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Chapter 18

2017-03-06T16:17:06Z

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==Page 198==
'''“You give us thirty-two minutes—you don’t get it back.”''' 
WINS is a NYC news station with the slogan " You give us 22 minutes, we give you the world."

==Page 199==
'''Lester Traipse across the street...in the company of a blond bombshell''' 
I would never argue that Pynchon explicitly had the "Master of Suspense" in mind when he wrote this paragraph, but it certainly does have a Hitchcockian vibe. "Vertigo," anyone?

==Page 201==
'''Daphne and Wilma's''' 
Could this be an allusion to Daphne and Velma, two female detectives (like our Maxine) from the cartoon ''Scooby Doo''? ... with a dash of the Flintstones.

'''The Officina in Santa Maria Novella''' 
Actually "Officina di Santa Maria Novella", one of the oldest pharmacies of the world, now a producer of perfumes and cosmetics; there is also a museum. [http://www.museumsinflorence.com/musei/Pharmacy-Santa-Maria-Novella.html/ Source]

==Page 203==
'''Moskowitz''' 
Possibly a reference to Stanley M. Moskowitz (c. 1937 - June 29, 2006) who was a top official of the Central Intelligence Agency. Moskowitz was born in the Bronx and graduated from Alfred University. While attending graduate school at Duke University, he left to join the CIA in 1962, where he worked for over four decades. In the 1980s, he was a national intelligence officer for Russia and Eastern Europe and became congressional liaison, serving under two CIA directors. From 1995-1999, he was the station chief in Israel, where he tried with some success to mediate between the Israelis and Palestinians. His term ended soon after the Benjamin Netanyahu government became dissatisfied with his role and an Israeli paper outed his identity as CIA station chief. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Moskowitz WIKI].

==Page 204==
'''LBD''' 
Little Black Dress

'''"And whoop there it is"''' 
I believe this is referring to Conkling's erection, where he catches Maxine checking it out and there's an awkward moment, to say the least... 
And "Whoomp! (There It Is)" was a top-ten hit for the group Tag Team in 1993. If, for some reason, you want to hear it, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffCEr327W44 here you go].

==Page 205==
'''the deluge after them''' 
The deluge here is both real and metaphorical, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apr%C3%A8s_nous_le_d%C3%A9luge Après nous le déluge].

==Page 206==
'''The ''Post'', for whom the Cold War still emits a warm nostalgic glow, loves stores like this, so the screaming began, KGB assassination squads running loose through the city and so forth, and this sort of thing would go on for the better part of a week.''' 
Surely the author is familiar first hand with the ''Post'' coverage of the arrest and deportation of Russian spy Anna Chapman in 2010,
[http://www.google.com/search?q=ny+post+anna+chapman&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=QwFbU_bKLtKnyATqrIL4AQ&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAg&biw=1081&bih=560] WIKI [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Chapman]. Also noteworthy is Chapman's characterization of her time in New York City by citing Dickens: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1294450/Anna-Chapman-resurfaces-Facebook-quoting-Dickens-spying-ordeal.html]

'''luminol''' 
Luminol is used by forensic investigators to detect trace amounts of blood left at crime scenes, as it reacts with iron found in hemoglobin. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminol WIKI].

==Page 207==
'''before the gunsmoke''' 
This phrase is missing in the 2014 Vintage paperback edition, probably after someone realized that the blade was "spring-propelled".

==Page 208==
'''just set it on stun''' 
an old Star Trek cliche

'''9:30 . . .''' 
A hardcore punk club in DC [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9:30_Club Wiki].

==Page 209==
'''As Scarlett O'Hara observes . . .''' 
The last line of ''Gone with the Wind'': "After all, tomorrow is another day."

Perhaps worth quoting a few more lines from the ending. 
"With the spirit of her people who would not know defeat, even when
it stared them in the face, she raised her chin. She could get
Rhett back. She knew she could. There had never been a man she
couldn't get, once she set her mind upon him.

"I'll think of it all tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then.
Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all,
tomorrow is another day."

Complete text of [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200161.txt Gone with the Wind.]

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Chapter 18

2017-03-06T16:16:17Z

Marsvoboda: page added

==Page 198==
'''“You give us thirty-two minutes—you don’t get it back.”''' 
WINS is a NYC news station with the slogan " You give us 22 minutes, we give you the world."

==Page 199==
'''Lester Traipse across the street...in the company of a blond bombshell''' 
I would never argue that Pynchon explicitly had the "Master of Suspense" in mind when he wrote this paragraph, but it certainly does have a Hitchcockian vibe. "Vertigo," anyone?

==Page 201==
'''Daphne and Wilma's''' 
Could this be an allusion to Daphne and Velma, two female detectives (like our Maxine) from the cartoon ''Scooby Doo''? ... with a dash of the Flintstones.

'''The Officina in Santa Maria Novella''' 
Actually "Officina di Santa Maria Novella", one of the oldest pharmacies of the world, now a producer of perfumes and cosmetics; there is also a museum. [http://www.museumsinflorence.com/musei/Pharmacy-Santa-Maria-Novella.html/ Source]

==Page 203==
'''Moskowitz''' 
Possibly a reference to Stanley M. Moskowitz (c. 1937 - June 29, 2006) who was a top official of the Central Intelligence Agency. Moskowitz was born in the Bronx and graduated from Alfred University. While attending graduate school at Duke University, he left to join the CIA in 1962, where he worked for over four decades. In the 1980s, he was a national intelligence officer for Russia and Eastern Europe and became congressional liaison, serving under two CIA directors. From 1995-1999, he was the station chief in Israel, where he tried with some success to mediate between the Israelis and Palestinians. His term ended soon after the Benjamin Netanyahu government became dissatisfied with his role and an Israeli paper outed his identity as CIA station chief. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Moskowitz WIKI].

==Page 204==
'''LBD''' 
Little Black Dress

'''"And whoop there it is"''' 
I believe this is referring to Conkling's erection, where he catches Maxine checking it out and there's an awkward moment, to say the least... 
And "Whoomp! (There It Is)" was a top-ten hit for the group Tag Team in 1993. If, for some reason, you want to hear it, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffCEr327W44 here you go].

==Page 205==
'''the deluge after them''' 
The deluge here is both real and metaphorical, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apr%C3%A8s_nous_le_d%C3%A9luge Après nous le déluge].

==Page 206==
'''The ''Post'', for whom the Cold War still emits a warm nostalgic glow, loves stores like this, so the screaming began, KGB assassination squads running loose through the city and so forth, and this sort of thing would go on for the better part of a week.''' 
Surely the author is familiar first hand with the ''Post'' coverage of the arrest and deportation of Russian spy Anna Chapman in 2010,
[http://www.google.com/search?q=ny+post+anna+chapman&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=QwFbU_bKLtKnyATqrIL4AQ&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAg&biw=1081&bih=560] WIKI [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Chapman]. Also noteworthy is Chapman's characterization of her time in New York City by citing Dickens: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1294450/Anna-Chapman-resurfaces-Facebook-quoting-Dickens-spying-ordeal.html]

'''luminol''' 
Luminol is used by forensic investigators to detect trace amounts of blood left at crime scenes, as it reacts with iron found in hemoglobin. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminol WIKI].

==Page 207==
'''before the gunsmoke''' 
This phrase is missing in the 2014 Vintage paperback edition, probably after realizing the blade was "spring-propelled".

==Page 208==
'''just set it on stun''' 
an old Star Trek cliche

'''9:30 . . .''' 
A hardcore punk club in DC [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9:30_Club Wiki].

==Page 209==
'''As Scarlett O'Hara observes . . .''' 
The last line of ''Gone with the Wind'': "After all, tomorrow is another day."

Perhaps worth quoting a few more lines from the ending. 
"With the spirit of her people who would not know defeat, even when
it stared them in the face, she raised her chin. She could get
Rhett back. She knew she could. There had never been a man she
couldn't get, once she set her mind upon him.

"I'll think of it all tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then.
Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all,
tomorrow is another day."

Complete text of [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200161.txt Gone with the Wind.]

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2016-12-28T14:09:54Z

Marsvoboda:

46: 3rd line from the bottom, final quotes missing

56: "some some tell"

71: "there might not much difference"

129: "He gets to sees Tallis"

131: "''Scream, Blacula, Scream''" film title does not have commas

181: "Latrelle Sprewell" - should be "Latrell"

194: "how long dos it have to?" should be "how long does it have to?"

212: "the old penis-in-the popcorn-box-routine" should be "the old penis-in-the-popcorn-box routine"

213: "comparmentalized" should be "compartmentalized"

244: "the regimes' obedient arrangements" should be "the regime's obedient arrangements"

297: "does not not entirely"

314: "The spread on the Jets-Indianapolis game Sunday is 2 points." It was actually 1.5

314: "a defensive end who then proceeds to run the ball 98 yards to a touchdown." It was actually 95 yards.

340: "Keenan and Kel" should be "Kenan"

388: "irresponsibile" should be "irresponsible"

419: "moved to California, We lost touch." should be "moved to California. We lost touch."

'''451:''' "Off she goes goes on the time machine"

'''457:''' "the Schachtman unpleasantness" - Shachtman is how the name is spelled.

Chapter 38

2016-11-23T11:27:02Z

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 433==

'''''Granada Asbury Park Uncertainty Question''''' 
From the lyrics of "At Long Last Love" (written by Cole Porter, 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==
'''breaker breaker good buddy''' 
"breaker breaker" is trucker CB-radio talk for a request to interrupt the conversations on a channel and start a new one with anyone on the channel, in this case Maxine. "Good buddy" is also common CB-radio vernacular used by truckers in addressing each other.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Errata

2016-11-20T22:51:48Z

Marsvoboda:

56: "some some tell"

71: "there might not much difference"

129: "He gets to sees Tallis"

131: "''Scream, Blacula, Scream''" film title does not have commas

181: "Latrelle Sprewell" - should be "Latrell"

194: "how long dos it have to?" should be "how long does it have to?"

212: "the old penis-in-the popcorn-box-routine" should be "the old penis-in-the-popcorn-box routine"

213: "comparmentalized" should be "compartmentalized"

244: "the regimes' obedient arrangements" should be "the regime's obedient arrangements"

297: "does not not entirely"

314: "The spread on the Jets-Indianapolis game Sunday is 2 points." It was actually 1.5

314: "a defensive end who then proceeds to run the ball 98 yards to a touchdown." It was actually 95 yards.

340: "Keenan and Kel" should be "Kenan"

388: "irresponsibile" should be "irresponsible"

419: "moved to California, We lost touch." should be "moved to California. We lost touch."

'''451:''' "Off she goes goes on the time machine"

'''457:''' "the Schachtman unpleasantness" - Shachtman is how the name is spelled.

Errata

2016-11-20T22:51:16Z

Marsvoboda: entry added

56: "some some tell"

71: "there might not much difference"

129: "He gets to sees Tallis"

131: "''Scream, Blacula, Scream''" film title does not have commas

181: "Latrelle Sprewell" - should be "Latrell"

194: "how long dos it have to?" should be "how long does it have to?"

212: "the old penis-in-the popcorn-box-routine" should be "the old penis-in-the-popcorn-box routine"

213: "comparmentalized" should be "compartmentalized"

244: "the regimes' obedient arrangements" should be "the regime's obedient arrangements"

297: "does not not entirely"

314: "The spread on the Jets-Indianapolis game Sunday is 2 points." It was actually 1.5

314: "a defensive end who then proceeds to run the ball 98 yards to a touchdown." It was actually 95 yards.

340: "Keenan and Kel" should be "Kenan"

388: "irresponsibile" should be "irresponsible"

419: "moved to California, We lost touch" should be "moved to California. We lost touch."

'''451:''' "Off she goes goes on the time machine"

'''457:''' "the Schachtman unpleasantness" - Shachtman is how the name is spelled.

Chapter 35

2016-11-02T10:29:44Z

Marsvoboda: /* Page 390 */

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==Page 383==
'''''Star Wars'' marathon''' 
Possibly just the original trilogy. ''The Phantom Menace'' was released in theaters 1999 and on DVD sometime in 2001. ''Attack of the Clone''s comes out in theaters 2002.

==Page 384==
'''T-shirt reading ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US''' 
"All your base are belong to us" (often shortened to "All Your Base", "AYBABTU", or simply "AYB") is a phrase that became an Internet meme. The text comes from the opening cutscene of the 1991 European Sega Mega Drive version of the video game Zero Wing by Toaplan, which was poorly translated from the original Japanese version.

The meme developed from this as the result of a GIF animation depicting the opening text which was initially popularized on the Something Awful message forums. [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/all-your-base-are-belong-to-us more info]

[[File:Sam-Jackson-Kangol.jpg|left]]'''Kangol 504''' 
See the type of hat [http://www.kangolstore.com/headwear/shape/504-caps.html here.]

'''Sam the King of Cool''' 
aka Samuel L. Jackson, the actor, who often wears a Kangol hat.

==Page 385==
'''I'm not Dopey or Doc either''' 
A reference to the dwarves Dopey and Doc from the Disney film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

==Page 386==
'''Love you in ''Pulp Fiction'', baby. That Bible quote?''' 
Samuel L. Jackson (see note above on page 384) played a hit man in the film ''Pulp Fiction'' and would often deliver a not-quite-biblical monologue before shooting someone. You can see it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czb4jn5y94g here].

Little more on this famous quote. Here's the ending of Pulp Fiction where Jackson's character "explains" the quote: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMN5uQhF-Ro YouTube.] 

The somewhat misquoted Ezekiel passage from the film: Ezekiel 25:17.
The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you. 

King James version of [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel+25&version=KJV Ezekiel 25.]

==Page 386==
'''an oversize bottle of vodka, named after a Lithuanian basketball player''' 
“Sabonis” is the Russian slang for a huge bottle of vodka. Basketball star Arvydas Sabonis was the center of NBA's Portland Trail Blazers between 1995-2001 and 2002-2003. He won the Olympic gold with the Soviet national team in 1988 and played in Žalgiris Kaunas club in the 1980s, contributing to its legendary victories against CSKA Moscow. After Lithuania regained independence, he won two Olympic bronze medals with the Lithuanian team.

==Page 388==
'''I've come in for an episode of inconvenience myself''' 
maybe even a couple of episodes - The Inconvenience ship in Against the Day [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=I here] Inconvenience HMS in Mason & Dixon [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=I here]

==Page 390==
'''Is it that American Indian curse about, if you save somebody's life you're responsible for what happens to them from then on?''' 
AFAIK there is no "curse" anything like this, American Indian or otherwise. Many people believe this to be a Chinese custom or proverb, but that idea appears to be erroneous too. Some people on the net claim that that the saying originated from a 1975 episode of the television show Kung Fu, others mention Star Wars or the Andy Griffith Show, or Japan instead of China.

Maybe there's a typo in this sentence too. The syntax seems to be screwed up, with the preposition "about" having no object, and instead being followed by a comma that seems to make no sense.

'''street pickup''' 
9/11 provided a boost to the intercity bus business, and members of New York's Chinese community were among the first to take advantage of the opportunity. Dragon Coach and New Century started up budget New York-to-Washington routes in 2002 to compete with the established bus lines, but there may have been earlier runs made by others under less formal auspices. [http://www.gotobus.com/chinatownbus/history/]

==Page 391==
'''Eurowire''' 
Type of "lever-backed" earring. More info [http://jewelrymaking.about.com/od/finishingtechniques/ss/080905_3.htm here.]

==Page 392==
'''Already, as the Eagles say, gone''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8o_C50JFkc ''Already Gone.''] 1974 Eagles song.

'''Winston Churchill''' 
Apparently he really did say "Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result."

==Page 393==
'''Cybiko''' 
Real hand-held device. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybiko Wiki.]

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Chapter 33

2016-11-02T10:29:13Z

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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.

'''requesting her presence on the bridge'''<br\>
Star Trek references start here and continue for another half page or so

'''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.

'''tarball''' 
Slang for a way to distribute code [http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/T/tarball.html tarball] derived from the tar archive format [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_%28computing%29 wiki]

==Page 357==
'''Kabbalistic vessels smashed at the Creation into all these bright drops of light''' 
Recalls [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page Gravity's Rainbow], page 148: "Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation."

'''An Abyss''' 
A reference to the Tree of Life in Hermetic Kabbalah.

From Lon Milo DuQuette's "Understanding Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot," page 63:

"The area (or non-area) between the supernal triad (sephiroth 1-2-3) and the rest of the Tree is called the Abyss. It is an inscrutable looking glass that separates the ideal (the abstract concepts of 1-2-3) from the actual (the manifest qualities of the phenomenal universe)."

In other words, it separates the unmanifested from the manifested, or, as Lucas puts it, the codeless from the coded.

==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==

'''Munchkinetic effect''' 
A reference to Munchkins from the Wizard of Oz.

'''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==
'''Dear Abby, I have this friend with a big problem . . .''' 
Long running advice column started in 1956 by Abigail Van Buren.

'''IRS-issue stogie''' 
An “IRS-issue stogie” would be an American cigar that came in a box with the IRS stamp on it. Since 1862, when Congress passed a broad taxation law that included taxing cigars to help finance the Civil War the IRS has taxed cigars [http://cigarhistory.info/Dating/Dating_Tax_Stamps.html]. Since then cigars have come in boxes and those boxes have the IRS stamp (looks sort of like a postage stamp) on them which means they’ve been properly taxed.

Quality cigars, usually from other countries (e.g. Cuba), don’t have the IRS stamp, so the "IRS-issue" not to mention "stogie" (a cheap cigar) would imply a cheap cigar.

'''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].

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'''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.

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'''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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'''''Star Wars'' marathon''' 
Possibly just the original trilogy. ''The Phantom Menace'' was released in theaters 1999 and on DVD sometime in 2001. ''Attack of the Clone''s comes out in theaters 2002.

==Page 384==
'''T-shirt reading ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US''' 
"All your base are belong to us" (often shortened to "All Your Base", "AYBABTU", or simply "AYB") is a phrase that became an Internet meme. The text comes from the opening cutscene of the 1991 European Sega Mega Drive version of the video game Zero Wing by Toaplan, which was poorly translated from the original Japanese version.

The meme developed from this as the result of a GIF animation depicting the opening text which was initially popularized on the Something Awful message forums. [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/all-your-base-are-belong-to-us more info]

[[File:Sam-Jackson-Kangol.jpg|left]]'''Kangol 504''' 
See the type of hat [http://www.kangolstore.com/headwear/shape/504-caps.html here.]

'''Sam the King of Cool''' 
aka Samuel L. Jackson, the actor, who often wears a Kangol hat.

==Page 385==
'''I'm not Dopey or Doc either''' 
A reference to the dwarves Dopey and Doc from the Disney film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

==Page 386==
'''Love you in ''Pulp Fiction'', baby. That Bible quote?''' 
Samuel L. Jackson (see note above on page 384) played a hit man in the film ''Pulp Fiction'' and would often deliver a not-quite-biblical monologue before shooting someone. You can see it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czb4jn5y94g here].

Little more on this famous quote. Here's the ending of Pulp Fiction where Jackson's character "explains" the quote: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMN5uQhF-Ro YouTube.] 

The somewhat misquoted Ezekiel passage from the film: Ezekiel 25:17.
The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you. 

King James version of [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel+25&version=KJV Ezekiel 25.]

==Page 386==
'''an oversize bottle of vodka, named after a Lithuanian basketball player''' 
“Sabonis” is the Russian slang for a huge bottle of vodka. Basketball star Arvydas Sabonis was the center of NBA's Portland Trail Blazers between 1995-2001 and 2002-2003. He won the Olympic gold with the Soviet national team in 1988 and played in Žalgiris Kaunas club in the 1980s, contributing to its legendary victories against CSKA Moscow. After Lithuania regained independence, he won two Olympic bronze medals with the Lithuanian team.

==Page 388==
'''I've come in for an episode of inconvenience myself''' 
maybe even a couple of episodes - The Inconvenience ship in Against the Day [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=I here] Inconvenience HMS in Mason & Dixon [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=I here]

==Page 390==
'''Is it that American Indian curse about, if you save somebody's life you're responsible for what happens to them from then on?'''<br\>
AFAIK there is no "curse" anything like this, American Indian or otherwise. Many people believe this to be a Chinese custom or proverb, but that idea appears to be erroneous too. Some people on the net claim that that the saying originated from a 1975 episode of the television show Kung Fu, others mention Star Wars or the Andy Griffith Show, or Japan instead of China.

Maybe there's a typo in this sentence too. The syntax seems to be screwed up, with the preposition "about" having no object, and instead being followed by a comma that seems to make no sense.

'''street pickup'''<br\>
9/11 provided a boost to the intercity bus business, and members of New York's Chinese community were among the first to take advantage of the opportunity. Dragon Coach and New Century started up budget New York-to-Washington routes in 2002 to compete with the established bus lines, but there may have been earlier runs made by others under less formal auspices. [http://www.gotobus.com/chinatownbus/history/]

==Page 391==
'''Eurowire''' 
Type of "lever-backed" earring. More info [http://jewelrymaking.about.com/od/finishingtechniques/ss/080905_3.htm here.]

==Page 392==
'''Already, as the Eagles say, gone''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8o_C50JFkc ''Already Gone.''] 1974 Eagles song.

'''Winston Churchill''' 
Apparently he really did say "Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result."

==Page 393==
'''Cybiko''' 
Real hand-held device. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybiko Wiki.]

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56: "some some tell"

71: "there might not much difference"

129: "He gets to sees Tallis"

131: "''Scream, Blacula, Scream''" film title does not have commas

181: "Latrelle Sprewell" - should be "Latrell"

194: "how long dos it have to?" should be "how long does it have to?"

212: "the old penis-in-the popcorn-box-routine" should be "the old penis-in-the-popcorn-box routine"

213: "comparmentalized" should be "compartmentalized"

244: "the regimes' obedient arrangements" should be "the regime's obedient arrangements"

297: "does not not entirely"

314: "The spread on the Jets-Indianapolis game Sunday is 2 points." It was actually 1.5

314: "a defensive end who then proceeds to run the ball 98 yards to a touchdown." It was actually 95 yards.

340: "Keenan and Kel" should be "Kenan"

388: "irresponsibile" should be "irresponsible"

'''451:''' "Off she goes goes on the time machine"

'''457:''' "the Schachtman unpleasantness" - Shachtman is how the name is spelled.

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56: "some some tell"

71: "there might not much difference"

129: "He gets to sees Tallis"

131: "''Scream, Blacula, Scream''" film title does not have commas

181: "Latrelle Sprewell" - should be "Latrell"

194: "how long dos it have to?" should be "how long does it have to?"

212: "the old penis-in-the popcorn-box-routine" should be "the old penis-in-the-popcorn-box routine"

213: "comparmentalized" should be "compartmentalized"

244: "the regimes' obedient arrangements" should be "the regime's obedient arrangements"

297: "does not not entirely"

314: "The spread on the Jets-Indianapolis game Sunday is 2 points." It was actually 1.5

314: "a defensive end who then proceeds to run the ball 98 yards to a touchdown." It was actually 95 yards.

340: "Keenan and Kel" should be "Kenan"

388: "irresponsibile" should be "irrensposible"

'''451:''' "Off she goes goes on the time machine"

'''457:''' "the Schachtman unpleasantness" - Shachtman is how the name is spelled.

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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].

'''what if I don't know which way to point the lens, what if I miss something really crucial?'''<br\>
foreshadowing GoogleGlasses?

'''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. And the site for Time and Again (Jack Finney 1970) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_and_Again_%28novel%29 Wiki]

==Page 370==
'''doomed to wander those century-old corridors until accounts are balanced, or for eternity'''<br\>
see reference to The Flying Dutchman on page ..., well a bunch of chapters back.

==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]

'''Bobryusk''' 
probably typo for Bobruysk, a city in Belarus

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'''S.Z. Sakall''' 
was a Hungarian film actor; he played Carl, the head waiter, in ''Casablanca''.

'''Dilbert and Dogbert''' 
Dilbert is a fictional character and the main character and protagonist of the Dilbert comic strip. He is a white collar office worker who has a rare medical condition characterized by an extreme intuition about all things mechanical and electrical (and utter social ineptitude), an idea that an animated television episode explored and is titled "The Knack". [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilbert_(character)]

Dogbert is Dilbert's anthropomorphic talking pet dog from the Dilbert comic strip. He has been a tech support employee, a business consultant, a supermodel, a substitute teacher, a lawyer, a cult leader, a billionaire, a talk radio host, a United States Supreme Court nominee, the director of the FBI, and many other occupations. According to creator Scott Adams, the character is based on, if not a member of, the beagle breed. Dogbert was originally created only so Dilbert would have someone to talk to, but as the strip progressed, Adams developed the character to be an anti-hero, metaphorically personifying the dark, cynical side of Adams's own personality. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogbert]

[[File:Dilbert-Dogbert-TechSupport.gif|center''']]

Here are [http://search.dilbert.com/comic/Dogbert%20Tech%20Support More the Dilbert strips where Dogbert is in Tech Support].

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'''''Pizdatchye''''' 
Russian ''пиздаче'' means, roughly, "fucking awesome."

'''''govno''''' 

Russian for "shit."

'''''obizhenka''''' 

In Russian prison slang, a prisoner who is low man on the totem pole (and therefore, by implication, available to be sodomized and otherwise abused).

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''''Teuscher truffles'''' 

Teuscher is a high-end Swiss chocolatier.

''''Urban Jumble'''' 
A former flavor of Ben & Jerry's, available only in 2000-2001 according to [http://www.benjerry.com/flavors/flavor-graveyard/urban-jumble this page].

'''The Mikhail Baryshnikov Story''' 
A fictional movie, even though Anthony Hopkins did tend to portray a lot of real-life characters

==Page 375==

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

SVU is an editing error / typo. When the KGB was reorganized in 1991, it was broken into two successor organizations: the FSB (responsible for domestic security) and the '''SVR''' (Sluzhba vneshney razvedki) = Foreign Intelligence Service.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Service 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
''premonition of the April 2013 Boston Marathon bombing? (BE was reased on Sep 17, 2013)''

'''Verrazano Bridge deeply guarded'''<br\>
The New York Marathon traditionally starts on the Verrazano Narrows Bridge. The start looks like this: [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CJ7IpgFOrsw/TrmQJO5B3PI/AAAAAAAAATQ/kRM1BjEP5n0/s1600/Verrazano+Bridge.jpg]

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'''especially this soon after eleven September''' 
An anomaly. Elsewhere in the novel this date is referred to as "11 September."

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

'''chemicals from the running'''<br\>
Running causes the brain to internally generate a number of chemicals called endorphins. They are morphine analogs, and responsible for the "runners high"

'''Scully & Scully''' 

High-end Manhattan gift store established 1934.

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

'''recaffeinating marathoners'''<br\>
After a race, marathoners will normally rehydrate (ie make up for water lost during the race and not replenished.) Since caffeine is a diuretic, this must be after the rehydrating stage, when the runners high has worn off, and the finishers are feeling a need to counter their exhaustion.

==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].

'''Mizuno Waves'''<br\>
Mizuno makes a number of high end running shoes with "Wave x" names, (eg Wave Rider, Wave Elixir, etc). You could run the New York Marathon in these, if they fit you and you were trained of course. Almost all running shoes have an "eye-assualting color scheme" (not just those from Mizuno), and for any given pair of shoes, one could argue whether the years have not been kind, or whether they were just hideous from day 1. But that's what runners, who are typically Type A, seem to like to buy.

==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)"

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'''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].

'''what if I don't know which way to point the lens, what if I miss something really crucial?'''<br\>
foreshadowing GoogleGlasses?

'''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. And the site for Time and Again (Jack Finney 1970) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_and_Again_%28novel%29 Wiki]

==Page 370==
'''doomed to wander those century-old corridors until accounts are balanced, or for eternity'''<br\>
see reference to The Flying Dutchman on page ..., well a bunch of chapters back.

==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]

'''Bobryusk''' 
probably typo for Bobruysk, a city in Belarus

==Page 372==
'''S.Z. Sakall''' 
was a Hungarian film actor; he played Carl, the head waiter, in ''Casablanca''.

'''Dilbert and Dogbert''' 
Dilbert is a fictional character and the main character and protagonist of the Dilbert comic strip. He is a white collar office worker who has a rare medical condition characterized by an extreme intuition about all things mechanical and electrical (and utter social ineptitude), an idea that an animated television episode explored and is titled "The Knack". [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilbert_(character)]

Dogbert is Dilbert's anthropomorphic talking pet dog from the Dilbert comic strip. He has been a tech support employee, a business consultant, a supermodel, a substitute teacher, a lawyer, a cult leader, a billionaire, a talk radio host, a United States Supreme Court nominee, the director of the FBI, and many other occupations. According to creator Scott Adams, the character is based on, if not a member of, the beagle breed. Dogbert was originally created only so Dilbert would have someone to talk to, but as the strip progressed, Adams developed the character to be an anti-hero, metaphorically personifying the dark, cynical side of Adams's own personality. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogbert]

[[File:Dilbert-Dogbert-TechSupport.gif|center''']]

Here are [http://search.dilbert.com/comic/Dogbert%20Tech%20Support More the Dilbert strips where Dogbert is in Tech Support].

==Page 373==
'''''Pizdatchye''''' 
Russian ''пиздаче'' means, roughly, "fucking awesome."

'''''govno''''' 

Russian for "shit."

'''''obizhenka''''' 

In Russian prison slang, a prisoner who is low man on the totem pole (and therefore, by implication, available to be sodomized and otherwise abused).

==Page 374==
'''The Mikhail Baryshnikov Story''' 
A fictional movie, even though Anthony Hopkins did tend to portray a lot of real-life characters

==Page 375==

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

SVU is an editing error / typo. When the KGB was reorganized in 1991, it was broken into two successor organizations: the FSB (responsible for domestic security) and the '''SVR''' (Sluzhba vneshney razvedki) = Foreign Intelligence Service.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Service 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
''premonition of the April 2013 Boston Marathon bombing? (BE was reased on Sep 17, 2013)''

'''Verrazano Bridge deeply guarded'''<br\>
The New York Marathon traditionally starts on the Verrazano Narrows Bridge. The start looks like this: [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CJ7IpgFOrsw/TrmQJO5B3PI/AAAAAAAAATQ/kRM1BjEP5n0/s1600/Verrazano+Bridge.jpg]

==Page 377==
'''especially this soon after eleven September''' 
An anomaly. Elsewhere in the novel this date is referred to as "11 September."

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

'''chemicals from the running'''<br\>
Running causes the brain to internally generate a number of chemicals called endorphins. They are morphine analogs, and responsible for the "runners high"

'''Scully & Scully''' 

High-end Manhattan gift store established 1934.

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

'''recaffeinating marathoners'''<br\>
After a race, marathoners will normally rehydrate (ie make up for water lost during the race and not replenished.) Since caffeine is a diuretic, this must be after the rehydrating stage, when the runners high has worn off, and the finishers are feeling a need to counter their exhaustion.

==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].

'''Mizuno Waves'''<br\>
Mizuno makes a number of high end running shoes with "Wave x" names, (eg Wave Rider, Wave Elixir, etc). You could run the New York Marathon in these, if they fit you and you were trained of course. Almost all running shoes have an "eye-assualting color scheme" (not just those from Mizuno), and for any given pair of shoes, one could argue whether the years have not been kind, or whether they were just hideous from day 1. But that's what runners, who are typically Type A, seem to like to buy.

==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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'''Wised-up real-estate mavens of Maxine's acquaintance assure her that this is the next hot neighborhood... Someday there will be parks and soaring condos and luxury tourist hotels.''' 
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'''Javits Center''' 
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center is a large convention center located on Eleventh Avenue, between 34th and 40th streets, on the West side of Manhattan in New York, United States. It was designed by architect James Ingo Freed of I. M. Pei and partners. The revolutionary space frame structure was begun in 1980 and finished in 1986 and named for United States Senator Jacob K. Javits, who died that year. The Center is operated and maintained by the New York City Convention Center Operating Corporation. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_K._Javits_Convention_Center WIKI].

==Page 258==
'''longer than the building's outside dimensions would suggest''' 
Pynchon likes this image of a thing that's bigger on the inside than on the outside. See, for example, [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_2#Page_21 Page 21] of ''Inherent Vice'' and [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_35:_349-361#Page_354 Page 354] of ''Mason & Dixon''.

Insert obligatory, annoying, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TARDIS TARDIS] comment here. Hey, any writer that uses phrases like this, especially a writer somewhat associated with science-fiction and whose career spans the 50 years Doctor Who has been around, is begging for it.

==Page 261==
'''FDR's silvery small cheekbone''' 
In other words, pivoting on a dime.

'''the Wahhabi Transreligious Friendship (WTF)''' 
These initials are first mentioned on [[Chapter_17#Page_193|page 193]]. 

This acronym is commonly used to mean "what the fuck."

Can't help but think of the CIA from chapter five of [http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_5 The Crying of Lot 49.] "Standing not for the agency you think, but for the clandestine Mexican outfit known as the Conjuración de los Insurgentes Anarquistas."

'''Bilhana Wa-ashifa Import-Export''' 
"Bilhana wa ashifa" is a phrase given in response to a guest complimenting on the host's meal, meaning roughly: "I wish it would give you enjoyment and recovery."

==Page 262==
'''"Jerry" keeps them both in his mouth, continuing to puff away...''' 
Perhaps a foreshadowing the visual of the smoking World Trade Center buildings after the events of 9/11.
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'''Maxine comes awake screaming...''' 
Echo of Gravity's Rainbow's first line?

==Page 263==

'''You know about Ice being Jewish...Superman, too...it's 1943 again?''' 
Is this just a simple "Superman was created by Jews, and Germany was killing them in 1943" thing? Or was something more specific going on with Superman in 1943?

[http://forward.com/articles/178454/-reasons-superman-is-really-jewish/?p=all Page] speculating on the Jewishness of Superman.

''Nietsche's Man and Superman was one of the supposed justifications for the Nazi's 'Aryan superior race' thing''

'''Gershorm Scholem, ''Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism''''' 
From 1941. [http://www.amazon.com/Trends-Jewish-Mysticism-Gershom-Scholem/dp/0805210423 Amazon] page.

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'''Wised-up real-estate mavens of Maxine's acquaintance assure her that this is the next hot neighborhood... Someday there will be parks and soaring condos and luxury tourist hotels.''' 
Pynchon is clairvoyantly referencing the Hudson Yards Redevelopment Project, which aims to build an entirely new neighborhood right in Manhattan. The project is ambitious and an engineering marvel - the foundation (currently under construction) is built directly on top of the West Side Rail Yard, and the complex of high-rises and malls and parks will compose the new neighborhood for the ultra-rich. It's one of the biggest development projects in New York City history. [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_Yards_Redevelopment_Project Wikipedia]

'''Javits Center''' 
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center is a large convention center located on Eleventh Avenue, between 34th and 40th streets, on the West side of Manhattan in New York, United States. It was designed by architect James Ingo Freed of I. M. Pei and partners. The revolutionary space frame structure was begun in 1980 and finished in 1986 and named for United States Senator Jacob K. Javits, who died that year. The Center is operated and maintained by the New York City Convention Center Operating Corporation. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_K._Javits_Convention_Center WIKI].

==Page 258==
'''longer than the building's outside dimensions would suggest''' 
Pynchon likes this image of a thing that's bigger on the inside than on the outside. See, for example, [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_2#Page_21 Page 21] of ''Inherent Vice'' and [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_35:_349-361#Page_354 Page 354] of ''Mason & Dixon''.

Insert obligatory, annoying, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TARDIS TARDIS] comment here. Hey, any writer that uses phrases like this, especially a writer somewhat associated with science-fiction and whose career spans the 50 years Doctor Who has been around, is begging for it.

==Page 261==
'''FDR's silvery small cheekbone''' 
In other words, pivoting on a dime.

'''the Wahhabi Transreligious Friendship (WTF)''' 
These initials are first mentioned on [[Chapter_17#Page_193|page 193]]. 

This acronym is commonly used to mean "what the fuck."

Can't help but think of the CIA from chapter five of [http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_5 The Crying of Lot 49.] "Standing not for the agency you think, but for the clandestine Mexican outfit known as the Conjuración de los Insurgentes Anarquistas."

'''Bilhana Wa-ashifa Import-Export''' 
"Bilhana wa ashifa" is a phrase given in response to a guest complimenting on the host's meal, meaning roughly: I wish it would give you enjoyment and recovery.

==Page 262==
'''"Jerry" keeps them both in his mouth, continuing to puff away...''' 
Perhaps a foreshadowing the visual of the smoking World Trade Center buildings after the events of 9/11.
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'''Maxine comes awake screaming...''' 
Echo of Gravity's Rainbow's first line?

==Page 263==

'''You know about Ice being Jewish...Superman, too...it's 1943 again?''' 
Is this just a simple "Superman was created by Jews, and Germany was killing them in 1943" thing? Or was something more specific going on with Superman in 1943?

[http://forward.com/articles/178454/-reasons-superman-is-really-jewish/?p=all Page] speculating on the Jewishness of Superman.

''Nietsche's Man and Superman was one of the supposed justifications for the Nazi's 'Aryan superior race' thing''

'''Gershorm Scholem, ''Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism''''' 
From 1941. [http://www.amazon.com/Trends-Jewish-Mysticism-Gershom-Scholem/dp/0805210423 Amazon] page.

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56: "some some tell"

71: "there might not much difference"

129: "He gets to sees Tallis"

131: "''Scream, Blacula, Scream''" film title does not have commas

181: "Latrelle Sprewell" - should be "Latrell"

194: "how long dos it have to?" should be "how long does it have to?"

212: "the old penis-in-the popcorn-box-routine" should be "the old penis-in-the-popcorn-box routine"

213: "comparmentalized" should be "compartmentalized"

244: "the regimes' obedient arrangements" should be "the regime's obedient arrangements"

297: "does not not entirely"

314: "The spread on the Jets-Indianapolis game Sunday is 2 points." It was actually 1.5

314: "a defensive end who then proceeds to run the ball 98 yards to a touchdown." It was actually 95 yards.

340: "Keenan and Kel" should be "Kenan"

'''451:''' "Off she goes goes on the time machine"

'''457:''' "the Schachtman unpleasantness" - Shachtman is how the name is spelled.

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'''a strip club called Joie de Beavre''' 
Rhyming pun on the french phrase joie de vivre, which is a feeling of happiness, joy, or excitement about life. [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/joie%20de%20vivre \ˌzhwä-də-ˈvēvrə\ is the pronunciation of the original phrase.] Joie de Beavre is slightly resonant with "Boyd Beaver," kazoo soloist from the first couple of pages of "The Crying of Lot 49." [http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1 PynchonWiki]. The word "Beavre" in the club's name is a reference to the word beaver, a slang term for vagina.

'''"Hi, I was told to see Stu Gotz?"''' 
Stu Gotz, the Italian-American running Joie de Beavre. Stugots is slang for male genitalia in many dialects in Southern Italy: 'stu cazzo', means "testicles," as in "a brassy pair".
It's also the name of Tony Soprano's boat. See [[g#gotz_stu|entry]].

'''a Vincente Minnelli set''' 
Vincente Minnelli (February 28, 1903 – July 25, 1986) was an American stage director and film director, famous for directing such classic movie musicals as ''Meet Me in St. Louis'', ''The Band Wagon'', and ''An American in Paris''. In addition to having directed some of the most famous and well-remembered musicals of his time, Minnelli made many comedies and melodramas. He was married to Judy Garland from 1945 until 1951; they were the parents of Liza Minnelli. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincente_Minnelli WIKI].

''' "You want to audition, MILF night is Tuesdays,come back then."''' MILF per Wikipedia 'MILF, an acronym for "Mother/Mom/Mum I'd Like to F**k", is a colloquial term common in English and generally regarded as vulgar when spelled out. It denotes a female, usually several years older than the person using the term.[1]'. Thus, this is referring to Maxine's age relative to the average stripper.

==Page 220==
'''"Tuesday's my tupperware party"''' 
A reference to the first sentence in The Crying of Lot 49:

"One summer afternoon Mrs. Oedipa Maas came home from a Tupperware party whose hostess had put perhaps too much kirsch in the fondue to find that she, Oedipa, had been named executor, or she supposed executrix, of the estate of one Pierce Inverarity, a California real estate mogul who had once lost two million dollars in his spare time but still had assets numerous and tangled enough to make the job of sorting it all out more than honorary."

==Page 221==

'''except possibly "That's When I Reach for My Revolver."''' 
Perhaps because it's a cover, originally written and performed by Boston punk band Mission of Burma.

'''Male Gaze''' 
A reference to the Male Gaze in feminist theory. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaze#The_.22male_gaze.22_in_feminist_theory Wiki]

==Page 223==

'''floating into view printed on one face of a dodecahedron'''<br\>
like a Magic 8-Ball?

'''Champagne Lounge''' 
A champagne room (also called a champagne lounge, or champagne court) is a specialized VIP Room service offered by gentleman's clubs where a customer can purchase time (usually in half-hour increments) with an exotic dancer in a private room on the premises. Depending on the quality of the club, these rooms, which are typically away from the hustle and bustle of the main club, are generally well decorated and usually appointed with a private bar. Clubs sell champagne by the glass or by the bottle for both the dancer and the customer. Some clubs also offer a food and/or cigar service.

'''"can I help it if I like feet?"''' 
The footjob that follows on page 225 demonstrates, yet again, Pynchon's apparent foot fetish. In his second novel, ''The Crying of Lot 49'' (1966), in [http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_2 Chapter 2], there's Sick Dick and the Volkswagens' song "I Want To Kiss Your Feet." Pynchon also explores the foot fetish in [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=F#footfetish ''Against the Day''].

==Page 225==
'''Eric, what's this, did you just...come on my feet?''' 
For mood music, they might been listening to that classic song by Sick Dick and the Volkswagens "I Want to Kiss Your Feet" from [http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_2 the first page of Chapter 2] of ''The Crying of Lot 49''.

'''Trojan Abstract Expressionist Collection''' 
Sadly, not real, but Trustex [http://www.condomdepot.com/product/detail.cfm/nid/201/pid/2359 banana] flavored ones do exist.

==Page 228==

'''Eliot Ness''' 
Eliot Ness was an American Prohibition agent, famous for his efforts to enforce Prohibition in Chicago, Illinois, and the leader of a famous team of law enforcement agents nicknamed The Untouchables. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_Ness Wiki]

'''Mothra''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothra Mothra] and/or Godzilla make another appearance in a Pynchon work. Does anyone have a list of all the references?

''Well, there was a reference to goji berries a few pages back, and Gojira is Godzilla's real (Japanese) name''

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56: "some some tell"

71: "there might not much difference"

129: "He gets to sees Tallis"

131: "''Scream, Blacula, Scream''" film title does not have commas

181: "Latrelle Sprewell" - should be "Latrell"

194: "how long dos it have to?" should be "how long does it have to?"

212: "the old penis-in-the popcorn-box-routine" should be "the old penis-in-the-popcorn-box routine"

213: "comparmentalized" should be "compartmentalized"

297: "does not not entirely"

314: "The spread on the Jets-Indianapolis game Sunday is 2 points." It was actually 1.5

314: "a defensive end who then proceeds to run the ball 98 yards to a touchdown." It was actually 95 yards.

340: "Keenan and Kel" should be "Kenan"

'''451:''' "Off she goes goes on the time machine"

'''457:''' "the Schachtman unpleasantness" - Shachtman is how the name is spelled.

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56: "some some tell"

71: "there might not much difference"

129: "He gets to sees Tallis"

131: "''Scream, Blacula, Scream''" film title does not have commas

181: "Latrelle Sprewell" - should be "Latrell"

194: "how long dos it have to?" should be "how long does it have to?"

212: "the old penis-in-the popcorn-box-routine" should be "the old penis-in-the-popcorn-box routine"

297: "does not not entirely"

314: "The spread on the Jets-Indianapolis game Sunday is 2 points." It was actually 1.5

314: "a defensive end who then proceeds to run the ball 98 yards to a touchdown." It was actually 95 yards.

340: "Keenan and Kel" should be "Kenan"

'''451:''' "Off she goes goes on the time machine"

'''457:''' "the Schachtman unpleasantness" - Shachtman is how the name is spelled.

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==Page 198==
'''“You give us thirty-two minutes—you don’t get it back.”''' 
WINS is a NYC news station with the slogan " You give us 22 minutes, we give you the world."

==Page 199==
'''Lester Traipse across the street...in the company of a blond bombshell''' 
I would never argue that Pynchon explicitly had the "Master of Suspense" in mind when he wrote this paragraph, but it certainly does have a Hitchcockian vibe. "Vertigo," anyone?

==Page 201==
'''Daphne and Wilma's''' 
Could this be an allusion to Daphne and Velma, two female detectives (like our Maxine) from the cartoon ''Scooby Doo''? ... with a dash of the Flintstones.

'''The Officina in Santa Maria Novella''' 
Actually "Officina di Santa Maria Novella", one of the oldest pharmacies of the world, now a producer of perfumes and cosmetics; there is also a museum. [http://www.museumsinflorence.com/musei/Pharmacy-Santa-Maria-Novella.html/ Source]

==Page 203==
'''Moskowitz''' 
Possibly a reference to Stanley M. Moskowitz (c. 1937 - June 29, 2006) who was a top official of the Central Intelligence Agency. Moskowitz was born in the Bronx and graduated from Alfred University. While attending graduate school at Duke University, he left to join the CIA in 1962, where he worked for over four decades. In the 1980s, he was a national intelligence officer for Russia and Eastern Europe and became congressional liaison, serving under two CIA directors. From 1995-1999, he was the station chief in Israel, where he tried with some success to mediate between the Israelis and Palestinians. His term ended soon after the Benjamin Netanyahu government became dissatisfied with his role and an Israeli paper outed his identity as CIA station chief. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Moskowitz WIKI].

==Page 204==
'''LBD''' 
Little Black Dress

'''"And whoop there it is"''' 
I believe this is referring to Conkling's erection, where he catches Maxine checking it out and there's an awkward moment, to say the least... 
And "Whoomp! (There It Is)" was a top-ten hit for the group Tag Team in 1993. If, for some reason, you want to hear it, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffCEr327W44 here you go].

==Page 205==
'''the deluge after them''' 
The deluge here is both real and metaphorical, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apr%C3%A8s_nous_le_d%C3%A9luge Après nous le déluge].

==Page 206==
'''The ''Post'', for whom the Cold War still emits a warm nostalgic glow, loves stores like this, so the screaming began, KGB assassination squads running loose through the city and so forth, and this sort of thing would go on for the better part of a week.''' 
Surely the author is familiar first hand with the ''Post'' coverage of the arrest and deportation of Russian spy Anna Chapman in 2010,
[http://www.google.com/search?q=ny+post+anna+chapman&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=QwFbU_bKLtKnyATqrIL4AQ&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAg&biw=1081&bih=560] WIKI [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Chapman]. Also noteworthy is Chapman's characterization of her time in New York City by citing Dickens: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1294450/Anna-Chapman-resurfaces-Facebook-quoting-Dickens-spying-ordeal.html]

'''luminol''' 
Luminol is used by forensic investigators to detect trace amounts of blood left at crime scenes, as it reacts with iron found in hemoglobin. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminol WIKI].

==Page 208==
'''just set it on stun''' 
an old Star Trek cliche

'''9:30 . . .''' 
A hardcore punk club in DC [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9:30_Club Wiki].

==Page 209==
'''As Scarlett O'Hara observes . . .''' 
The last line of ''Gone with the Wind'': "After all, tomorrow is another day."

Perhaps worth quoting a few more lines from the ending. 
"With the spirit of her people who would not know defeat, even when
it stared them in the face, she raised her chin. She could get
Rhett back. She knew she could. There had never been a man she
couldn't get, once she set her mind upon him.

"I'll think of it all tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then.
Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all,
tomorrow is another day."

Complete text of [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200161.txt Gone with the Wind.]

{{Bleeding Edge PbP}}

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2016-06-02T19:44:06Z

Marsvoboda: /* Page 208 */

==Page 198==
'''“You give us thirty-two minutes—you don’t get it back.”''' 
WINS is a NYC news station with the slogan " You give us 22 minutes, we give you the world."

==Page 199==
'''Lester Traipse across the street...in the company of a blond bombshell''' 
I would never argue that Pynchon explicitly had the "Master of Suspense" in mind when he wrote this paragraph, but it certainly does have a Hitchcockian vibe. "Vertigo," anyone?

==Page 201==
'''Daphne and Wilma's''' 
Could this be an allusion to Daphne and Velma, two female detectives (like our Maxine) from the cartoon ''Scooby Doo''? ... with a dash of the Flintstones.

'''The Officina in Santa Maria Novella''' 
Actually "Officina di Santa Maria Novella", one of the oldest pharmacies of the world, now a producer of perfumes and cosmetics; there is also a museum. [http://www.museumsinflorence.com/musei/Pharmacy-Santa-Maria-Novella.html/ Source]

==Page 203==
'''Moskowitz''' 
Possibly a reference to Stanley M. Moskowitz (c. 1937 - June 29, 2006) who was a top official of the Central Intelligence Agency. Moskowitz was born in the Bronx and graduated from Alfred University. While attending graduate school at Duke University, he left to join the CIA in 1962, where he worked for over four decades. In the 1980s, he was a national intelligence officer for Russia and Eastern Europe and became congressional liaison, serving under two CIA directors. From 1995-1999, he was the station chief in Israel, where he tried with some success to mediate between the Israelis and Palestinians. His term ended soon after the Benjamin Netanyahu government became dissatisfied with his role and an Israeli paper outed his identity as CIA station chief. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Moskowitz WIKI].

==Page 204==
'''LBD''' 
Little Black Dress

'''"And whoop there it is"''' 
I believe this is referring to Conkling's erection, where he catches Maxine checking it out and there's an awkward moment, to say the least... 
And "Whoomp! (There It Is)" was a top-ten hit for the group Tag Team in 1993. If, for some reason, you want to hear it, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffCEr327W44 here you go].

==Page 205==
'''the deluge after them''' 
The deluge here is both real and metaphorical, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apr%C3%A8s_nous_le_d%C3%A9luge Après nous le déluge].

==Page 206==
'''The ''Post'', for whom the Cold War still emits a warm nostalgic glow, loves stores like this, so the screaming began, KGB assassination squads running loose through the city and so forth, and this sort of thing would go on for the better part of a week.''' 
Surely the author is familiar first hand with the ''Post'' coverage of the arrest and deportation of Russian spy Anna Chapman in 2010,
[http://www.google.com/search?q=ny+post+anna+chapman&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=QwFbU_bKLtKnyATqrIL4AQ&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAg&biw=1081&bih=560] WIKI [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Chapman]. Also noteworthy is Chapman's characterization of her time in New York City by citing Dickens: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1294450/Anna-Chapman-resurfaces-Facebook-quoting-Dickens-spying-ordeal.html]

'''luminol''' 
Luminol is used by forensic investigators to detect trace amounts of blood left at crime scenes, as it reacts with iron found in hemoglobin. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminol WIKI].

==Page 208==
'''just set it on stun'''<br\>
an old Star Trek cliche

'''9:30 . . .''' 
A hardcore punk club in DC [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9:30_Club Wiki].

==Page 209==
'''As Scarlett O'Hara observes . . .''' 
The last line of ''Gone with the Wind'': "After all, tomorrow is another day."

Perhaps worth quoting a few more lines from the ending. 
"With the spirit of her people who would not know defeat, even when
it stared them in the face, she raised her chin. She could get
Rhett back. She knew she could. There had never been a man she
couldn't get, once she set her mind upon him.

"I'll think of it all tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then.
Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all,
tomorrow is another day."

Complete text of [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200161.txt Gone with the Wind.]

{{Bleeding Edge PbP}}

Chapter 18

2016-06-02T19:43:42Z

Marsvoboda: /* Page 205 */

==Page 198==
'''“You give us thirty-two minutes—you don’t get it back.”''' 
WINS is a NYC news station with the slogan " You give us 22 minutes, we give you the world."

==Page 199==
'''Lester Traipse across the street...in the company of a blond bombshell''' 
I would never argue that Pynchon explicitly had the "Master of Suspense" in mind when he wrote this paragraph, but it certainly does have a Hitchcockian vibe. "Vertigo," anyone?

==Page 201==
'''Daphne and Wilma's''' 
Could this be an allusion to Daphne and Velma, two female detectives (like our Maxine) from the cartoon ''Scooby Doo''? ... with a dash of the Flintstones.

'''The Officina in Santa Maria Novella''' 
Actually "Officina di Santa Maria Novella", one of the oldest pharmacies of the world, now a producer of perfumes and cosmetics; there is also a museum. [http://www.museumsinflorence.com/musei/Pharmacy-Santa-Maria-Novella.html/ Source]

==Page 203==
'''Moskowitz''' 
Possibly a reference to Stanley M. Moskowitz (c. 1937 - June 29, 2006) who was a top official of the Central Intelligence Agency. Moskowitz was born in the Bronx and graduated from Alfred University. While attending graduate school at Duke University, he left to join the CIA in 1962, where he worked for over four decades. In the 1980s, he was a national intelligence officer for Russia and Eastern Europe and became congressional liaison, serving under two CIA directors. From 1995-1999, he was the station chief in Israel, where he tried with some success to mediate between the Israelis and Palestinians. His term ended soon after the Benjamin Netanyahu government became dissatisfied with his role and an Israeli paper outed his identity as CIA station chief. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Moskowitz WIKI].

==Page 204==
'''LBD''' 
Little Black Dress

'''"And whoop there it is"''' 
I believe this is referring to Conkling's erection, where he catches Maxine checking it out and there's an awkward moment, to say the least... 
And "Whoomp! (There It Is)" was a top-ten hit for the group Tag Team in 1993. If, for some reason, you want to hear it, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffCEr327W44 here you go].

==Page 205==
'''the deluge after them''' 
The deluge here is both real and metaphorical, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apr%C3%A8s_nous_le_d%C3%A9luge Après nous le déluge].

==Page 206==
'''The ''Post'', for whom the Cold War still emits a warm nostalgic glow, loves stores like this, so the screaming began, KGB assassination squads running loose through the city and so forth, and this sort of thing would go on for the better part of a week.''' 
Surely the author is familiar first hand with the ''Post'' coverage of the arrest and deportation of Russian spy Anna Chapman in 2010,
[http://www.google.com/search?q=ny+post+anna+chapman&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=QwFbU_bKLtKnyATqrIL4AQ&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAg&biw=1081&bih=560] WIKI [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Chapman]. Also noteworthy is Chapman's characterization of her time in New York City by citing Dickens: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1294450/Anna-Chapman-resurfaces-Facebook-quoting-Dickens-spying-ordeal.html]

'''luminol''' 
Luminol is used by forensic investigators to detect trace amounts of blood left at crime scenes, as it reacts with iron found in hemoglobin. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminol WIKI].

==Page 208==
'''just set it on stun''' <br\>
an old Star Trek cliche

'''9:30 . . .''' 
A hardcore punk club in DC [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9:30_Club Wiki].

==Page 209==
'''As Scarlett O'Hara observes . . .''' 
The last line of ''Gone with the Wind'': "After all, tomorrow is another day."

Perhaps worth quoting a few more lines from the ending. 
"With the spirit of her people who would not know defeat, even when
it stared them in the face, she raised her chin. She could get
Rhett back. She knew she could. There had never been a man she
couldn't get, once she set her mind upon him.

"I'll think of it all tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then.
Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all,
tomorrow is another day."

Complete text of [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200161.txt Gone with the Wind.]

{{Bleeding Edge PbP}}

Chapter 18

2016-06-02T19:43:25Z

Marsvoboda: /* Page 205 */

==Page 198==
'''“You give us thirty-two minutes—you don’t get it back.”''' 
WINS is a NYC news station with the slogan " You give us 22 minutes, we give you the world."

==Page 199==
'''Lester Traipse across the street...in the company of a blond bombshell''' 
I would never argue that Pynchon explicitly had the "Master of Suspense" in mind when he wrote this paragraph, but it certainly does have a Hitchcockian vibe. "Vertigo," anyone?

==Page 201==
'''Daphne and Wilma's''' 
Could this be an allusion to Daphne and Velma, two female detectives (like our Maxine) from the cartoon ''Scooby Doo''? ... with a dash of the Flintstones.

'''The Officina in Santa Maria Novella''' 
Actually "Officina di Santa Maria Novella", one of the oldest pharmacies of the world, now a producer of perfumes and cosmetics; there is also a museum. [http://www.museumsinflorence.com/musei/Pharmacy-Santa-Maria-Novella.html/ Source]

==Page 203==
'''Moskowitz''' 
Possibly a reference to Stanley M. Moskowitz (c. 1937 - June 29, 2006) who was a top official of the Central Intelligence Agency. Moskowitz was born in the Bronx and graduated from Alfred University. While attending graduate school at Duke University, he left to join the CIA in 1962, where he worked for over four decades. In the 1980s, he was a national intelligence officer for Russia and Eastern Europe and became congressional liaison, serving under two CIA directors. From 1995-1999, he was the station chief in Israel, where he tried with some success to mediate between the Israelis and Palestinians. His term ended soon after the Benjamin Netanyahu government became dissatisfied with his role and an Israeli paper outed his identity as CIA station chief. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Moskowitz WIKI].

==Page 204==
'''LBD''' 
Little Black Dress

'''"And whoop there it is"''' 
I believe this is referring to Conkling's erection, where he catches Maxine checking it out and there's an awkward moment, to say the least... 
And "Whoomp! (There It Is)" was a top-ten hit for the group Tag Team in 1993. If, for some reason, you want to hear it, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffCEr327W44 here you go].

==Page 205==
'''the deluge after them''' 
The deluge here is both real and metaphorical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apr%C3%A8s_nous_le_d%C3%A9luge Après nous le déluge].

==Page 206==
'''The ''Post'', for whom the Cold War still emits a warm nostalgic glow, loves stores like this, so the screaming began, KGB assassination squads running loose through the city and so forth, and this sort of thing would go on for the better part of a week.''' 
Surely the author is familiar first hand with the ''Post'' coverage of the arrest and deportation of Russian spy Anna Chapman in 2010,
[http://www.google.com/search?q=ny+post+anna+chapman&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=QwFbU_bKLtKnyATqrIL4AQ&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAg&biw=1081&bih=560] WIKI [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Chapman]. Also noteworthy is Chapman's characterization of her time in New York City by citing Dickens: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1294450/Anna-Chapman-resurfaces-Facebook-quoting-Dickens-spying-ordeal.html]

'''luminol''' 
Luminol is used by forensic investigators to detect trace amounts of blood left at crime scenes, as it reacts with iron found in hemoglobin. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminol WIKI].

==Page 208==
'''just set it on stun''' <br\>
an old Star Trek cliche

'''9:30 . . .''' 
A hardcore punk club in DC [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9:30_Club Wiki].

==Page 209==
'''As Scarlett O'Hara observes . . .''' 
The last line of ''Gone with the Wind'': "After all, tomorrow is another day."

Perhaps worth quoting a few more lines from the ending. 
"With the spirit of her people who would not know defeat, even when
it stared them in the face, she raised her chin. She could get
Rhett back. She knew she could. There had never been a man she
couldn't get, once she set her mind upon him.

"I'll think of it all tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then.
Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all,
tomorrow is another day."

Complete text of [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200161.txt Gone with the Wind.]

{{Bleeding Edge PbP}}

Chapter 18

2016-06-02T19:42:22Z

Marsvoboda: /* Page 205 */

==Page 198==
'''“You give us thirty-two minutes—you don’t get it back.”''' 
WINS is a NYC news station with the slogan " You give us 22 minutes, we give you the world."

==Page 199==
'''Lester Traipse across the street...in the company of a blond bombshell''' 
I would never argue that Pynchon explicitly had the "Master of Suspense" in mind when he wrote this paragraph, but it certainly does have a Hitchcockian vibe. "Vertigo," anyone?

==Page 201==
'''Daphne and Wilma's''' 
Could this be an allusion to Daphne and Velma, two female detectives (like our Maxine) from the cartoon ''Scooby Doo''? ... with a dash of the Flintstones.

'''The Officina in Santa Maria Novella''' 
Actually "Officina di Santa Maria Novella", one of the oldest pharmacies of the world, now a producer of perfumes and cosmetics; there is also a museum. [http://www.museumsinflorence.com/musei/Pharmacy-Santa-Maria-Novella.html/ Source]

==Page 203==
'''Moskowitz''' 
Possibly a reference to Stanley M. Moskowitz (c. 1937 - June 29, 2006) who was a top official of the Central Intelligence Agency. Moskowitz was born in the Bronx and graduated from Alfred University. While attending graduate school at Duke University, he left to join the CIA in 1962, where he worked for over four decades. In the 1980s, he was a national intelligence officer for Russia and Eastern Europe and became congressional liaison, serving under two CIA directors. From 1995-1999, he was the station chief in Israel, where he tried with some success to mediate between the Israelis and Palestinians. His term ended soon after the Benjamin Netanyahu government became dissatisfied with his role and an Israeli paper outed his identity as CIA station chief. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Moskowitz WIKI].

==Page 204==
'''LBD''' 
Little Black Dress

'''"And whoop there it is"''' 
I believe this is referring to Conkling's erection, where he catches Maxine checking it out and there's an awkward moment, to say the least... 
And "Whoomp! (There It Is)" was a top-ten hit for the group Tag Team in 1993. If, for some reason, you want to hear it, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffCEr327W44 here you go].

==Page 205==
'''the deluge after them''' 
The deluge here is both real and metaphorical [Après nous le déluge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apr%C3%A8s_nous_le_d%C3%A9luge].

==Page 206==
'''The ''Post'', for whom the Cold War still emits a warm nostalgic glow, loves stores like this, so the screaming began, KGB assassination squads running loose through the city and so forth, and this sort of thing would go on for the better part of a week.''' 
Surely the author is familiar first hand with the ''Post'' coverage of the arrest and deportation of Russian spy Anna Chapman in 2010,
[http://www.google.com/search?q=ny+post+anna+chapman&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=QwFbU_bKLtKnyATqrIL4AQ&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAg&biw=1081&bih=560] WIKI [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Chapman]. Also noteworthy is Chapman's characterization of her time in New York City by citing Dickens: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1294450/Anna-Chapman-resurfaces-Facebook-quoting-Dickens-spying-ordeal.html]

'''luminol''' 
Luminol is used by forensic investigators to detect trace amounts of blood left at crime scenes, as it reacts with iron found in hemoglobin. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminol WIKI].

==Page 208==
'''just set it on stun''' <br\>
an old Star Trek cliche

'''9:30 . . .''' 
A hardcore punk club in DC [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9:30_Club Wiki].

==Page 209==
'''As Scarlett O'Hara observes . . .''' 
The last line of ''Gone with the Wind'': "After all, tomorrow is another day."

Perhaps worth quoting a few more lines from the ending. 
"With the spirit of her people who would not know defeat, even when
it stared them in the face, she raised her chin. She could get
Rhett back. She knew she could. There had never been a man she
couldn't get, once she set her mind upon him.

"I'll think of it all tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then.
Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all,
tomorrow is another day."

Complete text of [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200161.txt Gone with the Wind.]

{{Bleeding Edge PbP}}

Chapter 18

2016-06-02T19:41:38Z

Marsvoboda: entry added

==Page 198==
'''“You give us thirty-two minutes—you don’t get it back.”''' 
WINS is a NYC news station with the slogan " You give us 22 minutes, we give you the world."

==Page 199==
'''Lester Traipse across the street...in the company of a blond bombshell''' 
I would never argue that Pynchon explicitly had the "Master of Suspense" in mind when he wrote this paragraph, but it certainly does have a Hitchcockian vibe. "Vertigo," anyone?

==Page 201==
'''Daphne and Wilma's''' 
Could this be an allusion to Daphne and Velma, two female detectives (like our Maxine) from the cartoon ''Scooby Doo''? ... with a dash of the Flintstones.

'''The Officina in Santa Maria Novella''' 
Actually "Officina di Santa Maria Novella", one of the oldest pharmacies of the world, now a producer of perfumes and cosmetics; there is also a museum. [http://www.museumsinflorence.com/musei/Pharmacy-Santa-Maria-Novella.html/ Source]

==Page 203==
'''Moskowitz''' 
Possibly a reference to Stanley M. Moskowitz (c. 1937 - June 29, 2006) who was a top official of the Central Intelligence Agency. Moskowitz was born in the Bronx and graduated from Alfred University. While attending graduate school at Duke University, he left to join the CIA in 1962, where he worked for over four decades. In the 1980s, he was a national intelligence officer for Russia and Eastern Europe and became congressional liaison, serving under two CIA directors. From 1995-1999, he was the station chief in Israel, where he tried with some success to mediate between the Israelis and Palestinians. His term ended soon after the Benjamin Netanyahu government became dissatisfied with his role and an Israeli paper outed his identity as CIA station chief. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Moskowitz WIKI].

==Page 204==
'''LBD''' 
Little Black Dress

'''"And whoop there it is"''' 
I believe this is referring to Conkling's erection, where he catches Maxine checking it out and there's an awkward moment, to say the least... 
And "Whoomp! (There It Is)" was a top-ten hit for the group Tag Team in 1993. If, for some reason, you want to hear it, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffCEr327W44 here you go].

==Page 205==
'''the deluge after them''' 
The deluge here is both real and metaphorical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apr%C3%A8s_nous_le_d%C3%A9luge]

==Page 206==
'''The ''Post'', for whom the Cold War still emits a warm nostalgic glow, loves stores like this, so the screaming began, KGB assassination squads running loose through the city and so forth, and this sort of thing would go on for the better part of a week.''' 
Surely the author is familiar first hand with the ''Post'' coverage of the arrest and deportation of Russian spy Anna Chapman in 2010,
[http://www.google.com/search?q=ny+post+anna+chapman&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=QwFbU_bKLtKnyATqrIL4AQ&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAg&biw=1081&bih=560] WIKI [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Chapman]. Also noteworthy is Chapman's characterization of her time in New York City by citing Dickens: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1294450/Anna-Chapman-resurfaces-Facebook-quoting-Dickens-spying-ordeal.html]

'''luminol''' 
Luminol is used by forensic investigators to detect trace amounts of blood left at crime scenes, as it reacts with iron found in hemoglobin. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminol WIKI].

==Page 208==
'''just set it on stun''' <br\>
an old Star Trek cliche

'''9:30 . . .''' 
A hardcore punk club in DC [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9:30_Club Wiki].

==Page 209==
'''As Scarlett O'Hara observes . . .''' 
The last line of ''Gone with the Wind'': "After all, tomorrow is another day."

Perhaps worth quoting a few more lines from the ending. 
"With the spirit of her people who would not know defeat, even when
it stared them in the face, she raised her chin. She could get
Rhett back. She knew she could. There had never been a man she
couldn't get, once she set her mind upon him.

"I'll think of it all tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then.
Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all,
tomorrow is another day."

Complete text of [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200161.txt Gone with the Wind.]

{{Bleeding Edge PbP}}

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2016-05-25T20:38:58Z

Marsvoboda: /* Page 195 */

{{BE PxP Header}}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bobby Van's was then (and is still in 2014) a steakhouse in Bridgehampton on Montauk Highway. It had a reputation of be frequented by both writers (some of whom reportedly wrote there) and by both celebrities and celebrity watchers. The statement that "Got to lose this scrunchy thing, right now you are lookin to much like these Bobby Van's people"likely refers to Maxine needing to dress down a bit for the establishment she in.

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

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

==Page 193==
'''Bluebeard's Castle''' 
Bluebeard is a French folk tale, in which a wealthy aristocrat leaves his castle and tells his wife not to enter a mysterious locked room in the castle under any circumstances. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebeard Wikipedia]

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

Could be another opera reference too. In Bela Bartok's version, there are multiple locked rooms which the new wife insists on seeing, and each of which turns out to contain the corpse of a previous wife. The last room of course is reserved for the new Duchess Bluebeard. The mood of the opera is very close to that of an Alfred Hitchcock film (eg Psycho), and we've seen more than a couple of Hitchcock references in this book so far, so this connection might not be that much of a stretch.

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 195==
'''Droolin' Floyd Womack''' 
See [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_4#Page_51 page 51] in ''Inherent Vice'' where DFW also makes appearence with a song. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bobby Van's was then (and is still in 2014) a steakhouse in Bridgehampton on Montauk Highway. It had a reputation of be frequented by both writers (some of whom reportedly wrote there) and by both celebrities and celebrity watchers. The statement that "Got to lose this scrunchy thing, right now you are lookin to much like these Bobby Van's people"likely refers to Maxine needing to dress down a bit for the establishment she in.

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

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

==Page 193==
'''Bluebeard's Castle''' 
Bluebeard is a French folk tale, in which a wealthy aristocrat leaves his castle and tells his wife not to enter a mysterious locked room in the castle under any circumstances. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebeard Wikipedia]

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

Could be another opera reference too. In Bela Bartok's version, there are multiple locked rooms which the new wife insists on seeing, and each of which turns out to contain the corpse of a previous wife. The last room of course is reserved for the new Duchess Bluebeard. The mood of the opera is very close to that of an Alfred Hitchcock film (eg Psycho), and we've seen more than a couple of Hitchcock references in this book so far, so this connection might not be that much of a stretch.

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 195==
'''Droolin' Floyd Womack''' 
See [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_4#Page_51 page 51] in ''Inherent Vice'' where DFW also makes appearence. 

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

==Page 196==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bobby Van's was then (and is still in 2014) a steakhouse in Bridgehampton on Montauk Highway. It had a reputation of be frequented by both writers (some of whom reportedly wrote there) and by both celebrities and celebrity watchers. The statement that "Got to lose this scrunchy thing, right now you are lookin to much like these Bobby Van's people"likely refers to Maxine needing to dress down a bit for the establishment she in.

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

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

==Page 193==
'''Bluebeard's Castle''' 
Bluebeard is a French folk tale, in which a wealthy aristocrat leaves his castle and tells his wife not to enter a mysterious locked room in the castle under any circumstances. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebeard Wikipedia]

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

Could be another opera reference too. In Bela Bartok's version, there are multiple locked rooms which the new wife insists on seeing, and each of which turns out to contain the corpse of a previous wife. The last room of course is reserved for the new Duchess Bluebeard. The mood of the opera is very close to that of an Alfred Hitchcock film (eg Psycho), and we've seen more than a couple of Hitchcock references in this book so far, so this connection might not be that much of a stretch.

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 195==
'''Droolin' Floyd Womack''' 
See [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_4#Page_51 ''page 51''] in ''Inherent Vice'' where DFW also makes appearence. 

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

==Page 196==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bobby Van's was then (and is still in 2014) a steakhouse in Bridgehampton on Montauk Highway. It had a reputation of be frequented by both writers (some of whom reportedly wrote there) and by both celebrities and celebrity watchers. The statement that "Got to lose this scrunchy thing, right now you are lookin to much like these Bobby Van's people"likely refers to Maxine needing to dress down a bit for the establishment she in.

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

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

==Page 193==
'''Bluebeard's Castle''' 
Bluebeard is a French folk tale, in which a wealthy aristocrat leaves his castle and tells his wife not to enter a mysterious locked room in the castle under any circumstances. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebeard Wikipedia]

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

Could be another opera reference too. In Bela Bartok's version, there are multiple locked rooms which the new wife insists on seeing, and each of which turns out to contain the corpse of a previous wife. The last room of course is reserved for the new Duchess Bluebeard. The mood of the opera is very close to that of an Alfred Hitchcock film (eg Psycho), and we've seen more than a couple of Hitchcock references in this book so far, so this connection might not be that much of a stretch.

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 195==
'''Droolin' Floyd Womack''' 
See page 51 in ''Inherent Vice'' where DFW also makes appearence. 

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

==Page 196==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bobby Van's was then (and is still in 2014) a steakhouse in Bridgehampton on Montauk Highway. It had a reputation of be frequented by both writers (some of whom reportedly wrote there) and by both celebrities and celebrity watchers. The statement that "Got to lose this scrunchy thing, right now you are lookin to much like these Bobby Van's people"likely refers to Maxine needing to dress down a bit for the establishment she in.

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

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

==Page 193==
'''Bluebeard's Castle''' 
Bluebeard is a French folk tale, in which a wealthy aristocrat leaves his castle and tells his wife not to enter a mysterious locked room in the castle under any circumstances. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebeard Wikipedia]

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

Could be another opera reference too. In Bela Bartok's version, there are multiple locked rooms which the new wife insists on seeing, and each of which turns out to contain the corpse of a previous wife. The last room of course is reserved for the new Duchess Bluebeard. The mood of the opera is very close to that of an Alfred Hitchcock film (eg Psycho), and we've seen more than a couple of Hitchcock references in this book so far, so this connection might not be that much of a stretch.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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''''85 Sassicaia''' 
Tenuta San Guido is an Italian wine producer in the DOC Bolgheri in Toscana, known as a producer of "Super Tuscan" wine. Its wine Sassicaia is considered one of Italy's leading Bordeaux-style red wines (ie comparable to the Tignanello appearing on pg 66). Tenuta San Guido is member of the Primum Familiae Vini. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sassicaia WIKI].

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'''riyals''' 
The name of the currencies of Saudi Arabia and Qatar. There's a slight disconnect here, however, as if hashslingrz's account is "in the Emirates," as mentioned above, the currency should really be Emirati dirhams.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''James Bond at the baccarat table''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNWGbZlDPlQ See] ultra-cool Bond introduce himself at the baccarat table, a game he played throughout the books and films. (Some later post-Ian Fleming) films had casino scenes shot twice, with Bond playing baccarat in the international release, and poker or blackjack in the dumbed-down North American release.)

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'''third ballet position''' <br\>
One foot is placed in front of the other so that the heel of the front foot is near the arch of the back foot. [http://0.tqn.com/y/dance/1/0/3/-/-/-/Third.jpg]
This position is rarely used anymore, because now most professional dancers are so flexible that they can rotate the front foot even further, so that it is parallel to the back foot, but pointing in the opposite direction, ie the "fifth position"

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

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

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'''''noraebang''''' 
In Korea, Karaoke is most commonly called "Noraebang" Noraebang is even conducted in transport vehicles such as tourist buses. Noraebang is the equivalent to the Karaoke-Box in Japan. Karaoke boxes consist of multiple rooms containing karaoke equipment, usually rented out for time periods, whereas singing before an audience in a karaoke bar is called Karaoke in Korea.

'''Streetlight People, Don't Stop Believing, karaoke boilerplate''' 
A proper karaoke boilerplate would certainly include Journey's 1981 hit "Don't Stop Believin'" which is the top-selling catalog track in iTunes history with over 5 million digital copies sold, as well as the best-selling rock song in digital history until it was over taken by Imagine Dragons' "Radioactive" in January 2014.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_Stop_Believin'] And it's also in the top 15 most popular karaoke songs, according to [http://mentalfloss.com/article/49789/15-most-requested-karaoke-songs this site].

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

'''Filene's Basement''' 
A store where designer clothes are sold on discount. (cf pg 13)

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'''Vinalon''' 
From [http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2785895/posts this news site]:

<blockquote>The low-grade synthetic fiber indelibly associated with North Korea's failed "juche" or self-reliance ideology has become fit only for rags, Radio Free Asia reported on Thursday. Once touted as the future of the socialist clothing industry, Vinalon fabric is now chiefly used as rags, or as wallpaper paste by heating it to high temperatures, RFA quoted North Korean expatriates in China as saying.

Developed by Dr. Lee Sung-ki during Japanese colonial rule in 1939, Vinalon is made from limestone and anthracite, unlike other synthetic fibers that are made from petroleum by-products. It is produced only in North Korea. The problem is its inefficiency. A Unification Ministry official said, "The North has to use too much electricity to extract Vinalon from anthracite. It would be more cost-effective to import finished textile products, even at a rip-off price." - 9/30/11 [http://www.vinalon.eu/ More...]</blockquote>

''Actually, the main reason for vinalon's poor quality is because it is made from polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), a terrible polymer for making synthetic fabrics, and not because it is derived from coal. In South Africa, Sasol has been making petrochemicals from coal since World War II, and these are used to make a wide variety of "normal" high quality synthetic fabrics. North Korea ended up with vinalon only because it is much easier to turn coal into acetylene and acetylene into PVA than it would have been to master Sasol's process or turn acetylene into (say) nylon. Electricity consumption in the first step is indeed an economic problem.''

'''comfortably bridge-attired''' 
Bridge attire is a pricing and styling category of misses apparel. Typically, bridge designers are one notch under designer (luxury) lines. Bridge lines have more unique styling than contemporary misses but are ''usually'' not as pricey as designer lines. The name comes from the fact that they are a "bridge" between less expensive lines and luxury lines. [http://www.fashion-incubator.com/archive/what_is_a_bridge_line/]

The hierarchy with regard to styling, price and exclusivity from highest to lowest is: <blockquote>Haute Couture 
Designer RTW 
Bridge 
Contemporary</blockquote>

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

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

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'''feeble snow''' <br\>
"neige faible" is a common French expression, and would normally be translated as "light snow". I'm not sure why Pynchon would call it "feeble snow". Even in other contexts, "faible" is hardly ever translated into English as "feeble", instead "weak" usually comes pretty close. Actually, Montreal gets less snow than many other cities in Quebec (Sherbrooke, Trois Rivieres, ...), and even less than Buffalo NY, so I'm confused as to why this is even brought up.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Young man dreams he's flying . . .''' 
This paragraph is a faithful summary of the lyrics of "Volare" (which means "to fly"). Knowing that 9/11 is right around the corner, I found this unsettling. Full lyrics [http://www.diggiloo.net/?1958it here].

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

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

'''tables versus CSS''' 
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used for describing the presentation semantics (the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language. CSS is designed primarily to enable the separation of document content (written in HTML or a similar markup language) from document presentation, including elements such as the layout, colors, and fonts. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS WIKI]. 
This small scene in the novel captures a transitional moment in the development of web design. Positioning content by the use of tables was the original layout technique for web pages in the 90s/early 00s. In the early 2000s the capabilities of CSS were being extended to include new methods for formatting web pages, an approach that - as noted above - distinctly separated content from the means of its presentation (within the underlying code). CSS-based layout was more technically complex and required a fairly specialized skill set to work with. Advocates of CSS-based layout could be quite evangelical about its adoption ("a controversial issue of the time, which has always, given its level of passion, struck Maxine as somehow religious") and were sometimes vehemently dismissive of those still employing tables. Hence Lester Traipse's subsequent remark (p.156) "the partners were all morphing into CSS nazis ... and I'm just an old die-hard tables person". It represented something of a paradigm shift that would shape the appearance, development and capabilities of the web over the following years. CSS-based layout has now come to dominate as the de facto standard technique for formatting web pages.

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

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

==Page 158==
'''"When information wants to be free"''' 
Allusion to the technology activist slogan, coined by Stewart Brand [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Brand], first usage is reported to be at the 1984 Hacker's Conference. "Information wants to be free" is invoked by advocates against government or corporate control of the flow of information at the cost of the public domain.

Full quote below:

"On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other." - Stewart Brand, 1984

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

'''Danceteria ... Paradise Garage''' <br\>
well-known New York nightclubs active at the time. The former was mainly disco, the latter had multiple locations and a broader scope.

'''haewoned passengers''' 
Korean slang: to "haewon" someone is to mislead or confused them. [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=haewon] So these passengers are confused.

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'''adjusts an invisible cloak, and vanishes'''<br\>
adjusts an invisibility cloak and vanishes?

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'''Midol''' <br\>
Brand name of a group of nonprescription drugs for relief of menstrual and premenstrual discomfort. Symptoms claimed to be alleviated include cramps, bloating, headaches, backaches, breast tenderness, fatigue, irritability and tension. It consists of a painkiller (acetaminophen), a diuretic (Pamabrom), and pyrilamine maleate (which seems to be both a painkiller and a diuretic). And it has some some caffeine too.

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

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

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

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

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'''witchyiz''' 
with you

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

'''"Doom," Igor waving a thumb, "just came out for Game Boy..."''' 
Or rather, Game Boy Advance. The line seems to be more a reflection of Igor's ignorance of games than Pynchon's, based on the latter's earlier displays of video game minutiae. Then again... 

This reference presents something of an anachronism. The earliest official release of Doom for the Game Boy Advance was in [http://www.ign.com/games/doom/gba-16301 October 2001], well after 9/11. If we assume Pynchon put this in intentionally, the versions they're playing could not be legitimate copies. But given the characterizations of Misha and Grisha, that isn't too hard to believe, especially if they're already a part of obscure internet subcultures like padonki. If they refer to themselves as in-game locations (Deimos and Phobos) and are willing to play Doom on a limited port of it like the Game Boy Advance, chances are they're big enough fans of the game to get copies of it illegally. Indeed, porting Doom to all types of video game consoles was a trend in the game's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_%281993_video_game%29#Community community], even after eight years since its initial release.

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'''''padonki''''' 
(падонки) refers to a Russian Internet subculture that employs very Pynchonian cross-linguistic puns, intentional misspellings and bawdy humor. See [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B8 Wiktionary].

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Something Happened''' 
Joseph Heller's 2nd novel "Something Happened". Not much happens in Something Happened. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_Happened WIKI].

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

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'''Chapter Eleven''' 
Chapter 11 is a chapter of Title 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code, which permits reorganization under the bankruptcy laws of the United States. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapter_11,_Title_11,_United_States_Code WIKI].

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

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'''Midol''' <br\>
Brand name of a group of nonprescription drugs for relief of menstrual and premenstrual discomfort. Symptoms claimed to be alleviated include cramps, bloating, headaches, backaches, breast tenderness, fatigue, irritability and tension. It consists of a painkiller (acetaminophen), a diuretic (Pamabrom), and pyrilamine maleate (which seems to be both a painkiller and a diuretic). And it has some some caffeine too.

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

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

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

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

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'''witchyiz''' 
with you

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

'''"Doom," Igor waving a thumb, "just came out for Game Boy..."''' 
Or rather, Game Boy Advance. The line seems to be more a reflection of Igor's ignorance of games than Pynchon's, based on the latter's earlier displays of video game minutiae. Then again... 

This reference presents something of an anachronism. The earliest official release of Doom for the Game Boy Advance was in [http://www.ign.com/games/doom/gba-16301 October 2001], well after 9/11. If we assume Pynchon put this in intentionally, the versions they're playing could not be legitimate copies. But given the characterizations of Misha and Grisha, that isn't too hard to believe, especially if they're already a part of obscure internet subcultures like padonki. If they refer to themselves as in-game locations (Deimos and Phobos) and are willing to play Doom on a limited port of it like the Game Boy Advance, chances are they're big enough fans of the game to get copies of it illegally. Indeed, porting Doom to all types of video game consoles was a trend in the game's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_%281993_video_game%29#Community community], even after eight years since its initial release.

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'''''padonki''''' 
(падонки) refers to a Russian Internet subculture that employs very Pynchonian cross-linguistic puns, intentional misspellings and bawdy humor. See [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B8 Wiktionary].

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Something Happened''' 
Joseph Heller's 2nd novel "Something Happened". Not much happens in Something Happened. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_Happened WIKI].

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

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

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'''Midol''' <br\>
Brand name of a group of nonprescription drugs for relief of menstrual and premenstrual discomfort. Symptoms claimed to be alleviated include cramps, bloating, headaches, backaches, breast tenderness, fatigue, irritability and tension. It consists of a painkiller (acetaminophen), a diuretic (Pamabrom), and pyrilamine maleate (which seems to be both a painkiller and a diuretic). And it has some some caffeine too.

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

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

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

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

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'''witchyix''' 
with you

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

'''"Doom," Igor waving a thumb, "just came out for Game Boy..."''' 
Or rather, Game Boy Advance. The line seems to be more a reflection of Igor's ignorance of games than Pynchon's, based on the latter's earlier displays of video game minutiae. Then again... 

This reference presents something of an anachronism. The earliest official release of Doom for the Game Boy Advance was in [http://www.ign.com/games/doom/gba-16301 October 2001], well after 9/11. If we assume Pynchon put this in intentionally, the versions they're playing could not be legitimate copies. But given the characterizations of Misha and Grisha, that isn't too hard to believe, especially if they're already a part of obscure internet subcultures like padonki. If they refer to themselves as in-game locations (Deimos and Phobos) and are willing to play Doom on a limited port of it like the Game Boy Advance, chances are they're big enough fans of the game to get copies of it illegally. Indeed, porting Doom to all types of video game consoles was a trend in the game's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_%281993_video_game%29#Community community], even after eight years since its initial release.

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'''''padonki''''' 
(падонки) refers to a Russian Internet subculture that employs very Pynchonian cross-linguistic puns, intentional misspellings and bawdy humor. See [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B8 Wiktionary].

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Something Happened''' 
Joseph Heller's 2nd novel "Something Happened". Not much happens in Something Happened. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_Happened WIKI].

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

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

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'''Dogen''' 
Dōgen Zenji (1200 – 1253) was a Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher. See WIKI [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C5%8Dgen].

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

'''Park Avenue, despite attempts at someone's idea of beautification, has remained, for but the chronically clue-free, the most boring street in the city.''' 
Pynchon aptly admonishing the tyranny of glass superstructure that encroach on the architectural feat of Grand Central Terminal. Carved stone is no match for ironworks, asphalt, and the glass skyscraper home to both Pan Am and MetLife in its life, seen here. [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Grand_Central_Terminal_MetLife_Building_Park_Ave_viaduct_Summer_Streets.jpg]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 130==
'''They're sending him to Collegiate. Where fuckin else?''' 
Collegiate School is a boys school, grades K-12, on the Upper West Side: 260 West 78th Street. [http://www.collegiateschool.org/]

'''the ruling-class polytechnic''' 
The Collegiate School is a polytechnic school, and likely conforms to this definition:

:The institutes of technology and polytechnics have been existing at least since the 18th century, but became popular after World War II with the expansion of technical education, associated with the new needs created by industrialization. An exception is the Ecole Polytechnique, the oldest one in the world, which educates French elites since its foundation in 1794. In some cases, polytechnics or institutes of technology are engineering schools or technical colleges.[http://polytechnic.askdefine.com/]

A "polytechnic," as Pynchon uses it here, is a school whose curriculum is geared toward a broad and thorough education in the subjects that are necessary to master the Modern World, i.e., specializing in technology or different sorts of technical subjects.

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

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'''Dogen''' 
Dōgen Zenji (1200 – 1253) was a Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher. See WIKI [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C5%8Dgen]

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

'''Park Avenue, despite attempts at someone's idea of beautification, has remained, for but the chronically clue-free, the most boring street in the city.''' 
Pynchon aptly admonishing the tyranny of glass superstructure that encroach on the architectural feat of Grand Central Terminal. Carved stone is no match for ironworks, asphalt, and the glass skyscraper home to both Pan Am and MetLife in its life, seen here. [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Grand_Central_Terminal_MetLife_Building_Park_Ave_viaduct_Summer_Streets.jpg]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 130==
'''They're sending him to Collegiate. Where fuckin else?''' 
Collegiate School is a boys school, grades K-12, on the Upper West Side: 260 West 78th Street. [http://www.collegiateschool.org/]

'''the ruling-class polytechnic''' 
The Collegiate School is a polytechnic school, and likely conforms to this definition:

:The institutes of technology and polytechnics have been existing at least since the 18th century, but became popular after World War II with the expansion of technical education, associated with the new needs created by industrialization. An exception is the Ecole Polytechnique, the oldest one in the world, which educates French elites since its foundation in 1794. In some cases, polytechnics or institutes of technology are engineering schools or technical colleges.[http://polytechnic.askdefine.com/]

A "polytechnic," as Pynchon uses it here, is a school whose curriculum is geared toward a broad and thorough education in the subjects that are necessary to master the Modern World, i.e., specializing in technology or different sorts of technical subjects.

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

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

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

'''Park Avenue, despite attempts at someone's idea of beautification, has remained, for but the chronically clue-free, the most boring street in the city.''' 
Pynchon aptly admonishing the tyranny of glass superstructure that encroach on the architectural feat of Grand Central Terminal. Carved stone is no match for ironworks, asphalt, and the glass skyscraper home to both Pan Am and MetLife in its life, seen here. [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Grand_Central_Terminal_MetLife_Building_Park_Ave_viaduct_Summer_Streets.jpg]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 130==
'''They're sending him to Collegiate. Where fuckin else?''' 
Collegiate School is a boys school, grades K-12, on the Upper West Side: 260 West 78th Street. [http://www.collegiateschool.org/]

'''the ruling-class polytechnic''' 
The Collegiate School is a polytechnic school, and likely conforms to this definition:

:The institutes of technology and polytechnics have been existing at least since the 18th century, but became popular after World War II with the expansion of technical education, associated with the new needs created by industrialization. An exception is the Ecole Polytechnique, the oldest one in the world, which educates French elites since its foundation in 1794. In some cases, polytechnics or institutes of technology are engineering schools or technical colleges.[http://polytechnic.askdefine.com/]

A "polytechnic," as Pynchon uses it here, is a school whose curriculum is geared toward a broad and thorough education in the subjects that are necessary to master the Modern World, i.e., specializing in technology or different sorts of technical subjects.

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 113==

'''journalists with nasal-length issues''' 

Liars, see Pinocchio's nose [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinocchio#The_nose WIKI].

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

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

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

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

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

'''CFE''' 
Certified Fraud Examiner

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 117==
'''Page Six''' 
Scandal section of New York Post (no longer on page six), now morphed into a website and magazine of the same name. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Post Wiki]

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

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

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

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

p.s. despite being a legend among bond investors, Gross was ignominiously kicked out of Pimco in mid 2014 as a result of too many years of lacklustre performance. But this came after Bleeding Edge was published.

'''Special Purpose Vehicle''' 
Also, a special purpose entity. It is a legal entity (usually a limited company of some type or, sometimes, a limited partnership) created to fulfill narrow, specific or temporary objectives. SPEs are typically used by companies to isolate the firm from financial risk. They are also commonly used to hide debt (inflating profits), hide ownership, and obscure relationships between different entities which are in fact related to each other (see Enron). From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_purpose_entity WIKI].

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

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

{{Bleeding Edge PbP}}

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

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

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

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

==Page 113==

'''journalists with nasal-length issues''' 

Liars, see Pinocchio's nose [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinocchio#The_nose WIKI].

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

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

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

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

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

'''CFE''' 
Certified Fraud Examiner

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 117==
'''Page Six''' 
Scandal section of New York Post (no longer on page six), now morphed into a website and magazine of the same name. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Post Wiki]

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

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

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

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

p.s. despite being a legend among bond investors, Gross was ignominiously kicked out of Pimco in mid 2014 as a result of too many years of lacklustre performance. But this came after Bleeding Edge was published.

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

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

{{Bleeding Edge PbP}}

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2016-03-25T11:47:23Z

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

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

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

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

==Page 113==

'''journalists with nasal-lengths issues''' 

Liars, see [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinocchio#The_nose WIKI].

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

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

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

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

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

'''CFE''' 
Certified Fraud Examiner

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 117==
'''Page Six''' 
Scandal section of New York Post (no longer on page six), now morphed into a website and magazine of the same name. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Post Wiki]

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

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

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

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

p.s. despite being a legend among bond investors, Gross was ignominiously kicked out of Pimco in mid 2014 as a result of too many years of lacklustre performance. But this came after Bleeding Edge was published.

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

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

{{Bleeding Edge PbP}}

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2016-03-25T11:46:41Z

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{{BE PxP Header}}

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

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

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

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

==Page 113==

'''journalists with nasal-lengths issues''' 

Liars, see [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinocchio#The_nose WIKI].

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

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

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

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

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

'''CFE''' 
Certified Fraud Examiner

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 117==
'''Page Six''' 
Scandal section of New York Post (no longer on page six), now morphed into a website and magazine of the same name. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Post Wiki]

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

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

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

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

p.s. despite being a legend among bond investors, Gross was ignominiously kicked out of Pimco in mid 2014 as a result of too many years of lacklustre performance. But this came after Bleeding Edge was published.

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

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

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[[Image:Vontz Center.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Vontz Center at the University of Cincinnati. Photo by Greg Hume.]]

'''Scott and Nutella Vontz Auditorium, whose architect owing to some sort of mental condition...''' 
This is a reference to the Vontz Center for Molecular Studies at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio, designed by architect Frank Gehry. It's indeed an interesting structure.

'''''shviger'' evil eye''' 
Shviger is Yiddish for mother-in-law.

'''Midwest... it was the golden age of arcades then... 
Possible reference to Walter Day and Ottumwa, Iowa's ''Twin Galaxies''.

==Page 97==
'''opera''' 
Frank Henry Loesser (1910 – 1969) wrote the lyrics and music to ''Guys and Dolls'' and ''How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying'', among others. Jussi Björling [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPEG914GATk singing Nessun Dorma], Deanna Durbin [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inV3RlOTOXM singing Nessun Dorma]. Squillo "is a technical term attached to the resonant, trumpet-like sound in the voice of opera singers." [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squillo Wikipedia]

:References to opera are littered throughout Pynchon's works. Wagner is mentioned numerous times in ''Gravity's Rainbow''.

The selection of Deanna Durbin as a contender for the "best" version of Nessun Dorma is bizarre: since Nessun Dorma is a tenor aria (ie written for the male voice), Ms Durbin's version would be considered an aberration at worst and a novelty trick at best by most operagoers.

==Page 98==
'''it's Aretha Franklin, the time she filled in for Pavarotti at the Grammys back in '98''' 
Here's the performance right [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlNV6YkpXdo here].

'''prewar classic seven''' 
Prewar apartment with seven full rooms.

'''frosk''' 
Yiddish for "slap" or, more particularly, "a slap in the face."

'''''Space Ghost Coast to Ghost''''' 
A cult classic cartoon that ran from 1994-2004, known for its "surrealism, non-sequiturs and random, unpredictable parody humor". [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_ghost_coast_to_coast Wikipedia]

'''Likud Day''' 
Likud is the major center-right party in Israel. A secular party, it was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin in an alliance with several right-wing and liberal parties. Likud's victory in the 1977 elections was a major turning point in the country's political history, marking the first time the left had lost power. In addition, it was the first time in Israel that a right wing party won the plurality of the votes. However, after ruling the country for most of the 1980s, the party lost the Knesset election in 1992. Nevertheless, Likud's candidate Benjamin Netanyahu did win the vote for Prime Minister in 1996 and was given the task of forming a government after the 1996 elections. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likud WIKI].

==Page 99==
'''Fu Manchu''' 
Dr. Fu Manchu is a fictional character introduced in a series of novels by British author Sax Rohmer during the first half of the 20th century. The character was also featured extensively in cinema, television, radio, comic strips and comic books for over 90 years, and has become an archetype of the evil criminal genius while lending the name to the Fu Manchu moustache. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu_Manchu WIKI].

See also Darren's rap about "old movie confusions" on [[Chapter_26#Page_283|page 283]] where Warner Oland, who played Fu Manchu in the film franchise, is namechecked.

Just a coincidence that on page 9 of ''The Crying of Lot 49'' Fu-Manchu makes an appearance on the face of an impersonating Dr. Hilarius as a treatment for hysterical blindness?

'''Soutine''' 
Website [http://www.soutine.com/ here].

'''Lenox Hill''' 
Lenox Hill Hospital, on Manhattan's Upper East Side in New York City, is a 652-bed, tertiary-care hospital and a teaching hospital of New York Medical College, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, Long Island University and Pace University. It was founded in 1857 as the German Dispensary. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenox_Hill_Hospital WIKI].

==Page 100==
'''Tosca''' 
Another opera reference. The villain in this opera is the chief of the secret police.

'''Domingo ... Behrens ... legendary''' 
March 1985; certainly legendary principals, and unique in that Ms Behrens gained her reputation based on her interpretations of the German repertoire, rarely venturing into Italian roles such as this one. But the New York Times's reviewer was unimpressed: [http://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/12/arts/opera-hildegard-behrens-sings-first-met-tosca.html]. You can decide for yourself: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpOMVVJoiqY] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1biCHLX7AYM]

'''a RICO beef''' 
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, commonly referred to as the RICO Act or simply RICO, is a United States federal law that provides for extended criminal penalties and a civil cause of action for acts performed as part of an ongoing criminal organization. The RICO Act focuses specifically on racketeering, and it allows the leaders of a syndicate to be tried for the crimes which they ordered others to do or assisted them, closing a perceived loophole that allowed someone who told a man to, for example, murder, to be exempt from the trial because he did not actually commit the crime personally. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RICO WIKI].

'''Explaining to Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.''' 
The narrator jokingly refers to Windust as Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., who played an FBI agent in the TV series ''The FBI''.

'''''The Day the Earth Stood Still''''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still Wiki.] (Sheer coincidence that Keanu Reeves, mentioned on [[#Page_89 page 89]], starred in the 2008 remake?)
[[File:Klaatu-Equation-Blackboard.jpg|thumb|caption|Klaatu correcting Barnhardt's equation|left|300px]]

'''Sam Jaffe''' 
Sam Jaffe (March 10, 1891 – March 24, 1984) was an American actor, teacher, musician and engineer. In 1951, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in ''The Asphalt Jungle'' (1950) and appeared in other classic films such as ''Ben-Hur'' (1959) and ''The Day the Earth Stood Still'' (1951). He may be best remembered for playing the title role in ''Gunga Din'' (1939), and the High Lama in ''Lost Horizon'' (1937). From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Jaffe WIKI].

'''Klaatu''' 
Klaatu is a fictional humanoid alien in the 1951 science fiction film ''The Day the Earth Stood Still'' and its 2008 remake. Klaatu is famous in part because of the phrase "Klaatu barada nikto!" used in the classic film and its re-use in the Bruce Campbell cult comedy film ''Army of Darkness'', as well as many other films. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaatu_%28The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still%29 WIKI].

==Page 101==
'''just as the covert federal shutter fell''' 
The way Pynchon describes the feds taking a picture of Ernie without his knowledge is consistent with Pynchon's dislike/distrust of cameras. Here his description seems to liken the camera's falling shutter (which, of course, doesn't actually "fall", rather it rotates and opens/closes) to an axe or guillotine, an assault. But it's in [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Q-weapon_and_Photography ''Against the Day''] where Pynchon more fully expands on his suspicion of cameras, portraying the camera as ""A weapon based on Time [...] With a Time-weapon you could become the most feared person in history." [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_557-587#Page_558 ''Against the Day'', page 558].

'''the Hollywood Ten''' 
Folks in Hollywood blacklisted as said they were Communists. See the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Ten#The_Hollywood_Ten WIKI].

==Page 102==
'''A reconvergence of what the day scattered''' 
Sappho was a Greek lyric poet, born on the island of Lesbos. The Alexandrians included her in the list of nine lyric poets. Her birth was sometime between 630 and 612 BCE, and it is said that she died around 570 BCE, but little is known for certain about her life. The bulk of her poetry, which was well-known and greatly admired through much of antiquity, has been lost, but her immense reputation has endured through surviving fragments.

Pynchon is referencing this Sappho poem, also known as fragment 104(a):
<blockquote>
''To Evening'' 
O HESPERUS! Thou bringest all things home; 
All that the garish day hath scattered wide; 
The sheep, the goat, back to the welcome fold; 
Thou bring'st the child, too, to his mother's side.</blockquote>

Hesperus is the planet Venus glowing in the evening sky. (The V. motif again!) Pynchon quotes this very poem in ''Mason & Dixon'', at [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_10:_94-104#Page_96 page 96].

'''Ted Bundy''' 
A notorious American serial killer and rapist known for abducting women in the 1970s. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Bundy Wikipedia.]

'''Strangers in the night, exchanging--''' 
From the song "Strangers in the Night" made famous by Frank Sinatra in 1966. The first verse goes:
<blockquote>
Strangers in the night exchanging glances 
Wondering in the night what were the chances 
We'd be sharing love before the night was through.
</blockquote>

==Page 103==
'''still believes the Rosenbergs were innocent''' 
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of espionage and executed in 1953. By 2001, revelations from the Venona Project indicating the guilt of Julius Rosenberg (but not Ethel) had been widely publicized, making Ernie's belief in their innocence even more of an old-Leftie-holdout position. See [http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venona_project#Julius_and_Ethel_Rosenberg%C3%B1ando WIKI].

'''La cibaeñа''' 
An entirely invented word. Perhaps some pun?

La cibaeñа is a girl or woman from the Dominican Republic region of Cibao.

'''catibias''' 
Dominican street food.

General Tso's catibias, going along with the restaurant's Chinese-Dominican fusion, would be a catibias, kind of like a small Dominican calzone, filled with General Tso's chicken or pork, a popular Chinese dish which mainly has to do with the sauce.

'''morir soñando''' 
Morir soñando (die dreaming) is a popular beverage of the Dominican Republic which has made its way to other Hispanic countries, usually made of orange juice, milk, cane sugar, and chopped ice. Sometimes vanilla extract is also added, or evaporated milk is used instead of regular milk. The recipe varies greatly depending on the region and family heritage. American observers have described the drink as resembling a Creamsicle. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morir_so%C3%B1ando WIKI].

==Page 104==

'''Promis''' 
An actual program with a history not different from what Windust describes, Mossad agents included. See the article by Michael Ruppert [http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/pandora/052401_promis.html Promis]

'''rugelach''' 
A Jewish pastry of Ashkenazic origin. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugelach WIKI].

==Page 105==

'''the Ofeq satellite''' 
Ofeq is the designation of a series of Israeli reconnaissance satellites first launched in 1988. Most Ofeq satellites have been carried on top of Shavit rockets from Palmachim Airbase in Israel, on the Mediterranean coast. The Low Earth Orbit satellites complete one earth orbit every 90 minutes. The satellite launches made Israel only the eighth nation to gain an indigenous launch capability. Both the satellites and the launchers were designed and manufactured by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) with Elbit Systems' El-Op division supplying the optical payload. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofeq WIKI].

'''the Pollard case''' 
Jonathan Jay Pollard (born August 7, 1954) is an American who passed classified information to Israel while working as an American civilian intelligence analyst. He pleaded guilty and received a life sentence in 1987. Because his crime occurred prior to November 1, 1987, he was eligible for parole and was released on November 20, 2015. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Pollard WIKI].

'''Hertzliya''' 
The Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya is a private university in Israel founded in 1994 by Uriel Reichman. IDC Herzliya is a non-profit corporate institution that receives no government subsidies. The goal is scholarship that goes hand in hand with social responsibility. Degrees granted by IDC Herzliya are accredited by the Israeli Council for Higher Education and are recognized worldwide. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herzliya_Interdisciplinary_Center WIKI].

'''''sayanim''''' 
A sayanim is a Jew living outside Israel who volunteers to provide assistance to Israel and/or the Israeli Mossad utilising the capacity of their own nationality to procure assistance. This assistance includes facilitating medical care, money, logistics, and even overt intelligence gathering. Estimates put the number of sayanims in the hundreds of thousand. While not official Mossad agents and sometimes acting without explicit knowledge, they may work in the capacity of unregistered representatives of the government of Israel in their respective nations. From [http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Sayanim Meta].

'''No keystroke left behind''' 
A reference to the 2001 'No Child Left Behind' Act, the George W. Bush administration's education reform which essentially mandated that each state implement a standardized testing program. [http://www.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Child_Left_Behind_Act Wikipedia]

==Page 106==
'''Politics & Prose''' 
Independent bookstore in Washington, D.C. Website [http://www.politics-prose.com/ here].

'''Big Ben theme''' 
as heard [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbq-1Dlu1Wc here].

'''Kozmo.com''' 
an actual delivery website, went out of business April 2001.

==Page 107==
'''Flyin Dutchmahn''' 
Another opera reference, this time to Wagner's Der Fliegende Holländer, about a Dutch sea captain, fated to sail the seas for eternity, or at least until he can find true love (which in the opera, he doesn't)

'''Duane Reade''' 
a chain of pharmacy and convenience stores, with locations seemingly everywhere in New York City.

==Page 108==

'''Bronx Science''' 
The Bronx High School of Science is a specialized New York City public high school often considered the premier science magnet school in the United States. Founded in 1938, it is now located in the Bedford Park section of the Bronx. Admission is by an exam open to all grade-eligible students in New York City, reportedly taken by more than 20,000 students annually. Although known for its focus on mathematics and science, Bronx Science also emphasizes the humanities and social sciences and continually attracts students with a wide variety of interests beyond math and science. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronx_Science WIKI].

'''Facemask''' 
a pun on Facebook?

[[File:Bombing of presidential palace in Chile.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Bombing of presidential palace in Chile on 11 September 1973]]

'''Santiago, Chile, on 11 September 1973''' 
The 11 September 1973 Chilean coup d'état was a watershed event in both the Cold War and the history of Chile. Following an extended period of social and political unrest between the conservative-dominated Congress of Chile and the socialist President Salvador Allende, as well as economic warfare ordered by U.S. President Richard Nixon, Allende was overthrown by the armed forces and national police. During the air raids and ground attacks that preceded the coup, Allende gave his last speech, in which he vowed to stay in the presidential palace, denouncing offers for safe passage should he choose exile over confrontation. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilean_coup_of_1973 WIKI].

'''Dirty War''' 
The Dirty War (part of Operation Condor) was a period of state terrorism in Argentina against political dissidents, with military and security forces conducting urban and rural guerrilla warfare against left-wing guerrillas, political dissidents, and anyone believed to be associated with socialism. Victims of the violence included an estimated 15,000 to 30,000 left-wing activists and militants, including trade unionists, students, journalists, Marxists, Peronist guerrillas and alleged sympathizers. Some 10,000 of the "disappeared" were believed to be guerrillas of the Montoneros (MPM), and the Marxist People's Revolutionary Army (ERP). The guerrillas were responsible for causing at least 6,000 casualties among the military, police forces and civilian population according to a National Geographic Magazine article in the mid-1980s. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_war WIKI].

'''IMF''' 
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an international organization that was initiated in 1944 at the Bretton Woods Conference and formally created in 1945 by 29 member countries. The IMF's stated goal was to assist in the reconstruction of the world's international payment system post–World War II. Countries contribute money to a pool through a quota system from which countries with payment imbalances can borrow funds temporarily. Through this activity and others such as surveillance of its members' economies and the demand for self-correcting policies, the IMF works to improve the economies of its member countries. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMF WIKI].

==Page 109==
'''School of the Americas''' 
The US Army School of the Americas, is a United States Department of Defense Institute located at Fort Benning near Columbus, Georgia, that provides military training to government personnel of Latin American countries. The school was founded in 1946 and from 1961 was assigned the specific goal of teaching "anti-communist counterinsurgency training," a role which it would fulfill for the rest of the Cold War. In this period, it educated several Latin American dictators, generations of their military and, during the 1980s, included the uses of torture in its curriculum. In 2000/2001, the institute was renamed The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC). From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_the_americas WIKI].

'''Zermelo's Axiom of Choice''' 
In mathematics, the axiom of choice, or AC, is an axiom of set theory equivalent to the statement that "the product of a collection of non-empty sets is non-empty". The axiom of choice was formulated in 1904 by Ernst Zermelo in order to formalize his proof of the well-ordering theorem. For more detail see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_of_choice WIKI].

==Page 111==
'''United Fruit''' 
The United Fruit Company was an American corporation that traded in tropical fruit (primarily bananas) grown on Central and South American plantations and sold in the United States and Europe. The company was formed in 1899 from the merger of Minor C. Keith's banana-trading concerns with Andrew W. Preston's Boston Fruit Company. It flourished in the early and mid-20th century and came to control vast territories and transportation networks in Central America, the Caribbean coast of Colombia, Ecuador, and the West Indies. Though it competed with the Standard Fruit Company for dominance in the international banana trade, it maintained a virtual monopoly in certain regions, some of which came to be called banana republics. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_fruit WIKI].

'''Kanjobal''' 
Mayan language spoken primarily in Guatemala and part of Mexico.

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==Page 96==
[[Image:Vontz Center.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Vontz Center at the University of Cincinnati. Photo by Greg Hume.]]

'''Scott and Nutella Vontz Auditorium, whose architect owing to some sort of mental condition...''' 
This is a reference to the Vontz Center for Molecular Studies at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio, designed by architect Frank Gehry. It's indeed an interesting structure.

'''''shviger'' evil eye''' 
Shviger is Yiddish for mother-in-law.

'''Midwest... it was the golden age of arcades then... 
Possible reference to Walter Day and Ottumwa, Iowa's ''Twin Galaxies''.

==Page 97==
'''opera''' 
Frank Henry Loesser (1910 – 1969) wrote the lyrics and music to ''Guys and Dolls'' and ''How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying'', among others. Jussi Björling [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPEG914GATk singing Nessun Dorma], Deanna Durbin [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inV3RlOTOXM singing Nessun Dorma]. Squillo "is a technical term attached to the resonant, trumpet-like sound in the voice of opera singers." [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squillo Wikipedia]

:References to opera are littered throughout Pynchon's works. Wagner is mentioned numerous times in ''Gravity's Rainbow''.

The selection of Deanna Durbin as a contender for the "best" version of Nessun Dorma is bizarre: since Nessun Dorma is a tenor aria (ie written for the male voice), Ms Durbin's version would be considered an aberration at worst and a novelty trick at best by most operagoers.

==Page 98==
'''it's Aretha Franklin, the time she filled in for Pavarotti at the Grammys back in '98''' 
Here's the performance right [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlNV6YkpXdo here].

'''prewar classic seven''' 
Prewar apartment with seven full rooms.

'''frosk''' 
Yiddish for "slap" or, more particularly, "a slap in the face."

'''''Space Ghost Coast to Ghost''''' 
A cult classic cartoon that ran from 1994-2004, known for its "surrealism, non-sequiturs and random, unpredictable parody humor". [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_ghost_coast_to_coast Wikipedia]

'''Likud Day''' 
Likud is the major center-right party in Israel. A secular party, it was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin in an alliance with several right-wing and liberal parties. Likud's victory in the 1977 elections was a major turning point in the country's political history, marking the first time the left had lost power. In addition, it was the first time in Israel that a right wing party won the plurality of the votes. However, after ruling the country for most of the 1980s, the party lost the Knesset election in 1992. Nevertheless, Likud's candidate Benjamin Netanyahu did win the vote for Prime Minister in 1996 and was given the task of forming a government after the 1996 elections. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likud WIKI].

==Page 99==
'''Fu Manchu''' 
Dr. Fu Manchu is a fictional character introduced in a series of novels by British author Sax Rohmer during the first half of the 20th century. The character was also featured extensively in cinema, television, radio, comic strips and comic books for over 90 years, and has become an archetype of the evil criminal genius while lending the name to the Fu Manchu moustache. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu_Manchu WIKI].

See also Darren's rap about "old movie confusions" on [[Chapter_26#Page_283|page 283]] where Warner Oland, who played Fu Manchu in the film franchise, is namechecked.

Just a coincidence that on page 9 of ''The Crying of Lot 49'' Fu-Manchu makes an appearance on the face of an impersonating Dr. Hilarius as a treatment for hysterical blindness?

'''Soutine''' 
Website [http://www.soutine.com/ here].

'''Lenox Hill''' 
Lenox Hill Hospital, on Manhattan's Upper East Side in New York City, is a 652-bed, tertiary-care hospital and a teaching hospital of New York Medical College, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, Long Island University and Pace University. It was founded in 1857 as the German Dispensary. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenox_Hill_Hospital WIKI].

==Page 100==
'''Tosca''' 
Another opera reference. The villain in this opera is the chief of the secret police.

'''Domingo ... Behrens ... legendary''' 
March 1985; certainly legendary principals, and unique in that Ms Behrens gained her reputation based on her interpretations of the German repertoire, rarely venturing into Italian roles such as this one. But the New York Times's reviewer was unimpressed: [http://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/12/arts/opera-hildegard-behrens-sings-first-met-tosca.html]. You can decide for yourself: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpOMVVJoiqY] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1biCHLX7AYM]

'''a RICO beef''' 
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, commonly referred to as the RICO Act or simply RICO, is a United States federal law that provides for extended criminal penalties and a civil cause of action for acts performed as part of an ongoing criminal organization. The RICO Act focuses specifically on racketeering, and it allows the leaders of a syndicate to be tried for the crimes which they ordered others to do or assisted them, closing a perceived loophole that allowed someone who told a man to, for example, murder, to be exempt from the trial because he did not actually commit the crime personally. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RICO WIKI].

'''Explaining to Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.''' 
The narrator jokingly refers to Windust as Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., who played an FBI agent in the TV series ''The FBI''.

'''''The Day the Earth Stood Still''''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still Wiki.] (Sheer coincidence that Keanu Reeves, mentioned on [[#Page_89 page 89]], starred in the 2008 remake?)
[[File:Klaatu-Equation-Blackboard.jpg|thumb|caption|Klaatu correcting Barnhardt's equation|left|300px]]

'''Sam Jaffe''' 
Sam Jaffe (March 10, 1891 – March 24, 1984) was an American actor, teacher, musician and engineer. In 1951, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in ''The Asphalt Jungle'' (1950) and appeared in other classic films such as ''Ben-Hur'' (1959) and ''The Day the Earth Stood Still'' (1951). He may be best remembered for playing the title role in ''Gunga Din'' (1939), and the High Lama in ''Lost Horizon'' (1937). From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Jaffe WIKI].

'''Klaatu''' 
Klaatu is a fictional humanoid alien in the 1951 science fiction film ''The Day the Earth Stood Still'' and its 2008 remake. Klaatu is famous in part because of the phrase "Klaatu barada nikto!" used in the classic film and its re-use in the Bruce Campbell cult comedy film ''Army of Darkness'', as well as many other films. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaatu_%28The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still%29 WIKI].

==Page 101==
'''just as the covert federal shutter fell''' 
The way Pynchon describes the feds taking a picture of Ernie without his knowledge is consistent with Pynchon's dislike/distrust of cameras. Here his description seems to liken the camera's falling shutter (which, of course, doesn't actually "fall", rather it rotates and opens/closes) to an axe or guillotine, an assault. But it's in [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Q-weapon_and_Photography ''Against the Day''] where Pynchon more fully expands on his suspicion of cameras, portraying the camera as ""A weapon based on Time [...] With a Time-weapon you could become the most feared person in history." [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_557-587#Page_558 ''Against the Day'', page 558].

'''the Hollywood Ten''' 
Folks in Hollywood blacklisted as said they were Communists. See the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Ten#The_Hollywood_Ten WIKI].

==Page 102==
'''A reconvergence of what the day scattered''' 
Sappho was a Greek lyric poet, born on the island of Lesbos. The Alexandrians included her in the list of nine lyric poets. Her birth was sometime between 630 and 612 BCE, and it is said that she died around 570 BCE, but little is known for certain about her life. The bulk of her poetry, which was well-known and greatly admired through much of antiquity, has been lost, but her immense reputation has endured through surviving fragments.

Pynchon is referencing this Sappho poem, also known as fragment 104(a):
<blockquote>
''To Evening'' 
O HESPERUS! Thou bringest all things home; 
All that the garish day hath scattered wide; 
The sheep, the goat, back to the welcome fold; 
Thou bring'st the child, too, to his mother's side.</blockquote>

Hesperus is the planet Venus glowing in the evening sky. (The V. motif again!) Pynchon quotes this very poem in ''Mason & Dixon'', at [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_10:_94-104#Page_96 page 96].

'''Ted Bundy''' 
A notorious American serial killer and rapist known for abducting women in the 1970s. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Bundy Wikipedia.]

'''Strangers in the night, exchanging--''' 
From the song "Strangers in the Night" made famous by Frank Sinatra in 1966. The first verse goes:
<blockquote>
Strangers in the night exchanging glances 
Wondering in the night what were the chances 
We'd be sharing love before the night was through.
</blockquote>

==Page 103==
'''still believes the Rosenbergs were innocent''' 
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of espionage and executed in 1953. By 2001, revelations from the Venona Project indicating the guilt of Julius Rosenberg (but not Ethel) had been widely publicized, making Ernie's belief in their innocence even more of an old-Leftie-holdout position. See [http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venona_project#Julius_and_Ethel_Rosenberg%C3%B1ando WIKI].

'''La cibaeñа''' 
An entirely invented word. Perhaps some pun?

La cibaeñа is a girl or woman from the Dominican Republic region of Cibao.

'''catibias''' 
Dominican street food.

General Tso's catibias, going along with the restaurant's Chinese-Dominican fusion, would be a catibias, kind of like a small Dominican calzone, filled with General Tso's chicken or pork, a popular Chinese dish which mainly has to do with the sauce.

'''morir soñando''' 
Morir soñando (die dreaming) is a popular beverage of the Dominican Republic which has made its way to other Hispanic countries, usually made of orange juice, milk, cane sugar, and chopped ice. Sometimes vanilla extract is also added, or evaporated milk is used instead of regular milk. The recipe varies greatly depending on the region and family heritage. American observers have described the drink as resembling a Creamsicle. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morir_so%C3%B1ando WIKI].

==Page 104==

'''Promis''' 
An actual program with a history not different from what Windust describes, Mossad agents included. See the article by Michael Ruppert [http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/pandora/052401_promis.html Promis]

'''rugelach''' 
A Jewish pastry of Ashkenazic origin. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugelach WIKI].

==Page 105==

'''the Ofeq satellite''' 
Ofeq is the designation of a series of Israeli reconnaissance satellites first launched in 1988. Most Ofeq satellites have been carried on top of Shavit rockets from Palmachim Airbase in Israel, on the Mediterranean coast. The Low Earth Orbit satellites complete one earth orbit every 90 minutes. The satellite launches made Israel only the eighth nation to gain an indigenous launch capability. Both the satellites and the launchers were designed and manufactured by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) with Elbit Systems' El-Op division supplying the optical payload. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofeq WIKI].

'''the Pollard case''' 
Jonathan Jay Pollard (born August 7, 1954) is an American who passed classified information to Israel while working as an American civilian intelligence analyst. He pleaded guilty and received a life sentence in 1987. Because his crime occurred prior to November 1, 1987, he was eligible for parole and was released on November 20, 2015. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Pollard WIKI].

'''Hertzliya''' 
The Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya is a private university in Israel founded in 1994 by Uriel Reichman. IDC Herzliya is a non-profit corporate institution that receives no government subsidies. The goal is scholarship that goes hand in hand with social responsibility. Degrees granted by IDC Herzliya are accredited by the Israeli Council for Higher Education and are recognized worldwide. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herzliya_Interdisciplinary_Center WIKI].

'''''sayanim''''' 
A sayanim is a Jew living outside Israel who volunteers to provide assistance to Israel and/or the Israeli Mossad utilising the capacity of their own nationality to procure assistance. This assistance includes facilitating medical care, money, logistics, and even overt intelligence gathering. Estimates put the number of sayanims in the hundreds of thousand. While not official Mossad agents and sometimes acting without explicit knowledge, they may work in the capacity of unregistered representatives of the government of Israel in their respective nations. From [http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Sayanim Meta].

'''No keystroke left behind''' 
A reference to the 2001 'No Child Left Behind' Act, the George W. Bush administration's education reform which essentially mandated that each state implement a standardized testing program. [http://www.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Child_Left_Behind_Act Wikipedia]

==Page 106==
'''Politics & Prose''' 
Independent bookstore in Washington, D.C. Website [http://www.politics-prose.com/ here].

'''Big Ben theme''' 
as heard [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbq-1Dlu1Wc here].

'''Kozmo.com''' 
an actual delivery website, went out of business April 2001.

==Page 107==
'''Flyin Dutchmahn''' 
Another opera reference, this time to Wagner's Der Fliegende Holländer, about a Dutch sea captain, fated to sail the seas for eternity, or at least until he can find true love (which in the opera, he doesn't)

'''Duane Reade''' 
a chain of pharmacy and convenience stores, with locations seemingly everywhere in New York City.

==Page 108==

'''Bronx Science''' 
The Bronx High School of Science is a specialized New York City public high school often considered the premier science magnet school in the United States. Founded in 1938, it is now located in the Bedford Park section of the Bronx. Admission is by an exam open to all grade-eligible students in New York City, reportedly taken by more than 20,000 students annually. Although known for its focus on mathematics and science, Bronx Science also emphasizes the humanities and social sciences and continually attracts students with a wide variety of interests beyond math and science. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronx_Science WIKI].

'''Facemask''' 

a pun on Facebook?

[[File:Bombing of presidential palace in Chile.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Bombing of presidential palace in Chile on 11 September 1973]]

'''Santiago, Chile, on 11 September 1973''' 
The 11 September 1973 Chilean coup d'état was a watershed event in both the Cold War and the history of Chile. Following an extended period of social and political unrest between the conservative-dominated Congress of Chile and the socialist President Salvador Allende, as well as economic warfare ordered by U.S. President Richard Nixon, Allende was overthrown by the armed forces and national police. During the air raids and ground attacks that preceded the coup, Allende gave his last speech, in which he vowed to stay in the presidential palace, denouncing offers for safe passage should he choose exile over confrontation. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilean_coup_of_1973 WIKI].

'''Dirty War''' 
The Dirty War (part of Operation Condor) was a period of state terrorism in Argentina against political dissidents, with military and security forces conducting urban and rural guerrilla warfare against left-wing guerrillas, political dissidents, and anyone believed to be associated with socialism. Victims of the violence included an estimated 15,000 to 30,000 left-wing activists and militants, including trade unionists, students, journalists, Marxists, Peronist guerrillas and alleged sympathizers. Some 10,000 of the "disappeared" were believed to be guerrillas of the Montoneros (MPM), and the Marxist People's Revolutionary Army (ERP). The guerrillas were responsible for causing at least 6,000 casualties among the military, police forces and civilian population according to a National Geographic Magazine article in the mid-1980s. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_war WIKI].

'''IMF''' 
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an international organization that was initiated in 1944 at the Bretton Woods Conference and formally created in 1945 by 29 member countries. The IMF's stated goal was to assist in the reconstruction of the world's international payment system post–World War II. Countries contribute money to a pool through a quota system from which countries with payment imbalances can borrow funds temporarily. Through this activity and others such as surveillance of its members' economies and the demand for self-correcting policies, the IMF works to improve the economies of its member countries. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMF WIKI].

==Page 109==
'''School of the Americas''' 
The US Army School of the Americas, is a United States Department of Defense Institute located at Fort Benning near Columbus, Georgia, that provides military training to government personnel of Latin American countries. The school was founded in 1946 and from 1961 was assigned the specific goal of teaching "anti-communist counterinsurgency training," a role which it would fulfill for the rest of the Cold War. In this period, it educated several Latin American dictators, generations of their military and, during the 1980s, included the uses of torture in its curriculum. In 2000/2001, the institute was renamed The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC). From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_the_americas WIKI].

'''Zermelo's Axiom of Choice''' 
In mathematics, the axiom of choice, or AC, is an axiom of set theory equivalent to the statement that "the product of a collection of non-empty sets is non-empty". The axiom of choice was formulated in 1904 by Ernst Zermelo in order to formalize his proof of the well-ordering theorem. For more detail see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_of_choice WIKI].

==Page 111==
'''United Fruit''' 
The United Fruit Company was an American corporation that traded in tropical fruit (primarily bananas) grown on Central and South American plantations and sold in the United States and Europe. The company was formed in 1899 from the merger of Minor C. Keith's banana-trading concerns with Andrew W. Preston's Boston Fruit Company. It flourished in the early and mid-20th century and came to control vast territories and transportation networks in Central America, the Caribbean coast of Colombia, Ecuador, and the West Indies. Though it competed with the Standard Fruit Company for dominance in the international banana trade, it maintained a virtual monopoly in certain regions, some of which came to be called banana republics. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_fruit WIKI].

'''Kanjobal''' 
Mayan language spoken primarily in Guatemala and part of Mexico.

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==Page 96==
[[Image:Vontz Center.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Vontz Center at the University of Cincinnati. Photo by Greg Hume.]]

'''Scott and Nutella Vontz Auditorium, whose architect owing to some sort of mental condition...''' 
This is a reference to the Vontz Center for Molecular Studies at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio, designed by architect Frank Gehry. It's indeed an interesting structure.

'''''shviger'' evil eye''' 
Shviger is Yiddish for mother-in-law.

'''Midwest... it was the golden age of arcades then... 
Possible reference to Walter Day and Ottumwa, Iowa's ''Twin Galaxies''.

==Page 97==
'''opera''' 
Frank Henry Loesser (1910 – 1969) wrote the lyrics and music to ''Guys and Dolls'' and ''How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying'', among others. Jussi Björling [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPEG914GATk singing Nessun Dorma], Deanna Durbin [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inV3RlOTOXM singing Nessun Dorma]. Squillo "is a technical term attached to the resonant, trumpet-like sound in the voice of opera singers." [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squillo Wikipedia]

:References to opera are littered throughout Pynchon's works. Wagner is mentioned numerous times in ''Gravity's Rainbow''.

The selection of Deanna Durbin as a contender for the "best" version of Nessun Dorma is bizarre: since Nessun Dorma is a tenor aria (ie written for the male voice), Ms Durbin's version would be considered an aberration at worst and a novelty trick at best by most operagoers.

==Page 98==
'''it's Aretha Franklin, the time she filled in for Pavarotti at the Grammys back in '98''' 
Here's the performance right [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlNV6YkpXdo here].

'''prewar classic seven''' 
Prewar apartment with seven full rooms.

'''frosk''' 
Yiddish for "slap" or, more particularly, "a slap in the face."

'''''Space Ghost Coast to Ghost''''' 
A cult classic cartoon that ran from 1994-2004, known for its "surrealism, non-sequiturs and random, unpredictable parody humor". [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_ghost_coast_to_coast Wikipedia]

'''Likud Day''' 
Likud is the major center-right party in Israel. A secular party, it was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin in an alliance with several right-wing and liberal parties. Likud's victory in the 1977 elections was a major turning point in the country's political history, marking the first time the left had lost power. In addition, it was the first time in Israel that a right wing party won the plurality of the votes. However, after ruling the country for most of the 1980s, the party lost the Knesset election in 1992. Nevertheless, Likud's candidate Benjamin Netanyahu did win the vote for Prime Minister in 1996 and was given the task of forming a government after the 1996 elections. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likud WIKI].

==Page 99==
'''Fu Manchu''' 
Dr. Fu Manchu is a fictional character introduced in a series of novels by British author Sax Rohmer during the first half of the 20th century. The character was also featured extensively in cinema, television, radio, comic strips and comic books for over 90 years, and has become an archetype of the evil criminal genius while lending the name to the Fu Manchu moustache. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu_Manchu WIKI].

See also Darren's rap about "old movie confusions" on [[Chapter_26#Page_283|page 283]] where Warner Oland, who played Fu Manchu in the film franchise, is namechecked.

Just a coincidence that on page 9 of ''The Crying of Lot 49'' Fu-Manchu makes an appearance on the face of an impersonating Dr. Hilarius as a treatment for hysterical blindness?

'''Soutine''' 
Website [http://www.soutine.com/ here].

'''Lenox Hill''' 
Lenox Hill Hospital, on Manhattan's Upper East Side in New York City, is a 652-bed, tertiary-care hospital and a teaching hospital of New York Medical College, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, Long Island University and Pace University. It was founded in 1857 as the German Dispensary. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenox_Hill_Hospital WIKI].

==Page 100==
'''Tosca''' 
Another opera reference. The villain in this opera is the chief of the secret police.

'''Domingo ... Behrens ... legendary''' 
March 1985; certainly legendary principals, and unique in that Ms Behrens gained her reputation based on her interpretations of the German repertoire, rarely venturing into Italian roles such as this one. But the New York Times's reviewer was unimpressed: [http://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/12/arts/opera-hildegard-behrens-sings-first-met-tosca.html]. You can decide for yourself: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpOMVVJoiqY] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1biCHLX7AYM]

'''a RICO beef''' 
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, commonly referred to as the RICO Act or simply RICO, is a United States federal law that provides for extended criminal penalties and a civil cause of action for acts performed as part of an ongoing criminal organization. The RICO Act focuses specifically on racketeering, and it allows the leaders of a syndicate to be tried for the crimes which they ordered others to do or assisted them, closing a perceived loophole that allowed someone who told a man to, for example, murder, to be exempt from the trial because he did not actually commit the crime personally. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RICO WIKI].

'''Explaining to Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.''' 
The narrator jokingly refers to Windust as Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., who played an FBI agent in the TV series ''The FBI''.

'''''The Day the Earth Stood Still''''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still Wiki.] (Sheer coincidence that Keanu Reeves, mentioned on [[#Page_89 page 89]], starred in the 2008 remake?)
[[File:Klaatu-Equation-Blackboard.jpg|thumb|caption|Klaatu correcting Barnhardt's equation|left|300px]]

'''Sam Jaffe''' 
Sam Jaffe (March 10, 1891 – March 24, 1984) was an American actor, teacher, musician and engineer. In 1951, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in ''The Asphalt Jungle'' (1950) and appeared in other classic films such as ''Ben-Hur'' (1959) and ''The Day the Earth Stood Still'' (1951). He may be best remembered for playing the title role in ''Gunga Din'' (1939), and the High Lama in ''Lost Horizon'' (1937). From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Jaffe WIKI].

'''Klaatu''' 
Klaatu is a fictional humanoid alien in the 1951 science fiction film ''The Day the Earth Stood Still'' and its 2008 remake. Klaatu is famous in part because of the phrase "Klaatu barada nikto!" used in the classic film and its re-use in the Bruce Campbell cult comedy film ''Army of Darkness'', as well as many other films. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaatu_%28The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still%29 WIKI].

==Page 101==
'''just as the covert federal shutter fell''' 
The way Pynchon describes the feds taking a picture of Ernie without his knowledge is consistent with Pynchon's dislike/distrust of cameras. Here his description seems to liken the camera's falling shutter (which, of course, doesn't actually "fall", rather it rotates and opens/closes) to an axe or guillotine, an assault. But it's in [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Q-weapon_and_Photography ''Against the Day''] where Pynchon more fully expands on his suspicion of cameras, portraying the camera as ""A weapon based on Time [...] With a Time-weapon you could become the most feared person in history." [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_557-587#Page_558 ''Against the Day'', page 558].

'''the Hollywood Ten''' 
Folks in Hollywood blacklisted as said they were Communists. See the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Ten#The_Hollywood_Ten WIKI].

==Page 102==
'''A reconvergence of what the day scattered''' 
Sappho was a Greek lyric poet, born on the island of Lesbos. The Alexandrians included her in the list of nine lyric poets. Her birth was sometime between 630 and 612 BCE, and it is said that she died around 570 BCE, but little is known for certain about her life. The bulk of her poetry, which was well-known and greatly admired through much of antiquity, has been lost, but her immense reputation has endured through surviving fragments.

Pynchon is referencing this Sappho poem, also known as fragment 104(a):
<blockquote>
''To Evening'' 
O HESPERUS! Thou bringest all things home; 
All that the garish day hath scattered wide; 
The sheep, the goat, back to the welcome fold; 
Thou bring'st the child, too, to his mother's side.</blockquote>

Hesperus is the planet Venus glowing in the evening sky. (The V. motif again!) Pynchon quotes this very poem in ''Mason & Dixon'', at [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_10:_94-104#Page_96 page 96].

'''Ted Bundy''' 
A notorious American serial killer and rapist known for abducting women in the 1970s. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Bundy Wikipedia.]

'''Strangers in the night, exchanging--''' 
From the song "Strangers in the Night" made famous by Frank Sinatra in 1966. The first verse goes:
<blockquote>
Strangers in the night exchanging glances 
Wondering in the night what were the chances 
We'd be sharing love before the night was through.
</blockquote>

==Page 103==
'''still believes the Rosenbergs were innocent''' 
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of espionage and executed in 1953. By 2001, revelations from the Venona Project indicating the guilt of Julius Rosenberg (but not Ethel) had been widely publicized, making Ernie's belief in their innocence even more of an old-Leftie-holdout position. See [http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venona_project#Julius_and_Ethel_Rosenberg%C3%B1ando WIKI].

'''La cibaeñа''' 
An entirely invented word. Perhaps some pun?

La cibaeñа is a girl or woman from the Dominican Republic region of Cibao.

'''catibias''' 
Dominican street food.

General Tso's catibias, going along with the restaurant's Chinese-Dominican fusion, would be a catibias, kind of like a small Dominican calzone, filled with General Tso's chicken or pork, a popular Chinese dish which mainly has to do with the sauce.

'''morir soñando''' 
Morir soñando (die dreaming) is a popular beverage of the Dominican Republic which has made its way to other Hispanic countries, usually made of orange juice, milk, cane sugar, and chopped ice. Sometimes vanilla extract is also added, or evaporated milk is used instead of regular milk. The recipe varies greatly depending on the region and family heritage. American observers have described the drink as resembling a Creamsicle. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morir_so%C3%B1ando WIKI].

==Page 104==

'''Promis''' 
An actual program with a history not different from what Windust describes, Mossad agents included. See the article by Michael Ruppert [http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/pandora/052401_promis.html Promis]

'''rugelach''' 
A Jewish pastry of Ashkenazic origin. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugelach WIKI].

==Page 105==

'''the Ofeq satellite''' 
Ofeq is the designation of a series of Israeli reconnaissance satellites first launched in 1988. Most Ofeq satellites have been carried on top of Shavit rockets from Palmachim Airbase in Israel, on the Mediterranean coast. The Low Earth Orbit satellites complete one earth orbit every 90 minutes. The satellite launches made Israel only the eighth nation to gain an indigenous launch capability. Both the satellites and the launchers were designed and manufactured by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) with Elbit Systems' El-Op division supplying the optical payload. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofeq WIKI].

'''the Pollard case''' 
Jonathan Jay Pollard (born August 7, 1954) is an American who passed classified information to Israel while working as an American civilian intelligence analyst. He pleaded guilty and received a life sentence in 1987. Because his crime occurred prior to November 1, 1987, he was eligible for parole and was released on November 20, 2015. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Pollard WIKI].

'''Hertzliya''' 
The Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya is a private university in Israel founded in 1994 by Uriel Reichman. IDC Herzliya is a non-profit corporate institution that receives no government subsidies. The goal is scholarship that goes hand in hand with social responsibility. Degrees granted by IDC Herzliya are accredited by the Israeli Council for Higher Education and are recognized worldwide. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herzliya_Interdisciplinary_Center WIKI].

'''''sayanim''''' 
A sayanim is a Jew living outside Israel who volunteers to provide assistance to Israel and/or the Israeli Mossad utilising the capacity of their own nationality to procure assistance. This assistance includes facilitating medical care, money, logistics, and even overt intelligence gathering. Estimates put the number of sayanims in the hundreds of thousand. While not official Mossad agents and sometimes acting without explicit knowledge, they may work in the capacity of unregistered representatives of the government of Israel in their respective nations. From [http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Sayanim Meta].

'''No keystroke left behind''' 
A reference to the 2001 'No Child Left Behind' Act, the George W. Bush administration's education reform which essentially mandated that each state implement a standardized testing program. [http://www.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Child_Left_Behind_Act Wikipedia]

==Page 106==
'''Politics & Prose''' 
Independent bookstore in Washington, D.C. Website [http://www.politics-prose.com/ here].

'''Big Ben theme''' 
as heard [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbq-1Dlu1Wc here].

'''Kozmo.com''' 
an actual delivery website, went out of business April 2001.

==Page 107==
'''Flyin Dutchmahn''' 
Another opera reference, this time to Wagner's Der Fliegende Holländer, about a Dutch sea captain, fated to sail the seas for eternity, or at least until he can find true love (which in the opera, he doesn't)

'''Duane Reade''' 
a chain of pharmacy and convenience stores, with locations seemingly everywhere in New York City.

==Page 108==

'''Bronx Science''' 
The Bronx High School of Science is a specialized New York City public high school often considered the premier science magnet school in the United States. Founded in 1938, it is now located in the Bedford Park section of the Bronx. Admission is by an exam open to all grade-eligible students in New York City, reportedly taken by more than 20,000 students annually. Although known for its focus on mathematics and science, Bronx Science also emphasizes the humanities and social sciences and continually attracts students with a wide variety of interests beyond math and science. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronx_Science WIKI].

[[File:Bombing of presidential palace in Chile.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Bombing of presidential palace in Chile on 11 September 1973]]

'''Santiago, Chile, on 11 September 1973''' 
The 11 September 1973 Chilean coup d'état was a watershed event in both the Cold War and the history of Chile. Following an extended period of social and political unrest between the conservative-dominated Congress of Chile and the socialist President Salvador Allende, as well as economic warfare ordered by U.S. President Richard Nixon, Allende was overthrown by the armed forces and national police. During the air raids and ground attacks that preceded the coup, Allende gave his last speech, in which he vowed to stay in the presidential palace, denouncing offers for safe passage should he choose exile over confrontation. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilean_coup_of_1973 WIKI].

'''Dirty War''' 
The Dirty War (part of Operation Condor) was a period of state terrorism in Argentina against political dissidents, with military and security forces conducting urban and rural guerrilla warfare against left-wing guerrillas, political dissidents, and anyone believed to be associated with socialism. Victims of the violence included an estimated 15,000 to 30,000 left-wing activists and militants, including trade unionists, students, journalists, Marxists, Peronist guerrillas and alleged sympathizers. Some 10,000 of the "disappeared" were believed to be guerrillas of the Montoneros (MPM), and the Marxist People's Revolutionary Army (ERP). The guerrillas were responsible for causing at least 6,000 casualties among the military, police forces and civilian population according to a National Geographic Magazine article in the mid-1980s. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_war WIKI].

'''IMF''' 
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an international organization that was initiated in 1944 at the Bretton Woods Conference and formally created in 1945 by 29 member countries. The IMF's stated goal was to assist in the reconstruction of the world's international payment system post–World War II. Countries contribute money to a pool through a quota system from which countries with payment imbalances can borrow funds temporarily. Through this activity and others such as surveillance of its members' economies and the demand for self-correcting policies, the IMF works to improve the economies of its member countries. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMF WIKI].

==Page 109==
'''School of the Americas''' 
The US Army School of the Americas, is a United States Department of Defense Institute located at Fort Benning near Columbus, Georgia, that provides military training to government personnel of Latin American countries. The school was founded in 1946 and from 1961 was assigned the specific goal of teaching "anti-communist counterinsurgency training," a role which it would fulfill for the rest of the Cold War. In this period, it educated several Latin American dictators, generations of their military and, during the 1980s, included the uses of torture in its curriculum. In 2000/2001, the institute was renamed The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC). From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_the_americas WIKI].

'''Zermelo's Axiom of Choice''' 
In mathematics, the axiom of choice, or AC, is an axiom of set theory equivalent to the statement that "the product of a collection of non-empty sets is non-empty". The axiom of choice was formulated in 1904 by Ernst Zermelo in order to formalize his proof of the well-ordering theorem. For more detail see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_of_choice WIKI].

==Page 111==
'''United Fruit''' 
The United Fruit Company was an American corporation that traded in tropical fruit (primarily bananas) grown on Central and South American plantations and sold in the United States and Europe. The company was formed in 1899 from the merger of Minor C. Keith's banana-trading concerns with Andrew W. Preston's Boston Fruit Company. It flourished in the early and mid-20th century and came to control vast territories and transportation networks in Central America, the Caribbean coast of Colombia, Ecuador, and the West Indies. Though it competed with the Standard Fruit Company for dominance in the international banana trade, it maintained a virtual monopoly in certain regions, some of which came to be called banana republics. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_fruit WIKI].

'''Kanjobal''' 
Mayan language spoken primarily in Guatemala and part of Mexico.

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