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'''Camerons officers''' 
Sir Alexander Maurice Cameron: He served in World War II initially as a British General Staff Officer with Anti-Aircraft Command and then as Commander of the Anti-Aircraft Brigade from 1942. He was on the staff of Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force from 1944 to 1945. At this time he started constructing an Allied version of the V2 rocket. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Cameron_(British_Army_officer)]

'''Ouspenskian nonsense''' 
Peter D. Ouspensky (March 4, 1878–October 2, 1947), (Pyotr Demianovich Ouspenskii, also Uspenskii or Uspensky, Пётр Демья́нович Успе́нский), a Russian esoteric philosopher known for his expositions of the early work of the Greek-Armenian teacher of esoteric doctrine George Gurdjieff, whom he met in Moscow in 1915. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouspensky]

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==

'''tripos at Cambridge''' 
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 32==
'''Zipf's Principle of Least Effort''' 
Zipf's law ( /ˈzɪf/), an empirical law formulated using mathematical statistics, refers to the fact that many types of data studied in the physical and social sciences can be approximated with a Zipfian distribution, one of a family of related discrete power law probability distributions. The law is named after the linguist George Kingsley Zipf who first proposed it (Zipf 1935, 1949), though J.B. Estoup appears to have noticed the regularity before Zipf. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law]

'''frail as organdy''' 
Organdy or organdie is the sheerest and crispest cotton cloth made. Combed yarns contribute to its appearance. - from Wikipedia

'''crown-and-anchor game''' 
Crown and Anchor is a simple dice game, traditionally played for gambling purposes by sailors in the British Royal Navy, and also in the British merchant and fishing fleets. The game originated in the 18th century. It is still popular in the Channel Islands and Bermuda, but is strictly controlled and may be played legally only on certain occasions, such as the Channel Islands' three annual agricultural shows, or Bermuda's annual Cup Match cricket game. Three special dice are used in Crown and Anchor. The dice are equal in size and shape to standard dice, but instead of one through six pips, they are marked with six symbols: crown, anchor, diamond, spade, club and heart. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_and_Anchor]

'''Time for closeting, gas logs, shawls against the cold night, snug... as here at Snoxall's''' 
Wondering if Snoxall's is some amalgamation or riffing of Snowballs... Snow being Earth's "White Visitation", etc.

'''grin your Dennis Morgan chap goes about''' 
Dennis Morgan (December 20, 1908 – September 7, 1994) was an American actor-singer. Born as Earl Stanley Morner, he used the acting pseudonym Richard Stanley before adopting his professional name. In 1945, he played "Jefferson Jones" in ''Christmas in Connecticut'' opposite Barbara Stanwyck and Sydney Greenstreet. He starred in ''God Is My Co-Pilot'', ''Kitty Foyle'', ''Perfect Strangers'' and ''The Desert Song''. Morgan was a leading man with Warner Bros. in the 1940s, starring with best friend Jack Carson in many movies, several of which were "two guys" buddy pictures. His peak years were 1943 to 1949. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Morgan]

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'''rattling sitreps''' 
Sitrep: A command center (often called a war room) is any place that is used to provide centralized command for some purpose. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitrep#Military_and_government]

'''good-whisky-and-cured-Latakia scent of Their rough love''' 
Latakia tobacco is a specially prepared tobacco originally produced in Syria and named after the port city of Latakia. Now the tobacco is mainly produced in Cyprus. It is initially sun-cured like other Turkish tobaccos and then further cured over a pine or oak wood fire, which gives it an intense smokey-peppery taste and smell. Too strong for most people's tastes to smoke straight, it is used as a "condiment" or "blender" (a basic tobacco mixed with other tobaccos to create a blend), especially in English, Balkan, and some American Classic blends. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latakia_%28tobacco%29]

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."

33.31-32 '''the Scrubs''' 
Wormwood Scrubs Prison, in London, was built by convicts in 1874

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'''"The White Visitation"... devoted to psychological warfare''' 
I have always figured this was a major influence on the White Lodge of ''Twin Peaks''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Lodge_%28Twin_Peaks%29]

'''Vichy traitors''' 
Following the armistice signed on June 22, 1940, the zone which was not occupied by the Germans took the name of the French State (État Français) (as opposed to the traditional name, République française or French Republic) and set up its capital in Vichy on July 1, because of the town's relative proximity to Paris (4.5 hours by train) and because it was the city with the second largest hotel capacity at the time. Moreover, the existence of a modern telephone exchange made it possible to reach the whole world via phone. More: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vichy]

'''Lublin Communists drawing beads on Varsovian shadow-ministers''' 
On 24 July 1944, Lublin was taken by the Soviet Army and became the temporary capital of a Soviet-controlled communist Polish Committee of National Liberation established in the city, which was to serve as basis for a puppet government. The capital was moved to Warsaw in January 1945. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lublin]

'''ELAS Greeks stalking royalists''' 
The Greek People's Liberation Army or ELAS (Greek: Ελληνικός Λαϊκός Απελευθερωτικός Στρατός, translit. Ellinikós Laïkós Apeleftherotikós Stratós, ΕΛΑΣ), was the military arm of the left-wing National Liberation Front (EAM) during the period of the Greek Resistance until February 1945. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_People%27s_Liberation_Army]

'''that stateless lascar...''' 
Lascar: The name lascar was also used to refer to Indian servants, typically engaged by British military officers. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lascar]

Perhaps this implies, that though not immediately placeable, Roger Mexico has a bit of an Indian look, outside of the other connotations?

'''They have euchred Mexico''' 
Euchre is a trick-taking card game most commonly played with four people in two partnerships with a deck of 24 standard playing cards. It is the game responsible for introducing the joker into modern packs; this was invented around 1860 to act as a top trump or best bower (from the German word Bauer, "farmer", denoting also the jack). It is believed to be closely related to the French game Écarté that was popularized in the United States by the Cornish and Pennsylvania Dutch, and to the seventeenth-century game of bad repute Loo. It may be sometimes referred to as Knock Euchre to distinguish it from Bid Euchre. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euchre]

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'''Behaviorist''' 
Behaviorism, also called the learning perspective (where any physical action is a behavior), is a philosophy of psychology based on the proposition that all things that organisms do—including acting, thinking and feeling—can and should be regarded as behaviors, and that psychological disorders are best treated by altering behavior patterns or modifying the environment. The behaviorist school of thought maintains that behaviors as such can be described scientifically without recourse either to internal physiological events or to hypothetical constructs such as the mind. Behaviorism comprises the position that all theories should have observational correlates but that there are no philosophical differences between publicly observable processes (such as actions) and privately observable processes (such as thinking and feeling). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behaviorist]

'''Pavlovian''' 
Classical conditioning (also Pavlovian or respondent conditioning, Pavlovian reinforcement) is a form of conditioning that was first demonstrated by Ivan Pavlov (1927). The typical procedure for inducing classical conditioning involves presentations of a neutral stimulus along with a stimulus of some significance, the "unconditional stimulus." The neutral stimulus could be any event that does not result in an overt behavioral response from the organism under investigation. Conversely, presentation of the significant stimulus necessarily evokes an innate, often reflexive, response. Pavlov called these the unconditional stimulus (US) and unconditional response (UR), respectively. If the neutral stimulus is presented along with the unconditional stimulus, it would become a conditional stimulus (CS). Pavlov used the term conditional because he wanted to emphasize that learning required a dependent or conditional relationship between CS and US. If the CS and US always occur together and never alone, this perfect dependent relationship or pairing, causes the two stimuli to become associated and the organism produces a behavioral response to the CS. Pavlov called this the conditional response (CR). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlovian]

'''NAAFI''' 
The Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (NAAFI) is an organization created by the British government in 1921 to run recreational establishments needed by the British Armed Forces, and to sell goods to servicemen and their families. It runs clubs, bars, shops, supermarkets, launderettes, restaurants, cafés and other facilities on most British military bases and also canteens on board Royal Navy ships. Commissioned officers are not usually supposed to use the NAAFI clubs and bars, since their messes provide these facilities and their entry, except on official business, is considered to be an intrusion into junior ranks' private lives. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAAFI]

'''"a T.S. Eliot April"''' 
Reference to "The Waste Land" by T.S. Eliot:
''APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing / Memory and desire, stirring / Dull roots with spring rain''.

==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. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Chemical_Industries]

'''what the lyrics to "Dancing in the Dark" are ''really'' about...''' 
Howard Dietz' lyrics to the famous tune, outside of their obvious lover references, can also be read deeper to empathize with the human condition. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_in_the_Dark_(Howard_Dietz_and_Arthur_Schwartz_song)]

[[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.

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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"!

A scan of a vintage program from the Fred Roper troop is available online, and video of the troop can be found on YouTube.
[http://finepixtrix.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/fred-roper-and-his-amazing-midgets/]
[http://youtu.be/KHuzWfat8dM]

'''rendezvous with a certain high-class vivisectionist''' 
Seems a bit of irony in regard to Pirate Prentice/Scorpia Mossmoon vs. Roger Mexico/Jessica Swanlake: earlier on page you have Pirate & Scorpia hounded by "cutters", whereas here, Roger & Jessica are purposely moving to meet w/ a vivisectionist.

'''whippy as sheets of glass improperly annealed''' 
Annealing is a process of slowly cooling glass to relieve internal stresses after it was formed. The process may be carried out in a temperature-controlled kiln known as a Lehr. Glass which has not been annealed is liable to crack or shatter when subjected to a relatively small temperature change or mechanical shock. Annealing glass is critical to its durability. If glass is not annealed, it will retain many of the thermal stresses caused by quenching and significantly decrease the overall strength of the glass. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annealing_(glass)]

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==Page 30==
'''Camerons officers''' 
Sir Alexander Maurice Cameron: He served in World War II initially as a British General Staff Officer with Anti-Aircraft Command and then as Commander of the Anti-Aircraft Brigade from 1942. He was on the staff of Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force from 1944 to 1945. At this time he started constructing an Allied version of the V2 rocket. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Cameron_(British_Army_officer)]

'''Ouspenskian nonsense''' 
Peter D. Ouspensky (March 4, 1878–October 2, 1947), (Pyotr Demianovich Ouspenskii, also Uspenskii or Uspensky, Пётр Демья́нович Успе́нский), a Russian esoteric philosopher known for his expositions of the early work of the Greek-Armenian teacher of esoteric doctrine George Gurdjieff, whom he met in Moscow in 1915. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouspensky]

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==

'''tripos at Cambridge''' 
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 32==
'''Zipf's Principle of Least Effort''' 
Zipf's law ( /ˈzɪf/), an empirical law formulated using mathematical statistics, refers to the fact that many types of data studied in the physical and social sciences can be approximated with a Zipfian distribution, one of a family of related discrete power law probability distributions. The law is named after the linguist George Kingsley Zipf who first proposed it (Zipf 1935, 1949), though J.B. Estoup appears to have noticed the regularity before Zipf. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law]

'''frail as organdy''' 
Organdy or organdie is the sheerest and crispest cotton cloth made. Combed yarns contribute to its appearance. - from Wikipedia

'''crown-and-anchor game''' 
Crown and Anchor is a simple dice game, traditionally played for gambling purposes by sailors in the British Royal Navy, and also in the British merchant and fishing fleets. The game originated in the 18th century. It is still popular in the Channel Islands and Bermuda, but is strictly controlled and may be played legally only on certain occasions, such as the Channel Islands' three annual agricultural shows, or Bermuda's annual Cup Match cricket game. Three special dice are used in Crown and Anchor. The dice are equal in size and shape to standard dice, but instead of one through six pips, they are marked with six symbols: crown, anchor, diamond, spade, club and heart. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_and_Anchor]

'''Time for closeting, gas logs, shawls against the cold night, snug... as here at Snoxall's''' 
Wondering if Snoxall's is some amalgamation or riffing of Snowballs... Snow being Earth's "White Visitation", etc.

'''grin your Dennis Morgan chap goes about''' 
Dennis Morgan (December 20, 1908 – September 7, 1994) was an American actor-singer. Born as Earl Stanley Morner, he used the acting pseudonym Richard Stanley before adopting his professional name. In 1945, he played "Jefferson Jones" in ''Christmas in Connecticut'' opposite Barbara Stanwyck and Sydney Greenstreet. He starred in ''God Is My Co-Pilot'', ''Kitty Foyle'', ''Perfect Strangers'' and ''The Desert Song''. Morgan was a leading man with Warner Bros. in the 1940s, starring with best friend Jack Carson in many movies, several of which were "two guys" buddy pictures. His peak years were 1943 to 1949. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Morgan]

==Page 33==
'''rattling sitreps''' 
Sitrep: A command center (often called a war room) is any place that is used to provide centralized command for some purpose. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitrep#Military_and_government]

'''good-whisky-and-cured-Latakia scent of Their rough love''' 
Latakia tobacco is a specially prepared tobacco originally produced in Syria and named after the port city of Latakia. Now the tobacco is mainly produced in Cyprus. It is initially sun-cured like other Turkish tobaccos and then further cured over a pine or oak wood fire, which gives it an intense smokey-peppery taste and smell. Too strong for most people's tastes to smoke straight, it is used as a "condiment" or "blender" (a basic tobacco mixed with other tobaccos to create a blend), especially in English, Balkan, and some American Classic blends. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latakia_%28tobacco%29]

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."

33.31-32 '''the Scrubs''' 
Wormwood Scrubs Prison, in London, was built by convicts in 1874

==Page 34==
'''"The White Visitation"... devoted to psychological warfare''' 
I have always figured this was a major influence on the White Lodge of ''Twin Peaks''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Lodge_%28Twin_Peaks%29]

'''Vichy traitors''' 
Following the armistice signed on June 22, 1940, the zone which was not occupied by the Germans took the name of the French State (État Français) (as opposed to the traditional name, République française or French Republic) and set up its capital in Vichy on July 1, because of the town's relative proximity to Paris (4.5 hours by train) and because it was the city with the second largest hotel capacity at the time. Moreover, the existence of a modern telephone exchange made it possible to reach the whole world via phone. More: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vichy]

'''Lublin Communists drawing beads on Varsovian shadow-ministers''' 
On 24 July 1944, Lublin was taken by the Soviet Army and became the temporary capital of a Soviet-controlled communist Polish Committee of National Liberation established in the city, which was to serve as basis for a puppet government. The capital was moved to Warsaw in January 1945. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lublin]

'''ELAS Greeks stalking royalists''' 
The Greek People's Liberation Army or ELAS (Greek: Ελληνικός Λαϊκός Απελευθερωτικός Στρατός, translit. Ellinikós Laïkós Apeleftherotikós Stratós, ΕΛΑΣ), was the military arm of the left-wing National Liberation Front (EAM) during the period of the Greek Resistance until February 1945. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_People%27s_Liberation_Army]

'''that stateless lascar...''' 
Lascar: The name lascar was also used to refer to Indian servants, typically engaged by British military officers. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lascar]

Perhaps this implies, that though not immediately placeable, Roger Mexico has a bit of an Indian look, outside of the other connotations?

'''They have euchred Mexico''' 
Euchre is a trick-taking card game most commonly played with four people in two partnerships with a deck of 24 standard playing cards. It is the game responsible for introducing the joker into modern packs; this was invented around 1860 to act as a top trump or best bower (from the German word Bauer, "farmer", denoting also the jack). It is believed to be closely related to the French game Écarté that was popularized in the United States by the Cornish and Pennsylvania Dutch, and to the seventeenth-century game of bad repute Loo. It may be sometimes referred to as Knock Euchre to distinguish it from Bid Euchre. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euchre]

==Page 35==
'''Behaviorist''' 
Behaviorism, also called the learning perspective (where any physical action is a behavior), is a philosophy of psychology based on the proposition that all things that organisms do—including acting, thinking and feeling—can and should be regarded as behaviors, and that psychological disorders are best treated by altering behavior patterns or modifying the environment. The behaviorist school of thought maintains that behaviors as such can be described scientifically without recourse either to internal physiological events or to hypothetical constructs such as the mind. Behaviorism comprises the position that all theories should have observational correlates but that there are no philosophical differences between publicly observable processes (such as actions) and privately observable processes (such as thinking and feeling). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behaviorist]

'''Pavlovian''' 
Classical conditioning (also Pavlovian or respondent conditioning, Pavlovian reinforcement) is a form of conditioning that was first demonstrated by Ivan Pavlov (1927). The typical procedure for inducing classical conditioning involves presentations of a neutral stimulus along with a stimulus of some significance, the "unconditional stimulus." The neutral stimulus could be any event that does not result in an overt behavioral response from the organism under investigation. Conversely, presentation of the significant stimulus necessarily evokes an innate, often reflexive, response. Pavlov called these the unconditional stimulus (US) and unconditional response (UR), respectively. If the neutral stimulus is presented along with the unconditional stimulus, it would become a conditional stimulus (CS). Pavlov used the term conditional because he wanted to emphasize that learning required a dependent or conditional relationship between CS and US. If the CS and US always occur together and never alone, this perfect dependent relationship or pairing, causes the two stimuli to become associated and the organism produces a behavioral response to the CS. Pavlov called this the conditional response (CR). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlovian]

'''NAAFI''' 
The Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (NAAFI) is an organization created by the British government in 1921 to run recreational establishments needed by the British Armed Forces, and to sell goods to servicemen and their families. It runs clubs, bars, shops, supermarkets, launderettes, restaurants, cafés and other facilities on most British military bases and also canteens on board Royal Navy ships. Commissioned officers are not usually supposed to use the NAAFI clubs and bars, since their messes provide these facilities and their entry, except on official business, is considered to be an intrusion into junior ranks' private lives. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAAFI]

'''"a T.S. Eliot April"''' 
Reference to "The Waste Land" by T.S. Eliot:
''APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing / Memory and desire, stirring / Dull roots with spring rain''.

==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. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Chemical_Industries]

'''what the lyrics to "Dancing in the Dark" are ''really'' about...''' 
Howard Dietz' lyrics to the famous tune, outside of their obvious lover references, can also be read deeper to empathize with the human condition. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_in_the_Dark_(Howard_Dietz_and_Arthur_Schwartz_song)]

[[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"!

A scan of a vintage program from the Fred Roper troop is available online, and video of the troop can be found on YouTube.
[http://finepixtrix.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/fred-roper-and-his-amazing-midgets/]
[http://youtu.be/KHuzWfat8dM"]

'''rendezvous with a certain high-class vivisectionist''' 
Seems a bit of irony in regard to Pirate Prentice/Scorpia Mossmoon vs. Roger Mexico/Jessica Swanlake: earlier on page you have Pirate & Scorpia hounded by "cutters", whereas here, Roger & Jessica are purposely moving to meet w/ a vivisectionist.

'''whippy as sheets of glass improperly annealed''' 
Annealing is a process of slowly cooling glass to relieve internal stresses after it was formed. The process may be carried out in a temperature-controlled kiln known as a Lehr. Glass which has not been annealed is liable to crack or shatter when subjected to a relatively small temperature change or mechanical shock. Annealing glass is critical to its durability. If glass is not annealed, it will retain many of the thermal stresses caused by quenching and significantly decrease the overall strength of the glass. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annealing_(glass)]

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==Page 30==
'''Camerons officers''' 
Sir Alexander Maurice Cameron: He served in World War II initially as a British General Staff Officer with Anti-Aircraft Command and then as Commander of the Anti-Aircraft Brigade from 1942. He was on the staff of Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force from 1944 to 1945. At this time he started constructing an Allied version of the V2 rocket. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Cameron_(British_Army_officer)]

'''Ouspenskian nonsense''' 
Peter D. Ouspensky (March 4, 1878–October 2, 1947), (Pyotr Demianovich Ouspenskii, also Uspenskii or Uspensky, Пётр Демья́нович Успе́нский), a Russian esoteric philosopher known for his expositions of the early work of the Greek-Armenian teacher of esoteric doctrine George Gurdjieff, whom he met in Moscow in 1915. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouspensky]

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==

'''tripos at Cambridge''' 
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]].

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'''Zipf's Principle of Least Effort''' 
Zipf's law ( /ˈzɪf/), an empirical law formulated using mathematical statistics, refers to the fact that many types of data studied in the physical and social sciences can be approximated with a Zipfian distribution, one of a family of related discrete power law probability distributions. The law is named after the linguist George Kingsley Zipf who first proposed it (Zipf 1935, 1949), though J.B. Estoup appears to have noticed the regularity before Zipf. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law]

'''frail as organdy''' 
Organdy or organdie is the sheerest and crispest cotton cloth made. Combed yarns contribute to its appearance. - from Wikipedia

'''crown-and-anchor game''' 
Crown and Anchor is a simple dice game, traditionally played for gambling purposes by sailors in the British Royal Navy, and also in the British merchant and fishing fleets. The game originated in the 18th century. It is still popular in the Channel Islands and Bermuda, but is strictly controlled and may be played legally only on certain occasions, such as the Channel Islands' three annual agricultural shows, or Bermuda's annual Cup Match cricket game. Three special dice are used in Crown and Anchor. The dice are equal in size and shape to standard dice, but instead of one through six pips, they are marked with six symbols: crown, anchor, diamond, spade, club and heart. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_and_Anchor]

'''Time for closeting, gas logs, shawls against the cold night, snug... as here at Snoxall's''' 
Wondering if Snoxall's is some amalgamation or riffing of Snowballs... Snow being Earth's "White Visitation", etc.

'''grin your Dennis Morgan chap goes about''' 
Dennis Morgan (December 20, 1908 – September 7, 1994) was an American actor-singer. Born as Earl Stanley Morner, he used the acting pseudonym Richard Stanley before adopting his professional name. In 1945, he played "Jefferson Jones" in ''Christmas in Connecticut'' opposite Barbara Stanwyck and Sydney Greenstreet. He starred in ''God Is My Co-Pilot'', ''Kitty Foyle'', ''Perfect Strangers'' and ''The Desert Song''. Morgan was a leading man with Warner Bros. in the 1940s, starring with best friend Jack Carson in many movies, several of which were "two guys" buddy pictures. His peak years were 1943 to 1949. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Morgan]

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'''rattling sitreps''' 
Sitrep: A command center (often called a war room) is any place that is used to provide centralized command for some purpose. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitrep#Military_and_government]

'''good-whisky-and-cured-Latakia scent of Their rough love''' 
Latakia tobacco is a specially prepared tobacco originally produced in Syria and named after the port city of Latakia. Now the tobacco is mainly produced in Cyprus. It is initially sun-cured like other Turkish tobaccos and then further cured over a pine or oak wood fire, which gives it an intense smokey-peppery taste and smell. Too strong for most people's tastes to smoke straight, it is used as a "condiment" or "blender" (a basic tobacco mixed with other tobaccos to create a blend), especially in English, Balkan, and some American Classic blends. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latakia_%28tobacco%29]

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."

33.31-32 '''the Scrubs''' 
Wormwood Scrubs Prison, in London, was built by convicts in 1874

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'''"The White Visitation"... devoted to psychological warfare''' 
I have always figured this was a major influence on the White Lodge of ''Twin Peaks''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Lodge_%28Twin_Peaks%29]

'''Vichy traitors''' 
Following the armistice signed on June 22, 1940, the zone which was not occupied by the Germans took the name of the French State (État Français) (as opposed to the traditional name, République française or French Republic) and set up its capital in Vichy on July 1, because of the town's relative proximity to Paris (4.5 hours by train) and because it was the city with the second largest hotel capacity at the time. Moreover, the existence of a modern telephone exchange made it possible to reach the whole world via phone. More: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vichy]

'''Lublin Communists drawing beads on Varsovian shadow-ministers''' 
On 24 July 1944, Lublin was taken by the Soviet Army and became the temporary capital of a Soviet-controlled communist Polish Committee of National Liberation established in the city, which was to serve as basis for a puppet government. The capital was moved to Warsaw in January 1945. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lublin]

'''ELAS Greeks stalking royalists''' 
The Greek People's Liberation Army or ELAS (Greek: Ελληνικός Λαϊκός Απελευθερωτικός Στρατός, translit. Ellinikós Laïkós Apeleftherotikós Stratós, ΕΛΑΣ), was the military arm of the left-wing National Liberation Front (EAM) during the period of the Greek Resistance until February 1945. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_People%27s_Liberation_Army]

'''that stateless lascar...''' 
Lascar: The name lascar was also used to refer to Indian servants, typically engaged by British military officers. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lascar]

Perhaps this implies, that though not immediately placeable, Roger Mexico has a bit of an Indian look, outside of the other connotations?

'''They have euchred Mexico''' 
Euchre is a trick-taking card game most commonly played with four people in two partnerships with a deck of 24 standard playing cards. It is the game responsible for introducing the joker into modern packs; this was invented around 1860 to act as a top trump or best bower (from the German word Bauer, "farmer", denoting also the jack). It is believed to be closely related to the French game Écarté that was popularized in the United States by the Cornish and Pennsylvania Dutch, and to the seventeenth-century game of bad repute Loo. It may be sometimes referred to as Knock Euchre to distinguish it from Bid Euchre. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euchre]

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'''Behaviorist''' 
Behaviorism, also called the learning perspective (where any physical action is a behavior), is a philosophy of psychology based on the proposition that all things that organisms do—including acting, thinking and feeling—can and should be regarded as behaviors, and that psychological disorders are best treated by altering behavior patterns or modifying the environment. The behaviorist school of thought maintains that behaviors as such can be described scientifically without recourse either to internal physiological events or to hypothetical constructs such as the mind. Behaviorism comprises the position that all theories should have observational correlates but that there are no philosophical differences between publicly observable processes (such as actions) and privately observable processes (such as thinking and feeling). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behaviorist]

'''Pavlovian''' 
Classical conditioning (also Pavlovian or respondent conditioning, Pavlovian reinforcement) is a form of conditioning that was first demonstrated by Ivan Pavlov (1927). The typical procedure for inducing classical conditioning involves presentations of a neutral stimulus along with a stimulus of some significance, the "unconditional stimulus." The neutral stimulus could be any event that does not result in an overt behavioral response from the organism under investigation. Conversely, presentation of the significant stimulus necessarily evokes an innate, often reflexive, response. Pavlov called these the unconditional stimulus (US) and unconditional response (UR), respectively. If the neutral stimulus is presented along with the unconditional stimulus, it would become a conditional stimulus (CS). Pavlov used the term conditional because he wanted to emphasize that learning required a dependent or conditional relationship between CS and US. If the CS and US always occur together and never alone, this perfect dependent relationship or pairing, causes the two stimuli to become associated and the organism produces a behavioral response to the CS. Pavlov called this the conditional response (CR). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlovian]

'''NAAFI''' 
The Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (NAAFI) is an organization created by the British government in 1921 to run recreational establishments needed by the British Armed Forces, and to sell goods to servicemen and their families. It runs clubs, bars, shops, supermarkets, launderettes, restaurants, cafés and other facilities on most British military bases and also canteens on board Royal Navy ships. Commissioned officers are not usually supposed to use the NAAFI clubs and bars, since their messes provide these facilities and their entry, except on official business, is considered to be an intrusion into junior ranks' private lives. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAAFI]

'''"a T.S. Eliot April"''' 
Reference to "The Waste Land" by T.S. Eliot:
''APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing / Memory and desire, stirring / Dull roots with spring rain''.

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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. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Chemical_Industries]

'''what the lyrics to "Dancing in the Dark" are ''really'' about...''' 
Howard Dietz' lyrics to the famous tune, outside of their obvious lover references, can also be read deeper to empathize with the human condition. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_in_the_Dark_(Howard_Dietz_and_Arthur_Schwartz_song)]

[[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.

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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"!

A scan of a vintage program from the Fred Roper troop is available <a href="http://finepixtrix.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/fred-roper-and-his-amazing-midgets/">here</a>, and video of the troop can be found on <a href=" http://youtu.be/KHuzWfat8dM">YouTube.</a>

'''rendezvous with a certain high-class vivisectionist''' 
Seems a bit of irony in regard to Pirate Prentice/Scorpia Mossmoon vs. Roger Mexico/Jessica Swanlake: earlier on page you have Pirate & Scorpia hounded by "cutters", whereas here, Roger & Jessica are purposely moving to meet w/ a vivisectionist.

'''whippy as sheets of glass improperly annealed''' 
Annealing is a process of slowly cooling glass to relieve internal stresses after it was formed. The process may be carried out in a temperature-controlled kiln known as a Lehr. Glass which has not been annealed is liable to crack or shatter when subjected to a relatively small temperature change or mechanical shock. Annealing glass is critical to its durability. If glass is not annealed, it will retain many of the thermal stresses caused by quenching and significantly decrease the overall strength of the glass. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annealing_(glass)]

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281.01-02 '''die kalte Sophie''' 
"cold wisdom"? Correspondent Morten Peters gives a better explanation!:
"-the allusion may be intended by Pynchon, but originally this is just the German traditional agricolan term for the last day of the "eisheiligen", which are normally the last days in the year that can be really cold."
Igor Zabel also offers the following:

:"The days of the three "ice-men" (May 12, 13 and 14) are followed by the day of Sophia, 15 May, called "the cold Sophia" because it is considered to be the conclusion of the cold days in May. The "ice-saints" are believed to be the end of the winter period; they represent a period when, in high spring, it can get quite cold and sometimes snow may fall. It is a dangerous time for peasants since the cold period can endanger or even destroy the harvest. In 1945, these days have passed without damaging the wine grapes. We have the same tradition in Slovenia, the popular name for the "kalte Sophie" is "polulana Zofka" which means the "wet" or "peed Sophy" (since it usually rains on that day)."

281.9 '''the revolutionaries of May''' 
Considering the unusual point of view as represented in the very first sentence("We are"), this may be a topical reference to May 1968 and the following Big Chill. The seemingly redundant interjection "this year" in the next sentence then signifies a shift back to narrative time. In Germany the only great vintage between the period of revolts and the publication of ''Gravity's Rainbow'' belongs to the year [http://www.thewinecurators.com/vntgChart.html 1971].

281.20 '''DP''' 
Displaced Person

281.35 '''WASPs''' 
A common wartime acronym is ''Women Airforce Service Pilots'', but the context suggests a more fitting acronym of ''White Anglo-Saxon Protestants''. The text here compares Herero beliefs to the beliefs of Slothrop's Protestant ancestors with their "buckled black" shoes, and views of God as present in natural phenomena.

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'''285.37 Jim Fisk style''' 
Before his involvement with gold markets and railroads, Fisk was a Yankee peddler working the Berkshires. There are several references to him in ''The Berkshire Hills'' (though his name is misspelled "Fiske").

==Page 287==
287.11-12 '''double row of shiny bright teeth hangs in the air''' 
Reminiscent of Alice and the Cheshire Cat:
:''Well! I’ve often seen a cat without a grin,” thought Alice; “but a grin without a cat! It’s the most curious thing I ever saw in all my life!”'' [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rgs/alice-table.html ''Alice in Wonderland''], Chapter 6, "Pig and Pepper"

287.23 '''P-47''' 
P-47 Thunderbolt, also known as the "Jug," was one of the main United States Army Air Forces fighters of World War II, and served with other Allied air forces as well.

287.25-26 '''Project Hermes''' 
US Army missile program started in 1944 to develop guided missile systems; included study of captured German V-2s; General Electric (GE) ran the contract

287.30 '''Kraut''' 
Derogatory term for German soldiers or Germans in general; derives from sauerkraut, a popular German food

287.32 '''Limey''' 
Derogatory term for the British, originally referring to British sailors. It is believed to derive from lime juice, referring to the Royal Navy and Merchant Navy practice of supplying lime juice to British sailors to prevent scurvy.

287.37-38 '''Old Blood 'n' Guts handed Rommel's ass to him''' 
Refers to American General George Patton's defeat of German forces lead by Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in the North Africa campaign of WWII.

287.38-39 '''''Ach du lieber! Mein Arsch!''''' 
German: 'Oh my goodness! My ass!'

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290.8 '''Under my linden tree''' 
Allusion to Middle High German lyric poet [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_von_der_Vogelweide Walter von der Vogelweide's] (c. 1170 - c. 1230) most famous love song [http://www.planck.com/rhymedtranslations/vogelweidelinden.htm "Under der linden"], where the singer implied is another young girl.

290.15 '''Geli Tripping''' 
Another name taken from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_and_Sullivan Gilbert and Sullivan], this time from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.M.S._Pinafore ''HMS Pinafore''] (1878). When the Female Relations of Sir Joseph Porter, the First Lord of the Admiralty, board the ship, they sing, "Gaily tripping,/ Lightly skipping,/ Flock the maidens to the shipping." ([http://www.audiosparx.com/sa/archive/Classical/Opera/Gaily-Tripping/285163 Have a listen...]) The name is not without psychedelic overtones reminiscent of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merry_Pranksters Merry Pranksters]. [[Sir Joseph's Barge is Seen|Read the lyrics...]]

290.16 '''A Soviet intelligence officer named Tchitcherine''' 
Explaining the sources for the name, Weisenburger cites Theodore von Kármán (''The Wind and Beyond''. Boston: Little, 1967), and David Seed ("Pynchon's Two Tchitcherines", ''Pynchon Notes'' 5:11-12). Kármán writes the following: "Frank Tchitcherine was of Russian origin, and in fact had been related to the first minister of education in the Kerensky government. This Tchitcherine helped convince the Germans to disclose their hiding place for literally tons on research documents pertaining to the rocket and supersonic flight." It seems Von Kármán was wrong about both the date and the function. There was only one Chicherin on the Russian political scene at that time. Kerensky's minister of education was [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Manuilov A. A. Manuilov], who was in no position to convince the Germans about anything as the two nations were at war while the Kerensky government was in office. (In fact, German rocket research began in earnest only after 1929, when Hermann Oberth published ''Die Rakete zu den Planetenräumen''.) On the other hand, Georgy Chicherin, an aristocrat by birth and a lover of German culture, was an ideal diplomatic partner for German foreign ministers Von Brockdorff-Rantzau, Rathenau, and Stresemann.
"Vaslav" is obviously taken from Nijinsky's first name. There is no such Russian name as Vaslav. Originally it was Vatslav but the affricate [ts] was smoothed to [s], perhaps because it was easier for the French to pronounce.

290.21 '''Schattensaft''' 
German: shadow juice

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293.15
'''I was voted the Sweetheart of 3/Art. Abt. (mot) 485''' 
Contrary to what Weisenburger claims in his Companion, there ''was'' such a unit. In fact, their job was launching V2s. Under the supervision on SS-Gruppenführer Kammler, Division z. V. (zur Vergeltung) was set up for launching A4 rockets [http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Waffen/V2.htm]. Within the Division, Artillerie-Abteilung (motorisiert) 485 was part of Gruppe Nord, together with SS-Werfer-Batterie 500. The Abteilung (batalion) was transformed into a regiment in August 1944. While launching units 1 and 2 were in the Hague area, 3/Art. Abt. (mot) 485 was stationed in Western Germany, with targets in France and Belgium.

293.17
'''Have you been up to the Broken yet?''' 
When asked if she were a witch, Geli makes reference to the Brocken, a mountain in northern Germany which Goethe describes in Faust as the center of revelry for witches on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walpurgis_Night Walpurgisnacht]. This may again be a reference to Pynchon’s Cornell teacher Vladimir Nabokov and his book Pale Fire. In that book Nabokov indirectly (and humorously) references the Broken when Kinbote talks of "an anthology of poets and a brocken of their wives" as a way of comparing Sybil Shade to a witch. Interestingly, Blodgett Waxwing is mentioned again less than a page later. (See [[Pages_244-249#Page_246|246.35]] for discussion of Nabokov and "waxwing".)

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'''294.11 Ge-li, Ge-li, Ge-li''' 
Although often evoked by mimics, Cary Grant never actually said "Ju-dy, Ju-dy, Ju-dy." In the 1939 film ''Only Angels Have Wings'' he did say "Oh, Judy" and "Yes, Judy" to Rita Hayworth's character, and in 1938's ''Bringing Up Baby'' he says "Susan, Susan, Susan".

'''294.20-21 Thanx for the info, and a tip of the Scuffling hat to ya''' 
Slothrop copies the signoff to Jimmy Hatlo’s comic strip "They’ll Do It Every Time," which was based on ideas from readers. These contributors were typically acknowledged with the words, "Thanx, and a tip of the Hatlo hat to..."

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==Page 269==
269.35 '''White Lotos Day pilgrimage 19 Avenue Road, St. John's Wood''' 
The address was the one-time home of Annie Besant which became headquarters for Blavatsky (HPB) and the TS(!) -- Theosophical Society-- once Besant joined the group. HPB died on May 8th, 1891, and May 8th became White Lotos Day, commemorating the anniversary of HPB shedding her mortal coil. May 8th, 1945 was V-E Day, of course. May 8th interestingly enough was also the death day (different years) of Oswald Spengler and Gustave Flaubert.
Oh, and as every school boy knows, May 8th is Pynchon's birthday!

==Page 270==
270.14 '''Tennysonian comfort''' 
From the second verse of Tennyson's 1854 poem ''Charge of the Light Brigade'':
{| class="wikitable"
|-
| 'Forward, the Light Brigade!’
|-
| Was there a man dismay’d?
|-
| Not tho’ the soldier knew
|-
| Someone had blunder’d:
|-
| Theirs not to make reply,
|-
| Theirs not to reason why,
|-
| Theirs but to do and die:
|-
| Into the valley of Death
|-
| Rode the six hundred.
|}

270.16 '''Floyd Perdoo''' 
From the French "perdue": "lost."

270.27 '''Third Term''' 
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's third term as President of the U.S. 1940-44

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272.19 '''young Sigmund Freud''' 
Refers to Freud’s rejection of the "seduction theory." Freud originally believed that many of his women patients suffered from neurotic behavior due to sexual abuse as children. He came to reject that belief as improbable and began to hypothesize the workings of the unconscious as a result. See Edwin Treacle’s musings at [[#Page 277|277.03-05]].

==Page 273==
273.34 '''The pinball machines writhe... thudding flippers''' 
An anachronism : Flippers were first featured on the Gottlieb pinball table, "Humpty Dumpty," released in 1947, two years after this scene takes place.

273.37-41 '''''La Gazza Ladra''...is mellow''' 
La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie) is an opera in two acts by [[R#rossini|Gioachino Rossini]]. It is best known for its overture, which is notable for its use of snare drums.

==Page 275==
275.1 '''Wheel of Fortune''' 
Tarot card X; in its multiple meanings random change is the core element (cf. the references to Gödel's theorem and Murphy's law in lines 275.25-26).

==Page 276==
Page 276. 20-21- '''Un-pleasantries such as "It's beginning to sound like the Tavistock Institute around here"''' 
The Tavistock Institute was founded in September 1947, over two years after this scene takes place. Perhaps Pynchon was referring to the Tavistock ''Clinic'', a psychiatric clinic in London which was founded in 1920 and known for work with shell-shocked military personnel? The Tavistock Institute is known for studies in group, organizational, family, and marital behavior, while the Tavistock Clinic's clientele would more closely match the tense, paranoid atmosphere of The White Visitation after the war. [http://www.tavinstitute.org/about/our_history.php]

276.31 '''Krishna''' 
A deity worshipped across many traditions in Hinduism; often depicted with blue skin

==Page 277==
277.03-05 '''as the dead father who never slept with you, Penelope, returns night after night to your bed, trying to snuggle in behind you..." 

''This'' Penelope is Jessica's niece (?), first introduced in the Boxing Day scene (Part 1, Episode 21). The dead father appears in her vision, but she refuses to accept "it" as it is only a demonic shell, one of the Qlippoth. In that scene the narrator refers to "the main sequence of Western magic" (176.14). Here, it is "the last weary stages of [Europe's] perversion of magic" (277.1). While in the first case the dead can return as Qlippoth, in the perverted stage death (interconnected with the repressed "dynamic unconscious" in the Freudian sense) is incarnated in real living beings.

From an interview with Freud biographer Peter D. Kramer <ref>"An Interview with Freud Biographer Peter D. Kramer, [http://www.calitreview.com/Interviews/kramer_8036.htm California Literary Review Website], Jan 29, 2007</ref>:

:Over time, Freud offered differing views on infantile sexuality, all of them problematic. The most dramatic mistake became associated with the phrase “seduction theory.” As he was turning forty, in a desperate attempt to achieve fame Freud gave a speech to his Viennese colleagues on the origins of hysteria. In it, he claimed to have analyzed a series of 18 patients suffering from hysteria or a combination of hysteria and obsessionality. In every case, he had uncovered evidence of an early sexual event. All the hysterics had experienced “coitus-like acts” between the ages of two and four—at the hands of parents, siblings, other relatives, or nannies and these events were the original cause of their disorder. The tale of Freud’s entry into and exit from this stance is complex, but his original presentation suggests not so much that Freud was misled by patients but that he misdirected them through making his expectations clear.

:Famously, Freud soon reversed the direction of infantile sexuality and claimed that what was pathogenic was children’s repressed desire for the parent of the opposite sex.

277.7 '''scream inside the Fist of the ape''' 
Faye Wray screaming after being picked up by [[K#kingkong|King Kong]]

277.34-35 '''Sir Denis Nayland Smith to young Alan Sterling''' 
Characters from the [[F#fumanchu|Fu Manchu]] series

==References==
<references />

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==Page 269==
269.35 '''White Lotos Day pilgrimage 19 Avenue Road, St. John's Wood''' 
The address was the one-time home of Annie Besant which became headquarters for Blavatsky (HPB) and the TS(!) -- Theosophical Society-- once Besant joined the group. HPB died on May 8th, 1891, and May 8th became White Lotos Day, commemorating the anniversary of HPB shedding her mortal coil. May 8th, 1945 was V-E Day, of course. May 8th interestingly enough was also the death day (different years) of Oswald Spengler and Gustave Flaubert.
Oh, and as every school boy knows, May 8th is Pynchon's birthday!

==Page 270==
270.14 '''Tennysonian comfort''' 
From the second verse of Tennyson's 1854 poem ''Charge of the Light Brigade'':
{| class="wikitable"
|-
| 'Forward, the Light Brigade!’
|-
| Was there a man dismay’d?
|-
| Not tho’ the soldier knew
|-
| Someone had blunder’d:
|-
| Theirs not to make reply,
|-
| Theirs not to reason why,
|-
| Theirs but to do and die:
|-
| Into the valley of Death
|-
| Rode the six hundred.
|}

270.16 '''Floyd Perdoo''' 
From the French "perdue": "lost."

270.27 '''Third Term''' 
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's third term as President of the U.S. 1940-44

==Page 272==
272.19 '''young Sigmund Freud''' 
Refers to Freud’s rejection of the "seduction theory." Freud originally believed that many of his women patients suffered from neurotic behavior due to sexual abuse as children. He came to reject that belief as improbable and began to hypothesize the workings of the unconscious as a result. See Edwin Treacle’s musings at [[#Page 277|277.03-05]].

==Page 273==
273.34 '''The pinball machines writhe... thudding flippers''' 
An anachronism : Flippers were first featured on the Gottlieb pinball table, "Humpty Dumpty," released in 1947, two years after this scene takes place.

273.37-41 '''''La Gazza Ladra''...is mellow''' 
La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie) is an opera in two acts by [[R#rossini|Gioachino Rossini]]. It is best known for its overture, which is notable for its use of snare drums.

==Page 275==
275.1 '''Wheel of Fortune''' 
Tarot card X; in its multiple meanings random change is the core element (cf. the references to Gödel's theorem and Murphy's law in lines 275.25-26).

==Page 276==
276.31 '''Krishna''' 
A deity worshipped across many traditions in Hinduism; often depicted with blue skin

==Page 277==
277.03-05 '''as the dead father who never slept with you, Penelope, returns night after night to your bed, trying to snuggle in behind you..." 

''This'' Penelope is Jessica's niece (?), first introduced in the Boxing Day scene (Part 1, Episode 21). The dead father appears in her vision, but she refuses to accept "it" as it is only a demonic shell, one of the Qlippoth. In that scene the narrator refers to "the main sequence of Western magic" (176.14). Here, it is "the last weary stages of [Europe's] perversion of magic" (277.1). While in the first case the dead can return as Qlippoth, in the perverted stage death (interconnected with the repressed "dynamic unconscious" in the Freudian sense) is incarnated in real living beings.

From an interview with Freud biographer Peter D. Kramer <ref>"An Interview with Freud Biographer Peter D. Kramer, [http://www.calitreview.com/Interviews/kramer_8036.htm California Literary Review Website], Jan 29, 2007</ref>:

:Over time, Freud offered differing views on infantile sexuality, all of them problematic. The most dramatic mistake became associated with the phrase “seduction theory.” As he was turning forty, in a desperate attempt to achieve fame Freud gave a speech to his Viennese colleagues on the origins of hysteria. In it, he claimed to have analyzed a series of 18 patients suffering from hysteria or a combination of hysteria and obsessionality. In every case, he had uncovered evidence of an early sexual event. All the hysterics had experienced “coitus-like acts” between the ages of two and four—at the hands of parents, siblings, other relatives, or nannies and these events were the original cause of their disorder. The tale of Freud’s entry into and exit from this stance is complex, but his original presentation suggests not so much that Freud was misled by patients but that he misdirected them through making his expectations clear.

:Famously, Freud soon reversed the direction of infantile sexuality and claimed that what was pathogenic was children’s repressed desire for the parent of the opposite sex.

277.7 '''scream inside the Fist of the ape''' 
Faye Wray screaming after being picked up by [[K#kingkong|King Kong]]

277.34-35 '''Sir Denis Nayland Smith to young Alan Sterling''' 
Characters from the [[F#fumanchu|Fu Manchu]] series

==References==
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==Page 269==
269.35 '''White Lotos Day pilgrimage 19 Avenue Road, St. John's Wood''' 
The address was the one-time home of Annie Besant which became headquarters for Blavatsky (HPB) and the TS(!) -- Theosophical Society-- once Besant joined the group. HPB died on May 8th, 1891, and May 8th became White Lotos Day, commemorating the anniversary of HPB shedding her mortal coil. May 8th, 1945 was V-E Day, of course. May 8th interestingly enough was also the death day (different years) of Oswald Spengler and Gustave Flaubert.
Oh, and as every school boy knows, May 8th is Pynchon's birthday!

==Page 270==
270.14 '''Tennysonian comfort''' 
From the second verse of Tennyson's 1854 poem ''Charge of the Light Brigade'':
{| class="wikitable"
|-
| 'Forward, the Light Brigade!’
|-
| Was there a man dismay’d?
|-
| Not tho’ the soldier knew
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| Someone had blunder’d:
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| Theirs not to make reply,
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| Theirs not to reason why,
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| Theirs but to do and die:
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| Into the valley of Death
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| Rode the six hundred.
|}

270.16 '''Floyd Perdoo''' 
From the French "perdue": "lost."

270.27 '''Third Term''' 
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's third term as President of the U.S. 1940-44

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272.19 '''young Sigmund Freud''' 
Refers to Freud’s rejection of the "seduction theory." Freud originally believed that many of his women patients suffered from neurotic behavior due to sexual abuse as children. He came to reject that belief as improbable and began to hypothesize the workings of the unconscious as a result. See Edwin Treacle’s musings at [[#Page 277|277.03-05]].

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273.34 '''The pinball machines writhe... thudding flippers''' 
An anachronism : Flippers were first featured on the Gottlieb pinball table, "Humpty Dumpty," released in 1947, two years after this scene takes place.

273.37-41 '''''La Gazza Ladra''...is mellow''' 
La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie) is an opera in two acts by [[R#rossini|Gioachino Rossini]]. It is best known for its overture, which is notable for its use of snare drums.

==Page 275==
275.1 '''Wheel of Fortune''' 
Tarot card X; in its multiple meanings random change is the core element (cf. the references to Gödel's theorem and Murphy's law in lines 275.25-26).

==Page 276==
276.31 '''Krishna''' 
A deity worshipped across many traditions in Hinduism; often depicted with blue skin

==Page 277==
277.03-05 '''as the dead father who never slept with you, Penelope, returns night after night to your bed, trying to snuggle in behind you..." 

''This'' Penelope is Jessica's niece (?), first introduced in the Boxing Day scene (Part 1, Episode 21). The dead father appears in her vision, but she refuses to accept "it" as it is only a demonic shell, one of the Qlippoth. In that scene the narrator refers to "the main sequence of Western magic" (176.14). Here, it is "the last weary stages of [Europe's] perversion of magic" (277.1). While in the first case the dead can return as Qlippoth, in the perverted stage death (interconnected with the repressed "dynamic unconscious" in the Freudian sense) is incarnated in real living beings.

From an interview with Freud biographer Peter D. Kramer <ref>"An Interview with Freud Biographer Peter D. Kramer, [http://www.calitreview.com/Interviews/kramer_8036.htm California Literary Review Website], Jan 29, 2007</ref>:

:Over time, Freud offered differing views on infantile sexuality, all of them problematic. The most dramatic mistake became associated with the phrase “seduction theory.” As he was turning forty, in a desperate attempt to achieve fame Freud gave a speech to his Viennese colleagues on the origins of hysteria. In it, he claimed to have analyzed a series of 18 patients suffering from hysteria or a combination of hysteria and obsessionality. In every case, he had uncovered evidence of an early sexual event. All the hysterics had experienced “coitus-like acts” between the ages of two and four—at the hands of parents, siblings, other relatives, or nannies and these events were the original cause of their disorder. The tale of Freud’s entry into and exit from this stance is complex, but his original presentation suggests not so much that Freud was misled by patients but that he misdirected them through making his expectations clear.

:Famously, Freud soon reversed the direction of infantile sexuality and claimed that what was pathogenic was children’s repressed desire for the parent of the opposite sex.

277.7 '''scream inside the Fist of the ape''' 
Faye Wray screaming after being picked up by [[K#kingkong|King Kong]]

277.34-35 '''Sir Denis Nayland Smith to young Alan Sterling''' 
Characters from the [[F#fumanchu|Fu Manchu]] series

==References==
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Page 147.34 - '''Where are the five-digit groups coming from... no one up in London quite knows how to decrypt?''' 

The number groups appear to be an encrypted message that uses a one-time pad. One-time pad encryption uses identical sets of randomly generated numbers shared between sender and receiver to securely encrypt one way messages over an insecure medium like telegraph or radio. They are commonly used in espionage because a properly used one-time pad message is mathematically impossible to crack, even with today's supercomputers, hence London's inability to crack the messages. 

Ciphers encrypted with one-time pads often use five digit groups, though letters or four-digit groups are used as well. They are normally used for covert, one way communication with field agents, as the pad is easily concealed and requires little training and no special equipment to use. [http://users.telenet.be/d.rijmenants/en/onetimepad.htm]

==Page 152==

152.8 '''Neukölln''' 
neighborhood in the southeastern part of Berlin; has one of the highest percentage of immigrants in the city

152.11-12 '''More than any mere "Kreis" [ . . . ] full mandalas''' 
Correspondent Igor Zabel offers the following gloss on Weisenberger's note, which makes sense in the context of the passage:

:"Kreis is not 'cross' but 'circle', here also in the sense of a social circle. We should, therefore, understand the passage in the sense that the social structure of the visitors was so complex that they formed not only a circle but also whole mandalas while sitting around the table during the séances."

152.16 '''Walter Asch''' 
The last name derives from "asche": cinders, ashes.
He is the first character whose zodical sign is mentioned: Taurus.

152.19 '''Wimpe, the IG-man''' 
[[image:wimpy.jpg|thumb|100px|Popeye & Wimpy|right]]The name does suggest the word "wimpy," as Weisenburger suggests, but it also evokes Popeye’s hamburger-mooching pal J. Wellington Wimpy. However, correspondent Alex Johnston notes that the actual German pronunciation ("Vimpe") would not have such connotations at all.

152.21 '''Lieutenant Weissmann''' 
Weissmann ("white man"), who turns out to be Capt. Blicero, is the decadent character associated with one of the manifestations of the Lady V. in Pynchon’s first novel in the section "Mondaugen's Story." ''See note at'' [[Pages 154-167#Page 161|161.22]].

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'''154.23 "Die Faust Hoch"''' 
Literally, "the fist high" or "the high fist." As in "hebt die Faust hoch" --
"raise the fist high." Clearly a Labor-Communist-revolutionary workers magazine. Now a rap group.

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