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Chapter 30

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==Page 328==
'''Robert Moses spinning in his grave''' 
See p. [[Chapter_22#Page_241|241]].

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'''appoggiaturas''' 
An appoggiatura is an embellishing note or tone preceding an essential melodic note or tone and usually written as a note of smaller size. It often creates a brief dissonance prior to its resolution to the melody's key. [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/appoggiatura]

'''drop the hook''' 
Drop anchor.

'''The Port of Authority''' 
Now more commonly know as the Port Authority, The Port of New York Authority was established in 1921.

:"ARTICLE III There is hereby created "The Port of New York Authority" (for brevity hereinafter referred to as the "Port Authority"), which shall be a body corporate and politic, having the powers and jurisdiction hereinafter enumerated..." [http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/nycode/PNY/notes]

Pynchon's usage is old school.

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'''''Za shastye''''' 
For happiness, good luck, fortune, etc.

'''''Pizdets''''' 
Fuck.

'''Hidden track''' 
Another roll-over from the 90s. Sort of the DVD equivalent of the dark web.

==Page 331==
'''even larger question about to lift its trunk''' 
ie the elephant in the room

==Page 332==

'''her backpack ... does seem to run to Himalayan-expedition scale''' 
Pynchon also uses this trope of containers larger on the inside than the outside suggests in [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_35:_349-361#Page_354 ''Mason & Dixon'' at page 354]

'''Music track? Frank Sinatra..."Time After Time," beginning the phrase "in the evening when the day is through,".''' 
Indeed, a most poignant lounge music song. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I6s1J9ZSNw Hear] Sinatra sing it. The lyrics in question come around early, at the 0:41 mark.

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'''Sarcófago''' 
A heavy metal band from Brazil.

'''Burzum and Mayhem''' 
Both real bands.

'''among widely reported Ambien hallucinations being numbers of small people busy running around doing a variety of household tasks''' 
These little people are recapped on [[Chapter_31#Page_346|page 346]]. Psychobotanist Terrence McKenna postulated the existence of "machine elves" seen while under the influence of DMT:

:Terence McKenna advocated the exploration of altered states of mind via the ingestion of naturally occurring psychedelic substances. For example, and in particular, as facilitated by the ingestion of high doses of psychedelic mushrooms, and DMT, which he believed was the apotheosis of the psychedelic experience. He spoke of meeting entities he described as "jeweled, self-dribbling basketballs" or "self-transforming machine elves" which one can encounter in those states. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_elf]

==Page 335==
'''no more fictional reading assignments''' 
Reminds me of Uncle Ives in ''Mason & Dixon'' who thinks fiction is immoral: "I cannot I say, energetically enough insist upon the danger of reading these storybooks,— in particular those known as 'Novel.' . . . these irresponsible narratives, that will not distinguish between fact and fancy" (350-51).

'''relo stories''' 
relocation stories. See p. 332

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Chapter 30

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Chapter 30

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Webbaust: /* Page 335 */

{{BE PxP Header}}

==Page 328==
'''Robert Moses spinning in his grave''' 
See p. [[Chapter_22#Page_241|241]].

==Page 329==
'''appoggiaturas''' 
An appoggiatura is an embellishing note or tone preceding an essential melodic note or tone and usually written as a note of smaller size. It often creates a brief dissonance prior to its resolution to the melody's key. [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/appoggiatura]

'''drop the hook''' 
Drop anchor.

'''The Port of Authority''' 
Now more commonly know as the Port Authority, The Port of New York Authority was established in 1921.

:"ARTICLE III There is hereby created "The Port of New York Authority" (for brevity hereinafter referred to as the "Port Authority"), which shall be a body corporate and politic, having the powers and jurisdiction hereinafter enumerated..." [http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/nycode/PNY/notes]

Pynchon's usage is old school.

==Page 330==
'''''Za shastye''''' 
For happiness, good luck, fortune, etc.

'''''Pizdets''''' 
Fuck.

'''Hidden track''' 
Another roll-over from the 90s. Sort of the DVD equivalent of the dark web.

==Page 331==
'''even larger question about to lift its trunk''' 
ie the elephant in the room

==Page 332==

'''her backpack ... does seem to run to Himalayan-expedition scale''' 
Pynchon also uses this trope of containers larger on the inside than the outside suggests in [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_35:_349-361#Page_354 ''Mason & Dixon'' at page 354]

'''Music track? Frank Sinatra..."Time After Time," beginning the phrase "in the evening when the day is through,".''' 
Indeed, a most poignant lounge music song. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I6s1J9ZSNw Hear] Sinatra sing it. The lyrics in question come around early, at the 0:41 mark.

==Page 333==
'''Sarcófago''' 
A heavy metal band from Brazil.

'''Burzum and Mayhem''' 
Both real bands.

'''among widely reported Ambien hallucinations being numbers of small people busy running around doing a variety of household tasks''' 
These little people are recapped on [[Chapter_31#Page_346|page 346]]. Psychobotanist Terrence McKenna postulated the existence of "machine elves" seen while under the influence of DMT:

:Terence McKenna advocated the exploration of altered states of mind via the ingestion of naturally occurring psychedelic substances. For example, and in particular, as facilitated by the ingestion of high doses of psychedelic mushrooms, and DMT, which he believed was the apotheosis of the psychedelic experience. He spoke of meeting entities he described as "jeweled, self-dribbling basketballs" or "self-transforming machine elves" which one can encounter in those states. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_elf]

==Page 335==
'''no more fictional reading assignments''' 
Reminds me of Uncle Ives in ''Mason & Dixon'' who thinks fiction is immoral: "I cannot I say, energetically enough insist upon the danger of reading these storybooks,— in particular those known as 'Novel.' . . . these irresponsible narratives, that will not distinguish between fact and fancy" (350-51).

''''relo stories'''' 
relocation stories. See p.332

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