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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