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Heraldists refer to "canting arms" when the charges on the shield pun on the bearer's name, as in this case: The flames are toasting the sponge. | Heraldists refer to "canting arms" when the charges on the shield pun on the bearer's name, as in this case: The flames are toasting the sponge. | ||
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| + | '''outnumbered . . . overwhelmingly'''<br> | ||
| + | One of Cantor's results. If aleph<sub>0</sub> represents the "cardinality" of the rationals (a measure for infinite sets that corresponds to the number of elements for finite ones) and ''C'' represents the cardinality of the real numbers, then ''C'' + aleph<sub>0</sub> = ''C.'' In words, the reals don't even notice if you take away the rationals, leaving just the irrational numbers. Pretty overwhelming. | ||
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Reef getting his Italian wrong again: ''arrivederci,'' goodbye. | Reef getting his Italian wrong again: ''arrivederci,'' goodbye. | ||
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| + | '''''imprimatura'''''<br> | ||
| + | The first layer of paint applied to a canvas, a base color that helps establish and control tone in the painting. | ||
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| + | '''''piano nobile'''''<br> | ||
| + | In a large house, the level holding formal spaces, usually the first or second floor above ground level. | ||
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Revision as of 15:10, 13 January 2007
- Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.
Contents
Page XX
Sample entry
Please format like this.
Page 724
Dolomites
Mountains, a sub-chain of the Alps, northeast Italy.
Page 725
On the Banks
Indiana's state song; lyrics.
Page 726
Haruspices
Roman religious functionaries who looked for clues to the future in the entrails of sacrificed animals.
strung by one foot upside down
The Hanged Man again.
Cassily Adam rendition
It's Adams. Titled "Custer's Last Fight," the picture was acquired by Anheuser-Busch, reproduced and placed in thousands of taverns. The company later gave the work to the 7th Cavalry Regiment.
Page 727
Hottentot
Part of a series of zany distortions. French attentat = coup, assassination.
Page 729
no . . . apiarian byproduct of hers
I.e., none of her beeswax (American slang for "business").
pennsilvoney
More foreign-language comedy. Italian pensione = pension (lodging with board included).
eighty-seven not out
Cricket metaphor: having a banner day and not close to the end of it.
Eleanora Duse
Consensus spelling is Eleonora. 1859-1924, Italian actress, pioneer of realism on the stage.
Page 730
Damned cowboy
Same expletive used on page 623 (annotations).
Page 731
the ancient family arms
"[A] sponge couchant on a field chequy with flames at the foot." Pynchonian mock-heraldry. Couchant refers to an animal lying down with its erect head to the viewer's left. Well, at least sponges do belong to the animal kingdom. Chequy (one correct spelling) identifies the field or background of the shield as being divided into squares like a checkerboard. At the foot is a heraldic solecism; in base is preferable.
Taking two colors at random, say gules (red) and argent (silver or white), we could blazon the arms as "Chequy argent and gules, a sponge proper couchant above flames of fire of the third in base." Of course when the arms are carved in stone you can't see the colors. Proper means "in the color of the natural object," so . . . sponge-colored for the sponge, red and yellow for the flames.
Heraldists refer to "canting arms" when the charges on the shield pun on the bearer's name, as in this case: The flames are toasting the sponge.
Page 732
outnumbered . . . overwhelmingly
One of Cantor's results. If aleph0 represents the "cardinality" of the rationals (a measure for infinite sets that corresponds to the number of elements for finite ones) and C represents the cardinality of the real numbers, then C + aleph0 = C. In words, the reals don't even notice if you take away the rationals, leaving just the irrational numbers. Pretty overwhelming.
Page 733
areeferdirtcheap
Reef getting his Italian wrong again: arrivederci, goodbye.
Page 741
imprimatura
The first layer of paint applied to a canvas, a base color that helps establish and control tone in the painting.
Page 742
piano nobile
In a large house, the level holding formal spaces, usually the first or second floor above ground level.
Page 736
forty mule
A Reefian parting shot: French faute de mieux, meaning "for lack of anything better."
Annotation Index
| Part One: The Light Over the Ranges |
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|---|---|
| Part Two: Iceland Spar |
119-148, 149-170, 171-198, 199-218, 219-242, 243-272, 273-295, 296-317, 318-335, 336-357, 358-373, 374-396, 397-428 |
| Part Three: Bilocations |
429-459, 460-488, 489-524, 525-556, 557-587, 588-614, 615-643, 644-677, 678-694 |
| Part Four: Against the Day |
695-723, 724-747, 748-767, 768-791, 792-820, 821-848, 849-863, 864-891, 892-918, 919-945, 946-975, 976-999, 1000-1017, 1018-1039, 1040-1062 |
| Part Five: Rue du Départ |
