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<div id="sachsa">'''Sachsa, Peter'''</div>
31; the "control" in Psi Section; lover of Leni Pökler, 147; medium at Rathenau seance, 163-65; killed in communist street action in 1930 in Neukölln (Berlin) by Schutzmann Jöche, a Nazi cop, 152; as Zaxa, 218; 219-20; 590; [[Peter Sachsa|Etymological Musings]]

'''scombroid''' 
217.20; Peter Sachsa is described as having a scombroid face, by which Pynchon means narrow. The family Scombridae, from which scombroid derives, are marine fishes which have in common, among other features, a tail which is connected to the body by a thin, but flexible and strong muscle. This family of streamlined predators of the open ocean includes the tunas and mackerels. "Scombroid" also refers to a type of food poisoning.

'''skivvies''' 
Not female servants as ''Webster's Third International Unabridged'' defines it, but undergarments as defined by Google. For a sec, the contributor wrongly suspected Pynchon had made a howler, for the sentence goes "He runs into the bedroom, finds everything else he had on is gone too, down to shoes and skivvies." 199

[[Sado-Masochism|'''SADOMASOCHISM (S/M)''']]

<div id="basher"></div>'''St. Blaise, Group Capt. "Basher"''' 
146; sees angel of death during RAF Lübeck strike, 151; [["Basher" St. Blaise|Etymological Musings]]; See also [[C#church|Church of St. Blasius]]

'''St. Elmo's fire''' 
The glow accompanying the brushlike discharges of atmospheric electricity that usually appears during stormy weather as a tip of light on the extremities of such pointed objects as church towers or the masts of ships; "will be seen spurting at moments from crossends" on the Anubis, 491

'''St. Felix''' 
37; "the clock of" in London

'''St. John's Wood''' 
544; an exclusive district in North-West London, where the Mossmoons live, famous for Lords Cricket Ground and Abbey Road Studios.

'''Saint Pauli''' 
the English translation for "Sankt Pauli," which is the main red-light district in Hamburg/Germany. It's known for its sex-bars and its fusion of pimps, prostitutes and working-class inhabitants. St. Pauli is famous for the atmosphere that the harbour of Hamburg brings into the district. Sailors, seaman and other stranded creatures are walking over the Reeperbahn (St. Pauli's main street). The Star-Club, where the Beatles paid their dues before becoming hugely famous, is in St. Pauli; 525

'''St. Veronica's Hospital''' 
46; of the True Image for Colonic and Respiratory Diseases; St. Veronica wiped Christ's forehead with her veil while he carried the cross; St. Veronica Papers, 688

'''St.-Just Grossout''' 
540; blackman worked for Firm infiltrating Schwarzkommando (aka "Sam Juiced")

<div id="salitieri">'''Salitieri, Poore, Nash, De Brutus and Short'''</div>
591; [a pun on Thomas Hobbes' (1588-1679) description, in Leviathan (1651), of the life of the members of the commonwealth in the absence of an all-powerful sovereign: "No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual feare and danger of violent death; and the life of Man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short."]; Lyle Bland's lawyers, 591; pallbearers at Lyle Bland's funeral, 652; Recall the law firm representing Pierce Inverarity in [http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#warpe ''The Crying of Lot 49'']: Warpe, Wistfull, Kubitschek and McMingus.

'''Sandhurst''' 
202; a military academy, the British equivalent to West Point in the U.S

'''Sandoz''' 
250; Swiss chemical company which joined Geigy and Ciba in a cartel, in the early '20s; Hoffman was working for Sandoz when he synthesized LSD; Schweitar worked there, 260;

'''Sandra''' 
685; has "run away from the Kleinburgerstrasse" and staying at Der Platz

'''Sandra''' 
606; acquaintance of Manuela's at Putzi's

'''Sandys, Duncan''' 
Sandys, who was married to Churchill's daughter Diana, and later rumoured to be 'The Headless Man' in the infamous Duchess Of Argyll's divorce case, was Under-secretary of the Ministry of Supply in Britain during WWII. He was appointed by Churchill to investigate the rumored German experiments with secret weapons, which investigation led to the discovery of the rocket facilities at Peenemünde; "the P.M.'s son-in-law" who works out of the Ministry of Supply at Shell Mex House, 228; "Churchill's own son-in-law" 251

'''Sanktwolke, Edouard''' 
385; German: "Saint Cloud"; "veteran automotive jobber" who supplied transportation for von Göll's and Waxwing's "travelling business conference"

'''Santora''' 
744; family in Mingeborough, MA

'''Sargasso Sea''' 
Area of the North Atlantic Ocean, elliptical in shape and relatively still, that is strewn with free-floating seaweed of the genus Sargassum. Encompassing the Bermuda Islands, a combination of ecological and biological conditions result in a dirth of plankton (a fish staple), creating a biological desert. Early navigators had the (unfounded) fear of becoming entangled within the mass of seaweed and unable to escape; "the sun-resorts of Sargasso where the bones come up to lie and bleach and mock the passing ships" 564;

'''Sargner''' 
152; "a civilian attached to the General Staff" who is keyed on by Wimpe at séance

'''Sarnaki''' 
424; target area for A-4, near Blizna, Poland

'''Sarts''' 
340; Central Asian people

'''Sassoon, Lt. Siegfried Lorraine (1886-1967)''' 
79; English poet and novelist whose experiences in World War I made him fiercely anti-war and he wrote numerous works which reflected this hatred, including Counterattack (1918) and Satirical Poems (1926)

'''sastrugi''' 
420; Sastrugi are smooth, gently rolling snowfields, often covered with wind-drifted formations, on the interior of the Greenland ice sheet which is second in area only to the Antarctic ice sheet. It extends about 1,570 miles from north to south and has a maximum width of some 600 miles and an average thickness of about 5,800 feet.

'''Saturday Evening Post''' 
435; American weekly magazine the covers of which often had Norman Rockwell illustrations

'''Saville Row''' 
526; swank shopping district in London

'''Scammony, Sir Marcus (aka Angelique)''' 
615; drinking with Clive Mossmoon at "their club"

'''Schacht, Hjalmar (1877-1970)''' 
According to Sasuly, Schacht was head of the Reichsbank in the 1920s and 40s and was a key player in manipulating the German inflation of that time, while blaming it on "reparations and an unfavorable balance of payments." (p.47); his "many bookkeeping dodges to keep official records clear of any hint of weapons procurement banned under the terms of Versailles." 285

'''Schadenfreude''' 
526; German: "joy at another's misfortune"; described but not named, 36; 745

'''Scheveningen''' 
97; coastal town in Holland, just north of The Hague [MAP]; 102; 104; 105; 535

'''Schicksal''' 
416; German: "fate, destiny" (misspelled "Shicksal" in earlier editions)

'''Schiller, Professor''' 
224; Slothrop studying his book on regenerative cooling

'''Schilling''' 
527; "[Närrisch] worked in guidance, he was Schilling's best man"

'''Schlabone, Gustav''' 
366; composer buddy (and "unwelcome doping partner" 711) of Säure Bummer; 621; 2nd violin at Krupp affair (aka "Captain Horror"), 711; at Der Platz, 745

'''Schleim, Josef''' 
630; "a defector of secondary brilliance, who had once worked for the IG out of Dr. Reithinger's office, VOWI"; 631;

'''Schlepzig, Max''' 
Franz Pökler putting up handbills for a movie starring, 165; name on Slothrop's pass to get into Potsdam Conference, 377; actor in von Göll films who whipped Erdmann ("the Reich's Sweethearts"), 395; 439; 461

'''Schmeil''' 
518; engineer at Peenemünde

'''Schmitz, Carl''' 
565; "'Didn't Schmitz of the IG sit on Siemens's board of directors?'" 565;

'''Schnorp''' 
332-36; Geli's friend who gives Slothrop balloon ride to Berlin

'''Schokoladestrasse''' 
646; German: "Chocolate Street"; in Happyville

'''Schraub''' 
568; German: "screw"; "the shoemaker" whose played Plechazunga "for the past 30 years"

'''Schumann of Düsseldorf''' 
702; "army surgeons and dentists [...] will pick out [of Tchitcherine's body] what has entered it by violence with an electromagnetic device bought between the wars from"

'''Schußstelle 3''' 
95; German: "firing site"; in Holland on the North Sea coast, near The Hague; moved, 104; the allies were after it, 105; "why did [Katje] leave?" 107; See also Lüneburg Heath

'''Schwindel operative''' 
286;

'''''schwarz''''' 
German: literally 'black', but also 'secret' and/or 'illicit' as in 'Secret Service' or 'black market'; see ''Schwarzgerät'' and ''Schwarzkommando'' below

<div id="schwartzgerat">'''''Schwarzgerät'''''</div>
252;"S-Gerät, 11/00000." 252;"Document SG-1" 252;"the one rocket out of 6000 that carried the Imipolex G device" 292; for sale for .5M francs by guy in Swinemünde who waits on Strand-Promenade until noon daily, 294; "The Schwartzgerät is no Grail" 364; "They want the Schwarzgerät." 455;"'F-Gerät, you sure of that?'" 487 details, 517; mandala (KEZVH), 560, 563;"'. . . that was the name of the German who commanded the battery that used the S-Gerät?'" 562;; 611; firing on Lüneburg Heath, 667; 706; "00001, the second in its series" 724; 00001, 728; "SG-1" 736; "the assembly of the 00001 is occurring also in a geographical way, a Diaspora running backwards" 737; as womb, 750; See also Rocket

'''''Schwarzkommando''''' 
74-75; German: "blackcommand"; black rocket troops; credibillity of, 92; 112;found out about a week before V.E. Day 276; Slothrop runs into two dozen on train to Nordhausen, 286; Hitler's failed plan to create Nazi empire in black Africa, training troops in Südwest, 287; "They have a plan. . .I think it's rockets" 288; "we're DPs like everybody else" 288; Herero rocket troops assembling a rocket for one last stand, 326; "it is their time, their space" 326; their mandala is the five positions of the launching switch for A4, 361; digging up A4 in Berlin, 361; "mba-kayere" (I am passed over), 362; why they seek the Rocket, 362, 563; growing away from SS and their power becoming information and expertise, 427; in their own space, 519; Herero village arranged like a mandala, 563; must be stopped before they fire the Rocket, 565; "they have their rocket all assembled at last" 673; the trek to the firing site of the 00001, 726; 12 children at a "children's resort" (Zwölfkinder means "12 children" in German--GET IT?), 725

'''Schweitar, Mario''' 
260, 268; troubleshooter around the Cartel; worked for Sandoz

'''Schwindel''' 
286; German: "fraud" "trick", also "dizziness"; "code name for Hugo Stinnes"

[[Science, Physics, Math &c.|'''SCIENCE, PHYSICS, MATH &c.''']] 
See also [[D#delta-t|delta-t]]; [[P#poisson|Poisson Distribution]]

'''screen door salesman''' 
447; "dumb and easygoing" husband of woman in Slothrop's dream in three parts; 665, "Minnie Calkins (Chapter 1.793) got married Easter Sunday to a screen-door salesman from California. Sorry to say he's not eligible for Membership - at least not yet. But with all those screen doors around, we'll sure keep our fingers crossed!"

'''scrip''' 
105; temporary paper currency issued during emergencies/special circumstances

'''Scrubs''' 
Wormwood Scrubs Prison, in London; "I'll see you two in the Scrubs if it kills me!" 717

'''Scuffling, Ian''' 
256; Pseudonym given to T. Slothrop by Waxwing in Nice; See also Slothrop, Tyrone

'''Scylla and Charybdis''' 
239; In Greek legend, Scylla was a monster with twelve feet and six heads each with three rows of teeth who lived on the rock of Scylla on the Italian side of the Straits of Messina which are between Italy and Sicily. Charybdis, who was a monster, the whirlpool she formed and the rock cliff under which she lived, faced Scylla on the other side of the Straits. Such a situation made passage through the Straits a very dodgy proposition for sailors.

'''SD''' 
431; German: Sicherheitsdienst = police-duty; The Nazi Party's intelligence and security body. Created by Himmler, it operated in foreign countries, creating instability and attempting to foment revolution.

'''séance''' 
29-30; 4-way entente: medium; control; spirit; survivor; Feldspath, 30; Overbaby, 152; "a visitation by the dead" 153; Rathenau, 163-67; at The Castle with Blicero, 487; "other fourfold expressions" 624; "sensitive flames" 715; Brigadier Pudding, 715

'''Second Empire''' 
The Second Empire (1852-70) of Napoleon III; 675

'''Section 8''' 
114; a category of discharge from the United States military for reason of being mentally unfit for service; 182

'''Seele''' 
654; German: "soul, spirit"; "as the core of the earlier carbon filament was known in Germany"

[[Self-reference in Gravity's Rainbow|'''SELF-REFERENCE''']]

'''Semirechie''' 
611; province in Kazakhstan, in the Soviet Union

'''Semyavin''' 
258; local Waxwing rep in Zürich?; 261

'''1 September''' 
479; On September 1, 1939, the German Army invaded Poland, thus "initiating" WWII

[[Serpents/Snakes References|'''SERPENT/SNAKE''']] 
See also [[#snake|Snake]]

'''SEZ WHO''' 
270; Slothropian Episodic Zone, Weekly Historical Observations

'''Seven Rivers country''' 
338; where Tchitcherine was stationed, "in a remote 'bear's corner'"

'''sfacim-a''' 
299; sfacim: from "sfaciàre" = to dismantle''' 
Tony Assenza graciously supplied the following regarding "sfacim":''' 
Having been called a "sfacim" by my uncles and other relatives more than a few times in my life, I believe your reference might require more elaboration. In its original form, "sfacim" is Neapolitan slang for semen — equivalent to US slang such as spunk or gism. However, it's also widely used as a term of endearment, as in "Hey, sfacim. Come over here and give your grandmother a kiss before I break your face." The closest US slang term would be "spunky." It's a term that someone living on Long Island or Upstate New York would probably hear a lot in Italian-American neighborhoods. One would pronounce it "SFA CHEEM."

''''s Gravenhage''' 
209; aka The Hague;

'''shadows''' 
316; God-shadows, 330; 332; 333; 336; 342; 359; 363; 397; 405; darkness at the edges of things, 446; 458; 482; 500; 510; 524; 536; 539; 543; 561; Pointsman's corner, 633; Slothrop as "shadow-child" 677; stars as shadows of the creator's bones and ducts, 699; "sound-shadow" (when the roaring of the sun stops), 695, 711; 740; 749; 760

'''SHAEF''' 
17; Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force; 74; 76; 121; 210; 244; 287

'''Shatsk''' 
352; nose-fetishist in Weird Letter Assignments; Shatsk is a town in the Volynskaja oblast [political subdivision], in the Ukraine.

'''Shays''' 
Shays's Rebellion (August 1786-February 1787) was an uprising in western Massachusetts in opposition to high taxes and harsh economic conditions. Led by Daniel Shays (1747-1825), the rebellion was decisively defeated on February 4, but it did result in the passage of laws easing the economic condition of debtors; "fought the federal troops across Massachusetts" 268

'''Shearer, Norma (1900-83)''' 
690; Hollywood actress who played sophisticated roles, and the wife of producer Irving Thalberg; "Your closet could make Norma Shearer's look like the wastebasket in Gimbel's basement."

'''Sheila''' 
449; Steve's (GE employee on the Toiletship) fiancée

'''Shekhinah''' 
479: Hebrew: "(female) neighbor"

'''Shell Mex House''' 
Shell Mex House, built 1930-31 is situated at number 80, Strand, London. It was for many years the London headquarters of Shell-Mex and BP Ltd for whom it was originally built. During WWII the building became home to the Ministry of Supply which co-ordinated supply of equipment to the national armed forces. It was also the home of the "Petroleum Board" which handled the distribution and rationing of petroleum products during the war. 251; "Where all the rocket intelligence is being gathered"; 272

'''Shell Oil''' 
Dutch Shell, 240-41, 251; 1939 agreement with ICI, 250; Shell Mex House, 251; "The representative from Shell Mex House, Mr. Dennis Joint" 272; "frantic about Slothrop's disappearance" 272; "after the [Russian] revolution, when the emissaries from Dutch Shell were asked to leave" 354

'''Shetzline''' 
389; "classic study" of the time-modulation properties of Oneirine

'''Shirley''' 
599; pretty girl driving the Red Cross Clubmobile that is hijacked

'''Short, Coolidge ("Hot")''' 
591; "of the State Street law firm of Salitieri, Poore, Nash, De Brutus, and Short" and a friend of Lyle Bland's

'''Shufflin' Sam''' 
558; "the game of skill where you have to shoot the Negro before he gets back over the fence with the watermelon"

'''Sidney's Great Yellow Grille''' 
65; recalled by Slothrop during Sodium Amytal session

'''Siege Perilous''' 
According to Arthurian legend, the Round Table was reserved for only the most valiant knights, while the Siege Perilous was left waiting for the coming of Galahad, the pure knight who would achieve the quest of the Grail (the vessel from which Christ drank at the Last Supper) and bring the marvels of Arthur's kingdom to a close; "jokers around the table be sneaking Whoopee Cushions into the" 321

'''Siemens-Schuchert''' 
"the horizontal electrical trust of Siemens-Schuchert" 284; "Siemens milliammeters set on slate surfaces" 518; "GE has connections with Siemens over here" 565; "Didn't Närrisch, under the drug, mention a Siemens representative at the S-Gerät meetings in Nordhausen? [...] Didn't Carl Schmitz of the IG sit on Siemens's board of directors?" 565; "Russia bought from Krupp, didn't she, from Siemens, the IG...." 566; "a contract the Bland Institute landed a few years ago and subbed part of out to Siemens over there in Germany" 583; "Fibel worked for Siemens back when it was still part of the Stinnes trust [...] he also put in some time as a Stinnes intelligence agent." 587; "an ingenious Osmo-elektrische Schalterwerke, developed by Siemens" 646; "clever Siemens Electric Baby Bulb Pacifiers" 647;"bright here as the morning shift at Siemens with the centaurs struggling high on the wall" 725; See also Siemens, Wernher; Stinnes; [[Sasuly's ''IG Farben'']]; Siemens AG Homepage!

'''Siemens, Wernher (d. 1892)''' 
649; German electrical engineer; one of the discoverers of the self-acting dynamo; See also Siemens-Schuchert

'''Siggi''' 
157; old friend of Leni's, known as "the Troll"

'''Sigmund''' 
457; with Greta Erdmann, 474-78; 480

'''Silberschlag, Frau''' 
165; German: "silver shock or blow"; next door neighbor of Leni and Franz Pökler's who delivers Leni's "last message" to Franz

'''Silvernail, Webley''' 
79; works in ARF wing at White Visitation; audiovisual guy; shows Katje film to Grigori, 113; in rat production number, 229; named "Twelfth House" 274; 533; 620

'''Simpson, Mrs. Bessie Wallis Warfield Spencer (1896-1986)''' 
177; An American who married Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII. Edward abdicated the throne in order to marry this twice-divorced commoner.

'''Skinner, Burrhus Frederic (1904-1990)''' 
American psychologist and a persistent proponent of Behaviorism, expanding on the ideas of John Watson who advocated the study of behavior as the only way to provide psychology with a scientific basis. Skinner died of leukemia on August 18, 1990; 77

[[image:skippy.gif|106px|left]]'''Skippy''' 
644-45; and Mr. Information; [[Skippy|Etymological Musings]]; [http://www.skippy.com/ Skippy's Home Page]

'''Slothrop, Broderick''' 
285; Tyrone's father; aka "Schwarzvater" (Jamf), 286; hated FDR, 373; Tyrone's dream about, 392; sold experimental rights to Tyrone to Jamf for $5000 for Harvard education, 444; Paternal Peril "a murderin' fool" 674; 677; 682

'''Slothrop, Constant (d. 1766)''' 
26; ancestor of Tyrone; tombstone depicts Hand of God coming out of a cloud

'''Slothrop, Mrs. Elizabeth''' 
27; wife of Isaiah

'''Slothrop, Frederick (d. 1933)''' 
27; Tyrone's grandfather

'''Slothrop, Hogan''' 
29; Tyrone's brother; his Hawaiian shirt, 184, 201; 266; 304; "in love with Chiquita Banana" 678; 682; 744

'''Slothrop, Hogan Jr.''' 
744; son of Hogan Slothrop; [From Pynchon's short story "The Secret Integration" in Slow Learner:"the doctor's kid, who at the age of eight had taken to serious after-bedtime beer-drinking and at the age of nine got religion, swore off beer and joined the Alcoholics Anonymous, a step his father, who was what is know as permissive, gave his blessing" (p.151)]

'''Slothrop, Lt. Isaiah (d. 1812)''' 
27; ancestor of Tyrone

'''Slothrop, John''' 
555; son of William Slothrop, who helped his dad get the "pig operation" going

'''Slothrop, Nalline''' 
18; Tyrone's mother; 116; 360; "always happy to see young people getting together" 499; 674; letter to Joe Kennedy, 682-83; 712

'''SLOTHROP, Lt. Tyrone''' 
[[Tyrone Slothrop|Etymological Musings]]; See also Slothrop's girls/stars;

[[Slothrop's Tarot|'''SLOTHROP'S TAROT''']]

'''Slothrop's girls/stars''' 
Delores, 19; Alice, 19; Gladys, 19; Lorraine and Judy, 19; Darlene, 19, 271; Katherine, 19; Shirley, 19; "a couple of Sallys" 19; "Carolines, Marias, Annes, Susans, Elizabeths" 19; "Gloria and her nubile mother" 19; Marjorie, 22, 25, 744; Norma, 22, 25; Allison, 23; Irene, 23; Jennifer, 23, 271; Cynthia, 26; "'What about the girls??'" 91; Madelyn, 252; Jenny's ghost, 255-56; Angela, 271; Lucy, 271; Jenny, Sally W., Cybele, Catherine, Gretchen, 271

'''Slothrop, Variable''' 
27; son of Constant

'''Slothrop, William''' 
21; Tyrone's first American ancestor; 27; 364; came to US in 1630 on Arabella, 554; On Preterition - published in England, burned in Boston, 555 [http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/bookstore.html Available in the HyperArts BookShop - Really! sort of...]; returned to England and died there missing USA, 556; his hymn, 760; [[William Slothrop|The "Real" William Slothrop/Pynchon]]

'''Slug''' 
229; rat who got "fried" the first time he fucked up running the maze

'''Smaragd, Generaldirektor''' 
164-66; (German: "Emerald"); Nazi with IG Farben; "from Leverkusen. An elderly man who used a cane, a notorious spiritualist before the War" 486

'''smegma''' 
"layers, over a base of bureaucratic smegma" 18; "Tchitcherine has found it necessary to abandon his smegma-gathering stake-out on the Argentine anarchists" 700;

'''Smile, Murray''' 
255; appears in Slothrop's dream as "next to you in basic, company 84"; Etymology: Murray Wilson was Brian Wilson's father; Tom hung out with Brian during the legendary "Smile" Period [[Pynchon and Brian Wilson]]

'''Smithfield Market''' 
Famous meat market in the old City of London. During the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation it was used as a place of execution; where Lucifer Amp "makes a spectacle of himself" every day, 542

'''Smith, Klein, 'n' French''' 
518; "Enzian, Andreas, and Christian, coming on like"

'''Smith, Sir Denis Nayland''' 
See Sir Denis Nayland-Smith

'''Snade, Mrs.''' 
169; "wrote in to the Times from Luton Hoo, Bedfrdshire" regarding Gwenhidwy's singing voice

'''Snake''' 
342-43; Tchitcherine's horse (methodically homicidal; unpredictable); Gretel's (Greta Erdmann's) co-star in Weisse Sandwuste von Neumexiko, 482

'''Snipe and Shaft''' 
9; Slothrop's and Tantivy's watering hole; 19; 21

'''Snodd, Mrs.''' 
744; in Mingeborough, MA

'''snowdrops''' 
247; Slang for GI military police in WWII; 601

'''Snoxall's''' 
32; place where seances are held; 33; 37; 238

'''Sodium Amytal''' 
61; truth serum; used on Slothrop; induces "toilet"/Kenosha Kid episode; used on von Göll, 511-14; 746

<div id="soe"></div>'''S.O.E.''' 
5; Special Operations Executive; aka the "Firm" 12; 32; Pirate "browned-off with" 270; "no one has ever left the Firm alive" 543; 620; [About]

<div id="solange"></div>'''Solange''' 
603; German: "as long as" "while" [[Q#quoad|compare etymologies with Mrs. Quoad]]; "masseuse" at Putzi's See also [[P#pokler-l|Pökler, Leni]]

'''Somerset Club''' 
28; exclusive club "no Slothrop ever made it into"

'''''Son of Frankenstein''''' 
106; The third film in Universal Studios' ''Frankenstein'' series and the last to feature Boris Karloff as the Monster as well as the first to feature Bela Lugosi as Ygor.

[[Songs/Compositions|'''SONGS/COMPOSITIONS''']]

'''Sooty''' 
174; Jessica's cat; 177

'''Sound-Shadow''' 
"the silences here are retreats of sound [...] sound draining away, down slopes of acoustic passage, to gather, someplace else, to a great surge of noise" 336-37; "a very shallow pocket of no-sound, [...] sound-energy from Outside is shut off. The roaring of the sun stops. [...] the arousing feather-point of the Sound-Shadow has touched you, enveloping you in sun-silence" 695; "this subversive use of sudden fff quieting to ppp. It's the touch of the wandering sound-shadow, the Brennschluss of the Sun." 711

'''sour stuff''' 
240; oxygen; the German word for oxygen is "Sauerstoff"

[[Spanish Translations|'''SPANISH TRANSLATIONS''']]

'''Spaniols''' 
549; Spaniards

'''Sparks''' 
732; aka Ozohande, with Enzian

'''Sparte IV''' 
630; "Slothrop surveillance being assigned to a newly created 'Sparte IV' under Vermittlungsstelle W"

'''Spectro, Dr. Kevin''' 
46; "neurologist and casual Pavlovian" at St. Veronica's; "one of the original seven owners of The Book" 47; killed in a V-2 hit on St. Veronica's, 138; 139; 140; 167

'''Speed, Harvey''' 
270; SEZ WHO Englishman hired by Pointsman to check out Slothrop's sexual conquests; See also Perdoo, Floyd; SEZ WHO

'''Speer, Albert (d. 1981)''' 
298; Architect for the Third Reich; "in charge of the New German Architecture then, and later he went on to become Minister of Munitions, and nominal chief customer for the A4"; "Albert Speer Touch" 298; Ölsch designing Nordhausen factory, 411; and Toiletship, 448; "alabaster open-air stadium with giant cement birds" 687

'''SPOG''' 
272; Special Projectiles Operations Group of which Operation Backfire is a part; 277; 391; 595; 601

'''Spontoon, Doctor''' 
591; with Dr. Muffage, out to castrate Slothrop; has a black spade on his cheek

<div id="sporri"></div>'''Spörri''' 
455; aerodynamics person on S-Gerät project; ignores Khlaetsch's cries for help, 684; [[Spörri|Etymological Musings]]

'''Spottbilligfilm AG''' 
163; German: "spottbillig" = "dirt cheap"; subsidiary of IG Farben "whose entire management are about to be purged for sending to OKW weapons procurement a design proposal for a new airborne ray which could turn whole populations [...] blind"; "from whom von Göll used to get cut rates on most of his film stock" 387;

'''SPQR''' 
135; Latin: senatus populusque Romanus = the senate and the people of Rome; also acronym for small profits, quick returns

'''S.P.R.''' 
153; Society for Psychical Research; 633;

'''Spree-Oder Canal''' 
433; in the Russian sector of Berlin, where Slothrop & Margherita stay; 457 [MAP]

<div id="springer"></div>'''Springer, Der''' 
376; German: "chess knight"; aka von Göll; the "Knight who leaps perpetually across the chessboard of the Zone"; white plastic chess knight (his symbol), 436; "white knight of the black market" 492; described, 494; aka Herr Gemütlich ("good-natured"), 496; on Sodium Amytal, 512, 514, 746; See also Göll, Gerhardt von; [[Der Springer|Etymological Musings...]]

'''Sprudelhof''' 
458; German: "Spring or Well" + "Yard" or "Palace"; main drag of Bad Karma on the Spree-Oder Canal; 476

'''Sprue, Amy''' 
329-30; Tyrone's ancestor who was a "genuine Salem Witch"

'''Squalidozzi, Francisco''' 
263; Argentine exile, paranoid about Peronists; hijacked German U-Boat in Mar de Plata; his group (incl. Graciela Portales) seeking political exile in Germany after the War; want open spaces--no fences; meets von Göll in abandoned harmonica factory, 384; "Old Squalidozzi, ploughman of the deep" 447; 613; being sought by Slothrop, 681

'''ss''' 
second sheep, 3, 555; sour smell, 3, 171; "cast-iron pulleys whose spokes are shaped like Ss" 4; saddleback sows, 5; split second 7, 199; sour stomach, 17; Selena. Selena., 30; speedy stalk, 35; 3-sigma, 40, 523, 635, 709; systematic stealth, 42; soft smell, 43, 754; separate straws, 43; stray shadow, 49; silverblue stalks, 54; silver string, 59; silver seeds, 63; smooth sinewaving, 67; silk stockings, 74, 211, 395, 410, 629; shadowy smells, 78; stronger stimulus, 79; structured stimulus, 82; spilled sand, 91; simple sorrow, 98; sugar-smears, 99; soft-wood smells, 106; snow-skin, 107; slate shadows, 108; southern stars, 109; steel snake, 109; smoky spires, 111; starving spring, 111; soap-heavy smell, 112; sunlit shops, 119; spiral stairways, 122; sour salt, 124; spider-statistician, 124; sound stimuli, 125; soap spots, 125; small stitches, 126; snow-sky, 128; steam smells, 132; seasonal swell, 132; semi-detached Sunday, 132; shiny suits, 133; snowy soot, 138; sheet steel, 139; "sibilant weave" 152; single subculture, 153; swampy suburbs, 160; Sunday strolls, 162; squeak-stockinged slavegirl, 168; slime stone, 169; scratched silver, 186; shaking Slothrop, 187; Slothrop staggering, 187; sudden shrewdness, 188; silent sea, 195; "S'd against the S of himself" 198; social sense, 206; "Old Norse rune for S" 206; study sessions, 211; slack-jawed subalterns, 212; sensitive son, 215; simultaneous stimuli, 226; ssörrender, 230; starch shirt, 232; star shell, 233; sovereign smell, 235, 736; Slothropian space, 238; sad story, 238, 285, 445, 667; self-sufficiency, 240; sour stuff (oxygen), 240; Esso, 240; stiff shirts, 243; secret service, 244; sea-steps, 245; 454: setting sun, 253, 454; striped socks, 254, saddle stitching, 254; sun-black skiers, 258; somber street, 259; senseless screaming, 263; spy-sign, 263; south sea, 266; stumbling surrender, 271; sexual sigh, 272; Slothropian stars, 272; salt sea, 273; stainless steel, 274; suspicious stare, 274; spy system, 286; sad surprise, 289; tunnels, 299; double-integral sign, 300-01; "Summe, Summe" 300; static space, 301; "Double integral is also the shape of lovers curled asleep" 302; scorched skullcap, 304; silk spill, 314; shadow states, 315; scientific speculating, 317; simple steel, 324; shining steel, 325; scarlet silk, 332; Soviet state, 349; sea story, 351; secret spaces, 354; scientist-surrogate, 361; staring sun, 372; smiling sentry, 378; suspended storm, 378; stenciled signs, 380; S-curve, 380; steel spaces, 384; sea-squirm, 389; subjective sense, 389; silver sponge, 389; soup-stock, 389; sentimental side-trip, 393; social spectrum, 402; stormy shore, 409; double-summing, 411; second shadow, 424; string shadows, 436; southern slop, 442; spring-suspension, 446; sound stages, 446; stud service, 446; S-curved spokes, 450; sailors' superstitions, 450; Scatotechnic Snipes, 451; sun suits, 453; star streaks, 457; suspender straps, 466; satin straps, 469; summer spook, 472; silver stork, 486; salty snot, 492; smooth stones, 494; sweet smile, 496; sleepy summer, 505; steel smile, 512; serpentine slagheap, 520; silver stars, 530; slippery satin, 531; Sickly Smile, 534; single set, 556; smalltown space, 556; Special Services, 558, 700; Shufflin' Sam, 558; surveying stakes, 560; starch-colored sky, 564; "curving through the ogival opening" 573; silver streak, 583, 586; spherical soul, 583; State Street, 589, 591; "Yess, yess" 590; straw stomach, 596; soapy sponge, 603; "silver straw" 613; streamlined spires, 624; Slothrop surveillance, 630; ssem, 633; saffron spindles, 634; summer stillness, 639; sudden surprises, 643; sailor suits, 657; "screen-door salesman" 665; "the invisible SS" 666; straw space, 669; saucy sideways smile, 670; subdeb secretaries, 674; submarine skipper, 674; Sniveling Slothrop, 679; spirited salt, 684; Scatterbrained Suicidekicks, 691; Semlower Strasse, 692; Sound Shadow, 695, 711; Sentimental Surrealist, 696; suitable stimuli, 699; sandy streets, 700; sister ships, 715; snot soup (unter anderem), 715; still strata, 720; striving subcreation, 720; Subsequent Sin, 722; 729: silk scarf, 729; Spaceman Smile, 732; See also chess; Rossini. See [[Patterns in Words and Letters]]

'''Stage Door Canteen''' 
134; During World War II, the American Theatre Wing ran New York's Stage Door Canteen for the benefit of soldiers on leave. It was frequented by many stars, some of whom graciously performed menial tasks, while others entertained the crowd. Dozens of those celebrities appear as themselves in this lavish musical about romances that blossom between canteen employees and soldiers. The film ''The Stage Door Canteen'' (1943), starring Katharine Hepburn, is set there.

<div id="stalin">'''Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953)'''</div>
Born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in Gori, Georgia; Stalin was expelled from the Tiflis Theological Seminary for being a Marxist. He joined the Bolsheviks and was arrested and sent to Siberia from whence he escaped in 1904. From being general secretary to the Central Committee under Lenin in 1922, he became Soviet leader in 1924 upon Lenin's death. He was a brutal dictator whose purges resulted in the deaths of millions as well as the suppression of artistic expression in Russia; "during the Stalin days, Tchitcherine was stationed in a remote 'bear's corner'" 338; "conspiracy to hit Stalin in the face with a grape chiffon pie" 353; "big chromo of" in Berlin, [[M#mustache|mustache]] 368; 373; "Even Stalin's had [doubts]" 703

'''Statue of Liberty''' 
The colossal statue on Liberty Island in the Upper Bay of New York Harbour, U.S., was a gift from France commemorating the friendship of the peoples of the U.S. and France. The statue, designed by French sculptor Frederic Auguste Barthold, is constructed of copper sheets which are assembled on a framework of steel supports designed by Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc and Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel. For transit to America, the figure was disassembled into 350 pieces and packed in 214 crates. Four months later, it was reassembled on Bedloe's Island (renamed Liberty Island in 1956). It was dedicated by President Cleveland on October 28,1886; 637

'''Sterling, Alan''' 
277; fiancé of Fleurette who was raised from birth to carry on the monstrous line of the emperor of the underworld, [[F#fumanchu|Fu Manchu]]; Alan Sterling, young orchid-hunter, first saw her on the little French beach and knew that he had never seen anyone more beautiful; he's also portrayed as the love-suffering young man receiving eloquent advice from Sir Denis Nayland-Smith.

'''Stettin''' 
or Szczecin in Polish; a Baltic seaport, ceded by German to Poland following WWII; 293; 408; 418;

'''Steve''' 
449-50: GE employee and Charles' "colleague" on the Toiletship; husband of Sheila

'''Stickstoff Syndikat''' 
580; Jamf "getting Weimar to subsidize the IG's";

'''Stick, Joaquin''' 
9; at Pirate's maisonette

'''Stiletto May''' 
129; character conjured by the presence of the black man in choir at the Advent service attended by Roger and Jessica

'''Stinnes, Hugo (1870-1924)''' 
A German industrialist and politician; 284; "Bland either saw the Stinnes crash coming before most of its other victims, or was just naturally nervous. Early in '23 he began to sell off his interests in the Stinnes operations." 285-86; "'Schwindel' was [Jamf's] code name for Hugo Stinnes." 286; "Stinnes, like every industrial emperor, had his own company spy system." 286; "You were meant to think of Hugo Stinnes, the tireless operator behind the scenes of apparent Inflation, apparent history: gambler, financial wizard, archgangster...a fussy bürgerlich mouth, jowls, graceless moves, a first impression of comic technocracy" 579; "Fibel worked for Siemens back when it was still part of the Stinnes trust." 587; [[Sasuly's IG Farben]]

'''Stodda''' 
406; "treatise on steam turbines" studied by Pökler at Peenemünde in '38

[[Stones|'''STONES''']]

'''Stonybloke, Will''' 
65; friend of Slothrop's who appears in toilet adventure

'''Sträggeli''' 
258; listed under "Espionage, Industrial" on the list of Zürich cafés, where Slothrop meets Mario Schweitar; 268;

'''Stralsund''' 
532; "Semlower Strasse in" 692;

'''streets''' 
692; "Semlower Strasse in Stralsund"; "Hafenstrasse in Greifswald"; "Slüterstrasse in the old part of Rostock"; "Wandfärberstrasse in Lüneburg";

'''Stresemann, Gustav (1878-1929)''' 
452; German statesman who entered the Reichtag in 1907, rose to prominance leading the National Liberal Party and eventually, for a few months in 1923, was chancellor of the new German (Weimar) Republic. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1926; "'They pray not only for their daily bread [he said] but also for their daily illusion'"

'''Strobe''' 
89; "Strobe's stimulus" appeared in early Viking editions of Gravity's Rainbow, but was quickly changed to "Jamf's stimulus"; apparently "Strobe" was an early working name for "Jamf"

'''Stuggles, Constable''' 
73; tried to stop LeFroyd from jumping off cliff; 74

'''Südwest''' 
99; German colony from 1892 until1915 when it was taken by South African forces during WWI. It was made a Protectorate of South-West Africa under the League of Nations; now called Namibia, it was under South African control until 1990 when it gained its independence. [MORE]; [MAP]

'''Sue, Eugene (1804-57)''' 
13; "a Eugene Sue melodrama"

:Parisian journalist, called the "king of the popular novel," one of the most widely read writers of melodramatic fiction in the 19th-century France. Sue was sponsored by Prince Eugène de Beauharnais and the empress Joséphine; he used the prince's name to form his famous pen name. Sue gained fame through the roman-feuilleton, the serial novel which gained its height in the French periodical press in the 1840's. Sue's republican and socialist views are reflected in his best-known novels, Les Mystères de Paris (1842-43), set in the Paris slums, and Le Juif errant (1844-45), published in installments for Le Constitutionnel in 1842-1843. ''' 
The above is from this [http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/esue.htm excellent online biography].

'''Suggenthal''' 
269;

'''Sundial''' 
472; cartoon character

'''surface''' 
"she fears the Change, choosing instead only trivially to revise what matters least, ornament and clothing, going no further than politic transvestism" 97; "lust in the face--the mask--of instant talion" 100; "house is outward-and-visible sign" 448;

'''sus. per coll. crowd''' 
329; In the English practice, a calendar is made out of attainted criminals, and the judge signs the calendar with their separate judgments in the margin. In the case of a capital felony. it is written opposite the prisoner's name, "let him be hanged by the neck," which, when the proceedings were in Latin, was, "suspendatur per collum," or, in the abbreviated form, "sus' per coll'."

'''Suso, Heinrich (1295-1336)''' 
129; German mystic and preacher [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Seuse]. His composition [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_dulci_jubilo In Dulci Jubilo] is a German/Latin macaronic carol (Pynchon (mis)spells it "macronic" and (mis)dates it as "fifteenth century" it's 14th C.); the first verse (of four), quoted in GR, can be translated as follows:

:In dulci jubilo (In sweet Joy) 
:Sing and shout all below! 
:He for whom we're pining 
:Lies in praesepio (In a manger) 
:Like the sun is shining 
:Matris in gremio. (In His mothers lap.) 
:Qui est A et O. (Who is Alpha and Omega.) 
:In Dulci Jubilo Web Page

'''Suvorov''' 
350; Rozhdestvenski's flagship on which Tchitcherine's father was a gunner

'''Swanlake, Jessica''' 
30; "young rosy girl in the uniform of an ATS private" who has wartime affair with Roger Mexico; at Snoxall's seance, 30-34; meets Mexico, 38-39; Fay Wray look, 57; girlfriend of Jeremy "Old Beaver" 121; 627; "Her future is with the World's own" 629; working for Pointsman, 631; 640; hardened toward Mexico, 708-09

<div id="nancy"></div>'''Swanlake, Nancy''' 
174-77; Jessica's sister; late husband was Keith; kids: Penelope (also p.277), Claire, Elizabeth

'''Swinemünde''' 
459: a town in NW Poland, on the island of Usedom, at the mouth of the Swina River. It is the outer port for Szczecin (Polish name for "Stettin") and a fishing center and seaside resort. First mention of the town dates from 1181. During World War II, the town was a German naval base.

'''Swope, Gerard (1872-1957)''' 
Swope, president of the General Electric Company (1922-39; 1942-44) in the United States, greatly expanded GE's line of consumer products and pioneered profit-sharing and other benefits programs for its employees. After his retirement from GE in 1939, he chaired the New York City Housing Authority until 1942; "was ace buddies with old FDR [...] one-thim Brain Trusters" 565; "Business Advisory Council set up under Swope of General Electric, whose ideas on matters of 'control' ran close to those of Walter Rathenau, of German GE" 581;

'''Sztup, Mme.''' 
463; Yiddish: "poke" or "fuck"; passenger on the Anubis

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<div id="sachsa">'''Sachsa, Peter'''</div>
31; the "control" in Psi Section; lover of Leni Pökler, 147; medium at Rathenau seance, 163-65; killed in communist street action in 1930 in Neukölln (Berlin) by Schutzmann Jöche, a Nazi cop, 152; as Zaxa, 218; 219-20; 590; [[Peter Sachsa|Etymological Musings]]

'''scombroid''' 
217.20; Peter Sachsa is described as having a scombroid face, by which Pynchon means narrow. The family Scombridae, from which scombroid derives, are marine fishes which have in common, among other features, a tail which is connected to the body by a thin, but flexible and strong muscle. This family of streamlined predators of the open ocean includes the tunas and mackerels. "Scombroid" also refers to a type of food poisoning.

'''skivvies''' 
Not female servants as ''Webster's Third International Unabridged'' defines it, but undergarments as defined by Google. For a sec, the contributor wrongly suspected Pynchon had made a howler, for the sentence goes "He runs into the bedroom, finds everything else he had on is gone too, down to shoes and skivvies." 199

[[Sado-Masochism|'''SADOMASOCHISM (S/M)''']]

<div id="basher"></div>'''St. Blaise, Group Capt. "Basher"''' 
146; sees angel of death during RAF Lübeck strike, 151; [["Basher" St. Blaise|Etymological Musings]]; See also [[C#church|Church of St. Blasius]]

'''St. Elmo's fire''' 
The glow accompanying the brushlike discharges of atmospheric electricity that usually appears during stormy weather as a tip of light on the extremities of such pointed objects as church towers or the masts of ships; "will be seen spurting at moments from crossends" on the Anubis, 491

'''St. Felix''' 
37; "the clock of" in London

'''St. John's Wood''' 
544; an exclusive district in North-West London, where the Mossmoons live, famous for Lords Cricket Ground and Abbey Road Studios.

'''Saint Pauli''' 
the English translation for "Sankt Pauli," which is the main red-light district in Hamburg/Germany. It's known for its sex-bars and its fusion of pimps, prostitutes and working-class inhabitants. St. Pauli is famous for the atmosphere that the harbour of Hamburg brings into the district. Sailors, seaman and other stranded creatures are walking over the Reeperbahn (St. Pauli's main street). The Star-Club, where the Beatles paid their dues before becoming hugely famous, is in St. Pauli; 525

'''St. Veronica's Hospital''' 
46; of the True Image for Colonic and Respiratory Diseases; St. Veronica wiped Christ's forehead with her veil while he carried the cross; St. Veronica Papers, 688

'''St.-Just Grossout''' 
540; blackman worked for Firm infiltrating Schwarzkommando (aka "Sam Juiced")

<div id="salitieri">'''Salitieri, Poore, Nash, De Brutus and Short'''</div>
591; [a pun on Thomas Hobbes' (1588-1679) description, in Leviathan (1651), of the life of the members of the commonwealth in the absence of an all-powerful sovereign: "No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual feare and danger of violent death; and the life of Man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short."]; Lyle Bland's lawyers, 591; pallbearers at Lyle Bland's funeral, 652; Recall the law firm representing Pierce Inverarity in [http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#warpe ''The Crying of Lot 49'']: Warpe, Wistfull, Kubitschek and McMingus.

'''Sandhurst''' 
202; a military academy, the British equivalent to West Point in the U.S

'''Sandoz''' 
250; Swiss chemical company which joined Geigy and Ciba in a cartel, in the early '20s; Hoffman was working for Sandoz when he synthesized LSD; Schweitar worked there, 260;

'''Sandra''' 
685; has "run away from the Kleinburgerstrasse" and staying at Der Platz

'''Sandra''' 
606; acquaintance of Manuela's at Putzi's

'''Sandys, Duncan''' 
Sandys, who was married to Churchill's daughter Diana, rumoured to be 'The Headless Man' in the infamous Duchess Of Argyll's divorce case, was Under-secretary of the Ministry of Supply in Britain during WWII. He was appointed by Churchill to investigate the rumored German experiments with secret weapons, which investigation led to the discovery of the rocket facilities at Peenemünde; "the P.M.'s son-in-law" who works out of the Ministry of Supply at Shell Mex House, 228; "Churchill's own son-in-law" 251

'''Sanktwolke, Edouard''' 
385; German: "Saint Cloud"; "veteran automotive jobber" who supplied transportation for von Göll's and Waxwing's "travelling business conference"

'''Santora''' 
744; family in Mingeborough, MA

'''Sargasso Sea''' 
Area of the North Atlantic Ocean, elliptical in shape and relatively still, that is strewn with free-floating seaweed of the genus Sargassum. Encompassing the Bermuda Islands, a combination of ecological and biological conditions result in a dirth of plankton (a fish staple), creating a biological desert. Early navigators had the (unfounded) fear of becoming entangled within the mass of seaweed and unable to escape; "the sun-resorts of Sargasso where the bones come up to lie and bleach and mock the passing ships" 564;

'''Sargner''' 
152; "a civilian attached to the General Staff" who is keyed on by Wimpe at séance

'''Sarnaki''' 
424; target area for A-4, near Blizna, Poland

'''Sarts''' 
340; Central Asian people

'''Sassoon, Lt. Siegfried Lorraine (1886-1967)''' 
79; English poet and novelist whose experiences in World War I made him fiercely anti-war and he wrote numerous works which reflected this hatred, including Counterattack (1918) and Satirical Poems (1926)

'''sastrugi''' 
420; Sastrugi are smooth, gently rolling snowfields, often covered with wind-drifted formations, on the interior of the Greenland ice sheet which is second in area only to the Antarctic ice sheet. It extends about 1,570 miles from north to south and has a maximum width of some 600 miles and an average thickness of about 5,800 feet.

'''Saturday Evening Post''' 
435; American weekly magazine the covers of which often had Norman Rockwell illustrations

'''Saville Row''' 
526; swank shopping district in London

'''Scammony, Sir Marcus (aka Angelique)''' 
615; drinking with Clive Mossmoon at "their club"

'''Schacht, Hjalmar (1877-1970)''' 
According to Sasuly, Schacht was head of the Reichsbank in the 1920s and 40s and was a key player in manipulating the German inflation of that time, while blaming it on "reparations and an unfavorable balance of payments." (p.47); his "many bookkeeping dodges to keep official records clear of any hint of weapons procurement banned under the terms of Versailles." 285

'''Schadenfreude''' 
526; German: "joy at another's misfortune"; described but not named, 36; 745

'''Scheveningen''' 
97; coastal town in Holland, just north of The Hague [MAP]; 102; 104; 105; 535

'''Schicksal''' 
416; German: "fate, destiny" (misspelled "Shicksal" in earlier editions)

'''Schiller, Professor''' 
224; Slothrop studying his book on regenerative cooling

'''Schilling''' 
527; "[Närrisch] worked in guidance, he was Schilling's best man"

'''Schlabone, Gustav''' 
366; composer buddy (and "unwelcome doping partner" 711) of Säure Bummer; 621; 2nd violin at Krupp affair (aka "Captain Horror"), 711; at Der Platz, 745

'''Schleim, Josef''' 
630; "a defector of secondary brilliance, who had once worked for the IG out of Dr. Reithinger's office, VOWI"; 631;

'''Schlepzig, Max''' 
Franz Pökler putting up handbills for a movie starring, 165; name on Slothrop's pass to get into Potsdam Conference, 377; actor in von Göll films who whipped Erdmann ("the Reich's Sweethearts"), 395; 439; 461

'''Schmeil''' 
518; engineer at Peenemünde

'''Schmitz, Carl''' 
565; "'Didn't Schmitz of the IG sit on Siemens's board of directors?'" 565;

'''Schnorp''' 
332-36; Geli's friend who gives Slothrop balloon ride to Berlin

'''Schokoladestrasse''' 
646; German: "Chocolate Street"; in Happyville

'''Schraub''' 
568; German: "screw"; "the shoemaker" whose played Plechazunga "for the past 30 years"

'''Schumann of Düsseldorf''' 
702; "army surgeons and dentists [...] will pick out [of Tchitcherine's body] what has entered it by violence with an electromagnetic device bought between the wars from"

'''Schußstelle 3''' 
95; German: "firing site"; in Holland on the North Sea coast, near The Hague; moved, 104; the allies were after it, 105; "why did [Katje] leave?" 107; See also Lüneburg Heath

'''Schwindel operative''' 
286;

'''''schwarz''''' 
German: literally 'black', but also 'secret' and/or 'illicit' as in 'Secret Service' or 'black market'; see ''Schwarzgerät'' and ''Schwarzkommando'' below

<div id="schwartzgerat">'''''Schwarzgerät'''''</div>
252;"S-Gerät, 11/00000." 252;"Document SG-1" 252;"the one rocket out of 6000 that carried the Imipolex G device" 292; for sale for .5M francs by guy in Swinemünde who waits on Strand-Promenade until noon daily, 294; "The Schwartzgerät is no Grail" 364; "They want the Schwarzgerät." 455;"'F-Gerät, you sure of that?'" 487 details, 517; mandala (KEZVH), 560, 563;"'. . . that was the name of the German who commanded the battery that used the S-Gerät?'" 562;; 611; firing on Lüneburg Heath, 667; 706; "00001, the second in its series" 724; 00001, 728; "SG-1" 736; "the assembly of the 00001 is occurring also in a geographical way, a Diaspora running backwards" 737; as womb, 750; See also Rocket

'''''Schwarzkommando''''' 
74-75; German: "blackcommand"; black rocket troops; credibillity of, 92; 112;found out about a week before V.E. Day 276; Slothrop runs into two dozen on train to Nordhausen, 286; Hitler's failed plan to create Nazi empire in black Africa, training troops in Südwest, 287; "They have a plan. . .I think it's rockets" 288; "we're DPs like everybody else" 288; Herero rocket troops assembling a rocket for one last stand, 326; "it is their time, their space" 326; their mandala is the five positions of the launching switch for A4, 361; digging up A4 in Berlin, 361; "mba-kayere" (I am passed over), 362; why they seek the Rocket, 362, 563; growing away from SS and their power becoming information and expertise, 427; in their own space, 519; Herero village arranged like a mandala, 563; must be stopped before they fire the Rocket, 565; "they have their rocket all assembled at last" 673; the trek to the firing site of the 00001, 726; 12 children at a "children's resort" (Zwölfkinder means "12 children" in German--GET IT?), 725

'''Schweitar, Mario''' 
260, 268; troubleshooter around the Cartel; worked for Sandoz

'''Schwindel''' 
286; German: "fraud" "trick", also "dizziness"; "code name for Hugo Stinnes"

[[Science, Physics, Math &c.|'''SCIENCE, PHYSICS, MATH &c.''']] 
See also [[D#delta-t|delta-t]]; [[P#poisson|Poisson Distribution]]

'''screen door salesman''' 
447; "dumb and easygoing" husband of woman in Slothrop's dream in three parts; 665, "Minnie Calkins (Chapter 1.793) got married Easter Sunday to a screen-door salesman from California. Sorry to say he's not eligible for Membership - at least not yet. But with all those screen doors around, we'll sure keep our fingers crossed!"

'''scrip''' 
105; temporary paper currency issued during emergencies/special circumstances

'''Scrubs''' 
Wormwood Scrubs Prison, in London; "I'll see you two in the Scrubs if it kills me!" 717

'''Scuffling, Ian''' 
256; Pseudonym given to T. Slothrop by Waxwing in Nice; See also Slothrop, Tyrone

'''Scylla and Charybdis''' 
239; In Greek legend, Scylla was a monster with twelve feet and six heads each with three rows of teeth who lived on the rock of Scylla on the Italian side of the Straits of Messina which are between Italy and Sicily. Charybdis, who was a monster, the whirlpool she formed and the rock cliff under which she lived, faced Scylla on the other side of the Straits. Such a situation made passage through the Straits a very dodgy proposition for sailors.

'''SD''' 
431; German: Sicherheitsdienst = police-duty; The Nazi Party's intelligence and security body. Created by Himmler, it operated in foreign countries, creating instability and attempting to foment revolution.

'''séance''' 
29-30; 4-way entente: medium; control; spirit; survivor; Feldspath, 30; Overbaby, 152; "a visitation by the dead" 153; Rathenau, 163-67; at The Castle with Blicero, 487; "other fourfold expressions" 624; "sensitive flames" 715; Brigadier Pudding, 715

'''Second Empire''' 
The Second Empire (1852-70) of Napoleon III; 675

'''Section 8''' 
114; a category of discharge from the United States military for reason of being mentally unfit for service; 182

'''Seele''' 
654; German: "soul, spirit"; "as the core of the earlier carbon filament was known in Germany"

[[Self-reference in Gravity's Rainbow|'''SELF-REFERENCE''']]

'''Semirechie''' 
611; province in Kazakhstan, in the Soviet Union

'''Semyavin''' 
258; local Waxwing rep in Zürich?; 261

'''1 September''' 
479; On September 1, 1939, the German Army invaded Poland, thus "initiating" WWII

[[Serpents/Snakes References|'''SERPENT/SNAKE''']] 
See also [[#snake|Snake]]

'''SEZ WHO''' 
270; Slothropian Episodic Zone, Weekly Historical Observations

'''Seven Rivers country''' 
338; where Tchitcherine was stationed, "in a remote 'bear's corner'"

'''sfacim-a''' 
299; sfacim: from "sfaciàre" = to dismantle''' 
Tony Assenza graciously supplied the following regarding "sfacim":''' 
Having been called a "sfacim" by my uncles and other relatives more than a few times in my life, I believe your reference might require more elaboration. In its original form, "sfacim" is Neapolitan slang for semen — equivalent to US slang such as spunk or gism. However, it's also widely used as a term of endearment, as in "Hey, sfacim. Come over here and give your grandmother a kiss before I break your face." The closest US slang term would be "spunky." It's a term that someone living on Long Island or Upstate New York would probably hear a lot in Italian-American neighborhoods. One would pronounce it "SFA CHEEM."

''''s Gravenhage''' 
209; aka The Hague;

'''shadows''' 
316; God-shadows, 330; 332; 333; 336; 342; 359; 363; 397; 405; darkness at the edges of things, 446; 458; 482; 500; 510; 524; 536; 539; 543; 561; Pointsman's corner, 633; Slothrop as "shadow-child" 677; stars as shadows of the creator's bones and ducts, 699; "sound-shadow" (when the roaring of the sun stops), 695, 711; 740; 749; 760

'''SHAEF''' 
17; Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force; 74; 76; 121; 210; 244; 287

'''Shatsk''' 
352; nose-fetishist in Weird Letter Assignments; Shatsk is a town in the Volynskaja oblast [political subdivision], in the Ukraine.

'''Shays''' 
Shays's Rebellion (August 1786-February 1787) was an uprising in western Massachusetts in opposition to high taxes and harsh economic conditions. Led by Daniel Shays (1747-1825), the rebellion was decisively defeated on February 4, but it did result in the passage of laws easing the economic condition of debtors; "fought the federal troops across Massachusetts" 268

'''Shearer, Norma (1900-83)''' 
690; Hollywood actress who played sophisticated roles, and the wife of producer Irving Thalberg; "Your closet could make Norma Shearer's look like the wastebasket in Gimbel's basement."

'''Sheila''' 
449; Steve's (GE employee on the Toiletship) fiancée

'''Shekhinah''' 
479: Hebrew: "(female) neighbor"

'''Shell Mex House''' 
Shell Mex House, built 1930-31 is situated at number 80, Strand, London. It was for many years the London headquarters of Shell-Mex and BP Ltd for whom it was originally built. During WWII the building became home to the Ministry of Supply which co-ordinated supply of equipment to the national armed forces. It was also the home of the "Petroleum Board" which handled the distribution and rationing of petroleum products during the war. 251; "Where all the rocket intelligence is being gathered"; 272

'''Shell Oil''' 
Dutch Shell, 240-41, 251; 1939 agreement with ICI, 250; Shell Mex House, 251; "The representative from Shell Mex House, Mr. Dennis Joint" 272; "frantic about Slothrop's disappearance" 272; "after the [Russian] revolution, when the emissaries from Dutch Shell were asked to leave" 354

'''Shetzline''' 
389; "classic study" of the time-modulation properties of Oneirine

'''Shirley''' 
599; pretty girl driving the Red Cross Clubmobile that is hijacked

'''Short, Coolidge ("Hot")''' 
591; "of the State Street law firm of Salitieri, Poore, Nash, De Brutus, and Short" and a friend of Lyle Bland's

'''Shufflin' Sam''' 
558; "the game of skill where you have to shoot the Negro before he gets back over the fence with the watermelon"

'''Sidney's Great Yellow Grille''' 
65; recalled by Slothrop during Sodium Amytal session

'''Siege Perilous''' 
According to Arthurian legend, the Round Table was reserved for only the most valiant knights, while the Siege Perilous was left waiting for the coming of Galahad, the pure knight who would achieve the quest of the Grail (the vessel from which Christ drank at the Last Supper) and bring the marvels of Arthur's kingdom to a close; "jokers around the table be sneaking Whoopee Cushions into the" 321

'''Siemens-Schuchert''' 
"the horizontal electrical trust of Siemens-Schuchert" 284; "Siemens milliammeters set on slate surfaces" 518; "GE has connections with Siemens over here" 565; "Didn't Närrisch, under the drug, mention a Siemens representative at the S-Gerät meetings in Nordhausen? [...] Didn't Carl Schmitz of the IG sit on Siemens's board of directors?" 565; "Russia bought from Krupp, didn't she, from Siemens, the IG...." 566; "a contract the Bland Institute landed a few years ago and subbed part of out to Siemens over there in Germany" 583; "Fibel worked for Siemens back when it was still part of the Stinnes trust [...] he also put in some time as a Stinnes intelligence agent." 587; "an ingenious Osmo-elektrische Schalterwerke, developed by Siemens" 646; "clever Siemens Electric Baby Bulb Pacifiers" 647;"bright here as the morning shift at Siemens with the centaurs struggling high on the wall" 725; See also Siemens, Wernher; Stinnes; [[Sasuly's ''IG Farben'']]; Siemens AG Homepage!

'''Siemens, Wernher (d. 1892)''' 
649; German electrical engineer; one of the discoverers of the self-acting dynamo; See also Siemens-Schuchert

'''Siggi''' 
157; old friend of Leni's, known as "the Troll"

'''Sigmund''' 
457; with Greta Erdmann, 474-78; 480

'''Silberschlag, Frau''' 
165; German: "silver shock or blow"; next door neighbor of Leni and Franz Pökler's who delivers Leni's "last message" to Franz

'''Silvernail, Webley''' 
79; works in ARF wing at White Visitation; audiovisual guy; shows Katje film to Grigori, 113; in rat production number, 229; named "Twelfth House" 274; 533; 620

'''Simpson, Mrs. Bessie Wallis Warfield Spencer (1896-1986)''' 
177; An American who married Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII. Edward abdicated the throne in order to marry this twice-divorced commoner.

'''Skinner, Burrhus Frederic (1904-1990)''' 
American psychologist and a persistent proponent of Behaviorism, expanding on the ideas of John Watson who advocated the study of behavior as the only way to provide psychology with a scientific basis. Skinner died of leukemia on August 18, 1990; 77

[[image:skippy.gif|106px|left]]'''Skippy''' 
644-45; and Mr. Information; [[Skippy|Etymological Musings]]; [http://www.skippy.com/ Skippy's Home Page]

'''Slothrop, Broderick''' 
285; Tyrone's father; aka "Schwarzvater" (Jamf), 286; hated FDR, 373; Tyrone's dream about, 392; sold experimental rights to Tyrone to Jamf for $5000 for Harvard education, 444; Paternal Peril "a murderin' fool" 674; 677; 682

'''Slothrop, Constant (d. 1766)''' 
26; ancestor of Tyrone; tombstone depicts Hand of God coming out of a cloud

'''Slothrop, Mrs. Elizabeth''' 
27; wife of Isaiah

'''Slothrop, Frederick (d. 1933)''' 
27; Tyrone's grandfather

'''Slothrop, Hogan''' 
29; Tyrone's brother; his Hawaiian shirt, 184, 201; 266; 304; "in love with Chiquita Banana" 678; 682; 744

'''Slothrop, Hogan Jr.''' 
744; son of Hogan Slothrop; [From Pynchon's short story "The Secret Integration" in Slow Learner:"the doctor's kid, who at the age of eight had taken to serious after-bedtime beer-drinking and at the age of nine got religion, swore off beer and joined the Alcoholics Anonymous, a step his father, who was what is know as permissive, gave his blessing" (p.151)]

'''Slothrop, Lt. Isaiah (d. 1812)''' 
27; ancestor of Tyrone

'''Slothrop, John''' 
555; son of William Slothrop, who helped his dad get the "pig operation" going

'''Slothrop, Nalline''' 
18; Tyrone's mother; 116; 360; "always happy to see young people getting together" 499; 674; letter to Joe Kennedy, 682-83; 712

'''SLOTHROP, Lt. Tyrone''' 
[[Tyrone Slothrop|Etymological Musings]]; See also Slothrop's girls/stars;

[[Slothrop's Tarot|'''SLOTHROP'S TAROT''']]

'''Slothrop's girls/stars''' 
Delores, 19; Alice, 19; Gladys, 19; Lorraine and Judy, 19; Darlene, 19, 271; Katherine, 19; Shirley, 19; "a couple of Sallys" 19; "Carolines, Marias, Annes, Susans, Elizabeths" 19; "Gloria and her nubile mother" 19; Marjorie, 22, 25, 744; Norma, 22, 25; Allison, 23; Irene, 23; Jennifer, 23, 271; Cynthia, 26; "'What about the girls??'" 91; Madelyn, 252; Jenny's ghost, 255-56; Angela, 271; Lucy, 271; Jenny, Sally W., Cybele, Catherine, Gretchen, 271

'''Slothrop, Variable''' 
27; son of Constant

'''Slothrop, William''' 
21; Tyrone's first American ancestor; 27; 364; came to US in 1630 on Arabella, 554; On Preterition - published in England, burned in Boston, 555 [http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/bookstore.html Available in the HyperArts BookShop - Really! sort of...]; returned to England and died there missing USA, 556; his hymn, 760; [[William Slothrop|The "Real" William Slothrop/Pynchon]]

'''Slug''' 
229; rat who got "fried" the first time he fucked up running the maze

'''Smaragd, Generaldirektor''' 
164-66; (German: "Emerald"); Nazi with IG Farben; "from Leverkusen. An elderly man who used a cane, a notorious spiritualist before the War" 486

'''smegma''' 
"layers, over a base of bureaucratic smegma" 18; "Tchitcherine has found it necessary to abandon his smegma-gathering stake-out on the Argentine anarchists" 700;

'''Smile, Murray''' 
255; appears in Slothrop's dream as "next to you in basic, company 84"; Etymology: Murray Wilson was Brian Wilson's father; Tom hung out with Brian during the legendary "Smile" Period [[Pynchon and Brian Wilson]]

'''Smithfield Market''' 
Famous meat market in the old City of London. During the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation it was used as a place of execution; where Lucifer Amp "makes a spectacle of himself" every day, 542

'''Smith, Klein, 'n' French''' 
518; "Enzian, Andreas, and Christian, coming on like"

'''Smith, Sir Denis Nayland''' 
See Sir Denis Nayland-Smith

'''Snade, Mrs.''' 
169; "wrote in to the Times from Luton Hoo, Bedfrdshire" regarding Gwenhidwy's singing voice

'''Snake''' 
342-43; Tchitcherine's horse (methodically homicidal; unpredictable); Gretel's (Greta Erdmann's) co-star in Weisse Sandwuste von Neumexiko, 482

'''Snipe and Shaft''' 
9; Slothrop's and Tantivy's watering hole; 19; 21

'''Snodd, Mrs.''' 
744; in Mingeborough, MA

'''snowdrops''' 
247; Slang for GI military police in WWII; 601

'''Snoxall's''' 
32; place where seances are held; 33; 37; 238

'''Sodium Amytal''' 
61; truth serum; used on Slothrop; induces "toilet"/Kenosha Kid episode; used on von Göll, 511-14; 746

<div id="soe"></div>'''S.O.E.''' 
5; Special Operations Executive; aka the "Firm" 12; 32; Pirate "browned-off with" 270; "no one has ever left the Firm alive" 543; 620; [About]

<div id="solange"></div>'''Solange''' 
603; German: "as long as" "while" [[Q#quoad|compare etymologies with Mrs. Quoad]]; "masseuse" at Putzi's See also [[P#pokler-l|Pökler, Leni]]

'''Somerset Club''' 
28; exclusive club "no Slothrop ever made it into"

'''''Son of Frankenstein''''' 
106; The third film in Universal Studios' ''Frankenstein'' series and the last to feature Boris Karloff as the Monster as well as the first to feature Bela Lugosi as Ygor.

[[Songs/Compositions|'''SONGS/COMPOSITIONS''']]

'''Sooty''' 
174; Jessica's cat; 177

'''Sound-Shadow''' 
"the silences here are retreats of sound [...] sound draining away, down slopes of acoustic passage, to gather, someplace else, to a great surge of noise" 336-37; "a very shallow pocket of no-sound, [...] sound-energy from Outside is shut off. The roaring of the sun stops. [...] the arousing feather-point of the Sound-Shadow has touched you, enveloping you in sun-silence" 695; "this subversive use of sudden fff quieting to ppp. It's the touch of the wandering sound-shadow, the Brennschluss of the Sun." 711

'''sour stuff''' 
240; oxygen; the German word for oxygen is "Sauerstoff"

[[Spanish Translations|'''SPANISH TRANSLATIONS''']]

'''Spaniols''' 
549; Spaniards

'''Sparks''' 
732; aka Ozohande, with Enzian

'''Sparte IV''' 
630; "Slothrop surveillance being assigned to a newly created 'Sparte IV' under Vermittlungsstelle W"

'''Spectro, Dr. Kevin''' 
46; "neurologist and casual Pavlovian" at St. Veronica's; "one of the original seven owners of The Book" 47; killed in a V-2 hit on St. Veronica's, 138; 139; 140; 167

'''Speed, Harvey''' 
270; SEZ WHO Englishman hired by Pointsman to check out Slothrop's sexual conquests; See also Perdoo, Floyd; SEZ WHO

'''Speer, Albert (d. 1981)''' 
298; Architect for the Third Reich; "in charge of the New German Architecture then, and later he went on to become Minister of Munitions, and nominal chief customer for the A4"; "Albert Speer Touch" 298; Ölsch designing Nordhausen factory, 411; and Toiletship, 448; "alabaster open-air stadium with giant cement birds" 687

'''SPOG''' 
272; Special Projectiles Operations Group of which Operation Backfire is a part; 277; 391; 595; 601

'''Spontoon, Doctor''' 
591; with Dr. Muffage, out to castrate Slothrop; has a black spade on his cheek

<div id="sporri"></div>'''Spörri''' 
455; aerodynamics person on S-Gerät project; ignores Khlaetsch's cries for help, 684; [[Spörri|Etymological Musings]]

'''Spottbilligfilm AG''' 
163; German: "spottbillig" = "dirt cheap"; subsidiary of IG Farben "whose entire management are about to be purged for sending to OKW weapons procurement a design proposal for a new airborne ray which could turn whole populations [...] blind"; "from whom von Göll used to get cut rates on most of his film stock" 387;

'''SPQR''' 
135; Latin: senatus populusque Romanus = the senate and the people of Rome; also acronym for small profits, quick returns

'''S.P.R.''' 
153; Society for Psychical Research; 633;

'''Spree-Oder Canal''' 
433; in the Russian sector of Berlin, where Slothrop & Margherita stay; 457 [MAP]

<div id="springer"></div>'''Springer, Der''' 
376; German: "chess knight"; aka von Göll; the "Knight who leaps perpetually across the chessboard of the Zone"; white plastic chess knight (his symbol), 436; "white knight of the black market" 492; described, 494; aka Herr Gemütlich ("good-natured"), 496; on Sodium Amytal, 512, 514, 746; See also Göll, Gerhardt von; [[Der Springer|Etymological Musings...]]

'''Sprudelhof''' 
458; German: "Spring or Well" + "Yard" or "Palace"; main drag of Bad Karma on the Spree-Oder Canal; 476

'''Sprue, Amy''' 
329-30; Tyrone's ancestor who was a "genuine Salem Witch"

'''Squalidozzi, Francisco''' 
263; Argentine exile, paranoid about Peronists; hijacked German U-Boat in Mar de Plata; his group (incl. Graciela Portales) seeking political exile in Germany after the War; want open spaces--no fences; meets von Göll in abandoned harmonica factory, 384; "Old Squalidozzi, ploughman of the deep" 447; 613; being sought by Slothrop, 681

'''ss''' 
second sheep, 3, 555; sour smell, 3, 171; "cast-iron pulleys whose spokes are shaped like Ss" 4; saddleback sows, 5; split second 7, 199; sour stomach, 17; Selena. Selena., 30; speedy stalk, 35; 3-sigma, 40, 523, 635, 709; systematic stealth, 42; soft smell, 43, 754; separate straws, 43; stray shadow, 49; silverblue stalks, 54; silver string, 59; silver seeds, 63; smooth sinewaving, 67; silk stockings, 74, 211, 395, 410, 629; shadowy smells, 78; stronger stimulus, 79; structured stimulus, 82; spilled sand, 91; simple sorrow, 98; sugar-smears, 99; soft-wood smells, 106; snow-skin, 107; slate shadows, 108; southern stars, 109; steel snake, 109; smoky spires, 111; starving spring, 111; soap-heavy smell, 112; sunlit shops, 119; spiral stairways, 122; sour salt, 124; spider-statistician, 124; sound stimuli, 125; soap spots, 125; small stitches, 126; snow-sky, 128; steam smells, 132; seasonal swell, 132; semi-detached Sunday, 132; shiny suits, 133; snowy soot, 138; sheet steel, 139; "sibilant weave" 152; single subculture, 153; swampy suburbs, 160; Sunday strolls, 162; squeak-stockinged slavegirl, 168; slime stone, 169; scratched silver, 186; shaking Slothrop, 187; Slothrop staggering, 187; sudden shrewdness, 188; silent sea, 195; "S'd against the S of himself" 198; social sense, 206; "Old Norse rune for S" 206; study sessions, 211; slack-jawed subalterns, 212; sensitive son, 215; simultaneous stimuli, 226; ssörrender, 230; starch shirt, 232; star shell, 233; sovereign smell, 235, 736; Slothropian space, 238; sad story, 238, 285, 445, 667; self-sufficiency, 240; sour stuff (oxygen), 240; Esso, 240; stiff shirts, 243; secret service, 244; sea-steps, 245; 454: setting sun, 253, 454; striped socks, 254, saddle stitching, 254; sun-black skiers, 258; somber street, 259; senseless screaming, 263; spy-sign, 263; south sea, 266; stumbling surrender, 271; sexual sigh, 272; Slothropian stars, 272; salt sea, 273; stainless steel, 274; suspicious stare, 274; spy system, 286; sad surprise, 289; tunnels, 299; double-integral sign, 300-01; "Summe, Summe" 300; static space, 301; "Double integral is also the shape of lovers curled asleep" 302; scorched skullcap, 304; silk spill, 314; shadow states, 315; scientific speculating, 317; simple steel, 324; shining steel, 325; scarlet silk, 332; Soviet state, 349; sea story, 351; secret spaces, 354; scientist-surrogate, 361; staring sun, 372; smiling sentry, 378; suspended storm, 378; stenciled signs, 380; S-curve, 380; steel spaces, 384; sea-squirm, 389; subjective sense, 389; silver sponge, 389; soup-stock, 389; sentimental side-trip, 393; social spectrum, 402; stormy shore, 409; double-summing, 411; second shadow, 424; string shadows, 436; southern slop, 442; spring-suspension, 446; sound stages, 446; stud service, 446; S-curved spokes, 450; sailors' superstitions, 450; Scatotechnic Snipes, 451; sun suits, 453; star streaks, 457; suspender straps, 466; satin straps, 469; summer spook, 472; silver stork, 486; salty snot, 492; smooth stones, 494; sweet smile, 496; sleepy summer, 505; steel smile, 512; serpentine slagheap, 520; silver stars, 530; slippery satin, 531; Sickly Smile, 534; single set, 556; smalltown space, 556; Special Services, 558, 700; Shufflin' Sam, 558; surveying stakes, 560; starch-colored sky, 564; "curving through the ogival opening" 573; silver streak, 583, 586; spherical soul, 583; State Street, 589, 591; "Yess, yess" 590; straw stomach, 596; soapy sponge, 603; "silver straw" 613; streamlined spires, 624; Slothrop surveillance, 630; ssem, 633; saffron spindles, 634; summer stillness, 639; sudden surprises, 643; sailor suits, 657; "screen-door salesman" 665; "the invisible SS" 666; straw space, 669; saucy sideways smile, 670; subdeb secretaries, 674; submarine skipper, 674; Sniveling Slothrop, 679; spirited salt, 684; Scatterbrained Suicidekicks, 691; Semlower Strasse, 692; Sound Shadow, 695, 711; Sentimental Surrealist, 696; suitable stimuli, 699; sandy streets, 700; sister ships, 715; snot soup (unter anderem), 715; still strata, 720; striving subcreation, 720; Subsequent Sin, 722; 729: silk scarf, 729; Spaceman Smile, 732; See also chess; Rossini. See [[Patterns in Words and Letters]]

'''Stage Door Canteen''' 
134; During World War II, the American Theatre Wing ran New York's Stage Door Canteen for the benefit of soldiers on leave. It was frequented by many stars, some of whom graciously performed menial tasks, while others entertained the crowd. Dozens of those celebrities appear as themselves in this lavish musical about romances that blossom between canteen employees and soldiers. The film ''The Stage Door Canteen'' (1943), starring Katharine Hepburn, is set there.

<div id="stalin">'''Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953)'''</div>
Born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in Gori, Georgia; Stalin was expelled from the Tiflis Theological Seminary for being a Marxist. He joined the Bolsheviks and was arrested and sent to Siberia from whence he escaped in 1904. From being general secretary to the Central Committee under Lenin in 1922, he became Soviet leader in 1924 upon Lenin's death. He was a brutal dictator whose purges resulted in the deaths of millions as well as the suppression of artistic expression in Russia; "during the Stalin days, Tchitcherine was stationed in a remote 'bear's corner'" 338; "conspiracy to hit Stalin in the face with a grape chiffon pie" 353; "big chromo of" in Berlin, [[M#mustache|mustache]] 368; 373; "Even Stalin's had [doubts]" 703

'''Statue of Liberty''' 
The colossal statue on Liberty Island in the Upper Bay of New York Harbour, U.S., was a gift from France commemorating the friendship of the peoples of the U.S. and France. The statue, designed by French sculptor Frederic Auguste Barthold, is constructed of copper sheets which are assembled on a framework of steel supports designed by Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc and Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel. For transit to America, the figure was disassembled into 350 pieces and packed in 214 crates. Four months later, it was reassembled on Bedloe's Island (renamed Liberty Island in 1956). It was dedicated by President Cleveland on October 28,1886; 637

'''Sterling, Alan''' 
277; fiancé of Fleurette who was raised from birth to carry on the monstrous line of the emperor of the underworld, [[F#fumanchu|Fu Manchu]]; Alan Sterling, young orchid-hunter, first saw her on the little French beach and knew that he had never seen anyone more beautiful; he's also portrayed as the love-suffering young man receiving eloquent advice from Sir Denis Nayland-Smith.

'''Stettin''' 
or Szczecin in Polish; a Baltic seaport, ceded by German to Poland following WWII; 293; 408; 418;

'''Steve''' 
449-50: GE employee and Charles' "colleague" on the Toiletship; husband of Sheila

'''Stickstoff Syndikat''' 
580; Jamf "getting Weimar to subsidize the IG's";

'''Stick, Joaquin''' 
9; at Pirate's maisonette

'''Stiletto May''' 
129; character conjured by the presence of the black man in choir at the Advent service attended by Roger and Jessica

'''Stinnes, Hugo (1870-1924)''' 
A German industrialist and politician; 284; "Bland either saw the Stinnes crash coming before most of its other victims, or was just naturally nervous. Early in '23 he began to sell off his interests in the Stinnes operations." 285-86; "'Schwindel' was [Jamf's] code name for Hugo Stinnes." 286; "Stinnes, like every industrial emperor, had his own company spy system." 286; "You were meant to think of Hugo Stinnes, the tireless operator behind the scenes of apparent Inflation, apparent history: gambler, financial wizard, archgangster...a fussy bürgerlich mouth, jowls, graceless moves, a first impression of comic technocracy" 579; "Fibel worked for Siemens back when it was still part of the Stinnes trust." 587; [[Sasuly's IG Farben]]

'''Stodda''' 
406; "treatise on steam turbines" studied by Pökler at Peenemünde in '38

[[Stones|'''STONES''']]

'''Stonybloke, Will''' 
65; friend of Slothrop's who appears in toilet adventure

'''Sträggeli''' 
258; listed under "Espionage, Industrial" on the list of Zürich cafés, where Slothrop meets Mario Schweitar; 268;

'''Stralsund''' 
532; "Semlower Strasse in" 692;

'''streets''' 
692; "Semlower Strasse in Stralsund"; "Hafenstrasse in Greifswald"; "Slüterstrasse in the old part of Rostock"; "Wandfärberstrasse in Lüneburg";

'''Stresemann, Gustav (1878-1929)''' 
452; German statesman who entered the Reichtag in 1907, rose to prominance leading the National Liberal Party and eventually, for a few months in 1923, was chancellor of the new German (Weimar) Republic. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1926; "'They pray not only for their daily bread [he said] but also for their daily illusion'"

'''Strobe''' 
89; "Strobe's stimulus" appeared in early Viking editions of Gravity's Rainbow, but was quickly changed to "Jamf's stimulus"; apparently "Strobe" was an early working name for "Jamf"

'''Stuggles, Constable''' 
73; tried to stop LeFroyd from jumping off cliff; 74

'''Südwest''' 
99; German colony from 1892 until1915 when it was taken by South African forces during WWI. It was made a Protectorate of South-West Africa under the League of Nations; now called Namibia, it was under South African control until 1990 when it gained its independence. [MORE]; [MAP]

'''Sue, Eugene (1804-57)''' 
13; "a Eugene Sue melodrama"

:Parisian journalist, called the "king of the popular novel," one of the most widely read writers of melodramatic fiction in the 19th-century France. Sue was sponsored by Prince Eugène de Beauharnais and the empress Joséphine; he used the prince's name to form his famous pen name. Sue gained fame through the roman-feuilleton, the serial novel which gained its height in the French periodical press in the 1840's. Sue's republican and socialist views are reflected in his best-known novels, Les Mystères de Paris (1842-43), set in the Paris slums, and Le Juif errant (1844-45), published in installments for Le Constitutionnel in 1842-1843. ''' 
The above is from this [http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/esue.htm excellent online biography].

'''Suggenthal''' 
269;

'''Sundial''' 
472; cartoon character

'''surface''' 
"she fears the Change, choosing instead only trivially to revise what matters least, ornament and clothing, going no further than politic transvestism" 97; "lust in the face--the mask--of instant talion" 100; "house is outward-and-visible sign" 448;

'''sus. per coll. crowd''' 
329; In the English practice, a calendar is made out of attainted criminals, and the judge signs the calendar with their separate judgments in the margin. In the case of a capital felony. it is written opposite the prisoner's name, "let him be hanged by the neck," which, when the proceedings were in Latin, was, "suspendatur per collum," or, in the abbreviated form, "sus' per coll'."

'''Suso, Heinrich (1295-1336)''' 
129; German mystic and preacher [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Seuse]. His composition [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_dulci_jubilo In Dulci Jubilo] is a German/Latin macaronic carol (Pynchon (mis)spells it "macronic" and (mis)dates it as "fifteenth century" it's 14th C.); the first verse (of four), quoted in GR, can be translated as follows:

:In dulci jubilo (In sweet Joy) 
:Sing and shout all below! 
:He for whom we're pining 
:Lies in praesepio (In a manger) 
:Like the sun is shining 
:Matris in gremio. (In His mothers lap.) 
:Qui est A et O. (Who is Alpha and Omega.) 
:In Dulci Jubilo Web Page

'''Suvorov''' 
350; Rozhdestvenski's flagship on which Tchitcherine's father was a gunner

'''Swanlake, Jessica''' 
30; "young rosy girl in the uniform of an ATS private" who has wartime affair with Roger Mexico; at Snoxall's seance, 30-34; meets Mexico, 38-39; Fay Wray look, 57; girlfriend of Jeremy "Old Beaver" 121; 627; "Her future is with the World's own" 629; working for Pointsman, 631; 640; hardened toward Mexico, 708-09

<div id="nancy"></div>'''Swanlake, Nancy''' 
174-77; Jessica's sister; late husband was Keith; kids: Penelope (also p.277), Claire, Elizabeth

'''Swinemünde''' 
459: a town in NW Poland, on the island of Usedom, at the mouth of the Swina River. It is the outer port for Szczecin (Polish name for "Stettin") and a fishing center and seaside resort. First mention of the town dates from 1181. During World War II, the town was a German naval base.

'''Swope, Gerard (1872-1957)''' 
Swope, president of the General Electric Company (1922-39; 1942-44) in the United States, greatly expanded GE's line of consumer products and pioneered profit-sharing and other benefits programs for its employees. After his retirement from GE in 1939, he chaired the New York City Housing Authority until 1942; "was ace buddies with old FDR [...] one-thim Brain Trusters" 565; "Business Advisory Council set up under Swope of General Electric, whose ideas on matters of 'control' ran close to those of Walter Rathenau, of German GE" 581;

'''Sztup, Mme.''' 
463; Yiddish: "poke" or "fuck"; passenger on the Anubis

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<div id="sachsa">'''Sachsa, Peter'''</div>
31; the "control" in Psi Section; lover of Leni Pökler, 147; medium at Rathenau seance, 163-65; killed in communist street action in 1930 in Neukölln (Berlin) by Schutzmann Jöche, a Nazi cop, 152; as Zaxa, 218; 219-20; 590; [[Peter Sachsa|Etymological Musings]]

'''scombroid''' 
217.20; Peter Sachsa is described as having a scombroid face, by which Pynchon means narrow. The family Scombridae, from which scombroid derives, are marine fishes which have in common, among other features, a tail which is connected to the body by a thin, but flexible and strong muscle. This family of streamlined predators of the open ocean includes the tunas and mackerels. "Scombroid" also refers to a type of food poisoning.

'''skivvies''' 
Not female servants as ''Webster's Third International Unabridged'' defines it, but undergarments as defined by Google. For a sec, the contributor wrongly suspected Pynchon had made a howler, for the sentence goes "He runs into the bedroom, finds everything else he had on is gone too, down to shoes and skivvies." 199

[[Sado-Masochism|'''SADOMASOCHISM (S/M)''']]

<div id="basher"></div>'''St. Blaise, Group Capt. "Basher"''' 
146; sees angel of death during RAF Lübeck strike, 151; [["Basher" St. Blaise|Etymological Musings]]; See also [[C#church|Church of St. Blasius]]

'''St. Elmo's fire''' 
The glow accompanying the brushlike discharges of atmospheric electricity that usually appears during stormy weather as a tip of light on the extremities of such pointed objects as church towers or the masts of ships; "will be seen spurting at moments from crossends" on the Anubis, 491

'''St. Felix''' 
37; "the clock of" in London

'''St. John's Wood''' 
544; an exclusive district in North-West London, where the Mossmoons live, famous for Lords Cricket Ground and Abbey Road Studios.

'''Saint Pauli''' 
the English translation for "Sankt Pauli," which is the main red-light district in Hamburg/Germany. It's known for its sex-bars and its fusion of pimps, prostitutes and working-class inhabitants. St. Pauli is famous for the atmosphere that the harbour of Hamburg brings into the district. Sailors, seaman and other stranded creatures are walking over the Reeperbahn (St. Pauli's main street). The Star-Club, where the Beatles paid their dues before becoming hugely famous, is in St. Pauli; 525

'''St. Veronica's Hospital''' 
46; of the True Image for Colonic and Respiratory Diseases; St. Veronica wiped Christ's forehead with her veil while he carried the cross; St. Veronica Papers, 688

'''St.-Just Grossout''' 
540; blackman worked for Firm infiltrating Schwarzkommando (aka "Sam Juiced")

<div id="salitieri">'''Salitieri, Poore, Nash, De Brutus and Short'''</div>
591; [a pun on Thomas Hobbes' (1588-1679) description, in Leviathan (1651), of the life of the members of the commonwealth in the absence of an all-powerful sovereign: "No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual feare and danger of violent death; and the life of Man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short."]; Lyle Bland's lawyers, 591; pallbearers at Lyle Bland's funeral, 652; Recall the law firm representing Pierce Inverarity in [http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#warpe ''The Crying of Lot 49'']: Warpe, Wistfull, Kubitschek and McMingus.

'''Sandhurst''' 
202; a military academy, the British equivalent to West Point in the U.S

'''Sandoz''' 
250; Swiss chemical company which joined Geigy and Ciba in a cartel, in the early '20s; Hoffman was working for Sandoz when he synthesized LSD; Schweitar worked there, 260;

'''Sandra''' 
685; has "run away from the Kleinburgerstrasse" and staying at Der Platz

'''Sandra''' 
606; acquaintance of Manuela's at Putzi's

'''Sandys, Duncan''' 
Sandys, who was married to Churchill's daughter Diana, was Under-secretary of the Ministry of Supply in Britain during WWII. He was appointed by Churchill to investigate the rumored German experiments with secret weapons, which investigation led to the discovery of the rocket facilities at Peenemünde; "the P.M.'s son-in-law" who works out of the Ministry of Supply at Shell Mex House, 228; "Churchill's own son-in-law" 251

'''Sanktwolke, Edouard''' 
385; German: "Saint Cloud"; "veteran automotive jobber" who supplied transportation for von Göll's and Waxwing's "travelling business conference"

'''Santora''' 
744; family in Mingeborough, MA

'''Sargasso Sea''' 
Area of the North Atlantic Ocean, elliptical in shape and relatively still, that is strewn with free-floating seaweed of the genus Sargassum. Encompassing the Bermuda Islands, a combination of ecological and biological conditions result in a dirth of plankton (a fish staple), creating a biological desert. Early navigators had the (unfounded) fear of becoming entangled within the mass of seaweed and unable to escape; "the sun-resorts of Sargasso where the bones come up to lie and bleach and mock the passing ships" 564;

'''Sargner''' 
152; "a civilian attached to the General Staff" who is keyed on by Wimpe at séance

'''Sarnaki''' 
424; target area for A-4, near Blizna, Poland

'''Sarts''' 
340; Central Asian people

'''Sassoon, Lt. Siegfried Lorraine (1886-1967)''' 
79; English poet and novelist whose experiences in World War I made him fiercely anti-war and he wrote numerous works which reflected this hatred, including Counterattack (1918) and Satirical Poems (1926)

'''sastrugi''' 
420; Sastrugi are smooth, gently rolling snowfields, often covered with wind-drifted formations, on the interior of the Greenland ice sheet which is second in area only to the Antarctic ice sheet. It extends about 1,570 miles from north to south and has a maximum width of some 600 miles and an average thickness of about 5,800 feet.

'''Saturday Evening Post''' 
435; American weekly magazine the covers of which often had Norman Rockwell illustrations

'''Saville Row''' 
526; swank shopping district in London

'''Scammony, Sir Marcus (aka Angelique)''' 
615; drinking with Clive Mossmoon at "their club"

'''Schacht, Hjalmar (1877-1970)''' 
According to Sasuly, Schacht was head of the Reichsbank in the 1920s and 40s and was a key player in manipulating the German inflation of that time, while blaming it on "reparations and an unfavorable balance of payments." (p.47); his "many bookkeeping dodges to keep official records clear of any hint of weapons procurement banned under the terms of Versailles." 285

'''Schadenfreude''' 
526; German: "joy at another's misfortune"; described but not named, 36; 745

'''Scheveningen''' 
97; coastal town in Holland, just north of The Hague [MAP]; 102; 104; 105; 535

'''Schicksal''' 
416; German: "fate, destiny" (misspelled "Shicksal" in earlier editions)

'''Schiller, Professor''' 
224; Slothrop studying his book on regenerative cooling

'''Schilling''' 
527; "[Närrisch] worked in guidance, he was Schilling's best man"

'''Schlabone, Gustav''' 
366; composer buddy (and "unwelcome doping partner" 711) of Säure Bummer; 621; 2nd violin at Krupp affair (aka "Captain Horror"), 711; at Der Platz, 745

'''Schleim, Josef''' 
630; "a defector of secondary brilliance, who had once worked for the IG out of Dr. Reithinger's office, VOWI"; 631;

'''Schlepzig, Max''' 
Franz Pökler putting up handbills for a movie starring, 165; name on Slothrop's pass to get into Potsdam Conference, 377; actor in von Göll films who whipped Erdmann ("the Reich's Sweethearts"), 395; 439; 461

'''Schmeil''' 
518; engineer at Peenemünde

'''Schmitz, Carl''' 
565; "'Didn't Schmitz of the IG sit on Siemens's board of directors?'" 565;

'''Schnorp''' 
332-36; Geli's friend who gives Slothrop balloon ride to Berlin

'''Schokoladestrasse''' 
646; German: "Chocolate Street"; in Happyville

'''Schraub''' 
568; German: "screw"; "the shoemaker" whose played Plechazunga "for the past 30 years"

'''Schumann of Düsseldorf''' 
702; "army surgeons and dentists [...] will pick out [of Tchitcherine's body] what has entered it by violence with an electromagnetic device bought between the wars from"

'''Schußstelle 3''' 
95; German: "firing site"; in Holland on the North Sea coast, near The Hague; moved, 104; the allies were after it, 105; "why did [Katje] leave?" 107; See also Lüneburg Heath

'''Schwindel operative''' 
286;

'''''schwarz''''' 
German: literally 'black', but also 'secret' and/or 'illicit' as in 'Secret Service' or 'black market'; see ''Schwarzgerät'' and ''Schwarzkommando'' below

<div id="schwartzgerat">'''''Schwarzgerät'''''</div>
252;"S-Gerät, 11/00000." 252;"Document SG-1" 252;"the one rocket out of 6000 that carried the Imipolex G device" 292; for sale for .5M francs by guy in Swinemünde who waits on Strand-Promenade until noon daily, 294; "The Schwartzgerät is no Grail" 364; "They want the Schwarzgerät." 455;"'F-Gerät, you sure of that?'" 487 details, 517; mandala (KEZVH), 560, 563;"'. . . that was the name of the German who commanded the battery that used the S-Gerät?'" 562;; 611; firing on Lüneburg Heath, 667; 706; "00001, the second in its series" 724; 00001, 728; "SG-1" 736; "the assembly of the 00001 is occurring also in a geographical way, a Diaspora running backwards" 737; as womb, 750; See also Rocket

'''''Schwarzkommando''''' 
74-75; German: "blackcommand"; black rocket troops; credibillity of, 92; 112;found out about a week before V.E. Day 276; Slothrop runs into two dozen on train to Nordhausen, 286; Hitler's failed plan to create Nazi empire in black Africa, training troops in Südwest, 287; "They have a plan. . .I think it's rockets" 288; "we're DPs like everybody else" 288; Herero rocket troops assembling a rocket for one last stand, 326; "it is their time, their space" 326; their mandala is the five positions of the launching switch for A4, 361; digging up A4 in Berlin, 361; "mba-kayere" (I am passed over), 362; why they seek the Rocket, 362, 563; growing away from SS and their power becoming information and expertise, 427; in their own space, 519; Herero village arranged like a mandala, 563; must be stopped before they fire the Rocket, 565; "they have their rocket all assembled at last" 673; the trek to the firing site of the 00001, 726; 12 children at a "children's resort" (Zwölfkinder means "12 children" in German--GET IT?), 725

'''Schweitar, Mario''' 
260, 268; troubleshooter around the Cartel; worked for Sandoz

'''Schwindel''' 
286; German: "fraud" "trick", also "dizziness"; "code name for Hugo Stinnes"

[[Science, Physics, Math &c.|'''SCIENCE, PHYSICS, MATH &c.''']] 
See also [[D#delta-t|delta-t]]; [[P#poisson|Poisson Distribution]]

'''screen door salesman''' 
447; "dumb and easygoing" husband of woman in Slothrop's dream in three parts; 665, "Minnie Calkins (Chapter 1.793) got married Easter Sunday to a screen-door salesman from California. Sorry to say he's not eligible for Membership - at least not yet. But with all those screen doors around, we'll sure keep our fingers crossed!"

'''scrip''' 
105; temporary paper currency issued during emergencies/special circumstances

'''Scrubs''' 
Wormwood Scrubs Prison, in London; "I'll see you two in the Scrubs if it kills me!" 717

'''Scuffling, Ian''' 
256; Pseudonym given to T. Slothrop by Waxwing in Nice; See also Slothrop, Tyrone

'''Scylla and Charybdis''' 
239; In Greek legend, Scylla was a monster with twelve feet and six heads each with three rows of teeth who lived on the rock of Scylla on the Italian side of the Straits of Messina which are between Italy and Sicily. Charybdis, who was a monster, the whirlpool she formed and the rock cliff under which she lived, faced Scylla on the other side of the Straits. Such a situation made passage through the Straits a very dodgy proposition for sailors.

'''SD''' 
431; German: Sicherheitsdienst = police-duty; The Nazi Party's intelligence and security body. Created by Himmler, it operated in foreign countries, creating instability and attempting to foment revolution.

'''séance''' 
29-30; 4-way entente: medium; control; spirit; survivor; Feldspath, 30; Overbaby, 152; "a visitation by the dead" 153; Rathenau, 163-67; at The Castle with Blicero, 487; "other fourfold expressions" 624; "sensitive flames" 715; Brigadier Pudding, 715

'''Second Empire''' 
The Second Empire (1852-70) of Napoleon III; 675

'''Section 8''' 
114; a category of discharge from the United States military for reason of being mentally unfit for service; 182

'''Seele''' 
654; German: "soul, spirit"; "as the core of the earlier carbon filament was known in Germany"

[[Self-reference in Gravity's Rainbow|'''SELF-REFERENCE''']]

'''Semirechie''' 
611; province in Kazakhstan, in the Soviet Union

'''Semyavin''' 
258; local Waxwing rep in Zürich?; 261

'''1 September''' 
479; On September 1, 1939, the German Army invaded Poland, thus "initiating" WWII

[[Serpents/Snakes References|'''SERPENT/SNAKE''']] 
See also [[#snake|Snake]]

'''SEZ WHO''' 
270; Slothropian Episodic Zone, Weekly Historical Observations

'''Seven Rivers country''' 
338; where Tchitcherine was stationed, "in a remote 'bear's corner'"

'''sfacim-a''' 
299; sfacim: from "sfaciàre" = to dismantle''' 
Tony Assenza graciously supplied the following regarding "sfacim":''' 
Having been called a "sfacim" by my uncles and other relatives more than a few times in my life, I believe your reference might require more elaboration. In its original form, "sfacim" is Neapolitan slang for semen — equivalent to US slang such as spunk or gism. However, it's also widely used as a term of endearment, as in "Hey, sfacim. Come over here and give your grandmother a kiss before I break your face." The closest US slang term would be "spunky." It's a term that someone living on Long Island or Upstate New York would probably hear a lot in Italian-American neighborhoods. One would pronounce it "SFA CHEEM."

''''s Gravenhage''' 
209; aka The Hague;

'''shadows''' 
316; God-shadows, 330; 332; 333; 336; 342; 359; 363; 397; 405; darkness at the edges of things, 446; 458; 482; 500; 510; 524; 536; 539; 543; 561; Pointsman's corner, 633; Slothrop as "shadow-child" 677; stars as shadows of the creator's bones and ducts, 699; "sound-shadow" (when the roaring of the sun stops), 695, 711; 740; 749; 760

'''SHAEF''' 
17; Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force; 74; 76; 121; 210; 244; 287

'''Shatsk''' 
352; nose-fetishist in Weird Letter Assignments; Shatsk is a town in the Volynskaja oblast [political subdivision], in the Ukraine.

'''Shays''' 
Shays's Rebellion (August 1786-February 1787) was an uprising in western Massachusetts in opposition to high taxes and harsh economic conditions. Led by Daniel Shays (1747-1825), the rebellion was decisively defeated on February 4, but it did result in the passage of laws easing the economic condition of debtors; "fought the federal troops across Massachusetts" 268

'''Shearer, Norma (1900-83)''' 
690; Hollywood actress who played sophisticated roles, and the wife of producer Irving Thalberg; "Your closet could make Norma Shearer's look like the wastebasket in Gimbel's basement."

'''Sheila''' 
449; Steve's (GE employee on the Toiletship) fiancée

'''Shekhinah''' 
479: Hebrew: "(female) neighbor"

'''Shell Mex House''' 
Shell Mex House, built 1930-31 is situated at number 80, Strand, London. It was for many years the London headquarters of Shell-Mex and BP Ltd for whom it was originally built. During WWII the building became home to the Ministry of Supply which co-ordinated supply of equipment to the national armed forces. It was also the home of the "Petroleum Board" which handled the distribution and rationing of petroleum products during the war. 251; "Where all the rocket intelligence is being gathered"; 272

'''Shell Oil''' 
Dutch Shell, 240-41, 251; 1939 agreement with ICI, 250; Shell Mex House, 251; "The representative from Shell Mex House, Mr. Dennis Joint" 272; "frantic about Slothrop's disappearance" 272; "after the [Russian] revolution, when the emissaries from Dutch Shell were asked to leave" 354

'''Shetzline''' 
389; "classic study" of the time-modulation properties of Oneirine

'''Shirley''' 
599; pretty girl driving the Red Cross Clubmobile that is hijacked

'''Short, Coolidge ("Hot")''' 
591; "of the State Street law firm of Salitieri, Poore, Nash, De Brutus, and Short" and a friend of Lyle Bland's

'''Shufflin' Sam''' 
558; "the game of skill where you have to shoot the Negro before he gets back over the fence with the watermelon"

'''Sidney's Great Yellow Grille''' 
65; recalled by Slothrop during Sodium Amytal session

'''Siege Perilous''' 
According to Arthurian legend, the Round Table was reserved for only the most valiant knights, while the Siege Perilous was left waiting for the coming of Galahad, the pure knight who would achieve the quest of the Grail (the vessel from which Christ drank at the Last Supper) and bring the marvels of Arthur's kingdom to a close; "jokers around the table be sneaking Whoopee Cushions into the" 321

'''Siemens-Schuchert''' 
"the horizontal electrical trust of Siemens-Schuchert" 284; "Siemens milliammeters set on slate surfaces" 518; "GE has connections with Siemens over here" 565; "Didn't Närrisch, under the drug, mention a Siemens representative at the S-Gerät meetings in Nordhausen? [...] Didn't Carl Schmitz of the IG sit on Siemens's board of directors?" 565; "Russia bought from Krupp, didn't she, from Siemens, the IG...." 566; "a contract the Bland Institute landed a few years ago and subbed part of out to Siemens over there in Germany" 583; "Fibel worked for Siemens back when it was still part of the Stinnes trust [...] he also put in some time as a Stinnes intelligence agent." 587; "an ingenious Osmo-elektrische Schalterwerke, developed by Siemens" 646; "clever Siemens Electric Baby Bulb Pacifiers" 647;"bright here as the morning shift at Siemens with the centaurs struggling high on the wall" 725; See also Siemens, Wernher; Stinnes; [[Sasuly's ''IG Farben'']]; Siemens AG Homepage!

'''Siemens, Wernher (d. 1892)''' 
649; German electrical engineer; one of the discoverers of the self-acting dynamo; See also Siemens-Schuchert

'''Siggi''' 
157; old friend of Leni's, known as "the Troll"

'''Sigmund''' 
457; with Greta Erdmann, 474-78; 480

'''Silberschlag, Frau''' 
165; German: "silver shock or blow"; next door neighbor of Leni and Franz Pökler's who delivers Leni's "last message" to Franz

'''Silvernail, Webley''' 
79; works in ARF wing at White Visitation; audiovisual guy; shows Katje film to Grigori, 113; in rat production number, 229; named "Twelfth House" 274; 533; 620

'''Simpson, Mrs. Bessie Wallis Warfield Spencer (1896-1986)''' 
177; An American who married Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII. Edward abdicated the throne in order to marry this twice-divorced commoner.

'''Skinner, Burrhus Frederic (1904-1990)''' 
American psychologist and a persistent proponent of Behaviorism, expanding on the ideas of John Watson who advocated the study of behavior as the only way to provide psychology with a scientific basis. Skinner died of leukemia on August 18, 1990; 77

[[image:skippy.gif|106px|left]]'''Skippy''' 
644-45; and Mr. Information; [[Skippy|Etymological Musings]]; [http://www.skippy.com/ Skippy's Home Page]

'''Slothrop, Broderick''' 
285; Tyrone's father; aka "Schwarzvater" (Jamf), 286; hated FDR, 373; Tyrone's dream about, 392; sold experimental rights to Tyrone to Jamf for $5000 for Harvard education, 444; Paternal Peril "a murderin' fool" 674; 677; 682

'''Slothrop, Constant (d. 1766)''' 
26; ancestor of Tyrone; tombstone depicts Hand of God coming out of a cloud

'''Slothrop, Mrs. Elizabeth''' 
27; wife of Isaiah

'''Slothrop, Frederick (d. 1933)''' 
27; Tyrone's grandfather

'''Slothrop, Hogan''' 
29; Tyrone's brother; his Hawaiian shirt, 184, 201; 266; 304; "in love with Chiquita Banana" 678; 682; 744

'''Slothrop, Hogan Jr.''' 
744; son of Hogan Slothrop; [From Pynchon's short story "The Secret Integration" in Slow Learner:"the doctor's kid, who at the age of eight had taken to serious after-bedtime beer-drinking and at the age of nine got religion, swore off beer and joined the Alcoholics Anonymous, a step his father, who was what is know as permissive, gave his blessing" (p.151)]

'''Slothrop, Lt. Isaiah (d. 1812)''' 
27; ancestor of Tyrone

'''Slothrop, John''' 
555; son of William Slothrop, who helped his dad get the "pig operation" going

'''Slothrop, Nalline''' 
18; Tyrone's mother; 116; 360; "always happy to see young people getting together" 499; 674; letter to Joe Kennedy, 682-83; 712

'''SLOTHROP, Lt. Tyrone''' 
[[Tyrone Slothrop|Etymological Musings]]; See also Slothrop's girls/stars;

[[Slothrop's Tarot|'''SLOTHROP'S TAROT''']]

'''Slothrop's girls/stars''' 
Delores, 19; Alice, 19; Gladys, 19; Lorraine and Judy, 19; Darlene, 19, 271; Katherine, 19; Shirley, 19; "a couple of Sallys" 19; "Carolines, Marias, Annes, Susans, Elizabeths" 19; "Gloria and her nubile mother" 19; Marjorie, 22, 25, 744; Norma, 22, 25; Allison, 23; Irene, 23; Jennifer, 23, 271; Cynthia, 26; "'What about the girls??'" 91; Madelyn, 252; Jenny's ghost, 255-56; Angela, 271; Lucy, 271; Jenny, Sally W., Cybele, Catherine, Gretchen, 271

'''Slothrop, Variable''' 
27; son of Constant

'''Slothrop, William''' 
21; Tyrone's first American ancestor; 27; 364; came to US in 1630 on Arabella, 554; On Preterition - published in England, burned in Boston, 555 [http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/bookstore.html Available in the HyperArts BookShop - Really! sort of...]; returned to England and died there missing USA, 556; his hymn, 760; [[William Slothrop|The "Real" William Slothrop/Pynchon]]

'''Slug''' 
229; rat who got "fried" the first time he fucked up running the maze

'''Smaragd, Generaldirektor''' 
164-66; (German: "Emerald"); Nazi with IG Farben; "from Leverkusen. An elderly man who used a cane, a notorious spiritualist before the War" 486

'''smegma''' 
"layers, over a base of bureaucratic smegma" 18; "Tchitcherine has found it necessary to abandon his smegma-gathering stake-out on the Argentine anarchists" 700;

'''Smile, Murray''' 
255; appears in Slothrop's dream as "next to you in basic, company 84"; Etymology: Murray Wilson was Brian Wilson's father; Tom hung out with Brian during the legendary "Smile" Period [[Pynchon and Brian Wilson]]

'''Smithfield Market''' 
Famous meat market in the old City of London. During the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation it was used as a place of execution; where Lucifer Amp "makes a spectacle of himself" every day, 542

'''Smith, Klein, 'n' French''' 
518; "Enzian, Andreas, and Christian, coming on like"

'''Smith, Sir Denis Nayland''' 
See Sir Denis Nayland-Smith

'''Snade, Mrs.''' 
169; "wrote in to the Times from Luton Hoo, Bedfrdshire" regarding Gwenhidwy's singing voice

'''Snake''' 
342-43; Tchitcherine's horse (methodically homicidal; unpredictable); Gretel's (Greta Erdmann's) co-star in Weisse Sandwuste von Neumexiko, 482

'''Snipe and Shaft''' 
9; Slothrop's and Tantivy's watering hole; 19; 21

'''Snodd, Mrs.''' 
744; in Mingeborough, MA

'''snowdrops''' 
247; Slang for GI military police in WWII; 601

'''Snoxall's''' 
32; place where seances are held; 33; 37; 238

'''Sodium Amytal''' 
61; truth serum; used on Slothrop; induces "toilet"/Kenosha Kid episode; used on von Göll, 511-14; 746

<div id="soe"></div>'''S.O.E.''' 
5; Special Operations Executive; aka the "Firm" 12; 32; Pirate "browned-off with" 270; "no one has ever left the Firm alive" 543; 620; [About]

<div id="solange"></div>'''Solange''' 
603; German: "as long as" "while" [[Q#quoad|compare etymologies with Mrs. Quoad]]; "masseuse" at Putzi's See also [[P#pokler-l|Pökler, Leni]]

'''Somerset Club''' 
28; exclusive club "no Slothrop ever made it into"

'''''Son of Frankenstein''''' 
106; The third film in Universal Studios' ''Frankenstein'' series and the last to feature Boris Karloff as the Monster as well as the first to feature Bela Lugosi as Ygor.

[[Songs/Compositions|'''SONGS/COMPOSITIONS''']]

'''Sooty''' 
174; Jessica's cat; 177

'''Sound-Shadow''' 
"the silences here are retreats of sound [...] sound draining away, down slopes of acoustic passage, to gather, someplace else, to a great surge of noise" 336-37; "a very shallow pocket of no-sound, [...] sound-energy from Outside is shut off. The roaring of the sun stops. [...] the arousing feather-point of the Sound-Shadow has touched you, enveloping you in sun-silence" 695; "this subversive use of sudden fff quieting to ppp. It's the touch of the wandering sound-shadow, the Brennschluss of the Sun." 711

'''sour stuff''' 
240; oxygen; the German word for oxygen is "Sauerstoff"

[[Spanish Translations|'''SPANISH TRANSLATIONS''']]

'''Spaniols''' 
549; Spaniards

'''Sparks''' 
732; aka Ozohande, with Enzian

'''Sparte IV''' 
630; "Slothrop surveillance being assigned to a newly created 'Sparte IV' under Vermittlungsstelle W"

'''Spectro, Dr. Kevin''' 
46; "neurologist and casual Pavlovian" at St. Veronica's; "one of the original seven owners of The Book" 47; killed in a V-2 hit on St. Veronica's, 138; 139; 140; 167

'''Speed, Harvey''' 
270; SEZ WHO Englishman hired by Pointsman to check out Slothrop's sexual conquests; See also Perdoo, Floyd; SEZ WHO

'''Speer, Albert (d. 1981)''' 
298; Architect for the Third Reich; "in charge of the New German Architecture then, and later he went on to become Minister of Munitions, and nominal chief customer for the A4"; "Albert Speer Touch" 298; Ölsch designing Nordhausen factory, 411; and Toiletship, 448; "alabaster open-air stadium with giant cement birds" 687

'''SPOG''' 
272; Special Projectiles Operations Group of which Operation Backfire is a part; 277; 391; 595; 601

'''Spontoon, Doctor''' 
591; with Dr. Muffage, out to castrate Slothrop; has a black spade on his cheek

<div id="sporri"></div>'''Spörri''' 
455; aerodynamics person on S-Gerät project; ignores Khlaetsch's cries for help, 684; [[Spörri|Etymological Musings]]

'''Spottbilligfilm AG''' 
163; German: "spottbillig" = "dirt cheap"; subsidiary of IG Farben "whose entire management are about to be purged for sending to OKW weapons procurement a design proposal for a new airborne ray which could turn whole populations [...] blind"; "from whom von Göll used to get cut rates on most of his film stock" 387;

'''SPQR''' 
135; Latin: senatus populusque Romanus = the senate and the people of Rome; also acronym for small profits, quick returns

'''S.P.R.''' 
153; Society for Psychical Research; 633;

'''Spree-Oder Canal''' 
433; in the Russian sector of Berlin, where Slothrop & Margherita stay; 457 [MAP]

<div id="springer"></div>'''Springer, Der''' 
376; German: "chess knight"; aka von Göll; the "Knight who leaps perpetually across the chessboard of the Zone"; white plastic chess knight (his symbol), 436; "white knight of the black market" 492; described, 494; aka Herr Gemütlich ("good-natured"), 496; on Sodium Amytal, 512, 514, 746; See also Göll, Gerhardt von; [[Der Springer|Etymological Musings...]]

'''Sprudelhof''' 
458; German: "Spring or Well" + "Yard" or "Palace"; main drag of Bad Karma on the Spree-Oder Canal; 476

'''Sprue, Amy''' 
329-30; Tyrone's ancestor who was a "genuine Salem Witch"

'''Squalidozzi, Francisco''' 
263; Argentine exile, paranoid about Peronists; hijacked German U-Boat in Mar de Plata; his group (incl. Graciela Portales) seeking political exile in Germany after the War; want open spaces--no fences; meets von Göll in abandoned harmonica factory, 384; "Old Squalidozzi, ploughman of the deep" 447; 613; being sought by Slothrop, 681

'''ss''' 
second sheep, 3, 555; sour smell, 3, 171; "cast-iron pulleys whose spokes are shaped like Ss" 4; saddleback sows, 5; split second 7, 199; sour stomach, 17; Selena. Selena., 30; speedy stalk, 35; 3-sigma, 40, 523, 635, 709; systematic stealth, 42; soft smell, 43, 754; separate straws, 43; stray shadow, 49; silverblue stalks, 54; silver string, 59; silver seeds, 63; smooth sinewaving, 67; silk stockings, 74, 211, 395, 410, 629; shadowy smells, 78; stronger stimulus, 79; structured stimulus, 82; spilled sand, 91; simple sorrow, 98; sugar-smears, 99; soft-wood smells, 106; snow-skin, 107; slate shadows, 108; southern stars, 109; steel snake, 109; smoky spires, 111; starving spring, 111; soap-heavy smell, 112; sunlit shops, 119; spiral stairways, 122; sour salt, 124; spider-statistician, 124; sound stimuli, 125; soap spots, 125; small stitches, 126; snow-sky, 128; steam smells, 132; seasonal swell, 132; semi-detached Sunday, 132; shiny suits, 133; snowy soot, 138; sheet steel, 139; "sibilant weave" 152; single subculture, 153; swampy suburbs, 160; Sunday strolls, 162; squeak-stockinged slavegirl, 168; slime stone, 169; scratched silver, 186; shaking Slothrop, 187; Slothrop staggering, 187; sudden shrewdness, 188; silent sea, 195; "S'd against the S of himself" 198; social sense, 206; "Old Norse rune for S" 206; study sessions, 211; slack-jawed subalterns, 212; sensitive son, 215; simultaneous stimuli, 226; ssörrender, 230; starch shirt, 232; star shell, 233; sovereign smell, 235, 736; Slothropian space, 238; sad story, 238, 285, 445, 667; self-sufficiency, 240; sour stuff (oxygen), 240; Esso, 240; stiff shirts, 243; secret service, 244; sea-steps, 245; 454: setting sun, 253, 454; striped socks, 254, saddle stitching, 254; sun-black skiers, 258; somber street, 259; senseless screaming, 263; spy-sign, 263; south sea, 266; stumbling surrender, 271; sexual sigh, 272; Slothropian stars, 272; salt sea, 273; stainless steel, 274; suspicious stare, 274; spy system, 286; sad surprise, 289; tunnels, 299; double-integral sign, 300-01; "Summe, Summe" 300; static space, 301; "Double integral is also the shape of lovers curled asleep" 302; scorched skullcap, 304; silk spill, 314; shadow states, 315; scientific speculating, 317; simple steel, 324; shining steel, 325; scarlet silk, 332; Soviet state, 349; sea story, 351; secret spaces, 354; scientist-surrogate, 361; staring sun, 372; smiling sentry, 378; suspended storm, 378; stenciled signs, 380; S-curve, 380; steel spaces, 384; sea-squirm, 389; subjective sense, 389; silver sponge, 389; soup-stock, 389; sentimental side-trip, 393; social spectrum, 402; stormy shore, 409; double-summing, 411; second shadow, 424; string shadows, 436; southern slop, 442; spring-suspension, 446; sound stages, 446; stud service, 446; S-curved spokes, 450; sailors' superstitions, 450; Scatotechnic Snipes, 451; sun suits, 453; star streaks, 457; suspender straps, 466; satin straps, 469; summer spook, 472; silver stork, 486; salty snot, 492; smooth stones, 494; sweet smile, 496; sleepy summer, 505; steel smile, 512; serpentine slagheap, 520; silver stars, 530; slippery satin, 531; Sickly Smile, 534; single set, 556; smalltown space, 556; Special Services, 558, 700; Shufflin' Sam, 558; surveying stakes, 560; starch-colored sky, 564; "curving through the ogival opening" 573; silver streak, 583, 586; spherical soul, 583; State Street, 589, 591; "Yess, yess" 590; straw stomach, 596; soapy sponge, 603; "silver straw" 613; streamlined spires, 624; Slothrop surveillance, 630; ssem, 633; saffron spindles, 634; summer stillness, 639; sudden surprises, 643; sailor suits, 657; "screen-door salesman" 665; "the invisible SS" 666; straw space, 669; saucy sideways smile, 670; subdeb secretaries, 674; submarine skipper, 674; Sniveling Slothrop, 679; spirited salt, 684; Scatterbrained Suicidekicks, 691; Semlower Strasse, 692; Sound Shadow, 695, 711; Sentimental Surrealist, 696; suitable stimuli, 699; sandy streets, 700; sister ships, 715; snot soup (unter anderem), 715; still strata, 720; striving subcreation, 720; Subsequent Sin, 722; 729: silk scarf, 729; Spaceman Smile, 732; See also chess; Rossini. See [[Patterns in Words and Letters]]

'''Stage Door Canteen''' 
134; During World War II, the American Theatre Wing ran New York's Stage Door Canteen for the benefit of soldiers on leave. It was frequented by many stars, some of whom graciously performed menial tasks, while others entertained the crowd. Dozens of those celebrities appear as themselves in this lavish musical about romances that blossom between canteen employees and soldiers. The film ''The Stage Door Canteen'' (1943), starring Katharine Hepburn, is set there.

<div id="stalin">'''Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953)'''</div>
Born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in Gori, Georgia; Stalin was expelled from the Tiflis Theological Seminary for being a Marxist. He joined the Bolsheviks and was arrested and sent to Siberia from whence he escaped in 1904. From being general secretary to the Central Committee under Lenin in 1922, he became Soviet leader in 1924 upon Lenin's death. He was a brutal dictator whose purges resulted in the deaths of millions as well as the suppression of artistic expression in Russia; "during the Stalin days, Tchitcherine was stationed in a remote 'bear's corner'" 338; "conspiracy to hit Stalin in the face with a grape chiffon pie" 353; "big chromo of" in Berlin, [[M#mustache|mustache]] 368; 373; "Even Stalin's had [doubts]" 703

'''Statue of Liberty''' 
The colossal statue on Liberty Island in the Upper Bay of New York Harbour, U.S., was a gift from France commemorating the friendship of the peoples of the U.S. and France. The statue, designed by French sculptor Frederic Auguste Barthold, is constructed of copper sheets which are assembled on a framework of steel supports designed by Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc and Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel. For transit to America, the figure was disassembled into 350 pieces and packed in 214 crates. Four months later, it was reassembled on Bedloe's Island (renamed Liberty Island in 1956). It was dedicated by President Cleveland on October 28,1886; 637

'''Sterling, Alan''' 
277; fiancé of Fleurette who was raised from birth to carry on the monstrous line of the emperor of the underworld, [[F#fumanchu|Fu Manchu]]; Alan Sterling, young orchid-hunter, first saw her on the little French beach and knew that he had never seen anyone more beautiful; he's also portrayed as the love-suffering young man receiving eloquent advice from Sir Denis Nayland-Smith.

'''Stettin''' 
or Szczecin in Polish; a Baltic seaport, ceded by German to Poland following WWII; 293; 408; 418;

'''Steve''' 
449-50: GE employee and Charles' "colleague" on the Toiletship; husband of Sheila

'''Stickstoff Syndikat''' 
580; Jamf "getting Weimar to subsidize the IG's";

'''Stick, Joaquin''' 
9; at Pirate's maisonette

'''Stiletto May''' 
129; character conjured by the presence of the black man in choir at the Advent service attended by Roger and Jessica

'''Stinnes, Hugo (1870-1924)''' 
A German industrialist and politician; 284; "Bland either saw the Stinnes crash coming before most of its other victims, or was just naturally nervous. Early in '23 he began to sell off his interests in the Stinnes operations." 285-86; "'Schwindel' was [Jamf's] code name for Hugo Stinnes." 286; "Stinnes, like every industrial emperor, had his own company spy system." 286; "You were meant to think of Hugo Stinnes, the tireless operator behind the scenes of apparent Inflation, apparent history: gambler, financial wizard, archgangster...a fussy bürgerlich mouth, jowls, graceless moves, a first impression of comic technocracy" 579; "Fibel worked for Siemens back when it was still part of the Stinnes trust." 587; [[Sasuly's IG Farben]]

'''Stodda''' 
406; "treatise on steam turbines" studied by Pökler at Peenemünde in '38

[[Stones|'''STONES''']]

'''Stonybloke, Will''' 
65; friend of Slothrop's who appears in toilet adventure

'''Sträggeli''' 
258; listed under "Espionage, Industrial" on the list of Zürich cafés, where Slothrop meets Mario Schweitar; 268;

'''Stralsund''' 
532; "Semlower Strasse in" 692;

'''streets''' 
692; "Semlower Strasse in Stralsund"; "Hafenstrasse in Greifswald"; "Slüterstrasse in the old part of Rostock"; "Wandfärberstrasse in Lüneburg";

'''Stresemann, Gustav (1878-1929)''' 
452; German statesman who entered the Reichtag in 1907, rose to prominance leading the National Liberal Party and eventually, for a few months in 1923, was chancellor of the new German (Weimar) Republic. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1926; "'They pray not only for their daily bread [he said] but also for their daily illusion'"

'''Strobe''' 
89; "Strobe's stimulus" appeared in early Viking editions of Gravity's Rainbow, but was quickly changed to "Jamf's stimulus"; apparently "Strobe" was an early working name for "Jamf"

'''Stuggles, Constable''' 
73; tried to stop LeFroyd from jumping off cliff; 74

'''Südwest''' 
99; German colony from 1892 until1915 when it was taken by South African forces during WWI. It was made a Protectorate of South-West Africa under the League of Nations; now called Namibia, it was under South African control until 1990 when it gained its independence. [MORE]; [MAP]

'''Sue, Eugene (1804-57)''' 
13; "a Eugene Sue melodrama"

:Parisian journalist, called the "king of the popular novel," one of the most widely read writers of melodramatic fiction in the 19th-century France. Sue was sponsored by Prince Eugène de Beauharnais and the empress Joséphine; he used the prince's name to form his famous pen name. Sue gained fame through the roman-feuilleton, the serial novel which gained its height in the French periodical press in the 1840's. Sue's republican and socialist views are reflected in his best-known novels, Les Mystères de Paris (1842-43), set in the Paris slums, and Le Juif errant (1844-45), published in installments for Le Constitutionnel in 1842-1843. ''' 
The above is from this [http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/esue.htm excellent online biography].

'''Suggenthal''' 
269;

'''Sundial''' 
472; cartoon character

'''surface''' 
"she fears the Change, choosing instead only trivially to revise what matters least, ornament and clothing, going no further than politic transvestism" 97; "lust in the face--the mask--of instant talion" 100; "house is outward-and-visible sign" 448;

'''sus. per coll. crowd''' 
329; In the English practice, a calendar is made out of attainted criminals, and the judge signs the calendar with their separate judgments in the margin. In the case of a capital felony. it is written opposite the prisoner's name, "let him be hanged by the neck," which, when the proceedings were in Latin, was, "suspendatur per collum," or, in the abbreviated form, "sus' per coll'."

'''Suso, Heinrich (1295-1336)''' 
129; German mystic and preacher [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Seuse]. His composition [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_dulci_jubilo In Dulci Jubilo] is a German/Latin macaronic carol (Pynchon (mis)spells it "macronic" and (mis)dates it as "fifteenth century" it's 14th C.); the first verse (of four), quoted in GR, can be translated as follows:

:In dulci jubilo (In sweet Joy) 
:Sing and shout all below! 
:He for whom we're pining 
:Lies in praesepio (In a manger) 
:Like the sun is shining 
:Matris in gremio. (In His mothers lap.) 
:Qui est A et O. (Who is Alpha and Omega.) 
:In Dulci Jubilo Web Page

'''Suvorov''' 
350; Rozhdestvenski's flagship on which Tchitcherine's father was a gunner

'''Swanlake, Jessica''' 
30; "young rosy girl in the uniform of an ATS private" who has wartime affair with Roger Mexico; at Snoxall's seance, 30-34; meets Mexico, 38-39; Fay Wray look, 57; girlfriend of Jeremy "Old Beaver" 121; 627; "Her future is with the World's own" 629; working for Pointsman, 631; 640; hardened toward Mexico, 708-09

<div id="nancy"></div>'''Swanlake, Nancy''' 
174-77; Jessica's sister; late husband was Keith; kids: Penelope (also p.277), Claire, Elizabeth

'''Swinemünde''' 
459: a town in NW Poland, on the island of Usedom, at the mouth of the Swina River. It is the outer port for Szczecin (Polish name for "Stettin") and a fishing center and seaside resort. First mention of the town dates from 1181. During World War II, the town was a German naval base.

'''Swope, Gerard (1872-1957)''' 
Swope, president of the General Electric Company (1922-39; 1942-44) in the United States, greatly expanded GE's line of consumer products and pioneered profit-sharing and other benefits programs for its employees. After his retirement from GE in 1939, he chaired the New York City Housing Authority until 1942; "was ace buddies with old FDR [...] one-thim Brain Trusters" 565; "Business Advisory Council set up under Swope of General Electric, whose ideas on matters of 'control' ran close to those of Walter Rathenau, of German GE" 581;

'''Sztup, Mme.''' 
463; Yiddish: "poke" or "fuck"; passenger on the Anubis

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'''G-5''' 
125; Weisenburger quoting A.M. Taylor: "that section of the Army set up to take over local government in lands occupied by invasion forces. Other sections are G-1 personnel, G-2 Intelligence, G-3 Training and Plans, G-4 Supply and Evacuation."; 290; 644;

'''Galina''' 
339; worked for Tchitcherine in C. Asia; "connoisseuse of silences"; during Tchitcherine's haunting, 705

'''Gallaho Mews''' 
217; alley in London where PISCES Twelfth House is located; "all-night cinema, around the corner from" 542; Mexico's arrival, 632

'''Ganister, Herbert''' 
166; English chemist

'''Gantt, Dr. Horsley''' 
W. Horsley Gantt's Russian Medicine (1937), shows the relation of Pavlov to prominent Russians in medicine; 88

'''Garmisch''' 
Garmisch-Partenkirchen is a ski resort in the Bavarian Alps in southern Germany where the Allies held and interrogated von Braun, Dornberger and other Peenemünders; 273; 527; [http://www.garmisch.de Website]

'''gate''' 
552; 40s slang: a swinger, as in a "swinging gate"; 594

'''Geheime Kommandosache''' 
313; (German) 'Top Secret'

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

'''Gemüse-Brücke''' 
261; in Zürich

'''General Aniline''' 
630; an American subsidiary/licensee of IG

'''General Electric (GE)''' 
Project Hermes people from, 287; "helmet liners with GE stenciled on" 304; 307; Marvy together with, 326; interlocks, 332; interest in Toiletship, 448; Steve employee of, 449; connections with Siemens, 565; Swope/Business Advisory Council, 581; 654; Joe Kennedy and, 682; 712; [GE Website]

'''General Forces Programme''' 
592;

'''General Staff''' 
152; According to Sasuly: "the nerve center of the German Army [and] the ultimate citadel of Junkerdom". It was abolished by the terms of the Versailles Treaty after WWI, but was reorganized as the Ministry of Defense; 401; 630;

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

<div id="gentian">'''gentian'''</div>
A flowering plant family with about 400 species; German name is [[E#enzian|''Enzian'']]; is sometimes used as a flavouring, for example in bitters, and the soft drink [[M#moxie|Moxie]] which contains "Gentian Root Extractives"; inspiration for Enzian's name, 101; "gentian brandy" 258; "tin Moxie signs gentian and bittersweet as the taste they were there to hustle" 471; "My mountain gentian always knew" 722

'''George, Lloyd''' 
145; former British Prime Minister; "likeness of [...] in heliotrope and sea-green"; 237

'''George, Stefan''' 
403; "One of these German mystics who grew up reading"

'''Georgian''' 
340; Stalin was from Georgia

'''Gerda and her Fur Boa''' 
451; one of the films on the "hand-cranked peep shows" on the Toiletship, which Achtfaden has watched 178 times; 455;

'''German Expressionist''' 
"ripples" 513; "pig" 568; See also [[M#metropolis|Metropolis/Metropolis]]

'''Germans''' 
"German and precise confidence" 25; "Wuotan and his mad army" 72; the "Führer-principle" 81; "ein Volk, ein Führer" ["one people, one leader"], 131; "another comical German euphemism" 164; "crowded with German-Baroque perplexities of shape" 208; and Control, 238; Slothrop's dreaming in German, 240; "German-scientist mind" 268; "one of these little brightly painted German toys" 282; "You sound like a German [...] Forget subdivisions." 294; humor, 309; Brocken: "the very plexus of German evil" 329; "a wistful German thing with his upper lip" 333; "the Germans wasted their horses" 337; "German dreams of the Tenth-Elegy angel coming" 341; "the same German impulse that once rolled flower-boats through the towns" 361; "'They're deciding how to cut up Germany.' [...] They should call in the Germans, Kerl, we've been doing that for centuries" 370; "improvisation from a German?"--372; "German humor's a fine way to start the morning" 372; New German Architecture, 372; "the profound humility that only a German movie director can summon" 388; mania for subdividing, 391 ("German mania for name-giving, dividing the Creation finer and finer"), 448 ("Toiletship, a triumph of the German mania for subdividing"); "unpatriotic to say that a German ruler could also be a madman" 394; "One of these German mystics [...] ready to accept Hitler on the basis of Demian-metaphysics" 403; "connection between the German mind and the rapid flashing of successive stills to counterfeit movement" 407; Hoard of the Nibelungen, 419; dialectic, 440; analysis of pot, 442; "simple-minded German symphonic arc" 443; "you Germans are crazy, you all think the world's against you" 445; "the primitive German, God's poorest and most panicked creature" 465; "Looks like German movies have warped other outlooks around here too" 474; "A German Odyssey" 486; "'I'll sign a form if you want.' Well, that's Howdy Podner in German." 492; Schadenfreude [joy at another's misfortune], 526, 745; "German toilet jokes" 530; "anxieties about encirclement" 614; "Bodine's laugh [...] has grown more German" 742

'''[[German Translations|GERMAN TRANSLATIONS]]'''

'''Geschwindig, Hansel''' 
651; (German: "swift") - Weimar street urchin who steals Byron the Bulb from the glassblower

'''Gessner''' 
455; his section at Peenemünde

'''Ghislaine''' 
183; girl on the beach, along with Françoise and Yvonne, who is a dancer at the Casino Hermann Goering; with Bloat;188-89 (named); 194; 204

'''Ginger Groupers''' 
615; "jamming [Mossmoon's] switchboard and [...] mailbox day and night"

'''Gilbert & Sullivan''' 
Composer Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) and librettist W.S. Gilbert (1836-1911) collaboratively developed a distinctive English form of the operetta. The combination of Gilbert's satire and verbal ingenuity and Sullivan's melodiousness and sense of parody created such internationally acclaimed works as H.M.S. Pinafore (1878) and The Pirates of Penzance (1879). Sullivan's dislike of what he considered the artificial nature of Gilbert's plots led to their split; "a blithe, Gilbert & Sullivan ingenue's thewse" 116

'''Gimbel's''' 
690; New York City department store since the early 1900s, located at 33rd & Broadway. The basement at Gimbel's featured "bargain-basement" buys. The store closed on September 27, 1986.

'''Giovanni, Don''' 
270; his "map of Europe"

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

'''Glacists''' 
73; "lords of the winter" who can decipher ice

'''Glass Mountain, the''' 
419; at Zwölfkinder

'''Glimpf, Prof.''' 
309; German: gentleness; Professor of Mathematics of the Technische Hochschule, Darmstadt; Scientific Advisor to the Allied Military Government

'''Glitherius Paint & Dye''' 
581; "a Berlin firm" sold to Bland by the Alien Property Custodian

'''Gloaming, Milton''' 
31; [gloaming = twilight]; friend of Roger Mexico; word-counting project in Psi Section of SOE, developing vocabulary of curves, 32; 629; "just back from a jaunt through the Zone" 630; 638

'''Gloob, Lady Mnemosyne''' 
716; at Krupp party

'''Gloucester''' 
52; Pointsman's springer spaniel

'''Gloucestershire Old Spots''' 
82; pigs

'''Gnahb, Otto''' 
492; aka "the silent Otto"; son of Frau Gnahb

'''Gnahb, Frau''' 
492; "Queen of the coastal trade" runs black market along Baltic coast; 602; 623; [poss. etymology: "Gnahb" spelled backwards--bear with me here--is "bhang" the drink made from flowering tops of the marijuana plant, cannabis sativa]; See also Wilhelm Busch

'''Gnosticism''' 
"the Director's clever Gnostic symbolism in the lighting scheme of the two shadows, Cain's and Abel's" 429; "heretics there will be: Gnostics who have been taken in a rush of wind and fire to chambers of the Rocket-throne" 727; "'That's why you see Gnostics so hunted. The sacrament of the Eucharist is really drinking the blood of the enemy. The Grail, the Sangraal, is the bloody vehicle.'" 739; "The Tower. [...] Others see a Gnostic or Cathar symbol for the Church of Rome" 747

'''Gobbitch, Bartley''' 
9; at Pirate's maisonette

'''God''' 
"God has plucked [the rocket] for him, out of its airless sky, like a steel banana" 8; "wasted gods urging on a tardy glacier" 9; "Putting control inside was ratifying what de facto had happened--that you had dispensed with God." 30; "every true god must be both organizer and destroyer" 99; "tried to cage his old gods, snare them in words" 99; Dodoes "so ugly as to embody argument against a Godly creation" 110; "For as much as [Dodoes] are the creatures of God, and have the gift of rational discourse" 111; "God could not be that cruel" 111; "when the land was still free [...] and the presence of the Creator much more direct" 214; "the numinous certainty of" 242; "his own WASPs in buckled black, who heard God clamoring to them in every turn of a leaf" 281; "multitudes passed over by God and History" 299; "Ndjambi Karunga and the Christian God were too far away. There was no difference between the behavior of a good and the operations of pure chance" 323; "Using a non-Arabic alphabet is felt to be a sin against" 354; "Will of God Theory" 362; "God's indifferent sunlight in all its bleaching and terror" 364; "Each plot carries its signature. Some are God's, some masquerade as God's" 464; "God's poorest and most panicked creature" 465; canine theology of "the remembered image of one human" 614; "God is who knows their number. Atropos is who severs them to different lengths. So, God under the aspet of Atropos, she who cannot be turned" 643; "Procalowski-down-out-of-the sky-in-a-machine" 672; "God, death, nothingness, redemption, salvation" 693; "What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?" 699; "Wimpe: 'I mean theophosphate, Vaslav,' indicating the Presence of God" 702; "God's spoilers. [...] It is our mission to promote death." 720; "By all the holy names of God" 734; "The Ravens of Death have now tasted of the Poison of God" 748; "'God sent out a pulse of energy into the void. [...] To return to God, the soul must negotiate each of the Sephiroth, from ten back to one." 753; "the Tree of Life. It is also the body of God" 753; See also [[C#christianity|Christianity]]; [[M#mythology|Mythology]]; [[T#theophile|Theophile]]

'''Gödel's Theorem''' 
275; According to Hofstadter (p.17): "appears as Proposition VI in [Kurt Gödel's] 1931 paper 'On Formally Undecidable Propositions in Principia Mathematica and Related Systems I.' It states: [...] All consistent axiomatic formulations of number theory include undecidable propositions."; 320; See also [[M#murphy|Murphy's Law]]

'''Goebbels, Josef Paul (1897-1945)''' 
287; Chief propagandist of the Nazi Party and Nazi Propaganda Minister; "less than giddy imagination reaching no further than Alpine Redoubts"; saw von Göll's Good Society three times, 394; footage of Erdmann's ravishing "found its way into [his] collection" 461; "believed in the Rocket as an avenger" 747;

'''Goetzke, Bernhardt''' 
579; Actually 'Bernhard' Goetzke (1884-1964). German actor born in Danzig; played State Prosecutor von Wenk in Dr. Mabuse, and "tender, wistful bureaucratic Death in Der Müde Tod"; "bourgeois Goetzkian death" 579;

'''''Going My Way''''' 
38; A 1944 film directed by Leo McCarey. It is a light-hearted musical comedy/drama about a new young priest (Bing Crosby) taking over a parish from an established old veteran (Barry Fitzgerald). Crosby sings five songs in the film. It was followed the next year by a sequel, The Bells of St. Mary's. This picture was the highest-grossing picture of 1944, and its success helped to make movie exhibitors choose Crosby as the biggest box-office draw of the year, a record he would hold for the remainder of the 1940s.

'''Gold Star''' 
134; "your mother hoping to hang that"; The group American Gold Star Mothers was formed after WWI. The name derives from the custom of families of servicemen hanging a banner called a Service Flag in their front window. It had a star for each family member in the military. Living servicemen were represented by a blue star, and those who had lost their lives were represented by a gold star.

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

<div id="goll"></div>'''Göll, Gerhardt von''' 
112; [Italian: "vongole" = "clams"] German filmmaker; making Schwarzkommando movie, 112-13; "commerce has not taken away von Göll's Touch" 112 (see also: Göllerei, 429); and Trefoil, 147; can be found "on the Strand-Promenade" 294; aka Der Springer--film director turned black-marketeer, 385; Martin Fierro film, 386; used "Emulsion J" which made the outer layer of skin translucent ["When something real is about to happen to you, you go toward it with a transparent surface parallel to your own front [. . .]" (p.754)], 387; thinks he brought Schwarzkommando into being, 388; Alpdrucken featured lighting from top and bottom (Gnostic symbolism - Cain & Abel [429]), 394; corridor metaphysics, 394; "About 50, bleak and neutral-colored eyes, hair thick at the sides of his head and brushed back" 494; no- show at Putzi's, 610; also made The Good Society; 611; "his corporate octopus wrapping every last negotiable item in the Zone" 611; floor movie at Der Platz (New Dope), 745; 750; See also [[S#springer|Springer, Der]]

'''Gollin, Mr. Geoffrey''' 
240; chief assistant to Isaac Lubbock and the person Hilary Bounce reports to; Tölölyan reports that Gollin was a British intelligence officer whom the Russians allowed to search Blizna after it was liberated. There he actually found rocket documents in the SS latrines; they had apparently tried to flush them down the toilets during their hasty retreat.

'''Gomerians''' 
La Gomera is the most westward of the Canary Islands, off the coast of North Africa. Until Columbus "discovered" the New World, it was the westernmost land known to the Europeans. The inhabitants of the deep valleys used to communicate with each other in a whistling language, comparable to the "yodeling" in Central European Alps. [[La Gomera|Barbara Kingsolver has written about La Gomera]]; "whistling from the high ravines" 453; "Gomera was the last piece of land Columbus touched before America" 453; See also Chipuda

'''Gondwanaland''' 
321; the super-continent that was the Americas and Europe, "before the continents drifted apart"; 388

'''Gongue, Jean-Claude''' 
246; "notorious white slaver of Marseilles" at de la Perlimpinpin party

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

'''Gorr, Dr.''' 
630; ran Vermittlungsstelle W with Dr. Dieckmann

'''Goths''' 
Goths: These Germanic people originated in southern Scandinavia and crossed in three ships under their king Berig to the southern shore of the Baltic Sea, where they settled after defeating the Vandals and other Germanic peoples in that area; 206

'''Gottfried''' 
94-99; "ranked with his battery near Schußstelle 3" 95; with Katje and Blicero, 101-04; his perspective, 102-04; "Who was that, going by just then--who was the slender boy who flickered across her path, so blond, so white he was nearly invisible in the hot haze that had come to settle over Zwölfkinder? Did she see him, and did she know him for her own second shadow?" 429; German: "God's peace" 465; "the young pet and protege of Captain Blicero" 484; mapped on to Bianca, 484, 672, 723 (Gottfried to Blicero: "I remember that you used to whisper me to sleep with stories of us one day living on the moon"); "something was being planned" for, 485; "a load inside near vane 3 that complicated roll and yaw control almost impossibly" 564; and Thanatz, 670-71; 721; mapped onto Ilse (via Moon references), 723; his launch, 750; [Etymological Musings]

'''Gould, Jay (1836-1892)''' 
Gould's reputation as one of the leading robber barons of his era was assured by his actions as a director of the Erie Railroad. In 1869, he worked with allies James Fisk and Daniel Drew to combat Cornelius Vanderbilt 's acquisition of the railroad in the infamous Erie War. Gould used every underhanded trick, from bribing public officials to massively watering stock. Later in 1869, Gould and his partners attempted to corner the gold market, but their scheme fell apart on Black Friday . The public was enraged and thousands of investors were ruined. In 1872, following Fisk's death, Gould was forced out as a director of the Erie [From U-S-History.com]; "what Jubilee Jim Fisk told the Congressional committee investigating his and Jay Gould's scheme to corner gold in 1869," 438

'''Goya''' 
657; "even Goya couldn't draw ya"

'''Grafty Green''' 
127; village in Kent, south of London

'''Graham, "Micro"''' 
295; gives secret tours of the Mittelwerk during US occupation. A pun on 'microgram'.

'''Grant, Cary (1904-1986)''' 
British-American actor, born Archibald Alexander Leach. With his distinctive yet not quite placeable Mid-Atlantic accent, he was noted as perhaps the foremost exemplar of the debonair leading man: handsome, virile, charismatic and charming. He was named the second Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute. "no Cary Grant larking in" 13; referring to Slothrop's faux British accent: "it keeps coming out like Cary Grant" 240; "best Cary Grant imitation" 292; "Ge-li, Ge-li, Ge-li" see note [[Pages 279-295#Page 294|294.11]]; "just as smooth as that Cary Grant" 661; 684

'''Graves Registration''' 
643; "back there in Wisconsin"

'''gravity''' 
[[Gravity's Rainbow Title Speculations|''Gravity's Rainbow'' - what is it?]] "violated gravity somehow" 65; "sigh of gravity" 296; "Gravity's grey eminence" 302; "the young scientist-surrogate will be going round and round with old Gravity" 361; "she wants to lose her gravity" 538; "always at the mercy of" 584; "caught in her gravitation" 546; "To find that gravity [...] is really something eerie" 590; "I am Gravity" 639; "generations of gravities" 672; "Center of Gravity" 700; "nothing but his asshole between Gravity and Roger" 709; "Gravity rules" 723; "modest preview of gravitational collapse" 737; "a wine rush is defying" 743; "gravity feed" 758; "Gravity dies away briefly" 759

'''Great Aspinwall Hotel Fire''' 
[[image:aspinwall.jpg|right]]Built in Lenox, Mass., in 1902 by General Thomas Hubbard, the Aspinwall Hotel flourished for many years as a popular resort for the financial and political leaders of the day. It had 400 rooms with a fireplace in each and a resident orchestra. Situated at 1460 feet above sea level, it commanded breath-taking views. It was destroyed by fire in 1931.

:"In 1931, the year of the Great Aspinwall Hotel Fire, young Tyrone was visiting his aunt and uncle in Lenox. [...] The embers fell on and on for five hours [...]" 28-29

'''Great War, the''' 
476; aka World War I

'''Green Reports''' 
630; "flapping through the IG for weeks" after Bland's last transmural journey

'''Greenteeth, Jenny''' 
147; The green hag of Lancashire. Jenny is an evil spirit who haunts stagnant pools in Lancashire. She preys on children who wander too close to the water, grabbing them in her long green fangs and pulling them underwater to drown. She can be found in any pool or pond which is covered in green scum. Obviously, she's invoked to keep the kids away from the water. [IMAGE]

'''Greifswalder Oie''' 
404; small island off Usedom converted into a rocket launching site; 414; Greifswald, 681, 692

'''Gretchens''' 
"Quit Kvetchin', Gretchen!" 289; participating in "roasting" of Mexico, 714; See also Slothrop's girls/stars

'''Grid''' 
"a glittering map. . .ruled off into 576 squares" 55; sieves, 56; "crosshatchings of his black rubber soles" 70; "corporate lattice" 75; "Dutch grid's 380 volts" 101; "to keep Grid Time synchronized with Greenwich Mean Time" 133; "the Grid runs inching ever faster" 134; "Quisling molecules have shifted in latticelike ways" 176; "back in France's power grid" 190; "Forget subdivisions" 294; 400; ego as grid, 404; "the holy grid" 404; "screen door salesman" 447; the Iron Toad "hooked up to the European Grid" 604; Byron's "many agents in the Grid" 649; "when folklore comes flickering in from other parts of the Grid" 650; "a sin against the" 652; "noticed a fall-off in revenues" 654; "the Grid is wide open, all messages can be heard" 655; "the Grid's big function in this System is iceboxery" 678; "along the grooves of the Raketen-Stadt's street-grid" 674; See also chess; routinization/rationalization of charisma

'''Grigori''' 
51; aka Grischa (diminutive of Grigori); octopus conditioned by Pointsman to abduct Katje in order to get at Slothrop; "unconditioned response to prey is very reliable" 52; shown movie of Katje, 113; attacks Katje, 186; Waxwing sez it never happened, 248; 533; octopus as metaphor, 611; 662; See also City Dactylic; octopus

'''Grimm, the Brothers''' 
74; Brothers Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859) are known for their collections of folk songs and folktales, especially Kinder- und Hausmärchen ("Child and Family Fairy Tales," aka "Grimm's Fairy Tales") (1812-22), which formed a foundation for the science of comparative folklore. Apparently, Jacob Grimm's large work Teutonic Mythology provided source material for Gravity's Rainbow.

'''Groast, Dr. (the elder)''' 
147; Rollo's father, in Lancashire

'''Groast, Dr. Rollo''' 
34; works in ARF wing; 79; 85; 147; "assumed back into the Society for Psychical Research" 273; with Greta, 474

'''Gross Suckling Conference''' 
706; attended by Eventyr, Gwinhidwy, Mexico, Morituri - discuss mandalas in relation to rocket firings

'''Grosser Stern''' 
365; German: "Great Star"; This is a traffic circle in the middle of the Tiergarten (zoo) in Berlin; near where Slothrop is "orbiting" 365

'''Grössli Chemical Corporation''' 
250; became Psychochemie AG; spinoff from Sandoz; 284; 286

'''Grunt-Gobbinette, Sir Hannibal''' 
716-17; at Krupp party

'''Grunton, Myron''' 
74; worked for BBC; instrumental in creating Operation Black Wing; works at White Visitation; 92; 112; 227; "again a full-time wireless personality" 273

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

'''Guinan, Texas (1884-1933)''' 
657; This colorful divorcee ran one ofthe most notorious and outrageous speakeasies in Manhattan in the 1920s. By 1928, four of her roving clubs had been raided and closed, but a fifth was going strong. Perched on top of a piano, Guinan held court and let fly with bawdy anecdotes, and emceed performances by singers and dancers from 11 p.m. until 7 a.m. "Curfew shall not ring tonight!" was her rallying cry. She greeted her patrons with the shriek of a police whistle and a derisive, "Hello, Suckers!" Mae West was a fan of hers and incorporated much of Guinan's style and material into her own act (though she never acknowledged the contribution). Phyllis Diller played her in the 1961 film, Splendor in the Grass. After her club was finally shut down in 1929 she took a troupe of dancing girls to Paris. When French officials in the U.S. tried to block her departure, there was a popular outcry in Paris in her support, to which she responded "Fifty million Frenchmen can't be wrong." The Paris stint was unsuccessful.

'''Gülcher Thermosäule''' 
518; Gülcher Thermostat

'''Gustav''' 
See [[S#schlabone|Schlabone, Gustav]]

'''Guthrie, Tyrone (1900-71)''' 
148; British theatrical producer and administrator of the Old Vic and Sadler's Wells between 1939 and 1945.

'''Gutiérrez, Ricky''' 
249; involved in Zoot Suit Riots of 1943 in Los Angeles

'''Gwenhidwy, Thomas''' 
52; at White Visitation; one of the keepers of The Book; "inside his fluffy beard" 139; singing "Diadem" at fighter runways,169; at Pirate's, singing, 639; 706. In Welsh mythology, Gwenhidwy is a beautiful mermaid bringing luck to fishermen.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''New Dealers''' 
77; Started in 1933 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the "New Deal" program was set up to combat the Great Depression, by abandoning the gold standard, devaluing the dollar, state intervention in the credit market, agricultural price support, and the passage of the Social Security Act (1935) which provided for old-age and unemployment insurance.

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

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

'''Niederdorf''' 
261; in Zürich

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Norden device''' 
151; A tachymetric bombsight used by Allied bombers in WWII

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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