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Chapter 24

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'''longer than the building's outside dimensions would suggest''' 
Pynchon likes this image of a thing that's bigger on the inside than on the outside. See, for example, [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_2#Page_21 Page 21] of ''Inherent Vice'' and [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_35:_349-361#Page_354 Page 354] of ''Mason & Dixon''.

Insert obligatory, annoying, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TARDIS TARDIS] comment here. Hey, any writer that uses phrases like this, especially a writer somewhat associated with science-fiction and whose career spans the 50 years Doctor Who has been around, is begging for it.

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'''FDR's silvery small cheekbone''' 
In other words, pivoting on a dime.

'''the Wahhabi Transreligious Friendship (WTF)''' 
These initials are first mentioned on [http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_17#Page_193 page 193]. 

This acronym is commonly used to mean "what the fuck."

Can't help but think of the CIA from chapter five of [http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_5 The Crying of Lot 49.] "Standing not for the agency you think, but for the clandestine Mexican outfit known as the Conjuración de los Insurgentes Anarquistas."

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'''"Jerry" keeps them both in his mouth, continuing to puff away...''' 
Perhaps a foreshadowing the visual of the smoking World Trade Center buildings after the events of 9/11.
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'''Maxine comes awake screaming...''' 
Echo of Gravity's Rainbow's first line?

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'''You know about Ice being Jewish...Superman, too...it's 1943 again?''' 
Is this just a simple "Superman was created by Jews, and Germany was killing them in 1943" thing? Or was something more specific going on with Superman in 1943?

[http://forward.com/articles/178454/-reasons-superman-is-really-jewish/?p=all Page] speculating on the Jewishness of Superman.

'''Gershorm Scholem, ''Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism''''' 
From 1941. [http://www.amazon.com/Trends-Jewish-Mysticism-Gershom-Scholem/dp/0805210423 Amazon] page.

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Chapter 5

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'''Yenta''' 
A busybody/gossip

'''Benford's Law''' 
Heavy handed editing? Not like Pynchon to explicitly define jargon (hash total and Luhn checks slip past without comment on the very next page).

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'''False Lunchmeat''' 
Phony baloney

==Page 43==
'''Korobushka''' 
Traditional Russian song used as a musical track on Tetris. Pynchon also referenced Tetris in ''Against the Day'' [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_119-148#Page_123] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD1k_b4KsQ8 Hear it.]

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'''the li'l goombas of Web design''' 
a reference to ''Super Mario Bros.''

'''Zima's the bitch drink of the nineties''' 
This lemon-lime malt beverage was immensely popular in the years following its 1993 debut by Coors. It eventually gained a reputation as a girl's drink and was discontinued in 2008. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zima Wikipedia entry]

'''Fabian's Bit Bucket''' 
In computing, the '''bit bucket''' is jargon for where lost computerized data has gone, by any means; any data which does not end up where it is supposed to, being lost in transmission, a computer crash, or the like, is said to have gone to the bit bucket — that mysterious place on a computer where lost documents go, as in: "What happened to that important spreadsheet that I was just editing?" OR "Oh, it went into the bit bucket." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_bucket Wikipedia entry]

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'''Dr. Zizmor''' 
A physician whose subway ads were all over the NYC subway for 30 years.

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'''a single over on Rikers''' 
a year in prison

'''Time is what the Stones call on their side, yes it is.''' 
"Time Is on My Side" is a song written by Jerry Ragovoy (under the pseudonym of Norman Meade)and made famous by the Rolling Stones in 1964. The chorus: "Time is on my side, yes it is."

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'''quants''' 
Quantitative analysts

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Chapter 5

2013-09-29T21:13:55Z

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==Page 41==
'''Yenta''' 
A busybody/gossip

'''Benford's Law''' 
Heavy handed editing? Not like Pynchon to explicitly define jargon (hash total and Luhn checks slip past without comment on the very next page).

==Page 42==
'''False Lunchmeat''' 
Phony baloney

==Page 43==
'''Korobushka''' 
Traditional Russian song used as a musical track on Tetris. Pynchon also referenced Tetris in ''Against the Day'' [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_119-148#Page_123] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD1k_b4KsQ8 Hear it.]

==Page 45==
'''the li'l goombas of Web design''' 
a reference to ''Super Mario Bros.''

'''Zima's the bitch drink of the nineties''' 
This lemon-lime malt beverage was immensely popular in the years following its 1993 debut by Coors. It eventually gained a reputation as a girl's drink and was discontinued in 2008.[http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zima Wikipedia entry]

'''Fabian's Bit Bucket''' 
In computing, the '''bit bucket''' is jargon for where lost computerized data has gone, by any means; any data which does not end up where it is supposed to, being lost in transmission, a computer crash, or the like, is said to have gone to the bit bucket — that mysterious place on a computer where lost documents go, as in: "What happened to that important spreadsheet that I was just editing?" OR "Oh, it went into the bit bucket." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_bucket Wikipedia entry]

==Page 46==
'''Dr. Zizmor''' 
A physician whose subway ads were all over the NYC subway for 30 years.

==Page 47==
'''a single over on Rikers''' 
a year in prison

'''Time is what the Stones call on their side, yes it is.''' 
"Time Is on My Side" is a song written by Jerry Ragovoy (under the pseudonym of Norman Meade)and made famous by the Rolling Stones in 1964. The chorus: "Time is on my side, yes it is."

==Page 48==
'''quants''' 
Quantitative analysts

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