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Luopan is a Chinese magnetic compass, also known as a Feng Shui compass. It is used by a Feng Shui consultant to determine the precise direction of a structure or other item. Since the invention of the compass for use in Feng Shui, traditional feng shui has required its use. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luopan WIKI] | Luopan is a Chinese magnetic compass, also known as a Feng Shui compass. It is used by a Feng Shui consultant to determine the precise direction of a structure or other item. Since the invention of the compass for use in Feng Shui, traditional feng shui has required its use. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luopan WIKI] | ||
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Maquilleuses
Make-up Artist
"ev'ryone here has serv'd upon that Station"
See page 158.
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The Ghastly Fop
Here we finally learn what the Ghastly Fop is all about.
Also, see pages 178, 347 & 457.
Hampstead
Hampstead is an area of London, England, located 4 miles (6.4 km) north-west of Charing Cross. It is located within Inner London. It is part of the London Borough of Camden. It is known for its intellectual, artistic, musical and literary associations and for the large and hilly parkland Hampstead Heath. It is also home to some of the most expensive housing in the London area, or indeed anywhere in the world, with large houses regularly listed for sale at over twenty million pounds. The village of Hampstead has more millionaires within its boundaries than any other area of the United Kingdom. From WIKI
One Motrix
See page 451.
Ranelagh
Ranelagh Gardens were public pleasure gardens located in Chelsea, then just outside London, England in the eighteenth century, named after Ranelagh House, home of the Cole family, who took their title (Earls of Ranelagh) from the district in County Dublin. From WIKI
Thornton-le-Beans
See page 232.
Slad
See page 502.
largely Paper Vengeance, he not only traverses...
Writing injustice largely on paper with that Pynchon word.....what reminds
thee of?
Grub-Street
See page 500.
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their Wonderful Telegraph
See page 515.
Bolsters
A bolster (etymology: Middle English, derived from Old English, and before that the Germanic word bulgstraz) is a long narrow pillow or cushion filled with cotton, down, or fibre. From WIKI
Berm
A berm is a level space, shelf, or raised barrier separating two areas. Berm is a loanword from Dutch. From WIKI
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Zhang
First mentioned on page 142.
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Six Nations
See page 513.
gain'd the Mohawk
Mohawk meaning "eaters of men" (Kanienkeh, Kanienkehaka or Kanien’Kahake, meaning "People of the Flint") are an indigenous people of North America originally from the Mohawk Valley in upstate New York to southern Quebec and eastern Ontario. From WIKI
Captain Zhang
See previous page.
Luo-Pan
File:Example.jpg
Luopan is a Chinese magnetic compass, also known as a Feng Shui compass. It is used by a Feng Shui consultant to determine the precise direction of a structure or other item. Since the invention of the compass for use in Feng Shui, traditional feng shui has required its use. From WIKI
