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'''Cue the theremin music''' 
Refers to the theme song of the original TV series ''Star Trek'' (I think?), which used the eerie sound of the theremin. Relates to the extra terrestrial/sci-fi activities at Montauk mentioned a few lines earlier.

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'''The ''padonki'' exchange a hopeful glance.''' 
Padonki (Russian: падонки) is an an underground, nonconformist counter-culture within the Russian-speaking Internet that originated in 1997. It's most famous for using a distinctive slang, known as padonkaffsky jargon or, alternatively, as Olbanian. They pride themselves on their ability to creatively disrupt, question and make fun of mainstream culture. A padonok is any individual who has the ability to detach from social, cultural, ideological, and political norms. The singular of padonki is padonok (Russian: падонок), an intentional misspelling of podonok (Russian: подонок), which means riff-raff, scoundrel, or scum. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padonki]]

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'''Do svidanya Maksi! Poka, byelokurva!''' 
I think there is some sort of bilingual pun on saying goodbye. My brother speaks Russian and says the first sentence says "Goodbye, Maxi!" The second one he didn't know. I rearranged it into Poka bilo Kurva, which in Bosnian Google translate came up as "Show any Pickup." Anyone versed in these languages? [[User:H2oetry|H2oetry]] ([[User talk:H2oetry|talk]])

I've found '''''Poka''''', '''''byelo-''''' and '''''kurva''''' translated separately on the web as, respectively, ''So long!''. . . ''white''. . . ''whore''. So maybe we argue that our Maxie is an avatar of the White Goddess in decline? Or maybe it's just one ol' pal saying good-bye to another with an affectionate dig.

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==Page 452==
'''Cue the theremin music''' 
Refers to the theme song of the original TV series ''Star Trek'' (I think?), which used the eerie sound of the theremin. Relates to the extra terrestrial/sci-fi activities at Montauk mentioned a few lines earlier.

==Page 462==
'''The ''padonki'' exchange a hopeful glance.''' 
Padonki (Russian: падонки) is an an underground, nonconformist counter-culture within the Russian-speaking Internet that originated in 1997. It's most famous for using a distinctive slang, known as padonkaffsky jargon or, alternatively, as Olbanian. They pride themselves on their ability to creatively disrupt, question and make fun of mainstream culture. A padonok is any individual who has the ability to detach from social, cultural, ideological, and political norms. The singular of padonki is padonok (Russian: падонок), an intentional misspelling of podonok (Russian: подонок), which means riff-raff, scoundrel, or scum. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padonki]]

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'''Do svidanya Maksi! Poka, byelokurva!''' 
I think there is some sort of bilingual pun on saying goodbye. My brother speaks Russian and says the first sentence says "Goodbye, Maxi!" The second one he didn't know. I rearranged it into Poka bilo Kurva, which in Bosnian Google translate came up as "Show any Pickup." Anyone versed in these languages? [[User:H2oetry|H2oetry]] ([[User talk:H2oetry|talk]])

I've found ''Poka'', ''byelo-'' and ''kurva'' translated separately on the web as, respectively, ''So long!''. . . ''white''. . . ''whore''. So maybe we argue that our Maxie is an avatar of the White Goddess in decline? Or maybe it's just one ol' pal saying good-bye to another with an affectionate dig.

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'''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."

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'''Vodkascript''' 
Programming code that is written so poorly that it could only have been written by someone after that person drank an entire bottle of vodka. Thought it may run without error, it may be overly inefficient, useless, or a re-implementation of a function that already exists as part of the programming language.

'''trustafarians''' 
a rich young person who adopts a bohemian lifestyle and lives in a nonaffluent area.

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'''as in 'Bird Dog' by the Everly Brothers . . . nobody's quail''' 
"Bird Dog" is a song about a guy trying to steal another guy's girl. It includes the lyric: "Hey, bird dog get away from my quail."

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'''no one alive has smelled it before''' 
She can smell 9/11 coming? That's why she's getting out of NY and DC.

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'''''zhlub''''' 
A zhlub is a crude person lacking in social skills along with insensitivity, clumsiness and a lack of manners. Recall Richard M. Zhlub from [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=XYZ ''Gravity's Rainbow'']

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'''Mannlicher-Carcano . . . Jackie and I were dear friends''' 
A Mannlicher-Carcano is a type of rifle. Oswald used one to shoot JFK.

==Page 285==
'''is she really turning into Elaine''' 
Is she talking about Elaine from the TV show ''Seinfeld''?

More likely worried about turning into her mother, Elaine Tarnow. Oddly enough, ''Seinfeld'', which closed up shop in 1998 but was running damned near every hour of the day in syndication in 2000, does not feature as either a tubal or a New York Jewish reference in the novel. It's all about the ''Friends''.

'''as Larry Talbot into the Wolf Man''' 
Larry Talbot was the main character of the 1941 film ''The Wolf Man''.

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'''''Salsipuedes''''' 
"Leave if you can"

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'''''de Guatemala a Guatepeor''''' 
figuratively speaking, "out of the frying pan into the fire"

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'''''Salsipuedes''''' 
"Leave if you can"

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'''''Salsipuedes''''' 
"Leave if you can"

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'''Kyrgyz movie''' 
Recall [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=The_Kirghiz_Light The Kirghiz Light] in Pynchon's ''Gravity's Rainbow'' (1973). Interestly, he changes the spelling here, reflecting how it's now [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyrgyzstan commonly spelled].

'''Tongue Polonaise''' 
A traditional Jewish holiday dish. The recipe Pynchon describes may likely have come from
[http://books.google.com/books?id=PZTEv5vV8IMC&pg=PA154&lpg=PA154&dq=tongue+polonaise+gingersnaps&source=bl&ots=m7Bn8OBm0v&sig=D2GPLhldrSi6CDWYGlLJ_WvmEM4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=20I5Uu2NDMLqrQGEt4GAAw&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=tongue%20polonaise%20gingersnaps&f=false ''Cooking Jewish''] by Judy Bart Kancigor (Workman Publishing, 2007):

<blockquote>
If you attended Bar Mitzvahs in the 1950, you probably saw some permutation of this recipe on the buffet table. Tongue has fallen out of favor in the intervening decades, except on sandwiches in kosher delis, and even then it's ordered only by people old enough to remember that era. [...] Tongue has a soft, creamy texture and rich taste that is difficult to compare to anything else.

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1 pickled beef tongue (about 4 pounds) 
1 can (20 ounces) pineapple chunks, drained 
1 cup canned pitted black cherries, drained and chopped 
1/4 cup golden raisins 
1 jar (10 ounces) orange marmalade 
2 cups orange juice 
1/2 cup (packed) light or dark brown sugar 
1/4 cup distilled white vinegar 
Juice of 1 lemon (about 3 tablespoons) 
1/2 teaspoon dry mustard 
'''10 gingersnaps, crushed''' 
1/4 teaspoon kosher (coarse) salt, or to taste
</blockquote>
</blockquote>

==Page 248==
'''blue lines on a stick''' 
This refers to a pregnancy-test device a "stick" that a woman uses to see if she is pregnant. The device displays one blue line to indicate the test has worked. A second blue line, forming a + indicates pregnancy. [http://www.errorprooftest.com/how-to-read-ept] So, yup, a Pregnant Pause...

==Page 249==
'''"He meets her gaze and then sits staring at her, as if she's some kind of screen..."''' 
Crap. More Lacan references, only now Maxine's a TV with a difference: instead of ''tubeside'', Avi is ''Maxiside''.

'''p'tcha''' 
A traditional Ashkenazi Jewish dish prepared from calves' feet, similar to an aspic.
In Eastern Europe, Jews served p'tcha with chopped eggs on Sabbath. In the early 20th century, Jewish immigrants in the United States continued to prepare the dish, and it was often served as an appetizer at Jewish weddings. But vegan?

==Page 250==
'''"...Avi pretends to be absorbed in the television."''' 
Told ya.

==Page 251==
'''Proust Schmoust''' 
In ''In Search of Lost Time'' (aka ''Remembrance of Things Past''), Marcel Proust uses madeleines to contrast involuntary memory with voluntary memory. The latter designates memories retrieved by "intelligence," that is, memories produced by putting conscious effort into remembering events, people, and places. Proust's narrator laments that such memories are inevitably partial, and do not bear the "essence" of the past. The most famous instance of involuntary memory by Proust is known as the "episode of the madeleine." Here, the Tongue triggers Ernie's involuntary memory.

==Page 253==
'''As Deborah Kerr, or Marni Nixon, might say, or actually sing''' 
Marni Nixon (b. 1930) is an American soprano and playback singer for featured actresses in movie musicals. She is most famous for dubbing the singing voices of the leading actresses in films, including ''The King and I'', ''West Side Story'' and ''My Fair Lady''.

In 1956, she worked closely with actress Deborah Kerr to supply the star's singing voice for the film version of Rodgers & Hammerstein's ''The King and I'', and the next year she again worked with Kerr to dub her voice in ''An Affair to Remember''.

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'''Kyrgyz movie''' 
Recall [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=The_Kirghiz_Light The Kirghiz Light] in Pynchon's ''Gravity's Rainbow'' (1973). Interestly, he changes the spelling here, reflecting how it's now [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyrgyzstan commonly spelled].

'''Tongue Polonaise''' 
A traditional Jewish holiday dish. The recipe Pynchon describes may likely have come from
[http://books.google.com/books?id=PZTEv5vV8IMC&pg=PA154&lpg=PA154&dq=tongue+polonaise+gingersnaps&source=bl&ots=m7Bn8OBm0v&sig=D2GPLhldrSi6CDWYGlLJ_WvmEM4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=20I5Uu2NDMLqrQGEt4GAAw&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=tongue%20polonaise%20gingersnaps&f=false ''Cooking Jewish''] by Judy Bart Kancigor (Workman Publishing, 2007):

<blockquote>
If you attended Bar Mitzvahs in the 1950, you probably saw some permutation of this recipe on the buffet table. Tongue has fallen out of favor in the intervening decades, except on sandwiches in kosher delis, and even then it's ordered only by people old enough to remember that era. [...] Tongue has a soft, creamy texture and rich taste that is difficult to compare to anything else.

<blockquote>
1 pickled beef tongue (about 4 pounds) 
1 can (20 ounces) pineapple chunks, drained 
1 cup canned pitted black cherries, drained and chopped 
1/4 cup golden raisins 
1 jar (10 ounces) orange marmalade 
2 cups orange juice 
1/2 cup (packed) light or dark brown sugar 
1/4 cup distilled white vinegar 
Juice of 1 lemon (about 3 tablespoons) 
1/2 teaspoon dry mustard 
'''10 gingersnaps, crushed''' 
1/4 teaspoon kosher (coarse) salt, or to taste
</blockquote>
</blockquote>

==Page 248==
'''blue lines on a stick''' 
This refers to a pregnancy-test device a "stick" that a woman uses to see if she is pregnant. The device displays one blue line to indicate the test has worked. A second blue line, forming a + indicates pregnancy. [http://www.errorprooftest.com/how-to-read-ept] So, yup, a Pregnant Pause...

==Page 249==
'''"He meets her gaze and then sits staring at her, as if she's some kind of screen..."''' 
Crap. More Lacan references, only now Maxine's a TV with a difference: instead of ''tubeside'', Avi is ''Maxiside''.

'''p'tcha''' 
A traditional Ashkenazi Jewish dish prepared from calves' feet, similar to an aspic.
In Eastern Europe, Jews served p'tcha with chopped eggs on Sabbath. In the early 20th century, Jewish immigrants in the United States continued to prepare the dish, and it was often served as an appetizer at Jewish weddings. But vegan?

==Page 251==
'''Proust Schmoust''' 
In ''In Search of Lost Time'' (aka ''Remembrance of Things Past''), Marcel Proust uses madeleines to contrast involuntary memory with voluntary memory. The latter designates memories retrieved by "intelligence," that is, memories produced by putting conscious effort into remembering events, people, and places. Proust's narrator laments that such memories are inevitably partial, and do not bear the "essence" of the past. The most famous instance of involuntary memory by Proust is known as the "episode of the madeleine." Here, the Tongue triggers Ernie's involuntary memory.

==Page 253==
'''As Deborah Kerr, or Marni Nixon, might say, or actually sing''' 
Marni Nixon (b. 1930) is an American soprano and playback singer for featured actresses in movie musicals. She is most famous for dubbing the singing voices of the leading actresses in films, including ''The King and I'', ''West Side Story'' and ''My Fair Lady''.

In 1956, she worked closely with actress Deborah Kerr to supply the star's singing voice for the film version of Rodgers & Hammerstein's ''The King and I'', and the next year she again worked with Kerr to dub her voice in ''An Affair to Remember''.

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'''Kyrgyz movie''' 
Recall [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=The_Kirghiz_Light The Kirghiz Light] in Pynchon's ''Gravity's Rainbow'' (1973). Interestly, he changes the spelling here, reflecting how it's now [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyrgyzstan commonly spelled].

'''Tongue Polonaise''' 
A traditional Jewish holiday dish. The recipe Pynchon describes may likely have come from
[http://books.google.com/books?id=PZTEv5vV8IMC&pg=PA154&lpg=PA154&dq=tongue+polonaise+gingersnaps&source=bl&ots=m7Bn8OBm0v&sig=D2GPLhldrSi6CDWYGlLJ_WvmEM4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=20I5Uu2NDMLqrQGEt4GAAw&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=tongue%20polonaise%20gingersnaps&f=false ''Cooking Jewish''] by Judy Bart Kancigor (Workman Publishing, 2007):

<blockquote>
If you attended Bar Mitzvahs in the 1950, you probably saw some permutation of this recipe on the buffet table. Tongue has fallen out of favor in the intervening decades, except on sandwiches in kosher delis, and even then it's ordered only by people old enough to remember that era. [...] Tongue has a soft, creamy texture and rich taste that is difficult to compare to anything else.

<blockquote>
1 pickled beef tongue (about 4 pounds) 
1 can (20 ounces) pineapple chunks, drained 
1 cup canned pitted black cherries, drained and chopped 
1/4 cup golden raisins 
1 jar (10 ounces) orange marmalade 
2 cups orange juice 
1/2 cup (packed) light or dark brown sugar 
1/4 cup distilled white vinegar 
Juice of 1 lemon (about 3 tablespoons) 
1/2 teaspoon dry mustard 
'''10 gingersnaps, crushed''' 
1/4 teaspoon kosher (coarse) salt, or to taste
</blockquote>
</blockquote>

==Page 248==
'''blue lines on a stick''' 
This refers to a pregnancy-test device a "stick" that a woman uses to see if she is pregnant. The device displays one blue line to indicate the test has worked. A second blue line, forming a + indicates pregnancy. [http://www.errorprooftest.com/how-to-read-ept] So, yup, a Pregnant Pause...

==Page 249==
'''"He meets her gaze and then sits staring at her, as if she's some kind of screen..."''' 
Crap. More Lacan references, only now Maxine's a TV with a difference: instead of ''tubeside'', Avram is ''Maxiside''.

'''p'tcha''' 
A traditional Ashkenazi Jewish dish prepared from calves' feet, similar to an aspic.
In Eastern Europe, Jews served p'tcha with chopped eggs on Sabbath. In the early 20th century, Jewish immigrants in the United States continued to prepare the dish, and it was often served as an appetizer at Jewish weddings. But vegan?

==Page 251==
'''Proust Schmoust''' 
In ''In Search of Lost Time'' (aka ''Remembrance of Things Past''), Marcel Proust uses madeleines to contrast involuntary memory with voluntary memory. The latter designates memories retrieved by "intelligence," that is, memories produced by putting conscious effort into remembering events, people, and places. Proust's narrator laments that such memories are inevitably partial, and do not bear the "essence" of the past. The most famous instance of involuntary memory by Proust is known as the "episode of the madeleine." Here, the Tongue triggers Ernie's involuntary memory.

==Page 253==
'''As Deborah Kerr, or Marni Nixon, might say, or actually sing''' 
Marni Nixon (b. 1930) is an American soprano and playback singer for featured actresses in movie musicals. She is most famous for dubbing the singing voices of the leading actresses in films, including ''The King and I'', ''West Side Story'' and ''My Fair Lady''.

In 1956, she worked closely with actress Deborah Kerr to supply the star's singing voice for the film version of Rodgers & Hammerstein's ''The King and I'', and the next year she again worked with Kerr to dub her voice in ''An Affair to Remember''.

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'''Ride the Wild Surf''' 
A 1964 beach party/surfing movie and a song by Jan & Dean. A play on "surfing the web."

'''summer will end all too soon''' 
''The Endless Summer'' was a famous 1966 surfing movie, continuing the surfing theme from a couple of lines earlier

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'''Scope wizards''' 
In the late 1950s, only the military was flying supersonic jet aircraft like the all-weather capable F102A Delta Dagger or "One-O-Wonderful" F101B Voodoo. Nicknames were usually applied to the air and ground crews, using the "Voodoo" theme: "One-Oh-Wonder" for the pilots, '''"Scope Wizard" for the Radar Intercept Officers''' (RIOs, later called Weapon System Officers/WSOs or "Whizzos), and "Witch Doctors" for the maintenance guys. They were a formidable sight, whether taxiing past the alert hangars or taking off in formation.

'''bird colonel''' 
A full colonel in the US Army.

==Page 243==
'''MKUltra-type programs''' 
Project MKUltra is the code name of a U.S. government covert human research operation experimenting in the behavioral engineering of humans (mind control) through the CIA's Scientific Intelligence Division. The program began in the early 1950s, was officially sanctioned in 1953, was reduced in scope in 1964, further curtailed in 1967 and officially halted in 1973. The program engaged in many illegal activities; in particular it used unwitting U.S. and Canadian citizens as its test subjects, which led to controversy regarding its legitimacy. MKUltra involved the use of many methodologies to manipulate people's mental states and alter brain functions, including the surreptitious administration of drugs (especially LSD) and other chemicals, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, isolation, verbal and sexual abuse, as well as various forms of torture. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra Wikipedia entry]

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'''Law of the Father''' 
An important idea in the work of Jacques Lacan, which is relevant since Leopold is a Lacanian shrink. 
In 1897 Freud remarked, on the basis of his analysis of his first patients and his self-analysis, that "The father forbids the child from realizing its unconscious wish to sleep with his mother" (letter to Fliess, October 15, 1897). This first outline of the Oedipus complex, which now appears simplistic, grew increasingly complex throughout Freud's research. In time the Law of the Father turned out to be directed both toward the mother ("You will not reintegrate your product") as well as her offspring swept up by desire. The law is also accompanied by an injunction against cannibalism and murder, and hold up ideals, primarily sexual ones ("Later you will enjoy, like me, a woman from another family"). Once introjected, this becomes the origin of the superego and ego ideal. The repression of drives, their suppression and sublimation, are the principal outcomes of the conflict that connects them structurally to this law. [http://www.answers.com/topic/law-of-the-father]

Bear in mind, though, that the quoted material above applies to Freud's early biology-based thinking. Taking cues from Freud's later cultural/anthropological interests, Lacan maps Oedipus and ego development onto the structures of language ("The Unconscious is structured like [a] language.") and more or less replaces Freud's Id-Ego-Superego mechanics with his own Real-Imaginary-Symbolic orders as his go-to hermeneutic machine.

==Page 246==
'''"What, excuse me, gives you authority here? What happens in your practice, when you want to save somebody but lose them instead?"''' 
Maxine is a Jewish Mother with an ''it's-complicated'' relationship with the Law, whether civil, financial or Lacanian. Is Pynchon giving us a version of Freud/Lacan from the Mother's point of view (who no one ever asks about all this desire and desired object michegas)? Is she condemned to Windust's attentions because she is the Mother? Is she condemned to reading Windust as an abducted little boy who's been shocked and awed into usefulness as an IMF thug? Is she any different in this regard than Frenesi Gates or Oedipa Maas? Is she really Naomi Klein? Stay tuned.

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'''Ride the Wild Surf''' 
A 1964 beach party/surfing movie and a song by Jan & Dean. A play on "surfing the web."

'''summer will end all too soon''' 
''The Endless Summer'' was a famous 1966 surfing movie, continuing the surfing theme from a couple of lines earlier

==Page 242==

'''Scope wizards''' 
In the late 1950s, only the military was flying supersonic jet aircraft like the all-weather capable F102A Delta Dagger or "One-O-Wonderful" F101B Voodoo. Nicknames were usually applied to the air and ground crews, using the "Voodoo" theme: "One-Oh-Wonder" for the pilots, '''"Scope Wizard" for the Radar Intercept Officers''' (RIOs, later called Weapon System Officers/WSOs or "Whizzos), and "Witch Doctors" for the maintenance guys. They were a formidable sight, whether taxiing past the alert hangars or taking off in formation.

'''bird colonel''' 
A full colonel in the US Army.

==Page 243==
'''MKUltra-type programs''' 
Project MKUltra is the code name of a U.S. government covert human research operation experimenting in the behavioral engineering of humans (mind control) through the CIA's Scientific Intelligence Division. The program began in the early 1950s, was officially sanctioned in 1953, was reduced in scope in 1964, further curtailed in 1967 and officially halted in 1973. The program engaged in many illegal activities; in particular it used unwitting U.S. and Canadian citizens as its test subjects, which led to controversy regarding its legitimacy. MKUltra involved the use of many methodologies to manipulate people's mental states and alter brain functions, including the surreptitious administration of drugs (especially LSD) and other chemicals, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, isolation, verbal and sexual abuse, as well as various forms of torture. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra Wikipedia entry]

==Page 244==
'''Law of the Father''' 
An important idea in the work of Jacques Lacan, which is relevant since Leopold is a Lacanian shrink. 
In 1897 Freud remarked, on the basis of his analysis of his first patients and his self-analysis, that "The father forbids the child from realizing its unconscious wish to sleep with his mother" (letter to Fliess, October 15, 1897). This first outline of the Oedipus complex, which now appears simplistic, grew increasingly complex throughout Freud's research. In time the Law of the Father turned out to be directed both toward the mother ("You will not reintegrate your product") as well as her offspring swept up by desire. The law is also accompanied by an injunction against cannibalism and murder, and hold up ideals, primarily sexual ones ("Later you will enjoy, like me, a woman from another family"). Once introjected, this becomes the origin of the superego and ego ideal. The repression of drives, their suppression and sublimation, are the principal outcomes of the conflict that connects them structurally to this law. [http://www.answers.com/topic/law-of-the-father]

Bear in mind, though, that the quoted material above applies to Freud's early biology-based thinking. Taking cues from Freud's later cultural/anthropological interests, Lacan maps Oedipus and ego development onto the structures of language ("The Unconscious is structured like [a] language.") and more or less replaces Freud's Id-Ego-Superego mechanics with his own Real-Imaginary-Symbolic orders as his go-to hermeneutic machine.

==Page 246==
'''"What, excuse me, gives you authority here? What happens in your practice, when you want to save somebody but lose them instead?"'''
Maxine is a Jewish Mother with an ''it's-complicated'' relationship with the Law, whether civil, financial or Lacanian. Is Pynchon giving us a version of Freud/Lacan from the Mother's point of view (who no one ever asks about all this desire and desired object michegas)? Is she condemned to Windust's attentions because she is the Mother? Is she condemned to reading Windust as an abducted little boy who's been shocked and awed into usefulness as an IMF thug? Is she any different in this regard than Frenesi Gates or Oedipa Maas? Is she really Naomi Klein? Stay tuned.

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'''666''' 
11

'''911''' 
foreshadowing, 95, 119, 165, 236; 284; 292

'''9:30 Club''' 
208, in Washington D.C.; product, 236;

'''4711 cologne''' 
234 - 4711 is a brand of Eau de Cologne by Mäurer & Wirtz, a subsidiary of the Dalli Group owned by the Wirtz family. It is produced in Stolberg near Aachen, Germany. [http://www.4711.com 4711 Nouveau Cologne]; In Germany SAP is a leading computer software manufacturer - and the above forum discussion explains that the numbers 4711 and 0815 are used as example numbers throughout the complete documentation wherever a 4-digit number is required. 4711 is described there by one of the forum contributers as one of the best known numbers in german-speaking countries. [http://german.stackexchange.com/questions/3338/4711-08-15-and-other-numbers-with-some-flair-in-german More...]

'''absolute zero''' 
167, aka Death, shades of [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ''Gravity's Rainbow'']...

'''ACFE''' 
17, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners

'''ADC''' 
242, Association of Defense Communities

'''AFOSI Region 7''' 
242, Air Force Office of Special Investigations was founded August 1, 1948, at the suggestion of Congress to consolidate investigative activities in the Air Force. Secretary of the Air Force W. Stuart Symington created AFOSI and patterned it after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Of its eight field investigations regions, only Region 7, the mission of which is to provide counter-intelligence and security-program management for special access programs under the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force, is not aligned with a major Air Force Command.

'''Aggro Hour, The''' 
32, Disrespect and The Contaminator

'''Alexis and Kristle''' 
237 - ''Dynasty'' characters;

'''alexithymic lug''' 
25, 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.

'''Allende, Salvador''' 
108

'''Altman-Z''' 
57, The Z-score formula for predicting bankruptcy was published in 1968 by Edward I. Altman, who was, at the time, an Assistant Professor of Finance at New York University. The formula may be used to predict the probability that a firm will go into bankruptcy within two years. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altman_Z-score Wikipedia entry]

'''AMBOPEDIA Frolix '98''' 
12, American Borderline Personality Association, the cruise where Maxine meets Reg Despard; 18;

'''''Amy & Joey''''' 
151, Cornelia sings "Massapequa" in this fictional Off-Broadway musical;

'''Arabic Leet''' 
47, an alphabet used to communicate in the Arabic language over the Internet or for sending messages via cellular phones when the actual Arabic alphabet is unavailable for technical reasons. It is a character encoding of Arabic to the Latin script and the Arabic numerals. Users of this alphabet have developed some special notations to transliterate some of the letters that do not exist in the basic Latin script (ASCII). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_Leet Wikipedia entry; 58, 59; 82;

'''arboon auctions''' 
82

'''"Are You with Me Dr. Wu?"''' 
158 - Steely Dan song from their 1975 LP "Katie Lied". [http://www.steelydan.com/lyrkaty.html Lyrics etc.]
{{#ev:youtube|RqQqhqbrXhI}}

'''''Aristide Olt''''', M/V 
12, Maxine and Reg on the AMBOPEDIA cruise; 16; 90

'''Art Deco''' 
ring of Golconda diamonds, 124; Sid Kelleher's yacht, 165;

'''avatar''' 
69-70

'''Avram''' 
98, and Likud; and Mossad, 105;

'''''Ayn al-hammam''''' 
91 Arabic: "Where are are the toilets?"

'''Azrael''' 
209, what Traipse says in Maxine's dream

{{BE Alpha Nav}}

A

2013-09-21T18:16:12Z

Chiclitz:

{{BE Alpha Nav}}

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'''666''' 
11

'''911''' 
foreshadowing, 95, 119, 165, 236; 284; 292

'''9:30 Club''' 
208, in Washington D.C.; product, 236;

'''4711 cologne''' 
234 - 4711 is a brand of Eau de Cologne by Mäurer & Wirtz, a subsidiary of the Dalli Group owned by the Wirtz family. It is produced in Stolberg near Aachen, Germany. [http://www.4711.com 4711 Nouveau Cologne]; In Germany SAP is a leading computer software manufacturer - and the above forum discussion explains that the numbers 4711 and 0815 are used as example numbers throughout the complete documentation wherever a 4-digit number is required. 4711 is described there by one of the forum contributers as one of the best known numbers in german-speaking countries. [http://german.stackexchange.com/questions/3338/4711-08-15-and-other-numbers-with-some-flair-in-german More...]

'''absolute zero''' 
167, aka Death, shades of [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ''Gravity's Rainbow'']...

'''ACFE''' 
17, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners

'''ADC''' 
242, Association of Defense Communities

'''AFOSI region 7''' 
242, Air Force Office of Special Investigations was founded August 1, 1948, at the suggestion of Congress to consolidate investigative activities in the Air Force. Secretary of the Air Force W. Stuart Symington created AFOSI and patterned it after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Of its eight field investigations regions, only Region 7, the mission of which is to provide counter-intelligence and security-program management for special access programs under the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force, is not aligned with a major Air Force Command.

'''Aggro Hour, The''' 
32, Disrespect and The Contaminator

'''Alexis and Kristle''' 
237 - ''Dynasty'' characters;

'''alexithymic lug''' 
25, 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.

'''Allende, Salvador''' 
108

'''Altman-Z''' 
57, The Z-score formula for predicting bankruptcy was published in 1968 by Edward I. Altman, who was, at the time, an Assistant Professor of Finance at New York University. The formula may be used to predict the probability that a firm will go into bankruptcy within two years. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altman_Z-score Wikipedia entry]

'''AMBOPEDIA Frolix '98''' 
12, American Borderline Personality Association, the cruise where Maxine meets Reg Despard; 18;

'''''Amy & Joey''''' 
151, Cornelia sings "Massapequa" in this fictional Off-Broadway musical;

'''Arabic Leet''' 
47, an alphabet used to communicate in the Arabic language over the Internet or for sending messages via cellular phones when the actual Arabic alphabet is unavailable for technical reasons. It is a character encoding of Arabic to the Latin script and the Arabic numerals. Users of this alphabet have developed some special notations to transliterate some of the letters that do not exist in the basic Latin script (ASCII). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_Leet Wikipedia entry; 58, 59; 82;

'''arboon auctions''' 
82

'''"Are You with Me Dr. Wu?"''' 
158 - Steely Dan song from their 1975 LP "Katie Lied". [http://www.steelydan.com/lyrkaty.html Lyrics etc.]
{{#ev:youtube|RqQqhqbrXhI}}

'''''Aristide Olt''''', M/V 
12, Maxine and Reg on the AMBOPEDIA cruise; 16; 90

'''Art Deco''' 
ring of Golconda diamonds, 124; Sid Kelleher's yacht, 165;

'''avatar''' 
69-70

'''Avram''' 
98, and Likud; and Mossad, 105;

'''''Ayn al-hammam''''' 
91 Arabic: "Where are are the toilets?"

'''Azrael''' 
209, what Traipse says in Maxine's dream

{{BE Alpha Nav}}

A

2013-09-21T18:07:54Z

Chiclitz:

{{BE Alpha Nav}}

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'''666''' 
11

'''911''' 
foreshadowing, 95, 119, 165, 236; 284; 292

'''9:30 Club''' 
208, in Washington D.C.; product, 236;

'''4711 cologne''' 
234 - 4711 is a brand of Eau de Cologne by Mäurer & Wirtz, a subsidiary of the Dalli Group owned by the Wirtz family. It is produced in Stolberg near Aachen, Germany. [http://www.4711.com 4711 Nouveau Cologne]; In Germany SAP is a leading computer software manufacturer - and the above forum discussion explains that the numbers 4711 and 0815 are used as example numbers throughout the complete documentation wherever a 4-digit number is required. 4711 is described there by one of the forum contributers as one of the best known numbers in german-speaking countries. [http://german.stackexchange.com/questions/3338/4711-08-15-and-other-numbers-with-some-flair-in-german More...]

'''absolute zero''' 
167, aka Death, shades of [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ''Gravity's Rainbow'']...

'''ACFE''' 
17, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners

'''ADC''' 
242, Association of Defense Communities

'''Aggro Hour, The''' 
32, Disrespect and The Contaminator

'''Alexis and Kristle''' 
237 - ''Dynasty'' characters;

'''alexithymic lug''' 
25, 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.

'''Allende, Salvador''' 
108

'''Altman-Z''' 
57, The Z-score formula for predicting bankruptcy was published in 1968 by Edward I. Altman, who was, at the time, an Assistant Professor of Finance at New York University. The formula may be used to predict the probability that a firm will go into bankruptcy within two years. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altman_Z-score Wikipedia entry]

'''AMBOPEDIA Frolix '98''' 
12, American Borderline Personality Association, the cruise where Maxine meets Reg Despard; 18;

'''''Amy & Joey''''' 
151, Cornelia sings "Massapequa" in this fictional Off-Broadway musical;

'''Arabic Leet''' 
47, an alphabet used to communicate in the Arabic language over the Internet or for sending messages via cellular phones when the actual Arabic alphabet is unavailable for technical reasons. It is a character encoding of Arabic to the Latin script and the Arabic numerals. Users of this alphabet have developed some special notations to transliterate some of the letters that do not exist in the basic Latin script (ASCII). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_Leet Wikipedia entry; 58, 59; 82;

'''arboon auctions''' 
82

'''"Are You with Me Dr. Wu?"''' 
158 - Steely Dan song from their 1975 LP "Katie Lied". [http://www.steelydan.com/lyrkaty.html Lyrics etc.]
{{#ev:youtube|RqQqhqbrXhI}}

'''''Aristide Olt''''', M/V 
12, Maxine and Reg on the AMBOPEDIA cruise; 16; 90

'''Art Deco''' 
ring of Golconda diamonds, 124; Sid Kelleher's yacht, 165;

'''avatar''' 
69-70

'''Avram''' 
98, and Likud; and Mossad, 105;

'''''Ayn al-hammam''''' 
91 Arabic: "Where are are the toilets?"

'''Azrael''' 
209, what Traipse says in Maxine's dream

{{BE Alpha Nav}}

O

2013-09-19T20:36:29Z

Chiclitz:

'''''Oklahoma!''''' 
153, The 1955 film adaptation of the 1943 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical. Here's Gloria Grahame singing "I Cain't Say No" from the film:

{{#ev:youtube|A18kYnP4Pec}}

'''O'Hara, Scarlett''' 
209 who famously says, at the end of the film ''Gone with the Wind'' (1939), "After all... tomorrow is another day!"

{{#ev:youtube|OB-vnc7zDhU}}

'''O'Neal, Shaquille''' 
200 - NBA star

'''Ofeq satellite''' 
104

'''Ofelia''' 
130 Kennedy's babysitter

'''Old Sod''' 
55, technically Irish bar where March and Axine go after coop demonstration

'''Omar the Owl wall clock''' 
115, 
[[Image:omar-owl-clock.jpg]]

'''Omega Diner''' 
138, where Maxine meets Rocky;

'''open-outcry era''' 
94

'''O-O''' 
219 - The Once-Over (checking someone out physically)

'''OSS''' 
66

'''Otis''' 
1, Maxine's son; 32

'''Otto Kugelblitz School''' 
2, MT's kids school

'''Outfield, Eric''' 
10, Stuyvesant genius and Ice's IT maven; 57; 81; 145; at Joie de Beavre, 219; foot fetish, 223, 240;

'''Oxide Pang''' 
142 - 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. Besides working in Hong Kong, the pair frequently work in the Thai film industry, where they made their directorial debut as a team, Bangkok Dangerous.

{{BE Alpha Nav}}

O

2013-09-19T20:36:01Z

Chiclitz:

'''''Oklahoma!''''' 
153, The 1955 film adaptation of the 1943 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical. Here's Gloria Grahame singing "I Cain't Say No" from the film:

{{#ev:youtube|A18kYnP4Pec}}

'''O'Hara, Scarlett''' 
209 who famously says, at the end of the film ''Gone with the Wind'' (1939), "After all... tomorrow is another day!"

{{#ev:youtube|OB-vnc7zDhU}}

'''O'Neal, Shaquille''' 
200 - NBA star

'''Ofeq satellite''' 
104

'''Ofelia''' 
130 Kennedy's babysitter

'''Old Sod''' 
55, technically Irish bar where March and Axine go after coop demonstration

'''Omar the Owl wall clock''' 
115,
[[Image:omar-owl-clock.jpg]]

'''Omega Diner''' 
138, where Maxine meets Rocky;

'''open-outcry era''' 
94

'''O-O''' 
219 - The Once-Over (checking someone out physically)

'''OSS''' 
66

'''Otis''' 
1, Maxine's son; 32

'''Otto Kugelblitz School''' 
2, MT's kids school

'''Outfield, Eric''' 
10, Stuyvesant genius and Ice's IT maven; 57; 81; 145; at Joie de Beavre, 219; foot fetish, 223, 240;

'''Oxide Pang''' 
142 - 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. Besides working in Hong Kong, the pair frequently work in the Thai film industry, where they made their directorial debut as a team, Bangkok Dangerous.

{{BE Alpha Nav}}

O

2013-09-19T20:35:25Z

Chiclitz:

'''''Oklahoma!''''' 
153, The 1955 film adaptation of the 1943 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical. Here's Gloria Grahame singing "I Cain't Say No" from the film:

{{#ev:youtube|A18kYnP4Pec}}

'''O'Hara, Scarlett''' 
209 who famously says, at the end of the film ''Gone with the Wind'' (1939), "After all... tomorrow is another day!"

{{#ev:youtube|OB-vnc7zDhU}}

'''O'Neal, Shaquille''' 
200 - NBA star

'''Ofeq satellite''' 
104

'''Ofelia''' 
130 Kennedy's babysitter

'''Old Sod''' 
55, technically Irish bar where March and Axine go after coop demonstration

'''Omar the Owl wall clock''' 
115, [[Image:omar-owl-clock.jpg]]

'''Omega Diner''' 
138, where Maxine meets Rocky;

'''open-outcry era''' 
94

'''O-O''' 
219 - The Once-Over (checking someone out physically)

'''OSS''' 
66

'''Otis''' 
1, Maxine's son; 32

'''Otto Kugelblitz School''' 
2, MT's kids school

'''Outfield, Eric''' 
10, Stuyvesant genius and Ice's IT maven; 57; 81; 145; at Joie de Beavre, 219; foot fetish, 223, 240;

'''Oxide Pang''' 
142 - 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. Besides working in Hong Kong, the pair frequently work in the Thai film industry, where they made their directorial debut as a team, Bangkok Dangerous.

{{BE Alpha Nav}}

O

2013-09-19T20:34:38Z

Chiclitz:

'''''Oklahoma!''''' 
153, The 1955 film adaptation of the 1943 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical. Here's Gloria Grahame singing "I Cain't Say No" from the film:

{{#ev:youtube|A18kYnP4Pec}}

'''O'Hara, Scarlett''' 
209 who famously says, at the end of the film ''Gone with the Wind'' (1939), "After all... tomorrow is another day!"

{{#ev:youtube|OB-vnc7zDhU}}

'''O'Neal, Shaquille''' 
200 - NBA star

'''Ofeq satellite''' 
104

'''Ofelia''' 
130 Kennedy's babysitter

'''Old Sod''' 
55, technically Irish bar where March and Axine go after coop demonstration

'''Omar the Owl wall clock''' 
[[Image:omar-owl-clock.jpg]]

'''Omega Diner''' 
138, where Maxine meets Rocky;

'''open-outcry era''' 
94

'''O-O''' 
219 - The Once-Over (checking someone out physically)

'''OSS''' 
66

'''Otis''' 
1, Maxine's son; 32

'''Otto Kugelblitz School''' 
2, MT's kids school

'''Outfield, Eric''' 
10, Stuyvesant genius and Ice's IT maven; 57; 81; 145; at Joie de Beavre, 219; foot fetish, 223, 240;

'''Oxide Pang''' 
142 - 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. Besides working in Hong Kong, the pair frequently work in the Thai film industry, where they made their directorial debut as a team, Bangkok Dangerous.

{{BE Alpha Nav}}

File:Omar-owl-clock.jpg

2013-09-19T20:32:55Z

Chiclitz: