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==Page 617==
'''What? - Richard M. Nixon'''<Br>
The uncorrected galleys of ''Gravity's Rainbow'' sent in advance to book critics featured a different epigraph here. [http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=15378 source]. (Or [http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/1973/03/one-mans-meat-is-another-mans-poisson here.])<br>

Instead of the Nixon quote, it used the following:

''“She has brought them to her senses,<br> 
''They have laughed inside her laughter,<br> 
''Now she rallies her defenses, <br>
''For she fears someone will ask her<br> 
''For eternity — <br>
''And she’s so busy being free….” — Joni Mitchell.<br>''

These lyrics come from the song "Cactus Tree," from Mitchell's 1968 album, "Song To A Seagull." Full lyrics and sample at (fansite) [http://jonimitchell.com/music/song.cfm?id=84 Jonimitchell.com].<br>

==Page 622==
[[image:shadow-waltz.jpg|thumb|100px|The Shadow Waltz|right]]622.30-31 '''that dreamy Dick Powell song'''<br />
Is actually titled "The Shadow Waltz," composed by Al Dubin and Harry Warren for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_diggers_of_1933 ''The Gold Diggers of 1933''] (not [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footlight_Parade ''Footlight Parade'']). The song in the film gives way to a typically bizarre [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busby_Berkeley Busby Berkeley] musical production in which women on roller skates play violins outlined with neon lights.

==Page 625==
625.10 '''gnaedige Frau:'''<br />
The literal meaning of the usual polite form of address of a lady of a high rank ("merciful" or "benevolent Madam") has got a new value here.

==Page 626==
626.02 '''Chapter 81 work'''<br />
This obscure reference comes (again) from [[Pages_20-29#Page 27|''The Berkshire Hills'']]. As the authors note:

:" ... the one occupation which survives all depressions in the small Berkshire villages is road work. Regardless of bad financial conditions, citizens sidetrack other appropriations to continue voting to raise and appropriate the sum of --- dollars for Chapter 81 highways..." (p. 214).

:"Chapter 81 work is for road improvement, during which a scraper removes sod and dirt from ditches and shoulders, followed by workers who clean out the ditches and replace culverts and drains" (p. 216).

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