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

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

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

 

See Faberes in action as Elvis sings "The Meanest Girl in Town."
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Sillage from the Elvis Hitler song ''Green Haze'' mentioned on page 177?

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

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'''Peaches & Herb oldie "Reunited and It Feels So Good"''' 
Hear Peaches & Herb performing here (you'll have to imagine Otis & Ziggy's hip-hop version):{{#ev:youtube|vml8gRsFdIE}}

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

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

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

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'''the fall of the afternoon''' 
This way of expressing "late afternoon" could be from the Spanish poem "Soy yo quien anda?" by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Ram%C3%B3n_Jim%C3%A9nez Juan Ramón Jiménez]:

<blockquote>
Is it I who walks, this night 
by my room, or the servant 
who walked around my garden 
at the fall of the afternoon? (Spanish: ''al caer la tarde'')</blockquote>

A quotation from Jiménez, "If they give you ruled paper, write the other way," is the epigraph to Ray Bradbury's novel ''Fahrenheit 451''.

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'''iterated diagonals''' 
The hash mark, now most frequently read as "hashtag", has repeated {iterated} diagonals; it also, given the right font and spacing, is very close in form to the double lightning bolt emblem of the SS.

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

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

Actually, I think this is supposed to mean "deaf and dumb." As in, "If anyone asks me, I don't know nuttin'!" Seems to fit more with the context, as well as Pynchon's soft spot for hardboiled/noir detective lingo and tropes.[[User:TuanJimmy|TuanJimmy]] ([[User talk:TuanJimmy|talk]]) 
: Agree, much more likely to be the latter, "deaf and dumb". Pynchon uses this expression unabbreviated and abbreviated twice (at least) in his novel "Inherent Vice". It's what Doc Sportello, the private eye, says to people to reassure them he'll keep the info they're feeding him confidential:
:„You can't tell anybody about this, Doc.“ / „Deaf and dumb, part of the job. Any phone numbers you'd like to share?“ (Doc's response to Shasta, his ex-girlfriend, pg. 4 of the Vintage 2010 edition);
:„And no, I haven't been near the heat with this. It would get back to these guys before I was out the door, and I'd end up a shark hors d'oeuvre.“ / „D and D, Tito.“ (Doc's response to his friend Tito Stavrou, pg. 184 of the Vintage 2010 edition).

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'''paraphrasing Cheech & Chong . . . "I woulda shot him, man."''' 

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

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'''The Fatty Arbuckle Story''' 

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

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

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

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

'''insect-free''' 
Smugly self-assured. Glancing reference to 1928 song by Fiddlin' John Carson, later covered by Woody Guthrie: "Well, there may be bugs on some of you mugs, but there ain't no bugs on me!"

'''Hypnotiq''' 
Misspelling/typo of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hpnotiq Hpnotiq,] a turquoise liqueur?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''''shmaravozka'''''

(шмаравозка) Russian slang, "pimped-out ride" (Pynchon's use of the term in a novel set in 2001-02 may be anachronistic.)

'''''pushka''''' (пушка) is Russian for "cannon" but just like cannon in English it is also slang for "handgun"

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'''''govno''''' 
(говно) Russian, "shit"

'''''nichego''''' 
(ничего) Russian, "nothing."

'''''vory''''' 
(воры) Russian, "thieves."

'''Austin Powers ... shagadelic'''<br\>
Austin Powers was a character portrayed by Mike Myers in a series of three action-comedy movies parodying the James Bond flicks. Shagadelic was first coined by him in the 1997 film ''Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery'', the first of the trilogy.

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

'''... Chimpan Zee bridge. ''' 
The Tappan Zee Bridge.

'''El Productos stuffed with weed''' 
El Producto cigars are cheap cigars commonly used to make blunts.

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

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

Formed in 1980, DDT were one of he most popular Russian rock bands of the 80s and 90s. The song "Veter" (The Wind), in particular, would be known to any Russian who grew up at that time.

'''Vladimirskii Tsentral''' 
Well-known prison in the city of Vladimir dating from the reign of Catherine the Great and still in use today. (It is, however, very unlikely that petty criminals like Grisha and Misha would have served time there.)

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

'''Camp Tewattsirokwas ... the Gimelmans from Cedarhurst''' 
The camp and the Gimelmans are, as far as I can tell, fictional.
You will need a lot of watts (a terrawatt?) to operate a server farm and a lot of cooling (Lake Heatsink)
So is it named after a way of producing light without heat, or after Groucho Marx character Rufus T. Firefly?

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

'''Marching to Astoria''' 
Reference to Archie Bunker's version. Actually Marching to Pretoria, which was sung at many upstate sleepaway camps. http://youtu.be/Hap0jqU0WsQ

'''Zum Gali Gali''' 
a Hebrew folk song

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

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

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

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

This scene sounds like it came from Repo Man [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repo_Man_%28film%29 wiki]

'''''Po khuy''''' 
(по хуй) An obscene Russian expression of indifference, cf. "don't give a fuck" in English. Its usage seems somewhat out of place here. A contemptuous "na khuy" (на хуй) (= fuck it!; to hell with it!) would be both far more common and much more to Grisha's point.

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'''''nyaschetchka''''' 
(няшечка) Russian Internet slang, "cutie pie." (I suspect its use here is thoroughly anachronistic, as I can't find any citations for the word that are older than 2010.)

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

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_blur Gaussian blur] is a well known technique for smoothing or blurring images using an algorithm based on Gauss' mathematical work (using a 'Gaussian function'). Its effect is to simultaneously make an image appear smoother (and potentially more pleasing to the eye) but also to destroy detail in the process. The idea of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_function Gaussian function] relates to the mathematical distribution of V2 rocket strikes in Gravity's Rainbow.

'''Article 272''' 
This is, indeed, the relevant article in the revised Criminal Code of the Russian Federation adopted in 1997, notable for including cybercrimes for the first time.

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'''Deimos-and-Phobos''' 
In Greek mythology, the twin sons of Ares and Aphrodite. They personify "terror" and "fear" respectively.

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

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

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

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

'''''praporschik''''' 
A grade of NCO in the Russian army. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praporshchik WIKI]

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

'''''dzhef''''' 
Russian, "dope." (One of Pynchon's lamer cross-linguistic puns. "Everything (is) dope," of course, makes sense in English. In Russian, it would make no sense at all, as джеф doesn't have the adjectival slang usage of "very good" that "dope" does in English.)

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

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

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'''go saline''' 
Become tearful.

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

'''Do svidanya Maksi! Poka, byelokurva!''' 
"Goodbye, Maxi! So long, Ditzy Blonde!" (До свидания, Макси! Пока, белокурва!) The term белокурва is more than a little obscure, with only a few hundred G-hits, many of which are to dictionaries of slang and jargon. Some of the Russian Pynchon uses in BE is bog-standard for anyone familiar with the language, but it seems probable that Pynchon was also relying extensively on [http://www.russki-mat.net/e/Russian.php this site] for some of the more colorful (and highly improbable) expressions Igor, Misha and Grisha use.

Белокурва is slang for the "dumb blonde" of the jokes.

Белокурый is blonde, and курва is from Polish "kurwa" (whore). Weird portmanteau word indeed.

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

'''insect-free''' 
Smugly self-assured. Glancing reference to 1928 song by Fiddlin' John Carson, later covered by Woody Guthrie: "Well, there may be bugs on some of you mugs, but there ain't no bugs on me!"

'''Hypnotiq''' 
Misspelling/typo of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hpnotiq Hpnotiq,] a turquoise liqueur?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''''shmaravozka'''''

(шмаравозка) Russian slang, "pimped-out ride" (Pynchon's use of the term in a novel set in 2001-02 may be anachronistic.)

'''''pushka''''' (пушка) is Russian for "cannon" but just like cannon in English it is also slang for "handgun"

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'''''govno''''' 
(говно) Russian, "shit"

'''''nichego''''' 
(ничего) Russian, "nothing."

'''''vory''''' 
(воры) Russian, "thieves."

'''Austin Powers ... shagadelic'''<br\>
Austin Powers was a character portrayed by Mike Myers in a series of three action-comedy movies parodying the James Bond flicks. Shagadelic was first coined by him in the 1997 film ''Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery'', the first of the trilogy.

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

'''... Chimpan Zee bridge. ''' 
The Tappan Zee Bridge.

'''El Productos stuffed with weed''' 
El Producto cigars are cheap cigars commonly used to make blunts.

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

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

Formed in 1980, DDT were one of he most popular Russian rock bands of the 80s and 90s. The song "Veter" (The Wind), in particular, would be known to any Russian who grew up at that time.

'''Vladimirskii Tsentral''' 
Well-known prison in the city of Vladimir dating from the reign of Catherine the Great and still in use today. (It is, however, very unlikely that petty criminals like Grisha and Misha would have served time there.)

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

'''Camp Tewattsirokwas ... the Gimelmans from Cedarhurst''' 
The camp and the Gimelmans are, as far as I can tell, fictional.
You will need a lot of watts (a terrawatt?) to operate a server farm and a lot of cooling (Lake Heatsink)
So is it named after a way of producing light without heat, or after Groucho Marx character Rufus T. Firefly?

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

'''Marching to Astoria''' 
Reference to Archie Bunker's version. Actually Marching to Pretoria, which was sung at many upstate sleepaway camps. http://youtu.be/Hap0jqU0WsQ

'''Zum Gali Gali''' 
a Hebrew folk song

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

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

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

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

This scene sounds like it came from Repo Man [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repo_Man_%28film%29 wiki]

'''''Po khuy''''' 
(по хуй) An obscene Russian expression of indifference, cf. "don't give a fuck" in English. Its usage seems somewhat out of place here. A contemptuous "na khuy" (на хуй) (= fuck it!; to hell with it!) would be both far more common and much more to Grisha's point.

==Page 459==

'''''nyaschetchka''''' 
(няшечка) Russian Internet slang, "cutie pie." (I suspect its use here is thoroughly anachronistic, as I can't find any citations for the word that are older than 2010.)

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

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_blur Gaussian blur] is a well known technique for smoothing or blurring images using an algorithm based on Gauss' mathematical work (using a 'Gaussian function'). Its effect is to simultaneously make an image appear smoother (and potentially more pleasing to the eye) but also to destroy detail in the process. The idea of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_function Gaussian function] relates to the mathematical distribution of V2 rocket strikes in Gravity's Rainbow.

'''Article 272''' 
This is, indeed, the relevant article in the revised Criminal Code of the Russian Federation adopted in 1997, notable for including cybercrimes for the first time.

==Page 460==

'''Deimos-and-Phobos''' 
In Greek mythology, the twin sons of Ares and Aphrodite. They personify "terror" and "fear" respectively.

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

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

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

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

'''''praporschik''''' 
A grade of NCO in the Russian army. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praporshchik WIKI]

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

'''''dzhef''''' 
Russian, "dope." (One of Pynchon's lamer cross-linguistic puns. "Everything (is) dope," of course, makes sense in English. In Russian, it would make no sense at all, as джеф doesn't have the adjectival slang usage of "very good" that "dope" does in English.)

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

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

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

'''Do svidanya Maksi! Poka, byelokurva!''' 
"Goodbye, Maxi! So long, Ditzy Blonde!" (До свидания, Макси! Пока, белокурва!) The term белокурва is more than a little obscure, with only a few hundred G-hits, many of which are to dictionaries of slang and jargon. Some of the Russian Pynchon uses in BE is bog-standard for anyone familiar with the language, but it seems probable that Pynchon was also relying extensively on [http://www.russki-mat.net/e/Russian.php this site] for some of the more colorful (and highly improbable) expressions Igor, Misha and Grisha use.

Белокурва is slang for the "dumb blonde" of the jokes.

Белокурый is blonde, and курва is from Polish "kurwa" (whore). Weird portmanteau word indeed.

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'''idiot-surfant''' 
Play on idiot-savant.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 433==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 433==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

{{Bleeding Edge PbP}}

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==Page 395==
'''Twelfth Night''' 
''Twelfth Night''; or, ''What You Will'' is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–02 as a Twelfth Night's entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. The play expanded on the musical interludes and riotous disorder expected of the occasion, with plot elements drawn from the short story "Of Apollonius and Silla" by Barnabe Rich, based on a story by Matteo Bandello. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_night WIKI].

==Page 396==
'''shoulder surfers''' 
In computer security, shoulder surfing refers to using direct observation techniques, such as looking over someone's shoulder, to get information. It is commonly used to obtain passwords, PINs, security codes, and similar data. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoulder_surfing_%28computer_security%29 Wikipedia]

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

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

==Page 401==

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

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

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

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

==Page 403==
'''wadis of deep purity''' 
Wadi is the Arabic term traditionally referring to a valley. In some cases, it may refer to a dry (ephemeral) riverbed that contains water only during times of heavy rain or simply an intermittent stream. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadis WIKI].

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

General Service 1800 series numbers are used to designate various government special agents. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_agent#Federal_government WIKI].
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'''Melanie's Mall''' 
This was God help us a real toy. Check out Melanie, her mall, her friends, and even her escalator
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Also, here's a [http://melaniesmall.50webs.com/ guide to all the Melanie's Mall products].

'''Dragonball Z''' 
Pynchon commands at least the very basics of ''Dragonball Z'''s plot, as evidence by the grouping of Goku with his son Gohan within a comma, plus the title of "Prince" Vegeta. Someone who knew absolutely jack about the show would have written, "including Vegeta, Goku, Gohan, Zarbon, and others."

'''Use the Source, Luke''' 
{{#ev:youtube|o2we_B6hDrY}}

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'''MUD clones''' 
"Multi-User Dungeon" games, an old-school, text-based video game. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD Wikipedia]

'''VRML''' 
Virtual Reality Modeling Language, pronounced vermal or by its initials, originally—before 1995—known as the Virtual Reality Markup Language.

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'''Jolt''' 
Jolt Cola is a carbonated soft drink produced by Wet Planet Beverages. It was created in 1985 by C. J. Rapp as a highly caffeinated cola and was targeted towards students and young professionals, stressing its use as a stimulant in a similar manner as energy drinks. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolt_Cola WIKI].

'''Ian Longspoon''' 
14th century proverb: "He who sups with the devil should have a long spoon." Some version of this is found in Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" and in Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and "The Comedy of Errors". The name implies "Have someone like this with you when dealing with a bad dude."

'''Fernet-Brancas with ginger-ale chasers''' 
Fernet-Branca is a spirit from Italy that's extremely popular in the San Francisco Bay Area, in fact, the area accounts for 25% of its consumption. Likewise, it's most commonly served in the area with a "ginger back."

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'''celestial pastry exercise''' 
pie in the sky.

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'''Ponzi scheme''' 
A Ponzi scheme (also known as a pyramid scheme) is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to its investors from their own money or the money paid by subsequent investors, rather than from profit earned by the individual or organization running the operation. The Ponzi scheme usually entices new investors by offering higher returns than other investments, in the form of short-term returns that are either abnormally high or unusually consistent. Perpetuation of the high returns requires an ever-increasing flow of money from new investors to keep the scheme going. The scheme is named after Charles Ponzi, who became notorious for using the technique in 1920. While Ponzi didn't invent the scheme (for example, Charles Dickens' 1844 novel ''Martin Chuzzlewit'' and 1857 novel ''Little Dorrit'' each described such a scheme), his operation took in so much money that it was the first to become known throughout the United States. Ponzi's original scheme was based on the arbitrage of international reply coupons for postage stamps; however, he soon diverted investors' money to make payments to earlier investors and himself. From [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme WIKI].

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'''Voorhees, Krueger''' 
names of horror film villains: Jason Voorhees of ''Friday the 13th'' and Freddy Krueger of ''Nightmare on Elm Street''.

'''Courtney Pulitzer's downtown soirees''' 
Courtney Pulitzer branched off from her @The Scene column with @NY and created Courtney Pulitzer's Cyber Scene and her popular networking events Cocktails with Courtney. From [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Alley WIKI].

'''kalimotxos''' 
Kalimotxo, also known as cocavino, is a drink consisting of equal parts red wine and cola-based soft drink.

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'''Camel Book''' 
''Programming Perl'', best known as the Camel Book among programmers, is a book about writing programs using the Perl programming language, revised as several editions (1991-2012) to reflect major language changes since Perl version 4. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_Perl WIKI].

'''back in time, to a California that had never existed''' 
like "Inherent Vice"?

'''Cinerama''' 
A trademarked film presentation process that uses three separate but locked together cameras, three synchronized projectors, and a large deeply curved screen. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinerama Wiki] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e360zRfLKQ YouTube] Kind of interesting, especially when considered as an early type of virtual reality.

'''against the secular city, and the lights go down and the screens light up''' 
The term "secular" was often used in ''Against the Day'' to signify a grounded earthiness to contrast the ethereal or otherworldly.

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'''cross-dawning image''' 
An animated color effect, smoothly transitioning: "flaring beyond the basic videogame brown of the time into the full color spectrum of very early morning." Think "crossfade" (which Pynchon uses on the next page) and "dawning" so that the transition to color is from the bottom to top, like dawn. This isn't a standard Web-design term.

'''polygons''' 
Graphics software is centered around the fast and efficient manipulation of the polygons into which computer graphics are subdivided. Polygons are usually triangular, so they need to be converted into (usually) rectangular pixels for display on computer screens.

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'''Midnight Cannonball''' 
This is the name of a song by Big Joe Turner

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[[File:Netscape-gray.jpg|left|thumb|100px|caption|Netscape gray]]'''the entropic dwindling into Netscape gray of the other brighter world''' 
When she looks out the rear window of the vehicle, instead of seeing detail and color like she sees looking forward in "the other brighter world", the details aren't rendered looking back, instead fading to Netscape gray which is the background color the Netscape browser rendered if no specific color was coded in. Looks like this...

As for "entropic dwindling" ... entropy is the gradual decline into disorder which happens with all closed systems. Pynchon's use here is slightly metaphorical, referring to the lack of energy put into the events dwindling into the past. Pynchon frequently uses entropy as a metaphor. [http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/entropy/]

'''I BELIEVE YOU HAVE MY STAPLER''' 
"I Believe You Have My Stapler" is a catchphrase originally uttered by the character Milton Waddams in the 1999 movie ''Office Space''. The movie is about a group of employees who hate their jobs and decide to rebel against their greedy boss.

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'''...bleeding-edge technology...No proven use, high risk, something only early-adoption addicts feel comfortable with.''' 
Perhaps a gratuitous annotation, but it seemed appropriate to highlight how Pynchon uses the title of the book in the book itself.

'''the penet.fi days''' 
The Penet remailer (anon.penet.fi) was a pseudonymous remailer operated by Johan "Julf" Helsingius of Finland from 1993 to 1996. Its initial creation stemmed from an argument in a Finnish newsgroup over whether people should be required to tie their real name to their online communications. Julf believed that people should not—indeed, could not—be required to do so. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penet_remailer WIKI].

'''Markov chain''' 
A Markov chain, named after Andrey Markov, is a mathematical system that undergoes transitions from one state to another, among a finite or countable number of possible states. It is a random process usually characterized as memoryless: the next state depends only on the current state and not on the sequence of events that preceded it. This specific kind of "memorylessness" is called the Markov property. Markov chains have many applications as statistical models of real-world processes. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain WIKI].

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'''Robert Moses spinning in his grave''' 
See p. [[Chapter_22#Page_241|241]].

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'''appoggiaturas''' 
An appoggiatura is an embellishing note or tone preceding an essential melodic note or tone and usually written as a note of smaller size. It often creates a brief dissonance prior to its resolution to the melody's key. [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/appoggiatura]

'''drop the hook''' 
Drop anchor.

'''The Port of Authority''' 
Now more commonly know as the Port Authority, The Port of New York Authority was established in 1921.

:"ARTICLE III There is hereby created "The Port of New York Authority" (for brevity hereinafter referred to as the "Port Authority"), which shall be a body corporate and politic, having the powers and jurisdiction hereinafter enumerated..." [http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/nycode/PNY/notes]

Pynchon's usage is old school.

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'''''Za shastye''''' 
For happiness, good luck, fortune, etc.

'''''Pizdets''''' 
Fuck.

'''Hidden track''' 
Another roll-over from the 90s. Sort of the DVD equivalent of the dark web.

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'''even larger question about to lift its trunk''' 
ie the elephant in the room

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'''her backpack ... does seem to run to Himalayan-expedition scale''' 
Pynchon also uses this trope of containers larger on the inside than the outside suggests in [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_35:_349-361#Page_354 ''Mason & Dixon'' at page 354]

'''Music track? Frank Sinatra..."Time After Time," beginning the phrase "in the evening when the day is through,".''' 
Indeed, a most poignant lounge music song. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I6s1J9ZSNw Hear] Sinatra sing it. The lyrics in question come around early, at the 0:41 mark.

==Page 333==
'''Sarcófago''' 
A heavy metal band from Brazil.

'''Burzum and Mayhem''' 
Both real bands.

'''among widely reported Ambien hallucinations being numbers of small people busy running around doing a variety of household tasks''' 
These little people are recapped on [[Chapter_31#Page_346|page 346]]. Psychobotanist Terrence McKenna postulated the existence of "machine elves" seen while under the influence of DMT:

:Terence McKenna advocated the exploration of altered states of mind via the ingestion of naturally occurring psychedelic substances. For example, and in particular, as facilitated by the ingestion of high doses of psychedelic mushrooms, and DMT, which he believed was the apotheosis of the psychedelic experience. He spoke of meeting entities he described as "jeweled, self-dribbling basketballs" or "self-transforming machine elves" which one can encounter in those states. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_elf]

==Page 335==
'''no more fictional reading assignments''' 
Reminds me of Uncle Ives in ''Mason & Dixon'' who thinks fiction is immoral: "I cannot I say, energetically enough insist upon the danger of reading these storybooks,— in particular those known as 'Novel.' . . . these irresponsible narratives, that will not distinguish between fact and fancy" (350-51).

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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''' 
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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''''shmaravozka'''''

(шмаравозка) Russian slang, "pimped-out ride" (Pynchon's use of the term in a novel set in 2001-02 may be anachronistic.)

'''''pushka''''' (пушка) is Russian for "cannon" but just like cannon in English it is also slang for "handgun"

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'''''govno''''' 
(говно) Russian, "shit"

'''''nichego''''' 
(ничего) Russian, "nothing."

'''''vory''''' 
(воры) Russian, "thieves."

'''Austin Powers ... shagadelic'''<br\>
Austin Powers was a character portrayed by Mike Myers in a series of three action-comedy movies parodying the James Bond flicks. Shagadelic was first coined by him in the 1997 film ''Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery'', the first of the trilogy.

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

'''... Chimpan Zee bridge. ''' 
The Tappan Zee Bridge.

'''El Productos stuffed with weed''' 
El Producto cigars are cheap cigars commonly used to make blunts.

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

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

Formed in 1980, DDT were one of he most popular Russian rock bands of the 80s and 90s. The song "Veter" (The Wind), in particular, would be known to any Russian who grew up at that time.

'''Vladimirskii Tsentral''' 
Well-known prison in the city of Vladimir dating from the reign of Catherine the Great and still in use today. (It is, however, very unlikely that petty criminals like Grisha and Misha would have served time there.)

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

'''Camp Tewattsirokwas ... the Gimelmans from Cedarhurst''' 
The camp and the Gimelmans are, as far as I can tell, fictional.
You will need a lot of watts (a terrawatt?) to operate a server farm and a lot of cooling (Lake Heatsink)
So is it named after a way of producing light without heat, or after Groucho Marx character Rufus T. Firefly?

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

'''Marching to Astoria''' 
Reference to Archie Bunker's version. Actually Marching to Pretoria, which was sung at many upstate sleepaway camps. http://youtu.be/Hap0jqU0WsQ

'''Zum Gali Gali''' 
a Hebrew folk song

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

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

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

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

This scene sounds like it came from Repo Man [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repo_Man_%28film%29 wiki]

'''''Po khuy''''' 
(по хуй) An obscene Russian expression of indifference, cf. "don't give a fuck" in English. Its usage seems somewhat out of place here. A contemptuous "na khuy" (на хуй) (= fuck it!; to hell with it!) would be both far more common and much more to Grisha's point.

==Page 459==

'''''nyaschetchka''''' 
(няшечка) Russian Internet slang, "cutie pie." (I suspect its use here is thoroughly anachronistic, as I can't find any citations for the word that are older than 2010.)

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

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_blur Gaussian blur] is a well known technique for smoothing or blurring images using an algorithm based on Gauss' mathematical work (using a 'Gaussian function'). Its effect is to simultaneously make an image appear smoother (and potentially more pleasing to the eye) but also to destroy detail in the process. The idea of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_function Gaussian function] relates to the mathematical distribution of V2 rocket strikes in Gravity's Rainbow.

'''Article 272''' 
This is, indeed, the relevant article in the revised Criminal Code of the Russian Federation adopted in 1997, notable for including cybercrimes for the first time.

==Page 460==

'''Deimos-and-Phobos''' 
In Greek mythology, the twin sons of Ares and Aphrodite. They personify "terror" and "fear" respectively.

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

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

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

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

'''''praporschik''''' 
A grade of NCO in the Russian army. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praporshchik WIKI]

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

'''''dzhef''''' 
Russian, "dope." (One of Pynchon's lamer cross-linguistic puns. "Everything (is) dope," of course, makes sense in English. In Russian, it would make no sense at all, as джеф doesn't have the adjectival slang usage of "very good" that "dope" does in English.)

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

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

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

'''Do svidanya Maksi! Poka, byelokurva!''' 
"Goodbye, Maxi! So long, Ditzy Blonde!" (До свидания, Макси! Пока, белокурва!) The term белокурва is more than a little obscure, with only a few hundred G-hits, many of which are to dictionaries of slang and jargon. Some of the Russian Pynchon uses in BE is bog-standard for anyone familiar with the language, but it seems probable that Pynchon was also relying extensively on [http://www.russki-mat.net/e/Russian.php this site] for some of the more colorful (and highly improbable) expressions Igor, Misha and Grisha use.

Белокурва is slang for the "dumb blonde" of the jokes.

Белокурый is blonde, and курва is from Polish "kurwa" (whore). Weird portmanteau word indeed.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''''shmaravozka'''''

(шмаравозка) Russian slang, "pimped-out ride" (Pynchon's use of the term in a novel set in 2001-02 may be anachronistic.)

'''''pushka''''' (пушка) is Russian for "cannon" but just like cannon in English it is also slang for "handgun"

==Page 455==
'''''govno''''' 
(говно) Russian, "shit"

'''''nichego''''' 
(ничего) Russian, "nothing."

'''''vory''''' 
(воры) Russian, "thieves."

'''Austin Powers ... shagadelic'''<br\>
Austin Powers was a character portrayed by Mike Myers in a series of three action-comedy movies parodying the James Bond flicks. Shagadelic was first coined by him in the 1997 film ''Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery'', the first of the trilogy.

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

'''... Chimpan Zee bridge. ''' 
The Tappan Zee Bridge.

'''El Productos stuffed with weed''' 
El Producto cigars are cheap cigars commonly used to make blunts.

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

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

Formed in 1980, DDT were one of he most popular Russian rock bands of the 80s and 90s. The song "Veter" (The Wind), in particular, would be known to any Russian who grew up at that time.

'''Vladimirskii Tsentral''' 
Well-known prison in the city of Vladimir dating from the reign of Catherine the Great and still in use today. (It is, however, very unlikely that petty criminals like Grisha and Misha would have served time there.)

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

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

You will need a lot of watts (a terrawatt?) to operate a server farm and a lot of cooling (Lake Heatsink)

So is it named after a way of producing light without heat, or after Groucho Marx character Rufus T. Firefly?

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

'''Marching to Astoria''' 
Reference to Archie Bunker's version. Actually Marching to Pretoria, which was sung at many upstate sleepaway camps. http://youtu.be/Hap0jqU0WsQ

'''Zum Gali Gali''' 
a Hebrew folk song

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

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

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

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

This scene sounds like it came from Repo Man [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repo_Man_%28film%29 wiki]

'''''Po khuy''''' 
(по хуй) An obscene Russian expression of indifference, cf. "don't give a fuck" in English. Its usage seems somewhat out of place here. A contemptuous "na khuy" (на хуй) (= fuck it!; to hell with it!) would be both far more common and much more to Grisha's point.

==Page 459==

'''''nyaschetchka''''' 
(няшечка) Russian Internet slang, "cutie pie." (I suspect its use here is thoroughly anachronistic, as I can't find any citations for the word that are older than 2010.)

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

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_blur Gaussian blur] is a well known technique for smoothing or blurring images using an algorithm based on Gauss' mathematical work (using a 'Gaussian function'). Its effect is to simultaneously make an image appear smoother (and potentially more pleasing to the eye) but also to destroy detail in the process. The idea of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_function Gaussian function] relates to the mathematical distribution of V2 rocket strikes in Gravity's Rainbow.

'''Article 272''' 
This is, indeed, the relevant article in the revised Criminal Code of the Russian Federation adopted in 1997, notable for including cybercrimes for the first time.

==Page 460==

'''Deimos-and-Phobos''' 
In Greek mythology, the twin sons of Ares and Aphrodite. They personify "terror" and "fear" respectively.

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

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

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

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

'''''praporschik''''' 
A grade of NCO in the Russian army. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praporshchik WIKI]

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

'''''dzhef''''' 
Russian, "dope." (One of Pynchon's lamer cross-linguistic puns. "Everything (is) dope," of course, makes sense in English. In Russian, it would make no sense at all, as джеф doesn't have the adjectival slang usage of "very good" that "dope" does in English.)

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

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

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

'''Do svidanya Maksi! Poka, byelokurva!''' 
"Goodbye, Maxi! So long, Ditzy Blonde!" (До свидания, Макси! Пока, белокурва!) The term белокурва is more than a little obscure, with only a few hundred G-hits, many of which are to dictionaries of slang and jargon. Some of the Russian Pynchon uses in BE is bog-standard for anyone familiar with the language, but it seems probable that Pynchon was also relying extensively on [http://www.russki-mat.net/e/Russian.php this site] for some of the more colorful (and highly improbable) expressions Igor, Misha and Grisha use.

Белокурва is slang for the "dumb blonde" of the jokes.

Белокурый is blonde, and курва is from Polish "kurwa" (whore). Weird portmanteau word indeed.

{{Bleeding Edge PbP}}

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2018-08-05T00:41:58Z

Pthomas: /* Page 456 */

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''''shmaravozka'''''

(шмаравозка) Russian slang, "pimped-out ride" (Pynchon's use of the term in a novel set in 2001-02 may be anachronistic.)

'''''pushka''''' (пушка) is Russian for "cannon" but just like cannon in English it is also slang for "handgun"

==Page 455==
'''''govno''''' 
(говно) Russian, "shit"

'''''nichego''''' 
(ничего) Russian, "nothing."

'''''vory''''' 
(воры) Russian, "thieves."

'''Austin Powers ... shagadelic'''<br\>
Austin Powers was a character portrayed by Mike Myers in a series of three action-comedy movies parodying the James Bond flicks. Shagadelic was first coined by him in the 1997 film ''Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery'', the first of the trilogy.

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

'''... Chimpan Zee bridge. ''' 
The Tappan Zee Bridge.

'''El Productos stuffed with weed''' 
El Producto cigars are cheap cigars commonly used to make blunts.

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

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

Formed in 1980, DDT were one of he most popular Russian rock bands of the 80s and 90s. The song "Veter" (The Wind), in particular, would be known to any Russian who grew up at that time.

'''Vladimirskii Tsentral'''
Well-known prison in the city of Vladimir dating from the reign of Catherine the Great and still in use today. (It is, however, very unlikely that petty criminals like Grisha and Misha would have served time there.)

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

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

You will need a lot of watts (a terrawatt?) to operate a server farm and a lot of cooling (Lake Heatsink)

So is it named after a way of producing light without heat, or after Groucho Marx character Rufus T. Firefly?

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

'''Marching to Astoria''' 
Reference to Archie Bunker's version. Actually Marching to Pretoria, which was sung at many upstate sleepaway camps. http://youtu.be/Hap0jqU0WsQ

'''Zum Gali Gali''' 
a Hebrew folk song

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

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

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

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

This scene sounds like it came from Repo Man [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repo_Man_%28film%29 wiki]

'''''Po khuy''''' 
(по хуй) An obscene Russian expression of indifference, cf. "don't give a fuck" in English. Its usage seems somewhat out of place here. A contemptuous "na khuy" (на хуй) (= fuck it!; to hell with it!) would be both far more common and much more to Grisha's point.

==Page 459==

'''''nyaschetchka''''' 
(няшечка) Russian Internet slang, "cutie pie." (I suspect its use here is thoroughly anachronistic, as I can't find any citations for the word that are older than 2010.)

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

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_blur Gaussian blur] is a well known technique for smoothing or blurring images using an algorithm based on Gauss' mathematical work (using a 'Gaussian function'). Its effect is to simultaneously make an image appear smoother (and potentially more pleasing to the eye) but also to destroy detail in the process. The idea of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_function Gaussian function] relates to the mathematical distribution of V2 rocket strikes in Gravity's Rainbow.

'''Article 272''' 
This is, indeed, the relevant article in the revised Criminal Code of the Russian Federation adopted in 1997, notable for including cybercrimes for the first time.

==Page 460==

'''Deimos-and-Phobos''' 
In Greek mythology, the twin sons of Ares and Aphrodite. They personify "terror" and "fear" respectively.

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

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

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

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

'''''praporschik''''' 
A grade of NCO in the Russian army. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praporshchik WIKI]

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

'''''dzhef''''' 
Russian, "dope." (One of Pynchon's lamer cross-linguistic puns. "Everything (is) dope," of course, makes sense in English. In Russian, it would make no sense at all, as джеф doesn't have the adjectival slang usage of "very good" that "dope" does in English.)

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

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

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

'''Do svidanya Maksi! Poka, byelokurva!''' 
"Goodbye, Maxi! So long, Ditzy Blonde!" (До свидания, Макси! Пока, белокурва!) The term белокурва is more than a little obscure, with only a few hundred G-hits, many of which are to dictionaries of slang and jargon. Some of the Russian Pynchon uses in BE is bog-standard for anyone familiar with the language, but it seems probable that Pynchon was also relying extensively on [http://www.russki-mat.net/e/Russian.php this site] for some of the more colorful (and highly improbable) expressions Igor, Misha and Grisha use.

Белокурва is slang for the "dumb blonde" of the jokes.

Белокурый is blonde, and курва is from Polish "kurwa" (whore). Weird portmanteau word indeed.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 433==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 433==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''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?

{{Bleeding Edge PbP}}

Chapter 38

2018-08-05T00:34:44Z

Pthomas: /* Page 433 */

{{BE PxP Header}}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 433==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''going as you might expect for rock bottom prices'''<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?

{{Bleeding Edge PbP}}

Chapter 38

2018-08-05T00:34:06Z

Pthomas: /* Page 432 */

{{BE PxP Header}}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 433==
'''Wagnerian brass section'''<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 for the 1938 musical *You Never Know*; first sung by Clifton Webb; recorded by Frank Sinatra for the 1957 album *A Swingin' Affair!* and the 1962 album *Sinatra and Swingin' Brass*)
 
''Is it for all time or simply a lark?''
 
''Is it Granada I see or only Asbury Park?''

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''going as you might expect for rock bottom prices'''<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?

{{Bleeding Edge PbP}}

Chapter 38

2018-08-05T00:32:03Z

Pthomas: /* Page 425 */

{{BE PxP Header}}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 428==
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 for the 1938 musical *You Never Know*; first sung by Clifton Webb; recorded by Frank Sinatra for the 1957 album *A Swingin' Affair!* and the 1962 album *Sinatra and Swingin' Brass*)
 
''Is it for all time or simply a lark?''
 
''Is it Granada I see or only Asbury Park?''

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''going as you might expect for rock bottom prices'''<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?

{{Bleeding Edge PbP}}

Chapter 36

2018-08-05T00:17:21Z

Pthomas: /* Page 404 */

{{BE PxP Header}}

==Page 395==
'''Twelfth Night''' 
''Twelfth Night''; or, ''What You Will'' is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–02 as a Twelfth Night's entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. The play expanded on the musical interludes and riotous disorder expected of the occasion, with plot elements drawn from the short story "Of Apollonius and Silla" by Barnabe Rich, based on a story by Matteo Bandello. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_night WIKI].

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

General Service 1800 series numbers are used to designate various government special agents. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_agent#Federal_government WIKI].
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'''do you know how to post video material on your Weblog?''' 
YouTube is not invented until 2005

'''''boricua''''' 
Puerto Rican

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'''davening''' 
Recitation of prescribed Jewish prayers.

'''that Watergate movie''' 
''All the President's Men'' (1976). It's about Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward investigating the Watergate scandal for ''The Washington Post''.

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'''They emerge into the open, high up near a catwalk...suitable for teen adventures, clandestine lovers, well-heeled wrongdoers on the run, and take this vertiginous crossover...''' 
Once again, there's no telling if Pynchon had Hitchcock's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5jvQwwHQNY Vertigo] in mind when he wrote "Bleeding Edge," but it sure is easy to get the two works into a casual conversation.

'''I've got their album''' 
Is she talking about the band Men at Work?

It's quite possible. The lines that provoke Maxine's comment are: "Look sharp," March ducking behind a vent. "Some gents with metal accessories."

Or, just the fact that to Maxine it looks more like a band setting up to play on the roof than it does the Stingers they saw in the video.

Or, she just means the DVD they just watched.

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'''introduced piranhas into the Doctor's swimming pool''' 
fwiw, if the pool was chlorinated, the fish would die pretty quickly. There are chlorine-free pool disinfectant systems, but I don't know if they were around then.

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'''''Yozhik v Tumane''''' 
Real short film. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCsJZV7aCdY YouTube.] More info at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedgehog_in_the_Fog Wiki] where you can learn, among other things, that the title means "hedgehog in the fog."

'''''podyobka''''' 
Russian подъёбка = a "trick" or "practical joke." It's a mild obscenity, however (the word is derived from the root -ёб = fuck) so it's perhaps more in the spirit to translate it as "dicking around."

'''what Flintstones call page right out of history''' 
Lyrics to the theme song of the cartoon ''The Flintstones'':
<blockquote>Flintstones. Meet the Flintstones. 
They're the modern stone age family. 
From the town of Bedrock, 
They're a page right out of history. 
</blockquote>

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'''do you know how to post video material on your Weblog?''' 
YouTube is not invented until 2005

'''''boricua''''' 
Puerto Rican

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'''davening'''
Recitation of prescribed Jewish prayers.

'''that Watergate movie''' 
''All the President's Men'' (1976). It's about Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward investigating the Watergate scandal for ''The Washington Post''.

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'''They emerge into the open, high up near a catwalk...suitable for teen adventures, clandestine lovers, well-heeled wrongdoers on the run, and take this vertiginous crossover...''' 
Once again, there's no telling if Pynchon had Hitchcock's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5jvQwwHQNY Vertigo] in mind when he wrote "Bleeding Edge," but it sure is easy to get the two works into a casual conversation.

'''I've got their album''' 
Is she talking about the band Men at Work?

It's quite possible. The lines that provoke Maxine's comment are: "Look sharp," March ducking behind a vent. "Some gents with metal accessories."

Or, just the fact that to Maxine it looks more like a band setting up to play on the roof than it does the Stingers they saw in the video.

Or, she just means the DVD they just watched.

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'''introduced piranhas into the Doctor's swimming pool''' 
fwiw, if the pool was chlorinated, the fish would die pretty quickly. There are chlorine-free pool disinfectant systems, but I don't know if they were around then.

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'''''Yozhik v Tumane''''' 
Real short film. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCsJZV7aCdY YouTube.] More info at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedgehog_in_the_Fog Wiki] where you can learn, among other things, that the title means "hedgehog in the fog."

'''''podyobka''''' 
Russian подъёбка = a "trick" or "practical joke." It's a mild obscenity, however (the word is derived from the root -ёб = fuck) so it's perhaps more in the spirit to translate it as "dicking around."

'''what Flintstones call page right out of history''' 
Lyrics to the theme song of the cartoon ''The Flintstones'':
<blockquote>Flintstones. Meet the Flintstones. 
They're the modern stone age family. 
From the town of Bedrock, 
They're a page right out of history. 
</blockquote>

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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.

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'''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.]

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'''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.

'''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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'''"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].

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'''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?''' 
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?

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

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'''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]

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'''doomed to wander those century-old corridors until accounts are balanced, or for eternity''' 
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.

Bobruysk (spelled Babruysk there) is heavily featured in padonki slang, as a "fuck off" destination point. So, Misha and Grisha are likely not really from Bobruysk.

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'''S.Z. Sakall''' 
was a Hungarian film actor; he played Carl, the head waiter, in ''Casablanca''. 
: The link that establishes a "Jewish" affinity here between the Hungarian Jew S.Z. Sakall (who managed to escape the Holocaust by fleeing from Hungary to the States in 1940) and the Japanese Psyduck, a Pokémon character, is the characteristic gesture ascribed to both: one of Sakall's two acting trademark gestures was apparently to grab his face with both hands (his chin and jaws resting in his palms, fingertips on temples) while squeezing his chubby cheeks (in shock? in wondering despair? – the gesture is shown several times in Sakall's profile on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ7957GMiiU]); and Psyduck also is famous for holding his head (in despair? – his "psy" is after all a homophone of "sigh"). However, I couldn't find Sakall (as Carl the head waiter) making this gesture in "Casablanca" at all. He does, however, make it for example in "Never Say Goodbye", a romantic comedy film from 1946, where he played Luigi, a friendly New York restaurateur (a trailer for the film that shows the gesture briefly, approx. a minute into it, is available on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGRYxeF98uY]).

'''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."

It's a comparative, so rather "fucking better"

'''''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

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'''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''' 
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''' 
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.

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'''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''' 
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.

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'''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?''' 
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''' 
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.

Bobruysk (spelled Babruysk there) is heavily featured in padonki slang, as a "fuck off" destination point. So, Misha and Grisha are likely not really from Bobruysk.

==Page 372==
'''S.Z. Sakall''' 
was a Hungarian film actor; he played Carl, the head waiter, in ''Casablanca''. 
: The link that establishes a "Jewish" affinity here between the Hungarian Jew S.Z. Sakall (who managed to escape the Holocaust by fleeing from Hungary to the States in 1940) and the Japanese Psyduck, a Pokémon character, is the characteristic gesture ascribed to both: one of Sakall's two acting trademark gestures was apparently to grab his face with both hands (his chin and jaws resting in his palms, fingertips on temples) while squeezing his chubby cheeks (in shock? in wondering despair? – the gesture is shown several times in Sakall's profile on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ7957GMiiU]); and Psyduck also is famous for holding his head (in despair? – his "psy" is after all a homophone of "sigh"). However, I couldn't find Sakall (as Carl the head waiter) making this gesture in "Casablanca" at all. He does, however, make it for example in "Never Say Goodbye", a romantic comedy film from 1946, where he played Luigi, a friendly New York restaurateur (a trailer for the film that shows the gesture briefly, approx. a minute into it, is available on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGRYxeF98uY]).

'''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."

It's a comparative, so rather "fucking better"

'''''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==

''''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]

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

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

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

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

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

'''what if I don't know which way to point the lens, what if I miss something really crucial?''' 
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''' 
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.

Bobruysk (spelled Babruysk there) is heavily featured in padonki slang, as a "fuck off" destination point. So, Misha and Grisha are likely not really from Bobruysk.

==Page 372==
'''S.Z. Sakall''' 
was a Hungarian film actor; he played Carl, the head waiter, in ''Casablanca''. 
: The link that establishes a "Jewish" affinity here between the Hungarian Jew S.Z. Sakall (who managed to escape the Holocaust by fleeing from Hungary to the States in 1940) and the Japanese Psyduck, a Pokémon character, is the characteristic gesture ascribed to both: one of Sakall's two acting trademark gestures was apparently to grab his face with both hands (his chin and jaws resting in his palms, fingertips on temples) while squeezing his chubby cheeks (in shock? in wondering despair? – the gesture is shown several times in Sakall's profile on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ7957GMiiU]); and Psyduck also is famous for holding his head (in despair? – his "psy" is after all a homophone of "sigh"). However, I couldn't find Sakall (as Carl the head waiter) making this gesture in "Casablanca" at all. He does, however, make it for example in "Never Say Goodbye", a romantic comedy film from 1946, where he played Luigi, a friendly New York restaurateur (a trailer for the film that shows the gesture briefly, approx. a minute into it, is available on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGRYxeF98uY]).

'''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."

It's a comparative, so rather "fucking better"

'''''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==

''''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]

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

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

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

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

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

'''what if I don't know which way to point the lens, what if I miss something really crucial?''' 
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]

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'''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.

Bobruysk (spelled Babruysk there) is heavily featured in padonki slang, as a "fuck off" destination point. So, Misha and Grisha are likely not really from Bobruysk.

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'''S.Z. Sakall''' 
was a Hungarian film actor; he played Carl, the head waiter, in ''Casablanca''. 
: The link that establishes a "Jewish" affinity here between the Hungarian Jew S.Z. Sakall (who managed to escape the Holocaust by fleeing from Hungary to the States in 1940) and the Japanese Psyduck, a Pokémon character, is the characteristic gesture ascribed to both: one of Sakall's two acting trademark gestures was apparently to grab his face with both hands (his chin and jaws resting in his palms, fingertips on temples) while squeezing his chubby cheeks (in shock? in wondering despair? – the gesture is shown several times in Sakall's profile on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ7957GMiiU]); and Psyduck also is famous for holding his head (in despair? – his "psy" is after all a homophone of "sigh"). However, I couldn't find Sakall (as Carl the head waiter) making this gesture in "Casablanca" at all. He does, however, make it for example in "Never Say Goodbye", a romantic comedy film from 1946, where he played Luigi, a friendly New York restaurateur (a trailer for the film that shows the gesture briefly, approx. a minute into it, is available on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGRYxeF98uY]).

'''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."

It's a comparative, so rather "fucking better"

'''''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]

==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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'''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''' 
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?

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'''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. 

'''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].

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'''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''' 
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].

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'''The Macarena''' 
Pynchon brought it back up; let's see [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiBYM6g8Tck it.] 15 million views can't be wrong.

'''Riot Grrrl''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot_grrrl WIKI] lets us know this is an "underground feminist punk rock movement...associated with third wave feminism." The BBC aired a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xpJlM6EZm4 radio show] on it recently. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WreQbMlFEjU Rebel Girl] by Bikini Kill.

'''charcoal briquettes pretending to be coffee''' 
Dig on Starbucks?

==Page 348==
'''all the breathing apparatus and stormtrooper gear...''' 
[[File:Galactic-Empire-Stormtroopers.png|thumb|80px|left]]A reference to the ''Star Wars'' movies and the Stormtroopers of the Galactic Empire, elite shock troops fanatically loyal to the Empire and impossible to sway from the Imperial cause. They wear imposing white armor, which offers a wide range of survival equipment and temperature controls to allow the soldiers to survive in almost any environment. [http://starwars.com/explore/encyclopedia/groups/stormtroopers/]

..... Because in the computer world Microsoft is known as the Evil Empire



'''One or two shots you maybe could've used a spirit level...''' 
A spirit level or bubble level is an instrument designed to indicate whether a surface is horizontal (level) or vertical (plumb). Different types of spirit levels may be used by carpenters, stonemasons, bricklayers, other building trades workers, surveyors, millwrights and other metalworkers, and in some photographic or videographic work. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_level]

'''Someday there'll be a Napster for videos''' 
Oh yes, and perhaps they'll call it YouTube, created in February 2005 and acquired by Google in late 2006. And, yes indeed, it's doing very well in the money-generation department... [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youtube Wikipedia]

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'''Streetlight People''' 
Cf. p. [http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_6#Page_61 61].

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'''gefilte fish''' 
Gefilte fish is an Ashkenazi Jewish dish made from a poached mixture of ground boned fish, such as carp, whitefish or pike, which is typically eaten as an appetizer. Although the dish historically consisted of a minced-fish forcemeat stuffed inside the fish skin, as its name implies, since the 19th century the skin has commonly been omitted and the seasoned fish is formed into patties similar to quenelles or fish balls. They are popular on Shabbat and Holidays such as Passover, although they may be consumed throughout the year. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gefilte_fish WIKI].

'''shtetl''' 
A shtetl was a small town with a large Jewish population in Central and Eastern Europe before the pogroms and the Holocaust, mainly found in the areas which constituted the 19th century Pale of Settlement in the Russian Empire, the Congress Kingdom of Poland, Galicia and Romania. A larger city, like Lemberg or Czernowitz, was called a shtot; a smaller village was called a dorf. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shtetl WIKI].

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'''as Martha and the Vandellas might say''' 
The song "Dancing in the Street" (1964) by Martha and the Vandellas mentions several cities, including "Baltimore and DC now."

[[File:dunce-cap.jpg|left|thumb|100px]]'''Idiots have expenses ... the pointed hats''' 
These "pointy hats" would be [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunce_cap dunce caps], a type of classroom punishment by humiliation where an underperforming or misbehaving student would be forced to wear the cap in front of the other students. This punishment is no longer practiced, or at least rarely. Very unPC.



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'''Friedmanite hit man''' 
A reference to Milton Friedman (1912-2006), a conservative economist who was an economic adviser to Republican U.S. President Ronald Reagan. His political philosophy extolled the virtues of a free market economic system with minimal intervention. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Friedman Wikipedia]

More specifically, a reference to Naomi Klein's book, The Shock Doctrine, which posits that followers of Friedman and the Chicago school of economics have been using destabilization to introduce ultra free-market capitalism around the globe. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine Wikipedia ]

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'''remember those twin statues of the Buddha that I told you about?''' 
That would be on [[Chapter_4#Page_31|page 31]].

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'''Shawn, somebody I know, maybe dead, maybe not, enough with the zombies''' 
Some kind of encrypted [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun_of_the_Dead Shaun of the Dead] joke? Sheer coincidence?

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'''diffident long-haired person . . . doing stand-up''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Hedberg Mitch Hedberg] appeared on the NBC show ''Late Friday'' Oct. 12th, 2001 (season 1, episode 24).

'''Keenan and Kel''' 
Spelled wrong. Should be "Kenan."
''Kenan & Kel'' was a sitcom on Nickelodeon 1996 to 2000.
The episode in question was Season 1, episode 2 (1996).
You can laugh along with Horst [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0pbY_wh1Dw here].

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'''Global Consciousness Project''' 
The Global Consciousness Project is a parapsychology experiment begun in 1998 as an attempt to detect possible interactions of "global consciousness" with physical systems. The project monitors a geographically distributed network of hardware random number generators in a bid to identify anomalous outputs that correlate with widespread emotional responses to sets of world events, or periods of focused attention by large numbers of people. The GCP is privately funded through the Institute of Noetic Sciences and describes itself as an international collaboration of about 100 research scientists and engineers. Skeptics such as Robert T. Carroll, Claus Larsen, and others have questioned the methodology of the Global Consciousness Project, particularly how the data are selected and interpreted, saying the data anomalies reported by the project are the result of "pattern matching" and selection bias which ultimately fail to support a belief in psi or global consciousness. Other critics, whilst disagreeing with GCP findings, have noted that the open operation of GCP "is a testimony to the integrity and curiosity of those involved." From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Consciousness_Project WIKI].

'''high quality supply of random numbers'''<br\>
It's surprisingly difficult to generate a truly pure series of random numbers. While it's easy enough to come up with an algorithm that produces a series of numbers that appear random, there are usually hidden flaws that can cause some digits or series to predictably recur. In addition, some sources of "random" numbers are not random at all, but have been deliberately massaged to ensure an artificial degree of homogeneity. All this is a big deal in the world of applied math.

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'''Guy's walking around holding a blazing hot coal''' 
Buddhist Parable of the Burning Coal, from page [http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_16#Page_182 182].

'''coquilles Saint-Jacques''' 
This is a loaded meal meaning here, for not only is the scallop shell the State shell of New York, but also a fertility symbol. The dish here being made by Horst, is a popular French dish, which prepares scallops in a cream sauce, and in some cases baked as a gratin. Also, the name of the dish alludes to the scallop shell being the traditional emblem of St. James.

'''daube de boeuf provençal''' 
Provençal beef stew.

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'''Roomba Pro Elite''' 
Here's a video of this vacuum robot:{{#ev:youtube|tHEm0AlYEso}}

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'''Wahhabi''' 
Wahhabism is an ultra-conservative sect or branch of Sunni Islam, (though some people dispute that a Wahhabi is a Sunni). It is a religious movement among fundamentalist Islamic believers, with an aspiration to return to the earliest fundamental Islamic sources of the Quran and Hadith, with inspiration from the teachings of Medieval theologian Ibn Taymiyyah and early jurist Ahmad ibn Hanbal. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahhabi WIKI].

'''Mata Hari''' 
Margaretha Geertruida "M'greet" Zelle MacLeod (7 August 1876 – 15 October 1917), better known by the stage name Mata Hari, was a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy and executed by firing squad in France under charges of espionage for Germany during World War I. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mata_Hari WIKI].

'''halo of Daffy Duck froth droplets''' 
Fair number of halos in this book. There's the video game references scattered throughout, and then there's page 17's "halo of faded morality," and page 183's "paranoid halo." Nice line on page 183, by the way: A paranoid halo thickens around Maxine's head, if not a nimbus of certainty.

'''the ill-regarded Comet Cursor of the nineties''' 
Comet Cursor was a software program manufactured by Comet Systems. It allowed users of the Microsoft Windows Operating System to change the appearance of their mouse's cursor and to allow websites to use customized cursors for visitors. The product was introduced as an enhancement to website design and to enable advertisers to use customized cursors for their campaigns. Companies using Comet Cursor for advertising included AT&T Corporation, Energizer, and Procter & Gamble. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Cursor Wikipedia]

'''''bruja''''' 
Witch

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'''Santería''' 
Santería is a system of beliefs that merges the Yorùbá religion (which was brought to the New World by West Africans) with Roman Catholicism, and may include Amerindian traditions. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santeria WIKI].

'''woowoo''' 
X-Files theme song reference? [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=woowoo&defid=2626654 Urban dictionary] definition.

'''malloc(3)''' 
From this [http://linux.die.net/man/3/malloc page] "The malloc() function allocates size bytes and returns a pointer to the allocated memory. The memory is not initialized. If size is 0, then malloc() returns either NULL, or a unique pointer value that can later be successfully passed to free()."

'''Game Shark hex cheats''' 

Properly written as a single word, GameShark. A popular brand of cheat cartridges for various gaming systems like PlayStation and Xbox ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameShark WIKI]) written in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecimal hexidecimal code].

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'''little tiny people who come out from under the radiator...with little brooms, and dustpans''' 
A reference back to [[Chapter_30#Page_333|page 333]]: the hallucinatory effects of Ambien causing Eric & Driscoll to mistake Maxine's children for "small people running around doing a variety of household tasks."

Harry Potter [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_creatures_in_Harry_Potter#House-elves House Elf]? 
Elves and the Shoemaker [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elves_and_the_Shoemaker fairy tale,] keeping with the foot fetish?

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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].

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'''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''.

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'''FDR's silvery small cheekbone''' 
In other words, turning 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."

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'''"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.
{{#ev:youtube|2-KGiwGn1d8}}

'''Maxine comes awake screaming...''' 
Echo of Gravity's Rainbow's first line?

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'''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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'''anti-kibbutz''' 
A kibbutz is a collective community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. For more see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibbutz WIKI].

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

Perhaps the 1998 film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166503/ The Adopted Son] playing as a revival at the [http://www.filmlinc.com/ Film Society of Lincoln Center.]

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

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

<blockquote>
1 pickled beef tongue (about 4 pounds) 
1 can (20 ounces) pineapple chunks, drained 
1 cup canned pitted black cherries, drained and chopped 
1/4 cup golden raisins 
1 jar (10 ounces) orange marmalade 
2 cups orange juice 
1/2 cup (packed) light or dark brown sugar 
1/4 cup distilled white vinegar 
Juice of 1 lemon (about 3 tablespoons) 
1/2 teaspoon dry mustard 
'''10 gingersnaps, crushed''' 
1/4 teaspoon kosher (coarse) salt, or to taste
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'''No hondeling''' 
Hondeling is the bargaining, or haggling, style in Israel.

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

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

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

'''classical piano novelty act''' 
a polonaise is a dance, and Chopin wrote a lot of polonaises for solo piano

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

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

==Page 252==
'''Purple Drank T-shirt''' 
Purple drank is a slang term for a recreational drug popular in the hip hop community in the southern United States, originating in Houston, Texas. Its main ingredient is prescription-strength cough syrup containing codeine and promethazine. Cough syrup is typically mixed with ingredients such as Sprite soft drink or Mountain Dew. The purplish hue of purple drank comes from dyes in the cough syrup. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_drank WIKI].

'''enough dress-code violations to get thrown off the L train''' 
The L (not "El") runs along 14th Street past the old Stuyvesant H.S. (Eric Outfield from Stuyvesant), through the East Village on its way to Brooklyn. From [http://web.mta.info/nyct/service/lline.htm].

The L train goes to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and is heavily relied on and populated by "hipsters" (meaning the 2000's version of "hipster's" as opposed to the 1950's version) who reside in Williamsburg and ride the L into the Village. So the remark refers to Windust not dressing in current hipster attire and being recognized as not belonging with hipster's on the the L train.

'''Just some schmatte from H&M''' 
"Schmatte" is Yiddish for a rag. H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB (H&M) is a Swedish multinational retail-clothing company, known for its fast-fashion clothing for men, women, teenagers and children. It opened its first U.S. store in New York City, on Fifth Avenue (at 51st Street) in March 2000. As of August 2010, the company had nearly two hundred individual stores in the United States.

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'''As Deborah Kerr, or Marni Nixon, might say, or actually sing''' 
Marni Nixon (b. 1930) is an American soprano and playback singer for featured actresses in movie musicals. She is most famous for dubbing the singing voices of the leading actresses in films, including ''The King and I'', ''West Side Story'' and ''My Fair Lady''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marni_Nixon Wiki] says she earned the nickname the "Ghostess with the Mostest" because her work was often uncredited.

In 1956, she worked closely with actress Deborah Kerr to supply the star's singing voice for the film version of Rodgers & Hammerstein's ''The King and I'', and the next year she again worked with Kerr to dub her voice in ''An Affair to Remembe".betweenAnna (the Deborah Kerr role) and the powerful yet untrustablre King. (Yup Brynner). Not unlike Maxine and Windust, I'd say.

The phrase "On the clear understanding " comes from the "King And I" song "Shall We Dance."

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'''ghetto-ass g's''' 
Ghetto-ass gangsta's

'''Paradise Garage''' 
Again, see chapters 14 and 15, Maxine recalls going to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Garage Paradise Garage.]

'''9:30 Club... maybe he caught Tiny Desk Unit and Bad Brains in their local-band period... maybe the smell of the 9:30 Cologne is his last, his only link with the uncorrupted youth he was?''' 
The 9:30 Club was a late 70's-early 80's club in Washington D.C. where as mentioned, new wave/punk bands like Tiny Desk Unit and Bad Brains once played. In a negative marketing twist, Pynchon implies here that, though seemingly unrelated, Windust's use of 9:30 Cologne and its appeal is tied with the 9:30 Club of his youth.

'''Maybe's ass, OK?''' 
Another way of putting it... “Fuck all the maybe's!” In other words, all those speculations are bullshit.

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'''Princess Heidrophobia''' 
Heidi, a pun on hydrophobia (= rabies).

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'''Robert Moses spinning in his grave''' 
See p. [[Chapter_22#Page_241|241]].

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'''appoggiaturas''' 
An appoggiatura is an embellishing note or tone preceding an essential melodic note or tone and usually written as a note of smaller size. It often creates a brief dissonance prior to its resolution to the melody's key. [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/appoggiatura]

'''The Port of Authority''' 
Now more commonly know as the Port Authority, The Port of New York Authority was established in 1921.

:"ARTICLE III There is hereby created "The Port of New York Authority" (for brevity hereinafter referred to as the "Port Authority"), which shall be a body corporate and politic, having the powers and jurisdiction hereinafter enumerated..." [http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/nycode/PNY/notes]

Pynchon's usage is old school.

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'''''Za shastye''''' 
For happiness, good luck, fortune, etc.

'''''Pizdets''''' 
Fuck.

'''Hidden track''' 
Another roll-over from the 90s. Sort of the DVD equivalent of the dark web.

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'''even larger question about to lift its trunk''' 
ie the elephant in the room

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'''her backpack ... does seem to run to Himalayan-expedition scale''' 
Pynchon also uses this trope of containers larger on the inside than the outside suggests in [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_35:_349-361#Page_354 ''Mason & Dixon'' at page 354]

'''Music track? Frank Sinatra..."Time After Time," beginning the phrase "in the evening when the day is through,".''' 
Indeed, a most poignant lounge music song. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I6s1J9ZSNw Hear] Sinatra sing it. The lyrics in question come around early, at the 0:41 mark.

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'''Sarcófago''' 
A heavy metal band from Brazil.

'''Burzum and Mayhem''' 
Both real bands.

'''among widely reported Ambien hallucinations being numbers of small people busy running around doing a variety of household tasks''' 
These little people are recapped on [[Chapter_31#Page_346|page 346]]. Psychobotanist Terrence McKenna postulated the existence of "machine elves" seen while under the influence of DMT:

:Terence McKenna advocated the exploration of altered states of mind via the ingestion of naturally occurring psychedelic substances. For example, and in particular, as facilitated by the ingestion of high doses of psychedelic mushrooms, and DMT, which he believed was the apotheosis of the psychedelic experience. He spoke of meeting entities he described as "jeweled, self-dribbling basketballs" or "self-transforming machine elves" which one can encounter in those states. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_elf]

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'''no more fictional reading assignments''' 
Reminds me of Uncle Ives in ''Mason & Dixon'' who thinks fiction is immoral: "I cannot I say, energetically enough insist upon the danger of reading these storybooks,— in particular those known as 'Novel.' . . . these irresponsible narratives, that will not distinguish between fact and fancy" (350-51).

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'''The spread on the Jets-Indianapolis game Sunday is 2 points.''' 
Sunday, 9 September. This game did take place on this day and the victory margin is correct, but the Vegas spread on the game was 1.5, not 2(big difference for gamblers). [[User:H2oetry|H2oetry]] ([[User talk:H2oetry|talk]])

'''Vinny Testaverde is a little less consistent, managing in the last five minutes for example to fumble on the Colts' 2-yard line to a defensive end who then proceeds to run the ball 98 yards to a touchdown''' 
The fumble return was actually only 95 yards instead of 98. The play did begin on the 2 yard line, but the fumble was recovered by defensive end Chukie Nwokorie on the 5 yard line, and that is where the distance of the return begins, not at the play's origin. [http://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/200109090nyj.htm Here is the boxscore] [[User:H2oetry|H2oetry]] ([[User talk:H2oetry|talk]])

'''Stolid Geometry''' 
aka Square

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'''in a film noir, or possibly jaune''' 
Jaune being that yellowish color of Simpson skin.

'''TUESDAY MORNING THEY ALL CONVOY over to Kugelblitz together...''' 
Tuesday, 11 September.

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'''the Reichstag fire''' 
The Reichstag fire was an arson attack on the Reichstag building in Berlin on 27 February 1933. The fire was used as evidence by the Nazis that the Communists were plotting against the German government and the event is seen as pivotal in the establishment of Nazi Germany. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire WIKI].

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'''"I know. We got snookered."''' 
tr.v. snook·ered
1. Slang 
a. To lead (another) into a situation in which all possible choices are undesirable; trap. 
b. To fool; dupe; hoodwink. 
From the cue sport of the same name. To snooker someone is to leave them in a position where there is no straight shot to the target ball—typically because it is hidden behind one of your own.

'''not traditional peanut butter or cheese''' 
In cartoons, mousetraps are always baited with cheese, but in real life, the best bait is generally considered to be peanut butter

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'''blackened alligator''' 
as in blackened rubble

'''sheep's eyeball''' 
a traditional delicacy in the Middle East

'''Ürümqi''' 
A city in northwest China, but with a significant Muslim population

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[[Image:Example.jpg|thumb|200px|left|thumb|175px|Skull and Bones logo]]'''Skull and Bones''' 
Skull and Bones is an undergraduate senior secret society at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. It is the oldest senior class landed society at Yale. The society's alumni organization, the Russell Trust Association, owns the society's real estate and oversees the organization. The society is known informally as "Bones", and members are known as "Bonesmen". From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_and_bones WIKI].

''George HW Bush and George W Bush were both members ''

'''What's the latest on 4360.0 kilohertz?''' 
4360.0 kilohertz is a shortwave radio frequency used, it is believed, by spies in the Mediterranean. Of course, "Oops, or do I mean megahertz?" is yet another Pynchon Pun, on hurts/hertz, as Avi gives a violent jump when Maxine asks him nice as pie if he's heard anything on that frequency, it being used near Israel. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station]

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'''The spread on the Jets-Indianapolis game Sunday is 2 points.''' 
Sunday, 9 September. This game did take place on this day and the victory margin is correct, but the Vegas spread on the game was 1.5, not 2(big difference for gamblers). [[User:H2oetry|H2oetry]] ([[User talk:H2oetry|talk]])

'''Vinny Testaverde is a little less consistent, managing in the last five minutes for example to fumble on the Colts' 2-yard line to a defensive end who then proceeds to run the ball 98 yards to a touchdown''' 
The fumble return was actually only 95 yards instead of 98. The play did begin on the 2 yard line, but the fumble was recovered by defensive end Chukie Nwokorie on the 5 yard line, and that is where the distance of the return begins, not at the play's origin. [http://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/200109090nyj.htm Here is the boxscore] [[User:H2oetry|H2oetry]] ([[User talk:H2oetry|talk]])

'''Stolid Geometry''' 
aka Square

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'''in a film noir, or possibly jaune''' 
Jaune being that yellowish color of Simpson skin.

'''TUESDAY MORNING THEY ALL CONVOY over to Kugelblitz together...''' 
Tuesday, 11 September.

==Page 317==
'''the Reichstag fire''' 
The Reichstag fire was an arson attack on the Reichstag building in Berlin on 27 February 1933. The fire was used as evidence by the Nazis that the Communists were plotting against the German government and the event is seen as pivotal in the establishment of Nazi Germany. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire WIKI].

==Page 318==
'''"I know. We got snookered."''' 
tr.v. snook·ered
1. Slang 
a. To lead (another) into a situation in which all possible choices are undesirable; trap. 
b. To fool; dupe; hoodwink. 
From the cue sport of the same name. To snooker someone is to leave them in a position where there is no straight shot to the target ball—typically because it is hidden behind one of your own.

'''not traditional peanut butter or cheese''' 
In cartoons, mousetraps are always baited with cheese, but in real life, the best bait is generally considered to be peanut butter

==Page 320==
'''blackened alligator'''<br\>
as in blackened rubble

'''sheep's eyeball'''<br\>
a traditional delicacy in the Middle East

'''Ürümqi'''<br\>
A city in northwest China, but with a significant Muslim population

==Page 325==
[[Image:Example.jpg|thumb|200px|left|thumb|175px|Skull and Bones logo]]'''Skull and Bones''' 
Skull and Bones is an undergraduate senior secret society at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. It is the oldest senior class landed society at Yale. The society's alumni organization, the Russell Trust Association, owns the society's real estate and oversees the organization. The society is known informally as "Bones", and members are known as "Bonesmen". From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_and_bones WIKI].

''George HW Bush and George W Bush were both members ''

'''What's the latest on 4360.0 kilohertz?''' 
4360.0 kilohertz is a shortwave radio frequency used, it is believed, by spies in the Mediterranean. Of course, "Oops, or do I mean megahertz?" is yet another Pynchon Pun, on hurts/hertz, as Avi gives a violent jump when Maxine asks him nice as pie if he's heard anything on that frequency, it being used near Israel. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station]

{{Bleeding Edge PbP}}

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==Page 301==
'''It's a warm evening''' 
Sept. 8th (according to the invitation Maxine received last chapter)

==Page 302==
'''''Matrix''-era Ray Bans''' 
Reference breaks the usual, though not ironclad, pattern of giving a film's release date when mentioned. Perhaps because the theme of the party going on is "1999" and since the film came out that year Pynchon doesn't feel the need to spell it out. Anyone have a grasp on the logic behind sometimes giving release dates and sometimes not? Is there always a good reason for when the date isn't given? [It's probably simply because it is used as an adjective here]

Also, "era" is a bit of an odd word choice considering nothing else in that list of nineties "instant nostalgia" items gets qualified with a time of creation and/or when popular indicator word or phrase. Why not simply something like "Matrix glasses"?

According to this [http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2003-05-04/features/0305040269_1_matrix-glasses-morpheus page] the glasses for the film were made by Blinde Design and they did not produce them for commercial release until a few years after the first Matrix film came out. This [http://www.sunglasses-shop.co.uk/film-and-tv/t/the-matrix.aspx site] says Ray-Ban makes similar glasses, though not when they started producing them.

'''pre-crash fantasy years''' 
This line (and this whole paragraph in general) may be about Y2K and the financial crash, but it's really about 9/11. No?

'''Blink-182, Echo and the Bunnymen, Barenaked Ladies, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony''' 
Strange list, of course, but Echo seems a little out of place since they pre-date the other bands by at least a decade and their "hits" were in the 1980s. Great band name, by the way, Echo and the Bunnymen. Seems like the sort of name Pynchon would find interesting. Joylessly, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_%26_the_Bunnymen WIKI] informs us that the name means practically nothing and, according a band member, the name was haphazardly chosen out of a list of names, all "just as stupid as the rest."

I'm pretty sure Echo was what they called their drum machine before they had a drummer. Their heyday was definitely the 80s, though they did reform and release some stuff in the late-90s; it was fairly obscure compared to the other bands mentioned however, in regard to the Top 40, etc.

==Page 303==
'''Razorfish alumni''' 
They were one of the first companies to have an animated homepage, utilizing the "server-push" capabilities of the latest version of the Netscape browser. Because of this and aggressive marketing tactics, their work became well known, well-respected, and the firm grew quickly over the next few years. Soon thereafter, they received a strategic investment from Omnicom (along with other New Media pioneers, Agency.com, Red Sky Interactive, Think New Ideas and Organic), making them one of the first firms to be financed by a traditional media holding company. Razorfish used this money to move to new offices, redesign their branding (to include the slogan "Everything that can be digital will be.") and expand operations. It and other New York-based Web design companies formed the core of a cluster of New Media companies known as Silicon Alley. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razorfish_%28company%29 WIKI].

'''PBRs ... in a washtub of crushed ice''' 
Pabst Blue Ribbon, a mediocre beer popular with hipsters.

==Page 304==
'''temporal aliasing''' 
In signal processing and related disciplines, aliasing refers to an effect that causes different signals to become indistinguishable (or aliases of one another) when sampled. It also refers to the distortion or artifact that results when the signal reconstructed from samples is different from the original continuous signal. Aliasing can occur in signals sampled in time, for instance digital audio, and is referred to as '''temporal aliasing'''. Aliasing can also occur in spatially sampled signals, for instance digital images. Aliasing in spatially sampled signals is called spatial aliasing. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_aliasing]

'''Wow, back off Kim Basinger''' 
Kim Basinger is an American actress and former model. At the time of Bleeding Edge she would have been most famous for her Academy Award winning performance in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.A._Confidential_(film) L.A. Confidential.] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Basinger Wiki article on Basinger]

'''I think he's in some creepy retro-pissing contest with Josh Harris. Remember that millennium-eve party at pseudo? Went on for months?''' 
I was hoping this would be referenced in ''Bleeding Edge''. This is depicted wonderfully in Ondi Timoner's Sundance Film Festival award-winning documentary "We Live In Public." [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XSTwfdFwIY Here is a trailer]. [http://weliveinpublic.blog.indiepixfilms.com/ Here is the official website].

==Page 305==
'''Giuseppe Zanotti... Stuart Weitzman... Jimmy Choo...''' 
All of course shoe designers, given Eric's fetish.

'''Security through immaturity''' 
Playing on the pejorative term "[http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/S/security-through-obscurity.html security through obscurity]" in which security vulnerabilities are merely hidden instead of being closed. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity WIKI]

==Page 306==
'''Had a brilliant Arturo Fuente the other day!''' 
Arturo Fuente is a brand of cigar, founded by Arturo Fuente, Sr. in 1912 in West Tampa, Florida. It's one of the most critically acclaimed makers of hand-rolled premium cigars outside of Cuba.. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_Fuente Wikipedia]

==Page 307==
'''Nazi Vegetable''' 
This is a fictional musical group, obviously.

'''In the Toilet''' 
This song sorta seems to possibly go to the tune of Elvis's "In the Ghetto," which of course given the attention to the toilets we've just read about, is more irony.

==Page 308==
'''epileptigogic lighting''' 
This would be lighting that can trigger an epileptic fit, i.e., strobe lights.

'''Electric Slide''' 
Likely the dance that was inspired by "Shall We Dance (Electric Slide)" by Grandmaster Slice and Scratchmaster Chuck T., produced by them in 1989. Check it:
{{#ev:youtube|lawyOmNqA9Y}}

'''Paradise Garage''' 
Another [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Garage Paradise Garage] reference, to go along with those in chapters 14, 15, and 23. This last one goes into much greater detail as to what dancing at the Garage meant to Maxine.

==Page 309==
'''THE EH? TEAM''' 
A play on the title of a popular 80s TV show ''The A Team''

'''ça va?''' 
Colloquial Quebecois French for 'How's it going?' It literally translates as "is it going", so the answer is "oui" rather than "bien" or similar.

'''about as fat as Ally McBeal''' 
Calista Flockhart played the title character on the TV show ''Ally McBeal'' (1997-2002). She was very skinny.

'''poutine''' 
This is the quintessential French Canadian fast food item. It is found all over Quebec; though it is sometimes found elsewhere in Canada and in some places in the northern United States, it is basically a regional specialty.

To me, poutine has always seemed to be an item whose reputation has far outstripped its inherent value. Maybe I've never had 'good' poutine, but in my experience, poutine has consisted of soft french fries, covered in mediocre gravy (a reasonable replacement for ketchup, but not as good as mayonnaise), with mostly-tasteless cheese curds adding a lumpy white visual element. In summary, something inoffensive and filling that you can shovel into your mouth without much chewing. But like Felix, for some reason Quebeckers seem proud of it.

Poutine is first referenced on pg 88.

==Page 310==
'''his eyes ... less expressive than many Maxine has noted at the fish market''' 
A good way of estimating a fish's freshness is to look at its eyes. So Maxine is not referring to fish market customers' eyes.

'''server farms''' 
Seems worth noting a passage in the novel where Pynchon talks about things we find on the cover of ''Bleeding Edge''. See a [[Bleeding_Edge_cover_analysis|discussion]] on the cover.

'''Godwin's law''' 
Godwin's law is an assertion made by Mike Godwin in 1990 that has become an Internet adage. It states: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1." In other words, Godwin said that, given enough time, in any online discussion—regardless of topic or scope—someone inevitably makes a comparison to Hitler or the Nazis. Although in one of its early forms Godwin's law referred specifically to Usenet newsgroup discussions, the law is now often applied to any threaded online discussion, such as forums, chat rooms and blog comment threads, and has been invoked for the inappropriate use of Nazi analogies in articles or speeches. In 2012, "Godwin's Law" became an entry in the third edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law WIKI]. Also, interestingly, Godwin did his seniors honors thesis on Pynchon.

'''''The Attractive Schoolgirl of Zazhopinsk''''' 
''Zazhopinsk'' is a Russian version of "East Bumfuck" or any similar locution in English. The back of beyond, basically. "Zhopa" (жопа) is the Russian word for "buttocks," so Zazhopinsk could be rendered as "Beyond-butt-town."

This fictitious opera's name probably derives from Dmitri Shostakovich's ''Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk''. When Stalin attended a performance of this opera, he walked out part way through, and published an editorial the next day “Chaos Instead of Music” attacking both the artistic value of the work and the political ideology of the composer. Although Shostkovich was never actually purged, his funding dried up almost immediately, and his diaries record that he took up sleeping in the doorway of his apartment in case he was arrested in the night so that his children would not see.

==Page 311==
'''when she finds anybody trying too hard to fool her, she reaches for her revolver''' 
Brings to mind the lyrics and theme of [http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/105042/ Mission of Burma's "That's When I Reach For My Revolver."]

'''mogul on the black-diamond slopes''' 
Expert-level ski slopes are marked by a black diamond, mogul here having the dual meaning of a small hill in the middle of a ski slope and an important business person.

'''Nora Charles''' 
the Myrna Loy character in the Thin Man movies. In that series, husband Nick (William Powell) was the street-smart detective, while Nora was the moneyed semi-sidekick. Nora was frequently found at upper-class parties, ie with similar financial backing to the current event, but with a very different class of attendees.

'''CD tilde home''' 
The [http://forum.linuxcareer.com/threads/1669-Single-linux-command-to-return-to-home-directory Linux command] to change back to your home directory.

'''the long September which has been with them in a virtual way since spring before last''' 
March 2000 was the date of the dotcom bubble bursting. The reality of this long September contrasts with the naivete of the Eternal September

{{Bleeding Edge PbP}}

Chapter 28

2018-08-04T05:12:07Z

Pthomas: /* Page 310 */

{{BE PxP Header}}

==Page 301==
'''It's a warm evening''' 
Sept. 8th (according to the invitation Maxine received last chapter)

==Page 302==
'''''Matrix''-era Ray Bans''' 
Reference breaks the usual, though not ironclad, pattern of giving a film's release date when mentioned. Perhaps because the theme of the party going on is "1999" and since the film came out that year Pynchon doesn't feel the need to spell it out. Anyone have a grasp on the logic behind sometimes giving release dates and sometimes not? Is there always a good reason for when the date isn't given? [It's probably simply because it is used as an adjective here]

Also, "era" is a bit of an odd word choice considering nothing else in that list of nineties "instant nostalgia" items gets qualified with a time of creation and/or when popular indicator word or phrase. Why not simply something like "Matrix glasses"?

According to this [http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2003-05-04/features/0305040269_1_matrix-glasses-morpheus page] the glasses for the film were made by Blinde Design and they did not produce them for commercial release until a few years after the first Matrix film came out. This [http://www.sunglasses-shop.co.uk/film-and-tv/t/the-matrix.aspx site] says Ray-Ban makes similar glasses, though not when they started producing them.

'''pre-crash fantasy years''' 
This line (and this whole paragraph in general) may be about Y2K and the financial crash, but it's really about 9/11. No?

'''Blink-182, Echo and the Bunnymen, Barenaked Ladies, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony''' 
Strange list, of course, but Echo seems a little out of place since they pre-date the other bands by at least a decade and their "hits" were in the 1980s. Great band name, by the way, Echo and the Bunnymen. Seems like the sort of name Pynchon would find interesting. Joylessly, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_%26_the_Bunnymen WIKI] informs us that the name means practically nothing and, according a band member, the name was haphazardly chosen out of a list of names, all "just as stupid as the rest."

I'm pretty sure Echo was what they called their drum machine before they had a drummer. Their heyday was definitely the 80s, though they did reform and release some stuff in the late-90s; it was fairly obscure compared to the other bands mentioned however, in regard to the Top 40, etc.

==Page 303==
'''Razorfish alumni''' 
They were one of the first companies to have an animated homepage, utilizing the "server-push" capabilities of the latest version of the Netscape browser. Because of this and aggressive marketing tactics, their work became well known, well-respected, and the firm grew quickly over the next few years. Soon thereafter, they received a strategic investment from Omnicom (along with other New Media pioneers, Agency.com, Red Sky Interactive, Think New Ideas and Organic), making them one of the first firms to be financed by a traditional media holding company. Razorfish used this money to move to new offices, redesign their branding (to include the slogan "Everything that can be digital will be.") and expand operations. It and other New York-based Web design companies formed the core of a cluster of New Media companies known as Silicon Alley. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razorfish_%28company%29 WIKI].

'''PBRs ... in a washtub of crushed ice''' 
Pabst Blue Ribbon, a mediocre beer popular with hipsters.

==Page 304==
'''temporal aliasing''' 
In signal processing and related disciplines, aliasing refers to an effect that causes different signals to become indistinguishable (or aliases of one another) when sampled. It also refers to the distortion or artifact that results when the signal reconstructed from samples is different from the original continuous signal. Aliasing can occur in signals sampled in time, for instance digital audio, and is referred to as '''temporal aliasing'''. Aliasing can also occur in spatially sampled signals, for instance digital images. Aliasing in spatially sampled signals is called spatial aliasing. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_aliasing]

'''Wow, back off Kim Basinger''' 
Kim Basinger is an American actress and former model. At the time of Bleeding Edge she would have been most famous for her Academy Award winning performance in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.A._Confidential_(film) L.A. Confidential.] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Basinger Wiki article on Basinger]

'''I think he's in some creepy retro-pissing contest with Josh Harris. Remember that millennium-eve party at pseudo? Went on for months?''' 
I was hoping this would be referenced in ''Bleeding Edge''. This is depicted wonderfully in Ondi Timoner's Sundance Film Festival award-winning documentary "We Live In Public." [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XSTwfdFwIY Here is a trailer]. [http://weliveinpublic.blog.indiepixfilms.com/ Here is the official website].

==Page 305==
'''Giuseppe Zanotti... Stuart Weitzman... Jimmy Choo...''' 
All of course shoe designers, given Eric's fetish.

'''Security through immaturity''' 
Playing on the pejorative term "[http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/S/security-through-obscurity.html security through obscurity]" in which security vulnerabilities are merely hidden instead of being closed. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity WIKI]

==Page 306==
'''Had a brilliant Arturo Fuente the other day!''' 
Arturo Fuente is a brand of cigar, founded by Arturo Fuente, Sr. in 1912 in West Tampa, Florida. It's one of the most critically acclaimed makers of hand-rolled premium cigars outside of Cuba.. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_Fuente Wikipedia]

==Page 307==
'''Nazi Vegetable''' 
This is a fictional musical group, obviously.

'''In the Toilet''' 
This song sorta seems to possibly go to the tune of Elvis's "In the Ghetto," which of course given the attention to the toilets we've just read about, is more irony.

==Page 308==
'''epileptigogic lighting''' 
This would be lighting that can trigger an epileptic fit, i.e., strobe lights.

'''Electric Slide''' 
Likely the dance that was inspired by "Shall We Dance (Electric Slide)" by Grandmaster Slice and Scratchmaster Chuck T., produced by them in 1989. Check it:
{{#ev:youtube|lawyOmNqA9Y}}

'''Paradise Garage''' 
Another [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Garage Paradise Garage] reference, to go along with those in chapters 14, 15, and 23. This last one goes into much greater detail as to what dancing at the Garage meant to Maxine.

==Page 309==
'''THE EH? TEAM''' 
A play on the title of a popular 80s TV show ''The A Team''

'''ça va?''' 
Colloquial Quebecois French for 'How's it going?' It literally translates as "is it going", so the answer is "oui" rather than "bien" or similar.

'''about as fat as Ally McBeal''' 
Calista Flockhart played the title character on the TV show ''Ally McBeal'' (1997-2002). She was very skinny.

'''poutine''' 
This is the quintessential French Canadian fast food item. It is found all over Quebec; though it is sometimes found elsewhere in Canada and in some places in the northern United States, it is basically a regional specialty.

To me, poutine has always seemed to be an item whose reputation has far outstripped its inherent value. Maybe I've never had 'good' poutine, but in my experience, poutine has consisted of soft french fries, covered in mediocre gravy (a reasonable replacement for ketchup, but not as good as mayonnaise), with mostly-tasteless cheese curds adding a lumpy white visual element. In summary, something inoffensive and filling that you can shovel into your mouth without much chewing. But like Felix, for some reason Quebeckers seem proud of it.

Poutine is first referenced on pg 88.

==Page 310==
'''his eyes ... less expressive than many Maxine has noted at the fish market''' 
A good way of estimating a fish's freshness is to look at its eyes. So Maxine is not referring to fish market customers' eyes.

'''server farms''' 
Seems worth noting a passage in the novel where Pynchon talks about things we find on the cover of ''Bleeding Edge''. See a [[Bleeding_Edge_cover_analysis|discussion]] on the cover.

'''Godwin's law''' 
Godwin's law is an assertion made by Mike Godwin in 1990 that has become an Internet adage. It states: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1." In other words, Godwin said that, given enough time, in any online discussion—regardless of topic or scope—someone inevitably makes a comparison to Hitler or the Nazis. Although in one of its early forms Godwin's law referred specifically to Usenet newsgroup discussions, the law is now often applied to any threaded online discussion, such as forums, chat rooms and blog comment threads, and has been invoked for the inappropriate use of Nazi analogies in articles or speeches. In 2012, "Godwin's Law" became an entry in the third edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law WIKI]. Also, interestingly, Godwin did his seniors honors thesis on Pynchon.

'''''The Attractive Schoolgirl of Zazhopinsk''''' 
''Zazhopinsk'' is a Russian version of "East Bumfuck" or any similar locution in English. The back of beyond, basically. "Zhopa" (жопа) is the Russian word for "buttocks," so Zazhopinsk could be rendered as "Beyond-butt-town."

This fictitious opera's name probably derives from Dmitri Shostakovich's ''Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk''. When Stalin attended a performance of this opera, he walked out part way through, and published an editorial the next day “Chaos Instead of Music” attacking both the artistic value of the work and the political ideology of the composer. Although Shostkovich was never actually purged, his funding dried up almost immediately, and his diaries record that he took up sleeping in the doorway of his apartment in case he was arrested in the night so that his children would not see.

==Page 311==
'''when she finds anybody trying too hard to fool her, she reaches for her revolver''' 
Brings to mind the lyrics and theme of [http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/105042/ Mission of Burma's "That's When I Reach For My Revolver."]

'''mogul on the black-diamond slopes'''<br\>
Expert-level ski slopes are marked by a black diamond, mogul here having the dual meaning of a small hill in the middle of a ski slope and an important business person.

'''Nora Charles'''<br\>
the Myrna Loy character in the Thin Man movies. In that series, husband Nick (William Powell) was the street-smart detective, while Nora was the moneyed semi-sidekick. Nora was frequently found at upper-class parties, ie with similar financial backing to the current event, but with a very different class of attendees.

'''CD tilde home''' 
The [http://forum.linuxcareer.com/threads/1669-Single-linux-command-to-return-to-home-directory Linux command] to change back to your home directory.

'''the long September which has been with them in a virtual way since spring before last''' <br\>
March 2000 was the date of the dotcom bubble bursting. The reality of this long September contrasts with the naivete of the Eternal September

{{Bleeding Edge PbP}}

Chapter 28

2018-08-04T05:11:24Z

Pthomas: /* Page 309 */

{{BE PxP Header}}

==Page 301==
'''It's a warm evening''' 
Sept. 8th (according to the invitation Maxine received last chapter)

==Page 302==
'''''Matrix''-era Ray Bans''' 
Reference breaks the usual, though not ironclad, pattern of giving a film's release date when mentioned. Perhaps because the theme of the party going on is "1999" and since the film came out that year Pynchon doesn't feel the need to spell it out. Anyone have a grasp on the logic behind sometimes giving release dates and sometimes not? Is there always a good reason for when the date isn't given? [It's probably simply because it is used as an adjective here]

Also, "era" is a bit of an odd word choice considering nothing else in that list of nineties "instant nostalgia" items gets qualified with a time of creation and/or when popular indicator word or phrase. Why not simply something like "Matrix glasses"?

According to this [http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2003-05-04/features/0305040269_1_matrix-glasses-morpheus page] the glasses for the film were made by Blinde Design and they did not produce them for commercial release until a few years after the first Matrix film came out. This [http://www.sunglasses-shop.co.uk/film-and-tv/t/the-matrix.aspx site] says Ray-Ban makes similar glasses, though not when they started producing them.

'''pre-crash fantasy years''' 
This line (and this whole paragraph in general) may be about Y2K and the financial crash, but it's really about 9/11. No?

'''Blink-182, Echo and the Bunnymen, Barenaked Ladies, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony''' 
Strange list, of course, but Echo seems a little out of place since they pre-date the other bands by at least a decade and their "hits" were in the 1980s. Great band name, by the way, Echo and the Bunnymen. Seems like the sort of name Pynchon would find interesting. Joylessly, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_%26_the_Bunnymen WIKI] informs us that the name means practically nothing and, according a band member, the name was haphazardly chosen out of a list of names, all "just as stupid as the rest."

I'm pretty sure Echo was what they called their drum machine before they had a drummer. Their heyday was definitely the 80s, though they did reform and release some stuff in the late-90s; it was fairly obscure compared to the other bands mentioned however, in regard to the Top 40, etc.

==Page 303==
'''Razorfish alumni''' 
They were one of the first companies to have an animated homepage, utilizing the "server-push" capabilities of the latest version of the Netscape browser. Because of this and aggressive marketing tactics, their work became well known, well-respected, and the firm grew quickly over the next few years. Soon thereafter, they received a strategic investment from Omnicom (along with other New Media pioneers, Agency.com, Red Sky Interactive, Think New Ideas and Organic), making them one of the first firms to be financed by a traditional media holding company. Razorfish used this money to move to new offices, redesign their branding (to include the slogan "Everything that can be digital will be.") and expand operations. It and other New York-based Web design companies formed the core of a cluster of New Media companies known as Silicon Alley. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razorfish_%28company%29 WIKI].

'''PBRs ... in a washtub of crushed ice''' 
Pabst Blue Ribbon, a mediocre beer popular with hipsters.

==Page 304==
'''temporal aliasing''' 
In signal processing and related disciplines, aliasing refers to an effect that causes different signals to become indistinguishable (or aliases of one another) when sampled. It also refers to the distortion or artifact that results when the signal reconstructed from samples is different from the original continuous signal. Aliasing can occur in signals sampled in time, for instance digital audio, and is referred to as '''temporal aliasing'''. Aliasing can also occur in spatially sampled signals, for instance digital images. Aliasing in spatially sampled signals is called spatial aliasing. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_aliasing]

'''Wow, back off Kim Basinger''' 
Kim Basinger is an American actress and former model. At the time of Bleeding Edge she would have been most famous for her Academy Award winning performance in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.A._Confidential_(film) L.A. Confidential.] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Basinger Wiki article on Basinger]

'''I think he's in some creepy retro-pissing contest with Josh Harris. Remember that millennium-eve party at pseudo? Went on for months?''' 
I was hoping this would be referenced in ''Bleeding Edge''. This is depicted wonderfully in Ondi Timoner's Sundance Film Festival award-winning documentary "We Live In Public." [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XSTwfdFwIY Here is a trailer]. [http://weliveinpublic.blog.indiepixfilms.com/ Here is the official website].

==Page 305==
'''Giuseppe Zanotti... Stuart Weitzman... Jimmy Choo...''' 
All of course shoe designers, given Eric's fetish.

'''Security through immaturity''' 
Playing on the pejorative term "[http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/S/security-through-obscurity.html security through obscurity]" in which security vulnerabilities are merely hidden instead of being closed. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity WIKI]

==Page 306==
'''Had a brilliant Arturo Fuente the other day!''' 
Arturo Fuente is a brand of cigar, founded by Arturo Fuente, Sr. in 1912 in West Tampa, Florida. It's one of the most critically acclaimed makers of hand-rolled premium cigars outside of Cuba.. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_Fuente Wikipedia]

==Page 307==
'''Nazi Vegetable''' 
This is a fictional musical group, obviously.

'''In the Toilet''' 
This song sorta seems to possibly go to the tune of Elvis's "In the Ghetto," which of course given the attention to the toilets we've just read about, is more irony.

==Page 308==
'''epileptigogic lighting''' 
This would be lighting that can trigger an epileptic fit, i.e., strobe lights.

'''Electric Slide''' 
Likely the dance that was inspired by "Shall We Dance (Electric Slide)" by Grandmaster Slice and Scratchmaster Chuck T., produced by them in 1989. Check it:
{{#ev:youtube|lawyOmNqA9Y}}

'''Paradise Garage''' 
Another [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Garage Paradise Garage] reference, to go along with those in chapters 14, 15, and 23. This last one goes into much greater detail as to what dancing at the Garage meant to Maxine.

==Page 309==
'''THE EH? TEAM''' 
A play on the title of a popular 80s TV show ''The A Team''

'''ça va?''' 
Colloquial Quebecois French for 'How's it going?' It literally translates as "is it going", so the answer is "oui" rather than "bien" or similar.

'''about as fat as Ally McBeal''' 
Calista Flockhart played the title character on the TV show ''Ally McBeal'' (1997-2002). She was very skinny.

'''poutine''' 
This is the quintessential French Canadian fast food item. It is found all over Quebec; though it is sometimes found elsewhere in Canada and in some places in the northern United States, it is basically a regional specialty.

To me, poutine has always seemed to be an item whose reputation has far outstripped its inherent value. Maybe I've never had 'good' poutine, but in my experience, poutine has consisted of soft french fries, covered in mediocre gravy (a reasonable replacement for ketchup, but not as good as mayonnaise), with mostly-tasteless cheese curds adding a lumpy white visual element. In summary, something inoffensive and filling that you can shovel into your mouth without much chewing. But like Felix, for some reason Quebeckers seem proud of it.

Poutine is first referenced on pg 88.

==Page 310==
'''his eyes ... less expressive than many Maxine has noted at the fish market'''<br\>
A good way of estimating a fish's freshness is to look at its eyes. So Maxine is not referring to fish market customers' eyes.

'''server farms''' 
Seems worth noting a passage in the novel where Pynchon talks about things we find on the cover of ''Bleeding Edge''. See a [[Bleeding_Edge_cover_analysis|discussion]] on the cover.

'''Godwin's law''' 
Godwin's law is an assertion made by Mike Godwin in 1990 that has become an Internet adage. It states: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1." In other words, Godwin said that, given enough time, in any online discussion—regardless of topic or scope—someone inevitably makes a comparison to Hitler or the Nazis. Although in one of its early forms Godwin's law referred specifically to Usenet newsgroup discussions, the law is now often applied to any threaded online discussion, such as forums, chat rooms and blog comment threads, and has been invoked for the inappropriate use of Nazi analogies in articles or speeches. In 2012, "Godwin's Law" became an entry in the third edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law WIKI]. Also, interestingly, Godwin did his seniors honors thesis on Pynchon.

'''''The Attractive Schoolgirl of Zazhopinsk''''' 

''Zazhopinsk'' is a Russian version of "East Bumfuck" or any similar locution in English. The back of beyond, basically. "Zhopa" (жопа) is the Russian word for "buttocks," so Zazhopinsk could be rendered as "Beyond-butt-town."

This fictitious opera's name probably derives from Dmitri Shostakovich's ''Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk''. When Stalin attended a performance of this opera, he walked out part way through, and published an editorial the next day “Chaos Instead of Music” attacking both the artistic value of the work and the political ideology of the composer. Although Shostkovich was never actually purged, his funding dried up almost immediately, and his diaries record that he took up sleeping in the doorway of his apartment in case he was arrested in the night so that his children would not see.

==Page 311==
'''when she finds anybody trying too hard to fool her, she reaches for her revolver''' 
Brings to mind the lyrics and theme of [http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/105042/ Mission of Burma's "That's When I Reach For My Revolver."]

'''mogul on the black-diamond slopes'''<br\>
Expert-level ski slopes are marked by a black diamond, mogul here having the dual meaning of a small hill in the middle of a ski slope and an important business person.

'''Nora Charles'''<br\>
the Myrna Loy character in the Thin Man movies. In that series, husband Nick (William Powell) was the street-smart detective, while Nora was the moneyed semi-sidekick. Nora was frequently found at upper-class parties, ie with similar financial backing to the current event, but with a very different class of attendees.

'''CD tilde home''' 
The [http://forum.linuxcareer.com/threads/1669-Single-linux-command-to-return-to-home-directory Linux command] to change back to your home directory.

'''the long September which has been with them in a virtual way since spring before last''' <br\>
March 2000 was the date of the dotcom bubble bursting. The reality of this long September contrasts with the naivete of the Eternal September

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==Page 301==
'''It's a warm evening''' 
Sept. 8th (according to the invitation Maxine received last chapter)

==Page 302==
'''''Matrix''-era Ray Bans''' 
Reference breaks the usual, though not ironclad, pattern of giving a film's release date when mentioned. Perhaps because the theme of the party going on is "1999" and since the film came out that year Pynchon doesn't feel the need to spell it out. Anyone have a grasp on the logic behind sometimes giving release dates and sometimes not? Is there always a good reason for when the date isn't given? [It's probably simply because it is used as an adjective here]

Also, "era" is a bit of an odd word choice considering nothing else in that list of nineties "instant nostalgia" items gets qualified with a time of creation and/or when popular indicator word or phrase. Why not simply something like "Matrix glasses"?

According to this [http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2003-05-04/features/0305040269_1_matrix-glasses-morpheus page] the glasses for the film were made by Blinde Design and they did not produce them for commercial release until a few years after the first Matrix film came out. This [http://www.sunglasses-shop.co.uk/film-and-tv/t/the-matrix.aspx site] says Ray-Ban makes similar glasses, though not when they started producing them.

'''pre-crash fantasy years''' 
This line (and this whole paragraph in general) may be about Y2K and the financial crash, but it's really about 9/11. No?

'''Blink-182, Echo and the Bunnymen, Barenaked Ladies, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony''' 
Strange list, of course, but Echo seems a little out of place since they pre-date the other bands by at least a decade and their "hits" were in the 1980s. Great band name, by the way, Echo and the Bunnymen. Seems like the sort of name Pynchon would find interesting. Joylessly, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_%26_the_Bunnymen WIKI] informs us that the name means practically nothing and, according a band member, the name was haphazardly chosen out of a list of names, all "just as stupid as the rest."

I'm pretty sure Echo was what they called their drum machine before they had a drummer. Their heyday was definitely the 80s, though they did reform and release some stuff in the late-90s; it was fairly obscure compared to the other bands mentioned however, in regard to the Top 40, etc.

==Page 303==
'''Razorfish alumni''' 
They were one of the first companies to have an animated homepage, utilizing the "server-push" capabilities of the latest version of the Netscape browser. Because of this and aggressive marketing tactics, their work became well known, well-respected, and the firm grew quickly over the next few years. Soon thereafter, they received a strategic investment from Omnicom (along with other New Media pioneers, Agency.com, Red Sky Interactive, Think New Ideas and Organic), making them one of the first firms to be financed by a traditional media holding company. Razorfish used this money to move to new offices, redesign their branding (to include the slogan "Everything that can be digital will be.") and expand operations. It and other New York-based Web design companies formed the core of a cluster of New Media companies known as Silicon Alley. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razorfish_%28company%29 WIKI].

'''PBRs ... in a washtub of crushed ice''' 
Pabst Blue Ribbon, a mediocre beer popular with hipsters.

==Page 304==
'''temporal aliasing''' 
In signal processing and related disciplines, aliasing refers to an effect that causes different signals to become indistinguishable (or aliases of one another) when sampled. It also refers to the distortion or artifact that results when the signal reconstructed from samples is different from the original continuous signal. Aliasing can occur in signals sampled in time, for instance digital audio, and is referred to as '''temporal aliasing'''. Aliasing can also occur in spatially sampled signals, for instance digital images. Aliasing in spatially sampled signals is called spatial aliasing. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_aliasing]

'''Wow, back off Kim Basinger''' 
Kim Basinger is an American actress and former model. At the time of Bleeding Edge she would have been most famous for her Academy Award winning performance in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.A._Confidential_(film) L.A. Confidential.] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Basinger Wiki article on Basinger]

'''I think he's in some creepy retro-pissing contest with Josh Harris. Remember that millennium-eve party at pseudo? Went on for months?''' 
I was hoping this would be referenced in ''Bleeding Edge''. This is depicted wonderfully in Ondi Timoner's Sundance Film Festival award-winning documentary "We Live In Public." [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XSTwfdFwIY Here is a trailer]. [http://weliveinpublic.blog.indiepixfilms.com/ Here is the official website].

==Page 305==
'''Giuseppe Zanotti... Stuart Weitzman... Jimmy Choo...''' 
All of course shoe designers, given Eric's fetish.

'''Security through immaturity''' 
Playing on the pejorative term "[http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/S/security-through-obscurity.html security through obscurity]" in which security vulnerabilities are merely hidden instead of being closed. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity WIKI]

==Page 306==
'''Had a brilliant Arturo Fuente the other day!''' 
Arturo Fuente is a brand of cigar, founded by Arturo Fuente, Sr. in 1912 in West Tampa, Florida. It's one of the most critically acclaimed makers of hand-rolled premium cigars outside of Cuba.. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_Fuente Wikipedia]

==Page 307==
'''Nazi Vegetable''' 
This is a fictional musical group, obviously.

'''In the Toilet''' 
This song sorta seems to possibly go to the tune of Elvis's "In the Ghetto," which of course given the attention to the toilets we've just read about, is more irony.

==Page 308==
'''epileptigogic lighting''' 
This would be lighting that can trigger an epileptic fit, i.e., strobe lights.

'''Electric Slide''' 
Likely the dance that was inspired by "Shall We Dance (Electric Slide)" by Grandmaster Slice and Scratchmaster Chuck T., produced by them in 1989. Check it:
{{#ev:youtube|lawyOmNqA9Y}}

'''Paradise Garage''' 
Another [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Garage Paradise Garage] reference, to go along with those in chapters 14, 15, and 23. This last one goes into much greater detail as to what dancing at the Garage meant to Maxine.

==Page 309==
'''THE EH? TEAM''' 
A play on the title of a popular 80s TV show ''The A Team''

'''ça va?'''<br\>
Colloquial Quebecois French for 'How's it going?' It literally translates as "is it going", so the answer is "oui" rather than "bien" or similar.

'''about as fat as Ally McBeal''' 
Calista Flockhart played the title character on the TV show ''Ally McBeal'' (1997-2002). She was very skinny.

'''poutine''' 
This is the quintessential French Canadian fast food item. It is found all over Quebec; though it is sometimes found elsewhere in Canada and in some places in the northern United States, it is basically a regional specialty.

To me, poutine has always seemed to be an item whose reputation has far outstripped its inherent value. Maybe I've never had 'good' poutine, but in my experience, poutine has consisted of soft french fries, covered in mediocre gravy (a reasonable replacement for ketchup, but not as good as mayonnaise), with mostly-tasteless cheese curds adding a lumpy white visual element. In summary, something inoffensive and filling that you can shovel into your mouth without much chewing. But like Felix, for some reason Quebeckers seem proud of it.

Poutine is first referenced on pg 88.

==Page 310==
'''his eyes ... less expressive than many Maxine has noted at the fish market'''<br\>
A good way of estimating a fish's freshness is to look at its eyes. So Maxine is not referring to fish market customers' eyes.

'''server farms''' 
Seems worth noting a passage in the novel where Pynchon talks about things we find on the cover of ''Bleeding Edge''. See a [[Bleeding_Edge_cover_analysis|discussion]] on the cover.

'''Godwin's law''' 
Godwin's law is an assertion made by Mike Godwin in 1990 that has become an Internet adage. It states: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1." In other words, Godwin said that, given enough time, in any online discussion—regardless of topic or scope—someone inevitably makes a comparison to Hitler or the Nazis. Although in one of its early forms Godwin's law referred specifically to Usenet newsgroup discussions, the law is now often applied to any threaded online discussion, such as forums, chat rooms and blog comment threads, and has been invoked for the inappropriate use of Nazi analogies in articles or speeches. In 2012, "Godwin's Law" became an entry in the third edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law WIKI]. Also, interestingly, Godwin did his seniors honors thesis on Pynchon.

'''''The Attractive Schoolgirl of Zazhopinsk''''' 

''Zazhopinsk'' is a Russian version of "East Bumfuck" or any similar locution in English. The back of beyond, basically. "Zhopa" (жопа) is the Russian word for "buttocks," so Zazhopinsk could be rendered as "Beyond-butt-town."

This fictitious opera's name probably derives from Dmitri Shostakovich's ''Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk''. When Stalin attended a performance of this opera, he walked out part way through, and published an editorial the next day “Chaos Instead of Music” attacking both the artistic value of the work and the political ideology of the composer. Although Shostkovich was never actually purged, his funding dried up almost immediately, and his diaries record that he took up sleeping in the doorway of his apartment in case he was arrested in the night so that his children would not see.

==Page 311==
'''when she finds anybody trying too hard to fool her, she reaches for her revolver''' 
Brings to mind the lyrics and theme of [http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/105042/ Mission of Burma's "That's When I Reach For My Revolver."]

'''mogul on the black-diamond slopes'''<br\>
Expert-level ski slopes are marked by a black diamond, mogul here having the dual meaning of a small hill in the middle of a ski slope and an important business person.

'''Nora Charles'''<br\>
the Myrna Loy character in the Thin Man movies. In that series, husband Nick (William Powell) was the street-smart detective, while Nora was the moneyed semi-sidekick. Nora was frequently found at upper-class parties, ie with similar financial backing to the current event, but with a very different class of attendees.

'''CD tilde home''' 
The [http://forum.linuxcareer.com/threads/1669-Single-linux-command-to-return-to-home-directory Linux command] to change back to your home directory.

'''the long September which has been with them in a virtual way since spring before last''' <br\>
March 2000 was the date of the dotcom bubble bursting. The reality of this long September contrasts with the naivete of the Eternal September

{{Bleeding Edge PbP}}

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'''Prairie du Chien or Fond du Lac''' 
cities in Wisconsin

'''as Ace Ventura sez''' 
Jim Carrey played the whacky character Ace Ventura in two movies (1994 and 1995). His signature catch phrase was "allllll righty then."

==Page 289==
'''Kum & Go''' 
A chain of convenience stores popular in the Midwest. Hard to believe Pynchon didn't make up that name!

According to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kum_%26_Go WIKI,] the name is "a play on the phrase "come and go" using the initials of founders Krause and Gentle."

'''Floyd's Knobs, Indiana''' 
A real city with a Pynchonesque name.

'''Merc ... CME''' 
Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Although New York City is the center of stock and bond trading in the U.S., the main locus of futures and options trading is in Chicago, with activity split between the CME and the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT).

'''double trading''' 
Double trading is an options strategy that experienced traders use to (hopefully) double their profits. After they have purchased a contract, if traders notice that price of the asset is on a continued upward (or downward) trend, then they will buy more of the asset. (At least that's the only definition I could find. I can't imagine why the strategy would be banned, and couldn't find any instance of such a ban ever taking place, at CME or anywhere else.) 
:The passage makes a much better sense if one assumes that by "double trading" Pynchon actually means "dual trading", i.e. the practice whereby futures traders trade for customers as well as for themselves at more or less the same time, which was banned at CME, for high-volume futures contracts executed on the same day, in May 1991 (see CME Rule 552).

'''...They sing her the Hy-Vee commercial. More than once.''' 
Appears Horst was successful in giving the boys a crash Iowa-childhood experience.

==Page 290==
'''at the CBOT, and to the Brokers Inn, where they ate the legendary giant fish sandwich''' 
This is all true....

:Years ago, before the new 10,000 CBOT floor was open, and the CBOT was only one building, there used to be a restaurant in the building just to the east. It was called Broker's Inn. [...] As a tradition, on Ash Wednesday and every Friday, Broker's Inn would serve "the fish sandwich". The fish sandwich was a large yellow bun, served open-faced, with fried whitefish piled as high as the plate could hold before falling off. The fish was light, tender on the inside, and crisp on the outside. This was served with their famous tartar sauce and fresh wedges of lemon. One person could never finish this sandwich if they ordered anything else. This was all before the new floor was installed. [http://www.yelp.com/biz/chicago-board-of-trade-building-chicago]

'''Maid-Rites''' 
Here's a recipe for a [http://iowagirleats.com/2010/11/01/you-know-youre-from-the-midwest/ Maid-Rite].

'''Louisville Hot Brown''' 
Wow, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Brown WIKI] has a page on this sandwich.

'''Nolan Bushnell''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolan_Bushnell Founder] of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese.

==Page 291==
'''Scooby-Doo shades''' 
Another Scooby reference to go with chapter 18's "Daphne and Wilma's."

'''Hydro Thunder''' 

As with the other arcade games mentioned in the chapter, Hydro Thunder really exists. [http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydro_Thunder Wiki]

==Page 292==

'''covering a margin call''' 
Horst has purchased some derivatives (options or futures) with a significant fraction of the purchase price loaned to him by his broker ("purchased on margin"). Since the time of purchase, the price of the derivative has gone down, and the broker has given Horst a "margin call", ie a couple of hours to put up some more cash to limit their level of exposure. If Horst fails to do so, and the price keeps dropping, the broker stands to lose money. To prevent this possibility, the broker will just sell the derivatives at the going price, which would generate an instant loss for Horst. In this case, Horst believes the price drop is just temporary, so he deposits the extra cash as requested ("covers the call") and the derivatives don't get sold. It looks like he has a number of other positions open, so this margin call is not necessarily a big deal. It does indicate that Horst is engaging in high risk trading though: leveraging his capital in a market that is already very volatile and risky.

'''Berghoff longnecks''' 
Beer made by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Huber_Brewing_Company Joseph Huber Brewing Company,] second oldest brewery in the United States. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeungling Yuengling] is the oldest.

Berghoff is also a German restaurant on West Adams near the financial district. In the window, Berghoff displays Chicago liquor license #1.

==Page 294==
'''Rachel . . . Green''' 
Rachel Green is the character played by Jennifer Aniston on the TV show ''Friends''. She had an on-again, off-again love affair with Ross.

'''ha ha only serious''' 
A phrase from "nerd"-ier circles and mentioned in [http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/ha-ha-only-serious.html the Jargon File]:

<blockquote>
[from SF fandom, orig. as mutation of HHOK, ‘Ha Ha Only Kidding’] A phrase (often seen abbreviated as HHOS) that aptly captures the flavor of much hacker discourse. Applied especially to parodies, absurdities, and ironic jokes that are both intended and perceived to contain a possibly disquieting amount of truth, or truths that are constructed on in-joke and self-parody. This lexicon contains many examples of ha-ha-only-serious in both form and content. Indeed, the entirety of hacker culture is often perceived as ha-ha-only-serious by hackers themselves; to take it either too lightly or too seriously marks a person as an outsider, a wannabee, or in larval stage. For further enlightenment on this subject, consult any Zen master.
</blockquote>.

==Page 295==
'''Tworkeffx''' 
Could be an abbreviated form of "network effect," where a good or service becomes more valuable when more people use it, which is the case for many websites such as YouTube, Amazon.com, Wikipedia &c &c.

There's also "Twork It Out," a tune on Usher's third studio album, ''8701'' which was originally intended for an October 31, 2000 release but was delayed numerous times following the leak of several tracks onto the online music store Napster and finally released in July 2001. The title is derived from Usher singing for the first time in his local church in 1987 and the album's release date of 2001. From [http://www.metrolyrics.com/twork-it-out-lyrics-usher.html the lyrics], "tworking" is pretty much having sex.
{{#ev:youtube|IezNzO7asCg}}

'''End of the World As We Know It''' 
A reference to the song "It's the End of the World as We Know It" (1987) by R.E.M.

==Page 296==
'''As Labor Day approaches''' 
which, in 2001, was on Sept. 3rd

'''El Atildado''' 
"Atildado" is Spanish for elegant, stylish

Or more pointedly, it means, The Dapper Man.

''you mean 'Dude'?''

'''Johnny Pacheco''' 
Johnny Pacheco is a Dominican musician, arranger, producer, and bandleader of Cuban music. He is one of the most influential figures in Latin music, best known for being the creator of the Fania All-Stars, and for coining the term "Salsa" to denote the genre. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Pacheco WIKI].

==Page 298==
'''A barstool, named Sven?''' 
Maybe a bit of poetic license here? IKEA has a stool named "Svenerik", but it's more of a piano stool. The max height is 58 cm, so it's too short to be much good as a bar stool.

==Page 299==

'''Jemima, Keziah, and Kerenhappuch''' 
Job's three daughters, as in, from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Job Book of Job].

==Page 300==
'''merengue''' 
Merengue is a style of Dominican music and dance. Partners hold each other in a closed position. The leader holds the follower's waist with the leader's right hand, while holding the follower's right hand with the leader's left hand at the follower's eye level. Partners bend their knees slightly left and right, thus making the hips move left and right. The hips of the leader and follower move in the same direction throughout the song. Partners may walk sideways or circle each other, in small steps. They can switch to an open position and do separate turns without letting go each other's hands or releasing one hand. During these turns they may twist and tie their handhold into intricate pretzels. Other choreographies are possible. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merengue_%28dance%29 WIKI].

'''"Copacabana"''' 
Classic song by Mr. Barry Manilow.

{{#ev:youtube|uZejMyIrghc}}

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==Page 288==
'''Prairie du Chien or Fond du Lac''' 
cities in Wisconsin

'''as Ace Ventura sez''' 
Jim Carrey played the whacky character Ace Ventura in two movies (1994 and 1995). His signature catch phrase was "allllll righty then."

==Page 289==
'''Kum & Go''' 
A chain of convenience stores popular in the Midwest. Hard to believe Pynchon didn't make up that name!

According to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kum_%26_Go WIKI,] the name is "a play on the phrase "come and go" using the initials of founders Krause and Gentle."

'''Floyd's Knobs, Indiana''' 
A real city with a Pynchonesque name.

'''Merc ... CME''' 
Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Although New York City is the center of stock and bond trading in the U.S., the main locus of futures and options trading is in Chicago, with activity split between the CME and the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT).

'''double trading''' 
Double trading is an options strategy that experienced traders use to (hopefully) double their profits. After they have purchased a contract, if traders notice that price of the asset is on a continued upward (or downward) trend, then they will buy more of the asset. (At least that's the only definition I could find. I can't imagine why the strategy would be banned, and couldn't find any instance of such a ban ever taking place, at CME or anywhere else.) 
:The passage makes a much better sense if one assumes that by "double trading" Pynchon actually means "dual trading", i.e. the practice whereby futures traders trade for customers as well as for themselves at more or less the same time, which was banned at CME, for high-volume futures contracts executed on the same day, in May 1991 (see CME Rule 552).

'''...They sing her the Hy-Vee commercial. More than once.''' 
Appears Horst was successful in giving the boys a crash Iowa-childhood experience.

==Page 290==
'''at the CBOT, and to the Brokers Inn, where they ate the legendary giant fish sandwich''' 
This is all true....

:Years ago, before the new 10,000 CBOT floor was open, and the CBOT was only one building, there used to be a restaurant in the building just to the east. It was called Broker's Inn. [...] As a tradition, on Ash Wednesday and every Friday, Broker's Inn would serve "the fish sandwich". The fish sandwich was a large yellow bun, served open-faced, with fried whitefish piled as high as the plate could hold before falling off. The fish was light, tender on the inside, and crisp on the outside. This was served with their famous tartar sauce and fresh wedges of lemon. One person could never finish this sandwich if they ordered anything else. This was all before the new floor was installed. [http://www.yelp.com/biz/chicago-board-of-trade-building-chicago]

'''Maid-Rites''' 
Here's a recipe for a [http://iowagirleats.com/2010/11/01/you-know-youre-from-the-midwest/ Maid-Rite].

'''Louisville Hot Brown''' 
Wow, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Brown WIKI] has a page on this sandwich.

'''Nolan Bushnell''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolan_Bushnell Founder] of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese.

==Page 291==
'''Scooby-Doo shades''' 
Another Scooby reference to go with chapter 18's "Daphne and Wilma's."

'''Hydro Thunder''' 

As with the other arcade games mentioned in the chapter, Hydro Thunder really exists. [http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydro_Thunder Wiki]

==Page 292==

'''covering a margin call''' 
Horst has purchased some derivatives (options or futures) with a significant fraction of the purchase price loaned to him by his broker ("purchased on margin"). Since the time of purchase, the price of the derivative has gone down, and the broker has given Horst a "margin call", ie a couple of hours to put up some more cash to limit their level of exposure. If Horst fails to do so, and the price keeps dropping, the broker stands to lose money. To prevent this possibility, the broker will just sell the derivatives at the going price, which would generate an instant loss for Horst. In this case, Horst believes the price drop is just temporary, so he deposits the extra cash as requested ("covers the call") and the derivatives don't get sold. It looks like he has a number of other positions open, so this margin call is not necessarily a big deal. It does indicate that Horst is engaging in high risk trading though: leveraging his capital in a market that is already very volatile and risky.

'''Berghoff longnecks''' 
Beer made by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Huber_Brewing_Company Joseph Huber Brewing Company,] second oldest brewery in the United States. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeungling Yuengling] is the oldest.

Berghoff is also a German restaurant on West Adams near the financial district. In the window, Berghoff displays Chicago liquor license #1.

==Page 294==
'''Rachel . . . Green''' 
Rachel Green is the character played by Jennifer Aniston on the TV show ''Friends''. She had an on-again, off-again love affair with Ross.

'''ha ha only serious''' 
A phrase from "nerd"-ier circles and mentioned in [http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/ha-ha-only-serious.html the Jargon File]:

<blockquote>
[from SF fandom, orig. as mutation of HHOK, ‘Ha Ha Only Kidding’] A phrase (often seen abbreviated as HHOS) that aptly captures the flavor of much hacker discourse. Applied especially to parodies, absurdities, and ironic jokes that are both intended and perceived to contain a possibly disquieting amount of truth, or truths that are constructed on in-joke and self-parody. This lexicon contains many examples of ha-ha-only-serious in both form and content. Indeed, the entirety of hacker culture is often perceived as ha-ha-only-serious by hackers themselves; to take it either too lightly or too seriously marks a person as an outsider, a wannabee, or in larval stage. For further enlightenment on this subject, consult any Zen master.
</blockquote>.

==Page 295==
'''Tworkeffx''' 
Could be an abbreviated form of "network effect," where a good or service becomes more valuable when more people use it, which is the case for many websites such as YouTube, Amazon.com, Wikipedia &c &c.

There's also "Twork It Out," a tune on Usher's third studio album, ''8701'' which was originally intended for an October 31, 2000 release but was delayed numerous times following the leak of several tracks onto the online music store Napster and finally released in July 2001. The title is derived from Usher singing for the first time in his local church in 1987 and the album's release date of 2001. From [http://www.metrolyrics.com/twork-it-out-lyrics-usher.html the lyrics], "tworking" is pretty much having sex.
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'''End of the World As We Know It''' 
A reference to the song "It's the End of the World as We Know It" (1987) by R.E.M.

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'''As Labor Day approaches''' 
which, in 2001, was on Sept. 3rd

'''El Atildado''' 
"Atildado" is Spanish for elegant, stylish

Or more pointedly, it means, The Dapper Man.

''you mean 'Dude'?''

'''Johnny Pacheco''' 
Johnny Pacheco is a Dominican musician, arranger, producer, and bandleader of Cuban music. He is one of the most influential figures in Latin music, best known for being the creator of the Fania All-Stars, and for coining the term "Salsa" to denote the genre. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Pacheco WIKI].

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'''A barstool, named Sven?'''<br\>
Maybe a bit of poetic license here? IKEA has a stool named "Svenerik", but it's more of a piano stool. The max height is 58 cm, so it's too short to be much good as a bar stool.

==Page 299==

'''Jemima, Keziah, and Kerenhappuch''' 
Job's three daughters, as in, from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Job Book of Job].

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'''merengue''' 
Merengue is a style of Dominican music and dance. Partners hold each other in a closed position. The leader holds the follower's waist with the leader's right hand, while holding the follower's right hand with the leader's left hand at the follower's eye level. Partners bend their knees slightly left and right, thus making the hips move left and right. The hips of the leader and follower move in the same direction throughout the song. Partners may walk sideways or circle each other, in small steps. They can switch to an open position and do separate turns without letting go each other's hands or releasing one hand. During these turns they may twist and tie their handhold into intricate pretzels. Other choreographies are possible. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merengue_%28dance%29 WIKI].

'''"Copacabana"''' 
Classic song by Mr. Barry Manilow.

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'''Prairie du Chien or Fond du Lac''' 
cities in Wisconsin

'''as Ace Ventura sez''' 
Jim Carrey played the whacky character Ace Ventura in two movies (1994 and 1995). His signature catch phrase was "allllll righty then."

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'''Kum & Go''' 
A chain of convenience stores popular in the Midwest. Hard to believe Pynchon didn't make up that name!

According to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kum_%26_Go WIKI,] the name is "a play on the phrase "come and go" using the initials of founders Krause and Gentle."

'''Floyd's Knobs, Indiana''' 
A real city with a Pynchonesque name.

'''Merc ... CME''' 
Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Although New York City is the center of stock and bond trading in the U.S., the main locus of futures and options trading is in Chicago, with activity split between the CME and the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT).

'''double trading''' 
Double trading is an options strategy that experienced traders use to (hopefully) double their profits. After they have purchased a contract, if traders notice that price of the asset is on a continued upward (or downward) trend, then they will buy more of the asset. (At least that's the only definition I could find. I can't imagine why the strategy would be banned, and couldn't find any instance of such a ban ever taking place, at CME or anywhere else.) 
:The passage makes a much better sense if one assumes that by "double trading" Pynchon actually means "dual trading", i.e. the practice whereby futures traders trade for customers as well as for themselves at more or less the same time, which was banned at CME, for high-volume futures contracts executed on the same day, in May 1991 (see CME Rule 552).

'''...They sing her the Hy-Vee commercial. More than once.''' 
Appears Horst was successful in giving the boys a crash Iowa-childhood experience.

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'''at the CBOT, and to the Brokers Inn, where they ate the legendary giant fish sandwich''' 
This is all true....

:Years ago, before the new 10,000 CBOT floor was open, and the CBOT was only one building, there used to be a restaurant in the building just to the east. It was called Broker's Inn. [...] As a tradition, on Ash Wednesday and every Friday, Broker's Inn would serve "the fish sandwich". The fish sandwich was a large yellow bun, served open-faced, with fried whitefish piled as high as the plate could hold before falling off. The fish was light, tender on the inside, and crisp on the outside. This was served with their famous tartar sauce and fresh wedges of lemon. One person could never finish this sandwich if they ordered anything else. This was all before the new floor was installed. [http://www.yelp.com/biz/chicago-board-of-trade-building-chicago]

'''Maid-Rites''' 
Here's a recipe for a [http://iowagirleats.com/2010/11/01/you-know-youre-from-the-midwest/ Maid-Rite].

'''Louisville Hot Brown''' 
Wow, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Brown WIKI] has a page on this sandwich.

'''Nolan Bushnell''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolan_Bushnell Founder] of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese.

==Page 291==
'''Scooby-Doo shades''' 
Another Scooby reference to go with chapter 18's "Daphne and Wilma's."

Which makes us wonder, what would Scooby Doo?

'''Hydro Thunder''' 

As with the other arcade games mentioned in the chapter, Hydro Thunder really exists. [http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydro_Thunder Wiki]

==Page 292==

'''covering a margin call''' 
Horst has purchased some derivatives (options or futures) with a significant fraction of the purchase price loaned to him by his broker ("purchased on margin"). Since the time of purchase, the price of the derivative has gone down, and the broker has given Horst a "margin call", ie a couple of hours to put up some more cash to limit their level of exposure. If Horst fails to do so, and the price keeps dropping, the broker stands to lose money. To prevent this possibility, the broker will just sell the derivatives at the going price, which would generate an instant loss for Horst. In this case, Horst believes the price drop is just temporary, so he deposits the extra cash as requested ("covers the call") and the derivatives don't get sold. It looks like he has a number of other positions open, so this margin call is not necessarily a big deal. It does indicate that Horst is engaging in high risk trading though: leveraging his capital in a market that is already very volatile and risky.

'''Berghoff longnecks''' 
Beer made by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Huber_Brewing_Company Joseph Huber Brewing Company,] second oldest brewery in the United States. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeungling Yuengling] is the oldest.

Berghoff is also a German restaurant on West Adams near the financial district. In the window, Berghoff displays Chicago liquor license #1.

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'''Rachel . . . Green''' 
Rachel Green is the character played by Jennifer Aniston on the TV show ''Friends''. She had an on-again, off-again love affair with Ross.

'''ha ha only serious''' 
A phrase from "nerd"-ier circles and mentioned in [http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/ha-ha-only-serious.html the Jargon File]:

<blockquote>
[from SF fandom, orig. as mutation of HHOK, ‘Ha Ha Only Kidding’] A phrase (often seen abbreviated as HHOS) that aptly captures the flavor of much hacker discourse. Applied especially to parodies, absurdities, and ironic jokes that are both intended and perceived to contain a possibly disquieting amount of truth, or truths that are constructed on in-joke and self-parody. This lexicon contains many examples of ha-ha-only-serious in both form and content. Indeed, the entirety of hacker culture is often perceived as ha-ha-only-serious by hackers themselves; to take it either too lightly or too seriously marks a person as an outsider, a wannabee, or in larval stage. For further enlightenment on this subject, consult any Zen master.
</blockquote>.

==Page 295==
'''Tworkeffx''' 
Could be an abbreviated form of "network effect," where a good or service becomes more valuable when more people use it, which is the case for many websites such as YouTube, Amazon.com, Wikipedia &c &c.

There's also "Twork It Out," a tune on Usher's third studio album, ''8701'' which was originally intended for an October 31, 2000 release but was delayed numerous times following the leak of several tracks onto the online music store Napster and finally released in July 2001. The title is derived from Usher singing for the first time in his local church in 1987 and the album's release date of 2001. From [http://www.metrolyrics.com/twork-it-out-lyrics-usher.html the lyrics], "tworking" is pretty much having sex.
{{#ev:youtube|IezNzO7asCg}}

'''End of the World As We Know It''' 
A reference to the song "It's the End of the World as We Know It" (1987) by R.E.M.

==Page 296==
'''As Labor Day approaches''' 
which, in 2001, was on Sept. 3rd

'''El Atildado''' 
"Atildado" is Spanish for elegant, stylish

Or more pointedly, it means, The Dapper Man.

''you mean 'Dude'?''

'''Johnny Pacheco''' 
Johnny Pacheco is a Dominican musician, arranger, producer, and bandleader of Cuban music. He is one of the most influential figures in Latin music, best known for being the creator of the Fania All-Stars, and for coining the term "Salsa" to denote the genre. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Pacheco WIKI].

==Page 298==
'''A barstool, named Sven?'''<br\>
Maybe a bit of poetic license here? IKEA has a stool named "Svenerik", but it's more of a piano stool. The max height is 58 cm, so it's too short to be much good as a bar stool.

==Page 299==

'''Jemima, Keziah, and Kerenhappuch''' 
Job's three daughters, as in, from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Job Book of Job].

==Page 300==
'''merengue''' 
Merengue is a style of Dominican music and dance. Partners hold each other in a closed position. The leader holds the follower's waist with the leader's right hand, while holding the follower's right hand with the leader's left hand at the follower's eye level. Partners bend their knees slightly left and right, thus making the hips move left and right. The hips of the leader and follower move in the same direction throughout the song. Partners may walk sideways or circle each other, in small steps. They can switch to an open position and do separate turns without letting go each other's hands or releasing one hand. During these turns they may twist and tie their handhold into intricate pretzels. Other choreographies are possible. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merengue_%28dance%29 WIKI].

'''"Copacabana"''' 
Classic song by Mr. Barry Manilow.

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'''Prairie du Chien or Fond du Lac''' 
cities in Wisconsin

'''as Ace Ventura sez''' 
Jim Carrey played the whacky character Ace Ventura in two movies (1994 and 1995). His signature catch phrase was "allllll righty then."

==Page 289==
'''Kum & Go''' 
A chain of convenience stores popular in the Midwest. Hard to believe Pynchon didn't make up that name!

According to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kum_%26_Go WIKI,] the name is "a play on the phrase "come and go" using the initials of founders Krause and Gentle."

'''Floyd's Knobs, Indiana''' 
A real city with a Pynchonesque name.

'''Merc ... CME'''<br\>
Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Although New York City is the center of stock and bond trading in the U.S., the main locus of futures and options trading is in Chicago, with activity split between the CME and the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT).

'''double trading'''<br\>
Double trading is an options strategy that experienced traders use to (hopefully) double their profits. After they have purchased a contract, if traders notice that price of the asset is on a continued upward (or downward) trend, then they will buy more of the asset. (At least that's the only definition I could find. I can't imagine why the strategy would be banned, and couldn't find any instance of such a ban ever taking place, at CME or anywhere else.) 
:The passage makes a much better sense if one assumes that by "double trading" Pynchon actually means "dual trading", i.e. the practice whereby futures traders trade for customers as well as for themselves at more or less the same time, which was banned at CME, for high-volume futures contracts executed on the same day, in May 1991 (see CME Rule 552).

'''...They sing her the Hy-Vee commercial. More than once.''' 
Appears Horst was successful in giving the boys a crash Iowa-childhood experience.

==Page 290==
'''at the CBOT, and to the Brokers Inn, where they ate the legendary giant fish sandwich''' 
This is all true....

:Years ago, before the new 10,000 CBOT floor was open, and the CBOT was only one building, there used to be a restaurant in the building just to the east. It was called Broker's Inn. [...] As a tradition, on Ash Wednesday and every Friday, Broker's Inn would serve "the fish sandwich". The fish sandwich was a large yellow bun, served open-faced, with fried whitefish piled as high as the plate could hold before falling off. The fish was light, tender on the inside, and crisp on the outside. This was served with their famous tartar sauce and fresh wedges of lemon. One person could never finish this sandwich if they ordered anything else. This was all before the new floor was installed. [http://www.yelp.com/biz/chicago-board-of-trade-building-chicago]

'''Maid-Rites''' 
Here's a recipe for a [http://iowagirleats.com/2010/11/01/you-know-youre-from-the-midwest/ Maid-Rite].

'''Louisville Hot Brown''' 
Wow, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Brown WIKI] has a page on this sandwich.

'''Nolan Bushnell''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolan_Bushnell Founder] of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese.

==Page 291==
'''Scooby-Doo shades''' 
Another Scooby reference to go with chapter 18's "Daphne and Wilma's."

Which makes us wonder, what would Scooby Doo?

'''Hydro Thunder''' 

As with the other arcade games mentioned in the chapter, Hydro Thunder really exists. [http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydro_Thunder Wiki]

==Page 292==

'''covering a margin call''' 
Horst has purchased some derivatives (options or futures) with a significant fraction of the purchase price loaned to him by his broker ("purchased on margin"). Since the time of purchase, the price of the derivative has gone down, and the broker has given Horst a "margin call", ie a couple of hours to put up some more cash to limit their level of exposure. If Horst fails to do so, and the price keeps dropping, the broker stands to lose money. To prevent this possibility, the broker will just sell the derivatives at the going price, which would generate an instant loss for Horst. In this case, Horst believes the price drop is just temporary, so he deposits the extra cash as requested ("covers the call") and the derivatives don't get sold. It looks like he has a number of other positions open, so this margin call is not necessarily a big deal. It does indicate that Horst is engaging in high risk trading though: leveraging his capital in a market that is already very volatile and risky.

'''Berghoff longnecks''' 
Beer made by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Huber_Brewing_Company Joseph Huber Brewing Company,] second oldest brewery in the United States. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeungling Yuengling] is the oldest.

Berghoff is also a German restaurant on West Adams near the financial district. In the window, Berghoff displays Chicago liquor license #1.

==Page 294==
'''Rachel . . . Green''' 
Rachel Green is the character played by Jennifer Aniston on the TV show ''Friends''. She had an on-again, off-again love affair with Ross.

'''ha ha only serious''' 
A phrase from "nerd"-ier circles and mentioned in [http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/ha-ha-only-serious.html the Jargon File]:

<blockquote>
[from SF fandom, orig. as mutation of HHOK, ‘Ha Ha Only Kidding’] A phrase (often seen abbreviated as HHOS) that aptly captures the flavor of much hacker discourse. Applied especially to parodies, absurdities, and ironic jokes that are both intended and perceived to contain a possibly disquieting amount of truth, or truths that are constructed on in-joke and self-parody. This lexicon contains many examples of ha-ha-only-serious in both form and content. Indeed, the entirety of hacker culture is often perceived as ha-ha-only-serious by hackers themselves; to take it either too lightly or too seriously marks a person as an outsider, a wannabee, or in larval stage. For further enlightenment on this subject, consult any Zen master.
</blockquote>.

==Page 295==
'''Tworkeffx''' 
Could be an abbreviated form of "network effect," where a good or service becomes more valuable when more people use it, which is the case for many websites such as YouTube, Amazon.com, Wikipedia &c &c.

There's also "Twork It Out," a tune on Usher's third studio album, ''8701'' which was originally intended for an October 31, 2000 release but was delayed numerous times following the leak of several tracks onto the online music store Napster and finally released in July 2001. The title is derived from Usher singing for the first time in his local church in 1987 and the album's release date of 2001. From [http://www.metrolyrics.com/twork-it-out-lyrics-usher.html the lyrics], "tworking" is pretty much having sex.
{{#ev:youtube|IezNzO7asCg}}

'''End of the World As We Know It''' 
A reference to the song "It's the End of the World as We Know It" (1987) by R.E.M.

==Page 296==
'''As Labor Day approaches''' 
which, in 2001, was on Sept. 3rd

'''El Atildado''' 
"Atildado" is Spanish for elegant, stylish

Or more pointedly, it means, The Dapper Man.

''you mean 'Dude'?''

'''Johnny Pacheco''' 
Johnny Pacheco is a Dominican musician, arranger, producer, and bandleader of Cuban music. He is one of the most influential figures in Latin music, best known for being the creator of the Fania All-Stars, and for coining the term "Salsa" to denote the genre. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Pacheco WIKI].

==Page 298==
'''A barstool, named Sven?'''<br\>
Maybe a bit of poetic license here? IKEA has a stool named "Svenerik", but it's more of a piano stool. The max height is 58 cm, so it's too short to be much good as a bar stool.

==Page 299==

'''Jemima, Keziah, and Kerenhappuch''' 
Job's three daughters, as in, from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Job Book of Job].

==Page 300==
'''merengue''' 
Merengue is a style of Dominican music and dance. Partners hold each other in a closed position. The leader holds the follower's waist with the leader's right hand, while holding the follower's right hand with the leader's left hand at the follower's eye level. Partners bend their knees slightly left and right, thus making the hips move left and right. The hips of the leader and follower move in the same direction throughout the song. Partners may walk sideways or circle each other, in small steps. They can switch to an open position and do separate turns without letting go each other's hands or releasing one hand. During these turns they may twist and tie their handhold into intricate pretzels. Other choreographies are possible. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merengue_%28dance%29 WIKI].

'''"Copacabana"''' 
Classic song by Mr. Barry Manilow.

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'''formaldehyde''' 
Clothing is coated with formaldehyde to make them "wrinkle free". Formaldehyde is also used to preserve corpses. Most people are familiar with the miasma from frog dissection in high school biology.

'''The Thug, here rendered in fuchsia and optical green''' 
That is, looking a lot like the Hulk.
<blockquote>There is a moment in ''Against the Day'' where this color combination is used; does anyone remember where and if there is a significance between these two items?</blockquote>

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''' a mural-size screen grab from the opening of ''The Letter'' (1940) in which Bette Davis is pretending to pump six rounds into...''' 
Image and film info at [http://www.allmovie.com/movie/v29107 allmovie.] Bette comes out with gun blazing at 1:18 into this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo5QuonRCHE clip.]

'''David Newell''' 
Supporting actor turned makeup artist. [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0627789/#actor IMDB] makes it appear he spent much of his career being uncredited for his work.

==Page 277==
'''It's what, legal in Utah for three people to get married?''' 
Despite being illegal, in Utah today, those living in polygamist families number about 40,000 people(about 1.4 percent of the population). Polygamists are difficult to prosecute because many only seek marriage licenses for their first marriage, while the other marriages are secretly conducted in private ceremonies. Thereafter, secondary wives attempt to be seen in public as single women with children.

''The mainstream Mormon church (LDS) turned away from polygamy many years ago. But there are still many 'fundamentalist' Mormons practising polygamy, often living in closed communities. See Jon Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven for more on the (very) dark side of polygamy. [http://www.amazon.com/Under-Banner-Heaven-Story-Violent/dp/1400032806]''

'''DITS''' 
pun on ditz

==Page 278==

'''Dr. Brown's Cel-Ray''' 
Dr. Brown's is a brand of soft drink made by J&R Bottling. It is a popular brand in the New York City region and in South Florida, but it can also be found in Jewish delicatessens and upscale supermarkets around the United States. Dr. Brown's dates back to 1869 when their famous Dr. Brown's Cel-Ray soda was commonly sold in New York delicatessens. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Brown's]

'''a bit on the demi-sec side''' 
"Demi sec" is a French term for the sweetness of a wine. It translates to "semi-dry" or medium-dry. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweetness_of_wine]

''If you're used to brut, demi-sec tastes pretty sweet. So I'd interpret this as Cornelia's tactful way of saying the Dr Brown's is a bit too sweet for her taste''

'''folie à deux''' 
French: "madness for two" a shared psychotic disorder between two people who are extremely close. Normally it's two people sharing the same delusion, but in this case, it's two people sharing complementary delusions.

==Page 279==

'''Far from the Channel 13 upper-class dynasty''' 
Channel 13 is a New York City PBS station, PBS being the preferred network for the educated and well healed.

'''well east of the Nassau line''' 
That is, not in Nassau County which is the 13th wealthiest county in the US with a median income of $93K+. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-income_counties_in_the_United_States]

'''neorealist films''' 
Also known as Italian Neorealism. "A national film movement ] characterized by stories set amongst the poor and the working class, filmed on location, frequently using non-professional actors." Source: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_neorealism Wiki]

'''The Muffya''' 
A bad pun on The Mafia... "Muff" is slang for pussy etc.

Perhaps more to the point here, "Muffy" is also a paradigmatic WASP and/or preppy female nickname.

'''Donna non vidi mai''' 
Italian: "I have never seen a woman" - So Rocky is watching Cornelia shower while he eats a pizza and sings this tenor aria from Act 1 of Puccini's Manon Lescaut. A love-at-first-sight soliloquy. "I have never seen a woman like this!" Pynchon referenced the Act 3 tenor solo in [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_3 Chapter 3 of ''V.'']

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'''Down in K-Town they call him '4-D'''' 
Koreatown is an ethnic Korean enclave in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, centered on the block of West 32nd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koreatown,_Manhattan]

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'''Chandler Platt''' 
Interesting name which could be a nod to detective-fiction writer Raymond Chandler [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Chandler] who wrote the Philip Marlowe series from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. When Chandler was in his twenties, he worked at the Los Angeles Creamery whose owner, George E. Platt, was found guilty and fined for selling a mixture of milk and condensed milk as "cream" and was also involved in many other corrupt schemes. Someone Chandler Platt could have worked with! [http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/06/raymond-chandlers-crime-introduction-via-ice-cream.html]

'''the high-muzzle-velocity law firm of Hanover, Fisk''' 
Nice little pun on "hand over fist", as in making money hand over fist... Muzzle velocity is the speed a projectile has at the moment it leaves the muzzle of the gun. So a high-powered firm (with a suggestion of violence), handling big cases. This rifle reference connects to the to the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle mentioned on [[#Page_282|page 282]], the high-muzzle-velocity rifle used by Lee Harvey Oswald to assassinate President Kennedy in 1963.

'''New Zealand kauri''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agathis_australis WIKI] tells us kauri forests are some of the oldest in the world, that individual trees often live longer than 600 years, and that they are very large trees with volumes, but not heights, often rivaling sequoias. When kauri trees fall over, they are usually submerged in an anoxic swamp environment, which prevents them from rotting. They used to pull ancient kauri logs out of the swamps to make super-high-end furniture, but I don't know if they still do. With their large diameters, a table made from a cross-section of a single kauri could fit quite a few secretaries under it.

==Page 281==
'''Skadden, Arps''' 
A [http://www.skadden.com/ real law firm] in Washington, DC.

'''friends, in the pre-Internet sense of the term''' 
Facebook didn't allow tagging contacts as "friends" until 2005. Weren't they among the first (ie is this an anachronism)?

==Page 282==
'''Mannlicher-Carcano . . . Jackie and I were dear friends''' 
A Mannlicher-Carcano is a high-muzzle-velocity rifle and what Lee Harvey Oswald used to assassinate John F. Kennedy in 1963. Jackie was, as most are aware, JFK's wife and the first lady.

'''"Jay-Z?" "Well, actually I'm more of a Nas person. As you may know they're in this feud at the moment, that old Queens-versus-Brooklyn thing again, hate to take sides, but---"The World Is Yours," how can anything even compare?''' 
Probably splitting hairs here, but the feud between Jay-Z and Nas didn't become widely known until Jay-Z's "Takeover" was released on his "Blueprint" album, which came out on September 11. Jay-Z did dis some rappers at the Hot 97 Summer Jam 2001 held in late June, but the hardest hit was Nas' friend and Queens resident Prodigy of Mobb Deep, while Nas was only briefly mentioned. You'd probably had to have been close to the inner circles of these rappers to be conversationally aware of the feud which became heated in the months to come. As for "The World is Yours," reference, I agree with the sentiment, and wonder if it was used since Jay-Z sampled it on "Dead Presidents II" from his 1996 debut album. Anyone else have thoughts on this? [[User:H2oetry|H2oetry]] ([[User talk:H2oetry|talk]])h2oetry

Also, it was pretty much universally accepted that Nas won the beef with "Ether," on ''Stillmatic'' which would be released in December 2001. Nas's ''Illmatic,'' from 1994, is by many, considered the greatest rap record of all time, and extremely rare these days, only contains one guest appearance for a single verse (AZ on "Life's a Bitch"). The above question in regard to the use of "The World is Yours," is indeed possible, though most likely it's used here because the phrase references Scarface, which kind of ties into the theme of this part of the book, I'd say.

'''Tryin to do Tupac and Biggie thangs ... Mort and Pell''' 
A brilliant rap about the racism against Asians implicit in Caucasians playing Asians in 1930s-40s Hollywood films, and asssociated stereotypes. Darren sets out to do what Tupac and Biggie did, i.e., promoting his own cultural values and decrying societal injustices via the rap idiom.

And these two rappers represent yet another Rap Rivalry East Coast (Biggie) vs. West Coast (Tupac). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Coast%E2%80%93West_Coast_hip_hop_rivalry]

The set up is when Chandler Platt's intern Darren who we assume is Asian when Maxine wants to avoid using "inscrutably" to describe his expression, "inscrutable" being a stereotypical characteristic of Asians. Thus, the trope of Asian stereotypes is introduced, and leads to Darren kicking off his rap with "Dig it..."

'''Tryin to do Tupac and Biggie thangs''' 
Like Tupac (aka 2Pac) Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. (aka Biggie Smalls), two very successful rappers in the 1990s, Darren wants to be a rap warrior for his people, his culture.

[[file:Mao-bank.jpg|left|thumb|75px]]'''With red velvet Chairman Mao piggy banks''' 
Nice rhyme: Biggie thangs / piggy banks ... Darren wants to be a Big Rap Star, but he wants to do it the Asian way. Perhaps using Chairman Mao here is Darren's way of using a homegrown and authentic Asian icon to represent his way. Interesting that it's a Chairman Mao piggy bank, Mao being iconic of Marxism, as opposed to the blatantly capitalist pursuit of fame and money by American rappers. Down the page a bit, when asked by Platt how he expects to make money, Darren replies that making money is "not the point."

Of course, Darren's cute little piggy bank will be an ineffective tool to challenge the injustices represented in the old Hollywood movies and which persist to the present, when Platt returns to his office and starts "pullin rank" on Darren, ordering him around.



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'''like Screamin Jay in Hong Kong / jumpin to wrong conclusions''' 
Screamin' Jay Hawkins recorded "Hong Kong" (1958), a paranoid & non-sensical lament ("Standin' on a corner in Hong Kong / My baby was down in Hong Kong / Worried about you baby / You been down too long / in Hong Kong") . I assume it's Screamin' Jay who's "jumpin to wrong conclusions" about his baby and about how scary Hong Kong is. His hysterical delivery, paranoia about his baby's fate, and his fake-Chinese babbling (including the name-checking of common Chinese-American food dishes) indicate a frightened Western man in an Eastern land with a strong whiff of racism. A wacky tune, for sure:
{{#ev:youtube|PaTHMO-XmV4}}

'''old-movie confusions''' 
The "old-movie confusions" are confusion about both the general characterization and stereotyping of Asia and Asians in the 1930s-era Hollywood films, and about Caucasian actors (specifically Scandinavians, the whitest people on the planet) playing Asian characters (aka Yellowface [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Examples_of_Yellowface]), such as in the four American films referenced in Darren's rap "The Adventures of Marco Polo" (1938) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029842/] where both Kubla Khan and his daughter Princess Kukachin are played by Caucasian actors; The "Charlie Chan" films [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Chan] in which Swedish-American actor Warner Oland played detective Charlie Chan for 15 of the films, until his death in 1938; "The Letter" (1940) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Letter_(1940_film)] where Gale Sondegaard, an American actress born to Danish-American parents, plays the role of Mrs. Hammond, the asian wife of Davis's manservant whom Davis murders; and "The Bitter Tea of General Yen" (1933) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bitter_Tea_of_General_Yen)] where all the Asian characters are played by Caucasians. (Yes, Pynchon spells it "General Yan" but this covers both an anime character (General Yan) and the 1933 film (General Yen), or perhaps it's just a typo.)

'''yo, who be dat Scandinavian brand of Azian''' 
Why, it's Sigrid Gurie (Norwegian American), of course, who played Kubla Khan's daughter in "The Adventures of Marco Polo"! But, of course, it's all the actors in the lead Asian roles in the films referenced in this rap.

Spelling "Asian" as "Azian" derives from early Internet chatting where "Asian" was abbreviated "AZN".

[[file:Gurie-Marco-Polo.jpg|thumb|caption|Gary Cooper & Sigrid Gurie in "The Adventures of Marco Polo"|175px|left]]'''ya dig wid some Sigrid be / the daughter of Kublai Khan...''' 
In "The Adventures of Marco Polo," the character of Kublai Khan (spelled "Kubla" in the film credits) is played by George Barbier, and Khan's daughter Princess Kukachin is played by Norwegian-American actress '''Sigrid Gurie'''. Most of the other Chinese characters in the film are played by Caucasians. Kublai Khan was the ruler of the Mongol Empire from 1260 to 1294, and the founder of the Yuan Dynasty. Marco Polo was the first European to visit China and publish a detailed chronicle of his experience. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Polo]

Here's a clip from the film, just some stills accompanied by the film's soundtrack:
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[[file:Oland-Charlie-Chan.jpg|thumb|caption|Warner Oland as Charlie Chan|175px|left]]'''Warner Oland, Charlie Chan''' 
Warner Oland (1879-1938) was a Swedish American actor who played the detective Charlie Chan in the popular film franchise of the 1930s. Yet another Caucasian playing an Asian and reinforcing stereotypes. Oland also played another Asian, Fu Manchu, in the first three films of that franchise. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Chan] (See also, "a gong from a hitherto-unreleased Fu Manchu movie goes off" - [[Chapter_10#Page_99|page 99]])

'''General Yan / bitter tea''' 
"The Bitter Tea of General Yen," is a 1933 dramatic film directed by Frank Capra where most of the Asian actors are played by Caucasians, most notably Danish actor Nils Asther in the role of General Yen. (It's ''possible'' this is also a reference to General Yan, the former Commander-in-Chief of the GHQ in the Guilty Crown anime franchise, although it's more likely a typo!)

Here's a fan-made trailer:
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[[file:Sondegaard-The-Letter.jpg|thumb|caption|Gale Sondegaard in "The Letter"|180px|left]]'''for her stupidity pullin rank / Bette Davis shanked by Gale Sondegaard''' 
Reference to "The Letter" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Letter_(1940_film)], an American noir film directed by William Wyler, where Bette Davis in the role of Leslie Crosbie is the social superior to Gale Sondegaard's Sondegaard parents were Danish Mrs. Hammond who is the wife of Davis's manservant and lover whom Davis murders. As for "pullin rank," Bette Davis was not only Sondegaard's social superior in the film, she was also the lead actress and Sondegaard the supporting actress. In "The Letter" Davis's character is stabbed (shanked - prison-yard slang) by Sondegaard's character.

Here's the trailer for "The Letter":

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'''like they was on the yard / or down in some forgotten cell''' 
A prison yard, of course.

'''far, far from the corner of / Mott and Pell''' 
The heart of New York City's Chinatown. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mott_Street] Indeed they are very far away as "The Letter" takes place in Malaya.

'''And get Hugh Goldman for me over there?" "Mad cool, yo" 
Sadly, after Darren's performance, Platt comes in and begins "pullin rank" on Darren, brusquely cutting him off and ordering him about, to which Darren hiply but subserviently replies, "Mad cool, yo" and scoots off to do Platt's bidding.

Darren is aware of the inequities of power, of capitalism, rails against it, but remains, at least at this point, a slave a pet beholden to his corporate master. This is reminiscent of Bryon the Bulb in [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_640-655 ''Gravity's Rainbow''; at page 654-655] in the original Viking edition, who ended up ''knowing'' The Truth but unable to effect any change:

:Someday he will know everything, and still be as impotent as before. His youthful dreams of organizing all the bulbs in the world seem impossible now—the Grid is wide open, all messages can be overheard, and there are more than enough traitors out on the line. Prophets traditionally don’t last long—they are either killed outright, or given an accident serious enough to make them stop and think, and most often they do pull back. But on Byron has been visited an even better fate. '''He is condemned to go on forever, knowing the truth and powerless to change anything.''' No longer will he seek to get off the wheel. His anger and frustration will grow without limit, and he will find himself, poor perverse bulb, enjoying it . . . .

And on [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_706-717#Page_713 page 713], Roger Mexico reflects on the Counterforce as the Corporate Masters' "doomed pet freaks," and wonders "which is worse: living on as Their pet, or death?"

Thus Darren's "red velvet Chairman Mao piggy bank" will be his cute but feckless weapon to fight injustice.

'''Gongsta Rap''' 
AKA the Asian version of Gangsta Rap. Another cute Pynchon Pun...

'''They gonna be give me all rice-nigga remarks and shit, this way I beat 'em to it.''' 
"Rice nigga" is, as you might suspect, a derogatory/racist term for Asians. Darren anticipates these kinds of remarks when he starts performing out, so he writes this rap that lampoons American stereotypes of Asians, starting with Screamin' Jay Hawkins' paranoid and racist "Hong Kong."

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'''chomping into it and scattering crumbs... Grabbing another, two or three actually''' 
Chandler Platt has become the Cookie Monster.

'''I could rely without hesitation upon young Darren...''' 
Darren is not only Platt's slave, but also his protector!

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'''as Larry Talbot into the Wolf Man''' 
Larry Talbot, played by Lon Chaney, Jr., was the main character of the horror film ''The Wolf Man'' (1941) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wolf_Man_(1941_film)].

:Trivia alert: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lon_Chaney,_Jr. Chaney] played Larry Talbot in ''The Wolf Man''. Though Chaney was in a fair number of monster movies, he was never, contrary to what Warren Zevon may have led us to believe, in a film titled "The Werewolves of London." The 1935 film [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werewolf_of_London ''Werewolf of London''] starred Henry Hull.

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'''flaneur''' 
Term for a certain type of character found in literature, especially the works of 19th century France. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fl%C3%A2neur WIKI] tells us "Drawing on Fournel, and on his analysis of the poetry of Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin described the flâneur as the essential figure of the modern urban spectator, an amateur detective and investigator of the city. More than this, his flâneur was a sign of the alienation of the city and of capitalism. For Benjamin, the flâneur met his demise with the triumph of consumer capitalism."

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'''formaldehyde''' 
Clothing is coated with formaldehyde to make them "wrinkle free". Formaldehyde is also used to preserve corpses. Most people are familiar with the miasma from frog dissection in high school biology.

'''The Thug, here rendered in fuchsia and optical green''' 
That is, looking a lot like the Hulk.
<blockquote>There is a moment in ''Against the Day'' where this color combination is used; does anyone remember where and if there is a significance between these two items?</blockquote>

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''' a mural-size screen grab from the opening of ''The Letter'' (1940) in which Bette Davis is pretending to pump six rounds into...''' 
Image and film info at [http://www.allmovie.com/movie/v29107 allmovie.] Bette comes out with gun blazing at 1:18 into this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo5QuonRCHE clip.]

'''David Newell''' 
Supporting actor turned makeup artist. [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0627789/#actor IMDB] makes it appear he spent much of his career being uncredited for his work.

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'''It's what, legal in Utah for three people to get married?''' 
Despite being illegal, in Utah today, those living in polygamist families number about 40,000 people(about 1.4 percent of the population). Polygamists are difficult to prosecute because many only seek marriage licenses for their first marriage, while the other marriages are secretly conducted in private ceremonies. Thereafter, secondary wives attempt to be seen in public as single women with children.

''The mainstream Mormon church (LDS) turned away from polygamy many years ago. But there are still many 'fundamentalist' Mormons practising polygamy, often living in closed communities. See Jon Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven for more on the (very) dark side of polygamy. [http://www.amazon.com/Under-Banner-Heaven-Story-Violent/dp/1400032806]''

'''DITS''' 
pun on ditz

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'''Dr. Brown's Cel-Ray''' 
Dr. Brown's is a brand of soft drink made by J&R Bottling. It is a popular brand in the New York City region and in South Florida, but it can also be found in Jewish delicatessens and upscale supermarkets around the United States. Dr. Brown's dates back to 1869 when their famous Dr. Brown's Cel-Ray soda was commonly sold in New York delicatessens. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Brown's]

'''a bit on the demi-sec side''' 
"Demi sec" is a French term for the sweetness of a wine. It translates to "semi-dry" or medium-dry. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweetness_of_wine]

''If you're used to brut, demi-sec tastes pretty sweet. So I'd interpret this as Cornelia's tactful way of saying the Dr Brown's is a bit too sweet for her taste''

'''folie à deux''' 
French: "madness for two" a shared psychotic disorder between two people who are extremely close. Normally it's two people sharing the same delusion, but in this case, it's two people sharing complementary delusions.

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'''Far from the Channel 13 upper-class dynasty''' 
Channel 13 is a New York City PBS station, PBS being the preferred network for the educated and well healed.

'''well east of the Nassau line''' 
That is, not in Nassau County which is the 13th wealthiest county in the US with a median income of $93K+. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-income_counties_in_the_United_States]

'''neorealist films''' 
Also known as Italian Neorealism. "A national film movement ] characterized by stories set amongst the poor and the working class, filmed on location, frequently using non-professional actors." Source: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_neorealism Wiki]

'''The Muffya''' 
A bad pun on The Mafia... "Muff" is slang for pussy etc.

Perhaps more to the point here, "Muffy" is also a paradigmatic WASP and/or preppy female nickname.

'''Donna non vidi mai''' 
Italian: "I have never seen a woman" - So Rocky is watching Cornelia shower while he eats a pizza and sings this tenor aria from Act 1 of Puccini's Manon Lescaut. A love-at-first-sight soliloquy. "I have never seen a woman like this!" Pynchon referenced the Act 3 tenor solo in [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_3 Chapter 3 of ''V.'']

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'''Down in K-Town they call him '4-D'''' 
Koreatown is an ethnic Korean enclave in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, centered on the block of West 32nd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koreatown,_Manhattan]

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'''Chandler Platt''' 
Interesting name which could be a nod to detective-fiction writer Raymond Chandler [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Chandler] who wrote the Philip Marlowe series from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. When Chandler was in his twenties, he worked at the Los Angeles Creamery whose owner, George E. Platt, was found guilty and fined for selling a mixture of milk and condensed milk as "cream" and was also involved in many other corrupt schemes. Someone Chandler Platt could have worked with! [http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/06/raymond-chandlers-crime-introduction-via-ice-cream.html]

'''the high-muzzle-velocity law firm of Hanover, Fisk''' 
Nice little pun on "hand over fist", as in making money hand over fist... Muzzle velocity is the speed a projectile has at the moment it leaves the muzzle of the gun. So a high-powered firm (with a suggestion of violence), handling big cases. This rifle reference connects to the to the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle mentioned on [[#Page_282|page 282]], the high-muzzle-velocity rifle used by Lee Harvey Oswald to assassinate President Kennedy in 1963.

'''New Zealand kauri''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agathis_australis WIKI] tells us kauri forests are some of the oldest in the world, that individual trees often live longer than 600 years, and that they are very large trees with volumes, but not heights, often rivaling sequoias. When kauri trees fall over, they are usually submerged in an anoxic swamp environment, which prevents them from rotting. They used to pull ancient kauri logs out of the swamps to make super-high-end furniture, but I don't know if they still do. With their large diameters, a table made from a cross-section of a single kauri could fit quite a few secretaries under it.

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'''Skadden, Arps''' 
A [http://www.skadden.com/ real law firm] in Washington, DC.

'''friends, in the pre-Internet sense of the term'''<br\>
Facebook didn't allow tagging contacts as "friends" until 2005. Weren't they among the first (ie is this an anachronism)?

==Page 282==
'''Mannlicher-Carcano . . . Jackie and I were dear friends''' 
A Mannlicher-Carcano is a high-muzzle-velocity rifle and what Lee Harvey Oswald used to assassinate John F. Kennedy in 1963. Jackie was, as most are aware, JFK's wife and the first lady.

'''"Jay-Z?" "Well, actually I'm more of a Nas person. As you may know they're in this feud at the moment, that old Queens-versus-Brooklyn thing again, hate to take sides, but---"The World Is Yours," how can anything even compare?''' 
Probably splitting hairs here, but the feud between Jay-Z and Nas didn't become widely known until Jay-Z's "Takeover" was released on his "Blueprint" album, which came out on September 11. Jay-Z did dis some rappers at the Hot 97 Summer Jam 2001 held in late June, but the hardest hit was Nas' friend and Queens resident Prodigy of Mobb Deep, while Nas was only briefly mentioned. You'd probably had to have been close to the inner circles of these rappers to be conversationally aware of the feud which became heated in the months to come. As for "The World is Yours," reference, I agree with the sentiment, and wonder if it was used since Jay-Z sampled it on "Dead Presidents II" from his 1996 debut album. Anyone else have thoughts on this? [[User:H2oetry|H2oetry]] ([[User talk:H2oetry|talk]])h2oetry

Also, it was pretty much universally accepted that Nas won the beef with "Ether," on ''Stillmatic'' which would be released in December 2001. Nas's ''Illmatic,'' from 1994, is by many, considered the greatest rap record of all time, and extremely rare these days, only contains one guest appearance for a single verse (AZ on "Life's a Bitch"). The above question in regard to the use of "The World is Yours," is indeed possible, though most likely it's used here because the phrase references Scarface, which kind of ties into the theme of this part of the book, I'd say.

'''Tryin to do Tupac and Biggie thangs ... Mort and Pell''' 
A brilliant rap about the racism against Asians implicit in Caucasians playing Asians in 1930s-40s Hollywood films, and asssociated stereotypes. Darren sets out to do what Tupac and Biggie did, i.e., promoting his own cultural values and decrying societal injustices via the rap idiom.

And these two rappers represent yet another Rap Rivalry East Coast (Biggie) vs. West Coast (Tupac). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Coast%E2%80%93West_Coast_hip_hop_rivalry]

The set up is when Chandler Platt's intern Darren who we assume is Asian when Maxine wants to avoid using "inscrutably" to describe his expression, "inscrutable" being a stereotypical characteristic of Asians. Thus, the trope of Asian stereotypes is introduced, and leads to Darren kicking off his rap with "Dig it..."

'''Tryin to do Tupac and Biggie thangs''' 
Like Tupac (aka 2Pac) Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. (aka Biggie Smalls), two very successful rappers in the 1990s, Darren wants to be a rap warrior for his people, his culture.

[[file:Mao-bank.jpg|left|thumb|75px]]'''With red velvet Chairman Mao piggy banks''' 
Nice rhyme: Biggie thangs / piggy banks ... Darren wants to be a Big Rap Star, but he wants to do it the Asian way. Perhaps using Chairman Mao here is Darren's way of using a homegrown and authentic Asian icon to represent his way. Interesting that it's a Chairman Mao piggy bank, Mao being iconic of Marxism, as opposed to the blatantly capitalist pursuit of fame and money by American rappers. Down the page a bit, when asked by Platt how he expects to make money, Darren replies that making money is "not the point."

Of course, Darren's cute little piggy bank will be an ineffective tool to challenge the injustices represented in the old Hollywood movies and which persist to the present, when Platt returns to his office and starts "pullin rank" on Darren, ordering him around.



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'''like Screamin Jay in Hong Kong / jumpin to wrong conclusions''' 
Screamin' Jay Hawkins recorded "Hong Kong" (1958), a paranoid & non-sensical lament ("Standin' on a corner in Hong Kong / My baby was down in Hong Kong / Worried about you baby / You been down too long / in Hong Kong") . I assume it's Screamin' Jay who's "jumpin to wrong conclusions" about his baby and about how scary Hong Kong is. His hysterical delivery, paranoia about his baby's fate, and his fake-Chinese babbling (including the name-checking of common Chinese-American food dishes) indicate a frightened Western man in an Eastern land with a strong whiff of racism. A wacky tune, for sure:
{{#ev:youtube|PaTHMO-XmV4}}

'''old-movie confusions''' 
The "old-movie confusions" are confusion about both the general characterization and stereotyping of Asia and Asians in the 1930s-era Hollywood films, and about Caucasian actors (specifically Scandinavians, the whitest people on the planet) playing Asian characters (aka Yellowface [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Examples_of_Yellowface]), such as in the four American films referenced in Darren's rap "The Adventures of Marco Polo" (1938) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029842/] where both Kubla Khan and his daughter Princess Kukachin are played by Caucasian actors; The "Charlie Chan" films [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Chan] in which Swedish-American actor Warner Oland played detective Charlie Chan for 15 of the films, until his death in 1938; "The Letter" (1940) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Letter_(1940_film)] where Gale Sondegaard, an American actress born to Danish-American parents, plays the role of Mrs. Hammond, the asian wife of Davis's manservant whom Davis murders; and "The Bitter Tea of General Yen" (1933) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bitter_Tea_of_General_Yen)] where all the Asian characters are played by Caucasians. (Yes, Pynchon spells it "General Yan" but this covers both an anime character (General Yan) and the 1933 film (General Yen), or perhaps it's just a typo.)

'''yo, who be dat Scandinavian brand of Azian''' 
Why, it's Sigrid Gurie (Norwegian American), of course, who played Kubla Khan's daughter in "The Adventures of Marco Polo"! But, of course, it's all the actors in the lead Asian roles in the films referenced in this rap.

Spelling "Asian" as "Azian" derives from early Internet chatting where "Asian" was abbreviated "AZN".

[[file:Gurie-Marco-Polo.jpg|thumb|caption|Gary Cooper & Sigrid Gurie in "The Adventures of Marco Polo"|175px|left]]'''ya dig wid some Sigrid be / the daughter of Kublai Khan...''' 
In "The Adventures of Marco Polo," the character of Kublai Khan (spelled "Kubla" in the film credits) is played by George Barbier, and Khan's daughter Princess Kukachin is played by Norwegian-American actress '''Sigrid Gurie'''. Most of the other Chinese characters in the film are played by Caucasians. Kublai Khan was the ruler of the Mongol Empire from 1260 to 1294, and the founder of the Yuan Dynasty. Marco Polo was the first European to visit China and publish a detailed chronicle of his experience. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Polo]

Here's a clip from the film, just some stills accompanied by the film's soundtrack:
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[[file:Oland-Charlie-Chan.jpg|thumb|caption|Warner Oland as Charlie Chan|175px|left]]'''Warner Oland, Charlie Chan''' 
Warner Oland (1879-1938) was a Swedish American actor who played the detective Charlie Chan in the popular film franchise of the 1930s. Yet another Caucasian playing an Asian and reinforcing stereotypes. Oland also played another Asian, Fu Manchu, in the first three films of that franchise. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Chan] (See also, "a gong from a hitherto-unreleased Fu Manchu movie goes off" - [[Chapter_10#Page_99|page 99]])

'''General Yan / bitter tea''' 
"The Bitter Tea of General Yen," is a 1933 dramatic film directed by Frank Capra where most of the Asian actors are played by Caucasians, most notably Danish actor Nils Asther in the role of General Yen. (It's ''possible'' this is also a reference to General Yan, the former Commander-in-Chief of the GHQ in the Guilty Crown anime franchise, although it's more likely a typo!)

Here's a fan-made trailer:
{{#ev:youtube|3_OyenMfHEk}}

[[file:Sondegaard-The-Letter.jpg|thumb|caption|Gale Sondegaard in "The Letter"|180px|left]]'''for her stupidity pullin rank / Bette Davis shanked by Gale Sondegaard''' 
Reference to "The Letter" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Letter_(1940_film)], an American noir film directed by William Wyler, where Bette Davis in the role of Leslie Crosbie is the social superior to Gale Sondegaard's Sondegaard parents were Danish Mrs. Hammond who is the wife of Davis's manservant and lover whom Davis murders. As for "pullin rank," Bette Davis was not only Sondegaard's social superior in the film, she was also the lead actress and Sondegaard the supporting actress. In "The Letter" Davis's character is stabbed (shanked - prison-yard slang) by Sondegaard's character.

Here's the trailer for "The Letter":

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'''like they was on the yard / or down in some forgotten cell''' 
A prison yard, of course.

'''far, far from the corner of / Mott and Pell''' 
The heart of New York City's Chinatown. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mott_Street] Indeed they are very far away as "The Letter" takes place in Malaya.

'''And get Hugh Goldman for me over there?" "Mad cool, yo" 
Sadly, after Darren's performance, Platt comes in and begins "pullin rank" on Darren, brusquely cutting him off and ordering him about, to which Darren hiply but subserviently replies, "Mad cool, yo" and scoots off to do Platt's bidding.

Darren is aware of the inequities of power, of capitalism, rails against it, but remains, at least at this point, a slave a pet beholden to his corporate master. This is reminiscent of Bryon the Bulb in [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_640-655 ''Gravity's Rainbow''; at page 654-655] in the original Viking edition, who ended up ''knowing'' The Truth but unable to effect any change:

:Someday he will know everything, and still be as impotent as before. His youthful dreams of organizing all the bulbs in the world seem impossible now—the Grid is wide open, all messages can be overheard, and there are more than enough traitors out on the line. Prophets traditionally don’t last long—they are either killed outright, or given an accident serious enough to make them stop and think, and most often they do pull back. But on Byron has been visited an even better fate. '''He is condemned to go on forever, knowing the truth and powerless to change anything.''' No longer will he seek to get off the wheel. His anger and frustration will grow without limit, and he will find himself, poor perverse bulb, enjoying it . . . .

And on [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_706-717#Page_713 page 713], Roger Mexico reflects on the Counterforce as the Corporate Masters' "doomed pet freaks," and wonders "which is worse: living on as Their pet, or death?"

Thus Darren's "red velvet Chairman Mao piggy bank" will be his cute but feckless weapon to fight injustice.

'''Gongsta Rap''' 
AKA the Asian version of Gangsta Rap. Another cute Pynchon Pun...

'''They gonna be give me all rice-nigga remarks and shit, this way I beat 'em to it.''' 
"Rice nigga" is, as you might suspect, a derogatory/racist term for Asians. Darren anticipates these kinds of remarks when he starts performing out, so he writes this rap that lampoons American stereotypes of Asians, starting with Screamin' Jay Hawkins' paranoid and racist "Hong Kong."

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'''chomping into it and scattering crumbs... Grabbing another, two or three actually''' 
Chandler Platt has become the Cookie Monster.

'''I could rely without hesitation upon young Darren...''' 
Darren is not only Platt's slave, but also his protector!

==Page 285==

'''as Larry Talbot into the Wolf Man''' 
Larry Talbot, played by Lon Chaney, Jr., was the main character of the horror film ''The Wolf Man'' (1941) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wolf_Man_(1941_film)].

:Trivia alert: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lon_Chaney,_Jr. Chaney] played Larry Talbot in ''The Wolf Man''. Though Chaney was in a fair number of monster movies, he was never, contrary to what Warren Zevon may have led us to believe, in a film titled "The Werewolves of London." The 1935 film [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werewolf_of_London ''Werewolf of London''] starred Henry Hull.

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'''flaneur''' 
Term for a certain type of character found in literature, especially the works of 19th century France. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fl%C3%A2neur WIKI] tells us "Drawing on Fournel, and on his analysis of the poetry of Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin described the flâneur as the essential figure of the modern urban spectator, an amateur detective and investigator of the city. More than this, his flâneur was a sign of the alienation of the city and of capitalism. For Benjamin, the flâneur met his demise with the triumph of consumer capitalism."

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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].

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'''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''.

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'''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."

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'''"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?

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'''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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'''anti-kibbutz''' 
A kibbutz is a collective community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. For more see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibbutz WIKI].

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

Perhaps the 1998 film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166503/ The Adopted Son] playing as a revival at the [http://www.filmlinc.com/ Film Society of Lincoln Center.]

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

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

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

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'''No hondeling''' 
Hondeling is the bargaining, or haggling, style in Israel.

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

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

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

'''classical piano novelty act''' 
a polonaise is a dance, and Chopin wrote a lot of polonaises for solo piano

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

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

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'''Purple Drank T-shirt''' 
Purple drank is a slang term for a recreational drug popular in the hip hop community in the southern United States, originating in Houston, Texas. Its main ingredient is prescription-strength cough syrup containing codeine and promethazine. Cough syrup is typically mixed with ingredients such as Sprite soft drink or Mountain Dew. The purplish hue of purple drank comes from dyes in the cough syrup. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_drank WIKI].

'''enough dress-code violations to get thrown off the L train''' 
The L (not "El") runs along 14th Street past the old Stuyvesant H.S. (Eric Outfield from Stuyvesant), through the East Village on its way to Brooklyn. From [http://web.mta.info/nyct/service/lline.htm].

The L train goes to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and is heavily relied on and populated by "hipsters" (meaning the 2000's version of "hipster's" as opposed to the 1950's version) who reside in Williamsburg and ride the L into the Village. So the remark refers to Windust not dressing in current hipster attire and being recognized as not belonging with hipster's on the the L train.

'''Just some schmatte from H&M''' 
"Schmatte" is Yiddish for a rag. H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB (H&M) is a Swedish multinational retail-clothing company, known for its fast-fashion clothing for men, women, teenagers and children. It opened its first U.S. store in New York City, on Fifth Avenue (at 51st Street) in March 2000. As of August 2010, the company had nearly two hundred individual stores in the United States.

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'''As Deborah Kerr, or Marni Nixon, might say, or actually sing''' 
Marni Nixon (b. 1930) is an American soprano and playback singer for featured actresses in movie musicals. She is most famous for dubbing the singing voices of the leading actresses in films, including ''The King and I'', ''West Side Story'' and ''My Fair Lady''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marni_Nixon Wiki] says she earned the nickname the "Ghostess with the Mostest" because her work was often uncredited.

In 1956, she worked closely with actress Deborah Kerr to supply the star's singing voice for the film version of Rodgers & Hammerstein's ''The King and I'', and the next year she again worked with Kerr to dub her voice in ''An Affair to Remembe".betweenAnna (the Deborah Kerr role) and the powerful yet untrustablre King. (Yup Brynner). Not unlike Maxine and Windust, I'd say.

The phrase "On the clear understanding " comes from the "King And I" song "Shall We Dance."

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'''ghetto-ass g's''' 
Ghetto-ass gangsta's

'''Paradise Garage''' 
Again, see chapters 14 and 15, Maxine recalls going to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Garage Paradise Garage.]

'''9:30 Club... maybe he caught Tiny Desk Unit and Bad Brains in their local-band period... maybe the smell of the 9:30 Cologne is his last, his only link with the uncorrupted youth he was?''' 
The 9:30 Club was a late 70's-early 80's club in Washington D.C. where as mentioned, new wave/punk bands like Tiny Desk Unit and Bad Brains once played. In a negative marketing twist, Pynchon implies here that, though seemingly unrelated, Windust's use of 9:30 Cologne and its appeal is tied with the 9:30 Club of his youth.

'''Maybe's ass, OK?''' 
Another way of putting it... “Fuck all the maybe's!” In other words, all those speculations are bullshit.

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'''Princess Heidrophobia''' 
Heidi, a pun on hydrophobia (= rabies).

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'''anti-kibbutz''' 
A kibbutz is a collective community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. For more see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibbutz WIKI].

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

Perhaps the 1998 film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166503/ The Adopted Son] playing as a revival at the [http://www.filmlinc.com/ Film Society of Lincoln Center.]

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

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

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

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'''No hondeling''' 
Hondeling is the bargaining, or haggling, style in Israel.

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

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

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

'''classical piano novelty act''' 
a polonaise is a dance, and Chopin wrote a lot of polonaises for solo piano

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

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

==Page 252==
'''Purple Drank T-shirt''' 
Purple drank is a slang term for a recreational drug popular in the hip hop community in the southern United States, originating in Houston, Texas. Its main ingredient is prescription-strength cough syrup containing codeine and promethazine. Cough syrup is typically mixed with ingredients such as Sprite soft drink or Mountain Dew. The purplish hue of purple drank comes from dyes in the cough syrup. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_drank WIKI].

'''enough dress-code violations to get thrown off the L train''' 
The L (not "El") runs along 14th Street past the old Stuyvesant H.S. (Eric Outfield from Stuyvesant), through the East Village on its way to Brooklyn. From [http://web.mta.info/nyct/service/lline.htm].

The L train goes to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and is heavily relied on and populated by "hipsters" (meaning the 2000's version of "hipster's" as opposed to the 1950's version) who reside in Williamsburg and ride the L into the Village. So the remark refers to Windust not dressing in current hipster attire and being recognized as not belonging with hipster's on the the L train.

'''Just some schmatte from H&M''' 
"Schmatte" is Yiddish for a rag. H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB (H&M) is a Swedish multinational retail-clothing company, known for its fast-fashion clothing for men, women, teenagers and children. It opened its first U.S. store in New York City, on Fifth Avenue (at 51st Street) in March 2000. As of August 2010, the company had nearly two hundred individual stores in the United States.

==Page 253==
'''As Deborah Kerr, or Marni Nixon, might say, or actually sing''' 
Marni Nixon (b. 1930) is an American soprano and playback singer for featured actresses in movie musicals. She is most famous for dubbing the singing voices of the leading actresses in films, including ''The King and I'', ''West Side Story'' and ''My Fair Lady''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marni_Nixon Wiki] says she earned the nickname the "Ghostess with the Mostest" because her work was often uncredited.

In 1956, she worked closely with actress Deborah Kerr to supply the star's singing voice for the film version of Rodgers & Hammerstein's ''The King and I'', and the next year she again worked with Kerr to dub her voice in ''An Affair to Remembe".betweenAnna (the Deborah Kerr role) and the powerful yet untrustablre King. (Yup Brynner). Not unlike Maxine and Windust, I'd say.

[[User:ChrisSch|ChrisSch]] ([[User talk:ChrisSch|talk]]) The phrase "On the clear understanding " comes from the "King And I" song "Shall We Dance

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'''ghetto-ass g's''' 
Ghetto-ass gangsta's

'''Paradise Garage''' 
Again, see chapters 14 and 15, Maxine recalls going to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Garage Paradise Garage.]

'''9:30 Club... maybe he caught Tiny Desk Unit and Bad Brains in their local-band period... maybe the smell of the 9:30 Cologne is his last, his only link with the uncorrupted youth he was?''' 
The 9:30 Club was a late 70's-early 80's club in Washington D.C. where as mentioned, new wave/punk bands like Tiny Desk Unit and Bad Brains once played. In a negative marketing twist, Pynchon implies here that, though seemingly unrelated, Windust's use of 9:30 Cologne and its appeal is tied with the 9:30 Club of his youth.

'''Maybe's ass, OK?''' 
Another way of putting it... “Fuck all the maybe's!” In other words, all those speculations are bullshit.

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'''Princess Heidrophobia''' 
Heidi, a pun on hydrophobia (= rabies).

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'''Adderall''' 
While generally prescribed for ADD, its commonly snorted, and abused as an upper.

'''split for Seattle...hums a few bars of the Darth Vader theme''' 
Reference to Microsoft.

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'''"Presently they're linked and slowly descending from wee-hours Manhattan into teeming darkness, leaving the surface-Net crawlers busy overhead..."''' 
The next few pages bear a striking resemblance to William Gibson's descriptions of cyberspace in his seminal work '''Neuromancer'''. The concept of the internet as a physical space has managed to hold water quite well since its inception, and fits in well with Pynchon's own interest in the physical and figurative value of real estate.

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'''recherché''' 
Choice, refined, exquisite... Also, Sandwichgrrl's comment here brings to mind Gabriel Ice's perhaps not-so-choice wine cellar which is a front for his weird tunnel system.

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

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

'''in the shallows''' 
A potential reference to the book [http://www.amazon.com/The-Shallows-Internet-Doing-Brains/dp/0393339750 "The Shallows"] about how instant search functionality negatively effects the brain.

'''Robert Moses''' 
Robert Moses (December 18, 1888 – July 29, 1981) was the "master builder" of mid-20th century New York City, Long Island, Rockland County, and Westchester County, New York. As the shaper of a modern city, he is sometimes compared to Baron Haussmann of Second Empire Paris, and was arguably one of the most polarizing figures in the history of urban planning in the United States. His decisions favoring highways over public transit helped create the modern suburbs of Long Island and influenced a generation of engineers, architects, and urban planners who spread his philosophies across the nation. One of his major contributions to urban planning was New York's large parkway network. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moses WIKI].

"Robert Moses of the Deep Net": the only occurence of the Deep '''Net''' instead of Deep Web. Editing, again?

'''Gigantic vacuum-tube computers with half-acre footprints''' 
Dinosaurs.

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

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

'''ADC from AFOSI Region 7''' 
Aerospace Defense Command [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerospace_Defense_Command (though inactivated in 1980?)] from United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations.

'''the gulag''' 
The Gulag was the Soviet Union government agency that administered the main Soviet forced labor camp systems during the Stalin era, from the 1930s through the 1950s. While the camps housed a wide range of convicts, from petty criminals to political prisoners, large numbers were convicted by simplified procedures, such as NKVD troikas and other instruments of extrajudicial punishment. The Gulag is recognized as a major instrument of political repression in the Soviet Union. The term is also sometimes used to describe the camps themselves. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag WIKI].

'''Time travel...you have to do it from inside out, with your mind and body...navigating Time is an unforgiving discipline''' &c. 
The curse of the writer (in the world of Tron).

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

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'''Lacanian''' 
Jacques Marie Émile Lacan (13 April 1901 – 9 September 1981) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who has been called "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud". Giving yearly seminars in Paris from 1953 to 1981, Lacan influenced France's intellectuals in the 1960s and the 1970s, especially the post-structuralist philosophers. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacanian WIKI].

'''Alfonsín''' 
Raúl Ricardo Alfonsín (March 12, 1927 – March 31, 2009) was an Argentine lawyer, politician and statesman, who served as the President of Argentina from December 10, 1983, to July 8, 1989. Alfonsín was the first democratically elected president of Argentina following the military government known as the National Reorganization Process. He was awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation in 1985, among numerous other such recognitions. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonsin WIKI].

'''Menem-Cavallo era''' 
President Menem had already privatized the state telecom concern and national airlines (the once-premier airline in Latin America, Aerolíneas Argentinas, which was later almost run into the ground). The stability Cavallo's plan helped bring about, however, opened prospects for more privatizations than ever. Going on to total over 200 state enterprises, these included the costly state railroads concern, the state oil monopoly YPF, several public utilities, two government television stations, 10,000 km (6000 mi) of roads, steel and petrochemical firms, grain elevators, hotels, subways and even racetracks. A panoply of provincial and municipal banks were sold to financial giants abroad (sometimes over the opposition of their respective governors and mayors) and, taking a page from Chile's successful experiment, the mandatory state pensions system was opened to choice through the authorization of for private pension schemes. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domingo_Cavallo#The_Menem_administration WIKI].

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

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

'''Villa Freud''' 
This is an actual neighborhood located within the Palermo neighborhood of Buenos Aires known for "its high concentration of psychoanalysts and psychiatrists, hence its name." See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Freud#Palermo_Norte.2C_Alto_Palermo_and_Villa_Freud WIKI].

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'''Maybe not as bad as getting disappeared''' 
During the last military dictatorship in Argentina, from 1976 to 1983, around 30,000 people got disappeared by the state.

'''''loquesea''''' 
Whatevs.

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

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'''Pringle Chip Equation''' 
The widely-sold fried snack food Pringles potato crisps resemble a truncated hyperbolic paraboloid. According to Pringles marketing, the shape allows the snack to be securely stacked in a canister to prevent breakage during packaging and transport. To see more on the actual equation used for a hyperbolic paraboloid see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraboloid WIKI].

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'''aldehyde shock''' 
Aldehydic, or modern, perfumes are those with significant notes of the aldehydes which are synthetic compounds, with clean, diffusive, sparkling notes and a family of chemicals. It appears the Pardaugava mini-mobsters got too strong a whiff.

'''prewar nitro musk and jasmine absolute''' 
Nitro musk is an aromatic synthetic musk (aka white musks, in the perfume industry). These musks are a class of synthetic aromachemicals to emulate the scent of deer musk or other natural musk. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_musk#Nitro-musks Wikipedia]

Jasmine absolute is an essential oil derived from the flowers of the jasmine bush, used for fragrance and skin care. Its properties are nervine, antidepressant/euphoric, and aphrodisiac. Interestingly, it is mentioned in Pynchon's [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_46:_452-459#Page_456 ''Mason & Dixon'' at p. 456].

'''"Baby Beluga"''' 
''Baby Beluga'' is a music album by children's entertainer Raffi, released in 1980. The title track was inspired by Kavna, a beluga whale that Raffi saw at the Vancouver Aquarium in Vancouver, BC, and is considered by many to be his greatest hit. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Beluga WIKI].

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

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

'''LBD''' 
Little black dress. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_black_dress WIKI]. 

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'''Admiral Dönitz''' 
Karl Dönitz (16 September 1891 – 24 December 1980) was a German naval commander during World War II. He started his career in the German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine, or "Imperial Navy") before World War I. In 1918, while he was in command of UB-68, the submarine was sunk by British forces and Dönitz was taken prisoner. While in a prisoner of war camp, he formulated what he later called Rudeltaktik ("pack tactic", commonly called "wolfpack"). At the start of World War II, he was the senior submarine officer in the German Navy. In January 1943, Dönitz achieved the rank of Großadmiral (Grand Admiral) and replaced Grand Admiral Erich Raeder as Commander-in-Chief of the German Navy (Oberbefehlshaber der Kriegsmarine). On 30 April 1945, after the death of Adolf Hitler and in accordance with Hitler's last will and testament, Dönitz was named Hitler's successor as Staatsoberhaupt (Head of State), with the title of Reichspräsident (President) and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces. On 7 May 1945, he ordered Alfred Jodl to sign the German instruments of surrender in Rheims, France. Dönitz remained as head of the Flensburg Government, as it became known, until it was dissolved by the Allied powers on 23 May. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admiral_donitz WIKI].

'''mutatis mutandis''' 
"Having changed what needed to be changed." Often used when comparing to phrases or ideas that, while similar, have key differences. From [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mutatis_mutandis Wiktionary].

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

'''"New York campus of Fraud University"''' 
Given the unlikeliness of such an institution existing, Pynchon's probably having fun with initialisms again. '''NYC-FU'''

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[[Image:Welcome-to-the-johnsons.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Welcome to the Johnsons bathroom]]

'''Welcome to the Johnsons''' 
Dive bar on the Lower East Side that has a 1970s rec-room theme.

'''IF&F''' 
International Flavors & Fragrances is a major producer of flavors and fragrances with sales of $2.78 billion in 2011. [http://www.iff.com/ website]

'''proösmic - she can foresmell things that're going to happen''' 
Echoes of Tyrone Slothrop in Pynchon's [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ''Gravity's Rainbow''] whose sexual dalliances foretell V-2 rocket strikes, the rockets hitting places where Slothrop's just previously had sex.

'''went nitrous''' 
Probably not intended that she started laughing, i.e. laughing gas; but that she became "out of it" on the vibes and intuitions the sample was giving her.

'''a reverse ''sillage'', a wake from the future''' 
Sillage is the degree to which a perfume’s fragrance lingers in the air after the wearer has departed. It comes from the French word for “wake,” as in the trail left in the sky by an airplane or on the water by a boat. Sillage defines how fragrance diffuses around the wearer, and a strong sillage means that a fragrance projects well. Also, there is a French graphic novel series called "Sillage": [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sillage Wikipedia]

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

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'''Alexis-and-Krystle-by-the-poolside''' 
Reference to the 1980s television show, ''Dynasty''. Alexis and Krystle were known for getting into catfights. For a picture of one, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynasty_%28TV_series%29 WIKI].

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

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'''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.

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'''"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."

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'''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]

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'''floating into view printed on one face of a dodecahedron''' 
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?"''' 
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''].

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'''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.

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'''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?

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