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- 18:01, 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)
- 17:59, 10 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+1,162) . . Pages 674-700
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- 17:59, 10 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+27) . . N Page 674-700 (Page 674-700 moved to Pages 674-700: typo when creating) (current)
- 17:54, 10 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (-1) . . Pages 717-724 (→Page 718) (current)
- 17:53, 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 ...)
- 17:46, 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...)
- 17:44, 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)
- 17:30, 10 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . Pages 700-706
- 17:30, 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...)
- 17:22, 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)
- 17:22, 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)
- 17:06, 10 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+1,132) . . N Pages 656-663 (New page: {{GR PbP Text}} ==Page 657== right657.10-11 '''after the style of Diamond Lil or Texas Guinan'''<br /> ''Diamond Lil'' is a 1928 play by sultry...) (current)
- 17:05, 10 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+14) . . N File:Mae-west.jpg ('''Mae West''') (current)
- 16:48, 10 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+628) . . Pages 626-640
- 16:11, 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...)
- 15:54, 10 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+416) . . Pages 626-640 (→Page 637)
- 15:53, 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)
- 15:28, 10 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+82) . . Pages 626-640 (→Page 637)
- 15:23, 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'']...)
- 15:13, 10 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+1,442) . . N Pages 617-626 (New page: {{GR PbP Text}} ==Page 622== right622.30-31 '''that dreamy Dick Powell song'''<br /> Is actually titled "The Shadow Waltz," compose...)
- 15:12, 10 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+65) . . N File:Shadow-waltz.jpg ('''Shot from "The Shadow Waltz"'''<br /> ''Gold Diggers of 1933'') (current)
- 14:13, 10 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+488) . . Pages 580-591
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- 13:45, 10 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+1,165) . . Pages 580-591 (→Page 584)
- 13:15, 10 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+884) . . Weisenburger's Companion to Gravity's Rainbow (current)
- 13:08, 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)
- 13:04, 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...)
- 13:03, 10 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+71) . . File:Silver-streak-train-poster.jpg (current)
- 12:45, 10 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+66) . . N File:Michael-Faraday.jpg (Michael Faraday from a photograph by John Watkins, British Library) (current)
- 12:40, 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])
- 12:38, 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)
- 12:05, 10 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+1,003) . . N Pages 577-580 (New page: {{GR PbP Text}} ==Page 578== right578.07-09 '''Klein-Rogge . . . ''Metropolis'''''<br /> While [[Weisenburger's Companion to ...)
- 12:03, 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)
- 11:59, 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)
- 11:51, 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...)
- 11:45, 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...)
- 10:07, 10 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+106) . . Pages 518-525 (→Page 518) (current)
- 21:20, 9 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (-103) . . Pages 518-525
- 21:19, 9 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (-17) . . Pages 518-525 (→Page 518)
- 21:17, 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...)
- 20:57, 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...)
- 20:55, 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)
- 20:53, 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...)
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- 08:47, 8 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+4) . . Pynchon and Brian Wilson (→Brian Wilson's ''Smile'')
- 23:22, 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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- 23:06, 7 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+2,671) . . N Pages 591-610 (New page: {{GR PbP Text}} ==Page 592== right592.32 '''an American Bugs Bunny comic book'''<br /> See note on [[Pages 537-548#Page 545|545....)
- 23:05, 7 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+86) . . N File:Looney-tunes.jpg ('''Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig'''<br /> Cover, Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies #1 (1941)) (current)
- 22:55, 7 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+488) . . N Pages 563-566 (New page: {{GR PbP Text}} ==Page 564== 564.37-38 '''si mi quieres escribir you already know where I’ll be staying'''<br /> The first words are from a song of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spa...) (current)
- 22:49, 7 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . Pages 674-700 (→Page 674)
- 22:49, 7 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . Pages 674-700 (→Page 688=)
- 22:47, 7 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+47) . . Pages 674-700 (→Page 691)
- 22:44, 7 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+2,948) . . N Pages 674-700 (New page: {{GR PbP Text}} ==Page 674== 674.10 '''a City of the Future'''<br /> Evokes, again, the opening images of Lang’s ''Metropolis''. See 482.25. ==Page 682== 682...)
- 22:44, 7 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+48) . . N File:Fay-wray2.jpg ('''Fay Wray, as Anne Darrow, in ''King Kong''''') (current)
- 22:40, 7 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+132) . . N File:William-bendix.jpg ('''William Bendix (third from right)'''<br /> in Alfred Hitchcock's ''Lifeboat''<br /> Bendix learns that he's about to lose his leg) (current)
- 22:29, 7 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+392) . . N Pages 482-488 (New page: {{GR PbP Text}} ==Page 482== right482.25-28 '''with crackling-tower and obsidian helix, with drive belts and rollers, with strange airs...) (current)
- 22:28, 7 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+53) . . N File:Metropolis.jpg ('''Opening Scene of ''Metropolis'':''' The Upper City) (current)
- 22:11, 7 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+3,721) . . N Pages 154-167 (New page: {{GR PbP Text}} ==Page 156== 156.18 '''the Judenschnautze'''<br /> As Weisenburger notes, Pynchon probably means "Judenschnauze" here, bu...)
- 22:09, 7 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+19) . . N File:Justus-liebig.jpg ('''Justus Liebig''') (current)
- 21:49, 7 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+938) . . N Pages 473-482 (New page: {{GR PbP Text}} ==Page 473== 473.05 '''why is Slothrop drawling this way?'''<br /> A good question, but the drawl does imitate American actor [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne John...) (current)
- 21:43, 7 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+5) . . Pages 468-472 (→Page 471)
- 21:42, 7 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+2,143) . . N Pages 468-472 (New page: {{GR PbP Text}} ==Page 468== right468.19 '''Llandudno'''<br /> The Welsh resort town is supposed to be where Carroll fir...)
- 21:39, 7 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+122) . . N File:Llandudno.jpg ('''Llandudno, Wales: Statue of White Rabbit'''<br /> (in cage as protection from vandalism, statue has since been removed)) (current)
- 22:13, 6 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+1,872) . . N Pages 457-468 (New page: {{GR PbP Text}} ==Page 466== right466.06 '''young Shirley Temple'''<br /> Compare the following excerpt from a review of Temple's f...)
- 22:12, 6 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+39) . . N File:Shirley-temple.jpg ('''Publicity photo of Shirley Temple''') (current)
- 22:05, 6 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+1,549) . . N Pages 448-456 (New page: {{GR PbP Text}} ==Page 448== 448.23-24 '''like American cowboy actor Henry Fonda'''<br /> Contrary to Weisenburger, Fonda did not appear ...)
- 22:05, 6 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+81) . . N File:Buffalo-bayou.jpg ('''1881 Map of Houston, Texas'''<br /> (Buffalo Bayou runs through center of map)) (current)
- 21:46, 6 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+2) . . Pages 433-447
- 21:46, 6 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+3,125) . . N Pages 433-447 (New page: {{GR PbP Text}} ==Page 433== 433.32 '''"Der Feind hoert zu"'''<br /> Not 'The listening enemy' but 'The enemy is listening', a warning not to speak carelessly. ==Page 435== [[image:wilme...)
- 21:45, 6 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+72) . . N File:Carole-lombard.jpg ('''Carole Lombard'''<br /> Publicity still for ''My Man Godfrey'' (1937)) (current)
- 21:44, 6 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+111) . . N File:Irving-berlin.jpg ('''Irving Berlin performing "Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning"'''<br /> from ''This Is the Army'' (1943)) (current)
- 21:44, 6 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+72) . . N File:Muttjeff.gif ('''Mutt (center) and Jeff (right)'''<br /> from Bud Fisher's comic strip) (current)
- 21:41, 6 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+87) . . N File:Wilmer-gunsel.jpg ('''Elisha Cook, Jr. as Wilmer, the "gunsel"'''<br /> from ''The Maltese Falcon'' (1941)) (current)
- 00:23, 6 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+61) . . Pages 359-371
- 00:21, 6 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+17) . . Pages 336-359
- 00:15, 6 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+281) . . Pages 392-397 (→Page 394)
- 00:07, 6 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (-193) . . Pages 397-433 (→Page 412)
- 00:05, 6 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+22) . . Pages 397-433 (→Page 398)
- 00:04, 6 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+135) . . N File:Hansel-gretel.jpg ('''Hansel in Cage, with Gretel and Witch'''<br /> Illustration by Henry Altemus<br /> from ''Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm'' (1898)) (current)
- 00:03, 6 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+20) . . Pages 397-433 (→Page 398)
- 23:59, 5 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+5) . . Pages 397-433 (→Page 421)
- 23:59, 5 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (-41) . . Pages 397-433
- 23:53, 5 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+1,363) . . N I Lost My Heart in Heidelberg (New page: <div style="text-align:center"> It was a summer evening,<br /> Just twenty I had seen,<br /> When I kissed ruby lips and<br /> Hair of golden sheen.<br /> The night was blue and blissful,<...) (current)
- 23:46, 5 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+76) . . N File:Kyudo-target.jpg ('''A Makiwara'''<br /> Target of pressed straw used in kyūdō (Zen archery)) (current)
- 09:59, 5 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+4,509) . . N Pages 397-433 (New page: {{GR PbP Text}} ==Page 398== '''dog with the saucer eyes . . . beard of the goat on the bridge . . . the troll below . . . plastic witch . . . Hansel . . . Gretel'''<br /> Features at Zwo...)
- 07:58, 5 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+4) . . Pages 392-397
- 07:57, 5 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+148) . . Pages 392-397
- 07:55, 5 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+108) . . N File:Pandoras-box.jpg ('''Wedding dance scene from Pabst's ''Pandora's Box'' (1929)'''<br /> Louise Brooks as Lulu (in bridal gown)) (current)
- 07:52, 5 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+35) . . N File:Fridericus.jpg ('''Otto Gebuhr in ''Fridericus''''') (current)
- 22:55, 4 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+166) . . Pages 392-397
- 22:49, 4 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+173) . . N File:Ludwig.jpg ('''Helmut Berger in two films by Luchino Visconti:''' Left: Berger as King Ludwig II in ''Ludwig'' (1973)<br /> Right: Berger vamping a la Dietrich in ''The Damned'' (1969)) (current)
- 22:41, 4 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+165) . . N File:Herrenchiemsee.jpg ('''Herrenchiemsee'''<br /> Last and largest palace of Ludwig II Left: Exterior view Right: Hall of Mirrors "Especially those long corridors . . . " (p. 394)) (current)
- 22:35, 4 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+132) . . N File:Dietrich.jpg ('''Original Poster for ''The Blue Angel'' (''Der blaue Engel''), 1930'''<br /> Dietrich's name in small blue letters below the title) (current)
- 22:24, 4 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+3) . . Pages 392-397 (→Page 393)
- 18:34, 4 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+5,128) . . Pages 392-397
- 18:24, 4 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+155) . . N File:Brigitte-helm.jpg ('''Brigitte Helm in scenes from ''Metropolis'''''<br /> Left: Helm as Maria with the workers' children Right: Helm as the evil humanoid robot vamp "Futura") (current)
- 18:18, 4 March 2007 (diff | hist) . . (+91) . . N File:Veidt-Krauss.jpg ('''Still from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari'''<br /> Note "lighting" effects painted on walls) (current)
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