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- 11:40, 10 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+197) . . N File:Silver-streak-train-poster.jpg ('''The Pioneer Zephyr: The "Silver Streak" Diesel Locomotive'' Train photo courtesy of [http://www.msichicago.org/exhibit/zephyr/legacy/success/success.html Chicago Museum of Science and Industry])
- 11:38, 10 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+86) . . N File:Silver-streak-comics.jpg ('''Cover of ''Silver Streak Comics'' #9'''<br /> (Notice The Claw as featured villain)) (current)
- 11:05, 10 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+1,003) . . N Pages 577-580 (New page: {{GR PbP Text}} ==Page 578== right578.07-09 '''Klein-Rogge . . . ''Metropolis'''''<br /> While [[Weisenburger's Companion to ...)
- 11:03, 10 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+293) . . N File:Attila-the-hun.jpg ('''Rudolf Klein-Rogge as Attila (Etzel)'''<br /> in Lang's ''Nibelungen, Part II: Kriemhild's Revenge'' "Rudolf Klein-Rogge, ancient Oriental thanatomaniac Attila, head shaved except for a topknot, beadstrung, raving with grandiloquent genstures and thos) (current)
- 10:59, 10 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+221) . . N File:Rottwang.jpg ('''Rudolf Klein-Rogge, as the inventor Rottwang'''<br /> in Fritz Lang's ''Metropolis'' "the mad inventor that Pokler and his disciples under Jamf longed to be" (GR p. 578) Note the pentagram above and behind the robot.) (current)
- 10:51, 10 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+526) . . N Pages 567-577 (New page: {{GR PbP Text}} ==Page 571== 571.31-32 '''the German Wobbly traditions'''<br /> "Wobblies" were members of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_workers_of_the_world Industrial Wor...)
- 10:45, 10 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+2,070) . . N Pages 269-278 (New page: {{GR PbP Text}} ==Page 270== 270.16 '''Floyd Perdoo'''<br /> From the French "perdue": "lost." ==Page 272== 272.19 '''young Sigmund Freud'''<br /> Refers to Freud’s rejection of the "s...)
- 09:07, 10 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+106) . . Pages 518-525 (→Page 518) (current)
- 20:20, 9 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (-103) . . Pages 518-525
- 20:19, 9 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (-17) . . Pages 518-525 (→Page 518)
- 20:17, 9 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+1,071) . . N Pages 518-525 (New page: {{GR PbP Text}} http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_518-525&action=edit ==Page 518== 318.31-32 '''coming on like Smith, Klein, 'n' French'''<br /> Smith Klin...)
- 19:57, 9 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+678) . . N Pages 505-518 (New page: {{GR PbP Text}} ==Page 516== 516.22 '''Der Mude Tod'''<br /> There is an interesting sidelight to this film. In order to win her lover back from Death, the heroine must try to save his li...)
- 19:55, 9 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+376) . . N Pages 492-505 (New page: {{GR PbP Text}} ==Page 494== 494.12 '''I have this kind of trick ear, you’ll have to'''<br /> Evokes (anachronistically) Jimmy Stewart as the half-deaf George Bailey in Frank Capra’s ...) (current)
- 19:53, 9 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+324) . . N Pages 488-491 (New page: {{GR PbP Text}} ==Page 489== 489.19-20 '''Brazilian oilcases . . . Ft. Lamy'''<br /> A reminder of the air route by which Pirate got his bananas at 5.35-36. The "flo...)
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- 07:47, 8 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+4) . . Pynchon and Brian Wilson (→Brian Wilson's ''Smile'')
- 22:22, 7 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+2,036) . . N Carl Jung's Life/Death Parabola (New page: Carl Jung: :"Life is an energy process. Like every energy-process, it is in principle irreversible and is therefore directed towards a goal. That goal is a state of rest. [...] The end of...) (current)
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- 22:06, 7 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+2,671) . . N Pages 591-610 (New page: {{GR PbP Text}} ==Page 592== right592.32 '''an American Bugs Bunny comic book'''<br /> See note on [[Pages 537-548#Page 545|545....)
- 22:05, 7 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+86) . . N File:Looney-tunes.jpg ('''Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig'''<br /> Cover, Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies #1 (1941)) (current)
- 21:55, 7 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+488) . . N Pages 563-566 (New page: {{GR PbP Text}} ==Page 564== 564.37-38 '''si mi quieres escribir you already know where I’ll be staying'''<br /> The first words are from a song of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spa...) (current)
- 21:49, 7 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . Pages 674-700 (→Page 674)
- 21:49, 7 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . Pages 674-700 (→Page 688=)
- 21:47, 7 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+47) . . Pages 674-700 (→Page 691)
- 21:44, 7 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+2,948) . . N Pages 674-700 (New page: {{GR PbP Text}} ==Page 674== 674.10 '''a City of the Future'''<br /> Evokes, again, the opening images of Lang’s ''Metropolis''. See 482.25. ==Page 682== 682...)
- 21:44, 7 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+48) . . N File:Fay-wray2.jpg ('''Fay Wray, as Anne Darrow, in ''King Kong''''') (current)
- 21:40, 7 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+132) . . N File:William-bendix.jpg ('''William Bendix (third from right)'''<br /> in Alfred Hitchcock's ''Lifeboat''<br /> Bendix learns that he's about to lose his leg) (current)
- 21:29, 7 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+392) . . N Pages 482-488 (New page: {{GR PbP Text}} ==Page 482== right482.25-28 '''with crackling-tower and obsidian helix, with drive belts and rollers, with strange airs...) (current)
- 21:28, 7 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+53) . . N File:Metropolis.jpg ('''Opening Scene of ''Metropolis'':''' The Upper City) (current)
- 21:11, 7 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+3,721) . . N Pages 154-167 (New page: {{GR PbP Text}} ==Page 156== 156.18 '''the Judenschnautze'''<br /> As Weisenburger notes, Pynchon probably means "Judenschnauze" here, bu...)
- 21:09, 7 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+19) . . N File:Justus-liebig.jpg ('''Justus Liebig''') (current)
- 20:49, 7 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+938) . . N Pages 473-482 (New page: {{GR PbP Text}} ==Page 473== 473.05 '''why is Slothrop drawling this way?'''<br /> A good question, but the drawl does imitate American actor [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne John...) (current)
- 20:43, 7 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+5) . . Pages 468-472 (→Page 471)
- 20:42, 7 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+2,143) . . N Pages 468-472 (New page: {{GR PbP Text}} ==Page 468== right468.19 '''Llandudno'''<br /> The Welsh resort town is supposed to be where Carroll fir...)
- 20:39, 7 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+122) . . N File:Llandudno.jpg ('''Llandudno, Wales: Statue of White Rabbit'''<br /> (in cage as protection from vandalism, statue has since been removed)) (current)
- 21:13, 6 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+1,872) . . N Pages 457-468 (New page: {{GR PbP Text}} ==Page 466== right466.06 '''young Shirley Temple'''<br /> Compare the following excerpt from a review of Temple's f...)
- 21:12, 6 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+39) . . N File:Shirley-temple.jpg ('''Publicity photo of Shirley Temple''') (current)
- 21:05, 6 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+1,549) . . N Pages 448-456 (New page: {{GR PbP Text}} ==Page 448== 448.23-24 '''like American cowboy actor Henry Fonda'''<br /> Contrary to Weisenburger, Fonda did not appear ...)
- 21:05, 6 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+81) . . N File:Buffalo-bayou.jpg ('''1881 Map of Houston, Texas'''<br /> (Buffalo Bayou runs through center of map)) (current)
- 20:46, 6 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+2) . . Pages 433-447
- 20:46, 6 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+3,125) . . N Pages 433-447 (New page: {{GR PbP Text}} ==Page 433== 433.32 '''"Der Feind hoert zu"'''<br /> Not 'The listening enemy' but 'The enemy is listening', a warning not to speak carelessly. ==Page 435== [[image:wilme...)
- 20:45, 6 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+72) . . N File:Carole-lombard.jpg ('''Carole Lombard'''<br /> Publicity still for ''My Man Godfrey'' (1937)) (current)
- 20:44, 6 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+111) . . N File:Irving-berlin.jpg ('''Irving Berlin performing "Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning"'''<br /> from ''This Is the Army'' (1943)) (current)
- 20:44, 6 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+72) . . N File:Muttjeff.gif ('''Mutt (center) and Jeff (right)'''<br /> from Bud Fisher's comic strip) (current)
- 20:41, 6 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+87) . . N File:Wilmer-gunsel.jpg ('''Elisha Cook, Jr. as Wilmer, the "gunsel"'''<br /> from ''The Maltese Falcon'' (1941)) (current)
- 23:23, 5 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+61) . . Pages 359-371
- 23:21, 5 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+17) . . Pages 336-359
- 23:15, 5 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+281) . . Pages 392-397 (→Page 394)
- 23:07, 5 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (-193) . . Pages 397-433 (→Page 412)
- 23:05, 5 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+22) . . Pages 397-433 (→Page 398)
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