Chapter 1: 5-11
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Latitudes and Departures
Portmanteau of 'latitudes and longitudes' with 'arrivals and departures'.
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[capitalization]
No discernible pattern?
Uncapitalised nouns in the first paragraph include: shoes, slaps, afternoon, raer, years, table, side-benches, branch, family.
Capitalised abstract nouns include: Arcs, Sides, Descent, Dither, Fly.
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"Mischianza"
EB11-Philadelphia history
Nerve-Lines
If this is meant to imply branching dendrites, it's anachronistic.
Distance to a Star
Not until 1838.
Actually, Lalande got a pretty good figure off of the Transit of Venus data from 1761 and 1769, with a figure of 153 million kilometres(±1 million km)
Transit of Venus
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Boppo
Not in OED.
Tenebrae
Darkness (Latin).
size and difficulty
Cf "Lot 49"?
Jabot
pix
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Secret Relation
His journal? (relation = narrative or account def)
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The crime of "Anonymity"...Gaol...Exile
With this discription of the Revs Crime of exposing power with the intention of being anonymous and seeking exile as a way of avoiding prison, there is an implication that Cherrycoke's voice is Pynchon himself.
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my name had never been my own
???
