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Chapter 40

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''''shmaravozka'''''

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''... Chimpan Zee bridge. ''' 

The Tappan Zee Bridge.

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

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

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

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

'''Vladimirskii Tsentral'''

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''''govno''''' 

Russian for "shit."

'''''obizhenka''''' 

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

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''''Teuscher truffles'''' 

Teuscher is a high-end Swiss chocolatier.

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

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

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

SVU is an editing error / typo. When the KGB was reorganized in 1991, it was broken into two successor organizations: the FSB (responsible for domestic security) and the '''SVR''' (Sluzhba vneshney razvedki) = Foreign Intelligence Service.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Service WIKI]

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

'''Day of the NYC Marathon''' 
Sunday, November 4
''premonition of the April 2013 Boston Marathon bombing? (BE was reased on Sep 17, 2013)''

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

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

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

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

'''Scully & Scully''' 

High-end Manhattan gift store established 1934.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''''govno''''' 

Russian for "shit."

'''''obizhenka''''' 

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

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''''Teuscher truffles'''' 

Teuscher is a high-end Swiss chocolatier.

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

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

==Page 375==

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

SVU is an editing error / typo. When the KGB was reorganized in 1991, it was broken into two successor organizations: the FSB (responsible for domestic security) and the '''SVR''' (Sluzhba vneshney razvedki) = Foreign Intelligence Service.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Service WIKI]

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

'''Day of the NYC Marathon''' 
Sunday, November 4
''premonition of the April 2013 Boston Marathon bombing? (BE was reased on Sep 17, 2013)''

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

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

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

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

'''Scully & Scully''' 

High-end Manhattan gift store established 1934.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'''witchyiz''' 
with you

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

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

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

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'''''padonki''''' 
(падонки) refers to a Russian Internet subculture that employs very Pynchonian cross-linguistic puns, intentional misspellings and bawdy humor. See [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B8 Wiktionary].
Seems a bit anachronistic to me, since widespread offline (or even online) usage of padonki slang had not appeared until 2004.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nothing is specifically rastafarian about Detsl apart from his dreadlocks.
From my point of view, it's really weird choice of favorite music either for young thugs or for young hackers from Russia. But probably it's ok since Misha and Grisha are in large part parodic characters.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==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==
'''witchyiz''' 
with you

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

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

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

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'''''padonki''''' 
(падонки) refers to a Russian Internet subculture that employs very Pynchonian cross-linguistic puns, intentional misspellings and bawdy humor. See [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B8 Wiktionary].
Seems a bit anachronistic to me, since widespread offline (or even online) usage of padonki slang had not appeared until 2004.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'''Detsl''' 
Kirill Aleksandrovich Tolmatskiy (born July 22, 1983), better known by his stage name Detsl, is a Russian hip hop artist. He graduated in Switzerland and the British International School in Moscow. In 1999, Detsl made his debut in the Russian rap scene with the album Who Are You?. In 2001, he released his second album, "Street Fighter". Detsl is a pseudonym Kirill Tolmatskiy gained because of his small height. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detsl WIKI].
Nothing is specifically rastafarian about Detsl apart from his dreadlocks.
From my point of view, it's really weird choice of favorite music either for young thugs or for young hackers from Russia. But probably it's ok since Misha and Grisha are in large part parodic characters.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==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==
'''witchyiz''' 
with you

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

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

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

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'''''padonki''''' 
(падонки) refers to a Russian Internet subculture that employs very Pynchonian cross-linguistic puns, intentional misspellings and bawdy humor. See [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B8 Wiktionary].
Seems a bit anachronistic to me, since widespread offline (or even online) usage of padonki slang had not appeared until 2004.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Here's the vid for "Party at Detsl's" which is mentioned by Misha and Grisha:
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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].

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

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

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

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