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==Page 707==
707.31 '''Saeugling'''<br />
German: a human baby, suckling, as it is also clear from the description of the picture.

==Page 709==
709.15 '''Crime Does Not Pay Comics'''<br />
Formerly ''Silver Streak Comics'', published by Lev Gleason, the title changed with issue #22 in 1942. The ''Comic Book Price Guide'' remarks that it was the first crime comic book and the first comic to be aimed at adult readers. Its influence, with lurid covers and violent stories, contributed to the wave of official disapproval that fell on the comics industry in the early 1950s.  See note above at [[Pages 580-591#586|586.38-39]].

709.18 '''Is this Noel Coward or some shit?'''<br />
Roger’s antipathy to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel_Coward Coward’s] comedies of manners echoes the comments about Blithe Spirit in the Advent passage at [[Pages 120-136#134|134]] and passim. Pynchon’s own antipathy to the composer, writer and actor goes all the way back to "Lowlands," one of his first published stories.

==Page 712==
[[image:jekyll-hyde-bergman.jpg|thumb|Ingrid Bergman in ''Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde''|100px|right]]712.04 '''song from the movie Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'''<br />
Not the 1932 Fredric March version but the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Jekyll_and_Mr._Hyde_%281941_film%29 1941 Victor Fleming remake] starring Spencer Tracy. In this version Ingrid Bergman plays a barmaid who sings, "You Should See Me Dance the Polka."  The song itself was composed around 1887 by George Grossmith, star of Gilbert and Sullivan's operettas at the Savoy Theater.  The lyrics to the song include:

:You should see me dance the Polka,<br />
:You should see me cover the ground,<br />
:You should see my coat- tails flying,<br />
:As I jump my partner round;<br />
:When the band commences playing,<br />
:My feet begin to go,<br />
:For a rollicking romping Polka<br />
:Is the jolliest fun I know.

In the film, Tracy hums the song just before his first transformation into Mr. Hyde.

==Page 713==
713.10 '''Thermidor'''<br />
Not just a month on the French Revolutionary calendar, the name here signifies the defeat of the radical elements in the revolutionary leadership. On Thermidor 8, Year II of the Revolution (July 27, 1794), [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilien_Robespierre Robespierre], Saint-Just, and their followers were arrested. These leaders of the radical faction, which had promoted the Reign of Terror but also advocated redistribution of wealth and power for the lower classes, were executed the next day, bringing the Reign of Terror to a close. In one of his newspaper articles later, Pynchon would speak of the Nixon years as a "Thermidorian reaction" to the 1960s.

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