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<p>MKOHUT: </p> <hr /> <div>==Page 493==<br /> '''his Soul's off God knows where'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> mind-body dualism [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9052812/mind-body-dualism]<br /> and out-of-body travel.The mind-body dichotomy is the starting point of Dualism, and became conceptualized in the form as it is currently known in the Western world in René Descartes philosophy, but also appeared in pre-Aristotelian concepts. wikipedia.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Descartes is a philosopher whom Thomas Pynchon has expressed negativity about in other works. See ''Against the Day''.<br /> <br /> '''what, in thy Absence, is doing the Staring for thee? &lt;br&gt;<br /> the philosophical &quot;problem&quot; of self-consciousness? With the mind off elsewhere, what is looking out of the mind's eyes?<br /> <br /> '''what Verger of the Temple of the Self...?&lt;br&gt;<br /> verg·er (vûrjr) <br /> NOUN: <br /> Chiefly British &lt;br&gt;<br /> One who carries the verge or other emblem of authority before a scholastic, legal, or religious dignitary in a procession.&lt;br&gt;<br /> One who takes care of the interior of a church and acts as an attendant during ceremonies. American Heritage Dictionary<br /> <br /> ==Page 494==<br /> '''Really? 'The Black Dog'?... Things...Never Said.&quot;&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Black Dog was Winston Churchill's name for the massive depression that sometimes took him over.<br /> <br /> ==Page 495==<br /> '''of a certain farm animal?'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> a pig of course,perhaps Pynchon's favorite animal [see ''V.''and other works] which, along with the Black Dog, is one of the Things That Are Never Said....and counterpointed to the Names of the Holy Trinity,&quot;names most likely to matter&quot;.<br /> <br /> ==Page 496==<br /> '''Sensorium'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The term originally enters English from the Late Latin in the mid-17th century, from the stem sens- (see: sense).The term sensorium (plural: sensoria) refers to the sum of an organism's perception, the &quot;seat of sensation&quot; where it experiences and interprets the environments within which it lives.&lt;br&gt;<br /> In earlier use it referred, in a broader sense, to the brain as the mind's organ (Oxford English Dictionary 1989). In medical, psychological, and physiological discourse it has come to refer to the total character of the unique and changing sensory environments perceived by individuals. These include the sensation, perception, and interpretation of information about the world by senses, perceptual systems and minds (MedTerms 2001). wikipedia<br /> <br /> '''Philadelphia, where he has just been elected Dog Catcher'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Philadelphia is like Washington, D.C. at this time, where &quot;rival packs of<br /> wild dogs&quot; existed in ''Against the Day'' at a later time. [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?search=wild+dogs&amp;fulltext=Search Against the Day] Dogs rule?&lt;br&gt;<br /> another dog allusion which feeds the idea that &quot;man's best friend&quot; is almost like the humans in Pynchon's work.&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;I'm a Dog Person&quot;--Dixon, page 495<br /> <br /> '''whim-wham'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> WHIM-WHAM- A word from around the 16th century from which the word Whimsical was derived.&lt;br&gt; A whimsical decorative object or device.&lt;br&gt; A fantastic creation of the brain or hand. [http://thecosmicwhimwhamstudio.com/ whim-wham]<br /> <br /> ==Page 497==<br /> '''Cavern beneath the Earth'''....'''Ceilings! high as Heaven!'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A hallowed place? Notice how large the space becomes immediately after the entrance arch that is only 6 yards by four feet. Reminds one of the rooms that are larger inside than out. Perhaps &quot;inner space&quot; and hallowed underground spaces [lower than lowlands; depths that had &quot;no names&quot; in ''Gravity's Rainbow''] contain--or could contain--much more than we think?<br /> <br /> '''Pencil of Time'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Compare ''knives of the seasons'' from GR.<br /> <br /> '''tears of the Rocks'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> And what follows. All [the awareness of mortality] is even older than the Indians.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf. Rachel Owlglass in ''V.'', p. 20: &quot;the dead rocks that were here before us and will be here after us.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Ogham'''&lt;br&gt;Ogham (Old Irish Ogam or Oġam) is an Early Medieval alphabet used primarily to represent the &quot;Old Irish&quot; language.<br /> [http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham Ogham] <br /> <br /> '''Monology'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> monology. n. soliloquy; monopoly of the conversation. monologian, monologist, n. monologic(al), a. monologize, v.i.. © From the Hutchinson Encyclopaedia. ...<br /> [http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/difficultwords/data/d0008444.html]<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> <br /> {{MD PbP}}</div>

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<p>MKOHUT: /* Page 497 */</p> <hr /> <div>==Page 493==<br /> '''his Soul's off God knows where'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> mind-body dualism [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9052812/mind-body-dualism]<br /> and out-of-body travel.The mind-body dichotomy is the starting point of Dualism, and became conceptualized in the form as it is currently known in the Western world in René Descartes philosophy, but also appeared in pre-Aristotelian concepts. wikipedia.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Descartes is a philosopher whom Thomas Pynchon has expressed negativity about in other works. See ''Against the Day''.<br /> <br /> '''what, in thy Absence, is doing the Staring for thee? &lt;br&gt;<br /> the philosophical &quot;problem&quot; of self-consciousness? With the mind off elsewhere, what is looking out of the mind's eyes?<br /> <br /> '''what Verger of the Temple of the Self...?&lt;br&gt;<br /> verg·er (vûrjr) <br /> NOUN: <br /> Chiefly British &lt;br&gt;<br /> One who carries the verge or other emblem of authority before a scholastic, legal, or religious dignitary in a procession.&lt;br&gt;<br /> One who takes care of the interior of a church and acts as an attendant during ceremonies. American Heritage Dictionary<br /> <br /> ==Page 494==<br /> '''Really? 'The Black Dog'?... Things...Never Said.&quot;&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Black Dog was Winston Churchill's name for the massive depression that sometimes took him over.<br /> <br /> ==Page 495==<br /> '''of a certain farm animal?'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> a pig of course,perhaps Pynchon's favorite animal [see ''V.''and other works] which, along with the Black Dog, is one of the Things That Are Never Said....and counterpointed to the Names of the Holy Trinity,&quot;names most likely to matter&quot;.<br /> <br /> ==Page 496==<br /> '''Sensorium'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The term originally enters English from the Late Latin in the mid-17th century, from the stem sens- (see: sense).The term sensorium (plural: sensoria) refers to the sum of an organism's perception, the &quot;seat of sensation&quot; where it experiences and interprets the environments within which it lives.&lt;br&gt;<br /> In earlier use it referred, in a broader sense, to the brain as the mind's organ (Oxford English Dictionary 1989). In medical, psychological, and physiological discourse it has come to refer to the total character of the unique and changing sensory environments perceived by individuals. These include the sensation, perception, and interpretation of information about the world by senses, perceptual systems and minds (MedTerms 2001). wikipedia<br /> <br /> '''Philadelphia, where he has just been elected Dog Catcher'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Philadelphia is like Washington, D.C. at this time, where &quot;rival packs of<br /> wild dogs&quot; existed in ''Against the Day'' at a later time. [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?search=wild+dogs&amp;fulltext=Search Against the Day] Dogs rule?&lt;br&gt;<br /> another dog allusion which feeds the idea that &quot;man's best friend&quot; is almost like the humans in Pynchon's work.&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;I'm a Dog Person&quot;--Dixon, page 495<br /> <br /> '''whim-wham'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> WHIM-WHAM- A word from around the 16th century from which the word Whimsical was derived.&lt;br&gt; A whimsical decorative object or device.&lt;br&gt; A fantastic creation of the brain or hand. [http://thecosmicwhimwhamstudio.com/ whim-wham]<br /> <br /> ==Page 497==<br /> '''Cavern beneath the Earth'''....'''Ceilings! high as Heaven!'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A hallowed place? Notice how large the space becomes immediately after the entrance arch that is only 6 yards by four feet. Reminds one of the rooms that are larger inside than out.[p. 354] Perhaps &quot;inner space&quot; and hallowed underground spaces [lower than lowlands; depths that had &quot;no names&quot; in ''Gravity's Rainbow''] contain--or could contain--much more than we think?<br /> <br /> '''Pencil of Time'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Compare ''knives of the seasons'' from GR.<br /> <br /> '''tears of the Rocks'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> And what follows. All [the awareness of mortality] is even older than the Indians.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf. Rachel Owlglass in ''V.'': &quot;the dead rocks that were here before us and will be after us&quot;. p. 20.<br /> <br /> Mason, the melancholic one, looks around as if &quot;furnishing a room&quot;&lt;br&gt;<br /> Dixon, however, feels &quot;oppressed&quot;.&lt;br&gt;<br /> '''form of Life'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An important phrase, concept, in Wittgenstein's later work, ''Philosophical Investigations''.&lt;br&gt; <br /> &quot;This Complicated Form of Life: Essays on Wittgenstein&quot; by Newton Garver online at Questia as just one example.<br /> <br /> '''Ogham'''&lt;br&gt;Ogham (Old Irish Ogam or Oġam) is an Early Medieval alphabet used primarily to represent the &quot;Old Irish&quot; language.<br /> [http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham Ogham] <br /> <br /> '''Monology'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> monology. n. soliloquy; monopoly of the conversation. monologian, monologist, n. monologic(al), a. monologize, v.i.. © From the Hutchinson Encyclopaedia. ...<br /> [http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/difficultwords/data/d0008444.html]<br /> <br /> '''Its Pages are the Days turning, Unscrolling, as a Pilgrim's itinerary map'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Service is Text (like the Good Book) and the Pages are the &quot;Days Turning&quot;...Cf. the 'day' in ''Against the Day'', passim.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Is Mason's vision positive in TRPs worldview or not so, given his seeming embrace of death, mortality?<br /> <br /> ==Page 498==<br /> '''Eldritch Powers'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Eldritch Beings Beyond Comprehension is a term given to great and mighty nameless things that rest below the rungs of reality in some dark and forgotten place, perhaps in the Nastiest Planes or the depths of The Underdeep, with great powers and innumerable intellect, The Eldritch Beings Beyond Comprehension live for millions of years.[http://elothtes.pbwiki.com/Eldritch%20Beings%20Beyond%20Comprehension]<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> <br /> {{MD PbP}}</div>

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<p>MKOHUT: /* Page 497 */</p> <hr /> <div>==Page 493==<br /> '''his Soul's off God knows where'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> mind-body dualism [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9052812/mind-body-dualism]<br /> and out-of-body travel.The mind-body dichotomy is the starting point of Dualism, and became conceptualized in the form as it is currently known in the Western world in René Descartes philosophy, but also appeared in pre-Aristotelian concepts. wikipedia.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Descartes is a philosopher whom Thomas Pynchon has expressed negativity about in other works. See ''Against the Day''.<br /> <br /> '''what, in thy Absence, is doing the Staring for thee? &lt;br&gt;<br /> the philosophical &quot;problem&quot; of self-consciousness? With the mind off elsewhere, what is looking out of the mind's eyes?<br /> <br /> '''what Verger of the Temple of the Self...?&lt;br&gt;<br /> verg·er (vûrjr) <br /> NOUN: <br /> Chiefly British &lt;br&gt;<br /> One who carries the verge or other emblem of authority before a scholastic, legal, or religious dignitary in a procession.&lt;br&gt;<br /> One who takes care of the interior of a church and acts as an attendant during ceremonies. American Heritage Dictionary<br /> <br /> ==Page 494==<br /> '''Really? 'The Black Dog'?... Things...Never Said.&quot;&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Black Dog was Winston Churchill's name for the massive depression that sometimes took him over.<br /> <br /> ==Page 495==<br /> '''of a certain farm animal?'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> a pig of course,perhaps Pynchon's favorite animal [see ''V.''and other works] which, along with the Black Dog, is one of the Things That Are Never Said....and counterpointed to the Names of the Holy Trinity,&quot;names most likely to matter&quot;.<br /> <br /> ==Page 496==<br /> '''Sensorium'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The term originally enters English from the Late Latin in the mid-17th century, from the stem sens- (see: sense).The term sensorium (plural: sensoria) refers to the sum of an organism's perception, the &quot;seat of sensation&quot; where it experiences and interprets the environments within which it lives.&lt;br&gt;<br /> In earlier use it referred, in a broader sense, to the brain as the mind's organ (Oxford English Dictionary 1989). In medical, psychological, and physiological discourse it has come to refer to the total character of the unique and changing sensory environments perceived by individuals. These include the sensation, perception, and interpretation of information about the world by senses, perceptual systems and minds (MedTerms 2001). wikipedia<br /> <br /> '''Philadelphia, where he has just been elected Dog Catcher'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Philadelphia is like Washington, D.C. at this time, where &quot;rival packs of<br /> wild dogs&quot; existed in ''Against the Day'' at a later time. [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?search=wild+dogs&amp;fulltext=Search Against the Day] Dogs rule?&lt;br&gt;<br /> another dog allusion which feeds the idea that &quot;man's best friend&quot; is almost like the humans in Pynchon's work.&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;I'm a Dog Person&quot;--Dixon, page 495<br /> <br /> '''whim-wham'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> WHIM-WHAM- A word from around the 16th century from which the word Whimsical was derived.&lt;br&gt; A whimsical decorative object or device.&lt;br&gt; A fantastic creation of the brain or hand. [http://thecosmicwhimwhamstudio.com/ whim-wham]<br /> <br /> ==Page 497==<br /> '''Cavern beneath the Earth'''....'''Ceilings! high as Heaven!'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A hallowed place? Notice how large the space becomes immediately after the entrance arch that is only 6 yards by four feet. Reminds one of the rooms that are larger inside than out. Perhaps &quot;inner space&quot; and hallowed underground spaces [lower than lowlands; depths that had &quot;no names&quot; in ''Gravity's Rainbow''] contain--or could contain--much more than we think?<br /> <br /> '''Pencil of Time'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Compare ''knives of the seasons'' from GR.<br /> <br /> '''tears of the Rocks'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> And what follows. All [the awareness of mortality] is even older than the Indians.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf. Rachel Owlglass in ''V.'': &quot;the dead rocks that were here before us and will be after us&quot;. p. 20.<br /> <br /> Mason, the melancholic one, looks around as if &quot;furnishing a room&quot;&lt;br&gt;<br /> Dixon, however, feels &quot;oppressed&quot;.&lt;br&gt;<br /> '''form of Life'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An important phrase, concept, in Wittgenstein's later work, ''Philosophical Investigations''.&lt;br&gt; <br /> &quot;This Complicated Form of Life: Essays on Wittgenstein&quot; by Newton Garver online at Questia.<br /> <br /> '''Ogham'''&lt;br&gt;Ogham (Old Irish Ogam or Oġam) is an Early Medieval alphabet used primarily to represent the &quot;Old Irish&quot; language.<br /> [http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham Ogham] <br /> <br /> '''Monology'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> monology. n. soliloquy; monopoly of the conversation. monologian, monologist, n. monologic(al), a. monologize, v.i.. © From the Hutchinson Encyclopaedia. ...<br /> [http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/difficultwords/data/d0008444.html]<br /> <br /> '''Its Pages are the Days turning, Unscrolling, as a Pilgrim's itinerary map'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Service is Text (like the Good Book) and the Pages are the &quot;Days Turning&quot;...Cf. the 'day' in ''Against the Day'', passim.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Is Mason's vision positive in TRPs worldview or not so, given his seeming embrace of death, mortality?<br /> <br /> ==Page 498==<br /> '''Eldritch Powers'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Eldritch Beings Beyond Comprehension is a term given to great and mighty nameless things that rest below the rungs of reality in some dark and forgotten place, perhaps in the Nastiest Planes or the depths of The Underdeep, with great powers and innumerable intellect, The Eldritch Beings Beyond Comprehension live for millions of years.[http://elothtes.pbwiki.com/Eldritch%20Beings%20Beyond%20Comprehension]<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> <br /> {{MD PbP}}</div>

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<p>MKOHUT: /* Page 498 */</p> <hr /> <div>==Page 493==<br /> '''his Soul's off God knows where'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> mind-body dualism [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9052812/mind-body-dualism]<br /> and out-of-body travel.The mind-body dichotomy is the starting point of Dualism, and became conceptualized in the form as it is currently known in the Western world in René Descartes philosophy, but also appeared in pre-Aristotelian concepts. wikipedia.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Descartes is a philosopher whom Thomas Pynchon has expressed negativity about in other works. See ''Against the Day''.<br /> <br /> '''what, in thy Absence, is doing the Staring for thee? &lt;br&gt;<br /> the philosophical &quot;problem&quot; of self-consciousness? With the mind off elsewhere, what is looking out of the mind's eyes?<br /> <br /> '''what Verger of the Temple of the Self...?&lt;br&gt;<br /> verg·er (vûrjr) <br /> NOUN: <br /> Chiefly British &lt;br&gt;<br /> One who carries the verge or other emblem of authority before a scholastic, legal, or religious dignitary in a procession.&lt;br&gt;<br /> One who takes care of the interior of a church and acts as an attendant during ceremonies. American Heritage Dictionary<br /> <br /> ==Page 494==<br /> '''Really? 'The Black Dog'?... Things...Never Said.&quot;&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Black Dog was Winston Churchill's name for the massive depression that sometimes took him over.<br /> <br /> ==Page 495==<br /> '''of a certain farm animal?'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> a pig of course,perhaps Pynchon's favorite animal [see ''V.''and other works] which, along with the Black Dog, is one of the Things That Are Never Said....and counterpointed to the Names of the Holy Trinity,&quot;names most likely to matter&quot;.<br /> <br /> ==Page 496==<br /> '''Sensorium'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The term originally enters English from the Late Latin in the mid-17th century, from the stem sens- (see: sense).The term sensorium (plural: sensoria) refers to the sum of an organism's perception, the &quot;seat of sensation&quot; where it experiences and interprets the environments within which it lives.&lt;br&gt;<br /> In earlier use it referred, in a broader sense, to the brain as the mind's organ (Oxford English Dictionary 1989). In medical, psychological, and physiological discourse it has come to refer to the total character of the unique and changing sensory environments perceived by individuals. These include the sensation, perception, and interpretation of information about the world by senses, perceptual systems and minds (MedTerms 2001). wikipedia<br /> <br /> '''Philadelphia, where he has just been elected Dog Catcher'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Philadelphia is like Washington, D.C. at this time, where &quot;rival packs of<br /> wild dogs&quot; existed in ''Against the Day'' at a later time. [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?search=wild+dogs&amp;fulltext=Search Against the Day] Dogs rule?&lt;br&gt;<br /> another dog allusion which feeds the idea that &quot;man's best friend&quot; is almost like the humans in Pynchon's work.&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;I'm a Dog Person&quot;--Dixon, page 495<br /> <br /> '''whim-wham'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> WHIM-WHAM- A word from around the 16th century from which the word Whimsical was derived.&lt;br&gt; A whimsical decorative object or device.&lt;br&gt; A fantastic creation of the brain or hand. [http://thecosmicwhimwhamstudio.com/ whim-wham]<br /> <br /> ==Page 497==<br /> '''Cavern beneath the Earth'''....'''Ceilings! high as Heaven!'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A hallowed place? Notice how large the space becomes immediately after the entrance arch that is only 6 yards by four feet. Reminds one of the rooms that are larger inside than out. Perhaps &quot;inner space&quot; and hallowed underground spaces [lower than lowlands; depths that had &quot;no names&quot; in ''Gravity's Rainbow''] contain--or could contain--much more than we think?<br /> <br /> '''Pencil of Time'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Compare ''knives of the seasons'' from GR.<br /> <br /> '''tears of the Rocks'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> And what follows. All [the awareness of mortality] is even older than the Indians.<br /> <br /> Mason, the melancholic one, looks around as if &quot;furnishing a room&quot;&lt;br&gt;<br /> Dixon, however, feels &quot;oppressed&quot;.&lt;br&gt;<br /> '''form of Life'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An important phrase, concept, in Wittgenstein's later work, ''Philosophical Investigations''.&lt;br&gt; <br /> &quot;This Complicated Form of Life: Essays on Wittgenstein&quot; by Newton Garver online at Questia.<br /> <br /> '''Ogham'''&lt;br&gt;Ogham (Old Irish Ogam or Oġam) is an Early Medieval alphabet used primarily to represent the &quot;Old Irish&quot; language.<br /> [http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham Ogham] <br /> <br /> '''Monology'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> monology. n. soliloquy; monopoly of the conversation. monologian, monologist, n. monologic(al), a. monologize, v.i.. © From the Hutchinson Encyclopaedia. ...<br /> [http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/difficultwords/data/d0008444.html]<br /> <br /> '''Its Pages are the Days turning, Unscrolling, as a Pilgrim's itinerary map'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Service is Text (like the Good Book) and the Pages are the &quot;Days Turning&quot;...Cf. the 'day' in ''Against the Day'', passim.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Is Mason's vision positive in TRPs worldview or not so, given his seeming embrace of death, mortality?<br /> <br /> ==Page 498==<br /> '''Eldritch Powers'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Eldritch Beings Beyond Comprehension is a term given to great and mighty nameless things that rest below the rungs of reality in some dark and forgotten place, perhaps in the Nastiest Planes or the depths of The Underdeep, with great powers and innumerable intellect, The Eldritch Beings Beyond Comprehension live for millions of years.[http://elothtes.pbwiki.com/Eldritch%20Beings%20Beyond%20Comprehension]<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> <br /> {{MD PbP}}</div>

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<p>MKOHUT: /* Page 497 */</p> <hr /> <div>==Page 493==<br /> '''his Soul's off God knows where'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> mind-body dualism [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9052812/mind-body-dualism]<br /> and out-of-body travel.The mind-body dichotomy is the starting point of Dualism, and became conceptualized in the form as it is currently known in the Western world in René Descartes philosophy, but also appeared in pre-Aristotelian concepts. wikipedia.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Descartes is a philosopher whom Thomas Pynchon has expressed negativity about in other works. See ''Against the Day''.<br /> <br /> '''what, in thy Absence, is doing the Staring for thee? &lt;br&gt;<br /> the philosophical &quot;problem&quot; of self-consciousness? With the mind off elsewhere, what is looking out of the mind's eyes?<br /> <br /> '''what Verger of the Temple of the Self...?&lt;br&gt;<br /> verg·er (vûrjr) <br /> NOUN: <br /> Chiefly British &lt;br&gt;<br /> One who carries the verge or other emblem of authority before a scholastic, legal, or religious dignitary in a procession.&lt;br&gt;<br /> One who takes care of the interior of a church and acts as an attendant during ceremonies. American Heritage Dictionary<br /> <br /> ==Page 494==<br /> '''Really? 'The Black Dog'?... Things...Never Said.&quot;&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Black Dog was Winston Churchill's name for the massive depression that sometimes took him over.<br /> <br /> ==Page 495==<br /> '''of a certain farm animal?'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> a pig of course,perhaps Pynchon's favorite animal [see ''V.''and other works] which, along with the Black Dog, is one of the Things That Are Never Said....and counterpointed to the Names of the Holy Trinity,&quot;names most likely to matter&quot;.<br /> <br /> ==Page 496==<br /> '''Sensorium'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The term originally enters English from the Late Latin in the mid-17th century, from the stem sens- (see: sense).The term sensorium (plural: sensoria) refers to the sum of an organism's perception, the &quot;seat of sensation&quot; where it experiences and interprets the environments within which it lives.&lt;br&gt;<br /> In earlier use it referred, in a broader sense, to the brain as the mind's organ (Oxford English Dictionary 1989). In medical, psychological, and physiological discourse it has come to refer to the total character of the unique and changing sensory environments perceived by individuals. These include the sensation, perception, and interpretation of information about the world by senses, perceptual systems and minds (MedTerms 2001). wikipedia<br /> <br /> '''Philadelphia, where he has just been elected Dog Catcher'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Philadelphia is like Washington, D.C. at this time, where &quot;rival packs of<br /> wild dogs&quot; existed in ''Against the Day'' at a later time. [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?search=wild+dogs&amp;fulltext=Search Against the Day] Dogs rule?&lt;br&gt;<br /> another dog allusion which feeds the idea that &quot;man's best friend&quot; is almost like the humans in Pynchon's work.&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;I'm a Dog Person&quot;--Dixon, page 495<br /> <br /> '''whim-wham'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> WHIM-WHAM- A word from around the 16th century from which the word Whimsical was derived.&lt;br&gt; A whimsical decorative object or device.&lt;br&gt; A fantastic creation of the brain or hand. [http://thecosmicwhimwhamstudio.com/ whim-wham]<br /> <br /> ==Page 497==<br /> '''Cavern beneath the Earth'''....'''Ceilings! high as Heaven!'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A hallowed place? Notice how large the space becomes immediately after the entrance arch that is only 6 yards by four feet. Reminds one of the rooms that are larger inside than out. Perhaps &quot;inner space&quot; and hallowed underground spaces [lower than lowlands; depths that had &quot;no names&quot; in ''Gravity's Rainbow''] contain--or could contain--much more than we think?<br /> <br /> '''Pencil of Time'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Compare ''knives of the seasons'' from GR.<br /> <br /> '''tears of the Rocks'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> And what follows. All [the awareness of mortality] is even older than the Indians.<br /> <br /> Mason, the melancholic one, looks around as if &quot;furnishing a room&quot;&lt;br&gt;<br /> Dixon, however, feels &quot;oppressed&quot;.&lt;br&gt;<br /> '''form of Life'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An important phrase, concept, in Wittgenstein's later work, ''Philosophical Investigations''.&lt;br&gt; <br /> &quot;This Complicated Form of Life: Essays on Wittgenstein&quot; by Newton Garver online at Questia.<br /> <br /> '''Ogham'''&lt;br&gt;Ogham (Old Irish Ogam or Oġam) is an Early Medieval alphabet used primarily to represent the &quot;Old Irish&quot; language.<br /> [http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham Ogham] <br /> <br /> '''Monology'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> monology. n. soliloquy; monopoly of the conversation. monologian, monologist, n. monologic(al), a. monologize, v.i.. © From the Hutchinson Encyclopaedia. ...<br /> [http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/difficultwords/data/d0008444.html]<br /> <br /> '''Its Pages are the Days turning, Unscrolling, as a Pilgrim's itinerary map'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Service is Text (like the Good Book) and the Pages are the &quot;Days Turning&quot;...Cf. the 'day' in ''Against the Day'', passim.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Is Mason's vision positive in TRPs worldview or not so, given his seeming embrace of death, mortality?<br /> <br /> ==Page 498==<br /> '''Eldritch Powers'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Eldritch Beings Beyond Comprehension is a term given to great and mighty nameless things that rest below the rungs of reality in some dark and forgotten place, perhaps in the Nastiest Planes or the depths of The Underdeep, with great powers and innumerable intellect, The Eldritch Beings Beyond Comprehension live for millions of years.<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> <br /> {{MD PbP}}</div>

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<p>MKOHUT: /* Page 497 */</p> <hr /> <div>==Page 493==<br /> '''his Soul's off God knows where'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> mind-body dualism [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9052812/mind-body-dualism]<br /> and out-of-body travel.The mind-body dichotomy is the starting point of Dualism, and became conceptualized in the form as it is currently known in the Western world in René Descartes philosophy, but also appeared in pre-Aristotelian concepts. wikipedia.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Descartes is a philosopher whom Thomas Pynchon has expressed negativity about in other works. See ''Against the Day''.<br /> <br /> '''what, in thy Absence, is doing the Staring for thee? &lt;br&gt;<br /> the philosophical &quot;problem&quot; of self-consciousness? With the mind off elsewhere, what is looking out of the mind's eyes?<br /> <br /> '''what Verger of the Temple of the Self...?&lt;br&gt;<br /> verg·er (vûrjr) <br /> NOUN: <br /> Chiefly British &lt;br&gt;<br /> One who carries the verge or other emblem of authority before a scholastic, legal, or religious dignitary in a procession.&lt;br&gt;<br /> One who takes care of the interior of a church and acts as an attendant during ceremonies. American Heritage Dictionary<br /> <br /> ==Page 494==<br /> '''Really? 'The Black Dog'?... Things...Never Said.&quot;&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Black Dog was Winston Churchill's name for the massive depression that sometimes took him over.<br /> <br /> ==Page 495==<br /> '''of a certain farm animal?'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> a pig of course,perhaps Pynchon's favorite animal [see ''V.''and other works] which, along with the Black Dog, is one of the Things That Are Never Said....and counterpointed to the Names of the Holy Trinity,&quot;names most likely to matter&quot;.<br /> <br /> ==Page 496==<br /> '''Sensorium'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The term originally enters English from the Late Latin in the mid-17th century, from the stem sens- (see: sense).The term sensorium (plural: sensoria) refers to the sum of an organism's perception, the &quot;seat of sensation&quot; where it experiences and interprets the environments within which it lives.&lt;br&gt;<br /> In earlier use it referred, in a broader sense, to the brain as the mind's organ (Oxford English Dictionary 1989). In medical, psychological, and physiological discourse it has come to refer to the total character of the unique and changing sensory environments perceived by individuals. These include the sensation, perception, and interpretation of information about the world by senses, perceptual systems and minds (MedTerms 2001). wikipedia<br /> <br /> '''Philadelphia, where he has just been elected Dog Catcher'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Philadelphia is like Washington, D.C. at this time, where &quot;rival packs of<br /> wild dogs&quot; existed in ''Against the Day'' at a later time. [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?search=wild+dogs&amp;fulltext=Search Against the Day] Dogs rule?&lt;br&gt;<br /> another dog allusion which feeds the idea that &quot;man's best friend&quot; is almost like the humans in Pynchon's work.&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;I'm a Dog Person&quot;--Dixon, page 495<br /> <br /> '''whim-wham'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> WHIM-WHAM- A word from around the 16th century from which the word Whimsical was derived.&lt;br&gt; A whimsical decorative object or device.&lt;br&gt; A fantastic creation of the brain or hand. [http://thecosmicwhimwhamstudio.com/ whim-wham]<br /> <br /> ==Page 497==<br /> '''Cavern beneath the Earth'''....'''Ceilings! high as Heaven!'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A hallowed place? Notice how large the space becomes immediately after the entrance arch that is only 6 yards by four feet. Reminds one of the rooms that are larger inside than out. Perhaps &quot;inner space&quot; and hallowed underground spaces [lower than lowlands; depths that had &quot;no names&quot; in ''Gravity's Rainbow''] contain--or could contain--much more than we think?<br /> <br /> '''Pencil of Time'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Compare ''knives of the seasons'' from GR.<br /> <br /> '''tears of the Rocks'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> And what follows. All [the awareness of mortality] is even older than the Indians.<br /> <br /> Mason, the melancholic one, looks around as if &quot;furnishing a room&quot;&lt;br&gt;<br /> Dixon, however, feels &quot;oppressed&quot;.&lt;br&gt;<br /> '''form of Life'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An important phrase, concept, in Wittgenstein's later work, ''Philosophical Investigations''.&lt;br&gt; <br /> &quot;This Complicated Form of Life: Essays on Wittgenstein&quot; by Newton Garver online at Questia.<br /> <br /> '''Ogham'''&lt;br&gt;Ogham (Old Irish Ogam or Oġam) is an Early Medieval alphabet used primarily to represent the &quot;Old Irish&quot; language.<br /> [http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham Ogham] <br /> <br /> '''Monology'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> monology. n. soliloquy; monopoly of the conversation. monologian, monologist, n. monologic(al), a. monologize, v.i.. © From the Hutchinson Encyclopaedia. ...<br /> [http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/difficultwords/data/d0008444.html]<br /> <br /> '''Its Pages are the Days turning, Unscrolling, as a Pilgrim's itinerary map'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Service is Text (like the Good Book) and the Pages are the &quot;Days Turning&quot;...Cf. the 'day' in ''Against the Day'', passim.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Is Mason's vision positive in TRPs worldview or not so, given his seeming embrace of death, mortality?<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> <br /> {{MD PbP}}</div>

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<p>MKOHUT: /* Page 497 */</p> <hr /> <div>==Page 493==<br /> '''his Soul's off God knows where'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> mind-body dualism [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9052812/mind-body-dualism]<br /> and out-of-body travel.The mind-body dichotomy is the starting point of Dualism, and became conceptualized in the form as it is currently known in the Western world in René Descartes philosophy, but also appeared in pre-Aristotelian concepts. wikipedia.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Descartes is a philosopher whom Thomas Pynchon has expressed negativity about in other works. See ''Against the Day''.<br /> <br /> '''what, in thy Absence, is doing the Staring for thee? &lt;br&gt;<br /> the philosophical &quot;problem&quot; of self-consciousness? With the mind off elsewhere, what is looking out of the mind's eyes?<br /> <br /> '''what Verger of the Temple of the Self...?&lt;br&gt;<br /> verg·er (vûrjr) <br /> NOUN: <br /> Chiefly British &lt;br&gt;<br /> One who carries the verge or other emblem of authority before a scholastic, legal, or religious dignitary in a procession.&lt;br&gt;<br /> One who takes care of the interior of a church and acts as an attendant during ceremonies. American Heritage Dictionary<br /> <br /> ==Page 494==<br /> '''Really? 'The Black Dog'?... Things...Never Said.&quot;&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Black Dog was Winston Churchill's name for the massive depression that sometimes took him over.<br /> <br /> ==Page 495==<br /> '''of a certain farm animal?'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> a pig of course,perhaps Pynchon's favorite animal [see ''V.''and other works] which, along with the Black Dog, is one of the Things That Are Never Said....and counterpointed to the Names of the Holy Trinity,&quot;names most likely to matter&quot;.<br /> <br /> ==Page 496==<br /> '''Sensorium'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The term originally enters English from the Late Latin in the mid-17th century, from the stem sens- (see: sense).The term sensorium (plural: sensoria) refers to the sum of an organism's perception, the &quot;seat of sensation&quot; where it experiences and interprets the environments within which it lives.&lt;br&gt;<br /> In earlier use it referred, in a broader sense, to the brain as the mind's organ (Oxford English Dictionary 1989). In medical, psychological, and physiological discourse it has come to refer to the total character of the unique and changing sensory environments perceived by individuals. These include the sensation, perception, and interpretation of information about the world by senses, perceptual systems and minds (MedTerms 2001). wikipedia<br /> <br /> '''Philadelphia, where he has just been elected Dog Catcher'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Philadelphia is like Washington, D.C. at this time, where &quot;rival packs of<br /> wild dogs&quot; existed in ''Against the Day'' at a later time. [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?search=wild+dogs&amp;fulltext=Search Against the Day] Dogs rule?&lt;br&gt;<br /> another dog allusion which feeds the idea that &quot;man's best friend&quot; is almost like the humans in Pynchon's work.&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;I'm a Dog Person&quot;--Dixon, page 495<br /> <br /> '''whim-wham'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> WHIM-WHAM- A word from around the 16th century from which the word Whimsical was derived.&lt;br&gt; A whimsical decorative object or device.&lt;br&gt; A fantastic creation of the brain or hand. [http://thecosmicwhimwhamstudio.com/ whim-wham]<br /> <br /> ==Page 497==<br /> '''Cavern beneath the Earth'''....'''Ceilings! high as Heaven!'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A hallowed place? Notice how large the space becomes immediately after the entrance arch that is only 6 yards by four feet. Reminds one of the rooms that are larger inside than out. Perhaps &quot;inner space&quot; and hallowed underground spaces [lower than lowlands; depths that had &quot;no names&quot; in ''Gravity's Rainbow''] contain--or could contain--much more than we think?<br /> <br /> '''Pencil of Time'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Compare ''knives of the seasons'' from GR.<br /> <br /> '''tears of the Rocks'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> And what follows. All [the awareness of mortality] is even older than the Indians.<br /> <br /> Mason, the melancholic one, looks around as if &quot;furnishing a room&quot;&lt;br&gt;<br /> Dixon, however, feels &quot;oppressed&quot;.&lt;br&gt;<br /> '''form of Life'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An important phrase, concept, in Wittgenstein's later work, ''Philosophical Investigations''.&lt;br&gt; <br /> &quot;This Complicated Form of Life: Essays on Wittgenstein&quot; by Newton Garver online at Questia.<br /> <br /> '''Ogham'''&lt;br&gt;Ogham (Old Irish Ogam or Oġam) is an Early Medieval alphabet used primarily to represent the &quot;Old Irish&quot; language.<br /> [http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham Ogham] <br /> <br /> '''Monology'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> monology. n. soliloquy; monopoly of the conversation. monologian, monologist, n. monologic(al), a. monologize, v.i.. © From the Hutchinson Encyclopaedia. ...<br /> [http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/difficultwords/data/d0008444.html]<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> <br /> {{MD PbP}}</div>

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<p>MKOHUT: /* Page 497 */</p> <hr /> <div>==Page 493==<br /> '''his Soul's off God knows where'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> mind-body dualism [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9052812/mind-body-dualism]<br /> and out-of-body travel.The mind-body dichotomy is the starting point of Dualism, and became conceptualized in the form as it is currently known in the Western world in René Descartes philosophy, but also appeared in pre-Aristotelian concepts. wikipedia.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Descartes is a philosopher whom Thomas Pynchon has expressed negativity about in other works. See ''Against the Day''.<br /> <br /> '''what, in thy Absence, is doing the Staring for thee? &lt;br&gt;<br /> the philosophical &quot;problem&quot; of self-consciousness? With the mind off elsewhere, what is looking out of the mind's eyes?<br /> <br /> '''what Verger of the Temple of the Self...?&lt;br&gt;<br /> verg·er (vûrjr) <br /> NOUN: <br /> Chiefly British &lt;br&gt;<br /> One who carries the verge or other emblem of authority before a scholastic, legal, or religious dignitary in a procession.&lt;br&gt;<br /> One who takes care of the interior of a church and acts as an attendant during ceremonies. American Heritage Dictionary<br /> <br /> ==Page 494==<br /> '''Really? 'The Black Dog'?... Things...Never Said.&quot;&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Black Dog was Winston Churchill's name for the massive depression that sometimes took him over.<br /> <br /> ==Page 495==<br /> '''of a certain farm animal?'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> a pig of course,perhaps Pynchon's favorite animal [see ''V.''and other works] which, along with the Black Dog, is one of the Things That Are Never Said....and counterpointed to the Names of the Holy Trinity,&quot;names most likely to matter&quot;.<br /> <br /> ==Page 496==<br /> '''Sensorium'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The term originally enters English from the Late Latin in the mid-17th century, from the stem sens- (see: sense).The term sensorium (plural: sensoria) refers to the sum of an organism's perception, the &quot;seat of sensation&quot; where it experiences and interprets the environments within which it lives.&lt;br&gt;<br /> In earlier use it referred, in a broader sense, to the brain as the mind's organ (Oxford English Dictionary 1989). In medical, psychological, and physiological discourse it has come to refer to the total character of the unique and changing sensory environments perceived by individuals. These include the sensation, perception, and interpretation of information about the world by senses, perceptual systems and minds (MedTerms 2001). wikipedia<br /> <br /> '''Philadelphia, where he has just been elected Dog Catcher'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Philadelphia is like Washington, D.C. at this time, where &quot;rival packs of<br /> wild dogs&quot; existed in ''Against the Day'' at a later time. [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?search=wild+dogs&amp;fulltext=Search Against the Day] Dogs rule?&lt;br&gt;<br /> another dog allusion which feeds the idea that &quot;man's best friend&quot; is almost like the humans in Pynchon's work.&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;I'm a Dog Person&quot;--Dixon, page 495<br /> <br /> '''whim-wham'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> WHIM-WHAM- A word from around the 16th century from which the word Whimsical was derived.&lt;br&gt; A whimsical decorative object or device.&lt;br&gt; A fantastic creation of the brain or hand. [http://thecosmicwhimwhamstudio.com/ whim-wham]<br /> <br /> ==Page 497==<br /> '''Cavern beneath the Earth'''....'''Ceilings! high as Heaven!'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A hallowed place? Notice how large the space becomes immediately after the entrance arch that is only 6 yards by four feet. Reminds one of the rooms that are larger inside than out. Perhaps &quot;inner space&quot; and hallowed underground spaces [lower than lowlands; depths that had &quot;no names&quot; in ''Gravity's Rainbow''] contain--or could contain--much more than we think?<br /> <br /> '''Pencil of Time'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Compare ''knives of the seasons'' from GR.<br /> <br /> '''tears of the Rocks'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> And what follows. All [the awareness of mortality] is even older than the Indians.<br /> <br /> Mason, the melancholic one, looks around as if &quot;furnishing a room&quot;&lt;br&gt;<br /> Dixon, however, feels &quot;oppressed&quot;.&lt;br&gt;<br /> '''form of Life'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> An important phrase in Wittgenstein's later work, ''Philosophical Investigations''. <br /> <br /> '''Ogham'''&lt;br&gt;Ogham (Old Irish Ogam or Oġam) is an Early Medieval alphabet used primarily to represent the &quot;Old Irish&quot; language.<br /> [http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham Ogham] <br /> <br /> '''Monology'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> monology. n. soliloquy; monopoly of the conversation. monologian, monologist, n. monologic(al), a. monologize, v.i.. © From the Hutchinson Encyclopaedia. ...<br /> [http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/difficultwords/data/d0008444.html]<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> <br /> {{MD PbP}}</div>

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<p>MKOHUT: /* Page 497 */</p> <hr /> <div>==Page 493==<br /> '''his Soul's off God knows where'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> mind-body dualism [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9052812/mind-body-dualism]<br /> and out-of-body travel.The mind-body dichotomy is the starting point of Dualism, and became conceptualized in the form as it is currently known in the Western world in René Descartes philosophy, but also appeared in pre-Aristotelian concepts. wikipedia.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Descartes is a philosopher whom Thomas Pynchon has expressed negativity about in other works. See ''Against the Day''.<br /> <br /> '''what, in thy Absence, is doing the Staring for thee? &lt;br&gt;<br /> the philosophical &quot;problem&quot; of self-consciousness? With the mind off elsewhere, what is looking out of the mind's eyes?<br /> <br /> '''what Verger of the Temple of the Self...?&lt;br&gt;<br /> verg·er (vûrjr) <br /> NOUN: <br /> Chiefly British &lt;br&gt;<br /> One who carries the verge or other emblem of authority before a scholastic, legal, or religious dignitary in a procession.&lt;br&gt;<br /> One who takes care of the interior of a church and acts as an attendant during ceremonies. American Heritage Dictionary<br /> <br /> ==Page 494==<br /> '''Really? 'The Black Dog'?... Things...Never Said.&quot;&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Black Dog was Winston Churchill's name for the massive depression that sometimes took him over.<br /> <br /> ==Page 495==<br /> '''of a certain farm animal?'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> a pig of course,perhaps Pynchon's favorite animal [see ''V.''and other works] which, along with the Black Dog, is one of the Things That Are Never Said....and counterpointed to the Names of the Holy Trinity,&quot;names most likely to matter&quot;.<br /> <br /> ==Page 496==<br /> '''Sensorium'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The term originally enters English from the Late Latin in the mid-17th century, from the stem sens- (see: sense).The term sensorium (plural: sensoria) refers to the sum of an organism's perception, the &quot;seat of sensation&quot; where it experiences and interprets the environments within which it lives.&lt;br&gt;<br /> In earlier use it referred, in a broader sense, to the brain as the mind's organ (Oxford English Dictionary 1989). In medical, psychological, and physiological discourse it has come to refer to the total character of the unique and changing sensory environments perceived by individuals. These include the sensation, perception, and interpretation of information about the world by senses, perceptual systems and minds (MedTerms 2001). wikipedia<br /> <br /> '''Philadelphia, where he has just been elected Dog Catcher'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Philadelphia is like Washington, D.C. at this time, where &quot;rival packs of<br /> wild dogs&quot; existed in ''Against the Day'' at a later time. [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?search=wild+dogs&amp;fulltext=Search Against the Day] Dogs rule?&lt;br&gt;<br /> another dog allusion which feeds the idea that &quot;man's best friend&quot; is almost like the humans in Pynchon's work.&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;I'm a Dog Person&quot;--Dixon, page 495<br /> <br /> '''whim-wham'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> WHIM-WHAM- A word from around the 16th century from which the word Whimsical was derived.&lt;br&gt; A whimsical decorative object or device.&lt;br&gt; A fantastic creation of the brain or hand. [http://thecosmicwhimwhamstudio.com/ whim-wham]<br /> <br /> ==Page 497==<br /> '''Cavern beneath the Earth'''....'''Ceilings! high as Heaven!'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A hallowed place? Notice how large the space becomes immediately after the entrance arch that is only 6 yards by four feet. Reminds one of the rooms that are larger inside than out. Perhaps &quot;inner space&quot; and hallowed underground spaces [lower than lowlands; depths that had &quot;no names&quot; in ''Gravity's Rainbow''] contain--or could contain--much more than we think?<br /> <br /> '''Pencil of Time'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Compare ''knives of the seasons'' from GR.<br /> <br /> '''tears of the Rocks'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> And what follows. All [the awareness of mortality] is even older than the Indians.<br /> <br /> '''Ogham'''&lt;br&gt;Ogham (Old Irish Ogam or Oġam) is an Early Medieval alphabet used primarily to represent the &quot;Old Irish&quot; language.<br /> [http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham Ogham] <br /> <br /> '''Monology'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> monology. n. soliloquy; monopoly of the conversation. monologian, monologist, n. monologic(al), a. monologize, v.i.. © From the Hutchinson Encyclopaedia. ...<br /> [http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/difficultwords/data/d0008444.html]<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> <br /> {{MD PbP}}</div>

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<p>MKOHUT: /* Page 497 */</p> <hr /> <div>==Page 493==<br /> '''his Soul's off God knows where'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> mind-body dualism [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9052812/mind-body-dualism]<br /> and out-of-body travel.The mind-body dichotomy is the starting point of Dualism, and became conceptualized in the form as it is currently known in the Western world in René Descartes philosophy, but also appeared in pre-Aristotelian concepts. wikipedia.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Descartes is a philosopher whom Thomas Pynchon has expressed negativity about in other works. See ''Against the Day''.<br /> <br /> '''what, in thy Absence, is doing the Staring for thee? &lt;br&gt;<br /> the philosophical &quot;problem&quot; of self-consciousness? With the mind off elsewhere, what is looking out of the mind's eyes?<br /> <br /> '''what Verger of the Temple of the Self...?&lt;br&gt;<br /> verg·er (vûrjr) <br /> NOUN: <br /> Chiefly British &lt;br&gt;<br /> One who carries the verge or other emblem of authority before a scholastic, legal, or religious dignitary in a procession.&lt;br&gt;<br /> One who takes care of the interior of a church and acts as an attendant during ceremonies. American Heritage Dictionary<br /> <br /> ==Page 494==<br /> '''Really? 'The Black Dog'?... Things...Never Said.&quot;&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Black Dog was Winston Churchill's name for the massive depression that sometimes took him over.<br /> <br /> ==Page 495==<br /> '''of a certain farm animal?'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> a pig of course,perhaps Pynchon's favorite animal [see ''V.''and other works] which, along with the Black Dog, is one of the Things That Are Never Said....and counterpointed to the Names of the Holy Trinity,&quot;names most likely to matter&quot;.<br /> <br /> ==Page 496==<br /> '''Sensorium'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The term originally enters English from the Late Latin in the mid-17th century, from the stem sens- (see: sense).The term sensorium (plural: sensoria) refers to the sum of an organism's perception, the &quot;seat of sensation&quot; where it experiences and interprets the environments within which it lives.&lt;br&gt;<br /> In earlier use it referred, in a broader sense, to the brain as the mind's organ (Oxford English Dictionary 1989). In medical, psychological, and physiological discourse it has come to refer to the total character of the unique and changing sensory environments perceived by individuals. These include the sensation, perception, and interpretation of information about the world by senses, perceptual systems and minds (MedTerms 2001). wikipedia<br /> <br /> '''Philadelphia, where he has just been elected Dog Catcher'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Philadelphia is like Washington, D.C. at this time, where &quot;rival packs of<br /> wild dogs&quot; existed in ''Against the Day'' at a later time. [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?search=wild+dogs&amp;fulltext=Search Against the Day] Dogs rule?&lt;br&gt;<br /> another dog allusion which feeds the idea that &quot;man's best friend&quot; is almost like the humans in Pynchon's work.&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;I'm a Dog Person&quot;--Dixon, page 495<br /> <br /> '''whim-wham'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> WHIM-WHAM- A word from around the 16th century from which the word Whimsical was derived.&lt;br&gt; A whimsical decorative object or device.&lt;br&gt; A fantastic creation of the brain or hand. [http://thecosmicwhimwhamstudio.com/ whim-wham]<br /> <br /> ==Page 497==<br /> '''Cavern beneath the Earth'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A hallowed place. Notice how large the space becomes immediately after the entrance arch that is only 6 yards by four feet. Reminds one of the rooms that are larger inside than out. Perhaps &quot;inner space&quot; and hallowed underground spaces [lower than lowlands; depths that had &quot;no names&quot; in ''Gravity's Rainbow''] contain--or could contain--much more than we think?<br /> <br /> '''Ogham'''&lt;br&gt;Ogham (Old Irish Ogam or Oġam) is an Early Medieval alphabet used primarily to represent the &quot;Old Irish&quot; language.<br /> [http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham Ogham] <br /> <br /> '''Monology'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> monology. n. soliloquy; monopoly of the conversation. monologian, monologist, n. monologic(al), a. monologize, v.i.. © From the Hutchinson Encyclopaedia. ...<br /> [http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/difficultwords/data/d0008444.html]<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> <br /> {{MD PbP}}</div>

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<p>MKOHUT: /* Page 493 */</p> <hr /> <div>==Page 493==<br /> '''his Soul's off God knows where'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> mind-body dualism [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9052812/mind-body-dualism]<br /> and out-of-body travel.The mind-body dichotomy is the starting point of Dualism, and became conceptualized in the form as it is currently known in the Western world in René Descartes philosophy, but also appeared in pre-Aristotelian concepts. wikipedia.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Descartes is a philosopher whom Thomas Pynchon has expressed negativity about in other works. See ''Against the Day''.<br /> <br /> '''what, in thy Absence, is doing the Staring for thee? &lt;br&gt;<br /> the philosophical &quot;problem&quot; of self-consciousness? With the mind off elsewhere, what is looking out of the mind's eyes?<br /> <br /> '''what Verger of the Temple of the Self...?&lt;br&gt;<br /> verg·er (vûrjr) <br /> NOUN: <br /> Chiefly British &lt;br&gt;<br /> One who carries the verge or other emblem of authority before a scholastic, legal, or religious dignitary in a procession.&lt;br&gt;<br /> One who takes care of the interior of a church and acts as an attendant during ceremonies. American Heritage Dictionary<br /> <br /> ==Page 494==<br /> '''Really? 'The Black Dog'?... Things...Never Said.&quot;&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Black Dog was Winston Churchill's name for the massive depression that sometimes took him over.<br /> <br /> ==Page 495==<br /> '''of a certain farm animal?'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> a pig of course,perhaps Pynchon's favorite animal [see ''V.''and other works] which, along with the Black Dog, is one of the Things That Are Never Said....and counterpointed to the Names of the Holy Trinity,&quot;names most likely to matter&quot;.<br /> <br /> ==Page 496==<br /> '''Sensorium'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The term originally enters English from the Late Latin in the mid-17th century, from the stem sens- (see: sense).The term sensorium (plural: sensoria) refers to the sum of an organism's perception, the &quot;seat of sensation&quot; where it experiences and interprets the environments within which it lives.&lt;br&gt;<br /> In earlier use it referred, in a broader sense, to the brain as the mind's organ (Oxford English Dictionary 1989). In medical, psychological, and physiological discourse it has come to refer to the total character of the unique and changing sensory environments perceived by individuals. These include the sensation, perception, and interpretation of information about the world by senses, perceptual systems and minds (MedTerms 2001). wikipedia<br /> <br /> '''Philadelphia, where he has just been elected Dog Catcher'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Philadelphia is like Washington, D.C. at this time, where &quot;rival packs of<br /> wild dogs&quot; existed in ''Against the Day'' at a later time. [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?search=wild+dogs&amp;fulltext=Search Against the Day] Dogs rule?&lt;br&gt;<br /> another dog allusion which feeds the idea that &quot;man's best friend&quot; is almost like the humans in Pynchon's work.&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;I'm a Dog Person&quot;--Dixon, page 495<br /> <br /> '''whim-wham'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> WHIM-WHAM- A word from around the 16th century from which the word Whimsical was derived.&lt;br&gt; A whimsical decorative object or device.&lt;br&gt; A fantastic creation of the brain or hand. [http://thecosmicwhimwhamstudio.com/ whim-wham]<br /> <br /> ==Page 497==<br /> '''Ogham'''&lt;br&gt;Ogham (Old Irish Ogam or Oġam) is an Early Medieval alphabet used primarily to represent the &quot;Old Irish&quot; language.<br /> [http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham Ogham] <br /> <br /> '''Monology'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> monology. n. soliloquy; monopoly of the conversation. monologian, monologist, n. monologic(al), a. monologize, v.i.. © From the Hutchinson Encyclopaedia. ...<br /> [http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/difficultwords/data/d0008444.html]<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> <br /> {{MD PbP}}</div>

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<p>MKOHUT: /* Page 496 */</p> <hr /> <div>==Page 493==<br /> '''his Soul's off God knows where'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> mind-body dualism [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9052812/mind-body-dualism]<br /> and mind travel.The mind-body dichotomy is the starting point of Dualism, and became conceptualized in the form as it is currently known in the Western world in René Descartes philosophy, but also appeared in pre-Aristotelian concepts. wikipedia.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Descartes is a philosopher whom Thomas Pynchon has expressed negativity about in other works. See ''Against the Day''.<br /> <br /> '''what, in thy Absence, is doing the Staring for thee? &lt;br&gt;<br /> the philosophical &quot;problem&quot; of self-consciousness? With the mind off elsewhere, what is looking out of the mind's eyes?<br /> <br /> '''what Verger of the Temple of the Self...?&lt;br&gt;<br /> verg·er (vûrjr) <br /> NOUN: <br /> Chiefly British &lt;br&gt;<br /> One who carries the verge or other emblem of authority before a scholastic, legal, or religious dignitary in a procession.&lt;br&gt;<br /> One who takes care of the interior of a church and acts as an attendant during ceremonies. American Heritage Dictionary<br /> <br /> ==Page 494==<br /> '''Really? 'The Black Dog'?... Things...Never Said.&quot;&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Black Dog was Winston Churchill's name for the massive depression that sometimes took him over.<br /> <br /> ==Page 495==<br /> '''of a certain farm animal?'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> a pig of course,perhaps Pynchon's favorite animal [see ''V.''and other works] which, along with the Black Dog, is one of the Things That Are Never Said....and counterpointed to the Names of the Holy Trinity,&quot;names most likely to matter&quot;.<br /> <br /> ==Page 496==<br /> '''Sensorium'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The term originally enters English from the Late Latin in the mid-17th century, from the stem sens- (see: sense).The term sensorium (plural: sensoria) refers to the sum of an organism's perception, the &quot;seat of sensation&quot; where it experiences and interprets the environments within which it lives.&lt;br&gt;<br /> In earlier use it referred, in a broader sense, to the brain as the mind's organ (Oxford English Dictionary 1989). In medical, psychological, and physiological discourse it has come to refer to the total character of the unique and changing sensory environments perceived by individuals. These include the sensation, perception, and interpretation of information about the world by senses, perceptual systems and minds (MedTerms 2001). wikipedia<br /> <br /> '''Philadelphia, where he has just been elected Dog Catcher'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Philadelphia is like Washington, D.C. at this time, where &quot;rival packs of<br /> wild dogs&quot; existed in ''Against the Day'' at a later time. [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?search=wild+dogs&amp;fulltext=Search Against the Day] Dogs rule?&lt;br&gt;<br /> another dog allusion which feeds the idea that &quot;man's best friend&quot; is almost like the humans in Pynchon's work.&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;I'm a Dog Person&quot;--Dixon, page 495<br /> <br /> '''whim-wham'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> WHIM-WHAM- A word from around the 16th century from which the word Whimsical was derived.&lt;br&gt; A whimsical decorative object or device.&lt;br&gt; A fantastic creation of the brain or hand. [http://thecosmicwhimwhamstudio.com/ whim-wham]<br /> <br /> ==Page 497==<br /> '''Ogham'''&lt;br&gt;Ogham (Old Irish Ogam or Oġam) is an Early Medieval alphabet used primarily to represent the &quot;Old Irish&quot; language.<br /> [http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham Ogham] <br /> <br /> '''Monology'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> monology. n. soliloquy; monopoly of the conversation. monologian, monologist, n. monologic(al), a. monologize, v.i.. © From the Hutchinson Encyclopaedia. ...<br /> [http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/difficultwords/data/d0008444.html]<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> <br /> {{MD PbP}}</div>

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<p>MKOHUT: /* Page 497 */</p> <hr /> <div>==Page 493==<br /> '''his Soul's off God knows where'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> mind-body dualism [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9052812/mind-body-dualism]<br /> and mind travel.The mind-body dichotomy is the starting point of Dualism, and became conceptualized in the form as it is currently known in the Western world in René Descartes philosophy, but also appeared in pre-Aristotelian concepts. wikipedia.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Descartes is a philosopher whom Thomas Pynchon has expressed negativity about in other works. See ''Against the Day''.<br /> <br /> '''what, in thy Absence, is doing the Staring for thee? &lt;br&gt;<br /> the philosophical &quot;problem&quot; of self-consciousness? With the mind off elsewhere, what is looking out of the mind's eyes?<br /> <br /> '''what Verger of the Temple of the Self...?&lt;br&gt;<br /> verg·er (vûrjr) <br /> NOUN: <br /> Chiefly British &lt;br&gt;<br /> One who carries the verge or other emblem of authority before a scholastic, legal, or religious dignitary in a procession.&lt;br&gt;<br /> One who takes care of the interior of a church and acts as an attendant during ceremonies. American Heritage Dictionary<br /> <br /> ==Page 494==<br /> '''Really? 'The Black Dog'?... Things...Never Said.&quot;&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Black Dog was Winston Churchill's name for the massive depression that sometimes took him over.<br /> <br /> ==Page 495==<br /> '''of a certain farm animal?'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> a pig of course,perhaps Pynchon's favorite animal [see ''V.''and other works] which, along with the Black Dog, is one of the Things That Are Never Said....and counterpointed to the Names of the Holy Trinity,&quot;names most likely to matter&quot;.<br /> <br /> ==Page 496==<br /> '''Sensorium'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The term originally enters English from the Late Latin in the mid-17th century, from the stem sens- (see: sense).The term sensorium (plural: sensoria) refers to the sum of an organism's perception, the &quot;seat of sensation&quot; where it experiences and interprets the environments within which it lives.&lt;br&gt;<br /> In earlier use it referred, in a broader sense, to the brain as the mind's organ (Oxford English Dictionary 1989). In medical, psychological, and physiological discourse it has come to refer to the total character of the unique and changing sensory environments perceived by individuals. These include the sensation, perception, and interpretation of information about the world by senses, perceptual systems and minds (MedTerms 2001). wikipedia<br /> <br /> '''Philadelphia, where he has just been elected Dog Catcher'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Philadelphia is like Washington, D.C. at this time, where &quot;rival packs of<br /> wild dogs&quot; existed in ''Against the Day'' at a later time. [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?search=wild+dogs&amp;fulltext=Search Against the Day] Dogs rule?&lt;br&gt;<br /> another dog allusion which feeds the idea that &quot;man's best friend&quot; is almost like the humans in Pynchon's work.<br /> <br /> '''whim-wham'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> WHIM-WHAM- A word from around the 16th century from which the word Whimsical was derived.&lt;br&gt; A whimsical decorative object or device.&lt;br&gt; A fantastic creation of the brain or hand. [http://thecosmicwhimwhamstudio.com/ whim-wham]<br /> <br /> ==Page 497==<br /> '''Ogham'''&lt;br&gt;Ogham (Old Irish Ogam or Oġam) is an Early Medieval alphabet used primarily to represent the &quot;Old Irish&quot; language.<br /> [http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham Ogham] <br /> <br /> '''Monology'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> monology. n. soliloquy; monopoly of the conversation. monologian, monologist, n. monologic(al), a. monologize, v.i.. © From the Hutchinson Encyclopaedia. ...<br /> [http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/difficultwords/data/d0008444.html]<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> <br /> {{MD PbP}}</div>

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<p>MKOHUT: /* Page 496 */</p> <hr /> <div>==Page 493==<br /> '''his Soul's off God knows where'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> mind-body dualism [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9052812/mind-body-dualism]<br /> and mind travel.The mind-body dichotomy is the starting point of Dualism, and became conceptualized in the form as it is currently known in the Western world in René Descartes philosophy, but also appeared in pre-Aristotelian concepts. wikipedia.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Descartes is a philosopher whom Thomas Pynchon has expressed negativity about in other works. See ''Against the Day''.<br /> <br /> '''what, in thy Absence, is doing the Staring for thee? &lt;br&gt;<br /> the philosophical &quot;problem&quot; of self-consciousness? With the mind off elsewhere, what is looking out of the mind's eyes?<br /> <br /> '''what Verger of the Temple of the Self...?&lt;br&gt;<br /> verg·er (vûrjr) <br /> NOUN: <br /> Chiefly British &lt;br&gt;<br /> One who carries the verge or other emblem of authority before a scholastic, legal, or religious dignitary in a procession.&lt;br&gt;<br /> One who takes care of the interior of a church and acts as an attendant during ceremonies. American Heritage Dictionary<br /> <br /> ==Page 494==<br /> '''Really? 'The Black Dog'?... Things...Never Said.&quot;&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Black Dog was Winston Churchill's name for the massive depression that sometimes took him over.<br /> <br /> ==Page 495==<br /> '''of a certain farm animal?'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> a pig of course,perhaps Pynchon's favorite animal [see ''V.''and other works] which, along with the Black Dog, is one of the Things That Are Never Said....and counterpointed to the Names of the Holy Trinity,&quot;names most likely to matter&quot;.<br /> <br /> ==Page 496==<br /> '''Sensorium'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The term originally enters English from the Late Latin in the mid-17th century, from the stem sens- (see: sense).The term sensorium (plural: sensoria) refers to the sum of an organism's perception, the &quot;seat of sensation&quot; where it experiences and interprets the environments within which it lives.&lt;br&gt;<br /> In earlier use it referred, in a broader sense, to the brain as the mind's organ (Oxford English Dictionary 1989). In medical, psychological, and physiological discourse it has come to refer to the total character of the unique and changing sensory environments perceived by individuals. These include the sensation, perception, and interpretation of information about the world by senses, perceptual systems and minds (MedTerms 2001). wikipedia<br /> <br /> '''Philadelphia, where he has just been elected Dog Catcher'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Philadelphia is like Washington, D.C. at this time, where &quot;rival packs of<br /> wild dogs&quot; existed in ''Against the Day'' at a later time. [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?search=wild+dogs&amp;fulltext=Search Against the Day] Dogs rule?&lt;br&gt;<br /> another dog allusion which feeds the idea that &quot;man's best friend&quot; is almost like the humans in Pynchon's work.<br /> <br /> '''whim-wham'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> WHIM-WHAM- A word from around the 16th century from which the word Whimsical was derived.&lt;br&gt; A whimsical decorative object or device.&lt;br&gt; A fantastic creation of the brain or hand. [http://thecosmicwhimwhamstudio.com/ whim-wham]<br /> <br /> ==Page 497==<br /> '''Monology'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> monology. n. soliloquy; monopoly of the conversation. monologian, monologist, n. monologic(al), a. monologize, v.i.. © From the Hutchinson Encyclopaedia. ...<br /> [http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/difficultwords/data/d0008444.html]<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> <br /> {{MD PbP}}</div>

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<p>MKOHUT: /* Page 496 */</p> <hr /> <div>==Page 493==<br /> '''his Soul's off God knows where'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> mind-body dualism [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9052812/mind-body-dualism]<br /> and mind travel.The mind-body dichotomy is the starting point of Dualism, and became conceptualized in the form as it is currently known in the Western world in René Descartes philosophy, but also appeared in pre-Aristotelian concepts. wikipedia.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Descartes is a philosopher whom Thomas Pynchon has expressed negativity about in other works. See ''Against the Day''.<br /> <br /> '''what, in thy Absence, is doing the Staring for thee? &lt;br&gt;<br /> the philosophical &quot;problem&quot; of self-consciousness? With the mind off elsewhere, what is looking out of the mind's eyes?<br /> <br /> '''what Verger of the Temple of the Self...?&lt;br&gt;<br /> verg·er (vûrjr) <br /> NOUN: <br /> Chiefly British &lt;br&gt;<br /> One who carries the verge or other emblem of authority before a scholastic, legal, or religious dignitary in a procession.&lt;br&gt;<br /> One who takes care of the interior of a church and acts as an attendant during ceremonies. American Heritage Dictionary<br /> <br /> ==Page 494==<br /> '''Really? 'The Black Dog'?... Things...Never Said.&quot;&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Black Dog was Winston Churchill's name for the massive depression that sometimes took him over.<br /> <br /> ==Page 495==<br /> '''of a certain farm animal?'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> a pig of course,perhaps Pynchon's favorite animal [see ''V.''and other works] which, along with the Black Dog, is one of the Things That Are Never Said....and counterpointed to the Names of the Holy Trinity,&quot;names most likely to matter&quot;.<br /> <br /> ==Page 496==<br /> '''Sensorium'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The term originally enters English from the Late Latin in the mid-17th century, from the stem sens- (see: sense).The term sensorium (plural: sensoria) refers to the sum of an organism's perception, the &quot;seat of sensation&quot; where it experiences and interprets the environments within which it lives.&lt;br&gt;<br /> In earlier use it referred, in a broader sense, to the brain as the mind's organ (Oxford English Dictionary 1989). In medical, psychological, and physiological discourse it has come to refer to the total character of the unique and changing sensory environments perceived by individuals. These include the sensation, perception, and interpretation of information about the world by senses, perceptual systems and minds (MedTerms 2001). wikipedia<br /> <br /> '''Philadelphia, where he has just been elected Dog Catcher'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Philadelphia is like Washington, D.C. at this time, where &quot;rival packs of<br /> wild dogs&quot; existed in ''Against the Day'' at a later time. [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?search=wild+dogs&amp;fulltext=Search Against the Day] Dogs rule?&lt;br&gt;<br /> another dog allusion which feeds the idea that &quot;man's best friend&quot; is almost like the humans in Pynchon's work.<br /> <br /> '''whim-wham'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> WHIM-WHAM- A word from around the 16th century from which the word Whimsical was derived.&lt;br&gt; A whimsical decorative object or device.&lt;br&gt; A fantastic creation of the brain or hand.<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> <br /> {{MD PbP}}</div>

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<p>MKOHUT: /* Page 496 */</p> <hr /> <div>==Page 493==<br /> '''his Soul's off God knows where'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> mind-body dualism [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9052812/mind-body-dualism]<br /> and mind travel.The mind-body dichotomy is the starting point of Dualism, and became conceptualized in the form as it is currently known in the Western world in René Descartes philosophy, but also appeared in pre-Aristotelian concepts. wikipedia.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Descartes is a philosopher whom Thomas Pynchon has expressed negativity about in other works. See ''Against the Day''.<br /> <br /> '''what, in thy Absence, is doing the Staring for thee? &lt;br&gt;<br /> the philosophical &quot;problem&quot; of self-consciousness? With the mind off elsewhere, what is looking out of the mind's eyes?<br /> <br /> '''what Verger of the Temple of the Self...?&lt;br&gt;<br /> verg·er (vûrjr) <br /> NOUN: <br /> Chiefly British &lt;br&gt;<br /> One who carries the verge or other emblem of authority before a scholastic, legal, or religious dignitary in a procession.&lt;br&gt;<br /> One who takes care of the interior of a church and acts as an attendant during ceremonies. American Heritage Dictionary<br /> <br /> ==Page 494==<br /> '''Really? 'The Black Dog'?... Things...Never Said.&quot;&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Black Dog was Winston Churchill's name for the massive depression that sometimes took him over.<br /> <br /> ==Page 495==<br /> '''of a certain farm animal?'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> a pig of course,perhaps Pynchon's favorite animal [see ''V.''and other works] which, along with the Black Dog, is one of the Things That Are Never Said....and counterpointed to the Names of the Holy Trinity,&quot;names most likely to matter&quot;.<br /> <br /> ==Page 496==<br /> '''Sensorium'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The term originally enters English from the Late Latin in the mid-17th century, from the stem sens- (see: sense).The term sensorium (plural: sensoria) refers to the sum of an organism's perception, the &quot;seat of sensation&quot; where it experiences and interprets the environments within which it lives.&lt;br&gt;<br /> In earlier use it referred, in a broader sense, to the brain as the mind's organ (Oxford English Dictionary 1989). In medical, psychological, and physiological discourse it has come to refer to the total character of the unique and changing sensory environments perceived by individuals. These include the sensation, perception, and interpretation of information about the world by senses, perceptual systems and minds (MedTerms 2001). wikipedia<br /> <br /> '''Philadelphia, where he has just been elected Dog Catcher'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Philadelphia is like Washington, D.C. at this time, where &quot;rival packs of<br /> wild dogs&quot; existed in ''Against the Day'' at a later time. [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?search=wild+dogs&amp;fulltext=Search Against the Day] Dogs rule?&lt;br&gt;<br /> another dog allusion which feeds the idea that &quot;man's best friend&quot; is almost like the humans in Pynchon's work.<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> <br /> {{MD PbP}}</div>

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<p>MKOHUT: /* Page 495 */</p> <hr /> <div>==Page 493==<br /> '''his Soul's off God knows where'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> mind-body dualism [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9052812/mind-body-dualism]<br /> and mind travel.The mind-body dichotomy is the starting point of Dualism, and became conceptualized in the form as it is currently known in the Western world in René Descartes philosophy, but also appeared in pre-Aristotelian concepts. wikipedia.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Descartes is a philosopher whom Thomas Pynchon has expressed negativity about in other works. See ''Against the Day''.<br /> <br /> '''what, in thy Absence, is doing the Staring for thee? &lt;br&gt;<br /> the philosophical &quot;problem&quot; of self-consciousness? With the mind off elsewhere, what is looking out of the mind's eyes?<br /> <br /> '''what Verger of the Temple of the Self...?&lt;br&gt;<br /> verg·er (vûrjr) <br /> NOUN: <br /> Chiefly British &lt;br&gt;<br /> One who carries the verge or other emblem of authority before a scholastic, legal, or religious dignitary in a procession.&lt;br&gt;<br /> One who takes care of the interior of a church and acts as an attendant during ceremonies. American Heritage Dictionary<br /> <br /> ==Page 494==<br /> '''Really? 'The Black Dog'?... Things...Never Said.&quot;&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Black Dog was Winston Churchill's name for the massive depression that sometimes took him over.<br /> <br /> ==Page 495==<br /> '''of a certain farm animal?'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> a pig of course,perhaps Pynchon's favorite animal [see ''V.''and other works] which, along with the Black Dog, is one of the Things That Are Never Said....and counterpointed to the Names of the Holy Trinity,&quot;names most likely to matter&quot;.<br /> <br /> ==Page 496==<br /> '''Sensorium'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The term originally enters English from the Late Latin in the mid-17th century, from the stem sens- (see: sense).The term sensorium (plural: sensoria) refers to the sum of an organism's perception, the &quot;seat of sensation&quot; where it experiences and interprets the environments within which it lives.&lt;br&gt;<br /> In earlier use it referred, in a broader sense, to the brain as the mind's organ (Oxford English Dictionary 1989). In medical, psychological, and physiological discourse it has come to refer to the total character of the unique and changing sensory environments perceived by individuals. These include the sensation, perception, and interpretation of information about the world by senses, perceptual systems and minds (MedTerms 2001). wikipedia<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> <br /> {{MD PbP}}</div>

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<p>MKOHUT: /* Page 494 */</p> <hr /> <div>==Page 493==<br /> '''his Soul's off God knows where'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> mind-body dualism [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9052812/mind-body-dualism]<br /> and mind travel.The mind-body dichotomy is the starting point of Dualism, and became conceptualized in the form as it is currently known in the Western world in René Descartes philosophy, but also appeared in pre-Aristotelian concepts. wikipedia.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Descartes is a philosopher whom Thomas Pynchon has expressed negativity about in other works. See ''Against the Day''.<br /> <br /> '''what, in thy Absence, is doing the Staring for thee? &lt;br&gt;<br /> the philosophical &quot;problem&quot; of self-consciousness? With the mind off elsewhere, what is looking out of the mind's eyes?<br /> <br /> '''what Verger of the Temple of the Self...?&lt;br&gt;<br /> verg·er (vûrjr) <br /> NOUN: <br /> Chiefly British &lt;br&gt;<br /> One who carries the verge or other emblem of authority before a scholastic, legal, or religious dignitary in a procession.&lt;br&gt;<br /> One who takes care of the interior of a church and acts as an attendant during ceremonies. American Heritage Dictionary<br /> <br /> ==Page 494==<br /> '''Really? 'The Black Dog'?... Things...Never Said.&quot;&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Black Dog was Winston Churchill's name for the massive depression that sometimes took him over.<br /> <br /> ==Page 495==<br /> '''of a certain farm animal?'''Br&gt;<br /> a pig of course,perhaps Pynchon's favorite animal [see ''V.''and other works] which, along with the Black Dog, is one of the Things That Are Never Said....and counterpointed to the Names of the Holy Trinity,&quot;names most likely to matter&quot;.<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> <br /> {{MD PbP}}</div>

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<p>MKOHUT: /* Page 493 */</p> <hr /> <div>==Page 493==<br /> '''his Soul's off God knows where'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> mind-body dualism [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9052812/mind-body-dualism]<br /> and mind travel.The mind-body dichotomy is the starting point of Dualism, and became conceptualized in the form as it is currently known in the Western world in René Descartes philosophy, but also appeared in pre-Aristotelian concepts. wikipedia.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Descartes is a philosopher whom Thomas Pynchon has expressed negativity about in other works. See ''Against the Day''.<br /> <br /> '''what, in thy Absence, is doing the Staring for thee? &lt;br&gt;<br /> the philosophical &quot;problem&quot; of self-consciousness? With the mind off elsewhere, what is looking out of the mind's eyes?<br /> <br /> '''what Verger of the Temple of the Self...?&lt;br&gt;<br /> verg·er (vûrjr) <br /> NOUN: <br /> Chiefly British &lt;br&gt;<br /> One who carries the verge or other emblem of authority before a scholastic, legal, or religious dignitary in a procession.&lt;br&gt;<br /> One who takes care of the interior of a church and acts as an attendant during ceremonies. American Heritage Dictionary<br /> <br /> ==Page 494==<br /> '''Really? 'The Black Dog'?... Things...Never Said.&quot;&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Black Dog was Winston Churchill's name for the massive depression that sometimes took him over.<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> <br /> {{MD PbP}}</div>

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<p>MKOHUT: /* Page 397 */</p> <hr /> <div>==Page 395==<br /> '''mephitic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> of, relating to, or resembling mephitis : foul-smelling &lt;mephitic vapors&gt; <br /> <br /> '''Colonel Byrd'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> William, 1674-1744 [http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC00477341&amp;id=g7u8YIKtb_wC&amp;dq=inauthor:byrd&amp;num=100&amp;q=inauthor:byrd&amp;pgis=1 GoogleBooks] [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;q=william.byrd+1674+1744 Google]<br /> <br /> ==Page 397==<br /> '''Quoiting''' &lt;br&gt;<br /> A game similar to horseshoes played with quoits (from the middle english ''coyte'', flat stone) particular to the Northeast.<br /> (source: thefreedictionary.com)<br /> <br /> Is there a significance to the choice of quoiting over a pistol dual between Dixon and Fabian, which is independent of Dixon's religious pacifism?<br /> <br /> Superficially, the game resembles the West Line: an invisible line defined by staked points along which objects (stones) fly. One could note the same, of course, about a duel -- so perhaps there is some other significance in the choice of quoit?<br /> <br /> Ah, perhaps one point is that quoiting might be more 'civilized' a resolution since no one can be killed? [[User:MKOHUT|MKOHUT]] 11:55, 16 September 2007 (PDT)<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> <br /> {{MD PbP}}</div>

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<p>MKOHUT: /* Page 421 */</p> <hr /> <div>==Page 410==<br /> '''Nonpareil'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> from [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nonpareil Wiktionary]:<br /> # A person or thing that has no equal; a paragon.<br /> # A small, flat chocolate drop covered with white pellets of sugar.<br /> <br /> '''Lepton Castle'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Lepton&quot; is Greek money. It is also a subatomic particle. See, also, [http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&amp;month=9712&amp;msg=22311&amp;sort=date &quot;Dinn's Notes&quot;: MDMD(14) Notes &amp; Questions Part 1, 410.16]<br /> <br /> '''his Lordship'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [[L#lepton|Lord Lepton]]<br /> <br /> ==Page 411==<br /> '''Tallow Dips, and the last feeble Rush-Light'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;The first candles probably consisted of dried rushes soaked in grease. <br /> Homemade rushlights were commonly used in England as late as 1800 <br /> because, although they smoked and smelled horribly, they were so <br /> cheap ... Eventually someone discovered the method of making a &quot;tallow dip&quot; <br /> with a wick running longitudinally through its center. The wick -- a few <br /> threads of flax, hemp, or cotton, lightly twisted or plaited -- was dipped <br /> in melted tallow and allowed to cool, again and again, until the candle <br /> had a desired thickness&quot; -- [http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/natbltn/500-599/nb590.htm ''Candles''. Nature Bulletin No. 590. Forest Preserve District of Cook County. February 6, 1960]<br /> <br /> Note that the lighting technologies are listed regressively, as if moving back through time.<br /> <br /> '''Bloomeries'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> bloomery -- a forge in which wrought iron is made straight from ore ([http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bloomery Wiktionary])<br /> <br /> '''Invisible Hand'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> “Adam Smith's notion that rational agents guided by their own self-interest would act in such a way as to promote the public interest, the foundation of laissez-faire economics which caused much of the misery associated with the Industrial Revolution” – [http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/mason-dixon/alpha/i.html HyperArts entry: Invisible Hand]<br /> <br /> ==Page 412==<br /> '''Gangue'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;(mining) The earthy waste substances occurring in metallic ore&quot; -- [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gangue Wiktionary]<br /> <br /> '''more room inside than could possibly be contained in the sorrowing ruin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf. &quot;a Conveyance, wherein the inside is quite noticeably larger than the outside&quot;, [[Chapter 35: 349-361|Ch. 35 p. 354]]<br /> <br /> '''Plafond'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> “Plafond, in a broad sense, is any (flat, vaulted or dome) ceiling of any premise. Plafond can be product of monumental and decorative painting and sculpture; subject or ornamental - also is designated by the term &quot;Plafond&quot;. Picturesque plafonds can be executed directly on plaster (in technique of fresco, oil, glutinous, synthetic paints, etc.), on a canvas attached to a ceiling (panel), a mosaic, and other methods. As a part of decorative furniture of church and palace stateroom plafonds received a wide circulation in 17 - beginning of 19 centuries. For plafond compositions of this period typically use of effect of illusory break in architectural in open or proceeding behind a ceiling space, the image of figures and architectural details in strong foreshortenings.” – [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plafond Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''silver sconce and Sperm Taper Light'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;sperm taper is a candle made from spermaceti or sperm oil. sconce, LME, aphetic fr Fr esconse = hiding place or lantern, or fr med Lat sconsa aphetic fr absconsa (laterna) = dark (lantern), 1 a) A lantern or candlestick with a screen to protect the light from the wind, and a handle for carrying, LMW-M18, b) a flat candlestick with a handle, M19, 2 A bracket for a candle or a light hung on or fixed to an interior wall, rare M19.&quot; -- [http://osdir.com/ml/culture.literature.thomas-pynchon/2002-03/msg00114.html from MDMD Dinn's notes on Ch. 41]<br /> <br /> ==Page 413==<br /> '''from the Oboick Reveries of the Besozzis, as the Imperial Melismata of Quantz'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> * Besozzis: probably Antonio Besozzi and his son Carlo Besozzi, oboists and composers (numerous gifted woodwind players apparently sprung from the Besozzi family tree)<br /> * Melismata: plural form of melism, “a melody or melodic sequence of notes. Usually spec. (in singing and vocal composition): the prolongation of one syllable over a number of notes; an instance of this” – the OED<br /> * Quantz, Johann Joaquim (1697-1773): German flautist and composer, and court composer for Frederick II, the Great. He wrote a treatise on flute playing and composed a huge quantity of pieces for the flute.<br /> <br /> Question: Did Quantz compose a piece entitled &quot;Melismata&quot;?<br /> <br /> Trivia: Quantz and Carlo Besozzi were both oboists for the Dresden court: Carlo from 1754 until his death; Quantz seemingly earlier as he entered Frederick the Great's service in 1741.<br /> <br /> '''Hurricanoe'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> “aka &quot;Hurricane&quot; (a large private party - 18th cent.)” – [http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/mason-dixon/alpha/h.html HyperArts entry: Hurricanoe/Hurricane]<br /> <br /> ==Page 414==<br /> '''Climbers' Discourse'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''behave inconveniently'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [[I#inconvenience|Inconvenience]] again, see entry on [[Chapter 40:399-409| page 401]].<br /> <br /> '''Churs of Stroud'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Churs = electors???<br /> Stroud = Stroud, Gloucestershire UK: [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;q=stroud+United+Kingdom&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;om=1 Google Map]<br /> <br /> '''Calvert agent'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Calvert County Realtors - Calvert Agents In Maryland.<br /> <br /> ==Page 415==<br /> '''Raby Castle'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [[Image:RubyCastle.jpg|thumb|Raby Castle from Jones' Views (1819)|right]]<br /> &quot;Raby Castle [...] near Staindrop, County Durham is one of the largest inhabited castles in England. It has opulent eighteenth and nineteenth century interiors inside a largely unchanged late medieval shell. It is a Grade I listed building. Raby once belonged to the Neville family, who became one of the most powerful in England&quot; -- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raby_Castle Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=raby+castle,+Staindrop,+County+Durham&amp;sll=54.630531,-1.773605&amp;sspn=0.168921,0.460739&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=54.595166,-1.808538&amp;spn=0.010567,0.028796&amp;z=15&amp;iwloc=addr&amp;om=1 Google Maps]<br /> <br /> '''Brunswick style'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> worn with a petticoat, the Brunswick was an informal gown or Riding Habit. A riding habit consisted of a petticoat, jacket, and waistcoat.<br /> <br /> '''wine-colored Cordovan'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> a favorite boot color of TRP's. There is a &quot;wine-cordovan boot&quot; on page 121 of ATD, also a female's.<br /> <br /> '''French Court heels'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Ladies of the French court once carried canes to support themselves on uncomfortable high heels. Heels became lower after the French Revolution, not surprisingly.<br /> <br /> '''Iron Nabob'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Nabob (from [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nabob Wiktionary]):<br /> #an Indian ruler within the Mogul empire; a nawab<br /> #(by extension) someone of great wealth or importance<br /> <br /> '''Phrygioid if not Phrygian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> According to unvarying tradition the Phrygians were most closely akin to certain tribes of Macedonia and Thrace; and their near relationship to the Hellenic stock is proved by all that is known of their language and <br /> art, and is accepted by almost every modern authority. -- [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Phrygia Encyclopedia Britannica, 11 th edition]. Pynchon's wit makes up the word Phrygioid to mean something like &quot;like Phrygian&quot; that is fake Phyrgian due to the prevalence of 'British modality'--preceding phrase.<br /> <br /> &quot;Phrygian Mode - A lot of traditional music, especially Scottish and Irish is termed 'Modal' because it does not follow the conventional modern major or<br /> minor scales. There are seven modes, and Phrygian is the one that starts with E.&quot; --[http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/levy_mason_and_dixon.pdf Toby Levy's ''Three Pages Per Day'' Project]<br /> <br /> ==Page 416==<br /> '''pierc'd paint Eyes of Nevilles and Vanes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Presumably like some Hammer House of Horror movie there is a tunnel passing behind the portraits in the gallery&quot; ([http://osdir.com/ml/culture.literature.thomas-pynchon/2002-03/msg00114.html from MDMD Dinn's notes on Ch. 41]). Raby's castle was once held by the Nevilles ([http://www.rabycastle.com/history/nevills_raby.htm Raby Castle History: Nevilles]) and was later passed to the Vanes ([http://www.rabycastle.com/history/vanes_raby.htm Raby Castle History: Vanes]).<br /> <br /> '''Bellezza, che chiama'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;a beauty that beckons&quot; - [http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/mason-dixon/alpha/i.html HyperArts entry: Italian Translations]<br /> <br /> '''multiply-bepoxed'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ??? suggestion that he has syphilis???<br /> <br /> '''after three of these trans-Stygian Years, become Journeyman'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Stygian (from [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stygian Wiktionary]):<br /> #Dark and gloomy<br /> #Infernal or hellish<br /> #Of, or relating to the river Styx<br /> <br /> ==Page 417==<br /> '''Chatelaine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> from [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chatelaine Wiktionary]:<br /> #The mistress of a castle or large household.<br /> #A chain or clasp worn at the waist by women in the 16th to the 19th centuries, with handkerchief, keys, etc., attached.<br /> <br /> '''Mignonette'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;A type of fine French bobbin lace made in narrow strips and having the consistency of tulle. Occas. more fully mignonette lace. Now hist&quot; -- OED<br /> <br /> '''Great Chain of Being this, Great Chain of Being that, [...] this rather lengthy ''Chain'' [...] Is there something [...] dangling from its bottom end?'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The great chain of being is a classical and western medieval conception of the order of the universe, whose chief characteristic is a strict hierarchical system.&lt;br&gt;<br /> It is a conception of the world's structure that was accepted, and unquestioned, by most educated men from the time of Lucretius until the Copernican and Darwinian revolution and the ultimate flowering of the Renaissance. The chain of being is composed of a great number of hierarchal links, from the most basic and foundational elements up through the very highest perfection, in other words, God, or the Prime Mover.&lt;br&gt;<br /> God, and beneath him the angels, both existing wholly in spirit form, sit at the top of the chain. Earthly flesh is fallible and ever-changing: mutable. Spirit, however, is unchanging and permanent. This sense of permanence is crucial to understanding this conception of reality. One does not abandon one's place in the chain; it is not only unthinkable, but generally impossible. The hierarchy is a chain and not a ladder.&lt;br&gt;<br /> The natural order, earth (rock) is at the bottom of the chain; these elements possess only the attribute of existence. Moving on up the chain, each succeeding link contains the positive attributes of the previous link, and adds (at least) one other. Rocks, as above, possess only existence; the next link up, plants, possess life and existence. Beasts add not only motion, but appetite as well.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Man is a special instance in this conception. He is both mortal flesh, as those below him, and also spirit. In this dichotomy, the struggle between flesh and spirit becomes a moral one. --abridged (slightly) from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chain_of_Being Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> Notice Pynchon's multimeaning playfulness with the &quot;chains&quot; of the Chainmen and, one must think, the chains of the slave trade. This joking on the concept by Lord Lepton seems to touch some deep themes of M &amp; D.<br /> <br /> What [creature] dangles at the bottom of the chain? Where does it &quot;fall&quot; if it 'fails to hold on'? One is reminded of the supposedly real witticism as joke about an Eastern creation myth. The Earth is held up by a turtle <br /> which is held up by another turtle, someone explained. &quot;And that turtle?&quot; asks the interlocuter. &quot;Another turtle&quot;....&quot;And that one&quot;?.......&quot;O No, you're not going to trap me...it's turtles all the way down.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Perhaps it is a Helixxx'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> DNA? Though note the suggestion of a snake. (Cf. &quot;the Serpent,&quot; [[Chapter 13: 125-145|Ch. 13, p. 135]]; &quot;Something underground, moving Westward,&quot; [[Chapter 30: 296-301|Ch. 30, p. 299]])<br /> <br /> ==Page 418==<br /> '''fiduciary'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> from [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fiduciary Wiktionary]:<br /> #One who holds a thing in trust for another; a trustee.<br /> #One who depends for salvation on faith, without works; an Antinomian.<br /> <br /> '''nitter-natter'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ??? chitter-chatter? ???<br /> <br /> '''Staithes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> plural for Stath (from OED): <br /> #The land bordering on water, a bank, shore.<br /> #A landing-stage, wharf; esp. a waterside depôt for coals brought from the collieries for shipment, furnished with staging and shoots for loading vessels.<br /> #An embankment.<br /> <br /> &quot;Staithes is an English village at the most northerly point of the North Yorkshire coast [...] Roxby Beck (a small river) running through Staithes is the border between North Yorkshire and neighbouring Redcar and Cleveland. Formerly one of the largest and most productive fishing centres in North-East England, Staithes is now largely a tourist destination thanks to its picturesque appearance [...] Staithes is noted for its sheltered harbour, bounded by high cliffs and two long breakwaters. A mile to the north, Boulby Cliff is the highest cliff in England&quot; -- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staithes Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''You sound like one of those Leveler chaps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Levelers or Levellers, English Puritan sect active at the time of the English civil war. The name was apparently applied to them in 1647, in derision of their beliefs in equality. The Levelers demanded fundamental constitutional reform—a written constitution, a single supreme representative body elected by universal manhood suffrage, proportional representation, and the abolition of monarchy and noble privilege. Their ideals, far in advance of their time, were those of complete religious and political equality. They were adept at the use of mass petitions and extensive pamphleteering to arouse the public. When the Long Parliament did not respond to their ideas, they tried to build support in the ranks of the army, with some success. -- Columbia Encyclopedia<br /> <br /> ==Page 419==<br /> '''It is difficult in these days of closer-fitting Attire, to imagine the enormous volumes of unoccupied Space that once lay between is Skirt's outer Envelope and the woman's body far within.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Is this another case where inside and outside have wildly different metric<br /> properties. And what about ''these days'' [?] Were skirts so much tighter in the 1780s than in the 1760s [?] If not then who is speaking and when?&quot; -- [http://osdir.com/ml/culture.literature.thomas-pynchon/2002-03/msg00114.html from MDMD Dinn's notes on Ch. 41]<br /> <br /> '''Majordomos'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Plural form of Majordomo (from [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/majordomos Wiktionary]):<br /> #The head servant in a wealthy European household<br /> #A butler<br /> <br /> '''Soubrette'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> a lightweight soprano voice or type of soprano role, frequently found in comic operas or operettas; the soubrette usually possesses a flirtatious demeanor and street wise manner, as in the case of Adele in Die Fledermaus, or is a particularly fetching country innocent, like Adina in The Elixir of Love. Webster's online dictionary.<br /> <br /> ==Page 420==<br /> '''Otick Catarrh'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Mason is suggesting he will get an ear ache (or infection) from Dixon's &quot;loud&quot; and &quot;moist&quot; whisperings:<br /> *Octic - &quot;(anatomy) of, relating/pertaining to, or located near the ear&quot; ([http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Otic Wiktionary])&lt;br&gt;<br /> *Catarrh - &quot;inflammation of the mucous membranes of the nose and throat&quot; ([http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Catarrh Wiktionary])<br /> <br /> '''Ague'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Apogee (from [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/apogee Wiktionary]):<br /> # (astronomy) That point in the orbit of any object which is at the greatest distance from the center of the central body. For example, the point in the moon's orbit which is the greatest distance from the center of the earth.<br /> # The highest point.<br /> <br /> '''Viudas de Cristo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Spanish: &quot;The Widows of Christ&quot;<br /> <br /> ==Page 421==<br /> '''Paradise of Chance'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf. [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=C#chums The Chums of Chance in ''Against the Day''].<br /> <br /> A-and from an article on the Ancient Greek philosopher perhaps most associated with the concept of Chance, Democritus: &quot;it[chance] seems to be an attempt to show how an apparently ordered arrangement can arise automatically, as a byproduct of the random collisions of bodies in motion. No attractive forces or purposes need be introduced to explain the sorting by the tide or in the sieve: it is probable that this is an attempt to show how apparently orderly effects can be produced without goal-directioned forces or purpose.&quot; [http://plato.stanford.edu/search/searcher.py?query=democritus Democritus]&lt;br&gt;<br /> Such a condition would be Paradisaical in Pynchon's anti-determinism vision.<br /> <br /> '''E-O Wheel'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Even Odds&quot;; a roulette (French: &quot;small wheel&quot;) wheel, a gambling game based on opposing pairs, e.g. black/white, even/odd, in which players bet on which red or black numbered compartment of a revolving wheel a small ball (spun in the opposite direction) will come to rest within. Bets are placed on a table marked to correspond with the compartments of the wheel.<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> <br /> {{MD PbP}}</div>

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<p>MKOHUT: /* Page 421 */</p> <hr /> <div>==Page 410==<br /> '''Nonpareil'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> from [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nonpareil Wiktionary]:<br /> # A person or thing that has no equal; a paragon.<br /> # A small, flat chocolate drop covered with white pellets of sugar.<br /> <br /> '''Lepton Castle'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Lepton&quot; is Greek money. It is also a subatomic particle. See, also, [http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&amp;month=9712&amp;msg=22311&amp;sort=date &quot;Dinn's Notes&quot;: MDMD(14) Notes &amp; Questions Part 1, 410.16]<br /> <br /> '''his Lordship'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [[L#lepton|Lord Lepton]]<br /> <br /> ==Page 411==<br /> '''Tallow Dips, and the last feeble Rush-Light'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;The first candles probably consisted of dried rushes soaked in grease. <br /> Homemade rushlights were commonly used in England as late as 1800 <br /> because, although they smoked and smelled horribly, they were so <br /> cheap ... Eventually someone discovered the method of making a &quot;tallow dip&quot; <br /> with a wick running longitudinally through its center. The wick -- a few <br /> threads of flax, hemp, or cotton, lightly twisted or plaited -- was dipped <br /> in melted tallow and allowed to cool, again and again, until the candle <br /> had a desired thickness&quot; -- [http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/natbltn/500-599/nb590.htm ''Candles''. Nature Bulletin No. 590. Forest Preserve District of Cook County. February 6, 1960]<br /> <br /> Note that the lighting technologies are listed regressively, as if moving back through time.<br /> <br /> '''Bloomeries'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> bloomery -- a forge in which wrought iron is made straight from ore ([http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bloomery Wiktionary])<br /> <br /> '''Invisible Hand'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> “Adam Smith's notion that rational agents guided by their own self-interest would act in such a way as to promote the public interest, the foundation of laissez-faire economics which caused much of the misery associated with the Industrial Revolution” – [http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/mason-dixon/alpha/i.html HyperArts entry: Invisible Hand]<br /> <br /> ==Page 412==<br /> '''Gangue'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;(mining) The earthy waste substances occurring in metallic ore&quot; -- [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gangue Wiktionary]<br /> <br /> '''more room inside than could possibly be contained in the sorrowing ruin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf. &quot;a Conveyance, wherein the inside is quite noticeably larger than the outside&quot;, [[Chapter 35: 349-361|Ch. 35 p. 354]]<br /> <br /> '''Plafond'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> “Plafond, in a broad sense, is any (flat, vaulted or dome) ceiling of any premise. Plafond can be product of monumental and decorative painting and sculpture; subject or ornamental - also is designated by the term &quot;Plafond&quot;. Picturesque plafonds can be executed directly on plaster (in technique of fresco, oil, glutinous, synthetic paints, etc.), on a canvas attached to a ceiling (panel), a mosaic, and other methods. As a part of decorative furniture of church and palace stateroom plafonds received a wide circulation in 17 - beginning of 19 centuries. For plafond compositions of this period typically use of effect of illusory break in architectural in open or proceeding behind a ceiling space, the image of figures and architectural details in strong foreshortenings.” – [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plafond Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''silver sconce and Sperm Taper Light'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;sperm taper is a candle made from spermaceti or sperm oil. sconce, LME, aphetic fr Fr esconse = hiding place or lantern, or fr med Lat sconsa aphetic fr absconsa (laterna) = dark (lantern), 1 a) A lantern or candlestick with a screen to protect the light from the wind, and a handle for carrying, LMW-M18, b) a flat candlestick with a handle, M19, 2 A bracket for a candle or a light hung on or fixed to an interior wall, rare M19.&quot; -- [http://osdir.com/ml/culture.literature.thomas-pynchon/2002-03/msg00114.html from MDMD Dinn's notes on Ch. 41]<br /> <br /> ==Page 413==<br /> '''from the Oboick Reveries of the Besozzis, as the Imperial Melismata of Quantz'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> * Besozzis: probably Antonio Besozzi and his son Carlo Besozzi, oboists and composers (numerous gifted woodwind players apparently sprung from the Besozzi family tree)<br /> * Melismata: plural form of melism, “a melody or melodic sequence of notes. Usually spec. (in singing and vocal composition): the prolongation of one syllable over a number of notes; an instance of this” – the OED<br /> * Quantz, Johann Joaquim (1697-1773): German flautist and composer, and court composer for Frederick II, the Great. He wrote a treatise on flute playing and composed a huge quantity of pieces for the flute.<br /> <br /> Question: Did Quantz compose a piece entitled &quot;Melismata&quot;?<br /> <br /> Trivia: Quantz and Carlo Besozzi were both oboists for the Dresden court: Carlo from 1754 until his death; Quantz seemingly earlier as he entered Frederick the Great's service in 1741.<br /> <br /> '''Hurricanoe'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> “aka &quot;Hurricane&quot; (a large private party - 18th cent.)” – [http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/mason-dixon/alpha/h.html HyperArts entry: Hurricanoe/Hurricane]<br /> <br /> ==Page 414==<br /> '''Climbers' Discourse'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''behave inconveniently'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [[I#inconvenience|Inconvenience]] again, see entry on [[Chapter 40:399-409| page 401]].<br /> <br /> '''Churs of Stroud'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Churs = electors???<br /> Stroud = Stroud, Gloucestershire UK: [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;q=stroud+United+Kingdom&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;om=1 Google Map]<br /> <br /> '''Calvert agent'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Calvert County Realtors - Calvert Agents In Maryland.<br /> <br /> ==Page 415==<br /> '''Raby Castle'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [[Image:RubyCastle.jpg|thumb|Raby Castle from Jones' Views (1819)|right]]<br /> &quot;Raby Castle [...] near Staindrop, County Durham is one of the largest inhabited castles in England. It has opulent eighteenth and nineteenth century interiors inside a largely unchanged late medieval shell. It is a Grade I listed building. Raby once belonged to the Neville family, who became one of the most powerful in England&quot; -- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raby_Castle Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=raby+castle,+Staindrop,+County+Durham&amp;sll=54.630531,-1.773605&amp;sspn=0.168921,0.460739&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=54.595166,-1.808538&amp;spn=0.010567,0.028796&amp;z=15&amp;iwloc=addr&amp;om=1 Google Maps]<br /> <br /> '''Brunswick style'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> worn with a petticoat, the Brunswick was an informal gown or Riding Habit. A riding habit consisted of a petticoat, jacket, and waistcoat.<br /> <br /> '''wine-colored Cordovan'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> a favorite boot color of TRP's. There is a &quot;wine-cordovan boot&quot; on page 121 of ATD, also a female's.<br /> <br /> '''French Court heels'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Ladies of the French court once carried canes to support themselves on uncomfortable high heels. Heels became lower after the French Revolution, not surprisingly.<br /> <br /> '''Iron Nabob'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Nabob (from [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nabob Wiktionary]):<br /> #an Indian ruler within the Mogul empire; a nawab<br /> #(by extension) someone of great wealth or importance<br /> <br /> '''Phrygioid if not Phrygian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> According to unvarying tradition the Phrygians were most closely akin to certain tribes of Macedonia and Thrace; and their near relationship to the Hellenic stock is proved by all that is known of their language and <br /> art, and is accepted by almost every modern authority. -- [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Phrygia Encyclopedia Britannica, 11 th edition]. Pynchon's wit makes up the word Phrygioid to mean something like &quot;like Phrygian&quot; that is fake Phyrgian due to the prevalence of 'British modality'--preceding phrase.<br /> <br /> &quot;Phrygian Mode - A lot of traditional music, especially Scottish and Irish is termed 'Modal' because it does not follow the conventional modern major or<br /> minor scales. There are seven modes, and Phrygian is the one that starts with E.&quot; --[http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/levy_mason_and_dixon.pdf Toby Levy's ''Three Pages Per Day'' Project]<br /> <br /> ==Page 416==<br /> '''pierc'd paint Eyes of Nevilles and Vanes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Presumably like some Hammer House of Horror movie there is a tunnel passing behind the portraits in the gallery&quot; ([http://osdir.com/ml/culture.literature.thomas-pynchon/2002-03/msg00114.html from MDMD Dinn's notes on Ch. 41]). Raby's castle was once held by the Nevilles ([http://www.rabycastle.com/history/nevills_raby.htm Raby Castle History: Nevilles]) and was later passed to the Vanes ([http://www.rabycastle.com/history/vanes_raby.htm Raby Castle History: Vanes]).<br /> <br /> '''Bellezza, che chiama'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;a beauty that beckons&quot; - [http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/mason-dixon/alpha/i.html HyperArts entry: Italian Translations]<br /> <br /> '''multiply-bepoxed'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ??? suggestion that he has syphilis???<br /> <br /> '''after three of these trans-Stygian Years, become Journeyman'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Stygian (from [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stygian Wiktionary]):<br /> #Dark and gloomy<br /> #Infernal or hellish<br /> #Of, or relating to the river Styx<br /> <br /> ==Page 417==<br /> '''Chatelaine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> from [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chatelaine Wiktionary]:<br /> #The mistress of a castle or large household.<br /> #A chain or clasp worn at the waist by women in the 16th to the 19th centuries, with handkerchief, keys, etc., attached.<br /> <br /> '''Mignonette'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;A type of fine French bobbin lace made in narrow strips and having the consistency of tulle. Occas. more fully mignonette lace. Now hist&quot; -- OED<br /> <br /> '''Great Chain of Being this, Great Chain of Being that, [...] this rather lengthy ''Chain'' [...] Is there something [...] dangling from its bottom end?'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The great chain of being is a classical and western medieval conception of the order of the universe, whose chief characteristic is a strict hierarchical system.&lt;br&gt;<br /> It is a conception of the world's structure that was accepted, and unquestioned, by most educated men from the time of Lucretius until the Copernican and Darwinian revolution and the ultimate flowering of the Renaissance. The chain of being is composed of a great number of hierarchal links, from the most basic and foundational elements up through the very highest perfection, in other words, God, or the Prime Mover.&lt;br&gt;<br /> God, and beneath him the angels, both existing wholly in spirit form, sit at the top of the chain. Earthly flesh is fallible and ever-changing: mutable. Spirit, however, is unchanging and permanent. This sense of permanence is crucial to understanding this conception of reality. One does not abandon one's place in the chain; it is not only unthinkable, but generally impossible. The hierarchy is a chain and not a ladder.&lt;br&gt;<br /> The natural order, earth (rock) is at the bottom of the chain; these elements possess only the attribute of existence. Moving on up the chain, each succeeding link contains the positive attributes of the previous link, and adds (at least) one other. Rocks, as above, possess only existence; the next link up, plants, possess life and existence. Beasts add not only motion, but appetite as well.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Man is a special instance in this conception. He is both mortal flesh, as those below him, and also spirit. In this dichotomy, the struggle between flesh and spirit becomes a moral one. --abridged (slightly) from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chain_of_Being Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> Notice Pynchon's multimeaning playfulness with the &quot;chains&quot; of the Chainmen and, one must think, the chains of the slave trade. This joking on the concept by Lord Lepton seems to touch some deep themes of M &amp; D.<br /> <br /> What [creature] dangles at the bottom of the chain? Where does it &quot;fall&quot; if it 'fails to hold on'? One is reminded of the supposedly real witticism as joke about an Eastern creation myth. The Earth is held up by a turtle <br /> which is held up by another turtle, someone explained. &quot;And that turtle?&quot; asks the interlocuter. &quot;Another turtle&quot;....&quot;And that one&quot;?.......&quot;O No, you're not going to trap me...it's turtles all the way down.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Perhaps it is a Helixxx'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> DNA? Though note the suggestion of a snake. (Cf. &quot;the Serpent,&quot; [[Chapter 13: 125-145|Ch. 13, p. 135]]; &quot;Something underground, moving Westward,&quot; [[Chapter 30: 296-301|Ch. 30, p. 299]])<br /> <br /> ==Page 418==<br /> '''fiduciary'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> from [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fiduciary Wiktionary]:<br /> #One who holds a thing in trust for another; a trustee.<br /> #One who depends for salvation on faith, without works; an Antinomian.<br /> <br /> '''nitter-natter'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ??? chitter-chatter? ???<br /> <br /> '''Staithes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> plural for Stath (from OED): <br /> #The land bordering on water, a bank, shore.<br /> #A landing-stage, wharf; esp. a waterside depôt for coals brought from the collieries for shipment, furnished with staging and shoots for loading vessels.<br /> #An embankment.<br /> <br /> &quot;Staithes is an English village at the most northerly point of the North Yorkshire coast [...] Roxby Beck (a small river) running through Staithes is the border between North Yorkshire and neighbouring Redcar and Cleveland. Formerly one of the largest and most productive fishing centres in North-East England, Staithes is now largely a tourist destination thanks to its picturesque appearance [...] Staithes is noted for its sheltered harbour, bounded by high cliffs and two long breakwaters. A mile to the north, Boulby Cliff is the highest cliff in England&quot; -- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staithes Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''You sound like one of those Leveler chaps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Levelers or Levellers, English Puritan sect active at the time of the English civil war. The name was apparently applied to them in 1647, in derision of their beliefs in equality. The Levelers demanded fundamental constitutional reform—a written constitution, a single supreme representative body elected by universal manhood suffrage, proportional representation, and the abolition of monarchy and noble privilege. Their ideals, far in advance of their time, were those of complete religious and political equality. They were adept at the use of mass petitions and extensive pamphleteering to arouse the public. When the Long Parliament did not respond to their ideas, they tried to build support in the ranks of the army, with some success. -- Columbia Encyclopedia<br /> <br /> ==Page 419==<br /> '''It is difficult in these days of closer-fitting Attire, to imagine the enormous volumes of unoccupied Space that once lay between is Skirt's outer Envelope and the woman's body far within.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Is this another case where inside and outside have wildly different metric<br /> properties. And what about ''these days'' [?] Were skirts so much tighter in the 1780s than in the 1760s [?] If not then who is speaking and when?&quot; -- [http://osdir.com/ml/culture.literature.thomas-pynchon/2002-03/msg00114.html from MDMD Dinn's notes on Ch. 41]<br /> <br /> '''Majordomos'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Plural form of Majordomo (from [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/majordomos Wiktionary]):<br /> #The head servant in a wealthy European household<br /> #A butler<br /> <br /> '''Soubrette'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> a lightweight soprano voice or type of soprano role, frequently found in comic operas or operettas; the soubrette usually possesses a flirtatious demeanor and street wise manner, as in the case of Adele in Die Fledermaus, or is a particularly fetching country innocent, like Adina in The Elixir of Love. Webster's online dictionary.<br /> <br /> ==Page 420==<br /> '''Otick Catarrh'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Mason is suggesting he will get an ear ache (or infection) from Dixon's &quot;loud&quot; and &quot;moist&quot; whisperings:<br /> *Octic - &quot;(anatomy) of, relating/pertaining to, or located near the ear&quot; ([http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Otic Wiktionary])&lt;br&gt;<br /> *Catarrh - &quot;inflammation of the mucous membranes of the nose and throat&quot; ([http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Catarrh Wiktionary])<br /> <br /> '''Ague'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Apogee (from [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/apogee Wiktionary]):<br /> # (astronomy) That point in the orbit of any object which is at the greatest distance from the center of the central body. For example, the point in the moon's orbit which is the greatest distance from the center of the earth.<br /> # The highest point.<br /> <br /> '''Viudas de Cristo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Spanish: &quot;The Widows of Christ&quot;<br /> <br /> ==Page 421==<br /> '''Paradise of Chance'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf. [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=C#chums The Chums of Chance in ''Against the Day''].<br /> <br /> A-and from an article on the Ancient Greek philosopher perhaps most associated with the concept of Chance, Democritus: &quot;it[chance] seems to be an attempt to show how an apparently ordered arrangement can arise automatically, as a byproduct of the random collisions of bodies in motion. No attractive forces or purposes need be introduced to explain the sorting by the tide or in the sieve: it is probable that this is an attempt to show how apparently orderly effects can be produced without goal-directioned forces or purpose.&quot; [http://plato.stanford.edu/search/searcher.py?query=democritus Democritus]<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> '''E-O Wheel'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Even Odds&quot;; a roulette (French: &quot;small wheel&quot;) wheel, a gambling game based on opposing pairs, e.g. black/white, even/odd, in which players bet on which red or black numbered compartment of a revolving wheel a small ball (spun in the opposite direction) will come to rest within. Bets are placed on a table marked to correspond with the compartments of the wheel.<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> <br /> {{MD PbP}}</div>

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<p>MKOHUT: /* Page 421 */</p> <hr /> <div>==Page 410==<br /> '''Nonpareil'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> from [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nonpareil Wiktionary]:<br /> # A person or thing that has no equal; a paragon.<br /> # A small, flat chocolate drop covered with white pellets of sugar.<br /> <br /> '''Lepton Castle'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Lepton&quot; is Greek money. It is also a subatomic particle. See, also, [http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&amp;month=9712&amp;msg=22311&amp;sort=date &quot;Dinn's Notes&quot;: MDMD(14) Notes &amp; Questions Part 1, 410.16]<br /> <br /> '''his Lordship'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [[L#lepton|Lord Lepton]]<br /> <br /> ==Page 411==<br /> '''Tallow Dips, and the last feeble Rush-Light'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;The first candles probably consisted of dried rushes soaked in grease. <br /> Homemade rushlights were commonly used in England as late as 1800 <br /> because, although they smoked and smelled horribly, they were so <br /> cheap ... Eventually someone discovered the method of making a &quot;tallow dip&quot; <br /> with a wick running longitudinally through its center. The wick -- a few <br /> threads of flax, hemp, or cotton, lightly twisted or plaited -- was dipped <br /> in melted tallow and allowed to cool, again and again, until the candle <br /> had a desired thickness&quot; -- [http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/natbltn/500-599/nb590.htm ''Candles''. Nature Bulletin No. 590. Forest Preserve District of Cook County. February 6, 1960]<br /> <br /> Note that the lighting technologies are listed regressively, as if moving back through time.<br /> <br /> '''Bloomeries'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> bloomery -- a forge in which wrought iron is made straight from ore ([http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bloomery Wiktionary])<br /> <br /> '''Invisible Hand'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> “Adam Smith's notion that rational agents guided by their own self-interest would act in such a way as to promote the public interest, the foundation of laissez-faire economics which caused much of the misery associated with the Industrial Revolution” – [http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/mason-dixon/alpha/i.html HyperArts entry: Invisible Hand]<br /> <br /> ==Page 412==<br /> '''Gangue'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;(mining) The earthy waste substances occurring in metallic ore&quot; -- [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gangue Wiktionary]<br /> <br /> '''more room inside than could possibly be contained in the sorrowing ruin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf. &quot;a Conveyance, wherein the inside is quite noticeably larger than the outside&quot;, [[Chapter 35: 349-361|Ch. 35 p. 354]]<br /> <br /> '''Plafond'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> “Plafond, in a broad sense, is any (flat, vaulted or dome) ceiling of any premise. Plafond can be product of monumental and decorative painting and sculpture; subject or ornamental - also is designated by the term &quot;Plafond&quot;. Picturesque plafonds can be executed directly on plaster (in technique of fresco, oil, glutinous, synthetic paints, etc.), on a canvas attached to a ceiling (panel), a mosaic, and other methods. As a part of decorative furniture of church and palace stateroom plafonds received a wide circulation in 17 - beginning of 19 centuries. For plafond compositions of this period typically use of effect of illusory break in architectural in open or proceeding behind a ceiling space, the image of figures and architectural details in strong foreshortenings.” – [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plafond Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''silver sconce and Sperm Taper Light'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;sperm taper is a candle made from spermaceti or sperm oil. sconce, LME, aphetic fr Fr esconse = hiding place or lantern, or fr med Lat sconsa aphetic fr absconsa (laterna) = dark (lantern), 1 a) A lantern or candlestick with a screen to protect the light from the wind, and a handle for carrying, LMW-M18, b) a flat candlestick with a handle, M19, 2 A bracket for a candle or a light hung on or fixed to an interior wall, rare M19.&quot; -- [http://osdir.com/ml/culture.literature.thomas-pynchon/2002-03/msg00114.html from MDMD Dinn's notes on Ch. 41]<br /> <br /> ==Page 413==<br /> '''from the Oboick Reveries of the Besozzis, as the Imperial Melismata of Quantz'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> * Besozzis: probably Antonio Besozzi and his son Carlo Besozzi, oboists and composers (numerous gifted woodwind players apparently sprung from the Besozzi family tree)<br /> * Melismata: plural form of melism, “a melody or melodic sequence of notes. Usually spec. (in singing and vocal composition): the prolongation of one syllable over a number of notes; an instance of this” – the OED<br /> * Quantz, Johann Joaquim (1697-1773): German flautist and composer, and court composer for Frederick II, the Great. He wrote a treatise on flute playing and composed a huge quantity of pieces for the flute.<br /> <br /> Question: Did Quantz compose a piece entitled &quot;Melismata&quot;?<br /> <br /> Trivia: Quantz and Carlo Besozzi were both oboists for the Dresden court: Carlo from 1754 until his death; Quantz seemingly earlier as he entered Frederick the Great's service in 1741.<br /> <br /> '''Hurricanoe'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> “aka &quot;Hurricane&quot; (a large private party - 18th cent.)” – [http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/mason-dixon/alpha/h.html HyperArts entry: Hurricanoe/Hurricane]<br /> <br /> ==Page 414==<br /> '''Climbers' Discourse'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''behave inconveniently'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [[I#inconvenience|Inconvenience]] again, see entry on [[Chapter 40:399-409| page 401]].<br /> <br /> '''Churs of Stroud'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Churs = electors???<br /> Stroud = Stroud, Gloucestershire UK: [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;q=stroud+United+Kingdom&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;om=1 Google Map]<br /> <br /> '''Calvert agent'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Calvert County Realtors - Calvert Agents In Maryland.<br /> <br /> ==Page 415==<br /> '''Raby Castle'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [[Image:RubyCastle.jpg|thumb|Raby Castle from Jones' Views (1819)|right]]<br /> &quot;Raby Castle [...] near Staindrop, County Durham is one of the largest inhabited castles in England. It has opulent eighteenth and nineteenth century interiors inside a largely unchanged late medieval shell. It is a Grade I listed building. Raby once belonged to the Neville family, who became one of the most powerful in England&quot; -- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raby_Castle Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=raby+castle,+Staindrop,+County+Durham&amp;sll=54.630531,-1.773605&amp;sspn=0.168921,0.460739&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=54.595166,-1.808538&amp;spn=0.010567,0.028796&amp;z=15&amp;iwloc=addr&amp;om=1 Google Maps]<br /> <br /> '''Brunswick style'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> worn with a petticoat, the Brunswick was an informal gown or Riding Habit. A riding habit consisted of a petticoat, jacket, and waistcoat.<br /> <br /> '''wine-colored Cordovan'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> a favorite boot color of TRP's. There is a &quot;wine-cordovan boot&quot; on page 121 of ATD, also a female's.<br /> <br /> '''French Court heels'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Ladies of the French court once carried canes to support themselves on uncomfortable high heels. Heels became lower after the French Revolution, not surprisingly.<br /> <br /> '''Iron Nabob'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Nabob (from [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nabob Wiktionary]):<br /> #an Indian ruler within the Mogul empire; a nawab<br /> #(by extension) someone of great wealth or importance<br /> <br /> '''Phrygioid if not Phrygian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> According to unvarying tradition the Phrygians were most closely akin to certain tribes of Macedonia and Thrace; and their near relationship to the Hellenic stock is proved by all that is known of their language and <br /> art, and is accepted by almost every modern authority. -- [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Phrygia Encyclopedia Britannica, 11 th edition]. Pynchon's wit makes up the word Phrygioid to mean something like &quot;like Phrygian&quot; that is fake Phyrgian due to the prevalence of 'British modality'--preceding phrase.<br /> <br /> &quot;Phrygian Mode - A lot of traditional music, especially Scottish and Irish is termed 'Modal' because it does not follow the conventional modern major or<br /> minor scales. There are seven modes, and Phrygian is the one that starts with E.&quot; --[http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/levy_mason_and_dixon.pdf Toby Levy's ''Three Pages Per Day'' Project]<br /> <br /> ==Page 416==<br /> '''pierc'd paint Eyes of Nevilles and Vanes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Presumably like some Hammer House of Horror movie there is a tunnel passing behind the portraits in the gallery&quot; ([http://osdir.com/ml/culture.literature.thomas-pynchon/2002-03/msg00114.html from MDMD Dinn's notes on Ch. 41]). Raby's castle was once held by the Nevilles ([http://www.rabycastle.com/history/nevills_raby.htm Raby Castle History: Nevilles]) and was later passed to the Vanes ([http://www.rabycastle.com/history/vanes_raby.htm Raby Castle History: Vanes]).<br /> <br /> '''Bellezza, che chiama'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;a beauty that beckons&quot; - [http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/mason-dixon/alpha/i.html HyperArts entry: Italian Translations]<br /> <br /> '''multiply-bepoxed'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ??? suggestion that he has syphilis???<br /> <br /> '''after three of these trans-Stygian Years, become Journeyman'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Stygian (from [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stygian Wiktionary]):<br /> #Dark and gloomy<br /> #Infernal or hellish<br /> #Of, or relating to the river Styx<br /> <br /> ==Page 417==<br /> '''Chatelaine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> from [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chatelaine Wiktionary]:<br /> #The mistress of a castle or large household.<br /> #A chain or clasp worn at the waist by women in the 16th to the 19th centuries, with handkerchief, keys, etc., attached.<br /> <br /> '''Mignonette'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;A type of fine French bobbin lace made in narrow strips and having the consistency of tulle. Occas. more fully mignonette lace. Now hist&quot; -- OED<br /> <br /> '''Great Chain of Being this, Great Chain of Being that, [...] this rather lengthy ''Chain'' [...] Is there something [...] dangling from its bottom end?'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The great chain of being is a classical and western medieval conception of the order of the universe, whose chief characteristic is a strict hierarchical system.&lt;br&gt;<br /> It is a conception of the world's structure that was accepted, and unquestioned, by most educated men from the time of Lucretius until the Copernican and Darwinian revolution and the ultimate flowering of the Renaissance. The chain of being is composed of a great number of hierarchal links, from the most basic and foundational elements up through the very highest perfection, in other words, God, or the Prime Mover.&lt;br&gt;<br /> God, and beneath him the angels, both existing wholly in spirit form, sit at the top of the chain. Earthly flesh is fallible and ever-changing: mutable. Spirit, however, is unchanging and permanent. This sense of permanence is crucial to understanding this conception of reality. One does not abandon one's place in the chain; it is not only unthinkable, but generally impossible. The hierarchy is a chain and not a ladder.&lt;br&gt;<br /> The natural order, earth (rock) is at the bottom of the chain; these elements possess only the attribute of existence. Moving on up the chain, each succeeding link contains the positive attributes of the previous link, and adds (at least) one other. Rocks, as above, possess only existence; the next link up, plants, possess life and existence. Beasts add not only motion, but appetite as well.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Man is a special instance in this conception. He is both mortal flesh, as those below him, and also spirit. In this dichotomy, the struggle between flesh and spirit becomes a moral one. --abridged (slightly) from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chain_of_Being Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> Notice Pynchon's multimeaning playfulness with the &quot;chains&quot; of the Chainmen and, one must think, the chains of the slave trade. This joking on the concept by Lord Lepton seems to touch some deep themes of M &amp; D.<br /> <br /> What [creature] dangles at the bottom of the chain? Where does it &quot;fall&quot; if it 'fails to hold on'? One is reminded of the supposedly real witticism as joke about an Eastern creation myth. The Earth is held up by a turtle <br /> which is held up by another turtle, someone explained. &quot;And that turtle?&quot; asks the interlocuter. &quot;Another turtle&quot;....&quot;And that one&quot;?.......&quot;O No, you're not going to trap me...it's turtles all the way down.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Perhaps it is a Helixxx'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> DNA? Though note the suggestion of a snake. (Cf. &quot;the Serpent,&quot; [[Chapter 13: 125-145|Ch. 13, p. 135]]; &quot;Something underground, moving Westward,&quot; [[Chapter 30: 296-301|Ch. 30, p. 299]])<br /> <br /> ==Page 418==<br /> '''fiduciary'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> from [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fiduciary Wiktionary]:<br /> #One who holds a thing in trust for another; a trustee.<br /> #One who depends for salvation on faith, without works; an Antinomian.<br /> <br /> '''nitter-natter'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ??? chitter-chatter? ???<br /> <br /> '''Staithes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> plural for Stath (from OED): <br /> #The land bordering on water, a bank, shore.<br /> #A landing-stage, wharf; esp. a waterside depôt for coals brought from the collieries for shipment, furnished with staging and shoots for loading vessels.<br /> #An embankment.<br /> <br /> &quot;Staithes is an English village at the most northerly point of the North Yorkshire coast [...] Roxby Beck (a small river) running through Staithes is the border between North Yorkshire and neighbouring Redcar and Cleveland. Formerly one of the largest and most productive fishing centres in North-East England, Staithes is now largely a tourist destination thanks to its picturesque appearance [...] Staithes is noted for its sheltered harbour, bounded by high cliffs and two long breakwaters. A mile to the north, Boulby Cliff is the highest cliff in England&quot; -- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staithes Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''You sound like one of those Leveler chaps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Levelers or Levellers, English Puritan sect active at the time of the English civil war. The name was apparently applied to them in 1647, in derision of their beliefs in equality. The Levelers demanded fundamental constitutional reform—a written constitution, a single supreme representative body elected by universal manhood suffrage, proportional representation, and the abolition of monarchy and noble privilege. Their ideals, far in advance of their time, were those of complete religious and political equality. They were adept at the use of mass petitions and extensive pamphleteering to arouse the public. When the Long Parliament did not respond to their ideas, they tried to build support in the ranks of the army, with some success. -- Columbia Encyclopedia<br /> <br /> ==Page 419==<br /> '''It is difficult in these days of closer-fitting Attire, to imagine the enormous volumes of unoccupied Space that once lay between is Skirt's outer Envelope and the woman's body far within.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Is this another case where inside and outside have wildly different metric<br /> properties. And what about ''these days'' [?] Were skirts so much tighter in the 1780s than in the 1760s [?] If not then who is speaking and when?&quot; -- [http://osdir.com/ml/culture.literature.thomas-pynchon/2002-03/msg00114.html from MDMD Dinn's notes on Ch. 41]<br /> <br /> '''Majordomos'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Plural form of Majordomo (from [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/majordomos Wiktionary]):<br /> #The head servant in a wealthy European household<br /> #A butler<br /> <br /> '''Soubrette'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> a lightweight soprano voice or type of soprano role, frequently found in comic operas or operettas; the soubrette usually possesses a flirtatious demeanor and street wise manner, as in the case of Adele in Die Fledermaus, or is a particularly fetching country innocent, like Adina in The Elixir of Love. Webster's online dictionary.<br /> <br /> ==Page 420==<br /> '''Otick Catarrh'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Mason is suggesting he will get an ear ache (or infection) from Dixon's &quot;loud&quot; and &quot;moist&quot; whisperings:<br /> *Octic - &quot;(anatomy) of, relating/pertaining to, or located near the ear&quot; ([http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Otic Wiktionary])&lt;br&gt;<br /> *Catarrh - &quot;inflammation of the mucous membranes of the nose and throat&quot; ([http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Catarrh Wiktionary])<br /> <br /> '''Ague'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Apogee (from [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/apogee Wiktionary]):<br /> # (astronomy) That point in the orbit of any object which is at the greatest distance from the center of the central body. For example, the point in the moon's orbit which is the greatest distance from the center of the earth.<br /> # The highest point.<br /> <br /> '''Viudas de Cristo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Spanish: &quot;The Widows of Christ&quot;<br /> <br /> ==Page 421==<br /> '''Paradise of Chance'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf. [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=C#chums The Chums of Chance in ''Against the Day''].<br /> <br /> A-and from an article on the Ancient Greek philosopher perhaps most associated with the concept of Chance, Democritus: &quot;it[chance] seems to be an attempt to show how an apparently ordered arrangement can arise automatically, as a byproduct of the random collisions of bodies in motion. No attractive forces or purposes need be introduced to explain the sorting by the tide or in the sieve: it is probable that this is an attempt to show how apparently orderly effects can be produced without goal-directioned forces or purpose.&quot; <br /> <br /> '''E-O Wheel'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Even Odds&quot;; a roulette (French: &quot;small wheel&quot;) wheel, a gambling game based on opposing pairs, e.g. black/white, even/odd, in which players bet on which red or black numbered compartment of a revolving wheel a small ball (spun in the opposite direction) will come to rest within. Bets are placed on a table marked to correspond with the compartments of the wheel.<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> <br /> {{MD PbP}}</div>

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<p>MKOHUT: </p> <hr /> <div>As of 7/31/07, I'm new in these here parts. I'm sure you have many customs and traditions of which I am blissfully ignorant, so if I post something incorrect or incorrectly, please correct it. And feel free to let me know if I'm a dunderhead or to offer any other feedback. I won't be offended--this is, after all, how wikis work.<br /> <br /> You may email me: dpayne1912 at hotmail.com<br /> <br /> Welcome Gideon.[[User:MKOHUT|MKOHUT]] 14:43, 1 August 2007 (PDT)<br /> <br /> <br /> Gideon, yes I think the major contrast re Assembly Hall and Bath is luxury vs. non..log cabiness, as you write. <br /> <br /> Bath, compared to places in America goes way back--Roman Times, has old<br /> architecture, is very &quot;civilized&quot;.....high manners....Jane <br /> austen lived there for example (although her family had to move, I think)<br /> [[User:MKOHUT|MKOHUT]] 15:08, 23 August 2007 (PDT)</div>

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<p>MKOHUT: </p> <hr /> <div>As of 7/31/07, I'm new in these here parts. I'm sure you have many customs and traditions of which I am blissfully ignorant, so if I post something incorrect or incorrectly, please correct it. And feel free to let me know if I'm a dunderhead or to offer any other feedback. I won't be offended--this is, after all, how wikis work.<br /> <br /> You may email me: dpayne1912 at hotmail.com<br /> <br /> Welcome Gideon.[[User:MKOHUT|MKOHUT]] 14:43, 1 August 2007 (PDT)<br /> <br /> <br /> Gideon, yes I think the major contrast re Assembly Hall and Bath is luxury vs. non..log cabiness, as you write. <br /> <br /> Bath, compared to places in America goes way back--Roman Times, has old<br /> architecture, is very &quot;civilized&quot;.....high manners....Jane <br /> austen lived there for example (although her family had to move, I think)</div>

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<p>MKOHUT: /* Page 365 */</p> <hr /> <div>==Page 362==<br /> '''The Driver, having observed through the low clouds, candle-lit Windows in the Distance ... The rush of the Weather past the smooth outer Shell ... Link-men waiting in a double line ... their torches sparking intensely yellow'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Is the coach flying? Are the Link-men's torches illuminating the outer-edges of a landing strip?<br /> <br /> '''Cremona Violin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cremona is a town in Italy. &quot;From the 16th century onwards, Cremona was renowned as a centre of musical instrument manufacture, beginning with the violins of the Amati family, and later included the products of the Guarneri and Stradivari shops. To the present day, their work is widely considered to be the summit of achievement in string instrument making&quot; -- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cremona#Music Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''Zouks'''<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 363==<br /> '''&quot;Another bonny gahn-on tha've got us into&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_Fine_Mess Laurel and Hardy] (&quot;That's another fine mess you've gotten us into!&quot;)?<br /> <br /> ==Page 364==<br /> '''in strata'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> This image of layering appears frequently in the text--compare this image, for example, with the descriptions of Cape Town which also had a multifaceted society, with various groups layered, operating with large degrees of independence. See, also, [[Chapter 50: 484-490|&quot;as above, so below&quot; (ch. 50, p. 487)]] and [[C#chain|Great Chain of Being]].<br /> <br /> '''trans-Elemental Uncle Toby'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Uncle Toby is a character created by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Sterne Laurence Sterne] in his major novel.<br /> Laurence Sterne (November 24, 1713 – March 18, 1768) was an Irish-born English novelist and an Anglican clergyman. He is best known for his novel, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_and_Opinions_of_Tristram_Shandy%2C_Gentleman ''The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman]. <br /> <br /> [http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/tristram/terms/char_4.html Sparks Notes] notes that &quot;after sustaining a groin-wound in battle, he [Uncle Toby] retires to a life of obsessive attention to the history and science of military fortifications.&quot; Mr. [[K#Knockwood|Mr. Knockwood]] was also obsessed with fortifying his home front, though his concerns were directed towards the element of water.<br /> <br /> ==Page 365==<br /> '''The Assembly Room is not Bath'''&lt;br&gt; <br /> Bath is a city in Somerset, England most famous for its baths fed by three hot springs. It is situated 99 miles (159 km) west of Central London and 13 miles (21 km) south east of Bristol.<br /> <br /> The city is founded around the only naturally occurring hot springs in the United Kingdom. It was first documented as a Roman spa, although tradition suggests that it was founded earlier. The waters from its spring were believed to be a cure for many afflictions. From Elizabethan to Georgian times it was a resort city for the wealthy. wikipedia<br /> <br /> '''Land-Jobbers'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> I cannot find a good definition, but the term appears to refer to professional land dealers or developers; the terms seems to often have negative connotations, associated with underhanded dealings.<br /> <br /> A jobber is a merchant middleman between producers and retailers. A wholesaler which buys in lots, &quot;jobs&quot;, and resells to those who retail to end users.<br /> <br /> '''Labor Crimps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> maritime labor brokers; in addition to signing up volunteers and negotiating for deserters, '''crimps''' routinely shanghaied &quot;unfree&quot; labor.<br /> <br /> &quot;Until 1915 unfree labor was widely used aboard American merchant ships. A person conscripted to such work was said to have been shanghaied when coercive techniques such as trickery, intimidation, or violence were used. Those engaged in this form of kidnapping were known as '''crimps'''. The related term ''press gang'' refers specifically to impressment practices in the British Royal Navy&quot; -- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghaiing Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> Check out this interesting article on the topic: [http://www.well.com/user/sfflier/crimps.html &quot;Down to the Sea in Ships&quot; (''The San Francisco Flyer'' 9/25/97)].<br /> <br /> Note that Pynchon (Wicks) uses the term &quot;Body-jobbers&quot; on p. 443 to refer to non-naval crimps.<br /> <br /> '''crepuscular'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> twilight; here used figuratively: dim or indistinct<br /> <br /> '''Pleiades'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> star cluster in Taurus, commonly called the ''Seven Sisters''<br /> <br /> '''Legerdemain'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Sleight of hand; &quot;magic&quot; trickery&quot; -- [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Legerdemain Wiktionary]<br /> <br /> '''dyspeptic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> indigestive<br /> <br /> ==Page 366==<br /> '''Apiary'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;a place where bees are kept&quot; -- [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/apiary Wiktionary]<br /> <br /> '''Hanger''' &lt;br&gt; <br /> strap on a sword belt that holds a sword or dagger, often ornate <br /> <br /> '''brumal'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Of, relating to, or occurring in winter ... Here's one of Pynchon's puns: Squire Haligast states 'Tis a brumal night, for behold it sweepeth by' -- [http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/levy_mason_and_dixon.pdf Toby Levy's ''Mason &amp; Dixon 3 Pages a Day'' Project]<br /> <br /> '''gnomic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;mysterious and often incomprehensible yet seemingly wise&quot; -- [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gnomic Wiktionary]<br /> <br /> ==Page 367==<br /> '''''batterie des couteaux''''' &lt;br&gt; <br /> battery of knives <br /> <br /> '''Eponym'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandwich Wiktionary]:<br /> # A person whose name has become identified with a particular object or activity.<br /> # A word formed from a person’s name, e.g. stentorian after the Greek herald Stentor.<br /> <br /> In this case, the [[S#sandwich|Earl of Sandwich]], who, like [[L#lepton|Lord Lepton]], was a member of the [[H#hellfire|Hellfire Club]].<br /> <br /> '''Wilkesite'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Follower of [[W#wilkes|John Wilkes]]?<br /> <br /> &quot;John Wilkes (17 October 1725–26 December 1797) was an English radical, journalist and politician. In the Middlesex election dispute, he fought for the right of voters — rather than the House of Commons — to determine their representatives. In 1771 he was instrumental in obliging the government to concede the right of printers to publish verbatim accounts of parliamentary debates. In 1776 he introduced the first Bill for parliamentary reform in the British Parliament. Wilkes' increasing conservatism as he grew older caused dissatsifaction among radicals and was instrumental in the loss of his Middlesex seat at the 1790 general election. Wilkes then retired from politics and took no part in the growth of radicalism in the 1790s&quot; -- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wilkes Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> John Wilkes, like the [[S#sandwich|Earl of Sandwich]] and [[L#lepton|Lord Lepton]], a member of the [[H#hellfire|Hellfire Club]].<br /> <br /> '''[[C#consubstantiate|consubstantiate]]'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The union of the &quot;actual, substantial presence of the body of Christ with the bread and wine of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper&quot; ([http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/consubstantiation Wiktionary]) as opposed to transubstantiate.<br /> <br /> ==Page 369== <br /> '''the Frenchman sweeps off his Toque''' &lt;br&gt; <br /> Toque – “(Canada) a winter hat that is often a woolen, cotton, or acrylic, tightly knit triangular shaped hat with a small pom-pom affixed at the top. Similar to military watch-cap” – [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/toque Wiktionary] <br /> <br /> '''incipient case of the Green Pip''' &lt;br&gt; <br /> ??? <br /> <br /> ==Page 370==<br /> '''Iliad of Inconvenience'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Another example of &quot;inconvenience&quot; meaning life, the unplannable details of one's life with others in the world. See [[I#Inconvenience|Inconvenience in the Alphabetic Index listing]] for other page references. As well as ATD, of course.<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> <br /> {{MD PbP}}</div>

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<p>MKOHUT: /* Page 365 */</p> <hr /> <div>==Page 362==<br /> '''The Driver, having observed through the low clouds, candle-lit Windows in the Distance ... The rush of the Weather past the smooth outer Shell ... Link-men waiting in a double line ... their torches sparking intensely yellow'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Is the coach flying? Are the Link-men's torches illuminating the outer-edges of a landing strip?<br /> <br /> '''Cremona Violin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cremona is a town in Italy. &quot;From the 16th century onwards, Cremona was renowned as a centre of musical instrument manufacture, beginning with the violins of the Amati family, and later included the products of the Guarneri and Stradivari shops. To the present day, their work is widely considered to be the summit of achievement in string instrument making&quot; -- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cremona#Music Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''Zouks'''<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 363==<br /> '''&quot;Another bonny gahn-on tha've got us into&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_Fine_Mess Laurel and Hardy] (&quot;That's another fine mess you've gotten us into!&quot;)?<br /> <br /> ==Page 364==<br /> '''in strata'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> This image of layering appears frequently in the text--compare this image, for example, with the descriptions of Cape Town which also had a multifaceted society, with various groups layered, operating with large degrees of independence. See, also, [[Chapter 50: 484-490|&quot;as above, so below&quot; (ch. 50, p. 487)]] and [[C#chain|Great Chain of Being]].<br /> <br /> '''trans-Elemental Uncle Toby'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Uncle Toby is a character created by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Sterne Laurence Sterne] in his major novel.<br /> Laurence Sterne (November 24, 1713 – March 18, 1768) was an Irish-born English novelist and an Anglican clergyman. He is best known for his novel, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_and_Opinions_of_Tristram_Shandy%2C_Gentleman ''The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman]. <br /> <br /> [http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/tristram/terms/char_4.html Sparks Notes] notes that &quot;after sustaining a groin-wound in battle, he [Uncle Toby] retires to a life of obsessive attention to the history and science of military fortifications.&quot; Mr. [[K#Knockwood|Mr. Knockwood]] was also obsessed with fortifying his home front, though his concerns were directed towards the element of water.<br /> <br /> ==Page 365==<br /> '''The Assembly Room is not Bath'''&lt;br&gt; <br /> Bath:Bath is a city in Somerset, England most famous for its baths fed by three hot springs. It is situated 99 miles (159 km) west of Central London and 13 miles (21 km) south east of Bristol.<br /> <br /> The city is founded around the only naturally occurring hot springs in the United Kingdom. It was first documented as a Roman spa, although tradition suggests that it was founded earlier. The waters from its spring were believed to be a cure for many afflictions. From Elizabethan to Georgian times it was a resort city for the wealthy. wikipedia<br /> <br /> '''Land-Jobbers'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> I cannot find a good definition, but the term appears to refer to professional land dealers or developers; the terms seems to often have negative connotations, associated with underhanded dealings.<br /> <br /> A jobber is a merchant middleman between producers and retailers. A wholesaler which buys in lots, &quot;jobs&quot;, and resells to those who retail to end users.<br /> <br /> '''Labor Crimps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> maritime labor brokers; in addition to signing up volunteers and negotiating for deserters, '''crimps''' routinely shanghaied &quot;unfree&quot; labor.<br /> <br /> &quot;Until 1915 unfree labor was widely used aboard American merchant ships. A person conscripted to such work was said to have been shanghaied when coercive techniques such as trickery, intimidation, or violence were used. Those engaged in this form of kidnapping were known as '''crimps'''. The related term ''press gang'' refers specifically to impressment practices in the British Royal Navy&quot; -- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghaiing Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> Check out this interesting article on the topic: [http://www.well.com/user/sfflier/crimps.html &quot;Down to the Sea in Ships&quot; (''The San Francisco Flyer'' 9/25/97)].<br /> <br /> Note that Pynchon (Wicks) uses the term &quot;Body-jobbers&quot; on p. 443 to refer to non-naval crimps.<br /> <br /> '''crepuscular'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> twilight; here used figuratively: dim or indistinct<br /> <br /> '''Pleiades'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> star cluster in Taurus, commonly called the ''Seven Sisters''<br /> <br /> '''Legerdemain'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Sleight of hand; &quot;magic&quot; trickery&quot; -- [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Legerdemain Wiktionary]<br /> <br /> '''dyspeptic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> indigestive<br /> <br /> ==Page 366==<br /> '''Apiary'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;a place where bees are kept&quot; -- [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/apiary Wiktionary]<br /> <br /> '''Hanger''' &lt;br&gt; <br /> strap on a sword belt that holds a sword or dagger, often ornate <br /> <br /> '''brumal'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Of, relating to, or occurring in winter ... Here's one of Pynchon's puns: Squire Haligast states 'Tis a brumal night, for behold it sweepeth by' -- [http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/levy_mason_and_dixon.pdf Toby Levy's ''Mason &amp; Dixon 3 Pages a Day'' Project]<br /> <br /> '''gnomic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;mysterious and often incomprehensible yet seemingly wise&quot; -- [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gnomic Wiktionary]<br /> <br /> ==Page 367==<br /> '''''batterie des couteaux''''' &lt;br&gt; <br /> battery of knives <br /> <br /> '''Eponym'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandwich Wiktionary]:<br /> # A person whose name has become identified with a particular object or activity.<br /> # A word formed from a person’s name, e.g. stentorian after the Greek herald Stentor.<br /> <br /> In this case, the [[S#sandwich|Earl of Sandwich]], who, like [[L#lepton|Lord Lepton]], was a member of the [[H#hellfire|Hellfire Club]].<br /> <br /> '''Wilkesite'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Follower of [[W#wilkes|John Wilkes]]?<br /> <br /> &quot;John Wilkes (17 October 1725–26 December 1797) was an English radical, journalist and politician. In the Middlesex election dispute, he fought for the right of voters — rather than the House of Commons — to determine their representatives. In 1771 he was instrumental in obliging the government to concede the right of printers to publish verbatim accounts of parliamentary debates. In 1776 he introduced the first Bill for parliamentary reform in the British Parliament. Wilkes' increasing conservatism as he grew older caused dissatsifaction among radicals and was instrumental in the loss of his Middlesex seat at the 1790 general election. Wilkes then retired from politics and took no part in the growth of radicalism in the 1790s&quot; -- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wilkes Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> John Wilkes, like the [[S#sandwich|Earl of Sandwich]] and [[L#lepton|Lord Lepton]], a member of the [[H#hellfire|Hellfire Club]].<br /> <br /> '''[[C#consubstantiate|consubstantiate]]'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The union of the &quot;actual, substantial presence of the body of Christ with the bread and wine of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper&quot; ([http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/consubstantiation Wiktionary]) as opposed to transubstantiate.<br /> <br /> ==Page 369== <br /> '''the Frenchman sweeps off his Toque''' &lt;br&gt; <br /> Toque – “(Canada) a winter hat that is often a woolen, cotton, or acrylic, tightly knit triangular shaped hat with a small pom-pom affixed at the top. Similar to military watch-cap” – [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/toque Wiktionary] <br /> <br /> '''incipient case of the Green Pip''' &lt;br&gt; <br /> ??? <br /> <br /> ==Page 370==<br /> '''Iliad of Inconvenience'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Another example of &quot;inconvenience&quot; meaning life, the unplannable details of one's life with others in the world. See [[I#Inconvenience|Inconvenience in the Alphabetic Index listing]] for other page references. As well as ATD, of course.<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> <br /> {{MD PbP}}</div>

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<p>MKOHUT: </p> <hr /> <div>==Page 410==<br /> '''Nonpareil'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> from [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nonpareil Wiktionary]:<br /> # A person or thing that has no equal; a paragon.<br /> # A small, flat chocolate drop covered with white pellets of sugar.<br /> <br /> '''Lepton Castle'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Lepton&quot; is Greek money. It is also a subatomic particle. See, also, [http://osdir.com/ml/culture.literature.thomas-pynchon/2002-03/msg00114.html from MDMD Dinn's notes on Ch. 41]<br /> <br /> '''his Lordship'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [[L#lepton|Lord Lepton]]<br /> <br /> ==Page 411==<br /> '''Tallow Dips, and the last feeble Rush-Light'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;The first candles probably consisted of dried rushes soaked in grease. <br /> Homemade rushlights were commonly used in England as late as 1800 <br /> because, although they smoked and smelled horribly, they were so <br /> cheap ... Eventually someone discovered the method of making a &quot;tallow dip&quot; <br /> with a wick running longitudinally through its center. The wick -- a few <br /> threads of flax, hemp, or cotton, lightly twisted or plaited -- was dipped <br /> in melted tallow and allowed to cool, again and again, until the candle <br /> had a desired thickness&quot; -- [http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/natbltn/500-599/nb590.htm ''Candles''. Nature Bulletin No. 590. Forest Preserve District of Cook County. February 6, 1960]<br /> <br /> Note that the lighting technologies are listed regressively, as if moving back through time.<br /> <br /> '''Bloomeries'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> bloomery -- a forge in which wrought iron is made straight from ore ([http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bloomery Wiktionary])<br /> <br /> '''Invisible Hand'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> “Adam Smith's notion that rational agents guided by their own self-interest would act in such a way as to promote the public interest, the foundation of laissez-faire economics which caused much of the misery associated with the Industrial Revolution” – [http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/mason-dixon/alpha/i.html HyperArts entry: Invisible Hand]<br /> <br /> ==Page 412==<br /> '''Gangue'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;(mining) The earthy waste substances occurring in metallic ore&quot; -- [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gangue Wiktionary]<br /> <br /> '''more room inside than could possibly be contained in the sorrowing ruin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf. &quot;a Conveyance, wherein the inside is quite noticeably larger than the outside&quot;, [[Chapter 35: 349-361|Ch. 35 p. 354]]<br /> <br /> '''Plafond'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> “Plafond, in a broad sense, is any (flat, vaulted or dome) ceiling of any premise. Plafond can be product of monumental and decorative painting and sculpture; subject or ornamental - also is designated by the term &quot;Plafond&quot;. Picturesque plafonds can be executed directly on plaster (in technique of fresco, oil, glutinous, synthetic paints, etc.), on a canvas attached to a ceiling (panel), a mosaic, and other methods. As a part of decorative furniture of church and palace stateroom plafonds received a wide circulation in 17 - beginning of 19 centuries. For plafond compositions of this period typically use of effect of illusory break in architectural in open or proceeding behind a ceiling space, the image of figures and architectural details in strong foreshortenings.” – [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plafond Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''silver sconce and Sperm Taper Light'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;sperm taper is a candle made from spermaceti or sperm oil. sconce, LME, aphetic fr Fr esconse = hiding place or lantern, or fr med Lat sconsa aphetic fr absconsa (laterna) = dark (lantern), 1 a) A lantern or candlestick with a screen to protect the light from the wind, and a handle for carrying, LMW-M18, b) a flat candlestick with a handle, M19, 2 A bracket for a candle or a light hung on or fixed to an interior wall, rare M19.&quot; -- [http://osdir.com/ml/culture.literature.thomas-pynchon/2002-03/msg00114.html from MDMD Dinn's notes on Ch. 41]<br /> <br /> ==Page 413==<br /> '''from the Oboick Reveries of the Besozzis, as the Imperial Melismata of Quantz'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> * Besozzis: probably Antonio Besozzi and his son Carlo Besozzi, oboists and composers (numerous gifted woodwind players apparently sprung from the Besozzi family tree)<br /> * Melismata: plural form of melism, “a melody or melodic sequence of notes. Usually spec. (in singing and vocal composition): the prolongation of one syllable over a number of notes; an instance of this” – the OED<br /> * Quantz, Johann Joaquim (1697-1773): German flautist and composer, and court composer for Frederick II, the Great. He wrote a treatise on flute playing and composed a huge quantity of pieces for the flute.<br /> <br /> Question: Did Quantz compose a piece entitled &quot;Melismata&quot;?<br /> <br /> Trivia: Quantz and Carlo Besozzi were both oboists for the Dresden court: Carlo from 1754 until his death; Quantz seemingly earlier as he entered Frederick the Great's service in 1741.<br /> <br /> '''Hurricanoe'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> “aka &quot;Hurricane&quot; (a large private party - 18th cent.)” – [http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/mason-dixon/alpha/h.html HyperArts entry: Hurricanoe/Hurricane]<br /> <br /> ==Page 414==<br /> '''Climbers' Discourse'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''behave inconveniently'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [[I#inconvenience|Inconvenience]] again, see entry on [[Chapter 40:399-409| page 401]].<br /> <br /> '''Churs of Stroud'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Churs = electors???<br /> Stroud = Stroud, Gloucestershire UK: [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;q=stroud+United+Kingdom&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;om=1 Google Map]<br /> <br /> '''Calvert agent'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Calvert County Realtors - Calvert Agents In Maryland.<br /> <br /> ==Page 415==<br /> '''Raby Castle'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [[Image:RubyCastle.jpg|thumb|Raby Castle from Jones' Views (1819)|right]]<br /> &quot;Raby Castle [...] near Staindrop, County Durham is one of the largest inhabited castles in England. It has opulent eighteenth and nineteenth century interiors inside a largely unchanged late medieval shell. It is a Grade I listed building. Raby once belonged to the Neville family, who became one of the most powerful in England&quot; -- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raby_Castle Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''Brunswick style'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> worn with a petticoat, the Brunswick was an informal gown or Riding Habit. A riding habit consisted of a petticoat, jacket, and waistcoat.<br /> <br /> '''wine-colored Cordovan'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> a favorite boot color of TRP's. There is a &quot;wine-cordovan boot&quot; on page 121 of ATD, also a female's.<br /> <br /> '''French Court heels'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Ladies of the French court once carried canes to support themselves on uncomfortable high heels. Heels became lower after the French Revolution, not surprisingly.<br /> <br /> '''Iron Nabob'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Nabob (from [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nabob Wiktionary]):<br /> #an Indian ruler within the Mogul empire; a nawab<br /> #(by extension) someone of great wealth or importance<br /> <br /> '''Phrygioid if not Phrygian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> According to unvarying tradition the Phrygians were most closely akin to certain tribes of Macedonia and Thrace; and their near relationship to the Hellenic stock is proved by all that is known of their language and <br /> art, and is accepted by almost every modern authority. -- [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Phrygia Encyclopedia Britannica, 11 th edition]. Pynchon's wit makes up the word Phrygioid to mean something like &quot;like Phrygian&quot; that is fake Phyrgian due to the prevalence of 'British modality'--preceding phrase.<br /> <br /> ==Page 416==<br /> '''pierc'd paint Eyes of Nevilles and Vanes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Presumably like some Hammer House of Horror movie there is a tunnel passing behind the portraits in the gallery&quot; ([http://osdir.com/ml/culture.literature.thomas-pynchon/2002-03/msg00114.html from MDMD Dinn's notes on Ch. 41]). Raby's castle was once held by the Nevilles ([http://www.rabycastle.com/history/nevills_raby.htm Raby Castle History: Nevilles]) and was later passed to the Vanes ([http://www.rabycastle.com/history/vanes_raby.htm Raby Castle History: Vanes]).<br /> <br /> '''Bellezza, che chiama'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;a beauty that beckons&quot; - [http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/mason-dixon/alpha/i.html HyperArts entry: Italian Translations]<br /> <br /> '''multiply-bepoxed'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ??? suggestion that he has syphilis???<br /> <br /> '''after three of these trans-Stygian Years, become Journeyman'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Stygian (from [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stygian Wiktionary]):<br /> #Dark and gloomy<br /> #Infernal or hellish<br /> #Of, or relating to the river Styx<br /> <br /> ==Page 417==<br /> '''Chatelaine'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> from [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chatelaine Wiktionary]:<br /> #The mistress of a castle or large household.<br /> #A chain or clasp worn at the waist by women in the 16th to the 19th centuries, with handkerchief, keys, etc., attached.<br /> <br /> '''Mignonette'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;A type of fine French bobbin lace made in narrow strips and having the consistency of tulle. Occas. more fully mignonette lace. Now hist&quot; -- OED<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Tho', I say, look here.....'Great Chain of Being this, Great Chain of<br /> Being that,'...&quot;lengthy Chain&quot;...&quot;dangling from its bottom end?&quot;&lt;br&gt;<br /> The great chain of being is a classical and western medieval conception of the order of the universe, whose chief characteristic is a strict hierarchical system.&lt;br&gt;<br /> It is a conception of the world's structure that was accepted, and unquestioned, by most educated men from the time of Lucretius until the Copernican and Darwinian revolution and the ultimate flowering of the Renaissance. The chain of being is composed of a great number of hierarchal links, from the most basic and foundational elements up through the very highest perfection, in other words, God, or the Prime Mover.&lt;br&gt;<br /> God, and beneath him the angels, both existing wholly in spirit form, sit at the top of the chain. Earthly flesh is fallible and ever-changing: mutable. Spirit, however, is unchanging and permanent. This sense of permanence is crucial to understanding this conception of reality. One does not abandon one's place in the chain; it is not only unthinkable, but generally impossible. The hierarchy is a chain and not a ladder.&lt;br&gt;<br /> The natural order, earth (rock) is at the bottom of the chain; these elements possess only the attribute of existence. Moving on up the chain, each succeeding link contains the positive attributes of the previous link, and adds (at least) one other. Rocks, as above, possess only existence; the next link up, plants, possess life and existence. Beasts add not only motion, but appetite as well.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Man is a special instance in this conception. He is both mortal flesh, as those below him, and also spirit. In this dichotomy, the struggle between flesh and spirit becomes a moral one. --abridged (slightly) from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chain_of_Being Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> Notice Pynchon's multimeaning playfulness with the &quot;chains&quot; of the Chainmen and, one must think, the chains of the slave trade. This joking on the concept by Lord Lepton seems to touch some deep themes of M &amp; D.<br /> <br /> What [creature] dangles at the bottom of the chain? Where does it &quot;fall&quot; if it 'fails to hold on'? One is reminded of the supposedly real witticism as joke about an Eastern creation myth. The Earth is held up by a turtle <br /> which is held up by another turtle, someone explained. &quot;And that turtle?&quot; asks the interlocuter. &quot;Another turtle&quot;....&quot;And that one&quot;?.......&quot;O No, you're not going to trap me...it's turtles all the way down.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Perhaps it is a Helixxx'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> DNA? Though note the suggestion of a snake. (Cf. &quot;the Serpent,&quot; [[Chapter 13: 125-145|Ch. 13, p. 135]]; &quot;Something underground, moving Westward,&quot; [[Chapter 30: 296-301|Ch. 30, p. 299]])<br /> <br /> ==Page 418==<br /> '''fiduciary'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> from [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fiduciary Wiktionary]:<br /> #One who holds a thing in trust for another; a trustee.<br /> #One who depends for salvation on faith, without works; an Antinomian.<br /> <br /> '''nitter-natter'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ??? chitter-chatter? ???<br /> <br /> '''Staithes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> plural for Stath (from OED): <br /> #The land bordering on water, a bank, shore.<br /> #A landing-stage, wharf; esp. a waterside depôt for coals brought from the collieries for shipment, furnished with staging and shoots for loading vessels.<br /> #An embankment.<br /> <br /> &quot;Staithes is an English village at the most northerly point of the North Yorkshire coast [...] Roxby Beck (a small river) running through Staithes is the border between North Yorkshire and neighbouring Redcar and Cleveland. Formerly one of the largest and most productive fishing centres in North-East England, Staithes is now largely a tourist destination thanks to its picturesque appearance [...] Staithes is noted for its sheltered harbour, bounded by high cliffs and two long breakwaters. A mile to the north, Boulby Cliff is the highest cliff in England&quot; -- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staithes Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''You sound like one of those Leveler chaps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Levelers or Levellers, English Puritan sect active at the time of the English civil war. The name was apparently applied to them in 1647, in derision of their beliefs in equality. The Levelers demanded fundamental constitutional reform—a written constitution, a single supreme representative body elected by universal manhood suffrage, proportional representation, and the abolition of monarchy and noble privilege. Their ideals, far in advance of their time, were those of complete religious and political equality. They were adept at the use of mass petitions and extensive pamphleteering to arouse the public. When the Long Parliament did not respond to their ideas, they tried to build support in the ranks of the army, with some success. -- Columbia Encyclopedia<br /> <br /> ==Page 419==<br /> ''It is difficult in these days of closer-fitting Attire, to<br /> imagine the enormous volumes of unoccupied Space that once lay between<br /> is Skirt's outer Envelope and the woman's body far within.'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Is this another case where inside and outside have wildly different metric<br /> properties. And what about `these days' Were skirts so much tighter in the 1780s than in the 1760s. If not then who is speaking and when?&quot; -- [http://osdir.com/ml/culture.literature.thomas-pynchon/2002-03/msg00114.html from MDMD Dinn's notes on Ch. 41]<br /> <br /> '''Majordomos'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Plural form of Majordomo (from [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/majordomos Wiktionary]):<br /> #The head servant in a wealthy European household<br /> #A butler<br /> <br /> '''Soubrette'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> a lightweight soprano voice or type of soprano role, frequently found in comic operas or operettas; the soubrette usually possesses a flirtatious demeanor and street wise manner, as in the case of Adele in Die Fledermaus, or is a particularly fetching country innocent, like Adina in The Elixir of Love. Webster's online dictionary.<br /> <br /> ==Page 420==<br /> '''Otick Catarrh'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Ear ache:&lt;br&gt;<br /> Octic - &quot;(anatomy) of, relating/pertaining to, or located near the ear&quot; ([http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Otic Wiktionary])&lt;br&gt;<br /> Catarrh - &quot;inflammation of the mucous membranes of the nose and throat&quot; ([http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Catarrh Wiktionary])<br /> <br /> '''Ague'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Apogee (from [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/apogee Wiktionary]):<br /> # (astronomy) That point in the orbit of any object which is at the greatest distance from the center of the central body. For example, the point in the moon's orbit which is the greatest distance from the center of the earth.<br /> # The highest point.<br /> <br /> '''Viudas de Cristo'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Spanish: &quot;The Widows of Christ&quot;<br /> <br /> ==Page 421==<br /> '''Paradise of Chance'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf. The Chums of Chance in Against the Day.<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> <br /> {{MD PbP}}</div>

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<p>MKOHUT: /* Page 412 */</p> <hr /> <div>==Page 410==<br /> '''Nonpareil'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> from [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nonpareil Wiktionary]:<br /> # A person or thing that has no equal; a paragon.<br /> # A small, flat chocolate drop covered with white pellets of sugar.<br /> <br /> '''his Lordship'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [[L#lepton|Lord Lepton]]<br /> <br /> ==Page 411==<br /> '''Tallow Dips, and the last feeble Rush-Light'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;The first candles probably consisted of dried rushes soaked in grease. <br /> Homemade rushlights were commonly used in England as late as 1800 <br /> because, although they smoked and smelled horribly, they were so <br /> cheap ... Eventually someone discovered the method of making a &quot;tallow dip&quot; <br /> with a wick running longitudinally through its center. The wick -- a few <br /> threads of flax, hemp, or cotton, lightly twisted or plaited -- was dipped <br /> in melted tallow and allowed to cool, again and again, until the candle <br /> had a desired thickness.&quot;<br /> <br /> -- [http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/natbltn/500-599/nb590.htm ''Candles''. Nature Bulletin No. 590. Forest Preserve District of Cook County. February 6, 1960]<br /> <br /> '''Bloomeries'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> bloomery -- a forge in which wrought iron is made straight from ore ([http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bloomery Wiktionary])<br /> <br /> '''Invisible Hand'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> “Adam Smith's notion that rational agents guided by their own self-interest would act in such a way as to promote the public interest, the foundation of laissez-faire economics which caused much of the misery associated with the Industrial Revolution” – [http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/mason-dixon/alpha/i.html HyperArts entry: Invisible Hand]<br /> <br /> ==Page 412==<br /> '''Plafond'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> “Plafond, in a broad sense, is any (flat, vaulted or dome) ceiling of any premise. Plafond can be product of monumental and decorative painting and sculpture; subject or ornamental - also is designated by the term &quot;Plafond&quot;. Picturesque plafonds can be executed directly on plaster (in technique of fresco, oil, glutinous, synthetic paints, etc.), on a canvas attached to a ceiling (panel), a mosaic, and other methods. As a part of decorative furniture of church and palace stateroom plafonds received a wide circulation in 17 - beginning of 19 centuries. For plafond compositions of this period typically use of effect of illusory break in architectural in open or proceeding behind a ceiling space, the image of figures and architectural details in strong foreshortenings.” – [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plafond Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''from the Oboick Reveries of the Besozzis, as the Imperial Melismata of Quantz'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> * Besozzis: probably Antonio Besozzi and his son Carlo Besozzi, oboists and composers (numerous gifted woodwind players apparently sprung from the Besozzi family tree)<br /> * Melismata: plural form of melism, “a melody or melodic sequence of notes. Usually spec. (in singing and vocal composition): the prolongation of one syllable over a number of notes; an instance of this” – the OED<br /> * Quantz, Johann Joaquim (1697-1773): German flautist and composer, and court composer for Frederick II, the Great. He wrote a treatise on flute playing and composed a huge quantity of pieces for the flute.<br /> <br /> Question: Did Quantz compose a piece entitled &quot;Melismata&quot;?<br /> <br /> Trivia: Quantz and Carlo Besozzi were both oboists for the Dresden court: Carlo from 1754 until his death; Quantz seemingly earlier as he entered Frederick the Great's service in 1741.<br /> <br /> '''Hurricanoe'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> “aka &quot;Hurricane&quot; (a large private party - 18th cent.)” – [http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/mason-dixon/alpha/h.html HyperArts entry: Hurricanoe/Hurricane]<br /> <br /> ==Page 414==<br /> '''behave inconveniently'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [[I#inconvenience|Inconvenience]] again, see entry on [[Chapter 40:399-409| page 401]].<br /> <br /> '''Calvert agent'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Calvert County Realtors - Calvert Agents In Maryland.<br /> <br /> ==Page 415==<br /> '''Brunswick style'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> worn with a petticoat, the Brunswick was an informal gown or Riding Habit. A riding habit consisted of a petticoat, jacket, and waistcoat.<br /> <br /> '''wine-colored Cordovan'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> a favorite boot color of TRP's. There is a &quot;wine-cordovan boot&quot; on page 121 of ATD, also a female's.<br /> <br /> '''French Court heels'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Ladies of the French court once carried canes to support themselves on uncomfortable high heels. Heels became lower after the French Revolution, not surprisingly.<br /> <br /> '''Phrygioid if not Phrygian'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> According to unvarying tradition the Phrygians were most closely akin to certain tribes of Macedonia and Thrace; and their near relationship to the Hellenic stock is proved by all that is known of their language and <br /> art, and is accepted by almost every modern authority. -- [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Phrygia Encyclopedia Britannica, 11 th edition]. Pynchon's wit makes up the word Phrygioid to mean something like &quot;like Phrygian&quot; that is fake Phyrgian due to the prevalence of 'British modality'--preceding phrase.<br /> <br /> ==Page 417==<br /> '''&quot;Tho', I say, look here.....'Great Chain of Being this, Great Chain of<br /> Being that,'...&quot;lengthy Chain&quot;...&quot;dangling from its bottom end?&quot;&lt;br&gt;<br /> The great chain of being is a classical and western medieval conception of the order of the universe, whose chief characteristic is a strict hierarchical system.&lt;br&gt;<br /> It is a conception of the world's structure that was accepted, and unquestioned, by most educated men from the time of Lucretius until the Copernican and Darwinian revolution and the ultimate flowering of the Renaissance. The chain of being is composed of a great number of hierarchal links, from the most basic and foundational elements up through the very highest perfection, in other words, God, or the Prime Mover.&lt;br&gt;<br /> God, and beneath him the angels, both existing wholly in spirit form, sit at the top of the chain. Earthly flesh is fallible and ever-changing: mutable. Spirit, however, is unchanging and permanent. This sense of permanence is crucial to understanding this conception of reality. One does not abandon one's place in the chain; it is not only unthinkable, but generally impossible. The hierarchy is a chain and not a ladder.&lt;br&gt;<br /> The natural order, earth (rock) is at the bottom of the chain; these elements possess only the attribute of existence. Moving on up the chain, each succeeding link contains the positive attributes of the previous link, and adds (at least) one other. Rocks, as above, possess only existence; the next link up, plants, possess life and existence. Beasts add not only motion, but appetite as well.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Man is a special instance in this conception. He is both mortal flesh, as those below him, and also spirit. In this dichotomy, the struggle between flesh and spirit becomes a moral one. --abridged (slightly) from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chain_of_Being Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> Notice Pynchon's multimeaning playfulness with the &quot;chains&quot; of the Chainmen and, one must think, the chains of the slave trade. This joking on the concept by Lord Lepton seems to touch some deep themes of M &amp; D.<br /> <br /> What [creature] dangles at the bottom of the chain? Where does it &quot;fall&quot; if it 'fails to hold on'? One is reminded of the supposedly real witticism as joke about an Eastern creation myth. The Earth is held up by a turtle <br /> which is held up by another turtle, someone explained. &quot;And that turtle?&quot; asks<br /> the interlocuter. &quot;Another turtle&quot;....&quot;And that one&quot;?.......&quot;O No, you're<br /> not going to trap me...it's turtles all the way down.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''You sound like one of those Leveler chaps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Levelers or Levellers, English Puritan sect active at the time of the English civil war. The name was apparently applied to them in 1647, in derision of their beliefs in equality. The Levelers demanded fundamental constitutional reform—a written constitution, a single supreme representative body elected by universal manhood suffrage, proportional representation, and the abolition of monarchy and noble privilege. Their ideals, far in advance of their time, were those of complete religious and political equality. They were adept at the use of mass petitions and extensive pamphleteering to arouse the public. When the Long Parliament did not respond to their ideas, they tried to build support in the ranks of the army, with some success. --Columbia Encyclopedia<br /> <br /> ==Page 418==<br /> '''Staithes'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Staithes is an English village at the most northerly point of the North Yorkshire coast ( 54°33′6″N, 0°48′35″W) . Roxby Beck (a small river) running through Staithes is the border between North Yorkshire and neighbouring Redcar and Cleveland. <br /> Staithes, formerly a large fishing community, is known for its sheltered harbour, bounded by high cliffs and two long breakwaters. A mile to the north, Boulby Cliff is the highest cliff in England.<br /> <br /> ==Page 419==<br /> '''Soubrette'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> a lightweight soprano voice or type of soprano role, frequently found in comic operas or operettas; the soubrette usually possesses a flirtatious demeanor and street wise manner, as in the case of Adele in Die Fledermaus, or is a particularly fetching country innocent, like Adina in The Elixir of Love. Webster's online dictionary.<br /> <br /> ==Page 420==<br /> '''Otick Catarrh'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Page 421==<br /> '''Paradise of Chance'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf. The Chums of Chance in Against the Day.<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> <br /> {{MD PbP}}</div>

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<p>MKOHUT: /* Page 363 */</p> <hr /> <div>==Page 362==<br /> '''The Driver, having observed through the low clouds, candle-lit Windows in the Distance ... The rush of the Weather past the smooth outer Shell ... Link-men waiting in a double line ... their torches sparking intensely yellow'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Is the coach flying? Are the Link-men's torches illuminating the outer-edges of a landing strip?<br /> <br /> '''Cremona Violin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cremona is a town in Italy. &quot;From the 16th century onwards, Cremona was renowned as a centre of musical instrument manufacture, beginning with the violins of the Amati family, and later included the products of the Guarneri and Stradivari shops. To the present day, their work is widely considered to be the summit of achievement in string instrument making&quot; -- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cremona#Music Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''Zouks'''<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 363==<br /> '''&quot;Another bonny gahn-on tha've got us into&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_Fine_Mess Laurel and Hardy] (&quot;That's another fine mess you've gotten us into!&quot;)?<br /> <br /> ==Page 364==<br /> '''in strata'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> This image of layering appears frequently in the text--compare this image, for example, with the descriptions of Cape Town which also had a multifaceted society, with various groups layered, operating with large degrees of independence. See, also, [[Chapter 50: 484-490|&quot;as above, so below&quot; (ch. 50, p. 487)]] and [[C#chain|Great Chain of Being]].<br /> <br /> '''trans-Elemental Uncle Toby'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Uncle Toby is a character created by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Sterne Laurence Sterne] in his major novel.<br /> Laurence Sterne (November 24, 1713 – March 18, 1768) was an Irish-born English novelist and an Anglican clergyman. He is best known for his novel, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_and_Opinions_of_Tristram_Shandy%2C_Gentleman ''The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman]. <br /> <br /> [http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/tristram/terms/char_4.html Sparks Notes] notes that &quot;after sustaining a groin-wound in battle, he [Uncle Toby] retires to a life of obsessive attention to the history and science of military fortifications.&quot; Mr. [[K#Knockwood|Mr. Knockwood]] was also obsessed with fortifying his home front, though his concerns were directed towards the element of water.<br /> <br /> ==Page 365==<br /> '''Land-Jobbers'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> I cannot find a good definition, but the term appears to refer to professional land dealers or developers; the terms seems to often have negative connotations, associated with underhanded dealings.<br /> <br /> A jobber is a merchant middleman between producers and retailers. A wholesaler which buys in lots, &quot;jobs&quot;, and resells to those who retail to end users.<br /> <br /> '''Labor Crimps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> maritime labor brokers; in addition to signing up volunteers and negotiating for deserters, '''crimps''' routinely shanghaied &quot;unfree&quot; labor.<br /> <br /> &quot;Until 1915 unfree labor was widely used aboard American merchant ships. A person conscripted to such work was said to have been shanghaied when coercive techniques such as trickery, intimidation, or violence were used. Those engaged in this form of kidnapping were known as '''crimps'''. The related term ''press gang'' refers specifically to impressment practices in the British Royal Navy&quot; -- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghaiing Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> Check out this interesting article on the topic: [http://www.well.com/user/sfflier/crimps.html &quot;Down to the Sea in Ships&quot; (''The San Francisco Flyer'' 9/25/97)].<br /> <br /> Note that Pynchon (Wicks) using the term &quot;Body-jobbers&quot; on p. 443 to refer to non-naval crimps.<br /> <br /> '''crepuscular'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> twilight; here used figuratively: dim or indistinct<br /> <br /> '''Pleiades'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> star cluster in Taurus, commonly called the ''Seven Sisters''<br /> <br /> '''Legerdemain'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Sleight of hand; &quot;magic&quot; trickery&quot; -- [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Legerdemain Wiktionary]<br /> <br /> '''dyspeptic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> indigestive<br /> <br /> ==Page 366==<br /> '''Apiary'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;a place where bees are kept&quot; -- [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/apiary Wiktionary]<br /> <br /> '''brumal'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Of, relating to, or occurring in winter ... Here's one of Pynchon's puns: Squire Haligast states 'Tis a brumal night, for behold it sweepeth by' -- [http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/levy_mason_and_dixon.pdf Toby Levy's ''Mason &amp; Dixon 3 Pages a Day'' Project]<br /> <br /> '''gnomic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;mysterious and often incomprehensible yet seemingly wise&quot; -- [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gnomic Wiktionary]<br /> <br /> ==Page 367==<br /> '''Eponym'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandwich Wiktionary]:<br /> # A person whose name has become identified with a particular object or activity.<br /> # A word formed from a person’s name, e.g. stentorian after the Greek herald Stentor.<br /> <br /> In this case, the [[S#sandwich|Earl of Sandwich]], who, like [[L#lepton|Lord Lepton]], was a member of the [[H#hellfire|Hellfire Club]].<br /> <br /> '''Wilkesite'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Follower of [[W#wilkes|John Wilkes]]?<br /> <br /> &quot;John Wilkes (17 October 1725–26 December 1797) was an English radical, journalist and politician. In the Middlesex election dispute, he fought for the right of voters — rather than the House of Commons — to determine their representatives. In 1771 he was instrumental in obliging the government to concede the right of printers to publish verbatim accounts of parliamentary debates. In 1776 he introduced the first Bill for parliamentary reform in the British Parliament. Wilkes' increasing conservatism as he grew older caused dissatsifaction among radicals and was instrumental in the loss of his Middlesex seat at the 1790 general election. Wilkes then retired from politics and took no part in the growth of radicalism in the 1790s&quot; -- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wilkes Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> John Wilkes, like the [[S#sandwich|Earl of Sandwich]] and [[L#lepton|Lord Lepton]], a member of the [[H#hellfire|Hellfire Club]].<br /> <br /> '''[[C#consubstantiate|consubstantiate]]'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The union of the &quot;actual, substantial presence of the body of Christ with the bread and wine of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper&quot; ([http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/consubstantiation Wiktionary]) as opposed to transubstantiate.<br /> <br /> ==Page 370==<br /> '''Iliad of Inconvenience'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Another example of &quot;inconvenience&quot; meaning life, the unplannable details of one's life with others in the world. See [[I#Inconvenience|Inconvenience in the Alphabetic Index listing]] for other page references. As well as ATD, of course.<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> <br /> {{MD PbP}}</div>

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<p>MKOHUT: </p> <hr /> <div><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> ==Page 362==<br /> '''The Driver, having observed through the low clouds, candle-lit Windows in the Distance ... The rush of the Weather past the smooth outer Shell ... Link-men waiting in a double line ... their torches sparking intensely yellow'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Is the coach flying? Are the Link-men's torches illuminating the outer-edges of a landing strip?<br /> <br /> '''Cremona Violin'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cremona is a town in Italy. &quot;From the 16th century onwards, Cremona was renowned as a centre of musical instrument manufacture, beginning with the violins of the Amati family, and later included the products of the Guarneri and Stradivari shops. To the present day, their work is widely considered to be the summit of achievement in string instrument making&quot; -- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cremona#Music Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''Zouks'''<br /> ???<br /> <br /> ==Page 363==<br /> '''&quot;Another bonny gahn-on tha've got us into&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_Fine_Mess Laurel and Hardy] (&quot;That's another fine fess you've gotten us into!&quot;)?<br /> <br /> ==Page 364==<br /> '''in strata'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> This image of layering appears frequently in the text--compare this image, for example, with the descriptions of Cape Town which also had a multifaceted society, with various groups layered, operating with large degrees of independence. See, also, [[Chapter 50: 484-490|&quot;as above, so below&quot; (ch. 50, p. 487)]] and [[C#chain|Great Chain of Being]].<br /> <br /> '''trans-Elemental Uncle Toby'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Uncle Toby is a character created by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Sterne Laurence Sterne] in his major novel.<br /> Laurence Sterne (November 24, 1713 – March 18, 1768) was an Irish-born English novelist and an Anglican clergyman. He is best known for his novel, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_and_Opinions_of_Tristram_Shandy%2C_Gentleman ''The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman]. <br /> <br /> [http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/tristram/terms/char_4.html Sparks Notes] notes that &quot;after sustaining a groin-wound in battle, he [Uncle Toby] retires to a life of obsessive attention to the history and science of military fortifications.&quot; Mr. [[K#Knockwood|Mr. Knockwood]] was also obsessed with fortifying his home front, though his concerns were directed towards the element of water.<br /> <br /> ==Page 365==<br /> '''Land-Jobbers'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> I cannot find a good definition, but the term appears to refer to professional land dealers or developers; the terms seems to often have negative connotations, associated with underhanded dealings.<br /> <br /> A jobber is a merchant middleman between producers and retailers. A wholesaler which buys in lots, &quot;jobs&quot;, and resells to those who retail to end users.<br /> <br /> '''Labor Crimps'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> maritime labor brokers; in addition to signing up volunteers and negotiating for deserters, '''crimps''' routinely shanghaied &quot;unfree&quot; labor.<br /> <br /> &quot;Until 1915 unfree labor was widely used aboard American merchant ships. A person conscripted to such work was said to have been shanghaied when coercive techniques such as trickery, intimidation, or violence were used. Those engaged in this form of kidnapping were known as '''crimps'''. The related term ''press gang'' refers specifically to impressment practices in the British Royal Navy&quot; -- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghaiing Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> Check out this interesting article on the topic: [http://www.well.com/user/sfflier/crimps.html &quot;Down to the Sea in Ships&quot; (''The San Francisco Flyer'' 9/25/97)].<br /> <br /> Note that Pynchon (Wicks) using the term &quot;Body-jobbers&quot; on p. 443 to refer to non-naval crimps.<br /> <br /> '''crepuscular'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> twilight; here used figuratively: dim or indistinct<br /> <br /> '''Pleiades'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> star cluster in Taurus, commonly called the ''Seven Sisters''<br /> <br /> '''Legerdemain'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Sleight of hand; &quot;magic&quot; trickery&quot; -- [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Legerdemain Wiktionary]<br /> <br /> '''dyspeptic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> indigestive<br /> <br /> ==Page 366==<br /> '''Apiary'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;a place where bees are kept&quot; -- [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/apiary Wiktionary]<br /> <br /> '''brumal'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;Of, relating to, or occurring in winter ... Here's one of Pynchon's puns: Squire Haligast states 'Tis a brumal night, for behold it sweepeth by' -- [http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/levy_mason_and_dixon.pdf Toby Levy's ''Mason &amp; Dixon 3 Pages a Day'' Project]<br /> <br /> '''gnomic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;mysterious and often incomprehensible yet seemingly wise&quot; -- [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gnomic Wiktionary]<br /> <br /> ==Page 367==<br /> '''Eponym'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandwich Wiktionary]:<br /> # A person whose name has become identified with a particular object or activity.<br /> # A word formed from a person’s name, e.g. stentorian after the Greek herald Stentor.<br /> <br /> In this case, the [[S#sandwich|Earl of Sandwich]], who, like [[L#lepton|Lord Lepton]], was a member of the [[H#hellfire|Hellfire Club]].<br /> <br /> '''Wilkesite'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Follower of [[W#wilkes|John Wilkes]]?<br /> <br /> &quot;John Wilkes (17 October 1725–26 December 1797) was an English radical, journalist and politician. In the Middlesex election dispute, he fought for the right of voters — rather than the House of Commons — to determine their representatives. In 1771 he was instrumental in obliging the government to concede the right of printers to publish verbatim accounts of parliamentary debates. In 1776 he introduced the first Bill for parliamentary reform in the British Parliament. Wilkes' increasing conservatism as he grew older caused dissatsifaction among radicals and was instrumental in the loss of his Middlesex seat at the 1790 general election. Wilkes then retired from politics and took no part in the growth of radicalism in the 1790s&quot; -- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wilkes Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> John Wilkes, like the [[S#sandwich|Earl of Sandwich]] and [[L#lepton|Lord Lepton]], a member of the [[H#hellfire|Hellfire Club]].<br /> <br /> '''[[C#consubstantiate|consubstantiate]]'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The union of the &quot;actual, substantial presence of the body of Christ with the bread and wine of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper&quot; ([http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/consubstantiation Wiktionary]) as opposed to transubstantiate.<br /> <br /> ==Page 370==<br /> '''Iliad of Inconvenience'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Another example of &quot;inconvenience&quot; meaning life, the unplannable details of one's life with others in the world. See [[I#Inconvenience|Inconvenience in the Alphabetic Index listing]] for other page references. As well as ATD, of course.<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> <br /> {{MD PbP}}</div>

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<p>MKOHUT: /* Page 93 */</p> <hr /> <div>==Page 87==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Bull's Eye&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Pic?)<br /> The Oxford English Dictionary confirms the definition provided in the text: &quot;10. Naut. ‘A little dark cloud, reddish in the middle, chiefly appearing about the Cape of Good Hope’ (Chambers Cycl. Supp. 1753), supposed to portend a storm; hence the storm itself.&quot; The OED's usage sample relates the bull's eye to a tornado, thus, perhaps, explaining the fear of the girls on page 91.<br /> <br /> '''actually, twain'''&lt;br&gt; <br /> I think he's implying that it's not really in two pieces, but that the ends are no longer attached<br /> <br /> ==Page 88==<br /> <br /> '''Elytra'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [R] Leathery fore wings of Coleoptera, meeting in a straight line and serving as protective covers for the hind wings when at rest; unfolded in flight; jointed in families whose adults (imagines) are apterous and incapable of flying.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''the English kiss'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Flirting with Mason and his reticence re the amorous.<br /> <br /> ==Page 89==<br /> <br /> '''''Data'' of Biography'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> all that material excretion which slaves see in handling our stuff. <br /> <br /> '''lixiviated'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Purified via lye-bath.<br /> <br /> '''hangs there in Misery'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Buster Keaton's comic persona.<br /> <br /> '''Beetle'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Pic?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 91==<br /> <br /> '''Light?...hellish red'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> light darkening image that is right at home in ATD. Note that the change in light is blaimed on the Bull's Eye.<br /> <br /> '''Kommando'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> anachronous allusion to 20th Century NazI Germany and its Aryan beliefs? The Kommando Spezialkräfte (Special Forces Command, KSK) is part of Germany's Special Forces. It is closely modelled on the British Special Air Service (SAS).<br /> <br /> '''Droster Republick'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> South Africa.drosters - runaways from service contracts. South African usage.<br /> <br /> ==Page 92==<br /> <br /> '''Cape Madeira... violet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> CAPE MADEIRA&quot; (Probably forged Madeira from South Africa.), a very heavy improperly made wine.<br /> <br /> '''Transit of Venus'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A transit of Venus across the Sun takes place when the planet Venus passes directly between the Sun and Earth, obscuring a small portion of the Sun's disk. During a transit, Venus can be seen from Earth as a small black disk moving across the face of the Sun. The duration of such transits is usually measured in hours (the transit of 2004 lasted six hours). A transit is similar to a solar eclipse by the Moon, but, although the diameter of Venus is almost 4 times that of the Moon, Venus appears much smaller because it is much farther away from Earth. Before the space age, observations of transits of Venus helped scientists using the parallax method to calculate the distance between the Sun and the Earth.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Venus is also the Roman goddess of love and beauty after which the planet was named.<br /> <br /> '''Fescue... simple Indication'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Fescues: The fescues are cool season grasses. They can be long and tall like fronds or feathers. &lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> The OED also defines &quot;fescue&quot; as &quot;a small stick, pin, etc. used for pointing out the letters to children learning to read; a pointer.&quot; This definition seems to fit the text better, both literally (insofar as the fescue is ebony, hefty enought to be rapped on a table, and is used for &quot;simple Indication&quot;) and figuratively (there is some phallic suggestiveness in the passage). <br /> <br /> == Page 93 == <br /> <br /> '''gravid Earth'''&lt;br&gt; <br /> Gravid - &quot;pregnant, heavy with young&quot; (OED) <br /> <br /> '''the Fescue become a widthless Wand of Light&quot;&lt;br&gt; <br /> The literal usage of &quot;fescue&quot; escapes me here ... perhaps simply poetic license to further the image of impregnation (or climax) in this paragraph?<br /> <br /> Fescue here seems to be another brilliant extended metaphor from our author. A fescue, a pointer--a rod--seems to mean the rods (of rods and cones) that comprise our eyes! &quot;The retina contains two types of photoreceptors, rods and cones. The rods are more numerous, some 120 million, and are more sensitive than the cones. However, they are not sensitive to color.&quot; [http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/vision/rodcone.html]&lt;br&gt;<br /> This sensitivity only to white in rods makes the rest of the image work.<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> <br /> {{MD PbP}}</div>

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<p>MKOHUT: /* Page 93 */</p> <hr /> <div>==Page 87==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Bull's Eye&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Pic?)<br /> The Oxford English Dictionary confirms the definition provided in the text: &quot;10. Naut. ‘A little dark cloud, reddish in the middle, chiefly appearing about the Cape of Good Hope’ (Chambers Cycl. Supp. 1753), supposed to portend a storm; hence the storm itself.&quot; The OED's usage sample relates the bull's eye to a tornado, thus, perhaps, explaining the fear of the girls on page 91.<br /> <br /> '''actually, twain'''&lt;br&gt; <br /> I think he's implying that it's not really in two pieces, but that the ends are no longer attached<br /> <br /> ==Page 88==<br /> <br /> '''Elytra'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [R] Leathery fore wings of Coleoptera, meeting in a straight line and serving as protective covers for the hind wings when at rest; unfolded in flight; jointed in families whose adults (imagines) are apterous and incapable of flying.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''the English kiss'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Flirting with Mason and his reticence re the amorous.<br /> <br /> ==Page 89==<br /> <br /> '''''Data'' of Biography'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> all that material excretion which slaves see in handling our stuff. <br /> <br /> '''lixiviated'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Purified via lye-bath.<br /> <br /> '''hangs there in Misery'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Buster Keaton's comic persona.<br /> <br /> '''Beetle'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Pic?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 91==<br /> <br /> '''Light?...hellish red'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> light darkening image that is right at home in ATD. Note that the change in light is blaimed on the Bull's Eye.<br /> <br /> '''Kommando'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> anachronous allusion to 20th Century NazI Germany and its Aryan beliefs? The Kommando Spezialkräfte (Special Forces Command, KSK) is part of Germany's Special Forces. It is closely modelled on the British Special Air Service (SAS).<br /> <br /> '''Droster Republick'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> South Africa.drosters - runaways from service contracts. South African usage.<br /> <br /> ==Page 92==<br /> <br /> '''Cape Madeira... violet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> CAPE MADEIRA&quot; (Probably forged Madeira from South Africa.), a very heavy improperly made wine.<br /> <br /> '''Transit of Venus'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A transit of Venus across the Sun takes place when the planet Venus passes directly between the Sun and Earth, obscuring a small portion of the Sun's disk. During a transit, Venus can be seen from Earth as a small black disk moving across the face of the Sun. The duration of such transits is usually measured in hours (the transit of 2004 lasted six hours). A transit is similar to a solar eclipse by the Moon, but, although the diameter of Venus is almost 4 times that of the Moon, Venus appears much smaller because it is much farther away from Earth. Before the space age, observations of transits of Venus helped scientists using the parallax method to calculate the distance between the Sun and the Earth.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Venus is also the Roman goddess of love and beauty after which the planet was named.<br /> <br /> '''Fescue... simple Indication'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Fescues: The fescues are cool season grasses. They can be long and tall like fronds or feathers. &lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> The OED also defines &quot;fescue&quot; as &quot;a small stick, pin, etc. used for pointing out the letters to children learning to read; a pointer.&quot; This definition seems to fit the text better, both literally (insofar as the fescue is ebony, hefty enought to be rapped on a table, and is used for &quot;simple Indication&quot;) and figuratively (there is some phallic suggestiveness in the passage). <br /> <br /> == Page 93 == <br /> <br /> '''gravid Earth'''&lt;br&gt; <br /> Gravid - &quot;pregnant, heavy with young&quot; (OED) <br /> <br /> '''the Fescue become a widthless Wand of Light&quot;&lt;br&gt; <br /> The literal usage of &quot;fescue&quot; escapes me here ... perhaps simply poetic license to further the image of impregnation (or climax) in this paragraph?<br /> <br /> Fescue here seems to be another brilliant extended metaphor from our author. A fescue, a pointer--a rod--seems to mean the rods (of rods and cones) that comprise our eyes! The retina contains two types of photoreceptors, rods and cones. The rods are more numerous, some 120 million, and are more sensitive than the cones. However, they are not sensitive to color.&lt;br&gt;<br /> This sensitivity only to white in rods makes the rest of the image work.<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> <br /> {{MD PbP}}</div>

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<p>MKOHUT: /* Page 93 */</p> <hr /> <div>==Page 87==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Bull's Eye&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Pic?)<br /> The Oxford English Dictionary confirms the definition provided in the text: &quot;10. Naut. ‘A little dark cloud, reddish in the middle, chiefly appearing about the Cape of Good Hope’ (Chambers Cycl. Supp. 1753), supposed to portend a storm; hence the storm itself.&quot; The OED's usage sample relates the bull's eye to a tornado, thus, perhaps, explaining the fear of the girls on page 91.<br /> <br /> '''actually, twain'''&lt;br&gt; <br /> I think he's implying that it's not really in two pieces, but that the ends are no longer attached<br /> <br /> ==Page 88==<br /> <br /> '''Elytra'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [R] Leathery fore wings of Coleoptera, meeting in a straight line and serving as protective covers for the hind wings when at rest; unfolded in flight; jointed in families whose adults (imagines) are apterous and incapable of flying.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''the English kiss'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Flirting with Mason and his reticence re the amorous.<br /> <br /> ==Page 89==<br /> <br /> '''''Data'' of Biography'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> all that material excretion which slaves see in handling our stuff. <br /> <br /> '''lixiviated'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Purified via lye-bath.<br /> <br /> '''hangs there in Misery'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Buster Keaton's comic persona.<br /> <br /> '''Beetle'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Pic?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 91==<br /> <br /> '''Light?...hellish red'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> light darkening image that is right at home in ATD. Note that the change in light is blaimed on the Bull's Eye.<br /> <br /> '''Kommando'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> anachronous allusion to 20th Century NazI Germany and its Aryan beliefs? The Kommando Spezialkräfte (Special Forces Command, KSK) is part of Germany's Special Forces. It is closely modelled on the British Special Air Service (SAS).<br /> <br /> '''Droster Republick'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> South Africa.drosters - runaways from service contracts. South African usage.<br /> <br /> ==Page 92==<br /> <br /> '''Cape Madeira... violet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> CAPE MADEIRA&quot; (Probably forged Madeira from South Africa.), a very heavy improperly made wine.<br /> <br /> '''Transit of Venus'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A transit of Venus across the Sun takes place when the planet Venus passes directly between the Sun and Earth, obscuring a small portion of the Sun's disk. During a transit, Venus can be seen from Earth as a small black disk moving across the face of the Sun. The duration of such transits is usually measured in hours (the transit of 2004 lasted six hours). A transit is similar to a solar eclipse by the Moon, but, although the diameter of Venus is almost 4 times that of the Moon, Venus appears much smaller because it is much farther away from Earth. Before the space age, observations of transits of Venus helped scientists using the parallax method to calculate the distance between the Sun and the Earth.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Venus is also the Roman goddess of love and beauty after which the planet was named.<br /> <br /> '''Fescue... simple Indication'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Fescues: The fescues are cool season grasses. They can be long and tall like fronds or feathers. &lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> The OED also defines &quot;fescue&quot; as &quot;a small stick, pin, etc. used for pointing out the letters to children learning to read; a pointer.&quot; This definition seems to fit the text better, both literally (insofar as the fescue is ebony, hefty enought to be rapped on a table, and is used for &quot;simple Indication&quot;) and figuratively (there is some phallic suggestiveness in the passage). <br /> <br /> == Page 93 == <br /> <br /> '''gravid Earth'''&lt;br&gt; <br /> Gravid - &quot;pregnant, heavy with young&quot; (OED) <br /> <br /> '''the Fescue become a widthless Wand of Light&quot;&lt;br&gt; <br /> The literal usage of &quot;fescue&quot; escapes me here ... perhaps simply poetic license to further the image of impregnation (or climax) in this paragraph?<br /> <br /> This meaning of fescue seems to be another brilliant extended metaphor from our author. A fescue, a pointer--a rod--seems to be used to mean the rods (of rods and cones) that comprise our eyes.<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> <br /> {{MD PbP}}</div>

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<p>MKOHUT: </p> <hr /> <div>'''C. of E.'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 250; Church of England<br /> <br /> '''Cabot'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 141<br /> <br /> &lt;div id=&quot;caeserini&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;'''Caesarini, Cardinal'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 591; began Transylvanian Crusade; Official emissary for Pope Eugenius IV in<br /> mid-15th century. In 1444, encouraged the king of Hungary, Ulaszlo I, to violate the [[S#szeged|Truce of Szeged]] and attack the Turks in an attempt to save Constantinople from the Ottoman Empire.<br /> <br /> '''Cagliostro, Alessandro Conte (1743-95)'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 358; Italian adventurer, magican, and alchemist who travelled cities of Europe posing as physician, mesmerist, necromancer, and Freemason. Cagliostro claimed to know the secret of the philosopher's stone as well as miraculous philtres and potions. He was implicated in the Diamond Necklace affair, imprisoned and acquitted but left for Rome in 1789, where Inquisition charged him with heresy and sorcery and condemned him to die, but his sentence was commuted to life in prison where he died in a dungeon.<br /> <br /> '''Calathumpians'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 582; Slang: &quot;beggars&quot;<br /> <br /> '''calendar reform'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> ''See'' [[E#eleven|Eleven Missing Days]]<br /> <br /> &lt;div id=&quot;Calverts&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;'''Calverts'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 268; Sir George Calvert (1580-1632), the first Lord Baltimore, was granted the colonial territory of Maryland by James I, but he died just prior to the charter being granted in 1632; Frederick Calvert, the sixth Lord Baltimore (from 1751 to 1777), was the man during the surveying of the M-D Line; Frederick, 301; Calvert agents, 337; Dixon's Calvert connections, 393<br /> <br /> '''Cannibalism'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 384; 386<br /> <br /> '''Canny Bob'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 734; &quot;chased by the Romans&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Cape Constantia'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 165; wine<br /> <br /> '''Cape Henlopen'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 258; at the mouth of Delaware Bay, opposite Cape May, NJ. The beginning of the Mason-Dixon line is about twenty miles south of Cape Henlopen, at the Fenwick Island lighthouse.<br /> <br /> '''Capella'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 310; a binary Latitude-Star - Capella (She-Goat) is the topmost star in the Constellation Auriga (The Charioteer); 332<br /> <br /> '''Caput Draconis'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 188; London's Zenith-star<br /> <br /> '''Carillon'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 244<br /> <br /> '''Cari&amp;ntilde;o'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 431<br /> <br /> '''Carnatic'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 131; region SE India between Eastern Ghats and Coromandel coast now in Andhra <br /> Pradesh and Karnataka. It's coastline is in Andhra Pradesh, and is on the Bay of Bengal.<br /> <br /> '''Carpenter, John'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 672; M-D Line crewman killed by a falling tree<br /> <br /> '''Cartagena and Minorca'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 729; A reference to the [[S#seven|Seven Years War]], which began in 1756. Britain became involved because of competition with France for colonies in India and America. Minorca was taken from the British by a large French fleet; Admiral John Byng was sent to the rescue, but was forced to retreat to Gibraltar. This is the same year as the [[B#blackhole|Black Hole of Calcutta]], instigated by the Nawwab of Bengal, which gave the British reason to intervene. Robert Clive retook Calcutta, and won control of Bengal, India's richest province, the following year, thus laying the foundations of the British Empire in India.<br /> <br /> '''Casanova'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 260<br /> <br /> '''Caseifaction'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 167; the act of turning into cheese<br /> <br /> '''Castle Rock'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 175; on St. Helena<br /> <br /> '''''casus belli'''''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 675; Latin: &quot;occasion of war&quot; - an event that allegedly justifies war or conflict<br /> <br /> '''Catawba'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 675; tribe at war with Iriquois<br /> <br /> '''Catfish, Chief'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 673; Delaware tribe; 680<br /> <br /> '''Cavendish, Henry'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 730; &quot;error he pointed out regarding the Allegheny Mountains&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Cecil County'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 469; Cecil is the North<br /> Eastern-most county in Maryland, with Cecilton close to the Tangent Line near its Southern border and including Octarara in its North West corner. It<br /> is bounded by the Susquehanna and Sassafras Rivers on its West and<br /> South sides and by the Line and the Tangent Line on its North and East. The emblem of Cecil Country is apparently a depiction of a male &amp; female [d.html#duck&quot;&gt;duck&lt;/a&gt; flying together.<br /> <br /> '''Celebes'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 311; perfumes of; Now known as Sulawesi, this is an island off E. Borneo<br /> <br /> '''C&amp;eacute;l&amp;eacute;ron'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 548; his Lead Plates&lt;br /&gt;<br /> <br /> :The lead plates of C&amp;eacute;l&amp;eacute;ron de Bienville, referenced by George Washington, are real. In a show of force to Pennsylvania traders who had begun settling more and more west into the French-owned Ohio River Valley, de Bienville sailed down the Ohio River by way of the Scioto River in August 1749. Along the way at strategic points he buried leaden plates inscribed with the declaration of title to the lands.<br /> <br /> '''Celts'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 310<br /> <br /> '''''ceteris paribus'''''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 503; Latin: &quot;other things being equal&quot;<br /> <br /> &lt;div id=&quot;chain&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;'''Chain of Being, Great'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> The Western Middle Ages conception of culture that describes Being as like a great chain with the top representing perfection in the highest degree (aka God) and the bottom representing the least possible perfection, which is nothingness (but not Evil). The chain in its entirety represents all degrees of perfection from the highest and fullest to the lowest and least; it is complete. Traditionally, it was also fixed; only God (e.g., Lucifer's fall and various miracles) and alchemists could cause a reordering; 365; 417-18; 438;<br /> <br /> :In 1761, a book called ''Natural History of Animals'' by George Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (commonly refered to as &quot;Buffon&quot;) (1707-1788), used the chain to justify colonization, placing Europeans above the natives they ruled. &lt;ref&gt;[http://www.purifymind.com/GeorgeLeclerc.htm Read more...]&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> :[http://www.earlham.edu/suber/courses/re/chain.htm The Great Chain of Being]<br /> <br /> :[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_chain_of_being Wikipedia entry]<br /> <br /> '''Chalford'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 184; where Bradley dies<br /> <br /> '''Cham, The'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 744; aka Dr. Johnson<br /> <br /> '''Chancery'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 257;<br /> <br /> '''Chandler's Dogs'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 403<br /> <br /> '''Changhaienne, La'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 27<br /> <br /> '''Chantry, Mr.'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 304; lawyer in Philadelphia<br /> <br /> '''Chaos Theory'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 281; 364<br /> <br /> '''Chapman'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 674<br /> <br /> '''Chapter-Ring'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 147; a ringlike band on the dial of a clock which bears the numerals or other sympbols of the hours<br /> <br /> &lt;div id=&quot;charles-l&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;'''Charles I (1600-49)'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 550; king of England and Ireland, 1625-49; <br /> <br /> '''Charles II (1630-85)'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 335; king of Scotland and England from 1660; brother of James II (aka Duke of<br /> York), 336; 721<br /> <br /> '''Charles' Wain'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 653; aka Ursa Major, referring to King Charles of France<br /> <br /> '''Charter'd Companies'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 252; The lord proprietors of England's colonial trading companies claimed special protections over their incorporated businesses, extended through their divinely granted authority, including permanency of incorporation, limited liability, and the legal authority to be free from community and worker interference. These protections were initially limited by the American colonists, whose intent in this area was to create a nation where the citizenry were the government and the government controlled the corporations--by ensuring that, if a corporation violated its agreement to obey all laws, to serve the public good, and to cause no harm, its charter would be revoked.<br /> <br /> '''Chatfield'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 41; &quot;There's something wrong with our bloody [not &quot;dam'd&quot;] ships today, Chatfield&quot; - David Beatty (1st Earl Beatty), British Admiral of the Fleet (1916 - 1919), at the Battle of Jutland in 1916; quoted in Winston Churchill's ''The World Crisis 1916-1918'' (1927) pt. 1, p. 129.<br /> <br /> '''Chauncy'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 251<br /> <br /> '''Chen, Miss'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 628; &quot;operatick Personage&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Cheroot, Zoot'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 766<br /> <br /> '''Cherrycoke, Elizabeth (&quot;Zab&quot;)'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 759; Wicks' sister who is married to J. Wade LeSpark; ''See'' [[L#zab|LeSpark, Elizabeth]]<br /> <br /> '''Cherrycoke, Reverend Wicks'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 6; the storyteller who, in a situation modeled on Scheherazade's in the ''Arabian Nights'', may remain at the home of Ives LeSpark as long as he can keep the children (and of course the &quot;Sultan&quot; himself) entertained with his tale; Scheherazade, who married the murderous King Schahriyar, was able to extend her life by telling the king an enchanting story which remained incomplete at the end of each telling; the name &quot;Wicks&quot; also dovetails nicely with [[T#tenebrae|Tenebrae]] and has other interesting [[Reverend Wicks Cherrycoke|Etymological musings]]; on the ''Seahorse'', 35; 85; ''Spiritual Day-Book'', 275; ''Christ and History'', 349; [http://www.meru.org/Posters/lampwick.html Lamp &amp; Wick]<br /> <br /> '''chess'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 55; 294<br /> <br /> '''Chesterfield, Lord'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 193; 557<br /> <br /> '''Chester-le-Street'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 243; town about 10 miles N of Durham<br /> <br /> '''Chew, Benjamin'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 327; one of the Commissioners appointed by Lord Baltimore to settle the boundary dispute between Maryland and Pennsylvania; 436<br /> <br /> '''Chisel, Le'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 27; 28<br /> <br /> '''Christ, Jesus H.'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 26; 101; 231; 260-61; 264; 288; ''Christ and History'', 349; Eucharistic<br /> Sacrament, 384, 385; 409; Widows of, 419; goes away, 480-81; making Golems,<br /> 486; Holy Trinity, 495; Ascent to Christ, 511; 520; Wolf of Jesus, 522; Return,<br /> 568; Birth, 631; loaves and fishes, 700; 726<br /> <br /> '''Chronometer'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 213; a very exact timepiece, usu. for use in determining longitude at sea. Now can mean any accurate timepiece; 321<br /> <br /> '''Chronoscope'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 177: primarily a timing device for reaction-time experiments, used to measure time during extremely brief intervals<br /> <br /> '''''Cicinielli'''''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> <br /> 235; Neopolitan fish dish<br /> <br /> '''Cilial Excursion'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 283<br /> <br /> '''Cilice'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 230; Jesuit chastity belt, a wire girdle with sharp metallic points to irritate the skin; from Latin (''cilicia'': course garment made from haircloth); 520<br /> <br /> :'''Cilice:''' a spiked chain worn around the upper thigh for two hours each day, except for Church feast days, Sundays, and certain times of the year. This is perhaps the most shocking of the corporal mortifications, and generally Opus Dei members are extremely hesitant to admit that they use them. It is a painful mortification which leaves small prick holes in the flesh, and makes the Opus Dei members tentative about wearing swim suits wherever non-Opus Dei members may be. &lt;ref&gt;[http://www.odan.org/archives_corporal.htm Opus Dei Website]&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> '''Circumferentor'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 301<br /> <br /> '''Cities'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 289; 292; 309; 344; of Earth, 385; London, 391; &quot;great Mother-City&quot; 522; 548;<br /> &quot;Anti-City&quot; 609; 671; night-time, 749; in Chaos, 750; 771<br /> <br /> '''Clasper, Henry'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 100<br /> <br /> &lt;div id=&quot;clive&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;'''Clive of Plassy, Robert, Lord (1725-74)'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 74; aka &quot;Clive of India&quot;; English soldier and administrator who joined the East India Company in Madras. He attempted suicide, failed at it, and eventually distinguished himself against the French-Indian forces in Madras and, after marrying Margaret Maskelyne, returned to Britain a hero; he returned to India and avenged the Black Hole of Calcutta incident by retaking Calcutta and, at Plassy, he defeated the Nawab of Bengal. He returned to India several more times to aid the East India Company, but ultimately drew the opprobrium of parliament and committed suicide; brother-in-law of N. Maskelyne; 130; 160; 187; [[Dr. Johnson#clive|Dr. Johnson 'pon]]<br /> <br /> '''Clocks'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 121-24; 155<br /> <br /> '''Clonfert'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 134; location of monastery founded by Saint Brendan<br /> <br /> '''Cloud Hill'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 193<br /> <br /> '''Clovis'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 297; working on Obs in Philadelphia; Clovis could be a reference to the first Frankish King. Under the Romans that big area between the Channel and the Alps was known as Gaul, after the Celts living there. Clovis and his Franks were a conquering Germanic tribe, and Clovis is more or less considered history's first Frenchman.<br /> <br /> '''Coal'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 219; 418; 468<br /> <br /> &lt;div id=&quot;cobra&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;'''Cobra'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 550; &quot;Once it was a Cyst, growing within the Brain of a Cobra&quot;; [[/pynchon/mason-dixon/extra/cobra.html&quot;&gt;Discussion&lt;/a&gt;]; ''See also'' [d.html#dasp&quot;&gt;Capt. Dasp&lt;/a&gt;<br /> <br /> '''Cockfield Fell'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 504; near where Dixon lived and which he avoided; Cockfield is a small village just a few miles north of [[S#staindrop|Staindrop]] and a<br /> few miles West of Bishop Auckland in County Durham. Staindrop is a lovely<br /> little village with Raby Castle just on its edge. The Cockfield road heads out into open land and is quite bleak by contrast with the comfortable and<br /> civilized feel of Staindrop.<br /> <br /> '''Cock Lane Ghost'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 183; in London; 359; 747<br /> <br /> '''Cocks of Strasbourg and Lyon'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 376; other Mechanickal Fowl<br /> <br /> '''Coffee'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> &quot;administering Enemas of Lucas the Cook's notorious Coffee&quot; 54; 356; 467; &quot;ingenious College Coffee Machine&quot; 515<br /> <br /> '''College of William and Mary'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 571; Nathe McClean attending, 573<br /> <br /> '''collier'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 26; a ship that transports coal<br /> <br /> '''Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506)'''&lt;br /&gt; 487; First European to discover America; b. Genoa, Italy. In Portugal, he became a master mariner and was determined to reach India by sailing west. After eight years of supplication, he received the backing of the Spanish monarchs Ferdinand V and Isabella I. On Oct. 12, 1492, his ships, the Ni&amp;ntilde;a, Pinta, and Santa Maria, reached Watling Island, in the Bahama group; later they touched Cuba and Hispaniola. He was made an admiral and governor general of all new lands. In 1493 he set sail with 17 ships, exploring Puerto Rico and the Leeward Islands, and founding a colony in Hispaniola. In 1498 he explored Venezuela, realizing that he had found a continent. Because of disreputable conditions in Hispaniola, he was replaced as governor in 1500 and returned to Spain in chains. On his last voyage (1502) he reached Central America. Although he is considered a master navigator today, he died in neglect, almost forgotten.<br /> <br /> '''Complexity Theory'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 373; e.g. the Mechanickal Duck<br /> <br /> '''Comte de St.-Germain'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 358<br /> <br /> &lt;div id=&quot;condamine&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;'''Condamine, Charles Marie de La (1701-74)'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 544; French scientist and member of the Acad&amp;eacute;mie Royale des Sciences, studied at the Jesuit College of Louis-le-Grand in Paris. In April 1735 La<br /> Condamine made a successful expedition to Peru with [[B#bouguer|Bouguer]] and [[L#lemaire|LeMaire]] to measure the length of a degree of meridian at the equator; LeMaire in Peru with, 544; &lt;ref&gt;[http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/La_Condamine.html Online Biography]&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> '''Conestoga'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 304; site of Indian Massacre; Waggons, 638; [[Lancaster &amp; Conestoga|MORE]]<br /> <br /> &lt;div id=&quot;conflans&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;'''Conflans'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 27; Hubert de Brienne, Count de Conflans, was commander of the French fleet trapped by [[H#hawke|Admiral Hawke's]] fleet in Quiberon Bay and soundly defeated in 1759<br /> <br /> '''Conococheague'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 499<br /> <br /> '''Conoloways'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 608; &quot;The Tonoloways (a.k.a. Conolloway) Settlement was the site of numerous<br /> disputes - both with Indians and Governments, the latter due to conflicts over<br /> the state line between Maryland and Pennsylvania - a state line which<br /> Tonoloways straddled, not always successfully, as is shown below. To research<br /> the Combs of Tonoloways, it has been necessary to first become familiar with<br /> the county organizations of both Pennsylvania and Maryland.&quot; From a now-defunct website.<br /> <br /> '''Continentals'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 294<br /> <br /> '''Cooch Girls'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 21; Slang: prostitutes<br /> <br /> '''Cookworthy, Mr.'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 61<br /> <br /> '''Cookie'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 243<br /> <br /> &lt;div id=&quot;coote&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;'''Coote, Eyre (1726-83)'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 478; Commander of the East India Company forces in Bengal commander-in<br /> charge in India. He led the British against the French in the Battle of<br /> Wandiwash; Battle of Wandiwash, 564; ''See also'' [[B#wandiwash|Battle of Wandiwash]]<br /> <br /> '''Cope, Mr.'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 7; chain-man on M-D Line crew; 445; impersonating M&amp;D with Darby, 471<br /> <br /> '''Copernicus, Nicholas (1473-1543)'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 545; Polish astronomer who, in 1530, completed his ''De Revolutionibus'' which<br /> proved that the sun was the centre of the universe; it was published in 1543,<br /> just prior to his death<br /> <br /> '''Copley Medal'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 708; John Singleton Copley (1738-1815) is considered by many to be<br /> America's first great artist &amp;#151; although he ended up living and<br /> dying in London. He mainly painted Tories, and was ineffectually involved in some negotiations with the &quot;violent Sons of Liberty&quot; in the run up to the Boston Tea Party. His painting &quot;Paul Revere&quot; is considered to be (in the words of Robert Hughes in ''American Visions'') &quot;one of the icons of American identity.&quot; His &quot;The Death of Chatham&quot; depicts the death by stroke of the Pitt the Elder.<br /> <br /> '''coprophagously'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 428; shit-eating<br /> <br /> '''Coracles'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 487; a kind of boat made of animal skins that has been in use since ancient times<br /> <br /> '''Corf'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 439; A large basket formerly used for conveying, hoisting, or delivering, mineral coal or ore<br /> <br /> '''Cornwallis'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 264; &quot;surrender of&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Cotswold Waggon'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 168; carries the Great Octuple Cheese<br /> <br /> '''Cousins'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 259<br /> <br /> '''Covent Garden'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 136; &quot;Covent&quot; is a corruption of &quot;Convent&quot;; the garden and burial ground attached<br /> to the convent or Abbey of Westminster; in the 18th century, with its numerous<br /> coffee-houses and taverns, it was a favored hang-out of poets, actors and<br /> artists; it was also the site of the Covent Garden Theatre which opened in 1732;<br /> 518; 527; 643; 674<br /> <br /> '''Crapaud, Jean'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 11; Slang for a Frenchman (''crapaud'' = frog)<br /> <br /> '''Crawfford, Hugh'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 600; M&amp;D's interpreter; 646; 648; dulcimer tune, 670<br /> <br /> '''Creature'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> ''See'' [[G#Golems|Golems]]<br /> <br /> '''Creeping Nick'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 680; Mason's horse<br /> <br /> &lt;div id=&quot;cresap&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;'''Cresap, Thomas'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 276; [[S#smith|Samuel Smith's]] adversary, aka &quot;The Beast of Baltimore&quot; and &quot;The Maryland Monster&quot;. Cresap was a surveyor and a defender of the Calvert's boundary claims. In 1736, Smith, a Pennsylvanian, burnt Cresap's home to the ground while attempting to arrest him for the murder of Knoles Daunt. Once arrested, Cresap was taken by Smith and his men to a Philadelphia jail (upon entering Rhiladelphia, Cresap is said to have exclaimed to George Aston, one of his guards, &quot;Damn it, Aston, this is one of the Prettyest Towns in Maryland&quot;). Apparently, Cresap was so obnoxious that the Pennsylvanians quickly asked him to leave the prison and return home. He replied that he refused to leave until he was ordered to by the King. The order came on August 18, 1737. Kenneth P. Bailey, Cresap's biographer, seems to indirectly connect the &quot;Maryland Monster&quot; nickname with this event. (Thanks to Keith Woodward) [[Charles Mason's Journal#cresap|Mason's Journal Entry]]; [[Thomas Cresap|Cresap Biography]]; Grandfather, 584; 638<br /> <br /> '''Crochet'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 702; personal quirk<br /> <br /> '''Crofter's hut'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 522<br /> <br /> '''Cromorne, Reverend'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 197; French: &quot;crooked horn&quot;; alternative spelling in English for krummhorn<br /> <br /> '''Cromwell, Oliver'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 226<br /> <br /> '''Crooked Finger Inn'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 687; in Delaware<br /> <br /> '''Crosier, Sister'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 519; a Jesuit<br /> <br /> '''Cross Keys, The'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 341; where M&amp;D stay in Lancaster<br /> <br /> '''Crusade'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 588<br /> <br /> '''''Cryptoscope'''''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 301<br /> <br /> '''Cudgel and Throck'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 227; Emerson's &quot;local&quot; in County Durham; a cudgel is a short heavy club; a throck is a spell that causes plants to grow, or also seen defined as &quot;the piece of Timber on which the Suck is fixed, on a plough.&quot;<br /> <br /> '''Cumberland'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 586<br /> <br /> '''Cygnus'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 673; constellation<br /> <br /> &lt;div id=&quot;cymry&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;'''Cymry'''&lt;br /&gt;<br /> 600; Welsh name for the Welsh people; the Celtic<br /> peoples considered themselves to be individual nations, and not part of some greater &quot;Celtic&quot; nation. The Welsh thought of themselves as Cymry or<br /> Britons, the Irish thought of themselves as Gael, etc. [[Hugh Gadarn|MORE...]]; ''See also'' [[H#hu|Hu Gadarn]]<br /> <br /> ===References===<br /> &lt;references/&gt;<br /> <br /> {{MD Alpha Nav}}</div>

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<p>MKOHUT: /* page 338 */</p> <hr /> <div>==Page 327==<br /> ==Page 328==<br /> '''In the Summer'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> this puts the section from Page 327 to 330 as a flashforward to some summer in the future. In the Journal there is a meeting of the commissioners at Christiana Bridge to recognize M&amp;Ds work on the Tangent Line on [[1764#November|November]] 21-25, 1764. I wouldn't call November Summer, though.<br /> <br /> ==Page 329==<br /> '''&quot;A sweetness of immorality and corruption.&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> This conspiratorial talking about sugar boycotts makes me think that the events of these pages are happening after the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_Act Sugar Act] of [[1764#April|April]] 5, 1764.<br /> <br /> ==Page 330==<br /> '''Sun, [[1764#January|January]] 8, 1764'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> from the journal: &quot;Fixed on the house of Mr. John Harland's (about 31 miles West of Philadelphia) to bring our instruments to.&quot;&lt;br&gt; However, it appears that they actually returned to Philidelphia on the 9th to get the observatory and tools and then returned to the Harlands on the 14th where they &quot;set up the sector in his Garden (inclosed in a tent), and in the Evening brought the Instruments into the Meridian, and took the following observations...&quot;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Page 333==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;By February...&quot; [[1764#February|February]] 28th, 1764&lt;br&gt;<br /> &lt;br&gt;<br /> '''&quot;In March a Company of Axmen...clear a Visto...&quot; [[1764#March|March]] 17- [[1764#April|April]] 12, 1764'''<br /> <br /> ==Page 334==<br /> <br /> '''Tangent Line'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://www.udel.edu/johnmack/mason_dixon/#fig6 diagram]&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Alexander Bryant&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> listed as '''Alexander Bryan''' in the Journal and all historical records.&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> '''By June...they are instructed to proceed...'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> They set out on [[1764#June|June]] 13, 1764.<br /> <br /> ==page 335==<br /> <br /> '''...centered upon the Spire of the Court House in New Castle...'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [http://www.newcastlecity.net/visitors/bldgs.html#Courthouse Courthouse]<br /> [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;q=+211+Delaware+Street,+New+Castle,+DE&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;z=17&amp;ll=39.659801,-75.563643&amp;spn=0.004072,0.010664&amp;om=1 location][http://www.state.de.us/gic/photos/collections/historic/810.shtml photo]<br /> <br /> == page 336 ==<br /> <br /> '''Fermat's Last Theorem'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> In 1636, Fermat claimed--but never offered--a clever proof to a seemingly obvious math theorem. &quot;The fact that the problem's statement is understandable by schoolchildren makes it all the more frustrating, and it has probably generated more incorrect proofs than any other problem in the history of mathematics. No correct proof was found for 357 years, when a proof was finally published by Andrew Wiles in 1994&quot; -- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_last_theorem Wikipedia].<br /> <br /> '''Finial upon something of Mr. Chippendale's'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Finial - &quot;Forming the crown or completion; crowning&quot; (ODE)<br /> Mr. Chippendale: Thomas Chippendale (ca June 5, 1718 - November 1779) ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Chippendale Wikipedia]), a legendary &quot;London cabinet-maker and furniture designer,&quot; whose designs--to this untrained poster's eyes--appear extraordinarily ornate?<br /> <br /> '''the dead Hand of the second James'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;James II of England (also known as James VII of Scotland; 14 October 1633 – 16 September 1701) became King of England, King of Scots, and King of Ireland on 6 February 1685, and Duke of Normandy on 31 December 1660. He was the last Roman Catholic monarch to reign over the Kingdom of Scotland, Kingdom of England, and Kingdom of Ireland. Many of his subjects distrusted his religious policies and supposed despotism, leading a group of them to depose him in the Glorious Revolution. He was replaced not by his Roman Catholic son, James Francis Edward, but by his Protestant daughter and son-in-law, Mary II and William III, who became joint rulers in 1689. The belief that James — not William III or Mary II — was the legitimate ruler became known as [[J#Jacobites|Jacobitism]] (from Jacobus or Iacobus, Latin for James)&quot; -- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_II_of_England Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> '''the other Fictions that govern'd that unhappy Monarch's Life'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Are the fictions Jacobitism and Catholicism (per the [[Reverend Wicks Cherrycoke |Rev. Cherrycoke's]] POV)?<br /> <br /> '''acufloral'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ???<br /> <br /> '''Fescue'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A pointer, used for lessons with children. <br /> <br /> Is this a purposeful hearkening of the sexual tensions related to the Fescue on [[Chapter 9: 87-93|pages 92-93]]?<br /> <br /> ==page 337==<br /> <br /> '''[[H#Head of Elk|Head of Elk]]'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Refers to the head of Maryland's Elk River. It flows through<br /> Cecil County and into Chesapeake Bay in the NE corner of Maryland just west<br /> of the Delaware border. Head of Elk was of strategic significance in the<br /> Revolutionary War: [http://www.ushistory.org/march/phila/elk.htm MORE]<br /> <br /> '''[[C#Calverts|Calverts]]'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Sir George Calvert (1580-1632) (see [[27: 266-274|page 268]]), the first Lord Baltimore, was granted the colonial territory of Maryland by James I, but he died just prior to the charter being granted in 1632. Frederick Calvert (see [[30: 296-301|page 301]]), the sixth Lord Baltimore (from 1751 to 1777), was the man during the surveying of the M-D Line. See, also, Dixon's Calvert connections on [[39: 391-398|page 393]].<br /> <br /> ==page 338==<br /> <br /> '''hypnagogic'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> &quot;The state of intermediate consciousness preceding sleep&quot; (American Heritage Dictionary), associated with hallucinations.<br /> <br /> '''fifteen years ago in the era of Don Vicente Lopez'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Who is Don Vicente Lopez? &lt;br&gt;<br /> Vicente Antonio Lopez, 1745-1802 [http://cybergata.com/roots/6809.htm] The dates sorta work, but this Vicente Lopez seems wrong, however, since this Vicente Lopez does not seem to have had an era named after him.&lt;br&gt; Please delete if this is irrelevant.<br /> <br /> '''[[R#Ridotto|Ridotto]]&lt;br&gt;<br /> A gathering for music and dancing, often in masquerade, popular in 18th century England.<br /> <br /> ==page 339==<br /> <br /> '''In August they finally go chaining past the eighty-one-mile mark...'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> happens on [[1764#August|August]] 25, 1764.<br /> <br /> '''The great Scepter atop the Court House'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> See &quot;...centered upon the Spire of the Court House in New Castle...&quot; on page 335, above.<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> <br /> {{MD PbP}}</div>

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<p>MKOHUT: /* Page 345 */</p> <hr /> <div>==Page 341==<br /> '''[[1765#January|January]] 10, 1765'''<br /> [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;q=lancaster,+PA&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;z=10&amp;ll=40.022356,-76.25885&amp;spn=0.546861,1.365051&amp;om=1 Lancaster]<br /> <br /> ==Page 342==<br /> <br /> '''Jabez''' &lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> “And Coz begat Anub, and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum. And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow. And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested” -- [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=13&amp;chapter=4&amp;verse=8&amp;end_verse=10&amp;version=9&amp;context=context 1 Chronicles 4:8-10 (King James Version)]<br /> <br /> ==Page 345==<br /> <br /> '''...a Ring like a length of Ribbon clos'd in a Circle, with a single Twist in it, possessing thereby but one Side and one Edge...'''<br /> <br /> “The Möbius strip or Möbius band (pronounced [ˈmøbiʊs]) is a surface with only one side and only one boundary component” – [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6bius_strip Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> It would seem, however, that a Möbius strip would have 2 edges. Is this smoke ring an impossible shape?<br /> <br /> Topologically, as the correct definition from Wikipedia indicates, a Mobius strip has only one edge. Create the shape as indicated in the text, and run your finger around the &quot;edge&quot;. You will see that the former<br /> edges are now one continuous 'edge&quot;. [[User:MKOHUT|MKOHUT]] 07:47, 10 August 2007 (PDT)<br /> <br /> ==Page 345==<br /> <br /> '''Prester John''' &lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> “The legends of Prester John (also Presbyter John), popular in Europe from the 12th through the 17th centuries, told of a Christian patriarch and king said to rule over a Christian nation lost amidst the Muslims and pagans in the Orient. Written accounts of this kingdom are variegated collections of medieval popular fantasy. Reportedly a descendant of one of the Three Magi, Prester John was said to be a generous ruler and a virtuous man, presiding over a realm full of riches and strange creatures, in which the Patriarch of Saint Thomas resided. His kingdom contained such marvels as the Gates of Alexander and the Fountain of Youth, and even bordered the Earthly Paradise. Among his treasures was a mirror through which every province could be seen, the fabled original from which derived the &quot;speculum literature&quot; of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance, in which the prince's realms were surveyed and his duties laid out. At first, Prester John was imagined to be in India; tales of the &quot;Nestorian&quot; Christians' evangelistic success there and of Thomas the Apostle's subcontinental travels as documented in works like the Acts of Thomas probably provided the first seeds of the legend. After the coming of the Mongols to the Western world, accounts placed the king in Central Asia, and eventually Portuguese explorers convinced themselves they had found him in Ethiopia. Prester John's kingdom was the object of a quest, firing the imaginations of generations of adventurers, but remaining out of reach. He was a symbol to European Christians of the Church's universality, transcending culture and geography to encompass all humanity, in a time when ethnic and interreligious tension made such a vision seem distant” – [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prester_John Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> ==Page 346==<br /> '''The next day...'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [[1765#January|January]] 11, 1765&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> '''''Acts have consequences, Dixon, they must'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Might be of interest that this passage has a predecessor in ''Vineland'': &quot;What was she [DL] complaining about? Only that acts, deeply moral and otherwise, have consequences - only the workings of karma.&quot; (''Vineland'', p. 132)<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> <br /> {{MD PbP}}</div>

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<p>MKOHUT: /* Page 92 */</p> <hr /> <div>==Page 87==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Bull's Eye&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Pic?)<br /> The Oxford English Dictionary confirms the definition provided in the text: &quot;10. Naut. ‘A little dark cloud, reddish in the middle, chiefly appearing about the Cape of Good Hope’ (Chambers Cycl. Supp. 1753), supposed to portend a storm; hence the storm itself.&quot; The OED's usage sample relates the bull's eye to a tornado, thus, perhaps, explaining the fear of the girls on page 91.<br /> <br /> '''actually, twain'''&lt;br&gt; <br /> I think he's implying that it's not really in two pieces, but that the ends are no longer attached<br /> <br /> ==Page 88==<br /> <br /> '''Elytra'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [R] Leathery fore wings of Coleoptera, meeting in a straight line and serving as protective covers for the hind wings when at rest; unfolded in flight; jointed in families whose adults (imagines) are apterous and incapable of flying.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''the English kiss'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Flirting with Mason and his reticence re the amorous.<br /> <br /> ==Page 89==<br /> <br /> '''''Data'' of Biography'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> all that material excretion which slaves see in handling our stuff. <br /> <br /> '''lixiviated'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Purified via lye-bath.<br /> <br /> '''hangs there in Misery'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Buster Keaton's comic persona.<br /> <br /> '''Beetle'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Pic?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 91==<br /> <br /> '''Light?...hellish red'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> light darkening image that is right at home in ATD. Note that the change in light is blaimed on the Bull's Eye.<br /> <br /> '''Kommando'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> anachronous allusion to 20th Century NazI Germany and its Aryan beliefs? The Kommando Spezialkräfte (Special Forces Command, KSK) is part of Germany's Special Forces. It is closely modelled on the British Special Air Service (SAS).<br /> <br /> '''Droster Republick'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> South Africa.drosters - runaways from service contracts. South African usage.<br /> <br /> ==Page 92==<br /> <br /> '''Cape Madeira... violet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> CAPE MADEIRA&quot; (Probably forged Madeira from South Africa.), a very heavy improperly made wine.<br /> <br /> '''Transit of Venus'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A transit of Venus across the Sun takes place when the planet Venus passes directly between the Sun and Earth, obscuring a small portion of the Sun's disk. During a transit, Venus can be seen from Earth as a small black disk moving across the face of the Sun. The duration of such transits is usually measured in hours (the transit of 2004 lasted six hours). A transit is similar to a solar eclipse by the Moon, but, although the diameter of Venus is almost 4 times that of the Moon, Venus appears much smaller because it is much farther away from Earth. Before the space age, observations of transits of Venus helped scientists using the parallax method to calculate the distance between the Sun and the Earth.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Venus is also the Roman goddess of love and beauty after which the planet was named.<br /> <br /> '''Fescue... simple Indication'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Fescues: The fescues are cool season grasses. They can be long and tall like fronds or feathers. &lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> The OED also defines &quot;fescue&quot; as &quot;a small stick, pin, etc. used for pointing out the letters to children learning to read; a pointer.&quot; This definition seems to fit the text better, both literally (insofar as the fescue is ebony, hefty enought to be rapped on a table, and is used for &quot;simple Indication&quot;) and figuratively (there is some phallic suggestiveness in the passage). <br /> <br /> == Page 93 == <br /> <br /> '''gravid Earth'''&lt;br&gt; <br /> Gravid - &quot;pregnant, heavy with young&quot; (OED) <br /> <br /> '''the Fescue become a widthless Wand of Light&quot;&lt;br&gt; <br /> The paragraph strikes an image of impregnation. <br /> -<br /> <br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> <br /> {{MD PbP}}</div>

MKOHUT https://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:Chapter_9:_87-93&diff=2479 2007-08-07T14:04:03Z

<p>MKOHUT: </p> <hr /> <div>MKOHUT - May I ask why you removed the definitions I provided for fescue and gravid? (Please know that I ask due to curiousity and a wish to learn--not due to any silly little resentments.)<br /> <br /> Gideon: I did not mean to.....I guess it was carelessness when I just <br /> wanted to move or trim something you had written. I am sorry.<br /> <br /> Gideon: I looked back at fexcue and gravid and Here is what I did wrong, I think. I wanted to change or delete my own entry for fescue as cool grasses since you had obviously found the better meaning(s)....Somehow, I highlited yours--or too much--and did not check the preview properly. I will try to restore what you wrote...If I do not do it right, please do.<br /> You are doing fine, fine work on this wiki.....for a long while I was the only one.</div>

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<p>MKOHUT: </p> <hr /> <div>MKOHUT - May I ask why you removed the definitions I provided for fescue and gravid? (Please know that I ask due to curiousity and a wish to learn--not due to any silly little resentments.)<br /> <br /> Gideon: I did not mean to.....I guess it was carelessness when I just <br /> wanted to move or trim something you had written. I am sorry.</div>

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<p>MKOHUT: </p> <hr /> <div>==Page 87==<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Bull's Eye&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Pic?)<br /> The Oxford English Dictionary confirms the definition provided in the text: &quot;10. Naut. ‘A little dark cloud, reddish in the middle, chiefly appearing about the Cape of Good Hope’ (Chambers Cycl. Supp. 1753), supposed to portend a storm; hence the storm itself.&quot; The OED's usage sample relates the bull's eye to a tornado, thus, perhaps, explaining the fear of the girls on page 91.<br /> <br /> '''actually, twain'''&lt;br&gt; <br /> I think he's implying that it's not really in two pieces, but that the ends are no longer attached<br /> <br /> ==Page 88==<br /> <br /> '''Elytra'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> [R] Leathery fore wings of Coleoptera, meeting in a straight line and serving as protective covers for the hind wings when at rest; unfolded in flight; jointed in families whose adults (imagines) are apterous and incapable of flying.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''the English kiss'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Flirting with Mason and his reticence re the amorous.<br /> <br /> ==Page 89==<br /> <br /> '''''Data'' of Biography'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> all that material excretion which slaves see in handling our stuff. <br /> <br /> '''lixiviated'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Purified via lye-bath.<br /> <br /> '''hangs there in Misery'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> Cf Buster Keaton's comic persona.<br /> <br /> '''Beetle'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> (Pic?)<br /> <br /> ==Page 91==<br /> <br /> '''Light?...hellish red'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> light darkening image that is right at home in ATD. Note that the change in light is blaimed on the Bull's Eye.<br /> <br /> '''Kommando'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> anachronous allusion to 20th Century NazI Germany and its Aryan beliefs? The Kommando Spezialkräfte (Special Forces Command, KSK) is part of Germany's Special Forces. It is closely modelled on the British Special Air Service (SAS).<br /> <br /> '''Droster Republick'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> South Africa.drosters - runaways from service contracts. South African usage.<br /> <br /> ==Page 92==<br /> <br /> '''Cape Madeira... violet'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> CAPE MADEIRA&quot; (Probably forged Madeira from South Africa.), a very heavy improperly made wine.<br /> <br /> '''Transit of Venus'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> A transit of Venus across the Sun takes place when the planet Venus passes directly between the Sun and Earth, obscuring a small portion of the Sun's disk. During a transit, Venus can be seen from Earth as a small black disk moving across the face of the Sun. The duration of such transits is usually measured in hours (the transit of 2004 lasted six hours). A transit is similar to a solar eclipse by the Moon, but, although the diameter of Venus is almost 4 times that of the Moon, Venus appears much smaller because it is much farther away from Earth. Before the space age, observations of transits of Venus helped scientists using the parallax method to calculate the distance between the Sun and the Earth.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Venus is also the Roman goddess of love and beauty after which the planet was named.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Fescue... simple Indication'''&lt;br&gt;<br /> The Fescues: The fescues are cool season grasses. They can be long and tall like fronds or feathers. &lt;br&gt;<br /> ==Annotation Index==<br /> <br /> {{MD PbP}}</div>

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<p>MKOHUT: </p> <hr /> <div>As of 7/31/07, I'm new in these here parts. I'm sure you have many customs and traditions of which I am blissfully ignorant, so if I post something incorrect or incorrectly, please correct it. And feel free to let me know if I'm a dunderhead or to offer any other feedback. I won't be offended--this is, after all, how wikis work.<br /> <br /> You may email me: dpayne1912 at hotmail.com<br /> <br /> Welcome Gideon.[[User:MKOHUT|MKOHUT]] 14:43, 1 August 2007 (PDT)</div>

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<p>MKOHUT: /* Page 634 */</p> <hr /> <div>==Page 634==<br /> <br /> '''''this first Act of American murder, and the collapse of Vineland the Good'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> cf ''Vineland'', of course. Especially echoes the scene on page 322, where Zoyd is planning to &quot;harbor in Vineland, Vineland the Good&quot;.<br /> <br /> Vineland was the name given to North America by the Vikings. It was named so because of the wild grapes they found there. ... With the abandonment of Greenland, needed supplies no long made their way to the way station point in North America, a place known as Vineland, so named for the Vikings claims of finding wild grapes there. Major climate change has happened since.<br /> <br /> They had 'conflicts' with the Native Americans who lived there, perhaps the first acts of American murder? The conflict was probably short-lived while the commerce went on for 500 years. adapted from 'Vineland' <br /> [[http://www.american.edu/TED/ice/vineland.htm]]</div>

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<p>MKOHUT: /* Page 634 */</p> <hr /> <div>==Page 634==<br /> <br /> '''''this first Act of American murder, and the collapse of Vineland the Good'''''&lt;br&gt;<br /> cf ''Vineland'', of course. Especially echoes the scene on page 322, where Zoyd is planning to &quot;harbor in Vineland, Vineland the Good&quot;.<br /> <br /> Vineland was the name given to North America by the Vikings. It was named so because of the wild grapes they found there. ... With the abandonment of Greenland, needed supplies no long made their way to the way station point in North America, a place known as Vineland, so named for the Vikings claims of finding wild grapes there. Major climate change has happened since.<br /> <br /> They had 'conflicts' with the Native Americans who lived there, perhaps the first acts of American murder? The conflict was probably short-lived while the commerce went on for 500 years.</div>

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