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'''Babington-Smith, Constance''' 
726; "and her colleagues at R.A.F. Medmenham [who] discovered the Rocket back in 1943 in recco photographs of Peenemünde"; Babington conducted aerial photo-surveillance for the Allies in WWII.

'''Badajoz''' 
234; The largest province in Spain, in the Extremadura comunidad autónoma ("autonomous community"), Badajoz borders on Portugal; on which, according to Pudding, "during the war in Spain ... a bandera of Franco's Legion advanced"; between 1,000 and 4,000 civilian and military supporters of the Second Spanish Republic, were killed by the National Army following the seizure of the town on August 14, 1936.

'''Bad Karma''' 
457; location of Spa (Kurhaus) where Margherita Erdmann killed Jewish boys; ''Bad'' is German for spa or sanitarium and is often used in the names of towns with hot springs; obviously, this one is fictional and a pun

'''Badass, U.S.S. John E.''' 
388-89; US destroyer on which Seaman Bodine is stationed; Runcible Spoon Contest, 594; 623

'''BAFO''' 
391; U.S. Army Air Force: Base Accounting and Finance Office

'''Bai-u''' 
480; "the season of the plum rains [...] when all the plums are ripening" in Japan; Tsuyu (Baiu=plum rain)("Rainy Season"). Although this is Japan's "Rainy Season" (Tsuyu or Baiu), it is actually the second wet period (Winter Monsoon being the first). It typically begins in early June in Western Japan and ends in July. (Both dates are later in Northern Japan.) A stationary rain front forms over Japan between the very warm, moist tropical air to the south and the cooler, drier air to the north of the front. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiyu Wikipedia entry]

'''Baku''' 
352; seaport capital of Azerbaydzhanskaya SSR, Soviet Union, on the west coast of the Caspian Sea; 353; Blobadjian "pursued through the black end of Baku by a passel of screaming Arabists" 354

'''Bakunin, Mikhael Aleksandrovich (1814-76)''' 
386; A Russian anarchist who eventually settled in England, Mikhail Bakunin, as the leader of anarchism, was the opponent of Karl Marx in the Communist International. He believed that "the withering away of the state" effect by communism was an essential step towards anarchism. In 1866, he founded International Brotherhood, or the Alliance of Revolutionary Socialists; "19th century European anarchist Mason" 587; See also [[P#proudhon|Proudhon]] and [[F#friscia|Friscia]]

'''Balaclava helmet''' 
42; a close-fitting woolen covering for the head and ears

'''Baldwin, Stanley (1867-1947)''' 
An English Conservative statesman, Baldwin, after university, became vice-chairman of his family's iron and steel business. He became premier in 1923. In the 1930s he was reluctant to re-arm Britain and was thus criticized for not recognizing the Nazi threat; Byron's Guerrilla Strike Force is "gonna get [him] right in the face" 647

'''[[Bananas|BANANAS]]'''

<div id="baseball"></div>'''baseball''' 
See [[L#lawn|lawn sports]]

'''Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij, N.V.''' 
240; Royal Dutch Shell headquarters being used for a radio guidance transmitter

'''Battle of Britain''' 
40-41; (June 1940-April 1941), series of intense raids directed against Great Britain by the German air force after the fall of France during World War II. Britain sustained 57 consecutive nights of air raids, but the RAF prevailed through superior tactics and cracking German secret codes.

'''Battle of the Bulge''' 
Led by Gerd von Rundstedt this German offensive began with a surprise attack in Luxembourg on December 16, 1944. Hitler hoped to revitalize the Western Front troops. The Germans were eventually beaten back in early January 1945 after suffering over 100,000 casualties and the loss of 1000 aircraft. It was called "Battle of the Bulge" because of the bulge it created in American lines along the Western Front. It disrupted the Western Allies' military timetable for several months; "the chaplains out in the Bulge are manly, haggard, hard drinkers" 135; 246; Red Cross "charging fifteen cents for coffee and donuts at" 600

'''Bauhaus''' 
582; "-style furniture" at the Tracys' home; The Bauhaus School was a design school in existence in Germany 1919 - 1933, established by Walter Gropius. Radically breaking with the past, the Bauhaus Masters and their students ushered in our modern times. The aesthetic was austere and functional. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauhaus Wikipedia entry]

'''Bayer factory''' 
Major German company (dyes, aspirin), headed by Duisberg, that in 1904 was organized along with Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik and the AGFA Company (film), into a cartel; 742; in Leverkusen; defectors from, at Der Platz, 746; [www.bayer.de/en/index_en.html Bayer Website]

'''BDM volunteers''' 
450; German: Bund Deutscher Mädel = German Girls League; German girls 14 years or older joined this Nazi youth group which included a year of farm or domestic service. Their motto was "Frisch, Fromm, Frölich, Frei".

'''BDST''' 
29: British Double Summer Time (-0200 offset from Greenwich Mean Time); same idea as Daylight Saving Time in the USA, but the clocks are advanced 2 hours, instead 1 hour, during the summer months.

'''Beal, Mary F. (b. 1937)''' 
612; American novelist

'''Beardsley, Aubry (1872-1898)''' 
An English illustrator, Beardsley is known for his (often erotically charged) illustrations for Oscar Wilde's Salome, Alexander Pope's Rape of the Lock and other black-and-white works. Along with Oscar Wilde, he was considered a leader of "The Decadents" of the 1890s; 71; 634; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_Beardsley Wikipedia entry]

'''Beaton, Cecil (1904-80)''' 
78; Beaton was an English photographer of fashion and high-society celebrities (including royalty), as well as a designer of costumes and sets for ballet; his "photograph of [[A#asquith|Margot Asquith]]"

'''Beatriz the Bulb''' 
653; another long-living bulb hunted by Phoebus, believed to be in the Amazon

'''Beaver, "Old" Jeremy the''' 
36; 121; boyfriend of Jessica Swanlake; works for Operation Backfire in Cuxhaven; is the War, 177; meets Mexico at Gross Suckling Conference, 709

'''Beaverboard Row''' 
538; at the Double-Agent Convention, "comprising the offices of all the Committees"

'''Beaverbrook, Lord William Maxwell (1879-1964)''' 
615; Max Beaverbrook was a Canadian-born British newspaper magnate and politician. He became rich as a stockbroker by 1910. He moved to Britain in 1910 and was private secretary to premier Bonar Law, minister of information under Lloyd George, and minister of supply under Churchill. As a newspaper magnate, he founded the Sunday Express in 1921 and bought the Evening Standard in 1929; "it isn't as if the election put [him] out of a job or something"

'''Becket''' 
"Lost, again and again, past poor dam-busted and drowned Becket" 471

'''Beethoven, Ludwig von (1770-1827)''' 
German composer whose harmonic and formal innovations pushed the boundaries of the music of his day; "Rossini's overture to La Gazza Ladra (which, as we shall see later, in Berlin, marks a high point in music which everybody ignored, preferring Beethoven, who never got further than statements of intention)" 273; "a raging debate with Säure over who is better, [[Beethoven & Rossini|Beethoven or Rossini]] [...] "'I'm not so much for Beethoven qua Beethoven," Gustav argues, "but as he represents the German dialectic, the incorporation of more and more notes into the scale, culminating with dodecaphonic democracy, where all notes get an equal hearing. Beethoven was one of the architects of musical freedom--he submitted to the demands of history, despite his deafness. While Rossini was retiring at the age of 36, womanizing and getting fat, Beethoven was living a life filled with tragedy and grandeur.'" 440; "All you feel like listening to Beethoven is going out and invading Poland." 440 (this pre-dates Woody Allen's use of the same joke in his movie [http://www.woodyallenmovies.com/movies/manhattan.htm ''Manhattan''] (1979)); "Nor as grand as Bach, or Beethoven-or-Brahms/(bubububoo[oo] oo [sung to opening of Beethoven 5th, with full band]" 685

'''Beláustegui''' 
383; U-boat's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positivism positivist] engineer; 613

'''Belleau Wood''' 
Battle fought outside Paris for approximately three weeks in June 1918, between the U.S. Marines and the Germans. The Marines prevailed, but only after the death of over 1000 men; "[Lyle Bland] lay there, more terrified than he'd ever been, even at Belleau Wood" 588

'''Benito the Bulb''' 
649; "at an all-girl opium den in Charlottenburg [...] who's always planning an escape"

'''Bereshith''' 
Genesis, the first book of the Old Testament (after the Hebrew word meaning "in the beginning"); 77

'''Beria, Lavrenti Pavlovich (1899-1953)''' 
Sometimes called the "Himmler of Russia," Beria was a ruthless and ambitious Soviet secret police chief. Stalin appointed him minister of internal affairs in 1938, and he served as vice-president of the State Committee for Defense during WWII. He attempted to seize power when Stalin died, but was foiled and executed; "Beria's top man, the sinister N. Ripov himself" 719

'''Berliner Luft''' 
372;

'''Berlin Snoot''' 
660; aka Enzian

'''Bernie the Bulb''' 
649; "at an all-girl opium den in Charlottenburg [...] who has all kinds of urolagnia jokes"

'''Bernreuter Inventory''' 
In 1931, psychologist Robert Bernreuter began refining his "Bernreuter Personality Inventory," a pioneer multiphastic test of traits that became the standard against which other personality tests were measured and is still used worldwide for counseling and personnel selection; "as revied by Flanagan in '35" 81

'''Bessarabia''' 
Bessarabia is the territory in the eastern part of Moldavia (now Romania), between the Prut and Dniester rivers, near the Russian border; Background regarding "1878 during the intrigues over" 119

'''Bevin, Mr. Ernest (1881-1951)''' 
106; Considered the pioneer of modern trade unionism, Bevin became minister of labor and nation service in Churchill's coalition government. He became foreign secretary in the Labour government (1945-51).Labor Minister

<div id="bianca"></div>'''Bianca''' 
393; daughter of Greta Erdmann & Miklos Thanatz; "I think Bianca is [Schlepzig's] child." 395; 457; disappears, 480; mapped on to Gottfried, 484, 672;"Bianca's a knockout, alright: [[Bianca|11 or 12 [...] ]]" 463; going overboard, 491; "a clever child" 494; body discovered, 531; mapped on to Ilse, 576-77; "her dead flesh" 576; 672;

'''Bibescue, Count''' 
491; passenger aboard the Anubis "dreaming by the fo'c'sle of Bucharest four years ago, the January terror, the Iron Guard on the radio screaming Long Live Death"

'''Biddle, "Gobbler"''' 
65; college buddy of Slothrop's who appears in toilet episode

'''Big and Little Anita''' 
129; character conjured by the presence of the black man in choir at the Advent service attended by Roger and Jessica

'''Big Apple''' 
60; dance in Slothrop's Sodium Amytal session

'''Bingen pencils''' 
Bingen is a city in southwestern Germany, with a port at the confluence of the Rhine and Nahe rivers, near the whirlpool known as Binger Loch. It joined the Hanseatic League in 1254; "the helical contrails in the sky" 452

'''Birches, The''' 
616; Sir Marcus Scammony's estate

'''Birdbury, Pharmacist''' 
595; dope dealer at the old Krupp works where Badass is docked

'''Bismarck, Otto Edward Leopold von (1815-98)''' 
165; As a Prussian statesman, Bismarck rose to eventually become president of the cabinet. Under his leadership, Prussia humiliated Austria in the "Seven Weeks' War which lead to the reorganization of Germany under the leadership of Prussia. After provoking the Franco-Prussian war (1870-71) and eventually dictating the peace terms to France, Bismarck was made a prince and chancellor (the "Iron Chancellor") of the new German empire. He also represented Germany at the Congress of Berlin in 1878; "impressive re-enactment of Bismarck's elevation, at the spring equinox of 1871, to prince and imperial chancellor" 419;

'''black & white''' 
The Rocket described as "black-and-white bad news" 209; "Dominus Blicero" 30; white - 342, 398, 501, 506, 508, 519, 524, 549, 551; 579; bleaching 364; black - 350, 354; "feelings about blackness tied to feelings about shit" 276; white=death, 372; white woman with ring of keys, 374; Caligari gloves - bone white, 385; Slothrop's sodium amytal dreams, 390; 392; "we live. . .beneath the black mud" 483; "A white land" 486; 488; black polymer costume, 488; baseball, 508; boneblack, 509; Egg, 510; "black apes" 513; 650; 657; 666; 688; white albatross, 713; 722; 723; 741; death a whitening, 750 [inversion: black=life; white=death]

'''Blackett, P.M.S. (1897-1974)''' 
12; 1932 (independent of Carl Anderson) he discovered the positron. He also pioneered research on cosmic radiation and, in 1948, won the Nobel prize for physics; "You can't run a war on gusts of emotion"

'''Bladdery, St. John''' 
594; English Commando in First International Runcible Spoon Fight

'''Bland, Buddy''' 
591; Lyle's son; 652

'''Bland, Lyle''' 
284; "Uncle" Lyle to Slothrop; lived in Boston; involved with Hugo Stinnes; 306; Marvy-GE-Morgan money-Harvard interlock with, 332; and the Masons, 580; specialized in psychological studies in '30s, 581; becomes Mason, 587; journeying "underneath history" 589; leaves body, 591; "last transmural journey" 630; "who was likely to take over the Slothrop surveillance, now that Bland was gone" 630

'''Bland, Lyle Jr.''' 
652; Lyle's son

'''Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna (1831-91)''' 
269; A Russian-born American psychic and mystic. She founded the Theosophical Society in New York in 1875 and later continued her work in India. Although her psychic powers were widely acclaimed, they did not withstand the scrutiny of the Society for Psychical Research, though this had little effect on her following; the Blavatskian wing in Psi section. Her day of death (May 8) is commemorated as White Lotus Day.

'''Blazzo''' 
483; "Italian stuntman" who doubled for Erdmann in Jugend Herauf! - Erdmann "wouldn't go to bed with him, unless he wore that wig!"

'''Bleagh, Dr.''' 
91; "and his young nurse Ivy"; performs lobotomies at White Visitation

'''Bleicheröde''' 
According to McGovern, a cotton-mill town near Nordhausen where most of the rocket specialists and their families were resettled after Peenemünde was abandoned; "Across the Western Front, up in the Harz in Bleicheröde, Wernher von Braun, lately wrecked arm in a plaster cast, prepares to celebrate his 33rd birthday." 236-37; "Enzian of Bleicheröde" 314; "In the mountains around Nordhausen and Bleicheröde, down in abandoned mine shafts, live the Schwarzkommando." 315; "There are several underground communities now near Nordhausen/Bleicheröde. Around here they are known collectively as the Erdschweinhöhle." 315; "The Rocket had to be produced out of a place called Nordhausen. The town adjoining was named Bleicheröde as a validation, a bit of redundancy so that the message would not be lost." 322; "Enzian's found the name Bleicheröde close enough to "Blicker," the nickname the early Germans gave to Death. They saw him white bleaching and blankness." 322; "the names of death-towns unreel, and surely Bleicheröde or Blicero will be spoken any minute now...." 695; "is he Blicker, Bleicheröde, Bleacher, Blicero, extending, rarefying the Caucasian pallor to an abolition of pigment, of melanin, of spectrum, of separateness from shade to shade" 759

'''Blicero, Capt.
See [[W#weissman|Weissmann]]

'''Blizna''' 
424; in Poland; site of A4 testing in 1943; SS project run by Kammler

'''Bloat, Teddy''' 
5; rooms with Pirate and friend of Tantivy; microfilms Slothrop's map (then gives film to Mexico who takes it to Pointsman), 17; 34; 181; gives Slothrop a crab to distract the octopus, 186-87; discussed, 192-93

'''Blobadjian, Igor''' 
353; party representative in the G Committee (WLA); death of, 354-55; [[Igor Blobadjian|Etymological Musings]]

'''Blohm & Voss''' 
521; Hamburg shipbuilding company that expanded into building military aircraft for the German war effort

'''Bloth, Mindy''' 
735-36; guide on elevator; "of Carbon City, Illinois"

'''Blowitt''' 
151; reported to psychiatric "for his rainbowed Valkyrie over Peenemünde"

'''BMRs''' 
170; Basal Metabolic Rates: the amount of energy expended while at rest in a neutrally temperate environment.

<div id="bodine"></div>'''Bodine, Seaman''' 
369; Doper's Dream; was on the Destroyer John E. Badass docked in Cuxhaven; spikes coffee on Badass with Oneirine, 389; First Int'l Runcible Spoon Fight, 394; "specializes in supporting roles" 684; My Doper's Cadenza, 685; foam-rubber phalli, 708; "just a freckleface kid from Albert Lea, Minnesota" 710; Krupp, 711; "surprise roast" 714; "beginning. . .to let Slothrop go" 741-42; "Pig" Bodine is also a major character in V.; Pig's ancestor, [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=B#bodine Fender-Belly Bodine, shows up in Mason & Dixon.]

'''Bokhara rug''' 
246;

<div id="bolshevik"></div>'''Bolshevik''' 
338; Russian: bol'she = "more"; The Bolsheviks were the members of the Russian Social Democratic Party who sided with Lenin in the split after the party congress of 1903. They were the majority and the Mensheviks (in favor of bourgeois reform) were the minority party. The Bolsheviks seized power after the Revolution of 1917 and became the Communist Party; "the godless Mesopotamian Bolshevik" 383; "Lucky the Bolshies didn't get it, huh, Charles?" 448; "The lion [...] He takes, he holds! He is not a Bolshevik or Jew" 577; See also [[L#lenin|Lenin]]; [[S#stalin|Stalin]]

'''Bondelswaartz''' 
403; Herero tribe; 1922 uprising, 403

'''Book, The''' 
47, 75, 87-88, 139, 140; [What Book?]; See also Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich

'''Book of Memorabilia''' 
739; pertaining to Slothrop's dispersal

<div id="booth">'''Booth, John Wilkes (1839-65)'''</div>
This unsuccessful actor assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, apparently to avenge the defeat of the Confederates in the Civil War; his [[M#mustache|mustache]], 210

'''BOQ''' 
6; bachelor officers' quarters

'''Borges, Jorge Luis (1899-1986)''' 
264; Argentinian writer of fiction/fantasy; dedicated poem to G. I. Portales, 383; [http://www.themodernword.com/borges/index.html The Modern Word's Borges Section (the best!)] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges Wikipedia Entry]; [[Borges - The Game of Chess|"The Game of Chess"]] See also [[R#rivadavia|Rivadavia]].

<div id="katje"></div>'''Borgesius, Katje (rhymes with "Got-ya")''' 
her message in cylinder delivered by rocket, 20; "the operative" 72; an ice-queen, her hair secured with "an old, tarnished silver crown [...] frozen on top in a hundred vortices" 92; "A woman with some background in mathematics, and with reasons" 97; was in Blicero's Hansel & Gretel game with Gottfried in the house "west of Duindigt racecourse" 94-99, 101-04; turned in Jews to keep the Germans from suspecting her, 97, 105; spying for allies, 104-05; "Her only debt outstanding is to Captain Prentice" 104; "stepped back into the void" 106; quits the game, 107; Pirate takes her to White Visitation, 106; secretly filmed, 92-113; "quits the game" 104; octopus incident, 185-89; "Meet me in my room" 191; with Slothrop in her room, 194-98; escapes to Arnhem [MAP] [actually to Scheveningen: 535-36], 195; "Wired into the Slothropian Run-together they briefed her on." 196; futureless look, 208, 209; roulette wheel metaphor, 209; "A rain-witch." 221; "a noseless mask of the Other Order of Being, of Katje's being--the lifeless non-face that is the only face of hers he really knows, or will ever remember" 222; "mask of no luck, no future--her face's rest state" 225; disappears, 226; "on her wheel" 257; with Pointsman, 273-74; "under the Wheel of Fortune" 277; 281-83; "a red tulip between Slothrop's toes. A reminder of Katje" 281; discovers film used with Grigori, 533; looking for Pirate, 536; with Pirate again ("she has lost her surface"), 545; her little brother Louis, 546; going to Nordhausen, 620; loss of "futureless look" 656; "she's not of our moment, our time, at all" 656; Golden Bitch, 658; Principle of Maximizing Risk, 659; "Shouldn't I be going all the way in?" 662; "her masochism" 662; travelling with Enzian, 729

'''Borgesius, Louis''' 
546; Katje's little brother

'''Borsalini''' 
254; Borsalino hats are a quality-made felt hat with broad brim manufactured in Italy. The company has been in existence since 1857. "Borsalini" is Pynchon's plural.

'''Bounce, Capt. Hillary''' 
240; works for Shell Int'l Petroleum; had dealings with IG Farben in '32; teaches Slothrop about propulsion at Casino; at de la Perlimpinpin's party, 245; 253

'''Bovril''' 
23; Bovril is cow extract, and its main use is as a flavouring for soups, and as a drink when you put a teaspoon of the stuff in a mug of boiling water; [http://www.bovril.com]

'''Boxing Day''' 
132; In England, the first weekday after Christmas, observed by the giving of Christmas boxes to service workers; 174

'''Bracken, Brendan (1901-58)''' 
615; First a successful journalist, Irishman Bracken was elected to the British in 1929, was minister of information (1941-45) and was first Lord of the Admiralty in the 1945 "caretaker" government; "it isn't as if the election put [him] out of a job or something"

'''Bradbury Building''' 
752; "Philip Marlowe will [...] feel homesick for the lacework balconies of the"

'''Brain Trust''' 
565

'''Brain War''' 
726; "a Victorian kind [...] as between quaternions and vector analysis in the 1880s, the nostalgia of Aether" 727

<div id="vonbraun">'''Braun, Wernher von (1923-77)'''</div>
German rocket engineer who came to the U.S. after the war; [[von Braun's Epigram|"Nature does not know extinction"]] 1; arm in a cast in the Harz, 237; "They've already rounded up von Braun and 500 others, and interned them at Garmisch" 273; Geli's owl, 291; "how close Wernher von Braun's birthday is to the Spring Equinox" 361, 588; "the Prussian aristocrat" 402; "a palace revolt against" 416; "I couldn't go with von Braun, not to the Americans" 456

'''Brenda''' 
547; mentioned in Pirate's and Katje's How I Came To Love the People

'''Brenda the Bulb''' 
649; mother of Bernie "who talks of hashish hush puppies"

'''Brennan, Peewee''' 
584; a pinball wizard, one of "the great thumbs of Koekuk and Puyallup, Oyster Bay, Inglewood"

'''Brennschluss''' 
6; German: "end of burning"; end of rocket's ascent when fuel is cut-off and it gives way to gravity; "a ritual of love" 222-23; "Rocket's. . .feminine counterpart" 223; 239; "The moving vehicle is frozen, in space, to become architecture, and timeless. It was never launched. It will never fall" 301; "for every firing site" 302; "of the Sun" (Sound-Shadow), 711; 759

'''British Military Intelligence''' 
384;

'''British Ministry of Supply''' 
240;

'''British Plastics''' 
615; discarded back issues scattered about Mossmoon's and Scammony's club

'''Brocken''' 
329; mountain 20 miles NW of Mittelwerke in the Harz Mountains; "plexus of German evil"; place where God-shadows ("Brockengespenstphänomen" - p.331) occur at sunrise, 330; specter, 759

'''Bruce''' 
544; "who got burned"; one whom Pirate had to betray "in the course of business for the Firm"

'''Buchenwald''' 
666;

'''Buffalo Bayou''' 
449; song about

'''Bugnogorkov''' 
353; "infamous Ukrainian doper [...] of the glottal K Committee"

'''Bukhara''' 
in Uzbekistan, this city is one of the most ancient in Central Asia. According to the decree of the 4th Assembly of all-Bukhara Soviets (11-17 October, 1923), certain degrees of autonomy and administrative rights were granted to areas inhabited by Turkmens, and local dialects (eg Tajiki) were to be replaced by Turkish as the official language; "reformed Arabic scripts [...] ratified at ~ in 1923" 354; [http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/bashiri/Masov/bukhara.html Website]

'''Bukharin, Nikolai Ivanovich (1888-1938)''' 
Bukharin was a Russian Communist leader and theoretician, and a member of the Bolshevik wing of the Social Democratic party. In 1924 he was made a full member of the politburo. As Stalin rose to power in the 1920s, Bukharin was advocating policies which were not in line with Stalin's, eg slow agricultural collectivization and industrialization. A victim of Stalin's purges, in 1938 he was tried publicly for treason and was executed (shot). In the Gorbachev era, Bukharin was rehabilitated and posthumously reinstated (1988) as a party member; "evidence linking [Porkyevitch] to the Bukharin conspiracy" 189

'''bulbs''' 
anemone bulbs, 104; at Rathenau seance, 165; "staring bulb" 194; " a bare bulb will hollow out a region of light...the light bulb is the chisel that delivers it from its inertia and has become one of the great secret ikons of the Humility", "light bulbs...were the first to go" 299; " only their bulbs shining conditionally" 300; "small neon bulbs" 303; dream of bulb/Weissmann, 426-27; Weissmann's soul, 427; sentient bulbs, 464; 506; Mutter: what Germans call female threads of light bulb sockets, 299, 653; "Azos looking down the empty back Bakelite streets, Nitralampen and Wotan Gs at night soccer matches, Just-Wolframs, Monowatts and Siriuses" 650; "an electrical tidal wave" 665; bulbshine, 697; See also [[#byron|Byron the Bulb]]

'''Bulgars''' 
549;

'''Bull, John''' 
nickname for an Englishman or Englishmen collectively; "our cousin" 697

'''Bummer, Emil ("Säure" [German: acid])''' 
365; 434-43; papyromancy, 442, 641; wheelerdealer in Berlin; no stomping on bugs, 621; "Ass-backwards" 683; "Der Platz" 686; "optimum hashpipe design" 745

'''Burgundians''' 
159; wiped out by Attila the Hun (as depicted in Fritz Lang's Die Nibelungen); in what is now Eastern France [MAP]; held together by "precious structure of magic and incest" 578-79

'''Busch, Wilhelm (1832-1908)''' 
501; This German cartoonist and writer created Max und Moritz (the prototypes for the Katzenjammer Kids--see page 757) and Herr und Frau Knopp; "a Wilhelm Busch cartoon face"; "a Wilhelm Busch original" 568

'''Busemann, Adolf''' 
German rocket scientist; 452

'''Business Advisory Council''' 
581; "set up by Swope of General Electric"; 587;

'''butadiene''' 
487; a flammable gaseous hydrocarbon used in making synthetic rubbers

<div id="byron"></div>'''Byron the Bulb''' 
"a bulb over his head burning all night long. He dreamed that the bulb was a representative of Weissmann, a creature whose bright filament was its soul" 426-27; "a theatre marquee whose sentient bulbs may have looked on [...] witnesses to grave and historical encounters" 464; "The Story of" 647-55; "Someday he will know everything, and be just as impotent as before" 654; "electrical tidal wave" 665; "young Jack may have had one of them Immortal Lightbulbs then go on overhead" 688; screwed into Gustav's kazoo hashpipe, 745

'''Byzantium''' 
Ancient Greek city on the Sea of Marmara which was the capital of the Byzantine (or Greek) Empire, in what is now NW Turkey. From 7th century BC to 3rd century AD, Byzantium was a thriving center for the arts, especially architecture (its chief features: circle, dome and round arch). It was renamed Constantinople in 330AD when Constantine captured it and established it as the new capital for the Turkish Empire; it was renamed Istanbul in 1930; Vikings sailing to, 549; [[Sailing to Byzantium|"Sailing to Byzantium" by W.B. Yeats]] [http://www.tmbg.org/band-info/songs/lyrics/IstanbulNotConstantinople.html "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" by They Might Be Giants]

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'''W.A.A.F.''' 
151; UK: Women's Auxiliary Air Force

'''Wafna, Count''' 
491; passenger aboard the Anubis

'''Wagner, Professor''' 
452; "of Darmstadt predicted that at speeds above Mach 5, air would liquefy"

<div id="wagner"></div>'''Wagner, Richard (1813-1883)''' 
German composer and theorist whose operas and music had a revolutionary influence on the form and harmony of Western music. His major works include The Flying Dutchman (1843), Tannhäuser (1845), Lohengrin (1850), Tristan und Isolde (1865), Parsifal (1882), and his awesome tetralogy, The Ring of the Nibelung (1869-76) "Bürgerlichkeit played to Wagner, the brasses faint and mocking, the voices of the strings drifting in and out of phase" 324; "Wagnerian battlements" 393; Wagner played on Toiletship, 450

'''Wahmke, Dr. Kurt''' 
403; German rocket scientist killed in 1934 in explosion in Kummersdorf; "First blood, first sacrifice."

'''Waite, Mr. A. E. (1857-1942)''' 
738; Arthur Edward Waite was an occultist and co-creator of the Rider-Waite Tarot deck. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Edward_Waite Wikipedia entry]

<div id="waits"></div>[[image:leicester-waits.jpg|thumb|''Christmas Eve, Highcross Market''|right]]'''waits''' 
128; "join the waits"; Leicester's ancient tradition of Town Waits official musicians who supported the Lord Mayor at civic events, entertained townspeople and feted visitors. The waits were originally guards or watchmen who walked round the town at night looking out for fires or other trouble. They rang bells to tell people the time, or called out '2 o'clock and all's well'. They also played music for the Lord Mayor's guests on big occasions, and entertained the general public. This became their main job. By 1900 the waits' instruments were a cornet, a euphonium, a tenor horn and a trombone. From then, the waits mostly played popular requests for a small fee, which was given to charity. By the 1940s, a request would cost about half a crown (12p). The Leicester Waits were disbanded around 1947. [http://www.leicester.gov.uk/NewsSite/index01.asp?pgid=3182]

'''Walpurgisnacht''' 
293; German: St. Walpurgia Night. The night before May 1, originally dedicated to St. Walpurgia, the 8th century English nun who founded religious houses in Germany. It is associated in German folklore with the witches' Sabbat on the Brocken, where the witches and sorcerers perform their black rites and reaffirm their subservience to the demon Master.

'''Waltz of the Future''' 
296; "the strangely communal" in Raketen-Stadt

<div id="wandervogel">'''Wandervogel'''</div>
99; (German: "bird of passage"); Thomas Moore: "organization, founded in 1901 as a boys' hiking and nature club, readily became, as it spread over the country, a plastic-deformable movement against all establishments of the fathers. Conscious Wandervogel politics varied across the spectrum, but all cells aggressively idealized nature, soil, soulfulness, and the spiritually exalted Bund ["brotherhood"] of youth." (p.208); 162; 670

'''War''' 
the real business of, 105; lives for information, 105; "electronic components of resin and copper that the War, in its glutton, ever-nibbling intake, has not yet found a licked back into its darkness" 119; [[Sixes and Sevens|"seventh Christmas of the War"]] 126; what it really wants, 130-34; the guy who is WWII, 131; as world revolution, 165; what war really is, 177; reconfigures time & space, 257; "opened up things" 265: recklessness is "magnificent, but it's not war" 345; 349; "politics between wars demands symmetry" 350; 379; gradients of damage (poorest sectors first), 423; "the Real Text" 520; "all theatre" 521; "sides?" 520; "There's something still on, don't call it a 'war' if it makes you nervous, maybe the death rate's gone down a point or two [...] but Their enterprise goes on" 628; "the real War is always there" 645; See also [[V#veday|V.E. Day]]

'''War Office''' 
164; in Berlin

'''Washington, George''' 
254; "old motherly femme de chambre"'s hair is done up like his

'''WASPs''' 
281; Women Airforce Service Pilots--pioneering organizations of civilian female pilots employed to fly military aircraft under the direction of the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. The female pilots would end up numbering a little over thousand, each freeing a male pilot for combat service and duties.

[[image:wassenaar.jpg|thumb|200px|Wassenaar "gingerbread" house - 1951|left]]'''Wassenaar''' 
95; northern district of The Hague, near Schußstelle 3

'''Wasserkuppe''' 
454; according to Baedeker, this is a 3115-foot mountain near the ancient town of Fulda in northeastern Germany.

'''Watson and Rayner''' 
In 1920 the American psychologists John B. Watson (1878-1958) and Rosalie Rayner employed classical conditioning techniques to demonstrate the development of an emotional response in a young boy ("infant Albert"). The presentation of a white rat was paired with the striking of a steel bar, which induced fear in the little boy. After only a few pairings, the white rat became capable of inducing fear responses similar to those produced by striking the bar, suggesting to psychologists that many human motives may result from the accidental pairing of events; conditioned "Infant Albert" into "a reflex horror of everything furry" 84, 86

'''waves''' 
"the tidal evening" 130; "You are the Wave of the Future.", 258; "The wave of the future.", 580; "So, shine on, Baby Bulbs, you're the wave of the future", 648

'''Waxwing, Blodgett''' 
246; specialist in phonying documents; his calling card has a cheSS knight and his address is on the Rue RoSSini in Zürich; escapee from the stockade Caserne Martier in Paris; meets Slothrop at Raoul's party, wearing a zoot suit; Zootsuit Zanies, 251; provides Slothrop the identity "Ian Scuffling, English War Correspondent" when he goes to Zürich, 256; 620

'''Wayne, Corporal''' 
11; Pirate's "batman" who drives him out to a bomb hit

'''W.C.''' 
82; water closet, British for toilet or bathroom

'''weapons''' 
Mark III Stens, 20, 107, 639; Schwarzlose (machine gun), 106; Mendoza, 107, 637; Mexican Mauser, 107; haakbus (Dutch: "hookgun"), 108; snaphaan, 109, 111; .455 Webley cartridge, 118; Bofors, 121; "robot weapons" 144; Typhoon, 151; Flying Fortresses, 169; Archies (anti-aircraft guns), 233; Sherman tank 247; "dragon's teeth, fallen stukas, burned tanks" 281; .45, 287; Nagant, 293, 514, 704; Amatol charges, 312; .45 automatic, 312; Moisin, 339; tommygun, 369; Suomi submachine gun, 377, 513; Degtyarov, 377, 511; US Army .45, 495, 558; Tokarev, 503; Luger, 505, 530, 576; Molotov cocktail, 507, 511; carbines, 518; Schmeisser, 527; Colt, 560; Thompsons, 564, 582; M-1, 584; .38s, 586; Japanese Zeros, 672, 690, 692; Ohka device, 690; sodium bomb, 690; Mauser, 693; Hotchkiss, 697-98; See also [[C#cosmicbomb|Cosmic Bomb]]; [[K#kingtiger|King Tiger]]; [[R#rocket|Rocket]]; [[S#schwarzgerat|Schwarzgerät]]

'''[[Weaving the Web|WEAVING THE WEB]]''' 
See also [[L#labyrinth|Labyrinth]]; [[S#silvernail|Silvernail, Webley]]; [[T#thesean|Thesean brushings]]; [[#weber|Weber, Max]]; [[#webern|Webern, Anton]]

<div id="weber"></div>'''Weber, Max (d. 1920)''' 
325; German sociologist and economist; the A4 "really did possess a Max Weber charisma" 464; See also Routinization/Rationalization of Charisma

<div id="webern"></div>'''Webern, Anton (1883-1945)''' 
This Austrian composer valued the oriental qualities of brevity, objectivity and fine decoration, wishing to mirror the perfection of mountain flowers and crystal specimens. He studied under Arnold Schoenberg and adopted a strict 12-tone composition style in 1924, using the 12-note system in everything he wrote.

:"This rainy morning, in the quiet, it seems that Gustav's German Dialectic has come to its end. He has just had the word, all the way from Vienna along some musicians' grapevine, that Anton Webern is dead. 'Shot in May, by the Americans. Senseless, accidental if you believe in accidents some mess cook from North Carolina, some late draftee with a.45 he hardly knew how to use, too late for WW II, but not for Webern. The excuse for raiding the house was that Webern's brother was in the black market. Who isn't? Do you know what kind of myth that's going to make in a thousand years? The young barbarians coming in to murder the Last European, standing at the far end of what'd been going on since Bach, an expansion of music's [[P#polymorphous|polymorphous perversity]] till all notes were truly equal at last....Where was there to go after Webern?'" (440-41)

"nobody gonna pull an Anton Webern on him" 443; "'As to some musical ears, dissonance is really a higher form of consonance. You've heard about Anton Webern?'" 494; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webern Wikipedia entry]]

'''Wehrwirtschaftstab''' 
German: "Economic Defense Staff"; "a section of the General Staff that maintained the OKW's liaison with industry" 630

'''Weichensteller''' 
453; one of "the reentry people" at Peenemünde

'''Weill, Kurt (1900-1950)''' 
A German, and in his later years American, composer active from the 1920s until his death. He was a leading composer for the stage and also wrote a number of pieces for the concert hall. His best known work was ''The Threepenny Opera'' which he wrote with Berthold Brecht in 1928. It contains Weill's most famous song, "Mack the Knife" ("Die Moritat von Mackie Messer").

'''Weimar Republic''' 
The government of Germany from 1919 to 1933, so called because the assembly that adopted its constitution met at Weimar from Feb. 6 to Aug. 11, 1919. It was marked by political and social turmoil, but an intellectual flowering; 155; 285; 365; 580; Weimar street urchin" 651

<div id="weissman"></div>'''Weissmann, Captain/Major/Lieutent [sic]''' 
German: "white man"; aka Blicero, aka Dominus Blicero, aka Capt. Blicero; Dominus Blicero, 30; with Katje and Gottfried, 94-99, 101-04; finding Enzian, 99-101; "mirror-metaphysics" 101; "recently back from South-West Africa" 152; "took [Dominus Blicero] as his SS code name" 322; in love with his own death, 324; "part salesman, part scientist" 401; "balding, scholarly" 404; "brought [Ilse] from Stettin. . .played chess" 408; "Lieutent" 417; "gray eminence" 401; estrangement from Enzian, 427; 455; "his final madness" 485; creating his own space, moving "in mythical regions" 486; writing about Katje, 642; "last letters from Holland" 658; "Even if he's only dead" 661; "he's only dead" 668; writing from The Hague about Katje, 662; "the Zone's worst specter" 666; eye reflecting windmill, 670; 672; 721; deciding to sacrifice Gottfried, 724; "his myopic witch's eyes through the thick lenses" 724; his Tarot, 746-49; 757; [[Weissmann's Tarot]]; [[L#luneburg|Lüneburg Heath]]

'''Wends''' 
Group of Slavic tribes that by the 5th century AD had settled in the area between the Oder River (on the east) and the Elbe and Saale rivers (on the west), in what is now eastern Germany. During their periodic rebellions against both Slavic and German overlords, the Wendish peasants would also repudiate Christianity; "white-gloved" aboard the Anubis, 467

'''Wenk''' 
455; Achtfaden's code name on the S-gerät project; 481; a character from Fritz Lang's 1922 film "Mabuse, der Spieler" — State-Attorney Wenk is Mabuse's dogged pursuer.

'''werewolf''' 
Besides the obvious folk-mythological associations, the "Werewolves" was an underground army recruited and trained in 1945 for guerilla warfare against the Allies who were in the process of occupying Germany; "were-elves streaking in out of the forests at night" 125; "a terrible beastlike change coming over muzzle and lower jaw, black pupils growing to cover the entire eye space till whites are gone and there's only the red animal reflection" 196; "hock of werewolf, gammon of Beast" 295; 486; "Werewolf stencils of the dark man with the high shoulders and the Homburg hat" 624; "lycanthropophobia or fear of Werewolves" 640; See also [[M#mythology|Mythology]]

'''Wernher''' 
[[T#geli|Geli Tripping's]] owl, presumably named after [[B#vonbraun|Wernher von Braun]]; likes candy bars, 291; loves [[T#tchitcherine|Tchitcherine]], 292; attacks Slothrop, 294

'''Wessel, Horst (1907-1930)''' 
The composer of Die Fahne Hoch ("Raise High the Flags," aka "Horst Wessel Lied") which was the Nazi "theme song." Interestingly, Herr Wessel, an SA (Sturmabteilung, aka Brownshirts) man, was killed in a street-fight with communists in 1930. Perhaps he traded a few blows with Mr. Sachsa who died that same year in a street-fight with Brownshirts. Coincidence? You decide; Die Fahne Hoch, 653; "I was a Storm Trooper [...] like Horst Wessel" 717

<div id="maewest">'''West, Mae (1893-1980)'''</div>
An American actress, playwright, screenwriter and sex symbol. Known for her bawdy double entendres, West made a name for herself in Vaudeville and on the stage in New York before moving to Hollywood to become a comedienne, actress and writer in the motion picture industry. One of the more controversial movie stars of her day, West encountered many problems including censorship. When her cinematic career ended, she continued to perform on stage, in Las Vegas, in the United Kingdom, on radio and television, and recorded rock and roll albums; ''My Little Chickadee'', 198

'''Whappo''' 
69; "Norwegian mulatto lad" in Toilet Adventure and Crutchfield's "little pard"; 114

'''Whitehall''' 
144; Britain's center for government in London. Eponymically named for Whitehall Palace which was located there but burned down in the late 17th century; 171; 201; 454; 635''' 
The White House

[[image:whitehouse.jpg|thumb|The White House|left]]'''White House, The,''' 
AKA The Little White House, 381-82; Kaiserstrasse 2 in Neubabelsberg, Truman's residence during the Potsdam Conference in July 1945, where Slothrop dug up Bodine's stash. [Note: thirteen years after the "Fall of the Wall," Kaiserstrasse still goes by its East German name-change of Karl Marx Strasse!]

'''White Lotos Day''' 
269; "the Blavatskian wing of Psi Section, who were off on a pilgrimage to 19 Avenue Road, St. John's Wood"; "White Lotus Day" — May 8 — is celebrated yearly by Theosophists as the day of death of Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky.

'''White Market''' 
570; "to be protected"

'''White Sheet Ridge''' 
232; "a tattered tommy up on"

<div id="whitevisitation">'''White Visitation'''</div>
34; former mental hospital located in the fictional town of [[I#ick|Ick Regis]] on the coast of southern England; now part of SOE; location of PISCES; D-Wing still has "loonies"; "devoted to psychological warfare" 35; "they're all wild talents--clairvoyants and mad magicians" 40; 72-74; described, 82-83; D-Wing, 230; 533; 627

'''White Woman''' 
Gottfried "dreams often these days of a very pale woman who wants him, who never speaks--but the absolute confidence in her eyes" 103; "the Evil Hour, when the white woman with the ring of keys comes out of her mountain" 374; waiting for Slothrop, "back behind the Spree" 439; "the great Kalahari painting of the" 658; "the pale Virgin was rising in the east" 694; See also [[D#death|death]]; [[E#evilhour|Evil Hour]]

'''''White Zombie''''' 
106; A 1932 American independent horror film directed and produced by brothers Victor Halperin and Edward Halperin, respectively. It is considered the first feature length zombie film and tells the story of a young woman's transformation into a zombie at the hands of an evil voodoo master. Béla Lugosi stars as the antagonist, Murder Legendre, with Madge Bellamy appearing as his victim. Other cast members included Robert W. Frazer, John Harron and Joseph Cawthorn.

'''Whitney, John Hay (1904-82)''' 
American multimillionaire and sportsman who had a multifaceted career as a publisher, financier, philanthropist, and horse breeder. In 1942 he joined the Eighth U.S. Army Air Force as a captain in the Combat Intelligence Division and was captured by the Nazis in southern France. He escaped and in 1945 was awarded the Legion of Merit; "Harrimans and Whitneys gone, lawns growing to hay" 28

'''Whitsun''' 
269; In England, White Sunday is the seventh Sunday after Easter; 628

'''Whittaker and Watson''' 
55; co-authors of a mathematical treatise entitled Modern Analysis. An old copy is owned by Roger Mexico

'''Whittington, Dick (d. 1423)''' 
A colorful London personality, Dick served three terms as lord mayor of London: 1397-99, 1406-07, and 1419-20. The GR passage refers to the popular legend that has Dick Whittington as a poor orphan worked in the kitchen of a rich London merchant. He ventures his only possession, a cat, as an item to be sold on one of his master's trading ships. Ill-treated by the cook, Dick then runs away, but just outside the city he hears the ringing of bells that seems to say "Turn again, Whittington, Lord mayor of great London." He returns to find that his cat has been sold for a great fortune to a Moorish ruler whose dominions are plagued with rats. Now wealthy, Whittington marries his master's daughter, succeeds to the business, and then becomes thrice lord mayor of London. ; "'I'm fucking Dick Whittington!' it occurs to [Mexico] zooming down Kings Road, 'I've come to London! I'm your Lord Mayor....'" 637

'''Wien bridge''' 
Wilhelm Wien (1864-1928) was a German physicist who received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1911 for his displacement law concerning the radiation emitted by a perfectly efficient blackbody. Further investigations by Max Plank resulted in his quantum theory of radiation. The Wien bridge is a four-arm a.c. bridge, the variable frequency being determined by a resistance in an arm of the bridge, and, as Weisenburger points out, was used in the automatic steering of the rocket; "Sometimes you'd use a Wien bridge, tuned to a certain frequency A-t, whistling, heavy with omen, inside the electric corridors" 517

'''Wilcoxon, Henry''' 
559; "'[children] rowin' old Henry Wilcoxon away into th' sunset to fight them Greeks or Persians or somebody'" 559

'''Wilheml, Richard''' 
403; "One of these German mystics who Mondaugen grew up reading"

'''Wilhelmplatz''' 
370; site of active blackmarketeering in Berlin, now with "Russian security all over the place"

'''Willkie, Wendell (1892-1944)''' 
135; First a lawyer, then an industrialist, Willkie switched from Democrat to Republican and was narrowly beat by F.D. Roosevelt in the U.S. presidential election of 1940. Between 1941 and 1942 he travelled the world representing the FDR.

'''Wim''' 
104; perhaps a Dutch underground comrade of Katje's

'''Wimpe, V-Mann''' 
152; [V: Verbindungsmann - "contact man"]; IG-man present at seance; the V-mann, 166; association with Tchitcherine, 344; described, 344; an organic chemist/creator of psychotropic drugs (the "jinni of the West"), 345; "reassigned to the United States. . .after Hitler became Chancellor" 349; turns Greta on to Oneirine, 464; 566; was boyfriend of Minnie (who yelled "helicopter!"), 684; Tchitcherine's memory of, 701

'''Windhoek''' 
352; capital of Südwest, where Enzian's birth was duly recorded by the Germans; [MAP]

'''windmill''' 
"the chorus line at the Windmill" 22; "the old Windmill" 39; "the windmill known as 'The Angel'" 106, 536; "the horizon broken now and then by silhouettes of a windmill" 462; "a windmill creaks out in the countryside" 573; "Brown windmills turn at the horizon" 575; "exegeses of windmills" 620; "What mill's that, grinding there below?" 621; "Van der Groov's cosmic windmill" 624; "a muddy brown almost black eyeball reflecting a windmill" 670; "windmill silhouettes" 672; "heretic-chasing [...] It went on in fields of windmills" 738

'''wines/champagne''' 
oude genever, 104; Lafitte Rothschild,116; Bernkastler Doktor, 116; "Wines of [...] the great '20s and '21s. Schloss Vollrads, Zeltinger, Piesporter" at Sachsa's séance, 163; Veuve Clicquot Brut, 212; "sweet Taittinger" 214; Nordhäuser Schattensaft ("shadow juice"), 290; "1911 Hochheimer" 652; shooting wine ("a wine rush is defying gravity") 743; Maitrinke (May drink), 743

'''Winterhilfe''' 
373; German: "winter aid"; Government social program providing food for the impoverished

'''Winthrop, Governor''' 
204; came over to America on the Arbella in 1630

'''[[Witches|WITCHES]]''' 
See also Walpurgisnacht

'''Wittmaier harpsichord''' 
533; disintegrating at the White Visitation

'''Wivern, General''' 
210; of SHAEF Technical Staff, 237; 242; 592; 594

<div id="wizoz">'''Wizard of Oz, The'''</div>
''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' is a children's novel from 1900 written by L. Frank Baum. The story chronicles the adventures of a girl named Dorothy in the Land of Oz. Thanks in part to the 1939 MGM movie, ''The Wizard of Oz'', it is one of the best-known stories in American popular culture and has been widely translated. Its initial success, and the success of the popular 1902 Broadway musical Baum adapted from his story, led to Baum writing thirteen more Oz books.

[[M#munchkin|Munchkin]] voice, 63; "obsessive as Munchkins" 270; "Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas any more. . . ." 279; "Amy Sprue was not, like young skipping Dorothy's antagonist, a mean witch" 329; Slothrop and Schnorp taking off in scarlet and yellow balloon, 332-33; "'Follow the yellow-brick road,' hums Albert Krypton, on pitch, 'follow the yellow brick road,' what's this, is he actually, yes he's skipping. . . ." 597

'''WLB''' 
682; War Labor Board

'''Wobb and Whoaton''' 
702; authors of "'Mantic Archetype Distribution Among Middle-Class University Students,'"

'''Wobbly''' 
571; 355; Wobbly is slang for a member of the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.), a former international labor organization favoring socialism and the abolition of the wage system; "German Wobbly traditions, they didn't go along with Hitler though all the other unions were falling into line"

'''Wolf, Hugo (1860-1903)''' 
An Austrian composer of Slovene origin, particularly noted for his art songs, or Lieder; played at Zwölfkinder, 419; played, along with Wagner, on Toiletship 450

'''Wolfgang''' 
496; G.M.B. Haftung's somewhat unstable prize chimp doing a fair Hitler imitation; going at it with Frau Gnahb in the pilot house, 496; drinking vodka, 503

'''Womack, Flash''' 
584; a pinball wizard, one of "the great thumbs of Koekuk and Puyallup, Oyster Bay, Inglewood"

'''Wormwood Scrubs''' 
33; the Scrubs--Wormwood Scrubs Prison, in London, was built by convicts in 1874; Slothrop wears Wormwood Scrubs School Tie to Casino dinner, 190

'''Wounded Knee''' 
hamlet and creek on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwestern South Dakota, in the U.S., which was the site of two conflicts between North American Indians and representatives of the U.S. government. On Feb. 27, 1973, some 200 members of the American Indian Movement (AIM), led by Dennis Banks and Russell Means, took the reservation hamlet of Wounded Knee by force, declared it the "Independent Oglala Sioux Nation," and vowed to stay until the U.S. government met AIM demands for a change in tribal leaders, a review of all Indian treaties, and a U.S. Senate investigation of treatment of Indians in general. Two Indians and one federal agent were killed in the ensuing battle in which the feds prevailed; "the guns that raked through the unarmed Indians at" 697

'''WRAC''' 
251; Women's Royal Army Corp

'''Wrens''' 
23; Women's Royal Naval Service - British civilian support group of war effort; 121; Wrens?

'''writing''' 
description of St. Veronica's, 46; "swimming up from sleep" 119; "an informer whose guilt will one day sicken into throat cancer" 150; "not produce. . .systems" 159; "assassination" 164; bugs in the manger, 173-74; Westward expansion: penetrate and foul virgin sunsets, 214; "no difference between behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance" 323; Rocket, 324; "what heads and tails went jingling inside the dark pockets of that indeterminacy?"-- 344; Will of God Theory, 362; "smiles breaking like kind dawns" 378; "This is how they meet" (p.365) until they finally meet at p.393; Trudi up Slothrop's nose, 439; "How I Came to Love the People" 547; dead fly, 632; tropical hallucination, 634-35; hmmm, 733

<div id ="wuotan"> '''Wuotan'''</div>
72; Wuotan is the Old High German spelling of Odin; 75

'''''Wütende Heer''''' 
75; German: "furious" or "raging" army

'''Wuxtry-Wuxtry, Mickey''' 
738; "Wuxtry wuxtry, read all about it"; "world-renowned analyst" -- "There never was a Dr. Jamf"

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513.9 '''pogoni''' 
Plural of ''pogon'', 'insignia of grade rank' in Russian, epaulet with stars.

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516.3-17 '''John Dillinger...easier into death''' 
On July 22, 1934, the police and FBI, lead by agent Melvin Purvis, closed in on the Biograph Theater in Chicago where Dillinger had gone to see a movie, ''Manhattan Melodrama'', starring Clark Gable as gangster "Blackie" Gallagher and William Powell as politician Jim Wade. Dillinger was shot three times as he attempted to flee the theater.

516.22 '''''Der Müde Tod''''' 
A 1921 Fritz Lang film. There is an interesting sidelight to this film. In order to win her lover back from Death, the heroine must try to save his life in three different times and places. (Death wins each time, natch.) The second episode of the film is set in Renaissance Italy, where a courier is attacked by a group of men dressed in black. Could this episode have inspired "The Courier’s Tragedy" and the Tristero of ''The Crying of Lot 49''?

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518.06 '''Driwelling and Schmeill''' 
The former’s name, as pronounced in German, would sound like "drivelling"—drooling, talking on in a childish manner.

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[[image:llandudno.jpg|thumb|White Rabbit Statue, Llandudno|120px|right]]468.19 '''Llandudno''' 
The Welsh resort town is supposed to be where Carroll first told young Alice Liddell the stories that would become [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_%28Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland%29 ''Alice in Wonderland''] (although most scholars doubt that Carroll ever was in the town). A statue of the White Rabbit was dedicated by David Lloyd George in 1933.

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470.18 '''"[ . . . ] out the eye at tower's summit [ . . . ]"''' 
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471.24 '''Moxie''' 
Slothrop does not imagine but recalls billboards he had seen in the Berkshires, of a favorite American soft drink.

471.30 '''drowned Becket''' 
Not the Martyr of Canterbury but a town in Massachusetts nearly destroyed by a flood in 1927. This is another reference from [[Pages_20-29#Page 27|''The Berkshire Hills'']].

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'''W.A.A.F.''' 
151; UK: Women's Auxiliary Air Force

'''Wafna, Count''' 
491; passenger aboard the Anubis

'''Wagner, Professor''' 
452; "of Darmstadt predicted that at speeds above Mach 5, air would liquefy"

<div id="wagner"></div>'''Wagner, Richard (1813-1883)''' 
German composer and theorist whose operas and music had a revolutionary influence on the form and harmony of Western music. His major works include The Flying Dutchman (1843), Tannhäuser (1845), Lohengrin (1850), Tristan und Isolde (1865), Parsifal (1882), and his awesome tetralogy, The Ring of the Nibelung (1869-76) "Bürgerlichkeit played to Wagner, the brasses faint and mocking, the voices of the strings drifting in and out of phase" 324; "Wagnerian battlements" 393; Wagner played on Toiletship, 450

'''Wahmke, Dr. Kurt''' 
403; German rocket scientist killed in 1934 in explosion in Kummersdorf; "First blood, first sacrifice."

'''Waite, Mr. A. E. (1857-1942)''' 
738; Arthur Edward Waite was an occultist and co-creator of the Rider-Waite Tarot deck. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Edward_Waite Wikipedia entry]

<div id="waits"></div>[[image:leicester-waits.jpg|thumb|''Christmas Eve, Highcross Market''|right]]'''waits''' 
128; "join the waits"; Leicester's ancient tradition of Town Waits official musicians who supported the Lord Mayor at civic events, entertained townspeople and feted visitors. The waits were originally guards or watchmen who walked round the town at night looking out for fires or other trouble. They rang bells to tell people the time, or called out '2 o'clock and all's well'. They also played music for the Lord Mayor's guests on big occasions, and entertained the general public. This became their main job. By 1900 the waits' instruments were a cornet, a euphonium, a tenor horn and a trombone. From then, the waits mostly played popular requests for a small fee, which was given to charity. By the 1940s, a request would cost about half a crown (12p). The Leicester Waits were disbanded around 1947. [http://www.leicester.gov.uk/NewsSite/index01.asp?pgid=3182]

'''Walpurgisnacht''' 
293; German: St. Walpurgia Night. The night before May 1, originally dedicated to St. Walpurgia, the 8th century English nun who founded religious houses in Germany. It is associated in German folklore with the witches' Sabbat on the Brocken, where the witches and sorcerers perform their black rites and reaffirm their subservience to the demon Master.

'''Waltz of the Future''' 
296; "the strangely communal" in Raketen-Stadt

<div id="wandervogel">'''Wandervogel'''</div>
99; (German: "bird of passage"); Thomas Moore: "organization, founded in 1901 as a boys' hiking and nature club, readily became, as it spread over the country, a plastic-deformable movement against all establishments of the fathers. Conscious Wandervogel politics varied across the spectrum, but all cells aggressively idealized nature, soil, soulfulness, and the spiritually exalted Bund ["brotherhood"] of youth." (p.208); 162; 670

'''War''' 
the real business of, 105; lives for information, 105; "electronic components of resin and copper that the War, in its glutton, ever-nibbling intake, has not yet found a licked back into its darkness" 119; [[Sixes and Sevens|"seventh Christmas of the War"]] 126; what it really wants, 130-34; the guy who is WWII, 131; as world revolution, 165; what war really is, 177; reconfigures time & space, 257; "opened up things" 265: recklessness is "magnificent, but it's not war" 345; 349; "politics between wars demands symmetry" 350; 379; gradients of damage (poorest sectors first), 423; "the Real Text" 520; "all theatre" 521; "sides?" 520; "There's something still on, don't call it a 'war' if it makes you nervous, maybe the death rate's gone down a point or two [...] but Their enterprise goes on" 628; "the real War is always there" 645; See also [[V#veday|V.E. Day]]

'''War Office''' 
164; in Berlin

'''Washington, George''' 
254; "old motherly femme de chambre"'s hair is done up like his

'''WASPs''' 
281; Women Airforce Service Pilots--pioneering organizations of civilian female pilots employed to fly military aircraft under the direction of the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. The female pilots would end up numbering a little over thousand, each freeing a male pilot for combat service and duties.

[[image:wassenaar.jpg|thumb|200px|Wassenaar "gingerbread" house - 1951|left]]'''Wassenaar''' 
95; northern district of The Hague, near Schußstelle 3

'''Wasserkuppe''' 
454; according to Baedeker, this is a 3115-foot mountain near the ancient town of Fulda in northeastern Germany.

'''Watson and Rayner''' 
In 1920 the American psychologists John B. Watson (1878-1958) and Rosalie Rayner employed classical conditioning techniques to demonstrate the development of an emotional response in a young boy ("infant Albert"). The presentation of a white rat was paired with the striking of a steel bar, which induced fear in the little boy. After only a few pairings, the white rat became capable of inducing fear responses similar to those produced by striking the bar, suggesting to psychologists that many human motives may result from the accidental pairing of events; conditioned "Infant Albert" into "a reflex horror of everything furry" 84, 86

'''waves''' 
"the tidal evening" 130; "You are the Wave of the Future.", 258; "The wave of the future.", 580; "So, shine on, Baby Bulbs, you're the wave of the future", 648

'''Waxwing, Blodgett''' 
246; specialist in phonying documents; his calling card has a cheSS knight and his address is on the Rue RoSSini in Zürich; escapee from the stockade Caserne Martier in Paris; meets Slothrop at Raoul's party, wearing a zoot suit; Zootsuit Zanies, 251; provides Slothrop the identity "Ian Scuffling, English War Correspondent" when he goes to Zürich, 256; 620

'''Wayne, Corporal''' 
11; Pirate's "batman" who drives him out to a bomb hit

'''W.C.''' 
82; water closet, British for toilet or bathroom

'''weapons''' 
Mark III Stens, 20, 107, 639; Schwarzlose (machine gun), 106; Mendoza, 107, 637; Mexican Mauser, 107; haakbus (Dutch: "hookgun"), 108; snaphaan, 109, 111; .455 Webley cartridge, 118; Bofors, 121; "robot weapons" 144; Typhoon, 151; Flying Fortresses, 169; Archies (anti-aircraft guns), 233; Sherman tank 247; "dragon's teeth, fallen stukas, burned tanks" 281; .45, 287; Nagant, 293, 514, 704; Amatol charges, 312; .45 automatic, 312; Moisin, 339; tommygun, 369; Suomi submachine gun, 377, 513; Degtyarov, 377, 511; US Army .45, 495, 558; Tokarev, 503; Luger, 505, 530, 576; Molotov cocktail, 507, 511; carbines, 518; Schmeisser, 527; Colt, 560; Thompsons, 564, 582; M-1, 584; .38s, 586; Japanese Zeros, 672, 690, 692; Ohka device, 690; sodium bomb, 690; Mauser, 693; Hotchkiss, 697-98; See also [[C#cosmicbomb|Cosmic Bomb]]; [[K#kingtiger|King Tiger]]; [[R#rocket|Rocket]]; [[S#schwarzgerat|Schwarzgerät]]

'''[[Weaving the Web|WEAVING THE WEB]]''' 
See also [[L#labyrinth|Labyrinth]]; [[S#silvernail|Silvernail, Webley]]; [[T#thesean|Thesean brushings]]; [[#weber|Weber, Max]]; [[#webern|Webern, Anton]]

<div id="weber"></div>'''Weber, Max (d. 1920)''' 
325; German sociologist and economist; the A4 "really did possess a Max Weber charisma" 464; See also Routinization/Rationalization of Charisma

<div id="webern"></div>'''Webern, Anton (1883-1945)''' 
This Austrian composer valued the oriental qualities of brevity, objectivity and fine decoration, wishing to mirror the perfection of mountain flowers and crystal specimens. He studied under Arnold Schoenberg and adopted a strict 12-tone composition style in 1924, using the 12-note system in everything he wrote.

:"This rainy morning, in the quiet, it seems that Gustav's German Dialectic has come to its end. He has just had the word, all the way from Vienna along some musicians' grapevine, that Anton Webern is dead. 'Shot in May, by the Americans. Senseless, accidental if you believe in accidents some mess cook from North Carolina, some late draftee with a.45 he hardly knew how to use, too late for WW II, but not for Webern. The excuse for raiding the house was that Webern's brother was in the black market. Who isn't? Do you know what kind of myth that's going to make in a thousand years? The young barbarians coming in to murder the Last European, standing at the far end of what'd been going on since Bach, an expansion of music's [[P#polymorphous|polymorphous perversity]] till all notes were truly equal at last....Where was there to go after Webern?'" (440-41)

"nobody gonna pull an Anton Webern on him" 443; "'As to some musical ears, dissonance is really a higher form of consonance. You've heard about Anton Webern?'" 494; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webern Wikipedia entry]]

'''Wehrwirtschaftstab''' 
German: "Economic Defense Staff"; "a section of the General Staff that maintained the OKW's liaison with industry" 630

'''Weichensteller''' 
453; one of "the reentry people" at Peenemünde

'''Weimar Republic''' 
The government of Germany from 1919 to 1933, so called because the assembly that adopted its constitution met at Weimar from Feb. 6 to Aug. 11, 1919. It was marked by political and social turmoil, but an intellectual flowering; 155; 285; 365; 580; Weimar street urchin" 651

<div id="weissman"></div>'''Weissmann, Captain/Major/Lieutent [sic]''' 
German: "white man"; aka Blicero, aka Dominus Blicero, aka Capt. Blicero; Dominus Blicero, 30; with Katje and Gottfried, 94-99, 101-04; finding Enzian, 99-101; "mirror-metaphysics" 101; "recently back from South-West Africa" 152; "took [Dominus Blicero] as his SS code name" 322; in love with his own death, 324; "part salesman, part scientist" 401; "balding, scholarly" 404; "brought [Ilse] from Stettin. . .played chess" 408; "Lieutent" 417; "gray eminence" 401; estrangement from Enzian, 427; 455; "his final madness" 485; creating his own space, moving "in mythical regions" 486; writing about Katje, 642; "last letters from Holland" 658; "Even if he's only dead" 661; "he's only dead" 668; writing from The Hague about Katje, 662; "the Zone's worst specter" 666; eye reflecting windmill, 670; 672; 721; deciding to sacrifice Gottfried, 724; "his myopic witch's eyes through the thick lenses" 724; his Tarot, 746-49; 757; [[Weissmann's Tarot]]; [[L#luneburg|Lüneburg Heath]]

'''Wends''' 
Group of Slavic tribes that by the 5th century AD had settled in the area between the Oder River (on the east) and the Elbe and Saale rivers (on the west), in what is now eastern Germany. During their periodic rebellions against both Slavic and German overlords, the Wendish peasants would also repudiate Christianity; "white-gloved" aboard the Anubis, 467

'''Wenk''' 
455; Achtfaden's code name on the S-gerät project; 481; a character from Fritz Lang's 1922 film "Mabuse, der Spieler" — State-Attorney Wenk is Mabuse's dogged pursuer.

'''werewolf''' 
Besides the obvious folk-mythological associations, the "Werewolves" was an underground army recruited and trained in 1945 for guerilla warfare against the Allies who were in the process of occupying Germany; "were-elves streaking in out of the forests at night" 125; "a terrible beastlike change coming over muzzle and lower jaw, black pupils growing to cover the entire eye space till whites are gone and there's only the red animal reflection" 196; "hock of werewolf, gammon of Beast" 295; 486; "Werewolf stencils of the dark man with the high shoulders and the Homburg hat" 624; "lycanthropophobia or fear of Werewolves" 640; See also [[M#mythology|Mythology]]

'''Wernher''' 
[[T#geli|Geli Tripping's]] owl, presumably named after [[B#vonbraun|Wernher von Braun]]; likes candy bars, 291; loves [[T#tchitcherine|Tchitcherine]], 292; attacks Slothrop, 294

'''Wessel, Horst (1907-1930)''' 
The composer of Die Fahne Hoch ("Raise High the Flags," aka "Horst Wessel Lied") which was the Nazi "theme song." Interestingly, Herr Wessel, an SA (Sturmabteilung, aka Brownshirts) man, was killed in a street-fight with communists in 1930. Perhaps he traded a few blows with Mr. Sachsa who died that same year in a street-fight with Brownshirts. Coincidence? You decide; Die Fahne Hoch, 653; "I was a Storm Trooper [...] like Horst Wessel" 717

<div id="maewest">'''West, Mae (1893-1980)'''</div>
An American actress, playwright, screenwriter and sex symbol. Known for her bawdy double entendres, West made a name for herself in Vaudeville and on the stage in New York before moving to Hollywood to become a comedienne, actress and writer in the motion picture industry. One of the more controversial movie stars of her day, West encountered many problems including censorship. When her cinematic career ended, she continued to perform on stage, in Las Vegas, in the United Kingdom, on radio and television, and recorded rock and roll albums; ''My Little Chickadee'', 198

'''Whappo''' 
69; "Norwegian mulatto lad" in Toilet Adventure and Crutchfield's "little pard"; 114

'''Whitehall''' 
144; Britain's center for government in London. Eponymically named for Whitehall Palace which was located there but burned down in the late 17th century; 171; 201; 454; 635''' 
The White House

[[image:whitehouse.jpg|thumb|The White House|left]]'''White House, The,''' 
AKA The Little White House, 381-82; Kaiserstrasse 2 in Neubabelsberg, Truman's residence during the Potsdam Conference in July 1945, where Slothrop dug up Bodine's stash. [Note: thirteen years after the "Fall of the Wall," Kaiserstrasse still goes by its East German name-change of Karl Marx Strasse!]

'''White Lotos Day''' 
269; "the Blavatskian wing of Psi Section, who were off on a pilgrimage to 19 Avenue Road, St. John's Wood"; "White Lotus Day" — May 8 — is celebrated yearly by Theosophists as the day of death of Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky.

'''White Market''' 
570; "to be protected"

'''White Sheet Ridge''' 
232; "a tattered tommy up on"

<div id="whitevisitation">'''White Visitation'''</div>
34; former mental hospital located in the fictional town of [[I#ick|Ick Regis]] on the coast of southern England; now part of SOE; location of PISCES; D-Wing still has "loonies"; "devoted to psychological warfare" 35; "they're all wild talents--clairvoyants and mad magicians" 40; 72-74; described, 82-83; D-Wing, 230; 533; 627

'''White Woman''' 
Gottfried "dreams often these days of a very pale woman who wants him, who never speaks--but the absolute confidence in her eyes" 103; "the Evil Hour, when the white woman with the ring of keys comes out of her mountain" 374; waiting for Slothrop, "back behind the Spree" 439; "the great Kalahari painting of the" 658; "the pale Virgin was rising in the east" 694; See also [[D#death|death]]; [[E#evilhour|Evil Hour]]

'''''White Zombie''''' 
106; A 1932 American independent horror film directed and produced by brothers Victor Halperin and Edward Halperin, respectively. It is considered the first feature length zombie film and tells the story of a young woman's transformation into a zombie at the hands of an evil voodoo master. Béla Lugosi stars as the antagonist, Murder Legendre, with Madge Bellamy appearing as his victim. Other cast members included Robert W. Frazer, John Harron and Joseph Cawthorn.

'''Whitney, John Hay (1904-82)''' 
American multimillionaire and sportsman who had a multifaceted career as a publisher, financier, philanthropist, and horse breeder. In 1942 he joined the Eighth U.S. Army Air Force as a captain in the Combat Intelligence Division and was captured by the Nazis in southern France. He escaped and in 1945 was awarded the Legion of Merit; "Harrimans and Whitneys gone, lawns growing to hay" 28

'''Whitsun''' 
269; In England, White Sunday is the seventh Sunday after Easter; 628

'''Whittaker and Watson''' 
55; co-authors of a mathematical treatise entitled Modern Analysis. An old copy is owned by Roger Mexico

'''Whittington, Dick (d. 1423)''' 
A colorful London personality, Dick served three terms as lord mayor of London: 1397-99, 1406-07, and 1419-20. The GR passage refers to the popular legend that has Dick Whittington as a poor orphan worked in the kitchen of a rich London merchant. He ventures his only possession, a cat, as an item to be sold on one of his master's trading ships. Ill-treated by the cook, Dick then runs away, but just outside the city he hears the ringing of bells that seems to say "Turn again, Whittington, Lord mayor of great London." He returns to find that his cat has been sold for a great fortune to a Moorish ruler whose dominions are plagued with rats. Now wealthy, Whittington marries his master's daughter, succeeds to the business, and then becomes thrice lord mayor of London. ; "'I'm fucking Dick Whittington!' it occurs to [Mexico] zooming down Kings Road, 'I've come to London! I'm your Lord Mayor....'" 637

'''Wien bridge''' 
Wilhelm Wien (1864-1928) was a German physicist who received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1911 for his displacement law concerning the radiation emitted by a perfectly efficient blackbody. Further investigations by Max Plank resulted in his quantum theory of radiation. The Wien bridge is a four-arm a.c. bridge, the variable frequency being determined by a resistance in an arm of the bridge, and, as Weisenburger points out, was used in the automatic steering of the rocket; "Sometimes you'd use a Wien bridge, tuned to a certain frequency A-t, whistling, heavy with omen, inside the electric corridors" 517

'''Wilcoxon, Henry''' 
559; "'[children] rowin' old Henry Wilcoxon away into th' sunset to fight them Greeks or Persians or somebody'" 559

'''Wilheml, Richard''' 
403; "One of these German mystics who Mondaugen grew up reading"

'''Wilhelmplatz''' 
370; site of active blackmarketeering in Berlin, now with "Russian security all over the place"

'''Willkie, Wendell (1892-1944)''' 
135; First a lawyer, then an industrialist, Willkie switched from Democrat to Republican and was narrowly beat by F.D. Roosevelt in the U.S. presidential election of 1940. Between 1941 and 1942 he travelled the world representing the FDR.

'''Wim''' 
104; perhaps a Dutch underground comrade of Katje's

'''Wimpe, V-Mann''' 
152; [V: Verbindungsmann - "contact man"]; IG-man present at seance; the V-mann, 166; association with Tchitcherine, 344; described, 344; an organic chemist/creator of psychotropic drugs (the "jinni of the West"), 345; "reassigned to the United States. . .after Hitler became Chancellor" 349; turns Greta on to Oneirine, 464; 566; was boyfriend of Minnie (who yelled "helicopter!"), 684; Tchitcherine's memory of, 701

'''Windhoek''' 
352; capital of Südwest, where Enzian's birth was duly recorded by the Germans; [MAP]

'''windmill''' 
"the chorus line at the Windmill" 22; "the old Windmill" 39; "the windmill known as 'The Angel'" 106, 536; "the horizon broken now and then by silhouettes of a windmill" 462; "a windmill creaks out in the countryside" 573; "Brown windmills turn at the horizon" 575; "exegeses of windmills" 620; "What mill's that, grinding there below?" 621; "Van der Groov's cosmic windmill" 624; "a muddy brown almost black eyeball reflecting a windmill" 670; "windmill silhouettes" 672; "heretic-chasing [...] It went on in fields of windmills" 738

'''wines/champagne''' 
oude genever, 104; Lafitte Rothschild,116; Bernkastler Doktor, 116; "Wines of [...] the great '20s and '21s. Schloss Vollrads, Zeltinger, Piesporter" at Sachsa's séance, 163; Veuve Clicquot Brut, 212; "sweet Taittinger" 214; Nordhäuser Schattensaft ("shadow juice"), 290; "1911 Hochheimer" 652; shooting wine ("a wine rush is defying gravity") 743; Maitrinke (May drink), 743

'''Winterhilfe''' 
373; German: "winter aid"; Government social program providing food for the impoverished

'''Winthrop, Governor''' 
204; came over to America on the Arbella in 1630

'''[[Witches|WITCHES]]''' 
See also Walpurgisnacht

'''Wittmaier harpsichord''' 
533; disintegrating at the White Visitation

'''Wivern, General''' 
210; of SHAEF Technical Staff, 237; 242; 592; 594

<div id="wizoz">'''Wizard of Oz, The'''</div>
''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' is a children's novel from 1900 written by L. Frank Baum. The story chronicles the adventures of a girl named Dorothy in the Land of Oz. Thanks in part to the 1939 MGM movie, ''The Wizard of Oz'', it is one of the best-known stories in American popular culture and has been widely translated. Its initial success, and the success of the popular 1902 Broadway musical Baum adapted from his story, led to Baum writing thirteen more Oz books.

[[M#munchkin|Munchkin]] voice, 63; "obsessive as Munchkins" 270; "Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas any more. . . ." 279; "Amy Sprue was not, like young skipping Dorothy's antagonist, a mean witch" 329; Slothrop and Schnorp taking off in scarlet and yellow balloon, 332-33; "'Follow the yellow-brick road,' hums Albert Krypton, on pitch, 'follow the yellow brick road,' what's this, is he actually, yes he's skipping. . . ." 597

'''WLB''' 
682; War Labor Board

'''Wobb and Whoaton''' 
702; authors of "'Mantic Archetype Distribution Among Middle-Class University Students,'"

'''Wobbly''' 
571; 355; Wobbly is slang for a member of the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.), a former international labor organization favoring socialism and the abolition of the wage system; "German Wobbly traditions, they didn't go along with Hitler though all the other unions were falling into line"

'''Wolf, Hugo (1860-1903)''' 
An Austrian composer of Slovene origin, particularly noted for his art songs, or Lieder; played at Zwölfkinder, 419; played, along with Wagner, on Toiletship 450

'''Wolfgang''' 
496; G.M.B. Haftung's somewhat unstable prize chimp doing a fair Hitler imitation; going at it with Frau Gnahb in the pilot house, 496; drinking vodka, 503

'''Womack, Flash''' 
584; a pinball wizard, one of "the great thumbs of Koekuk and Puyallup, Oyster Bay, Inglewood"

'''Wormwood Scrubs''' 
33; the Scrubs--Wormwood Scrubs Prison, in London, was built by convicts in 1874; Slothrop wears Wormwood Scrubs School Tie to Casino dinner, 190

'''Wounded Knee''' 
hamlet and creek on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwestern South Dakota, in the U.S., which was the site of two conflicts between North American Indians and representatives of the U.S. government. On Feb. 27, 1973, some 200 members of the American Indian Movement (AIM), led by Dennis Banks and Russell Means, took the reservation hamlet of Wounded Knee by force, declared it the "Independent Oglala Sioux Nation," and vowed to stay until the U.S. government met AIM demands for a change in tribal leaders, a review of all Indian treaties, and a U.S. Senate investigation of treatment of Indians in general. Two Indians and one federal agent were killed in the ensuing battle in which the feds prevailed; "the guns that raked through the unarmed Indians at" 697

'''WRAC''' 
251; Women's Royal Army Corp

'''Wrens''' 
23; Women's Royal Naval Service - British civilian support group of war effort; 121; Wrens?

'''writing''' 
description of St. Veronica's, 46; "swimming up from sleep" 119; "an informer whose guilt will one day sicken into throat cancer" 150; "not produce. . .systems" 159; "assassination" 164; bugs in the manger, 173-74; Westward expansion: penetrate and foul virgin sunsets, 214; "no difference between behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance" 323; Rocket, 324; "what heads and tails went jingling inside the dark pockets of that indeterminacy?"-- 344; Will of God Theory, 362; "smiles breaking like kind dawns" 378; "This is how they meet" (p.365) until they finally meet at p.393; Trudi up Slothrop's nose, 439; "How I Came to Love the People" 547; dead fly, 632; tropical hallucination, 634-35; hmmm, 733

<div id ="wuotan"> '''Wuotan'''</div>
72; Wuotan is the Old High German spelling of Odin; 75

'''''Wütende Heer''''' 
75; German: "furious" or "raging" army

'''Wuxtry-Wuxtry, Mickey''' 
738; "Wuxtry wuxtry, read all about it"; "world-renowned analyst" -- "There never was a Dr. Jamf"

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<div id="sachsa">'''Sachsa, Peter'''</div>
31; the "control" in Psi Section; lover of Leni Pökler, 147; medium at Rathenau seance, 163-65; killed in communist street action in 1930 in Neukölln (Berlin) by Schutzmann Jöche, a Nazi cop, 152; as Zaxa, 218; 219-20; 590; [[Peter Sachsa|Etymological Musings]]

[[Sado-Masochism|'''SADOMASOCHISM (S/M)''']]

<div id="basher"></div>'''St. Blaise, Group Capt. "Basher"''' 
146; sees angel of death during RAF Lübeck strike, 151; [["Basher" St. Blaise|Etymological Musings]]; See also [[C#church|Church of St. Blasius]]

'''St. Elmo's fire''' 
The glow accompanying the brushlike discharges of atmospheric electricity that usually appears during stormy weather as a tip of light on the extremities of such pointed objects as church towers or the masts of ships; "will be seen spurting at moments from crossends" on the Anubis, 491

'''St. Felix''' 
37; "the clock of" in London

'''St. John's Wood''' 
544; an exclusive district in West London, where the Mossmoons live

'''Saint Pauli''' 
the English translation for "Sankt Pauli," which is the main red-light district in Hamburg/Germany. It's known for its sex-bars and its fusion of pimps, prostitutes and working-class inhabitants. St. Pauli is famous for the atmosphere that the harbour of Hamburg brings into the district. Sailors, seaman and other stranded creatures are walking over the Reeperbahn (St. Pauli's main street). The Star-Club, where the Beatles paid their dues before becoming hugely famous, is in St. Pauli; 525

'''St. Veronica's Hospital''' 
46; of the True Image for Colonic and Respiratory Diseases; St. Veronica wiped Christ's forehead with her veil while he carried the cross; St. Veronica Papers, 688

'''St.-Just Grossout''' 
540; blackman worked for Firm infiltrating Schwarzkommando (aka "Sam Juiced")

<div id="salitieri">'''Salitieri, Poore, Nash, De Brutus and Short'''</div>
591; [a pun on Thomas Hobbes' (1588-1679) description, in Leviathan (1651), of the life of the members of the commonwealth in the absence of an all-powerful sovereign: "No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual feare and danger of violent death; and the life of Man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short."]; Lyle Bland's lawyers, 591; pallbearers at Lyle Bland's funeral, 652; Recall the law firm representing Pierce Inverarity in [http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#warpe ''The Crying of Lot 49'']: Warpe, Wistfull, Kubitschek and McMingus.

'''Sandhurst''' 
202; a military academy, the British equivalent to West Point in the U.S

'''Sandoz''' 
250; Swiss chemical company which joined Geigy and Ciba in a cartel, in the early '20s; Schweitar worked there, 260;

'''Sandra''' 
685; has "run away from the Kleinburgerstrasse" and staying at Der Platz

'''Sandra''' 
606; acquaintance of Manuela's at Putzi's

'''Sandys, Duncan''' 
Sandys, who was married to Churchill's daughter Diana, was Under-secretary of the Ministry of Supply in Britain during WWII. He was appointed by Churchill to investigate the rumored German experiments with secret weapons, which investigation led to the discovery of the rocket facilities at Peenemünde; "the P.M.'s son-in-law" who works out of the Ministry of Supply at Shell Mex House, 228; "Churchill's own son-in-law" 251

'''Sanktwolke, Edouard''' 
385; German: "Saint Cloud"; "veteran automotive jobber" who supplied transportation for von Göll's and Waxwing's "travelling business conference"

'''Santora''' 
744; family in Mingeborough, MA

'''Sargasso Sea''' 
Area of the North Atlantic Ocean, elliptical in shape and relatively still, that is strewn with free-floating seaweed of the genus Sargassum. Encompassing the Bermuda Islands, a combination of ecological and biological conditions result in a dirth of plankton (a fish staple), creating a biological desert. Early navigators had the (unfounded) fear of becoming entangled within the mass of seaweed and unable to escape; "the sun-resorts of Sargasso where the bones come up to lie and bleach and mock the passing ships" 564;

'''Sargner''' 
152; "a civilian attached to the General Staff" who is keyed on by Wimpe at séance

'''Sarnaki''' 
424; target area for A-4, near Blizna, Poland

'''Sarts''' 
340; Central Asian people

'''Sassoon, Lt. Siegfried Lorraine (1886-1967)''' 
79; English poet and novelist whose experiences in World War I made him fiercely anti-war and he wrote numerous works which reflected this hatred, including Counterattack (1918) and Satirical Poems (1926)

'''sastrugi''' 
420; Sastrugi are smooth, gently rolling snowfields, often covered with wind-drifted formations, on the interior of the Greenland ice sheet which is second in area only to the Antarctic ice sheet. It extends about 1,570 miles from north to south and has a maximum width of some 600 miles and an average thickness of about 5,800 feet.

'''Saturday Evening Post''' 
435; American weekly magazine the covers of which often had Norman Rockwell illustrations

'''Saville Row''' 
526; swank shopping district in London

'''Scammony, Sir Marcus (aka Angelique)''' 
615; drinking with Clive Mossmoon at "their club"

'''Schacht, Hjalmar (1877-1970)''' 
According to Sasuly, Schacht was head of the Reichsbank in the 1920s and 40s and was a key player in manipulating the German inflation of that time, while blaming it on "reparations and an unfavorable balance of payments." (p.47); his "many bookkeeping dodges to keep official records clear of any hint of weapons procurement banned under the terms of Versailles." 285

'''Schadenfreude''' 
526; German: "joy at another's misfortune"; described but not named, 36; 745

'''Scheveningen''' 
97; coastal town in Holland, just north of The Hague [MAP]; 102; 104; 105; 535

'''Schicksal''' 
416; German: "fate, destiny" (misspelled "Shicksal" in earlier editions)

'''Schiller, Professor''' 
224; Slothrop studying his book on regenerative cooling

'''Schilling''' 
527; "[Närrisch] worked in guidance, he was Schilling's best man"

'''Schlabone, Gustav''' 
366; composer buddy (and "unwelcome doping partner" 711) of Säure Bummer; 621; 2nd violin at Krupp affair (aka "Captain Horror"), 711; at Der Platz, 745

'''Schleim, Josef''' 
630; "a defector of secondary brilliance, who had once worked for the IG out of Dr. Reithinger's office, VOWI"; 631;

'''Schlepzig, Max''' 
Franz Pökler putting up handbills for a movie starring, 165; name on Slothrop's pass to get into Potsdam Conference, 377; actor in von Göll films who whipped Erdmann ("the Reich's Sweethearts"), 395; 439; 461

'''Schmeil''' 
518; engineer at Peenemünde

'''Schmitz, Carl''' 
565; "'Didn't Schmitz of the IG sit on Siemens's board of directors?'" 565;

'''Schnorp''' 
332-36; Geli's friend who gives Slothrop balloon ride to Berlin

'''Schokoladestrasse''' 
646; German: "Chocolate Street"; in Happyville

'''Schraub''' 
568; German: "screw"; "the shoemaker" whose played Plechazunga "for the past 30 years"

'''Schumann of Düsseldorf''' 
702; "army surgeons and dentists [...] will pick out [of Tchitcherine's body] what has entered it by violence with an electromagnetic device bought between the wars from"

'''Schußstelle 3''' 
95; German: "firing site"; in Holland on the North Sea coast, near The Hague; moved, 104; the allies were after it, 105; "why did [Katje] leave?" 107; See also Lüneburg Heath

'''Schwindel operative''' 
286;

'''''schwarz''''' 
German: literally 'black', but also 'secret' and/or 'illicit' as in 'Secret Service' or 'black market'; see ''Schwarzgerät'' and ''Schwarzkommando'' below

<div id="schwartzgerat">'''''Schwarzgerät'''''</div>
252;"S-Gerät, 11/00000." 252;"Document SG-1" 252;"the one rocket out of 6000 that carried the Imipolex G device" 292; for sale for .5M francs by guy in Swinemünde who waits on Strand-Promenade until noon daily, 294; "The Schwartzgerät is no Grail" 364; "They want the Schwarzgerät." 455;"'F-Gerät, you sure of that?'" 487 details, 517; mandala (KEZVH), 560, 563;"'. . . that was the name of the German who commanded the battery that used the S-Gerät?'" 562;; 611; firing on Lüneburg Heath, 667; 706; "00001, the second in its series" 724; 00001, 728; "SG-1" 736; "the assembly of the 00001 is occurring also in a geographical way, a Diaspora running backwards" 737; as womb, 750; See also Rocket

'''''Schwarzkommando''''' 
74-75; German: "blackcommand"; black rocket troops; credibillity of, 92; 112;found out about a week before V.E. Day 276; Slothrop runs into two dozen on train to Nordhausen, 286; Hitler's failed plan to create Nazi empire in black Africa, training troops in Südwest, 287; "They have a plan. . .I think it's rockets" 288; "we're DPs like everybody else" 288; Herero rocket troops assembling a rocket for one last stand, 326; "it is their time, their space" 326; their mandala is the five positions of the launching switch for A4, 361; digging up A4 in Berlin, 361; "mba-kayere" (I am passed over), 362; why they seek the Rocket, 362, 563; growing away from SS and their power becoming information and expertise, 427; in their own space, 519; Herero village arranged like a mandala, 563; must be stopped before they fire the Rocket, 565; "they have their rocket all assembled at last" 673; the trek to the firing site of the 00001, 726; 12 children at a "children's resort" (Zwölfkinder means "12 children" in German--GET IT?), 725

'''Schweitar, Mario''' 
260, 268; troubleshooter around the Cartel; worked for Sandoz

'''Schwindel''' 
286; German: "fraud" "trick", also "dizziness"; "code name for Hugo Stinnes"

[[Science, Physics, Math &c.|'''SCIENCE, PHYSICS, MATH &c.''']] 
See also [[D#delta-t|delta-t]]; [[P#poisson|Poisson Distribution]]

'''screen door salesman''' 
447; "dumb and easygoing" husband of woman in Slothrop's dream in three parts; 665, "Minnie Calkins (Chapter 1.793) got married Easter Sunday to a screen-door salesman from California. Sorry to say he's not eligible for Membership - at least not yet. But with all those screen doors around, we'll sure keep our fingers crossed!"

'''scrip''' 
105; temporary paper currency issued during emergencies/special circumstances

'''Scrubs''' 
Wormwood Scrubs Prison, in London; "I'll see you two in the Scrubs if it kills me!" 717

'''Scuffling, Ian''' 
256; Pseudonym given to T. Slothrop by Waxwing in Nice; See also Slothrop, Tyrone

'''Scylla and Charybdis''' 
239; In Greek legend, Scylla was a monster with twelve feet and six heads each with three rows of teeth who lived on the rock of Scylla on the Italian side of the Straits of Messina which are between Italy and Sicily. Charybdis, who was a monster, the whirlpool she formed and the rock cliff under which she lived, faced Scylla on the other side of the Straits. Such a situation made passage through the Straits a very dodgy proposition for sailors.

'''SD''' 
431; German: Sicherheitsdienst = police-duty; The Nazi Party's intelligence and security body. Created by Himmler, it operated in foreign countries, creating instability and attempting to foment revolution.

'''séance''' 
29-30; 4-way entente: medium; control; spirit; survivor; Feldspath, 30; Overbaby, 152; "a visitation by the dead" 153; Rathenau, 163-67; at The Castle with Blicero, 487; "other fourfold expressions" 624; "sensitive flames" 715; Brigadier Pudding, 715

'''Second Empire''' 
The Second Empire (1852-70) of Napoleon III; 675

'''Section 8''' 
114; a category of discharge from the United States military for reason of being mentally unfit for service; 182

'''Seele''' 
654; German: "soul, spirit"; "as the core of the earlier carbon filament was known in Germany"

[[Self-reference in Gravity's Rainbow|'''SELF-REFERENCE''']]

'''Semirechie''' 
611; province in Kazakhstan, in the Soviet Union

'''Semyavin''' 
258; local Waxwing rep in Zürich?; 261

'''1 September''' 
479; On September 1, 1939, the German Army invaded Poland, thus "initiating" WWII

[[Serpents/Snakes References|'''SERPENT/SNAKE''']] 
See also [[#snake|Snake]]

'''SEZ WHO''' 
270; Slothropian Episodic Zone, Weekly Historical Observations

'''Seven Rivers country''' 
338; where Tchitcherine was stationed, "in a remote 'bear's corner'"

'''sfacim-a''' 
299; sfacim: from "sfaciàre" = to dismantle''' 
Tony Assenza graciously supplied the following regarding "sfacim":''' 
Having been called a "sfacim" by my uncles and other relatives more than a few times in my life, I believe your reference might require more elaboration. In its original form, "sfacim" is Neapolitan slang for semen — equivalent to US slang such as spunk or gism. However, it's also widely used as a term of endearment, as in "Hey, sfacim. Come over here and give your grandmother a kiss before I break your face." The closest US slang term would be "spunky." It's a term that someone living on Long Island or Upstate New York would probably hear a lot in Italian-American neighborhoods. One would pronounce it "SFA CHEEM."

''''s Gravenhage''' 
209; aka The Hague;

'''shadows''' 
316; God-shadows, 330; 332; 333; 336; 342; 359; 363; 397; 405; darkness at the edges of things, 446; 458; 482; 500; 510; 524; 536; 539; 543; 561; Pointsman's corner, 633; Slothrop as "shadow-child" 677; stars as shadows of the creator's bones and ducts, 699; "sound-shadow" (when the roaring of the sun stops), 695, 711; 740; 749; 760

'''SHAEF''' 
17; Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force; 74; 76; 121; 210; 244; 287

'''Shatsk''' 
352; nose-fetishist in Weird Letter Assignments; Shatsk is a town in the Volynskaja oblast [political subdivision], in the Ukraine.

'''Shays''' 
Shays's Rebellion (August 1786-February 1787) was an uprising in western Massachusetts in opposition to high taxes and harsh economic conditions. Led by Daniel Shays (1747-1825), the rebellion was decisively defeated on February 4, but it did result in the passage of laws easing the economic condition of debtors; "fought the federal troops across Massachusetts" 268

'''Shearer, Norma (1900-83)''' 
690; Hollywood actress who played sophisticated roles, and the wife of producer Irving Thalberg; "Your closet could make Norma Shearer's look like the wastebasket in Gimbel's basement."

'''Sheila''' 
449; Steve's (GE employee on the Toiletship) fiancée

'''Shekhinah''' 
479: Hebrew: "(female) neighbor"

'''Shell Mex House''' 
Shell Mex House, built 1930-31 is situated at number 80, Strand, London. It was for many years the London headquarters of Shell-Mex and BP Ltd for whom it was originally built. During WWII the building became home to the Ministry of Supply which co-ordinated supply of equipment to the national armed forces. It was also the home of the "Petroleum Board" which handled the distribution and rationing of petroleum products during the war. 251; "Where all the rocket intelligence is being gathered"; 272

'''Shell Oil''' 
Dutch Shell, 240-41, 251; 1939 agreement with ICI, 250; Shell Mex House, 251; "The representative from Shell Mex House, Mr. Dennis Joint" 272; "frantic about Slothrop's disappearance" 272; "after the [Russian] revolution, when the emissaries from Dutch Shell were asked to leave" 354

'''Shetzline''' 
389; "classic study" of the time-modulation properties of Oneirine

'''Shirley''' 
599; pretty girl driving the Red Cross Clubmobile that is hijacked

'''Short, Coolidge ("Hot")''' 
591; "of the State Street law firm of Salitieri, Poore, Nash, De Brutus, and Short" and a friend of Lyle Bland's

'''Shufflin' Sam''' 
558; "the game of skill where you have to shoot the Negro before he gets back over the fence with the watermelon"

'''Sidney's Great Yellow Grille''' 
65; recalled by Slothrop during Sodium Amytal session

'''Siege Perilous''' 
According to Arthurian legend, the Round Table was reserved for only the most valiant knights, while the Siege Perilous was left waiting for the coming of Galahad, the pure knight who would achieve the quest of the Grail (the vessel from which Christ drank at the Last Supper) and bring the marvels of Arthur's kingdom to a close; "jokers around the table be sneaking Whoopee Cushions into the" 321

'''Siemens-Schuchert''' 
"the horizontal electrical trust of Siemens-Schuchert" 284; "Siemens milliammeters set on slate surfaces" 518; "GE has connections with Siemens over here" 565; "Didn't Närrisch, under the drug, mention a Siemens representative at the S-Gerät meetings in Nordhausen? [...] Didn't Carl Schmitz of the IG sit on Siemens's board of directors?" 565; "Russia bought from Krupp, didn't she, from Siemens, the IG...." 566; "a contract the Bland Institute landed a few years ago and subbed part of out to Siemens over there in Germany" 583; "Fibel worked for Siemens back when it was still part of the Stinnes trust [...] he also put in some time as a Stinnes intelligence agent." 587; "an ingenious Osmo-elektrische Schalterwerke, developed by Siemens" 646; "clever Siemens Electric Baby Bulb Pacifiers" 647;"bright here as the morning shift at Siemens with the centaurs struggling high on the wall" 725; See also Siemens, Wernher; Stinnes; [[Sasuly's ''IG Farben'']]; Siemens AG Homepage!

'''Siemens, Wernher (d. 1892)''' 
649; German electrical engineer; one of the discoverers of the self-acting dynamo; See also Siemens-Schuchert

'''Siggi''' 
157; old friend of Leni's, known as "the Troll"

'''Sigmund''' 
457; with Greta Erdmann, 474-78; 480

'''Silberschlag, Frau''' 
165; German: "silver shock or blow"; next door neighbor of Leni and Franz Pökler's who delivers Leni's "last message" to Franz

'''Silvernail, Webley''' 
79; works in ARF wing at White Visitation; audiovisual guy; shows Katje film to Grigori, 113; in rat production number, 229; named "Twelfth House" 274; 533; 620

'''Simpson, Mrs. Bessie Wallis Warfield Spencer (1896-1986)''' 
177; An American who married Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII. Edward abdicated the throne in order to marry this twice-divorced commoner.

'''Skinner, Burrhus Frederic (1904-1990)''' 
American psychologist and a persistent proponent of Behaviorism, expanding on the ideas of John Watson who advocated the study of behavior as the only way to provide psychology with a scientific basis. Skinner died of leukemia on August 18, 1990; 77

[[image:skippy.gif|106px|left]]'''Skippy''' 
644-45; and Mr. Information; [[Skippy|Etymological Musings]]; [http://www.skippy.com/ Skippy's Home Page]

'''Slothrop, Broderick''' 
285; Tyrone's father; aka "Schwarzvater" (Jamf), 286; hated FDR, 373; Tyrone's dream about, 392; sold experimental rights to Tyrone to Jamf for $5000 for Harvard education, 444; Paternal Peril "a murderin' fool" 674; 677; 682

'''Slothrop, Constant (d. 1766)''' 
26; ancestor of Tyrone; tombstone depicts Hand of God coming out of a cloud

'''Slothrop, Mrs. Elizabeth''' 
27; wife of Isaiah

'''Slothrop, Frederick (d. 1933)''' 
27; Tyrone's grandfather

'''Slothrop, Hogan''' 
29; Tyrone's brother; his Hawaiian shirt, 184, 201; 266; 304; "in love with Chiquita Banana" 678; 682; 744

'''Slothrop, Hogan Jr.''' 
744; son of Hogan Slothrop; [From Pynchon's short story "The Secret Integration" in Slow Learner:"the doctor's kid, who at the age of eight had taken to serious after-bedtime beer-drinking and at the age of nine got religion, swore off beer and joined the Alcoholics Anonymous, a step his father, who was what is know as permissive, gave his blessing" (p.151)]

'''Slothrop, Lt. Isaiah (d. 1812)''' 
27; ancestor of Tyrone

'''Slothrop, John''' 
555; son of William Slothrop, who helped his dad get the "pig operation" going

'''Slothrop, Nalline''' 
18; Tyrone's mother; 116; 360; "always happy to see young people getting together" 499; 674; letter to Joe Kennedy, 682-83; 712

'''SLOTHROP, Lt. Tyrone''' 
[[Tyrone Slothrop|Etymological Musings]]; See also Slothrop's girls/stars;

[[Slothrop's Tarot|'''SLOTHROP'S TAROT''']]

'''Slothrop's girls/stars''' 
Delores, 19; Alice, 19; Gladys, 19; Lorraine and Judy, 19; Darlene, 19, 271; Katherine, 19; Shirley, 19; "a couple of Sallys" 19; "Carolines, Marias, Annes, Susans, Elizabeths" 19; "Gloria and her nubile mother" 19; Marjorie, 22, 25, 744; Norma, 22, 25; Allison, 23; Irene, 23; Jennifer, 23, 271; Cynthia, 26; "'What about the girls??'" 91; Madelyn, 252; Jenny's ghost, 255-56; Angela, 271; Lucy, 271; Jenny, Sally W., Cybele, Catherine, Gretchen, 271

'''Slothrop, Variable''' 
27; son of Constant

'''Slothrop, William''' 
21; Tyrone's first American ancestor; 27; 364; came to US in 1630 on Arabella, 554; On Preterition - published in England, burned in Boston, 555 [http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/bookstore.html Available in the HyperArts BookShop - Really! sort of...]; returned to England and died there missing USA, 556; his hymn, 760; [[William Slothrop|The "Real" William Slothrop/Pynchon]]

'''Slug''' 
229; rat who got "fried" the first time he fucked up running the maze

'''Smaragd, Generaldirektor''' 
164-66; (German: "Emerald"); Nazi with IG Farben; "from Leverkusen. An elderly man who used a cane, a notorious spiritualist before the War" 486

'''smegma''' 
"layers, over a base of bureaucratic smegma" 18; "Tchitcherine has found it necessary to abandon his smegma-gathering stake-out on the Argentine anarchists" 700;

'''Smile, Murray''' 
255; appears in Slothrop's dream as "next to you in basic, company 84"; Etymology: Murray Wilson was Brian Wilson's father; Tom hung out with Brian during the legendary "Smile" Period [[Pynchon and Brian Wilson]]

'''Smithfield Market''' 
Famous meat market in the old City of London. During the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation it was used as a place of execution; where Lucifer Amp "makes a spectacle of himself" every day, 542

'''Smith, Klein, 'n' French''' 
518; "Enzian, Andreas, and Christian, coming on like"

'''Smith, Sir Denis Nayland''' 
See Sir Denis Nayland-Smith

'''Snade, Mrs.''' 
169; "wrote in to the Times from Luton Hoo, Bedfrdshire" regarding Gwenhidwy's singing voice

'''Snake''' 
342-43; Tchitcherine's horse (methodically homicidal; unpredictable); Gretel's (Greta Erdmann's) co-star in Weisse Sandwuste von Neumexiko, 482

'''Snipe and Shaft''' 
9; Slothrop's and Tantivy's watering hole; 19; 21

'''Snodd, Mrs.''' 
744; in Mingeborough, MA

'''snowdrops''' 
247; Slang for GI military police in WWII; 601

'''Snoxall's''' 
32; place where seances are held; 33; 37; 238

'''Sodium Amytal''' 
61; truth serum; used on Slothrop; induces "toilet"/Kenosha Kid episode; used on von Göll, 511-14; 746

<div id="soe"></div>'''S.O.E.''' 
5; Special Operations Executive; aka the "Firm" 12; 32; Pirate "browned-off with" 270; "no one has ever left the Firm alive" 543; 620; [About]

<div id="solange"></div>'''Solange''' 
603; German: "as long as" "while" [[Q#quoad|compare etymologies with Mrs. Quoad]]; "masseuse" at Putzi's See also [[P#pokler-l|Pökler, Leni]]

'''Somerset Club''' 
28; exclusive club "no Slothrop ever made it into"

'''''Son of Frankenstein''''' 
106; The third film in Universal Studios' ''Frankenstein'' series and the last to feature Boris Karloff as the Monster as well as the first to feature Bela Lugosi as Ygor.

[[Songs/Compositions|'''SONGS/COMPOSITIONS''']]

'''Sooty''' 
174; Jessica's cat; 177

'''Sound-Shadow''' 
"the silences here are retreats of sound [...] sound draining away, down slopes of acoustic passage, to gather, someplace else, to a great surge of noise" 336-37; "a very shallow pocket of no-sound, [...] sound-energy from Outside is shut off. The roaring of the sun stops. [...] the arousing feather-point of the Sound-Shadow has touched you, enveloping you in sun-silence" 695; "this subversive use of sudden fff quieting to ppp. It's the touch of the wandering sound-shadow, the Brennschluss of the Sun." 711

'''sour stuff''' 
240; oxygen; the German word for oxygen is "Sauerstoff"

[[Spanish Translations|'''SPANISH TRANSLATIONS''']]

'''Spaniols''' 
549; Spaniards

'''Sparks''' 
732; aka Ozohande, with Enzian

'''Sparte IV''' 
630; "Slothrop surveillance being assigned to a newly created 'Sparte IV' under Vermittlungsstelle W"

'''Spectro, Dr. Kevin''' 
46; "neurologist and casual Pavlovian" at St. Veronica's; "one of the original seven owners of The Book" 47; killed in a V-2 hit on St. Veronica's, 138; 139; 140; 167

'''Speed, Harvey''' 
270; SEZ WHO Englishman hired by Pointsman to check out Slothrop's sexual conquests; See also Perdoo, Floyd; SEZ WHO

'''Speer, Albert (d. 1981)''' 
298; Architect for the Third Reich; "in charge of the New German Architecture then, and later he went on to become Minister of Munitions, and nominal chief customer for the A4"; "Albert Speer Touch" 298; Ölsch designing Nordhausen factory, 411; and Toiletship, 448; "alabaster open-air stadium with giant cement birds" 687

'''SPOG''' 
272; Special Projectiles Operations Group of which Operation Backfire is a part; 277; 391; 595; 601

'''Spontoon, Doctor''' 
591; with Dr. Muffage, out to castrate Slothrop; has a black spade on his cheek

<div id="sporri"></div>'''Spörri''' 
455; aerodynamics person on S-Gerät project; ignores Khlaetsch's cries for help, 684; [[Spörri|Etymological Musings]]

'''Spottbilligfilm AG''' 
163; German: "spottbillig" = "dirt cheap"; subsidiary of IG Farben "whose entire management are about to be purged for sending to OKW weapons procurement a design proposal for a new airborne ray which could turn whole populations [...] blind"; "from whom von Göll used to get cut rates on most of his film stock" 387;

'''SPQR''' 
135; Latin: senatus populusque Romanus = the senate and the people of Rome; also acronym for small profits, quick returns

'''S.P.R.''' 
153; Society for Psychical Research; 633;

'''Spree-Oder Canal''' 
433; in the Russian sector of Berlin, where Slothrop & Margherita stay; 457 [MAP]

<div id="springer"></div>'''Springer, Der''' 
376; German: "chess knight"; aka von Göll; the "Knight who leaps perpetually across the chessboard of the Zone"; white plastic chess knight (his symbol), 436; "white knight of the black market" 492; described, 494; aka Herr Gemütlich ("good-natured"), 496; on Sodium Amytal, 512, 514, 746; See also Göll, Gerhardt von; [[Der Springer|Etymological Musings...]]

'''Sprudelhof''' 
458; German: "Spring or Well" + "Yard" or "Palace"; main drag of Bad Karma on the Spree-Oder Canal; 476

'''Sprue, Amy''' 
329-30; Tyrone's ancestor who was a "genuine Salem Witch"

'''Squalidozzi, Francisco''' 
263; Argentine exile, paranoid about Peronists; hijacked German U-Boat in Mar de Plata; his group (incl. Graciela Portales) seeking political exile in Germany after the War; want open spaces--no fences; meets von Göll in abandoned harmonica factory, 384; "Old Squalidozzi, ploughman of the deep" 447; 613; being sought by Slothrop, 681

'''ss''' 
second sheep, 3, 555; sour smell, 3, 171; "cast-iron pulleys whose spokes are shaped like Ss" 4; saddleback sows, 5; split second 7, 199; sour stomach, 17; Selena. Selena., 30; speedy stalk, 35; 3-sigma, 40, 523, 635, 709; systematic stealth, 42; soft smell, 43, 754; separate straws, 43; stray shadow, 49; silverblue stalks, 54; silver string, 59; silver seeds, 63; smooth sinewaving, 67; silk stockings, 74, 211, 395, 410, 629; shadowy smells, 78; stronger stimulus, 79; structured stimulus, 82; spilled sand, 91; simple sorrow, 98; sugar-smears, 99; soft-wood smells, 106; snow-skin, 107; slate shadows, 108; southern stars, 109; steel snake, 109; smoky spires, 111; starving spring, 111; soap-heavy smell, 112; sunlit shops, 119; spiral stairways, 122; sour salt, 124; spider-statistician, 124; sound stimuli, 125; soap spots, 125; small stitches, 126; snow-sky, 128; steam smells, 132; seasonal swell, 132; semi-detached Sunday, 132; shiny suits, 133; snowy soot, 138; sheet steel, 139; "sibilant weave" 152; single subculture, 153; swampy suburbs, 160; Sunday strolls, 162; squeak-stockinged slavegirl, 168; slime stone, 169; scratched silver, 186; shaking Slothrop, 187; Slothrop staggering, 187; sudden shrewdness, 188; silent sea, 195; "S'd against the S of himself" 198; social sense, 206; "Old Norse rune for S" 206; study sessions, 211; slack-jawed subalterns, 212; sensitive son, 215; simultaneous stimuli, 226; ssörrender, 230; starch shirt, 232; star shell, 233; sovereign smell, 235, 736; Slothropian space, 238; sad story, 238, 285, 445, 667; self-sufficiency, 240; sour stuff (oxygen), 240; Esso, 240; stiff shirts, 243; secret service, 244; sea-steps, 245; 454: setting sun, 253, 454; striped socks, 254, saddle stitching, 254; sun-black skiers, 258; somber street, 259; senseless screaming, 263; spy-sign, 263; south sea, 266; stumbling surrender, 271; sexual sigh, 272; Slothropian stars, 272; salt sea, 273; stainless steel, 274; suspicious stare, 274; spy system, 286; sad surprise, 289; tunnels, 299; double-integral sign, 300-01; "Summe, Summe" 300; static space, 301; "Double integral is also the shape of lovers curled asleep" 302; scorched skullcap, 304; silk spill, 314; shadow states, 315; scientific speculating, 317; simple steel, 324; shining steel, 325; scarlet silk, 332; Soviet state, 349; sea story, 351; secret spaces, 354; scientist-surrogate, 361; staring sun, 372; smiling sentry, 378; suspended storm, 378; stenciled signs, 380; S-curve, 380; steel spaces, 384; sea-squirm, 389; subjective sense, 389; silver sponge, 389; soup-stock, 389; sentimental side-trip, 393; social spectrum, 402; stormy shore, 409; double-summing, 411; second shadow, 424; string shadows, 436; southern slop, 442; spring-suspension, 446; sound stages, 446; stud service, 446; S-curved spokes, 450; sailors' superstitions, 450; Scatotechnic Snipes, 451; sun suits, 453; star streaks, 457; suspender straps, 466; satin straps, 469; summer spook, 472; silver stork, 486; salty snot, 492; smooth stones, 494; sweet smile, 496; sleepy summer, 505; steel smile, 512; serpentine slagheap, 520; silver stars, 530; slippery satin, 531; Sickly Smile, 534; single set, 556; smalltown space, 556; Special Services, 558, 700; Shufflin' Sam, 558; surveying stakes, 560; starch-colored sky, 564; "curving through the ogival opening" 573; silver streak, 583, 586; spherical soul, 583; State Street, 589, 591; "Yess, yess" 590; straw stomach, 596; soapy sponge, 603; "silver straw" 613; streamlined spires, 624; Slothrop surveillance, 630; ssem, 633; saffron spindles, 634; summer stillness, 639; sudden surprises, 643; sailor suits, 657; "screen-door salesman" 665; "the invisible SS" 666; straw space, 669; saucy sideways smile, 670; subdeb secretaries, 674; submarine skipper, 674; Sniveling Slothrop, 679; spirited salt, 684; Scatterbrained Suicidekicks, 691; Semlower Strasse, 692; Sound Shadow, 695, 711; Sentimental Surrealist, 696; suitable stimuli, 699; sandy streets, 700; sister ships, 715; snot soup (unter anderem), 715; still strata, 720; striving subcreation, 720; Subsequent Sin, 722; 729: silk scarf, 729; Spaceman Smile, 732; See also chess; Rossini

'''Stage Door Canteen''' 
134; During World War II, the American Theatre Wing ran New York's Stage Door Canteen for the benefit of soldiers on leave. It was frequented by many stars, some of whom graciously performed menial tasks, while others entertained the crowd. Dozens of those celebrities appear as themselves in this lavish musical about romances that blossom between canteen employees and soldiers. The film ''The Stage Door Canteen'' (1943), starring Katharine Hepburn, is set there.

<div id="stalin">'''Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953)'''</div>
Born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in Gori, Georgia; Stalin was expelled from the Tiflis Theological Seminary for being a Marxist. He joined the Bolsheviks and was arrested and sent to Siberia from whence he escaped in 1904. From being general secretary to the Central Committee under Lenin in 1922, he became Soviet leader in 1924 upon Lenin's death. He was a brutal dictator whose purges resulted in the deaths of millions as well as the suppression of artistic expression in Russia; "during the Stalin days, Tchitcherine was stationed in a remote 'bear's corner'" 338; "conspiracy to hit Stalin in the face with a grape chiffon pie" 353; "big chromo of" in Berlin, [[M#mustache|mustache]] 368; 373; "Even Stalin's had [doubts]" 703

'''Statue of Liberty''' 
The colossal statue on Liberty Island in the Upper Bay of New York Harbour, U.S., was a gift from France commemorating the friendship of the peoples of the U.S. and France. The statue, designed by French sculptor Frederic Auguste Barthold, is constructed of copper sheets which are assembled on a framework of steel supports designed by Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc and Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel. For transit to America, the figure was disassembled into 350 pieces and packed in 214 crates. Four months later, it was reassembled on Bedloe's Island (renamed Liberty Island in 1956). It was dedicated by President Cleveland on October 28,1886; 637

'''Sterling, Alan''' 
277; fiancé of Fleurette who was raised from birth to carry on the monstrous line of the emperor of the underworld, [[F#fumanchu|Fu Manchu]]; Alan Sterling, young orchid-hunter, first saw her on the little French beach and knew that he had never seen anyone more beautiful; he's also portrayed as the love-suffering young man receiving eloquent advice from Sir Denis Nayland-Smith.

'''Stettin''' 
or Szczecin in Polish; a Baltic seaport, ceded by German to Poland following WWII; 293; 408; 418;

'''Steve''' 
449-50: GE employee and Charles' "colleague" on the Toiletship; husband of Sheila

'''Stickstoff Syndikat''' 
580; Jamf "getting Weimar to subsidize the IG's";

'''Stick, Joaquin''' 
9; at Pirate's maisonette

'''Stiletto May''' 
129; character conjured by the presence of the black man in choir at the Advent service attended by Roger and Jessica

'''Stinnes, Hugo (1870-1924)''' 
A German industrialist and politician; 284; "Bland either saw the Stinnes crash coming before most of its other victims, or was just naturally nervous. Early in '23 he began to sell off his interests in the Stinnes operations." 285-86; "'Schwindel' was [Jamf's] code name for Hugo Stinnes." 286; "Stinnes, like every industrial emperor, had his own company spy system." 286; "You were meant to think of Hugo Stinnes, the tireless operator behind the scenes of apparent Inflation, apparent history: gambler, financial wizard, archgangster...a fussy bürgerlich mouth, jowls, graceless moves, a first impression of comic technocracy" 579; "Fibel worked for Siemens back when it was still part of the Stinnes trust." 587; [[Sasuly's IG Farben]]

'''Stodda''' 
406; "treatise on steam turbines" studied by Pökler at Peenemünde in '38

[[Stones|'''STONES''']]

'''Stonybloke, Will''' 
65; friend of Slothrop's who appears in toilet adventure

'''Sträggeli''' 
258; listed under "Espionage, Industrial" on the list of Zürich cafés, where Slothrop meets Mario Schweitar; 268;

'''Stralsund''' 
532; "Semlower Strasse in" 692;

'''streets''' 
692; "Semlower Strasse in Stralsund"; "Hafenstrasse in Greifswald"; "Slüterstrasse in the old part of Rostock"; "Wandfärberstrasse in Lüneburg";

'''Stresemann, Gustav (1878-1929)''' 
452; German statesman who entered the Reichtag in 1907, rose to prominance leading the National Liberal Party and eventually, for a few months in 1923, was chancellor of the new German (Weimar) Republic. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1926; "'They pray not only for their daily bread [he said] but also for their daily illusion'"

'''Strobe''' 
89; "Strobe's stimulus" appeared in early Viking editions of Gravity's Rainbow, but was quickly changed to "Jamf's stimulus"; apparently "Strobe" was an early working name for "Jamf"

'''Stuggles, Constable''' 
73; tried to stop LeFroyd from jumping off cliff; 74

'''Südwest''' 
99; German colony from 1892 until1915 when it was taken by South African forces during WWI. It was made a Protectorate of South-West Africa under the League of Nations; now called Namibia, it was under South African control until 1990 when it gained its independence. [MORE]; [MAP]

'''Sue, Eugene (1804-57)''' 
13; "a Eugene Sue melodrama"

:Parisian journalist, called the "king of the popular novel," one of the most widely read writers of melodramatic fiction in the 19th-century France. Sue was sponsored by Prince Eugène de Beauharnais and the empress Joséphine; he used the prince's name to form his famous pen name. Sue gained fame through the roman-feuilleton, the serial novel which gained its height in the French periodical press in the 1840's. Sue's republican and socialist views are reflected in his best-known novels, Les Mystères de Paris (1842-43), set in the Paris slums, and Le Juif errant (1844-45), published in installments for Le Constitutionnel in 1842-1843. ''' 
The above is from this [http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/esue.htm excellent online biography].

'''Suggenthal''' 
269;

'''Sundial''' 
472; cartoon character

'''surface''' 
"she fears the Change, choosing instead only trivially to revise what matters least, ornament and clothing, going no further than politic transvestism" 97; "lust in the face--the mask--of instant talion" 100; "house is outward-and-visible sign" 448;

'''sus. per coll. crowd''' 
329; In the English practice, a calendar is made out of attainted criminals, and the judge signs the calendar with their separate judgments in the margin. In the case of a capital felony. it is written opposite the prisoner's name, "let him be hanged by the neck," which, when the proceedings were in Latin, was, "suspendatur per collum," or, in the abbreviated form, "sus' per coll'."

'''Suso, Heinrich (1295-1336)''' 
129; German mystic and preacher. His composition In Dulci Jubilo is a German/Latin macaronic carol (Pynchon (mis)spells it "macronic" and (mis)dates it as "fifteenth century"); the first verse (of four), quoted in GR, can be translated as follows:

:In dulci jubilo (In sweet Joy) 
:Sing and shout all below! 
:He for whom we're pining 
:Lies in praesepio (In a manger) 
:Like the sun is shining 
:Matris in gremio. (In His mothers lap.) 
:Qui est A et O. (Who is Alpha and Omega.) 
:In Dulci Jubilo Web Page

'''Suvorov''' 
350; Rozhdestvenski's flagship on which Tchitcherine's father was a gunner

'''Swanlake, Jessica''' 
30; "young rosy girl in the uniform of an ATS private" who has wartime affair with Roger Mexico; at Snoxall's seance, 30-34; meets Mexico, 38-39; Fay Wray look, 57; girlfriend of Jeremy "Old Beaver" 121; 627; "Her future is with the World's own" 629; working for Pointsman, 631; 640; hardened toward Mexico, 708-09

<div id="nancy"></div>'''Swanlake, Nancy''' 
174-77; Jessica's sister; late husband was Keith; kids: Penelope (also p.277), Claire, Elizabeth

'''Swinemünde''' 
459: a town in NW Poland, on the island of Usedom, at the mouth of the Swina River. It is the outer port for Szczecin (Polish name for "Stettin") and a fishing center and seaside resort. First mention of the town dates from 1181. During World War II, the town was a German naval base.

'''Swope, Gerard (1872-1957)''' 
Swope, president of the General Electric Company (1922-39; 1942-44) in the United States, greatly expanded GE's line of consumer products and pioneered profit-sharing and other benefits programs for its employees. After his retirement from GE in 1939, he chaired the New York City Housing Authority until 1942; "was ace buddies with old FDR [...] one-thim Brain Trusters" 565; "Business Advisory Council set up under Swope of General Electric, whose ideas on matters of 'control' ran close to those of Walter Rathenau, of German GE" 581;

'''Sztup, Mme.''' 
463; Yiddish: "poke" or "fuck"; passenger on the Anubis

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'''G-5''' 
125; Weisenburger quoting A.M. Taylor: "that section of the Army set up to take over local government in lands occupied by invasion forces. Other sections are G-1 personnel, G-2 Intelligence, G-3 Training and Plans, G-4 Supply and Evacuation."; 290; 644;

'''Galina''' 
339; worked for Tchitcherine in C. Asia; "connoisseuse of silences"; during Tchitcherine's haunting, 705

'''Gallaho Mews''' 
217; alley in London where PISCES Twelfth House is located; "all-night cinema, around the corner from" 542; Mexico's arrival, 632

'''Ganister, Herbert''' 
166; English chemist

'''Gantt, Dr. Horsley''' 
W. Horsley Gantt's Russian Medicine (1937), shows the relation of Pavlov to prominent Russians in medicine; 88

'''Garmisch''' 
Garmisch-Partenkirchen is a ski resort in the Bavarian Alps in southern Germany where the Allies held and interrogated von Braun, Dornberger and other Peenemünders; 273; 527; [http://www.garmisch.de Website]

'''gate''' 
552; 40s slang: a swinger, as in a "swinging gate"; 594

'''Geigy''' 
250; Swiss chemical company which joined Ciba and Sandoz in a cartel in the early '20s

'''Gemüse-Brücke''' 
261; in Zürich

'''General Aniline''' 
630; an American subsidiary/licensee of IG

'''General Electric (GE)''' 
Project Hermes people from, 287; "helmet liners with GE stenciled on" 304; 307; Marvy together with, 326; interlocks, 332; interest in Toiletship, 448; Steve employee of, 449; connections with Siemens, 565; Swope/Business Advisory Council, 581; 654; Joe Kennedy and, 682; 712; [GE Website]

'''General Forces Programme''' 
592;

'''General Staff''' 
152; According to Sasuly: "the nerve center of the German Army [and] the ultimate citadel of Junkerdom". It was abolished by the terms of the Versailles Treaty after WWI, but was reorganized as the Ministry of Defense; 401; 630;

'''GEneRATor''' 
734; hangman mystery world Slothrop discovers

<div id="gentian">'''gentian'''</div>
A flowering plant family with about 400 species; German name is [[E#enzian|''Enzian'']]; is sometimes used as a flavouring, for example in bitters, and the soft drink [[M#moxie|Moxie]] which contains "Gentian Root Extractives"; inspiration for Enzian's name, 101; "gentian brandy" 258; "tin Moxie signs gentian and bittersweet as the taste they were there to hustle" 471; "My mountain gentian always knew" 722

'''George, Lloyd''' 
145; former British Prime Minister; "likeness of [...] in heliotrope and sea-green"; 237

'''George, Stefan''' 
403; "One of these German mystics who grew up reading"

'''Georgian''' 
340; Stalin was from Georgia

'''Gerda and her Fur Boa''' 
451; one of the films on the "hand-cranked peep shows" on the Toiletship, which Achtfaden has watched 178 times; 455;

'''German Expressionist''' 
"ripples" 513; "pig" 568; See also [[M#metropolis|Metropolis/Metropolis]]

'''Germans''' 
"German and precise confidence" 25; "Wuotan and his mad army" 72; the "Führer-principle" 81; "ein Volk, ein Führer" ["one people, one leader"], 131; "another comical German euphemism" 164; "crowded with German-Baroque perplexities of shape" 208; and Control, 238; Slothrop's dreaming in German, 240; "German-scientist mind" 268; "one of these little brightly painted German toys" 282; "You sound like a German [...] Forget subdivisions." 294; humor, 309; Brocken: "the very plexus of German evil" 329; "a wistful German thing with his upper lip" 333; "the Germans wasted their horses" 337; "German dreams of the Tenth-Elegy angel coming" 341; "the same German impulse that once rolled flower-boats through the towns" 361; "'They're deciding how to cut up Germany.' [...] They should call in the Germans, Kerl, we've been doing that for centuries" 370; "improvisation from a German?"--372; "German humor's a fine way to start the morning" 372; New German Architecture, 372; "the profound humility that only a German movie director can summon" 388; mania for subdividing, 391 ("German mania for name-giving, dividing the Creation finer and finer"), 448 ("Toiletship, a triumph of the German mania for subdividing"); "unpatriotic to say that a German ruler could also be a madman" 394; "One of these German mystics [...] ready to accept Hitler on the basis of Demian-metaphysics" 403; "connection between the German mind and the rapid flashing of successive stills to counterfeit movement" 407; Hoard of the Nibelungen, 419; dialectic, 440; analysis of pot, 442; "simple-minded German symphonic arc" 443; "you Germans are crazy, you all think the world's against you" 445; "the primitive German, God's poorest and most panicked creature" 465; "Looks like German movies have warped other outlooks around here too" 474; "A German Odyssey" 486; "'I'll sign a form if you want.' Well, that's Howdy Podner in German." 492; Schadenfreude [joy at another's misfortune], 526, 745; "German toilet jokes" 530; "anxieties about encirclement" 614; "Bodine's laugh [...] has grown more German" 742

'''[[German Translations|GERMAN TRANSLATIONS]]'''

'''Geschwindig, Hansel''' 
651; (German: "swift") - Weimar street urchin who steals Byron the Bulb from the glassblower

'''Gessner''' 
455; his section at Peenemünde

'''Ghislaine''' 
183; girl on the beach, along with Françoise and Yvonne, who is a dancer at the Casino Hermann Goering; with Bloat;188-89 (named); 194; 204

'''Ginger Groupers''' 
615; "jamming [Mossmoon's] switchboard and [...] mailbox day and night"

'''Gilbert & Sullivan''' 
Composer Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) and librettist W.S. Gilbert (1836-1911) collaboratively developed a distinctive English form of the operetta. The combination of Gilbert's satire and verbal ingenuity and Sullivan's melodiousness and sense of parody created such internationally acclaimed works as H.M.S. Pinafore (1878) and The Pirates of Penzance (1879). Sullivan's dislike of what he considered the artificial nature of Gilbert's plots led to their split; "a blithe, Gilbert & Sullivan ingenue's thewse" 116

'''Gimbel's''' 
690; New York City department store since the early 1900s, located at 33rd & Broadway. The basement at Gimbel's featured "bargain-basement" buys. The store closed on September 27, 1986.

'''Giovanni, Don''' 
270; his "map of Europe"

'''''Giovinezza''''' 
The anthem of the Italian National Fascist Party; Italian for 'youth'

'''Glacists''' 
73; "lords of the winter" who can decipher ice

'''Glass Mountain, the''' 
419; at Zwölfkinder

'''Glimpf, Prof.''' 
309; German: gentleness; Professor of Mathematics of the Technische Hochschule, Darmstadt; Scientific Advisor to the Allied Military Government

'''Glitherius Paint & Dye''' 
581; "a Berlin firm" sold to Bland by the Alien Property Custodian

'''Gloaming, Milton''' 
31; [gloaming = twilight]; friend of Roger Mexico; word-counting project in Psi Section of SOE, developing vocabulary of curves, 32; 629; "just back from a jaunt through the Zone" 630; 638

'''Gloob, Lady Mnemosyne''' 
716; at Krupp party

'''Gloucester''' 
52; Pointsman's springer spaniel

'''Gloucestershire Old Spots''' 
82; pigs

'''Gnahb, Otto''' 
492; aka "the silent Otto"; son of Frau Gnahb

'''Gnahb, Frau''' 
492; "Queen of the coastal trade" runs black market along Baltic coast; 602; 623; [poss. etymology: "Gnahb" spelled backwards--bear with me here--is "bhang" the drink made from flowering tops of the marijuana plant, cannabis sativa]; See also Wilhelm Busch

'''Gnosticism''' 
"the Director's clever Gnostic symbolism in the lighting scheme of the two shadows, Cain's and Abel's" 429; "heretics there will be: Gnostics who have been taken in a rush of wind and fire to chambers of the Rocket-throne" 727; "'That's why you see Gnostics so hunted. The sacrament of the Eucharist is really drinking the blood of the enemy. The Grail, the Sangraal, is the bloody vehicle.'" 739; "The Tower. [...] Others see a Gnostic or Cathar symbol for the Church of Rome" 747

'''Gobbitch, Bartley''' 
9; at Pirate's maisonette

'''God''' 
"God has plucked [the rocket] for him, out of its airless sky, like a steel banana" 8; "wasted gods urging on a tardy glacier" 9; "Putting control inside was ratifying what de facto had happened--that you had dispensed with God." 30; "every true god must be both organizer and destroyer" 99; "tried to cage his old gods, snare them in words" 99; Dodoes "so ugly as to embody argument against a Godly creation" 110; "For as much as [Dodoes] are the creatures of God, and have the gift of rational discourse" 111; "God could not be that cruel" 111; "when the land was still free [...] and the presence of the Creator much more direct" 214; "the numinous certainty of" 242; "his own WASPs in buckled black, who heard God clamoring to them in every turn of a leaf" 281; "multitudes passed over by God and History" 299; "Ndjambi Karunga and the Christian God were too far away. There was no difference between the behavior of a good and the operations of pure chance" 323; "Using a non-Arabic alphabet is felt to be a sin against" 354; "Will of God Theory" 362; "God's indifferent sunlight in all its bleaching and terror" 364; "Each plot carries its signature. Some are God's, some masquerade as God's" 464; "God's poorest and most panicked creature" 465; canine theology of "the remembered image of one human" 614; "God is who knows their number. Atropos is who severs them to different lengths. So, God under the aspet of Atropos, she who cannot be turned" 643; "Procalowski-down-out-of-the sky-in-a-machine" 672; "God, death, nothingness, redemption, salvation" 693; "What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?" 699; "Wimpe: 'I mean theophosphate, Vaslav,' indicating the Presence of God" 702; "God's spoilers. [...] It is our mission to promote death." 720; "By all the holy names of God" 734; "The Ravens of Death have now tasted of the Poison of God" 748; "'God sent out a pulse of energy into the void. [...] To return to God, the soul must negotiate each of the Sephiroth, from ten back to one." 753; "the Tree of Life. It is also the body of God" 753; See also [[C#christianity|Christianity]]; [[M#mythology|Mythology]]; [[T#theophile|Theophile]]

'''Gödel's Theorem''' 
275; According to Hofstadter (p.17): "appears as Proposition VI in [Kurt Gödel's] 1931 paper 'On Formally Undecidable Propositions in Principia Mathematica and Related Systems I.' It states: [...] All consistent axiomatic formulations of number theory include undecidable propositions."; 320; See also [[M#murphy|Murphy's Law]]

'''Goebbels, Josef Paul (1897-1945)''' 
287; Chief propagandist of the Nazi Party and Nazi Propaganda Minister; "less than giddy imagination reaching no further than Alpine Redoubts"; saw von Göll's Good Society three times, 394; footage of Erdmann's ravishing "found its way into [his] collection" 461; "believed in the Rocket as an avenger" 747;

'''Goetzke, Bernhardt''' 
579; Actually 'Bernhard' Goetzke (1884-1964). German actor born in Danzig; played State Prosecutor von Wenk in Dr. Mabuse, and "tender, wistful bureaucratic Death in Der Müde Tod"; "bourgeois Goetzkian death" 579;

'''''Going My Way''''' 
38; A 1944 film directed by Leo McCarey. It is a light-hearted musical comedy/drama about a new young priest (Bing Crosby) taking over a parish from an established old veteran (Barry Fitzgerald). Crosby sings five songs in the film. It was followed the next year by a sequel, The Bells of St. Mary's. This picture was the highest-grossing picture of 1944, and its success helped to make movie exhibitors choose Crosby as the biggest box-office draw of the year, a record he would hold for the remainder of the 1940s.

'''Gold Star''' 
134; "your mother hoping to hang that"; The group American Gold Star Mothers was formed after WWI. The name derives from the custom of families of servicemen hanging a banner called a Service Flag in their front window. It had a star for each family member in the military. Living servicemen were represented by a blue star, and those who had lost their lives were represented by a gold star.

'''golf''' 
See [[L#lawn|lawn sports]]

<div id="goll"></div>'''Göll, Gerhardt von''' 
112; [Italian: "vongole" = "clams"] German filmmaker; making Schwarzkommando movie, 112-13; "commerce has not taken away von Göll's Touch" 112 (see also: Göllerei, 429); and Trefoil, 147; can be found "on the Strand-Promenade" 294; aka Der Springer--film director turned black-marketeer, 385; Martin Fierro film, 386; used "Emulsion J" which made the outer layer of skin translucent ["When something real is about to happen to you, you go toward it with a transparent surface parallel to your own front [. . .]" (p.754)], 387; thinks he brought Schwarzkommando into being, 388; Alpdrucken featured lighting from top and bottom (Gnostic symbolism - Cain & Abel [429]), 394; corridor metaphysics, 394; "About 50, bleak and neutral-colored eyes, hair thick at the sides of his head and brushed back" 494; no- show at Putzi's, 610; also made The Good Society; 611; "his corporate octopus wrapping every last negotiable item in the Zone" 611; floor movie at Der Platz (New Dope), 745; 750; See also [[S#springer|Springer, Der]]

'''Gollin, Mr. Geoffrey''' 
240; chief assistant to Isaac Lubbock and the person Hilary Bounce reports to; Tölölyan reports that Gollin was a British intelligence officer whom the Russians allowed to search Blizna after it was liberated. There he actually found rocket documents in the SS latrines; they had apparently tried to flush them down the toilets during their hasty retreat.

'''Gomerians''' 
La Gomera is the most westward of the Canary Islands, off the coast of North Africa. Until Columbus "discovered" the New World, it was the westernmost land known to the Europeans. The inhabitants of the deep valleys used to communicate with each other in a whistling language, comparable to the "yodeling" in Central European Alps. [[La Gomera|Barbara Kingsolver has written about La Gomera]]; "whistling from the high ravines" 453; "Gomera was the last piece of land Columbus touched before America" 453; See also Chipuda

'''Gondwanaland''' 
321; the super-continent that was the Americas and Europe, "before the continents drifted apart"; 388

'''Gongue, Jean-Claude''' 
246; "notorious white slaver of Marseilles" at de la Perlimpinpin party

'''Gongylakis''' 
544; someone Pirate "had to betray" "in the course of business for the Firm" (recalled at Double Agent Convention)

'''Gorr, Dr.''' 
630; ran Vermittlungsstelle W with Dr. Dieckmann

'''Goths''' 
Goths: These Germanic people originated in southern Scandinavia and crossed in three ships under their king Berig to the southern shore of the Baltic Sea, where they settled after defeating the Vandals and other Germanic peoples in that area; 206

'''Gottfried''' 
94-99; "ranked with his battery near Schußstelle 3" 95; with Katje and Blicero, 101-04; his perspective, 102-04; "Who was that, going by just then--who was the slender boy who flickered across her path, so blond, so white he was nearly invisible in the hot haze that had come to settle over Zwölfkinder? Did she see him, and did she know him for her own second shadow?" 429; German: "God's peace" 465; "the young pet and protege of Captain Blicero" 484; mapped on to Bianca, 484, 672, 723 (Gottfried to Blicero: "I remember that you used to whisper me to sleep with stories of us one day living on the moon"); "something was being planned" for, 485; "a load inside near vane 3 that complicated roll and yaw control almost impossibly" 564; and Thanatz, 670-71; 721; mapped onto Ilse (via Moon references), 723; his launch, 750; [Etymological Musings]

'''Gould, Jay (1836-1892)''' 
Gould's reputation as one of the leading robber barons of his era was assured by his actions as a director of the Erie Railroad. In 1869, he worked with allies James Fisk and Daniel Drew to combat Cornelius Vanderbilt 's acquisition of the railroad in the infamous Erie War. Gould used every underhanded trick, from bribing public officials to massively watering stock. Later in 1869, Gould and his partners attempted to corner the gold market, but their scheme fell apart on Black Friday . The public was enraged and thousands of investors were ruined. In 1872, following Fisk's death, Gould was forced out as a director of the Erie [From U-S-History.com]; "what Jubilee Jim Fisk told the Congressional committee investigating his and Jay Gould's scheme to corner gold in 1869," 438

'''Goya''' 
657; "even Goya couldn't draw ya"

'''Grafty Green''' 
127; village in Kent, south of London

'''Graham, "Micro"''' 
295; gives secret tours of the Mittelwerk during US occupation. A pun on 'microgram'.

'''Grant, Cary (1904-1986)''' 
British-American actor, born Archibald Alexander Leach. With his distinctive yet not quite placeable Mid-Atlantic accent, he was noted as perhaps the foremost exemplar of the debonair leading man: handsome, virile, charismatic and charming. He was named the second Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute. "no Cary Grant larking in" 13; referring to Slothrop's faux British accent: "it keeps coming out like Cary Grant" 240; "best Cary Grant imitation" 292; "Ge-li, Ge-li, Ge-li" see note [[Pages 279-295#Page 294|294.11]]; "just as smooth as that Cary Grant" 661; 684

'''Graves Registration''' 
643; "back there in Wisconsin"

'''gravity''' 
[[Gravity's Rainbow Title Speculations|''Gravity's Rainbow'' - what is it?]] "violated gravity somehow" 65; "sigh of gravity" 296; "Gravity's grey eminence" 302; "the young scientist-surrogate will be going round and round with old Gravity" 361; "she wants to lose her gravity" 538; "always at the mercy of" 584; "caught in her gravitation" 546; "To find that gravity [...] is really something eerie" 590; "I am Gravity" 639; "generations of gravities" 672; "Center of Gravity" 700; "nothing but his asshole between Gravity and Roger" 709; "Gravity rules" 723; "modest preview of gravitational collapse" 737; "a wine rush is defying" 743; "gravity feed" 758; "Gravity dies away briefly" 759

'''Great Aspinwall Hotel Fire''' 
[[image:aspinwall.jpg|right]]Built in Lenox, Mass., in 1902 by General Thomas Hubbard, the Aspinwall Hotel flourished for many years as a popular resort for the financial and political leaders of the day. It had 400 rooms with a fireplace in each and a resident orchestra. Situated at 1460 feet above sea level, it commanded breath-taking views. It was destroyed by fire in 1931.

:"In 1931, the year of the Great Aspinwall Hotel Fire, young Tyrone was visiting his aunt and uncle in Lenox. [...] The embers fell on and on for five hours [...]" 28-29

'''Great War, the''' 
476; aka World War I

'''Green Reports''' 
630; "flapping through the IG for weeks" after Bland's last transmural journey

'''Greenteeth, Jenny''' 
147; The green hag of Lancashire. Jenny is an evil spirit who haunts stagnant pools in Lancashire. She preys on children who wander too close to the water, grabbing them in her long green fangs and pulling them underwater to drown. She can be found in any pool or pond which is covered in green scum. Obviously, she's invoked to keep the kids away from the water. [IMAGE]

'''Greifswalder Oie''' 
404; small island off Usedom converted into a rocket launching site; 414; Greifswald, 681, 692

'''Gretchens''' 
"Quit Kvetchin', Gretchen!" 289; participating in "roasting" of Mexico, 714; See also Slothrop's girls/stars

'''Grid''' 
"a glittering map. . .ruled off into 576 squares" 55; sieves, 56; "crosshatchings of his black rubber soles" 70; "corporate lattice" 75; "Dutch grid's 380 volts" 101; "to keep Grid Time synchronized with Greenwich Mean Time" 133; "the Grid runs inching ever faster" 134; "Quisling molecules have shifted in latticelike ways" 176; "back in France's power grid" 190; "Forget subdivisions" 294; 400; ego as grid, 404; "the holy grid" 404; "screen door salesman" 447; the Iron Toad "hooked up to the European Grid" 604; Byron's "many agents in the Grid" 649; "when folklore comes flickering in from other parts of the Grid" 650; "a sin against the" 652; "noticed a fall-off in revenues" 654; "the Grid is wide open, all messages can be heard" 655; "the Grid's big function in this System is iceboxery" 678; "along the grooves of the Raketen-Stadt's street-grid" 674; See also chess; routinization/rationalization of charisma

'''Grigori''' 
51; aka Grischa (diminutive of Grigori); octopus conditioned by Pointsman to abduct Katje in order to get at Slothrop; "unconditioned response to prey is very reliable" 52; shown movie of Katje, 113; attacks Katje, 186; Waxwing sez it never happened, 248; 533; octopus as metaphor, 611; 662; See also City Dactylic; octopus

'''Grimm, the Brothers''' 
74; Brothers Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859) are known for their collections of folk songs and folktales, especially Kinder- und Hausmärchen ("Child and Family Fairy Tales," aka "Grimm's Fairy Tales") (1812-22), which formed a foundation for the science of comparative folklore. Apparently, Jacob Grimm's large work Teutonic Mythology provided source material for Gravity's Rainbow.

'''Groast, Dr. (the elder)''' 
147; Rollo's father, in Lancashire

'''Groast, Dr. Rollo''' 
34; works in ARF wing; 79; 85; 147; "assumed back into the Society for Psychical Research" 273; with Greta, 474

'''Gross Suckling Conference''' 
706; attended by Eventyr, Gwinhidwy, Mexico, Morituri - discuss mandalas in relation to rocket firings

'''Grosser Stern''' 
365; German: "Great Star"; This is a traffic circle in the middle of the Tiergarten (zoo) in Berlin; near where Slothrop is "orbiting" 365

'''Grössli Chemical Corporation''' 
250; became Psychochemie AG; spinoff from Sandoz; 284; 286

'''Grunt-Gobbinette, Sir Hannibal''' 
716-17; at Krupp party

'''Grunton, Myron''' 
74; worked for BBC; instrumental in creating Operation Black Wing; works at White Visitation; 92; 112; 227; "again a full-time wireless personality" 273

'''Guardian, the''' 
293; The Manchester Guardian is (according to Evan Corcoran) the farthest left-wing of the major English papers, and at the time also the only major English paper not based in London; the paper that Ian Scuffling allegedly works for

'''Guinan, Texas (1884-1933)''' 
657; This colorful divorcee ran one ofthe most notorious and outrageous speakeasies in Manhattan in the 1920s. By 1928, four of her roving clubs had been raided and closed, but a fifth was going strong. Perched on top of a piano, Guinan held court and let fly with bawdy anecdotes, and emceed performances by singers and dancers from 11 p.m. until 7 a.m. "Curfew shall not ring tonight!" was her rallying cry. She greeted her patrons with the shriek of a police whistle and a derisive, "Hello, Suckers!" Mae West was a fan of hers and incorporated much of Guinan's style and material into her own act (though she never acknowledged the contribution). Phyllis Diller played her in the 1961 film, Splendor in the Grass. After her club was finally shut down in 1929 she took a troupe of dancing girls to Paris. When French officials in the U.S. tried to block her departure, there was a popular outcry in Paris in her support, to which she responded "Fifty million Frenchmen can't be wrong." The Paris stint was unsuccessful.

'''Gülcher Thermosäule''' 
518; Gülcher Thermostat

'''Gustav''' 
See [[S#schlabone|Schlabone, Gustav]]

'''Guthrie, Tyrone (1900-71)''' 
148; British theatrical producer and administrator of the Old Vic and Sadler's Wells between 1939 and 1945.

'''Gutiérrez, Ricky''' 
249; involved in Zoot Suit Riots of 1943 in Los Angeles

'''Gwenhidwy, Thomas''' 
52; at White Visitation; one of the keepers of The Book; "inside his fluffy beard" 139; singing "Diadem" at fighter runways,169; at Pirate's, singing, 639; 706

'''Gymanfa Ganu''' 
171; Welsh: songfest; these group-singing events are still held throughout Wales

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'''Radnichny''' 
353; impetuous and unstable practical joker in Weird Letter Assignment

'''R.A.F. Medmenham''' 
726; "techniques by which Constance Babington-Smith and her colleagues at R.A.F. Medmenham discovered the Rocket back in 1943 in recco photographs of Peenemünde"

<div id="rainbow"></div>'''rainbow''' 
the rising sun striking the rocket's exhaust, 6; "his rainbowed Valkyrie over Peenemünde" 151; "all around them were clouds, rainbows, drops of fire" 160; "the greengrocer is wishing on a rainbow today" 175; "the rainbow edges of what is almost on him" 203; "a rainbow-striped dirndl skirt" 208; "they move forever under it. . .as if it were the Rainbow" 209; "a peacock, courting, fanning his tail ... she saw it in the colors that moved in the flame as it rose off the platform, scarlet, orange, iridescent green" 223; "wild as a rainbow" 369; "the rainbow edge of the sound" 488; "It's a long rainbow, mostly [...] indigo and Kelly green" 524; "To purity of light--of bonds that sing,/And whips that trail their spectra as they fall" 532-33; Osbie "a sunburst in primary colors spiking out from his head" 536; "Slothrop sees a very thick rainbow" 626; "rainbow of sentinel ladies" 637; "beautiful Serpent, its coils in rainbow lashings" 721; "the great rainbow plumes" 722; "serpent coils that lash above the surface of the Earth in rainbow light" 726

'''Raketenflugplatz''' 
162-63; German: "rocket site"; the original Raketenflugplatz was an abandoned dump in Berlin where the VfR launched their rockets in the early 1930s; 416

'''Raketen-Stadt''' 
296; German: "Rocket-City"; created in the Mittelwerke by Ernst Ölsch (under Speer) "To Avoid Symmetry, Allow Complexity, Introduce Terror" 297; "these are the els and busses of an enormous transit system here in the Raketenstadt" 603; "plexiglass maps of the webs we maintain across the Zone" 660; and "the Floundering Four" 674; Daguerreotype of, taken by "a forgotten photographer [...] a habitué of mercury fumes" 725; "By now the city has grown so tall that elevators are long-haul affairs" 735

'''Rapallo Treaty''' 
166; Agreement between Soviet Russia and Germany which contained extensive trade agreements including the lifting of trade restrictions between the two countries, thus allowing Krupp to sell their steel machines to the Soviets. Germany's powerful right wing was enraged at the recognition given the new Communist regime and on June 24, 1922 Foreign Minister Walter Rathenau, who negotiated the treaty on Germany's behalf, was shot and killed in the street; 338; 352 See also [[#rathenau|Rathenau, Walter]]

'''Rapier, Father''' 
538; Jesuit preaching at double-agent convention/garden

'''ratchet''' 
"wordless ratcheting cue" 51; "off on a...ratchet of rooms" 257; "a ratcheting noise" 282; "dragging himself up the ratchet's teeth" 547; "ratcheting like a phone number being dialed" 607; "Bicycle riders ratcheted by" 611; "The nonstop revue crosses its stage. . .in an endless ratchet" 681; "CATCH" 759; See also [[F#film|film/cinema references]]

'''rates of change''' 
"To integrate here is to operate on a rate of change so that time falls away: change is stilled" 301; "a train of imperceptible light and dark" 642; See also [[D#deltat|delta-t]]

'''Rathaus''' 
German: "town-hall"; in Nordhausen, 333

'''Rathenau, Walter (d. 1922)''' 
163; German foreign minister who was assassinated; "prophet and architect of cartelized state" 164; seance of, 163-65; during WWI "was ramrodding the whole economy" 284; dealt the Rapallo Treaty ("elaborate piece of theatre" - 352) with Tchitcherine's father, 338; 581; 590; 616; See also Rapallo Treaty; [Sasuly's IG Farben]

'''Rat Ilya''' 
229; rat at White Visitation

'''Rauhandle''' 
98; Blicero's athletic young friend/lover(?) "how many years back into the peace"

'''Raum, Natasha''' 
712; quoted regarding the "Hydra-Phänomen" and Slothrop's plucking-of-self, in her "'Regions of Indeterminacy in Albatross Anatomy,' Proceedings of the International Society of Confessors to an Enthusiasm for Albatross Nosology"

'''Ravenna''' 
564; coastal northern Italian city

'''Ray''' 
256; U.S. MP in Nice outside Slothrop's door

'''Rebecca''' 
155; "Jewess" comrade of Leni's in KDP

'''recco photos''' 
232; Reconnaissance photographs; 240

'''Reed, Ishmael (b. 1938)''' 
588; American novelist

'''Reed, Maurice ("Saxophone")''' 
9; at Pirate's maisonette

'''Reeperbahn''' 
652; in the district of Saint Pauli in Hamburg, a notorious street of ill-repute (where the Beatles played before getting famous) where Byron is traded to a prostitute

'''Reformation''' 
267; The 16th century revolution (a Counterforce) that took place in the Western church, due primarily to the Catholic church's loss of spiritual credibility as a result of its increasing material wealth and power. See also Counterforce; Zwingli, Huldrych

'''Regents Park Zoo''' 
121; in London

'''Reichsbank''' 
284; Germany's leading financial institution.

'''Reichstag building''' 
368; in Berlin, shelled out and resembling a giant shitting ape

'''Reinickendorf''' 
154; a neighborhood in Berlin encompassing the northwest of the city area, including the Berlin-Tegel Airport, Lake Tegel, spacious settlements of detached houses as well as housing estates; Pökler "reported to the rocket facility at"

'''Reithinger, Dr.''' 
According to Sasuly, Reithinger, who worked as director of statistics in NW7 under Ilgner, "had been considered one of the outstanding statisticians of Germany. [He] had traveled in many countries [...] and in each country met with leading statisticians and economists on a basis of scientific interest and arranged the exchange of satistical data." (p.98); his VOWI office was the Statistical Department of NW7, 630

'''religion''' 
"something vaguely religious" 66; Chain of Being, 77; "every true god must be both organizer and destroyer" 99; "God is creator and destroyer, sun and darkness, all sets of opposites brought together" 100; "rocket-mysticism" 154; "presence of the Creator much more direct" 214; "Judaized" 219; Krishna, 276; "ice-saints" 281; "There may be no gods, but there is a pattern" 322; Chance = God, 323, 613; "Allah has smiled on us" 365; "breath of God" 454; God's signature, 463; Manichaean, 631, 727; always about death, 701; Pan, 720; Buddha, 733; "By all the holy names of God" 734; See also [[P#puritans|Puritans]]; [[C#christianity|Christianity]]; [[H#hand|Hand of Providence/God]]; [[Islam]]

<div id="return"></div>'''Return, Cycle of''' 
"Nature does not know extinction, all it knows is transformation" 1; "Death is a debt to nature due" 26; "lapsing back now to green wilderness" 28; toothpaste tube "waiting now--its true return--to be melted for solder" 130; "The real movement is not from death to any rebirth. It is from death to death-transfigured" 166; "some teeming cycle of departure and return" 198; "no cycles, no returns" 318; to the Center (Hereros), 319; "men turning to coal" 351; 412; serpent eating its tail, 413; Slothrop's transmutation dream about Greta, 447; Bicycle Rider in the Sky, 501; trees growing through cracks at Peenemünde, 502; Slothrop's Rider (celestial cyclist), 509; serpentine, 520; "restore us to our Earth and to our freedom" 525; "unclipped topiary hedges, growing back into reality" 535; "a Jesuit [...] here to preach, like his colleague Teilhard de Chardin, against return" 539; "at least the physical things They have taken, from Earth and from us, can be dismantled, demolished--returned to where it all came from" 540; "To affirm Their mortality is to affirm Return" 540; 560; Destiny, 576; "that familiar division between return and one-shot visitation" 584; wheels in the sky, 620; Cosmic windmill, 624; "They took us at the gates of green return" 627; "cables lay rusting across the sodden meadows, going to flakes, to ions and earth" 627; "prehistoric wastes. . .transmuted to the very substance of History" 639; windmill, 670; Serpent/Pan, 720-21; America, 722-23; 726; garbage trucks, 757; See also [[C#counterforce|Counterforce]]; [[C#center|Center]]; [[E#excrement|excrement]]; [[M#mandala|mandala]]; [[S#serpent|serpent]]

'''Reunion''' 
110; the only other island where van der Groov knew there were Dodoes

'''Rexist''' 
Rexist Movement was formed in 1930 by Léon Degrelle, allegedly to eliminate political contamintion of the Roman Catholic religion. From a wing of the ruling Catholic Party, the Rexist Movement evolved into an opposition party and, under Degrelle's guidance, elected 21 deputies to the Belgian Parliament in 1936. With the aid of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, Degrelle turned the Rexists into a fascist organization; Louis Borgesius attended their meetings, 546; See also NSB credentials

'''Reyes, Cipriano''' 
383; "intervened for" G. Portales once

'''Rheinelbe Union''' 
284; combined by Stinnes into a super-cartel with Siemens-Schuchert after WWI;

'''Rhenish Missionary Society''' 
100; in South-West Africa, 315; 316;

'''Reynolds, Osborne (1842-1912)''' 
453; A prominent Irish innovator in the understanding of fluid dynamics. Lent his name to the Reynolds number, a dimensionless number that gives a measure of the ratio of inertial forces to viscous forces.

'''RHIP''' 
190; Rank Has Its Privileges; 448

'''''Rigoletto''''' 
132.21; An opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo. It was first performed at La Fenice in Venice on March 11, 1851. It is considered by many to be the first of the operatic masterpieces of Verdi's middle-to-late career.

'''Riickert, Helen''' 
381; "a blond with a Dutch surname" competing for Miss Rheingold 1946

'''Rijkswijksche Bosch''' 
113; in Holland, where film of Schwarzkommando will be "discovered" in fake ruins of rocket-firing site

<div id="rilke">'''Rilke, Rainer Maria (d. 1926)'''</div>
[[image:Rilke.gif|left]]97-99; German philosopher/poet; "Want the change; O be inspired by the Flame"; Duino Elegies, 99; "mountainside gentian of Nordic colors" 101; "anti-Rilke" 102; "Tenth-Elegy angel" 341; "Once, only once. . ." 413; 516; "If we are here once, only once [...]" 539; "To the rushing water speak, I am" 622; "poem about the Leid-Stadt" ["Pain-City" - See: 98-99], 644; [[M#mustache|mustache]], 711; See also [[G#germans|Germans]]

'''rinderpest''' 
317; "cattle dead of" 323;

'''Rinso, Lieutenant''' 
449; Charles' paranoia that Rinso's plotting to murder him, on the Toiletship

'''Rioja, La''' 
612; a wasteland "on the eastern slopes of the Andes" where Correa was found dead

'''Ripov, Nikolai''' 
700; of Commissariat for Intelligence Activities; checks up on Tchitcherine; during Tchitcherine's haunting, 703; 719

'''Rippenstoss, Heinz''' 
167; German: "kick in the groin" (or "nudge in the ribs"); "irrepressible Nazi wag and gadabout" at Rathenau seance and asker of the question "Is God really Jewish?"

'''Rivadavia''' 
263; "where the true South begins" in Argentina; From "The South" in the short story collection Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges (Grove Press, 1962, p. 169):

:"Every Argentine knows that the South begins at the other side of Rivadavia. Dahlmann was in the habit of saying that this was no mere convention, that whoever crosses this street enters a more ancient and sterner world."

Avenida Rivadavia, in Buenos Aires, is an immensely long street (Porteños claim it is the longest in the world) which runs east to west for nearly two hundred blocks from Plaza de Mayo to Morón, outside the city limits.

'''Rizla liquorice cigarette paper''' 
93; [http://www.rizla.co.uk/ Rizla Website]

'''Robert-Houdin, Jean-Eugène (1805-1871)''' 
French magician considered to be the father of modern conjuring. The first magician to use electricity, he also improved the signalling method for the "thought transference" trick. Harry Houdini named himself after Robert-Houdin; "the great conjurer" 675

'''Robin''' 
59; childhood friend recalled by Jessica

'''Robot Blitz''' 
85; German buzz bomb (aka "robot bomb" and "V-1") attack on London

'''Roca, Gen. Julio Argentino''' 
Roca distinguished himself militarily with victories in the "Indian wars" (ending in 1879), opening up the pampas to settlement by whites and turning him into a political hero which he parlayed into his election as president in 1880; "campaign to open the pampas by exterminating the people who live there" 387

'''Rocket''' 
incoming mail, 6; A4, 8, 396, 406, 411, 464; farting buzzbombs, 21; "explode first. . .then you hear them coming in" 23; "slender church steeples" 29 (& 624); "a piece of time neatly snipped out" 48; "a rocket has suddenly struck" 59; V-1 and V-2, 86; "the sounds of V-1 and V-2, one the reverse of the other" 144; premonitions in Psi section, 146; "rocket-mysticism" 154; "between the two points, in the five minutes, it lives an entire life." 209; assembly at Mittelwerke, 304; "Germans [...] who called the rocket Der Phau ["the peacock"], 223; "terrible passage reduced. . .to bourgeois terms" 239; Slothrop's discovery of blueprint, 242; and manhood, 324; "hidden inside the summer Zone, the Rocket is waiting" 359; 5 launching switch positions, 361; cult of A4 (A: "aggregate"), 391; Pökler's dreams of, 399; leading to freedom of outerspace, 400; money v. dreams, 400; Pökler as an extension of, 402; as fat Japanese arrow, 403; A3, 406; growing towards a predestined shape (Schicksal), 416; A5, 416; mapped on to face, 423; A4 test sites moved to Blizna, Poland in '43 - Sarnaki is Ground Zero, 424; problem rockets--"reluctant virgins" 426; 10K pounds sterling, 438; "half bullet, half arrow" 453; charisma of, 464; "the kingly voice of the Aggregate" 470; Rocket Noon, 500; fins=mandala, 563 (illus. 624); "The sand-colored churchtops [...] like rocket fins guiding the streamlined spires" 624; "A4. . .concealed behind an uncrossable wall that separated real pain and terror from summoned deliverer." 666; 673; firing vectors, 706; "Rocket state-cosmology" 726; "Rocket as Torah" 727; "an evil Rocket for the World's suicide" 727; "it comes as the Revealer" 728; Goebbels' "avenger" 747; origin of countdown, 753; See also [http://www.constable.ca/v2.htm V2 Page] - very good; [[S#schwartzgerat|Schwarzgerät]]; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-1_rocket V-1 Rocket at Wikipedia] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket V-2 Rocket at Wikipedia]

'''Rocketman (aka Raketemensch, aka Slothrop)''' 
359; a comic book character from the '40s and Tyrone's alter-ego; 366; comic-book dialogue, 371; 376; exists in nongeographical space ("Providence's little pal"), 379; war cry: "Hauptstufe" - "leaps broad highways in a single bound!" 380; "Fickt nicht mit der Raketemensch!" 436; 512; 596; "You poor fucker." 741

'''Rohmer, Sax (c.1883-1959)''' 
Sax Rohmer, aka Arthur Sarsfield Wade, was an internationally popular British writer who created the evil genius Fu Manchu, the Chinese hero-villain of many novels. Dr. Fu Manchu (1913) was the first in the series of which there were several more over the next 45 years, over which time Fu Manchu evolved from an entirely self-serving villain into a dedicated anti-Communist; "great Manichaean saga" 641

'''Rohr''' 
681; German: "tube" or "pipe"; Jehovah's witness who is "Keeper of the Antenna" for Germans to communicate with U-boats

'''Rommel, Erwin (1891-1944)''' 
Aka the "Desert Fox," Rommel is most famous for commanding the Afrika Korps in North Africa in 1941, driving the British out of Libya and into Egypt. Anglo-American forces finally compelled his surrender in Tunisia in 1943. He escaped and commanded German forces in Italy and then in northern France preparing for the Allied invasion of 1944. Seeing the writing on the wall, he begged Hitler to end the war. Although innocent, he was implicated in the July 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler and opted for suicide over arrest and a sure conviction; "Old Blood 'n' Guts" handed Rommel's ass to him in the desert" 287

'''Rooney, Mickey''' 
Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule, Jr.; September 23, 1920) is an American film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and stage appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. During his career he has won multiple awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award. Best known for his work as the Andy Hardy character in a series of 16 films. seen by Slothrop, 382; 438

'''Roosevelt, Eleanor (1882-1962)''' 
The wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor was a social-activist first lady during his presidency. After his death, she held various posts in the United Nations; Chiclitz's "Eleanor Roosevelt routine. 'The othuh day, my son Idiot--uh, Eliot--and I, were baking cookies'" 566

'''Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945)''' 
32nd president (Democrat) of the U.S., 1932-45. He started the "New Deal" program in 1933 to combat the Great Depression, which involved abandoning the gold standard, devaluing the dollar, state intervention in the credit market, agricultural price support, and the passage of the Social Security Act (1935) which provided for old-age and unemployment insurance;135; Third Term, 270; "died back in the spring [12 April]" 373; "it seemed he'd just keep getting elected, term after term, forever. But somebody had decided to change that. So he was put to sleep" 374; "a being They assembled, a being They would dismantle" 374; caricature of on Toiletship, 450; "'Mister Swope was ace buddies with old'" 565; "Roosevelt's 'election' in 1932" 581; "Harvard, beholden to all kinds of money old and new, commodity and retail" 581

<div id="rorschach"></div>'''Rorschach Test''' 
The Rorschach inkblots were developed by a Swiss psychiatrist, Hermann Rorschach (1884-1922), in an effort to reduce the time required in psychiatric diagnosis. His test consists of 10 cards, half in color and half in black and white. The subject is shown the 10 blots one at a time, the task being to describe what she sees in the blots or what they remind her of. There are no right or wrong answers; "'a so-called, "projec-tive" test'" 81; See also [[P#paranoia|paranoia/connectedness]]

'''Rosas, Juan Manuel de (1793-1877)''' 
After losing an Argentinian election in 1835, Rosas led a revolt and ruled as dictator, through terror and bloodshed, from 1835 to 1852; "The tyrant Rosas has been dead a century, but his cult flourishes" 264

'''Rose''' 
680; woman around a fire in the "dingy yellow amphitheatre"

'''Roseland Ballroom''' 
63; in Boston--where Slothrop drops his harmonica down the toilet in the men's room while vomiting; 623; 688

<div id="rossini">'''Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio (1792-1868)'''</div>
Italian composer of light comic opera and pleasant, melodious, crowd-pleasing music; "an abbreviated version of ''L'Inutil Precauzione'' (that imaginary opera with which Rosina seeks to delude her guardian in ''The Barber of Seville'')" 204; Rue Rossini, 248, 253, 257; ''William Tell Overture'' 262; overture to ''La Gazza Ladra'', [[Beethoven & Rossini|vs. Beethoven]], 273, 440; his music: "love without payment of any kind" 274; 376; "'The Italian girl is in Algiers, the Barber's in the crockery, the magpie's stealing everything in sight! The World is rushing together. . .'" 440; "Rossini [...] full of light and kindness" 622; "long-suppressed Rossini violin concerto (op. posth.)" 684; "Now I know it's not as keen as old Rossini [snatch of La Gazza Ladra here]" 685

'''Rossokovski''' 
501; left Peenemünde with White Russian Army; 504

'''rösti''' 
258;

<div id="routinization"></div>'''Routinization/ Rationalization of Charisma''' 
concept developed by Max Weber; Führer-principle, 81; "there should be no room for a terrible disease like charisma" 81; "we'll have shown again the stone determinacy [...] of every soul" 86; "Pavlov believed the ideal [...] is the true mechanical explanation" 89; "scrubbed and routinized fingers" 91; "cage his old gods, snare them in words" 99; "that vaguely criminal face on your ID card, its soul snatched by the government camera as the guillotine shutter fell" 134; "another long-routinezed nudge of horn, flip of hoof" 142; "Destiny will betray you, crush your ideals, deliver you into the same detestable Bürgerlichkeit as your father [...] fly from pain to duty, from joy to work, from commitment to neutrality." 162; "death-by- government" 176; "the rationalized power-ritual that will be the coming peace" 177; 201; "well before he loses his innocence and becomes one of them" 205; "There's just no passion at all" 216; "the Rocket's terrible passage reduced. . .to bougeois terms" 239; "dusty Dracularity, the West's ancient curse" 263; of Mittelwerke, 295; 324; 325; N.T.A., 339; writing down ajtys, 357; 416; A4's charisma, 464; routinization of sex, 467-68; "bureaucracy of departure" 470; "verbal, ranked and uniformed" 478; 508; 525; topiary, 535; "when the rages came over him, breaking through from beneath the rationalized look" 579; "the Masons had long, long degenerated into just another businessmen's club" 588; "grim rationalizing of the world" 588; Magician and the magical mandrake root, 625; "vague excitement at break in routine" 651; "You are perverting a great discovery to the uses of commerce" 665; keying waves, 698; Hexes-Stadt (you either become a bureaucrat or choose the world), 718; "the only enterprise is administrating" 718; "'Technique is just a substitute for when you get older'" 718; "The routines go on" 721; "Passageways of routine" 724; "The heroes will go on, kicked upstairs to oversee the development of bright new middle-line personnel" 752; [Attempting to impose order on GR]; See also [[C#control|control]]; [[G#grid|grid]]; [[M#mmpi|MMPI]]; [[N#naming|naming]]; [[#rorschach|Rorschach Test]]; [[Routinization of Charisma]]

'''Rowena''' 
200; one of two ladies with the General playing croquet as Slothrop falls from the tree, draped in a purple sheet

'''Royal Fellow''' 
37; "Royal Fellow-baiting" 171;

'''Rozhdestvenski, Admiral''' 
349-51; in December 1904, "command[ed] a fleet of 42 Russian men-o'-war" into the South African port of Lüderitzbucht" with Tchitcherine's father on board; "1904 was when Admiral Rozhdestvenski sailed his fleet halfway around the world to relieve Port Arthur" 452

'''Rózsavölgyi, Dr. Géza''' 
79; (Hungarian: "of the pink valley"); Hungarian; works in ARF wing;aka "Rosie" 80; violently anti-Soviet; "still with the project" 273; at Twelfth House, 632-35; son of Sandor the bulb salesman in Transylvania, 647; 692

'''Rózsavölgyi, Sandor''' 
647; father of Géza, "ace [lightbulb] salesman [...] who covered all the Transylvanian territory"

'''Rücksichtslos''' 
German: "inconsiderate" or "ruthless"); See Toiletship

'''Rudi''' 
155; "La Boheme Student" comrade of Leni's in KPD; 156; 158

'''Rundstedt offensive''' 
52; Gerd von Rundstedt (1875-1953) was one of Adolf Hitler's ablest military leaders in World War II. In 1944, this German field marshal directed the Ardennes offensive (Battle of the Bulge). General Dwight D. Eisenhower called him the ablest of the German generals of World War II. 131

'''RUSSIAN TRANSLATIONS''' [thanks to our Russian correspondent, Comrade Alexis B.]

:340: '''lepeshka:''' a bread roll, often made of a blend of rye and wheat flours

:512: '''budka:''' booth (traffic police in Moscow patrol from raised booths that look out over the street, which are called budkas)

:513: '''pogoni:''' the bars on the shoulders of military uniforms from which dangle the stars, tassles, &c. ''' 

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<div id="abreaction"></div>'''abreaction''' 
48; the resolution of a neurosis by reviving forgotten or repressed ideas of the event first causing it, e.g. bomb blasts; Abreaction of the Lord of the Night, 139; See also [[#ARF|ARF]]

'''Abteilung A''' 
630; "Nazis' watchdog over the IG [...] in the same office building as [...] the IG's own Army liaison group, Vermittlungsstelle W"

'''Abwehr-Organizations''' 
630; "duplicate Nazi Party offices [...] set up throughout German industry after 1933"

'''Acción Argentina''' 
383; for which G. Portales worked "before it got busted"

'''Achtfaden, Horst''' 
451; German: "fading concern"; "aerodynamics man" on Toiletship; aka "Wenk" (code name on S-gerät project - after State Prosecutor von Wenk in Der Mude Tod - 579); also worked at Electromechanishe Werke, Karlshagen (testing station at Peenemünde which the Schwarzkommando commandeered); 563; and Bland, 582; and Bert Fibel, 586; 687

<div id="achtung"></div>'''ACHTUNG''' 
20; Allied Clearing House, Technical Units, No. Germany; 193; 210; See also [[M#mucker|Mucker-Maffick]]

'''Ackeret, Prof. Jacob''' 
Swiss rocket engineer who did the early studies of relativistic rocket mechanics, including important paper, "Theory of Rockets," Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, Vol. 6, 1947; "You have memorized Ackeret [...] But the terror will not go away" 452

'''Acton, Lord (1834-1902)''' 
277; John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton of Aldenham was an English historian In 1895 he was appointed professor of modern history at Cambridge and was founder-editor of the Cambridge Modern History. In a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, he wrote "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."; "History is not woven by innocent hands" 277

<div id="actors"></div>'''Actors/Directors''' 
Betty Grable, 9; W. C. Fields, 12; Cary Grant, 13, 240, 292, 294, 661, 684; George Formby, 18; Dennis Morgan, 32; Fay Wray, 57, 179, 275; Bela Lugosi, 106, 557; G. W. Pabst, 112; Ernst Lubitsch, 112; Fritz Lang, 112, 159, 578, 753; Maria Montez and Jon Hall, 121; Greta Garbo, 127, 476; Noel Coward (British playwright), 134; Walt Disney, 70,135, 680; Meriam C. Cooper, 179; Van Johnson, 182; Rudolph Valentino, 182; Bing Crosby,184; Groucho Marx, 210, 246, 278, 386, 619; Stuart Lake, 210; James Cagney, 222, 599, 684; Tom Mix, 245, 717; Shirley Temple, 24, 246, 304, 466, 493; Bob Steele, 247, 385; 386; Johnny Mack Brown, 247; Errol Flynn, 248, 381; Sydney Greenstreet, 253; John Wayne, 256; Spencer Tracy, 266; Rita Hayworth, 274, 449; Laurel and Hardy, 375, 583; Don Ameche, 381; Oliver Hardy, 381; Mickey Rooney, 382; Carmine Miranda, 383, 664; Mickey Mouse, 392; Marlene Dietrich, 393; Brigette Helm, 393-94; Asta Nielsen, 415; Carol Lombard, 445; Henry Fonda, 448; Clark Gable, 516, 577; William (Dick) Powell, 516, 622; Basil Rathbone, 534, 536; S.Z. ("Cuddles") Sakall, 534; Cecil B. DeMille, 71, 559; Henry Wilcoxon, 559; Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, 561; Audie Murphy, 563; Rudolph Klein-Rogge, 578; Brigitte Helm, 578; Bernhardt Goetzke, 579; James Mason, 592; Deanna Durbin, 599; Rin-Tin-Tin, 614; Betty Davis & Margaret Dumont, 619; Douglas Fairbanks, 637; William Bendix, 684; Sam Jaffe, 684; Arthur Kennedy, 684; Margaret O'Brien, 690; Bengt Ekerot, 755; Maria Casarés, 755; See also [[F#film|film/cinema references]]; [[M#movies|movies]]; [[T#theatre|theatre]]

'''Adenoid''' 
Giant, 14; "the Adenoid" 754; [An adenoid is an enlarged mass of lymphoid tissue at the back of the pharynx characteristically obstructing breathing -- usually used in plural.] See also [[XYZ#zhlubb|Zhlubb, Richard M.]]

'''AEG''' 
164; German Gen'l Electric Co., founded by Emil Rathenau, father of Walter;

'''Aether''' 
"as if all tuned in to the same aethereal Xth Programme" 147; "They don't want us to know there is a medium there, what used to be called an 'aether' [...] The Soniferous Aether" 695; "a presence, analogous to the Aether, flows through time, as the Aether flows through space. [...] an Aether sea to bear us world-to-world might bring us back a continuity, show us a kinder universe" 726; "the nostalgia of Aether" 726-27; "a hallway, down, up which the soul is borne by an irresistible Aether" 750;

'''AG''' 
520; Aktiengesellschaft: "joint-stock company"

'''Aggadic tradition''' 
"aggada" is the Jewish term for non-halakic (nonlegal) matters, especially in Talmud and Midrash. These include folklore, legend, theology/theosophy, scriptural interpretations, biography, etc. Not to be confused with the Passover Manual called "the Haggada(h)." "from around the 4th century that Isaac, at the moment Abraham was about to sacrifice him on Moriah, saw the antechambers of the Throne" 749

'''AGO card''' 
372; Adjutant-General's Office

'''aircraft''' 
B-17s, 87; Spitfires, 96; Stuka, 102; ME (Messerschmidt), 151, 184; "robot weapons" 144; "Flying Fortresses" 169; "howling Thunderbolts" 313; "the singing of Furies" 334; P-51 Mustang, 672; Japanese Zeros, 672, 690, 692

'''albatross''' 
"'Imipolex G is the company albatross, Yank.'" 261; "Old Czarist albatrosses still hang around the Soviet neck." 354; "[Slothrop's] been changing, sure, changing, plucking the albatross of self now and then, idly, half-conscious as picking his nose" 623; "In its sluggish coma, the albatross stirred." 624; Katje: "'"Yes [Weissmann] matters to me, very much. He is an old self, a dear albatross I cannot let go.'" 661; "But maybe the next best thing is an albatross with no curse attached: an amiable memory." 701; "So is her son Tyrone, but only because by now--early Virgo--he has become one plucked albatross. Plucked, hell--stripped. Scattered all over the Zone. It's doubtful if he can ever be "found" again, in the conventional sense of "positively identified and detained." Only feathers...redundant or regenerable organs, "which we would be tempted to classify under the 'Hydra-Phänomen' were it not for the complete absence of hostility...."--Natasha Raum, "Regions of Indeterminacy in Albatross Anatomy [...]" 712; " The Man has a branch office in each of our brains, his corporate emblem is a white albatross" 712-13;

'''alchemy''' 
The ancient art of transmuting baser metals into gold, and the search for the Philosopher's Stone, the universal solvent (Alkahest), the Panacea, and the Elixir of Life. It was the forerunner of chemistry; 482

'''Alexandrevna, Feodora (1872-1918)''' 
352; A German princess and empress of Russia as the wife of Nicholas II, she came under the influence of Rasputin. She was taken prisoner by the Bolsheviks after the Russian Revolution in 1917 and was shot; "she of the kidskin underwear"

'''Alien Property Custodian''' 
581; disposed of German property in US after WWI

'''Alkit uniforms''' 
243;

'''Allan''' 
547; mentioned in Pirate's and Katje's How I Came To Love the People

'''Allen, Fred (1894-1956)''' 
[[image:fred_allen.jpg|thumb|Fred Allen|right]]Allen, born in Cambridge, Massachussetts, was a top-rated radio comedian of the 1930s and 40s who was the first to take comedy out of the realm of vaudeville and into the realm of satire and political/social commentary. He was unsuccessful in making the transition to television in the 50s, and faded into obscurity. His form of humor is widely considered to be the precursor of the TV comedy as practiced by Steve Allen, Johnny Carson, David Letterman and Jay Leno, to name a few. Allen once joked that "imitation is the sincerest form of television"; "Wednesday nights over the BBC" 44; [[Fred Allen|MORE]]

'''Allgeier, Johann Baptist (1763-1823)''' 
675; "the midget Grandmaster" was actually a "big strong man" according to one source. Allgaier was an Austrian chess master and theoritician who is probably best known for writing the first chess book in German, in 1795. After a stint in the Austrian army he returned to Vienna where he made a living playing chess. He also designed chess pieces. See also [[#allgeyer|Allgeyer soldiers]]; [[C#chess|chess]]

<div id="allgeyer"></div>'''Allgeyer soldiers''' 
550; "an inch and a quarter to the man, painted cream, gold and blue"; Toy tin soldiers, and especially the flat tin soldiers made by the Allgeyer firm, popular with European children. Dave Henry wrote to tell us that the "painted in cream, gold and blue" refers to the toy soldier's uniform and he suspects a Prussian uniform of some sort from the Napoleanic era, but isn't certain.

:ALLGEYER, Johann Christian, (1821-76) from Furth. This was one of Furth's major manufacturers of flat tin figures and the Allgeyer name was carried on through three generations with the aid of his son, Johann Friederich and then Konrad. Their pieces are signed on the bases. Most of their figures were exported to France.

'''Allport and Vernon's Study of Values''' 
Devised in 1931 by G.W. Allport and P.E. Vernon, this "values survey" was a questionnaire consisting of 15 items. Each item presented a description of a situation followed by four options representing different possible behaviors. Each option represented one of six types of values: namely, theoretical, economic, political, aesthetic, social, or religious. For each item, subjects were asked to rank-order their preferences for the four options. For example, one question read "Should one guide one's conduct according to, or develop chief loyalties toward," the option "one's religious faith" reflecting Religious values. Another read "To what extent do the following famous persons interest or attract you?" with the option "Charles Darwin" reflecting theoretical values. Results were used to distinguish, among other things, "certainty-oriented" (ambiguity-avoidant) people vs. "uncertainty-oriented people"; seems "more human" to Paul de la Nuit than the MMPI, 81

'''Alpdrücken''' 
394; [German: "nightmare"] Gerhardt Von Göll's and Greta Erdmann's first film together - featuring "Corridor metaphysics." Greta believes that Bianca was conceived during the filming of the rape scene where Max Schlepzig played the "Grand Inquisitor."

'''Altrincham''' 
153; "the old ladies in Altrincham trying to summon up the Devil" - Altrincham is a city near Manchester in England.

'''ambiguities''' 
"perhaps the girls are not even real" 19; "One is lying, or bluffing, or both are" 228; "that octopus didn't [really happen]" 248; Tantivy's reported death ("maybe the whole story was a lie"), 252; Jamf, 261, 738; "lies evidentially, but were certainly the truth clinically" 272; Slothrop would "edit, switch names, insert fantasies into the yarns he spun for Tantivy" 302; "the New Uncertainty" 303; "The status of the name you miss...has grown ambiguous and remote" 303; Tchitcherine & Wimpe, 344; "There are powerful factions in Paris who don't believe [the Schwarzkommando] exist. [...] I think we're here, but only in a statistical way [...]--the slightest shift in the probabilities and we're gone" 361-62; "particle and wave" 398; the "Ellipse of Uncertainty" 425, 427; "Slothrop will think he sees [Bianca]" 491; Anubis, 493; "the lemming may not even exist" 554 (& 556); "S-Gerät, real or fantasized" 564; "Of course it happened. Of course it didn't happen." 667; Region of Uncertainty, 700; Otyiyumbu Indeterminacy Relation, 700

'''[[America|AMERICA]]'''

'''American Army Ordnance''' 
273; 295; "whatever it is your Ordnance types carry around in the way of light armament" 335;

'''American Food and Drug''' 
452; "took the cocaine out of Coca Cola" in 1904

'''Analysis''' 
"a spot of combinatorial analysis, that favorite pastime of retired Army officers" 76; " 'I wonder if you people aren't a bit too--well, strong, on the virtues of analysis'" 88; "the stairstep gables that front so many of these ancient north-German buildings [...] They hold shape, they endure, like monuments to Analysis." 576; "It wasn't Europe's Original Sin--the latest name for that is Modern Analysis" 722; "Europe came and established its order of Analysis and Death" 722; See also [[R#routinization|Routinization of Charisma]]

'''Andreas''' 
See [[O#orukambe|Orukambe, Andreas]]

'''Andrée, Salomon (1854-97)''' 
589; A Swedish engineer, Andrée disappeared in an attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon from Spitzbergen in 1897. His body was discovered on White Island in 1930; "what did Andrée find in the polar silence"

'''Andrews Sisters''' 
382; A singing trio consisting of sisters LaVerne, Maxene, and Patricia who had a number of hits between 1938-1958. They were also in several movies and even a Broadway play.

<div id="angels"></div>'''Angels''' 
"graceful as a wing" 39; angel's-eye view, 54; snow angels, 57; "Destroying Angel" 93; Katje's "questing shoulders like wings" 97; "windmill known as 'The Angel'" 106, 536; starlings on radar, 112; "the Angels sing new songs" 134; "mock-angel singing" 135; "days of angelic visit" 145; Basher St. Blaise's angel, 146, 151-52 (aka Lübeck angel, 214, 217); "sudden angel, thermodynamic surprise" 143; "Your wings...oh, Leni, your wings..." 162; "as the Angel swooped in" 164; "hark the herald angels" 177; "Jeremy will take her like the Angel itself" 177; "She has swept with her wings another life" 218; "Richard Halliburton...a failed angel" 266; "the Angel who tried to destroy us in Südwest" 328; "star-blotting Moslem angels" 341; "Tenth-Elegy angel" 341; "Angels and sanctions" 355; "to bring down steel angels of exaltation" 437; "like the Archangels" 464; Bianca's "shoulderblades rising like wings" 470; "the windmill called 'The Angel'" 536; "the angel [the Erdschweinhöhlers] have hoped for" 672; "Angel Thanatz" 673; "functions of Moslem angels" 705; "Angels Melchidael, Yahoel, Anatiel, and the great Metatron" 734; "some angel...watching us at our many perversities" 746; "under a sentence of death whose deep beauty the angel has never been close to" 746; "angels at the doorways" 750; "a bright angel of death" 760; [[M#metatron|See also Metatron]]

'''Anilinas Alemanas''' 
According to Sasuly, "one of the principal IG agencies in South America" in Buenos Aires, co-managed by Argentinean Alfredo Moll; "the IG branch in Buenos Aires" 387

'''Antoine''' 
247; named called out at Perlimpinpin party

'''Anubis''' 
459; In Egyptian religion, Anubis was a god with the head of a jackal and the body of a man. He led the dead to the abode of Osiris to be judged. The Anubis is a yacht full of affluent Polish refugees from Lublin regime (See page 34) headed for Swinemünde; owned by Procalowski; aka "white death ship"; only a probability, 493; sighted, 528; Slothrop boards, 529; 663; "As long as the Anubis kept moving, there was no need to choose" 667; 668; 706

'''Apache''' 
Falkman and His Apache Band, 32; One Apache, 70; "Secret Service's notion of an Apache" 244; Apache sideburns, 254; "Waxwing's apache lieutenants" 638; [[Apache|More on Apache]]

'''Arbella''' 
204; ship which brought the first American Slothrop to America in 1630

<div id="ARF"></div>'''ARF''' 
75; Abreaction Research Facility - run by Pointsman at White Visitation; See also [[#abreaction|abreaction]]

'''Ariadne''' 
In Greek mythology, the daughter of King Minos of Crete and Pasipha&euml. She fell in love with Theseus and helped him slay her father's Minotaur by providing Theseus with a clew to find his way out of the Labyrinth; "Venus and Ariadne! [...] They own everything: Ariadne, the Minotaur" 88; "what there is of labyrinth collapsing in rings outward, hero and horror, engineer and Ariadne consumed, molten inside the light of himself" 143; See also [[L#labyrinth|Labyrinth]]; [[T#thesean|Thesean brushings]]

'''Armageddon''' 
143; the final battle between good and evil prophesized in the Book of Revelations in the Bible

'''Army Weapons Department''' 
400; 416;

'''Arnhem''' 
Dutch city on the right bank of the lower Rhine. "Hmm. You must've got out by way of that Arnhem, then, right?" 95; [[European Map|MAP]]

'''aromatic rings''' 
"Imipolex G has proved to be nothing more--or less--sinister than a new plastic, an aromatic heterocyclic polymer, developed in 1939, years before its time [...] Structurally, it's a stiffened chain of aromatic rings" 249; "At du Pont, the next step after nylon was to introduce aromatic rings into the polyamide chain." 249-250; "Pretty soon a whole family of "aromatic polymers" had arisen" 250; "giant "heterocyclic" rings, to alternate with the aromatic rings. [...] Such chains would be known as 'aromatic heterocyclic polymers.'" 250; "there would be a field of aromatic chemistry to ally itself with secular power, and find new methods of synthesis" 412; "'The aromatic Ring we know today, [...] 'but who [...] who, sent, the Dream?'" 413; "Imipolex G....It's an aromatic polyimide" 576; See also [[I#imipolex|Imipolex G]]

'''Asch, Walter''' 
152; present at seance with Sachsa

'''Askania''' 
425; Pat Brian writes: Askania was an (East) German manufacturer of surveying instruments (theodolites), movie cameras and projectors. The design of their theodolites, with which I am personally experienced, was of an optical precision and ergonomic simplicity and elegance that I have never seen matched by any other brand of survey instrument; crew in Blizna at A-4 testing; "Askanian films of Rocket flights" 567;

<div id="asquith"></div>'''Asquith, Margot (1865-1945)''' 
[[Image:Beaton-Asquith.jpg|thumb|''Lady Oxford'', 1927 Cecil Beaton|right]]78; daughter of Sir Charles Tennant and second wife of Herbert Henry Asquith (1852-1928), a British statesman; She wrote Autobiography in 1922; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margot_Asquith Wikipedia entry]

'''Associated Electrical Industries of Britain''' 
649;

'''astrology''' 
"next you'll be consulting horoscopes" 33; PISCES, 34; "the twelve spokes of a stranded artillery piece. . .a mud zodiac" 79; the ruler of my Sign, 108; "opalescent scorpions (her birth sign) inside gold mountings in triskelion" 150; "Walter Asch ('Taurus')" 152; "born under the Crab" 154; "earth-sign belligerence" 154; "Piscean husband" 154; "[Pökler] kept at [Leni's] astrology without mercy" 159; "two goldfish are making a Pisces sign" 174; "the astrologer's Moon" 220; "The great cusp-green equinox and turning, dreaming fishes to young ram" 236; Twelfth House, 274; "13th sign of the Zodiac" 302; "winged rider, red Sagittarius" 343; "Wernher von Braun's birthday is to the Spring Equinox" 361; "the Zodiac glides" 388; "Pluto is in my sign now" 415; "Bismarck's elevation, at the spring equinox of 1871, to prince and imperial chancellor" 419; "her Neptune is afflicted" 463; "full of the Sagittarian fire" 483; "No pentacle, no cups, no holy Fool" 533; "pre-Piscean fugue" 533; "Piscean depths" 579; "the Spring Equinox, [...] that most singular of the Zodiac's singular points" 588; "It is shaped something like a crab. That's Cancer in Latin." 645; "the green edge of Aries" 681; "an astrologer of the Hamburg School" 683; "The sun was in Leo" 694; "a double Virgo for a son" 699; Proceedings of the International Society of Confessors to an Enthusiasm for Albatross Nosology, 712; "early Virgo" 712, 727; "What you felt stirring across the land...it was the equinox...green spring equal nights" 720; "with a new axis...what happens to astrology?" 753; See also [[P#paranoia|paranoia/connectedness]]; [[P#pisces|Pisces]]

'''Asturias''' 
605; where Manuela at Putzi's is from;

'''Atomic Chili''' 
557; Major Marvy's concoction: "a Götterodämmerung of the mucous membranes"

'''Attila the Hun (c.406-453)''' 
159; Hunnish king who conquered much of Europe and Asia, though he was unsuccessful in his attempts to conquer Gaul (France) and Italy. He died shortly after marrying Ildeco, a Burgundian princess; 159, 578; 579; "[Geli] is off to find her gallant Attila" 717;

'''ATS''' 
17; Auxiliary Territorial Services, British civilian group helping the war cause; ATS girls, 277

'''Augustes''' 
708; "two unemployed Augustes leap out in whiteface and working-clothes, and commence belting each other with gigantic [...] foam rubber penises"

'''Austerity''' 
"this moment of boyhood among [Pirate's] ways imperialized and set (he was 33), his preAusterity, in which Scorpia figured as his Last Fling" 36; " dark, lank, pre-austerity stocking" 150; "every assertion the fucking War has ever made -- that we are meant for work and government, for austerity" 177; "an innocent salute to Postwar, a hope that the end of shortages, the end of Austerity, is near" 593; "into the paper cities and afternoons of this strange peace, and the coming Austerity" 620; "London today can feel advance chills of Austerity." 639

'''Auschwitz''' 
Largest of the Nazi extermination camps, located 150 miles from Warsaw in Poland. Built in 1940 as a concentration camp, gas chambers were added in 1941. It is estimated that 1.5 million European Jews, Russian prisoners of war and gypsies died here; 666

'''Avus Autobahn''' 
370; freeway in Berlin

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'''Berliner Luft''' 
German: "air of Berlin." It is an often-used phrase, in the sense of the special Berlin atmosphere.

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376.31-33 '''the knight who leaps perpetually -- across the chessboard of the zone''' 
In ''Through the Looking Glass,'' Alice attempts to get to the other end of the chessboard to become a queen herself. Along the way she is helped, without much success by the White Knight. 
The conversation and reactions here between Saure and Slothrop are almost a pastiche of the Alice stories. By 1973, when ''GR'' appeared, "acid" and Alice were of course linked forever in the popular consciousness -- largely thanks to Jefferson Airplane.

[[image:zorro-poster.jpg|thumb|100px|right]]376.36 '''Zorro? The Green Hornet?''' 
[[XYZ#zorro|Zorro]] and the Green Hornet are two masked superheroes Slothrop would know from comics and movies. Douglas Fairbanks starred in ''The Mark of Zorro'' in 1920, not 1932, as in [[Weisenburger's Companion to Gravity's Rainbow|Weisenburger's first ''Companion'' edition, corrected in the second ed.]]. Tyrone (!) Power starred in a sound remake in 1940. Britt Reid, the secret identity of The Green Hornet, was the son of Dan Reid, the nephew of the [[L#loneranger|Lone Ranger]].

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'''377.1-2 The wrong word was Schwarzgerat.''' 
Yes, the mythical White Woman is scared away by mention of the "black tool." Clever innuendo/double entendre here. Also possiblly underscoring that the White Woman relates to Virgo(?).

'''377.31-35 photo...long, stiff sausage of very large diameter being stuffed into his mouth...though the hand or agency...is not visible''' 
Reminiscent of the photos of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%2C_Duchess_of_Argyll Margaret, Duchess of Argyll] fellating a naked man where only the man's face and torso, not his head, is shown.

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'''Jubilee Jim''' 
Slothrop’s song evokes the pre-industrial peddler Jim Fisk mentioned in [[Pages 20-29#Page 27|''The Berkshire Hills'']].

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'''Hauptstufe!''' 
Compare the radio Superman’s words as he is about to fly: "Up, up, and away!"

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382.3 '''Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree''' 
A 1942 hit song for the Andrews Sisters.

382.15 '''Mickey Rooney''' 
Rooney was in Germany, attached to an Army entertainment unit, at the time of the Potsdam Conference but was unable to go to Potsdam and meet Truman himself. However, there is a more likely, if more obscure, reason for the movie star’s presence here: Rocketman’s second magazine, ''Hello, Pal Comics'', only lasted for three issues. ''The Comic Buyer’s Guide'' notes, though, that the comic was unusual because it featured a photograph of a movie star on the cover of each issue. The cover of issue #1 was devoted to Mickey Rooney! Also see my article: "Rooney and the Rocketman" [http://www.ham.muohio.edu/~krafftjm/pynchon.html ''Pynchon Notes''] n 24-25 (1989): 113-115. [[Pages 359-371#Page 366|See note at 366]].

382.15-16 '''Judge Hardy's freckled madcap son''' 
Rooney's most famous role was Andy Hardy in a series of 16 films.

382.21-22 '''more tits than they got at Minsky's''' 
The four Minsky brothers, Abe, Billy, Herbert and Morton, staged burlesque shows at a number of theaters in New York City. Although the shows were declared obscene and outlawed, they were rather tame by modern standards.

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'''Mabuse, Dr.''' 
579; In Fritz Lang's "Mabuse der Spieler," Dr Mabuse is the master-criminal who seeks to control the populace through mind-control, fear, and market manipulation; Klein-Rogge as; See also [[Fritz Lang]]; [[H#hawasch|Hawasch]];[[S#sporri| Spörri]]

'''MacArthur, General''' 
697;

'''MacDonald, Ramsay (1866-1937)''' 
77; First Labour Party prime minister of Great Britain, in the Labour governments of 1924 and 1929-31 and in the national coalition government of 1931-35.

'''Mach, Ernst (1838-1916)''' 
Ernst Mach (1838-1916), an Austrian physicist and philosopher who devised the Mach number which, in fluid mechanics, is the ratio of the velocity of a fluid to the velocity of sound in that fluid. In the case of an aircraft in flight, the Mach number is equal to the velocity of the aircraft relative to the fluid (air) divided by the velocity of sound in that fluid. For Mach numbers greater than one (supersonic flow), shock wave patterns develop on the moving body because of compression of the surrounding fluid; 453

'''Machiavellian''' 
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) was a Florentine statesman who held that terrorism and deceit were justifiable means of achieving a peaceful and prosperous Italy. In Il Principe (1515) he wrote that only a strong and ruthless prince could free Italy from devastation by foreigners. "Machiavellian" has come to denote political deceit and intrigue and unscrupulous methods; "Machiavellian and youthful, not quite ripe yet for paranoia" 448; the lion, 557; "no one is (Jessica) exempt from his (Jessica?) Machiavellian--" 631; See also [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=The_Prince ''V.''].

'''Mackenzie, Compton (1883-1972)''' 
British novelist, both acclaimed and neglected, who wrote more than 100 novels, plays, and biographies. His varied novels include Poor Relations (1919), Rich Relatives (1921), Vestal Fire (1927), and Extraordinary Women (1928); novels on Mrs. Quoad's shelf, 115

'''Magda''' 
365; "the sultry Bavarian" and Säure's sidekick; "picked up on first-degree mopery" 742

'''Magna Carta''' 
The charter of English liberties granted by King John in 1215 under threat of civil war and reissued with alterations in 1216, 1217, and 1225; "Teach the German beast about the" 125

'''Magyars''' 
Transylvanian, 11; 549; aka Hungarians

'''Maherero, Samuel''' 
323; The Herero chief who led his people across the Kalahari into exile in Bechuanaland, where he died in 1923; "great trek across the Kalahari"; [[Südwest|MORE]]

'''Malcolm''' 
63; "very tall, skinny, extravagantly conked redhead Negro shoeshine boy" in Roseland Ballroom; aka "Red" and Malcolm X; 65; "Now don't you remember Red Malcolm up there, That kid with the Red Devil Lye in his hair" 67; 688

'''Maledetto, Dr.''' 
347; Italian: "cursed, damned"; "a young Maledetto whom the ladies love" on an enormous closed sleigh which took tourists to Central Asia

'''Malenkov''' 
391; Tchitcherine reports to his "special committee under the Council of People's Commissars"

'''Male Transvestites' Toilet''' 
680; in "dingy yellow amphitheatre" where Floundering Four do their bit; "An Incident in the Transvestites' Toilet" 688-90

'''Maltzan, von''' 
166; worked with Rathenau on the Rapallo Treaty

'''mandala''' 
the ancient sun-wheel from which. . .the swastika was broken" 100; "full mandalas came to bloom" 152; Herero villages built like mandalas, 321; mandala-like Schwarzkommando insignia, illustrated, 361; KEZVH, 446; Schwarzkommando, 560; four fins of the Rocket, 563; "other fourfold expressions" 624; "fatal mandala" 691; discussed at Gross Suckling Conference, 706-07; "the cross the man has made on his own circle of earth" 719; Raketen-Stadt: "built in mandalic form like a Herero village" 725

<div id="manicheans"></div>'''Manicheans''' 
From Brewer's: "Followers of Mani, who taught that the universe is controlled by two antagonistic powers, light or goodness (identified with God), and darkness, chaos, or evil. [...] One of Mani's claims was that, though Christ had been sent into the world to restore it to light and banish darkness, His apostles had perverted his doctrine, and he, Mani, was sent as the Paraclete to restore it" (p.681); "who see two rockets, good and evil, who speak together in the sacred idiolalia of the Primal Twins" 727

'''mano morto''' 
132; Italian: dead hand (should be ''mano morta'')

'''Manuela''' 
605-06; call girl at Putzi's with Maj. Marvy

'''Marcel''' 
See Floundering Four

'''Mare Nocturnum''' 
578; Latin: Nocturnal Sea; Pökler's "deeper excursions into the"

'''Maria''' 
519; Christian's sister and Pavel's husband; in Christian's dream, 673 See also Christian; Pavel

'''Marie-Celeste''' 
The Mary Celeste (incorrectly referred to as Marie Celeste) was a brigantine merchant ship discovered in December 1872 in the Atlantic Ocean unmanned and apparently abandoned, despite the fact that the weather was fine and her crew had been experienced and able seamen; "the legendary ship" 303

'''Marjorie''' 
22; a Wren Slothrop is dating; 25; 744; See also Slothrop's girls/stars

<div id="marvy"></div>'''Marvy, Maj. Duane''' 
281; with US Army Ordnance and leader of Marvy's Mothers, "the meanest-ass technical intelligence team in this whole fuckin' Zone"; pushed off train by Enzian while "headed for Mittelwerke" 288; 307; 331; 363; 502; Atomic Chili, 557, 559; 564-66; purchases cocaine from Bodine at Putzi's, 604; castrated, 609; [[Major Duane Marvy|Etymological Musings]]

<div id="groucho">'''Marx, Groucho (1890-1977)'''</div>
210; An American comedian and film star famed as a master of wit; his rapid-fire delivery of innuendo-laden patter has earned him many admirers. He made 13 feature films with his siblings the Marx Brothers, of whom he was the third-born. His distinctive appearance, carried over from his days in vaudeville, included quirks such as glasses, cigars, and a thick greasepaint [[M#mustache|mustache]] and eyebrows; "a Groucho Marx voice" 246; 279

'''Marx, Karl (1818-83)''' 
German social, political and economic theorist and the inspiration for modern communism. He emigrated to Paris in 1863 where he became a communist and first expressed his belief that the proletariat must effect revolutionary change. In Paris, he and Engels wrote Communist Manifesto (1848) ("The workers have nothing to lose but their chains"), the masterpiece of political propaganda. He moved to London in 1849 and it was there that he wrote Das Kapital (1867) (theory of surplus value, class conflict, exploitation of the Working Class, "withering away" of the state); 163; 317; 348; "Marxist dialectics? That's not an opiate, eh?" 701; "'Real to a Marxist.'" 702; "if you don't think there are Marxist-Leninist magicians around, well you better think again!" 748

'''Masons''' 
emblems, 27; masonry, 66; "out the eye at the tower's summit" 470; "Eye at the top of the pyramid" 484, 585; freemasons, 572; and Lyle Bland, 580; "Mobs 'n' Masons" 586; American Founding Fathers, 587-88; magic rituals/Masonic Mysteries, 588; Masonic plots, 587; Ben Franklin, 663-64; "going to dinner becomes a priestly procession, full of secret gestures and understandings" 713;

'''Master of the Woods''' 
742; "sprigs of woodruff [...] carried by the early Teutonic warriors"

'''masturbation''' 
"masturbating under these conditions is exquisite torture" 35; "jerking off into an Army flannel" 36; and message de- crypting, 71-72; "he'll masturbate himself to sleep" 141; "The self-induced orgasm." 155; "there passes the phrase male supremacy ... why do they cherish their masturbating so? 155; "masturbatorily scared-elated" 209; "I can't even masturbate" 216; Pudding, for Domina Nocturna, 236; "These Otukungurua are prophets of masturbating" 318; "Remember the time she caught you masturbating into her glove?" 505; "a Text, to be [...] masturbated till it's all squeezed limp of its last drop" 520; "lost in masturbatory fantasies of nailing this cute but older Latin lady" 678; "the heat, who go surly, fangflashing back to masturbating into Crime Does Not Pay Comics" 709; "16 ragged staring oldtimers who shuffle aimlessly about the stage, jerking off in unison, waggling penises in mock quarter-staffing, brandishing in two and threes their green-leaved poles, exposing amazing chancres and lesions, going off in fountains of sperm strung with blood that splash over glazed trouser-pleats" 743; "purposes of self-arousal" 758; "or reach between your own cold legs" 760; See also Kryptosam; entropy/closed systems/irreversibility

'''mathematical equations''' 
Chapter 1: Poisson dispensation, 140; Chapter 2: yaw control, 239; Chapter 3: hilarious graffiti of visiting mathematicians, 450; Chapter 4: Otyiyumbu Indetermincy Relation, 700; "Little sigma, times P of s-over-little-sigma, equals one over the square root of two times pi, times e to the minus s squared over two little sigma squared." 709 (thanks to Douglas Lannark for this index entry)

'''Mausmacher''' 
653; German: "mouse-maker"; Lutheran who steals Byron from the priest and who attends a Naza torchlight rally in drag

[[image:Max-Moritz.jpg|thumb|Max und Moritz|right]]'''Max and Moritz''' 
757; Max und Moritz were a duo created by German cartoonist Wilhelm Busch; "boy at the steering panel" and man "at the rocket motor panel," respectively, at launching of S-Gerät 00000; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_und_Moritz Wikipedia entry]

'''Maximilian''' 
See Floundering Four

'''Maxwell, Clerk''' 
411; "younger contemporary" of Liebig

'''May Day Eve''' 
329; aka Walpurgisnacht

'''McGonigle, Pvt. Paddy "Electro"''' 
641; hand-pedals the twin-generator cranks for light bulb during THE HAIRCUT

'''Meat Cartel''' 
654; long-standing arrangement with Phoebus "to restrict the amount of tallow in circulation by keeping more fat in meat to be sold regardless of cardiac problems"

'''Mefo bills''' 
German: Metallurgische Forschung = "metals research"; A way for Germany to pay arms manufacturers for rearmament (German rearmament was banned by the terms of the Versailles Treaty). Mefo bills were accepted by all German banks but no reference to them was allowed in published accounts. Twelve billion marks in Mefo bills were issued before the outbreak of WWII, and much of German trade was financed in this manner; 285

[[image:meggazones.gif|300px|left]]'''Meggazone''' 
118; "like being belted in the head with a Swiss alp"; [at left] "Contain: Menthol, Peppermint, Chloroform, Benzoin, Liquorice pastille basis"

'''Meillerwagen''' 
113; transported the V-2 to the launching site, raised it to a vertical firing position, and served as a firing platform; 560;

'''Menshevik''' 
Russian: men'she = "less, fewer"; The Mensheviks were the moderate wing of the Russian Social Democratic Party, who split with the Bolsheviks after the party congress of 1903. They were for "bourgeois reform" rather than the total societal overhaul advocated by the Bolsheviks; 338

'''Messerschmitt''' 
184; fighter plane from the German concern Messerschmitt AG

'''meta-solutions''' 
102; "Perhaps the black girl is a genius of meta-solutions--knocking over the chessboard, shooting the referee" 102

<div id="metatron"></div>'''Metatron''' 
231; in Kabbalistic lore, the highest angel who sits next to Yahweh's throne; 734; See also [[K#kabbalah|Kabbalah]]

<div id="metropolis"></div>'''''Metropolis''/Metropolis''' 
[Greek: "Mother City"] "ARF remains a colony to the metropolitan war" 76; "His erection hums from a certain distance, like an instrument installed, wired by Them into his body as a colonial outpost here in our raw and clamorous world, another office representing Their white Metropolis far away" 285; "Early Rhenish missionaries began to bring them back to the Metropolis, that great dull zoo" 315; "Out and down in the colonies, life can be indulged, life and sensuality in all its forms, with no harm done to the Metropolis" 317; "they can pick us off out there one by one, first a campaign of attrition, then a coordinated raid...leaving then only this metropolis, under siege, to strangle" 326; "inside the metropolitan organ entirely, all other colonial tissue forgotten and left to fend for itself" 470; Rudolph Klein-Rogge, 578; Brigitte Helm, 578; "American Death has come to occupy Europe. It has learned empire from its old metropolis" 722; See also [[C#cities|cities]]; [[Fritz Lang]];

:From Fritz Lang's ''Metropolis''

::"I have created a machine in the image of man, that never tires or makes a mistake."

::"Isn't it worth the loss of a hand to have created the workers of the future — the machine men?"

::"Give me another 24 hours and I'll bring you a machine which no one will be able to tell from a human being."

::- Rotwang, the Inventor

'''Mexico, Roger''' 
31; 30 years old (89); works with Pirate Prentice in Psi Section; Mysterious Microfilm Drill, 32; "provisional wartime friend of Pirate's" 35; meets Jessica, 38-39; the "Antipointsman" 55; paranoia, 124; "He'd seen himself a point on a moving wavefront, propagating through sterile history--a known past, a projectable future. But Jessica was the breaking of the wave." 126; "as this seventh Christmas of the War came wheeling in another charge at his skinny, shivering flank [...]" 126; his map of bomb hits, 138; takes Jessica to see Hansel and Gretel, 174; by the sea on White Sunday, 273; driving throught the Lüneburg Heath, missing Jessica, 626; Gloaming tells him about the Slothrop/IG Farben/Pointsman plot, 630-31; realizes Jessica is working for Pointsman, 631; pissing on Mossmoon's table, 636; "a 30-year-old innocent" 706; foam rubber phallus, 708; at Krupp party, 711

'''M.I. 6''' 
592; British Military Intelligence, overseas operations; [[British Military Intelligence|MORE]]

'''Michele''' 
243-45; friend of Slothrop's who seduces Hillary Bounce so Slothrop can use his teletype machine

'''Michiko''' 
480; wife of Ensign Morituri

'''Microcosmists''' 
738; those who believe Slothrop to be a "point-for-point microcosm"

'''Middle Dutch''' 
108; ic heb u liever dan ên everswîn, al waert van finen goude ghewracht (English: I love you more than a wild boar / even if it were made of fine gold)

'''midgets &c.''' 
"midget spy-camera" 17; "Fred Roper's Company of Wonder Midgets off to an imperial fair in Johannesburg, South Africa. Midgets in their dark winter clothes, exquisite little frocks and nip-waisted overcoats, were running all over the station, gobbling their bonvoyage chocolates and lining up for news photos." 37; "say it very (demisemiquaver) fast in a Munchkin voice if you can dig that" 63; "what appear to be horrid...midgets, in strange operetta uniforms actually, some sort of Central European government-in-exile," 123; "Siggi in his speeded-up midget's voice" 157; "a tiny hand comes out and gives Slothrop the tiny finger" 199; "the arms of young passersby not in the sleeves of their coats but inside somewhere, as if sheltering midgets" 250; "Like a buncha happy midgets on a holiday!" 259; "They went off practically skipping obsessive as Munchkins, out into the erotic Poisson." 270; "Local midgetry scuttle and cringe alongside the tracks" 310; "Were you frightened when the dwarf tried to hug you" 398; "a splendid retinue of dwarves and sprites " 419; the midget sheriff in Osbie Feel's movie, 534-35; "as armies of eternally shrinking midgets galloped upstairs and down again" 567; midgets on the pinball machines, 586; "lammergeiers cruising there in the lurid red altitudes around [...] piloted by bareback dwarves with little plastic masks around their eyes" 664; "Is he interested in all those other worlds who send their dwarf reps out on the backs of eagles?" 664; "where inside Marcel is the midget Grandmaster" 675

'''Midnight''' 
342; "the famous bucking bronco" on the U.S. rodeo circuits

'''Mieczislav''' 
See Omuzire, Mieczislav

'''mindless pleasures''' 
270; working title for Gravity's Rainbow; 681; "idle and mindless hours of the day" 177

'''Mingeborough, Massachussetts''' 
26; Slothrop's hometown [introduced in Pynchon's short story, "The Secret Integration", where Dr. Slothrop and his son Hogan live]; Lloyd Nipple fattest kid in, 374; Occupation of, 744; [[Minghe|Etymology]]

'''Ministry of Munitions''' 
416; Branch of the SS, headed by Albert Speer

'''Ministry of Supply''' 
251; British, located at Shell Mex House, "the heart of the Rocket's own branch office in London." Duncan Sandys was the Under-secretary there during WWII.

'''Minsky's''' 
In the 1920s and 30s, Billy Minsky's Republic Theatre on Broadway in New York (later known as just Minsky's) featured rowdy burlesque entertainment. Gypsy Rose Lee performed there in the 1930s, as well as comedians W.C. Fields, Al Jolson, Fannie Brice, Bert Lahr, and Phil Silvers; "more tits than they got at" 382

<div id="miraculous-medal">'''Miraculous Medal'''</div>
135; "O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to you."

[[image:miraculous_medal.jpg|left|caption|Front]]The design was revealed by the Virgin Mary to St. Catherine Labouré on November 27, 1830 in the chapel of the convent of Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul on the rue de Bac, Paris. Catherine had been having visions for the seven months before and had told only her confessor M. Aladel who had the medal struck in June 1832. In 1836, a tribunal in Paris approved the medal as of supernatural origin. On one side, the medal depicts the Virgin Mary standing on a globe with her feet crushing a serpent's head. Beneath it says, "O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee."

[[image:miraculous_medal_back.jpg|right|caption|Back]]On the other side there is the letter "M" entwined with a bar with a cross on it. Twelve stars surround the symbols. Beneath are two hearts, one crowned with thorns, the other pierced with a sword. The medal gained in significance when Alphonse Ratisbonne, a Jew, was instantly converted to Catholicism while visiting a church in Rome to arrange a funeral. He subsequently founded the Order of Our Lady of Sion to work for understanding between Jews and Catholics

'''[[Mirrors|MIRRORS]]''' 
See also [[I#interface|Interface]]; [[I#inside|inside/outside]]

'''Miss Rheingold 1946''' 
380;

'''Mittelwerke''' 
German: "Central Works"; Given to the Soviets per the Yalta Agreement, 273; primary A-4 factory after RAF raid on Peenemünde in August 1943, located in abandoned gypsum mine near Nordhausen and next to Dora prison camp; evacuated in February and March 1945; 283; designed like a ladder with Stollen (rung-tunnels), 299; control systems work was done outside mountain in castles, farms etc, 313; tactical sites elsewhere, 427; abandoned in '45, 432 [MAP]; [Image] Click here to view a photo from Der Spiegel of laborers working in the tunnels. An Interesting Site; Check out this map of Mittelwerke (thanks to Jeff Meikle).

'''Mix, Tom (1808-1940)''' 
An American film actor and the star of many early Western movies. He made a reported 336 films between 1910 and 1935, all but nine of which were silent features. He was Hollywood’s first Western megastar and is noted as having helped define the genre for all cowboy actors who followed; "Tom Mix shirt, 245

'''MMPI''' 
21; Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory--a psychological test developed in 1943, 81; Slothrop's, F-Scale: a measure to indicate whether the subject is trying to mask or underreport psychological symptoms, 90

'''M.O.''' 
Medical Officer; 368; 591

'''Möllner''' 
610; German whom Slothrop questions about von Göll at Putzi's

'''Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich (1890-1986)''' 
Russian statesman and diplomat who was picked by Stalin to be the Soviet commissar of foreign affairs (1939-49). It was during World War II that Molotov ordered the production of the bottles of inflammable liquid that became known as Molotov cocktails. As foreign minister and the major spokesman for the Soviet Union at the Allied conferences during and after World War II, he earned a reputation for uncompromising hostility to the West; cocktails, 507, 511; "isn't telling Vishinsky" 611

<div id="mondaugen">'''Mondaugen, Kurt'''</div>
German: "Mondaugen" = "Moon Eye"; 161; electrical engineer who went to Südwest; Pökler working with, 402-04; accepted Hitler on basis of his "Demian- metaphysics" 403; bodhisattva of Peenemünde, 403; was in Südwest, lived with Ovatjimba (aardvark) people, the poorest Hereros, 403; 1922 - in Südwest with Weissmann during siege of Foppl's villa, 408; after Peenemünde bombing, 422; Mondaugen's Law, 509; Verein für Raumschiffahrt, 582; 687; Mondaugen in V.

'''Monika''' 
603; "Putzi's genial, cigar-smoking, matelasse-suited madame"

'''Monkey Girl''' 
544; "and the pimps in Rome"; one whom Pirate had to betray "in the course of business for the Firm"

'''Monte Carlo Fallacy''' 
56; "No matter how many have fallen inside a particular square, the odds remain the same as they always were. Each hit is independent of all the others."

'''Montez, Maria (1912–1951)''' 
121; A Dominican-born motion picture actress who was know as "The Queen of Technicolor" after a series of films she made with co-star Jon Hall: ''Arabian Nights'' (1942), ''White Savage'' (1943), ''Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves'' (1944), ''Cobra Woman'' (1944), ''Gypsy Wildcat'' (1944), and ''Sudan'' (1945).

'''moon''' 
"no moon" 67; "the halfmoon shines" 104; men on the, 132; "is it the moon?" 123; "toy rockets to the moon" 154; "the dead moon" 163; "we can fly to the moon" 175; "blanched scar of moon" 195; "moonlight reflected from the mirror" 195; "moongrained" 196; astrologer's, 220; "chosen for its affinity to moonlight" 265; "voices twittering with moonlight" 268; "as among craters of the pale moon" 270; "the lunacy of her purple eyes" 271; true message to Hereros, 322; "Me trama con la disquietante luna" 383; "under a moon newly calved" 398; "Passing over the bright rays of Kepler, the rugged solitude of the Southern Highlands, the spectacular views at Copernicus and Eratosthenes, she chose a small pretty crater in the Sea of Tranquility called Maskelyne B." 410; and Ilse, 410; cycles, 414; "the moon that ruled her" 415; "Have you given up so easily on the Moon?" 420; "Her round straw hat a frail moon" 421; Lunar motion, 452; "buttocks rise like moons" 466; "enormous slick stretching away moonward, to the threshold of the north wind" 609; "moon minaret" 637; Katje "felt the moon in the soles of her feet" 657; "brightening and darkening as if by itself" 692; "The moon has risen" 720; moonlight, 721; "our new Deathkingdom" 723; 734; [Check out: Borges' "The Moon" in Dreamtigers (1964)]

'''Moore, Norton B.''' 
452; Aeronautics engineer; worked with Theodore von Kármán on supersonic flow

'''mopery''' 
Slang: a trivial, imaginary violation of law (also seen defined as: act of moping; vagrancy, dawdling); "The War must've been lean times for crowd control, murder and mopery was the best you could do" 570; "Magda was picked up on first-degree mopery" 742; "Edelman [...] accused last year of an 11569 (Attempted Mopery with a Subversive Instrument)" 755;

'''Mopp's Hebdomeriasis''' 
712; "does so-called 'Night Worm' belong among the Pseudo-Goldstrassian Group, or is it properly considered [...] a more insidious form of"; [De Chirico's Hebdomeros]

'''Moreno, El''' 
387; with whom "the white gaucho" has a singing-duel in Martín Fierro

'''Morgan''' 
"GE, that's Morgan money, there's Morgan money in Harvard" 332;

'''Morituri, Ensign''' 
462; [Latin: "We who are about to die" - salutation of the gladiators to the Roman Emperor: "morituri te salutamos" = "we who are about to die salute you"]; "of the Japanese Imperial Navy" "ex-liaison man from Berlin who didn't quite get out by way of Russia"; was in kamikaze training; 467; his story, 474; irony of radium/Hiroshima, 479-80; 672; 706

'''Moritz''' 
757; operating the rocket motor panel for S-gerät 00000; 758

'''Morrison, Herbert Stanley (1888-1965)''' 
British Labour statesman who played a leading role in London local government for 25 years. Constantly involved with socialist politics from 1905, he was active in Churchill's coalition government, serving as Minister of Supply, Home Secretary and Minister of Home Security; 132

'''Morrison shelter''' 
Introduced by Herbert Morrison while home secretary in Churchill's government, they were bomb shelters, 24

'''Mosquito''' 
136; The de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito--a British combat aircraft that excelled in versatility during WWII; was made primarily out of laminated plywood

'''Moss Creature''' 
523; hallucination of Pavel's during Leunagasolin high

'''Mossmoon, Clive''' 
35; works for ICI doing polymer research; husband of Scorpia; 228-29; discussion regarding releasing Slothrop, 270; 544; 615; 635

'''Mossmoon, Scorpia''' 
35; wife of Clive, aka "Red Bitch of the High Seas"; had an affair with Pirate in 1936, 35-36; "living in St. John's Wood among sheet-music, new recipes, a small kennel of Weimaraners whose racial purity she will go to extravagant lengths to preserve" 544; 698

'''[[Mothers in Gravity's Rainbow|MOTHERS]]''' 
See also [[F#fathers|fathers]]; [[N#nipple|Nipple, Lloyd]]; [[#metropolis|Metropolis]]; [check out [[#marvy|Marvy's Mothers]], too]

'''Mouse Alexei''' 
229; lab rat at White Visitation

'''Mouthorgan, Missouri''' 
583; location of Masonic temple the Tracys visit; "an elegant chaos to bend the ingenuity of Bland's bought expert" 586;

'''[[The Movies in Gravity's Rainbow|MOVIES]]
See also [[A#actors|actors/directors]]; [[F#film|film/cinema references]]; [[K#kingkong|King Kong]]

<div id="moxie">'''Moxie'''</div>
A carbonated beverage that was one of the first mass-produced soft drinks in the United States. In its advertising, it used “Make Mine Moxie!” advertising jingles, the slogan “Just Make It Moxie for Mine”, and a "Moxie Man" logo. The brand suffered a significant decline in sales during the 1930s. It used "[[G#gentian|Gentian]] Root Extractives" for flavoring; 63; 208; 258; "tin Moxie signs" 471

'''Mravenko''' 
611; "one of the VIAM people"

<div id="mucker"></div>'''Mucker-Maffick, Oliver "Tantivy"''' 
"tantivy" is a hunting cry made when the chase is at full speed; 18; shares office with Slothrop at ACHTUNG; with Slothrop at Casino, 181; Ballad of, 191; "There hasn't been a word" 209; disappears - death confirmed, 252; Slothrop's dream of his return, 551; 584; [[Oliver Mucker-Maffick|Etymology]]; See also [[A#achtung|ACHTUNG]]

'''Muffage, Doctor''' 
591; with Dr. Spontoon, out to castrate Slothrop

'''Muffin-tin Road''' 
646; in Happyville: "note the smiing faces on all the houses"

'''Mukuru''' 
322; Hereros' "first ancestor, Adam"; breath of, 524; 562

'''Müller-Hochleben, Miss''' 
632-34; German: "Miller-Highlife" (really!); "short but spunky secretary" at Twelfth House on Gallaho Mews in London whose glasses fall off

<div id="munchkin">'''Munchkins'''</div>
The natives of the fictional Munchkin Country in the Oz books by L. Frank Baum. They first appeared in the 1900 novel [[W#wizoz|The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]], in which they are described as being somewhat short of stature, and wearing only blue. They are best-known from their depiction in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, in which they are played by adult proportional dwarfs, dressed in brightly multicolored outfits, and live in Munchkinland; "Munchkin voice" 63; "obsessive as Munchkins" 270

'''Murphy's Law''' 
275; "when everything has been taken care of, when nothing can go wrong, or even surprise us. . .something will"; "where the the salvation could be" 471; See also [[G#godel|Gödel's Theorem]]

'''[[Music in Gravity's Rainbow|MUSIC]]''' 
See also [[F#foxtrot|fox-trot]]; [[#musicians|musicians/composers]; [[R#rossini|Rossini]]; [[Songs/Compositions|songs/compositions]]

<div id="musicians"></div>'''musicians/composers''' 
Sandy MacPherson, 13; George Formby, 18; Falkman and His Apache Band, 32; Charlie ("Yardbird") Parker, 63; Primo Scala's Accordian Band, 115; Hop Harrigan and Tank Tinker, 117; Roland Peachey and His Orchestra, 121; Thomas Tallis, Henry Purcell, Heinrich Suso, 129; Ernesto Lecuona, 169; Carl Orff, 237, 441; Benny Goodman, 225; Juan d'Arienzo, 267; Der Bingle (B. Crosby), 320; Richard Wagner, 324, 450; Andrews Sisters, 382; Frank Sinatra, 390, 700; Hugo Wolf, 419, 450; Ludwig von Beethoven, 440, 685; Anton Webern, 440, 494; Irving Berlin, 442; Horst Wessel, 443; Kurt Weill, 513; Gene Krupa, 513; Guy Lombardo, 529; Gilbert & Sullivan, 538; Jacques Offenbach, 584 ("Offenbach galop": Jacques Offenbach wrote the music to the well-known "Cancan" - "galop" is a dance); Sandy McPherson, 592; Spohr, Rossini, Spontini, 622; Diamond Lil, 657; 175-Stadt Chorale, 668; Stephen Foster, 675; Spike Jones, 678; Brahms, 685; Harry James, 685; J.S. Bach, 685; Tchaikovsky, 702; Josef Haydn, 712; Lübeck Hitler Youth Glee Club, 736; See also [[R#rossini|Rossini]]

'''Mussert's people''' 
97; someone for whom Katje is "smelling out" Jewish families

Mr. Pynchon is probably referring to Anton Adriaan Mussert, fouder and leader of the Dutch National Socialist Movement during World War II

<div id="mustache">'''mustache'''</div>
"mustaches, to be shaved off only by authorized crypto officers" 16; "jar of mustache wax" 17; "mustaches mouthwide" 20; 62; "mustache unruffled" 188; "twirling his slick mustache in a saber-point" 191; "great twisted mustache" 201; "Mustache Kit, 20 different shapes from [[F#fumanchu|Fu Manchu]] to [[M#groucho|Groucho Marx]]", "[[E#earp|Wyatt Earp's]]", "[[B#booth|John Wilkes Booth's]]", "the old duster just keeps droopin' down again" 210; "as the mustache waxes, Slothrop waxes the mustache" 211; "twisting his mustache" 221; "clipped mustache bristles" 233; "[[F#flynn|Errol Flynn]] frisks his mustache" 248; 267; "I even have a mustache...like that [[H#hemingway|Ernest Hemingway]]" 292; "frisks mustaches" 295; "red [[V#hindenburg|von Hindenburg]] mustache" 305; 306; "mustache white and bubbly too" 307; "white, water-buffalo mustaches" 308; "saws off pieces of his mustache on both sides...look like [[H#hitler|Hitler]]" 309; "All the funny Fascists just a-twirlin' their mustaches" 310; "big chromo of [[S#stalin|Stalin]]...mustache and hair only incidental as makeup" 368; "wide handle-bar mustache" 473; "twisting half his mustache so it points up in a saber at one eye" 474; "Frisking his great mustache" 479; "around the mustache line" 583; " black neckerchiefs whipping about like the mustaches of epileptic villains" 594; "blunt and ragged mustache" 607; "natty mustaches" 632; "superthin mustache" 675; "feathery [[R#rilke|Rilke]] mustaches" 711

'''''My Little Chickadee''''' 
198; a 1940 Universal comedy/western motion picture starring [[W#maewest|Mae West]] and W. C. Fields

'''Myrtle Miraculous''' 
See [[F#floundering|Floundering Four]]

'''Mysterious Microfilm Drill''' 
32; wherein "Bloat goes somewhere and microfilms something, then transfers it, via Pirate, to young Mexico. And thence [...] down to 'The White Visitation'"

'''Mystery Stimulus''' 
84; "Conditioned response = hardon whenever x is present [...] what's x? Why it's the famous 'Mystery Stimulus'

'''[[Mythology in Gravity's Rainbow|MYTHOLOGY]]''' 
See also [[G#god|God]]; [[S#scylla|Scylla and Charybdis]]

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'''Radnichny''' 
353; impetuous and unstable practical joker in Weird Letter Assignment

'''R.A.F. Medmenham''' 
726; "techniques by which Constance Babington-Smith and her colleagues at R.A.F. Medmenham discovered the Rocket back in 1943 in recco photographs of Peenemünde"

<div id="rainbow"></div>'''rainbow''' 
the rising sun striking the rocket's exhaust, 6; "his rainbowed Valkyrie over Peenemünde" 151; "all around them were clouds, rainbows, drops of fire" 160; "the greengrocer is wishing on a rainbow today" 175; "the rainbow edges of what is almost on him" 203; "a rainbow-striped dirndl skirt" 208; "they move forever under it. . .as if it were the Rainbow" 209; "a peacock, courting, fanning his tail ... she saw it in the colors that moved in the flame as it rose off the platform, scarlet, orange, iridescent green" 223; "wild as a rainbow" 369; "the rainbow edge of the sound" 488; "It's a long rainbow, mostly [...] indigo and Kelly green" 524; "To purity of light--of bonds that sing,/And whips that trail their spectra as they fall" 532-33; Osbie "a sunburst in primary colors spiking out from his head" 536; "Slothrop sees a very thick rainbow" 626; "rainbow of sentinel ladies" 637; "beautiful Serpent, its coils in rainbow lashings" 721; "the great rainbow plumes" 722; "serpent coils that lash above the surface of the Earth in rainbow light" 726

'''Raketenflugplatz''' 
162-63; German: "rocket site"; the original Raketenflugplatz was an abandoned dump in Berlin where the VfR launched their rockets in the early 1930s; 416

'''Raketen-Stadt''' 
296; German: "Rocket-City"; created in the Mittelwerke by Ernst Ölsch (under Speer) "To Avoid Symmetry, Allow Complexity, Introduce Terror" 297; "these are the els and busses of an enormous transit system here in the Raketenstadt" 603; "plexiglass maps of the webs we maintain across the Zone" 660; and "the Floundering Four" 674; Daguerreotype of, taken by "a forgotten photographer [...] a habitué of mercury fumes" 725; "By now the city has grown so tall that elevators are long-haul affairs" 735

'''Rapallo Treaty''' 
166; Agreement between Soviet Russia and Germany which contained extensive trade agreements including the lifting of trade restrictions between the two countries, thus allowing Krupp to sell their steel machines to the Soviets. Germany's powerful right wing was enraged at the recognition given the new Communist regime and on June 24, 1922 Foreign Minister Walter Rathenau, who negotiated the treaty on Germany's behalf, was shot and killed in the street; 338; 352 See also [[#rathenau|Rathenau, Walter]]

'''Rapier, Father''' 
538; Jesuit preaching at double-agent convention/garden

'''ratchet''' 
"wordless ratcheting cue" 51; "off on a...ratchet of rooms" 257; "a ratcheting noise" 282; "dragging himself up the ratchet's teeth" 547; "ratcheting like a phone number being dialed" 607; "Bicycle riders ratcheted by" 611; "The nonstop revue crosses its stage. . .in an endless ratchet" 681; "CATCH" 759; See also [[F#film|film/cinema references]]

'''rates of change''' 
"To integrate here is to operate on a rate of change so that time falls away: change is stilled" 301; "a train of imperceptible light and dark" 642; See also [[D#deltat|delta-t]]

'''Rathaus''' 
German: "town-hall"; in Nordhausen, 333

'''Rathenau, Walter (d. 1922)''' 
163; German foreign minister who was assassinated; "prophet and architect of cartelized state" 164; seance of, 163-65; during WWI "was ramrodding the whole economy" 284; dealt the Rapallo Treaty ("elaborate piece of theatre" - 352) with Tchitcherine's father, 338; 581; 590; 616; See also Rapallo Treaty; [Sasuly's IG Farben]

'''Rat Ilya''' 
229; rat at White Visitation

'''Rauhandle''' 
98; Blicero's athletic young friend/lover(?) "how many years back into the peace"

'''Raum, Natasha''' 
712; quoted regarding the "Hydra-Phänomen" and Slothrop's plucking-of-self, in her "'Regions of Indeterminacy in Albatross Anatomy,' Proceedings of the International Society of Confessors to an Enthusiasm for Albatross Nosology"

'''Ravenna''' 
564; coastal northern Italian city

'''Ray''' 
256; U.S. MP in Nice outside Slothrop's door

'''Rebecca''' 
155; "Jewess" comrade of Leni's in KDP

'''recco photos''' 
232; Reconnaissance photographs; 240

'''Reed, Ishmael (b. 1938)''' 
588; American novelist

'''Reed, Maurice ("Saxophone")''' 
9; at Pirate's maisonette

'''Reeperbahn''' 
652; in the district of Saint Pauli in Hamburg, a notorious street of ill-repute (where the Beatles played before getting famous) where Byron is traded to a prostitute

'''Reformation''' 
267; The 16th century revolution (a Counterforce) that took place in the Western church, due primarily to the Catholic church's loss of spiritual credibility as a result of its increasing material wealth and power. See also Counterforce; Zwingli, Huldrych

'''Regents Park Zoo''' 
121; in London

'''Reichsbank''' 
284; Germany's leading financial institution.

'''Reichstag building''' 
368; in Berlin, shelled out and resembling a giant shitting ape

'''Reinickendorf''' 
154; a neighborhood in Berlin encompassing the northwest of the city area, including the Berlin-Tegel Airport, Lake Tegel, spacious settlements of detached houses as well as housing estates; Pökler "reported to the rocket facility at"

'''Reithinger, Dr.''' 
According to Sasuly, Reithinger, who worked as director of statistics in NW7 under Ilgner, "had been considered one of the outstanding statisticians of Germany. [He] had traveled in many countries [...] and in each country met with leading statisticians and economists on a basis of scientific interest and arranged the exchange of satistical data." (p.98); his VOWI office was the Statistical Department of NW7, 630

'''religion''' 
"something vaguely religious" 66; Chain of Being, 77; "every true god must be both organizer and destroyer" 99; "God is creator and destroyer, sun and darkness, all sets of opposites brought together" 100; "rocket-mysticism" 154; "presence of the Creator much more direct" 214; "Judaized" 219; Krishna, 276; "ice-saints" 281; "There may be no gods, but there is a pattern" 322; Chance = God, 323, 613; "Allah has smiled on us" 365; "breath of God" 454; God's signature, 463; Manichaean, 631, 727; always about death, 701; Pan, 720; Buddha, 733; "By all the holy names of God" 734; See also [[P#puritans|Puritans]]; [[C#christianity|Christianity]]; [[H#hand|Hand of Providence/God]]; [[Islam]]

<div id="return"></div>'''Return, Cycle of''' 
"Nature does not know extinction, all it knows is transformation" 1; "Death is a debt to nature due" 26; "lapsing back now to green wilderness" 28; toothpaste tube "waiting now--its true return--to be melted for solder" 130; "The real movement is not from death to any rebirth. It is from death to death-transfigured" 166; "some teeming cycle of departure and return" 198; "no cycles, no returns" 318; to the Center (Hereros), 319; "men turning to coal" 351; 412; serpent eating its tail, 413; Slothrop's transmutation dream about Greta, 447; Bicycle Rider in the Sky, 501; trees growing through cracks at Peenemünde, 502; Slothrop's Rider (celestial cyclist), 509; serpentine, 520; "restore us to our Earth and to our freedom" 525; "unclipped topiary hedges, growing back into reality" 535; "a Jesuit [...] here to preach, like his colleague Teilhard de Chardin, against return" 539; "at least the physical things They have taken, from Earth and from us, can be dismantled, demolished--returned to where it all came from" 540; "To affirm Their mortality is to affirm Return" 540; 560; Destiny, 576; "that familiar division between return and one-shot visitation" 584; wheels in the sky, 620; Cosmic windmill, 624; "They took us at the gates of green return" 627; "cables lay rusting across the sodden meadows, going to flakes, to ions and earth" 627; "prehistoric wastes. . .transmuted to the very substance of History" 639; windmill, 670; Serpent/Pan, 720-21; America, 722-23; 726; garbage trucks, 757; See also [[C#counterforce|Counterforce]]; [[C#center|Center]]; [[E#excrement|excrement]]; [[M#mandala|mandala]]; [[S#serpent|serpent]]

'''Reunion''' 
110; the only other island where van der Groov knew there were Dodoes

'''Rexist''' 
Rexist Movement was formed in 1930 by Léon Degrelle, allegedly to eliminate political contamintion of the Roman Catholic religion. From a wing of the ruling Catholic Party, the Rexist Movement evolved into an opposition party and, under Degrelle's guidance, elected 21 deputies to the Belgian Parliament in 1936. With the aid of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, Degrelle turned the Rexists into a fascist organization; Louis Borgesius attended their meetings, 546; See also NSB credentials

'''Reyes, Cipriano''' 
383; "intervened for" G. Portales once

'''Rheinelbe Union''' 
284; combined by Stinnes into a super-cartel with Siemens-Schuchert after WWI;

'''Rhenish Missionary Society''' 
100; in South-West Africa, 315; 316;

'''Reynolds''' 
453; coefficient named after

'''RHIP''' 
190; Rank Has Its Privileges; 448

'''''Rigoletto''''' 
132.21; An opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo. It was first performed at La Fenice in Venice on March 11, 1851. It is considered by many to be the first of the operatic masterpieces of Verdi's middle-to-late career.

'''Riickert, Helen''' 
381; "a blond with a Dutch surname" competing for Miss Rheingold 1946

'''Rijkswijksche Bosch''' 
113; in Holland, where film of Schwarzkommando will be "discovered" in fake ruins of rocket-firing site

<div id="rilke">'''Rilke, Rainer Maria (d. 1926)'''</div>
[[image:Rilke.gif|left]]97-99; German philosopher/poet; "Want the change; O be inspired by the Flame"; Duino Elegies, 99; "mountainside gentian of Nordic colors" 101; "anti-Rilke" 102; "Tenth-Elegy angel" 341; "Once, only once. . ." 413; 516; "If we are here once, only once [...]" 539; "To the rushing water speak, I am" 622; "poem about the Leid-Stadt" ["Pain-City" - See: 98-99], 644; [[M#mustache|mustache]], 711; See also [[G#germans|Germans]]

'''rinderpest''' 
317; "cattle dead of" 323;

'''Rinso, Lieutenant''' 
449; Charles' paranoia that Rinso's plotting to murder him, on the Toiletship

'''Rioja, La''' 
612; a wasteland "on the eastern slopes of the Andes" where Correa was found dead

'''Ripov, Nikolai''' 
700; of Commissariat for Intelligence Activities; checks up on Tchitcherine; during Tchitcherine's haunting, 703; 719

'''Rippenstoss, Heinz''' 
167; German: "kick in the groin" (or "nudge in the ribs"); "irrepressible Nazi wag and gadabout" at Rathenau seance and asker of the question "Is God really Jewish?"

'''Rivadavia''' 
263; "where the true South begins" in Argentina; From "The South" in the short story collection Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges (Grove Press, 1962, p. 169):

:"Every Argentine knows that the South begins at the other side of Rivadavia. Dahlmann was in the habit of saying that this was no mere convention, that whoever crosses this street enters a more ancient and sterner world."

Avenida Rivadavia, in Buenos Aires, is an immensely long street (Porteños claim it is the longest in the world) which runs east to west for nearly two hundred blocks from Plaza de Mayo to Morón, outside the city limits.

'''Rizla liquorice cigarette paper''' 
93; [http://www.rizla.co.uk/ Rizla Website]

'''Robert-Houdin, Jean-Eugène (1805-1871)''' 
French magician considered to be the father of modern conjuring. The first magician to use electricity, he also improved the signalling method for the "thought transference" trick. Harry Houdini named himself after Robert-Houdin; "the great conjurer" 675

'''Robin''' 
59; childhood friend recalled by Jessica

'''Robot Blitz''' 
85; German buzz bomb (aka "robot bomb" and "V-1") attack on London

'''Roca, Gen. Julio Argentino''' 
Roca distinguished himself militarily with victories in the "Indian wars" (ending in 1879), opening up the pampas to settlement by whites and turning him into a political hero which he parlayed into his election as president in 1880; "campaign to open the pampas by exterminating the people who live there" 387

'''Rocket''' 
incoming mail, 6; A4, 8, 396, 406, 411, 464; farting buzzbombs, 21; "explode first. . .then you hear them coming in" 23; "slender church steeples" 29 (& 624); "a piece of time neatly snipped out" 48; "a rocket has suddenly struck" 59; V-1 and V-2, 86; "the sounds of V-1 and V-2, one the reverse of the other" 144; premonitions in Psi section, 146; "rocket-mysticism" 154; "between the two points, in the five minutes, it lives an entire life." 209; assembly at Mittelwerke, 304; "Germans [...] who called the rocket Der Phau ["the peacock"], 223; "terrible passage reduced. . .to bourgeois terms" 239; Slothrop's discovery of blueprint, 242; and manhood, 324; "hidden inside the summer Zone, the Rocket is waiting" 359; 5 launching switch positions, 361; cult of A4 (A: "aggregate"), 391; Pökler's dreams of, 399; leading to freedom of outerspace, 400; money v. dreams, 400; Pökler as an extension of, 402; as fat Japanese arrow, 403; A3, 406; growing towards a predestined shape (Schicksal), 416; A5, 416; mapped on to face, 423; A4 test sites moved to Blizna, Poland in '43 - Sarnaki is Ground Zero, 424; problem rockets--"reluctant virgins" 426; 10K pounds sterling, 438; "half bullet, half arrow" 453; charisma of, 464; "the kingly voice of the Aggregate" 470; Rocket Noon, 500; fins=mandala, 563 (illus. 624); "The sand-colored churchtops [...] like rocket fins guiding the streamlined spires" 624; "A4. . .concealed behind an uncrossable wall that separated real pain and terror from summoned deliverer." 666; 673; firing vectors, 706; "Rocket state-cosmology" 726; "Rocket as Torah" 727; "an evil Rocket for the World's suicide" 727; "it comes as the Revealer" 728; Goebbels' "avenger" 747; origin of countdown, 753; See also [http://www.constable.ca/v2.htm V2 Page] - very good; [[S#schwartzgerat|Schwarzgerät]]; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-1_rocket V-1 Rocket at Wikipedia] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket V-2 Rocket at Wikipedia]

'''Rocketman (aka Raketemensch, aka Slothrop)''' 
359; a comic book character from the '40s and Tyrone's alter-ego; 366; comic-book dialogue, 371; 376; exists in nongeographical space ("Providence's little pal"), 379; war cry: "Hauptstufe" - "leaps broad highways in a single bound!" 380; "Fickt nicht mit der Raketemensch!" 436; 512; 596; "You poor fucker." 741

'''Rohmer, Sax (c.1883-1959)''' 
Sax Rohmer, aka Arthur Sarsfield Wade, was an internationally popular British writer who created the evil genius Fu Manchu, the Chinese hero-villain of many novels. Dr. Fu Manchu (1913) was the first in the series of which there were several more over the next 45 years, over which time Fu Manchu evolved from an entirely self-serving villain into a dedicated anti-Communist; "great Manichaean saga" 641

'''Rohr''' 
681; German: "tube" or "pipe"; Jehovah's witness who is "Keeper of the Antenna" for Germans to communicate with U-boats

'''Rommel, Erwin (1891-1944)''' 
Aka the "Desert Fox," Rommel is most famous for commanding the Afrika Korps in North Africa in 1941, driving the British out of Libya and into Egypt. Anglo-American forces finally compelled his surrender in Tunisia in 1943. He escaped and commanded German forces in Italy and then in northern France preparing for the Allied invasion of 1944. Seeing the writing on the wall, he begged Hitler to end the war. Although innocent, he was implicated in the July 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler and opted for suicide over arrest and a sure conviction; "Old Blood 'n' Guts" handed Rommel's ass to him in the desert" 287

'''Rooney, Mickey''' 
Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule, Jr.; September 23, 1920) is an American film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and stage appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. During his career he has won multiple awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award. Best known for his work as the Andy Hardy character in a series of 16 films. seen by Slothrop, 382; 438

'''Roosevelt, Eleanor (1882-1962)''' 
The wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor was a social-activist first lady during his presidency. After his death, she held various posts in the United Nations; Chiclitz's "Eleanor Roosevelt routine. 'The othuh day, my son Idiot--uh, Eliot--and I, were baking cookies'" 566

'''Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945)''' 
32nd president (Democrat) of the U.S., 1932-45. He started the "New Deal" program in 1933 to combat the Great Depression, which involved abandoning the gold standard, devaluing the dollar, state intervention in the credit market, agricultural price support, and the passage of the Social Security Act (1935) which provided for old-age and unemployment insurance;135; Third Term, 270; "died back in the spring [12 April]" 373; "it seemed he'd just keep getting elected, term after term, forever. But somebody had decided to change that. So he was put to sleep" 374; "a being They assembled, a being They would dismantle" 374; caricature of on Toiletship, 450; "'Mister Swope was ace buddies with old'" 565; "Roosevelt's 'election' in 1932" 581; "Harvard, beholden to all kinds of money old and new, commodity and retail" 581

<div id="rorschach"></div>'''Rorschach Test''' 
The Rorschach inkblots were developed by a Swiss psychiatrist, Hermann Rorschach (1884-1922), in an effort to reduce the time required in psychiatric diagnosis. His test consists of 10 cards, half in color and half in black and white. The subject is shown the 10 blots one at a time, the task being to describe what she sees in the blots or what they remind her of. There are no right or wrong answers; "'a so-called, "projec-tive" test'" 81; See also [[P#paranoia|paranoia/connectedness]]

'''Rosas, Juan Manuel de (1793-1877)''' 
After losing an Argentinian election in 1835, Rosas led a revolt and ruled as dictator, through terror and bloodshed, from 1835 to 1852; "The tyrant Rosas has been dead a century, but his cult flourishes" 264

'''Rose''' 
680; woman around a fire in the "dingy yellow amphitheatre"

'''Roseland Ballroom''' 
63; in Boston--where Slothrop drops his harmonica down the toilet in the men's room while vomiting; 623; 688

<div id="rossini">'''Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio (1792-1868)'''</div>
Italian composer of light comic opera and pleasant, melodious, crowd-pleasing music; "an abbreviated version of ''L'Inutil Precauzione'' (that imaginary opera with which Rosina seeks to delude her guardian in ''The Barber of Seville'')" 204; Rue Rossini, 248, 253, 257; ''William Tell Overture'' 262; overture to ''La Gazza Ladra'', [[Beethoven & Rossini|vs. Beethoven]], 273, 440; his music: "love without payment of any kind" 274; 376; "'The Italian girl is in Algiers, the Barber's in the crockery, the magpie's stealing everything in sight! The World is rushing together. . .'" 440; "Rossini [...] full of light and kindness" 622; "long-suppressed Rossini violin concerto (op. posth.)" 684; "Now I know it's not as keen as old Rossini [snatch of La Gazza Ladra here]" 685

'''Rossokovski''' 
501; left Peenemünde with White Russian Army; 504

'''rösti''' 
258;

<div id="routinization"></div>'''Routinization/ Rationalization of Charisma''' 
concept developed by Max Weber; Führer-principle, 81; "there should be no room for a terrible disease like charisma" 81; "we'll have shown again the stone determinacy [...] of every soul" 86; "Pavlov believed the ideal [...] is the true mechanical explanation" 89; "scrubbed and routinized fingers" 91; "cage his old gods, snare them in words" 99; "that vaguely criminal face on your ID card, its soul snatched by the government camera as the guillotine shutter fell" 134; "another long-routinezed nudge of horn, flip of hoof" 142; "Destiny will betray you, crush your ideals, deliver you into the same detestable Bürgerlichkeit as your father [...] fly from pain to duty, from joy to work, from commitment to neutrality." 162; "death-by- government" 176; "the rationalized power-ritual that will be the coming peace" 177; 201; "well before he loses his innocence and becomes one of them" 205; "There's just no passion at all" 216; "the Rocket's terrible passage reduced. . .to bougeois terms" 239; "dusty Dracularity, the West's ancient curse" 263; of Mittelwerke, 295; 324; 325; N.T.A., 339; writing down ajtys, 357; 416; A4's charisma, 464; routinization of sex, 467-68; "bureaucracy of departure" 470; "verbal, ranked and uniformed" 478; 508; 525; topiary, 535; "when the rages came over him, breaking through from beneath the rationalized look" 579; "the Masons had long, long degenerated into just another businessmen's club" 588; "grim rationalizing of the world" 588; Magician and the magical mandrake root, 625; "vague excitement at break in routine" 651; "You are perverting a great discovery to the uses of commerce" 665; keying waves, 698; Hexes-Stadt (you either become a bureaucrat or choose the world), 718; "the only enterprise is administrating" 718; "'Technique is just a substitute for when you get older'" 718; "The routines go on" 721; "Passageways of routine" 724; "The heroes will go on, kicked upstairs to oversee the development of bright new middle-line personnel" 752; [Attempting to impose order on GR]; See also [[C#control|control]]; [[G#grid|grid]]; [[M#mmpi|MMPI]]; [[N#naming|naming]]; [[#rorschach|Rorschach Test]]; [[Routinization of Charisma]]

'''Rowena''' 
200; one of two ladies with the General playing croquet as Slothrop falls from the tree, draped in a purple sheet

'''Royal Fellow''' 
37; "Royal Fellow-baiting" 171;

'''Rozhdestvenski, Admiral''' 
349-51; in December 1904, "command[ed] a fleet of 42 Russian men-o'-war" into the South African port of Lüderitzbucht" with Tchitcherine's father on board; "1904 was when Admiral Rozhdestvenski sailed his fleet halfway around the world to relieve Port Arthur" 452

'''Rózsavölgyi, Dr. Géza''' 
79; (Hungarian: "of the pink valley"); Hungarian; works in ARF wing;aka "Rosie" 80; violently anti-Soviet; "still with the project" 273; at Twelfth House, 632-35; son of Sandor the bulb salesman in Transylvania, 647; 692

'''Rózsavölgyi, Sandor''' 
647; father of Géza, "ace [lightbulb] salesman [...] who covered all the Transylvanian territory"

'''Rücksichtslos''' 
German: "inconsiderate" or "ruthless"); See Toiletship

'''Rudi''' 
155; "La Boheme Student" comrade of Leni's in KPD; 156; 158

'''Rundstedt offensive''' 
52; Gerd von Rundstedt (1875-1953) was one of Adolf Hitler's ablest military leaders in World War II. In 1944, this German field marshal directed the Ardennes offensive (Battle of the Bulge). General Dwight D. Eisenhower called him the ablest of the German generals of World War II. 131

'''RUSSIAN TRANSLATIONS''' [thanks to our Russian correspondent, Comrade Alexis B.]

:340: '''lepeshka:''' a bread roll, often made of a blend of rye and wheat flours

:512: '''budka:''' booth (traffic police in Moscow patrol from raised booths that look out over the street, which are called budkas)

:513: '''pogoni:''' the bars on the shoulders of military uniforms from which dangle the stars, tassles, &c. ''' 

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'''Radnichny''' 
353; impetuous and unstable practical joker in Weird Letter Assignment

'''R.A.F. Medmenham''' 
726; "techniques by which Constance Babington-Smith and her colleagues at R.A.F. Medmenham discovered the Rocket back in 1943 in recco photographs of Peenemünde"

<div id="rainbow"></div>'''rainbow''' 
the rising sun striking the rocket's exhaust, 6; "his rainbowed Valkyrie over Peenemünde" 151; "all around them were clouds, rainbows, drops of fire" 160; "the greengrocer is wishing on a rainbow today" 175; "the rainbow edges of what is almost on him" 203; "a rainbow-striped dirndl skirt" 208; "they move forever under it. . .as if it were the Rainbow" 209; "a peacock, courting, fanning his tail ... she saw it in the colors that moved in the flame as it rose off the platform, scarlet, orange, iridescent green" 223; "wild as a rainbow" 369; "the rainbow edge of the sound" 488; "It's a long rainbow, mostly [...] indigo and Kelly green" 524; "To purity of light--of bonds that sing,/And whips that trail their spectra as they fall" 532-33; Osbie "a sunburst in primary colors spiking out from his head" 536; "Slothrop sees a very thick rainbow" 626; "rainbow of sentinel ladies" 637; "beautiful Serpent, its coils in rainbow lashings" 721; "the great rainbow plumes" 722; "serpent coils that lash above the surface of the Earth in rainbow light" 726

'''Raketenflugplatz''' 
162-63; German: "rocket site"; the original Raketenflugplatz was an abandoned dump in Berlin where the VfR launched their rockets in the early 1930s; 416

'''Raketen-Stadt''' 
296; German: "Rocket-City"; created in the Mittelwerke by Ernst Ölsch (under Speer) "To Avoid Symmetry, Allow Complexity, Introduce Terror" 297; "these are the els and busses of an enormous transit system here in the Raketenstadt" 603; "plexiglass maps of the webs we maintain across the Zone" 660; and "the Floundering Four" 674; Daguerreotype of, taken by "a forgotten photographer [...] a habitué of mercury fumes" 725; "By now the city has grown so tall that elevators are long-haul affairs" 735

'''Rapallo Treaty''' 
166; Agreement between Soviet Russia and Germany which contained extensive trade agreements including the lifting of trade restrictions between the two countries, thus allowing Krupp to sell their steel machines to the Soviets. Germany's powerful right wing was enraged at the recognition given the new Communist regime and on June 24, 1922 Foreign Minister Walter Rathenau, who negotiated the treaty on Germany's behalf, was shot and killed in the street; 338; 352 See also [[#rathenau|Rathenau, Walter]]

'''Rapier, Father''' 
538; Jesuit preaching at double-agent convention/garden

'''ratchet''' 
"wordless ratcheting cue" 51; "off on a...ratchet of rooms" 257; "a ratcheting noise" 282; "dragging himself up the ratchet's teeth" 547; "ratcheting like a phone number being dialed" 607; "Bicycle riders ratcheted by" 611; "The nonstop revue crosses its stage. . .in an endless ratchet" 681; "CATCH" 759; See also [[F#film|film/cinema references]]

'''rates of change''' 
"To integrate here is to operate on a rate of change so that time falls away: change is stilled" 301; "a train of imperceptible light and dark" 642; See also [[D#deltat|delta-t]]

'''Rathaus''' 
German: "town-hall"; in Nordhausen, 333

'''Rathenau, Walter (d. 1922)''' 
163; German foreign minister who was assassinated; "prophet and architect of cartelized state" 164; seance of, 163-65; during WWI "was ramrodding the whole economy" 284; dealt the Rapallo Treaty ("elaborate piece of theatre" - 352) with Tchitcherine's father, 338; 581; 590; 616; See also Rapallo Treaty; [Sasuly's IG Farben]

'''Rat Ilya''' 
229; rat at White Visitation

'''Rauhandle''' 
98; Blicero's athletic young friend/lover(?) "how many years back into the peace"

'''Raum, Natasha''' 
712; quoted regarding the "Hydra-Phänomen" and Slothrop's plucking-of-self, in her "'Regions of Indeterminacy in Albatross Anatomy,' Proceedings of the International Society of Confessors to an Enthusiasm for Albatross Nosology"

'''Ravenna''' 
564; coastal northern Italian city

'''Ray''' 
256; U.S. MP in Nice outside Slothrop's door

'''Rebecca''' 
155; "Jewess" comrade of Leni's in KDP

'''recco photos''' 
232; Reconnaissance photographs; 240

'''Reed, Ishmael (b. 1938)''' 
588; American novelist

'''Reed, Maurice ("Saxophone")''' 
9; at Pirate's maisonette

'''Reeperbahn''' 
652; in the district of Saint Pauli in Hamburg, a notorious street of ill-repute (where the Beatles played before getting famous) where Byron is traded to a prostitute

'''Reformation''' 
267; The 16th century revolution (a Counterforce) that took place in the Western church, due primarily to the Catholic church's loss of spiritual credibility as a result of its increasing material wealth and power. See also Counterforce; Zwingli, Huldrych

'''Regents Park Zoo''' 
121; in London

'''Reichsbank''' 
284; Germany's leading financial institution.

'''Reichstag building''' 
368; in Berlin, shelled out and resembling a giant shitting ape

'''Reinickendorf''' 
154; a neighborhood in Berlin encompassing the northwest of the city area, including the Berlin-Tegel Airport, Lake Tegel, spacious settlements of detached houses as well as housing estates; Pökler "reported to the rocket facility at"

'''Reithinger, Dr.''' 
According to Sasuly, Reithinger, who worked as director of statistics in NW7 under Ilgner, "had been considered one of the outstanding statisticians of Germany. [He] had traveled in many countries [...] and in each country met with leading statisticians and economists on a basis of scientific interest and arranged the exchange of satistical data." (p.98); his VOWI office was the Statistical Department of NW7, 630

'''religion''' 
"something vaguely religious" 66; Chain of Being, 77; "every true god must be both organizer and destroyer" 99; "God is creator and destroyer, sun and darkness, all sets of opposites brought together" 100; "rocket-mysticism" 154; "presence of the Creator much more direct" 214; "Judaized" 219; Krishna, 276; "ice-saints" 281; "There may be no gods, but there is a pattern" 322; Chance = God, 323, 613; "Allah has smiled on us" 365; "breath of God" 454; God's signature, 463; Manichaean, 631, 727; always about death, 701; Pan, 720; Buddha, 733; "By all the holy names of God" 734; See also [[P#puritans|Puritans]]; [[C#christianity|Christianity]]; [[H#hand|Hand of Providence/God]]; [[Islam]]

<div id="return"></div>'''Return, Cycle of''' 
"Nature does not know extinction, all it knows is transformation" 1; "Death is a debt to nature due" 26; "lapsing back now to green wilderness" 28; toothpaste tube "waiting now--its true return--to be melted for solder" 130; "The real movement is not from death to any rebirth. It is from death to death-transfigured" 166; "some teeming cycle of departure and return" 198; "no cycles, no returns" 318; to the Center (Hereros), 319; "men turning to coal" 351; 412; serpent eating its tail, 413; Slothrop's transmutation dream about Greta, 447; Bicycle Rider in the Sky, 501; trees growing through cracks at Peenemünde, 502; Slothrop's Rider (celestial cyclist), 509; serpentine, 520; "restore us to our Earth and to our freedom" 525; "unclipped topiary hedges, growing back into reality" 535; "a Jesuit [...] here to preach, like his colleague Teilhard de Chardin, against return" 539; "at least the physical things They have taken, from Earth and from us, can be dismantled, demolished--returned to where it all came from" 540; "To affirm Their mortality is to affirm Return" 540; 560; Destiny, 576; "that familiar division between return and one-shot visitation" 584; wheels in the sky, 620; Cosmic windmill, 624; "They took us at the gates of green return" 627; "cables lay rusting across the sodden meadows, going to flakes, to ions and earth" 627; "prehistoric wastes. . .transmuted to the very substance of History" 639; windmill, 670; Serpent/Pan, 720-21; America, 722-23; 726; garbage trucks, 757; See also [[C#counterforce|Counterforce]]; [[C#center|Center]]; [[E#excrement|excrement]]; [[M#mandala|mandala]]; [[S#serpent|serpent]]

'''Reunion''' 
110; the only other island where van der Groov knew there were Dodoes

'''Rexist''' 
Rexist Movement was formed in 1930 by Léon Degrelle, allegedly to eliminate political contamintion of the Roman Catholic religion. From a wing of the ruling Catholic Party, the Rexist Movement evolved into an opposition party and, under Degrelle's guidance, elected 21 deputies to the Belgian Parliament in 1936. With the aid of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, Degrelle turned the Rexists into a fascist organization; Louis Borgesius attended their meetings, 546; See also NSB credentials

'''Reyes, Cipriano''' 
383; "intervened for" G. Portales once

'''Rheinelbe Union''' 
284; combined by Stinnes into a super-cartel with Siemens-Schuchert after WWI;

'''Rhenish Missionary Society''' 
100; in South-West Africa, 315; 316;

'''Reynolds''' 
453; coefficient named after

'''RHIP''' 
190; Rank Has Its Privileges; 448

'''''Rigoletto''''' 
132.21; An opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo. It was first performed at La Fenice in Venice on March 11, 1851. It is considered by many to be the first of the operatic masterpieces of Verdi's middle-to-late career.

'''Riickert, Helen''' 
381; "a blond with a Dutch surname" competing for Miss Rheingold 1946

'''Rijkswijksche Bosch''' 
113; in Holland, where film of Schwarzkommando will be "discovered" in fake ruins of rocket-firing site

<div id="rilke">'''Rilke, Rainer Maria (d. 1926)'''</div>
[[image:Rilke.gif|left]]97-99; German philosopher/poet; "Want the change; O be inspired by the Flame"; Duino Elegies, 99; "mountainside gentian of Nordic colors" 101; "anti-Rilke" 102; "Tenth-Elegy angel" 341; "Once, only once. . ." 413; 516; "If we are here once, only once [...]" 539; "To the rushing water speak, I am" 622; "poem about the Leid-Stadt" ["Pain-City" - See: 98-99], 644; [[M#mustache|mustache]], 711; See also [[G#germans|Germans]]

'''rinderpest''' 
317; "cattle dead of" 323;

'''Rinso, Lieutenant''' 
449; Charles' paranoia that Rinso's plotting to murder him, on the Toiletship

'''Rioja, La''' 
612; a wasteland "on the eastern slopes of the Andes" where Correa was found dead

'''Ripov, Nikolai''' 
700; of Commissariat for Intelligence Activities; checks up on Tchitcherine; during Tchitcherine's haunting, 703; 719

'''Rippenstoss, Heinz''' 
167; German: "kick in the groin" (or "nudge in the ribs"); "irrepressible Nazi wag and gadabout" at Rathenau seance and asker of the question "Is God really Jewish?"

'''Rivadavia''' 
263; "where the true South begins" in Argentina; From "The South" in the short story collection Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges (Grove Press, 1962, p. 169):

:"Every Argentine knows that the South begins at the other side of Rivadavia. Dahlmann was in the habit of saying that this was no mere convention, that whoever crosses this street enters a more ancient and sterner world."

Avenida Rivadavia, in Buenos Aires, is an immensely long street (Porteños claim it is the longest in the world) which runs east to west for nearly two hundred blocks from Plaza de Mayo to Morón, outside the city limits.

'''Rizla liquorice cigarette paper''' 
93; [http://www.rizla.co.uk/ Rizla Website]

'''Robert-Houdin, Jean-Eugène (1805-1871)''' 
French magician considered to be the father of modern conjuring. The first magician to use electricity, he also improved the signalling method for the "thought transference" trick. Harry Houdini named himself after Robert-Houdin; "the great conjurer" 675

'''Robin''' 
59; childhood friend recalled by Jessica

'''Robot Blitz''' 
85; German buzz bomb (aka "robot bomb" and "V-1") attack on London

'''Roca, Gen. Julio Argentino''' 
Roca distinguished himself militarily with victories in the "Indian wars" (ending in 1879), opening up the pampas to settlement by whites and turning him into a political hero which he parlayed into his election as president in 1880; "campaign to open the pampas by exterminating the people who live there" 387

'''Rocket''' 
incoming mail, 6; A4, 8, 396, 406, 411, 464; farting buzzbombs, 21; "explode first. . .then you hear them coming in" 23; "slender church steeples" 29 (& 624); "a piece of time neatly snipped out" 48; "a rocket has suddenly struck" 59; V-1 and V-2, 86; "the sounds of V-1 and V-2, one the reverse of the other" 144; premonitions in Psi section, 146; "rocket-mysticism" 154; "between the two points, in the five minutes, it lives an entire life." 209; assembly at Mittelwerke, 304; "Germans [...] who called the rocket Der Phau ["the peacock"], 223; "terrible passage reduced. . .to bourgeois terms" 239; Slothrop's discovery of blueprint, 242; and manhood, 324; "hidden inside the summer Zone, the Rocket is waiting" 359; 5 launching switch positions, 361; cult of A4 (A: "aggregate"), 391; Pökler's dreams of, 399; leading to freedom of outerspace, 400; money v. dreams, 400; Pökler as an extension of, 402; as fat Japanese arrow, 403; A3, 406; growing towards a predestined shape (Schicksal), 416; A5, 416; mapped on to face, 423; A4 test sites moved to Blizna, Poland in '43 - Sarnaki is Ground Zero, 424; problem rockets--"reluctant virgins" 426; 10K pounds sterling, 438; "half bullet, half arrow" 453; charisma of, 464; "the kingly voice of the Aggregate" 470; Rocket Noon, 500; fins=mandala, 563 (illus. 624); "The sand-colored churchtops [...] like rocket fins guiding the streamlined spires" 624; "A4. . .concealed behind an uncrossable wall that separated real pain and terror from summoned deliverer." 666; 673; firing vectors, 706; "Rocket state-cosmology" 726; "Rocket as Torah" 727; "an evil Rocket for the World's suicide" 727; "it comes as the Revealer" 728; Goebbels' "avenger" 747; origin of countdown, 753; See also [http://www.constable.ca/v2.htm V2 Page] - very good; [[S#schwartzgerat|Schwarzgerät]]; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-1_rocket V-1 Rocket at Wikipedia] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket V-2 Rocket at Wikipedia]

'''Rocketman (aka Raketemensch, aka Slothrop)''' 
359; a comic book character from the '40s and Tyrone's alter-ego; 366; comic-book dialogue, 371; 376; exists in nongeographical space ("Providence's little pal"), 379; war cry: "Hauptstufe" - "leaps broad highways in a single bound!" 380; "Fickt nicht mit der Raketemensch!" 436; 512; 596; "You poor fucker." 741

'''Rohmer, Sax (c.1883-1959)''' 
Sax Rohmer, aka Arthur Sarsfield Wade, was an internationally popular British writer who created the evil genius Fu Manchu, the Chinese hero-villain of many novels. Dr. Fu Manchu (1913) was the first in the series of which there were several more over the next 45 years, over which time Fu Manchu evolved from an entirely self-serving villain into a dedicated anti-Communist; "great Manichaean saga" 641

'''Rohr''' 
681; German: "tube" or "pipe"; Jehovah's witness who is "Keeper of the Antenna" for Germans to communicate with U-boats

'''Rommel, Erwin (1891-1944)''' 
Aka the "Desert Fox," Rommel is most famous for commanding the Afrika Korps in North Africa in 1941, driving the British out of Libya and into Egypt. Anglo-American forces finally compelled his surrender in Tunisia in 1943. He escaped and commanded German forces in Italy and then in northern France preparing for the Allied invasion of 1944. Seeing the writing on the wall, he begged Hitler to end the war. Although innocent, he was implicated in the July 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler and opted for suicide over arrest and a sure conviction; "Old Blood 'n' Guts" handed Rommel's ass to him in the desert" 287

'''Rooney, Mickey''' 
Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule, Jr.; September 23, 1920) is an American film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and stage appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. During his career he has won multiple awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award. Best known for his work as the Andy Hardy character in a series of 14 films. seen by Slothrop, 382; 438

'''Roosevelt, Eleanor (1882-1962)''' 
The wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor was a social-activist first lady during his presidency. After his death, she held various posts in the United Nations; Chiclitz's "Eleanor Roosevelt routine. 'The othuh day, my son Idiot--uh, Eliot--and I, were baking cookies'" 566

'''Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945)''' 
32nd president (Democrat) of the U.S., 1932-45. He started the "New Deal" program in 1933 to combat the Great Depression, which involved abandoning the gold standard, devaluing the dollar, state intervention in the credit market, agricultural price support, and the passage of the Social Security Act (1935) which provided for old-age and unemployment insurance;135; Third Term, 270; "died back in the spring [12 April]" 373; "it seemed he'd just keep getting elected, term after term, forever. But somebody had decided to change that. So he was put to sleep" 374; "a being They assembled, a being They would dismantle" 374; caricature of on Toiletship, 450; "'Mister Swope was ace buddies with old'" 565; "Roosevelt's 'election' in 1932" 581; "Harvard, beholden to all kinds of money old and new, commodity and retail" 581

<div id="rorschach"></div>'''Rorschach Test''' 
The Rorschach inkblots were developed by a Swiss psychiatrist, Hermann Rorschach (1884-1922), in an effort to reduce the time required in psychiatric diagnosis. His test consists of 10 cards, half in color and half in black and white. The subject is shown the 10 blots one at a time, the task being to describe what she sees in the blots or what they remind her of. There are no right or wrong answers; "'a so-called, "projec-tive" test'" 81; See also [[P#paranoia|paranoia/connectedness]]

'''Rosas, Juan Manuel de (1793-1877)''' 
After losing an Argentinian election in 1835, Rosas led a revolt and ruled as dictator, through terror and bloodshed, from 1835 to 1852; "The tyrant Rosas has been dead a century, but his cult flourishes" 264

'''Rose''' 
680; woman around a fire in the "dingy yellow amphitheatre"

'''Roseland Ballroom''' 
63; in Boston--where Slothrop drops his harmonica down the toilet in the men's room while vomiting; 623; 688

<div id="rossini">'''Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio (1792-1868)'''</div>
Italian composer of light comic opera and pleasant, melodious, crowd-pleasing music; "an abbreviated version of ''L'Inutil Precauzione'' (that imaginary opera with which Rosina seeks to delude her guardian in ''The Barber of Seville'')" 204; Rue Rossini, 248, 253, 257; ''William Tell Overture'' 262; overture to ''La Gazza Ladra'', [[Beethoven & Rossini|vs. Beethoven]], 273, 440; his music: "love without payment of any kind" 274; 376; "'The Italian girl is in Algiers, the Barber's in the crockery, the magpie's stealing everything in sight! The World is rushing together. . .'" 440; "Rossini [...] full of light and kindness" 622; "long-suppressed Rossini violin concerto (op. posth.)" 684; "Now I know it's not as keen as old Rossini [snatch of La Gazza Ladra here]" 685

'''Rossokovski''' 
501; left Peenemünde with White Russian Army; 504

'''rösti''' 
258;

<div id="routinization"></div>'''Routinization/ Rationalization of Charisma''' 
concept developed by Max Weber; Führer-principle, 81; "there should be no room for a terrible disease like charisma" 81; "we'll have shown again the stone determinacy [...] of every soul" 86; "Pavlov believed the ideal [...] is the true mechanical explanation" 89; "scrubbed and routinized fingers" 91; "cage his old gods, snare them in words" 99; "that vaguely criminal face on your ID card, its soul snatched by the government camera as the guillotine shutter fell" 134; "another long-routinezed nudge of horn, flip of hoof" 142; "Destiny will betray you, crush your ideals, deliver you into the same detestable Bürgerlichkeit as your father [...] fly from pain to duty, from joy to work, from commitment to neutrality." 162; "death-by- government" 176; "the rationalized power-ritual that will be the coming peace" 177; 201; "well before he loses his innocence and becomes one of them" 205; "There's just no passion at all" 216; "the Rocket's terrible passage reduced. . .to bougeois terms" 239; "dusty Dracularity, the West's ancient curse" 263; of Mittelwerke, 295; 324; 325; N.T.A., 339; writing down ajtys, 357; 416; A4's charisma, 464; routinization of sex, 467-68; "bureaucracy of departure" 470; "verbal, ranked and uniformed" 478; 508; 525; topiary, 535; "when the rages came over him, breaking through from beneath the rationalized look" 579; "the Masons had long, long degenerated into just another businessmen's club" 588; "grim rationalizing of the world" 588; Magician and the magical mandrake root, 625; "vague excitement at break in routine" 651; "You are perverting a great discovery to the uses of commerce" 665; keying waves, 698; Hexes-Stadt (you either become a bureaucrat or choose the world), 718; "the only enterprise is administrating" 718; "'Technique is just a substitute for when you get older'" 718; "The routines go on" 721; "Passageways of routine" 724; "The heroes will go on, kicked upstairs to oversee the development of bright new middle-line personnel" 752; [Attempting to impose order on GR]; See also [[C#control|control]]; [[G#grid|grid]]; [[M#mmpi|MMPI]]; [[N#naming|naming]]; [[#rorschach|Rorschach Test]]; [[Routinization of Charisma]]

'''Rowena''' 
200; one of two ladies with the General playing croquet as Slothrop falls from the tree, draped in a purple sheet

'''Royal Fellow''' 
37; "Royal Fellow-baiting" 171;

'''Rozhdestvenski, Admiral''' 
349-51; in December 1904, "command[ed] a fleet of 42 Russian men-o'-war" into the South African port of Lüderitzbucht" with Tchitcherine's father on board; "1904 was when Admiral Rozhdestvenski sailed his fleet halfway around the world to relieve Port Arthur" 452

'''Rózsavölgyi, Dr. Géza''' 
79; (Hungarian: "of the pink valley"); Hungarian; works in ARF wing;aka "Rosie" 80; violently anti-Soviet; "still with the project" 273; at Twelfth House, 632-35; son of Sandor the bulb salesman in Transylvania, 647; 692

'''Rózsavölgyi, Sandor''' 
647; father of Géza, "ace [lightbulb] salesman [...] who covered all the Transylvanian territory"

'''Rücksichtslos''' 
German: "inconsiderate" or "ruthless"); See Toiletship

'''Rudi''' 
155; "La Boheme Student" comrade of Leni's in KPD; 156; 158

'''Rundstedt offensive''' 
52; Gerd von Rundstedt (1875-1953) was one of Adolf Hitler's ablest military leaders in World War II. In 1944, this German field marshal directed the Ardennes offensive (Battle of the Bulge). General Dwight D. Eisenhower called him the ablest of the German generals of World War II. 131

'''RUSSIAN TRANSLATIONS''' [thanks to our Russian correspondent, Comrade Alexis B.]

:340: '''lepeshka:''' a bread roll, often made of a blend of rye and wheat flours

:512: '''budka:''' booth (traffic police in Moscow patrol from raised booths that look out over the street, which are called budkas)

:513: '''pogoni:''' the bars on the shoulders of military uniforms from which dangle the stars, tassles, &c. ''' 

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[[image:wuxtry.jpg|thumb|Wuxtry|60px|right]]738.19 '''Mickey Wuxtry-Wuxtry''' 
The last name is the archetypal newsboy’s cry: "Wuxtry! Wuxtry! [Extra! Extra!] Read all about it!" The spelling was commonly used in the 1940s: Jack Kirby’s ''Boy Commandos'', or ''The Newsboy Legion''; a painting by Albert Abramovitz (at the Harn Museum of Art); and articles in ''Time'' and ''Newsweek'', among others.

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742.29 '''The Fool''' 
In the March 21, 1969 ''Time'' cover story on astrology and the occult (see note at [[Page 29-37#31|31.28]]), the following reference to this otherwise-obscure group occurs: "A California rock group called The Fool has recorded several zodiacal songs not only because they believe only in astrology, but because they feel generally tuned in to the entire occult world (the Fool is the card in the fortunetelling Tarot deck that stands for Man)" [sic] (48).

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[[image:nymphenburg.jpg|thumb|Nymphenburg|120px|right]]750.11-13 '''on his camera dolly, whooping with joy, barrel-assing down the long corridors at Nymphenburg''' 
The palace, near Munich, was the birthplace of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Ludwig_II King Ludwig II of Bavaria] and also provided some of the sets for Alain Resnais’ ''Last Year at Marienbad'' (along with Ludwig's own Herrenchiemsee), one of several anachronistic references to postwar modernist films in the book, especially here towards the end. As viewers know, Resnais' film features long tracking shots down the corridors of these sets. (See also the reference to the "Bengt Ekarot / Maria Casares Film Festival" at [[Pages 735-760#755|755.3-4]]. As [[Weisenburger's Companion to Gravity's Rainbow|Weisenburger]] notes, both actors played the role of Death, in Bergman’s [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seventh_Seal ''The Seventh Seal''] and Cocteau’s [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orph%C3%A9e ''Orpheus''], respectively.) See note at [[Page 392-397#394|394.22]].

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752.01-03 '''Philip Marlow [sic] . . . Bradbury Building''' 
Philip Marlowe did have his office in in the Bradbury Building in one film adaptation of Chandler’s works: ''Marlowe'' (1969), based on ''The Little Sister'', starring James Garner. The Bradbury, long neglected and probably best known as a major setting in Ridley Scott’s ''Blade Runner'' (1982), has been restored and recognized as one of the most remarkable pieces of architecture in Los Angeles.

[[image:submariner-1.jpg|thumb|Sub-mariner #1|160px|left]]752.04 '''Submariner and his multi-lingual gang will run into battery trouble''' 
Some corrections to [[Weisenburger's Companion to Gravity's Rainbow|Weisenburger]]’s notes: ''Timely Comics'', ''Atlas Comics'', and ''Marvel Comics'' were all variant titles for the same company, known only by the last name since the 1950s. Sub-Mariner (pronounced "Sub-MARE-iner") was first created by Bill Everett for a one-time black-and-white giveaway comic called ''Motion Pictures Funnies Weekly''. The character made his first full appearance in issue #1 of ''Marvel Comics'' (published under the ''Timely Comics'' label). Prince Namor (not "Namore") was and remains an unusual hero, since he often has battled mankind and human/humanoid superheroes. As Prince of Atlantis, he was at first pledged to the destruction of humanity. By the time America entered World War II, he had become part of various teams working to defeat the Axis powers. He rarely, if ever, wore a cape. Pynchon’s use of the character here is puzzling for several reasons. First, the super-powered [[image:blackhawk.jpg|thumb|Blackhawk|100px|right]]Atlantean had no need for a battery-powered vehicle since he could breathe and swim underwater at high speeds (see picture on linked cover). Second, despite his team-ups with other groups during the war, he does not seem ever to have been part of a "multi-lingual crew." It may be that Pynchon never actually read the comic book. (His other superhero references including ''Superman'', ''Batman'', and ''Wonder Woman'' are mostly to heroes from Marvel’s publishing arch-rival, the DC publishing group.) Pynchon may, like many of the comics’ readers, have pronounced the hero’s name "Subma-REEN-er" and assumed that he actually commanded an underwater vehicle. He may have confused this character further with Blackhawk, the flying ace who did command a "multi-lingual crew" (including American, English, Dutch, Swedish, Free French, Polish, and a horrible, racist portrayal of a Chinese cook)!

752.07 '''The Lone Ranger will storm in . . .''' 
[[L#loneranger|''The Lone Ranger'']] began as a locally-produced program on Detroit radio station WXYZ (which also produced ''Sergeant Preston of the Yukon'' and ''The Green Hornet''). It began its television life (with Clayton Moore in the title role) in 1949 on the ABC network. The real name of the Ranger was John Reid. Dan (Jr.) was his nephew, son of John's murdered brother. Dan was featured in a number of radio and TV episodes (and would eventually be the father of Britt Reid, the secret identity of the urban vigilante The Green Hornet!). Here, the Ranger and Tonto are too late to save the nephew.

752.10 '''Tonto, God willing, will put on his ghost shirt ...''' 
A reference to the Ghost Dance movement among Native Americans in the 1870s. A Paiute known as Wovoka became a messianic figure as he preached that a dance would eventually restore American Indians to their rightful place in the world and cause the whites to disappear. Part of the movement involved the weaving and wearing of "ghost shirts," which it was believed would give the wearer immunity from soldiers’ bullets. White fear of these beliefs ultimately contributed to the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890 and the end of both the Ghost Dance movement and Native American resistance to white "manifest destiny." The reference to "cold fire" and the role of the shirt in relation to this passage remain unclear. Also see reference at [[Pages 674-700#697|p. 697]].

752.14 '''Yes, Jimmy''' 
Superman is speaking to his good pal, ''Daily Planet'' cub reporter Jimmy Olsen.

752.14 '''here, where everybody else walks around suntanned, and red-eyed from one irritant or another''' 
In a shift to the present, "here" is sunny, polluted Los Angeles.

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755.06 '''an inverted "peace sign"''' 
Nixon co-opted the "V" peace sign from the beginning of his 1968 Presidential campaign all the way through to his departure by helicopter from the White House after being forced to resign because of the Watergate scandal.

Popularized most in WW2 by Winston Churchill, it meant Victory and may have been the source of Nixon's use of it, most visibly when he won the national election in 1968,[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._presidential_election%2C_1968],but perhaps even earlier. Sourcing needed for earlier use by Nixon.

The "V" hand sign: The first definitive known reference to the V sign is in the works of François Rabelais, a French satirist of the 1500s. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_sign]

Most interesting here from the author of ''V.'', of course.

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756.39-40 '''a mysteriously-canvased trailer rig and a liquid hydrogen tanker''' 
Trucks probably carrying, respectively, a shrouded nuclear missile and its fuel.

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758 '''Moving now...present''' 
Very reminiscent of the Zen saying: "Before Enlightenment chop wood carry water, after Enlightenment, chop wood carry water."

Ties in to the Zen parable(perhaps) behind Pick Bananas, page 7?

Perhaps ties in to the meaning of the last word, "grace", in ''Against the Day''? And therefore some of Pynchon's deepest visions of life?

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433.32 '''"Der Feind hoert zu"''' 
Not 'The listening enemy' but 'The enemy is listening', a warning not to speak carelessly.

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435.8 '''George Raft suits''' 
An American film actor identified with portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s and 1940s. He was also noted for his elegant fashion sense.

[[image:wilmer-gunsel.jpg|thumb|Elisha Cook as Wilmer|100px|right]]435.10 '''gunsels''' 
Both of the meanings supplied by [[Weisenburger's Companion to Gravity's Rainbow|Weisenburger]] (a male homosexual and/or a gunslinger) also apply to a likely source for the Pynchon’s use of the word: the character Wilmer in Dashiell Hammett’s ''The Maltese Falcon'' and John Huston’s 1940 film adaptation, with Elisha Cook, Jr. in the role.

435.16 '''veronica''' 
In bullfighting, a matador’s move with his cape similar to the one that Slothrop employs here.

435.20 '''Fickt nicht mit dem Raketemensch''' 
German: 'Don't fuck with the Rocketman'; although this is more of a direct translation of an English phrase than something a German would say.

435.21 '''hiyo Silver''' 
'Hi-yo, Silver, away!'--the tag line from the radio and Tube show [[L#loneranger|''The Lone Ranger'']] delivered at the end of each episode as he rode off into the sunset.

435.29 '''''Saturday Evening Post''''' 
American news magazine especially know for its covers portraying folksy, down-to-earth, mainstream Americans and their lifestyle.

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439.26 '''a nasal hardon here''' 
Trudi’s invasion of Slothrop’s nose is a reversal of male pornographic fantasies of crawling into women’s vaginas, etc. The connections between the nose and penis have a long cultural history, including the novel Tristram Shandy and early works by Freud.

Cf. also, The chapter "In Which Esther Gets a Nose Job" in [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''V.''].

Also shades of the 1971 porn film, ''The Erotic Adventures of Pinocchio.''

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[[image:muttjeff.gif|thumb|Mutt & Jeff|100px|right]]442.09 '''They are a Mutt and Jeff routine.''' 
Mutt and Jeff were the tall and short friends featured in the earliest daily comic strip, begun in 1907 by Bud Fisher.

442.39-40 '''Irving Berlin medley''' 
[[image:irving-berlin.jpg|thumb|Irving Berlin|70px|left]][[Weisenburger's Companion to Gravity's Rainbow|Weisenburger]] has Berlin dying in 1975, but the composer did not die until September 1989 at the age of 101! The medley includes the two songs cited on page V443: "God Bless America" and "This Is the Army, Mr. Jones." The latter song gave its name to a 1943 film starring future California Senator George Murphy and future California Governor and U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Berlin composed "God Bless America" for a musical in 1917 but dropped it, then revised it for Kate Smith in 1938, who made the song the "unofficial American anthem." It is sung by Smith in This is the Army; in which Berlin himself also sings, "Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning." The film also features the song "I Left My Heart at the Stage Door Canteen." See note at [[Pages 120-136#134|p. 134.27]].

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[[image:carole-lombard.jpg|thumb|Carole Lombard|100px|right]]445.22 '''I’m a Lombard''' 
Although Greta evokes the geographical region, she may also be referring to film star Carole Lombard, the comic actress whose airplane crashed while she was on a war bonds tour during the war. Lombard had glamour as a star, although she is best known for roles in "screwball" comedies like ''Nothing Sacred'' (1937) and ''My Man Godfrey'' (1936) that undercut that image.

445.23 '''Close enough, sweetheart''' 
Slothrop’s hard-boiled reply to Greta echoes the cynicism of film characters like those played by Humphrey Bogart.

==Page 446==
446.18 '''Wannsee''' 
A popular beach, but also the location of the infamous conference on January 20th, 1942, where the strategy of the 'final solution' of the Jewish question was determined.

446 '''Hauptstufe''' 
Appears to mean: the "pen where we keep the sacred cattle" in German, but there is disagreement. Fits sharply, Pynchonesquely, here.

Not sure about sacred cattle, but Hauptstufe is the second stage, the main (haupt)stage (stuffe)of a multistage rocket. In the vanBraun-designed [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_V#Stages Saturn V] rocket, the second stage S-II consists of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. This stage accelerated the rocket through the upper atmosphere. So, Rocketman's cry of "Hauptstufe!" might be the Rocketman ("Racketenmenschsprache"?) equivalent of Superman's "Up, Up, and Away!"

Being a native speaker of German, I can add that "Hauptstufe" does not mean anything even remotely like "pen where we keep the sacred cattle" in any context I am aware of. "Haupt-" can be used as a prefix meaning "main", and therefore, in extension, "central", as in "most important", but "Stufe" means either "stage" or "step (of stairs)", and is never used to mean any kind of enclosed place or pen. In general, although Pynchon`s German is ususally remarkably keen, at instances he comes up with quite odd translations - so odd, in fact, that I would suppose him to have done it on purpose, to test out and play with his readers' good faith in telling them the truth. Thats what he seems to be doing most of the time anyway.

==Page 447==
'''dog show...stud service''' 
In Betty Freidan's best-selling feminist tract of the 1960s, ''The Feminine Mystique'' she mentions some bored, deeply unfufilled suburban wives with no outlet for their full intelligence and creativity, who did IT with their dogs.

Human-animal sexual encounters also happen in [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Against the Day''].

Notice in this dream of Slothrop's, the key colors are violet and green. Colors heavily associated with certain 'emancipated' suffragettes in [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Against the Day''].

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360.21-22 '''cadence being counted by a Negro voice—yo lep, yo lep, yo lep O right O lep''' 
Syncopated cadence for the march of the American workers: "your left . . . " The work detail is presumably black, since the Armed Services were not integrated until after the war.

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[[image:rocket-insignia.jpg|thumb|200px|right]]361.5 '''insigne''' 

[[Weisenburger's Companion to Gravity's Rainbow|Weisenburger]] explains "insigne" as being the latin spelling for a sign or mark. In fact, ''insigne'' is the singular form of the more familiar 'insignia', which is the plural form. That said, the photos to the right are of the A4 V3 (version 3) before launch from Test Stand VII on August 16 1942. The photo shows the V3 insigne, a (less than) pretty witch astride a rocket, carrying her obsolete broom. The color illustration is an artist's impression of the insigne. The inscription means Bon Voyage. Both images are from ''V Weapons of the 3rd Reich'' by Dieter Holsken (Monogram 1994)

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'''362.2-6 Well, I think we're here, but only in a statistical way''' 
Enzian's Zone-Hereros have a quantum mechanical existence similar to the thought experiment of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat Schrödinger's cat.]
Again we find here the same mathematical-logical condundrums and absurdities as found throughout the works of Lewis Caroll -- not to mention a cat who's sometimes there and sometimes not and sometimes just a grin. 

Compare this brand of contingent being with that of being existant only within Stalin's pathological dream or like Alice in the dream of the Red King. Statistical contingency seems digital compared to the analog counterpart of dream contingency.

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365.13 '''Grosser Stern''' 
This reference is not to a street but to a crossing in the Tiergarten.

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366.12 '''Tonto''' 
Native American character on [[L#loneranger|''The Lone Ranger'']] radio and Tube series.

[[image:scoop-comics.jpg|thumb|150px|right]]366.14 '''Raketemensch!''' 
The comic book hero Rocketman originated (along with Rocketgirl) in ''Scoop Comics'' #1, published by Harry "A" Chesler, in 1941. In 1943, the heroes were featured in Harvey Comics’ ''Hello, Pal Comics'', beginning with issue #1. The cover of the 1952 Ajax ''Rocketman Comics'' (mentioned by Weisenburger) is reproduced in the 1989 edition of the ''Comic Buyers Price Guide'': the hero depicted on the cover wears a rig that looks more like a diving helmet than a nosecone. [[#Page 383|See note below at p. 382]].

366.24-25 '''a four-color dispensation''' 
In other words, a comic-book scene, printed in color. The four-color printing process (including magenta, cyan, yellow, and black), which allows a full range of colors to be represented, was perfected in the early 1930s. [[Pages 60-71#Page 69|See note for p. 69]]

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370.01 '''Seaman Bodine''' 
"Pig" Bodine, Pynchon’s most enduring character, originating in the short story "Lowlands" and continuing in ''V.'' An ancestor of Bodine’s appears in [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Mason & Dixon''], as well as in [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Against the Day''].

370.37 '''The Green Hershey Bar''' 
That is, the hashish.

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'''Tägliche Rundschau''' 
434; German: "The Daily Panorama"; "discarded copies of" in Berlin

'''Taj Mahal''' 
This mausoleum on the southern bank of the Yamuna (Jumna) River, outside Agra in India was built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his wife, Arjumand Banu Begam, also called Mumtaz Mahal ("Chosen One of the Palace"), of which the name Taj Mahal is a corruption. It took 22 years to complete; 637

'''Takeshi''' 
See [[K#komical|Komical Kamikazes]]

'''Tallis, Thomas (c. 1505–1585)''' 
129; An English composer. Tallis flourished as a church musician in 16th century Tudor England.

'''Tamara''' 
247; at de la Perlimpinpin party; 261

'''Tannhäuser''' 
Tannhäuserism (love of being taken under mountains), 299; "even a Minnesinger needs to be alone" 299; "the Singing Nincompoop" 364; See also Lisaura

'''Tannoy''' 
127; Tannoy Ltd is an English manufacturer of loudspeakers and public-address (PA) systems. It became a household name as a result of supplying PA systems to the armed forces during World War II, and to Butlins and Pontins holiday camps after the war.

'''Tantivy''' 
See [[M#mucker|Mucker-Maffick, Oliver "Tantivy"]]

'''Tarot''' 
Judgment, 152; "shuffling the ancient decks oily and worn, throwing down swords and cups and trumps major" 413; The Fool, 501, 724, 742; "Der Grob Säugling, 23rd card of the Zone's trumps major" 707; "choose the world" 718; "The scene itself must be read as a card: what is to come" 724; Queen of Cups, 735; A.E. Waite, 738; 746-49; [[Weissmann's Tarot]]; [[Slothrop's Tarot]]; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rider-Waite The Entire Rider-Waite Deck]

'''Tauschzentrale''' 
366; German: "bartering" or "exchange" "center"; in Berlin; "all her husband's clothes have been traded for food at the" 572;

'''Tavistock Institute''' 
276; The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations is an interdisciplinary organization in London which concentrates on human relations in the family, the work group, and organizations. British psychiatrist R.D. Laing (1927-89) conducted research there from 1960-89.

<div id="tchitcherine">'''Tchitcherine, Vaslav'''</div>
290; Soviet intelligence officer; half-brother of Enzian; "mad scavenger" who officially reports to the TsAGE (Central Aero & Hydrodynamics Institute in Moscow) (1935-36); has need to annihilate the Schwarzkommando and "his mythical half-brother Enzian"; described, 337, 383; comes from Nihilist stock, 338; stationed in Central Asia in "early Stalin days" 338; "a raving snowman over the winter marshes" "a giant supermolecule. . .so many open bonds available" 345; story of his father, 350-52; 499; Kirghiz Light, 508, 510; "fear would always keep him from going all the way in" 566; illumination of, 611; 700; initiation into "bodyhood of steel" 702; "her graying steel barbarian" 718; "the Red Doper" 719; meets Enzian, 734; stays with Geli, 735; See also Kirghiz Light

'''TDY''' 
54; temporary duty

'''Technische Hochschule (T.H.)''' 
Mondaugen: "[Pökler's] old friend from the T.H. Munich" 160; "Glimpf, Professor of Mathematics of the Technische Hochschule, Darmstadt, Scientific advisor to the Allied Military Government" 309; "Zwitter is from the T.H. Munich" 313; Jamf lecturing Pökler's class, 577; "the greyness of certain crowds in the beerhalls back at the T.H." 579; 580;

'''[[Technology in Gravity's Rainbow|TECHNOLOGY]]''' 
See also [[#technische|Technische Hochscule]]; [[#they|They]]

'''Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre (d. 1955)''' 
539; Jesuit paleontologist and mystical philosopher

'''Telangiecstasis, Spyros ("Spider")''' 
389; Radarman 2nd Class on Badass

'''Tenniel's Alice''' 
247; Sir John Tenniel (1820-1914) was a cartoonist and artist who created almost 2000 cartoons for the humor magazine, Punch, but who is probably most famous for the illustrations he did for Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1864); [MORE]

'''Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892)''' 
Better known as "Alfred, Lord Tennyson"; was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular poets in the English language; "Tennysonian comfort of saying 'someone' has blundered", [[Pages 269-278#Page 270|270.14]]

'''TerBorch, Gerard (1617-81)''' 
Dutch Baroque painter whose genre pieces and portraits depict with grace and fidelity the atmosphere of middle-class life in 17th-century Holland. His works consist almost equally of portraits and genre pieces, with his usually delicate technique best reflected in the portraits which are painted on an almost miniature scale; "[Blicero] flings a boot-tree at a precious TerBorch" 104

'''Ter Meer, Dr. Fritz''' 
631; according to Sasuly, "Ter Meer was one of the half-dozen most important men in the IG: he was considered an outstanding scientiest; [...] he was a member of the IG managing board of directors. [...] [When asked after the war] if he felt that experiments on human beings were justifiable [,] he argued that ... no harm had been done to these KZ [concentration camp] inmates as they would have been killed anyway." (p.125-26)

'''T-Force''' 
558; "Officially [Chiclitz] is one of the American industrialists out here with the T Force, scouting German engineering, secret weaponry in particular"

'''T.H''' 
see ''Technische Hochschule'' above

'''Thanatz Alpdrucken, Reichssieger von''' 
142; "champion Weimaraner for 1941" in Pointsman's dreams of chase

'''Thanatz, Karel Miklos''' 
461; ["Thanatos" is Greek for "death]; husband of Greta Erdmann; aka Karel [a fairly common Czech name], 461; with Blicero, 464; reading whip scars, 484, 641; "he may have seen the actual firing" 562; with Pole who wants lightening to hit him, 663; 663-73; at homosexual community ("175-Stadt"), 666-67; at Sachsa's seances, 668; kidnapped by anti-Lublinites, 669; sex with Bianca, 670; taken by Schwarzkommando, 671; "he lost Gottfried" 671; "the angel [the Erdschweinhöhlers] have hoped for" 672; 736; "is [Sado-anarchism's] leading theoretician in the Zone these days" 737

'''Thayer's Slippery Elm Throat Lozenges''' 
18; sent to Slothrop in London by Nalline S.; 116; [Thayers.com]

'''theatre''' 
"it's all theatre" 3; "theatrically bitter" 133; "magnificent stone theatre" 148; "theatre nothing but Walter really look at head phony angle" 152; "just down the street from the theatre" 174; "you're in the wrong theatre of operations" 201; "every occupation town in the Theatre" 247; "only elaborate theatre to fool you" 267; "tears which are not all theatre" 302; "Perhaps it's theater" 326; "elaborate piece of theatre" 352; street-theatre, 399; "Mediterranean theatre" 438; "under a theatre marquee whose sentient bulbs may have looked on" 464; "this War. . .was all theatre" 521; "the elaborate theatrical foofooraw of Mob 'n' Masons" 586; "all become theatre" 722; "not without theatre" 743; "above the roof of this old theatre" 760; See also [[A#actors|actors/directors]]; [[F#film|film/cinema references]]; [[K#kingkong|King Kong]]; [[M#movies|movies]]; [[U#ufa|Ufa-theatre]]

'''Theil, Dr. Walter''' 
423; chemical engineer killed in British air-raid on Peenemünde in August 1943; 427

<div id="theophile"></div>'''Theophile''' 
247; [Greek: "god loving"]; friend of Italo's who is trying to smuggle a Sherman tank into Palestine

'''Thermidor''' 
"Thermidor" corresponded to July in the French republican calendar adopted in 1793 during the French Revolution, which dating system was intended to replace the Gregorian calendar with a more rational system devoid of Christian associations. The Gregorian calendar was reestablished by the Napoleonic regime on January 1, 1806; Mexico recalling "the sweaty evenings of" 713

'''Thesean brushings''' 
According to Greek myth, Theseus, the son of King Aegeus of Athens, went to Crete and slew the half-human, half-bull Minotaur, kept by King Minos (son of Zeus and Europa) in his Labyrinth (built by Daedalus). The Athenians had been sending seven youths and seven maidens to Crete each year to be set loose in the Labyrinth and eaten by the Minotaur. This yearly reparation was Minos' revenge for the jealous Athenians having killed Minos' son because of his victory over Athens in athletic games. King Aegeus sent his son Theseus as one of the seven youths in the next year's sacrifice. However, King Minos' daughter Ariadne had fallen in love with Theseus and so provided him with an indestructible clew to unwind as he entered the Labyrinth. He handily slew the Minotaur and was able to exit the Labyrinth; "[Pointsman's] lonely Thesean brushings down his polished corridors of years" 141; See also [[L#labyrinth|labyrinth]]; [[Weaving the Web]]

'''THEY''' 
::Jessica notes a coal-black Packard up a side street, filled with dark-suited civilians. Their white collars rigid in the shadows.

::"Who're they?"

::[Mexico] shrugs: "they" is good enough. "Not a friendly lot." (40)

"'They' embracing possibilities far far beyond Nazi Germany" 25; "They" conversation (Major-General), 33; "(They?)" 72; "he's begun to suspect, darkly, any number of Someones Over Here" 108; "an act of suicide [...] which in its pathology, in its dreamless version of the real, the Empire commits by the thousands every day, completely unaware of what it's doing" 129; "The true king only dies a mock death. [...] Any number of young men may be selected to die in his place while the real king, foxy old bastard, goes on." 131; "death-by-government" 176; 177; 195; "two orders of being" 202; "a clutch mechanism between [Slothrop] and Their iron-cased engine" 207; "Mothers work for Them!" 219; "if there is a life force operating in Nature, still there is nothing so analogous in a bureaucracy. . .It all comes down. . .to the desires of individual men" 228; "All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all." 230; 285; "They extinguish. . .not remind" 438; no physical locale, 251; "They would not be who or where They are without a touch of Dante to Their notions of reprisal." 350; "They sure must have the budget, all right. Look at this desolation, all built then hammered back into pieces" 374; "a system whose only aim is to violate the Cycle. Taking and not giving back, [...] removing from the rest of the World these vast quantities of energy to keep its own tiny desperate fraction showing a profit: [...] most of the World, animal, vegetable and mineral, is laid waste in the process" 412; "innocence and its many uses" 419; keeping Earth "for the numb and joyless hardons of. . .human elite" 521; "It is possible that They will not die. That it is now within the state of Their art to go on forever" 539; "They need our terror for Their survival" 539; "There's something still on, don't call it a 'war' if it makes you nervous, maybe the deasth rate's gone down a point or two [...] but Their enterprise goes on" 628; "necktie or cock" 637; "Creative paranoia means developing at least as thorough a We-system as a They-system" 638; "They will come and shut off the water first" 694; 697; "Their mission in this world is Bad Shit" 712; "Which is worse: living on as Their pet, or death? 713; "It is our mission to promote death. . .holding down the green uprising." 720; "submission and dominance are resources it needs for its very survival" 737; See also [[E#entropy|entropy/closed systems]]; [[Paranoia in Gravity's Rainbow|paranoia]]; [[Technology in Gravity's Rainbow|Technology]]

'''Things That Can Happen in European Politics''' 
77; Pudding's project which falls victim to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and/or Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem; 275

'''Third Term''' 
270; Franklin D. Roosevelt's third term, 1940-44

'''Thomas, Lowell (1892-1981)''' 
266; An American writer, broadcaster, and traveller best known as the man who made Lawrence of Arabia famous. So varied were Thomas's activities that when it came time for the Library of Congress to catalog his memoirs they were forced to put them in "CT" ("biographies of subjects who do not fit into any other category") in their classification.

'''Throsp, Corydon''' 
5; erected maisonette where Pirate and Bloat live; cultivated pharmaceutical plants on the roof; medieval fantasies, 10

'''Throwster, Aaron''' 
82; colleague of Pointsman's; "ARF's resident neurosurgeon" 113; 146; 227

'''Thuringia''' 
640; central German state in which Nordhausen is located; Thuringian, 240; sands, 306 [MAP]

'''Thyssen, Fritz (1873-1951)''' 
Leading German industrialist was a member of one of the world's wealthiest families and a major financial backer of Adolf Hitler's rise to power. After inheriting his father's fortune and industrial empire, he shrewdly combined the family holdings into a trust (Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG [United Steelworks Co.]) which controlled more than 75 percent of Germany's ore reserve and employed 200,000 workers. Like many German industrial leaders, he worried about the rise of socialism and was an early backer of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. He worked hard to get Hitler elected and was then rewarded by being appointed to the German Economic Council. Because he really only supported the anti-socialist positions of the Nazis, he broke with Hitler and fled to Switzerland when Hitler led Germany into war and began persecuting Jews and Catholics (Thyssen was a Catholic); conspiring with Stinnes and Krupp to ruin the mark, after WWI, 285

'''T.I.''' 
20; Technical Intelligence wing of English army

'''Tiergarten''' 
367; German: "zoo (lit. animal garden); this is the central park in Berlin

'''Tierpark''' 
419; German: "zoological gardens"; at Zwölfkinder

'''time''' 
"He'd seen himself a point on a moving wavefront, propagating through sterile history--a known past, a projectable future" 126; "to keep Grid Time synchronized with Greenwich Mean Time" 133; "spirits from other parts of the veld--for time and space on their side have no meaning, all is together" 153; penetrating the moment, 158; "slices of time growing thinner" 159; "There is the moment, and its possibilities" 159; all at once,165; secular, 169; "the clock ratcheting time minutewise into their past" 193; war reconfiguring, 257; "isolate inside the way time is passing" 303; "the true momentum of his time" 312; "time- modulation peculiar to Oneirine" 389; future/past, 400; "the space and time were Blicero's own" 486; "no serial time over there; events all there in the same eternal moment" 624; "the oneway flow of European time" 724; "herding us through time" 724; "a presence, analogous to the Aether, flows through time" 726; "his time's assembly" 738; "time is a funny thing" 752; See also [[D#deltat|delta-t]]; [[H#history|history]]; [[Too late...|TOO LATE]];

'''Time magazine''' 
463; American weekly "news" magazine

'''Titaniapalast''' 
446; "Across the façade of the" in Berlin

'''Titanic, the''' 
British luxury passenger liner that struck an iceberg and sank on April 14-15, 1912, en route to New York City from Southampton, England, during its maiden voyage. at a point about 400 miles (640 km) south of Newfoundland. Of the 2200 aboard, about 1,515 perished; "And come aboard the Titanic, things'll really be manic/Folks'll panic the second that sunken iceberg is knocked" 462-63

'''Tivoli''' 
121; club in London

'''Togo, Admiral Heihachiro (1848-1934)''' 
Led the Japanese fleet to victory in the Russo-Japanese War in 1863. In a desperate move, the Russians dispatched their Baltic fleet to Japan, meeting Togo's forces on May 27 in the Tsushima Strait, which connects the Sea of Japan with the East China Sea. Togo "crossed the enemy's T"--i.e., he turned his column across the Russian line of advance--and destroyed 33 out of the 35 Russian ships, ending the war; "hand[ed] Rozhdestvenski's ass to him" in the waters between Japan and Korea, 350

'''Toiletship''' 
448; aka Rücksichtslos (German: "inconsiderate" or "ruthless"); Swinemünde to Helgoland, 450; "a wind tunnel's all it is. If tensor analysis is good enough for turbulence, it ought to be good enough for history" 451;

joke of flaming toilet paper taken from the book "Flushed With Pride": ''One must be frank and admit that not all of Crapper’s developments met with immediate success. What was called the Trough Closet was, it would have appeared, a dandy idea for an inexpensive yet efficient flushing system for rows of toilets ‘in Schools, Workhouses, Factories, etc.’ A huge cistern flushed the water down through all the toilets (‘Quotations given for any number of Persons’) and then into a trough underneath which, like a little underground stream, carried all away. But Crapper had not reckoned with the devilment of the boys in the workhouses, who had very little fun anyway.

''Boys used to crumple up a big bit of paper, set light to it and drop it down the toilet upstream, to have the occupants leaping into the air with howls of anguish as it floated along to the outlet. This made it necessary for Crapper to bring out his Improved Trough Closet Range in 1902 in which each toilet had a water seal underneath and thus ‘all the objections hitherto raised to Trough Closets are removed’.

from Flushed With Pride, The Story of Thomas Crapper by Wallace Reyburn, published in the UK in 1969 and in the US in 1971.''
''

'''Toledos''' 
1935; Scales from the company Toledo Scale, founded in Columbus, OH in 1901; now known as Mettler Toledo

'''Tonto''' 
Native American character on [[L#loneranger|''The Lone Ranger'']] radio and Tube series. 366; 752

'''Tootsie Roll''' 
493: "see the sugar bowl do the Tootsie Roll with the big, bad, Devil's food cake"; [http:/www.tootsie.com/]

'''Tosks and Ghegs''' 
Two distinct Albanian social groups/cultures each with its own dialect and separated geographically by the Shkumbin River with the Ghegs (or Gegs) in the north and the Tosks in the south. The Ghegs were renowned for their independent spirit and fighting abilities, while the Tosks were more of a semifeudal society and more subject to foregin influences due to their southern territories being more accessible to the ouside world. The communist movement drew most of its support from the Tosks, taking over in 1944. Since then, the differences between the two have greatly lessened; 549

'''Tracy, Alfonso''' 
582-83; owned the defective pinball machines; Great Pinball Difficulty, 581

'''Tracy, Mable''' 
582; wife of Alfonso

'''Tracy, Spencer (1900-1967)''' 
266; An American theatrical and film actor, who appeared in 74 films from 1930 to 1967. The American Film Institute ranked Tracy 9th among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time. He was nominated for nine Academy Awards for Best Actor in all, winning two. The reference in ''GR'' is to his role as the African explorer Henry Stanley in the 1939 film ''Stanley and Livingston''.

<div id="Transmarginal"></div>'''Transmarginal Phases''' 
48,49,50,78,79; Ongoing sequential responses to '''overwhelming''' stimulus (1) equivalent phase - all stimuli have same expected response; (2) paradoxical phase - weak stimulus=strong response - vice versa; (3) ultraparadoxical phase - stimuli produce opposite response (ie if previously attracted to the stimuli, now reject it) and vice versa - confuse ideas of opposite

'''Treacle, Edwin''' 
85; 92; "most Freudian of psychic researchers" in Psi Section of White Visitation; 146; recent dreams of flight, 146; 153; "setting up a practice" 273; "I'll show you a giant ape" 276

'''Tree of Life''' 
"It is not only a sudden white genital onset in the sky--it is also, perhaps, a Tree...." 694; Kabbalist, 747; "Now the Sephiroth fall into a pattern, which is called the" 753; "the Tree itself is a unity, rooted exactly at the Bodenplatte" 753;

'''Trefoil, Gavin''' 
33; can change the melanin content of his skin to change his color; 124; 147; 215; 276

'''tripos''' 
31; a final honors exam at Cambridge university, originally in mathematics

<div id="geli">'''Tripping, Geli (pronounced: "Gaily")'''</div>
290; lover of Tchitcherine; lives in Nordhausen; lover of Slothrop; "pretty young witch straddling an A4" 293; 494; thinks she's a witch, 500; witch ritual, 717; "the World-choosing sort" 718; with Tchitcherine, 733-35; "the young witch" 734

'''Trotha, Gen. Lothar von''' 
362; German who led wholesale slaughter of Hereros in Südwest in 1904; exhibit at Zwölfkinder, 422; 563

'''Trotsky''' 
Trotskyite block, 189; Trotsky a former patron at the Odeon, 262; 338; "some beasrded old unreconstructed geezer of a Trotskyite" 399;

'''Trudi''' 
365; Säure's sidekick; her boyfriend is Gustav, 366; 684-85; Bodine spending more time with, 741

'''Truman, Harry S. (1884-1972)''' 
Succeeding Roosevelt upon his death, Truman was the 33rd president of the United States (1945-53). He moved the U.S. into international confrontation with Soviet and Chinese communism and worked to preserve the New Deal reforms; "'Emil, who's that guy in the glasses?'" 373; "the dapper, bespectacled stranger [...] the face that has silently dissolved in to replace the one Slothrop never saw and now never will" 381; 382; "famous Missouri Mason" 588

'''TsAGI''' 
273; Tsentral'niy Aerogidrondinamicheskiy Institute; "Officially [Tchitcherine] reports to TsAGI, which is the Central Aero and Hydrodynamics Institute in Moscow" 337; 391; 706;

'''Tungsram''' 
647; light bulb manufacturer "in Budapest" that was supposed to have created Byron T.B.

<div id="twelfth">'''Twelfth House'''</div>
274; new [[P#pisces|PISCES]] branch office on Gallaho Mews in London; so named by Webley Silvernail because Pisces is the 12th House in the Zodiac; Pointsman transferred there, 533

'''Typhoid Mary''' 
739; one who spreads a disease

'''typographical errors''' 
"pharnyx" should be "pharynx" 14; "at here at" should be "as here at" 32; "Strobe's" should be "Jamf's" (appears in early Viking editions), 86; "Nichols" should be "Nicholls" 94; "but God's sake" should be "but for God's sake", 120; "heart-transfer" should be "heat-transfer" 223 [[N#nusselt|perhaps not a typo]]; parenthesis at "(after you get..." doesn't close, 411; "Isle" should be "Ilse" 414; "airpseed" should be "airspeed" 454; "ecclesiatical" should be "ecclesiastical" 468; "elctro- decor" should be "electro-decor" 518; "Leunahalluziationen" should be "Leunahalluzinationen" 523; "is is" should be "it is" 715; "then" should be "than" 732; "Zundung" should be "Zündung" 758

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'''Berliner Luft''' 
German: "air of Berlin." It is an often-used phrase, in the sense of the special Berlin atmosphere.

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376.31-33 '''the knight who leaps perpetually -- across the chessboard of the zone''' 
In ''Through the Looking Glass,'' Alice attempts to get to the other end of the chessboard to become a queen herself. Along the way she is helped, without much success by the White Knight. 
The conversation and reactions here between Saure and Slothrop are almost a pastiche of the Alice stories. By 1973, when ''GR'' appeared, "acid" and Alice were of course linked forever in the popular consciousness -- largely thanks to Jefferson Airplane.

[[image:zorro-poster.jpg|thumb|100px|right]]376.36 '''Zorro? The Green Hornet?''' 
[[XYZ#zorro|Zorro]] and the Green Hornet are two masked superheroes Slothrop would know from comics and movies. Douglas Fairbanks starred in ''The Mark of Zorro'' in 1920, not 1932, as in [[Weisenburger's Companion to Gravity's Rainbow|Weisenburger's first ''Companion'' edition, corrected in the second ed.]]. Tyrone (!) Power starred in a sound remake in 1940. Britt Reid, the secret identity of The Green Hornet, was the son of Dan Reid, the nephew of the [[L#loneranger|Lone Ranger]].

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'''377.1-2 The wrong word was Schwarzgerat.''' 
Yes, the mythical White Woman is scared away by mention of the "black tool." Clever innuendo/double entendre here. Also possiblly underscoring that the White Woman relates to Virgo(?).

'''377.31-35 photo...long, stiff sausage of very large diameter being stuffed into his mouth...though the hand or agency...is not visible''' 
Reminiscent of the photos of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%2C_Duchess_of_Argyll Margaret, Duchess of Argyll] fellating a naked man where only the man's face and torso, not his head, is shown.

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'''Jubilee Jim''' 
Slothrop’s song evokes the pre-industrial peddler Jim Fisk mentioned in [[Pages 20-29#Page 27|''The Berkshire Hills'']].

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'''Hauptstufe!''' 
Compare the radio Superman’s words as he is about to fly: "Up, up, and away!"

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'''Mickey Rooney''' 
Rooney was in Germany, attached to an Army entertainment unit, at the time of the Potsdam Conference but was unable to go to Potsdam and meet Truman himself. However, there is a more likely, if more obscure, reason for the movie star’s presence here: Rocketman’s second magazine, ''Hello, Pal Comics'', only lasted for three issues. ''The Comic Buyer’s Guide'' notes, though, that the comic was unusual because it featured a photograph of a movie star on the cover of each issue. The cover of issue #1 was devoted to Mickey Rooney! Also see my article: "Rooney and the Rocketman" [http://www.ham.muohio.edu/~krafftjm/pynchon.html ''Pynchon Notes''] n 24-25 (1989): 113-115. [[Pages 359-371#Page 366|See note at 366]].

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'''Yellow Adversary''' 
751; aka [[F#fumanchu|Fu Manchu]], the character created by writer Sax Rohmer

'''Yellow James''' 
295; operates sandwich wagon at Mittelwerk during US occupation; 304

<div id="ypres">'''Ypres Salient'''</div>
The Ypres Salient is the area around Ypres in Belgium which was the scene of some of the most protracted and greuling trench warfare during World War I. Success was measured in feet and yards as tiny bits of land were captured, lost and recaptured throughout the war. Unit casualty rates were often extremely high; Pudding's triumph at, 77; 'the Salient', 234; smell of, 235

'''yeti''' 
594; Bodine mistaken for "a seagoing version of the legendary yeti or abominable snowman"

'''Yolanda''' 
603; blond "table dancer" at Putzi's

'''Youthful Folly''' 
13; the name of the 4th hexagram in the Wilhlelm/Baynes translation of the I Ching (or Yi Jing).

'''Yrjö, King''' 
119; "pretender but the true king [...] his lovely Hrisoula a step or two behind" in Mrs. Quoad's dream; [[King Yrjö|Pynchon's 1964 short story, "The Secret Integration"]]

'''Yvonne''' 
183; girl on beach, along with Françoise and Ghislaine, who is a dancer at the Casino Hermann Goering; 193 (named); 194; 204

==Z==
'''Zaxa''' 
218; anglicized pronunciation of [[S#sachsa|'Sachsa']]

'''Zehlendorf''' 
371; location of checkpoint Slothrop must get past on way to Neubabelsberg

'''Zen Buddhism''' 
koan, 454;

'''Zener cards''' 
40; A deck of cards developed in the 1930s by Karl Zener to test subjects for psychic ability. Each card has a symbol on one side, such as a circle or star or wavy lines, which only the experimenter can see; the subject has to then intuit the symbol on the card as it is held up; as Zener-deck 78;

'''Zero''' 
"try to bring events to Absolute Zero" 3; "a silent extinction beyond the zero" 85; in connection with Slothrop's deconditioning, 85; between waking & sleeping, 119; "each time has taken a little more of the Zero into herself" 150; "Absolute Comfort" 155; "as the pure light of the zero comes nearer" 159; Ideology of, 218; 223; "The German inflation. . .zeros strung end to end from here to Berlin." 258; Final Zero, 319-20; "zero at the top of the world" 340; 345; Enzian closest to, 404; "signal zero" 404; 406; 421; Ground Zero, 424; 451; "Zero up to Mach 6." 454; zeroing in, 521; Japanese Zeros (fighter planes), 672, 690, 692; "zero indifference" 714; See also nihilism; vacuum; Void

'''Zhdaev, Major''' 
502; captures Springer at Peenemünde; 511-14

<div id="zhlubb"></div>'''Zhlubb, Richard M.''' 
755; aka the "Adenoid"; night manager of Orpheus Theatre on Melrose Blvd. in LA; 37th President of the United States

<div id="leasteffort"></div>'''Zipf's Principle of Least Effort''' 
32; George Kingsley Zipf (1902--1950) wrote Human Behavior and the Principle of Least Effort which was published in 1949. The Principle predicts that most people, most of the time, are turned back by modest hurdles that they know could be overcome, with effort. To be habitual, an action must be relatively effortless or carry a particularly large psychic reward. And in what constitutes a "large reward," opinions and motivations vary widely across individuals.

As Robert Heinlein wrote in ''Time Enough for Love'': "The Principle of Least Effort: 'Progress doesn't come from early risers progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.'"

[[Zipf's Principle of Least Effort|Discussion of Zipf on Pynchon List]]

'''Zippo''' 
A brand of cigarette lighter; "Zippo flints" 18; "striking his faithful Zippo" 38; "Slothrop gives Schnorp a light from his Zippo" 332; "They light up off of Slothrop's faithful Zippo" 365; "I have a Zippo" 508; "hot from the flame of some joker's Zippo" 605; "the Zippo's ceremonial touch" 640; Zippo Page

'''Zone''' 
281; occupied Germany after VE Day; no frontiers--no subdivisions, 293; interregnum - flow with it, 293; "No zones but the Zone" 333; 359; and Destiny, 362; guilt becoming a commodity, 453; "endless simulation" in, 489; "British G-5 occupy their own space and Zone" 519;

:"It is a great frontierless streaming out here. Volksdeutsch from across the Oder, moved out by the Poles and headed for the camp at Rostock, Poles fleeing the Lublin regime, others going back home, the eyes of both parties, when they do meet, hooded behind cheekbones, eyes much older than what's forced them into moving, Estonians, Letts, and Lithuanians trekking north again, all their wintry wool in dark bundles, shoes in tatters, songs too hard to sing, talk pointless, Sudetens and East Prussians shuttling between Berlin and the DP camps in Mecklenburg, Czechs and Slovaks, Croats and Serbs, Tosks and Ghegs, Macedonians, Magyars, Vlachs, Circassians, Spaniols, Bulgars stirred and streaming over the surface of the Imperial cauldron [...]" 549

''A Cheapskate's Guide to the Zone''" 559; "one more overlay on" 620; 729 [MAP]

'''zootsuits''' 
Waxwing's, 246; Los Angeles Zoot Suit Riots of 1943, 249; Zootsuit Zanies (Slothrop & Waxwing), 251; "rolling into town in his white zoot" 253; "an oversize zoot-suit pocket" 258; "zoot 'n' hat" 259; "So long zoot" 262; "zootsters" 385, 716; "Negro in a pearl-gray" 675; Bodine's "of unbelievable proportions" 710; 711; "feminine zootsuit effect" 735

<div id="zorro">'''Zorro'''</div>
376; Zorro is a fictional character created in 1919 by pulp writer Johnston McCulley. He has been featured in several books, films, television series, comics and other media. Zorro (Spanish for fox) is the secret identity of Don Diego de la Vega (originally Don Diego Vega), a nobleman and master living in the Spanish colonial era of California. The character has undergone changes through the years, but the typical image of him is a black-clad masked outlaw who defends the people of the land against tyrannical officials and other villains. Not only is he much too cunning and foxlike for the bumbling authorities to catch, but he delights in publicly humiliating those same foes.

'''Zouave''' 
91; a member of a French infantry corps, originally of Algerian soldiers, distinguished for their physique, dash, and picturesque uniform of baggy trousers, short open jacket, sash, and tasseled cap; 112

'''Zwingli, Huldrych (1484-1531)''' 
267; The most important reformer in the Swiss Protestant Reformation and the only major reformer of the 16th century whose movement did not evolve into a church. Like Martin Luther, he accepted the supreme authority of the Scriptures, but he applied it more rigorously and comprehensively to all doctrines and practices; See also [[R#reformation|Reformation]]

'''Zwitter''' 
313; guidance expert; colleague of Glimpf's

'''Zwölfkinder''' 
398; German: "twelve children"; kids' park in Nikolaikirche in No. Germany on Baltic coast; near Wismar & Lübeck (280 km from Peenemünde); first visit of Franz & Ilse in '39, met every August for 6 years; 419-22; last visit, 428-30; Slothrop passes by, 575; "a children's resort" 725; See also [[P#pokler|Pökler, Franz]]

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164; bomb developed by Spottbilligfilm AG to blind "whole populations"

'''''La bohème''''' 
132; An opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini. The world premiere performance of La bohème was in Turin on February 1, 1896 at the Teatro Regio and was conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini.

<div id="labyrinth"></div>'''labyrinth''' 
"a progressive knotting into" 3; "labyrinthine," 10; "The rooms are triangular, spherical, walled up into mazes." 82; "labyrinth of conditioned-reflex work," 88; "this inexhaustively knotted victim" 93; "what there is of labyrinth collapsing in rings outward," 143; "soft, confusing, womanly tunnel-systems that must stretch back for miles" 195; "We are obsessed with building labyrinths, where before there was open plain and sky." 264; "El laberinto de tu incertidumbre," 383; "brick labyrinth," 384; "your labyrinth walls," 388; "as much labyrinth as required between himself and the inconveniences of caring," 428; "labyrinthine path," 537; "maps of his revetments and labyrinths," 672; "too finely labyrinthine, for either category to have much hegemony any more," 681; See also [[D#daedalus|Daedalus]]; [[T#thesean|Thesean brushings]]; [[Weaving the Web|Weaving the Web]]

'''Lalli''' 
685; "just in from Lübeck" at Säure's pad

'''Lamplighter, Allen''' 
139; buddy of Treacle's killed by a buzzbomb (V-1); one of the seven original owner's of The Book; 140; 146; 167

'''Lancaster''' 
136; The Avro Lancaster was a British four-engined WWII heavy bomber.

'''[[Fritz Lang|LANG, Fritz]]''' 
See also [[M#metropolis|''Metropolis''/Metropolis]]

'''Langhurst''' 
243;

'''Laredo lamb''' 
61; dance in Slothrop's Sodium Amytal session

'''Larson-Keeler''' 
84; "three-variable 'lie detector'

'''[[Latin Translations|LATIN TRANSLATIONS]]'''

'''Law of Negative Induction''' 
56;

<div id="lawn"></div>'''lawn sports''' 
golf, 190, 194; football, 194; croquet, 200; tennis, 476; [[Baseball| baseball]], 508

'''Lawrence of Arabia (1888-1935)''' 
Thomas Edward Lawrence was a British archaeological scholar, author and military strategist known for his legendary war activities in the Middle East during World War I and for his subsequent account of those activities in The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1926); 201

'''Lederhoseners''' 
736; road name for "the Lübeck Hitler Youth Glee Club"

'''Le Froyd, Reg''' 
73; "King of the Cold" (from Latin ''regens''--'that which reigns'; and French ''le froid''--'cold') and inmate at the White Visitation who in 1925 escapes and leaps into the sea, i.e., "steps back into the void". When pronounced by an English speaker, 'Froyd' would sound identical to 'Freud' which could make this escaped inmate the 'King of Freud'.

'''Lefty''' 
229; rat at White Visitation

'''Leibniz, Gottfried Wilheml (1646-1716)''' 
German philosopher, mathematician and polymath who is the putative inventor of the infinitesimal calculus (although he published his system in 1684 and Isaac Newton in 1687, the Royal Society formally declared for Newton in 1711). He also developed the doctrine of a hierarchical system of irreducible, immaterial isolates called "monads," the highest of which is God; "Summe, Summe, as Leibniz said" 300; "in the process of inventing calculus, used the same approach to break up the trajectories of cannonballs through the air" 407;

<div id="lemuria"></div>'''Lemuria''' 
The lost land that is supposed to have connected Madagascar with India and Sumatra in prehistoric times. It is thought that it was the original habitat of the lemur, so named for the ghost-like appearance of its face and its nocturnal habits which links to Lemurs, the evil and fearsome spectres of the dead of Roman religion who haunted their relatives and caused them injury; 564 
Lemuria features prominently in [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=L#lemuria ''Inherent Vice''].

'''Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich (1870-1924)''' 
Russian revolutionary who became an activist in communist organization after studying Marx. After being exiled to Siberia for 3 years for his activities, he lived in Switzerland in 1900. He returned to Russia in 1905 and worked to strengthen the majority Bolsheviks; when they took power after the Revolution in 1917 he was their leader; 162; former patron at the Odeon, 262; fond of "Napoleon's on s'engage, et puis, on voit" 346; Orders of Lenin, 636; See also [[S#stalin|Stalin]]

'''Lepers' Quarter in Bukhara''' 
347; where Tchitcherine bought his red and yellow opium pipe

'''Lerner, Sgt. Howard ("Slow")''' 
641

'''Leunagasolin''' 
523; "synthetic gasoline"; Moss Creature, Water Giant & Fungus Pygmies (Pavel's hallucinations), 523

'''Leyte Gulf''' 
The Battle of Leyte Gulf (Oct. 23-26, 1944) was a decisive air and sea battle of World War II, which crippled the Japanese Combined Fleet thus permitting a U.S. invasion of the Philippines, and giving the Allies control of the Pacific; "a drunken sailor whose ship went down at" 584; "The fighting is going on at Leyte. . .then on to Iwo Jima" 690

'''Lichtspiel''' 
German: "(cinematograph) film"; listed under "Espionage, Industrial" on the list of Zürich cafés, 258

'''Liebig, Justus Freiherr von (1803-73)''' 
Illustrious German chemist whose greatest achievements were in organic chemistry and animal chemistry; "the great professor of chemistry" who "was at the University of Giessen when Kekulé entered as a student" 411

'''Liebknecht, Karl (1871-1919)''' 
German barrister and politician who, with Rosa Luxemburg, formed the KPD, the German Communist Party, in 1918. He was killed by army officers while leading the so-called "Spartacus League Revolution" in Berlin in 1919; his funeral, 621

'''Lightning-Latch''' 
260; "The Door That Opens You!"

'''Likbez center''' 
338; the local, in Seven Rivers country, "one of a string known back in Moscow as the 'red durts'"; agents, 341;

'''Lilli''' 
408; one of Ilse's playmates at Dora

'''Lily''' 
547; 67-year-old mentioned in Pirate's and Katje's How I Came To Love the People

'''limericks''' 
305-07; 311; 334-35; See also polymorphous perversity

'''Limmatquai''' 
257; in Zürich, a quai along the Limmat River

'''Lindy Hop''' 
60; dance in Slothrop's Sodium Amytal session

'''Lion, the''' 
"in each one of you. He is either tamed — by too much mathematics, by details of design, by corporate procedures — or he stays wild, an eternal predator. [...] He takes, he holds!" 577; "the untamable lion who could let it all crash [...] asserting his reality against them all in one last roaring plunge" 578;

'''Lisaura''' 
The girl whom the mythical Tannhäuser (the Minnesinger: "minstrel") cheated on by living underground for a year with Venus (aka Frau Holda). After a year he returns, satiated, and goes to the Pope to seek absolution. The Pope says there's as much chance for Tannhäuser being forgiven as there is for the Pope's staff blooming. The Pope's staff miraculously blooms three days later, but not before Lisaura has died of grief and Tannhäuser has returned to the abode of Venus; 364; 393; Pope's staff, 470, 532; 533, 619; See also Tannhäuser

'''Lisele''' 
733; love note to her written on wall, which Slothrop sees somewhere in northern Germany

'''Livingstone, Dr. David (March 19, 1813-73)''' 
Scottish missionary and explorer whose 30 years of travel and Christian missionary work in Africa had a formative influence upon Western attitudes toward Africa. In spite of his paternalism and Victorian prejudices, he believed wholeheartedly in the African's ability to advance into the modern world. In 1871, stricken with illness and short on supplies, Livingstone put out a call for help. He was rescued by Sir Henry Morton Stanley who, upon finding the old hero, greeted him with the famous words "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"; "one of the "classic Weird Mason Stories [...] (living stone? oh, yes)" 587-88

'''Ljubica''' 
731; with Enzian

'''Llandudno''' 
468; coastal resort town in Wales, UK [http://www.visitllandudno.org.uk]; A statue of the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland stands on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llandudno#West_Shore West Shore], where Alice Liddell and her family spent their summer holidays.

'''Loaf, H.A.''' 
14; as in Half A. Loaf is better than none?

'''Lombard''' 
Member of a Germanic people who from 568 to 774 ruled a kingdom in Italy. Originally in northwestern Germany (1st century AD), they had by the end of the 5th century, migrated and settled into the area roughly coinciding with modern Austria north of the Danube River; "I'm not a German, I'm a" 445

<div id="loneranger">'''Lone Ranger'''</div>
An American radio (1933-1954) and Tube (1947-1957) series. The title character is a masked Texas Ranger in the American Old West who gallops about righting injustices with the aid of his clever, laconic Native American companion, Tonto. Departing on his white horse Silver, the Ranger would famously say "Hi-yo, Silver, away!" as the horse galloped toward the setting sun. The show used part of Rossini's ''Wilhelm Tell Overture'' as it's theme song. The radio series inspired a spin-off called ''The Green Hornet'', which depicts the son of the Lone Ranger's nephew Dan, Britt Reid, who in contemporary times fights crime with a similar secret identity and sidekick, Kato. ''Wilhelm Tell Overture'' 262; Tonto, 366, Green Hornet, 376; hiyo Silver, 435; 752

'''Long Enough''' 
664; "The text of each issue [...] when transformed this way, yields many interesting messages"

'''Lord of the Night''' 
"children [...] [p]raying to their Master" 49; "waiting beside the door of the bus in his pressed uniform" 413;

'''Lord of the Sea''' 
73; aka "Bert", heard by Reg Le Froyd

'''Lorraine and Judy''' 
19; characters in a Slothrop story related by Tantivy to Bloat. See also Slothrop's girls/star

'''Lourdes''' 
A pilgrimage town in southwestern France, situated at the foot of the Pyrenees IFrom February 11 to July 16,1858, Bernadette Soubirous, a 14-year-old girl, had numerous visions of the Virgin Mary in the nearby Massabielle grotto, on the left bank of the stream that runs through the town. In 1862, the Pope declared the visions authentic, and thus the cult of Our Lady of Lourdes was sanctioned. The underground spring in the grotto, as revealed to Bernadette, was declared to have miraculous qualities and Lourdes has been a major pilgrimage center ever since; "the holy water of" 479; [http:/www.lourdes-france.com]

'''[[LOVE]]''' 
Check out Douglas Kløvedal Lannark's exhaustive & excellent documenting of "love" in Gravity's Rainbow!

'''LSD''' 
"Sandoz (where. . .Dr. Hofman made his. . .discovery)," 250; "You interested in some L.S.D.?" - 260; "the indole crowd. They're very elitist. They see themselves at the end of a long European dialectic, generations of blighted grain, ergotism, witches on broomsticks, community orgies, cantons lost up there in folds of mountain that haven't known an unhallucinated day in the last 500 years" 261; "Micro" Graham (as in microgram), 295; Devil behind the mirror, 444; "a touch of acid," 586; See also Bummer, Säure; dope

'''L.S.D.''' 
260; Latin: Libra, solidi and denarii = "Pounds, shillings, pence"

'''Luba''' 
339; worked for Tchitcherine in Central Asia

'''Lubbock, Isaac''' 
240; "the Father of British Liquid Oxygen Research"; a Shell employee; his team "set up a static-test facility at Langhurst near Horsham";

'''Lübeck''' 
151; civilian town which the RAF bombed on Palm Sunday, provoking German rocket attacks on London; Leni grew up there, 162; angel, 217; Lübeck Hitler Youth Glee Club, 736 [[MAP]]

'''Lublin Communists''' 
34; "drawing beads on Varsovian shadow-ministers"; "Poles fleeing the Lublin regime" 549;

'''Lucifer Amp''' 
542; "verminous, hairy creature" that used to worked for SOE

'''Lüderitzbucht''' 
350; bay in Südwest; 388; [MAP]

'''Ludwig''' 
553; kid who has lemming named "Ursula"; shadowing the Schwarzkommando, 729; "a white glowworm in the mist," 733; with Thanatz, 736; [Etymological musings]

'''Ludwig II (1845-1886)''' 
King of Bavaria from 1864 until shortly before his death. He is sometimes referred to as the Swan King in English and der Märchenkönig (the Fairy tale King) in German. He is sometimes also referred to as "Mad King Ludwig", though the accuracy of that label has been disputed. Ludwig is best known as an eccentric whose legacy is intertwined with the history of art and architecture, as he commissioned the construction of several extravagant fantasy castles (the most famous being Neuschwanstein) and was a devoted patron of the composer Richard Wagner. "von Göll had dreamed of making a film about" 394; "we have long left mad Ludwig and his Spanish dancer guttering" 750;

'''Luftwaffe''' 
25; German airforce; "resort near Scheveningen" 97; "Army vs." 416;

'''Lugones, Leopoldo (1874-1938)''' 
Argentine poet, literary and social critic, and cultural ambassador, considered to be the outstanding figure of his age in the cultural life of Argentina. He had a substantial influence on writer Jorge Luis Borges. Increasingly uncomfortable with the prominence and accompanying public responsibilities, he became a fascist in 1929 and, under great emotional strain in later years, he committed suicide; "saying 'Now I'm going to tell you, in verse, how I conceived her free from the stain of Original Sin'" 263; "Pavos Reales" 383

'''Lugosi, Béla (1882-1956)''' 
106; Born Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó in Lugoj (at the time part of Austria–Hungary, now in Romania), this ethnic-Hungarian actor of stage and screen was well known for playing Count Dracula in the Broadway play and subsequent film version. Through his association with ''Dracula'' (in which he appeared with minimal makeup, using his natural, heavily accented voice), Lugosi found himself typecast as a horror villain in such movies as ''Murders in the Rue Morgue'', ''The Raven'', and ''Son of Frankenstein'' for Universal, and the independent ''White Zombie''. In the last years of his career he featured in several of Ed Wood's low budget films.

<div id="luneburg"></div>'''Lüneburg Heath''' 
Site of Blicero's last stand/final madness where the S-gerät 00000 is fired; Argentinians' goal to set up a small estancia [Sp: a large estate, esp. a cattle ranch], 388, 390; Thanatz & Greda move there, 486; Slothrop tells Enzian about the Heath, 562; "Among the prehistoric German tribes, that's what this country was: the territory of the dead." 612; Mexico drives through "the burnt-purple rolling of," 626; Blicero "got as far as the Lüneberg [misspelled]," 659; "the last stand in the," 666; "There are. . .no windmills on the," 670; "Kingdom-of-the-Deathward," 673; 692; Tchitcherine "came into Lüneburg last weekend," 719; Schwarzkommando arrive to assemble 00001, 737; "The Heath grows green and magenta in all directions," 749 [[MAP]]

'''Lüstig, Lotte''' 
483; German: Lüstig = "merry, joyful"; "dizzy debutante" Erdmann played in Jugend Herauf!, "proceeding downriver in a bathtub with rich playboy Max Schlepzig"

'''Luxemburg, Rosa (d. 1919)''' 
155; founded KPD with Karl Liebknecht (see p. 621). Both were murdered in 1919; 158; See also [[K#kpd|KPD]]

'''Luz''' 
383; with Felipe on U-boat; also "Squalidozzi's girl"

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433.32 '''"Der Feind hoert zu"''' 
Not 'The listening enemy' but 'The enemy is listening', a warning not to speak carelessly.

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435.8 '''George Raft suits''' 
An American film actor identified with portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s and 1940s. He was also noted for his elegant fashion sense.

[[image:wilmer-gunsel.jpg|thumb|Elisha Cook as Wilmer|100px|right]]435.10 '''gunsels''' 
Both of the meanings supplied by [[Weisenburger's Companion to Gravity's Rainbow|Weisenburger]] (a male homosexual and/or a gunslinger) also apply to a likely source for the Pynchon’s use of the word: the character Wilmer in Dashiell Hammett’s ''The Maltese Falcon'' and John Huston’s 1940 film adaptation, with Elisha Cook, Jr. in the role.

435.16 '''veronica''' 
In bullfighting, a matador’s move with his cape similar to the one that Slothrop employs here.

435.20 '''Fickt nicht mit dem Raketemensch''' 
German: 'Don't fuck with the Rocketman'; although this is more of a direct translation of an English phrase than something a German would say.

435.21 '''hiyo Silver''' 
'Hi-yo, Silver, away!'--the tag line from the radio and Tube show 'The Lone Ranger' delivered at the end of each episode as he rode off into the sunset.

435.29 '''''Saturday Evening Post''''' 
American news magazine especially know for its covers portraying folksy, down-to-earth, mainstream Americans and their lifestyle.

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439.26 '''a nasal hardon here''' 
Trudi’s invasion of Slothrop’s nose is a reversal of male pornographic fantasies of crawling into women’s vaginas, etc. The connections between the nose and penis have a long cultural history, including the novel Tristram Shandy and early works by Freud.

Cf. also, The chapter "In Which Esther Gets a Nose Job" in [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''V.''].

Also shades of the 1971 porn film, ''The Erotic Adventures of Pinocchio.''

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[[image:muttjeff.gif|thumb|Mutt & Jeff|100px|right]]442.09 '''They are a Mutt and Jeff routine.''' 
Mutt and Jeff were the tall and short friends featured in the earliest daily comic strip, begun in 1907 by Bud Fisher.

442.39-40 '''Irving Berlin medley''' 
[[image:irving-berlin.jpg|thumb|Irving Berlin|70px|left]][[Weisenburger's Companion to Gravity's Rainbow|Weisenburger]] has Berlin dying in 1975, but the composer did not die until September 1989 at the age of 101! The medley includes the two songs cited on page V443: "God Bless America" and "This Is the Army, Mr. Jones." The latter song gave its name to a 1943 film starring future California Senator George Murphy and future California Governor and U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Berlin composed "God Bless America" for a musical in 1917 but dropped it, then revised it for Kate Smith in 1938, who made the song the "unofficial American anthem." It is sung by Smith in This is the Army; in which Berlin himself also sings, "Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning." The film also features the song "I Left My Heart at the Stage Door Canteen." See note at [[Pages 120-136#134|p. 134.27]].

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[[image:carole-lombard.jpg|thumb|Carole Lombard|100px|right]]445.22 '''I’m a Lombard''' 
Although Greta evokes the geographical region, she may also be referring to film star Carole Lombard, the comic actress whose airplane crashed while she was on a war bonds tour during the war. Lombard had glamour as a star, although she is best known for roles in "screwball" comedies like ''Nothing Sacred'' (1937) and ''My Man Godfrey'' (1936) that undercut that image.

445.23 '''Close enough, sweetheart''' 
Slothrop’s hard-boiled reply to Greta echoes the cynicism of film characters like those played by Humphrey Bogart.

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446.18 '''Wannsee''' 
A popular beach, but also the location of the infamous conference on January 20th, 1942, where the strategy of the 'final solution' of the Jewish question was determined.

446 '''Hauptstufe''' 
Appears to mean: the "pen where we keep the sacred cattle" in German, but there is disagreement. Fits sharply, Pynchonesquely, here.

Not sure about sacred cattle, but Hauptstufe is the second stage, the main (haupt)stage (stuffe)of a multistage rocket. In the vanBraun-designed [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_V#Stages Saturn V] rocket, the second stage S-II consists of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. This stage accelerated the rocket through the upper atmosphere. So, Rocketman's cry of "Hauptstufe!" might be the Rocketman ("Racketenmenschsprache"?) equivalent of Superman's "Up, Up, and Away!"

Being a native speaker of German, I can add that "Hauptstufe" does not mean anything even remotely like "pen where we keep the sacred cattle" in any context I am aware of. "Haupt-" can be used as a prefix meaning "main", and therefore, in extension, "central", as in "most important", but "Stufe" means either "stage" or "step (of stairs)", and is never used to mean any kind of enclosed place or pen. In general, although Pynchon`s German is ususally remarkably keen, at instances he comes up with quite odd translations - so odd, in fact, that I would suppose him to have done it on purpose, to test out and play with his readers' good faith in telling them the truth. Thats what he seems to be doing most of the time anyway.

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'''dog show...stud service''' 
In Betty Freidan's best-selling feminist tract of the 1960s, ''The Feminine Mystique'' she mentions some bored, deeply unfufilled suburban wives with no outlet for their full intelligence and creativity, who did IT with their dogs.

Human-animal sexual encounters also happen in [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Against the Day''].

Notice in this dream of Slothrop's, the key colors are violet and green. Colors heavily associated with certain 'emancipated' suffragettes in [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Against the Day''].

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448.4 '''''Rücksichtslos''''' 
German: inconsiderate or reckless; Pynchon might have been having some fun though--a translation of the three parts of the word would be something like 'back-view-less', an interesting choice for the name of a Toiletship.

448.23-24 '''like American cowboy actor Henry Fonda''' 
Contrary to [[Weisenburger's Companion to Gravity's Rainbow|Weisenburger]], Fonda did not appear "almost exclusively" in Westerns before ''The Grapes of Wrath'' in 1940. He did appear in ''The Trail of the Lonesome Pine'' (1936), but that film is set in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and is not a Western as such. He played Frank James in ''Jesse James'' (1939) but did not make ''The Return of Frank James'' until 1940. Other Fonda roles in the 1930s included crime dramas (''You Only Live Once''), comedies (''The Male Animal'', ''The Lady Eve''), historical dramas (''Drums along the Mohawk''), and biographical films (''Young Mr. Lincoln''). The description of Albert Speer "leaning akimbo against the wall" bears an anachronistic resemblance to Fonda as Wyatt Earp in some scenes of John Ford’s ''My Darling Clementine'' (1946). (As a side note, both ''The Return of Frank James'' and ''You Only Live Once'' were directed by Fritz Lang, after he had fled Nazi Germany to America.)

448.26 '''''Kriegsmarine''''' 
German: Navy

448.29 '''''Geschwader''''' 
German: squadron

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[[image:buffalo-bayou.jpg|thumb|Buffalo Bayou|120px|right]]449.15 '''Buf-falo Bayou''' 
Buffalo Bayou is in Houston, Texas. Part of it was dredged and cleared over the years to create the Houston Ship Channel.

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452.39-40 '''Ackeret, Busemann, von Kármán and Moore, some Volta Congress papers''' 
Jacob Ackeret, Adolf Busemann, Theodore von Kármán, Norton B. Moore: all experts on supersonic flight; 5th Volta Congress on High Speeds in Aviation, held in Rome in 1935

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453.3 '''the Gomerians whistling... as you sat out on counter the KdF ship''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silbo_Gomero_language Silbo Gomero] (Gomeran whistle) was the unique whistle language invented by the extinct Guanche people in the Canary Islands, later adapted to Castilian by Spanish settlers. The purpose of the Kraft durch Freude (Strength through Joy) movement was "to inculcate workers with a sense of being an integral part of the racially based national community" (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15. edition, 1994. 20:122) Among several attractive leisure-time projects, this program subsidized workers' vacations, including cruises on the Mediterranean or the Baltic Sea; there were [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraft_durch_Freude four cruisers], see ''Tätigkeiten''. Sailing past the Canary Islands may be pure fiction, enhancing the extinction/genocide theme.

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454.01 '''in the Pentagon''' 
The world’s largest office building was completed in 1943.

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455.35 '''"Sporri" and "Hawasch"''' 
Doctor Mabuse’s two assistants in Lang’s 1922 film.

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[[image:Veidt-Krauss.jpg|thumb|150px|right]]'''tenement courtyards . . . Highlights are painted on to the sets''' 
The tenement courtyards can be seen in many German films of the 1920s, especially the "street" films such as Pabst’s ''The Joyless Street'' as well as in Fritz Lang’s ''M'' (1931). Highlights painted on the sets are a feature of some early German Expressionist films, notably ''The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cabinet_of_Dr._Caligari_(1920_film) Wikipedia entry]

'''vamp a la Brigitte Helm''' 
[[image:brigitte-helm.jpg|thumb|220px|Brigitte Helm in ''Metropolis''|right]]Brigitte Helm (1908-1996) was a German actress. Her first and most famous role was a double one: the saintly Maria and the evil robot who tries to seduce the workers to their own destruction in Lang’s [[''Metropolis'']] (1927). After ''Metropolis'' In 1935, angered by Nazi control of the German film industry, she moved to Switzerland where she later had 4 children with her second husband Dr. Hugo Kunheim, an industrialist. After her retirement from films in 1936 (she made over 30, including talkies), she refused to grant any interviews concerning her film career.

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[[image:dietrich.jpg|thumb|Original Poster for ''The Blue Angel''|90px|right]]394.3 '''the anti-Dietrich'''
Greta’s reference is somewhat anachronistic. If she achieved stardom in the 1920s, Greta would not have been compared to Dietrich until late in her career. Although featured in several German silent films, Dietrich only became famous when she starred in the first German talking film, ''The Blue Angel'', in 1930. The director, Josef von Sternberg, brought her to Hollywood where he made her one of the great stars, playing a "destroyer of men" in such American films as ''Morocco'' (1930), ''Blonde Venus'' (1932), and ''The Devil Is a Woman'' (1935). Note that Pynchon also referred anachronistically to Dietrich’s eyebrows in the chapter "Mondaugen’s Story" in ''V.'' Greta's appearance as a faded but deadly silent film star is also (anachronistically) similar to Gloria Swanson's role as Norma Desmond in Billy Wilder's ''Sunset Boulevard'' (1950).

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394.22 '''Herrenchiemsee''' 
The last and largest of the castles built by the mad King Ludwig of Bavaria, modeled after Versailles. Also see note at [[Pages 735-760#750|p.750]].
 

394.23 '''Ludwig II''' 
[[image:Ludwig.jpg|thumb|Helmut Berger|200px|right]]Something was "in the air" about Ludwig in the early 1970s. The mad king was the subject of a film by Italian director Luchino Visconti in 1973. The date is too close to the publication of ''Gravity’s Rainbow'' to be a likely direct influence, but could there have been an indirect connection? The film’s star, Helmut Berger, also had the lead in Visconti’s ''The Damned'' (1969), playing the transvestite scion of a German industrialist family. He imitates Marlene Dietrich and is eventually involved in a child’s murder. All of this is suggestive in relation to Greta and Blicero.

[[image:fridericus.jpg|thumb|90px|Poster for ''Fridericus Rex''|right]]394.24 '''The rage then was all for Frederick''' 
A reference to the popular series of German films about Frederick the Great that began with ''Fridericus Rex'' (1922) and lasted into the Hitler era, all starring Otto Gebuhr. Kracauer notes how these films tended to routinize rebellion by placing it as part of a process leading to submission (''From Caligari to Hitler'' 118).

394.31 '''even on orthochromatic stock''' 
Orthochromatic film stock was standard in the movie industry through most of the silent era. It produced the warm tones alluded to here, but was sensitive only to certain portions of the light spectrum and would not register reds or yellows (one reason for the heavy makeup worn in some silent films). It was replaced in the late 1920s by Panchromatic stock, which is sensitive to all colors in the spectrum.

394.33 '''''Das Wütend Reich''''' 
Literally, 'The Raging Empire', although gramatically it should be ''Das Wütende Reich''; evokes [[W#wuotan|Wuotan]] and his ''Wütende Heer'', see notes [[Pages 71-72#Page 72|72.27]] and [[Pages 72-83#Page 75|75.13]]

394.34 '''Endless negotiating, natty little men with Nazi lapel pins''' 
One nearly legendary story, retold by Kracauer and others, is how Fritz Lang was called to a bureaucrat’s office after making his film ''M'', the story of a child murderer played by Peter Lorre. The official, sporting a pin like the ones mentioned here, wanted to know what the film was about, assuming that the working title, Murderer among Us, referred to Hitler. He was reassured to find out the real subject, and the film’s name was changed. Von Göll may have met the same bureaucrat.

394.33 '''Königreich''' 
Igor Zabel notes that the word simply means "Kingdom."

[[image:pandoras-box.jpg|thumb|100px|Louise Brooks as Lulu|right]]394.35 '''delighted Goebbels''' 
But probably only in private. The perverse personal tastes of the Nazi leadership are legendary (in more than one sense), but German films under Hitler’s regime and Goebbels’ supervision always endorsed bourgeois morality and would never have displayed anything close to the decadence of von Göll’s ''Good Society''. (Hitler is supposed to have claimed that ''Gone with the Wind'' was his favorite movie!) The film does echo scenes of decadent parties in earlier German films, such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Mabuse,_der_Spieler ''Dr. Mabuse''], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Lubitsch Lubitsch’s] ''Madame DuBarry'' and ''The Merry Widow'', and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Wilhelm_Pabst Pabst’s] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diary_of_a_Lost_Girl ''Diary of a Lost Girl''] (starring [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Brooks Louise Brooks], right) and ''The Love of Jeanne Ney''.

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'''W.A.A.F.''' 
151; UK: Women's Auxiliary Air Force

'''Wafna, Count''' 
491; passenger aboard the Anubis

'''Wagner, Professor''' 
452; "of Darmstadt predicted that at speeds above Mach 5, air would liquefy"

<div id="wagner"></div>'''Wagner, Richard (1813-1883)''' 
German composer and theorist whose operas and music had a revolutionary influence on the form and harmony of Western music. His major works include The Flying Dutchman (1843), Tannhäuser (1845), Lohengrin (1850), Tristan und Isolde (1865), Parsifal (1882), and his awesome tetralogy, The Ring of the Nibelung (1869-76) "Bürgerlichkeit played to Wagner, the brasses faint and mocking, the voices of the strings drifting in and out of phase" 324; "Wagnerian battlements" 393; Wagner played on Toiletship, 450

'''Wahmke, Dr. Kurt''' 
403; German rocket scientist killed in 1934 in explosion in Kummersdorf; "First blood, first sacrifice."

'''Waite, Mr. A. E. (1857-1942)''' 
738; Arthur Edward Waite was an occultist and co-creator of the Rider-Waite Tarot deck. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Edward_Waite Wikipedia entry]

<div id="waits"></div>[[image:leicester-waits.jpg|thumb|''Christmas Eve, Highcross Market''|right]]'''waits''' 
128; "join the waits"; Leicester's ancient tradition of Town Waits official musicians who supported the Lord Mayor at civic events, entertained townspeople and feted visitors. The waits were originally guards or watchmen who walked round the town at night looking out for fires or other trouble. They rang bells to tell people the time, or called out '2 o'clock and all's well'. They also played music for the Lord Mayor's guests on big occasions, and entertained the general public. This became their main job. By 1900 the waits' instruments were a cornet, a euphonium, a tenor horn and a trombone. From then, the waits mostly played popular requests for a small fee, which was given to charity. By the 1940s, a request would cost about half a crown (12p). The Leicester Waits were disbanded around 1947. [http://www.leicester.gov.uk/NewsSite/index01.asp?pgid=3182]

'''Walpurgisnacht''' 
293; German: St. Walpurgia Night. The night before May 1, originally dedicated to St. Walpurgia, the 8th century English nun who founded religious houses in Germany. It is associated in German folklore with the witches' Sabbat on the Brocken, where the witches and sorcerers perform their black rites and reaffirm their subservience to the demon Master.

'''Waltz of the Future''' 
296; "the strangely communal" in Raketen-Stadt

<div id="wandervogel">'''Wandervogel'''</div>
99; (German: "bird of passage"); Thomas Moore: "organization, founded in 1901 as a boys' hiking and nature club, readily became, as it spread over the country, a plastic-deformable movement against all establishments of the fathers. Conscious Wandervogel politics varied across the spectrum, but all cells aggressively idealized nature, soil, soulfulness, and the spiritually exalted Bund ["brotherhood"] of youth." (p.208); 162; 670

'''War''' 
the real business of, 105; lives for information, 105; "electronic components of resin and copper that the War, in its glutton, ever-nibbling intake, has not yet found a licked back into its darkness" 119; [[Sixes and Sevens|"seventh Christmas of the War"]] 126; what it really wants, 130-34; the guy who is WWII, 131; as world revolution, 165; what war really is, 177; reconfigures time & space, 257; "opened up things" 265: recklessness is "magnificent, but it's not war" 345; 349; "politics between wars demands symmetry" 350; 379; gradients of damage (poorest sectors first), 423; "the Real Text" 520; "all theatre" 521; "sides?" 520; "There's something still on, don't call it a 'war' if it makes you nervous, maybe the death rate's gone down a point or two [...] but Their enterprise goes on" 628; "the real War is always there" 645; See also [[V#veday|V.E. Day]]

'''War Office''' 
164; in Berlin

'''Washington, George''' 
254; "old motherly femme de chambre"'s hair is done up like his

'''WASPs''' 
281; Women Airforce Service Pilots--pioneering organizations of civilian female pilots employed to fly military aircraft under the direction of the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. The female pilots would end up numbering a little over thousand, each freeing a male pilot for combat service and duties.

[[image:wassenaar.jpg|thumb|200px|Wassenaar "gingerbread" house - 1951|left]]'''Wassenaar''' 
95; northern district of The Hague, near Schußstelle 3

'''Wasserkuppe''' 
454; according to Baedeker, this is a 3115-foot mountain near the ancient town of Fulda in northeastern Germany.

'''Watson and Rayner''' 
In 1920 the American psychologists John B. Watson (1878-1958) and Rosalie Rayner employed classical conditioning techniques to demonstrate the development of an emotional response in a young boy ("infant Albert"). The presentation of a white rat was paired with the striking of a steel bar, which induced fear in the little boy. After only a few pairings, the white rat became capable of inducing fear responses similar to those produced by striking the bar, suggesting to psychologists that many human motives may result from the accidental pairing of events; conditioned "Infant Albert" into "a reflex horror of everything furry" 84, 86

'''waves''' 
"the tidal evening" 130; "You are the Wave of the Future.", 258; "The wave of the future.", 580; "So, shine on, Baby Bulbs, you're the wave of the future", 648

'''Waxwing, Blodgett''' 
246; specialist in phonying documents; his calling card has a cheSS knight and his address is on the Rue RoSSini in Zürich; escapee from the stockade Caserne Martier in Paris; meets Slothrop at Raoul's party, wearing a zoot suit; Zootsuit Zanies, 251; provides Slothrop the identity "Ian Scuffling, English War Correspondent" when he goes to Zürich, 256; 620

'''Wayne, Corporal''' 
11; Pirate's "batman" who drives him out to a bomb hit

'''W.C.''' 
82; water closet, British for toilet or bathroom

'''weapons''' 
Mark III Stens, 20, 107, 639; Schwarzlose (machine gun), 106; Mendoza, 107, 637; Mexican Mauser, 107; haakbus (Dutch: "hookgun"), 108; snaphaan, 109, 111; .455 Webley cartridge, 118; Bofors, 121; "robot weapons" 144; Typhoon, 151; Flying Fortresses, 169; Archies (anti-aircraft guns), 233; Sherman tank 247; "dragon's teeth, fallen stukas, burned tanks" 281; .45, 287; Nagant, 293, 514, 704; Amatol charges, 312; .45 automatic, 312; Moisin, 339; tommygun, 369; Suomi submachine gun, 377, 513; Degtyarov, 377, 511; US Army .45, 495, 558; Tokarev, 503; Luger, 505, 530, 576; Molotov cocktail, 507, 511; carbines, 518; Schmeisser, 527; Colt, 560; Thompsons, 564, 582; M-1, 584; .38s, 586; Japanese Zeros, 672, 690, 692; Ohka device, 690; sodium bomb, 690; Mauser, 693; Hotchkiss, 697-98; See also [[C#cosmicbomb|Cosmic Bomb]]; [[K#kingtiger|King Tiger]]; [[R#rocket|Rocket]]; [[S#schwarzgerat|Schwarzgerät]]

'''[[Weaving the Web|WEAVING THE WEB]]''' 
See also [[L#labyrinth|Labyrinth]]; [[S#silvernail|Silvernail, Webley]]; [[T#thesean|Thesean brushings]]; [[#weber|Weber, Max]]; [[#webern|Webern, Anton]]

<div id="weber"></div>'''Weber, Max (d. 1920)''' 
325; German sociologist and economist; the A4 "really did possess a Max Weber charisma" 464; See also Routinization/Rationalization of Charisma

<div id="webern"></div>'''Webern, Anton (1883-1945)''' 
This Austrian composer valued the oriental qualities of brevity, objectivity and fine decoration, wishing to mirror the perfection of mountain flowers and crystal specimens. He studied under Arnold Schoenberg and adopted a strict 12-tone composition style in 1924, using the 12-note system in everything he wrote.

:"This rainy morning, in the quiet, it seems that Gustav's German Dialectic has come to its end. He has just had the word, all the way from Vienna along some musicians' grapevine, that Anton Webern is dead. 'Shot in May, by the Americans. Senseless, accidental if you believe in accidents some mess cook from North Carolina, some late draftee with a.45 he hardly knew how to use, too late for WW II, but not for Webern. The excuse for raiding the house was that Webern's brother was in the black market. Who isn't? Do you know what kind of myth that's going to make in a thousand years? The young barbarians coming in to murder the Last European, standing at the far end of what'd been going on since Bach, an expansion of music's [[P#polymorphous|polymorphous perversity]] till all notes were truly equal at last....Where was there to go after Webern?'" (440-41)

"nobody gonna pull an Anton Webern on him" 443; "'As to some musical ears, dissonance is really a higher form of consonance. You've heard about Anton Webern?'" 494; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webern Wikipedia entry]]

'''Wehrwirtschaftstab''' 
German: "Economic Defense Staff"; "a section of the General Staff that maintained the OKW's liaison with industry" 630

'''Weichensteller''' 
453; one of "the reentry people" at Peenemünde

'''Weimar Republic''' 
The government of Germany from 1919 to 1933, so called because the assembly that adopted its constitution met at Weimar from Feb. 6 to Aug. 11, 1919. It was marked by political and social turmoil, but an intellectual flowering; 155; 285; 365; 580; Weimar street urchin" 651

<div id="weissman"></div>'''Weissmann, Captain/Major/Lieutent [sic]''' 
German: "white man"; aka Blicero, aka Dominus Blicero, aka Capt. Blicero; Dominus Blicero, 30; with Katje and Gottfried, 94-99, 101-04; finding Enzian, 99-101; "mirror-metaphysics" 101; "recently back from South-West Africa" 152; "took [Dominus Blicero] as his SS code name" 322; in love with his own death, 324; "part salesman, part scientist" 401; "balding, scholarly" 404; "brought [Ilse] from Stettin. . .played chess" 408; "Lieutent" 417; "gray eminence" 401; estrangement from Enzian, 427; 455; "his final madness" 485; creating his own space, moving "in mythical regions" 486; writing about Katje, 642; "last letters from Holland" 658; "Even if he's only dead" 661; "he's only dead" 668; writing from The Hague about Katje, 662; "the Zone's worst specter" 666; eye reflecting windmill, 670; 672; 721; deciding to sacrifice Gottfried, 724; "his myopic witch's eyes through the thick lenses" 724; his Tarot, 746-49; 757; [[Weissmann's Tarot]]; [[L#luneburg|Lüneburg Heath]]

'''Wends''' 
Group of Slavic tribes that by the 5th century AD had settled in the area between the Oder River (on the east) and the Elbe and Saale rivers (on the west), in what is now eastern Germany. During their periodic rebellions against both Slavic and German overlords, the Wendish peasants would also repudiate Christianity; "white-gloved" aboard the Anubis, 467

'''Wenk''' 
455; Achtfaden's code name on the S-gerät project; 481; a character from Fritz Lang's 1922 film "Mabuse, der Spieler" — State-Attorney Wenk is Mabuse's dogged pursuer.

'''werewolf''' 
Besides the obvious folk-mythological associations, the "Werewolves" was an underground army recruited and trained in 1945 for guerilla warfare against the Allies who were in the process of occupying Germany; "were-elves streaking in out of the forests at night" 125; "a terrible beastlike change coming over muzzle and lower jaw, black pupils growing to cover the entire eye space till whites are gone and there's only the red animal reflection" 196; "hock of werewolf, gammon of Beast" 295; 486; "Werewolf stencils of the dark man with the high shoulders and the Homburg hat" 624; "lycanthropophobia or fear of Werewolves" 640; See also [[M#mythology|Mythology]]

'''Wernher''' 
[[T#geli|Geli Tripping's]] owl, presumably named after [[B#vonbraun|Wernher von Braun]]; likes candy bars, 291; loves [[T#tchitcherine|Tchitcherine]], 292; attacks Slothrop, 294

'''Wessel, Horst (1907-1930)''' 
The composer of Die Fahne Hoch ("Raise High the Flags," aka "Horst Wessel Lied") which was the Nazi "theme song." Interestingly, Herr Wessel, an SA (Sturmabteilung, aka Brownshirts) man, was killed in a street-fight with communists in 1930. Perhaps he traded a few blows with Mr. Sachsa who died that same year in a street-fight with Brownshirts. Coincidence? You decide; Die Fahne Hoch, 653; "I was a Storm Trooper [...] like Horst Wessel" 717

<div id="maewest">'''West, Mae (1893-1980)'''</div>
An American actress, playwright, screenwriter and sex symbol. Known for her bawdy double entendres, West made a name for herself in Vaudeville and on the stage in New York before moving to Hollywood to become a comedienne, actress and writer in the motion picture industry. One of the more controversial movie stars of her day, West encountered many problems including censorship. When her cinematic career ended, she continued to perform on stage, in Las Vegas, in the United Kingdom, on radio and television, and recorded rock and roll albums; ''My Little Chickadee'', 198

'''Whappo''' 
69; "Norwegian mulatto lad" in Toilet Adventure and Crutchfield's "little pard"; 114

'''Whitehall''' 
144; Britain's center for government in London. Eponymically named for Whitehall Palace which was located there but burned down in the late 17th century; 171; 201; 454; 635''' 
The White House

[[image:whitehouse.jpg|thumb|The White House|left]]'''White House, The,''' 
AKA The Little White House, 381-82; Kaiserstrasse 2 in Neubabelsberg, Truman's residence during the Potsdam Conference in July 1945, where Slothrop dug up Bodine's stash. [Note: thirteen years after the "Fall of the Wall," Kaiserstrasse still goes by its East German name-change of Karl Marx Strasse!]

'''White Lotos Day''' 
269; "the Blavatskian wing of Psi Section, who were off on a pilgrimage to 19 Avenue Road, St. John's Wood"; "White Lotus Day" — May 8 — is celebrated yearly by Theosophists as the day of death of Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky.

'''White Market''' 
570; "to be protected"

'''White Sheet Ridge''' 
232; "a tattered tommy up on"

<div id="whitevisitation">'''White Visitation'''</div>
34; former mental hospital located in the fictional town of [[I#ick|Ick Regis]] on the coast of southern England; now part of SOE; location of PISCES; D-Wing still has "loonies"; "devoted to psychological warfare" 35; "they're all wild talents--clairvoyants and mad magicians" 40; 72-74; described, 82-83; D-Wing, 230; 533; 627

'''White Woman''' 
Gottfried "dreams often these days of a very pale woman who wants him, who never speaks--but the absolute confidence in her eyes" 103; "the Evil Hour, when the white woman with the ring of keys comes out of her mountain" 374; waiting for Slothrop, "back behind the Spree" 439; "the great Kalahari painting of the" 658; "the pale Virgin was rising in the east" 694; See also [[D#death|death]]; [[E#evilhour|Evil Hour]]

'''''White Zombie''''' 
106; A 1932 American independent horror film directed and produced by brothers Victor Halperin and Edward Halperin, respectively. It is considered the first feature length zombie film and tells the story of a young woman's transformation into a zombie at the hands of an evil voodoo master. Béla Lugosi stars as the antagonist, Murder Legendre, with Madge Bellamy appearing as his victim. Other cast members included Robert W. Frazer, John Harron and Joseph Cawthorn.

'''Whitney, John Hay (1904-82)''' 
American multimillionaire and sportsman who had a multifaceted career as a publisher, financier, philanthropist, and horse breeder. In 1942 he joined the Eighth U.S. Army Air Force as a captain in the Combat Intelligence Division and was captured by the Nazis in southern France. He escaped and in 1945 was awarded the Legion of Merit; "Harrimans and Whitneys gone, lawns growing to hay" 28

'''Whitsun''' 
269; In England, White Sunday is the seventh Sunday after Easter; 628

'''Whittaker and Watson''' 
55; co-authors of a mathematical treatise entitled Modern Analysis. An old copy is owned by Roger Mexico

'''Whittington, Dick (d. 1423)''' 
A colorful London personality, Dick served three terms as lord mayor of London: 1397-99, 1406-07, and 1419-20. The GR passage refers to the popular legend that has Dick Whittington as a poor orphan worked in the kitchen of a rich London merchant. He ventures his only possession, a cat, as an item to be sold on one of his master's trading ships. Ill-treated by the cook, Dick then runs away, but just outside the city he hears the ringing of bells that seems to say "Turn again, Whittington, Lord mayor of great London." He returns to find that his cat has been sold for a great fortune to a Moorish ruler whose dominions are plagued with rats. Now wealthy, Whittington marries his master's daughter, succeeds to the business, and then becomes thrice lord mayor of London. ; "'I'm fucking Dick Whittington!' it occurs to [Mexico] zooming down Kings Road, 'I've come to London! I'm your Lord Mayor....'" 637

'''Wien bridge''' 
Wilhelm Wien (1864-1928) was a German physicist who received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1911 for his displacement law concerning the radiation emitted by a perfectly efficient blackbody. Further investigations by Max Plank resulted in his quantum theory of radiation. The Wien bridge is a four-arm a.c. bridge, the variable frequency being determined by a resistance in an arm of the bridge, and, as Weisenburger points out, was used in the automatic steering of the rocket; "Sometimes you'd use a Wien bridge, tuned to a certain frequency A-t, whistling, heavy with omen, inside the electric corridors" 517

'''Wilcoxon, Henry''' 
559; "'[children] rowin' old Henry Wilcoxon away into th' sunset to fight them Greeks or Persians or somebody'" 559

'''Wilheml, Richard''' 
403; "One of these German mystics who Mondaugen grew up reading"

'''Wilhelmplatz''' 
370; site of active blackmarketeering in Berlin, now with "Russian security all over the place"

'''Willkie, Wendell (1892-1944)''' 
135; First a lawyer, then an industrialist, Willkie switched from Democrat to Republican and was narrowly beat by F.D. Roosevelt in the U.S. presidential election of 1940. Between 1941 and 1942 he travelled the world representing the FDR.

'''Wim''' 
104; perhaps a Dutch underground comrade of Katje's

'''Wimpe, V-Mann''' 
152; [V: Verbindungsmann - "contact man"]; IG-man present at seance; the V-mann, 166; association with Tchitcherine, 344; described, 344; an organic chemist/creator of psychotropic drugs (the "jinni of the West"), 345; "reassigned to the United States. . .after Hitler became Chancellor" 349; turns Greta on to Oneirine, 464; 566; was boyfriend of Minnie (who yelled "helicopter!"), 684; Tchitcherine's memory of, 701

'''Windhoek''' 
352; capital of Südwest, where Enzian's birth was duly recorded by the Germans; [MAP]

'''windmill''' 
"the chorus line at the Windmill" 22; "the old Windmill" 39; "the windmill known as 'The Angel'" 106, 536; "the horizon broken now and then by silhouettes of a windmill" 462; "a windmill creaks out in the countryside" 573; "Brown windmills turn at the horizon" 575; "exegeses of windmills" 620; "What mill's that, grinding there below?" 621; "Van der Groov's cosmic windmill" 624; "a muddy brown almost black eyeball reflecting a windmill" 670; "windmill silhouettes" 672; "heretic-chasing [...] It went on in fields of windmills" 738

'''wines/champagne''' 
oude genever, 104; Lafitte Rothschild,116; Bernkastler Doktor, 116; "Wines of [...] the great '20s and '21s. Schloss Vollrads, Zeltinger, Piesporter" at Sachsa's séance, 163; Veuve Clicquot Brut, 212; "sweet Taittinger" 214; Nordhäuser Schattensaft ("shadow juice"), 290; "1911 Hochheimer" 652; shooting wine ("a wine rush is defying gravity") 743; Maitrinke (May drink), 743

'''Winterhilfe''' 
373; German: "winter aid"; Government social program providing food for the impoverished

'''Winthrop, Governor''' 
204; came over to America on the Arbella in 1630

'''[[Witches|WITCHES]]''' 
See also Walpurgisnacht

'''Wittmaier harpsichord''' 
533; disintegrating at the White Visitation

'''Wivern, General''' 
210; of SHAEF Technical Staff, 237; 242; 592; 594

<div id="wizoz">'''Wizard of Oz, The'''</div>
''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' is a children's novel from 1900 written by L. Frank Baum. The story chronicles the adventures of a girl named Dorothy in the Land of Oz. Thanks in part to the 1939 MGM movie, ''The Wizard of Oz'', it is one of the best-known stories in American popular culture and has been widely translated. Its initial success, and the success of the popular 1902 Broadway musical Baum adapted from his story, led to Baum writing thirteen more Oz books.

[[M#munchkin|Munchkin]] voice, 63; "obsessive as Munchkins" 270; "Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas any more. . . ." 279; "Amy Sprue was not, like young skipping Dorothy's antagonist, a mean witch" 329; Slothrop and Schnorp taking off in scarlet and yellow balloon, 332-33; "'Follow the yellow-brick road,' hums Albert Krypton, on pitch, 'follow the yellow brick road,' what's this, is he actually, yes he's skipping. . . ." 597

'''WLB''' 
682; War Labor Board

'''Wobb and Whoaton''' 
702; authors of "'Mantic Archetype Distribution Among Middle-Class University Students,'"

'''Wobbly''' 
571; 355; Wobbly is slang for a member of the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.), a former international labor organization favoring socialism and the abolition of the wage system; "German Wobbly traditions, they didn't go along with Hitler though all the other unions were falling into line"

'''Wolfgang''' 
496; G.M.B. Haftung's somewhat unstable prize chimp doing a fair Hitler imitation; going at it with Frau Gnahb in the pilot house, 496; drinking vodka, 503

'''Womack, Flash''' 
584; a pinball wizard, one of "the great thumbs of Koekuk and Puyallup, Oyster Bay, Inglewood"

'''Wormwood Scrubs''' 
33; the Scrubs--Wormwood Scrubs Prison, in London, was built by convicts in 1874; Slothrop wears Wormwood Scrubs School Tie to Casino dinner, 190

'''Wounded Knee''' 
hamlet and creek on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwestern South Dakota, in the U.S., which was the site of two conflicts between North American Indians and representatives of the U.S. government. On Feb. 27, 1973, some 200 members of the American Indian Movement (AIM), led by Dennis Banks and Russell Means, took the reservation hamlet of Wounded Knee by force, declared it the "Independent Oglala Sioux Nation," and vowed to stay until the U.S. government met AIM demands for a change in tribal leaders, a review of all Indian treaties, and a U.S. Senate investigation of treatment of Indians in general. Two Indians and one federal agent were killed in the ensuing battle in which the feds prevailed; "the guns that raked through the unarmed Indians at" 697

'''WRAC''' 
251; Women's Royal Army Corp

'''Wrens''' 
23; Women's Royal Naval Service - British civilian support group of war effort; 121; Wrens?

'''writing''' 
description of St. Veronica's, 46; "swimming up from sleep" 119; "an informer whose guilt will one day sicken into throat cancer" 150; "not produce. . .systems" 159; "assassination" 164; bugs in the manger, 173-74; Westward expansion: penetrate and foul virgin sunsets, 214; "no difference between behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance" 323; Rocket, 324; "what heads and tails went jingling inside the dark pockets of that indeterminacy?"-- 344; Will of God Theory, 362; "smiles breaking like kind dawns" 378; "This is how they meet" (p.365) until they finally meet at p.393; Trudi up Slothrop's nose, 439; "How I Came to Love the People" 547; dead fly, 632; tropical hallucination, 634-35; hmmm, 733

<div id ="wuotan"> '''Wuotan'''</div>
72; Wuotan is the Old High German spelling of Odin; 75

'''''Wütende Heer''''' 
75; German: "furious" or "raging" army

'''Wuxtry-Wuxtry, Mickey''' 
738; "Wuxtry wuxtry, read all about it"; "world-renowned analyst" -- "There never was a Dr. Jamf"

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'''L-5227''' 
164; bomb developed by Spottbilligfilm AG to blind "whole populations"

'''''La bohème''''' 
132; An opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini. The world premiere performance of La bohème was in Turin on February 1, 1896 at the Teatro Regio and was conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini.

<div id="labyrinth"></div>'''labyrinth''' 
"a progressive knotting into" 3; "labyrinthine," 10; "The rooms are triangular, spherical, walled up into mazes." 82; "labyrinth of conditioned-reflex work," 88; "this inexhaustively knotted victim" 93; "what there is of labyrinth collapsing in rings outward," 143; "soft, confusing, womanly tunnel-systems that must stretch back for miles" 195; "We are obsessed with building labyrinths, where before there was open plain and sky." 264; "El laberinto de tu incertidumbre," 383; "brick labyrinth," 384; "your labyrinth walls," 388; "as much labyrinth as required between himself and the inconveniences of caring," 428; "labyrinthine path," 537; "maps of his revetments and labyrinths," 672; "too finely labyrinthine, for either category to have much hegemony any more," 681; See also [[D#daedalus|Daedalus]]; [[T#thesean|Thesean brushings]]; [[Weaving the Web|Weaving the Web]]

'''Lalli''' 
685; "just in from Lübeck" at Säure's pad

'''Lamplighter, Allen''' 
139; buddy of Treacle's killed by a buzzbomb (V-1); one of the seven original owner's of The Book; 140; 146; 167

'''Lancaster''' 
136; The Avro Lancaster was a British four-engined WWII heavy bomber.

'''[[Fritz Lang|LANG, Fritz]]''' 
See also [[M#metropolis|''Metropolis''/Metropolis]]

'''Langhurst''' 
243;

'''Laredo lamb''' 
61; dance in Slothrop's Sodium Amytal session

'''Larson-Keeler''' 
84; "three-variable 'lie detector'

'''[[Latin Translations|LATIN TRANSLATIONS]]'''

'''Law of Negative Induction''' 
56;

<div id="lawn"></div>'''lawn sports''' 
golf, 190, 194; football, 194; croquet, 200; tennis, 476; [[Baseball| baseball]], 508

'''Lawrence of Arabia (1888-1935)''' 
Thomas Edward Lawrence was a British archaeological scholar, author and military strategist known for his legendary war activities in the Middle East during World War I and for his subsequent account of those activities in The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1926); 201

'''Lederhoseners''' 
736; road name for "the Lübeck Hitler Youth Glee Club"

'''Le Froyd, Reg''' 
73; "King of the Cold" (from Latin ''regens''--'that which reigns'; and French ''le froid''--'cold') and inmate at the White Visitation who in 1925 escapes and leaps into the sea, i.e., "steps back into the void". When pronounced by an English speaker, 'Froyd' would sound identical to 'Freud' which could make this escaped inmate the 'King of Freud'.

'''Lefty''' 
229; rat at White Visitation

'''Leibniz, Gottfried Wilheml (1646-1716)''' 
German philosopher, mathematician and polymath who is the putative inventor of the infinitesimal calculus (although he published his system in 1684 and Isaac Newton in 1687, the Royal Society formally declared for Newton in 1711). He also developed the doctrine of a hierarchical system of irreducible, immaterial isolates called "monads," the highest of which is God; "Summe, Summe, as Leibniz said" 300; "in the process of inventing calculus, used the same approach to break up the trajectories of cannonballs through the air" 407;

<div id="lemuria"></div>'''Lemuria''' 
The lost land that is supposed to have connected Madagascar with India and Sumatra in prehistoric times. It is thought that it was the original habitat of the lemur, so named for the ghost-like appearance of its face and its nocturnal habits which links to Lemurs, the evil and fearsome spectres of the dead of Roman religion who haunted their relatives and caused them injury; 564 
Lemuria features prominently in [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=L#lemuria ''Inherent Vice''].

'''Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich (1870-1924)''' 
Russian revolutionary who became an activist in communist organization after studying Marx. After being exiled to Siberia for 3 years for his activities, he lived in Switzerland in 1900. He returned to Russia in 1905 and worked to strengthen the majority Bolsheviks; when they took power after the Revolution in 1917 he was their leader; 162; former patron at the Odeon, 262; fond of "Napoleon's on s'engage, et puis, on voit" 346; Orders of Lenin, 636; See also [[S#stalin|Stalin]]

'''Lepers' Quarter in Bukhara''' 
347; where Tchitcherine bought his red and yellow opium pipe

'''Lerner, Sgt. Howard ("Slow")''' 
641

'''Leunagasolin''' 
523; "synthetic gasoline"; Moss Creature, Water Giant & Fungus Pygmies (Pavel's hallucinations), 523

'''Leyte Gulf''' 
The Battle of Leyte Gulf (Oct. 23-26, 1944) was a decisive air and sea battle of World War II, which crippled the Japanese Combined Fleet thus permitting a U.S. invasion of the Philippines, and giving the Allies control of the Pacific; "a drunken sailor whose ship went down at" 584; "The fighting is going on at Leyte. . .then on to Iwo Jima" 690

'''Lichtspiel''' 
German: "(cinematograph) film"; listed under "Espionage, Industrial" on the list of Zürich cafés, 258

'''Liebig, Justus Freiherr von (1803-73)''' 
Illustrious German chemist whose greatest achievements were in organic chemistry and animal chemistry; "the great professor of chemistry" who "was at the University of Giessen when Kekulé entered as a student" 411

'''Liebknecht, Karl (1871-1919)''' 
German barrister and politician who, with Rosa Luxemburg, formed the KPD, the German Communist Party, in 1918. He was killed by army officers while leading the so-called "Spartacus League Revolution" in Berlin in 1919; his funeral, 621

'''Lightning-Latch''' 
260; "The Door That Opens You!"

'''Likbez center''' 
338; the local, in Seven Rivers country, "one of a string known back in Moscow as the 'red durts'"; agents, 341;

'''Lilli''' 
408; one of Ilse's playmates at Dora

'''Lily''' 
547; 67-year-old mentioned in Pirate's and Katje's How I Came To Love the People

'''limericks''' 
305-07; 311; 334-35; See also polymorphous perversity

'''Limmatquai''' 
257; in Zürich, a quai along the Limmat River

'''Lindy Hop''' 
60; dance in Slothrop's Sodium Amytal session

'''Lion, the''' 
"in each one of you. He is either tamed — by too much mathematics, by details of design, by corporate procedures — or he stays wild, an eternal predator. [...] He takes, he holds!" 577; "the untamable lion who could let it all crash [...] asserting his reality against them all in one last roaring plunge" 578;

'''Lisaura''' 
The girl whom the mythical Tannhäuser (the Minnesinger: "minstrel") cheated on by living underground for a year with Venus (aka Frau Holda). After a year he returns, satiated, and goes to the Pope to seek absolution. The Pope says there's as much chance for Tannhäuser being forgiven as there is for the Pope's staff blooming. The Pope's staff miraculously blooms three days later, but not before Lisaura has died of grief and Tannhäuser has returned to the abode of Venus; 364; 393; Pope's staff, 470, 532; 533, 619; See also Tannhäuser

'''Lisele''' 
733; love note to her written on wall, which Slothrop sees somewhere in northern Germany

'''Livingstone, Dr. David (March 19, 1813-73)''' 
Scottish missionary and explorer whose 30 years of travel and Christian missionary work in Africa had a formative influence upon Western attitudes toward Africa. In spite of his paternalism and Victorian prejudices, he believed wholeheartedly in the African's ability to advance into the modern world. In 1871, stricken with illness and short on supplies, Livingstone put out a call for help. He was rescued by Sir Henry Morton Stanley who, upon finding the old hero, greeted him with the famous words "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"; "one of the "classic Weird Mason Stories [...] (living stone? oh, yes)" 587-88

'''Ljubica''' 
731; with Enzian

'''Llandudno''' 
468; coastal resort town in Wales, UK [http://www.visitllandudno.org.uk]; A statue of the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland stands on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llandudno#West_Shore West Shore], where Alice Liddell and her family spent their summer holidays.

'''Loaf, H.A.''' 
14; as in Half A. Loaf is better than none?

'''Lombard''' 
Member of a Germanic people who from 568 to 774 ruled a kingdom in Italy. Originally in northwestern Germany (1st century AD), they had by the end of the 5th century, migrated and settled into the area roughly coinciding with modern Austria north of the Danube River; "I'm not a German, I'm a" 445

'''Long Enough''' 
664; "The text of each issue [...] when transformed this way, yields many interesting messages"

'''Lord of the Night''' 
"children [...] [p]raying to their Master" 49; "waiting beside the door of the bus in his pressed uniform" 413;

'''Lord of the Sea''' 
73; aka "Bert", heard by Reg Le Froyd

'''Lorraine and Judy''' 
19; characters in a Slothrop story related by Tantivy to Bloat. See also Slothrop's girls/star

'''Lourdes''' 
A pilgrimage town in southwestern France, situated at the foot of the Pyrenees IFrom February 11 to July 16,1858, Bernadette Soubirous, a 14-year-old girl, had numerous visions of the Virgin Mary in the nearby Massabielle grotto, on the left bank of the stream that runs through the town. In 1862, the Pope declared the visions authentic, and thus the cult of Our Lady of Lourdes was sanctioned. The underground spring in the grotto, as revealed to Bernadette, was declared to have miraculous qualities and Lourdes has been a major pilgrimage center ever since; "the holy water of" 479; [http:/www.lourdes-france.com]

'''[[LOVE]]''' 
Check out Douglas Kløvedal Lannark's exhaustive & excellent documenting of "love" in Gravity's Rainbow!

'''LSD''' 
"Sandoz (where. . .Dr. Hofman made his. . .discovery)," 250; "You interested in some L.S.D.?" - 260; "the indole crowd. They're very elitist. They see themselves at the end of a long European dialectic, generations of blighted grain, ergotism, witches on broomsticks, community orgies, cantons lost up there in folds of mountain that haven't known an unhallucinated day in the last 500 years" 261; "Micro" Graham (as in microgram), 295; Devil behind the mirror, 444; "a touch of acid," 586; See also Bummer, Säure; dope

'''L.S.D.''' 
260; Latin: Libra, solidi and denarii = "Pounds, shillings, pence"

'''Luba''' 
339; worked for Tchitcherine in Central Asia

'''Lubbock, Isaac''' 
240; "the Father of British Liquid Oxygen Research"; a Shell employee; his team "set up a static-test facility at Langhurst near Horsham";

'''Lübeck''' 
151; civilian town which the RAF bombed on Palm Sunday, provoking German rocket attacks on London; Leni grew up there, 162; angel, 217; Lübeck Hitler Youth Glee Club, 736 [[MAP]]

'''Lublin Communists''' 
34; "drawing beads on Varsovian shadow-ministers"; "Poles fleeing the Lublin regime" 549;

'''Lucifer Amp''' 
542; "verminous, hairy creature" that used to worked for SOE

'''Lüderitzbucht''' 
350; bay in Südwest; 388; [MAP]

'''Ludwig''' 
553; kid who has lemming named "Ursula"; shadowing the Schwarzkommando, 729; "a white glowworm in the mist," 733; with Thanatz, 736; [Etymological musings]

'''Ludwig II (1845-1886)''' 
King of Bavaria from 1864 until shortly before his death. He is sometimes referred to as the Swan King in English and der Märchenkönig (the Fairy tale King) in German. He is sometimes also referred to as "Mad King Ludwig", though the accuracy of that label has been disputed. Ludwig is best known as an eccentric whose legacy is intertwined with the history of art and architecture, as he commissioned the construction of several extravagant fantasy castles (the most famous being Neuschwanstein) and was a devoted patron of the composer Richard Wagner. "von Göll had dreamed of making a film about" 394; "we have long left mad Ludwig and his Spanish dancer guttering" 750;

'''Luftwaffe''' 
25; German airforce; "resort near Scheveningen" 97; "Army vs." 416;

'''Lugones, Leopoldo (1874-1938)''' 
Argentine poet, literary and social critic, and cultural ambassador, considered to be the outstanding figure of his age in the cultural life of Argentina. He had a substantial influence on writer Jorge Luis Borges. Increasingly uncomfortable with the prominence and accompanying public responsibilities, he became a fascist in 1929 and, under great emotional strain in later years, he committed suicide; "saying 'Now I'm going to tell you, in verse, how I conceived her free from the stain of Original Sin'" 263; "Pavos Reales" 383

'''Lugosi, Béla (1882-1956)''' 
106; Born Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó in Lugoj (at the time part of Austria–Hungary, now in Romania), this ethnic-Hungarian actor of stage and screen was well known for playing Count Dracula in the Broadway play and subsequent film version. Through his association with ''Dracula'' (in which he appeared with minimal makeup, using his natural, heavily accented voice), Lugosi found himself typecast as a horror villain in such movies as ''Murders in the Rue Morgue'', ''The Raven'', and ''Son of Frankenstein'' for Universal, and the independent ''White Zombie''. In the last years of his career he featured in several of Ed Wood's low budget films.

<div id="luneburg"></div>'''Lüneburg Heath''' 
Site of Blicero's last stand/final madness where the S-gerät 00000 is fired; Argentinians' goal to set up a small estancia [Sp: a large estate, esp. a cattle ranch], 388, 390; Thanatz & Greda move there, 486; Slothrop tells Enzian about the Heath, 562; "Among the prehistoric German tribes, that's what this country was: the territory of the dead." 612; Mexico drives through "the burnt-purple rolling of," 626; Blicero "got as far as the Lüneberg [misspelled]," 659; "the last stand in the," 666; "There are. . .no windmills on the," 670; "Kingdom-of-the-Deathward," 673; 692; Tchitcherine "came into Lüneburg last weekend," 719; Schwarzkommando arrive to assemble 00001, 737; "The Heath grows green and magenta in all directions," 749 [[MAP]]

'''Lüstig, Lotte''' 
483; German: Lüstig = "merry, joyful"; "dizzy debutante" Erdmann played in Jugend Herauf!, "proceeding downriver in a bathtub with rich playboy Max Schlepzig"

'''Luxemburg, Rosa (d. 1919)''' 
155; founded KPD with Karl Liebknecht (see p. 621). Both were murdered in 1919; 158; See also [[K#kpd|KPD]]

'''Luz''' 
383; with Felipe on U-boat; also "Squalidozzi's girl"

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'''Mabuse, Dr.''' 
579; In Fritz Lang's "Mabuse der Spieler," Dr Mabuse is the master-criminal who seeks to control the populace through mind-control, fear, and market manipulation; Klein-Rogge as; See also [[Fritz Lang]]; [[H#hawasch|Hawasch]];[[S#sporri| Spörri]]

'''MacArthur, General''' 
697;

'''MacDonald, Ramsay (1866-1937)''' 
77; First Labour Party prime minister of Great Britain, in the Labour governments of 1924 and 1929-31 and in the national coalition government of 1931-35.

'''Mach, Ernst (1838-1916)''' 
Ernst Mach (1838-1916), an Austrian physicist and philosopher who devised the Mach number which, in fluid mechanics, is the ratio of the velocity of a fluid to the velocity of sound in that fluid. In the case of an aircraft in flight, the Mach number is equal to the velocity of the aircraft relative to the fluid (air) divided by the velocity of sound in that fluid. For Mach numbers greater than one (supersonic flow), shock wave patterns develop on the moving body because of compression of the surrounding fluid; 453

'''Machiavellian''' 
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) was a Florentine statesman who held that terrorism and deceit were justifiable means of achieving a peaceful and prosperous Italy. In Il Principe (1515) he wrote that only a strong and ruthless prince could free Italy from devastation by foreigners. "Machiavellian" has come to denote political deceit and intrigue and unscrupulous methods; "Machiavellian and youthful, not quite ripe yet for paranoia" 448; the lion, 557; "no one is (Jessica) exempt from his (Jessica?) Machiavellian--" 631; See also [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=The_Prince ''V.''].

'''Mackenzie, Compton (1883-1972)''' 
British novelist, both acclaimed and neglected, who wrote more than 100 novels, plays, and biographies. His varied novels include Poor Relations (1919), Rich Relatives (1921), Vestal Fire (1927), and Extraordinary Women (1928); novels on Mrs. Quoad's shelf, 115

'''Magda''' 
365; "the sultry Bavarian" and Säure's sidekick; "picked up on first-degree mopery" 742

'''Magna Carta''' 
The charter of English liberties granted by King John in 1215 under threat of civil war and reissued with alterations in 1216, 1217, and 1225; "Teach the German beast about the" 125

'''Magyars''' 
Transylvanian, 11; 549; aka Hungarians

'''Maherero, Samuel''' 
323; The Herero chief who led his people across the Kalahari into exile in Bechuanaland, where he died in 1923; "great trek across the Kalahari"; [[Südwest|MORE]]

'''Malcolm''' 
63; "very tall, skinny, extravagantly conked redhead Negro shoeshine boy" in Roseland Ballroom; aka "Red" and Malcolm X; 65; "Now don't you remember Red Malcolm up there, That kid with the Red Devil Lye in his hair" 67; 688

'''Maledetto, Dr.''' 
347; Italian: "cursed, damned"; "a young Maledetto whom the ladies love" on an enormous closed sleigh which took tourists to Central Asia

'''Malenkov''' 
391; Tchitcherine reports to his "special committee under the Council of People's Commissars"

'''Male Transvestites' Toilet''' 
680; in "dingy yellow amphitheatre" where Floundering Four do their bit; "An Incident in the Transvestites' Toilet" 688-90

'''Maltzan, von''' 
166; worked with Rathenau on the Rapallo Treaty

'''mandala''' 
the ancient sun-wheel from which. . .the swastika was broken" 100; "full mandalas came to bloom" 152; Herero villages built like mandalas, 321; mandala-like Schwarzkommando insignia, illustrated, 361; KEZVH, 446; Schwarzkommando, 560; four fins of the Rocket, 563; "other fourfold expressions" 624; "fatal mandala" 691; discussed at Gross Suckling Conference, 706-07; "the cross the man has made on his own circle of earth" 719; Raketen-Stadt: "built in mandalic form like a Herero village" 725

<div id="manicheans"></div>'''Manicheans''' 
From Brewer's: "Followers of Mani, who taught that the universe is controlled by two antagonistic powers, light or goodness (identified with God), and darkness, chaos, or evil. [...] One of Mani's claims was that, though Christ had been sent into the world to restore it to light and banish darkness, His apostles had perverted his doctrine, and he, Mani, was sent as the Paraclete to restore it" (p.681); "who see two rockets, good and evil, who speak together in the sacred idiolalia of the Primal Twins" 727

'''mano morto''' 
132; Italian: dead hand (should be ''mano morta'')

'''Manuela''' 
605-06; call girl at Putzi's with Maj. Marvy

'''Marcel''' 
See Floundering Four

'''Mare Nocturnum''' 
578; Latin: Nocturnal Sea; Pökler's "deeper excursions into the"

'''Maria''' 
519; Christian's sister and Pavel's husband; in Christian's dream, 673 See also Christian; Pavel

'''Marie-Celeste''' 
The Mary Celeste (incorrectly referred to as Marie Celeste) was a brigantine merchant ship discovered in December 1872 in the Atlantic Ocean unmanned and apparently abandoned, despite the fact that the weather was fine and her crew had been experienced and able seamen; "the legendary ship" 303

'''Marjorie''' 
22; a Wren Slothrop is dating; 25; 744; See also Slothrop's girls/stars

<div id="marvy"></div>'''Marvy, Maj. Duane''' 
281; with US Army Ordnance and leader of Marvy's Mothers, "the meanest-ass technical intelligence team in this whole fuckin' Zone"; pushed off train by Enzian while "headed for Mittelwerke" 288; 307; 331; 363; 502; Atomic Chili, 557, 559; 564-66; purchases cocaine from Bodine at Putzi's, 604; castrated, 609; [[Major Duane Marvy|Etymological Musings]]

<div id="groucho">'''Marx, Groucho (1890-1977)'''</div>
210; An American comedian and film star famed as a master of wit; his rapid-fire delivery of innuendo-laden patter has earned him many admirers. He made 13 feature films with his siblings the Marx Brothers, of whom he was the third-born. His distinctive appearance, carried over from his days in vaudeville, included quirks such as glasses, cigars, and a thick greasepaint [[M#mustache|mustache]] and eyebrows; "a Groucho Marx voice" 246; 279

'''Marx, Karl (1818-83)''' 
German social, political and economic theorist and the inspiration for modern communism. He emigrated to Paris in 1863 where he became a communist and first expressed his belief that the proletariat must effect revolutionary change. In Paris, he and Engels wrote Communist Manifesto (1848) ("The workers have nothing to lose but their chains"), the masterpiece of political propaganda. He moved to London in 1849 and it was there that he wrote Das Kapital (1867) (theory of surplus value, class conflict, exploitation of the Working Class, "withering away" of the state); 163; 317; 348; "Marxist dialectics? That's not an opiate, eh?" 701; "'Real to a Marxist.'" 702; "if you don't think there are Marxist-Leninist magicians around, well you better think again!" 748

'''Masons''' 
emblems, 27; masonry, 66; "out the eye at the tower's summit" 470; "Eye at the top of the pyramid" 484, 585; freemasons, 572; and Lyle Bland, 580; "Mobs 'n' Masons" 586; American Founding Fathers, 587-88; magic rituals/Masonic Mysteries, 588; Masonic plots, 587; Ben Franklin, 663-64; "going to dinner becomes a priestly procession, full of secret gestures and understandings" 713;

'''Master of the Woods''' 
742; "sprigs of woodruff [...] carried by the early Teutonic warriors"

'''masturbation''' 
"masturbating under these conditions is exquisite torture" 35; "jerking off into an Army flannel" 36; and message de- crypting, 71-72; "he'll masturbate himself to sleep" 141; "The self-induced orgasm." 155; "there passes the phrase male supremacy ... why do they cherish their masturbating so? 155; "masturbatorily scared-elated" 209; "I can't even masturbate" 216; Pudding, for Domina Nocturna, 236; "These Otukungurua are prophets of masturbating" 318; "Remember the time she caught you masturbating into her glove?" 505; "a Text, to be [...] masturbated till it's all squeezed limp of its last drop" 520; "lost in masturbatory fantasies of nailing this cute but older Latin lady" 678; "the heat, who go surly, fangflashing back to masturbating into Crime Does Not Pay Comics" 709; "16 ragged staring oldtimers who shuffle aimlessly about the stage, jerking off in unison, waggling penises in mock quarter-staffing, brandishing in two and threes their green-leaved poles, exposing amazing chancres and lesions, going off in fountains of sperm strung with blood that splash over glazed trouser-pleats" 743; "purposes of self-arousal" 758; "or reach between your own cold legs" 760; See also Kryptosam; entropy/closed systems/irreversibility

'''mathematical equations''' 
Chapter 1: Poisson dispensation, 140; Chapter 2: yaw control, 239; Chapter 3: hilarious graffiti of visiting mathematicians, 450; Chapter 4: Otyiyumbu Indetermincy Relation, 700; "Little sigma, times P of s-over-little-sigma, equals one over the square root of two times pi, times e to the minus s squared over two little sigma squared." 709 (thanks to Douglas Lannark for this index entry)

'''Mausmacher''' 
653; German: "mouse-maker"; Lutheran who steals Byron from the priest and who attends a Naza torchlight rally in drag

[[image:Max-Moritz.jpg|thumb|Max und Moritz|right]]'''Max and Moritz''' 
757; Max und Moritz were a duo created by German cartoonist Wilhelm Busch; "boy at the steering panel" and man "at the rocket motor panel," respectively, at launching of S-Gerät 00000; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_und_Moritz Wikipedia entry]

'''Maximilian''' 
See Floundering Four

'''Maxwell, Clerk''' 
411; "younger contemporary" of Liebig

'''May Day Eve''' 
329; aka Walpurgisnacht

'''McGonigle, Pvt. Paddy "Electro"''' 
641; hand-pedals the twin-generator cranks for light bulb during THE HAIRCUT

'''Meat Cartel''' 
654; long-standing arrangement with Phoebus "to restrict the amount of tallow in circulation by keeping more fat in meat to be sold regardless of cardiac problems"

'''Mefo bills''' 
German: Metallurgische Forschung = "metals research"; A way for Germany to pay arms manufacturers for rearmament (German rearmament was banned by the terms of the Versailles Treaty). Mefo bills were accepted by all German banks but no reference to them was allowed in published accounts. Twelve billion marks in Mefo bills were issued before the outbreak of WWII, and much of German trade was financed in this manner; 285

[[image:meggazones.gif|300px|left]]'''Meggazone''' 
118; "like being belted in the head with a Swiss alp"; [at left] "Contain: Menthol, Peppermint, Chloroform, Benzoin, Liquorice pastille basis"

'''Meillerwagen''' 
113; transported the V-2 to the launching site, raised it to a vertical firing position, and served as a firing platform; 560;

'''Menshevik''' 
Russian: men'she = "less, fewer"; The Mensheviks were the moderate wing of the Russian Social Democratic Party, who split with the Bolsheviks after the party congress of 1903. They were for "bourgeois reform" rather than the total societal overhaul advocated by the Bolsheviks; 338

'''Messerschmitt''' 
184; fighter plane from the German concern Messerschmitt AG

'''meta-solutions''' 
102; "Perhaps the black girl is a genius of meta-solutions--knocking over the chessboard, shooting the referee" 102

<div id="metatron"></div>'''Metatron''' 
231; in Kabbalistic lore, the highest angel who sits next to Yahweh's throne; 734; See also [[K#kabbalah|Kabbalah]]

<div id="metropolis"></div>'''''Metropolis''/Metropolis''' 
[Greek: "Mother City"] "ARF remains a colony to the metropolitan war" 76; "His erection hums from a certain distance, like an instrument installed, wired by Them into his body as a colonial outpost here in our raw and clamorous world, another office representing Their white Metropolis far away" 285; "Early Rhenish missionaries began to bring them back to the Metropolis, that great dull zoo" 315; "Out and down in the colonies, life can be indulged, life and sensuality in all its forms, with no harm done to the Metropolis" 317; "they can pick us off out there one by one, first a campaign of attrition, then a coordinated raid...leaving then only this metropolis, under siege, to strangle" 326; "inside the metropolitan organ entirely, all other colonial tissue forgotten and left to fend for itself" 470; Rudolph Klein-Rogge, 578; Brigitte Helm, 578; "American Death has come to occupy Europe. It has learned empire from its old metropolis" 722; See also [[C#cities|cities]]; [[Fritz Lang]];

:From Fritz Lang's ''Metropolis''

::"I have created a machine in the image of man, that never tires or makes a mistake."

::"Isn't it worth the loss of a hand to have created the workers of the future — the machine men?"

::"Give me another 24 hours and I'll bring you a machine which no one will be able to tell from a human being."

::- Rotwang, the Inventor

'''Mexico, Roger''' 
31; 30 years old (89); works with Pirate Prentice in Psi Section; Mysterious Microfilm Drill, 32; "provisional wartime friend of Pirate's" 35; meets Jessica, 38-39; the "Antipointsman" 55; paranoia, 124; "He'd seen himself a point on a moving wavefront, propagating through sterile history--a known past, a projectable future. But Jessica was the breaking of the wave." 126; "as this seventh Christmas of the War came wheeling in another charge at his skinny, shivering flank [...]" 126; his map of bomb hits, 138; takes Jessica to see Hansel and Gretel, 174; by the sea on White Sunday, 273; driving throught the Lüneburg Heath, missing Jessica, 626; Gloaming tells him about the Slothrop/IG Farben/Pointsman plot, 630-31; realizes Jessica is working for Pointsman, 631; pissing on Mossmoon's table, 636; "a 30-year-old innocent" 706; foam rubber phallus, 708; at Krupp party, 711

'''M.I. 6''' 
592; British Military Intelligence, overseas operations; [[British Military Intelligence|MORE]]

'''Michele''' 
243-45; friend of Slothrop's who seduces Hillary Bounce so Slothrop can use his teletype machine

'''Michiko''' 
480; wife of Ensign Morituri

'''Microcosmists''' 
738; those who believe Slothrop to be a "point-for-point microcosm"

'''Middle Dutch''' 
108; ic heb u liever dan ên everswîn, al waert van finen goude ghewracht (English: I love you more than a wild boar / even if it were made of fine gold)

'''midgets &c.''' 
"midget spy-camera" 17; "Fred Roper's Company of Wonder Midgets off to an imperial fair in Johannesburg, South Africa. Midgets in their dark winter clothes, exquisite little frocks and nip-waisted overcoats, were running all over the station, gobbling their bonvoyage chocolates and lining up for news photos." 37; "say it very (demisemiquaver) fast in a Munchkin voice if you can dig that" 63; "what appear to be horrid...midgets, in strange operetta uniforms actually, some sort of Central European government-in-exile," 123; "Siggi in his speeded-up midget's voice" 157; "a tiny hand comes out and gives Slothrop the tiny finger" 199; "the arms of young passersby not in the sleeves of their coats but inside somewhere, as if sheltering midgets" 250; "Like a buncha happy midgets on a holiday!" 259; "They went off practically skipping obsessive as Munchkins, out into the erotic Poisson." 270; "Local midgetry scuttle and cringe alongside the tracks" 310; "Were you frightened when the dwarf tried to hug you" 398; "a splendid retinue of dwarves and sprites " 419; the midget sheriff in Osbie Feel's movie, 534-35; "as armies of eternally shrinking midgets galloped upstairs and down again" 567; midgets on the pinball machines, 586; "lammergeiers cruising there in the lurid red altitudes around [...] piloted by bareback dwarves with little plastic masks around their eyes" 664; "Is he interested in all those other worlds who send their dwarf reps out on the backs of eagles?" 664; "where inside Marcel is the midget Grandmaster" 675

'''Midnight''' 
342; "the famous bucking bronco" on the U.S. rodeo circuits

'''Mieczislav''' 
See Omuzire, Mieczislav

'''mindless pleasures''' 
270; working title for Gravity's Rainbow; 681; "idle and mindless hours of the day" 177

'''Mingeborough, Massachussetts''' 
26; Slothrop's hometown [introduced in Pynchon's short story, "The Secret Integration", where Dr. Slothrop and his son Hogan live]; Lloyd Nipple fattest kid in, 374; Occupation of, 744; [[Minghe|Etymology]]

'''Ministry of Munitions''' 
416; Branch of the SS, headed by Albert Speer

'''Ministry of Supply''' 
251; British, located at Shell Mex House, "the heart of the Rocket's own branch office in London." Duncan Sandys was the Under-secretary there during WWII.

'''Minsky's''' 
In the 1920s and 30s, Billy Minsky's Republic Theatre on Broadway in New York (later known as just Minsky's) featured rowdy burlesque entertainment. Gypsy Rose Lee performed there in the 1930s, as well as comedians W.C. Fields, Al Jolson, Fannie Brice, Bert Lahr, and Phil Silvers; "more tits than they got at"

<div id="miraculous-medal">'''Miraculous Medal'''</div>
135; "O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to you."

[[image:miraculous_medal.jpg|left|caption|Front]]The design was revealed by the Virgin Mary to St. Catherine Labouré on November 27, 1830 in the chapel of the convent of Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul on the rue de Bac, Paris. Catherine had been having visions for the seven months before and had told only her confessor M. Aladel who had the medal struck in June 1832. In 1836, a tribunal in Paris approved the medal as of supernatural origin. On one side, the medal depicts the Virgin Mary standing on a globe with her feet crushing a serpent's head. Beneath it says, "O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee."

[[image:miraculous_medal_back.jpg|right|caption|Back]]On the other side there is the letter "M" entwined with a bar with a cross on it. Twelve stars surround the symbols. Beneath are two hearts, one crowned with thorns, the other pierced with a sword. The medal gained in significance when Alphonse Ratisbonne, a Jew, was instantly converted to Catholicism while visiting a church in Rome to arrange a funeral. He subsequently founded the Order of Our Lady of Sion to work for understanding between Jews and Catholics

'''[[Mirrors|MIRRORS]]''' 
See also [[I#interface|Interface]]; [[I#inside|inside/outside]]

'''Miss Rheingold 1946''' 
380;

'''Mittelwerke''' 
German: "Central Works"; Given to the Soviets per the Yalta Agreement, 273; primary A-4 factory after RAF raid on Peenemünde in August 1943, located in abandoned gypsum mine near Nordhausen and next to Dora prison camp; evacuated in February and March 1945; 283; designed like a ladder with Stollen (rung-tunnels), 299; control systems work was done outside mountain in castles, farms etc, 313; tactical sites elsewhere, 427; abandoned in '45, 432 [MAP]; [Image] Click here to view a photo from Der Spiegel of laborers working in the tunnels. An Interesting Site; Check out this map of Mittelwerke (thanks to Jeff Meikle).

'''Mix, Tom (1808-1940)''' 
An American film actor and the star of many early Western movies. He made a reported 336 films between 1910 and 1935, all but nine of which were silent features. He was Hollywood’s first Western megastar and is noted as having helped define the genre for all cowboy actors who followed; "Tom Mix shirt, 245

'''MMPI''' 
21; Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory--a psychological test developed in 1943, 81; Slothrop's, F-Scale: a measure to indicate whether the subject is trying to mask or underreport psychological symptoms, 90

'''M.O.''' 
Medical Officer; 368; 591

'''Möllner''' 
610; German whom Slothrop questions about von Göll at Putzi's

'''Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich (1890-1986)''' 
Russian statesman and diplomat who was picked by Stalin to be the Soviet commissar of foreign affairs (1939-49). It was during World War II that Molotov ordered the production of the bottles of inflammable liquid that became known as Molotov cocktails. As foreign minister and the major spokesman for the Soviet Union at the Allied conferences during and after World War II, he earned a reputation for uncompromising hostility to the West; cocktails, 507, 511; "isn't telling Vishinsky" 611

<div id="mondaugen">'''Mondaugen, Kurt'''</div>
German: "Mondaugen" = "Moon Eye"; 161; electrical engineer who went to Südwest; Pökler working with, 402-04; accepted Hitler on basis of his "Demian- metaphysics" 403; bodhisattva of Peenemünde, 403; was in Südwest, lived with Ovatjimba (aardvark) people, the poorest Hereros, 403; 1922 - in Südwest with Weissmann during siege of Foppl's villa, 408; after Peenemünde bombing, 422; Mondaugen's Law, 509; Verein für Raumschiffahrt, 582; 687; Mondaugen in V.

'''Monika''' 
603; "Putzi's genial, cigar-smoking, matelasse-suited madame"

'''Monkey Girl''' 
544; "and the pimps in Rome"; one whom Pirate had to betray "in the course of business for the Firm"

'''Monte Carlo Fallacy''' 
56; "No matter how many have fallen inside a particular square, the odds remain the same as they always were. Each hit is independent of all the others."

'''Montez, Maria (1912–1951)''' 
121; A Dominican-born motion picture actress who was know as "The Queen of Technicolor" after a series of films she made with co-star Jon Hall: ''Arabian Nights'' (1942), ''White Savage'' (1943), ''Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves'' (1944), ''Cobra Woman'' (1944), ''Gypsy Wildcat'' (1944), and ''Sudan'' (1945).

'''moon''' 
"no moon" 67; "the halfmoon shines" 104; men on the, 132; "is it the moon?" 123; "toy rockets to the moon" 154; "the dead moon" 163; "we can fly to the moon" 175; "blanched scar of moon" 195; "moonlight reflected from the mirror" 195; "moongrained" 196; astrologer's, 220; "chosen for its affinity to moonlight" 265; "voices twittering with moonlight" 268; "as among craters of the pale moon" 270; "the lunacy of her purple eyes" 271; true message to Hereros, 322; "Me trama con la disquietante luna" 383; "under a moon newly calved" 398; "Passing over the bright rays of Kepler, the rugged solitude of the Southern Highlands, the spectacular views at Copernicus and Eratosthenes, she chose a small pretty crater in the Sea of Tranquility called Maskelyne B." 410; and Ilse, 410; cycles, 414; "the moon that ruled her" 415; "Have you given up so easily on the Moon?" 420; "Her round straw hat a frail moon" 421; Lunar motion, 452; "buttocks rise like moons" 466; "enormous slick stretching away moonward, to the threshold of the north wind" 609; "moon minaret" 637; Katje "felt the moon in the soles of her feet" 657; "brightening and darkening as if by itself" 692; "The moon has risen" 720; moonlight, 721; "our new Deathkingdom" 723; 734; [Check out: Borges' "The Moon" in Dreamtigers (1964)]

'''Moore, Norton B.''' 
452; Aeronautics engineer; worked with Theodore von Kármán on supersonic flow

'''mopery''' 
Slang: a trivial, imaginary violation of law (also seen defined as: act of moping; vagrancy, dawdling); "The War must've been lean times for crowd control, murder and mopery was the best you could do" 570; "Magda was picked up on first-degree mopery" 742; "Edelman [...] accused last year of an 11569 (Attempted Mopery with a Subversive Instrument)" 755;

'''Mopp's Hebdomeriasis''' 
712; "does so-called 'Night Worm' belong among the Pseudo-Goldstrassian Group, or is it properly considered [...] a more insidious form of"; [De Chirico's Hebdomeros]

'''Moreno, El''' 
387; with whom "the white gaucho" has a singing-duel in Martín Fierro

'''Morgan''' 
"GE, that's Morgan money, there's Morgan money in Harvard" 332;

'''Morituri, Ensign''' 
462; [Latin: "We who are about to die" - salutation of the gladiators to the Roman Emperor: "morituri te salutamos" = "we who are about to die salute you"]; "of the Japanese Imperial Navy" "ex-liaison man from Berlin who didn't quite get out by way of Russia"; was in kamikaze training; 467; his story, 474; irony of radium/Hiroshima, 479-80; 672; 706

'''Moritz''' 
757; operating the rocket motor panel for S-gerät 00000; 758

'''Morrison, Herbert Stanley (1888-1965)''' 
British Labour statesman who played a leading role in London local government for 25 years. Constantly involved with socialist politics from 1905, he was active in Churchill's coalition government, serving as Minister of Supply, Home Secretary and Minister of Home Security; 132

'''Morrison shelter''' 
Introduced by Herbert Morrison while home secretary in Churchill's government, they were bomb shelters, 24

'''Mosquito''' 
136; The de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito--a British combat aircraft that excelled in versatility during WWII; was made primarily out of laminated plywood

'''Moss Creature''' 
523; hallucination of Pavel's during Leunagasolin high

'''Mossmoon, Clive''' 
35; works for ICI doing polymer research; husband of Scorpia; 228-29; discussion regarding releasing Slothrop, 270; 544; 615; 635

'''Mossmoon, Scorpia''' 
35; wife of Clive, aka "Red Bitch of the High Seas"; had an affair with Pirate in 1936, 35-36; "living in St. John's Wood among sheet-music, new recipes, a small kennel of Weimaraners whose racial purity she will go to extravagant lengths to preserve" 544; 698

'''[[Mothers in Gravity's Rainbow|MOTHERS]]''' 
See also [[F#fathers|fathers]]; [[N#nipple|Nipple, Lloyd]]; [[#metropolis|Metropolis]]; [check out [[#marvy|Marvy's Mothers]], too]

'''Mouse Alexei''' 
229; lab rat at White Visitation

'''Mouthorgan, Missouri''' 
583; location of Masonic temple the Tracys visit; "an elegant chaos to bend the ingenuity of Bland's bought expert" 586;

'''[[The Movies in Gravity's Rainbow|MOVIES]]
See also [[A#actors|actors/directors]]; [[F#film|film/cinema references]]; [[K#kingkong|King Kong]]

<div id="moxie">'''Moxie'''</div>
A carbonated beverage that was one of the first mass-produced soft drinks in the United States. In its advertising, it used “Make Mine Moxie!” advertising jingles, the slogan “Just Make It Moxie for Mine”, and a "Moxie Man" logo. The brand suffered a significant decline in sales during the 1930s. It used "[[G#gentian|Gentian]] Root Extractives" for flavoring; 63; 208; 258; "tin Moxie signs" 471

'''Mravenko''' 
611; "one of the VIAM people"

<div id="mucker"></div>'''Mucker-Maffick, Oliver "Tantivy"''' 
"tantivy" is a hunting cry made when the chase is at full speed; 18; shares office with Slothrop at ACHTUNG; with Slothrop at Casino, 181; Ballad of, 191; "There hasn't been a word" 209; disappears - death confirmed, 252; Slothrop's dream of his return, 551; 584; [[Oliver Mucker-Maffick|Etymology]]; See also [[A#achtung|ACHTUNG]]

'''Muffage, Doctor''' 
591; with Dr. Spontoon, out to castrate Slothrop

'''Muffin-tin Road''' 
646; in Happyville: "note the smiing faces on all the houses"

'''Mukuru''' 
322; Hereros' "first ancestor, Adam"; breath of, 524; 562

'''Müller-Hochleben, Miss''' 
632-34; German: "Miller-Highlife" (really!); "short but spunky secretary" at Twelfth House on Gallaho Mews in London whose glasses fall off

<div id="munchkin">'''Munchkins'''</div>
The natives of the fictional Munchkin Country in the Oz books by L. Frank Baum. They first appeared in the 1900 novel [[W#wizoz|The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]], in which they are described as being somewhat short of stature, and wearing only blue. They are best-known from their depiction in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, in which they are played by adult proportional dwarfs, dressed in brightly multicolored outfits, and live in Munchkinland; "Munchkin voice" 63; "obsessive as Munchkins" 270

'''Murphy's Law''' 
275; "when everything has been taken care of, when nothing can go wrong, or even surprise us. . .something will"; "where the the salvation could be" 471; See also [[G#godel|Gödel's Theorem]]

'''[[Music in Gravity's Rainbow|MUSIC]]''' 
See also [[F#foxtrot|fox-trot]]; [[#musicians|musicians/composers]; [[R#rossini|Rossini]]; [[Songs/Compositions|songs/compositions]]

<div id="musicians"></div>'''musicians/composers''' 
Sandy MacPherson, 13; George Formby, 18; Falkman and His Apache Band, 32; Charlie ("Yardbird") Parker, 63; Primo Scala's Accordian Band, 115; Hop Harrigan and Tank Tinker, 117; Roland Peachey and His Orchestra, 121; Thomas Tallis, Henry Purcell, Heinrich Suso, 129; Ernesto Lecuona, 169; Carl Orff, 237, 441; Benny Goodman, 225; Juan d'Arienzo, 267; Der Bingle (B. Crosby), 320; Richard Wagner, 324, 450; Andrews Sisters, 382; Frank Sinatra, 390, 700; Hugo Wolf, 419, 450; Ludwig von Beethoven, 440, 685; Anton Webern, 440, 494; Irving Berlin, 442; Horst Wessel, 443; Kurt Weill, 513; Gene Krupa, 513; Guy Lombardo, 529; Gilbert & Sullivan, 538; Jacques Offenbach, 584 ("Offenbach galop": Jacques Offenbach wrote the music to the well-known "Cancan" - "galop" is a dance); Sandy McPherson, 592; Spohr, Rossini, Spontini, 622; Diamond Lil, 657; 175-Stadt Chorale, 668; Stephen Foster, 675; Spike Jones, 678; Brahms, 685; Harry James, 685; J.S. Bach, 685; Tchaikovsky, 702; Josef Haydn, 712; Lübeck Hitler Youth Glee Club, 736; See also [[R#rossini|Rossini]]

'''Mussert's people''' 
97; someone for whom Katje is "smelling out" Jewish families

Mr. Pynchon is probably referring to Anton Adriaan Mussert, fouder and leader of the Dutch National Socialist Movement during World War II

<div id="mustache">'''mustache'''</div>
"mustaches, to be shaved off only by authorized crypto officers" 16; "jar of mustache wax" 17; "mustaches mouthwide" 20; 62; "mustache unruffled" 188; "twirling his slick mustache in a saber-point" 191; "great twisted mustache" 201; "Mustache Kit, 20 different shapes from [[F#fumanchu|Fu Manchu]] to [[M#groucho|Groucho Marx]]", "[[E#earp|Wyatt Earp's]]", "[[B#booth|John Wilkes Booth's]]", "the old duster just keeps droopin' down again" 210; "as the mustache waxes, Slothrop waxes the mustache" 211; "twisting his mustache" 221; "clipped mustache bristles" 233; "[[F#flynn|Errol Flynn]] frisks his mustache" 248; 267; "I even have a mustache...like that [[H#hemingway|Ernest Hemingway]]" 292; "frisks mustaches" 295; "red [[V#hindenburg|von Hindenburg]] mustache" 305; 306; "mustache white and bubbly too" 307; "white, water-buffalo mustaches" 308; "saws off pieces of his mustache on both sides...look like [[H#hitler|Hitler]]" 309; "All the funny Fascists just a-twirlin' their mustaches" 310; "big chromo of [[S#stalin|Stalin]]...mustache and hair only incidental as makeup" 368; "wide handle-bar mustache" 473; "twisting half his mustache so it points up in a saber at one eye" 474; "Frisking his great mustache" 479; "around the mustache line" 583; " black neckerchiefs whipping about like the mustaches of epileptic villains" 594; "blunt and ragged mustache" 607; "natty mustaches" 632; "superthin mustache" 675; "feathery [[R#rilke|Rilke]] mustaches" 711

'''''My Little Chickadee''''' 
198; a 1940 Universal comedy/western motion picture starring [[W#maewest|Mae West]] and W. C. Fields

'''Myrtle Miraculous''' 
See [[F#floundering|Floundering Four]]

'''Mysterious Microfilm Drill''' 
32; wherein "Bloat goes somewhere and microfilms something, then transfers it, via Pirate, to young Mexico. And thence [...] down to 'The White Visitation'"

'''Mystery Stimulus''' 
84; "Conditioned response = hardon whenever x is present [...] what's x? Why it's the famous 'Mystery Stimulus'

'''[[Mythology in Gravity's Rainbow|MYTHOLOGY]]''' 
See also [[G#god|God]]; [[S#scylla|Scylla and Charybdis]]

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'''Babington-Smith, Constance''' 
726; "and her colleagues at R.A.F. Medmenham [who] discovered the Rocket back in 1943 in recco photographs of Peenemünde"; Babington conducted aerial photo-surveillance for the Allies in WWII.

'''Badajoz''' 
234; The largest province in Spain, in the Extremadura comunidad autónoma ("autonomous community"), Badajoz borders on Portugal; on which, according to Pudding, "during the war in Spain ... a bandera of Franco's Legion advanced"; between 1,000 and 4,000 civilian and military supporters of the Second Spanish Republic, were killed by the National Army following the seizure of the town on August 14, 1936.

'''Bad Karma''' 
457; location of Spa (Kurhaus) where Margherita Erdmann killed Jewish boys; ''Bad'' is German for spa or sanitarium and is often used in the names of towns with hot springs; obviously, this one is fictional and a pun

'''Badass, U.S.S. John E.''' 
388-89; US destroyer on which Seaman Bodine is stationed; Runcible Spoon Contest, 594; 623

'''BAFO''' 
391; U.S. Army Air Force: Base Accounting and Finance Office

'''Bai-u''' 
480; "the season of the plum rains [...] when all the plums are ripening" in Japan; Tsuyu (Baiu=plum rain)("Rainy Season"). Although this is Japan's "Rainy Season" (Tsuyu or Baiu), it is actually the second wet period (Winter Monsoon being the first). It typically begins in early June in Western Japan and ends in July. (Both dates are later in Northern Japan.) A stationary rain front forms over Japan between the very warm, moist tropical air to the south and the cooler, drier air to the north of the front. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiyu Wikipedia entry]

'''Baku''' 
352; seaport capital of Azerbaydzhanskaya SSR, Soviet Union, on the west coast of the Caspian Sea; 353; Blobadjian "pursued through the black end of Baku by a passel of screaming Arabists" 354

'''Bakunin, Mikhael Aleksandrovich (1814-76)''' 
386; A Russian anarchist who eventually settled in England, Mikhail Bakunin, as the leader of anarchism, was the opponent of Karl Marx in the Communist International. He believed that "the withering away of the state" effect by communism was an essential step towards anarchism. In 1866, he founded International Brotherhood, or the Alliance of Revolutionary Socialists; "19th century European anarchist Mason" 587; See also [[P#proudhon]]Proudhon and [[F#friscia|Friscia]]

'''Balaclava helmet''' 
42; a close-fitting woolen covering for the head and ears

'''Baldwin, Stanley (1867-1947)''' 
An English Conservative statesman, Baldwin, after university, became vice-chairman of his family's iron and steel business. He became premier in 1923. In the 1930s he was reluctant to re-arm Britain and was thus criticized for not recognizing the Nazi threat; Byron's Guerrilla Strike Force is "gonna get [him] right in the face" 647

'''[[Bananas|BANANAS]]'''

<div id="baseball"></div>'''baseball''' 
See [[L#lawn|lawn sports]]

'''Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij, N.V.''' 
240; Royal Dutch Shell headquarters being used for a radio guidance transmitter

'''Battle of Britain''' 
40-41; (June 1940-April 1941), series of intense raids directed against Great Britain by the German air force after the fall of France during World War II. Britain sustained 57 consecutive nights of air raids, but the RAF prevailed through superior tactics and cracking German secret codes.

'''Battle of the Bulge''' 
Led by Gerd von Rundstedt this German offensive began with a surprise attack in Luxembourg on December 16, 1944. Hitler hoped to revitalize the Western Front troops. The Germans were eventually beaten back in early January 1945 after suffering over 100,000 casualties and the loss of 1000 aircraft. It was called "Battle of the Bulge" because of the bulge it created in American lines along the Western Front. It disrupted the Western Allies' military timetable for several months; "the chaplains out in the Bulge are manly, haggard, hard drinkers" 135; 246; Red Cross "charging fifteen cents for coffee and donuts at" 600

'''Bauhaus''' 
582; "-style furniture" at the Tracys' home; The Bauhaus School was a design school in existence in Germany 1919 - 1933, established by Walter Gropius. Radically breaking with the past, the Bauhaus Masters and their students ushered in our modern times. The aesthetic was austere and functional. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauhaus Wikipedia entry]

'''Bayer factory''' 
Major German company (dyes, aspirin), headed by Duisberg, that in 1904 was organized along with Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik and the AGFA Company (film), into a cartel; 742; in Leverkusen; defectors from, at Der Platz, 746; [www.bayer.de/en/index_en.html Bayer Website]

'''BDM volunteers''' 
450; German: Bund Deutscher Mädel = German Girls League; German girls 14 years or older joined this Nazi youth group which included a year of farm or domestic service. Their motto was "Frisch, Fromm, Frölich, Frei".

'''BDST''' 
29: British Double Summer Time (-0200 offset from Greenwich Mean Time); same idea as Daylight Saving Time in the USA, but the clocks are advanced 2 hours, instead 1 hour, during the summer months.

'''Beal, Mary F. (b. 1937)''' 
612; American novelist

'''Beardsley, Aubry (1872-1898)''' 
An English illustrator, Beardsley is known for his (often erotically charged) illustrations for Oscar Wilde's Salome, Alexander Pope's Rape of the Lock and other black-and-white works. Along with Oscar Wilde, he was considered a leader of "The Decadents" of the 1890s; 71; 634; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_Beardsley Wikipedia entry]

'''Beaton, Cecil (1904-80)''' 
78; Beaton was an English photographer of fashion and high-society celebrities (including royalty), as well as a designer of costumes and sets for ballet; his "photograph of [[A#asquith|Margot Asquith]]"

'''Beatriz the Bulb''' 
653; another long-living bulb hunted by Phoebus, believed to be in the Amazon

'''Beaver, "Old" Jeremy the''' 
36; 121; boyfriend of Jessica Swanlake; works for Operation Backfire in Cuxhaven; is the War, 177; meets Mexico at Gross Suckling Conference, 709

'''Beaverboard Row''' 
538; at the Double-Agent Convention, "comprising the offices of all the Committees"

'''Beaverbrook, Lord William Maxwell (1879-1964)''' 
615; Max Beaverbrook was a Canadian-born British newspaper magnate and politician. He became rich as a stockbroker by 1910. He moved to Britain in 1910 and was private secretary to premier Bonar Law, minister of information under Lloyd George, and minister of supply under Churchill. As a newspaper magnate, he founded the Sunday Express in 1921 and bought the Evening Standard in 1929; "it isn't as if the election put [him] out of a job or something"

'''Becket''' 
"Lost, again and again, past poor dam-busted and drowned Becket" 471

'''Beethoven, Ludwig von (1770-1827)''' 
German composer whose harmonic and formal innovations pushed the boundaries of the music of his day; "Rossini's overture to La Gazza Ladra (which, as we shall see later, in Berlin, marks a high point in music which everybody ignored, preferring Beethoven, who never got further than statements of intention)" 273; "a raging debate with Säure over who is better, [[Beethoven & Rossini|Beethoven or Rossini]] [...] "'I'm not so much for Beethoven qua Beethoven," Gustav argues, "but as he represents the German dialectic, the incorporation of more and more notes into the scale, culminating with dodecaphonic democracy, where all notes get an equal hearing. Beethoven was one of the architects of musical freedom--he submitted to the demands of history, despite his deafness. While Rossini was retiring at the age of 36, womanizing and getting fat, Beethoven was living a life filled with tragedy and grandeur.'" 440; "All you feel like listening to Beethoven is going out and invading Poland." 440 (this pre-dates Woody Allen's use of the same joke in his movie [http://www.woodyallenmovies.com/movies/manhattan.htm ''Manhattan''] (1979)); "Nor as grand as Bach, or Beethoven-or-Brahms/(bubububoo[oo] oo [sung to opening of Beethoven 5th, with full band]" 685

'''Beláustegui''' 
383; U-boat's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positivism positivist] engineer; 613

'''Belleau Wood''' 
Battle fought outside Paris for approximately three weeks in June 1918, between the U.S. Marines and the Germans. The Marines prevailed, but only after the death of over 1000 men; "[Lyle Bland] lay there, more terrified than he'd ever been, even at Belleau Wood" 588

'''Benito the Bulb''' 
649; "at an all-girl opium den in Charlottenburg [...] who's always planning an escape"

'''Bereshith''' 
Genesis, the first book of the Old Testament (after the Hebrew word meaning "in the beginning"); 77

'''Beria, Lavrenti Pavlovich (1899-1953)''' 
Sometimes called the "Himmler of Russia," Beria was a ruthless and ambitious Soviet secret police chief. Stalin appointed him minister of internal affairs in 1938, and he served as vice-president of the State Committee for Defense during WWII. He attempted to seize power when Stalin died, but was foiled and executed; "Beria's top man, the sinister N. Ripov himself" 719

'''Berliner Luft''' 
372;

'''Berlin Snoot''' 
660; aka Enzian

'''Bernie the Bulb''' 
649; "at an all-girl opium den in Charlottenburg [...] who has all kinds of urolagnia jokes"

'''Bernreuter Inventory''' 
In 1931, psychologist Robert Bernreuter began refining his "Bernreuter Personality Inventory," a pioneer multiphastic test of traits that became the standard against which other personality tests were measured and is still used worldwide for counseling and personnel selection; "as revied by Flanagan in '35" 81

'''Bessarabia''' 
Bessarabia is the territory in the eastern part of Moldavia (now Romania), between the Prut and Dniester rivers, near the Russian border; Background regarding "1878 during the intrigues over" 119

'''Bevin, Mr. Ernest (1881-1951)''' 
106; Considered the pioneer of modern trade unionism, Bevin became minister of labor and nation service in Churchill's coalition government. He became foreign secretary in the Labour government (1945-51).Labor Minister

<div id="bianca"></div>'''Bianca''' 
393; daughter of Greta Erdmann & Miklos Thanatz; "I think Bianca is [Schlepzig's] child." 395; 457; disappears, 480; mapped on to Gottfried, 484, 672;"Bianca's a knockout, alright: [[Bianca|11 or 12 [...] ]]" 463; going overboard, 491; "a clever child" 494; body discovered, 531; mapped on to Ilse, 576-77; "her dead flesh" 576; 672;

'''Bibescue, Count''' 
491; passenger aboard the Anubis "dreaming by the fo'c'sle of Bucharest four years ago, the January terror, the Iron Guard on the radio screaming Long Live Death"

'''Biddle, "Gobbler"''' 
65; college buddy of Slothrop's who appears in toilet episode

'''Big and Little Anita''' 
129; character conjured by the presence of the black man in choir at the Advent service attended by Roger and Jessica

'''Big Apple''' 
60; dance in Slothrop's Sodium Amytal session

'''Bingen pencils''' 
Bingen is a city in southwestern Germany, with a port at the confluence of the Rhine and Nahe rivers, near the whirlpool known as Binger Loch. It joined the Hanseatic League in 1254; "the helical contrails in the sky" 452

'''Birches, The''' 
616; Sir Marcus Scammony's estate

'''Birdbury, Pharmacist''' 
595; dope dealer at the old Krupp works where Badass is docked

'''Bismarck, Otto Edward Leopold von (1815-98)''' 
165; As a Prussian statesman, Bismarck rose to eventually become president of the cabinet. Under his leadership, Prussia humiliated Austria in the "Seven Weeks' War which lead to the reorganization of Germany under the leadership of Prussia. After provoking the Franco-Prussian war (1870-71) and eventually dictating the peace terms to France, Bismarck was made a prince and chancellor (the "Iron Chancellor") of the new German empire. He also represented Germany at the Congress of Berlin in 1878; "impressive re-enactment of Bismarck's elevation, at the spring equinox of 1871, to prince and imperial chancellor" 419;

'''black & white''' 
The Rocket described as "black-and-white bad news" 209; "Dominus Blicero" 30; white - 342, 398, 501, 506, 508, 519, 524, 549, 551; 579; bleaching 364; black - 350, 354; "feelings about blackness tied to feelings about shit" 276; white=death, 372; white woman with ring of keys, 374; Caligari gloves - bone white, 385; Slothrop's sodium amytal dreams, 390; 392; "we live. . .beneath the black mud" 483; "A white land" 486; 488; black polymer costume, 488; baseball, 508; boneblack, 509; Egg, 510; "black apes" 513; 650; 657; 666; 688; white albatross, 713; 722; 723; 741; death a whitening, 750 [inversion: black=life; white=death]

'''Blackett, P.M.S. (1897-1974)''' 
12; 1932 (independent of Carl Anderson) he discovered the positron. He also pioneered research on cosmic radiation and, in 1948, won the Nobel prize for physics; "You can't run a war on gusts of emotion"

'''Bladdery, St. John''' 
594; English Commando in First International Runcible Spoon Fight

'''Bland, Buddy''' 
591; Lyle's son; 652

'''Bland, Lyle''' 
284; "Uncle" Lyle to Slothrop; lived in Boston; involved with Hugo Stinnes; 306; Marvy-GE-Morgan money-Harvard interlock with, 332; and the Masons, 580; specialized in psychological studies in '30s, 581; becomes Mason, 587; journeying "underneath history" 589; leaves body, 591; "last transmural journey" 630; "who was likely to take over the Slothrop surveillance, now that Bland was gone" 630

'''Bland, Lyle Jr.''' 
652; Lyle's son

'''Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna (1831-91)''' 
269; A Russian-born American psychic and mystic. She founded the Theosophical Society in New York in 1875 and later continued her work in India. Although her psychic powers were widely acclaimed, they did not withstand the scrutiny of the Society for Psychical Research, though this had little effect on her following; the Blavatskian wing in Psi section. Her day of death (May 8) is commemorated as White Lotus Day.

'''Blazzo''' 
483; "Italian stuntman" who doubled for Erdmann in Jugend Herauf! - Erdmann "wouldn't go to bed with him, unless he wore that wig!"

'''Bleagh, Dr.''' 
91; "and his young nurse Ivy"; performs lobotomies at White Visitation

'''Bleicheröde''' 
According to McGovern, a cotton-mill town near Nordhausen where most of the rocket specialists and their families were resettled after Peenemünde was abandoned; "Across the Western Front, up in the Harz in Bleicheröde, Wernher von Braun, lately wrecked arm in a plaster cast, prepares to celebrate his 33rd birthday." 236-37; "Enzian of Bleicheröde" 314; "In the mountains around Nordhausen and Bleicheröde, down in abandoned mine shafts, live the Schwarzkommando." 315; "There are several underground communities now near Nordhausen/Bleicheröde. Around here they are known collectively as the Erdschweinhöhle." 315; "The Rocket had to be produced out of a place called Nordhausen. The town adjoining was named Bleicheröde as a validation, a bit of redundancy so that the message would not be lost." 322; "Enzian's found the name Bleicheröde close enough to "Blicker," the nickname the early Germans gave to Death. They saw him white bleaching and blankness." 322; "the names of death-towns unreel, and surely Bleicheröde or Blicero will be spoken any minute now...." 695; "is he Blicker, Bleicheröde, Bleacher, Blicero, extending, rarefying the Caucasian pallor to an abolition of pigment, of melanin, of spectrum, of separateness from shade to shade" 759

'''Blicero, Capt.
See [[W#weissman|Weissmann]]

'''Blizna''' 
424; in Poland; site of A4 testing in 1943; SS project run by Kammler

'''Bloat, Teddy''' 
5; rooms with Pirate and friend of Tantivy; microfilms Slothrop's map (then gives film to Mexico who takes it to Pointsman), 17; 34; 181; gives Slothrop a crab to distract the octopus, 186-87; discussed, 192-93

'''Blobadjian, Igor''' 
353; party representative in the G Committee (WLA); death of, 354-55; [[Igor Blobadjian|Etymological Musings]]

'''Blohm & Voss''' 
521; Hamburg shipbuilding company that expanded into building military aircraft for the German war effort

'''Bloth, Mindy''' 
735-36; guide on elevator; "of Carbon City, Illinois"

'''Blowitt''' 
151; reported to psychiatric "for his rainbowed Valkyrie over Peenemünde"

'''BMRs''' 
170; Basal Metabolic Rates: the amount of energy expended while at rest in a neutrally temperate environment.

<div id="bodine"></div>'''Bodine, Seaman''' 
369; Doper's Dream; was on the Destroyer John E. Badass docked in Cuxhaven; spikes coffee on Badass with Oneirine, 389; First Int'l Runcible Spoon Fight, 394; "specializes in supporting roles" 684; My Doper's Cadenza, 685; foam-rubber phalli, 708; "just a freckleface kid from Albert Lea, Minnesota" 710; Krupp, 711; "surprise roast" 714; "beginning. . .to let Slothrop go" 741-42; "Pig" Bodine is also a major character in V.; Pig's ancestor, [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=B#bodine Fender-Belly Bodine, shows up in Mason & Dixon.]

'''Bokhara rug''' 
246;

<div id="bolshevik"></div>'''Bolshevik''' 
338; Russian: bol'she = "more"; The Bolsheviks were the members of the Russian Social Democratic Party who sided with Lenin in the split after the party congress of 1903. They were the majority and the Mensheviks (in favor of bourgeois reform) were the minority party. The Bolsheviks seized power after the Revolution of 1917 and became the Communist Party; "the godless Mesopotamian Bolshevik" 383; "Lucky the Bolshies didn't get it, huh, Charles?" 448; "The lion [...] He takes, he holds! He is not a Bolshevik or Jew" 577; See also [[L#lenin|Lenin]]; [[S#stalin|Stalin]]

'''Bondelswaartz''' 
403; Herero tribe; 1922 uprising, 403

'''Book, The''' 
47, 75, 87-88, 139, 140; [What Book?]; See also Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich

'''Book of Memorabilia''' 
739; pertaining to Slothrop's dispersal

<div id="booth">'''Booth, John Wilkes (1839-65)'''</div>
This unsuccessful actor assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, apparently to avenge the defeat of the Confederates in the Civil War; his [[M#mustache|mustache]], 210

'''BOQ''' 
6; bachelor officers' quarters

'''Borges, Jorge Luis (1899-1986)''' 
264; Argentinian writer of fiction/fantasy; dedicated poem to G. I. Portales, 383; [http://www.themodernword.com/borges/index.html The Modern Word's Borges Section (the best!)] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges Wikipedia Entry]; [[Borges - The Game of Chess|"The Game of Chess"]] See also [[R#rivadavia|Rivadavia]].

<div id="katje"></div>'''Borgesius, Katje (rhymes with "Got-ya")''' 
her message in cylinder delivered by rocket, 20; "the operative" 72; an ice-queen, her hair secured with "an old, tarnished silver crown [...] frozen on top in a hundred vortices" 92; "A woman with some background in mathematics, and with reasons" 97; was in Blicero's Hansel & Gretel game with Gottfried in the house "west of Duindigt racecourse" 94-99, 101-04; turned in Jews to keep the Germans from suspecting her, 97, 105; spying for allies, 104-05; "Her only debt outstanding is to Captain Prentice" 104; "stepped back into the void" 106; quits the game, 107; Pirate takes her to White Visitation, 106; secretly filmed, 92-113; "quits the game" 104; octopus incident, 185-89; "Meet me in my room" 191; with Slothrop in her room, 194-98; escapes to Arnhem [MAP] [actually to Scheveningen: 535-36], 195; "Wired into the Slothropian Run-together they briefed her on." 196; futureless look, 208, 209; roulette wheel metaphor, 209; "A rain-witch." 221; "a noseless mask of the Other Order of Being, of Katje's being--the lifeless non-face that is the only face of hers he really knows, or will ever remember" 222; "mask of no luck, no future--her face's rest state" 225; disappears, 226; "on her wheel" 257; with Pointsman, 273-74; "under the Wheel of Fortune" 277; 281-83; "a red tulip between Slothrop's toes. A reminder of Katje" 281; discovers film used with Grigori, 533; looking for Pirate, 536; with Pirate again ("she has lost her surface"), 545; her little brother Louis, 546; going to Nordhausen, 620; loss of "futureless look" 656; "she's not of our moment, our time, at all" 656; Golden Bitch, 658; Principle of Maximizing Risk, 659; "Shouldn't I be going all the way in?" 662; "her masochism" 662; travelling with Enzian, 729

'''Borgesius, Louis''' 
546; Katje's little brother

'''Borsalini''' 
254; Borsalino hats are a quality-made felt hat with broad brim manufactured in Italy. The company has been in existence since 1857. "Borsalini" is Pynchon's plural.

'''Bounce, Capt. Hillary''' 
240; works for Shell Int'l Petroleum; had dealings with IG Farben in '32; teaches Slothrop about propulsion at Casino; at de la Perlimpinpin's party, 245; 253

'''Bovril''' 
23; Bovril is cow extract, and its main use is as a flavouring for soups, and as a drink when you put a teaspoon of the stuff in a mug of boiling water; [http://www.bovril.com]

'''Boxing Day''' 
132; In England, the first weekday after Christmas, observed by the giving of Christmas boxes to service workers; 174

'''Bracken, Brendan (1901-58)''' 
615; First a successful journalist, Irishman Bracken was elected to the British in 1929, was minister of information (1941-45) and was first Lord of the Admiralty in the 1945 "caretaker" government; "it isn't as if the election put [him] out of a job or something"

'''Bradbury Building''' 
752; "Philip Marlowe will [...] feel homesick for the lacework balconies of the"

'''Brain Trust''' 
565

'''Brain War''' 
726; "a Victorian kind [...] as between quaternions and vector analysis in the 1880s, the nostalgia of Aether" 727

<div id="vonbraun">'''Braun, Wernher von (1923-77)'''</div>
German rocket engineer who came to the U.S. after the war; [[von Braun's Epigram|"Nature does not know extinction"]] 1; arm in a cast in the Harz, 237; "They've already rounded up von Braun and 500 others, and interned them at Garmisch" 273; Geli's owl, 291; "how close Wernher von Braun's birthday is to the Spring Equinox" 361, 588; "the Prussian aristocrat" 402; "a palace revolt against" 416; "I couldn't go with von Braun, not to the Americans" 456

'''Brenda''' 
547; mentioned in Pirate's and Katje's How I Came To Love the People

'''Brenda the Bulb''' 
649; mother of Bernie "who talks of hashish hush puppies"

'''Brennan, Peewee''' 
584; a pinball wizard, one of "the great thumbs of Koekuk and Puyallup, Oyster Bay, Inglewood"

'''Brennschluss''' 
6; German: "end of burning"; end of rocket's ascent when fuel is cut-off and it gives way to gravity; "a ritual of love" 222-23; "Rocket's. . .feminine counterpart" 223; 239; "The moving vehicle is frozen, in space, to become architecture, and timeless. It was never launched. It will never fall" 301; "for every firing site" 302; "of the Sun" (Sound-Shadow), 711; 759

'''British Military Intelligence''' 
384;

'''British Ministry of Supply''' 
240;

'''British Plastics''' 
615; discarded back issues scattered about Mossmoon's and Scammony's club

'''Brocken''' 
329; mountain 20 miles NW of Mittelwerke in the Harz Mountains; "plexus of German evil"; place where God-shadows ("Brockengespenstphänomen" - p.331) occur at sunrise, 330; specter, 759

'''Bruce''' 
544; "who got burned"; one whom Pirate had to betray "in the course of business for the Firm"

'''Buchenwald''' 
666;

'''Buffalo Bayou''' 
449; song about

'''Bugnogorkov''' 
353; "infamous Ukrainian doper [...] of the glottal K Committee"

'''Bukhara''' 
in Uzbekistan, this city is one of the most ancient in Central Asia. According to the decree of the 4th Assembly of all-Bukhara Soviets (11-17 October, 1923), certain degrees of autonomy and administrative rights were granted to areas inhabited by Turkmens, and local dialects (eg Tajiki) were to be replaced by Turkish as the official language; "reformed Arabic scripts [...] ratified at ~ in 1923" 354; [http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/bashiri/Masov/bukhara.html Website]

'''Bukharin, Nikolai Ivanovich (1888-1938)''' 
Bukharin was a Russian Communist leader and theoretician, and a member of the Bolshevik wing of the Social Democratic party. In 1924 he was made a full member of the politburo. As Stalin rose to power in the 1920s, Bukharin was advocating policies which were not in line with Stalin's, eg slow agricultural collectivization and industrialization. A victim of Stalin's purges, in 1938 he was tried publicly for treason and was executed (shot). In the Gorbachev era, Bukharin was rehabilitated and posthumously reinstated (1988) as a party member; "evidence linking [Porkyevitch] to the Bukharin conspiracy" 189

'''bulbs''' 
anemone bulbs, 104; at Rathenau seance, 165; "staring bulb" 194; " a bare bulb will hollow out a region of light...the light bulb is the chisel that delivers it from its inertia and has become one of the great secret ikons of the Humility", "light bulbs...were the first to go" 299; " only their bulbs shining conditionally" 300; "small neon bulbs" 303; dream of bulb/Weissmann, 426-27; Weissmann's soul, 427; sentient bulbs, 464; 506; Mutter: what Germans call female threads of light bulb sockets, 299, 653; "Azos looking down the empty back Bakelite streets, Nitralampen and Wotan Gs at night soccer matches, Just-Wolframs, Monowatts and Siriuses" 650; "an electrical tidal wave" 665; bulbshine, 697; See also [[#byron|Byron the Bulb]]

'''Bulgars''' 
549;

'''Bull, John''' 
nickname for an Englishman or Englishmen collectively; "our cousin" 697

'''Bummer, Emil ("Säure" [German: acid])''' 
365; 434-43; papyromancy, 442, 641; wheelerdealer in Berlin; no stomping on bugs, 621; "Ass-backwards" 683; "Der Platz" 686; "optimum hashpipe design" 745

'''Burgundians''' 
159; wiped out by Attila the Hun (as depicted in Fritz Lang's Die Nibelungen); in what is now Eastern France [MAP]; held together by "precious structure of magic and incest" 578-79

'''Busch, Wilhelm (1832-1908)''' 
501; This German cartoonist and writer created Max und Moritz (the prototypes for the Katzenjammer Kids--see page 757) and Herr und Frau Knopp; "a Wilhelm Busch cartoon face"; "a Wilhelm Busch original" 568

'''Busemann, Adolf''' 
German rocket scientist; 452

'''Business Advisory Council''' 
581; "set up by Swope of General Electric"; 587;

'''butadiene''' 
487; a flammable gaseous hydrocarbon used in making synthetic rubbers

<div id="byron"></div>'''Byron the Bulb''' 
"a bulb over his head burning all night long. He dreamed that the bulb was a representative of Weissmann, a creature whose bright filament was its soul" 426-27; "a theatre marquee whose sentient bulbs may have looked on [...] witnesses to grave and historical encounters" 464; "The Story of" 647-55; "Someday he will know everything, and be just as impotent as before" 654; "electrical tidal wave" 665; "young Jack may have had one of them Immortal Lightbulbs then go on overhead" 688; screwed into Gustav's kazoo hashpipe, 745

'''Byzantium''' 
Ancient Greek city on the Sea of Marmara which was the capital of the Byzantine (or Greek) Empire, in what is now NW Turkey. From 7th century BC to 3rd century AD, Byzantium was a thriving center for the arts, especially architecture (its chief features: circle, dome and round arch). It was renamed Constantinople in 330AD when Constantine captured it and established it as the new capital for the Turkish Empire; it was renamed Istanbul in 1930; Vikings sailing to, 549; [[Sailing to Byzantium|"Sailing to Byzantium" by W.B. Yeats]] [http://www.tmbg.org/band-info/songs/lyrics/IstanbulNotConstantinople.html "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" by They Might Be Giants]

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'''''337:17 stvyeh''s and ''znyi''s''' 
These are suffixes but both of the examples which Weisenburger quotes from Terrill Shepard Soules miss the point. There is no such word as ''sdravstuyeh''; the Russian word for 'hello' is ''zdravstvuy'' or ''zdravstvuyte'', second person imperative forms of the verb zdravstvovat', literally 'to be healthy". There is no such word as ''nebreznieh'' either; ''nebrezhnyi'' (masculine, singular) means 'careless, neglectful'. The suffix ''-stviye'' produces nouns, as in ''udovol'stviye'', 'pleasure'. The suffix ''-nyi'' (where y is for the central close vowel "yery", and i is for the half-vowel y) is an adjective ending (masculine, singular, nominative); when it is attached to a noun stem with z, it becomes -znyi, as in ''groznyi'', 'terrible".

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'''338:21 Seven Rivers Country''' 
In Russian, Semirechye; the relatively fertile easternmost region of Kazakhstan, near the present-day Chinese border. The western and norther parts of Kazakhstan (then an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic within the Russian Federation) was the target of intensive Russification at that time but Slavic resettlement did not affect the Semirechye.

'''the local Likbez center''' 
Likbez was a campaign of eradication of illiteracy in Soviet Russia in the 1920s and 1930s. It was started on December 26, 1919, when Lenin signed the decree "On eradication of illiteracy among the population of RSFSR." According to this decree, all people from 8 to 50 years old were required to become literate in their native language.

==Page 339==
339.17-18 '''naked Leningrad encounters with the certainty of his death''' 
The 872-day Siege of Leningrad by German forces in World War II was one of the longest battles in the history of warfare and one of the costliest in human lives.

==Page 345==
345.19 '''passementerie''' 
The art of making elaborate trimmings or edgings (in French, passements) of applied braid, gold or silver cord, embroidery, colored silk, or beads for clothing or furnishings.

==Page 346==
346.3 '''Parabellum rounds'''
A cartridge made by German arms maker Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken; derived from the Latin saying ''si vis pacem, para bellum'', meaning 'If you wish for peace, prepare for war'.

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347.2-5 '''an enormous closed sleigh, big as a ferryboat, bedizened all over with Victorian gingerbread - inside are decks and levels for each class of passenger, velvet saloons, well-stocked galleys...''' 

Echoes here of the opening passage of the book, with its 'carriage, which is built on several levels', the 'velveteen darkness', and the class theme - 'ruinous secret cities of the poor'. Then there are the girders 'old as an iron queen', perhaps a reference to Queen Victoria and/or Victoria Station, echoed here by the Victorian gingerbread. That passage has a lot of metal(s) in it, and it turns out to be a dream from which wakes Captain Prentice, feeling metallic. Here, we have 'Captain' Tchitcherine, a man who is 'more metal than anything else'.

Certainly the multi-leveled carriages are deliberate mirrorings. Is there a connection between Prentice and Tchitcherine?

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351.06 '''Jablochkov candles''' 
Paul Jablochkov (or Pavel Yablochkov, 1847-1894) was a Russian engineer. His "candles" were the first practical electric carbon-arc lamps, hence the connection here with Tchitcherine’s vision of the carbonized faces of the war dead.

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'''354:33-36 Dutch Shell... the Nobels''' 
Both Royal Dutch Shell and the Nobel brothers had interests in the Baku oil industry until it was taken over by the bolshevik régime. As the foreign engineers "went all home", the nationalized industry was rebuilt using American know-how in the 1920s.

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'''355:38-39 Samarkand and Pishpek, Verney and Tashkent''' 
Samarkand and Tashkent are cities in Uzbekistan; Pishpek (now Bishkek) in Kyrgyzstan, and Vernyi (correct transcription of the original Russian name; now Almaty) in Kazakhstan.
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315.08 '''Steve Edelman''' 
"Edelman" may be from the German for "nobleman," but the name sounds real, as though it might be a reference to a person whom Pynchon actually knew. Coincidentally, there is a Minneapolis talk-show host (who makes a brief cameo appearance in the film ''Fargo'') and TV producer named Steve Edelman as well as a studio musician based in Los Angeles (bass, not harmonica, unfortunately).

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320.08 '''Der Bingle''' 
Nickname for Bing Crosby, originally German, but later used by English-speaking fans as well

320.09 '''bu-bu-bu-boo''' 
An empty song phrase often used by mimics of Bing Crosby’s crooning style.

320.14 '''the Cards or Browns''' 
Two baseball teams from St. Louis, the Cardinals and the Browns. The Browns moved to Baltimore in 1954 and became the Orioles.

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[[image:seige-perilous.jpg|thumb|100px|right]]321.06-07 '''Siege Perilous''' 
Not Castle Perilous, as Weisenburger has it, but the Perilous Seat at King Arthur’s Round Table (which is why the jokers are sneaking Whoopee Cushions on it. The Whoopee Cushion itself emits an embarrassing farting sound when sat on). Only the pure could sit there without being destroyed (hence the "peril"), and in most versions Galahad alone qualified for the place.

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322.10 '''Samuel Maherero's''' 
Maharero seems to be a more common spelling. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Maharero English] and [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Maharero German] entries in Wikipedia

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324.18-19 '''damn him to the knob of that nervous imperial staff''' 
Apart from being an example of sexual/political double entendre, the exact phrase "Christ's imperial staff" occurs in [http://george-macdonald.book-lover.com/8pgm110/index_U174.html#i._8 a poem by George MacDonald] (himself an unorthodox Calvinist), dedicated to General Gordon of Khartoum fame.
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'''Caesar, Gaius Julius (100 or 102-44 BC)''' 
136; Roman general and statesman Caesar, after numerous military victories, was named "Father of his Country" and was made dictator for life, which glorious life (he was declared sacred, had the month of Quintilis renamed after him, statues in his likeness were placed in temples, &c.) ended when he was assassinated on the Ides of March by a group led by Brutus and Cassius who believed he was too powerful and wished to restore republican freedom. Unfortunately, the assassination engendered chaos in the Roman world which led to its eventual collapse; 164; "sacrifice has become a political act, an act of Caesar" 749;

'''Cafe l'Eclipse''' 
266; in Geneva, where Slothrop is to meet his Argentinian contact; Slothrop finds the message he received there in his pocket, 681

<div id="calculus"></div>'''calculus''' 
567; 572; Calculus is an important branch of mathematics. The word stems from the ancient Greeks' use of pebbles arranged in patterns to study arithmetic and geometry. The Latin word for "pebble" is "calculus." Two complementary disciplines comprise calculus, both of which rely on the concept of a limit. The first is differential calculus, which is concerned with the instantaneous, as opposed to average, rate of change of a quantity. This can be illustrated by the slope of a function's graph at a particular point. The second is integral calculus, which studies the accumulation of infinitely small quantities, summing to areas under a curve, linear distance travelled, or volume displaced. These two processes act inversely to each other, as shown by the fundamental theorem of calculus. See also [[D#deltaq|delta-q]]; [[D#deltat|delta-t]]; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus Wikipedia entry]

'''Calkins, Minnie''' 
665; Mason who married screen-door salesman

'''Camerons officers''' 
30;

'''Cap, the''' 
181; near Casino Hermann Goering on the Riviera; 185; where Raoul de la Perlimpinpin's residence is located, 243;

'''Captain Midnight Show''' 
Enormously popular U.S. radio show of the 1930s and 40s, sponsored by Ovaltine; [http://www.otr.com/midnight.shtml Capt. Midnight Homepage]; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Midnight Wikipedia entry]; 375

'''Carnegie, Dale (1888-1955)''' 
77; Pioneer in public speaking and personality development. He became famous by showing others how to become successful. His book How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936) has sold more than 10 million copies and has been translated into many languages. His books became popular because of his illustrative stories and simple, well-phrased rules. Two of his most famous maxims are, "Believe that you will succeed, and you will," and "Learn to love, respect and enjoy other people."

'''Carothers, Wallace Hume (1896-1937)''' 
American industrial chemist who discovered nylon. While working for Du Pont, he developed the first successful synthetic rubber, Neoprene, then nylon. He committed suicide and the nylon patent was given to Du Pont; "famous employee" of du Pont, known as "The Great Synthesist" 249; "the classic study of large molecules being carried on by" 348;

'''Cartesian''' 
of or relating to French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes (1596-1650) or his philosophy. In his vision of 1619, he conceived a reconstruction of the whole of philosophy, and of knowledge, into a unified system of certain truth modelled on mathematics and supported by a rigorous rationalism; "the Cartesian x and y of the laboratory" 400

'''cartoon characters''' 
See [[#comics|comicbook/cartoon/fictional characters]]

'''Caserne Martier''' 
246; stockade from which Waxwing escaped

'''Casino Hermann Goering''' 
181; casino on French Riviera where Slothrop is sent; Himmler-Spielsaal gaming room; 3 girls: Ghislaine, Francois & Yvonne, 183, 187; 491; 656; 659; See also Forbidden Wing

'''Castle Walk''' 
60; dance in Slothrop's Sodium Amytal session

'''Cathar''' 
With roots in primitive Christianity, the Cathars declared themselves the heirs of a tradition that was older than that held by the Church of Rome--and, by implication, both less contaminated and nearer in spirit to the Apostolic tradition. They claimed to be the only persons who had kept and cherished the Holy Spirit which Christ had bestowed upon His Church, a claim that was at least partially justified; "a commercial full of Cathar horror at the practice of imprisoning souls in the bodies of newborns" 732; [http://www.cathar.net/ Cathar Homepage]

'''Catherine the Great (1729-96)''' 
Born in Stettin, she married Grand Duke Peter, an heir to Russian throne, and when Peter was dethroned several days after ascending to the throne, she was empress of Russia. She was known for her libertine ways and Russia thrived under her reign; "Horse-fucking" Catherine, ermined and brilliant" with whom Tchitcherine had an affair, 343; carbon called "the Great Catherine of the periodic table" because of its myriad possibilities for bonding, 344; "Did Prince Potemkin's fake villages survive Catherine's royal progress?" 388;

<div id="cause"></div>'''cause and effect''' 
"these things explode first, a-and then you hear them coming in" 23; "'The illusion of control. That A could do B. But that was false. [...] Things only happen, A and B are unreal, are names for parts that ought to be inseparable....'" 30; "in his play [Mexico] wrecks the elegant rooms of history, threatens the idea of cause and effect itself." 56; "No effect without cause, and a clear train of linkages" 89; "'there's a feeling about that cause-and-effect may have been taken as far as it will go [...] The next great breakthrough may come when we have the courage to junk cause-and-effect, entirely, and strike off at some other angle'" 89; "I have only [...] what appears to be a reversal of cause-and-effect. I'm not as ready as you to junk cause-and-effect" 90; "She came twice before cock was ever officially put inside cunt, and this is important to both of them though neither has figured out why" 120; "Each firebloom, followed by blast then by sound of arrival, is a mockery [...] of the reversible process" 139; "When one event happens after another with this awful regularity, of course you don't automatically assume that it's cause-and-effect" 144; "'You're the cause-and-effect man,' she cried. How did he connect together the fragments he saw while his eyes were open? He was the cause-and-effect man" 159; "Parallel, not series. Metaphor. Signs and symptoms. Mapping on to different coordinate systems." 159; "Liebig to August Wilhelm von Hofmann, to Herbert Ganister to Laszlo Jamf, a direct chain, cause-and-effect" 161; "All talk of cause and effect is secular history, and secular history is a diversionary tactic." 167; "some promise of events without cause" 253; "Freud [...] facing a similar violation of probability--all those Papi has-raped-me stories" 272; "his wife bitched at Pökler for dozing off, ridiculed his engineer's devotion to cause-and-effect" 579; Karmic Hammer, 644; Karmic wheel, 651; "You will want cause and effect. All right." 663; "he'll be left only with Cause and Effect, and the rest of his sterile armamentarium" 752;See also [[H#history|history]]; [[T#time|time]]

'''Cavendish Laboratory''' 
15; This Cambridge University physics laboratory was founded in 1874 and named for physicist Henry Cavendish (1731-1810). In 1953, Scottish scientists Francis Crick and James Watson, while researchers here, identified the double-helix structure of DNA.

'''CBI''' 
132; China-Burma-India theatre of WWII; 370; "a connection from the CBI theatre with close to a ton of bhang" 594;

'''Center''' 
"In ordinary times [...] the center always wins [...] Decentralizing, back towards anarchism, needs extraordinary times" 264-65; "hidden centers" 302; "imaginary centers" 302; and the Hereros, 319; "centripedal movement" 440; Holy-Center- Approaching (Zonal pastime), 508; 509; fleeing the, 519; "in the center, here, Hauptstufe" 563; "holy center" 590; Returning to the Center, 757; See also [[R#return|Cycle of Return]]; [[M#mandala|mandala]]

'''Central Electricity Board''' 
133;

'''CG''' 
455: center of gravity

'''Chapter 81 work''' 
626;

'''Charles''' 
19; "the homosexual constable"

'''Charles''' 
448-49; writing down "observations of the passing scene" on the Toiletship

'''Charlottesville shoat''' 
61; dance in Slothrop's Sodium Amytal session

'''Chebychev's Theorem''' 
638; In probability theory, Chebyshev's inequality (also known as Tchebysheff's inequality, Chebyshev's theorem, or the Bienaymé-Chebyshev inequality), named after Pafnuty Chebyshev, who first proved it, states that in any data sample or probability distribution, nearly all the values are close to the mean value, and provides a quantitative description of "nearly all" and "close to". For example, no more than 1/4 of the values are more than 2 standard deviations away from the mean, no more than 1/9 are more than 3 standard deviations away, no more than 1/25 are more than 5 standard deviations away, and so on; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chebyshev's_inequality Wikipedia entry]

'''Chemical Foundation''' 
581; Alien Property Custodian, through C.F., "sold Bland a few of Laszlo Jamf's early patents"

'''Chemnyco of New York''' 
According to Sasuly, Chemnyco was a special organization set up in New York by the IG "to siphon out technical data of military importance. [...] Officially, Chemnyco was known as a 'technical service' agency. Its sole client was IG Farben. [...] When U.S. government agents came to seize the files of Chemnyco, shortly after Pearl Harbor, they found Rudolph Ilgner in the process of destroying what he evidently considered his most important papers." (pp.101-03); Wimpe was reassigned there "shortly after Hitler became Chancellor" 349; 630

'''Cherrycoke, Ronald''' 
125; psychometrist in Psi Section; 146; "undertakes. . .trips into Nora Dodson-Truck's void, " 150; "in a Jesus Christ getup" 639

<div id="chess"></div>'''chess''' 
"the profile of a chess knight" 12; "The raggedy pawns, the disgraced bish-op and cowardly knight" 173; "Dodson-Truck is a chess fanatic" 211; "do you good to get outta that chess rut" 212; on Waxwing's card, 248; "parkbench chessplayer's gaze" 254; Wimpe's analogy: "'Think of chess [...] an extravagant game of chess.[...] The queen, "the Great Catherine of the periodic table," down to the little hydrogens numerous and single-moving as pawns'" 344; chessboard of the Zone, 376; Knight, 401; 405; Weissmann & Ilse playing, 408; "present a pawn, withdraw the queen" 417; "that board and pieces and patterns. . .did come clear for him" 421; "the flesh of pieces moved in darkness and winter across the marshes and mountain chains of the board" 422; moving rookwise, 472; the Castle, 486; "knowing that Queen, Bishop and King are only splendid cripples, and pawns, even those that reach the final row, are condemned to creep in two dimensions, and no Tower will either rise or descent" 494; "knight for a bishop" 563; "the bishopwise seat behind Pirate" 575; Slothrop & Pökler playing, 576; "Slothrop flashes his white plastic knight" 602; Mravenko: "the most maniacal, systemless chess player in Central Asia" 611; "there'd always be the bit of mystery to her. Because of what he is, because of directions he can't move in" 620; (metaphorically) "The Row is enlightenment" 621; "He's a digital companion all right, everything gets either a yes or a no, and two-tone checkerboards of odd shape and texture indeed bloom in the rainy night" 663; "chess knights. . .invisible in the air" 655; Läufer (chess bishop), 666, 683; "Your objective is not the King--there is no King--but momentary targets such as the Radiant Hour" 674; Marcel: "a mechanical chess-player dating back to the Second Empire" 675; "where inside Marcel is the midget Grandmaster, the little Johann Allgeier?" 675; Marcel's "request for omnidirectional top-speed clearance" 678; See also Allgeier, Johann; Allgeyer soldiers; Grid; [Check out: [[Borges - The Game of Chess|Borges' - "The Game of Chess"]] in Dreamtigers (1964)]

'''Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975)''' 
Chinese general who, by 1928, had unified China by military means. He resisted the infiltration of communism, but his government collapsed in 1948 when the communists took over. He retreated to Taiwan where he set up a government in exile which was recognized by the West over Mao's People's Republic of China; caricature of on Toiletship, 450

'''Chicago Bar''' 
367; Berlin bar where Säure Bummer hangs out; 373; 435; 517; Springer and Narrish ambushed, 527; 739

<div id="chiclitz"></div>'''Chiclitz, Clayton "Bloody"''' 
558-62; "about as fat as Marvy and wears hornrimmed glasses, and the top of his head's as shiny as his face"; American industrialist with T-Force scouting German engineering (esp. secret weaponry); owns a toy factory in Nutley, NJ; he's running a fur operation, employing 30 kids whom he eventually wants to take to Hollywood to be movie stars; ["Chicklets" is a candy-coated chewing gum that's been around forever] Chiclitz also appears in Pynchon's [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=C#chiclitz ''V.''.

'''Chiclitz, Mrs.''' 
558; mother of Clayton

'''Chilkes, Maudie''' 
78; works at PISCES; 141; seduces Pointsman, 168-69

'''Chinesische Blätter für Wissenschaft und Kunst''' 
454; German: Chinese Journal for Science and Art; book Fahringer left behind when taken from Peenemünde by SS

'''Chipuda''' 
Chipude is a village on La Gomera in the Canary Islands off the west coast of North Africa. The inhabitants of the valleys used to communicate with each other in a whistling language, comparable to the "yodeling" in the Central European Alps; "Ur-Spanish, whistled not voiced, from the mountains around Chipuda" 453

'''Chiquita Banana''' 
678; "sez we shouldn't" put bananas in the refrigerator; [Chiquita Website]

'''chi-square calculations''' 
40; A chi-squared distribution is, according to the Cambridge Dictionary of Science and Technology, "the distribution of many quadratic forms in statistics, often encountered as the distribution of the sample variance and of a statistic measuring the agreement of a set of empirically observed frequences with theoretically derived frequences. The central chi-squared distribution is indexed by one parameter, the degrees of freedom" (p. 155)

'''Chlordine''' 
463; substance Erdmann abuses

'''Choate boys''' 
194; "red-dogging [...] each with the instincts and mass of a killer rhino"

'''Christian''' 
318; Herero comrade of Enzian's and brother of Maria; 518; dream of Maria, 673; 728; 730

<div id="christianity"></div>'''Christianity''' 
See [[J#judeo|Judeo-Christian]]

'''Chu Piang''' 
339; "comical Chinese swamper" and "Chinese factotum in the red dzurt" 346; addicted to "the tears of the poppy" 347

'''Churchill, Sir Winston L.S.(1874-1965)''' 
251; British statesman who rose through the ranks of British politics, assuming leadership with a Coalition government in May 1940 when Neville Chamberlain stepped down under criticism for his military failures. He was defeated in the July 1945 elections and became a vocal leader of the opposition; 373; 382; caricature of on Toiletship, 450; Beaver's pipe "a reproduction in brier of Winston Churchill's head for a bowl, no detail is spared, even a cigar in its mouth" 708;

<div id="church"></div>'''Church of St. Blasius''' 
333; at Nordhausen; See also [[S#basher|"Basher" St. Blaise]]; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Blaise Wikipedia entry]

'''CIA''' 
163; Chemical Instrumentality for the Abnormal; Committee on Idiopathic Archetypes, 625; Committee on Incandescent Anomalies, 650; Commissariat for Intelligence Activities, 700

'''Ciba''' 
250; Swiss chemical company which joined Geigy and Sandoz in a cartel in the early '20s

'''CIC''' 
560; All-Soviet Trade Union Council

'''CIOS''' 
391; Combined Intelligence Objectives Subcommittee, of which SPOG was a subsidiary

'''Circassians''' 
549; Circassians are a Caucasian people who speak a northwest Caucasian language, Kabardian language. Comprising roughly the northwestern region of the Caucasus, Caucasia has since ancient times had the exotic reputation common to lands occupying a crucial area between rival empires.

<div id="cities"></div>'''cities''' 
"The city he visits now is Death's antechamber: where all the paperwork's done" 40; "this frost and harrowed city" 49; "that Mother City mapped wherever the enterprise is systematic death" 76; "outward from the sheltering city" 89; "the royal city" 95; "dangers he can't bring himself to name even in cities" 100; "up in the city the arc-lights crackle" 134; City Paranoiac, 172-73; "what if the Ci-ty were a growing neo-plasm, across the centuries, always chang-ing, to meet exactly the chang ing shape of its very worst, se-cret fears?" 173; Metropolis, 285, 315, 317 ("no harm done to the Metropolis, nothing to soil those cathedrals, white marble statues, noble thoughts"); "urban fantods" 303; "Trolls and dryads [...] blasted [...] out of bridges, out of trees into liberation, and are now long citified" 367; "City Sacramental, the city as outward and visible sign of inward and spiritual illness or health" 372; Ant City, 399; "Nordhausen, a city of elves producing toy moon-rockets" 431; "Leaving Slothrop in his city-reflexes and Harvard crew sox" 472; "it was Europe, it was the smoky, citied fear of death" 477; "mechanical cities [...] with crackling-tower and obsidian helix" 482; "the sacrificial city" 484; "the ruin of a great city" 485; "Metropolis [...] a corporate City state where technology was the source of power, the engineer worked closely with the administrator, the masses labored unseen far underground, and ultimate power lay with a single leader at the top" 578; "Metropolitan inventor Rothwang" 579; "that's a heap better than the city, son, there you just move from crisis to crisis" 644; "a giant factory-state here, a City of the Future" 674; "Golden clouds [...] I think they're pieces of the Heavenly City falling down" 682; "Nordhausen felt like a city in a myth, under the threat of some special destruction" 718; "[Europe] has learned empire from its old metropolis." 722; Hexes-Stadt [...] has turned into just another capital" 718; Carbon City, Illinois, 735; See also [[#dactylic|City Dactylic]]; [[M#metropolis|Metropolis]]; [[R#raketen|Raketen Stadt]]

'''Citroën''' 
253; A French automobile manufacturer, founded in 1919 by André Citroën. It was the one of the world's first mass-production car companies outside of the USA.

<div id="dactylic"></div>'''City Dactylic''' 
566; (dactylic: pertaining to a finger); "the city of the future where every soul is known, and there is noplace to hide"; See also [[#cities|cities]]; [[O#octupus|octopus]]

'''Claude''' 
253; "the assistant chef " who stands in for Slothrop to facilitate his "escape" to Nice

'''Clausewitz, Carl von(1780-1831)''' 
182; Prussian general whose writings, especially On War, advocated the concept of total war, in which all the enemy's territory, property, and citizens are attacked; Clausewitz & Pynchon

'''Clive, Baron Robert (1725-1774)''' 
82; Lead troops of the British East India Company to victory over the Nawab of Bengal and his French allies at the Battle of Plassey (Plassy in text), 23 June 1757. Also known as Clive of India.

'''Club Oogabooga''' 
675; "where Beacon Street aristocracy rubs elbows ev'ry night with Roxbury winos 'n' dopefiends"

'''Codreanu''' 
Threatened on the west by Germany and on the east by Russia, Romania was in a perpetual state of instability. In the early 1930s, it was hit by the Great Depression which profoundly affected the country. Workers' strikes were fiercely suppressed, giving rise to a strong Rumanian Communist Party and, concurrently, an extreme rightist movement. Corneliu Zelea Codreanu's anti-semitic, ultra-nationalistic League of the Archangel Michael (formed in 1927), known to the foreign press as "The Iron Guard" and based in Iasi, gained increasing popularity. Patterning the League after the Nazis, Codreanu declared himself the mortal enemy of democracy and the Jews. The Iron Guard practiced a political gangsterism, terrorizing the populace. They murdered Prime Minister Jon Duca, head of the Liberal Party, as well as the historian Nicolas Jorga. Their political wing, Totul Pentru Tara ("Everything for the Fatherland") had success in the 1937 elections and enacted anti-Jewish legislation. Caught in the middle of the Soviet-leaning Communists and the Nazi-leaning League/Iron Guard, King Carol II finally established a de facto dictatorship and ordered the assassination of Codreanu; during the night of November 29-30, 1938, Codreanu and thirteen Legionnaires were strangled to death. Many other Legionnaires were arrested and imprisoned; "No, they are making believe to be narodnik, but I know, they are of Iasi, of Codreanu, his men, men of the League, they ... kill for him they have oath!"11

'''Cointrin''' 
266; Geneva's airport

'''color''' 
Color coding plays a significant role in Gravity's Rainbow. [[Coloring Gravity's Rainbow|Check out this excerpt]] from an essay by N. Katherine Hayles and Mary B. Eiser in [http://www.ham.muohio.edu/~krafftjm/pynchon.html Pynchon Notes], entitled "Coloring Gravity's Rainbow."

'''Columbus, Chritopher (1451-1506)''' 
453; Genoese explorer who was the first European to discover, in 1492, the country now called America; "Gomera was the last piece of land Columbus touched before America"

<div id="comics"></div>'''comicbook/cartoon/fictional characters''' 
"his batman, a Corporal Wayne" [Batman's "real-world" identity was Bruce Wayne], 11; comicbook fangs, 21; Sir Denis Nayland Smith, 83, 277-78, 592, 631, 751; Hop Harrigan, Tank Tinker, 117; "old-fashioned comical room" 122; Dumbo, 135; Donald Duck, 146; Hansel and Gretel, 174; "comic-book colors" 186; "paint FUCK YOU in a balloon coming out the mouth of one of those little pink shepherdesses" 203; Plasticman, 206, 314, 331, 752; "he passes into a bickering of canary-yellow Borsalini, corksoled comicbook shoes with enormous round toes" 254; "this cartoon here" 263; "a Sunday-funnies dawn" 295; Rocketman, 366, 376, 379, 436, 512, 596; Captain Midnight Show, 375; Green Hornet, 376; "the only beings who can violate their space are safely caught and paralyzed in comic books" 379; Mickey Mouse, 392; Sundial, 472; Wilhelm Busch (cartoonist), 501; Porky Pig, 545; "comic technocracy" 579; "comic-book cats dogs and mice" 586; Bugs Bunny, 592; "comicbook-orange chunks of island" 634; Porky Pig tattoo, 638 (on Osbie Feel's stomach), 711 (on André Omnopon's stomach); Robin Hood, 664; Mary Marvel, Wonder Woman, 676; comic-book Kamikazes, 680; "down comes a comic-book guillotine on one black & white politician" 687; Crime Does Not Pay, 709; Superman, 751; The Lone Ranger & Tonto, 752; Philip Marlowe, 752; Submariner, 752; Jimmy Olson, 752; See also [[B#byron|Byron the Bulb]]; [[F#floundering|Floundering Four]]; [[K#komical|Komical Kamikazes]]; [[Plasticman|Plasticman]]; [[F#film|film/cinema references]]

'''compline''' 
134; seventh and last of the canonical hours

'''connectedness''' 
See [[Paranoia/Connectedness|paranoia/connectedness]]

'''Control''' 
30; illusion of, 30; "We, are in control. He, cannot help, himself" 82; Pointsman "must never lose control" 144; "all in his life of what has looked free or random, is discovered to've been under some Control, all the time, the same as a fixed roulette wheel" 209; Cybernetic tradition, 238; 277; 387; of Ilse, of love, 414; 415; "innocence and its many uses" in a corporate State, 419; "'She's supposed to be dead." [...] "'W-well you're supposed to be a movie director.'" " "'Same thing.' [...] 'Same problems of control.'" 494;"Once the technical means of control have reached a certain size, a certain degree of being connected one to another, the chances for freedom are over for good." 539; 581; Central Control (in Raketen-Stadt), 678; See also [[#cause|cause and effect]]; [[R#routinization|Routinization/Rationalization of Charisma]]; [[T#they|They]]

'''Coolidge, Calvin (1872-1933)''' 
389; 30th president of the United States and two-termer Republican whose terms were marked by economic prosperity

'''Correa, María Antonia''' 
612; "According to Argentine legend from the last century [she] followed her lover into [La Rioja], carrying their newborn child."

'''corso''' 
476; In Italy, a wide avenue with landscaped edges

'''Cosmic Bomb''' 
167; aka Atomic Bomb; 539; 544; "Miss Enola Gay's atomic clit" 588; Hiroshima, 693-94; [Video of the Bombing (no sound)]

'''Côte d'Azur''' 
226; French: the "azure coast"; the Mediterranean coastline of France between Menton and Cannes, so named by the poet Stephen Liégeard

'''Couéists''' 
77; Couéism is a form of psychotherapy dependent upon auto-suggestion developed and promoted by Émile Coué (1857-1926), a French pharmacist. The central tenent of his system was "Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better"

'''Council of People's Commissars''' 
391; Malenkov's special committee to which Tchitcherine reports;

'''[[Counterforce|COUNTERFORCE]]''' 
See also [[E#earth|Earth]]; [[O#opposite|Opposite, Ideas of the]]; [[P#polymorphous|polymorphous perversity]]; [[R#reformation|Reformation]]

'''Coward, Noel (1899-1973)''' 
134; English dramatist, actor and composer; 709

'''Cranz''' 
452; author of Lehrbuch der Ballistik

'''Creepham''' 
151; "the bright blue gremlins scattering like spiders off of his Typhoon's wings"

'''Croix Mystique''' 
16; In palmistry, this cross is found beneath the middle finger between the head and heart lines and shows a distinct interest in occult matters.

'''croquet''' 
See lawn sports

'''Crosby, Harry Lillis "Bing" (1903–1977)''' 
184; an extremely popular American singer and actor; 320

'''Cross of Lorraine''' 
112; Region encompassing the northeastern French départements of Vosges, Meuse, Meurthe-et-Moselle, and Moselle and roughly coextensive with the historical region of Lorraine. The capital is Metz.

'''Crutchfield (Crouchfield)''' 
67; character in Kenosha Kid episode; "the only westward man"; 114

'''[[Crystal|CRYSTAL]]'''

<div id="crystal-palace"></div>'''Crystal Palace''' 
3; "the fall of a"; The huge glass and iron structure at the top of Sydenham Hill was originally erected in Hyde Park in London to house [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Exhibition The Great Exhibition], embodying the products of many countries throughout the world. The Great Exhibition, also known as the Crystal Palace Exhibition, was an international exhibition held in Hyde Park, London, from 1 May to 15 October 1851 and the first in a series of World's Fair exhibitions of culture and industry that were to be a popular 19th century feature. [[Crystal_Palace|More on the Crystal Palace (and pics)]]; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crystal_Palace Wikipedia entry]

'''cucurbitaceous''' 
80; relating to the gourd family

'''Custodian of the Night''' 
434; smooth-faced, neutral, coiled & pale; See also serpent

'''Cuvilliés, François de (1695-1768)''' 
619 Court architect to Duke Maximilian II Emanuel of Bavaria (appointed 1725), specializing in the Bavarian Rococo style. Among his works in Munich and its environs is the Amalienburg hunting lodge, Nymphenburg (1734-39).

'''Cuxhaven''' 
A small German town on the North Sea (in the British sector of the Zone) [MAP]; Operation Backfire based there, 272; test range, 277; Destroyer Badass docked there, 370; 372; Putzi's located there, 526-27; Slothrop traveling to, 567; Der Grob Säugling ["The Gross Suckling"], a servicemen's pub, 706-08; [www.cuxhaven.de]

'''Cymri''' 
170

'''Cypridinae''' 
690; "crustaceans with three eyes, shaped like a potato with catwhiskers at one end. Dried and powdered Cypridinae are also a great source of light [...] weird multishaded blue"

'''Cyrillicists''' 
354; faction in VTsK NTA

'''Czarist''' 
344;

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See Rocket; [[V-1 Rocket]]

'''V-2''' 
See Rocket; [[V-2 Rocket]]

<div id="vacuum"></div>'''vacuum''' 
"fraternity-boy reflex in a vacuum" 22; "if they can see through to your vacuum" 50; "Vacuum brings the secretion along through shining tubework" 78; "run not by any lust. . .but by vacuum" 149; "the stone-blue lights of the Vacuum" 239; "to miss grandeur, only to be in its vacuum, to be tugged slightly along by its slipstream" 324; "State he is building in the German vacuum" 337; "a stark circle of" 342; "vacuum cleaner" 374; "vacuuming by above" 380; "Victim in a Vacuum" 414-15; "all his vacuums" 432; "vacuum hours" 584; "At least she won't be leaving him in a vacuum" 629; "Is this how the Vacuum feels?" 659; "the great Vacuum in the sky" 697; "What if there is no Vacuum?" 697; "vacuum. . .gleaming in the Void" 699; "it's vacuum inside and out" 723; "a Vacuum in time" 726; "guns. . .like vacuum cleaners" 745; See also [[N#nihilism|nihilism]]; [[#void|Void]]; [[XYZ#zero|Zero]]

<div id="vampires"></div>'''vampires''' 
"Transylvanian Magyars, they know spells" 11; "Roger [...] hunched Dracula-style inside his Burberry" 37; "shining the light up from under his chin to highlight the vampire face he thinks he's making" 44; "his most famous compatriot [...] staff who swear they've seen [Rözsavölgyi] crawling headfirst down the north façade" 82; Bela Lugosi, 106; "wings of his cape reaching to enfold" 171; "dusty Dracularity, the West's ancient curse" 263; "Garlic bulbs? Wait--weren't they to keep away vampires?" 283; "Katje, the lovely little Queen of Transylvania" 283; "Slothrop puts the whip down and climbs on top, covering her with the wings of his cape" 397; "dawn is nearly here, I need my night's blood, my funding" 521; "For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross" 540; "trying for a Russian accent, which comes out like Bela Lugosi" 557; "holding up the mandala, cross to vampire" 560; "a pregnant Lugosi pause" 561; Slothrop, 629; "it's your last taste of O-negative, Jackson, those fangs won't even begin to gum oatmeal" 632; "Buddy at the last minute decided to go see Dracula" 652; "vampire mosquitos" 692; "glass is a reluctant vampire" 711

'''van der Groov, Franz''' 
108; ancestor of Katje; went to Mauritius and, with other Dutch settlers, wiped out Dodoes -considered them satanic because of their ugliness; 545; still haunting Pirate, 620; 621; cosmic windmill, 624

'''van der Groov, Hendrik''' 
108; brother of Franz

'''Vanitas''' 
268; Latin: emptiness

'''Vanya''' 
155; "slavic" comrade of Leni's in KPD; 156; 158

'''Vanya, Dog''' 
78; laboratory animal at White Visitation; 79; 90; 229

'''Vat 69''' 
9; A blended scotch whisky. In 1882 William Sanderson prepared one hundred casks of blended whiskey and hired a panel of experts to taste them. The batch from the vat with number 69 was proclaimed as the best tasting one and the famous blend got its name. The whisky was at first bottled in port wine bottles; 173

'''Vauxhall Bridge''' 
Vauxhall, Crosses the River Thames in Vauxhall, borough of Lambeth, Greater London, England; "[Pirate's] driven out, away, east over Vauxhall Bridge" 11

'''V.C.s''' 
The highest decoration for valor in the British armed forces, the Victoria Cross is awarded for extreme bravery in the face of the enemy. Instituted in 1856 by Queen Victoria at the request of her consort Prince Albert; 636

'''VD toilet''' 
452; on Toiletship

'''VE-301 People's Receiver''' 
451; on Toiletship

'''V.E. Day''' 
9; Victory in Europe (May 8, 1945); "awful interface of" 80; 269; 274; 276; 288; 628

'''Veiled Prophet Ball''' 
582; Mrs. Tracy preparing for

'''Verbindungsman''' 
344; German: liaison officer, go-between; the IG salesmen; [IG Farben|Sasuly's ''IG Farben'']

'''Verein für Raumschiffahrt (VfR)''' 
400; German: "Society for Space Travel"; German amateur rocketeers club pre-WWII, from whose ranks came the rocket engineers for the Wehrmacht; 401; 582; See also Raketenflugplatz

'''Vereinigte Stahlwerke''' 
587; German: "United Steelworks"; where Fibel worked; shares a patent with an English steel firm, for "an alloy used in the liquid-oxygen couplings for the line running aft to the S-Gerät in A-4 number 00000" 632; [[IG Farben|Sasuly's ''IG Farben'']]

'''Vermeer, Jan (1632-75)''' 
Dutch painter of mainly of interior genre subjects. His mastery of the soft play of daylight on varied shapes and surfaces, pictorial design, and his pure and individual color sense make him one of the masters of painting in the 17th century; "framed, brilliantly motionless as any Vermeer" 109

'''Vermittlungsstelle W''' 
630; handled IG's liaison with OKW, "under Drs. Dieckmann and Gorr"; [[Sasuly's IG Farben]]

'''Versailles, Treaty of''' 
285; Treaty with Germany after its surrender in World War I, signed under protest by Germany on June 28, 1919. Its terms were justifiably harsh--e.g. Germany lost 13 percent of its territory (including all its colonies) and almost one-tenth of its population, and had to limit its army to 100,000. Germany was to be occupied for 15 years. The Treaty set up the League of Nations, created Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary and Lituania, and assured Austrian independence. The "ignominy of the Versailles Dictate" became the rallying cry of all nationalistic elements on the German Right.

'''VIAM''' 
273; Vsesoyuzniy Institut Aviatsionnykh Materialov = "Soviet Institute of Aviation Materials" - responsible for development of new alloys &c., formed in 1932, in Moscow

'''Vichy traitors''' 
34; After Germany conquered France, the government of the unoccupied southern zone was moved from Bordeaux (to which it had retreated in June 1941 after the German victory) to Vichy in central France. Convinced that Germany would win the war, the Vichy government unanimously settled on a policy of collaboration with the Germans. When the Germans occupied all of France after the Anglo-American landings in North Africa in November of 1942, the facade of the Vichy government was maintained. The Vichy police (the Milice) was headed by Darnand, who held extreme right-wing and anti-semetic views. The Milice greatly aided the Nazis in exposing the French resistance and hunting down Jews. After French liberation in 1944, thousands of the "Vichy traitors" were summarily executed.

'''Vikings''' 
549; "the Pig-Hero who, sometime back in the 10th century, routed a Viking invasion" 567;

'''Villard, Dumpster''' 
65; buddy of Slothrop's who appears in "toilet adventure" 65; in Slothrop's dream, 255

'''Vincentesque invaders''' 
170; "nasty little fangs achop"

'''Virginia''' 
544; "a girl back in the Midlands" with whom Pirate was involved, "and for their child who never came to pass"

'''Vishinsky, Andrey Yanuaryevich (1883-1954)''' 
Soviet statesman, diplomat, and lawyer who was Stalin's chief prosecutor during the Great Purge trials in Moscow in the 1930s. A member of the Mensheviks, he joined the Communist Party in 1920. By 1940 he was a member of party's Central Committee and deputy commissar of foreign affairs; "Molotov isn't telling Vishinsky" 611

'''Vistula''' 
Vistula River is the largest river of Poland and of the Baltic Sea's drainage basin. Rising in the Beskid mountains of southern Poland, its length is 651 miles (1,047 kilometres) with a drainage basin of approximately 75,100 square miles (194,500 square kilometres). It is a waterway of great importance to the nations of eastern Europe; "was under Soviet interdiction to the [Anubis]" 489

'''Vlachs''' 
European people constituting the major element in the populations of Romania and Moldova, as well as smaller groups located throughout the Balkan Peninsula; 549

'''Vlasta''' 
732; female CW (Continuous Wave: radio waves which are radiated from an antenna) operator with Enzian and Schwarzkommando

<div id="void"></div>'''Void''' 
"'Bert is fine,' he says, and steps back into the void" 73; "'"The White Visitation" is fine,' she said, and stepped into the void ..." 106; Nora's void, 150; "white abyss" 151; "before his birth...the void long before he ought to be remembering" 219; "the silences here are retreats of sound" 336; "Announcing the void" 470; "out into some void" 488; "surrender [...] to the void" 578; "a few good [...] voids" 587; "cessation of noise" 694; sound-shadow, 695-96, 711; "vacuum [...] gleaming in the Void" 699; "hearing the pauses instead of the notes" 713; See also [[N#nihilism|nihilism]]; [[S#soundshadow|Sound-Shadow]]; [[#vacuum|vacuum]]; [[XYZ#zero|Zero]]

<div id="volksgren">'''Volksgrenadier'''</div>
230; A type of German Army division formed in the Autumn of 1944 following heavy regular Army losses on both war fronts. The name itself was intended to build morale, appealing at once to nationalism (Volk) and Germany's older military traditions (Grenadier). These divisions typically economized on personnel and emphasized defensive over offensive strength. They were organized around small cadres of hardened veteran soldiers, NCOs and officers and then bulked out with anything the Replacement Army could get its hands on.

'''Volkswagen''' 
328; plant in Hannover; "thumb-harp [...] whose reeds are cut from springs of a wrecked" 562; "black Managerial" 755;

'''Volta Congress''' 
452; 5th Volta Congress on High Speeds in Aviation, held in Rome in 1935

'''von Bayros, Franz (1866-1924)''' 
Franz von Bayros was an Austrian commercial artist, illustrator, and painter. He belonged to the Decadent movement in art, often relying on erotic themes and phantasmagoric imagery and took part in the resurgence of book illustration in Germany during the Weimar years. He illustrated an edition of Dante's Divina commedia (1921) which show an Art Nouveau influence; "the drawing is in pen and ink, very finely textured, somewhat after the style of von Bayros or Beardsley" 71; "the hairless cunt derives from the women von Bayros drew" 330

<div id="hindenburg">'''von Hindenburg, Paul (1847–1934)''' </div>
German field marshal, statesman, and politician, and served as the 2nd President of Germany from 1925 to 1934. He appointed Hitler as Chancellor in 1933. "von Hindenburg [[M#mustache|mustache]]" 305

'''von Kármán, Theodore''' 
452; Expert in aeronautics and rocket-science

'''Vorsetzer rolls''' 
550;

'''VOWI''' 
630: Sasuly: "IG's central office in Berlin for collecting foreign intelligence was the statistical section (known as 'VOWI') of NW7, under the direction of the itinerant satistician Reithinger"

'''VTsK NTA''' 
352; Vsesoyhzhyy Tsentral'nyy Komitet Novogo Tyurkskogo Alfavita; Tchitcherine attends "first plenary session" of, where he gets a "Weird Letter Assignment"''' 

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'''329.26-27 Crazy Sue Dunham''' 
This character is apparently real. Pynchon found out about her from ''The Berkshire Hills''. The description of her in "The Secret Integration" is a close paraphrase of several paragraphs in the book. <ref>''The Berkshire Hills''', Funk & Wagnalls Company, New York, 1939, p.256</ref>

'''329.28 Snodd’s Mountain''' 
Although Pynchon undoubtedly wants the reference to be to the Snodd family, the mountain would not be named for the young Grover of "The Secret Integration," as Weisenburger suggests, since Grover himself would not be born until the 1950s.

'''329.32 headed for Rhode Island''' 
In addition to fleeing to the relative tolerance found in that colony, Amy Sprue’s journey has another significance. ''The Berkshire Hills'' mentions several times that much of the region was settled by people from Rhode Island. Her journey then is another example of (in this case, literally) arrested hysteron proteron, the device of the reversal of a process mentioned several times by Weisenburger.

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330.07 '''depicted as hags''' 
The description of witches fits not just the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz. In another passage in The Berkshire Hills, Crazy Sue Dunham, whom some believed to be a witch, is referred to as "the Berkshire wandering hag." <ref>''Ibid'', p.70</ref>

330.14 '''women von Bayros drew''' 
see note [[Pages 71-72#Page 71|p. 71]]

330.27 '''Clausthal-Zelterfeld''' 
Misspelling for [http://www.clausthal-zellerfeld.de/ Clausthal-Zellerfeld].

330.29 '''it’s the Specter''' 
[[image:brocken.jpg|thumb|100px|right]]Another reference gleaned from [[Pages 20-29#Page 27|''The Berkshire Hills'']] , where Pynchon very likely first discovered the Brockengespenst:

:"Of the stories and legends about Old Greylock, the one about the 'Specter' is most popular. [...] The phenomenon of a gigantic shadow of an object reflected in a cloud is so well known as to have a German name, Brockengespenst (Specter of the Brocken) from Brocken, the highest peak of the Hartz [sic] Mountains. As Greylockgespenst would be a bit unwieldy for Berkshire, here it is simply called the Specter." <ref>''Ibid'', p.42</ref>

Mount Greylock is the highest point in Massachusetts.

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'''332.06-07 surely an interlock somewhere with Lyle Bland''' 
Though generally used to mean "an interconnection," the term "interlock" is also used in cinema, especially in reference to a device that keeps sound and visual tracks in synch.

'''332.17 Schnorp''' 
Another comic-book sound, suggesting a noisy sucking in, as of spaghetti through the mouth or mucous through the nose.

'''332.23 nobody bothers a balloon''' 
Dorothy attempts, but fails, to escape from Oz in a balloon. A balloon is also used by W.C. Fields and the dummy Charlie McCarthy in ''You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man'' (1939).

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'''Babington-Smith, Constance''' 
726; "and her colleagues at R.A.F. Medmenham [who] discovered the Rocket back in 1943 in recco photographs of Peenemünde"; Babington conducted aerial photo-surveillance for the Allies in WWII.

'''Badajoz''' 
234; The largest province in Spain, in the Extremadura comunidad autónoma ("autonomous community"), Badajoz borders on Portugal; on which, according to Pudding, "during the war in Spain ... a bandera of Franco's Legion advanced"; between 1,000 and 4,000 civilian and military supporters of the Second Spanish Republic, were killed by the National Army following the seizure of the town on August 14, 1936.

'''Bad Karma''' 
457; location of Spa (Kurhaus) where Margherita Erdmann killed Jewish boys; ''Bad'' is German for spa or sanitarium and is often used in the names of towns with hot springs; obviously, this one is fictional and a pun

'''Badass, U.S.S. John E.''' 
388-89; US destroyer on which Seaman Bodine is stationed; Runcible Spoon Contest, 594; 623

'''BAFO''' 
391; U.S. Army Air Force: Base Accounting and Finance Office

'''Bai-u''' 
480; "the season of the plum rains [...] when all the plums are ripening" in Japan; Tsuyu (Baiu=plum rain)("Rainy Season"). Although this is Japan's "Rainy Season" (Tsuyu or Baiu), it is actually the second wet period (Winter Monsoon being the first). It typically begins in early June in Western Japan and ends in July. (Both dates are later in Northern Japan.) A stationary rain front forms over Japan between the very warm, moist tropical air to the south and the cooler, drier air to the north of the front. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiyu Wikipedia entry]

'''Baku''' 
352; seaport capital of Azerbaydzhanskaya SSR, Soviet Union, on the west coast of the Caspian Sea; 353; Blobadjian "pursued through the black end of Baku by a passel of screaming Arabists" 354

'''Bakunin, Mikhael Aleksandrovich (1814-76)''' 
386; A Russian anarchist who eventually settled in England, Mikhail Bakunin, as the leader of anarchism, was the opponent of Karl Marx in the Communist International. He believed that "the withering away of the state" effect by communism was an essential step towards anarchism. In 1866, he founded International Brotherhood, or the Alliance of Revolutionary Socialists; "19th century European anarchist Mason" 587; See also [[P#proudhon]]Proudhon and [[F#friscia|Friscia]]

'''Balaclava helmet''' 
42; a close-fitting woolen covering for the head and ears

'''Baldwin, Stanley (1867-1947)''' 
An English Conservative statesman, Baldwin, after university, became vice-chairman of his family's iron and steel business. He became premier in 1923. In the 1930s he was reluctant to re-arm Britain and was thus criticized for not recognizing the Nazi threat; Byron's Guerrilla Strike Force is "gonna get [him] right in the face" 647

'''[[Bananas|BANANAS]]'''

<div id="baseball"></div>'''baseball''' 
See [[L#lawn|lawn sports]]

'''Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij, N.V.''' 
240; Royal Dutch Shell headquarters being used for a radio guidance transmitter

'''Battle of Britain''' 
40-41; (June 1940-April 1941), series of intense raids directed against Great Britain by the German air force after the fall of France during World War II. Britain sustained 57 consecutive nights of air raids, but the RAF prevailed through superior tactics and cracking German secret codes.

'''Battle of the Bulge''' 
Led by Gerd von Rundstedt this German offensive began with a surprise attack in Luxembourg on December 16, 1944. Hitler hoped to revitalize the Western Front troops. The Germans were eventually beaten back in early January 1945 after suffering over 100,000 casualties and the loss of 1000 aircraft. It was called "Battle of the Bulge" because of the bulge it created in American lines along the Western Front. It disrupted the Western Allies' military timetable for several months; "the chaplains out in the Bulge are manly, haggard, hard drinkers" 135; 246; Red Cross "charging fifteen cents for coffee and donuts at" 600

'''Bauhaus''' 
582; "-style furniture" at the Tracys' home; The Bauhaus School was a design school in existence in Germany 1919 - 1933, established by Walter Gropius. Radically breaking with the past, the Bauhaus Masters and their students ushered in our modern times. The aesthetic was austere and functional. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauhaus Wikipedia entry]

'''Bayer factory''' 
Major German company (dyes, aspirin), headed by Duisberg, that in 1904 was organized along with Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik and the AGFA Company (film), into a cartel; 742; in Leverkusen; defectors from, at Der Platz, 746; [www.bayer.de/en/index_en.html Bayer Website]

'''BDM volunteers''' 
450; German: Bund Deutscher Mädel = German Girls League; German girls 14 years or older joined this Nazi youth group which included a year of farm or domestic service. Their motto was "Frisch, Fromm, Frölich, Frei".

'''BDST''' 
29: British Double Summer Time (-0200 offset from Greenwich Mean Time); same idea as Daylight Saving Time in the USA, but the clocks are advanced 2 hours, instead 1 hour, during the summer months.

'''Beal, Mary F. (b. 1937)''' 
612; American novelist

'''Beardsley, Aubry (1872-1898)''' 
An English illustrator, Beardsley is known for his (often erotically charged) illustrations for Oscar Wilde's Salome, Alexander Pope's Rape of the Lock and other black-and-white works. Along with Oscar Wilde, he was considered a leader of "The Decadents" of the 1890s; 71; 634; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_Beardsley Wikipedia entry]

'''Beaton, Cecil (1904-80)''' 
78; Beaton was an English photographer of fashion and high-society celebrities (including royalty), as well as a designer of costumes and sets for ballet; his "photograph of [[A#asquith|Margot Asquith]]"

'''Beatriz the Bulb''' 
653; another long-living bulb hunted by Phoebus, believed to be in the Amazon

'''Beaver, "Old" Jeremy the''' 
36; 121; boyfriend of Jessica Swanlake; works for Operation Backfire in Cuxhaven; is the War, 177; meets Mexico at Gross Suckling Conference, 709

'''Beaverboard Row''' 
538; at the Double-Agent Convention, "comprising the offices of all the Committees"

'''Beaverbrook, Lord William Maxwell (1879-1964)''' 
615; Max Beaverbrook was a Canadian-born British newspaper magnate and politician. He became rich as a stockbroker by 1910. He moved to Britain in 1910 and was private secretary to premier Bonar Law, minister of information under Lloyd George, and minister of supply under Churchill. As a newspaper magnate, he founded the Sunday Express in 1921 and bought the Evening Standard in 1929; "it isn't as if the election put [him] out of a job or something"

'''Becket''' 
"Lost, again and again, past poor dam-busted and drowned Becket" 471

'''Beethoven, Ludwig von (1770-1827)''' 
German composer whose harmonic and formal innovations pushed the boundaries of the music of his day; "Rossini's overture to La Gazza Ladra (which, as we shall see later, in Berlin, marks a high point in music which everybody ignored, preferring Beethoven, who never got further than statements of intention)" 273; "a raging debate with Säure over who is better, [[Beethoven & Rossini|Beethoven or Rossini]] [...] "'I'm not so much for Beethoven qua Beethoven," Gustav argues, "but as he represents the German dialectic, the incorporation of more and more notes into the scale, culminating with dodecaphonic democracy, where all notes get an equal hearing. Beethoven was one of the architects of musical freedom--he submitted to the demands of history, despite his deafness. While Rossini was retiring at the age of 36, womanizing and getting fat, Beethoven was living a life filled with tragedy and grandeur.'" 440; "All you feel like listening to Beethoven is going out and invading Poland." 440 (this pre-dates Woody Allen's use of the same joke in his movie [http://www.woodyallenmovies.com/movies/manhattan.htm ''Manhattan''] (1979)); "Nor as grand as Bach, or Beethoven-or-Brahms/(bubububoo[oo] oo [sung to opening of Beethoven 5th, with full band]" 685

'''Beláustegui''' 
383; U-boat's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positivism positivist] engineer; 613

'''Belleau Wood''' 
Battle fought outside Paris for approximately three weeks in June 1918, between the U.S. Marines and the Germans. The Marines prevailed, but only after the death of over 1000 men; "[Lyle Bland] lay there, more terrified than he'd ever been, even at Belleau Wood" 588

'''Benito the Bulb''' 
649; "at an all-girl opium den in Charlottenburg [...] who's always planning an escape"

'''Bereshith''' 
Genesis, the first book of the Old Testament (after the Hebrew word meaning "in the beginning"); 77

'''Beria, Lavrenti Pavlovich (1899-1953)''' 
Sometimes called the "Himmler of Russia," Beria was a ruthless and ambitious Soviet secret police chief. Stalin appointed him minister of internal affairs in 1938, and he served as vice-president of the State Committee for Defense during WWII. He attempted to seize power when Stalin died, but was foiled and executed; "Beria's top man, the sinister N. Ripov himself" 719

'''Berliner Luft''' 
372;

'''Berlin Snoot''' 
660; aka Enzian

'''Bernie the Bulb''' 
649; "at an all-girl opium den in Charlottenburg [...] who has all kinds of urolagnia jokes"

'''Bernreuter Inventory''' 
In 1931, psychologist Robert Bernreuter began refining his "Bernreuter Personality Inventory," a pioneer multiphastic test of traits that became the standard against which other personality tests were measured and is still used worldwide for counseling and personnel selection; "as revied by Flanagan in '35" 81

'''Bessarabia''' 
Bessarabia is the territory in the eastern part of Moldavia (now Romania), between the Prut and Dniester rivers, near the Russian border; Background regarding "1878 during the intrigues over" 119

'''Bevin, Mr. Ernest (1881-1951)''' 
106; Considered the pioneer of modern trade unionism, Bevin became minister of labor and nation service in Churchill's coalition government. He became foreign secretary in the Labour government (1945-51).Labor Minister

<div id="bianca"></div>'''Bianca''' 
393; daughter of Greta Erdmann & Miklos Thanatz; "I think Bianca is [Schlepzig's] child." 395; 457; disappears, 480; mapped on to Gottfried, 484, 672;"Bianca's a knockout, alright: [[Bianca|11 or 12 [...] ]]" 463; going overboard, 491; "a clever child" 494; body discovered, 531; mapped on to Ilse, 576-77; "her dead flesh" 576; 672;

'''Bibescue, Count''' 
491; passenger aboard the Anubis "dreaming by the fo'c'sle of Bucharest four years ago, the January terror, the Iron Guard on the radio screaming Long Live Death"

'''Biddle, "Gobbler"''' 
65; college buddy of Slothrop's who appears in toilet episode

'''Big and Little Anita''' 
129; character conjured by the presence of the black man in choir at the Advent service attended by Roger and Jessica

'''Big Apple''' 
60; dance in Slothrop's Sodium Amytal session

'''Bingen pencils''' 
Bingen is a city in southwestern Germany, with a port at the confluence of the Rhine and Nahe rivers, near the whirlpool known as Binger Loch. It joined the Hanseatic League in 1254; "the helical contrails in the sky" 452

'''Birches, The''' 
616; Sir Marcus Scammony's estate

'''Birdbury, Pharmacist''' 
595; dope dealer at the old Krupp works where Badass is docked

'''Bismarck, Otto Edward Leopold von (1815-98)''' 
165; As a Prussian statesman, Bismarck rose to eventually become president of the cabinet. Under his leadership, Prussia humiliated Austria in the "Seven Weeks' War which lead to the reorganization of Germany under the leadership of Prussia. After provoking the Franco-Prussian war (1870-71) and eventually dictating the peace terms to France, Bismarck was made a prince and chancellor (the "Iron Chancellor") of the new German empire. He also represented Germany at the Congress of Berlin in 1878; "impressive re-enactment of Bismarck's elevation, at the spring equinox of 1871, to prince and imperial chancellor" 419;

'''black & white''' 
The Rocket described as "black-and-white bad news" 209; "Dominus Blicero" 30; white - 342, 398, 501, 506, 508, 519, 524, 549, 551; 579; bleaching 364; black - 350, 354; "feelings about blackness tied to feelings about shit" 276; white=death, 372; white woman with ring of keys, 374; Caligari gloves - bone white, 385; Slothrop's sodium amytal dreams, 390; 392; "we live. . .beneath the black mud" 483; "A white land" 486; 488; black polymer costume, 488; baseball, 508; boneblack, 509; Egg, 510; "black apes" 513; 650; 657; 666; 688; white albatross, 713; 722; 723; 741; death a whitening, 750 [inversion: black=life; white=death]

'''Blackett, P.M.S. (1897-1974)''' 
12; 1932 (independent of Carl Anderson) he discovered the positron. He also pioneered research on cosmic radiation and, in 1948, won the Nobel prize for physics; "You can't run a war on gusts of emotion"

'''Bladdery, St. John''' 
594; English Commando in First International Runcible Spoon Fight

'''Bland, Buddy''' 
591; Lyle's son; 652

'''Bland, Lyle''' 
284; "Uncle" Lyle to Slothrop; lived in Boston; involved with Hugo Stinnes; 306; and the Masons, 580; specialized in psychological studies in '30s, 581; becomes Mason, 587; journeying "underneath history" 589; leaves body, 591; "last transmural journey" 630; "who was likely to take over the Slothrop surveillance, now that Bland was gone" 630

'''Bland, Lyle Jr.''' 
652; Lyle's son

'''Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna (1831-91)''' 
269; A Russian-born American psychic and mystic. She founded the Theosophical Society in New York in 1875 and later continued her work in India. Although her psychic powers were widely acclaimed, they did not withstand the scrutiny of the Society for Psychical Research, though this had little effect on her following; the Blavatskian wing in Psi section. Her day of death (May 8) is commemorated as White Lotus Day.

'''Blazzo''' 
483; "Italian stuntman" who doubled for Erdmann in Jugend Herauf! - Erdmann "wouldn't go to bed with him, unless he wore that wig!"

'''Bleagh, Dr.''' 
91; "and his young nurse Ivy"; performs lobotomies at White Visitation

'''Bleicheröde''' 
According to McGovern, a cotton-mill town near Nordhausen where most of the rocket specialists and their families were resettled after Peenemünde was abandoned; "Across the Western Front, up in the Harz in Bleicheröde, Wernher von Braun, lately wrecked arm in a plaster cast, prepares to celebrate his 33rd birthday." 236-37; "Enzian of Bleicheröde" 314; "In the mountains around Nordhausen and Bleicheröde, down in abandoned mine shafts, live the Schwarzkommando." 315; "There are several underground communities now near Nordhausen/Bleicheröde. Around here they are known collectively as the Erdschweinhöhle." 315; "The Rocket had to be produced out of a place called Nordhausen. The town adjoining was named Bleicheröde as a validation, a bit of redundancy so that the message would not be lost." 322; "Enzian's found the name Bleicheröde close enough to "Blicker," the nickname the early Germans gave to Death. They saw him white bleaching and blankness." 322; "the names of death-towns unreel, and surely Bleicheröde or Blicero will be spoken any minute now...." 695; "is he Blicker, Bleicheröde, Bleacher, Blicero, extending, rarefying the Caucasian pallor to an abolition of pigment, of melanin, of spectrum, of separateness from shade to shade" 759

'''Blicero, Capt.
See [[W#weissman|Weissmann]]

'''Blizna''' 
424; in Poland; site of A4 testing in 1943; SS project run by Kammler

'''Bloat, Teddy''' 
5; rooms with Pirate and friend of Tantivy; microfilms Slothrop's map (then gives film to Mexico who takes it to Pointsman), 17; 34; 181; gives Slothrop a crab to distract the octopus, 186-87; discussed, 192-93

'''Blobadjian, Igor''' 
353; party representative in the G Committee (WLA); death of, 354-55; [[Igor Blobadjian|Etymological Musings]]

'''Blohm & Voss''' 
521; Hamburg shipbuilding company that expanded into building military aircraft for the German war effort

'''Bloth, Mindy''' 
735-36; guide on elevator; "of Carbon City, Illinois"

'''Blowitt''' 
151; reported to psychiatric "for his rainbowed Valkyrie over Peenemünde"

'''BMRs''' 
170; Basal Metabolic Rates: the amount of energy expended while at rest in a neutrally temperate environment.

<div id="bodine"></div>'''Bodine, Seaman''' 
369; Doper's Dream; was on the Destroyer John E. Badass docked in Cuxhaven; spikes coffee on Badass with Oneirine, 389; First Int'l Runcible Spoon Fight, 394; "specializes in supporting roles" 684; My Doper's Cadenza, 685; foam-rubber phalli, 708; "just a freckleface kid from Albert Lea, Minnesota" 710; Krupp, 711; "surprise roast" 714; "beginning. . .to let Slothrop go" 741-42; "Pig" Bodine is also a major character in V.; Pig's ancestor, [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=B#bodine Fender-Belly Bodine, shows up in Mason & Dixon.]

'''Bokhara rug''' 
246;

<div id="bolshevik"></div>'''Bolshevik''' 
338; Russian: bol'she = "more"; The Bolsheviks were the members of the Russian Social Democratic Party who sided with Lenin in the split after the party congress of 1903. They were the majority and the Mensheviks (in favor of bourgeois reform) were the minority party. The Bolsheviks seized power after the Revolution of 1917 and became the Communist Party; "the godless Mesopotamian Bolshevik" 383; "Lucky the Bolshies didn't get it, huh, Charles?" 448; "The lion [...] He takes, he holds! He is not a Bolshevik or Jew" 577; See also [[L#lenin|Lenin]]; [[S#stalin|Stalin]]

'''Bondelswaartz''' 
403; Herero tribe; 1922 uprising, 403

'''Book, The''' 
47, 75, 87-88, 139, 140; [What Book?]; See also Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich

'''Book of Memorabilia''' 
739; pertaining to Slothrop's dispersal

<div id="booth">'''Booth, John Wilkes (1839-65)'''</div>
This unsuccessful actor assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, apparently to avenge the defeat of the Confederates in the Civil War; his [[M#mustache|mustache]], 210

'''BOQ''' 
6; bachelor officers' quarters

'''Borges, Jorge Luis (1899-1986)''' 
264; Argentinian writer of fiction/fantasy; dedicated poem to G. I. Portales, 383; [http://www.themodernword.com/borges/index.html The Modern Word's Borges Section (the best!)] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges Wikipedia Entry]; [[Borges - The Game of Chess|"The Game of Chess"]] See also [[R#rivadavia|Rivadavia]].

<div id="katje"></div>'''Borgesius, Katje (rhymes with "Got-ya")''' 
her message in cylinder delivered by rocket, 20; "the operative" 72; an ice-queen, her hair secured with "an old, tarnished silver crown [...] frozen on top in a hundred vortices" 92; "A woman with some background in mathematics, and with reasons" 97; was in Blicero's Hansel & Gretel game with Gottfried in the house "west of Duindigt racecourse" 94-99, 101-04; turned in Jews to keep the Germans from suspecting her, 97, 105; spying for allies, 104-05; "Her only debt outstanding is to Captain Prentice" 104; "stepped back into the void" 106; quits the game, 107; Pirate takes her to White Visitation, 106; secretly filmed, 92-113; "quits the game" 104; octopus incident, 185-89; "Meet me in my room" 191; with Slothrop in her room, 194-98; escapes to Arnhem [MAP] [actually to Scheveningen: 535-36], 195; "Wired into the Slothropian Run-together they briefed her on." 196; futureless look, 208, 209; roulette wheel metaphor, 209; "A rain-witch." 221; "a noseless mask of the Other Order of Being, of Katje's being--the lifeless non-face that is the only face of hers he really knows, or will ever remember" 222; "mask of no luck, no future--her face's rest state" 225; disappears, 226; "on her wheel" 257; with Pointsman, 273-74; "under the Wheel of Fortune" 277; 281-83; "a red tulip between Slothrop's toes. A reminder of Katje" 281; discovers film used with Grigori, 533; looking for Pirate, 536; with Pirate again ("she has lost her surface"), 545; her little brother Louis, 546; going to Nordhausen, 620; loss of "futureless look" 656; "she's not of our moment, our time, at all" 656; Golden Bitch, 658; Principle of Maximizing Risk, 659; "Shouldn't I be going all the way in?" 662; "her masochism" 662; travelling with Enzian, 729

'''Borgesius, Louis''' 
546; Katje's little brother

'''Borsalini''' 
254; Borsalino hats are a quality-made felt hat with broad brim manufactured in Italy. The company has been in existence since 1857. "Borsalini" is Pynchon's plural.

'''Bounce, Capt. Hillary''' 
240; works for Shell Int'l Petroleum; had dealings with IG Farben in '32; teaches Slothrop about propulsion at Casino; at de la Perlimpinpin's party, 245; 253

'''Bovril''' 
23; Bovril is cow extract, and its main use is as a flavouring for soups, and as a drink when you put a teaspoon of the stuff in a mug of boiling water; [http://www.bovril.com]

'''Boxing Day''' 
132; In England, the first weekday after Christmas, observed by the giving of Christmas boxes to service workers; 174

'''Bracken, Brendan (1901-58)''' 
615; First a successful journalist, Irishman Bracken was elected to the British in 1929, was minister of information (1941-45) and was first Lord of the Admiralty in the 1945 "caretaker" government; "it isn't as if the election put [him] out of a job or something"

'''Bradbury Building''' 
752; "Philip Marlowe will [...] feel homesick for the lacework balconies of the"

'''Brain Trust''' 
565

'''Brain War''' 
726; "a Victorian kind [...] as between quaternions and vector analysis in the 1880s, the nostalgia of Aether" 727

<div id="vonbraun">'''Braun, Wernher von (1923-77)'''</div>
German rocket engineer who came to the U.S. after the war; [[von Braun's Epigram|"Nature does not know extinction"]] 1; arm in a cast in the Harz, 237; "They've already rounded up von Braun and 500 others, and interned them at Garmisch" 273; Geli's owl, 291; "how close Wernher von Braun's birthday is to the Spring Equinox" 361, 588; "the Prussian aristocrat" 402; "a palace revolt against" 416; "I couldn't go with von Braun, not to the Americans" 456

'''Brenda''' 
547; mentioned in Pirate's and Katje's How I Came To Love the People

'''Brenda the Bulb''' 
649; mother of Bernie "who talks of hashish hush puppies"

'''Brennan, Peewee''' 
584; a pinball wizard, one of "the great thumbs of Koekuk and Puyallup, Oyster Bay, Inglewood"

'''Brennschluss''' 
6; German: "end of burning"; end of rocket's ascent when fuel is cut-off and it gives way to gravity; "a ritual of love" 222-23; "Rocket's. . .feminine counterpart" 223; 239; "The moving vehicle is frozen, in space, to become architecture, and timeless. It was never launched. It will never fall" 301; "for every firing site" 302; "of the Sun" (Sound-Shadow), 711; 759

'''British Military Intelligence''' 
384;

'''British Ministry of Supply''' 
240;

'''British Plastics''' 
615; discarded back issues scattered about Mossmoon's and Scammony's club

'''Brocken''' 
329; mountain 20 miles NW of Mittelwerke in the Harz Mountains; "plexus of German evil"; place where God-shadows ("Brockengespenstphänomen" - p.331) occur at sunrise, 330; specter, 759

'''Bruce''' 
544; "who got burned"; one whom Pirate had to betray "in the course of business for the Firm"

'''Buchenwald''' 
666;

'''Buffalo Bayou''' 
449; song about

'''Bugnogorkov''' 
353; "infamous Ukrainian doper [...] of the glottal K Committee"

'''Bukhara''' 
in Uzbekistan, this city is one of the most ancient in Central Asia. According to the decree of the 4th Assembly of all-Bukhara Soviets (11-17 October, 1923), certain degrees of autonomy and administrative rights were granted to areas inhabited by Turkmens, and local dialects (eg Tajiki) were to be replaced by Turkish as the official language; "reformed Arabic scripts [...] ratified at ~ in 1923" 354; [http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/bashiri/Masov/bukhara.html Website]

'''Bukharin, Nikolai Ivanovich (1888-1938)''' 
Bukharin was a Russian Communist leader and theoretician, and a member of the Bolshevik wing of the Social Democratic party. In 1924 he was made a full member of the politburo. As Stalin rose to power in the 1920s, Bukharin was advocating policies which were not in line with Stalin's, eg slow agricultural collectivization and industrialization. A victim of Stalin's purges, in 1938 he was tried publicly for treason and was executed (shot). In the Gorbachev era, Bukharin was rehabilitated and posthumously reinstated (1988) as a party member; "evidence linking [Porkyevitch] to the Bukharin conspiracy" 189

'''bulbs''' 
anemone bulbs, 104; at Rathenau seance, 165; "staring bulb" 194; " a bare bulb will hollow out a region of light...the light bulb is the chisel that delivers it from its inertia and has become one of the great secret ikons of the Humility", "light bulbs...were the first to go" 299; " only their bulbs shining conditionally" 300; "small neon bulbs" 303; dream of bulb/Weissmann, 426-27; Weissmann's soul, 427; sentient bulbs, 464; 506; Mutter: what Germans call female threads of light bulb sockets, 299, 653; "Azos looking down the empty back Bakelite streets, Nitralampen and Wotan Gs at night soccer matches, Just-Wolframs, Monowatts and Siriuses" 650; "an electrical tidal wave" 665; bulbshine, 697; See also [[#byron|Byron the Bulb]]

'''Bulgars''' 
549;

'''Bull, John''' 
nickname for an Englishman or Englishmen collectively; "our cousin" 697

'''Bummer, Emil ("Säure" [German: acid])''' 
365; 434-43; papyromancy, 442, 641; wheelerdealer in Berlin; no stomping on bugs, 621; "Ass-backwards" 683; "Der Platz" 686; "optimum hashpipe design" 745

'''Burgundians''' 
159; wiped out by Attila the Hun (as depicted in Fritz Lang's Die Nibelungen); in what is now Eastern France [MAP]; held together by "precious structure of magic and incest" 578-79

'''Busch, Wilhelm (1832-1908)''' 
501; This German cartoonist and writer created Max und Moritz (the prototypes for the Katzenjammer Kids--see page 757) and Herr und Frau Knopp; "a Wilhelm Busch cartoon face"; "a Wilhelm Busch original" 568

'''Busemann, Adolf''' 
German rocket scientist; 452

'''Business Advisory Council''' 
581; "set up by Swope of General Electric"; 587;

'''butadiene''' 
487; a flammable gaseous hydrocarbon used in making synthetic rubbers

<div id="byron"></div>'''Byron the Bulb''' 
"a bulb over his head burning all night long. He dreamed that the bulb was a representative of Weissmann, a creature whose bright filament was its soul" 426-27; "a theatre marquee whose sentient bulbs may have looked on [...] witnesses to grave and historical encounters" 464; "The Story of" 647-55; "Someday he will know everything, and be just as impotent as before" 654; "electrical tidal wave" 665; "young Jack may have had one of them Immortal Lightbulbs then go on overhead" 688; screwed into Gustav's kazoo hashpipe, 745

'''Byzantium''' 
Ancient Greek city on the Sea of Marmara which was the capital of the Byzantine (or Greek) Empire, in what is now NW Turkey. From 7th century BC to 3rd century AD, Byzantium was a thriving center for the arts, especially architecture (its chief features: circle, dome and round arch). It was renamed Constantinople in 330AD when Constantine captured it and established it as the new capital for the Turkish Empire; it was renamed Istanbul in 1930; Vikings sailing to, 549; [[Sailing to Byzantium|"Sailing to Byzantium" by W.B. Yeats]] [http://www.tmbg.org/band-info/songs/lyrics/IstanbulNotConstantinople.html "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" by They Might Be Giants]

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'''G-5''' 
125; Weisenburger quoting A.M. Taylor: "that section of the Army set up to take over local government in lands occupied by invasion forces. Other sections are G-1 personnel, G-2 Intelligence, G-3 Training and Plans, G-4 Supply and Evacuation."; 290; 644;

'''Galina''' 
339; worked for Tchitcherine in C. Asia; "connoisseuse of silences"; during Tchitcherine's haunting, 705

'''Gallaho Mews''' 
217; alley in London where PISCES Twelfth House is located; "all-night cinema, around the corner from" 542; Mexico's arrival, 632

'''Ganister, Herbert''' 
166; English chemist

'''Gantt, Dr. Horsley''' 
W. Horsley Gantt's Russian Medicine (1937), shows the relation of Pavlov to prominent Russians in medicine; 88

'''Garmisch''' 
Garmisch-Partenkirchen is a ski resort in the Bavarian Alps in southern Germany where the Allies held and interrogated von Braun, Dornberger and other Peenemünders; 273; 527; [http://www.garmisch.de Website]

'''gate''' 
552; 40s slang: a swinger, as in a "swinging gate"; 594

'''Geigy''' 
250; Swiss chemical company which joined Ciba and Sandoz in a cartel in the early '20s

'''Gemüse-Brücke''' 
261; in Zürich

'''General Aniline''' 
630; an American subsidiary/licensee of IG

'''General Electric (GE)''' 
Project Hermes people from, 287; "helmet liners with GE stenciled on" 304; 307; Marvy together with, 326; interlocks, 332; 448; connections with Siemens, 565; Swope/Business Advisory Council, 581; 654; Joe Kennedy and, 682; 712; [GE Website]

'''General Forces Programme''' 
592;

'''General Staff''' 
152; According to Sasuly: "the nerve center of the German Army [and] the ultimate citadel of Junkerdom". It was abolished by the terms of the Versailles Treaty after WWI, but was reorganized as the Ministry of Defense; 401; 630;

'''GEneRATor''' 
734; hangman mystery world Slothrop discovers

<div id="gentian">'''gentian'''</div>
A flowering plant family with about 400 species; German name is [[E#enzian|''Enzian'']]; is sometimes used as a flavouring, for example in bitters, and the soft drink [[M#moxie|Moxie]] which contains "Gentian Root Extractives"; inspiration for Enzian's name, 101; "gentian brandy" 258; "tin Moxie signs gentian and bittersweet as the taste they were there to hustle" 471; "My mountain gentian always knew" 722

'''George, Lloyd''' 
145; former British Prime Minister; "likeness of [...] in heliotrope and sea-green"; 237

'''George, Stefan''' 
403; "One of these German mystics who grew up reading"

'''Georgian''' 
340; Stalin was from Georgia

'''Gerda and her Fur Boa''' 
451; one of the films on the "hand-cranked peep shows" on the Toiletship, which Achtfaden has watched 178 times; 455;

'''German Expressionist''' 
"ripples" 513; "pig" 568; See also [[M#metropolis|Metropolis/Metropolis]]

'''Germans''' 
"German and precise confidence" 25; "Wuotan and his mad army" 72; the "Führer-principle" 81; "ein Volk, ein Führer" ["one people, one leader"], 131; "another comical German euphemism" 164; "crowded with German-Baroque perplexities of shape" 208; and Control, 238; Slothrop's dreaming in German, 240; "German-scientist mind" 268; "one of these little brightly painted German toys" 282; "You sound like a German [...] Forget subdivisions." 294; humor, 309; Brocken: "the very plexus of German evil" 329; "a wistful German thing with his upper lip" 333; "the Germans wasted their horses" 337; "German dreams of the Tenth-Elegy angel coming" 341; "the same German impulse that once rolled flower-boats through the towns" 361; "'They're deciding how to cut up Germany.' [...] They should call in the Germans, Kerl, we've been doing that for centuries" 370; "improvisation from a German?"--372; "German humor's a fine way to start the morning" 372; New German Architecture, 372; "the profound humility that only a German movie director can summon" 388; mania for subdividing, 391 ("German mania for name-giving, dividing the Creation finer and finer"), 448 ("Toiletship, a triumph of the German mania for subdividing"); "unpatriotic to say that a German ruler could also be a madman" 394; "One of these German mystics [...] ready to accept Hitler on the basis of Demian-metaphysics" 403; "connection between the German mind and the rapid flashing of successive stills to counterfeit movement" 407; Hoard of the Nibelungen, 419; dialectic, 440; analysis of pot, 442; "simple-minded German symphonic arc" 443; "you Germans are crazy, you all think the world's against you" 445; "the primitive German, God's poorest and most panicked creature" 465; "Looks like German movies have warped other outlooks around here too" 474; "A German Odyssey" 486; "'I'll sign a form if you want.' Well, that's Howdy Podner in German." 492; Schadenfreude [joy at another's misfortune], 526, 745; "German toilet jokes" 530; "anxieties about encirclement" 614; "Bodine's laugh [...] has grown more German" 742

'''[[German Translations|GERMAN TRANSLATIONS]]'''

'''Geschwindig, Hansel''' 
651; (German: "swift") - Weimar street urchin who steals Byron the Bulb from the glassblower

'''Gessner''' 
455; his section at Peenemünde

'''Ghislaine''' 
183; girl on the beach, along with Françoise and Yvonne, who is a dancer at the Casino Hermann Goering; with Bloat;188-89 (named); 194; 204

'''Ginger Groupers''' 
615; "jamming [Mossmoon's] switchboard and [...] mailbox day and night"

'''Gilbert & Sullivan''' 
Composer Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) and librettist W.S. Gilbert (1836-1911) collaboratively developed a distinctive English form of the operetta. The combination of Gilbert's satire and verbal ingenuity and Sullivan's melodiousness and sense of parody created such internationally acclaimed works as H.M.S. Pinafore (1878) and The Pirates of Penzance (1879). Sullivan's dislike of what he considered the artificial nature of Gilbert's plots led to their split; "a blithe, Gilbert & Sullivan ingenue's thewse" 116

'''Gimbel's''' 
690; New York City department store since the early 1900s, located at 33rd & Broadway. The basement at Gimbel's featured "bargain-basement" buys. The store closed on September 27, 1986.

'''Giovanni, Don''' 
270; his "map of Europe"

'''''Giovinezza''''' 
The anthem of the Italian National Fascist Party; Italian for 'youth'

'''Glacists''' 
73; "lords of the winter" who can decipher ice

'''Glass Mountain, the''' 
419; at Zwölfkinder

'''Glimpf, Prof.''' 
309; German: gentleness; Professor of Mathematics of the Technische Hochschule, Darmstadt; Scientific Advisor to the Allied Military Government

'''Glitherius Paint & Dye''' 
581; "a Berlin firm" sold to Bland by the Alien Property Custodian

'''Gloaming, Milton''' 
31; [gloaming = twilight]; friend of Roger Mexico; word-counting project in Psi Section of SOE, developing vocabulary of curves, 32; 629; "just back from a jaunt through the Zone" 630; 638

'''Gloob, Lady Mnemosyne''' 
716; at Krupp party

'''Gloucester''' 
52; Pointsman's springer spaniel

'''Gloucestershire Old Spots''' 
82; pigs

'''Gnahb, Otto''' 
492; aka "the silent Otto"; son of Frau Gnahb

'''Gnahb, Frau''' 
492; "Queen of the coastal trade" runs black market along Baltic coast; 602; 623; [poss. etymology: "Gnahb" spelled backwards--bear with me here--is "bhang" the drink made from flowering tops of the marijuana plant, cannabis sativa]; See also Wilhelm Busch

'''Gnosticism''' 
"the Director's clever Gnostic symbolism in the lighting scheme of the two shadows, Cain's and Abel's" 429; "heretics there will be: Gnostics who have been taken in a rush of wind and fire to chambers of the Rocket-throne" 727; "'That's why you see Gnostics so hunted. The sacrament of the Eucharist is really drinking the blood of the enemy. The Grail, the Sangraal, is the bloody vehicle.'" 739; "The Tower. [...] Others see a Gnostic or Cathar symbol for the Church of Rome" 747

'''Gobbitch, Bartley''' 
9; at Pirate's maisonette

'''God''' 
"God has plucked [the rocket] for him, out of its airless sky, like a steel banana" 8; "wasted gods urging on a tardy glacier" 9; "Putting control inside was ratifying what de facto had happened--that you had dispensed with God." 30; "every true god must be both organizer and destroyer" 99; "tried to cage his old gods, snare them in words" 99; Dodoes "so ugly as to embody argument against a Godly creation" 110; "For as much as [Dodoes] are the creatures of God, and have the gift of rational discourse" 111; "God could not be that cruel" 111; "when the land was still free [...] and the presence of the Creator much more direct" 214; "the numinous certainty of" 242; "his own WASPs in buckled black, who heard God clamoring to them in every turn of a leaf" 281; "multitudes passed over by God and History" 299; "Ndjambi Karunga and the Christian God were too far away. There was no difference between the behavior of a good and the operations of pure chance" 323; "Using a non-Arabic alphabet is felt to be a sin against" 354; "Will of God Theory" 362; "God's indifferent sunlight in all its bleaching and terror" 364; "Each plot carries its signature. Some are God's, some masquerade as God's" 464; "God's poorest and most panicked creature" 465; canine theology of "the remembered image of one human" 614; "God is who knows their number. Atropos is who severs them to different lengths. So, God under the aspet of Atropos, she who cannot be turned" 643; "Procalowski-down-out-of-the sky-in-a-machine" 672; "God, death, nothingness, redemption, salvation" 693; "What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?" 699; "Wimpe: 'I mean theophosphate, Vaslav,' indicating the Presence of God" 702; "God's spoilers. [...] It is our mission to promote death." 720; "By all the holy names of God" 734; "The Ravens of Death have now tasted of the Poison of God" 748; "'God sent out a pulse of energy into the void. [...] To return to God, the soul must negotiate each of the Sephiroth, from ten back to one." 753; "the Tree of Life. It is also the body of God" 753; See also [[C#christianity|Christianity]]; [[M#mythology|Mythology]]; [[T#theophile|Theophile]]

'''Gödel's Theorem''' 
275; According to Hofstadter (p.17): "appears as Proposition VI in [Kurt Gödel's] 1931 paper 'On Formally Undecidable Propositions in Principia Mathematica and Related Systems I.' It states: [...] All consistent axiomatic formulations of number theory include undecidable propositions."; 320; See also [[M#murphy|Murphy's Law]]

'''Goebbels, Josef Paul (1897-1945)''' 
287; Chief propagandist of the Nazi Party and Nazi Propaganda Minister; "less than giddy imagination reaching no further than Alpine Redoubts"; saw von Göll's Good Society three times, 394; footage of Erdmann's ravishing "found its way into [his] collection" 461; "believed in the Rocket as an avenger" 747;

'''Goetzke, Bernhardt''' 
579; Actually 'Bernhard' Goetzke (1884-1964). German actor born in Danzig; played State Prosecutor von Wenk in Dr. Mabuse, and "tender, wistful bureaucratic Death in Der Müde Tod"; "bourgeois Goetzkian death" 579;

'''''Going My Way''''' 
38; A 1944 film directed by Leo McCarey. It is a light-hearted musical comedy/drama about a new young priest (Bing Crosby) taking over a parish from an established old veteran (Barry Fitzgerald). Crosby sings five songs in the film. It was followed the next year by a sequel, The Bells of St. Mary's. This picture was the highest-grossing picture of 1944, and its success helped to make movie exhibitors choose Crosby as the biggest box-office draw of the year, a record he would hold for the remainder of the 1940s.

'''Gold Star''' 
134; "your mother hoping to hang that"; The group American Gold Star Mothers was formed after WWI. The name derives from the custom of families of servicemen hanging a banner called a Service Flag in their front window. It had a star for each family member in the military. Living servicemen were represented by a blue star, and those who had lost their lives were represented by a gold star.

'''golf''' 
See [[L#lawn|lawn sports]]

<div id="goll"></div>'''Göll, Gerhardt von''' 
112; [Italian: "vongole" = "clams"] German filmmaker; making Schwarzkommando movie, 112-13; "commerce has not taken away von Göll's Touch" 112 (see also: Göllerei, 429); and Trefoil, 147; can be found "on the Strand-Promenade" 294; aka Der Springer--film director turned black-marketeer, 385; Martin Fierro film, 386; used "Emulsion J" which made the outer layer of skin translucent ["When something real is about to happen to you, you go toward it with a transparent surface parallel to your own front [. . .]" (p.754)], 387; thinks he brought Schwarzkommando into being, 388; Alpdrucken featured lighting from top and bottom (Gnostic symbolism - Cain & Abel [429]), 394; corridor metaphysics, 394; "About 50, bleak and neutral-colored eyes, hair thick at the sides of his head and brushed back" 494; no- show at Putzi's, 610; also made The Good Society; 611; "his corporate octopus wrapping every last negotiable item in the Zone" 611; floor movie at Der Platz (New Dope), 745; 750; See also [[S#springer|Springer, Der]]

'''Gollin, Mr. Geoffrey''' 
240; chief assistant to Isaac Lubbock and the person Hilary Bounce reports to; Tölölyan reports that Gollin was a British intelligence officer whom the Russians allowed to search Blizna after it was liberated. There he actually found rocket documents in the SS latrines; they had apparently tried to flush them down the toilets during their hasty retreat.

'''Gomerians''' 
La Gomera is the most westward of the Canary Islands, off the coast of North Africa. Until Columbus "discovered" the New World, it was the westernmost land known to the Europeans. The inhabitants of the deep valleys used to communicate with each other in a whistling language, comparable to the "yodeling" in Central European Alps. [[La Gomera|Barbara Kingsolver has written about La Gomera]]; "whistling from the high ravines" 453; "Gomera was the last piece of land Columbus touched before America" 453; See also Chipuda

'''Gondwanaland''' 
321; the super-continent that was the Americas and Europe, "before the continents drifted apart"; 388

'''Gongue, Jean-Claude''' 
246; "notorious white slaver of Marseilles" at de la Perlimpinpin party

'''Gongylakis''' 
544; someone Pirate "had to betray" "in the course of business for the Firm" (recalled at Double Agent Convention)

'''Gorr, Dr.''' 
630; ran Vermittlungsstelle W with Dr. Dieckmann

'''Goths''' 
Goths: These Germanic people originated in southern Scandinavia and crossed in three ships under their king Berig to the southern shore of the Baltic Sea, where they settled after defeating the Vandals and other Germanic peoples in that area; 206

'''Gottfried''' 
94-99; "ranked with his battery near Schußstelle 3" 95; with Katje and Blicero, 101-04; his perspective, 102-04; "Who was that, going by just then--who was the slender boy who flickered across her path, so blond, so white he was nearly invisible in the hot haze that had come to settle over Zwölfkinder? Did she see him, and did she know him for her own second shadow?" 429; German: "God's peace" 465; "the young pet and protege of Captain Blicero" 484; mapped on to Bianca, 484, 672, 723 (Gottfried to Blicero: "I remember that you used to whisper me to sleep with stories of us one day living on the moon"); "something was being planned" for, 485; "a load inside near vane 3 that complicated roll and yaw control almost impossibly" 564; and Thanatz, 670-71; 721; mapped onto Ilse (via Moon references), 723; his launch, 750; [Etymological Musings]

'''Gould, Jay (1836-1892)''' 
Gould's reputation as one of the leading robber barons of his era was assured by his actions as a director of the Erie Railroad. In 1869, he worked with allies James Fisk and Daniel Drew to combat Cornelius Vanderbilt 's acquisition of the railroad in the infamous Erie War. Gould used every underhanded trick, from bribing public officials to massively watering stock. Later in 1869, Gould and his partners attempted to corner the gold market, but their scheme fell apart on Black Friday . The public was enraged and thousands of investors were ruined. In 1872, following Fisk's death, Gould was forced out as a director of the Erie [From U-S-History.com]; "what Jubilee Jim Fisk told the Congressional committee investigating his and Jay Gould's scheme to corner gold in 1869," 438

'''Goya''' 
657; "even Goya couldn't draw ya"

'''Grafty Green''' 
127; village in Kent, south of London

'''Graham, "Micro"''' 
295; gives secret tours of the Mittelwerk during US occupation. A pun on 'microgram'.

'''Grant, Cary (1904-1986)''' 
British-American actor, born Archibald Alexander Leach. With his distinctive yet not quite placeable Mid-Atlantic accent, he was noted as perhaps the foremost exemplar of the debonair leading man: handsome, virile, charismatic and charming. He was named the second Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute. "no Cary Grant larking in" 13; referring to Slothrop's faux British accent: "it keeps coming out like Cary Grant" 240; "best Cary Grant imitation" 292; "Ge-li, Ge-li, Ge-li" see note [[Pages 279-295#Page 294|294.11]]; "just as smooth as that Cary Grant" 661; 684

'''Graves Registration''' 
643; "back there in Wisconsin"

'''gravity''' 
[[Gravity's Rainbow Title Speculations|''Gravity's Rainbow'' - what is it?]] "violated gravity somehow" 65; "sigh of gravity" 296; "Gravity's grey eminence" 302; "the young scientist-surrogate will be going round and round with old Gravity" 361; "she wants to lose her gravity" 538; "always at the mercy of" 584; "caught in her gravitation" 546; "To find that gravity [...] is really something eerie" 590; "I am Gravity" 639; "generations of gravities" 672; "Center of Gravity" 700; "nothing but his asshole between Gravity and Roger" 709; "Gravity rules" 723; "modest preview of gravitational collapse" 737; "a wine rush is defying" 743; "gravity feed" 758; "Gravity dies away briefly" 759

'''Great Aspinwall Hotel Fire''' 
[[image:aspinwall.jpg|right]]Built in Lenox, Mass., in 1902 by General Thomas Hubbard, the Aspinwall Hotel flourished for many years as a popular resort for the financial and political leaders of the day. It had 400 rooms with a fireplace in each and a resident orchestra. Situated at 1460 feet above sea level, it commanded breath-taking views. It was destroyed by fire in 1931.

:"In 1931, the year of the Great Aspinwall Hotel Fire, young Tyrone was visiting his aunt and uncle in Lenox. [...] The embers fell on and on for five hours [...]" 28-29

'''Great War, the''' 
476; aka World War I

'''Green Reports''' 
630; "flapping through the IG for weeks" after Bland's last transmural journey

'''Greenteeth, Jenny''' 
147; The green hag of Lancashire. Jenny is an evil spirit who haunts stagnant pools in Lancashire. She preys on children who wander too close to the water, grabbing them in her long green fangs and pulling them underwater to drown. She can be found in any pool or pond which is covered in green scum. Obviously, she's invoked to keep the kids away from the water. [IMAGE]

'''Greifswalder Oie''' 
404; small island off Usedom converted into a rocket launching site; 414; Greifswald, 681, 692

'''Gretchens''' 
"Quit Kvetchin', Gretchen!" 289; participating in "roasting" of Mexico, 714; See also Slothrop's girls/stars

'''Grid''' 
"a glittering map. . .ruled off into 576 squares" 55; sieves, 56; "crosshatchings of his black rubber soles" 70; "corporate lattice" 75; "Dutch grid's 380 volts" 101; "to keep Grid Time synchronized with Greenwich Mean Time" 133; "the Grid runs inching ever faster" 134; "Quisling molecules have shifted in latticelike ways" 176; "back in France's power grid" 190; "Forget subdivisions" 294; 400; ego as grid, 404; "the holy grid" 404; "screen door salesman" 447; the Iron Toad "hooked up to the European Grid" 604; Byron's "many agents in the Grid" 649; "when folklore comes flickering in from other parts of the Grid" 650; "a sin against the" 652; "noticed a fall-off in revenues" 654; "the Grid is wide open, all messages can be heard" 655; "the Grid's big function in this System is iceboxery" 678; "along the grooves of the Raketen-Stadt's street-grid" 674; See also chess; routinization/rationalization of charisma

'''Grigori''' 
51; aka Grischa (diminutive of Grigori); octopus conditioned by Pointsman to abduct Katje in order to get at Slothrop; "unconditioned response to prey is very reliable" 52; shown movie of Katje, 113; attacks Katje, 186; Waxwing sez it never happened, 248; 533; octopus as metaphor, 611; 662; See also City Dactylic; octopus

'''Grimm, the Brothers''' 
74; Brothers Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859) are known for their collections of folk songs and folktales, especially Kinder- und Hausmärchen ("Child and Family Fairy Tales," aka "Grimm's Fairy Tales") (1812-22), which formed a foundation for the science of comparative folklore. Apparently, Jacob Grimm's large work Teutonic Mythology provided source material for Gravity's Rainbow.

'''Groast, Dr. (the elder)''' 
147; Rollo's father, in Lancashire

'''Groast, Dr. Rollo''' 
34; works in ARF wing; 79; 85; 147; "assumed back into the Society for Psychical Research" 273; with Greta, 474

'''Gross Suckling Conference''' 
706; attended by Eventyr, Gwinhidwy, Mexico, Morituri - discuss mandalas in relation to rocket firings

'''Grosser Stern''' 
365; German: "Great Star"; This is a traffic circle in the middle of the Tiergarten (zoo) in Berlin; near where Slothrop is "orbiting" 365

'''Grössli Chemical Corporation''' 
250; became Psychochemie AG; spinoff from Sandoz; 284; 286

'''Grunt-Gobbinette, Sir Hannibal''' 
716-17; at Krupp party

'''Grunton, Myron''' 
74; worked for BBC; instrumental in creating Operation Black Wing; works at White Visitation; 92; 112; 227; "again a full-time wireless personality" 273

'''Guardian, the''' 
293; The Manchester Guardian is (according to Evan Corcoran) the farthest left-wing of the major English papers, and at the time also the only major English paper not based in London; the paper that Ian Scuffling allegedly works for

'''Guinan, Texas (1884-1933)''' 
657; This colorful divorcee ran one ofthe most notorious and outrageous speakeasies in Manhattan in the 1920s. By 1928, four of her roving clubs had been raided and closed, but a fifth was going strong. Perched on top of a piano, Guinan held court and let fly with bawdy anecdotes, and emceed performances by singers and dancers from 11 p.m. until 7 a.m. "Curfew shall not ring tonight!" was her rallying cry. She greeted her patrons with the shriek of a police whistle and a derisive, "Hello, Suckers!" Mae West was a fan of hers and incorporated much of Guinan's style and material into her own act (though she never acknowledged the contribution). Phyllis Diller played her in the 1961 film, Splendor in the Grass. After her club was finally shut down in 1929 she took a troupe of dancing girls to Paris. When French officials in the U.S. tried to block her departure, there was a popular outcry in Paris in her support, to which she responded "Fifty million Frenchmen can't be wrong." The Paris stint was unsuccessful.

'''Gülcher Thermosäule''' 
518; Gülcher Thermostat

'''Gustav''' 
See [[S#schlabone|Schlabone, Gustav]]

'''Guthrie, Tyrone (1900-71)''' 
148; British theatrical producer and administrator of the Old Vic and Sadler's Wells between 1939 and 1945.

'''Gutiérrez, Ricky''' 
249; involved in Zoot Suit Riots of 1943 in Los Angeles

'''Gwenhidwy, Thomas''' 
52; at White Visitation; one of the keepers of The Book; "inside his fluffy beard" 139; singing "Diadem" at fighter runways,169; at Pirate's, singing, 639; 706

'''Gymanfa Ganu''' 
171; Welsh: songfest; these group-singing events are still held throughout Wales

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'''G-5''' 
125; Weisenburger quoting A.M. Taylor: "that section of the Army set up to take over local government in lands occupied by invasion forces. Other sections are G-1 personnel, G-2 Intelligence, G-3 Training and Plans, G-4 Supply and Evacuation."; 290; 644;

'''Galina''' 
339; worked for Tchitcherine in C. Asia; "connoisseuse of silences"; during Tchitcherine's haunting, 705

'''Gallaho Mews''' 
217; alley in London where PISCES Twelfth House is located; "all-night cinema, around the corner from" 542; Mexico's arrival, 632

'''Ganister, Herbert''' 
166; English chemist

'''Gantt, Dr. Horsley''' 
W. Horsley Gantt's Russian Medicine (1937), shows the relation of Pavlov to prominent Russians in medicine; 88

'''Garmisch''' 
Garmisch-Partenkirchen is a ski resort in the Bavarian Alps in southern Germany where the Allies held and interrogated von Braun, Dornberger and other Peenemünders; 273; 527; [http://www.garmisch.de Website]

'''gate''' 
552; 40s slang: a swinger, as in a "swinging gate"; 594

'''Geigy''' 
250; Swiss chemical company which joined Ciba and Sandoz in a cartel in the early '20s

'''Gemüse-Brücke''' 
261; in Zürich

'''General Aniline''' 
630; an American subsidiary/licensee of IG

'''General Electric''' 
Project Hermes people from, 287; "helmet liners with GE stenciled on" 304; 307; interlocks, 332; 448; connections with Siemens, 565; Swope/Business Advisory Council, 581; 654; Joe Kennedy and, 682; 712; [GE Website]

'''General Forces Programme''' 
592;

'''General Staff''' 
152; According to Sasuly: "the nerve center of the German Army [and] the ultimate citadel of Junkerdom". It was abolished by the terms of the Versailles Treaty after WWI, but was reorganized as the Ministry of Defense; 401; 630;

'''GEneRATor''' 
734; hangman mystery world Slothrop discovers

<div id="gentian">'''gentian'''</div>
A flowering plant family with about 400 species; German name is [[E#enzian|''Enzian'']]; is sometimes used as a flavouring, for example in bitters, and the soft drink [[M#moxie|Moxie]] which contains "Gentian Root Extractives"; inspiration for Enzian's name, 101; "gentian brandy" 258; "tin Moxie signs gentian and bittersweet as the taste they were there to hustle" 471; "My mountain gentian always knew" 722

'''George, Lloyd''' 
145; former British Prime Minister; "likeness of [...] in heliotrope and sea-green"; 237

'''George, Stefan''' 
403; "One of these German mystics who grew up reading"

'''Georgian''' 
340; Stalin was from Georgia

'''Gerda and her Fur Boa''' 
451; one of the films on the "hand-cranked peep shows" on the Toiletship, which Achtfaden has watched 178 times; 455;

'''German Expressionist''' 
"ripples" 513; "pig" 568; See also [[M#metropolis|Metropolis/Metropolis]]

'''Germans''' 
"German and precise confidence" 25; "Wuotan and his mad army" 72; the "Führer-principle" 81; "ein Volk, ein Führer" ["one people, one leader"], 131; "another comical German euphemism" 164; "crowded with German-Baroque perplexities of shape" 208; and Control, 238; Slothrop's dreaming in German, 240; "German-scientist mind" 268; "one of these little brightly painted German toys" 282; "You sound like a German [...] Forget subdivisions." 294; humor, 309; Brocken: "the very plexus of German evil" 329; "a wistful German thing with his upper lip" 333; "the Germans wasted their horses" 337; "German dreams of the Tenth-Elegy angel coming" 341; "the same German impulse that once rolled flower-boats through the towns" 361; "'They're deciding how to cut up Germany.' [...] They should call in the Germans, Kerl, we've been doing that for centuries" 370; "improvisation from a German?"--372; "German humor's a fine way to start the morning" 372; New German Architecture, 372; "the profound humility that only a German movie director can summon" 388; mania for subdividing, 391 ("German mania for name-giving, dividing the Creation finer and finer"), 448 ("Toiletship, a triumph of the German mania for subdividing"); "unpatriotic to say that a German ruler could also be a madman" 394; "One of these German mystics [...] ready to accept Hitler on the basis of Demian-metaphysics" 403; "connection between the German mind and the rapid flashing of successive stills to counterfeit movement" 407; Hoard of the Nibelungen, 419; dialectic, 440; analysis of pot, 442; "simple-minded German symphonic arc" 443; "you Germans are crazy, you all think the world's against you" 445; "the primitive German, God's poorest and most panicked creature" 465; "Looks like German movies have warped other outlooks around here too" 474; "A German Odyssey" 486; "'I'll sign a form if you want.' Well, that's Howdy Podner in German." 492; Schadenfreude [joy at another's misfortune], 526, 745; "German toilet jokes" 530; "anxieties about encirclement" 614; "Bodine's laugh [...] has grown more German" 742

'''[[German Translations|GERMAN TRANSLATIONS]]'''

'''Geschwindig, Hansel''' 
651; (German: "swift") - Weimar street urchin who steals Byron the Bulb from the glassblower

'''Gessner''' 
455; his section at Peenemünde

'''Ghislaine''' 
183; girl on the beach, along with Françoise and Yvonne, who is a dancer at the Casino Hermann Goering; with Bloat;188-89 (named); 194; 204

'''Ginger Groupers''' 
615; "jamming [Mossmoon's] switchboard and [...] mailbox day and night"

'''Gilbert & Sullivan''' 
Composer Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) and librettist W.S. Gilbert (1836-1911) collaboratively developed a distinctive English form of the operetta. The combination of Gilbert's satire and verbal ingenuity and Sullivan's melodiousness and sense of parody created such internationally acclaimed works as H.M.S. Pinafore (1878) and The Pirates of Penzance (1879). Sullivan's dislike of what he considered the artificial nature of Gilbert's plots led to their split; "a blithe, Gilbert & Sullivan ingenue's thewse" 116

'''Gimbel's''' 
690; New York City department store since the early 1900s, located at 33rd & Broadway. The basement at Gimbel's featured "bargain-basement" buys. The store closed on September 27, 1986.

'''Giovanni, Don''' 
270; his "map of Europe"

'''''Giovinezza''''' 
The anthem of the Italian National Fascist Party; Italian for 'youth'

'''Glacists''' 
73; "lords of the winter" who can decipher ice

'''Glass Mountain, the''' 
419; at Zwölfkinder

'''Glimpf, Prof.''' 
309; German: gentleness; Professor of Mathematics of the Technische Hochschule, Darmstadt; Scientific Advisor to the Allied Military Government

'''Glitherius Paint & Dye''' 
581; "a Berlin firm" sold to Bland by the Alien Property Custodian

'''Gloaming, Milton''' 
31; [gloaming = twilight]; friend of Roger Mexico; word-counting project in Psi Section of SOE, developing vocabulary of curves, 32; 629; "just back from a jaunt through the Zone" 630; 638

'''Gloob, Lady Mnemosyne''' 
716; at Krupp party

'''Gloucester''' 
52; Pointsman's springer spaniel

'''Gloucestershire Old Spots''' 
82; pigs

'''Gnahb, Otto''' 
492; aka "the silent Otto"; son of Frau Gnahb

'''Gnahb, Frau''' 
492; "Queen of the coastal trade" runs black market along Baltic coast; 602; 623; [poss. etymology: "Gnahb" spelled backwards--bear with me here--is "bhang" the drink made from flowering tops of the marijuana plant, cannabis sativa]; See also Wilhelm Busch

'''Gnosticism''' 
"the Director's clever Gnostic symbolism in the lighting scheme of the two shadows, Cain's and Abel's" 429; "heretics there will be: Gnostics who have been taken in a rush of wind and fire to chambers of the Rocket-throne" 727; "'That's why you see Gnostics so hunted. The sacrament of the Eucharist is really drinking the blood of the enemy. The Grail, the Sangraal, is the bloody vehicle.'" 739; "The Tower. [...] Others see a Gnostic or Cathar symbol for the Church of Rome" 747

'''Gobbitch, Bartley''' 
9; at Pirate's maisonette

'''God''' 
"God has plucked [the rocket] for him, out of its airless sky, like a steel banana" 8; "wasted gods urging on a tardy glacier" 9; "Putting control inside was ratifying what de facto had happened--that you had dispensed with God." 30; "every true god must be both organizer and destroyer" 99; "tried to cage his old gods, snare them in words" 99; Dodoes "so ugly as to embody argument against a Godly creation" 110; "For as much as [Dodoes] are the creatures of God, and have the gift of rational discourse" 111; "God could not be that cruel" 111; "when the land was still free [...] and the presence of the Creator much more direct" 214; "the numinous certainty of" 242; "his own WASPs in buckled black, who heard God clamoring to them in every turn of a leaf" 281; "multitudes passed over by God and History" 299; "Ndjambi Karunga and the Christian God were too far away. There was no difference between the behavior of a good and the operations of pure chance" 323; "Using a non-Arabic alphabet is felt to be a sin against" 354; "Will of God Theory" 362; "God's indifferent sunlight in all its bleaching and terror" 364; "Each plot carries its signature. Some are God's, some masquerade as God's" 464; "God's poorest and most panicked creature" 465; canine theology of "the remembered image of one human" 614; "God is who knows their number. Atropos is who severs them to different lengths. So, God under the aspet of Atropos, she who cannot be turned" 643; "Procalowski-down-out-of-the sky-in-a-machine" 672; "God, death, nothingness, redemption, salvation" 693; "What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?" 699; "Wimpe: 'I mean theophosphate, Vaslav,' indicating the Presence of God" 702; "God's spoilers. [...] It is our mission to promote death." 720; "By all the holy names of God" 734; "The Ravens of Death have now tasted of the Poison of God" 748; "'God sent out a pulse of energy into the void. [...] To return to God, the soul must negotiate each of the Sephiroth, from ten back to one." 753; "the Tree of Life. It is also the body of God" 753; See also [[C#christianity|Christianity]]; [[M#mythology|Mythology]]; [[T#theophile|Theophile]]

'''Gödel's Theorem''' 
275; According to Hofstadter (p.17): "appears as Proposition VI in [Kurt Gödel's] 1931 paper 'On Formally Undecidable Propositions in Principia Mathematica and Related Systems I.' It states: [...] All consistent axiomatic formulations of number theory include undecidable propositions."; 320; See also [[M#murphy|Murphy's Law]]

'''Goebbels, Josef Paul (1897-1945)''' 
287; Chief propagandist of the Nazi Party and Nazi Propaganda Minister; "less than giddy imagination reaching no further than Alpine Redoubts"; saw von Göll's Good Society three times, 394; footage of Erdmann's ravishing "found its way into [his] collection" 461; "believed in the Rocket as an avenger" 747;

'''Goetzke, Bernhardt''' 
579; Actually 'Bernhard' Goetzke (1884-1964). German actor born in Danzig; played State Prosecutor von Wenk in Dr. Mabuse, and "tender, wistful bureaucratic Death in Der Müde Tod"; "bourgeois Goetzkian death" 579;

'''''Going My Way''''' 
38; A 1944 film directed by Leo McCarey. It is a light-hearted musical comedy/drama about a new young priest (Bing Crosby) taking over a parish from an established old veteran (Barry Fitzgerald). Crosby sings five songs in the film. It was followed the next year by a sequel, The Bells of St. Mary's. This picture was the highest-grossing picture of 1944, and its success helped to make movie exhibitors choose Crosby as the biggest box-office draw of the year, a record he would hold for the remainder of the 1940s.

'''Gold Star''' 
134; "your mother hoping to hang that"; The group American Gold Star Mothers was formed after WWI. The name derives from the custom of families of servicemen hanging a banner called a Service Flag in their front window. It had a star for each family member in the military. Living servicemen were represented by a blue star, and those who had lost their lives were represented by a gold star.

'''golf''' 
See [[L#lawn|lawn sports]]

<div id="goll"></div>'''Göll, Gerhardt von''' 
112; [Italian: "vongole" = "clams"] German filmmaker; making Schwarzkommando movie, 112-13; "commerce has not taken away von Göll's Touch" 112 (see also: Göllerei, 429); and Trefoil, 147; can be found "on the Strand-Promenade" 294; aka Der Springer--film director turned black-marketeer, 385; Martin Fierro film, 386; used "Emulsion J" which made the outer layer of skin translucent ["When something real is about to happen to you, you go toward it with a transparent surface parallel to your own front [. . .]" (p.754)], 387; thinks he brought Schwarzkommando into being, 388; Alpdrucken featured lighting from top and bottom (Gnostic symbolism - Cain & Abel [429]), 394; corridor metaphysics, 394; "About 50, bleak and neutral-colored eyes, hair thick at the sides of his head and brushed back" 494; no- show at Putzi's, 610; also made The Good Society; 611; "his corporate octopus wrapping every last negotiable item in the Zone" 611; floor movie at Der Platz (New Dope), 745; 750; See also [[S#springer|Springer, Der]]

'''Gollin, Mr. Geoffrey''' 
240; chief assistant to Isaac Lubbock and the person Hilary Bounce reports to; Tölölyan reports that Gollin was a British intelligence officer whom the Russians allowed to search Blizna after it was liberated. There he actually found rocket documents in the SS latrines; they had apparently tried to flush them down the toilets during their hasty retreat.

'''Gomerians''' 
La Gomera is the most westward of the Canary Islands, off the coast of North Africa. Until Columbus "discovered" the New World, it was the westernmost land known to the Europeans. The inhabitants of the deep valleys used to communicate with each other in a whistling language, comparable to the "yodeling" in Central European Alps. [[La Gomera|Barbara Kingsolver has written about La Gomera]]; "whistling from the high ravines" 453; "Gomera was the last piece of land Columbus touched before America" 453; See also Chipuda

'''Gondwanaland''' 
321; the super-continent that was the Americas and Europe, "before the continents drifted apart"; 388

'''Gongue, Jean-Claude''' 
246; "notorious white slaver of Marseilles" at de la Perlimpinpin party

'''Gongylakis''' 
544; someone Pirate "had to betray" "in the course of business for the Firm" (recalled at Double Agent Convention)

'''Gorr, Dr.''' 
630; ran Vermittlungsstelle W with Dr. Dieckmann

'''Goths''' 
Goths: These Germanic people originated in southern Scandinavia and crossed in three ships under their king Berig to the southern shore of the Baltic Sea, where they settled after defeating the Vandals and other Germanic peoples in that area; 206

'''Gottfried''' 
94-99; "ranked with his battery near Schußstelle 3" 95; with Katje and Blicero, 101-04; his perspective, 102-04; "Who was that, going by just then--who was the slender boy who flickered across her path, so blond, so white he was nearly invisible in the hot haze that had come to settle over Zwölfkinder? Did she see him, and did she know him for her own second shadow?" 429; German: "God's peace" 465; "the young pet and protege of Captain Blicero" 484; mapped on to Bianca, 484, 672, 723 (Gottfried to Blicero: "I remember that you used to whisper me to sleep with stories of us one day living on the moon"); "something was being planned" for, 485; "a load inside near vane 3 that complicated roll and yaw control almost impossibly" 564; and Thanatz, 670-71; 721; mapped onto Ilse (via Moon references), 723; his launch, 750; [Etymological Musings]

'''Gould, Jay (1836-1892)''' 
Gould's reputation as one of the leading robber barons of his era was assured by his actions as a director of the Erie Railroad. In 1869, he worked with allies James Fisk and Daniel Drew to combat Cornelius Vanderbilt 's acquisition of the railroad in the infamous Erie War. Gould used every underhanded trick, from bribing public officials to massively watering stock. Later in 1869, Gould and his partners attempted to corner the gold market, but their scheme fell apart on Black Friday . The public was enraged and thousands of investors were ruined. In 1872, following Fisk's death, Gould was forced out as a director of the Erie [From U-S-History.com]; "what Jubilee Jim Fisk told the Congressional committee investigating his and Jay Gould's scheme to corner gold in 1869," 438

'''Goya''' 
657; "even Goya couldn't draw ya"

'''Grafty Green''' 
127; village in Kent, south of London

'''Graham, "Micro"''' 
295; gives secret tours of the Mittelwerk during US occupation. A pun on 'microgram'.

'''Grant, Cary (1904-1986)''' 
British-American actor, born Archibald Alexander Leach. With his distinctive yet not quite placeable Mid-Atlantic accent, he was noted as perhaps the foremost exemplar of the debonair leading man: handsome, virile, charismatic and charming. He was named the second Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute. "no Cary Grant larking in" 13; referring to Slothrop's faux British accent: "it keeps coming out like Cary Grant" 240; "best Cary Grant imitation" 292; "Ge-li, Ge-li, Ge-li" see note [[Pages 279-295#Page 294|294.11]]; "just as smooth as that Cary Grant" 661; 684

'''Graves Registration''' 
643; "back there in Wisconsin"

'''gravity''' 
[[Gravity's Rainbow Title Speculations|''Gravity's Rainbow'' - what is it?]] "violated gravity somehow" 65; "sigh of gravity" 296; "Gravity's grey eminence" 302; "the young scientist-surrogate will be going round and round with old Gravity" 361; "she wants to lose her gravity" 538; "always at the mercy of" 584; "caught in her gravitation" 546; "To find that gravity [...] is really something eerie" 590; "I am Gravity" 639; "generations of gravities" 672; "Center of Gravity" 700; "nothing but his asshole between Gravity and Roger" 709; "Gravity rules" 723; "modest preview of gravitational collapse" 737; "a wine rush is defying" 743; "gravity feed" 758; "Gravity dies away briefly" 759

'''Great Aspinwall Hotel Fire''' 
[[image:aspinwall.jpg|right]]Built in Lenox, Mass., in 1902 by General Thomas Hubbard, the Aspinwall Hotel flourished for many years as a popular resort for the financial and political leaders of the day. It had 400 rooms with a fireplace in each and a resident orchestra. Situated at 1460 feet above sea level, it commanded breath-taking views. It was destroyed by fire in 1931.

:"In 1931, the year of the Great Aspinwall Hotel Fire, young Tyrone was visiting his aunt and uncle in Lenox. [...] The embers fell on and on for five hours [...]" 28-29

'''Great War, the''' 
476; aka World War I

'''Green Reports''' 
630; "flapping through the IG for weeks" after Bland's last transmural journey

'''Greenteeth, Jenny''' 
147; The green hag of Lancashire. Jenny is an evil spirit who haunts stagnant pools in Lancashire. She preys on children who wander too close to the water, grabbing them in her long green fangs and pulling them underwater to drown. She can be found in any pool or pond which is covered in green scum. Obviously, she's invoked to keep the kids away from the water. [IMAGE]

'''Greifswalder Oie''' 
404; small island off Usedom converted into a rocket launching site; 414; Greifswald, 681, 692

'''Gretchens''' 
"Quit Kvetchin', Gretchen!" 289; participating in "roasting" of Mexico, 714; See also Slothrop's girls/stars

'''Grid''' 
"a glittering map. . .ruled off into 576 squares" 55; sieves, 56; "crosshatchings of his black rubber soles" 70; "corporate lattice" 75; "Dutch grid's 380 volts" 101; "to keep Grid Time synchronized with Greenwich Mean Time" 133; "the Grid runs inching ever faster" 134; "Quisling molecules have shifted in latticelike ways" 176; "back in France's power grid" 190; "Forget subdivisions" 294; 400; ego as grid, 404; "the holy grid" 404; "screen door salesman" 447; the Iron Toad "hooked up to the European Grid" 604; Byron's "many agents in the Grid" 649; "when folklore comes flickering in from other parts of the Grid" 650; "a sin against the" 652; "noticed a fall-off in revenues" 654; "the Grid is wide open, all messages can be heard" 655; "the Grid's big function in this System is iceboxery" 678; "along the grooves of the Raketen-Stadt's street-grid" 674; See also chess; routinization/rationalization of charisma

'''Grigori''' 
51; aka Grischa (diminutive of Grigori); octopus conditioned by Pointsman to abduct Katje in order to get at Slothrop; "unconditioned response to prey is very reliable" 52; shown movie of Katje, 113; attacks Katje, 186; Waxwing sez it never happened, 248; 533; octopus as metaphor, 611; 662; See also City Dactylic; octopus

'''Grimm, the Brothers''' 
74; Brothers Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859) are known for their collections of folk songs and folktales, especially Kinder- und Hausmärchen ("Child and Family Fairy Tales," aka "Grimm's Fairy Tales") (1812-22), which formed a foundation for the science of comparative folklore. Apparently, Jacob Grimm's large work Teutonic Mythology provided source material for Gravity's Rainbow.

'''Groast, Dr. (the elder)''' 
147; Rollo's father, in Lancashire

'''Groast, Dr. Rollo''' 
34; works in ARF wing; 79; 85; 147; "assumed back into the Society for Psychical Research" 273; with Greta, 474

'''Gross Suckling Conference''' 
706; attended by Eventyr, Gwinhidwy, Mexico, Morituri - discuss mandalas in relation to rocket firings

'''Grosser Stern''' 
365; German: "Great Star"; This is a traffic circle in the middle of the Tiergarten (zoo) in Berlin; near where Slothrop is "orbiting" 365

'''Grössli Chemical Corporation''' 
250; became Psychochemie AG; spinoff from Sandoz; 284; 286

'''Grunt-Gobbinette, Sir Hannibal''' 
716-17; at Krupp party

'''Grunton, Myron''' 
74; worked for BBC; instrumental in creating Operation Black Wing; works at White Visitation; 92; 112; 227; "again a full-time wireless personality" 273

'''Guardian, the''' 
293; The Manchester Guardian is (according to Evan Corcoran) the farthest left-wing of the major English papers, and at the time also the only major English paper not based in London; the paper that Ian Scuffling allegedly works for

'''Guinan, Texas (1884-1933)''' 
657; This colorful divorcee ran one ofthe most notorious and outrageous speakeasies in Manhattan in the 1920s. By 1928, four of her roving clubs had been raided and closed, but a fifth was going strong. Perched on top of a piano, Guinan held court and let fly with bawdy anecdotes, and emceed performances by singers and dancers from 11 p.m. until 7 a.m. "Curfew shall not ring tonight!" was her rallying cry. She greeted her patrons with the shriek of a police whistle and a derisive, "Hello, Suckers!" Mae West was a fan of hers and incorporated much of Guinan's style and material into her own act (though she never acknowledged the contribution). Phyllis Diller played her in the 1961 film, Splendor in the Grass. After her club was finally shut down in 1929 she took a troupe of dancing girls to Paris. When French officials in the U.S. tried to block her departure, there was a popular outcry in Paris in her support, to which she responded "Fifty million Frenchmen can't be wrong." The Paris stint was unsuccessful.

'''Gülcher Thermosäule''' 
518; Gülcher Thermostat

'''Gustav''' 
See [[S#schlabone|Schlabone, Gustav]]

'''Guthrie, Tyrone (1900-71)''' 
148; British theatrical producer and administrator of the Old Vic and Sadler's Wells between 1939 and 1945.

'''Gutiérrez, Ricky''' 
249; involved in Zoot Suit Riots of 1943 in Los Angeles

'''Gwenhidwy, Thomas''' 
52; at White Visitation; one of the keepers of The Book; "inside his fluffy beard" 139; singing "Diadem" at fighter runways,169; at Pirate's, singing, 639; 706

'''Gymanfa Ganu''' 
171; Welsh: songfest; these group-singing events are still held throughout Wales

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'''Mabuse, Dr.''' 
579; In Fritz Lang's "Mabuse der Spieler," Dr Mabuse is the master-criminal who seeks to control the populace through mind-control, fear, and market manipulation; Klein-Rogge as; See also [[Fritz Lang]]; [[H#hawasch|Hawasch]];[[S#sporri| Spörri]]

'''MacArthur, General''' 
697;

'''MacDonald, Ramsay (1866-1937)''' 
77; First Labour Party prime minister of Great Britain, in the Labour governments of 1924 and 1929-31 and in the national coalition government of 1931-35.

'''Mach, Ernst (1838-1916)''' 
Ernst Mach (1838-1916), an Austrian physicist and philosopher who devised the Mach number which, in fluid mechanics, is the ratio of the velocity of a fluid to the velocity of sound in that fluid. In the case of an aircraft in flight, the Mach number is equal to the velocity of the aircraft relative to the fluid (air) divided by the velocity of sound in that fluid. For Mach numbers greater than one (supersonic flow), shock wave patterns develop on the moving body because of compression of the surrounding fluid; 453

'''Machiavellian''' 
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) was a Florentine statesman who held that terrorism and deceit were justifiable means of achieving a peaceful and prosperous Italy. In Il Principe (1515) he wrote that only a strong and ruthless prince could free Italy from devastation by foreigners. "Machiavellian" has come to denote political deceit and intrigue and unscrupulous methods; "Machiavellian and youthful, not quite ripe yet for paranoia" 448; the lion, 557; "no one is (Jessica) exempt from his (Jessica?) Machiavellian--" 631; See also [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=The_Prince ''V.''].

'''Mackenzie, Compton (1883-1972)''' 
British novelist, both acclaimed and neglected, who wrote more than 100 novels, plays, and biographies. His varied novels include Poor Relations (1919), Rich Relatives (1921), Vestal Fire (1927), and Extraordinary Women (1928); novels on Mrs. Quoad's shelf, 115

'''Magda''' 
365; "the sultry Bavarian" and Säure's sidekick; "picked up on first-degree mopery" 742

'''Magna Carta''' 
The charter of English liberties granted by King John in 1215 under threat of civil war and reissued with alterations in 1216, 1217, and 1225; "Teach the German beast about the" 125

'''Magyars''' 
Transylvanian, 11; 549; aka Hungarians

'''Maherero, Samuel''' 
323; The Herero chief who led his people across the Kalahari into exile in Bechuanaland, where he died in 1923; "great trek across the Kalahari"; [[Südwest|MORE]]

'''Malcolm''' 
63; "very tall, skinny, extravagantly conked redhead Negro shoeshine boy" in Roseland Ballroom; aka "Red" and Malcolm X; 65; "Now don't you remember Red Malcolm up there, That kid with the Red Devil Lye in his hair" 67; 688

'''Maledetto, Dr.''' 
347; Italian: "cursed, damned"; "a young Maledetto whom the ladies love" on an enormous closed sleigh which took tourists to Central Asia

'''Malenkov''' 
391; Tchitcherine reports to his "special committee under the Council of People's Commissars"

'''Male Transvestites' Toilet''' 
680; in "dingy yellow amphitheatre" where Floundering Four do their bit; "An Incident in the Transvestites' Toilet" 688-90

'''Maltzan, von''' 
166; worked with Rathenau on the Rapallo Treaty

'''mandala''' 
the ancient sun-wheel from which. . .the swastika was broken" 100; "full mandalas came to bloom" 152; Herero villages built like mandalas, 321; mandala-like Schwarzkommando insignia, illustrated, 361; KEZVH, 446; Schwarzkommando, 560; four fins of the Rocket, 563; "other fourfold expressions" 624; "fatal mandala" 691; discussed at Gross Suckling Conference, 706-07; "the cross the man has made on his own circle of earth" 719; Raketen-Stadt: "built in mandalic form like a Herero village" 725

<div id="manicheans"></div>'''Manicheans''' 
From Brewer's: "Followers of Mani, who taught that the universe is controlled by two antagonistic powers, light or goodness (identified with God), and darkness, chaos, or evil. [...] One of Mani's claims was that, though Christ had been sent into the world to restore it to light and banish darkness, His apostles had perverted his doctrine, and he, Mani, was sent as the Paraclete to restore it" (p.681); "who see two rockets, good and evil, who speak together in the sacred idiolalia of the Primal Twins" 727

'''mano morto''' 
132; Italian: dead hand (should be ''mano morta'')

'''Manuela''' 
605-06; call girl at Putzi's with Maj. Marvy

'''Marcel''' 
See Floundering Four

'''Mare Nocturnum''' 
578; Latin: Nocturnal Sea; Pökler's "deeper excursions into the"

'''Maria''' 
519; Christian's sister and Pavel's husband; in Christian's dream, 673 See also Christian; Pavel

'''Marie-Celeste''' 
The Mary Celeste (incorrectly referred to as Marie Celeste) was a brigantine merchant ship discovered in December 1872 in the Atlantic Ocean unmanned and apparently abandoned, despite the fact that the weather was fine and her crew had been experienced and able seamen; "the legendary ship" 303

'''Marjorie''' 
22; a Wren Slothrop is dating; 25; 744; See also Slothrop's girls/stars

<div id="marvy"></div>'''Marvy, Maj. Duane''' 
281; with US Army Ordnance and leader of Marvy's Mothers, "the meanest-ass technical intelligence team in this whole fuckin' Zone"; pushed off train by Enzian while "headed for Mittelwerke" 288; 307; 331; 363; 502; Atomic Chili, 557, 559; 564-66; purchases cocaine from Bodine at Putzi's, 604; castrated, 609; [[Major Duane Marvy|Etymological Musings]]

<div id="groucho">'''Marx, Groucho (1890-1977)'''</div>
210; An American comedian and film star famed as a master of wit; his rapid-fire delivery of innuendo-laden patter has earned him many admirers. He made 13 feature films with his siblings the Marx Brothers, of whom he was the third-born. His distinctive appearance, carried over from his days in vaudeville, included quirks such as glasses, cigars, and a thick greasepaint [[M#mustache|mustache]] and eyebrows; "a Groucho Marx voice" 246; 279

'''Marx, Karl (1818-83)''' 
German social, political and economic theorist and the inspiration for modern communism. He emigrated to Paris in 1863 where he became a communist and first expressed his belief that the proletariat must effect revolutionary change. In Paris, he and Engels wrote Communist Manifesto (1848) ("The workers have nothing to lose but their chains"), the masterpiece of political propaganda. He moved to London in 1849 and it was there that he wrote Das Kapital (1867) (theory of surplus value, class conflict, exploitation of the Working Class, "withering away" of the state); 163; 317; 348; "Marxist dialectics? That's not an opiate, eh?" 701; "'Real to a Marxist.'" 702; "if you don't think there are Marxist-Leninist magicians around, well you better think again!" 748

'''Masons''' 
emblems, 27; masonry, 66; "out the eye at the tower's summit" 470; "Eye at the top of the pyramid" 484, 585; freemasons, 572; and Lyle Bland, 580; "Mobs 'n' Masons" 586; American Founding Fathers, 587-88; magic rituals/Masonic Mysteries, 588; Masonic plots, 587; Ben Franklin, 663-64; "going to dinner becomes a priestly procession, full of secret gestures and understandings" 713;

'''Master of the Woods''' 
742; "sprigs of woodruff [...] carried by the early Teutonic warriors"

'''masturbation''' 
"masturbating under these conditions is exquisite torture" 35; "jerking off into an Army flannel" 36; and message de- crypting, 71-72; "he'll masturbate himself to sleep" 141; "The self-induced orgasm." 155; "there passes the phrase male supremacy ... why do they cherish their masturbating so? 155; "masturbatorily scared-elated" 209; "I can't even masturbate" 216; Pudding, for Domina Nocturna, 236; "These Otukungurua are prophets of masturbating" 318; "Remember the time she caught you masturbating into her glove?" 505; "a Text, to be [...] masturbated till it's all squeezed limp of its last drop" 520; "lost in masturbatory fantasies of nailing this cute but older Latin lady" 678; "the heat, who go surly, fangflashing back to masturbating into Crime Does Not Pay Comics" 709; "16 ragged staring oldtimers who shuffle aimlessly about the stage, jerking off in unison, waggling penises in mock quarter-staffing, brandishing in two and threes their green-leaved poles, exposing amazing chancres and lesions, going off in fountains of sperm strung with blood that splash over glazed trouser-pleats" 743; "purposes of self-arousal" 758; "or reach between your own cold legs" 760; See also Kryptosam; entropy/closed systems/irreversibility

'''mathematical equations''' 
Chapter 1: Poisson dispensation, 140; Chapter 2: yaw control, 239; Chapter 3: hilarious graffiti of visiting mathematicians, 450; Chapter 4: Otyiyumbu Indetermincy Relation, 700; "Little sigma, times P of s-over-little-sigma, equals one over the square root of two times pi, times e to the minus s squared over two little sigma squared." 709 (thanks to Douglas Lannark for this index entry)

'''Mausmacher''' 
653; German: "mouse-maker"; Lutheran who steals Byron from the priest and who attends a Naza torchlight rally in drag

[[image:Max-Moritz.jpg|thumb|Max und Moritz|right]]'''Max and Moritz''' 
757; Max und Moritz were a duo created by German cartoonist Wilhelm Busch; "boy at the steering panel" and man "at the rocket motor panel," respectively, at launching of S-Gerät 00000; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_und_Moritz Wikipedia entry]

'''Maximilian''' 
See Floundering Four

'''Maxwell, Clerk''' 
411; "younger contemporary" of Liebig

'''May Day Eve''' 
329; aka Walpurgisnacht

'''McGonigle, Pvt. Paddy "Electro"''' 
641; hand-pedals the twin-generator cranks for light bulb during THE HAIRCUT

'''Meat Cartel''' 
654; long-standing arrangement with Phoebus "to restrict the amount of tallow in circulation by keeping more fat in meat to be sold regardless of cardiac problems"

'''Mefo bills''' 
German: Metallurgische Forschung = "metals research"; A way for Germany to pay arms manufacturers for rearmament (German rearmament was banned by the terms of the Versailles Treaty). Mefo bills were accepted by all German banks but no reference to them was allowed in published accounts. Twelve billion marks in Mefo bills were issued before the outbreak of WWII, and much of German trade was financed in this manner; 285

[[image:meggazones.gif|300px|left]]'''Meggazone''' 
118; "like being belted in the head with a Swiss alp"; [at left] "Contain: Menthol, Peppermint, Chloroform, Benzoin, Liquorice pastille basis"

'''Meillerwagen''' 
113; transported the V-2 to the launching site, raised it to a vertical firing position, and served as a firing platform; 560;

'''Menshevik''' 
Russian: men'she = "less, fewer"; The Mensheviks were the moderate wing of the Russian Social Democratic Party, who split with the Bolsheviks after the party congress of 1903. They were for "bourgeois reform" rather than the total societal overhaul advocated by the Bolsheviks; 338

'''Messerschmitt''' 
184; fighter plane from the German concern Messerschmitt AG

'''meta-solutions''' 
102; "Perhaps the black girl is a genius of meta-solutions--knocking over the chessboard, shooting the referee" 102

<div id="metatron"></div>'''Metatron''' 
231; in Kabbalistic lore, the highest angel who sits next to Yahweh's throne; 734; See also [[K#kabbalah|Kabbalah]]

<div id="metropolis"></div>'''''Metropolis''/Metropolis''' 
[Greek: "Mother City"] "ARF remains a colony to the metropolitan war" 76; "His erection hums from a certain distance, like an instrument installed, wired by Them into his body as a colonial outpost here in our raw and clamorous world, another office representing Their white Metropolis far away" 285; "Early Rhenish missionaries began to bring them back to the Metropolis, that great dull zoo" 315; "Out and down in the colonies, life can be indulged, life and sensuality in all its forms, with no harm done to the Metropolis" 317; "they can pick us off out there one by one, first a campaign of attrition, then a coordinated raid...leaving then only this metropolis, under siege, to strangle" 326; "inside the metropolitan organ entirely, all other colonial tissue forgotten and left to fend for itself" 470; Rudolph Klein-Rogge, 578; Brigitte Helm, 578; "American Death has come to occupy Europe. It has learned empire from its old metropolis" 722; See also [[C#cities|cities]]; [[Fritz Lang]];

:From Fritz Lang's ''Metropolis''

::"I have created a machine in the image of man, that never tires or makes a mistake."

::"Isn't it worth the loss of a hand to have created the workers of the future — the machine men?"

::"Give me another 24 hours and I'll bring you a machine which no one will be able to tell from a human being."

::- Rotwang, the Inventor

'''Mexico, Roger''' 
31; 30 years old (89); works with Pirate Prentice in Psi Section; Mysterious Microfilm Drill, 32; "provisional wartime friend of Pirate's" 35; meets Jessica, 38-39; the "Antipointsman" 55; paranoia, 124; "He'd seen himself a point on a moving wavefront, propagating through sterile history--a known past, a projectable future. But Jessica was the breaking of the wave." 126; "as this seventh Christmas of the War came wheeling in another charge at his skinny, shivering flank [...]" 126; his map of bomb hits, 138; takes Jessica to see Hansel and Gretel, 174; by the sea on White Sunday, 273; driving throught the Lüneburg Heath, missing Jessica, 626; Gloaming tells him about the Slothrop/IG Farben/Pointsman plot, 630-31; realizes Jessica is working for Pointsman, 631; pissing on Mossmoon's table, 636; "a 30-year-old innocent" 706; foam rubber phallus, 708; at Krupp party, 711

'''M.I. 6''' 
592; British Military Intelligence, overseas operations; [[British Military Intelligence|MORE]]

'''Michele''' 
243-45; friend of Slothrop's who seduces Hillary Bounce so Slothrop can use his teletype machine

'''Michiko''' 
480; wife of Ensign Morituri

'''Microcosmists''' 
738; those who believe Slothrop to be a "point-for-point microcosm"

'''Middle Dutch''' 
108; ic heb u liever dan ên everswîn, al waert van finen goude ghewracht (English: I love you more than a wild boar / even if it were made of fine gold)

'''midgets &c.''' 
"midget spy-camera" 17; "Fred Roper's Company of Wonder Midgets off to an imperial fair in Johannesburg, South Africa. Midgets in their dark winter clothes, exquisite little frocks and nip-waisted overcoats, were running all over the station, gobbling their bonvoyage chocolates and lining up for news photos." 37; "say it very (demisemiquaver) fast in a Munchkin voice if you can dig that" 63; "what appear to be horrid...midgets, in strange operetta uniforms actually, some sort of Central European government-in-exile," 123; "Siggi in his speeded-up midget's voice" 157; "a tiny hand comes out and gives Slothrop the tiny finger" 199; "the arms of young passersby not in the sleeves of their coats but inside somewhere, as if sheltering midgets" 250; "Like a buncha happy midgets on a holiday!" 259; "They went off practically skipping obsessive as Munchkins, out into the erotic Poisson." 270; "Local midgetry scuttle and cringe alongside the tracks" 310; "Were you frightened when the dwarf tried to hug you" 398; "a splendid retinue of dwarves and sprites " 419; the midget sheriff in Osbie Feel's movie, 534-35; "as armies of eternally shrinking midgets galloped upstairs and down again" 567; midgets on the pinball machines, 586; "lammergeiers cruising there in the lurid red altitudes around [...] piloted by bareback dwarves with little plastic masks around their eyes" 664; "Is he interested in all those other worlds who send their dwarf reps out on the backs of eagles?" 664; "where inside Marcel is the midget Grandmaster" 675

'''Midnight''' 
342; "the famous bucking bronco" on the U.S. rodeo circuits

'''Mieczislav''' 
See Omuzire, Mieczislav

'''mindless pleasures''' 
270; working title for Gravity's Rainbow; 681; "idle and mindless hours of the day" 177

'''Mingeborough, Massachussetts''' 
26; Slothrop's hometown [introduced in Pynchon's short story, "The Secret Integration", where Dr. Slothrop and his son Hogan live]; [[Minghe|Etymology]]

'''Ministry of Munitions''' 
416; Branch of the SS, headed by Albert Speer

'''Ministry of Supply''' 
251; British, located at Shell Mex House, "the heart of the Rocket's own branch office in London." Duncan Sandys was the Under-secretary there during WWII.

'''Minsky's''' 
In the 1920s and 30s, Billy Minsky's Republic Theatre on Broadway in New York (later known as just Minsky's) featured rowdy burlesque entertainment. Gypsy Rose Lee performed there in the 1930s, as well as comedians W.C. Fields, Al Jolson, Fannie Brice, Bert Lahr, and Phil Silvers; "more tits than they got at"

<div id="miraculous-medal">'''Miraculous Medal'''</div>
135; "O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to you."

[[image:miraculous_medal.jpg|left|caption|Front]]The design was revealed by the Virgin Mary to St. Catherine Labouré on November 27, 1830 in the chapel of the convent of Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul on the rue de Bac, Paris. Catherine had been having visions for the seven months before and had told only her confessor M. Aladel who had the medal struck in June 1832. In 1836, a tribunal in Paris approved the medal as of supernatural origin. On one side, the medal depicts the Virgin Mary standing on a globe with her feet crushing a serpent's head. Beneath it says, "O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee."

[[image:miraculous_medal_back.jpg|right|caption|Back]]On the other side there is the letter "M" entwined with a bar with a cross on it. Twelve stars surround the symbols. Beneath are two hearts, one crowned with thorns, the other pierced with a sword. The medal gained in significance when Alphonse Ratisbonne, a Jew, was instantly converted to Catholicism while visiting a church in Rome to arrange a funeral. He subsequently founded the Order of Our Lady of Sion to work for understanding between Jews and Catholics

'''[[Mirrors|MIRRORS]]''' 
See also [[I#interface|Interface]]; [[I#inside|inside/outside]]

'''Miss Rheingold 1946''' 
380;

'''Mittelwerke''' 
German: "Central Works"; Given to the Soviets per the Yalta Agreement, 273; primary A-4 factory after RAF raid on Peenemünde in August 1943, located in abandoned gypsum mine near Nordhausen and next to Dora prison camp; evacuated in February and March 1945; 283; designed like a ladder with Stollen (rung-tunnels), 299; control systems work was done outside mountain in castles, farms etc, 313; tactical sites elsewhere, 427; abandoned in '45, 432 [MAP]; [Image] Click here to view a photo from Der Spiegel of laborers working in the tunnels. An Interesting Site; Check out this map of Mittelwerke (thanks to Jeff Meikle).

'''Mix, Tom (1808-1940)''' 
An American film actor and the star of many early Western movies. He made a reported 336 films between 1910 and 1935, all but nine of which were silent features. He was Hollywood’s first Western megastar and is noted as having helped define the genre for all cowboy actors who followed; "Tom Mix shirt, 245

'''MMPI''' 
21; Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory--a psychological test developed in 1943, 81; Slothrop's, F-Scale: a measure to indicate whether the subject is trying to mask or underreport psychological symptoms, 90

'''M.O.''' 
591; Medical Officer

'''Möllner''' 
610; German whom Slothrop questions about von Göll at Putzi's

'''Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich (1890-1986)''' 
Russian statesman and diplomat who was picked by Stalin to be the Soviet commissar of foreign affairs (1939-49). It was during World War II that Molotov ordered the production of the bottles of inflammable liquid that became known as Molotov cocktails. As foreign minister and the major spokesman for the Soviet Union at the Allied conferences during and after World War II, he earned a reputation for uncompromising hostility to the West; cocktails, 507, 511; "isn't telling Vishinsky" 611

<div id="mondaugen">'''Mondaugen, Kurt'''</div>
German: "Mondaugen" = "Moon Eye"; 161; electrical engineer who went to Südwest; Pökler working with, 402-04; accepted Hitler on basis of his "Demian- metaphysics" 403; bodhisattva of Peenemünde, 403; was in Südwest, lived with Ovatjimba (aardvark) people, the poorest Hereros, 403; 1922 - in Südwest with Weissmann during siege of Foppl's villa, 408; after Peenemünde bombing, 422; Mondaugen's Law, 509; Verein für Raumschiffahrt, 582; 687; Mondaugen in V.

'''Monika''' 
603; "Putzi's genial, cigar-smoking, matelasse-suited madame"

'''Monkey Girl''' 
544; "and the pimps in Rome"; one whom Pirate had to betray "in the course of business for the Firm"

'''Monte Carlo Fallacy''' 
56; "No matter how many have fallen inside a particular square, the odds remain the same as they always were. Each hit is independent of all the others."

'''Montez, Maria (1912–1951)''' 
121; A Dominican-born motion picture actress who was know as "The Queen of Technicolor" after a series of films she made with co-star Jon Hall: ''Arabian Nights'' (1942), ''White Savage'' (1943), ''Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves'' (1944), ''Cobra Woman'' (1944), ''Gypsy Wildcat'' (1944), and ''Sudan'' (1945).

'''moon''' 
"no moon" 67; "the halfmoon shines" 104; men on the, 132; "is it the moon?" 123; "toy rockets to the moon" 154; "the dead moon" 163; "we can fly to the moon" 175; "blanched scar of moon" 195; "moonlight reflected from the mirror" 195; "moongrained" 196; astrologer's, 220; "chosen for its affinity to moonlight" 265; "voices twittering with moonlight" 268; "as among craters of the pale moon" 270; "the lunacy of her purple eyes" 271; true message to Hereros, 322; "Me trama con la disquietante luna" 383; "under a moon newly calved" 398; "Passing over the bright rays of Kepler, the rugged solitude of the Southern Highlands, the spectacular views at Copernicus and Eratosthenes, she chose a small pretty crater in the Sea of Tranquility called Maskelyne B." 410; and Ilse, 410; cycles, 414; "the moon that ruled her" 415; "Have you given up so easily on the Moon?" 420; "Her round straw hat a frail moon" 421; Lunar motion, 452; "buttocks rise like moons" 466; "enormous slick stretching away moonward, to the threshold of the north wind" 609; "moon minaret" 637; Katje "felt the moon in the soles of her feet" 657; "brightening and darkening as if by itself" 692; "The moon has risen" 720; moonlight, 721; "our new Deathkingdom" 723; 734; [Check out: Borges' "The Moon" in Dreamtigers (1964)]

'''Moore, Norton B.''' 
452; Aeronautics engineer; worked with Theodore von Kármán on supersonic flow

'''mopery''' 
Slang: a trivial, imaginary violation of law (also seen defined as: act of moping; vagrancy, dawdling); "The War must've been lean times for crowd control, murder and mopery was the best you could do" 570; "Magda was picked up on first-degree mopery" 742; "Edelman [...] accused last year of an 11569 (Attempted Mopery with a Subversive Instrument)" 755;

'''Mopp's Hebdomeriasis''' 
712; "does so-called 'Night Worm' belong among the Pseudo-Goldstrassian Group, or is it properly considered [...] a more insidious form of"; [De Chirico's Hebdomeros]

'''Moreno, El''' 
387; with whom "the white gaucho" has a singing-duel in Martín Fierro

'''Morgan''' 
"GE, that's Morgan money, there's Morgan money in Harvard" 332;

'''Morituri, Ensign''' 
462; [Latin: "We who are about to die" - salutation of the gladiators to the Roman Emperor: "morituri te salutamos" = "we who are about to die salute you"]; "of the Japanese Imperial Navy" "ex-liaison man from Berlin who didn't quite get out by way of Russia"; was in kamikaze training; 467; his story, 474; irony of radium/Hiroshima, 479-80; 672; 706

'''Moritz''' 
757; operating the rocket motor panel for S-gerät 00000; 758

'''Morrison, Herbert Stanley (1888-1965)''' 
British Labour statesman who played a leading role in London local government for 25 years. Constantly involved with socialist politics from 1905, he was active in Churchill's coalition government, serving as Minister of Supply, Home Secretary and Minister of Home Security; 132

'''Morrison shelter''' 
Introduced by Herbert Morrison while home secretary in Churchill's government, they were bomb shelters, 24

'''Mosquito''' 
136; The de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito--a British combat aircraft that excelled in versatility during WWII; was made primarily out of laminated plywood

'''Moss Creature''' 
523; hallucination of Pavel's during Leunagasolin high

'''Mossmoon, Clive''' 
35; works for ICI doing polymer research; husband of Scorpia; 228-29; discussion regarding releasing Slothrop, 270; 544; 615; 635

'''Mossmoon, Scorpia''' 
35; wife of Clive, aka "Red Bitch of the High Seas"; had an affair with Pirate in 1936, 35-36; "living in St. John's Wood among sheet-music, new recipes, a small kennel of Weimaraners whose racial purity she will go to extravagant lengths to preserve" 544; 698

'''[[Mothers in Gravity's Rainbow|MOTHERS]]''' 
See also [[F#fathers|fathers]]; [[N#nipple|Nipple, Lloyd]]; [[#metropolis|Metropolis]]; [check out [[#marvy|Marvy's Mothers]], too]

'''Mouse Alexei''' 
229; lab rat at White Visitation

'''Mouthorgan, Missouri''' 
583; location of Masonic temple the Tracys visit; "an elegant chaos to bend the ingenuity of Bland's bought expert" 586;

'''[[The Movies in Gravity's Rainbow|MOVIES]]
See also [[A#actors|actors/directors]]; [[F#film|film/cinema references]]; [[K#kingkong|King Kong]]

<div id="moxie">'''Moxie'''</div>
A carbonated beverage that was one of the first mass-produced soft drinks in the United States. In its advertising, it used “Make Mine Moxie!” advertising jingles, the slogan “Just Make It Moxie for Mine”, and a "Moxie Man" logo. The brand suffered a significant decline in sales during the 1930s. It used "[[G#gentian|Gentian]] Root Extractives" for flavoring; 63; 208; 258; "tin Moxie signs" 471

'''Mravenko''' 
611; "one of the VIAM people"

<div id="mucker"></div>'''Mucker-Maffick, Oliver "Tantivy"''' 
"tantivy" is a hunting cry made when the chase is at full speed; 18; shares office with Slothrop at ACHTUNG; with Slothrop at Casino, 181; Ballad of, 191; "There hasn't been a word" 209; disappears - death confirmed, 252; Slothrop's dream of his return, 551; 584; [[Oliver Mucker-Maffick|Etymology]]; See also [[A#achtung|ACHTUNG]]

'''Muffage, Doctor''' 
591; with Dr. Spontoon, out to castrate Slothrop

'''Muffin-tin Road''' 
646; in Happyville: "note the smiing faces on all the houses"

'''Mukuru''' 
322; Hereros' "first ancestor, Adam"; breath of, 524; 562

'''Müller-Hochleben, Miss''' 
632-34; German: "Miller-Highlife" (really!); "short but spunky secretary" at Twelfth House on Gallaho Mews in London whose glasses fall off

<div id="munchkin">'''Munchkins'''</div>
The natives of the fictional Munchkin Country in the Oz books by L. Frank Baum. They first appeared in the 1900 novel [[W#wizoz|The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]], in which they are described as being somewhat short of stature, and wearing only blue. They are best-known from their depiction in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, in which they are played by adult proportional dwarfs, dressed in brightly multicolored outfits, and live in Munchkinland; "Munchkin voice" 63; "obsessive as Munchkins" 270

'''Murphy's Law''' 
275; "when everything has been taken care of, when nothing can go wrong, or even surprise us. . .something will"; "where the the salvation could be" 471; See also [[G#godel|Gödel's Theorem]]

'''[[Music in Gravity's Rainbow|MUSIC]]''' 
See also [[F#foxtrot|fox-trot]]; [[#musicians|musicians/composers]; [[R#rossini|Rossini]]; [[Songs/Compositions|songs/compositions]]

<div id="musicians"></div>'''musicians/composers''' 
Sandy MacPherson, 13; George Formby, 18; Falkman and His Apache Band, 32; Charlie ("Yardbird") Parker, 63; Primo Scala's Accordian Band, 115; Hop Harrigan and Tank Tinker, 117; Roland Peachey and His Orchestra, 121; Thomas Tallis, Henry Purcell, Heinrich Suso, 129; Ernesto Lecuona, 169; Carl Orff, 237, 441; Benny Goodman, 225; Juan d'Arienzo, 267; Der Bingle (B. Crosby), 320; Richard Wagner, 324, 450; Andrews Sisters, 382; Frank Sinatra, 390, 700; Hugo Wolf, 419, 450; Ludwig von Beethoven, 440, 685; Anton Webern, 440, 494; Irving Berlin, 442; Horst Wessel, 443; Kurt Weill, 513; Gene Krupa, 513; Guy Lombardo, 529; Gilbert & Sullivan, 538; Jacques Offenbach, 584 ("Offenbach galop": Jacques Offenbach wrote the music to the well-known "Cancan" - "galop" is a dance); Sandy McPherson, 592; Spohr, Rossini, Spontini, 622; Diamond Lil, 657; 175-Stadt Chorale, 668; Stephen Foster, 675; Spike Jones, 678; Brahms, 685; Harry James, 685; J.S. Bach, 685; Tchaikovsky, 702; Josef Haydn, 712; Lübeck Hitler Youth Glee Club, 736; See also [[R#rossini|Rossini]]

'''Mussert's people''' 
97; someone for whom Katje is "smelling out" Jewish families

Mr. Pynchon is probably referring to Anton Adriaan Mussert, fouder and leader of the Dutch National Socialist Movement during World War II

<div id="mustache">'''mustache'''</div>
"mustaches, to be shaved off only by authorized crypto officers" 16; "jar of mustache wax" 17; "mustaches mouthwide" 20; 62; "mustache unruffled" 188; "twirling his slick mustache in a saber-point" 191; "great twisted mustache" 201; "Mustache Kit, 20 different shapes from [[F#fumanchu|Fu Manchu]] to [[M#groucho|Groucho Marx]]", "[[E#earp|Wyatt Earp's]]", "[[B#booth|John Wilkes Booth's]]", "the old duster just keeps droopin' down again" 210; "as the mustache waxes, Slothrop waxes the mustache" 211; "twisting his mustache" 221; "clipped mustache bristles" 233; "[[F#flynn|Errol Flynn]] frisks his mustache" 248; 267; "I even have a mustache...like that [[H#hemingway|Ernest Hemingway]]" 292; "frisks mustaches" 295; "red [[V#hindenburg|von Hindenburg]] mustache" 305; 306; "mustache white and bubbly too" 307; "white, water-buffalo mustaches" 308; "saws off pieces of his mustache on both sides...look like [[H#hitler|Hitler]]" 309; "All the funny Fascists just a-twirlin' their mustaches" 310; "big chromo of [[S#stalin|Stalin]]...mustache and hair only incidental as makeup" 368; "wide handle-bar mustache" 473; "twisting half his mustache so it points up in a saber at one eye" 474; "Frisking his great mustache" 479; "around the mustache line" 583; " black neckerchiefs whipping about like the mustaches of epileptic villains" 594; "blunt and ragged mustache" 607; "natty mustaches" 632; "superthin mustache" 675; "feathery [[R#rilke|Rilke]] mustaches" 711

'''''My Little Chickadee''''' 
198; a 1940 Universal comedy/western motion picture starring [[W#maewest|Mae West]] and W. C. Fields

'''Myrtle Miraculous''' 
See [[F#floundering|Floundering Four]]

'''Mysterious Microfilm Drill''' 
32; wherein "Bloat goes somewhere and microfilms something, then transfers it, via Pirate, to young Mexico. And thence [...] down to 'The White Visitation'"

'''Mystery Stimulus''' 
84; "Conditioned response = hardon whenever x is present [...] what's x? Why it's the famous 'Mystery Stimulus'

'''[[Mythology in Gravity's Rainbow|MYTHOLOGY]]''' 
See also [[G#god|God]]; [[S#scylla|Scylla and Charybdis]]

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<div id="earp">'''Earp, Wyatt (1848-1929) (aka Berry Stapp)'''</div>
Legendary frontiersman of the American West, who was an itinerant saloonkeeper, gambler, lawman, gunslinger, and confidence man. He worked as a police officer in Wichita and Dodge City, eventually becoming assistant marshall and buddy of such gunmen as Doc Holliday and Bat Masterson. After remarrying (his first wife died of typhoid fever), he left Dodge City and eventually ended up in Tombstone, Arizona. He became a gambler and guard in the Oriental Saloon, and his brother Virgil became town marshal. By 1881 a feud which had been developing between the Earps and a gang led by Ike Clanton was finally resolved in the celebrated gunfight at the O.K. Corral (Oct. 26, 1881), pitting the Clanton gang against three Earp brothers (Virgil, Wyatt, and Morgan) and Doc Holliday. The Earps prevailed. 

his [[M#mustache|mustache]], 210; the mustache is referred to again in [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=E#earp Inherent Vice p. 219].

'''[[Earth in Gravity's Rainbow|EARTH]]''' 
See also [[C#counterforce|Counterforce]]; [[E#erdmann|Erdmann, Margherita]]; [[E#erdschweinhohle|Erdschweinhöhle]]

'''Eastern Question''' 
What power would control the Middle East and Balkans after the Turks?; "an obscure penance for the previous century of British policy on the Eastern Question" 14; See Balkan Intrigues

'''Eberle, Bob''' 
264; "seen toasts to Tangerine raised in ev-ry bar"; Eberle was a vocalist with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra in the 1930s and 1940s; "Tangerine" was one of their hits.

'''Easterling''' 
139; one of the seven original owners of The Book; "taken early in a raid by the Luftwaffe"; 140; 167

'''Edelman, Steve''' 
[German: "Edelmann" = "nobleman"]; Tales of the Schwarzkommando, Collected by, 315; "Kabbalist spokesman" 753; "a Hollywood business man. . .accused of Attempted Mopery" 755

'''[[Edges in Gravity's Rainbow|EDGES]]''' 
See also [[I#interface|Interface]]

'''Edward VIII (1894-1972)''' 
59; succeeded his father, George V, as King of Great Britain and Ireland in January 20, 1936, but abdicated on December 11, 1936 due to disapproval of his proposed marriage to Mrs. Edward Simpson. He was then given the title Duke of Windsor; see note [[Pages 174-177#Page 177|177.27-28]]

'''Effig, Private Rudolf''' 
733; his note to "Stretchfoot" [aka, Blicero: see p.759 at "Streckefuss"] on the wall, which Slothrop sees somewhere in northern Germany. [effig. is an abbreviation for latin effigiavit, meaning 'drawn by', and was used in the printing business. - provided by Jan Bayer]

'''Einstein, Albert (1879-1955)''' 
The great German-Swiss-American mathematical physicist whose special theory of relativity (1905) and general theory of relativity (1916) revolutionized the world of physics; former patron of the Odeon, 262;

'''Eisenhower, Dwight D. ("Ike") (1890-1969)''' 
American General in WWII and 34th U.S. president (1948-56); "laid down the controlling guideline, the 'strategy of truth' idea. Something 'real,' Ike insisted on" 74; "Psychological Warfare Division [...] reporting direct to" 76; "[Slothrop's] sooper dooper SHAEF pass, signed off by Ike" 298; caricature of on Toiletship, 450; "on the radio announcing the invasion of Normandy" on D-Day, and Pökler thinks his voice is identical to Clark Gable's, 577

'''Eisenkröte''' 
603; Iron Toad in the pissoir at Putzi's - "ultimate test of manhood in the Zone"

'''Eis-Heiligen''' 
281; German: Ice Saints; "St. Pancratius, St. Servatius, St. Bonifacius, die kalte Sophie" — The Ice Saints are St. Pancratius, St. Servatius, St. Bonifacius, and St. Sophie. Their commemorations are made respectively at the 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th of May, i.e., at a time when there are frequent cold spells ("last frost") in central Europe. This is why, traditionally, German farmers did now sow before they were "safely past the Eisheiligen," or did not drive their cattle to the pastures. There was a (now extinct) custom to build fires at these days to expel the winter. [Thanks to Jan Bayer]

'''Eispalast''' 
652; German: "Ice Palace"; "the great Berlin"

'''Ekori''' 
730; Herero: "cap"; Schwartzkommando who is wounded

'''ELAS Greeks''' 
34; ELAS (Ellinikos Laikos Apeleftherotikos Stratos) was one of three dominant Greek resistance groups to arise in opposition to the Nazis after they invaded and occupied Greece in 1941. Comprised primarily of communists, the "Greek People's Liberation Army" was rebuffed by the British in its attempt to take power after the liberation of Greece in 1944, with the "royalists" retaining control of the government.

'''Electra House''' 
80; During WWII the British broadcasting and radio propaganda offices were located here, in London; [[British Military Intelligence|More on British Military Intelligence...]]

'''Elektromechanische Werke, Karlshagen''' 
451; "another cover name for the testing station at Peenemünde, where Achtfaden worked

'''El Ñato''' 
383; guitarist on U-boat; 612

'''Empty Ones''' 
316; "Otukungurua"; faction of Hereros who want negative birthrate ("tribal v. Christian death"), 318; aka "Revolutionaries of the Zero" 317; See also Hereros

'''Enbeksi Qazaq''' 
347: "17 August" issue in which Chu's opium is wrapped

'''Engels, Friedrich (1820-95)''' 
348; German socialist who lived in England after 1842. He met Karl Marx in 1844 and they collaborated on the Communist Manifesto (1848)

'''Enola Gay, Miss''' 
588; The Enola Gay, a B-29 built by Pynchon's previous employer Boeing Aircraft, dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. [WAY MORE]

'''ENSA show''' 
657; British: Entertainers National Service Association, sponsored shows for servicemen

'''entropy/closed systems/irreversibility''' 
"the coiled whispers of decay" 94; A-4 as "mockery of. . .the reversible process" 139; Pointsman "lapsing to isotropy" 142; "sooner or later everyone out here has to go Epidermal [See: "enclosed in [...] dead cells" 94]. No exceptions." 148; "the reality is not reversible" 151; Arbella in reverse, 204; "All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all." 230; Maxwell's Demon, 239; "no way backward now" 257; Entropy Management, 260; fear of open system, 264; "Taking land is building more fences. We want to leave it open. We want it to grow, to change" 265; Rossini's music is "love without payment of any kind" 274; orangutan "clockwork runs down" 282; "Their several entropies" 302; coprophilia & urolagnia as closed systems, 319; "entropies of loveable but scatterbrained mother nature" 324; painkillers without addiction, 348; cocaine & the A4, 375; drifting away, 405; Clerk Maxwell, 411; "a system whose only aim is to violate the Cycle. Taking and not giving back, [...] removing from the rest of the World these vast quantities of energy to keep its own tiny desperate fraction showing a profit: [...] most of the World, animal, vegetable and mineral, is laid waste in the process" 412; serpent eating its tail, 413; isotropy, 415; Beethoven ("represents the German dialectic [...] where [ultimately] all notes get an equal hearing") and Webern ("all notes were truly equal at last"), 440; Anubis orgy as closed system, 467; "inside his own cock" 470; Morituri - "just keep moving" 479; irreversible process, 519, 524, 589; potatoes used for rockets--no food, 550, 640; Wm. Slothrop's pigs, 555; messages, 624; information, 642; haircut, 643; Karmic Hammer, 644; bulb-life problem, 654; Floundering Four each gifted & flawed by the gift, 675; icebox, 678; "They've stopped the inflow/outflow" 694; Great Irreversible, 745; "any system which cannot tolerate heresy: a system which, by its nature, must sooner or later fall." 747; See also [[M#masturbation|masturbation]]

<div id="enzian">'''Enzian, Oberst'''</div>
100; German: "[[G#gentian|gentian]]" (a flowering herb); oberst = "highest" or "chief"; named by Weissmann/Blicero after a color in the Rilke poem ("mountainside gentian of Nordic colors"); meets Slothrop on top of train to Nordhausen and pushes Marvy off the train, 288; Illumination of, 297; of Bleicherode, 315; aka Nguarorerue ("one who has been proven"), 314, 316; aka Otyikondo ("halfbreed"), 316; arrived in German from Südwest in December 1926, 352; half-brother of Tchitcherine; Weissmann's protege and "Monster" 404; estrangement between "monster" Enzian and Weissmann, 426; 499; "on into some other paranoid terror" 522; search for the True Text, 525; with Katje, 658; Suave Older Exotic, 662; "he knows" 667; and the 00001, 724 [[Enzian|More on Enzian]]

'''Épernay''' 
213; one of the two towns in the center of France's Champagne region (the other is Reims). It is the home of Pol Roger and Moet et Chandon Champagne. Interesting to point out that when Napoleon campaigned Eastwards, he would always divert his army via Reims and Epernay, as he always celebrated a win with champagne and never wanted to run out. (Contributed by Paul Bowers)

'''Ephemeris''' 
754; An ephemeris is a tabular statement of the assigned places of an celestial body for regular intervals; "based on the [Earth's] new rotation"

'''Erdmann, Margherita (Greta)''' 
364; [German: "erd" = "earth, soil"] German film actress; mother of Bianca; star of von Göll's Alpdrucken; worked for von Göll in vaguely pornographic horror movies; the "Anti-Dietrich" 394; real name not "Erdmann" 395; in Berlin with Slothrop, 433; feels abandoned by Slothrop when he returns, 443; married to Thanatz, 461; murdering Jewish children, 477-78; aka Gretel, 482; Weisse Sandwüste von Neumexiko ("White Sand Desert of New Mexico"--perhaps a reference to nuclear testing in New Mexico) 482; with Max Schlepzig in Jugend Herauf! ("Youth Arise!"), 483; with Blicero and Thanatz on the Heath, 485-88; mapped on to Katje, 486; 672

'''Erdschweinhöhle''' 
315-16; [German: "erd"="earth", "schwein"="pig", "höhle"="hole"] underground communities of Hereros living in Germany; "a dialectic of word made flesh" 321; 524-25; delegates, 538; 671; 672-73; See also Hereros; Pigs

<div id="gourd">'''Ernest Pudding's Gourd Surprise'''</div>
80; A 'curcurbitaceous improbability' Brigadier Pudding loved to prepare, perhaps because 'there is something Sadistic about recipes with "Surprise" in the title'. This fits right in with Pudding's character; 234

'''Esberg, Marine Captain''' 
691; wins "all-expense, one-way trip for one to. . .Puke-a-hook-a-look-i Island!"

'''Esso''' 
240; gasoline Slothrop preferred for his Terraplane

'''Estelle''' 
171; "the doorkeeper's daughter" at White Visitation, and her son Arch, with whom Gwenhidwy plays "slap-and-tickle"

'''ETO''' 
18; European Theatre of Operations; Caserne Martier in, 246;

'''[[Europe in Gravity's Rainbow|EUROPE]]'''

'''Eurydice''' 
472; Eurydice, according to Greek myth, dies and goes to the underworld (Hades). Her lover, Orpheus, goes to retrieve her. He is told Eurydice can follow him back to the world of the living as long as he doesn't look back while they are returning. Eventually overcome with doubt as to whether or not she is still following him, he looks back and thereby loses Eurydice forever; Orpheus Puts Down Harp, 754; [Orpheus in Mason & Dixon]

'''Evans, Jeremiah ("Merciful")''' 
541; "well-known political informer from Pembroke"; "tone-deaf Welsh stoolie" 545

'''Eventyr, Carroll''' 
31; (Danish: "fairytale, adventure"); medium at White Visitation in the Abbey in south England; lover of Nora D-T; 33; his story, 145; "trying to confirm the Lübeck angel" 217; maps on to Sachsa?, 238; 706; recruited Pudding into the Counterforce, 715

'''Evil Hour''' 
"at certain hours, a round white light" 137; "near midnight, her hour" 205; "the hour without a name (unless it's...no...NO...)" 267; "that well-remembered fragrance Noon in Berlin, essence of human decay" 374; "it's nearly noon. From 11 to 12 in the morning is the Evil Hour, when the white woman with the ring of keys comes out of her mountain and may appear to you [...] The Hour is hers" 374-75; "the Evil Hour has worked its sorcery" 377; "the height of the Evil Hour" 439; "horror will come when the afternoon is brightest" 471; "Horror in the brightest hour of afternoon" 471; "a man in a white suit [...] who's supposed to be on the Strand-Promenade [...] every day around noon" 492; "The exact clock time, which varies throughout the year, is known as Rocket Noon" 500; "today's Rocket Noon, two circular explosions inside the rush hour" 501; "ev'ry day at Rocket Noon, there's death, and revelry" 508; "what's shadowless noon and what isn't" 509; "a common criminal who is to be hanged at noon" 625; "the noon on the Heath when 00000 was fired" 667; "You know what time. The usual hour." 680; "at noon [Geli] comes to a farm house" 718; "a permanent five-o'clock shadow (the worst by far of all the Hourly Shadows)" 755;

'''excrement''' 
"penguin shit" 11; "shit, money and the Word" 28; Pointsman's foot in toilet bowl, 42; "street excrement" 46; cat shit, 51; Slothrop's toilet adventure, 64-67; copromancy, 65; "jellied textures of human shit" 79; "too much shit in these streets" 135; "piss-swollen men" 136; "excremental kisses" 150; "Earth's excrement" (coal tars), 166; "preterite dung" 166; "footprints of shit the color of themselves" 173; "seagull shit" 203; "stained with genuine SS shit and piss" 211; Pudding and Domina Nocturna, 234-36; "turds on the Bokhara rug" 246; "shit-eating grin" 253; "feelings about blackness were tied to feelings about shit, and feelings about shit were tied to feelings about putrefaction and death" 276; Deutschmarks used as toilet paper, 284; "naughty bathroom moment" 296; "Colonies are the outhouses of the European soul. . .where a fellow can. . .enjoy the smell of his own shit." 317; coprophilia & urolagnia, 319; Outase (one of the many Herero words for "shit"), 325; "you vill shit now?" 360;"oozing shit that burns like acid" 360; "shit leaking out of him at gallons per hour" 364; King Kong taking a shit, 368; "pleasant anticipation" 405; baby Ilse's, 418; Pökler at ground zero, 426; Dora camp, 432; "pissing in the center grooves of cobbled alleys" 434; "eyes like two pissholes in a snowbank" 437; "diamonds in the shit of smugglers" 438; turd-shaped monoliths, 451; "Little piece of Jewish shit" 478; giant turds, 485; Bianca, 531; 535; "never-slackening shit" 586; "Europe died meanly in its own wastes" 616; "trying to take a quiet shit" 631; Mexico pissing on Mossmoon's table, 636 (aka "Urinating Incident" 710); "ladylike turds" 639; "prehistoric wastes" 639; "urolagnia jokes" 649; Byron down the toilet, 652; "deep feelings about shit" 654; "Thanatz's asshole tightens a notch." 666; "Shit 'n' Shinola" 687; Tranvestites' Toilet, 688; "shit. . .is the color white folks are afraid of" 688; "put the fuse out. . .right in the stream of piss" 689; rat turds, 692; They interdict the toilet, 694; "Bad Shit" 713; "consecrated to shit" 722; "dark figure with a stream of luminescent piss" 739; "fields of shit" 739; fart-driven siren ring, 740; "not one trickle of shit, Liebchen?" 757; See also Toiletship, holy shit

'''Eyeties''' 
132; slang: Italians

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'''Mabuse, Dr.''' 
579; In Fritz Lang's "Mabuse der Spieler," Dr Mabuse is the master-criminal who seeks to control the populace through mind-control, fear, and market manipulation; Klein-Rogge as; See also [[Fritz Lang]]; [[H#hawasch|Hawasch]];[[S#sporri| Spörri]]

'''MacArthur, General''' 
697;

'''MacDonald, Ramsay (1866-1937)''' 
77; First Labour Party prime minister of Great Britain, in the Labour governments of 1924 and 1929-31 and in the national coalition government of 1931-35.

'''Mach, Ernst (1838-1916)''' 
Ernst Mach (1838-1916), an Austrian physicist and philosopher who devised the Mach number which, in fluid mechanics, is the ratio of the velocity of a fluid to the velocity of sound in that fluid. In the case of an aircraft in flight, the Mach number is equal to the velocity of the aircraft relative to the fluid (air) divided by the velocity of sound in that fluid. For Mach numbers greater than one (supersonic flow), shock wave patterns develop on the moving body because of compression of the surrounding fluid; 453

'''Machiavellian''' 
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) was a Florentine statesman who held that terrorism and deceit were justifiable means of achieving a peaceful and prosperous Italy. In Il Principe (1515) he wrote that only a strong and ruthless prince could free Italy from devastation by foreigners. "Machiavellian" has come to denote political deceit and intrigue and unscrupulous methods; "Machiavellian and youthful, not quite ripe yet for paranoia" 448; the lion, 557; "no one is (Jessica) exempt from his (Jessica?) Machiavellian--" 631; See also [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=The_Prince ''V.''].

'''Mackenzie, Compton (1883-1972)''' 
British novelist, both acclaimed and neglected, who wrote more than 100 novels, plays, and biographies. His varied novels include Poor Relations (1919), Rich Relatives (1921), Vestal Fire (1927), and Extraordinary Women (1928); novels on Mrs. Quoad's shelf, 115

'''Magda''' 
365; "the sultry Bavarian" and Säure's sidekick; "picked up on first-degree mopery" 742

'''Magna Carta''' 
The charter of English liberties granted by King John in 1215 under threat of civil war and reissued with alterations in 1216, 1217, and 1225; "Teach the German beast about the" 125

'''Magyars''' 
Transylvanian, 11; 549; aka Hungarians

'''Maherero, Samuel''' 
323; The Herero chief who led his people across the Kalahari into exile in Bechuanaland, where he died in 1923; "great trek across the Kalahari"; [[Südwest|MORE]]

'''Malcolm''' 
63; "very tall, skinny, extravagantly conked redhead Negro shoeshine boy" in Roseland Ballroom; aka "Red" and Malcolm X; 65; "Now don't you remember Red Malcolm up there, That kid with the Red Devil Lye in his hair" 67; 688

'''Maledetto, Dr.''' 
347; Italian: "cursed, damned"; "a young Maledetto whom the ladies love" on an enormous closed sleigh which took tourists to Central Asia

'''Malenkov''' 
391; Tchitcherine reports to his "special committee under the Council of People's Commissars"

'''Male Transvestites' Toilet''' 
680; in "dingy yellow amphitheatre" where Floundering Four do their bit; "An Incident in the Transvestites' Toilet" 688-90

'''Maltzan, von''' 
166; worked with Rathenau on the Rapallo Treaty

'''mandala''' 
the ancient sun-wheel from which. . .the swastika was broken" 100; "full mandalas came to bloom" 152; Herero villages built like mandalas, 321; mandala-like Schwarzkommando insignia, illustrated, 361; KEZVH, 446; Schwarzkommando, 560; four fins of the Rocket, 563; "other fourfold expressions" 624; "fatal mandala" 691; discussed at Gross Suckling Conference, 706-07; "the cross the man has made on his own circle of earth" 719; Raketen-Stadt: "built in mandalic form like a Herero village" 725

<div id="manicheans"></div>'''Manicheans''' 
From Brewer's: "Followers of Mani, who taught that the universe is controlled by two antagonistic powers, light or goodness (identified with God), and darkness, chaos, or evil. [...] One of Mani's claims was that, though Christ had been sent into the world to restore it to light and banish darkness, His apostles had perverted his doctrine, and he, Mani, was sent as the Paraclete to restore it" (p.681); "who see two rockets, good and evil, who speak together in the sacred idiolalia of the Primal Twins" 727

'''mano morto''' 
132; Italian: dead hand (should be ''mano morta'')

'''Manuela''' 
605-06; call girl at Putzi's with Maj. Marvy

'''Marcel''' 
See Floundering Four

'''Mare Nocturnum''' 
578; Latin: Nocturnal Sea; Pökler's "deeper excursions into the"

'''Maria''' 
519; Christian's sister and Pavel's husband; in Christian's dream, 673 See also Christian; Pavel

'''Marie-Celeste''' 
The Mary Celeste (incorrectly referred to as Marie Celeste) was a brigantine merchant ship discovered in December 1872 in the Atlantic Ocean unmanned and apparently abandoned, despite the fact that the weather was fine and her crew had been experienced and able seamen; "the legendary ship" 303

'''Marjorie''' 
22; a Wren Slothrop is dating; 25; 744; See also Slothrop's girls/stars

<div id="marvy"></div>'''Marvy, Maj. Duane''' 
281; with US Army Ordnance and leader of Marvy's Mothers, "the meanest-ass technical intelligence team in this whole fuckin' Zone"; pushed off train by Enzian while "headed for Mittelwerke" 288; 307; 331; 363; 502; Atomic Chili, 557, 559; 564-66; purchases cocaine from Bodine at Putzi's, 604; castrated, 609; [[Major Duane Marvy|Etymological Musings]]

<div id="groucho">'''Marx, Groucho (1890-1977)'''</div>
210; An American comedian and film star famed as a master of wit; his rapid-fire delivery of innuendo-laden patter has earned him many admirers. He made 13 feature films with his siblings the Marx Brothers, of whom he was the third-born. His distinctive appearance, carried over from his days in vaudeville, included quirks such as glasses, cigars, and a thick greasepaint [[M#mustache|mustache]] and eyebrows; "a Groucho Marx voice" 246; 279

'''Marx, Karl (1818-83)''' 
German social, political and economic theorist and the inspiration for modern communism. He emigrated to Paris in 1863 where he became a communist and first expressed his belief that the proletariat must effect revolutionary change. In Paris, he and Engels wrote Communist Manifesto (1848) ("The workers have nothing to lose but their chains"), the masterpiece of political propaganda. He moved to London in 1849 and it was there that he wrote Das Kapital (1867) (theory of surplus value, class conflict, exploitation of the Working Class, "withering away" of the state); 163; 317; 348; "Marxist dialectics? That's not an opiate, eh?" 701; "'Real to a Marxist.'" 702; "if you don't think there are Marxist-Leninist magicians around, well you better think again!" 748

'''Masons''' 
emblems, 27; masonry, 66; "out the eye at the tower's summit" 470; "Eye at the top of the pyramid" 484, 585; freemasons, 572; and Lyle Bland, 580; "Mobs 'n' Masons" 586; American Founding Fathers, 587-88; magic rituals/Masonic Mysteries, 588; Masonic plots, 587; Ben Franklin, 663-64; "going to dinner becomes a priestly procession, full of secret gestures and understandings" 713;

'''Master of the Woods''' 
742; "sprigs of woodruff [...] carried by the early Teutonic warriors"

'''masturbation''' 
"masturbating under these conditions is exquisite torture" 35; "jerking off into an Army flannel" 36; and message de- crypting, 71-72; "he'll masturbate himself to sleep" 141; "The self-induced orgasm." 155; "there passes the phrase male supremacy ... why do they cherish their masturbating so? 155; "masturbatorily scared-elated" 209; "I can't even masturbate" 216; Pudding, for Domina Nocturna, 236; "These Otukungurua are prophets of masturbating" 318; "Remember the time she caught you masturbating into her glove?" 505; "a Text, to be [...] masturbated till it's all squeezed limp of its last drop" 520; "lost in masturbatory fantasies of nailing this cute but older Latin lady" 678; "the heat, who go surly, fangflashing back to masturbating into Crime Does Not Pay Comics" 709; "16 ragged staring oldtimers who shuffle aimlessly about the stage, jerking off in unison, waggling penises in mock quarter-staffing, brandishing in two and threes their green-leaved poles, exposing amazing chancres and lesions, going off in fountains of sperm strung with blood that splash over glazed trouser-pleats" 743; "purposes of self-arousal" 758; "or reach between your own cold legs" 760; See also Kryptosam; entropy/closed systems/irreversibility

'''mathematical equations''' 
Chapter 1: Poisson dispensation, 140; Chapter 2: yaw control, 239; Chapter 3: hilarious graffiti of visiting mathematicians, 450; Chapter 4: Otyiyumbu Indetermincy Relation, 700; "Little sigma, times P of s-over-little-sigma, equals one over the square root of two times pi, times e to the minus s squared over two little sigma squared." 709 (thanks to Douglas Lannark for this index entry)

'''Mausmacher''' 
653; German: "mouse-maker"; Lutheran who steals Byron from the priest and who attends a Naza torchlight rally in drag

[[image:Max-Moritz.jpg|thumb|Max und Moritz|right]]'''Max and Moritz''' 
757; Max und Moritz were a duo created by German cartoonist Wilhelm Busch; "boy at the steering panel" and man "at the rocket motor panel," respectively, at launching of S-Gerät 00000; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_und_Moritz Wikipedia entry]

'''Maximilian''' 
See Floundering Four

'''Maxwell, Clerk''' 
411; "younger contemporary" of Liebig

'''May Day Eve''' 
329; aka Walpurgisnacht

'''McGonigle, Pvt. Paddy "Electro"''' 
641; hand-pedals the twin-generator cranks for light bulb during THE HAIRCUT

'''Meat Cartel''' 
654; long-standing arrangement with Phoebus "to restrict the amount of tallow in circulation by keeping more fat in meat to be sold regardless of cardiac problems"

'''Mefo bills''' 
German: Metallurgische Forschung = "metals research"; A way for Germany to pay arms manufacturers for rearmament (German rearmament was banned by the terms of the Versailles Treaty). Mefo bills were accepted by all German banks but no reference to them was allowed in published accounts. Twelve billion marks in Mefo bills were issued before the outbreak of WWII, and much of German trade was financed in this manner; 285

[[image:meggazones.gif|300px|left]]'''Meggazone''' 
118; "like being belted in the head with a Swiss alp"; [at left] "Contain: Menthol, Peppermint, Chloroform, Benzoin, Liquorice pastille basis"

'''Meillerwagen''' 
113; transported the V-2 to the launching site, raised it to a vertical firing position, and served as a firing platform; 560;

'''Menshevik''' 
Russian: men'she = "less, fewer"; The Mensheviks were the moderate wing of the Russian Social Democratic Party, who split with the Bolsheviks after the party congress of 1903. They were for "bourgeois reform" rather than the total societal overhaul advocated by the Bolsheviks; 338

'''Messerschmitt''' 
184; fighter plane from the German concern Messerschmitt AG

'''meta-solutions''' 
102; "Perhaps the black girl is a genius of meta-solutions--knocking over the chessboard, shooting the referee" 102

<div id="metatron"></div>'''Metatron''' 
231; in Kabbalistic lore, the highest angel who sits next to Yahweh's throne; 734; See also [[K#kabbalah|Kabbalah]]

<div id="metropolis"></div>'''''Metropolis''/Metropolis''' 
[Greek: "Mother City"] "ARF remains a colony to the metropolitan war" 76; "His erection hums from a certain distance, like an instrument installed, wired by Them into his body as a colonial outpost here in our raw and clamorous world, another office representing Their white Metropolis far away" 285; "Early Rhenish missionaries began to bring them back to the Metropolis, that great dull zoo" 315; "Out and down in the colonies, life can be indulged, life and sensuality in all its forms, with no harm done to the Metropolis" 317; "they can pick us off out there one by one, first a campaign of attrition, then a coordinated raid...leaving then only this metropolis, under siege, to strangle" 326; "inside the metropolitan organ entirely, all other colonial tissue forgotten and left to fend for itself" 470; Rudolph Klein-Rogge, 578; Brigitte Helm, 578; "American Death has come to occupy Europe. It has learned empire from its old metropolis" 722; See also [[C#cities|cities]]; [[Fritz Lang]];

:From Fritz Lang's ''Metropolis''

::"I have created a machine in the image of man, that never tires or makes a mistake."

::"Isn't it worth the loss of a hand to have created the workers of the future — the machine men?"

::"Give me another 24 hours and I'll bring you a machine which no one will be able to tell from a human being."

::- Rotwang, the Inventor

'''Mexico, Roger''' 
31; 30 years old (89); works with Pirate Prentice in Psi Section; Mysterious Microfilm Drill, 32; "provisional wartime friend of Pirate's" 35; meets Jessica, 38-39; the "Antipointsman" 55; paranoia, 124; "He'd seen himself a point on a moving wavefront, propagating through sterile history--a known past, a projectable future. But Jessica was the breaking of the wave." 126; "as this seventh Christmas of the War came wheeling in another charge at his skinny, shivering flank [...]" 126; his map of bomb hits, 138; takes Jessica to see Hansel and Gretel, 174; by the sea on White Sunday, 273; driving throught the Lüneburg Heath, missing Jessica, 626; Gloaming tells him about the Slothrop/IG Farben/Pointsman plot, 630-31; realizes Jessica is working for Pointsman, 631; pissing on Mossmoon's table, 636; "a 30-year-old innocent" 706; foam rubber phallus, 708; at Krupp party, 711

'''M.I. 6''' 
592; British Military Intelligence, overseas operations; [[British Military Intelligence|MORE]]

'''Michele''' 
243-45; friend of Slothrop's who seduces Hillary Bounce so Slothrop can use his teletype machine

'''Michiko''' 
480; wife of Ensign Morituri

'''Microcosmists''' 
738; those who believe Slothrop to be a "point-for-point microcosm"

'''Middle Dutch''' 
108; ic heb u liever dan ên everswîn, al waert van finen goude ghewracht (English: I love you more than a wild boar / even if it were made of fine gold)

'''midgets &c.''' 
"midget spy-camera" 17; "Fred Roper's Company of Wonder Midgets off to an imperial fair in Johannesburg, South Africa. Midgets in their dark winter clothes, exquisite little frocks and nip-waisted overcoats, were running all over the station, gobbling their bonvoyage chocolates and lining up for news photos." 37; "say it very (demisemiquaver) fast in a Munchkin voice if you can dig that" 63; "what appear to be horrid...midgets, in strange operetta uniforms actually, some sort of Central European government-in-exile," 123; "Siggi in his speeded-up midget's voice" 157; "a tiny hand comes out and gives Slothrop the tiny finger" 199; "the arms of young passersby not in the sleeves of their coats but inside somewhere, as if sheltering midgets" 250; "Like a buncha happy midgets on a holiday!" 259; "They went off practically skipping obsessive as Munchkins, out into the erotic Poisson." 270; "Local midgetry scuttle and cringe alongside the tracks" 310; "Were you frightened when the dwarf tried to hug you" 398; "a splendid retinue of dwarves and sprites " 419; the midget sheriff in Osbie Feel's movie, 534-35; "as armies of eternally shrinking midgets galloped upstairs and down again" 567; midgets on the pinball machines, 586; "lammergeiers cruising there in the lurid red altitudes around [...] piloted by bareback dwarves with little plastic masks around their eyes" 664; "Is he interested in all those other worlds who send their dwarf reps out on the backs of eagles?" 664; "where inside Marcel is the midget Grandmaster" 675

'''Midnight''' 
342; "the famous bucking bronco" on the U.S. rodeo circuits

'''Mieczislav''' 
See Omuzire, Mieczislav

'''mindless pleasures''' 
270; working title for Gravity's Rainbow; 681; "idle and mindless hours of the day" 177

'''Mingeborough, Massachussetts''' 
26; Slothrop's hometown [introduced in Pynchon's short story, "The Secret Integration", where Dr. Slothrop and his son Hogan live]; [[Minghe|Etymology]]

'''Ministry of Munitions''' 
416; Branch of the SS, headed by Albert Speer

'''Ministry of Supply''' 
251; British, located at Shell Mex House, "the heart of the Rocket's own branch office in London." Duncan Sandys was the Under-secretary there during WWII.

'''Minsky's''' 
In the 1920s and 30s, Billy Minsky's Republic Theatre on Broadway in New York (later known as just Minsky's) featured rowdy burlesque entertainment. Gypsy Rose Lee performed there in the 1930s, as well as comedians W.C. Fields, Al Jolson, Fannie Brice, Bert Lahr, and Phil Silvers; "more tits than they got at"

<div id="miraculous-medal">'''Miraculous Medal'''</div>
135; "O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to you."

[[image:miraculous_medal.jpg|left|caption|Front]]The design was revealed by the Virgin Mary to St. Catherine Labouré on November 27, 1830 in the chapel of the convent of Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul on the rue de Bac, Paris. Catherine had been having visions for the seven months before and had told only her confessor M. Aladel who had the medal struck in June 1832. In 1836, a tribunal in Paris approved the medal as of supernatural origin. On one side, the medal depicts the Virgin Mary standing on a globe with her feet crushing a serpent's head. Beneath it says, "O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee."

[[image:miraculous_medal_back.jpg|right|caption|Back]]On the other side there is the letter "M" entwined with a bar with a cross on it. Twelve stars surround the symbols. Beneath are two hearts, one crowned with thorns, the other pierced with a sword. The medal gained in significance when Alphonse Ratisbonne, a Jew, was instantly converted to Catholicism while visiting a church in Rome to arrange a funeral. He subsequently founded the Order of Our Lady of Sion to work for understanding between Jews and Catholics

'''[[Mirrors|MIRRORS]]''' 
See also [[I#interface|Interface]]; [[I#inside|inside/outside]]

'''Miss Rheingold 1946''' 
380;

'''Mittelwerke''' 
German: "Central Works"; Given to the Soviets per the Yalta Agreement, 273; primary A-4 factory after RAF raid on Peenemünde in August 1943, located in abandoned gypsum mine near Nordhausen and next to Dora prison camp; evacuated in February and March 1945; 283; designed like a ladder with Stollen (rung-tunnels), 299; control systems work was done outside mountain in castles, farms etc, 313; tactical sites elsewhere, 427; abandoned in '45, 432 [MAP]; [Image] Click here to view a photo from Der Spiegel of laborers working in the tunnels. An Interesting Site; Check out this map of Mittelwerke (thanks to Jeff Meikle).

'''Mix, Tom (1808-1940)''' 
An American film actor and the star of many early Western movies. He made a reported 336 films between 1910 and 1935, all but nine of which were silent features. He was Hollywood’s first Western megastar and is noted as having helped define the genre for all cowboy actors who followed; "Tom Mix shirt, 245

'''MMPI''' 
21; Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory--a psychological test developed in 1943, 81; Slothrop's, F-Scale: a measure to indicate whether the subject is trying to mask or underreport psychological symptoms, 90

'''M.O.''' 
591; Medical Officer

'''Möllner''' 
610; German whom Slothrop questions about von Göll at Putzi's

'''Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich (1890-1986)''' 
Russian statesman and diplomat who was picked by Stalin to be the Soviet commissar of foreign affairs (1939-49). It was during World War II that Molotov ordered the production of the bottles of inflammable liquid that became known as Molotov cocktails. As foreign minister and the major spokesman for the Soviet Union at the Allied conferences during and after World War II, he earned a reputation for uncompromising hostility to the West; cocktails, 507, 511; "isn't telling Vishinsky" 611

<div id="mondaugen">'''Mondaugen, Kurt'''</div>
German: "Mondaugen" = "Moon Eye"; 161; electrical engineer who went to Südwest; Pökler working with, 402-04; accepted Hitler on basis of his "Demian- metaphysics" 403; bodhisattva of Peenemünde, 403; was in Südwest, lived with Ovatjimba (aardvark) people, the poorest Hereros, 403; 1922 - in Südwest with Weissmann during siege of Foppl's villa, 408; after Peenemünde bombing, 422; Mondaugen's Law, 509; Verein für Raumschiffahrt, 582; 687; Mondaugen in V.

'''Monika''' 
603; "Putzi's genial, cigar-smoking, matelasse-suited madame"

'''Monkey Girl''' 
544; "and the pimps in Rome"; one whom Pirate had to betray "in the course of business for the Firm"

'''Monte Carlo Fallacy''' 
56; "No matter how many have fallen inside a particular square, the odds remain the same as they always were. Each hit is independent of all the others."

'''Montez, Maria (1912–1951)''' 
121; A Dominican-born motion picture actress who was know as "The Queen of Technicolor" after a series of films she made with co-star Jon Hall: ''Arabian Nights'' (1942), ''White Savage'' (1943), ''Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves'' (1944), ''Cobra Woman'' (1944), ''Gypsy Wildcat'' (1944), and ''Sudan'' (1945).

'''moon''' 
"no moon" 67; "the halfmoon shines" 104; men on the, 132; "is it the moon?" 123; "toy rockets to the moon" 154; "the dead moon" 163; "we can fly to the moon" 175; "blanched scar of moon" 195; "moonlight reflected from the mirror" 195; "moongrained" 196; astrologer's, 220; "chosen for its affinity to moonlight" 265; "voices twittering with moonlight" 268; "as among craters of the pale moon" 270; "the lunacy of her purple eyes" 271; true message to Hereros, 322; "Me trama con la disquietante luna" 383; "under a moon newly calved" 398; "Passing over the bright rays of Kepler, the rugged solitude of the Southern Highlands, the spectacular views at Copernicus and Eratosthenes, she chose a small pretty crater in the Sea of Tranquility called Maskelyne B." 410; and Ilse, 410; cycles, 414; "the moon that ruled her" 415; "Have you given up so easily on the Moon?" 420; "Her round straw hat a frail moon" 421; Lunar motion, 452; "buttocks rise like moons" 466; "enormous slick stretching away moonward, to the threshold of the north wind" 609; "moon minaret" 637; Katje "felt the moon in the soles of her feet" 657; "brightening and darkening as if by itself" 692; "The moon has risen" 720; moonlight, 721; "our new Deathkingdom" 723; 734; [Check out: Borges' "The Moon" in Dreamtigers (1964)]

'''Moore, Norton B.''' 
452; Aeronautics engineer; worked with Theodore von Kármán on supersonic flow

'''mopery''' 
Slang: a trivial, imaginary violation of law (also seen defined as: act of moping; vagrancy, dawdling); "The War must've been lean times for crowd control, murder and mopery was the best you could do" 570; "Magda was picked up on first-degree mopery" 742; "Edelman [...] accused last year of an 11569 (Attempted Mopery with a Subversive Instrument)" 755;

'''Mopp's Hebdomeriasis''' 
712; "does so-called 'Night Worm' belong among the Pseudo-Goldstrassian Group, or is it properly considered [...] a more insidious form of"; [De Chirico's Hebdomeros]

'''Moreno, El''' 
387; with whom "the white gaucho" has a singing-duel in Martín Fierro

'''Morgan''' 
"GE, that's Morgan money, there's Morgan money in Harvard" 332;

'''Morituri, Ensign''' 
462; [Latin: "We who are about to die" - salutation of the gladiators to the Roman Emperor: "morituri te salutamos" = "we who are about to die salute you"]; "of the Japanese Imperial Navy" "ex-liaison man from Berlin who didn't quite get out by way of Russia"; was in kamikaze training; 467; his story, 474; irony of radium/Hiroshima, 479-80; 672; 706

'''Moritz''' 
757; operating the rocket motor panel for S-gerät 00000; 758

'''Morrison, Herbert Stanley (1888-1965)''' 
British Labour statesman who played a leading role in London local government for 25 years. Constantly involved with socialist politics from 1905, he was active in Churchill's coalition government, serving as Minister of Supply, Home Secretary and Minister of Home Security; 132

'''Morrison shelter''' 
Introduced by Herbert Morrison while home secretary in Churchill's government, they were bomb shelters, 24

'''Mosquito''' 
136; The de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito--a British combat aircraft that excelled in versatility during WWII; was made primarily out of laminated plywood

'''Moss Creature''' 
523; hallucination of Pavel's during Leunagasolin high

'''Mossmoon, Clive''' 
35; works for ICI doing polymer research; husband of Scorpia; 228-29; discussion regarding releasing Slothrop, 270; 544; 615; 635

'''Mossmoon, Scorpia''' 
35; wife of Clive, aka "Red Bitch of the High Seas"; had an affair with Pirate in 1936, 35-36; "living in St. John's Wood among sheet-music, new recipes, a small kennel of Weimaraners whose racial purity she will go to extravagant lengths to preserve" 544; 698

'''[[Mothers in Gravity's Rainbow|MOTHERS]]''' 
See also [[F#fathers|fathers]]; [[N#nipple|Nipple, Lloyd]]; [[#metropolis|Metropolis]]; [check out [[#marvy|Marvy's Mothers]], too]

'''Mouse Alexei''' 
229; lab rat at White Visitation

'''Mouthorgan, Missouri''' 
583; location of Masonic temple the Tracys visit; "an elegant chaos to bend the ingenuity of Bland's bought expert" 586;

'''[[The Movies in Gravity's Rainbow|MOVIES]]
See also [[A#actors|actors/directors]]; [[F#film|film/cinema references]]; [[K#kingkong|King Kong]]

'''Moxie''' 
63; A carbonated beverage that was one of the first mass-produced soft drinks in the United States. In its advertising, it used “Make Mine Moxie!” advertising jingles, the slogan “Just Make It Moxie for Mine”, and a "Moxie Man" logo. The brand suffered a significant decline in sales during the 1930s; 208; 258; "tin Moxie signs" 471

'''Mravenko''' 
611; "one of the VIAM people"

<div id="mucker"></div>'''Mucker-Maffick, Oliver "Tantivy"''' 
"tantivy" is a hunting cry made when the chase is at full speed; 18; shares office with Slothrop at ACHTUNG; with Slothrop at Casino, 181; Ballad of, 191; "There hasn't been a word" 209; disappears - death confirmed, 252; Slothrop's dream of his return, 551; 584; [[Oliver Mucker-Maffick|Etymology]]; See also [[A#achtung|ACHTUNG]]

'''Muffage, Doctor''' 
591; with Dr. Spontoon, out to castrate Slothrop

'''Muffin-tin Road''' 
646; in Happyville: "note the smiing faces on all the houses"

'''Mukuru''' 
322; Hereros' "first ancestor, Adam"; breath of, 524; 562

'''Müller-Hochleben, Miss''' 
632-34; German: "Miller-Highlife" (really!); "short but spunky secretary" at Twelfth House on Gallaho Mews in London whose glasses fall off

<div id="munchkin">'''Munchkins'''</div>
The natives of the fictional Munchkin Country in the Oz books by L. Frank Baum. They first appeared in the 1900 novel [[W#wizoz|The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]], in which they are described as being somewhat short of stature, and wearing only blue. They are best-known from their depiction in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, in which they are played by adult proportional dwarfs, dressed in brightly multicolored outfits, and live in Munchkinland; "Munchkin voice" 63; "obsessive as Munchkins" 270

'''Murphy's Law''' 
275; "when everything has been taken care of, when nothing can go wrong, or even surprise us. . .something will"; "where the the salvation could be" 471; See also [[G#godel|Gödel's Theorem]]

'''[[Music in Gravity's Rainbow|MUSIC]]''' 
See also [[F#foxtrot|fox-trot]]; [[#musicians|musicians/composers]; [[R#rossini|Rossini]]; [[Songs/Compositions|songs/compositions]]

<div id="musicians"></div>'''musicians/composers''' 
Sandy MacPherson, 13; George Formby, 18; Falkman and His Apache Band, 32; Charlie ("Yardbird") Parker, 63; Primo Scala's Accordian Band, 115; Hop Harrigan and Tank Tinker, 117; Roland Peachey and His Orchestra, 121; Thomas Tallis, Henry Purcell, Heinrich Suso, 129; Ernesto Lecuona, 169; Carl Orff, 237, 441; Benny Goodman, 225; Juan d'Arienzo, 267; Der Bingle (B. Crosby), 320; Richard Wagner, 324, 450; Andrews Sisters, 382; Frank Sinatra, 390, 700; Hugo Wolf, 419, 450; Ludwig von Beethoven, 440, 685; Anton Webern, 440, 494; Irving Berlin, 442; Horst Wessel, 443; Kurt Weill, 513; Gene Krupa, 513; Guy Lombardo, 529; Gilbert & Sullivan, 538; Jacques Offenbach, 584 ("Offenbach galop": Jacques Offenbach wrote the music to the well-known "Cancan" - "galop" is a dance); Sandy McPherson, 592; Spohr, Rossini, Spontini, 622; Diamond Lil, 657; 175-Stadt Chorale, 668; Stephen Foster, 675; Spike Jones, 678; Brahms, 685; Harry James, 685; J.S. Bach, 685; Tchaikovsky, 702; Josef Haydn, 712; Lübeck Hitler Youth Glee Club, 736; See also [[R#rossini|Rossini]]

'''Mussert's people''' 
97; someone for whom Katje is "smelling out" Jewish families

Mr. Pynchon is probably referring to Anton Adriaan Mussert, fouder and leader of the Dutch National Socialist Movement during World War II

<div id="mustache">'''mustache'''</div>
"mustaches, to be shaved off only by authorized crypto officers" 16; "jar of mustache wax" 17; "mustaches mouthwide" 20; 62; "mustache unruffled" 188; "twirling his slick mustache in a saber-point" 191; "great twisted mustache" 201; "Mustache Kit, 20 different shapes from [[F#fumanchu|Fu Manchu]] to [[M#groucho|Groucho Marx]]", "[[E#earp|Wyatt Earp's]]", "[[B#booth|John Wilkes Booth's]]", "the old duster just keeps droopin' down again" 210; "as the mustache waxes, Slothrop waxes the mustache" 211; "twisting his mustache" 221; "clipped mustache bristles" 233; "[[F#flynn|Errol Flynn]] frisks his mustache" 248; 267; "I even have a mustache...like that [[H#hemingway|Ernest Hemingway]]" 292; "frisks mustaches" 295; "red [[V#hindenburg|von Hindenburg]] mustache" 305; 306; "mustache white and bubbly too" 307; "white, water-buffalo mustaches" 308; "saws off pieces of his mustache on both sides...look like [[H#hitler|Hitler]]" 309; "All the funny Fascists just a-twirlin' their mustaches" 310; "big chromo of [[S#stalin|Stalin]]...mustache and hair only incidental as makeup" 368; "wide handle-bar mustache" 473; "twisting half his mustache so it points up in a saber at one eye" 474; "Frisking his great mustache" 479; "around the mustache line" 583; " black neckerchiefs whipping about like the mustaches of epileptic villains" 594; "blunt and ragged mustache" 607; "natty mustaches" 632; "superthin mustache" 675; "feathery [[R#rilke|Rilke]] mustaches" 711

'''''My Little Chickadee''''' 
198; a 1940 Universal comedy/western motion picture starring [[W#maewest|Mae West]] and W. C. Fields

'''Myrtle Miraculous''' 
See [[F#floundering|Floundering Four]]

'''Mysterious Microfilm Drill''' 
32; wherein "Bloat goes somewhere and microfilms something, then transfers it, via Pirate, to young Mexico. And thence [...] down to 'The White Visitation'"

'''Mystery Stimulus''' 
84; "Conditioned response = hardon whenever x is present [...] what's x? Why it's the famous 'Mystery Stimulus'

'''[[Mythology in Gravity's Rainbow|MYTHOLOGY]]''' 
See also [[G#god|God]]; [[S#scylla|Scylla and Charybdis]]

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Georgeman:

'''Mabuse, Dr.''' 
579; In Fritz Lang's "Mabuse der Spieler," Dr Mabuse is the master-criminal who seeks to control the populace through mind-control, fear, and market manipulation; Klein-Rogge as; See also [[Fritz Lang]]; [[H#hawasch|Hawasch]];[[S#sporri| Spörri]]

'''MacArthur, General''' 
697;

'''MacDonald, Ramsay (1866-1937)''' 
77; First Labour Party prime minister of Great Britain, in the Labour governments of 1924 and 1929-31 and in the national coalition government of 1931-35.

'''Mach, Ernst (1838-1916)''' 
Ernst Mach (1838-1916), an Austrian physicist and philosopher who devised the Mach number which, in fluid mechanics, is the ratio of the velocity of a fluid to the velocity of sound in that fluid. In the case of an aircraft in flight, the Mach number is equal to the velocity of the aircraft relative to the fluid (air) divided by the velocity of sound in that fluid. For Mach numbers greater than one (supersonic flow), shock wave patterns develop on the moving body because of compression of the surrounding fluid; 453

'''Machiavellian''' 
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) was a Florentine statesman who held that terrorism and deceit were justifiable means of achieving a peaceful and prosperous Italy. In Il Principe (1515) he wrote that only a strong and ruthless prince could free Italy from devastation by foreigners. "Machiavellian" has come to denote political deceit and intrigue and unscrupulous methods; "Machiavellian and youthful, not quite ripe yet for paranoia" 448; the lion, 557; "no one is (Jessica) exempt from his (Jessica?) Machiavellian--" 631; See also [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=The_Prince ''V.''].

'''Mackenzie, Compton (1883-1972)''' 
British novelist, both acclaimed and neglected, who wrote more than 100 novels, plays, and biographies. His varied novels include Poor Relations (1919), Rich Relatives (1921), Vestal Fire (1927), and Extraordinary Women (1928); novels on Mrs. Quoad's shelf, 115

'''Magda''' 
365; "the sultry Bavarian" and Säure's sidekick; "picked up on first-degree mopery" 742

'''Magna Carta''' 
The charter of English liberties granted by King John in 1215 under threat of civil war and reissued with alterations in 1216, 1217, and 1225; "Teach the German beast about the" 125

'''Magyars''' 
Transylvanian, 11; 549; aka Hungarians

'''Maherero, Samuel''' 
323; The Herero chief who led his people across the Kalahari into exile in Bechuanaland, where he died in 1923; "great trek across the Kalahari"; [[Südwest|MORE]]

'''Malcolm''' 
63; "very tall, skinny, extravagantly conked redhead Negro shoeshine boy" in Roseland Ballroom; aka "Red" and Malcolm X; 65; "Now don't you remember Red Malcolm up there, That kid with the Red Devil Lye in his hair" 67; 688

'''Maledetto, Dr.''' 
347; Italian: "cursed, damned"; "a young Maledetto whom the ladies love" on an enormous closed sleigh which took tourists to Central Asia

'''Malenkov''' 
391; Tchitcherine reports to his "special committee under the Council of People's Commissars"

'''Male Transvestites' Toilet''' 
680; in "dingy yellow amphitheatre" where Floundering Four do their bit; "An Incident in the Transvestites' Toilet" 688-90

'''Maltzan, von''' 
166; worked with Rathenau on the Rapallo Treaty

'''mandala''' 
the ancient sun-wheel from which. . .the swastika was broken" 100; "full mandalas came to bloom" 152; Herero villages built like mandalas, 321; mandala-like Schwarzkommando insignia, illustrated, 361; KEZVH, 446; Schwarzkommando, 560; four fins of the Rocket, 563; "other fourfold expressions" 624; "fatal mandala" 691; discussed at Gross Suckling Conference, 706-07; "the cross the man has made on his own circle of earth" 719; Raketen-Stadt: "built in mandalic form like a Herero village" 725

<div id="manicheans"></div>'''Manicheans''' 
From Brewer's: "Followers of Mani, who taught that the universe is controlled by two antagonistic powers, light or goodness (identified with God), and darkness, chaos, or evil. [...] One of Mani's claims was that, though Christ had been sent into the world to restore it to light and banish darkness, His apostles had perverted his doctrine, and he, Mani, was sent as the Paraclete to restore it" (p.681); "who see two rockets, good and evil, who speak together in the sacred idiolalia of the Primal Twins" 727

'''mano morto''' 
132; Italian: dead hand (should be ''mano morta'')

'''Manuela''' 
605-06; call girl at Putzi's with Maj. Marvy

'''Marcel''' 
See Floundering Four

'''Mare Nocturnum''' 
578; Latin: Nocturnal Sea; Pökler's "deeper excursions into the"

'''Maria''' 
519; Christian's sister and Pavel's husband; in Christian's dream, 673 See also Christian; Pavel

'''Marie-Celeste''' 
The Mary Celeste (incorrectly referred to as Marie Celeste) was a brigantine merchant ship discovered in December 1872 in the Atlantic Ocean unmanned and apparently abandoned, despite the fact that the weather was fine and her crew had been experienced and able seamen; "the legendary ship" 303

'''Marjorie''' 
22; a Wren Slothrop is dating; 25; 744; See also Slothrop's girls/stars

<div id="marvy"></div>'''Marvy, Maj. Duane''' 
281; with US Army Ordnance and leader of Marvy's Mothers, "the meanest-ass technical intelligence team in this whole fuckin' Zone"; pushed off train by Enzian while "headed for Mittelwerke" 288; 307; 331; 363; 502; Atomic Chili, 557, 559; 564-66; purchases cocaine from Bodine at Putzi's, 604; castrated, 609; [[Major Duane Marvy|Etymological Musings]]

<div id="groucho">'''Marx, Groucho (1890-1977)'''</div>
210; An American comedian and film star famed as a master of wit; his rapid-fire delivery of innuendo-laden patter has earned him many admirers. He made 13 feature films with his siblings the Marx Brothers, of whom he was the third-born. His distinctive appearance, carried over from his days in vaudeville, included quirks such as glasses, cigars, and a thick greasepaint [[M#mustache|mustache]] and eyebrows; "a Groucho Marx voice" 246; 279

'''Marx, Karl (1818-83)''' 
German social, political and economic theorist and the inspiration for modern communism. He emigrated to Paris in 1863 where he became a communist and first expressed his belief that the proletariat must effect revolutionary change. In Paris, he and Engels wrote Communist Manifesto (1848) ("The workers have nothing to lose but their chains"), the masterpiece of political propaganda. He moved to London in 1849 and it was there that he wrote Das Kapital (1867) (theory of surplus value, class conflict, exploitation of the Working Class, "withering away" of the state); 163; 317; 348; "Marxist dialectics? That's not an opiate, eh?" 701; "'Real to a Marxist.'" 702; "if you don't think there are Marxist-Leninist magicians around, well you better think again!" 748

'''Masons''' 
emblems, 27; masonry, 66; "out the eye at the tower's summit" 470; "Eye at the top of the pyramid" 484, 585; freemasons, 572; and Lyle Bland, 580; "Mobs 'n' Masons" 586; American Founding Fathers, 587-88; magic rituals/Masonic Mysteries, 588; Masonic plots, 587; Ben Franklin, 663-64; "going to dinner becomes a priestly procession, full of secret gestures and understandings" 713;

'''Master of the Woods''' 
742; "sprigs of woodruff [...] carried by the early Teutonic warriors"

'''masturbation''' 
"masturbating under these conditions is exquisite torture" 35; "jerking off into an Army flannel" 36; and message de- crypting, 71-72; "he'll masturbate himself to sleep" 141; "The self-induced orgasm." 155; "there passes the phrase male supremacy ... why do they cherish their masturbating so? 155; "masturbatorily scared-elated" 209; "I can't even masturbate" 216; Pudding, for Domina Nocturna, 236; "These Otukungurua are prophets of masturbating" 318; "Remember the time she caught you masturbating into her glove?" 505; "a Text, to be [...] masturbated till it's all squeezed limp of its last drop" 520; "lost in masturbatory fantasies of nailing this cute but older Latin lady" 678; "the heat, who go surly, fangflashing back to masturbating into Crime Does Not Pay Comics" 709; "16 ragged staring oldtimers who shuffle aimlessly about the stage, jerking off in unison, waggling penises in mock quarter-staffing, brandishing in two and threes their green-leaved poles, exposing amazing chancres and lesions, going off in fountains of sperm strung with blood that splash over glazed trouser-pleats" 743; "purposes of self-arousal" 758; "or reach between your own cold legs" 760; See also Kryptosam; entropy/closed systems/irreversibility

'''mathematical equations''' 
Chapter 1: Poisson dispensation, 140; Chapter 2: yaw control, 239; Chapter 3: hilarious graffiti of visiting mathematicians, 450; Chapter 4: Otyiyumbu Indetermincy Relation, 700; "Little sigma, times P of s-over-little-sigma, equals one over the square root of two times pi, times e to the minus s squared over two little sigma squared." 709 (thanks to Douglas Lannark for this index entry)

'''Mausmacher''' 
653; German: "mouse-maker"; Lutheran who steals Byron from the priest and who attends a Naza torchlight rally in drag

[[image:Max-Moritz.jpg|thumb|Max und Moritz|right]]'''Max and Moritz''' 
757; Max und Moritz were a duo created by German cartoonist Wilhelm Busch; "boy at the steering panel" and man "at the rocket motor panel," respectively, at launching of S-Gerät 00000; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_und_Moritz Wikipedia entry]

'''Maximilian''' 
See Floundering Four

'''Maxwell, Clerk''' 
411; "younger contemporary" of Liebig

'''May Day Eve''' 
329; aka Walpurgisnacht

'''McGonigle, Pvt. Paddy "Electro"''' 
641; hand-pedals the twin-generator cranks for light bulb during THE HAIRCUT

'''Meat Cartel''' 
654; long-standing arrangement with Phoebus "to restrict the amount of tallow in circulation by keeping more fat in meat to be sold regardless of cardiac problems"

'''Mefo bills''' 
German: Metallurgische Forschung = "metals research"; A way for Germany to pay arms manufacturers for rearmament (German rearmament was banned by the terms of the Versailles Treaty). Mefo bills were accepted by all German banks but no reference to them was allowed in published accounts. Twelve billion marks in Mefo bills were issued before the outbreak of WWII, and much of German trade was financed in this manner; 285

[[image:meggazones.gif|300px|left]]'''Meggazone''' 
118; "like being belted in the head with a Swiss alp"; [at left] "Contain: Menthol, Peppermint, Chloroform, Benzoin, Liquorice pastille basis"

'''Meillerwagen''' 
113; transported the V-2 to the launching site, raised it to a vertical firing position, and served as a firing platform; 560;

'''Menshevik''' 
Russian: men'she = "less, fewer"; The Mensheviks were the moderate wing of the Russian Social Democratic Party, who split with the Bolsheviks after the party congress of 1903. They were for "bourgeois reform" rather than the total societal overhaul advocated by the Bolsheviks; 338

'''Messerschmitt''' 
184; fighter plane from the German concern Messerschmitt AG

'''meta-solutions''' 
102; "Perhaps the black girl is a genius of meta-solutions--knocking over the chessboard, shooting the referee" 102

<div id="metatron"></div>'''Metatron''' 
231; in Kabbalistic lore, the highest angel who sits next to Yahweh's throne; 734; See also [[K#kabbalah|Kabbalah]]

<div id="metropolis"></div>'''''Metropolis''/Metropolis''' 
[Greek: "Mother City"] "ARF remains a colony to the metropolitan war" 76; "His erection hums from a certain distance, like an instrument installed, wired by Them into his body as a colonial outpost here in our raw and clamorous world, another office representing Their white Metropolis far away" 285; "Early Rhenish missionaries began to bring them back to the Metropolis, that great dull zoo" 315; "Out and down in the colonies, life can be indulged, life and sensuality in all its forms, with no harm done to the Metropolis" 317; "they can pick us off out there one by one, first a campaign of attrition, then a coordinated raid...leaving then only this metropolis, under siege, to strangle" 326; "inside the metropolitan organ entirely, all other colonial tissue forgotten and left to fend for itself" 470; Rudolph Klein-Rogge, 578; Brigitte Helm, 578; "American Death has come to occupy Europe. It has learned empire from its old metropolis" 722; See also [[C#cities|cities]]; [[Fritz Lang]];

:From Fritz Lang's ''Metropolis''

::"I have created a machine in the image of man, that never tires or makes a mistake."

::"Isn't it worth the loss of a hand to have created the workers of the future — the machine men?"

::"Give me another 24 hours and I'll bring you a machine which no one will be able to tell from a human being."

::- Rotwang, the Inventor

'''Mexico, Roger''' 
31; 30 years old (89); works with Pirate Prentice in Psi Section; Mysterious Microfilm Drill, 32; "provisional wartime friend of Pirate's" 35; meets Jessica, 38-39; the "Antipointsman" 55; paranoia, 124; "He'd seen himself a point on a moving wavefront, propagating through sterile history--a known past, a projectable future. But Jessica was the breaking of the wave." 126; "as this seventh Christmas of the War came wheeling in another charge at his skinny, shivering flank [...]" 126; his map of bomb hits, 138; takes Jessica to see Hansel and Gretel, 174; by the sea on White Sunday, 273; driving throught the Lüneburg Heath, missing Jessica, 626; Gloaming tells him about the Slothrop/IG Farben/Pointsman plot, 630-31; realizes Jessica is working for Pointsman, 631; pissing on Mossmoon's table, 636; "a 30-year-old innocent" 706; foam rubber phallus, 708; at Krupp party, 711

'''M.I. 6''' 
592; British Military Intelligence, overseas operations; [[British Military Intelligence|MORE]]

'''Michele''' 
243-45; friend of Slothrop's who seduces Hillary Bounce so Slothrop can use his teletype machine

'''Michiko''' 
480; wife of Ensign Morituri

'''Microcosmists''' 
738; those who believe Slothrop to be a "point-for-point microcosm"

'''Middle Dutch''' 
108; ic heb u liever dan ên everswîn, al waert van finen goude ghewracht (English: I love you more than a wild boar / even if it were made of fine gold)

'''midgets &c.''' 
"midget spy-camera" 17; "Fred Roper's Company of Wonder Midgets off to an imperial fair in Johannesburg, South Africa. Midgets in their dark winter clothes, exquisite little frocks and nip-waisted overcoats, were running all over the station, gobbling their bonvoyage chocolates and lining up for news photos." 37; "say it very (demisemiquaver) fast in a Munchkin voice if you can dig that" 63; "what appear to be horrid...midgets, in strange operetta uniforms actually, some sort of Central European government-in-exile," 123; "Siggi in his speeded-up midget's voice" 157; "a tiny hand comes out and gives Slothrop the tiny finger" 199; "the arms of young passersby not in the sleeves of their coats but inside somewhere, as if sheltering midgets" 250; "Like a buncha happy midgets on a holiday!" 259; "They went off practically skipping obsessive as Munchkins, out into the erotic Poisson." 270; "Local midgetry scuttle and cringe alongside the tracks" 310; "Were you frightened when the dwarf tried to hug you" 398; "a splendid retinue of dwarves and sprites " 419; the midget sheriff in Osbie Feel's movie, 534-35; "as armies of eternally shrinking midgets galloped upstairs and down again" 567; midgets on the pinball machines, 586; "lammergeiers cruising there in the lurid red altitudes around [...] piloted by bareback dwarves with little plastic masks around their eyes" 664; "Is he interested in all those other worlds who send their dwarf reps out on the backs of eagles?" 664; "where inside Marcel is the midget Grandmaster" 675

'''Midnight''' 
342; "the famous bucking bronco" on the U.S. rodeo circuits

'''Mieczislav''' 
See Omuzire, Mieczislav

'''mindless pleasures''' 
270; working title for Gravity's Rainbow; 681; "idle and mindless hours of the day" 177

'''Mingeborough, Massachussetts''' 
26; Slothrop's hometown [introduced in Pynchon's short story, "The Secret Integration", where Dr. Slothrop and his son Hogan live]; [[Minghe|Etymology]]

'''Ministry of Munitions''' 
416; Branch of the SS, headed by Albert Speer

'''Ministry of Supply''' 
251; British, located at Shell Mex House, "the heart of the Rocket's own branch office in London." Duncan Sandys was the Under-secretary there during WWII.

'''Minsky's''' 
In the 1920s and 30s, Billy Minsky's Republic Theatre on Broadway in New York (later known as just Minsky's) featured rowdy burlesque entertainment. Gypsy Rose Lee performed there in the 1930s, as well as comedians W.C. Fields, Al Jolson, Fannie Brice, Bert Lahr, and Phil Silvers; "more tits than they got at"

<div id="miraculous-medal">'''Miraculous Medal'''</div>
135; "O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to you."

[[image:miraculous_medal.jpg|left|caption|Front]]The design was revealed by the Virgin Mary to St. Catherine Labouré on November 27, 1830 in the chapel of the convent of Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul on the rue de Bac, Paris. Catherine had been having visions for the seven months before and had told only her confessor M. Aladel who had the medal struck in June 1832. In 1836, a tribunal in Paris approved the medal as of supernatural origin. On one side, the medal depicts the Virgin Mary standing on a globe with her feet crushing a serpent's head. Beneath it says, "O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee."

[[image:miraculous_medal_back.jpg|right|caption|Back]]On the other side there is the letter "M" entwined with a bar with a cross on it. Twelve stars surround the symbols. Beneath are two hearts, one crowned with thorns, the other pierced with a sword. The medal gained in significance when Alphonse Ratisbonne, a Jew, was instantly converted to Catholicism while visiting a church in Rome to arrange a funeral. He subsequently founded the Order of Our Lady of Sion to work for understanding between Jews and Catholics

'''[[Mirrors|MIRRORS]]''' 
See also [[I#interface|Interface]]; [[I#inside|inside/outside]]

'''Miss Rheingold 1946''' 
380;

'''Mittelwerke''' 
German: "Central Works"; Given to the Soviets per the Yalta Agreement, 273; primary A-4 factory after RAF raid on Peenemünde in August 1943, located in abandoned gypsum mine near Nordhausen and next to Dora prison camp; evacuated in February and March 1945; 283; designed like a ladder with Stollen (rung-tunnels), 299; control systems work was done outside mountain in castles, farms etc, 313; tactical sites elsewhere, 427; abandoned in '45, 432 [MAP]; [Image] Click here to view a photo from Der Spiegel of laborers working in the tunnels. An Interesting Site; Check out this map of Mittelwerke (thanks to Jeff Meikle).

'''Mix, Tom (1808-1940)''' 
An American film actor and the star of many early Western movies. He made a reported 336 films between 1910 and 1935, all but nine of which were silent features. He was Hollywood’s first Western megastar and is noted as having helped define the genre for all cowboy actors who followed; "Tom Mix shirt, 245

'''MMPI''' 
21; Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory--a psychological test developed in 1943, 81; Slothrop's, F-Scale: a measure to indicate whether the subject is trying to mask or underreport psychological symptoms, 90

'''M.O.''' 
591; Medical Officer

'''Möllner''' 
610; German whom Slothrop questions about von Göll at Putzi's

'''Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich (1890-1986)''' 
Russian statesman and diplomat who was picked by Stalin to be the Soviet commissar of foreign affairs (1939-49). It was during World War II that Molotov ordered the production of the bottles of inflammable liquid that became known as Molotov cocktails. As foreign minister and the major spokesman for the Soviet Union at the Allied conferences during and after World War II, he earned a reputation for uncompromising hostility to the West; cocktails, 507, 511; "isn't telling Vishinsky" 611

<div id="mondaugen">'''Mondaugen, Kurt'''</div>
German: "Mondaugen" = "Moon Eye"; 161; electrical engineer who went to Südwest; Pökler working with, 402-04; accepted Hitler on basis of his "Demian- metaphysics" 403; bodhisattva of Peenemünde, 403; was in Südwest, lived with Ovatjimba (aardvark) people, the poorest Hereros, 403; 1922 - in Südwest with Weissmann during siege of Foppl's villa, 408; after Peenemünde bombing, 422; Mondaugen's Law, 509; Verein für Raumschiffahrt, 582; 687; Mondaugen in V.

'''Monika''' 
603; "Putzi's genial, cigar-smoking, matelasse-suited madame"

'''Monkey Girl''' 
544; "and the pimps in Rome"; one whom Pirate had to betray "in the course of business for the Firm"

'''Monte Carlo Fallacy''' 
56; "No matter how many have fallen inside a particular square, the odds remain the same as they always were. Each hit is independent of all the others."

'''Montez, Maria (1912–1951)''' 
121; A Dominican-born motion picture actress who was know as "The Queen of Technicolor" after a series of films she made with co-star Jon Hall: ''Arabian Nights'' (1942), ''White Savage'' (1943), ''Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves'' (1944), ''Cobra Woman'' (1944), ''Gypsy Wildcat'' (1944), and ''Sudan'' (1945).

'''moon''' 
"no moon" 67; "the halfmoon shines" 104; men on the, 132; "is it the moon?" 123; "toy rockets to the moon" 154; "the dead moon" 163; "we can fly to the moon" 175; "blanched scar of moon" 195; "moonlight reflected from the mirror" 195; "moongrained" 196; astrologer's, 220; "chosen for its affinity to moonlight" 265; "voices twittering with moonlight" 268; "as among craters of the pale moon" 270; "the lunacy of her purple eyes" 271; true message to Hereros, 322; "Me trama con la disquietante luna" 383; "under a moon newly calved" 398; "Passing over the bright rays of Kepler, the rugged solitude of the Southern Highlands, the spectacular views at Copernicus and Eratosthenes, she chose a small pretty crater in the Sea of Tranquility called Maskelyne B." 410; and Ilse, 410; cycles, 414; "the moon that ruled her" 415; "Have you given up so easily on the Moon?" 420; "Her round straw hat a frail moon" 421; Lunar motion, 452; "buttocks rise like moons" 466; "enormous slick stretching away moonward, to the threshold of the north wind" 609; "moon minaret" 637; Katje "felt the moon in the soles of her feet" 657; "brightening and darkening as if by itself" 692; "The moon has risen" 720; moonlight, 721; "our new Deathkingdom" 723; 734; [Check out: Borges' "The Moon" in Dreamtigers (1964)]

'''Moore, Norton B.''' 
452; Aeronautics engineer; worked with Theodore von Kármán on supersonic flow

'''mopery''' 
Slang: a trivial, imaginary violation of law (also seen defined as: act of moping; vagrancy, dawdling); "The War must've been lean times for crowd control, murder and mopery was the best you could do" 570; "Magda was picked up on first-degree mopery" 742; "Edelman [...] accused last year of an 11569 (Attempted Mopery with a Subversive Instrument)" 755;

'''Mopp's Hebdomeriasis''' 
712; "does so-called 'Night Worm' belong among the Pseudo-Goldstrassian Group, or is it properly considered [...] a more insidious form of"; [De Chirico's Hebdomeros]

'''Moreno, El''' 
387; with whom "the white gaucho" has a singing-duel in Martín Fierro

'''Morgan''' 
"GE, that's Morgan money, there's Morgan money in Harvard" 332;

'''Morituri, Ensign''' 
462; [Latin: "We who are about to die" - salutation of the gladiators to the Roman Emperor: "morituri te salutamos" = "we who are about to die salute you"]; "of the Japanese Imperial Navy" "ex-liaison man from Berlin who didn't quite get out by way of Russia"; was in kamikaze training; 467; his story, 474; irony of radium/Hiroshima, 479-80; 672; 706

'''Moritz''' 
757; operating the rocket motor panel for S-gerät 00000; 758

'''Morrison, Herbert Stanley (1888-1965)''' 
British Labour statesman who played a leading role in London local government for 25 years. Constantly involved with socialist politics from 1905, he was active in Churchill's coalition government, serving as Minister of Supply, Home Secretary and Minister of Home Security; 132

'''Morrison shelter''' 
Introduced by Herbert Morrison while home secretary in Churchill's government, they were bomb shelters, 24

'''Mosquito''' 
136; The de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito--a British combat aircraft that excelled in versatility during WWII; was made primarily out of laminated plywood

'''Moss Creature''' 
523; hallucination of Pavel's during Leunagasolin high

'''Mossmoon, Clive''' 
35; works for ICI doing polymer research; husband of Scorpia; 228-29; discussion regarding releasing Slothrop, 270; 544; 615; 635

'''Mossmoon, Scorpia''' 
35; wife of Clive, aka "Red Bitch of the High Seas"; had an affair with Pirate in 1936, 35-36; "living in St. John's Wood among sheet-music, new recipes, a small kennel of Weimaraners whose racial purity she will go to extravagant lengths to preserve" 544; 698

'''[[Mothers in Gravity's Rainbow|MOTHERS]]''' 
See also [[F#fathers|fathers]]; [[N#nipple|Nipple, Lloyd]]; [[#metropolis|Metropolis]]; [check out [[#marvy|Marvy's Mothers]], too]

'''Mouse Alexei''' 
229; lab rat at White Visitation

'''Mouthorgan, Missouri''' 
583; location of Masonic temple the Tracys visit; "an elegant chaos to bend the ingenuity of Bland's bought expert" 586;

'''[[The Movies in Gravity's Rainbow|MOVIES]]
See also [[A#actors|actors/directors]]; [[F#film|film/cinema references]]; [[K#kingkong|King Kong]]

'''Moxie''' 
63; A carbonated beverage that was one of the first mass-produced soft drinks in the United States. In its advertising, it used “Make Mine Moxie!” advertising jingles, the slogan “Just Make It Moxie for Mine”, and a "Moxie Man" logo. The brand suffered a significant decline in sales during the 1930s; 208; 258

'''Mravenko''' 
611; "one of the VIAM people"

<div id="mucker"></div>'''Mucker-Maffick, Oliver "Tantivy"''' 
"tantivy" is a hunting cry made when the chase is at full speed; 18; shares office with Slothrop at ACHTUNG; with Slothrop at Casino, 181; Ballad of, 191; "There hasn't been a word" 209; disappears - death confirmed, 252; Slothrop's dream of his return, 551; 584; [[Oliver Mucker-Maffick|Etymology]]; See also [[A#achtung|ACHTUNG]]

'''Muffage, Doctor''' 
591; with Dr. Spontoon, out to castrate Slothrop

'''Muffin-tin Road''' 
646; in Happyville: "note the smiing faces on all the houses"

'''Mukuru''' 
322; Hereros' "first ancestor, Adam"; breath of, 524; 562

'''Müller-Hochleben, Miss''' 
632-34; German: "Miller-Highlife" (really!); "short but spunky secretary" at Twelfth House on Gallaho Mews in London whose glasses fall off

<div id="munchkin">'''Munchkins'''</div>
The natives of the fictional Munchkin Country in the Oz books by L. Frank Baum. They first appeared in the 1900 novel [[W#wizoz|The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]], in which they are described as being somewhat short of stature, and wearing only blue. They are best-known from their depiction in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, in which they are played by adult proportional dwarfs, dressed in brightly multicolored outfits, and live in Munchkinland; "Munchkin voice" 63; "obsessive as Munchkins" 270

'''Murphy's Law''' 
275; "when everything has been taken care of, when nothing can go wrong, or even surprise us. . .something will"; "where the the salvation could be" 471; See also [[G#godel|Gödel's Theorem]]

'''[[Music in Gravity's Rainbow|MUSIC]]''' 
See also [[F#foxtrot|fox-trot]]; [[#musicians|musicians/composers]; [[R#rossini|Rossini]]; [[Songs/Compositions|songs/compositions]]

<div id="musicians"></div>'''musicians/composers''' 
Sandy MacPherson, 13; George Formby, 18; Falkman and His Apache Band, 32; Charlie ("Yardbird") Parker, 63; Primo Scala's Accordian Band, 115; Hop Harrigan and Tank Tinker, 117; Roland Peachey and His Orchestra, 121; Thomas Tallis, Henry Purcell, Heinrich Suso, 129; Ernesto Lecuona, 169; Carl Orff, 237, 441; Benny Goodman, 225; Juan d'Arienzo, 267; Der Bingle (B. Crosby), 320; Richard Wagner, 324, 450; Andrews Sisters, 382; Frank Sinatra, 390, 700; Hugo Wolf, 419, 450; Ludwig von Beethoven, 440, 685; Anton Webern, 440, 494; Irving Berlin, 442; Horst Wessel, 443; Kurt Weill, 513; Gene Krupa, 513; Guy Lombardo, 529; Gilbert & Sullivan, 538; Jacques Offenbach, 584 ("Offenbach galop": Jacques Offenbach wrote the music to the well-known "Cancan" - "galop" is a dance); Sandy McPherson, 592; Spohr, Rossini, Spontini, 622; Diamond Lil, 657; 175-Stadt Chorale, 668; Stephen Foster, 675; Spike Jones, 678; Brahms, 685; Harry James, 685; J.S. Bach, 685; Tchaikovsky, 702; Josef Haydn, 712; Lübeck Hitler Youth Glee Club, 736; See also [[R#rossini|Rossini]]

'''Mussert's people''' 
97; someone for whom Katje is "smelling out" Jewish families

Mr. Pynchon is probably referring to Anton Adriaan Mussert, fouder and leader of the Dutch National Socialist Movement during World War II

<div id="mustache">'''mustache'''</div>
"mustaches, to be shaved off only by authorized crypto officers" 16; "jar of mustache wax" 17; "mustaches mouthwide" 20; 62; "mustache unruffled" 188; "twirling his slick mustache in a saber-point" 191; "great twisted mustache" 201; "Mustache Kit, 20 different shapes from [[F#fumanchu|Fu Manchu]] to [[M#groucho|Groucho Marx]]", "[[E#earp|Wyatt Earp's]]", "[[B#booth|John Wilkes Booth's]]", "the old duster just keeps droopin' down again" 210; "as the mustache waxes, Slothrop waxes the mustache" 211; "twisting his mustache" 221; "clipped mustache bristles" 233; "[[F#flynn|Errol Flynn]] frisks his mustache" 248; 267; "I even have a mustache...like that [[H#hemingway|Ernest Hemingway]]" 292; "frisks mustaches" 295; "red [[V#hindenburg|von Hindenburg]] mustache" 305; 306; "mustache white and bubbly too" 307; "white, water-buffalo mustaches" 308; "saws off pieces of his mustache on both sides...look like [[H#hitler|Hitler]]" 309; "All the funny Fascists just a-twirlin' their mustaches" 310; "big chromo of [[S#stalin|Stalin]]...mustache and hair only incidental as makeup" 368; "wide handle-bar mustache" 473; "twisting half his mustache so it points up in a saber at one eye" 474; "Frisking his great mustache" 479; "around the mustache line" 583; " black neckerchiefs whipping about like the mustaches of epileptic villains" 594; "blunt and ragged mustache" 607; "natty mustaches" 632; "superthin mustache" 675; "feathery [[R#rilke|Rilke]] mustaches" 711

'''''My Little Chickadee''''' 
198; a 1940 Universal comedy/western motion picture starring [[W#maewest|Mae West]] and W. C. Fields

'''Myrtle Miraculous''' 
See [[F#floundering|Floundering Four]]

'''Mysterious Microfilm Drill''' 
32; wherein "Bloat goes somewhere and microfilms something, then transfers it, via Pirate, to young Mexico. And thence [...] down to 'The White Visitation'"

'''Mystery Stimulus''' 
84; "Conditioned response = hardon whenever x is present [...] what's x? Why it's the famous 'Mystery Stimulus'

'''[[Mythology in Gravity's Rainbow|MYTHOLOGY]]''' 
See also [[G#god|God]]; [[S#scylla|Scylla and Charybdis]]

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'''Radnichny''' 
353; impetuous and unstable practical joker in Weird Letter Assignment

'''R.A.F. Medmenham''' 
726; "techniques by which Constance Babington-Smith and her colleagues at R.A.F. Medmenham discovered the Rocket back in 1943 in recco photographs of Peenemünde"

<div id="rainbow"></div>'''rainbow''' 
the rising sun striking the rocket's exhaust, 6; "his rainbowed Valkyrie over Peenemünde" 151; "all around them were clouds, rainbows, drops of fire" 160; "the greengrocer is wishing on a rainbow today" 175; "the rainbow edges of what is almost on him" 203; "a rainbow-striped dirndl skirt" 208; "they move forever under it. . .as if it were the Rainbow" 209; "a peacock, courting, fanning his tail ... she saw it in the colors that moved in the flame as it rose off the platform, scarlet, orange, iridescent green" 223; "wild as a rainbow" 369; "the rainbow edge of the sound" 488; "It's a long rainbow, mostly [...] indigo and Kelly green" 524; "To purity of light--of bonds that sing,/And whips that trail their spectra as they fall" 532-33; Osbie "a sunburst in primary colors spiking out from his head" 536; "Slothrop sees a very thick rainbow" 626; "rainbow of sentinel ladies" 637; "beautiful Serpent, its coils in rainbow lashings" 721; "the great rainbow plumes" 722; "serpent coils that lash above the surface of the Earth in rainbow light" 726

'''Raketenflugplatz''' 
162-63; German: "rocket site"; the original Raketenflugplatz was an abandoned dump in Berlin where the VfR launched their rockets in the early 1930s; 416

'''Raketen-Stadt''' 
296; German: "Rocket-City"; created in the Mittelwerke by Ernst Ölsch (under Speer) "To Avoid Symmetry, Allow Complexity, Introduce Terror" 297; "these are the els and busses of an enormous transit system here in the Raketenstadt" 603; "plexiglass maps of the webs we maintain across the Zone" 660; and "the Floundering Four" 674; Daguerreotype of, taken by "a forgotten photographer [...] a habitué of mercury fumes" 725; "By now the city has grown so tall that elevators are long-haul affairs" 735

'''Rapallo Treaty''' 
166; Agreement between Soviet Russia and Germany which contained extensive trade agreements including the lifting of trade restrictions between the two countries, thus allowing Krupp to sell their steel machines to the Soviets. Germany's powerful right wing was enraged at the recognition given the new Communist regime and on June 24, 1922 Foreign Minister Walter Rathenau, who negotiated the treaty on Germany's behalf, was shot and killed in the street; 338; 352 See also [[#rathenau|Rathenau, Walter]]

'''Rapier, Father''' 
538; Jesuit preaching at double-agent convention/garden

'''ratchet''' 
"wordless ratcheting cue" 51; "off on a...ratchet of rooms" 257; "a ratcheting noise" 282; "dragging himself up the ratchet's teeth" 547; "ratcheting like a phone number being dialed" 607; "Bicycle riders ratcheted by" 611; "The nonstop revue crosses its stage. . .in an endless ratchet" 681; "CATCH" 759; See also [[F#film|film/cinema references]]

'''rates of change''' 
"To integrate here is to operate on a rate of change so that time falls away: change is stilled" 301; "a train of imperceptible light and dark" 642; See also [[D#deltat|delta-t]]

'''Rathaus''' 
German: "town-hall"; in Nordhausen, 333

'''Rathenau, Walter (d. 1922)''' 
163; German foreign minister who was assassinated; "prophet and architect of cartelized state" 164; seance of, 163-65; during WWI "was ramrodding the whole economy" 284; dealt the Rapallo Treaty ("elaborate piece of theatre" - 352) with Tchitcherine's father, 338; 581; 590; 616; See also Rapallo Treaty; [Sasuly's IG Farben]

'''Rat Ilya''' 
229; rat at White Visitation

'''Rauhandle''' 
98; Blicero's athletic young friend/lover(?) "how many years back into the peace"

'''Raum, Natasha''' 
712; quoted regarding the "Hydra-Phänomen" and Slothrop's plucking-of-self, in her "'Regions of Indeterminacy in Albatross Anatomy,' Proceedings of the International Society of Confessors to an Enthusiasm for Albatross Nosology"

'''Ravenna''' 
564; coastal northern Italian city

'''Ray''' 
256; U.S. MP in Nice outside Slothrop's door

'''Rebecca''' 
155; "Jewess" comrade of Leni's in KDP

'''recco photos''' 
232; Reconnaissance photographs; 240

'''Reed, Ishmael (b. 1938)''' 
588; American novelist

'''Reed, Maurice ("Saxophone")''' 
9; at Pirate's maisonette

'''Reeperbahn''' 
652; in the district of Saint Pauli in Hamburg, a notorious street of ill-repute (where the Beatles played before getting famous) where Byron is traded to a prostitute

'''Reformation''' 
267; The 16th century revolution (a Counterforce) that took place in the Western church, due primarily to the Catholic church's loss of spiritual credibility as a result of its increasing material wealth and power. See also Counterforce; Zwingli, Huldrych

'''Regents Park Zoo''' 
121; in London

'''Reichsbank''' 
284; Germany's leading financial institution.

'''Reichstag building''' 
368; in Berlin, shelled out and resembling a giant shitting ape

'''Reinickendorf''' 
154; a neighborhood in Berlin encompassing the northwest of the city area, including the Berlin-Tegel Airport, Lake Tegel, spacious settlements of detached houses as well as housing estates; Pökler "reported to the rocket facility at"

'''Reithinger, Dr.''' 
According to Sasuly, Reithinger, who worked as director of statistics in NW7 under Ilgner, "had been considered one of the outstanding statisticians of Germany. [He] had traveled in many countries [...] and in each country met with leading statisticians and economists on a basis of scientific interest and arranged the exchange of satistical data." (p.98); his VOWI office was the Statistical Department of NW7, 630

'''religion''' 
"something vaguely religious" 66; Chain of Being, 77; "every true god must be both organizer and destroyer" 99; "God is creator and destroyer, sun and darkness, all sets of opposites brought together" 100; "rocket-mysticism" 154; "presence of the Creator much more direct" 214; "Judaized" 219; Krishna, 276; "ice-saints" 281; "There may be no gods, but there is a pattern" 322; Chance = God, 323, 613; "Allah has smiled on us" 365; "breath of God" 454; God's signature, 463; Manichaean, 631, 727; always about death, 701; Pan, 720; Buddha, 733; "By all the holy names of God" 734; See also [[P#puritans|Puritans]]; [[C#christianity|Christianity]]; [[H#hand|Hand of Providence/God]]; [[Islam]]

<div id="return"></div>'''Return, Cycle of''' 
"Nature does not know extinction, all it knows is transformation" 1; "Death is a debt to nature due" 26; "lapsing back now to green wilderness" 28; toothpaste tube "waiting now--its true return--to be melted for solder" 130; "The real movement is not from death to any rebirth. It is from death to death-transfigured" 166; "some teeming cycle of departure and return" 198; "no cycles, no returns" 318; to the Center (Hereros), 319; "men turning to coal" 351; 412; serpent eating its tail, 413; Slothrop's transmutation dream about Greta, 447; Bicycle Rider in the Sky, 501; trees growing through cracks at Peenemünde, 502; Slothrop's Rider (celestial cyclist), 509; serpentine, 520; "restore us to our Earth and to our freedom" 525; "unclipped topiary hedges, growing back into reality" 535; "a Jesuit [...] here to preach, like his colleague Teilhard de Chardin, against return" 539; "at least the physical things They have taken, from Earth and from us, can be dismantled, demolished--returned to where it all came from" 540; "To affirm Their mortality is to affirm Return" 540; 560; Destiny, 576; "that familiar division between return and one-shot visitation" 584; wheels in the sky, 620; Cosmic windmill, 624; "They took us at the gates of green return" 627; "cables lay rusting across the sodden meadows, going to flakes, to ions and earth" 627; "prehistoric wastes. . .transmuted to the very substance of History" 639; windmill, 670; Serpent/Pan, 720-21; America, 722-23; 726; garbage trucks, 757; See also [[C#counterforce|Counterforce]]; [[C#center|Center]]; [[E#excrement|excrement]]; [[M#mandala|mandala]]; [[S#serpent|serpent]]

'''Reunion''' 
110; the only other island where van der Groov knew there were Dodoes

'''Rexist''' 
Rexist Movement was formed in 1930 by Léon Degrelle, allegedly to eliminate political contamintion of the Roman Catholic religion. From a wing of the ruling Catholic Party, the Rexist Movement evolved into an opposition party and, under Degrelle's guidance, elected 21 deputies to the Belgian Parliament in 1936. With the aid of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, Degrelle turned the Rexists into a fascist organization; Louis Borgesius attended their meetings, 546; See also NSB credentials

'''Reyes, Cipriano''' 
383; "intervened for" G. Portales once

'''Rheinelbe Union''' 
284; combined by Stinnes into a super-cartel with Siemens-Schuchert after WWI;

'''Rhenish Missionary Society''' 
100; in South-West Africa, 315; 316;

'''Reynolds''' 
453; coefficient named after

'''RHIP''' 
190; Rank Has Its Privileges; 448

'''''Rigoletto''''' 
132.21; An opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo. It was first performed at La Fenice in Venice on March 11, 1851. It is considered by many to be the first of the operatic masterpieces of Verdi's middle-to-late career.

'''Riickert, Helen''' 
381; "a blond with a Dutch surname" competing for Miss Rheingold 1946

'''Rijkswijksche Bosch''' 
113; in Holland, where film of Schwarzkommando will be "discovered" in fake ruins of rocket-firing site

<div id="rilke">'''Rilke, Rainer Maria (d. 1926)'''</div>
[[image:Rilke.gif|left]]97-99; German philosopher/poet; "Want the change; O be inspired by the Flame"; Duino Elegies, 99; "mountainside gentian of Nordic colors" 101; "anti-Rilke" 102; "Tenth-Elegy angel" 341; "Once, only once. . ." 413; 516; "If we are here once, only once [...]" 539; "To the rushing water speak, I am" 622; "poem about the Leid-Stadt" ["Pain-City" - See: 98-99], 644; [[M#mustache|mustache]], 711; See also [[G#germans|Germans]]

'''rinderpest''' 
317; "cattle dead of" 323;

'''Rinso, Lieutenant''' 
449; Charles' paranoia that Rinso's plotting to murder him, on the Toiletship

'''Rioja, La''' 
612; a wasteland "on the eastern slopes of the Andes" where Correa was found dead

'''Ripov, Nikolai''' 
700; of Commissariat for Intelligence Activities; checks up on Tchitcherine; during Tchitcherine's haunting, 703; 719

'''Rippenstoss, Heinz''' 
167; German: "kick in the groin" (or "nudge in the ribs"); "irrepressible Nazi wag and gadabout" at Rathenau seance and asker of the question "Is God really Jewish?"

'''Rivadavia''' 
263; "where the true South begins" in Argentina; From "The South" in the short story collection Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges (Grove Press, 1962, p. 169):

:"Every Argentine knows that the South begins at the other side of Rivadavia. Dahlmann was in the habit of saying that this was no mere convention, that whoever crosses this street enters a more ancient and sterner world."

Avenida Rivadavia, in Buenos Aires, is an immensely long street (Porteños claim it is the longest in the world) which runs east to west for nearly two hundred blocks from Plaza de Mayo to Morón, outside the city limits.

'''Rizla liquorice cigarette paper''' 
93; [http://www.rizla.co.uk/ Rizla Website]

'''Robert-Houdin, Jean-Eugène (1805-1871)''' 
French magician considered to be the father of modern conjuring. The first magician to use electricity, he also improved the signalling method for the "thought transference" trick. Harry Houdini named himself after Robert-Houdin; "the great conjurer" 675

'''Robin''' 
59; childhood friend recalled by Jessica

'''Robot Blitz''' 
85; German buzz bomb (aka "robot bomb" and "V-1") attack on London

'''Roca, Gen. Julio Argentino''' 
Roca distinguished himself militarily with victories in the "Indian wars" (ending in 1879), opening up the pampas to settlement by whites and turning him into a political hero which he parlayed into his election as president in 1880; "campaign to open the pampas by exterminating the people who live there" 387

'''Rocket''' 
incoming mail, 6; A4, 8, 396, 406, 411, 464; farting buzzbombs, 21; "explode first. . .then you hear them coming in" 23; "slender church steeples" 29 (& 624); "a piece of time neatly snipped out" 48; "a rocket has suddenly struck" 59; V-1 and V-2, 86; "the sounds of V-1 and V-2, one the reverse of the other" 144; premonitions in Psi section, 146; "rocket-mysticism" 154; "between the two points, in the five minutes, it lives an entire life." 209; assembly at Mittelwerke, 304; "Germans [...] who called the rocket Der Phau ["the peacock"], 223; "terrible passage reduced. . .to bourgeois terms" 239; Slothrop's discovery of blueprint, 242; and manhood, 324; "hidden inside the summer Zone, the Rocket is waiting" 359; 5 launching switch positions, 361; cult of A4 (A: "aggregate"), 391; Pökler's dreams of, 399; leading to freedom of outerspace, 400; money v. dreams, 400; Pökler as an extension of, 402; as fat Japanese arrow, 403; A3, 406; growing towards a predestined shape (Schicksal), 416; A5, 416; mapped on to face, 423; A4 test sites moved to Blizna, Poland in '43 - Sarnaki is Ground Zero, 424; problem rockets--"reluctant virgins" 426; 10K pounds sterling, 438; "half bullet, half arrow" 453; charisma of, 464; "the kingly voice of the Aggregate" 470; Rocket Noon, 500; fins=mandala, 563 (illus. 624); "The sand-colored churchtops [...] like rocket fins guiding the streamlined spires" 624; "A4. . .concealed behind an uncrossable wall that separated real pain and terror from summoned deliverer." 666; 673; firing vectors, 706; "Rocket state-cosmology" 726; "Rocket as Torah" 727; "an evil Rocket for the World's suicide" 727; "it comes as the Revealer" 728; Goebbels' "avenger" 747; origin of countdown, 753; See also [http://www.constable.ca/v2.htm V2 Page] - very good; [[S#schwartzgerat|Schwarzgerät]]; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-1_rocket V-1 Rocket at Wikipedia] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket V-2 Rocket at Wikipedia]

'''Rocketman (aka Raketemensch, aka Slothrop)''' 
359; a comic book character from the '40s and Tyrone's alter-ego; 366; comic-book dialogue, 371; 376; exists in nongeographical space ("Providence's little pal"), 379; war cry: "Hauptstufe" - "leaps broad highways in a single bound!" 380; "Fickt nicht mit der Raketemensch!" 436; 512; 596; "You poor fucker." 741

'''Rohmer, Sax (c.1883-1959)''' 
Sax Rohmer, aka Arthur Sarsfield Wade, was an internationally popular British writer who created the evil genius Fu Manchu, the Chinese hero-villain of many novels. Dr. Fu Manchu (1913) was the first in the series of which there were several more over the next 45 years, over which time Fu Manchu evolved from an entirely self-serving villain into a dedicated anti-Communist; "great Manichaean saga" 641

'''Rohr''' 
681; German: "tube" or "pipe"; Jehovah's witness who is "Keeper of the Antenna" for Germans to communicate with U-boats

'''Rommel, Erwin (1891-1944)''' 
Aka the "Desert Fox," Rommel is most famous for commanding the Afrika Korps in North Africa in 1941, driving the British out of Libya and into Egypt. Anglo-American forces finally compelled his surrender in Tunisia in 1943. He escaped and commanded German forces in Italy and then in northern France preparing for the Allied invasion of 1944. Seeing the writing on the wall, he begged Hitler to end the war. Although innocent, he was implicated in the July 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler and opted for suicide over arrest and a sure conviction; "Old Blood 'n' Guts" handed Rommel's ass to him in the desert" 287

'''Roosevelt, Eleanor (1882-1962)''' 
The wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor was a social-activist first lady during his presidency. After his death, she held various posts in the United Nations; Chiclitz's "Eleanor Roosevelt routine. 'The othuh day, my son Idiot--uh, Eliot--and I, were baking cookies'" 566

'''Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945)''' 
32nd president (Democrat) of the U.S., 1932-45. He started the "New Deal" program in 1933 to combat the Great Depression, which involved abandoning the gold standard, devaluing the dollar, state intervention in the credit market, agricultural price support, and the passage of the Social Security Act (1935) which provided for old-age and unemployment insurance;135; Third Term, 270; "died back in the spring [12 April]" 373; "it seemed he'd just keep getting elected, term after term, forever. But somebody had decided to change that. So he was put to sleep" 374; "a being They assembled, a being They would dismantle" 374; caricature of on Toiletship, 450; "'Mister Swope was ace buddies with old'" 565; "Roosevelt's 'election' in 1932" 581; "Harvard, beholden to all kinds of money old and new, commodity and retail" 581

<div id="rorschach"></div>'''Rorschach Test''' 
The Rorschach inkblots were developed by a Swiss psychiatrist, Hermann Rorschach (1884-1922), in an effort to reduce the time required in psychiatric diagnosis. His test consists of 10 cards, half in color and half in black and white. The subject is shown the 10 blots one at a time, the task being to describe what she sees in the blots or what they remind her of. There are no right or wrong answers; "'a so-called, "projec-tive" test'" 81; See also [[P#paranoia|paranoia/connectedness]]

'''Rosas, Juan Manuel de (1793-1877)''' 
After losing an Argentinian election in 1835, Rosas led a revolt and ruled as dictator, through terror and bloodshed, from 1835 to 1852; "The tyrant Rosas has been dead a century, but his cult flourishes" 264

'''Rose''' 
680; woman around a fire in the "dingy yellow amphitheatre"

'''Roseland Ballroom''' 
63; in Boston--where Slothrop drops his harmonica down the toilet in the men's room while vomiting; 623; 688

<div id="rossini">'''Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio (1792-1868)'''</div>
Italian composer of light comic opera and pleasant, melodious, crowd-pleasing music; "an abbreviated version of ''L'Inutil Precauzione'' (that imaginary opera with which Rosina seeks to delude her guardian in ''The Barber of Seville'')" 204; Rue Rossini, 248, 253, 257; ''William Tell Overture'' 262; overture to ''La Gazza Ladra'', [[Beethoven & Rossini|vs. Beethoven]], 273, 440; his music: "love without payment of any kind" 274; 376; "'The Italian girl is in Algiers, the Barber's in the crockery, the magpie's stealing everything in sight! The World is rushing together. . .'" 440; "Rossini [...] full of light and kindness" 622; "long-suppressed Rossini violin concerto (op. posth.)" 684; "Now I know it's not as keen as old Rossini [snatch of La Gazza Ladra here]" 685

'''Rossokovski''' 
501; left Peenemünde with White Russian Army; 504

'''rösti''' 
258;

<div id="routinization"></div>'''Routinization/ Rationalization of Charisma''' 
concept developed by Max Weber; Führer-principle, 81; "there should be no room for a terrible disease like charisma" 81; "we'll have shown again the stone determinacy [...] of every soul" 86; "Pavlov believed the ideal [...] is the true mechanical explanation" 89; "scrubbed and routinized fingers" 91; "cage his old gods, snare them in words" 99; "that vaguely criminal face on your ID card, its soul snatched by the government camera as the guillotine shutter fell" 134; "another long-routinezed nudge of horn, flip of hoof" 142; "Destiny will betray you, crush your ideals, deliver you into the same detestable Bürgerlichkeit as your father [...] fly from pain to duty, from joy to work, from commitment to neutrality." 162; "death-by- government" 176; "the rationalized power-ritual that will be the coming peace" 177; 201; "well before he loses his innocence and becomes one of them" 205; "There's just no passion at all" 216; "the Rocket's terrible passage reduced. . .to bougeois terms" 239; "dusty Dracularity, the West's ancient curse" 263; of Mittelwerke, 295; 324; 325; N.T.A., 339; writing down ajtys, 357; 416; A4's charisma, 464; routinization of sex, 467-68; "bureaucracy of departure" 470; "verbal, ranked and uniformed" 478; 508; 525; topiary, 535; "when the rages came over him, breaking through from beneath the rationalized look" 579; "the Masons had long, long degenerated into just another businessmen's club" 588; "grim rationalizing of the world" 588; Magician and the magical mandrake root, 625; "vague excitement at break in routine" 651; "You are perverting a great discovery to the uses of commerce" 665; keying waves, 698; Hexes-Stadt (you either become a bureaucrat or choose the world), 718; "the only enterprise is administrating" 718; "'Technique is just a substitute for when you get older'" 718; "The routines go on" 721; "Passageways of routine" 724; "The heroes will go on, kicked upstairs to oversee the development of bright new middle-line personnel" 752; [Attempting to impose order on GR]; See also [[C#control|control]]; [[G#grid|grid]]; [[M#mmpi|MMPI]]; [[N#naming|naming]]; [[#rorschach|Rorschach Test]]; [[Routinization of Charisma]]

'''Rowena''' 
200; one of two ladies with the General playing croquet as Slothrop falls from the tree, draped in a purple sheet

'''Royal Fellow''' 
37; "Royal Fellow-baiting" 171;

'''Rozhdestvenski, Admiral''' 
349-51; in December 1904, "command[ed] a fleet of 42 Russian men-o'-war" into the South African port of Lüderitzbucht" with Tchitcherine's father on board; "1904 was when Admiral Rozhdestvenski sailed his fleet halfway around the world to relieve Port Arthur" 452

'''Rózsavölgyi, Dr. Géza''' 
79; (Hungarian: "of the pink valley"); Hungarian; works in ARF wing;aka "Rosie" 80; violently anti-Soviet; "still with the project" 273; at Twelfth House, 632-35; son of Sandor the bulb salesman in Transylvania, 647; 692

'''Rózsavölgyi, Sandor''' 
647; father of Géza, "ace [lightbulb] salesman [...] who covered all the Transylvanian territory"

'''Rücksichtslos''' 
German: "inconsiderate" or "ruthless"); See Toiletship

'''Rudi''' 
155; "La Boheme Student" comrade of Leni's in KPD; 156; 158

'''Rundstedt offensive''' 
52; Gerd von Rundstedt (1875-1953) was one of Adolf Hitler's ablest military leaders in World War II. In 1944, this German field marshal directed the Ardennes offensive (Battle of the Bulge). General Dwight D. Eisenhower called him the ablest of the German generals of World War II. 131

'''RUSSIAN TRANSLATIONS''' [thanks to our Russian correspondent, Comrade Alexis B.]

:340: '''lepeshka:''' a bread roll, often made of a blend of rye and wheat flours

:512: '''budka:''' booth (traffic police in Moscow patrol from raised booths that look out over the street, which are called budkas)

:513: '''pogoni:''' the bars on the shoulders of military uniforms from which dangle the stars, tassles, &c. ''' 

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297.36 '''Articles of Immachination''' 
As opposed to Articles of Incorporation

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298.24 '''Etzel Ölsch '''
Etzel, or Attila the Hun, is first featured as the agent of destruction in the ''Nibelungen'' movie during which Franz Pökler falls asleep (159.19). According to the [http://duden-suche.de/suche/abstract.php?artikel_id=34277&verweis=1&shortname=famnamen#34279 Duden dictionary of family names], Oelsch is a variant of Oelschner, which refers to various east German placenames of Slavic origin.

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298.10 '''how long, how long you sfacim-a dis country''' 
The question "how long" addressed to a "You" echoes Psalm 13 ("How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever?"). While ''sfacimento'' (related to disfacimento, ultimately from ''disfare'', 'undo') means decay in literary Italian, in Neapolitan slang ''sfacim'' stands for semen (or a mean person). See the exchange in [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_6 V., 140/146 ].

299.38 '''Picture the letters SS stretched lengthwise''' 
In the 2007 biography ''Von Braun:Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War'', Michael Neufeld writes that after the August 1943 attack on Peenemunde, the rocket works were moved to an abandoned underground storage facility. The tunnels were, in historical fact, just as described here: like the letter "s" stretched lengthwise connected by cross tunnels. Each "s" was large enough to accommodate a long train. The prison labor from Dora -- mostly Poles, Russians, French and German leftist/communists and few if any Jews -- lived and died in wretched conditions in the cross-tunnels.

The tunnels are arranged like a two-dimensional parody of the DNA molecule. The 44 cross-tunnels might suggest the 22 pairs of chromosomes possessed by each individual. Correspondent Debby Katz adds the following comment:

:"Cross tunnels suggest often -illustrated base pairings in DNA (adenine-thymine A-T, or cytosine-guanine, C-G) the order of which defines the "sense" of the coded message within the molecule. We human-types possess 23 pairs of chromosomes, not 22. One pair, the X-X or X-Y is, of course, not an identical pairing in the male of the species. But the Y is without a doubt information-holding, as an X-O female (45 chromosomes, missing the second X chromosome) is not a male, but a female with a lot of problems."

:Not sure where the idea of the DNA double helix comes from, but it is not supported by the text. If the tunnels resembled a helix, a better metaphor would be a spiral staircase, not a ladder with a slight s-curve. Also, the tunnels are designed with Rocket imagery in mind (DNA is not rocket imagery). No, as the book says, the tunnels are suggestive of the '''double integral''', translating rocket acceleration into a point -- the Brennschluss point. And as noted above, humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes, not 22.

==Page 300==
300.03 '''Hupla''' 
Or "hoopla," a big fuss. ''Hoppla'' is also a German expression meaning 'oops'

==Page 301==
301.38 '''1000 yards east of Waterloo Station''' 
Coincidence?: About 1000 yards east (actually east-southeast) of Waterloo Station, off Southwark Bridge Road, near its intersection with Southwark Street, is a little ''cul-de-sac'' where the rocket might impact. Its name is America Street.

==Page 302==
302.20-21 '''a constellation...a 13th sign of the Zodiac named for it''' 
Though probably not intended as such by TRP, there is in fact a 13th Zodiacal constellation named [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiucus Ophiuchus], formerly Serpentarius, both meaning "the serpent holder," found between Scorpio and Sagittarius. "Of the 13 zodiacal constellations (constellations that contain the Sun during the course of the year), Ophiuchus is the only one not counted as an astrological sign." It is passed over. 

Going way off on a limb, Ophiuchus may map to Tchitcherine in that they both handle Snakes and see the lightning of God...
:" but they [Ophiuchus and Tchitcherine?] lie so close to Earth that from many places they can't be seen at all, and from different places inside the zone where they can be seen, they fall into completely different patterns..."

Also ties in with the later discussion of the Serpent and Kekule's dream. 

302.32-33 '''the gentlemanly reflex that made him edit, switch names, insert fantasies into the yarns''' 
The habit of switching names and inserting fantasies might explain why the project SEZ WHO (270-271, Speed and Perdoo trying to locate Slothrop's girls) fails completely.

==Page 303==
303.20 '''Marie-Celeste''' 
The Mary Celeste (incorrectly referred to as Marie Celeste) was a brigantine merchant ship discovered in December 1872 in the Atlantic Ocean unmanned and apparently abandoned, despite the fact that the weather was fine and her crew had been experienced and able seamen;

==Page 306==
306.19 '''hanging by the foot''' 
Note how Slothrop, as he hangs upside down by one foot, momentarily turns into a version of the Tarot card The Hanged Man, which also turns up in his Tarot reading on p. 738.

This rope actually existed in historical fact. The Mittelwerke tunnels had a large crane mit rope to lift the rocket to an upright position for testing.

==Page 308==
308.8-10 '''"''There'' he is," in a great roar..."go ''git'' him boys!"''' 
Major Marvy at this point and forward resembles the Queen of Hearts in the Alice stories as he chases after Slothrop boisterously yelling, in essence, "Off with his head!"

==Page 310==
310.06 '''"Gruss Gott"''' 
Glimpf's greeting to Slothrop makes more sense as explained by Igor Zabel:
"'Gruss Gott!' is not 'Great God!' but 'Greet (you) God!' a very common greeting in Austria, Bavaria and southern Germany, more common, in fact, than 'Good morning'. It should be written with an umlaut (grüss)."

==Page 312==
312.17 '''white Stetson''' 
[[image:slim-pickens.jpg|thumb|120px|Slim Pickens in ''Dr. Strangelove''|right]]Both Marvy’s dress and speech echo the character of Major Stanley "King" Kong, the bomber pilot played by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slim_Pickens Slim Pickens] in Stanley Kubrick’s [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove ''Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb''] (1964).

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'''Mabuse, Dr.''' 
579; In Fritz Lang's "Mabuse der Spieler," Dr Mabuse is the master-criminal who seeks to control the populace through mind-control, fear, and market manipulation; Klein-Rogge as; See also [[Fritz Lang]]; [[H#hawasch|Hawasch]];[[S#sporri| Spörri]]

'''MacArthur, General''' 
697;

'''MacDonald, Ramsay (1866-1937)''' 
77; First Labour Party prime minister of Great Britain, in the Labour governments of 1924 and 1929-31 and in the national coalition government of 1931-35.

'''Mach, Ernst (1838-1916)''' 
Ernst Mach (1838-1916), an Austrian physicist and philosopher who devised the Mach number which, in fluid mechanics, is the ratio of the velocity of a fluid to the velocity of sound in that fluid. In the case of an aircraft in flight, the Mach number is equal to the velocity of the aircraft relative to the fluid (air) divided by the velocity of sound in that fluid. For Mach numbers greater than one (supersonic flow), shock wave patterns develop on the moving body because of compression of the surrounding fluid; 453

'''Machiavellian''' 
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) was a Florentine statesman who held that terrorism and deceit were justifiable means of achieving a peaceful and prosperous Italy. In Il Principe (1515) he wrote that only a strong and ruthless prince could free Italy from devastation by foreigners. "Machiavellian" has come to denote political deceit and intrigue and unscrupulous methods; "Machiavellian and youthful, not quite ripe yet for paranoia" 448; the lion, 557; "no one is (Jessica) exempt from his (Jessica?) Machiavellian--" 631; See also [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=The_Prince ''V.''].

'''Mackenzie, Compton (1883-1972)''' 
British novelist, both acclaimed and neglected, who wrote more than 100 novels, plays, and biographies. His varied novels include Poor Relations (1919), Rich Relatives (1921), Vestal Fire (1927), and Extraordinary Women (1928); novels on Mrs. Quoad's shelf, 115

'''Magda''' 
365; "the sultry Bavarian" and Säure's sidekick; "picked up on first-degree mopery" 742

'''Magna Carta''' 
The charter of English liberties granted by King John in 1215 under threat of civil war and reissued with alterations in 1216, 1217, and 1225; "Teach the German beast about the" 125

'''Magyars''' 
Transylvanian, 11; 549; aka Hungarians

'''Maherero, Samuel''' 
323; The Herero chief who led his people across the Kalahari into exile in Bechuanaland, where he died in 1923; "great trek across the Kalahari"; [[Südwest|MORE]]

'''Malcolm''' 
63; "very tall, skinny, extravagantly conked redhead Negro shoeshine boy" in Roseland Ballroom; aka "Red" and Malcolm X; 65; "Now don't you remember Red Malcolm up there, That kid with the Red Devil Lye in his hair" 67; 688

'''Maledetto, Dr.''' 
347; Italian: "cursed, damned"; "a young Maledetto whom the ladies love" on an enormous closed sleigh which took tourists to Central Asia

'''Malenkov''' 
391; Tchitcherine reports to his "special committee under the Council of People's Commissars"

'''Male Transvestites' Toilet''' 
680; in "dingy yellow amphitheatre" where Floundering Four do their bit; "An Incident in the Transvestites' Toilet" 688-90

'''Maltzan, von''' 
166; worked with Rathenau on the Rapallo Treaty

'''mandala''' 
the ancient sun-wheel from which. . .the swastika was broken" 100; "full mandalas came to bloom" 152; Herero villages built like mandalas, 321; mandala-like Schwarzkommando insignia, illustrated, 361; KEZVH, 446; Schwarzkommando, 560; four fins of the Rocket, 563; "other fourfold expressions" 624; "fatal mandala" 691; discussed at Gross Suckling Conference, 706-07; "the cross the man has made on his own circle of earth" 719; Raketen-Stadt: "built in mandalic form like a Herero village" 725

<div id="manicheans"></div>'''Manicheans''' 
From Brewer's: "Followers of Mani, who taught that the universe is controlled by two antagonistic powers, light or goodness (identified with God), and darkness, chaos, or evil. [...] One of Mani's claims was that, though Christ had been sent into the world to restore it to light and banish darkness, His apostles had perverted his doctrine, and he, Mani, was sent as the Paraclete to restore it" (p.681); "who see two rockets, good and evil, who speak together in the sacred idiolalia of the Primal Twins" 727

'''mano morto''' 
132; Italian: dead hand (should be ''mano morta'')

'''Manuela''' 
605-06; call girl at Putzi's with Maj. Marvy

'''Marcel''' 
See Floundering Four

'''Mare Nocturnum''' 
578; Latin: Nocturnal Sea; Pökler's "deeper excursions into the"

'''Maria''' 
519; Christian's sister and Pavel's husband; in Christian's dream, 673 See also Christian; Pavel

'''Marie-Celeste''' 
The Mary Celeste (incorrectly referred to as Marie Celeste) was a brigantine merchant ship discovered in December 1872 in the Atlantic Ocean unmanned and apparently abandoned, despite the fact that the weather was fine and her crew had been experienced and able seamen; "the legendary ship" 303

'''Marjorie''' 
22; a Wren Slothrop is dating; 25; 744; See also Slothrop's girls/stars

<div id="marvy"></div>'''Marvy, Maj. Duane''' 
281; with US Army Ordnance and leader of Marvy's Mothers, "the meanest-ass technical intelligence team in this whole fuckin' Zone"; pushed off train by Enzian while "headed for Mittelwerke" 288; 307; 331; 363; 502; Atomic Chili, 557, 559; 564-66; purchases cocaine from Bodine at Putzi's, 604; castrated, 609; [[Major Duane Marvy|Etymological Musings]]

<div id="groucho">'''Marx, Groucho (1890-1977)'''</div>
210; An American comedian and film star famed as a master of wit; his rapid-fire delivery of innuendo-laden patter has earned him many admirers. He made 13 feature films with his siblings the Marx Brothers, of whom he was the third-born. His distinctive appearance, carried over from his days in vaudeville, included quirks such as glasses, cigars, and a thick greasepaint [[M#mustache|mustache]] and eyebrows; "a Groucho Marx voice" 246; 279

'''Marx, Karl (1818-83)''' 
German social, political and economic theorist and the inspiration for modern communism. He emigrated to Paris in 1863 where he became a communist and first expressed his belief that the proletariat must effect revolutionary change. In Paris, he and Engels wrote Communist Manifesto (1848) ("The workers have nothing to lose but their chains"), the masterpiece of political propaganda. He moved to London in 1849 and it was there that he wrote Das Kapital (1867) (theory of surplus value, class conflict, exploitation of the Working Class, "withering away" of the state); 163; 317; 348; "Marxist dialectics? That's not an opiate, eh?" 701; "'Real to a Marxist.'" 702; "if you don't think there are Marxist-Leninist magicians around, well you better think again!" 748

'''Masons''' 
emblems, 27; masonry, 66; "out the eye at the tower's summit" 470; "Eye at the top of the pyramid" 484, 585; freemasons, 572; and Lyle Bland, 580; "Mobs 'n' Masons" 586; American Founding Fathers, 587-88; magic rituals/Masonic Mysteries, 588; Masonic plots, 587; Ben Franklin, 663-64; "going to dinner becomes a priestly procession, full of secret gestures and understandings" 713;

'''Master of the Woods''' 
742; "sprigs of woodruff [...] carried by the early Teutonic warriors"

'''masturbation''' 
"masturbating under these conditions is exquisite torture" 35; "jerking off into an Army flannel" 36; and message de- crypting, 71-72; "he'll masturbate himself to sleep" 141; "The self-induced orgasm." 155; "there passes the phrase male supremacy ... why do they cherish their masturbating so? 155; "masturbatorily scared-elated" 209; "I can't even masturbate" 216; Pudding, for Domina Nocturna, 236; "These Otukungurua are prophets of masturbating" 318; "Remember the time she caught you masturbating into her glove?" 505; "a Text, to be [...] masturbated till it's all squeezed limp of its last drop" 520; "lost in masturbatory fantasies of nailing this cute but older Latin lady" 678; "the heat, who go surly, fangflashing back to masturbating into Crime Does Not Pay Comics" 709; "16 ragged staring oldtimers who shuffle aimlessly about the stage, jerking off in unison, waggling penises in mock quarter-staffing, brandishing in two and threes their green-leaved poles, exposing amazing chancres and lesions, going off in fountains of sperm strung with blood that splash over glazed trouser-pleats" 743; "purposes of self-arousal" 758; "or reach between your own cold legs" 760; See also Kryptosam; entropy/closed systems/irreversibility

'''mathematical equations''' 
Chapter 1: Poisson dispensation, 140; Chapter 2: yaw control, 239; Chapter 3: hilarious graffiti of visiting mathematicians, 450; Chapter 4: Otyiyumbu Indetermincy Relation, 700; "Little sigma, times P of s-over-little-sigma, equals one over the square root of two times pi, times e to the minus s squared over two little sigma squared." 709 (thanks to Douglas Lannark for this index entry)

'''Mausmacher''' 
653; German: "mouse-maker"; Lutheran who steals Byron from the priest and who attends a Naza torchlight rally in drag

[[image:Max-Moritz.jpg|thumb|Max und Moritz|right]]'''Max and Moritz''' 
757; Max und Moritz were a duo created by German cartoonist Wilhelm Busch; "boy at the steering panel" and man "at the rocket motor panel," respectively, at launching of S-Gerät 00000; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_und_Moritz Wikipedia entry]

'''Maximilian''' 
See Floundering Four

'''Maxwell, Clerk''' 
411; "younger contemporary" of Liebig

'''May Day Eve''' 
329; aka Walpurgisnacht

'''McGonigle, Pvt. Paddy "Electro"''' 
641; hand-pedals the twin-generator cranks for light bulb during THE HAIRCUT

'''Meat Cartel''' 
654; long-standing arrangement with Phoebus "to restrict the amount of tallow in circulation by keeping more fat in meat to be sold regardless of cardiac problems"

'''Mefo bills''' 
German: Metallurgische Forschung = "metals research"; A way for Germany to pay arms manufacturers for rearmament (German rearmament was banned by the terms of the Versailles Treaty). Mefo bills were accepted by all German banks but no reference to them was allowed in published accounts. Twelve billion marks in Mefo bills were issued before the outbreak of WWII, and much of German trade was financed in this manner; 285

[[image:meggazones.gif|300px|left]]'''Meggazone''' 
118; "like being belted in the head with a Swiss alp"; [at left] "Contain: Menthol, Peppermint, Chloroform, Benzoin, Liquorice pastille basis"

'''Meillerwagen''' 
113; transported the V-2 to the launching site, raised it to a vertical firing position, and served as a firing platform; 560;

'''Menshevik''' 
Russian: men'she = "less, fewer"; The Mensheviks were the moderate wing of the Russian Social Democratic Party, who split with the Bolsheviks after the party congress of 1903. They were for "bourgeois reform" rather than the total societal overhaul advocated by the Bolsheviks; 338

'''Messerschmitt''' 
184; fighter plane from the German concern Messerschmitt AG

'''meta-solutions''' 
102; "Perhaps the black girl is a genius of meta-solutions--knocking over the chessboard, shooting the referee" 102

<div id="metatron"></div>'''Metatron''' 
231; in Kabbalistic lore, the highest angel who sits next to Yahweh's throne; 734; See also [[K#kabbalah|Kabbalah]]

<div id="metropolis"></div>'''''Metropolis''/Metropolis''' 
[Greek: "Mother City"] "ARF remains a colony to the metropolitan war" 76; "His erection hums from a certain distance, like an instrument installed, wired by Them into his body as a colonial outpost here in our raw and clamorous world, another office representing Their white Metropolis far away" 285; "Early Rhenish missionaries began to bring them back to the Metropolis, that great dull zoo" 315; "Out and down in the colonies, life can be indulged, life and sensuality in all its forms, with no harm done to the Metropolis" 317; "they can pick us off out there one by one, first a campaign of attrition, then a coordinated raid...leaving then only this metropolis, under siege, to strangle" 326; "inside the metropolitan organ entirely, all other colonial tissue forgotten and left to fend for itself" 470; Rudolph Klein-Rogge, 578; Brigitte Helm, 578; "American Death has come to occupy Europe. It has learned empire from its old metropolis" 722; See also [[C#cities|cities]]; [[Fritz Lang]];

:From Fritz Lang's ''Metropolis''

::"I have created a machine in the image of man, that never tires or makes a mistake."

::"Isn't it worth the loss of a hand to have created the workers of the future — the machine men?"

::"Give me another 24 hours and I'll bring you a machine which no one will be able to tell from a human being."

::- Rotwang, the Inventor

'''Mexico, Roger''' 
31; 30 years old (89); works with Pirate Prentice in Psi Section; Mysterious Microfilm Drill, 32; "provisional wartime friend of Pirate's" 35; meets Jessica, 38-39; the "Antipointsman" 55; paranoia, 124; "He'd seen himself a point on a moving wavefront, propagating through sterile history--a known past, a projectable future. But Jessica was the breaking of the wave." 126; "as this seventh Christmas of the War came wheeling in another charge at his skinny, shivering flank [...]" 126; his map of bomb hits, 138; takes Jessica to see Hansel and Gretel, 174; by the sea on White Sunday, 273; driving throught the Lüneburg Heath, missing Jessica, 626; Gloaming tells him about the Slothrop/IG Farben/Pointsman plot, 630-31; realizes Jessica is working for Pointsman, 631; pissing on Mossmoon's table, 636; "a 30-year-old innocent" 706; foam rubber phallus, 708; at Krupp party, 711

'''M.I. 6''' 
592; British Military Intelligence, overseas operations; [[British Military Intelligence|MORE]]

'''Michele''' 
243-45; friend of Slothrop's who seduces Hillary Bounce so Slothrop can use his teletype machine

'''Michiko''' 
480; wife of Ensign Morituri

'''Microcosmists''' 
738; those who believe Slothrop to be a "point-for-point microcosm"

'''Middle Dutch''' 
108; ic heb u liever dan ên everswîn, al waert van finen goude ghewracht (English: I love you more than a wild boar / even if it were made of fine gold)

'''midgets &c.''' 
"midget spy-camera" 17; "Fred Roper's Company of Wonder Midgets off to an imperial fair in Johannesburg, South Africa. Midgets in their dark winter clothes, exquisite little frocks and nip-waisted overcoats, were running all over the station, gobbling their bonvoyage chocolates and lining up for news photos." 37; "say it very (demisemiquaver) fast in a Munchkin voice if you can dig that" 63; "what appear to be horrid...midgets, in strange operetta uniforms actually, some sort of Central European government-in-exile," 123; "Siggi in his speeded-up midget's voice" 157; "a tiny hand comes out and gives Slothrop the tiny finger" 199; "the arms of young passersby not in the sleeves of their coats but inside somewhere, as if sheltering midgets" 250; "Like a buncha happy midgets on a holiday!" 259; "They went off practically skipping obsessive as Munchkins, out into the erotic Poisson." 270; "Local midgetry scuttle and cringe alongside the tracks" 310; "Were you frightened when the dwarf tried to hug you" 398; "a splendid retinue of dwarves and sprites " 419; the midget sheriff in Osbie Feel's movie, 534-35; "as armies of eternally shrinking midgets galloped upstairs and down again" 567; midgets on the pinball machines, 586; "lammergeiers cruising there in the lurid red altitudes around [...] piloted by bareback dwarves with little plastic masks around their eyes" 664; "Is he interested in all those other worlds who send their dwarf reps out on the backs of eagles?" 664; "where inside Marcel is the midget Grandmaster" 675

'''Midnight''' 
342; "the famous bucking bronco" on the U.S. rodeo circuits

'''Mieczislav''' 
See Omuzire, Mieczislav

'''mindless pleasures''' 
270; working title for Gravity's Rainbow; 681; "idle and mindless hours of the day" 177

'''Mingeborough, Massachussetts''' 
26; Slothrop's hometown [introduced in Pynchon's short story, "The Secret Integration", where Dr. Slothrop and his son Hogan live]; [[Minghe|Etymology]]

'''Ministry of Munitions''' 
416; Branch of the SS, headed by Albert Speer

'''Ministry of Supply''' 
251; British, located at Shell Mex House, "the heart of the Rocket's own branch office in London." Duncan Sandys was the Under-secretary there during WWII.

'''Minsky's''' 
In the 1920s and 30s, Billy Minsky's Republic Theatre on Broadway in New York (later known as just Minsky's) featured rowdy burlesque entertainment. Gypsy Rose Lee performed there in the 1930s, as well as comedians W.C. Fields, Al Jolson, Fannie Brice, Bert Lahr, and Phil Silvers; "more tits than they got at"

<div id="miraculous-medal">'''Miraculous Medal'''</div>
135; "O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to you."

[[image:miraculous_medal.jpg|left|caption|Front]]The design was revealed by the Virgin Mary to St. Catherine Labouré on November 27, 1830 in the chapel of the convent of Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul on the rue de Bac, Paris. Catherine had been having visions for the seven months before and had told only her confessor M. Aladel who had the medal struck in June 1832. In 1836, a tribunal in Paris approved the medal as of supernatural origin. On one side, the medal depicts the Virgin Mary standing on a globe with her feet crushing a serpent's head. Beneath it says, "O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee."

[[image:miraculous_medal_back.jpg|right|caption|Back]]On the other side there is the letter "M" entwined with a bar with a cross on it. Twelve stars surround the symbols. Beneath are two hearts, one crowned with thorns, the other pierced with a sword. The medal gained in significance when Alphonse Ratisbonne, a Jew, was instantly converted to Catholicism while visiting a church in Rome to arrange a funeral. He subsequently founded the Order of Our Lady of Sion to work for understanding between Jews and Catholics

'''[[Mirrors|MIRRORS]]''' 
See also [[I#interface|Interface]]; [[I#inside|inside/outside]]

'''Miss Rheingold 1946''' 
380;

'''Mittelwerke''' 
German: "Central Works"; Given to the Soviets per the Yalta Agreement, 273; primary A-4 factory after RAF raid on Peenemünde in August 1943, located in abandoned gypsum mine near Nordhausen and next to Dora prison camp; evacuated in February and March 1945; 283; designed like a ladder with Stollen (rung-tunnels), 299; control systems work was done outside mountain in castles, farms etc, 313; tactical sites elsewhere, 427; abandoned in '45, 432 [MAP]; [Image] Click here to view a photo from Der Spiegel of laborers working in the tunnels. An Interesting Site; Check out this map of Mittelwerke (thanks to Jeff Meikle).

'''Mix, Tom (1808-1940)''' 
An American film actor and the star of many early Western movies. He made a reported 336 films between 1910 and 1935, all but nine of which were silent features. He was Hollywood’s first Western megastar and is noted as having helped define the genre for all cowboy actors who followed; "Tom Mix shirt, 245

'''MMPI''' 
21; Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory--a psychological test developed in 1943, 81; Slothrop's, F-Scale: a measure to indicate whether the subject is trying to mask or underreport psychological symptoms, 90

'''M.O.''' 
591; Medical Officer

'''Möllner''' 
610; German whom Slothrop questions about von Göll at Putzi's

'''Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich (1890-1986)''' 
Russian statesman and diplomat who was picked by Stalin to be the Soviet commissar of foreign affairs (1939-49). It was during World War II that Molotov ordered the production of the bottles of inflammable liquid that became known as Molotov cocktails. As foreign minister and the major spokesman for the Soviet Union at the Allied conferences during and after World War II, he earned a reputation for uncompromising hostility to the West; cocktails, 507, 511; "isn't telling Vishinsky" 611

<div id="mondaugen">'''Mondaugen, Kurt'''</div>
German: "Mondaugen" = "Moon Eye"; 161; electrical engineer who went to Südwest; Pökler working with, 402-04; accepted Hitler on basis of his "Demian- metaphysics" 403; bodhisattva of Peenemünde, 403; was in Südwest, lived with Ovatjimba (aardvark) people, the poorest Hereros, 403; 1922 - in Südwest with Weissmann during siege of Foppl's villa, 408; after Peenemünde bombing, 422; Mondaugen's Law, 509; Verein für Raumschiffahrt, 582; 687; Mondaugen in V.

'''Monika''' 
603; "Putzi's genial, cigar-smoking, matelasse-suited madame"

'''Monkey Girl''' 
544; "and the pimps in Rome"; one whom Pirate had to betray "in the course of business for the Firm"

'''Monte Carlo Fallacy''' 
56; "No matter how many have fallen inside a particular square, the odds remain the same as they always were. Each hit is independent of all the others."

'''Montez, Maria (1912–1951)''' 
121; A Dominican-born motion picture actress who was know as "The Queen of Technicolor" after a series of films she made with co-star Jon Hall: ''Arabian Nights'' (1942), ''White Savage'' (1943), ''Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves'' (1944), ''Cobra Woman'' (1944), ''Gypsy Wildcat'' (1944), and ''Sudan'' (1945).

'''moon''' 
"no moon" 67; "the halfmoon shines" 104; men on the, 132; "is it the moon?" 123; "toy rockets to the moon" 154; "the dead moon" 163; "we can fly to the moon" 175; "blanched scar of moon" 195; "moonlight reflected from the mirror" 195; "moongrained" 196; astrologer's, 220; "chosen for its affinity to moonlight" 265; "voices twittering with moonlight" 268; "as among craters of the pale moon" 270; "the lunacy of her purple eyes" 271; true message to Hereros, 322; "Me trama con la disquietante luna" 383; "under a moon newly calved" 398; "Passing over the bright rays of Kepler, the rugged solitude of the Southern Highlands, the spectacular views at Copernicus and Eratosthenes, she chose a small pretty crater in the Sea of Tranquility called Maskelyne B." 410; and Ilse, 410; cycles, 414; "the moon that ruled her" 415; "Have you given up so easily on the Moon?" 420; "Her round straw hat a frail moon" 421; Lunar motion, 452; "buttocks rise like moons" 466; "enormous slick stretching away moonward, to the threshold of the north wind" 609; "moon minaret" 637; Katje "felt the moon in the soles of her feet" 657; "brightening and darkening as if by itself" 692; "The moon has risen" 720; moonlight, 721; "our new Deathkingdom" 723; 734; [Check out: Borges' "The Moon" in Dreamtigers (1964)]

'''Moore, Norton B.''' 
452; Aeronautics engineer; worked with Theodore von Kármán on supersonic flow

'''mopery''' 
Slang: a trivial, imaginary violation of law (also seen defined as: act of moping; vagrancy, dawdling); "The War must've been lean times for crowd control, murder and mopery was the best you could do" 570; "Magda was picked up on first-degree mopery" 742; "Edelman [...] accused last year of an 11569 (Attempted Mopery with a Subversive Instrument)" 755;

'''Mopp's Hebdomeriasis''' 
712; "does so-called 'Night Worm' belong among the Pseudo-Goldstrassian Group, or is it properly considered [...] a more insidious form of"; [De Chirico's Hebdomeros]

'''Moreno, El''' 
387; with whom "the white gaucho" has a singing-duel in Martín Fierro

'''Morgan''' 
"GE, that's Morgan money, there's Morgan money in Harvard" 332;

'''Morituri, Ensign''' 
462; [Latin: "We who are about to die" - salutation of the gladiators to the Roman Emperor: "morituri te salutamos" = "we who are about to die salute you"]; "of the Japanese Imperial Navy" "ex-liaison man from Berlin who didn't quite get out by way of Russia"; was in kamikaze training; 467; his story, 474; irony of radium/Hiroshima, 479-80; 672; 706

'''Moritz''' 
757; operating the rocket motor panel for S-gerät 00000; 758

'''Morrison, Herbert Stanley (1888-1965)''' 
British Labour statesman who played a leading role in London local government for 25 years. Constantly involved with socialist politics from 1905, he was active in Churchill's coalition government, serving as Minister of Supply, Home Secretary and Minister of Home Security; 132

'''Morrison shelter''' 
Introduced by Herbert Morrison while home secretary in Churchill's government, they were bomb shelters, 24

'''Mosquito''' 
136; The de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito--a British combat aircraft that excelled in versatility during WWII; was made primarily out of laminated plywood

'''Moss Creature''' 
523; hallucination of Pavel's during Leunagasolin high

'''Mossmoon, Clive''' 
35; works for ICI doing polymer research; husband of Scorpia; 228-29; discussion regarding releasing Slothrop, 270; 544; 615; 635

'''Mossmoon, Scorpia''' 
35; wife of Clive, aka "Red Bitch of the High Seas"; had an affair with Pirate in 1936, 35-36; "living in St. John's Wood among sheet-music, new recipes, a small kennel of Weimaraners whose racial purity she will go to extravagant lengths to preserve" 544; 698

'''[[Mothers in Gravity's Rainbow|MOTHERS]]''' 
See also [[F#fathers|fathers]]; [[N#nipple|Nipple, Lloyd]]; [[#metropolis|Metropolis]]; [check out [[#marvy|Marvy's Mothers]], too]

'''Mouse Alexei''' 
229; lab rat at White Visitation

'''Mouthorgan, Missouri''' 
583; location of Masonic temple the Tracys visit; "an elegant chaos to bend the ingenuity of Bland's bought expert" 586;

'''[[The Movies in Gravity's Rainbow|MOVIES]]
See also [[A#actors|actors/directors]]; [[F#film|film/cinema references]]; [[K#kingkong|King Kong]]

'''Moxie''' 
63; A carbonated beverage that was one of the first mass-produced soft drinks in the United States. In its advertising, it used “Make Mine Moxie!” advertising jingles, the slogan “Just Make It Moxie for Mine”, and a "Moxie Man" logo. The brand suffered a significant decline in sales during the 1930s; 208; 258

'''Mravenko''' 
611; "one of the VIAM people"

<div id="mucker"></div>'''Mucker-Maffick, Oliver "Tantivy"''' 
"tantivy" is a hunting cry made when the chase is at full speed; 18; shares office with Slothrop at ACHTUNG; with Slothrop at Casino, 181; Ballad of, 191; "There hasn't been a word" 209; disappears - death confirmed, 252; Slothrop's dream of his return, 551; 584; [[Oliver Mucker-Maffick|Etymology]]; See also [[A#achtung|ACHTUNG]]

'''Muffage, Doctor''' 
591; with Dr. Spontoon, out to castrate Slothrop

'''Muffin-tin Road''' 
646; in Happyville: "note the smiing faces on all the houses"

'''Mukuru''' 
322; Hereros' "first ancestor, Adam"; breath of, 524; 562

'''Müller-Hochleben, Miss''' 
632-34; German: "Miller-Highlife" (really!); "short but spunky secretary" at Twelfth House on Gallaho Mews in London whose glasses fall off

<div id="munchkin">'''Munchkins'''</div>
The natives of the fictional Munchkin Country in the Oz books by L. Frank Baum. They first appeared in the 1900 novel [[W#wizoz|The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]], in which they are described as being somewhat short of stature, and wearing only blue. They are best-known from their depiction in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, in which they are played by adult proportional dwarfs, dressed in brightly multicolored outfits, and live in Munchkinland; "Munchkin voice" 63; "obsessive as Munchkins" 270

'''Murphy's Law''' 
275; "when everything has been taken care of, when nothing can go wrong, or even surprise us. . .something will"; "where the the salvation could be" 471; See also [[G#godel|Gödel's Theorem]]

'''[[Music in Gravity's Rainbow|MUSIC]]''' 
See also [[F#foxtrot|fox-trot]]; [[#musicians|musicians/composers]; [[R#rossini|Rossini]]; [[Songs/Compositions|songs/compositions]]

<div id="musicians"></div>'''musicians/composers''' 
Sandy MacPherson, 13; George Formby, 18; Falkman and His Apache Band, 32; Charlie ("Yardbird") Parker, 63; Primo Scala's Accordian Band, 115; Hop Harrigan and Tank Tinker, 117; Roland Peachey and His Orchestra, 121; Thomas Tallis, Henry Purcell, Heinrich Suso, 129; Ernesto Lecuona, 169; Carl Orff, 237, 441; Benny Goodman, 225; Juan d'Arienzo, 267; Der Bingle (B. Crosby), 320; Richard Wagner, 324, 450; Andrews Sisters, 382; Frank Sinatra, 390, 700; Hugo Wolf, 419, 450; Ludwig von Beethoven, 440, 685; Anton Webern, 440, 494; Irving Berlin, 442; Horst Wessel, 443; Kurt Weill, 513; Gene Krupa, 513; Guy Lombardo, 529; Gilbert & Sullivan, 538; Jacques Offenbach, 584 ("Offenbach galop": Jacques Offenbach wrote the music to the well-known "Cancan" - "galop" is a dance); Sandy McPherson, 592; Spohr, Rossini, Spontini, 622; Diamond Lil, 657; 175-Stadt Chorale, 668; Stephen Foster, 675; Spike Jones, 678; Brahms, 685; Harry James, 685; J.S. Bach, 685; Tchaikovsky, 702; Josef Haydn, 712; Lübeck Hitler Youth Glee Club, 736; See also [[R#rossini|Rossini]]

'''Mussert's people''' 
97; someone for whom Katje is "smelling out" Jewish families

Mr. Pynchon is probably referring to Anton Adriaan Mussert, fouder and leader of the Dutch National Socialist Movement during World War II

<div id="mustache">'''mustache'''</div>
"jar of mustache wax" 17; 62; "mustache unruffled" 188; "twirling his slick mustache in a saber-point" 191; "great twisted mustache" 201; "Mustache Kit, 20 different shapes from [[F#fumanchu|Fu Manchu]] to [[M#groucho|Groucho Marx]]", "[[E#earp|Wyatt Earp's]]", "[[B#booth|John Wilkes Booth's]]", "the old duster just keeps droopin' down again" 210; "as the mustache waxes, Slothrop waxes the mustache" 211; "twisting his mustache" 221; "clipped mustache bristles" 233; "[[F#flynn|Errol Flynn]] frisks his mustache" 248; 267; "I even have a mustache...like that [[H#hemingway|Ernest Hemingway]]" 292; "red [[V#hindenburg|von Hindenburg]] mustache" 305; 306; "mustache white and bubbly too" 307; "saws off pieces of his mustache on both sides...look like [[H#hitler|Hitler]]" 309; "big chromo of [[S#stalin|Stalin]]...mustache and hair only incidental as makeup" 368; "wide handle-bar mustache" 473; "twisting half his mustache so it points up in a saber at one eye" 474; "Frisking his great mustache" 479; "around the mustache line" 583; "blunt and ragged mustache" 607; "superthin mustache" 675

'''''My Little Chickadee''''' 
198; a 1940 Universal comedy/western motion picture starring [[W#maewest|Mae West]] and W. C. Fields

'''Myrtle Miraculous''' 
See [[F#floundering|Floundering Four]]

'''Mysterious Microfilm Drill''' 
32; wherein "Bloat goes somewhere and microfilms something, then transfers it, via Pirate, to young Mexico. And thence [...] down to 'The White Visitation'"

'''Mystery Stimulus''' 
84; "Conditioned response = hardon whenever x is present [...] what's x? Why it's the famous 'Mystery Stimulus'

'''[[Mythology in Gravity's Rainbow|MYTHOLOGY]]''' 
See also [[G#god|God]]; [[S#scylla|Scylla and Charybdis]]

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'''Mabuse, Dr.''' 
579; In Fritz Lang's "Mabuse der Spieler," Dr Mabuse is the master-criminal who seeks to control the populace through mind-control, fear, and market manipulation; Klein-Rogge as; See also [[Fritz Lang]]; [[H#hawasch|Hawasch]];[[S#sporri| Spörri]]

'''MacArthur, General''' 
697;

'''MacDonald, Ramsay (1866-1937)''' 
77; First Labour Party prime minister of Great Britain, in the Labour governments of 1924 and 1929-31 and in the national coalition government of 1931-35.

'''Mach, Ernst (1838-1916)''' 
Ernst Mach (1838-1916), an Austrian physicist and philosopher who devised the Mach number which, in fluid mechanics, is the ratio of the velocity of a fluid to the velocity of sound in that fluid. In the case of an aircraft in flight, the Mach number is equal to the velocity of the aircraft relative to the fluid (air) divided by the velocity of sound in that fluid. For Mach numbers greater than one (supersonic flow), shock wave patterns develop on the moving body because of compression of the surrounding fluid; 453

'''Machiavellian''' 
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) was a Florentine statesman who held that terrorism and deceit were justifiable means of achieving a peaceful and prosperous Italy. In Il Principe (1515) he wrote that only a strong and ruthless prince could free Italy from devastation by foreigners. "Machiavellian" has come to denote political deceit and intrigue and unscrupulous methods; "Machiavellian and youthful, not quite ripe yet for paranoia" 448; the lion, 557; "no one is (Jessica) exempt from his (Jessica?) Machiavellian--" 631; See also [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=The_Prince ''V.''].

'''Mackenzie, Compton (1883-1972)''' 
British novelist, both acclaimed and neglected, who wrote more than 100 novels, plays, and biographies. His varied novels include Poor Relations (1919), Rich Relatives (1921), Vestal Fire (1927), and Extraordinary Women (1928); novels on Mrs. Quoad's shelf, 115

'''Magda''' 
365; "the sultry Bavarian" and Säure's sidekick; "picked up on first-degree mopery" 742

'''Magna Carta''' 
The charter of English liberties granted by King John in 1215 under threat of civil war and reissued with alterations in 1216, 1217, and 1225; "Teach the German beast about the" 125

'''Magyars''' 
Transylvanian, 11; 549; aka Hungarians

'''Maherero, Samuel''' 
323; The Herero chief who led his people across the Kalahari into exile in Bechuanaland, where he died in 1923; "great trek across the Kalahari"; [[Südwest|MORE]]

'''Malcolm''' 
63; "very tall, skinny, extravagantly conked redhead Negro shoeshine boy" in Roseland Ballroom; aka "Red" and Malcolm X; 65; "Now don't you remember Red Malcolm up there, That kid with the Red Devil Lye in his hair" 67; 688

'''Maledetto, Dr.''' 
347; Italian: "cursed, damned"; "a young Maledetto whom the ladies love" on an enormous closed sleigh which took tourists to Central Asia

'''Malenkov''' 
391; Tchitcherine reports to his "special committee under the Council of People's Commissars"

'''Male Transvestites' Toilet''' 
680; in "dingy yellow amphitheatre" where Floundering Four do their bit; "An Incident in the Transvestites' Toilet" 688-90

'''Maltzan, von''' 
166; worked with Rathenau on the Rapallo Treaty

'''mandala''' 
the ancient sun-wheel from which. . .the swastika was broken" 100; "full mandalas came to bloom" 152; Herero villages built like mandalas, 321; mandala-like Schwarzkommando insignia, illustrated, 361; KEZVH, 446; Schwarzkommando, 560; four fins of the Rocket, 563; "other fourfold expressions" 624; "fatal mandala" 691; discussed at Gross Suckling Conference, 706-07; "the cross the man has made on his own circle of earth" 719; Raketen-Stadt: "built in mandalic form like a Herero village" 725

<div id="manicheans"></div>'''Manicheans''' 
From Brewer's: "Followers of Mani, who taught that the universe is controlled by two antagonistic powers, light or goodness (identified with God), and darkness, chaos, or evil. [...] One of Mani's claims was that, though Christ had been sent into the world to restore it to light and banish darkness, His apostles had perverted his doctrine, and he, Mani, was sent as the Paraclete to restore it" (p.681); "who see two rockets, good and evil, who speak together in the sacred idiolalia of the Primal Twins" 727

'''mano morto''' 
132; Italian: dead hand (should be ''mano morta'')

'''Manuela''' 
605-06; call girl at Putzi's with Maj. Marvy

'''Marcel''' 
See Floundering Four

'''Mare Nocturnum''' 
578; Latin: Nocturnal Sea; Pökler's "deeper excursions into the"

'''Maria''' 
519; Christian's sister and Pavel's husband; in Christian's dream, 673 See also Christian; Pavel

'''Marie-Celeste''' 
303; "the legendary ship"

'''Marjorie''' 
22; a Wren Slothrop is dating; 25; 744; See also Slothrop's girls/stars

<div id="marvy"></div>'''Marvy, Maj. Duane''' 
281; with US Army Ordnance and leader of Marvy's Mothers, "the meanest-ass technical intelligence team in this whole fuckin' Zone"; pushed off train by Enzian while "headed for Mittelwerke" 288; 307; 331; 363; 502; Atomic Chili, 557, 559; 564-66; purchases cocaine from Bodine at Putzi's, 604; castrated, 609; [[Major Duane Marvy|Etymological Musings]]

<div id="groucho">'''Marx, Groucho (1890-1977)'''</div>
210; An American comedian and film star famed as a master of wit; his rapid-fire delivery of innuendo-laden patter has earned him many admirers. He made 13 feature films with his siblings the Marx Brothers, of whom he was the third-born. His distinctive appearance, carried over from his days in vaudeville, included quirks such as glasses, cigars, and a thick greasepaint [[M#mustache|mustache]] and eyebrows; "a Groucho Marx voice" 246; 279

'''Marx, Karl (1818-83)''' 
German social, political and economic theorist and the inspiration for modern communism. He emigrated to Paris in 1863 where he became a communist and first expressed his belief that the proletariat must effect revolutionary change. In Paris, he and Engels wrote Communist Manifesto (1848) ("The workers have nothing to lose but their chains"), the masterpiece of political propaganda. He moved to London in 1849 and it was there that he wrote Das Kapital (1867) (theory of surplus value, class conflict, exploitation of the Working Class, "withering away" of the state); 163; 317; 348; "Marxist dialectics? That's not an opiate, eh?" 701; "'Real to a Marxist.'" 702; "if you don't think there are Marxist-Leninist magicians around, well you better think again!" 748

'''Masons''' 
emblems, 27; masonry, 66; "out the eye at the tower's summit" 470; "Eye at the top of the pyramid" 484, 585; freemasons, 572; and Lyle Bland, 580; "Mobs 'n' Masons" 586; American Founding Fathers, 587-88; magic rituals/Masonic Mysteries, 588; Masonic plots, 587; Ben Franklin, 663-64; "going to dinner becomes a priestly procession, full of secret gestures and understandings" 713;

'''Master of the Woods''' 
742; "sprigs of woodruff [...] carried by the early Teutonic warriors"

'''masturbation''' 
"masturbating under these conditions is exquisite torture" 35; "jerking off into an Army flannel" 36; and message de- crypting, 71-72; "he'll masturbate himself to sleep" 141; "The self-induced orgasm." 155; "there passes the phrase male supremacy ... why do they cherish their masturbating so? 155; "masturbatorily scared-elated" 209; "I can't even masturbate" 216; Pudding, for Domina Nocturna, 236; "These Otukungurua are prophets of masturbating" 318; "Remember the time she caught you masturbating into her glove?" 505; "a Text, to be [...] masturbated till it's all squeezed limp of its last drop" 520; "lost in masturbatory fantasies of nailing this cute but older Latin lady" 678; "the heat, who go surly, fangflashing back to masturbating into Crime Does Not Pay Comics" 709; "16 ragged staring oldtimers who shuffle aimlessly about the stage, jerking off in unison, waggling penises in mock quarter-staffing, brandishing in two and threes their green-leaved poles, exposing amazing chancres and lesions, going off in fountains of sperm strung with blood that splash over glazed trouser-pleats" 743; "purposes of self-arousal" 758; "or reach between your own cold legs" 760; See also Kryptosam; entropy/closed systems/irreversibility

'''mathematical equations''' 
Chapter 1: Poisson dispensation, 140; Chapter 2: yaw control, 239; Chapter 3: hilarious graffiti of visiting mathematicians, 450; Chapter 4: Otyiyumbu Indetermincy Relation, 700; "Little sigma, times P of s-over-little-sigma, equals one over the square root of two times pi, times e to the minus s squared over two little sigma squared." 709 (thanks to Douglas Lannark for this index entry)

'''Mausmacher''' 
653; German: "mouse-maker"; Lutheran who steals Byron from the priest and who attends a Naza torchlight rally in drag

[[image:Max-Moritz.jpg|thumb|Max und Moritz|right]]'''Max and Moritz''' 
757; Max und Moritz were a duo created by German cartoonist Wilhelm Busch; "boy at the steering panel" and man "at the rocket motor panel," respectively, at launching of S-Gerät 00000; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_und_Moritz Wikipedia entry]

'''Maximilian''' 
See Floundering Four

'''Maxwell, Clerk''' 
411; "younger contemporary" of Liebig

'''May Day Eve''' 
329; aka Walpurgisnacht

'''McGonigle, Pvt. Paddy "Electro"''' 
641; hand-pedals the twin-generator cranks for light bulb during THE HAIRCUT

'''Meat Cartel''' 
654; long-standing arrangement with Phoebus "to restrict the amount of tallow in circulation by keeping more fat in meat to be sold regardless of cardiac problems"

'''Mefo bills''' 
German: Metallurgische Forschung = "metals research"; A way for Germany to pay arms manufacturers for rearmament (German rearmament was banned by the terms of the Versailles Treaty). Mefo bills were accepted by all German banks but no reference to them was allowed in published accounts. Twelve billion marks in Mefo bills were issued before the outbreak of WWII, and much of German trade was financed in this manner; 285

[[image:meggazones.gif|300px|left]]'''Meggazone''' 
118; "like being belted in the head with a Swiss alp"; [at left] "Contain: Menthol, Peppermint, Chloroform, Benzoin, Liquorice pastille basis"

'''Meillerwagen''' 
113; transported the V-2 to the launching site, raised it to a vertical firing position, and served as a firing platform; 560;

'''Menshevik''' 
Russian: men'she = "less, fewer"; The Mensheviks were the moderate wing of the Russian Social Democratic Party, who split with the Bolsheviks after the party congress of 1903. They were for "bourgeois reform" rather than the total societal overhaul advocated by the Bolsheviks; 338

'''Messerschmitt''' 
184; fighter plane from the German concern Messerschmitt AG

'''meta-solutions''' 
102; "Perhaps the black girl is a genius of meta-solutions--knocking over the chessboard, shooting the referee" 102

<div id="metatron"></div>'''Metatron''' 
231; in Kabbalistic lore, the highest angel who sits next to Yahweh's throne; 734; See also [[K#kabbalah|Kabbalah]]

<div id="metropolis"></div>'''''Metropolis''/Metropolis''' 
[Greek: "Mother City"] "ARF remains a colony to the metropolitan war" 76; "His erection hums from a certain distance, like an instrument installed, wired by Them into his body as a colonial outpost here in our raw and clamorous world, another office representing Their white Metropolis far away" 285; "Early Rhenish missionaries began to bring them back to the Metropolis, that great dull zoo" 315; "Out and down in the colonies, life can be indulged, life and sensuality in all its forms, with no harm done to the Metropolis" 317; "they can pick us off out there one by one, first a campaign of attrition, then a coordinated raid...leaving then only this metropolis, under siege, to strangle" 326; "inside the metropolitan organ entirely, all other colonial tissue forgotten and left to fend for itself" 470; Rudolph Klein-Rogge, 578; Brigitte Helm, 578; "American Death has come to occupy Europe. It has learned empire from its old metropolis" 722; See also [[C#cities|cities]]; [[Fritz Lang]];

:From Fritz Lang's ''Metropolis''

::"I have created a machine in the image of man, that never tires or makes a mistake."

::"Isn't it worth the loss of a hand to have created the workers of the future — the machine men?"

::"Give me another 24 hours and I'll bring you a machine which no one will be able to tell from a human being."

::- Rotwang, the Inventor

'''Mexico, Roger''' 
31; 30 years old (89); works with Pirate Prentice in Psi Section; Mysterious Microfilm Drill, 32; "provisional wartime friend of Pirate's" 35; meets Jessica, 38-39; the "Antipointsman" 55; paranoia, 124; "He'd seen himself a point on a moving wavefront, propagating through sterile history--a known past, a projectable future. But Jessica was the breaking of the wave." 126; "as this seventh Christmas of the War came wheeling in another charge at his skinny, shivering flank [...]" 126; his map of bomb hits, 138; takes Jessica to see Hansel and Gretel, 174; by the sea on White Sunday, 273; driving throught the Lüneburg Heath, missing Jessica, 626; Gloaming tells him about the Slothrop/IG Farben/Pointsman plot, 630-31; realizes Jessica is working for Pointsman, 631; pissing on Mossmoon's table, 636; "a 30-year-old innocent" 706; foam rubber phallus, 708; at Krupp party, 711

'''M.I. 6''' 
592; British Military Intelligence, overseas operations; [[British Military Intelligence|MORE]]

'''Michele''' 
243-45; friend of Slothrop's who seduces Hillary Bounce so Slothrop can use his teletype machine

'''Michiko''' 
480; wife of Ensign Morituri

'''Microcosmists''' 
738; those who believe Slothrop to be a "point-for-point microcosm"

'''Middle Dutch''' 
108; ic heb u liever dan ên everswîn, al waert van finen goude ghewracht (English: I love you more than a wild boar / even if it were made of fine gold)

'''midgets &c.''' 
"midget spy-camera" 17; "Fred Roper's Company of Wonder Midgets off to an imperial fair in Johannesburg, South Africa. Midgets in their dark winter clothes, exquisite little frocks and nip-waisted overcoats, were running all over the station, gobbling their bonvoyage chocolates and lining up for news photos." 37; "say it very (demisemiquaver) fast in a Munchkin voice if you can dig that" 63; "what appear to be horrid...midgets, in strange operetta uniforms actually, some sort of Central European government-in-exile," 123; "Siggi in his speeded-up midget's voice" 157; "a tiny hand comes out and gives Slothrop the tiny finger" 199; "the arms of young passersby not in the sleeves of their coats but inside somewhere, as if sheltering midgets" 250; "Like a buncha happy midgets on a holiday!" 259; "They went off practically skipping obsessive as Munchkins, out into the erotic Poisson." 270; "Local midgetry scuttle and cringe alongside the tracks" 310; "Were you frightened when the dwarf tried to hug you" 398; "a splendid retinue of dwarves and sprites " 419; the midget sheriff in Osbie Feel's movie, 534-35; "as armies of eternally shrinking midgets galloped upstairs and down again" 567; midgets on the pinball machines, 586; "lammergeiers cruising there in the lurid red altitudes around [...] piloted by bareback dwarves with little plastic masks around their eyes" 664; "Is he interested in all those other worlds who send their dwarf reps out on the backs of eagles?" 664; "where inside Marcel is the midget Grandmaster" 675

'''Midnight''' 
342; "the famous bucking bronco" on the U.S. rodeo circuits

'''Mieczislav''' 
See Omuzire, Mieczislav

'''mindless pleasures''' 
270; working title for Gravity's Rainbow; 681; "idle and mindless hours of the day" 177

'''Mingeborough, Massachussetts''' 
26; Slothrop's hometown [introduced in Pynchon's short story, "The Secret Integration", where Dr. Slothrop and his son Hogan live]; [[Minghe|Etymology]]

'''Ministry of Munitions''' 
416; Branch of the SS, headed by Albert Speer

'''Ministry of Supply''' 
251; British, located at Shell Mex House, "the heart of the Rocket's own branch office in London." Duncan Sandys was the Under-secretary there during WWII.

'''Minsky's''' 
In the 1920s and 30s, Billy Minsky's Republic Theatre on Broadway in New York (later known as just Minsky's) featured rowdy burlesque entertainment. Gypsy Rose Lee performed there in the 1930s, as well as comedians W.C. Fields, Al Jolson, Fannie Brice, Bert Lahr, and Phil Silvers; "more tits than they got at"

<div id="miraculous-medal">'''Miraculous Medal'''</div>
135; "O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to you."

[[image:miraculous_medal.jpg|left|caption|Front]]The design was revealed by the Virgin Mary to St. Catherine Labouré on November 27, 1830 in the chapel of the convent of Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul on the rue de Bac, Paris. Catherine had been having visions for the seven months before and had told only her confessor M. Aladel who had the medal struck in June 1832. In 1836, a tribunal in Paris approved the medal as of supernatural origin. On one side, the medal depicts the Virgin Mary standing on a globe with her feet crushing a serpent's head. Beneath it says, "O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee."

[[image:miraculous_medal_back.jpg|right|caption|Back]]On the other side there is the letter "M" entwined with a bar with a cross on it. Twelve stars surround the symbols. Beneath are two hearts, one crowned with thorns, the other pierced with a sword. The medal gained in significance when Alphonse Ratisbonne, a Jew, was instantly converted to Catholicism while visiting a church in Rome to arrange a funeral. He subsequently founded the Order of Our Lady of Sion to work for understanding between Jews and Catholics

'''[[Mirrors|MIRRORS]]''' 
See also [[I#interface|Interface]]; [[I#inside|inside/outside]]

'''Miss Rheingold 1946''' 
380;

'''Mittelwerke''' 
German: "Central Works"; Given to the Soviets per the Yalta Agreement, 273; primary A-4 factory after RAF raid on Peenemünde in August 1943, located in abandoned gypsum mine near Nordhausen and next to Dora prison camp; evacuated in February and March 1945; 283; designed like a ladder with Stollen (rung-tunnels), 299; control systems work was done outside mountain in castles, farms etc, 313; tactical sites elsewhere, 427; abandoned in '45, 432 [MAP]; [Image] Click here to view a photo from Der Spiegel of laborers working in the tunnels. An Interesting Site; Check out this map of Mittelwerke (thanks to Jeff Meikle).

'''Mix, Tom (1808-1940)''' 
An American film actor and the star of many early Western movies. He made a reported 336 films between 1910 and 1935, all but nine of which were silent features. He was Hollywood’s first Western megastar and is noted as having helped define the genre for all cowboy actors who followed; "Tom Mix shirt, 245

'''MMPI''' 
21; Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory--a psychological test developed in 1943, 81; Slothrop's, F-Scale: a measure to indicate whether the subject is trying to mask or underreport psychological symptoms, 90

'''M.O.''' 
591; Medical Officer

'''Möllner''' 
610; German whom Slothrop questions about von Göll at Putzi's

'''Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich (1890-1986)''' 
Russian statesman and diplomat who was picked by Stalin to be the Soviet commissar of foreign affairs (1939-49). It was during World War II that Molotov ordered the production of the bottles of inflammable liquid that became known as Molotov cocktails. As foreign minister and the major spokesman for the Soviet Union at the Allied conferences during and after World War II, he earned a reputation for uncompromising hostility to the West; cocktails, 507, 511; "isn't telling Vishinsky" 611

<div id="mondaugen">'''Mondaugen, Kurt'''</div>
German: "Mondaugen" = "Moon Eye"; 161; electrical engineer who went to Südwest; Pökler working with, 402-04; accepted Hitler on basis of his "Demian- metaphysics" 403; bodhisattva of Peenemünde, 403; was in Südwest, lived with Ovatjimba (aardvark) people, the poorest Hereros, 403; 1922 - in Südwest with Weissmann during siege of Foppl's villa, 408; after Peenemünde bombing, 422; Mondaugen's Law, 509; Verein für Raumschiffahrt, 582; 687; Mondaugen in V.

'''Monika''' 
603; "Putzi's genial, cigar-smoking, matelasse-suited madame"

'''Monkey Girl''' 
544; "and the pimps in Rome"; one whom Pirate had to betray "in the course of business for the Firm"

'''Monte Carlo Fallacy''' 
56; "No matter how many have fallen inside a particular square, the odds remain the same as they always were. Each hit is independent of all the others."

'''Montez, Maria (1912–1951)''' 
121; A Dominican-born motion picture actress who was know as "The Queen of Technicolor" after a series of films she made with co-star Jon Hall: ''Arabian Nights'' (1942), ''White Savage'' (1943), ''Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves'' (1944), ''Cobra Woman'' (1944), ''Gypsy Wildcat'' (1944), and ''Sudan'' (1945).

'''moon''' 
"no moon" 67; "the halfmoon shines" 104; men on the, 132; "is it the moon?" 123; "toy rockets to the moon" 154; "the dead moon" 163; "we can fly to the moon" 175; "blanched scar of moon" 195; "moonlight reflected from the mirror" 195; "moongrained" 196; astrologer's, 220; "chosen for its affinity to moonlight" 265; "voices twittering with moonlight" 268; "as among craters of the pale moon" 270; "the lunacy of her purple eyes" 271; true message to Hereros, 322; "Me trama con la disquietante luna" 383; "under a moon newly calved" 398; "Passing over the bright rays of Kepler, the rugged solitude of the Southern Highlands, the spectacular views at Copernicus and Eratosthenes, she chose a small pretty crater in the Sea of Tranquility called Maskelyne B." 410; and Ilse, 410; cycles, 414; "the moon that ruled her" 415; "Have you given up so easily on the Moon?" 420; "Her round straw hat a frail moon" 421; Lunar motion, 452; "buttocks rise like moons" 466; "enormous slick stretching away moonward, to the threshold of the north wind" 609; "moon minaret" 637; Katje "felt the moon in the soles of her feet" 657; "brightening and darkening as if by itself" 692; "The moon has risen" 720; moonlight, 721; "our new Deathkingdom" 723; 734; [Check out: Borges' "The Moon" in Dreamtigers (1964)]

'''Moore, Norton B.''' 
452; Aeronautics engineer; worked with Theodore von Kármán on supersonic flow

'''mopery''' 
Slang: a trivial, imaginary violation of law (also seen defined as: act of moping; vagrancy, dawdling); "The War must've been lean times for crowd control, murder and mopery was the best you could do" 570; "Magda was picked up on first-degree mopery" 742; "Edelman [...] accused last year of an 11569 (Attempted Mopery with a Subversive Instrument)" 755;

'''Mopp's Hebdomeriasis''' 
712; "does so-called 'Night Worm' belong among the Pseudo-Goldstrassian Group, or is it properly considered [...] a more insidious form of"; [De Chirico's Hebdomeros]

'''Moreno, El''' 
387; with whom "the white gaucho" has a singing-duel in Martín Fierro

'''Morgan''' 
"GE, that's Morgan money, there's Morgan money in Harvard" 332;

'''Morituri, Ensign''' 
462; [Latin: "We who are about to die" - salutation of the gladiators to the Roman Emperor: "morituri te salutamos" = "we who are about to die salute you"]; "of the Japanese Imperial Navy" "ex-liaison man from Berlin who didn't quite get out by way of Russia"; was in kamikaze training; 467; his story, 474; irony of radium/Hiroshima, 479-80; 672; 706

'''Moritz''' 
757; operating the rocket motor panel for S-gerät 00000; 758

'''Morrison, Herbert Stanley (1888-1965)''' 
British Labour statesman who played a leading role in London local government for 25 years. Constantly involved with socialist politics from 1905, he was active in Churchill's coalition government, serving as Minister of Supply, Home Secretary and Minister of Home Security; 132

'''Morrison shelter''' 
Introduced by Herbert Morrison while home secretary in Churchill's government, they were bomb shelters, 24

'''Mosquito''' 
136; The de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito--a British combat aircraft that excelled in versatility during WWII; was made primarily out of laminated plywood

'''Moss Creature''' 
523; hallucination of Pavel's during Leunagasolin high

'''Mossmoon, Clive''' 
35; works for ICI doing polymer research; husband of Scorpia; 228-29; discussion regarding releasing Slothrop, 270; 544; 615; 635

'''Mossmoon, Scorpia''' 
35; wife of Clive, aka "Red Bitch of the High Seas"; had an affair with Pirate in 1936, 35-36; "living in St. John's Wood among sheet-music, new recipes, a small kennel of Weimaraners whose racial purity she will go to extravagant lengths to preserve" 544; 698

'''[[Mothers in Gravity's Rainbow|MOTHERS]]''' 
See also [[F#fathers|fathers]]; [[N#nipple|Nipple, Lloyd]]; [[#metropolis|Metropolis]]; [check out [[#marvy|Marvy's Mothers]], too]

'''Mouse Alexei''' 
229; lab rat at White Visitation

'''Mouthorgan, Missouri''' 
583; location of Masonic temple the Tracys visit; "an elegant chaos to bend the ingenuity of Bland's bought expert" 586;

'''[[The Movies in Gravity's Rainbow|MOVIES]]
See also [[A#actors|actors/directors]]; [[F#film|film/cinema references]]; [[K#kingkong|King Kong]]

'''Moxie''' 
63; A carbonated beverage that was one of the first mass-produced soft drinks in the United States. In its advertising, it used “Make Mine Moxie!” advertising jingles, the slogan “Just Make It Moxie for Mine”, and a "Moxie Man" logo. The brand suffered a significant decline in sales during the 1930s; 208; 258

'''Mravenko''' 
611; "one of the VIAM people"

<div id="mucker"></div>'''Mucker-Maffick, Oliver "Tantivy"''' 
"tantivy" is a hunting cry made when the chase is at full speed; 18; shares office with Slothrop at ACHTUNG; with Slothrop at Casino, 181; Ballad of, 191; "There hasn't been a word" 209; disappears - death confirmed, 252; Slothrop's dream of his return, 551; 584; [[Oliver Mucker-Maffick|Etymology]]; See also [[A#achtung|ACHTUNG]]

'''Muffage, Doctor''' 
591; with Dr. Spontoon, out to castrate Slothrop

'''Muffin-tin Road''' 
646; in Happyville: "note the smiing faces on all the houses"

'''Mukuru''' 
322; Hereros' "first ancestor, Adam"; breath of, 524; 562

'''Müller-Hochleben, Miss''' 
632-34; German: "Miller-Highlife" (really!); "short but spunky secretary" at Twelfth House on Gallaho Mews in London whose glasses fall off

<div id="munchkin">'''Munchkins'''</div>
The natives of the fictional Munchkin Country in the Oz books by L. Frank Baum. They first appeared in the 1900 novel [[W#wizoz|The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]], in which they are described as being somewhat short of stature, and wearing only blue. They are best-known from their depiction in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, in which they are played by adult proportional dwarfs, dressed in brightly multicolored outfits, and live in Munchkinland; "Munchkin voice" 63; "obsessive as Munchkins" 270

'''Murphy's Law''' 
275; "when everything has been taken care of, when nothing can go wrong, or even surprise us. . .something will"; "where the the salvation could be" 471; See also [[G#godel|Gödel's Theorem]]

'''[[Music in Gravity's Rainbow|MUSIC]]''' 
See also [[F#foxtrot|fox-trot]]; [[#musicians|musicians/composers]; [[R#rossini|Rossini]]; [[Songs/Compositions|songs/compositions]]

<div id="musicians"></div>'''musicians/composers''' 
Sandy MacPherson, 13; George Formby, 18; Falkman and His Apache Band, 32; Charlie ("Yardbird") Parker, 63; Primo Scala's Accordian Band, 115; Hop Harrigan and Tank Tinker, 117; Roland Peachey and His Orchestra, 121; Thomas Tallis, Henry Purcell, Heinrich Suso, 129; Ernesto Lecuona, 169; Carl Orff, 237, 441; Benny Goodman, 225; Juan d'Arienzo, 267; Der Bingle (B. Crosby), 320; Richard Wagner, 324, 450; Andrews Sisters, 382; Frank Sinatra, 390, 700; Hugo Wolf, 419, 450; Ludwig von Beethoven, 440, 685; Anton Webern, 440, 494; Irving Berlin, 442; Horst Wessel, 443; Kurt Weill, 513; Gene Krupa, 513; Guy Lombardo, 529; Gilbert & Sullivan, 538; Jacques Offenbach, 584 ("Offenbach galop": Jacques Offenbach wrote the music to the well-known "Cancan" - "galop" is a dance); Sandy McPherson, 592; Spohr, Rossini, Spontini, 622; Diamond Lil, 657; 175-Stadt Chorale, 668; Stephen Foster, 675; Spike Jones, 678; Brahms, 685; Harry James, 685; J.S. Bach, 685; Tchaikovsky, 702; Josef Haydn, 712; Lübeck Hitler Youth Glee Club, 736; See also [[R#rossini|Rossini]]

'''Mussert's people''' 
97; someone for whom Katje is "smelling out" Jewish families

Mr. Pynchon is probably referring to Anton Adriaan Mussert, fouder and leader of the Dutch National Socialist Movement during World War II

<div id="mustache">'''mustache'''</div>
"jar of mustache wax" 17; 62; "mustache unruffled" 188; "twirling his slick mustache in a saber-point" 191; "great twisted mustache" 201; "Mustache Kit, 20 different shapes from [[F#fumanchu|Fu Manchu]] to [[M#groucho|Groucho Marx]]", "[[E#earp|Wyatt Earp's]]", "[[B#booth|John Wilkes Booth's]]", "the old duster just keeps droopin' down again" 210; "as the mustache waxes, Slothrop waxes the mustache" 211; "twisting his mustache" 221; "clipped mustache bristles" 233; "[[F#flynn|Errol Flynn]] frisks his mustache" 248; 267; "I even have a mustache...like that [[H#hemingway|Ernest Hemingway]]" 292; "red [[V#hindenburg|von Hindenburg]] mustache" 305; 306; "mustache white and bubbly too" 307; "saws off pieces of his mustache on both sides...look like [[H#hitler|Hitler]]" 309; "big chromo of [[S#stalin|Stalin]]...mustache and hair only incidental as makeup" 368; "wide handle-bar mustache" 473; "twisting half his mustache so it points up in a saber at one eye" 474; "Frisking his great mustache" 479; "around the mustache line" 583; "blunt and ragged mustache" 607; "superthin mustache" 675

'''''My Little Chickadee''''' 
198; a 1940 Universal comedy/western motion picture starring [[W#maewest|Mae West]] and W. C. Fields

'''Myrtle Miraculous''' 
See [[F#floundering|Floundering Four]]

'''Mysterious Microfilm Drill''' 
32; wherein "Bloat goes somewhere and microfilms something, then transfers it, via Pirate, to young Mexico. And thence [...] down to 'The White Visitation'"

'''Mystery Stimulus''' 
84; "Conditioned response = hardon whenever x is present [...] what's x? Why it's the famous 'Mystery Stimulus'

'''[[Mythology in Gravity's Rainbow|MYTHOLOGY]]''' 
See also [[G#god|God]]; [[S#scylla|Scylla and Charybdis]]

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'''V-1''' 
See Rocket; [[V-1 Rocket]]

'''V-2''' 
See Rocket; [[V-2 Rocket]]

<div id="vacuum"></div>'''vacuum''' 
"fraternity-boy reflex in a vacuum" 22; "if they can see through to your vacuum" 50; "Vacuum brings the secretion along through shining tubework" 78; "run not by any lust. . .but by vacuum" 149; "the stone-blue lights of the Vacuum" 239; "to miss grandeur, only to be in its vacuum, to be tugged slightly along by its slipstream" 324; "State he is building in the German vacuum" 337; "a stark circle of" 342; "vacuum cleaner" 374; "vacuuming by above" 380; "Victim in a Vacuum" 414-15; "all his vacuums" 432; "vacuum hours" 584; "At least she won't be leaving him in a vacuum" 629; "Is this how the Vacuum feels?" 659; "the great Vacuum in the sky" 697; "What if there is no Vacuum?" 697; "vacuum. . .gleaming in the Void" 699; "it's vacuum inside and out" 723; "a Vacuum in time" 726; "guns. . .like vacuum cleaners" 745; See also [[N#nihilism|nihilism]]; [[#void|Void]]; [[XYZ#zero|Zero]]

<div id="vampires"></div>'''vampires''' 
"Transylvanian Magyars, they know spells" 11; "Roger [...] hunched Dracula-style inside his Burberry" 37; "shining the light up from under his chin to highlight the vampire face he thinks he's making" 44; "his most famous compatriot [...] staff who swear they've seen [Rözsavölgyi] crawling headfirst down the north façade" 82; Bela Lugosi, 106; "wings of his cape reaching to enfold" 171; "dusty Dracularity, the West's ancient curse" 263; "Garlic bulbs? Wait--weren't they to keep away vampires?" 283; "Katje, the lovely little Queen of Transylvania" 283; "Slothrop puts the whip down and climbs on top, covering her with the wings of his cape" 397; "dawn is nearly here, I need my night's blood, my funding" 521; "For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross" 540; "trying for a Russian accent, which comes out like Bela Lugosi" 557; "holding up the mandala, cross to vampire" 560; "a pregnant Lugosi pause" 561; Slothrop, 629; "it's your last taste of O-negative, Jackson, those fangs won't even begin to gum oatmeal" 632; "Buddy at the last minute decided to go see Dracula" 652; "vampire mosquitos" 692; "glass is a reluctant vampire" 711

'''van der Groov, Franz''' 
108; ancestor of Katje; went to Mauritius and, with other Dutch settlers, wiped out Dodoes -considered them satanic because of their ugliness; 545; still haunting Pirate, 620; 621; cosmic windmill, 624

'''van der Groov, Hendrik''' 
108; brother of Franz

'''Vanitas''' 
268; Latin: emptiness

'''Vanya''' 
155; "slavic" comrade of Leni's in KPD; 156; 158

'''Vanya, Dog''' 
78; laboratory animal at White Visitation; 79; 90; 229

'''Vat 69''' 
9; A blended scotch whisky. In 1882 William Sanderson prepared one hundred casks of blended whiskey and hired a panel of experts to taste them. The batch from the vat with number 69 was proclaimed as the best tasting one and the famous blend got its name. The whisky was at first bottled in port wine bottles; 173

'''Vauxhall Bridge''' 
Vauxhall, Crosses the River Thames in Vauxhall, borough of Lambeth, Greater London, England; "[Pirate's] driven out, away, east over Vauxhall Bridge" 11

'''V.C.s''' 
The highest decoration for valor in the British armed forces, the Victoria Cross is awarded for extreme bravery in the face of the enemy. Instituted in 1856 by Queen Victoria at the request of her consort Prince Albert; 636

'''VD toilet''' 
452; on Toiletship

'''VE-301 People's Receiver''' 
451; on Toiletship

'''V.E. Day''' 
9; Victory in Europe (May 8, 1945); "awful interface of" 80; 269; 274; 276; 288; 628

'''Veiled Prophet Ball''' 
582; Mrs. Tracy preparing for

'''Verbindungsman''' 
344; German: liaison officer, go-between; the IG salesmen; [IG Farben|Sasuly's ''IG Farben'']

'''Verein für Raumschiffahrt (VfR)''' 
400; German: "Society for Space Travel"; German amateur rocketeers club pre-WWII, from whose ranks came the rocket engineers for the Wehrmacht; 401; 582; See also Raketenflugplatz

'''Vereinigte Stahlwerke''' 
587; German: "United Steelworks"; where Fibel worked; shares a patent with an English steel firm, for "an alloy used in the liquid-oxygen couplings for the line running aft to the S-Gerät in A-4 number 00000" 632; [[IG Farben|Sasuly's ''IG Farben'']]

'''Vermeer, Jan (1632-75)''' 
Dutch painter of mainly of interior genre subjects. His mastery of the soft play of daylight on varied shapes and surfaces, pictorial design, and his pure and individual color sense make him one of the masters of painting in the 17th century; "framed, brilliantly motionless as any Vermeer" 109

'''Vermittlungsstelle W''' 
630; handled IG's liaison with OKW, "under Drs. Dieckmann and Gorr"; [[Sasuly's IG Farben]]

'''Versailles, Treaty of''' 
285; Treaty with Germany after its surrender in World War I, signed under protest by Germany on June 28, 1919. Its terms were justifiably harsh--e.g. Germany lost 13 percent of its territory (including all its colonies) and almost one-tenth of its population, and had to limit its army to 100,000. Germany was to be occupied for 15 years. The Treaty set up the League of Nations, created Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary and Lituania, and assured Austrian independence. The "ignominy of the Versailles Dictate" became the rallying cry of all nationalistic elements on the German Right.

'''VIAM''' 
273; Vsesoyuzniy Institut Aviatsionnykh Materialov = "Soviet Institute of Aviation Materials" - responsible for development of new alloys &c., formed in 1932, in Moscow

'''Vichy traitors''' 
34; After Germany conquered France, the government of the unoccupied southern zone was moved from Bordeaux (to which it had retreated in June 1941 after the German victory) to Vichy in central France. Convinced that Germany would win the war, the Vichy government unanimously settled on a policy of collaboration with the Germans. When the Germans occupied all of France after the Anglo-American landings in North Africa in November of 1942, the facade of the Vichy government was maintained. The Vichy police (the Milice) was headed by Darnand, who held extreme right-wing and anti-semetic views. The Milice greatly aided the Nazis in exposing the French resistance and hunting down Jews. After French liberation in 1944, thousands of the "Vichy traitors" were summarily executed.

'''Vikings''' 
549; "the Pig-Hero who, sometime back in the 10th century, routed a Viking invasion" 567;

'''Villard, Dumpster''' 
65; buddy of Slothrop's who appears in "toilet adventure" 65; in Slothrop's dream, 255

'''Vincentesque invaders''' 
170; "nasty little fangs achop"

'''Virginia''' 
544; "a girl back in the Midlands" with whom Pirate was involved, "and for their child who never came to pass"

'''Vishinsky, Andrey Yanuaryevich (1883-1954)''' 
Soviet statesman, diplomat, and lawyer who was Stalin's chief prosecutor during the Great Purge trials in Moscow in the 1930s. A member of the Mensheviks, he joined the Communist Party in 1920. By 1940 he was a member of party's Central Committee and deputy commissar of foreign affairs; "Molotov isn't telling Vishinsky" 611

'''Vistula''' 
Vistula River is the largest river of Poland and of the Baltic Sea's drainage basin. Rising in the Beskid mountains of southern Poland, its length is 651 miles (1,047 kilometres) with a drainage basin of approximately 75,100 square miles (194,500 square kilometres). It is a waterway of great importance to the nations of eastern Europe; "was under Soviet interdiction to the [Anubis]" 489

'''Vlachs''' 
European people constituting the major element in the populations of Romania and Moldova, as well as smaller groups located throughout the Balkan Peninsula; 549

'''Vlasta''' 
732; female CW (Continuous Wave: radio waves which are radiated from an antenna) operator with Enzian and Schwarzkommando

<div id="void"></div>'''Void''' 
"'Bert is fine,' he says, and steps back into the void" 73; "'"The White Visitation" is fine,' she said, and stepped into the void ..." 106; Nora's void, 150; "white abyss" 151; "before his birth...the void long before he ought to be remembering" 219; "the silences here are retreats of sound" 336; "Announcing the void" 470; "out into some void" 488; "surrender [...] to the void" 578; "a few good [...] voids" 587; "cessation of noise" 694; sound-shadow, 695-96, 711; "vacuum [...] gleaming in the Void" 699; "hearing the pauses instead of the notes" 713; See also [[N#nihilism|nihilism]]; [[S#soundshadow|Sound-Shadow]]; [[#vacuum|vacuum]]; [[XYZ#zero|Zero]]

<div id="volksgren">'''Volksgrenadier'''</div>
230; A type of German Army division formed in the Autumn of 1944 following heavy regular Army losses on both war fronts. The name itself was intended to build morale, appealing at once to nationalism (Volk) and Germany's older military traditions (Grenadier). These divisions typically economized on personnel and emphasized defensive over offensive strength. They were organized around small cadres of hardened veteran soldiers, NCOs and officers and then bulked out with anything the Replacement Army could get its hands on.

'''Volkswagen''' 
328; plant in Hannover; "thumb-harp [...] whose reeds are cut from springs of a wrecked" 562; "black Managerial" 755;

'''Volta Congress''' 
452; 5th Volta Congress on High Speeds in Aviation, held in Rome in 1935

<div id="hindenburg">'''von Hindenburg, Paul (1847–1934)''' </div>
German field marshal, statesman, and politician, and served as the 2nd President of Germany from 1925 to 1934. He appointed Hitler as Chancellor in 1933. "von Hindenburg [[M#mustache|mustache]]" 305

'''von Kármán, Theodore''' 
452; Expert in aeronautics and rocket-science

'''Vorsetzer rolls''' 
550;

'''VOWI''' 
630: Sasuly: "IG's central office in Berlin for collecting foreign intelligence was the statistical section (known as 'VOWI') of NW7, under the direction of the itinerant satistician Reithinger"

'''VTsK NTA''' 
352; Vsesoyhzhyy Tsentral'nyy Komitet Novogo Tyurkskogo Alfavita; Tchitcherine attends "first plenary session" of, where he gets a "Weird Letter Assignment"''' 

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'''Haagsche Bosch''' 
104; ''Bosch'' is Dutch for "woods"; The main park (with its thick sheltering trees) in the Hague from which most of the A-4s that fell on London in the initial months of rocket attack were launched. The attacks began at 6:43 p.m., September 8, 1944.

'''Hafenstrasse''' 
692; in Greifswald

'''Haftung, G.M.B.''' 
496; German: "Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung" "GmbH" = limited liability company" -- still in use today (1997) [provided by Evan Corcoran]; "ulcerous impresario" aboard Gnahb's boat

'''Hague, The''' 
151; aka s'Gravenhage, Holland's seat of government (the capital is Amsterdam); location of Royal Dutch Shell, 240; [MAP]

'''Haig, Sir Douglas (1861-1928)''' 
79; Field marshal of the British Expeditionary Force in World War I; led the attack at Passchendaele; See also Passchendaele

'''Hall, Jon (1915-1979)''' 
Born Charles Felix Locher in Fresno, California, Hall starred a series of six Technicolor adventure films with Maria Montez: ''Arabian Nights'' (1942), ''White Savage'' (1943), ''Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves'' (1944), ''Cobra Woman'' (1944), ''Gypsy Wildcat'' (1944), and ''Sudan'' (1945).

'''Halliburton, Richard (1900-1939)''' 
266; An American traveler, adventurer, and author. Best known today for having swum the length of the Panama Canal, he was headline news for most of his brief career. His final and fatal adventure, an attempt to sail a Chinese junk, the Sea Dragon, across the Pacific Ocean from Hong Kong to the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco, made him legendary.

'''Hallinger, Herr''' 
405; had an inn on the Oie off Peenemünde

'''Hand of Providence/God''' 
"the powdery wipe of Nothing's hand" 24; 25; on Constant Slothrop's tombstone, 26-27; "the great bright hand reaching out of the cloud" 29; Invisible Hand, 30; "unconscious hands of London" 130; "mano morto" ("dead hand") 132; "a tiny hand comes out and gives Slothrop the tiny finger" 199; "white hands that move too quickly to be seen" 203; "playing against the invisible House" 205; "the hand of a terrible croupier" 209; "giving Slothrop the finger" 461; illustrated, 566; "the loud guillotine of Flanders run. . .by no visible hands" 616; "consumers need to feel a sense of sin. That guilt, in proper invisible hands, is a most powerful weapon" 652; "A-ha-hand" 692; "Hand of Glory" 750; "There is a Hand" 760; See also Puritans; The Game of Chess

'''Handbuch''' 
"you hit town, here in the heart of downtown Peenemünde [...] hauling your [...] copy of the Handbuch" 452

<div id="hptie">'''Hand-painted tie'''</div>
190; Slothrop wears a hand-painted Wormwood Scrubs tie with a topless (at least) woman on it. In Inherent Vice, Mickey Wolfmann has a collection of [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=H#hptie hand-painted ties] with pictures of his lovers nude in submissive positions.

'''Hanna, Mark (1837-1904)''' 
664; American businessman and politician who, after the Civil War, went very successfully into the iron and coal business with his father. He entered politics in order to protect business interests and backed Republican candidates for president, including Garfield and McKinley. Became a senator from Ohio in 1897; "nickel magnate" who said: "You have been in politics long enough to know that no man in public office owes the public anything." 664-65

'''Hannomag Storm''' 
485; According to McGovern, on March 16, 1945 Wernher von Braun's "young civilian driver" dozed off and "drove their compact car, a Hannomag Storm" off the autobahn, seriously injuring the driver and breaking von Braun's arm (p.94); wrecked auto Thanatz & Gretel come upon in the Heath

'''Hannover''' 
550; Industrial and commercial capital city of Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) in Germany

'''Happyville''' 
644-46; where Mr. Information and Skippy go, instead of to Pain City; 655

'''Harley Street''' 
170; 171;

'''Harriman, William Averell (1891-1986)''' 
Prominent in the National Recovery Administration in 1934, he was F.D. Roosevelt's special war-aid representative in Britain in 1941, ambassador to the USSR in 1943 and to Britain in 1946; "Harrimans and Whitneys" 28; "Harriman and Weinberg" 581

'''Harrods''' 
31; department store in London; [Harrod's Website]

'''Hart, Dorothy''' 
381; competing for Miss Rheingold 1946

'''Harvard''' 
63-65; 193; 286; elite Ivy League university in Cambridge, Massachussetts (19 references,

'''Harvey Nicholls''' 
94; upscale clothier in Knightsbridge, London

'''Harz, the''' 
100; Mountain range in central Germany famous for ancient spiritual rituals and for canaries; 237; 289; 313; 328; 727 [MAP] [Image]

'''Hawasch''' 
455; aerodynamics person on S-gerät project; In Fritz Lang's 1922 film Dr Mabuse, der Spieler, Hawasch is the snaggle-toothed rotund forger who works under the city.

'''Havel''' 
364; in Neubabelsberg, where Potsdam Conference was held in 1945;

'''Hawaii''' 
"Slothrop's Hawaiian shirt" 186, 201; "'That "Hawaii I" You know anything about that?'" 207; "The Schwarzkommando use the 50 cm band--the one the Rocket's Hawaii II guidance operated on." 325; See also Puke-a-hook-a-look-i Island

'''heat, the''' 
570; American slang for "police"

'''Heini of Berlin''' 
296; "famous military couturier" who designed the Raumwaffe ("space-force") spacesuit

'''Heinkels''' 
407; "dropping iron models of the Rocket from 20,000 feet"

'''Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle''' 
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Relation, stated by German theoretial physicist Werner Heisenberg (1901-76) in 1925, posits that the more precise the measurements are for an electron's position, the less precise they are for its momentum. More generally, any measurement of a system must disturb the system under investigation, with a resulting lack of precision; "a dilemma built into Nature" to which the "analgesia and addiction" problem is likened; "we can't have one property without the other, any more than a particle physicist can specify position without suffering an uncertainty as to the particle's velocity" 348; "Often the sting was bigger than the model itself--the very need to measure interfered with the observations" 452; "by the time you get any summary, the whole thing will have changed. We could shorten them for you as much as you like, but you'd be losing so much resolution it wouldn't be worth it" 541; See also Things That Can Happen in European Politics

'''Helgoland''' 
Helgoland is a small island off of Cuxhaven. The red and white mentioned on page 652 refers to the contrast between the red clay of the cliffs rising from the white sand beaches; 450; 602; "that red-and-white Napolean pastry tipped in the sea" where Byron the Bulb stays "for a while at a hotel between the Hengst and the Mönch" 652; [Website (in German)]

'''heliotrope''' 
18; a reddish-purple color; 145

'''Helm, Brigitte (1908-96)''' 
393-94; German actress who played the robot in Metropolis. Read her biography here.

<div id="hemingway">'''Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961)'''</div>
American novelist and short-story writer; his [[M#mustache|mustache]], 292

'''Hengst and the Mönch''' 
652; German: "stallion, stud" and "monk"; these are the names of two large rocks on the southern tip of Helgoland, many of which have such fanciful names (according to Baedeker)

'''Henry''' 
632; the name of a dead friend of a plasterer Mexico sees on his way to Twelfth House

'''Henry V''' 
169; Gwenhidwy "descended directly from the Welshman in"

'''Henryk the Hare''' 
730; Schwarzkommando traveling with Enzian; called "the Hare" because "he can never get messages right"

'''[[Herero Translations|HERERO TRANSLATIONS]]'''

<div id="herero"></div>'''Hereros''' 
74; Ex-colonials from the Südwest (South-West Africa) living in Germany; "your dark, secret children" 75; "Ndjambi Karunga" = god or fucking, 100; 153; in exile in Germany for 2 generations, 315; "Last pocket of pre-Christian oneness" 321; "the village built like a mandala" 321; Gondwanaland, 321; 1904 Herero Rebellion, 361; Ovatjimba (aardvark) people, 403; almost wiped out by Germans in 1904, 452; washing-blue "abortifacient" 519; St. Pauli (washing-blue connection), 525; "An Introduction to Modern Herero" 536; "we had been passed over by von Trotha's army so that we would find the Aggregat" 563; 657; "built in mandalic form like a Herero village" 725

'''Heresy Question''' 
538; "already a pebble in the shoe of the [Double-Agent Convention]"

'''Hermann and Wieselsberger''' 
Dr. Rudolph Hermann worked at Peenemünde doing wind-tunnel research. Wieselsberger was his assistant; "look out into the country of the barbarians through [their] tiny window" 452

'''Hernández''' 
386; Argentinian poet who wrote Martín Fierro; "Seven years later, Hernández wrote a Return of Martín Fierro, in which the Gaucho sells out" 387;

'''Herod, Antipas (22 BC - c.40 AD)''' 
135; Palestinian ruler in Roman times who was in Jerusalem during Passover when Jesus was sent before him by Pilate for examination. He also had Jesus' cousin, John the Baptist, executed for, among other things, condemning Herod's marriage to his half-brother's wife. See also [[J#judeo|Judeo-Christian]]

'''Hesse, Hermann (1877 - 1962)''' 
Hesse was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter, best known for the novels The Glass Bead Game, Steppenwolf, and Siddhartha, among others. "One of these German mystics who grew up reading" 403; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Hesse Wikipedia entry]

'''heterocyclic rings''' 
250; Heterocyclic compounds are organic compounds that contain a ring structure containing atoms in addition to carbon, such as sulfur, oxygen or nitrogen, as part of the ring. They may be either simple aromatic rings or non-aromatic rings. Some examples are pyridine (C5H5N), pyrimidine (C4H4N2) and dioxane (C4H8O2). The suffix '-cyclic' implies a ring structure, while 'hetero' refers to an atom other than carbon, as above. Heterocyclic chemistry is the chemistry branch dealing exclusively with synthesis, properties and applications of heterocycles especially vital to drug design. [From Wikipedia]

'''Hexes-Stadt''' 
718; German: "Witch City"

'''Hick's Garage''' 
744; in Mingeborough, MA

'''Hilbert-Spaess, Sammy''' 
217; double agent with "scombroid face [...] quick as a fire-control dish antenna and even less mercy"; at Double Agent Convention, with "pouched and Levantine eyes" 540; [Hilbert Space: "A multidimensional space in which the proper (eigen) functions of wave mechanics are represented by orthogonal unit vectors" - from The Penguin Dictionary of Physics]

'''Hilde''' 
506; one of Haftung's chorus girls, whom Otto fancies

'''Himmel and Hölle''' 
567; German: "Heaven und Hell"

'''Himmler-Spielsaal''' 
German: Spielsaal = "gaming room"; Heinrich Himmler (1900-45) was the leader of the SS from 1929-45. He greatly expanded the power and reach of the SS after Hitler came to power in 1933; gaming room at the Casino Hermann Goering, 194; 202; 205; Slothrop surprises Katje, 208; "You'll remember the Himmler-Spielsaal, and the skirt I was wearing" 225; 285

'''Hinduism''' 
"face as blue as Krishna" 276

'''Hippocratic temperament''' 
75; Hippocrates (?c.460-377 or 359 BC) (the "father of medicine") categorized people into different temperaments (phlegmatic, humid, bilious, melancholic), each of which described a constellation of tendencies and required a unique approach to the diagnosis and treatment of disease.

'''Hiroshima''' 
480; "a city on Honshu, the Inland Sea" in Japan, where Ensign Morituri & family live; "Do you suppose something has exploded somewhere? Really--somewhere in the East" 642; "MB DRO ROSHI" 693

'''Hirsch, Richard''' 
156-58; old friend of Leni's about whom she dreams (?) and fantasizes marrying

'''Hispano-Suiza''' 
181; luxury automobile made by the Spanish firm of the same name; auto in which Erdmann was taken to The Castle, 486; car priest uses to search for Byron, 653

'''history''' 
"Innocent as a child, perhaps unaware--perhaps--that in his play [Mexico] wrecks the elegant rooms of history, threatens the idea of cause and effect itself. [...] Will Postwar be nothing but 'events,' newly created one moment to the next? No links? Is it the end of history?" 56; "daffy about that history" 65; "historied" 71; "[War] provides the raw material to be recorded into history" 105; "Our history is an aggregate of last moments" 149; secular, 167; "is not woven by innocent hands" 277; "winter anxieties about the End of History" 277; "the multitudes passed over by God and History" 297; "when there is no more History" 303; "History and Geopolitics move them surely into confrontation" 342; "The historical moment" 388; "some dialectic is still operating in History" 540; "by the time you get any summary, the whole thing will have changed" 540-41; "he has been journeying underneath history: that history is Earth's mind" 589; rock's perspective ("Sentient Rocksters"), 612-13; "historical structure" 624; "prehistoric wastes. . .transmuted to the very substance of History" 639; "Pensiero is an agent of History" 643; Karmic Hammer, 644; predestined shape of, 701; "Theory of History" 704; "historied hands" 718; centrifugal, 737; See also Time

<div id="hitler">'''Hitler, Adolph'''</div>
32; 116; 135; 151; his [[M#mustache|mustache]] 309; 349; "Hitler-head stamps" 373; "accept Hitler on the basis of Demian metaphysics" 403; "easily tickled by what the Germans call Schadenfreude" 526; Hitler Youth pet show, 556; unions and, 571; 630

'''Hod, Pappy''' 
715; Bodine listening to him "tell disaster jokes, really funny ones"; "Hod [the sephiroth] is watery and logical" 748; [Pappy's also in V., yes]

'''Holmes, Sherlock''' 
14; "a ~ London Evening"

'''holy shit''' 
"Holy shit it's moving — an octopus?" 186; "'Holy shit.' This is the kind of sunset you hardly see anymore, a 19th-century wilderness sunset, a few of which got set down, approximated, on canvas, landscapes of the American West by artists nobody ever heard of" 214; "There are dozens of them, and each contains a deep, golden custard pie, which will fetch a fantastic price in Berlin. 'Wow,' cries Slothrop, 'holy shit. Surely I hallucinate'" 333; "Rocketman, holy shit, it really is. What's happening, ol' buddy?" 598; See also excrement

'''Home Service programme''' 
134 The domestic arm of the BBC, as opposed to the World Service

'''Hooker, Thomas''' 
22; "I know there is wilde love and joy enough in the world as there are wilde Thyme, and other herbs; but we would have garden love, and garden joy, of Gods owne planting."

'''Hoover, Herbert (d.1964)''' 
31st president of the United States, from 1929 to 1933, and head of the Food Administration during WWII; "something to do with shack towns or vacuum cleaners ["Hoover" is a longtime brand of vacuum cleaners]" 374; "'He came over here and fed you people, when you were starving!" 565; picture of, on piano in the Tracys' home, 582; "Chiclitz declaiming on the virtues of" 611; Byron's Guerrilla Strike Force "gonna get [him] right in the face" 649;

'''Hoover, J. Edgar''' 
"guardroom pinups of" 709

'''Höpmann''' 
451; shipfitter on the Toiletship who, with Kreuss (as the Scatotechnic Snipes), routed the waste lines into the ventilation system, and transferred to icebreaker duty, "erected vaguely turd-shaped monoliths of ice and snow all across the Arctic"; See also Kreuss''' 
Hopper''' 
256; U.S. MP in Nice outside Slothrop's door

'''Hörlein, Dr. Heinrich''' 
631; Sasuly: In 1908 he was in charge of the IG Bayer laboratories and, in 1909, "obtained a patent on a brick-red dye, the first of a series of new sulfonomide dyes. Bear in mind that the Bayer men customarily tried out new compounds both as dyes and as drugs." (pp.30-31)

'''Horrible Disasters in German Naval History''' 
450; pictures of in officers' latrines on Toiletship

'''Hotel Nimbus''' 
257; "in an obscure street in the Niederdorf or cabaret section of Zürich" where Slothrop stays

'''How I Came to Love the People''' 
547

'''Humility, the''' 
299; "this drifting Humility" 610; "the vast Humility sleepless, dying, in pain tonight across the Zone" 731;

'''humor''' 
"winejelly" incident (aka "Disgusting English Candy Drill"), 116; "show us your papers!" 442; Hopmann's and Kreuss' prank on Toiletship, 451; "Super Animals In My Crack" 466; orgy on Anubis, 467; Frau Gnahb's criticisms, 497; Springer's Sodium Amytal-induced outbursts, 512, 514 and 746; "How I Came to Love the People" 547; pinball machines run amuck, 583-84; Miss Muller-Hochleben, 633; "I say. . ." 634; "helicopter!" 683; "Ass Backwards" 683; "It's an old saying among my people" 709; Kazoo Quartet, 711-12; discharge dumplings, u.s.w., 715; bad pun, 746

'''Hund-Stadt''' 
614; German: "Dog-City"; village in Mecklenburg [MAP] taken over by army dogs after the war

'''Huntley & Palmers biscuit tin''' 
93;

'''Hupla, Apprentice''' 
300; Ölsch's apprentice at Mittelwerke

'''Hydra-Phänomen''' 
German: "Hydra-phenomenon"; Hydra was the mythical snake which Hercules had to kill as one of his twelve labors. As soon as he cut off one of its heads, two shot up in its place; how Slothrop's plucking-of-self would be classified "were it not for the complete absence of hostility" 712

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<div id="sachsa">'''Sachsa, Peter'''</div>
31; the "control" in Psi Section; lover of Leni Pökler, 147; medium at Rathenau seance, 163-65; killed in communist street action in 1930 in Neukölln (Berlin) by Schutzmann Jöche, a Nazi cop, 152; as Zaxa, 218; 219-20; 590; [[Peter Sachsa|Etymological Musings]]

[[Sado-Masochism|'''SADOMASOCHISM (S/M)''']]

<div id="basher"></div>'''St. Blaise, Group Capt. "Basher"''' 
146; sees angel of death during RAF Lübeck strike, 151; [["Basher" St. Blaise|Etymological Musings]]; See also [[C#church|Church of St. Blasius]]

'''St. Elmo's fire''' 
The glow accompanying the brushlike discharges of atmospheric electricity that usually appears during stormy weather as a tip of light on the extremities of such pointed objects as church towers or the masts of ships; "will be seen spurting at moments from crossends" on the Anubis, 491

'''St. Felix''' 
37; "the clock of" in London

'''St. John's Wood''' 
544; an exclusive district in West London, where the Mossmoons live

'''Saint Pauli''' 
the English translation for "Sankt Pauli," which is the main red-light district in Hamburg/Germany. It's known for its sex-bars and its fusion of pimps, prostitutes and working-class inhabitants. St. Pauli is famous for the atmosphere that the harbour of Hamburg brings into the district. Sailors, seaman and other stranded creatures are walking over the Reeperbahn (St. Pauli's main street). The Star-Club, where the Beatles paid their dues before becoming hugely famous, is in St. Pauli; 525

'''St. Veronica's Hospital''' 
46; of the True Image for Colonic and Respiratory Diseases; St. Veronica wiped Christ's forehead with her veil while he carried the cross; St. Veronica Papers, 688

'''St.-Just Grossout''' 
540; blackman worked for Firm infiltrating Schwarzkommando (aka "Sam Juiced")

<div id="salitieri">'''Salitieri, Poore, Nash, De Brutus and Short'''</div>
591; [a pun on Thomas Hobbes' (1588-1679) description, in Leviathan (1651), of the life of the members of the commonwealth in the absence of an all-powerful sovereign: "No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual feare and danger of violent death; and the life of Man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short."]; Lyle Bland's lawyers, 591; pallbearers at Lyle Bland's funeral, 652; Recall the law firm representing Pierce Inverarity in [http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#warpe ''The Crying of Lot 49'']: Warpe, Wistfull, Kubitschek and McMingus.

'''Sandhurst''' 
202; a military academy, the British equivalent to West Point in the U.S

'''Sandoz''' 
250; Swiss chemical company which joined Geigy and Ciba in a cartel, in the early '20s; Schweitar worked there, 260;

'''Sandra''' 
685; has "run away from the Kleinburgerstrasse" and staying at Der Platz

'''Sandra''' 
606; acquaintance of Manuela's at Putzi's

'''Sandys, Duncan''' 
Sandys, who was married to Churchill's daughter Diana, was Under-secretary of the Ministry of Supply in Britain during WWII. He was appointed by Churchill to investigate the rumored German experiments with secret weapons, which investigation led to the discovery of the rocket facilities at Peenemünde; "the P.M.'s son-in-law" who works out of the Ministry of Supply at Shell Mex House, 228; "Churchill's own son-in-law" 251

'''Sanktwolke, Edouard''' 
385; German: "Saint Cloud"; "veteran automotive jobber" who supplied transportation for von Göll's and Waxwing's "travelling business conference"

'''Santora''' 
744; family in Mingeborough, MA

'''Sargasso Sea''' 
Area of the North Atlantic Ocean, elliptical in shape and relatively still, that is strewn with free-floating seaweed of the genus Sargassum. Encompassing the Bermuda Islands, a combination of ecological and biological conditions result in a dirth of plankton (a fish staple), creating a biological desert. Early navigators had the (unfounded) fear of becoming entangled within the mass of seaweed and unable to escape; "the sun-resorts of Sargasso where the bones come up to lie and bleach and mock the passing ships" 564;

'''Sargner''' 
152; "a civilian attached to the General Staff" who is keyed on by Wimpe at séance

'''Sarnaki''' 
424; target area for A-4, near Blizna, Poland

'''Sarts''' 
340; Central Asian people

'''Sassoon, Lt. Siegfried Lorraine (1886-1967)''' 
79; English poet and novelist whose experiences in World War I made him fiercely anti-war and he wrote numerous works which reflected this hatred, including Counterattack (1918) and Satirical Poems (1926)

'''sastrugi''' 
420; Sastrugi are smooth, gently rolling snowfields, often covered with wind-drifted formations, on the interior of the Greenland ice sheet which is second in area only to the Antarctic ice sheet. It extends about 1,570 miles from north to south and has a maximum width of some 600 miles and an average thickness of about 5,800 feet.

'''Saturday Evening Post''' 
435; American weekly magazine the covers of which often had Norman Rockwell illustrations

'''Saville Row''' 
526; swank shopping district in London

'''Scammony, Sir Marcus (aka Angelique)''' 
615; drinking with Clive Mossmoon at "their club"

'''Schacht, Hjalmar (1877-1970)''' 
According to Sasuly, Schacht was head of the Reichsbank in the 1920s and 40s and was a key player in manipulating the German inflation of that time, while blaming it on "reparations and an unfavorable balance of payments." (p.47); his "many bookkeeping dodges to keep official records clear of any hint of weapons procurement banned under the terms of Versailles." 285

'''Schadenfreude''' 
526; German: "joy at another's misfortune"; described but not named, 36; 745

'''Scheveningen''' 
97; coastal town in Holland, just north of The Hague [MAP]; 102; 104; 105; 535

'''Schicksal''' 
416; German: "fate, destiny" (misspelled "Shicksal" in earlier editions)

'''Schiller, Professor''' 
224; Slothrop studying his book on regenerative cooling

'''Schilling''' 
527; "[Närrisch] worked in guidance, he was Schilling's best man"

'''Schlabone, Gustav''' 
366; composer buddy (and "unwelcome doping partner" 711) of Säure Bummer; 621; 2nd violin at Krupp affair (aka "Captain Horror"), 711; at Der Platz, 745

'''Schleim, Josef''' 
630; "a defector of secondary brilliance, who had once worked for the IG out of Dr. Reithinger's office, VOWI"; 631;

'''Schlepzig, Max''' 
Franz Pökler putting up handbills for a movie starring, 165; name on Slothrop's pass to get into Potsdam Conference, 377; actor in von Göll films who whipped Erdmann ("the Reich's Sweethearts"), 395; 439; 461

'''Schmeil''' 
518; engineer at Peenemünde

'''Schmitz, Carl''' 
565; "'Didn't Schmitz of the IG sit on Siemens's board of directors?'" 565;

'''Schnorp''' 
332-36; Geli's friend who gives Slothrop balloon ride to Berlin

'''Schokoladestrasse''' 
646; German: "Chocolate Street"; in Happyville

'''Schraub''' 
568; German: "screw"; "the shoemaker" whose played Plechazunga "for the past 30 years"

'''Schumann of Düsseldorf''' 
702; "army surgeons and dentists [...] will pick out [of Tchitcherine's body] what has entered it by violence with an electromagnetic device bought between the wars from"

'''Schußstelle 3''' 
95; German: "firing site"; in Holland on the North Sea coast, near The Hague; moved, 104; the allies were after it, 105; "why did [Katje] leave?" 107; See also Lüneburg Heath

'''Schwindel operative''' 
286;

'''''schwarz''''' 
German: literally 'black', but also 'secret' and/or 'illicit' as in 'Secret Service' or 'black market'; see ''Schwarzgerät'' and ''Schwarzkommando'' below

<div id="schwartzgerat">'''''Schwarzgerät'''''</div>
252;"S-Gerät, 11/00000." 252;"Document SG-1" 252;"the one rocket out of 6000 that carried the Imipolex G device" 292; for sale for .5M francs by guy in Swinemünde who waits on Strand-Promenade until noon daily, 294; "The Schwartzgerät is no Grail" 364; "They want the Schwarzgerät." 455;"'F-Gerät, you sure of that?'" 487 details, 517; mandala (KEZVH), 560, 563;"'. . . that was the name of the German who commanded the battery that used the S-Gerät?'" 562;; 611; firing on Lüneburg Heath, 667; 706; "00001, the second in its series" 724; 00001, 728; "SG-1" 736; "the assembly of the 00001 is occurring also in a geographical way, a Diaspora running backwards" 737; as womb, 750; See also Rocket

'''''Schwarzkommando''''' 
74-75; German: "blackcommand"; black rocket troops; credibillity of, 92; 112;found out about a week before V.E. Day 276; Slothrop runs into two dozen on train to Nordhausen, 286; Hitler's failed plan to create Nazi empire in black Africa, training troops in Südwest, 287; "They have a plan. . .I think it's rockets" 288; "we're DPs like everybody else" 288; Herero rocket troops assembling a rocket for one last stand, 326; "it is their time, their space" 326; their mandala is the five positions of the launching switch for A4, 361; digging up A4 in Berlin, 361; "mba-kayere" (I am passed over), 362; why they seek the Rocket, 362, 563; growing away from SS and their power becoming information and expertise, 427; in their own space, 519; Herero village arranged like a mandala, 563; must be stopped before they fire the Rocket, 565; "they have their rocket all assembled at last" 673; the trek to the firing site of the 00001, 726; 12 children at a "children's resort" (Zwölfkinder means "12 children" in German--GET IT?), 725

'''Schweitar, Mario''' 
260, 268; troubleshooter around the Cartel; worked for Sandoz

'''Schwindel''' 
286; German: "fraud" "trick", also "dizziness"; "code name for Hugo Stinnes"

[[Science, Physics, Math &c.|'''SCIENCE, PHYSICS, MATH &c.''']] 
See also [[D#delta-t|delta-t]]; [[P#poisson|Poisson Distribution]]

'''screen door salesman''' 
447; "dumb and easygoing" husband of woman in Slothrop's dream in three parts; 665, "Minnie Calkins (Chapter 1.793) got married Easter Sunday to a screen-door salesman from California. Sorry to say he's not eligible for Membership - at least not yet. But with all those screen doors around, we'll sure keep our fingers crossed!"

'''scrip''' 
105; temporary paper currency issued during emergencies/special circumstances

'''Scrubs''' 
Wormwood Scrubs Prison, in London; "I'll see you two in the Scrubs if it kills me!" 717

'''Scuffling, Ian''' 
256; Pseudonym given to T. Slothrop by Waxwing in Nice; See also Slothrop, Tyrone

'''Scylla and Charybdis''' 
239; In Greek legend, Scylla was a monster with twelve feet and six heads each with three rows of teeth who lived on the rock of Scylla on the Italian side of the Straits of Messina which are between Italy and Sicily. Charybdis, who was a monster, the whirlpool she formed and the rock cliff under which she lived, faced Scylla on the other side of the Straits. Such a situation made passage through the Straits a very dodgy proposition for sailors.

'''SD''' 
431; German: Sicherheitsdienst = police-duty; The Nazi Party's intelligence and security body. Created by Himmler, it operated in foreign countries, creating instability and attempting to foment revolution.

'''séance''' 
29-30; 4-way entente: medium; control; spirit; survivor; Feldspath, 30; Overbaby, 152; "a visitation by the dead" 153; Rathenau, 163-67; at The Castle with Blicero, 487; "other fourfold expressions" 624; "sensitive flames" 715; Brigadier Pudding, 715

'''Second Empire''' 
The Second Empire (1852-70) of Napoleon III; 675

'''Section 8''' 
114; a category of discharge from the United States military for reason of being mentally unfit for service; 182

'''Seele''' 
654; German: "soul, spirit"; "as the core of the earlier carbon filament was known in Germany"

[[Self-reference in Gravity's Rainbow|'''SELF-REFERENCE''']]

'''Semirechie''' 
611; province in Kazakhstan, in the Soviet Union

'''Semyavin''' 
258; local Waxwing rep in Zürich?; 261

'''1 September''' 
479; On September 1, 1939, the German Army invaded Poland, thus "initiating" WWII

[[Serpents/Snakes References|'''SERPENT/SNAKE''']] 
See also [[#snake|Snake]]

'''SEZ WHO''' 
270; Slothropian Episodic Zone, Weekly Historical Observations

'''Seven Rivers country''' 
338; where Tchitcherine was stationed, "in a remote 'bear's corner'"

'''sfacim-a''' 
299; sfacim: from "sfaciàre" = to dismantle''' 
Tony Assenza graciously supplied the following regarding "sfacim":''' 
Having been called a "sfacim" by my uncles and other relatives more than a few times in my life, I believe your reference might require more elaboration. In its original form, "sfacim" is Neapolitan slang for semen — equivalent to US slang such as spunk or gism. However, it's also widely used as a term of endearment, as in "Hey, sfacim. Come over here and give your grandmother a kiss before I break your face." The closest US slang term would be "spunky." It's a term that someone living on Long Island or Upstate New York would probably hear a lot in Italian-American neighborhoods. One would pronounce it "SFA CHEEM."

''''s Gravenhage''' 
209; aka The Hague;

'''shadows''' 
316; God-shadows, 330; 332; 333; 336; 342; 359; 363; 397; 405; darkness at the edges of things, 446; 458; 482; 500; 510; 524; 536; 539; 543; 561; Pointsman's corner, 633; Slothrop as "shadow-child" 677; stars as shadows of the creator's bones and ducts, 699; "sound-shadow" (when the roaring of the sun stops), 695, 711; 740; 749; 760

'''SHAEF''' 
17; Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force; 74; 76; 121; 210; 244; 287

'''Shatsk''' 
352; nose-fetishist in Weird Letter Assignments; Shatsk is a town in the Volynskaja oblast [political subdivision], in the Ukraine.

'''Shays''' 
Shays's Rebellion (August 1786-February 1787) was an uprising in western Massachusetts in opposition to high taxes and harsh economic conditions. Led by Daniel Shays (1747-1825), the rebellion was decisively defeated on February 4, but it did result in the passage of laws easing the economic condition of debtors; "fought the federal troops across Massachusetts" 268

'''Shearer, Norma (1900-83)''' 
690; Hollywood actress who played sophisticated roles, and the wife of producer Irving Thalberg; "Your closet could make Norma Shearer's look like the wastebasket in Gimbel's basement."

'''Sheila''' 
449; Charles'(on the Toiletship) fiancée

'''Shekhinah''' 
479: Hebrew: "(female) neighbor"

'''Shell Mex House''' 
Shell Mex House, built 1930-31 is situated at number 80, Strand, London. It was for many years the London headquarters of Shell-Mex and BP Ltd for whom it was originally built. During WWII the building became home to the Ministry of Supply which co-ordinated supply of equipment to the national armed forces. It was also the home of the "Petroleum Board" which handled the distribution and rationing of petroleum products during the war. 251; "Where all the rocket intelligence is being gathered"; 272

'''Shell Oil''' 
Dutch Shell, 240-41, 251; 1939 agreement with ICI, 250; Shell Mex House, 251; "The representative from Shell Mex House, Mr. Dennis Joint" 272; "frantic about Slothrop's disappearance" 272; "after the [Russian] revolution, when the emissaries from Dutch Shell were asked to leave" 354

'''Shetzline''' 
389; "classic study" of the time-modulation properties of Oneirine

'''Shirley''' 
599; pretty girl driving the Red Cross Clubmobile that is hijacked

'''Short, Coolidge ("Hot")''' 
591; "of the State Street law firm of Salitieri, Poore, Nash, De Brutus, and Short" and a friend of Lyle Bland's

'''Shufflin' Sam''' 
558; "the game of skill where you have to shoot the Negro before he gets back over the fence with the watermelon"

'''Sidney's Great Yellow Grille''' 
65; recalled by Slothrop during Sodium Amytal session

'''Siege Perilous''' 
According to Arthurian legend, the Round Table was reserved for only the most valiant knights, while the Siege Perilous was left waiting for the coming of Galahad, the pure knight who would achieve the quest of the Grail (the vessel from which Christ drank at the Last Supper) and bring the marvels of Arthur's kingdom to a close; "jokers around the table be sneaking Whoopee Cushions into the" 321

'''Siemens-Schuchert''' 
"the horizontal electrical trust of Siemens-Schuchert" 284; "Siemens milliammeters set on slate surfaces" 518; "GE has connections with Siemens over here" 565; "Didn't Närrisch, under the drug, mention a Siemens representative at the S-Gerät meetings in Nordhausen? [...] Didn't Carl Schmitz of the IG sit on Siemens's board of directors?" 565; "Russia bought from Krupp, didn't she, from Siemens, the IG...." 566; "a contract the Bland Institute landed a few years ago and subbed part of out to Siemens over there in Germany" 583; "Fibel worked for Siemens back when it was still part of the Stinnes trust [...] he also put in some time as a Stinnes intelligence agent." 587; "an ingenious Osmo-elektrische Schalterwerke, developed by Siemens" 646; "clever Siemens Electric Baby Bulb Pacifiers" 647;"bright here as the morning shift at Siemens with the centaurs struggling high on the wall" 725; See also Siemens, Wernher; Stinnes; [[Sasuly's ''IG Farben'']]; Siemens AG Homepage!

'''Siemens, Wernher (d. 1892)''' 
649; German electrical engineer; one of the discoverers of the self-acting dynamo; See also Siemens-Schuchert

'''Siggi''' 
157; old friend of Leni's, known as "the Troll"

'''Sigmund''' 
457; with Greta Erdmann, 474-78; 480

'''Silberschlag, Frau''' 
165; German: "silver shock or blow"; next door neighbor of Leni and Franz Pökler's who delivers Leni's "last message" to Franz

'''Silvernail, Webley''' 
79; works in ARF wing at White Visitation; audiovisual guy; shows Katje film to Grigori, 113; in rat production number, 229; named "Twelfth House" 274; 533; 620

'''Simpson, Mrs. Bessie Wallis Warfield Spencer (1896-1986)''' 
177; An American who married Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII. Edward abdicated the throne in order to marry this twice-divorced commoner.

'''Skinner, Burrhus Frederic (1904-1990)''' 
American psychologist and a persistent proponent of Behaviorism, expanding on the ideas of John Watson who advocated the study of behavior as the only way to provide psychology with a scientific basis. Skinner died of leukemia on August 18, 1990; 77

[[image:skippy.gif|106px|left]]'''Skippy''' 
644-45; and Mr. Information; [[Skippy|Etymological Musings]]; [http://www.skippy.com/ Skippy's Home Page]

'''Slothrop, Broderick''' 
285; Tyrone's father; aka "Schwarzvater" (Jamf), 286; Tyrone's dream about, 392; sold experimental rights to Tyrone to Jamf for $5000 for Harvard education, 444; hated FDR, 373; Paternal Peril "a murderin' fool" 674; 677; 682

'''Slothrop, Constant (d. 1766)''' 
26; ancestor of Tyrone; tombstone depicts Hand of God coming out of a cloud

'''Slothrop, Mrs. Elizabeth''' 
27; wife of Isaiah

'''Slothrop, Frederick (d. 1933)''' 
27; Tyrone's grandfather

'''Slothrop, Hogan''' 
29; Tyrone's brother; his Hawaiian shirt, 184, 201; 266; 304; "in love with Chiquita Banana" 678; 682; 744

'''Slothrop, Hogan Jr.''' 
744; son of Hogan Slothrop; [From Pynchon's short story "The Secret Integration" in Slow Learner:"the doctor's kid, who at the age of eight had taken to serious after-bedtime beer-drinking and at the age of nine got religion, swore off beer and joined the Alcoholics Anonymous, a step his father, who was what is know as permissive, gave his blessing" (p.151)]

'''Slothrop, Lt. Isaiah (d. 1812)''' 
27; ancestor of Tyrone

'''Slothrop, John''' 
555; son of William Slothrop, who helped his dad get the "pig operation" going

'''Slothrop, Nalline''' 
18; Tyrone's mother; 116; 360; "always happy to see young people getting together" 499; 674; letter to Joe Kennedy, 682-83; 712

'''SLOTHROP, Lt. Tyrone''' 
[[Tyrone Slothrop|Etymological Musings]]; See also Slothrop's girls/stars;

[[Slothrop's Tarot|'''SLOTHROP'S TAROT''']]

'''Slothrop's girls/stars''' 
Delores, 19; Alice, 19; Gladys, 19; Lorraine and Judy, 19; Darlene, 19, 271; Katherine, 19; Shirley, 19; "a couple of Sallys" 19; "Carolines, Marias, Annes, Susans, Elizabeths" 19; "Gloria and her nubile mother" 19; Marjorie, 22, 25, 744; Norma, 22, 25; Allison, 23; Irene, 23; Jennifer, 23, 271; Cynthia, 26; "'What about the girls??'" 91; Madelyn, 252; Jenny's ghost, 255-56; Angela, 271; Lucy, 271; Jenny, Sally W., Cybele, Catherine, Gretchen, 271

'''Slothrop, Variable''' 
27; son of Constant

'''Slothrop, William''' 
21; Tyrone's first American ancestor; 27; 364; came to US in 1630 on Arabella, 554; On Preterition - published in England, burned in Boston, 555 [http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/bookstore.html Available in the HyperArts BookShop - Really! sort of...]; returned to England and died there missing USA, 556; his hymn, 760; [[William Slothrop|The "Real" William Slothrop/Pynchon]]

'''Slug''' 
229; rat who got "fried" the first time he fucked up running the maze

'''Smaragd, Generaldirektor''' 
164-66; (German: "Emerald"); Nazi with IG Farben; "from Leverkusen. An elderly man who used a cane, a notorious spiritualist before the War" 486

'''smegma''' 
"layers, over a base of bureaucratic smegma" 18; "Tchitcherine has found it necessary to abandon his smegma-gathering stake-out on the Argentine anarchists" 700;

'''Smile, Murray''' 
255; appears in Slothrop's dream as "next to you in basic, company 84"; Etymology: Murray Wilson was Brian Wilson's father; Tom hung out with Brian during the legendary "Smile" Period [[Pynchon and Brian Wilson]]

'''Smithfield Market''' 
Famous meat market in the old City of London. During the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation it was used as a place of execution; where Lucifer Amp "makes a spectacle of himself" every day, 542

'''Smith, Klein, 'n' French''' 
518; "Enzian, Andreas, and Christian, coming on like"

'''Smith, Sir Denis Nayland''' 
See Sir Denis Nayland-Smith

'''Snade, Mrs.''' 
169; "wrote in to the Times from Luton Hoo, Bedfrdshire" regarding Gwenhidwy's singing voice

'''Snake''' 
342-43; Tchitcherine's horse (methodically homicidal; unpredictable); Gretel's (Greta Erdmann's) co-star in Weisse Sandwuste von Neumexiko, 482

'''Snipe and Shaft''' 
9; Slothrop's and Tantivy's watering hole; 19; 21

'''Snodd, Mrs.''' 
744; in Mingeborough, MA

'''snowdrops''' 
247; Slang for GI military police in WWII; 601

'''Snoxall's''' 
32; place where seances are held; 33; 37; 238

'''Sodium Amytal''' 
61; truth serum; used on Slothrop; induces "toilet"/Kenosha Kid episode; used on von Göll, 511-14; 746

<div id="soe"></div>'''S.O.E.''' 
5; Special Operations Executive; aka the "Firm" 12; 32; Pirate "browned-off with" 270; "no one has ever left the Firm alive" 543; 620; [About]

<div id="solange"></div>'''Solange''' 
603; German: "as long as" "while" [[Q#quoad|compare etymologies with Mrs. Quoad]]; "masseuse" at Putzi's See also [[P#pokler-l|Pökler, Leni]]

'''Somerset Club''' 
28; exclusive club "no Slothrop ever made it into"

'''''Son of Frankenstein''''' 
106; The third film in Universal Studios' ''Frankenstein'' series and the last to feature Boris Karloff as the Monster as well as the first to feature Bela Lugosi as Ygor.

[[Songs/Compositions|'''SONGS/COMPOSITIONS''']]

'''Sooty''' 
174; Jessica's cat; 177

'''Sound-Shadow''' 
"the silences here are retreats of sound [...] sound draining away, down slopes of acoustic passage, to gather, someplace else, to a great surge of noise" 336-37; "a very shallow pocket of no-sound, [...] sound-energy from Outside is shut off. The roaring of the sun stops. [...] the arousing feather-point of the Sound-Shadow has touched you, enveloping you in sun-silence" 695; "this subversive use of sudden fff quieting to ppp. It's the touch of the wandering sound-shadow, the Brennschluss of the Sun." 711

'''sour stuff''' 
240; oxygen; the German word for oxygen is "Sauerstoff"

[[Spanish Translations|'''SPANISH TRANSLATIONS''']]

'''Spaniols''' 
549; Spaniards

'''Sparks''' 
732; aka Ozohande, with Enzian

'''Sparte IV''' 
630; "Slothrop surveillance being assigned to a newly created 'Sparte IV' under Vermittlungsstelle W"

'''Spectro, Dr. Kevin''' 
46; "neurologist and casual Pavlovian" at St. Veronica's; "one of the original seven owners of The Book" 47; killed in a V-2 hit on St. Veronica's, 138; 139; 140; 167

'''Speed, Harvey''' 
270; SEZ WHO Englishman hired by Pointsman to check out Slothrop's sexual conquests; See also Perdoo, Floyd; SEZ WHO

'''Speer, Albert (d. 1981)''' 
298; Architect for the Third Reich; "in charge of the New German Architecture then, and later he went on to become Minister of Munitions, and nominal chief customer for the A4"; "Albert Speer Touch" 298; Ölsch designing Nordhausen factory, 411; and Toiletship, 448; "alabaster open-air stadium with giant cement birds" 687

'''SPOG''' 
272; Special Projectiles Operations Group of which Operation Backfire is a part; 277; 391; 595; 601

'''Spontoon, Doctor''' 
591; with Dr. Muffage, out to castrate Slothrop; has a black spade on his cheek

<div id="sporri"></div>'''Spörri''' 
455; aerodynamics person on S-Gerät project; ignores Khlaetsch's cries for help, 684; [[Spörri|Etymological Musings]]

'''Spottbilligfilm AG''' 
163; German: "spottbillig" = "dirt cheap"; subsidiary of IG Farben "whose entire management are about to be purged for sending to OKW weapons procurement a design proposal for a new airborne ray which could turn whole populations [...] blind"; "from whom von Göll used to get cut rates on most of his film stock" 387;

'''SPQR''' 
135; Latin: senatus populusque Romanus = the senate and the people of Rome; also acronym for small profits, quick returns

'''S.P.R.''' 
153; Society for Psychical Research; 633;

'''Spree-Oder Canal''' 
433; in the Russian sector of Berlin, where Slothrop & Margherita stay; 457 [MAP]

<div id="springer"></div>'''Springer, Der''' 
376; German: "chess knight"; aka von Göll; the "Knight who leaps perpetually across the chessboard of the Zone"; white plastic chess knight (his symbol), 436; "white knight of the black market" 492; described, 494; aka Herr Gemütlich ("good-natured"), 496; on Sodium Amytal, 512, 514, 746; See also Göll, Gerhardt von; [[Der Springer|Etymological Musings...]]

'''Sprudelhof''' 
458; German: "Spring or Well" + "Yard" or "Palace"; main drag of Bad Karma on the Spree-Oder Canal; 476

'''Sprue, Amy''' 
329-30; Tyrone's ancestor who was a "genuine Salem Witch"

'''Squalidozzi, Francisco''' 
263; Argentine exile, paranoid about Peronists; hijacked German U-Boat in Mar de Plata; his group (incl. Graciela Portales) seeking political exile in Germany after the War; want open spaces--no fences; meets von Göll in abandoned harmonica factory, 384; "Old Squalidozzi, ploughman of the deep" 447; 613; being sought by Slothrop, 681

'''ss''' 
"cast-iron pulleys whose spokes are shaped like Ss" 4; 3-sigma, 40, 523, 635, 709; "sibilant weave" 152; "S'd against the S of himself" 198; "Old Norse rune for S" 206; ssörrender, 230; sour stuff (oxygen), 240; Esso, 240; tunnels, 299; double-integral sign, 300-01; "Summe, Summe" 300; "Double integral is also the shape of lovers curled asleep" 302; S-curve, 380; double-summing, 411; Scatotechnic Snipes, 451; Sickly Smile, 534; Special Services, 558; Shufflin' Sam, 558; "curving through the ogival opening" 573; "Yess, yess" 590; "silver straw" 613; "screen-door salesman" 665; "the invisible SS" 666; Sniveling Slothrop, 679; Scatterbrained Suicidekicks, 691; Sound Shadow, 695, 711; Sentimental Surrealist, 696; Subsequent Sin, 722; Spaceman Smile, 732; See also chess; Rossini

'''Stage Door Canteen''' 
134; During World War II, the American Theatre Wing ran New York's Stage Door Canteen for the benefit of soldiers on leave. It was frequented by many stars, some of whom graciously performed menial tasks, while others entertained the crowd. Dozens of those celebrities appear as themselves in this lavish musical about romances that blossom between canteen employees and soldiers. The film ''The Stage Door Canteen'' (1943), starring Katharine Hepburn, is set there.

<div id="stalin">'''Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953)'''</div>
Born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in Gori, Georgia; Stalin was expelled from the Tiflis Theological Seminary for being a Marxist. He joined the Bolsheviks and was arrested and sent to Siberia from whence he escaped in 1904. From being general secretary to the Central Committee under Lenin in 1922, he became Soviet leader in 1924 upon Lenin's death. He was a brutal dictator whose purges resulted in the deaths of millions as well as the suppression of artistic expression in Russia; "during the Stalin days, Tchitcherine was stationed in a remote 'bear's corner'" 338; "conspiracy to hit Stalin in the face with a grape chiffon pie" 353; "big chromo of" in Berlin, [[M#mustache|mustache]] 368; 373; "Even Stalin's had [doubts]" 703

'''Statue of Liberty''' 
The colossal statue on Liberty Island in the Upper Bay of New York Harbour, U.S., was a gift from France commemorating the friendship of the peoples of the U.S. and France. The statue, designed by French sculptor Frederic Auguste Barthold, is constructed of copper sheets which are assembled on a framework of steel supports designed by Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc and Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel. For transit to America, the figure was disassembled into 350 pieces and packed in 214 crates. Four months later, it was reassembled on Bedloe's Island (renamed Liberty Island in 1956). It was dedicated by President Cleveland on October 28,1886; 637

'''Sterling, Alan''' 
277; fiancé of Fleurette who was raised from birth to carry on the monstrous line of the emperor of the underworld, [[F#fumanchu|Fu Manchu]]; Alan Sterling, young orchid-hunter, first saw her on the little French beach and knew that he had never seen anyone more beautiful; he's also portrayed as the love-suffering young man receiving eloquent advice from Sir Denis Nayland-Smith.

'''Stettin''' 
or Szczecin in Polish; a Baltic seaport, ceded by German to Poland following WWII; 293; 408; 418;

'''Steve''' 
449: Charles' "colleague" on the Toiletship

'''Stickstoff Syndikat''' 
580; Jamf "getting Weimar to subsidize the IG's";

'''Stick, Joaquin''' 
9; at Pirate's maisonette

'''Stiletto May''' 
129; character conjured by the presence of the black man in choir at the Advent service attended by Roger and Jessica

'''Stinnes, Hugo (1870-1924)''' 
A German industrialist and politician; 284; "Bland either saw the Stinnes crash coming before most of its other victims, or was just naturally nervous. Early in '23 he began to sell off his interests in the Stinnes operations." 285-86; "'Schwindel' was [Jamf's] code name for Hugo Stinnes." 286; "Stinnes, like every industrial emperor, had his own company spy system." 286; "You were meant to think of Hugo Stinnes, the tireless operator behind the scenes of apparent Inflation, apparent history: gambler, financial wizard, archgangster...a fussy bürgerlich mouth, jowls, graceless moves, a first impression of comic technocracy" 579; "Fibel worked for Siemens back when it was still part of the Stinnes trust." 587; [[Sasuly's IG Farben]]

'''Stodda''' 
406; "treatise on steam turbines" studied by Pökler at Peenemünde in '38

[[Stones|'''STONES''']]

'''Stonybloke, Will''' 
65; friend of Slothrop's who appears in toilet adventure

'''Sträggeli''' 
258; listed under "Espionage, Industrial" on the list of Zürich cafés, where Slothrop meets Mario Schweitar; 268;

'''Stralsund''' 
532; "Semlower Strasse in" 692;

'''streets''' 
692; "Semlower Strasse in Stralsund"; "Hafenstrasse in Greifswald"; "Slüterstrasse in the old part of Rostock"; "Wandfärberstrasse in Lüneburg";

'''Stresemann, Gustav (1878-1929)''' 
452; German statesman who entered the Reichtag in 1907, rose to prominance leading the National Liberal Party and eventually, for a few months in 1923, was chancellor of the new German (Weimar) Republic. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1926; "'They pray not only for their daily bread [he said] but also for their daily illusion'"

'''Strobe''' 
89; "Strobe's stimulus" appeared in early Viking editions of Gravity's Rainbow, but was quickly changed to "Jamf's stimulus"; apparently "Strobe" was an early working name for "Jamf"

'''Stuggles, Constable''' 
73; tried to stop LeFroyd from jumping off cliff; 74

'''Südwest''' 
99; German colony from 1892 until1915 when it was taken by South African forces during WWI. It was made a Protectorate of South-West Africa under the League of Nations; now called Namibia, it was under South African control until 1990 when it gained its independence. [MORE]; [MAP]

'''Sue, Eugene (1804-57)''' 
13; "a Eugene Sue melodrama"

:Parisian journalist, called the "king of the popular novel," one of the most widely read writers of melodramatic fiction in the 19th-century France. Sue was sponsored by Prince Eugène de Beauharnais and the empress Joséphine; he used the prince's name to form his famous pen name. Sue gained fame through the roman-feuilleton, the serial novel which gained its height in the French periodical press in the 1840's. Sue's republican and socialist views are reflected in his best-known novels, Les Mystères de Paris (1842-43), set in the Paris slums, and Le Juif errant (1844-45), published in installments for Le Constitutionnel in 1842-1843. ''' 
The above is from this [http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/esue.htm excellent online biography].

'''Suggenthal''' 
269;

'''Sundial''' 
472; cartoon character

'''surface''' 
"she fears the Change, choosing instead only trivially to revise what matters least, ornament and clothing, going no further than politic transvestism" 97; "lust in the face--the mask--of instant talion" 100; "house is outward-and-visible sign" 448;

'''sus. per coll. crowd''' 
329; In the English practice, a calendar is made out of attainted criminals, and the judge signs the calendar with their separate judgments in the margin. In the case of a capital felony. it is written opposite the prisoner's name, "let him be hanged by the neck," which, when the proceedings were in Latin, was, "suspendatur per collum," or, in the abbreviated form, "sus' per coll'."

'''Suso, Heinrich (1295-1336)''' 
129; German mystic and preacher. His composition In Dulci Jubilo is a German/Latin macaronic carol (Pynchon (mis)spells it "macronic" and (mis)dates it as "fifteenth century"); the first verse (of four), quoted in GR, can be translated as follows:

:In dulci jubilo (In sweet Joy) 
:Sing and shout all below! 
:He for whom we're pining 
:Lies in praesepio (In a manger) 
:Like the sun is shining 
:Matris in gremio. (In His mothers lap.) 
:Qui est A et O. (Who is Alpha and Omega.) 
:In Dulci Jubilo Web Page

'''Suvorov''' 
350; Rozhdestvenski's flagship on which Tchitcherine's father was a gunner

'''Swanlake, Jessica''' 
30; "young rosy girl in the uniform of an ATS private" who has wartime affair with Roger Mexico; at Snoxall's seance, 30-34; meets Mexico, 38-39; Fay Wray look, 57; girlfriend of Jeremy "Old Beaver" 121; 627; "Her future is with the World's own" 629; working for Pointsman, 631; 640; hardened toward Mexico, 708-09

<div id="nancy"></div>'''Swanlake, Nancy''' 
174-77; Jessica's sister; late husband was Keith; kids: Penelope (also p.277), Claire, Elizabeth

'''Swinemünde''' 
459: a town in NW Poland, on the island of Usedom, at the mouth of the Swina River. It is the outer port for Szczecin (Polish name for "Stettin") and a fishing center and seaside resort. First mention of the town dates from 1181. During World War II, the town was a German naval base.

'''Swope, Gerard (1872-1957)''' 
Swope, president of the General Electric Company (1922-39; 1942-44) in the United States, greatly expanded GE's line of consumer products and pioneered profit-sharing and other benefits programs for its employees. After his retirement from GE in 1939, he chaired the New York City Housing Authority until 1942; "was ace buddies with old FDR [...] one-thim Brain Trusters" 565; "Business Advisory Council set up under Swope of General Electric, whose ideas on matters of 'control' ran close to those of Walter Rathenau, of German GE" 581;

'''Sztup, Mme.''' 
463; Yiddish: "poke" or "fuck"; passenger on the Anubis

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<div id="sachsa">'''Sachsa, Peter'''</div>
31; the "control" in Psi Section; lover of Leni Pökler, 147; medium at Rathenau seance, 163-65; killed in communist street action in 1930 in Neukölln (Berlin) by Schutzmann Jöche, a Nazi cop, 152; as Zaxa, 218; 219-20; 590; [[Peter Sachsa|Etymological Musings]]

[[Sado-Masochism|'''SADOMASOCHISM (S/M)''']]

<div id="basher"></div>'''St. Blaise, Group Capt. "Basher"''' 
146; sees angel of death during RAF Lübeck strike, 151; [["Basher" St. Blaise|Etymological Musings]]; See also [[C#church|Church of St. Blasius]]

'''St. Elmo's fire''' 
The glow accompanying the brushlike discharges of atmospheric electricity that usually appears during stormy weather as a tip of light on the extremities of such pointed objects as church towers or the masts of ships; "will be seen spurting at moments from crossends" on the Anubis, 491

'''St. Felix''' 
37; "the clock of" in London

'''St. John's Wood''' 
544; an exclusive district in West London, where the Mossmoons live

'''Saint Pauli''' 
the English translation for "Sankt Pauli," which is the main red-light district in Hamburg/Germany. It's known for its sex-bars and its fusion of pimps, prostitutes and working-class inhabitants. St. Pauli is famous for the atmosphere that the harbour of Hamburg brings into the district. Sailors, seaman and other stranded creatures are walking over the Reeperbahn (St. Pauli's main street). The Star-Club, where the Beatles paid their dues before becoming hugely famous, is in St. Pauli; 525

'''St. Veronica's Hospital''' 
46; of the True Image for Colonic and Respiratory Diseases; St. Veronica wiped Christ's forehead with her veil while he carried the cross; St. Veronica Papers, 688

'''St.-Just Grossout''' 
540; blackman worked for Firm infiltrating Schwarzkommando (aka "Sam Juiced")

<div id="salitieri">'''Salitieri, Poore, Nash, De Brutus and Short'''</div>
591; [a pun on Thomas Hobbes' (1588-1679) description, in Leviathan (1651), of the life of the members of the commonwealth in the absence of an all-powerful sovereign: "No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual feare and danger of violent death; and the life of Man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short."]; Lyle Bland's lawyers, 591; pallbearers at Lyle Bland's funeral, 652; Recall the law firm representing Pierce Inverarity in [http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#warpe ''The Crying of Lot 49'']: Warpe, Wistfull, Kubitschek and McMingus.

'''Sandhurst''' 
202; a military academy, the British equivalent to West Point in the U.S

'''Sandoz''' 
250; Swiss chemical company which joined Geigy and Ciba in a cartel, in the early '20s; Schweitar worked there, 260;

'''Sandra''' 
685; has "run away from the Kleinburgerstrasse" and staying at Der Platz

'''Sandra''' 
606; acquaintance of Manuela's at Putzi's

'''Sandys, Duncan''' 
Sandys, who was married to Churchill's daughter Diana, was Under-secretary of the Ministry of Supply in Britain during WWII. He was appointed by Churchill to investigate the rumored German experiments with secret weapons, which investigation led to the discovery of the rocket facilities at Peenemünde; "the P.M.'s son-in-law" who works out of the Ministry of Supply at Shell Mex House, 228; "Churchill's own son-in-law" 251

'''Sanktwolke, Edouard''' 
385; German: "Saint Cloud"; "veteran automotive jobber" who supplied transportation for von Göll's and Waxwing's "travelling business conference"

'''Santora''' 
744; family in Mingeborough, MA

'''Sargasso Sea''' 
Area of the North Atlantic Ocean, elliptical in shape and relatively still, that is strewn with free-floating seaweed of the genus Sargassum. Encompassing the Bermuda Islands, a combination of ecological and biological conditions result in a dirth of plankton (a fish staple), creating a biological desert. Early navigators had the (unfounded) fear of becoming entangled within the mass of seaweed and unable to escape; "the sun-resorts of Sargasso where the bones come up to lie and bleach and mock the passing ships" 564;

'''Sargner''' 
152; "a civilian attached to the General Staff" who is keyed on by Wimpe at séance

'''Sarnaki''' 
424; target area for A-4, near Blizna, Poland

'''Sarts''' 
340; Central Asian people

'''Sassoon, Lt. Siegfried Lorraine (1886-1967)''' 
79; English poet and novelist whose experiences in World War I made him fiercely anti-war and he wrote numerous works which reflected this hatred, including Counterattack (1918) and Satirical Poems (1926)

'''sastrugi''' 
420; Sastrugi are smooth, gently rolling snowfields, often covered with wind-drifted formations, on the interior of the Greenland ice sheet which is second in area only to the Antarctic ice sheet. It extends about 1,570 miles from north to south and has a maximum width of some 600 miles and an average thickness of about 5,800 feet.

'''Saturday Evening Post''' 
435; American weekly magazine the covers of which often had Norman Rockwell illustrations

'''Saville Row''' 
526; swank shopping district in London

'''Scammony, Sir Marcus (aka Angelique)''' 
615; drinking with Clive Mossmoon at "their club"

'''Schacht, Hjalmar (1877-1970)''' 
According to Sasuly, Schacht was head of the Reichsbank in the 1920s and 40s and was a key player in manipulating the German inflation of that time, while blaming it on "reparations and an unfavorable balance of payments." (p.47); his "many bookkeeping dodges to keep official records clear of any hint of weapons procurement banned under the terms of Versailles." 285

'''Schadenfreude''' 
526; German: "joy at another's misfortune"; described but not named, 36; 745

'''Scheveningen''' 
97; coastal town in Holland, just north of The Hague [MAP]; 102; 104; 105; 535

'''Schicksal''' 
416; German: "fate, destiny" (misspelled "Shicksal" in earlier editions)

'''Schiller, Professor''' 
224; Slothrop studying his book on regenerative cooling

'''Schilling''' 
527; "[Närrisch] worked in guidance, he was Schilling's best man"

'''Schlabone, Gustav''' 
366; composer buddy (and "unwelcome doping partner" 711) of Säure Bummer; 621; 2nd violin at Krupp affair (aka "Captain Horror"), 711; at Der Platz, 745

'''Schleim, Josef''' 
630; "a defector of secondary brilliance, who had once worked for the IG out of Dr. Reithinger's office, VOWI"; 631;

'''Schlepzig, Max''' 
Franz Pökler putting up handbills for a movie starring, 165; name on Slothrop's pass to get into Potsdam Conference, 377; actor in von Göll films who whipped Erdmann ("the Reich's Sweethearts"), 395; 439; 461

'''Schmeil''' 
518; engineer at Peenemünde

'''Schmitz, Carl''' 
565; "'Didn't Schmitz of the IG sit on Siemens's board of directors?'" 565;

'''Schnorp''' 
332-36; Geli's friend who gives Slothrop balloon ride to Berlin

'''Schokoladestrasse''' 
646; German: "Chocolate Street"; in Happyville

'''Schraub''' 
568; German: "screw"; "the shoemaker" whose played Plechazunga "for the past 30 years"

'''Schumann of Düsseldorf''' 
702; "army surgeons and dentists [...] will pick out [of Tchitcherine's body] what has entered it by violence with an electromagnetic device bought between the wars from"

'''Schußstelle 3''' 
95; German: "firing site"; in Holland on the North Sea coast, near The Hague; moved, 104; the allies were after it, 105; "why did [Katje] leave?" 107; See also Lüneburg Heath

'''Schwindel operative''' 
286;

'''''schwarz''''' 
German: literally 'black', but also 'secret' and/or 'illicit' as in 'Secret Service' or 'black market'; see ''Schwarzgerät'' and ''Schwarzkommando'' below

<div id="schwartzgerat">'''''Schwarzgerät'''''</div>
252;"S-Gerät, 11/00000." 252;"Document SG-1" 252;"the one rocket out of 6000 that carried the Imipolex G device" 292; for sale for .5M francs by guy in Swinemünde who waits on Strand-Promenade until noon daily, 294; "The Schwartzgerät is no Grail" 364; "They want the Schwarzgerät." 455;"'F-Gerät, you sure of that?'" 487 details, 517; mandala (KEZVH), 560, 563;"'. . . that was the name of the German who commanded the battery that used the S-Gerät?'" 562;; 611; firing on Lüneburg Heath, 667; 706; "00001, the second in its series" 724; 00001, 728; "SG-1" 736; "the assembly of the 00001 is occurring also in a geographical way, a Diaspora running backwards" 737; as womb, 750; See also Rocket

'''''Schwarzkommando''''' 
74-75; German: "blackcommand"; black rocket troops; credibillity of, 92; 112;found out about a week before V.E. Day 276; Slothrop runs into two dozen on train to Nordhausen, 286; Hitler's failed plan to create Nazi empire in black Africa, training troops in Südwest, 287; "They have a plan. . .I think it's rockets" 288; "we're DPs like everybody else" 288; Herero rocket troops assembling a rocket for one last stand, 326; "it is their time, their space" 326; their mandala is the five positions of the launching switch for A4, 361; digging up A4 in Berlin, 361; "mba-kayere" (I am passed over), 362; why they seek the Rocket, 362, 563; growing away from SS and their power becoming information and expertise, 427; in their own space, 519; Herero village arranged like a mandala, 563; must be stopped before they fire the Rocket, 565; "they have their rocket all assembled at last" 673; the trek to the firing site of the 00001, 726; 12 children at a "children's resort" (Zwölfkinder means "12 children" in German--GET IT?), 725

'''Schweitar, Mario''' 
260, 268; troubleshooter around the Cartel; worked for Sandoz

'''Schwindel''' 
286; German: "fraud" "trick", also "dizziness"; "code name for Hugo Stinnes"

[[Science, Physics, Math &c.|'''SCIENCE, PHYSICS, MATH &c.''']] 
See also [[D#delta-t|delta-t]]; [[P#poisson|Poisson Distribution]]

'''screen door salesman''' 
447; "dumb and easygoing" husband of woman in Slothrop's dream in three parts; 665, "Minnie Calkins (Chapter 1.793) got married Easter Sunday to a screen-door salesman from California. Sorry to say he's not eligible for Membership - at least not yet. But with all those screen doors around, we'll sure keep our fingers crossed!"

'''scrip''' 
105; temporary paper currency issued during emergencies/special circumstances

'''Scrubs''' 
Wormwood Scrubs Prison, in London; "I'll see you two in the Scrubs if it kills me!" 717

'''Scuffling, Ian''' 
256; Pseudonym given to T. Slothrop by Waxwing in Nice; See also Slothrop, Tyrone

'''Scylla and Charybdis''' 
239; In Greek legend, Scylla was a monster with twelve feet and six heads each with three rows of teeth who lived on the rock of Scylla on the Italian side of the Straits of Messina which are between Italy and Sicily. Charybdis, who was a monster, the whirlpool she formed and the rock cliff under which she lived, faced Scylla on the other side of the Straits. Such a situation made passage through the Straits a very dodgy proposition for sailors.

'''SD''' 
431; German: Sicherheitsdienst = police-duty; The Nazi Party's intelligence and security body. Created by Himmler, it operated in foreign countries, creating instability and attempting to foment revolution.

'''séance''' 
29-30; 4-way entente: medium; control; spirit; survivor; Feldspath, 30; Overbaby, 152; "a visitation by the dead" 153; Rathenau, 163-67; at The Castle with Blicero, 487; "other fourfold expressions" 624; "sensitive flames" 715; Brigadier Pudding, 715

'''Second Empire''' 
The Second Empire (1852-70) of Napoleon III; 675

'''Section 8''' 
114; a category of discharge from the United States military for reason of being mentally unfit for service; 182

'''Seele''' 
654; German: "soul, spirit"; "as the core of the earlier carbon filament was known in Germany"

[[Self-reference in Gravity's Rainbow|'''SELF-REFERENCE''']]

'''Semirechie''' 
611; province in Kazakhstan, in the Soviet Union

'''Semyavin''' 
258; local Waxwing rep in Zürich?; 261

'''1 September''' 
479; On September 1, 1939, the German Army invaded Poland, thus "initiating" WWII

[[Serpents/Snakes References|'''SERPENT/SNAKE''']] 
See also [[#snake|Snake]]

'''SEZ WHO''' 
270; Slothropian Episodic Zone, Weekly Historical Observations

'''Seven Rivers country''' 
338; where Tchitcherine was stationed, "in a remote 'bear's corner'"

'''sfacim-a''' 
299; sfacim: from "sfaciàre" = to dismantle''' 
Tony Assenza graciously supplied the following regarding "sfacim":''' 
Having been called a "sfacim" by my uncles and other relatives more than a few times in my life, I believe your reference might require more elaboration. In its original form, "sfacim" is Neapolitan slang for semen — equivalent to US slang such as spunk or gism. However, it's also widely used as a term of endearment, as in "Hey, sfacim. Come over here and give your grandmother a kiss before I break your face." The closest US slang term would be "spunky." It's a term that someone living on Long Island or Upstate New York would probably hear a lot in Italian-American neighborhoods. One would pronounce it "SFA CHEEM."

''''s Gravenhage''' 
209; aka The Hague;

'''shadows''' 
316; God-shadows, 330; 332; 333; 336; 342; 359; 363; 397; 405; darkness at the edges of things, 446; 458; 482; 500; 510; 524; 536; 539; 543; 561; Pointsman's corner, 633; Slothrop as "shadow-child" 677; stars as shadows of the creator's bones and ducts, 699; "sound-shadow" (when the roaring of the sun stops), 695, 711; 740; 749; 760

'''SHAEF''' 
17; Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force; 74; 76; 121; 210; 244; 287

'''Shatsk''' 
352; nose-fetishist in Weird Letter Assignments; Shatsk is a town in the Volynskaja oblast [political subdivision], in the Ukraine.

'''Shays''' 
Shays's Rebellion (August 1786-February 1787) was an uprising in western Massachusetts in opposition to high taxes and harsh economic conditions. Led by Daniel Shays (1747-1825), the rebellion was decisively defeated on February 4, but it did result in the passage of laws easing the economic condition of debtors; "fought the federal troops across Massachusetts" 268

'''Shearer, Norma (1900-83)''' 
690; Hollywood actress who played sophisticated roles, and the wife of producer Irving Thalberg; "Your closet could make Norma Shearer's look like the wastebasket in Gimbel's basement."

'''Sheila''' 
449; Charles'(on the Toiletship) fiancée

'''Shekhinah''' 
479: Hebrew: "(female) neighbor"

'''Shell Mex House''' 
Shell Mex House, built 1930-31 is situated at number 80, Strand, London. It was for many years the London headquarters of Shell-Mex and BP Ltd for whom it was originally built. During WWII the building became home to the Ministry of Supply which co-ordinated supply of equipment to the national armed forces. It was also the home of the "Petroleum Board" which handled the distribution and rationing of petroleum products during the war. 251; "Where all the rocket intelligence is being gathered"; 272

'''Shell Oil''' 
Dutch Shell, 240-41, 251; 1939 agreement with ICI, 250; Shell Mex House, 251; "The representative from Shell Mex House, Mr. Dennis Joint" 272; "frantic about Slothrop's disappearance" 272; "after the [Russian] revolution, when the emissaries from Dutch Shell were asked to leave" 354

'''Shetzline''' 
389; "classic study" of the time-modulation properties of Oneirine

'''Shirley''' 
599; pretty girl driving the Red Cross Clubmobile that is hijacked

'''Short, Coolidge ("Hot")''' 
591; "of the State Street law firm of Salitieri, Poore, Nash, De Brutus, and Short" and a friend of Lyle Bland's

'''Shufflin' Sam''' 
558; "the game of skill where you have to shoot the Negro before he gets back over the fence with the watermelon"

'''Sidney's Great Yellow Grille''' 
65; recalled by Slothrop during Sodium Amytal session

'''Siege Perilous''' 
According to Arthurian legend, the Round Table was reserved for only the most valiant knights, while the Siege Perilous was left waiting for the coming of Galahad, the pure knight who would achieve the quest of the Grail (the vessel from which Christ drank at the Last Supper) and bring the marvels of Arthur's kingdom to a close; "jokers around the table be sneaking Whoopee Cushions into the" 321

'''Siemens-Schuchert''' 
"the horizontal electrical trust of Siemens-Schuchert" 284; "Siemens milliammeters set on slate surfaces" 518; "GE has connections with Siemens over here" 565; "Didn't Närrisch, under the drug, mention a Siemens representative at the S-Gerät meetings in Nordhausen? [...] Didn't Carl Schmitz of the IG sit on Siemens's board of directors?" 565; "Russia bought from Krupp, didn't she, from Siemens, the IG...." 566; "a contract the Bland Institute landed a few years ago and subbed part of out to Siemens over there in Germany" 583; "Fibel worked for Siemens back when it was still part of the Stinnes trust [...] he also put in some time as a Stinnes intelligence agent." 587; "an ingenious Osmo-elektrische Schalterwerke, developed by Siemens" 646; "clever Siemens Electric Baby Bulb Pacifiers" 647;"bright here as the morning shift at Siemens with the centaurs struggling high on the wall" 725; See also Siemens, Wernher; Stinnes; [[Sasuly's ''IG Farben'']]; Siemens AG Homepage!

'''Siemens, Wernher (d. 1892)''' 
649; German electrical engineer; one of the discoverers of the self-acting dynamo; See also Siemens-Schuchert

'''Siggi''' 
157; old friend of Leni's, known as "the Troll"

'''Sigmund''' 
457; with Greta Erdmann, 474-78; 480

'''Silberschlag, Frau''' 
165; German: "silver shock or blow"; next door neighbor of Leni and Franz Pökler's who delivers Leni's "last message" to Franz

'''Silvernail, Webley''' 
79; works in ARF wing at White Visitation; audiovisual guy; shows Katje film to Grigori, 113; in rat production number, 229; named "Twelfth House" 274; 533; 620

'''Simpson, Mrs. Bessie Wallis Warfield Spencer (1896-1986)''' 
177; An American who married Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII. Edward abdicated the throne in order to marry this twice-divorced commoner.

'''Skinner, Burrhus Frederic (1904-1990)''' 
American psychologist and a persistent proponent of Behaviorism, expanding on the ideas of John Watson who advocated the study of behavior as the only way to provide psychology with a scientific basis. Skinner died of leukemia on August 18, 1990; 77

[[image:skippy.gif|106px|left]]'''Skippy''' 
644-45; and Mr. Information; [[Skippy|Etymological Musings]]; [http://www.skippy.com/ Skippy's Home Page]

'''Slothrop, Broderick''' 
285; Tyrone's father; aka "Schwarzvater" (Jamf), 286; Tyrone's dream about, 392; sold experimental rights to Tyrone to Jamf for $5000 for Harvard education, 444; hated FDR, 373; Paternal Peril "a murderin' fool" 674; 677; 682

'''Slothrop, Constant (d. 1766)''' 
26; ancestor of Tyrone; tombstone depicts Hand of God coming out of a cloud

'''Slothrop, Mrs. Elizabeth''' 
27; wife of Isaiah

'''Slothrop, Frederick (d. 1933)''' 
27; Tyrone's grandfather

'''Slothrop, Hogan''' 
29; Tyrone's brother; his Hawaiian shirt, 184, 201; 266; 304; "in love with Chiquita Banana" 678; 682; 744

'''Slothrop, Hogan Jr.''' 
744; son of Hogan Slothrop; [From Pynchon's short story "The Secret Integration" in Slow Learner:"the doctor's kid, who at the age of eight had taken to serious after-bedtime beer-drinking and at the age of nine got religion, swore off beer and joined the Alcoholics Anonymous, a step his father, who was what is know as permissive, gave his blessing" (p.151)]

'''Slothrop, Lt. Isaiah (d. 1812)''' 
27; ancestor of Tyrone

'''Slothrop, John''' 
555; son of William Slothrop, who helped his dad get the "pig operation" going

'''Slothrop, Nalline''' 
18; Tyrone's mother; 116; 360; "always happy to see young people getting together" 499; 674; letter to Joe Kennedy, 682-83; 712

'''SLOTHROP, Lt. Tyrone''' 
[[Tyrone Slothrop|Etymological Musings]]; See also Slothrop's girls/stars;

[[Slothrop's Tarot|'''SLOTHROP'S TAROT''']]

'''Slothrop's girls/stars''' 
Delores, 19; Alice, 19; Gladys, 19; Lorraine and Judy, 19; Darlene, 19, 271; Katherine, 19; Shirley, 19; "a couple of Sallys" 19; "Carolines, Marias, Annes, Susans, Elizabeths" 19; "Gloria and her nubile mother" 19; Marjorie, 22, 25, 744; Norma, 22, 25; Allison, 23; Irene, 23; Jennifer, 23, 271; Cynthia, 26; "'What about the girls??'" 91; Madelyn, 252; Jenny's ghost, 255-56; Angela, 271; Lucy, 271; Jenny, Sally W., Cybele, Catherine, Gretchen, 271

'''Slothrop, Variable''' 
27; son of Constant

'''Slothrop, William''' 
21; Tyrone's first American ancestor; 27; 364; came to US in 1630 on Arabella, 554; On Preterition - published in England, burned in Boston, 555 [http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/bookstore.html Available in the HyperArts BookShop - Really! sort of...]; returned to England and died there missing USA, 556; his hymn, 760; [[William Slothrop|The "Real" William Slothrop/Pynchon]]

'''Slug''' 
229; rat who got "fried" the first time he fucked up running the maze

'''Smaragd, Generaldirektor''' 
164-66; (German: "Emerald"); Nazi with IG Farben; "from Leverkusen. An elderly man who used a cane, a notorious spiritualist before the War" 486

'''smegma''' 
"layers, over a base of bureaucratic smegma" 18; "Tchitcherine has found it necessary to abandon his smegma-gathering stake-out on the Argentine anarchists" 700;

'''Smile, Murray''' 
255; appears in Slothrop's dream as "next to you in basic, company 84"; Etymology: Murray Wilson was Brian Wilson's father; Tom hung out with Brian during the legendary "Smile" Period [[Pynchon and Brian Wilson]]

'''Smithfield Market''' 
Famous meat market in the old City of London. During the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation it was used as a place of execution; where Lucifer Amp "makes a spectacle of himself" every day, 542

'''Smith, Klein, 'n' French''' 
518; "Enzian, Andreas, and Christian, coming on like"

'''Smith, Sir Denis Nayland''' 
See Sir Denis Nayland-Smith

'''Snade, Mrs.''' 
169; "wrote in to the Times from Luton Hoo, Bedfrdshire" regarding Gwenhidwy's singing voice

'''Snake''' 
342-43; Tchitcherine's horse (methodically homicidal; unpredictable); Gretel's (Greta Erdmann's) co-star in Weisse Sandwuste von Neumexiko, 482

'''Snipe and Shaft''' 
9; Slothrop's and Tantivy's watering hole; 19; 21

'''Snodd, Mrs.''' 
744; in Mingeborough, MA

'''snowdrops''' 
247; Slang for GI military police in WWII; 601

'''Snoxall's''' 
32; place where seances are held; 33; 37; 238

'''Sodium Amytal''' 
61; truth serum; used on Slothrop; induces "toilet"/Kenosha Kid episode; used on von Göll, 511-14; 746

<div id="soe"></div>'''S.O.E.''' 
5; Special Operations Executive; aka the "Firm" 12; 32; Pirate "browned-off with" 270; "no one has ever left the Firm alive" 543; 620; [About]

<div id="solange"></div>'''Solange''' 
603; German: "as long as" "while" [[Q#quoad|compare etymologies with Mrs. Quoad]]; "masseuse" at Putzi's See also [[P#pokler-l|Pökler, Leni]]

'''Somerset Club''' 
28; exclusive club "no Slothrop ever made it into"

'''''Son of Frankenstein''''' 
106; The third film in Universal Studios' ''Frankenstein'' series and the last to feature Boris Karloff as the Monster as well as the first to feature Bela Lugosi as Ygor.

[[Songs/Compositions|'''SONGS/COMPOSITIONS''']]

'''Sooty''' 
174; Jessica's cat; 177

'''Sound-Shadow''' 
"the silences here are retreats of sound [...] sound draining away, down slopes of acoustic passage, to gather, someplace else, to a great surge of noise" 336-37; "a very shallow pocket of no-sound, [...] sound-energy from Outside is shut off. The roaring of the sun stops. [...] the arousing feather-point of the Sound-Shadow has touched you, enveloping you in sun-silence" 695; "this subversive use of sudden fff quieting to ppp. It's the touch of the wandering sound-shadow, the Brennschluss of the Sun." 711

'''sour stuff''' 
240; oxygen; the German word for oxygen is "Sauerstoff"

[[Spanish Translations|'''SPANISH TRANSLATIONS''']]

'''Spaniols''' 
549; Spaniards

'''Sparks''' 
732; aka Ozohande, with Enzian

'''Sparte IV''' 
630; "Slothrop surveillance being assigned to a newly created 'Sparte IV' under Vermittlungsstelle W"

'''Spectro, Dr. Kevin''' 
46; "neurologist and casual Pavlovian" at St. Veronica's; "one of the original seven owners of The Book" 47; killed in a V-2 hit on St. Veronica's, 138; 139; 140; 167

'''Speed, Harvey''' 
270; SEZ WHO Englishman hired by Pointsman to check out Slothrop's sexual conquests; See also Perdoo, Floyd; SEZ WHO

'''Speer, Albert (d. 1981)''' 
298; Architect for the Third Reich; "in charge of the New German Architecture then, and later he went on to become Minister of Munitions, and nominal chief customer for the A4"; "Albert Speer Touch" 298; Ölsch designing Nordhausen factory, 411; and Toiletship, 448; "alabaster open-air stadium with giant cement birds" 687

'''SPOG''' 
272; Special Projectiles Operations Group of which Operation Backfire is a part; 277; 391; 595; 601

'''Spontoon, Doctor''' 
591; with Dr. Muffage, out to castrate Slothrop; has a black spade on his cheek

<div id="sporri"></div>'''Spörri''' 
455; aerodynamics person on S-Gerät project; ignores Khlaetsch's cries for help, 684; [[Spörri|Etymological Musings]]

'''Spottbilligfilm AG''' 
163; German: "spottbillig" = "dirt cheap"; subsidiary of IG Farben "whose entire management are about to be purged for sending to OKW weapons procurement a design proposal for a new airborne ray which could turn whole populations [...] blind"; "from whom von Göll used to get cut rates on most of his film stock" 387;

'''SPQR''' 
135; Latin: senatus populusque Romanus = the senate and the people of Rome; also acronym for small profits, quick returns

'''S.P.R.''' 
153; Society for Psychical Research; 633;

'''Spree-Oder Canal''' 
433; in the Russian sector of Berlin, where Slothrop & Margherita stay; 457 [MAP]

<div id="springer"></div>'''Springer, Der''' 
376; German: "chess knight"; aka von Göll; the "Knight who leaps perpetually across the chessboard of the Zone"; white plastic chess knight (his symbol), 436; "white knight of the black market" 492; described, 494; aka Herr Gemütlich ("good-natured"), 496; on Sodium Amytal, 512, 514, 746; See also Göll, Gerhardt von; [[Der Springer|Etymological Musings...]]

'''Sprudelhof''' 
458; German: "Spring or Well" + "Yard" or "Palace"; main drag of Bad Karma on the Spree-Oder Canal; 476

'''Sprue, Amy''' 
329-30; Tyrone's ancestor who was a "genuine Salem Witch"

'''Squalidozzi, Francisco''' 
263; Argentine exile, paranoid about Peronists; hijacked German U-Boat in Mar de Plata; his group (incl. Graciela Portales) seeking political exile in Germany after the War; want open spaces--no fences; meets von Göll in abandoned harmonica factory, 384; "Old Squalidozzi, ploughman of the deep" 447; 613; being sought by Slothrop, 681

'''ss''' 
"cast-iron pulleys whose spokes are shaped like Ss" 4; 3-sigma, 40, 523, 635, 709; "sibilant weave" 152; "S'd against the S of himself" 198; "Old Norse rune for S" 206; ssörrender, 230; sour stuff (oxygen), 240; Esso, 240; tunnels, 299; double-integral sign, 300-01; "Summe, Summe" 300; "Double integral is also the shape of lovers curled asleep" 302; S-curve, 380; double-summing, 411; Scatotechnic Snipes, 451; Sickly Smile, 534; Special Services, 558; Shufflin' Sam, 558; "curving through the ogival opening" 573; "Yess, yess" 590; "silver straw" 613; "screen-door salesman" 665; "the invisible SS" 666; Sniveling Slothrop, 679; Scatterbrained Suicidekicks, 691; Sound Shadow, 695, 711; Sentimental Surrealist, 696; Subsequent Sin, 722; Spaceman Smile, 732; See also chess; Rossini

'''Stage Door Canteen''' 
134; During World War II, the American Theatre Wing ran New York's Stage Door Canteen for the benefit of soldiers on leave. It was frequented by many stars, some of whom graciously performed menial tasks, while others entertained the crowd. Dozens of those celebrities appear as themselves in this lavish musical about romances that blossom between canteen employees and soldiers. The film ''The Stage Door Canteen'' (1943), starring Katharine Hepburn, is set there.

<div id="stalin">'''Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953)'''</div>
Stalin was expelled from the Tiflis Theological Seminary for being a Marxist. He joined the Bolsheviks and was arrested and sent to Siberia from whence he escaped in 1904. From being general secretary to the Central Committee under Lenin in 1922, he became Soviet leader in 1924 upon Lenin's death. He was a brutal dictator whose purges resulted in the deaths of millions as well as the suppression of artistic expression in Russia; "during the Stalin days, Tchitcherine was stationed in a remote 'bear's corner'" 338; "conspiracy to hit Stalin in the face with a grape chiffon pie" 353; "big chromo of" in Berlin, [[M#mustache|mustache]] 368; 373; "Even Stalin's had [doubts]" 703

'''Statue of Liberty''' 
The colossal statue on Liberty Island in the Upper Bay of New York Harbour, U.S., was a gift from France commemorating the friendship of the peoples of the U.S. and France. The statue, designed by French sculptor Frederic Auguste Barthold, is constructed of copper sheets which are assembled on a framework of steel supports designed by Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc and Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel. For transit to America, the figure was disassembled into 350 pieces and packed in 214 crates. Four months later, it was reassembled on Bedloe's Island (renamed Liberty Island in 1956). It was dedicated by President Cleveland on October 28,1886; 637

'''Sterling, Alan''' 
277; fiancé of Fleurette who was raised from birth to carry on the monstrous line of the emperor of the underworld, [[F#fumanchu|Fu Manchu]]; Alan Sterling, young orchid-hunter, first saw her on the little French beach and knew that he had never seen anyone more beautiful; he's also portrayed as the love-suffering young man receiving eloquent advice from Sir Denis Nayland-Smith.

'''Stettin''' 
or Szczecin in Polish; a Baltic seaport, ceded by German to Poland following WWII; 293; 408; 418;

'''Steve''' 
449: Charles' "colleague" on the Toiletship

'''Stickstoff Syndikat''' 
580; Jamf "getting Weimar to subsidize the IG's";

'''Stick, Joaquin''' 
9; at Pirate's maisonette

'''Stiletto May''' 
129; character conjured by the presence of the black man in choir at the Advent service attended by Roger and Jessica

'''Stinnes, Hugo (1870-1924)''' 
A German industrialist and politician; 284; "Bland either saw the Stinnes crash coming before most of its other victims, or was just naturally nervous. Early in '23 he began to sell off his interests in the Stinnes operations." 285-86; "'Schwindel' was [Jamf's] code name for Hugo Stinnes." 286; "Stinnes, like every industrial emperor, had his own company spy system." 286; "You were meant to think of Hugo Stinnes, the tireless operator behind the scenes of apparent Inflation, apparent history: gambler, financial wizard, archgangster...a fussy bürgerlich mouth, jowls, graceless moves, a first impression of comic technocracy" 579; "Fibel worked for Siemens back when it was still part of the Stinnes trust." 587; [[Sasuly's IG Farben]]

'''Stodda''' 
406; "treatise on steam turbines" studied by Pökler at Peenemünde in '38

[[Stones|'''STONES''']]

'''Stonybloke, Will''' 
65; friend of Slothrop's who appears in toilet adventure

'''Sträggeli''' 
258; listed under "Espionage, Industrial" on the list of Zürich cafés, where Slothrop meets Mario Schweitar; 268;

'''Stralsund''' 
532; "Semlower Strasse in" 692;

'''streets''' 
692; "Semlower Strasse in Stralsund"; "Hafenstrasse in Greifswald"; "Slüterstrasse in the old part of Rostock"; "Wandfärberstrasse in Lüneburg";

'''Stresemann, Gustav (1878-1929)''' 
452; German statesman who entered the Reichtag in 1907, rose to prominance leading the National Liberal Party and eventually, for a few months in 1923, was chancellor of the new German (Weimar) Republic. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1926; "'They pray not only for their daily bread [he said] but also for their daily illusion'"

'''Strobe''' 
89; "Strobe's stimulus" appeared in early Viking editions of Gravity's Rainbow, but was quickly changed to "Jamf's stimulus"; apparently "Strobe" was an early working name for "Jamf"

'''Stuggles, Constable''' 
73; tried to stop LeFroyd from jumping off cliff; 74

'''Südwest''' 
99; German colony from 1892 until1915 when it was taken by South African forces during WWI. It was made a Protectorate of South-West Africa under the League of Nations; now called Namibia, it was under South African control until 1990 when it gained its independence. [MORE]; [MAP]

'''Sue, Eugene (1804-57)''' 
13; "a Eugene Sue melodrama"

:Parisian journalist, called the "king of the popular novel," one of the most widely read writers of melodramatic fiction in the 19th-century France. Sue was sponsored by Prince Eugène de Beauharnais and the empress Joséphine; he used the prince's name to form his famous pen name. Sue gained fame through the roman-feuilleton, the serial novel which gained its height in the French periodical press in the 1840's. Sue's republican and socialist views are reflected in his best-known novels, Les Mystères de Paris (1842-43), set in the Paris slums, and Le Juif errant (1844-45), published in installments for Le Constitutionnel in 1842-1843. ''' 
The above is from this [http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/esue.htm excellent online biography].

'''Suggenthal''' 
269;

'''Sundial''' 
472; cartoon character

'''surface''' 
"she fears the Change, choosing instead only trivially to revise what matters least, ornament and clothing, going no further than politic transvestism" 97; "lust in the face--the mask--of instant talion" 100; "house is outward-and-visible sign" 448;

'''sus. per coll. crowd''' 
329; In the English practice, a calendar is made out of attainted criminals, and the judge signs the calendar with their separate judgments in the margin. In the case of a capital felony. it is written opposite the prisoner's name, "let him be hanged by the neck," which, when the proceedings were in Latin, was, "suspendatur per collum," or, in the abbreviated form, "sus' per coll'."

'''Suso, Heinrich (1295-1336)''' 
129; German mystic and preacher. His composition In Dulci Jubilo is a German/Latin macaronic carol (Pynchon (mis)spells it "macronic" and (mis)dates it as "fifteenth century"); the first verse (of four), quoted in GR, can be translated as follows:

:In dulci jubilo (In sweet Joy) 
:Sing and shout all below! 
:He for whom we're pining 
:Lies in praesepio (In a manger) 
:Like the sun is shining 
:Matris in gremio. (In His mothers lap.) 
:Qui est A et O. (Who is Alpha and Omega.) 
:In Dulci Jubilo Web Page

'''Suvorov''' 
350; Rozhdestvenski's flagship on which Tchitcherine's father was a gunner

'''Swanlake, Jessica''' 
30; "young rosy girl in the uniform of an ATS private" who has wartime affair with Roger Mexico; at Snoxall's seance, 30-34; meets Mexico, 38-39; Fay Wray look, 57; girlfriend of Jeremy "Old Beaver" 121; 627; "Her future is with the World's own" 629; working for Pointsman, 631; 640; hardened toward Mexico, 708-09

<div id="nancy"></div>'''Swanlake, Nancy''' 
174-77; Jessica's sister; late husband was Keith; kids: Penelope (also p.277), Claire, Elizabeth

'''Swinemünde''' 
459: a town in NW Poland, on the island of Usedom, at the mouth of the Swina River. It is the outer port for Szczecin (Polish name for "Stettin") and a fishing center and seaside resort. First mention of the town dates from 1181. During World War II, the town was a German naval base.

'''Swope, Gerard (1872-1957)''' 
Swope, president of the General Electric Company (1922-39; 1942-44) in the United States, greatly expanded GE's line of consumer products and pioneered profit-sharing and other benefits programs for its employees. After his retirement from GE in 1939, he chaired the New York City Housing Authority until 1942; "was ace buddies with old FDR [...] one-thim Brain Trusters" 565; "Business Advisory Council set up under Swope of General Electric, whose ideas on matters of 'control' ran close to those of Walter Rathenau, of German GE" 581;

'''Sztup, Mme.''' 
463; Yiddish: "poke" or "fuck"; passenger on the Anubis

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'''Faffner, Hank''' 
665; Masonic "engineer-on-the-scene"; [Etymological Musings]

'''Fahringer''' 
403; (German: "traveller"); Zen fellow at Peenemünde with Achfaden and Pökler; 454

'''Faraday, Michael (1791-1867)''' 
English chemist and physicist who created classical field theory. He was the first to isolate benzene and he synthesized the first chlorocarbons. His other discoveries include electromagnetic induction, the laws of electrolysis, and the rotation of polarized light by magnetism. He's considered the greatest of all experimental physicists; portrait of in the Tate Gallery in London, "eyes [...] so lambent, sinister, so educated" 584

'''Fariña, Richard (1937-66)''' 
Richard Fariña, to whom Gravity's Rainbow is dedicated, was a good friend of Pynchon's when they were students at Cornell University in the 50s. In 1963, Farina married Mimi Baez, a folksinger and sister of Joan Baez. Although first married under the Napoleonic Code in a secret ceremony in Paris in the spring of 1963, they had an official marriage in Carmel, California, for the benefit of the Baez family. Pynchon was the best man for the Carmel ceremony, coming up from Mexico City where he was living and working on Gravity's Rainbow. In A Long Time Coming and a Long Time Gone, Farina's posthumously published collection of stories (Random House, 1969), Farina describes his and Pynchon's visit to the Monterey Fair. Richard and Mimi Farina formed a folk-music duo (Farina on guitar and Mimi on dulcimer, both singing) and released several albums in the 60s. Richard Farina was killed in a motorcycle crash following a book signing in Carmel for his newly published first (and only) novel, Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me (Random House, 1966). You might want to visit this [http://www.richardandmimi.com/ sweet website dedicated to the memory of Richard and Mimi] (who died of cancer in 2001).

<div id="fathers"></div>'''fathers''' 
"the good father" 135; "your father's a dreary young man" 175; Penelope's dead father, 175-76; "Fathers are conditioned into deliberately dying in certain preferred ways" 176; "all those Papi-has-raped-me stories" 272; "Schwarzvater" 286; Qulan's father, 340; Pökler's ineptitude as, 410; "[the Hereros] don't want my patriarchy" 522; American Founding Fathers, 587-88; "typical American teenager's own Father, trying. . .to kill his son" 674; "Father-conspiracy" 679; "Fathers are carriers of the virus of Death, and sons are the infected" 723; "the father you will never quite manage to kill" 747; See also [[M#mothers|mothers]]

'''Fauntleroy''' 
Prissily garbed in knee-pants, velvet suit and bows, Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886) was the creation of English novelist Frances Eliza Hodgson (b.1849). She also wrote The Secret Garden; "a boy of 6 or 7 in a velvet Fauntleroy suit" 491; "somewhere in tucked in the brain's plush album is always a child in Fauntleroy clothes" 736

'''Fauve''' 
183;

'''Feel, Osbie''' 
5; cultivates pharmaceutical plants on the roof of Pirate's maisonette; eggs to golfballs, 9; doper at White Visitation -- "the house idiot- savant" 92; with Pirate, 111-12; 533; Doper's Greed - film with 2 cowboys + midget, 534; stoned with aura, 536; "'In the Parliament of Life, the time comes, simply, for a division. We are now in the corridors we have chosen, moving toward the Floor....'" 536; in Marseilles, 620; Porky Pig tattoo, 638; [[Osbie Feel|Is that Pynchon inside his own novel?]]

'''Feldspath, Roland''' 
30; expert on control systems, guidance equations; spirit in seance; 238-39

'''Feldspath, Selena''' 
30; surviving wife of Roland; 31

'''Felipe''' 
383; "difficult young poet" on U-boat; 612

'''Felix''' 
508; tuba player on board Frau Gnabb's boat

'''Femina''' 
368; club in Berlin; "what the notorious Femina is to cigarette-jobbing circles"

'''Ferguson, Elmer''' 
584; a pinball wizard, one of "the great thumbs of Koekuk and Puyallup, Oyster Bay, Inglewood"

'''fern seed''' 
379; accredited with endowing invisibility in traditional folklore; fell in Slothrop's shoes sometime back on Midsummer Eve, between midnight and one, making him the invisible youth, the armored changeling. Providence's little pal. [[Fern Seed|More about the fern seed...]]

'''Fibel, Bert''' 
453-54; [German: "primer"]; worked with Achtfaden; worked for Siemens when it was part of Stinnes trust; kept an eye on infant Tyrone while working for GE in Pittsfield, MA; fixed defective pinball machines, 586-87; "stonefaced Kraut [...] a genius with solenoids" 587; 687; [[Bert Fibel|Etymological Musings]]

'''Fierro, Martin''' 
386-87; gaucho hero of Argentinian legend; von Göll wants to make a film about him; 610

<div id="film"></div>'''film/cinema references''' 
"velveteen darkness" 3; "[Pirate] learned [his grin] at the films" 32; "what Hollywood likes to call a 'cute meet'" 38; "the cinema kiss never completed" 49; "horror-movie devilfish" 51; Fay Wray look, 57; "Disneyfied look" 70; "a De Mille set" 71; Katje, 92, 112; paranoia in movie theatres, 114; "the lads in Hollywood telling us how grand it all is over here" 135; "medium shot" 142; "All of us watching some wry newsreel, the beam from the projector falling milky-white. . .the manly crepe of an overseas cap knifing forward into the darkened cinema" 150; Sachsa seance, 152; special effects, 159; "[Katje] evaporates before the question, re-forms in another part of the room" 194; "this wardrobe here's mostly props" 195; Katje's cinema werewolf transformation, 196; Marx-Brothers-like episode with Seltzer bottle, 197; "from a German camera angle" 229; Zootsuit Zanies, 251; soundtrack (clarinets, guitars and mandolins), 255; "Saturday-afternoon western movies" 264; "Wild West movie" 338; "Nazi movie villain" 360; extras, 374; "Leaps broad highways in a single bound!"--380; camera angle (opening of Fierro film), 386; "paracinematic lives" 388; soundtrack ("windy strings and reed sections"), 398; "couldn't even go to the movies" 402; filming gauges on rocket flights, 406-07; successive stills, 407; "the moving images of a daughter" 422; 423; Ilse "has persisted beyond her cinema mother, beyond film's end" 429; "cue calls for the titanic sets of her dreams" 446; "Goebbels' private collection" 461; "that same nacreous wrinkling the films use to suggest rain out a window" 471; "slouched alone in your own seat" 472; "watching Allied footage for what could be pulled and worked into newsreels to make the Axis look good" 473; "Looks like German movies have warped other outlooks around here too." 474; faces "very smooth, film-star polished" 477; "filthy movies are showing in the boiler room" 490; "But mistakes are part of it too--everything fits. One sees how it fits, ja? learns patterns, adjusts to rhythms, one day you are no longer an actor, but free now, over on the other side of the camera." 494;"silent-movie style looking to strangle" 495; cartoon-y, 498; "Dillinger, at the end, found a few seconds' strange mercy in the movie images that hadn't quite yet faded from his eyeballs" 516; "gobbles Pervitin like popcorn at the movies" 522; "film and calculus, both pornographies of flight" 523; "this ain't the fuckin' movies" 527; "not yet" 527-28; "There's the son of Frankenstein in it, too. I wish we could have more direct" 536; "a government newsreel, FROM CLOAK AND DAGGER TO CROAK AND STAGGER" 542; "another long night of cinema without schedule" 542; "as the camera moves in for a close-up" 543; "My dream is to bring all these kids. . .out to Hollywood" 559; Klein-Rogge, Rudolph (actor - Pökler's favorite), 578; "movie queens" 586; "frames per century" 612; "a bad cinema spring" 628; chase scenes, 198, 308-13, 334,637; "comic Nazi routine" 633; 641; "we're strangers at the films, condemned to separate rows aisles, exits, homegoings" 663; Floundering Four, 674-80; "Yes, it is a movie! Another WWII situation comedy" 692; "Their Movieola viewer" 694; "as nasal and debonair as a movie star" 697; "moves image to image" 721; "black and white film images" 723; documentary style, 738; "subdebs just out the movies" 741; sound editing, 745; Chase Music, 751; "a whole movie-cue of witnesses" 755; "old fans who've always been at the movies" 760; See also [[A#actors|actors/directors]]; [[#kingkong|King Kong]]; [[M#movies|movies]]; [[T#theatre|theatre]]; [[U#ufa|Ufa-theatre]]

'''Film, Ansco, Winthrop''' 
630; an American subsidiary/licensee of IG

<div id="fingernails"></div>'''fingernails &c.''' 
"between his red nail-bitten hands" 57; "His fingernails draw blood" 67; "he fingernails a piece of this out from between his teeth" 117; "toenail-holds" 118; "her lacquered red fingernails" 127; "long-routinized nudge of horn, flip of hoof" 142; "ringing the snifter with his fingernail" 195; "rake his nails along inside her thighs" 222; "raking dreamy fingernails down the morning" 226; "She has filed her nails to long points" 233; "stroking with her fingernails her labia" 235; "pedicured Mayfair address" 270; "chewed-down fingernails sharp as a saw" 294; "television images flickering aross their toenails" 296; "receives it in long dirty fingernails" 365; "brushing tears from his face with the tips of her nails. [...] The nails are very sharp" 444; "She flicks a pale bitten thumbnail from one of her top teeth" 445; "scarlet nails digging sharp as needles" 469; "needle-tipped fingers" 469; "Flipping his fingernail against a large clear African mask" 487; "He breaks a fingernail" 531; "scratching and picking with dirt-black fingernails" 542; "a very large white finger [...] Its Fingernail is beautifully manicured" 566; "[Marvy's] toenails, cut Army-square" 606; "cusp-flicks of fingernails" 664; "scratching [...] with a horn finger" 710; "corporate teeth and polished fingernails" 714; "Tchitcherine's toenail clippings" 717; "sketched in clay with her long fingernail" 734; See also [[P#paraboloids|paraboloids]]; [[I#interface|Interface]]

'''Firm, the''' 
12ff; The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly known as MI6. See also [[S#soe|SOE]]

'''Fisk, Jubilee Jim (1834-1872)''' 
285; Known popularly as the "Barnum of Wall Street" and "Jubilee Jim," Fisk was one of the most outrageous figures of the Gilded Age. The most notorious plot of Fisk's short career was the attempt to corner the gold market during 1868 and 1869. Fisk's and Jay Gould's effort collapsed when President U.S. Grant intervened to halt the Black Friday scandal. Fisk brazenly refused to honor his contracts, leaving thousands ruined. Fisk's exploits were the fodder of innumerable newspaper reports, but the Black Friday episode finally made virtual outcasts of both Fisk and Gould. Fisk was shot to death on the main stairway of the Broadway Central Hotel in New York City in January 1872. His murderer, Ned Stokes, was a rival for the attentions of Josie Mansfield, an actress of limited talent [From U-S-History.com]; "what ~ told the Congressional committee investigating his and Jay Gould's scheme to corner gold in 1869" 438

'''Fitzmaurice House''' 
76; Foreign Office Political Intelligence Dept. located there; Stephen Dodson-Truck works there, 215; 221; 228

'''Flamp, Constance''' 
714-717; at Krupp party (aka "Commando Connie")

'''Flaum''' 
453; one of "the reentry people" at Peenemünde

'''Flebótomo, Cesar''' 
184; manager of Casino Hermann Goering; an excellent name for a casino manager: a caesar is a ruler, phlebotomy is the act of drawing blood, therefore 'King Bloodsucker'; 191

'''Flit''' 
112; "fall smothered like bugs in the presence of"

<div id="ff">'''Floundering Four, the'''</div>
674-80; (1) Myrtle Miraculous - performs miracles--"love is the only miracle that's beyond her"; (2) Maximilian - Negro with natural rhythms ("all rhythms, up to and including the cosmic")--"never. . .go any further into danger than its dapperness"; (3) Marcel - "a mechanical chessplayer" ("exquisite 19th-century brainwork")--"much too literal with humans"; (4) Slothrop. Each is gifted and flawed by his gift. Mission: rescue the Radiant Hour.

'''''Flying Down to Rio''''' 
106; A 1933 RKO musical film noted for being the first screen pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Astaire and Rogers were not the stars of the film, however; Dolores Del Rio and Gene Raymond were top-billed.

'''Flying Dutchman''' 
498;

'''Flying Fortress''' 
169; The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, a four-engine heavy bomber aircraft developed in the 1930s for the United States Army Air Corps.

<div id="flynn">'''Flynn, Errol Leslie (1909–1959)''' </div>
An Australian-American film actor, known for his romantic swashbuckler roles in Hollywood films and his flamboyant lifestyle; [[M#mustache|mustache]] 248; 381

'''Folies-Bergères''' 
After a major opening in a new theatre in 1869, the Folies became one of the first major music halls in Paris, featuring operetta and pantomine. Toward the end of the 19th century, the theatre's repertory consisted of musical comedies and revues, operettas, vaudeville sketches, playlets, ballets, eccentric dancers (including those high-kicking cancan dancers), acrobats, jugglers, magicians and tightrope walkers. The titles of all the Folies' shows since the late 1880s have each consisted of a total of 13 letters; "doing the cancan" 583

'''football''' 
See [[L#lawn|lawn sports]]

'''Forbidden Wing''' 
205; the Himmler-Spielsaal room at Casino H. Goering; "breath of Forbidden Wing" 285

'''Förschner, Major''' 
431; his security detail at Mittelwerke

'''Foreign Office''' 
Political Intelligence Department (P.I.D.) of, 74, 206

'''formée cross''' 
243; Jamf's inside "a gold hexagon [...] a medal of honor from IG Farben" 413;

'''Foxes''' 
47; Spectro's generic term for any patient; 53; 58; 138; 139; on the Toiletship, 450; "sharp as foxes" 718; (See also fox-trot)

'''fox-trot''' 
182; a ballroom dance in duple time with alternating slow and quick steps; (See also songs/compositions)

'''Franco, Francisco (1892-1975)''' 
234; Spanish military dictator. He and his troops attacked Spain from 1936-39 and eventually overthrew the republican government (with the help of Hitler and Mussolini). He was head of the régime and remained firmly in control until his death. Spain remained neutral during WWII.

'''Françoise''' 
183, girl on beach, along with Ghislaine and Yvonne, who is a dancer at Casino Hermann Goering; 193 (named); 194; 204

'''Frangibella''' 
547; mentioned in Pirate's and Katje's How I Came To Love the People

'''Frank''' 
547; mentioned in Pirate's and Katje's How I Came To Love the People

'''Frankenstein''' 
Monster from Mary Shelley's 1818 novel of the same name; inspiration for many, many movies; ''Son of Frankenstein'', 106; 248; 536; ''The Bride of Frankenstein'', 591

'''Franklin, Benjamin (1706-90)''' 
663; An American statesman and scientist, he was, according to the Firesign Theatre, "The only president of the United States who was never president of the United States; "kite, thunder, and key"; "was also a Mason and given to cosmic forms of practical jokesterism" 664; "A Nickel Saved [...] is a stockpile of nickel" 664;

'''Franklin, Sir John (1786-1847)''' 
589; An English arctic explorer, Sir John perished in the Victoria Straight while attempting to discover the Northwest passage. Records found later indicate that Sir John did discover the Northwest passage.

<div id="freaks">'''''Freaks'''''</div>
106; 1932 American horror film about sideshow performers, directed and produced by Tod Browning and released by MGM, with a cast mostly composed of actual carnival performers. The film was based on Tod Robbins' short story "Spurs". Director Browning took the exceptional step of casting real people with deformities as the eponymous sideshow "freaks," rather than using costumes and makeup; 534
Also mentioned in [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=F#freaks Inherent Vice].

'''Fred and Phyllis''' 
711; "who's that tapping and giggling at your door [...]?"

'''Frederick the Great (1712-86)''' 
This arty, intellectual Prussian, the son of Frederick-William I, became king of Prussia in 1840. In 1756 he initiated the "Seven Years' War." His military exploits resulted in a Prussia that had doubled in size by the time of his death; 314; 394;

'''Fred Roper's Company of Wonder Midgets''' 
37; "off to fan imperial fair in Johannesburg"

'''Free French''' 
34; "plotting revenge on Vichy traitors

'''[[French Translations]]'''

'''Freud, Sigmund (d. 1939)''' 
16; Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis; "Freudian revenge against his mother" 89; 272; 276

'''Frick Frack Club''' 
22; club in Soho where Slothrop finds girls

'''Frieda the Pig''' 
398; Pökler's pig; with Slothrop, 575; See also PIGS

'''Friedmann''' 
396; "the Russian mathematician"

'''Friedrichstrasse''' 
373; location of Chicago Bar

'''Frisch, Fromm, Frölich, Frei''' 
624; German: alert, devout, happy, free ("Frölich" should be "Fröhlich"); From Jan Bayer: the motto of the BDM (Bund Deutscher Mädels, or, as my grandmother used to say 'Bube drück mich'(hug me boy)), which was the women's organization in the Third Reich, analogous to the Hitlerjugend. That's why the symbols are 'gymnastic' — the Mädels did lots of sports (esp. gymwheels or 'Rhönrad' because it was supposed to increase their fertility, or so i was told).

<div id="friscia"></div>'''Friscia, Saverio''' 
587; "19th century European anarchist Mason"; Saverio Friscia, a doctor, along with Giuseppi Fanelli, Mikhail Bakunin, Carlos Gambuzzi, Bakunin's lawyer, and Alberto Tucci, founded the International Brotherhood ("anarchismo") in 1866, in Naples, Italy; See also [[P#proudhon|Proudhon]] and [[B#bakunin|Bakunin]]

'''Fritz''' 
568; Pig-Hero Slothrop's 8-year-old assistant

<div id="fumanchu">'''Fu Manchu'''</div>
Dr. Fu Manchu is a fictional character first featured in a series of novels by English author Sax Rohmer during the first half of the 20th century and later extensively in cinema, television, radio, and comics. 

:"Imagine a person, tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, ... one giant intellect, with all the resources of science past and present ... Imagine that awful being, and you have a mental picture of Dr. Fu-Manchu, the yellow peril incarnate in one man." –''The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu'' 

his mustache, 210; "Remember the eloquent words of Sir Denis Nayland Smith to young Alan Sterling, whose fiancée is in the clutches of the insidious yellow Adversary: "I have been through the sort of fires which are burning you now, Sterling, and I have always found that work was the best ointment for the burns."' 277; "you also [...] get to be Fu Manchu! eh? the one who has the young lady in his power!" 278; "Yellow Adversary" 751

'''Fu's Folly''' 
65; chop suey joint in Cambridge, recalled by Slothrop; [The I Ching Connection]; [Fu first appeared as a member of the Whole Sick Crew in Pynchon's first novel, [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=W#wsc ''V.'']

<div id="fuzzy">'''Fuzzy-Wuzzies'''</div>
This was the derogatory term used by the British for the Sudanese muslims (referring to their hair which was kinky) who were unified under the leadership of Mohammed Ahmed ibn Abdalla, who had declared himself the Mahdi (the "expected one"). Resisting the British forces who were aiding the Egyptians in their attempts to control southern Sudan, the "Mahdists" defeated the British at Khartoum in 1885 but were finally defeated by Lord Kitchener in 1898. Their bravery against the British, using spears against the British firearms, was memorialzed in Rudyard Kipling's poem "Fuzzy-Wuzzy". There's much about this in Pynchon's V.; "it was during [Pirate's] Kipling Period, beastly Fuzzy-Wuzzies as far as the eye could see" 13

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'''Babington-Smith, Constance''' 
726; "and her colleagues at R.A.F. Medmenham [who] discovered the Rocket back in 1943 in recco photographs of Peenemünde"; Babington conducted aerial photo-surveillance for the Allies in WWII.

'''Badajoz''' 
234; The largest province in Spain, in the Extremadura comunidad autónoma ("autonomous community"), Badajoz borders on Portugal; on which, according to Pudding, "during the war in Spain ... a bandera of Franco's Legion advanced"; between 1,000 and 4,000 civilian and military supporters of the Second Spanish Republic, were killed by the National Army following the seizure of the town on August 14, 1936.

'''Bad Karma''' 
457; location of Spa (Kurhaus) where Margherita Erdmann killed Jewish boys; ''Bad'' is German for spa or sanitarium and is often used in the names of towns with hot springs; obviously, this one is fictional and a pun

'''Badass, U.S.S. John E.''' 
388-89; US destroyer on which Seaman Bodine is stationed; Runcible Spoon Contest, 594; 623

'''BAFO''' 
391; U.S. Army Air Force: Base Accounting and Finance Office

'''Bai-u''' 
480; "the season of the plum rains [...] when all the plums are ripening" in Japan; Tsuyu (Baiu=plum rain)("Rainy Season"). Although this is Japan's "Rainy Season" (Tsuyu or Baiu), it is actually the second wet period (Winter Monsoon being the first). It typically begins in early June in Western Japan and ends in July. (Both dates are later in Northern Japan.) A stationary rain front forms over Japan between the very warm, moist tropical air to the south and the cooler, drier air to the north of the front. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiyu Wikipedia entry]

'''Baku''' 
352; seaport capital of Azerbaydzhanskaya SSR, Soviet Union, on the west coast of the Caspian Sea; 353; Blobadjian "pursued through the black end of Baku by a passel of screaming Arabists" 354

'''Bakunin, Mikhael Aleksandrovich (1814-76)''' 
386; A Russian anarchist who eventually settled in England, Mikhail Bakunin, as the leader of anarchism, was the opponent of Karl Marx in the Communist International. He believed that "the withering away of the state" effect by communism was an essential step towards anarchism. In 1866, he founded International Brotherhood, or the Alliance of Revolutionary Socialists; "19th century European anarchist Mason" 587; See also [[P#proudhon]]Proudhon and [[F#friscia|Friscia]]

'''Balaclava helmet''' 
42; a close-fitting woolen covering for the head and ears

'''Baldwin, Stanley (1867-1947)''' 
An English Conservative statesman, Baldwin, after university, became vice-chairman of his family's iron and steel business. He became premier in 1923. In the 1930s he was reluctant to re-arm Britain and was thus criticized for not recognizing the Nazi threat; Byron's Guerrilla Strike Force is "gonna get [him] right in the face" 647

'''[[Bananas|BANANAS]]'''

<div id="baseball"></div>'''baseball''' 
See [[L#lawn|lawn sports]]

'''Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij, N.V.''' 
240; Royal Dutch Shell headquarters being used for a radio guidance transmitter

'''Battle of Britain''' 
40-41; (June 1940-April 1941), series of intense raids directed against Great Britain by the German air force after the fall of France during World War II. Britain sustained 57 consecutive nights of air raids, but the RAF prevailed through superior tactics and cracking German secret codes.

'''Battle of the Bulge''' 
Led by Gerd von Rundstedt this German offensive began with a surprise attack in Luxembourg on December 16, 1944. Hitler hoped to revitalize the Western Front troops. The Germans were eventually beaten back in early January 1945 after suffering over 100,000 casualties and the loss of 1000 aircraft. It was called "Battle of the Bulge" because of the bulge it created in American lines along the Western Front. It disrupted the Western Allies' military timetable for several months; "the chaplains out in the Bulge are manly, haggard, hard drinkers" 135; 246; Red Cross "charging fifteen cents for coffee and donuts at" 600

'''Bauhaus''' 
582; "-style furniture" at the Tracys' home; The Bauhaus School was a design school in existence in Germany 1919 - 1933, established by Walter Gropius. Radically breaking with the past, the Bauhaus Masters and their students ushered in our modern times. The aesthetic was austere and functional. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauhaus Wikipedia entry]

'''Bayer factory''' 
Major German company (dyes, aspirin), headed by Duisberg, that in 1904 was organized along with Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik and the AGFA Company (film), into a cartel; 742; in Leverkusen; defectors from, at Der Platz, 746; [www.bayer.de/en/index_en.html Bayer Website]

'''Bayros, von (1866-1924)''' 
German illustrator and part of the resurgence of book illustration in German during the Weimar years. He illustrated an edition of Dante's Divina commedia (1921) which show the an Art Nouveau influence; "the drawing is in pen and ink, very finely textured, somewhat after the style of von Bayros or Beardsley" 71; "the hairless cunt derives from the women von Bayros drew" 330

'''BDM volunteers''' 
450; German: Bund Deutscher Mädel = German Girls League; German girls 14 years or older joined this Nazi youth group which included a year of farm or domestic service. Their motto was "Frisch, Fromm, Frölich, Frei".

'''BDST''' 
29: British Double Summer Time (-0200 offset from Greenwich Mean Time); same idea as Daylight Saving Time in the USA, but the clocks are advanced 2 hours, instead 1 hour, during the summer months.

'''Beal, Mary F. (b. 1937)''' 
612; American novelist

'''Beardsley, Aubry (1872-1898)''' 
An English illustrator, Beardsley is known for his (often erotically charged) illustrations for Oscar Wilde's Salome, Alexander Pope's Rape of the Lock and other black-and-white works. Along with Oscar Wilde, he was considered a leader of "The Decadents" of the 1890s; 71; 634; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_Beardsley Wikipedia entry]

'''Beaton, Cecil (1904-80)''' 
78; Beaton was an English photographer of fashion and high-society celebrities (including royalty), as well as a designer of costumes and sets for ballet; his "photograph of [[A#asquith|Margot Asquith]]"

'''Beatriz the Bulb''' 
653; another long-living bulb hunted by Phoebus, believed to be in the Amazon

'''Beaver, "Old" Jeremy the''' 
36; 121; boyfriend of Jessica Swanlake; works for Operation Backfire in Cuxhaven; is the War, 177; meets Mexico at Gross Suckling Conference, 709

'''Beaverboard Row''' 
538; at the Double-Agent Convention, "comprising the offices of all the Committees"

'''Beaverbrook, Lord William Maxwell (1879-1964)''' 
615; Max Beaverbrook was a Canadian-born British newspaper magnate and politician. He became rich as a stockbroker by 1910. He moved to Britain in 1910 and was private secretary to premier Bonar Law, minister of information under Lloyd George, and minister of supply under Churchill. As a newspaper magnate, he founded the Sunday Express in 1921 and bought the Evening Standard in 1929; "it isn't as if the election put [him] out of a job or something"

'''Becket''' 
"Lost, again and again, past poor dam-busted and drowned Becket" 471

'''Beethoven, Ludwig von (1770-1827)''' 
German composer whose harmonic and formal innovations pushed the boundaries of the music of his day; "Rossini's overture to La Gazza Ladra (which, as we shall see later, in Berlin, marks a high point in music which everybody ignored, preferring Beethoven, who never got further than statements of intention)" 273; "a raging debate with Säure over who is better, [[Beethoven & Rossini|Beethoven or Rossini]] [...] "'I'm not so much for Beethoven qua Beethoven," Gustav argues, "but as he represents the German dialectic, the incorporation of more and more notes into the scale, culminating with dodecaphonic democracy, where all notes get an equal hearing. Beethoven was one of the architects of musical freedom--he submitted to the demands of history, despite his deafness. While Rossini was retiring at the age of 36, womanizing and getting fat, Beethoven was living a life filled with tragedy and grandeur.'" 440; "All you feel like listening to Beethoven is going out and invading Poland." 440 (this pre-dates Woody Allen's use of the same joke in his movie [http://www.woodyallenmovies.com/movies/manhattan.htm ''Manhattan''] (1979)); "Nor as grand as Bach, or Beethoven-or-Brahms/(bubububoo[oo] oo [sung to opening of Beethoven 5th, with full band]" 685

'''Beláustegui''' 
383; U-boat's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positivism positivist] engineer; 613

'''Belleau Wood''' 
Battle fought outside Paris for approximately three weeks in June 1918, between the U.S. Marines and the Germans. The Marines prevailed, but only after the death of over 1000 men; "[Lyle Bland] lay there, more terrified than he'd ever been, even at Belleau Wood" 588

'''Benito the Bulb''' 
649; "at an all-girl opium den in Charlottenburg [...] who's always planning an escape"

'''Bereshith''' 
Genesis, the first book of the Old Testament (after the Hebrew word meaning "in the beginning"); 77

'''Beria, Lavrenti Pavlovich (1899-1953)''' 
Sometimes called the "Himmler of Russia," Beria was a ruthless and ambitious Soviet secret police chief. Stalin appointed him minister of internal affairs in 1938, and he served as vice-president of the State Committee for Defense during WWII. He attempted to seize power when Stalin died, but was foiled and executed; "Beria's top man, the sinister N. Ripov himself" 719

'''Berliner Luft''' 
372;

'''Berlin Snoot''' 
660; aka Enzian

'''Bernie the Bulb''' 
649; "at an all-girl opium den in Charlottenburg [...] who has all kinds of urolagnia jokes"

'''Bernreuter Inventory''' 
In 1931, psychologist Robert Bernreuter began refining his "Bernreuter Personality Inventory," a pioneer multiphastic test of traits that became the standard against which other personality tests were measured and is still used worldwide for counseling and personnel selection; "as revied by Flanagan in '35" 81

'''Bessarabia''' 
Bessarabia is the territory in the eastern part of Moldavia (now Romania), between the Prut and Dniester rivers, near the Russian border; Background regarding "1878 during the intrigues over" 119

'''Bevin, Mr. Ernest (1881-1951)''' 
106; Considered the pioneer of modern trade unionism, Bevin became minister of labor and nation service in Churchill's coalition government. He became foreign secretary in the Labour government (1945-51).Labor Minister

<div id="bianca"></div>'''Bianca''' 
393; daughter of Greta Erdmann & Miklos Thanatz; "I think Bianca is [Schlepzig's] child." 395; 457; disappears, 480; mapped on to Gottfried, 484, 672;"Bianca's a knockout, alright: [[Bianca|11 or 12 [...] ]]" 463; going overboard, 491; "a clever child" 494; body discovered, 531; mapped on to Ilse, 576-77; "her dead flesh" 576; 672;

'''Bibescue, Count''' 
491; passenger aboard the Anubis "dreaming by the fo'c'sle of Bucharest four years ago, the January terror, the Iron Guard on the radio screaming Long Live Death"

'''Biddle, "Gobbler"''' 
65; college buddy of Slothrop's who appears in toilet episode

'''Big and Little Anita''' 
129; character conjured by the presence of the black man in choir at the Advent service attended by Roger and Jessica

'''Big Apple''' 
60; dance in Slothrop's Sodium Amytal session

'''Bingen pencils''' 
Bingen is a city in southwestern Germany, with a port at the confluence of the Rhine and Nahe rivers, near the whirlpool known as Binger Loch. It joined the Hanseatic League in 1254; "the helical contrails in the sky" 452

'''Birches, The''' 
616; Sir Marcus Scammony's estate

'''Birdbury, Pharmacist''' 
595; dope dealer at the old Krupp works where Badass is docked

'''Bismarck, Otto Edward Leopold von (1815-98)''' 
165; As a Prussian statesman, Bismarck rose to eventually become president of the cabinet. Under his leadership, Prussia humiliated Austria in the "Seven Weeks' War which lead to the reorganization of Germany under the leadership of Prussia. After provoking the Franco-Prussian war (1870-71) and eventually dictating the peace terms to France, Bismarck was made a prince and chancellor (the "Iron Chancellor") of the new German empire. He also represented Germany at the Congress of Berlin in 1878; "impressive re-enactment of Bismarck's elevation, at the spring equinox of 1871, to prince and imperial chancellor" 419;

'''black & white''' 
The Rocket described as "black-and-white bad news" 209; "Dominus Blicero" 30; white - 342, 398, 501, 506, 508, 519, 524, 549, 551; 579; bleaching 364; black - 350, 354; "feelings about blackness tied to feelings about shit" 276; white=death, 372; white woman with ring of keys, 374; Caligari gloves - bone white, 385; Slothrop's sodium amytal dreams, 390; 392; "we live. . .beneath the black mud" 483; "A white land" 486; 488; black polymer costume, 488; baseball, 508; boneblack, 509; Egg, 510; "black apes" 513; 650; 657; 666; 688; white albatross, 713; 722; 723; 741; death a whitening, 750 [inversion: black=life; white=death]

'''Blackett, P.M.S. (1897-1974)''' 
12; 1932 (independent of Carl Anderson) he discovered the positron. He also pioneered research on cosmic radiation and, in 1948, won the Nobel prize for physics; "You can't run a war on gusts of emotion"

'''Bladdery, St. John''' 
594; English Commando in First International Runcible Spoon Fight

'''Bland, Buddy''' 
591; Lyle's son; 652

'''Bland, Lyle''' 
284; "Uncle" Lyle to Slothrop; lived in Boston; involved with Hugo Stinnes; 306; and the Masons, 580; specialized in psychological studies in '30s, 581; becomes Mason, 587; journeying "underneath history" 589; leaves body, 591; "last transmural journey" 630; "who was likely to take over the Slothrop surveillance, now that Bland was gone" 630

'''Bland, Lyle Jr.''' 
652; Lyle's son

'''Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna (1831-91)''' 
269; A Russian-born American psychic and mystic. She founded the Theosophical Society in New York in 1875 and later continued her work in India. Although her psychic powers were widely acclaimed, they did not withstand the scrutiny of the Society for Psychical Research, though this had little effect on her following; the Blavatskian wing in Psi section. Her day of death (May 8) is commemorated as White Lotus Day.

'''Blazzo''' 
483; "Italian stuntman" who doubled for Erdmann in Jugend Herauf! - Erdmann "wouldn't go to bed with him, unless he wore that wig!"

'''Bleagh, Dr.''' 
91; "and his young nurse Ivy"; performs lobotomies at White Visitation

'''Bleicheröde''' 
According to McGovern, a cotton-mill town near Nordhausen where most of the rocket specialists and their families were resettled after Peenemünde was abandoned; "Across the Western Front, up in the Harz in Bleicheröde, Wernher von Braun, lately wrecked arm in a plaster cast, prepares to celebrate his 33rd birthday." 236-37; "Enzian of Bleicheröde" 314; "In the mountains around Nordhausen and Bleicheröde, down in abandoned mine shafts, live the Schwarzkommando." 315; "There are several underground communities now near Nordhausen/Bleicheröde. Around here they are known collectively as the Erdschweinhöhle." 315; "The Rocket had to be produced out of a place called Nordhausen. The town adjoining was named Bleicheröde as a validation, a bit of redundancy so that the message would not be lost." 322; "Enzian's found the name Bleicheröde close enough to "Blicker," the nickname the early Germans gave to Death. They saw him white bleaching and blankness." 322; "the names of death-towns unreel, and surely Bleicheröde or Blicero will be spoken any minute now...." 695; "is he Blicker, Bleicheröde, Bleacher, Blicero, extending, rarefying the Caucasian pallor to an abolition of pigment, of melanin, of spectrum, of separateness from shade to shade" 759

'''Blicero, Capt.
See [[W#weissman|Weissmann]]

'''Blizna''' 
424; in Poland; site of A4 testing in 1943; SS project run by Kammler

'''Bloat, Teddy''' 
5; rooms with Pirate and friend of Tantivy; microfilms Slothrop's map (then gives film to Mexico who takes it to Pointsman), 17; 34; 181; gives Slothrop a crab to distract the octopus, 186-87; discussed, 192-93

'''Blobadjian, Igor''' 
353; party representative in the G Committee (WLA); death of, 354-55; [[Igor Blobadjian|Etymological Musings]]

'''Blohm & Voss''' 
521; Hamburg shipbuilding company that expanded into building military aircraft for the German war effort

'''Bloth, Mindy''' 
735-36; guide on elevator; "of Carbon City, Illinois"

'''Blowitt''' 
151; reported to psychiatric "for his rainbowed Valkyrie over Peenemünde"

'''BMRs''' 
170; Basal Metabolic Rates: the amount of energy expended while at rest in a neutrally temperate environment.

<div id="bodine"></div>'''Bodine, Seaman''' 
369; Doper's Dream; was on the Destroyer John E. Badass docked in Cuxhaven; spikes coffee on Badass with Oneirine, 389; First Int'l Runcible Spoon Fight, 394; "specializes in supporting roles" 684; My Doper's Cadenza, 685; foam-rubber phalli, 708; "just a freckleface kid from Albert Lea, Minnesota" 710; Krupp, 711; "surprise roast" 714; "beginning. . .to let Slothrop go" 741-42; "Pig" Bodine is also a major character in V.; Pig's ancestor, [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=B#bodine Fender-Belly Bodine, shows up in Mason & Dixon.]

'''Bokhara rug''' 
246;

<div id="bolshevik"></div>'''Bolshevik''' 
338; Russian: bol'she = "more"; The Bolsheviks were the members of the Russian Social Democratic Party who sided with Lenin in the split after the party congress of 1903. They were the majority and the Mensheviks (in favor of bourgeois reform) were the minority party. The Bolsheviks seized power after the Revolution of 1917 and became the Communist Party; "the godless Mesopotamian Bolshevik" 383; "Lucky the Bolshies didn't get it, huh, Charles?" 448; "The lion [...] He takes, he holds! He is not a Bolshevik or Jew" 577; See also [[L#lenin|Lenin]]; [[S#stalin|Stalin]]

'''Bondelswaartz''' 
403; Herero tribe; 1922 uprising, 403

'''Book, The''' 
47, 75, 87-88, 139, 140; [What Book?]; See also Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich

'''Book of Memorabilia''' 
739; pertaining to Slothrop's dispersal

<div id="booth">'''Booth, John Wilkes (1839-65)'''</div>
This unsuccessful actor assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, apparently to avenge the defeat of the Confederates in the Civil War; his [[M#mustache|mustache]], 210

'''BOQ''' 
6; bachelor officers' quarters

'''Borges, Jorge Luis (1899-1986)''' 
264; Argentinian writer of fiction/fantasy; dedicated poem to G. I. Portales, 383; [http://www.themodernword.com/borges/index.html The Modern Word's Borges Section (the best!)] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges Wikipedia Entry]; [[Borges - The Game of Chess|"The Game of Chess"]] See also [[R#rivadavia|Rivadavia]].

<div id="katje"></div>'''Borgesius, Katje (rhymes with "Got-ya")''' 
her message in cylinder delivered by rocket, 20; "the operative" 72; an ice-queen, her hair secured with "an old, tarnished silver crown [...] frozen on top in a hundred vortices" 92; "A woman with some background in mathematics, and with reasons" 97; was in Blicero's Hansel & Gretel game with Gottfried in the house "west of Duindigt racecourse" 94-99, 101-04; turned in Jews to keep the Germans from suspecting her, 97, 105; spying for allies, 104-05; "Her only debt outstanding is to Captain Prentice" 104; "stepped back into the void" 106; quits the game, 107; Pirate takes her to White Visitation, 106; secretly filmed, 92-113; "quits the game" 104; octopus incident, 185-89; "Meet me in my room" 191; with Slothrop in her room, 194-98; escapes to Arnhem [MAP] [actually to Scheveningen: 535-36], 195; "Wired into the Slothropian Run-together they briefed her on." 196; futureless look, 208, 209; roulette wheel metaphor, 209; "A rain-witch." 221; "a noseless mask of the Other Order of Being, of Katje's being--the lifeless non-face that is the only face of hers he really knows, or will ever remember" 222; "mask of no luck, no future--her face's rest state" 225; disappears, 226; "on her wheel" 257; with Pointsman, 273-74; "under the Wheel of Fortune" 277; 281-83; "a red tulip between Slothrop's toes. A reminder of Katje" 281; discovers film used with Grigori, 533; looking for Pirate, 536; with Pirate again ("she has lost her surface"), 545; her little brother Louis, 546; going to Nordhausen, 620; loss of "futureless look" 656; "she's not of our moment, our time, at all" 656; Golden Bitch, 658; Principle of Maximizing Risk, 659; "Shouldn't I be going all the way in?" 662; "her masochism" 662; travelling with Enzian, 729

'''Borgesius, Louis''' 
546; Katje's little brother

'''Borsalini''' 
254; Borsalino hats are a quality-made felt hat with broad brim manufactured in Italy. The company has been in existence since 1857. "Borsalini" is Pynchon's plural.

'''Bounce, Capt. Hillary''' 
240; works for Shell Int'l Petroleum; had dealings with IG Farben in '32; teaches Slothrop about propulsion at Casino; at de la Perlimpinpin's party, 245; 253

'''Bovril''' 
23; Bovril is cow extract, and its main use is as a flavouring for soups, and as a drink when you put a teaspoon of the stuff in a mug of boiling water; [http://www.bovril.com]

'''Boxing Day''' 
132; In England, the first weekday after Christmas, observed by the giving of Christmas boxes to service workers; 174

'''Bracken, Brendan (1901-58)''' 
615; First a successful journalist, Irishman Bracken was elected to the British in 1929, was minister of information (1941-45) and was first Lord of the Admiralty in the 1945 "caretaker" government; "it isn't as if the election put [him] out of a job or something"

'''Bradbury Building''' 
752; "Philip Marlowe will [...] feel homesick for the lacework balconies of the"

'''Brain Trust''' 
565

'''Brain War''' 
726; "a Victorian kind [...] as between quaternions and vector analysis in the 1880s, the nostalgia of Aether" 727

<div id="vonbraun">'''Braun, Wernher von (1923-77)'''</div>
German rocket engineer who came to the U.S. after the war; [[von Braun's Epigram|"Nature does not know extinction"]] 1; arm in a cast in the Harz, 237; "They've already rounded up von Braun and 500 others, and interned them at Garmisch" 273; Geli's owl, 291; "how close Wernher von Braun's birthday is to the Spring Equinox" 361, 588; "the Prussian aristocrat" 402; "a palace revolt against" 416; "I couldn't go with von Braun, not to the Americans" 456

'''Brenda''' 
547; mentioned in Pirate's and Katje's How I Came To Love the People

'''Brenda the Bulb''' 
649; mother of Bernie "who talks of hashish hush puppies"

'''Brennan, Peewee''' 
584; a pinball wizard, one of "the great thumbs of Koekuk and Puyallup, Oyster Bay, Inglewood"

'''Brennschluss''' 
6; German: "end of burning"; end of rocket's ascent when fuel is cut-off and it gives way to gravity; "a ritual of love" 222-23; "Rocket's. . .feminine counterpart" 223; 239; "The moving vehicle is frozen, in space, to become architecture, and timeless. It was never launched. It will never fall" 301; "for every firing site" 302; "of the Sun" (Sound-Shadow), 711; 759

'''British Military Intelligence''' 
384;

'''British Ministry of Supply''' 
240;

'''British Plastics''' 
615; discarded back issues scattered about Mossmoon's and Scammony's club

'''Brocken''' 
329; mountain 20 miles NW of Mittelwerke in the Harz Mountains; "plexus of German evil"; place where God-shadows ("Brockengespenstphänomen" - p.331) occur at sunrise, 330; specter, 759

'''Bruce''' 
544; "who got burned"; one whom Pirate had to betray "in the course of business for the Firm"

'''Buchenwald''' 
666;

'''Buffalo Bayou''' 
449; song about

'''Bugnogorkov''' 
353; "infamous Ukrainian doper [...] of the glottal K Committee"

'''Bukhara''' 
in Uzbekistan, this city is one of the most ancient in Central Asia. According to the decree of the 4th Assembly of all-Bukhara Soviets (11-17 October, 1923), certain degrees of autonomy and administrative rights were granted to areas inhabited by Turkmens, and local dialects (eg Tajiki) were to be replaced by Turkish as the official language; "reformed Arabic scripts [...] ratified at ~ in 1923" 354; [http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/bashiri/Masov/bukhara.html Website]

'''Bukharin, Nikolai Ivanovich (1888-1938)''' 
Bukharin was a Russian Communist leader and theoretician, and a member of the Bolshevik wing of the Social Democratic party. In 1924 he was made a full member of the politburo. As Stalin rose to power in the 1920s, Bukharin was advocating policies which were not in line with Stalin's, eg slow agricultural collectivization and industrialization. A victim of Stalin's purges, in 1938 he was tried publicly for treason and was executed (shot). In the Gorbachev era, Bukharin was rehabilitated and posthumously reinstated (1988) as a party member; "evidence linking [Porkyevitch] to the Bukharin conspiracy" 189

'''bulbs''' 
anemone bulbs, 104; at Rathenau seance, 165; "staring bulb" 194; " a bare bulb will hollow out a region of light...the light bulb is the chisel that delivers it from its inertia and has become one of the great secret ikons of the Humility", "light bulbs...were the first to go" 299; " only their bulbs shining conditionally" 300; "small neon bulbs" 303; dream of bulb/Weissmann, 426-27; Weissmann's soul, 427; sentient bulbs, 464; 506; Mutter: what Germans call female threads of light bulb sockets, 299, 653; "Azos looking down the empty back Bakelite streets, Nitralampen and Wotan Gs at night soccer matches, Just-Wolframs, Monowatts and Siriuses" 650; "an electrical tidal wave" 665; bulbshine, 697; See also [[#byron|Byron the Bulb]]

'''Bulgars''' 
549;

'''Bull, John''' 
nickname for an Englishman or Englishmen collectively; "our cousin" 697

'''Bummer, Emil ("Säure" [German: acid])''' 
365; 434-43; papyromancy, 442, 641; wheelerdealer in Berlin; no stomping on bugs, 621; "Ass-backwards" 683; "Der Platz" 686; "optimum hashpipe design" 745

'''Burgundians''' 
159; wiped out by Attila the Hun (as depicted in Fritz Lang's Die Nibelungen); in what is now Eastern France [MAP]; held together by "precious structure of magic and incest" 578-79

'''Busch, Wilhelm (1832-1908)''' 
501; This German cartoonist and writer created Max und Moritz (the prototypes for the Katzenjammer Kids--see page 757) and Herr und Frau Knopp; "a Wilhelm Busch cartoon face"; "a Wilhelm Busch original" 568

'''Busemann, Adolf''' 
German rocket scientist; 452

'''Business Advisory Council''' 
581; "set up by Swope of General Electric"; 587;

'''butadiene''' 
487; a flammable gaseous hydrocarbon used in making synthetic rubbers

<div id="byron"></div>'''Byron the Bulb''' 
"a bulb over his head burning all night long. He dreamed that the bulb was a representative of Weissmann, a creature whose bright filament was its soul" 426-27; "a theatre marquee whose sentient bulbs may have looked on [...] witnesses to grave and historical encounters" 464; "The Story of" 647-55; "Someday he will know everything, and be just as impotent as before" 654; "electrical tidal wave" 665; "young Jack may have had one of them Immortal Lightbulbs then go on overhead" 688; screwed into Gustav's kazoo hashpipe, 745

'''Byzantium''' 
Ancient Greek city on the Sea of Marmara which was the capital of the Byzantine (or Greek) Empire, in what is now NW Turkey. From 7th century BC to 3rd century AD, Byzantium was a thriving center for the arts, especially architecture (its chief features: circle, dome and round arch). It was renamed Constantinople in 330AD when Constantine captured it and established it as the new capital for the Turkish Empire; it was renamed Istanbul in 1930; Vikings sailing to, 549; [[Sailing to Byzantium|"Sailing to Byzantium" by W.B. Yeats]] [http://www.tmbg.org/band-info/songs/lyrics/IstanbulNotConstantinople.html "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" by They Might Be Giants]

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