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...xwell]]. Beginning in 1854, he taught at Queen's College, Belfast. When [[ATD-H#hamilton|Hamilton]] died in 1865, Tait took over the crusade to give quat
...suicide of Crown Prince Rudolf and his mistress at Mayerling in Austria. [[ATD-R#rudolf|See Rudolf, Archduke, Crown Prince of Austria.]]
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...e Rapture of the Sands," 433; Armageddon to be silent, 443-44; See also, [[ATD-XYZ#Z|Zion]].
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...ns to the development of optics, dynamics, and algebra. His discovery of [[ATD-Q#quaternions|quaternions]] is perhaps his best known investigation; his il
69; South Sea islands tattoo artists; volcano, 411; [[ATD-U#uke|See also Ukuleles]]
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...n. And then there's that whole "Beavers of the Brain" cyclomite episode ([[ATD 171-198#Page 183|p. 183]]) (Beavers, fercrissakes!). Perhaps something wort
...n if they come to the end of a ''Chums'' book while we are still reading ''AtD''?
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the mysterious legend on the AtD seal. They were kind enough to forward my
owe the solution of one more ATD related mystery.
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In ATD p. 63 O.D.Chandrasekhar mentions akasa as the solution for the problems the
...of light is dark, and vice versa, and this might be a key hermeneutic for AtD.
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...the orbits of satellites used for navigation and positioning (i.e., GPS). AtD is interested in Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry throughout, as well a
If aeronauts are like pilots, and they are--see ATD early---they feel and state a solidarity with others who fly. <br>
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...ynchonwiki.com/wiki/mp3/nytpynpod.mp3 New York Times podcast discussion of ATD, provided by Toby G. Levy]''' - a conversation with ''Times'' book critic L
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...didn't age half a dozen years. The Chums could not have aged much before ''AtD'' opened, because they weren't very old when we met them. Now the mascotte
...ieve a pearl from a serpent. There is no obvious serpent at this point in AtD, but the Chums get the pearl in Surabaya, whose name derives from ''suro''
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Frank will not be the last ''AtD'' character to hold himself out as an [[Idiots and Idiocy in Against the Da
...hat the description of 'young gent Cooper' is Pynchon writing himself into ATD? Pynchon is reportedly shy and one of the supposed reasons given for why he
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...[ATD 171-198#Page 183|"Beavers of the Brain"]]). Its male counterpart is [[ATD 397-428#Page 405|Candlebrow U.]], to be encountered down the road apiece (a
...k; Crowley renamed certain cards, and those names are not the ones used in AtD (i.e. in the Thoth deck, the "Temperance" card is renamed "Art").
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And behind both AtD and GR, there are strong overtones from the ''Book of Revelation:''
...that history, somehow plotted in advance, is about to go off its rails? ''AtD'' refers several times to the idea of an already settled history being disr
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When were the Chums last seen in AtD? As far back as page 142?
AtD is itself a paramorphoscope; satire and science fiction typically hold up a
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...ved in and researched for Vineland. Here's another Gaddis article that has ATD imagery: sentient lightning and the photography of etheric bodies [http://j
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...post 9/11 George W. Bush use of the term, once again relating the time of AtD, with its "unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic feckles
:Yes yes. this "lack of exposure to the fair sex" can cause [[ATD 171-198#Page 183|Beaver on the Brain]]
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...l is, presumably, ''The Chums of Chance in Old Mexico'', as described on [[ATD 1-25#Page 7|p. 7]].
...n Library Edition 2001, p. 34) (See [[ATD 81-96#Page_92|here]] for more on AtD and ''Blood Meridian'')
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...science fiction writers whom Pynchon is both emulating and parodying in ''ATD''. H.G. Wells was an English novelist, sociologist, journalist, and histori
Actually, on [[ATD 149-170#Pages 154-155|p. 154]] we learn that when these structures were ere
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...ge_125|annotation to p. 125]] ("red as a cursed ruby") points to a weird ''AtD'' nautch girl connection.
...wiki/Little_Fluffy_Clouds]. The film in turn seems to have strong Pynchon/AtD overtones, (pre-tones??) --
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Also, third ATD meaning!, a college in Dublin mentioned on page 560.
The "choir" image occurs several times in ''AtD.'' [[ATD_1-25#Page_19|One example.]]
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...stuff happening here, if that means anything; hardly the only example in ''AtD''). Given the search for Shambhala going on, "Buried Temple Bell" seems a l
He did little in his public roles (at this time in AtD) that would have
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again that Pynchonian expression of horror as elsewhere in ATD, such as
We have seen an earlier [[ATD 615-643#Page 632|reference]] to deeper Germany, to the pre-Christian, pre-r
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...internal 'Symbolist' artwork embodying vivid hallucinatory visions within ATD?<br>
Electrical engineering terms take on new significance in AtD: twisted pair, induction coupling, Q inductors, three-phase generation, loa
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...n. (This article also wrote about ''Sidney Reilly'', aka Chong of page 630 ATD, in "Sidney Reilly" section).
...fe". A lot of ideas developed in L'évolution Créatrice appear throughout AtD. More on Bergson here: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Bergson]
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:Two of the stranger hypotheses about the Event have special ''AtD'' connections. (1) The cosmic object was a chunk of antimatter, and the ene
..., the first pleasant and wonderous, the second full of horrors--as well as AtD and novels, generally. The urine-drinking seems to be a crack at literary c
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...deliberate, between the Tom Swift (Hardy Boys, et al.) novels and parts of ATD.
Must be noted given title and everything religious in ATD.
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I suggest this is a minor theme of ''AtD.'' Every couple of chapters we have a reference to someone learning to act
...od is short for sodomite, commonly heard in Britain and frequently used in AtD.
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...underground, alternative communication introduced again (the first time in AtD is with the London gas pipes).<br>
...ld serve to alert the experienced reader of Pynchon to their importance in AtD.
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...Dimitrov Dam (completed in 1955, so not yet in existence at this point in AtD) may have filled part of the valley with a reservoir. Mild confusion: The [
...phrygian modes. Thus, there is a plausible nexus to two themes throughout AtD: the dual identity of the tritone in the opening riff of the song; and then
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...oint made in the next paragraph of this annotation, I might protest that ''AtD'' has been respectful of such historical "anchors" as weather, wars and exp
[[ATD 429-459#Page_433|See annotation at page 433]]
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...toranti.asp?id=2 Ristorante del Cambio], known locally as 'the old lady'" (ATD, p. 1073), is a famous restaurant in Turin, in operation since 1757, whe
...f government and industry, or big business - clearly a consistent theme in ATD.<br>
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[[ATD 57-80#Page 72|'''p. 72''']]<br />
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...ne books entrusted to these Nine Unknowns are also mighty appropriate to ''ATD.''
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:Thematically, it's reactionary, the opposite of AtD.
:ATD is not reactionary but also not the opposite of ''The Princess Casamassima'
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