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'''Eagres''' 
107; tideal bore in a river, now esp. that of the river Trent.
A tidal bore is a steep-fronted wave caused by the meeting of two tides
or by the constriction of a spring tide as it passes up an estuary.

'''Earth''' 
602

<div id="eic"></div>'''East India Company''' 
139; aka [[J#john|John Company]]; 252; 270; 479; 539; [[East India Company|MORE]]; [http://www.theeastindiacompany.com E.I.C. Website]

'''Ecole de Piraterie''' 
27; French: School of Piracy

'''[[Edges in Mason & Dixon|EDGES]]'''

'''Edgewise, Mr. & Mrs.''' 
353

'''E-do''' 
432; what Tokyo was called in the 18th century

'''Eggslap, Mrs.''' 
455; extortionist cook on M-D Line and Stig's lover; 546; 614

'''Ehud''' 
454; on M-D Line crew

'''E.I.C.''' 
''See'' [#eic">East India Company</a>

'''''Elan'', or ''Esprit''''' 
27; these are the names of two cars manufactured by Lotus, in Great Britain

'''Eldritch Powers''' 
498; Weird, occult, or magical powers (derived from ''elfriche'': fairylande)

'''Elect Cohens''' 358; "Cohen" is the Hebrew word for priest. Much of the [[Book of Leviticus|book of Leviticus]] is devoted to spelling out their duties. As for the "Elect Cohens of Paris," they were an 18th century Masonic group. All of the Cohens are "elect" in the sense that God chose them for his priests; 485; 612

'''Electricity''' 
307

'''Electrophiles''' 
295

<div id="eleven"></div>'''Eleven Missing Days''' 
190; The Gregorian calendar, a modification of the Julian, introduced in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII and at first adopted by only Catholic countries, was not adopted in England until 1752; Schizochronic year of '52, 192; Calendar Reform of '52, 554-55; 603; 629; ''See also'' [[N#newstyle|New Style]]

'''Elijah''' 
297; "the Swamper"

'''Eliza''' 
529; ''See'' [[F#eliza|Fields, Eliza]]

'''Elkton''' 
390; where Dimdown runs clandestine printing press

'''Ellicott Clock''' 
121

'''Elsinore, Battlements of''' 
545

'''Elytra''' 
88

'''Emerson, William (1701-82)'''

:There was living at that time at the village of Hurworth, a few miles from Darlington, an eccentric character, William Emerson, whose unconventionality in dress and manners were rather at variance with the fact that he was a man of education with considerable knowledge of mathematics and physics. ... Jeremiah was brought to notice by someone named Emerson who was probably this man; that he was summoned to the Woolwich academy for examination and evidently satisfied his examiners, for they asked him, "Were you at Oxford or Cambridge?" "Neither," he said. "Well then, where did you get your knowledge of astronomy?" "In my pit-cabin at Cockfield Fell," he replied, meaning doubtless in the office at his father's colliery where he was then engaged in some capacity above ground. <ref>"Jeremiah Dixon and his Brother", by H.P. Hollis, ''Journal of the British Astronomy Association'', v44, n8, June 1934, pp 294-9</ref>

17; Dixon's "old teacher"; Mr. Emerson was a real person, a minor mathematician and scientist of his day who wrote about a dozen scientific books and texts and whom Jeremiah Dixon did in fact know personally. Emerson's mystickal nature may be a Pynchon invention; 73; 98; 215; 251; 268; 317; 318; 423; coat, 500; 556; of Hurworth, 568; 709; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Emerson_%28mathematician%29 Wikipedia entry]

'''Encyclopédie''' 
389; 18th century French encyclopaedia that was the creation of the Philosophes, who were dedicated to the spirit of the Enlightenment, i.e., open-mindedness, secular thought and the advancement of science; Encyclopaedists, 359; ''Encyclopédistes'', 546

'''Ensign Cheer''' 
477

<div id="wheel"></div>'''E-O Wheel''' 
421; E-O: "Even Odds"; a roulette (French: "small wheel") 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.

'''Ephemeris''' 
765; a table showing the assigned places of a celestial body for regular
intervals, used often in Astrology

'''Epictetus (c.55-c.135)''' 
30; a Roman slave later exiled to Nicopolis in Greece, was one of the leading Stoics. Stoicism is a moral doctrine which holds that human beings must conform themselves to the ways of the universe. The Stoics believed that human beings have no control over external events and that the only thing in a person's power is that person's response to events or outlook.

'''Epiphany''' 
760; January 6, in commemoration of the coming of the Magi as the first
manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles

'''Epsilonics''' 
138; Epsilons, 482

'''Eratosthenes (276-197 BC)''' 
574; Greek astronomer who measured how the Earth curved between two cities in Egypt, and used basic goemetry to calculate the distance around the Earth (its circumference).
He also kept a table of star locations and contributed to the field of mathematics. He found a method of finding all the prime numbers.

'''Erin, Daughter of''' 
571; Erin = Ireland; an Irish girl

'''Escombe''' 
634; town in South Africa, in Queensburg

'''Etesian''' 
77; occurring annually

<div id="ethelmer"></div>'''Ethelmer''' 
30; son of Ives LeSpark and nephew of J. Wade LeSpark; the prefix "Ethel-" or "Aethel-" (early German: "noble") in names was fairly common in Britain in the [[Reverend Wicks Cherrycoke|Middle Ages]], e.g. "Aethelmaer" (or "Ethelmer"), "Aethelmund," "Aethelred"; for example, the ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicles'' (9-12th c.) includes an alderman named Ethelmer who died in AD 982, and a Wiccian alderman, Ethelmund, in AD 800; or [[Ethelmer|check this out!]]; "the University man" 260

'''Eucharist''' 
404; Holy communion which symbolizes Christ's body transsubstantiating into
bread, his blood into wine; Doctrine of Transsubstantiation, 404;

'''Euclid (c.330-c.275 BC)''' 
294; Euclid is one of the most influential and best read mathematician of all time. His prize work, Elements, was the textbook of elementary geometry and logic up to the early twentieth century. For his work in the field, he is known as the father of geometry and is considered one of the great Greek mathematicians; 337; 484; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid Wikipedia]

'''Euler, Leonhard (1707-83)''' 
220; Hugely influential Swiss mathematician (studied under [[B#bernoulli|Bernoulli]]) before mathematics was treated as a separate discipline; extended Newtonian mechanics to hydrodynamics; three-body problem; Euler-Langrange equations of mechanics and the calculus of variations; calculus, differential equations, complex analysis.

'''Euphrenia, Aunt''' 
103; Wicks Cherrycoke's sister

'''Euphroes''' 
25; Euphroe is a nautical term for block of wood with holes in it, part of a crowfoot; derived from German ''Jungfrau'' ("young woman" or "mistress") or, still more likely, Dutch ''juffrouw'' = miss; 54

<div id="eurydice"></div>'''Eurydice''' 
147; wife of Orpheus; 207; "like Eurydice, somehow to be redeem'd" 555; ''See'' [[O#orpheus|Orpheus]]

'''Everybeet, Joseph''' 
442; Quartz-scryer; 547

'''Ewing, Mr.''' 
773

'''Exodus 4:14''' 
486; ''See'' [[B#bible|Bible]]

<div id="extra"></div>'''extraterrestrials''' 
219; "distant Onlookers"; "Winters, long and Mortal and soon enough productive of Visitants from beneath the Ice" 531; "the transport of some unseen Influence" 547; Guardians, 662; "powerful Strangers" 649; "Others who are absent, pending their Return" 656; "Now and then, very much closer to the Earth, [Mason] begins to see Lights, moving, flickering, soon gone. [...] "They are going their Way, as we go ours." 724; "These Apparitions in the Sky, we never observe but in Motion, [...] Once safely part of the Night Sky, they may hang there at their Pleasure" 726

'''Ezekiel''' 
400

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'''''Rutabageous Anemia''''' 
Can't squeeze blood from a turnip.

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'''Wicks''' 
(1st appearance within story?)

'''Ranging the land''' 
Cf. "ranges' in part 1 of Against the Day.

'''Unchleigh''' 
Lunch in pig-latin.

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'''qui vive''' 
Who goes there? [French, (long) live who? (a sentry's challenge to determine a person's political sympathies) : qui, who + vive, third person sing. present subjunctive of vivre, to live.]

'''téton dernier''' 
Fr. "latest nipple". Newest Sailor; Newest Suckling.
:Exact (probably non-colloquial) translation of the rural American metaphor ''hind tit'' (or ''teat''). The place of lowest status.

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'''Skanderoon''' 
Iskenderun, Turkish port, eastern Mediterranean.

'''Loxodrome''' 
Line of constant compass bearing on the surface of the Earth. A parallel of latitude is a loxodrome, but most great-circle arcs are not (the exceptions being the Equator and every meridian).

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'''Caffeinist''' 
Anachronism (1830).

'''new Captain''' 
(Did the last one die of his wounds then?)

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'''Mustard-Grinder''' 
???

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'''cheaply opiated Pint''' 
???

'''Quantz Etude''' 
???

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'''Enemas of... Coffee''' 
(Cf AtD)

'''Slow-Matches''' 
???

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'''Turk's Head''' 
A knot built on a cylinder (such as a rope) and having a woven appearance on the surface. Used decoratively or to create a grip. ''Ashley's Book of Knots'' (published in the 1940s, still in print) describes dozens of forms.

'''Matthew Walker''' 
A knot tied in the strands of a rope, forming a projection or knob. The Matthew Walker is generally tied in the middle of the rope; the strands are then laid up again to the end.

'''Jewel Block''' 
???

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'''perfectly beneath us''' 
Astronomy 101 would have to flunk TRP-- anywhere in the Tropics the sun will be overhead on some days. At the Equator, only on the two equinoxes.

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'''Skanderoon''' 
Iskenderun, Turkish port, eastern Mediterranean.

'''Loxodrome''' 
Line of constant compass bearing on the surface of the Earth. A parallel of latitude is a loxodrome, but most great-circle arcs are not (the exceptions being the Equator and every meridian).

==Page 48==

'''Caffeinist''' 
Anachronism (1830).

'''new Captain''' 
(Did the last one die of his wounds then?)

==Page 49==

'''Mustard-Grinder''' 
???

==Page 53==

'''cheaply opiated Pint''' 
???

'''Quantz Etude''' 
???

==Page 54==

'''Enemas of... Coffee''' 
(Cf AtD)

'''Slow-Matches''' 
???

==Page 55==

'''Turk's Head''' 
???

'''Matthew Walker''' 
(Knot?)

'''Jewel Block''' 
???

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'''perfectly beneath us''' 
Astronomy 101 would have to flunk TRP-- anywhere in the Tropics the sun will be overhead on some days. At the Equator, only on the two equinoxes.

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???

'''Herren XVII''' 
Modern Dutch spelling "de Heeren XVII," the 17 Lords, board of governors of the V.O.C.

'''Eighteenth Lord... never be acknowledg'd''' 
???

'''V.O.C.''' 
Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, the Dutch East India Company.

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'''Slaves''' 
Pynchon appears to have cast around for a politically correct subtheme for the Capetown episodes, and picked slavery for want of anything more Pynchonian.

'''set against''' 
Imperialist strategy of divide-and-conquer.

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'''Droster''' 
???

'''Vroom''' 
[http://onelook.com/?w=vroo*&ls=a vroo*]

'''Jethro's Tent''' 
???

'''Nimrods''' 
???

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'''Fascination''' 
Pynchon needed a personality-contrast between M and D, and chose (arbitarily?) to make M melancholy but charismatic (cf Byron?) and Dixon the opposite. It's hard to see from TRP's descriptions what women see in M.

'''Portable Soup... Slabs''' 
An extremely reduced meat stock (not freeze-dried, just boiled down and then dried) in cakes or slabs. Heat in a pan of water and you have soup. Most users regarded it as a necessity rather than a pleasure.

'''Emerson... Darlington Market''' 
???

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'''Kezia''' 
???

'''Kerenhappuch''' 
???

==Page 63==

'''Rattle-Watch''' 
???

'''English Tea-Pot''' 
Free associating, Mason to English to English tea to teapot?

==Page 64==

'''Vrou''' 
Dutch: lady, woman, wife.

'''fatally but not yet mortally''' 
???

==Page 65==

'''''Dagga''''' 
???

==Page 66==

'''dorsal 'Scape''' 
Dorsal landscape = shapely rear end.

'''five Sprites''' 
The women?

'''Asian parlor-game''' 
???

==Page 67==

'''Indifference-Draught''' 
Traditionally saltpetre.

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'''Velleity''' 
???

'''Rix-Dollar''' 
Reichsdollar, a Dutch coin.

German ''Reichsthaler,'' Dutch ''Rijksdaalder''; current throughout the European colonies.

'''Late Blow''' 
???

'''Butter-Bag Castle''' 
???

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'''''karis''''' 
The word was later adapted into English as ''curries.''

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'''Routs and Ridottoes''' 
???

==Page 72==

'''Blight''' 
???

'''''terre mauvais''''' 
???

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'''two Punches in a Droll-booth''' 
(As in Punch-and-Judy slapstick puppets?)

'''Jesuits... Invisible College''' 
???

'''''Nervus Probandi''''' 
???

'''Mr. Peach''' 
???

'''Spotted Cubes''' 
Dice.

'''Sector Wallah''' 
"Wallah," in British India, a specialist or tradesman. Sector Wallah, the person in charge of the Sector.

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'''Stuffata''' 
???

'''dating back to Walpole''' 
???

'''Clive''' 
???

'''Maskelyne''' 
???

'''Robert Waddington''' 
???

'''Bleak''' 
???

'''Piggotts... A long stare''' 
???

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'''Bodkin''' 
???

'''History is the Dance of our Hunt for Christ''' 
Nice.

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'''Herren XVII''' 
Modern Dutch spelling "de Heeren XVII," the 17 Lords, board of governors of the V.O.C.

'''Eighteenth Lord... never be acknowledg'd''' 
???

'''V.O.C.''' 
Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, the Dutch East India Company.

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'''Slaves''' 
Pynchon appears to have cast around for a politically correct subtheme for the Capetown episodes, and picked slavery for want of anything more Pynchonian.

'''set against''' 
Imperialist strategy of divide-and-conquer.

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'''Droster''' 
???

'''Vroom''' 
[http://onelook.com/?w=vroo*&ls=a vroo*]

'''Jethro's Tent''' 
???

'''Nimrods''' 
???

==Page 61==

'''Fascination''' 
Pynchon needed a personality-contrast between M and D, and chose (arbitarily?) to make M melancholy but charismatic (cf Byron?) and Dixon the opposite. It's hard to see from TRP's descriptions what women see in M.

'''Portable Soup... Slabs''' 
An extremely reduced meat stock (not freeze-dried, just boiled down and then dried) in cakes or slabs. Heat in a pan of water and you have soup. Most users regarded it as a necessity rather than a pleasure.

'''Emerson... Darlington Market''' 
???

==Page 62==

'''Kezia''' 
???

'''Kerenhappuch''' 
???

==Page 63==

'''Rattle-Watch''' 
???

'''English Tea-Pot''' 
Free associating, Mason to English to English tea to teapot?

==Page 64==

'''Vrou''' 
Dutch: lady, woman, wife.

'''fatally but not yet mortally''' 
???

==Page 65==

'''''Dagga''''' 
???

==Page 66==

'''dorsal 'Scape''' 
Dorsal landscape = shapely rear end.

'''five Sprites''' 
The women?

'''Asian parlor-game''' 
???

==Page 67==

'''Indifference-Draught''' 
Traditionally saltpetre.

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'''Velleity''' 
???

'''Rix-Dollar''' 
Reichsdollar, a Dutch coin.

German ''Reichsthaler,'' Dutch ''Rijksdaalder''; current throughout the European colonies.

'''Late Blow''' 
???

'''Butter-Bag Castle''' 
???

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'''''karis''''' 
???

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'''Routs and Ridottoes''' 
???

==Page 72==

'''Blight''' 
???

'''''terre mauvais''''' 
???

==Page 73==

'''two Punches in a Droll-booth''' 
(As in Punch-and-Judy slapstick puppets?)

'''Jesuits... Invisible College''' 
???

'''''Nervus Probandi''''' 
???

'''Mr. Peach''' 
???

'''Spotted Cubes''' 
Dice.

'''Sector Wallah''' 
"Wallah," in British India, a specialist or tradesman. Sector Wallah, the person in charge of the Sector.

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'''Stuffata''' 
???

'''dating back to Walpole''' 
???

'''Clive''' 
???

'''Maskelyne''' 
???

'''Robert Waddington''' 
???

'''Bleak''' 
???

'''Piggotts... A long stare''' 
???

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'''Bodkin''' 
???

'''History is the Dance of our Hunt for Christ''' 
Nice.

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'''''Spiritual Day-Book''''' 
???

'''another Term in the Contract''' 
???

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'''Motrix''' 
Female motor. [http://books.google.com//books?q=motrix&btnG=Search+Books&as_brr=0&num=100 GoogleBooks]

==Page 16==

'''edging away''' 
Pynchonian cliche.

'''the forms of ''You''''' 
???

==Page 17==

'''the other fellow''' 
Satan?

'''latest Eclipse''' 
???

==Page 18==

'''mirror'd Lanthorns''' 
'Lanthorn' is a mistaken variant of 'lantern'. [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=lanthorn&searchmode=none etym]

Not mistaken, just a choice of spelling; Shakespeare and many others used this form. --[[User:Volver|Volver]] 08:56, 9 January 2007 (PST)

'''Norfolk Terrier''' 
[http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&q=Norfolk%20Terrier&btnG=Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi pix]

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'''''Ministerial''''' 
???

'''Integral of One over (Book) d (Book)''' 
Freshman calculus gag. The antiderivative or integral of the function 1/x is the function logarithm of x. Written (integral sign) 1/x dx = log x. Substitute (Book) for x. Answer: log (Book) = logbook.

'''Pistoles''' 
Coins. [http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=pistole+coin pix]

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'''upstart Chapels''' 
???

'''singing''' 
???

==Page 21==

'''Fender-Belly''' 
Fender: a cushion hung on the side of a ship to protect it if it bumps into a wharf or so. Old tires now serve this function. Fender-Belly has such a cushion in front.

'''Coconut-Ale''' 
???

'''Macaronis''' 
???

'''Lunarians''' 
???

'''Hostlers''' 
???

'''Glim-Jacks''' 
???

==Page 22==

'''praeternatural... supernatural''' 
???

''''Macaroni Italian Style'''' 
[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Macaroni+Italian+Style 454 hits]

==Page 23==

'''circle of Absence''' 
???

'''fathom''' 
Six feet.

'''Bahf''' 
Bath.

'''Fabulous Jellows''' 
???

'''a-lop''' 
Lopsided. (One OED cite from 1865)

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'''the Point''' 
???

'''Welsh Main''' 
"...in which eight pairs were matched, the eight victors being again paired, then four, and finally the last surviving pair" [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Cock-fighting EB11-cockfighting]

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'''Fulhams''' 
???

'''Three-Threads''' 
???

'''Euphroe''' 
???

'''Hepsie''' 
???

'''smoaks''' 
???

==Page 26==

''''pert''' 
Shortened form of 'apert' (open, bold).

==Page 28==

'''share quarters''' 
Quite possible Mauve and Hepsie are the same girl.

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'''sepia-shadow'd''' 
???

'''Herren XVII''' 
Modern Dutch spelling "de Heeren XVII," the 17 Lords, board of governors of the V.O.C.

'''Eighteenth Lord... never be acknowledg'd''' 
???

'''V.O.C.''' 
Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, the Dutch East India Company.

==Page 59==

'''Slaves''' 
Pynchon appears to have cast around for a politically correct subtheme for the Capetown episodes, and picked slavery for want of anything more Pynchonian.

'''set against''' 
Imperialist strategy of divide-and-conquer.

==Page 60==

'''Droster''' 
???

'''Vroom''' 
[http://onelook.com/?w=vroo*&ls=a vroo*]

'''Jethro's Tent''' 
???

'''Nimrods''' 
???

==Page 61==

'''Fascination''' 
Pynchon needed a personality-contrast between M and D, and chose (arbitarily?) to make M melancholy but charismatic (cf Byron?) and Dixon the opposite. It's hard to see from TRP's descriptions what women see in M.

'''Portable Soup... Slabs''' 
An extremely reduced meat stock (not freeze-dried, just boiled down and then dried) in cakes or slabs. Heat in a pan of water and you have soup. Most users regarded it as a necessity rather than a pleasure.

'''Emerson... Darlington Market''' 
???

==Page 62==

'''Kezia''' 
???

'''Kerenhappuch''' 
???

==Page 63==

'''Rattle-Watch''' 
???

'''English Tea-Pot''' 
Free associating, Mason to English to English tea to teapot?

==Page 64==

'''Vrou''' 
Dutch: lady, woman, wife.

'''fatally but not yet mortally''' 
???

==Page 65==

'''''Dagga''''' 
???

==Page 66==

'''dorsal 'Scape''' 
Dorsal landscape = shapely rear end.

'''five Sprites''' 
The women?

'''Asian parlor-game''' 
???

==Page 67==

'''Indifference-Draught''' 
Traditionally saltpetre.

==Page 69==

'''Velleity''' 
???

'''Rix-Dollar''' 
Reichsdollar, a Dutch coin.

'''Late Blow''' 
???

'''Butter-Bag Castle''' 
???

==Page 70==

'''''karis''''' 
???

==Page 71==

'''Routs and Ridottoes''' 
???

==Page 72==

'''Blight''' 
???

'''''terre mauvais''''' 
???

==Page 73==

'''two Punches in a Droll-booth''' 
(As in Punch-and-Judy slapstick puppets?)

'''Jesuits... Invisible College''' 
???

'''''Nervus Probandi''''' 
???

'''Mr. Peach''' 
???

'''Spotted Cubes''' 
Dice.

'''Sector Wallah''' 
"Wallah," in British India, a specialist or tradesman. Sector Wallah, the person in charge of the Sector.

==Page 74==

'''Stuffata''' 
???

'''dating back to Walpole''' 
???

'''Clive''' 
???

'''Maskelyne''' 
???

'''Robert Waddington''' 
???

'''Bleak''' 
???

'''Piggotts... A long stare''' 
???

==Page 75==

'''Bodkin''' 
???

'''History is the Dance of our Hunt for Christ''' 
Nice.

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'''sepia-shadow'd''' 
???

'''Herren XVII''' 
Modern Dutch spelling "de Heeren XVII," the 17 Lords, board of governors of the V.O.C.

'''Eighteenth Lord... never be acknowledg'd''' 
???

'''V.O.C.''' 
Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, the Dutch East India Company.

==Page 59==

'''Slaves''' 
Pynchon appears to have cast around for a politically correct subtheme for the Capetown episodes, and picked slavery for want of anything more Pynchonian.

'''set against''' 
Imperialist strategy of divide-and-conquer.

==Page 60==

'''Droster''' 
???

'''Vroom''' 
[http://onelook.com/?w=vroo*&ls=a vroo*]

'''Jethro's Tent''' 
???

'''Nimrods''' 
???

==Page 61==

'''Fascination''' 
Pynchon needed a personality-contrast between M and D, and chose (arbitarily?) to make M melancholy but charismatic (cf Byron?) and Dixon the opposite. It's hard to see from TRP's descriptions what women see in M.

'''Portable Soup... Slabs''' 
An extremely reduced meat stock (not freeze-dried, just boiled down and then dried) in cakes or slabs. Heat in a pan of water and you have soup. Most users regarded it as a necessity rather than a pleasure.

'''Emerson... Darlington Market''' 
???

==Page 62==

'''Kezia''' 
???

'''Kerenhappuch''' 
???

==Page 63==

'''Rattle-Watch''' 
???

'''English Tea-Pot''' 
Free associating, Mason to English to English tea to teapot?

==Page 64==

'''Vrou''' 
???

'''fatally but not yet mortally''' 
???

==Page 65==

'''''Dagga''''' 
???

==Page 66==

'''dorsal 'Scape''' 
Dorsal landscape = shapely rear end.

'''five Sprites''' 
The women?

'''Asian parlor-game''' 
???

==Page 67==

'''Indifference-Draught''' 
Traditionally saltpetre.

==Page 69==

'''Velleity''' 
???

'''Rix-Dollar''' 
Reichsdollar, a Dutch coin.

'''Late Blow''' 
???

'''Butter-Bag Castle''' 
???

==Page 70==

'''''karis''''' 
???

==Page 71==

'''Routs and Ridottoes''' 
???

==Page 72==

'''Blight''' 
???

'''''terre mauvais''''' 
???

==Page 73==

'''two Punches in a Droll-booth''' 
(As in Punch-and-Judy slapstick puppets?)

'''Jesuits... Invisible College''' 
???

'''''Nervus Probandi''''' 
???

'''Mr. Peach''' 
???

'''Spotted Cubes''' 
Dice.

'''Sector Wallah''' 
"Wallah," in British India, a specialist or tradesman. Sector Wallah, the person in charge of the Sector.

==Page 74==

'''Stuffata''' 
???

'''dating back to Walpole''' 
???

'''Clive''' 
???

'''Maskelyne''' 
???

'''Robert Waddington''' 
???

'''Bleak''' 
???

'''Piggotts... A long stare''' 
???

==Page 75==

'''Bodkin''' 
???

'''History is the Dance of our Hunt for Christ''' 
Nice.

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==Page 58==

'''sepia-shadow'd''' 
???

'''Herren XVII''' 
Modern Dutch spelling "de Heeren XVII," the 17 Lords, board of governors of the V.O.C.

'''Eighteenth Lord... never be acknowledg'd''' 
???

'''V.O.C.''' 
Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, the Dutch East India Company.

==Page 59==

'''Slaves''' 
Pynchon appears to have cast around for a politically correct subtheme for the Capetown episodes, and picked slavery for want of anything more Pynchonian.

'''set against''' 
Imperialist strategy of divide-and-conquer.

==Page 60==

'''Droster''' 
???

'''Vroom''' 
[http://onelook.com/?w=vroo*&ls=a vroo*]

'''Jethro's Tent''' 
???

'''Nimrods''' 
???

==Page 61==

'''Fascination''' 
Pynchon needed a personality-contrast between M and D, and chose (arbitarily?) to make M melancholy but charismatic (cf Byron?) and Dixon the opposite. It's hard to see from TRP's descriptions what women see in M.

'''Portable Soup... Slabs''' 
???

'''Emerson... Darlington Market''' 
???

==Page 62==

'''Kezia''' 
???

'''Kerenhappuch''' 
???

==Page 63==

'''Rattle-Watch''' 
???

'''English Tea-Pot''' 
Free associating, Mason to English to English tea to teapot?

==Page 64==

'''Vrou''' 
???

'''fatally but not yet mortally''' 
???

==Page 65==

'''''Dagga''''' 
???

==Page 66==

'''dorsal 'Scape''' 
Dorsal landscape = shapely rear end.

'''five Sprites''' 
The women?

'''Asian parlor-game''' 
???

==Page 67==

'''Indifference-Draught''' 
Traditionally saltpetre.

==Page 69==

'''Velleity''' 
???

'''Rix-Dollar''' 
Reichsdollar, a Dutch coin.

'''Late Blow''' 
???

'''Butter-Bag Castle''' 
???

==Page 70==

'''''karis''''' 
???

==Page 71==

'''Routs and Ridottoes''' 
???

==Page 72==

'''Blight''' 
???

'''''terre mauvais''''' 
???

==Page 73==

'''two Punches in a Droll-booth''' 
(As in Punch-and-Judy slapstick puppets?)

'''Jesuits... Invisible College''' 
???

'''''Nervus Probandi''''' 
???

'''Mr. Peach''' 
???

'''Spotted Cubes''' 
Dice.

'''Sector Wallah''' 
"Wallah," in British India, a specialist or tradesman. Sector Wallah, the person in charge of the Sector.

==Page 74==

'''Stuffata''' 
???

'''dating back to Walpole''' 
???

'''Clive''' 
???

'''Maskelyne''' 
???

'''Robert Waddington''' 
???

'''Bleak''' 
???

'''Piggotts... A long stare''' 
???

==Page 75==

'''Bodkin''' 
???

'''History is the Dance of our Hunt for Christ''' 
Nice.

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==Page 58==

'''sepia-shadow'd''' 
???

'''Herren XVII''' 
Modern Dutch spelling "de Heeren XVII," the 17 Lords, board of governors of the V.O.C.

'''Eighteenth Lord... never be acknowledg'd''' 
???

'''V.O.C.''' 
Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, the Dutch East India Company.

==Page 59==

'''Slaves''' 
Pynchon appears to have cast around for a politically correct subtheme for the Capetown episodes, and picked slavery for want of anything more Pynchonian.

'''set against''' 
Imperialist strategy of divide-and-conquer.

==Page 60==

'''Droster''' 
???

'''Vroom''' 
[http://onelook.com/?w=vroo*&ls=a vroo*]

'''Jethro's Tent''' 
???

'''Nimrods''' 
???

==Page 61==

'''Fascination''' 
Pynchon needed a personality-contrast between M and D, and chose (arbitarily?) to make M melancholy but charismatic (cf Byron?) and Dixon the opposite. It's hard to see from TRP's descriptions what women see in M.

'''Portable Soup... Slabs''' 
???

'''Emerson... Darlington Market''' 
???

==Page 62==

'''Kezia''' 
???

'''Kerenhappuch''' 
???

==Page 63==

'''Rattle-Watch''' 
???

'''English Tea-Pot''' 
Free associating, Mason to English to English tea to teapot?

==Page 64==

'''Vrou''' 
???

'''fatally but not yet mortally''' 
???

==Page 65==

'''''Dagga''''' 
???

==Page 66==

'''dorsal 'Scape''' 
Dorsal landscape = shapely rear end.

'''five Sprites''' 
The women?

'''Asian parlor-game''' 
???

==Page 67==

'''Indifference-Draught''' 
Traditionally saltpetre.

==Page 69==

'''Velleity''' 
???

'''Rix-Dollar''' 
Reichsdollar, a Dutch coin.

'''Late Blow''' 
???

'''Butter-Bag Castle''' 
???

==Page 70==

'''''karis''''' 
???

==Page 71==

'''Routs and Ridottoes''' 
???

==Page 72==

'''Blight''' 
???

'''''terre mauvais''''' 
???

==Page 73==

'''two Punches in a Droll-booth''' 
(As in Punch-and-Judy slapstick puppets?)

'''Jesuits... Invisible College''' 
???

'''''Nervus Probandi''''' 
???

'''Mr. Peach''' 
???

'''Spotted Cubes''' 
Dice.

'''Sector Wallah''' 
???

==Page 74==

'''Stuffata''' 
???

'''dating back to Walpole''' 
???

'''Clive''' 
???

'''Maskelyne''' 
???

'''Robert Waddington''' 
???

'''Bleak''' 
???

'''Piggotts... A long stare''' 
???

==Page 75==

'''Bodkin''' 
???

'''History is the Dance of our Hunt for Christ''' 
Nice.

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==Page 58==

'''sepia-shadow'd''' 
???

'''Herren XVII''' 
???

'''Eighteenth Lord... never be acknowledg'd''' 
???

'''V.O.C.''' 
Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, the Dutch East India Company.

==Page 59==

'''Slaves''' 
Pynchon appears to have cast around for a politically correct subtheme for the Capetown episodes, and picked slavery for want of anything more Pynchonian.

'''set against''' 
Imperialist strategy of divide-and-conquer.

==Page 60==

'''Droster''' 
???

'''Vroom''' 
[http://onelook.com/?w=vroo*&ls=a vroo*]

'''Jethro's Tent''' 
???

'''Nimrods''' 
???

==Page 61==

'''Fascination''' 
Pynchon needed a personality-contrast between M and D, and chose (arbitarily?) to make M melancholy but charismatic (cf Byron?) and Dixon the opposite. It's hard to see from TRP's descriptions what women see in M.

'''Portable Soup... Slabs''' 
???

'''Emerson... Darlington Market''' 
???

==Page 62==

'''Kezia''' 
???

'''Kerenhappuch''' 
???

==Page 63==

'''Rattle-Watch''' 
???

'''English Tea-Pot''' 
Free associating, Mason to English to English tea to teapot?

==Page 64==

'''Vrou''' 
???

'''fatally but not yet mortally''' 
???

==Page 65==

'''''Dagga''''' 
???

==Page 66==

'''dorsal 'Scape''' 
Dorsal landscape = shapely rear end.

'''five Sprites''' 
The women?

'''Asian parlor-game''' 
???

==Page 67==

'''Indifference-Draught''' 
Traditionally saltpetre.

==Page 69==

'''Velleity''' 
???

'''Rix-Dollar''' 
Reichsdollar, a Dutch coin.

'''Late Blow''' 
???

'''Butter-Bag Castle''' 
???

==Page 70==

'''''karis''''' 
???

==Page 71==

'''Routs and Ridottoes''' 
???

==Page 72==

'''Blight''' 
???

'''''terre mauvais''''' 
???

==Page 73==

'''two Punches in a Droll-booth''' 
(As in Punch-and-Judy slapstick puppets?)

'''Jesuits... Invisible College''' 
???

'''''Nervus Probandi''''' 
???

'''Mr. Peach''' 
???

'''Spotted Cubes''' 
Dice.

'''Sector Wallah''' 
???

==Page 74==

'''Stuffata''' 
???

'''dating back to Walpole''' 
???

'''Clive''' 
???

'''Maskelyne''' 
???

'''Robert Waddington''' 
???

'''Bleak''' 
???

'''Piggotts... A long stare''' 
???

==Page 75==

'''Bodkin''' 
???

'''History is the Dance of our Hunt for Christ''' 
Nice.

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==Page 47==

'''Skanderoon''' 
Iskenderun, Turkish port, eastern Mediterranean.

'''Loxodrome''' 
Line of constant compass bearing on the surface of the Earth. A parallel of latitude is a loxodrome, but a great-circle arc is not.

==Page 48==

'''Caffeinist''' 
Anachronism (1830).

'''new Captain''' 
(Did the last one die of his wounds then?)

==Page 49==

'''Mustard-Grinder''' 
???

==Page 53==

'''cheaply opiated Pint''' 
???

'''Quantz Etude''' 
???

==Page 54==

'''Enemas of... Coffee''' 
(Cf AtD)

'''Slow-Matches''' 
???

==Page 55==

'''Turk's Head''' 
???

'''Matthew Walker''' 
(Knot?)

'''Jewel Block''' 
???

==Page 56==

'''perfectly beneath us''' 
Astronomy 101 would have to flunk TRP-- anywhere in the Tropics the sun will be overhead on some days. At the Equator, only on the two equinoxes.

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==Page 14==

'''''Spiritual Day-Book''''' 
???

'''another Term in the Contract''' 
???

==Page 15==

'''Motrix''' 
Female motor.

==Page 16==

'''edging away''' 
Pynchonian cliche.

'''the forms of ''You''''' 
???

==Page 17==

'''the other fellow''' 
???

'''latest Eclipse''' 
???

==Page 18==

'''mirror'd Lanthorns''' 
???

'''Norfolk Terrier''' 
[http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&q=Norfolk%20Terrier&btnG=Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi pix]

==Page 19==

'''''Ministerial''''' 
???

'''Integral of One over (Book) d (Book)''' 
Freshman calculus gag. The antiderivative or integral of the function 1/x is the function logarithm of x. Written (integral sign) 1/x dx = log x. Substitute (Book) for x. Answer: log (Book) = logbook.

'''Pistoles''' 
???

==Page 20==

'''upstart Chapels''' 
???

'''singing''' 
???

==Page 21==

'''Fender-Belly''' 
Fender: a cushion hung on the side of a ship to protect it if it bumps into a wharf or so. Old tires now serve this function. Fender-Belly has such a cushion in front.

'''Coconut-Ale''' 
???

'''Macaronis''' 
???

'''Lunarians''' 
???

'''Hostlers''' 
???

'''Glim-Jacks''' 
???

==Page 22==

'''praeternatural... supernatural''' 
???

''''Macaroni Italian Style'''' 
[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Macaroni+Italian+Style 454 hits]

==Page 23==

'''circle of Absence''' 
???

'''fathom''' 
???

'''Bahf''' 
Bath.

'''Fabulous Jellows''' 
???

'''a-lop''' 
Lopsided. (One OED cite from 1865)

==Page 24==

'''the Point''' 
???

'''Welsh Main''' 
???

==Page 25==

'''Fulhams''' 
???

'''Three-Threads''' 
???

'''Euphroe''' 
???

'''Hepsie''' 
???

'''smoaks''' 
???

==Page 26==

''''pert''' 
Shortened form of 'apert' (open, bold).

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==Page 14==

'''''Spiritual Day-Book''''' 
???

'''another Term in the Contract''' 
???

==Page 15==

'''Motrix''' 
Female motor.

==Page 16==

'''edging away''' 
Pynchonian cliche.

'''the forms of ''You''''' 
???

==Page 17==

'''the other fellow''' 
???

'''latest Eclipse''' 
???

==Page 18==

'''mirror'd Lanthorns''' 
???

'''Norfolk Terrier''' 
[http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&q=Norfolk%20Terrier&btnG=Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi pix]

==Page 19==

'''''Ministerial''''' 
???

'''Integral of One over (Book) d (Book)''' 
Freshman calculus gag. The antiderivative or integral of the function 1/x is the function logarithm of x. Written (integral sign) 1/x dx = log x. Substitute (Book) for x. Answer: log (Book) = logbook.

'''Pistoles''' 
???

==Page 20==

'''upstart Chapels''' 
???

'''singing''' 
???

==Page 21==

'''Fender-Belly''' 
???

'''Coconut-Ale''' 
???

'''Macaronis''' 
???

'''Lunarians''' 
???

'''Hostlers''' 
???

'''Glim-Jacks''' 
???

==Page 22==

'''praeternatural... supernatural''' 
???

''''Macaroni Italian Style'''' 
[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Macaroni+Italian+Style 454 hits]

==Page 23==

'''circle of Absence''' 
???

'''fathom''' 
???

'''Bahf''' 
Bath.

'''Fabulous Jellows''' 
???

'''a-lop''' 
Lopsided. (One OED cite from 1865)

==Page 24==

'''the Point''' 
???

'''Welsh Main''' 
???

==Page 25==

'''Fulhams''' 
???

'''Three-Threads''' 
???

'''Euphroe''' 
???

'''Hepsie''' 
???

'''smoaks''' 
???

==Page 26==

''''pert''' 
Shortened form of 'apert' (open, bold).

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