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'''Lwów'''<br>
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Name of Lviv (Lvov, L'vov) at times when it was under Polish rule.
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'''the High Tatra'''<br>
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Tatra mountain range in Slovakia.
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'''Cyrenaica'''<br>
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Eastern coastal part of Libya, bordering Egypt on its east.
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'''baleful mists above West Flanders'''<br>
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Much of the horror of the World War was centered here (Ypres, etc.).
  
 
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Revision as of 14:36, 29 January 2007

Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.


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All Europe sweltered
A possible jump in time of the action. I can't find year-by-year weather records going back to the 1910s, though. --Volver 12:52, 29 January 2007 (PST)

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the well-known Tour d'Argent in Paris
Wikipedia says the establishment is over 400 years old.

Balthazar
Wine bottle with a capacity of 16 liters.

Not long before, Pugnax had convinced her to come aboard
So the action here is set before Kseniya's encounter with Ljubica?

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sympiezometer
Form of barometer invented in 1818, says the 1911 Britannica.

first Inconvenience after the little-known Battle of Desconocido
Another allusion to naval customs, an item claimed from a ship and carried aboard her namesake. Desconocido is Spanish: unknown.

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Pythagorean or Counter-Earth . . . Antichthon . . . the Sun is always between us
Fictional device also used in Nabokov's Ada (though not in such a powerful way). People from one Earth can visit the other, speak the language, recognize the topography, but see differences in history and customs; neither planet can ever be aware of the other in the normal course of things.

The Counter-Earth resolves the problem of Sirius rising in the summer (annotations to page 901). When one Earth is at January in its orbit, the other is at July. --Volver 13:15, 29 January 2007 (PST)

X-ray Spex
Previously mentioned on page 588.

American Republic . . . passed so irrevocably into the control of the evil and moronic
We're using Pynchon's ball, so we'll play by his rules. The Chums have journeyed from the other Earth to this one, not the other way around.

Foundational Memorandum
The Star Trek Prime Directive again; see annotations to page 8 for its first occurrence.

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Baklashchan
???

Bactrian camel
Dromedary vs. Bactrian: the mnemonic says count the humps in the first letter. Bactrian, two humps.

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Lwów
Name of Lviv (Lvov, L'vov) at times when it was under Polish rule.

the High Tatra
Tatra mountain range in Slovakia.

Cyrenaica
Eastern coastal part of Libya, bordering Egypt on its east.

baleful mists above West Flanders
Much of the horror of the World War was centered here (Ypres, etc.).

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paranoia querelans
Elsewhere in AtD it's spelled querulans.

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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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