Thomas Pynchon Wiki - User contributions [en]

Main Page

2009-12-23T15:59:42Z

Nathank:

[[Image:book_GR_sm.jpg|right]]<big>'''Welcome to the ''Gravity's Rainbow'' Wiki!'''</big>

To become a contributor/editor, [http://pynchonwiki.com/mycaptcha/captcha-page.php '''Create an account.''']

:[http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FGravitys-Rainbow-Classics-Deluxe-Penguin%2Fdp%2F0143039946%2Fsr%3D1-2%2Fqid%3D1165211961%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks&tag=hyperartspynchon&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325'''Order ''Gravity's Rainbow''''']

This is the wiki for [[Thomas Pynchon]]'s ''Gravity's Rainbow''. Besides using the Alphabetical Index and the page-by-page annotation, you can also take a look at [[Gravity's Rainbow covers|''Gravity's Rainbow'' covers]], read the [[Gravity's Rainbow Reviews|reviews]], or [[Gravity's Rainbow Title|entertain some theories on the source of the title]].

<div id="announcement-home">
Professor Don Larrson, he of the Companion's Companion to ''Gravity's Rainbow'' (which was rolled into this wiki), reviews Steve Weisenburger's the second, revised edition of ''A Gravity’s Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon’s Novel''. [[Weisenburger's Companion, 2nd Edition|Read it...]].

[[The_Hawaiian_Islands_and_Ukuleles|'''Hawaiian cultural references in ''Gravity's Rainbow''''']]</div>

==How to Use this Wiki==

There are two major ways to use this wiki. The first is the '''''Gravity's Rainbow'' Alphabetical Index''', used to keep track of the myriad characters, real and imagined, as well as events, arcana, and lots of other stuff. The second is the '''Spoiler-Free Annotations by Page''', which allows the reader to look up and contribute allusions and references while reading the book, in a convenient and spoiler-free manner. These two sections are so far almost entirely different, but we're working on integrating them.

Apart from those, it's up to you.

==Alphabetical Index==
Information on the characters, events, and everything else in ''Gravity's Rainbow'', organized alphabetically:{{GR_Alpha_Nav}}

==Page by Page Annotations==
{{GR PbP}}

==Character Map==
'''**Contains Spoilers**''' 
A [http://sciencekings.com/GravitysRainbowCharacters.pdf character map]showing how most of the major characters connect together.

== Pynchon Wiki Help and Contributor Guidelines==

[[Help:Contents|'''Click here for help with editing and creating pages.''']]

We have a few conventions we ask that you follow:

* When creating a new page, first check to make sure a page/article about what you want to write about hasn't already been created, by '''[[Special:Allpages|checking the list of all Wiki pages on Pynchon Wiki]]'''. If a page already exists, please modify that one.

* When creating a new page, if its information pertains to one (and only one) specific Pynchon novel, please categorize it with the appropriate identifier. For example, a page pertaining to ''Gravity's Rainbow'', should use the syntax <code><nowiki>[[Category:GR]]</nowiki></code>.

* To open a discussion on an individual listing of the Alpha Index, create one using the [[A|entry on Peter Tait]] as an example. Basically, give it a name that identifies the alpha listing (eg <nowiki>[[Name Discussion|DISCUSSION]]</nowiki>) and notice that the visible name will be "DISCUSSION" in full caps, so it stands out a bit.

* [[Help:Contents|More help for this wiki available here.]]

==External Links==

* [http://books.google.com/books?id=iPDGp7VT8H8C&printsec=frontcover '''Search the contents of ''Gravity's Rainbow''''' (Google)]
* [http://www.thomaspynchon.com/ ThomasPynchon.com]
* [http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/ The Modern Word Pynchon page]
: [http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_gr.html The Modern Word: Gravity's Rainbow]
: [http://z11.invisionfree.com/thefictionalwoods/index.php The Fictional Woods] - a Pynchon forum
: [http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/zak_smith/title.htm Zak Smith's Illustrations for Each Page of Gravity's Rainbow]
* [http://english2.mnsu.edu/larsson/grnotes.html A companion's companion to Gravity's Rainbow]
* [http://pynchonoid.blogspot.com/ Pynchonoid Blog]
* [http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/gr/index.html Pomona Gravity's Rainbow page]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity's_Rainbow Wikipedia Gravity's Rainbow page]
* [http://www.en8848.com.cn/fiction/Fiction/Gerneral/2007-12-05/58883.html Chinese site which includes full text of the novel]
* [http://1010.co.uk/org/autotate.html Collected Annotations to ''Gravity's Rainbow'']
* [http://www.schuelers.com/chaos/chaos7.htm "Chaos and the Psychological Symbolism of the Tarot" by Gerald Schueler, PhD]

==Featured Article==

[[image:6s-7s.gif|175px|left]]
'''At Sixes and Sevens''' 
To be "at sixes and sevens" is an English phrase and idiom, common in the United Kingdom. It is used to describe a state of confusion or disarray.

"He'd never told her, he avoided telling himself, but that was the measure of his faith, as this seventh Christmas of the War came wheeling in another charge at his skinny, shivering flank..." - ''Gravity's Rainbow'', p.126

"A miscount" - Steven C. Weisenburger, ''A Gravity's Rainbow Companion''

[[Sixes and Sevens|Um, not so fast there, Steve...]]

<div style="clear:both;"></div>

==Gallery==
Below are some of the images you will find on Pynchon Wiki. {{Special:Newimages}}

Thanks, and enjoy...

User:Nathank

2009-12-16T21:02:57Z

Nathank: Created page with 'NathanK'

NathanK

User talk:Nathank

2009-12-16T20:56:27Z

Nathank: Created page with 'NathanK'

NathanK

Gravity's Rainbow - Page by Page

2009-12-16T16:10:07Z

Nathank:

<noinclude>This page-by-page annotation is organized by sections, as delineated by the seven squares (sprockets) which separate each section. The page numbers for this page-by-page annotation are for the original Viking edition (760 pages). Editions by other publishers vary in pagination the newer Penguin editions are 776 pages; the Bantam edition is 886 pages.

'''Contributors:''' Please use the 760-page (or, if you can't locate the Viking edition, the Penguin edition which is at least close in pagination and available on [http://books.google.com/books?id=iPDGp7VT8H8C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_navlinks_s#v=onepage&q=&f=false Google]. '''Readers:''' To calculate the Bantam edition use this formula: page# x 1.165. Before p.50 it's about a page earlier; as you get later in the book, add a page.

Finally, profound thanks to Prof. Don Larsson for providing the foundation for this page-by-page annotation.

<div class="separator"></div></noinclude>
{{GR PbP}}

Gravity's Rainbow - Page by Page

2009-12-16T16:09:49Z

Nathank:

<noinclude>This page-by-page annotation is organized by sections, as delineated by the seven squares (sprockets) which separate each section. The page numbers for this page-by-page annotation are for the original Viking edition (760 pages). Editions by other publishers vary in pagination the newer Penguin editions are 776 pages; the Bantam edition is 886 pages.

'''Contributors:''' Please use the 760-page (or, if you can't locate the Viking edition, the Penguin edition which is at least close in pagination and available on [http://books.google.com/books?id=iPDGp7VT8H8C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_navlinks_s#v=onepage&q=&f=false Google]'''Readers:''' To calculate the Bantam edition use this formula: page# x 1.165. Before p.50 it's about a page earlier; as you get later in the book, add a page.

Finally, profound thanks to Prof. Don Larsson for providing the foundation for this page-by-page annotation.

<div class="separator"></div></noinclude>
{{GR PbP}}

Template:GR PbP Text

2009-12-16T16:07:44Z

Nathank:

This page-by-page annotation is organized by sections, as delineated by the seven squares (sprockets) which separate each section. The page numbers for this page-by-page annotation are for the original Viking edition (760 pages). Editions by other publishers vary in pagination the newer Penguin editions are 776 pages; the Bantam edition is 886 pages.

'''Contributors:''' Please use a 760-page edition (either the original Viking edition with the orange cover or the Penguin USA edition with the blue cover and rocket diagram there are [http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?sofocus=bs&sbrftog=1&from=R10&submitsearch=Search&satitle=pynchon+rainbow&sacat=267%26catref%3DC6&sargn=-1%26saslc%3D2&sadis=200&fpos=94610&ftrt=1&ftrv=1&saprclo=&saprchi=&fsop=1%26fsoo%3D1&coaction=compare&copagenum=1&coentrypage=search plenty on Ebay] for around $10) or search the [http://books.google.com/books?id=iPDGp7VT8H8C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_navlinks_s#v=onepage&q=&f=false Google edition] for the correct page number. '''Readers:''' To calculate the Bantam edition use this formula: Bantam page # x 1.165. Before p.50 it's about a page earlier; as you get later in the book, add a page.

Finally, profound thanks to Prof. Don Larsson for providing the foundation for this page-by-page annotation.

<div class="separator"></div>

Pages 47-53

2009-12-10T17:08:52Z

Nathank:

{{GR PbP Text}}

==Page 47==

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

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

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

==Page 48==

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

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

==Page 51==

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 52==
'''Rundstedt offensive''' 
Is this simply a reference to The Battle of the Bulge?
http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Rundstedt+Offensive
--[[User:Jpicco|Jpicco]] 10:19, 16 May 2009 (PDT)
{{GR PbP}}

Pages 47-53

2009-12-10T17:08:20Z

Nathank:

{{GR PbP Text}}

==Page 47==

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

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

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

==Page 48==

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

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

==Page 51==

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 52==
'''Rundstedt offensive''' 
Is this simply a reference to The Battle of the Bulge?
http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Rundstedt+Offensive
--[[User:Jpicco|Jpicco]] 10:19, 16 May 2009 (PDT)
{{GR PbP}}

T

2009-12-10T17:05:25Z

Nathank:

'''Tägliche Rundschau''' 
434; German: "The Daily Panorama"; "discarded copies of" in Berlin

'''Taj Mahal''' 
This mausoleum on the southern bank of the Yamuna (Jumna) River, outside Agra in India was built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his wife, Arjumand Banu Begam, also called Mumtaz Mahal ("Chosen One of the Palace"), of which the name Taj Mahal is a corruption. It took 22 years to complete; 637

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

'''Tamara''' 
247; at de la Perlimpinpin party; 261

'''Tannhäuser''' 
Tannhäuserism (love of being taken under mountains), 299; "even a Minnesinger needs to be alone" 299; "the Singing Nincompoop" 364; See also Lisaura

'''Tantivy''' 
See [[M#mucker|Mucker-Maffick, Oliver "Tantivy"]]

'''Tarot''' 
Judgment, 152; "shuffling the ancient decks oily and worn, throwing down swords and cups and trumps major" 413; The Fool, 501, 724, 742; "Der Grob Säugling, 23rd card of the Zone's trumps major" 707; "choose the world" 718; "The scene itself must be read as a card: what is to come" 724; Queen of Cups, 735; A.E. Waite, 738; 746-49; [[Weissmann's Tarot]]; [[Slothrop's Tarot]]; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rider-Waite The Entire Rider-Waite Deck]

'''Tauschzentrale''' 
366; German: "bartering" or "exchange" "center"; in Berlin; "all her husband's clothes have been traded for food at the" 572;

'''Tavistock Institute''' 
276; The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations is an interdisciplinary organization in London which concentrates on human relations in the family, the work group, and organizations. British psychiatrist R.D. Laing (1927-89) conducted research there from 1960-89.

'''Tchitcherine, Vaslav''' 
290; Soviet intelligence officer; half-brother of Enzian; "mad scavenger" who officially reports to the TsAGE (Central Aero & Hydrodynamics Institute in Moscow) (1935-36); has need to annihilate the Schwarzkommando and "his mythical half-brother Enzian"; described, 337, 383; comes from Nihilist stock, 338; stationed in Central Asia in "early Stalin days" 338; "a raving snowman over the winter marshes" "a giant supermolecule. . .so many open bonds available" 345; story of his father, 350-52; 499; Kirghiz Light, 508, 510; "fear would always keep him from going all the way in" 566; illumination of, 611; 700; initiation into "bodyhood of steel" 702; "her graying steel barbarian" 718; "the Red Doper" 719; meets Enzian, 734; stays with Geli, 735; See also Kirghiz Light

'''TDY''' 
54; temporary duty

'''Technische Hochschule (T.H.)''' 
Mondaugen: "[Pökler's] old friend from the T.H. Munich" 160; "Glimpf, Professor of Mathematics of the Technische Hochschule, Darmstadt, Scientific advisor to the Allied Military Government" 309; "Zwitter is from the T.H. Munich" 313; Jamf lecturing Pökler's class, 577; "the greyness of certain crowds in the beerhalls back at the T.H." 579; 580;

'''[[Technology in Gravity's Rainbow|TECHNOLOGY]]''' 
See also [[#technische|Technische Hochscule]]; [[#they|They]]

'''Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre (d. 1955)''' 
539; Jesuit paleontologist and mystical philosopher

'''Telangiecstasis, Spyros ("Spider")''' 
389; Radarman 2nd Class on Badass

'''Tenniel's Alice''' 
247; Sir John Tenniel (1820-1914) was a cartoonist and artist who created almost 2000 cartoons for the humor magazine, Punch, but who is probably most famous for the illustrations he did for Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1864); [MORE]

'''Tennysonian comfort''' 
270; "of saying 'someone' has blundered"

'''TerBorch, Gerard (1617-81)''' 
Dutch Baroque painter whose genre pieces and portraits depict with grace and fidelity the atmosphere of middle-class life in 17th-century Holland. His works consist almost equally of portraits and genre pieces, with his usually delicate technique best reflected in the portraits which are painted on an almost miniature scale; "[Blicero] flings a boot-tree at a precious TerBorch" 104

'''Ter Meer, Dr. Fritz''' 
631; according to Sasuly, "Ter Meer was one of the half-dozen most important men in the IG: he was considered an outstanding scientiest; [...] he was a member of the IG managing board of directors. [...] [When asked after the war] if he felt that experiments on human beings were justifiable [,] he argued that ... no harm had been done to these KZ [concentration camp] inmates as they would have been killed anyway." (p.125-26)

'''T-Force''' 
558; "Officially [Chiclitz] is one of the American industrialists out here with the T Force, scouting German engineering, secret weaponry in particular"

'''Thanatz Alpdrucken, Reichssieger von''' 
142; "champion Weimaraner for 1941" in Pointsman's dreams of chase

'''Thanatz, Karel Miklos''' 
461; ["Thanatos" is Greek for "death]; husband of Greta Erdmann; aka Karel [a fairly common Czech name], 461; with Blicero, 464; reading whip scars, 484, 641; "he may have seen the actual firing" 562; with Pole who wants lightening to hit him, 663; 663-73; at homosexual community ("175-Stadt"), 666-67; at Sachsa's seances, 668; kidnapped by anti-Lublinites, 669; sex with Bianca, 670; taken by Schwarzkommando, 671; "he lost Gottfried" 671; "the angel [the Erdschweinhöhlers] have hoped for" 672; 736; "is [Sado-anarchism's] leading theoretician in the Zone these days" 737

'''Thayer's Slippery Elm Throat Lozenges''' 
18; sent to Slothrop in London by Nalline S.; 116; [Thayers.com]

'''theatre''' 
"it's all theatre" 3; "theatrically bitter" 133; "magnificent stone theatre" 148; "theatre nothing but Walter really look at head phony angle" 152; "just down the street from the theatre" 174; "you're in the wrong theatre of operations" 201; "every occupation town in the Theatre" 247; "only elaborate theatre to fool you" 267; "tears which are not all theatre" 302; "Perhaps it's theater" 326; "elaborate piece of theatre" 352; street-theatre, 399; "Mediterranean theatre" 438; "under a theatre marquee whose sentient bulbs may have looked on" 464; "this War. . .was all theatre" 521; "the elaborate theatrical foofooraw of Mob 'n' Masons" 586; "all become theatre" 722; "not without theatre" 743; "above the roof of this old theatre" 760; See also [[A#actors|actors/directors]]; [[F#film|film/cinema references]]; [[K#kingkong|King Kong]]; [[M#movies|movies]]; [[U#ufa|Ufa-theatre]]

'''Theil, Dr. Walter''' 
423; chemical engineer killed in British air-raid on Peenemünde in August 1943; 427

<div id="theophile"></div>'''Theophile''' 
247; [Greek: "god loving"]; friend of Italo's who is trying to smuggle a Sherman tank into Palestine

'''Thermidor''' 
"Thermidor" corresponded to July in the French republican calendar adopted in 1793 during the French Revolution, which dating system was intended to replace the Gregorian calendar with a more rational system devoid of Christian associations. The Gregorian calendar was reestablished by the Napoleonic regime on January 1, 1806; Mexico recalling "the sweaty evenings of" 713

'''Thesean brushings''' 
According to Greek myth, Theseus, the son of King Aegeus of Athens, went to Crete and slew the half-human, half-bull Minotaur, kept by King Minos (son of Zeus and Europa) in his Labyrinth (built by Daedalus). The Athenians had been sending seven youths and seven maidens to Crete each year to be set loose in the Labyrinth and eaten by the Minotaur. This yearly reparation was Minos' revenge for the jealous Athenians having killed Minos' son because of his victory over Athens in athletic games. King Aegeus sent his son Theseus as one of the seven youths in the next year's sacrifice. However, King Minos' daughter Ariadne had fallen in love with Theseus and so provided him with an indestructible clew to unwind as he entered the Labyrinth. He handily slew the Minotaur and was able to exit the Labyrinth; "[Pointsman's] lonely Thesean brushings down his polished corridors of years" 141; See also [[L#labyrinth|labyrinth]]; [[Weaving the Web]]

'''THEY''' 
::Jessica notes a coal-black Packard up a side street, filled with dark-suited civilians. Their white collars rigid in the shadows.

::"Who're they?"

::[Mexico] shrugs: "they" is good enough. "Not a friendly lot." (40)

"'They' embracing possibilities far far beyond Nazi Germany" 25; "They" conversation (Major-General), 33; "(They?)" 72; "he's begun to suspect, darkly, any number of Someones Over Here" 108; "an act of suicide [...] which in its pathology, in its dreamless version of the real, the Empire commits by the thousands every day, completely unaware of what it's doing" 129; "The true king only dies a mock death. [...] Any number of young men may be selected to die in his place while the real king, foxy old bastard, goes on." 131; "death-by-government" 176; 177; 195; "two orders of being" 202; "a clutch mechanism between [Slothrop] and Their iron-cased engine" 207; "Mothers work for Them!" 219; "if there is a life force operating in Nature, still there is nothing so analogous in a bureaucracy. . .It all comes down. . .to the desires of individual men" 228; "All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all." 230; 285; "They extinguish. . .not remind" 438; no physical locale, 251; "They would not be who or where They are without a touch of Dante to Their notions of reprisal." 350; "They sure must have the budget, all right. Look at this desolation, all built then hammered back into pieces" 374; "a system whose only aim is to violate the Cycle. Taking and not giving back, [...] removing from the rest of the World these vast quantities of energy to keep its own tiny desperate fraction showing a profit: [...] most of the World, animal, vegetable and mineral, is laid waste in the process" 412; "innocence and its many uses" 419; keeping Earth "for the numb and joyless hardons of. . .human elite" 521; "It is possible that They will not die. That it is now within the state of Their art to go on forever" 539; "They need our terror for Their survival" 539; "There's something still on, don't call it a 'war' if it makes you nervous, maybe the deasth rate's gone down a point or two [...] but Their enterprise goes on" 628; "necktie or cock" 637; "Creative paranoia means developing at least as thorough a We-system as a They-system" 638; "They will come and shut off the water first" 694; 697; "Their mission in this world is Bad Shit" 712; "Which is worse: living on as Their pet, or death? 713; "It is our mission to promote death. . .holding down the green uprising." 720; "submission and dominance are resources it needs for its very survival" 737; See also [[E#entropy|entropy/closed systems]]; [[Paranoia in Gravity's Rainbow|paranoia]]; [[Technology in Gravity's Rainbow|Technology]]

'''Things That Can Happen in European Politics''' 
77; Pudding's project which falls victim to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and/or Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem; 275

'''Third Term''' 
270; Franklin D. Roosevelt's third term, 1940-44

'''Throsp, Corydon''' 
5; erected maisonette where Pirate and Bloat live; cultivated pharmaceutical plants on the roof; medieval fantasies, 10

'''Throwster, Aaron''' 
82; colleague of Pointsman's; "ARF's resident neurosurgeon" 113; 146; 227

'''Thuringia''' 
640; central German state in which Nordhausen is located; Thuringian, 240; sands, 306 [MAP]

'''Thyssen, Fritz (1873-1951)''' 
Leading German industrialist was a member of one of the world's wealthiest families and a major financial backer of Adolf Hitler's rise to power. After inheriting his father's fortune and industrial empire, he shrewdly combined the family holdings into a trust (Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG [United Steelworks Co.]) which controlled more than 75 percent of Germany's ore reserve and employed 200,000 workers. Like many German industrial leaders, he worried about the rise of socialism and was an early backer of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. He worked hard to get Hitler elected and was then rewarded by being appointed to the German Economic Council. Because he really only supported the anti-socialist positions of the Nazis, he broke with Hitler and fled to Switzerland when Hitler led Germany into war and began persecuting Jews and Catholics (Thyssen was a Catholic); conspiring with Stinnes and Krupp to ruin the mark, after WWI, 285

'''T.I.''' 
20; Technical Intelligence wing of English army

'''Tiergarten''' 
367; German: "zoo (lit. animal garden); this is the central park in Berlin

'''Tierpark''' 
419; German: "zoological gardens"; at Zwölfkinder

'''time''' 
"He'd seen himself a point on a moving wavefront, propagating through sterile history--a known past, a projectable future" 126; "to keep Grid Time synchronized with Greenwich Mean Time" 133; "spirits from other parts of the veld--for time and space on their side have no meaning, all is together" 153; penetrating the moment, 158; "slices of time growing thinner" 159; "There is the moment, and its possibilities" 159; all at once,165; secular, 169; "the clock ratcheting time minutewise into their past" 193; war reconfiguring, 257; "isolate inside the way time is passing" 303; "the true momentum of his time" 312; "time- modulation peculiar to Oneirine" 389; future/past, 400; "the space and time were Blicero's own" 486; "no serial time over there; events all there in the same eternal moment" 624; "the oneway flow of European time" 724; "herding us through time" 724; "a presence, analogous to the Aether, flows through time" 726; "his time's assembly" 738; "time is a funny thing" 752; See also [[D#deltat|delta-t]]; [[H#history|history]]; [[Too late...|TOO LATE]];

'''Time magazine''' 
463; American weekly "news" magazine

'''Titaniapalast''' 
446; "Across the façade of the" in Berlin

'''Titanic, the''' 
British luxury passenger liner that struck an iceberg and sank on April 14-15, 1912, en route to New York City from Southampton, England, during its maiden voyage. at a point about 400 miles (640 km) south of Newfoundland. Of the 2200 aboard, about 1,515 perished; "And come aboard the Titanic, things'll really be manic/Folks'll panic the second that sunken iceberg is knocked" 462-63

'''Tivoli''' 
121; club in London

'''Togo, Admiral Heihachiro (1848-1934)''' 
Led the Japanese fleet to victory in the Russo-Japanese War in 1863. In a desperate move, the Russians dispatched their Baltic fleet to Japan, meeting Togo's forces on May 27 in the Tsushima Strait, which connects the Sea of Japan with the East China Sea. Togo "crossed the enemy's T"--i.e., he turned his column across the Russian line of advance--and destroyed 33 out of the 35 Russian ships, ending the war; "hand[ed] Rozhdestvenski's ass to him" in the waters between Japan and Korea, 350

'''Toiletship''' 
448; aka Rücksichtslos (German: "inconsiderate" or "ruthless"); Swinemünde to Helgoland, 450; "a wind tunnel's all it is. If tensor analysis is good enough for turbulence, it ought to be good enough for history" 451

'''Tootsie Roll''' 
493: "see the sugar bowl do the Tootsie Roll with the big, bad, Devil's food cake"; [http:/www.tootsie.com/]

'''Tosks and Ghegs''' 
Two distinct Albanian social groups/cultures each with its own dialect and separated geographically by the Shkumbin River with the Ghegs (or Gegs) in the north and the Tosks in the south. The Ghegs were renowned for their independent spirit and fighting abilities, while the Tosks were more of a semifeudal society and more subject to foregin influences due to their southern territories being more accessible to the ouside world. The communist movement drew most of its support from the Tosks, taking over in 1944. Since then, the differences between the two have greatly lessened; 549

'''Tracy, Alfonso''' 
582-83; owned the defective pinball machines; Great Pinball Difficulty, 581

'''Tracy, Mable''' 
582; wife of Alfonso

<div id="Transmarginal"></div>'''Transmarginal Phases''' 
48,49,50,78,79; Ongoing sequential responses to '''overwhelming''' stimulus (1) equivalent phase - all stimuli have same expected response; (2) paradoxical phase - weak stimulus=strong response - vice versa; (3) ultraparadoxical phase - stimuli produce opposite response (ie if previously attracted to the stimuli, now reject it) and vice versa - confuse ideas of opposite

'''Treacle, Edwin''' 
85; 92; "most Freudian of psychic researchers" in Psi Section of White Visitation; 146; recent dreams of flight, 146; 153; "setting up a practice" 273; "I'll show you a giant ape" 276

'''Tree of Life''' 
"It is not only a sudden white genital onset in the sky--it is also, perhaps, a Tree...." 694; Kabbalist, 747; "Now the Sephiroth fall into a pattern, which is called the" 753; "the Tree itself is a unity, rooted exactly at the Bodenplatte" 753;

'''Trefoil, Gavin''' 
33; can change the melanin content of his skin to change his color; 124; 147; 215; 276

'''tripos''' 
31; a final honors exam at Cambridge university, originally in mathematics

'''Tripping, Geli (pronounced: "Gaily")''' 
290; lover of Tchitcherine; lives in Nordhausen; lover of Slothrop; "pretty young witch straddling an A4" 293; 494; thinks she's a witch, 500; witch ritual, 717; "the World-choosing sort" 718; with Tchitcherine, 733-35; "the young witch" 734

'''Trotha, Gen. Lothar von''' 
362; German who led wholesale slaughter of Hereros in Südwest in 1904; exhibit at Zwölfkinder, 422; 563

'''Trotsky''' 
Trotskyite block, 189; Trotsky a former patron at the Odeon, 262; 338; "some beasrded old unreconstructed geezer of a Trotskyite" 399;

'''Trudi''' 
365; Säure's sidekick; her boyfriend is Gustav, 366; 684-85; Bodine spending more time with, 741

'''Truman, Harry S. (1884-1972)''' 
Succeeding Roosevelt upon his death, Truman was the 33rd president of the United States (1945-53). He moved the U.S. into international confrontation with Soviet and Chinese communism and worked to preserve the New Deal reforms; "'Emil, who's that guy in the glasses?'" 373; "the dapper, bespectacled stranger [...] the face that has silently dissolved in to replace the one Slothrop never saw and now never will" 381; 382; "famous Missouri Mason" 588

'''TsAGI''' 
273; Tsentral'niy Aerogidrondinamicheskiy Institute; "Officially [Tchitcherine] reports to TsAGI, which is the Central Aero and Hydrodynamics Institute in Moscow" 337; 391; 706;

'''Tungsram''' 
647; light bulb manufacturer "in Budapest" that was supposed to have created Byron T.B.

'''Twelfth House''' 
274; new PISCES branch office on Gallaho Mews in London; so named by Webley Silvernail because Pisces is the 12th House in the Zodiac; Pointsman transferred there, 533

'''Typhoid Mary''' 
739; one who spreads a disease

'''typographical errors''' 
"pharnyx" should be "pharynx" 14; "at here at" should be "as here at" 32; "Strobe's" should be "Jamf's" (appears in early Viking editions), 86; "Nichols" should be "Nicholls" 94; "heart-transfer" should be "heat-transfer" 223 [[N#nusselt|perhaps not a typo]]; "Isle" should be "Ilse" 414; "airpseed" should be "airspeed" 454; "ecclesiatical" should be "ecclesiastical" 468; "elctro- decor" should be "electro-decor" 518; "Leunahalluziationen" should be "Leunahalluzinationen" 523; "is is" should be "it is" 715; "then" should be "than" 732; "Zundung" should be "Zündung" 758

{{GR Alpha Nav}}

T

2009-12-10T16:56:42Z

Nathank:

'''Tägliche Rundschau''' 
434; German: "The Daily Panorama"; "discarded copies of" in Berlin

'''Taj Mahal''' 
This mausoleum on the southern bank of the Yamuna (Jumna) River, outside Agra in India was built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his wife, Arjumand Banu Begam, also called Mumtaz Mahal ("Chosen One of the Palace"), of which the name Taj Mahal is a corruption. It took 22 years to complete; 637

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

'''Tamara''' 
247; at de la Perlimpinpin party; 261

'''Tannhäuser''' 
Tannhäuserism (love of being taken under mountains), 299; "even a Minnesinger needs to be alone" 299; "the Singing Nincompoop" 364; See also Lisaura

'''Tantivy''' 
See [[M#mucker|Mucker-Maffick, Oliver "Tantivy"]]

'''Tarot''' 
Judgment, 152; "shuffling the ancient decks oily and worn, throwing down swords and cups and trumps major" 413; The Fool, 501, 724, 742; "Der Grob Säugling, 23rd card of the Zone's trumps major" 707; "choose the world" 718; "The scene itself must be read as a card: what is to come" 724; Queen of Cups, 735; A.E. Waite, 738; 746-49; [[Weissmann's Tarot]]; [[Slothrop's Tarot]]; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rider-Waite The Entire Rider-Waite Deck]

'''Tauschzentrale''' 
366; German: "bartering" or "exchange" "center"; in Berlin; "all her husband's clothes have been traded for food at the" 572;

'''Tavistock Institute''' 
276; The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations is an interdisciplinary organization in London which concentrates on human relations in the family, the work group, and organizations. British psychiatrist R.D. Laing (1927-89) conducted research there from 1960-89.

'''Tchitcherine, Vaslav''' 
290; Soviet intelligence officer; half-brother of Enzian; "mad scavenger" who officially reports to the TsAGE (Central Aero & Hydrodynamics Institute in Moscow) (1935-36); has need to annihilate the Schwarzkommando and "his mythical half-brother Enzian"; described, 337, 383; comes from Nihilist stock, 338; stationed in Central Asia in "early Stalin days" 338; "a raving snowman over the winter marshes" "a giant supermolecule. . .so many open bonds available" 345; story of his father, 350-52; 499; Kirghiz Light, 508, 510; "fear would always keep him from going all the way in" 566; illumination of, 611; 700; initiation into "bodyhood of steel" 702; "her graying steel barbarian" 718; "the Red Doper" 719; meets Enzian, 734; stays with Geli, 735; See also Kirghiz Light

'''TDY''' 
54; temporary duty

'''Technische Hochschule (T.H.)''' 
Mondaugen: "[Pökler's] old friend from the T.H. Munich" 160; "Glimpf, Professor of Mathematics of the Technische Hochschule, Darmstadt, Scientific advisor to the Allied Military Government" 309; "Zwitter is from the T.H. Munich" 313; Jamf lecturing Pökler's class, 577; "the greyness of certain crowds in the beerhalls back at the T.H." 579; 580;

'''[[Technology in Gravity's Rainbow|TECHNOLOGY]]''' 
See also [[#technische|Technische Hochscule]]; [[#they|They]]

'''Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre (d. 1955)''' 
539; Jesuit paleontologist and mystical philosopher

'''Telangiecstasis, Spyros ("Spider")''' 
389; Radarman 2nd Class on Badass

'''Tenniel's Alice''' 
247; Sir John Tenniel (1820-1914) was a cartoonist and artist who created almost 2000 cartoons for the humor magazine, Punch, but who is probably most famous for the illustrations he did for Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1864); [MORE]

'''Tennysonian comfort''' 
270; "of saying 'someone' has blundered"

'''TerBorch, Gerard (1617-81)''' 
Dutch Baroque painter whose genre pieces and portraits depict with grace and fidelity the atmosphere of middle-class life in 17th-century Holland. His works consist almost equally of portraits and genre pieces, with his usually delicate technique best reflected in the portraits which are painted on an almost miniature scale; "[Blicero] flings a boot-tree at a precious TerBorch" 104

'''Ter Meer, Dr. Fritz''' 
631; according to Sasuly, "Ter Meer was one of the half-dozen most important men in the IG: he was considered an outstanding scientiest; [...] he was a member of the IG managing board of directors. [...] [When asked after the war] if he felt that experiments on human beings were justifiable [,] he argued that ... no harm had been done to these KZ [concentration camp] inmates as they would have been killed anyway." (p.125-26)

'''T-Force''' 
558; "Officially [Chiclitz] is one of the American industrialists out here with the T Force, scouting German engineering, secret weaponry in particular"

'''Thanatz Alpdrucken, Reichssieger von''' 
142; "champion Weimaraner for 1941" in Pointsman's dreams of chase

'''Thanatz, Karel Miklos''' 
461; ["Thanatos" is Greek for "death]; husband of Greta Erdmann; aka Karel [a fairly common Czech name], 461; with Blicero, 464; reading whip scars, 484, 641; "he may have seen the actual firing" 562; with Pole who wants lightening to hit him, 663; 663-73; at homosexual community ("175-Stadt"), 666-67; at Sachsa's seances, 668; kidnapped by anti-Lublinites, 669; sex with Bianca, 670; taken by Schwarzkommando, 671; "he lost Gottfried" 671; "the angel [the Erdschweinhöhlers] have hoped for" 672; 736; "is [Sado-anarchism's] leading theoretician in the Zone these days" 737

'''Thayer's Slippery Elm Throat Lozenges''' 
18; sent to Slothrop in London by Nalline S.; 116; [Thayers.com]

'''theatre''' 
"it's all theatre" 3; "theatrically bitter" 133; "magnificent stone theatre" 148; "theatre nothing but Walter really look at head phony angle" 152; "just down the street from the theatre" 174; "you're in the wrong theatre of operations" 201; "every occupation town in the Theatre" 247; "only elaborate theatre to fool you" 267; "tears which are not all theatre" 302; "Perhaps it's theater" 326; "elaborate piece of theatre" 352; street-theatre, 399; "Mediterranean theatre" 438; "under a theatre marquee whose sentient bulbs may have looked on" 464; "this War. . .was all theatre" 521; "the elaborate theatrical foofooraw of Mob 'n' Masons" 586; "all become theatre" 722; "not without theatre" 743; "above the roof of this old theatre" 760; See also [[A#actors|actors/directors]]; [[F#film|film/cinema references]]; [[K#kingkong|King Kong]]; [[M#movies|movies]]; [[U#ufa|Ufa-theatre]]

'''Theil, Dr. Walter''' 
423; chemical engineer killed in British air-raid on Peenemünde in August 1943; 427

<div id="theophile"></div>'''Theophile''' 
247; [Greek: "god loving"]; friend of Italo's who is trying to smuggle a Sherman tank into Palestine

'''Thermidor''' 
"Thermidor" corresponded to July in the French republican calendar adopted in 1793 during the French Revolution, which dating system was intended to replace the Gregorian calendar with a more rational system devoid of Christian associations. The Gregorian calendar was reestablished by the Napoleonic regime on January 1, 1806; Mexico recalling "the sweaty evenings of" 713

'''Thesean brushings''' 
According to Greek myth, Theseus, the son of King Aegeus of Athens, went to Crete and slew the half-human, half-bull Minotaur, kept by King Minos (son of Zeus and Europa) in his Labyrinth (built by Daedalus). The Athenians had been sending seven youths and seven maidens to Crete each year to be set loose in the Labyrinth and eaten by the Minotaur. This yearly reparation was Minos' revenge for the jealous Athenians having killed Minos' son because of his victory over Athens in athletic games. King Aegeus sent his son Theseus as one of the seven youths in the next year's sacrifice. However, King Minos' daughter Ariadne had fallen in love with Theseus and so provided him with an indestructible clew to unwind as he entered the Labyrinth. He handily slew the Minotaur and was able to exit the Labyrinth; "[Pointsman's] lonely Thesean brushings down his polished corridors of years" 141; See also [[L#labyrinth|labyrinth]]; [[Weaving the Web]]

'''THEY''' 
::Jessica notes a coal-black Packard up a side street, filled with dark-suited civilians. Their white collars rigid in the shadows.

::"Who're they?"

::[Mexico] shrugs: "they" is good enough. "Not a friendly lot." (40)

"'They' embracing possibilities far far beyond Nazi Germany" 25; "They" conversation (Major-General), 33; "(They?)" 72; "he's begun to suspect, darkly, any number of Someones Over Here" 108; "an act of suicide [...] which in its pathology, in its dreamless version of the real, the Empire commits by the thousands every day, completely unaware of what it's doing" 129; "The true king only dies a mock death. [...] Any number of young men may be selected to die in his place while the real king, foxy old bastard, goes on." 131; "death-by-government" 176; 177; 195; "two orders of being" 202; "a clutch mechanism between [Slothrop] and Their iron-cased engine" 207; "Mothers work for Them!" 219; "if there is a life force operating in Nature, still there is nothing so analogous in a bureaucracy. . .It all comes down. . .to the desires of individual men" 228; "All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all." 230; 285; "They extinguish. . .not remind" 438; no physical locale, 251; "They would not be who or where They are without a touch of Dante to Their notions of reprisal." 350; "They sure must have the budget, all right. Look at this desolation, all built then hammered back into pieces" 374; "a system whose only aim is to violate the Cycle. Taking and not giving back, [...] removing from the rest of the World these vast quantities of energy to keep its own tiny desperate fraction showing a profit: [...] most of the World, animal, vegetable and mineral, is laid waste in the process" 412; "innocence and its many uses" 419; keeping Earth "for the numb and joyless hardons of. . .human elite" 521; "It is possible that They will not die. That it is now within the state of Their art to go on forever" 539; "They need our terror for Their survival" 539; "There's something still on, don't call it a 'war' if it makes you nervous, maybe the deasth rate's gone down a point or two [...] but Their enterprise goes on" 628; "necktie or cock" 637; "Creative paranoia means developing at least as thorough a We-system as a They-system" 638; "They will come and shut off the water first" 694; 697; "Their mission in this world is Bad Shit" 712; "Which is worse: living on as Their pet, or death? 713; "It is our mission to promote death. . .holding down the green uprising." 720; "submission and dominance are resources it needs for its very survival" 737; See also [[E#entropy|entropy/closed systems]]; [[Paranoia in Gravity's Rainbow|paranoia]]; [[Technology in Gravity's Rainbow|Technology]]

'''Things That Can Happen in European Politics''' 
77; Pudding's project which falls victim to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and/or Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem; 275

'''Third Term''' 
270; Franklin D. Roosevelt's third term, 1940-44

'''Throsp, Corydon''' 
5; erected maisonette where Pirate and Bloat live; cultivated pharmaceutical plants on the roof; medieval fantasies, 10

'''Throwster, Aaron''' 
82; colleague of Pointsman's; "ARF's resident neurosurgeon" 113; 146; 227

'''Thuringia''' 
640; central German state in which Nordhausen is located; Thuringian, 240; sands, 306 [MAP]

'''Thyssen, Fritz (1873-1951)''' 
Leading German industrialist was a member of one of the world's wealthiest families and a major financial backer of Adolf Hitler's rise to power. After inheriting his father's fortune and industrial empire, he shrewdly combined the family holdings into a trust (Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG [United Steelworks Co.]) which controlled more than 75 percent of Germany's ore reserve and employed 200,000 workers. Like many German industrial leaders, he worried about the rise of socialism and was an early backer of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. He worked hard to get Hitler elected and was then rewarded by being appointed to the German Economic Council. Because he really only supported the anti-socialist positions of the Nazis, he broke with Hitler and fled to Switzerland when Hitler led Germany into war and began persecuting Jews and Catholics (Thyssen was a Catholic); conspiring with Stinnes and Krupp to ruin the mark, after WWI, 285

'''T.I.''' 
20; Technical Intelligence wing of English army

'''Tiergarten''' 
367; German: "zoo (lit. animal garden); this is the central park in Berlin

'''Tierpark''' 
419; German: "zoological gardens"; at Zwölfkinder

'''time''' 
"He'd seen himself a point on a moving wavefront, propagating through sterile history--a known past, a projectable future" 126; "to keep Grid Time synchronized with Greenwich Mean Time" 133; "spirits from other parts of the veld--for time and space on their side have no meaning, all is together" 153; penetrating the moment, 158; "slices of time growing thinner" 159; "There is the moment, and its possibilities" 159; all at once,165; secular, 169; "the clock ratcheting time minutewise into their past" 193; war reconfiguring, 257; "isolate inside the way time is passing" 303; "the true momentum of his time" 312; "time- modulation peculiar to Oneirine" 389; future/past, 400; "the space and time were Blicero's own" 486; "no serial time over there; events all there in the same eternal moment" 624; "the oneway flow of European time" 724; "herding us through time" 724; "a presence, analogous to the Aether, flows through time" 726; "his time's assembly" 738; "time is a funny thing" 752; See also [[D#deltat|delta-t]]; [[H#history|history]]; [[Too late...|TOO LATE]];

'''Time magazine''' 
463; American weekly "news" magazine

'''Titaniapalast''' 
446; "Across the façade of the" in Berlin

'''Titanic, the''' 
British luxury passenger liner that struck an iceberg and sank on April 14-15, 1912, en route to New York City from Southampton, England, during its maiden voyage. at a point about 400 miles (640 km) south of Newfoundland. Of the 2200 aboard, about 1,515 perished; "And come aboard the Titanic, things'll really be manic/Folks'll panic the second that sunken iceberg is knocked" 462-63

'''Tivoli''' 
121; club in London

'''Togo, Admiral Heihachiro (1848-1934)''' 
Led the Japanese fleet to victory in the Russo-Japanese War in 1863. In a desperate move, the Russians dispatched their Baltic fleet to Japan, meeting Togo's forces on May 27 in the Tsushima Strait, which connects the Sea of Japan with the East China Sea. Togo "crossed the enemy's T"--i.e., he turned his column across the Russian line of advance--and destroyed 33 out of the 35 Russian ships, ending the war; "hand[ed] Rozhdestvenski's ass to him" in the waters between Japan and Korea, 350

'''Toiletship''' 
448; aka Rücksichtslos (German: "inconsiderate" or "ruthless"); Swinemünde to Helgoland, 450; "a wind tunnel's all it is. If tensor analysis is good enough for turbulence, it ought to be good enough for history" 451

'''Tootsie Roll''' 
493: "see the sugar bowl do the Tootsie Roll with the big, bad, Devil's food cake"; [http:/www.tootsie.com/]

'''Tosks and Ghegs''' 
Two distinct Albanian social groups/cultures each with its own dialect and separated geographically by the Shkumbin River with the Ghegs (or Gegs) in the north and the Tosks in the south. The Ghegs were renowned for their independent spirit and fighting abilities, while the Tosks were more of a semifeudal society and more subject to foregin influences due to their southern territories being more accessible to the ouside world. The communist movement drew most of its support from the Tosks, taking over in 1944. Since then, the differences between the two have greatly lessened; 549

'''Tracy, Alfonso''' 
582-83; owned the defective pinball machines; Great Pinball Difficulty, 581

'''Tracy, Mable''' 
582; wife of Alfonso

'''Transmarginal Phases''' 
48,49,50,78,79; Ongoing sequential responses to '''overwhelming''' stimulus (1) equivalent phase - all stimuli have same expected response; (2) paradoxical phase - weak stimulus=strong response - vice versa; (3) ultraparadoxical phase - stimuli produce opposite response (ie if previously attracted to the stimuli, now reject it) and vice versa - confuse ideas of opposite

'''Treacle, Edwin''' 
85; 92; "most Freudian of psychic researchers" in Psi Section of White Visitation; 146; recent dreams of flight, 146; 153; "setting up a practice" 273; "I'll show you a giant ape" 276

'''Tree of Life''' 
"It is not only a sudden white genital onset in the sky--it is also, perhaps, a Tree...." 694; Kabbalist, 747; "Now the Sephiroth fall into a pattern, which is called the" 753; "the Tree itself is a unity, rooted exactly at the Bodenplatte" 753;

'''Trefoil, Gavin''' 
33; can change the melanin content of his skin to change his color; 124; 147; 215; 276

'''tripos''' 
31; a final honors exam at Cambridge university, originally in mathematics

'''Tripping, Geli (pronounced: "Gaily")''' 
290; lover of Tchitcherine; lives in Nordhausen; lover of Slothrop; "pretty young witch straddling an A4" 293; 494; thinks she's a witch, 500; witch ritual, 717; "the World-choosing sort" 718; with Tchitcherine, 733-35; "the young witch" 734

'''Trotha, Gen. Lothar von''' 
362; German who led wholesale slaughter of Hereros in Südwest in 1904; exhibit at Zwölfkinder, 422; 563

'''Trotsky''' 
Trotskyite block, 189; Trotsky a former patron at the Odeon, 262; 338; "some beasrded old unreconstructed geezer of a Trotskyite" 399;

'''Trudi''' 
365; Säure's sidekick; her boyfriend is Gustav, 366; 684-85; Bodine spending more time with, 741

'''Truman, Harry S. (1884-1972)''' 
Succeeding Roosevelt upon his death, Truman was the 33rd president of the United States (1945-53). He moved the U.S. into international confrontation with Soviet and Chinese communism and worked to preserve the New Deal reforms; "'Emil, who's that guy in the glasses?'" 373; "the dapper, bespectacled stranger [...] the face that has silently dissolved in to replace the one Slothrop never saw and now never will" 381; 382; "famous Missouri Mason" 588

'''TsAGI''' 
273; Tsentral'niy Aerogidrondinamicheskiy Institute; "Officially [Tchitcherine] reports to TsAGI, which is the Central Aero and Hydrodynamics Institute in Moscow" 337; 391; 706;

'''Tungsram''' 
647; light bulb manufacturer "in Budapest" that was supposed to have created Byron T.B.

'''Twelfth House''' 
274; new PISCES branch office on Gallaho Mews in London; so named by Webley Silvernail because Pisces is the 12th House in the Zodiac; Pointsman transferred there, 533

'''Typhoid Mary''' 
739; one who spreads a disease

'''typographical errors''' 
"pharnyx" should be "pharynx" 14; "at here at" should be "as here at" 32; "Strobe's" should be "Jamf's" (appears in early Viking editions), 86; "Nichols" should be "Nicholls" 94; "heart-transfer" should be "heat-transfer" 223 [[N#nusselt|perhaps not a typo]]; "Isle" should be "Ilse" 414; "airpseed" should be "airspeed" 454; "ecclesiatical" should be "ecclesiastical" 468; "elctro- decor" should be "electro-decor" 518; "Leunahalluziationen" should be "Leunahalluzinationen" 523; "is is" should be "it is" 715; "then" should be "than" 732; "Zundung" should be "Zündung" 758

{{GR Alpha Nav}}

P

2009-12-10T16:49:06Z

Nathank:

'''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 - stimuli produce opposite response (if previously attracted to the stimuli, now reject it) and vice versa - 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]]

{{GR Alpha Nav}}

Pages 83-92

2009-12-08T21:41:29Z

Nathank:

{{GR PbP Text}}

==Page 83==
'''83.34-37 meddling with another man's mind...Harvard University''' 
During WWII [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_A._Murray Dr Henry A. Murray], then assistant director of the Harvard Psychological Clinic, joined the OSS in Europe and assisted James Miller in developing psychological profiles of prospective special agents -- so called stress tests. He also analyzed Hitler for the Allies, predicting that if Germany lost the war, Hitler would commit suicide; that Hitler was impotent as far as heterosexual relations were concerned; and that Hitler had possibly participated in a homosexual relationship -- all suggestive of Blicero.

After 1947 and the Cold War it seemed every self-respecting psychologist was doing side jobs for the CIA in "persuasion technologies" including LSD, various other drugs, sleep deprivation, isolation tanks, hypnosis, etc. even, allegedly, unto the death of the "patient". Perhaps best well known was [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKULTRA MK Ultra]under the direction of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Gottlieb Dr. Sidney Gottlieb].

Murray himself returned to Harvard where he continued his meddling with the minds of others. One of the minds he meddled with from 1958 to 1962 belong to Theodore Kaczynski. Alston Chase's book ''Harvard and the Unabomber: The Education of an American Terrorist'' tells of the psychological experiments which Kaczynski is reported to have undergone at Harvard, under the direction of Murray. Chase connects these experiences in a controversial thesis to Kaczynski's later career as the Unabomber. As is generally well known in Pynchon circles, TRP himself was suspected of being the Unabomber.

And then of course there was the Leary-Alpert led [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Psilocybin_Project Harvard Psilocybin Project] between 1960 and 1962 ...

==Page 85==
'''85.25 Edwin Treacle''' 
Although derived from a word meaning an antidote to poison, "treacle" is the British term for molasses and is often used to describe something excessively sweet and sticky.

'''85.37 Poisson Distribution/Equation'''

See entry on page [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_53-60 54]

==Page 86==
'''86.40 Flanders''' 
Northern region of Belgium bordering the North Sea. At least 60 miles from the English coast.

==Page 88==
'''88.10 the submontane Venus''' 
That is, the goddess of the Tannhauser legend and opera.
'''
88.34 yang-yin rubbish''' 
Note that Pointsman here rejects the concept only to become entranced by it later.

Venus is also the goddess of love, of course.

==Page 91==
'''91.27 Dr. Bleagh''' 
An expression of disgust. (Try saying it!)

{{GR PbP}}

Pages 83-92

2009-12-08T21:32:37Z

Nathank:

{{GR PbP Text}}

==Page 83==
'''83.34-37 meddling with another man's mind...Harvard University''' 
During WWII [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_A._Murray Dr Henry A. Murray], then assistant director of the Harvard Psychological Clinic, joined the OSS in Europe and assisted James Miller in developing psychological profiles of prospective special agents -- so called stress tests. He also analyzed Hitler for the Allies, predicting that if Germany lost the war, Hitler would commit suicide; that Hitler was impotent as far as heterosexual relations were concerned; and that Hitler had possibly participated in a homosexual relationship -- all suggestive of Blicero.

After 1947 and the Cold War it seemed every self-respecting psychologist was doing side jobs for the CIA in "persuasion technologies" including LSD, various other drugs, sleep deprivation, isolation tanks, hypnosis, etc. even, allegedly, unto the death of the "patient". Perhaps best well known was [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKULTRA MK Ultra]under the direction of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Gottlieb Dr. Sidney Gottlieb].

Murray himself returned to Harvard where he continued his meddling with the minds of others. One of the minds he meddled with from 1958 to 1962 belong to Theodore Kaczynski. Alston Chase's book ''Harvard and the Unabomber: The Education of an American Terrorist'' tells of the psychological experiments which Kaczynski is reported to have undergone at Harvard, under the direction of Murray. Chase connects these experiences in a controversial thesis to Kaczynski's later career as the Unabomber. As is generally well known in Pynchon circles, TRP himself was suspected of being the Unabomber.

And then of course there was the Leary-Alpert led [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Psilocybin_Project Harvard Psilocybin Project] between 1960 and 1962 ...

==Page 85==
'''85.25 Edwin Treacle''' 
Although derived from a word meaning an antidote to poison, "treacle" is the British term for molasses and is often used to describe something excessively sweet and sticky.

'''85.37 Poisson Distribution/Equation'''

See entry on page [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_53-60 54]

==Page 86==
'''86.40 Flanders''' 
Northern region of Belgium bordering the North Sea.

==Page 88==
'''88.10 the submontane Venus''' 
That is, the goddess of the Tannhauser legend and opera.
'''
88.34 yang-yin rubbish''' 
Note that Pointsman here rejects the concept only to become entranced by it later.

Venus is also the goddess of love, of course.

==Page 91==
'''91.27 Dr. Bleagh''' 
An expression of disgust. (Try saying it!)

{{GR PbP}}

Pages 72-83

2009-12-08T21:16:51Z

Nathank:

{{GR PbP Text}}

==Page 75==

75.30 '''Dr. Porkyevitch''' 
Another suggestion of one of Pynchon’s favorite motifs, the little cartoon hero Porky Pig. See note at [[V545.04-05]]

==Page 78==

[[image:asquith.jpg|thumb|100px|Lady Asquith by Beaton|right]]78.12 '''Cecil Beaton’s photograph of Margot Asquith''' 
Another example of the Turning Head motif.

==Page 79==

79.13 '''Webley Silvernail''' 
Webley is the name of the British gun manufacturer. ''The Berkshire Hills'' cites Silvernail House in West Stockbridge as one of the oldest houses in that town (TBH 99).

79.18 '''Geza Rozsavolgyi''' 
The family name means neither "evil valley" as it stands in Weisenburger's Companion, nor "of the pink valley" as it is in the Alphabetical Index but "of the Valley of Roses". In fact, this is a Jewish name, the literal Magyarization of the German name Rosenthal. Geza’s first name also suggests the Hungarian-American psychologist Geza Roheim, who was one of the first to employ psychoanalytic critiques of culture. Rozsavolgyi is the name of a famous Budapest music store founded in 1850, which also published works by Liszt, Bartok and Kodaly, among others.

==Page 80==

80.21-22 '''"Would You Rather Be a Colonel with an Eagle on Your Shoulder, or a Private with a Chicken on Your Knee?"''' 
The World War I song was composed by the team of Sidney Mitchell and Archie Gottlieb in 1918. ('''Note''': This is a correction of my earlier error in attributing the song to the team of Harold Arlen and "Yip" Harburg, who also composed the songs for ''The Wizard of Oz''.)

==Page 81==

81.08 '''terrible disease like charisma''' 
The term charisma, derived from Ancient Greek was introduced in scholarly [and popular [[User:MKOHUT|MKOHUT]]] usage by German sociologist Max Weber, in a book first published in 1922. He defined charismatic authority to be one of three forms of authority, the other two being traditional (feudal) authority and legal or rational authority. According to Weber, charisma is defined thus: 
"a certain quality of an individual personality, by virtue of which s/he is "set apart" from ordinary people and treated as endowed with supernatural, superhuman, or at least specifically exceptional powers or qualities. These as such are not accessible to the ordinary person, but are regarded as divine in origin or as exemplary, and on the basis of them the individual concerned is treated as a leader." adapted from Wikipedia

81.08 '''rationalization''' 
Rationalization is a key sociological concept [from online Dictionary of Social Science]:RATIONALIZATION This term has two specific meanings in sociology. (1) The concept was developed by German sociologist Max Weber (1864-1920) who used it in two ways. First, it was the process through which magical, supernatural and religious ideas lose cultural importance in a society and ideas based on science and practical calculation become dominant. For example, in modern societies science has rationalized our understanding of weather patterns. Science explains weather patterns as a result of interaction between physical elements like wind-speed and direction, air and water temperatures, humidity, etc. In some other cultures, weather is thought to express the pleasure or displeasure of gods, or spirits of ancestors. One explanation is rationalized and scientific, the other mysterious and magical. Rationalization also involves the development of forms of social organization devoted to the achievement of precise goals by efficient means. It is this type of rationalization that we see in the development of modern business corporations and of bureaucracy. These are organizations dedicated to the pursuit of defined goals by calculated, systematically administered means. (2) Within symbolic interactionism, rationalization is used more in the everyday sense of the word to refer to providing justifications or excuses for one's actions. See use in ''Against the Day'', page 10 [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_1-25 Against the Day]

81.17 '''The Reverend Paul de la Nuit''' 
A double pun: "Pall [dark and gloomy covering] of the night"; also "Pall de l’ennui [of boredom]."

==Page 82==

82.01 '''his most famous compatriot''' 
Rozsavolgyi’s fellow countryman would be, of course, Bela Lugosi in his role as Dracula, whose speech patterns are suggested by Pynchon’s punctuation of Rozsavolgyi’s dialogue.

82.11 '''Dr. Aaron Thowster''' 
Aaron was the brother of and spokesperson for Moses. A throwster is one who makes threads out of silk. The name is fairly common in Britain.

{{GR PbP}}

Pages 29-37

2009-12-08T21:12:39Z

Nathank:

{{GR PbP Text}}

==Page 30==

30.39 '''Jessica Swanlake''' 
Jessica’s last name, like other musical references in the novel, is suggestive. Like the heroine of the Tchaikovsky ballet, she finds true love and is transformed, but then is abducted back to her former state by an evil magician (in this case, Pointsman).

==Page 31==

31.17 '''Tripos''' 
Formal exams at Cambridge University to demonstrate understanding and determine class honors. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Mathematical_Tripos Wikipedia]

[[image:carroll-righter.jpg|thumb|100px|right]]31.28 '''Carroll Eventyr''' 
As Weisenburger notes, "eventyr" is Danish for "adventure" but in the sense of a tale or story ("The Adventures of . . . "). It can signify "folk tales" or "fairy tales," as in Hans Christian Andersen’s stories. The first name evokes '''Lewis''' Carroll but it also suggests the astrologer Carroll '''Righter''', whose face appeared on the cover of Time magazine for a story about growing interest in the occult on March 21, 1969. Righter, nicknamed "The Gregarious Aquarius," later would read charts for Ronald Reagan, among other celebrities. Also see the note at [[Pages 735-760#742|742.29]].

==Page 33==

33.26 '''Witchcraft Act''' 
Correspondent Igor Zabel offers this interesting elaboration on the reference:
"A few years ago, I came upon a short article in our daily newspaper ''Delo'', which could be interesting here. It says: 'The British spiritualists started a campaign to acquit Helen Duncan, sentenced as a witch during the World War II. She was sentenced as a consequence of a séance in 1942. She told she had seen in her trance a dead soldier wearing a cap with the inscription HMS Barham, who had told her: My ship was sunken. The news about this fact (the ship was supposedly sunken on 25 November 1942) was kept secret by the British government for two years, as Winston Churchill wrote in his diary. In 1944, Duncan was arrested since they were afraid that she would reveal also the date of the D-day. Her trial was based on the Witchcraft Act from 1735, and she was sentenced to nine months of prison. Argument: Helen Duncan pretends that she conjures the spirits of the dead.' It seems that Mexico refers to this case; the year and quotation from the Act correspond to the conviction of Helen Duncan." A web search using Helen Duncan's name will reveal several websites devoted to the "medium martyr."

==Page 36==

36.3 '''ICI''' Standing for Imperial Chemical Industries. one of the foremost British public companies, known as the bellwether of the British economy before its reconfiguration and relative demise.

[[image:beaver.jpg|thumb|100px|right]]36.27-28 '''the Other Chap in this case being known as Beaver''' 
"Beaver" is the nickname for Jessica’s other and more staid lover, Jeremy. The nickname derives from the ‘40s slang for the beard he sports. (For example, in the "home front" film ''Since You Went Away'' [1944], the bearded character played by Monty Woolley is referred to as "Beaver.") The word also is vulgar slang for a woman’s pubic hair or genitals.

==Page 37==

37.10-11 '''Fred Roper’s Company of Wonder Midgets''' 
[[image:fred-roper.jpg|thumb|100px|right]]This is apparently a real group, although I have no information on them except that a postcard exists captioned "Fred Roper and His Wonderful Midgets" with a tall man in a busby and military greatcoat and a troop of midgets in uniform under the heading "The Toy Soldier Parade." The website for The Princess Theatre Hunstanton (England) notes that the building opened as the Capitol Theatre in 1932. One of the first acts to play there was "Fred Roper and His 20 Wonder Midgets"!

{{GR PbP}}

Pages 71-72

2009-12-08T20:59:35Z

Nathank:

{{GR PbP Text}}

==Page 71==
'''"... von Bayros or Beardsley."''' 
Marquis Franz von Bayros and Aubrey Beardsley were renowned for their erotic sketches in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Learn more about [http://beardsley.artpassions.net/ Beardsley] and [http://www.all-art.org/er_in_art/07.html von Bayros]

'''"... a De Mille set really..."''' 
This is open to skepticism, but I believe he's referring to Cecil B. DeMille, who was famous for his construction of grandiose sets, particularly "The City of the Pharaoh," the largest set in film history.

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_B._DeMille Cecil B. Demille] at Wikipedia.

==Page 72==
'''Wuotan''' 
Wuotan is the Old High German spelling of Odin.

'''Was tust du für die Front, für den sieg? Was has du heute für Deutschland getan?''' 
What do you do for the front, for the victory? What have you today for Germany done? 
Also see [http://www.thomaspynchon.com/gravitys-rainbow/extra/german.htmlsite here] for lots of GR translations.
{{GR PbP}}

Pages 92-113

2009-12-08T20:47:55Z

Nathank:

{{GR PbP Text}}

==Page 95==

'''95.17 Wassenaar''' 
Wassenaar is in the Netherlands.

==Page 98==
'''98.16 Young Rauhandel''' 
A former friend of Blicero, probably a lover willing to indulge his sado-masochistic tastes. The name literally means "Rough Trade."

'''98.24 the Ufa-Theatre''' 
Weisenburger’s information on Ufa is essentially correct, but he misgives Georg Wilhelm Pabst’s first name as "Rudolf." One curiosity in Pynchon's German film references is the lack of any mention of F.W. Murnau, perhaps the greatest director of that era. His films ''Nosferatu'' (the first film version of Dracula) and ''Faust'' would seem to be natural allusions for Pynchon to use.

==Page 101==
'''101.1-2 ''In Hoc Signo Vinces'''''

Latin, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_hoc_signo_vinces "in this sign you will conquer."]. According to legend Constantine the Great adopted this Greek phrase, "εν τούτω νίκα", after his vision of a chi and rho on the sky just before the Battle of the Milvian Bridge (312 CE). He had his men paint the chi rho on their sheilds and led them all to victory. Thus did he become the Emperor of Rome and subsequently moved the capital of the empire to Constantinople (formerly Byzas, now Istanbul) and most important for the history of the west -- proclaimed Christianity the official religion of the empire.

In context in GR there are various possible meanings:
- The swastika, the broken cross at the mandala's center on the launch pad, the symbol of the Reich, shall win the war and proclaim a new empire -- the Third Reich which was to last a 1000 years -- which, come to think of it, was about as long as Constantinople was the center of the Roman, then Eastern Roman, then Byzantine (but always Christian) Empire (Constantinople falling to the Ottoman Turks in 1459). Common to both Nazi and Constantine rendering is the interplay of the Cross/Swastika over the face of the sun.

- Subsequently, the phrase became the motto of the Sobieski line -- Jan III Sobieski having defeated the Ottomans in 1683 at the Battle of Vienna just outside the city's gates. The phrase has also been used by Irish nobility, the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George, the Portuguese, the Knights Templars, Freemasons, and the Sigma Chi fraternity.

Which leads to the most amusing reading of the passage: whoever carved the words into the tree did so as a fraternity prank.

==Page 106==
[[image:white-zombie.jpg|thumb|100px|White Zombie|right]]'''106.34-37 White Zombie ... perhaps Dumbo''' 
Despite the connections with other forms of death-in-life that are referred to throughout ''Gravity’s Rainbow'', White Zombie is the only direct reference to [[image:dumbo.gif|thumb|80px|Dumbo|left]]zombies. That may be because the zombie myth is of black and African origin. Pynchon has carefully chosen the title to reflect his use of whiteness as the color of death. Although the depiction of the crows in ''Dumbo'' is clearly racist, they give the little elephant the "magic" feather that he thinks he needs (but really doesn’t) in order to fly. The Disney film will continue to be an important touchstone later in the novel when Slothrop meets Pig Bodine. Compare Pynchon's bitterly ironic use of the ''Dumbo'' reference at V135.02-07. Although it is not clear that Pynchon was aware of it, the B-17 bomber was nicknamed the "Dumbo" by American troops in the Pacific during World War II.

This contributor would bet a first edition hardcover of ''Gravity's Rainbow'' that Pynchon was aware of the "Dumbo". Even I knew it and I know next to nothing about WW II factually.[[User:MKOHUT|MKOHUT]] 13:40, 8 July 2007 (PDT)

==Page 109==
'''109.9-11 freak saffrons, streaming indigos''' 
The isolated Dutchman going slowly mad under the southern sun, whose "very perceptions" are changed (and who writes numerous letters to his brother) seems to be a reference to Vincent Van Gogh; the kind of tacit anachronism that Pynchon likes to use in [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ Mason & Dixon].

==Page 111==
'''111.07-09 For as much as they are creatures of God and have the gift of rational discourse, acknowledging that only in his Word is eternal life to be found...''' 
Weisenburger suggests that this is a prayer for new colonial subjects, but the context Frans van der Groov’s hopes for a Conversion of the Dodos suggests that it comes from a discourse on the possibility of salvation or conversion for Jews or others. Given Katje’s problematic relationship to the Holocaust, the passage becomes even more suggestively sinister. The sentence does suggest the views of James (or Jacob) Arminius, the Dutch theologian who broke with the Dutch Reformed Church over issues of predestination and election. Arminius argued that Christ’s salvation was available to all in contrast to the official church's staunch belief in predestination. Frans would extend that grace to dodos as well. Also see note at [[Pages_549-597#555|555.29]].

{{GR PbP}}