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==Page 534==
[[image:cuddles.jpg|thumb|Cuddles Sakall|100px|right]]534.20 '''S.Z. ("Cuddles") Sakall'''<br />
The actor played the headwaiter, not (as [[Weisenburger's Companion to Gravity's Rainbow|Weisenburger]] states) a desk clerk, in Casablanca. Rick’s place in the film is a café, not a hotel.

[[image:freaks.jpg|thumb|Cleopatra in ''Freaks''|120px|left]]534.11 '''Freaks'''<br />
In the film’s unnerving conclusion, the freaks do not merely beat up Cleopatra, as described by [[Weisenburger's Companion to Gravity's Rainbow|Weisenburger]], but chant "One of us!" as they transform her into a human chicken!  The final image is one that is still omitted from some prints even after the film was re-released following decades of censorship.




==Page 535==
535.17 '''the element of Greed must be worked into the plot'''<br />
Possibly a reference to Greed, the mutilated film masterpiece directed by Eric von Stroheim in 1924. An adaptation of Frank Norris’ McTeague, von Stroheim's film originally ran for 10 hours. At the insistence of MGM producer Irving Thalberg, von Stroheim cut it back to four hours but that too was finally cut by the studio again. The remaining footage was destroyed.

535.26 '''It is a message, in code'''<br>
Related to how all of Pynchon's novels can be interpreted as (big) coded messages from the author.
:This "reading into" or seeing hidden messages in complex or confusing narratives strikes me, at least, as a major influence of drugs on this period of Pynchon's writing. The tripper tends to interpret whatever he sees around him as deeply important, bursting with meaning... coded or hidden messages... [[User:Bleakhaus|Bleakhaus]] 21:56, 12 June 2007 (PDT)

==Page 536==
536.16 '''a cork board... An introduction to Modern Herero, corporate histories'''<br>
Probably the strongest clue in identifying Osbie Feel as some kind of representation of Pynchon himself. The author must have written Gravity's Rainbow with the aid of such books, notes and clutter.

:Quite likely. Check out [[Osbie Feel|this thread]] from a mid-90s [http://waste.org/pynchon-l/ Pynchon List] discussion on this topic...

Pynchon's editor for GR was Corlies "Cork" Smith.

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