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Chapter 10

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''catibias''' 
Dominican street food.

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

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

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

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

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

'''the Pollard case''' 
Jonathan Jay Pollard (born August 7, 1954) is an American who passed classified information to Israel while working as an American civilian intelligence analyst. He pleaded guilty and received a life sentence in 1987. Because his crime occurred prior to November 1, 1987, he is eligible for parole, and may be released on November 21, 2015. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Pollard WIKI].

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

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

'''No keystroke left behind''' 
A reference to the 2001 'No Child Left Behind' Act, the George W. Bush administration's education reform which essentially mandated that each state implement a standardized testing program. [http://www.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Child_Left_Behind_Act Wikipedia]

==Page 106==
'''Politics & Prose''' 
Independent bookstore in Washington, D.C. Website [http://www.politics-prose.com/ here].

'''Big Ben theme''' 
as heard [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbq-1Dlu1Wc here].

'''Kozmo.com''' 
an actual delivery website, went out of business April 2001.

==Page 107==
'''Flyin Dutchmahn''' 
Another opera reference, this time to Wagner's Der Fliegende Holländer, about a Dutch sea captain, fated to sail the seas for eternity, or at least until he can find true love (which in the opera, he doesn't)

'''Duane Reade''' 
a chain of pharmacy and convenience stores, with locations seemingly everywhere in New York City.

==Page 108==

'''Bronx Science''' 
The Bronx High School of Science is a specialized New York City public high school often considered the premier science magnet school in the United States. Founded in 1938, it is now located in the Bedford Park section of the Bronx. Admission is by an exam open to all grade-eligible students in New York City, reportedly taken by more than 20,000 students annually. Although known for its focus on mathematics and science, Bronx Science also emphasizes the humanities and social sciences and continually attracts students with a wide variety of interests beyond math and science. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronx_Science WIKI].

[[File:Bombing of presidential palace in Chile.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Bombing of presidential palace in Chile on 11 September 1973]]

'''Santiago, Chile, on 11 September 1973''' 
The 11 September 1973 Chilean coup d'état was a watershed event in both the Cold War and the history of Chile. Following an extended period of social and political unrest between the conservative-dominated Congress of Chile and the socialist President Salvador Allende, as well as economic warfare ordered by U.S. President Richard Nixon, Allende was overthrown by the armed forces and national police. During the air raids and ground attacks that preceded the coup, Allende gave his last speech, in which he vowed to stay in the presidential palace, denouncing offers for safe passage should he choose exile over confrontation. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilean_coup_of_1973 WIKI].

'''Dirty War''' 
The Dirty War (part of Operation Condor) was a period of state terrorism in Argentina against political dissidents, with military and security forces conducting urban and rural guerrilla warfare against left-wing guerrillas, political dissidents, and anyone believed to be associated with socialism. Victims of the violence included an estimated 15,000 to 30,000 left-wing activists and militants, including trade unionists, students, journalists, Marxists, Peronist guerrillas and alleged sympathizers. Some 10,000 of the "disappeared" were believed to be guerrillas of the Montoneros (MPM), and the Marxist People's Revolutionary Army (ERP). The guerrillas were responsible for causing at least 6,000 casualties among the military, police forces and civilian population according to a National Geographic Magazine article in the mid-1980s. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_war WIKI].

'''IMF''' 
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an international organization that was initiated in 1944 at the Bretton Woods Conference and formally created in 1945 by 29 member countries. The IMF's stated goal was to assist in the reconstruction of the world's international payment system post–World War II. Countries contribute money to a pool through a quota system from which countries with payment imbalances can borrow funds temporarily. Through this activity and others such as surveillance of its members' economies and the demand for self-correcting policies, the IMF works to improve the economies of its member countries. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMF WIKI].

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'''School of the Americas''' 
The US Army School of the Americas, is a United States Department of Defense Institute located at Fort Benning near Columbus, Georgia, that provides military training to government personnel of Latin American countries. The school was founded in 1946 and from 1961 was assigned the specific goal of teaching "anti-communist counterinsurgency training," a role which it would fulfill for the rest of the Cold War. In this period, it educated several Latin American dictators, generations of their military and, during the 1980s, included the uses of torture in its curriculum. In 2000/2001, the institute was renamed The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC). From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_the_americas WIKI].

'''Zermelo's Axiom of Choice''' 
In mathematics, the axiom of choice, or AC, is an axiom of set theory equivalent to the statement that "the product of a collection of non-empty sets is non-empty". The axiom of choice was formulated in 1904 by Ernst Zermelo in order to formalize his proof of the well-ordering theorem. For more detail see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_of_choice WIKI].

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'''United Fruit''' 
The United Fruit Company was an American corporation that traded in tropical fruit (primarily bananas) grown on Central and South American plantations and sold in the United States and Europe. The company was formed in 1899 from the merger of Minor C. Keith's banana-trading concerns with Andrew W. Preston's Boston Fruit Company. It flourished in the early and mid-20th century and came to control vast territories and transportation networks in Central America, the Caribbean coast of Colombia, Ecuador, and the West Indies. Though it competed with the Standard Fruit Company for dominance in the international banana trade, it maintained a virtual monopoly in certain regions, some of which came to be called banana republics. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_fruit WIKI].

'''Kanjobal''' 
Mayan language spoken primarily in Guatemala and part of Mexico.

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==Page 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?

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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.)

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

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

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

'''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.

'''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]

==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.

{{Bleeding Edge PbP}}

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{{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.)

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

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

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

'''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.

'''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==
'''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.

{{Bleeding Edge PbP}}

Chapter 40

2014-11-23T02:39:35Z

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{{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.)

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

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

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

'''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.

'''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==

'''''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.

'''''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.)

'''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]

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

[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]

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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.

==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.

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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.)

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

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

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

'''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.

'''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)

'''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==

'''''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.

'''''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.)

'''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]

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

[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]

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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.

==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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 414==
'''He's in the Duane Reade around the corner''' 
Duane Reade Inc., a subsidiary of the Walgreen Company, is a chain of pharmacy and convenience stores, primarily located in New York City, known for its high volume small store layouts in densely populated Manhattan locations. The headquarters is located along Ninth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan.

The original store was in downtown manhattan, between Duane and reade streets.

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duane_Reade]

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

==Page 418==
'''never-distributed Marx Brothers version of Don Giovanni'''<br\>
The opera in the Marx Brothers classic ''A Night at the Opera'' was Verdi's Il Trovatore.

In operas of this period, a recitative is when the principals stop singing and sort-of talk, usually with harpsichord accompaniment. Even in operas, sometimes you need talking to get the plot moving again.

The Catalogue aria is one of the most famous in opera. You can view one version here [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fccdGBi9JUs], but there are lots of other versions available on youtube, all handled a little bit differently. (In this clip, Leporello's preamble starts around 2:15, and the actual aria starts around 2:45). Note that this is probably one of the first descriptions of a relational database, with Don Giovanni's (Don Juan's) conquests searchable by country, age, size, hair color, birth rank, etc.

And here's a version of Deh, vieni alla finestra. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOZiZYYF2Kg] If you're not familiar with this opera's plot, this takes place a bit later than the catalogue aria scene. Don Giovanni has his servant Leporello switch clothes, so that while it appears Don Giovanni is serenading Donna Elvira from beneath her window, it is Leporello in disguise. Mozart's sense of humor would not be considered politically correct in Western society today.

"Margaret Dumont, in the role she was born for" In the opera, Donna Elvira has an obsessive love for Don Giovanni, and this love is not returned, or only insincerely or mockingly. In the Marx Brothers movies, the Margaret Dumont character usually has an obsessive love for the Groucho Marx character, and it is usually returned similarly. Margaret Dumont did train as an opera singer before becoming an actress, and the role of Donna Elvira is sometimes performed by a mezzo. Here is Cecilia Bartoli's version of Ah, chi mi dice mai [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpyZoKmE6zg]so you can decide for yourself.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 433==

'''''Granada Asbury Park Uncertainty Question''''' 
From the lyrics of "At Long Last Love" (written by Cole Porter, popularized by Frank Sinatra)
 
''Is it for all time or simply a lark?''
 
''Is it Granada I see or only Asbury Park?''

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 433==

'''''Granada Asbury Park Uncertainty Question''''' 
From the lyrics of "At Long Last Love" (written by Cole Porter, popularized by Frank Sinatra)
 
''Is it for all time or simply a lark?''
 
''Is it Granada I see or only Asbury Park?''

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 433==

'''''Granada Asbury Park Uncertainty Question''''' 
From the lyrics of "At Long Last Love" (written by Cole Porter, popularized by Frank Sinatra)
 
''Is it for all time or simply a lark?''
 
''Is it Granada I see or only Asbury Park?''

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

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

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

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

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

==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.

{{Bleeding Edge PbP}}

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2014-11-22T18:59:56Z

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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==

'''''Granada Asbury Park Uncertainty Question''''' 
From the lyrics of "At Long Last Love" (written by Cole Porter, popularized by Frank Sinatra)
 
''Is it for all time or simply a lark?''
 
''Is it Granada I see or only Asbury Park?''

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

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

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

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

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

==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.

{{Bleeding Edge PbP}}

Chapter 38

2014-11-22T18:57:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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==

'''''Granada Asbury Park Uncertainty Question''''' 
From the lyrics of "At Long Last Love" (written by Cole Porter, popularized by Frank Sinatra)
 
''Is it for all time or simply a lark?''
 
''Is it Granada I see or only Asbury Park?''

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

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

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

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

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

==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.

{{Bleeding Edge PbP}}

Chapter 38

2014-11-22T18:48:45Z

Schmeaux: /* Page 431 */

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 433==
'''''Granada Asbury Park Uncertainty Question''''' 
From the lyrics of "At Long Last Love" (written by Cole Porter, popularized by Frank Sinatra)
 
''Is it for all time or simply a lark?''
 
''Is it Granada I see or only Asbury Park?''

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

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

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

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

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

==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.

{{Bleeding Edge PbP}}

Chapter 38

2014-11-22T18:27:33Z

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 433==
'''''Granada Asbury Park Uncertainty Question''''' 
From the lyrics of "At Long Last Love" (written by Cole Porter, popularized by Frank Sinatra)
 
''Is it for all time or simply a lark?''
 
''Is it Granada I see or only Asbury Park?''

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 425==
'''air in a can'''<br\>
CFC's (chlorofluorocarbons) were banned in Europe in 1990 and in the U.S. in 1994, with a phase-out period. Fluoroethane (R-134a, no chlorine) was one of the replacements and can be purchased compressed in a small canister (with a nozzle) for removal of dust from camera lenses and other optical equipment. Since it's a refrigerant, fluoroethane cools down to something like -50 C when it expands, so 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 heroics''' 
RPGs are Role-Playing Games

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

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

==Page 433==
'''''Granada Asbury Park Uncertainty Question''''' 
From the lyrics of "At Long Last Love" (written by Cole Porter, popularized by Frank Sinatra)
 
''Is it for all time or simply a lark?''
 
''Is it Granada I see or only Asbury Park?''

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 425==
'''air in a can'''<br\>
CFC's (chlorofluorocarbons) were banned in Europe in 1990 and in the U.S. in 1994, with a phase-out period. Fluoroethane (R-134a, no chlorine) was one of the replacements and can be purchased compressed in a small canister (with a nozzle) for removal of dust from camera lenses and other optical equipment. Since it's a refrigerant, fluoroethane cools down to something like -50 C when it expands, so 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).

'''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 heroics''' 
RPGs are Role-Playing Games

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

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

==Page 433==
'''''Granada Asbury Park Uncertainty Question''''' 
From the lyrics of "At Long Last Love" (written by Cole Porter, popularized by Frank Sinatra)
 
''Is it for all time or simply a lark?''
 
''Is it Granada I see or only Asbury Park?''

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 414==
'''He's in the Duane Reade around the corner''' 
Duane Reade Inc., a subsidiary of the Walgreen Company, is a chain of pharmacy and convenience stores, primarily located in New York City, known for its high volume small store layouts in densely populated Manhattan locations. The headquarters is located along Ninth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan.

The original store was in downtown manhattan, between Duane and reade streets.

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duane_Reade]

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

==Page 418==
'''never-distributed Marx Brothers version of Don Giovanni'''<br\>
The opera in the Marx Brothers classic ''A Night at the Opera'' was Verdi's Il Trovatore.

In operas of this period, a recitative is when the principals stop singing and sort-of talk, usually with harpsichord accompaniment. Even in operas, sometimes you need talking to get the plot moving again.

The Catalogue aria is one of the most famous in opera. You can view one version here [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fccdGBi9JUs], but there are lots of other versions available on youtube, all handled a little bit differently. (In this clip, Leporello's preamble starts around 2:15, and the actual aria starts around 2:45). Note that this is probably one of the first descriptions of a relational database, with Don Giovanni's (Don Juan's) conquests searchable by country, age, size, hair color, birth rank, etc.

And here's a version of Deh, vieni alla finestra. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOZiZYYF2Kg] If you're not familiar with this opera's plot, this takes place a bit later than the catalogue aria scene. Don Giovanni has his servant Leporello switch clothes, so that while it appears Don Giovanni is serenading Donna Elvira from beneath her window, it is Leporello in disguise. Mozart's sense of humor would not be considered politically correct in Western society today.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 414==
'''He's in the Duane Reade around the corner''' 
Duane Reade Inc., a subsidiary of the Walgreen Company, is a chain of pharmacy and convenience stores, primarily located in New York City, known for its high volume small store layouts in densely populated Manhattan locations. The headquarters is located along Ninth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan.

The original store was in downtown manhattan, between Duane and reade streets.

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duane_Reade]

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

==Page 418==
'''never-distributed Marx Brothers version of Don Giovanni'''<br\>
The opera in the Marx Brothers classic ''A Night at the Opera'' was Verdi's Il Trovatore.

In operas of this period, a recitative is when the principals stop singing and sort-of talk, usually with harpsichord accompaniment. Even in operas, sometimes you need talking to get the plot moving again.

The Catalogue aria is one of the most famous in opera. You can view one version here [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fccdGBi9JUs], but there are lots of other versions available on youtube, all handled a little bit differently. Note that this is probably one of the first descriptions of a relational database, with Don Giovanni's (Don Juan's) conquests searchable by country, age, size, hair color, birth rank, etc.

And here's a version of Deh, vieni alla finestra. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOZiZYYF2Kg] If you're not familiar with this opera's plot, this takes place a bit later than the catalogue aria scene. Don Giovanni has his servant Leporello switch clothes, so that while it appears Don Giovanni is serenading Donna Elvira from beneath her window, it is Leporello in disguise. Mozart's sense of humor would not be considered politically correct in Western society today.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'''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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 404==
'''SVG Alice Blue'''<br\>
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==
'''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'''<br\>
Not only an actor, Sharif was also an international-level bridge player.

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

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

General Service 1800 series numbers are used to designate various government special agents. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_agent#Federal_government WIKI].
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'''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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 404==
'''SVG Alice Blue'''<br\>
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==
'''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'''<br\>
Not only an actor, Sharif also was an international-level bridge player.

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

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

General Service 1800 series numbers are used to designate various government special agents. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_agent#Federal_government WIKI].
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'''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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 404==
'''SVG Alice Blue'''<br\>
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==
'''a pair of fishhooks''' 
"Fishhook" is gambling lingo for a Jack of any suit.

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

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

'''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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'''''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.]

==Page 384==
'''Sam the King of Cool''' 
aka Samuel L. Jackson, the actor, who often wears a Kangol hat.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''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.

''I can't find this reference on this page - can someone fix?''

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

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

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

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

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

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'''''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.]

==Page 384==
'''Sam the King of Cool''' 
aka Samuel L. Jackson, the actor, who often wears a Kangol hat.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''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.

''I can't find this reference on this page - can someone fix?''

==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].

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''this overdue-for-exorcism building''' 
The Dakota, a possible model for the Deseret, is famously known for being the principle location used in the film "Rosemary's Baby" (1968). Of course, it was also the abode, and murder site, of John Lennon. And the site for Time and Again (Jack Finney 1970) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_and_Again_%28novel%29 Wiki]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 373==

'''''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).

''''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].

==Page 374==
'''The Mikhail Baryshnikov Story'''<BR\>
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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'''"Series'll be on tonight, El Duque's starting, maybe against Curt Schilling''' 
El Duque is the nickname of NY Yankees pitcher Orlando Hernandez. In this game, he pitched 6 1⁄3 solid innings, but gave up a game-tying upper deck home run to Mark Grace of the Arizona Diamondbacks in the fourth inning. Curt Schilling of the Diamondbacks pitched on only three days rest.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''this overdue-for-exorcism building''' 
The Dakota, a possible model for the Deseret, is famously known for being the principle location used in the film "Rosemary's Baby" (1968). Of course, it was also the abode, and murder site, of John Lennon. And the site for Time and Again (Jack Finney 1970) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_and_Again_%28novel%29 Wiki]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 373==

'''''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).

''''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].

==Page 374==
'''The Mikhail Baryshnikov Story'''<BR\>
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.

==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?'''<br\>
foreshadowing GoogleGlasses?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''this overdue-for-exorcism building''' 
The Dakota, a possible model for the Deseret, is famously known for being the principle location used in the film "Rosemary's Baby" (1968). Of course, it was also the abode, and murder site, of John Lennon. And the site for Time and Again (Jack Finney 1970) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_and_Again_%28novel%29 Wiki]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 373==

'''''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).

''''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].

==Page 374==
'''The Mikhail Baryshnikov Story'''<BR\>
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].

==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?'''<br\>
foreshadowing GoogleGlasses?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''this overdue-for-exorcism building''' 
The Dakota, a possible model for the Deseret, is famously known for being the principle location used in the film "Rosemary's Baby" (1968). Of course, it was also the abode, and murder site, of John Lennon. And the site for Time and Again (Jack Finney 1970) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_and_Again_%28novel%29 Wiki]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 373==

'''''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).

''''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].

==Page 374==
'''The Mikhail Baryshnikov Story'''<BR\>
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"

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

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

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

{{Bleeding Edge PbP}}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''this overdue-for-exorcism building''' 
The Dakota, a possible model for the Deseret, is famously known for being the principle location used in the film "Rosemary's Baby" (1968). Of course, it was also the abode, and murder site, of John Lennon. And the site for Time and Again (Jack Finney 1970) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_and_Again_%28novel%29 Wiki]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 373==

'''''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).

''''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].

==Page 374==
'''The Mikhail Baryshnikov Story'''<BR\>
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]].

'''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"

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

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

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

{{Bleeding Edge PbP}}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''this overdue-for-exorcism building''' 
The Dakota, a possible model for the Deseret, is famously known for being the principle location used in the film "Rosemary's Baby" (1968). Of course, it was also the abode, and murder site, of John Lennon. And the site for Time and Again (Jack Finney 1970) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_and_Again_%28novel%29 Wiki]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 373==

'''''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).

''''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].

==Page 374==
'''The Mikhail Baryshnikov Story'''<BR\>
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

==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]].

'''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"

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

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

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

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==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?'''<br\>
foreshadowing GoogleGlasses?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''this overdue-for-exorcism building''' 
The Dakota, a possible model for the Deseret, is famously known for being the principle location used in the film "Rosemary's Baby" (1968). Of course, it was also the abode, and murder site, of John Lennon. And the site for Time and Again (Jack Finney 1970) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_and_Again_%28novel%29 Wiki]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 373==

'''''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).

''''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].

==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

==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]].

'''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"

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

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

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

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==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?'''<br\>
foreshadowing GoogleGlasses?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''this overdue-for-exorcism building''' 
The Dakota, a possible model for the Deseret, is famously known for being the principle location used in the film "Rosemary's Baby" (1968). Of course, it was also the abode, and murder site, of John Lennon. And the site for Time and Again (Jack Finney 1970) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_and_Again_%28novel%29 Wiki]

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 373==

'''''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).

''''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].

==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

==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]].

'''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"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'''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.

There must be 5 million Pynchon fans because it is up to 20 million views

'''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]

==Page 349==
'''Streetlight People''' 
Cf. p. [http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_6#Page_61 61].

==Page 350==
'''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].

==Page 351==
'''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.



==Page 352==
'''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]].

==Page 339==
'''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?

==Page 340==
'''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].

==Page 341==
'''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.

==Page 342==
'''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.

==Page 343==
'''Roomba Pro Elite''' 
Here's a video of this vacuum robot:{{#ev:youtube|tHEm0AlYEso}}

==Page 344==
'''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

==Page 345==
'''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.
Or a Daffy Duck reference

'''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].

==Page 346==
'''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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'''remember those twin statues of the Buddha that I told you about?''' 
That would be on [[Chapter_4#Page_31|page 31]].

==Page 339==
'''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?

==Page 340==
'''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].

==Page 341==
'''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.

==Page 342==
'''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 provencal''' 
Provencal beef stew.

==Page 343==
'''Roomba Pro Elite''' 
Here's a video of this vacuum robot:{{#ev:youtube|tHEm0AlYEso}}

==Page 344==
'''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

==Page 345==
'''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.
Or a Daffy Duck reference

'''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].

==Page 346==
'''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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'''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''' <br\>
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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'''Robert Moses spinning in his grave''' 
See p. [[Chapter_22#Page_241|241]].

==Page 329==
'''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.

==Page 332==
'''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]

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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

==Page 316==
'''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'''<br\>
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'''<br\>
as in blackened rubble

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

'''Urumqi'''<br\>
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

==Page 316==
'''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'''<br\>
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

'''Urumqi'''<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].

'''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

==Page 316==
'''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'''<br\>
In cartoons, mousetraps are always baited with cheese, but in real life, the best bait is generally considered to be peanut butter

==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].

'''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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'''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]

'''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.

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'''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.

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'''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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'''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]

'''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."]

'''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.

{{Bleeding Edge PbP}}

Chapter 28

2014-11-16T19:10:52Z

Schmeaux: /* 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]

'''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."

==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."]

'''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.

{{Bleeding Edge PbP}}

Chapter 28

2014-11-16T19:10:10Z

Schmeaux: /* 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]

'''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 the 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."

==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."]

'''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.

{{Bleeding Edge PbP}}

Chapter 28

2014-11-16T19:03:30Z

Schmeaux: /* 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]

'''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==
'''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."

==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."]

'''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.

{{Bleeding Edge PbP}}

Chapter 28

2014-11-16T18:40:47Z

Schmeaux: /* 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]

'''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''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poutine WIKI] tells us this is originally a French Canadian food item made of french fries, brown gravy and cheese curd, now found all over Canada and some places in the northern United States.

==Page 310==
'''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."

==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."]

'''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.

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'''Prairie du Chien or Fond du Lac'''<br\>
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.)

'''...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 are 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>.

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'''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|EVi5Kyucy5E}}

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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].

==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.

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'''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'''<br\>
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.)

'''...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 are 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|EVi5Kyucy5E}}

==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 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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==Page 288==
'''Prairie du Chien or Fond du Lac'''<br\>
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.)

'''...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 are 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.
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'''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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'''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.

'''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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'''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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