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==Page 281==
281.01-02 '''die kalte Sophie''' 
"cold wisdom"? Correspondent Morten Peters gives a better explanation!:
"-the allusion may be intended by Pynchon, but originally this is just the German traditional agricolan term for the last day of the "eisheiligen", which are normally the last days in the year that can be really cold."
Igor Zabel also offers the following:

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

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

281.20 '''DP''' 
Displaced Person

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

==Page 285==
'''285.37 Jim Fisk style''' 
Before his involvement with gold markets and railroads, Fisk was a Yankee peddler working the Berkshires. There are several references to him in ''The Berkshire Hills'' (though his name is misspelled "Fiske").

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 289==
289.29-30 '''Lotta those ''fags'' still around, with baskets and 175 badges''' 
''Fags'' of course being slang for homosexual men; 175 badges refer to the pink triangle badges worn by suspected or known homosexuals (usually men) under the Nazi regime. They are called 175 badges because [http://www.ushmm.org/learn/students/learning-materials-and-resources/homosexuals-victims-of-the-nazi-era/paragraph-175 paragraph 175 of the German criminal code], as revised by the Nazis in 1935, made a wide range of activities between men illegal.

==Page 290==
290.8 '''Under my linden tree''' 
Allusion to Middle High German lyric poet [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_von_der_Vogelweide Walter von der Vogelweide's] (c. 1170 - c. 1230) most famous love song [http://www.planck.com/rhymedtranslations/vogelweidelinden.htm "Under der linden"], where the singer implied is another young girl.

290.15 '''Geli Tripping''' 
Another name taken from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_and_Sullivan Gilbert and Sullivan], this time from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.M.S._Pinafore ''HMS Pinafore''] (1878). When the Female Relations of Sir Joseph Porter, the First Lord of the Admiralty, board the ship, they sing, "Gaily tripping,/ Lightly skipping,/ Flock the maidens to the shipping." ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiDsxbqV3rw Have a listen...]) The name is not without psychedelic overtones reminiscent of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merry_Pranksters Merry Pranksters]. [[Sir Joseph's Barge is Seen|Read the lyrics...]]

ALSO, in Pynchon's 2025 novel ''Shadow Ticket'' we have [https://shadowticket.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=D#glow Glow Tripforth del Vasto], "to trip forth" having basically the same meaning as "gaily tripping," both rather archaic phrases meaning to move lightly, happily, and with a dancing or skipping step.

290.16 '''A Soviet intelligence officer named Tchitcherine''' 
Explaining the sources for the name, Weisenburger cites Theodore von Kármán (''The Wind and Beyond''. Boston: Little, 1967), and David Seed ("Pynchon's Two Tchitcherines", ''Pynchon Notes'' 5:11-12). Kármán writes the following:

<blockquote>"Frank Tchitcherine was of Russian origin, and in fact had been related to the first minister of education in the Kerensky government. This Tchitcherine helped convince the Germans to disclose their hiding place for literally tons on research documents pertaining to the rocket and supersonic flight."</blockquote>

It seems Von Kármán was wrong about both the date and the function. There was only one Chicherin on the Russian political scene at that time. Kerensky's minister of education was [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Manuilov A. A. Manuilov], who was in no position to convince the Germans about anything as the two nations were at war while the Kerensky government was in office. (In fact, German rocket research began in earnest only after 1929, when Hermann Oberth published ''Die Rakete zu den Planetenräumen''.) On the other hand, Georgy Chicherin, an aristocrat by birth and a lover of German culture, was an ideal diplomatic partner for German foreign ministers Von Brockdorff-Rantzau, Rathenau, and Stresemann.

"Vaslav" is obviously taken from Nijinsky's first name. There is no such Russian name as Vaslav. Originally it was Vatslav but the affricate [ts] was smoothed to [s], perhaps because it was easier for the French to pronounce.

It's likely that the following Frank W. Tchitcherine the subject of the above biographical sketch is the source of the character's surname. The Tchitcherines were active in Westport CT social circles. It's quite possible that Pynchon was aware of him. The following is from [http://www.achilles.org/ftp/annual/2005.pdf http://www.achilles.org/ftp/annual/2005.pdf]

<blockquote>
Frank Wirtheim Tchitcherine was born in Paris in 1907. His father, F.H. Wirtheim, had been a lion tamer, and it is tempting to conjecture that he was not entirely successful in his profession, for Frank’s mother, Clementine de Vere, a ‘performer’ subsequently remarried Prince Vladimir Titcherine. Having been duly adopted by his royal stepfather, Frank was educated at Brighton College, before studying at Corpus, Cambridge, from 1927 to 1929. As well as winning the 440y in the Varsity Match of 1929, he had also competed in the same event in 1928. He competed for Achilles in several major athletics meetings in the UK and Europe in 1929, and was part of the combined Oxford and Cambridge team which travelled to America that summer for matches against Harvard & Yale (he placed 2nd in the 440y on 13.7.1929) Princeton & Cornell, and Canadian universities. His best performance ever was 49.4 (or perhaps 49 4/5) seconds for 440y, winning for Achilles v Berliner and Deutsche Sports Clubs at Stamford Bridge on 20 May 1929 (see photo – Roger Leigh Wood was 2nd). Achilles lost track of Frank Tchitcherine, but we learn that he was based in Paris till about 1937, married an Englishwoman from Wimbledon, Sheila Ballingal, served with the US Army during the 2nd World War, described himself as a ‘self-employed consultant’ and died in Connecticut in 1984. [http://www.themagiccafe.com/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=226303&forum=220]</blockquote>

[[File:Tchitcherine.jpg|thumb|left|200px]]In October 2013, a book formerly owned both by Frank W. Tchitcherine and Hermann Goering ''Combustion Flames & Explosions of Gases'' by Lewis & von Elbe was offered for sale on eBay.

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

==Page 293==
293.15
'''I was voted the Sweetheart of 3/Art. Abt. (mot) 485''' 
Contrary to what Weisenburger claims in his Companion, there ''was'' such a unit. In fact, their job was launching V2s. Under the supervision on SS-Gruppenführer Kammler, Division z. V. (zur Vergeltung) was set up for launching A4 rockets [http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Waffen/V2.htm]. Within the Division, Artillerie-Abteilung (motorisiert) 485 was part of Gruppe Nord, together with SS-Werfer-Batterie 500. The Abteilung (batalion) was transformed into a regiment in August 1944. While launching units 1 and 2 were in the Hague area, 3/Art. Abt. (mot) 485 was stationed in Western Germany, with targets in France and Belgium.

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

==Page 294==
'''294.11 Ge-li, Ge-li, Ge-li''' 
Although often evoked by mimics, Cary Grant never actually said "Ju-dy, Ju-dy, Ju-dy." In the 1939 film ''Only Angels Have Wings'' he did say "Oh, Judy" and "Yes, Judy" to Rita Hayworth's character, and in 1938's ''Bringing Up Baby'' he says "Susan, Susan, Susan".

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

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==Page 281==
281.01-02 '''die kalte Sophie''' 
"cold wisdom"? Correspondent Morten Peters gives a better explanation!:
"-the allusion may be intended by Pynchon, but originally this is just the German traditional agricolan term for the last day of the "eisheiligen", which are normally the last days in the year that can be really cold."
Igor Zabel also offers the following:

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

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

281.20 '''DP''' 
Displaced Person

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

==Page 285==
'''285.37 Jim Fisk style''' 
Before his involvement with gold markets and railroads, Fisk was a Yankee peddler working the Berkshires. There are several references to him in ''The Berkshire Hills'' (though his name is misspelled "Fiske").

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 289==
289.29-30 '''Lotta those ''fags'' still around, with baskets and 175 badges''' 
''Fags'' of course being slang for homosexual men; 175 badges refer to the pink triangle badges worn by suspected or known homosexuals (usually men) under the Nazi regime. They are called 175 badges because [http://www.ushmm.org/learn/students/learning-materials-and-resources/homosexuals-victims-of-the-nazi-era/paragraph-175 paragraph 175 of the German criminal code], as revised by the Nazis in 1935, made a wide range of activities between men illegal.

==Page 290==
290.8 '''Under my linden tree''' 
Allusion to Middle High German lyric poet [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_von_der_Vogelweide Walter von der Vogelweide's] (c. 1170 - c. 1230) most famous love song [http://www.planck.com/rhymedtranslations/vogelweidelinden.htm "Under der linden"], where the singer implied is another young girl.

290.15 '''Geli Tripping''' 
Another name taken from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_and_Sullivan Gilbert and Sullivan], this time from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.M.S._Pinafore ''HMS Pinafore''] (1878). When the Female Relations of Sir Joseph Porter, the First Lord of the Admiralty, board the ship, they sing, "Gaily tripping,/ Lightly skipping,/ Flock the maidens to the shipping." ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiDsxbqV3rw Have a listen...]) The name is not without psychedelic overtones reminiscent of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merry_Pranksters Merry Pranksters]. [[Sir Joseph's Barge is Seen|Read the lyrics...]]

ALSO, in Pynchon's 2025 novel ''Shadow Ticket'' we have Glow Tripforth del Vasto, "to trip forth" having basically the same meaning as "gaily tripping," both rather archaic phrases meaning to move lightly, happily, and with a dancing or skipping step.

290.16 '''A Soviet intelligence officer named Tchitcherine''' 
Explaining the sources for the name, Weisenburger cites Theodore von Kármán (''The Wind and Beyond''. Boston: Little, 1967), and David Seed ("Pynchon's Two Tchitcherines", ''Pynchon Notes'' 5:11-12). Kármán writes the following:

<blockquote>"Frank Tchitcherine was of Russian origin, and in fact had been related to the first minister of education in the Kerensky government. This Tchitcherine helped convince the Germans to disclose their hiding place for literally tons on research documents pertaining to the rocket and supersonic flight."</blockquote>

It seems Von Kármán was wrong about both the date and the function. There was only one Chicherin on the Russian political scene at that time. Kerensky's minister of education was [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Manuilov A. A. Manuilov], who was in no position to convince the Germans about anything as the two nations were at war while the Kerensky government was in office. (In fact, German rocket research began in earnest only after 1929, when Hermann Oberth published ''Die Rakete zu den Planetenräumen''.) On the other hand, Georgy Chicherin, an aristocrat by birth and a lover of German culture, was an ideal diplomatic partner for German foreign ministers Von Brockdorff-Rantzau, Rathenau, and Stresemann.

"Vaslav" is obviously taken from Nijinsky's first name. There is no such Russian name as Vaslav. Originally it was Vatslav but the affricate [ts] was smoothed to [s], perhaps because it was easier for the French to pronounce.

It's likely that the following Frank W. Tchitcherine the subject of the above biographical sketch is the source of the character's surname. The Tchitcherines were active in Westport CT social circles. It's quite possible that Pynchon was aware of him. The following is from [http://www.achilles.org/ftp/annual/2005.pdf http://www.achilles.org/ftp/annual/2005.pdf]

<blockquote>
Frank Wirtheim Tchitcherine was born in Paris in 1907. His father, F.H. Wirtheim, had been a lion tamer, and it is tempting to conjecture that he was not entirely successful in his profession, for Frank’s mother, Clementine de Vere, a ‘performer’ subsequently remarried Prince Vladimir Titcherine. Having been duly adopted by his royal stepfather, Frank was educated at Brighton College, before studying at Corpus, Cambridge, from 1927 to 1929. As well as winning the 440y in the Varsity Match of 1929, he had also competed in the same event in 1928. He competed for Achilles in several major athletics meetings in the UK and Europe in 1929, and was part of the combined Oxford and Cambridge team which travelled to America that summer for matches against Harvard & Yale (he placed 2nd in the 440y on 13.7.1929) Princeton & Cornell, and Canadian universities. His best performance ever was 49.4 (or perhaps 49 4/5) seconds for 440y, winning for Achilles v Berliner and Deutsche Sports Clubs at Stamford Bridge on 20 May 1929 (see photo – Roger Leigh Wood was 2nd). Achilles lost track of Frank Tchitcherine, but we learn that he was based in Paris till about 1937, married an Englishwoman from Wimbledon, Sheila Ballingal, served with the US Army during the 2nd World War, described himself as a ‘self-employed consultant’ and died in Connecticut in 1984. [http://www.themagiccafe.com/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=226303&forum=220]</blockquote>

[[File:Tchitcherine.jpg|thumb|left|200px]]In October 2013, a book formerly owned both by Frank W. Tchitcherine and Hermann Goering ''Combustion Flames & Explosions of Gases'' by Lewis & von Elbe was offered for sale on eBay.

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

==Page 293==
293.15
'''I was voted the Sweetheart of 3/Art. Abt. (mot) 485''' 
Contrary to what Weisenburger claims in his Companion, there ''was'' such a unit. In fact, their job was launching V2s. Under the supervision on SS-Gruppenführer Kammler, Division z. V. (zur Vergeltung) was set up for launching A4 rockets [http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Waffen/V2.htm]. Within the Division, Artillerie-Abteilung (motorisiert) 485 was part of Gruppe Nord, together with SS-Werfer-Batterie 500. The Abteilung (batalion) was transformed into a regiment in August 1944. While launching units 1 and 2 were in the Hague area, 3/Art. Abt. (mot) 485 was stationed in Western Germany, with targets in France and Belgium.

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

==Page 294==
'''294.11 Ge-li, Ge-li, Ge-li''' 
Although often evoked by mimics, Cary Grant never actually said "Ju-dy, Ju-dy, Ju-dy." In the 1939 film ''Only Angels Have Wings'' he did say "Oh, Judy" and "Yes, Judy" to Rita Hayworth's character, and in 1938's ''Bringing Up Baby'' he says "Susan, Susan, Susan".

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

{{GR PbP}}

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2025-11-14T01:25:26Z

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{{GR PbP Text}}

==Page 281==
281.01-02 '''die kalte Sophie''' 
"cold wisdom"? Correspondent Morten Peters gives a better explanation!:
"-the allusion may be intended by Pynchon, but originally this is just the German traditional agricolan term for the last day of the "eisheiligen", which are normally the last days in the year that can be really cold."
Igor Zabel also offers the following:

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

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

281.20 '''DP''' 
Displaced Person

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

==Page 285==
'''285.37 Jim Fisk style''' 
Before his involvement with gold markets and railroads, Fisk was a Yankee peddler working the Berkshires. There are several references to him in ''The Berkshire Hills'' (though his name is misspelled "Fiske").

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 289==
289.29-30 '''Lotta those ''fags'' still around, with baskets and 175 badges''' 
''Fags'' of course being slang for homosexual men; 175 badges refer to the pink triangle badges worn by suspected or known homosexuals (usually men) under the Nazi regime. They are called 175 badges because [http://www.ushmm.org/learn/students/learning-materials-and-resources/homosexuals-victims-of-the-nazi-era/paragraph-175 paragraph 175 of the German criminal code], as revised by the Nazis in 1935, made a wide range of activities between men illegal.

==Page 290==
290.8 '''Under my linden tree''' 
Allusion to Middle High German lyric poet [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_von_der_Vogelweide Walter von der Vogelweide's] (c. 1170 - c. 1230) most famous love song [http://www.planck.com/rhymedtranslations/vogelweidelinden.htm "Under der linden"], where the singer implied is another young girl.

290.15 '''Geli Tripping''' 
Another name taken from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_and_Sullivan Gilbert and Sullivan], this time from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.M.S._Pinafore ''HMS Pinafore''] (1878). When the Female Relations of Sir Joseph Porter, the First Lord of the Admiralty, board the ship, they sing, "Gaily tripping,/ Lightly skipping,/ Flock the maidens to the shipping." ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiDsxbqV3rw Have a listen...]) The name is not without psychedelic overtones reminiscent of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merry_Pranksters Merry Pranksters]. [[Sir Joseph's Barge is Seen|Read the lyrics...]]

290.16 '''A Soviet intelligence officer named Tchitcherine''' 
Explaining the sources for the name, Weisenburger cites Theodore von Kármán (''The Wind and Beyond''. Boston: Little, 1967), and David Seed ("Pynchon's Two Tchitcherines", ''Pynchon Notes'' 5:11-12). Kármán writes the following:

<blockquote>"Frank Tchitcherine was of Russian origin, and in fact had been related to the first minister of education in the Kerensky government. This Tchitcherine helped convince the Germans to disclose their hiding place for literally tons on research documents pertaining to the rocket and supersonic flight."</blockquote>

It seems Von Kármán was wrong about both the date and the function. There was only one Chicherin on the Russian political scene at that time. Kerensky's minister of education was [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Manuilov A. A. Manuilov], who was in no position to convince the Germans about anything as the two nations were at war while the Kerensky government was in office. (In fact, German rocket research began in earnest only after 1929, when Hermann Oberth published ''Die Rakete zu den Planetenräumen''.) On the other hand, Georgy Chicherin, an aristocrat by birth and a lover of German culture, was an ideal diplomatic partner for German foreign ministers Von Brockdorff-Rantzau, Rathenau, and Stresemann.

"Vaslav" is obviously taken from Nijinsky's first name. There is no such Russian name as Vaslav. Originally it was Vatslav but the affricate [ts] was smoothed to [s], perhaps because it was easier for the French to pronounce.

It's likely that the following Frank W. Tchitcherine the subject of the above biographical sketch is the source of the character's surname. The Tchitcherines were active in Westport CT social circles. It's quite possible that Pynchon was aware of him. The following is from [http://www.achilles.org/ftp/annual/2005.pdf http://www.achilles.org/ftp/annual/2005.pdf]

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Frank Wirtheim Tchitcherine was born in Paris in 1907. His father, F.H. Wirtheim, had been a lion tamer, and it is tempting to conjecture that he was not entirely successful in his profession, for Frank’s mother, Clementine de Vere, a ‘performer’ subsequently remarried Prince Vladimir Titcherine. Having been duly adopted by his royal stepfather, Frank was educated at Brighton College, before studying at Corpus, Cambridge, from 1927 to 1929. As well as winning the 440y in the Varsity Match of 1929, he had also competed in the same event in 1928. He competed for Achilles in several major athletics meetings in the UK and Europe in 1929, and was part of the combined Oxford and Cambridge team which travelled to America that summer for matches against Harvard & Yale (he placed 2nd in the 440y on 13.7.1929) Princeton & Cornell, and Canadian universities. His best performance ever was 49.4 (or perhaps 49 4/5) seconds for 440y, winning for Achilles v Berliner and Deutsche Sports Clubs at Stamford Bridge on 20 May 1929 (see photo – Roger Leigh Wood was 2nd). Achilles lost track of Frank Tchitcherine, but we learn that he was based in Paris till about 1937, married an Englishwoman from Wimbledon, Sheila Ballingal, served with the US Army during the 2nd World War, described himself as a ‘self-employed consultant’ and died in Connecticut in 1984. [http://www.themagiccafe.com/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=226303&forum=220]</blockquote>

[[File:Tchitcherine.jpg|thumb|left|200px]]In October 2013, a book formerly owned both by Frank W. Tchitcherine and Hermann Goering ''Combustion Flames & Explosions of Gases'' by Lewis & von Elbe was offered for sale on eBay.

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

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

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

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

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

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'''"Rocket Power" a review of ''Gravity's Rainbow'' by Richard Poirier One of the best!''' 

[[image:Poirier-Review-GR-Illustration.jpg|Illus. - Charles Shields|thumb|left|225px]] American literary critic Richard Poirier's (1925 - 2009) review of ''Gravity's Rainbow'' -- one of the first to appear in print -- in the March 3, 1973 issue of The Saturday Review, is one of the most well written and insightful of all the many reviews Pynchon's third novel garnered. In fact, it's an excellent way to prepare for the actual experience of reading the novel, providing a great overview of the novel's structure and plot.

"At thirty-six, Pynchon has established himself as a novelist of major historical importance. More than any other living writer, including Norman Mailer, he has caught the inward movements of our time in outward manifestations of art and technology so that in being historical he must also be marvelously exorbitant. It is probable that he would not like being called "historical." In ''Gravity's Rainbow'', even more than in his previous work, history -- as Norman 0. Brown proposed in ''Life Against Death'' -- seen as a form of neurosis, a record of the progressive attempt to impose the human will upon the movements of time. Even the very recording of history is such an effort. History-making man is Faustian man. But while this book offers such Faustian types as a rocket genius named Captain Blicero and a Pavlovian behaviorist named Edward Pointsman, it is evident that they are slaves to the systems they think they master."

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[[image:marc-getter.jpg|left|thumb|100px|caption|Marc Getter]] '''Marc Getter, Designer & Illustrator of the original ''Gravity's Rainbow'' Cover''' 
Last year, Tim Ware decided to find out more about [[Marc Getter - Designer and Artist|Marc Getter]] who did the original ''Gravity's Rainbow'' cover design and illustration the city silhouette with sunburst sky. He wanted to ask Marc about the process of creating that beautiful cover. unfortunately, Marc had died in 2008. However, Tim was able to get in contact with his wife, Linda, who really wanted to assist in creating a page about Marc for the ''Gravity's Rainbow'' wiki. [[Marc Getter - Designer and Artist|'''Read about Marc Getter and view his wonderful paintings.''']]

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'''At Sixes and Sevens''' 
To be "at sixes and sevens" is an English phrase and idiom, common in the United Kingdom. It is used to describe a state of confusion or disarray.

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

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

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'''Berliner Luft''' 
German: "air of Berlin." It is an often-used phrase, in the sense of the special Berlin atmosphere.

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375.21 '''something in that rocket needed potassium permanganate''' 
The turbopump used ''calcium'' permanganate. Whatever caused the shortage of the purple stuff, it wasn't the rocket.

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376.31-33 '''the knight who leaps perpetually -- across the chessboard of the zone''' 
In ''Through the Looking Glass,'' Alice attempts to get to the other end of the chessboard to become a queen herself. Along the way she is helped, without much success by the White Knight. 
The conversation and reactions here between Saure and Slothrop are almost a pastiche of the Alice stories. By 1973, when ''GR'' appeared, "acid" and Alice were of course linked forever in the popular consciousness -- largely thanks to Jefferson Airplane.

[[image:zorro-poster.jpg|thumb|100px|right]]376.36 '''Zorro? The Green Hornet?''' 
[[XYZ#zorro|Zorro]] and the Green Hornet are two masked superheroes Slothrop would know from comics and movies. Douglas Fairbanks starred in ''The Mark of Zorro'' in 1920, not 1932, as in [[Weisenburger's Companion to Gravity's Rainbow|Weisenburger's first ''Companion'' edition, corrected in the second ed.]]. Tyrone (!) Power starred in a sound remake in 1940. Britt Reid, the secret identity of The Green Hornet, was the son of Dan Reid, the nephew of the [[L#loneranger|Lone Ranger]].

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377.1-2 '''The wrong word was Schwarzgerat.''' 
Yes, the mythical White Woman is scared away by mention of the "black tool." Clever innuendo/double entendre here. Also possiblly underscoring that the White Woman relates to Virgo(?).

377.31-35 '''photo...long, stiff sausage of very large diameter being stuffed into his mouth...though the hand or agency...is not visible''' 
Reminiscent of the photos of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%2C_Duchess_of_Argyll Margaret, Duchess of Argyll] fellating a naked man where only the man's face and torso, not his head, is shown.

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'''Jubilee Jim''' 
Slothrop’s song evokes the pre-industrial peddler Jim Fisk mentioned in [[Pages 20-29#Page 27|''The Berkshire Hills'']].

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'''A stork flies over, going home...''' 
Could this be an allusion to Goethe's Faust, line 746: "Der Kranich nach der Heimat strebt." (The crane endeavors to reach the homeland.)?

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'''Hauptstufe!''' 
Compare the radio Superman’s words as he is about to fly: "Up, up, and away!"

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381.10 '''When they part company, the newshounds are discussing the candidates for Miss Rheingold 1946. Dorothy Hart’s advocates are the loudest, but Jill Darnley has a majority on her side. It’s all gibberish to Slothrop—it will be months yet before he runs into a beer advertisement featuring the six beauties, and find himself rooting for a girl named Helen Rückert: a blonde with a Dutch surname who will remind him dimly of someone...'''

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382.3 '''Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree''' 
A 1942 hit song for the Andrews Sisters.

382.15 '''Mickey Rooney''' 
Rooney was in Germany, attached to an Army entertainment unit, at the time of the Potsdam Conference but was unable to go to Potsdam and meet Truman himself. However, there is a more likely, if more obscure, reason for the movie star’s presence here: Rocketman’s second magazine, ''Hello, Pal Comics'', only lasted for three issues. ''The Comic Buyer’s Guide'' notes, though, that the comic was unusual because it featured a photograph of a movie star on the cover of each issue. The cover of issue #1 was devoted to Mickey Rooney! Also see my article: "Rooney and the Rocketman" [http://www.ham.muohio.edu/~krafftjm/pynchon.html ''Pynchon Notes''] n 24-25 (1989): 113-115. [[Pages 359-371#Page 366|See note at 366]].

382.15-16 '''Judge Hardy's freckled madcap son''' 
Rooney's most famous role was Andy Hardy in a series of 16 films.

382.21-22 '''more tits than they got at Minsky's''' 
The four Minsky brothers, Abe, Billy, Herbert and Morton, staged burlesque shows at a number of theaters in New York City. Although the shows were declared obscene and outlawed, they were rather tame by modern standards.

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'''dacoits''' 
644; The Dacoits were Burmese guerrillas who fled to the hills and jungle after the overthrow of Burma in 1886, and waged a desultory campaign against the British for several years.

'''Daedalus''' 
Daedalus was the great craftsman of Greek mythology. He built the labyrinth for Minos on Crete and because he may have helped Theseus escape from the maze, he was imprisoned in it with his son Icarus. He fashioned wings out of wax for himself and his son and, as we all know, Icarus flew too close to the sun, his wings melted and he fell to his death. Daedalus escaped to Italy and then Sicily; "the gift of Daedalus that allowed Pökler to put as much labyrinth as required between himself and the inconveniences of caring" 428

'''Daily Herald''' 
231; British newspaper, published in London from 1912 to 1964; typically associated with worker's issues and the Labour Party

'''D'Allesandro, Danny''' 
584; a pinball wizard, one of "the great thumbs of Koekuk and Puyallup, Oyster Bay, Inglewood"

'''dancing-shoe wars''' 
57;

'''Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)''' 
350; Florentine poet, most famous for Divina Commedia (1307) which is an encyclopedic narrative which tells in poetry Dante's journey through Hell and Purgatory by Virgil and to Paradise guided by Beatrice; "They are without a touch of Dante to Their notions of reprisal"

'''d'Annunzio, Gabriele (1863-1938)''' 
"Doomed as d'Annunzio's adventure at Fiume" 478; D'Annunzio was an Italian poet, adventurer and political leader; a fierce patriot, he was a strong supporter of the Fascist party under Mussolini; [More about Fiume]

'''Dan''' 
752; "The Lone Ranger will [...] find his young friend, innocent Dan, swinging from a tree limb by a broken neck"

'''Dan Wall's Chili House''' 
63; where Charlie Parker is playing, in Harlem

'''Darlene''' 
19; nurse at St. Veronica's hospital and lover of Slothrop; 114; 271

'''Darnley, Jill''' 
381; competing for Miss Rheingold 1946

'''Dawes-era''' 
74; Charles Dawes (1865-1951) was the vice-president under Coolidge from 1925-29. He headed the commission that drew up the "Dawes plan" setting out German reparation payments in 1924

'''D-Day''' 
577; "when I heard General Eisenhower on the radio announcing the invasion of Normandy";

'''DEATH''' 
See also angels; Empty Ones; Kollwitz, Käthe; [Discussion of WHO DIES in GR]; [Carl Jung]

'''Degenkolb''' 
448; "heading up the Rocket Committee by then"

'''Degrelle, Léon (1906-94)''' 
Founder and leader of the Rexist Party of Belgium, who collaborated with the Germans during World War II. After Belgium was liberated in September 1944, Degrelle was sentenced in absentia to death as a collaborator. He fled to Spain and became a citizen; Louis Borgesius heard him tell the crowd "that they must let themselves be swept away by the flood, they must act, act, and let the rest take care of itself" 544

'''de la Nuit, Rev. Dr. Paul''' 
56; French: de la nuit = "of the night"; house chaplain at White Visitation; 81; 143; "staff automatist" 146; 149

'''de la Perlimpinpin, Georges ("Poudre")''' 
243; "the Limoges fireworks magnate" and father (?) of Raoul; poudre is French for 'powder', but poudre de la perlimpinpin is slang for 'patent medicine' or 'snake oil'

'''de la Perlimpinpin, Raoul''' 
243; throws big party where hollandaise is spiked with hashish & Italo & Tamara have it out with tanks; 463

<div id="deltaq"></div>'''delta-q''' 
647; a quality increment

<div id="deltat"></div>'''delta-t''' 
An increment of time represented spacially, as on a graph; "Interest from various numbered trusts was still turned [...] in long rallentando, in infinite series just perceptibly, term by term, bying ... never quite to the zero" 28; "the explosion over his head always just about to come" 58; "60 miles up the rockets hanging the measureless instant over the black North Sea" 135; "Our history is an aggregate of last moments" 149; Leni applying it to being in the moment, 159; "The moving vehicle is frozen, in space, to become architecture, and timeless. It was never launched. It will never fall." 301; "a point in space, a point hung precise as the point where burning must end, never launched, never to fall" 302; "corroded Hansel in perpetual arrest" 398; "half-timbered houses, stepped out story by story, about to meet overhead after centuries of imperceptible toppling" 493; "words. . .only delta-t from the things they stand for" 510 (and 100); "nearly about to burn through the last whispering veil" 518; "stairsteps of range and height, delta-x and delta-y, allowing them to grow smaller and smaller, approaching zero [...] frame by frame, delta-x by delta-y, flightless themselves" 567; "the delta-x's and delta-y's of his drifter's spirit" 572; delta-q, 647; rate of change at a cusp, 664; "the delta-t itself" 754; "last thin pages of fluttering closed" 759; "the last delta-t" 760

'''de Mallakastra, Baron''' 
463; passenger on the Anubis

'''de Mérode, Cléo''' 
232; early 20th century dancer; was the mistress of Leopold II of Belgium

'''Demian-metaphysics''' 
403; German novelist Hermann Hesse (1877-1962), experiencing a crisis of the spirit, had psychoanalysis with J.B. Lang, a disciple of Carl Gustav Jung. His novel Demian (1919), which shows the influence of analysis, is about the character Demian (a classic "seeker") and his quest for self-awareness. Published during the troubled Weimar years, the novel was very popular and had a pervasive influence on the Germans. It also made Hesse famous.

'''Denham, Carl''' 
689; director of "King Kong"

'''Denmark''' 
398; "or did you kneel up in the seat, looking over the water, trying to see Denmark?"; "...your new home!' Gray and green, through the mist..." 421; "hooded face of sorrowing Denmark, leaning out over Germany" 484; "off the coast of Denmark" (Frau Gnahb insulting a stone), 497; "If it's Copenhagen she's bound for" 527; "a ghostly crowd of late dandelions waiting for the luminous wind that will break them toward the sea, over to Denmark" 560; "and get over to that Denmark" 623; "crumbs of a pineapple Danish, whorls of an Aetheric Danish" 696; [Thanks to Douglas Kløvedal Lannark for this Denmark listing]

'''De Profundus, Nick''' 
295; "company lounge lizard" and entrepreneur at Mittelwerk during US occupation

'''Der Platz''' 
686; German: "the place"; Säure's communal pad; 711; 745; 746

'''Der Springer''' 
See [[S#springer|Springer, Der]]

'''deuce-and-a-half''' 
313; Nickname for the American Army vehicle vehicle M35A2; ten driven wheels and a camouflage paint scheme. It has 3 axels, as well as a large cargo bed with a 5-ton load carrying capacity.

'''Devil''' 
"Satanic intervention" 110; "midnights of wrestling with the Beast" 111; "Satanic operators of all descriptions" in Psi Section, 125; "old ldies in Altrincham trying to summon up the Devil" 153; "the black scapeape we cast down like Lucifer" 275; "For the devil's kiss" 329; "the Devil behind the [mirror]" 444; "A fall of hours, less extravagant than Lucifer's" 464;

'''Dewey, Thomas (1902-71)''' 
636; was the Republican nomineee for President of the U.S. in 1944 and 1948

'''Diamond Lil''' 
657; Diamond Lil (Honora Ornstein) was a New York City Bowery saloon owner and madame in the 1890s. [[W#maewest|Mae West]] played her in the 1933 film, She Done Him Wrong (with her line "Come up sometime 'n' see me").

'''Dickinson, Emily (1830-86)''' 
28; American poet, personal a-and spiritual

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

'''''Die Frau im Mond''''' 
159; German: 'woman in the moon'; A science fiction silent film that premiered October 15, 1929. It is often considered to be one of the first "serious" science fiction films.It was written and directed by [[Fritz Lang|Fritz Lang]], based on the novel ''Die Frau im Mond'' (1928, translated as ''The Rocket to the Moon'' during 1930) by his then-wife and collaborator Thea von Harbou. It was released in the USA as ''By Rocket to the Moon'', and in the UK as ''Woman in the Moon''.

'''Die Welt am Montag''' 
571; German: "The World on Monday"; a newspaper

'''Dillinger, John (1903-34)''' 
368-69; American gangster specializing in bank robberies; "As B/4" 436; killed at Biograph Theatre in Chicago, 516; bloody shirt, 741

'''Dillon, Reed''' 
565; Thomas Moore: "During the 1930s, Dillon, Reed & Company of Wall Street handled American transactions for the German steel trust Vereinigte
Stahlwerke (p.143)

'''Disgusting English Candy Drill''' 
116

'''Disney, Walter Elias "Walt" (1901–1966)''' 
135; An American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer. He cofounded Walt Disney Productions, which became famous for its innovative animation, iconic characters and theme parks. He was also a leading force behind the anti-comunist movement in Hollywood in the 1940s; 'Disneyfied look', 70

'''Djuro''' 
732; member of Schwarzkommando, with Enzian

'''Dodgem cars''' 
273;

'''Dodson-Truck, Frank''' 
215; son of Sir Stephen's and Nora's of whom they've lost track after he was sent to Indo-China

<div #dodson-truck></div>'''Dodson-Truck, Nora''' 
145-50; scorpio wife of Sir Stephen D-T, lover of Carroll Eventyr and "connoisseuse of splendid weaknesses"; "erotic nihilist" 149; Ideology of the Zero, 218; maps on to Leni?, 218; "her real identity is [...] the Force of Gravity" 639

'''Dodson-Truck, Sir Stephen''' 
206; tutored Slothrop on rocket stuff and technical German at Casino; husband of Nora D-T; disappears from Casino after Slothrop gets him drunk playing "Prince" and he confesses, 211; at Fitzmaurice House, 228; "Nature of Freedom" drill, 541; 544; at Pirate's, 639 Dog Vanya 78; dog in ARF wing undergoing conditioning experiments

'''Domina Nocturna''' 
232; Katje's S&M character ("shining mother and last love") who satisfies Pudding so that Pointsman can keep funding

'''DOPE''' 
See also Gnahb, Frau; LSD; Sodium Amytal; Stonybloke, Will

'''Dora''' 
289; prison camp next to Mittelwerke, mostly foreign prisoners; "When the Americans liberated Dora" 296; "they call them re-education camps" 408; Ilse and Leni, 428; 430; Pökler goes into, 432-33; 175s (homosexual inmates), 665; See also 175-Stadt

'''Double Agent Convention''' 
537-548; "'But that's the only medium we've got now' he cries, 'our gift for bad faith'" 546;

'''DP''' 
281; DPs (displaced persons) were those who were released from German prison camps and slave labor camps after VE Day, as well as German civilians who had been bombed out of their dwellings or who were fleeing advancing armies; Displaced Person's song" 283-84; "Since the surrender there have been these constant skirmishes between the German civilians and foreign prisoners freed from the camps." 327; returning home, 549;

'''dracunculiasis''' 
13; more commonly known as Guinea worm disease (GWD). A preventable infection caused by the parasite Dracunculus medinensis. Infection affects poor communities in remote parts of Africa that do not have safe water to drink [From the Center for Disease Control website]. 
From the OED: 1942 D. L. Belding Clin. Parasitol. xxii. 375 Dracunculus medinensis+. Disease.—Dracontiasis, dracunculosis, dracunculiasis. 1967 Amer. Jrnl. Trop. Med. & Hygiene XVI. 23/1 Dracunculiasis occurs commonly in and around Kurnool. 1973 T. Pynchon ''Gravity's Rainbow'' (1975) i. 13 "Dracunculiasis and Oriental sore rampant among the troops, no beer for a month." 1990 Lancet 8 Sept. 630/1 Several studies have reported on the prevalence of permanent disability resulting from poliomyelitis but dracunculiasis (guineaworm disease), another preventable cause of permanent disease, has not received the same attention.

'''Dragon Lady''' 
670; refers to an Asian woman who is perceived as seductive, desirable but untrustworthy. Movies from the early 20th century portrayed this stereotypical version of the Asian woman, "Daughter of Fu Manchu" being a good example. Scheming, treacherous and dangerous, the Dragon Lady is the female version of the Asian bad guy, only with a slightly different approach to defeat her enemies. She has the power to hypnotize her male rivals, gaining their trust by seducing them and, when they least expect it, gets rid of them through sabotage or backstabbing.

'''dreams/dreaming''' 
Pirate's, 3-4; "rosy as a bunch of Dutch peasants dreaming of their certain resurrection" 5; "Pirate had dreamed these very words" 13; "blinking through an overlay of dream" 29; Pointsman's, 36-38; "Silence comes in, sculptured by spoken dreams" 49; Jessica's, 53; of peacetime, 58; Sodium Amytal-induced toilet adventure, 60-71; "the little baby they dream now of sitting near" 111; Mrs. Quoad's, 119; "after a dream" 121; the Empire's "dreamless version of the real" 129; "the children are away dreaming, but the Empire has no place for dreams" 135; Pointsman's, 137-38; Pointsman's of the Minotaur, 142; Nora DodsonTruck's dreams of flight, 146; Treacle's dreams of flight, 146; Leni's,155-56, 156-58; Leni's dream of flight, 159; "you go from dream to dream inside me" 177; Stalin's pathological, 189; "that touch on the sleeves of his dreams" 209; Pudding's, 232; Slothrop dreaming in German, 240; Slothrop's dream of old pals while in Nice, 255; "[Slothrop] dozes in and out of a hallucination of Alps, fogs, abysses" 257; Slothrop dreaming of Jamf, 268; "a dream of Atlantis, of the Suggenthal" 269; Pointsman's nightmare, 272; "your biography now like any old bad dream" 277; Slothrop's dream (?), 281-83; Slothrop's "Jamf/I" dream, 286-87, 623; Enzian's "wet dream where he coupled with a slender white rocket" 297; Enzian's of an "endless North" 327; "dreaming of food, oblivion, alternate histories. . ." 336; Galina's, 341; "German dreams of the Tenth-Elegy angel" 341; Chu Piang's, 347; 355; Evil Hour, 375; "your dream of pampas and sky" 388; Slothrop's of Berkshire, 392; Alpdrucken ("Nightmare"), 394; Pökler's of rocket, 399-400; Kekulé's dream of 1865, 410; Jung's "ancestral pool" 410; "Pökler dreaming about Kekulé's dream" 412-13; "unrecoverable dreams" 415; Pökler's of bulb as Weissmann, 426-27 (see page 653); "City of Elves producing toy moon-rockets" 431; "Säure's on the move. . .prowling his dreams" 437; Slothrop's transmutation dream, 446-47; "ships we can dream across terrible rapids" 462; Slothrop dreaming of Llandudno, 468; Bianca "dreams often of the same journey" 471; oneiric (dreamlike), 475; "Where was anybody that summer before the War? Dreaming." 475; of battles survived, 490; Slothrop's of Bianca, 492; "Givin' all m'dreams away" 522; Slothrop's of Tantivy, 551-52; "Slothrop dreams" 552; "your saddest dreams" 577; "bursts of destroying beauty there for his dreams to work on" 578; "the dramatic connections that were really all there, in his dreams" 579; Slothrop's of Zwölfkinder and Bianca, 609; "Solange" dreaming of Ilse, 610; Slothrop's of Bette Davis and Margaret Dumont, 619; Pirate's of windmills, 620; "dreaming at the last instant of who can say what lifted smock" 625; Mexico's of Jessica (in the song), 627; "what ladies in black appeared in his dreams" 629; "It wasn't a dream. Don't you wish it could be." 668; Christian's of Maria, 673; "of assassinations, of plots against good and decent men" 689; Dark Dream, 697; keying waves, 699; Beaver's, 708; Gottfried's single dream, 721; "I dream of discovering the edge of the World" 722; "of rendezvous, of cosmic trapeze acts" 723; the Rocket "must answer to a number of different shapes in the dreams of those who touch it" 727; "dream-caressed" 730; "Strung Into the Apollonian Dream" 754; Gottfried, 754; "human figure, dreaming of an early evening in each great capital" 760; See also Jung, Carl

'''Dreyfus Affair''' 
390; Captain Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935) was a French army officer who, in 1893-94, was unjustly accused of delivering to a foreign government documents connected with the national defence, court-martialed and sentenced to life on Devil's Island. In 1906, when anti-semitism had died down in France, the verdict was reversed and he was restored to army rank and fought in WWI.

'''Driwelling''' 
518; engineer at Peenemünde

'''Drohne''' 
487; German: "drone"; "plastics connoisseur" at The Castle

'''Dromond''' 
139; one of the seven original owners of The Book; killed "by German artillery on Shellfire Corner"; 140; 167

'''Dufay, Kim''' 
744; daughter of Pete and Marjorie and schoolmate of Hogan Jr.; [From Pynchon's short story "The Secret Integration" in Slow Learner: "a slender, exotic-looking sixth-grader with a blond pigtail [...] who had a thing about explosive chemical reactions" (p.150)]

'''Dufay, Pete''' 
744; marries Marjorie

'''Dulles, Allen (1893-1969)''' 
268; During WWII, Dulles served with O.S.S. and, when Truman formed the CIA in 1951, he was appointed deputy director and, in 1953, director; "and his 'intelligence' network"

'''Dumbo''' 
one of Osbie Feel's favorite movies, 106; "the lads in Hollywood telling us how grand it all is over here, how much fun, Walt Disney causing Dumbo the elephant to clutch to that feather" 135; "'[Dillinger's bloodstained shirt] worked for me, but I'm out of the Dumbo stage now, I can fly without it." 741

'''Duncan, Isadora (1877-1927)''' 
657; American dancer who was among the first to raise interpretive dance to the status of creative art, incorporating classical, particularly Greek, mythology, art and music. Not very successful in the United States, she took her new style of performance to Europe where it was greeted enthusiastically. She was strangled when her long scarf became entangled in the wheels of a car.

'''Dungans''' 
340; Central Asian people

'''Dunham, Crazy Sue''' 
329; Amy Sprue was ahead of her by 200 years, "sacrificing chickens up on Snodd's Mountain"

'''Dunkirk, Maggie''' 
127; lives in Jessica's dorm

'''du Pont''' 
249; early research on Imipolex G done there

'''Dutch''' 
108; ic heb u liever dan ên everswîn, al waert van finen goude ghewracht (English: I love you more than a wild boar / even if it were made of fine gold)

'''D Wing''' 
139; still houses a few genuine mental patients; White Visitation's cover; most PISCES people avoid it

'''dyes''' 
"Mauve [...] William Perkin discovered it [...] the first new color on Earth" 166; "Tyrian purple, alizarin and indigo, other coal-tar dyes" 166;

'''Dzabajev''' 
390; "teenage Kazazh dope fiend with pimples and a permanently surly look" who is Tchitcherine's sidekick/driver; 564; posing as Frank Sinatra in the Zone, 700; "that sodden Asiatic" 705; with Slothrop, 742; Village Idiot Convention, 743

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'''Kabbalists''' 
"Tree o' Creation," 411; "you fragment of smashed vessel," 478; "the Real Text," 520; "the holy Text," 521; "coal-tar Kabbalists," 590; Astarte and Lilith, 649; "kabbalist's study in Lyons," 650; "Tree," 694; "like water-mirages at the Sixth Antechamber to the Throne" 717; "Rocket as Torah. . .its text is theirs to permute. . .always unfolding," 727; "the Angels Melchidael, Yahoel, Anafiel, and the great Metatron" 734; "the Messiah gathering in the fallen sparks," 737; "Tree of Life," 747; 749-53; Vessels, 757; See also [[M#metatron|Metatron]]; [[Q#qlippoth|Qlippoth]]

'''Kaisersbart Expedition''' 
754; German: "Kaiser's beard, mutton-chops"; found the Bodenplatte "the delta-t itself"

'''Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941)''' 
Ninth king of Prussia and third German emperor (1888-1918); by 1914 he was just a figure head with the real power in the hands of the generals. After the collapse of the German armies at the conclusion of WWI, he was forced to abdicate and moved to Holland and lived happily ever after; "Old Kaiser Bill, you're over the hill" 619

'''Kai-shek, Chiang''' 
See Chiang Kai-shek

'''Kalahari''' 
323; 403; 523; 658; [MAP]

'''Kamikaze''' 
Japanese: "divine wind"; "mock Kamikaze attacks," 310; Morituri at Kamikaze school on Formosa, 473; Bulbs' Kamikaze squads, 649; fallen cherry blossoms, 672; The Wisdom of the Great Kamikaze Pilots, 680; "the slogan of a Kamikaze unit," 696; See also [[#komical|Komical Kamikazes]]

'''Kammler, Maj-Gen''' 
An architect and civil engineer by trade, Dr. Hans Kammler was taken full-time into the Nazi leadership in 1941. He played a prominent role in the building of the death/extermination camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau. In August 1944, Hitler appointed him Special Commissioner for the A-4 program, which program he took over from Dornberger who had been in charge of the program since 1930; in charge of the construction of the Mittlewerk, 282; at Blizna, 424; decision to disburse testing and production sites, 426; 464

'''Kármán, Theodore von (1881-1963)''' 
452; Hungarian-born American physicist and aeronautical engineer, he is sometimes called the father of modern aerodynamics.

'''Karmic Hammer''' 
644; "a '37 Ford, same exemption from"; Karmic wheel, 651;

'''Katje''' 
See [[B#katje|Borgesius, Katje]]

'''Katspiel''' 
584-85; fictional planetoid inhabited by sentient pinballs

'''Katspiel Kid''' 
585;

'''Kazakhs''' 
340; Central Asian people; ex-prisoners-of-war "marching east" 550;

'''KdF ship''' 
453; KdF = Kraft durch Freude = "strength through joy"; KdF was a very popular and successful Nazi program. Cruise-liners were built and priced for the pleasure and leisure of German workers. Another product of the program was the Volkswagen.

'''Kekulé von Stradonitz, Friedrich August (d. 1896)''' 
German chemist; switched from architecture to chemistry, 84; his "dream of 1865" which led to his revolutionizing chemistry and making plastics possible, 410-11; taught by Liebig at Univ. of Glessen, 411

'''Kelvinator-Bostonian dialect''' 
The Kelvinator Corporation, a manufacturer of electric refrigerators and other household appliances, began in 1936 but was sold to the American Motors Corporation in 1968; "folksy old icebox humming along in" 677

'''Kennedy, Joe (1888-1969)''' 
682; Multi-millionaire father of President John F. Kennedy, he held minor administrative posts in Roosevelt's administration and was ambassador to Britain (1938-40); Nalline's letter to;

'''Kennedy, John F. ("Jack") (1917-63)''' 
35th president of the United States and son of Joseph Kennedy. A handsome and charismatic man, he was assassinated in Dallas, Texas in 1963; in Slothrop's class at Harvard, 65; 682; 688

<div id="kenoshakid"></div>
[[image:kenosha-kid.jpg|thumb|200px|"The Kenosha Kid" by Forbes Parkhill (Aug 1931)

"Hatred and dread hung over the town like a pall. Pard turned against pard; every man suspected his neighbor. And to solve that mystery, The Kenosha Kid — Robinhood of straights and flushes — plays his most thrilling game for a desperation jackpot." 

[http://mysite.verizon.net/paul.mackin/kenosha/index.html Thanks to Paul Mackin!] [http://themodernword.com/pynchon/Pynchon_kenosha_kid.html Full text and images at The Modern Word]|right]]'''Kenosha Kid''' 
Kenosha is a city of some 85,000 people in the extreme southeast of Wisconsin, about halfway between Chicago and Milwaukee, and the seat of Kenosha County. It is also the birthplace of filmmaker Orson Welles (May 6, 1915); Kenosha Kid (Sodium Amytal hallucination of Slothrop's while being probed at PISCES about American racial problems), 60-71, 114, 696-97; colonel from Kenosha, WI, 643; Kenosha, WI, 645; "and in Kenosha too!" 645; "Old Kenosho the loony radarman," 691; Kenosha Kid and the Sentimental Surrealist, 696; [http://www.kenosha.org/ Kenosha WI Web Page]; [http://75grand.com/bogarts.htm You Never Did the Kenosha Kid?]

'''Kerl''' 
German: "guy" or "fellow"

'''KEZVH''' 
illustrated, 361; 5 positions of the launching switch for the A4 (Klar: "clear"; Entluftung: "discharge fuel"; Zundung: "ignite"; Vorstufe: "first stage"; Hauptstufe: "main stage"); "in the sky over the Alexanderplatz," 446; mandala in Marvy's green Ford, 560; Herero interpretation, 563

'''Khama, Sir Seretse (1921-80)''' 
323; The nephew of the chief regent of the Bamangwato in Bechuanaland, Khama was educated in Africa and Balliol College, Oxford; he fell in love with an Englishwoman and was thus banned from the chieftanship, but was restored to the chieftanship in 1965. He sent help to the Herero on their trek across the Kalahari; "king of the Bechuanas" in South-West Africa

'''Khlaetsch, Minne''' 
683-84; "an astrologer of the Hamburg School" into whose apartment Säure broke; her screams for help sounded like "Helicopter!" instead of "Cute looking robber!" because of her inability to pronounce umlauts. Girlfriend of Wimpe.

'''Kilgour or Curtis''' 
200; tailors in London

'''Kilkenny to Kew''' 
541; Kilkenny is a county in southwestern Ireland; Kew is situated on the south bank of the river Thames near Richmond, South West London, and is the home of the Royal Botanical Gardens

'''Kim''' 
177; son of Sooty, Jessica's cat See also Sooty

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[[image:king-kong.jpg|thumb|Original "King Kong" poster, 1933|left]]'''King Kong & the Like''' 
[[Fay Wray|Fay Wray look]], 57; Fay Wray, 57, 179, 275; "You will have the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood," 179; "headlights burning like the eyes of" 247; "the black scapeape we cast down like Lucifer," 275; Mitchell Prettyplace book about, 275; "Giant ape" 276; "the Fist of the Ape," 277; "orangutan on wheels," 282; taking a shit, 368; "The figures darkened and deformed, resembling apes" 483; "a troupe of performing chimpanzees" 496; "on the tit with no motor skills," 578; "Negroid apes," 586; "that sacrificial ape," 664; "a gigantic black ape," 688; Carl Denham, 689; poem based on King Kong, 689; See also: actors/directors film/cinema references; [http://www.kongisking.net King Kong Web Page]; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Kong Wikipedia entry]

'''King's Evil''' 
119; aka, scrofula (caseating [becoming cheese-like] tuberculosis of the lymphatic glands), supposedly cured by the royal touch

'''King Tigers''' 
91; Germany's biggest baddest tanks; 103; 262; "Königstiger tank guards" 433;

'''Kinks''' 
167-68; "And the crowds they swarm in Knightsbridge, and the wireless carols drone, and the Underground's a mob-scene, but Pointsman's all alone" [sung to the tune of "Well-Respected Man"]

'''Kinos''' 
155; German: "cinema houses"

'''Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)''' 
This English writer, most famous for the two Jungle Books, was criticized as being an imperialist and jingoist, though he published criticisms and satires on some of the less savory aspects of colonialism; his poem "Fuzzy-Wuzzy"; "it was during [Pirate's] Kipling Period, beastly Fuzzy-Wuzzies as far as the eye could see" 13

<div id="kirghiz">'''Kirghiz'''</div>
"It was a land of drunken nostalgia for the cities, silent Kirghiz riding, endless tremors in the earth" 338; "Young and old Kirghiz came in from the plain, smelling of horses, sour milk and weed-smoke" 338; "Dzaqyp Qulan's father was killed during the 1916 rising [...] one of about 100 fleeing Kirghiz massacred one evening [...] They hunted Sarts, Kazakhs, Kirghiz" 340; "This native uprising was supposed to be the doing of foreigners [...]. How could there be Kazakh, Kirghiz--Eastern--reasons?" 340; "Out into the bones of the backlands ride Tchitcherine and his faithful Kirghiz companion Dzaqyp Qulan." 342; " the Kirghiz pheasants scattering now at the sound of hooves" 343; "That chunky, resinous Turkestan phantasmagoric is fine for Russian, Kirghiz, and other barbaric tastes, but give Chu the tears of the poppy any time" 347; See also [[The Kirghiz Light|Kirghiz Light]]

'''[[The Kirghiz Light|KIRGHIZ LIGHT]]''' 

'''Kollwitz, Käthe (d. 1945)''' 
578; German artist who did a series of sketches on death [Image 1] [Image 2]

'''Koltushy institute''' 
75; where Porkyevitch worked with Pavlov "back before the purge trials"

<div id="komical"></div>'''Komical Kamikazes''' 
690; Takeshi & Ichizo; 697; 738

'''Koran''' 
353; "Tchitcherine transliterates [represents in the characters of another alphabet] the opening sura of"; Koran is "the script in which the word of Allah came down on the Night of Power" 354; See also [[I#islam|Islam]]

'''Kot''' 
German: "shit"

'''KPD''' 
153; Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands: "German Communist Party"; See also Luxemburg, Rosa; Pökler, Leni

'''Krafft-Ebing''' 
232; Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840-1902), a German psychiatrist, wrote Psychopathia Sexualis (1886), describing a variety of sexual proclivities

'''Krakatoa''' 
642; Krakatau volcano lies in the Sunda strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra. In about 416 A.D., caldera collapse destroyed the volcano and formed a 4-mile (7-km) wide caldera. The islands of Krakatau, Verlaten, and Lang are remnants of this volcano. The eruption and collapse of the caldera in 1883 produced one of the largest explosions on Earth in recorded time (VEI=6) and destroyed much of Krakatau island, leaving only a remnant.

'''Krasnyy Arkhiv''' 
349; where Tchitcherine inspected the documents related to his father's doomed voyage

'''Kreuss''' 
451; shipfitter on the Toiletship who, with Höpmann (as the Scatotechnic Snipes), routed the waste lines into the ventilation system, and transferred to icebreaker duty, "erected vaguely turd-shaped monoliths of ice and snow all across the Arctic"; See also [[H#hopmann|Höpmann]]

'''Krodobbly, Missus''' 
741; "drinking her way through the Big Depression" and goes to site of Dillinger murder

'''Kronenhalle''' 
264; where Squalidozzi and Slothrop go, in Zürich; 268

'''Kruppingham-Jones''' 
12; named in Pirate's song about other people's fantasies

<div id="kruppworks"></div>'''Krupp works''' 
"No matter if Girly's on my knee--If Kruppingham-Jones is late to tea," 12; "Why do you think we wanted Krupp to sell them agricultural machinery so badly?" 166; "The theory going around at the time was that Stinnes was conspiring with Krupp, Thyssen, and others to ruin the mark and so get Germany out of paying her war debts." 285; "the "Allied" planes all would have been, ultimately, IG built, by way of Director Krupp, through his English interlocks" 520; "what if it's the Krupp works in Essen, what if it's Blohm & Voss right here in Hamburg or another make-believe 'ruin,'" 521; "Russia bought from Krupp, didn't she, from Siemens, the IG..." 566; "the old Krupp works" 591; "Too many tungsten filaments would [...] disturb the arrangement between General Electric and Krupp about how much tungsten carbide would be produced" 654; "KRUPPALOOMA comes this giant explosion" 690; "Utgarthaloki, an ex-member of management at the Krupp works here in Cuxhaven." 709; "the Krupp wingding" 711; "middle-line Kruppsters creak in the bowlegged velvet chairs" 712; "Nalline Slothrop just before her first martini is right here, in spirit, at this Kruppfest." 712; See also [[#krupp|Krupp, Gustav]]; [[IG Farben|Sasuly's IG Farben]]

<div id="krupp"></div>'''Krupp, Gustav (d. 1950)''' 
aka Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach; German industrialist and director of Krupp works; "The Night Rog and Beaver Fought Over Jessica While She Cried in Krupp's Arms" 713; See also [[#kruppworks|Krupp works]]

'''Krypton, Albert''' 
594; "corpsman striker of the U.S.S. John E. Badass"; doper buddy of Bodine's

'''Krypton Blue''' 
595; "a proprietary mixture" of cocaine which Corpsman Krypton is coming on to

'''Kryptosam''' 
71; used to encrypt messages; de-crypted by rubbing cum on it

'''Kummersdorf''' 
416; site of old Raketenflugplatz

'''Kurhaus''' 
458; German: "spa hotel"; the spa on the Sprudelhof in Bad Karma

'''Kuropatkin, Alexei Nikolaievich (1848-1925)''' 
Russian soldier who commanded the Russian armies on the northern front February-August 1916 and was governor of Turkestan until the Revolution of 1917; Russian whose troops Daqyp Qulan's father was trying to get away from during the 1916 uprising in Central Asia, 340

'''Kursaal''' 
477; German: "casino"; "weekly ball in the"

'''Kurzweg, Prof.-Dr. Hermann''' 
Kurzweg came to Peenemünde in 1937 as head of research and chief assistant to engineer Dr. Rudolph Hermann, working in wind-tunnel research; he was instrumental in refining the design for the A4; Achtfaden "always worked out of [his] shop" 455

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