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| + | Italian: men with pistols. | ||
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| + | Called soccer in the U.S. and football everywhere else. | ||
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Revision as of 13:17, 22 January 2007
- Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.
Contents
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Sample entry
Please format like this.
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trois-six chasers
French: three-six. Schnapps from Normandy, sometimes legal, sometimes not. Three measures of alcohol to six measures of water.
flâneur
French: man-about-town.
go-devil squibs . . . oil-well torpedos
Explosive charges set off inside a well in order to clear plugging of the formation that interferes with oil flow.
Buen hombre
Spanish: good man.
all ready to explode
The 1908 Mexican revolution.
¡Seguro, ése!
Spanish: for sure!
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L'Espagnol Clignant
French: The Blinking Spaniard.
mi hijo
Spanish: my son.
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heliograph
Communication device that reflects sunlight to form a beam, then interrupts the beam to generate a binary signal in Morse or other code.
gregaou
???
bandoleros
Spanish, literally: bandoleer wearers. Bandits, partisans.
Professeur Pivoine
French: Professor Peony.
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Zeugnisbüchlein
German: student's pocket report book. Such a book serves as a transcript for university students.
Old Slavonic script
Glagolitic writing; see the excellent annotation to page 252.
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rope-walks
Making rope calls for a room or yard somewhat longer than the end product, called a rope-walk.
pistolieri
Italian: men with pistols.
association football
Called soccer in the U.S. and football everywhere else.
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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 |
