Paranoia/Connectedness
Croix mystique, 16, 484
"operational paranoia" 25
"classic paranoiac" 32
"great swamp of paranoia" 33
Slothrop reading Villard's shit, 65
Earth's prime meridian, 72
Slothrop's stars and rocket hits coincide (4.5-day mean lag time), 85-86
"witch-paranoia" 95
"always someone behind him being careful" 114
"And who's that, through the crack in the orange shade, breathing carefully? Watching?" 120 (See also page 216: "[Sir Dodson-Truck's] 'function' is to observe [Slothrop]")
folk-consciousness, 130-31, "the day of the Normandy invasion [...] his temperature shot up to 104" 131
City Paranoiac, 171-72
"seeking other orders behind the visible" - Puritan reflex, 187
"a peculiar structure that no one admitted to" 193
"'Harvard's there for other reasons. The "educating" part of it is just sort of a front'" 193
raindrops as "giant asterisks" 204
"all in his life of what has looked free or random, is discovered to have been under some Control" 209
"Here it is again, that identical-looking Other World" 225
Proverbs for Paranoids, 237, 241, 251, 262, 292
Paranoid Systems of History, 238
monster in the sky, 241
Slothrop hears quotation marks, 241
night voices in Hotel Nimbus in Zürich, 255-56
"playing the patterns" 257
"ornamentally splendid splashes of paranoia" 276
Slothrop's suspicions of Maj. Marvy, 332
new higher-dimensional maps of the world, 321
"there is a pattern [...] the act of naming obeys the pattern" 322
"More Western paranoia" 340
England/China/ India, 346
I Ching, 378
crossing solipsisms, 395
"They're all in on it together" 400
"If there is something comforting—-religious, if you want—-about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long." 434
"the Listening Enemy [...] between him and the wet sky" 434
"Either They have put him here for a reason, or he's just here." 434
Säure's "ability to prophesy through contemplating the way people roll reefers" 442
Devil behind the mirror, 444
"Die Slothrop" 446
"each plot carries its signature" 464
Thanatz reads whipscars like Gypsy reads palms, 484
"'Paranoia,' Springer snaps reproachfully [...]. You wouldn't understand that.'" 500
"everything was so clear then, paranoia was all for the enemy, and never for one's own" 518
"Ölfabriken Werke AG is not really a ruin at all" 520
"what incalculable plot" 521
"on into some other paranoid terror" 522
"Do you have to see conspiracies in everything?" 528
critical mass of means of control being connected, 539
"Rocket-cartel" 566
"Radio-Control-Implanted-In-The-Head-At-Birth" 542
perfecting "methods of immobility" 572
the fate of "truthseekers" 582
"simulated randomness" 586
Masonic plots, 587
"Kute Korrespondences" 590
"Everything is some kind of plot, man." (Bodine), 603
"[Slothrop] watches flights of birds and patterns in the ashes of his fire, he reads the guts of trout he's caught and cleaned, scraps of lost paper, graffiti on the broken walls where facing has been shot away to reveal the brick underneath--broken in specific shapes that may also be read" 623
Slothrop "reading soup recipes and finding in every bone and cabbage leaf paraphrases of himself. [...] picking up rusted beer cans, rubbers yellow with preterite seed, Kleenex wadded to brain shapes hiding preterite snot, preterite tears, newspapers, broken glass, pieces of automobile, days when in superstition and fright he could make it all fit, seeing cleasrly in each an entry in a record" 625-26
"novice paranoid" 638
"creative paranoia" 638
Pensiero reading shivers, 641
Katje as "the allegorical figure of paranoia" 657
paranoia song, 657
"plexiglass maps of the webs we maintain across the Zone" 660
"Father-conspiracy" 679
"Paranoid for the Day" 691
Dark Dream, 697
"Everything is connected" 703
the man and the white albatross, 712-13
"their pet, or death" (Byron's dilemma), 713
"a route only apparently in ruins, carefully crafted by the War" 728
S&M, 737
I Ching, 746
