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Chapter 40

2014-02-15T23:09:08Z

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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].

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

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

'''... 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''?

==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

'''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 scence 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].

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

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

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

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

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

'''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]]

==Page 462==
'''Do svidanya Maksi! Poka, byelokurva!''' 
I think there is some sort of bilingual pun on saying goodbye. My brother speaks Russian and says the first sentence says "Goodbye, Maxi!" The second one he didn't know. I rearranged it into Poka bilo Kurva, which in Bosnian Google translate came up as "Show any Pickup." Anyone versed in these languages? [[User:H2oetry|H2oetry]] ([[User talk:H2oetry|talk]])

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

{{Bleeding Edge PbP}}

Chapter 40

2014-02-15T22:57:20Z

Sethsnyder: /* Page 457 */ astoria

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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].

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

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

'''... 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''?

==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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''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]]

==Page 462==
'''Do svidanya Maksi! Poka, byelokurva!''' 
I think there is some sort of bilingual pun on saying goodbye. My brother speaks Russian and says the first sentence says "Goodbye, Maxi!" The second one he didn't know. I rearranged it into Poka bilo Kurva, which in Bosnian Google translate came up as "Show any Pickup." Anyone versed in these languages? [[User:H2oetry|H2oetry]] ([[User talk:H2oetry|talk]])

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

{{Bleeding Edge PbP}}

Chapter 40

2014-02-15T22:48:48Z

Sethsnyder: /* Page 457 */ TW

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''... 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''?

==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]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

... and right down the block from the White House

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 445==
'''Huehuetenango''' 
Huehuetenango is a city and a municipality in the highlands of western Guatemala. It is also the capital of the department of Huehuetenango. The municipality's population was over 81,000 people in 2002. The city is located 269 km from Guatemala City, and is the last departmental capital on the Pan-American Highway before reaching the Mexican border at La Mesilla. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huehuetenango WIKI].

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''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 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.

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

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

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

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'''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 Starbuck's?

==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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'''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.

==Page 325==
'''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].
[[Image:Example.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Skull and Bones logo]]
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'''as Ace Ventura sez''' 
Jim Carrey played the whacky character Ace Ventura in two movies (1994 and 1995). His signature catch phrase was "allllll righty then."

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'''Kum & Go''' 
A chain of convenience stores popular in the Midwest. Hard to believe Pynchon didn't make up that name!

According to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kum_%26_Go WIKI,] the name is "a play on the phrase "come and go" using the initials of founders Krause and Gentle."

'''Floyd's Knobs, Indiana''' 
A real city with a Pynchonesque name.

'''...They sing her the Hy-Vee commercial. More than once.''' 
Appears Horst was successful in giving the boys a crash Iowa-childhood experience.

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'''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?

==Page 292==
'''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].

==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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'''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.

'''...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==
'''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."

==Page 292==
'''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>.

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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].

==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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'''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.

'''...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==
'''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."

==Page 292==
'''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 in a West Adams near the financial district. In the window, Berghoff displays Chicago liquor license #1.

==Page 294==
'''Rachel . . . Green''' 
Rachel Green is the character played by Jennifer Aniston on the TV show ''Friends''. She had an on-again, off-again love affair with Ross.

'''ha ha only serious''' 
A phrase from "nerd"-ier circles and mentioned in [http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/ha-ha-only-serious.html the Jargon File]:

<blockquote>
[from SF fandom, orig. as mutation of HHOK, ‘Ha Ha Only Kidding’] A phrase (often seen abbreviated as HHOS) that aptly captures the flavor of much hacker discourse. Applied especially to parodies, absurdities, and ironic jokes that are both intended and perceived to contain a possibly disquieting amount of truth, or truths that are constructed on in-joke and self-parody. This lexicon contains many examples of ha-ha-only-serious in both form and content. Indeed, the entirety of hacker culture is often perceived as ha-ha-only-serious by hackers themselves; to take it either too lightly or too seriously marks a person as an outsider, a wannabee, or in larval stage. For further enlightenment on this subject, consult any Zen master.
</blockquote>.

==Page 295==
'''Tworkeffx''' 
Could be an abbreviated form of "network effect," where a good or service becomes more valuable when more people use it, which is the case for many websites such as YouTube, Amazon.com, Wikipedia &c &c.

There's also "Twork It Out," a tune on Usher's third studio album, ''8701'' which was originally intended for an October 31, 2000 release but was delayed numerous times following the leak of several tracks onto the online music store Napster and finally released in July 2001. The title is derived from Usher singing for the first time in his local church in 1987 and the album's release date of 2001. From [http://www.metrolyrics.com/twork-it-out-lyrics-usher.html the lyrics], "tworking" is pretty much having sex.
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==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.

'''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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'''formaldehyde''' 
Clothing is coated with formaldehyde to make them "wrinkle free". Formaldehyde is also used to preserve corpses. Most people are familiar with the miasma from frog dissection in high school biology.

'''The Thug, here rendered in fuchsia and optical green''' 
That is, looking a lot like the Hulk.

==Page 276==
''' a mural-size screen grab from the opening of ''The Letter'' (1940) in which Bette Davis is pretending to pump six rounds into...''' 
Image and film info at [http://www.allmovie.com/movie/v29107 allmovie.] Bette comes out with gun blazing at 1:18 into this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo5QuonRCHE clip.]

'''David Newell''' 
Supporting actor turned makeup artist. [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0627789/#actor IMDB] makes it appear he spent much of his career being uncredited for his work.

==Page 277==
'''It's what, legal in Utah for three people to get married?''' 
Despite being illegal, in Utah today, those living in polygamist families number about 40,000 people(about 1.4 percent of the population). Polygamists are difficult to prosecute because many only seek marriage licenses for their first marriage, while the other marriages are secretly conducted in private ceremonies. Thereafter, secondary wives attempt to be seen in public as single women with children.

==Page 279==
'''The Muffya''' 
A bad pun on The Mafia... "Muff" is slang for pussy etc.

'''Donna non vidi mai''' 
Tenor aria from Act 1 of Puccini's Manon Lescaut. A love-at-first-sight soliloquy. Pynchon referenced the Act 3 tenor solo in [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_3 Chapter 3 of ''V.'']

==Page 280==
'''the high-muzzle-velocity law firm of Hanover, Fisk''' 
Hand over fist.

'''New Zealand kauri''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agathis_australis WIKI] tells us kauri forests are some of the oldest in the world, that individual trees often live longer than 600 years, and that they are very large trees with volumes, but not heights, often rivaling sequoias.

==Page 281==
'''Skadden, Arps''' 
Real law [http://www.skadden.com/ firm] in Washington, DC.

==Page 282==
'''Mannlicher-Carcano . . . Jackie and I were dear friends''' 
A Mannlicher-Carcano is a type of rifle. Oswald used one to shoot JFK.

'''"Jay-Z?" "Well, actually I'm more of a Nas person. As you may know they're in this feud at the moment, that old Queens-versus-Brooklyn thing again, hate to take sides, but---"The World Is Yours," how can anything even compare?''' 
Probably splitting hairs here, but the feud between Jay-Z and Nas didn't become widely known until Jay-Z's "Takeover" was released on his "Blueprint" album, which came out on September 11. Jay-Z did dis some rappers at the Hot 97 Summer Jam 2001 held in late June, but the hardest hit was Nas' friend and Queens resident Prodigy of Mobb Deep, while Nas was only briefly mentioned. You'd probably had to have been close to the inner circles of these rappers to be conversationally aware of the feud which became heated in the months to come. As for "The World is Yours," reference, I agree with the sentiment, and wonder if it was used since Jay-Z sampled it on "Dead Presidents II" from his 1996 debut album. Anyone else have thoughts on this? [[User:H2oetry|H2oetry]] ([[User talk:H2oetry|talk]])h2oetry

Also, it was pretty much universally accepted that Nas won the beef with "Ether," on ''Stillmatic'' which would be released in December 2001. Nas's ''Illmatic,'' from 1994, is by many, considered the greatest rap record of all time, and extremely rare these days, only contains one guest appearance for a single verse (AZ on "Life's a Bitch"). The above question in regard to the use of "The World is Yours," is indeed possible, though most likely it's used here because the phrase references Scarface, which kind of ties into the theme of this part of the book, I'd say.

==Page 283==
'''jumping to wrong conclusions/old-movie confusions''' 
Yet another line that gestures toward Hitchcock and his ilk, filmmakers who made movies that resonate with some aspects of Pynchon's fiction.

'''Bette Davis shanked by Gale Sondergaard''' 
Yet another movie adversary for Bette Davis [http://youtu.be/DsLf-AXyeT8 Letter]

'''far, far from the corner of Mott and Pell''' 
The heart of Chinatown [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mott_Street Mott]

==Page 284==
'''chomping into it and scattering crumbs... Grabbing another, two or three actually''' 
Chandler Platt has become the Cookie Monster.

==Page 285==

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

Trivia alert. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lon_Chaney,_Jr. Lon Chaney, Jr.] played Larry Talbot in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wolf_Man_%281941_film%29 The Wolf Man.] Though Chaney, Jr. was in a fair number of monster movies, contrary to what Warren Zevon unintentionally may have caused us to believe, he was never in a film titled "The Werewolves of London." The 1935 film [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werewolf_of_London Werewolf of London] starred Henry Hull.

==Page 286==
'''flaneur''' 
Term for a certain type of character found in literature, especially the works of 19th century France. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fl%C3%A2neur WIKI] tells us "Drawing on Fournel, and on his analysis of the poetry of Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin described the flâneur as the essential figure of the modern urban spectator, an amateur detective and investigator of the city. More than this, his flâneur was a sign of the alienation of the city and of capitalism. For Benjamin, the flâneur met his demise with the triumph of consumer capitalism."

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==Page 275==
'''formaldehyde''' 
Clothing is coated with formaldehyde to make them "wrinkle free". Formaldehyde is also used to preserve corpses. Most people are familiar with the miasma from frog dissection in high school biology.

'''The Thug, here rendered in fuchsia and optical green''' 
That is, looking a lot like the Hulk.

==Page 276==
''' a mural-size screen grab from the opening of ''The Letter'' (1940) in which Bette Davis is pretending to pump six rounds into...''' 
Image and film info at [http://www.allmovie.com/movie/v29107 allmovie.] Bette comes out with gun blazing at 1:18 into this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo5QuonRCHE clip.]

'''David Newell''' 
Supporting actor turned makeup artist. [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0627789/#actor IMDB] makes it appear he spent much of his career being uncredited for his work.

==Page 277==
'''It's what, legal in Utah for three people to get married?''' 
Despite being illegal, in Utah today, those living in polygamist families number about 40,000 people(about 1.4 percent of the population). Polygamists are difficult to prosecute because many only seek marriage licenses for their first marriage, while the other marriages are secretly conducted in private ceremonies. Thereafter, secondary wives attempt to be seen in public as single women with children.

==Page 279==
'''The Muffya''' 
A bad pun on The Mafia... "Muff" is slang for pussy etc.

'''Donna non vidi mai''' 
Tenor aria from Act 1 of Puccini's Manon Lescaut. A love-at-first-sight soliloquy. Pynchon referenced the Act 3 tenor solo in [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_3 Chapter 3 of ''V.'']

==Page 280==
'''the high-muzzle-velocity law firm of Hanover, Fisk''' 
Hand over fist.

'''New Zealand kauri''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agathis_australis WIKI] tells us kauri forests are some of the oldest in the world, that individual trees often live longer than 600 years, and that they are very large trees with volumes, but not heights, often rivaling sequoias.

==Page 281==
'''Skadden, Arps''' 
Real law [http://www.skadden.com/ firm] in Washington, DC.

==Page 282==
'''Mannlicher-Carcano . . . Jackie and I were dear friends''' 
A Mannlicher-Carcano is a type of rifle. Oswald used one to shoot JFK.

'''"Jay-Z?" "Well, actually I'm more of a Nas person. As you may know they're in this feud at the moment, that old Queens-versus-Brooklyn thing again, hate to take sides, but---"The World Is Yours," how can anything even compare?''' 
Probably splitting hairs here, but the feud between Jay-Z and Nas didn't become widely known until Jay-Z's "Takeover" was released on his "Blueprint" album, which came out on September 11. Jay-Z did dis some rappers at the Hot 97 Summer Jam 2001 held in late June, but the hardest hit was Nas' friend and Queens resident Prodigy of Mobb Deep, while Nas was only briefly mentioned. You'd probably had to have been close to the inner circles of these rappers to be conversationally aware of the feud which became heated in the months to come. As for "The World is Yours," reference, I agree with the sentiment, and wonder if it was used since Jay-Z sampled it on "Dead Presidents II" from his 1996 debut album. Anyone else have thoughts on this? [[User:H2oetry|H2oetry]] ([[User talk:H2oetry|talk]])h2oetry

Also, it was pretty much universally accepted that Nas won the beef with "Ether," on ''Stillmatic'' which would be released in December 2001. Nas's ''Illmatic,'' from 1994, is by many, considered the greatest rap record of all time, and extremely rare these days, only contains one guest appearance for a single verse (AZ on "Life's a Bitch"). The above question in regard to the use of "The World is Yours," is indeed possible, though most likely it's used here because the phrase references Scarface, which kind of ties into the theme of this part of the book, I'd say.

==Page 283==
'''jumping to wrong conclusions/old-movie confusions''' 
Yet another line that gestures toward Hitchcock and his ilk, filmmakers who made movies that resonate with some aspects of Pynchon's fiction.

'''Bette Davis shanked by Gale Sondergaard''' 
Yet another movie adversary for Bette Davis [The Letter http://youtu.be/DsLf-AXyeT8]

'''far, far from the corner of Mott and Pell''' 
The heart of Chinatown [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mott_Street Mott]

==Page 284==
'''chomping into it and scattering crumbs... Grabbing another, two or three actually''' 
Chandler Platt has become the Cookie Monster.

==Page 285==

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

Trivia alert. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lon_Chaney,_Jr. Lon Chaney, Jr.] played Larry Talbot in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wolf_Man_%281941_film%29 The Wolf Man.] Though Chaney, Jr. was in a fair number of monster movies, contrary to what Warren Zevon unintentionally may have caused us to believe, he was never in a film titled "The Werewolves of London." The 1935 film [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werewolf_of_London Werewolf of London] starred Henry Hull.

==Page 286==
'''flaneur''' 
Term for a certain type of character found in literature, especially the works of 19th century France. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fl%C3%A2neur WIKI] tells us "Drawing on Fournel, and on his analysis of the poetry of Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin described the flâneur as the essential figure of the modern urban spectator, an amateur detective and investigator of the city. More than this, his flâneur was a sign of the alienation of the city and of capitalism. For Benjamin, the flâneur met his demise with the triumph of consumer capitalism."

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==Page 275==
'''formaldehyde''' 
Clothing is coated with formaldehyde to make them "wrinkle free". Formaldehyde is also used to preserve corpses. Most people are familiar with the miasma from frog dissection in high school biology.

'''The Thug, here rendered in fuchsia and optical green''' 
That is, looking a lot like the Hulk.

==Page 276==
''' a mural-size screen grab from the opening of ''The Letter'' (1940) in which Bette Davis is pretending to pump six rounds into...''' 
Image and film info at [http://www.allmovie.com/movie/v29107 allmovie.] Bette comes out with gun blazing at 1:18 into this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo5QuonRCHE clip.]

'''David Newell''' 
Supporting actor turned makeup artist. [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0627789/#actor IMDB] makes it appear he spent much of his career being uncredited for his work.

==Page 277==
'''It's what, legal in Utah for three people to get married?''' 
Despite being illegal, in Utah today, those living in polygamist families number about 40,000 people(about 1.4 percent of the population). Polygamists are difficult to prosecute because many only seek marriage licenses for their first marriage, while the other marriages are secretly conducted in private ceremonies. Thereafter, secondary wives attempt to be seen in public as single women with children.

==Page 279==
'''The Muffya''' 
A bad pun on The Mafia... "Muff" is slang for pussy etc.

'''Donna non vidi mai''' 
Tenor aria from Act 1 of Puccini's Manon Lescaut. A love-at-first-sight soliloquy. Pynchon referenced the Act 3 tenor solo in [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_3 Chapter 3 of ''V.'']

==Page 280==
'''the high-muzzle-velocity law firm of Hanover, Fisk''' 
Hand over fist.

'''New Zealand kauri''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agathis_australis WIKI] tells us kauri forests are some of the oldest in the world, that individual trees often live longer than 600 years, and that they are very large trees with volumes, but not heights, often rivaling sequoias.

==Page 281==
'''Skadden, Arps''' 
Real law [http://www.skadden.com/ firm] in Washington, DC.

==Page 282==
'''Mannlicher-Carcano . . . Jackie and I were dear friends''' 
A Mannlicher-Carcano is a type of rifle. Oswald used one to shoot JFK.

'''"Jay-Z?" "Well, actually I'm more of a Nas person. As you may know they're in this feud at the moment, that old Queens-versus-Brooklyn thing again, hate to take sides, but---"The World Is Yours," how can anything even compare?''' 
Probably splitting hairs here, but the feud between Jay-Z and Nas didn't become widely known until Jay-Z's "Takeover" was released on his "Blueprint" album, which came out on September 11. Jay-Z did dis some rappers at the Hot 97 Summer Jam 2001 held in late June, but the hardest hit was Nas' friend and Queens resident Prodigy of Mobb Deep, while Nas was only briefly mentioned. You'd probably had to have been close to the inner circles of these rappers to be conversationally aware of the feud which became heated in the months to come. As for "The World is Yours," reference, I agree with the sentiment, and wonder if it was used since Jay-Z sampled it on "Dead Presidents II" from his 1996 debut album. Anyone else have thoughts on this? [[User:H2oetry|H2oetry]] ([[User talk:H2oetry|talk]])h2oetry

Also, it was pretty much universally accepted that Nas won the beef with "Ether," on ''Stillmatic'' which would be released in December 2001. Nas's ''Illmatic,'' from 1994, is by many, considered the greatest rap record of all time, and extremely rare these days, only contains one guest appearance for a single verse (AZ on "Life's a Bitch"). The above question in regard to the use of "The World is Yours," is indeed possible, though most likely it's used here because the phrase references Scarface, which kind of ties into the theme of this part of the book, I'd say.

==Page 283==
'''jumping to wrong conclusions/old-movie confusions''' 
Yet another line that gestures toward Hitchcock and his ilk, filmmakers who made movies that resonate with some aspects of Pynchon's fiction.

==Page 284==
'''chomping into it and scattering crumbs... Grabbing another, two or three actually''' 
Chandler Platt has become the Cookie Monster.

==Page 285==

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

Trivia alert. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lon_Chaney,_Jr. Lon Chaney, Jr.] played Larry Talbot in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wolf_Man_%281941_film%29 The Wolf Man.] Though Chaney, Jr. was in a fair number of monster movies, contrary to what Warren Zevon unintentionally may have caused us to believe, he was never in a film titled "The Werewolves of London." The 1935 film [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werewolf_of_London Werewolf of London] starred Henry Hull.

==Page 286==
'''flaneur''' 
Term for a certain type of character found in literature, especially the works of 19th century France. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fl%C3%A2neur WIKI] tells us "Drawing on Fournel, and on his analysis of the poetry of Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin described the flâneur as the essential figure of the modern urban spectator, an amateur detective and investigator of the city. More than this, his flâneur was a sign of the alienation of the city and of capitalism. For Benjamin, the flâneur met his demise with the triumph of consumer capitalism."

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==Page 275==
'''formaldehyde''' 
Clothing is coated with formaldehyde to make them "wrinkle free"

'''The Thug, here rendered in fuchsia and optical green''' 
That is, looking a lot like the Hulk.

==Page 276==
''' a mural-size screen grab from the opening of ''The Letter'' (1940) in which Bette Davis is pretending to pump six rounds into...''' 
Image and film info at [http://www.allmovie.com/movie/v29107 allmovie.] Bette comes out with gun blazing at 1:18 into this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo5QuonRCHE clip.]

'''David Newell''' 
Supporting actor turned makeup artist. [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0627789/#actor IMDB] makes it appear he spent much of his career being uncredited for his work.

==Page 277==
'''It's what, legal in Utah for three people to get married?''' 
Despite being illegal, in Utah today, those living in polygamist families number about 40,000 people(about 1.4 percent of the population). Polygamists are difficult to prosecute because many only seek marriage licenses for their first marriage, while the other marriages are secretly conducted in private ceremonies. Thereafter, secondary wives attempt to be seen in public as single women with children.

==Page 279==
'''The Muffya''' 
A bad pun on The Mafia... "Muff" is slang for pussy etc.

'''Donna non vidi mai''' 
Tenor aria from Act 1 of Puccini's Manon Lescaut. A love-at-first-sight soliloquy. Pynchon referenced the Act 3 tenor solo in [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_3 Chapter 3 of ''V.'']

==Page 280==
'''the high-muzzle-velocity law firm of Hanover, Fisk''' 
Hand over fist.

'''New Zealand kauri''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agathis_australis WIKI] tells us kauri forests are some of the oldest in the world, that individual trees often live longer than 600 years, and that they are very large trees with volumes, but not heights, often rivaling sequoias.

==Page 281==
'''Skadden, Arps''' 
Real law [http://www.skadden.com/ firm] in Washington, DC.

==Page 282==
'''Mannlicher-Carcano . . . Jackie and I were dear friends''' 
A Mannlicher-Carcano is a type of rifle. Oswald used one to shoot JFK.

'''"Jay-Z?" "Well, actually I'm more of a Nas person. As you may know they're in this feud at the moment, that old Queens-versus-Brooklyn thing again, hate to take sides, but---"The World Is Yours," how can anything even compare?''' 
Probably splitting hairs here, but the feud between Jay-Z and Nas didn't become widely known until Jay-Z's "Takeover" was released on his "Blueprint" album, which came out on September 11. Jay-Z did dis some rappers at the Hot 97 Summer Jam 2001 held in late June, but the hardest hit was Nas' friend and Queens resident Prodigy of Mobb Deep, while Nas was only briefly mentioned. You'd probably had to have been close to the inner circles of these rappers to be conversationally aware of the feud which became heated in the months to come. As for "The World is Yours," reference, I agree with the sentiment, and wonder if it was used since Jay-Z sampled it on "Dead Presidents II" from his 1996 debut album. Anyone else have thoughts on this? [[User:H2oetry|H2oetry]] ([[User talk:H2oetry|talk]])h2oetry

Also, it was pretty much universally accepted that Nas won the beef with "Ether," on ''Stillmatic'' which would be released in December 2001. Nas's ''Illmatic,'' from 1994, is by many, considered the greatest rap record of all time, and extremely rare these days, only contains one guest appearance for a single verse (AZ on "Life's a Bitch"). The above question in regard to the use of "The World is Yours," is indeed possible, though most likely it's used here because the phrase references Scarface, which kind of ties into the theme of this part of the book, I'd say.

==Page 283==
'''jumping to wrong conclusions/old-movie confusions''' 
Yet another line that gestures toward Hitchcock and his ilk, filmmakers who made movies that resonate with some aspects of Pynchon's fiction.

==Page 284==
'''chomping into it and scattering crumbs... Grabbing another, two or three actually''' 
Chandler Platt has become the Cookie Monster.

==Page 285==

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

Trivia alert. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lon_Chaney,_Jr. Lon Chaney, Jr.] played Larry Talbot in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wolf_Man_%281941_film%29 The Wolf Man.] Though Chaney, Jr. was in a fair number of monster movies, contrary to what Warren Zevon unintentionally may have caused us to believe, he was never in a film titled "The Werewolves of London." The 1935 film [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werewolf_of_London Werewolf of London] starred Henry Hull.

==Page 286==
'''flaneur''' 
Term for a certain type of character found in literature, especially the works of 19th century France. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fl%C3%A2neur WIKI] tells us "Drawing on Fournel, and on his analysis of the poetry of Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin described the flâneur as the essential figure of the modern urban spectator, an amateur detective and investigator of the city. More than this, his flâneur was a sign of the alienation of the city and of capitalism. For Benjamin, the flâneur met his demise with the triumph of consumer capitalism."

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 248==
'''No hondeling''' 
Hondeling is the bargaining, or haggling, style in Israel.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 253==
'''As Deborah Kerr, or Marni Nixon, might say, or actually sing''' 
Marni Nixon (b. 1930) is an American soprano and playback singer for featured actresses in movie musicals. She is most famous for dubbing the singing voices of the leading actresses in films, including ''The King and I'', ''West Side Story'' and ''My Fair Lady''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marni_Nixon Wiki] says she earned the nickname the "Ghostess with the Mostest" because her work was often uncredited.

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

==Page 254==
'''Paradise Garage''' 
Again, see chapters 14 and 15, Maxine recalls going to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Garage Paradise Garage.]

'''9:30 Club... maybe he caught Tiny Desk Unit and Bad Brains in their local-band period... maybe the smell of the 9:30 Cologne is his last, his only link with the uncorrupted youth he was?''' 
The 9:30 Club was a late 70's-early 80's club in Washington D.C. where as mentioned, new wave/punk bands like Tiny Desk Unit and Bad Brains once played. In a negative marketing twist, Pynchon implies here that, though seemingly unrelated, Windust's use of 9:30 Cologne and its appeal is tied with the 9:30 Club of his youth.
==Page 255==
'''Princess Heidrophobia''' 
Heidi

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 204==
'''"And whoop there it is"''' 
I believe this is referring to Conkling's erection, where he catches Maxine checking it out and there's an awkward moment, to say the least... 
And "Whoomp! (There It Is)" was a top-ten hit for the group Tag Team in 1993. If, for some reason, you want to hear it, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffCEr327W44 here you go].

==Page 206==
'''luminol''' 
Luminol is used by forensic investigators to detect trace amounts of blood left at crime scenes, as it reacts with iron found in hemoglobin. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminol WIKI].

==Page 208==
'''9:30 . . .''' 
A hardcore punk club in DC [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9:30_Club Wiki].

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 204==
'''"And whoop there it is"''' 
I believe this is referring to Conkling's erection, where he catches Maxine checking it out and there's an awkward moment, to say the least... 
And "Whoomp! (There It Is)" was a top-ten hit for the group Tag Team in 1993. If, for some reason, you want to hear it, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffCEr327W44 here you go].

==Page 206==
'''luminol''' 
Luminol is used by forensic investigators to detect trace amounts of blood left at crime scenes, as it reacts with iron found in hemoglobin. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminol WIKI].

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

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

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

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

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'''ZiL-41047''' 
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. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIL-41047 WIKI].

==Page 161==
'''''kagdila''''' 
Padonkaffsky jargon for "how are you." A misspelling of ''kak dela''.

'''methcathinone''' 
Methcathinone (sometimes called "cat" or "jeff") is a monoamine alkaloid and psychoactive stimulant similar to cathinone, the primary psychoactive compound in khat. It is used as a recreational drug and considered to be addictive. It is usually snorted, but can be smoked, injected, or taken orally. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methcathinone WIKI].

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'''''govno''''' 
Total shit

==Page 163==
'''live local bachata groups''' 
Bachata is an Afro latino genre of music that originated in the Dominican Republic in the early parts of the 20th century with the African descendants in the country and spread to other parts of Latin America and Mediterranean Europe. It became popular in the countryside and the rural neighborhoods of the Dominican Republic. Its subjects are often romantic; especially prevalent are tales of heartbreak and sadness. In fact, the original term used to name the genre was amargue ("bitterness," or "bitter music"), until the rather ambiguous (and mood-neutral) term bachata became popular. The form of dance, Bachata, also developed with the music. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachata_%28music%29 WIKI].

==Page 164==
'''Celia Cruz''' 
Úrsula Hilaria Celia de la Caridad Cruz Alfonso de la Santísima Trinidad (October 21, 1925 – July 16, 2003) was a Cuban-American salsa performer. One of the most popular salsa artists of the 20th century, she earned twenty-three gold albums and was renowned internationally as the "Queen of Salsa" as well as "La Guarachera de Cuba." She spent much of her career living in New Jersey, and working in the United States and several Latin American countries. Leila Cobo of Billboard Magazine once said "Cruz is indisputably the best known and most influential female figure in the history of Cuban music." From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celia_Cruz WIKI].

'''Paradise Garage''' 
Noteworthy members-only disco that operated from 1976 to 1987. It appears to have been very serious ''dance club;'' according to this lengthy [http://www.djhistory.com/features/larry-levans-paradise-garage djhistory] page, it was an exclusive, private place, extremely focused on music and dancing, a disco that did not serve serve alcohol, and instead had non-alcoholic drinks, and some snacks, simply on-hand for the dues-paying members. It's remembered fondly as a gathering space where the wide variety of members, united by their interest and commitment to dance, created some sense harmony and unity. From the djhistory page: In stark contrast to the harsh city lights outside, the Garage offered freedom, compassion and brotherhood.

In other words, it was the "anti" Studio 54.

'''Presidente longneck''' 
Dominican [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidente_%28beer%29 beer.]

'''"Cuándo Volverás"''' 
"Cuándo Volverás" is a 1999 song by Aventura. You can hear it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3ItxMywq5o here].

'''Studio 54''' 
Studio 54 was a famous club in the late 1970s in Manhattan, known for rich people using drugs and dancing to Disco music.

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'''wolf-whistle''' 
A wolf-whistle is a two-toned sound (like 'whip-woo') commonly made using the above technique to show approval of something or someone (originally a person thought to be sexually attractive).

'''1937 Gar Wood''' 
This [http://www.hagerty.com/classic-car-articles-resources/Features/More-Articles/Marine/All-articles/2013/06/06/Marine-Marketwatch page] says the value of the rare boat could be over three hundred thousand dollars.

'''Pappy Mason''' 
Drug smuggler who has a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Mason WIKI] page.

'''the World Trade Center leaning, looming brilliantly curtained in light''' 
Another foreshadowing of 9/11

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'''Port Richmond''' 
A neighborhood on the north shore of Staten Island centered on an old commercial street, Port Richmond Avenue. I worked at Goldwyn Jewelers on Port Richmond Ave in high school. From [http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=139768&imageID=105178&parent_id=448946&snum=&s=&notword=&d=&c=&f=&k=0&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&sort=&total=31&num=0&imgs=20&pNum=&pos=18 NYPL]

'''Hey Denino's''' 
524 Port Richmond Ave, Staten Island, New York 10302 http://www.deninos.com/

'''Neglected little creeks... Yupper West Side''' 
This description of a mountainous garbagescape echoes a similar, lengthier, backdrop in Pynchon's shorter work ''Low-lands'' (1960) published in the compilation ''Slow Learner''.

'''Island of Meadows''' 
The Isle of Meadows is a 100-acre uninhabited island on Staten Island, New York in the United States. It is located along the western side of Staten Island, where the Fresh Kills empties into the Arthur Kill. The island is owned by the city of New York. In the 1990s, the island escaped becoming part of the Fresh Kills Landfill. It is now a nature preserve providing important meadow and salt marsh nesting habitat for herons, ibises, and egrets, and is not accessible to the public. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_Meadows WIKI].

'''This Land Is My Land, This Land Also Is My Land''' 
Obviously, a play on Woody Guthrie's song: "This land is my land, this land is your land."

'''A long, eerie wait ...''' 
A long, ''aerie'' wait

'''Officially the last barge came and went ...''' 
a few months later, the landfill became the staging site to sort through the wreckage from the World Trade Center (another 9/11 reference)

==Page 169==
'''Captain Stubing''' 
Captain on ''The Love Boat'', a TV show in the 70s and 80s. Also mentioned on pg. 16.

Can you believe this show lasted for 9 years and 249 episodes? [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Love_Boat WIKI]

==Page 170==
'''Schachtmanite goons like Elliott Abrams''' 
Max Shachtman (September 10, 1904 – November 4, 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. He supported the Bay of Pigs invasion. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Shachtman WIKI].

Elliott Abrams (born January 24, 1948) is a well known neoconservative American diplomat, lawyer and political scientist who served in foreign policy positions for both U.S. Presidents, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. While serving for Reagan, Abrams and retired U.S. Marine Corps officer Oliver North were integral players in the Iran-Contra affair. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Abrams WIKI].

'''Ríos Montt''' 
José Efraín Ríos Montt (born June 16, 1926) is a former de facto President of Guatemala, dictator, army general and former president of Congress. A General in the Guatemalan Army, Ríos Montt came to public office through a coup d'état on March 23, 1982. In turn, he was overthrown by his Defense Minister, Óscar Humberto Mejía Victores, in another coup d'état on August 8, 1983. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rios_Montt WIKI].

'''EGP or Guerrilla Army Of The Poor''' 
See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ej%C3%A9rcito_Guerrillero_de_los_Pobres WIKI].

==Page 171==
'''I'm really Dr. Ruth Westheimer, nothing shocks me''' 
A famous and unflappable sex therapist.

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'''ZiL-41047''' 
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. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIL-41047 WIKI].

==Page 161==
'''''kagdila''''' 
Padonkaffsky jargon for "how are you." A misspelling of ''kak dela''.

'''methcathinone''' 
Methcathinone (sometimes called "cat" or "jeff") is a monoamine alkaloid and psychoactive stimulant similar to cathinone, the primary psychoactive compound in khat. It is used as a recreational drug and considered to be addictive. It is usually snorted, but can be smoked, injected, or taken orally. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methcathinone WIKI].

==Page 162==
'''''govno''''' 
Total shit

==Page 163==
'''live local bachata groups''' 
Bachata is an Afro latino genre of music that originated in the Dominican Republic in the early parts of the 20th century with the African descendants in the country and spread to other parts of Latin America and Mediterranean Europe. It became popular in the countryside and the rural neighborhoods of the Dominican Republic. Its subjects are often romantic; especially prevalent are tales of heartbreak and sadness. In fact, the original term used to name the genre was amargue ("bitterness," or "bitter music"), until the rather ambiguous (and mood-neutral) term bachata became popular. The form of dance, Bachata, also developed with the music. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachata_%28music%29 WIKI].

==Page 164==
'''Celia Cruz''' 
Úrsula Hilaria Celia de la Caridad Cruz Alfonso de la Santísima Trinidad (October 21, 1925 – July 16, 2003) was a Cuban-American salsa performer. One of the most popular salsa artists of the 20th century, she earned twenty-three gold albums and was renowned internationally as the "Queen of Salsa" as well as "La Guarachera de Cuba." She spent much of her career living in New Jersey, and working in the United States and several Latin American countries. Leila Cobo of Billboard Magazine once said "Cruz is indisputably the best known and most influential female figure in the history of Cuban music." From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celia_Cruz WIKI].

'''Paradise Garage''' 
Noteworthy members-only disco that operated from 1976 to 1987. It appears to have been very serious ''dance club;'' according to this lengthy [http://www.djhistory.com/features/larry-levans-paradise-garage djhistory] page, it was an exclusive, private place, extremely focused on music and dancing, a disco that did not serve serve alcohol, and instead had non-alcoholic drinks, and some snacks, simply on-hand for the dues-paying members. It's remembered fondly as a gathering space where the wide variety of members, united by their interest and commitment to dance, created some sense harmony and unity. From the djhistory page: In stark contrast to the harsh city lights outside, the Garage offered freedom, compassion and brotherhood.

In other words, it was the "anti" Studio 54.

'''Presidente longneck''' 
Dominican [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidente_%28beer%29 beer.]

'''"Cuándo Volverás"''' 
"Cuándo Volverás" is a 1999 song by Aventura. You can hear it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3ItxMywq5o here].

'''Studio 54''' 
Studio 54 was a famous club in the late 1970s in Manhattan, known for rich people using drugs and dancing to Disco music.

==Page 165==
'''wolf-whistle''' 
A wolf-whistle is a two-toned sound (like 'whip-woo') commonly made using the above technique to show approval of something or someone (originally a person thought to be sexually attractive).

'''1937 Gar Wood''' 
This [http://www.hagerty.com/classic-car-articles-resources/Features/More-Articles/Marine/All-articles/2013/06/06/Marine-Marketwatch page] says the value of the rare boat could be over three hundred thousand dollars.

'''Pappy Mason''' 
Drug smuggler who has a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Mason WIKI] page.

'''the World Trade Center leaning, looming brilliantly curtained in light''' 
Another foreshadowing of 9/11

==Page 166==

'''Port Richmond''' 
A neighborhood on the north shore of Staten Island centered on an old commercial street, Port Richmond Avenue. I worked at Goldwyn Jewelers on Port Richmond Ave in high school. From [http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=139768&imageID=105178&parent_id=448946&snum=&s=&notword=&d=&c=&f=&k=0&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&sort=&total=31&num=0&imgs=20&pNum=&pos=18 NYPL]

'''Hey Denino's''' 
524 Port Richmond Ave, Staten Island, New York 10302 http://www.deninos.com/

'''Neglected little creeks... Yupper West Side''' 
This description of a mountainous garbagescape echoes a similar, lengthier, backdrop in Pynchon's shorter work ''Low-lands'' (1960) published in the compilation ''Slow Learner''.

'''Island of Meadows''' 
The Isle of Meadows is a 100-acre uninhabited island on Staten Island, New York in the United States. It is located along the western side of Staten Island, where the Fresh Kills empties into the Arthur Kill. The island is owned by the city of New York. In the 1990s, the island escaped becoming part of the Fresh Kills Landfill. It is now a nature preserve providing important meadow and salt marsh nesting habitat for herons, ibises, and egrets, and is not accessible to the public. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_Meadows WIKI].

'''This Land Is My Land, This Land Also Is My Land''' 
Obviously, a play on Woody Guthrie's song: "This land is my land, this land is your land."

'''A long, eerie wait ...''' 
A long, ''aerie'' wait

==Page 169==
'''Captain Stubing''' 
Captain on ''The Love Boat'', a TV show in the 70s and 80s. Also mentioned on pg. 16.

Can you believe this show lasted for 9 years and 249 episodes? [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Love_Boat WIKI]

==Page 170==
'''Schachtmanite goons like Elliott Abrams''' 
Max Shachtman (September 10, 1904 – November 4, 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. He supported the Bay of Pigs invasion. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Shachtman WIKI].

Elliott Abrams (born January 24, 1948) is a well known neoconservative American diplomat, lawyer and political scientist who served in foreign policy positions for both U.S. Presidents, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. While serving for Reagan, Abrams and retired U.S. Marine Corps officer Oliver North were integral players in the Iran-Contra affair. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Abrams WIKI].

'''Ríos Montt''' 
José Efraín Ríos Montt (born June 16, 1926) is a former de facto President of Guatemala, dictator, army general and former president of Congress. A General in the Guatemalan Army, Ríos Montt came to public office through a coup d'état on March 23, 1982. In turn, he was overthrown by his Defense Minister, Óscar Humberto Mejía Victores, in another coup d'état on August 8, 1983. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rios_Montt WIKI].

'''EGP or Guerrilla Army Of The Poor''' 
See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ej%C3%A9rcito_Guerrillero_de_los_Pobres WIKI].

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'''I'm really Dr. Ruth Westheimer, nothing shocks me''' 
A famous and unflappable sex therapist.

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'''ZiL-41047''' 
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. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIL-41047 WIKI].

==Page 161==
'''''kagdila''''' 
Padonkaffsky jargon for "how are you." A misspelling of ''kak dela''.

'''methcathinone''' 
Methcathinone (sometimes called "cat" or "jeff") is a monoamine alkaloid and psychoactive stimulant similar to cathinone, the primary psychoactive compound in khat. It is used as a recreational drug and considered to be addictive. It is usually snorted, but can be smoked, injected, or taken orally. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methcathinone WIKI].

==Page 162==
'''''govno''''' 
Total shit

==Page 163==
'''live local bachata groups''' 
Bachata is an Afro latino genre of music that originated in the Dominican Republic in the early parts of the 20th century with the African descendants in the country and spread to other parts of Latin America and Mediterranean Europe. It became popular in the countryside and the rural neighborhoods of the Dominican Republic. Its subjects are often romantic; especially prevalent are tales of heartbreak and sadness. In fact, the original term used to name the genre was amargue ("bitterness," or "bitter music"), until the rather ambiguous (and mood-neutral) term bachata became popular. The form of dance, Bachata, also developed with the music. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachata_%28music%29 WIKI].

==Page 164==
'''Celia Cruz''' 
Úrsula Hilaria Celia de la Caridad Cruz Alfonso de la Santísima Trinidad (October 21, 1925 – July 16, 2003) was a Cuban-American salsa performer. One of the most popular salsa artists of the 20th century, she earned twenty-three gold albums and was renowned internationally as the "Queen of Salsa" as well as "La Guarachera de Cuba." She spent much of her career living in New Jersey, and working in the United States and several Latin American countries. Leila Cobo of Billboard Magazine once said "Cruz is indisputably the best known and most influential female figure in the history of Cuban music." From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celia_Cruz WIKI].

'''Paradise Garage''' 
Noteworthy members-only disco that operated from 1976 to 1987. It appears to have been very serious ''dance club;'' according to this lengthy [http://www.djhistory.com/features/larry-levans-paradise-garage djhistory] page, it was an exclusive, private place, extremely focused on music and dancing, a disco that did not serve serve alcohol, and instead had non-alcoholic drinks, and some snacks, simply on-hand for the dues-paying members. It's remembered fondly as a gathering space where the wide variety of members, united by their interest and commitment to dance, created some sense harmony and unity. From the djhistory page: In stark contrast to the harsh city lights outside, the Garage offered freedom, compassion and brotherhood.

In other words, it was the "anti" Studio 54.

'''Presidente longneck''' 
Dominican [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidente_%28beer%29 beer.]

'''"Cuándo Volverás"''' 
"Cuándo Volverás" is a 1999 song by Aventura. You can hear it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3ItxMywq5o here].

'''Studio 54''' 
Studio 54 was a famous club in the late 1970s in Manhattan, known for rich people using drugs and dancing to Disco music.

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'''wolf-whistle''' 
A wolf-whistle is a two-toned sound (like 'whip-woo') commonly made using the above technique to show approval of something or someone (originally a person thought to be sexually attractive).

'''1937 Gar Wood''' 
This [http://www.hagerty.com/classic-car-articles-resources/Features/More-Articles/Marine/All-articles/2013/06/06/Marine-Marketwatch page] says the value of the rare boat could be over three hundred thousand dollars.

'''Pappy Mason''' 
Drug smuggler who has a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Mason WIKI] page.

'''the World Trade Center leaning, looming brilliantly curtained in light''' 
Another foreshadowing of 9/11

==Page 166==

'''Port Richmond''' 
A neighborhood on the north shore of Staten Island centered on an old commercial street, Port Richmond Avenue. I worked at Goldwyn Jewelers on Port Richmond Ave in high school. From [http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=139768&imageID=105178&parent_id=448946&snum=&s=&notword=&d=&c=&f=&k=0&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&sort=&total=31&num=0&imgs=20&pNum=&pos=18 NYPL]

'''Hey Denino's''' 
524 Port Richmond Ave, Staten Island, New York 10302 http://www.deninos.com/

'''Neglected little creeks... Yupper West Side''' 
This description of a mountainous garbagescape echoes a similar, lengthier, backdrop in Pynchon's shorter work ''Low-lands'' (1960) published in the compilation ''Slow Learner''.

'''Island of Meadows''' 
The Isle of Meadows is a 100-acre uninhabited island on Staten Island, New York in the United States. It is located along the western side of Staten Island, where the Fresh Kills empties into the Arthur Kill. The island is owned by the city of New York. In the 1990s, the island escaped becoming part of the Fresh Kills Landfill. It is now a nature preserve providing important meadow and salt marsh nesting habitat for herons, ibises, and egrets, and is not accessible to the public. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_Meadows WIKI].

'''This Land Is My Land, This Land Also Is My Land''' 
Obviously, a play on Woody Guthrie's song: "This land is my land, this land is your land."

==Page 169==
'''Captain Stubing''' 
Captain on ''The Love Boat'', a TV show in the 70s and 80s. Also mentioned on pg. 16.

Can you believe this show lasted for 9 years and 249 episodes? [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Love_Boat WIKI]

==Page 170==
'''Schachtmanite goons like Elliott Abrams''' 
Max Shachtman (September 10, 1904 – November 4, 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. He supported the Bay of Pigs invasion. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Shachtman WIKI].

Elliott Abrams (born January 24, 1948) is a well known neoconservative American diplomat, lawyer and political scientist who served in foreign policy positions for both U.S. Presidents, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. While serving for Reagan, Abrams and retired U.S. Marine Corps officer Oliver North were integral players in the Iran-Contra affair. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Abrams WIKI].

'''Ríos Montt''' 
José Efraín Ríos Montt (born June 16, 1926) is a former de facto President of Guatemala, dictator, army general and former president of Congress. A General in the Guatemalan Army, Ríos Montt came to public office through a coup d'état on March 23, 1982. In turn, he was overthrown by his Defense Minister, Óscar Humberto Mejía Victores, in another coup d'état on August 8, 1983. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rios_Montt WIKI].

'''EGP or Guerrilla Army Of The Poor''' 
See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ej%C3%A9rcito_Guerrillero_de_los_Pobres WIKI].

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'''I'm really Dr. Ruth Westheimer, nothing shocks me''' 
A famous and unflappable sex therapist.

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[[Image:ZiL-41047.jpg|200px|right|ZiL-41047]]

'''ZiL-41047''' 
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. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIL-41047 WIKI].

==Page 161==
'''''kagdila''''' 
Padonkaffsky jargon for "how are you." A misspelling of ''kak dela''.

'''methcathinone''' 
Methcathinone (sometimes called "cat" or "jeff") is a monoamine alkaloid and psychoactive stimulant similar to cathinone, the primary psychoactive compound in khat. It is used as a recreational drug and considered to be addictive. It is usually snorted, but can be smoked, injected, or taken orally. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methcathinone WIKI].

==Page 162==
'''''govno''''' 
Total shit

==Page 163==
'''live local bachata groups''' 
Bachata is an Afro latino genre of music that originated in the Dominican Republic in the early parts of the 20th century with the African descendants in the country and spread to other parts of Latin America and Mediterranean Europe. It became popular in the countryside and the rural neighborhoods of the Dominican Republic. Its subjects are often romantic; especially prevalent are tales of heartbreak and sadness. In fact, the original term used to name the genre was amargue ("bitterness," or "bitter music"), until the rather ambiguous (and mood-neutral) term bachata became popular. The form of dance, Bachata, also developed with the music. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachata_%28music%29 WIKI].

==Page 164==
'''Celia Cruz''' 
Úrsula Hilaria Celia de la Caridad Cruz Alfonso de la Santísima Trinidad (October 21, 1925 – July 16, 2003) was a Cuban-American salsa performer. One of the most popular salsa artists of the 20th century, she earned twenty-three gold albums and was renowned internationally as the "Queen of Salsa" as well as "La Guarachera de Cuba." She spent much of her career living in New Jersey, and working in the United States and several Latin American countries. Leila Cobo of Billboard Magazine once said "Cruz is indisputably the best known and most influential female figure in the history of Cuban music." From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celia_Cruz WIKI].

'''Paradise Garage''' 
Noteworthy members-only disco that operated from 1976 to 1987. It appears to have been very serious ''dance club;'' according to this lengthy [http://www.djhistory.com/features/larry-levans-paradise-garage djhistory] page, it was an exclusive, private place, extremely focused on music and dancing, a disco that did not serve serve alcohol, and instead had non-alcoholic drinks, and some snacks, simply on-hand for the dues-paying members. It's remembered fondly as a gathering space where the wide variety of members, united by their interest and commitment to dance, created some sense harmony and unity. From the djhistory page: In stark contrast to the harsh city lights outside, the Garage offered freedom, compassion and brotherhood.

In other words, it was the "anti" Studio 54.

'''Presidente longneck''' 
Dominican [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidente_%28beer%29 beer.]

'''"Cuándo Volverás"''' 
"Cuándo Volverás" is a 1999 song by Aventura. You can hear it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3ItxMywq5o here].

'''Studio 54''' 
Studio 54 was a famous club in the late 1970s in Manhattan, known for rich people using drugs and dancing to Disco music.

==Page 165==
'''wolf-whistle''' 
A wolf-whistle is a two-toned sound (like 'whip-woo') commonly made using the above technique to show approval of something or someone (originally a person thought to be sexually attractive).

'''1937 Gar Wood''' 
This [http://www.hagerty.com/classic-car-articles-resources/Features/More-Articles/Marine/All-articles/2013/06/06/Marine-Marketwatch page] says the value of the rare boat could be over three hundred thousand dollars.

'''Pappy Mason''' 
Drug smuggler who has a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Mason WIKI] page.

'''the World Trade Center leaning, looming brilliantly curtained in light''' 
Another foreshadowing of 9/11

==Page 166==

'''Port Richmond''' 
A neighborhood on the north shore of Staten Island centered on an old commercial street, Richmond Avenue. I worked at Goldwyn Jewelers on Port Richmond Ave in high school. http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=139768&imageID=105178&parent_id=448946&snum=&s=&notword=&d=&c=&f=&k=0&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&sort=&total=31&num=0&imgs=20&pNum=&pos=18

'''Hey Denino's''' 
524 Richmond Ave, Staten Island, New York 10302 http://www.deninos.com/

'''Neglected little creeks... Yupper West Side''' 
This description of a mountainous garbagescape echoes a similar, lengthier, backdrop in Pynchon's shorter work ''Low-lands'' (1960) published in the compilation ''Slow Learner''.

'''Island of Meadows''' 
The Isle of Meadows is a 100-acre uninhabited island on Staten Island, New York in the United States. It is located along the western side of Staten Island, where the Fresh Kills empties into the Arthur Kill. The island is owned by the city of New York. In the 1990s, the island escaped becoming part of the Fresh Kills Landfill. It is now a nature preserve providing important meadow and salt marsh nesting habitat for herons, ibises, and egrets, and is not accessible to the public. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_Meadows WIKI].

'''This Land Is My Land, This Land Also Is My Land''' 
Obviously, a play on Woody Guthrie's song: "This land is my land, this land is your land."

==Page 169==
'''Captain Stubing''' 
Captain on ''The Love Boat'', a TV show in the 70s and 80s. Also mentioned on pg. 16.

Can you believe this show lasted for 9 years and 249 episodes? [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Love_Boat WIKI]

==Page 170==
'''Schachtmanite goons like Elliott Abrams''' 
Max Shachtman (September 10, 1904 – November 4, 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. He supported the Bay of Pigs invasion. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Shachtman WIKI].

Elliott Abrams (born January 24, 1948) is a well known neoconservative American diplomat, lawyer and political scientist who served in foreign policy positions for both U.S. Presidents, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. While serving for Reagan, Abrams and retired U.S. Marine Corps officer Oliver North were integral players in the Iran-Contra affair. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Abrams WIKI].

'''Ríos Montt''' 
José Efraín Ríos Montt (born June 16, 1926) is a former de facto President of Guatemala, dictator, army general and former president of Congress. A General in the Guatemalan Army, Ríos Montt came to public office through a coup d'état on March 23, 1982. In turn, he was overthrown by his Defense Minister, Óscar Humberto Mejía Victores, in another coup d'état on August 8, 1983. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rios_Montt WIKI].

'''EGP or Guerrilla Army Of The Poor''' 
See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ej%C3%A9rcito_Guerrillero_de_los_Pobres WIKI].

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'''I'm really Dr. Ruth Westheimer, nothing shocks me''' 
A famous and unflappable sex therapist.

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

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

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

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

==Page 138==
'''Igor Dashkov''' 
This fictional character appears to possibly be based on the real-life Yegor Lavroff. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egor_Lavrov here].

==Page 139==
'''''padonki''''' 
Riffraff

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'''Melanie's Mall''' 
This was--God help us--a real toy. You can see Melanie, her mall, her friends, and even her escalator [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfIIhF_u8 here], which even includes the tag line, "It's cool at the mall."

Also, here's a [http://melaniesmall.50webs.com/ guide to all the Melanie's Mall products].

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

'''Use the Source, Luke''' 
http://youtu.be/o2we_B6hDrY

==Page 69==
'''MUD clones''' 
"Multi-User Dungeon" games, an old-school, text-based video game. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD Wikipedia]

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

==Page 70==

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

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

==Page 71==
'''celestial pastry exercise''' 
pie in the sky.

==Page 72==
'''Ponzi scheme''' 
A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to its investors from their own money or the money paid by subsequent investors, rather than from profit earned by the individual or organization running the operation. The Ponzi scheme usually entices new investors by offering higher returns than other investments, in the form of short-term returns that are either abnormally high or unusually consistent. Perpetuation of the high returns requires an ever-increasing flow of money from new investors to keep the scheme going. The scheme is named after Charles Ponzi, who became notorious for using the technique in 1920. While Ponzi didn't invent the scheme (for example, Charles Dickens' 1844 novel ''Martin Chuzzlewit'' and 1857 novel ''Little Dorrit'' each described such a scheme), his operation took in so much money that it was the first to become known throughout the United States. Ponzi's original scheme was based on the arbitrage of international reply coupons for postage stamps; however, he soon diverted investors' money to make payments to earlier investors and himself. From [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme WIKI].

==Page 73==
'''Voorhees, Krueger''' 
names of horror film villains: Jason Voorhees of ''Friday the 13th'' and Freddy Krueger of ''Nightmare on Elm Street''.

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

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

==Page 74==
'''Camel Book''' 
''Programming Perl'', best known as the Camel Book among programmers, is a book about writing programs using the Perl programming language, revised as several editions (1991-2012) to reflect major language changes since Perl version 4. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_Perl WIKI].

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

==Page 76==
'''up and down stairways, through dark pedestrian tunnels, emerging into soaring meta-Victorian glass- and iron-modulated light, through turnstiles whose guardians morph as she approaches...''' 
Is it just me, or does this scene here bring to mind the ''knotting into'' opening of ''Gravity's Rainbow''?

==Page 77==
'''I BELIEVE YOU HAVE MY STAPLER''' 
"I Believe You Have My Stapler" is a catchphrase originally uttered by the character Milton in the 1999 movie ''Office Space''. The movie is about a group of employees who hate their jobs and decide to rebel against their greedy boss.

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

==Page 78==
'''...bleeding-edge technology...No proven use, high risk, something only early-adoption addicts feel comfortable with.''' 
Perhaps a gratuitous annotation, but it seemed appropriate to highlight how Pynchon uses the title of the book in the book itself.

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'''Tabloid of the Damned''' 
[http://tabloidofthedamned.com tabloidofthedamned.com] redirects to [http://www.thomaspynchon.com/ www.thomaspynchon.com] 
Who made this redirect, and why was it done? Many possibilities, of course. A site administrator, perhaps, neatly intertwining a fictional website in a Pynchon novel with a real site dedicated to studying him, a sort of "Easter egg" for those who cared to look. A casual fan who "just thought it would be cool." Or someone within Pynchon's "team" who slipped in a sly negative editorial comment ("we" are the "damned," reading nothing better than "tabloid" items when we visit such sites) about those who build and read the Pynchon pages, those who might be too obsessed with Pynchon himself or enabling those who are, a reopening of the CNN controversy and things of that sort? I like the first kind of flattering, positive interpretation, but the latter, cutting one could be true. Something to think about. Thanks for the person who made the detailed remarks to the chapter 11 annotation of "tabloidofthedamned" that started this line of thought.

==Page 54==
'''Carnegie Mellon''' 
Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

'''pari passu''' 
Latin phrase that literally means "with an equal step" or "on equal footing." It is sometimes translated as "ranking equally", "hand-in-hand," "with equal force," or "moving together,"and by extension, "fairly," "without partiality." From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pari_passu WIKI].

'''Dr. Kriechman''' 
In German, "kriechen" means "to creep" or "to crawl".

==Page 55==
'''Papa Doble''' 
Known as the Hemingway Daiquiri, the Papa Doble is a drink made using white rum, lime, grapefruit, and maraschino liqueur.

'''Lincoln Center''' 
A consortium of civic leaders and others led by John D. Rockefeller III built Lincoln Center as part of the "Lincoln Square Renewal Project" during Robert Moses's program of urban renewal in the 1950s and 1960s. Respected architects were contacted to design the major buildings on the site, and over the next thirty years the previously blighted area around Lincoln Center became a new cultural hub. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Center_for_the_Performing_Arts WIKI].

==Page 56==
'''Hermann Göring was right''' 
Hermann Göring was the Nazi founder of the Gestapo. He is credited as saying, "When I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning!" But he probably didn't say this. The line comes from the play ''Schlageter'' by Hanns Johst: "Wenn ich Kultur höre ... entsichere ich meinen Browning!"

==Page 57==
'''Linus himself''' 
Linus Torvalds (b. 1969) is a Finnish American software engineer, who was the principal force behind the development of the Linux kernel. His personal mascot is a penguin nicknamed Tux, which has been widely adopted by the Linux community as the mascot of the Linux kernel.

==Page 58==
'''packet monkey''' 
Someone who intentionally inundates a website or network with data packets, resulting in a denial-of-service situation for users of the attacked site or network. Packet monkeys typically use tools created and made available on the Internet by hackers. Unlike a script kiddy, a packet monkey leaves no clues as to who is making the exploit, making the identity of a packet monkey more difficult to trace. In addition, a denial-of-service attack can be launched on a wider scale than attacks performed by script kiddies, making them more difficult to investigate.

Hackers look down on packet monkeys and often describe them as "bottom feeders." Because a packet monkey uses tools created by others, the packet monkey has little understanding of the harm that may be caused. Typically, packet monkey exploits are random and without any purpose other than the thrill of making an effect. [http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/definition/packet-monkey Source]

==Page 59==
'''Microsoft LM hash''' 
LM hash, LanMan, or LAN Manager hash is a compromised password hashing function that was the primary hash that Microsoft LAN Manager and Microsoft Windows versions prior to Windows NT used to store user passwords. Support for the legacy LAN Manager protocol continued in later versions of Windows for backward compatibility, but was recommended by Microsoft to be turned off by administrators; as of Windows Vista, the protocol is disabled by default, but continues to be used by some non-Microsoft CIFS implementations. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LM_hash WIKI].

'''Vice President in Charge of Rectal Discomfort''' 
A pain in the butt

==Page 61==
'''"Doing business as Streetlight People"''' 
Reference to this lyric from the American rock band Journey's "Don't Stop Believing," from 1981:
<blockquote>
Strangers, waiting, up and down 
the boulevard 
Their shadows searching in the night 
'''Streetlight people''', living just to 
find emotion 
Hiding, somewhere in the night</blockquote>

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'''Slagiatt... vowel''' 
:As far as i can tell, there is no Italian word remotely like Slagiatt + a vowel. [[User:Benvolio|Benvolio]] ([[User talk:Benvolio|talk]])
The way I read it, it references his nickname Rocky, and that losing the 'y' makes it sound too Anglo. [[User:H2oetry|H2oetry]] ([[User talk:H2oetry|talk]])

'''"like lyrics in an opera"''' 
Opera singers routinely fail to enunciate words or syllables in the interest of hitting notes or making it all sound better.

==Page 62==
'''Wayne Gretzky Principle''' 
Steve Jobs: “There’s an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. ‘I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.’ And we’ve always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very very beginning. And we always will.”

==Page 63==
'''Wells notice''' 
A letter the SEC customarily serves on a prospective defendant prior to bringing a civil enforcement action, providing the target an opportunity to respond. The letter owes its name to the SEC's Wells Committee, which recommended the procedure in 1972. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wells_notice Wikipedia entry]

==Page 64==
'''Further Lane''' 
Through the years East Hampton's wealth has evolved emanating out from the village taking over the farmland that had once been dominated by potato fields. The most dazzling row of mansions remains in the village of East Hampton on the closest road paralleling the ocean along Further Lane and Lily Pond Lane. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Hampton_(town),_New_York Wikipedia entry]

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'''che si duce''' 
Italian greeting: "what's up?", "how's it going?".

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'''Nero d'Avola''' 
A wine from Sicily.

'''Una furtiva lagrima''' 
Famous aria (technically a "romanza") from the opera ''L'elisir d'amore'', by Donizetti.

'''"Un gazz"''' 
Italian, literally "dick," but used like the exclamation, "shit". Also employed by Pynchon in [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=U V.]

'''Greylock''' 
Greylock Partners is one of the oldest venture capital firms, founded in 1965, with committed capital of over $2 billion under management. The firm focuses on early stage companies in the consumer, enterprise software and infrastructure as well as semiconductor sectors. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greylock_Partners WIKI].

'''Lucky Luciano''' 
Charles "Lucky" Luciano was an Italian-born American mobster. Luciano is considered the father of modern organized crime in the United States for splitting New York City into five different Mafia crime families and the establishment of the first Commission. He was the first official boss of the modern Genovese crime family. He was, along with his associate Meyer Lansky, instrumental in the development of the National Crime Syndicate in the United States. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Luciano WIKI].

'''OSS''' 
The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was a United States intelligence agency formed during World War II. It was the wartime intelligence agency, and it was a predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The OSS was formed in order to coordinate espionage activities behind enemy lines for the branches of the United States Armed Forces. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Services WIKI].

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'''Longy Zwillman''' 
Abner "Longie" Zwillman (July 27, 1904 - February 27, 1959), known as the "Al Capone of New Jersey," was an early Prohibition gangster, founding member of the "Big Seven" Ruling Commission and a member of the National Crime Syndicate, who was also associated with Murder Incorporated. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longy_Zwillman WIKI].

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'''Pinot E-Grigio''' 
Pinot grigio is a kind of white wine. A very popular easy-drinking wine, often light, dry, and crisp. An egregious pun here?

'''Night Train''' 
Common abbreviation for Night Train Express, a cheap, sweet, high alcohol content, fortified wine made by E & J Gallo.

'''plotzing''' 
In Yiddish, to plotz literally means to crack, split, or burst. In slang it means "to
collapse or be beside oneself with frustration, annoyance, or other strong emotion."

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'''paraphrasing Jimi Hendrix''' 
"mayonnaise! All in your brain" cf. "Purple haze! all in my brain"

'''Maid-Rite''' 
Casual dining restaurant chain founded in 1926. Centered in the Midwest with headquarters in Iowa. Home of the "loose meat sandwich," which looks like a sloppy joe minus the tomato sauce.

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'''cheongsam''' 
Tight-fitting one-piece [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheongsam Chinese dress] for females. Very common in films and television.

''''59 Impala''' 
A 1965 Impala appears in ''Inherent Vice''.

'''three-month LIBOR''' 
a banking term. The average interest rate estimated by banks in London for borrowing from other banks.

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'''Ceres''' 
Roman goddess of agriculture, fitting name for the Board of Trade (i.e. commodities) bar.

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'''French roundoff'''
Computer fraud in which all interest income amounts less than half a cent are systematically credited to the perpetrator’s account. From [http://www.larry-adams.com/199309_article.htm].

'''Kashruth''' 
set of Jewish dietary laws.

'''Meyer Lansky''' 
Known as the "Mob's Accountant," was a major organized crime figure who, along with his associate Charles "Lucky" Luciano, was instrumental in the development of the "National Crime Syndicate" in the United States. For decades he was thought to be one of the most powerful individuals in the country. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meyer_Lansky WIKI].

'''"it's a truth universally acknowledged"''' 
First sentence of ''Pride and Prejudice'': "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."

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'''alexithymic lug''' 
describing Horst; alexithymia is a personality construct characterized by the sub-clinical inability to identify and describe emotions in the self. The core characteristics of alexithymia are marked dysfunction in emotional awareness, social attachment, and interpersonal relating.

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'''least enjoyable maybe the one between Hochdeutsch and Ashkenazi''' 
Hochdeutsch generally means the standard German language (as opposed to regional dialects). Ashkenazi Jews historically spoke Yiddish. This may refer to the class differences between speakers of different Yiddish dialects, classier German Jews vs peasant-y Polish Jews.

'''Galician, actually''' 
The Galicia referred to here is the eastern European area that today forms most of western Ukraine and was part of the Austrian Empire from the late eighteenth to early twentieth century. During that time, the Jewish population of Galicia swelled significantly. After the Great War, Galicia passed to Poland. The Polish government prohibited both Galician Jews and Ukrainians from working in the state enterprises, institutions, railway, post, telegraph etc. These measures were applied in their strictest form. Galician Jews and Ukrainians experienced ethnic oppression by undergoing a forceful Polonization. In September 1939, most of Galicia passed to Soviet Ukraine. The majority of Galician Jews perished during the Holocaust. Most survivors immigrated to Israel, the United States, the United Kingdom or Australia. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Galicia_%28Eastern_Europe%29 Wikipedia]

'''Helvetia''' 
Helvetia is the female national personification of Switzerland, officially Confœderatio Helvetica, the Swiss Confederation. The allegory is typically pictured in a flowing gown, with a spear and a shield emblazoned with the Swiss flag, and commonly with braided hair, commonly with a wreath as a symbol of confederation. The name is a derivation of the ethnonym Helvetii, the name of the Gaulish tribe inhabiting the Swiss Plateau prior to the Roman conquest. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvetia WIKI].

'''Certain lobes of Heidi's spirit may have been compromised''' 
You mean servers?

'''Mexican divorce''' 
In the 1960s, some New Yorkers traveled south to obtain a "Mexican divorce". A Mexican divorce was easier, quicker, and less expensive than a divorce in most U.S. states. Celebrities who obtained a Mexican divorce include Johnny Carson, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, and Don Hewitt. It is also mentioned in the Jack Kerouac book ''On The Road''. It was often referred to as a quickie (or quicky) divorce. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_divorce WIKI].

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'''echt Latina... boricua''' 
Echt = German (and Yiddish?) for "genuine, real". Boricua = Puerto Rican.

'''Gracy Kelly...''Rear Window''...Thelma Ritter...Wendell Corey.''' 
All references to Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 film "Rear Window." Oddly, the star of the film, James Stewart, doesn't get his name dropped. Thelma Ritter played Stewart's earthy, commonsensical nurse, a bit like the talkative Nurse from Romeo and Juliet. Wendell Corey played Stewart's skeptical policeman friend who helps save the day in the dramatic ending. You could say that Stewart, more than anyone else, is the one who 'saves' Grace Kelly from a murderer by calling the police at a crucial moment, and in general Kelly interacts more with Stewart than with Ritter or Corey, so I don't understand why Maxine is being identified more with them than with Stewart. Anyone have a better handle on this and can rewrite this entry?

'''The Deseret''' 
Boris Kachka, [http://www.vulture.com/2013/08/thomas-pynchon-bleeding-edge.html writing for New York Magazine], writes that this building is "obviously the Apthorp". Although the Apthorp building does not have turrents and gargoyles from pictures available, its courtyard ([http://nymag.com/realestate/vu/2007/10/38348/ photos here]) closely matches Pynchon's description of the Deseret. Kachka writes that Pynchon himself lived in an apartment facing this building for years.

The etymology of the term "deseret" [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deseret_(Book_of_Mormon) begins in the LDS scripture Book of Mormon, where the term is defined as honeybee], and used as an industrious symbol along with a beehive by Mormon leader Brigham Young.

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'''carrying street Chanel bags''' 
These could be Chanel bags designed for casual use. "Street" fashion is emerges not from studios, but from the grassroots, and is aimed at youth culture. OR Pynchon might be saying that those Chanel bags are knock-offs purchased on the street. It's ambiguous.
:It's the latter: a knockoff bag. Chanel bags start at a couple grand. From the context it's made clear that the characters can't afford them.

'''When Irish eyes are ''not'' smiling . . .''' 
"When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" is a song first published in 1912.

'''running shoes''' 
In New York they are called "sneakers" not "running shoes".

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'''Reg Despard''' 
As for name connections... Edward Marcus Despard (1751 – 21 February 1803) was an Irish soldier
who served in the British Army. During the American War of Independence Despard led a force to victory at the Battle of the Black River, securing the British presence on the Mosquito Coast. Following the war Despard was appointed Superintendent of what became British Honduras. He was recalled to London in 1790 after questions were raised about his conduct. Despard soon found himself in jail for debt. He later took up revolutionary politics, becoming involved with the United Britons movement, and was executed for high treason for his part in the failed Despard Plot. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Despard Wikpedia]

And there is the fictional foreign wizard named Dragomir Despard, in the 7th Harry Potter novel by J.K. Rowlings, and in the movie "Deathly Hallows Part 2." Ron Weasley is disguised as Despard when, with Hermoine, disguised as Bellatrix Lestrange, and Harry, in his cloak of invisibility, they break into Gringotts. Hermoine introduces Dragomir thus, "This is Dragomir Despard. He speaks very little English, But he is in sympathy with the Dark Lord's aims. He has travelled here from Transylvania to see our new regime."

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'''leading edge''' 
Rhymes with "Bleeding Edge."

'''LexisNexis, HotBot, AltaVista''' 
Early search engines, before Google became popular.

'''Stuyvesant genius''' 
Stuyvesant H.S. is a magnet school in Manhattan. The school is noted for it's many Nobel Laureates in math and science. http://www.stuy.edu/ The school moved from its old building at 345 E 15th street (near 1st Avenue) to 345 Chambers Street (right next to Ground Zero). The first day of classes in the new building was September 10, 2001.

'''Eric Outfield''' 
Eric Outfield may refer to Eric Lander, 1974 Stuyvesant H.S. graduate. He was captain of the math team, a silver medalist at the International Math Olympiad and winner of the Westinghouse Prize for a paper on quasiperfect numbers. In H.S. he started a cult around the number 17. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Lander

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'''certified badass''' 
In an essay, Pynchon once defined a badass:
:"There is a long folk history of this figure, the Badass. He is usually male, and while sometimes earning the quizzical tolerance of women, is almost universally admired by men for two basic virtues: he is Bad, and he is Big. Bad meaning not morally evil, necessarily, more like able to work mischief on a large scale. What is important here is the amplifying of scale, the multiplication of effect." From Pynchon, [http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-luddite.html Is it O.K. to be a Luddite?]

'''hashslingrz''' 
A hash slinger is a cook or food server in a cheap restaurant, especially one who is discourteous or inattentive to customers. However "hash" has a very different meaning on the Internet:

From [http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/H/hashing.html Webopedia]:
<blockquote>
Producing hash values for accessing data or for security. A hash value (or simply hash), also called a message digest, is a number generated from a string of text. The hash is substantially smaller than the text itself, and is generated by a formula in such a way that it is extremely unlikely that some other text will produce the same hash value.
Hashes play a role in security systems where they're used to ensure that transmitted messages have not been tampered with. The sender generates a hash of the message, encrypts it, and sends it with the message itself. The recipient then decrypts both the message and the hash, produces another hash from the received message, and compares the two hashes. If they're the same, there is a very high probability that the message was transmitted intact.
Hashing is also a common method of accessing data records. Consider, for example, a list of names:

*John Smith
*Sarah Jones
*Roger Adams

To create an index, called a hash table, for these records, you would apply a formula to each name to produce a unique numeric value. So you might get something like:

*1345873 John smith
*3097905 Sarah Jones
*4060964 Roger Adams

Then to search for the record containing Sarah Jones, you just need to reapply the formula, which directly yields the index key to the record. This is much more efficient than searching through all the records till the matching record is found.
</blockquote>

==Page 11==
'''Except maybe for 666''' 
"This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. That number is 666." (Revelation 13:18)

Also, for what it's worth, some biblical scholars agree that 666 is in fact gematria for Nero.

'''paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen . . .''' 
Maybe we can add this to the [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=P Proverbs for Paranoids] in ''Gravity's Rainbow''?

==Page 12==
'''Horst Loeffler''' 
"Loeffler" is the German name of a bird, the Eurasian Spoonbill. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_Spoonbill Wikipedia]
:Significance = god only knows. [[User:Benvolio|Benvolio]] ([[User talk:Benvolio|talk]])

'''tramp container vessel M/V Aristide Olt''' 
A "tramp" vessel means that a ship has no fixed schedule or published ports of call. "Hungarian" may be a joke as Hungary, a landlocked country, has no ports. Aristide Olt was a stage name used by Bela Lugosi when he made silent films in Hungary. [http://biographies.knoji.com/bela-lugosi-the-man-who-brought-dracula-to-life/ Source] The Marshall Islands is an island country located in the northern Pacific Ocean, part of the larger island group of Micronesia.

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[[File:SonyVX2000.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Sony VX2000''']] 

 

==Page 14==
'''Duck stamps''' 
Pynchon mentions rare stamps and stamp collecting in many of his works. Bill Gross is a a billionaire fund manager who owns a leading stamp collection. Apparently duck stamp collecting is [http://brookmanstamps.com/welcome.htm a real thing]. Robert Steiner is an American artist known as the master of duck-themed stamp artwork. [http://www.steinerprints.com/master_of_duck_stamps.pdf An article on Steiner]

'''"the 301 point 83"''' 
301.83 is the classification number of borderline personality disorder in the World Health Organization's International Classification of Diseases (ICD).

==Page 16==
'''the Perejil Massacre''' 
Also called the "Parsley Massacre." A 1937 massacre of Haitians living on the border, ordered by Dominican President Rafael Trujillo. It resulted in the death of 20,000 ethnic Haitians.

According to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsley_Massacre Wikipedia], Dominican soldiers would hold up a sprig of parsley to someone and ask "What is this?"; how the person would pronounce the Spanish word for parsley (perejil) would determine his/her fate. French and Haitian Creole pronounce the word differently than Dominicans, so if the person could pronounce "perejil" with a trill, the person was considered to be Dominican and allowed to live, but if the person pronounced "perejil" without the trill, the person was considered to be Haitian and executed.

'''Manzanillo Bay . . . Pepillo Salcedo''' 
This is a port in the Dominican Republic.

'''Love, exciting and new, as they used to sing on ''The Love Boat''''' 
''The Love Boat'' was an American TV show (1977-86) about a cruise ship. The first words of the theme song were "Love, exciting and new . . ." You can hear it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_wFEB4Oxlo here].

==Page 17==

'''Leptandra''' 
Leptandra is a plant used in herbal medicine as a laxative. This may be saying something about her personality, but it is more likely referring to her name, as Leptandra's common name is Veronica

'''mitvzah''' 
In Judaism, a biblical commandment. Also, more colloquially, a good deed.

'''real estate injustice''' 
By way of explanation to readers unfamiliar with NYC real estate, many people live in apartment buildings where rent is controlled and managed by co-op boards, which can have large amounts of control over things like transferring the property. NYC is famous for long, protracted legal battles involving co-op boards, divorces, and/or trusts. RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) is a law used to combat organized crime.

==Page 18==
'''Eight Circle''' 
in Dante's ''Inferno'', the eighth circle of hell was reserved for those who commit fraud or
treachery.

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'''Bad Accountant''' 
Perhaps an allusion to the 1992 NC-17 film starring Harvey Kietel, a gritty crime-drama with heavy religious overtones about a corrupt NYC policeman's struggles to change his ways.

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'''Reg Despard''' 
As for name connections... Edward Marcus Despard (1751 – 21 February 1803) was an Irish soldier
who served in the British Army. During the American War of Independence Despard led a force to victory at the Battle of the Black River, securing the British presence on the Mosquito Coast. Following the war Despard was appointed Superintendent of what became British Honduras. He was recalled to London in 1790 after questions were raised about his conduct. Despard soon found himself in jail for debt. He later took up revolutionary politics, becoming involved with the United Britons movement, and was executed for high treason for his part in the failed Despard Plot. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Despard Wikpedia]

And there is the fictional foreign wizard named Dragomir Despard, in the 7th Harry Potter novel by J.K. Rowlings, and in the movie "Deathly Hallows Part 2." Ron Weasley is disguised as Despard when, with Hermoine, disguised as Bellatrix Lestrange, and Harry, in his cloak of invisibility, they break into Gringotts. Hermoine introduces Dragomir thus, "This is Dragomir Despard. He speaks very little English, But he is in sympathy with the Dark Lord's aims. He has travelled here from Transylvania to see our new regime."

==Page 9==

'''leading edge''' 
Rhymes with "Bleeding Edge."

'''LexisNexis, HotBot, AltaVista''' 
Early search engines, before Google became popular.

'''Stuyvesant genius''' 
Stuyvesant H.S. is a magnet school in Manhattan. The school is noted for it's many Nobel Laureates in math and science. http://www.stuy.edu/ The school moved from its old building at 345 E 15th street (near 1st Avenue) to 345 Chambers Street (right next to Ground Zero). The first day of classes in the new building was September 10, 2001.

==Page 10==

'''certified badass''' 
In an essay, Pynchon once defined a badass:
:"There is a long folk history of this figure, the Badass. He is usually male, and while sometimes earning the quizzical tolerance of women, is almost universally admired by men for two basic virtues: he is Bad, and he is Big. Bad meaning not morally evil, necessarily, more like able to work mischief on a large scale. What is important here is the amplifying of scale, the multiplication of effect." From Pynchon, [http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-luddite.html Is it O.K. to be a Luddite?]

'''hashslingrz''' 
A hash slinger is a cook or food server in a cheap restaurant, especially one who is discourteous or inattentive to customers. However "hash" has a very different meaning on the Internet:

From [http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/H/hashing.html Webopedia]:
<blockquote>
Producing hash values for accessing data or for security. A hash value (or simply hash), also called a message digest, is a number generated from a string of text. The hash is substantially smaller than the text itself, and is generated by a formula in such a way that it is extremely unlikely that some other text will produce the same hash value.
Hashes play a role in security systems where they're used to ensure that transmitted messages have not been tampered with. The sender generates a hash of the message, encrypts it, and sends it with the message itself. The recipient then decrypts both the message and the hash, produces another hash from the received message, and compares the two hashes. If they're the same, there is a very high probability that the message was transmitted intact.
Hashing is also a common method of accessing data records. Consider, for example, a list of names:

*John Smith
*Sarah Jones
*Roger Adams

To create an index, called a hash table, for these records, you would apply a formula to each name to produce a unique numeric value. So you might get something like:

*1345873 John smith
*3097905 Sarah Jones
*4060964 Roger Adams

Then to search for the record containing Sarah Jones, you just need to reapply the formula, which directly yields the index key to the record. This is much more efficient than searching through all the records till the matching record is found.
</blockquote>

==Page 11==
'''Except maybe for 666''' 
"This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. That number is 666." (Revelation 13:18)

Also, for what it's worth, some biblical scholars agree that 666 is in fact gematria for Nero.

'''paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen . . .''' 
Maybe we can add this to the [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=P Proverbs for Paranoids] in ''Gravity's Rainbow''?

==Page 12==
'''Horst Loeffler''' 
"Loeffler" is the German name of a bird, the Eurasian Spoonbill. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_Spoonbill Wikipedia]
:Significance = god only knows. [[User:Benvolio|Benvolio]] ([[User talk:Benvolio|talk]])

'''tramp container vessel M/V Aristide Olt''' 
A "tramp" vessel means that a ship has no fixed schedule or published ports of call. "Hungarian" may be a joke as Hungary, a landlocked country, has no ports. Aristide Olt was a stage name used by Bela Lugosi when he made silent films in Hungary. [http://biographies.knoji.com/bela-lugosi-the-man-who-brought-dracula-to-life/ Source] The Marshall Islands is an island country located in the northern Pacific Ocean, part of the larger island group of Micronesia.

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[[File:SonyVX2000.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Sony VX2000''']] 

 

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'''Duck stamps''' 
Pynchon mentions rare stamps and stamp collecting in many of his works. Bill Gross is a a billionaire fund manager who owns a leading stamp collection. Apparently duck stamp collecting is [http://brookmanstamps.com/welcome.htm a real thing]. Robert Steiner is an American artist known as the master of duck-themed stamp artwork. [http://www.steinerprints.com/master_of_duck_stamps.pdf An article on Steiner]

'''"the 301 point 83"''' 
301.83 is the classification number of borderline personality disorder in the World Health Organization's International Classification of Diseases (ICD).

==Page 16==
'''the Perejil Massacre''' 
Also called the "Parsley Massacre." A 1937 massacre of Haitians living on the border, ordered by Dominican President Rafael Trujillo. It resulted in the death of 20,000 ethnic Haitians.

According to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsley_Massacre Wikipedia], Dominican soldiers would hold up a sprig of parsley to someone and ask "What is this?"; how the person would pronounce the Spanish word for parsley (perejil) would determine his/her fate. French and Haitian Creole pronounce the word differently than Dominicans, so if the person could pronounce "perejil" with a trill, the person was considered to be Dominican and allowed to live, but if the person pronounced "perejil" without the trill, the person was considered to be Haitian and executed.

'''Manzanillo Bay . . . Pepillo Salcedo''' 
This is a port in the Dominican Republic.

'''Love, exciting and new, as they used to sing on ''The Love Boat''''' 
''The Love Boat'' was an American TV show (1977-86) about a cruise ship. The first words of the theme song were "Love, exciting and new . . ." You can hear it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_wFEB4Oxlo here].

==Page 17==

'''Leptandra''' 
Leptandra is a plant used in herbal medicine as a laxative. This may be saying something about her personality, but it is more likely referring to her name, as Leptandra's common name is Veronica

'''mitvzah''' 
In Judaism, a biblical commandment. Also, more colloquially, a good deed.

'''real estate injustice''' 
By way of explanation to readers unfamiliar with NYC real estate, many people live in apartment buildings where rent is controlled and managed by co-op boards, which can have large amounts of control over things like transferring the property. NYC is famous for long, protracted legal battles involving co-op boards, divorces, and/or trusts. RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) is a law used to combat organized crime.

==Page 18==
'''Eight Circle''' 
in Dante's ''Inferno'', the eighth circle of hell was reserved for those who commit fraud or
treachery.

==Page 19==

'''Bad Accountant''' 
Perhaps an allusion to the 1992 NC-17 film starring Harvey Kietel, a gritty crime-drama with heavy religious overtones about a corrupt NYC policeman's struggles to change his ways.

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