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...minate is derived from the Latin ''fulminat'' - "struck by lightning" - so it's more, May I be struck by lightning if she ain't. ...kipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Husserl Wikipedia entry]. As the phrase indicates, it is a plea against abstraction--a theme of GR--- and for reality 'itself'.

the mysterious legend on the AtD seal. They were kind enough to forward my owe the solution of one more ATD related mystery.

...æther doesn't convey light waves, there is no justification for including it in physical theory. ...enerable professor of mathematical physics in the middle 1960s, pronounced it EH-ther to avoid confusion with the anesthetic. Most writers don't capitali

...the general reader. These were the only official excerpts published before ATD itself, on 21 November 2006. ...utside of the sticks. (A minor plot point in the TV series ''Lost,'' isn't it?)

...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 the name were ''Tovarishchi Sluchainogo'' instead of as in the text, it would mean "Comrades of the Random," an exact parallel to the Chums.

...ar cartoon gag, a ''horseshoe'' magnet attracting all sorts of hardware as it flies through the air. ...suddenly everything connects and makes sense to Kit after his revelation. It is a mystical experience for him as he reaches this knowledge through somet

...tion may fit parts of Utah (between Colorado and Nevada) or Nevada proper. It's some 250 miles from Denver to the Utah-Nevada line; we learn that Jeshimo Frank will not be the last ''AtD'' character to hold himself out as an [[Idiots and Idiocy in Against the Da

One of half a dozen Pynchonian circumlocutions for "wouldn't know [blank] if it bit them in the ass." ...of the Pythagoreans, Kabbalists, and nutbars of other affiliations since. It has all kinds of symbological meaning, including the four elements, the org

...ildren" (p. 145). And if the object doesn't bring light to the great city, it does bring fire. Lucifer is not too strong a connection, but still in the b ''Gravity's Rainbow'', p. 760: "But it was ''not a star'', it was falling, a bright angel of death." The whole passage seems strongly con

When were the Chums last seen in AtD? As far back as page 142? It does not make any sense in Italian.<br>

...y, CO, is a gold-zinc-silver-lead-copper mine operated from 1896 to 1990. It located six miles south of Ouray and produced yearly 1.5 million ounces of ...e, Montana, a straight shot of whiskey followed with a glass of cold beer; it gave birth to the boilermaker." From this [http://www.suite101.com/article.

...s-huts/tomboy-road-town-tomboy-imogene-pass-ouray]. Here are two images of it from the late 1800s: [http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/singleitem/colle ...hought is that it might be Yankee Boy Basin, which is up Imogene Pass, but it seems unlikely that Frank could have gone up the Tomboy Road and then wound

...nc metal brings less than gold or silver, but its ore may be attractive if it is rich in zinc and processing costs are low. First step in treating ore is concentration or beneficiation: breaking it into small pieces and separating the fragments that contain zinc from those

...do Isola di Lolando] in particular. Built to look like a Venetian island, it still sits abandoned in Biscayne Bay. ...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

...vard in GR -- "'Harvard's there for other reasons. The "educating" part of it is just sort of a front'" (GR 193). Latin; means nearest, closest, next. It also is the name of, among many other things, a computer code performing a

...of the Pullman Strike; since the strikers set other fires that very week, it is possible the fire was set by disgruntled Pullman employees." [http://en. ...imagined resemblance to roast duck. Oriental grocers sometimes still carry it.

...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'')

'''some koindt of a ''sailboat'' pitchuhv on it'''<br> ...science fiction writers whom Pynchon is both emulating and parodying in ''ATD''. H.G. Wells was an English novelist, sociologist, journalist, and histori

...edia.org/wiki/Growth_ring Wikipedia entry]. The tree connection is strong. It was said that Orpheus could even charm the trees, and Rilke (who figures pr :if we were looking for yet another sexual innuendo, it would be interesting to note that the French word "cyprine" (the pronouncia

...nal and oldest settlement north of San Diego and south of San Luis Obispo, it is from San Gabriel that the City of Los Angeles and the greater metropolit ...logists until the 1960s. Probably just another anachronism in the world of AtD.

..." in ''The Mouse That Roared'' (1959) or to James Bond's master armorer Q. It could also be an allusion to the character "Q" in Star Trek where the name Ancestor of what Fedex and UPS call "shipping document"; it identifies the article shipped and contains necessary addresses and instruc

Well, I don't think it may sound insulting for the waiter, as Ostend is in the part of Belgium wer ...branch of calculus that deals with vectors and process involving vectors. It is much more easily applied to phsics and other applied sciences than Hamil

One of the overarching themes of the book, it seems. Natural light A real city with a population about 56,000. It is located in the southeastern part of the province of Alberta, Canada.

...y "praise to God", as an exclamation also "Thank God!". Though it is rare, it is a real German name.<br> ...died in 1855, his brain was preserved for research purposes. To this day, it is in the possession of the University of Göttingen. Cf [[ATD_489-524#Page

...eses that Lie at the Foundation of Geometry'', delivered on June 10, 1854. It became a classic of mathematics. In particular, it provided the mathematical concepts used later by Einstein to formulate his

...built in the United States specifically for international railway traffic. It is located at San Francisco Ave downtown El Paso vey close to the US-Mexico ..., the sixth largest city in Texas, is located at the western tip of Texas. It is the second largest city along the Mexican border. And lies across the Ri

...urtis JN-4 Jenny airplane. [http://www.afa.org/magazine/1990/0790jenny.asp It's a famous and valuable stamp.]<br> Great Pynchonian name. Surprising that it's real-- Nether Wallop = whack in the ass, much like the "fundament-seizing

...to Squarcione will be a Mantegna, inaccurately ascribed so that he'll get it cheap. ...act appears to be accurate according to this description: [http://www.doge.it/regata/regata50i.htm#9 caorlina]-<br>

...st assume. I think the "dark future" Nietzshe writes of in that letter, if it is quoted accurately,refers to his fears of his own future--the reception a ...the notion of 'the eternal return'. By this he meant that the universe, if it had no Final End as

...trand''. It derives its name from the Old English "shore" or "river bank". It currently starts at Trafalgar Square and runs east to join Fleet Street at ...e had taken it he knew by the smell that it was very unusual chocolate. '''It was dark and shiny''', and was wrapped in silver paper.<ref>''1984'', Georg

...m Trieste, too (the travel from there took about two weeks). In 1907 alone it was about half a million emigrants. In 1910 the population of Austria-Hunga ...and wants to post it. Winston Churchill: "Macedonia has more history than it can consume".

...pened here. Since this is the non-spoiler section, maybe we can talk about it here: [[Hassan's Dissappearance Discussion|DISCUSSION]] ...edia.org/wiki/Aksu_City Ak-su] (White Water) is a city in Xinjiang, China. It is located in the Southern foothills of Tian Shan. The economy of Ak-su is

...ntries for macaroni was ''rishta'', but the context clearly indicates that it means ''worm'', or specifically, ''Guinea worm''.<br> '''to get in out of it'''<br>

...nal estimated length is not only extremely large but in fact so large that it is best considered infinite."<br> ...is, circling as it does on the inside, almost connects with itself? When it would be "infinite". See Wikipedia.

The north-east or Gregaou (Greek) wind of Nice, which is happily rare, since it brings storms of hail and even snow in winter.<br> ...un in 1104 and was continually extended from the 14th to the 16th century. It is surrounded by high walls with square towers bearing the insignia of the

...might translate as "twit". I guess in American English you would translate it as ''dork''. ...d as the "Home of Cricket" and hosting the world's oldest sporting museum, it is also where "the Ashes" of English cricket reside. The playing field feat

[[ATD 374-396#Page 395|See p.395: Bolsón de Mapimi]] So it seems that at the time Wren Provenance would have been part of a "semi-offi

...rically expensive porcelain. Its name comes from the practice of importing it into Europe through the ports of the Balearic island Majorca from the Mid-e Spanish: It's all right, don't trouble yourself, my dear.

...rom Bulgarian uses the letter ''ǔ.'' The sound resembles the U in "bump"; it's represented by Ъ in the Bulgarian Cyrillic alphabet. ...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 [

...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 ...gh face". Also, despite saying that Pugnax and Kseniya only recently met, it seems that the action here is set after Kseniya's encounter with Ljubica, b

...ctric Building at Sixth and Main "Right down the street". Opened in 1893, it was definitely "swank" but not exactly "new." ...n.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Electric_Building Pacific Electric Building]. It is one of Los Angeles's oldest restaurants and claims (in contest with [htt

:The street is called "rue du départ" (departure street) because it flanks the train station (Gare Montparnasse). The street opposite is called French: It isn't Paris, it's a suburb of Paris.

...iddle of the world, and beneath the great equator, and named after it; and it had been cast midway up the Andes, in the unwaning clime that knows no autu '''"It's always night, or we wouldn't need light." - Thelonious Monk'''<br>

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'''"as if it were something the stripling had only read about, in some boys' book of adv ...ipica delle Indie Orientali, in particolare di Giava e Sumatra, la [http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper_cubeba Piper cubeba]. I suoi frutti essiccati sono

...i di tutto il XIX secolo. Si veda per approfondimenti la pagina di [http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_Gibbs wikipedia] e [http://www-history.mcs.st-an [http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_De_Forest Lee De Forest (1873-1961)], inventore amer

'''If the U.S. was a person . . . and it ''sat down,'' Columbus, Ohio would instantly be plunged into darkness.'''<b Nel parlare comune dei pionieri le carovane di [http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conestoga_(carro) Conestoga] che attraversavano le prate