ATD 821-848

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Jacintha Drulov
The surname suggests the necessity of wiping the "drool off" the gentlemen's chins.

Lady Quethlock
???

Zhenski Tzrnogorski Institut
Montenegrin Female Institute. To anyone neither a Serb nor a Croat, the Serbian and Croatian languages appear to differ only in the alphabet used to write them: Cyrillic (similar to Russian) for the Serbian aspect, Roman for the Croatian. This name is definitely transliterated from Cyrillic letters, hence comes from Serbian (Женски Црногорски Институт, I believe)—the corresponding Croatian name would have been Ženski Crnogorski Institut. Its identification as a Tsarist institution on page 824 supports Serbian, too. The "tz" signals an origin in pre-standardization times and may therefore indicate that Pynchon has found a real school. --Volver 08:32, 21 January 2007 (PST)

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Baden-Powell
Pronounced BAY-den POLE (other branches of the family say POOL). British officer who after service in the Boer Wars founded the Boy Scouts.

Applied Idiotics
I suggest this is a minor theme of AtD. Every couple of chapters we have a reference to someone learning to act like an idiot (never a fool, a zany, an imbecile, a twit—always an idiot). Is there a connection to the notion of the "holy fool" here? --Volver 08:17, 21 January 2007 (PST)

Chipping Sodbury
A real town in the west of England, birthplace of J. K. Rowling. Throughout AtD "sod" is a derogatory name for sodomite, homosexual.

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a Tsarist school
See the annotation to page 822.

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Annotation Index

Part One:
The Light Over the Ranges

1-25, 26-56, 57-80, 81-96, 97-118

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

1063-1085

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