ATD 489-524

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desolate sighs
(They're not gay?)

Apostlet
???

Cyprian Latewood
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Eastern wog
Cf p222.

The German Sea
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sub-Clerkenwell
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annoyance
(Why?)

Page 490

gyps
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Byron's Pool
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"Div!"
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"Whizzo!"
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"That is that of which I speak!"
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Cloisters Court
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King's
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Queen Anne's Gate
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Newnham
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Wrangleresses
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Phillippa Fawcett
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Grace Chisolm and Will Young
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nautch-girl
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socio-acrobatic aggrandizement
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opium beer
???

duc de Richelieu
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Page 491

the City
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can't ever tell
Dog-eat-dog capitalism?

Reginald "Ratty" McHugh
???

one more flag
IE, his father's wallpaper brand.

Balkan Sobranies
???

lilies-and-lassitude humor of the '90s
Cult of Oscar Wilde?

table d'hôte
???

Very well, I contradict myself.
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Page 492

divine... prosaic
(Walt was of course prosaic himself before he became divine.)

xanthrocroid
???

Capsheaf
Is this a third speaker, or another name for Ratty?

viva
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Crayke
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D'accord
???

reputation for viciousness
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croft
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Mavis Grind
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orthopædic journals
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Dymphna
???

decks full of hearts
(52 or 13 per deck?)

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Thucydides... remind me
Thucydides' book is an account of the Peloponnesian war, organized in a rather difficult method in which all the actions of one season are described before proceeding to the next. Here are some erotic possibilities in it, however:
-Pericles, in his famous funeral oration, says the citizen ought to have an eros for the city.
-At one point some Athenians are lured out of a garrison by way of a gymnastic (that is male, nude) demonstration.
-On the eve of the fateful Sicilian expedition, all the oversized phalloi of the hermes are mysteriously knocked off. One of the generals on the expedition, Alcibiades, is accused of the offense and is eventually called called back. In Plato's Symposium Alcibiades drunkenly crashes the party and confesses that Socrates has consistently spurned his sexual advances.

McHugh
Talking to self?

alfresceehwh
???

Lorelei, Noellyn, and Faun
???

High Albedo
???

white veils
???

Pinky
Nicknames opposite of truth?

'sans merci'
???

Page 494

wrong altar
???

gnomic tenses
???

circs
???

'If she's not content with a vegetable love'
???

Rugby blue
???

Mâconnais
???

George Grossmith...and that jolly Weedon

George and Weedon Grossmith, authors of the sublime, hillarious 'Diary of a Nobody', which gave the world the adjective 'pooterish'. Undoubtedly an influence on Pynchon's depictions of the 'oh dear' side of Englishness. Pooter is a 'nobody' who decides to publish his diaries, even though he is of no interest and nothing of any note occurs. A prototypical blogger, some might suggest. Originally published in Punch magazine (I think), set in late 19th Century. Don't know if the Grossmiths went to Cambridge, will check....

[plenty of info here: http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/english/DON/Diary_Home.htm]

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Junior or Senior?
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cp. Wilhelm II file
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"Map of the World"
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Newmarket
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Morse and Vassilev
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East Rumelian
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zadruga
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tchifliks
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gradinarski druzhini
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gossamer
Pynchon draws him as 'wet' as possible?

Page 496

sod... pouffe
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failed canards
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Lent... Easter... Long Vacation
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Colonial Office
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Okhrana
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Ballhausplatz
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Wilhelmstrasse
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G.F.B. Riemann
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Zeta function... conjecture
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'joint'
???

Bob's your uncle
???

Limehouse
???

Page 497

excess
(So not wholly gossamer?)

Coronation Red
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Ranji and C.B. Fry
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Australian season
???

New Court
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Tavernier-Gravet slide rules
???

High Church
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Mags and Nuncs and Matins
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not Zion
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Compline hour
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Te Deum
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Khaki Election
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Filtham
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Page 498

chromaticism... Richard Strauss
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Staindrop
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"Filtham's Tedium"
(Talk about overlabored puns...)

dress regulations
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Gauss
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Ramanujan
???

display of hurt feelings
Cf p30.

Page 499

light up
Dark world vs spark of value.

[zeta]-function
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Hilbert thinks of nothing else
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desire... of rather a specialized sort
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Great Eastern
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Page 500

Weierstrass and Sofia Kovalevskaia
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sounds like maths
???

folio
???

four-color chromolithograph
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Snazzbury
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Silent Frock
Cf noise-canceling headphones.

toilette
???

Page 501

green, white, and mauve stripes
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black crepon
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Italian-cloth
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Page 502

modern lettering
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L'ARIMEAUX ET QUEURLIS
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twilling
???

Page 502

Earl's Court Wheel
???

whelks
???

Chinese Turkestan railway shares
???

jellied eel
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West Ham, the Park, Upton Lane, lads all in claret and blue
The "lads in claret and blue" are kicking a football around, as they are players of current Premiership side West Ham United. Found in 1895, the "Hammers" are playing their home games at Boleyn Ground aka "Upton Park". Yep, soccer.

lupine liminality
???

hydrangeas
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Hardy, whimsical
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Page 504

Harwich... German Sea
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Hook of Holland
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madhouse at Osnabrück
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Page 505

plug hats
???

Cobh
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Page 506

Euclid
???

elms in Cleveland
(Before Dutch elm disease?)

went on for years
???

Shorty
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Page 507

how little I cared
(Blaming Krakatoa???)

palm upward
???

Prospect Avenue
???

leaf-spring suspension
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overrun
???

Flats
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Page 508

Cuyahoga
???

your exact face
(How common?)

Page 509

descending minor triad
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Svengali
???

tea roses
???

cosmos
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Page 510

first momentous glance
Page 349 only?

Elis
???

Page 511

preferring
Cf Rose in "Titanic".

Root Tubsmith
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Fuchs, Schwarz... Frobenius
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Professor Manning
???

Marseilles
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species of tarantella
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dreamed it
(Page?)

Cigar Deck
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Page 512

how to stop looking
Cf p27.

fooling
(They both miss it?)

lobelias
???

Victor Herbert
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Wolf-Ferrari
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Page 513

1st Edition Typo
"She smlld falsely"

Page 515

high-hatting
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twenty-knot
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uncreated
Featureless?

after 1914
Still 10 years away.

S.M.S. Emperor Maximilian
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25,000-ton
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dreadnoughts
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Slavonian
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Schultz-Thorneycroft
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Parsons turbines
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British men-o'-war
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Page 516

shell-rooms-to-be
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twelve-inch barrels
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shelter deck
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casemates
???

freeboard
The amount of the ship above the water. You need a certain amount of freeboard to maintain balance, but battleships try to limit it as much as possible.

"Dazzle" camouflage
???

dihedrals
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Fangsley
???

horizontally disposed
???

Lloyd Arsenale
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Stabilimento Tecnico
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Page 517

Promontorio
???

O.I.C. Bodine
Stands for...? nope

fermented potato mash
Cf Veikko's vodka p82.

four shafts
???

Mauretania
???

Zu befehl, Herr Hauptheitzer
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Black Gang
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Oberhauptheitzer
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Mannlicher
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"Dampf mehr!"
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singlet
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Page 518

Marconi room
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design maximum of nine degrees
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nymphs
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"Porca miseria"
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Page 519

tight circle
Military as inane as circus clowns.

deeper levels
(Eg particle vs wave?)

Chinese
???

nicht wahr
???

Graz
???

bilge-crab
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Page 520

Teutonic
???

Mulai Ahmed er-Raisuli
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Agadir, Queen of the Iron Coast
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Sus... Susi
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Abdel Aziz
???

Canaries
???

Lübeck
???

Berbers
???

Page 521

tree-climbing goats
???

argan trees
???

Gnaoua
???

mlouk gnaoui
???

Seigneurs Noirs
???

Habsburg navy
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Mogador road
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Tawil Balak
???

Rahman
???

Formalhaut
???

Moïsés
???

Jonah... Massa
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kashbah
???

Ighir Ufrani
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alimzah
???

tasargelt
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scruff
???

Staketsel
???

lazarettes
???

mon chou
"My cabbage." A french term of affection.

Page 523

moon deck
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lower orlop
???

lateen-riggers
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Page 524

Piazza Grande
???

Denza
???

Antonio Smareglia
???

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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