ATD 768-791

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Page 768

fourteeners
Affectionate name applied by Coloradans to mountain peaks 14,000 feet high.

Baikal
Another bi-location: one world out here, another reflected one in the lake.

Page 769

a maze of slot canyons
The ground is crumpled rather like Kovalevskaia's handkerchief on page 634.

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followed by the whizzing sound
As the impact of the V-2 was in Gravity's Rainbow.

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You are released
Echoes Ite, missa est on page 668.

samovars . . . gasping and puffing
Samovar: a double urn containing a large amount of hot water and a small amount of super-strong tea. Passengers mixed their own to taste. Many Russian railroad cars had samovars.

nephrite
Fibrous silicate mineral, one of the constituents of jade.

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kupechestvo
Russian: the merchant community.

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Club Golomyanka
A golomyanka is a viviparous fish of the perch family, unique to Lake Baikal.

NAUSHNIKI
As translated in the text.

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Ilimpiya
Presumably the Ilimpeya River, a left-bank tributary of the Lower Tunguska, is named for them.

siberyaki
Standard spelling sibiryaki. Russian: Siberians.

embouchure
French word denoting the conformation of the mouth (in speaking, playing the clarinet, etc.).

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taiga
Coniferous boreal forest; supports logging, trapping, hunting/gathering.

Tierra del Fuego
Not exactly the other side of the world, but the closest land to that point.

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shamanism
Decentralized religion. The village shaman engaged in spirit travel and communicated with animals, ancestors, etc., for the benefit of the people, often using bizarrely excessive amounts of drugs.

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poods
Russian measure of weight. One pood = 16.38 kilograms.

ekipazh
Russian: crew, team.

Právil'no
Russian: all right!

Russian design philosophy
. . . which is perpetuated in Soviet and Russian space technology.

Razvedka
Russian: intelligence (in the military-political sense).

pogroms
Terror campaigns, usually against Jews.

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arival
Misspelling of arrival.

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