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Chapter 29

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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]])

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

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

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Chapter 29

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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]])

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

==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.

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Chapter 16

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

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'''riyals''' 
Unit of currency in the Middle East.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'''''Jules and Jim''''' 
''Jules and Jim'' is a 1962 French film directed by François Truffaut based on Henri-Pierre Roché's 1953 semi-autobiographical novel about his relationship with writer Franz Hessel and his wife, Helen Grund. Truffaut came across the book in the mid-1950s whilst browsing through some secondhand books in Paris and later befriended the elderly Roché. The author approved of the young director's attempt to translate his work to another medium. The film ranked 46 in Empire magazine's "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema" in 2010. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_and_Jim WIKI].

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'''Lacanian''' 
244 - Jacques Marie Émile Lacan (1901-1981) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who has been called "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud" [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Lacan Wikipedia entry]

'''Lansky, Meyer''' 
24

'''Larday, Chazz''' 
215 - Tallis's fiber-salesman BF; 453; shows up unexpectedly in Tallis's house, 464

'''Lavoof, Professor''' 
87, godfather of Disgruntlement Theory, developer of DESPAIR

'''''Law & Order''''' 
12; 147 - Lennie

'''LBD''' 
204 - Little Black Dress for the sole purpose of seducing men; 232;

'''Lennon, John''' 
52, assassination site at The Dakota;

'''Leopoldo''' 
244 - Shawn's Lacanian shrink

'''Leptandra''' 
17 Gal from Indianapolis who Reg hooks up with on cruise

'''Lester''' 
See "Traipse, Lester"

'''Letitia''' 
150, Spud's girlfriend

'''''Le tout Montréal''''' 
88, all of Montreal;

'''Leuzinger High School''' 
30, in SoCal where Shawn went

'''Levin, Emma''' 
2, Ziggy's krav maga instructor; 285

'''Lewinsky, Monica''' 
line of purses sold at Bendel's, 213

'''LIBOR''' 
22 - The London Interbank Offered Rate is the average interest rate estimated by leading banks in London that they would be charged if borrowing from other banks.

'''LIE''' 
176 Long Island Expressway

'''Lincoln Center''' 
55, and 7,000 ''boricua'' (Puerto Rican) families uprooted;

'''Linus''' 
57 Linus Benedict Torvalds (born December 28, 1969) is a Finnish American software engineer, who was the principal force behind the development of the Linux kernel. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds Wikipedia entry]. His personal mascot is a penguin nicknamed Tux, which has been widely adopted by the Linux community as the mascot of the Linux kernel.

'''Loeffler, Horst''' 
22 - Maxine's ex; and Heidi, 22; 25; 92, shower scene with Maxine; 114, Sterling Hayden lookalike;

'''Loiterman, Spud''' 
62, Rocky's partner; 147;

'''Longspoon, Ian''' 
70, VC

'''Lorrain, Daytona''' 
5 - Maxine's secretary who's African-American; 20, 136;

'''''The Love Boat''''' 
16; Captain Stubing, 169;

'''''Love's Nickel Defense''''' 
136, Hakeem and Serendypiti;

'''Lucas''' 
34, Fiona's dad's partner who designed "If Looks Could Kill"; 75, the creative partner; 85, aka Kyle;

'''Luciano, Lucky''' 
66, Italian American mobster considered to be the father of modern organized crime in the US [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Luciano | Wikipedia Entry]

'''Luhn check''' 
42, credit card check

'''Luminol''' 
206, (C8H7N3O2) A luminescent chemical that glows blue in the presence of an oxidising agent. It is used by forensic agents to detect trace amounts of blood. Mixed with a suitable oxidising agent it reacts with the iron in haemoglobin and gives off its characteristic blue glow. [
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminol | Wikipedia Entry]

'''Lupita''' 
64 Slagiatt's bookkeeper

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'''Lacanian''' 
244 - Jacques Marie Émile Lacan (1901-1981) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who has been called "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud" [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Lacan Wikipedia entry]

'''Lansky, Meyer''' 
24

'''Larday, Chazz''' 
215 - Tallis's fiber-salesman BF; 453; shows up unexpectedly in Tallis's house, 464

'''Lavoof, Professor''' 
87, godfather of Disgruntlement Theory, developer of DESPAIR

'''''Law & Order''''' 
12; 147 - Lennie

'''LBD''' 
204 - Little Black Dress for the sole purpose of seducing men; 232;

'''Lennon, John''' 
52, assassination site at The Dakota;

'''Leopoldo''' 
244 - Shawn's Lacanian shrink

'''Leptandra''' 
17 Gal from Indianapolis who Reg hooks up with on cruise

'''Lester''' 
See "Traipse, Lester"

'''Letitia''' 
150, Spud's girlfriend

'''''Le tout Montréal''''' 
88, all of Montreal;

'''Leuzinger High School''' 
30, in SoCal where Shawn went

'''Levin, Emma''' 
2, Ziggy's krav maga instructor; 285

'''Lewinsky, Monica''' 
line of purses sold at Bendel's, 213

'''LIBOR''' 
22 - The London Interbank Offered Rate is the average interest rate estimated by leading banks in London that they would be charged if borrowing from other banks.

'''LIE''' 
176 Long Island Expressway

'''Lincoln Center''' 
55, and 7,000 ''boricua'' (Puerto Rican) families uprooted;

'''Linus''' 
57 Linus Benedict Torvalds (born December 28, 1969) is a Finnish American software engineer, who was the principal force behind the development of the Linux kernel. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds Wikipedia entry]. His personal mascot is a penguin nicknamed Tux, which has been widely adopted by the Linux community as the mascot of the Linux kernel.

'''Loeffler, Horst''' 
22 - Maxine's ex; and Heidi, 22; 25; 92, shower scene with Maxine; 114, Sterling Hayden lookalike;

'''Loiterman, Spud''' 
62, Rocky's partner; 147;

'''Longspoon, Ian''' 
70, VC

'''Lorrain, Daytona''' 
5 - Maxine's secretary who's African-American; 20, 136;

'''''The Love Boat''''' 
16; Captain Stubing, 169;

'''''Love's Nickel Defense''''' 
136, Hakeem and Serendypiti;

'''Lucas''' 
34, Fiona's dad's partner who designed "If Looks Could Kill"; 75, the creative partner; 85, aka Kyle;

'''Luciano, Lucky''' 
66

'''Luhn check''' 
42, credit card check

'''Luminol''' 
206, (C8H7N3O2) A luminescent chemical that glows blue in the presence of an oxidising agent. It is used by forensic agents to detect trace amounts of blood. Mixed with a suitable oxidising agent it reacts with the iron in haemoglobin and gives off its characteristic blue glow. [
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminol | Wikipedia Entry]

'''Lupita''' 
64 Slagiatt's bookkeeper

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'''Lacanian''' 
244 - Jacques Marie Émile Lacan (1901-1981) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who has been called "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud" [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Lacan Wikipedia entry]

'''Lansky, Meyer''' 
24

'''Larday, Chazz''' 
215 - Tallis's fiber-salesman BF; 453; shows up unexpectedly in Tallis's house, 464

'''Lavoof, Professor''' 
87, godfather of Disgruntlement Theory, developer of DESPAIR

'''''Law & Order''''' 
12; 147 - Lennie

'''LBD''' 
204 - Little Black Dress for the sole purpose of seducing men; 232;

'''Lennon, John''' 
52, assassination site at The Dakota;

'''Leopoldo''' 
244 - Shawn's Lacanian shrink

'''Leptandra''' 
17 Gal from Indianapolis who Reg hooks up with on cruise

'''Lester''' 
See "Traipse, Lester"

'''Letitia''' 
150, Spud's girlfriend

'''''Le tout Montréal''''' 
88, all of Montreal;

'''Leuzinger High School''' 
30, in SoCal where Shawn went

'''Levin, Emma''' 
2, Ziggy's krav maga instructor; 285

'''Lewinsky, Monica''' 
line of purses sold at Bendel's, 213

'''LIBOR''' 
22 - The London Interbank Offered Rate is the average interest rate estimated by leading banks in London that they would be charged if borrowing from other banks.

'''LIE''' 
176 Long Island Expressway

'''Lincoln Center''' 
55, and 7,000 ''boricua'' (Puerto Rican) families uprooted;

'''Linus''' 
57 Linus Benedict Torvalds (born December 28, 1969) is a Finnish American software engineer, who was the principal force behind the development of the Linux kernel. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds Wikipedia entry]. His personal mascot is a penguin nicknamed Tux, which has been widely adopted by the Linux community as the mascot of the Linux kernel.

'''Loeffler, Horst''' 
22 - Maxine's ex; and Heidi, 22; 25; 92, shower scene with Maxine; 114, Sterling Hayden lookalike;

'''Loiterman, Spud''' 
62, Rocky's partner; 147;

'''Longspoon, Ian''' 
70, VC

'''Lorrain, Daytona''' 
5 - Maxine's secretary who's African-American; 20, 136;

'''''The Love Boat''''' 
16; Captain Stubing, 169;

'''''Love's Nickel Defense''''' 
136, Hakeem and Serendypiti;

'''Lucas''' 
34, Fiona's dad's partner who designed "If Looks Could Kill"; 75, the creative partner; 85, aka Kyle;

'''Luciano, Lucky''' 
66

'''Luhn check''' 
42, credit card check

'''Luminol''' 
206, (C8H7N3O2) A luminescent chemical that glows blue in the presence of an oxidising agent. It is used by forensic agents to detect trace amounts of blood. Mixed with a suitable oxidising agent it reacts with the iron in haemoglobin and gives off its characteristic blue glow.

'''Lupita''' 
64 Slagiatt's bookkeeper

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