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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."

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.

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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"! (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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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. Grant and his compatriots (Victor McLaglen and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) do indeed "lark about" through India, spiking the company punch with elephant medicine and engaging in other pranks. See 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"?

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?). "Osmo" suggests "osmosis," the process by which the giant Adenoid would absorb its victims.

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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'''Faffner, Hank''' 
665; Masonic "engineer-on-the-scene"; [Etymological Musings]

'''Fahringer''' 
403; (German: "traveller"); Zen fellow at Peenemünde with Achfaden and Pökler; 454

'''Faraday, Michael (1791-1867)''' 
English chemist and physicist who created classical field theory. He was the first to isolate benzene and he synthesized the first chlorocarbons. His other discoveries include electromagnetic induction, the laws of electrolysis, and the rotation of polarized light by magnetism. He's considered the greatest of all experimental physicists; portrait of in the Tate Gallery in London, "eyes [...] so lambent, sinister, so educated" 584

'''Fariña, Richard (1937-66)''' 
Richard Fariña, to whom Gravity's Rainbow is dedicated, was a good friend of Pynchon's when they were students at Cornell University in the 50s. In 1963, Farina married Mimi Baez, a folksinger and sister of Joan Baez. Although first married under the Napoleonic Code in a secret ceremony in Paris in the spring of 1963, they had an official marriage in Carmel, California, for the benefit of the Baez family. Pynchon was the best man for the Carmel ceremony, coming up from Mexico City where he was living and working on Gravity's Rainbow. In A Long Time Coming and a Long Time Gone, Farina's posthumously published collection of stories (Random House, 1969), Farina describes his and Pynchon's visit to the Monterey Fair. Richard and Mimi Farina formed a folk-music duo (Farina on guitar and Mimi on dulcimer, both singing) and released several albums in the 60s. Richard Farina was killed in a motorcycle crash following a book signing in Carmel for his newly published first (and only) novel, Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me (Random House, 1966). You might want to visit this [http://www.richardandmimi.com/ sweet website dedicated to the memory of Richard and Mimi] (who died of cancer in 2001).

<div id="fathers"></div>'''fathers''' 
"the good father" 135; "your father's a dreary young man" 175; Penelope's dead father, 175-76; "Fathers are conditioned into deliberately dying in certain preferred ways" 176; "all those Papi-has-raped-me stories" 272; "Schwarzvater" 286; Qulan's father, 340; Pökler's ineptitude as, 410; "[the Hereros] don't want my patriarchy" 522; American Founding Fathers, 587-88; "typical American teenager's own Father, trying. . .to kill his son" 674; "Father-conspiracy" 679; "Fathers are carriers of the virus of Death, and sons are the infected" 723; "the father you will never quite manage to kill" 747; See also [[M#mothers|mothers]]

'''Fauntleroy''' 
Prissily garbed in knee-pants, velvet suit and bows, Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886) was the creation of English novelist Frances Eliza Hodgson (b.1849). She also wrote The Secret Garden; "a boy of 6 or 7 in a velvet Fauntleroy suit" 491; "somewhere in tucked in the brain's plush album is always a child in Fauntleroy clothes" 736

'''Fauve''' 
183;

'''Feel, Osbie''' 
5; cultivates pharmaceutical plants on the roof of Pirate's maisonette; eggs to golfballs, 9; doper at White Visitation -- "the house idiot- savant" 92; with Pirate, 111-12; 533; Doper's Greed - film with 2 cowboys + midget, 534; stoned with aura, 536; "'In the Parliament of Life, the time comes, simply, for a division. We are now in the corridors we have chosen, moving toward the Floor....'" 536; in Marseilles, 620; Porky Pig tattoo, 638; [[Osbie Feel|Is that Pynchon inside his own novel?]]

'''Feldspath, Roland''' 
30; expert on control systems, guidance equations; spirit in seance; 238-39

'''Feldspath, Selena''' 
30; surviving wife of Roland; 31

'''Felipe''' 
383; "difficult young poet" on U-boat; 612

'''Felix''' 
508; tuba player on board Frau Gnabb's boat

'''Femina''' 
368; club in Berlin; "what the notorious Femina is to cigarette-jobbing circles"

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

'''fern seed''' 
379; accredited with endowing invisibility in traditional folklore; fell in Slothrop's shoes sometime back on Midsummer Eve, between midnight and one, making him the invisible youth, the armored changeling. Providence's little pal. [[Fern Seed|More about the fern seed...]]

'''Fibel, Bert''' 
453-54; [German: "primer"]; worked with Achtfaden; worked for Siemens when it was part of Stinnes trust; kept an eye on infant Tyrone while working for GE in Pittsfield, MA; fixed defective pinball machines, 586-87; "stonefaced Kraut [...] a genius with solenoids" 587; 687; [[Bert Fibel|Etymological Musings]]

'''Fierro, Martin''' 
386-87; gaucho hero of Argentinian legend; von Göll wants to make a film about him; 610

<div id="film"></div>'''film/cinema references''' 
"velveteen darkness" 3; "[Pirate] learned [his grin] at the films" 32; "what Hollywood likes to call a 'cute meet'" 38; "the cinema kiss never completed" 49; "horror-movie devilfish" 51; Fay Wray look, 57; "Disneyfied look" 70; "a De Mille set" 71; Katje, 92, 112; paranoia in movie theatres, 114; "the lads in Hollywood telling us how grand it all is over here" 135; "medium shot" 142; "All of us watching some wry newsreel, the beam from the projector falling milky-white. . .the manly crepe of an overseas cap knifing forward into the darkened cinema" 150; Sachsa seance, 152; special effects, 159; "[Katje] evaporates before the question, re-forms in another part of the room" 194; "this wardrobe here's mostly props" 195; Katje's cinema werewolf transformation, 196; Marx-Brothers-like episode with Seltzer bottle, 197; "from a German camera angle" 229; Zootsuit Zanies, 251; soundtrack (clarinets, guitars and mandolins), 255; "Saturday-afternoon western movies" 264; "Wild West movie" 338; "Nazi movie villain" 360; extras, 374; "Leaps broad highways in a single bound!"--380; camera angle (opening of Fierro film), 386; "paracinematic lives" 388; soundtrack ("windy strings and reed sections"), 398; "couldn't even go to the movies" 402; filming gauges on rocket flights, 406-07; successive stills, 407; "the moving images of a daughter" 422; 423; Ilse "has persisted beyond her cinema mother, beyond film's end" 429; "cue calls for the titanic sets of her dreams" 446; "Goebbels' private collection" 461; "that same nacreous wrinkling the films use to suggest rain out a window" 471; "slouched alone in your own seat" 472; "watching Allied footage for what could be pulled and worked into newsreels to make the Axis look good" 473; "Looks like German movies have warped other outlooks around here too." 474; faces "very smooth, film-star polished" 477; "filthy movies are showing in the boiler room" 490; "But mistakes are part of it too--everything fits. One sees how it fits, ja? learns patterns, adjusts to rhythms, one day you are no longer an actor, but free now, over on the other side of the camera." 494;"silent-movie style looking to strangle" 495; cartoon-y, 498; "Dillinger, at the end, found a few seconds' strange mercy in the movie images that hadn't quite yet faded from his eyeballs" 516; "gobbles Pervitin like popcorn at the movies" 522; "film and calculus, both pornographies of flight" 523; "this ain't the fuckin' movies" 527; "not yet" 527-28; "There's the son of Frankenstein in it, too. I wish we could have more direct" 536; "a government newsreel, FROM CLOAK AND DAGGER TO CROAK AND STAGGER" 542; "another long night of cinema without schedule" 542; "as the camera moves in for a close-up" 543; "My dream is to bring all these kids. . .out to Hollywood" 559; Klein-Rogge, Rudolph (actor - Pökler's favorite), 578; "movie queens" 586; "frames per century" 612; "a bad cinema spring" 628; chase scenes, 198, 308-13, 334,637; "comic Nazi routine" 633; 641; "we're strangers at the films, condemned to separate rows aisles, exits, homegoings" 663; Floundering Four, 674-80; "Yes, it is a movie! Another WWII situation comedy" 692; "Their Movieola viewer" 694; "as nasal and debonair as a movie star" 697; "moves image to image" 721; "black and white film images" 723; documentary style, 738; "subdebs just out the movies" 741; sound editing, 745; Chase Music, 751; "a whole movie-cue of witnesses" 755; "old fans who've always been at the movies" 760; See also [[A#actors|actors/directors]]; [[#kingkong|King Kong]]; [[M#movies|movies]]; [[T#theatre|theatre]]; [[U#ufa|Ufa-theatre]]

'''Film, Ansco, Winthrop''' 
630; an American subsidiary/licensee of IG

<div id="fingernails"></div>'''fingernails &c.''' 
"between his red nail-bitten hands" 57; "His fingernails draw blood" 67; "he fingernails a piece of this out from between his teeth" 117; "toenail-holds" 118; "her lacquered red fingernails" 127; "long-routinized nudge of horn, flip of hoof" 142; "ringing the snifter with his fingernail" 195; "rake his nails along inside her thighs" 222; "raking dreamy fingernails down the morning" 226; "She has filed her nails to long points" 233; "stroking with her fingernails her labia" 235; "pedicured Mayfair address" 270; "chewed-down fingernails sharp as a saw" 294; "television images flickering aross their toenails" 296; "receives it in long dirty fingernails" 365; "brushing tears from his face with the tips of her nails. [...] The nails are very sharp" 444; "She flicks a pale bitten thumbnail from one of her top teeth" 445; "scarlet nails digging sharp as needles" 469; "needle-tipped fingers" 469; "Flipping his fingernail against a large clear African mask" 487; "He breaks a fingernail" 531; "scratching and picking with dirt-black fingernails" 542; "a very large white finger [...] Its Fingernail is beautifully manicured" 566; "[Marvy's] toenails, cut Army-square" 606; "cusp-flicks of fingernails" 664; "scratching [...] with a horn finger" 710; "corporate teeth and polished fingernails" 714; "Tchitcherine's toenail clippings" 717; "sketched in clay with her long fingernail" 734; See also [[P#paraboloids|paraboloids]]; [[I#interface|Interface]]

'''Firm, the''' 
12ff; The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly known as MI6. See also [[S#soe|SOE]]

'''Fisk, Jubilee Jim (1834-1872)''' 
285; Known popularly as the "Barnum of Wall Street" and "Jubilee Jim," Fisk was one of the most outrageous figures of the Gilded Age. The most notorious plot of Fisk's short career was the attempt to corner the gold market during 1868 and 1869. Fisk's and Jay Gould's effort collapsed when President U.S. Grant intervened to halt the Black Friday scandal. Fisk brazenly refused to honor his contracts, leaving thousands ruined. Fisk's exploits were the fodder of innumerable newspaper reports, but the Black Friday episode finally made virtual outcasts of both Fisk and Gould. Fisk was shot to death on the main stairway of the Broadway Central Hotel in New York City in January 1872. His murderer, Ned Stokes, was a rival for the attentions of Josie Mansfield, an actress of limited talent [From U-S-History.com]; "what ~ told the Congressional committee investigating his and Jay Gould's scheme to corner gold in 1869" 438

'''Fitzmaurice House''' 
76; Foreign Office Political Intelligence Dept. located there; Stephen Dodson-Truck works there, 215; 221; 228

'''Flamp, Constance''' 
714-717; at Krupp party (aka "Commando Connie")

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

'''Flebótomo, Cesar''' 
184; manager of Casino Hermann Goering

'''Flit''' 
112; "fall smothered like bugs in the presence of"

'''Floundering Four, the''' 
674-80; (1) Myrtle Miraculous - performs miracles--"love is the only miracle that's beyond her"; (2) Maximilian - Negro with natural rhythms ("all rhythms, up to and including the cosmic")--"never. . .go any further into danger than its dapperness"; (3) Marcel - "a mechanical chessplayer" ("exquisite 19th-century brainwork")--"much too literal with humans"; (4) Slothrop. Each is gifted and flawed by his gift. Mission: rescue the Radiant Hour.

'''Flying Dutchman''' 
498;

'''Folies-Bergères''' 
After a major opening in a new theatre in 1869, the Folies became one of the first major music halls in Paris, featuring operetta and pantomine. Toward the end of the 19th century, the theatre's repertory consisted of musical comedies and revues, operettas, vaudeville sketches, playlets, ballets, eccentric dancers (including those high-kicking cancan dancers), acrobats, jugglers, magicians and tightrope walkers. The titles of all the Folies' shows since the late 1880s have each consisted of a total of 13 letters; "doing the cancan" 583

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

'''Forbidden Wing''' 
205; the Himmler-Spielsaal room at Casino H. Goering; "breath of Forbidden Wing" 285

'''Förschner, Major''' 
431; his security detail at Mittelwerke

'''Foreign Office''' 
Political Intelligence Department (P.I.D.) of, 74, 206

'''formée cross''' 
243; Jamf's inside "a gold hexagon [...] a medal of honor from IG Farben" 413;

'''Foxes''' 
47; Spectro's generic term for any patient; 53; 58; 138; 139; on the Toiletship, 450; "sharp as foxes" 718; (See also fox-trot)

'''fox-trot''' 
182; a ballroom dance in duple time with alternating slow and quick steps; (See also songs/compositions)

'''Franco, Francisco (1892-1975)''' 
234; Spanish military dictator. He and his troops attacked Spain from 1936-39 and eventually overthrew the republican government (with the help of Hitler and Mussolini). He was head of the régime and remained firmly in control until his death. Spain remained neutral during WWII.

'''Francois''' 
183, girl on beach who is a dancer at Casino Hermann Goering; 193 (named); 194; 204

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

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

'''Franklin, Benjamin (1706-90)''' 
663; An American statesman and scientist, he was, according to the Firesign Theatre, "The only president of the United States who was never president of the United States; "kite, thunder, and key"; "was also a Mason and given to cosmic forms of practical jokesterism" 664; "A Nickel Saved [...] is a stockpile of nickel" 664;

'''Franklin, Sir John (1786-1847)''' 
589; An English arctic explorer, Sir John perished in the Victoria Straight while attempting to discover the Northwest passage. Records found later indicate that Sir John did discover the Northwest passage.

'''Fred and Phyllis''' 
711; "who's that tapping and giggling at your door [...]?"

'''Frederick the Great (1712-86)''' 
This arty, intellectual Prussian, the son of Frederick-William I, became king of Prussia in 1840. In 1756 he initiated the "Seven Years' War." His military exploits resulted in a Prussia that had doubled in size by the time of his death; 314; 394;

'''Fred Roper's Company of Wonder Midgets''' 
37; "off to fan imperial fair in Johannesburg"

'''Free French''' 
34; "plotting revenge on Vichy traitors

'''[[French Translations]]'''

'''Freud, Sigmund (d. 1939)''' 
16; Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis; "Freudian revenge against his mother" 89; 272; 276

'''Frick Frack Club''' 
22; club in Soho where Slothrop finds girls

'''Frieda the Pig''' 
398; Pökler's pig; with Slothrop, 575; See also PIGS

'''Friedmann''' 
396; "the Russian mathematician"

'''Friedrichstrasse''' 
373; location of Chicago Bar

'''Frisch, Fromm, Frölich, Frei''' 
624; German: alert, devout, happy, free ("Frölich" should be "Fröhlich"); From Jan Bayer: the motto of the BDM (Bund Deutscher Mädels, or, as my grandmother used to say 'Bube drück mich'(hug me boy)), which was the women's organization in the Third Reich, analogous to the Hitlerjugend. That's why the symbols are 'gymnastic' — the Mädels did lots of sports (esp. gymwheels or 'Rhönrad' because it was supposed to increase their fertility, or so i was told).

<div id="friscia"></div>'''Friscia, Saverio''' 
587; "19th century European anarchist Mason"; Saverio Friscia, a doctor, along with Giuseppi Fanelli, Mikhail Bakunin, Carlos Gambuzzi, Bakunin's lawyer, and Alberto Tucci, founded the International Brotherhood ("anarchismo") in 1866, in Naples, Italy; See also [[P#proudhon|Proudhon]] and [[B#bakunin|Bakunin]]

'''Fritz''' 
568; Pig-Hero Slothrop's 8-year-old assistant

'''Fu Manchu''' 
"Remember the eloquent words of Sir Denis Nayland Smith to young Alan Sterling, whose fiancée is in the clutches of the insidious yellow Adversary: "I have been through the sort of fires which are burning you now, Sterling, and I have always found that work was the best ointment for the burns."' 277; "you also [...] get to be Fu Manchu! eh? the one who has the young lady in his power!" 278;

'''Fu's Folly''' 
65; chop suey joint in Cambridge, recalled by Slothrop; [The I Ching Connection]; [Fu first appeared as a member of the Whole Sick Crew in Pynchon's first novel, V.]

'''Fuzzy-Wuzzies''' 
This was the derogatory term used by the British for the Sudanese muslims (referring to their hair which was kinky) who were unified under the leadership of Mohammed Ahmed ibn Abdalla, who had declared himself the Mahdi (the "expected one"). Resisting the British forces who were aiding the Egyptians in their attempts to control southern Sudan, the "Mahdists" defeated the British at Khartoum in 1885 but were finally defeated by Lord Kitchener in 1898. Their bravery against the British, using spears against the British firearms, was memorialzed in Rudyard Kipling's poem "Fuzzy-Wuzzy". There's much about this in Pynchon's V.; "it was during [Pirate's] Kipling Period, beastly Fuzzy-Wuzzies as far as the eye could see" 13

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'''Caesar, Gaius Julius (100 or 102-44 BC)''' 
136; Roman general and statesman Caesar, after numerous military victories, was named "Father of his Country" and was made dictator for life, which glorious life (he was declared sacred, had the month of Quintilis renamed after him, statues in his likeness were placed in temples, &c.) ended when he was assassinated on the Ides of March by a group led by Brutus and Cassius who believed he was too powerful and wished to restore republican freedom. Unfortunately, the assassination engendered chaos in the Roman world which led to its eventual collapse; 164; "sacrifice has become a political act, an act of Caesar" 749;

'''Cafe l'Eclipse''' 
266; in Geneva, where Slothrop is to meet his Argentinian contact; Slothrop finds the message he received there in his pocket, 681

<div id="calculus"></div>'''calculus''' 
567; 572; Calculus is an important branch of mathematics. The word stems from the ancient Greeks' use of pebbles arranged in patterns to study arithmetic and geometry. The Latin word for "pebble" is "calculus." Two complementary disciplines comprise calculus, both of which rely on the concept of a limit. The first is differential calculus, which is concerned with the instantaneous, as opposed to average, rate of change of a quantity. This can be illustrated by the slope of a function's graph at a particular point. The second is integral calculus, which studies the accumulation of infinitely small quantities, summing to areas under a curve, linear distance travelled, or volume displaced. These two processes act inversely to each other, as shown by the fundamental theorem of calculus. See also [[D#deltaq|delta-q]]; [[D#deltat|delta-t]]; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus Wikipedia entry]

'''Calkins, Minnie''' 
665; Mason who married screen-door salesman

'''Camerons officers''' 
30;

'''Cap, the''' 
181; near Casino Hermann Goering on the Riviera; 185; where Raoul de la Perlimpinpin's residence is located, 243;

'''Captain Midnight Show''' 
Enormously popular U.S. radio show of the 1930s and 40s, sponsored by Ovaltine; [http://www.otr.com/midnight.shtml Capt. Midnight Homepage]; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Midnight Wikipedia entry]; 375

'''Carnegie, Dale (1888-1955)''' 
77; Pioneer in public speaking and personality development. He became famous by showing others how to become successful. His book How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936) has sold more than 10 million copies and has been translated into many languages. His books became popular because of his illustrative stories and simple, well-phrased rules. Two of his most famous maxims are, "Believe that you will succeed, and you will," and "Learn to love, respect and enjoy other people."

'''Carothers, Wallace Hume (1896-1937)''' 
American industrial chemist who discovered nylon. While working for Du Pont, he developed the first successful synthetic rubber, Neoprene, then nylon. He committed suicide and the nylon patent was given to Du Pont; "famous employee" of du Pont, known as "The Great Synthesist" 249; "the classic study of large molecules being carried on by" 348;

'''Cartesian''' 
of or relating to French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes (1596-1650) or his philosophy. In his vision of 1619, he conceived a reconstruction of the whole of philosophy, and of knowledge, into a unified system of certain truth modelled on mathematics and supported by a rigorous rationalism; "the Cartesian x and y of the laboratory" 400

'''cartoon characters''' 
See [[#comics|comicbook/cartoon/fictional characters]]

'''Caserne Martier''' 
246; stockade from which Waxwing escaped

'''Casino Hermann Goering''' 
181; casino on French Riviera where Slothrop is sent; Himmler-Spielsaal gaming room; 3 girls: Ghislaine, Francois & Yvonne, 183, 187; 491; 656; 659; See also Forbidden Wing

'''Castle Walk''' 
60; dance in Slothrop's Sodium Amytal session

'''Cathar''' 
With roots in primitive Christianity, the Cathars declared themselves the heirs of a tradition that was older than that held by the Church of Rome--and, by implication, both less contaminated and nearer in spirit to the Apostolic tradition. They claimed to be the only persons who had kept and cherished the Holy Spirit which Christ had bestowed upon His Church, a claim that was at least partially justified; "a commercial full of Cathar horror at the practice of imprisoning souls in the bodies of newborns" 732; [http://www.cathar.net/ Cathar Homepage]

'''Catherine the Great (1729-96)''' 
Born in Stettin, she married Grand Duke Peter, an heir to Russian throne, and when Peter was dethroned several days after ascending to the throne, she was empress of Russia. She was known for her libertine ways and Russia thrived under her reign; "Horse-fucking" Catherine, ermined and brilliant" with whom Tchitcherine had an affair, 343; carbon called "the Great Catherine of the periodic table" because of its myriad possibilities for bonding, 344; "Did Prince Potemkin's fake villages survive Catherine's royal progress?" 388;

<div id="cause"></div>'''cause and effect''' 
"these things explode first, a-and then you hear them coming in" 23; "'The illusion of control. That A could do B. But that was false. [...] Things only happen, A and B are unreal, are names for parts that ought to be inseparable....'" 30; "in his play [Mexico] wrecks the elegant rooms of history, threatens the idea of cause and effect itself." 56; "No effect without cause, and a clear train of linkages" 89; "'there's a feeling about that cause-and-effect may have been taken as far as it will go [...] The next great breakthrough may come when we have the courage to junk cause-and-effect, entirely, and strike off at some other angle'" 89; "I have only [...] what appears to be a reversal of cause-and-effect. I'm not as ready as you to junk cause-and-effect" 90; "She came twice before cock was ever officially put inside cunt, and this is important to both of them though neither has figured out why" 120; "Each firebloom, followed by blast then by sound of arrival, is a mockery [...] of the reversible process" 139; "When one event happens after another with this awful regularity, of course you don't automatically assume that it's cause-and-effect" 144; "'You're the cause-and-effect man,' she cried. How did he connect together the fragments he saw while his eyes were open? He was the cause-and-effect man" 159; "Parallel, not series. Metaphor. Signs and symptoms. Mapping on to different coordinate systems." 159; "Liebig to August Wilhelm von Hofmann, to Herbert Ganister to Laszlo Jamf, a direct chain, cause-and-effect" 161; "All talk of cause and effect is secular history, and secular history is a diversionary tactic." 167; "some promise of events without cause" 253; "Freud [...] facing a similar violation of probability--all those Papi has-raped-me stories" 272; "his wife bitched at Pökler for dozing off, ridiculed his engineer's devotion to cause-and-effect" 579; Karmic Hammer, 644; Karmic wheel, 651; "You will want cause and effect. All right." 663; "he'll be left only with Cause and Effect, and the rest of his sterile armamentarium" 752;See also [[H#history|history]]; [[T#time|time]]

'''Cavendish Laboratory''' 
15; This Cambridge University physics laboratory was founded in 1874 and named for physicist Henry Cavendish (1731-1810). In 1953, Scottish scientists Francis Crick and James Watson, while researchers here, identified the double-helix structure of DNA.

'''CBI''' 
132; China-Burma-India theatre of WWII; 370; "a connection from the CBI theatre with close to a ton of bhang" 594;

'''Center''' 
"In ordinary times [...] the center always wins [...] Decentralizing, back towards anarchism, needs extraordinary times" 264-65; "hidden centers" 302; "imaginary centers" 302; and the Hereros, 319; "centripedal movement" 440; Holy-Center- Approaching (Zonal pastime), 508; 509; fleeing the, 519; "in the center, here, Hauptstufe" 563; "holy center" 590; Returning to the Center, 757; See also [[R#return|Cycle of Return]]; [[M#mandala|mandala]]

'''Central Electricity Board''' 
133;

'''CG''' 
455: center of gravity

'''Chapter 81 work''' 
626;

'''Charles''' 
19; "the homosexual constable"

'''Charles''' 
448-49; writing down "observations of the passing scene" on the Toiletship

'''Charlottesville shoat''' 
61; dance in Slothrop's Sodium Amytal session

'''Chebychev's Theorem''' 
638; In probability theory, Chebyshev's inequality (also known as Tchebysheff's inequality, Chebyshev's theorem, or the Bienaymé-Chebyshev inequality), named after Pafnuty Chebyshev, who first proved it, states that in any data sample or probability distribution, nearly all the values are close to the mean value, and provides a quantitative description of "nearly all" and "close to". For example, no more than 1/4 of the values are more than 2 standard deviations away from the mean, no more than 1/9 are more than 3 standard deviations away, no more than 1/25 are more than 5 standard deviations away, and so on; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chebyshev's_inequality Wikipedia entry]

'''Chemical Foundation''' 
581; Alien Property Custodian, through C.F., "sold Bland a few of Laszlo Jamf's early patents"

'''Chemnyco of New York''' 
According to Sasuly, Chemnyco was a special organization set up in New York by the IG "to siphon out technical data of military importance. [...] Officially, Chemnyco was known as a 'technical service' agency. Its sole client was IG Farben. [...] When U.S. government agents came to seize the files of Chemnyco, shortly after Pearl Harbor, they found Rudolph Ilgner in the process of destroying what he evidently considered his most important papers." (pp.101-03); Wimpe was reassigned there "shortly after Hitler became Chancellor" 349; 630

'''Cherrycoke, Ronald''' 
125; psychometrist in Psi Section; 146; "undertakes. . .trips into Nora Dodson-Truck's void, " 150; "in a Jesus Christ getup" 639

<div id="chess"></div>'''chess''' 
"the profile of a chess knight" 12; "The raggedy pawns, the disgraced bish-op and cowardly knight" 173; "Dodson-Truck is a chess fanatic" 211; "do you good to get outta that chess rut" 212; on Waxwing's card, 248; "parkbench chessplayer's gaze" 254; Wimpe's analogy: "'Think of chess [...] an extravagant game of chess.[...] The queen, "the Great Catherine of the periodic table," down to the little hydrogens numerous and single-moving as pawns'" 344; chessboard of the Zone, 376; Knight, 401; 405; Weissmann & Ilse playing, 408; "present a pawn, withdraw the queen" 417; "that board and pieces and patterns. . .did come clear for him" 421; "the flesh of pieces moved in darkness and winter across the marshes and mountain chains of the board" 422; moving rookwise, 472; the Castle, 486; "knowing that Queen, Bishop and King are only splendid cripples, and pawns, even those that reach the final row, are condemned to creep in two dimensions, and no Tower will either rise or descent" 494; "knight for a bishop" 563; "the bishopwise seat behind Pirate" 575; Slothrop & Pökler playing, 576; "Slothrop flashes his white plastic knight" 602; Mravenko: "the most maniacal, systemless chess player in Central Asia" 611; "there'd always be the bit of mystery to her. Because of what he is, because of directions he can't move in" 620; (metaphorically) "The Row is enlightenment" 621; "He's a digital companion all right, everything gets either a yes or a no, and two-tone checkerboards of odd shape and texture indeed bloom in the rainy night" 663; "chess knights. . .invisible in the air" 655; Läufer (chess bishop), 666, 683; "Your objective is not the King--there is no King--but momentary targets such as the Radiant Hour" 674; Marcel: "a mechanical chess-player dating back to the Second Empire" 675; "where inside Marcel is the midget Grandmaster, the little Johann Allgeier?" 675; Marcel's "request for omnidirectional top-speed clearance" 678; See also Allgeier, Johann; Allgeyer soldiers; Grid; [Check out: [[Borges - The Game of Chess|Borges' - "The Game of Chess"]] in Dreamtigers (1964)]

'''Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975)''' 
Chinese general who, by 1928, had unified China by military means. He resisted the infiltration of communism, but his government collapsed in 1948 when the communists took over. He retreated to Taiwan where he set up a government in exile which was recognized by the West over Mao's People's Republic of China; caricature of on Toiletship, 450

'''Chicago Bar''' 
367; Berlin bar where Säure Bummer hangs out; 373; 435; 517; Springer and Narrish ambushed, 527; 739

'''Chiclitz, Clayton "Bloody"''' 
558-62; "about as fat as Marvy and wears hornrimmed glasses, and the top of his head's as shiny as his face"; American industrialist with T-Force scouting German engineering (esp. secret weaponry); owns a toy factory in Nutley, NJ; he's running a fur operation, employing 30 kids whom he eventually wants to take to Hollywood to be movie stars; ["Chicklets" is a candy-coated chewing gum that's been around forever] Chiclitz also appears in Pynchon's V..

'''Chiclitz, Mrs.''' 
558; mother of Clayton

'''Chilkes, Maudie''' 
78; works at PISCES; 141; seduces Pointsman, 168-69

'''Chinesische Blätter für Wissenschaft und Kunst''' 
454; German: Chinese Journal for Science and Art; book Fahringer left behind when taken from Peenemünde by SS

'''Chipuda''' 
Chipude is a village on La Gomera in the Canary Islands off the west coast of North Africa. The inhabitants of the valleys used to communicate with each other in a whistling language, comparable to the "yodeling" in the Central European Alps; "Ur-Spanish, whistled not voiced, from the mountains around Chipuda" 453

'''Chiquita Banana''' 
678; "sez we shouldn't" put bananas in the refrigerator; [Chiquita Website]

'''chi-square calculations''' 
40; A chi-squared distribution is, according to the Cambridge Dictionary of Science and Technology, "the distribution of many quadratic forms in statistics, often encountered as the distribution of the sample variance and of a statistic measuring the agreement of a set of empirically observed frequences with theoretically derived frequences. The central chi-squared distribution is indexed by one parameter, the degrees of freedom" (p. 155)

'''Chlordine''' 
463; substance Erdmann abuses

'''Choate boys''' 
194; "red-dogging [...] each with the instincts and mass of a killer rhino"

'''Christian''' 
318; Herero comrade of Enzian's and brother of Maria; 518; dream of Maria, 673; 728; 730

<div id="christianity"></div>'''Christianity''' 
See [[J#judeo|Judeo-Christian]]

'''Chu Piang''' 
339; "comical Chinese swamper" and "Chinese factotum in the red dzurt" 346; addicted to "the tears of the poppy" 347

'''Churchill, Sir Winston L.S.(1874-1965)''' 
251; British statesman who rose through the ranks of British politics, assuming leadership with a Coalition government in May 1940 when Neville Chamberlain stepped down under criticism for his military failures. He was defeated in the July 1945 elections and became a vocal leader of the opposition; 373; 382; caricature of on Toiletship, 450; Beaver's pipe "a reproduction in brier of Winston Churchill's head for a bowl, no detail is spared, even a cigar in its mouth" 708;

<div id="church"></div>'''Church of St. Blasius''' 
333; at Nordhausen; See also [[S#basher|"Basher" St. Blaise]]; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Blaise Wikipedia entry]

'''CIA''' 
163; Chemical Instrumentality for the Abnormal; Committee on Idiopathic Archetypes, 625; Committee on Incandescent Anomalies, 650; Commissariat for Intelligence Activities, 700

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

'''CIC''' 
560; All-Soviet Trade Union Council

'''CIOS''' 
391; Combined Intelligence Objectives Subcommittee, of which SPOG was a subsidiary

'''Circassians''' 
549; Circassians are a Caucasian people who speak a northwest Caucasian language, Kabardian language. Comprising roughly the northwestern region of the Caucasus, Caucasia has since ancient times had the exotic reputation common to lands occupying a crucial area between rival empires.

<div id="cities"></div>'''cities''' 
"The city he visits now is Death's antechamber: where all the paperwork's done" 40; "this frost and harrowed city" 49; "that Mother City mapped wherever the enterprise is systematic death" 76; "outward from the sheltering city" 89; "the royal city" 95; "dangers he can't bring himself to name even in cities" 100; "up in the city the arc-lights crackle" 134; City Paranoiac, 172-73; "what if the Ci-ty were a growing neo-plasm, across the centuries, always chang-ing, to meet exactly the chang ing shape of its very worst, se-cret fears?" 173; Metropolis, 285, 315, 317 ("no harm done to the Metropolis, nothing to soil those cathedrals, white marble statues, noble thoughts"); "urban fantods" 303; "Trolls and dryads [...] blasted [...] out of bridges, out of trees into liberation, and are now long citified" 367; "City Sacramental, the city as outward and visible sign of inward and spiritual illness or health" 372; Ant City, 399; "Nordhausen, a city of elves producing toy moon-rockets" 431; "Leaving Slothrop in his city-reflexes and Harvard crew sox" 472; "it was Europe, it was the smoky, citied fear of death" 477; "mechanical cities [...] with crackling-tower and obsidian helix" 482; "the sacrificial city" 484; "the ruin of a great city" 485; "Metropolis [...] a corporate City state where technology was the source of power, the engineer worked closely with the administrator, the masses labored unseen far underground, and ultimate power lay with a single leader at the top" 578; "Metropolitan inventor Rothwang" 579; "that's a heap better than the city, son, there you just move from crisis to crisis" 644; "a giant factory-state here, a City of the Future" 674; "Golden clouds [...] I think they're pieces of the Heavenly City falling down" 682; "Nordhausen felt like a city in a myth, under the threat of some special destruction" 718; "[Europe] has learned empire from its old metropolis." 722; Hexes-Stadt [...] has turned into just another capital" 718; Carbon City, Illinois, 735; See also [[#dactylic|City Dactylic]]; [[M#metropolis|Metropolis]]; [[R#raketen|Raketen Stadt]]

<div id="dactylic"></div>'''City Dactylic''' 
566; (dactylic: pertaining to a finger); "the city of the future where every soul is known, and there is noplace to hide"; See also [[#cities|cities]]; [[O#octupus|octopus]]

'''Claude''' 
253; "the assistant chef " who stands in for Slothrop to facilitate his "escape" to Nice

'''Clausewitz, Carl von(1780-1831)''' 
182; Prussian general whose writings, especially On War, advocated the concept of total war, in which all the enemy's territory, property, and citizens are attacked; Clausewitz & Pynchon

'''Club Oogabooga''' 
675; "where Beacon Street aristocracy rubs elbows ev'ry night with Roxbury winos 'n' dopefiends"

'''Codreanu''' 
Threatened on the west by Germany and on the east by Russia, Romania was in a perpetual state of instability. In the early 1930s, it was hit by the Great Depression which profoundly affected the country. Workers' strikes were fiercely suppressed, giving rise to a strong Rumanian Communist Party and, concurrently, an extreme rightist movement. Corneliu Zelea Codreanu's anti-semitic, ultra-nationalistic League of the Archangel Michael (formed in 1927), known to the foreign press as "The Iron Guard" and based in Iasi, gained increasing popularity. Patterning the League after the Nazis, Codreanu declared himself the mortal enemy of democracy and the Jews. The Iron Guard practiced a political gangsterism, terrorizing the populace. They murdered Prime Minister Jon Duca, head of the Liberal Party, as well as the historian Nicolas Jorga. Their political wing, Totul Pentru Tara ("Everything for the Fatherland") had success in the 1937 elections and enacted anti-Jewish legislation. Caught in the middle of the Soviet-leaning Communists and the Nazi-leaning League/Iron Guard, King Carol II finally established a de facto dictatorship and ordered the assassination of Codreanu; during the night of November 29-30, 1938, Codreanu and thirteen Legionnaires were strangled to death. Many other Legionnaires were arrested and imprisoned; "No, they are making believe to be narodnik, but I know, they are of Iasi, of Codreanu, his men, men of the League, they ... kill for him they have oath!"11

'''color''' 
Color coding plays a significant role in Gravity's Rainbow. [[Coloring Gravity's Rainbow|Check out this excerpt]] from an essay by N. Katherine Hayles and Mary B. Eiser in [http://www.ham.muohio.edu/~krafftjm/pynchon.html Pynchon Notes], entitled "Coloring Gravity's Rainbow."

'''Columbus, Chritopher (1451-1506)''' 
453; Genoese explorer who was the first European to discover, in 1492, the country now called America; "Gomera was the last piece of land Columbus touched before America"

<div id="comics"></div>'''comicbook/cartoon/fictional characters''' 
"his batman, a Corporal Wayne" [Batman's "real-world" identity was Bruce Wayne], 11; comicbook fangs, 21; Sir Denis Nayland Smith, 83, 277-78, 592, 631, 751; Hop Harrigan, Tank Tinker, 117; "old-fashioned comical room" 122; Dumbo, 135; Donald Duck, 146; Hansel and Gretel, 174; "comic-book colors" 186; "paint FUCK YOU in a balloon coming out the mouth of one of those little pink shepherdesses" 203; Plasticman, 206, 314, 331, 752; "he passes into a bickering of canary-yellow Borsalini, corksoled comicbook shoes with enormous round toes" 254; "this cartoon here" 263; "a Sunday-funnies dawn" 295; Rocketman, 366, 376, 379, 436, 512, 596; Captain Midnight Show, 375; Green Hornet, 376; "the only beings who can violate their space are safely caught and paralyzed in comic books" 379; Mickey Mouse, 392; Sundial, 472; Wilhelm Busch (cartoonist), 501; Porky Pig, 545; "comic technocracy" 579; "comic-book cats dogs and mice" 586; Bugs Bunny, 592; "comicbook-orange chunks of island" 634; Porky Pig tattoo, 638 (on Osbie Feel's stomach), 711 (on André Omnopon's stomach); Robin Hood, 664; Mary Marvel, Wonder Woman, 676; comic-book Kamikazes, 680; "down comes a comic-book guillotine on one black & white politician" 687; Crime Does Not Pay, 709; Superman, 751; The Lone Ranger & Tonto, 752; Philip Marlowe, 752; Submariner, 752; Jimmy Olson, 752; See also [[B#byron|Byron the Bulb]]; [[F#floundering|Floundering Four]]; [[K#komical|Komical Kamikazes]]; [[Plasticman|Plasticman]]; [[F#film|film/cinema references]]

'''compline''' 
134; seventh and last of the canonical hours

'''connectedness''' 
See [[Paranoia/Connectedness|paranoia/connectedness]]

'''Control''' 
30; illusion of, 30; "We, are in control. He, cannot help, himself" 82; Pointsman "must never lose control" 144; "all in his life of what has looked free or random, is discovered to've been under some Control, all the time, the same as a fixed roulette wheel" 209; Cybernetic tradition, 238; 277; 387; of Ilse, of love, 414; 415; "innocence and its many uses" in a corporate State, 419; "'She's supposed to be dead." [...] "'W-well you're supposed to be a movie director.'" " "'Same thing.' [...] 'Same problems of control.'" 494;"Once the technical means of control have reached a certain size, a certain degree of being connected one to another, the chances for freedom are over for good." 539; 581; Central Control (in Raketen-Stadt), 678; See also [[#cause|cause and effect]]; [[R#routinization|Routinization/Rationalization of Charisma]]; [[T#they|They]]

'''Coolidge, Calvin (1872-1933)''' 
389; 30th president of the United States and two-termer Republican whose terms were marked by economic prosperity

'''Correa, María Antonia''' 
612; "According to Argentine legend from the last century [she] followed her lover into [La Rioja], carrying their newborn child."

'''corso''' 
476; In Italy, a wide avenue with landscaped edges

'''Cosmic Bomb''' 
167; aka Atomic Bomb; 539; 544; "Miss Enola Gay's atomic clit" 588; Hiroshima, 693-94; [Video of the Bombing (no sound)]

'''Côte d'Azur''' 
226; French: the "azure coast"; the Mediterranean coastline of France between Menton and Cannes, so named by the poet Stephen Liégeard

'''Couéists''' 
77; Couéism is a form of psychotherapy dependent upon auto-suggestion developed and promoted by Émile Coué (1857-1926), a French pharmacist. The central tenent of his system was "Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better"

'''Council of People's Commissars''' 
391; Malenkov's special committee to which Tchitcherine reports;

'''[[Counterforce|COUNTERFORCE]]''' 
See also [[E#earth|Earth]]; [[O#opposite|Opposite, Ideas of the]]; [[P#polymorphous|polymorphous perversity]]; [[R#reformation|Reformation]]

'''Coward, Noel (1899-1973)''' 
709; English dramatist, actor and composer

'''Cranz''' 
452; author of Lehrbuch der Ballistik

'''Creepham''' 
151; "the bright blue gremlins scattering like spiders off of his Typhoon's wings"

'''Croix Mystique''' 
16; In palmistry, this cross is found beneath the middle finger between the head and heart lines and shows a distinct interest in occult matters.

'''croquet''' 
See lawn sports

'''Cross of Lorraine''' 
112; Region encompassing the northeastern French départements of Vosges, Meuse, Meurthe-et-Moselle, and Moselle and roughly coextensive with the historical region of Lorraine. The capital is Metz.

'''Crutchfield (Crouchfield)''' 
67; character in Kenosha Kid episode; "the only westward man"; 114

'''[[Crystal|CRYSTAL]]'''

'''Crystal Palace''' 
3; "the fall of a"; The huge glass and iron structure at the top of Sydenham Hill was originally erected in Hyde Park in London to house [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Exhibition The Great Exhibition], embodying the products of many countries throughout the world. The Great Exhibition, also known as the Crystal Palace Exhibition, was an international exhibition held in Hyde Park, London, from 1 May to 15 October 1851 and the first in a series of World's Fair exhibitions of culture and industry that were to be a popular 19th century feature. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crystal_Palace Wikipedia entry]

'''cucurbitaceous''' 
80; relating to the gourd family

'''Custodian of the Night''' 
434; smooth-faced, neutral, coiled & pale; See also serpent

'''Cuvilliés, François de (1695-1768)''' 
619 Court architect to Duke Maximilian II Emanuel of Bavaria (appointed 1725), specializing in the Bavarian Rococo style. Among his works in Munich and its environs is the Amalienburg hunting lodge, Nymphenburg (1734-39).

'''Cuxhaven''' 
A small German town on the North Sea (in the British sector of the Zone) [MAP]; Operation Backfire based there, 272; test range, 277; Destroyer Badass docked there, 370; 372; Putzi's located there, 526-27; Slothrop traveling to, 567; Der Grob Säugling ["The Gross Suckling"], a servicemen's pub, 706-08; [www.cuxhaven.de]

'''Cymri''' 
170

'''Cypridinae''' 
690; "crustaceans with three eyes, shaped like a potato with catwhiskers at one end. Dried and powdered Cypridinae are also a great source of light [...] weird multishaded blue"

'''Cyrillicists''' 
354; faction in VTsK NTA

'''Czarist''' 
344;

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'''Caesar, Gaius Julius (100 or 102-44 BC)''' 
136; Roman general and statesman Caesar, after numerous military victories, was named "Father of his Country" and was made dictator for life, which glorious life (he was declared sacred, had the month of Quintilis renamed after him, statues in his likeness were placed in temples, &c.) ended when he was assassinated on the Ides of March by a group led by Brutus and Cassius who believed he was too powerful and wished to restore republican freedom. Unfortunately, the assassination engendered chaos in the Roman world which led to its eventual collapse; 164; "sacrifice has become a political act, an act of Caesar" 749;

'''Cafe l'Eclipse''' 
266; in Geneva, where Slothrop is to meet his Argentinian contact; Slothrop finds the message he received there in his pocket, 681

<div id="calculus"></div>'''calculus''' 
567; 572; Calculus is an important branch of mathematics. The word stems from the ancient Greeks' use of pebbles arranged in patterns to study arithmetic and geometry. The Latin word for "pebble" is "calculus." Two complementary disciplines comprise calculus, both of which rely on the concept of a limit. The first is differential calculus, which is concerned with the instantaneous, as opposed to average, rate of change of a quantity. This can be illustrated by the slope of a function's graph at a particular point. The second is integral calculus, which studies the accumulation of infinitely small quantities, summing to areas under a curve, linear distance travelled, or volume displaced. These two processes act inversely to each other, as shown by the fundamental theorem of calculus. See also [[D#deltaq|delta-q]]; [[D#deltat|delta-t]]; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus Wikipedia entry]

'''Calkins, Minnie''' 
665; Mason who married screen-door salesman

'''Camerons officers''' 
30;

'''Cap, the''' 
181; near Casino Hermann Goering on the Riviera; 185; where Raoul de la Perlimpinpin's residence is located, 243;

'''Captain Midnight Show''' 
Enormously popular U.S. radio show of the 1930s and 40s, sponsored by Ovaltine; [http://www.otr.com/midnight.shtml Capt. Midnight Homepage]; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Midnight Wikipedia entry]; 375

'''Carnegie, Dale (1888-1955)''' 
77; Pioneer in public speaking and personality development. He became famous by showing others how to become successful. His book How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936) has sold more than 10 million copies and has been translated into many languages. His books became popular because of his illustrative stories and simple, well-phrased rules. Two of his most famous maxims are, "Believe that you will succeed, and you will," and "Learn to love, respect and enjoy other people."

'''Carothers, Wallace Hume (1896-1937)''' 
American industrial chemist who discovered nylon. While working for Du Pont, he developed the first successful synthetic rubber, Neoprene, then nylon. He committed suicide and the nylon patent was given to Du Pont; "famous employee" of du Pont, known as "The Great Synthesist" 249; "the classic study of large molecules being carried on by" 348;

'''Cartesian''' 
of or relating to French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes (1596-1650) or his philosophy. In his vision of 1619, he conceived a reconstruction of the whole of philosophy, and of knowledge, into a unified system of certain truth modelled on mathematics and supported by a rigorous rationalism; "the Cartesian x and y of the laboratory" 400

'''cartoon characters''' 
See [[#comics|comicbook/cartoon/fictional characters]]

'''Caserne Martier''' 
246; stockade from which Waxwing escaped

'''Casino Hermann Goering''' 
181; casino on French Riviera where Slothrop is sent; Himmler-Spielsaal gaming room; 3 girls: Ghislaine, Francois & Yvonne, 183, 187; 491; 656; 659; See also Forbidden Wing

'''Castle Walk''' 
60; dance in Slothrop's Sodium Amytal session

'''Cathar''' 
With roots in primitive Christianity, the Cathars declared themselves the heirs of a tradition that was older than that held by the Church of Rome--and, by implication, both less contaminated and nearer in spirit to the Apostolic tradition. They claimed to be the only persons who had kept and cherished the Holy Spirit which Christ had bestowed upon His Church, a claim that was at least partially justified; "a commercial full of Cathar horror at the practice of imprisoning souls in the bodies of newborns" 732; [http://www.cathar.net/ Cathar Homepage]

'''Catherine the Great (1729-96)''' 
Born in Stettin, she married Grand Duke Peter, an heir to Russian throne, and when Peter was dethroned several days after ascending to the throne, she was empress of Russia. She was known for her libertine ways and Russia thrived under her reign; "Horse-fucking" Catherine, ermined and brilliant" with whom Tchitcherine had an affair, 343; carbon called "the Great Catherine of the periodic table" because of its myriad possibilities for bonding, 344; "Did Prince Potemkin's fake villages survive Catherine's royal progress?" 388;

<div id="cause"></div>'''cause and effect''' 
"these things explode first, a-and then you hear them coming in" 23; "'The illusion of control. That A could do B. But that was false. [...] Things only happen, A and B are unreal, are names for parts that ought to be inseparable....'" 30; "in his play [Mexico] wrecks the elegant rooms of history, threatens the idea of cause and effect itself." 56; "No effect without cause, and a clear train of linkages" 89; "'there's a feeling about that cause-and-effect may have been taken as far as it will go [...] The next great breakthrough may come when we have the courage to junk cause-and-effect, entirely, and strike off at some other angle'" 89; "I have only [...] what appears to be a reversal of cause-and-effect. I'm not as ready as you to junk cause-and-effect" 90; "She came twice before cock was ever officially put inside cunt, and this is important to both of them though neither has figured out why" 120; "Each firebloom, followed by blast then by sound of arrival, is a mockery [...] of the reversible process" 139; "When one event happens after another with this awful regularity, of course you don't automatically assume that it's cause-and-effect" 144; "'You're the cause-and-effect man,' she cried. How did he connect together the fragments he saw while his eyes were open? He was the cause-and-effect man" 159; "Parallel, not series. Metaphor. Signs and symptoms. Mapping on to different coordinate systems." 159; "Liebig to August Wilhelm von Hofmann, to Herbert Ganister to Laszlo Jamf, a direct chain, cause-and-effect" 161; "All talk of cause and effect is secular history, and secular history is a diversionary tactic." 167; "some promise of events without cause" 253; "Freud [...] facing a similar violation of probability--all those Papi has-raped-me stories" 272; "his wife bitched at Pökler for dozing off, ridiculed his engineer's devotion to cause-and-effect" 579; Karmic Hammer, 644; Karmic wheel, 651; "You will want cause and effect. All right." 663; "he'll be left only with Cause and Effect, and the rest of his sterile armamentarium" 752;See also [[H#history|history]]; [[T#time|time]]

'''Cavendish Laboratory''' 
15; This Cambridge University physics laboratory was founded in 1874 and named for physicist Henry Cavendish (1731-1810). In 1953, Scottish scientists Francis Crick and James Watson, while researchers here, identified the double-helix structure of DNA.

'''CBI''' 
132; China-Burma-India theatre of WWII; 370; "a connection from the CBI theatre with close to a ton of bhang" 594;

'''Center''' 
"In ordinary times [...] the center always wins [...] Decentralizing, back towards anarchism, needs extraordinary times" 264-65; "hidden centers" 302; "imaginary centers" 302; and the Hereros, 319; "centripedal movement" 440; Holy-Center- Approaching (Zonal pastime), 508; 509; fleeing the, 519; "in the center, here, Hauptstufe" 563; "holy center" 590; Returning to the Center, 757; See also [[R#return|Cycle of Return]]; [[M#mandala|mandala]]

'''Central Electricity Board''' 
133;

'''CG''' 
455: center of gravity

'''Chapter 81 work''' 
626;

'''Charles''' 
19; "the homosexual constable"

'''Charles''' 
448-49; writing down "observations of the passing scene" on the Toiletship

'''Charlottesville shoat''' 
61; dance in Slothrop's Sodium Amytal session

'''Chebychev's Theorem''' 
638; In probability theory, Chebyshev's inequality (also known as Tchebysheff's inequality, Chebyshev's theorem, or the Bienaymé-Chebyshev inequality), named after Pafnuty Chebyshev, who first proved it, states that in any data sample or probability distribution, nearly all the values are close to the mean value, and provides a quantitative description of "nearly all" and "close to". For example, no more than 1/4 of the values are more than 2 standard deviations away from the mean, no more than 1/9 are more than 3 standard deviations away, no more than 1/25 are more than 5 standard deviations away, and so on; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chebyshev's_inequality Wikipedia entry]

'''Chemical Foundation''' 
581; Alien Property Custodian, through C.F., "sold Bland a few of Laszlo Jamf's early patents"

'''Chemnyco of New York''' 
According to Sasuly, Chemnyco was a special organization set up in New York by the IG "to siphon out technical data of military importance. [...] Officially, Chemnyco was known as a 'technical service' agency. Its sole client was IG Farben. [...] When U.S. government agents came to seize the files of Chemnyco, shortly after Pearl Harbor, they found Rudolph Ilgner in the process of destroying what he evidently considered his most important papers." (pp.101-03); Wimpe was reassigned there "shortly after Hitler became Chancellor" 349; 630

'''Cherrycoke, Ronald''' 
125; psychometrist in Psi Section; 146; "undertakes. . .trips into Nora Dodson-Truck's void, " 150; "in a Jesus Christ getup" 639

<div id="chess"></div>'''chess''' 
"the profile of a chess knight" 12; "The raggedy pawns, the disgraced bish-op and cowardly knight" 173; "Dodson-Truck is a chess fanatic" 211; "do you good to get outta that chess rut" 212; on Waxwing's card, 248; "parkbench chessplayer's gaze" 254; Wimpe's analogy: "'Think of chess [...] an extravagant game of chess.[...] The queen, "the Great Catherine of the periodic table," down to the little hydrogens numerous and single-moving as pawns'" 344; chessboard of the Zone, 376; Knight, 401; 405; Weissmann & Ilse playing, 408; "present a pawn, withdraw the queen" 417; "that board and pieces and patterns. . .did come clear for him" 421; "the flesh of pieces moved in darkness and winter across the marshes and mountain chains of the board" 422; moving rookwise, 472; the Castle, 486; "knowing that Queen, Bishop and King are only splendid cripples, and pawns, even those that reach the final row, are condemned to creep in two dimensions, and no Tower will either rise or descent" 494; "knight for a bishop" 563; "the bishopwise seat behind Pirate" 575; Slothrop & Pökler playing, 576; "Slothrop flashes his white plastic knight" 602; Mravenko: "the most maniacal, systemless chess player in Central Asia" 611; "there'd always be the bit of mystery to her. Because of what he is, because of directions he can't move in" 620; (metaphorically) "The Row is enlightenment" 621; "He's a digital companion all right, everything gets either a yes or a no, and two-tone checkerboards of odd shape and texture indeed bloom in the rainy night" 663; "chess knights. . .invisible in the air" 655; Läufer (chess bishop), 666, 683; "Your objective is not the King--there is no King--but momentary targets such as the Radiant Hour" 674; Marcel: "a mechanical chess-player dating back to the Second Empire" 675; "where inside Marcel is the midget Grandmaster, the little Johann Allgeier?" 675; Marcel's "request for omnidirectional top-speed clearance" 678; See also Allgeier, Johann; Allgeyer soldiers; Grid; [Check out: [[Borges - The Game of Chess|Borges' - "The Game of Chess"]] in Dreamtigers (1964)]

'''Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975)''' 
Chinese general who, by 1928, had unified China by military means. He resisted the infiltration of communism, but his government collapsed in 1948 when the communists took over. He retreated to Taiwan where he set up a government in exile which was recognized by the West over Mao's People's Republic of China; caricature of on Toiletship, 450

'''Chicago Bar''' 
367; Berlin bar where Säure Bummer hangs out; 373; 435; 517; Springer and Narrish ambushed, 527; 739

'''Chiclitz, Clayton "Bloody"''' 
558-62; "about as fat as Marvy and wears hornrimmed glasses, and the top of his head's as shiny as his face"; American industrialist with T-Force scouting German engineering (esp. secret weaponry); owns a toy factory in Nutley, NJ; he's running a fur operation, employing 30 kids whom he eventually wants to take to Hollywood to be movie stars; ["Chicklets" is a candy-coated chewing gum that's been around forever] Chiclitz also appears in Pynchon's V..

'''Chiclitz, Mrs.''' 
558; mother of Clayton

'''Chilkes, Maudie''' 
78; works at PISCES; 141; seduces Pointsman, 168-69

'''Chinesische Blätter für Wissenschaft und Kunst''' 
454; German: Chinese Journal for Science and Art; book Fahringer left behind when taken from Peenemünde by SS

'''Chipuda''' 
Chipude is a village on La Gomera in the Canary Islands off the west coast of North Africa. The inhabitants of the valleys used to communicate with each other in a whistling language, comparable to the "yodeling" in the Central European Alps; "Ur-Spanish, whistled not voiced, from the mountains around Chipuda" 453

'''Chiquita Banana''' 
678; "sez we shouldn't" put bananas in the refrigerator; [Chiquita Website]

'''chi-square calculations''' 
40; A chi-squared distribution is, according to the Cambridge Dictionary of Science and Technology, "the distribution of many quadratic forms in statistics, often encountered as the distribution of the sample variance and of a statistic measuring the agreement of a set of empirically observed frequences with theoretically derived frequences. The central chi-squared distribution is indexed by one parameter, the degrees of freedom" (p. 155)

'''Chlordine''' 
463; substance Erdmann abuses

'''Choate boys''' 
194; "red-dogging [...] each with the instincts and mass of a killer rhino"

'''Christian''' 
318; Herero comrade of Enzian's and brother of Maria; 518; dream of Maria, 673; 728; 730

<div id="christianity"></div>'''Christianity''' 
See [[J#judeo|Judeo-Christian]]

'''Chu Piang''' 
339; "comical Chinese swamper" and "Chinese factotum in the red dzurt" 346; addicted to "the tears of the poppy" 347

'''Churchill, Sir Winston L.S.(1874-1965)''' 
251; British statesman who rose through the ranks of British politics, assuming leadership with a Coalition government in May 1940 when Neville Chamberlain stepped down under criticism for his military failures. He was defeated in the July 1945 elections and became a vocal leader of the opposition; 373; 382; caricature of on Toiletship, 450; Beaver's pipe "a reproduction in brier of Winston Churchill's head for a bowl, no detail is spared, even a cigar in its mouth" 708;

<div id="church"></div>'''Church of St. Blasius''' 
333; at Nordhausen; See also [[S#basher|"Basher" St. Blaise]]; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Blaise Wikipedia entry]

'''CIA''' 
163; Chemical Instrumentality for the Abnormal; Committee on Idiopathic Archetypes, 625; Committee on Incandescent Anomalies, 650; Commissariat for Intelligence Activities, 700

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

'''CIC''' 
560; All-Soviet Trade Union Council

'''CIOS''' 
391; Combined Intelligence Objectives Subcommittee, of which SPOG was a subsidiary

'''Circassians''' 
549; Circassians are a Caucasian people who speak a northwest Caucasian language, Kabardian language. Comprising roughly the northwestern region of the Caucasus, Caucasia has since ancient times had the exotic reputation common to lands occupying a crucial area between rival empires.

<div id="cities"></div>'''cities''' 
"The city he visits now is Death's antechamber: where all the paperwork's done" 40; "this frost and harrowed city" 49; "that Mother City mapped wherever the enterprise is systematic death" 76; "outward from the sheltering city" 89; "the royal city" 95; "dangers he can't bring himself to name even in cities" 100; "up in the city the arc-lights crackle" 134; City Paranoiac, 172-73; "what if the Ci-ty were a growing neo-plasm, across the centuries, always chang-ing, to meet exactly the chang ing shape of its very worst, se-cret fears?" 173; Metropolis, 285, 315, 317 ("no harm done to the Metropolis, nothing to soil those cathedrals, white marble statues, noble thoughts"); "urban fantods" 303; "Trolls and dryads [...] blasted [...] out of bridges, out of trees into liberation, and are now long citified" 367; "City Sacramental, the city as outward and visible sign of inward and spiritual illness or health" 372; Ant City, 399; "Nordhausen, a city of elves producing toy moon-rockets" 431; "Leaving Slothrop in his city-reflexes and Harvard crew sox" 472; "it was Europe, it was the smoky, citied fear of death" 477; "mechanical cities [...] with crackling-tower and obsidian helix" 482; "the sacrificial city" 484; "the ruin of a great city" 485; "Metropolis [...] a corporate City state where technology was the source of power, the engineer worked closely with the administrator, the masses labored unseen far underground, and ultimate power lay with a single leader at the top" 578; "Metropolitan inventor Rothwang" 579; "that's a heap better than the city, son, there you just move from crisis to crisis" 644; "a giant factory-state here, a City of the Future" 674; "Golden clouds [...] I think they're pieces of the Heavenly City falling down" 682; "Nordhausen felt like a city in a myth, under the threat of some special destruction" 718; "[Europe] has learned empire from its old metropolis." 722; Hexes-Stadt [...] has turned into just another capital" 718; Carbon City, Illinois, 735; See also [[#dactylic|City Dactylic]]; [[M#metropolis|Metropolis]]; [[R#raketen|Raketen Stadt]]

<div id="dactylic"></div>'''City Dactylic''' 
566; (dactylic: pertaining to a finger); "the city of the future where every soul is known, and there is noplace to hide"; See also [[#cities|cities]]; [[O#octupus|octopus]]

'''Claude''' 
253; "the assistant chef " who stands in for Slothrop to facilitate his "escape" to Nice

'''Clausewitz, Carl von(1780-1831)''' 
182; Prussian general whose writings, especially On War, advocated the concept of total war, in which all the enemy's territory, property, and citizens are attacked; Clausewitz & Pynchon

'''Club Oogabooga''' 
675; "where Beacon Street aristocracy rubs elbows ev'ry night with Roxbury winos 'n' dopefiends"

'''Codreanu''' 
Threatened on the west by Germany and on the east by Russia, Romania was in a perpetual state of instability. In the early 1930s, it was hit by the Great Depression which profoundly affected the country. Workers' strikes were fiercely suppressed, giving rise to a strong Rumanian Communist Party and, concurrently, an extreme rightist movement. Corneliu Zelea Codreanu's anti-semitic, ultra-nationalistic League of the Archangel Michael (formed in 1927), known to the foreign press as "The Iron Guard" and based in Iasi, gained increasing popularity. Patterning the League after the Nazis, Codreanu declared himself the mortal enemy of democracy and the Jews. The Iron Guard practiced a political gangsterism, terrorizing the populace. They murdered Prime Minister Jon Duca, head of the Liberal Party, as well as the historian Nicolas Jorga. Their political wing, Totul Pentru Tara ("Everything for the Fatherland") had success in the 1937 elections and enacted anti-Jewish legislation. Caught in the middle of the Soviet-leaning Communists and the Nazi-leaning League/Iron Guard, King Carol II finally established a de facto dictatorship and ordered the assassination of Codreanu; during the night of November 29-30, 1938, Codreanu and thirteen Legionnaires were strangled to death. Many other Legionnaires were arrested and imprisoned; "No, they are making believe to be narodnik, but I know, they are of Iasi, of Codreanu, his men, men of the League, they ... kill for him they have oath!"11

'''color''' 
Color coding plays a significant role in Gravity's Rainbow. [[Coloring Gravity's Rainbow|Check out this excerpt]] from an essay by N. Katherine Hayles and Mary B. Eiser in [http://www.ham.muohio.edu/~krafftjm/pynchon.html Pynchon Notes], entitled "Coloring Gravity's Rainbow."

'''Columbus, Chritopher (1451-1506)''' 
453; Genoese explorer who was the first European to discover, in 1492, the country now called America; "Gomera was the last piece of land Columbus touched before America"

<div id="comics"></div>'''comicbook/cartoon/fictional characters''' 
"his batman, a Corporal Wayne" [Batman's "real-world" identity was Bruce Wayne], 11; comicbook fangs, 21; Sir Denis Nayland Smith, 83, 277-78, 592, 631, 751; Hop Harrigan, Tank Tinker, 117; "old-fashioned comical room" 122; Dumbo, 135; Donald Duck, 146; Hansel and Gretel, 174; "comic-book colors" 186; "paint FUCK YOU in a balloon coming out the mouth of one of those little pink shepherdesses" 203; Plasticman, 206, 314, 331, 752; "he passes into a bickering of canary-yellow Borsalini, corksoled comicbook shoes with enormous round toes" 254; "this cartoon here" 263; "a Sunday-funnies dawn" 295; Rocketman, 366, 376, 379, 436, 512, 596; Captain Midnight Show, 375; Green Hornet, 376; "the only beings who can violate their space are safely caught and paralyzed in comic books" 379; Mickey Mouse, 392; Sundial, 472; Wilhelm Busch (cartoonist), 501; Porky Pig, 545; "comic technocracy" 579; "comic-book cats dogs and mice" 586; Bugs Bunny, 592; "comicbook-orange chunks of island" 634; Porky Pig tattoo, 638 (on Osbie Feel's stomach), 711 (on André Omnopon's stomach); Robin Hood, 664; Mary Marvel, Wonder Woman, 676; comic-book Kamikazes, 680; "down comes a comic-book guillotine on one black & white politician" 687; Crime Does Not Pay, 709; Superman, 751; The Lone Ranger & Tonto, 752; Philip Marlowe, 752; Submariner, 752; Jimmy Olson, 752; See also [[B#byron|Byron the Bulb]]; [[F#floundering|Floundering Four]]; [[K#komical|Komical Kamikazes]]; [[Plasticman|Plasticman]]; [[F#film|film/cinema references]]

'''compline''' 
134; seventh and last of the canonical hours

'''connectedness''' 
See [[Paranoia/Connectedness|paranoia/connectedness]]

'''Control''' 
30; illusion of, 30; "We, are in control. He, cannot help, himself" 82; Pointsman "must never lose control" 144; "all in his life of what has looked free or random, is discovered to've been under some Control, all the time, the same as a fixed roulette wheel" 209; Cybernetic tradition, 238; 277; 387; of Ilse, of love, 414; 415; "innocence and its many uses" in a corporate State, 419; "'She's supposed to be dead." [...] "'W-well you're supposed to be a movie director.'" " "'Same thing.' [...] 'Same problems of control.'" 494;"Once the technical means of control have reached a certain size, a certain degree of being connected one to another, the chances for freedom are over for good." 539; 581; Central Control (in Raketen-Stadt), 678; See also [[#cause|cause and effect]]; [[R#routinization|Routinization/Rationalization of Charisma]]; [[T#they|They]]

'''Coolidge, Calvin (1872-1933)''' 
389; 30th president of the United States and two-termer Republican whose terms were marked by economic prosperity

'''Correa, María Antonia''' 
612; "According to Argentine legend from the last century [she] followed her lover into [La Rioja], carrying their newborn child."

'''corso''' 
476; In Italy, a wide avenue with landscaped edges

'''Cosmic Bomb''' 
167; aka Atomic Bomb; 539; 544; "Miss Enola Gay's atomic clit" 588; Hiroshima, 693-94; [Video of the Bombing (no sound)]

'''Côte d'Azur''' 
226; French: the "azure coast"; the Mediterranean coastline of France between Menton and Cannes, so named by the poet Stephen Liégeard

'''Couéists''' 
77; Couéism is a form of psychotherapy dependent upon auto-suggestion developed and promoted by Émile Coué (1857-1926), a French pharmacist. The central tenent of his system was "Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better"

'''Council of People's Commissars''' 
391; Malenkov's special committee to which Tchitcherine reports;

'''[[Counterforce|COUNTERFORCE]]''' 
See also [[E#earth|Earth]]; [[O#opposite|Opposite, Ideas of the]]; [[P#polymorphous|polymorphous perversity]]; [[R#reformation|Reformation]]

'''Coward, Noel (1899-1973)''' 
709; English dramatist, actor and composer

'''Cranz''' 
452; author of Lehrbuch der Ballistik

'''Creepham''' 
151; "the bright blue gremlins scattering like spiders off of his Typhoon's wings"

'''croquet''' 
See lawn sports

'''Cross of Lorraine''' 
112; Region encompassing the northeastern French départements of Vosges, Meuse, Meurthe-et-Moselle, and Moselle and roughly coextensive with the historical region of Lorraine. The capital is Metz.

'''Crutchfield (Crouchfield)''' 
67; character in Kenosha Kid episode; "the only westward man"; 114

'''[[Crystal|CRYSTAL]]'''

'''Crystal Palace''' 
3; "the fall of a"; The huge glass and iron structure at the top of Sydenham Hill was originally erected in Hyde Park in London to house [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Exhibition The Great Exhibition], embodying the products of many countries throughout the world. The Great Exhibition, also known as the Crystal Palace Exhibition, was an international exhibition held in Hyde Park, London, from 1 May to 15 October 1851 and the first in a series of World's Fair exhibitions of culture and industry that were to be a popular 19th century feature. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crystal_Palace Wikipedia entry]

'''cucurbitaceous''' 
80; relating to the gourd family

'''Custodian of the Night''' 
434; smooth-faced, neutral, coiled & pale; See also serpent

'''Cuvilliés, François de (1695-1768)''' 
619 Court architect to Duke Maximilian II Emanuel of Bavaria (appointed 1725), specializing in the Bavarian Rococo style. Among his works in Munich and its environs is the Amalienburg hunting lodge, Nymphenburg (1734-39).

'''Cuxhaven''' 
A small German town on the North Sea (in the British sector of the Zone) [MAP]; Operation Backfire based there, 272; test range, 277; Destroyer Badass docked there, 370; 372; Putzi's located there, 526-27; Slothrop traveling to, 567; Der Grob Säugling ["The Gross Suckling"], a servicemen's pub, 706-08; [www.cuxhaven.de]

'''Cymri''' 
170

'''Cypridinae''' 
690; "crustaceans with three eyes, shaped like a potato with catwhiskers at one end. Dried and powdered Cypridinae are also a great source of light [...] weird multishaded blue"

'''Cyrillicists''' 
354; faction in VTsK NTA

'''Czarist''' 
344;

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'''Yellow Adversary''' 
751; aka Fu Manchu, the character created by writer Sax Rohmer

'''Yellow James''' 
295; operates sandwich wagon at Mittelwerk during US occupation; 304

'''yeti''' 
594; Bodine mistaken for "a seagoing version of the legendary yeti or abominable snowman"

'''Yolanda''' 
603; blond "table dancer" at Putzi's

'''Youthful Folly''' 
13; the name of the 4th hexagram in the Wilhlelm/Baynes translation of the I Ching (or Yi Jing).

'''Yrjö, King''' 
119; "pretender but the true king [...] his lovely Hrisoula a step or two behind" in Mrs. Quoad's dream; [[King Yrjö|Pynchon's 1964 short story, "The Secret Integration"]]

'''Yvonne''' 
183; girl on beach who is a dancer at the Casino Hermann Goering; 193 (named); 194; 204

==Z==
'''Zaxa''' 
218;

'''Zehlendorf''' 
371; location of checkpoint Slothrop must get past on way to Neubabelsberg

'''Zen Buddhism''' 
koan, 454;

'''Zener cards''' 
40; 78;

'''Zero''' 
"try to bring events to Absolute Zero" 3; "a silent extinction beyond the zero" 85; in connection with Slothrop's deconditioning, 85; between waking & sleeping, 119; "each time has taken a little more of the Zero into herself" 150; "Absolute Comfort" 155; "as the pure light of the zero comes nearer" 159; Ideology of, 218; 223; "The German inflation. . .zeros strung end to end from here to Berlin." 258; Final Zero, 319-20; "zero at the top of the world" 340; 345; Enzian closest to, 404; "signal zero" 404; 406; 421; Ground Zero, 424; 451; "Zero up to Mach 6." 454; zeroing in, 521; Japanese Zeros (fighter planes), 672, 690, 692; "zero indifference" 714; See also nihilism; vacuum; Void

'''Zhdaev, Major''' 
502; captures Springer at Peenemünde; 511-14

<div id="zhlubb"></div>'''Zhlubb, Richard M.''' 
755; aka the "Adenoid"; night manager of Orpheus Theatre on Melrose Blvd. in LA; 37th President of the United States

<div id="leasteffort"></div>'''Zipf's Principle of Least Effort''' 
32; George Kingsley Zipf (1902--1950) wrote Human Behavior and the Principle of Least Effort which was published in 1949. The Principle predicts that most people, most of the time, are turned back by modest hurdles that they know could be overcome, with effort. To be habitual, an action must be relatively effortless or carry a particularly large psychic reward. And in what constitutes a "large reward," opinions and motivations vary widely across individuals.

As Robert Heinlein wrote in ''Time Enough for Love'': "The Principle of Least Effort: 'Progress doesn't come from early risers progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.'"

[[Zipf's Principle of Least Effort|Discussion of Zipf on Pynchon List]]

'''Zippo''' 
A brand of cigarette lighter; "Zippo flints" 18; "striking his faithful Zippo" 38; "Slothrop gives Schnorp a light from his Zippo" 332; "They light up off of Slothrop's faithful Zippo" 365; "I have a Zippo" 508; "hot from the flame of some joker's Zippo" 605; "the Zippo's ceremonial touch" 640; Zippo Page

'''Zone''' 
281; occupied Germany after VE Day; no frontiers--no subdivisions, 293; interregnum - flow with it, 293; "No zones but the Zone" 333; 359; and Destiny, 362; guilt becoming a commodity, 453; "endless simulation" in, 489; "British G-5 occupy their own space and Zone" 519;

:"It is a great frontierless streaming out here. Volksdeutsch from across the Oder, moved out by the Poles and headed for the camp at Rostock, Poles fleeing the Lublin regime, others going back home, the eyes of both parties, when they do meet, hooded behind cheekbones, eyes much older than what's forced them into moving, Estonians, Letts, and Lithuanians trekking north again, all their wintry wool in dark bundles, shoes in tatters, songs too hard to sing, talk pointless, Sudetens and East Prussians shuttling between Berlin and the DP camps in Mecklenburg, Czechs and Slovaks, Croats and Serbs, Tosks and Ghegs, Macedonians, Magyars, Vlachs, Circassians, Spaniols, Bulgars stirred and streaming over the surface of the Imperial cauldron [...]" 549

''A Cheapskate's Guide to the Zone''" 559; "one more overlay on" 620; 729 [MAP]

'''zootsuits''' 
Waxwing's, 246; Los Angeles Zoot Suit Riots of 1943, 249; Zootsuit Zanies (Slothrop & Waxwing), 251; "rolling into town in his white zoot" 253; "an oversize zoot-suit pocket" 258; "zoot 'n' hat" 259; "So long zoot" 262; "zootsters" 385, 716; "Negro in a pearl-gray" 675; Bodine's "of unbelievable proportions" 710; 711; "feminine zootsuit effect" 735

'''Zouave''' 
91; a member of a French infantry corps, originally of Algerian soldiers, distinguished for their physique, dash, and picturesque uniform of baggy trousers, short open jacket, sash, and tasseled cap; 112

'''Zwingli, Huldrych (1484-1531)''' 
267; The most important reformer in the Swiss Protestant Reformation and the only major reformer of the 16th century whose movement did not evolve into a church. Like Martin Luther, he accepted the supreme authority of the Scriptures, but he applied it more rigorously and comprehensively to all doctrines and practices; See also [[R#reformation|Reformation]]

'''Zwitter''' 
313; guidance expert; colleague of Glimpf's

'''Zwölfkinder''' 
398; German: "twelve children"; kids' park in Nikolaikirche in No. Germany on Baltic coast; near Wismar & Lübeck (280 km from Peenemünde); first visit of Franz & Ilse in '39, met every August for 6 years; 419-22; last visit, 428-30; Slothrop passes by, 575; "a children's resort" 725; See also [[P#pokler|Pökler, Franz]]

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'''Panama Canal Zone''' 
710; where Bodine's zootsuit "in amazing tropical-parrot combinations of yellow, green, lavender, vermilion" is brought from

'''Panzer''' 
465; The Panzerkampfwagen ("armoured car") was a light tank developed by German in 1933 (disguised as the Krupp (oh yes) "Agricultural Tractor" to circumvent the Versailles Treaty which disallowed German military build-up). It was used extensively in WWII.

'''paper''' 
"Death's antechamber where all the paperwork's done" 40; money as "desperate paper whispering down the corporate lattice" 75; "paper secrets" 282; "They have stuffed paper illusions and militaryd euphemisms between him and this truth" 234; "the paper cyclone that sweeps them back from Germany" 253; "a number "only derived on paper" 315; "newly invented paperwork" 318; "paper existences" 340; "Rapallo Treaty. . .that weird piece of paper" 352; "print just goes marching on" 355; "among the paper" 406; "paper brain" 421; "the paper has piled too thick" 426; paper cancer (Inflation), 435; papyromancy: "ability to prophesize through contemplating the way people roll reefers" 442; "show us your papers!" 442; murderous typewriters, 453; pencil as weapon, 510; trees/paper, 552; printer union ("the Word made printer's ink"), 571; "the only real fucking is done on paper" 616; "why does he have this obsession with getting papers?" 623; "the shed skin of a beast at large" 632; "paper grasp" 669; "foolish as shields of paper" 728 See also [[N#naming|naming]]; [[R#routinization|Routinization/Rationalization of Charisma]]

'''[[Paraboloids|PARABOLOIDS]]''' 
See also [[F#fingernails|fingernails]];

'''Parabellum rounds''' 
346; A Parabellum pistol, aka Luger pistol, is a semiautomatic German hand weapon first manufactured in 1900 for both military and commercial use. On recoil after firing, the mechanism opened to receive a new cartridge from an eight-round, removable box magazine in its grip.

<div id="paranoia"></div>
'''[[Paranoia/Connectedness|PARANOIA/CONNECTEDNESS]]''' 
See also [[#proverbs|Proverbs for Paranoids]]; [[T#they|They]]

'''Passchendaele''' 
79; Bloody battle in World War I when the British, led by Haig, attacked the Germans in Ypres in Flanders; "the stink of shit. . .is the smell of" 235; See also Haig, Sir Douglas

'''Paternal Peril''' 
675; aka "That ol' Broderick [who's] just a murderin' fool"

'''patterns''' 
"Let their holiness ripple into interference-patterns" 743;

'''Pavel''' 
519; assistant to Enzian; husband of Maria who is Christian's sister; talked into aborting their pregnancy by Ombindi; high on gasoline fumes, 523-24; in tap-dance routine with Andreas, 657; See also Leunagasolin

'''Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich (d. 1936)''' 
35; Russian physiologist; "ideas of the opposite"--the brain distinguishing between pleasure and pain, light from dark, u.s.w., 48-49; confuse ideas of the opposite by sending subject into "transmarginal" phases: (1) equivalent phase - all stimuli have same response; (2) paradoxical phase - weak stimulus=strong response - vice versa; (3) ultraparadoxical phase - confuse ideas of opposite, 37, 90; the Book, 47, 75, 87-88, 139, 140, 171, 639 ("the dialectic curse of"); "the cortex of the brain as a mosaic of tiny on/off elements" 55; "extinction of a conditioned reflex" 84-85; "believed that the ideal is the true mechanical explanation" 89; cause of obsessions and paranoid delusions, 49; Janet, 88; Pointsman's dream, 137-38; "the Master's isolated moments of poetry" 140; ideas of the opposite, 144; "English Pavlovian jokes" 168; "Pavlovian's Progress" 169; Pavlovia (Beguine), 229; 294; 396; death of, 752; See also The Book; Opposite, Ideas of the

'''Peary, Robert Edwin (1856-1920)''' 
589; U.S. Arctic explorer often credited with leading the first expedition to reach the North Pole, in 1909. Peary's claim to have reached the North Pole was almost universally accepted until, in the 1980s, an examination of his 1908-09 expedition diary and other documents cast doubt on whether he had actually reached the pole. Through a combination of navigational mistakes and record-keeping errors, Peary may actually have advanced only to a point 30-60 miles short of the pole. The truth remains uncertain.

'''Péclet''' 
453; coefficient named after

'''pédalo''' 
185; French: a small pedal-powered paddleboat

'''Peenemünde''' 
151; location of German rocket development and production on island of Usedom at mouth of Peene River on the Baltic Sea; [MAP]; 224; taken by Soviets in Spring '45, 273; island of Greifswalder Oie where rockets were fired, 404, 414 [MAP]; British air raid in '43 ("beginning of the end"), 423; described, 501-02

'''Penelope''' 
See [[S#nancy|Swanlake, Nancy]]

'''Pensiero, Pfc. Eddie''' 
640-41; [Italian: "thought, idea"]; company barber; "connoisseur of shivers" - Name probably derived from The Duke's aria from Act Three of the Giuseppe Verdi's opera ''Rigoletto'' - "La Donna é Mobile" ("Woman is Fickle"). The opening verse:

:La donna é mobile
:qual piuma al vento,
:muta d' accento - '''e di pensiero'''.

:Woman is fickle,
:a feather to the wind,
:no orator or thinker.

'''Pentagon''' 
454;

'''Percheron horse''' 
245; A rugged and powerful carthorse, the Percheron originated in the province of Le Perche, near Normandy in France, perhaps developing from Arabian stock.

'''Perdoo, Floyd''' 
270; SEZ WHO American hired by Pointsman to check out Slothrop's sexual conquests; See also [[S#sezwho|SEZ WHO]]; [[S#speed|Speed, Harvey]]

'''Perkin, William''' 
166; English chemist who discovered the color mauve

'''Perón, Juan (1895-1974)''' 
Army colonel founded and led the Peronist movement who was president of Argentina 1946-55 and 1973-74. After his election as president, he instituted greater economic and social benefits for the working class (wage increases and fringe benefits) and nationalized the railroads and other utilities, as well as financed large-scale public works. Ideologically, he staked his Third Position between communism and capitalism. His wife was Evita ("don't cry for me, Argentina, &c. &c."); 263

'''Peterskirche''' 
German: "St. Peter's Church"; according to Baedeker, this 14th century church is located in Rostock, the "lofty tower" of which is 433 feet high (p.205); in "a coastal town near Wismar" where the town's "Roland-statue" is located, 568; "the clock in the "above the statue of Roland, 573

'''Petritor''' 
692; The Petritor ("Peter's Gate"), aka the Sacktor ("Bag Gate)," is a fortified tower with a gate and a walkway of stone in the ancient town of Warburg in northern Germany (approx. 200 mi. SW of Berlin, near Cassel). This part of the Warburg fortification was built in 1443, a year after the citizens of Warburg had received the ransom money from defeating the Duke of Braunschweig. The city gates of Warburg were permanently guarded by gatekeepers and were closed at night. [Thanks to Felix Bernoully]

'''Petrova, M.K.''' 
49;

'''Petty Girl pin-ups''' 
George Petty (1894-1975) was an illustrator who worked for Esquire magazine drawing sexy pictures of scantily clad girls, called "Petty Girls," a series of pin-up paintings of women done for Esquire from the Autumn of 1933 until 1956. Petty frequently depicted these women with the relative lengths of their legs being longer — and the relative sizes of their heads being smaller — than those of his actual models. These illustrations were so popular with US servicemen in WWII that bomber crews would paint copies of them on the sides of their aircraft. Petty was eventually replaced at Esquire with Vargas who worked a similar vein. You can see a Petty Girl peeking out between Marlon Brando and the waxen John Lennon on the cover of the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album, or [[Petty Girl|check this out]]; "crimson-lipped, sausage-limbed," in office in old Krupp works in Cuxhaven, 592; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petty_girl Wikipedia entry]

'''Pflaumbaum''' 
159-60; German: "plum tree"; "Jewish wolf" who owned the paint factory where Pökler worked briefly--tried to create patterned paint; running Glitherius subsidiary in Berlin, 582

'''Philippe''' 
546; older man Louis Borgesius was living with in Antwerp

'''Phoebus''' 
649; international light-bulb cartel headquartered in Switzerland, run by Int'l GE, Osram and Associated Electrical Industries of Britain; determines operational lives of bulbs; "the clear signature of" 745; See also bulbs; Byron the Bulb''' 
photography

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

[[image:porky.gif|79px|right]]'''[[Pigs in Gravity's Rainbow|P I G S]]''' 
See also [[E#erdschweinhohle|Erdschweinhöhle]]; [[G#grunton|Myron Grunton]]; [[I#innocence|Innocence]]; [[O#ombindi|Ombindi]]; [[O#onguruve|Onguruve]]; [[#plechazunga|Plechazunga]]; [[#porkyevitch|Porkyevitch, Dr.]]; [[S#stblaise|St. Blaise, "Basher"]]; [[S#swinemunde|Swinemünde]]; [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=P#pigs Pigs in Mason & Dixon]

'''Pirate''' 
See [[#prentice|Prentice, Pirate]]

'''PISCES''' 
34; Psychological Intelligence Schemes for Expediting Surrender, housed in The White Visitation; "devoted to psychological warfare" 35; "concerned with a rather strictly defined, clinical version of truth" 272; Proceedings of the International Society of Confessors to an Enthusiasm for Albatross Nosology, 712; See also Twelfth House; White Visitation

'''Pitt, J. Peter''' 
65; friend of Slothrop's who appears in toilet adventure

'''Pizzini's Store''' 
744; in Mingeborough, MA

'''Planet of love''' 
7; Venus

'''Plassy''' 
Plassey, aka Palashi, is a historic village in east-central West Bengal state, northeastern India, and was the scene of the decisive victory of British forces under Robert Clive (1725-74) over those of the Nawab of Bengal, Siraj-ud-Dawlah (assisted by French artillery troops), in 1757. Sent to reestablish British trading stations in Bengal, Clive was aided in his mission by the treachery of the nawab's generals. At the Battle of Plassey, Clive's forces included elephants packtrains. The battle helped pave the way for the British acquisition of Bengal and established Clive as its virtual master; "Clive and his elephants stomping the French at" 82

'''[[Plastic in Gravity's Rainbow|PLASTIC]]''' 
See also Imipolex G; [[Plasticman]]

[[image:plasticman.jpg|138px|left]]'''Plasticman''' 
206; Plastic Man was a cartoon character in the 1940s who, through his ability to stretch himself into any shape, fought crime; 314; 331; 752; [[Plasticman|More on Plasticman]]; See also [[C#comics|comicbook/cartoon/fictional characters]]

'''Plasticity''' 
249; "central canon: that chemists were no longer to be at the mercy of Nature"; "virtuous triad of Strength, Stability and Whiteness" 250;

'''Plattdeutsch''' 
569; Low-German, the North German dialects

<div id="plechazunga"></div>'''Plechazunga''' 
567; German 10th Century Pig-Hero who saved "a coastal town near Wismar" from the Vikings; Slothrop as, 568-69

'''Plongette''' 
129; character conjured by the presence of the black man in choir at the Advent service attended by Roger and Jessica--"who loves it between her tits and will do it that way for free"

'''Plunkitt, Jed''' 
665; member of Iowa chapter of Masons

'''Poehlmann, Moritz''' 
416; German rocket engineer: "work in devising a cooling system for the propulsion

'''Pointsman, Dr. Edward W. A. ("Ned")''' 
37; Pavlovian at White Visitation; Slothrop's nemesis; sees Slothrop as his ticket to a Nobel Prize; "F.R.C.S." [Fellow in the Royal College of Surgeons], 42; chasing dogs, 42; pedophilia, 50-51; "can only possess the zero and the one" 55; "thirteen years along the clew, he's beginning to circle back, 88; the "Antimexico" 89; "His decline, creeping on him like the cold" 140; "There are, in his history, so many of these unmade moves" 140-41; fantasizes winning Nobel Prize, 142; "They would deny him the perversity of being in love with his death. . ." 143; begins to lose it by the sea on Whitsun ("White Sunday"), 273; working out of Twelfth House in London, 533; "losing his grip" 592; conducting study of Hund-Stadt, 615; in disgrace, 615; and ICI, 631; his "famous Corner" at Twelfth House, 633; "confronted by Mexico in Mossmoon's office, 636; "the pointsman" 644; no Stockholm, 752; "one who never Made His Move" 752; [[Pointsman|Etymological Musings]]

'''Poisson Distribution''' 
54; a probability density function reflected in where the bombs hit London and the locations of Slothrop's (fantasized?) sexual-encounters, 55, 85-86; 171; and babies born during the blitz, 173; "erotic Poisson" 270; See also [[Science, Physics, Math &c.|science/physics/math]]

<div id="pokler"></div>'''Pökler, Franz''' 
153; "a thin freckled man, nearly bald" (575); young German chemical engineer; father of Ilse; "cause-and-effect man"; worked in paint factory; "Piscean" 154; put up fliers for Schlepzig's film, 160; then stumbled on rocket launching and meets Mondaugen, 161; "engineer on the customer end of the Imipolex G contract" 283; came to Nordhausen in '44 and worked in Mittelwerke in factory run by SS, 283; conceiving Ilse, 397; in Zwölfkinder, 398; moved to Peenemünde in '37, 404; sense of drifting away, 405; brooding about Leni, 405; Victim in a Vacuum, 414; "grim phoenix" 415; imagined sex with Ilse, 420; accepting the game, 421; unique destiny of, 423; moved to Blizna, 424; transferred to the Harz, Mittelwerke in '44, 426; dream dialogues with bulb/Weissmann, 426-27; quits the game, 430; hoping Dora prisoners (and Ilse) will be set free, 431; "special destiny" to develop a plastic fairing for the propulsion section of S- gerät 00000, 431; puts wedding ring on dying woman at Dora, 433; with Frieda the pig at Zwölfkinder and meets Slothrop, 575; 687

<div id="pokler-i"></div>'''Pökler, Ilse''' 
154; daughter of Franz & Leni Pökler; 220; conceived, 397; shows up, 407, 417; Moon-house, 414; in Dora camp ("call them re-education camps"), 408, 428; last visit to Zwölfkinder, 428; released?, 432; mapped on to Bianca, 576-77; she's okay, 610

<div id="pokler-l"></div>'''Pökler, Leni''' 
153-60; married to Franz Pökler; affair with Sachsa; mother of Ilse; active in K.P.D. (Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands: "German Communist Party"); prostitute (?), 156-57; "grew up in Lübeck" 162; Sachsa's "refuge from society" 219; Nazi sex slave, 408; separated from Ilse, 417; as "Solange" at Putzi's, 603; dreaming of Ilse, 610: See also Solange

'''Polschuhen''' 
702; German: "pole piece" (Elec.); "weird-shaped Polschuhen, iron pieces to modify the shape of the magnetic field"

'''Pollitt, Harry (1890-1960)''' 
135; British Communist, and general secretary (1929-39, 1941-56) and chairman (1956-60) of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). He helped found the CPGB in 1920 and went to Moscow in 1921 to attend a congress of the Third International, where he met Vladimir Lenin. In 1925 he was sentenced to a year's imprisonment for seditious libel and incitement to mutiny. (In 1934 he was acquitted in another sedition trial.) In 1929 he became head of his party as general secretary.

'''polymorphous perversity''' 
"Crouchfield, doing it with both sexes and all animals except for rattlesnakes [...] but lately seems he's been havin' these fantasies about that rattlesnake, too!" 69; Catherine the Great, 343, 344; "it's an open house here, no favored senses or organs, all are equally at play" 439; "an expansion of music's polymorphous perversity till all notes were truly equal at last" 440; woman at dog show in Slothrop's 3-part dream, 447; on the Anubis, 463, 467; "a megalomaniac master plan of sexual love with every individual one of the People in the World" 547; at Putzi's, 602; in the Zone, 613-14; See also Counterforce; Rocket limericks

'''Porfirio, Crown Prince''' 
698; "bareass [...] with a giant halo of aluminum shaving curls on his head, his mouth made up with black grease"

<div id="porkeyvitch"></div>'''Porkyevitch, Dr.''' 
51; works at ARF; in charge of conditioning Grigori the devilfish; worked with Pavlov, 75; after octopus attack, 187

'''Portales, Graciela Imago''' 
383; the "urban idiot of Buenos Aires"; loved by the literati (including Borges); 613

'''Potemkin, Prince Grigori A. (1739-91)''' 
343; This Polish-born Russian soldier distinguished himself in Catherine the Great's 1st Turkish War (1768-74) and became her lover in 1774 and directed Russian policy. During the 2nd Turkish War (1787-92) he was head of the army and received the credit for Suvorov's victories. He died a rich man; "Did Prince Potemkin's fake villages survive Catherine's royal progress?" 388; See also [[C#catherine|Catherine the Great]]; [[S#suvorov|Suvorov]]

'''Potsdam Conference''' 
370; held in Neubabelsberg (old movie capital) near Berlin in August 1945. Post-war Germany was divided up by the Allies represented by U.S. President Harry Truman, British Deputy Prime Minister Clement Attlee and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin; "[Tchitcherine's] in Potsdam right now. [...] Set up a headfquarters in one of the old film studios" 376; likened to a big party/Hollywood premier, 380; [MAP]

'''Pox, DeCoverley''' 
9; at Pirate's maisonette; with Slothrop at the Junior Anthenaeum, 21

'''Prandtl, Ludwig''' 
452; 1904 "was the year ~ proposed the boundary layer, which really got aerodynamics into business"; coefficient named after, 453;

'''prang''' 
228; Slang: crash

<div id="prentice"></div>'''Prentice, Capt. Geoffrey "Pirate"''' 
5-7; 42 years old in '45; lives in maisonette in Chelsea, works for Special Operations Executive (SOE), aka the "Firm"; works with Teddy Bloat; dreaming, 3-4; message from Katje by V-2, 11; "getting inside the fantasies of others" 11-16; "homeopathic doses of peace" 16; retrieves graphite cylinder ("windburned face, big mean mother"), 20; feels Mexico is being used by Them, 35; affair with Scorpia Mossmoon, 35-36, 638; decodes message from rocket using his semen, 71-72; brought Katje to White Visitation, 106; 274; 536; at Convention/Garden of double agents, 537; "by the time you get any summary, the whole thing will have changed" 541; "This is one of his own in progress." 543; with Katje at double-agent convention, 545-48; "I can repeat patterns" 546; How I Came to Love the People, 547; going to Berlin, 619; hasn't lived other's fantasies since VE Day, 620; visited by Mexico, 637; 657; and James Jello, 698; (Although it seems most likely that his name is connected to Gilbert & Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance, where the hero Frederic is "'prenticed to a pirate," it has been pointed out, by Frank Lynch, that "Pirate Prentice" is an anagram of "Preterite Panic." - In the interests of full disclosure...)

<div id="preterite"></div>'''Preterite''' 
Calvinist/Puritan doctrine of the Elect (the chosen) and the Preterite (the passed-over, the damned); "second sheep" 3; "a new preterition abroad in England" 15; Dodoes, 108-11; "But if [the Dutch settlors] were chosen to come to Mauritius, why had they also been chosen to fail, and leave? Is that a choosing, or is it a passing over? Are they Elect, or are they Preterite, and doomed as Dodoes?" 110; "men you have seen on foot and smileless in the cities but forgot" 136; at Rathenau seance, 163; coal-tars as preterite dung, 166; "his poor sheep" 233; "the multitudes who are passed over by God and History" 299; "In preterite line they have pointed her here" 316; "Elite and Preterite, we move through a cosmic design of darkness and light" 495; "they dissolve now into the swarm. . .of this dancing Preterition" 548; "The successful loner was only the other part of it: the last piece to the jigsaw puzzle, whose shape had already been created by the Preterite" 554; Judas, 555; On Preterition, 555; "in their slick persistence and our preterition" 590; "rubbers yellow with preterite seed, Kleenex wadded to brain shapes hiding preterite snot, preterite tears" 626; 667; 668; "the glozing neuters of the world" 677; "the Humility, among the gray and preterite souls" 742; See also [[H#hand|Hand of Providence/God]]; [[#puritans|Puritans]]

'''Prettyplace, Mitchell''' 
113; "noted film critic"; book about King Kong, 275; See also King Kong

'''Prigsbury''' 
123; English motorcycle cop behind Roger and bare-breasted Jessica

'''Principle of Least Effort''' 
See [[XYZ#leasteffort|Zipf's Principal of Lease Effort]]

'''Principle of Maximizing Risk''' 
659;

'''Procalowska, Stefania''' 
395; wife of Antoni, 460-61; 481; 530

'''Procalowski, Antoni''' 
460; owns the Anubis; in storm, 488; 529-30; "down-out-of-the-sky-in-a-machine" 672

'''Project Hermes''' 
287; from General Electric;

<div id="proudhon"></div>'''Proudhon, Pierre Joseph (1809-1865)''' 
Proudhon, born into the poverty of the working class, was trained as a printer. He claimed that his three great influences were the Bible, Adam Smith and Hegel. These influenced him in his condemnation of usurious interest (the Bible), the principle of equality of wages (Smith) and the proposition that "[e]very true thought is conceived in time and breaks up in two directions" (the Hegelian dialectic). Quote of the day: "Property is theft"; "19th century European anarchist Mason" 587; See also [[F#friscia|Friscia]] and [[B#bakunin|Bakunin]]

<div id="proverbs"></div>'''Proverbs for Paranoids''' 
#You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures." 237
#The innocence of the creatures is in inverse proportion to the immorality of the Master." 241
#If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers." 251
#You hide, they seek." 262
#"Paranoids are not paranoids (Proverb 5) because they're paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations." 292

See also [[#paranoia|paranoia/connectedness]]

'''P.R.S. categories''' 
89; should be "S.P.R.": Society for Psychical Research

'''Psi Section''' 
"Psi" is a general term which covers all parapsychological phenomena. Originally derived from the use of the greek letter psi to denote the unknown quantity in an equation; paranormal branch of SOE, 40; 54; 76; 80; 91; 128; 138;144; "the freaks of" 146; "Blavatskian wing of" 269; 276

'''Psychochemie AG''' 
"Jamf at the time was working for a Swiss outfit called Psychochemie AG, originally known as the Grössli Chemical Corporation, a spinoff from Sandoz" 250; "Psychochemie AG is still around, still doing business at the same old address in the Schokoladestrasse, in that Zürich, Switzerland." 250; "Schweitar is very tight indeed with Psychochemie AG" 260; "the Grössli Chemical Corporation (later Psychochemie AG)" 286

'''Ptomaine Epidemic of 1943''' 
451; during which Höpmann and Kreuss routed waste lines on the Toiletship into the ventilation system

'''Pudding, Ernest, Old Brigadier''' 
46; 80-ish WWI vet in charge of the White Visitation; "senile little surprise" 48; "old delusions-of-grandeur himself" 52; background, 76; Things That Can Happen in European Politics, 77, 275; "Pudding's Gourd Surprise" 80; doesn't like Pointsman's plans for Slothrop, 83-84; with Katje Borgesius at Casino (?), 190; and Domina Nocturna, 232-36; ill, 273; dies of "massive E.coli infection" 533; 631; "is now a member of the Counterforce" 715

'''Puke-a-hook-a-look-i Island''' 
635; "actual location" for "another World War II situation comedy" 692; See also [[H#hawaii|Hawaii]]

'''Pumm''' 
139; one of the seven original owners of The Book; killed in jeep accident; 140; 167

'''puns &c.''' 
Joaquin Stick, 9; "his batman, a Corporal Wayne" 11; Constant and Variable Slothrop, 27; "'Treed at last!'" 199; "It suits you" 355; "You look more like Gaucho Marx" 386; "pip, pip, old Jap" 479; "For De Mille, young fur-henchmen can't be rowing!" 559; "Salitieri, Poore, Nash, De Brutus and Short" 591, 652; "Wilhelmets" 664; "I Ching feet" 746;

'''Purfle, Avery''' 
594; in First International Runcible Spoon Fight; shipmate of Bodine's

'''Puritans''' 
Calvinist insanity, 57; "a Puritan reflex of seeking other orders behind the visible" 188; "all those word-smitten Puritans dangling off of Slothrop's family tree" 207; "Just a neuter, just a recording eye" 216; "all those earlier Slothrops packing Bibles around the blue hilltops as part of their gear, memorizing chapter and verse the structures of Arks, Temples, Visionary Thrones--all the materials and dimensions." 241-42; "it was vanity, vanity as his Puritan forerunners had known it, bones and heart alert to Nothing" 267; "initiated at Harvard into the Puritan Mysteries" 267; "WASPs in buckled black" 281; "Providence's little pal" 379; "glozing neuters of the world" 510, 677; Providence, 537, 585; "second Sheep" 555; hopes for the Word, 571; and money, 652; Wm. Slothrop's hymn, 760; See also [[H#hand|Hand of Providence]]; [[#preterite|Preterite]]

'''Purvis, Melvin (1903-1960)''' 
[[image:melvin-purvis.jpg|100px|left]]Melvin Purvis was employed by the FBI from 1927 until his resignation in 1935. In 1933, as the Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago FBI Office, he became famous for leading the group that gunned down John Dillinger in Chicago. In 1934 he made headlines again by leading the group that gunned down Pretty Boy Floyd in an Ohio farm field. He was also instrumental in nailing Baby Face Nelson and Ma Barker. J. Edgar Hoover did not like FBI agents to receive so much fame and he eventually drove Purvis out of the agency and put up roadblocks as Purvis sought other employment. Purvis' death remains a mystery. He was found dead at the top of a staircase in his home with a bullet through his head. It was ruled a suicide, but many facts would suggest otherwise. His epitaph reads "Saepe Timui Sed Numquam Curri/ Always Afraid, Never Run." "bitchy little Melvin Purvis, staked outside the Biograph Theatre" 516; "'Maybe I was a Melvin Purvis Junior G-Man.'" 717;

'''Putzi's''' 
527; club on Dorum Road in Cuxhaven where Springer says Slothrop can pick up his papers; 595; 598; arrival at, 602

'''PWD''' 
76; Political Warfare Division, Army

'''PWE''' 
21; Political Warfare Executive; 52; 146; 628; [[British Military Intelligence|About]]

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