https://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=JackrmannThomas Pynchon Wiki - User contributions [en]2026-06-04T17:39:45ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.43.6https://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Tyrone_Slothrop&diff=1919Tyrone Slothrop2006-12-19T19:19:28Z<p>Jackrmann: </p>
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==Page References==<br />
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shares office with Tantivy Mucker-Maffick at ACHTUNG,18<br />
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his map, 18, 22-23<br />
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his desk ("layers, over a base of bureaucratic smegma"), 18<br />
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looked at rocket-bomb disasters for ACHTUNG, 19<br />
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reassigned to PWE, 21<br />
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"A lot of stuff prior to 1944 is getting blurry now." 21<br />
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"how he got into investigating V-bomb incidents" 24<br />
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"a rocket with his name written on it" 25<br />
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erections, 26, 120, 225<br />
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aka "Schwartzknabe" (per Jamf), 286<br />
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aka "Ian Scuffling" (per Waxwing), 256<br />
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rockets and hardons, 26<br />
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genealogy, 26<br />
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discussed, 48-49<br />
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toilet adventure of '38-'39, 64-67, 623, 688<br />
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and Operation Black Wing, 75, 80<br />
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"different people thought they had discovered different things" 85<br />
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getting paranoid, 114<br />
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in Katje's hotel room, 194-98<br />
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clothes stolen, 199-200<br />
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"well before he loses his innocence and becomes one of them" 205<br />
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connection with Katje, 209<br />
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"what has looked free or random, is discovered to've been under some Control" 209<br />
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The Penis He Thought Was His Own, 216<br />
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discovers German blueprint of A4, 242<br />
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Zootsuit Zanies, 251<br />
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escape to Nice, 253<br />
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goes to Zürich, 257<br />
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goes to Geneva, 266<br />
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ancestors in Berkshire, 268<br />
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gets Jamf Sandoz dossier, 268<br />
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arrives at Nordhausen, 281<br />
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"the Zone envelopes him" 281<br />
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Slothrop Paper Company, 285<br />
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"I've been sold to IG Farben like a side of beef" 286<br />
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"'Jamf' and 'I' dream" 286, 623<br />
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meets Geli Tripping, 290<br />
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"the true momentum of his time" 312<br />
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"what is this place doing to his brain?"-- 333<br />
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in Berlin, 359<br />
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aka Rocketman (Raketemensch), 359<br />
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meets Greta, 364<br />
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"it's an evil game. . .You play because you have nothing better to do, but that doesn't make it right." 364<br />
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"jiving on the Riviera, or in Switzerland someplace, only half aware of being extinguished himself...." 374<br />
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clue to his existence ("it'll be months" from the Potsdam Conf.), 381<br />
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nabbed by Tchitcherine, 383<br />
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Blackwords, 391<br />
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back in Berlin, 433<br />
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hasn't been thinking about S-Gerät-Jamf-Imipolex G for awhile - summer '45, 434<br />
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"Die, Slothrop" and other paranoid visions in Berlin, 446<br />
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transmutation dream, 446<br />
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boards Anubis, 460<br />
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vulnerability to "pretty little girls" 465<br />
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his drink: Irish whiskey & water, 463<br />
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dreaming of Llandudno, 468<br />
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with Bianca, 469<br />
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"inside his own cock" 470<br />
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sexual impulse and rocket hits ("what could it be but the kingly voice of the Aggregate itself"), 470 [See also 26, 120]<br />
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"The Imipolex question was planted for him by somebody, back at the Casino Hermann Goering, with hopes it would flower into a full Imipolectique with its own potency in the Zone" 490<br />
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further dissipation of, 490<br />
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overboard, 491<br />
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arrives in Swinemünde, 493<br />
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arrives at Peenemünde, 501<br />
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dissipation, 507, 509, 510<br />
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"better days are coming" 510<br />
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Swinemünde, 526<br />
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gets hashish from Anubis, 529-32<br />
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remembers, 530<br />
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dropped off at Stralsund, 532<br />
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early August '45, somewhere in northern Germany, 549<br />
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"is he drifting?" 556<br />
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dissipating, 561<br />
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jumped by Schwarzkommando, 562<br />
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Plechazunga ("Pig-Hero"), 567<br />
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meets Pökler, 575<br />
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"Leftenant" 607, 627<br />
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being used by Tchitcherine, 612<br />
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Mossmoon to Scammony: "We sent him out to destroy the blacks [...]" 615<br />
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"out of it" [quitting the game??], 622<br />
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"complete connectedness" 623<br />
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"feeling natural" 626<br />
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"corrupted, given up on, creeps over the face of the Zone" 627<br />
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"another rocket-creature" 629<br />
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surveillance of (Sparte ["department"] IV), 630-31<br />
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harmonica playing heard, 642<br />
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"How can [Katje] expect to find Slothrop?" 657-58<br />
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adventures of the Floundering Four, 674<br />
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wishy-washy, sniveling, 679<br />
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has to find Squalidozzi, 681<br />
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the dissipation of, 682<br />
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"Slothrop's fate is not so clear. It may be that They have something different in mind for Slothrop" 688<br />
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bomb in transvestite toilet, 690<br />
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reading about Hiroshima, 694<br />
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"by now--early Virgo--he has become one plucked albatross [...] Scattered all over the Zone" 712<br />
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"his time's assembly" 738<br />
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"Slothrop qua Slothrop" 738<br />
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"a genuine, point-for-point microcosm" 738<br />
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Tarot, 738<br />
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"being one of the few who can still see Slothrop as any sort of integral creature at all" 740<br />
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"fragments of Slothrop have grown into consistent personae of their own" 742<br />
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appearance on cover of LP by "The Fool" 742<br />
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Uncle Tyrone, 744<br />
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==Name Etymology==<br />
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Tyrone Slothrop is an anagram for "Sloth or Entropy"<br />
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S. Lothrop Thorndike published a volume on shape-note singing: ''The Psalmodies of Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay'', Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1895.<br />
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Another stretch, but ... Samuel K. Lothrop (S. Lothrop) was an anthropologist who worked in Central and South America. J.D. Argles emailed me that Lothrop discovered "giant solid stone balls somewhere in Costa Rica, which were never explained. He also had a mild stutter." According to my rather hasty research, his speciality was/is in Pre-Columbian art and archaeology. He was the author of Pottery of Costa Rica and Nicaragua and edited a volume entitled Some Costa Rican Jade Motifs. In Essays in Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology Samuel K. Lothrop (Ed.), Harvard University Press, Cambridge.<br />
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And Pete Marcus muses:<br />
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:Surely his initials, TS, are related to Pynchon's debt to Eliot, with Slothrop the twentieth-century Everyman wandering through the waste land of modern Europe? Or is that too obvious?<br />
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John Stark posits in his book ''Pynchon's Fictions'':<br />
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:"The name of Tyrone Slothrop [...] presents great difficulties. W.T. Lhamon, Jr., argues that this name combines 'sloth' and 'ROP,' 'the term used when an editor has the right to place an ad wherever is convenient in a paper.' Although the second part of this interpretation makes some sense--despite Slothrop's free movements and those determined by his search for the rocket--the first part ascribes to him a quality that he does not exhibit. Also, Pynchon used this name earlier for a character in 'The Secret Integration' [Dr. Slothrop and his son, Hogan]." (p.13)<br />
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"Tyrone" is almost certainly a reference to Tyrone Power, star of ''A Yank in the RAF'' (1941) [http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0034405/ IMDB Entry]. Because the American Tyrone Slothrop was assigned to the Abreaction Research Facility, this would make him "A Yank in the ARF."<br />
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