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...the general reader. These were the only official excerpts published before ATD itself, on 21 November 2006.
...Moses, Veikko is fanatical about freeing his people from enslavement, in ''ATD'' from the mine owners and bosses. This is the first we meet Veikko which s
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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
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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
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...happy,love breeding black folk. For a partial list of coon references in ''AtD,'' [[ATD_26-56#Page_48|see annotation to p. 48.]]
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...appear to be many allusions to [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki ''V.''] in ''ATD''.
...yphs&btnG=Search+Images]) ... and the cover of the UK paperback edition of AtD bears some resemblance the petroglyph on Newspaper Rock.
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...edictionary.com/] which explains the origins of a lot of the words used in AtD:
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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
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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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AtD usually says 'bobwire'.
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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
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:That suggests another angle for reading ATD as a novel about the genesis of the 20th century, considering the [http://e
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...the long run, despite her obvious erotic influence on the men and women in ATD. - Tommaso
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again that Pynchonian expression of horror as elsewhere in ATD, such as
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...internal 'Symbolist' artwork embodying vivid hallucinatory visions within ATD?<br>
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...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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...shoulder holster. First referred to in the "Beavers of the Brain" song, [[ATD 171-198#Page 183|p. 183]]
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...Day description|book description]] written by Pynchon himself, read the [[ATD Reviews|reviews]], [[Against the Day Title|entertain some theories on the s
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...s|Lyrics +]]. The composer [[H#hahn|Reynaldo Hahn]] (see also ''ATD'' at [[ATD 1063-1085#Page_1065|page 1065]]) wrote the music for his operetta ''Mozart'
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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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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
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...the general reader. These were the only official excerpts published before ATD itself, on 21 November 2006.
...Moses, Veikko is fanatical about freeing his people from enslavement, in ''ATD'' from the mine owners and bosses. This is the first we meet Veikko which s
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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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...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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...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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Several characters in ''AtD'' have a similar experience—Lew Basnight on page 185 is an example.
...happy,love breeding black folk. For a partial list of coon references in ''AtD,'' [[ATD_26-56#Page_48|see annotation to p. 48.]]
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...appear to be many allusions to [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki ''V.''] in ''ATD''.
...yphs&btnG=Search+Images]) ... and the cover of the UK paperback edition of AtD bears some resemblance the petroglyph on Newspaper Rock.
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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
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...edictionary.com/] which explains the origins of a lot of the words used in AtD:
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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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...logists until the 1960s. Probably just another anachronism in the world of AtD.
AtD usually says 'bobwire'.
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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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:That suggests another angle for reading ATD as a novel about the genesis of the 20th century, considering the [http://e
...ne interesting logo, what with the dead lion/bees and the tibetan stamp on ATD, btw. Golden Syrup = oil?
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...the long run, despite her obvious erotic influence on the men and women in ATD. - Tommaso
This in turn suggests (within the context of AtD (atled??) a reversal of time or a mirror image of change.
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ATD motif i.e. rebel against the quotidian day.
In ''AtD'' the plural ''akousmata'' occurs more often. [[A|Look it up in the alphabe
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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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...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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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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