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==Page 734==<br />
734.17 '''May he be blind now to all but me. . . .'''<br /><br />
Steven C. Weisenburger, in [http://www.amazon.com/Gravitys-Rainbow-Companion-Contexts-Pynchons/dp/0820310263 '''A Gravity's Rainbow Companion'''] notes that Geli Tripping's spell on Tchitcherine is derived from A. E. Waite's [http://tinyurl.com/3cakdj '''Book of Black Magic''']. A. E. Waite is noted several times in [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page '''Against the Day'''].<br />
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734.19 '''by the Angels Melchidael, Yahoel, Anafiel, and the great Metatron...<br /><br />
This incantation is a variant on many in mystical traditions, invoking various spiritual beings and deities. In [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabbalah Kabbalah], Metatron is the angel that governs the Tree of Life and the teachings of the Kabbalah. Melchidael is one of the top three of the seven archangels; Yahoel was the angel that taught Abraham the ''Torah'' and was his earthly and heavenly guide. Anafiel, "Branch of God," keeper of the keys of heaven, and the angel who looks after birds, and who carried Enoch to heaven.<br />
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{{GR PbP}}</div>Gelitrippinghttps://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gravity%27s_Rainbow&diff=2553Gravity's Rainbow2007-12-01T22:19:12Z<p>Gelitripping: </p>
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:::'''''For I Bring You Tidings Of Great Joy'''''<br />
<br />
'''And the Occasional Stupid Song. GT''' <br />
<br />
<br />
Well known [http://books.google.com/books?ct=title&q=thomas+Pynchon&btnG=Search+Books Author], [http://files.splinder.com/f7cdee4dc9eb635bb8fa51940e388bf1.jpeg Bag Man], and [http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,950245,00.html Urban Legend] [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Fifth] comes from a long line that begins with [http://www.famousamericans.net/williampynchon/ William Pynchon], founder of the town of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recurring_characters_from_The_Simpsons#Jebediah_Springfield Springfield], [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~scanderson/deacon_chapin.HTM Massachusetts]. [http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4832 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Third] is more than a footnote to [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5FB21F083E60E4CE450B0320759422AF.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=8545 Nathaniel Hawthorne's ][http://books.google.com/books?id=wDY99lZWkqoC&dq=nathaniel+hawthorne%27s+house+of+seven+gables&pg=PP1&ots=e4R3vRu0ol&sig=eMvwvRgwViCQcfDtpTD3z0NchWc&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3DNathaniel%2BHawthorne%27s%2B%255D%255B%2BHouse%2Bof%2BSeven%2BGables%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail#PPA2,M1 House of Seven Gables]. This [http://www.vheissu.info/bio/eng_tijdlijn.htm Pynchon Timetable] comes via the [http://www.vheissu.info/index.htm Vheissu] website:<br />
<br />
:Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The House of the Seven Gables. Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1823-1904) writes the author a letter, complaining about the 'abuse' of the 'Pyncheon' name. This rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon will become the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, where he teaches science and religion. In 1881 he publishes an Introduction to Chemical Physics. His brother William is the great-grandfather of author Thomas Pynchon. <br />
<br />
The use of language in his '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics] is reminiscent of his younger namesake:<br />
<br />
:"The name Chemistry, is said to be derived from the Arabic word Kimia, something hidden or concealed, and from this, to have been converted into Xyueia*, a word first used by the Greeks about the eleventh century, and meaning the art of making gold and silver. Between the fifth century and the taking of Constantinople in the fifteenth century, says Dr. Thomson, in his History of Chemistry, the Greeks believed in the possibility of making god and silver artificially; and the art which professed to teach the processes was called by them, Chemistry. This idea, however, has long since been thoroughly discarded, and is now no longer heard of."<br />
<br />
Like the author we are discussing, The Thomas Pynchon of [http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/leadership/jones/inauguration/past_presidents.htm Trinity College], Hartford Connecticut, was a daunting polymath. If you open '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]', one of the first things you will see is are Rainbows, the rainbows from the workings of a Chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrometer Spectrometer]:<br />
<br />
:When a material is heated to incandescence it emits light that is characteristic of the atomic makeup of the material. Particular light frequencies give rise to sharply defined bands on the scale which can be thought of as fingerprints. For example, the element sodium has a very characteristic double yellow band known as the Sodium D-lines at 588.9950 and 589.5924 nanometers, the colour of which will be familiar to anyone who has seen a low pressure sodium vapor lamp.<br />
<br />
One of the branches of the Pynchon Clan, George M. Pynchon, ran the Wall Street Investment firm Pynchon & Company. Pynchon & Company started up with Real Estate and Railroads, got involved in all sorts of [then] high-tech enterprises like gas and electrical grids, the work of [http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=Thomas%20Edison Thomas Alva Edison] including Edison/GE's [http://www.oldchristmaslights.com/MAZDA+PARRISH+BAGHDAD+1923.jpg Mazda] Lamp Division, with the firm's director George M. Pynchon enjoying a public life as a champion [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9F01E1DA1731EF33A25751C2A9619C946095D6CF&oref=slogin Yacht Racer]. Pynchon & Company fell apart in [http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50910FE3E5F11738DDDAC0A94DC405B818FF1D3 1931] when film maker and investor [http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10610F63E5C147A93C1A9178FD85F438285F9 William Fox] was [http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70D16FD3C591B728DDDA10994DE405B818FF1D3 taken down] by a consortium of Banking and Technology interests, including [http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40912FE3F5F11738DDDA10994DB405B818FF1D3 Western Electric], [http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0B10FC395E1A738DDDAB0A94DA405B818FF1D3 RCA] and a number of very large banks. Some of those very large banks infamously invested in the emerging new economy of a re-industrialized Germany, under the bold direction of its new leader, Adolph Hitler. In particular, [http://oilintheirblood.com/synthetics.html I. G. Farben] became a cash nexus for a number of American Investors whose view never went any farther than the bottom line. Much of the scientific material in Gravity's Rainbow concerns the commercial applications of Chemistry. <br />
<br />
In Gravity's Rainbow, 'we' start in a train:<br />
<br />
:"There are no lights inside the cars."<br />
<br />
. . . .and wind up in a theater, waiting for the end to come, singing an old church hymn from Tyrone Slothrop's [http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ma/county/hampden/spfld/hist1/p49-88.html Pig Farming Ancestor], William Slothrop:<br />
<br />
:And it is just here, just at this dark and silent frame, that the pointed tip of the Rocket, falling nearly a mile a second, absolutely and forever without sound, reaches its last unmeasurable gap above the roof of this old theatre, the last delta-t.<br />
<br />
:There is time, if you need the comfort, to touch the person next to you, or to reach between your own cold legs . . . or, if song must find you, here's one They never taught anyone to sing, a hymn by William Slothrop, centuries for gotten and out of print, sung to a simple and pleasant air of the period. Follow the bouncing ball:<br />
<br />
<br />
:::There is a Hand to turn the time,<br />
:::Though thy Glass today be run,<br />
:::Till the Light that hath brought the Towers low<br />
:::Find the last poor Pret'rite one . . .<br />
:::Till the Riders sleep by ev'ry road,<br />
:::All through our crippled Zone.<br />
:::With a face on ev'ry mountainside,<br />
:::And a Soul in ev'ry stone. . . .<br />
:Now everybody---<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
More to come,<br />
<br />
Robin Landseadel</div>Gelitrippinghttps://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gravity%27s_Rainbow&diff=2552Gravity's Rainbow2007-12-01T22:08:33Z<p>Gelitripping: </p>
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<br />
:::'''''For I Bring You Tidings Of Great Joy'''''<br />
<br />
'''And the Occasional Stupid Song. GT''' <br />
<br />
<br />
Well known [http://books.google.com/books?ct=title&q=thomas+Pynchon&btnG=Search+Books Author], [http://files.splinder.com/f7cdee4dc9eb635bb8fa51940e388bf1.jpeg Bag Man], and [http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,950245,00.html Urban Legend] [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Fifth] comes from a long line that begins with [http://www.famousamericans.net/williampynchon/ William Pynchon], founder of the town of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recurring_characters_from_The_Simpsons#Jebediah_Springfield Springfield], [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~scanderson/deacon_chapin.HTM Massachusetts]. [http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4832 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Third] is more than a footnote to [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5FB21F083E60E4CE450B0320759422AF.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=8545 Nathaniel Hawthorne's ][http://books.google.com/books?id=wDY99lZWkqoC&dq=nathaniel+hawthorne%27s+house+of+seven+gables&pg=PP1&ots=e4R3vRu0ol&sig=eMvwvRgwViCQcfDtpTD3z0NchWc&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3DNathaniel%2BHawthorne%27s%2B%255D%255B%2BHouse%2Bof%2BSeven%2BGables%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail#PPA2,M1 House of Seven Gables]. This [http://www.vheissu.info/bio/eng_tijdlijn.htm Pynchon Timetable] comes via the [http://www.vheissu.info/index.htm Vheissu] website:<br />
<br />
:Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The House of the Seven Gables. Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1823-1904) writes the author a letter, complaining about the 'abuse' of the 'Pyncheon' name. This rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon will become the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, where he teaches science and religion. In 1881 he publishes an Introduction to Chemical Physics. His brother William is the great-grandfather of author Thomas Pynchon. <br />
<br />
The use of language in his '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics] is reminiscent of his younger namesake:<br />
<br />
:"The name Chemistry, is said to be derived from the Arabic word Kimia, something hidden or concealed, and from this, to have been converted into Xyueia*, a word first used by the Greeks about the eleventh century, and meaning the art of making gold and silver. Between the fifth century and the taking of Constantinople in the fifteenth century, says Dr. Thomson, in his History of Chemistry, the Greeks believed in the possibility of making god and silver artificially; and the art which professed to teach the processes was called by them, Chemistry. This idea, however, has long since been thoroughly discarded, and is now no longer heard of."<br />
<br />
Like the author we are discussing, The Thomas Pynchon of [http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/leadership/jones/inauguration/past_presidents.htm Trinity College], Hartford Connecticut, was a daunting polymath. If you open '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]', one of the first things you will see is are Rainbows, the rainbows from the workings of a Chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrometer Spectrometer]:<br />
<br />
:When a material is heated to incandescence it emits light that is characteristic of the atomic makeup of the material. Particular light frequencies give rise to sharply defined bands on the scale which can be thought of as fingerprints. For example, the element sodium has a very characteristic double yellow band known as the Sodium D-lines at 588.9950 and 589.5924 nanometers, the colour of which will be familiar to anyone who has seen a low pressure sodium vapor lamp.<br />
<br />
One of the branches of the Pynchon Clan, George M. Pynchon, ran the Wall Street Investment firm Pynchon & Company. Pynchon & Company started up with Real Estate and Railroads, got involved in all sorts of [then] high-tech enterprises like gas and electrical grids, the work of [http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=Thomas%20Edison Thomas Alva Edison] including Edison/GE's [http://www.oldchristmaslights.com/MAZDA+PARRISH+BAGHDAD+1923.jpg Mazda] Lamp Division, with the firm's director George M. Pynchon enjoying a public life as a champion Yacht Racer. Pynchon & Company fell apart in 1931 when film maker and investor William Fox was taken down by a consortium of Banking and Technology interests, including Western Electric, RCA and a number of very large banks. Some of those very large banks infamously invested in the emerging new economy of a re-industrialized Germany, under the bold direction of its new leader, Adolph Hitler. In particular, [http://oilintheirblood.com/synthetics.html I. G. Farben] became a cash nexus for a number of American Investors whose view never went any farther than the bottom line. Much of the scientific material in Gravity's Rainbow concerns the commercial applications of Chemistry. <br />
<br />
In Gravity's Rainbow, 'we' start in a train:<br />
<br />
:"There are no lights inside the cars."<br />
<br />
. . . .and wind up in a theater, waiting for the end to come, singing an old church hymn from Tyrone Slothrop's [http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ma/county/hampden/spfld/hist1/p49-88.html Pig Farming Ancestor], William Slothrop:<br />
<br />
:And it is just here, just at this dark and silent frame, that the pointed tip of the Rocket, falling nearly a mile a second, absolutely and forever without sound, reaches its last unmeasurable gap above the roof of this old theatre, the last delta-t.<br />
<br />
:There is time, if you need the comfort, to touch the person next to you, or to reach between your own cold legs . . . or, if song must find you, here's one They never taught anyone to sing, a hymn by William Slothrop, centuries for gotten and out of print, sung to a simple and pleasant air of the period. Follow the bouncing ball:<br />
<br />
<br />
:::There is a Hand to turn the time,<br />
:::Though thy Glass today be run,<br />
:::Till the Light that hath brought the Towers low<br />
:::Find the last poor Pret'rite one . . .<br />
:::Till the Riders sleep by ev'ry road,<br />
:::All through our crippled Zone.<br />
:::With a face on ev'ry mountainside,<br />
:::And a Soul in ev'ry stone. . . .<br />
:Now everybody---<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
More to come,<br />
<br />
Robin Landseadel</div>Gelitrippinghttps://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gravity%27s_Rainbow&diff=2551Gravity's Rainbow2007-12-01T22:06:59Z<p>Gelitripping: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''Just So Everybody Understands, This Page is Still Under Construction. You Will Experience The Unvarnished Joy Of Watching A Thousand Tiny Errors Creep In And Out Of The Text, Often At Very Strange Hours. Do Not Be Alarmed''' <br />
<br />
:::'''''For I Bring You Tidings Of Great Joy'''''<br />
<br />
'''And the Occasional Stupid Song. GT''' <br />
<br />
<br />
Well known [http://books.google.com/books?ct=title&q=thomas+Pynchon&btnG=Search+Books Author], [http://files.splinder.com/f7cdee4dc9eb635bb8fa51940e388bf1.jpeg Bag Man], and [http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,950245,00.html Urban Legend] [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Fifth] comes from a long line that begins with [http://www.famousamericans.net/williampynchon/ William Pynchon], founder of the town of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recurring_characters_from_The_Simpsons#Jebediah_Springfield Springfield], [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~scanderson/deacon_chapin.HTM Massachusetts]. [http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4832 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Third] is more than a footnote to [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5FB21F083E60E4CE450B0320759422AF.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=8545 Nathaniel Hawthorne's ][http://books.google.com/books?id=wDY99lZWkqoC&dq=nathaniel+hawthorne%27s+house+of+seven+gables&pg=PP1&ots=e4R3vRu0ol&sig=eMvwvRgwViCQcfDtpTD3z0NchWc&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3DNathaniel%2BHawthorne%27s%2B%255D%255B%2BHouse%2Bof%2BSeven%2BGables%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail#PPA2,M1 House of Seven Gables]. This [http://www.vheissu.info/bio/eng_tijdlijn.htm Pynchon Timetable] comes via the [http://www.vheissu.info/index.htm Vheissu] website:<br />
<br />
:Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The House of the Seven Gables. Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1823-1904) writes the author a letter, complaining about the 'abuse' of the 'Pyncheon' name. This rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon will become the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, where he teaches science and religion. In 1881 he publishes an Introduction to Chemical Physics. His brother William is the great-grandfather of author Thomas Pynchon. <br />
<br />
The use of language in his '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics] is reminiscent of his younger namesake:<br />
<br />
:"The name Chemistry, is said to be derived from the Arabic word Kimia, something hidden or concealed, and from this, to have been converted into Xyueia*, a word first used by the Greeks about the eleventh century, and meaning the art of making gold and silver. Between the fifth century and the taking of Constantinople in the fifteenth century, says Dr. Thomson, in his History of Chemistry, the Greeks believed in the possibility of making god and silver artificially; and the art which professed to teach the processes was called by them, Chemistry. This idea, however, has long since been thoroughly discarded, and is now no longer heard of."<br />
<br />
Like the author we are discussing, The Thomas Pynchon of [http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/leadership/jones/inauguration/past_presidents.htm Trinity College], Hartford Connecticut, was a daunting polymath. If you open '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]', one of the first things you will see is are Rainbows, the rainbows from the workings of a Chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrometer Spectrometer]:<br />
<br />
:When a material is heated to incandescence it emits light that is characteristic of the atomic makeup of the material. Particular light frequencies give rise to sharply defined bands on the scale which can be thought of as fingerprints. For example, the element sodium has a very characteristic double yellow band known as the Sodium D-lines at 588.9950 and 589.5924 nanometers, the colour of which will be familiar to anyone who has seen a low pressure sodium vapor lamp.<br />
<br />
One of the branches of the Pynchon Clan, George M. Pynchon, ran the Wall Street Investment firm Pynchon & Company. Pynchon & Company started up with Real Estate and Railroads, got involved in all sorts of [then] high-tech enterprises like gas and electrical grids, the work of [http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=Thomas%20Edison Thomas Alva Edison] including Edison/GE's Mazda Lamp Division, with the firm's director George M. Pynchon enjoying a public life as a champion Yacht Racer. Pynchon & Company fell apart in 1931 when film maker and investor William Fox was taken down by a consortium of Banking and Technology interests, including Western Electric, RCA and a number of very large banks. Some of those very large banks infamously invested in the emerging new economy of a re-industrialized Germany, under the bold direction of its new leader, Adolph Hitler. In particular, [http://oilintheirblood.com/synthetics.html I. G. Farben] became a cash nexus for a number of American Investors whose view never went any farther than the bottom line. Much of the scientific material in Gravity's Rainbow concerns the commercial applications of Chemistry. <br />
<br />
In Gravity's Rainbow, 'we' start in a train:<br />
<br />
:"There are no lights inside the cars."<br />
<br />
. . . .and wind up in a theater, waiting for the end to come, singing an old church hymn from Tyrone Slothrop's [http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ma/county/hampden/spfld/hist1/p49-88.html Pig Farming Ancestor], William Slothrop:<br />
<br />
:And it is just here, just at this dark and silent frame, that the pointed tip of the Rocket, falling nearly a mile a second, absolutely and forever without sound, reaches its last unmeasurable gap above the roof of this old theatre, the last delta-t.<br />
<br />
:There is time, if you need the comfort, to touch the person next to you, or to reach between your own cold legs . . . or, if song must find you, here's one They never taught anyone to sing, a hymn by William Slothrop, centuries for gotten and out of print, sung to a simple and pleasant air of the period. Follow the bouncing ball:<br />
<br />
<br />
:::There is a Hand to turn the time,<br />
:::Though thy Glass today be run,<br />
:::Till the Light that hath brought the Towers low<br />
:::Find the last poor Pret'rite one . . .<br />
:::Till the Riders sleep by ev'ry road,<br />
:::All through our crippled Zone.<br />
:::With a face on ev'ry mountainside,<br />
:::And a Soul in ev'ry stone. . . .<br />
:Now everybody---<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
More to come,<br />
<br />
Robin Landseadel</div>Gelitrippinghttps://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gravity%27s_Rainbow&diff=2550Gravity's Rainbow2007-12-01T22:02:38Z<p>Gelitripping: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''Just So Everybody Understands, This Page is Still Under Construction. You Will Experience The Unvarnished Joy Of Watching A Thousand Tiny Errors Creep In And Out Of The Text, Often At Very Strange Hours. Do Not Be Alarmed''' <br />
<br />
:::'''''For I Bring You Tidings Of Great Joy'''''<br />
<br />
'''And the Occasional Stupid Song. GT''' <br />
<br />
<br />
Well known [http://books.google.com/books?ct=title&q=thomas+Pynchon&btnG=Search+Books Author], [http://files.splinder.com/f7cdee4dc9eb635bb8fa51940e388bf1.jpeg Bag Man], and [http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,950245,00.html Urban Legend] [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Fifth] comes from a long line that begins with [http://www.famousamericans.net/williampynchon/ William Pynchon], founder of the town of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recurring_characters_from_The_Simpsons#Jebediah_Springfield Springfield], [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~scanderson/deacon_chapin.HTM Massachusetts]. [http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4832 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Third] is more than a footnote to [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5FB21F083E60E4CE450B0320759422AF.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=8545 Nathaniel Hawthorne's ][http://books.google.com/books?id=wDY99lZWkqoC&dq=nathaniel+hawthorne%27s+house+of+seven+gables&pg=PP1&ots=e4R3vRu0ol&sig=eMvwvRgwViCQcfDtpTD3z0NchWc&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3DNathaniel%2BHawthorne%27s%2B%255D%255B%2BHouse%2Bof%2BSeven%2BGables%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail#PPA2,M1 House of Seven Gables]. This [http://www.vheissu.info/bio/eng_tijdlijn.htm Pynchon Timetable] comes via the [http://www.vheissu.info/index.htm Vheissu] website:<br />
<br />
:Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The House of the Seven Gables. Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1823-1904) writes the author a letter, complaining about the 'abuse' of the 'Pyncheon' name. This rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon will become the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, where he teaches science and religion. In 1881 he publishes an Introduction to Chemical Physics. His brother William is the great-grandfather of author Thomas Pynchon. <br />
<br />
The use of language in his '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics] is reminiscent of his younger namesake:<br />
<br />
:"The name Chemistry, is said to be derived from the Arabic word Kimia, something hidden or concealed, and from this, to have been converted into Xyueia*, a word first used by the Greeks about the eleventh century, and meaning the art of making gold and silver. Between the fifth century and the taking of Constantinople in the fifteenth century, says Dr. Thomson, in his History of Chemistry, the Greeks believed in the possibility of making god and silver artificially; and the art which professed to teach the processes was called by them, Chemistry. This idea, however, has long since been thoroughly discarded, and is now no longer heard of."<br />
<br />
Like the author we are discussing, The Thomas Pynchon of [http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/leadership/jones/inauguration/past_presidents.htm Trinity College], Hartford Connecticut, was a daunting polymath. If you open '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]', one of the first things you will see is are Rainbows, the rainbows from the workings of a Chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrometer Spectrometer]:<br />
<br />
:When a material is heated to incandescence it emits light that is characteristic of the atomic makeup of the material. Particular light frequencies give rise to sharply defined bands on the scale which can be thought of as fingerprints. For example, the element sodium has a very characteristic double yellow band known as the Sodium D-lines at 588.9950 and 589.5924 nanometers, the colour of which will be familiar to anyone who has seen a low pressure sodium vapor lamp.<br />
<br />
<br />
One of the branches of the Pynchon Clan, George M. Pynchon, ran the Wall Street Investment firm [http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0711&msg=122572&sort=author Pynchon & Company] Pynchon & Company started up with real estate and Railroads, got involved in all sorts of [then] high-tech enterprises like gas and electrical grids, the work of Thomas Alva Edison including Edison/GE's Mazda Lamp Division, with the firm's director George M. Pynchon enjoying a public life as a champion Yacht Racer. Pynchon & Company fell apart in 1931 when film maker and investor William Fox was taken down by a consortium of Banking and Technology interests, including Western Electric, RCA and a number of very large banks. Some of those very large banks infamously invested in the emerging new economy of a re-industrialized Germany, under the bold direction of its new leader, Adolph Hitler. In particular, [http://oilintheirblood.com/synthetics.html I. G. Farben] became a cash nexus for a number of American Investors whose view never went any farther than the bottom line. Much of the scientific material in Gravity's Rainbow concerns the commercial applications of Chemistry. <br />
<br />
In Gravity's Rainbow, 'we' start in a train:<br />
<br />
:"There are no lights inside the cars."<br />
<br />
. . . .and wind up in a theater, waiting for the end to come, singing an old church hymn from Tyrone Slothrop's [http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ma/county/hampden/spfld/hist1/p49-88.html Pig Farming Ancestor], William Slothrop:<br />
<br />
:And it is just here, just at this dark and silent frame, that the pointed tip of the Rocket, falling nearly a mile a second, absolutely and forever without sound, reaches its last unmeasurable gap above the roof of this old theatre, the last delta-t.<br />
<br />
:There is time, if you need the comfort, to touch the person next to you, or to reach between your own cold legs . . . or, if song must find you, here's one They never taught anyone to sing, a hymn by William Slothrop, centuries for gotten and out of print, sung to a simple and pleasant air of the period. Follow the bouncing ball:<br />
<br />
<br />
:::There is a Hand to turn the time,<br />
:::Though thy Glass today be run,<br />
:::Till the Light that hath brought the Towers low<br />
:::Find the last poor Pret'rite one . . .<br />
:::Till the Riders sleep by ev'ry road,<br />
:::All through our crippled Zone.<br />
:::With a face on ev'ry mountainside,<br />
:::And a Soul in ev'ry stone. . . .<br />
:Now everybody---<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
More to come,<br />
<br />
Robin Landseadel</div>Gelitrippinghttps://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gravity%27s_Rainbow&diff=2549Gravity's Rainbow2007-12-01T22:01:02Z<p>Gelitripping: </p>
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<div>'''Just So Everybody Understands, This Page is Still Under Construction. You Will Experience The Unvarnished Joy Of Watching A Thousand Tiny Errors Creep In And Out Of The Text, Often At Very Strange Hours. Do Not Be Alarmed''' <br />
<br />
:::'''''For I Bring You Tidings Of Great Joy'''''<br />
<br />
'''And the Occasional Stupid Song. GT''' <br />
<br />
<br />
Well known [http://books.google.com/books?ct=title&q=thomas+Pynchon&btnG=Search+Books Author], [http://files.splinder.com/f7cdee4dc9eb635bb8fa51940e388bf1.jpeg Bag Man], and [http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,950245,00.html Urban Legend] [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Fifth] comes from a long line that begins with [http://www.famousamericans.net/williampynchon/ William Pynchon], founder of the town of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recurring_characters_from_The_Simpsons#Jebediah_Springfield Springfield], [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~scanderson/deacon_chapin.HTM Massachusetts]. [http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4832 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Third] is more than a footnote to [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5FB21F083E60E4CE450B0320759422AF.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=8545 Nathaniel Hawthorne's ][http://books.google.com/books?id=wDY99lZWkqoC&dq=nathaniel+hawthorne%27s+house+of+seven+gables&pg=PP1&ots=e4R3vRu0ol&sig=eMvwvRgwViCQcfDtpTD3z0NchWc&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3DNathaniel%2BHawthorne%27s%2B%255D%255B%2BHouse%2Bof%2BSeven%2BGables%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail#PPA2,M1 House of Seven Gables]. This [http://www.vheissu.info/bio/eng_tijdlijn.htm Pynchon Timetable] comes via the [http://www.vheissu.info/index.htm Vheissu] website:<br />
<br />
:Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The House of the Seven Gables. Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1823-1904) writes the author a letter, complaining about the 'abuse' of the 'Pyncheon' name. This rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon will become the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, where he teaches science and religion. In 1881 he publishes an Introduction to Chemical Physics. His brother William is the great-grandfather of author Thomas Pynchon. <br />
<br />
The use of language in his '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics] is reminiscent of his younger namesake:<br />
<br />
:"The name Chemistry, is said to be derived from the Arabic word Kimia, something hidden or concealed, and from this, to have been converted into Xyueia*, a word first used by the Greeks about the eleventh century, and meaning the art of making gold and silver. Between the fifth century and the taking of Constantinople in the fifteenth century, says Dr. Thomson, in his History of Chemistry, the Greeks believed in the possibility of making god and silver artificially; and the art which professed to teach the processes was called by them, Chemistry. This idea, however, has long since been thoroughly discarded, and is now no longer heard of."<br />
<br />
Like the author we are discussing, The Thomas Pynchon of [http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/leadership/jones/inauguration/past_presidents.htm Trinity College], Hartford Connecticut, was a daunting polymath. If you open '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]', one of the first things you will see is are Rainbows, the rainbows from the workings of a Chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrometer Spectrometer]:<br />
<br />
:When a material is heated to incandescence it emits light that is characteristic of the atomic makeup of the material. Particular light frequencies give rise to sharply defined bands on the scale which can be thought of as fingerprints. For example, the element sodium has a very characteristic double yellow band known as the Sodium D-lines at 588.9950 and 589.5924 nanometers, the colour of which will be familiar to anyone who has seen a low pressure sodium vapor lamp.<br />
<br />
<br />
One of the branches of the Pynchon Clan, George M. Pynchon, ran the Wall Street Investment firm [http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0711&msg=122572&sort=author Pynchon & Company] Pynchon & Company started up with real estate and Railroads, got involved in all sorts of [then] high-tech enterprises like gas and electrical grids, the work of Thomas Alva Edison including Edison/GE's Mazda Lamp Division, with the firm's director George M. Pynchon enjoying a public life as a champion Yacht Racer. Pynchon & Company fell apart in 1931 when film maker and investor William Fox was taken down by a consortium of Banking and Technology interests, including Western Electric, RCA and a number of very large banks. Some of those very large banks infamously invested in the emerging new economy of a re-industrialized Germany, under the bold direction of its new leader, Adolph Hitler. In particular, [http://oilintheirblood.com/synthetics.html I. G. Farben] became a cash nexus for a number of American Investors whose view never went any farther than the bottom line. Much of the scientific material in Gravity's Rainbow concerns the commercial applications of Chemistry. <br />
<br />
In Gravity's Rainbow, 'we' start in a train:<br />
<br />
:"There are no lights inside the cars."<br />
<br />
. . . .and wind up in a theater, waiting for the end to come, singing an old church hymn from Tyrone Slothrop's [http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ma/county/hampden/spfld/hist1/p49-88.html Pig Farming Ancestor], William Slothrop:<br />
<br />
:And it is just here, just at this dark and silent frame, that the pointed tip of the Rocket, falling nearly a mile a second, absolutely and forever without sound, reaches its last unmeasurable gap above the roof of this old theatre, the last delta-t.<br />
<br />
:There is time, if you need the comfort, to touch the person next to you, or to reach between your own cold legs . . . or, if song must find you, here's one They never taught anyone to sing, a hymn by William Slothrop, centuries for gotten and out of print, sung to a simple and pleasant air of the period. Follow the bouncing ball:<br />
<br />
::There is a Hand to turn the time,<br />
::Though thy Glass today be run,<br />
::Till the Light that hath brought the Towers low<br />
::Find the last poor Pret'rite one . . .<br />
::Till the Riders sleep by ev'ry road,<br />
::All through our crippled Zone.<br />
::With a face on ev'ry mountainside,<br />
::And a Soul in ev'ry stone. . . .<br />
:Now everybody---<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
More to come,<br />
<br />
Robin Landseadel</div>Gelitrippinghttps://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gravity%27s_Rainbow&diff=2548Gravity's Rainbow2007-12-01T22:00:44Z<p>Gelitripping: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''Just So Everybody Understands, This Page is Still Under Construction. You Will Experience The Unvarnished Joy Of Watching A Thousand Tiny Errors Creep In And Out Of The Text, Often At Very Strange Hours. Do Not Be Alarmed''' <br />
<br />
:::'''''For I Bring You Tidings Of Great Joy'''''' <br />
<br />
'''And the Occasional Stupid Song. GT''' <br />
<br />
<br />
Well known [http://books.google.com/books?ct=title&q=thomas+Pynchon&btnG=Search+Books Author], [http://files.splinder.com/f7cdee4dc9eb635bb8fa51940e388bf1.jpeg Bag Man], and [http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,950245,00.html Urban Legend] [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Fifth] comes from a long line that begins with [http://www.famousamericans.net/williampynchon/ William Pynchon], founder of the town of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recurring_characters_from_The_Simpsons#Jebediah_Springfield Springfield], [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~scanderson/deacon_chapin.HTM Massachusetts]. [http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4832 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Third] is more than a footnote to [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5FB21F083E60E4CE450B0320759422AF.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=8545 Nathaniel Hawthorne's ][http://books.google.com/books?id=wDY99lZWkqoC&dq=nathaniel+hawthorne%27s+house+of+seven+gables&pg=PP1&ots=e4R3vRu0ol&sig=eMvwvRgwViCQcfDtpTD3z0NchWc&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3DNathaniel%2BHawthorne%27s%2B%255D%255B%2BHouse%2Bof%2BSeven%2BGables%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail#PPA2,M1 House of Seven Gables]. This [http://www.vheissu.info/bio/eng_tijdlijn.htm Pynchon Timetable] comes via the [http://www.vheissu.info/index.htm Vheissu] website:<br />
<br />
:Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The House of the Seven Gables. Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1823-1904) writes the author a letter, complaining about the 'abuse' of the 'Pyncheon' name. This rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon will become the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, where he teaches science and religion. In 1881 he publishes an Introduction to Chemical Physics. His brother William is the great-grandfather of author Thomas Pynchon. <br />
<br />
The use of language in his '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics] is reminiscent of his younger namesake:<br />
<br />
:"The name Chemistry, is said to be derived from the Arabic word Kimia, something hidden or concealed, and from this, to have been converted into Xyueia*, a word first used by the Greeks about the eleventh century, and meaning the art of making gold and silver. Between the fifth century and the taking of Constantinople in the fifteenth century, says Dr. Thomson, in his History of Chemistry, the Greeks believed in the possibility of making god and silver artificially; and the art which professed to teach the processes was called by them, Chemistry. This idea, however, has long since been thoroughly discarded, and is now no longer heard of."<br />
<br />
Like the author we are discussing, The Thomas Pynchon of [http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/leadership/jones/inauguration/past_presidents.htm Trinity College], Hartford Connecticut, was a daunting polymath. If you open '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]', one of the first things you will see is are Rainbows, the rainbows from the workings of a Chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrometer Spectrometer]:<br />
<br />
:When a material is heated to incandescence it emits light that is characteristic of the atomic makeup of the material. Particular light frequencies give rise to sharply defined bands on the scale which can be thought of as fingerprints. For example, the element sodium has a very characteristic double yellow band known as the Sodium D-lines at 588.9950 and 589.5924 nanometers, the colour of which will be familiar to anyone who has seen a low pressure sodium vapor lamp.<br />
<br />
<br />
One of the branches of the Pynchon Clan, George M. Pynchon, ran the Wall Street Investment firm [http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0711&msg=122572&sort=author Pynchon & Company] Pynchon & Company started up with real estate and Railroads, got involved in all sorts of [then] high-tech enterprises like gas and electrical grids, the work of Thomas Alva Edison including Edison/GE's Mazda Lamp Division, with the firm's director George M. Pynchon enjoying a public life as a champion Yacht Racer. Pynchon & Company fell apart in 1931 when film maker and investor William Fox was taken down by a consortium of Banking and Technology interests, including Western Electric, RCA and a number of very large banks. Some of those very large banks infamously invested in the emerging new economy of a re-industrialized Germany, under the bold direction of its new leader, Adolph Hitler. In particular, [http://oilintheirblood.com/synthetics.html I. G. Farben] became a cash nexus for a number of American Investors whose view never went any farther than the bottom line. Much of the scientific material in Gravity's Rainbow concerns the commercial applications of Chemistry. <br />
<br />
In Gravity's Rainbow, 'we' start in a train:<br />
<br />
:"There are no lights inside the cars."<br />
<br />
. . . .and wind up in a theater, waiting for the end to come, singing an old church hymn from Tyrone Slothrop's [http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ma/county/hampden/spfld/hist1/p49-88.html Pig Farming Ancestor], William Slothrop:<br />
<br />
:And it is just here, just at this dark and silent frame, that the pointed tip of the Rocket, falling nearly a mile a second, absolutely and forever without sound, reaches its last unmeasurable gap above the roof of this old theatre, the last delta-t.<br />
<br />
:There is time, if you need the comfort, to touch the person next to you, or to reach between your own cold legs . . . or, if song must find you, here's one They never taught anyone to sing, a hymn by William Slothrop, centuries for gotten and out of print, sung to a simple and pleasant air of the period. Follow the bouncing ball:<br />
<br />
::There is a Hand to turn the time,<br />
::Though thy Glass today be run,<br />
::Till the Light that hath brought the Towers low<br />
::Find the last poor Pret'rite one . . .<br />
::Till the Riders sleep by ev'ry road,<br />
::All through our crippled Zone.<br />
::With a face on ev'ry mountainside,<br />
::And a Soul in ev'ry stone. . . .<br />
:Now everybody---<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
More to come,<br />
<br />
Robin Landseadel</div>Gelitrippinghttps://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gravity%27s_Rainbow&diff=2547Gravity's Rainbow2007-12-01T21:59:26Z<p>Gelitripping: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''Just So Everybody Understands, This Page is Still Under Construction. You Will Experience The Unvarnished Joy Of Watching A Thousand Tiny Errors Creep In And Out Of The Text, Often At Very Strange Hours. Do Not Be Alarmed''' <br />
<br />
:::''For I Bring You Tidings Of Great Joy'' <br />
<br />
'''And the Occasional Stupid Song. GT''' <br />
<br />
<br />
Well known [http://books.google.com/books?ct=title&q=thomas+Pynchon&btnG=Search+Books Author], [http://files.splinder.com/f7cdee4dc9eb635bb8fa51940e388bf1.jpeg Bag Man], and [http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,950245,00.html Urban Legend] [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Fifth] comes from a long line that begins with [http://www.famousamericans.net/williampynchon/ William Pynchon], founder of the town of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recurring_characters_from_The_Simpsons#Jebediah_Springfield Springfield], [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~scanderson/deacon_chapin.HTM Massachusetts]. [http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4832 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Third] is more than a footnote to [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5FB21F083E60E4CE450B0320759422AF.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=8545 Nathaniel Hawthorne's ][http://books.google.com/books?id=wDY99lZWkqoC&dq=nathaniel+hawthorne%27s+house+of+seven+gables&pg=PP1&ots=e4R3vRu0ol&sig=eMvwvRgwViCQcfDtpTD3z0NchWc&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3DNathaniel%2BHawthorne%27s%2B%255D%255B%2BHouse%2Bof%2BSeven%2BGables%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail#PPA2,M1 House of Seven Gables]. This [http://www.vheissu.info/bio/eng_tijdlijn.htm Pynchon Timetable] comes via the [http://www.vheissu.info/index.htm Vheissu] website:<br />
<br />
:Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The House of the Seven Gables. Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1823-1904) writes the author a letter, complaining about the 'abuse' of the 'Pyncheon' name. This rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon will become the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, where he teaches science and religion. In 1881 he publishes an Introduction to Chemical Physics. His brother William is the great-grandfather of author Thomas Pynchon. <br />
<br />
The use of language in his '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics] is reminiscent of his younger namesake:<br />
<br />
:"The name Chemistry, is said to be derived from the Arabic word Kimia, something hidden or concealed, and from this, to have been converted into Xyueia*, a word first used by the Greeks about the eleventh century, and meaning the art of making gold and silver. Between the fifth century and the taking of Constantinople in the fifteenth century, says Dr. Thomson, in his History of Chemistry, the Greeks believed in the possibility of making god and silver artificially; and the art which professed to teach the processes was called by them, Chemistry. This idea, however, has long since been thoroughly discarded, and is now no longer heard of."<br />
<br />
Like the author we are discussing, The Thomas Pynchon of [http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/leadership/jones/inauguration/past_presidents.htm Trinity College], Hartford Connecticut, was a daunting polymath. If you open '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]', one of the first things you will see is are Rainbows, the rainbows from the workings of a Chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrometer Spectrometer]:<br />
<br />
:When a material is heated to incandescence it emits light that is characteristic of the atomic makeup of the material. Particular light frequencies give rise to sharply defined bands on the scale which can be thought of as fingerprints. For example, the element sodium has a very characteristic double yellow band known as the Sodium D-lines at 588.9950 and 589.5924 nanometers, the colour of which will be familiar to anyone who has seen a low pressure sodium vapor lamp.<br />
<br />
<br />
One of the branches of the Pynchon Clan, George M. Pynchon, ran the Wall Street Investment firm [http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0711&msg=122572&sort=author Pynchon & Company] Pynchon & Company started up with real estate and Railroads, got involved in all sorts of [then] high-tech enterprises like gas and electrical grids, the work of Thomas Alva Edison including Edison/GE's Mazda Lamp Division, with the firm's director George M. Pynchon enjoying a public life as a champion Yacht Racer. Pynchon & Company fell apart in 1931 when film maker and investor William Fox was taken down by a consortium of Banking and Technology interests, including Western Electric, RCA and a number of very large banks. Some of those very large banks infamously invested in the emerging new economy of a re-industrialized Germany, under the bold direction of its new leader, Adolph Hitler. In particular, [http://oilintheirblood.com/synthetics.html I. G. Farben] became a cash nexus for a number of American Investors whose view never went any farther than the bottom line. Much of the scientific material in Gravity's Rainbow concerns the commercial applications of Chemistry. <br />
<br />
In Gravity's Rainbow, 'we' start in a train:<br />
<br />
:"There are no lights inside the cars."<br />
<br />
. . . .and wind up in a theater, waiting for the end to come, singing an old church hymn from Tyrone Slothrop's [http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ma/county/hampden/spfld/hist1/p49-88.html Pig Farming Ancestor], William Slothrop:<br />
<br />
:And it is just here, just at this dark and silent frame, that the pointed tip of the Rocket, falling nearly a mile a second, absolutely and forever without sound, reaches its last unmeasurable gap above the roof of this old theatre, the last delta-t.<br />
<br />
:There is time, if you need the comfort, to touch the person next to you, or to reach between your own cold legs . . . or, if song must find you, here's one They never taught anyone to sing, a hymn by William Slothrop, centuries for gotten and out of print, sung to a simple and pleasant air of the period. Follow the bouncing ball:<br />
<br />
::There is a Hand to turn the time,<br />
::Though thy Glass today be run,<br />
::Till the Light that hath brought the Towers low<br />
::Find the last poor Pret'rite one . . .<br />
::Till the Riders sleep by ev'ry road,<br />
::All through our crippled Zone.<br />
::With a face on ev'ry mountainside,<br />
::And a Soul in ev'ry stone. . . .<br />
:Now everybody---<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
More to come,<br />
<br />
Robin Landseadel</div>Gelitrippinghttps://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gravity%27s_Rainbow&diff=2546Gravity's Rainbow2007-12-01T21:58:43Z<p>Gelitripping: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''Just So Everybody Understands, This Page is Still Under Construction. You Will Experience The Unvarnished Joy Of Watching A Thousand Tiny Errors Creep In And Out Of The Text, Often At Very Strange Hours. Do Not Be Alarmed <br />
:''For I Bring You Tidings Of Great Joy'' <br />
:And the Occasional Stupid Song. GT''' <br />
<br />
<br />
Well known [http://books.google.com/books?ct=title&q=thomas+Pynchon&btnG=Search+Books Author], [http://files.splinder.com/f7cdee4dc9eb635bb8fa51940e388bf1.jpeg Bag Man], and [http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,950245,00.html Urban Legend] [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Fifth] comes from a long line that begins with [http://www.famousamericans.net/williampynchon/ William Pynchon], founder of the town of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recurring_characters_from_The_Simpsons#Jebediah_Springfield Springfield], [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~scanderson/deacon_chapin.HTM Massachusetts]. [http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4832 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Third] is more than a footnote to [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5FB21F083E60E4CE450B0320759422AF.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=8545 Nathaniel Hawthorne's ][http://books.google.com/books?id=wDY99lZWkqoC&dq=nathaniel+hawthorne%27s+house+of+seven+gables&pg=PP1&ots=e4R3vRu0ol&sig=eMvwvRgwViCQcfDtpTD3z0NchWc&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3DNathaniel%2BHawthorne%27s%2B%255D%255B%2BHouse%2Bof%2BSeven%2BGables%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail#PPA2,M1 House of Seven Gables]. This [http://www.vheissu.info/bio/eng_tijdlijn.htm Pynchon Timetable] comes via the [http://www.vheissu.info/index.htm Vheissu] website:<br />
<br />
:Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The House of the Seven Gables. Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1823-1904) writes the author a letter, complaining about the 'abuse' of the 'Pyncheon' name. This rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon will become the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, where he teaches science and religion. In 1881 he publishes an Introduction to Chemical Physics. His brother William is the great-grandfather of author Thomas Pynchon. <br />
<br />
The use of language in his '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics] is reminiscent of his younger namesake:<br />
<br />
:"The name Chemistry, is said to be derived from the Arabic word Kimia, something hidden or concealed, and from this, to have been converted into Xyueia*, a word first used by the Greeks about the eleventh century, and meaning the art of making gold and silver. Between the fifth century and the taking of Constantinople in the fifteenth century, says Dr. Thomson, in his History of Chemistry, the Greeks believed in the possibility of making god and silver artificially; and the art which professed to teach the processes was called by them, Chemistry. This idea, however, has long since been thoroughly discarded, and is now no longer heard of."<br />
<br />
Like the author we are discussing, The Thomas Pynchon of [http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/leadership/jones/inauguration/past_presidents.htm Trinity College], Hartford Connecticut, was a daunting polymath. If you open '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]', one of the first things you will see is are Rainbows, the rainbows from the workings of a Chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrometer Spectrometer]:<br />
<br />
:When a material is heated to incandescence it emits light that is characteristic of the atomic makeup of the material. Particular light frequencies give rise to sharply defined bands on the scale which can be thought of as fingerprints. For example, the element sodium has a very characteristic double yellow band known as the Sodium D-lines at 588.9950 and 589.5924 nanometers, the colour of which will be familiar to anyone who has seen a low pressure sodium vapor lamp.<br />
<br />
<br />
One of the branches of the Pynchon Clan, George M. Pynchon, ran the Wall Street Investment firm [http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0711&msg=122572&sort=author Pynchon & Company] Pynchon & Company started up with real estate and Railroads, got involved in all sorts of [then] high-tech enterprises like gas and electrical grids, the work of Thomas Alva Edison including Edison/GE's Mazda Lamp Division, with the firm's director George M. Pynchon enjoying a public life as a champion Yacht Racer. Pynchon & Company fell apart in 1931 when film maker and investor William Fox was taken down by a consortium of Banking and Technology interests, including Western Electric, RCA and a number of very large banks. Some of those very large banks infamously invested in the emerging new economy of a re-industrialized Germany, under the bold direction of its new leader, Adolph Hitler. In particular, [http://oilintheirblood.com/synthetics.html I. G. Farben] became a cash nexus for a number of American Investors whose view never went any farther than the bottom line. Much of the scientific material in Gravity's Rainbow concerns the commercial applications of Chemistry. <br />
<br />
In Gravity's Rainbow, 'we' start in a train:<br />
<br />
:"There are no lights inside the cars."<br />
<br />
. . . .and wind up in a theater, waiting for the end to come, singing an old church hymn from Tyrone Slothrop's [http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ma/county/hampden/spfld/hist1/p49-88.html Pig Farming Ancestor], William Slothrop:<br />
<br />
:And it is just here, just at this dark and silent frame, that the pointed tip of the Rocket, falling nearly a mile a second, absolutely and forever without sound, reaches its last unmeasurable gap above the roof of this old theatre, the last delta-t.<br />
<br />
:There is time, if you need the comfort, to touch the person next to you, or to reach between your own cold legs . . . or, if song must find you, here's one They never taught anyone to sing, a hymn by William Slothrop, centuries for gotten and out of print, sung to a simple and pleasant air of the period. Follow the bouncing ball:<br />
<br />
::There is a Hand to turn the time,<br />
::Though thy Glass today be run,<br />
::Till the Light that hath brought the Towers low<br />
::Find the last poor Pret'rite one . . .<br />
::Till the Riders sleep by ev'ry road,<br />
::All through our crippled Zone.<br />
::With a face on ev'ry mountainside,<br />
::And a Soul in ev'ry stone. . . .<br />
:Now everybody---<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
More to come,<br />
<br />
Robin Landseadel</div>Gelitrippinghttps://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gravity%27s_Rainbow&diff=2545Gravity's Rainbow2007-12-01T21:49:51Z<p>Gelitripping: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''Just So Everybody Understands, This Page is Still Under Construction. You Will Experience The Unvarnished Joy Of Watching A Thousand Tiny Errors Creep In And Out Of The Text, Often At Very Strange Hours. Do Not Be Alarmed ''For I Bring You Tidings Of Great Joy'' And the Occasional Stupid Song. GT''' <br />
<br />
<br />
Well known [http://books.google.com/books?ct=title&q=thomas+Pynchon&btnG=Search+Books Author], [http://files.splinder.com/f7cdee4dc9eb635bb8fa51940e388bf1.jpeg Bag Man], and [http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,950245,00.html Urban Legend] [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Fifth] comes from a long line that begins with [http://www.famousamericans.net/williampynchon/ William Pynchon], founder of the town of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recurring_characters_from_The_Simpsons#Jebediah_Springfield Springfield], [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~scanderson/deacon_chapin.HTM Massachusetts]. [http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4832 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Third] is more than a footnote to [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5FB21F083E60E4CE450B0320759422AF.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=8545 Nathaniel Hawthorne's ][http://books.google.com/books?id=wDY99lZWkqoC&dq=nathaniel+hawthorne%27s+house+of+seven+gables&pg=PP1&ots=e4R3vRu0ol&sig=eMvwvRgwViCQcfDtpTD3z0NchWc&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3DNathaniel%2BHawthorne%27s%2B%255D%255B%2BHouse%2Bof%2BSeven%2BGables%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail#PPA2,M1 House of Seven Gables]. This [http://www.vheissu.info/bio/eng_tijdlijn.htm Pynchon Timetable] comes via the [http://www.vheissu.info/index.htm Vheissu] website:<br />
<br />
:Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The House of the Seven Gables. Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1823-1904) writes the author a letter, complaining about the 'abuse' of the 'Pyncheon' name. This rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon will become the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, where he teaches science and religion. In 1881 he publishes an Introduction to Chemical Physics. His brother William is the great-grandfather of author Thomas Pynchon. <br />
<br />
The use of language in his '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics] is reminiscent of his younger namesake:<br />
<br />
:"The name Chemistry, is said to be derived from the Arabic word Kimia, something hidden or concealed, and from this, to have been converted into Xyueia*, a word first used by the Greeks about the eleventh century, and meaning the art of making gold and silver. Between the fifth century and the taking of Constantinople in the fifteenth century, says Dr. Thomson, in his History of Chemistry, the Greeks believed in the possibility of making god and silver artificially; and the art which professed to teach the processes was called by them, Chemistry. This idea, however, has long since been thoroughly discarded, and is now no longer heard of."<br />
<br />
Like the author we are discussing, The Thomas Pynchon of [http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/leadership/jones/inauguration/past_presidents.htm Trinity College], Hartford Connecticut, was a daunting polymath. If you open '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]', one of the first things you will see is are Rainbows, the rainbows from the workings of a Chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrometer Spectrometer]:<br />
<br />
:When a material is heated to incandescence it emits light that is characteristic of the atomic makeup of the material. Particular light frequencies give rise to sharply defined bands on the scale which can be thought of as fingerprints. For example, the element sodium has a very characteristic double yellow band known as the Sodium D-lines at 588.9950 and 589.5924 nanometers, the colour of which will be familiar to anyone who has seen a low pressure sodium vapor lamp.<br />
<br />
<br />
One of the branches of the Pynchon Clan, George M. Pynchon, ran the Wall Street Investment firm [http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0711&msg=122572&sort=author Pynchon & Company] Pynchon & Company started up with real estate and Railroads, got involved in all sorts of [then] high-tech enterprises like gas and electrical grids, the work of Thomas Alva Edison including Edison/GE's Mazda Lamp Division, with the firm's director George M. Pynchon enjoying a public life as a champion Yacht Racer. Pynchon & Company fell apart in 1931 when film maker and investor William Fox was taken down by a consortium of Banking and Technology interests, including Western Electric, RCA and a number of very large banks. Some of those very large banks infamously invested in the emerging new economy of a re-industrialized Germany, under the bold direction of its new leader, Adolph Hitler. In particular, [http://oilintheirblood.com/synthetics.html I. G. Farben] became a cash nexus for a number of American Investors whose view never went any farther than the bottom line. Much of the scientific material in Gravity's Rainbow concerns the commercial applications of Chemistry. <br />
<br />
In Gravity's Rainbow, 'we' start in a train:<br />
<br />
:"There are no lights inside the cars."<br />
<br />
. . . .and wind up in a theater, waiting for the end to come, singing an old church hymn from Tyrone Slothrop's [http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ma/county/hampden/spfld/hist1/p49-88.html Pig Farming Ancestor], William Slothrop:<br />
<br />
:And it is just here, just at this dark and silent frame, that the pointed tip of the Rocket, falling nearly a mile a second, absolutely and forever without sound, reaches its last unmeasurable gap above the roof of this old theatre, the last delta-t.<br />
<br />
:There is time, if you need the comfort, to touch the person next to you, or to reach between your own cold legs . . . or, if song must find you, here's one They never taught anyone to sing, a hymn by William Slothrop, centuries for gotten and out of print, sung to a simple and pleasant air of the period. Follow the bouncing ball:<br />
<br />
::There is a Hand to turn the time,<br />
::Though thy Glass today be run,<br />
::Till the Light that hath brought the Towers low<br />
::Find the last poor Pret'rite one . . .<br />
::Till the Riders sleep by ev'ry road,<br />
::All through our crippled Zone.<br />
::With a face on ev'ry mountainside,<br />
::And a Soul in ev'ry stone. . . .<br />
:Now everybody---<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
More to come,<br />
<br />
Robin Landseadel</div>Gelitrippinghttps://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gravity%27s_Rainbow&diff=2544Gravity's Rainbow2007-12-01T21:48:03Z<p>Gelitripping: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''Just So Everybody Understands, This Page is Still Under Construction. You Will Experience The Unvarnished Joy Of Watching A Thousand Tiny Errors Creep In And Out Of The Text, Often At Very Strange Hours. Do Not Be Alarmed ''For I Bring You Tidings Of Great Joy'' And the Occasional Stupid Song. GT''' <br />
<br />
<br />
Well known [http://books.google.com/books?ct=title&q=thomas+Pynchon&btnG=Search+Books Author], [http://files.splinder.com/f7cdee4dc9eb635bb8fa51940e388bf1.jpeg Bag Man], and [http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,950245,00.html Urban Legend] [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Fifth] comes from a long line that begins with [http://www.famousamericans.net/williampynchon/ William Pynchon], founder of the town of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recurring_characters_from_The_Simpsons#Jebediah_Springfield Springfield], [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~scanderson/deacon_chapin.HTM Massachusetts]. [http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4832 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Third] is more than a footnote to [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5FB21F083E60E4CE450B0320759422AF.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=8545 Nathaniel Hawthorne's ][http://books.google.com/books?id=wDY99lZWkqoC&dq=nathaniel+hawthorne%27s+house+of+seven+gables&pg=PP1&ots=e4R3vRu0ol&sig=eMvwvRgwViCQcfDtpTD3z0NchWc&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3DNathaniel%2BHawthorne%27s%2B%255D%255B%2BHouse%2Bof%2BSeven%2BGables%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail#PPA2,M1 House of Seven Gables]. This [http://www.vheissu.info/bio/eng_tijdlijn.htm Pynchon Timetable] comes via the [http://www.vheissu.info/index.htm Vheissu] website:<br />
<br />
:Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The House of the Seven Gables. Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1823-1904) writes the author a letter, complaining about the 'abuse' of the 'Pyncheon' name. This rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon will become the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, where he teaches science and religion. In 1881 he publishes an Introduction to Chemical Physics. His brother William is the great-grandfather of author Thomas Pynchon. <br />
<br />
The use of language in his '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics] is reminiscent of his younger namesake:<br />
<br />
:"The name Chemistry, is said to be derived from the Arabic word Kimia, something hidden or concealed, and from this, to have been converted into Xyueia*, a word first used by the Greeks about the eleventh century, and meaning the art of making gold and silver. Between the fifth century and the taking of Constantinople in the fifteenth century, says Dr. Thomson, in his History of Chemistry, the Greeks believed in the possibility of making god and silver artificially; and the art which professed to teach the processes was called by them, Chemistry. This idea, however, has long since been thoroughly discarded, and is now no longer heard of."<br />
<br />
Like the author we are discussing, The Thomas Pynchon of [http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/leadership/jones/inauguration/past_presidents.htm Trinity College], Hartford Connecticut, was a daunting polymath. If you open '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]', one of the first things you will see is are Rainbows, the rainbows from the workings of a Chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrometer Spectrometer]:<br />
<br />
:When a material is heated to incandescence it emits light that is characteristic of the atomic makeup of the material. Particular light frequencies give rise to sharply defined bands on the scale which can be thought of as fingerprints. For example, the element sodium has a very characteristic double yellow band known as the Sodium D-lines at 588.9950 and 589.5924 nanometers, the colour of which will be familiar to anyone who has seen a low pressure sodium vapor lamp.<br />
<br />
<br />
Much of the scientific material in Gravity's Rainbow concerns the commercial applications of Chemistry. One of the branches of the Pynchon Clan, George M. Pynchon, ran the Wall Street Investment firm [http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0711&msg=122572&sort=author Pynchon & Company] In Gravity's Rainbow, 'we' start in a train:<br />
<br />
:"There are no lights inside the cars."<br />
<br />
. . . .and wind up in a theater, waiting for the end to come, singing an old church hymn from Tyrone Slothrop's [http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ma/county/hampden/spfld/hist1/p49-88.html Pig Farming Ancestor], William Slothrop:<br />
<br />
:And it is just here, just at this dark and silent frame, that the pointed tip of the Rocket, falling nearly a mile a second, absolutely and forever without sound, reaches its last unmeasurable gap above the roof of this old theatre, the last delta-t.<br />
<br />
:There is time, if you need the comfort, to touch the person next to you, or to reach between your own cold legs . . . or, if song must find you, here's one They never taught anyone to sing, a hymn by William Slothrop, centuries for gotten and out of print, sung to a simple and pleasant air of the period. Follow the bouncing ball:<br />
<br />
::There is a Hand to turn the time,<br />
::Though thy Glass today be run,<br />
::Till the Light that hath brought the Towers low<br />
::Find the last poor Pret'rite one . . .<br />
::Till the Riders sleep by ev'ry road,<br />
::All through our crippled Zone.<br />
::With a face on ev'ry mountainside,<br />
::And a Soul in ev'ry stone. . . .<br />
:Now everybody---<br />
<br />
Pynchon & Company started up with real estate and Railroads, got involved in all sorts of [then] high-tech enterprises like gas and electrical grids, the work of Thomas Alva Edison including Edison/GE's Mazda Lamp Division, with the firm's director George M. Pynchon enjoying a public life as a champion Yacht Racer. Pynchon & Company fell apart in 1931 when film maker and investor William Fox was taken down by a consortium of Banking and Technology interests, including Western Electric, RCA and a number of very large banks. Some of those very large banks infamously invested in the emerging new economy of a re-industrialized Germany, under the bold direction of its new leader, Adolph Hitler. In particular, [http://oilintheirblood.com/synthetics.html I. G. Farben] became a cash nexus for a number of American Investors whose view never went any farther than the bottom line.<br />
<br />
More to come,<br />
<br />
Robin Landseadel</div>Gelitrippinghttps://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gravity%27s_Rainbow&diff=2543Gravity's Rainbow2007-12-01T21:40:43Z<p>Gelitripping: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''Just So Everybody Understands, This Page is Still Under Construction. You Will Experience The Unvarnished Joy Of Watching A Thousand Tiny Errors Creep In And Out Of The Text, Often At Very Strange Hours. Do Not Be Alarmed ''For I Bring You Tidings Of Great Joy'' And the Occasional Stupid Song. GT''' <br />
<br />
<br />
Well known [http://books.google.com/books?ct=title&q=thomas+Pynchon&btnG=Search+Books Author], [http://files.splinder.com/f7cdee4dc9eb635bb8fa51940e388bf1.jpeg Bag Man], and [http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,950245,00.html Urban Legend] [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Fifth] comes from a long line that begins with [http://www.famousamericans.net/williampynchon/ William Pynchon], founder of the town of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recurring_characters_from_The_Simpsons#Jebediah_Springfield Springfield], [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~scanderson/deacon_chapin.HTM Massachusetts]. [http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4832 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Third] is more than a footnote to [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5FB21F083E60E4CE450B0320759422AF.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=8545 Nathaniel Hawthorne's ][http://books.google.com/books?id=wDY99lZWkqoC&dq=nathaniel+hawthorne%27s+house+of+seven+gables&pg=PP1&ots=e4R3vRu0ol&sig=eMvwvRgwViCQcfDtpTD3z0NchWc&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3DNathaniel%2BHawthorne%27s%2B%255D%255B%2BHouse%2Bof%2BSeven%2BGables%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail#PPA2,M1 House of Seven Gables]. This [http://www.vheissu.info/bio/eng_tijdlijn.htm Pynchon Timetable] comes via the [http://www.vheissu.info/index.htm Vheissu] website:<br />
<br />
:Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The House of the Seven Gables. Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1823-1904) writes the author a letter, complaining about the 'abuse' of the 'Pyncheon' name. This rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon will become the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, where he teaches science and religion. In 1881 he publishes an Introduction to Chemical Physics. His brother William is the great-grandfather of author Thomas Pynchon. <br />
<br />
The use of language in his '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics] is reminiscent of his younger namesake:<br />
<br />
:"The name Chemistry, is said to be derived from the Arabic word Kimia, something hidden or concealed, and from this, to have been converted into Xyueia*, a word first used by the Greeks about the eleventh century, and meaning the art of making gold and silver. Between the fifth century and the taking of Constantinople in the fifteenth century, says Dr. Thomson, in his History of Chemistry, the Greeks believed in the possibility of making god and silver artificially; and the art which professed to teach the processes was called by them, Chemistry. This idea, however, has long since been thoroughly discarded, and is now no longer heard of."<br />
<br />
Like the author we are discussing, The Thomas Pynchon of [http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/leadership/jones/inauguration/past_presidents.htm Trinity College], Hartford Connecticut, was a daunting polymath. If you open '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]', one of the first things you will see is are [http://www.hawaiipictures.com/pictures/kauai/rainbows1-1.jpg Rainbows], the rainbows from the workings of a Chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrometer Spectrometer]:<br />
<br />
:When a material is heated to incandescence it emits light that is characteristic of the atomic makeup of the material. Particular light frequencies give rise to sharply defined bands on the scale which can be thought of as fingerprints. For example, the element sodium has a very characteristic double yellow band known as the Sodium D-lines at 588.9950 and 589.5924 nanometers, the colour of which will be familiar to anyone who has seen a low pressure sodium vapor lamp.<br />
<br />
<br />
Much of the scientific material in Gravity's Rainbow concerns the commercial applications of Chemistry. One of the branches of the Pynchon Clan, George M. Pynchon, ran the Wall Street Investment firm [http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0711&msg=122572&sort=author Pynchon & Company] In Gravity's Rainbow, 'we' start in a train:<br />
<br />
:"There are no lights inside the cars."<br />
<br />
. . . .and wind up in a theater, waiting for the end to come, singing an old church hymn from Tyrone Slothrop's [http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ma/county/hampden/spfld/hist1/p49-88.html Pig Farming Ancestor], William Slothrop:<br />
<br />
:And it is just here, just at this dark and silent frame, that the pointed tip of the Rocket, falling nearly a mile a second, absolutely and forever without sound, reaches its last unmeasurable gap above the roof of this old theatre, the last delta-t.<br />
<br />
:There is time, if you need the comfort, to touch the person next to you, or to reach between your own cold legs . . . or, if song must find you, here's one They never taught anyone to sing, a hymn by William Slothrop, centuries for gotten and out of print, sung to a simple and pleasant air of the period. Follow the bouncing ball:<br />
<br />
::There is a Hand to turn the time,<br />
::Though thy Glass today be run,<br />
::Till the Light that hath brought the Towers low<br />
::Find the last poor Pret'rite one . . .<br />
::Till the Riders sleep by ev'ry road,<br />
::All through our crippled Zone.<br />
::With a face on ev'ry mountainside,<br />
::And a Soul in ev'ry stone. . . .<br />
:Now everybody---<br />
<br />
Pynchon & Company started up with real estate and Railroads, got involved in all sorts of [then] high-tech enterprises like gas and electrical grids, the work of Thomas Alva Edison including Edison/GE's Mazda Lamp Division, with the firm's director George M. Pynchon enjoying a public life as a champion Yacht Racer. Pynchon & Company fell apart in 1931 when film maker and investor William Fox was taken down by a consortium of Banking and Technology interests, including Western Electric, RCA and a number of very large banks. Some of those very large banks infamously invested in the emerging new economy of a re-industrialized Germany, under the bold direction of its new leader, Adolph Hitler. In particular, [http://oilintheirblood.com/synthetics.html I. G. Farben] became a cash nexus for a number of American Investors whose view never went any farther than the bottom line.<br />
<br />
More to come,<br />
<br />
Robin Landseadel</div>Gelitrippinghttps://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gravity%27s_Rainbow&diff=2542Gravity's Rainbow2007-12-01T21:39:25Z<p>Gelitripping: </p>
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Well known [http://books.google.com/books?ct=title&q=thomas+Pynchon&btnG=Search+Books Author], [http://files.splinder.com/f7cdee4dc9eb635bb8fa51940e388bf1.jpeg Bag Man], and [http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,950245,00.html Urban Legend] [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Fifth] comes from a long line that begins with [http://www.famousamericans.net/williampynchon/ William Pynchon], founder of the town of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recurring_characters_from_The_Simpsons#Jebediah_Springfield Springfield], [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~scanderson/deacon_chapin.HTM Massachusetts]. [http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4832 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Third] is more than a footnote to [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5FB21F083E60E4CE450B0320759422AF.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=8545 Nathaniel Hawthorne's ][http://books.google.com/books?id=wDY99lZWkqoC&dq=nathaniel+hawthorne%27s+house+of+seven+gables&pg=PP1&ots=e4R3vRu0ol&sig=eMvwvRgwViCQcfDtpTD3z0NchWc&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3DNathaniel%2BHawthorne%27s%2B%255D%255B%2BHouse%2Bof%2BSeven%2BGables%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail#PPA2,M1 House of Seven Gables]. This [http://www.vheissu.info/bio/eng_tijdlijn.htm Pynchon Timetable] comes via the [http://www.vheissu.info/index.htm Vheissu] website:<br />
<br />
:Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The House of the Seven Gables. Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1823-1904) writes the author a letter, complaining about the 'abuse' of the 'Pyncheon' name. This rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon will become the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, where he teaches science and religion. In 1881 he publishes an Introduction to Chemical Physics. His brother William is the great-grandfather of author Thomas Pynchon. <br />
<br />
The use of language in his '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics] is reminiscent of his younger namesake:<br />
<br />
:"The name Chemistry, is said to be derived from the Arabic word Kimia, something hidden or concealed, and from this, to have been converted into Xyueia*, a word first used by the Greeks about the eleventh century, and meaning the art of making gold and silver. Between the fifth century and the taking of Constantinople in the fifteenth century, says Dr. Thomson, in his History of Chemistry, the Greeks believed in the possibility of making god and silver artificially; and the art which professed to teach the processes was called by them, Chemistry. This idea, however, has long since been thoroughly discarded, and is now no longer heard of."<br />
<br />
Like the author we are discussing, The Thomas Pynchon of [http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/leadership/jones/inauguration/past_presidents.htm Trinity College], Hartford Connecticut, was a daunting polymath. If you open '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]', one of the first things you will see is are [http://www.hawaiipictures.com/pictures/kauai/rainbows1-1.jpg Rainbows], the rainbows from the workings of a Chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrometer Spectrometer]:<br />
<br />
:When a material is heated to incandescence it emits light that is characteristic of the atomic makeup of the material. Particular light frequencies give rise to sharply defined bands on the scale which can be thought of as fingerprints. For example, the element sodium has a very characteristic double yellow band known as the Sodium D-lines at 588.9950 and 589.5924 nanometers, the colour of which will be familiar to anyone who has seen a low pressure sodium vapor lamp.<br />
<br />
<br />
Much of the scientific material in Gravity's Rainbow concerns the commercial applications of Chemistry. One of the branches of the Pynchon Clan, George M. Pynchon, ran the Wall Street Investment firm [http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0711&msg=122572&sort=author Pynchon & Company] In Gravity's Rainbow, 'we' start in a train:<br />
<br />
:"There are no lights inside the cars."<br />
<br />
. . . .and wind up in a theater, waiting for the end to come, singing an old church hymn from Tyrone Slothrop's [http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ma/county/hampden/spfld/hist1/p49-88.html Pig Farming Ancestor], William Slothrop:<br />
<br />
:And it is just here, just at this dark and silent frame, that the pointed tip of the Rocket, falling nearly a mile a second, absolutely and forever without sound, reaches its last unmeasurable gap above the roof of this old theatre, the last delta-t.<br />
<br />
:There is time, if you need the comfort, to touch the person next to you, or to reach between your own cold legs . . . or, if song must find you, here's one They never taught anyone to sing, a hymn by William Slothrop, centuries for gotten and out of print, sung to a simple and pleasant air of the period. Follow the bouncing ball:<br />
<br />
::There is a Hand to turn the time,<br />
::Though thy Glass today be run,<br />
::Till the Light that hath brought the Towers low<br />
::Find the last poor Pret'rite one . . .<br />
::Till the Riders sleep by ev'ry road,<br />
::All through our crippled Zone.<br />
::With a face on ev'ry mountainside,<br />
::And a Soul in ev'ry stone. . . .<br />
:Now everybody---<br />
<br />
Pynchon & Company started up with real estate and Railroads, got involved in all sorts of [then] high-tech enterprises like gas and electrical grids, the work of Thomas Alva Edison including Edison/GE's Mazda Lamp Division, with the firm's director George M. Pynchon enjoying a public life as a champion Yacht Racer. Pynchon & Company fell apart in 1931 when film maker and investor William Fox was taken down by a consortium of Banking and Technology interests, including Western Electric, RCA and a number of very large banks. Some of those very large banks infamously invested in the emerging new economy of a re-industrialized Germany, under the bold direction of its new leader, Adolph Hitler. In particular, [http://oilintheirblood.com/synthetics.html I. G. Farben] became a cash nexus for a number of American Investors whose view never went any farther than the bottom line.<br />
<br />
More to come,<br />
<br />
Robin Landseadel</div>Gelitrippinghttps://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gravity%27s_Rainbow&diff=2541Gravity's Rainbow2007-12-01T20:57:55Z<p>Gelitripping: </p>
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<div>Well known [http://books.google.com/books?ct=title&q=thomas+Pynchon&btnG=Search+Books Author], [http://files.splinder.com/f7cdee4dc9eb635bb8fa51940e388bf1.jpeg Bag Man], and [http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,950245,00.html Urban Legend] [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Fifth] comes from a long line that begins with [http://www.famousamericans.net/williampynchon/ William Pynchon], founder of the town of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recurring_characters_from_The_Simpsons#Jebediah_Springfield Springfield], [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~scanderson/deacon_chapin.HTM Massachusetts]. [http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4832 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Third] is more than a footnote to [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5FB21F083E60E4CE450B0320759422AF.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=8545 Nathaniel Hawthorne's ][http://books.google.com/books?id=wDY99lZWkqoC&dq=nathaniel+hawthorne%27s+house+of+seven+gables&pg=PP1&ots=e4R3vRu0ol&sig=eMvwvRgwViCQcfDtpTD3z0NchWc&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3DNathaniel%2BHawthorne%27s%2B%255D%255B%2BHouse%2Bof%2BSeven%2BGables%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail#PPA2,M1 House of Seven Gables]. This [http://www.vheissu.info/bio/eng_tijdlijn.htm Pynchon Timetable] comes via the [http://www.vheissu.info/index.htm Vheissu] website:<br />
<br />
:Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The House of the Seven Gables. Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1823-1904) writes the author a letter, complaining about the 'abuse' of the 'Pyncheon' name. This rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon will become the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, where he teaches science and religion. In 1881 he publishes an Introduction to Chemical Physics. His brother William is the great-grandfather of author Thomas Pynchon. <br />
<br />
The use of language in his '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics] is reminiscent of his younger namesake:<br />
<br />
:"The name Chemistry, is said to be derived from the Arabic word Kimia, something hidden or concealed, and from this, to have been converted into Xyueia*, a word first used by the Greeks about the eleventh century, and meaning the art of making gold and silver. Between the fifth century and the taking of Constantinople in the fifteenth century, says Dr. Thomson, in his History of Chemistry, the Greeks believed in the possibility of making god and silver artificially; and the art which professed to teach the processes was called by them, Chemistry. This idea, however, has long since been thoroughly discarded, and is now no longer heard of."<br />
<br />
Like the author we are discussing, The Thomas Pynchon of [http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/leadership/jones/inauguration/past_presidents.htm Trinity College], Hartford Connecticut, was a daunting polymath. If you open '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]', one of the first things you will see is are [http://www.hawaiipictures.com/pictures/kauai/rainbows1-1.jpg Rainbows], the rainbows from the workings of a Chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrometer Spectrometer]:<br />
<br />
:When a material is heated to incandescence it emits light that is characteristic of the atomic makeup of the material. Particular light frequencies give rise to sharply defined bands on the scale which can be thought of as fingerprints. For example, the element sodium has a very characteristic double yellow band known as the Sodium D-lines at 588.9950 and 589.5924 nanometers, the colour of which will be familiar to anyone who has seen a low pressure sodium vapor lamp.<br />
<br />
<br />
Much of the scientific material in Gravity's Rainbow concerns the commercial applications of Chemistry. One of the branches of the Pynchon Clan, George M. Pynchon, ran the Wall Street Investment firm [http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0711&msg=122572&sort=author Pynchon & Company] In Gravity's Rainbow, 'we' start in a train:<br />
<br />
:"There are no lights inside the cars."<br />
<br />
. . . .and wind up in a theater, waiting for the end to come, singing an old church hymn from Tyrone Slothrop's [http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ma/county/hampden/spfld/hist1/p49-88.html Pig Farming Ancestor], William Slothrop:<br />
<br />
:And it is just here, just at this dark and silent frame, that the pointed tip of the Rocket, falling nearly a mile a second, absolutely and forever without sound, reaches its last unmeasurable gap above the roof of this old theatre, the last delta-t.<br />
<br />
:There is time, if you need the comfort, to touch the person next to you, or to reach between your own cold legs . . . or, if song must find you, here's one They never taught anyone to sing, a hymn by William Slothrop, centuries for gotten and out of print, sung to a simple and pleasant air of the period. Follow the bouncing ball:<br />
<br />
::There is a Hand to turn the time,<br />
::Though thy Glass today be run,<br />
::Till the Light that hath brought the Towers low<br />
::Find the last poor Pret'rite one . . .<br />
::Till the Riders sleep by ev'ry road,<br />
::All through our crippled Zone.<br />
::With a face on ev'ry mountainside,<br />
::And a Soul in ev'ry stone. . . .<br />
:Now everybody---<br />
<br />
Pynchon & Company started up with real estate and Railroads, got involved in all sorts of [then] high-tech enterprises like gas and electrical grids, the work of Thomas Alva Edison including Edison/GE's Mazda Lamp Division, with the firm's director George M. Pynchon enjoying a public life as a champion Yacht Racer. Pynchon & Company fell apart in 1931 when film maker and investor William Fox was taken down by a consortium of Banking and Technology interests, including Western Electric, RCA and a number of very large banks. Some of those very large banks infamously invested in the emerging new economy of a re-industrialized Germany, under the bold direction of its new leader, Adolph Hitler. In particular, [http://oilintheirblood.com/synthetics.html I. G. Farben] became a cash nexus for a number of American Investors whose view never went any farther than the bottom line.<br />
<br />
More to come,<br />
<br />
Robin Landseadel</div>Gelitrippinghttps://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gravity%27s_Rainbow&diff=2540Gravity's Rainbow2007-12-01T20:56:59Z<p>Gelitripping: </p>
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<div>Well known [http://books.google.com/books?ct=title&q=thomas+Pynchon&btnG=Search+Books Author], [http://files.splinder.com/f7cdee4dc9eb635bb8fa51940e388bf1.jpeg Bag Man], and [http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,950245,00.html Urban Legend] [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Fifth] comes from a long line that begins with [http://www.famousamericans.net/williampynchon/ William Pynchon], founder of the town of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recurring_characters_from_The_Simpsons#Jebediah_Springfield Springfield], [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~scanderson/deacon_chapin.HTM Massachusetts]. [http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4832 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Third] is more than a footnote to [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5FB21F083E60E4CE450B0320759422AF.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=8545 Nathaniel Hawthorne's ][http://books.google.com/books?id=wDY99lZWkqoC&dq=nathaniel+hawthorne%27s+house+of+seven+gables&pg=PP1&ots=e4R3vRu0ol&sig=eMvwvRgwViCQcfDtpTD3z0NchWc&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3DNathaniel%2BHawthorne%27s%2B%255D%255B%2BHouse%2Bof%2BSeven%2BGables%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail#PPA2,M1 House of Seven Gables]. This [http://www.vheissu.info/bio/eng_tijdlijn.htm Pynchon Timetable] comes via the [http://www.vheissu.info/index.htm Vheissu] website:<br />
<br />
:Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The House of the Seven Gables. Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1823-1904) writes the author a letter, complaining about the 'abuse' of the 'Pyncheon' name. This rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon will become the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, where he teaches science and religion. In 1881 he publishes an Introduction to Chemical Physics. His brother William is the great-grandfather of author Thomas Pynchon. <br />
<br />
The use of language in his '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics] is reminiscent of his younger namesake:<br />
<br />
:"The name Chemistry, is said to be derived from the Arabic word Kimia, something hidden or concealed, and from this, to have been converted into Xyueia*, a word first used by the Greeks about the eleventh century, and meaning the art of making gold and silver. Between the fifth century and the taking of Constantinople in the fifteenth century, says Dr. Thomson, in his History of Chemistry, the Greeks believed in the possibility of making god and silver artificially; and the art which professed to teach the processes was called by them, Chemistry. This idea, however, has long since been thoroughly discarded, and is now no longer heard of."<br />
<br />
Like the author we are discussing, The Thomas Pynchon of [http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/leadership/jones/inauguration/past_presidents.htm Trinity College], Hartford Connecticut, was a daunting polymath. If you open '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]', one of the first things you will see is are [http://www.hawaiipictures.com/pictures/kauai/rainbows1-1.jpg Rainbows], the rainbows from the workings of a Chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrometer Spectrometer]:<br />
<br />
:When a material is heated to incandescence it emits light that is characteristic of the atomic makeup of the material. Particular light frequencies give rise to sharply defined bands on the scale which can be thought of as fingerprints. For example, the element sodium has a very characteristic double yellow band known as the Sodium D-lines at 588.9950 and 589.5924 nanometers, the colour of which will be familiar to anyone who has seen a low pressure sodium vapor lamp.<br />
<br />
<br />
Much of the scientific material in Gravity's Rainbow concerns the commercial applications of Chemistry. One of the branches of the Pynchon Clan, George M. Pynchon, ran the Wall Street Investment firm [http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0711&msg=122572&sort=author Pynchon & Company] In Gravity's Rainbow, 'we' start in a train:<br />
<br />
:"There are no lights inside the cars."<br />
<br />
. . . .and wind up in a theater, waiting for the end to come, singing an old church hymn from Tyrone Slothrop's [http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ma/county/hampden/spfld/hist1/p49-88.html Pig Farming Ancestor], William Slothrop:<br />
<br />
:And it is just here, just at this dark and silent frame, that the pointed tip of the Rocket, falling nearly a mile a second, absolutely and forever without sound, reaches its last unmeasurable gap above the roof of this old theatre, the last delta-t.<br />
<br />
:There is time, if you need the comfort, to touch the person next to you, or to reach between your own cold legs . . . or, if song must find you, here's one They never taught anyone to sing, a hymn by William Slothrop, centuries for gotten and out of print, sung to a simple and pleasant air of the period. Follow the bouncing ball:<br />
<br />
: :There is a Hand to turn the time,<br />
: :Though thy Glass today be run,<br />
: :Till the Light that hath brought the Towers low<br />
: :Find the last poor Pret'rite one . . .<br />
: :Till the Riders sleep by ev'ry road,<br />
: :All through our crippled Zone.<br />
: :With a face on ev'ry mountainside,<br />
: :And a Soul in ev'ry stone. . . .<br />
:Now everybody---<br />
<br />
Pynchon & Company started up with real estate and Railroads, got involved in all sorts of [then] high-tech enterprises like gas and electrical grids, the work of Thomas Alva Edison including Edison/GE's Mazda Lamp Division, with the firm's director George M. Pynchon enjoying a public life as a champion Yacht Racer. Pynchon & Company fell apart in 1931 when film maker and investor William Fox was taken down by a consortium of Banking and Technology interests, including Western Electric, RCA and a number of very large banks. Some of those very large banks infamously invested in the emerging new economy of a re-industrialized Germany, under the bold direction of its new leader, Adolph Hitler. In particular, [http://oilintheirblood.com/synthetics.html I. G. Farben] became a cash nexus for a number of American Investors whose view never went any farther than the bottom line.<br />
<br />
More to come,<br />
<br />
Robin Landseadel</div>Gelitrippinghttps://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gravity%27s_Rainbow&diff=2539Gravity's Rainbow2007-12-01T20:56:02Z<p>Gelitripping: </p>
<hr />
<div>Well known [http://books.google.com/books?ct=title&q=thomas+Pynchon&btnG=Search+Books Author], [http://files.splinder.com/f7cdee4dc9eb635bb8fa51940e388bf1.jpeg Bag Man], and [http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,950245,00.html Urban Legend] [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Fifth] comes from a long line that begins with [http://www.famousamericans.net/williampynchon/ William Pynchon], founder of the town of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recurring_characters_from_The_Simpsons#Jebediah_Springfield Springfield], [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~scanderson/deacon_chapin.HTM Massachusetts]. [http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4832 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Third] is more than a footnote to [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5FB21F083E60E4CE450B0320759422AF.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=8545 Nathaniel Hawthorne's ][http://books.google.com/books?id=wDY99lZWkqoC&dq=nathaniel+hawthorne%27s+house+of+seven+gables&pg=PP1&ots=e4R3vRu0ol&sig=eMvwvRgwViCQcfDtpTD3z0NchWc&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3DNathaniel%2BHawthorne%27s%2B%255D%255B%2BHouse%2Bof%2BSeven%2BGables%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail#PPA2,M1 House of Seven Gables]. This [http://www.vheissu.info/bio/eng_tijdlijn.htm Pynchon Timetable] comes via the [http://www.vheissu.info/index.htm Vheissu] website:<br />
<br />
:Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The House of the Seven Gables. Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1823-1904) writes the author a letter, complaining about the 'abuse' of the 'Pyncheon' name. This rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon will become the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, where he teaches science and religion. In 1881 he publishes an Introduction to Chemical Physics. His brother William is the great-grandfather of author Thomas Pynchon. <br />
<br />
The use of language in his '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics] is reminiscent of his younger namesake:<br />
<br />
:"The name Chemistry, is said to be derived from the Arabic word Kimia, something hidden or concealed, and from this, to have been converted into Xyueia*, a word first used by the Greeks about the eleventh century, and meaning the art of making gold and silver. Between the fifth century and the taking of Constantinople in the fifteenth century, says Dr. Thomson, in his History of Chemistry, the Greeks believed in the possibility of making god and silver artificially; and the art which professed to teach the processes was called by them, Chemistry. This idea, however, has long since been thoroughly discarded, and is now no longer heard of."<br />
<br />
Like the author we are discussing, The Thomas Pynchon of [http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/leadership/jones/inauguration/past_presidents.htm Trinity College], Hartford Connecticut, was a daunting polymath. If you open '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]', one of the first things you will see is are [http://www.hawaiipictures.com/pictures/kauai/rainbows1-1.jpg Rainbows], the rainbows from the workings of a Chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrometer Spectrometer]:<br />
<br />
:When a material is heated to incandescence it emits light that is characteristic of the atomic makeup of the material. Particular light frequencies give rise to sharply defined bands on the scale which can be thought of as fingerprints. For example, the element sodium has a very characteristic double yellow band known as the Sodium D-lines at 588.9950 and 589.5924 nanometers, the colour of which will be familiar to anyone who has seen a low pressure sodium vapor lamp.<br />
<br />
<br />
Much of the scientific material in Gravity's Rainbow concerns the commercial applications of Chemistry. One of the branches of the Pynchon Clan, George M. Pynchon, ran the Wall Street Investment firm [http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0711&msg=122572&sort=author Pynchon & Company] In Gravity's Rainbow, 'we' start in a train:<br />
<br />
:"There are no lights inside the cars."<br />
<br />
. . . .and wind up in a theater, waiting for the end to come, singing an old church hymn from Tyrone Slothrop's [http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ma/county/hampden/spfld/hist1/p49-88.html Pig Farming Ancestor], William Slothrop:<br />
<br />
:And it is just here, just at this dark and silent frame, that the pointed tip of the Rocket, falling nearly a mile a second, absolutely and forever without sound, reaches its last unmeasurable gap above the roof of this old theatre, the last delta-t.<br />
<br />
:There is time, if you need the comfort, to touch the person next to you, or to reach between your own cold legs . . . or, if song must find you, here's one They never taught anyone to sing, a hymn by William Slothrop, centuries for gotten and out of print, sung to a simple and pleasant air of the period. Follow the bouncing ball:<br />
<br />
: There is a Hand to turn the time,<br />
: Though thy Glass today be run,<br />
: Till the Light that hath brought the Towers low<br />
: Find the last poor Pret'rite one . . .<br />
: Till the Riders sleep by ev'ry road,<br />
: All through our crippled Zone.<br />
: With a face on ev'ry mountainside,<br />
: And a Soul in ev'ry stone. . . .<br />
:Now everybody---<br />
<br />
Pynchon & Company started up with real estate and Railroads, got involved in all sorts of [then] high-tech enterprises like gas and electrical grids, the work of Thomas Alva Edison including Edison/GE's Mazda Lamp Division, with the firm's director George M. Pynchon enjoying a public life as a champion Yacht Racer. Pynchon & Company fell apart in 1931 when film maker and investor William Fox was taken down by a consortium of Banking and Technology interests, including Western Electric, RCA and a number of very large banks. Some of those very large banks infamously invested in the emerging new economy of a re-industrialized Germany, under the bold direction of its new leader, Adolph Hitler. In particular, [http://oilintheirblood.com/synthetics.html I. G. Farben] became a cash nexus for a number of American Investors whose view never went any farther than the bottom line.<br />
<br />
More to come,<br />
<br />
Robin Landseadel</div>Gelitrippinghttps://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gravity%27s_Rainbow&diff=2538Gravity's Rainbow2007-12-01T20:54:40Z<p>Gelitripping: </p>
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<div>Well known [http://books.google.com/books?ct=title&q=thomas+Pynchon&btnG=Search+Books Author], [http://files.splinder.com/f7cdee4dc9eb635bb8fa51940e388bf1.jpeg Bag Man], and [http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,950245,00.html Urban Legend] [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Fifth] comes from a long line that begins with [http://www.famousamericans.net/williampynchon/ William Pynchon], founder of the town of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recurring_characters_from_The_Simpsons#Jebediah_Springfield Springfield], [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~scanderson/deacon_chapin.HTM Massachusetts]. [http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4832 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Third] is more than a footnote to [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5FB21F083E60E4CE450B0320759422AF.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=8545 Nathaniel Hawthorne's ][http://books.google.com/books?id=wDY99lZWkqoC&dq=nathaniel+hawthorne%27s+house+of+seven+gables&pg=PP1&ots=e4R3vRu0ol&sig=eMvwvRgwViCQcfDtpTD3z0NchWc&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3DNathaniel%2BHawthorne%27s%2B%255D%255B%2BHouse%2Bof%2BSeven%2BGables%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail#PPA2,M1 House of Seven Gables]. This [http://www.vheissu.info/bio/eng_tijdlijn.htm Pynchon Timetable] comes via the [http://www.vheissu.info/index.htm Vheissu] website:<br />
<br />
:Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The House of the Seven Gables. Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1823-1904) writes the author a letter, complaining about the 'abuse' of the 'Pyncheon' name. This rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon will become the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, where he teaches science and religion. In 1881 he publishes an Introduction to Chemical Physics. His brother William is the great-grandfather of author Thomas Pynchon. <br />
<br />
The use of language in his '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics] is reminiscent of his younger namesake:<br />
<br />
:"The name Chemistry, is said to be derived from the Arabic word Kimia, something hidden or concealed, and from this, to have been converted into Xyueia*, a word first used by the Greeks about the eleventh century, and meaning the art of making gold and silver. Between the fifth century and the taking of Constantinople in the fifteenth century, says Dr. Thomson, in his History of Chemistry, the Greeks believed in the possibility of making god and silver artificially; and the art which professed to teach the processes was called by them, Chemistry. This idea, however, has long since been thoroughly discarded, and is now no longer heard of."<br />
<br />
Like the author we are discussing, The Thomas Pynchon of [http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/leadership/jones/inauguration/past_presidents.htm Trinity College], Hartford Connecticut, was a daunting polymath. If you open '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]', one of the first things you will see is are [http://www.hawaiipictures.com/pictures/kauai/rainbows1-1.jpg Rainbows], the rainbows from the workings of a Chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrometer Spectrometer]:<br />
<br />
:When a material is heated to incandescence it emits light that is characteristic of the atomic makeup of the material. Particular light frequencies give rise to sharply defined bands on the scale which can be thought of as fingerprints. For example, the element sodium has a very characteristic double yellow band known as the Sodium D-lines at 588.9950 and 589.5924 nanometers, the colour of which will be familiar to anyone who has seen a low pressure sodium vapor lamp.<br />
<br />
<br />
Much of the scientific material in Gravity's Rainbow concerns the commercial applications of Chemistry. One of the branches of the Pynchon Clan, George M. Pynchon, ran the Wall Street Investment firm [http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0711&msg=122572&sort=author Pynchon & Company] In Gravity's Rainbow, 'we' start in a train:<br />
<br />
:"There are no lights inside the cars."<br />
<br />
. . . .and wind up in a theater, waiting for the end to come, singing an old church hymn from Tyrone Slothrop's [http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ma/county/hampden/spfld/hist1/p49-88.html Pig Farming Ancestor], William Slothrop:<br />
<br />
:And it is just here, just at this dark and silent frame, that the pointed tip of the Rocket, falling nearly a mile a second, absolutely and forever without sound, reaches its last unmeasurable gap above the roof of this old theatre, the last delta-t.<br />
<br />
:There is time, if you need the comfort, to touch the person next to you, or to reach between your own cold legs . . . or, if song must find you, here's one They never taught anyone to sing, a hymn by William Slothrop, centuries for gotten and out of print, sung to a simple and pleasant air of the period. Follow the bouncing ball:<br />
<br />
:There is a Hand to turn the time,<br />
Though thy Glass today be run,<br />
Till the Light that hath brought the Towers low<br />
Find the last poor Pret'rite one . . .<br />
Till the Riders sleep by ev'ry road,<br />
All through our crippled Zone.<br />
With a face on ev'ry mountainside,<br />
And a Soul in ev'ry stone. . . .<br />
Now everybody---<br />
<br />
Pynchon & Company started up with real estate and Railroads, got involved in all sorts of [then] high-tech enterprises like gas and electrical grids, the work of Thomas Alva Edison including Edison/GE's Mazda Lamp Division, with the firm's director George M. Pynchon enjoying a public life as a champion Yacht Racer. Pynchon & Company fell apart in 1931 when film maker and investor William Fox was taken down by a consortium of Banking and Technology interests, including Western Electric, RCA and a number of very large banks. Some of those very large banks infamously invested in the emerging new economy of a re-industrialized Germany, under the bold direction of its new leader, Adolph Hitler. In particular, [http://oilintheirblood.com/synthetics.html I. G. Farben] became a cash nexus for a number of American Investors whose view never went any farther than the bottom line.<br />
<br />
More to come,<br />
<br />
Robin Landseadel</div>Gelitrippinghttps://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gravity%27s_Rainbow&diff=2537Gravity's Rainbow2007-12-01T20:37:55Z<p>Gelitripping: </p>
<hr />
<div>Well known [http://books.google.com/books?ct=title&q=thomas+Pynchon&btnG=Search+Books Author], [http://files.splinder.com/f7cdee4dc9eb635bb8fa51940e388bf1.jpeg Bag Man], and [http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,950245,00.html Urban Legend] [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Fifth] comes from a long line that begins with [http://www.famousamericans.net/williampynchon/ William Pynchon], founder of the town of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recurring_characters_from_The_Simpsons#Jebediah_Springfield Springfield], [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~scanderson/deacon_chapin.HTM Massachusetts]. [http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4832 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Third] is more than a footnote to [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5FB21F083E60E4CE450B0320759422AF.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=8545 Nathaniel Hawthorne's ][http://books.google.com/books?id=wDY99lZWkqoC&dq=nathaniel+hawthorne%27s+house+of+seven+gables&pg=PP1&ots=e4R3vRu0ol&sig=eMvwvRgwViCQcfDtpTD3z0NchWc&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3DNathaniel%2BHawthorne%27s%2B%255D%255B%2BHouse%2Bof%2BSeven%2BGables%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail#PPA2,M1 House of Seven Gables]. This [http://www.vheissu.info/bio/eng_tijdlijn.htm Pynchon Timetable] comes via the [http://www.vheissu.info/index.htm Vheissu] website:<br />
<br />
:Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The House of the Seven Gables. Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1823-1904) writes the author a letter, complaining about the 'abuse' of the 'Pyncheon' name. This rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon will become the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, where he teaches science and religion. In 1881 he publishes an Introduction to Chemical Physics. His brother William is the great-grandfather of author Thomas Pynchon. <br />
<br />
The use of language in his '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics] is reminiscent of his younger namesake:<br />
<br />
:"The name Chemistry, is said to be derived from the Arabic word Kimia, something hidden or concealed, and from this, to have been converted into Xyueia*, a word first used by the Greeks about the eleventh century, and meaning the art of making gold and silver. Between the fifth century and the taking of Constantinople in the fifteenth century, says Dr. Thomson, in his History of Chemistry, the Greeks believed in the possibility of making god and silver artificially; and the art which professed to teach the processes was called by them, Chemistry. This idea, however, has long since been thoroughly discarded, and is now no longer heard of."<br />
<br />
Like the author we are discussing, The Thomas Pynchon of [http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/leadership/jones/inauguration/past_presidents.htm Trinity College], Hartford Connecticut, was a daunting polymath. If you open '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]', one of the first things you will see is are [http://www.hawaiipictures.com/pictures/kauai/rainbows1-1.jpg Rainbows], the rainbows from the workings of a Chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrometer Spectrometer]:<br />
<br />
:When a material is heated to incandescence it emits light that is characteristic of the atomic makeup of the material. Particular light frequencies give rise to sharply defined bands on the scale which can be thought of as fingerprints. For example, the element sodium has a very characteristic double yellow band known as the Sodium D-lines at 588.9950 and 589.5924 nanometers, the colour of which will be familiar to anyone who has seen a low pressure sodium vapor lamp.<br />
<br />
<br />
Much of the scientific material in Gravity's Rainbow concerns the commercial applications of Chemistry. One of the branches of the Pynchon Clan, George M. Pynchon, ran the Wall Street Investment firm [http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0711&msg=122572&sort=author Pynchon & Company] In Gravity's Rainbow, 'we' start in a train:<br />
<br />
:"There are no lights inside the cars."<br />
<br />
. . . .and wind up in a theater, waiting for the end to come, singing an old church hymn from Tyrone Slothrop's [http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ma/county/hampden/spfld/hist1/p49-88.html Pig Farming Ancestor], William Slothrop:<br />
<br />
John Pynchon, William Pynchon's son, did a bit of pig farming:<br />
<br />
:"According to order by the Selectmen there was granted parsell of land at fresh water brooke, to Mr. Pynchon, George Colton and Benjamin Cooley, in proportion as they carry on their design of keeping swine there. In all forty acres of upland, ten acres to each quarter part, and thisupon conditon that they doe within two years carry on the design of keeping swine there. If they fail in carrying on that design within two years, or such of them doe faile, they forfeit the land & it remains to the other or them that do keep swine there; or else falls to the town, if none carry on that design of keeping swine. The design of keeping swine there was accordingly caryed on & within the tyme limited, and continued until Windsor corne fields eat up ye swine."<br />
<br />
Pynchon & Company started up with real estate and Railroads, got involved in all sorts of [then] high-tech enterprises like gas and electrical grids, the work of Thomas Alva Edison including Edison/GE's Mazda Lamp Division, with the firm's director George M. Pynchon enjoying a public life as a champion Yacht Racer. Pynchon & Company fell apart in 1931 when film maker and investor William Fox was taken down by a consortium of Banking and Technology interests, including Western Electric, RCA and a number of very large banks. Some of those very large banks infamously invested in the emerging new economy of a re-industrialized Germany, under the bold direction of its new leader, Adolph Hitler. In particular, [http://oilintheirblood.com/synthetics.html I. G. Farben] became a cash nexus for a number of American Investors whose view never went any farther than the bottom line.<br />
<br />
More to come,<br />
<br />
Robin Landseadel</div>Gelitrippinghttps://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gravity%27s_Rainbow&diff=2536Gravity's Rainbow2007-12-01T20:11:54Z<p>Gelitripping: </p>
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<div>Well known [http://books.google.com/books?ct=title&q=thomas+Pynchon&btnG=Search+Books Author], [http://files.splinder.com/f7cdee4dc9eb635bb8fa51940e388bf1.jpeg Bag Man], and [http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,950245,00.html Urban Legend] [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Fifth] comes from a long line that begins with [http://www.famousamericans.net/williampynchon/ William Pynchon], founder of the town of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recurring_characters_from_The_Simpsons#Jebediah_Springfield Springfield], [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~scanderson/deacon_chapin.HTM Massachusetts]. [http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4832 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Third] is more than a footnote to [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5FB21F083E60E4CE450B0320759422AF.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=8545 Nathaniel Hawthorne's ][http://books.google.com/books?id=wDY99lZWkqoC&dq=nathaniel+hawthorne%27s+house+of+seven+gables&pg=PP1&ots=e4R3vRu0ol&sig=eMvwvRgwViCQcfDtpTD3z0NchWc&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3DNathaniel%2BHawthorne%27s%2B%255D%255B%2BHouse%2Bof%2BSeven%2BGables%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail#PPA2,M1 House of Seven Gables]. This [http://www.vheissu.info/bio/eng_tijdlijn.htm Pynchon Timetable] comes vis the [http://www.vheissu.info/index.htm Vheissu] website:<br />
<br />
:Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The House of the Seven Gables. Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1823-1904) writes the author a letter, complaining about the 'abuse' of the 'Pyncheon' name. This rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon will become the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, where he teaches science and religion. In 1881 he publishes an Introduction to Chemical Physics. His brother William is the great-grandfather of author Thomas Pynchon. <br />
<br />
The use of language in his '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics] is reminiscent of his younger namesake:<br />
<br />
:"The name Chemistry, is said to be derived from the Arabic word Kimia, something hidden or concealed, and from this, to have been converted into Xyueia*, a word first used by the Greeks about the eleventh century, and meaning the art of making gold and silver. Between the fifth century and the taking of Constantinople in the fifteenth century, says Dr. Thomson, in his History of Chemistry, the Greeks believed in the possibility of making god and silver artificially; and the art which professed to teach the processes was called by them, Chemistry. This idea, however, has long since been thoroughly discarded, and is now no longer heard of."<br />
<br />
Like the author we are discussing, The Thomas Pynchon of [http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/leadership/jones/inauguration/past_presidents.htm Trinity College], Hartford Connecticut, was a daunting polymath. If you open '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]', one of the first things you will see is are [http://www.hawaiipictures.com/pictures/kauai/rainbows1-1.jpg Rainbows], the rainbows from the workings of a Chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrometer Spectrometer]:<br />
<br />
:When a material is heated to incandescence it emits light that is characteristic of the atomic makeup of the material. Particular light frequencies give rise to sharply defined bands on the scale which can be thought of as fingerprints. For example, the element sodium has a very characteristic double yellow band known as the Sodium D-lines at 588.9950 and 589.5924 nanometers, the colour of which will be familiar to anyone who has seen a low pressure sodium vapor lamp.<br />
<br />
<br />
Much of the scientific material in Gravity's Rainbow concerns the commercial applications of Chemistry. One of the branches of the Pynchon Clan, George M. Pynchon, ran the Wall Street Investment firm [http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0711&msg=122572&sort=author Pynchon & Company] In Gravity's Rainbow, 'we' start in a train:<br />
<br />
:"There are no lights inside the cars."<br />
<br />
. . . .and wind up in a theater, waiting for the end to come, singing an old church hymn from Tyrone Slothrop's [http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ma/county/hampden/spfld/hist1/p49-88.html Pig Farming Ancestor], William Slothrop:<br />
<br />
John Pynchon, William Pynchon's son, did a bit of pig farming:<br />
<br />
:"According to order by the Selectmen there was granted parsell of land at fresh water brooke, to Mr. Pynchon, George Colton and Benjamin Cooley, in proportion as they carry on their design of keeping swine there. In all forty acres of upland, ten acres to each quarter part, and thisupon conditon that they doe within two years carry on the design of keeping swine there. If they fail in carrying on that design within two years, or such of them doe faile, they forfeit the land & it remains to the other or them that do keep swine there; or else falls to the town, if none carry on that design of keeping swine. The design of keeping swine there was accordingly caryed on & within the tyme limited, and continued until Windsor corne fields eat up ye swine."<br />
<br />
Pynchon & Company started up with real estate and Railroads, got involved in all sorts of [then] high-tech enterprises like gas and electrical grids, the work of Thomas Alva Edison including Edison/GE's Mazda Lamp Division, with the firm's director George M. Pynchon enjoying a public life as a champion Yacht Racer. Pynchon & Company fell apart in 1931 when film maker and investor William Fox was taken down by a consortium of Banking and Technology interests, including Western Electric, RCA and a number of very large banks. Some of those very large banks infamously invested in the emerging new economy of a re-industrialized Germany, under the bold direction of its new leader, Adolph Hitler. In particular, [http://oilintheirblood.com/synthetics.html I. G. Farben] became a cash nexus for a number of American Investors whose view never went any farther than the bottom line.<br />
<br />
More to come,<br />
<br />
Robin Landseadel</div>Gelitrippinghttps://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gravity%27s_Rainbow&diff=2535Gravity's Rainbow2007-12-01T19:49:49Z<p>Gelitripping: </p>
<hr />
<div>Well known [http://books.google.com/books?ct=title&q=thomas+Pynchon&btnG=Search+Books Author], [http://files.splinder.com/f7cdee4dc9eb635bb8fa51940e388bf1.jpeg Bag Man], and [http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,950245,00.html Urban Legend] [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Fifth] comes from a long line that begins with [http://www.famousamericans.net/williampynchon/ William Pynchon], founder of the town of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recurring_characters_from_The_Simpsons#Jebediah_Springfield Springfield], [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~scanderson/deacon_chapin.HTM Massachusetts]. [http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4832 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Third] is more than a footnote to [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5FB21F083E60E4CE450B0320759422AF.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=8545 Nathaniel Hawthorne's ][http://books.google.com/books?id=wDY99lZWkqoC&dq=nathaniel+hawthorne%27s+house+of+seven+gables&pg=PP1&ots=e4R3vRu0ol&sig=eMvwvRgwViCQcfDtpTD3z0NchWc&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3DNathaniel%2BHawthorne%27s%2B%255D%255B%2BHouse%2Bof%2BSeven%2BGables%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail#PPA2,M1 House of Seven Gables]. This [http://www.vheissu.info/bio/eng_tijdlijn.htm Pynchon Timetable] comes vis the [http://www.vheissu.info/index.htm Vheissu] website:<br />
<br />
:Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The House of the Seven Gables. Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1823-1904) writes the author a letter, complaining about the 'abuse' of the 'Pyncheon' name. This rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon will become the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, where he teaches science and religion. In 1881 he publishes an Introduction to Chemical Physics. His brother William is the great-grandfather of author Thomas Pynchon. <br />
<br />
The use of language in his '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics] is reminiscent of his younger namesake:<br />
<br />
:"The name Chemistry, is said to be derived from the Arabic word Kimia, something hidden or concealed, and from this, to have been converted into Xyueia*, a word first used by the Greeks about the eleventh century, and meaning the art of making gold and silver. Between the fifth century and the taking of Constantinople in the fifteenth century, says Dr. Thomson, in his History of Chemistry, the Greeks believed in the possibility of making god and silver artificially; and the art which professed to teach the processes was called by them, Chemistry. This idea, however, has long since been thoroughly discarded, and is now no longer heard of."<br />
<br />
Like the author we are discussing, The Thomas Pynchon of [http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/leadership/jones/inauguration/past_presidents.htm Trinity College], Hartford Connecticut, was a daunting polymath. If you open '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]', one of the first things you will see is are [http://www.hawaiipictures.com/pictures/kauai/rainbows1-1.jpg Rainbows], the rainbows from the workings of a Chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrometer Spectrometer]:<br />
<br />
:When a material is heated to incandescence it emits light that is characteristic of the atomic makeup of the material. Particular light frequencies give rise to sharply defined bands on the scale which can be thought of as fingerprints. For example, the element sodium has a very characteristic double yellow band known as the Sodium D-lines at 588.9950 and 589.5924 nanometers, the colour of which will be familiar to anyone who has seen a low pressure sodium vapor lamp.<br />
<br />
<br />
Much of the scientific material in Gravity's Rainbow concerns the commercial applications of Chemistry. One of the branches of the Pynchon Clan, George M. Pynchon, ran the Wall Street Investment firm [http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0711&msg=122572&sort=author Pynchon & Company] In Gravity's Rainbow, 'we' start in a train:<br />
<br />
:"There are no lights inside the cars."<br />
<br />
. . . .and wind up in a theater, waiting for the end to come, singing an old church hymn from Tyrone Slothrop's [http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ma/county/hampden/spfld/hist1/p49-88.html Pig Farming Ancestor], William Slothrop:<br />
<br />
John Pynchon, William Pynchon's son, did a bit of pig farming:<br />
<br />
:"According to order by the Selectmen there was granted parsell of land at fresh water brooke, to Mr. Pynchon, George Colton and Benjamin Cooley, in proportion as they carry on their design of keeping swine there. In all forty acres of upland, ten acres to each quarter part, and thisupon conditon that they doe within two years carry on the design of keeping swine there. If they fail in carrying on that design within two years, or such of them doe faile, they forfeit the land & it remains to the other or them that do keep swine there; or else falls to the town, if none carry on that design of keeping swine. The design of keeping swine there was accordingly caryed on & within the tyme limited, and continued until Windsor corne fields eat up ye swine."<br />
<br />
Pynchon & Company started up with real estate and Railroads, got involved in all sorts of [then] high-tech enterprises like gas and electrical grids, the work of Thomas Alva Edison including Edison/GE's Mazda Lamp Division, with the firm's director George M. Pynchon enjoying a public life as a champion Yacht Racer. Pynchon & Company fell apart in 1931 when film maker and investor William Fox was taken down by a consortium of Banking and Technology interests, including Western Electric, RCA and a number of very large banks. Some of those very large banks infamously invested in the emerging new economy of a re-industrialized Germany, under the bold direction of its new leader, Adolph Hitler. In particular, I. G. Farben became a cash nexus for a number of American Investors whose view never went any farther than the bottom line.<br />
<br />
More to come,<br />
<br />
Robin Landseadel</div>Gelitrippinghttps://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gravity%27s_Rainbow&diff=2534Gravity's Rainbow2007-12-01T19:40:50Z<p>Gelitripping: </p>
<hr />
<div>Well known [http://books.google.com/books?ct=title&q=thomas+Pynchon&btnG=Search+Books Author], [http://files.splinder.com/f7cdee4dc9eb635bb8fa51940e388bf1.jpeg Bag Man], and [http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,950245,00.html Urban Legend] [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Fifth] comes from a long line that begins with [http://www.famousamericans.net/williampynchon/ William Pynchon], founder of the town of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recurring_characters_from_The_Simpsons#Jebediah_Springfield Springfield], [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~scanderson/deacon_chapin.HTM Massachusetts]. [http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4832 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Third] is more than a footnote to [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5FB21F083E60E4CE450B0320759422AF.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=8545 Nathaniel Hawthorne's ][http://books.google.com/books?id=wDY99lZWkqoC&dq=nathaniel+hawthorne%27s+house+of+seven+gables&pg=PP1&ots=e4R3vRu0ol&sig=eMvwvRgwViCQcfDtpTD3z0NchWc&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3DNathaniel%2BHawthorne%27s%2B%255D%255B%2BHouse%2Bof%2BSeven%2BGables%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail#PPA2,M1 House of Seven Gables]. This [http://www.vheissu.info/bio/eng_tijdlijn.htm Pynchon Timetable] comes vis the [http://www.vheissu.info/index.htm Vheissu] website:<br />
<br />
:Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The House of the Seven Gables. Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1823-1904) writes the author a letter, complaining about the 'abuse' of the 'Pyncheon' name. This rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon will become the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, where he teaches science and religion. In 1881 he publishes an Introduction to Chemical Physics. His brother William is the great-grandfather of author Thomas Pynchon. <br />
<br />
The use of language in his '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics] is reminiscent of his younger namesake:<br />
<br />
:"The name Chemistry, is said to be derived from the Arabic word Kimia, something hidden or concealed, and from this, to have been converted into Xyueia*, a word first used by the Greeks about the eleventh century, and meaning the art of making gold and silver. Between the fifth century and the taking of Constantinople in the fifteenth century, says Dr. Thomson, in his History of Chemistry, the Greeks believed in the possibility of making god and silver artificially; and the art which professed to teach the processes was called by them, Chemistry. This idea, however, has long since been thoroughly discarded, and is now no longer heard of."<br />
<br />
Like the author we are discussing, The Thomas Pynchon of [http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/leadership/jones/inauguration/past_presidents.htm Trinity College], Hartford Connecticut, was a daunting polymath. If you open '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]', one of the first things you will see is are [http://www.hawaiipictures.com/pictures/kauai/rainbows1-1.jpg Rainbows], the rainbows from the workings of a Chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrometer Spectrometer]:<br />
<br />
:When a material is heated to incandescence it emits light that is characteristic of the atomic makeup of the material. Particular light frequencies give rise to sharply defined bands on the scale which can be thought of as fingerprints. For example, the element sodium has a very characteristic double yellow band known as the Sodium D-lines at 588.9950 and 589.5924 nanometers, the colour of which will be familiar to anyone who has seen a low pressure sodium vapor lamp.<br />
<br />
<br />
Much of the scientific material in Gravity's Rainbow concerns the commercial applications of Chemistry. One of the branches of the Pynchon Clan, George M. Pynchon, ran the Wall Street Investment firm [http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0711&msg=122572&sort=author Pynchon & Company] In Gravity's Rainbow, 'we' start in a train:<br />
<br />
:"There are no lights inside the cars."<br />
<br />
. . . .and wind up in a theater, waiting for the end to come, singing an old church hymn from Tyrone Slothrop's [http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ma/county/hampden/spfld/hist1/p49-88.html Pig Farming Ancestor], William Slothrop:<br />
<br />
John Pynchon, William Pynchon's son, did a bit of pig farming:<br />
<br />
:"According to order by the Selectmen there was granted parsell of land at fresh water brooke, to Mr. Pynchon, George Colton and Benjamin Cooley, in proportion as they carry on their design of keeping swine there. In all forty acres of upland, ten acres to each quarter part, and thisupon conditon that they doe within two years carry on the design of keeping swine there. If they fail in carrying on that design within two years, or such of them doe faile, they forfeit the land & it remains to the other or them that do keep swine there; or else falls to the town, if none carry on that design of keeping swine. The design of keeping swine there was accordingly caryed on & within the tyme limited, and continued until Windsor corne fields eat up ye swine."<br />
<br />
Pynchon & Company started in the Railroads, got involved in all sorts of [then] high-tech enterprises, and lost out when film maker and investor William Fox was taken down by a consortium of Banking and Technology interests.<br />
<br />
More to come,<br />
<br />
Robin Landseadel</div>Gelitrippinghttps://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gravity%27s_Rainbow&diff=2533Gravity's Rainbow2007-12-01T19:32:50Z<p>Gelitripping: </p>
<hr />
<div>Well known [http://books.google.com/books?ct=title&q=thomas+Pynchon&btnG=Search+Books Author], [http://files.splinder.com/f7cdee4dc9eb635bb8fa51940e388bf1.jpeg Bag Man], and [http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,950245,00.html Urban Legend] [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Fifth] comes from a long line that begins with [http://www.famousamericans.net/williampynchon/ William Pynchon], founder of the town of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recurring_characters_from_The_Simpsons#Jebediah_Springfield Springfield], [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~scanderson/deacon_chapin.HTM Massachusetts]. [http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4832 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Third] is more than a footnote to [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5FB21F083E60E4CE450B0320759422AF.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=8545 Nathaniel Hawthorne's ][http://books.google.com/books?id=wDY99lZWkqoC&dq=nathaniel+hawthorne%27s+house+of+seven+gables&pg=PP1&ots=e4R3vRu0ol&sig=eMvwvRgwViCQcfDtpTD3z0NchWc&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3DNathaniel%2BHawthorne%27s%2B%255D%255B%2BHouse%2Bof%2BSeven%2BGables%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail#PPA2,M1 House of Seven Gables]. This [http://www.vheissu.info/bio/eng_tijdlijn.htm Pynchon Timetable] comes vis the [http://www.vheissu.info/index.htm Vheissu] website:<br />
<br />
:Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The House of the Seven Gables. Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1823-1904) writes the author a letter, complaining about the 'abuse' of the 'Pyncheon' name. This rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon will become the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, where he teaches science and religion. In 1881 he publishes an Introduction to Chemical Physics. His brother William is the great-grandfather of author Thomas Pynchon. <br />
<br />
The use of language in his '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]' is reminiscent of his younger namesake:<br />
<br />
:"The name Chemistry, is said to be derived from the Arabic word Kimia, something hidden or concealed, and from this, to have been converted into Xyueia*, a word first used by the Greeks about the eleventh century, and meaning the art of making gold and silver. Between the fifth century and the taking of Constantinople in the fifteenth century, says Dr. Thomson, in his History of Chemistry, the Greeks believed in the possibility of making god and silver artificially; and the art which professed to teach the processes was called by them, Chemistry. This idea, however, has long since been thoroughly discarded, and is now no longer heard of."<br />
<br />
Like the author we are discussing, The Thomas Pynchon of [http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/leadership/jones/inauguration/past_presidents.htm Trinity College], Hartford Connecticut, was a daunting polymath. If you open '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]', one of the first things you will see is are [http://www.hawaiipictures.com/pictures/kauai/rainbows1-1.jpg Rainbows], the rainbows from the workings of a Chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrometer Spectrometer]:<br />
<br />
:When a material is heated to incandescence it emits light that is characteristic of the atomic makeup of the material. Particular light frequencies give rise to sharply defined bands on the scale which can be thought of as fingerprints. For example, the element sodium has a very characteristic double yellow band known as the Sodium D-lines at 588.9950 and 589.5924 nanometers, the colour of which will be familiar to anyone who has seen a low pressure sodium vapor lamp.<br />
<br />
<br />
Much of the scientific material in Gravity's Rainbow concerns the commercial applications of Chemistry. One of the branches of the Pynchon Clan, George M. Pynchon, ran the Wall Street Investment firm [http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0711&msg=122572&sort=author Pynchon & Company] In Gravity's Rainbow, 'we' start in a train:<br />
<br />
:"There are no lights inside the cars."<br />
<br />
. . . .and wind up in a theater, waiting for the end to come, singing an old church hymn from Tyrone Slothrop's [http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ma/county/hampden/spfld/hist1/p49-88.html Pig Farming Ancestor], William Slothrop:<br />
<br />
John Pynchon, William Pynchon's son, did a bit of pig farming:<br />
<br />
:"According to order by the Selectmen there was granted parsell of land at fresh water brooke, to Mr. Pynchon, George Colton and Benjamin Cooley, in proportion as they carry on their design of keeping swine there. In all forty acres of upland, ten acres to each quarter part, and thisupon conditon that they doe within two years carry on the design of keeping swine there. If they fail in carrying on that design within two years, or such of them doe faile, they forfeit the land & it remains to the other or them that do keep swine there; or else falls to the town, if none carry on that design of keeping swine. The design of keeping swine there was accordingly caryed on & within the tyme limited, and continued until Windsor corne fields eat up ye swine."<br />
<br />
Pynchon & Company started in the Railroads, got involved in all sorts of [then] high-tech enterprises, and lost out when film maker and investor William Fox was taken down by a consortium of Banking and Technology interests.<br />
<br />
More to come,<br />
<br />
Robin Landseadel</div>Gelitrippinghttps://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gravity%27s_Rainbow&diff=2532Gravity's Rainbow2007-12-01T19:32:07Z<p>Gelitripping: </p>
<hr />
<div>Well known [http://books.google.com/books?ct=title&q=thomas+Pynchon&btnG=Search+Books Author], [http://files.splinder.com/f7cdee4dc9eb635bb8fa51940e388bf1.jpeg Bag Man], and [http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,950245,00.html Urban Legend] [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Fifth] comes from a long line that begins with [http://www.famousamericans.net/williampynchon/ William Pynchon], founder of the town of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recurring_characters_from_The_Simpsons#Jebediah_Springfield Springfield], [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~scanderson/deacon_chapin.HTM Massachusetts]. [http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4832 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Third] is more than a footnote to [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5FB21F083E60E4CE450B0320759422AF.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=8545 Nathaniel Hawthorne's ][http://books.google.com/books?id=wDY99lZWkqoC&dq=nathaniel+hawthorne%27s+house+of+seven+gables&pg=PP1&ots=e4R3vRu0ol&sig=eMvwvRgwViCQcfDtpTD3z0NchWc&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3DNathaniel%2BHawthorne%27s%2B%255D%255B%2BHouse%2Bof%2BSeven%2BGables%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail#PPA2,M1 House of Seven Gables]. This [http://www.vheissu.info/bio/eng_tijdlijn.htm Pynchon Timetable] comes from the [http://www.vheissu.info/index.htm Vheissu] website:<br />
<br />
:Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The House of the Seven Gables. Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1823-1904) writes the author a letter, complaining about the 'abuse' of the 'Pyncheon' name. This rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon will become the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, where he teaches science and religion. In 1881 he publishes an Introduction to Chemical Physics. His brother William is the great-grandfather of author Thomas Pynchon. <br />
<br />
The use of language in his '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]' is reminiscent of his younger namesake:<br />
<br />
:"The name Chemistry, is said to be derived from the Arabic word Kimia, something hidden or concealed, and from this, to have been converted into Xyueia*, a word first used by the Greeks about the eleventh century, and meaning the art of making gold and silver. Between the fifth century and the taking of Constantinople in the fifteenth century, says Dr. Thomson, in his History of Chemistry, the Greeks believed in the possibility of making god and silver artificially; and the art which professed to teach the processes was called by them, Chemistry. This idea, however, has long since been thoroughly discarded, and is now no longer heard of."<br />
<br />
Like the author we are discussing, The Thomas Pynchon of [http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/leadership/jones/inauguration/past_presidents.htm Trinity College], Hartford Connecticut, was a daunting polymath. If you open '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]', one of the first things you will see is are [http://www.hawaiipictures.com/pictures/kauai/rainbows1-1.jpg Rainbows], the rainbows from the workings of a Chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrometer Spectrometer]:<br />
<br />
:When a material is heated to incandescence it emits light that is characteristic of the atomic makeup of the material. Particular light frequencies give rise to sharply defined bands on the scale which can be thought of as fingerprints. For example, the element sodium has a very characteristic double yellow band known as the Sodium D-lines at 588.9950 and 589.5924 nanometers, the colour of which will be familiar to anyone who has seen a low pressure sodium vapor lamp.<br />
<br />
<br />
Much of the scientific material in Gravity's Rainbow concerns the commercial applications of Chemistry. One of the branches of the Pynchon Clan, George M. Pynchon, ran the Wall Street Investment firm [http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0711&msg=122572&sort=author Pynchon & Company] In Gravity's Rainbow, 'we' start in a train:<br />
<br />
:"There are no lights inside the cars."<br />
<br />
. . . .and wind up in a theater, waiting for the end to come, singing an old church hymn from Tyrone Slothrop's [http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ma/county/hampden/spfld/hist1/p49-88.html Pig Farming Ancestor], William Slothrop:<br />
<br />
John Pynchon, William Pynchon's son, did a bit of pig farming:<br />
<br />
:"According to order by the Selectmen there was granted parsell of land at fresh water brooke, to Mr. Pynchon, George Colton and Benjamin Cooley, in proportion as they carry on their design of keeping swine there. In all forty acres of upland, ten acres to each quarter part, and thisupon conditon that they doe within two years carry on the design of keeping swine there. If they fail in carrying on that design within two years, or such of them doe faile, they forfeit the land & it remains to the other or them that do keep swine there; or else falls to the town, if none carry on that design of keeping swine. The design of keeping swine there was accordingly caryed on & within the tyme limited, and continued until Windsor corne fields eat up ye swine."<br />
<br />
Pynchon & Company started in the Railroads, got involved in all sorts of [then] high-tech enterprises, and lost out when film maker and investor William Fox was taken down by a consortium of Banking and Technology interests.<br />
<br />
More to come,<br />
<br />
Robin Landseadel</div>Gelitrippinghttps://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gravity%27s_Rainbow&diff=2531Gravity's Rainbow2007-12-01T19:28:11Z<p>Gelitripping: </p>
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<div>Well known [http://books.google.com/books?ct=title&q=thomas+Pynchon&btnG=Search+Books Author], [http://files.splinder.com/f7cdee4dc9eb635bb8fa51940e388bf1.jpeg Bag Man], and [http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,950245,00.html Urban Legend] [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Fifth] comes from a long line that begins with [http://www.famousamericans.net/williampynchon/ William Pynchon], founder of the town of Springfield, Massachusetts. [http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4832 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Third] is more than a footnote to [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5FB21F083E60E4CE450B0320759422AF.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=8545 Nathaniel Hawthorne's ][http://books.google.com/books?id=wDY99lZWkqoC&dq=nathaniel+hawthorne%27s+house+of+seven+gables&pg=PP1&ots=e4R3vRu0ol&sig=eMvwvRgwViCQcfDtpTD3z0NchWc&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3DNathaniel%2BHawthorne%27s%2B%255D%255B%2BHouse%2Bof%2BSeven%2BGables%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail#PPA2,M1 House of Seven Gables]. This [http://www.vheissu.info/bio/eng_tijdlijn.htm Pynchon Timetable] comes from the [http://www.vheissu.info/index.htm Vheissu] website:<br />
<br />
:Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The House of the Seven Gables. Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1823-1904) writes the author a letter, complaining about the 'abuse' of the 'Pyncheon' name. This rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon will become the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, where he teaches science and religion. In 1881 he publishes an Introduction to Chemical Physics. His brother William is the great-grandfather of author Thomas Pynchon. <br />
<br />
The use of language in his '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]' is reminiscent of his younger namesake:<br />
<br />
:"The name Chemistry, is said to be derived from the Arabic word Kimia, something hidden or concealed, and from this, to have been converted into Xyueia*, a word first used by the Greeks about the eleventh century, and meaning the art of making gold and silver. Between the fifth century and the taking of Constantinople in the fifteenth century, says Dr. Thomson, in his History of Chemistry, the Greeks believed in the possibility of making god and silver artificially; and the art which professed to teach the processes was called by them, Chemistry. This idea, however, has long since been thoroughly discarded, and is now no longer heard of."<br />
<br />
Like the author we are discussing, The Thomas Pynchon of [http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/leadership/jones/inauguration/past_presidents.htm Trinity College], Hartford Connecticut, was a daunting polymath. If you open '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]', one of the first things you will see is are [http://www.hawaiipictures.com/pictures/kauai/rainbows1-1.jpg Rainbows], the rainbows from the workings of a Chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrometer Spectrometer]:<br />
<br />
:When a material is heated to incandescence it emits light that is characteristic of the atomic makeup of the material. Particular light frequencies give rise to sharply defined bands on the scale which can be thought of as fingerprints. For example, the element sodium has a very characteristic double yellow band known as the Sodium D-lines at 588.9950 and 589.5924 nanometers, the colour of which will be familiar to anyone who has seen a low pressure sodium vapor lamp.<br />
<br />
<br />
Much of the scientific material in Gravity's Rainbow concerns the commercial applications of Chemistry. One of the branches of the Pynchon Clan, George M. Pynchon, ran the Wall Street Investment firm [http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0711&msg=122572&sort=author Pynchon & Company] In Gravity's Rainbow, 'we' start in a train:<br />
<br />
:"There are no lights inside the cars."<br />
<br />
. . . .and wind up in a theater, waiting for the end to come, singing an old church hymn from Tyrone Slothrop's [http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ma/county/hampden/spfld/hist1/p49-88.html Pig Farming Ancestor], William Slothrop:<br />
<br />
John Pynchon, William Pynchon's son, did a bit of pig farming:<br />
<br />
:"According to order by the Selectmen there was granted parsell of land at fresh water brooke, to Mr. Pynchon, George Colton and Benjamin Cooley, in proportion as they carry on their design of keeping swine there. In all forty acres of upland, ten acres to each quarter part, and thisupon conditon that they doe within two years carry on the design of keeping swine there. If they fail in carrying on that design within two years, or such of them doe faile, they forfeit the land & it remains to the other or them that do keep swine there; or else falls to the town, if none carry on that design of keeping swine. The design of keeping swine there was accordingly caryed on & within the tyme limited, and continued until Windsor corne fields eat up ye swine."<br />
<br />
Pynchon & Company started in the Railroads, got involved in all sorts of [then] high-tech enterprises, and lost out when film maker and investor William Fox was taken down by a consortium of Banking and Technology interests.<br />
<br />
More to come,<br />
<br />
Robin Landseadel</div>Gelitrippinghttps://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gravity%27s_Rainbow&diff=2530Gravity's Rainbow2007-12-01T19:27:01Z<p>Gelitripping: </p>
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<div>Well known [http://books.google.com/books?ct=title&q=thomas+Pynchon&btnG=Search+Books Author], [http://files.splinder.com/f7cdee4dc9eb635bb8fa51940e388bf1.jpeg Bag Man], and [http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,950245,00.html Urban Legend] [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Fifth] comes from a long line that begins with [http://www.springfieldlibrary.org/Pynchon/meritorious.html William Pynchon], founder of the town of Springfield, Massachusetts. [http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4832 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Third] is more than a footnote to [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5FB21F083E60E4CE450B0320759422AF.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=8545 Nathaniel Hawthorne's ][http://books.google.com/books?id=wDY99lZWkqoC&dq=nathaniel+hawthorne%27s+house+of+seven+gables&pg=PP1&ots=e4R3vRu0ol&sig=eMvwvRgwViCQcfDtpTD3z0NchWc&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3DNathaniel%2BHawthorne%27s%2B%255D%255B%2BHouse%2Bof%2BSeven%2BGables%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail#PPA2,M1 House of Seven Gables]. This [http://www.vheissu.info/bio/eng_tijdlijn.htm Pynchon Timetable] comes from the [http://www.vheissu.info/index.htm Vheissu] website:<br />
<br />
:Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The House of the Seven Gables. Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1823-1904) writes the author a letter, complaining about the 'abuse' of the 'Pyncheon' name. This rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon will become the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, where he teaches science and religion. In 1881 he publishes an Introduction to Chemical Physics. His brother William is the great-grandfather of author Thomas Pynchon. <br />
<br />
The use of language in his '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]' is reminiscent of his younger namesake:<br />
<br />
:"The name Chemistry, is said to be derived from the Arabic word Kimia, something hidden or concealed, and from this, to have been converted into Xyueia*, a word first used by the Greeks about the eleventh century, and meaning the art of making gold and silver. Between the fifth century and the taking of Constantinople in the fifteenth century, says Dr. Thomson, in his History of Chemistry, the Greeks believed in the possibility of making god and silver artificially; and the art which professed to teach the processes was called by them, Chemistry. This idea, however, has long since been thoroughly discarded, and is now no longer heard of."<br />
<br />
Like the author we are discussing, The Thomas Pynchon of [http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/leadership/jones/inauguration/past_presidents.htm Trinity College], Hartford Connecticut, was a daunting polymath. If you open '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]', one of the first things you will see is are [http://www.hawaiipictures.com/pictures/kauai/rainbows1-1.jpg Rainbows], the rainbows from the workings of a Chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrometer Spectrometer]:<br />
<br />
:When a material is heated to incandescence it emits light that is characteristic of the atomic makeup of the material. Particular light frequencies give rise to sharply defined bands on the scale which can be thought of as fingerprints. For example, the element sodium has a very characteristic double yellow band known as the Sodium D-lines at 588.9950 and 589.5924 nanometers, the colour of which will be familiar to anyone who has seen a low pressure sodium vapor lamp.<br />
<br />
<br />
Much of the scientific material in Gravity's Rainbow concerns the commercial applications of Chemistry. One of the branches of the Pynchon Clan, George M. Pynchon, ran the Wall Street Investment firm [http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0711&msg=122572&sort=author Pynchon & Company] In Gravity's Rainbow, 'we' start in a train:<br />
<br />
:"There are no lights inside the cars."<br />
<br />
. . . .and wind up in a theater, waiting for the end to come, singing an old church hymn from Tyrone Slothrop's [http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ma/county/hampden/spfld/hist1/p49-88.html Pig Farming Ancestor], William Slothrop:<br />
<br />
John Pynchon, William Pynchon's son, did a bit of pig farming:<br />
<br />
:"According to order by the Selectmen there was granted parsell of land at fresh water brooke, to Mr. Pynchon, George Colton and Benjamin Cooley, in proportion as they carry on their design of keeping swine there. In all forty acres of upland, ten acres to each quarter part, and thisupon conditon that they doe within two years carry on the design of keeping swine there. If they fail in carrying on that design within two years, or such of them doe faile, they forfeit the land & it remains to the other or them that do keep swine there; or else falls to the town, if none carry on that design of keeping swine. The design of keeping swine there was accordingly caryed on & within the tyme limited, and continued until Windsor corne fields eat up ye swine."<br />
<br />
Pynchon & Company started in the Railroads, got involved in all sorts of [then] high-tech enterprises, and lost out when film maker and investor William Fox was taken down by a consortium of Banking and Technology interests.<br />
<br />
More to come,<br />
<br />
Robin Landseadel</div>Gelitrippinghttps://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gravity%27s_Rainbow&diff=2529Gravity's Rainbow2007-12-01T19:24:33Z<p>Gelitripping: </p>
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<div>Well known author, [http://files.splinder.com/f7cdee4dc9eb635bb8fa51940e388bf1.jpeg bag man], and urban legend [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Fifth] comes from a long line that begins with [http://www.springfieldlibrary.org/Pynchon/meritorious.html William Pynchon], founder of the town of Springfield, Massachusetts. [http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4832 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Third] is more than a footnote to [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5FB21F083E60E4CE450B0320759422AF.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=8545 Nathaniel Hawthorne's ][http://books.google.com/books?id=wDY99lZWkqoC&dq=nathaniel+hawthorne%27s+house+of+seven+gables&pg=PP1&ots=e4R3vRu0ol&sig=eMvwvRgwViCQcfDtpTD3z0NchWc&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3DNathaniel%2BHawthorne%27s%2B%255D%255B%2BHouse%2Bof%2BSeven%2BGables%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail#PPA2,M1 House of Seven Gables]. This [http://www.vheissu.info/bio/eng_tijdlijn.htm Pynchon Timetable] comes from the [http://www.vheissu.info/index.htm Vheissu] website:<br />
<br />
:Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The House of the Seven Gables. Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1823-1904) writes the author a letter, complaining about the 'abuse' of the 'Pyncheon' name. This rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon will become the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, where he teaches science and religion. In 1881 he publishes an Introduction to Chemical Physics. His brother William is the great-grandfather of author Thomas Pynchon. <br />
<br />
The use of language in his '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]' is reminiscent of his younger namesake:<br />
<br />
:"The name Chemistry, is said to be derived from the Arabic word Kimia, something hidden or concealed, and from this, to have been converted into Xyueia*, a word first used by the Greeks about the eleventh century, and meaning the art of making gold and silver. Between the fifth century and the taking of Constantinople in the fifteenth century, says Dr. Thomson, in his History of Chemistry, the Greeks believed in the possibility of making god and silver artificially; and the art which professed to teach the processes was called by them, Chemistry. This idea, however, has long since been thoroughly discarded, and is now no longer heard of."<br />
<br />
Like the author we are discussing, The Thomas Pynchon of [http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/leadership/jones/inauguration/past_presidents.htm Trinity College], Hartford Connecticut, was a daunting polymath. If you open '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]', one of the first things you will see is are [http://www.hawaiipictures.com/pictures/kauai/rainbows1-1.jpg Rainbows], the rainbows from the workings of a Chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrometer Spectrometer]:<br />
<br />
:When a material is heated to incandescence it emits light that is characteristic of the atomic makeup of the material. Particular light frequencies give rise to sharply defined bands on the scale which can be thought of as fingerprints. For example, the element sodium has a very characteristic double yellow band known as the Sodium D-lines at 588.9950 and 589.5924 nanometers, the colour of which will be familiar to anyone who has seen a low pressure sodium vapor lamp.<br />
<br />
<br />
Much of the scientific material in Gravity's Rainbow concerns the commercial applications of Chemistry. One of the branches of the Pynchon Clan, George M. Pynchon, ran the Wall Street Investment firm [http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0711&msg=122572&sort=author Pynchon & Company] In Gravity's Rainbow, 'we' start in a train:<br />
<br />
:"There are no lights inside the cars."<br />
<br />
. . . .and wind up in a theater, waiting for the end to come, singing an old church hymn from Tyrone Slothrop's [http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ma/county/hampden/spfld/hist1/p49-88.html Pig Farming Ancestor], William Slothrop:<br />
<br />
John Pynchon, William Pynchon's son, did a bit of pig farming:<br />
<br />
:"According to order by the Selectmen there was granted parsell of land at fresh water brooke, to Mr. Pynchon, George Colton and Benjamin Cooley, in proportion as they carry on their design of keeping swine there. In all forty acres of upland, ten acres to each quarter part, and thisupon conditon that they doe within two years carry on the design of keeping swine there. If they fail in carrying on that design within two years, or such of them doe faile, they forfeit the land & it remains to the other or them that do keep swine there; or else falls to the town, if none carry on that design of keeping swine. The design of keeping swine there was accordingly caryed on & within the tyme limited, and continued until Windsor corne fields eat up ye swine."<br />
<br />
Pynchon & Company started in the Railroads, got involved in all sorts of [then] high-tech enterprises, and lost out when film maker and investor William Fox was taken down by a consortium of Banking and Technology interests.<br />
<br />
More to come,<br />
<br />
Robin Landseadel</div>Gelitrippinghttps://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gravity%27s_Rainbow&diff=2528Gravity's Rainbow2007-12-01T19:10:51Z<p>Gelitripping: </p>
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<div>Connections to Pynchon's wide-spread yet remarkably hidden family history are scattered throughout this masterwork. Well known author, [http://files.splinder.com/f7cdee4dc9eb635bb8fa51940e388bf1.jpeg bag man], and urban legend [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Fifth] comes from a long line that begins with [http://www.springfieldlibrary.org/Pynchon/meritorious.html William Pynchon], founder of the town of Springfield, Massachusetts. [http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4832 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Third] is more than a footnote to [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5FB21F083E60E4CE450B0320759422AF.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=8545 Nathaniel Hawthorne's ][http://books.google.com/books?id=wDY99lZWkqoC&dq=nathaniel+hawthorne%27s+house+of+seven+gables&pg=PP1&ots=e4R3vRu0ol&sig=eMvwvRgwViCQcfDtpTD3z0NchWc&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3DNathaniel%2BHawthorne%27s%2B%255D%255B%2BHouse%2Bof%2BSeven%2BGables%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail#PPA2,M1 House of Seven Gables]. This [http://www.vheissu.info/bio/eng_tijdlijn.htm Pynchon Timetable] comes from the [http://www.vheissu.info/index.htm Vheissu] website:<br />
<br />
:Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The House of the Seven Gables. Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1823-1904) writes the author a letter, complaining about the 'abuse' of the 'Pyncheon' name. This rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon will become the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, where he teaches science and religion. In 1881 he publishes an Introduction to Chemical Physics. His brother William is the great-grandfather of author Thomas Pynchon. <br />
<br />
The use of language in his '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]' is reminiscent of his younger namesake:<br />
<br />
:"The name Chemistry, is said to be derived from the Arabic word Kimia, something hidden or concealed, and from this, to have been converted into Xyueia*, a word first used by the Greeks about the eleventh century, and meaning the art of making gold and silver. Between the fifth century and the taking of Constantinople in the fifteenth century, says Dr. Thomson, in his History of Chemistry, the Greeks believed in the possibility of making god and silver artificially; and the art which professed to teach the processes was called by them, Chemistry. This idea, however, has long since been thoroughly discarded, and is now no longer heard of."<br />
<br />
Like the author we are discussing, The Thomas Pynchon of [http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/leadership/jones/inauguration/past_presidents.htm Trinity College], Hartford Connecticut, was a daunting polymath. If you open '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]', one of the first things you will see is are [http://www.hawaiipictures.com/pictures/kauai/rainbows1-1.jpg Rainbows], the rainbows from the workings of a Chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrometer Spectrometer]:<br />
<br />
:When a material is heated to incandescence it emits light that is characteristic of the atomic makeup of the material. Particular light frequencies give rise to sharply defined bands on the scale which can be thought of as fingerprints. For example, the element sodium has a very characteristic double yellow band known as the Sodium D-lines at 588.9950 and 589.5924 nanometers, the colour of which will be familiar to anyone who has seen a low pressure sodium vapor lamp.<br />
<br />
Much of the scientific material in Gravity's Rainbow concerns the commercial applications of Chemistry. One of the branches of the Pynchon Clan, George M. Pynchon, ran the Wall Street Investment firm [http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0711&msg=122572&sort=author Pynchon & Company] In Gravity's Rainbow, 'we' start in a train:<br />
<br />
:"There are no lights inside the cars."<br />
<br />
. . . .and wind up in a theater, waiting for the end to come, singing an old church hymn from Tyrone Slothrop's [http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ma/county/hampden/spfld/hist1/p49-88.html Pig Farming Ancestor], William Slothrop:<br />
<br />
John Pynchon, William Pynchon's son, did a bit of pig farming:<br />
<br />
:"According to order by the Selectmen there was granted parsell of land at fresh water brooke, to Mr. Pynchon, George Colton and Benjamin Cooley, in proportion as they carry on their design of keeping swine there. In all forty acres of upland, ten acres to each quarter part, and thisupon conditon that they doe within two years carry on the design of keeping swine there. If they fail in carrying on that design within two years, or such of them doe faile, they forfeit the land & it remains to the other or them that do keep swine there; or else falls to the town, if none carry on that design of keeping swine. The design of keeping swine there was accordingly caryed on & within the tyme limited, and continued until Windsor corne fields eat up ye swine."<br />
<br />
Pynchon & Company started in the Railroads, got involved in all sorts of [then] high-tech enterprises, and lost out when film maker and investor William Fox was taken down by a consortium of Banking and Technology interests.<br />
<br />
More to come,<br />
<br />
Robin Landseadel</div>Gelitrippinghttps://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gravity%27s_Rainbow&diff=2527Gravity's Rainbow2007-12-01T19:06:25Z<p>Gelitripping: </p>
<hr />
<div>Connections to Pynchon's wide-spread yet remarkably hidden family history are scattered throughout this masterwork. Well known author, [http://files.splinder.com/f7cdee4dc9eb635bb8fa51940e388bf1.jpeg bag man], and urban legend [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Fifth] comes from a long line that begins with [http://www.springfieldlibrary.org/Pynchon/meritorious.html William Pynchon], founder of the town of Springfield, Massachusetts. [http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4832 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Third] is more than a footnote to [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5FB21F083E60E4CE450B0320759422AF.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=8545 Nathaniel Hawthorne's ][http://books.google.com/books?id=wDY99lZWkqoC&dq=nathaniel+hawthorne%27s+house+of+seven+gables&pg=PP1&ots=e4R3vRu0ol&sig=eMvwvRgwViCQcfDtpTD3z0NchWc&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3DNathaniel%2BHawthorne%27s%2B%255D%255B%2BHouse%2Bof%2BSeven%2BGables%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail#PPA2,M1 House of Seven Gables]. This [http://www.vheissu.info/bio/eng_tijdlijn.htm Pynchon Timetable] comes from the [http://www.vheissu.info/index.htm Vheissu] website:<br />
<br />
:Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The House of the Seven Gables. Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1823-1904) writes the author a letter, complaining about the 'abuse' of the 'Pyncheon' name. This rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon will become the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, where he teaches science and religion. In 1881 he publishes an Introduction to Chemical Physics. His brother William is the great-grandfather of author Thomas Pynchon. <br />
<br />
The use of language in his '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]' is reminiscent of his younger namesake:<br />
<br />
:"The name Chemistry, is said to be derived from the Arabic word Kimia, something hidden or concealed, and from this, to have been converted into Xyueia*, a word first used by the Greeks about the eleventh century, and meaning the art of making gold and silver. Between the fifth century and the taking of Constantinople in the fifteenth century, says Dr. Thomson, in his History of Chemistry, the Greeks believed in the possibility of making god and silver artificially; and the art which professed to teach the processes was called by them, Chemistry. This idea, however, has long since been thoroughly discarded, and is now no longer heard of."<br />
<br />
Like the author we are discussing, The Thomas Pynchon of [http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/leadership/jones/inauguration/past_presidents.htm Trinity College], Hartford Connecticut, was a daunting polymath. If you open '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]', one of the first things you will see is are [http://www.hawaiipictures.com/pictures/kauai/rainbows1-1.jpg Rainbows], the rainbows from the workings of a Chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrometer Spectrometer]:<br />
<br />
:When a material is heated to incandescence it emits light that is characteristic of the atomic makeup of the material. Particular light frequencies give rise to sharply defined bands on the scale which can be thought of as fingerprints. For example, the element sodium has a very characteristic double yellow band known as the Sodium D-lines at 588.9950 and 589.5924 nanometers, the colour of which will be familiar to anyone who has seen a low pressure sodium vapor lamp.<br />
<br />
Much of the scientific material in Gravity's Rainbow concerns the commercial applications of Chemistry. One of the branches of the Pynchon Clan, George M. Pynchon, ran the Wall Street Investment firm [http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0711&msg=122572&sort=author Pynchon & Company] In Gravity's Rainbow, 'we' start in a train:<br />
<br />
:"There are no lights inside the cars."<br />
<br />
. . . .and wind up in a theater, waiting for the end to come, singing an old church hymn from Tyrone Slothrop's [http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ma/county/hampden/spfld/hist1/p49-88.html Pig Farming Ancestor], William Slothrop. John Pynchon, William Pynchon's son, did a bit of pig farming:<br />
<br />
:"According to order by the Selectmen there was granted parsell of land at fresh water brooke, to Mr. Pynchon, George Colton and Benjamin Cooley, in proportion as they carry on their design of keeping swine there. In all forty acres of upland, ten acres to each quarter part, and thisupon conditon that they doe within two years carry on the design of keeping swine there. If they fail in carrying on that design within two years, or such of them doe faile, they forfeit the land & it remains to the other or them that do keep swine there; or else falls to the town, if none carry on that design of keeping swine. The design of keeping swine there was accordingly caryed on & within the tyme limited, and continued until Windsor corne fields eat up ye swine."<br />
<br />
Pynchon & Company started in the Railroads, got involved in all sorts of [then] high-tech enterprises, and lost out when film maker and investor William Fox was taken down by a consortium of Banking and Technology interests.<br />
<br />
More to come,<br />
<br />
Robin Landseadel</div>Gelitrippinghttps://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gravity%27s_Rainbow&diff=2526Gravity's Rainbow2007-12-01T19:03:23Z<p>Gelitripping: </p>
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<div>Connections to Pynchon's wide-spread yet remarkably hidden family history are scattered throughout this masterwork. Well known author, [http://files.splinder.com/f7cdee4dc9eb635bb8fa51940e388bf1.jpeg bag man], and urban legend [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Fifth] comes from a long line that begins with [http://www.springfieldlibrary.org/Pynchon/meritorious.html William Pynchon], founder of the town of Springfield, Massachusetts. [http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4832 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Third] is more than a footnote to [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5FB21F083E60E4CE450B0320759422AF.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=8545 Nathaniel Hawthorne's ][http://books.google.com/books?id=wDY99lZWkqoC&dq=nathaniel+hawthorne%27s+house+of+seven+gables&pg=PP1&ots=e4R3vRu0ol&sig=eMvwvRgwViCQcfDtpTD3z0NchWc&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3DNathaniel%2BHawthorne%27s%2B%255D%255B%2BHouse%2Bof%2BSeven%2BGables%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail#PPA2,M1 House of Seven Gables]. This [http://www.vheissu.info/bio/eng_tijdlijn.htm Pynchon Timetable] comes from the [http://www.vheissu.info/index.htm Vheissu] website:<br />
<br />
:Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The House of the Seven Gables. Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1823-1904) writes the author a letter, complaining about the 'abuse' of the 'Pyncheon' name. This rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon will become the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, where he teaches science and religion. In 1881 he publishes an Introduction to Chemical Physics. His brother William is the great-grandfather of author Thomas Pynchon. <br />
<br />
The use of language in his '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]' is reminiscent of his younger namesake:<br />
<br />
:"The name Chemistry, is said to be derived from the Arabic word Kimia, something hidden or concealed, and from this, to have been converted into Xyueia*, a word first used by the Greeks about the eleventh century, and meaning the art of making gold and silver. Between the fifth century and the taking of Constantinople in the fifteenth century, says Dr. Thomson, in his History of Chemistry, the Greeks believed in the possibility of making god and silver artificially; and the art which professed to teach the processes was called by them, Chemistry. This idea, however, has long since been thoroughly discarded, and is now no longer heard of."<br />
<br />
Like the author we are discussing, The Thomas Pynchon of [http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/leadership/jones/inauguration/past_presidents.htm Trinity College], Hartford Connecticut, was a daunting polymath. If you open '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]', one of the first things you will see is are [http://www.hawaiipictures.com/pictures/kauai/rainbows1-1.jpg Rainbows], the rainbows from the workings of a Chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrometer Spectrometer]:<br />
<br />
:When a material is heated to incandescence it emits light that is characteristic of the atomic makeup of the material. Particular light frequencies give rise to sharply defined bands on the scale which can be thought of as fingerprints. For example, the element sodium has a very characteristic double yellow band known as the Sodium D-lines at 588.9950 and 589.5924 nanometers, the colour of which will be familiar to anyone who has seen a low pressure sodium vapor lamp.<br />
<br />
Much of the scientific material in Gravity's Rainbow concerns the commercial applications of Chemistry. One of the branches of the Pynchon Clan, George M. Pynchon, ran the Wall Street Investment firm [http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0711&msg=122572&sort=author Pynchon & Company] In Gravity's Rainbow, 'we' start in a train:<br />
<br />
:"There are no lights inside the cars."<br />
<br />
. . . .and wind up in a theater, waiting for the end to come, singing an old church hymn from Tyrone Slothrop's [http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ma/county/hampden/spfld/hist1/p49-88.html Pig Farming Ancestor], William Slothrop. Pynchon & Company started in the Railroads, got involved in all sorts of [then] high-tech enterprises, and lost out when film maker and investor William Fox was taken down by a consortium of Banking and Technology interests.<br />
<br />
More to come,<br />
<br />
Robin Landseadel</div>Gelitrippinghttps://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gravity%27s_Rainbow&diff=2525Gravity's Rainbow2007-12-01T19:01:43Z<p>Gelitripping: </p>
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<div>Connections to Pynchon's wide-spread yet remarkably hidden family history are scattered throughout this masterwork. Well known author, [http://files.splinder.com/f7cdee4dc9eb635bb8fa51940e388bf1.jpeg bag man], and urban legend [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Fifth] comes from a long line that begins with [http://www.springfieldlibrary.org/Pynchon/meritorious.html William Pynchon], founder of the town of Springfield, Massachusetts. [http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4832 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Third] is more than a footnote to [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5FB21F083E60E4CE450B0320759422AF.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=8545 Nathaniel Hawthorne's ][http://books.google.com/books?id=wDY99lZWkqoC&dq=nathaniel+hawthorne%27s+house+of+seven+gables&pg=PP1&ots=e4R3vRu0ol&sig=eMvwvRgwViCQcfDtpTD3z0NchWc&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3DNathaniel%2BHawthorne%27s%2B%255D%255B%2BHouse%2Bof%2BSeven%2BGables%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail#PPA2,M1 House of Seven Gables]. This [http://www.vheissu.info/bio/eng_tijdlijn.htm Pynchon Timetable] comes from the [http://www.vheissu.info/index.htm Vheissu] website:<br />
<br />
:Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The House of the Seven Gables. Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1823-1904) writes the author a letter, complaining about the 'abuse' of the 'Pyncheon' name. This rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon will become the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, where he teaches science and religion. In 1881 he publishes an Introduction to Chemical Physics. His brother William is the great-grandfather of author Thomas Pynchon. <br />
<br />
The use of language in his '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]' is reminiscent of his younger namesake:<br />
<br />
:"The name Chemistry, is said to be derived from the Arabic word Kimia, something hidden or concealed, and from this, to have been converted into Xyueia*, a word first used by the Greeks about the eleventh century, and meaning the art of making gold and silver. Between the fifth century and the taking of Constantinople in the fifteenth century, says Dr. Thomson, in his History of Chemistry, the Greeks believed in the possibility of making god and silver artificially; and the art which professed to teach the processes was called by them, Chemistry. This idea, however, has long since been thoroughly discarded, and is now no longer heard of."<br />
<br />
Like the author we are discussing, The Thomas Pynchon of [http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/leadership/jones/inauguration/past_presidents.htm Trinity College], Hartford Connecticut, was a daunting polymath. If you open '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]', one of the first things you will see is are [http://www.hawaiipictures.com/pictures/kauai/rainbows1-1.jpg Rainbows], the rainbows from the workings of a Chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrometer Spectrometer]:<br />
<br />
:When a material is heated to incandescence it emits light that is characteristic of the atomic makeup of the material. Particular light frequencies give rise to sharply defined bands on the scale which can be thought of as fingerprints. For example, the element sodium has a very characteristic double yellow band known as the Sodium D-lines at 588.9950 and 589.5924 nanometers, the colour of which will be familiar to anyone who has seen a low pressure sodium vapor lamp.<br />
<br />
Much of the scientific material in Gravity's Rainbow concerns the commercial applications of Chemistry. One of the branches of the Pynchon Clan, George M. Pynchon, ran the Wall Street Investment firm [http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0711&msg=122572&sort=author Pynchon & Company] In Gravity's Rainbow, 'we' start in a train:<br />
<br />
:"There are no lights inside the cars."<br />
<br />
. . . .and wind up in a theater, waiting for the end to come, singing an old church hymn from Tyrone Slothrop's [http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ma/county/hampden/spfld/hist1/p49-88.html Pig Farming Ancestor, William Slothrop. Pynchon & Company started in the Railroads, got involved in all sorts of [then] high-tech enterprises, and lost out when film maker and investor William Fox was taken down by a consortium of Banking and Technology interests.<br />
<br />
More to come,<br />
<br />
Robin Landseadel</div>Gelitrippinghttps://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gravity%27s_Rainbow&diff=2524Gravity's Rainbow2007-12-01T18:59:11Z<p>Gelitripping: </p>
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<div>Connections to Pynchon's wide-spread yet remarkably hidden family history are scattered throughout this masterwork. Well known author, [http://files.splinder.com/f7cdee4dc9eb635bb8fa51940e388bf1.jpeg bag man], and urban legend [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Fifth] comes from a long line that begins with [http://www.springfieldlibrary.org/Pynchon/meritorious.html William Pynchon], founder of the town of Springfield, Massachusetts. [http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4832 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Third] is more than a footnote to [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5FB21F083E60E4CE450B0320759422AF.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=8545 Nathaniel Hawthorne]. This [http://www.vheissu.info/bio/eng_tijdlijn.htm Pynchon Timetable] comes from the [http://www.vheissu.info/index.htm Vheissu] website:<br />
<br />
:Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The House of the Seven Gables. Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1823-1904) writes the author a letter, complaining about the 'abuse' of the 'Pyncheon' name. This rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon will become the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, where he teaches science and religion. In 1881 he publishes an Introduction to Chemical Physics. His brother William is the great-grandfather of author Thomas Pynchon. <br />
<br />
The use of language in his '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]' is reminiscent of his younger namesake:<br />
<br />
:"The name Chemistry, is said to be derived from the Arabic word Kimia, something hidden or concealed, and from this, to have been converted into Xyueia*, a word first used by the Greeks about the eleventh century, and meaning the art of making gold and silver. Between the fifth century and the taking of Constantinople in the fifteenth century, says Dr. Thomson, in his History of Chemistry, the Greeks believed in the possibility of making god and silver artificially; and the art which professed to teach the processes was called by them, Chemistry. This idea, however, has long since been thoroughly discarded, and is now no longer heard of."<br />
<br />
Like the author we are discussing, The Thomas Pynchon of [http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/leadership/jones/inauguration/past_presidents.htm Trinity College], Hartford Connecticut, was a daunting polymath. If you open '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]', one of the first things you will see is are [http://www.hawaiipictures.com/pictures/kauai/rainbows1-1.jpg Rainbows], the rainbows from the workings of a Chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrometer Spectrometer]:<br />
<br />
:When a material is heated to incandescence it emits light that is characteristic of the atomic makeup of the material. Particular light frequencies give rise to sharply defined bands on the scale which can be thought of as fingerprints. For example, the element sodium has a very characteristic double yellow band known as the Sodium D-lines at 588.9950 and 589.5924 nanometers, the colour of which will be familiar to anyone who has seen a low pressure sodium vapor lamp.<br />
<br />
Much of the scientific material in Gravity's Rainbow concerns the commercial applications of Chemistry. One of the branches of the Pynchon Clan, George M. Pynchon, ran the Wall Street Investment firm [http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0711&msg=122572&sort=author Pynchon & Company] In Gravity's Rainbow, 'we' start in a train:<br />
<br />
:"There are no lights inside the cars."<br />
<br />
. . . .and wind up in a theater, waiting for the end to come, singing an old church hymn from Tyrone Slothrop's [http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ma/county/hampden/spfld/hist1/p49-88.html Pig Farming Ancestor, William Slothrop. Pynchon & Company started in the Railroads, got involved in all sorts of [then] high-tech enterprises, and lost out when film maker and investor William Fox was taken down by a consortium of Banking and Technology interests.<br />
<br />
More to come,<br />
<br />
Robin Landseadel</div>Gelitrippinghttps://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gravity%27s_Rainbow&diff=2523Gravity's Rainbow2007-12-01T18:40:29Z<p>Gelitripping: </p>
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<div>Connections to Pynchon's wide-spread yet remarkably hidden family history are scattered throughout this masterwork. Well known author, [http://files.splinder.com/f7cdee4dc9eb635bb8fa51940e388bf1.jpeg bag man], and urban legend [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Fifth] comes from a long line that begins with [http://www.springfieldlibrary.org/Pynchon/meritorious.html William Pynchon], founder of the town of Springfield, Massachusetts. [http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4832 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Third] is more than a footnote to [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5FB21F083E60E4CE450B0320759422AF.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=8545 Nathaniel Hawthorne]. This [http://www.vheissu.info/bio/eng_tijdlijn.htm Pynchon Timetable] comes from the [http://www.vheissu.info/index.htm Vheissu] website:<br />
<br />
:Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The House of the Seven Gables. Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1823-1904) writes the author a letter, complaining about the 'abuse' of the 'Pyncheon' name. This rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon will become the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, where he teaches science and religion. In 1881 he publishes an Introduction to Chemical Physics. His brother William is the great-grandfather of author Thomas Pynchon. <br />
<br />
The use of language in his '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]' is reminiscent of his younger namesake:<br />
<br />
:"The name Chemistry, is said to be derived from the Arabic word Kimia, something hidden or concealed, and from this, to have been converted into Xyueia*, a word first used by the Greeks about the eleventh century, and meaning the art of making gold and silver. Between the fifth century and the taking of Constantinople in the fifteenth century, says Dr. Thomson, in his History of Chemistry, the Greeks believed in the possibility of making god and silver artificially; and the art which professed to teach the processes was called by them, Chemistry. This idea, however, has long since been thoroughly discarded, and is now no longer heard of."<br />
<br />
Like the author we are discussing, The Thomas Pynchon of [http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/leadership/jones/inauguration/past_presidents.htm Trinity College], Hartford Connecticut, was a daunting polymath. If you open '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]', one of the first things you will see is are [http://www.hawaiipictures.com/pictures/kauai/rainbows1-1.jpg Rainbows], the rainbows from the workings of a Chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrometer Spectrometer]:<br />
<br />
:When a material is heated to incandescence it emits light that is characteristic of the atomic makeup of the material. Particular light frequencies give rise to sharply defined bands on the scale which can be thought of as fingerprints. For example, the element sodium has a very characteristic double yellow band known as the Sodium D-lines at 588.9950 and 589.5924 nanometers, the colour of which will be familiar to anyone who has seen a low pressure sodium vapor lamp.<br />
<br />
Much of the scientific material in Gravity's Rainbow concerns the commercial applications of Chemistry. One of the branches of the Pynchon Clan, George M. Pynchon, ran the Wall Street Investment firm [http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0711&msg=122572&sort=author Pynchon & Company] In Gravity's Rainbow, starts in a train:<br />
<br />
:"There are no lights inside the cars."<br />
<br />
. . . .and ends in a theater. Pynchon & Company started in the Railroads, got involved in all sorts of [then] high-tech enterprises, and lost out when film maker and investor William Fox was taken down by a consortium of Banking and Technology interests.<br />
<br />
More to come,<br />
<br />
Robin Landseadel</div>Gelitrippinghttps://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gravity%27s_Rainbow&diff=2522Gravity's Rainbow2007-12-01T18:33:55Z<p>Gelitripping: </p>
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<div>Connections to Pynchon's wide-spread yet remarkably hidden family history are scattered throughout this masterwork. Well known author, [http://files.splinder.com/f7cdee4dc9eb635bb8fa51940e388bf1.jpeg bag man], and urban legend [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Fifth] comes from a long line that begins with [http://www.springfieldlibrary.org/Pynchon/meritorious.html William Pynchon], founder of the town of Springfield, Massachusetts. [http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4832 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Third] is more than a footnote to [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5FB21F083E60E4CE450B0320759422AF.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=8545 Nathaniel Hawthorne]. This [http://www.vheissu.info/bio/eng_tijdlijn.htm Pynchon Timetable] comes from the [http://www.vheissu.info/index.htm Vheissu] website:<br />
<br />
:Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The House of the Seven Gables. Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1823-1904) writes the author a letter, complaining about the 'abuse' of the 'Pyncheon' name. This rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon will become the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, where he teaches science and religion. In 1881 he publishes an Introduction to Chemical Physics. His brother William is the great-grandfather of author Thomas Pynchon. <br />
<br />
The use of language in his '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]' is reminiscent of his younger namesake:<br />
<br />
:"The name Chemistry, is said to be derived from the Arabic word Kimia, something hidden or concealed, and from this, to have been converted into Xyueia*, a word first used by the Greeks about the eleventh century, and meaning the art of making gold and silver. Between the fifth century and the taking of Constantinople in the fifteenth century, says Dr. Thomson, in his History of Chemistry, the Greeks believed in the possibility of making god and silver artificially; and the art which professed to teach the processes was called by them, Chemistry. This idea, however, has long since been thoroughly discarded, and is now no longer heard of."<br />
<br />
Like the author we are discussing, The Thomas Pynchon of [http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/leadership/jones/inauguration/past_presidents.htm Trinity College], Hartford Connecticut, was a daunting polymath. If you open '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]', one of the first things you will see is are [http://birdhouse.org/blog/images/diskinventoryx.jpg Rainbows], the rainbows from the workings of a Chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrometer Spectrometer]:<br />
<br />
:When a material is heated to incandescence it emits light that is characteristic of the atomic makeup of the material. Particular light frequencies give rise to sharply defined bands on the scale which can be thought of as fingerprints. For example, the element sodium has a very characteristic double yellow band known as the Sodium D-lines at 588.9950 and 589.5924 nanometers, the colour of which will be familiar to anyone who has seen a low pressure sodium vapor lamp.<br />
<br />
Much of the scientific material in Gravity's Rainbow concerns the commercial applications of Chemistry. One of the branches of the Pynchon Clan, George M. Pynchon, ran the Wall Street Investment firm [http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0711&msg=122572&sort=author Pynchon & Company] In Gravity's Rainbow, starts in a train:<br />
<br />
:"There are no lights inside the cars."<br />
<br />
. . . .and ends in a theater. Pynchon & Company started in the Railroads, got involved in all sorts of [then] high-tech enterprises, and lost out when film maker and investor William Fox was taken down by a consortium of Banking and Technology interests.<br />
<br />
More to come,<br />
<br />
Robin Landseadel</div>Gelitrippinghttps://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gravity%27s_Rainbow&diff=2521Gravity's Rainbow2007-12-01T18:28:04Z<p>Gelitripping: </p>
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<div>Connections to Pynchon's wide-spread yet remarkably hidden family history are scattered throughout this masterwork. Well known author, [http://files.splinder.com/f7cdee4dc9eb635bb8fa51940e388bf1.jpeg bag man], and urban legend [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Fifth] comes from a long line that begins with [http://www.springfieldlibrary.org/Pynchon/meritorious.html William Pynchon], founder of the town of Springfield, Massachusetts. [http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4832 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Third] is more than a footnote to [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5FB21F083E60E4CE450B0320759422AF.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=8545 Nathaniel Hawthorne]. This [http://www.vheissu.info/bio/eng_tijdlijn.htm Pynchon Timetable] comes from the [http://www.vheissu.info/index.htm Vheissu] website:<br />
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:Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The House of the Seven Gables. Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1823-1904) writes the author a letter, complaining about the 'abuse' of the 'Pyncheon' name. This rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon will become the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, where he teaches science and religion. In 1881 he publishes an Introduction to Chemical Physics. His brother William is the great-grandfather of author Thomas Pynchon. <br />
<br />
The use of language in his '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]' is reminiscent of his younger namesake:<br />
<br />
:"The name Chemistry, is said to be derived from the Arabic word Kimia, something hidden or concealed, and from this, to have been converted into Xyueia*, a word first used by the Greeks about the eleventh century, and meaning the art of making gold and silver. Between the fifth century and the taking of Constantinople in the fifteenth century, says Dr. Thomson, in his History of Chemistry, the Greeks believed in the possibility of making god and silver artificially; and the art which professed to teach the processes was called by them, Chemistry. This idea, however, has long since been thoroughly discarded, and is now no longer heard of."<br />
<br />
Like the author we are discussing, The Thomas Pynchon of [http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/leadership/jones/inauguration/past_presidents.htm Trinity College], Hartford Connecticut, was a daunting polymath. If you open '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]', one of the first things you will see is are [ Rainbows], the rainbows of a chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrometer Spectrometer]:<br />
<br />
:When a material is heated to incandescence it emits light that is characteristic of the atomic makeup of the material. Particular light frequencies give rise to sharply defined bands on the scale which can be thought of as fingerprints. For example, the element sodium has a very characteristic double yellow band known as the Sodium D-lines at 588.9950 and 589.5924 nanometers, the colour of which will be familiar to anyone who has seen a low pressure sodium vapor lamp.<br />
<br />
Much of the scientific material in Gravity's Rainbow concerns the commercial applications of Chemistry. One of the branches of the Pynchon Clan, George M. Pynchon, ran the Wall Street Investment firm [http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0711&msg=122572&sort=author Pynchon & Company] In Gravity's Rainbow, starts in a train:<br />
<br />
:"There are no lights inside the cars."<br />
<br />
. . . .and ends in a theater. Pynchon & Company started in the Railroads, got involved in all sorts of [then] high-tech enterprises, and lost out when film maker and investor William Fox was taken down by a consortium of Banking and Technology interests.<br />
<br />
More to come,<br />
<br />
Robin Landseadel</div>Gelitrippinghttps://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gravity%27s_Rainbow&diff=2520Gravity's Rainbow2007-12-01T18:13:55Z<p>Gelitripping: </p>
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<div>Connections to Pynchon's wide-spread yet remarkably hidden family history are scattered throughout this masterwork. Well known author, [http://files.splinder.com/f7cdee4dc9eb635bb8fa51940e388bf1.jpeg bag man], and urban legend [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Fifth] comes from a long line that begins with [http://www.springfieldlibrary.org/Pynchon/meritorious.html William Pynchon], founder of the town of Springfield, Massachusetts. [http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4832 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Third] is more than a footnote to [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5FB21F083E60E4CE450B0320759422AF.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=8545 Nathaniel Hawthorne]. This [http://www.vheissu.info/bio/eng_tijdlijn.htm Pynchon Timetable] comes from the [http://www.vheissu.info/index.htm Vheissu] website:<br />
<br />
:Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The House of the Seven Gables. Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1823-1904) writes the author a letter, complaining about the 'abuse' of the 'Pyncheon' name. This rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon will become the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, where he teaches science and religion. In 1881 he publishes an Introduction to Chemical Physics. His brother William is the great-grandfather of author Thomas Pynchon. <br />
<br />
The use of language in his '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]' is reminiscent of his younger namesake:<br />
<br />
:"The name Chemistry, is said to be derived from the Arabic word Kimia, something hidden or concealed, and from this, to have been converted into Xyueia*, a word first used by the Greeks about the eleventh century, and meaning the art of making gold and silver. Between the fifth century and the taking of Constantinople in the fifteenth century, says Dr. Thomson, in his History of Chemistry, the Greeks believed in the possibility of making god and silver artificially; and the art which professed to teach the processes was called by them, Chemistry. This idea, however, has long since been thoroughly discarded, and is now no longer heard of."<br />
<br />
Like the author we are discussing, The Thomas Pynchon of [http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/leadership/jones/inauguration/past_presidents.htm Trinity College], Hartford Connicut, was a daunting polymath. If you open '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]', one of the first things you will see is are [ Rainbows], the rainbows of a chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrometer Spectrometer]:<br />
<br />
:When a material is heated to incandescence it emits light that is characteristic of the atomic makeup of the material. Particular light frequencies give rise to sharply defined bands on the scale which can be thought of as fingerprints. For example, the element sodium has a very characteristic double yellow band known as the Sodium D-lines at 588.9950 and 589.5924 nanometers, the colour of which will be familiar to anyone who has seen a low pressure sodium vapor lamp.<br />
<br />
Much of the scientific material in Gravity's Rainbow concerns the commercial applications of Chemistry. One of the branches of the Pynchon Clan, George M. Pynchon, ran the Wall Street Investment firm [http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0711&msg=122572&sort=author Pynchon & Company] In Gravity's Rainbow, starts in a train:<br />
<br />
:"There are no lights inside the cars."<br />
<br />
. . . .and ends in a theater. Pynchon & Company started in the Railroads, got involved in all sorts of [then] high-tech enterprises, and lost out when film maker and investor William Fox was taken down by a consortium of Banking and Technology interests.<br />
<br />
More to come,<br />
<br />
Robin Landseadel</div>Gelitrippinghttps://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gravity%27s_Rainbow&diff=2519Gravity's Rainbow2007-12-01T18:08:16Z<p>Gelitripping: </p>
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<div>Connections to Pynchon's wide-spread yet remarkably hidden family history are scattered throughout this masterwork. Well known author, [http://files.splinder.com/f7cdee4dc9eb635bb8fa51940e388bf1.jpeg bag man], and urban legend [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Fifth] comes from a long line that begins with [http://www.springfieldlibrary.org/Pynchon/meritorious.html William Pynchon], founder of the town of Springfield, Massachusetts. [http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4832 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Third] is more than a footnote to [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5FB21F083E60E4CE450B0320759422AF.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=8545 Nathaniel Hawthorne]. This [http://www.vheissu.info/bio/eng_tijdlijn.htm Pynchon Timetable] comes from the [http://www.vheissu.info/index.htm Vheissu] website:<br />
<br />
:Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The House of the Seven Gables. Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1823-1904) writes the author a letter, complaining about the 'abuse' of the 'Pyncheon' name. This rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon will become the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, where he teaches science and religion. In 1881 he publishes an Introduction to Chemical Physics. His brother William is the great-grandfather of author Thomas Pynchon. <br />
<br />
The use of language in his '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]' is reminiscent of his younger namesake:<br />
<br />
:"The name Chemistry, is said to be derived from the Arabic word Kimia, something hidden or concealed, and from this, to have been converted into Xyueia*, a word first used by the Greeks about the eleventh century, and meaning the art of making gold and silver. Between the fifth century and the taking of Constantinople in the fifteenth century, says Dr. Thomson, in his History of Chemistry, the Greeks believed in the possibility of making god and silver artificially; and the art which professed to teach the processes was called by them, Chemistry. This idea, however, has long since been thoroughly discarded, and is now no longer heard of."<br />
<br />
Like the author we are discussing, The Thomas Pynchon of [http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/leadership/jones/inauguration/past_presidents.htm Trinity College], Hartford Connicut, was a daunting polymath. If you open '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]', one of the first things you will see is are [ Rainbows], the rainbows of a chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrometer Spectrometer]:<br />
<br />
:When a material is heated to incandescence it emits light that is characteristic of the atomic makeup of the material. Particular light frequencies give rise to sharply defined bands on the scale which can be thought of as fingerprints. For example, the element sodium has a very characteristic double yellow band known as the Sodium D-lines at 588.9950 and 589.5924 nanometers, the colour of which will be familiar to anyone who has seen a low pressure sodium vapor lamp.<br />
<br />
Much of the scientific material in Gravity's Rainbow concerns the commercial applications of Chemistry. One of the branches of the Pynchon Clan, George M. Pynchon, ran the Wall Street Investment firm [http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0711&msg=122572&sort=author Pynchon & Company]</div>Gelitrippinghttps://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gravity%27s_Rainbow&diff=2518Gravity's Rainbow2007-12-01T18:04:24Z<p>Gelitripping: </p>
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<div>Connections to Pynchon's wide-spread yet remarkably hidden family history are scattered throughout this masterwork. Well known author, [http://files.splinder.com/f7cdee4dc9eb635bb8fa51940e388bf1.jpeg bag man], and urban legend [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Fifth] comes from a long line that begins with [http://www.springfieldlibrary.org/Pynchon/meritorious.html William Pynchon], founder of the town of Springfield, Massachusetts. [http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4832 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Third] is more than a footnote to [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5FB21F083E60E4CE450B0320759422AF.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=8545 Nathaniel Hawthorne]. This [http://www.vheissu.info/bio/eng_tijdlijn.htm Pynchon Timetable] comes from the [http://www.vheissu.info/index.htm Vheissu] website:<br />
<br />
:Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The House of the Seven Gables. Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1823-1904) writes the author a letter, complaining about the 'abuse' of the 'Pyncheon' name. This rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon will become the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, where he teaches science and religion. In 1881 he publishes an Introduction to Chemical Physics. His brother William is the great-grandfather of author Thomas Pynchon. <br />
<br />
The use of language in his '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]' is reminiscent of his younger namesake:<br />
<br />
:"The name Chemistry, is said to be derived from the Arabic word Kimia, something hidden or concealed, and from this, to have been converted into Xyueia*, a word first used by the Greeks about the eleventh century, and meaning the art of making gold and silver. Between the fifth century and the taking of Constantinople in the fifteenth century, says Dr. Thomson, in his History of Chemistry, the Greeks believed in the possibility of making god and silver artificially; and the art which professed to teach the processes was called by them, Chemistry. This idea, however, has long since been thoroughly discarded, and is now no longer heard of."<br />
<br />
Like the author we are discussing, The Thomas Pynchon of [http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/leadership/jones/inauguration/past_presidents.htm Trinity College], Hartford Connicut, was a daunting polymath. If you open '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]', one of the first things you will see is are Rainbow's, the rainbows of a chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrometer Spectrometer]:<br />
<br />
:When a material is heated to incandescence it emits light that is characteristic of the atomic makeup of the material. Particular light frequencies give rise to sharply defined bands on the scale which can be thought of as fingerprints. For example, the element sodium has a very characteristic double yellow band known as the Sodium D-lines at 588.9950 and 589.5924 nanometers, the colour of which will be familiar to anyone who has seen a low pressure sodium vapor lamp.<br />
<br />
Much of the scientific material in Gravity's Rainbow concerns the commercial applications of Chemistry. One of the branches of the Pynchon Clan, George M. Pynchon, ran the Wall Street Investment firm [http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0711&msg=122572&sort=author Pynchon & Company]</div>Gelitrippinghttps://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gravity%27s_Rainbow&diff=2517Gravity's Rainbow2007-12-01T17:58:44Z<p>Gelitripping: </p>
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<div>Connections to Pynchon's wide-spread yet remarkably hidden family history are scattered throughout this masterwork. Well known author, [http://files.splinder.com/f7cdee4dc9eb635bb8fa51940e388bf1.jpeg bag man], and urban legend [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Fifth] comes from a long line that begins with [http://www.springfieldlibrary.org/Pynchon/meritorious.html William Pynchon], founder of the town of Springfield, Massachusetts. [http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4832 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Third] is more than a footnote to [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5FB21F083E60E4CE450B0320759422AF.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=8545 Nathaniel Hawthorne]. This [http://www.vheissu.info/bio/eng_tijdlijn.htm Pynchon Timetable] comes from the [http://www.vheissu.info/index.htm Vheissu] website:<br />
<br />
:Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The House of the Seven Gables. Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1823-1904) writes the author a letter, complaining about the 'abuse' of the 'Pyncheon' name. This rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon will become the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, where he teaches science and religion. In 1881 he publishes an Introduction to Chemical Physics. His brother William is the great-grandfather of author Thomas Pynchon. <br />
<br />
The use of language in his '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]' is reminiscent of his younger namesake:<br />
<br />
:"The name Chemistry, is said to be derived from the Arabic word Kimia, something hidden or concealed, and from this, to have been converted into Xyueia*, a word first used by the Greeks about the eleventh century, and meaning the art of making gold and silver. Between the fifth century and the taking of Constantinople in the fifteenth century, says Dr. Thomson, in his History of Chemistry, the Greeks believed in the possibility of making god and silver artificially; and the art which professed to teach the processes was called by them, Chemistry. This idea, however, has long since been thoroughly discarded, and is now no longer heard of."<br />
<br />
Like the author we are discussing, The Thomas Pynchon of [http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/leadership/jones/inauguration/past_presidents.htm Trinity College], Hartford Connicut, was a daunting polymath. If you open '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]', one of the first things you will see is are Rainbow's, the rainbows of a chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrometer Spectrometer]:<br />
<br />
:When a material is heated to incandescence it emits light that is characteristic of the atomic makeup of the material. Particular light frequencies give rise to sharply defined bands on the scale which can be thought of as fingerprints. For example, the element sodium has a very characteristic double yellow band known as the Sodium D-lines at 588.9950 and 589.5924 nanometers, the colour of which will be familiar to anyone who has seen a low pressure sodium vapor lamp.</div>Gelitrippinghttps://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gravity%27s_Rainbow&diff=2516Gravity's Rainbow2007-12-01T17:57:41Z<p>Gelitripping: </p>
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<div>Connections to Pynchon's wide-spread yet remarkably hidden family history are scattered throughout this masterwork. Well known author, [http://files.splinder.com/f7cdee4dc9eb635bb8fa51940e388bf1.jpeg bag man], and urban legend [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Fifth] comes from a long line that begins with [http://www.springfieldlibrary.org/Pynchon/meritorious.html William Pynchon], founder of the town of Springfield, Massachusetts. [http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4832 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Third] is more than a footnote to [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5FB21F083E60E4CE450B0320759422AF.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=8545 Nathaniel Hawthorne]. This [http://www.vheissu.info/bio/eng_tijdlijn.htm Pynchon Timetable] comes from the [http://www.vheissu.info/index.htm Vheissu] website:<br />
<br />
:Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The House of the Seven Gables. Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1823-1904) writes the author a letter, complaining about the 'abuse' of the 'Pyncheon' name. This rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon will become the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, where he teaches science and religion. In 1881 he publishes an Introduction to Chemical Physics. His brother William is the great-grandfather of author Thomas Pynchon. <br />
<br />
The use of language in his '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]' is reminiscent of his younger namesake:<br />
<br />
:"The name Chemistry, is said to be derived from the Arabic word Kimia, something hidden or concealed, and from this, to have been converted into Xyueia*, a word first used by the Greeks about the eleventh century, and meaning the art of making gold and silver. Between the fifth century and the taking of Constantinople in the fifteenth century, says Dr. Thomson, in his History of Chemistry, the Greeks believed in the possibility of making god and silver artificially; and the art which professed to teach the processes was called by them, Chemistry. This idea, however, has long since been thoroughly discarded, and is now no longer heard of."<br />
<br />
Like the author we are discussing, The Thomas Pynchon of [http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/leadership/jones/inauguration/past_presidents.htm Trinity College], Hartford Connicut, was a daunting polymath. If you open '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]', one of the first things you will see is are Rainbow's, the rainbows of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrometer Spectrometer]</div>Gelitrippinghttps://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gravity%27s_Rainbow&diff=2515Gravity's Rainbow2007-12-01T17:53:51Z<p>Gelitripping: </p>
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<div>Connections to Pynchon's wide-spread yet remarkably hidden family history are scattered throughout this masterwork. Well known author, [http://files.splinder.com/f7cdee4dc9eb635bb8fa51940e388bf1.jpeg bag man], and urban legend [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Fifth] comes from a long line that begins with [http://www.springfieldlibrary.org/Pynchon/meritorious.html William Pynchon], founder of the town of Springfield, Massachusetts. [http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4832 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Third] is more than a footnote to [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5FB21F083E60E4CE450B0320759422AF.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=8545 Nathaniel Hawthorne]. This [http://www.vheissu.info/bio/eng_tijdlijn.htm Pynchon Timetable] comes from the [http://www.vheissu.info/index.htm Vheissu] website:<br />
<br />
:Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The House of the Seven Gables. Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1823-1904) writes the author a letter, complaining about the 'abuse' of the 'Pyncheon' name. This rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon will become the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, where he teaches science and religion. In 1881 he publishes an Introduction to Chemical Physics. His brother William is the great-grandfather of author Thomas Pynchon. <br />
<br />
The use of language in his '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]' is reminiscent of his younger namesake:<br />
<br />
:"The name Chemistry, is said to be derived from the Arabic word Kimia, something hidden or concealed, and from this, to have been converted into Xyueia*, a word first used by the Greeks about the eleventh century, and meaning the art of making gold and silver. Between the fifth century and the taking of Constantinople in the fifteenth century, says Dr. Thomson, in his History of Chemistry, the Greeks believed in the possibility of making god and silver artificially; and the art which professed to teach the processes was called by them, Chemistry. This idea, however, has long since been thoroughly discarded, and is now no longer heard of."<br />
<br />
Like the author we are discussing, The Thomas Pynchon of [http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/leadership/jones/inauguration/past_presidents.htm Trinity College], Hartford Connicut, was a daunting polymath. If you open '[http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]', one of the first things you will see is a full-color</div>Gelitrippinghttps://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gravity%27s_Rainbow&diff=2514Gravity's Rainbow2007-12-01T17:53:17Z<p>Gelitripping: </p>
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<div>Connections to Pynchon's wide-spread yet remarkably hidden family history are scattered throughout this masterwork. Well known author, [http://files.splinder.com/f7cdee4dc9eb635bb8fa51940e388bf1.jpeg bag man], and urban legend [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Fifth] comes from a long line that begins with [http://www.springfieldlibrary.org/Pynchon/meritorious.html William Pynchon], founder of the town of Springfield, Massachusetts. [http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4832 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Third] is more than a footnote to [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5FB21F083E60E4CE450B0320759422AF.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=8545 Nathaniel Hawthorne]. This [http://www.vheissu.info/bio/eng_tijdlijn.htm Pynchon Timetable] comes from the [http://www.vheissu.info/index.htm Vheissu] website:<br />
<br />
:Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The House of the Seven Gables. Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1823-1904) writes the author a letter, complaining about the 'abuse' of the 'Pyncheon' name. This rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon will become the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, where he teaches science and religion. In 1881 he publishes an Introduction to Chemical Physics. His brother William is the great-grandfather of author Thomas Pynchon. <br />
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:"The name Chemistry, is said to be derived from the Arabic word Kimia, something hidden or concealed, and from this, to have been converted into Xyueia*, a word first used by the Greeks about the eleventh century, and meaning the art of making gold and silver. Between the fifth century and the taking of Constantinople in the fifteenth century, says Dr. Thomson, in his History of Chemistry, the Greeks believed in the possibility of making god and silver artificially; and the art which professed to teach the processes was called by them, Chemistry. This idea, however, has long since been thoroughly discarded, and is now no longer heard of."<br />
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:Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The House of the Seven Gables. Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1823-1904) writes the author a letter, complaining about the 'abuse' of the 'Pyncheon' name. This rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon will become the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, where he teaches science and religion. In 1881 he publishes an Introduction to Chemical Physics. His brother William is the great-grandfather of author Thomas Pynchon. <br />
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The use of language in his ' [http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]' is reminiscent of his younger namesake:<br />
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:"The name Chemistry, is said to be derived from the Arabic word Kimia, something hidden or concealed, and from this, to have been converted into Xyueia*, a word first used by the Greeks about the eleventh century, and meaning the art of making gold and silver. Between the fifth century and the taking of Constantinople in the fifteenth century, says Dr. Thomson, in his History of Chemistry, the Greeks believed in the possibility of making god and silver artificially; and the art which professed to teach the processes was called by them, Chemistry. This idea, however, has long since been thoroughly discarded, and is now no longer heard of."<br />
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Like the author we are discussing, The Thomas Pynchon of [http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/leadership/jones/inauguration/past_presidents.htm Trinity College], Hartford Connicut, was a daunting polymath.</div>Gelitrippinghttps://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gravity%27s_Rainbow&diff=2512Gravity's Rainbow2007-12-01T17:50:06Z<p>Gelitripping: </p>
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<div>Connections to Pynchon's wide-spread yet remarkably hidden family history are scattered throughout this masterwork. Well known author, [http://files.splinder.com/f7cdee4dc9eb635bb8fa51940e388bf1.jpeg bag man], and urban legend [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Fifth] comes from a long line that begins with [http://www.springfieldlibrary.org/Pynchon/meritorious.html William Pynchon], founder of the town of Springfield, Massachusetts. [http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4832 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Third] is more than a footnote to [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5FB21F083E60E4CE450B0320759422AF.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=8545 Nathaniel Hawthorne]. This [http://www.vheissu.info/bio/eng_tijdlijn.htm Pynchon Timetable] comes from the [http://www.vheissu.info/index.htm Vheissu] website:<br />
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:Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The House of the Seven Gables. Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1823-1904) writes the author a letter, complaining about the 'abuse' of the 'Pyncheon' name. This rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon will become the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, where he teaches science and religion. In 1881 he publishes an Introduction to Chemical Physics. His brother William is the great-grandfather of author Thomas Pynchon. <br />
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The use of language in his ' [http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]' is reminiscent of his namesake:<br />
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:"The name Chemistry, is said to be derived from the Arabic word Kimia, something hidden or concealed, and from this, to have been converted into Xyueia*, a word first used by the Greeks about the eleventh century, and meaning the art of making gold and silver. Between the fifth century and the taking of Constantinople in the fifteenth century, says Dr. Thomson, in his History of Chemistry, the Greeks believed in the possibility of making god and silver artificially; and the art which professed to teach the processes was called by them, Chemistry. This idea, however, has long since been thoroughly discarded, and is now no longer heard of."<br />
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Like the author we are discussing, The Thomas Pynchon of [http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/leadership/jones/inauguration/past_presidents.htm Trinity College], Hartford Connicut, was a daunting polymath.</div>Gelitrippinghttps://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gravity%27s_Rainbow&diff=2511Gravity's Rainbow2007-12-01T17:47:16Z<p>Gelitripping: </p>
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<div>Connections to Pynchon's wide-spread yet remarkably hidden family history are scattered throughout this masterwork. Well known author and urban legend [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Fifth] comes from a long line that begins with [http://www.springfieldlibrary.org/Pynchon/meritorious.html William Pynchon], founder of the town of Springfield, Massachusetts. [http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4832 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Third] is more than a footnote to [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5FB21F083E60E4CE450B0320759422AF.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=8545 Nathaniel Hawthorne]. This [http://www.vheissu.info/bio/eng_tijdlijn.htm Pynchon Timetable] comes from the [http://www.vheissu.info/index.htm Vheissu] website:<br />
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:Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The House of the Seven Gables. Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1823-1904) writes the author a letter, complaining about the 'abuse' of the 'Pyncheon' name. This rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon will become the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, where he teaches science and religion. In 1881 he publishes an Introduction to Chemical Physics. His brother William is the great-grandfather of author Thomas Pynchon. <br />
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The use of language in his ' [http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]' is reminiscent of his namesake:<br />
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:"The name Chemistry, is said to be derived from the Arabic word Kimia, something hidden or concealed, and from this, to have been converted into Xyueia*, a word first used by the Greeks about the eleventh century, and meaning the art of making gold and silver. Between the fifth century and the taking of Constantinople in the fifteenth century, says Dr. Thomson, in his History of Chemistry, the Greeks believed in the possibility of making god and silver artificially; and the art which professed to teach the processes was called by them, Chemistry. This idea, however, has long since been thoroughly discarded, and is now no longer heard of."<br />
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Like the author we are discussing, The Thomas Pynchon of [http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/leadership/jones/inauguration/past_presidents.htm Trinity College], Hartford Connicut, was a daunting polymath.</div>Gelitrippinghttps://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gravity%27s_Rainbow&diff=2510Gravity's Rainbow2007-12-01T17:45:45Z<p>Gelitripping: </p>
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<div>Connections to Pynchon's wide-spread yet remarkably hidden family history are scattered throughout this masterwork. Well known author and urban legend [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Fifth] comes from a long line that begins with William Pynchon, founder of the town of Springfield, Massachusetts. [http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4832 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Third] is more than a footnote to [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5FB21F083E60E4CE450B0320759422AF.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=8545 Nathaniel Hawthorne]. This [http://www.vheissu.info/bio/eng_tijdlijn.htm Pynchon Timetable] comes from the [http://www.vheissu.info/index.htm Vheissu] website:<br />
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:Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The House of the Seven Gables. Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1823-1904) writes the author a letter, complaining about the 'abuse' of the 'Pyncheon' name. This rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon will become the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, where he teaches science and religion. In 1881 he publishes an Introduction to Chemical Physics. His brother William is the great-grandfather of author Thomas Pynchon. <br />
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The use of language in his ' [http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]' is reminiscent of his namesake:<br />
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:"The name Chemistry, is said to be derived from the Arabic word Kimia, something hidden or concealed, and from this, to have been converted into Xyueia*, a word first used by the Greeks about the eleventh century, and meaning the art of making gold and silver. Between the fifth century and the taking of Constantinople in the fifteenth century, says Dr. Thomson, in his History of Chemistry, the Greeks believed in the possibility of making god and silver artificially; and the art which professed to teach the processes was called by them, Chemistry. This idea, however, has long since been thoroughly discarded, and is now no longer heard of."<br />
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Like the author we are discussing, The Thomas Pynchon of [http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/leadership/jones/inauguration/past_presidents.htm Trinity College], Hartford Connicut, was a daunting polymath.</div>Gelitrippinghttps://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gravity%27s_Rainbow&diff=2509Gravity's Rainbow2007-12-01T17:43:01Z<p>Gelitripping: </p>
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<div>Connections to Pynchon's wide-spread yet remarkably hidden family history are scattered throughout this masterwork. Well known author and urban legend [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Fifth] comes from a long line that begins with William Pynchon, founder of the town of Springfield, Massachusetts. [http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4832 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Third] is more than a footnote to [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5FB21F083E60E4CE450B0320759422AF.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=8545 Nathaniel Hawthorne]. This [http://www.vheissu.info/bio/eng_tijdlijn.htm Pynchon Timetable] comes from the [http://www.vheissu.info/index.htm Vheissu] website:<br />
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:Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The House of the Seven Gables. Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1823-1904) writes the author a letter, complaining about the 'abuse' of the 'Pyncheon' name. This rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon will become the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, where he teaches science and religion. In 1881 he publishes an Introduction to Chemical Physics. His brother William is the great-grandfather of author Thomas Pynchon. <br />
<br />
The use of language in his ' [http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]' is reminiscent of his namesake:<br />
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:"The name Chemistry, is said to be derived from the Arabic word Kimia, something hidden or concealed, and from this, to have been converted into Xyueia*, a word first used by the Greeks about the eleventh century, and meaning the art of making gold and silver. Between the fifth century and the taking of Constantinople in the fifteenth century, says Dr. Thomson, in his History of Chemistry, the Greeks believed in the possibility of making god and silver artificially; and the art which professed to teach the processes was called by them, Chemistry. This idea, however, has long since been thoroughly discarded, and is now no longer heard of."<br />
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Like the author we are discussing, Thomas Pynchon was a daunting polymath.</div>Gelitrippinghttps://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gravity%27s_Rainbow&diff=2508Gravity's Rainbow2007-12-01T17:41:37Z<p>Gelitripping: </p>
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<div>Connections to Pynchon's wide-spread yet remarkably hidden family history are scattered throughout this masterwork. Well known author and urban legend [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Fifth] comes from a long line that begins with William Pynchon, founder of the town of Springfield, Massachusetts. [http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4832 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Third] is more than a footnote to [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5FB21F083E60E4CE450B0320759422AF.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=8545 Nathaniel Hawthorne]. From [http://www.vheissu.info/bio/eng_tijdlijn.htm A Pyncon Timetable] from the [http://www.vheissu.info/index.htm Vheissu] website:<br />
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:Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The House of the Seven Gables. Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1823-1904) writes the author a letter, complaining about the 'abuse' of the 'Pyncheon' name. This rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon will become the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, where he teaches science and religion. In 1881 he publishes an Introduction to Chemical Physics. His brother William is the great-grandfather of author Thomas Pynchon. <br />
<br />
The use of language in his ' [http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]' is reminiscent of his namesake:<br />
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:"The name Chemistry, is said to be derived from the Arabic word Kimia, something hidden or concealed, and from this, to have been converted into Xyueia*, a word first used by the Greeks about the eleventh century, and meaning the art of making gold and silver. Between the fifth century and the taking of Constantinople in the fifteenth century, says Dr. Thomson, in his History of Chemistry, the Greeks believed in the possibility of making god and silver artificially; and the art which professed to teach the processes was called by them, Chemistry. This idea, however, has long since been thoroughly discarded, and is now no longer heard of."<br />
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Like the author we are discussing, Thomas Pynchon was a daunting polymath.</div>Gelitrippinghttps://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gravity%27s_Rainbow&diff=2507Gravity's Rainbow2007-12-01T17:35:37Z<p>Gelitripping: </p>
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<div>Connections to Pynchon's wide-spread yet remarkably hidden family history are scattered throughout this masterwork. Well known author and urban legend [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Fifth] comes from a long line that begins with William Pynchon, founder of the town of Springfield, Massachusetts. [http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4832 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Third] is more than a footnote to [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5FB21F083E60E4CE450B0320759422AF.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=8545 Nathaniel Hawthorne]. The use of language in his ' [http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]' is reminiscent of his namesake:<br />
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:"The name Chemistry, is said to be derived from the Arabic word Kimia, something hidden or concealed, and from this, to have been converted into Xyueia*, a word first used by the Greeks about the eleventh century, and meaning the art of making gold and silver. Between the fifth century and the taking of Constantinople in the fifteenth century, says Dr. Thomson, in his History of Chemistry, the Greeks believed in the possibility of making god and silver artificially; and the art which professed to teach the processes was called by them, Chemistry. This idea, however, has long since been thoroughly discarded, and is now no longer heard of."</div>Gelitrippinghttps://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gravity%27s_Rainbow&diff=2506Gravity's Rainbow2007-12-01T17:35:02Z<p>Gelitripping: </p>
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<div>Connections to Pynchon's wide-spread yet remarkably hidden family history are scattered throughout this masterwork. Well known author and urban legend [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Fifth] comes from a long line that begins with William Pynchon, founder of the town of Springfield, Massachusetts. [http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4832 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Third] is more than a footnote to [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5FB21F083E60E4CE450B0320759422AF.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=8545 Nathaniel Hawthorne]. The use of language in his ' [http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]' is reminiscent of his namesake:<br />
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;"The name Chemistry, is said to be derived from the Arabic word Kimia, something hidden or concealed, and from this, to have been converted into Xyueia*, a word first used by the Greeks about the eleventh century, and meaning the art of making gold and silver. Between the fifth century and the taking of Constantinople in the fifteenth century, says Dr. Thomson, in his History of Chemistry, the Greeks believed in the possibility of making god and silver artificially; and the art which professed to teach the processes was called by them, Chemistry. This idea, however, has long since been thoroughly discarded, and is now no longer heard of."</div>Gelitrippinghttps://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gravity%27s_Rainbow&diff=2505Gravity's Rainbow2007-12-01T17:26:39Z<p>Gelitripping: </p>
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<div>Connections to Pynchon's wide-spread yet remarkably hidden family history are scattered throughout this masterwork. Well known author and urban legend [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Fifth] comes from a long line that begins with William Pynchon, founder of the town of Springfield, Massachusetts. [http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4832 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Third] is more than a footnote to [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5FB21F083E60E4CE450B0320759422AF.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=8545 Nathaniel Hawthorne]. His [http://books.google.com/books?id=QmdOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=Thomas+Ruggles+Pynchon+Trinity+college&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1 Introduction to Chemical Physics]</div>Gelitripping