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'''Sable, Murray'''<br />
300; "itinerate race-driver" crashed out at Whole Sick Crew pad

<div id="sado"></div>'''sadomasochism'''<br />
"a desire he got, off and on, to be cruel," 141; "to flay that tatooing to a heap of red, purple and green debris [...]" 171; "the girl had the passive look of an object of sadism," 221; Winsome and Mafia, 222; song about, 238; Foppl and Bondel, 240; "had the obligatory sport with the black's genitals," 263; "blood crusted on her wrists and ankles," 275; "She wants to be taken, penetrated, ravished." 288; "machines of exquisite torture," 408; "punish their young boy and girl concubines" 444; "cunningly detailed shackles of decadent passion" 454

'''sahha'''<br />
"goodbye" (423) and "hello" (442) in Maltese; according to [[Baedeker|''Baedeker's Guide to the Mediterranean'']], the Maltese language is akin to Arabic, but borrowed much from Sicilian dialect of Italian and English.

<div id="sailors"></div>'''Sailor's Grave'''<br />
9; bar on East Main in Norfolk, Virginia

'''St. Agatha'''<br />
461; ''Passport'': "a young Sicilian saint who, according to local tradition, crossed to Malta to escape persecution during the reign of Emperior Decius (3rd century AD)." <ref>Cook, Thomas, ''Passport's Illustrated Travel Guide to Malta'', from Thomas Cook, Passport Books, a division of NTC Publishing Group, Lincolnwood, Illinois USA, 1994</ref> Below the church of St. Agatha are the catacombs containing pagan, Punic and Jewish burial chambers; "another of [Malta's] minor saints"

'''St. Elmo'''<br />
338; Italian corruption of St. Erasmus, patron saint of seamen

'''St. Francis (of Assisi) (1181-1226)'''<br />
146; Christian saint who founded the Franciscan Order. An ascetic, he dedicated his life to caring for the poor. He is the patron saint of ecology and is often depicted surrounded by birds.

'''St. George'''<br />
188; the patron saint of England, Aragon, Portugal and the Slovenes. He is particularly remembered for his adventures with the dragon and his prowess in fertilizing barren women.

'''St. Giles Fair'''<br />
307; St. Giles is the patron saint of cripples

'''St. John's-bread'''<br />
308; the carob bean; St. John the Baptist was the patron saint of the Knights of Valletta; 312

<div id="paul"></div>'''St. Paul'''<br />
308; In 62 AD, while being taken to Rome (with St. Luke) to be tried as a political rebel, St. Paul was shipwrecked on the north coast of Malta (''Acts'' xxvii, xxviii); he was lodged by Publius, the Roman governor (who became the first Bishop of Malta), and founded a Christian community before the voyage resumed after a three-month stay; 322; 461

'''sakieh'''<br />
82; water wheel used in Egypt for raising water, as from a well, for irrigation purposes

'''salaam aleikum'''<br />
457; Maltese: ''salaam aleikum'' = Arabic: "''salam 'alaikum''" = "Peace be with you"; In Malta they say "''Sliem ghalikom''" meaning "Peace be with you"; "''Shalom aleikum''" - a pun/joke, 465

'''Sala di Lorenzo Monaco'''<br />
163; houses the Uffizi Gallery

'''Salazar'''<br />
176; Venezuelan Vice-Consul in Florence

'''Sant' Ugo di Tagliapiombo di Sammut'''<br />
473; baronage of, which is "a nearly defunct branch of the Maltese nobility"; La Manganese lives in the villa in Sliema

'''Saperstein, Iago'''<br />
419; insurance executive in Washington, D.C.

'''sapper'''<br />
331; military specialist in field fortifiction; one who lays, detects, or disarms mines

'''Sarah'''<br />
270; Herero concubine of Foppl's

'''Sartre, Jean Paul (1905-80)'''<br />
130; French philosopher, dramatist, novelist; existentialist and disciple of Heidegger; "What do you think of Sartre's thesis that we are all impersonating an identity?"

'''Satan'''<br />
''See'' [[D#devil|Devil]]

<div id="satin"></div>'''Satin'''<br />
395; Russian choreographer of [[L#lenlevement|''The Rape of the Chinese Virgins'']]

<div id="savonarola"></div>'''Savonarola, Girolamo (1452-1498)'''<br />
192; a precursor to the Christian Right, he preached a return to traditional values and railed against the humanism of the Medicis who had brought unprecedented prosperity to Florence as well as a different type of artistic sensitivity, a strong scientific impulse and a rediscovered dialogue with the classical world. Savonarola gained a wide following in Florence (his followers were derisively called "the Weepers" because of their penitential practices and professions), but he was hanged and burned after being convicted of falsely claiming visions, religious error and sedition; [[Savonarola|Read the bio...]]

'''Savoy'''<br />
182; hotel on eastern side of Piazza Vittorio Emmanuele in Florence where H. Godolphin wakes up; 188

'''Sayid, Abdul'''<br />
22-23; Arab whom DaConho imagines machine-gunning ("yibble-yibble")

<div id="scapular"></div>'''scapular medal'''<br />
121; worn in place of a sacramental scapular (a pair of small cloth squares joined by shoulder tapes and worn under the clothing as a sacramental)

'''Schachtmeister'''<br />
267; German: "over-seer of unskilled laborers"; 268

<div id="scheissvogel"></div>'''Scheissvogel'''<br />
165; German: "shitbird"; "the birriere"; owns Biergarten und Rathskeller in Piazza Vittorio Emmanuel where Venezuelan anarchists meet, 179; note on cigarette paper, 174; 190; 201; 203

'''Schenley Reserve'''<br />
372

<div id="schlemihl"></div>'''schlemihl'''<br />
"Benny Profane, a schlemihl," 9; "time in reverse or schlemihl's light," 136; "a schlemihl's hopeful face," 148; 214; 215; 216; 285; "But a schlemihl, that was hardly a man: somebody who lies back and takes it from objects, like any passive woman." 288; 369-70; "a schlemihl like me takes and gives nothing back" 370; "Schlemihls don't change." 383; "a world of things that had to be watched out for," 384; "Everybody is some kind of schlemihl." 384; 419; "[Kilroy] acquired the reputation of a schlemihl," 436; "schlemihl-silence," 436; "schlemihl Redeemer," 453;

'''Schleswig-Holstein'''<br />
63; northernmost province of western Germany; ''See also'' [[K#kiel|Kiel Revolt]]

'''schlimazzel'''<br />
Yiddish: "bad luck"; an unlucky person; "schlimazzeled out of existence," 24

'''Schlozhauer's Trocadero'''<br />
22; restaurant 9 miles outside Liberty, New York; 384

<div id="schoenberg"></div>'''Schoenberg, Arnold (1874-1951)'''<br />
57; Austrian-American composer and a fundamental shaper of Twentieth Century music; his [[Chapter_2#schoenberg|string quartets]]; ''See also'' [[E#entropy|entropy]]

<div id="schoenmaker"></div>'''Schoenmaker, Dr. Shale'''<br />
45; German: "beauty maker"; plastic surgeon who performs Esther's nose job; in World War I, 97; Esther's nose job, 102; 294; 296; [[Thelma Schoonmaker|Possible source of name?]]

'''Schultze, Max Johann Sigismund (1825-74)'''<br />
324; German zoologist

'''Schwabing quarter'''<br />
241

'''Schwach'''<br />
259; German: "weak, feeble"; Mondaugen's comrade in his dreams

'''Schwartz'''<br />
126; major villain in Mafia's novel ("weak, Jewish psychopath")

'''Scott, Randolph (1903- )'''<br />
136; archetypal tall, rugged weathered Hollywood cowboy star; 288

'''scungille shell'''<br />
H. Stencil's scungille farm, 62; 178; what Botticelli's Venus seems to be standing in; "There's nothing inside. Only the scungille shell." 370; 384; [[Henry Adams#virgin|Education of Henry Adams]]

<div id="scylla"></div>'''Scylla'''<br />
432; a hideous monster with twelve feet, six heads each with three rows of teeth, and below the waist a body made up of monsters like dogs which barked incessantly. Lived on a treacherous cliff on the Straits of Messina which faced Charybdis on the other side. ''See also'' [[C#charybdis|Charybdis]]

'''''Search for Bridey Murphy, The'''''<br />
95; book Esther is reading on the bus while going to her tryst with Shoenmaker; [[Bridey Murphy|Read more...]]

<div id="senglea"></div>'''Senglea'''<br />
464; "where La Valette and the Knights were making their last stand"; According to [[Baedeker]], one of the Three Cities "Opposite Valletta, on the three central creeks of the Grand Harbour"; ''See also'' [[T#cities|Three Cities]]

'''Sensay, Debbie'''<br />
57; exemplar guest at Whole Sick Crew party

'''Sephardim'''<br />
77; a member of the occidental branch of European Jews settling in Spain and Portugal and later in Greece, the Levant, England, the Netherlands and Americas; 78

'''September 3, 1939'''<br />
308; the day Britain declared war on Germany

'''serail'''<br />
462; Turkish palace

<div id="serpent"></div>'''serpent/snake'''<br />
"her hand snake out all pale to fondle the gearshift" 29; "the shadow of her spine's indentation snaking down a deeper black," 52; serpent-charmers, 85; "how long and snakelike her thighs were" 271; history "a serpent hypnotic and undulant," 307; "History's serpent is one" 310;

<div id="serre"></div>'''Serre Chaude'''<br />
395; French: "closed/dense; hot"; estate of Mélanie and parents in Normandy; "Her room was hot and airless." 396; 407; ''See also'' [[H#hothouse|hothouse]]

<div id="sferics">'''sferics'''</div>
230; "Sferics" is the shortened term for "atmospherics," natural radio frequency emissions in the ionosphere, caused by electromagnetic energy radiated from nearby or distant lightning; 257;

<div id="sgherraccio">'''Sgherraccio'''</div>
414; "the mad Irredentist"; rumored that V. left Paris with him; Mizzist, 472; ''See also'' [[M#mizzi|Mizzi]]; his name is derived from the Italian phrase ''alla sgherra'' which means "cocked" as in a cocked hat, denoting arrogance, and thus ''sgherro'' is a gangster or tough guy. The Italian suffix "-accio" denotes a bad or ugly quality. Thus he's a badass gangsta.

'''Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)'''<br />
308; English playwrite, poet and actor

'''Sheaves, Lieutenant Mungo'''<br />
458; assistant to the OAG on Malta; Father Fairing complained to him in November 1918 about affairs in Malta; 480

[[image:Shepheards-Hotel.jpg|thumb|150px|''Cairo and Egypt: A Practical Handbook''|right]]'''Shepheard's Hotel'''<br />
83; in Cairo;
:Cairo's Shepheard's Hotel figures prominently in many travel accounts. The prime stopping place for visitors to Egypt from its opening in 1845, one of its many distinguished guests was Charles Lang Freer, an American industrialist and art collector who later donated his collection of Asian art to the Smithsonian. By 1909, Freer wrote of the addition of other accommodations in Cairo:
::Tell Louise that old Shepheards remains as dirty and attractive as ever, but new hotels and buildings have sprung up like toad stools since her time, and now, in summer, are empty and ghostly as the ancient ruined mosques.

:C.L. Freer to Colonel Hecker, Shepheard's Hotel, Cairo, July 28, 1909 [http://www.sil.si.edu/ondisplay/nile-notes/guidebooks.htm]

'''Sheridan Square'''<br />
296; in New York City

<div id="shivaree"></div>'''shivaree'''<br />
356; corruption of charivari, a mocking serenade accorded to newly married people. ''See also'' [[C#charivari|Charivari, La]]

<div id="shroud"></div>'''SHROUD'''<br />
284; "synthetic human, radiation output determined"; transparent skin; 368; "Keep cool but care," 369

<div id="shylock"></div>'''Shylock'''<br />
224; Jew in Shakespeare's ''Merchant of Venice''; "A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch/Uncapable of pity, void and empty/From any dreams of mercy" (IV, i)

'''Sirius'''<br />
''See'' [[D#dog|Dog Star]]

'''Situation, The'''<br />
153; Gaucho's, 179; "irreparably bitched up," 188; "no Situation had any objective reality," 189; in Südwest, 234; "The Situation as an N-Dimensional Mishmash," 470; "short of anatomizing each soul, what hope has anyone of understanding a Situation?" 470; described as a complex system, 477; 479; "The Situation is always bigger than you. . .It has like God its own logic and its own justification for being, and the best you can do is cope." 483; "Any Situation takes shape from events much lower than the merely human." 483

'''Sixth Fleet'''<br />
429; in Malta; USS Scaffold is part of it

'''sjambok'''<br />
240; cattle whip

<div id="skin"></div>'''skin'''<br />
"thousands of freckles, all of which Schoenmaker had done himself." 45; "he was all points," 58; "His skin was hard, as if it were part of the skull" 59; "beneath the careful shell of hair, skin and fabric" 70; "dead skin," 87; "were the skins of others actually beginning to show the blotches of disease?" 90; Vheissu, 170-71; "having caressed the skin of each alien place," 184; "They want only the skin of a place," 204; "bone of the starved corpse there just under the skin" 244; "bleached their hair white and browned their skins" 257; "her back, beaded with old sjambok scars" 270; "how clearly the musculature of her hips stood under the skin, skin with a certain glow," 271; "the Bondel's scarred back," 279; "Its skin was cellulose acetate butyrate," 284; "its skin vinyl plastisol," 285; "Satyrs with the skin of werewolves," 307; "the sky [God's] clear cheek" 339; "knavery of the skin which could harbour such germs," 339; "the skins of fruits only highlighted all shiny by light," 380; ''See also '' [[#surface|surface]]; [[Lucretius]]

<div id="slab"></div>'''Slab'''<br />
35; painter, former love of Esther and Rachel, and one of The Whole Sick Crew; lives with Raoul and Melvin; described, 56; and Esther, 49, 282; and Rachel, 49; Catatonic Expressionism, 282; Whole Sick Crew party, 287; 295; yo-yoing king, 302-03; 347; 360; at Idlewild airport, 363-64; [[Slab|Speculations...]];

<div id="sliema"></div>'''Sliema'''<br />
313; Town which lies across the Marsamuscetto Harbor from Valletta; where the Bad Priest lives in Malta; 339; [[Map of Malta]]

'''Slime, Kenneth'''<br />
91; "at the Embassy's girl [...] "; British agent

'''Snow, Hank (1914- )'''<br />
357; popular Canadian country-western singer and Grand Ole Opry regular; he moved to the U.S. in 1948 and became a U.S. citizen in 1957

'''Socialist Awareness'''<br />
405; grows, according to Kholsky

'''Sodom'''<br />
319; biblical city destroyed by God for its wickedness (''Genesis'' 18-19)

'''Sofia'''<br />
63; Capital of Bulgaria, located between the Rila Mountains and the Balkan Mountains. In the course of its history it has been often plundered and bombarded; during World War II it was occupied by Germany until 1944 when it fell to Soviet forces and a communist state was established.

<div id="songs"></div>'''songs/compositions'''<br />
Christmas Eve on Old East Main, 9-10; Auld Lang Syne, 11; Poor Forlorn Civilian (P.F.C.), 13; Chow Down, 13; It Came Upon a Midnight Clear, 15; "Blue Suede Shoes," 32; Algerian pacifist song, 32; Wanderin', 34; Tienes Mi Corazón, 41; Porcépic and Goodfellow "singing a jovial song," 65; "It isn't the girl I saw you wiv in Brighton" (Porpentine sings), 87; ''Manon Lescaut'' (Puccini), 91; "Leavenworth Glee Club Sings Old Favorites" 124; "Volkswagens in Hi-Fi," 124; hillbilly song, 130; ''Madame Butterfly'', 139; "The eyes of a New York woman," 141, 214; spontaneous musical ("Non dimenticar, che t'i'ho voluto tanto bene"), 141; O Salutaris Hostia, 145; ''Don Giovanni'' (Mozart),158; "an old revolutionary song" 188; ''Onward Christian Soldiers'', 189; Let Me Call You Sweetheart, 214; "a song about Davy Crockett," 219; Winsome's parody of Davy Crockett song, 220; Fugue Your Buddy, 223; Pig's and Charisma's drinking song, 224-25; Godolphin's fox-trot, 249; Auf dem Zippel-Zappel-Zeppelin, 251; "splinters of sentimental ballads," 258; "minor-keyed Charleston," 260-61; Down By The Summertime Sea (sung by H. Godolphin), 278; Foppl crowd's "rousing valediction," 279; Bondel's song, 279; Partridge in a Pear Tree, 282; Tractatus song, 288-89; "I want some young blood," 300; "vulgar song," 324; Colonel Bogie's March, 325; Sylvana, 327; "Come with me to Lenox," 351; "It Don't Hurt No More," 357; Fever (Little Willie John), 353; Melvin's song in praise of Slab, 355; "Don't Be Cruel," 361; Taps, 376; You Always Hurt the One You Love, 380; music-hall song, 396; waltz, 400; Porcépic's Latin song composed for Black Mass, 401; Russian ballads, 403; Adoration of the Sun (tango played on the piano by Porcépic), 404; revolutionary songs, 405; The Old Gray Mare, 427; "Let's all go down and piss on the Forrestal" 427; People Will Say We're In Love (from ''Oklahoma''), 429; Route 66, 433, 434; Every Day I Have the Blues, 434; C'est Magnifique, 438; Sally and Sue, Don't Be Cruel, 438; I Only Have Eyes For You, 440; I Apologize, 440; F-U-C-K-Y Y-O-U-S-E, 441; "monotonous Levantine lanterloo," 460; S. Stencil's, 466; La Bella Gigogin, 477; "old vaudeville songs," 481; ''See also'' [[M#music|music]]

<div id="soul"></div>'''soul'''<br />
"soulless stomachs," 23; "artistic soul," 56; "they talked a great deal about soul and the anti-intellectual," 60; "Soul cannot commend no-soul." 78; "Anything that can get drunk [...] must have some soul" 78; "a soul worth saving," 121; "faces pale and soulless as the other side of the night," 138; "the soul's passage down the toilet," 146; "I wondered about the soul of [Vheissu] [...] if it had a soul." 170; "Aristocracy is in the soul." 224; Stencil "afflicted by a kind of soul-transvestism" 226; "To fetch your soul away from light," 254; "for these the dearest canvases in his soul's gallery" 273; "where the soul's passage was more a mass migration across that choppy fetch of Atlantic" 273; soul depression, 277; "You don't even have a soul. How can you talk." 286; "It was her soul he loved." 296; "didn't every girl want a man to love the soul, the true them?" 297; soul-dentist, 297; "Her soul would be there on the outside, radiant, unutterably beautiful." 306; "So we do sell our souls: paying them away to history in little installments." 306; "false assumption that identity is single, soul continuous" 307; "two souls united before God" 313; Bad Priest "prowling for souls," 314; "attached like a black slug to her soul," 314; 318-19; dual soul, 320; "zygote has no soul," 321-22; "a mechanical and alien growth which at some point acquires a soul" 322; Fausto's, 322; "every civilian with a soul was underground" 323; 324; "not to probe the wards of either soul" 337; "the object of male existence was to be like a crystal: beautiful and soulless" 340; "'God is soulless?' [...] 'Having created souls, He Himself has none? So that to be like God we must allow to be eroded the soul in ourselves. Seek mineral symmetry, for here is eternal life: the immortality of rock." 340; 354; 360; "clumsy soul," 383; "Who knew her 'soul,'" 400; "the mirror's soulless gleam," 411; soul-dentist, 422; "If the soul [...] is light," 447; "[Stencil] has a soul possessed by the devil sleeping in his bed." 450; "Seeking perhaps to reclaim souls," 469; "short of anatomizing each soul, what hope has anyone of understanding a Situation?" 470; "And there he would float before final assault on the gray hemispheres: the soul." 471; "Valletta seemed soul-kissed into drowsy compliance." 485

'''soutane'''<br />
313; ankle-length garment with close-fitting sleeves worn by clergy; 339

'''SP'''<br />
10; Navy Shore Patrol

'''SPA 4 Able'''<br />
377; radar antenna on USS Scaffold

'''Space/Time Employment Agency'''<br />
215; on lower Broadway near Fulton, where Profane looks for a job

'''Spad'''<br />
98; French WWII fighter planes; 387

<div id="sphere"></div>'''Sphere, McClintic'''<br />
52; [[McClintic Sphere|Name?]] black jazz saxophonist at V-Note; "hand-carved ivory alto saxophone," 59; contract with Outlandish Records, 223; 280; 298; "Give me back my eye." 299; 348; 365; "keep cool, but care," 366; Mister Flab, 366

'''Sphinx'''<br />
74; near Cairo; an ancient Egyptian tomb/monument with, according to [[Baedeker]], "the form of a recumbent lion with the head of a king (Khephren?), wearing a headcloth adorned with the royal serpent. In front of the breat is the image of a god, much weather-worn. The head also is sadly mutilated, the nose and beard have broken off [...]" (p. 462)

'''Spitfires'''<br />
314; British WWII fighter planes; 323; 331; 338

'''Spugo, V.A. ("Brushhook")'''<br />
113; plotter for Alligator Patrol

'''Squasimodeo'''<br />
419; former civil servant under Mussolini who brought the Vivaldi Kazoo Concerto to Petard's attention

'''Star of Malta'''<br />
444; Laferla steamer ship H. Stencil takes from Syracuse to Valletta in 1956

'''star-shell'''<br />
323; a shell that on bursting releases a shower of brilliant stars used to illuminate

<div id="h-stencil"></div>'''Stencil, Herbert (b. 1901)'''<br />
52; "world adventurer," yarn spinner and member of the Whole Sick Crew; on mission to find out who/what V. is/was; [[Who are Herbert Stencil's Parents?|"Born in 1901, the year Victoria died"]], 52; working in London for the F.O. in 1939, 54; "waiting for a coincidence," 56; "quick-change artist," 61; "always referred to himself in the third person", 62; in the sewer, 128; shot in Fairing's Parish, 131, 450; with Zeitsuss, "smiling his father's Foreign Service smile," 132; Limey, 132; 152; "architect-by-necessity of intrigues and breathings-together, 225; " and whatever impersonations that might involve," 226; "contemporary man in search of an identity," 226; Stencilized, 228; 296; on attempt at yo-yoing ("came out with one rib to his umbrella broken and a vow never to do it again."), 303; "a dual man, aimed two ways at once: towards peace and simplicity on the one hand, towards an exhausted intellectual searching on the other. Perhaps Maratt, Dnubietna and Maijstral are the first of a new race. What monsters shall rise in our wake. . ." 309; 319; return to Malta, 367; talking to Profane, 385-92; "on a private manhunt. Or womanhunt, no one is sure," 386; "Was it boredom [...] or was it something buried in the son that needed a mystery, any sense of pursuit to keep active a borderline metabolism?" 386; "had left pieces of himself--and V.--all over the western world," 389; the metal dentures "a peace-offering" to Malta, 389; steals Eigenvalue's metal teeth, 391; "Stencil's mad time-search," 406; departs for Malta, 422-23; in Malta, 443; His prayer: "Fortune, may Stencil be steady enough not to fasten on one of these poor ruins at his own random or at any least hint from Maijstral. Let him not roam out all Gothic some night with lantern and shovel to exhume an hallucination, and be found by the authorities mud-streaked and mad, and tossing meaningless clay about." 447; ; "God knows how may Stencils have chased V. about the world"--Fausto M., 451; in love with his own death? 451; off to Stockholm, 453; 489; [[Henry Adams#History|Adams on Stencil]]

:Richard Romeo speculates the following:

:Is Herbert Stencil somehow related to Herbert Spencer who is mentioned
in Henry Adams' [[Henry Adams|Education]]? Seems plausible.

:Some facts:

# Herbert Spencer, an Englishman, said that society and living organisms are alike because they both grow and die.
# Spencer was regarded as one of the most brilliant intellects of modern times. He wrote many books about society.
# Human society, according to Spencer, is moving to a better life, even though hardships exist. Once society reaches a balance, it will enjoy peace, freedom, and harmony.

<div id="s-stencil"></div>'''Stencil, Sidney (1859-1919)'''<br />
52; father of Herbert ([[Who are Herbert Stencil's Parents?|"His father. Ha."]]); served in the Foreign Office; 63; questioning the Gaucho, 181; 188; "Soft-shoe Sidney," 189; died in Valletta in 1919; and Carla Maijstral, 319; 381; meets Fausto Sr., 444-45; 450; in Malta gathering intelligence for the F.O., 465; "old soft-shoe artist," 469; dream of microscopic brain exploration, 471 ("the network of white halls in his [H. Stencil's] own brain" 53); theory of Paracletian politics, 480; meets "V.", 486-88; affair w/V., 488, 489; His prayer: "let him [Maijstral] be less and less sure as he gathers years [...] " 491; waterspout (June 10, 1919), 492

'''Str. San Giovanni'''<br />
318; in Malta, terminates at the Harbour

<div id="reale"></div>'''Strada Reale'''<br />
308; now Kingsway, in Valletta; many streets in Malta had Italian names, but they were given English names after Italy declared war in 1940; 457; 467; ''See also'' [[K#kingsway|Kingsway]]

<div id="strait"></div>'''Strait Street'''<br />
416; in Valletta, Malta, aka "the Gut." Passport's ''Illustrated Guide to Malta'': "The exceptionally narrow Strait Street was the only place where the Knights were allowed to fight duels. Once a notorious red-light area, known to British servicemen as 'The Gut', this is still fairly sleazy at night." <ref>Cook, Thomas, ''Passport's Illustrated Travel Guide to Malta, from Thomas Cook'', Passport Books, a division of NTC Publishing Group, Lincolnwood, Illinois USA, 1994, p.47</ref>; aka "Strada Stretta," 468, 469; Strada Streeta, 474

<div id="messina"></div>'''Straits of Messina'''<br />
432; The narrow passage between Sicily and Italy, flanked, in Greek legend, by [[C#charybdis|Charybdis]] and [[#scylla|Scylla]]

'''strand wolf'''<br />
252; brown hyenas that prowl the beaches in Südwest; 254; 267; 268; 274

'''Strategic Air Command'''<br />
124; elite U.S. Air Force bomber squadron

<div id="street"></div>'''street'''<br />
"they had all fused into a single abstracted Street,"10; "brief promenade in," 25; "Your boy's road that I'll never see," 27; Profane "roamed around the streets late that night studying the classified by streetlight." 36; "if [Profane] kept going down that street, not only his ass but also his arms, legs, sponge brain and clock of a heart must be left behind to litter the pavement, be scattered among manhole covers." 40; "its streets the courtyards of limbo," 52; "how many more pools of light he could reasonably expect from the street at night." 76; "one wrong word would put [Profane] closer than he cared to be to street level," 137; Lucille's eyes "seemed to absorb all the light in the street" 140; "sorrow so big it filled him, leaded out his eyes and the holes in his shoes to make one big pool of human sorrow on the street," 141-42; "Behind them the street was chaos." 151; "dream-street," 151; "the seeming vastness of that street," 188; "Blood began to stain the pavements," 209; "If under the stree and under the sea are the same then [Profane] was king of both." 215; "singing a death-song and seaving side to side in a chain, broadside to the street's center-line." 244; Meroving "led him by the hand through narrow streets," 244; "The landscape was an empty street, drastically foreshortened," 282; "Either the street or all cooped up." 291; "ready to run to the street," 294; di Chirico's, 303; "who can hear [...] vehicles in the street when one is occupied with the past?" 307; "Children listen [...] to bombs above in the streets." 310; "This empty street." 317; "[Fausto II] took at this time to shambling about in the streets, during raids." 323; "we all must [...] find ourselves on the street [...] of the 20th Century, at whose far end or turning  we hope  is some sense of home or safety. But no guarantees. A street we are put at the wrong end of, for reasons best known to the agents who put us there. If there are agents. But a street we must walk." 323-24; "in dream there are two worlds: the street and under the street. One is the kingdom of death and one of life." 325; "dream-street" 325; "Somehow the street  the kingdom of death  was friendly." 330; "vibrating like a shadow in some street where the light is too clear," 336; "the Bad Priest had been known to gather about him a small knot of children in the street and give them sermons." 340; "colonial lanes," 351; "How many times have you told me about under the street, and on the street, and in the subway?" 358; "Dedicated to the duck's-ass heads and bursting straight skirts of the Street." 360; "on or off the Street, there is no one of us you can point to and call well" 360; "it is two dimensional, as is the Street," 409; century's, 450; "the Street for them separately to return to," 453; "I am the Street," 454; "The street [...] was level and clear. Hand in hand with Brenda [...] Profane ran down the street." 455; "Such were the topological deformities of this street that one seemed to walk through a succession of music-hall stages," 468; "frenzy of the street," 470 ; "the politics of the street can overtake even the most stable-appearing of governments; like death it cuts through and gathers in all ranks of society." 471; "The street and the hothouse; in V. were resolved by some magic, the two extremes." 487; ''See also'' [[H#hothouse|hothouse]]; [[J#june|June Disturbances]]; [[U#underground|underground]]

'''striker'''<br />
16; Navy: an apprentice who has received schooling or on-the-job training for a particular "rating" (job) aboard ship.

'''subaltern'''<br />
269; subordinate

'''succubus'''<br />
Demon assuming female form to have sex with men while they sleep; Rachel visited Profane "occasionally [...] at night, like a succubus," 30; "She would come to him at night not as a succubus but seeking instruction," 121; "Astarte now leaned from the xebec's bowsprit [...] as if it were male and asleep and she [...] a succubus preparing to ravish." 457

<div id="suck"></div>'''Suck Hour'''<br />
13; the hour in the Sailor's Grave bar when the boys get to suck the tit-shaped beer taps; ''See also'' [[M#maman|Maman]]; [[M#mothers|mothers/matriarch]]

<div id="sudan"></div>'''Sudan'''<br />
459; Republic in NE Africa. In the early 19th century Egypt gained control of N. Sudan but was unable to unify the fragmented tribes of the South sector. After British-Egyptian forces retook control in 1898, Sudan was under joint rule of Britain and Egypt (Britain exercised actual control), from 1899-1956; ''See also'' [[F#fuzzy|Fuzzy-Wuzzy]]; [[G#gordon|Gordon, General]]; [[K#khartoum|Khartoum]]; [[K#kitchener|Kitchener, Sirdar]]; [[M#mahdi|Mahdi]]; [[M#mohammed|Mohammed Ahmed]]

<div id="sudwest"></div>'''Südwest'''<br />
228-279; Deutsch-Südwestafrika; German colony from 1892 until 1915 when it was taken by South African forces during WWI. It was made a Protectorate of South-West Africa under the League of Nations; now called Namibia, it was under South African control until 1990 when it gained its independence. [[Südwest]]; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namibia Wikipedia]

<div id="suez"></div>'''Suez Canal'''<br />
79; In 1956, Egyptian president [[N#nasser|Nasser]] seized the Suez Canal, which was under British-French control. Anglo-French forces intervened, but differences of opinion in Britain, the United States and elsewhere, combined with veiled Russian threats, caused the British and French to back down; 186; 428; "We [the U.S.] voted in the Security Council with Russia and against England and France on this Suez business." 431, 448

'''Su Feng'''<br />
396; character played by Mélanie, "who is tortured to death defending her purity against the invading Mongolians"

<div id="suicide"></div>'''suicide'''<br />
compulsion to, 24; H. Stencil's mother, 52; H. Godolphin contemplating,183; "the suicidal fact that below the glittering integument of every foreign land there is a hard dead-point of truth." 184; "Venezuelan problem [...] no way out of it except suicide." 195; Elena's attempt, 318-19; Winsome's attempt, 361-62; 390; "Itague thought [Mélanie's death] was suicide," 414; "suicidal workhorse trumpet," 434-35; Elena with S. Stencil ("Threatening suicide?"), 483; "There is always the way out that Carla Maijstral threatens to take." 484; ''See also'' [[B#brody|Brody]]

'''Sullivan, Ed (1902-74)'''<br />
25; originally a newspaper columnist, he hosted a popular TV variety show from 1948 to 1971.

'''Sultan'''<br />
462; in Constantinople who imprisons Mara; aka "His Ghostly Magnificence," 463

'''Surd, Howie'''<br />
372; drunken yeoman on USS Scaffold; 424

<div id="surface"></div>'''surface'''<br />
skin-pattern, 26; 47; "beneath the careful shell of hair, skin and fabric lay holed and gray linen and a ne'er-do-well's heart." 70; "But beneath?" 74; plate, 90; love of face, 97; "cultural harmony," 103; 115; 139; shallow myth, 142; Lucille, 143; 146; accidents of history, 155; "mosaic of tilted street-surfaces," 139; Mantissa's eyes, 159-60; Vheissu "like the skin of a tattoed savage." 170; "that skin. . .would begin to get between you and whatever it was in her that you thought you loved." 171; tourists "having caressed the skin of each alien place," 184; "As if something trembled below its surface, waiting to brust through." 201; tourists "want only the skin of a place, the explorer wants its heart." 204; "Nothing" beneath the skin, 204; "The skin which had wrinkled through my nightmares was all there had ever been [...] a dream of annihilation." 206; Botticelli's Venus ("gaudy dream of annihilation" - 210), 209; SHROUD: "Its skin was cellulose acetate butyrate, a plastic transparent not only to light but also to X-rays, gamma rays and neutrons." 284; painting's surface, 295; "a row of false shop fronts" 324; 345; Paola's "protective coloration," 350; texture, 354; "the colors on the wall-size painting were shifting," 355; "enveloped them like a velvet teaser-curtain" 400; V.: "skin radiant with the bloom of some new plastic;" 411; "Because we do paint the side of some Peri or other [...] We call it society. A new coat of paint;" 461; "And all faces are blank masks." 487; 492; ''See also'' [[E#espionage|espionage]]; [[#schoenmaker|Schoenmaker, Dr. Shale]]; [[#skin|skin]]; [[Lucretius]]

'''''Surgeon Dentist''', The'''''<br />
154; Paris 1728 first edition of owned by Eigenvalue

'''Suzanna Squaducci'''<br />
21; luxury liner; 33; taking Paola, Stencil and Profane to Malta in late September 1956, 367; departs for Malta, 423

<div id="swakopmund"></div>'''Swakopmund'''<br />
235; Südwest city located midway down the coast; 266; [[Südwest|Map of Südwest]]

'''Sylvia'''<br />
349; Ruby's friend

'''Syracuse'''<br />
444; city and port in southeast Sicily

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'''a/a'''<br />
328; anti-aircraft

'''Abbasiyeh'''<br />
85; the slaughterhouse of, in Cairo, where Girgis the mountebank [charlatan] performs

'''abdelawi'''<br />
82; a desert fruit; 85

'''abortion'''<br />
50; Esther and Slab debate on, 353-54; "I'm against it because of what it does to the abortionee." 357; "that lump that wasn't aborted," 358

'''Abstentionists'''<br />
472; non-participants in political life or in international affairs; 477

'''Achphenomenon'''<br />
277; In German, an Achphänomen might be translated as an "'ah!' experience"; as used here, perhaps an epiphany

'''Adams, Henry (1838-1918)'''<br />
62; American historian and author of, among other books, [[E#education|''The Education of Henry Adams'']] an autobiography which won the Pulitzer prize in 1919;

From Pynchon's short story ''Entropy'':

:Henry Adams, three generations before his own, had stared aghast at Power; Callisto found himself now in much the same state over Thermodynamics, the inner life of that power, realizing like his predecessor that the Virgin and the dynamo stand as much for love as for power; that the two are indeed identical; and that love therefore not only makes the world go round but also makes the boccie ball spin, the nebula precess. <ref>Pynchon, Thomas, Slow Learner, Jonathan Cape, 1985, pp.84-85</ref>

[[Henry Adams|Excerpts...]]; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Brooks_Adams Wikipedia Entry]

'''A.E.F.'''<br />
99; American Expeditionary Force; 102

'''AF of L'''<br />
115; American Federation of Labor; ''See also'' [[R#reuter|Walter Reuter]]

'''Aghtina, Mrs.'''<br />
324; wife of Saturno Aghtina; 332

'''Aghtina, Saturno'''<br />
324; he and his wife lived in sewer during Siege of Malta and took care of Paola while Fausto and Elena were out; 332

'''Aïeul, P.'''<br />
63; "café waiter and amateur libertine" at Place Mohammed Ali in Alexandria

'''AKA'''<br />
429; U.S. Navy: Attack Cargo Ship

'''alcázar'''<br />
62; a Spanish fortress or palace

'''Alden, John (1599?-1687)'''<br />
352; Pilgrim settler who came to America on the Mayflower and settled in Plymouth, Massachussetts

'''Alexandria'''<br />
64; A port city of northern Egypt, where the Nile River flows into the Mediterranean Sea, on a strip of land between Lake Mareotis and the sea. Founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BC, it was the capital of ancient Egypt.</p>

<div id="algeria"></div>'''Algeria'''<br />
18; a North African republic bounded on the west by Morocco, on the southwest by Western Sahara, Mauritania and Mali, on the southeast by Mali, on the east by Libya, northeast by Tunisia and on the north by the Mediterranean Sea. Gained independence from France, after a long struggle, in 1962. ''See also'' [[F#fln|F.L.N.]]

'''Alice'''<br />
70; the subdeb who is "the ruin of" Ralph MacBurgess; they have sex in Athenaeum Theatre in Lardwick-in-the
Fen; "a ghost of," 76

'''Alligator Patrol'''<br />
39; 42-43; 153

'''alter kocker'''<br />
133; Yiddish: "old shitter": a disgusting old man

'''Amiens'''<br />
395; city in Normandy on the Somme

<div id="anarchist"></div>'''anarchist'''<br />
"anarchists, plotting to assassinate Sir Alistair Wren," 64; "Yusef was an anarchist," 66; "devotee of annihilation," 67; "a jaunty anarchist," 474; ''See also'' [[N#nihilism|nihilism]]

'''andanti'''<br />
311; probably variant on "andante" to describe a musical performance instruction to play slowly

<div id="andrea"></div>'''Andrea Doria'''<br />
247; Italian battleship which shelled Fiume in 1920 after D'Annunzio declared war on Italy; ''See also'' [[F#fiume|Fiume]]

'''Andreas'''<br />
240; Bondel male Mondaugen discovers being whipped by Foppl

<div id="angels"></div>'''angels'''<br />
"voice of an angel," 15; Angel of Death, 29; "waggled his shoulderblades like wings," 52; "dissolute" angel, 58; "squeezing her shoulderblades together," 58; "shaped like the Angel's trumpet," 82; "The Lord's angel, Gebrail," 83; Angel Asrafil, 84; "the intense halo of a paraboloid reading light," 96; "an irritated young man with wings," 178; guardian angels, 183; "Poetry is not communication with angels," 318; recording angel, 338; "cabal of faceless angels," 348; guardian angels, 362;
''See also'' [[#asrafil|Angel Asrafil]]; [[D#death|Death]]; [[G#gebrail|Gebrail]]

<div id="asrafil"></div>'''Angel Asrafil'''<br />
82; sounds trumpet on Last Day (Moslem); 84; 85

'''Angelo'''<br />
180; guardia who keeps an eye on the Gaucho while he's pissing

'''Angevine, Miss'''<br />
379; lived in Profane's old neighborhood

'''Anglo Airlines'''<br />
362; flight booked to Cuba on for Esther's abortion

'''Annexationists'''<br />
487; group in Italy that wants to annex Malta, in 1919

'''Annunziata, Sister Maria'''<br />
145; mentioned by Profane in talking with Fina about screwing

'''Antarctic'''<br />
"headlong dive for the Pole," 184; "attempting the Pole in midwinter," 185; 192; "What sends the English into these terrible places?" 204; "I have been at the Pole." 205; "a dream of annihilation," 206; "Everyone has an Antarctic" says Hugh Godolphin, 241; "the cold tongue of a current from the Antarctic south," 266; "cold as Antarctica," 271; the moon's, 274; "Only by the merest happenstance did he escape the private logic of that ice world." 484

'''Anthroresearch Associates'''<br />
217; where Profane works; subsidiary of Yoyodyne, 284

'''Antonia'''<br />
82; daughter of Waldetar

<div id="aparicio"></div>'''Aparicio, Luis (1934- )'''<br />
41; great Venezuelan-born shortstop for the Chicago White Sox. He was Rookie of the Year in 1956. (Odd that some kid in New York should know about him in January 1956, eh?) In 1959, White Sox owner Bill Veeck dreamed up a stunt whereby the diminutive Aparacio and his double-play partner, Nellie Fox, were abducted by a bunch of midgets posing as Martians who landed at Chicago's Comiskey Park in a helicopter. Aparacio was admitted to the baseball Hall of Fame in 1984; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Aparicio Wikipedia]

'''APCs'''<br />
449; little white (or pink) pills that contain aspirin, phenacetin and caffeine and are taken to reduce fever, relieve headache pain, etc.

'''apocalypse'''<br />
"Ploy saw apocalypse," 11; "Perhaps in a matter of weeks [...] the whole world will be plunged into apocalypse" 192; holocaust, 194; "slow apocalypse," 316; "What Apocalypse?" 472; 474; ''See also'' [[#armageddon|Armageddon]]

'''apocheir'''<br />
9; 35; the yo-yo's farthest point from the yo-yo-ist's hand; ''apo'' is Greek for "away," "off," "apart, or "from"; ''cheir'' (''χείρ'') is ancient Greek for "hand".

'''Apollo'''<br />
394; Greek god of youth, manly beauty, poetry, music and the wisdom of the Oracles

'''apostrophe'''<br />
465; the addressing of an absent person or personified thing

'''Aquilina'''<br />
451; shipfitter who has information on V.; (The victim in the [[Ghallis Tower Murder]] was named Aquilina.)

'''Arab, the'''<br />
78; with a pistol wrestling w/Goodfellow on train, 81; 82

'''arête'''<br />
474; a sharp-crested ridge in rugged mountains

'''Aristotle (384-322 BC)'''<br />
354; Greek philosopher

'''Ark Royal'''<br />
429; a class of British aircraft carrier, each one called "Ark Royal" (It has always been a tradition of the British Navy to preserve the same name throughout the dynasty of ships of war)

<div id="armageddon"></div>'''Armageddon'''<br />
461; In the book of Revelation in the Bible, the site of the final, conclusive battle between good and evil

'''Armistice'''<br />
458; the armistice ending WWI, November 11, 1918; 459; 467; 480

'''Arno'''<br />
159; river on which Florence is situated; 188

'''arras'''<br />
215; a wall hanging or screen of tapestry; 239; 260

'''arrondissement'''<br />
394; an administrative district in some large French cities

'''art'''<br />
"what Dadaists called a ready-made," 56; Catatonic Expressionism, 56, 296; "Cubist, Fauve and Surrealist cheese Danishes," 282; revolt against Catatonic Expressionism, 282; Cheese Danish #35, 282; Cheese Danish #41, 295; "leprous pointillism of orris root," 296; "technique for the sake of technique," 297; di Chirico's street, 303; di Chirico's ''Hebdomeros'', 307; accidental, 348; Cheese Danish #56, 353; the Whitney, 415; National Gallery, 418; Dali's Last Supper, 418; "cubist moth," 451; objects, 486-87; ''See also'' [[B#botticelli|Botticelli, Sandro]]; [[D#chirico|de Chirico, Giorgio]]

'''Ash Wednesday'''<br />
308; first day of Lent which ends with Easter, 40 days later; 317

'''aspetti'''<br />
165: Italian: "be on the lookout"

<div id="astarte"></div>'''Astarte'''<br />
456; Astarte is also known as Astarat and Astoreth. She is an incarnation of Ishtar and Inanna. This Semitic Goddess was worshipped by the Syrians, Palestinians, Phoenicians, Egyptians and other Semitic Tribes. King Solomon built a Temple to her as Astoreth, near Jerusalem. Astarte was worshipped as many things  to the Egyptians, She was honored as a Goddess of War and tenacity; to the Semites, She was a Goddess of Love and Fertility. Among the Greeks She was transposed into the Goddess of Love Aphrodite. In the Bible, She is referred to as "the abomination" (from [http://www.spiralgoddess.com Spiral Goddess Grove website]); figurehead on Mehemet's xebec, 492; See also [[H#harvitz|Esther Harvitz]] (Esther = Astarte)

'''Athenaeum Theatre'''<br />
70; in Lardwick-in-the-Fen, Yorkshire, where Ralph MacBurgess is busted

'''auberge'''<br />
307; the Order of the Knights of St. John was divided into eight ''langues'' (nationalities), each having its own auberge (place of assembly). The original eight [Allemagne (Germany), Aragon (Spain), Auvergne, England, France, Italy, Provence and Portugal] were established in Vittoriosa. All were built by Cassar between 1571 and 1590; bombed, 319

<div id="avalanche"></div>'''Avalanche, Father'''<br />
312; Maltese priest who is the Bad Priest's counterpart; 341; with H. Stencil, 448; 482; [[Henry Adams#avalanche|possible Etymology]]

'''avanti'''<br />
178; Italian: "Quick!"

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<div id="random movements">55/?? - '''His random movements'''</div>
Kind of opposite of a yo-yo's movements.

<div id="mixolydian">56/52 - '''Fergus Mixolydian'''</div>
In music terminology, the mixolydian mode is a major scale with a flatted, aka minor or (appropriate to "the laziest living creature in New York") "lazy" seventh degree.

<div id="schoenberg">57/53 - '''Schoenberg's quartets'''</div>

Arnold Schoenberg devised serialism, a new approach to organizing musical notes that doesn't rely on the diatonic scale (with its whole and half steps giving certain notes prominance over other notes and creating tonal polarization). According to strict serialism, all twelve notes of the chromatic scale are used, arranged in rows, and each note in the row must played in order. Thus, all the notes have equal weight, and by analogy serialism can be seen as entropic in that it moves from the asymmetry of tonal polarization towards symmetry and equality of notes. As Gustav Schlabone says in [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow''] about another German who pushed the envelope, "[Beethoven] represents the German dialectic, the incorporation of more and more notes into the scale, culminating with dodecaphonic democracy, where all the notes get an equal hearing." (440) If one played all the Schoenberg quartets (as the WSC does at their party), beginning with the D major string quartet (1897) and ending with String Quartet No. 4 (1936), a progression from lower to higher entropy would be traced.

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[[image:Henry_Adams.jpg|thumb|160px|Henry Brooks Adams, 1838-1918|right]]''The Education of Henry Adams''<br />
Written in 1905, published privately in 1906<br>
(Full text available online at [http://www.online-literature.com/henry-adams/education-of-henry-adams/ The Literature Network])

(page numbers refer to Literary Classics edition published in 1983)<ref>Adams, Henry, ''Mont Saint Michel and Chartres and The Education'', The Library of America, 1983</ref>

==History==
:Historians undertake to arrange sequences,—called stories, or histories,—assuming in silence a relation of cause and effect. These assumptions [...] have been astounding, but commonly unconscious and childlike; so much so, that if any captious critic were to drag them to light, historians would probably reply, with one voice, that they had never supposed themselves required to know what they were talking about. [...] Adams, for one, had toiled in vain to find out what he meant. He had even published a dozen volumes of American history for no other purpose than to satisfy himself whether, by the severest process of stating, with the least possible comment, such facts as seemed sure, in such order as seemed rigorously consequent, he could fix for a familiar moment a necessary sequence of human movement. [...] [But ] [w]here he saw sequence, other men saw something quite different, and no one saw the same unit of measure. [...] [H]e insisted on a relation of sequence, and if he could not reach it by one method, he would try as many methods as science knew. Satisfied that the sequence of men led to nothing and that the sequence of their society could lead no further, while the mere sequence of time was artificial, and the sequence of thought was chaos, he turned at last to the sequence of force. (pp.1068-69)

:[T]he historian's business was to follow the track of the energy; to find where it came from and where it went to; its complex source and shifting channels; its values, equivalents, conversions. It could scarcely be more complex than radium; it could hardly be deflected, diverted, polarised, absorbed more perplexingly than other radiant matter. Adams knew nothing about any of them, but as a mathematical problem of influence on human progress, though all were occult, all reacted on his mind, and he rather inclined to think the '''Virgin''' easiest to handle. (p.1074-75)

==Politics==
:As an affair of pure education the point is worth notice from young men who are drawn into politics. The work of domestic progress is done by masses of mechanical power,—steam, electric, furnace or other,- which have to be controlled by a score or two of individuals who have shown capacity to manage it. The work of internal government has become the task of controlling these men, who are socially as remote as heathen gods, alone worth knowing, but never known, and who could tell nothing of political value if one skinned them alive. Most of them have nothing to tell, but are forces as dumb as their dynamos, absorbed in the development or economy of power. They are trustees for the public, and whenever society assumes the property, it must confer on them that title; but the power will remain as before, whoever manages it, and will then control society without appeal, as it controls its stokers and pit-men. Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central power-houses. The conflict is no longer between the men, but between the motors that drive the men, and the men tend to succumb to their own motive forces. (pp. 1104-05)

:As history unveiled itself in the new order, man's mind had behaved like a young pearl oyster, secreting its universe to suit its conditions until it had built up a shell of nacre that embodied all its notions of the perfect. Man knew it was true because he made it, and he loved it for the same reason. [...] The woman especially did great things, creating her deities on a higher level than the male, and, in the end, compelling the man to accept the '''Virgin''' as guardian of the man's God. The man's part in his Universe was secondary, but the woman was at home there, and sacrificed herself without limit to make it habitable, when man permitted it, as sometimes happened for protection against forces of nature. She did not think of her universe as a raft to which the limpets stuck for life in the surge of a supersensual chaos; she conceived herself and her family as the center and flower of an ordered universe which she knew to be unity because she had made it after the image of her own fecundity; and this creation of hers was surrounded by beauties and perfections which she knew to be real because she herself had imagined them. [...]

:Neither man nor woman ever wanted to quit this Eden of their own invention, and could no more have done it of their own accord than the pearl oyster could quit its shell; but although the oyster might perhaps assimilate or embalm a grain of sand forced into its aperture, it could only perish in the face of the cyclonic hurricane or the volcanic upheaval of its bed. Her supersensual chaos killed her.

:Such seemed the theory of history to be imposed by science on the generation born after 1900. (pp. 1138-39)

:The force of the '''Virgin''' was still felt at Lourdes, and seemed to be as potent as X-rays; but in America neither Venus nor '''Virgin''' ever had value as force;—at most as sentiment. No American had ever been truly afraid of either.

:This problem in dynamics gravely perplexed an American historian. The Woman had once been supreme; in France she still seemed potent, not merely as a sentiment but as a force; why was she unknown in America? for evidently America was ashamed of her, and she was ashamed of herself, otherwise they would not have strewn fig-leaves so profusely all over her. When she was a true force, she was ignorant of fig-leaves, but the monthly-magazine-made American female had not a feature that would have been recognised by Adam. The trait was notorious, and often humorous, but anyone brought up among Puritans knew that sex was sin. In any previous age, sex was strength. Neither art nor beauty was needed. Everyone, even among Puritans, knew that neither Diana of the Ephesians nor any of the oriental Goddesses was worshipped for her beauty. She was Goddess because of her force; she was the animated dynamo; she was reproduction—the greatest and most mysterious of all energies; all she needed was to be fecund. (p.1070)

:[H]e was even less conscious than they of the force that created it all,—the '''Virgin''', the Woman,—by whose genius "the stately monuments of superstition" were built, through which she was expressed. (p.1073)

:But otherwise one must look for force to the Goddesses of Indian mythology. The idea died out long ago in the German and English stock. St. Gaudens at Amiens was hardly less sensitive to the force of the female energy than Matthew Arnold at the Grande Chartreuse. Neither of them felt Goddesses as power,—only as reflected emotion, human expression, beauty, purity, taste, scarcely even as sympathy. They felt a railway-train as power; yet they, and all other artists constantly complained that the power embodied in a railway-train could never be embodied in art. All the steam in the world could not, like the '''Virgin''', build Chartres.

:Yet in mechanics, whatever the mechanicians might think, both energies acted as interchangeable forces on man, and by action on man all known force may be measured. Indeed, few men of science measured force in any other way. After once admitting that a straight line was the shortest distance between two points, no serious mathematician cared to deny anything that suited his convenience, and rejected no symbol, unproved or unprovable, that helped him to accomplish work. The symbol was force, as a compass-needle or a triangle was force, as the mechanist might prove by losing it, and nothing could be gained by ignoring their value. '''Symbol or energy, the '''Virgin''' had acted as the greatest force the western world ever felt, and had drawn man's activities to herself more strongly than any other power, natural or supernatural, had ever done; the historian's business was to follow the track of the energy; to find where it came from and where it went to; its complex source and shifting channels; its values, equivalents, conversions. It could scarcely be more complex than radium; it could hardly be deflected, diverted, polarised, absorbed more perplexingly than other radiant matter. Adams knew nothing about any of them, but as a mathematical problem of influence on human progress, though all were occult, all reacted on his mind, and he rather inclined to think the '''Virgin''' easiest to handle.''' [Emphasis added] (p.1074-75)

==1900==
:Satisfied, the future generation could scarcely think itself, for even when the mind existed in a universe of its own creation, it had never been quite at ease. As far as one ventured to interpret actual science, the mind had thus far adjusted itself by an infinite series of infinitely delicate adjustments forced on it by the infinite motion of an infinite chaos of motion; dragged at one moment into the unknowable and unthinkable, then trying to scramble back within its senses and to bar the chaos out, but always assimilating bits of it, until at last, in 1900, a new avalanche of unknown forces had fallen on it, which required new mental powers to control. If this view was correct, the mind could gain nothing by flight or by fight; it must merge in its supersensual multiverse, or succumb to it. (pp. 1140-41)

==References==
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<div id="duse">239/??? - '''the nine planets'''</div>
J. Kerry Grant in his ''Companion to V.'' correctly points out that a planetarium operating in 1922 would show only eight planets, as Pluto was not discovered until 1930, but he misses the point that the story "had become, as Eigenvalue put it, Stencilized." (p. 228)

<div id="duse">248/268 - '''She was past forty and in love'''</div>
"I am past forty and I am in love" was reportedly Duse's response when told about D'Annunzio's novel, ''Il Fuoco'', in which she is portrayed unflatteringly.

<div id="firelily">258/280 - '''a lovely mare named Firelily'''</div>
According to Molly Hite in ''Ideas of Order in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon'' (p.162, fn.12), one of the Third Reich's V-weapons was called "Feuerlily" (citing von Braun and Ordway's ''A History of Rocketry and Space Travel'' at page 112).

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'''Pagano, Patsy'''<br />
31; "250-pound fire controlman" on USS Scaffold

'''Palatinate'''<br />
262; the territory of a high officer of an imperial palace

'''Palazzo Corsini'''<br />
212

'''Palazzo Vecchio'''<br />
163; in Florence

'''Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (c.1525-1594)'''<br />
195; Italian composer; 198

'''Paola'''<br />
''See'' [[M#paola|Maijstral, Paola]]

'''para'''<br />
18; paratrooper who taught Paola songs; 30

<div id="paraclete"></div>'''Paraclete'''<br />
472; one called up to support or aid another; used as a title of the Holy Ghost, the Comforter; "Paracletian politics," 479-80

<div id="paranoia"></div>'''paranoia'''<br />
"argument from design," 85; Hanne, 89; Schoenmaker, 101; "grouping the world's random caries [tooth decay] into cabals," 153; V. "connected. . .with one of those grand conspiracies. . .of Armageddon," 155; "any cluster of phenomena can be a conspiracy," 154; "a plot, a cabal grand and mysterious," 157; Hugh Godolphin thinks the cafés in Florence are being watched, 168, 172; "how accidental was it, really?" 175; "There is something afoot [...] bigger than a single country." 177; "grand cabal," 193; "something that could not have been an accident," 193; Britain's plot to force a wedge into the Triple Alliance, 196; Vheissu plot, 196-97; H. Godolphin "pursued by agents," 205; "Plot Which Has No Name," 226; "The Big One, the century's master cabal," 226; Mondaugen's, 246; "inner circle," 297; "international movement seeking to overthrow Western civilization," 412; "Events seem to be ordered into an ominous logic." 449; "Yes, yes. Thirteen of us rule the world in secret." 451 (see p.360); "Now and again events would fall into ominous patterns." 480; 483; ''See also'' [[C#counterforce|Counterforce/anti-paranoia]]

'''parasol'''<br />
embroidered, 158; 168; 169; 170; 249; 395; "a tightrope-walker's," 457

'''Parisot, M.'''<br />
310; aka [[V#vallette|Grand Master Jean de la Valette Parisot]]

'''Parker, Charlie ("Bird") (1920-55)'''<br />
60; great jazz alto (and tenor) saxophonist, composer, bandleader, and innovator in the "be-bop" style

'''Parris Island'''<br />
22; Marine Corps base in South Carolina

<div id="partridge"></div>'''Partridge in a Pear Tree'''<br />
282; universal symbol which will, according to Slab, "replace the Cross in western civilization"; ''See also'' [[#perdrix|Perdrix]]

'''Passchendaele'''<br />
459; The village of Passchendaele was located on a ridge in Flanders, which gave it strategic importance. In November 1917, it was the site of a bloody battle in World War I where the British, led by Haig, attacked the Germans in Ypres in Flanders; the battle became a symbol of the futile and horrific warfare of the Western Front; the British losses exceeded 245,000 and the German losses were under 200,000. Because of heavy rains, the battlefield became a mire of mud.

'''Patrie, La'''<br />
406; "the closest one could get to an anti-Semetic newspaper" in Paris

'''Paul'''<br />
121; a rat with whom rat Veronica has been fighting in Fairing's Parish

'''Peenemünde'''<br />
227; located on northern tip of the island of Usedom in the Baltic Sea off northern Germany, it was the site of the German V-2 program in WWII until the allies bombed it in 1943

'''Pegler, Westbrook (1894-1969)'''<br />
355; American journalist who worked for the King Syndicate from 1944 to 1962. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1941 for exposing labor corruption, but is more noted for his vitriolic attacks on public institutions and figures. He later wrote for ''American Opinion'', an organ of the ultraconservative John Birch Society.

<div id="pentecost"></div>'''Pentecost'''<br />
festival held by Jews on the 50th day after the 2nd day of Passover during which some receive the gift of tongues (Acts ii, 1-4); Christians call it White Sunday or Whitsun; "like a tongue at," 92; 472; ''See also'' [[T#tongues|tongues]]

<div id="perdrix"></div>'''Perdrix'''<br />
282; French: "partridge"; ''See also'' [[#partridge|Partridge in a Pear Tree]]

'''Peri'''<br />
460; an old felucca (narrow fast lateen-rigged sailing vessel of the Mediterranean)

'''Petard'''<br />
419; "unemployed musicologist" at Washington, DC, party who has "dedicated his life to finding the lost Vivaldi Kazoo Concerto"

'''Petitpoint, Robin'''<br />
444; mild-faced clergyman on the Laferla steamer Star of Malta who beats Stencil at stud poker

'''Petrie, Flinders (1853-1942)'''<br />
74; English archaeologist and, after 1881, exclusively an Egyptologist. He surveyed the pyramids and temples of Giza and was the author of more than 100 books.

'''Peugot'''<br />
474; French car in which S. Stencil rides out to La Manganese's villa with Demivolt

'''Pharos'''<br />
64; 450-foot high lighthouse built by Ptolemy II. Philadephus in 280-279 BC on the island of the same name off Alexandria. One of the seven wonders of the world, it was destroyed in an earthquake in 1375; 73

'''philtre'''<br />
324; drug which gives magical powers, or arouses sexual passion

'''Phoenicia Hotel'''<br />
317; in Valletta; 318; 427; 428; 444

'''Phoenicians'''<br />
461; early Mediterranean civilization believed to have been the first to settle Malta ca. 1440 BC. They called the island ''Malet'' which means "protected"; ''See also'' [[/pynchon/v/extra/malta.html#prehistory">Malta's Early History]]

'''Piali'''<br />
463; Turkish pasha who laid siege to Malta with Dragut and Mustafa; ''See also'' [[G#greatsiege|Great Siege]]

'''Piazza della Signoria'''<br />
157; in Florence

'''Piazza Vittorio Emmanuele'''<br />
179; in Florence

'''Pike-Leeming'''<br />
183; one of the survivor's of Vheissu, "incurable and insensate in a home in Wales"

'''Pilar'''<br />
135; friend of Geronimo's and Angel's

'''Pinguez'''<br />
432; Filipino "steward's mate striker" puking in the Four Aces in Valletta

'''PIO'''<br />
220; U.S. Navy: Public Information Office; succeeded by PAO (Public Affairs Office) in 1948. The PIO began as a group of 40 officers brought together during WWII to address the burgeoning need for media communications. Soon after the war, the expansion of media technology, including the advent of television, resulted in the formation of a designated public affairs officer corps.

'''Piraeus'''<br />
19; ancient city in southeastern Greece, founded in the 5th centure BC as a port for Athens, and now the largest Greek port; 431

'''Pitti Gallery'''<br />
178; in Florence

'''Place Mohammed Ali'''<br />
63; in Alexandria

'''Place Pigalle'''<br />
397; in Parish where Itague had been a bartender

'''Playboys, The'''<br />
137-38; New York street gang (freelance, not tied to a locale); 143; 150

'''Ploy'''<br />
11; sailor on Scaffold who had all his teeth removed; 35; 436

'''Poiret'''<br />
399; Paris clothes designer; 401

'''poetry'''<br />
316; 318; Siege, 320; 325; 325-26; 326; 331; poetry in a vacuum, 332; poets in a vacuum, 339;

'''points of the rose'''<br />
335; the compass is called the Rose of the Winds, the points being the 32 points of the compass

<div id="politics"></div>'''politics'''<br />
"object of political assassination," 66; "Mountebank is a dying profession [...] All the good ones have moved into politics." 87; "Damn men and their politics. Perhaps it was a kind of sex" 90; "Others--politicians and machines--carried on wars" 101; "I'm an engineer, politics isn't my line." 242; "Politics is a kind of engineering, isn't it. With people as your raw material." 242; "deceptively unpolitical," 274; "his engineer's politics," 316; "political rage," 318; "socialist tide," 386; "clandestine political activity," 405; "The Socialist Awareness grows," 405; "politics of slow dying," 410; game of, 459; 460-61; "If there is any political moral to be found in this world [...] it is that we carry on the business of this century with an intolerable double vision." 468; "men of no politics," 468; 470; 471-79; "Paracletian politics," 479-80; 480; [[Henry Adams#Politics|Adams on politicians]]

'''Ponte San Trinitá'''<br />
165; in Florence; 212

'''Ponte Vecchio'''<br />
159; bridge over the Arno in Florence; 161; 187

'''Popular Front'''<br />
274; "humanity was reduced to a nervous, disquieted, forever inadequate but indissoluble Popular Front against deceptively unpolitical and apparently minor enemies"

<div id="porcepic"></div>'''Porcépic, Vladimir'''<br />
396; French: "porcupine"; avante-garde French composer of the music for The Rape of the Chinese Virgins; sexual-combinations chart, 408; Porcépiquistes, 412; 450

<div id="porpentine">'''Porpentine (d.1898)'''<br />
63; An early form of "porcupine" which TRP says "is lifted from ''Hamlet'', I, v" [''Slow Learner'', p. 19]; Englishman in tweeds with badly sunburned face, travelling with Mr. Goodfellow; "[[Chapter 3#rose|murdered]] in Egypt under the duello by Eric Bongo-Shaftsbury]]" 63; on train, 80; in Cairo, 83; climbing out hotel window, 86; Goodfellow's "partner" 87; Lepsius' "competitor" in bierhalle, 91; [[Porpentine's Murder|murdered in Summer Theatre in Ezbekiyeh Gardens]], 94; theme: "the act of love and the act of death are one" 410; "Belonged to a time where which side a man was on didn't matter: only the state of opposition itself, the tests of virtue, the cricket game?" 458

'''Port Arthur'''<br />
247; the town and port in northeastern China founded as a British naval base in 1857 during the Anglo-French war against China

'''Port Said'''<br />
186; on the north end of the Suez Canal, where H. Godolphin and Mantissa met in 1895

'''Porte-des-Bombes'''<br />
454; a ceremonial gateway which forms the entrance to Floriana, a suburb of Valletta

<div id="portuguese"></div>'''Portuguese frontier'''<br />
232; African territories controlled by Portugal, e.g. Angola which borders Südwest on the north; [[Südwest|Map of Sudwest]]

'''Posta Centrale'''<br />
207; in Florence

'''Potamós'''<br />
219; cook on USS Scaffold. The word, in both ancient and modern Greek, means "River".

'''Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)'''<br />
354; American poet and critic; ''Cantos'', 354

'''Powell, Dick (1904-63)'''<br />
438; "the American Singing Marine"; From [[../resources.html#film">''The Film Encyclopedia'']] : "Cherubic crooner of
Warner Bros. musicals of the 30s, often opposite Ruby Keeler, he made a surprising transition to dramatic roles [...] A former band vocalist and instrumentalist and occasional MC, he made his film debut in 1932."<br />

<div id="presley"></div>'''Presley, Elvis (1935-1977)'''<br />
American rock'n'roll singer and stylist. "Blue Suede Shoes," 32; "Don't Be Cruel," 361; 362

<div id="principe">'''''Principe, Il (The Prince)'''''<br />
162; Dedicated to "The Magnificent Lorenzo de Medici," ''The Prince'', is a treatise on the art of government written by Niccolò Machiavelli; written during a time when Italy was divided among rival bands of feuding noble bandits and profligate and ambitious popes and cardinals, it called for a prince with absolute power to preserve the all-powerful state and described how this prince should conduct himself. Also, it held that [[The Prince#Fortune|individual agency (virtú) and chance (fortuna)]] influenced the human condition in approximately equal proportions, and discussed the benefits of a prince being a [[The Prince#The_Lion|"lion" or a "fox"]]; "a unique and private gloss on ''The Prince''" 199; 472; 489; ''See also'' [[F#fortune|Fortune]]; [[M#machiavelli|Machiavelli]]; [[V#virtu|virtú]]

<div id="prisoners"></div>'''Prisoners-at-Large and Restricted Men's Club'''<br />
375; on USS Scaffold, formed for the purpose of hatching plots against [[K#knoop|Knoop]]; ''See also'' [[L#lych|Lych, Captain C. Osric]]

<div id="privateer"></div>'''privateer'''<br />
462; an armed private ship commissioned to cruise against the commerce or warships of an enemy; or, the commander or one of the crew of a privateer

<div id="profane"></div>'''Profane, Benny (b. 1932)'''<br />
9; Catholic/Jew, 19; meets Rachel for the [[Profane Meets Rachel|first time]], 23; girl-shy, 24; "god of a darkened world," 26; in love with Rachel, 27; "he might vomit. Public displays of sentiment often affected him this way." 29; mousetraps, 32-33; described, 36; "the word [love] doesn't mean anything." 36; "his only function to want," 37; "inanimate objects and he could not live in peace." 37, 368; "his own disassembly," 40; "Profane came to tally his time in reverse or schlemihl's light: time on the job as escape, time exposed to any possibility of getting involved with Fina as assbreaking, wageless labor." 136; aka Benny Sfacimento ("decay"), 139; at Space/Time Agency, 213-17; meets Rachel for the [[Profane Meets Rachel|second time]], 216; wooed by Whole Sick Crew, 225; reading ''Existential Sheriff'' at Anthroresearch, 284; "timescale was skewed toward the past," 285; conversations with SHROUD, 286-87, 295; "'sometimes women remind me of inanimate objects. Young Rachel, even: half an MG." 288; 300; "a born pedestrian," 356; "the Depression Kid," 358; at Idlewild airport, 363-64; return to Malta, 367; saved Pig's life, 372; deck ape, 377; becomes member of Whole Sick Crew, 380; departs for Malta, 422
23; "he'd hunted one pinto beast through Fairing's Parish; cornered and killed it in a chamber lit by some frightening radiance." 450; off with Brenda, 455

'''Profane, Gino'''<br />
379; Benny's father

'''Prometheus'''<br />
127; One of the Titans of Greek myth, famous as a benefactor of man. Zeus had him make men out of mud and water; however, pitying mankind, he stole fire from heaven and gave it to them. As punishment, Zeus chained him to Mount Caucasus where an eagle preyed on his liver all day, the liver being renewed at night. Hercules eventually released him and killed the eagle. Zeus sent Pandora to Earth with her box of evils to balance the gift of fire.

'''Ptolemy Philopator (d.204 BC)'''<br />
77; King of Egypt from 222 BC, he began his reign by killing his mother. He is portrayed as an indolent and is blamed him for the decline of Ptolemaic power both at home and abroad.

'''Punch'''<br />
470; British satire/humor magazine published 1841-1992 and 1996-2002; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_%28magazine%29 Wikipedia]

'''Purgatory'''<br />
323; in Catholicism, an intermediate place of punishment where sinners may make satisfaction for past sins and become fit for heaven

<div id="puritans"></div>'''Puritans'''<br />
God's elect, 50; 55; damned, 244; 351; 411; "Only Providence creates." 450; 452

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