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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
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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 mysterious legend on the AtD seal. They were kind enough to forward my
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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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...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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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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...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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...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
: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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...ry but not if they share a single point. The Four Corners is familiar in ''AtD,'' so paint New Mexico red, Arizona green, and Utah beige. What color does
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...sting in light of the Butch Cassidy references in the Telluride section of ATD. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Woo#Trivia [wikipedia]]
...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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[[Image:ATD-French-Edition.jpg|100px|thumb|left]]<h2>French Translation Now Available</
...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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310; [[ATD-D#drop|Jimmy Drop's]] lieutenant
In ATD, Pynchon uses the expression ''"all but" + adjective'' over and over. Any i
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See [[ATD-M|'''Meat''']].
287; "local name" for [[ATD-M#meldrum|Bob Meldrum's]] wife;
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...'s concern for humanity. To be in a state of grace is to be redeemed. In AtD, several characters attain or approach states of grace, beginning with Lew
...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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467-468; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groucho_marx Wikipedia entry][[ATD-J#julius|See also Julius]]
226; 269; [[ATD-C#color|See also Color]]
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The specific reference in ''ATD'' is to Lord Rayleigh's paper published in the ''Proceedings of the Royal S
89; of the Silver Act in 1893; [[ATD-S#silveract|See Silver Act]]
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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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138; [[ATD-N#nansen|Fridtjof Nansen's]] and [[ATD-J#johansen|Hjalmar Johansen's]] ship; [[Fridtjof_Nansen|Article about Nanse
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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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...olate the rules of a local culture. The initial appearance of the Chums in ATD, in the sky aboard a hydrogen balloon, may recall the appearance of the thr
...enience stands for the book itself (the airship launches at the opening of AtD, it grows larger as the book progresses, it travels all over the map, u.s.w
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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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[[Category:ATD]]
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the mysterious legend on the AtD seal. They were kind enough to forward my
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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
35 KB (5,642 words) - 05:59, 11 November 2022
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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>
77 KB (12,597 words) - 04:22, 20 November 2022
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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
{{ATD Alpha Nav}}
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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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