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A camouflage painting technique used on WWI ships. Link: [http://www.gotouring.com/razzledazzle/articles/dazzle.html] | A camouflage painting technique used on WWI ships. Link: [http://www.gotouring.com/razzledazzle/articles/dazzle.html] | ||
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| − | + | The whole passage that introduces the rival airship captain is a play on Tetris. Igor's surname is similar to that of the creator of Tetris, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexey_Pazhitnov Alexey Pazhitnov]. Also, the captain himself flies a ship called "The Great Game" and drops "bricks and masonry, always in the four-block fragments which had become his "signature," to fall on and damage targets designated by his superiors." | |
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Revision as of 10:07, 27 November 2006
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dazzle-painting
A camouflage painting technique used on WWI ships. Link: [1]
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Igor Padzhitnoff
The whole passage that introduces the rival airship captain is a play on Tetris. Igor's surname is similar to that of the creator of Tetris, Alexey Pazhitnov. Also, the captain himself flies a ship called "The Great Game" and drops "bricks and masonry, always in the four-block fragments which had become his "signature," to fall on and damage targets designated by his superiors."
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lines
The description of the single-file line at the train station basically describes current security conditions at American airports. A single line (i.e. linear thinking) does not seem to be a 'positive' in the Pynchon world.
