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==Page 206==
206.20; '''P.I.D.''' 
Political Intelligence Division

[[image:plasticman2.jpg|thumb|100px|Plastic Man|right]]206.37 '''A Plasticman comic''' 
Plastic Man’s history is a bit different than that given by Weisenburger. The hero first appeared in Police Comics in January 1941. He had his own title starting in 1943 under the Quality Comics label, which ended in 1956. The character was picked up and revived by National Periodicals ("DC" Comics) in 1966, but the new magazine lasted only for ten issues. Since then, some of the original Plastic Man stories have been reprinted from time to time, and the character has appeared in other DC publications. Plastic Man’s costume was mainly red, but also contained yellow and black. His name should be two words, not one as in ''GR''.

==Page 207==
207.8 '''Telefunken radio control. That 'Hawaii I'''' 
Telefunken is a German radio and television company, founded in 1903, in Berlin, as a joint venture of two large companies, Siemens & Halske (S & H) and the Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft (General Electricity Company). By 1941, AEG was the sole owner. During the Second World War Telefunken was a supplier of vacuum tubes, transmitters and radio relay systems, and developed radar facilities and directional finders, aiding the war efforts of the Third Reich. 'Hawaii I' was the surface station for a missile guidance system Telefunken developed.

==Page 208==
208.21 '''Palmolive and Camay''' 
Two American brands of soap.

==Page 209==
209.21 ''''s Gravenhage''' 
aka The Hague

==Page 210==
210.18 '''Johnson Smith''' 
A mail-order company officially established in 1914 that sells novelty and gag gift items such as x-ray goggles, whoopee cushions, fake vomit, and joy buzzers. They often advertised in comic books.

210.18-19 '''Mustache Kit, 20 different shapes ''' 
[[F#fumanchu|Fu Manchu]]: a full, straight mustache that grows downward past the lips and on either side of the chin and extends down toward the toes; [[M#groucho|Groucho Marx]]: a thick greasepaint mustache.

210.28 '''Wyatt Earp''' 
[[E#earp|Earp]] had an extremely long and droopy mustache; see picture [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ilag7FZtOPc/SLt6hSWtUZI/AAAAAAAAAt8/G3vZJHcumw4/s1600-h/wyatt.jpg here]

210.35 '''John Wilkes Booth's ''' 
[[B#booth|Booth]] also had a droopy mustache, but not as long as Earp

210.30 '''Stuart Lake era''' 
Lake wrote ''Frontier Marshal'', a 1931 biography of Wyatt Earp which the author purported upon publication to be based on actual interviews but later admitted to be highly fictionalized. It served as the basis for several movies (including John Ford's ''My Darling Clementine'') as well as the 1955 to 1961 Tube series ''The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp''.

==Page 211==
211.39; '''...a drinking game, it's called Prince...''' 
A real drinking game, usually called 'Whales Tales'.

==Page 212==
212.27; '''jeroboam of Veuve Clicquot Brut''' 
A 3 liter bottle of a slightly sweet, premium French champagne

212.33; '''trews''' 
Men's clothing for the legs and lower abdomen, a traditional form of Irish and Scottish apparel; plaid trousers rather than a kilt.

212.33; '''''degorgement''''' 
French: process in which sediment is removed from wine

==Page 213==
213.21 '''The Queen of Transylvan-ia''' 
Transylvania is, of course, the mountainous region of Romania that is legendary home to Dracula.
: As well as the real-life birthplace of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Oberth Hermann Oberth], the pioneer of German rocket science, inventor of liquid-fuel propulsion, consultant on [[http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Fritz_Lang Die Frau im Mond]]; the man who turned von Braun on.

213.26 '''Chateaubriand''' 
A recipe for a thick cut of steak from the tenderloin, created for Vicomte François-René de Chateaubriand, (1768–1848)

213.27 '''panatelas''' 
Long, thin cigars

213.36 '''Épernay grapes''' 
Grapes grown in the Épernay region of France; officially designated as Champagne grapes

213.36 '''cuvées''' 
Refers to the best grape juice from gentle pressing of the grapes--the first 2,050 liters of grape juice from 4,000 kg of grapes

==Page 214==
214.02 '''Taittinger''' 
A French sweet sparkling wine, manufactured outside the Champagne region and so unable to use the controlled name - an indication that the real thing has started to run out.

214.04-05 '''Lady of Spain''' 
The song, composed in 1931 by Tolchard Evans, Stanley Demerell and Bob Hargreaves, has become a cliché of accordion music.

==Page 215==
215.29 '''News of the World''' 
A British tabloid known as a purveyor of titillation, shock and criminal news, first published in 1843 and at one time the best-selling newspaper in the UK; closely associated with Conservative political views, it was (pace Weisenberger) a weekly Sunday paper, not a daily. It folded in 2011, after a scandal involving mobile phone hacking of celebrities and a murder victim.

==Page 218==
218.10 '''Zaxa''' 
Anglicized pronunciation of [[S#sachsa|'Sachsa']]

==Page 220==
220.31 '''Schutzmann Joche''' 
The constable’s last name, with an umlaut, would approximate another expression of disgust ("yuck-ey").

==Page 222==
222.02 '''Cagney of the French Riviera''' 
James Cagney, American actor who played tough guys. Called "the professional gangster". In one famous movie scene, he shoves a grapefruit
into a woman's face over the breakfast table.

222.37 '''the bridge music''' 
A cinematic reference; the kind of musical accompaniment in which familiar tunes echoed the theme of particular scenes (especially during montage sequences spanning periods of time) was a common feature of classic Hollywood films (for example, the scores of Max Steiner). In this context, the music is background to a montage of scenes of Slothrop and Katje working together.

==Page 223==
223.11 '''IG and radio methods''' 
IG = INERTIAL guidance, i.e. guidance derived from inertia (Newton's first law)... measuring the forces on a gyroscope, which attempts to maintain the spin and orientation it had before the rocket's flight started. Put those forces (and the time during which they are sensed) through some arithmetic, and you get the current position and velocity of the rocket... leading to the right moment to shut down the engine (Brennschluss). 
Alternately, the guidance system can receive signals from two or more radio sources (a la GPS, today's Global Positioning System) and use trigonometry to calculate its position. This was planned for the V2 and tested, but never became operational AFAIK. Used extensively by bombers. 
Either way, the transition from *powered* and *controlled* flight to *ballistic* trajectory -- governed only by gravity, all its future implicit in this moment, fated and irreversible -- is a central metaphor, arguably *the* central metaphor, of the book.

223.19 '''''Der Pfau''''' 
German: the peacock; interestingly, this word sounds very similar to the pronunciation of the letter 'V', just with a soft plosive 'P' in front, so that ''Pfau Zwei'' could easily be mistaken for 'V-2'

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225.32 '''a single clarinet''' 
The instrument, with its evocation of "clowns and circuses," suggests Kurt Weill's score for Brecht's ''Three-Penny Opera'' but also Nino Rota’s scores for several Fellini films, notably ''8½'' (1963 No wonder Slothrop "lacks the European reflexes" to it!)

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==Page 206==
206.20; '''P.I.D.''' 
Political Intelligence Division

[[image:plasticman2.jpg|thumb|100px|Plastic Man|right]]206.37 '''A Plasticman comic''' 
Plastic Man’s history is a bit different than that given by Weisenburger. The hero first appeared in Police Comics in January 1941. He had his own title starting in 1943 under the Quality Comics label, which ended in 1956. The character was picked up and revived by National Periodicals ("DC" Comics) in 1966, but the new magazine lasted only for ten issues. Since then, some of the original Plastic Man stories have been reprinted from time to time, and the character has appeared in other DC publications. Plastic Man’s costume was mainly red, but also contained yellow and black. His name should be two words, not one as in ''GR''.

==Page 207==
207.8 '''Telefunken radio control. That 'Hawaii I'''' 
Telefunken is a German radio and television company, founded in 1903, in Berlin, as a joint venture of two large companies, Siemens & Halske (S & H) and the Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft (General Electricity Company). By 1941, AEG was the sole owner. During the Second World War Telefunken was a supplier of vacuum tubes, transmitters and radio relay systems, and developed radar facilities and directional finders, aiding the war efforts of the Third Reich. 'Hawaii I' was the surface station for a missile guidance system Telefunken developed.

==Page 208==
208.21 '''Palmolive and Camay''' 
Two American brands of soap.

==Page 209==
209.21 ''''s Gravenhage''' 
aka The Hague

==Page 210==
210.18 '''Johnson Smith''' 
A mail-order company officially established in 1914 that sells novelty and gag gift items such as x-ray goggles, whoopee cushions, fake vomit, and joy buzzers. They often advertised in comic books.

210.18-19 '''Mustache Kit, 20 different shapes ''' 
[[F#fumanchu|Fu Manchu]]: a full, straight mustache that grows downward past the lips and on either side of the chin and extends down toward the toes; [[M#groucho|Groucho Marx]]: a thick greasepaint mustache.

210.28 '''Wyatt Earp''' 
[[E#earp|Earp]] had an extremely long and droopy mustache; see picture [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ilag7FZtOPc/SLt6hSWtUZI/AAAAAAAAAt8/G3vZJHcumw4/s1600-h/wyatt.jpg here]

210.35 '''John Wilkes Booth's ''' 
[[B#booth|Booth]] also had a droopy mustache, but not as long as Earp

210.30 '''Stuart Lake era''' 
Lake wrote ''Frontier Marshal'', a 1931 biography of Wyatt Earp which the author purported upon publication to be based on actual interviews but later admitted to be highly fictionalized. It served as the basis for several movies (including John Ford's ''My Darling Clementine'') as well as the 1955 to 1961 Tube series ''The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp''.

==Page 211==
211.39; '''...a drinking game, it's called Prince...''' 
A real drinking game, usually called 'Whales Tales'.

==Page 212==
212.27; '''jeroboam of Veuve Clicquot Brut''' 
A 3 liter bottle of a slightly sweet, premium French champagne

212.33; '''trews''' 
Men's clothing for the legs and lower abdomen, a traditional form of Irish and Scottish apparel; plaid trousers rather than a kilt.

212.33; '''''degorgement''''' 
French: process in which sediment is removed from wine

==Page 213==
213.21 '''The Queen of Transylvan-ia''' 
Transylvania is, of course, the mountainous region of Romania that is legendary home to Dracula.
: As well as the real-life birthplace of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Oberth Hermann Oberth], the pioneer of German rocket science, inventor of liquid-fuel propulsion, consultant on [[http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Fritz_Lang Die Frau im Mond]]; the man who turned von Braun on.

213.26 '''Chateaubriand''' 
A recipe for a thick cut of steak from the tenderloin, created for Vicomte François-René de Chateaubriand, (1768–1848)

213.27 '''panatelas''' 
Long, thin cigars

213.36 '''Épernay grapes''' 
Grapes grown in the Épernay region of France; officially designated as Champagne grapes

213.36 '''cuvées''' 
Refers to the best grape juice from gentle pressing of the grapes--the first 2,050 liters of grape juice from 4,000 kg of grapes

==Page 214==
214.02 '''Taittinger''' 
A French sweet sparkling wine, manufactured outside the Champagne region and so unable to use the controlled name - an indication that the real thing has started to run out.

214.04-05 '''Lady of Spain''' 
The song, composed in 1931 by Tolchard Evans, Stanley Demerell and Bob Hargreaves, has become a cliché of accordion music.

==Page 215==
215.29 '''News of the World''' 
A British tabloid known as a purveyor of titillation, shock and criminal news; also closely associated with conservative political views

==Page 218==
218.10 '''Zaxa''' 
Anglicized pronunciation of [[S#sachsa|'Sachsa']]

==Page 220==
220.31 '''Schutzmann Joche''' 
The constable’s last name, with an umlaut, would approximate another expression of disgust ("yuck-ey").

==Page 222==
222.02 '''Cagney of the French Riviera''' 
James Cagney, American actor who played tough guys. Called "the professional gangster". In one famous movie scene, he shoves a grapefruit
into a woman's face over the breakfast table.

222.37 '''the bridge music''' 
A cinematic reference; the kind of musical accompaniment in which familiar tunes echoed the theme of particular scenes (especially during montage sequences spanning periods of time) was a common feature of classic Hollywood films (for example, the scores of Max Steiner). In this context, the music is background to a montage of scenes of Slothrop and Katje working together.

==Page 223==
223.11 '''IG and radio methods''' 
IG = INERTIAL guidance, i.e. guidance derived from inertia (Newton's first law)... measuring the forces on a gyroscope, which attempts to maintain the spin and orientation it had before the rocket's flight started. Put those forces (and the time during which they are sensed) through some arithmetic, and you get the current position and velocity of the rocket... leading to the right moment to shut down the engine (Brennschluss). 
Alternately, the guidance system can receive signals from two or more radio sources (a la GPS, today's Global Positioning System) and use trigonometry to calculate its position. This was planned for the V2 and tested, but never became operational AFAIK. Used extensively by bombers. 
Either way, the transition from *powered* and *controlled* flight to *ballistic* trajectory -- governed only by gravity, all its future implicit in this moment, fated and irreversible -- is a central metaphor, arguably *the* central metaphor, of the book.

223.19 '''''Der Pfau''''' 
German: the peacock; interestingly, this word sounds very similar to the pronunciation of the letter 'V', just with a soft plosive 'P' in front, so that ''Pfau Zwei'' could easily be mistaken for 'V-2'

==Page 225==
225.32 '''a single clarinet''' 
The instrument, with its evocation of "clowns and circuses," suggests Kurt Weill's score for Brecht's ''Three-Penny Opera'' but also Nino Rota’s scores for several Fellini films, notably ''8½'' (1963 No wonder Slothrop "lacks the European reflexes" to it!)

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==Page 537==
537.16-17 '''big as pantechnicons''' 
That is, big as furniture vans. See [[Pages 17-19#19|19.30]].

==Page 540==
[[image:St_Just.jpg|thumb|Louis de Saint-Just|80px|right]]540.34 '''St.-Just Grossout''' 
"Grossout" is 60s slang for "disgusting," "repulsive." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Just Louis Antoine Leon de Saint-Just] was the French radical leader known as the "Conscience of the Revolution" for his egalitarian principles but he was also one of the harshest advocates of the Reign of Terror. Also see note at [[Pages 706-717#713|713.10]].

==Page 541==
541.21-22 '''a discredit to his people''' 
A play on the racistly condescending phrase "a credit to his people," usually indicating someone who meets official standards of behavior. In this case, a Welshman who can't sing.

==Page 542==
542.40 '''Lucifer Amp''' 
An electrical sort of person. "Lucifer" was the original name of the bright angel who rebelled and was expelled from Heaven to become Satan, but it has also been a name for a kind of match and a brand name for lightbulbs. "Amps" (after French physicist Andre Marie Ampere) are the units that measure the rate of flow of the charge in an electrical circuit. AMP, though, can also stand for adenosine monophosphate, a substance found in all animal cells and that controls the cell’s electrical activity.

This may also reference the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syd_Barrett Syd Barrett] tune [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer_Sam "Lucifer Sam"], which was on the British group Pink Floyd's first, Barrett-led, album, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Piper_at_the_Gates_of_Dawn ''The Piper At The Gates of Dawn''] (1967).

==Page 544==

'''Gongylakis '''
Might be a variant on the name of [http://textiles.ucdavis.edu/laky/ Gyöngy Laky], a textile sculptor and arts professor, who was active in San Francisco when ''Gravity's Rainbow'' was written.

'''sufficient unto the day''' 
From [http://www.jesus-is-lord.com/matthew.htm#c6 The Gospel According to Saint Matthew: 6:34]. "Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall
take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." (The New Testament of the King James Bible) In
[http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_81-96#Page_96 ''Against the Day''], Webb Traverse quotes it. Here, "They" update daily a list of those who will soon get 'hit' the evil thereof [the day].

==Page 545==
[[image:blowout.jpg|thumb|100px|right]]545.04-05 '''young Porky Pig holding out the anarchist’s bomb''' 
[[Weisenburger's Companion to Gravity's Rainbow|Weisenburger]]’s cartoon history is more than a bit off in his note here. Porky Pig and Bugs Bunny would not have been featured in Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories because they were Warner Brothers characters. (Woody Woodpecker came from Walter Lantz’s studio.) Porky and Bugs were featured in ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies Comics'', starting with the first issue in 1941. Porky had been one of Warner Brothers’ most popular cartoon characters since his first appearance in "I Haven’t Got a Hat" in 1935 (made in 2-strip Technicolor; 3-color Technicolor cartoons with the pig did not appear until the early 1940s). The cartoon alluded to here is quite specific: "The Blow-Out" (1936), directed by Fred "Tex" Avery and animated by Sid Sutherland and Charles "Chuck" Jones. Porky’s voice is by Joe Dougherty, who dubbed the pig until he was replaced by the familiar voice of Mel Blanc in the late 1930s. In the cartoon, young Porky is earning money for ice-cream sodas by doing favors for people. Thinking that the shadowy "Mad Bomber" has lost his bomb, Porky keeps returning it until the inevitable explosion. This cartoon, a favorite of Pynchon’s, was originally mentioned to Oedipa by Mr. Thoth in ''The Crying of Lot 49'' and reoccurs as an image in the "Incident in the Transvestites Toilet" later in ''Gravity’s Rainbow''. See note at [[Page 580-591#586|586.38-39]].

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==Page 537==
537.16-17 '''big as pantechnicons''' 
That is, big as furniture vans. See [[Pages 17-19#19|19.30]].

==Page 540==
[[image:St_Just.jpg|thumb|Louis de Saint-Just|80px|right]]540.34 '''St.-Just Grossout''' 
"Grossout" is 60s slang for "disgusting," "repulsive." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Just Louis Antoine Leon de Saint-Just] was the French radical leader known as the "Conscience of the Revolution" for his egalitarian principles but he was also one of the harshest advocates of the Reign of Terror. Also see note at [[Pages 706-717#713|713.10]].

==Page 541==
541.21-22 '''a discredit to his people''' 
A play on the racistly condescending phrase "a credit to his people," usually indicating someone who meets official standards of behavior.

==Page 542==
542.40 '''Lucifer Amp''' 
An electrical sort of person. "Lucifer" was the original name of the bright angel who rebelled and was expelled from Heaven to become Satan, but it has also been a name for a kind of match and a brand name for lightbulbs. "Amps" (after French physicist Andre Marie Ampere) are the units that measure the rate of flow of the charge in an electrical circuit. AMP, though, can also stand for adenosine monophosphate, a substance found in all animal cells and that controls the cell’s electrical activity.

This may also reference the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syd_Barrett Syd Barrett] tune [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer_Sam "Lucifer Sam"], which was on the British group Pink Floyd's first, Barrett-led, album, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Piper_at_the_Gates_of_Dawn ''The Piper At The Gates of Dawn''] (1967).

==Page 544==

'''Gongylakis '''
Might be a variant on the name of [http://textiles.ucdavis.edu/laky/ Gyöngy Laky], a textile sculptor and arts professor, who was active in San Francisco when ''Gravity's Rainbow'' was written.

'''sufficient unto the day''' 
From [http://www.jesus-is-lord.com/matthew.htm#c6 The Gospel According to Saint Matthew: 6:34]. "Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall
take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." (The New Testament of the King James Bible) In
[http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_81-96#Page_96 ''Against the Day''], Webb Traverse quotes it. Here, "They" update daily a list of those who will soon get 'hit' the evil thereof [the day].

==Page 545==
[[image:blowout.jpg|thumb|100px|right]]545.04-05 '''young Porky Pig holding out the anarchist’s bomb''' 
[[Weisenburger's Companion to Gravity's Rainbow|Weisenburger]]’s cartoon history is more than a bit off in his note here. Porky Pig and Bugs Bunny would not have been featured in Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories because they were Warner Brothers characters. (Woody Woodpecker came from Walter Lantz’s studio.) Porky and Bugs were featured in ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies Comics'', starting with the first issue in 1941. Porky had been one of Warner Brothers’ most popular cartoon characters since his first appearance in "I Haven’t Got a Hat" in 1935 (made in 2-strip Technicolor; 3-color Technicolor cartoons with the pig did not appear until the early 1940s). The cartoon alluded to here is quite specific: "The Blow-Out" (1936), directed by Fred "Tex" Avery and animated by Sid Sutherland and Charles "Chuck" Jones. Porky’s voice is by Joe Dougherty, who dubbed the pig until he was replaced by the familiar voice of Mel Blanc in the late 1930s. In the cartoon, young Porky is earning money for ice-cream sodas by doing favors for people. Thinking that the shadowy "Mad Bomber" has lost his bomb, Porky keeps returning it until the inevitable explosion. This cartoon, a favorite of Pynchon’s, was originally mentioned to Oedipa by Mr. Thoth in ''The Crying of Lot 49'' and reoccurs as an image in the "Incident in the Transvestites Toilet" later in ''Gravity’s Rainbow''. See note at [[Page 580-591#586|586.38-39]].

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German Translations

2012-10-11T19:20:06Z

Hotratsalex:

Evan M. Corcoran provided some fine, and rough, tuning to the following translations, for which I am eternally grateful. Also, a fellow named Morten provided some excellent tweaks.

9: '''Jungfrau:''' "virgin" or "''the'' Virgin" 
71, 242, 313, 630: '''Geheime Kommandosache:''' Secret Command-subject 
72: '''Was tust du für die Front, für den sieg? Was has du heute für Deutschland getan?: ''' What are you doing for the Front, for the victory? What have you done for Germany today? 
75: '''Wütende Heer:''' "furious" or "raging" army 
94: '''''Der Kinderofen'':''' The child-oven 
95: '''Hexeszüchtigung''': witch-punishment 
97: '''Märchen und Sagen:''' fairytales and myths 

98:'''Und nicht einmal sein Schritt klingt aus dem tonlosen Los:''' 
And never once does his footstep ring from this soundless doom (p.83)
(From [[Sources|Rilke's Tenth Elegy]])

99, 670: '''Wandervogel:''' (lit., migratory bird, bird of passage) German youth movement of the 1920s/1930s 
99:''' nicht wahr?: '''not so? (lit. not true) 
100: '''Bodenplatt:''' lit., flat earth, fig., launching site ("concrete plate laid over strips of steel") 
101, 424: '''Erwartung:''' anticipation (470: "an extraordinary sense of ''waiting to rise'')

101: '''Bringt doch der Wanderer auch vom Hange des Bergrands nicht eine Hand voll Erde ins Tal, die alle unsägliche, sondern ein erworbenes Wort, reines, den gelben und blaun Enzian.''' 
The wanderer does not bring a handful of earth, the unutterable, from the mountain slope to the valley, but a pure word he has learned, the blue and yellow gentian. (p.69)
From [[Sources|Rilke's Ninth Elegy]]

101: '''Liebchen:''' sweetheart, darling 
131: '''ein Volk ein Führer:''' one people, one leader 
134: '''''eia, wärn wir da!'': '''were we but there! 
142: '''Reichssieger:''' as this term relates to a dog, the proper translation is "national champion." The German word ''Reich'' means both empire and nation, and ''Sieger'' means both victor and champion 
152: '''Kreis: '''circle, ring 
154: '''Studentenheim:''' student's hostel 
154: '''''Die Faust Hoch'': '''Raise Your Fist 
155: '''Kinos:''' cinemas 
156: '''Judenschnautze:''' Jewish nose (should be "schnauze") 
156: '''Mausigstrasse:''' Mousy Street 
158: '''Bundestag:''': Federal Parliament 
160: '''Hinterhöfe:''' back-courtyards 
161: '''Schnellbahnwagen:''' tramcar 
162: '''Dom:''' cathedral 
162: '''Biedermeier:''' homely or early-Victorian-Era style 
162, 324: '''Bürgerlichkeit:''' the quality of being bourgeois 
162, 416: '''Raketenflugplatz:''' rocket site 
163: '''Knallt ab den Juden Rathenau/Die gottverdammte Judensau ...: ''' 
Shoot down that Jew Rathenau/The god-damned Jewish sow 
163: '''Götterdämmerung: '''twilight of the gods 
165:''' Herrenklub:''' gentlemen's club 
185: '''Wehrmacht:''' (lit., defense force) German armed forces 
194: '''Spielsaal:''' gaming hall 
207: '''ab-hauen:''' clear out, bugger off 
211: '''Pferdestärke:''' horsepower 
223: '''der Pfau:''' peacock - also phoenetically "The V" 
228: '''u.s.w.:''' und so weiter = and so on 
230: '''Volksgrenadier: Setzt V-2 ein!:''' People's Unit: Deploy a V-2! 
238, 344, 700: '''Schwärmerei:''' excessive enthusiasm; strong admiration

242,432: '''Vorrichtung für Isolierung:''' device for insulation (Interesting note: Also translates as (heh heh) Device for Isolation) 
246, 669: '''Soldbücher:''' soldier's pay-book 

258, 646: '''lieder:''' songs 
261: '''Gemüse-Brücke:''' Vegetable Bridge 
262:''' Zürchers:''' residents of Zürich, Switzerland 

272: '''Führer:''' leader 
277, 393:''' gemütlich:''' cosy, affable, good-natured 
281: '''Eis Heiligen:''' Ice Saints 

281: '''die kalte Sophie:''' Cold Sophie 
284: '''Wunderkind:''' wonder child; prodigy 
285: '''Notgeld:''' secret emergency-issue currency 
286: '''Schwarzknabe:''' black boy 

287: '''Ach du lieber!:''' Good gracious! 
290: '''Schattensaft:''' shadow juice 
295: '''Stollen:''' tunnel 
296: '''Raumwaffe:''' Space Force 

300: '''Summe, Summe:''' sum, total 
304: '''Ah, so reizend ist! [...] Hübsch, was?:''' Ah, he's so adorable! [...]
Cute, don't you think? 
308: '''Gruss Gott:''' Greetings! 
310: '''Himmel:''' Heaven 

327: '''Schwarze Besatzung am Rhein!:''' Black garrison at the Rhine River 
330: '''Brockengespenstphaenomen:''' Brocken specter phenomenon 
331: '''warum:''' why 
333: '''Rathaus:''' town hall (lit. council house) 

334: '''Ritter:''' knight (medieval, not chess) 
334: '''Kot:''' shit 
336: '''Ur-Markt:''' primordial market 
341: '''O, wie spurlos zerträte ein Engel (ihnen) den Trostmarket:''' Oh, how an angel would trample and leave no trace their marketplace of solace (p.77) From [[Sources|Rilke's Tenth Elegy]] 
344: '''Ostarzneikunde:''' Eastern Pharmaceuticals 
359: '''Tiergarten:''' zoo (lit. animal garden). This is the central park in
Berlin. 
362: '''Was ist los, meinen Sumpfmenschen?: '''What's up, my swamp-men 
363: '''der Fünffachnullpunkt:''' quintuple zero 
365: '''Grosser Stern:''' Great Star. It is a traffic circle in the middle of the Tiergarten. 
366: '''Tauschzentrale:''' bartering or swap center 

367: '''Kerl:''' guy or fellow 
372: '''Berliner Luft:''' Berlin air - also title of a popular song 
372, 579: '''bürgerlich: ''' (adj) middle-class, bourgeois 
375: '''Purpurstoff:''' purple substance 

376: '''Glück:''' fortune, luck 
377: '''Stiefeln, bitte:''' Boots, please (should be "Stiefel") 
377: '''Funkturm:''' radio tower 
378: '''Stimmt:''' all right, O.K. 

380, 446: '''Hauptstufe: '''main stage 
387: '''Alpdrücken:''' nightmare 
387, 443: '''Gesellschaft:''' society 
393: '''Inflationszeit:''' inflation era 

394: '''Königreich:''' kingdom 
394: '''Das Wütende Reich:''' The Raging Reich 
400: '''Kadavergehorsamkeit:''' corpse-like obedience, i.e., slavish obedience 

402, 436: '''Hinterhof:''' back-courtyard 
402, 422: '''Halbmodelle:''' half-model 
403: '''Folgsamkeitfaktor''': obedience factor 
404: '''Versuchsanstalt:''' research institute, experimental station 

416: '''Schicksal:''' destiny, fate 
419: '''Tierpark:''' zoo (lit. animal park) 
429: '''Volkssturm''': people's unit (toward end of WWII, German army units
comprised of young boys and older men) 
429: '''Göllerei:''' a von Göll-ism ("one of his damned touches") 

432: '''Vorrichtung für die Isolierung:''' insulation device 
432: '''Obersturmbannführer:''' leader of a battalion of storm troops 
433: '''Königstiger:''' King Tiger 

433: '''Der feind hört zu:''' the Enemy is Listening (see p.434) 
436: '''Erster-Hof, Zweiter-Hof, Dritter-Hof:''' first courtyard, second courtyard,
third courtyard 
437: '''was ist los?:''' What's up? 
439: '''saftig:''' luscious 
442: '''Fabelhaft, was?:''' wonderful, eh?

442: '''Hübsch''' (charming); '''stahlig''' (steely, metallic); '''Bodengeschmack''' (earthy); '''Körper''' (full-body); '''süffig''' (tasty); '''spritzig''' (lively); '''bukettreich''' (full bouquet, fragrant); '''Art''' (style); '''kernig''' (seedy; robust); '''sauber''' (clean, fine, rare); '''pikant''' (spicy); '''Spiel''' (playful); '''glatt''' (smooth); '''blumig''' (aromatic, flowery); '''Fülle''' (fullness); '''zart''' (tender); '''würzig''' (spicy, piquant)

443: '''Kurfürstendamm: '''street in Berlin 

448: '''Rücksichtslos:''' respectless/disrespectful; reckless 
448: '''Kriegsmarine:''' navy 
448: '''Geschwader:''' squadron 
452: '''Schlieren:''' slip (of rope) 

454: '''Chinesische Blätter für Wissenschaft und Kunst:''' Chinese Journal of Science and Art 
454, 679: '''Los!:''' this commonly used word has many meanings, but in this context it means more like "let's get going" or "let's move"; sort of like ''Vamos'' in Spanish or ''Allez'' in French 

457: '''Bad:''' bath 
458: '''Zigaretten, bitte?:''' cigarettes, please? 
459: '''Spaetzle:''' a type of thick, chewy noodles 
465: '''Urstoff:''' primordial stuff 

466: '''Liebling:''' darling 
475: '''Urquelle:''' original well (or) source. [Pilsener Urquelle is a beer still
brewed (as of 1997)] 
476: '''Trinkhalle:''' pump-room of a spa 
477: '''Brodelbrunnen:''' mineral spring 

477: '''Kursaal:''' cure hall 
482: '''''Weisse Sandwüste von Neumexiko'':''' White Sand Desert of New
Mexico 
483: '''Jugend Herauf:''' Youth Arise! 

483: '''Juden Heraus!:''' Jews out! 
486: '''Ur-Heimat:''' original homeland 
493, 569: '''Bohnenkaffee:''' lit. beans coffee, hence real coffee not erzatz 
504: '''Zu Befehl, Mutti!:''' At your command, Mommy! 

508: '''Zitz und Arsch:''' tits and ass (should be 'Zitze') 
513: '''Schwarzphänomen:''' black phenomenon 
514: '''Lebe wohl:''' Fare well 
523: '''Leunahalluziationen: '''gasoline hallucination 

526: '''Mitteleuropäisch:''' middle European 
549: '''Gassen:''' alleys 
549: '''Volksdeutsch:''' ethnic Germans 
550: '''Bruder:''' brother 

567: '''Himmel and Hölle:''' Heaven und Hell 
567: '''Treppengiebel:''' stepped gable 
567: '''Laterne''' (lantern), '''Laterne,''' '''Sonne''' (Sun), '''Mond''' (Moon) und '''Stern''' (stars) These are the words of a popular song sung (especially) on the Feast of St. Martin, when in the evening children walk in processions holding lanterns.

568: '''Volksgrenadier:''' militia or, perhaps, home guard 
568: '''Schweinheldfest:''' pig-hero festival 
568: '''Haferschleim:''' oatmeal gruel 
569: '''Quark:''' curds 
569: '''Kartoffelpuffer: '''potato pancakes 
570:''' Gemütlichkeit:''' geniality, good-naturedness, coziness, leisureliness 
570: '''erste Abreibung:''' first rubdown (euphymism for a beating--see p.437) 
571:''' Schweinheld:''' pig-hero 
571: '''Buchdrucherverband: ''' should be "Buchdruc'''k'''erverband":
book-printer's union 
573: '''Winkelhaken:''' justifier (a printer's tool) 
578: '''Zeitgeist:''' spirit of the times 
579: '''der Spieler:''' the Player 
580: '''Stickstoff Syndikat:''' nitrogen syndicate 
587: '''Schnipsel:''' a snip 
587: '''Vereinigte Stahlwerke:''' United Steelworks 
587: '''''also'':''' thus (fig. ah-ha!) 
592: '''Weltschmerz:''' world-weariness 
624:''' willst du V-2, dann arbeite: '''If you want the V-2, then work 
624: '''Frisch Fromm Fröhlich Frei:''' Fresh Pious Cheerful Free 
625: '''Gnädige:''' gracious 
625: '''Heiligenschein: '''lit. Holy Brilliance; halo 
626: '''Heidschnucken: '''sheep who live on the heaths in Northern Germany 
630: '''Wehrwirtschaftstab:''' Economic Defense Staff 
631:''' Draufgänger:''' daredevil 
653: '''Die Fahne Hoch:''' Raise High the Flags (aka Horst Wessel Lied) 
653, 681: ''' Nürnburg:''' Nuremburg 
660: '''Oberhauptberlinerschnauze:''' "Berlin Snoot supreme" 
666: '''Schutzhäftlingsführer:''' prisoner-refuge-commander 
666: '''Blockältester:''' Block elder 

666:''' Kapo: '''Head Guard at Concentration Camp 
666: '''Vorarbeiter:''' foreman 
666: '''Stubendienst:''' cleaning barracks 
666: '''Läufer:''' runner, messenger; also the German name for the Bishop in chess 
684: '''Deutschland, Deutschland Über Alles: '''Germany, Germany over
Everything 
684: '''Welt:''' world 
693:''' Ortsschutz:''' local constable 
700: '''Fuder and Fass:''' literally, cart-load and cask; a somewhat outdated German expression for "lock, stock and barrel" 
702: '''Polschuhen:''' (lit. pole shoes) magnetic cores 
714: '''Überraschungbraten:''' spit-roast surprise 
718:''' Bauernfrühstuck:''' farm breakfast 
742: '''Niederschaumdorf:''' Lower Foaming Village 
743: '''Maitrinke:''' May drink 
751: '''Zündkreutz:''' ignition-cross 
751: '''Ochsen-Augen:''' ox eyes 
757: '''Räumen''': veer aft (of wind) 
757: '''Steuerung klar:''' steering - check 
757: '''Ist klar:''' check 
757: '''Treibwerk klar:''' fueling gear - check 
757: '''Luftlage klar:''' launch site - check 
757: '''Schlüssel auf Schiessen: '''switch on firing 
757: '''Schlüssel steht auf Schiessen: '''switch set on firing 
758: '''Durchschalten:''' lit., to switch through 
758:''' Vorstufe:''' first stage 
758: '''Ist durchgeschaltet:''' switch is on 
758: '''Beluftung klar:''' ventilation - check 
758: '''Zundung klar:''' ignition - check 
758: '''Hauptstufe ist gegeben:''' main stage is acknowledged 
758: '''Stecker 1 und 2 gefallen:''' plugs 1 and 2 separated 
759: '''Streckefuss''': Stretchfoot (This translation doesn't make too much sense. In technical German "fuss" translates as "valve". The word might be taken from the V-2 Blueprints or other technical documents.)

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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; an attempt at solving the hangman mystery word Slothrop discovers; but as normally played, every instance of a guessed letter is inserted in the mystery word, so it could not have more than one R or E. More likely just a diluted reference to the S-Gerät.

<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 (now The Guardian) is (according to Evan Corcoran) the farthest left-wing of the major English papers, though it is traditionally the centrist Liberals' and teachers' newspaper. At the time also the only major English paper not based in London; the paper that Ian Scuffling allegedly works for. Weisenburger to the contrary, it is a daily paper.

'''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. In Welsh mythology, Gwenhidwy is a beautiful mermaid bringing luck to fishermen.

'''Gymanfa Ganu''' 
171; Welsh: songfest; these group-singing events are still held throughout Wales. Pronounced (approximately) 'goumanva gani'.

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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; an attempt at solving the hangman mystery word Slothrop discovers; but as normally played, every instance of a guessed letter is inserted in the mystery word, so it could not have more than one R or E. More likely just a diluted reference to the S-Gerät.

<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 (now The Guardian) is (according to Evan Corcoran) the farthest left-wing of the major English papers, though it is traditionally the centrist Liberals' and teachers' newspaper. At the time also the only major English paper not based in London; the paper that Ian Scuffling allegedly works for. Weisenburger to the contrary, it is a daily paper.

'''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. Pronounced (approximately) 'goumanva gani'.

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35; Navy, Army, Air Forces Institute; civilian support of war effort with entertainment, food, etc.; 134; NAAFI girls, 593, 710; [http://www.naafi.co.uk]

<div id="naming"></div>'''naming''' 
"Was Our Side seeking to demoralize the German Beast by broadcasting to him random thoughts of the mad, naming for him [...] the deep, the scarcely seen" 74; "snare them in words," 99; "words are only an eye-twitch away from the things they stand for," 100; "No language meant no chance of co-opting them in to what their round and flaxen invaders were calling Salvation" 110; "before wishes were given a separate name to warn that they might not come true" 177; "stuffed paper illusions. . .between him and this truth," 234; "fear of having a soul captured. . .by a name," 302; "Can his name. . .break their power?" 321; "the act of," 322, 366; Nameless Thing, 341; "How alphabetic the nature of molecules," 355; German mania for name-giving, separating namer from named, 391; 443; "those names are not magic," 464; "verbal, ranked and uniformed," 478; "children at the threshold of language," 487; "words. . .only delta-t from the things they stand for," 510; "worded over," 589; "secret Function whose name. . .cannot be spoken," 590; "a screen of words between himself and the numinous," 668; "holy names of God," 734; "Names of Power," 734; See also [[#nta|NTA]]; [[R#routinization|Routinization of Charisma]]

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

'''Nansen, Fridtjof (1861-1930)''' 
589; Norwegian explorer, oceanographer, statesman, and humanitarian who led a number of expeditions to the Arctic (1888, 1893, 1895-96) and oceanographic expeditions in the North Atlantic (1900, 1910-14).

'''naphtha''' 
3; a colorless, volatile petroleum distillate, usually an intermediate product between gasoline and benzene, used as a solvent and as a fuel — Webster's; aka lighter fluid

'''Napolean Bonaparte (1769-1821)''' 
French general who was first consul and then emperor of the French, carried out many far-reaching reforms and through military force attempted to expand France's dominion (though he left France smaller than it had been at the outbreak of the Revolution in 1789). Until the end of the Second Empire under his nephew Napoleon III he was hailed as one of history's great heroes; "hats with and without Ns on them" 664

'''narodnik''' 
From "narod" - people. Idealistic movement among Russian intellectuals in the post-emancipation period of the 19th century. They quit their urban life and attempted to "go to the people". Establishing themselves in villages, they tried to be of use to the peasantry, to get them into motion, but the peasants were generally suspicious of outsiders from other orders of society. Their politics were greatly influenced by the works of Karl Marx; "No, they are making believe to be narodnik, but I know, they are of Iasi, of Codreanu" 11

'''narrative voices''' 
"Well Respected Man" (by The Kinks), 167 ("And the crowds they swarm in Knightsbridge, and the wordless carols drone [&c.]"); Rod Serling ("The Twilight Zone"), 202 ("Shortly, unpleasantly so, it will come to him that [...]");

'''Närrisch, Klaus''' 
456; German: "foolish, crazy"; "lumpy nose, stoop, week's growth of orange and gray whiskers"; worked with Achtfaden on S-gerät; at Peenemünde with Slothrop et al., 495; "guidance man," 516; "he worked in guidance, he was Schilling's best man, he knows more about integrating circuits than anybody" 527; under narcohypnosis - captured by Russians for his guidance knowledge, 563

'''National Research Council''' 
84; gave Jamf a grant for his Infant Tyrone study; "depth studies [...] that indicated an unacceptable 36% of the male work force weren't paying enough attention to their cocks" 581;

'''Nayland-Smith, Sir Denis''' 
83; Character in Sax Rohmer's (English, 1883-1959) Fu Manchu novels; first appeared in The Insidious Doctor Fu Manchu (originally titled The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu) (1913); Denis Nayland-Smith, nephew of Sherlock Holmes, was the detective who most commonly opposed the insidious schemes of Dr Fu Manchu. With the assistance of Dr Petrie he battled the devil doctor and his minions every time their evil reared it's ugly head.; 277-78, 592, 631; 751

'''Nazi Party''' 
"For every government agency, the Nazi Party set up a duplicate" 421;

'''Neubabelsberg''' 
364; location of the Havel in Berlin where Potsdam Conference was held; 371; See also Potsdam Conference

'''Neukölln''' 
152; neighborhood in the southeastern part of Berlin; has one of the highest percentage of immigrants in the city; where Byron is taken, to "the home of a glassblower", 651

'''New Dealers''' 
77; Started in 1933 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the "New Deal" program was set up to combat the Great Depression, by 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.

'''News of the World''' 
215 A British tabloid known as a purveyor of titillation, shock and criminal news; also closely associated with conservative political views. Both editions of Weisenburger describe it as a daily: it was a Sunday weekly, closed down in 2012 after a scandal involving mobile phone hacking.

'''Newton, Isaac''' 
555; "It was a little early for ~, but feelings about action and reaction were in the air"

'''Niederdorf''' 
261; in Zürich

'''Niedersächsisch''' 
465; Niedersachsen (Eng., Lower Saxony) is a north German state

'''Nielsen, Asta''' 
415; Nora D-T's "long Asta Nielsen upper lip." Weisenburger erroneously calls Asta Nielsen Swedish: She was Danish (born in Copenhagen, 1881)

'''Nieman-Marcus''' 
Nieman-Marcus is a higher-quality department store582; bowl from, at the Tracys' home

'''Night's Mad Carnival''' 
133

'''nihilism''' 
cheap nihilism, 57, 58, 129; Malcolm "the Unthinkable Nihilist," 64; "Nihilist transposition," 72; "nihilistic--pleasure," 96; Nora Dotson-Truck, "erotic nihilist," 149; "bones and heart alert to Nothing" 267; Tchitcherine "comes from Nihilist stock," 338; "Slothrop at the rail looking at nothing" 527; See also [[V#vacuum|vacuum]]; [[V#void|Void]]; [[XYZ#zero|Zero]]

'''Nikolaikirche''' 
398; "onion-topped" building at Zwölfkinder where Pökler is staying

'''1922 Committee''' 
Within the British Parliament, members of the Conservative party are organized into a group known as the 1922 Committee (so called because it first met in 1922); "coming in the windows" 615

'''Nipple, Lloyd''' 
374; from Slothrop's childhood

'''NISO''' 
273; According to McGovern, NISO is the Scientific Research Institute for Airplane Equipment

'''Noble, Charlie''' 
739; "A Raketen-Stadt Charlie Noble" 739

'''Norden device''' 
151;

'''Nordhausen''' 
240; city in central Germany in the Harz mountains, near which the Mittelwerke was located; given to Soviets per Yalta Agreement, 273; Americans crating out A4 rockets before Russians take over, 295; "Nordhausen means dwellings in the north. The Rocket had to be produced out of a place called Nordhausen." 322; 718 [[MAP]]

'''Norma''' 
22; a Wren Slothrop is dating; 25

'''Norrmalm, Södermalm, Deer Park and Old City''' 
141; all areas of Stockholm

'''Nosepicker, Neil''' 
83; Book of 50,000 Insults

'''Notgeld''' 
285; German: "Not" = "emergency" (issue of) "geld" = "money". At a time when the Mark was being manipulated into heavy devaluation by deliberate inflation to minimise WW1 reparations payments, Schacht issued this secret, stable currency to industrialists so they could meaningfully pay each other's bills.

'''nouns used as verbs (and sometimes reconverted into nouns)''' 
chevroning, 64; sinewaving, 67; historied, 71; fingernailed, 117; tendoning, 124; osmosed, 213; "paranoids from door to door" 254; palimpsested, 266; dopplering, 310; "water squeegeeing off" 460; sneaky-peteing, 508; gangstering, 518; "another shot rattlesnaking off of a bulkhead" 529; worded over, 589

'''Novi Pazar''' 
The sanjak (district) of Novi Pazar is a primarily Moslem town in southwest Serbia; "Who'd ever think-it, could start such a flap? [...] the san-jak of Novi Pazar" 14-15; See also [[B#balkan|Balkan Intrigues]]

'''NSB credentials''' 
95; Nationalsocialistische Bewegung, the puppet Dutch National Socialist (Nazi) movement, led by Anton Mussert, hence also 'Mussert's people' 97; See also Rexist

<div id="nta"></div>'''N.T.A.''' 
339; New Turkic Alphabet; written language imposed on Central Asia by Russians; 341; Cyrillic NTA, 354; plenary session, 355; "first Central Asian fuck you signs," 355; See also [[#naming|naming]]; [[R#routinization|Routinization/Rationalization of Charisma]]

<div id="nusselt"></div>'''Nusselt heart-transfer coefficient''' 
453; One would have expected "heat-transfer," but this "typo," having persisted since ''Gravity's Rainbow'''s publication in 1973, may be intentional, perhaps indicative of Slothrop's state when he's thinking of it, falling for Katje while, post-coitus, she has him running down boundary-layer temperatures. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_transfer_coefficient But if you're ''really'' curious about Nusselt heat-transfer coefficients...]

'''Nutria''' 
38; a nutria is a web-footed South American aquatic rodent whose fur is used in the same way as, say, the more expensive beaver fur

'''NW7''' 
344; IG office in Berlin to which its salesmen/spies reported; 630

'''Nymphenburg''' 
Hunting lodge in Amalienburg, designed by Cuvilliés; "von Göll on his camera dolly [...] barrel-assing down the long corridors at" 750

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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.

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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.

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341.18-19 '''O, wie spurlos zerträte ein Engel (ihnen) den Trostmarkt''' 
'Oh, how an angel would trample--and leave no trace--their marketplace of solace'. As Weisenberger points out, Pynchon misses out the bracketed word from the Rilke quote, but he gets the word wrong; 'inhem' is not a German preposition.

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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.

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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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'''''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 341==
341.18-19 '''O, wie spurlos zerträte ein Engel (ihnen) den Trostmarkt''' 
'Oh, how an angel would trample--and leave no trace--their marketplace of solace'. As Weinberger points out, Pynchon misses a word from the Rilke quote, but he gets the word wrong; 'inhem' is not a German preposition.

==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.

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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'.

==Page 347==
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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674.10 '''a City of the Future''' 
Evokes, again, the opening images of Lang’s ''Metropolis''. See [[Pages 482-488#Page 482|482.25]].

'''Travel here gets complicated -- a system of buildings that move, by right angles, along the grooves of the Raketen-Stadt's street-grid. You can also raise or lower the building itself, a dozen floors per second, to desired heights or levels underground, like a submarine skipper with his periscope'''... 
This imagery was appropriated for the set designs and special effects of the 1998 film
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118929/combined Dark City].http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_674-700&action=edit&section=1
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'''Marcel''' 
For an argument that Marcel in some way signifies the great French novelist Marcel Proust, see [http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/paper_proust.html Pynchon Nods: Proust in Gravity’s Rainbow] by Erik Ketzan.

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675.33 '''at best they manage to emerge...''' 
The description of decisions emerging from a chaos of competing forces echoes Pynchon's letter to Jules Siegel in 1965, [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=The_World_is_at_Fault The World is at Fault], in which Pynchon describes the journey of our souls through "whatever obsolescenses, bigotries, theories of education workable and un, parental wisdom or lack of it, happen to get in its more or less (random) pilgrimage..."

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682.18 '''Ho-zay''' 
Another of Nalline’s transliterations: "Jose," for Joseph.

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[[image:william-bendix.jpg|thumb|William Bendix in ''Lifeboat''|150px|right]]684.31-32 '''William Bendix''' 
An appropriate supporting role for Bendix would be his part in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifeboat_(film) Hitchcock’s ''Lifeboat''] (1944), in which he plays a lindy-hopping sailor whose leg has to be amputated.

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685.21-22 '''"My Prelude to a Kiss," "Tenement Symphony"''' 
The former song (actually titled just "Prelude to a Kiss") is a 1945 composition by Duke Ellington with Irving Gordon and Irving Mills; the latter was composed by Hal Borne, with words by Sid Kullen and Roy Golden, and sung by Tony Martin in the 1941 Marx Brothers movie ''The Big Store''.

685.26 '''sexcrime fantasy''' 
The term "sexcrime" was invented as a Newspeak word by George Orwell in 1984. It refers to sex used for pleasure instead of simple procreation, an offense in the totalitarian state of the book.

685.28 '''MY DOPER’S CADENZA''' 
The ''New World Dictionary'' defines "cadenza" as "an elaborate, often improvised musical passage by played by an unaccompanied instrument in a concerto, usually near the end of the first movement."

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[[image:fay-wray2.jpg|thumb|Fay Wray|120px|right]]688.36-37 '''Fay Wray . . . in her screentest scene with Robert Armstrong''' 
Ann Darrow’s (Fay Wray) screentest is only peripherally "erotic mugging." She is instructed by Carl Denham (played by Armstrong) to look up and react in fear (in anticipation of her first actual view of King Kong, of whom she knows nothing yet). She is so caught up in her performance that she actually faints. It is this scene that Jessica mimics with Roger earlier in the novel.

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689.26 '''a round black iron anarchist bomb''' 
Another reference to the Porky Pig cartoon "The Blow-Out." The Mad Bomber puts such a device, along with a lot of other explosives, into an alarm clock rigged to explode.

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691.34-35 '''Paranoid . . . For The Day!''' 
The TV game show [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_for_a_Day ''Queen for a Day''] debuted as a radio show in 1945 with host Jack Bailey.

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'''MB DRO ROSHI'''
When discussing GR, the writer Alan Moore recalled this sequence as "the whole point of the novel... It’s just this bit of burnt paper that, if you put it together, talks about America dropping the atom bomb on Hiroshima. Which is of course, the end of the V bomb, which has been made obsolete. Gravity’s got a new rainbow." [http://www.wired.com/underwire/2009/12/alan-moore-dodgem-logic/3/ source]. 

Note also that 'roshi' is Japanese for 'teacher': Rōshi (老師?) (Chinese pinyin: Lǎoshī; Sanskrit: ṛṣi) is a Japanese honorific title used in Zen Buddhism that literally means "old teacher" or "elder master" and sometimes denotes a person who gives spiritual guidance to a Zen sangha or congregation.(Wikipedia)

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695.25-28 '''Dungannon, Virginia . . . or Ellis, Kansas.''' 
[[Weisenburger's Companion to Gravity's Rainbow|Weisenburger]]’s usual attention to geographical detail fails here. He does not find these towns on the borders of time zones in 1988 because the zones had been changed, shifting to the west, in the previous decades. All of the towns Pynchon names were on the borders of time zones in 1945 (and Murdo and Apalachicola still are). Kenosha itself borders Lake Michigan through which the Eastern-Central Time Zone border runs.

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'''American Hotchkisses are the guns that raked through the unarmed Indians at Wounded Knee.'''
Wounded Knee massacre was the last major armed conflict between the Dakota Sioux and the United States, subsequently described as a "massacre" by General Nelson A. Miles in a letter to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.

On December 29, 1890, five hundred troops of the U.S. 7th Cavalry, supported by four Hotchkiss guns (a lightweight artillery piece capable of rapid fire), surrounded an encampment of Miniconjou Sioux (Lakota) and Hunkpapa Sioux (Lakota)[2] with orders to escort them to the railroad for transport to Omaha, Nebraska. The commander of the 7th had been ordered to disarm the Lakota before proceeding and placed his men in too close proximity to the Dakota, alarming them. Shooting broke out near the end of the disarmament, and accounts differ regarding who fired first and why.

By the time it was over, 25 troopers and 300 Dakota Sioux lay dead, including men, women, and children.

[[Pages 734-760#Page 752|Also, see note for p. 752]]; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Massacre Wikipedia entry for Wounded Knee Massacre]
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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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375.21 '''something in that rocket needed potassium permanganate''' 
The turbopump used ''calcium'' permanganate. Whatever caused the shortage of the purple stuff, it wasn't the rocket.

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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.

==Page 378==
'''Jubilee Jim''' 
Slothrop’s song evokes the pre-industrial peddler Jim Fisk mentioned in [[Pages 20-29#Page 27|''The Berkshire Hills'']].

==Page 380==
'''Hauptstufe!''' 
Compare the radio Superman’s words as he is about to fly: "Up, up, and away!"

==Page 382==
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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9.03 '''Miss Grable''' 
Betty Grable actually became a pin-up favorite in '''1943''' (not 1944), when she had a photo series released. Although she had been featured in various films since the late 1920s, she first became a major box office attraction with the 1940 film ''Down Argentine Way''. The poster is also an example of the motif of the turning head that recurs throughout ''Gravity’s Rainbow''. Correspondent Hazen Bob Dixon notes that Grable was actually pregnant when the picture was taken, which is why her back was turned in the first place. The story is plausible, since Grable did give birth to a daughter (by her husband, band leader Harry James) in March 1944; however, there are other versions of how the image came to be taken.

9.05 '''Civvie Street''' 
In other words, Peacetime, when military personnel will again wear civilian clothes ("civvies"). George Formby had a postwar film titled George in Civvy Street (1946). See note at [[Pages 17-19#18|18.25]].

9.29 '''Jungfrau''' 
Correspondent Igor Zabel notes that the name of the famous mountain actually means "Virgin." Matthias Bauer adds:
"The name of the mountain means ''virgin`` in 20th century German. Translated from Kluge ''Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache``, 23th edition, de Gruyter, Berlin, New York, 1999: ''originally meaning young lady, later generalized to young (unmarried) woman. Mysticism used the word for the Virgin Mary, and the meaning shifted towards young (virgin) woman."

Jungfrau is also the German for the zodiacal sign "Virgo."
Another female "V." -- which figures later in the story and in history.
Note as well the oblique reference to Venus, the "planet of love".
In astrology Venus is "fallen" in Virgo. Light.

9.14-19 '''Bartley Gobbitch, DeCoverley Pox . . . SNIPE AND SHAFT, Teddy Bloat''' 
"Gobbitch" comes from the archaic word "gobbet," which Webster’s New World Dictionary defines as "a fragment or bit, especially of raw flesh." The names "Pox" and "Bloat" are obvious enough, but "DeCoverley" comes from Sir Roger Decoverley, the prototypical country squire created by Addison and Steele for the Spectator and named in turn for a country reel dance. Overall, the names suggest another version of the "Whole Sick Crew" of Pynchon’s V. "Snipe" (backbite, take potshots) and "shaft" (undercut, screw over) are what these men are presumably assigned to do to others in their various bureaucratic jobs and what they do in conversations at the eponymous pub.

9.14-15 '''Maurice "Saxophone" Reed''' More is Reed?. A saxophone is a single reed instrument.

9.19 '''the legend SNIPE AND SHAFT [as a pub sign]''' 
A snipe is naval slang for a member of the engineering crew on a ship. Historically, there was always tension between snipes and the deck crew. http://oldsnipe.com/SnipeBegin.html

shaft: Any sensible canal boater carries a wooden pole on the cabin top, in order to punt the boat afloat again when it runs aground, and the most suitable length just happens to be about ten feet. It will normally be about two inches in diameter, and usually made of a hard wood. 
However, the working boatmen of old called it a 'shaft', never a 'pole', and the term continues amongst experienced boaters today.http://www.grannybuttons.com/granny_buttons/2004/04/define_shaft.html

9.26 '''Vat 69''' A whiskey. A sexual pun. 
Vat 69 whisky is a scotch blended 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. Wikipedia

9.28 '''Joaquin Stick''' 
Say it out loud--another classic Pynchon name.

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10.28 '''C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre''' 
It's magnificent, but it's not war. The "French observer" was Marshal Pierre Bosque.

10.41 '''like a rude metal double-fart''' 
Telephones in the UK use a double-ring, sounding like bzzt-bzzt.

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11.25 '''his batman, a Corporal Wayne''' 
[[image:batman.jpg|thumb|100px|right]]Weisenburger correctly defines "batman" (an aide assigned to a British officer) but misses Pynchon’s joke: Any "batman" with the last name of "Wayne" must have the first name "Bruce" (batman's secret identity)! (Alfred Appel in Nabokov’s Dark Cinema also missed the joke, claiming that Pynchon was poking fun at John Wayne by demoting him to a "mere" corporal!)

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12.07 '''to cup and bleed''' 
To bleed [into a cup]: To let blood from; to take or draw blood from, as by opening a vein. A medical way through the 16th Century to treat some illnesses.
Notice here Pynchon presents 'anxiety' as a physical illness treated in this old-fashioned discredited way (jokingly, of course). 
Blood-letting flourished under the theory of Humours [bodily fluids], the Four Temperaments and their corresponding liquid in the body: 

In ''On the Temperaments'' Galen said an ideal temperament involved a balanced mixture of the four qualities. Galen identified four temperaments in which one of the qualities dominated. These last four, sanguine, choleric, melancholic and phlegmatic, eventually became better known than the others. While the term "temperament" came to refer just to psychological dispositions, Galen used it to refer to bodily dispositions, which determined a person's susceptibility to particular diseases as well as behavioral and emotional inclinations. 

Methods of treatment like blood letting, emetics and purges were aimed at expelling a harmful surplus of a humour. They remained part of mainstream Western medicine into the 16th century when William Harvey investigated the circulatory system.

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13.05 '''he ''knew''''' 
We know from V. that TRP knows some of Wittgenstein's key ideas. This
italicized emphasis on knowing without analysis might be a nod to
the Witttenstein of ''On Certainty'' who argued that universal epistemological doubt was, simply, wrong. "The key, then, is not to claim certain knowledge of propositions like “here is a hand” but rather to recognize that these sorts of propositions lie beyond questions of knowledge or doubt." 
Universal epistemolgical doubt is said to start, historically, with Descartes, a philosopher TRP seems to dislike for his 'rationality'.
see ''Against the Day''.

13.14 '''Genital Brain'''. 
Both androgen and estrogen receptors have been identified in brains. Several sex-specific genes not dependent on sex steroids are expressed differently in male and female human brains. From wikipedia.

13.20 '''During his Kipling period, beastly Fuzzy-Wuzzies''' 
Contrary to Weisenburger, the Fuzzy-Wuzzies were actually the Sudanese natives fighting '''against''' (not conscripted for) the British. Here, Pirate is thinking not of the novels of the arch-apologist for Empire but of such Kipling poems as "Fuzzy-Wuzzy" in which a British soldier declares his grudging admiration for the natives’ fighting spirit.

13.34 '''No Cary Grant . . . medicine in the punchbowls''' 
[[image:gunga-din.gif|thumb|100px|right]]The reference here is not to the anachronistic Howard Hawks film ''Monkey Business'' but to George Stevens’ ''Gunga Din'', the 1939 film loosely inspired by Kipling’s famous poem. It refers specifically to a scene where Cary Grant (and only Cary Grant) is indeed "larking in and out" of the tables of a regimental ball "slipping elephant medicine in the punchbowls." He even has to warn one of his compatriots (Victor McLaglen and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) to not drink the punch as he is larking in and out. See [[Weisenburger's Companion to Gravity's Rainbow|Weisenburger's]] note at V684.31-35.

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14.07 '''H.A. Loaf''' 
As in "Half a loaf is better than none"? and
"There is at least one Loaf in every outfit".

14.22 '''committed to the Long Run as They are''' 
QUOTATION: Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. 
ATTRIBUTION: John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946), British economist. A Tract on Monetary Reform, ch. 3 (1923).

14.27 '''street-wake''' 
quantitative model of the “vortex street” wake as a double row of point vortices. An engineering term. Pynchon studied engineering.

14.30-31 '''It was a giant Adenoid!''' 
Correspondent Erik Johnson adds the following in relation to the references to the Adenoid here and at 754.38:
"An adenoid is an enlarged mass of lymphoid tissue at the back of the pharynx characteristically obstructing breathing--usually used in plural. I believe it's likely that Pynchon is also making reference to 'Adenoid Hynkel,' the character of the dictator (and mockery of Hitler) played by Charlie Chaplin in the film The Great Dictator.

14.34 '''Lord Blatherard Osmo''' 
To "blather" is to talk on foolishly (the reason for his mysterious death?). Lord Blather Hard? "Osmo" suggests "osmosis," the process by which the giant Adenoid would absorb its victims.

14.36 '''sanjak''' 
Sanjak and Sandjak are the most common English transliterations of the Turkish word Sancak, which literally means "banner". They were the sub-divisions of the Ottoman provinces referred to as vilayet, eyalet or pashaluk.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjak -

14.04 '''Redcaps''' 
[[image:redcap.jpg|thumb|100px|right]]Web correspondent Stephen Remato comments: " . . . Those serving in the British Army use the term to refer to the Military Police (in the American parlance 'snowdrops' in reference to the white helmets and gaiters); the term 'red caps' refers to the red band around the standard British Army officer's cap, what one might call the headband, which is usually khaki, with the exception of the red of the MPs. This makes much more sense in context, when the ownership of a narcotic cigarette is under scrutiny; why would one care if any Sudanese troops discovered this secret?"

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15.25 '''the balloon rises''' 
Besides the barrage balloons above, "the balloon is up" is British slang for "fighting is engaged", "war has begun".

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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.

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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''' 

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 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.

In A-4 parlance, "Hauptstufe" refers to the fifth and final step in the firing progress for the single-stage rocket. It is preceded by "Vorstufe", in which the steam turbopumps run, LOX and alcohol are ignited but throttled, and the rocket sits on the pad for a few seconds. The burn is observed, visually and instrumentally, to detect anomalies. Up to that point the sequence can be aborted, the motor shut off, the rocket should survive and be largely serviceable. Hauptstufe is final. Throttles are fully opened, the rocket takes off and hopefully clears the launchpad. If it does not and falls down, a fireball is inevitable and warhead explosion is also possible.

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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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'''Entre Rios''' 
Entre Ríos is a province of Argentina, located in the Mesopotamia region, in the northeast of the country. It borders the provinces of Buenos Aires (south), Corrientes (north) and Santa Fe (west), and Uruguay in the east.

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'''a brick labyrinth that had been a harmonica factory''' 
Jorge Louis Borges, who has been mentioned in this section, has one book entitled ''Labyrinths'', 1962 in English.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labyrinths] 
A harmonica player is a musician. Musicians are
favorite artists in Pynchon's vision. 
Harmonicas turn up again in ''Against the Day''. 
Weisenburger concludes this must be the [http://www.hohner.eu/index.php?384 Hohner factory] in Trossingen. Slothrop's mouth harp is a Hohner, while the company is also a major producer of accordions, the key intrument in Argentinian music. In fact, when tango became the rage all over Europe, accordions were marketed as ''Tangoharmonika'' (''Mundharmonika'' is German for mouth harp).

'''the smell of freshly brewed mate''' 
''Yerba mate'' is the national drink of Argentina. It is also popular in Paraguay, Uruguay and southern Brazil. It reportedly creates a mental state of wakefulness, focus and alertness reminiscent of most stimulants, but lacks the negative effects typically created by other such compounds, such as anxiety, diarrhea, "jitteriness", and heart palpitations. According to the classical Argentine way, the act of drinking yerba mate is a highly stylized, ritualistic process:

:The gourd is filled two-thirds of the way with moistened mate herb. Hot water is then poured into the gourd. The person sucks the mate water out of the gourd with the bombilla, with the strainer holding out the actual mate leaves. When the water is gone, the gourd is refilled by the server with hot water and passed to the next person in the group. When that person finishes, the gourd is handed back to the server for another refill. [http://www.zonalatina.com/Zldata109.htm]

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerba_mate From Wikipedia article]

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'''No destinations. No fixed itinerary.''' 
Like Bennie Profane's yo-yoing that starts ''V.''

'''Gaucho Marx''' 
The pun is obvious enough, but it just might derive from John Frankenheimer’s ''The Manchurian Candidate'' (1961). The main character, the humorless Raymond Shaw (Lawrence Harvey), calls attention to the pun as the first joke he’s deliberately made.

'''Martin Fierro''' 
''Martín Fierro'' is an epic poem by the Argentine writer José Hernández. The poem was originally published in two parts, ''El Gaucho Martín Fierro'' (1872) and ''La Vuelta de Martín Fierro'' (1879). The poem is, in part, a protest against the Europeanizing and modernizing tendencies of Argentine president Domingo Faustino Sarmiento. Wikipedia

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'''390:1.2 It took the Dreyfus affair to get the Zionists out and doing''' 
Theodor Herzl, a secular and highly assimilated Austro-Hungarian Jew [http://www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us/History/MidEast/save/hawthorne/hawthorne.htm covered the Dreyfus trial ] for a Viennese newspaper, and was witness to the anti-Semitic demonstrations in Paris following the judgment. It was this experience which convinced him of the futility of assimilation and combating anti-Semitism is the diaspora, and resulted in the concept of a separate Jewish state. The analogy is followed up with "settlement" in "the Heath".

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237.1 '''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.

237 16-20 '''Carl Orff's lively...ardeo...''' 
From ''Tempus es iocundum (This is the joyful time)'', a song from Orff's famous cantata ''Carmina Burana''
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|-
| '''Latin text'''
| '''English translation'''
|-
| O, O, O,
| Oh, Oh, Oh,
|-
| To-tus flore-o!
| I am bursting out all over!
|-
| Iam amore virginali
| with first love
|-
| Totus ardeo...
| I am burning all over...
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239.18-19 '''demons—yes, including Maxwell’s''' 
Pynchon introduced Maxwell’s Demon in ''The Crying of Lot 49'', where John Nefastis shows a supposedly working version of this theoretical entity to Oedipa. See the discussion of the Demon and the problem of entropy at
[http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/entropy the Pomona College Pynchon site].

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240.20-21 '''the sour stuff''' 
a literal translation of the German word for oxygen: ''Sauerstoff''

240.24 '''Esso''' 
An American gas and oil company formed in 1911 upon the breakup of Standard Oil. It takes its name from the phonetic pronunciation of 'S.O.' In 1973, the name was replaced in the U.S. with Exxon.

240.27 '''Terraplane''' 
A car brand and model built by the Hudson Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan between 1932 and 1939.

240.41 '''like Cary Grant''' 
Though he was a naturalized American, Grant’s accent was hardly "quasi-British," as Weisenburger describes it. He was born Archibald Leach in Bristol, England in 1904. His accent, which avoided any strongly British or American colouration, sounded more British to Americans and more American to the British, with no trace of the thick burr and 'Ghost L' found in the local dialect of his birthplace.

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241.3 '''Josef Israelplein''' 
An esplanade in The Hague, actually ''Josef Israelsplein''.

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243.3 '''LOX''' 
Liquid Oxygen

243.17 '''Alkit uniforms''' 
Alkit was a clothing manufacturer which supplied uniforms, "especially R.A.F. outifts" according to their ads, to the British military.

243.28 '''formée cross''' 
A cross having four arms which are narrow at the center and expand toward the ends; Germany's Iron Cross is one example

243.39 '''George ("Poudre") de la Perlimpinpin''' 
''poudre'' is French for 'powder', but ''poudre de la perlimpinpin'' is slang for 'patent medicine' or 'snake oil'

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244.18 '''trente et quarante''' 
French: thirty and forty also called rouge et noir (red and black), is a 17th century gambling card game of French origin played with cards and a special table. It is rarely found in US casinos, but still very popular in Continental Europe casinos, and one of the two games played in the gambling rooms at Monte Carlo, roulette being the other. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trente_Et_Quarante Wikipedia entry]

244.23 '''Apache''' 
The term, used to describe Parisian thugs, was coined in 1902 by journalist Victor Morris. The word is also used in reference to the famous "Apache dance," where an Apache flings his woman about the floor.

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206.20; '''P.I.D.''' 
Political Intelligence Division

[[image:plasticman2.jpg|thumb|100px|Plastic Man|right]]206.37 '''A Plasticman comic''' 
Plastic Man’s history is a bit different than that given by Weisenburger. The hero first appeared in Police Comics in January 1941. He had his own title starting in 1943 under the Quality Comics label, which ended in 1956. The character was picked up and revived by National Periodicals ("DC" Comics) in 1966, but the new magazine lasted only for ten issues. Since then, some of the original Plastic Man stories have been reprinted from time to time, and the character has appeared in other DC publications. Plastic Man’s costume was mainly red, but also contained yellow and black. His name should be two words, not one as in ''GR''.

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207.8 '''Telefunken radio control. That 'Hawaii I'''' 
Telefunken is a German radio and television company, founded in 1903, in Berlin, as a joint venture of two large companies, Siemens & Halske (S & H) and the Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft (General Electricity Company). By 1941, AEG was the sole owner. During the Second World War Telefunken was a supplier of vacuum tubes, transmitters and radio relay systems, and developed radar facilities and directional finders, aiding the war efforts of the Third Reich. 'Hawaii I' was the surface station for a missile guidance system Telefunken developed.

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208.21 '''Palmolive and Camay''' 
Two American brands of soap.

==Page 209==
209.21 ''''s Gravenhage''' 
aka The Hague

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210.18 '''Johnson Smith''' 
A mail-order company officially established in 1914 that sells novelty and gag gift items such as x-ray goggles, whoopee cushions, fake vomit, and joy buzzers. They often advertised in comic books.

210.18-19 '''Mustache Kit, 20 different shapes ''' 
[[F#fumanchu|Fu Manchu]]: a full, straight mustache that grows downward past the lips and on either side of the chin and extends down toward the toes; [[M#groucho|Groucho Marx]]: a thick greasepaint mustache.

210.28 '''Wyatt Earp''' 
[[E#earp|Earp]] had an extremely long and droopy mustache; see picture [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ilag7FZtOPc/SLt6hSWtUZI/AAAAAAAAAt8/G3vZJHcumw4/s1600-h/wyatt.jpg here]

210.35 '''John Wilkes Booth's ''' 
[[B#booth|Booth]] also had a droopy mustache, but not as long as Earp

210.30 '''Stuart Lake era''' 
Lake wrote ''Frontier Marshal'', a 1931 biography of Wyatt Earp which the author purported upon publication to be based on actual interviews but later admitted to be highly fictionalized. It served as the basis for several movies (including John Ford's ''My Darling Clementine'') as well as the 1955 to 1961 Tube series ''The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp''.

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211.39; '''...a drinking game, it's called Prince...''' 
A real drinking game, usually called 'Whales Tales'.

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212.27; '''jeroboam of Veuve Clicquot Brut''' 
A 3 liter bottle of a slightly sweet, premium French champagne

212.33; '''trews''' 
Men's clothing for the legs and lower abdomen, a traditional form of Irish and Scottish apparel; plaid trousers rather than a kilt.

212.33; '''''degorgement''''' 
French: process in which sediment is removed from wine

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213.21 '''The Queen of Transylvan-ia''' 
Transylvania is, of course, the mountainous region of Romania that is legendary home to Dracula.
: As well as the real-life birthplace of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Oberth Hermann Oberth], the pioneer of German rocket science, inventor of liquid-fuel propulsion, consultant on [[http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Fritz_Lang Die Frau im Mond]]; the man who turned von Braun on.

213.26 '''Chateaubriand''' 
A recipe for a thick cut of steak from the tenderloin, created for Vicomte François-René de Chateaubriand, (1768–1848)

213.27 '''panatelas''' 
Long, thin cigars

213.36 '''Épernay grapes''' 
Grapes grown in the Épernay region of France; officially designated as Champagne grapes

213.36 '''cuvées''' 
Refers to the best grape juice from gentle pressing of the grapes--the first 2,050 liters of grape juice from 4,000 kg of grapes

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214.02 '''Taittinger''' 
A French champagne.

214.04-05 '''Lady of Spain''' 
The song, composed in 1931 by Tolchard Evans, Stanley Demerell and Bob Hargreaves, has become a cliché of accordion music.

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215.29 '''News of the World''' 
A British tabloid known as a purveyor of titillation, shock and criminal news; also closely associated with conservative political views

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218.10 '''Zaxa''' 
Anglicized pronunciation of [[S#sachsa|'Sachsa']]

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220.31 '''Schutzmann Joche''' 
The constable’s last name, with an umlaut, would approximate another expression of disgust ("yuck-ey").

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222.02 '''Cagney of the French Riviera''' 
James Cagney, American actor who played tough guys. Called "the professional gangster". In one famous movie scene, he shoves a grapefruit
into a woman's face over the breakfast table.

222.37 '''the bridge music''' 
A cinematic reference; the kind of musical accompaniment in which familiar tunes echoed the theme of particular scenes (especially during montage sequences spanning periods of time) was a common feature of classic Hollywood films (for example, the scores of Max Steiner). In this context, the music is background to a montage of scenes of Slothrop and Katje working together.

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223.11 '''IG and radio methods''' 
IG = INERTIAL guidance, i.e. guidance derived from inertia (Newton's first law)... measuring the forces on a gyroscope, which attempts to maintain the spin and orientation it had before the rocket's flight started. Put those forces (and the time during which they are sensed) through some arithmetic, and you get the current position and velocity of the rocket... leading to the right moment to shut down the engine (Brennschluss). 
Alternately, the guidance system can receive signals from two or more radio sources (a la GPS, today's Global Positioning System) and use trigonometry to calculate its position. This was planned for the V2 and tested, but never became operational AFAIK. Used extensively by bombers. 
Either way, the transition from *powered* and *controlled* flight to *ballistic* trajectory -- governed only by gravity, all its future implicit in this moment, fated and irreversible -- is a central metaphor, arguably *the* central metaphor, of the book.

223.19 '''''Der Pfau''''' 
German: the peacock; interestingly, this word sounds very similar to the pronunciation of the letter 'V', just with a soft plosive 'P' in front, so that ''Pfau Zwei'' could easily be mistaken for 'V-2'

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225.32 '''a single clarinet''' 
The instrument, with its evocation of "clowns and circuses," suggests Kurt Weill's score for Brecht's ''Three-Penny Opera'' but also Nino Rota’s scores for several Fellini films, notably ''8½'' (1963 No wonder Slothrop "lacks the European reflexes" to it!)

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'''139.09 Dromond''' 
The word is defined by ''Webster’s New World English Dictionary'' as a "large, medieval, swift-sailing water ship."

'''139.14 the mummy’s curse''' 
An allusion to the supposed fate of the Carter-Carnarvon expedition that opened the tomb of Tut-ankh-Amen.

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'''142.32 Reichssieger von Thantatz Alpdrucken''' 
The name of the dog that Pointsman seeks translates loosely as "Realm of Victory over the Nightmare of Death." Dale Jack offers the following explanation and correction:

:"''Reichssieger'' could be translated simply as "champion" or "victor"; "Reichs" is the possessive prefix tacked on just about everything during Hitler's rule, and refers specifically the Third Reich. "Thantatz" should be spelled "Thanatz", as it is in ''GR'' (taken from the Greek word for death). "Von" in this case means "of" or "from" and implies that he induces, rather than vanquishes fear. "Von" in this context could also be a dig at the aristocracy. Your translation of "alpdrucken" is basically correct; it is actually the impression (''drucken'') of dread or fear one has during any bad dream, as opposed to an actual nightmare (''alptraum''). This gives another rough translation: The Reich's Deadly Night-terror Champion. The structure of the name mimics standard pedigree dogs' titles-breeder's kennel, given name, then owner's kennel. For example, Daisy Hill's Fluffy of Shady Lane."

Is this the same Weimaraner whose amber eye is pictured in the jigsaw puzzle fragment on Slothrop's desk? (cf. p.26) Is Slothrop somehow catching echoes ala PSI of Pointsman's dreams?

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121.13-14 '''...watching Maria Montez and Jon Hall...''' 
The duo made a series of six Technicolor adventure films: ''Arabian Nights'' (1942), ''White Savage'' (1943), ''Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves'' (1944), ''Cobra Woman'' (1944), ''Gypsy Wildcat'' (1944), and ''Sudan'' (1945).

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126.19 '''this seventh Christmas of the War''' 
Although Weisenburger declares this a mistake ("a miscount"), upon closer inspection it's actually quite intentional, a sly device to underscore Roger's and Jessica's confusion. [[Sixes and Sevens|They're at sixes and sevens, you see...]]

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127.16 '''Tannoy''' 
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.

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128.14 '''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]; [[W#waits|Picture]]

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129.9 '''Tallis, Thomas (c. 1505–1585)''' 
An English composer. Tallis flourished as a church musician in 16th century Tudor England.

129.9 '''Purcell, Henry (c. 1659-1695)''' 
An English organist and Baroque composer of secular and sacred music.

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

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Original text
! English translation
|-
| In dulci jubilo,
| In sweet rejoicing
|-
| Nun singet und seid froh!
| now sing and be glad!
|-
| Alle unsre Wonne
| All our joy
|-
| Liegt in praesepio;
| lies in the manger;
|-
| Sie leuchtet wie die Sonne
| It shines like the sun
|-
| Matris in gremio.
| in the mother's lap.
|-
| Alpha es et O!
| You are the alpha and omega!
|}

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130.10-27 '''...thousands of old used toothpaste tubes...emptied and returned to the War...''' 
War with a minty smile? Menthol to cover the stench of the dead?
Toothpaste tubes were made of pewter, a valuable material worth recycling.

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131.1 '''...ein Volk ein Führer...''' 
German: 'one people, one leader'

131.11 '''Rundstedt offensive''' 
1944's Ardennes offensive, or Battle of the Bulge, was directed by the German field marshal Gerd von Rundstedt (1875-1953).

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132.11 '''Mr. Morrison''' 
Herbert Stanley Morrison (1888-1965), British Labour statesman who played a leading role in London local government for 25 years. At this point he was Home Secretary in Churchill's coalition government.

132.16 '''Alasils''' 
An English brand of pain relievers suggested for 'symptomatic pain generally, rheumatism, fibrositis, lumbago, headache, dysmenorrhoea, dental pain'.

132.20 '''Eyeties''' 
slang: Italians

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

132.21 '''''Rigoletto''''' 
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.

132.21 '''''La bohème''''' 
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.

132.29 '''cioè''' 
Italian: 'that is', 'i.e.'

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

132.32 '''CBI''' 
China-Burma-India theatre of WWII

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134.38-39 '''...your mother hoping to hang that Gold Star...''' 
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.

134.40 '''Home Service programme''' 
The domestic arm of the BBC, as opposed to Overseas Service and European Service.

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135.5 '''Miraculous Medal''' 
aka the Medal of the Immaculate Conception; created after a vision of the Virgin Mary; often worn by Catholics (and even non-Catholics) as protection through Mary's intercession

135.33 '''...when the 88 fell...''' 
135.7 a German 88 mm shell

135.33 '''SPQR''' 
Latin: senatus populusque Romanus = the senate and the people of Rome; refers to the government of the ancient Roman Republic

135.39 '''...tippin' those Toledos...''' 
Scales from the company Toledo Scale, founded in Columbus, OH in 1901; now known as Mettler Toledo

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136.6-7 '''''O Jesu parvule''''' 
First two lines of second verse of ''In Dulci Jubilo'' (see [[Pages 120-136#Page 129|129.9 Suso]] above)
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|-
! Original text
! English translation
|-
| O Jesu parvule
| O little Jesus
|-
| Nach dir ist mir so weh...
| For thee I long alway...
|}

136.27 '''...Mosquitoes and Lancasters...''' 
Two types of British bomber during WWII.
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'''558.06 old Bloody Chiclitz''' 
Chiclitz’s name does derive from Chiclets chewing gum, but only metaphorically. Since the white, candy-coated gum tablets resembled teeth, "bloody chiclets" became slang for "broken teeth," as in the threat, "How would you like a mouth full of bloody chiclets?"

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'''559.03-17 There are about 30 kids...'''

Perhaps the most laboriously set up pun in Western literature.
If you don't get it--
''They say the French are naughty,
''They say the French are bad...
Forty Million Frenchmen can't be wrong''

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'''561.26 LOOK-IN’ FAWR A NEEDLE IN A HAAAAY-STACK!''' 
[[image:haystack.jpg|thumb|100px|A "cute meet"|right]]Song written by Con Conrad and Herb Magidson, from the Astaire-Rogers musical ''The Gay Divorcee'' (originally titled ''The Gay Divorce on Broadway''), directed by Mark Sandrich in 1934. Guy Holden, played by Astaire, has met Ginger Rogers but not learned her name and sings about the improbability of finding her again. Note the similarity to Ludwig's quest for Ursula the lemming at [[Pages 549-557#Page 553|553.34]]. Dance critic Arlene Croce writes that this number "first defined the Astaire character on the screen. . . . Everything comes easily to him and we believe in him as in no screen hero since Keaton." ''See next note below.''

'''561.30-31 Fred Astaire . . . Ginger Rogers again''' 
Missing the song reference above causes Weisenburger to strain for an interpretation. Astaire and Rogers did team up once again after 1939, for ''The Barkleys of Broadway'' (1949). That fact aside, it is certainly stretching a point to say that Astaire’s career "took a downward turn" after 1939. Among many other films, he continued to be a popular star in such musicals as ''You’ll Never Get Rich'' (1940), ''Holiday Inn'' (1942), ''You Were Never Lovelier'' (1942), ''Yolanda and the Thief'' (1945), ''Royal Wedding'' (1953), ''The Bandwagon'' (1953), ''Daddy Longlegs'' (1955), ''Silk Stockings'' (1957), and ''Easter Parade'' (1957), and won respect as a serious actor in ''On the Beach'' (1959). He also had two acclaimed television specials and won an Honorary Oscar in 1950 and the American Film Institute’s Life Achievement Award in 1981. In the "Looking for a Needle" number, Astaire sings about finding the woman of his dreams whose name he never learned after they had had a "cute meet." (He had torn her dress.) The music continues over a montage sequence of Astaire walking and driving around London watching various women until his car runs into Rogers’.

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'''562.01 --searchin’ for a (hmm) cellar full of saffron''' 
Not, needless to say, a line from the song, but Slothrop is filling in, trying to remember. This launches him into yet another mindlessly pleasurable pursuit (for lyrics) that threatens to abort his mission.

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Evan M. Corcoran provided some fine, and rough, tuning to the following translations, for which I am eternally grateful. Also, a fellow named Morten provided some excellent tweaks.

9: '''Jungfrau:''' "virgin" or "''the'' Virgin" 
71, 242, 313, 630: '''Geheime Kommandosache:''' Secret Command-subject 
72: '''Was tust du für die Front, für den sieg? Was has du heute für Deutschland getan?: ''' What are you doing for the Front, for the victory? What have you done for Germany today? 
75: '''Wütende Heer:''' "furious" or "raging" army 
94: '''''Der Kinderofen'':''' The child-oven 
95: '''Hexeszüchtigung''': witch-punishment 
97: '''Märchen und Sagen:''' fairytales and myths 

98:'''Und nicht einmal sein Schritt klingt aus dem tonlosen Los:''' 
And never once does his footstep ring from this soundless doom (p.83)
(From [[Sources|Rilke's Tenth Elegy]])

99, 670: '''Wandervogel:''' (lit., migratory bird, bird of passage) German youth movement of the 1920s/1930s 
99:''' nicht wahr?: '''not so? (lit. not true) 
100: '''Bodenplatt:''' lit., flat earth, fig., launching site ("concrete plate laid over strips of steel") 
101, 424: '''Erwartung:''' anticipation (470: "an extraordinary sense of ''waiting to rise'')

101: '''Bringt doch der Wanderer auch vom Hange des Bergrands nicht eine Hand voll Erde ins Tal, die alle unsägliche, sondern ein erworbenes Wort, reines, den gelben und blaun Enzian.''' 
The wanderer does not bring a handful of earth, the unutterable, from the mountain slope to the valley, but a pure word he has learned, the blue and yellow gentian. (p.69)
From [[Sources|Rilke's Ninth Elegy]]

101: '''Liebchen:''' sweetheart, darling 
131: '''ein Volk ein Führer:''' one people, one leader 
134: '''''eia, wärn wir da!'': '''were we but there! 
142: '''Reichssieger:''' as this term relates to a dog, the proper translation is "national champion." The German word ''Reich'' means both empire and nation, and ''Sieger'' means both victor and champion 
152: '''Kreis: '''circle, ring 
154: '''Studentenheim:''' student's hostel 
154: '''''Die Faust Hoch'': '''Raise Your Fist 
155: '''Kinos:''' cinemas 
156: '''Judenschnautze:''' Jewish nose (should be "schnauze") 
156: '''Mausigstrasse:''' Mousy Street 
158: '''Bundestag:''': Federal Parliament 
160: '''Hinterhöfe:''' back-courtyards 
161: '''Schnellbahnwagen:''' tramcar 
162: '''Dom:''' cathedral 
162: '''Biedermeier:''' homely or early-Victorian-Era style 
162, 324: '''Bürgerlichkeit:''' the quality of being bourgeois 
162, 416: '''Raketenflugplatz:''' rocket site 
163: '''Knallt ab den Juden Rathenau/Die gottverdammte Judensau ...: ''' 
Shoot down that Jew Rathenau/The god-damned Jewish sow 
163: '''Götterdämmerung: '''twilight of the gods 
165:''' Herrenklub:''' gentlemen's club 
185: '''Wehrmacht:''' (lit., defense force) German armed forces 
194: '''Spielsaal:''' gaming hall 
207: '''ab-hauen:''' clear out, bugger off 
211: '''Pferdestärke:''' horsepower 
223: '''der Pfau:''' peacock - also phoenetically "The V" 
228: '''u.s.w.:''' und so weiter = and so on 
230: '''Volksgrenadier: Setzt V-2 ein!:''' People's Unit: Deploy a V-2! 
238, 344, 700: '''Schwärmerei:''' excessive enthusiasm; strong admiration

242,432: '''Vorrichtung für Isolierung:''' device for insulation (Interesting note: Also translates as (heh heh) Device for Isolation) 
246, 669: '''Soldbücher:''' soldier's pay-book 

258, 646: '''lieder:''' songs 
261: '''Gemüse-Brücke:''' Vegetable Bridge 
262:''' Zürchers:''' residents of Zürich, Switzerland 

272: '''Führer:''' leader 
277, 393:''' gemütlich:''' cosy, affable, good-natured 
281: '''Eis Heiligen:''' Ice Saints 

281: '''die kalte Sophie:''' Cold Sophie 
284: '''Wunderkind:''' wonder child; prodigy 
285: '''Notgeld:''' secret emergency-issue currency 
286: '''Schwarzknabe:''' black boy 

287: '''Ach du lieber!:''' Good gracious! 
290: '''Schattensaft:''' shadow juice 
295: '''Stollen:''' tunnel 
296: '''Raumwaffe:''' Space Force 

300: '''Summe, Summe:''' sum, total 
304: '''Ah, so reizend ist! [...] Hübsch, was?:''' Ah, he's so adorable! [...]
Cute, don't you think? 
308: '''Gruss Gott:''' Greetings! 
310: '''Himmel:''' Heaven 

327: '''Schwarze Besatzung am Rhein!:''' Black garrison at the Rhine River 
330: '''Brockengespenstphaenomen:''' Brocken specter phenomenon 
331: '''warum:''' why 
333: '''Rathaus:''' town hall (lit. council house) 

334: '''Ritter:''' knight (medieval, not chess) 
334: '''Kot:''' shit 
336: '''Ur-Markt:''' primordial market 
341: '''O, wie spurlos zerträte ein Engel den Trostmarket:''' Oh, how an angel would trample and leave no trace their marketplace of solace (p.77) From [[Sources|Rilke's Tenth Elegy]] 
344: '''Ostarzneikunde:''' Eastern Pharmaceuticals 
359: '''Tiergarten:''' zoo (lit. animal garden). This is the central park in
Berlin. 
362: '''Was ist los, meinen Sumpfmenschen?: '''What's up, my swamp-men 
363: '''der Fünffachnullpunkt:''' quintuple zero 
365: '''Grosser Stern:''' Great Star. It is a traffic circle in the middle of the Tiergarten. 
366: '''Tauschzentrale:''' bartering or swap center 

367: '''Kerl:''' guy or fellow 
372: '''Berliner Luft:''' Berlin air - also title of a popular song 
372, 579: '''bürgerlich: ''' (adj) middle-class, bourgeois 
375: '''Purpurstoff:''' purple substance 

376: '''Glück:''' fortune, luck 
377: '''Stiefeln, bitte:''' Boots, please (should be "Stiefel") 
377: '''Funkturm:''' radio tower 
378: '''Stimmt:''' all right, O.K. 

380, 446: '''Hauptstufe: '''main stage 
387: '''Alpdrücken:''' nightmare 
387, 443: '''Gesellschaft:''' society 
393: '''Inflationszeit:''' inflation era 

394: '''Königreich:''' kingdom 
394: '''Das Wütende Reich:''' The Raging Reich 
400: '''Kadavergehorsamkeit:''' corpse-like obedience, i.e., slavish obedience 

402, 436: '''Hinterhof:''' back-courtyard 
402, 422: '''Halbmodelle:''' half-model 
403: '''Folgsamkeitfaktor''': obedience factor 
404: '''Versuchsanstalt:''' research institute, experimental station 

416: '''Schicksal:''' destiny, fate 
419: '''Tierpark:''' zoo (lit. animal park) 
429: '''Volkssturm''': people's unit (toward end of WWII, German army units
comprised of young boys and older men) 
429: '''Göllerei:''' a von Göll-ism ("one of his damned touches") 

432: '''Vorrichtung für die Isolierung:''' insulation device 
432: '''Obersturmbannführer:''' leader of a battalion of storm troops 
433: '''Königstiger:''' King Tiger 

433: '''Der feind hört zu:''' the Enemy is Listening (see p.434) 
436: '''Erster-Hof, Zweiter-Hof, Dritter-Hof:''' first courtyard, second courtyard,
third courtyard 
437: '''was ist los?:''' What's up? 
439: '''saftig:''' luscious 
442: '''Fabelhaft, was?:''' wonderful, eh?

442: '''Hübsch''' (charming); '''stahlig''' (steely, metallic); '''Bodengeschmack''' (earthy); '''Körper''' (full-body); '''süffig''' (tasty); '''spritzig''' (lively); '''bukettreich''' (full bouquet, fragrant); '''Art''' (style); '''kernig''' (seedy; robust); '''sauber''' (clean, fine, rare); '''pikant''' (spicy); '''Spiel''' (playful); '''glatt''' (smooth); '''blumig''' (aromatic, flowery); '''Fülle''' (fullness); '''zart''' (tender); '''würzig''' (spicy, piquant)

443: '''Kurfürstendamm: '''street in Berlin 

448: '''Rücksichtslos:''' respectless/disrespectful; reckless 
448: '''Kriegsmarine:''' navy 
448: '''Geschwader:''' squadron 
452: '''Schlieren:''' slip (of rope) 

454: '''Chinesische Blätter für Wissenschaft und Kunst:''' Chinese Journal of Science and Art 
454, 679: '''Los!:''' this commonly used word has many meanings, but in this context it means more like "let's get going" or "let's move"; sort of like ''Vamos'' in Spanish or ''Allez'' in French 

457: '''Bad:''' bath 
458: '''Zigaretten, bitte?:''' cigarettes, please? 
459: '''Spaetzle:''' a type of thick, chewy noodles 
465: '''Urstoff:''' primordial stuff 

466: '''Liebling:''' darling 
475: '''Urquelle:''' original well (or) source. [Pilsener Urquelle is a beer still
brewed (as of 1997)] 
476: '''Trinkhalle:''' pump-room of a spa 
477: '''Brodelbrunnen:''' mineral spring 

477: '''Kursaal:''' cure hall 
482: '''''Weisse Sandwüste von Neumexiko'':''' White Sand Desert of New
Mexico 
483: '''Jugend Herauf:''' Youth Arise! 

483: '''Juden Heraus!:''' Jews out! 
486: '''Ur-Heimat:''' original homeland 
493, 569: '''Bohnenkaffee:''' lit. beans coffee, hence real coffee not erzatz 
504: '''Zu Befehl, Mutti!:''' At your command, Mommy! 

508: '''Zitz und Arsch:''' tits and ass (should be 'Zitze') 
513: '''Schwarzphänomen:''' black phenomenon 
514: '''Lebe wohl:''' Fare well 
523: '''Leunahalluziationen: '''gasoline hallucination 

526: '''Mitteleuropäisch:''' middle European 
549: '''Gassen:''' alleys 
549: '''Volksdeutsch:''' ethnic Germans 
550: '''Bruder:''' brother 

567: '''Himmel and Hölle:''' Heaven und Hell 
567: '''Treppengiebel:''' stepped gable 
567: '''Laterne''' (lantern), '''Laterne,''' '''Sonne''' (Sun), '''Mond''' (Moon) und '''Stern''' (stars) These are the words of a popular song sung (especially) on the Feast of St. Martin, when in the evening children walk in processions holding lanterns.

568: '''Volksgrenadier:''' militia or, perhaps, home guard 
568: '''Schweinheldfest:''' pig-hero festival 
568: '''Haferschleim:''' oatmeal gruel 
569: '''Quark:''' curds 
569: '''Kartoffelpuffer: '''potato pancakes 
570:''' Gemütlichkeit:''' geniality, good-naturedness, coziness, leisureliness 
570: '''erste Abreibung:''' first rubdown (euphymism for a beating--see p.437) 
571:''' Schweinheld:''' pig-hero 
571: '''Buchdrucherverband: ''' should be "Buchdruc'''k'''erverband":
book-printer's union 
573: '''Winkelhaken:''' justifier (a printer's tool) 
578: '''Zeitgeist:''' spirit of the times 
579: '''der Spieler:''' the Player 
580: '''Stickstoff Syndikat:''' nitrogen syndicate 
587: '''Schnipsel:''' a snip 
587: '''Vereinigte Stahlwerke:''' United Steelworks 
587: '''''also'':''' thus (fig. ah-ha!) 
592: '''Weltschmerz:''' world-weariness 
624:''' willst du V-2, dann arbeite: '''If you want the V-2, then work 
624: '''Frisch Fromm Fröhlich Frei:''' Fresh Pious Cheerful Free 
625: '''Gnädige:''' gracious 
625: '''Heiligenschein: '''lit. Holy Brilliance; halo 
626: '''Heidschnucken: '''sheep who live on the heaths in Northern Germany 
630: '''Wehrwirtschaftstab:''' Economic Defense Staff 
631:''' Draufgänger:''' daredevil 
653: '''Die Fahne Hoch:''' Raise High the Flags (aka Horst Wessel Lied) 
653, 681: ''' Nürnburg:''' Nuremburg 
660: '''Oberhauptberlinerschnauze:''' "Berlin Snoot supreme" 
666: '''Schutzhäftlingsführer:''' prisoner-refuge-commander 
666: '''Blockältester:''' Block elder 

666:''' Kapo: '''Head Guard at Concentration Camp 
666: '''Vorarbeiter:''' foreman 
666: '''Stubendienst:''' cleaning barracks 
666: '''Läufer:''' runner, messenger; also the German name for the Bishop in chess 
684: '''Deutschland, Deutschland Über Alles: '''Germany, Germany over
Everything 
684: '''Welt:''' world 
693:''' Ortsschutz:''' local constable 
700: '''Fuder and Fass:''' literally, cart-load and cask; a somewhat outdated German expression for "lock, stock and barrel" 
702: '''Polschuhen:''' (lit. pole shoes) magnetic cores 
714: '''Überraschungbraten:''' spit-roast surprise 
718:''' Bauernfrühstuck:''' farm breakfast 
742: '''Niederschaumdorf:''' Lower Foaming Village 
743: '''Maitrinke:''' May drink 
751: '''Zündkreutz:''' ignition-cross 
751: '''Ochsen-Augen:''' ox eyes 
757: '''Räumen''': veer aft (of wind) 
757: '''Steuerung klar:''' steering - check 
757: '''Ist klar:''' check 
757: '''Treibwerk klar:''' fueling gear - check 
757: '''Luftlage klar:''' launch site - check 
757: '''Schlüssel auf Schiessen: '''switch on firing 
757: '''Schlüssel steht auf Schiessen: '''switch set on firing 
758: '''Durchschalten:''' lit., to switch through 
758:''' Vorstufe:''' first stage 
758: '''Ist durchgeschaltet:''' switch is on 
758: '''Beluftung klar:''' ventilation - check 
758: '''Zundung klar:''' ignition - check 
758: '''Hauptstufe ist gegeben:''' main stage is acknowledged 
758: '''Stecker 1 und 2 gefallen:''' plugs 1 and 2 separated 
759: '''Streckefuss''': Stretchfoot (This translation doesn't make too much sense. In technical German "fuss" translates as "valve". The word might be taken from the V-2 Blueprints or other technical documents.)

German Translations

2010-07-28T22:23:18Z

Hotratsalex: layout cleaned up, some details changed

Evan M. Corcoran provided some fine, and rough, tuning to the following translations, for which I am eternally grateful. Also, a fellow named Morten provided some excellent tweaks.

9: '''Jungfrau:''' "virgin" or "''the'' Virgin" 
71, 242, 313, 630: '''Geheime Kommandosache:''' Secret Command-subject 
72: '''Was tust du für die Front, für den sieg? Was has du heute für Deutschland getan?: ''' What are you doing for the Front, for the victory? What have you done for Germany today? 
75: '''Wütende Heer:''' "furious" or "raging" army 
94: '''''Der Kinderofen'':''' The child-oven 
95: '''Hexeszüchtigung''': witch-punishment 
97: '''Märchen und Sagen:''' fairytales and myths 

98:'''Und nicht einmal sein Schritt klingt aus dem tonlosen Los:''' 
And never once does his footstep ring from this soundless doom (p.83)
(From [[Sources|Rilke's Tenth Elegy]])

99, 670: '''Wandervogel:''' (lit., migratory bird, bird of passage) German youth movement of the 1920s/1930s 
99:''' nicht wahr?: '''not so? (lit. not true) 
100: '''Bodenplatt:''' lit., flat earth, fig., launching site ("concrete plate laid over strips of steel") 
101, 424: '''Erwartung:''' anticipation (470: "an extraordinary sense of ''waiting to rise'')

101: '''Bringt doch der Wanderer auch vom Hange des Bergrands nicht eine Hand voll Erde ins Tal, die alle unsägliche, sondern ein erworbenes Wort, reines, den gelben und blaun Enzian.''' 
The wanderer does not bring a handful of earth, the unutterable, from the mountain slope to the valley, but a pure word he has learned, the blue and yellow gentian. (p.69)
From [[Sources|Rilke's Ninth Elegy]]

101: '''Liebchen:''' sweetheart, darling 
131: '''ein Volk ein Führer:''' one people, one leader 
134: '''''eia, wärn wir da!'': '''were we but there! 
142: '''Reichssieger:''' as this term relates to a dog, the proper translation is "national champion." The German word ''Reich'' means both empire and nation, and ''Sieger'' means both victor and champion 
152: '''Kreis: '''circle, ring 
154: '''Studentenheim:''' student's hostel 
154: '''''Die Faust Hoch'': '''Raise Your Fist 
155: '''Kinos:''' cinemas 
156: '''Judenschnautze:''' Jewish nose (should be "schnauze") 
156: '''Mausigstrasse:''' Mousy Street 
158: '''Bundestag:''': Federal Parliament 
160: '''Hinterhöfe:''' back-courtyards 
161: '''Schnellbahnwagen:''' tramcar 
162: '''Dom:''' cathedral 
162: '''Biedermeier:''' homely or early-Victorian-Era style 
162, 324: '''Bürgerlichkeit:''' the quality of being bourgeois 
162, 416: '''Raketenflugplatz:''' rocket site 
163: '''Knallt ab den Juden Rathenau/Die gottverdammte Judensau ...: ''' 
Shoot down that Jew Rathenau/The god-damned Jewish sow 
163: '''Götterdämmerung: '''twilight of the gods 
165:''' Herrenklub:''' gentlemen's club 
185: '''Wehrmacht:''' (lit., defense force) German armed forces 
194: '''Spielsaal:''' gaming hall 
207: '''ab-hauen:''' clear out, bugger off 
211: '''Pferdestärke:''' horsepower 
223: '''der Pfau:''' peacock - also phoenetically "The V" 
228: '''u.s.w.:''' und so weiter = and so on 
230: '''Volksgrenadier: Setzt V-2 ein!:''' People's Unit: Deploy a V-2! 
238, 344, 700: '''Schwärmerei:''' excessive enthusiasm; strong admiration

242,432: '''Vorrichtung für Isolierung:''' device for insulation (Interesting note: Also translates as (heh heh) Device for Isolation) 
246, 669: '''Soldbücher:''' soldier's pay-book 

258, 646: '''lieder:''' songs 
261: '''Gemüse-Brücke:''' Vegetable Bridge 
262:''' Zürchers:''' residents of Zürich, Switzerland 

272: '''Führer:''' leader 
277, 393:''' gemütlich:''' cosy, affable, good-natured 
281: '''Eis Heiligen:''' Ice Saints 

281: '''die kalte Sophie:''' Cold Sophie 
284: '''Wunderkind:''' wonder child; prodigy 
285: '''Notgeld:''' secret emergency-issue currency 
286: '''Schwarzknabe:''' black boy 

287: '''Ach du lieber!:''' Good gracious! 
290: '''Schattensaft:''' shadow juice 
295: '''Stollen:''' tunnel 
296: '''Raumwaffe:''' Space Force 

300: '''Summe, Summe:''' sum, total 
304: '''Ah, so reizend ist! [...] Hübsch, was?:''' Ah, he's so adorable! [...]
Cute, don't you think? 
308: '''Gruss Gott:''' Greetings! 
310: '''Himmel:''' Heaven 

327: '''Schwarze Besatzung am Rhein!:''' Black garrison at the Rhine River 
330: '''Brockengespenstphaenomen:''' Brocken specter phenomenon 
331: '''warum:''' why 
333: '''Rathaus:''' town hall (lit. council house) 

334: '''Ritter:''' knight (medieval, not chess) 
334: '''Kot:''' shit 
336: '''Ur-Markt:''' primordial market 
341: '''O, wie spurlos zerträte ein Engel den Trostmarket:''' Oh, how an angel would trample and leave no trace their marketplace of solace (p.77) From [[Sources|Rilke's Tenth Elegy]] 
344: '''Ostarzneikunde:''' Eastern Pharmaceuticals 
359: '''Tiergarten:''' zoo (lit. animal garden). This is the central park in
Berlin. 
362: '''Was ist los, meinen Sumpfmenschen?: '''What's up, my swamp-men 
363: '''der Fünffachnullpunkt:''' quintuple zero 
365: '''Grosser Stern:''' Great Star. It is a traffic circle in the middle of the Tiergarten. 
366: '''Tauschzentrale:''' bartering or swap center 

367: '''Kerl:''' guy or fellow 
372: '''Berliner Luft:''' Berlin air - also title of a popular song 
372, 579: '''bürgerlich: ''' (adj) middle-class, bourgeois 
375: '''Purpurstoff:''' purple substance 

376: '''Glück:''' fortune, luck 
377: '''Stiefeln, bitte:''' Boots, please (should be "Stiefel") 
377: '''Funkturm:''' radio tower 
378: '''Stimmt:''' all right, O.K. 

380, 446: '''Hauptstufe: '''main stage 
387: '''Alpdrücken:''' nightmare 
387, 443: '''Gesellschaft:''' society 
393: '''Inflationszeit:''' inflation era 

394: '''Königreich:''' kingdom 
394: '''Das Wütende Reich:''' The Raging Reich 
400: '''Kadavergehorsamkeit:''' corpse-like obedience, i.e., slavish obedience 

402, 436: '''Hinterhof:''' back-courtyard 
402, 422: '''Halbmodelle:''' half-model 
403: '''Folgsamkeitfaktor''': obedience factor 
404: '''Versuchsanstalt:''' research institute, experimental station 

416: '''Schicksal:''' destiny, fate 
419: '''Tierpark:''' zoo (lit. animal park) 
429: '''Volkssturm''': people's unit (toward end of WWII, German army units
comprised of young boys and older men) 
429: '''Göllerei:''' a von Göll-ism ("one of his damned touches") 

432: '''Vorrichtung für die Isolierung:''' insulation device 
432: '''Obersturmbannführer:''' leader of a battalion of storm troops 
433: '''Königstiger:''' King Tiger 

433: '''Der feind hört zu:''' the Enemy is Listening (see p.434) 
436: '''Erster-Hof, Zweiter-Hof, Dritter-Hof:''' first courtyard, second courtyard,
third courtyard 
437: '''was ist los?:''' What's up? 
439: '''saftig:''' luscious 
442: '''Fabelhaft, was?:''' wonderful, eh?

442: '''Hübsch''' (charming); '''stahlig''' (steely, metallic); '''Bodengeschmack''' (earthy); '''Körper''' (full-body); '''süffig''' (tasty); '''spritzig''' (lively); '''bukettreich''' (full bouquet, fragrant); '''Art''' (style); '''kernig''' (seedy; robust); '''sauber''' (clean, fine, rare); '''pikant''' (spicy); '''Spiel''' (playful); '''glatt''' (smooth); '''blumig''' (aromatic, flowery); '''Fülle''' (fullness); '''zart''' (tender); '''würzig''' (spicy, piquant)

443: '''Kurfürstendamm: '''street in Berlin 

448: '''Rücksichtslos:''' respectless/disrespectful; reckless 
448: '''Kriegsmarine:''' navy 
448: '''Geschwader:''' squadron 
452: '''Schlieren:''' slip (of rope) 

454: '''Chinesische Blätter für Wissenschaft und Kunst:''' Journal of Chinese Science and Art 
454, 679: '''Los!:''' this commonly used word has many meanings, but in this context it means more like "let's get going" or "let's move"; sort of like ''Vamos'' in Spanish or ''Allez'' in French 

457: '''Bad:''' bath 
458: '''Zigaretten, bitte?:''' cigarettes, please? 
459: '''Spaetzle:''' a type of thick, chewy noodles 
465: '''Urstoff:''' primordial stuff 

466: '''Liebling:''' darling 
475: '''Urquelle:''' original well (or) source. [Pilsener Urquelle is a beer still
brewed (as of 1997)] 
476: '''Trinkhalle:''' pump-room of a spa 
477: '''Brodelbrunnen:''' mineral spring 

477: '''Kursaal:''' cure hall 
482: '''''Weisse Sandwüste von Neumexiko'':''' White Sand Desert of New
Mexico 
483: '''Jugend Herauf:''' Youth Arise! 

483: '''Juden Heraus!:''' Jews out! 
486: '''Ur-Heimat:''' original homeland 
493, 569: '''Bohnenkaffee:''' pure coffee 
504: '''Zu Befehl, Mutti!:''' At your command, Mommy! 

508: '''Zitz und Arsch:''' tits and ass (should be 'Zitze') 
513: '''Schwarzphänomen:''' black phenomenon 
514: '''Lebe wohl:''' Fare well 
523: '''Leunahalluziationen: '''gasoline hallucination 

526: '''Mitteleuropäisch:''' middle European 
549: '''gassen:''' alleys 
549: '''Volksdeutsch:''' ethnic Germans 
550: '''Bruder:''' brother 

567: '''Himmel and Hölle:''' Heaven und Hell 
567: '''Treppengiebel:''' stepped gable 
567: '''Laterne''' (lantern), '''Laterne,''' '''Sonne''' (Sun), '''Mond''' (Moon) und Stern (stars) These are the words of a popular song sung (especially) on the Feast of St. Martin, when in the evening children walk in processions holding lanterns.

568: '''Volksgrenadier:''' militia or, perhaps, home guard 
568: '''Schweinheldfest:''' pig-hero festival 
568: '''Haferschleim:''' oatmeal gruel 
569: '''Quark:''' curds 
569: '''Kartoffelpuffer: '''potato pancakes 
570:''' Gemütlichkeit:''' geniality, good-naturedness, coziness, leisureliness 
570: '''erste Abreibung:''' first rubdown (euphymism for a beating--see p.437) 
571:''' Schweinheld:''' pig-hero 
571: '''Buchdrucherverband: ''' should be "Buchdruc'''k'''erverband":
book-printer's union 
573: '''Winkelhaken:''' justifier (a printer's tool) 
578: '''Zeitgeist:''' spirit of the times 
579: '''der Spieler:''' the Player 
580: '''Stickstoff Syndikat:''' nitrogen syndicate 
587: '''Schnipsel:''' a snip 
587: '''Vereinigte Stahlwerke:''' United Steelworks 
587: '''''also'':''' thus (fig. ah-ha!) 
592: '''Weltschmerz:''' world-weariness 
624:''' willst du V-2, dann arbeite: '''If you want the V-2, then work 
624: '''Frisch Fromm Fröhlich Frei:''' Fresh Pious Cheerful Free 
625: '''Gnädige:''' gracious 
625: '''Heiligenschein: '''lit. Holy Brilliance; halo 
626: '''Heidschnucken: '''sheep who live on the heaths in Northern Germany 
630: '''Wehrwirtschaftstab:''' Economic Defense Staff
631:''' Draufgänger:''' daredevil 
653: '''Die Fahne Hoch:''' Raise High the Flags (aka Horst Wessel Lied) 
653, 681: ''' Nürnburg:''' Nuremburg 
660: '''Oberhauptberlinerschnauze:''' "Berlin Snoot supreme" 
666: '''Schutzhäftlingsführer:''' prisoner-refuge-commander 
666: '''Blockältester:''' Block elder 

666:''' Kapo: '''Head Guard at Concentration Camp 
666: '''Vorarbeiter:''' foreman 
666: '''Stubendienst:''' cleaning barracks 
666: '''Läufer:''' runner, messenger; also the German name for the Bishop in chess 
684: '''Deutschland, Deutschland Über Alles: '''Germany, Germany over
Everything 
684: '''Welt:''' world 
693:''' Ortsschutz:''' local constable 
700: '''Fuder and Fass:''' literally, cart-load and cask; a somewhat outdated German expression for "lock, stock and barrel" 
702: '''Polschuhen:''' pole shoes 
714: '''Überraschungbraten:''' spit-roast surprise 
718:''' Bauernfrühstuck:''' farm breakfast 
742: '''Niederschaumdorf:''' Lower Foaming Village 
743: '''Maitrinke:''' May drink 
751: '''Zündkreutz:''' ignition-cross 
751: '''Ochsen-Augen:''' ox eyes 
757: '''Räumen''': veer aft (of wind) 
757: '''Steuerung klar:''' steering - check 
757: '''Ist klar:''' check 
757: '''Treibwerk klar:''' fueling gear - check 
757: '''Luftlage klar:''' launch site - check 
757: '''Schlüssel auf Schiessen: '''switch on firing 
757: '''Schlüssel steht auf Schiessen: '''switch set on firing 
758: '''Durchschalten:''' lit., to switch through 
758:''' Vorstufe:''' first stage 
758: '''Ist durchgeschaltet:''' switch is on 
758: '''Beluftung klar:''' ventilation - check 
758: '''Zundung klar:''' ignition - check 
758: '''Hauptstufe ist gegeben:''' main stage is acknowledged 
758: '''Stecker 1 und 2 gefallen:''' plugs 1 and 2 separated 
759: '''Streckefuss''': Stretchfoot (This translation doesn't make too much sense. In technical German "fuss" translates as "valve". The word might be taken from the V-2 Blueprints or other technical documents.)

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Hotratsalex:

'''How old IS Bianca?'''

Slothrop thinks, "Bianca's a knockout, alright: 11 or 12, dark and lovely [...]" (p.463), but how old is Bianca, really? Well ...

* Bianca is conceived during the filming of Alpdrücken ("I think Bianca is [Schlepzig's] child. She was conceived while we were filming this." - p.395)
* Ilse was conceived after Franz Pökler saw Alpdrücken ("he knew that had to be the night, Alpdrücken night, that Ilse was conceived." - p.397)
* Leni had already given birth to Ilse when she was seeing Peter Sachsa, e.g. "Ilse is awake, and crying. [...] They ought to try Peter after all. He'll have milk." (p.163); and Sachsa is killed during a street action in 1930 ("Taken forcibly over in '''1930''' by a blow from a police truncheon [...]" - p.152)
* Placing Bianca's conception, say, 6 months to a year before Ilse's (depending on how long it took for Alpdrücken to reach the theatres and how long it took Franz Pökler to go see it), Bianca's birth would have been in 1928 or 1929.
* Slothrop meets Bianca aboard the Anubis in 1945.

Thus Bianca must be 16 or 17, yes? (Thanks to John M. Krafft and to Bernard Duyfhuizen, of [http://www.ham.muohio.edu/~krafftjm/pynchon.html Pynchon Notes], for the above sleuthing.)

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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; an attempt at solving the hangman mystery word Slothrop discovers; but as normally played, every instance of a guessed letter is inserted in the mystery word, so it could not have more than one R or E. More likely just a diluted reference to the S-Gerät.

<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 (now The Guardian) is (according to Evan Corcoran) the farthest left-wing of the major English papers, though it is traditionally the centrist Liberals' and teachers' newspaper. At the time also the only major English paper not based in London; the paper that Ian Scuffling allegedly works for. Weisenburger to the contrary, it is a daily paper.

'''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

'''Magenta and Green''' 
a contrast that Pynchon can hardly leave alone, even to the point of being self-conscious about it:
12; "you’re apt now and then to get a bit of lime-green in with your rose, as they say"
69; "Whappo also sports a bandanna of the regulation magenta and green"
107; "instead of a magic feather, the humorless green and magenta face of Mr. Ernest Bevin"
255; "corksoled comicbook shoes with enormous round toes, lotta that saddle-stitching in contrasting colors (such as orange on blue, and the perennial favorite, green on magenta)"
749; "THE LAST GREEN AND MAGENTA" "The Heath grows green and magenta in all directions"
There are also many references to magenta alone.

'''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; 246; "a Groucho Marx voice"; 278; "“We should find a doctor,” murmurs Dennis Joint, winking at Katje like a blond crewcut Groucho Marx"; 619; "It is
one of Groucho Marx’s vulgar friends."

'''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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'''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

'''Magenta and Green''' 
a contrast that Pynchon can hardly leave alone, even to the point of being self-conscious about it:
12; "you’re apt now and then to get a bit of lime-green in with your rose, as they say"
69; "Whappo also sports a bandanna of the regulation magenta and green"
107; "instead of a magic feather, the humorless green and magenta face of Mr. Ernest Bevin"
255; "corksoled comicbook shoes with enormous round toes, lotta that saddle-stitching in contrasting colors (such as orange on blue, and the perennial favorite, green on magenta)"
749; "THE LAST GREEN AND MAGENTA" "The Heath grows green and magenta in all directions"
There are also many references to magenta alone.

'''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; 246; "a Groucho Marx voice"; 278; "“We should find a doctor,” murmurs Dennis Joint, winking at Katje like a blond crewcut Groucho Marx"

'''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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'''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

'''Magenta and Green''' 
a contrast that Pynchon can hardly leave alone, even to the point of being self-conscious about it:
12; "you’re apt now and then to get a bit of lime-green in with your rose, as they say"
69; "Whappo also sports a bandanna of the regulation magenta and green"
107; "instead of a magic feather, the humorless green and magenta face of Mr. Ernest Bevin"
255; "corksoled comicbook shoes with enormous round toes, lotta that saddle-stitching in contrasting colors (such as orange on blue, and the perennial favorite, green on magenta)"
749; "THE LAST GREEN AND MAGENTA" "The Heath grows green and magenta in all directions"
There are also many references to magenta alone.

'''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; 246;"a Groucho Marx voice"; 278;"“We should find a doctor,” murmurs Dennis Joint, winking at Katje like a blond crewcut Groucho Marx"

'''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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'''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

'''Magenta and Green''' 
a contrast that Pynchon can hardly leave alone, even to the point of being self-conscious about it:
12; "you’re apt now and then to get a bit of lime-green in with your rose, as they say"
69; "Whappo also sports a bandanna of the regulation magenta and green"
107; "instead of a magic feather, the humorless green and magenta face of Mr. Ernest Bevin"
255; "corksoled comicbook shoes with enormous round toes, lotta that saddle-stitching in contrasting colors (such as orange on blue, and the perennial favorite, green on magenta)"
749; "THE LAST GREEN AND MAGENTA" "The Heath grows green and magenta in all directions"
There are also many references to magenta alone.

'''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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61.25 '''Got a hardon in my fist...''' 
This song goes right along with the tune of "Bye Bye Blackbird," starting with the "Pack up all my cares and woe..." refrain that, in this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO6PpD-tRLU YouTube], begins at about 0:52.

61.30 '''"ruptured duck"''' 
A [http://www.therupturedduck.com/WebPages/Whatis/whatis.htm cloth insignia] depicting a screaming eagle inside a wreath.

==Page 63==
63.5 '''Moxie''' 
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.

63.22 '''Red, the Negro shoeshine boy''' 
Stating the obvious, Red is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcom_X#_note-timeline Malcolm X], whose nickname "Red" referred to his hair color -- a dark cinnamon brown. In February 1941 Malcolm moved to Boston to live with his older half-sister, worked a variety of jobs including shoeshine and became involved in Boston's "underworld fringe," pimping among other things.

63.32-37 '''"Yardbird" Parker is finding out [ . . . ]''' 
Refers to jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker. Correspondent Igor Zabel offers the following addition to [[Weisenburger's Companion to Gravity's Rainbow|Weisenburger]]'s note on this passage:
"On one of Parker's CDs (Swedish Schnapps +), I found the passage which was quoted by [[Weisenburger's Companion to Gravity's Rainbow|Weisenburger]] after Max Harrison, but slightly different, and it is interesting because Parker directly mentions Cherokee: 'Well, that night, I was working over 'Cherokee' and, as I did, I found that by using the higher intervals of a chord as a melody line and backing them with appropriately related changes, I could play the thing I'd been hearing. I came alive.' The quotation is taken from 'Hear Me Talkin' To Ya'."

==Page 64==

64.19 '''"'Slip the talcum to me, Malcolm!'"''' 
This homoerotic scene seems based on some facts. It is known that Malcolm X prostituted himself for money and according to Bruce Perry's biography, ''Malcolm: The Life of a Man Who Changed Black America'' (Station Hill, New York, 1991) he had various homosexual liaisons throughout his life. Interestingly, Malcolm worked as a butler to a wealthy Boston bachelor, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1486997,00.html William Paul Lennon]. According to Malcolm's sidekick Malcolm Jarvis, he [Malcolm] was paid to sprinkle Lennon with talcum powder and bring him to orgasm.

==Page 65==

65.15 '''"Gobbler" Biddle''' 
The Biddles are one of the leading families of Philadelphia, who sometimes vacationed in the Berkshires. Specifically, the "Gobbler" could be Nicholas Biddle (Harvard, 1944). 
Interestingly [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Beverly_Biddle Francis B. Biddle] (Harvard College 1909, Harvard Law 1911) was US Attorney General (1941-1945) at this time. FBB was responsible for directing the FBI to arrest "enemy aliens" leading to Japanese-American internment camps; served as the primary judge during the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal; and authored of ''The Fear of Freedom'' and other works.

65.16 '''Fu’s Folly in Cambridge''' 
Although, as [[Weisenburger's Companion to Gravity's Rainbow|Weisenburger]] notes, the character is named for Fu Manchu (who is an important reference for Pointsman later in the novel), it should be recalled that there was also a "Fu" who was a member of the Whole Sick Crew in ''V.''

Resembles the old Young & Yee Restaurant (now closed) at 27 Church Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA, which for over 40 years slopped greasey chop suey. An anachronism to the novel's time period, yes, but perhaps an inspiration to the author.

65.33 '''Jack Kennedy''' 
Contrary to [[Weisenburger's Companion to Gravity's Rainbow|Weisenburger]], Kennedy’s first book was titled '''''Why''' England Slept'' (not "When"). 

JFK is said to be in Slothrop's Harvard class. Estimating, Slothrop was born ca 1917-18 and entered Harvard in 1936, the year of Harvard's tricentennial. They were both in their mid-20s during the action in ''GR''.

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66.39 '''Capehart''' 

The [http://www.myvintagetv.com/capehart.htm Capehart] automatic phonograph with a turn-over mechanism was the epitome of luxury phonographs, technical excellence and supreme electronics in the 1930s and 40s.

==Page 68==

68.01 '''Half an Ark’s better than none.''' 
For Crutchfield, there is only '''one''' of everything, as opposed to two of every animal on Noah’s (whole) Ark. (And how much use is half an Ark in a flood, anyway?)

==Page 69==

69.2 '''terre mauvais''' 
French "terre mauvaise" - the "badlands". A rare case of TRP misspelling a foreign word.

69.14 '''a bandana of the regulation magenta and green''' 
The coal-tar derived colors of organic chemistry that resonate throughout the novel. 
The visual clash between these colours appears elsewhere - 'A bit of lime green in with your rose' 12
Pynchon seems to associate positive things with these colors - see ''Against the Day'' particularly - as he does with bandanas. A-and bananas.

69.16 '''Rancho Peligroso''' 
Evokes the Siege Perilous of the Arthurian Grail legend as well as ''Rancho Notorious'', a 1952 Western directed by Fritz Lang and starring Marlene Dietrich. See note at [[V321.06-07]]

69.27 '''callipygian rondure''' 
[http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-cal3.htm callipygian] -- having shapely buttocks, originally used in conjunction with the noted statue of Aphrodite (which is itself a play on "Afro" and "Venus"), the
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_Kallipygos "Venus Kallipygos"].

rondure -- a circular or gracefully rounded object.

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[[image:tyrosine.jpg|thumb|100px|Tyrosine Molecule|right]]71.11 '''kryptosam''' 
Correspondent Matthias Bauer notes that "sam" derives from the German "samen," for "seed." "Krypto," of course, derives from the same word as "cryptography," the study of codes. [[Weisenburger's Companion to Gravity's Rainbow|Weisenburger]] claims that the "tyrosine" from which kryptosam is supposed to derive is "undoubtedly fictional," but it is in fact an amino acid, which can convert to melanin, just as Jamf's note indicates (although it is unclear whether semen will in fact act as the catalytic agent). 

Tyrosine is found in casein, and the name derives from the Greek, ''tyros'' meaning cheese. 

Significant properties of note for Tyrosine: 
- Tyrosine functions as a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenol phenol], which Nazi doctors used in injections for rapid executions. Phenols were used extensively at Auschwitz-Birkenau. 
- Tyrosine occurs in proteins that are part of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_transduction signal transduction] process -- a biological processes that converts one kind of signal or stimulus into another -- cell signalling.

The SBB (SIS/MI6 forerunner) allegedly discovered that semen, if not a catalyst, did at least make a good invisible ink.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semen#Semen_in_espionage
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansfield_Smith-Cumming
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-spymaster-who-was-stranger-than-fiction-737707.html
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61.25 '''Got a hardon in my fist...''' 
This song goes right along with the tune of "Bye Bye Blackbird," starting with the "Pack up all my cares and woe..." refrain that, in this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO6PpD-tRLU YouTube], begins at about 0:52.

61.30 '''"ruptured duck"''' 
A [http://www.therupturedduck.com/WebPages/Whatis/whatis.htm cloth insignia] depicting a screaming eagle inside a wreath.

==Page 63==
63.5 '''Moxie''' 
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.

63.22 '''Red, the Negro shoeshine boy''' 
Stating the obvious, Red is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcom_X#_note-timeline Malcolm X], whose nickname "Red" referred to his hair color -- a dark cinnamon brown. In February 1941 Malcolm moved to Boston to live with his older half-sister, worked a variety of jobs including shoeshine and became involved in Boston's "underworld fringe," pimping among other things.

63.32-37 '''"Yardbird" Parker is finding out [ . . . ]''' 
Refers to jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker. Correspondent Igor Zabel offers the following addition to [[Weisenburger's Companion to Gravity's Rainbow|Weisenburger]]'s note on this passage:
"On one of Parker's CDs (Swedish Schnapps +), I found the passage which was quoted by [[Weisenburger's Companion to Gravity's Rainbow|Weisenburger]] after Max Harrison, but slightly different, and it is interesting because Parker directly mentions Cherokee: 'Well, that night, I was working over 'Cherokee' and, as I did, I found that by using the higher intervals of a chord as a melody line and backing them with appropriately related changes, I could play the thing I'd been hearing. I came alive.' The quotation is taken from 'Hear Me Talkin' To Ya'."

==Page 64==

64.19 '''"'Slip the talcum to me, Malcolm!'"''' 
This homoerotic scene seems based on some facts. It is known that Malcolm X prostituted himself for money and according to Bruce Perry's biography, ''Malcolm: The Life of a Man Who Changed Black America'' (Station Hill, New York, 1991) he had various homosexual liaisons throughout his life. Interestingly, Malcolm worked as a butler to a wealthy Boston bachelor, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1486997,00.html William Paul Lennon]. According to Malcolm's sidekick Malcolm Jarvis, he [Malcolm] was paid to sprinkle Lennon with talcum powder and bring him to orgasm.

==Page 65==

65.15 '''"Gobbler" Biddle''' 
The Biddles are one of the leading families of Philadelphia, who sometimes vacationed in the Berkshires. Specifically, the "Gobbler" could be Nicholas Biddle (Harvard, 1944). 
Interestingly [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Beverly_Biddle Francis B. Biddle] (Harvard College 1909, Harvard Law 1911) was US Attorney General (1941-1945) at this time. FBB was responsible for directing the FBI to arrest "enemy aliens" leading to Japanese-American internment camps; served as the primary judge during the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal; and authored of ''The Fear of Freedom'' and other works.

65.16 '''Fu’s Folly in Cambridge''' 
Although, as [[Weisenburger's Companion to Gravity's Rainbow|Weisenburger]] notes, the character is named for Fu Manchu (who is an important reference for Pointsman later in the novel), it should be recalled that there was also a "Fu" who was a member of the Whole Sick Crew in ''V.''

Resembles the old Young & Yee Restaurant (now closed) at 27 Church Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA, which for over 40 years slopped greasey chop suey. An anachronism to the novel's time period, yes, but perhaps an inspiration to the author.

65.33 '''Jack Kennedy''' 
Contrary to [[Weisenburger's Companion to Gravity's Rainbow|Weisenburger]], Kennedy’s first book was titled '''''Why''' England Slept'' (not "When"). 

JFK is said to be in Slothrop's Harvard class. Estimating, Slothrop was born ca 1917-18 and entered Harvard in 1936, the year of Harvard's tricentennial. They were both in their mid-20s during the action in ''GR''.

==Page 66==

66.39 '''Capehart''' 

The [http://www.myvintagetv.com/capehart.htm Capehart] automatic phonograph with a turn-over mechanism was the epitome of luxury phonographs, technical excellence and supreme electronics in the 1930s and 40s.

==Page 68==

68.01 '''Half an Ark’s better than none.''' 
For Crutchfield, there is only '''one''' of everything, as opposed to two of every animal on Noah’s (whole) Ark. (And how much use is half an Ark in a flood, anyway?)

==Page 69==

69.2 '''terre mauvais''' 
French "terre mauvaise" - the "badlands". A rare case of TRP misspelling a foreign word.

69.14 '''a bandana of the regulation magenta and green''' 
The coal-tar derived colors of organic chemistry that resonate throughout the novel. 

Pynchon seems to associate positive things with these colors - see ''Against the Day'' particularly - as he does with bandanas. A-and bananas.

69.16 '''Rancho Peligroso''' 
Evokes the Siege Perilous of the Arthurian Grail legend as well as ''Rancho Notorious'', a 1952 Western directed by Fritz Lang and starring Marlene Dietrich. See note at [[V321.06-07]]

69.27 '''callipygian rondure''' 
[http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-cal3.htm callipygian] -- having shapely buttocks, originally used in conjunction with the noted statue of Aphrodite (which is itself a play on "Afro" and "Venus"), the
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_Kallipygos "Venus Kallipygos"].

rondure -- a circular or gracefully rounded object.

==Page 71==
[[image:tyrosine.jpg|thumb|100px|Tyrosine Molecule|right]]71.11 '''kryptosam''' 
Correspondent Matthias Bauer notes that "sam" derives from the German "samen," for "seed." "Krypto," of course, derives from the same word as "cryptography," the study of codes. [[Weisenburger's Companion to Gravity's Rainbow|Weisenburger]] claims that the "tyrosine" from which kryptosam is supposed to derive is "undoubtedly fictional," but it is in fact an amino acid, which can convert to melanin, just as Jamf's note indicates (although it is unclear whether semen will in fact act as the catalytic agent). 

Tyrosine is found in casein, and the name derives from the Greek, ''tyros'' meaning cheese. 

Significant properties of note for Tyrosine: 
- Tyrosine functions as a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenol phenol], which Nazi doctors used in injections for rapid executions. Phenols were used extensively at Auschwitz-Birkenau. 
- Tyrosine occurs in proteins that are part of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_transduction signal transduction] process -- a biological processes that converts one kind of signal or stimulus into another -- cell signalling.

The SBB (SIS/MI6 forerunner) allegedly discovered that semen, if not a catalyst, did at least make a good invisible ink.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semen#Semen_in_espionage
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansfield_Smith-Cumming
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-spymaster-who-was-stranger-than-fiction-737707.html
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'''F.R.C.S.''' 
Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS) is a professional qualification to practise as a surgeon in the UK.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRCS
[[User:Jpicco|Jpicco]] 09:53, 16 May 2009 (PDT)

'''Balaclava helmet''' 
...a form of headgear covering the whole head, exposing only the face or upper part of it, and sometimes only the eyes. The name "balaclava" comes from the town of Balaklava, near Sevastopol in Crimea (now Ukraine).[1] During the Crimean War, knitted balaclavas were sent over to the British troops to help protect them from the bitter cold weather. They are traditionally knitted from wool, and can be rolled up into a hat to cover just the crown of the head.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balaclava_(clothing)
[[User:Jpicco|Jpicco]] 09:53, 16 May 2009 (PDT)

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'''"Why it's Mrs. Nussbaum!"...Fred Allen..."You vere ekshpecting maybe ''Lessie?''"''' 
Pansy Nussbaum was a Jewish housewife character on Fred Allen's BBC radio show. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Allen#Allen.27s_Alley

"Lessie" refers to Lassie, the famous fictional dog of American TV and movies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lassie
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61.25 '''Got a hardon in my fist...''' 
This song goes right along with the tune of "Bye Bye Blackbird," starting with the "Pack up all my cares and woe..." refrain that, in this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO6PpD-tRLU YouTube], begins at about 0:52.

61.30 '''"ruptured duck"''' 
A [http://www.therupturedduck.com/WebPages/Whatis/whatis.htm cloth insignia] depicting an eagle inside a wreath.

==Page 63==
63.5 '''Moxie''' 
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.

63.22 '''Red, the Negro shoeshine boy''' 
Stating the obvious, Red is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcom_X#_note-timeline Malcolm X], whose nickname "Red" referred to his hair color -- a dark cinnamon brown. In February 1941 Malcolm moved to Boston to live with his older half-sister, worked a variety of jobs including shoeshine and became involved in Boston's "underworld fringe," pimping among other things.

63.32-37 '''"Yardbird" Parker is finding out [ . . . ]''' 
Refers to jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker. Correspondent Igor Zabel offers the following addition to [[Weisenburger's Companion to Gravity's Rainbow|Weisenburger]]'s note on this passage:
"On one of Parker's CDs (Swedish Schnapps +), I found the passage which was quoted by [[Weisenburger's Companion to Gravity's Rainbow|Weisenburger]] after Max Harrison, but slightly different, and it is interesting because Parker directly mentions Cherokee: 'Well, that night, I was working over 'Cherokee' and, as I did, I found that by using the higher intervals of a chord as a melody line and backing them with appropriately related changes, I could play the thing I'd been hearing. I came alive.' The quotation is taken from 'Hear Me Talkin' To Ya'."

==Page 64==

64.19 '''"'Slip the talcum to me, Malcolm!'"''' 
This homoerotic scene seems based on some facts. It is known that Malcolm X prostituted himself for money and according to Bruce Perry's biography, ''Malcolm: The Life of a Man Who Changed Black America'' (Station Hill, New York, 1991) he had various homosexual liaisons throughout his life. Interestingly, Malcolm worked as a butler to a wealthy Boston bachelor, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1486997,00.html William Paul Lennon]. According to Malcolm's sidekick Malcolm Jarvis, he [Malcolm] was paid to sprinkle Lennon with talcum powder and bring him to orgasm.

==Page 65==

65.15 '''"Gobbler" Biddle''' 
The Biddles are one of the leading families of Philadelphia, who sometimes vacationed in the Berkshires. Specifically, the "Gobbler" could be Nicholas Biddle (Harvard, 1944). 
Interestingly [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Beverly_Biddle Francis B. Biddle] (Harvard College 1909, Harvard Law 1911) was US Attorney General (1941-1945) at this time. FBB was responsible for directing the FBI to arrest "enemy aliens" leading to Japanese-American internment camps; served as the primary judge during the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal; and authored of ''The Fear of Freedom'' and other works.

65.16 '''Fu’s Folly in Cambridge''' 
Although, as [[Weisenburger's Companion to Gravity's Rainbow|Weisenburger]] notes, the character is named for Fu Manchu (who is an important reference for Pointsman later in the novel), it should be recalled that there was also a "Fu" who was a member of the Whole Sick Crew in ''V.''

Resembles the old Young & Yee Restaurant (now closed) at 27 Church Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA, which for over 40 years slopped greasey chop suey. An anachronism to the novel's time period, yes, but perhaps an inspiration to the author.

65.33 '''Jack Kennedy''' 
Contrary to [[Weisenburger's Companion to Gravity's Rainbow|Weisenburger]], Kennedy’s first book was titled '''''Why''' England Slept'' (not "When"). 

JFK is said to be in Slothrop's Harvard class. Estimating, Slothrop was born ca 1917-18 and entered Harvard in 1936, the year of Harvard's tricentennial. They were both in their mid-20s during the action in ''GR''.

==Page 66==

66.39 '''Capehart''' 

The [http://www.myvintagetv.com/capehart.htm Capehart] automatic phonograph with a turn-over mechanism was the epitome of luxury phonographs, technical excellence and supreme electronics in the 1930s and 40s.

==Page 68==

68.01 '''Half an Ark’s better than none.''' 
For Crutchfield, there is only '''one''' of everything, as opposed to two of every animal on Noah’s (whole) Ark. (And how much use is half an Ark in a flood, anyway?)

==Page 69==

69.2 '''terre mauvais''' 
French "terre mauvaise" - the "badlands". A rare case of TRP misspelling a foreign word.

69.14 '''a bandana of the regulation magenta and green''' 
The coal-tar derived colors of organic chemistry that resonate throughout the novel. 

Pynchon seems to associate positive things with these colors - see ''Against the Day'' particularly - as he does with bandanas. A-and bananas.

69.16 '''Rancho Peligroso''' 
Evokes the Siege Perilous of the Arthurian Grail legend as well as ''Rancho Notorious'', a 1952 Western directed by Fritz Lang and starring Marlene Dietrich. See note at [[V321.06-07]]

69.27 '''callipygian rondure''' 
[http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-cal3.htm callipygian] -- having shapely buttocks, originally used in conjunction with the noted statue of Aphrodite (which is itself a play on "Afro" and "Venus"), the
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_Kallipygos "Venus Kallipygos"].

rondure -- a circular or gracefully rounded object.

==Page 71==
[[image:tyrosine.jpg|thumb|100px|Tyrosine Molecule|right]]71.11 '''kryptosam''' 
Correspondent Matthias Bauer notes that "sam" derives from the German "samen," for "seed." "Krypto," of course, derives from the same word as "cryptography," the study of codes. [[Weisenburger's Companion to Gravity's Rainbow|Weisenburger]] claims that the "tyrosine" from which kryptosam is supposed to derive is "undoubtedly fictional," but it is in fact an amino acid, which can convert to melanin, just as Jamf's note indicates (although it is unclear whether semen will in fact act as the catalytic agent). 

Tyrosine is found in casein, and the name derives from the Greek, ''tyros'' meaning cheese. 

Significant properties of note for Tyrosine: 
- Tyrosine functions as a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenol phenol], which Nazi doctors used in injections for rapid executions. Phenols were used extensively at Auschwitz-Birkenau. 
- Tyrosine occurs in proteins that are part of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_transduction signal transduction] process -- a biological processes that converts one kind of signal or stimulus into another -- cell signalling.

The SBB (SIS/MI6 forerunner) allegedly discovered that semen, if not a catalyst, did at least make a good invisible ink.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semen#Semen_in_espionage
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansfield_Smith-Cumming
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-spymaster-who-was-stranger-than-fiction-737707.html
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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 (now The Guardian) is (according to Evan Corcoran) the farthest left-wing of the major English papers, though it is traditionally the centrist Liberals' and teachers' newspaper. At the time also the only major English paper not based in London; the paper that Ian Scuffling allegedly works for. Weisenburger to the contrary, it is a daily paper.

'''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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'''NAAFI''' 
35; Navy, Army, Air Forces Institute; civilian support of war effort with entertainment, food, etc.; 134; NAAFI girls, 593, 710; [http://www.naafi.co.uk]

<div id="naming"></div>'''naming''' 
"Was Our Side seeking to demoralize the German Beast by broadcasting to him random thoughts of the mad, naming for him [...] the deep, the scarcely seen" 74; "snare them in words," 99; "words are only an eye-twitch away from the things they stand for," 100; "No language meant no chance of co-opting them in to what their round and flaxen invaders were calling Salvation" 110; "before wishes were given a separate name to warn that they might not come true" 177; "stuffed paper illusions. . .between him and this truth," 234; "fear of having a soul captured. . .by a name," 302; "Can his name. . .break their power?" 321; "the act of," 322, 366; Nameless Thing, 341; "How alphabetic the nature of molecules," 355; German mania for name-giving, separating namer from named, 391; 443; "those names are not magic," 464; "verbal, ranked and uniformed," 478; "children at the threshold of language," 487; "words. . .only delta-t from the things they stand for," 510; "worded over," 589; "secret Function whose name. . .cannot be spoken," 590; "a screen of words between himself and the numinous," 668; "holy names of God," 734; "Names of Power," 734; See also [[#nta|NTA]]; [[R#routinization|Routinization of Charisma]]

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

'''Nansen, Fridtjof (1861-1930)''' 
589; Norwegian explorer, oceanographer, statesman, and humanitarian who led a number of expeditions to the Arctic (1888, 1893, 1895-96) and oceanographic expeditions in the North Atlantic (1900, 1910-14).

'''naphtha''' 
3; a colorless, volatile petroleum distillate, usually an intermediate product between gasoline and benzene, used as a solvent and as a fuel — Webster's; aka lighter fluid

'''Napolean Bonaparte (1769-1821)''' 
French general who was first consul and then emperor of the French, carried out many far-reaching reforms and through military force attempted to expand France's dominion (though he left France smaller than it had been at the outbreak of the Revolution in 1789). Until the end of the Second Empire under his nephew Napoleon III he was hailed as one of history's great heroes; "hats with and without Ns on them" 664

'''narodnik''' 
From "narod" - people. Idealistic movement among Russian intellectuals in the post-emancipation period of the 19th century. They quit their urban life and attempted to "go to the people". Establishing themselves in villages, they tried to be of use to the peasantry, to get them into motion, but the peasants were generally suspicious of outsiders from other orders of society. Their politics were greatly influenced by the works of Karl Marx; "No, they are making believe to be narodnik, but I know, they are of Iasi, of Codreanu" 11

'''narrative voices''' 
"Well Respected Man" (by The Kinks), 167 ("And the crowds they swarm in Knightsbridge, and the wordless carols drone [&c.]"); Rod Serling ("The Twilight Zone"), 202 ("Shortly, unpleasantly so, it will come to him that [...]");

'''Närrisch, Klaus''' 
456; German: "foolish, crazy"; "lumpy nose, stoop, week's growth of orange and gray whiskers"; worked with Achtfaden on S-gerät; at Peenemünde with Slothrop et al., 495; "guidance man," 516; "he worked in guidance, he was Schilling's best man, he knows more about integrating circuits than anybody" 527; under narcohypnosis - captured by Russians for his guidance knowledge, 563

'''National Research Council''' 
84; gave Jamf a grant for his Infant Tyrone study; "depth studies [...] that indicated an unacceptable 36% of the male work force weren't paying enough attention to their cocks" 581;

'''Nayland-Smith, Sir Denis''' 
83; Character in Sax Rohmer's (English, 1883-1959) Fu Manchu novels; first appeared in The Insidious Doctor Fu Manchu (originally titled The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu) (1913); Denis Nayland-Smith, nephew of Sherlock Holmes, was the detective who most commonly opposed the insidious schemes of Dr Fu Manchu. With the assistance of Dr Petrie he battled the devil doctor and his minions every time their evil reared it's ugly head.; 277-78, 592, 631; 751

'''Nazi Party''' 
"For every government agency, the Nazi Party set up a duplicate" 421;

'''Neubabelsberg''' 
364; location of the Havel in Berlin where Potsdam Conference was held; 371; See also Potsdam Conference

'''Neukölln''' 
152; neighborhood in the southeastern part of Berlin; has one of the highest percentage of immigrants in the city; where Byron is taken, to "the home of a glassblower", 651

'''New Dealers''' 
77; Started in 1933 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the "New Deal" program was set up to combat the Great Depression, by 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.

'''News of the World''' 
215 A British tabloid known as a purveyor of titillation, shock and criminal news; also closely associated with conservative political views. Both editions of Weisenburger describe it as a daily: it is a Sunday weekly.

'''Newton, Isaac''' 
555; "It was a little early for ~, but feelings about action and reaction were in the air"

'''Niederdorf''' 
261; in Zürich

'''Niedersächsisch''' 
465; Niedersachsen (Eng., Lower Saxony) is a north German state

'''Nielsen, Asta''' 
415; Nora D-T's "long Asta Nielsen upper lip." Weisenburger erroneously calls Asta Nielsen Swedish: She was Danish (born in Copenhagen, 1881)

'''Nieman-Marcus''' 
Nieman-Marcus is a higher-quality department store582; bowl from, at the Tracys' home

'''Night's Mad Carnival''' 
133

'''nihilism''' 
cheap nihilism, 57, 58, 129; Malcolm "the Unthinkable Nihilist," 64; "Nihilist transposition," 72; "nihilistic--pleasure," 96; Nora Dotson-Truck, "erotic nihilist," 149; "bones and heart alert to Nothing" 267; Tchitcherine "comes from Nihilist stock," 338; "Slothrop at the rail looking at nothing" 527; See also [[V#vacuum|vacuum]]; [[V#void|Void]]; [[XYZ#zero|Zero]]

'''Nikolaikirche''' 
398; "onion-topped" building at Zwölfkinder where Pökler is staying

'''1922 Committee''' 
Within the British Parliament, members of the Conservative party are organized into a group known as the 1922 Committee (so called because it first met in 1922); "coming in the windows" 615

'''Nipple, Lloyd''' 
374; from Slothrop's childhood

'''NISO''' 
273; According to McGovern, NISO is the Scientific Research Institute for Airplane Equipment

'''Noble, Charlie''' 
739; "A Raketen-Stadt Charlie Noble" 739

'''Norden device''' 
151;

'''Nordhausen''' 
240; city in central Germany in the Harz mountains, near which the Mittelwerke was located; given to Soviets per Yalta Agreement, 273; Americans crating out A4 rockets before Russians take over, 295; "Nordhausen means dwellings in the north. The Rocket had to be produced out of a place called Nordhausen." 322; 718 [[MAP]]

'''Norma''' 
22; a Wren Slothrop is dating; 25

'''Norrmalm, Södermalm, Deer Park and Old City''' 
141; all areas of Stockholm

'''Nosepicker, Neil''' 
83; Book of 50,000 Insults

'''Notgeld''' 
285; German: "Not" = "emergency" (issue of) "geld" = "money". At a time when the Mark was being manipulated into heavy devaluation by deliberate inflation to minimise WW1 reparations payments, Schacht issued this secret, stable currency to industrialists so they could meaningfully pay each other's bills.

'''nouns used as verbs (and sometimes reconverted into nouns)''' 
chevroning, 64; sinewaving, 67; historied, 71; fingernailed, 117; tendoning, 124; osmosed, 213; "paranoids from door to door" 254; palimpsested, 266; dopplering, 310; "water squeegeeing off" 460; sneaky-peteing, 508; gangstering, 518; "another shot rattlesnaking off of a bulkhead" 529; worded over, 589

'''Novi Pazar''' 
The sanjak (district) of Novi Pazar is a primarily Moslem town in southwest Serbia; "Who'd ever think-it, could start such a flap? [...] the san-jak of Novi Pazar" 14-15; See also [[B#balkan|Balkan Intrigues]]

'''NSB credentials''' 
95; Nationalsocialistische Bewegung, the puppet Dutch National Socialist (Nazi) movement, led by Anton Mussert, hence also 'Mussert's people' 97; See also Rexist

<div id="nta"></div>'''N.T.A.''' 
339; New Turkic Alphabet; written language imposed on Central Asia by Russians; 341; Cyrillic NTA, 354; plenary session, 355; "first Central Asian fuck you signs," 355; See also [[#naming|naming]]; [[R#routinization|Routinization/Rationalization of Charisma]]

<div id="nusselt"></div>'''Nusselt heart-transfer coefficient''' 
453; One would have expected "heat-transfer," but this "typo," having persisted since ''Gravity's Rainbow'''s publication in 1973, may be intentional, perhaps indicative of Slothrop's state when he's thinking of it, falling for Katje while, post-coitus, she has him running down boundary-layer temperatures. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_transfer_coefficient But if you're ''really'' curious about Nusselt heat-transfer coefficients...]

'''Nutria''' 
38; a nutria is a web-footed South American aquatic rodent whose fur is used in the same way as, say, the more expensive beaver fur

'''NW7''' 
344; IG office in Berlin to which its salesmen/spies reported; 630

'''Nymphenburg''' 
Hunting lodge in Amalienburg, designed by Cuvilliés; "von Göll on his camera dolly [...] barrel-assing down the long corridors at" 750

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'''NAAFI''' 
35; Navy, Army, Air Forces Institute; civilian support of war effort with entertainment, food, etc.; 134; NAAFI girls, 593, 710; [http://www.naafi.co.uk]

<div id="naming"></div>'''naming''' 
"Was Our Side seeking to demoralize the German Beast by broadcasting to him random thoughts of the mad, naming for him [...] the deep, the scarcely seen" 74; "snare them in words," 99; "words are only an eye-twitch away from the things they stand for," 100; "No language meant no chance of co-opting them in to what their round and flaxen invaders were calling Salvation" 110; "before wishes were given a separate name to warn that they might not come true" 177; "stuffed paper illusions. . .between him and this truth," 234; "fear of having a soul captured. . .by a name," 302; "Can his name. . .break their power?" 321; "the act of," 322, 366; Nameless Thing, 341; "How alphabetic the nature of molecules," 355; German mania for name-giving, separating namer from named, 391; 443; "those names are not magic," 464; "verbal, ranked and uniformed," 478; "children at the threshold of language," 487; "words. . .only delta-t from the things they stand for," 510; "worded over," 589; "secret Function whose name. . .cannot be spoken," 590; "a screen of words between himself and the numinous," 668; "holy names of God," 734; "Names of Power," 734; See also [[#nta|NTA]]; [[R#routinization|Routinization of Charisma]]

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

'''Nansen, Fridtjof (1861-1930)''' 
589; Norwegian explorer, oceanographer, statesman, and humanitarian who led a number of expeditions to the Arctic (1888, 1893, 1895-96) and oceanographic expeditions in the North Atlantic (1900, 1910-14).

'''naphtha''' 
3; a colorless, volatile petroleum distillate, usually an intermediate product between gasoline and benzene, used as a solvent and as a fuel — Webster's; aka lighter fluid

'''Napolean Bonaparte (1769-1821)''' 
French general who was first consul and then emperor of the French, carried out many far-reaching reforms and through military force attempted to expand France's dominion (though he left France smaller than it had been at the outbreak of the Revolution in 1789). Until the end of the Second Empire under his nephew Napoleon III he was hailed as one of history's great heroes; "hats with and without Ns on them" 664

'''narodnik''' 
From "narod" - people. Idealistic movement among Russian intellectuals in the post-emancipation period of the 19th century. They quit their urban life and attempted to "go to the people". Establishing themselves in villages, they tried to be of use to the peasantry, to get them into motion, but the peasants were generally suspicious of outsiders from other orders of society. Their politics were greatly influenced by the works of Karl Marx; "No, they are making believe to be narodnik, but I know, they are of Iasi, of Codreanu" 11

'''narrative voices''' 
"Well Respected Man" (by The Kinks), 167 ("And the crowds they swarm in Knightsbridge, and the wordless carols drone [&c.]"); Rod Serling ("The Twilight Zone"), 202 ("Shortly, unpleasantly so, it will come to him that [...]");

'''Närrisch, Klaus''' 
456; German: "foolish, crazy"; "lumpy nose, stoop, week's growth of orange and gray whiskers"; worked with Achtfaden on S-gerät; at Peenemünde with Slothrop et al., 495; "guidance man," 516; "he worked in guidance, he was Schilling's best man, he knows more about integrating circuits than anybody" 527; under narcohypnosis - captured by Russians for his guidance knowledge, 563

'''National Research Council''' 
84; gave Jamf a grant for his Infant Tyrone study; "depth studies [...] that indicated an unacceptable 36% of the male work force weren't paying enough attention to their cocks" 581;

'''Nayland-Smith, Sir Denis''' 
83; Character in Sax Rohmer's (English, 1883-1959) Fu Manchu novels; first appeared in The Insidious Doctor Fu Manchu (originally titled The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu) (1913); Denis Nayland-Smith, nephew of Sherlock Holmes, was the detective who most commonly opposed the insidious schemes of Dr Fu Manchu. With the assistance of Dr Petrie he battled the devil doctor and his minions every time their evil reared it's ugly head.; 277-78, 592, 631; 751

'''Nazi Party''' 
"For every government agency, the Nazi Party set up a duplicate" 421;

'''Neubabelsberg''' 
364; location of the Havel in Berlin where Potsdam Conference was held; 371; See also Potsdam Conference

'''Neukölln''' 
152; neighborhood in the southeastern part of Berlin; has one of the highest percentage of immigrants in the city; where Byron is taken, to "the home of a glassblower", 651

'''New Dealers''' 
77; Started in 1933 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the "New Deal" program was set up to combat the Great Depression, by 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.

'''News of the World''' 
215 A British tabloid known as a purveyor of titillation, shock and criminal news; also closely associated with conservative political views. Both editions of Weisenburger describe it as a daily: it is a Sunday weekly.

'''Newton, Isaac''' 
555; "It was a little early for ~, but feelings about action and reaction were in the air"

'''Niederdorf''' 
261; in Zürich

'''Niedersächsisch''' 
465; Niedersachsen (Eng., Lower Saxony) is a north German state

'''Nielsen, Asta''' 
415; Nora D-T's "long Asta Nielsen upper lip." Weisenburger erroneously calls Asta Nielsen Swedish: She was Danish (born in Copenhagen, 1881)

'''Nieman-Marcus''' 
Nieman-Marcus is a higher-quality department store582; bowl from, at the Tracys' home

'''Night's Mad Carnival''' 
133

'''nihilism''' 
cheap nihilism, 57, 58, 129; Malcolm "the Unthinkable Nihilist," 64; "Nihilist transposition," 72; "nihilistic--pleasure," 96; Nora Dotson-Truck, "erotic nihilist," 149; "bones and heart alert to Nothing" 267; Tchitcherine "comes from Nihilist stock," 338; "Slothrop at the rail looking at nothing" 527; See also [[V#vacuum|vacuum]]; [[V#void|Void]]; [[XYZ#zero|Zero]]

'''Nikolaikirche''' 
398; "onion-topped" building at Zwölfkinder where Pökler is staying

'''1922 Committee''' 
Within the British Parliament, members of the Conservative party are organized into a group known as the 1922 Committee (so called because it first met in 1922); "coming in the windows" 615

'''Nipple, Lloyd''' 
374; from Slothrop's childhood

'''NISO''' 
273; According to McGovern, NISO is the Scientific Research Institute for Airplane Equipment

'''Noble, Charlie''' 
739; "A Raketen-Stadt Charlie Noble" 739

'''Norden device''' 
151;

'''Nordhausen''' 
240; city in central Germany in the Harz mountains, near which the Mittelwerke was located; given to Soviets per Yalta Agreement, 273; Americans crating out A4 rockets before Russians take over, 295; "Nordhausen means dwellings in the north. The Rocket had to be produced out of a place called Nordhausen." 322; 718 [[MAP]]

'''Norma''' 
22; a Wren Slothrop is dating; 25

'''Norrmalm, Södermalm, Deer Park and Old City''' 
141; all areas of Stockholm

'''Nosepicker, Neil''' 
83; Book of 50,000 Insults

'''Notgeld''' 
285; German: "Not" = "emergency" (issue of) "geld" = "money"

'''nouns used as verbs (and sometimes reconverted into nouns)''' 
chevroning, 64; sinewaving, 67; historied, 71; fingernailed, 117; tendoning, 124; osmosed, 213; "paranoids from door to door" 254; palimpsested, 266; dopplering, 310; "water squeegeeing off" 460; sneaky-peteing, 508; gangstering, 518; "another shot rattlesnaking off of a bulkhead" 529; worded over, 589

'''Novi Pazar''' 
The sanjak (district) of Novi Pazar is a primarily Moslem town in southwest Serbia; "Who'd ever think-it, could start such a flap? [...] the san-jak of Novi Pazar" 14-15; See also [[B#balkan|Balkan Intrigues]]

'''NSB credentials''' 
95; Nationalsocialistische Bewegung, the puppet Dutch National Socialist (Nazi) movement, led by Anton Mussert, hence also 'Mussert's people' 97; See also Rexist

<div id="nta"></div>'''N.T.A.''' 
339; New Turkic Alphabet; written language imposed on Central Asia by Russians; 341; Cyrillic NTA, 354; plenary session, 355; "first Central Asian fuck you signs," 355; See also [[#naming|naming]]; [[R#routinization|Routinization/Rationalization of Charisma]]

<div id="nusselt"></div>'''Nusselt heart-transfer coefficient''' 
453; One would have expected "heat-transfer," but this "typo," having persisted since ''Gravity's Rainbow'''s publication in 1973, may be intentional, perhaps indicative of Slothrop's state when he's thinking of it, falling for Katje while, post-coitus, she has him running down boundary-layer temperatures. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_transfer_coefficient But if you're ''really'' curious about Nusselt heat-transfer coefficients...]

'''Nutria''' 
38; a nutria is a web-footed South American aquatic rodent whose fur is used in the same way as, say, the more expensive beaver fur

'''NW7''' 
344; IG office in Berlin to which its salesmen/spies reported; 630

'''Nymphenburg''' 
Hunting lodge in Amalienburg, designed by Cuvilliés; "von Göll on his camera dolly [...] barrel-assing down the long corridors at" 750

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'''NAAFI''' 
35; Navy, Army, Air Forces Institute; civilian support of war effort with entertainment, food, etc.; 134; NAAFI girls, 593, 710; [http://www.naafi.co.uk]

<div id="naming"></div>'''naming''' 
"Was Our Side seeking to demoralize the German Beast by broadcasting to him random thoughts of the mad, naming for him [...] the deep, the scarcely seen" 74; "snare them in words," 99; "words are only an eye-twitch away from the things they stand for," 100; "No language meant no chance of co-opting them in to what their round and flaxen invaders were calling Salvation" 110; "before wishes were given a separate name to warn that they might not come true" 177; "stuffed paper illusions. . .between him and this truth," 234; "fear of having a soul captured. . .by a name," 302; "Can his name. . .break their power?" 321; "the act of," 322, 366; Nameless Thing, 341; "How alphabetic the nature of molecules," 355; German mania for name-giving, separating namer from named, 391; 443; "those names are not magic," 464; "verbal, ranked and uniformed," 478; "children at the threshold of language," 487; "words. . .only delta-t from the things they stand for," 510; "worded over," 589; "secret Function whose name. . .cannot be spoken," 590; "a screen of words between himself and the numinous," 668; "holy names of God," 734; "Names of Power," 734; See also [[#nta|NTA]]; [[R#routinization|Routinization of Charisma]]

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

'''Nansen, Fridtjof (1861-1930)''' 
589; Norwegian explorer, oceanographer, statesman, and humanitarian who led a number of expeditions to the Arctic (1888, 1893, 1895-96) and oceanographic expeditions in the North Atlantic (1900, 1910-14).

'''naphtha''' 
3; a colorless, volatile petroleum distillate, usually an intermediate product between gasoline and benzene, used as a solvent and as a fuel — Webster's; aka lighter fluid

'''Napolean Bonaparte (1769-1821)''' 
French general who was first consul and then emperor of the French, carried out many far-reaching reforms and through military force attempted to expand France's dominion (though he left France smaller than it had been at the outbreak of the Revolution in 1789). Until the end of the Second Empire under his nephew Napoleon III he was hailed as one of history's great heroes; "hats with and without Ns on them" 664

'''narodnik''' 
From "narod" - people. Idealistic movement among Russian intellectuals in the post-emancipation period of the 19th century. They quit their urban life and attempted to "go to the people". Establishing themselves in villages, they tried to be of use to the peasantry, to get them into motion, but the peasants were generally suspicious of outsiders from other orders of society. Their politics were greatly influenced by the works of Karl Marx; "No, they are making believe to be narodnik, but I know, they are of Iasi, of Codreanu" 11

'''narrative voices''' 
"Well Respected Man" (by The Kinks), 167 ("And the crowds they swarm in Knightsbridge, and the wordless carols drone [&c.]"); Rod Serling ("The Twilight Zone"), 202 ("Shortly, unpleasantly so, it will come to him that [...]");

'''Närrisch, Klaus''' 
456; German: "foolish, crazy"; "lumpy nose, stoop, week's growth of orange and gray whiskers"; worked with Achtfaden on S-gerät; at Peenemünde with Slothrop et al., 495; "guidance man," 516; "he worked in guidance, he was Schilling's best man, he knows more about integrating circuits than anybody" 527; under narcohypnosis - captured by Russians for his guidance knowledge, 563

'''National Research Council''' 
84; gave Jamf a grant for his Infant Tyrone study; "depth studies [...] that indicated an unacceptable 36% of the male work force weren't paying enough attention to their cocks" 581;

'''Nayland-Smith, Sir Denis''' 
83; Character in Sax Rohmer's (English, 1883-1959) Fu Manchu novels; first appeared in The Insidious Doctor Fu Manchu (originally titled The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu) (1913); Denis Nayland-Smith, nephew of Sherlock Holmes, was the detective who most commonly opposed the insidious schemes of Dr Fu Manchu. With the assistance of Dr Petrie he battled the devil doctor and his minions every time their evil reared it's ugly head.; 277-78, 592, 631; 751

'''Nazi Party''' 
"For every government agency, the Nazi Party set up a duplicate" 421;

'''Neubabelsberg''' 
364; location of the Havel in Berlin where Potsdam Conference was held; 371; See also Potsdam Conference

'''Neukölln''' 
152; neighborhood in the southeastern part of Berlin; has one of the highest percentage of immigrants in the city; where Byron is taken, to "the home of a glassblower", 651

'''New Dealers''' 
77; Started in 1933 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the "New Deal" program was set up to combat the Great Depression, by 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.

'''News of the World''' 
215 A British tabloid known as a purveyor of titillation, shock and criminal news; also closely associated with conservative political views. Both editions of Weisenburger describe it as a daily: it is a Sunday weekly.

'''Newton, Isaac''' 
555; "It was a little early for ~, but feelings about action and reaction were in the air"

'''Niederdorf''' 
261; in Zürich

'''Niedersächsisch''' 
465; Niedersachsen (Eng., Lower Saxony) is a north German state

'''Nielsen, Asta''' 
415; Nora D-T's "long Asta Nielsen upper lip." Weisenburger erroneously calls Asta Nielsen Swedish: She was Danish (born in Copenhagen, 1881)

'''Nieman-Marcus''' 
Nieman-Marcus is a higher-quality department store582; bowl from, at the Tracys' home

'''Night's Mad Carnival''' 
133

'''nihilism''' 
cheap nihilism, 57, 58, 129; Malcolm "the Unthinkable Nihilist," 64; "Nihilist transposition," 72; "nihilistic--pleasure," 96; Nora Dotson-Truck, "erotic nihilist," 149; "bones and heart alert to Nothing" 267; Tchitcherine "comes from Nihilist stock," 338; "Slothrop at the rail looking at nothing" 527; See also [[V#vacuum|vacuum]]; [[V#void|Void]]; [[XYZ#zero|Zero]]

'''Nikolaikirche''' 
398; "onion-topped" building at Zwölfkinder where Pökler is staying

'''1922 Committee''' 
Within the British Parliament, members of the Conservative party are organized into a group known as the 1922 Committee (so called because it first met in 1922); "coming in the windows" 615

'''Nipple, Lloyd''' 
374; from Slothrop's childhood

'''NISO''' 
273; According to McGovern, NISO is the Scientific Research Institute for Airplane Equipment

'''Noble, Charlie''' 
739; "A Raketen-Stadt Charlie Noble" 739

'''Norden device''' 
151;

'''Nordhausen''' 
240; city in central Germany in the Harz mountains, near which the Mittelwerke was located; given to Soviets per Yalta Agreement, 273; Americans crating out A4 rockets before Russians take over, 295; "Nordhausen means dwellings in the north. The Rocket had to be produced out of a place called Nordhausen." 322; 718 [[MAP]]

'''Norma''' 
22; a Wren Slothrop is dating; 25

'''Norrmalm, Södermalm, Deer Park and Old City''' 
141; all areas of Stockholm

'''Nosepicker, Neil''' 
83; Book of 50,000 Insults

'''Notgeld''' 
285; German: "Not" = "emergency" (issue of) "geld" = "money"

'''nouns used as verbs (and sometimes reconverted into nouns)''' 
chevroning, 64; sinewaving, 67; historied, 71; fingernailed, 117; tendoning, 124; osmosed, 213; "paranoids from door to door" 254; palimpsested, 266; dopplering, 310; "water squeegeeing off" 460; sneaky-peteing, 508; gangstering, 518; "another shot rattlesnaking off of a bulkhead" 529; worded over, 589

'''Novi Pazar''' 
The sanjak (district) of Novi Pazar is a primarily Moslem town in southwest Serbia; "Who'd ever think-it, could start such a flap? [...] the san-jak of Novi Pazar" 14-15; See also [[B#balkan|Balkan Intrigues]]

'''NSB credentials''' 
95; Nationalsocialistische Bewegung, the Dutch national socialist movement; See also Rexist

<div id="nta"></div>'''N.T.A.''' 
339; New Turkic Alphabet; written language imposed on Central Asia by Russians; 341; Cyrillic NTA, 354; plenary session, 355; "first Central Asian fuck you signs," 355; See also [[#naming|naming]]; [[R#routinization|Routinization/Rationalization of Charisma]]

<div id="nusselt"></div>'''Nusselt heart-transfer coefficient''' 
453; One would have expected "heat-transfer," but this "typo," having persisted since ''Gravity's Rainbow'''s publication in 1973, may be intentional, perhaps indicative of Slothrop's state when he's thinking of it, falling for Katje while, post-coitus, she has him running down boundary-layer temperatures. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_transfer_coefficient But if you're ''really'' curious about Nusselt heat-transfer coefficients...]

'''Nutria''' 
38; a nutria is a web-footed South American aquatic rodent whose fur is used in the same way as, say, the more expensive beaver fur

'''NW7''' 
344; IG office in Berlin to which its salesmen/spies reported; 630

'''Nymphenburg''' 
Hunting lodge in Amalienburg, designed by Cuvilliés; "von Göll on his camera dolly [...] barrel-assing down the long corridors at" 750

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Adjective '''tantivy''': a galloping gait

Verb '''to maffick''': described the jubilant celebrating of British troops
after they successfully defended Mafeking during the Second Boer War (1899-1900).

'''mucker''': British slang for one who employs himself in low pursuits; also (as 'old mucker') for a friend

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20.36 '''TDY''' 
Not "tour of duty," as in Weisenburger, but "temporary duty."

20.37 '''East End'''
This is the East End of London, particularly heavily bombed by the Germans in the war as London's docks were situated there. It was, and still is, the area where the poorest people of London live. Famously, Queen Elizabeth's mother made a royal visit there during the war where she was enthusiastically received.

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21.07 '''A lot of stuff prior to 1944 is getting blurry now.''' 
Even this early in the novel, Slothrop has problems with his "temporal bandwidth."

21.36 '''86’d''' 
While sources do agree with Weisenburger that the term "86" might originate in rhyming slang (for "nix"), they also agree that it was first used in the restaurant business to indicate menu items that were no longer available. The wider usage here may not have originated until the 1950s.

21 '''Tantivy's guest at the Junior Athenaeum''' 
According to the London Encyclopedia the Junior Athenaeum purchased Hope House at 116 Piccadilly in 1868, owning it until the building was demolished in 1936. The JA appears to have closed its doors in 1931, making this a possible anachronism. The Athenaeum Club proper is the most intellectually elite of the gentlemen's clubs; Darwin, Dickens and Trollope were members and Michael Faraday was secretary of the first committee.

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22.04 '''Frick Frack Club''' 
The term "frick and frack" is often used to designate two people or almost any two items closely associated with each other. The term originates from the stage names of a pair of Swiss skaters who starred in ice shows in the 1930s. Pynchon probably chose the name more for its senseless alliteration (like "Kit-Kat Club") than any specific meaning.

22 '''a build out of the chorus line at the Windmill'''; also p39 "It's not backstage at the Windmill" 
The Windmill opened in 1932 in a building which had been the Palais de Luxe Cinema and then a theatre. It featured comedy and burlesque revues. The only London theatre to remain open throughout the war, the Windmill continued until 1964 when it became a cinema, reverted to a strip club in 1973, became a theatre/restaurant in 1982 and finally re-opened as a strip club in 1986. From a recent advertisement: "The Windmill International - London's Premier Tableside Dancing Club with 75 Beautiful Dancing Girls who will perform tableside for you - full Nudity - fantastic stage and light show - Dress Smart".

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23.10 '''Bovril''' 
A beef extract--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. The method for making the extract was perfected by Justus von Liebig, who co-founded the eponymous London based company.

23.19 '''Wrens''' 
Women's Royal Naval Service - British civilian support group of war effort

23.25 '''Ike jacket''' 
Eisenhower jacket--officially the M-44; a waist-cropped style jacket designed in 1943 and meant to be worn beneath the standard US field jacket, the M-43, as an added layer of insulation; supposedly made at Eisenhower's request

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25.06-07 '''Slothrop’s Progress . . . a parable''' 
"Slothrop’s Progress" echoes John Bunyan’s Puritan allegory ''The Pilgrim’s Progress''. The word "parable," interestingly, comes from the same root as "parabola."

Slothrop's Progress may be Time itself. Sir Arthur Eddington coined the term "time's arrow" to describe entropy's progress and time's irreversibility-- i.e. "as the universe gets older, it becomes more disordered, following the second law of thermodynamics." Entropy's progress defines time. Cf. ''Scientific American'', Jan 2008, p.26 for more.

25. 29 '''Bond Street Underground station'''
This is a station in the wealthier West End of London - also a site on the British version of 'Monopoly'

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26.30 '''back home in Mingeborough, Massachusetts''' 
The Berkshire town was first created by Pynchon in the short story "The Secret Integration," set in the mid-1960s. This story also introduced the Slothrop family, in the person of Hogan Slothrop, who is apparently the son of Tyrone’s brother. Minges (or "midges") are small, biting insects. However, "minge" was originally also a British slang term for a woman's pubic hair, now generalised to the female genitals.

26.33 '''British Double Summer Time''' 
Correspondent Igor Zabel explains this term:
" . . . in Britain they had, during the war, the clocks an hour ahead in the winter time and two hours in the summer time."

26.37-38 '''Death is a debt to nature due . . . so must you.''' 
Weisenburger claims that this epitaph, with its debt to "nature" rather than God, would be heretical to Puritans. That might be so, but the inscription was fairly common on tombstones in the northeast from the mid-1700s until the early 1800s, a range that includes Constant’s 1760 death.

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27.04 '''Variable Slothrop''' 
The son of "Constant": The two names play a mathematical pun and suggest the family’s decline as well. Both names seem to be a pun as well on the name of Puritan minister and Harvard president, the Rev. Increase Mather of Massachusetts Bay Colony and his son, Cotton Mather. Increase attempted to decrease the heat surrounding the Salem Witch Trials through a series of sermons seeking moderation in the use of spectral evidence, even though he defended the trials and the judges. Parallels: Second law of thermodynamics - heated trials cooling. Increase-Cotton-Constant-Variable -- 

27.31-33 '''They began as fur traders, cordwainers, salters and smokers of bacon, went on into glassmaking, became selectmen, builders of tanneries, quarriers of marble.''' 
[[image:berkshire.jpg|thumb|100px|right]]One source listed in Weisenburger but that he did not have time to consult closely is ''The Berkshire Hills'' <ref>''The Berkshire Hills''', Funk & Wagnalls Company, New York, 1939</ref>, a guidebook prepared for this western Massachusetts region by the Federal Writers Project during the Depression. (See Pynchon’s comments in his introduction to ''Slow Learner''.) Although not the sole source, the book provides important background for "The Secret Integration" and the Berkshire segments of ''Gravity’s Rainbow''. Most of the offices and trades listed here (except for "smokers and salters of bacon") are noted at one place or another in the guidebook. Also see my article "From the Berkshires to the Brocken: Transformations of a Source in "The Secret Integration" and Gravity’s Rainbow," [http://www.ham.muohio.edu/~krafftjm/pynchon.html Pynchon Notes] 22-23 (Spring-Fall 1988): 87-98.

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28.02 '''converted acres at a clip into paper''' 
A paper clip?

28.02-03 '''paper—toilet paper, banknote stock, newsprint''' 
The Berkshire Hills describes several paper mills in the region and notes the importance of the industry. One producer, Crane and Company, first used the term "bond" for high-quality paper and provided special paper for U.S. currency from 1879 on <ref>Ibid, p. 238</ref>. Another company, in the town of Lee, gave the "first practical demonstration in America of the process of manufacturing paper from wood pulp instead of rags" <ref>Ibid, p. 143</ref>.

V28.33-34 '''Harrimans and Whitneys gone''' 
The Harrimans are mentioned in passing several times in The Berkshire Hills as being among the wealthy families who spent their summers in the region. William C. Whitney, President Cleveland’s Secretary of the Navy, is specifically mentioned as the founder of a vacation colony in Lenox in 1886 <ref>Ibid, p. 224</ref>.

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29.04 '''Hogan''' 
Tyrone Slothrop’s brother, presumably the father of the Hogan Slothrop of "The Secret Integration," set in the Berkshires a generation later.

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20.36 '''TDY''' 
Not "tour of duty," as in Weisenburger, but "temporary duty."

20.37 '''East End'''
This is the East End of London, particularly heavily bombed by the Germans in the war as London's docks were situated there. It was, and still is, the area where the poorest people of London live. Famously, Queen Elizabeth's mother made a royal visit there during the war where she was enthusiastically received.

==Page 21==

21.07 '''A lot of stuff prior to 1944 is getting blurry now.''' 
Even this early in the novel, Slothrop has problems with his "temporal bandwidth."

21.36 '''86’d''' 
While sources do agree with Weisenburger that the term "86" might originate in rhyming slang (for "nix"), they also agree that it was first used in the restaurant business to indicate menu items that were no longer available. The wider usage here may not have originated until the 1950s.

21 '''Tantivy's guest at the Junior Athenaeum''' 
According to the London Encyclopedia the Junior Athenaeum purchased Hope House at 116 Piccadilly in 1868, owning it until the building was demolished in 1936. The JA appears to have closed its doors in 1931, making this a possible anachronism. The Athenaeum Club proper is the most intellectually elite of the gentlemen's clubs; Darwin, Dickens and Trollope were members and Michael Faraday was secretary of the first committee.

==Page 22==

22.04 '''Frick Frack Club''' 
The term "frick and frack" is often used to designate two people or almost any two items closely associated with each other. The term originates from the stage names of a pair of Swiss skaters who starred in ice shows in the 1930s. Pynchon probably chose the name more for its senseless alliteration (like "Kit-Kat Club") than any specific meaning.

22 '''a build out of the chorus line at the Windmill'''; also p39 "It's not backstage at the Windmill" 
The Windmill opened in 1932 in a building which had been the Palais de Luxe Cinema and then a theatre. It featured comedy and burlesque revues. The only London theatre to remain open throughout the war, the Windmill continued until 1964 when it became a cinema, reverted to a strip club in 1973, became a theatre/restaurant in 1982 and finally re-opened as a strip club in 1986. From a recent advertisement: "The Windmill International - London's Premier Tableside Dancing Club with 75 Beautiful Dancing Girls who will perform tableside for you - full Nudity - fantastic stage and light show - Dress Smart".

==Page 23==

23.10 '''Bovril''' 
A beef extract--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. The method for making the extract was perfected by Justus von Liebig, who co-founded the eponymous London based company.

23.19 '''Wrens''' 
Women's Royal Naval Service - British civilian support group of war effort

23.25 '''Ike jacket''' 
Eisenhower jacket--officially the M-44; a waist-cropped style jacket designed in 1943 and meant to be worn beneath the standard US field jacket, the M-43, as an added layer of insulation; supposedly made at Eisenhower's request

==Page 25==

25.06-07 '''Slothrop’s Progress . . . a parable''' 
"Slothrop’s Progress" echoes John Bunyan’s Puritan allegory ''The Pilgrim’s Progress''. The word "parable," interestingly, comes from the same root as "parabola."

Slothrop's Progress may be Time itself. Sir Arthur Eddington coined the term "time's arrow" to describe entropy's progress and time's irreversibility-- i.e. "as the universe gets older, it becomes more disordered, following the second law of thermodynamics." Entropy's progress defines time. Cf. ''Scientific American'', Jan 2008, p.26 for more.

25. 29 '''Bond Street Underground station'''
This is a station in the wealthier West End of London - also a site on the British version of 'Monopoly'

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26.30 '''back home in Mingeborough, Massachusetts''' 
The Berkshire town was first created by Pynchon in the short story "The Secret Integration," set in the mid-1960s. This story also introduced the Slothrop family, in the person of Hogan Slothrop, who is apparently the son of Tyrone’s brother. Minges (or "midges") are small, biting insects. However, "minge" was originally also a British slang term for a woman's pubic hair, now generalised to the female genitals.

26.33 '''British Double Summer Time''' 
Correspondent Igor Zabel explains this term:
" . . . in Britain they had, during the war, the clocks an hour ahead in the winter time and two hours in the summer time."

26.37-38 '''Death is a debt to nature due . . . so must you.''' 
Weisenburger claims that this epitaph, with its debt to "nature" rather than God, would be heretical to Puritans. That might be so, but the inscription was fairly common on tombstones in the northeast from the mid-1700s until the early 1800s, a range that includes Constant’s 1760 death.

==Page 27==

27.04 '''Variable Slothrop''' 
The son of "Constant": The two names play a mathematical pun and suggest the family’s decline as well. Both names seem to be a pun as well on the name of Puritan minister and Harvard president, the Rev. Increase Mather of Massachusetts Bay Colony and his son, Cotton Mather. Increase attempted to decrease the heat surrounding the Salem Witch Trials through a series of sermons seeking moderation in the use of spectral evidence, even though he defended the trials and the judges. Parallels: Second law of thermodynamics - heated trials cooling. Increase-Cotton-Constant-Variable -- 

27.31-33 '''They began as fur traders, cordwainers, salters and smokers of bacon, went on into glassmaking, became selectmen, builders of tanneries, quarriers of marble.''' 
[[image:berkshire.jpg|thumb|100px|right]]One source listed in Weisenburger but that he did not have time to consult closely is ''The Berkshire Hills'' <ref>''The Berkshire Hills''', Funk & Wagnalls Company, New York, 1939</ref>, a guidebook prepared for this western Massachusetts region by the Federal Writers Project during the Depression. (See Pynchon’s comments in his introduction to ''Slow Learner''.) Although not the sole source, the book provides important background for "The Secret Integration" and the Berkshire segments of ''Gravity’s Rainbow''. Most of the offices and trades listed here (except for "smokers and salters of bacon") are noted at one place or another in the guidebook. Also see my article "From the Berkshires to the Brocken: Transformations of a Source in "The Secret Integration" and Gravity’s Rainbow," [http://www.ham.muohio.edu/~krafftjm/pynchon.html Pynchon Notes] 22-23 (Spring-Fall 1988): 87-98.

==Page 28==

28.02-03 '''paper—toilet paper, banknote stock, newsprint''' 
The Berkshire Hills describes several paper mills in the region and notes the importance of the industry. One producer, Crane and Company, first used the term "bond" for high-quality paper and provided special paper for U.S. currency from 1879 on <ref>Ibid, p. 238</ref>. Another company, in the town of Lee, gave the "first practical demonstration in America of the process of manufacturing paper from wood pulp instead of rags" <ref>Ibid, p. 143</ref>.

V28.33-34 '''Harrimans and Whitneys gone''' 
The Harrimans are mentioned in passing several times in The Berkshire Hills as being among the wealthy families who spent their summers in the region. William C. Whitney, President Cleveland’s Secretary of the Navy, is specifically mentioned as the founder of a vacation colony in Lenox in 1886 <ref>Ibid, p. 224</ref>.

==Page 29==

29.04 '''Hogan''' 
Tyrone Slothrop’s brother, presumably the father of the Hogan Slothrop of "The Secret Integration," set in the Berkshires a generation later.

==References==
<references/>

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'''run three times around the building without thinking of a fox and you can cure anything'''

Hofstadter says in his book that a cure for hiccups is to run three times around the building without thinking about the word "wolf". His source?

Which book? Probably his most-quoted-from one, ''Godel, Escher, Bach'' [[User:MKOHUT|MKOHUT]] 13:23, 8 July 2007 (PDT)

(Note that an injunction not to think of something is a perfect example of anthropologist Gregory Bateson's 'Double Bind'.)

==Page 48==

48.25 "''' . . . one of Lazslo Jamf’s subjects . . .''' " 
The name "Jamf" apparently derives from an acronym used by Charlie Parker: "'''J'''ive-'''A'''ss '''M'''other-'''F'''ucker"!

48.38 Transmarginal and Paradoxical phases 
see [[T#Transmarginal|here]]

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[[image:lymer.jpg|thumb|150px|Cobb & Beach at Lyme Regis|right]]51.31-32 '''the Ick Regis jetty''' 
The name is Pynchon’s but evokes "The Cobb," the famous jetty at the city of Lyme Regis on the southern coast of England. 

Regis is the Latin genitive of Rex, "the King" thus, "of the king."
As William Safire notes, "The colloquial noun and interjection [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/25/magazine/25onlanguage.html?_r=1&oref=slogin ick], as well as its adjectival form, icky, are terms of disgust, distaste and revulsion." Oedipa Maas uses the term in [http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_3 CoL49] in response to a grisly play. 

Combining Ick and Regis, could therefore render the anarchic sentiment "sick of the king."

Ick Regis, when spoken aloud, sounds like 'egregious'--perhaps a comment on the programs being run at the White Visitation?

Interestingly, for PISCES and White Visitation to be headquartered in a place named Ick Regis, brings associations with the fish sickness "ick" also known as [http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/FA006 the white spot disease], which is a severe dermatitis of freshwater fish caused by a protozoan of the genus Ichthyophthirius and is especially destructive in aquariums and hatcheries called also ichthyophthiriasis, ichthyophthirius. Hence, the "white visitation" could, again, be a sickness.

'''blastulablob''' 
Apparently a TRP neologism. More about blastulas here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blastula
--[[User:Jpicco|Jpicco]] 10:12, 16 May 2009 (PDT)

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'''Rundstedt offensive''' 
A reference to The Battle of the Bulge.
http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Rundstedt+Offensive
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'''run three times around the building without thinking of a fox and you can cure anything'''

Hofstadter says in his book that a cure for hiccups is to run three times around the building without thinking about the word "wolf". His source?

Which book? Probably his most-quoted-from one, ''Godel, Escher, Bach'' [[User:MKOHUT|MKOHUT]] 13:23, 8 July 2007 (PDT)

==Page 48==

48.25 "''' . . . one of Lazslo Jamf’s subjects . . .''' " 
The name "Jamf" apparently derives from an acronym used by Charlie Parker: "'''J'''ive-'''A'''ss '''M'''other-'''F'''ucker"!

48.38 Transmarginal and Paradoxical phases 
see [[T#Transmarginal|here]]

==Page 51==

[[image:lymer.jpg|thumb|150px|Cobb & Beach at Lyme Regis|right]]51.31-32 '''the Ick Regis jetty''' 
The name is Pynchon’s but evokes "The Cobb," the famous jetty at the city of Lyme Regis on the southern coast of England. 

Regis is the Latin genitive of Rex, "the King" thus, "of the king."
As William Safire notes, "The colloquial noun and interjection [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/25/magazine/25onlanguage.html?_r=1&oref=slogin ick], as well as its adjectival form, icky, are terms of disgust, distaste and revulsion." Oedipa Maas uses the term in [http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_3 CoL49] in response to a grisly play. 

Combining Ick and Regis, could therefore render the anarchic sentiment "sick of the king."

Ick Regis, when spoken aloud, sounds like 'egregious'--perhaps a comment on the programs being run at the White Visitation?

Interestingly, for PISCES and White Visitation to be headquartered in a place named Ick Regis, brings associations with the fish sickness "ick" also known as [http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/FA006 the white spot disease], which is a severe dermatitis of freshwater fish caused by a protozoan of the genus Ichthyophthirius and is especially destructive in aquariums and hatcheries called also ichthyophthiriasis, ichthyophthirius. Hence, the "white visitation" could, again, be a sickness.

'''blastulablob''' 
Apparently a TRP neologism. More about blastulas here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blastula
--[[User:Jpicco|Jpicco]] 10:12, 16 May 2009 (PDT)

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'''Rundstedt offensive''' 
A reference to The Battle of the Bulge.
http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Rundstedt+Offensive
--[[User:Jpicco|Jpicco]] 10:19, 16 May 2009 (PDT)
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297.36 '''Articles of Immachination''' 
As opposed to Articles of Incorporation

==Page 298==
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.

==Page 299==

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 with rope to lift the rocket to an upright position for testing.

The soldier was a practical joker, but just up to a few weeks earlier Dora-Mittelwerk cranes were used for real slow-hanging executions of prisoners.

==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)."

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311.32 '''"Icy Noctiluca"''' 
The original name for white Phosphorus, given by its discoverer, Hennig Brand in 1669. ('New Experiments and Observations made upon the Icy Noctiluca' — title of booklet by Robert Boyle, 1681)."

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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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==Page 297==
297.36 '''Articles of Immachination''' 
As opposed to Articles of Incorporation

==Page 298==
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.

==Page 299==

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 with rope to lift the rocket to an upright position for testing.

The soldier was a practical joker, but just up to a few weeks earlier Dora-Mittelwerk cranes were used for real slow-hanging executions of prisoners.

==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 311==
311.32 '''"Icy Noctiluca"''' 
The original name for white Phosphorus, given by its discoverer. ('New Experiments and Observations made upon the Icy Noctiluca' — title of booklet by Robert Boyle, 1681)."

==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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'''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; 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

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

'''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 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"

'''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; played State Prosecutor von Wenk in Dr. Mabuse, and "tender, wistful bureaucratic Death in Der Müde Tod"; "bourgeois Goetzkian death" 579;

'''Gold Star''' 
134; "your mother hoping to hang that"

'''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'.

'''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; 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, 112; 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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'''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

'''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

'''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 in West 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; 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.

'''Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961)''' 
292; American novelist and short-story writer

'''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 Holle''' 
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''' 
486; auto in which Erdmann was taken to The Castle; car priest uses to search for Byron, 653; [MORE]

'''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

'''Hitler, Adolph''' 
32; 116; 135; 151; 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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164; bomb developed by Spottbilligfilm AG to blind "whole populations"

<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

'''[[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" and inmate at the White Visitation who in 1925 escapes and leaps into the sea, i.e., "steps back into the void"

'''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;

'''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

'''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"; 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''' 
394; "von Göll had dreamed of making a film about"; "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

<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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'''Jablochkov candles''' 
351; Pavel Nikolayevich Jablochkov (1847-1894) was a Russian electrical engineer and inventor who developed the Jablochkov candle, the first arc lamp put to wide practical use and which greatly accelerated the development of electric lighting.

'''Jabos''' 
486; "Jabo" is derived from the German "Jäger-Bomber," or "fighter-bomber" (literally, "hunter-bomber").

'''Jacobistrasse 12''' 
436; where Säure Bummer can be found, according to message he leaves Slothrop in white plastic chess knight; 443;

'''[[Laszlo Jamf|JAMF, Laszlo]]'''

'''Janet, Pierre (1859-1947)''' 
Janet, a psychologist and neurologist, was influential in bringing about in France and the United States a connection between academic psychology and the clinical treatment of mental illnesses. He stressed psychological factors in hypnosis and contributed to the modern concept of mental and emotional disorders involving anxiety, phobias, and other abnormal behaviour. As a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Paris, Janet studied automatic acts and in his thesis (1889) introduced but did not amplify the concept of the unconscious, a situation that engendered a dispute with Sigmund Freud over priority; correspondence with Pavlov, 49, 87-88; Spectro as Pointsman's Janet, 142

'''Jeaach''' 
703; calls Oneirine hauntings "'the dullest hallucinations known to psychopharmacology'"

'''Jehovah's Witnesses''' 
681; German headquarters located in Magdeburg

'''Jello, James''' 
698; friend of Pirate's; "that year's King of Bohemian clowns"

'''Jennifer''' 
23; one of Slothrop's "girls"; 255; 271 See also Slothrop's girls/stars

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

'''jiu-jitsu''' 
416; Jiu-Jitsu, literally meaning the "art of softness", or "way of yielding", is a collective name for Japanese martial art styles including unarmed and armed techniques.

'''Joachim, Joseph (1831-1907)''' 
Hungarian composer and violin prodigy who founded the Joachim Quartet which was renowned for its performances of Bach, Mozart and Beethoven; "some hypothetical Joachim playing his own cadenza from the long-suppressed Rossini violin concerto" 684

'''Jo block''' 
621; From ''Webster's New International Dictionary'', 2d Ed., 1950:

:"Johannson gauge blocks: A set of a limited number of flat parallel gauge blocks ... of such accuracy and such thickness that when wrung together with the hand (the surfaces being first well cleansed) they have an adhesive power equal to many times that of the atmosphere and may be used as a standard for making measurements with an error of less than 1/100,000 of an inch." Thus, the Jo Block represents Ultimate Smoothness and Precision.

'''Johanna''' 
408; one of Ilse's playmates at Dora

'''Joint, Dennis''' 
272; representative from Shell Mex House at PISCES; 275; 277

'''jokes''' 
"What did the Cockney exclaim to the cowboy from San Antonio?" 168; "Erdschweinhöhle. This is a Herero joke" 315; "All you feel like listening to Beethoven is going out and invading Poland" 440; "[The robot] will prove to be addicted to one-liners that never quite come off for anyone but it." 645

'''Jollifox of the Cambridge School''' 
702; recurring themes in Oneirine hallucinations, due to the Pökler singularity, were named "mantic archetypes" by Jollifox

'''Jolly Jack Tar''' 
380; Slang: a sailor

'''Josef Israelplein''' 
241;

'''Joyce, James (1882-1941)''' 
Irish novelist noted for pushing the envelope in language and explorating new literary methods in such large, encyclopedic works as Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939); former patron of the Odeon, 262

'''Judaism/Jews''' 
"Jews also carry an element of guilt, of future blackmail, which operates, natch, in favor of the professionals." 105; "the Jewess reverting [...] to the bodily ... so sensual [...] the Judenschnautze feinting, [...] To do it not just with another woman, but with a Jewess....Their animal darkness" 156; Jewish wolf Pflaumbaum" 159; "stars of David" 160; "Knallt ab den Juden Rathenau,/Die gottverdammte Judensau" 163; "'We even have the Jew's blessing!'" 165; "The Welsh [...] once upon a time were Jewish too? one of the Lost Tribes of Israel" [...] What if we're all Jews, [...] scattered like seeds? 170; "the blacks and Jews, in their darkness" 172; "her face darkened, Judaized by the words she speaks" 219-20; Zionists, 390; "[Margherita] had got the idea somewhere that she was part Jewish" 474; "this holy Text had to be the Rocket [...] our Torah" 520; "mezuzah. Safe passage through a bad night" 563; "one-thim Brain Trusters. Jews, most of'm" 565; Hasidic communes, 613-14; See also God; Judeo-Christian

'''[[Judeo-Christian References|JUDEO-CHRISTIAN]''' 
See also Compline; God; Judaism/Jews; religion

'''Jugendstil cups''' 
Jugendstil (German: "Youth Style") arose in Germany in the mid-1890s and continuing through the first decade of the 20th century. Deriving its name from the Munich magazine Die Jugend ("Youth"), which featured Art Nouveau designs, the early period (before 1900) was mainly floral in character, rooted in English Art Nouveau and Japanese applied arts and prints; "tulip-shaped Jugendstil cups" 550

'''Juicy Jap''' 
558; "the doll that you fill with ketchup then bayonet through any of several access slots"

'''Jung, Carl (d. 1961)''' 
276; Swiss psychologist; "ancestral pool," 410; [[Carl Jung's Life/Death Parabola|The Life/Death Parabola]]

'''Jungfrau''' 
9; German: "young girl" usu. "Virgin Mary"; high mountain in the Swiss Alps overlooking the ski resort of Wengen; 106

'''Justus''' 
714; participates in "roasting" of Mexico

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'''Iasi''' 
11; county in NE Romania and also the capital city of that county, bordering Russia. During WWII, the city's Jewish population was massacred by the Germans. See also [[C#codreanu|Codreanu]]

'''Ibargüengoitia''' 
384; Argentinian contact in Zürich

'''I Ching''' 
Youthful Folly, 13 (the Anglo-name for Hexagram 4 (Meng) in the Wilhelm/Baynes translation); 746; "I Ching feet"; See also [[F#fu|Fu's Folly]]

'''Ichizo''' 
See [[K#komical|Komical Kamikazes]]

'''ICI''' 
35; Imperial Chemical Industries, aka "Icy Eye"; an English company of which IG Farben gained a controlling share; Clive Mossmoon works there doing polymer research; Clive Mossmoon at, 228; 248; agreement with Shell Oil, 250; and Josef Schleim, 630; "has cartel arrangements with Farben" 712

'''Ick Regis Abbey''' 
73; located near the White Visitation in Ick Regis; "its roof long ago taken at the manic whim of Henry VIII"; 138

'''Icy Noctiluca''' 
143; the original name given to phosphorus by its discoverer, Hennig Brand in 1669, and used in the title of a booklet by Robert Boyle, a milestone in the history of chemistry; 311

'''IG Chemie''' 
250; German "cover company" set up in Switzerland and later reconstituted as Psychochemie AG; 630

<div id="ig"></div>
'''[[IG Farben References|IG FARBEN]]''' 
[[IG Farben|Richard Sasuly's IG Farben History]]

'''Ilse''' 
See [[P#pokler-i|Pökler, Ilse]]

<div id="imipolex"></div>'''Imipolex G''' 
242; used as insulation for rocket; a new plastic, aromatic heterocyclic polymer, developed by in 1939. . .by one L. Jamf for IG Farben" 249; details, 249-50; "the company albatross" 261; "a fat file on" 283; "what's haunting [Slothrop] now will prove to be the smell of Imipolex G" 286; "a white knight, molded out of plastic" 436; "Oneirine Jamf Imipolex A4" 464; skinsuit at The Castle, 487; "This is Imipolex, the material of the future." 488; Imipolectique, 490; aromatic polyimide, 576; characteristics of, 699; shroud of, 751; "the Imipolex shroud. Flotsam from his childhood are rising through his attention" 754; See also [[A#aromatic|aromatic rings]];

Contributed by Peter Morris:

:The name Imipolex, in addition to being a pun (imitation pole), obviously stems from a combination of "imido" with a near-reversal of "explode", possibly in analogy with Igelit (IG Farben's PVC) and Igamid (IG Farben's nylon resin). IG Farben's polymers often had alphabetical suffixes (Buna S, Igelit G, Igamid A).

Also, in 2009 director Alex Ross Perry showed his film [http://impolexmovie.com/ ''Impolex''], an homage (sort of) to ''Gravity's Rainbow'', at [http://www.cinevegas.com/ CineVegas 2009]. Characters are Tyrone S. and Katje, and so forth.

'''Immachination/inanimateness''' 
"[Pirate's] skull feels made of metal." 5; "You will come to understand that between the two points, in the five minutes, [the rocket] lives an entire life." 209; "we're all such mechanical men. Doing our jobs. That's all we are." 216; Cybernetic Tradition, 238; robobopsters, 260; doll with human hair, 282; "orangutan on wheels [...] followed by a tiny black crow [...] also on wheels" 282; Articles of Immachination, 297; Rocket Limericks, 305 07, 311; "Tchitcherine, who is more metal than anything else. Steel teeth wink as he talks. Under his pompadour is a silver plate. Gold wirework threads in three-dimensional tattoo among the fine wreckage of cartilage and bone inside his right knee joint" 337; "Pökler was an extension of the Rocket, long before it was ever built" 402; "'move beyond life, toward the inorganic'" 580; "Bicycle riders ratcheted by, skeleton functional as their machines" 611;"His guide is a kind of squat robot, dark gray plastic with rolling headlamp eyes." 645; "French refugee kid, funny haircut with the ears perfectly outlined in hair that starts abruptly a quarter-inch strip of bare plastic skin away" 675; "Marcel, a mechanical chessplayer [with] exquisite 19th-century brainwork" 675; "Maybe there is a Machine to take us away, take us completely, suck us out through the electrodes out of the skull 'n' into the Machine and live there forever with all the other souls it's got stored there." 699; "a think matrix of wires, forming a rather close-set coordinate system over the Imipolectic Surface, whereby erectile and other commands could be sent to an area quite specific" 699-700; "What has actually grown itself a skin of Imipolex G" 700; "army surgeons and dentists will bond and hammer patent steel for life into [Tchitcherine's] suffering flesh [...] his initiation into the bodyhood of steel" 702; Stefan Utgarthaloki: "suave metal husband" 716;"this most immachinate of techniques, the Rocket" 728; "The golden hairs on his back, alloyed German gold" 750; "The two, boy and Rocket, concurrently designed. Its steel hindquarters bent so beautifully" 750-51; [Lang's Metropolis]; See also [[K#katspiel|Katspiel; [[M#marcel|Marcel the Mechanical Chessplayer]] at Floundering Four; [[Plasticman|Plasticman]]; [[R#ratchet|ratchet]]; [[R#rocketman|Rocketman]]

'''Immelmann''' 
The German ace Max Immelmann developed what became known as the Immelmann turn, in which an attacking fighter dove past the enemy plane, pulled sharply up into a vertical climb until it was above the target again, then turned hard to the side and down so that it could dive a second time; 619

'''Imperial style''' 
554; how William Slothrop headed west from Boston in 1634 or -5

'''Impressionist''' 
183; prints in D Wing of White Visitation, 231;

'''Industrial Age''' 
Following the first Industrial Revolution in the latter half of the 18th century which was marked by, among other things, the large-scale production of iron;172

'''Inflation, the''' 
284; 578; Stinnes "behind the scenes of apparent Inflation" 579; [Sasuly's IG Farben]

'''Information, Mr.''' 
644-45; and Skippy

'''information/messages''' 
"Slowly then, a revelation through the nacreous film of his seed, comes a message" 72; "a legend to be deciphered by lords of the winter" 73; "conversion factor between information and lives" 105; "a net of information" 165; "the only real medium of exchange" 258; mixed-up messages: "how'd you like to get fixed up with a big oilman tonight?" 243; "the sly hare who nests in the moon brought death among men, instead of the Moon's true message" 322; "Another lost message" 323; "the pure, the informationless state of signal zero" 404; "their power now lay. . .in information and expertise" 427; "travelers lost at the edge of the Evening. Come with a message" 435; "Saves you trouble later if you "The Mothers. . .exchange information" 505; "Maybe they're not dots. . .maybe they're dashes." 515; "we are not to be spared the ancient tragedy of lost messages" 520; "they don't want my information" 522; "[Katje] knows a message when she sees it. [...] It is a message, in code" 535; "a coming-together of opposites that signaled then his own approach to the Kirghiz Light. What does it signal this time?" 610-11; "what he was really drawing was the A4 rocket" 624; "no serial time over there: events are all there in the same eternal moment and so certain message don't always 'make sense' back here: they lack historical structure" 624; "Roger's shins are not set up for this kind of information" 632; "a face of metal" 635; "Is there information for us?" 642; Mr. Information, 644-45; "the War is keeping things alive. Things." 645; "it's only" 650; A Nickel Saved, 664; "The text of each issue of the magazine. . .yields many interesting messages" 665; messages, 666; "Hey man gimme some skin, man!" 675; message in cigarette pack, 680-81; Khlaetsch's cries for help, 683-84; "diversionary nuisance. . .or Decadent Aristocracy" 698; messages to Geli about Tchicherine, 719; can get the Texts straight as soon as they're spoken." 729; Henryk: "He's called 'the Hare' because he can never get messages right" 730; See also [[E#entropy|entropy]]

'''[[Innocence|INNOCENCE]]''' 
See also [[Pigs|Pigs]]

<div id="inside"></div>'''inside/outside''' 
"'It's control. All these things arise from one difficulty: control. For the first time it was inside, do you see. The control is put inside. No more need to suffer passively under 'outside forces'--to veer into any wind. [...] A market needed no longer be run by the Invisible Hand, but now could create itself--its own logic, momentum, style, from inside.'" 30; "the hovering statistical cherub who's never quite been to hell but speaks as if he's one of the most fallen" 57; "Inside and outside remain just as they were, but the interface [...] is changing" 78-79; "she fears the Change, choosing instead only trivially to revise what matters least, ornament and clothing, going no further than politic transvestism" 97; "Spectro did not differentiate as much as [Pointsman] between Outside and Inside" 141; "Outer Radiance" 148, 150; "allowing her beauty: to enter him or avoid him" 149; "he hasn't the nerve to reach in" 150; "'how far into one "far enough" really is'" 272; "daring him to enter and find a secret he cannot survive" 285; "as travel in the Interior becomes more common" 321; "located in time and space always just to miss grandeur, only to be in its vacuum" 324; "In and out of all the vibrant flesh moves the mad scavenger Tchitcherine" 337; "inside is outside" 373; Trudi crawling inside Slothrop's nose/skull, 439; Slothrop "inside his own cock" 470; "each lash, a little further in...till someday [...] she will have that first glimpse of it" 509; "[Tchitcherine] always to be held at the edges of revelations [...] his only illumination [at the Kirghiz Light] was that fear would always keep him from going all the way in" 566; "So far and no farther, is that it? You call that living?" 598; Pan: "Come in. . .forget them. Come in here" 656; "You don't have to come into this any further than locating Slothrop" 662; "How long can I get away with easy work, cheap exits? Shouldn't I be going all the way in?" 662; "Maximilian's doom is never to go any further into danger than its dapperness, its skin-exciting first feel" 676; Outside and Inside interpiercing one another too fast, too finely labyrinthine, for either category to have much hegemony anymore" 681; Oneirine-induced paranoia can be "a route In for those like Tchitcherine who are held at the edge...." 703; "Inner Voices" 711; "Outer Voices" 712; "the shrieking-outward, into the stone resonance, where there is no good or evil" 720; "Have you ever waited for it? wondering whether it will come from outside or inside?" 720; See also [[#interface|interface]]; [[M#mirrors|mirrors]]

'''Institute Rabe''' 
516; Närrisch "could've gone east with the"

<div id="interface"></div>'''[[Interfaces|INTERFACE]]''' 
See also [[D#deltat|delta-t]]; [[E#edges|edges]]; [[F#fingernails|fingernails]]; [[M#mirrors|mirrors]]; [[N#naming|naming]]; [[Z#zone|Zone]]

'''International Brigades''' 
International Brigades were groups of foreign volunteers who fought on the Republican side against the Nationalist forces during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). So called because their members initially came from some 50 countries. The International Brigades were recruited, organized, and directed by the Comintern (Communist International) headquarted in Paris; 605

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

'''''I Promessi Sposi''''' 
386; "politicians in 19th-century Italy" used to quote from; ''I Promessi Sposi'' (in English, ''The Betrothed'') is an Italian historical novel by Alessandro Manzoni. It is the most famous and widely read novel of the Italian language. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Betrothed Wikipedia entry]

'''[[Iron|IRON]]'''

'''iron queen''' 
3; One role for Persephone in mythology is as the dread queen of the Underworld, whose very name it was forbidden to speak. In the Odyssey, when Odysseus goes to the Underworld, he refers to her as the Iron Queen. (The 'Iron Queen' ia also a style of bedframe, but 'old as...' makes Persephone the more likely).

<div id="islam"></div>'''Islam''' 
"star-blotting Moslem angels" 341; "He's a blasphemer. Islam has its own machineries for that. Angels and sanctions" 355; "Allah has smiled on us" 365; "functions of Moslem angels" 705; See also [[K#koran|Koran]]

'''Italian''' 
299: '''sfacim-a:''' 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 jism. 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."

711: '''Cantabile e mesto:''' (musical performance instruction) very slow, melodious and sad

'''Italo''' 
246; at de la Perlimpinpin party; 261; The name is most likely a nod to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo_Calvino Italo Calvino, Italian writer of fiction/fantasy].

'''Iwo Jima''' 
Island that is part of the Volcano Islands archipelago, Japan. Under Japanese control until early in 1945, it became the scene of a fierce battle between Japanese and invading U.S. troops during the last phases of World War II. After nearly a month of fighting, it was finally captured by the United States; 690

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'''Iasi''' 
11; county in NE Romania and also the capital city of that county, bordering Russia. During WWII, the city's Jewish population was massacred by the Germans. See also [[C#codreanu|Codreanu]]

'''Ibargüengoitia''' 
384; Argentinian contact in Zürich

'''I Ching''' 
Youthful Folly, 13 (the Anglo-name for Hexagram 4 (Meng) in the Wilhelm/Baynes translation); 746; "I Ching feet"; See also [[F#fu|Fu's Folly]]

'''Ichizo''' 
See [[K#komical|Komical Kamikazes]]

'''ICI''' 
35; Imperial Chemical Industries, aka "Icy Eye"; an English company of which IG Farben gained a controlling share; Clive Mossmoon works there doing polymer research; Clive Mossmoon at, 228; 248; agreement with Shell Oil, 250; and Josef Schleim, 630; "has cartel arrangements with Farben" 712

'''Ick Regis Abbey''' 
73; located near the White Visitation in Ick Regis; "its roof long ago taken at the manic whim of Henry VIII"; 138

'''Icy Noctiluca''' 
143; the original name given to phosphorus by its discoverer, Hennig Brand in 1669, and used in the title of a booklet by Robert Boyle, a milestone in the history of chemistry; 311

'''IG Chemie''' 
250; German "cover company" set up in Switzerland and later reconstituted as Psychochemie AG; 630

<div id="ig"></div>
'''[[IG Farben References|IG FARBEN]]''' 
[[IG Farben|Richard Sasuly's IG Farben History]]

'''Ilse''' 
See [[P#pokler-i|Pökler, Ilse]]

<div id="imipolex"></div>'''Imipolex G''' 
242; used as insulation for rocket; a new plastic, aromatic heterocyclic polymer, developed by in 1939. . .by one L. Jamf for IG Farben" 249; details, 249-50; "the company albatross" 261; "a fat file on" 283; "what's haunting [Slothrop] now will prove to be the smell of Imipolex G" 286; "a white knight, molded out of plastic" 436; "Oneirine Jamf Imipolex A4" 464; skinsuit at The Castle, 487; "This is Imipolex, the material of the future." 488; Imipolectique, 490; aromatic polyimide, 576; characteristics of, 699; shroud of, 751; "the Imipolex shroud. Flotsam from his childhood are rising through his attention" 754; See also [[A#aromatic|aromatic rings]];

Contributed by Peter Morris:

:The name Imipolex, in addition to being a pun (imitation pole), obviously stems from a combination of "imido" with a near-reversal of "explode", possibly in analogy with Igelit (IG Farben's PVC) and Igamid (IG Farben's nylon resin). IG Farben's polymers often had alphabetical suffixes (Buna S, Igelit G, Igamid A).

Also, in 2009 director Alex Ross Perry showed his film [http://impolexmovie.com/ ''Impolex''], an homage (sort of) to ''Gravity's Rainbow'', at [http://www.cinevegas.com/ CineVegas 2009]. Characters are Tyrone S. and Katje, and so forth.

'''Immachination/inanimateness''' 
"[Pirate's] skull feels made of metal." 5; "You will come to understand that between the two points, in the five minutes, [the rocket] lives an entire life." 209; "we're all such mechanical men. Doing our jobs. That's all we are." 216; Cybernetic Tradition, 238; robobopsters, 260; doll with human hair, 282; "orangutan on wheels [...] followed by a tiny black crow [...] also on wheels" 282; Articles of Immachination, 297; Rocket Limericks, 305 07, 311; "Tchitcherine, who is more metal than anything else. Steel teeth wink as he talks. Under his pompadour is a silver plate. Gold wirework threads in three-dimensional tattoo among the fine wreckage of cartilage and bone inside his right knee joint" 337; "Pökler was an extension of the Rocket, long before it was ever built" 402; "'move beyond life, toward the inorganic'" 580; "Bicycle riders ratcheted by, skeleton functional as their machines" 611;"His guide is a kind of squat robot, dark gray plastic with rolling headlamp eyes." 645; "French refugee kid, funny haircut with the ears perfectly outlined in hair that starts abruptly a quarter-inch strip of bare plastic skin away" 675; "Marcel, a mechanical chessplayer [with] exquisite 19th-century brainwork" 675; "Maybe there is a Machine to take us away, take us completely, suck us out through the electrodes out of the skull 'n' into the Machine and live there forever with all the other souls it's got stored there." 699; "a think matrix of wires, forming a rather close-set coordinate system over the Imipolectic Surface, whereby erectile and other commands could be sent to an area quite specific" 699-700; "What has actually grown itself a skin of Imipolex G" 700; "army surgeons and dentists will bond and hammer patent steel for life into [Tchitcherine's] suffering flesh [...] his initiation into the bodyhood of steel" 702; Stefan Utgarthaloki: "suave metal husband" 716;"this most immachinate of techniques, the Rocket" 728; "The golden hairs on his back, alloyed German gold" 750; "The two, boy and Rocket, concurrently designed. Its steel hindquarters bent so beautifully" 750-51; [Lang's Metropolis]; See also [[K#katspiel|Katspiel; [[M#marcel|Marcel the Mechanical Chessplayer]] at Floundering Four; [[Plasticman|Plasticman]]; [[R#ratchet|ratchet]]; [[R#rocketman|Rocketman]]

'''Immelmann''' 
The German ace Max Immelmann developed what became known as the Immelmann turn, in which an attacking fighter dove past the enemy plane, pulled sharply up into a vertical climb until it was above the target again, then turned hard to the side and down so that it could dive a second time; 619

'''Imperial style''' 
554; how William Slothrop headed west from Boston in 1634 or -5

'''Impressionist''' 
183; prints in D Wing of White Visitation, 231;

'''Industrial Age''' 
Following the first Industrial Revolution in the latter half of the 18th century which was marked by, among other things, the large-scale production of iron;172

'''Inflation, the''' 
284; 578; Stinnes "behind the scenes of apparent Inflation" 579; [Sasuly's IG Farben]

'''Information, Mr.''' 
644-45; and Skippy

'''information/messages''' 
"Slowly then, a revelation through the nacreous film of his seed, comes a message" 72; "a legend to be deciphered by lords of the winter" 73; "conversion factor between information and lives" 105; "a net of information" 165; "the only real medium of exchange" 258; mixed-up messages: "how'd you like to get fixed up with a big oilman tonight?" 243; "the sly hare who nests in the moon brought death among men, instead of the Moon's true message" 322; "Another lost message" 323; "the pure, the informationless state of signal zero" 404; "their power now lay. . .in information and expertise" 427; "travelers lost at the edge of the Evening. Come with a message" 435; "Saves you trouble later if you "The Mothers. . .exchange information" 505; "Maybe they're not dots. . .maybe they're dashes." 515; "we are not to be spared the ancient tragedy of lost messages" 520; "they don't want my information" 522; "[Katje] knows a message when she sees it. [...] It is a message, in code" 535; "a coming-together of opposites that signaled then his own approach to the Kirghiz Light. What does it signal this time?" 610-11; "what he was really drawing was the A4 rocket" 624; "no serial time over there: events are all there in the same eternal moment and so certain message don't always 'make sense' back here: they lack historical structure" 624; "Roger's shins are not set up for this kind of information" 632; "a face of metal" 635; "Is there information for us?" 642; Mr. Information, 644-45; "the War is keeping things alive. Things." 645; "it's only" 650; A Nickel Saved, 664; "The text of each issue of the magazine. . .yields many interesting messages" 665; messages, 666; "Hey man gimme some skin, man!" 675; message in cigarette pack, 680-81; Khlaetsch's cries for help, 683-84; "diversionary nuisance. . .or Decadent Aristocracy" 698; messages to Geli about Tchicherine, 719; can get the Texts straight as soon as they're spoken." 729; Henryk: "He's called 'the Hare' because he can never get messages right" 730; See also [[E#entropy|entropy]]

'''[[Innocence|INNOCENCE]]''' 
See also [[Pigs|Pigs]]

<div id="inside"></div>'''inside/outside''' 
"'It's control. All these things arise from one difficulty: control. For the first time it was inside, do you see. The control is put inside. No more need to suffer passively under 'outside forces'--to veer into any wind. [...] A market needed no longer be run by the Invisible Hand, but now could create itself--its own logic, momentum, style, from inside.'" 30; "the hovering statistical cherub who's never quite been to hell but speaks as if he's one of the most fallen" 57; "Inside and outside remain just as they were, but the interface [...] is changing" 78-79; "she fears the Change, choosing instead only trivially to revise what matters least, ornament and clothing, going no further than politic transvestism" 97; "Spectro did not differentiate as much as [Pointsman] between Outside and Inside" 141; "Outer Radiance" 148, 150; "allowing her beauty: to enter him or avoid him" 149; "he hasn't the nerve to reach in" 150; "'how far into one "far enough" really is'" 272; "daring him to enter and find a secret he cannot survive" 285; "as travel in the Interior becomes more common" 321; "located in time and space always just to miss grandeur, only to be in its vacuum" 324; "In and out of all the vibrant flesh moves the mad scavenger Tchitcherine" 337; "inside is outside" 373; Trudi crawling inside Slothrop's nose/skull, 439; Slothrop "inside his own cock" 470; "each lash, a little further in...till someday [...] she will have that first glimpse of it" 509; "[Tchitcherine] always to be held at the edges of revelations [...] his only illumination [at the Kirghiz Light] was that fear would always keep him from going all the way in" 566; "So far and no farther, is that it? You call that living?" 598; Pan: "Come in. . .forget them. Come in here" 656; "You don't have to come into this any further than locating Slothrop" 662; "How long can I get away with easy work, cheap exits? Shouldn't I be going all the way in?" 662; "Maximilian's doom is never to go any further into danger than its dapperness, its skin-exciting first feel" 676; Outside and Inside interpiercing one another too fast, too finely labyrinthine, for either category to have much hegemony anymore" 681; Oneirine-induced paranoia can be "a route In for those like Tchitcherine who are held at the edge...." 703; "Inner Voices" 711; "Outer Voices" 712; "the shrieking-outward, into the stone resonance, where there is no good or evil" 720; "Have you ever waited for it? wondering whether it will come from outside or inside?" 720; See also [[#interface|interface]]; [[M#mirrors|mirrors]]

'''Institute Rabe''' 
516; Närrisch "could've gone east with the"

<div id="interface"></div>'''[[Interfaces|INTERFACE]]''' 
See also [[D#deltat|delta-t]]; [[E#edges|edges]]; [[F#fingernails|fingernails]]; [[M#mirrors|mirrors]]; [[N#naming|naming]]; [[Z#zone|Zone]]

'''International Brigades''' 
International Brigades were groups of foreign volunteers who fought on the Republican side against the Nationalist forces during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). So called because their members initially came from some 50 countries. The International Brigades were recruited, organized, and directed by the Comintern (Communist International) headquarted in Paris; 605

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

'''''I Promessi Sposi''''' 
386; "politicians in 19th-century Italy" used to quote from; ''I Promessi Sposi'' (in English, ''The Betrothed'') is an Italian historical novel by Alessandro Manzoni. It is the most famous and widely read novel of the Italian language. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Betrothed Wikipedia entry]

'''[[Iron|IRON]]'''

'''iron queen''' 
3; perhaps an iron (usually brass & iron) queen-sized bed

<div id="islam"></div>'''Islam''' 
"star-blotting Moslem angels" 341; "He's a blasphemer. Islam has its own machineries for that. Angels and sanctions" 355; "Allah has smiled on us" 365; "functions of Moslem angels" 705; See also [[K#koran|Koran]]

'''Italian''' 
299: '''sfacim-a:''' 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."

711: '''Cantabile e mesto:''' (musical performance instruction) very slow, melodious and sad

'''Italo''' 
246; at de la Perlimpinpin party; 261; The name is most likely a nod to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo_Calvino Italo Calvino, Italian writer of fiction/fantasy].

'''Iwo Jima''' 
Island that is part of the Volcano Islands archipelago, Japan. Under Japanese control until early in 1945, it became the scene of a fierce battle between Japanese and invading U.S. troops during the last phases of World War II. After nearly a month of fighting, it was finally captured by the United States; 690

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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; 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

'''George, Lloyd''' 
145; "likeness of [...] in heliotrope and sea-green"

'''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 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"

'''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; played State Prosecutor von Wenk in Dr. Mabuse, and "tender, wistful bureaucratic Death in Der Müde Tod"; "bourgeois Goetzkian death" 579;

'''Gold Star''' 
134; "your mother hoping to hang that"

'''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'.

'''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; 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, 112; 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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