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'''Spuyten Duyvil''' 
Spuyten Duyvil is a neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City, bounded on the north by Riverdale, on the east by Kingsbridge, on the south by the Harlem River, and on the west by the Hudson River, although some consider it to be the southernmost part of Riverdale. The area is named after Spuyten Duyvil Creek, where "Spuyten Duyvil" literally means "Spouting Devil" or Spuitende Duivel in Dutch; a reference to the strong and wild tidal currents found at that location. It may also be translated as "Spewing Devil" or "Spinning Devil", or more loosely as "Devil's Whirlpool" or "Devil's Spate." Spui and spuit are still today commonly used Dutch words involving outlets for water. Historian Reginald Pelham Bolton, however, argues that the phrase means "sprouting meadow", referring to a fresh-water spring. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spuyten_Duyvil,_Bronx WIKI].

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'''they can hear Elvis-movie music''' 
Chazz is watching ''Girl Happy'' (1965), starring Elvis and Shelley Fabares.

[[File:Shelley-Faberes-Evil.jpg|thumb|left|175px|Shelley Faberes]]'''Shelley Fabares . . . holding a sign announcing I'M EVIL.''' 
It's a scene from the Elvis Presley movie ''Girl Happy'' (1965).

 

See Faberes in action as Elvis sings "The Meanest Girl in Town."
{{#ev:youtube|SLg_1Wzvfns}}

 

Sillage from the Elvis Hitler song ''Green Haze'' mentioned on page 177?

'''Love will find a way''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9sbA2gnWHI Pablo Cruise]?

==Page 467==
'''Peaches & Herb oldie "Reunited and It Feels So Good"''' 
See Peaches & Herb performing the jam here (you'll have to imagine Otis & Ziggy's hip-hop version):{{#ev:youtube|glC9_8Ijt9k}}

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'''Inside the ''zona''''' 
The word Gulag was not often used in Russian — either officially or colloquially; the predominant terms were ''the camps'' and ''the zone'', usually singular — for the labor camp system and for the individual camps.

==Page 469==
'''Mishpochathon''' 
mishpocha - (Yiddish) the entire family network of relatives by blood or marriage (and sometimes close friends); "she invited the whole mishpocha"

==Page 470==
'''what happened to 'corrupt artifact of...' whatever it was?''' 
Page 115. "“I don’t do lunch. Corrupt artifact of late capitalism. Breakfast maybe?"

==Page 472==
'''Mara Salvatrucha''' 
Mara Salvatrucha (commonly abbreviated as MS, Mara, and MS-13) is a transnational criminal gang that originated in Los Angeles and has spread to other parts of the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Central America. The majority of the gang is ethnically composed of Central Americans and active in urban and suburban areas. In the U.S., the MS-13 has an especially heavy presence in Los Angeles County and the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California; the Washington, D.C. metropolitan areas of Fairfax County, Virginia, Montgomery County, Maryland, and Prince George's County, Maryland; Long Island, New York; the Boston, Massachusetts area; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Houston, Texas. There is also a presence of MS-13 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Members of MS distinguish themselves by tattoos covering the body and also often the face, as well as the use of their own sign language. They are notorious for their use of violence and a subcultural moral code that predominantly consists of merciless revenge and cruel retributions. This cruelty of the distinguished members of the "Maras" or "Mareros" earned them a path to be recruited by the Sinaloa Cartel battling against Los Zetas in an ongoing drug war south of the United States border. Their wide-ranging activities have drawn the attention of the FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who have initiated wide-scale raids against known and suspected gang members – netting hundreds of arrests across the country. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mara_Salvatrucha WIKI].

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'''D and D''' 
Done and Done!

==Page 475==
'''paraphrasing Cheech & Chong . . . "I woulda shot him, man."''' 
Anyone know what she's paraphrasing? I couldn't figure this out.

'''set and setting, as Dr. Tim always liked to say... 
From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_and_setting WIKI:] Set and setting describes the context for psychoactive and particularly psychedelic drug experiences: one's mindset and the setting in which the user has the experience. This is especially relevant for psychedelic or hallucinogenic experiences. The term was coined by Timothy Leary, and became widely accepted by researchers in psychedelic psychotherapy.

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'''The Fatty Arbuckle Story''' 

Here are all the "story of" films from the "BPX cable channel, which airs film biographies exclusively" (page 93) I could find. They often come, by the way, with disparaging remarks about Horst. Pynchon telling us something about Horst, the Biography Channel, film biographies and the actors who star in them and the people who watch them, perhaps even, ''Journey into the Mind of P'' and those who have seen it, etc? 

page 94: Owen Wilson as Jack Nicklaus, Hugh Grant in ''The Phil Mickelson Story'' 
page 94: Christopher Walken, starring in ''The Chi Chi Rodriguez Story'' 
page 374: Anthony Hopkins in ''The Mikhail Baryshnikov Story'' 
page 433: Ben Stiller in ''The Fred MacMurray Story'' 
page 435: Alec Baldwin in ''The Ray Milland Story'' 
page 466: ''The Anton Chekhov Story,'' starring Edward Norton, with Peter Sarsgaard as Stanislavski 
Page 476: Leonardo DiCaprio in “The Fatty Arbuckle Story” 

In the book, all the film titles were italicized except the last one, which had quotation marks. Just a slip of the pen? [Likely. Numerous instances of sloppy editing/proofreading toward the end of the book.]

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'''Spuyten Duyvil''' 
Spuyten Duyvil is a neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City, bounded on the north by Riverdale, on the east by Kingsbridge, on the south by the Harlem River, and on the west by the Hudson River, although some consider it to be the southernmost part of Riverdale. The area is named after Spuyten Duyvil Creek, where "Spuyten Duyvil" literally means "Spouting Devil" or Spuitende Duivel in Dutch; a reference to the strong and wild tidal currents found at that location. It may also be translated as "Spewing Devil" or "Spinning Devil", or more loosely as "Devil's Whirlpool" or "Devil's Spate." Spui and spuit are still today commonly used Dutch words involving outlets for water. Historian Reginald Pelham Bolton, however, argues that the phrase means "sprouting meadow", referring to a fresh-water spring. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spuyten_Duyvil,_Bronx WIKI].

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'''they can hear Elvis-movie music''' 
Chazz is watching ''Girl Happy'' (1965), starring Elvis and Shelley Fabares.

[[File:Shelley-Faberes-Evil.jpg|thumb|left|175px|Shelley Faberes]]'''Shelley Fabares . . . holding a sign announcing I'M EVIL.''' 
It's a scene from the Elvis Presley movie ''Girl Happy'' (1965).

 

See Faberes in action as Elvis sings "The Meanest Girl in Town."
{{#ev:youtube|SLg_1Wzvfns}}

 

Sillage from the Elvis Hitler song ''Green Haze'' mentioned on page 177?

'''Love will find a way''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9sbA2gnWHI Pablo Cruise]?

==Page 467==
'''Peaches & Herb oldie "Reunited and It Feels So Good"''' 
See Peaches & Herb performing the jam here (you'll have to imagine Otis & Ziggy's hip-hop version):{{#ev:youtube|glC9_8Ijt9k}}

==Page 468==
'''Inside the ''zona''''' 
The word Gulag was not often used in Russian — either officially or colloquially; the predominant terms were ''the camps'' and ''the zone'', usually singular — for the labor camp system and for the individual camps.

==Page 469==
'''Mishpochathon''' 
mishpocha - (Yiddish) the entire family network of relatives by blood or marriage (and sometimes close friends); "she invited the whole mishpocha"

==Page 470==
'''what happened to 'corrupt artifact of...' whatever it was?''' 
Page 115. "“I don’t do lunch. Corrupt artifact of late capitalism. Breakfast maybe?"

==Page 472==
'''Mara Salvatrucha''' 
Mara Salvatrucha (commonly abbreviated as MS, Mara, and MS-13) is a transnational criminal gang that originated in Los Angeles and has spread to other parts of the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Central America. The majority of the gang is ethnically composed of Central Americans and active in urban and suburban areas. In the U.S., the MS-13 has an especially heavy presence in Los Angeles County and the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California; the Washington, D.C. metropolitan areas of Fairfax County, Virginia, Montgomery County, Maryland, and Prince George's County, Maryland; Long Island, New York; the Boston, Massachusetts area; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Houston, Texas. There is also a presence of MS-13 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Members of MS distinguish themselves by tattoos covering the body and also often the face, as well as the use of their own sign language. They are notorious for their use of violence and a subcultural moral code that predominantly consists of merciless revenge and cruel retributions. This cruelty of the distinguished members of the "Maras" or "Mareros" earned them a path to be recruited by the Sinaloa Cartel battling against Los Zetas in an ongoing drug war south of the United States border. Their wide-ranging activities have drawn the attention of the FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who have initiated wide-scale raids against known and suspected gang members – netting hundreds of arrests across the country. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mara_Salvatrucha WIKI].

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'''D and D''' 
Done and Done!

==Page 475==
'''paraphrasing Cheech & Chong . . . "I woulda shot him, man."''' 
Anyone know what she's paraphrasing? I couldn't figure this out.

'''set and setting, as Dr. Tim always liked to say... 
From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_and_setting WIKI:] Set and setting describes the context for psychoactive and particularly psychedelic drug experiences: one's mindset and the setting in which the user has the experience. This is especially relevant for psychedelic or hallucinogenic experiences. The term was coined by Timothy Leary, and became widely accepted by researchers in psychedelic psychotherapy.

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'''The Fatty Arbuckle Story''' 

Here are all the "story of" films from the "BPX cable channel, which airs film biographies exclusively" (page 93) I could find. They often come, by the way, with disparaging remarks about Horst. Pynchon telling us something about Horst, the Biography Channel, film biographies and the actors who star in them and the people who watch them, perhaps even, ''Journey into the Mind of P'' and those who have seen it, etc? 

page 94: Owen Wilson as Jack Nicklaus, Hugh Grant in ''The Phil Mickelson Story'' 
page 94: Christopher Walken, starring in ''The Chi Chi Rodriguez Story'' 
page 374: Anthony Hopkins in ''The Mikhail Baryshnikov Story'' 
page 433: Ben Stiller in ''The Fred MacMurray Story'' 
page 435: Alec Baldwin in ''The Ray Milland Story'' 
page 466: ''The Anton Chekhov Story,'' starring Edward Norton, with Peter Sarsgaard as Stanislavski 
Page 476: Leonardo DiCaprio in “The Fatty Arbuckle Story” 

In the book, all the film titles were italicized except the last one, which had quotation marks. Just a slip of the pen? [Likely. Numerous instances of sloppy editing toward the end of the book.]

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'''Spuyten Duyvil''' 
Spuyten Duyvil is a neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City, bounded on the north by Riverdale, on the east by Kingsbridge, on the south by the Harlem River, and on the west by the Hudson River, although some consider it to be the southernmost part of Riverdale. The area is named after Spuyten Duyvil Creek, where "Spuyten Duyvil" literally means "Spouting Devil" or Spuitende Duivel in Dutch; a reference to the strong and wild tidal currents found at that location. It may also be translated as "Spewing Devil" or "Spinning Devil", or more loosely as "Devil's Whirlpool" or "Devil's Spate." Spui and spuit are still today commonly used Dutch words involving outlets for water. Historian Reginald Pelham Bolton, however, argues that the phrase means "sprouting meadow", referring to a fresh-water spring. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spuyten_Duyvil,_Bronx WIKI].

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'''they can hear Elvis-movie music''' 
Chazz is watching ''Girl Happy'' (1965), starring Elvis and Shelley Fabares.

[[File:Shelley-Faberes-Evil.jpg|thumb|left|175px|Shelley Faberes]]'''Shelley Fabares . . . holding a sign announcing I'M EVIL.''' 
It's a scene from the Elvis Presley movie ''Girl Happy'' (1965).

 

See Faberes in action as Elvis sings "The Meanest Girl in Town."
{{#ev:youtube|SLg_1Wzvfns}}

 

Sillage from the Elvis Hitler song ''Green Haze'' mentioned on page 177?

'''Love will find a way''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9sbA2gnWHI Pablo Cruise]?

==Page 467==
'''Peaches & Herb oldie "Reunited and It Feels So Good"''' 
See Peaches & Herb performing the jam here (you'll have to imagine Otis & Ziggy's hip-hop version):{{#ev:youtube|glC9_8Ijt9k}}

==Page 468==
'''Inside the ''zona''''' 
The word Gulag was not often used in Russian — either officially or colloquially; the predominant terms were ''the camps'' and ''the zone'', usually singular — for the labor camp system and for the individual camps.

==Page 469==
'''Mishpochathon''' 
mishpocha - (Yiddish) the entire family network of relatives by blood or marriage (and sometimes close friends); "she invited the whole mishpocha"

==Page 470==
'''what happened to 'corrupt artifact of...' whatever it was?''' 
Page 115. "“I don’t do lunch. Corrupt artifact of late capitalism. Breakfast maybe?"

==Page 474==
'''D and D''' 
Done and Done!

==Page 475==
'''paraphrasing Cheech & Chong . . . "I woulda shot him, man."''' 
Anyone know what she's paraphrasing? I couldn't figure this out.

'''set and setting, as Dr. Tim always liked to say... 
From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_and_setting WIKI:] Set and setting describes the context for psychoactive and particularly psychedelic drug experiences: one's mindset and the setting in which the user has the experience. This is especially relevant for psychedelic or hallucinogenic experiences. The term was coined by Timothy Leary, and became widely accepted by researchers in psychedelic psychotherapy.

==Page 476==
'''The Fatty Arbuckle Story''' 

Here are all the "story of" films from the "BPX cable channel, which airs film biographies exclusively" (page 93) I could find. They often come, by the way, with disparaging remarks about Horst. Pynchon telling us something about Horst, the Biography Channel, film biographies and the actors who star in them and the people who watch them, perhaps even, ''Journey into the Mind of P'' and those who have seen it, etc? 

page 94: Owen Wilson as Jack Nicklaus, Hugh Grant in ''The Phil Mickelson Story'' 
page 94: Christopher Walken, starring in ''The Chi Chi Rodriguez Story'' 
page 374: Anthony Hopkins in ''The Mikhail Baryshnikov Story'' 
page 433: Ben Stiller in ''The Fred MacMurray Story'' 
page 435: Alec Baldwin in ''The Ray Milland Story'' 
page 466: ''The Anton Chekhov Story,'' starring Edward Norton, with Peter Sarsgaard as Stanislavski 
Page 476: Leonardo DiCaprio in “The Fatty Arbuckle Story” 

In the book, all the film titles were italicized except the last one, which had quotation marks. Just a slip of the pen?

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'''She's innocent...She's so fuckin innocent''' 
Echos of Britney Spears from [http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_7 page 7]? Maybe, maybe not. It's just that at the end of this novel there are so many references to previous happenings that one just can't be sure, can one?
 
 
'''Hypnotiq''' 
Misspelling/typo of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hpnotiq Hpnotiq,] a turquoise liqueur?

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'''''The Geek That Couldn't Sleep''''' 
Playing on the 1939 animated short [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gkWB5QtPFQ The Bear that Couldn't Sleep]?

'''bagpipe players, improvisiong grace notes on "Candle in the Wind"''' 
I thought I was going to have to be the one to take one for the team by being the one to annotate this oppressively ubiquitous Elton John song associated with the deaths of Princess Diana and Marilyn Monroe, but I'm thrilled to say [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyw1lC7tFLY YouTube] has a dude playing it on bagpipes. Thank you, dude and YouTube.

==Page 452==
'''CMU''' 
Carnegie Mellon University, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Mellon_University WIKI].

'''leading indicator...bagpipe players would get a heads-up before the next one happens?''' 
Little bit of [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Tyrone_Slothrop Slothrop] here, as well as a bleeding edge?

'''The Montauk Project''' 
Just a refresher, on page 117 March explains "The Montauk Project is every horrible suspicion you've ever had since World War II, all the paranoid production values, a vast underground facility, exotic weapons, space aliens, time travel, other dimensions..."

'''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.

It more likely is an allusion to the music from ''The Day the Earth Stood Still''. I don't believe there is a theremin in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzRb1OVpat0 the original Star Trek theme]

Two things. One: apparently the vocal style of the ''Star Trek'' theme song really was meant to imitate specifically the theremin, and not just to sound 'spacey.' Two: ''The Day the Earth Stood Still'' gets referenced on page [[Chapter_10#Page_100|100.]]

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'''Igor's ZiL-41047''' 
The ZIL-41047 is a limousine built by ZIL of Russia. Production of ZIL models ceased in 2002 due to their previous customer base turning to more modern Western vehicles.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIL-41047]

See p. [http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_15#Page_160 160].

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'''''govno''''' 
Russian: "shit"

==Page 456==
'''fake barn and silo of Stew Leonard''' 
Stew Leonard's is chain of four supermarkets in Connecticut and New York which ''Ripley's Believe It or Not!'' deemed "The World's Largest Dairy", with Fortune magazine listing Stew Leonard's as one of the "100 Best Companies to Work For". "Anyone who comes from Connecticut or thereabouts knows this landmark chain of grocery stores where mechanized cows sing and roosters crow," according to a writer for the ''Sun-Sentinel'' of Florida. A typical Stew Leonard's store will attract customers from a wider geographic area than a typical supermarket because customers are willing to drive longer distances. The store's fame comes from its innovative in-store marketing, which includes a barnlike wood decor, a winding path for shoppers instead of straight, parallel aisles, and animatronic singing animals perched above the shelving. In 1993, Stew Leonard Sr. was convicted of committing tax fraud through an elaborate scheme including short-weighting to divert more than $17 million in cash register receipts over a ten-year period. He was sentenced to 52-months in jail. Court documents indicated that Stew Leonard Jr. played a role in the tax fraud. However, in the interest of protecting his son and the store, Stew Leonard Sr. pleaded guilty in exchange for an agreement from the prosecutors to not bring charges against Stew Leonard Jr. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stew_Leonard%27s WIKI].

'''DDT's road anthem "Ty Nye Odin" (You Are Not Alone)...and the soulful ballad "Veter"''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lWulSZIvFQ Ty Nye Odin] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7z0jtmbOC8 Veter] on YouTube. 

Anyone else getting a slight whiff, a silage, perhaps, of the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AEMiz6rcxc nihilists] from ''The Big Lebowski''?

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'''Mohawk for 'firefly'''' 
This [http://winddancer45.tripod.com/MohawkLanguage.html page] says "tewattsirokwas" does mean "firefly."

'''Camp Tewattsirokwas ... the Gimelmans from Cedarhurst'''
The camp and the Gimelmans are, as far as I can tell, fictional.

'''the Schachtman unpleasantness''' 
Max Shachtman (1904 – 1972) was an American Marxist theorist. He evolved from being an associate of Leon Trotsky to a social democrat and mentor of senior assistants to AFL-CIO President George Meany. In 1938, Shachtman shocked Trotsky by publishing an article in the New International in which James Burnham declared his opposition to dialectical materialism, the philosophy of Marxism. Although Trotsky reassured Shachtman, "I did not deny in the least the usefulness of the article you and Burnham wrote," the issue would soon be revived as Shachtman and Trotsky clashed on the outbreak of World War II. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Shachtman]

'''aaahhh! Wesley Epstein!''' 
Perhaps one of Maxine's crushes at summer camp?

'''spiel from the Geek's Cotillion''' 
This would be Ice's speech at the Tworkeffx party in [[Chapter_28|| Chapter 28]] (p. 310) wherein he says that the thing to do is "to go north, set up server farms where heat dissipation won't be so much of a problem [...] Domed communities across the Arctic tundra."

'''Ride Wit Me''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtSDWq6HsJE YouTube.] Help the view count pass the 31 million mark.

==Page 458==
'''one of those vircators''' 
A vircator (VIRtual CAthode oscillaTOR) is a microwave generator that is capable of generating brief pulses of tunable, narrow band microwaves at very high power levels. Vircators have been used as electromagnetic (EM) pulse generators and for generating X-rays.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vircator]

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'''Gaussian blur''' 
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauß (30 April 1777 – 23 February 1855) was a German mathematician and physical scientist who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, algebra, statistics, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, geophysics, electrostatics, astronomy, and optics. Sometimes referred to as the ''Princeps mathematicorum'' (Latin, "the Prince of Mathematicians" or "the foremost of mathematicians") and "greatest mathematician since antiquity", Gauss had a remarkable influence in many fields of mathematics and science and is ranked as one of history's most influential mathematicians. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Gauss WIKI].

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'''Overflow exploit, denial of service'''
<blockquote>'''Buffer overflow:''' In computer security and programming, a buffer overflow, or buffer overrun, is an anomaly where a program, while writing data to a buffer, overruns the buffer's boundary and overwrites adjacent memory. This is a special case of violation of memory safety. Buffer overflows can be triggered by inputs that are designed to execute code, or alter the way the program operates. This may result in erratic program behavior, including memory access errors, incorrect results, a crash, or a breach of system security. Thus, they are the basis of many software vulnerabilities and can be maliciously exploited.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer_overflow] 

'''Denial of Service (DoS):''' In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) or distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) is an attempt to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users. Although the means to carry out, motives for, and targets of a DoS attack may vary, it generally consists of efforts to temporarily or indefinitely interrupt or suspend services of a host connected to the Internet.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial_of_service_attack]</blockquote>

'''Anasha can do funny things to a man''' 
"Anasha" is Russian for the dried resin exuded by female indian hemp plant, aka hashish

'''HALO... HAHO''' 
High-altitude military parachuting (or military free fall (MFF)) is a method of delivering personnel, equipment, and supplies from a transport aircraft at a high altitude via free-fall parachute insertion. Two techniques are used: HALO (high altitude - low opening) and HAHO (high altitude - high opening). In the HALO technique, the parachutist opens his parachute at a low altitude after free-falling for a period of time, while in the HAHO technique, the parachutist opens his parachute at a high altitude just a few seconds after jumping from the aircraft. HALO techniques date back to 1960 when the U.S. Air Force was conducting experiments that followed earlier work by Colonel John Stapp in the late 1940s through early 1950s on survivability factors for high-flying pilots needing to eject at high altitudes. In recent years, the HALO technique has been practiced by civilians as a form of skydiving. HALO is used for delivering equipment, supplies, or personnel, while HAHO is generally used only for personnel. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HALO_jump WIKI].

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'''Spetsnaz''' 
See p. [http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_13#Page_139 139].

'''Wahhabist bullshit front''' 
See p. [http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_31#Page_344 344].

'''hedgehog in the fog''' 
English translation of the Russian animated film [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCsJZV7aCdY ''Yozhik v Tumane''] mentioned on page 273.

==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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'''She's innocent...She's so fuckin innocent''' 
Echos of Britney Spears from [http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_7 page 7]? Maybe, maybe not. It's just that at the end of this novel there are so many references to previous happenings that one just can't be sure, can one?
 
 
'''Hypnotiq''' 
Misspelling/typo of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hpnotiq Hpnotiq,] a turquoise liqueur?

==Page 451==
'''''The Geek That Couldn't Sleep''''' 
Playing on the 1939 animated short [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gkWB5QtPFQ The Bear that Couldn't Sleep]?

'''bagpipe players, improvisiong grace notes on "Candle in the Wind"''' 
I thought I was going to have to be the one to take one for the team by being the one to annotate this oppressively ubiquitous Elton John song associated with the deaths of Princess Diana and Marilyn Monroe, but I'm thrilled to say [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyw1lC7tFLY YouTube] has a dude playing it on bagpipes. Thank you, dude and YouTube.

==Page 452==
'''CMU''' 
Carnegie Mellon University, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Mellon_University WIKI].

'''leading indicator...bagpipe players would get a heads-up before the next one happens?''' 
Little bit of [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Tyrone_Slothrop Slothrop] here, as well as a bleeding edge?

'''The Montauk Project''' 
Just a refresher, on page 117 March explains "The Montauk Project is every horrible suspicion you've ever had since World War II, all the paranoid production values, a vast underground facility, exotic weapons, space aliens, time travel, other dimensions..."

'''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.

It more likely is an allusion to the music from ''The Day the Earth Stood Still''. I don't believe there is a theremin in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzRb1OVpat0 the original Star Trek theme]

Two things. One: apparently the vocal style of the ''Star Trek'' theme song really was meant to imitate specifically the theremin, and not just to sound 'spacey.' Two: ''The Day the Earth Stood Still'' gets referenced on page [[Chapter_10#Page_100|100.]]

==Page 454==
'''Igor's ZiL-41047''' 
The ZIL-41047 is a limousine built by ZIL of Russia. Production of ZIL models ceased in 2002 due to their previous customer base turning to more modern Western vehicles.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIL-41047]

See p. [http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_15#Page_160 160].

==Page 455==
'''''govno''''' 
Russian: "shit"

==Page 456==
'''fake barn and silo of Stew Leonard''' 
Stew Leonard's is chain of four supermarkets in Connecticut and New York which ''Ripley's Believe It or Not!'' deemed "The World's Largest Dairy", with Fortune magazine listing Stew Leonard's as one of the "100 Best Companies to Work For". "Anyone who comes from Connecticut or thereabouts knows this landmark chain of grocery stores where mechanized cows sing and roosters crow," according to a writer for the ''Sun-Sentinel'' of Florida. A typical Stew Leonard's store will attract customers from a wider geographic area than a typical supermarket because customers are willing to drive longer distances. The store's fame comes from its innovative in-store marketing, which includes a barnlike wood decor, a winding path for shoppers instead of straight, parallel aisles, and animatronic singing animals perched above the shelving. In 1993, Stew Leonard Sr. was convicted of committing tax fraud through an elaborate scheme including short-weighting to divert more than $17 million in cash register receipts over a ten-year period. He was sentenced to 52-months in jail. Court documents indicated that Stew Leonard Jr. played a role in the tax fraud. However, in the interest of protecting his son and the store, Stew Leonard Sr. pleaded guilty in exchange for an agreement from the prosecutors to not bring charges against Stew Leonard Jr. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stew_Leonard%27s WIKI].

'''DDT's road anthem "Ty Nye Odin" (You Are Not Alone)...and the soulful ballad "Veter"''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lWulSZIvFQ Ty Nye Odin] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7z0jtmbOC8 Veter] on YouTube. 

Anyone else getting a slight whiff, a silage, perhaps, of the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AEMiz6rcxc nihilists] from ''The Big Lebowski''?

==Page 457==
'''Mohawk for 'firefly'''' 
This [http://winddancer45.tripod.com/MohawkLanguage.html page] says "tewattsirokwas" does mean "firefly."

'''Camp Tewattsirokwas ... the Gimelmans from Cedarhurst'''
The camp and the Gimelmans are, as far as I can tell, fictional.

'''the Schachtman unpleasantness''' 
Max Shachtman (1904 – 1972) was an American Marxist theorist. He evolved from being an associate of Leon Trotsky to a social democrat and mentor of senior assistants to AFL-CIO President George Meany. In 1938, Shachtman shocked Trotsky by publishing an article in the New International in which James Burnham declared his opposition to dialectical materialism, the philosophy of Marxism. Although Trotsky reassured Shachtman, "I did not deny in the least the usefulness of the article you and Burnham wrote," the issue would soon be revived as Shachtman and Trotsky clashed on the outbreak of World War II. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Shachtman]

'''aaahhh! Wesley Epstein!''' 
Perhaps one of Maxine's crushes at summer camp?

'''spiel from the Geek's Cotillion''' 
This would be Ice's speech at the Tworkeffx party in [[Chapter_28|| Chapter 28]] (p. 310) wherein he says that the thing to do is "to go north, set up server farms where heat dissipation won't be so much of a problem [...] Domed communities across the Arctic tundra."

'''Ride Wit Me''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtSDWq6HsJE YouTube.] Help the view count pass the 31 million mark.

==Page 458==
'''one of those vircators''' 
A vircator (VIRtual CAthode oscillaTOR) is a microwave generator that is capable of generating brief pulses of tunable, narrow band microwaves at very high power levels. Vircators have been used as electromagnetic (EM) pulse generators and for generating X-rays.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vircator]

==Page 459==
'''Gaussian blur''' 
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauß (30 April 1777 – 23 February 1855) was a German mathematician and physical scientist who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, algebra, statistics, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, geophysics, electrostatics, astronomy, and optics. Sometimes referred to as the ''Princeps mathematicorum'' (Latin, "the Prince of Mathematicians" or "the foremost of mathematicians") and "greatest mathematician since antiquity", Gauss had a remarkable influence in many fields of mathematics and science and is ranked as one of history's most influential mathematicians. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Gauss WIKI].

==Page 460==
'''Overflow exploit, denial of service'''
<blockquote>'''Buffer overflow:''' In computer security and programming, a buffer overflow, or buffer overrun, is an anomaly where a program, while writing data to a buffer, overruns the buffer's boundary and overwrites adjacent memory. This is a special case of violation of memory safety. Buffer overflows can be triggered by inputs that are designed to execute code, or alter the way the program operates. This may result in erratic program behavior, including memory access errors, incorrect results, a crash, or a breach of system security. Thus, they are the basis of many software vulnerabilities and can be maliciously exploited.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer_overflow] 

'''Denial of Service (DoS):''' In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) or distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) is an attempt to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users. Although the means to carry out, motives for, and targets of a DoS attack may vary, it generally consists of efforts to temporarily or indefinitely interrupt or suspend services of a host connected to the Internet.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial_of_service_attack]</blockquote>

'''Anasha can do funny things to a man''' 
"Anasha" is Russian for the dried resin exuded by female indian hemp plant, aka hashish

'''HALO... HAHO''' 
High-altitude military parachuting (or military free fall (MFF)) is a method of delivering personnel, equipment, and supplies from a transport aircraft at a high altitude via free-fall parachute insertion. Two techniques are used: HALO (high altitude - low opening) and HAHO (high altitude - high opening). In the HALO technique, the parachutist opens his parachute at a low altitude after free-falling for a period of time, while in the HAHO technique, the parachutist opens his parachute at a high altitude just a few seconds after jumping from the aircraft. HALO techniques date back to 1960 when the U.S. Air Force was conducting experiments that followed earlier work by Colonel John Stapp in the late 1940s through early 1950s on survivability factors for high-flying pilots needing to eject at high altitudes. In recent years, the HALO technique has been practiced by civilians as a form of skydiving. HALO is used for delivering equipment, supplies, or personnel, while HAHO is generally used only for personnel. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HALO_jump WIKI].

==Page 461==
'''Spetsnaz''' 
See p. [http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_13#Page_139 139].

'''hedgehog in the fog''' 
English translation of the Russian animated film [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCsJZV7aCdY ''Yozhik v Tumane''] mentioned on page 273.

==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]]

==Page 462==
'''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.

{{Bleeding Edge PbP}}

Chapter 40

2014-01-22T00:11:38Z

Greenlantern: /* Page 460 */

{{BE PxP Header}}
==Page 450==
'''She's innocent...She's so fuckin innocent''' 
Echos of Britney Spears from [http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_7 page 7]? Maybe, maybe not. It's just that at the end of this novel there are so many references to previous happenings that one just can't be sure, can one?
 
 
'''Hypnotiq''' 
Misspelling/typo of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hpnotiq Hpnotiq,] a turquoise liqueur?

==Page 451==
'''''The Geek That Couldn't Sleep''''' 
Playing on the 1939 animated short [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gkWB5QtPFQ The Bear that Couldn't Sleep]?

'''bagpipe players, improvisiong grace notes on "Candle in the Wind"''' 
I thought I was going to have to be the one to take one for the team by being the one to annotate this oppressively ubiquitous Elton John song associated with the deaths of Princess Diana and Marilyn Monroe, but I'm thrilled to say [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyw1lC7tFLY YouTube] has a dude playing it on bagpipes. Thank you, dude and YouTube.

==Page 452==
'''CMU''' 
Carnegie Mellon University, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Mellon_University WIKI].

'''leading indicator...bagpipe players would get a heads-up before the next one happens?''' 
Little bit of [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Tyrone_Slothrop Slothrop] here, as well as a bleeding edge?

'''The Montauk Project''' 
Just a refresher, on page 117 March explains "The Montauk Project is every horrible suspicion you've ever had since World War II, all the paranoid production values, a vast underground facility, exotic weapons, space aliens, time travel, other dimensions..."

'''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.

It more likely is an allusion to the music from ''The Day the Earth Stood Still''. I don't believe there is a theremin in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzRb1OVpat0 the original Star Trek theme]

Two things. One: apparently the vocal style of the ''Star Trek'' theme song really was meant to imitate specifically the theremin, and not just to sound 'spacey.' Two: ''The Day the Earth Stood Still'' gets referenced on page [[Chapter_10#Page_100|100.]]

==Page 454==
'''Igor's ZiL-41047''' 
The ZIL-41047 is a limousine built by ZIL of Russia. Production of ZIL models ceased in 2002 due to their previous customer base turning to more modern Western vehicles.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIL-41047]

See p. [http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_15#Page_160 160].

==Page 455==
'''''govno''''' 
Russian: "shit"

==Page 456==
'''fake barn and silo of Stew Leonard''' 
Stew Leonard's is chain of four supermarkets in Connecticut and New York which ''Ripley's Believe It or Not!'' deemed "The World's Largest Dairy", with Fortune magazine listing Stew Leonard's as one of the "100 Best Companies to Work For". "Anyone who comes from Connecticut or thereabouts knows this landmark chain of grocery stores where mechanized cows sing and roosters crow," according to a writer for the ''Sun-Sentinel'' of Florida. A typical Stew Leonard's store will attract customers from a wider geographic area than a typical supermarket because customers are willing to drive longer distances. The store's fame comes from its innovative in-store marketing, which includes a barnlike wood decor, a winding path for shoppers instead of straight, parallel aisles, and animatronic singing animals perched above the shelving. In 1993, Stew Leonard Sr. was convicted of committing tax fraud through an elaborate scheme including short-weighting to divert more than $17 million in cash register receipts over a ten-year period. He was sentenced to 52-months in jail. Court documents indicated that Stew Leonard Jr. played a role in the tax fraud. However, in the interest of protecting his son and the store, Stew Leonard Sr. pleaded guilty in exchange for an agreement from the prosecutors to not bring charges against Stew Leonard Jr. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stew_Leonard%27s WIKI].

'''DDT's road anthem "Ty Nye Odin" (You Are Not Alone)...and the soulful ballad "Veter"''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lWulSZIvFQ Ty Nye Odin] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7z0jtmbOC8 Veter] on YouTube. 

Anyone else getting a slight whiff, a silage, perhaps, of the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AEMiz6rcxc nihilists] from ''The Big Lebowski''?

==Page 457==
'''Mohawk for 'firefly'''' 
This [http://winddancer45.tripod.com/MohawkLanguage.html page] says "tewattsirokwas" does mean "firefly."

'''Camp Tewattsirokwas ... the Gimelmans from Cedarhurst'''
The camp and the Gimelmans are, as far as I can tell, fictional.

'''the Schachtman unpleasantness''' 
Max Shachtman (1904 – 1972) was an American Marxist theorist. He evolved from being an associate of Leon Trotsky to a social democrat and mentor of senior assistants to AFL-CIO President George Meany. In 1938, Shachtman shocked Trotsky by publishing an article in the New International in which James Burnham declared his opposition to dialectical materialism, the philosophy of Marxism. Although Trotsky reassured Shachtman, "I did not deny in the least the usefulness of the article you and Burnham wrote," the issue would soon be revived as Shachtman and Trotsky clashed on the outbreak of World War II. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Shachtman]

'''aaahhh! Wesley Epstein!''' 
Perhaps one of Maxine's crushes at summer camp?

'''spiel from the Geek's Cotillion''' 
This would be Ice's speech at the Tworkeffx party in [[Chapter_28|| Chapter 28]] (p. 310) wherein he says that the thing to do is "to go north, set up server farms where heat dissipation won't be so much of a problem [...] Domed communities across the Arctic tundra."

'''Ride Wit Me''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtSDWq6HsJE YouTube.] Help the view count pass the 31 million mark.

==Page 458==
'''one of those vircators''' 
A vircator (VIRtual CAthode oscillaTOR) is a microwave generator that is capable of generating brief pulses of tunable, narrow band microwaves at very high power levels. Vircators have been used as electromagnetic (EM) pulse generators and for generating X-rays.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vircator]

==Page 459==
'''Gaussian blur''' 
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauß (30 April 1777 – 23 February 1855) was a German mathematician and physical scientist who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, algebra, statistics, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, geophysics, electrostatics, astronomy, and optics. Sometimes referred to as the ''Princeps mathematicorum'' (Latin, "the Prince of Mathematicians" or "the foremost of mathematicians") and "greatest mathematician since antiquity", Gauss had a remarkable influence in many fields of mathematics and science and is ranked as one of history's most influential mathematicians. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Gauss WIKI].

==Page 460==
'''Overflow exploit, denial of service'''
<blockquote>'''Buffer overflow:''' In computer security and programming, a buffer overflow, or buffer overrun, is an anomaly where a program, while writing data to a buffer, overruns the buffer's boundary and overwrites adjacent memory. This is a special case of violation of memory safety. Buffer overflows can be triggered by inputs that are designed to execute code, or alter the way the program operates. This may result in erratic program behavior, including memory access errors, incorrect results, a crash, or a breach of system security. Thus, they are the basis of many software vulnerabilities and can be maliciously exploited.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer_overflow] 

'''Denial of Service (DoS):''' In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) or distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) is an attempt to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users. Although the means to carry out, motives for, and targets of a DoS attack may vary, it generally consists of efforts to temporarily or indefinitely interrupt or suspend services of a host connected to the Internet.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial_of_service_attack]</blockquote>

'''Anasha can do funny things to a man''' 
"Anasha" is Russian for the dried resin exuded by female indian hemp plant, aka hashish

'''HALO... HAHO''' 
High-altitude military parachuting (or military free fall (MFF)) is a method of delivering personnel, equipment, and supplies from a transport aircraft at a high altitude via free-fall parachute insertion. Two techniques are used: HALO (high altitude - low opening) and HAHO (high altitude - high opening). In the HALO technique, the parachutist opens his parachute at a low altitude after free-falling for a period of time, while in the HAHO technique, the parachutist opens his parachute at a high altitude just a few seconds after jumping from the aircraft. HALO techniques date back to 1960 when the U.S. Air Force was conducting experiments that followed earlier work by Colonel John Stapp in the late 1940s through early 1950s on survivability factors for high-flying pilots needing to eject at high altitudes. In recent years, the HALO technique has been practiced by civilians as a form of skydiving. HALO is used for delivering equipment, supplies, or personnel, while HAHO is generally used only for personnel. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HALO_jump WIKI].

==Page 461==
'''hedgehog in the fog''' 
English translation of the Russian animated film [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCsJZV7aCdY ''Yozhik v Tumane''] mentioned on page 273.

==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]]

==Page 462==
'''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.

{{Bleeding Edge PbP}}

Chapter 40

2014-01-22T00:06:52Z

Greenlantern: /* Page 458 */

{{BE PxP Header}}
==Page 450==
'''She's innocent...She's so fuckin innocent''' 
Echos of Britney Spears from [http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_7 page 7]? Maybe, maybe not. It's just that at the end of this novel there are so many references to previous happenings that one just can't be sure, can one?
 
 
'''Hypnotiq''' 
Misspelling/typo of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hpnotiq Hpnotiq,] a turquoise liqueur?

==Page 451==
'''''The Geek That Couldn't Sleep''''' 
Playing on the 1939 animated short [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gkWB5QtPFQ The Bear that Couldn't Sleep]?

'''bagpipe players, improvisiong grace notes on "Candle in the Wind"''' 
I thought I was going to have to be the one to take one for the team by being the one to annotate this oppressively ubiquitous Elton John song associated with the deaths of Princess Diana and Marilyn Monroe, but I'm thrilled to say [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyw1lC7tFLY YouTube] has a dude playing it on bagpipes. Thank you, dude and YouTube.

==Page 452==
'''CMU''' 
Carnegie Mellon University, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Mellon_University WIKI].

'''leading indicator...bagpipe players would get a heads-up before the next one happens?''' 
Little bit of [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Tyrone_Slothrop Slothrop] here, as well as a bleeding edge?

'''The Montauk Project''' 
Just a refresher, on page 117 March explains "The Montauk Project is every horrible suspicion you've ever had since World War II, all the paranoid production values, a vast underground facility, exotic weapons, space aliens, time travel, other dimensions..."

'''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.

It more likely is an allusion to the music from ''The Day the Earth Stood Still''. I don't believe there is a theremin in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzRb1OVpat0 the original Star Trek theme]

Two things. One: apparently the vocal style of the ''Star Trek'' theme song really was meant to imitate specifically the theremin, and not just to sound 'spacey.' Two: ''The Day the Earth Stood Still'' gets referenced on page [[Chapter_10#Page_100|100.]]

==Page 454==
'''Igor's ZiL-41047''' 
The ZIL-41047 is a limousine built by ZIL of Russia. Production of ZIL models ceased in 2002 due to their previous customer base turning to more modern Western vehicles.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIL-41047]

See p. [http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_15#Page_160 160].

==Page 455==
'''''govno''''' 
Russian: "shit"

==Page 456==
'''fake barn and silo of Stew Leonard''' 
Stew Leonard's is chain of four supermarkets in Connecticut and New York which ''Ripley's Believe It or Not!'' deemed "The World's Largest Dairy", with Fortune magazine listing Stew Leonard's as one of the "100 Best Companies to Work For". "Anyone who comes from Connecticut or thereabouts knows this landmark chain of grocery stores where mechanized cows sing and roosters crow," according to a writer for the ''Sun-Sentinel'' of Florida. A typical Stew Leonard's store will attract customers from a wider geographic area than a typical supermarket because customers are willing to drive longer distances. The store's fame comes from its innovative in-store marketing, which includes a barnlike wood decor, a winding path for shoppers instead of straight, parallel aisles, and animatronic singing animals perched above the shelving. In 1993, Stew Leonard Sr. was convicted of committing tax fraud through an elaborate scheme including short-weighting to divert more than $17 million in cash register receipts over a ten-year period. He was sentenced to 52-months in jail. Court documents indicated that Stew Leonard Jr. played a role in the tax fraud. However, in the interest of protecting his son and the store, Stew Leonard Sr. pleaded guilty in exchange for an agreement from the prosecutors to not bring charges against Stew Leonard Jr. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stew_Leonard%27s WIKI].

'''DDT's road anthem "Ty Nye Odin" (You Are Not Alone)...and the soulful ballad "Veter"''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lWulSZIvFQ Ty Nye Odin] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7z0jtmbOC8 Veter] on YouTube. 

Anyone else getting a slight whiff, a silage, perhaps, of the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AEMiz6rcxc nihilists] from ''The Big Lebowski''?

==Page 457==
'''Mohawk for 'firefly'''' 
This [http://winddancer45.tripod.com/MohawkLanguage.html page] says "tewattsirokwas" does mean "firefly."

'''Camp Tewattsirokwas ... the Gimelmans from Cedarhurst'''
The camp and the Gimelmans are, as far as I can tell, fictional.

'''the Schachtman unpleasantness''' 
Max Shachtman (1904 – 1972) was an American Marxist theorist. He evolved from being an associate of Leon Trotsky to a social democrat and mentor of senior assistants to AFL-CIO President George Meany. In 1938, Shachtman shocked Trotsky by publishing an article in the New International in which James Burnham declared his opposition to dialectical materialism, the philosophy of Marxism. Although Trotsky reassured Shachtman, "I did not deny in the least the usefulness of the article you and Burnham wrote," the issue would soon be revived as Shachtman and Trotsky clashed on the outbreak of World War II. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Shachtman]

'''aaahhh! Wesley Epstein!''' 
Perhaps one of Maxine's crushes at summer camp?

'''spiel from the Geek's Cotillion''' 
This would be Ice's speech at the Tworkeffx party in [[Chapter_28|| Chapter 28]] (p. 310) wherein he says that the thing to do is "to go north, set up server farms where heat dissipation won't be so much of a problem [...] Domed communities across the Arctic tundra."

'''Ride Wit Me''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtSDWq6HsJE YouTube.] Help the view count pass the 31 million mark.

==Page 458==
'''one of those vircators''' 
A vircator (VIRtual CAthode oscillaTOR) is a microwave generator that is capable of generating brief pulses of tunable, narrow band microwaves at very high power levels. Vircators have been used as electromagnetic (EM) pulse generators and for generating X-rays.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vircator]

==Page 459==
'''Gaussian blur''' 
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauß (30 April 1777 – 23 February 1855) was a German mathematician and physical scientist who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, algebra, statistics, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, geophysics, electrostatics, astronomy, and optics. Sometimes referred to as the ''Princeps mathematicorum'' (Latin, "the Prince of Mathematicians" or "the foremost of mathematicians") and "greatest mathematician since antiquity", Gauss had a remarkable influence in many fields of mathematics and science and is ranked as one of history's most influential mathematicians. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Gauss WIKI].

==Page 460==
'''Overflow exploit, denial of service'''
<blockquote>'''Buffer overflow:''' In computer security and programming, a buffer overflow, or buffer overrun, is an anomaly where a program, while writing data to a buffer, overruns the buffer's boundary and overwrites adjacent memory. This is a special case of violation of memory safety. Buffer overflows can be triggered by inputs that are designed to execute code, or alter the way the program operates. This may result in erratic program behavior, including memory access errors, incorrect results, a crash, or a breach of system security. Thus, they are the basis of many software vulnerabilities and can be maliciously exploited.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer_overflow] 

'''Denial of Service (DoS):''' In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) or distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) is an attempt to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users. Although the means to carry out, motives for, and targets of a DoS attack may vary, it generally consists of efforts to temporarily or indefinitely interrupt or suspend services of a host connected to the Internet.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial_of_service_attack]</blockquote>

'''Anasha can do funny things to a man''' 
"Anasha" is Russian for the dried resin exuded by female indian hemp plant, aka hashish

==Page 461==
'''hedgehog in the fog''' 
English translation of the Russian animated film [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCsJZV7aCdY ''Yozhik v Tumane''] mentioned on page 273.

==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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'''She's innocent...She's so fuckin innocent''' 
Echos of Britney Spears from [http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_7 page 7]? Maybe, maybe not. It's just that at the end of this novel there are so many references to previous happenings that one just can't be sure, can one?
 
 
'''Hypnotiq''' 
Misspelling/typo of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hpnotiq Hpnotiq,] a turquoise liqueur?

==Page 451==
'''''The Geek That Couldn't Sleep''''' 
Playing on the 1939 animated short [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gkWB5QtPFQ The Bear that Couldn't Sleep]?

'''bagpipe players, improvisiong grace notes on "Candle in the Wind"''' 
I thought I was going to have to be the one to take one for the team by being the one to annotate this oppressively ubiquitous Elton John song associated with the deaths of Princess Diana and Marilyn Monroe, but I'm thrilled to say [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyw1lC7tFLY YouTube] has a dude playing it on bagpipes. Thank you, dude and YouTube.

==Page 452==
'''CMU''' 
Carnegie Mellon University, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Mellon_University WIKI].

'''leading indicator...bagpipe players would get a heads-up before the next one happens?''' 
Little bit of [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Tyrone_Slothrop Slothrop] here, as well as a bleeding edge?

'''The Montauk Project''' 
Just a refresher, on page 117 March explains "The Montauk Project is every horrible suspicion you've ever had since World War II, all the paranoid production values, a vast underground facility, exotic weapons, space aliens, time travel, other dimensions..."

'''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.

It more likely is an allusion to the music from ''The Day the Earth Stood Still''. I don't believe there is a theremin in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzRb1OVpat0 the original Star Trek theme]

Two things. One: apparently the vocal style of the ''Star Trek'' theme song really was meant to imitate specifically the theremin, and not just to sound 'spacey.' Two: ''The Day the Earth Stood Still'' gets referenced on page [[Chapter_10#Page_100|100.]]

==Page 454==
'''Igor's ZiL-41047''' 
The ZIL-41047 is a limousine built by ZIL of Russia. Production of ZIL models ceased in 2002 due to their previous customer base turning to more modern Western vehicles.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIL-41047]

See p. [http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_15#Page_160 160].

==Page 455==
'''''govno''''' 
Russian: "shit"

==Page 456==
'''fake barn and silo of Stew Leonard''' 
Stew Leonard's is chain of four supermarkets in Connecticut and New York which ''Ripley's Believe It or Not!'' deemed "The World's Largest Dairy", with Fortune magazine listing Stew Leonard's as one of the "100 Best Companies to Work For". "Anyone who comes from Connecticut or thereabouts knows this landmark chain of grocery stores where mechanized cows sing and roosters crow," according to a writer for the ''Sun-Sentinel'' of Florida. A typical Stew Leonard's store will attract customers from a wider geographic area than a typical supermarket because customers are willing to drive longer distances. The store's fame comes from its innovative in-store marketing, which includes a barnlike wood decor, a winding path for shoppers instead of straight, parallel aisles, and animatronic singing animals perched above the shelving. In 1993, Stew Leonard Sr. was convicted of committing tax fraud through an elaborate scheme including short-weighting to divert more than $17 million in cash register receipts over a ten-year period. He was sentenced to 52-months in jail. Court documents indicated that Stew Leonard Jr. played a role in the tax fraud. However, in the interest of protecting his son and the store, Stew Leonard Sr. pleaded guilty in exchange for an agreement from the prosecutors to not bring charges against Stew Leonard Jr. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stew_Leonard%27s WIKI].

'''DDT's road anthem "Ty Nye Odin" (You Are Not Alone)...and the soulful ballad "Veter"''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lWulSZIvFQ Ty Nye Odin] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7z0jtmbOC8 Veter] on YouTube. 

Anyone else getting a slight whiff, a silage, perhaps, of the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AEMiz6rcxc nihilists] from ''The Big Lebowski''?

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'''Mohawk for 'firefly'''' 
This [http://winddancer45.tripod.com/MohawkLanguage.html page] says "tewattsirokwas" does mean "firefly."

'''Camp Tewattsirokwas ... the Gimelmans from Cedarhurst'''
The camp and the Gimelmans are, as far as I can tell, fictional.

'''the Schachtman unpleasantness''' 
Max Shachtman (1904 – 1972) was an American Marxist theorist. He evolved from being an associate of Leon Trotsky to a social democrat and mentor of senior assistants to AFL-CIO President George Meany. In 1938, Shachtman shocked Trotsky by publishing an article in the New International in which James Burnham declared his opposition to dialectical materialism, the philosophy of Marxism. Although Trotsky reassured Shachtman, "I did not deny in the least the usefulness of the article you and Burnham wrote," the issue would soon be revived as Shachtman and Trotsky clashed on the outbreak of World War II. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Shachtman]

'''aaahhh! Wesley Epstein!''' 
Perhaps one of Maxine's crushes at summer camp?

'''spiel from the Geek's Cotillion''' 
This would be Ice's speech at the Tworkeffx party in [[Chapter_28|| Chapter 28]] (p. 310) wherein he says that the thing to do is "to go north, set up server farms where heat dissipation won't be so much of a problem [...] Domed communities across the Arctic tundra."

'''Ride Wit Me''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtSDWq6HsJE YouTube.] Help the view count pass the 31 million mark.

==Page 458==
'''one of those vircators''' 
A vircator (VIRtual CAthode oscillaTOR) is a microwave generator that is capable of generating brief pulses of tunable, narrow band microwaves at very high power levels. Vircators have been used as electromagnetic (EM) pulse generators and for generating X-rays.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vircator]

==Page 460==
'''Overflow exploit, denial of service'''
<blockquote>'''Buffer overflow:''' In computer security and programming, a buffer overflow, or buffer overrun, is an anomaly where a program, while writing data to a buffer, overruns the buffer's boundary and overwrites adjacent memory. This is a special case of violation of memory safety. Buffer overflows can be triggered by inputs that are designed to execute code, or alter the way the program operates. This may result in erratic program behavior, including memory access errors, incorrect results, a crash, or a breach of system security. Thus, they are the basis of many software vulnerabilities and can be maliciously exploited.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer_overflow] 

'''Denial of Service (DoS):''' In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) or distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) is an attempt to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users. Although the means to carry out, motives for, and targets of a DoS attack may vary, it generally consists of efforts to temporarily or indefinitely interrupt or suspend services of a host connected to the Internet.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial_of_service_attack]</blockquote>

'''Anasha can do funny things to a man''' 
"Anasha" is Russian for the dried resin exuded by female indian hemp plant, aka hashish

==Page 461==
'''hedgehog in the fog''' 
English translation of the Russian animated film [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCsJZV7aCdY ''Yozhik v Tumane''] mentioned on page 273.

==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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'''ALL HOPE ABANDON''' 
In Dante's ''Divine Comedy'', the sign above the entrance to hell reads, "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."

'''some modest vig''' 
Vigorish, or simply ''the vig'', also known as ''juice'', ''the cut'' or ''the take'', is the amount charged by a bookmaker, or bookie, for his services. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigorish WIKI].

==Page 441==
'''Hungarian Pastry Shop''' 
See [http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1 page 4 of ''The Crying of Lot 49''] to hear about the time when a thin-skinned Mucho Mass was offended at a party by a Hungarian pastry chef, a man who may or may not have used the word "creampuff" maliciously.

'''before either of them knows it, it's turning into morning talk-show TV''' 
A similar experience to how some readers find much of the novel?

==Page 442==
'''Old Ebbitt''' 
Old Ebbitt Grill is a historic bar and restaurant located at 675 15th Street NW in Washington, D.C., in the United States. It is Washington's oldest bar and restaurant, and as of 2012 was owned by Clyde's Restaurant Group. It opened as an unnamed restaurant in the Ebbitt House hotel. The hotel was razed and rebuilt in the same location in 1827. Ebbitt House was razed in 1926 to make way for the National Press Club Building, but the restaurant was incorporated by Anders Lofstrand, Sr., as a stand-alone business. It moved into new quarters at 1427 F Street NW. After Lofstrand's death in 1955, the restaurant was purchased by Peter Bechas in 1961. The restaurant was sold at a tax sale in June 1970, and was purchased by Clyde's Restaurant Group. The 1427 F Street NW location was demolished in 1983, and Old Ebbitt Grill moved into its current quarters at 675 15th Street NW. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Ebbitt_Grill WIKI].

'''"Something about [...] "...vertical hoop, high percentage of fouls, some of them flagrant, usually fatal?"''' 
Maxine's description is actually pretty accurate:

<blockquote> "One of the ways that the Mayan peoples competed against each other was by playing what has been called the Ball Game. They used a rubber ball, about 20 inches in diameter, to play the Game, which was played on a stone "court" whose measurements varied. The court had walls that sloped inward, and hanging high on the walls were stone rings. The goal of the game was to pass the ball around, without having it touch your hands, and then get the ball to pass through one of the rings. Since the rings were so high and players were not allowed to use their hands, it was extremely difficult to get the ball through a ring. In fact, when a player did manage to get a ball through a ring, that usually ended the game. The game ended otherwise when the ball touched the ground. The Mayan Ball Game was a solemn experience, filled with ritual importance. Religious leaders attended, as did most chieftains and other government leaders. Sacred songs were sung and played. Other religious activities took place as well. The winners of the game were treated as heroes and given a great feast. '''The penalty for losing a game was sometimes unusually harsh: death'''. The leader of the team who lost the game was sometimes killed. This fit in with the Mayan belief that human sacrifice was necessary for the continued success of the peoples' agriculture, trade, and overall health."
[http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/worldhistory/mayanballgame.htm]</blockquote>

The "Mayan Ball Game" was a feature of the underworld death court Xibalba: <blockquote>"Xibalba was home of a famous ballcourt in which the heroes of the Popol Vuh succumbed to the trickery of the Xibalbans in the form of a deadly, bladed ball, as well as the site in which the Maya Hero Twins outwitted the Xibalbans and brought about their downfall."[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xibalba]</blockquote>

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'''Huehuetenango''' 
In the highlands of Guatemala, was a Pre-Columbian Mayan city.

'''Xibalba''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xibalba Wikipedia]: "roughly translated as "place of fear", Xibalba is the name of the underworld in K'iche' Maya mythology, ruled by the Maya death gods and their helpers. In 16th-century Verapaz, the entrance to Xibalba was traditionally held to be a cave in the vicinity of Cobán, Guatemala. According to some of the K'iche' Maya presently living in the vicinity, the area is still associated with death. Cave systems in nearby Belize have also been referred to as the entrance to Xibalba."

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

'''Kaibil''' 
The Kaibiles are a special operations force of the Military of Guatemala. They specialize in jungle warfare tactics and counter-insurgency operations. The corps' soldiers are distinguished from regular troops by maroon berets with patches bearing a blazing sword. Its motto, inspired by Henri de la Rochejaquelein, is: "If I advance, follow me. If I stop, urge me on. If I retreat, kill me." From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaibil WIKI].

'''D.F.''' 
Mexico City, or that is, Federal District, or ''Distrito Federal''.

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'''Huehuetenango''' 
Huehuetenango is a city and a municipality in the highlands of western Guatemala. It is also the capital of the department of Huehuetenango. The municipality's population was over 81,000 people in 2002. The city is located 269 km from Guatemala City, and is the last departmental capital on the Pan-American Highway before reaching the Mexican border at La Mesilla. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huehuetenango WIKI].

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

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'''ALL HOPE ABANDON''' 
In Dante's ''Divine Comedy'', the sign above the entrance to hell reads, "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."

'''some modest vig''' 
Vigorish, or simply ''the vig'', also known as ''juice'', ''the cut'' or ''the take'', is the amount charged by a bookmaker, or bookie, for his services. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigorish WIKI].

==Page 441==
'''Hungarian Pastry Shop''' 
See [http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1 page 4 of ''The Crying of Lot 49''] to hear about the time when a thin-skinned Mucho Mass was offended at a party by a Hungarian pastry chef, a man who may or may not have used the word "creampuff" maliciously.

'''before either of them knows it, it's turning into morning talk-show TV''' 
A similar experience to how some readers find much of the novel?

==Page 442==
'''Old Ebbitt''' 
Old Ebbitt Grill is a historic bar and restaurant located at 675 15th Street NW in Washington, D.C., in the United States. It is Washington's oldest bar and restaurant, and as of 2012 was owned by Clyde's Restaurant Group. It opened as an unnamed restaurant in the Ebbitt House hotel. The hotel was razed and rebuilt in the same location in 1827. Ebbitt House was razed in 1926 to make way for the National Press Club Building, but the restaurant was incorporated by Anders Lofstrand, Sr., as a stand-alone business. It moved into new quarters at 1427 F Street NW. After Lofstrand's death in 1955, the restaurant was purchased by Peter Bechas in 1961. The restaurant was sold at a tax sale in June 1970, and was purchased by Clyde's Restaurant Group. The 1427 F Street NW location was demolished in 1983, and Old Ebbitt Grill moved into its current quarters at 675 15th Street NW. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Ebbitt_Grill WIKI].

'''"Something about [...] "...vertical hoop, high percentage of fouls, some of them flagrant, usually fatal?"''' 
Maxine's description is actually pretty accurate:

<blockquote> "One of the ways that the Mayan peoples competed against each other was by playing what has been called the Ball Game. They used a rubber ball, about 20 inches in diameter, to play the Game, which was played on a stone "court" whose measurements varied. The court had walls that sloped inward, and hanging high on the walls were stone rings. The goal of the game was to pass the ball around, without having it touch your hands, and then get the ball to pass through one of the rings. Since the rings were so high and players were not allowed to use their hands, it was extremely difficult to get the ball through a ring. In fact, when a player did manage to get a ball through a ring, that usually ended the game. The game ended otherwise when the ball touched the ground. The Mayan Ball Game was a solemn experience, filled with ritual importance. Religious leaders attended, as did most chieftains and other government leaders. Sacred songs were sung and played. Other religious activities took place as well. The winners of the game were treated as heroes and given a great feast. '''The penalty for losing a game was sometimes unusually harsh: death'''. The leader of the team who lost the game was sometimes killed. This fit in with the Mayan belief that human sacrifice was necessary for the continued success of the peoples' agriculture, trade, and overall health."
[http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/worldhistory/mayanballgame.htm]</blockquote>

The "Mayan Ball Game" was a feature of the underworld death court Xibalba: <blockquote>"Xibalba was home of a famous ballcourt in which the heroes of the Popol Vuh succumbed to the trickery of the Xibalbans in the form of a deadly, bladed ball, as well as the site in which the Maya Hero Twins outwitted the Xibalbans and brought about their downfall."[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xibalba]</blockquote>

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'''Huehuetenango''' 
In the highlands of Guatemala, was a Pre-Columbian Mayan city.

'''Xibalba''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xibalba Wikipedia]: "roughly translated as "place of fear", Xibalba is the name of the underworld in K'iche' Maya mythology, ruled by the Maya death gods and their helpers. In 16th-century Verapaz, the entrance to Xibalba was traditionally held to be a cave in the vicinity of Cobán, Guatemala. According to some of the K'iche' Maya presently living in the vicinity, the area is still associated with death. Cave systems in nearby Belize have also been referred to as the entrance to Xibalba."

==Page 444==
'''''Salsipuedes''''' 
"Leave if you can"

'''Kaibil''' 
The Kaibiles are a special operations force of the Military of Guatemala. They specialize in jungle warfare tactics and counter-insurgency operations. The corps' soldiers are distinguished from regular troops by maroon berets with patches bearing a blazing sword. Its motto, inspired by Henri de la Rochejaquelein, is: "If I advance, follow me. If I stop, urge me on. If I retreat, kill me." From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaibil WIKI].

'''D.F.''' 
Mexico City, or that is, Federal District, or ''Distrito Federal''.

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figuratively speaking, "out of the frying pan into the fire"

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'''ALL HOPE ABANDON''' 
In Dante's ''Divine Comedy'', the sign above the entrance to hell reads, "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."

'''some modest vig''' 
Vigorish, or simply ''the vig'', also known as ''juice'', ''the cut'' or ''the take'', is the amount charged by a bookmaker, or bookie, for his services. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigorish WIKI].

==Page 441==
'''Hungarian Pastry Shop''' 
See [http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1 page 4 of ''The Crying of Lot 49''] to hear about the time when a thin-skinned Mucho Mass was offended at a party by a Hungarian pastry chef, a man who may or may not have used the word "creampuff" maliciously.

'''before either of them knows it, it's turning into morning talk-show TV''' 
A similar experience to how some readers find much of the novel?

==Page 442==
'''Old Ebbitt''' 
Old Ebbitt Grill is a historic bar and restaurant located at 675 15th Street NW in Washington, D.C., in the United States. It is Washington's oldest bar and restaurant, and as of 2012 was owned by Clyde's Restaurant Group. It opened as an unnamed restaurant in the Ebbitt House hotel. The hotel was razed and rebuilt in the same location in 1827. Ebbitt House was razed in 1926 to make way for the National Press Club Building, but the restaurant was incorporated by Anders Lofstrand, Sr., as a stand-alone business. It moved into new quarters at 1427 F Street NW. After Lofstrand's death in 1955, the restaurant was purchased by Peter Bechas in 1961. The restaurant was sold at a tax sale in June 1970, and was purchased by Clyde's Restaurant Group. The 1427 F Street NW location was demolished in 1983, and Old Ebbitt Grill moved into its current quarters at 675 15th Street NW. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Ebbitt_Grill WIKI].

'''"Something about [...] "...vertical hoop, high percentage of fouls, some of them flagrant, usually fatal?"''' 
Maxine's description is actually pretty accurate:

<blockquote> "One of the ways that the Mayan peoples competed against each other was by playing what has been called the Ball Game. They used a rubber ball, about 20 inches in diameter, to play the Game, which was played on a stone "court" whose measurements varied. The court had walls that sloped inward, and hanging high on the walls were stone rings. The goal of the game was to pass the ball around, without having it touch your hands, and then get the ball to pass through one of the rings. Since the rings were so high and players were not allowed to use their hands, it was extremely difficult to get the ball through a ring. In fact, when a player did manage to get a ball through a ring, that usually ended the game. The game ended otherwise when the ball touched the ground. The Mayan Ball Game was a solemn experience, filled with ritual importance. Religious leaders attended, as did most chieftains and other government leaders. Sacred songs were sung and played. Other religious activities took place as well. The winners of the game were treated as heroes and given a great feast. '''The penalty for losing a game was sometimes unusually harsh: death'''. The leader of the team who lost the game was sometimes killed. This fit in with the Mayan belief that human sacrifice was necessary for the continued success of the peoples' agriculture, trade, and overall health."
[http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/worldhistory/mayanballgame.htm]</blockquote>

The "Mayan Ball Game" was a feature of the underworld death court Xibalba: <blockquote>"Xibalba was home of a famous ballcourt in which the heroes of the Popol Vuh succumbed to the trickery of the Xibalbans in the form of a deadly, bladed ball, as well as the site in which the Maya Hero Twins outwitted the Xibalbans and brought about their downfall."[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xibalba]</blockquote>

==Page 443==
'''Huehuetenango''' 
In the highlands of Guatemala, was a Pre-Columbian Mayan city.

'''Xibalba''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xibalba Wikipedia]: "roughly translated as "place of fear", Xibalba is the name of the underworld in K'iche' Maya mythology, ruled by the Maya death gods and their helpers. In 16th-century Verapaz, the entrance to Xibalba was traditionally held to be a cave in the vicinity of Cobán, Guatemala. According to some of the K'iche' Maya presently living in the vicinity, the area is still associated with death. Cave systems in nearby Belize have also been referred to as the entrance to Xibalba."

==Page 444==
'''''Salsipuedes''''' 
"Leave if you can"

'''Kaibil''' 
The Kaibiles are a special operations force of the Military of Guatemala. They specialize in jungle warfare tactics and counter-insurgency operations. The corps' soldiers are distinguished from regular troops by maroon berets with patches bearing a blazing sword. Its motto, inspired by Henri de la Rochejaquelein, is: "If I advance, follow me. If I stop, urge me on. If I retreat, kill me." From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaibil WIKI].

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

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'''ALL HOPE ABANDON''' 
In Dante's ''Divine Comedy'', the sign above the entrance to hell reads, "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."

'''some modest vig''' 
Vigorish, or simply ''the vig'', also known as ''juice'', ''the cut'' or ''the take'', is the amount charged by a bookmaker, or bookie, for his services. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigorish WIKI].

==Page 441==
'''Hungarian Pastry Shop''' 
See [http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1 page 4 of ''The Crying of Lot 49''] to hear about the time when a thin-skinned Mucho Mass was offended at a party by a Hungarian pastry chef, a man who may or may not have used the word "creampuff" maliciously.

'''before either of them knows it, it's turning into morning talk-show TV''' 
A similar experience to how some readers find much of the novel?

==Page 442==
'''Old Ebbitt''' 
Old Ebbitt Grill is a historic bar and restaurant located at 675 15th Street NW in Washington, D.C., in the United States. It is Washington's oldest bar and restaurant, and as of 2012 was owned by Clyde's Restaurant Group. It opened as an unnamed restaurant in the Ebbitt House hotel. The hotel was razed and rebuilt in the same location in 1827. Ebbitt House was razed in 1926 to make way for the National Press Club Building, but the restaurant was incorporated by Anders Lofstrand, Sr., as a stand-alone business. It moved into new quarters at 1427 F Street NW. After Lofstrand's death in 1955, the restaurant was purchased by Peter Bechas in 1961. The restaurant was sold at a tax sale in June 1970, and was purchased by Clyde's Restaurant Group. The 1427 F Street NW location was demolished in 1983, and Old Ebbitt Grill moved into its current quarters at 675 15th Street NW. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Ebbitt_Grill WIKI].

'''"Something about [...] "...vertical hoop, high percentage of fouls, some of them flagrant, usually fatal?"''' 
Maxine's description is actually pretty accurate:

<blockquote> "One of the ways that the Mayan peoples competed against each other was by playing what has been called the Ball Game. They used a rubber ball, about 20 inches in diameter, to play the Game, which was played on a stone "court" whose measurements varied. The court had walls that sloped inward, and hanging high on the walls were stone rings. The goal of the game was to pass the ball around, without having it touch your hands, and then get the ball to pass through one of the rings. Since the rings were so high and players were not allowed to use their hands, it was extremely difficult to get the ball through a ring. In fact, when a player did manage to get a ball through a ring, that usually ended the game. The game ended otherwise when the ball touched the ground. The Mayan Ball Game was a solemn experience, filled with ritual importance. Religious leaders attended, as did most chieftains and other government leaders. Sacred songs were sung and played. Other religious activities took place as well. The winners of the game were treated as heroes and given a great feast. '''The penalty for losing a game was sometimes unusually harsh: death'''. The leader of the team who lost the game was sometimes killed. This fit in with the Mayan belief that human sacrifice was necessary for the continued success of the peoples' agriculture, trade, and overall health."
[http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/worldhistory/mayanballgame.htm]</blockquote>

The "Mayan Ball Game" was a feature of the underworld death court Xibalba: <blockquote>"Xibalba was home of a famous ballcourt in which the heroes of the Popol Vuh succumbed to the trickery of the Xibalbans in the form of a deadly, bladed ball, as well as the site in which the Maya Hero Twins outwitted the Xibalbans and brought about their downfall."[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xibalba]</blockquote>

==Page 443==
'''Huehuetenango''' 
In the highlands of Guatemala, was a Pre-Columbian Mayan city.

'''Xibalba''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xibalba Wikipedia]: "roughly translated as "place of fear", Xibalba is the name of the underworld in K'iche' Maya mythology, ruled by the Maya death gods and their helpers. In 16th-century Verapaz, the entrance to Xibalba was traditionally held to be a cave in the vicinity of Cobán, Guatemala. According to some of the K'iche' Maya presently living in the vicinity, the area is still associated with death. Cave systems in nearby Belize have also been referred to as the entrance to Xibalba."

==Page 444==
'''''Salsipuedes''''' 
"Leave if you can"

==Page 445==
'''''de Guatemala a Guatepeor''''' 
figuratively speaking, "out of the frying pan into the fire"

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'''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==
'''patafamiliarass''' 
Joke on the ole pat-on-the-ass mixed with "pater familias," explained below.

The pater familias, also written as paterfamilias (plural patres familias), was the head of a Roman family. The paterfamilias was the oldest living male in a household, he had complete control of all family members until he died. Once the paterfamilias died the next oldest male would then have control. The term is Latin for "father of the family" or the "owner of the family estate". The form is archaic in Latin, preserving the old genitive ending in -ās (see Latin declension), whereas in classical Latin the normal genitive ending was -ae. The pater familias was always a Roman citizen. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paterfamilias WIKI].

==Page 426==
'''RPG heroics''' 
RPGs are Role-Playing Games

==Page 428==
'''Ms. Cheung's bleak announcement about real life and make-believe''' 
So what's the reference here? Who's "Ms. Cheung"? I suspect it may be a misspelling of newsperson Connie Chung's name? She was in NYC at the time of the 11 September attacks and covered it for CBS News, focusing on Cantor Fitzgerald, the Manhattan bond-and-equity-trading firm that was [http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/sept11/features/5486/ obliterated] by the 9/11 attacks. But I can't find anything of her talking about "real life and make-believe"...

==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 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].

==Page 433==
'''''Granada Asbury Park Uncertainty Question''''' 
From the lyrics of "At Long Last Love" (written by Cole Porter, popularized by Frank Sinatra)
 
''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==
'''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"...

==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''' 
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'''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==
'''patafamiliarass''' 
Joke on the ole pat-on-the-ass mixed with "pater familias," explained below.

The pater familias, also written as paterfamilias (plural patres familias), was the head of a Roman family. The paterfamilias was the oldest living male in a household, he had complete control of all family members until he died. Once the paterfamilias died the next oldest male would then have control. The term is Latin for "father of the family" or the "owner of the family estate". The form is archaic in Latin, preserving the old genitive ending in -ās (see Latin declension), whereas in classical Latin the normal genitive ending was -ae. The pater familias was always a Roman citizen. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paterfamilias WIKI].

==Page 426==
'''RPG heroics''' 
RPGs are Role-Playing Games

==Page 428==
'''Ms. Cheung's bleak announcement about real life and make-believe''' 
So what's the reference here? Who's "Ms. Cheung"? I suspect it may be a misspelling of newsperson Connie Chung's name? She was in NYC at the time of the 11 September attacks and covered it for CBS News, focusing on Cantor Fitzgerald, the Manhattan bond-and-equity-trading firm that was [http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/sept11/features/5486/ obliterated] by the 9/11 attacks. But I can't find anything of her talking about "real life and make-believe"...

==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 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].

==Page 433==
'''''Granada Asbury Park Uncertainty Question''''' 
From the lyrics of "At Long Last Love" (written by Cole Porter, popularized by Frank Sinatra)
 
''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.

==Page 436==
'''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"...

==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''' 
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'''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==
'''patafamiliarass''' 
Joke on the ole pat-on-the-ass mixed with "pater familias," explained below.

The pater familias, also written as paterfamilias (plural patres familias), was the head of a Roman family. The paterfamilias was the oldest living male in a household, he had complete control of all family members until he died. Once the paterfamilias died the next oldest male would then have control. The term is Latin for "father of the family" or the "owner of the family estate". The form is archaic in Latin, preserving the old genitive ending in -ās (see Latin declension), whereas in classical Latin the normal genitive ending was -ae. The pater familias was always a Roman citizen. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paterfamilias WIKI].

==Page 426==
'''RPG heroics''' 
RPGs are Role-Playing Games

==Page 428==
'''Ms. Cheung's bleak announcement about real life and make-believe''' 
So what's the reference here? Who's "Ms. Cheung"? I suspect it may be a misspelling of newsperson Connie Chung's name? She was in NYC at the time of the 11 September attacks and covered it for CBS News, focusing on Cantor Fitzgerald, the Manhattan bond-and-equity-trading firm that was [http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/sept11/features/5486/ obliterated] by the 9/11 attacks. But I can't find anything of her talking about "real life and make-believe"...

==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 433==
'''''Granada Asbury Park Uncertainty Question''''' 
From the lyrics of "At Long Last Love" (written by Cole Porter, popularized by Frank Sinatra)
 
''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.

==Page 436==
'''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"...

==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.

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'''hex thistle''' 
Hex (hexidecimal) values are used to define colors in website coding and each hex value also has a corresponding descriptive name. There are 4 hex-colors called "thistle": #FFE1FF (Thistle 1), #EED2EE (Thistle 2), #CDB5CD (Thistle 3) and #8B7B8B (Thistle 4). Each of the previous values are colored their corresponding hex value. As you can see, "hex thistle" ranges from a bright to a dark lavender.

==Page 409==
'''she has 'loided her way in''' 
To "loid" is to open (a locked door) by sliding a thin piece of celluloid or plastic between the door edge and doorframe to force open a spring lock.[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/loided]

==Page 410==
'''De al-liga-tuh purse...''' 
"The Lady with the Alligator Purse" is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skipping-rope_rhyme nonsense skipping-rope rhyme] with a number of variations on this version:

<blockquote style="text-align:center">
Miss Lucy had a baby, 
His name was Tiny Tim. 
She put him in the bathtub, 
To see if he could swim. 

He drank up all the water. 
He ate up all the soap. 
He tried to eat the bathtub, 
But it wouldn't go down down his throat. 

Miss Lucy called the doctor, 
Miss Lucy called the nurse. 
Miss Lucy called the lady 
With the alligator alligator purse. 

"Mumps," said the doctor. 
"Measles," said the nurse. 
"Hiccups," said the lady 
With the alligator alligator purse. 

Out went the doctor. 
Out went the nurse. 
Out went the lady 
With the alligator alligator purse.
</blockquote>

==Page 412==
'''one of those first-person-shooter kinds of towns''' 
First-person shooter (FPS) is a video game genre centered on gun and projectile weapon-based combat through a first-person perspective; that is, the player experiences the action through the eyes of the protagonist. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-person_shooter Wikipedia] Pynchon obviously means that the town seems to be an infinite space.

'''a pillar of salt''' 
"As soon as they had brought them out [of Sodom and Gomorrah], one of them said, 'Flee for your lives! Don’t look back, and don’t stop anywhere in the plain!' . . . But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt." (Genesis 19: 17-26)

==Page 413==
'''Back in Manhattan meatspace''' 
Hmm. So does Maxine's return to meatspace begin here, or as Chapter 37 (page 408) begins, with her choosing the Walther PPK to take to where Windust is supposed to be?

At best, it's somewhat ambiguous, as the visit to "the place" where Windust is to be waiting is described in a quite surreal, over-the-top way, eg the Lady with the Alligator Purse, the possibly sentient dogs (shades of the Learnèd English Dog, on [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_3:_14-29#Page_18 page 18 of ''Mason & Dixon'']), the phone message threatening her kids, and so forth.

Although it ''seems'' that Maxine actually returns to meatspace beginning with Chapter 37, I find the whole thing quite ambiguous, particularly regarding whether or not Windust is ''really'' dead!

'''''Scooby Goes Latin!'' (1990)''' 
This seems to be an invention of Pynchon, which leads to the great pun, "if it hadn't been for those Medellín kids!” instead of the usual "meddling kids."

==Page 414==
'''He's in the Duane Reade around the corner''' 
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.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duane_Reade]

'''"Private contractor?"''' 
'''"What I was thinking."''' 
Definitely phasing into videogame territory here.

==Page 418==
'''John Garfield''' 
Real [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Garfield actor] who made a fair number of appearances in [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=G ''Inherent Vice''].

'''endless prosecution, cop cop cop''' 
Ernie's railing about too many cop shows on TV echoes [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_7#Page_97 Doc Sportello's rant against TV cop shows on page 97 of ''Inherent Vice'']. Both characters lament the disappearance on TV of great Private Investigators and the emergence of heroic cops. In ''Inherent Vice'', Doc sees it just beginning ("the tube is saturated with fuckin cop shows"). In ''Bleeding Edge'' Ernie is looking back to when Maxine and her sister were kids watching TV which would be the early 1970s when ''Inherent Vice'' takes place and he'd ground them if he caught them watching a "cop show."

'''Likudnik''' 
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 419==
'''DARPAnet''' 
Also mentioned on [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_4#Page_54 Page 54] of ''Inherent Vice''.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of new technologies for use by the military. DARPA has been responsible for funding the development of many technologies which have had a major effect on the world, including computer networking, as well as NLS, which was both the first hypertext system, and an important precursor to the contemporary ubiquitous graphical user interface. DARPA began as the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) created in 1958 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower for the purpose of forming and executing research and development projects to expand the frontiers of technology and science and able to reach far beyond immediate military requirements. The administration was responding to the Soviet launching of Sputnik 1 in 1957, and ARPA's mission was to ensure U.S. military technology be more sophisticated than that of the nation's potential enemies. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA WIKI].

'''RAND Corporation''' 
RAND Corporation (Research ANd Development) is a nonprofit global policy think tank first formed to offer research and analysis to the United States armed forces by Douglas Aircraft Company. It is currently financed by the U.S. government and private endowment, corporations including the healthcare industry, universities and private individuals. The organization has long since expanded to working with other governments, private foundations, international organizations, and commercial organizations on a host of non-defence issues. RAND aims for interdisciplinary and quantitative problem solving via translating theoretical concepts from formal economics and the physical sciences into novel applications in other areas; that is, via applied science and operations research. Michael D. Rich is president and chief executive officer of the RAND Corporation. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAND WIKI].

==Page 420==
'''NCIC database''' 
The National Crime Information Center (NCIC) is the United States' central database for tracking crime-related information. Since 1967 the NCIC has been maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Criminal Justice Information Services Division, and is interlinked with similar systems that each state maintains. Data is received from federal law enforcement agencies, state and local law enforcement agencies, as well as tribal law enforcement agencies, railroad police, and other agencies, such as state and federal motor vehicle registration and licensing authorities. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCIC WIKI].

==Page 422==
'''don't mourn, organize''' 
Often (and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_mourn,_organize! incorrectly]) cited as the last words of activist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hill Joe Hill].

Joe Hill, born Joel Emmanuel Hägglund in Gävle, Sweden, and also known as Joseph Hillström (October 7, 1879 – November 19, 1915) was a Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, also known as the "Wobblies"). A native Swedish speaker, he learned English during the early 1900s, while working various jobs from New York to San Francisco. Hill, as an immigrant worker frequently facing unemployment and underemployment, became a popular song writer and cartoonist for the radical union. His most famous songs include "The Preacher and the Slave", "The Tramp", "There is Power in a Union", "The Rebel Girl", and "Casey Jones—the Union Scab", which generally express the harsh but combative life of itinerant workers, and the apparent necessity of organizing to improve conditions for working people. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hill WIKI].

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==Page 408==
'''hex thistle''' 
Hex (hexidecimal) values are used to define colors in website coding and each hex value also has a corresponding descriptive name. There are 4 hex-colors called "thistle": #FFE1FF (Thistle 1), #EED2EE (Thistle 2), #CDB5CD (Thistle 3) and #8B7B8B (Thistle 4). Each of the previous values are colored their corresponding hex value. As you can see, "hex thistle" ranges from a bright to a dark lavender.

==Page 409==
'''she has 'loided her way in''' 
To "loid" is to open (a locked door) by sliding a thin piece of celluloid or plastic between the door edge and doorframe to force open a spring lock.[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/loided]

==Page 410==
'''De al-liga-tuh purse...''' 
"The Lady with the Alligator Purse" is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skipping-rope_rhyme nonsense skipping-rope rhyme] with a number of variations on this version:

<blockquote style="text-align:center">
Miss Lucy had a baby, 
His name was Tiny Tim. 
She put him in the bathtub, 
To see if he could swim. 

He drank up all the water. 
He ate up all the soap. 
He tried to eat the bathtub, 
But it wouldn't go down down his throat. 

Miss Lucy called the doctor, 
Miss Lucy called the nurse. 
Miss Lucy called the lady 
With the alligator alligator purse. 

"Mumps," said the doctor. 
"Measles," said the nurse. 
"Hiccups," said the lady 
With the alligator alligator purse. 

Out went the doctor. 
Out went the nurse. 
Out went the lady 
With the alligator alligator purse.
</blockquote>

==Page 412==
'''one of those first-person-shooter kinds of towns''' 
First-person shooter (FPS) is a video game genre centered on gun and projectile weapon-based combat through a first-person perspective; that is, the player experiences the action through the eyes of the protagonist. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-person_shooter Wikipedia] Pynchon obviously means that the town seems to be an infinite space.

'''a pillar of salt''' 
"As soon as they had brought them out [of Sodom and Gomorrah], one of them said, 'Flee for your lives! Don’t look back, and don’t stop anywhere in the plain!' . . . But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt." (Genesis 19: 17-26)

==Page 413==
'''Back in Manhattan meatspace''' 
Hmm. So does Maxine's return to meatspace begin here, or as Chapter 37 (page 408) begins, with her choosing the Walther PPK to take to where Windust is supposed to be?

At best, it's somewhat ambiguous, as the visit to "the place" where Windust is to be waiting is described in a quite surreal, over-the-top way, eg the Lady with the Alligator Purse, the possibly sentient dogs (shades of the Learnèd English Dog, on [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_3:_14-29#Page_18 page 18 of ''Mason & Dixon'']), the phone message threatening her kids, and so forth.

Although it ''seems'' that Maxine actually returns to meatspace beginning with Chapter 37, I find the whole thing quite ambiguous, particularly regarding whether or not Windust is ''really'' dead!

'''''Scooby Goes Latin!'' (1990)''' 
This seems to be an invention of Pynchon, which leads to the great pun, "if it hadn't been for those Medellín kids!” instead of the usual "meddling kids."

==Page 414==
'''He's in the Duane Reade around the corner''' 
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.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duane_Reade]

'''"Private contractor?"''' 
'''"What I was thinking."''' 
Definitely phasing into videogame territory here.

==Page 418==
'''John Garfield''' 
Real [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Garfield actor] who made a fair number of appearances in [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=G ''Inherent Vice''].

'''endless prosecution, cop cop cop''' 
Ernie's railing about too many cop shows on TV echoes [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_7#Page_97 Doc Sportello's rant against TV cop shows on page 97 of ''Inherent Vice'']. Both characters lament the disappearance on TV of great Private Investigators and the emergence of heroic cops. In ''Inherent Vice'', Doc sees it just beginning ("the tube is saturated with fuckin cop shows"). In ''Bleeding Edge'' Ernie is looking back to when Maxine and her sister were kids watching TV which would be the early 1970s when ''Inherent Vice'' takes place and he'd ground them if he caught them watching a "cop show."

'''Likudnik''' 
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 419==
'''DARPAnet''' 
Also mentioned on [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_4#Page_54 Page 54] of ''Inherent Vice''.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of new technologies for use by the military. DARPA has been responsible for funding the development of many technologies which have had a major effect on the world, including computer networking, as well as NLS, which was both the first hypertext system, and an important precursor to the contemporary ubiquitous graphical user interface. DARPA began as the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) created in 1958 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower for the purpose of forming and executing research and development projects to expand the frontiers of technology and science and able to reach far beyond immediate military requirements. The administration was responding to the Soviet launching of Sputnik 1 in 1957, and ARPA's mission was to ensure U.S. military technology be more sophisticated than that of the nation's potential enemies. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA WIKI].

'''RAND Corporation''' 
RAND Corporation (Research ANd Development) is a nonprofit global policy think tank first formed to offer research and analysis to the United States armed forces by Douglas Aircraft Company. It is currently financed by the U.S. government and private endowment, corporations including the healthcare industry, universities and private individuals. The organization has long since expanded to working with other governments, private foundations, international organizations, and commercial organizations on a host of non-defence issues. RAND aims for interdisciplinary and quantitative problem solving via translating theoretical concepts from formal economics and the physical sciences into novel applications in other areas; that is, via applied science and operations research. Michael D. Rich is president and chief executive officer of the RAND Corporation. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAND WIKI].

==Page 422==
'''don't mourn, organize''' 
Often (and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_mourn,_organize! incorrectly]) cited as the last words of activist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hill Joe Hill].

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'''hex thistle''' 
Hex (hexidecimal) values are used to define colors in website coding and each hex value also has a corresponding descriptive name. There are 4 hex-colors called "thistle": #FFE1FF (Thistle 1), #EED2EE (Thistle 2), #CDB5CD (Thistle 3) and #8B7B8B (Thistle 4). Each of the previous values are colored their corresponding hex value. As you can see, "hex thistle" ranges from a bright to a dark lavender.

==Page 409==
'''she has 'loided her way in''' 
To "loid" is to open (a locked door) by sliding a thin piece of celluloid or plastic between the door edge and doorframe to force open a spring lock.[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/loided]

==Page 410==
'''De al-liga-tuh purse...''' 
"The Lady with the Alligator Purse" is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skipping-rope_rhyme nonsense skipping-rope rhyme] with a number of variations on this version:

<blockquote style="text-align:center">
Miss Lucy had a baby, 
His name was Tiny Tim. 
She put him in the bathtub, 
To see if he could swim. 

He drank up all the water. 
He ate up all the soap. 
He tried to eat the bathtub, 
But it wouldn't go down down his throat. 

Miss Lucy called the doctor, 
Miss Lucy called the nurse. 
Miss Lucy called the lady 
With the alligator alligator purse. 

"Mumps," said the doctor. 
"Measles," said the nurse. 
"Hiccups," said the lady 
With the alligator alligator purse. 

Out went the doctor. 
Out went the nurse. 
Out went the lady 
With the alligator alligator purse.
</blockquote>

==Page 412==
'''one of those first-person-shooter kinds of towns''' 
First-person shooter (FPS) is a video game genre centered on gun and projectile weapon-based combat through a first-person perspective; that is, the player experiences the action through the eyes of the protagonist. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-person_shooter Wikipedia] Pynchon obviously means that the town seems to be an infinite space.

'''a pillar of salt''' 
"As soon as they had brought them out [of Sodom and Gomorrah], one of them said, 'Flee for your lives! Don’t look back, and don’t stop anywhere in the plain!' . . . But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt." (Genesis 19: 17-26)

==Page 413==
'''Back in Manhattan meatspace''' 
Hmm. So does Maxine's return to meatspace begin here, or as Chapter 37 (page 408) begins, with her choosing the Walther PPK to take to where Windust is supposed to be?

At best, it's somewhat ambiguous, as the visit to "the place" where Windust is to be waiting is described in a quite surreal, over-the-top way, eg the Lady with the Alligator Purse, the possibly sentient dogs (shades of the Learnèd English Dog, on [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_3:_14-29#Page_18 page 18 of ''Mason & Dixon'']), the phone message threatening her kids, and so forth.

Although it ''seems'' that Maxine actually returns to meatspace beginning with Chapter 37, I find the whole thing quite ambiguous, particularly regarding whether or not Windust is ''really'' dead!

'''''Scooby Goes Latin!'' (1990)''' 
This seems to be an invention of Pynchon, which leads to the great pun, "if it hadn't been for those Medellín kids!” instead of the usual "meddling kids."

==Page 414==
'''He's in the Duane Reade around the corner''' 
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.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duane_Reade]

'''"Private contractor?"''' 
'''"What I was thinking."''' 
Definitely phasing into videogame territory here.

==Page 418==
'''John Garfield''' 
Real [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Garfield actor] who made a fair number of appearances in [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=G ''Inherent Vice''].

'''endless prosecution, cop cop cop''' 
Ernie's railing about too many cop shows on TV echoes [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_7#Page_97 Doc Sportello's rant against TV cop shows on page 97 of ''Inherent Vice'']. Both characters lament the disappearance on TV of great Private Investigators and the emergence of heroic cops. In ''Inherent Vice'', Doc sees it just beginning ("the tube is saturated with fuckin cop shows"). In ''Bleeding Edge'' Ernie is looking back to when Maxine and her sister were kids watching TV which would be the early 1970s when ''Inherent Vice'' takes place and he'd ground them if he caught them watching a "cop show."

'''Likudnik''' 
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 419==
'''DARPAnet''' 
Also mentioned on [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_4#Page_54 Page 54] of ''Inherent Vice''.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of new technologies for use by the military. DARPA has been responsible for funding the development of many technologies which have had a major effect on the world, including computer networking, as well as NLS, which was both the first hypertext system, and an important precursor to the contemporary ubiquitous graphical user interface. DARPA began as the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) created in 1958 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower for the purpose of forming and executing research and development projects to expand the frontiers of technology and science and able to reach far beyond immediate military requirements. The administration was responding to the Soviet launching of Sputnik 1 in 1957, and ARPA's mission was to ensure U.S. military technology be more sophisticated than that of the nation's potential enemies. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA WIKI].

==Page 422==
'''don't mourn, organize''' 
Often (and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_mourn,_organize! incorrectly]) cited as the last words of activist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hill Joe Hill].

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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].

==Page 396==
'''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==
'''Daytona [...] suspends here comical-Negro shtick for a minute''' 
So is Daytona black or not? Up to this point, it seemed she was, but perhaps not? More of that Pynchon ambiguity...

'''''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>

==Page 403==
'''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 405==
'''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]

==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]].

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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].

==Page 396==
'''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==
'''Daytona [...] suspends here comical-Negro shtick for a minute''' 
So is Daytona black or not? Up to this point, it seemed she was, but perhaps not? More of that Pynchon ambiguity...

'''''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>

==Page 405==
'''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].

'''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]

==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]].

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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].

==Page 396==
'''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==
'''Daytona [...] suspends here comical-Negro shtick for a minute''' 
So is Daytona black or not? Up to this point, it seemed she was, but perhaps not? More of that Pynchon ambiguity...

'''''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>

==Page 405==
'''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].

'''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]

==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]].

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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].

==Page 396==
'''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==
'''Daytona [...] suspends here comical-Negro shtick for a minute''' 
So is Daytona black or not? Up to this point, it seemed she was, but perhaps not? More of that Pynchon ambiguity...

'''''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>

==Page 405==
'''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]

==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]].

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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].

==Page 396==
'''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==
'''Daytona [...] suspends here comical-Negro shtick for a minute''' 
So is Daytona black or not? Up to this point, it seemed she was, but perhaps not? More of that Pynchon ambiguity...

'''''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==
'''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>

==Page 405==
'''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]

==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]].

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'''"Series'll be on tonight, El Duque's starting, maybe against Curt Schilling''' 
El Duque is the nickname of NY Yankees pitcher Orlando Hernandez. In this game, he pitched 6 1⁄3 solid innings, but gave up a game-tying upper deck home run to Mark Grace of the Arizona Diamondbacks in the fourth inning. Curt Schilling of the Diamondbacks pitched on only three days rest.

'''Vegeta''' 
Vegeta is a fictional character in the ''Dragon Ball'' manga series created by Akira Toriyama. [[Image:Vegeta.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Vegeta]]

'''NAND gate ("I say yes to everything")''' 
In digital electronics, a NAND gate (Negated AND or NOT AND) is a logic gate which produces an output that is false only if all its inputs are true. A LOW (0) output results only if both the inputs to the gate are HIGH (1); if one or both inputs are LOW (0), a HIGH (1) output results. It is made using transistors. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAND_gate Wikipedia]

'''Aki Ross''' 
Aki Ross is a fictional character and the protagonist of the movie ''Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within''. Aki Ross is voiced by Chinese-American actress Ming-Na. She was expected to be the first photorealistic computer-generated actress to appear in multiple movies in different roles. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aki_Ross WIKI].

==Page 367==
'''Margaret Mead''' 
Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist, who was frequently a featured author and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s. She earned her bachelor degree at Barnard College in New York City, and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University. She was both a popularizer of the insights of anthropology into modern American and Western culture and a respected, if controversial, academic anthropologist. Her reports about the attitudes towards sex in South Pacific and Southeast Asian traditional cultures amply informed the 1960s sexual revolution. Mead was a champion of broadened sexual mores within a context of traditional western religious life. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Mead WIKI].

'''Dubuque''' 
One of the few large cities in Iowa with hills, it is a major tourist destination, attracted to the city's unique architecture and river location. Also, it is home to five institutions of higher education, making it a center for culture and learning. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubuque,_Iowa WIKI].

'''...in time to witness Derek Jeter's clutch tenth-inning homer and another trademark Yankee win''' 
This extra innings game carried on past midnight, making it the first World Series game played in November(largely due to the rearranged schedules and postseason as a result of 11 September). When the scoreboard clock in Yankee Stadium passed midnight, the message on the scoreboard read, "Welcome to November Baseball". Derek Jeter shortly afterwards hit an opposite field walk-off home run on a 3–2 pitch count from Byung-Hyun Kim. This walk-off home run gave the Yankees a 4–3 victory and tied the Series at two games apiece, making Jeter the first player to hit a November homerun and earning him the tongue-in-cheek nickname of "Mr. November"(itself a play on former Yankee Reggie Jackson's World Series nickname "Mr. October).

'''Keanu Reeves''' 
Another Keanu reference. Something to this?

==Page 368==
'''shoat but sweet, as they say around the pigpen''' 
A shoat is a young pig. Get it?

==Page 369==
'''Steely Dan's "Ain't Never Gonna Do It without the Fez On"''' 
Title of that song: "Royal Scam"

The song is more simply titled "The Fez," from the 1976 album [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Royal_Scam Royal Scam.] Likewise, on page 158 Pynchon elongated the title of "Dr. Wu" into "Are You with Me Dr Wu."

Also, the word "ain't" is not in the song. Lyrics are [http://www.steelydan.com/lyrroyalscam.html#track5 here] and they go: No I'm never gonna do it without the fez on.

'''tchotchkes''' 
Tchotchke is a small bauble or miscellaneous item. Depending on context, the term has a connotation of worthlessness or disposability as well as tackiness, and has long been used by Jewish-Americans and in the regional speech of New York City and elsewhere. The word may also refer to free promotional items dispensed at trade shows, conventions, and similar large events. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tchotchke WIKI].

'''this overdue-for-exorcism building''' 
The Dakota, a possible model for the Deseret, is famously known for being the principle location used in the film "Rosemary's Baby" (1968). Of course, it was also the abode, and murder site, of John Lennon.

==Page 371==
'''"Lester was fellow ''podonok'',"''' 
Podonok is a Russian term meaning riff-raff, scoundrel, or scum. lowest of the low.

'''that Civil Hackers' School in Moscow [...] "Umnik Academy!"''' 
From [http://eng.ncfu.ru/umnik-of-ncfu-club.html here]...
<blockquote>"UMNIK of NCFU" Club for Young Scientists 
Since 2008 foundation of assistance to development of small enterprises in scientific and technical area performs financial support of scientific projects of young scientists (under 28 years), which are commercially significant. Financing is carried out on the basis of results of "U.M.N.I.K.” (Participant of Youth Scientific Innovative Competition) competition. Annually the foundation accepts requests and accredits several dozens of events in the territory of the Russian Federation, within the framework of which money grants for the young people, who have scientific ideas to be commercialized, are planned.</blockquote>

'''''chainiki''''' 
Chainik is a computer term that implies both ignorance and a certain amount of willingness to learn (as well as a propensity to cause disaster), but does not necessarily imply as little experience or short exposure time as newbie and is not as derogatory as luser. Both a novice user and someone using a computer system for a long time without any understanding of the internals can be referred to as chainiks. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chainik Wikipedia]

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'''FSB... SVU...''' 
Federal Security Service, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Security_Service WIKI].

Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences (SVU), see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovak_Society_of_Arts_and_Sciences WIKI].

==Page 376==
'''You want secular cause and effect...''' 
Echoes the same, almost identical, line from [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=C#cause ''Gravity's Rainbow'', page 663] (Viking Ed.): "You will want cause and effect. All right."

'''Day of the NYC Marathon''' 
Sunday, November 4

==Page 377==
'''especially this soon after eleven September''' 
Perhaps this is simply a typo; everwhere else this date is referred to as "11 September"

'''Yes, I remember''' 
From [[Chapter_24#Page_258|page 258]].

'''''eppes-essen''''' 
Eppes Essen, besides being a Jewish Deli in New Jersey, is Yiddish for "I will give you something to eat"

==Page 378==
'''Tacitus''' 
Publius Cornelius Tacitus (c. AD 56 – after 117) was a senator and a historian of the Roman Empire. The surviving portions of his two major works—the ''Annals'' and the ''Histories''—examine the reigns of the Roman Emperors Tiberius, Claudius, Nero, and those who reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors (AD 69). These two works span the history of the Roman Empire from the death of Augustus in AD 14 to the years of the First Jewish–Roman War in AD 70. Tacitus is considered to be one of the greatest Roman historians. He lived in what has been called the Silver Age of Latin literature. He is known for the brevity and compactness of his Latin prose, as well as for his penetrating insights into the psychology of power politics. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacitus WIKI].

==Page 379==
'''She should have tumbled ... to the peculiar lightlessness in his eyes...''' 
The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' provides one definition of "to tumble": "(tumble to) (informal) understand the meaning or hidden implication of (a situation)"

==Page 382==
'''what Bobby Darin calls 'beyond the sea'''' 
Bobby Darin performs ''Beyond the Sea'' on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLEjyDAjfbw YouTube.] To be a song about longing for a lost, perhaps dead, love, that sure is a happy sounding tune.

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'''"Series'll be on tonight, El Duque's starting, maybe against Curt Schilling''' 
El Duque is the nickname of NY Yankees pitcher Orlando Hernandez. In this game, he pitched 6 1⁄3 solid innings, but gave up a game-tying upper deck home run to Mark Grace of the Arizona Diamondbacks in the fourth inning. Curt Schilling of the Diamondbacks pitched on only three days rest.

'''Vegeta''' 
Vegeta is a fictional character in the ''Dragon Ball'' manga series created by Akira Toriyama. [[Image:Vegeta.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Vegeta]]

'''NAND gate ("I say yes to everything")''' 
In digital electronics, a NAND gate (Negated AND or NOT AND) is a logic gate which produces an output that is false only if all its inputs are true. A LOW (0) output results only if both the inputs to the gate are HIGH (1); if one or both inputs are LOW (0), a HIGH (1) output results. It is made using transistors. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAND_gate Wikipedia]

'''Aki Ross''' 
Aki Ross is a fictional character and the protagonist of the movie ''Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within''. Aki Ross is voiced by Chinese-American actress Ming-Na. She was expected to be the first photorealistic computer-generated actress to appear in multiple movies in different roles. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aki_Ross WIKI].

==Page 367==
'''Margaret Mead''' 
Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist, who was frequently a featured author and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s. She earned her bachelor degree at Barnard College in New York City, and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University. She was both a popularizer of the insights of anthropology into modern American and Western culture and a respected, if controversial, academic anthropologist. Her reports about the attitudes towards sex in South Pacific and Southeast Asian traditional cultures amply informed the 1960s sexual revolution. Mead was a champion of broadened sexual mores within a context of traditional western religious life. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Mead WIKI].

'''Dubuque''' 
One of the few large cities in Iowa with hills, it is a major tourist destination, attracted to the city's unique architecture and river location. Also, it is home to five institutions of higher education, making it a center for culture and learning. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubuque,_Iowa WIKI].

'''...in time to witness Derek Jeter's clutch tenth-inning homer and another trademark Yankee win''' 
This extra innings game carried on past midnight, making it the first World Series game played in November(largely due to the rearranged schedules and postseason as a result of 11 September). When the scoreboard clock in Yankee Stadium passed midnight, the message on the scoreboard read, "Welcome to November Baseball". Derek Jeter shortly afterwards hit an opposite field walk-off home run on a 3–2 pitch count from Byung-Hyun Kim. This walk-off home run gave the Yankees a 4–3 victory and tied the Series at two games apiece, making Jeter the first player to hit a November homerun and earning him the tongue-in-cheek nickname of "Mr. November"(itself a play on former Yankee Reggie Jackson's World Series nickname "Mr. October).

'''Keanu Reeves''' 
Another Keanu reference. Something to this?

==Page 368==
'''shoat but sweet, as they say around the pigpen''' 
A shoat is a young pig. Get it?

==Page 369==
'''Steely Dan's "Ain't Never Gonna Do It without the Fez On"''' 
Title of that song: "Royal Scam"

The song is more simply titled "The Fez," from the 1976 album [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Royal_Scam Royal Scam.] Likewise, on page 158 Pynchon elongated the title of "Dr. Wu" into "Are You with Me Dr Wu."

Also, the word "ain't" is not in the song. Lyrics are [http://www.steelydan.com/lyrroyalscam.html#track5 here] and they go: No I'm never gonna do it without the fez on.

'''tchotchkes''' 
Tchotchke is a small bauble or miscellaneous item. Depending on context, the term has a connotation of worthlessness or disposability as well as tackiness, and has long been used by Jewish-Americans and in the regional speech of New York City and elsewhere. The word may also refer to free promotional items dispensed at trade shows, conventions, and similar large events. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tchotchke WIKI].

'''this overdue-for-exorcism building''' 
The Dakota, a possible model for the Deseret, is famously known for being the principle location used in the film "Rosemary's Baby" (1968). Of course, it was also the abode, and murder site, of John Lennon.

==Page 371==
'''"Lester was fellow ''podonok'',"''' 
Podonok is a Russian term meaning riff-raff, scoundrel, or scum. lowest of the low.

'''that Civil Hackers' School in Moscow [...] "Umnik Academy!"''' 
From [http://eng.ncfu.ru/umnik-of-ncfu-club.html here]...
<blockquote>"UMNIK of NCFU" Club for Young Scientists 
Since 2008 foundation of assistance to development of small enterprises in scientific and technical area performs financial support of scientific projects of young scientists (under 28 years), which are commercially significant. Financing is carried out on the basis of results of "U.M.N.I.K.” (Participant of Youth Scientific Innovative Competition) competition. Annually the foundation accepts requests and accredits several dozens of events in the territory of the Russian Federation, within the framework of which money grants for the young people, who have scientific ideas to be commercialized, are planned.</blockquote>

'''''chainiki''''' 
Chainik is a computer term that implies both ignorance and a certain amount of willingness to learn (as well as a propensity to cause disaster), but does not necessarily imply as little experience or short exposure time as newbie and is not as derogatory as luser. Both a novice user and someone using a computer system for a long time without any understanding of the internals can be referred to as chainiks. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chainik Wikipedia]

==Page 375==
'''FSB... SVU...''' 
Federal Security Service, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Security_Service WIKI].

Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences (SVU), see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovak_Society_of_Arts_and_Sciences WIKI].

==Page 376==
'''You want secular cause and effect...''' 
Echoes the same, almost identical, line from [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=C#cause ''Gravity's Rainbow'', page 663] (Viking Ed.): "You will want cause and effect. All right."

'''Day of the NYC Marathon''' 
Sunday, November 4

==Page 377==
'''especially this soon after eleven September''' 
Perhaps this is simply a typo; everwhere else this date is referred to as "11 September"

'''Yes, I remember''' 
From [[Chapter_24#Page_258|page 258]].

'''''eppes-essen''''' 
Eppes Essen, besides being a Jewish Deli in New Jersey, is Yiddish for "I will give you something to eat"

==Page 379==
'''She should have tumbled ... to the peculiar lightlessness in his eyes...''' 
The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' provides one definition of "to tumble": "(tumble to) (informal) understand the meaning or hidden implication of (a situation)"

==Page 382==
'''what Bobby Darin calls 'beyond the sea'''' 
Bobby Darin performs ''Beyond the Sea'' on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLEjyDAjfbw YouTube.] To be a song about longing for a lost, perhaps dead, love, that sure is a happy sounding tune.

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'''"Series'll be on tonight, El Duque's starting, maybe against Curt Schilling''' 
El Duque is the nickname of NY Yankees pitcher Orlando Hernandez. In this game, he pitched 6 1⁄3 solid innings, but gave up a game-tying upper deck home run to Mark Grace of the Arizona Diamondbacks in the fourth inning. Curt Schilling of the Diamondbacks pitched on only three days rest.

'''Vegeta''' 
Vegeta is a fictional character in the ''Dragon Ball'' manga series created by Akira Toriyama. [[Image:Vegeta.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Vegeta]]

'''NAND gate ("I say yes to everything")''' 
In digital electronics, a NAND gate (Negated AND or NOT AND) is a logic gate which produces an output that is false only if all its inputs are true. A LOW (0) output results only if both the inputs to the gate are HIGH (1); if one or both inputs are LOW (0), a HIGH (1) output results. It is made using transistors. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAND_gate Wikipedia]

'''Aki Ross''' 
Aki Ross is a fictional character and the protagonist of the movie ''Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within''. Aki Ross is voiced by Chinese-American actress Ming-Na. She was expected to be the first photorealistic computer-generated actress to appear in multiple movies in different roles. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aki_Ross WIKI].

==Page 367==
'''Margaret Mead''' 
Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist, who was frequently a featured author and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s. She earned her bachelor degree at Barnard College in New York City, and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University. She was both a popularizer of the insights of anthropology into modern American and Western culture and a respected, if controversial, academic anthropologist. Her reports about the attitudes towards sex in South Pacific and Southeast Asian traditional cultures amply informed the 1960s sexual revolution. Mead was a champion of broadened sexual mores within a context of traditional western religious life. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Mead WIKI].

'''Dubuque''' 
One of the few large cities in Iowa with hills, it is a major tourist destination, attracted to the city's unique architecture and river location. Also, it is home to five institutions of higher education, making it a center for culture and learning. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubuque,_Iowa WIKI].

'''...in time to witness Derek Jeter's clutch tenth-inning homer and another trademark Yankee win''' 
This extra innings game carried on past midnight, making it the first World Series game played in November(largely due to the rearranged schedules and postseason as a result of 11 September). When the scoreboard clock in Yankee Stadium passed midnight, the message on the scoreboard read, "Welcome to November Baseball". Derek Jeter shortly afterwards hit an opposite field walk-off home run on a 3–2 pitch count from Byung-Hyun Kim. This walk-off home run gave the Yankees a 4–3 victory and tied the Series at two games apiece, making Jeter the first player to hit a November homerun and earning him the tongue-in-cheek nickname of "Mr. November"(itself a play on former Yankee Reggie Jackson's World Series nickname "Mr. October).

'''Keanu Reeves''' 
Another Keanu reference. Something to this?

==Page 368==
'''shoat but sweet, as they say around the pigpen''' 
A shoat is a young pig. Get it?

==Page 369==
'''Steely Dan's "Ain't Never Gonna Do It without the Fez On"''' 
Title of that song: "Royal Scam"

The song is more simply titled "The Fez," from the 1976 album [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Royal_Scam Royal Scam.] Likewise, on page 158 Pynchon elongated the title of "Dr. Wu" into "Are You with Me Dr Wu."

Also, the word "ain't" is not in the song. Lyrics are [http://www.steelydan.com/lyrroyalscam.html#track5 here] and they go: No I'm never gonna do it without the fez on.

'''tchotchkes''' 
Tchotchke is a small bauble or miscellaneous item. Depending on context, the term has a connotation of worthlessness or disposability as well as tackiness, and has long been used by Jewish-Americans and in the regional speech of New York City and elsewhere. The word may also refer to free promotional items dispensed at trade shows, conventions, and similar large events. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tchotchke WIKI].

'''this overdue-for-exorcism building''' 
The Dakota, a possible model for the Deseret, is famously known for being the principle location used in the film "Rosemary's Baby" (1968). Of course, it was also the abode, and murder site, of John Lennon.

==Page 371==
'''"Lester was fellow ''podonok'',"''' 
Podonok is a Russian term meaning riff-raff, scoundrel, or scum. lowest of the low.

'''that Civil Hackers' School in Moscow [...] "Umnik Academy!"''' 
From [http://eng.ncfu.ru/umnik-of-ncfu-club.html here]...
<blockquote>"UMNIK of NCFU" Club for Young Scientists 
Since 2008 foundation of assistance to development of small enterprises in scientific and technical area performs financial support of scientific projects of young scientists (under 28 years), which are commercially significant. Financing is carried out on the basis of results of "U.M.N.I.K.” (Participant of Youth Scientific Innovative Competition) competition. Annually the foundation accepts requests and accredits several dozens of events in the territory of the Russian Federation, within the framework of which money grants for the young people, who have scientific ideas to be commercialized, are planned.</blockquote>

'''''chainiki''''' 
Chainik is a computer term that implies both ignorance and a certain amount of willingness to learn (as well as a propensity to cause disaster), but does not necessarily imply as little experience or short exposure time as newbie and is not as derogatory as luser. Both a novice user and someone using a computer system for a long time without any understanding of the internals can be referred to as chainiks. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chainik Wikipedia]

==Page 375==
'''FSB... SVU...''' 
Federal Security Service, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Security_Service WIKI].

Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences (SVU), see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovak_Society_of_Arts_and_Sciences WIKI].

==Page 376==
'''You want secular cause and effect...''' 
Echoes the same, almost identical, line from [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=C#cause ''Gravity's Rainbow'', page 663] (Viking Ed.): "You will want cause and effect. All right."

'''Day of the NYC Marathon''' 
Sunday, November 4

==Page 377==
'''especially this soon after eleven September''' 
Perhaps this is simply a typo; everwhere else this date is referred to as "11 September"

Or maybe because in this instance it's in dialogue?

'''Yes, I remember''' 
From [[Chapter_24#Page_258|page 258]].

'''''eppes-essen''''' 
Eppes Essen, besides being a Jewish Deli in New Jersey, is Yiddish for "I will give you something to eat"

==Page 379==
'''She should have tumbled ... to the peculiar lightlessness in his eyes...''' 
The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' provides one definition of "to tumble": "(tumble to) (informal) understand the meaning or hidden implication of (a situation)"

==Page 382==
'''what Bobby Darin calls 'beyond the sea'''' 
Bobby Darin performs ''Beyond the Sea'' on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLEjyDAjfbw YouTube.] To be a song about longing for a lost, perhaps dead, love, that sure is a happy sounding tune.

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'''"Series'll be on tonight, El Duque's starting, maybe against Curt Schilling''' 
El Duque is the nickname of NY Yankees pitcher Orlando Hernandez. In this game, he pitched 6 1⁄3 solid innings, but gave up a game-tying upper deck home run to Mark Grace of the Arizona Diamondbacks in the fourth inning. Curt Schilling of the Diamondbacks pitched on only three days rest.

'''Vegeta''' 
Vegeta is a fictional character in the ''Dragon Ball'' manga series created by Akira Toriyama. [[Image:Vegeta.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Vegeta]]

'''NAND gate ("I say yes to everything")''' 
In digital electronics, a NAND gate (Negated AND or NOT AND) is a logic gate which produces an output that is false only if all its inputs are true. A LOW (0) output results only if both the inputs to the gate are HIGH (1); if one or both inputs are LOW (0), a HIGH (1) output results. It is made using transistors. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAND_gate Wikipedia]

'''Aki Ross''' 
Aki Ross is a fictional character and the protagonist of the movie ''Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within''. Aki Ross is voiced by Chinese-American actress Ming-Na. She was expected to be the first photorealistic computer-generated actress to appear in multiple movies in different roles. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aki_Ross WIKI].

==Page 367==
'''Margaret Mead''' 
Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist, who was frequently a featured author and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s. She earned her bachelor degree at Barnard College in New York City, and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University. She was both a popularizer of the insights of anthropology into modern American and Western culture and a respected, if controversial, academic anthropologist. Her reports about the attitudes towards sex in South Pacific and Southeast Asian traditional cultures amply informed the 1960s sexual revolution. Mead was a champion of broadened sexual mores within a context of traditional western religious life. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Mead WIKI].

'''Dubuque''' 
One of the few large cities in Iowa with hills, it is a major tourist destination, attracted to the city's unique architecture and river location. Also, it is home to five institutions of higher education, making it a center for culture and learning. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubuque,_Iowa WIKI].

'''...in time to witness Derek Jeter's clutch tenth-inning homer and another trademark Yankee win''' 
This extra innings game carried on past midnight, making it the first World Series game played in November(largely due to the rearranged schedules and postseason as a result of 11 September). When the scoreboard clock in Yankee Stadium passed midnight, the message on the scoreboard read, "Welcome to November Baseball". Derek Jeter shortly afterwards hit an opposite field walk-off home run on a 3–2 pitch count from Byung-Hyun Kim. This walk-off home run gave the Yankees a 4–3 victory and tied the Series at two games apiece, making Jeter the first player to hit a November homerun and earning him the tongue-in-cheek nickname of "Mr. November"(itself a play on former Yankee Reggie Jackson's World Series nickname "Mr. October).

'''Keanu Reeves''' 
Another Keanu reference. Something to this?

==Page 368==
'''shoat but sweet, as they say around the pigpen''' 
A shoat is a young pig. Get it?

==Page 369==
'''Steely Dan's "Ain't Never Gonna Do It without the Fez On"''' 
Title of that song: "Royal Scam"

The song is more simply titled "The Fez," from the 1976 album [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Royal_Scam Royal Scam.] Likewise, on page 158 Pynchon elongated the title of "Dr. Wu" into "Are You with Me Dr Wu."

Also, the word "ain't" is not in the song. Lyrics are [http://www.steelydan.com/lyrroyalscam.html#track5 here] and they go: No I'm never gonna do it without the fez on.

'''tchotchkes''' 
Tchotchke is a small bauble or miscellaneous item. Depending on context, the term has a connotation of worthlessness or disposability as well as tackiness, and has long been used by Jewish-Americans and in the regional speech of New York City and elsewhere. The word may also refer to free promotional items dispensed at trade shows, conventions, and similar large events. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tchotchke WIKI].

'''this overdue-for-exorcism building''' 
The Dakota, a possible model for the Deseret, is famously known for being the principle location used in the film "Rosemary's Baby" (1968). Of course, it was also the abode, and murder site, of John Lennon.

==Page 371==
'''"Lester was fellow ''podonok'',"''' 
Podonok is a Russian term meaning riff-raff, scoundrel, or scum. lowest of the low.

'''that Civil Hackers' School in Moscow [...] "Umnik Academy!"''' 
From [http://eng.ncfu.ru/umnik-of-ncfu-club.html here]...
<blockquote>"UMNIK of NCFU" Club for Young Scientists 
Since 2008 foundation of assistance to development of small enterprises in scientific and technical area performs financial support of scientific projects of young scientists (under 28 years), which are commercially significant. Financing is carried out on the basis of results of "U.M.N.I.K.” (Participant of Youth Scientific Innovative Competition) competition. Annually the foundation accepts requests and accredits several dozens of events in the territory of the Russian Federation, within the framework of which money grants for the young people, who have scientific ideas to be commercialized, are planned.</blockquote>

'''''chainiki''''' 
Chainik is a computer term that implies both ignorance and a certain amount of willingness to learn (as well as a propensity to cause disaster), but does not necessarily imply as little experience or short exposure time as newbie and is not as derogatory as luser. Both a novice user and someone using a computer system for a long time without any understanding of the internals can be referred to as chainiks. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chainik Wikipedia]

==Page 375==
'''FSB... SVU...''' 
Federal Security Service, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Security_Service WIKI].

Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences (SVU), see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovak_Society_of_Arts_and_Sciences WIKI].

==Page 376==
'''You want secular cause and effect...''' 
Echoes the same, almost identical, line from [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=C#cause ''Gravity's Rainbow'', page 663] (Viking Ed.): "You will want cause and effect. All right."

'''Day of the NYC Marathon''' 
Sunday, November 4

==Page 377==
'''especially this soon after eleven September''' 
Perhaps this is simply a typo; everwhere else this date is referred to as "11 September"

'''Yes, I remember''' 
From [[Chapter_24#Page_258|page 258]].

'''''eppes-essen''''' 
Eppes Essen, besides being a Jewish Deli in New Jersey, is Yiddish for "I will give you something to eat"

==Page 379==
'''She should have tumbled ... to the peculiar lightlessness in his eyes...''' 
The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' provides one definition of "to tumble": "(tumble to) (informal) understand the meaning or hidden implication of (a situation)"

==Page 382==
'''what Bobby Darin calls 'beyond the sea'''' 
Bobby Darin performs ''Beyond the Sea'' on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLEjyDAjfbw YouTube.] To be a song about longing for a lost, perhaps dead, love, that sure is a happy sounding tune.

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==Page 366==
'''"Series'll be on tonight, El Duque's starting, maybe against Curt Schilling''' 
El Duque is the nickname of NY Yankees pitcher Orlando Hernandez. In this game, he pitched 6 1⁄3 solid innings, but gave up a game-tying upper deck home run to Mark Grace of the Arizona Diamondbacks in the fourth inning. Curt Schilling of the Diamondbacks pitched on only three days rest.

'''Vegeta''' 
Vegeta is a fictional character in the ''Dragon Ball'' manga series created by Akira Toriyama. [[Image:Vegeta.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Vegeta]]

'''NAND gate ("I say yes to everything")''' 
In digital electronics, a NAND gate (Negated AND or NOT AND) is a logic gate which produces an output that is false only if all its inputs are true. A LOW (0) output results only if both the inputs to the gate are HIGH (1); if one or both inputs are LOW (0), a HIGH (1) output results. It is made using transistors. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAND_gate Wikipedia]

'''Aki Ross''' 
Aki Ross is a fictional character and the protagonist of the movie ''Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within''. Aki Ross is voiced by Chinese-American actress Ming-Na. She was expected to be the first photorealistic computer-generated actress to appear in multiple movies in different roles. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aki_Ross WIKI].

==Page 367==
'''Margaret Mead''' 
Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist, who was frequently a featured author and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s. She earned her bachelor degree at Barnard College in New York City, and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University. She was both a popularizer of the insights of anthropology into modern American and Western culture and a respected, if controversial, academic anthropologist. Her reports about the attitudes towards sex in South Pacific and Southeast Asian traditional cultures amply informed the 1960s sexual revolution. Mead was a champion of broadened sexual mores within a context of traditional western religious life. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Mead WIKI].

'''Dubuque''' 
One of the few large cities in Iowa with hills, it is a major tourist destination, attracted to the city's unique architecture and river location. Also, it is home to five institutions of higher education, making it a center for culture and learning. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubuque,_Iowa WIKI].

'''...in time to witness Derek Jeter's clutch tenth-inning homer and another trademark Yankee win''' 
This extra innings game carried on past midnight, making it the first World Series game played in November(largely due to the rearranged schedules and postseason as a result of 11 September). When the scoreboard clock in Yankee Stadium passed midnight, the message on the scoreboard read, "Welcome to November Baseball". Derek Jeter shortly afterwards hit an opposite field walk-off home run on a 3–2 pitch count from Byung-Hyun Kim. This walk-off home run gave the Yankees a 4–3 victory and tied the Series at two games apiece, making Jeter the first player to hit a November homerun and earning him the tongue-in-cheek nickname of "Mr. November"(itself a play on former Yankee Reggie Jackson's World Series nickname "Mr. October).

'''Keanu Reeves''' 
Another Keanu reference. Something to this?

==Page 368==
'''shoat but sweet, as they say around the pigpen''' 
A shoat is a young pig. Get it?

==Page 369==
'''Steely Dan's "Ain't Never Gonna Do It without the Fez On"''' 
Title of that song: "Royal Scam"

The song is more simply titled "The Fez," from the 1976 album [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Royal_Scam Royal Scam.] Likewise, on page 158 Pynchon elongated the title of "Dr. Wu" into "Are You with Me Dr Wu."

Also, the word "ain't" is not in the song. Lyrics are [http://www.steelydan.com/lyrroyalscam.html#track5 here] and they go: No I'm never gonna do it without the fez on.

'''tchotchkes''' 
Tchotchke is a small bauble or miscellaneous item. Depending on context, the term has a connotation of worthlessness or disposability as well as tackiness, and has long been used by Jewish-Americans and in the regional speech of New York City and elsewhere. The word may also refer to free promotional items dispensed at trade shows, conventions, and similar large events. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tchotchke WIKI].

'''this overdue-for-exorcism building''' 
The Dakota, a possible model for the Deseret, is famously known for being the principle location used in the film "Rosemary's Baby" (1968). Of course, it was also the abode, and murder site, of John Lennon.

==Page 371==
'''"Lester was fellow ''podonok'',"''' 
Podonok is a Russian term meaning riff-raff, scoundrel, or scum. lowest of the low.

'''that Civil Hackers' School in Moscow [...] "Umnik Academy!"''' 
From [http://eng.ncfu.ru/umnik-of-ncfu-club.html here]...
<blockquote>"UMNIK of NCFU" Club for Young Scientists 
Since 2008 foundation of assistance to development of small enterprises in scientific and technical area performs financial support of scientific projects of young scientists (under 28 years), which are commercially significant. Financing is carried out on the basis of results of "U.M.N.I.K.” (Participant of Youth Scientific Innovative Competition) competition. Annually the foundation accepts requests and accredits several dozens of events in the territory of the Russian Federation, within the framework of which money grants for the young people, who have scientific ideas to be commercialized, are planned.</blockquote>

'''''chainiki''''' 
Chainik is a computer term that implies both ignorance and a certain amount of willingness to learn (as well as a propensity to cause disaster), but does not necessarily imply as little experience or short exposure time as newbie and is not as derogatory as luser. Both a novice user and someone using a computer system for a long time without any understanding of the internals can be referred to as chainiks. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chainik Wikipedia]

==Page 375==
'''FSB... SVU...''' 
Federal Security Service, see [V WIKI].

Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences (SVU), see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovak_Society_of_Arts_and_Sciences WIKI].

==Page 376==
'''You want secular cause and effect...''' 
Echoes the same, almost identical, line from [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=C#cause ''Gravity's Rainbow'', page 663] (Viking Ed.): "You will want cause and effect. All right."

'''Day of the NYC Marathon''' 
Sunday, November 4

==Page 377==
'''especially this soon after eleven September''' 
Perhaps this is simply a typo; everwhere else this date is referred to as "11 September"

'''Yes, I remember''' 
From [[Chapter_24#Page_258|page 258]].

'''''eppes-essen''''' 
Eppes Essen, besides being a Jewish Deli in New Jersey, is Yiddish for "I will give you something to eat"

==Page 379==
'''She should have tumbled ... to the peculiar lightlessness in his eyes...''' 
The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' provides one definition of "to tumble": "(tumble to) (informal) understand the meaning or hidden implication of (a situation)"

==Page 382==
'''what Bobby Darin calls 'beyond the sea'''' 
Bobby Darin performs ''Beyond the Sea'' on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLEjyDAjfbw YouTube.] To be a song about longing for a lost, perhaps dead, love, that sure is a happy sounding tune.

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==Page 366==
'''"Series'll be on tonight, El Duque's starting, maybe against Curt Schilling''' 
El Duque is the nickname of NY Yankees pitcher Orlando Hernandez. In this game, he pitched 6 1⁄3 solid innings, but gave up a game-tying upper deck home run to Mark Grace of the Arizona Diamondbacks in the fourth inning. Curt Schilling of the Diamondbacks pitched on only three days rest.

'''Vegeta''' 
Vegeta is a fictional character in the ''Dragon Ball'' manga series created by Akira Toriyama. [[Image:Vegeta.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Vegeta]]

'''NAND gate ("I say yes to everything")''' 
In digital electronics, a NAND gate (Negated AND or NOT AND) is a logic gate which produces an output that is false only if all its inputs are true. A LOW (0) output results only if both the inputs to the gate are HIGH (1); if one or both inputs are LOW (0), a HIGH (1) output results. It is made using transistors. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAND_gate Wikipedia]

'''Aki Ross''' 
Aki Ross is a fictional character and the protagonist of the movie ''Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within''. Aki Ross is voiced by Chinese-American actress Ming-Na. She was expected to be the first photorealistic computer-generated actress to appear in multiple movies in different roles. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aki_Ross WIKI].

==Page 367==
'''Margaret Mead''' 
Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist, who was frequently a featured author and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s. She earned her bachelor degree at Barnard College in New York City, and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University. She was both a popularizer of the insights of anthropology into modern American and Western culture and a respected, if controversial, academic anthropologist. Her reports about the attitudes towards sex in South Pacific and Southeast Asian traditional cultures amply informed the 1960s sexual revolution. Mead was a champion of broadened sexual mores within a context of traditional western religious life. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Mead WIKI].

'''Dubuque''' 
One of the few large cities in Iowa with hills, it is a major tourist destination, attracted to the city's unique architecture and river location. Also, it is home to five institutions of higher education, making it a center for culture and learning. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubuque,_Iowa WIKI].

'''...in time to witness Derek Jeter's clutch tenth-inning homer and another trademark Yankee win''' 
This extra innings game carried on past midnight, making it the first World Series game played in November(largely due to the rearranged schedules and postseason as a result of 11 September). When the scoreboard clock in Yankee Stadium passed midnight, the message on the scoreboard read, "Welcome to November Baseball". Derek Jeter shortly afterwards hit an opposite field walk-off home run on a 3–2 pitch count from Byung-Hyun Kim. This walk-off home run gave the Yankees a 4–3 victory and tied the Series at two games apiece, making Jeter the first player to hit a November homerun and earning him the tongue-in-cheek nickname of "Mr. November"(itself a play on former Yankee Reggie Jackson's World Series nickname "Mr. October).

'''Keanu Reeves''' 
Another Keanu reference. Something to this?

==Page 368==
'''shoat but sweet, as they say around the pigpen''' 
A shoat is a young pig. Get it?

==Page 369==
'''Steely Dan's "Ain't Never Gonna Do It without the Fez On"''' 
Title of that song: "Royal Scam"

The song is more simply titled "The Fez," from the 1976 album [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Royal_Scam Royal Scam.] Likewise, on page 158 Pynchon elongated the title of "Dr. Wu" into "Are You with Me Dr Wu."

Also, the word "ain't" is not in the song. Lyrics are [http://www.steelydan.com/lyrroyalscam.html#track5 here] and they go: No I'm never gonna do it without the fez on.

'''tchotchkes''' 
Tchotchke is a small bauble or miscellaneous item. Depending on context, the term has a connotation of worthlessness or disposability as well as tackiness, and has long been used by Jewish-Americans and in the regional speech of New York City and elsewhere. The word may also refer to free promotional items dispensed at trade shows, conventions, and similar large events. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tchotchke WIKI].

'''this overdue-for-exorcism building''' 
The Dakota, a possible model for the Deseret, is famously known for being the principle location used in the film "Rosemary's Baby" (1968). Of course, it was also the abode, and murder site, of John Lennon.

==Page 371==
'''"Lester was fellow ''podonok'',"''' 
Podonok is a Russian term meaning riff-raff, scoundrel, or scum. lowest of the low.

'''that Civil Hackers' School in Moscow [...] "Umnik Academy!"''' 
From [http://eng.ncfu.ru/umnik-of-ncfu-club.html here]...
<blockquote>"UMNIK of NCFU" Club for Young Scientists 
Since 2008 foundation of assistance to development of small enterprises in scientific and technical area performs financial support of scientific projects of young scientists (under 28 years), which are commercially significant. Financing is carried out on the basis of results of "U.M.N.I.K.” (Participant of Youth Scientific Innovative Competition) competition. Annually the foundation accepts requests and accredits several dozens of events in the territory of the Russian Federation, within the framework of which money grants for the young people, who have scientific ideas to be commercialized, are planned.</blockquote>

'''''chainiki''''' 
Chainik is a computer term that implies both ignorance and a certain amount of willingness to learn (as well as a propensity to cause disaster), but does not necessarily imply as little experience or short exposure time as newbie and is not as derogatory as luser. Both a novice user and someone using a computer system for a long time without any understanding of the internals can be referred to as chainiks. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chainik Wikipedia]

==Page 376==
'''You want secular cause and effect...''' 
Echoes the same, almost identical, line from [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=C#cause ''Gravity's Rainbow'', page 663] (Viking Ed.): "You will want cause and effect. All right."

'''Day of the NYC Marathon''' 
Sunday, November 4

==Page 377==
'''especially this soon after eleven September''' 
Perhaps this is simply a typo; everwhere else this date is referred to as "11 September"

'''Yes, I remember''' 
From [[Chapter_24#Page_258|page 258]].

'''''eppes-essen''''' 
Eppes Essen, besides being a Jewish Deli in New Jersey, is Yiddish for "I will give you something to eat"

==Page 379==
'''She should have tumbled ... to the peculiar lightlessness in his eyes...''' 
The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' provides one definition of "to tumble": "(tumble to) (informal) understand the meaning or hidden implication of (a situation)"

==Page 382==
'''what Bobby Darin calls 'beyond the sea'''' 
Bobby Darin performs ''Beyond the Sea'' on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLEjyDAjfbw YouTube.] To be a song about longing for a lost, perhaps dead, love, that sure is a happy sounding tune.

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==Page 366==
'''"Series'll be on tonight, El Duque's starting, maybe against Curt Schilling''' 
El Duque is the nickname of NY Yankees pitcher Orlando Hernandez. In this game, he pitched 6 1⁄3 solid innings, but gave up a game-tying upper deck home run to Mark Grace of the Arizona Diamondbacks in the fourth inning. Curt Schilling of the Diamondbacks pitched on only three days rest.

'''Vegeta''' 
Vegeta is a fictional character in the ''Dragon Ball'' manga series created by Akira Toriyama. [[Image:Vegeta.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Vegeta]]

'''NAND gate ("I say yes to everything")''' 
In digital electronics, a NAND gate (Negated AND or NOT AND) is a logic gate which produces an output that is false only if all its inputs are true. A LOW (0) output results only if both the inputs to the gate are HIGH (1); if one or both inputs are LOW (0), a HIGH (1) output results. It is made using transistors. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAND_gate Wikipedia]

'''Aki Ross''' 
Aki Ross is a fictional character and the protagonist of the movie ''Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within''. Aki Ross is voiced by Chinese-American actress Ming-Na. She was expected to be the first photorealistic computer-generated actress to appear in multiple movies in different roles. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aki_Ross WIKI].

==Page 367==
'''Margaret Mead''' 
Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist, who was frequently a featured author and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s. She earned her bachelor degree at Barnard College in New York City, and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University. She was both a popularizer of the insights of anthropology into modern American and Western culture and a respected, if controversial, academic anthropologist. Her reports about the attitudes towards sex in South Pacific and Southeast Asian traditional cultures amply informed the 1960s sexual revolution. Mead was a champion of broadened sexual mores within a context of traditional western religious life. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Mead WIKI].

'''Dubuque''' 
One of the few large cities in Iowa with hills, it is a major tourist destination, attracted to the city's unique architecture and river location. Also, it is home to five institutions of higher education, making it a center for culture and learning. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubuque,_Iowa WIKI].

'''...in time to witness Derek Jeter's clutch tenth-inning homer and another trademark Yankee win''' 
This extra innings game carried on past midnight, making it the first World Series game played in November(largely due to the rearranged schedules and postseason as a result of 11 September). When the scoreboard clock in Yankee Stadium passed midnight, the message on the scoreboard read, "Welcome to November Baseball". Derek Jeter shortly afterwards hit an opposite field walk-off home run on a 3–2 pitch count from Byung-Hyun Kim. This walk-off home run gave the Yankees a 4–3 victory and tied the Series at two games apiece, making Jeter the first player to hit a November homerun and earning him the tongue-in-cheek nickname of "Mr. November"(itself a play on former Yankee Reggie Jackson's World Series nickname "Mr. October).

'''Keanu Reeves''' 
Another Keanu reference. Something to this?

==Page 368==
'''shoat but sweet, as they say around the pigpen''' 
A shoat is a young pig. Get it?

==Page 369==
'''Steely Dan's "Ain't Never Gonna Do It without the Fez On"''' 
Title of that song: "Royal Scam"

The song is more simply titled "The Fez," from the 1976 album [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Royal_Scam Royal Scam.] Likewise, on page 158 Pynchon elongated the title of "Dr. Wu" into "Are You with Me Dr Wu."

Also, the word "ain't" is not in the song. Lyrics are [http://www.steelydan.com/lyrroyalscam.html#track5 here] and they go: No I'm never gonna do it without the fez on.

'''this overdue-for-exorcism building''' 
The Dakota, a possible model for the Deseret, is famously known for being the principle location used in the film "Rosemary's Baby" (1968). Of course, it was also the abode, and murder site, of John Lennon.

==Page 371==
'''"Lester was fellow ''podonok'',"''' 
Podonok is a Russian term meaning riff-raff, scoundrel, or scum. lowest of the low.

'''that Civil Hackers' School in Moscow [...] "Umnik Academy!"''' 
From [http://eng.ncfu.ru/umnik-of-ncfu-club.html here]...
<blockquote>"UMNIK of NCFU" Club for Young Scientists 
Since 2008 foundation of assistance to development of small enterprises in scientific and technical area performs financial support of scientific projects of young scientists (under 28 years), which are commercially significant. Financing is carried out on the basis of results of "U.M.N.I.K.” (Participant of Youth Scientific Innovative Competition) competition. Annually the foundation accepts requests and accredits several dozens of events in the territory of the Russian Federation, within the framework of which money grants for the young people, who have scientific ideas to be commercialized, are planned.</blockquote>

'''''chainiki''''' 
Chainik is a computer term that implies both ignorance and a certain amount of willingness to learn (as well as a propensity to cause disaster), but does not necessarily imply as little experience or short exposure time as newbie and is not as derogatory as luser. Both a novice user and someone using a computer system for a long time without any understanding of the internals can be referred to as chainiks. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chainik Wikipedia]

==Page 376==
'''You want secular cause and effect...''' 
Echoes the same, almost identical, line from [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=C#cause ''Gravity's Rainbow'', page 663] (Viking Ed.): "You will want cause and effect. All right."

'''Day of the NYC Marathon''' 
Sunday, November 4

==Page 377==
'''especially this soon after eleven September''' 
Perhaps this is simply a typo; everwhere else this date is referred to as "11 September"

'''Yes, I remember''' 
From [[Chapter_24#Page_258|page 258]].

'''''eppes-essen''''' 
Eppes Essen, besides being a Jewish Deli in New Jersey, is Yiddish for "I will give you something to eat"

==Page 379==
'''She should have tumbled ... to the peculiar lightlessness in his eyes...''' 
The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' provides one definition of "to tumble": "(tumble to) (informal) understand the meaning or hidden implication of (a situation)"

==Page 382==
'''what Bobby Darin calls 'beyond the sea'''' 
Bobby Darin performs ''Beyond the Sea'' on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLEjyDAjfbw YouTube.] To be a song about longing for a lost, perhaps dead, love, that sure is a happy sounding tune.

{{Bleeding Edge PbP}}

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==Page 366==
'''"Series'll be on tonight, El Duque's starting, maybe against Curt Schilling''' 
El Duque is the nickname of NY Yankees pitcher Orlando Hernandez. In this game, he pitched 6 1⁄3 solid innings, but gave up a game-tying upper deck home run to Mark Grace of the Arizona Diamondbacks in the fourth inning. Curt Schilling of the Diamondbacks pitched on only three days rest.

'''Vegeta''' 
Vegeta is a fictional character in the ''Dragon Ball'' manga series created by Akira Toriyama. [[Image:Vegeta.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Vegeta]]

'''NAND gate ("I say yes to everything")''' 
In digital electronics, a NAND gate (Negated AND or NOT AND) is a logic gate which produces an output that is false only if all its inputs are true. A LOW (0) output results only if both the inputs to the gate are HIGH (1); if one or both inputs are LOW (0), a HIGH (1) output results. It is made using transistors. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAND_gate Wikipedia]

'''Aki Ross''' 
Aki Ross is a fictional character and the protagonist of the movie ''Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within''. Aki Ross is voiced by Chinese-American actress Ming-Na. She was expected to be the first photorealistic computer-generated actress to appear in multiple movies in different roles. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aki_Ross WIKI].

==Page 367==
'''Margaret Mead''' 
Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist, who was frequently a featured author and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s. She earned her bachelor degree at Barnard College in New York City, and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University. She was both a popularizer of the insights of anthropology into modern American and Western culture and a respected, if controversial, academic anthropologist. Her reports about the attitudes towards sex in South Pacific and Southeast Asian traditional cultures amply informed the 1960s sexual revolution. Mead was a champion of broadened sexual mores within a context of traditional western religious life. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Mead WIKI].

'''...in time to witness Derek Jeter's clutch tenth-inning homer and another trademark Yankee win''' 
This extra innings game carried on past midnight, making it the first World Series game played in November(largely due to the rearranged schedules and postseason as a result of 11 September). When the scoreboard clock in Yankee Stadium passed midnight, the message on the scoreboard read, "Welcome to November Baseball". Derek Jeter shortly afterwards hit an opposite field walk-off home run on a 3–2 pitch count from Byung-Hyun Kim. This walk-off home run gave the Yankees a 4–3 victory and tied the Series at two games apiece, making Jeter the first player to hit a November homerun and earning him the tongue-in-cheek nickname of "Mr. November"(itself a play on former Yankee Reggie Jackson's World Series nickname "Mr. October).

'''Keanu Reeves''' 
Another Keanu reference. Something to this?

==Page 368==
'''shoat but sweet, as they say around the pigpen''' 
A shoat is a young pig. Get it?

==Page 369==
'''Steely Dan's "Ain't Never Gonna Do It without the Fez On"''' 
Title of that song: "Royal Scam"

The song is more simply titled "The Fez," from the 1976 album [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Royal_Scam Royal Scam.] Likewise, on page 158 Pynchon elongated the title of "Dr. Wu" into "Are You with Me Dr Wu."

Also, the word "ain't" is not in the song. Lyrics are [http://www.steelydan.com/lyrroyalscam.html#track5 here] and they go: No I'm never gonna do it without the fez on.

'''this overdue-for-exorcism building''' 
The Dakota, a possible model for the Deseret, is famously known for being the principle location used in the film "Rosemary's Baby" (1968). Of course, it was also the abode, and murder site, of John Lennon.

==Page 371==
'''"Lester was fellow ''podonok'',"''' 
Podonok is a Russian term meaning riff-raff, scoundrel, or scum. lowest of the low.

'''that Civil Hackers' School in Moscow [...] "Umnik Academy!"''' 
From [http://eng.ncfu.ru/umnik-of-ncfu-club.html here]...
<blockquote>"UMNIK of NCFU" Club for Young Scientists 
Since 2008 foundation of assistance to development of small enterprises in scientific and technical area performs financial support of scientific projects of young scientists (under 28 years), which are commercially significant. Financing is carried out on the basis of results of "U.M.N.I.K.” (Participant of Youth Scientific Innovative Competition) competition. Annually the foundation accepts requests and accredits several dozens of events in the territory of the Russian Federation, within the framework of which money grants for the young people, who have scientific ideas to be commercialized, are planned.</blockquote>

'''''chainiki''''' 
Chainik is a computer term that implies both ignorance and a certain amount of willingness to learn (as well as a propensity to cause disaster), but does not necessarily imply as little experience or short exposure time as newbie and is not as derogatory as luser. Both a novice user and someone using a computer system for a long time without any understanding of the internals can be referred to as chainiks. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chainik Wikipedia]

==Page 376==
'''You want secular cause and effect...''' 
Echoes the same, almost identical, line from [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=C#cause ''Gravity's Rainbow'', page 663] (Viking Ed.): "You will want cause and effect. All right."

'''Day of the NYC Marathon''' 
Sunday, November 4

==Page 377==
'''especially this soon after eleven September''' 
Perhaps this is simply a typo; everwhere else this date is referred to as "11 September"

'''Yes, I remember''' 
From [[Chapter_24#Page_258|page 258]].

'''''eppes-essen''''' 
Eppes Essen, besides being a Jewish Deli in New Jersey, is Yiddish for "I will give you something to eat"

==Page 379==
'''She should have tumbled ... to the peculiar lightlessness in his eyes...''' 
The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' provides one definition of "to tumble": "(tumble to) (informal) understand the meaning or hidden implication of (a situation)"

==Page 382==
'''what Bobby Darin calls 'beyond the sea'''' 
Bobby Darin performs ''Beyond the Sea'' on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLEjyDAjfbw YouTube.] To be a song about longing for a lost, perhaps dead, love, that sure is a happy sounding tune.

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'''Jetsons-era spaceport''' 
Not a bad little [http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/2013/03/mid-21st-century-modern-that-jetsons-architecture/ essay] on Mid-21st Century Modern architecture.

'''cyberflaneurs''' 
"A person who idly surfs the internet." In 2012 the New York Times ran an article on the [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/opinion/sunday/the-death-of-the-cyberflaneur.html?pagewanted=all Death of the Cyberflaneur]

==Page 355==
'''a strange creepy nimbus like a follow spot in a club''' 
A nimbus is an aura, or a luminous cloud or a halo surrounding a supernatural being or a saint. A follow spot (or followspot) is a moving spot light that tracks a subject, eg a dancing couple on the dance floor.

'''''Battlestar Galactica''''' 
The reboot doesn't come out until 2004, so here they are talking about the original show.

'''posters of Denise Richards and Tia Carrere''' 
Denise Richards for her role in ''Starship Troopers'', no doubt, and Tia Carrere, for ''Relic Hunter'' maybe?

==Page 356==
'''Regulate''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1plPyJdXKIY YouTube] has it. The song was released in 1994.

'''''More Cowbell''''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGBD1KUz2RA YouTube] has a clip from this famous SNL skit, which was first aired, by the way, April 2000. 
Does this count as a sneaky Godzilla allusion since the band parodied in the skit, Blue Oyster Cult, also recorded the song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln8-Y-fIbqM Godzilla]?

'''Deus Ex theme''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1oxIrAX39M Youtube] to the rescue again. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex WIKI] has more on this 2000 cyberpunk-style video game.

356 - Deus Ex is a cyberpunk-themed action-role playing video game — combining first-person shooter, stealth and role-playing elements — developed by Ion Storm and published by Eidos Interactive in 2000. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_Ex Wikipedia]. Check out the theme:{{#ev:youtube|ZCk8ByyCsks}}

'''cyberelves''' 
Not to be confused, surely, with cyberflaneurs or the "little tiny people...from under the radiator..with little brooms, and dustpans" from page 346.

==Page 358==
'''the edge of the unnavigable, the region of no information''' 
Bleeding edge?

'''the beginning before the Word''' 
John 1:1: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

'''vertigo--lovesick, nauseous''' 
Yet more intimations of Hitchcock's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertigo_%28film%29 Vertigo.] "Lovesick, nauseous" could be the film's subtitle.

==Page 359==
'''Phatic how's Justin, how's Fiona, all fine thanks''' 
"Phatic" means denoting or relating to language used for general purposes of social interaction, rather than to convey information or ask questions, such as ''hello, how are you?'' and ''nice morning, isn't it?''

==Page 360==
'''King Kongs, which are Crown Royal plus banana liqueur''' 
Little odd, no, for the narrative voice to define something like this? I thought that was our job! Anyway, also known as a "Rock Star," this is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Royal#Mixing a real cocktail].

'''Fernet-Branca... That crazy motherfucker from Voorhees, Krueger!''' 
Cf. p. [http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_7#Page_70 70].

==Page 361==
'''that crazy motherfucker from Voorhees, Krueger''' 
That would be Ian Longspoon. The name is likely a tip o' the hat to Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees of two classic slasher/horror films "Nightmare on Elm Street" and "Friday the 13th".

'''what sort of look like giant letter J's, not to mention L's''' 
"It could stand for anything, couldn't it?" This is reminiscent of readers speculating on what the "V" stands for in Pynchon's first novel [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ''V.''].

'''Oakley M Frames''' 
Somewhat spacey-looking, apparently famous, athletic sunglasses. [http://www.oakley.com/mframe Oakley] site.

==Page 362==
'''seldom-heard oldie "Soul Gidget"''' 
Fictional song by from ''Inherent Vice''. Nice touch. [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_10#Page_155 Page 155.]

"One of the few known attempts at black surf music...by Meatball Flag." 
Lyrics:

Who's that strollin down the street, 
Hi-heel flip-flops on her feet, 
Always got a great big smile 
Never gets popped by Juv-o-nile— 
Who is it? 
Soul Gidget! 

Who never worries about her karma? 
Who be that signifyin on your mama? 
Out there lookin so bad and big, 
Like Sandra Dee in some Afro wig— 
Who is it? 
Soul Gidget! 

Surf's up, Soul Gidget’s there, 
Got that patchouli all in her hair, 
Down in Hermosa she’s runnin wild, 
Back in South Central she just a child— 
Uh who is it? 
Soul Gidget!

==Page 363==
'''you've got to believe...that was the '69 Mets''' 
The 1969 New York Mets season was the team's eighth as a Major League Baseball franchise and culminated with them winning the World Series over the Baltimore Orioles. They played their home games at Shea Stadium. The team was managed by Gil Hodges. The team is often referred to as the "Amazin' Mets" (a nickname coined by Casey Stengel, who managed the team from their inaugural season to 1965) or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_New_York_Mets_season the "Miracle Mets."].

HOWEVER, "You gotta believe!!!" was Mets pitcher Tug McGraw's catchphrase during [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_New_York_Mets_season the '''1973''' season], and that phrase wasn't used during the 1969 season.

==Page 364==
'''Duane Reade''' 
See pp. [http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_10#Page_107 107] and [http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_37#Page_414 414].

'''ever try anal?...His specialty I bet?''' 
Little nod to Pynchon's niece, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_Taormino Tristan Taormino,] sex educator who wrote ''The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women''?

Note also that this is set up a bit earlier in their conversation (on page 360) with Vyrva saying "a-little-goes-a-long-way, pain-in-the-ass-unbearable".

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==Page 354==
'''Jetsons-era spaceport''' 
Not a bad little [http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/2013/03/mid-21st-century-modern-that-jetsons-architecture/ essay] on Mid-21st Century Modern architecture.

'''cyberflaneurs''' 
"A person who idly surfs the internet." In 2012 the New York Times ran an article on the [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/opinion/sunday/the-death-of-the-cyberflaneur.html?pagewanted=all Death of the Cyberflaneur]

==Page 355==
'''a strange creepy nimbus like a follow spot in a club''' 
A nimbus is an aura, or a luminous cloud or a halo surrounding a supernatural being or a saint. A follow spot (or followspot) is a moving spot light that tracks a subject, eg a dancing couple on the dance floor.

'''''Battlestar Galactica''''' 
The reboot doesn't come out until 2004, so here they are talking about the original show.

'''posters of Denise Richards and Tia Carrere''' 
Denise Richards for her role in ''Starship Troopers'', no doubt, and Tia Carrere, for ''Relic Hunter'' maybe?

==Page 356==
'''Regulate''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1plPyJdXKIY YouTube] has it. The song was released in 1994.

'''''More Cowbell''''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGBD1KUz2RA YouTube] has a clip from this famous SNL skit, which was first aired, by the way, April 2000. 
Does this count as a sneaky Godzilla allusion since the band parodied in the skit, Blue Oyster Cult, also recorded the song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln8-Y-fIbqM Godzilla]?

'''Deus Ex theme''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1oxIrAX39M Youtube] to the rescue again. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex WIKI] has more on this 2000 cyberpunk-style video game.

356 - Deus Ex is a cyberpunk-themed action-role playing video game — combining first-person shooter, stealth and role-playing elements — developed by Ion Storm and published by Eidos Interactive in 2000. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_Ex Wikipedia]. Check out the theme:{{#ev:youtube|ZCk8ByyCsks}}

'''cyberelves''' 
Not to be confused, surely, with cyberflaneurs or the "little tiny people...from under the radiator..with little brooms, and dustpans" from page 346.

==Page 358==
'''the edge of the unnavigable, the region of no information''' 
Bleeding edge?

'''the beginning before the Word''' 
John 1:1: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

'''vertigo--lovesick, nauseous''' 
Yet more intimations of Hitchcock's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertigo_%28film%29 Vertigo.] "Lovesick, nauseous" could be the film's subtitle.

==Page 359==
'''Phatic how's Justin, how's Fiona, all fine thanks''' 
"Phatic" means denoting or relating to language used for general purposes of social interaction, rather than to convey information or ask questions, such as ''hello, how are you?'' and ''nice morning, isn't it?''

==Page 360==
'''King Kongs, which are Crown Royal plus banana liqueur''' 
Little odd, no, for the narrative voice to define something like this? I thought that was our job! Anyway, also known as a "Rock Star," this is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Royal#Mixing a real cocktail].

'''Fernet-Branca... That crazy motherfucker from Voorhees, Krueger!''' 
Cf. p. [http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_7#Page_70 70].

==Page 361==
'''that crazy motherfucker from Voorhees, Krueger''' 
That would be Ian Longspoon. The name is likely a tip o' the hat to Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees of two classic slasher/horror films "Nightmare on Elm Street" and "Friday the 13th".

'''what sort of look like giant letter J's, not to mention L's''' 
"It could stand for anything, couldn't it?" This is reminiscent of readers speculating on what the "V" stands for in Pynchon's first novel [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ''V.''].

'''Oakley M Frames''' 
Somewhat spacey-looking, apparently famous, athletic sunglasses. [http://www.oakley.com/mframe Oakley] site.

==Page 362==
'''seldom-heard oldie "Soul Gidget"''' 
Fictional song by from ''Inherent Vice''. Nice touch. [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_10#Page_155 Page 155.]

"One of the few known attempts at black surf music...by Meatball Flag." 
Lyrics:

Who's that strollin down the street, 
Hi-heel flip-flops on her feet, 
Always got a great big smile 
Never gets popped by Juv-o-nile— 
Who is it? 
Soul Gidget! 

Who never worries about her karma? 
Who be that signifyin on your mama? 
Out there lookin so bad and big, 
Like Sandra Dee in some Afro wig— 
Who is it? 
Soul Gidget! 

Surf's up, Soul Gidget’s there, 
Got that patchouli all in her hair, 
Down in Hermosa she’s runnin wild, 
Back in South Central she just a child— 
Uh who is it? 
Soul Gidget!

==Page 363==
'''you've got to believe...that was the '69 Mets''' 
The 1969 New York Mets season was the team's eighth as a Major League Baseball franchise and culminated with them winning the World Series over the Baltimore Orioles. They played their home games at Shea Stadium. The team was managed by Gil Hodges. The team is often referred to as the "Amazin' Mets" (a nickname coined by Casey Stengel, who managed the team from their inaugural season to 1965) or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_New_York_Mets_season the "Miracle Mets."].

HOWEVER, "You gotta believe!!!" was Mets pitcher Tug McGraw's catchphrase during [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_New_York_Mets_season the '''1973''' season], and that phrase wasn't used during the 1969 season.

==Page 364==
'''ever try anal?...His specialty I bet?''' 
Little nod to Pynchon's niece, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_Taormino Tristan Taormino,] sex educator who wrote ''The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women''?

Note also that this is set up a bit earlier in their conversation (on page 360) with Vyrva saying "a-little-goes-a-long-way, pain-in-the-ass-unbearable".

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==Page 354==
'''Jetsons-era spaceport''' 
Not a bad little [http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/2013/03/mid-21st-century-modern-that-jetsons-architecture/ essay] on Mid-21st Century Modern architecture.

'''cyberflaneurs''' 
"A person who idly surfs the internet." In 2012 the New York Times ran an article on the [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/opinion/sunday/the-death-of-the-cyberflaneur.html?pagewanted=all Death of the Cyberflaneur]

==Page 355==
'''a strange creepy nimbus like a follow spot in a club''' 
A nimbus is an aura, or a luminous cloud or a halo surrounding a supernatural being or a saint. A follow spot (or followspot) is a moving spot light that tracks a subject, eg a dancing couple on the dance floor.

'''''Battlestar Galactica''''' 
The reboot doesn't come out until 2004, so here they are talking about the original show.

'''posters of Denise Richards and Tia Carrere''' 
Denise Richards for her role in ''Starship Troopers'', no doubt, and Tia Carrere, for ''Relic Hunter'' maybe?

==Page 356==
'''Regulate''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1plPyJdXKIY YouTube] has it. The song was released in 1994.

'''''More Cowbell''''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGBD1KUz2RA YouTube] has a clip from this famous SNL skit, which was first aired, by the way, April 2000. 
Does this count as a sneaky Godzilla allusion since the band parodied in the skit, Blue Oyster Cult, also recorded the song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln8-Y-fIbqM Godzilla]?

'''Deus Ex theme''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1oxIrAX39M Youtube] to the rescue again. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex WIKI] has more on this 2000 cyberpunk-style video game.

356 - Deus Ex is a cyberpunk-themed action-role playing video game — combining first-person shooter, stealth and role-playing elements — developed by Ion Storm and published by Eidos Interactive in 2000. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_Ex Wikipedia]. Check out the theme:{{#ev:youtube|ZCk8ByyCsks}}

'''cyberelves''' 
Not to be confused, surely, with cyberflaneurs or the "little tiny people...from under the radiator..with little brooms, and dustpans" from page 346.

==Page 358==
'''the edge of the unnavigable, the region of no information''' 
Bleeding edge?

'''the beginning before the Word''' 
John 1:1: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

'''vertigo--lovesick, nauseous''' 
Yet more intimations of Hitchcock's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertigo_%28film%29 Vertigo.] "Lovesick, nauseous" could be the film's subtitle.

==Page 359==
'''Phatic how's Justin, how's Fiona, all fine thanks''' 
"Phatic" means denoting or relating to language used for general purposes of social interaction, rather than to convey information or ask questions, such as ''hello, how are you?'' and ''nice morning, isn't it?''

==Page 360==
'''King Kongs, which are Crown Royal plus banana liqueur''' 
Little odd, no, for the narrative voice to define something like this? I thought that was our job! Anyway, also known as a "Rock Star," this is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Royal#Mixing a real cocktail].

==Page 361==
'''that crazy motherfucker from Voorhees, Krueger''' 
That would be Ian Longspoon. The name is likely a tip o' the hat to Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees of two classic slasher/horror films "Nightmare on Elm Street" and "Friday the 13th".

'''what sort of look like giant letter J's, not to mention L's''' 
"It could stand for anything, couldn't it?" This is reminiscent of readers speculating on what the "V" stands for in Pynchon's first novel [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ''V.''].

'''Oakley M Frames''' 
Somewhat spacey-looking, apparently famous, athletic sunglasses. [http://www.oakley.com/mframe Oakley] site.

==Page 362==
'''seldom-heard oldie "Soul Gidget"''' 
Fictional song by from ''Inherent Vice''. Nice touch. [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_10#Page_155 Page 155.]

"One of the few known attempts at black surf music...by Meatball Flag." 
Lyrics:

Who's that strollin down the street, 
Hi-heel flip-flops on her feet, 
Always got a great big smile 
Never gets popped by Juv-o-nile— 
Who is it? 
Soul Gidget! 

Who never worries about her karma? 
Who be that signifyin on your mama? 
Out there lookin so bad and big, 
Like Sandra Dee in some Afro wig— 
Who is it? 
Soul Gidget! 

Surf's up, Soul Gidget’s there, 
Got that patchouli all in her hair, 
Down in Hermosa she’s runnin wild, 
Back in South Central she just a child— 
Uh who is it? 
Soul Gidget!

==Page 363==
'''you've got to believe...that was the '69 Mets''' 
The 1969 New York Mets season was the team's eighth as a Major League Baseball franchise and culminated with them winning the World Series over the Baltimore Orioles. They played their home games at Shea Stadium. The team was managed by Gil Hodges. The team is often referred to as the "Amazin' Mets" (a nickname coined by Casey Stengel, who managed the team from their inaugural season to 1965) or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_New_York_Mets_season the "Miracle Mets."].

HOWEVER, "You gotta believe!!!" was Mets pitcher Tug McGraw's catchphrase during [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_New_York_Mets_season the '''1973''' season], and that phrase wasn't used during the 1969 season.

==Page 364==
'''ever try anal?...His specialty I bet?''' 
Little nod to Pynchon's niece, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_Taormino Tristan Taormino,] sex educator who wrote ''The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women''?

Note also that this is set up a bit earlier in their conversation (on page 360) with Vyrva saying "a-little-goes-a-long-way, pain-in-the-ass-unbearable".

{{Bleeding Edge PbP}}

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{{BE PxP Header}}

==Page 354==
'''Jetsons-era spaceport''' 
Not a bad little [http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/2013/03/mid-21st-century-modern-that-jetsons-architecture/ essay] on Mid-21st Century Modern architecture.

'''cyberflaneurs''' 
"A person who idly surfs the internet." In 2012 the New York Times ran an article on the [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/opinion/sunday/the-death-of-the-cyberflaneur.html?pagewanted=all Death of the Cyberflaneur]

==Page 355==
'''a strange creepy nimbus like a follow spot in a club''' 
A nimbus is an aura, or a luminous cloud or a halo surrounding a supernatural being or a saint. A follow spot (or followspot) is a moving spot light that tracks a subject, eg a dancing couple on the dance floor.

'''''Battlestar Galactica''''' 
The reboot doesn't come out until 2004, so here they are talking about the original show.

'''posters of Denise Richards and Tia Carrere''' 
Denise Richards for her role in ''Starship Troopers'', no doubt, and Tia Carrere, for ''Relic Hunter'' maybe?

'''Regulate''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1plPyJdXKIY YouTube] has it. The song was released in 1994.

'''''More Cowbell''''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGBD1KUz2RA YouTube] has a clip from this famous SNL skit, which was first aired, by the way, April 2000. 
Does this count as a sneaky Godzilla allusion since the band parodied in the skit, Blue Oyster Cult, also recorded the song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln8-Y-fIbqM Godzilla]?

'''Deus Ex theme''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1oxIrAX39M Youtube] to the rescue again. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex WIKI] has more on this 2000 cyberpunk-style video game.

'''cyberelves''' 
Not to be confused, surely, with cyberflaneurs or the "little tiny people...from under the radiator..with little brooms, and dustpans" from page 346.

==Page 356==
'''Regulate''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1plPyJdXKIY YouTube] has it. The song was released in 1994.

'''''More Cowbell''''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGBD1KUz2RA YouTube] has a clip from this famous SNL skit, which was first aired, by the way, April 2000. 
Does this count as a sneaky Godzilla allusion since the band parodied in the skit, Blue Oyster Cult, also recorded the song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln8-Y-fIbqM Godzilla]?

'''Deus Ex theme''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1oxIrAX39M Youtube] to the rescue again. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex WIKI] has more on this 2000 cyberpunk-style video game.

356 - Deus Ex is a cyberpunk-themed action-role playing video game — combining first-person shooter, stealth and role-playing elements — developed by Ion Storm and published by Eidos Interactive in 2000. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_Ex Wikipedia]. Check out the theme:{{#ev:youtube|ZCk8ByyCsks}}

'''cyberelves''' 
Not to be confused, surely, with cyberflaneurs or the "little tiny people...from under the radiator..with little brooms, and dustpans" from page 346.

==Page 358==
'''the edge of the unnavigable, the region of no information''' 
Bleeding edge?

'''the beginning before the Word''' 
John 1:1: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

'''vertigo--lovesick, nauseous''' 
Yet more intimations of Hitchcock's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertigo_%28film%29 Vertigo.] "Lovesick, nauseous" could be the film's subtitle.

==Page 359==
'''Phatic how's Justin, how's Fiona, all fine thanks''' 
"Phatic" means denoting or relating to language used for general purposes of social interaction, rather than to convey information or ask questions, such as ''hello, how are you?'' and ''nice morning, isn't it?''

==Page 360==
'''King Kongs, which are Crown Royal plus banana liqueur''' 
Little odd, no, for the narrative voice to define something like this? I thought that was our job! Anyway, also known as a "Rock Star," this is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Royal#Mixing a real cocktail].

==Page 361==
'''that crazy motherfucker from Voorhees, Krueger''' 
That would be Ian Longspoon. The name is likely a tip o' the hat to Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees of two classic slasher/horror films "Nightmare on Elm Street" and "Friday the 13th".

'''what sort of look like giant letter J's, not to mention L's''' 
"It could stand for anything, couldn't it?" This is reminiscent of readers speculating on what the "V" stands for in Pynchon's first novel [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ''V.''].

'''Oakley M Frames''' 
Somewhat spacey-looking, apparently famous, athletic sunglasses. [http://www.oakley.com/mframe Oakley] site.

==Page 362==
'''seldom-heard oldie "Soul Gidget"''' 
Fictional song by from ''Inherent Vice''. Nice touch. [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_10#Page_155 Page 155.]

"One of the few known attempts at black surf music...by Meatball Flag." 
Lyrics:

Who's that strollin down the street, 
Hi-heel flip-flops on her feet, 
Always got a great big smile 
Never gets popped by Juv-o-nile— 
Who is it? 
Soul Gidget! 

Who never worries about her karma? 
Who be that signifyin on your mama? 
Out there lookin so bad and big, 
Like Sandra Dee in some Afro wig— 
Who is it? 
Soul Gidget! 

Surf's up, Soul Gidget’s there, 
Got that patchouli all in her hair, 
Down in Hermosa she’s runnin wild, 
Back in South Central she just a child— 
Uh who is it? 
Soul Gidget!

==Page 363==
'''you've got to believe...that was the '69 Mets''' 
The 1969 New York Mets season was the team's eighth as a Major League Baseball franchise and culminated with them winning the World Series over the Baltimore Orioles. They played their home games at Shea Stadium. The team was managed by Gil Hodges. The team is often referred to as the "Amazin' Mets" (a nickname coined by Casey Stengel, who managed the team from their inaugural season to 1965) or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_New_York_Mets_season the "Miracle Mets."].

HOWEVER, "You gotta believe!!!" was Mets pitcher Tug McGraw's catchphrase during [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_New_York_Mets_season the '''1973''' season], and that phrase wasn't used during the 1969 season.

==Page 364==
'''ever try anal?...His specialty I bet?''' 
Little nod to Pynchon's niece, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_Taormino Tristan Taormino,] sex educator who wrote ''The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women''?

Note also that this is set up a bit earlier in their conversation (on page 360) with Vyrva saying "a-little-goes-a-long-way, pain-in-the-ass-unbearable".

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Chapter 33

2014-01-16T16:37:39Z

Greenlantern: /* Page 356 */

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==Page 354==
'''Jetsons-era spaceport''' 
Not a bad little [http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/2013/03/mid-21st-century-modern-that-jetsons-architecture/ essay] on Mid-21st Century Modern architecture.

'''cyberflaneurs''' 
"A person who idly surfs the internet." In 2012 the New York Times ran an article on the [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/opinion/sunday/the-death-of-the-cyberflaneur.html?pagewanted=all Death of the Cyberflaneur]

==Page 355==
'''a strange creepy nimbus like a follow spot in a club''' 
A nimbus is an aura, or a luminous cloud or a halo surrounding a supernatural being or a saint. A follow spot (or followspot) is a moving spot light that tracks a subject, eg a dancing couple on the dance floor.

'''''Battlestar Galactica''''' 
The reboot doesn't come out until 2004, so here they are talking about the original show.

'''posters of Denise Richards and Tia Carrere''' 
Denise Richards for her role in ''Starship Troopers'', no doubt, and Tia Carrere, for ''Relic Hunter'' maybe?

'''Regulate''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1plPyJdXKIY YouTube] has it. The song was released in 1994.

'''''More Cowbell''''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGBD1KUz2RA YouTube] has a clip from this famous SNL skit, which was first aired, by the way, April 2000. 
Does this count as a sneaky Godzilla allusion since the band parodied in the skit, Blue Oyster Cult, also recorded the song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln8-Y-fIbqM Godzilla]?

'''Deus Ex theme''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1oxIrAX39M Youtube] to the rescue again. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex WIKI] has more on this 2000 cyberpunk-style video game.

'''cyberelves''' 
Not to be confused, surely, with cyberflaneurs or the "little tiny people...from under the radiator..with little brooms, and dustpans" from page 346.

==Page 356==
'''Regulate''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1plPyJdXKIY YouTube] has it. The song was released in 1994.

'''''More Cowbell''''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGBD1KUz2RA YouTube] has a clip from this famous SNL skit, which was first aired, by the way, April 2000. 
Does this count as a sneaky Godzilla allusion since the band parodied in the skit, Blue Oyster Cult, also recorded the song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln8-Y-fIbqM Godzilla]?

'''Deus Ex theme''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1oxIrAX39M Youtube] to the rescue again. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex WIKI] has more on this 2000 cyberpunk-style video game.

356 - Deus Ex is a cyberpunk-themed action-role playing video game — combining first-person shooter, stealth and role-playing elements — developed by Ion Storm and published by Eidos Interactive in 2000. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_Ex Wikipedia]. Check out the theme:
{{#ev:youtube|ZCk8ByyCsks}}

'''cyberelves''' 
Not to be confused, surely, with cyberflaneurs or the "little tiny people...from under the radiator..with little brooms, and dustpans" from page 346.

==Page 358==
'''the edge of the unnavigable, the region of no information''' 
Bleeding edge?

'''the beginning before the Word''' 
John 1:1: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

'''vertigo--lovesick, nauseous''' 
Yet more intimations of Hitchcock's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertigo_%28film%29 Vertigo.] "Lovesick, nauseous" could be the film's subtitle.

==Page 359==
'''Phatic how's Justin, how's Fiona, all fine thanks''' 
"Phatic" means denoting or relating to language used for general purposes of social interaction, rather than to convey information or ask questions, such as ''hello, how are you?'' and ''nice morning, isn't it?''

==Page 360==
'''King Kongs, which are Crown Royal plus banana liqueur''' 
Little odd, no, for the narrative voice to define something like this? I thought that was our job! Anyway, also known as a "Rock Star," this is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Royal#Mixing a real cocktail].

==Page 361==
'''that crazy motherfucker from Voorhees, Krueger''' 
That would be Ian Longspoon. The name is likely a tip o' the hat to Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees of two classic slasher/horror films "Nightmare on Elm Street" and "Friday the 13th".

'''what sort of look like giant letter J's, not to mention L's''' 
"It could stand for anything, couldn't it?" This is reminiscent of readers speculating on what the "V" stands for in Pynchon's first novel [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ''V.''].

'''Oakley M Frames''' 
Somewhat spacey-looking, apparently famous, athletic sunglasses. [http://www.oakley.com/mframe Oakley] site.

==Page 362==
'''seldom-heard oldie "Soul Gidget"''' 
Fictional song by from ''Inherent Vice''. Nice touch. [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_10#Page_155 Page 155.]

"One of the few known attempts at black surf music...by Meatball Flag." 
Lyrics:

Who's that strollin down the street, 
Hi-heel flip-flops on her feet, 
Always got a great big smile 
Never gets popped by Juv-o-nile— 
Who is it? 
Soul Gidget! 

Who never worries about her karma? 
Who be that signifyin on your mama? 
Out there lookin so bad and big, 
Like Sandra Dee in some Afro wig— 
Who is it? 
Soul Gidget! 

Surf's up, Soul Gidget’s there, 
Got that patchouli all in her hair, 
Down in Hermosa she’s runnin wild, 
Back in South Central she just a child— 
Uh who is it? 
Soul Gidget!

==Page 363==
'''you've got to believe...that was the '69 Mets''' 
The 1969 New York Mets season was the team's eighth as a Major League Baseball franchise and culminated with them winning the World Series over the Baltimore Orioles. They played their home games at Shea Stadium. The team was managed by Gil Hodges. The team is often referred to as the "Amazin' Mets" (a nickname coined by Casey Stengel, who managed the team from their inaugural season to 1965) or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_New_York_Mets_season the "Miracle Mets."].

HOWEVER, "You gotta believe!!!" was Mets pitcher Tug McGraw's catchphrase during [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_New_York_Mets_season the '''1973''' season], and that phrase wasn't used during the 1969 season.

==Page 364==
'''ever try anal?...His specialty I bet?''' 
Little nod to Pynchon's niece, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_Taormino Tristan Taormino,] sex educator who wrote ''The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women''?

Note also that this is set up a bit earlier in their conversation (on page 360) with Vyrva saying "a-little-goes-a-long-way, pain-in-the-ass-unbearable".

{{Bleeding Edge PbP}}

Chapter 33

2014-01-16T16:36:12Z

Greenlantern: /* Page 355 */

{{BE PxP Header}}

==Page 354==
'''Jetsons-era spaceport''' 
Not a bad little [http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/2013/03/mid-21st-century-modern-that-jetsons-architecture/ essay] on Mid-21st Century Modern architecture.

'''cyberflaneurs''' 
"A person who idly surfs the internet." In 2012 the New York Times ran an article on the [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/opinion/sunday/the-death-of-the-cyberflaneur.html?pagewanted=all Death of the Cyberflaneur]

==Page 355==
'''a strange creepy nimbus like a follow spot in a club''' 
A nimbus is an aura, or a luminous cloud or a halo surrounding a supernatural being or a saint. A follow spot (or followspot) is a moving spot light that tracks a subject, eg a dancing couple on the dance floor.

'''''Battlestar Galactica''''' 
The reboot doesn't come out until 2004, so here they are talking about the original show.

'''posters of Denise Richards and Tia Carrere''' 
Denise Richards for her role in ''Starship Troopers'', no doubt, and Tia Carrere, for ''Relic Hunter'' maybe?

'''Regulate''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1plPyJdXKIY YouTube] has it. The song was released in 1994.

'''''More Cowbell''''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGBD1KUz2RA YouTube] has a clip from this famous SNL skit, which was first aired, by the way, April 2000. 
Does this count as a sneaky Godzilla allusion since the band parodied in the skit, Blue Oyster Cult, also recorded the song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln8-Y-fIbqM Godzilla]?

'''Deus Ex theme''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1oxIrAX39M Youtube] to the rescue again. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex WIKI] has more on this 2000 cyberpunk-style video game.

'''cyberelves''' 
Not to be confused, surely, with cyberflaneurs or the "little tiny people...from under the radiator..with little brooms, and dustpans" from page 346.

==Page 356==
'''Deus Ex theme''' 
356 - Deus Ex is a cyberpunk-themed action-role playing video game — combining first-person shooter, stealth and role-playing elements — developed by Ion Storm and published by Eidos Interactive in 2000. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_Ex Wikipedia]. Check out the theme:
{{#ev:youtube|ZCk8ByyCsks}}

==Page 358==
'''the edge of the unnavigable, the region of no information''' 
Bleeding edge?

'''the beginning before the Word''' 
John 1:1: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

'''vertigo--lovesick, nauseous''' 
Yet more intimations of Hitchcock's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertigo_%28film%29 Vertigo.] "Lovesick, nauseous" could be the film's subtitle.

==Page 359==
'''Phatic how's Justin, how's Fiona, all fine thanks''' 
"Phatic" means denoting or relating to language used for general purposes of social interaction, rather than to convey information or ask questions, such as ''hello, how are you?'' and ''nice morning, isn't it?''

==Page 360==
'''King Kongs, which are Crown Royal plus banana liqueur''' 
Little odd, no, for the narrative voice to define something like this? I thought that was our job! Anyway, also known as a "Rock Star," this is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Royal#Mixing a real cocktail].

==Page 361==
'''that crazy motherfucker from Voorhees, Krueger''' 
That would be Ian Longspoon. The name is likely a tip o' the hat to Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees of two classic slasher/horror films "Nightmare on Elm Street" and "Friday the 13th".

'''what sort of look like giant letter J's, not to mention L's''' 
"It could stand for anything, couldn't it?" This is reminiscent of readers speculating on what the "V" stands for in Pynchon's first novel [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ''V.''].

'''Oakley M Frames''' 
Somewhat spacey-looking, apparently famous, athletic sunglasses. [http://www.oakley.com/mframe Oakley] site.

==Page 362==
'''seldom-heard oldie "Soul Gidget"''' 
Fictional song by from ''Inherent Vice''. Nice touch. [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_10#Page_155 Page 155.]

"One of the few known attempts at black surf music...by Meatball Flag." 
Lyrics:

Who's that strollin down the street, 
Hi-heel flip-flops on her feet, 
Always got a great big smile 
Never gets popped by Juv-o-nile— 
Who is it? 
Soul Gidget! 

Who never worries about her karma? 
Who be that signifyin on your mama? 
Out there lookin so bad and big, 
Like Sandra Dee in some Afro wig— 
Who is it? 
Soul Gidget! 

Surf's up, Soul Gidget’s there, 
Got that patchouli all in her hair, 
Down in Hermosa she’s runnin wild, 
Back in South Central she just a child— 
Uh who is it? 
Soul Gidget!

==Page 363==
'''you've got to believe...that was the '69 Mets''' 
The 1969 New York Mets season was the team's eighth as a Major League Baseball franchise and culminated with them winning the World Series over the Baltimore Orioles. They played their home games at Shea Stadium. The team was managed by Gil Hodges. The team is often referred to as the "Amazin' Mets" (a nickname coined by Casey Stengel, who managed the team from their inaugural season to 1965) or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_New_York_Mets_season the "Miracle Mets."].

HOWEVER, "You gotta believe!!!" was Mets pitcher Tug McGraw's catchphrase during [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_New_York_Mets_season the '''1973''' season], and that phrase wasn't used during the 1969 season.

==Page 364==
'''ever try anal?...His specialty I bet?''' 
Little nod to Pynchon's niece, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_Taormino Tristan Taormino,] sex educator who wrote ''The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women''?

Note also that this is set up a bit earlier in their conversation (on page 360) with Vyrva saying "a-little-goes-a-long-way, pain-in-the-ass-unbearable".

{{Bleeding Edge PbP}}