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10 March 2007

• 18:4718:47, 10 March 2007 diff hist +656 N Pages 733-735 New page: {{GR PbP Text}} ==Page 734== 734.19 '''by the Angels Melchidael, Yahoel, Anafiel, and the great Metatron...<br /> This incantation is a variant on many in mystical traditions, invoking va...
• 18:0118:01, 10 March 2007 diff hist +296 N Pages 724-733 New page: {{GR PbP Text}} ==Page 732== 732.36 '''Djuro'''<br /> A Serbian male name. The Herreros bear German, but also Slavic names, like Djuro, Vlasta (Czech female name, popular also e.g. in Slo... current
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• 17:5317:53, 10 March 2007 diff hist +813 N Pages 717-724 New page: {{GR PbP Text}} ==Page 718== 718.07 '''Bauernfrühstuck'''<br /> German: farmer's breakfast. The recipe: :4 potatoes<br /> :4 bacon strips, fried and crumbled<br /> :3 eggs<br /> :3 ...
• 17:4617:46, 10 March 2007 diff hist +2,728 N Pages 706-717 New page: {{GR PbP Text}} ==Page 707== 707.31 '''Saeugling'''<br /> German: a human baby, suckling, as it is also clear from the description of the picture. ==Page 709== 709.15 '''Crime Does Not P...
• 17:4417:44, 10 March 2007 diff hist +76 N File:Jekyll-hyde-bergman.jpg '''Ingrid Bergman in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'''<br /> (Victor Fleming, 1941) current
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• 17:3017:30, 10 March 2007 diff hist +1,422 N Pages 700-706 New page: {{GR PbP Text}} ==Page 701== 701.01 '''Drunkards Three'''<br /> The title echoes [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergeants_3 ''Sergeants 3''], a 1962 film starring Frank Sinatra and other R...
• 17:2217:22, 10 March 2007 diff hist +1,108 N Pages 663-673 New page: {{GR PbP Text}} ==Page 665== 665.15 '''Faffner'''<br /> In Norse mythology, Fáfnir (Old Norse) or Frænir (Faroese) was a son of the dwarf king Hreidmar and brother of Regin and Ótr. In... current
• 17:2217:22, 10 March 2007 diff hist +140 N File:Dragon-lady.jpg Lai Choi San, the Dragon Lady, Milton Caniff's most iconic character from ''Terry And the Pirates''<br /> (©2006 by Tribune Media Services) current
• 17:0617:06, 10 March 2007 diff hist +1,132 N Pages 656-663 New page: {{GR PbP Text}} ==Page 657== thumb|Mae West|100px|right657.10-11 '''after the style of Diamond Lil or Texas Guinan'''<br /> ''Diamond Lil'' is a 1928 play by sultry... current
• 17:0517:05, 10 March 2007 diff hist +14 N File:Mae-west.jpg '''Mae West''' current
• 16:4816:48, 10 March 2007 diff hist +628 Pages 626-640 No edit summary
• 16:1116:11, 10 March 2007 diff hist +791 N Pages 640-655 New page: {{GR PbP Text}} ==Page 640== 640.30 '''Eddie Pensiero'''<br /> The name is actually an old pun, taken from "La Donna e Mobile," the most famous aria in Verdi’s ''Rigoletto''. The main v...
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• 15:5315:53, 10 March 2007 diff hist +129 N File:Saboteur.jpg '''Final chase scene from Hitchcock's ''Saboteur'' (1942)'''<br /> Robert Cummings and Norman Lloyd on torch of Statue of Liberty current
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• 15:2315:23, 10 March 2007 diff hist +470 N Pages 626-640 New page: {{GR PbP Text}} ==Page 637== 637.10 '''the Statue of Liberty'''<br /> Site of the final chase scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saboteur_%28film%29 ''Saboteur'']...
• 15:1315:13, 10 March 2007 diff hist +1,442 N Pages 617-626 New page: {{GR PbP Text}} ==Page 622== thumb|100px|The Shadow Waltz|right622.30-31 '''that dreamy Dick Powell song'''<br /> Is actually titled "The Shadow Waltz," compose...
• 15:1215:12, 10 March 2007 diff hist +65 N File:Shadow-waltz.jpg '''Shot from "The Shadow Waltz"'''<br /> ''Gold Diggers of 1933'' current
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• 13:4513:45, 10 March 2007 diff hist +1,165 Pages 580-591 →Page 584
• 13:1513:15, 10 March 2007 diff hist +884 Weisenburger's Companion to Gravity's Rainbow No edit summary current
• 13:0813:08, 10 March 2007 diff hist +771 N Pages 610-616 New page: {{GR PbP Text}} ==Page 611== 611.33 '''Molotov isn’t telling Vishinsky'''<br /> Echoes the capitalist slogan, "Macy's doesn’t tell Gimbel's," referring to the rival New York departmen... current
• 13:0413:04, 10 March 2007 diff hist +4,191 N Pages 580-591 New page: {{GR PbP Text}} ==Page 582== 582.05 '''the same Pflaumbaum'''<br /> See 159.37-38. We now learn that the "Jewish wolf" was really a victim, who could never have coll...
• 13:0313:03, 10 March 2007 diff hist +71 File:Silver-streak-train-poster.jpg No edit summary current
• 12:4512:45, 10 March 2007 diff hist +66 N File:Michael-Faraday.jpg Michael Faraday from a photograph by John Watkins, British Library current
• 12:4012:40, 10 March 2007 diff hist +197 N File:Silver-streak-train-poster.jpg '''The Pioneer Zephyr: The "Silver Streak" Diesel Locomotive'' Train photo courtesy of [http://www.msichicago.org/exhibit/zephyr/legacy/success/success.html Chicago Museum of Science and Industry]
• 12:3812:38, 10 March 2007 diff hist +86 N File:Silver-streak-comics.jpg '''Cover of ''Silver Streak Comics'' #9'''<br /> (Notice The Claw as featured villain) current
• 12:0512:05, 10 March 2007 diff hist +1,003 N Pages 577-580 New page: {{GR PbP Text}} ==Page 578== thumb|150px|Rottwang in ''Metropolis''|right578.07-09 '''Klein-Rogge . . . ''Metropolis'''''<br /> While [[Weisenburger's Companion to ...
• 12:0312:03, 10 March 2007 diff hist +293 N File:Attila-the-hun.jpg '''Rudolf Klein-Rogge as Attila (Etzel)'''<br /> in Lang's ''Nibelungen, Part II: Kriemhild's Revenge'' "Rudolf Klein-Rogge, ancient Oriental thanatomaniac Attila, head shaved except for a topknot, beadstrung, raving with grandiloquent genstures and thos current
• 11:5911:59, 10 March 2007 diff hist +221 N File:Rottwang.jpg '''Rudolf Klein-Rogge, as the inventor Rottwang'''<br /> in Fritz Lang's ''Metropolis'' "the mad inventor that Pokler and his disciples under Jamf longed to be" (GR p. 578) Note the pentagram above and behind the robot. current
• 11:5111:51, 10 March 2007 diff hist +526 N Pages 567-577 New page: {{GR PbP Text}} ==Page 571== 571.31-32 '''the German Wobbly traditions'''<br /> "Wobblies" were members of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_workers_of_the_world Industrial Wor...
• 11:4511:45, 10 March 2007 diff hist +2,070 N Pages 269-278 New page: {{GR PbP Text}} ==Page 270== 270.16 '''Floyd Perdoo'''<br /> From the French "perdue": "lost." ==Page 272== 272.19 '''young Sigmund Freud'''<br /> Refers to Freud’s rejection of the "s...
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9 March 2007

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• 21:1721:17, 9 March 2007 diff hist +1,071 N Pages 518-525 New page: {{GR PbP Text}} http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_518-525&action=edit ==Page 518== 318.31-32 '''coming on like Smith, Klein, 'n' French'''<br /> Smith Klin...
• 20:5720:57, 9 March 2007 diff hist +678 N Pages 505-518 New page: {{GR PbP Text}} ==Page 516== 516.22 '''Der Mude Tod'''<br /> There is an interesting sidelight to this film. In order to win her lover back from Death, the heroine must try to save his li...
• 20:5520:55, 9 March 2007 diff hist +376 N Pages 492-505 New page: {{GR PbP Text}} ==Page 494== 494.12 '''I have this kind of trick ear, you’ll have to'''<br /> Evokes (anachronistically) Jimmy Stewart as the half-deaf George Bailey in Frank Capra’s ... current
• 20:5320:53, 9 March 2007 diff hist +324 N Pages 488-491 New page: {{GR PbP Text}} ==Page 489== 489.19-20 '''Brazilian oilcases . . . Ft. Lamy'''<br /> A reminder of the air route by which Pirate got his bananas at 5.35-36. The "flo...

8 March 2007

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• 08:4708:47, 8 March 2007 diff hist +4 Pynchon and Brian Wilson →Brian Wilson's ''Smile''

7 March 2007

• 23:2223:22, 7 March 2007 diff hist +2,036 N Carl Jung's Life/Death Parabola New page: Carl Jung: :"Life is an energy process. Like every energy-process, it is in principle irreversible and is therefore directed towards a goal. That goal is a state of rest. [...] The end of... current
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