, author of the lyrics to the Nazi anthem "Die Fahne Hoch", also known as the Horst Wessel Lied. This was effectively the German national anthem during the Nazi years. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb5MjWZ7kxk

'''CFE''' 
Certified Fraud Examiner

==Page 116==
'''Newspaper of Record''' 
New York Times

'''"a deep sympathy modified by contempt"''' 
In her ''Notes on "Camp"'' (1964), Sontag writes "To name a sensibility, to draw its contours and to recount its history, requires a deep sympathy modified by revulsion." [http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/theory/sontag-notesoncamp-1964.html ''Notes on "Camp"'']

<blockquote>
A sensibility (as distinct from an idea) is one of the hardest things to talk about; but there are special reasons why Camp, in particular, has never been discussed. It is not a natural mode of sensibility, if there be any such. Indeed the essence of Camp is its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration. And Camp is esoteric -- something of a private code, a badge of identity even, among small urban cliques. Apart from a lazy two-page sketch in Christopher Isherwood's novel ''The World in the Evening'' (1954), it has hardly broken into print. To talk about Camp is therefore to betray it. If the betrayal can be defended, it will be for the edification it provides, or the dignity of the conflict it resolves. For myself, I plead the goal of self-edification, and the goad of a sharp conflict in my own sensibility. I am strongly drawn to Camp, and almost as strongly offended by it. That is why I want to talk about it, and why I can. For no one who wholeheartedly shares in a given sensibility can analyze it; he can only, whatever his intention, exhibit it. To name a sensibility, to draw its contours and to recount its history, requires a deep sympathy modified by revulsion.</blockquote>

==Page 117==
'''The Montauk Project''' 
The Montauk Project is alleged to have been a series of secret United States government projects conducted at Camp Hero or Montauk Air Force Station on Montauk, Long Island for the purpose of developing psychological warfare techniques and exotic research including time travel. Jacques Vallée describes allegations of the Montauk Project as an outgrowth of stories about the Philadelphia Experiment. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montauk_Project WIKI].

==Page 118==
'''TWA Flight 800''' 
Trans World Airlines Flight 800, a Boeing 747-100, exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, on July 17, 1996, at about 8:31 PM EDT, 12 minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport on a scheduled international passenger flight to Rome, with a stopover in Paris. All 230 people on board were killed, the third-deadliest aviation accident to occur in U.S. territory. While accident investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) traveled to the scene, arriving the following morning, there was much initial speculation that a terrorist attack was the cause of the crash. Consequently, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) initiated a parallel criminal investigation. Sixteen months later the FBI announced that no evidence had been found of a criminal act and closed its active investigation. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Flight_800 WIKI].

'''Larry Ellison''' 
CEO of Oracle.

'''Bill Gross''' 
Called "the nation's most prominent bond investor" by the New York Times, Gross co-founded Pacific Investment Management (PIMCO) and currently manages PIMCO's Total Return fund (the world's largest bond fund) and several smaller ones. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gross WIKI].

'''Jebel Ali Free Zone''' 
Jebel Ali Free Zone is a free economic zone located in the Jebel Ali area at the far western end of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, near Abu Dhabi. Created under an Emiri Decree, Jafza commenced operations in 1985 with standard size office units and warehouses to provide ready built facilities to customers. In 1990 Jafza expanded its facilities to include light industrial units. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jebel_ali_free_zone WIKI].

==Page 119==
'''Kind of fuckin pathetic... [like] that Barbara Stanwyck movie...''' 
Reference to the end of the film ''Stella Dallas'' (1937). See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella_Dallas_%281937_film%29 WIKI].

{{Bleeding Edge PbP}}

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==Page 112==
'''Billie's Bounce''' 
A bebop classic written by Charlie Parker. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4mRaEzwTYo Here you go].

'''who liked to creep''' 
How often has this word appeared already? It's starting to seem important.
:How often? According to my eBook search, this is the sixth time.

'''a parable nobody is supposed to get''' 
A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story_within_a_story story within a story] in the vein of [http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Making_sense_of_The_Courier%27s_Tragedy ''The Courier's Tragedy''] in ''Crying of Lot 49'', ''Byron the Bulb'' in ''Gravity's Rainbow'' (which featured probably dozens of stories within the story), and could probably sustain a 10- to 20-page paper analyzing its significance within Pynchon's oeuvre. An outsider who refuses to sell out and a soulless, powerful force are at the core of this parable as well as pretty much all of Pynchon's books.

==Page 114==
'''tabloidofthedamned.com''' 
In case you missed the chapter six annotation, [http://tabloidofthedamned.com tabloidofthedamned.com] takes you to [http://www.thomaspynchon.com/ www.thomaspynchon.com].

:There's two pretty radically different interpretations of Pynchon linking to Pynchon Wiki's sister site in the text of ''Bleeding Edge''. One, it could simply be a shout-out to his most prominent fan page. Two, he detests the page, given the pretty angrily negative connotations of "tabloid" and "of the damned" (hopefully not meaning us-- will let you know in the afterlife, if able). "Is this gonna be on the Internet now?" on the following page is a fairly negative response to so many private details of Pynchon's life being posted openly on the web, indeed often by those who believe themselves to be his biggest fans.

:Allow this commentator to submit that we, the Pynchon readers and fans, take this reference as a reminder: It is up to us more than anyone else to give this great writer the privacy he deserves, including through our web sites, Pynchon Wiki commentary, and whatever.

'''Sterling Hayden''' 
Sterling Walter Hayden (born Sterling Relyea Walter; March 26, 1916 – May 23, 1986) was an American actor and author. For most of his career as a leading man, he specialized in westerns and film noir, such as ''Johnny Guitar'', ''The Asphalt Jungle'' and ''The Killing''. Later on he became noted as a character actor for such roles as Gen. Jack D. Ripper in ''Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb'' (1964). He also played the Irish-American policeman, Captain McCluskey, in Francis Ford Coppola's ''The Godfather'' in 1972, and the novelist Roger Wade in 1973's ''The Long Goodbye''. He played the role of Leo Dalcò in Bernardo Bertolucci's ''1900'' in 1976. At six feet five inches, he was taller than most actors. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling_Hayden WIKI].

==Page 115==
'''Some Nazi name''' 
Horst shares his first name with Horst Wessel, author of the lyrics to the Nazi anthem "Die Fahne Hoch", also known as the Horst Wessel Lied. This was effectively the German national anthem during the Nazi years. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb5MjWZ7kxk

'''CFE''' 
Certified Fraud Examiner

==Page 116==
'''Newspaper of Record''' 
New York Times

'''"a deep sympathy modified by contempt"''' 
In her ''Notes on "Camp"'' (1964), Sontag writes "To name a sensibility, to draw its contours and to recount its history, requires a deep sympathy modified by revulsion." [http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/theory/sontag-notesoncamp-1964.html ''Notes on "Camp"'']

<blockquote>
A sensibility (as distinct from an idea) is one of the hardest things to talk about; but there are special reasons why Camp, in particular, has never been discussed. It is not a natural mode of sensibility, if there be any such. Indeed the essence of Camp is its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration. And Camp is esoteric -- something of a private code, a badge of identity even, among small urban cliques. Apart from a lazy two-page sketch in Christopher Isherwood's novel ''The World in the Evening'' (1954), it has hardly broken into print. To talk about Camp is therefore to betray it. If the betrayal can be defended, it will be for the edification it provides, or the dignity of the conflict it resolves. For myself, I plead the goal of self-edification, and the goad of a sharp conflict in my own sensibility. I am strongly drawn to Camp, and almost as strongly offended by it. That is why I want to talk about it, and why I can. For no one who wholeheartedly shares in a given sensibility can analyze it; he can only, whatever his intention, exhibit it. To name a sensibility, to draw its contours and to recount its history, requires a deep sympathy modified by revulsion.</blockquote>

==Page 117==
'''The Montauk Project''' 
The Montauk Project is alleged to have been a series of secret United States government projects conducted at Camp Hero or Montauk Air Force Station on Montauk, Long Island for the purpose of developing psychological warfare techniques and exotic research including time travel. Jacques Vallée describes allegations of the Montauk Project as an outgrowth of stories about the Philadelphia Experiment. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montauk_Project WIKI].

==Page 118==
'''TWA Flight 800''' 
Trans World Airlines Flight 800, a Boeing 747-100, exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, on July 17, 1996, at about 8:31 PM EDT, 12 minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport on a scheduled international passenger flight to Rome, with a stopover in Paris. All 230 people on board were killed, the third-deadliest aviation accident to occur in U.S. territory. While accident investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) traveled to the scene, arriving the following morning, there was much initial speculation that a terrorist attack was the cause of the crash. Consequently, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) initiated a parallel criminal investigation. Sixteen months later the FBI announced that no evidence had been found of a criminal act and closed its active investigation. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Flight_800 WIKI].

'''Larry Ellison''' 
CEO of Oracle.

'''Bill Gross''' 
Called "the nation's most prominent bond investor" by the New York Times, Gross co-founded Pacific Investment Management (PIMCO) and currently manages PIMCO's Total Return fund (the world's largest bond fund) and several smaller ones. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gross WIKI].

'''Jebel Ali Free Zone''' 
Jebel Ali Free Zone is a free economic zone located in the Jebel Ali area at the far western end of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, near Abu Dhabi. Created under an Emiri Decree, Jafza commenced operations in 1985 with standard size office units and warehouses to provide ready built facilities to customers. In 1990 Jafza expanded its facilities to include light industrial units. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jebel_ali_free_zone WIKI].

==Page 119==
'''Kind of fuckin pathetic... [like] that Barbara Stanwyck movie...''' 
Reference to the end of the film ''Stella Dallas'' (1937). See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella_Dallas_%281937_film%29 WIKI].

{{Bleeding Edge PbP}}

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Benvolio: /* Page 114 */ Tabloid of the Damned

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==Page 112==
'''Billie's Bounce''' 
A bebop classic written by Charlie Parker. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4mRaEzwTYo Here you go].

'''who liked to creep''' 
How often has this word appeared already? It's starting to seem important.

How often? According to my eBook search, this is the sixth time.

==Page 114==
'''tabloidofthedamned.com''' 
In case you missed the chapter six annotation, [http://tabloidofthedamned.com tabloidofthedamned.com] takes you to [http://www.thomaspynchon.com/ www.thomaspynchon.com].

:There's two pretty radically different interpretations of Pynchon linking to Pynchon Wiki's sister site in the text of ''Bleeding Edge''. One, it could simply be a shout-out to his most prominent fan page. Two, he detests the page, given the pretty angrily negative connotations of "tabloid" and "of the damned" (hopefully not meaning us-- will let you know in the afterlife, if able). "Is this gonna be on the Internet now?" on the following page is a fairly negative response to so many private details of Pynchon's life being posted openly on the web, indeed often by those who believe themselves to be his biggest fans.

:Allow this commentator to submit that we, the Pynchon readers and fans, take this reference as a reminder: It is up to us more than anyone else to give this great writer the privacy he deserves, including through our web sites, Pynchon Wiki commentary, and whatever.

'''Sterling Hayden''' 
Sterling Walter Hayden (born Sterling Relyea Walter; March 26, 1916 – May 23, 1986) was an American actor and author. For most of his career as a leading man, he specialized in westerns and film noir, such as ''Johnny Guitar'', ''The Asphalt Jungle'' and ''The Killing''. Later on he became noted as a character actor for such roles as Gen. Jack D. Ripper in ''Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb'' (1964). He also played the Irish-American policeman, Captain McCluskey, in Francis Ford Coppola's ''The Godfather'' in 1972, and the novelist Roger Wade in 1973's ''The Long Goodbye''. He played the role of Leo Dalcò in Bernardo Bertolucci's ''1900'' in 1976. At six feet five inches, he was taller than most actors. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling_Hayden WIKI].

==Page 115==
'''Some Nazi name''' 
Horst shares his first name with Horst Wessel, author of the lyrics to the Nazi anthem "Die Fahne Hoch", also known as the Horst Wessel Lied. This was effectively the German national anthem during the Nazi years. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb5MjWZ7kxk

'''CFE''' 
Certified Fraud Examiner

==Page 116==
'''Newspaper of Record''' 
New York Times

'''"a deep sympathy modified by contempt"''' 
In her ''Notes on "Camp"'' (1964), Sontag writes "To name a sensibility, to draw its contours and to recount its history, requires a deep sympathy modified by revulsion." [http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/theory/sontag-notesoncamp-1964.html ''Notes on "Camp"'']

<blockquote>
A sensibility (as distinct from an idea) is one of the hardest things to talk about; but there are special reasons why Camp, in particular, has never been discussed. It is not a natural mode of sensibility, if there be any such. Indeed the essence of Camp is its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration. And Camp is esoteric -- something of a private code, a badge of identity even, among small urban cliques. Apart from a lazy two-page sketch in Christopher Isherwood's novel ''The World in the Evening'' (1954), it has hardly broken into print. To talk about Camp is therefore to betray it. If the betrayal can be defended, it will be for the edification it provides, or the dignity of the conflict it resolves. For myself, I plead the goal of self-edification, and the goad of a sharp conflict in my own sensibility. I am strongly drawn to Camp, and almost as strongly offended by it. That is why I want to talk about it, and why I can. For no one who wholeheartedly shares in a given sensibility can analyze it; he can only, whatever his intention, exhibit it. To name a sensibility, to draw its contours and to recount its history, requires a deep sympathy modified by revulsion.</blockquote>

==Page 117==
'''The Montauk Project''' 
The Montauk Project is alleged to have been a series of secret United States government projects conducted at Camp Hero or Montauk Air Force Station on Montauk, Long Island for the purpose of developing psychological warfare techniques and exotic research including time travel. Jacques Vallée describes allegations of the Montauk Project as an outgrowth of stories about the Philadelphia Experiment. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montauk_Project WIKI].

==Page 118==
'''TWA Flight 800''' 
Trans World Airlines Flight 800, a Boeing 747-100, exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, on July 17, 1996, at about 8:31 PM EDT, 12 minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport on a scheduled international passenger flight to Rome, with a stopover in Paris. All 230 people on board were killed, the third-deadliest aviation accident to occur in U.S. territory. While accident investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) traveled to the scene, arriving the following morning, there was much initial speculation that a terrorist attack was the cause of the crash. Consequently, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) initiated a parallel criminal investigation. Sixteen months later the FBI announced that no evidence had been found of a criminal act and closed its active investigation. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Flight_800 WIKI].

'''Larry Ellison''' 
CEO of Oracle.

'''Bill Gross''' 
Called "the nation's most prominent bond investor" by the New York Times, Gross co-founded Pacific Investment Management (PIMCO) and currently manages PIMCO's Total Return fund (the world's largest bond fund) and several smaller ones. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gross WIKI].

'''Jebel Ali Free Zone''' 
Jebel Ali Free Zone is a free economic zone located in the Jebel Ali area at the far western end of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, near Abu Dhabi. Created under an Emiri Decree, Jafza commenced operations in 1985 with standard size office units and warehouses to provide ready built facilities to customers. In 1990 Jafza expanded its facilities to include light industrial units. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jebel_ali_free_zone WIKI].

==Page 119==
'''Kind of fuckin pathetic... [like] that Barbara Stanwyck movie...''' 
Reference to the end of the film ''Stella Dallas'' (1937). See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella_Dallas_%281937_film%29 WIKI].

{{Bleeding Edge PbP}}

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2013-10-03T09:37:45Z

Benvolio:

Just a heads up. The "Brady Bunch" video clip gives an error message "playback is prohibited". I'm in Canada but suspect the same result is happening just about anywhere outside of the US.
:yeah, seems to only work in the States. [[User:Benvolio|Benvolio]] ([[User talk:Benvolio|talk]])

Chapter 6

2013-10-02T19:21:43Z

Benvolio: /* Page 53 */

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==Page 53==
'''Tabloid of the Damned''' 
Nice. [http://tabloidofthedamned.com tabloidofthedamned.com] redirects to [http://www.thomaspynchon.com/ www.thomaspynchon.com] Good job.

==Page 54==
'''Carnegie Mellon''' 
Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

'''pari passu''' 
Latin phrase that literally means "with an equal step" or "on equal footing." It is sometimes translated as "ranking equally", "hand-in-hand," "with equal force," or "moving together,"and by extension, "fairly," "without partiality." From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pari_passu WIKI].

'''Dr. Kriechman''' 
In German, "kriechen" means "to creep" or "to crawl".

==Page 55==
'''Papa Doble''' 
Known as the Hemingway Daiquiri, the Papa Doble is a drink made using white rum, lime, grapefruit, and maraschino liqueur.

'''Lincoln Center''' 
A consortium of civic leaders and others led by John D. Rockefeller III built Lincoln Center as part of the "Lincoln Square Renewal Project" during Robert Moses's program of urban renewal in the 1950s and 1960s. Respected architects were contacted to design the major buildings on the site, and over the next thirty years the previously blighted area around Lincoln Center became a new cultural hub. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Center_for_the_Performing_Arts WIKI].

==Page 56==
'''Hermann Göring was right''' 
Hermann Göring was the Nazi founder of the Gestapo. He is credited as saying, "When I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning!" But he probably didn't say this. The line comes from the play ''Schlageter'' by Hanns Johst: "Wenn ich Kultur höre ... entsichere ich meinen Browning!"

==Page 57==
'''Linus himself''' 
Linus Torvalds (b. 1969) is a Finnish American software engineer, who was the principal force behind the development of the Linux kernel. His personal mascot is a penguin nicknamed Tux, which has been widely adopted by the Linux community as the mascot of the Linux kernel.

==Page 58==
'''packet monkey''' 
Someone who intentionally inundates a website or network with data packets, resulting in a denial-of-service situation for users of the attacked site or network. Packet monkeys typically use tools created and made available on the Internet by hackers. Unlike a script kiddy, a packet monkey leaves no clues as to who is making the exploit, making the identity of a packet monkey more difficult to trace. In addition, a denial-of-service attack can be launched on a wider scale than attacks performed by script kiddies, making them more difficult to investigate.

Hackers look down on packet monkeys and often describe them as "bottom feeders." Because a packet monkey uses tools created by others, the packet monkey has little understanding of the harm that may be caused. Typically, packet monkey exploits are random and without any purpose other than the thrill of making an effect. [http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/definition/packet-monkey Source]

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'''Microsoft LM hash''' 
LM hash, LanMan, or LAN Manager hash is a compromised password hashing function that was the primary hash that Microsoft LAN Manager and Microsoft Windows versions prior to Windows NT used to store user passwords. Support for the legacy LAN Manager protocol continued in later versions of Windows for backward compatibility, but was recommended by Microsoft to be turned off by administrators; as of Windows Vista, the protocol is disabled by default, but continues to be used by some non-Microsoft CIFS implementations. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LM_hash WIKI].

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'''"Doing business as Streetlight People"''' 
Reference to this lyric from the American rock band Journey's "Don't Stop Believing," from 1981:
<blockquote>
Strangers, waiting, up and down 
the boulevard 
Their shadows searching in the night 
'''Streetlight people''', living just to 
find emotion 
Hiding, somewhere in the night</blockquote>

{{#ev:youtube|PBEXSiFzOfU}}

'''Slagiatt... vowel''' 
:As far as i can tell, there is no Italian word remotely like Slagiatt + a vowel. [[User:Benvolio|Benvolio]] ([[User talk:Benvolio|talk]])
The way I read it, it references his nickname Rocky, and that losing the 'y' makes it sound too Anglo. [[User:H2oetry|H2oetry]] ([[User talk:H2oetry|talk]])

'''"like lyrics in an opera"''' 
Opera singers routinely fail to enunciate words or syllables in the interest of hitting notes or making it all sound better.

==Page 62==
'''Wayne Gretzky Principle''' 
Steve Jobs: “There’s an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. ‘I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.’ And we’ve always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very very beginning. And we always will.”

==Page 63==
'''Wells notice''' 
The current Wells Fargo is a result of a 1998 merger between Minneapolis-based Norwest Corporation and the original Wells Fargo. Although Norwest was the nominal survivor, the new company kept the Wells Fargo name to capitalize on the long history of the nationally recognized Wells Fargo name and its trademark stagecoach (the company's previous slogan, "The Next Stage," is likely a nod to the company's trademark). After the acquisition, the parent company kept its headquarters in San Francisco. The company's current tagline, "Together we'll go far" also references the stagecoach motif, its customers, and represents the company name itself in a transposed way (Wells Far-go = we'll[s] go-Far).

==Page 64==
'''Further Lane''' 
Through the years East Hampton's wealth has evolved emanating out from the village taking over the farmland that had once been dominated by potato fields. The most dazzling row of mansions remains in the village of East Hampton on the closest road paralleling the ocean along Further Lane and Lily Pond Lane. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Hampton_(town),_New_York Wikipedia entry]

==Page 65==
'''che si duce''' 
Italian greeting: "what's up?", "how's it going?".

==Page 66==
'''Nero d'Avola''' 
A wine from Sicily.

'''Una furtiva lagrima''' 
Famous aria (technically a "romanza") from the opera ''L'elisir d'amore'', by Donizetti.

'''"Un gazz"''' 
Italian, literally "dick," but used like the exclamation, "shit". Also employed by Pynchon in [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=U V.]

'''Greylock''' 
Greylock Partners is one of the oldest venture capital firms, founded in 1965, with committed capital of over $2 billion under management. The firm focuses on early stage companies in the consumer, enterprise software and infrastructure as well as semiconductor sectors. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greylock_Partners WIKI].

'''Lucky Luciano''' 
Charles "Lucky" Luciano was an Italian-born American mobster. Luciano is considered the father of modern organized crime in the United States for splitting New York City into five different Mafia crime families and the establishment of the first Commission. He was the first official boss of the modern Genovese crime family. He was, along with his associate Meyer Lansky, instrumental in the development of the National Crime Syndicate in the United States. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Luciano WIKI].

'''OSS''' 
The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was a United States intelligence agency formed during World War II. It was the wartime intelligence agency, and it was a predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The OSS was formed in order to coordinate espionage activities behind enemy lines for the branches of the United States Armed Forces. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Services WIKI].

==Page 67==
'''Longy Zwillman''' 
Abner "Longie" Zwillman (July 27, 1904 - February 27, 1959), known as the "Al Capone of New Jersey," was an early Prohibition gangster, founding member of the "Big Seven" Ruling Commission and a member of the National Crime Syndicate, who was also associated with Murder Incorporated. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longy_Zwillman WIKI].

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'''Tabloid of the Damned''' 
Nice. [http://tabloidofthedamned.com tabloidofthedamned.com] redirects to [http://www.thomaspynchon.com/ www.thomaspynchon.com] Good job.
:Back the heck up. Did Pynchon just drop a reference to Thomaspynchon.com, a fansite operated by the same guy as Pynchonwiki???? If so, wow. "Tabloid of the Damned" suggests he's not too happy with the web site? Man.

==Page 54==
'''Carnegie Mellon''' 
Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

'''pari passu''' 
Latin phrase that literally means "with an equal step" or "on equal footing." It is sometimes translated as "ranking equally", "hand-in-hand," "with equal force," or "moving together,"and by extension, "fairly," "without partiality." From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pari_passu WIKI].

'''Dr. Kriechman''' 
In German, "kriechen" means "to creep" or "to crawl".

==Page 55==
'''Papa Doble''' 
Known as the Hemingway Daiquiri, the Papa Doble is a drink made using white rum, lime, grapefruit, and maraschino liqueur.

'''Lincoln Center''' 
A consortium of civic leaders and others led by John D. Rockefeller III built Lincoln Center as part of the "Lincoln Square Renewal Project" during Robert Moses's program of urban renewal in the 1950s and 1960s. Respected architects were contacted to design the major buildings on the site, and over the next thirty years the previously blighted area around Lincoln Center became a new cultural hub. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Center_for_the_Performing_Arts WIKI].

==Page 56==
'''Hermann Göring was right''' 
Hermann Göring was the Nazi founder of the Gestapo. He is credited as saying, "When I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning!" But he probably didn't say this. The line comes from the play ''Schlageter'' by Hanns Johst: "Wenn ich Kultur höre ... entsichere ich meinen Browning!"

==Page 57==
'''Linus himself''' 
Linus Torvalds (b. 1969) is a Finnish American software engineer, who was the principal force behind the development of the Linux kernel. His personal mascot is a penguin nicknamed Tux, which has been widely adopted by the Linux community as the mascot of the Linux kernel.

==Page 58==
'''packet monkey''' 
Someone who intentionally inundates a website or network with data packets, resulting in a denial-of-service situation for users of the attacked site or network. Packet monkeys typically use tools created and made available on the Internet by hackers. Unlike a script kiddy, a packet monkey leaves no clues as to who is making the exploit, making the identity of a packet monkey more difficult to trace. In addition, a denial-of-service attack can be launched on a wider scale than attacks performed by script kiddies, making them more difficult to investigate.

Hackers look down on packet monkeys and often describe them as "bottom feeders." Because a packet monkey uses tools created by others, the packet monkey has little understanding of the harm that may be caused. Typically, packet monkey exploits are random and without any purpose other than the thrill of making an effect. [http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/definition/packet-monkey Source]

==Page 59==
'''Microsoft LM hash''' 
LM hash, LanMan, or LAN Manager hash is a compromised password hashing function that was the primary hash that Microsoft LAN Manager and Microsoft Windows versions prior to Windows NT used to store user passwords. Support for the legacy LAN Manager protocol continued in later versions of Windows for backward compatibility, but was recommended by Microsoft to be turned off by administrators; as of Windows Vista, the protocol is disabled by default, but continues to be used by some non-Microsoft CIFS implementations. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LM_hash WIKI].

==Page 61==
'''"Doing business as Streetlight People"''' 
Reference to this lyric from the American rock band Journey's "Don't Stop Believing," from 1981:
<blockquote>
Strangers, waiting, up and down 
the boulevard 
Their shadows searching in the night 
'''Streetlight people''', living just to 
find emotion 
Hiding, somewhere in the night</blockquote>

{{#ev:youtube|PBEXSiFzOfU}}

'''Slagiatt... vowel''' 
:As far as i can tell, there is no Italian word remotely like Slagiatt + a vowel. [[User:Benvolio|Benvolio]] ([[User talk:Benvolio|talk]])
The way I read it, it references his nickname Rocky, and that losing the 'y' makes it sound too Anglo. [[User:H2oetry|H2oetry]] ([[User talk:H2oetry|talk]])

'''"like lyrics in an opera"''' 
Opera singers routinely fail to enunciate words or syllables in the interest of hitting notes or making it all sound better.

==Page 62==
'''Wayne Gretzky Principle''' 
Steve Jobs: “There’s an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. ‘I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.’ And we’ve always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very very beginning. And we always will.”

==Page 63==
'''Wells notice''' 
The current Wells Fargo is a result of a 1998 merger between Minneapolis-based Norwest Corporation and the original Wells Fargo. Although Norwest was the nominal survivor, the new company kept the Wells Fargo name to capitalize on the long history of the nationally recognized Wells Fargo name and its trademark stagecoach (the company's previous slogan, "The Next Stage," is likely a nod to the company's trademark). After the acquisition, the parent company kept its headquarters in San Francisco. The company's current tagline, "Together we'll go far" also references the stagecoach motif, its customers, and represents the company name itself in a transposed way (Wells Far-go = we'll[s] go-Far).

==Page 64==
'''Further Lane''' 
Through the years East Hampton's wealth has evolved emanating out from the village taking over the farmland that had once been dominated by potato fields. The most dazzling row of mansions remains in the village of East Hampton on the closest road paralleling the ocean along Further Lane and Lily Pond Lane. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Hampton_(town),_New_York Wikipedia entry]

==Page 65==
'''che si duce''' 
Italian greeting: "what's up?", "how's it going?".

==Page 66==
'''Nero d'Avola''' 
A wine from Sicily.

'''Una furtiva lagrima''' 
Famous aria (technically a "romanza") from the opera ''L'elisir d'amore'', by Donizetti.

'''"Un gazz"''' 
Italian, literally "dick," but used like the exclamation, "shit". Also employed by Pynchon in [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=U V.]

'''Greylock''' 
Greylock Partners is one of the oldest venture capital firms, founded in 1965, with committed capital of over $2 billion under management. The firm focuses on early stage companies in the consumer, enterprise software and infrastructure as well as semiconductor sectors. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greylock_Partners WIKI].

'''Lucky Luciano''' 
Charles "Lucky" Luciano was an Italian-born American mobster. Luciano is considered the father of modern organized crime in the United States for splitting New York City into five different Mafia crime families and the establishment of the first Commission. He was the first official boss of the modern Genovese crime family. He was, along with his associate Meyer Lansky, instrumental in the development of the National Crime Syndicate in the United States. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Luciano WIKI].

'''OSS''' 
The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was a United States intelligence agency formed during World War II. It was the wartime intelligence agency, and it was a predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The OSS was formed in order to coordinate espionage activities behind enemy lines for the branches of the United States Armed Forces. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Services WIKI].

==Page 67==
'''Longy Zwillman''' 
Abner "Longie" Zwillman (July 27, 1904 - February 27, 1959), known as the "Al Capone of New Jersey," was an early Prohibition gangster, founding member of the "Big Seven" Ruling Commission and a member of the National Crime Syndicate, who was also associated with Murder Incorporated. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longy_Zwillman WIKI].

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[[Image:Vontz Center.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Vontz Center at the University of Cincinnati. Photo by Greg Hume.]]

'''Scott and Nutella Vontz Auditorium, whose architect owing to some sort of mental condition...''' 
This is a reference to the Vontz Center for Molecular Studies at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio, designed by architect Frank Gehry. It's indeed an interesting structure.

'''''shviger'' evil eye''' 
Shviger is Yiddish for mother-in-law.

'''Midwest... it was the golden age of arcades then... 
Possible reference to Walter Day and Ottumwa, Iowa's ''Twin Galaxies''.

==Page 97==
'''opera''' 
Frank Henry Loesser (1910 – 1969) wrote the lyrics and music to ''Guys and Dolls'' and ''How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying'', among others. Jussi Björling [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPEG914GATk singing Nessun Dorma], Deanna Durbin [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inV3RlOTOXM singing Nessun Dorma]. Squillo "is a technical term attached to the resonant, trumpet-like sound in the voice of opera singers." [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squillo Wikipedia]

:References to opera are littered throughout Pynchon's works. Wagner is mentioned numerous times in ''Gravity's Rainbow''.

==Page 98==
'''it's Aretha Franklin, the time she filled in for Pavarotti at the Grammys back in '98''' 
Here's the performance right [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlNV6YkpXdo here].

'''prewar classic seven''' 
Prewar apartment with seven full rooms.

'''frosk''' 
Yiddish for "slap" or, more particularly, "a slap in the face."

'''''Space Ghost Coast to Ghost''''' 
A cult classic cartoon that ran from 1994-2004, known for its "surrealism, non-sequiturs and random, unpredictable parody humor". [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_ghost_coast_to_coast Wikipedia]

'''Likud Day''' 
Likud is the major center-right party in Israel. A secular party, it was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin in an alliance with several right-wing and liberal parties. Likud's victory in the 1977 elections was a major turning point in the country's political history, marking the first time the left had lost power. In addition, it was the first time in Israel that a right wing party won the plurality of the votes. However, after ruling the country for most of the 1980s, the party lost the Knesset election in 1992. Nevertheless, Likud's candidate Benjamin Netanyahu did win the vote for Prime Minister in 1996 and was given the task of forming a government after the 1996 elections. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likud WIKI].

==Page 99==
'''Fu Manchu''' 
Dr. Fu Manchu is a fictional character introduced in a series of novels by British author Sax Rohmer during the first half of the 20th century. The character was also featured extensively in cinema, television, radio, comic strips and comic books for over 90 years, and has become an archetype of the evil criminal genius while lending the name to the Fu Manchu moustache. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu_Manchu WIKI].

'''Soutine''' 
Website [http://www.soutine.com/ here].

'''Lenox Hill''' 
Lenox Hill Hospital, on Manhattan's Upper East Side in New York City, is a 652-bed, tertiary-care hospital and a teaching hospital of New York Medical College, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, Long Island University and Pace University. It was founded in 1857 as the German Dispensary. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenox_Hill_Hospital WIKI].

==Page 100==
'''a RICO beef''' 
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, commonly referred to as the RICO Act or simply RICO, is a United States federal law that provides for extended criminal penalties and a civil cause of action for acts performed as part of an ongoing criminal organization. The RICO Act focuses specifically on racketeering, and it allows the leaders of a syndicate to be tried for the crimes which they ordered others to do or assisted them, closing a perceived loophole that allowed someone who told a man to, for example, murder, to be exempt from the trial because he did not actually commit the crime personally. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RICO WIKI].

'''Explaining to Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.''' 
The narrator jokingly refers to Windust as Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., who played an FBI agent in the TV series ''The FBI''.

'''''The Day the Earth Stood Still''''' 
Sheer coincidence that Keanu Reeves, mentioned on page 89, starred in the 2008 remake?

'''Sam Jaffe''' 
Sam Jaffe (March 10, 1891 – March 24, 1984) was an American actor, teacher, musician and engineer. In 1951, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in ''The Asphalt Jungle'' (1950) and appeared in other classic films such as ''Ben-Hur'' (1959) and ''The Day the Earth Stood Still'' (1951). He may be best remembered for playing the title role in ''Gunga Din'' (1939), and the High Lama in ''Lost Horizon'' (1937). From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Jaffe WIKI].

'''Klaatu''' 
Klaatu is a fictional humanoid alien in the 1951 science fiction film ''The Day the Earth Stood Still'' and its 2008 remake. Klaatu is famous in part because of the phrase "Klaatu barada nikto!" used in the classic film and its re-use in the Bruce Campbell cult comedy film ''Army of Darkness'', as well as many other films. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaatu_%28The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still%29 WIKI].

==Page 101==
'''the Hollywood Ten''' 
Folks in Hollywood blacklisted as said they were Communists. See the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Ten#The_Hollywood_Ten WIKI].

==Page 102==
'''A reconvergence of what the day scattered''' 
Sappho was a Greek lyric poet, born on the island of Lesbos. The Alexandrians included her in the list of nine lyric poets. Her birth was sometime between 630 and 612 BCE, and it is said that she died around 570 BCE, but little is known for certain about her life. The bulk of her poetry, which was well-known and greatly admired through much of antiquity, has been lost, but her immense reputation has endured through surviving fragments.

Pynchon is referencing this Sappho poem:
<blockquote>
''To Evening'' 
O HESPERUS! Thou bringest all things home; 
All that the garish day hath scattered wide; 
The sheep, the goat, back to the welcome fold; 
Thou bring'st the child, too, to his mother's side.</blockquote>

Pynchon quotes this very poem in ''Mason & Dixon'', at 96.

'''Strangers in the night, exchanging--''' 
From the song "Strangers in the Night" made famous by Frank Sinatra in 1966. The first verse goes: 
Strangers in the night exchanging glances 
Wondering in the night what were the chances 
We'd be sharing love before the night was through. 

==Page 103==
'''still believes the Rosenbergs were innocent''' 
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of espionage and executed in 1953. By 2001, revelations from the Venona Project indicating the guilt of Julius Rosenberg (but not Ethel) had been widely publicized, making Ernie's belief in their innocence even more of an old-Leftie-holdout position. See [http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venona_project#Julius_and_Ethel_Rosenberg%C3%B1ando WIKI].

'''La cibaeñа''' 
An entirely invented word. Perhaps some pun?

La cibaeñа is a girl or woman from the Dominican Republic region of Cibao.

'''catibias''' 
Dominican street food.

General Tso's catibias, going along with the restaurant's Chinese-Dominican fusion, would be a catibias, kind of like a small Dominican calzone, filled with General Tso's chicken or pork, a popular Chinese dish which mainly has to do with the sauce.

'''morir soñando''' 
Morir soñando (die dreaming) is a popular beverage of the Dominican Republic which has made its way to other Hispanic countries, usually made of orange juice, milk, cane sugar, and chopped ice. Sometimes vanilla extract is also added, or evaporated milk is used instead of regular milk. The recipe varies greatly depending on the region and family heritage. American observers have described the drink as resembling a Creamsicle. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morir_so%C3%B1ando WIKI].

==Page 104==

'''rugelach''' 
A Jewish pastry of Ashkenazic origin. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugelach WIKI].

==Page 105==

'''the Ofeq satellite''' 
Ofeq is the designation of a series of Israeli reconnaissance satellites first launched in 1988. Most Ofeq satellites have been carried on top of Shavit rockets from Palmachim Airbase in Israel, on the Mediterranean coast. The Low Earth Orbit satellites complete one earth orbit every 90 minutes. The satellite launches made Israel only the eighth nation to gain an indigenous launch capability. Both the satellites and the launchers were designed and manufactured by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) with Elbit Systems' El-Op division supplying the optical payload. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofeq WIKI].

'''the Pollard case''' 
Jonathan Jay Pollard (born August 7, 1954) is an American who passed classified information to Israel while working as an American civilian intelligence analyst. He pleaded guilty and received a life sentence in 1987. Because his crime occurred prior to November 1, 1987, he is eligible for parole, and may be released on November 21, 2015. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Pollard WIKI].

'''Hertzliya''' 
The Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya is a private university in Israel founded in 1994 by Uriel Reichman. IDC Herzliya is a non-profit corporate institution that receives no government subsidies. The goal is scholarship that goes hand in hand with social responsibility. Degrees granted by IDC Herzliya are accredited by the Israeli Council for Higher Education and are recognized worldwide. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herzliya_Interdisciplinary_Center WIKI].

'''''sayanim''''' 
A sayanim is a Jew living outside Israel who volunteers to provide assistance to Israel and/or the Israeli Mossad utilising the capacity of their own nationality to procure assistance. This assistance includes facilitating medical care, money, logistics, and even overt intelligence gathering. Estimates put the number of sayanims in the hundreds of thousand. While not official Mossad agents and sometimes acting without explicit knowledge, they may work in the capacity of unregistered representatives of the government of Israel in their respective nations. From [http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Sayanim Meta].

==Page 106==
'''Politics & Prose''' 
Independent bookstore in Washington, D.C. Website [http://www.politics-prose.com/ here].

'''Big Ben theme''' 
as heard [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbq-1Dlu1Wc here].

'''Kozmo.com''' 
an actual delivery website, went out of business April 2001.

==Page 107==

'''Duane Reade''' 
a chain of pharmacy and convenience stores, with locations seemingly everywhere in New York City.

==Page 108==

'''Bronx Science''' 
The Bronx High School of Science is a specialized New York City public high school often considered the premier science magnet school in the United States. Founded in 1938, it is now located in the Bedford Park section of the Bronx. Admission is by an exam open to all grade-eligible students in New York City, reportedly taken by more than 20,000 students annually. Although known for its focus on mathematics and science, Bronx Science also emphasizes the humanities and social sciences and continually attracts students with a wide variety of interests beyond math and science. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronx_Science WIKI].

[[File:Bombing of presidential palace in Chile.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Bombing of presidential palace in Chile on 11 September 1973]]

'''Santiago, Chile, on 11 September 1973''' 
The 11 September 1973 Chilean coup d'état was a watershed event in both the Cold War and the history of Chile. Following an extended period of social and political unrest between the conservative-dominated Congress of Chile and the socialist President Salvador Allende, as well as economic warfare ordered by U.S. President Richard Nixon, Allende was overthrown by the armed forces and national police. During the air raids and ground attacks that preceded the coup, Allende gave his last speech, in which he vowed to stay in the presidential palace, denouncing offers for safe passage should he choose exile over confrontation. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilean_coup_of_1973 WIKI].

'''Dirty War''' 
The Dirty War (part of Operation Condor) was a period of state terrorism in Argentina against political dissidents, with military and security forces conducting urban and rural guerrilla warfare against left-wing guerrillas, political dissidents, and anyone believed to be associated with socialism. Victims of the violence included an estimated 15,000 to 30,000 left-wing activists and militants, including trade unionists, students, journalists, Marxists, Peronist guerrillas and alleged sympathizers. Some 10,000 of the "disappeared" were believed to be guerrillas of the Montoneros (MPM), and the Marxist People's Revolutionary Army (ERP). The guerrillas were responsible for causing at least 6,000 casualties among the military, police forces and civilian population according to a National Geographic Magazine article in the mid-1980s. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_war WIKI].

'''IMF''' 
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an international organization that was initiated in 1944 at the Bretton Woods Conference and formally created in 1945 by 29 member countries. The IMF's stated goal was to assist in the reconstruction of the world's international payment system post–World War II. Countries contribute money to a pool through a quota system from which countries with payment imbalances can borrow funds temporarily. Through this activity and others such as surveillance of its members' economies and the demand for self-correcting policies, the IMF works to improve the economies of its member countries. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMF WIKI].

==Page 109==
'''School of the Americas''' 
The US Army School of the Americas, is a United States Department of Defense Institute located at Fort Benning near Columbus, Georgia, that provides military training to government personnel of Latin American countries. The school was founded in 1946 and from 1961 was assigned the specific goal of teaching "anti-communist counterinsurgency training," a role which it would fulfill for the rest of the Cold War. In this period, it educated several Latin American dictators, generations of their military and, during the 1980s, included the uses of torture in its curriculum. In 2000/2001, the institute was renamed The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC). From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_the_americas WIKI].

'''Zermelo's Axiom of Choice''' 
In mathematics, the axiom of choice, or AC, is an axiom of set theory equivalent to the statement that "the product of a collection of non-empty sets is non-empty". The axiom of choice was formulated in 1904 by Ernst Zermelo in order to formalize his proof of the well-ordering theorem. For more detail see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_of_choice WIKI].

==Page 111==
'''United Fruit''' 
The United Fruit Company was an American corporation that traded in tropical fruit (primarily bananas) grown on Central and South American plantations and sold in the United States and Europe. The company was formed in 1899 from the merger of Minor C. Keith's banana-trading concerns with Andrew W. Preston's Boston Fruit Company. It flourished in the early and mid-20th century and came to control vast territories and transportation networks in Central America, the Caribbean coast of Colombia, Ecuador, and the West Indies. Though it competed with the Standard Fruit Company for dominance in the international banana trade, it maintained a virtual monopoly in certain regions, some of which came to be called banana republics. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_fruit WIKI].

'''Kanjobal''' 
Mayan language spoken primarily in Guatemala and part of Mexico.

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[[Image:Vontz Center.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Vontz Center at the University of Cincinnati. Photo by Greg Hume.]]

'''Scott and Nutella Vontz Auditorium, whose architect owing to some sort of mental condition...''' 
This is a reference to the Vontz Center for Molecular Studies at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio, designed by architect Frank Gehry. It's indeed an interesting structure.

'''''shviger'' evil eye''' 
Shviger is Yiddish for mother-in-law.

'''Midwest... it was the golden age of arcades then... 
Possible reference to Walter Day and Ottumwa, Iowa's ''Twin Galaxies''.

==Page 97==
'''opera''' 
Frank Henry Loesser (1910 – 1969) wrote the lyrics and music to ''Guys and Dolls'' and ''How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying'', among others. Jussi Björling [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPEG914GATk singing Nessun Dorma], Deanna Durbin [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inV3RlOTOXM singing Nessun Dorma]. Squillo "is a technical term attached to the resonant, trumpet-like sound in the voice of opera singers." [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squillo Wikipedia]

:References to opera are littered throughout Pynchon's works. Wagner is mentioned numerous times in ''Gravity's Rainbow''.

==Page 98==
'''it's Aretha Franklin, the time she filled in for Pavarotti at the Grammys back in '98''' 
Here's the performance right [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlNV6YkpXdo here].

'''prewar classic seven''' 
Prewar apartment with seven full rooms.

'''frosk''' 
Yiddish for "slap" or, more particularly, "a slap in the face."

'''''Space Ghost Coast to Ghost''''' 
A cult classic cartoon that ran from 1994-2004, known for its "surrealism, non-sequiturs and random, unpredictable parody humor". [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_ghost_coast_to_coast Wikipedia]

'''Likud Day''' 
Likud is the major center-right party in Israel. A secular party, it was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin in an alliance with several right-wing and liberal parties. Likud's victory in the 1977 elections was a major turning point in the country's political history, marking the first time the left had lost power. In addition, it was the first time in Israel that a right wing party won the plurality of the votes. However, after ruling the country for most of the 1980s, the party lost the Knesset election in 1992. Nevertheless, Likud's candidate Benjamin Netanyahu did win the vote for Prime Minister in 1996 and was given the task of forming a government after the 1996 elections. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likud WIKI].

==Page 99==
'''Fu Manchu''' 
Dr. Fu Manchu is a fictional character introduced in a series of novels by British author Sax Rohmer during the first half of the 20th century. The character was also featured extensively in cinema, television, radio, comic strips and comic books for over 90 years, and has become an archetype of the evil criminal genius while lending the name to the Fu Manchu moustache. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu_Manchu WIKI].

'''Soutine''' 
Website [http://www.soutine.com/ here].

'''Lenox Hill''' 
Lenox Hill Hospital, on Manhattan's Upper East Side in New York City, is a 652-bed, tertiary-care hospital and a teaching hospital of New York Medical College, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, Long Island University and Pace University. It was founded in 1857 as the German Dispensary. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenox_Hill_Hospital WIKI].

==Page 100==
'''a RICO beef''' 
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, commonly referred to as the RICO Act or simply RICO, is a United States federal law that provides for extended criminal penalties and a civil cause of action for acts performed as part of an ongoing criminal organization. The RICO Act focuses specifically on racketeering, and it allows the leaders of a syndicate to be tried for the crimes which they ordered others to do or assisted them, closing a perceived loophole that allowed someone who told a man to, for example, murder, to be exempt from the trial because he did not actually commit the crime personally. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RICO WIKI].

'''Explaining to Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.''' 
The narrator jokingly refers to Windust as Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., who played an FBI agent in the TV series ''The FBI''.

'''''The Day the Earth Stood Still''''' 
Sheer coincidence that Keanu Reeves, mentioned on page 89, starred in the 2008 remake?

'''Sam Jaffe''' 
Sam Jaffe (March 10, 1891 – March 24, 1984) was an American actor, teacher, musician and engineer. In 1951, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in ''The Asphalt Jungle'' (1950) and appeared in other classic films such as ''Ben-Hur'' (1959) and ''The Day the Earth Stood Still'' (1951). He may be best remembered for playing the title role in ''Gunga Din'' (1939), and the High Lama in ''Lost Horizon'' (1937). From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Jaffe WIKI].

'''Klaatu''' 
Klaatu is a fictional humanoid alien in the 1951 science fiction film ''The Day the Earth Stood Still'' and its 2008 remake. Klaatu is famous in part because of the phrase "Klaatu barada nikto!" used in the classic film and its re-use in the Bruce Campbell cult comedy film ''Army of Darkness'', as well as many other films. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaatu_%28The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still%29 WIKI].

==Page 101==
'''the Hollywood Ten''' 
Folks in Hollywood blacklisted as said they were Communists. See the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Ten#The_Hollywood_Ten WIKI].

==Page 102==
'''A reconvergence of what the day scattered''' 
Sappho was a Greek lyric poet, born on the island of Lesbos. The Alexandrians included her in the list of nine lyric poets. Her birth was sometime between 630 and 612 BCE, and it is said that she died around 570 BCE, but little is known for certain about her life. The bulk of her poetry, which was well-known and greatly admired through much of antiquity, has been lost, but her immense reputation has endured through surviving fragments.

Pynchon is referencing this Sappho poem:
<blockquote>
''To Evening'' 
O HESPERUS! Thou bringest all things home; 
All that the garish day hath scattered wide; 
The sheep, the goat, back to the welcome fold; 
Thou bring'st the child, too, to his mother's side.</blockquote>

Pynchon quotes this very poem in ''Mason & Dixon'', at 96.

'''Strangers in the night, exchanging--''' 
From the song "Strangers in the Night" made famous by Frank Sinatra in 1966. The first verse goes: 
Strangers in the night exchanging glances 
Wondering in the night what were the chances 
We'd be sharing love before the night was through. 

==Page 103==
'''still believes the Rosenbergs were innocent''' 
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of espionage and executed in 1953. By 2001, revelations from the Venona Project indicating the guilt of Julius Rosenberg (but not Ethel) had been widely publicized, making Ernie's belief in their innocence even more of an old-Leftie-holdout position. See [http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venona_project#Julius_and_Ethel_Rosenberg%C3%B1ando WIKI].

'''La cibaeñа''' 
An entirely invented word. Perhaps some pun?

La cibaeñа is a girl or woman from the Dominican Republic region of Cibao.

'''catibias''' 
Dominican street food.

General Tso's catibias, going along with the restaurant's Chinese-Dominican fusion, would be a catibias, kind of like a small Dominican calzone, filled with General Tso's chicken or pork, a popular Chinese dish which mainly has to do with the sauce.

'''morir soñando''' 
Morir soñando (die dreaming) is a popular beverage of the Dominican Republic which has made its way to other Hispanic countries, usually made of orange juice, milk, cane sugar, and chopped ice. Sometimes vanilla extract is also added, or evaporated milk is used instead of regular milk. The recipe varies greatly depending on the region and family heritage. American observers have described the drink as resembling a Creamsicle. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morir_so%C3%B1ando WIKI].

==Page 104==

'''rugelach''' 
A Jewish pastry of Ashkenazic origin. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugelach WIKI].

==Page 105==

'''the Ofeq satellite''' 
Ofeq is the designation of a series of Israeli reconnaissance satellites first launched in 1988. Most Ofeq satellites have been carried on top of Shavit rockets from Palmachim Airbase in Israel, on the Mediterranean coast. The Low Earth Orbit satellites complete one earth orbit every 90 minutes. The satellite launches made Israel only the eighth nation to gain an indigenous launch capability. Both the satellites and the launchers were designed and manufactured by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) with Elbit Systems' El-Op division supplying the optical payload. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofeq WIKI].

'''the Pollard case''' 
Jonathan Jay Pollard (born August 7, 1954) is an American who passed classified information to Israel while working as an American civilian intelligence analyst. He pleaded guilty and received a life sentence in 1987. Because his crime occurred prior to November 1, 1987, he is eligible for parole, and may be released on November 21, 2015. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Pollard WIKI].

'''Hertzliya''' 
The Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya is a private university in Israel founded in 1994 by Uriel Reichman. IDC Herzliya is a non-profit corporate institution that receives no government subsidies. The goal is scholarship that goes hand in hand with social responsibility. Degrees granted by IDC Herzliya are accredited by the Israeli Council for Higher Education and are recognized worldwide. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herzliya_Interdisciplinary_Center WIKI].

'''''sayanim''''' 
A sayanim is a Jew living outside Israel who volunteers to provide assistance to Israel and/or the Israeli Mossad utilising the capacity of their own nationality to procure assistance. This assistance includes facilitating medical care, money, logistics, and even overt intelligence gathering. Estimates put the number of sayanims in the hundreds of thousand. While not official Mossad agents and sometimes acting without explicit knowledge, they may work in the capacity of unregistered representatives of the government of Israel in their respective nations. From [http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Sayanim Meta].

==Page 106==
'''Politics & Prose''' 
Independent bookstore in Washington, D.C. Website [http://www.politics-prose.com/ here].

'''Big Ben theme''' 
as heard [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbq-1Dlu1Wc here].

'''Kozmo.com''' 
an actual delivery website, went out of business April 2001.

==Page 107==

'''Duane Reade''' 
Duane Reade Inc., a subsidiary of the Walgreen Company, is a chain of pharmacy and convenience stores, primarily located in New York City, known for its high volume small store layouts in densely populated Manhattan locations. The headquarters is located along Ninth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duane_Reade WIKI].

==Page 108==

'''Bronx Science''' 
The Bronx High School of Science is a specialized New York City public high school often considered the premier science magnet school in the United States. Founded in 1938, it is now located in the Bedford Park section of the Bronx. Admission is by an exam open to all grade-eligible students in New York City, reportedly taken by more than 20,000 students annually. Although known for its focus on mathematics and science, Bronx Science also emphasizes the humanities and social sciences and continually attracts students with a wide variety of interests beyond math and science. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronx_Science WIKI].

[[File:Bombing of presidential palace in Chile.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Bombing of presidential palace in Chile on 11 September 1973]]

'''Santiago, Chile, on 11 September 1973''' 
The 11 September 1973 Chilean coup d'état was a watershed event in both the Cold War and the history of Chile. Following an extended period of social and political unrest between the conservative-dominated Congress of Chile and the socialist President Salvador Allende, as well as economic warfare ordered by U.S. President Richard Nixon, Allende was overthrown by the armed forces and national police. During the air raids and ground attacks that preceded the coup, Allende gave his last speech, in which he vowed to stay in the presidential palace, denouncing offers for safe passage should he choose exile over confrontation. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilean_coup_of_1973 WIKI].

'''Dirty War''' 
The Dirty War (part of Operation Condor) was a period of state terrorism in Argentina against political dissidents, with military and security forces conducting urban and rural guerrilla warfare against left-wing guerrillas, political dissidents, and anyone believed to be associated with socialism. Victims of the violence included an estimated 15,000 to 30,000 left-wing activists and militants, including trade unionists, students, journalists, Marxists, Peronist guerrillas and alleged sympathizers. Some 10,000 of the "disappeared" were believed to be guerrillas of the Montoneros (MPM), and the Marxist People's Revolutionary Army (ERP). The guerrillas were responsible for causing at least 6,000 casualties among the military, police forces and civilian population according to a National Geographic Magazine article in the mid-1980s. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_war WIKI].

'''IMF''' 
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an international organization that was initiated in 1944 at the Bretton Woods Conference and formally created in 1945 by 29 member countries. The IMF's stated goal was to assist in the reconstruction of the world's international payment system post–World War II. Countries contribute money to a pool through a quota system from which countries with payment imbalances can borrow funds temporarily. Through this activity and others such as surveillance of its members' economies and the demand for self-correcting policies, the IMF works to improve the economies of its member countries. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMF WIKI].

==Page 109==
'''School of the Americas''' 
The US Army School of the Americas, is a United States Department of Defense Institute located at Fort Benning near Columbus, Georgia, that provides military training to government personnel of Latin American countries. The school was founded in 1946 and from 1961 was assigned the specific goal of teaching "anti-communist counterinsurgency training," a role which it would fulfill for the rest of the Cold War. In this period, it educated several Latin American dictators, generations of their military and, during the 1980s, included the uses of torture in its curriculum. In 2000/2001, the institute was renamed The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC). From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_the_americas WIKI].

'''Zermelo's Axiom of Choice''' 
In mathematics, the axiom of choice, or AC, is an axiom of set theory equivalent to the statement that "the product of a collection of non-empty sets is non-empty". The axiom of choice was formulated in 1904 by Ernst Zermelo in order to formalize his proof of the well-ordering theorem. For more detail see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_of_choice WIKI].

==Page 111==
'''United Fruit''' 
The United Fruit Company was an American corporation that traded in tropical fruit (primarily bananas) grown on Central and South American plantations and sold in the United States and Europe. The company was formed in 1899 from the merger of Minor C. Keith's banana-trading concerns with Andrew W. Preston's Boston Fruit Company. It flourished in the early and mid-20th century and came to control vast territories and transportation networks in Central America, the Caribbean coast of Colombia, Ecuador, and the West Indies. Though it competed with the Standard Fruit Company for dominance in the international banana trade, it maintained a virtual monopoly in certain regions, some of which came to be called banana republics. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_fruit WIKI].

'''Kanjobal''' 
Mayan language spoken primarily in Guatemala and part of Mexico.

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==Page 96==
[[Image:Vontz Center.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Vontz Center at the University of Cincinnati. Photo by Greg Hume.]]

'''Scott and Nutella Vontz Auditorium, whose architect owing to some sort of mental condition...''' 
This is a reference to the Vontz Center for Molecular Studies at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio, designed by architect Frank Gehry. It's indeed an interesting structure.

'''''shviger'' evil eye''' 
Shviger is Yiddish for mother-in-law.

'''Midwest... it was the golden age of arcades then... 
Possible reference to Walter Day and Ottumwa, Iowa's ''Twin Galaxies''.

==Page 97==
'''opera''' 
Frank Henry Loesser (1910 – 1969) wrote the lyrics and music to ''Guys and Dolls'' and ''How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying'', among others. Jussi Björling [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPEG914GATk singing Nessun Dorma], Deanna Durbin [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inV3RlOTOXM singing Nessun Dorma]. Squillo "is a technical term attached to the resonant, trumpet-like sound in the voice of opera singers." [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squillo Wikipedia]

:References to opera are littered throughout Pynchon's works. Wagner is mentioned numerous times in ''Gravity's Rainbow''.

==Page 98==
'''it's Aretha Franklin, the time she filled in for Pavarotti at the Grammys back in '98''' 
Here's the performance right [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlNV6YkpXdo here].

'''prewar classic seven''' 
Prewar apartment with seven full rooms.

'''frosk''' 
Yiddish for "slap" or, more particularly, "a slap in the face."

'''''Space Ghost Coast to Ghost''''' 
A cult classic cartoon that ran from 1994-2004, known for its "surrealism, non-sequiturs and random, unpredictable parody humor". [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_ghost_coast_to_coast Wikipedia]

'''Likud Day''' 
Likud is the major center-right party in Israel. A secular party, it was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin in an alliance with several right-wing and liberal parties. Likud's victory in the 1977 elections was a major turning point in the country's political history, marking the first time the left had lost power. In addition, it was the first time in Israel that a right wing party won the plurality of the votes. However, after ruling the country for most of the 1980s, the party lost the Knesset election in 1992. Nevertheless, Likud's candidate Benjamin Netanyahu did win the vote for Prime Minister in 1996 and was given the task of forming a government after the 1996 elections. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likud WIKI].

==Page 99==
'''Fu Manchu''' 
Dr. Fu Manchu is a fictional character introduced in a series of novels by British author Sax Rohmer during the first half of the 20th century. The character was also featured extensively in cinema, television, radio, comic strips and comic books for over 90 years, and has become an archetype of the evil criminal genius while lending the name to the Fu Manchu moustache. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu_Manchu WIKI].

'''Soutine''' 
Website [http://www.soutine.com/ here].

'''Lenox Hill''' 
Lenox Hill Hospital, on Manhattan's Upper East Side in New York City, is a 652-bed, tertiary-care hospital and a teaching hospital of New York Medical College, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, Long Island University and Pace University. It was founded in 1857 as the German Dispensary. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenox_Hill_Hospital WIKI].

==Page 100==
'''a RICO beef''' 
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, commonly referred to as the RICO Act or simply RICO, is a United States federal law that provides for extended criminal penalties and a civil cause of action for acts performed as part of an ongoing criminal organization. The RICO Act focuses specifically on racketeering, and it allows the leaders of a syndicate to be tried for the crimes which they ordered others to do or assisted them, closing a perceived loophole that allowed someone who told a man to, for example, murder, to be exempt from the trial because he did not actually commit the crime personally. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RICO WIKI].

'''Explaining to Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.''' 
The narrator jokingly refers to Windust as Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., who played an FBI agent in the TV series ''The FBI''.

'''''The Day the Earth Stood Still''''' 
Sheer coincidence that Keanu Reeves, mentioned on page 89, starred in the 2008 remake?

'''Sam Jaffe''' 
Sam Jaffe (March 10, 1891 – March 24, 1984) was an American actor, teacher, musician and engineer. In 1951, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in ''The Asphalt Jungle'' (1950) and appeared in other classic films such as ''Ben-Hur'' (1959) and ''The Day the Earth Stood Still'' (1951). He may be best remembered for playing the title role in ''Gunga Din'' (1939), and the High Lama in ''Lost Horizon'' (1937). From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Jaffe WIKI].

'''Klaatu''' 
Klaatu is a fictional humanoid alien in the 1951 science fiction film ''The Day the Earth Stood Still'' and its 2008 remake. Klaatu is famous in part because of the phrase "Klaatu barada nikto!" used in the classic film and its re-use in the Bruce Campbell cult comedy film ''Army of Darkness'', as well as many other films. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaatu_%28The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still%29 WIKI].

==Page 101==
'''the Hollywood Ten''' 
Folks in Hollywood blacklisted as said they were Communists. See the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Ten#The_Hollywood_Ten WIKI].

==Page 102==
'''A reconvergence of what the day scattered''' 
Sappho was a Greek lyric poet, born on the island of Lesbos. The Alexandrians included her in the list of nine lyric poets. Her birth was sometime between 630 and 612 BCE, and it is said that she died around 570 BCE, but little is known for certain about her life. The bulk of her poetry, which was well-known and greatly admired through much of antiquity, has been lost, but her immense reputation has endured through surviving fragments.

Pynchon is referencing this Sappho poem:
<blockquote>
''To Evening'' 
O HESPERUS! Thou bringest all things home; 
All that the garish day hath scattered wide; 
The sheep, the goat, back to the welcome fold; 
Thou bring'st the child, too, to his mother's side.</blockquote>

Pynchon quotes this very poem in ''Mason & Dixon'', at 96.

'''Strangers in the night, exchanging--''' 
From the song "Strangers in the Night" made famous by Frank Sinatra in 1966. The first verse goes: 
Strangers in the night exchanging glances 
Wondering in the night what were the chances 
We'd be sharing love before the night was through. 

==Page 103==
'''still believes the Rosenbergs were innocent''' 
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of espionage and executed in 1953. By 2001, revelations from the Venona Project indicating the guilt of Julius Rosenberg (but not Ethel) had been widely publicized, making Ernie's belief in their innocence even more of an old-Leftie-holdout position. See [http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venona_project#Julius_and_Ethel_Rosenberg%C3%B1ando WIKI].

'''La cibaeñа''' 
An entirely invented word. Perhaps some pun?

La cibaeñа is a girl or woman from the Dominican Republic region of Cibao.

'''catibias''' 
Dominican street food.

General Tso's catibias, going along with the restaurant's Chinese-Dominican fusion, would be a catibias, kind of like a small Dominican calzone, filled with General Tso's chicken or pork, a popular Chinese dish which mainly has to do with the sauce.

'''morir soñando''' 
Morir soñando (die dreaming) is a popular beverage of the Dominican Republic which has made its way to other Hispanic countries, usually made of orange juice, milk, cane sugar, and chopped ice. Sometimes vanilla extract is also added, or evaporated milk is used instead of regular milk. The recipe varies greatly depending on the region and family heritage. American observers have described the drink as resembling a Creamsicle. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morir_so%C3%B1ando WIKI].

==Page 104==

'''rugelach''' 
A Jewish pastry of Ashkenazic origin. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugelach WIKI].

==Page 105==

'''the Ofeq satellite''' 
Ofeq is the designation of a series of Israeli reconnaissance satellites first launched in 1988. Most Ofeq satellites have been carried on top of Shavit rockets from Palmachim Airbase in Israel, on the Mediterranean coast. The Low Earth Orbit satellites complete one earth orbit every 90 minutes. The satellite launches made Israel only the eighth nation to gain an indigenous launch capability. Both the satellites and the launchers were designed and manufactured by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) with Elbit Systems' El-Op division supplying the optical payload. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofeq WIKI].

'''the Pollard case''' 
Jonathan Jay Pollard (born August 7, 1954) is an American who passed classified information to Israel while working as an American civilian intelligence analyst. He pleaded guilty and received a life sentence in 1987. Because his crime occurred prior to November 1, 1987, he is eligible for parole, and may be released on November 21, 2015. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Pollard WIKI].

'''Hertzliya''' 
The Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya is a private university in Israel founded in 1994 by Uriel Reichman. IDC Herzliya is a non-profit corporate institution that receives no government subsidies. The goal is scholarship that goes hand in hand with social responsibility. Degrees granted by IDC Herzliya are accredited by the Israeli Council for Higher Education and are recognized worldwide. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herzliya_Interdisciplinary_Center WIKI].

'''''sayanim''''' 
A sayanim is a Jew living outside Israel who volunteers to provide assistance to Israel and/or the Israeli Mossad utilising the capacity of their own nationality to procure assistance. This assistance includes facilitating medical care, money, logistics, and even overt intelligence gathering. Estimates put the number of sayanims in the hundreds of thousand. While not official Mossad agents and sometimes acting without explicit knowledge, they may work in the capacity of unregistered representatives of the government of Israel in their respective nations. From [http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Sayanim Meta].

==Page 106==
'''Politics & Prose''' 
Independent bookstore in Washington, D.C. Website [http://www.politics-prose.com/ here].

'''Big Ben theme''' 
as heard [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbq-1Dlu1Wc here].

==Page 107==

'''Duane Reade''' 
Duane Reade Inc., a subsidiary of the Walgreen Company, is a chain of pharmacy and convenience stores, primarily located in New York City, known for its high volume small store layouts in densely populated Manhattan locations. The headquarters is located along Ninth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duane_Reade WIKI].

==Page 108==

'''Bronx Science''' 
The Bronx High School of Science is a specialized New York City public high school often considered the premier science magnet school in the United States. Founded in 1938, it is now located in the Bedford Park section of the Bronx. Admission is by an exam open to all grade-eligible students in New York City, reportedly taken by more than 20,000 students annually. Although known for its focus on mathematics and science, Bronx Science also emphasizes the humanities and social sciences and continually attracts students with a wide variety of interests beyond math and science. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronx_Science WIKI].

[[File:Bombing of presidential palace in Chile.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Bombing of presidential palace in Chile on 11 September 1973]]

'''Santiago, Chile, on 11 September 1973''' 
The 11 September 1973 Chilean coup d'état was a watershed event in both the Cold War and the history of Chile. Following an extended period of social and political unrest between the conservative-dominated Congress of Chile and the socialist President Salvador Allende, as well as economic warfare ordered by U.S. President Richard Nixon, Allende was overthrown by the armed forces and national police. During the air raids and ground attacks that preceded the coup, Allende gave his last speech, in which he vowed to stay in the presidential palace, denouncing offers for safe passage should he choose exile over confrontation. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilean_coup_of_1973 WIKI].

'''Dirty War''' 
The Dirty War (part of Operation Condor) was a period of state terrorism in Argentina against political dissidents, with military and security forces conducting urban and rural guerrilla warfare against left-wing guerrillas, political dissidents, and anyone believed to be associated with socialism. Victims of the violence included an estimated 15,000 to 30,000 left-wing activists and militants, including trade unionists, students, journalists, Marxists, Peronist guerrillas and alleged sympathizers. Some 10,000 of the "disappeared" were believed to be guerrillas of the Montoneros (MPM), and the Marxist People's Revolutionary Army (ERP). The guerrillas were responsible for causing at least 6,000 casualties among the military, police forces and civilian population according to a National Geographic Magazine article in the mid-1980s. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_war WIKI].

'''IMF''' 
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an international organization that was initiated in 1944 at the Bretton Woods Conference and formally created in 1945 by 29 member countries. The IMF's stated goal was to assist in the reconstruction of the world's international payment system post–World War II. Countries contribute money to a pool through a quota system from which countries with payment imbalances can borrow funds temporarily. Through this activity and others such as surveillance of its members' economies and the demand for self-correcting policies, the IMF works to improve the economies of its member countries. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMF WIKI].

==Page 109==
'''School of the Americas''' 
The US Army School of the Americas, is a United States Department of Defense Institute located at Fort Benning near Columbus, Georgia, that provides military training to government personnel of Latin American countries. The school was founded in 1946 and from 1961 was assigned the specific goal of teaching "anti-communist counterinsurgency training," a role which it would fulfill for the rest of the Cold War. In this period, it educated several Latin American dictators, generations of their military and, during the 1980s, included the uses of torture in its curriculum. In 2000/2001, the institute was renamed The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC). From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_the_americas WIKI].

'''Zermelo's Axiom of Choice''' 
In mathematics, the axiom of choice, or AC, is an axiom of set theory equivalent to the statement that "the product of a collection of non-empty sets is non-empty". The axiom of choice was formulated in 1904 by Ernst Zermelo in order to formalize his proof of the well-ordering theorem. For more detail see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_of_choice WIKI].

==Page 111==
'''United Fruit''' 
The United Fruit Company was an American corporation that traded in tropical fruit (primarily bananas) grown on Central and South American plantations and sold in the United States and Europe. The company was formed in 1899 from the merger of Minor C. Keith's banana-trading concerns with Andrew W. Preston's Boston Fruit Company. It flourished in the early and mid-20th century and came to control vast territories and transportation networks in Central America, the Caribbean coast of Colombia, Ecuador, and the West Indies. Though it competed with the Standard Fruit Company for dominance in the international banana trade, it maintained a virtual monopoly in certain regions, some of which came to be called banana republics. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_fruit WIKI].

'''Kanjobal''' 
Mayan language spoken primarily in Guatemala and part of Mexico.

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'''opera''' 
Frank Henry Loesser (1910 – 1969) wrote the lyrics and music to ''Guys and Dolls'' and ''How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying'', among others. Jussi Björling [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPEG914GATk singing Nessun Dorma], Deanna Durbin [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inV3RlOTOXM singing Nessun Dorma]. Squillo "is a technical term attached to the resonant, trumpet-like sound in the voice of opera singers." [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squillo Wikipedia]

:References to opera are littered throughout Pynchon's works. Wagner is mentioned numerous times in ''Gravity's Rainbow''.

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'''Space Ghost Coast to Ghost''' 
a cult classic cartoon that ran from 1994-2004, known for its "surrealism, non-sequiturs and random, unpredictable parody humor". [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_ghost_coast_to_coast Wikipedia]

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'''Explaining to Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.''' 
The narrator jokingly refers to Windust as Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., who played an FBI agent in the TV series ''The FBI''.

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'''A reconvergence of what the day scattered''' 
Sappho was a Greek lyric poet, born on the island of Lesbos. The Alexandrians included her in the list of nine lyric poets. Her birth was sometime between 630 and 612 BCE, and it is said that she died around 570 BCE, but little is known for certain about her life. The bulk of her poetry, which was well-known and greatly admired through much of antiquity, has been lost, but her immense reputation has endured through surviving fragments.

Pynchon is referencing this Sappho poem:
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''To Evening'' 
O HESPERUS! Thou bringest all things home; 
All that the garish day hath scattered wide; 
The sheep, the goat, back to the welcome fold; 
Thou bring'st the child, too, to his mother's side.</blockquote>

Pynchon quotes this very poem in ''Mason & Dixon'', at 96.

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'''still believes the Rosenbergs were innocent''' 
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of espionage and executed in 1953.

'''La cibaeñа''' 
An entirely invented word. Perhaps some pun?

'''catibias''' 
Dominican street food.

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'''Cab driver Rapture''' 
123 - "today's the day"

[[File:Perl-Camel2.jpg|right|175px|The Perl Camel]]'''Camel Book''' 
74, The Camel has been the symbol of Perl since its appearance on the cover of the first edition of Programming Perl. O'Reilly Media, Inc. maintains the trademark on the use of camel in association with Perl.

'''CAPITALISM''' 
post-late capitalism, 136; vulture capitalists, 147; pyramid racket, 161; late capitalism & the Deep Web, 241;

'''Carnegie Mellon''' 
54, where Ice attended college, maybe;

'''Cassidy''' 
85, designed DeepArcher splash screen;

'''Ceres Cafe''' 
23, Chicago

'''CFE''' 
17 – Certified Fraud Examiner

[[File:cheongsam.jpg|left|100px]]'''cheongsam''' 
22 - a body-hugging one-piece Chinese dress for women (see left)

'''Champagne Lounge''' 
223 - A champagne room (also called a champagne lounge, or champagne court) is a specialized VIP Room service offered by gentleman's clubs where a customer can purchase time (usually in half-hour increments) with an exotic dancer in a private room on the premises. Depending on the quality of the club, these rooms, which are typically away from the hustle and bustle of the main club, are generally well decorated and usually appointed with a private bar. Clubs sell champagne by the glass or by the bottle for both the dancer and the customer. Some clubs also offer a food and/or cigar service.

'''''Chercher le geek''''' 
88 - French: "look at the geek"

'''chess''' 
59;

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'''Chipmunks, The''' 
"Me, I want a hula hoop" 124, line from their hit "Hula Hoop (The Christmas Song"); "Al-vinnn?" 127;

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'''Christer''' 
57

'''Chu, Zooey''' 
61, workstations

'''Chuchu''' 
70

'''Chuy's Hideaway''' 
161 Dance club near Vermilyea;

'''Cibaeña, La''' 
103, cafe on Amsterdam where Maxine and Windust go;

'''CIGARS''' 
"women named after inexpensive cigars" 22; "smoldering cigar gripped in his teeth? 116; "Cohiba smoke" (a premium cigar), 152; Presidente longneck, 162;

'''Clinton, Hillary''' 
86;

'''Clooney, George''' 
212

'''COLOR''' 
eye-catching yllow, 6; acid-green, 43; electric green, 112; vivid turnip purple, 120; indigo, 125; salmon spot, 152; "big blue eyes" 154; burnt orange and electric orchid, 155; sickly green metallic shade, 173; acid-orange flames, 196; lurid yellow tinge, 198; pale rasberry shirt, 200; handkerchief in deep orchid, 200; bronze-colored cames (a came is a slender grooved lead bar used to hold together the panes in stained glass or latticework windows), 204; verdigris (the common name for a green pigment obtained through the application of acetic acid to copper plates or the natural patina formed when copper, brass or bronze is weathered and exposed to air or seawater over a period of time), 204; wintry gray, 204; strange rarified greenish blue, 205; red and green LEDs, 207; neon aqua, 220; indigo lighting, 221; tangerine shade 232; faded poison green, 241;

'''co-opping frenzy''' 
54

'''Comprehensive Pizza''' 
93

'''Corey, Wendell''' 
27 - (March 20, 1914 – November 8, 1968) an American actor and politician. He played police Lt. Thomas Doyle in Alfred Hitchcock's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rear_Window ''Rear Window''] (1954)

'''Corleone, Michael''' 
151

'''Cornelia''' 
63, girl in framed photo on Rocky's desk; 147;

'''Crash of '29''' 
4

'''Crazy Eddie t-shirt''' 
6, worn by Dizzy

'''creep''' 
2, 54 ("Kriechen" means "to creep"), 112, 160, 251, 

'''Cruz, Celi''' 
164 - (October 21, 1925 – July 16, 2003) a Cuban-American salsa performer. One of the most popular salsa artists of the 20th century, she earned twenty-three gold albums and was renowned internationally as the "Queen of Salsa" as well as "La Guarachera de Cuba." Cruz spent much of her career living in New Jersey, and working in the United States and several Latin American countries. Leila Cobo of Billboard Magazine once said "Cruz is indisputably the best known and most influential female figure in the history of Cuban music."

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'''Cubitts, Dwayne Z. ("Dizzy")''' 
6, "gizmo retailer", aka Uncle Dizzy

'''Czornak, Heidi''' 
22, and Horst; purse drama, 212; Poison fragrance, 231; affair with Conkling, 237;

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