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==Page 329==
'''329.26-27 Crazy Sue Dunham'''<br />
This character is apparently real. Pynchon found out about her from The Berkshire Hills. The description of her in "The Secret Integration" is a close paraphrase of several paragraphs in the book (TBH 256).

'''329.28 Snodd’s Mountain'''<br />
Although Pynchon undoubtedly wants the reference to be to the Snodd family, the mountain would not be named for the young Grover of "The Secret Integration," as Weisenburger suggests, since Grover himself would not be born until the 1950s.

'''329.32 headed for Rhode Island'''<br />
In addition to fleeing to the relative tolerance found in that colony, Amy Sprue’s journey has another significance. The Berkshire Hills mentions several times that much of the region was settled by people from Rhode Island. Her journey then is another example of (in this case, literally) arrested hysteron proteron, the device of the reversal of a process mentioned several times by Weisenburger.

==Page 330==
'''330.07 depicted as hags'''<br />
The description of witches fits not just the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz. In another passage in The Berkshire Hills, Crazy Sue Dunham, whom some believed to be a witch, is referred to as "the Berkshire wandering hag" (TBH 70).

'''330.29 it’s the Specter'''<br />
[[image:brocken.jpg|thumb|100px|right]]Another reference gleaned from [[Pages 20-29#Page 27|''The Berkshire Hills'']], where Pynchon very likely first discovered the Brockengespenst: 

:"Of the stories and legends about Old Greylock, the one about the 'Specter' is most popular. [...] The phenomenon of a gigantic shadow of an object reflected in a cloud is so well known as to have a German name, Brockengespenst (Specter of the Brocken) from Brocken, the highest peak of the Hartz [sic] Mountains. As Greylockgespenst would be a bit unwieldy for Berkshire, here it is simply called the Specter." (TBH 42)

Mount Greylock is the highest point in Massachusetts.

==Page 332==
'''332.06-07 surely an interlock somewhere with Lyle Bland'''<br />
Though generally used to mean "an interconnection," the term "interlock" is also used in cinema, especially in reference to a device that keeps sound and visual tracks in synch.

'''332.17 Schnorp'''<br />
Another comic-book sound, suggesting a noisy sucking in, as of spaghetti through the mouth or mucous through the nose.

'''332.23 nobody bothers a balloon'''<br />
Dorothy attempts, but fails, to escape from Oz in a balloon. A balloon is also used by W.C. Fields and the dummy Charlie McCarthy in ''You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man'' (1939).



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