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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; a former brand of Canadian whiskey

<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 Bogey 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; "Be-Bop-A-Lula," 418; 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; "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66," 433, 434; Every Day I Have the Blues, 434; C'est Magnifique, 438; "The Song of the Marines" (lyric "Sally and Sue, Don't Be Blue"), 438; I Only Have Eyes For You, 440; I Apologize, 440; "Mickey Mouse March" (parodied as "F-U-C-K-E-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 />
[[Image:MaltaVallettaStradaStretta.jpg|thumb|Straight St. in Valletta at night in 2004|right]]
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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'''laager'''<br />
267; Dutch: a temporary camp surrounded by wagons and impedimenta as a defense

'''Laferla steamer'''<br />
444

'''Lake Mareotis'''<br />
78; in northern Egypt near Alexandria, at the mouth of the Nile

'''Lamarck, Jean (1744-1829)'''<br />
47; French naturalist and pre-Darwinian evolutionist

'''Lampedusa'''<br />
462; small island about 110 miles southwest of Malta; "invisible circle centered at Xaghriet Mewwija with Lampedusa on the rim," 462; "Draw a line from Malta to Lampedusa. Call it a radius." 492; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lampedusa Wikipedia]

'''Land of the Axe'''<br />
321; what Africa was called by early peoples

'''lanterloo'''<br />
460; Oxford Universal Dictionary (1955 ed.): "the unmeaning refrain of a popular 17th c. song"; "lantur(e)lu" is French for "nonsense." Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary, 2d Ed.: an old card game in which the winner of each trick takes a portion of the pool, while losing players are obligated to contribute to the next pool. I suppose TRP means some sort of nonsense song, though he may be taking liberties with "lanterloo."

'''Lardwick-in-the-Fen'''<br />
70; in Yorkshire, England. Town where MacBurgess is busted for sex with a minor; also where Victoria Wren lived

'''Lascaris Wharf'''<br />
492; on Malta; Lascaris was a 17th Century Grand Master [[Map of Malta]]

'''Last Day'''<br />
84-85; "when the prophet Christ re-establishes el-Islam as the religion of the world"

'''la Ville-Lumière'''<br />
401; French: "the City of Light" - aka Paris

'''Lazar'''<br />
374; deck ape on USS Scaffold; 425; 428

'''League of Nations'''<br />
235; A forerunner of the United Nations, the League was set up under a provision of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 to mediate disputes among nations; then-U.S. President Woodrow Wilson was the principal architect; he saw it as a "covenant of friendship" between the nations which would be "a guarantee of peace." Ironically, the US Senate refused the ratify the Treaty of Versailles and the U.S. Never joined the League; 243

'''League of the Red Sunrise'''<br />
157; nihilist group at Dartmouth led by Evan Godolphin; 158

'''Left Bank'''<br />
406; student/artist area south of the Seine in Paris (the left bank of a river is the bank on your left as you're facing downstream)

'''Le Havre'''<br />
388; port in northern France established in 1517 as ''Le-Havre-de-Grâce'' ("harbor of grace")

'''Leman'''<br />
430; "the red-headed water-king" in Valletta who "always looks for rocks"; a ship's water king is responsible for the supply of potable and feed water

<div id="lenlevement">'''L'Enlèvement des Vierges ChinoisesRape of the Chinese Virgins'''</div>
396; ballet produced by Itague, choreographed by Satin and composed by Porcépic; [[The Rite of Spring|premiered in 1913]]; performance, 412-14

'''Lenox'''<br />
170; 292; in Massachussetts, site of jazz festival; 298; 348; 350; song, 351; [[Chapter 10#lenox|''The Secret Integration'']]

'''Lepsius'''<br />
69; German with blue eye-glasses; 75; "One can have enough [...] of this soiled South." 75; 78; 81; 82; "A jewel merchant who had lent money to the Mahdists" 84; "a salesman  said he  of ladies' jewelry" 88; lover of Hanne, 88-89; at opera in Ezbekiyeh Gardens, 93; [[Chapter 3#lepsius|Lepsius connection]]

'''Le Soleil'''<br />
393; "the Orleanist morning paper" in 1913 Paris. The Orleanists were supporters of the Orleans family in its claim to the throne of France by descent from a younger brother of Louis XIV.

'''Leutwein, Major Theodor'''<br />
255; Südwest administrator who took away Hereros' cattle and gave it to white settlers; He was replaced by von Trotha in 1904; [[Major Theodor Leutwein|MORE]]

'''Levantine'''<br />
68; the Levant (p 184) is the region of the eastern shore of the Mediterranean, the lands from Greece to Egypt; 457; lanterloo, 460

<div id="melanie">'''l'Heuremaudit, Mélanie'''</div>
393; (French: "time of the damned"; "cursed hour"); 15-year-old dancer in Paris; in V.'s apartment, 406; shorn, 407; "V. needed her fetish, Mélanie a mirror," 410; [[Robin Hood|impaled]], 413-14

'''Libre Parole, La'''<br />
399; French: "The Free Speech"

'''Liebigstrasse'''<br />
243; street in Munich where Mondaugen had an attic room in a mansarde

'''Liguria'''<br />
443; region of northwest Italy, on the Ligurian Sea

'''Liguorian tracts'''<br />
354; works by Aulus Persius Flaccus (AD 34-62), aka "The Ligurian Sage"

'''Limey'''<br />
132; British sailor or, more generally, a British person; 430; 439

'''Lindequist'''<br />
267; conservative who succeeded von Trotha as governor in Südwest in 1905

'''Ling'''<br />
131; "vagrant minstrel " in Fu's Chinese joke

'''L'Isle-Adam, Philippe Villiers de (d.1534)'''<br />
310; a member of one of the noblest families of France, he became the first Maltese Grand Master, from 1530-34

<div id="lochinvar"></div>'''Lochinvar'''<br />
70; the hero of a ballad in Scott's ''Mfarmion'', who boldly rides off with his sweetheart just as she is about to be married to another.

'''Lothario'''<br />
255; a character from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Rowe_%28dramatist%29 Nicholas Rowe's] tragedy ''The Fair Penitent'' (1703) who was a gay (carefree) libertine, seducer of women and debauchee.

:''The Fair Penitent'' (1703), an adaptation of Massinger and Field's ''Fatal Dowry'', was pronounced by Dr Johnson, and was one of the most pleasing tragedies in ever written in English. In it occurs the famous character of Lothario, whose name passed into current use as the equivalent of a rake. Samuel Johnson noted of ''The Fair Penitent'' that, "The story is domestic, and therefore easily received by the imagination, and assimilated to common life; the diction is exquisitely harmonious, and soft or spritely as occasion requires."

'''Lot'''<br />
78; was warned by an angel of God's destruction of Sodom and escaped

'''Lotte'''<br />
89; works at bierhalle

'''L'Ouganda'''<br />
398; French: "Uganda" [the source of the White Nile is in Uganda]; cabaret in Paris where Itague hangs out; 405; 408;

'''loup-garou'''<br />
254; French: "werewolf"

'''Lowenstein, Margravine di Chiave'''<br />
53; friend of Stencil's who lives in a villa on the west coast of Majorca (island in the Mediterranean) in 1946 [The title "Margravine" means "the wife of a margrave," a margrave being a member of the German nobility corresponding in rank to a British marquess]; 62

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

'''Lucille (b. 1942)'''<br />
139; girl Profane hangs with; named, 142

'''Lucky Pierre Runs Amok'''<br />
219; one of Pig's porno radio productions while with Task Force 60 in the Mediterranean

<div id="luderitz"></div>'''Lüderitzbucht'''<br />
267; barren islets off of it were natural concentration camps; Lüderitz Bay is located on the southern end of Südwest; 273; [[Map of Südwest]]

'''Ludgate Circus'''<br />
184; in London; Fleet Street lies across it.

'''Luftwaffe'''<br />
340; German airforce

'''Lungarno'''<br />
162; Italian: "along the Arno"; the streets that run along the Arno river in Florence; 212

'''L'Univers'''<br />
70; cafe in Alexandria

'''Luxor'''<br />
74; city on the Nile in southern Egypt

'''Lych, Captain C. Osric'''<br />
373; commander of USS Scaffold, with his inner circle of habitual offenders; 426; 431; ''See also'' [[P#prisoners|Prisoners-at
Large and Restricted Men's Club]]

'''Lyon, the blond seamstress of'''<br />
160; former lover of Sr. Mantissa; addicted to absinthe and acquaintance of H. Godolphin, 209

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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 Bogey 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; "Be-Bop-A-Lula," 418; 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; "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66," 433, 434; Every Day I Have the Blues, 434; C'est Magnifique, 438; "The Song of the Marines" (lyric "Sally and Sue, Don't Be Blue"), 438; I Only Have Eyes For You, 440; I Apologize, 440; "Mickey Mouse March" (parodied as "F-U-C-K-E-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 />
[[Image:MaltaVallettaStradaStretta.jpg|thumb|Straight St. in Valletta at night in 2004|right]]
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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<div id="cabron"></div>'''cabrón'''<br />
433; Spanish: lit. "he-goat"; fig. "bastard"

'''Caesar, Julius (100-44 BC)'''<br />
306; Roman general, statesman and writer; 322; 481; 482; 485

'''Café Phoenicia'''<br />
470; in Valletta

'''Cairo'''<br />
77; Capital of Egypt and a major port just south of the Nile Delta in the northeast corner of Africa

'''caitiff'''<br />
308; someone who is cowardly or despicable

'''Camaroon'''<br />
267; Republic located in west-central Africa. Under British and French control from WWI until 1960.

'''Campagna'''<br />
184; region in central Italy around Rome

'''Cannes'''<br />
186; French city southwest of Nice on the Cote d'Azur; 219

'''Cape Town'''<br />
241; capital of Union of South Africa and located on the southernmost tip of Africa

'''"Capo di minghe!"'''<br />
164; Italian (southern): "Dickhead!"; [[Chapter_7#minghe|Read more...]]

'''Caprivi, George Leo, Graf von (1831-99)'''<br />
239; German militaryman who succeeded Bismarck as imperial chancellor and Prussian prime minister

'''carabinieri'''<br />
205; a member of the Italian national police force

'''CARE'''<br />
305; Cooperative for American Relief to Everywhere; U.S. charitable organization

'''caries'''<br />
153; progressive destruction of bone or tooth, esp. tooth decay

'''Carruthers-Pillow'''<br />
458; S. Stencil's superior at Whitehall

'''Cassar'''<br />
446; shopowner in Valletta who knows possible whereabouts of glass eye; [[Etymologies#cassar|Etymology]]

'''catechumen'''<br />
123; one receiving instruction in the basic doctrines of Christianity before becoming a full member of the church

'''cause and effect'''<br />
306; 489

'''CCNY'''<br />
128; City College of New York

'''Celda Museo'''<br />
387; museum in Majorca

'''Cellini, Benvenuto (1500-71)'''<br />
159; Florentine goldsmith and sculptor expelled from Florence for dueling. Returned to Florence later in life and worked under patronage of Cosimo I de'Medici

<div id="center"></div>'''center'''<br />
dead center, 22, 44; center of "one of those queer lulls in the noise level of any room," 93; "center of her face," 109; center of town, 188, 207; "I wanted to stand in the dead center of the carousel," 205; "geographical center of the midtown employment agency belt." 213; "self-centered," 214; "a great wooden sun [...] in the very center," 239; "street's center-line," 244; "down the center-line of the skull," 268; "new ones bloom in the centres of old" 323; "Profane felt that [...] he'd come to dead center in Nueva York;" 368; of gravity, 390; "nine light years from rim to center," 394; of the seat, 394; "Itague stood in the center," 396; "a large pouf in the center of the room," 406; "center of the mob," 440; "center of the ceiling," 453; "circle centered at Xaghriet Mewwija," 462; "In the center was a cistern, its rim adorned with a dark sunburst of sewage." 469; ''See also'' [[#circles|circles]]

'''Cesare'''<br />
159; "seedy looking Calabrese" and Mantissa's "accomplice in crime"

'''C'est Magnifique'''<br />
438/486; 1953 popular song written by Cole Porter for his musical Can-Can; played by hot-jazz band in Metro, in Valletta

'''Chapman, Maj. Percy'''<br />
181; English Consul-General in Florence; 183; 188

'''Charisma'''<br />
51; member of Whole Sick Crew; 124; 224; 287; 295; 300;

'''Charivari, La'''<br />
407; French: "the loud music"; ''See also'' [[S#shivaree|shivaree]]

<div id="charybdis"></div>'''Charybdis'''<br />
432; In Greek legend, a monster, the whirlpool she formed and the rock cliff under which she lived, facing Scylla on the other side of the Straits of Messina; ''See also'' [[S#scylla|Scylla]]; [[S#straits|Straits of Messina]]

<div id="cher"></div>'''Cher Ballon'''<br />
157; French: "beloved balloon"; a bay (horse that's bay colored) Evan Godolphin bets on in Paris and wins 17,000 francs in 1899

'''Chester's Hillbilly Haven'''<br />
21; bar in Norfolk, VA

<div id="chiclitz"></div>'''Chiclitz, Clayton "Bloody"'''<br /> 55; the munitions king; 152; president of Yoyodyne, Inc., 226-27; Chiclitz also appears in Pynchon's [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=C#chiclitz ''Gravity's Rainbow'']. ''See also'' [[XYZ#yoyodyne|Yoyodyne]]

'''Chiclitz Toy Company'''<br />
227; outlet in Nutley, NJ, in late 1940s

'''chiffonnier'''<br />
399; French: "ragman"

'''Chobb, Nasty'''<br />
433; the baker; plays trumpet on Route 66 in the Union Jack in Valletta; in H.M.S. Ceylon cap, 443

'''Chopin, Frederic (1810-49)'''<br />
387; Polish composer and pianist

'''Christian, Abraham'''<br />
255; chief of Bondelswaartz Hottentots in Südwest, shot in Warmbad

'''Christian, Jacobus'''<br />
232; Bondelswaartz leader in Südwest

'''Cinderella liberty'''<br />
???/487; in the Navy, a liberty (shore leave) that ends at midnight of a given day

'''Cinoglossa'''<br />
444; homosexual, epileptic poet friend of Stencil's

<div id="circles"></div>'''circles'''<br />
"[the Church] formed along with uncle Evelyn the foci of her serene orbit" 72; "three jailbait [...] stood in front of the wheel of Fortune" 139; "[Chiclitz] and Eigenvalue were part of the same Circle." 152; "He belonged to that inner circle of deracinated seers" 160; "I wanted to stand in the dead center of the carousel" 205; "Foppl's own planetarium, a circular room with a great wooden sun" 239; "our Vheissus are no longer our own, or even confined to a circle of friends" 248; "as if Stencil's notion of an inner circle were correct after all" 297; "Fortune's wheel [...] the hub still held the spokes in place and the meeting place of the spokes still defined the hub" 338; "the children's wheel was dead-level, its own rim only that of the sea's horizon" 338-39; "a radius along with leather-winged Lucifer" 339; "an inner circle of enlisted men" 373; Sirius' "halo of plague, which is nine light-years from rim to center" 393-94; "the invisible circle centered at Xaghriet Mewwija with Lampedusa on the rim" 462; "Malta as a charmed circle, some stable domain of peace" 480; "if only to complete a circle begun in England eighteen years ago" 489; "Draw a line from Malta to Lampedusa. Call it a radius. Somewhere in that circle [...]" 492; ''See also'' [[#center|center]]; [[#clock|clock]]

<div id="clock"></div>'''clock'''<br />
"old clock," 34; "clock of a heart," 40; "turn-of-the-century clock" in Shoenmaker's office, 45-46, 96, 102; "an illuminated clock near Paola Maijstral's bed," 51-52; "unwound like a clock's mainspring," 52; "The train [...] ran on a different clock--its own, which no human could read" 77; "the simple clockwork of itself," 217; "We are [...] the lead weights of a fantastic clock, necessary [...] to keep an ordered sense of history and time prevailing against chaos" 233; "Inside were the delicately wrought wheels, springs, ratchets of a watch, wound by a gold key," 237; "The black oak clock above the fireplace ticked terribly loud in strange waves of silence," 244; "Cuckoo's in his clock with laryngitis," 261; "man as a clockwork automaton" 284; "aware of a clock ticking on the table," 294; "there was only the ticking of the clock," 295; "ticking time-bomb," 300; "I broke the electric alarm clock," 301; clockwise, 305; "Rachel's electric clock," 368; "glass eye in the shape of a clock," 388; "a traveling clock chimed seven" 392; "clock inside the Gare du Nord," 393; clock-tower, 426; "though the drunk's clock slows down, it doesn't stop" 438; "the clockwork figure," 454; "the travelling clock which always tells the wrong time and chimes in different keys" 454; clock-iris, 487; "as if it were marked by any old and overprecious clock which could be wound and set at will" 489; ''See also'' [[T#time|time]]

'''C.O.'''<br />
220; commanding officer

<div id="co"></div>'''C&O compartment'''<br />
[[file:chessie_cropped.jpg|225px|left]]
375; a cargo compartment from the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad; can be seen all over the central East Coast. "Chessie," a sleeping kitten illustrating a magazine ad in 1933, was adopted by the C&O as a mascot. Various graphics featured Chessie, eventually leading to the stylized silhouette over a capital C sometimes seen today.

'''cognates'''<br />
465; In the context of ''V.'', Spanish words that mean the same thing, or have the same derivation

'''coitus interruptus'''<br />
Paola & Profane, 19; Rowley-Bugge & Alice, 70; Profane & Lucille, 144; Italian couple H. Godolphin interrupts, 185; Rachel & Profane, 359; Pig & Paola, 370-71

'''Collecteurs Généraux'''<br />
132; worked the main sewer line which ran under Boulevard St. Michel

'''Colonna, Pompeo'''<br />
464; of the famous Roman family which included a pope (Martin V), several cardinals, generals, statesmen and noted scholars; sent by the Pope with 1200 men to relieve La Valette

'''Colonel Bogie'''<br />
325; Colonel Bogey was the fictitious eponym of the "Colonel Bogey March," composed by F. J. Ricketts (as Kenneth J. Alford) in 1914. The tune is featured in the score of the 1957 film ''The Bridge on the River Kwai''.

'''Comitato Patriottico'''<br />
472; one of three Mizzist "clubs" in Malta in 1919; 477

'''complexity/chaos'''<br />
The Situation as, 189; "Any minor accident: a break in the clouds, a castastrophic shivering at the first tentative blow to a shop window, the topology of an object of destruction (up a hill or down--it makes a difference)-
anything might swell a merely mischievous humor to suddenly apocalyptic rage." 477; "Who knows how many thousand accidents--a variation in the weather, the availability of a ship, the failure of a crop--brought all these people, with their separate dreams and worries, here to this island and arranged them into this alignment? Any Situation takes shape from events much lower than the merely human." 483; [[Henry Adams#1900|Education of Henry Adams]]

'''Conferment of Degrees law, 1915'''<br />
490;

'''coño'''<br />
135; Spanish: "pussy"

'''Constantinople'''<br />
462; Originally called Byzantium (c.660 BC - 330 AD), and since 1930 Istanbul, Constantinople was founded by Constantine I in AD 330, becoming the new capital of the Turkish Empire. Now the capital of Turkey, it is located on a thin strip of land (the Golden Horn) between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara.

<div id="contango"></div>'''Contango, LtJG Johnny'''<br />
431; "Scaffold's damage-control assistant" in Malta; 433

'''Convoy Escort Piers'''<br />
375; in Norfolk, VA, where Scaffold is docked; 376

<div id="cook"></div>'''Cook, Thomas (1808-1892) (& Son)'''<br />
71; published tour guides and conducted quick, cursory tours; 76; 77; 156; 184; 190; 204; 408;

'''cool'''<br />
"too cool. Too unemotional when he said 'I have a problem with my woman.'" 292; "As long as you were flop, everything was cool." 293; "the cool scene after the war" 299; "It will be cool." 301; "There is no tension or malaise to this silence; it's cool, secure." 324; "the only way clear of the cool/crazy flipflop was obviously slow, frustrating and hard work." 365; "keep cool but care" 366 (Sphere), 369 (SHROUD)

'''Coptic'''<br />
84; relating to a people who descended from the ancient Egyptians

'''cormorant'''<br />
248, 320; any of a family of dark waterbirds with a long neck, hooked bill, and neck pouch; by extension, gluttonous or greedy

'''corsair'''<br />
462; a pirate, esp. a privateer of the Barbary Coast

'''corvette'''<br />
304; highly maneuverable armed escort ship that is smaller than a destroyer

<div id="counterforce"></div>'''Counterforce/anti-paranoia'''<br />
"I like to see young people get together." 31; "a ready acceptance of miracles or visions," 200; "they seemed to give up external plans, theories and codes [...] to indulge in being simply and purely young," 201; "Inanimate money was to get animate warmth," 214; "life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and still stay sane." 321; "We cannot expect more of the bombs than of the wind." 322; "It is a universal sin among the false-animate and unimaginative to refuse to let well enough alone. Their compulsion to gather together [...] extends on past the threshold of sleep;" 323; "horror of isolation," 324; "no conscious plot/Drove us underground" 326; "accumulation of small accidents" 330; "towards peace and simplicity" as opposed to "exhausted intellectual searching" 309; "once the inadequacy of optimism is borne in on him by an inevitably hostile world, to retreat into abstractions" 310; ''See also'' [[P#paranoia|paranoia]]

'''coutourière'''<br />
166; fashionable custom-made women's clothes shop

'''Covess'''<br />
188; school chum of S. Stencil

'''CP'''<br />
100; custom of port

<div id="crimea"></div>'''Crimea'''<br />
459; a peninsula in the extreme southern Soviet Russia, bordered by the Black Sea to the east, south and west. The [[Balkan Intrigues#The Crimean War|Crimean War]] (1853-56) was Russia against Turkey, Britain and France. Russia was defeated and Turkey's independence thus guaranteed. (''The Charge of the Light Brigade'' and the nursing of Florence Nightingale occurred during this war.)

'''Crockett, Davy (1786-1836)'''<br />
219-20; American frontiersman and statesman; died fighting for Texas' independence from Mexico at the Alamo

'''Cromer, Lord Evelyn Baring (1841-1917)'''<br />
91; English consul-general in Egypt 1883-1907

'''Cuernacabrón'''<br />
179; Spanish: cuerna: "horns" + cabrón: "bastard" = "horny bastard"; The Gaucho's lieutenant; 202; 206

'''Cunard'''<br />
189; shipping line between Britain and America began in 1839

'''curvet'''<br />
262; when a horse makes a prancing leap such that for an instant all its legs are in the air

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'''baccalà'''<br />
379 (as plural, baccale); Italian: dried and salted cod fish

'''Bad Priest'''<br />
306; lives in an old villa past Sliema in Malta; children "assigned the Bad Priest no opposite number" 339; disassembly, 341-44; "girls he advised to become nuns [...] boys he told to find strength in  and be like  the rock of their island" 340; glass eye in the shape of a clock, 388; ''See also'' [[V#v|V.]]

<div id="baedeker"></div>'''Baedeker, Karl (1801-1859)'''<br />
64; the first Baedeker guidebook <ref>Baedeker, Karl, ''The Mediterranean'', published by Karl Baedeker, Leipzig, 1911:

:From ''Slow Learner'':

:"If [...] you believe that nothing is original, and that all writers 'borrow' from 'sources,' there still remains the question of credit lines or acknowledgements. It wasn't till 'Under the Rose' (1959) that I could bring myself, even indirectly, to credit guidebook eponym Karl Baedeker, whose guide to Egypt for 1899 was the major 'source' for the story.

:[...]

:"Loot the Baedeker I did, all the details of a time and place I had never been to, right down to the names of the diplomatic corps." (p.17)

:"[...] The old Baedeker trick again." (p.21)</ref> was published in 1839; Baedeker land, 70, 71; 74; 78; 89; Visitor's Guide, 159; 190; distrust of "South" 229 ("soiled South" - 75); Karl Baedeker of Leipzig, 408; 475; pencil-sharpener salesman who had seen every territory in the country and could give you interesting information on any city," 35

'''Bakunin, Mikhail (1814-1876)'''<br />
405; Russian anarchist who believed that communism, with its "withering away of the state," was an essential step toward anarchism

<div id="balloons"></div>'''balloons'''<br />
"on the fourth limb from the top there is a red balloon [golden-screwdriver dream]," 40; "a sturdy green balloon with a great Z printed on it [Fergus' way of indicating consciousness]" 56; "The sunburned face bobbed like a balloon," 65; "Up goes the balloon [slang: war, action, etc. had begun]," 67; Yusef's love of, 67; "A balloon-girl." 67; "Soon he was daydreaming again of balloons." 68; "So the balloon's gone up," 232; "the balloon had gone up", 308; "slow as a balloon," 329; "the most bouyant balloon-girl," 331; "fire-balloon," 335; "gay balloon-lungs," 343; V. "handed swords, balloons and colored handkerchiefs to Ugo Medichevole, a minor magician," 388; "The jolly, jolly balloon [...] Going up" 434; "leery like any Maltese of the Balloon's least bobbing," 448; 474; "Wasn't she the same balloon-girl who'd seduced him on a leather couch," 488; ''See also'' [[C#cher|Cher Ballon]]; [[H#hothouse|hothouse]]

'''band-pass filter'''<br />
436; an electronic circuit or device that blocks certain frequencies of a signal, allowing frequencies above and below the band to pass through

'''Barkhausen, Heinrich Georg (1881-1956)'''<br />
230; German physicist who taught at Technische Hochschule in Dresden; discovered sferics during WWI

'''Bartholomew'''<br />
119; rat in Fairing's Parish

'''Basilisco'''<br />
379; cop in Profane's old neighborhood

'''Basilisk, Maynard'''<br />
419; "escapee from Devil's Island [...] on route to Vassa [...] to teach beekeeping" at party in Washington, DC

'''Batignolles, Le'''<br />
401; where Porcépic lives

'''Battista (1901-1973)'''<br />
353; Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar was president of Cuba 1940-44; 1952-59; he ruled as dictator until his overthrow by Fidel Castro in January 1959.

'''Bay of Biscay'''<br />
388; bay in the Mediterranean between France and Spain

'''Beatrice'''<br />
11; barmaid at Sailor's Grave; [[Etymologies#beatrice|Etymology]]

'''Belinda Sue'''<br />
130; subject of hillbilly tune; she ran off with an "itinerant propeller salesman"

'''Bella Gigogin, La'''<br />
477; song sung by rollickers in the street in Valletta

'''Bellevue'''<br />
362; psychiatric hospital in New York City; 364; 416

'''Ben-Gurion, David (1886-1973)'''<br />
225; prime minister of Israel 1949-53, 1955-63

'''Benguela Current'''<br />
266; brings wind and sand to harbor in Südwest; 274

'''Berg-Damaras'''<br />
245; Südwest tribe; they were serfs of the Hottentots and Hereros and lived in the mountainous regions

'''Bergomask, Oley'''<br />
217; of Anthroresearch Associates; 284

'''Beukes, Tim'''<br />
232; Bondelswaartz leader in Südwest during uprising of 1922

'''bierhalle'''<br />
88; north of the Ezbekiyeh Gardens in Cairo

<div id="big"></div>'''Big One, The'''<br />
226; "the century's master cabal"; ''See also'' [[P#paranoia|paranoia]]

'''Bight of Benin'''<br />
271; bay in Gulf of Guinea on west coast of Africa

[[image:birth_of_venus_sm.jpg|thumb|200px|right]]<div id="venus"></div>'''Birth of Venus'''<br />
178; Botticelli painting coveted by Mantissa; 209; 212; [[Birth of Venus]]

'''Bismarck, Otto (1815-1898)'''<br />
239; first chancellor of the German Empire 1871-90

'''Bizerte'''<br />
459; Tunisian port on the Mediterranean

'''Black Maria'''<br />
31; Navy slang for paddy wagon

'''Black Mass'''<br />
167; a sacrilegious mass in which the Devil, rather than God, is invoked, with various obscene rights; 394; 398; 401; 402; acolytes, 402; Host, 403; 413

'''bluejackets'''<br />
16; Navy enlisted men

'''Board of Inquiry'''<br />
191; looked into Godolphin/Vheissu matter; 197; 491

'''Bobbsey Twins, The'''<br />
436; Dahoud and Leroy Tongue ("the midget storekeeper") in Valletta, as cops; the Bobbsey Twins were the title characters of a series of children's novels published, under the pen name Laura Lee Hope, from 1904 to 1992;

'''BOC'''<br />
''See'' [[#boc|British Officers' Club]]

<div id="bodine"></div>'''Bodine, Pig'''<br />
14; AWOL former shipmate of Profane's on USS Scaffold; voyeur, 17; looking for Paola, 129; 217; "The Green Door. One night Dolores, Veronica, Justine, Sharon, Cindy Lou, Geraldine and Irvine decide to hold an orgy." 218; wants Paola, 221; 283; Whole Sick Crew party, 287; 352; "life is the most precious possession you have." (see also p. 12), 361; attempted rape of Paola, 370; Pig also figures prominently in [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow'']; Pig's ancestor, [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ Fender-Belly Bodine], shows up in ''Mason & Dixon'', and, perhaps, his father or uncle, O.I.C. Bodine makes an appearance in [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_489-524#Page_517 ''Against the Day''].

'''Boeblich'''<br />
88; owner of bierhalle north of Ezbekiyeh Garden in Cairo

'''Bofors'''<br />
309; British anti-aircraft (a/a) guns; 317; 328-29

<div id="bondel"></div>'''Bondelschwaartz'''<br />
231; aka "Bondel" - rebel Hottentots in Südwest - led by Abraham Christian, their chief; [[Südwest#nama|Read on...]]</a>

<div id="bongo"></div>'''Bongo-Shaftsbury, Eric'''<br />
55; Egyptologist and father of H. Stencil's acquaintance; acts as Wrens' guide in Alexandria and environs; murdered Porpentine [[Porpentine's Murder|(did he?)]], 93-94; "A certain Porpentine, one of his father's colleagues, had been murdered in Egypt under the duello by Eric Bongo-Shaftsbury, the father of the man who owned this apartment." 63; aka "Hugh" (?), 74; "He saw a flicker of communication between [Bongo Shaftsbury and Lepsius]" 75; "Odd: neither Porpentine nor Bongo-Shaftsbury spoke. Each had bent a close eye on his own man, keeping expressionless." 75; "An electro-mechanical doll," 80; "Humanity is something to destroy." 81

'''Bongo-Shaftsbury, Hugh'''<br />
55; son of Eric; 74

'''Boone, Pat (b. 1934)'''<br />
19; "white-bread" American popstar in 50s. Made tunes by rockers (often black artists) palatable to white audiences; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Vincent Gene Vincent's] "Be Bop A Lula" is an example; 418; 420; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Boone Wikipedia]

'''Bop Kings'''<br />
144; street gang in New York City and rivals of the Playboys

'''BOQ'''<br />
269; Bachelor Officers' Quarters; 305

<div id="borgo"></div>'''Borgo'''<br />
464; According to Baedeker, one of the Three Cities "Opposite Valletta, on the three central creeks of the Grand Harbour [...] also called Vittoriosa since the great Turkish siege"; [[Map of Malta]]

'''Borgo di Greci'''<br />
175; street in Florence

'''Borracho'''<br />
202; member of Figli d'Machiavelli in Florence

<div id="botticelli"></div>'''Botticelli, Sandro (1444-1510)'''<br />
201; Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli ("little barrel") was an Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance (''Quattrocento''). Less than a hundred years later, this movement, under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici, was characterized by Giorgio Vasari as a "golden age", a thought, suitably enough, he expressed at the head of his ''Vita'' of Botticelli. His posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th century; since then his work has been seen to represent the linear grace of Early Renaissance painting, and [[Birth of Venus|''The Birth of Venus'']] and ''Primavera'' rank now among the most familiar masterpieces of Florentine art; 212; ''See also'' [[#venus|Birth of Venus]]

'''Boulevard Haussmann'''<br />
394; in Paris

'''Brad'''<br />
58; frat on periphery of Whole Sick Crew with whom Esther flirts

'''Breguet'''<br />
97; French reconnaisance plane built in 1914 and used in World War I

'''Brennessel cabaret'''<br />
241; mentioned by Weissman to Mondaugen as being in Munich in Schwabing quarter

'''Brindisi'''<br />
75; Italian port city where Lepsius has been before turning up in Cairo

'''Bristol Fighters'''<br />
97; WWI British fighter plane

<div id="boc"></div>'''British Officers' Club (BOC)'''<br />
431

<div id="brody"></div>'''Brody'''<br />
128; a Brodie is a suicidal leap, named after Steve Brodie, an American newsboy who, in 1886, claimed to have jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge; 436

'''Brunelleschi, Filippo (1377-1446)'''<br />
201; Italian architect, goldsmith and sculptor. Main claim to fame is the dome of the Florence Cathedral (Duomo) erected between 1420 and 1461

'''Buffo, Beatrice'''<br />
11; barmaid at Sailor's Grave

'''Bung'''<br />
116; foreman of rat patrol in New York City sewers; 139

'''Butte'''<br />
412; in Paris

==References==
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'''baccalà'''<br />
379 (as plural, baccale); Italian: dried and salted cod fish

'''Bad Priest'''<br />
306; lives in an old villa past Sliema in Malta; children "assigned the Bad Priest no opposite number" 339; disassembly, 341-44; "girls he advised to become nuns [...] boys he told to find strength in  and be like  the rock of their island" 340; glass eye in the shape of a clock, 388; ''See also'' [[V#v|V.]]

<div id="baedeker"></div>'''Baedeker, Karl (1801-1859)'''<br />
64; the first Baedeker guidebook <ref>Baedeker, Karl, ''The Mediterranean'', published by Karl Baedeker, Leipzig, 1911:

:From ''Slow Learner'':

:"If [...] you believe that nothing is original, and that all writers 'borrow' from 'sources,' there still remains the question of credit lines or acknowledgements. It wasn't till 'Under the Rose' (1959) that I could bring myself, even indirectly, to credit guidebook eponym Karl Baedeker, whose guide to Egypt for 1899 was the major 'source' for the story.

:[...]

:"Loot the Baedeker I did, all the details of a time and place I had never been to, right down to the names of the diplomatic corps." (p.17)

:"[...] The old Baedeker trick again." (p.21)</ref> was published in 1839; Baedeker land, 70, 71; 74; 78; 89; Visitor's Guide, 159; 190; distrust of "South" 229 ("soiled South" - 75); Karl Baedeker of Leipzig, 408; 475; pencil-sharpener salesman who had seen every territory in the country and could give you interesting information on any city," 35

'''Bakunin, Mikhail (1814-1876)'''<br />
405; Russian anarchist who believed that communism, with its "withering away of the state," was an essential step toward anarchism

<div id="balloons"></div>'''balloons'''<br />
"on the fourth limb from the top there is a red balloon [golden-screwdriver dream]," 40; "a sturdy green balloon with a great Z printed on it [Fergus' way of indicating consciousness]" 56; "The sunburned face bobbed like a balloon," 65; "Up goes the balloon [slang: war, action, etc. had begun]," 67; Yusef's love of, 67; "A balloon-girl." 67; "Soon he was daydreaming again of balloons." 68; "So the balloon's gone up," 232; "the balloon had gone up", 308; "slow as a balloon," 329; "the most bouyant balloon-girl," 331; "fire-balloon," 335; "gay balloon-lungs," 343; V. "handed swords, balloons and colored handkerchiefs to Ugo Medichevole, a minor magician," 388; "The jolly, jolly balloon [...] Going up" 434; "leery like any Maltese of the Balloon's least bobbing," 448; 474; "Wasn't she the same balloon-girl who'd seduced him on a leather couch," 488; ''See also'' [[C#cher|Cher Ballon]]; [[H#hothouse|hothouse]]

'''band-pass filter'''<br />
436; an electronic circuit or device that blocks certain frequencies of a signal, allowing frequencies above and below the band to pass through

'''Barkhausen, Heinrich Georg (1881-1956)'''<br />
230; German physicist who taught at Technische Hochschule in Dresden; discovered sferics during WWI

'''Bartholomew'''<br />
119; rat in Fairing's Parish

'''Basilisco'''<br />
379; cop in Profane's old neighborhood

'''Basilisk, Maynard'''<br />
419; "escapee from Devil's Island [...] on route to Vassa [...] to teach beekeeping" at party in Washington, DC

'''Batignolles, Le'''<br />
401; where Porcépic lives

'''Battista (1901-1973)'''<br />
353; Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar was president of Cuba 1940-44; 1952-59; he ruled as dictator until his overthrow by Fidel Castro in January 1959.

'''Bay of Biscay'''<br />
388; bay in the Mediterranean between France and Spain

'''Beatrice'''<br />
11; barmaid at Sailor's Grave; [[Etymologies#beatrice|Etymology]]

'''Belinda Sue'''<br />
130; subject of hillbilly tune; she ran off with an "itinerant propeller salesman"

'''Bella Gigogin, La'''<br />
477; song sung by rollickers in the street in Valletta

'''Bellevue'''<br />
362; psychiatric hospital in New York City; 364; 416

'''Ben-Gurion, David (1886-1973)'''<br />
225; prime minister of Israel 1949-53, 1955-63

'''Benguela Current'''<br />
266; brings wind and sand to harbor in Südwest; 274

'''Berg-Damaras'''<br />
245; Südwest tribe; they were serfs of the Hottentots and Hereros and lived in the mountainous regions

'''Bergomask, Oley'''<br />
217; of Anthroresearch Associates; 284

'''Beukes, Tim'''<br />
232; Bondelswaartz leader in Südwest during uprising of 1922

'''bierhalle'''<br />
88; north of the Ezbekiyeh Gardens in Cairo

<div id="big"></div>'''Big One, The'''<br />
226; "the century's master cabal"; ''See also'' [[P#paranoia|paranoia]]

'''Bight of Benin'''<br />
271; bay in Gulf of Guinea on west coast of Africa

[[image:birth_of_venus_sm.jpg|thumb|200px|right]]<div id="venus"></div>'''Birth of Venus'''<br />
178; Botticelli painting coveted by Mantissa; 209; 212; [[Birth of Venus]]

'''Bismarck, Otto (1815-1898)'''<br />
239; first chancellor of the German Empire 1871-90

'''Bizerte'''<br />
459; Tunisian port on the Mediterranean

'''Black Maria'''<br />
31; Navy slang for paddy wagon

'''Black Mass'''<br />
167; a sacrilegious mass in which the Devil, rather than God, is invoked, with various obscene rights; 394; 398; 401; 402; acolytes, 402; Host, 403; 413

'''bluejackets'''<br />
16; Navy enlisted men

'''Board of Inquiry'''<br />
191; looked into Godolphin/Vheissu matter; 197; 491

'''Bobbsey Twins, The'''<br />
436; Dahoud and Leroy Tongue ("the midget storekeeper") in Valletta, as cops

'''BOC'''<br />
''See'' [[#boc|British Officers' Club]]

<div id="bodine"></div>'''Bodine, Pig'''<br />
14; AWOL former shipmate of Profane's on USS Scaffold; voyeur, 17; looking for Paola, 129; 217; "The Green Door. One night Dolores, Veronica, Justine, Sharon, Cindy Lou, Geraldine and Irvine decide to hold an orgy." 218; wants Paola, 221; 283; Whole Sick Crew party, 287; 352; "life is the most precious possession you have." (see also p. 12), 361; attempted rape of Paola, 370; Pig also figures prominently in [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow'']; Pig's ancestor, [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ Fender-Belly Bodine], shows up in ''Mason & Dixon'', and, perhaps, his father or uncle, O.I.C. Bodine makes an appearance in [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_489-524#Page_517 ''Against the Day''].

'''Boeblich'''<br />
88; owner of bierhalle north of Ezbekiyeh Garden in Cairo

'''Bofors'''<br />
309; British anti-aircraft (a/a) guns; 317; 328-29

<div id="bondel"></div>'''Bondelschwaartz'''<br />
231; aka "Bondel" - rebel Hottentots in Südwest - led by Abraham Christian, their chief; [[Südwest#nama|Read on...]]</a>

<div id="bongo"></div>'''Bongo-Shaftsbury, Eric'''<br />
55; Egyptologist and father of H. Stencil's acquaintance; acts as Wrens' guide in Alexandria and environs; murdered Porpentine [[Porpentine's Murder|(did he?)]], 93-94; "A certain Porpentine, one of his father's colleagues, had been murdered in Egypt under the duello by Eric Bongo-Shaftsbury, the father of the man who owned this apartment." 63; aka "Hugh" (?), 74; "He saw a flicker of communication between [Bongo Shaftsbury and Lepsius]" 75; "Odd: neither Porpentine nor Bongo-Shaftsbury spoke. Each had bent a close eye on his own man, keeping expressionless." 75; "An electro-mechanical doll," 80; "Humanity is something to destroy." 81

'''Bongo-Shaftsbury, Hugh'''<br />
55; son of Eric; 74

'''Boone, Pat (b. 1934)'''<br />
19; "white-bread" American popstar in 50s. Made tunes by rockers (often black artists) palatable to white audiences; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Vincent Gene Vincent's] "Be Bop A Lula" is an example; 418; 420; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Boone Wikipedia]

'''Bop Kings'''<br />
144; street gang in New York City and rivals of the Playboys

'''BOQ'''<br />
269; Bachelor Officers' Quarters; 305

<div id="borgo"></div>'''Borgo'''<br />
464; According to Baedeker, one of the Three Cities "Opposite Valletta, on the three central creeks of the Grand Harbour [...] also called Vittoriosa since the great Turkish siege"; [[Map of Malta]]

'''Borgo di Greci'''<br />
175; street in Florence

'''Borracho'''<br />
202; member of Figli d'Machiavelli in Florence

<div id="botticelli"></div>'''Botticelli, Sandro (1444-1510)'''<br />
201; Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli ("little barrel") was an Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance (''Quattrocento''). Less than a hundred years later, this movement, under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici, was characterized by Giorgio Vasari as a "golden age", a thought, suitably enough, he expressed at the head of his ''Vita'' of Botticelli. His posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th century; since then his work has been seen to represent the linear grace of Early Renaissance painting, and [[Birth of Venus|''The Birth of Venus'']] and ''Primavera'' rank now among the most familiar masterpieces of Florentine art; 212; ''See also'' [[#venus|Birth of Venus]]

'''Boulevard Haussmann'''<br />
394; in Paris

'''Brad'''<br />
58; frat on periphery of Whole Sick Crew with whom Esther flirts

'''Breguet'''<br />
97; French reconnaisance plane built in 1914 and used in World War I

'''Brennessel cabaret'''<br />
241; mentioned by Weissman to Mondaugen as being in Munich in Schwabing quarter

'''Brindisi'''<br />
75; Italian port city where Lepsius has been before turning up in Cairo

'''Bristol Fighters'''<br />
97; WWI British fighter plane

<div id="boc"></div>'''British Officers' Club (BOC)'''<br />
431

<div id="brody"></div>'''Brody'''<br />
128; a Brodie is a suicidal leap, named after Steve Brodie, an American newsboy who, in 1886, claimed to have jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge; 436

'''Brunelleschi, Filippo (1377-1446)'''<br />
201; Italian architect, goldsmith and sculptor. Main claim to fame is the dome of the Florence Cathedral (Duomo) erected between 1420 and 1461

'''Buffo, Beatrice'''<br />
11; barmaid at Sailor's Grave

'''Bung'''<br />
116; foreman of rat patrol in New York City sewers; 139

'''Butte'''<br />
412; in Paris

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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#reuther|Walter Reuther]]

'''A gang'''
427; auxiliary division onboard a ship, responsible for specific maintenance and support

'''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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''See'' [[#raf|Royal Air Force]]

'''Raft, George (1895-1980)'''<br />
148; American tough guy of gangster films

'''ragusy'''<br />
462; ancient Mediterranean warship

<div id="rainier"></div>'''Rainier, Prince, III (1923-2005)'''<br />
225; In 1950, he succeeded his grandfather, Louis II, as 26th ruling prince of the House of Grimaldi which dates from 1297. In 1956 he married Grace Kelly. They produced Prince Albert (b. 1958), Princess Caroline (b. 1957) and Princess Stephanie (b.1965); ''See also'' [[K#kelly|Kelly, Grace]]; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainier_III,_Prince_of_Monaco Wikipedia]

'''Raoul'''<br />
35; "television writer" (360) and one of The Whole Sick Crew; lives with Slab and Melvin; described, 56; 347; 360

'''Rape of the Chinese Virgins, The'''<br />
''See'' [[L#lenlevement|L'Enlèvement des Vierges Chinoises]]

'''Ratón'''<br />
176; Venezuelan Consul-General in Florence; Salazar's chief

'''Realgymnasium'''<br />
253; German: "a secondary school with scientific emphasis"

'''Redeemer'''<br />
271; aka Jesus Christ; 453

<div id="rehoboth"></div>'''Rehoboth Bastards'''<br />
259; Bridgman: "the Basters [from "bastard"] were a half-caste people [...] from legally recognized and religiously consecrated unions between Dutch men and Hottentot women. The Basters spoke Dutch and proudly carried Dutch names." <ref>Bridgman, Jon M., The Revolt of the Hereros, Univ. of California Press, 1981, p. 25</ref>; [[The Herero|MORE]]; 262;

'''''Renaissance, The'''''<br />
157; ''Studies in the History of the Renaissance'' (1883) was written by Walter Horatio Pater (1839-94), English critic and essayist. He was associated with the pre-Raphaelites, a brotherhood of artists formed in England in 1848 to [[N#nostalgia|restore]] the artistic principles and practices characteristic of art before the Italian painter Raphael (1483-1520)

<div id="retreat"></div>'''retreat'''<br />
"retreat into abstractions" 310; "Retreat, then, into religious abstraction. Retreat also into poetry" 315; "to come to a halt, about-face and toil back along his own retreat's path; back towards the real world" 316; "his poetry began to show the same 'retreat from retreat'."317; "Again the classic response: retreat." 319; "a bugle to play retreat" 375; "this loathsome weakness of retreat into dreams" 459; "a retreat into late-afternoon melancholy," 489;''See also'' [[H#history|history]]; [[N#nostalgia|nostalgia]]

'''retroussé'''<br />
45; French: "turned up"; 103

<div id="reuther"></div>'''Reuther, Walter (1907-1970)'''<br />
112; American labor leader and one of the founders of the United Auto Workers (UAW) for which he was president from 1946 to 1970. He was a vocal opponent of the communist wing of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) to which which the UAW belonged. He was president of the CIO in 1952 and worked for the merger with the AFL in 1955, but in 1968 he led the UAW out of the AFL-CIO because of differences with George Meany.

'''Revere Beach'''<br />
350; "that's public beach now where slobs from Boston who'd be at Revere Beach except for too many other slobs like themselves already there [...]"

'''r-f energy'''<br />
377; radio frequency (those frequencies used for radio communications, viz. about ten kilocycles per second or over)

'''Rhodes'''<br />
459; Greek island in Aegean Sea, largest in the Dodecanese

<div id="ricasoli"></div>'''Ricasoli'''<br />
457; town located at the mouth of the Grand Harbour opposite Valletta; [[Map of Malta]<br />

'''Riesman, David (1909-2002 )'''<br />
354; American sociologist and educator. He taught at the University of Chicago from 1946 to 1958 and at Harvard from 1958 to 1980. Probably best known for the book [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lonely_Crowd ''The Lonely Crowd''] which he co-authored in 1950. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Riesman Wikipedia]

'''Rimbaud, Arthur (1854-91)'''<br />
388; French poet who used childhood, dream and mystical images to express dissatisfaction with the material world and a spiritual yearning

'''Rire, Le'''<br />
407; French: "the laughter"

'''"Ritrati diversi"'''<br />
209; corridor where Botticelli's ''Venus'' is hung on the western wall

'''Robert, Louis Phillipe'''<br />
393; duc d'Orleans, the current Pretender in 1913

<div id="rock"></div>'''rock'''<br /> "He had been short and built like the island of Malta itself: rock, an inscrutible heart." 19; abandoned quarry, 24; "Only this quarry: the dead rocks that were here before us and will be after us." 26; Profane "tripped over a rock," 42; "The younger girl produced from her reticule a rock," 68; "toss imaginary rocks about," 82; "bones that should be alive, not rock rods under the flesh," 86; "a faceless delinquent heaved a rock at [the bus]," 96; "This mineral period ended," 100; "What religion is it [...] where the highest condition we can attain is that of an object--a rock." 106; "creatures all at peace among the rocks," 215; "She was sitting in the rockery [rock garden] with old Godolphin." 246; "after braining an inquisitive goldfish with a rock" 248; stonemason, 261; "tossed what was left behind a rock for the vultures and flies." 263; "sleek dark rocks," 270; "huddled among some rocks," 275; "the gray of pulverized rock," 275; "the non-humanity of the debris, crushed stone," 307; "as the Ark was to Noah so is the inviolable womb of our Maltese rock to her children" 318; "stone and metal cannot nourish," 335; "Seek mineral symmetry, for here is eternal life: the immortality of rock." 340; "in that return from the rock was nothing to confess." 345; rock 'n' roll, 360; "they found a rock near a stream," 391; "'Rocks [...] He always looks for rocks." 430; "The characteristic stillness [...] of the rock. Inertia." 445; "Ask the rock." 451; ''See also'' [[E#entropy|entropy]]; [[I#inanimate|inanimate]]

'''Rodriguez'''<br />
112; on rat patrol

'''roister'''<br />
256, 330, 333, 430

'''rollicking'''<br />
125; 244; 295; 296; 302; 329; 371; 380; 382; 415; 477; 481

'''Romegas'''<br />
462; one of two [[P#privateer|privateers]] who "captured a galleon belonging to the chief eunich of the Imperial Seraglio" in 1565

'''Rond-Point'''<br />
84; in Cairo

'''Rosebery, Earl of (1847-1929)'''<br />
166; Scottish statesman

'''Route 66'''<br />
433; blues tune ("Get your kicks on Route 66") played by Chobb and Zippo at Union Jack in Valletta

'''routinization of charisma'''<br />
mosaic v. grid, 139; "If a season like the Great Rebellion ever came to him again [...] it could never be in that same personal, random array of picaresque acts [...] but rather with a logic that chilled the comfortable perversity of the heart, that substituted capability for character, deliberate scheme for political epiphany" 273; "to begin with optimism" 310; "Fausto's [poetry] had fallen into the same patterns." 316; "we reach a point [...] where the habits of the past become too strong," 459; "The Church [...] has passed from promiscuity to authority." 480

<div id="rowley"></div>'''Rowley-Bugge, Maxwell'''<br />
69; aka Ralph MacBurgess, "peregrine and penniless in the Fink" (70); vaudvillian who's "daft for young girls"

<div id="raf"></div>'''Royal Air Force (RAF)'''<br />
315; British air force; 331; 491

'''Royal Commandos'''<br />
323; green-beret-wearing British troops; in Malta en route to Suez, 428; free-for-all with Scaffold sailors, 439; led by Dahoud, 441

'''Royal Geographical Society'''<br />
191; 197

'''Ruby'''<br />
281; prostitute girlfriend of Sphere's; aka Paola (Hod) Maijstral; 291; 295; 349

'''rue de la Chaussée d'Antin'''<br />
394; The rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin, in the IXe arrondissement of Paris was the street that gave this new quarter of Paris its generic name. It runs north-northwest from the Boulevard des Italians to the Église de la Sainte-Trinité,[1] sited to provide a focal object at its upper end. It has the Metro station Chaussée d'Antin - La Fayette and one section of the Galeries Lafayette department store. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rue_de_la_Chauss%C3%A9e_d%27Antin Wikipedia]

'''rue de Ras-et-Tin'''<br />
66; in Turkish quarter in Alexandria

'''rue La Fayette'''<br />
394

'''Rufina'''<br />
176; wine

'''Russian Fleet'''<br />
246

<div id="rusty"></div>'''Rusty Spoon'''<br />
35; bar on lower West Side on outskirts of Greenwich Village in New York; hangout of Whole Sick Crew; 102; 129; 221; 224; song, 224-25; Mondaugen and Stencil in, 228; 283; 296;

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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]]

'''A gang'''
427; auxiliary division onboard a ship, responsible for specific maintenance and support

'''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="cabron"></div>'''cabrón'''<br />
433; Spanish: lit. "he-goat"; fig. "bastard"

'''Caesar, Julius (100-44 BC)'''<br />
306; Roman general, statesman and writer; 322; 481; 482; 485

'''Café Phoenicia'''<br />
470; in Valletta

'''Cairo'''<br />
77; Capital of Egypt and a major port just south of the Nile Delta in the northeast corner of Africa

'''caitiff'''<br />
308; someone who is cowardly or despicable

'''Camaroon'''<br />
267; Republic located in west-central Africa. Under British and French control from WWI until 1960.

'''Campagna'''<br />
184; region in central Italy around Rome

'''Cannes'''<br />
186; French city southwest of Nice on the Cote d'Azur; 219

'''Cape Town'''<br />
241; capital of Union of South Africa and located on the southernmost tip of Africa

'''"Capo di minghe!"'''<br />
164; Italian (southern): "Dickhead!"; [[Chapter_7#minghe|Read more...]]

'''Caprivi, George Leo, Graf von (1831-99)'''<br />
239; German militaryman who succeeded Bismarck as imperial chancellor and Prussian prime minister

'''carabinieri'''<br />
205; a member of the Italian national police force

'''CARE'''<br />
305; Cooperative for American Relief to Everywhere; U.S. charitable organization

'''caries'''<br />
153; progressive destruction of bone or tooth, esp. tooth decay

'''Carruthers-Pillow'''<br />
458; S. Stencil's superior at Whitehall

'''Cassar'''<br />
446; shopowner in Valletta who knows possible whereabouts of glass eye; [[Etymologies#cassar|Etymology]]

'''catechumen'''<br />
123; one receiving instruction in the basic doctrines of Christianity before becoming a full member of the church

'''cause and effect'''<br />
306; 489

'''CCNY'''<br />
128; City College of New York

'''Celda Museo'''<br />
387; museum in Majorca

'''Cellini, Benvenuto (1500-71)'''<br />
159; Florentine goldsmith and sculptor expelled from Florence for dueling. Returned to Florence later in life and worked under patronage of Cosimo I de'Medici

<div id="center"></div>'''center'''<br />
dead center, 22, 44; center of "one of those queer lulls in the noise level of any room," 93; "center of her face," 109; center of town, 188, 207; "I wanted to stand in the dead center of the carousel," 205; "geographical center of the midtown employment agency belt." 213; "self-centered," 214; "a great wooden sun [...] in the very center," 239; "street's center-line," 244; "down the center-line of the skull," 268; "new ones bloom in the centres of old" 323; "Profane felt that [...] he'd come to dead center in Nueva York;" 368; of gravity, 390; "nine light years from rim to center," 394; of the seat, 394; "Itague stood in the center," 396; "a large pouf in the center of the room," 406; "center of the mob," 440; "center of the ceiling," 453; "circle centered at Xaghriet Mewwija," 462; "In the center was a cistern, its rim adorned with a dark sunburst of sewage." 469; ''See also'' [[#circles|circles]]

'''Cesare'''<br />
159; "seedy looking Calabrese" and Mantissa's "accomplice in crime"

'''C'est Magnifique'''<br />
438/486; 1953 popular song written by Cole Porter for his musical Can-Can; played by hot-jazz band in Metro, in Valletta

'''Chapman, Maj. Percy'''<br />
181; English Consul-General in Florence; 183; 188

'''Charisma'''<br />
51; member of Whole Sick Crew; 124; 224; 287; 295; 300;

'''Charivari, La'''<br />
407; French: "the loud music"; ''See also'' [[S#shivaree|shivaree]]

<div id="charybdis"></div>'''Charybdis'''<br />
432; In Greek legend, a monster, the whirlpool she formed and the rock cliff under which she lived, facing Scylla on the other side of the Straits of Messina; ''See also'' [[S#scylla|Scylla]]; [[S#straits|Straits of Messina]]

<div id="cher"></div>'''Cher Ballon'''<br />
157; French: "beloved balloon"; a bay (horse that's bay colored) Evan Godolphin bets on in Paris and wins 17,000 francs in 1899

'''Chester's Hillbilly Haven'''<br />
21; bar in Norfolk, VA

<div id="chiclitz"></div>'''Chiclitz, Clayton "Bloody"'''<br /> 55; the munitions king; 152; president of Yoyodyne, Inc., 226-27; Chiclitz also appears in Pynchon's [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=C#chiclitz ''Gravity's Rainbow'']. ''See also'' [[XYZ#yoyodyne|Yoyodyne]]

'''Chiclitz Toy Company'''<br />
227; outlet in Nutley, NJ, in late 1940s

'''chiffonnier'''<br />
399; French: "ragman"

'''Chobb, Nasty'''<br />
433; the baker; plays trumpet on Route 66 in the Union Jack in Valletta; in H.M.S. Ceylon cap, 443

'''Chopin, Frederic (1810-49)'''<br />
387; Polish composer and pianist

'''Christian, Abraham'''<br />
255; chief of Bondelswaartz Hottentots in Südwest, shot in Warmbad

'''Christian, Jacobus'''<br />
232; Bondelswaartz leader in Südwest

'''Cinderella liberty'''<br />
???/487; in the Navy, a liberty (shore leave) that ends at midnight of a given day

'''Cinoglossa'''<br />
444; homosexual, epileptic poet friend of Stencil's

<div id="circles"></div>'''circles'''<br />
"[the Church] formed along with uncle Evelyn the foci of her serene orbit" 72; "three jailbait [...] stood in front of the wheel of Fortune" 139; "[Chiclitz] and Eigenvalue were part of the same Circle." 152; "He belonged to that inner circle of deracinated seers" 160; "I wanted to stand in the dead center of the carousel" 205; "Foppl's own planetarium, a circular room with a great wooden sun" 239; "our Vheissus are no longer our own, or even confined to a circle of friends" 248; "as if Stencil's notion of an inner circle were correct after all" 297; "Fortune's wheel [...] the hub still held the spokes in place and the meeting place of the spokes still defined the hub" 338; "the children's wheel was dead-level, its own rim only that of the sea's horizon" 338-39; "a radius along with leather-winged Lucifer" 339; "an inner circle of enlisted men" 373; Sirius' "halo of plague, which is nine light-years from rim to center" 393-94; "the invisible circle centered at Xaghriet Mewwija with Lampedusa on the rim" 462; "Malta as a charmed circle, some stable domain of peace" 480; "if only to complete a circle begun in England eighteen years ago" 489; "Draw a line from Malta to Lampedusa. Call it a radius. Somewhere in that circle [...]" 492; ''See also'' [[#center|center]]; [[#clock|clock]]

<div id="clock"></div>'''clock'''<br />
"old clock," 34; "clock of a heart," 40; "turn-of-the-century clock" in Shoenmaker's office, 45-46, 96, 102; "an illuminated clock near Paola Maijstral's bed," 51-52; "unwound like a clock's mainspring," 52; "The train [...] ran on a different clock--its own, which no human could read" 77; "the simple clockwork of itself," 217; "We are [...] the lead weights of a fantastic clock, necessary [...] to keep an ordered sense of history and time prevailing against chaos" 233; "Inside were the delicately wrought wheels, springs, ratchets of a watch, wound by a gold key," 237; "The black oak clock above the fireplace ticked terribly loud in strange waves of silence," 244; "Cuckoo's in his clock with laryngitis," 261; "man as a clockwork automaton" 284; "aware of a clock ticking on the table," 294; "there was only the ticking of the clock," 295; "ticking time-bomb," 300; "I broke the electric alarm clock," 301; clockwise, 305; "Rachel's electric clock," 368; "glass eye in the shape of a clock," 388; "a traveling clock chimed seven" 392; "clock inside the Gare du Nord," 393; clock-tower, 426; "though the drunk's clock slows down, it doesn't stop" 438; "the clockwork figure," 454; "the travelling clock which always tells the wrong time and chimes in different keys" 454; clock-iris, 487; "as if it were marked by any old and overprecious clock which could be wound and set at will" 489; ''See also'' [[T#time|time]]

'''C.O.'''<br />
220; commanding officer

<div id="co"></div>'''C&O compartment'''<br />
[[file:chessie_cropped.jpg|225px|left]]
375; a cargo compartment from the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad; can be seen all over the central East Coast, distinctive for their truly weird logo, which is a vague blob in the shape of a cat, ostensibly named "Chessie."

'''cognates'''<br />
465; In the context of ''V.'', Spanish words that mean the same thing, or have the same derivation

'''coitus interruptus'''<br />
Paola & Profane, 19; Rowley-Bugge & Alice, 70; Profane & Lucille, 144; Italian couple H. Godolphin interrupts, 185; Rachel & Profane, 359; Pig & Paola, 370-71

'''Collecteurs Généraux'''<br />
132; worked the main sewer line which ran under Boulevard St. Michel

'''Colonna, Pompeo'''<br />
464; of the famous Roman family which included a pope (Martin V), several cardinals, generals, statesmen and noted scholars; sent by the Pope with 1200 men to relieve La Valette

'''Colonel Bogie'''<br />
325; Colonel Bogey was the fictitious eponym of the "Colonel Bogey March," composed by F. J. Ricketts (as Kenneth J. Alford) in 1914. The tune is featured in the score of the 1957 film ''The Bridge on the River Kwai''.

'''Comitato Patriottico'''<br />
472; one of three Mizzist "clubs" in Malta in 1919; 477

'''complexity/chaos'''<br />
The Situation as, 189; "Any minor accident: a break in the clouds, a castastrophic shivering at the first tentative blow to a shop window, the topology of an object of destruction (up a hill or down--it makes a difference)-
anything might swell a merely mischievous humor to suddenly apocalyptic rage." 477; "Who knows how many thousand accidents--a variation in the weather, the availability of a ship, the failure of a crop--brought all these people, with their separate dreams and worries, here to this island and arranged them into this alignment? Any Situation takes shape from events much lower than the merely human." 483; [[Henry Adams#1900|Education of Henry Adams]]

'''Conferment of Degrees law, 1915'''<br />
490;

'''coño'''<br />
135; Spanish: "pussy"

'''Constantinople'''<br />
462; Originally called Byzantium (c.660 BC - 330 AD), and since 1930 Istanbul, Constantinople was founded by Constantine I in AD 330, becoming the new capital of the Turkish Empire. Now the capital of Turkey, it is located on a thin strip of land (the Golden Horn) between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara.

<div id="contango"></div>'''Contango, LtJG Johnny'''<br />
431; "Scaffold's damage-control assistant" in Malta; 433

'''Convoy Escort Piers'''<br />
375; in Norfolk, VA, where Scaffold is docked; 376

<div id="cook"></div>'''Cook, Thomas (1808-1892) (& Son)'''<br />
71; published tour guides and conducted quick, cursory tours; 76; 77; 156; 184; 190; 204; 408;

'''cool'''<br />
"too cool. Too unemotional when he said 'I have a problem with my woman.'" 292; "As long as you were flop, everything was cool." 293; "the cool scene after the war" 299; "It will be cool." 301; "There is no tension or malaise to this silence; it's cool, secure." 324; "the only way clear of the cool/crazy flipflop was obviously slow, frustrating and hard work." 365; "keep cool but care" 366 (Sphere), 369 (SHROUD)

'''Coptic'''<br />
84; relating to a people who descended from the ancient Egyptians

'''cormorant'''<br />
248, 320; any of a family of dark waterbirds with a long neck, hooked bill, and neck pouch; by extension, gluttonous or greedy

'''corsair'''<br />
462; a pirate, esp. a privateer of the Barbary Coast

'''corvette'''<br />
304; highly maneuverable armed escort ship that is smaller than a destroyer

<div id="counterforce"></div>'''Counterforce/anti-paranoia'''<br />
"I like to see young people get together." 31; "a ready acceptance of miracles or visions," 200; "they seemed to give up external plans, theories and codes [...] to indulge in being simply and purely young," 201; "Inanimate money was to get animate warmth," 214; "life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and still stay sane." 321; "We cannot expect more of the bombs than of the wind." 322; "It is a universal sin among the false-animate and unimaginative to refuse to let well enough alone. Their compulsion to gather together [...] extends on past the threshold of sleep;" 323; "horror of isolation," 324; "no conscious plot/Drove us underground" 326; "accumulation of small accidents" 330; "towards peace and simplicity" as opposed to "exhausted intellectual searching" 309; "once the inadequacy of optimism is borne in on him by an inevitably hostile world, to retreat into abstractions" 310; ''See also'' [[P#paranoia|paranoia]]

'''coutourière'''<br />
166; fashionable custom-made women's clothes shop

'''Covess'''<br />
188; school chum of S. Stencil

'''CP'''<br />
100; custom of port

<div id="crimea"></div>'''Crimea'''<br />
459; a peninsula in the extreme southern Soviet Russia, bordered by the Black Sea to the east, south and west. The [[Balkan Intrigues#The Crimean War|Crimean War]] (1853-56) was Russia against Turkey, Britain and France. Russia was defeated and Turkey's independence thus guaranteed. (''The Charge of the Light Brigade'' and the nursing of Florence Nightingale occurred during this war.)

'''Crockett, Davy (1786-1836)'''<br />
219-20; American frontiersman and statesman; died fighting for Texas' independence from Mexico at the Alamo

'''Cromer, Lord Evelyn Baring (1841-1917)'''<br />
91; English consul-general in Egypt 1883-1907

'''Cuernacabrón'''<br />
179; Spanish: cuerna: "horns" + cabrón: "bastard" = "horny bastard"; The Gaucho's lieutenant; 202; 206

'''Cunard'''<br />
189; shipping line between Britain and America began in 1839

'''curvet'''<br />
262; when a horse makes a prancing leap such that for an instant all its legs are in the air

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469 - '''Chaire, Papá'''<br />
Chaire is Greek χαῖρε, used as a greeting. Papá literally means Pope in Italian.

481 - '''the rocks called Cumin-seed and Peppercorn'''<br />
Comino, northwest of the main island, and Filfla, south of the main island

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'''baccalà'''<br />
379 (as plural, baccale); Italian: dried and salted cod fish

'''Bad Priest'''<br />
306; lives in an old villa past Sliema in Malta; children "assigned the Bad Priest no opposite number" 339; disassembly, 341-44; "girls he advised to become nuns [...] boys he told to find strength in  and be like  the rock of their island" 340; glass eye in the shape of a clock, 388; ''See also'' [[V#v|V.]]

<div id="baedeker"></div>'''Baedeker, Karl (1801-1859)'''<br />
64; the first Baedeker guidebook <ref>Baedeker, Karl, ''The Mediterranean'', published by Karl Baedeker, Leipzig, 1911:

:From ''Slow Learner'':

:"If [...] you believe that nothing is original, and that all writers 'borrow' from 'sources,' there still remains the question of credit lines or acknowledgements. It wasn't till 'Under the Rose' (1959) that I could bring myself, even indirectly, to credit guidebook eponym Karl Baedeker, whose guide to Egypt for 1899 was the major 'source' for the story.

:[...]

:"Loot the Baedeker I did, all the details of a time and place I had never been to, right down to the names of the diplomatic corps." (p.17)

:"[...] The old Baedeker trick again." (p.21)</ref> was published in 1839; Baedeker land, 70, 71; 74; 78; 89; Visitor's Guide, 159; 190; distrust of "South" 229 ("soiled South" - 75); Karl Baedeker of Leipzig, 408; 475; pencil-sharpener salesman who had seen every territory in the country and could give you interesting information on any city," 35

'''Bakunin, Mikhail (1814-1876)'''<br />
405; Russian anarchist who believed that communism, with its "withering away of the state," was an essential step toward anarchism

<div id="balloons"></div>'''balloons'''<br />
"on the fourth limb from the top there is a red balloon [golden-screwdriver dream]," 40; "a sturdy green balloon with a great Z printed on it [Fergus' way of indicating consciousness]" 56; "The sunburned face bobbed like a balloon," 65; "Up goes the balloon [slang: war, action, etc. had begun]," 67; Yusef's love of, 67; "A balloon-girl." 67; "Soon he was daydreaming again of balloons." 68; "So the balloon's gone up," 232; "the balloon had gone up", 308; "slow as a balloon," 329; "the most bouyant balloon-girl," 331; "fire-balloon," 335; "gay balloon-lungs," 343; V. "handed swords, balloons and colored handkerchiefs to Ugo Medichevole, a minor magician," 388; "The jolly, jolly balloon [...] Going up" 434; "leery like any Maltese of the Balloon's least bobbing," 448; 474; "Wasn't she the same balloon-girl who'd seduced him on a leather couch," 488; ''See also'' [[C#cher|Cher Ballon]]; [[H#hothouse|hothouse]]

'''Barkhausen, Heinrich Georg (1881-1956)'''<br />
230; German physicist who taught at Technische Hochschule in Dresden; discovered sferics during WWI

'''Bartholomew'''<br />
119; rat in Fairing's Parish

'''Basilisco'''<br />
379; cop in Profane's old neighborhood

'''Basilisk, Maynard'''<br />
419; "escapee from Devil's Island [...] on route to Vassa [...] to teach beekeeping" at party in Washington, DC

'''Batignolles, Le'''<br />
401; where Porcépic lives

'''Battista (1901-1973)'''<br />
353; Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar was president of Cuba 1940-44; 1952-59; he ruled as dictator until his overthrow by Fidel Castro in January 1959.

'''Bay of Biscay'''<br />
388; bay in the Mediterranean between France and Spain

'''Beatrice'''<br />
11; barmaid at Sailor's Grave; [[Etymologies#beatrice|Etymology]]

'''Belinda Sue'''<br />
130; subject of hillbilly tune; she ran off with an "itinerant propeller salesman"

'''Bella Gigogin, La'''<br />
477; song sung by rollickers in the street in Valletta

'''Bellevue'''<br />
362; psychiatric hospital in New York City; 364; 416

'''Ben-Gurion, David (1886-1973)'''<br />
225; prime minister of Israel 1949-53, 1955-63

'''Benguela Current'''<br />
266; brings wind and sand to harbor in Südwest; 274

'''Berg-Damaras'''<br />
245; Südwest tribe; they were serfs of the Hottentots and Hereros and lived in the mountainous regions

'''Bergomask, Oley'''<br />
217; of Anthroresearch Associates; 284

'''Beukes, Tim'''<br />
232; Bondelswaartz leader in Südwest during uprising of 1922

'''bierhalle'''<br />
88; north of the Ezbekiyeh Gardens in Cairo

<div id="big"></div>'''Big One, The'''<br />
226; "the century's master cabal"; ''See also'' [[P#paranoia|paranoia]]

'''Bight of Benin'''<br />
271; bay in Gulf of Guinea on west coast of Africa

[[image:birth_of_venus_sm.jpg|thumb|200px|right]]<div id="venus"></div>'''Birth of Venus'''<br />
178; Botticelli painting coveted by Mantissa; 209; 212; [[Birth of Venus]]

'''Bismarck, Otto (1815-1898)'''<br />
239; first chancellor of the German Empire 1871-90

'''Bizerte'''<br />
459; Tunisian port on the Mediterranean

'''Black Maria'''<br />
31; Navy slang for paddy wagon

'''Black Mass'''<br />
167; a sacrilegious mass in which the Devil, rather than God, is invoked, with various obscene rights; 394; 398; 401; 402; acolytes, 402; Host, 403; 413

'''bluejackets'''<br />
16; Navy enlisted men

'''Board of Inquiry'''<br />
191; looked into Godolphin/Vheissu matter; 197; 491

'''Bobbsey Twins, The'''<br />
436; Dahoud and Leroy Tongue ("the midget storekeeper") in Valletta, as cops

'''BOC'''<br />
''See'' [[#boc|British Officers' Club]]

<div id="bodine"></div>'''Bodine, Pig'''<br />
14; AWOL former shipmate of Profane's on USS Scaffold; voyeur, 17; looking for Paola, 129; 217; "The Green Door. One night Dolores, Veronica, Justine, Sharon, Cindy Lou, Geraldine and Irvine decide to hold an orgy." 218; wants Paola, 221; 283; Whole Sick Crew party, 287; 352; "life is the most precious possession you have." (see also p. 12), 361; attempted rape of Paola, 370; Pig also figures prominently in [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow'']; Pig's ancestor, [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ Fender-Belly Bodine], shows up in ''Mason & Dixon'', and, perhaps, his father or uncle, O.I.C. Bodine makes an appearance in [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_489-524#Page_517 ''Against the Day''].

'''Boeblich'''<br />
88; owner of bierhalle north of Ezbekiyeh Garden in Cairo

'''Bofors'''<br />
309; British anti-aircraft (a/a) guns; 317; 328-29

<div id="bondel"></div>'''Bondelschwaartz'''<br />
231; aka "Bondel" - rebel Hottentots in Südwest - led by Abraham Christian, their chief; [[Südwest#nama|Read on...]]</a>

<div id="bongo"></div>'''Bongo-Shaftsbury, Eric'''<br />
55; Egyptologist and father of H. Stencil's acquaintance; acts as Wrens' guide in Alexandria and environs; murdered Porpentine [[Porpentine's Murder|(did he?)]], 93-94; "A certain Porpentine, one of his father's colleagues, had been murdered in Egypt under the duello by Eric Bongo-Shaftsbury, the father of the man who owned this apartment." 63; aka "Hugh" (?), 74; "He saw a flicker of communication between [Bongo Shaftsbury and Lepsius]" 75; "Odd: neither Porpentine nor Bongo-Shaftsbury spoke. Each had bent a close eye on his own man, keeping expressionless." 75; "An electro-mechanical doll," 80; "Humanity is something to destroy." 81

'''Bongo-Shaftsbury, Hugh'''<br />
55; son of Eric; 74

'''Boone, Pat (b. 1934)'''<br />
19; "white-bread" American popstar in 50s. Made tunes by rockers (often black artists) palatable to white audiences; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Vincent Gene Vincent's] "Be Bop A Lula" is an example; 418; 420; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Boone Wikipedia]

'''Bop Kings'''<br />
144; street gang in New York City and rivals of the Playboys

'''BOQ'''<br />
269; Bachelor Officers' Quarters; 305

<div id="borgo"></div>'''Borgo'''<br />
464; According to Baedeker, one of the Three Cities "Opposite Valletta, on the three central creeks of the Grand Harbour [...] also called Vittoriosa since the great Turkish siege"; [[Map of Malta]]

'''Borgo di Greci'''<br />
175; street in Florence

'''Borracho'''<br />
202; member of Figli d'Machiavelli in Florence

<div id="botticelli"></div>'''Botticelli, Sandro (1444-1510)'''<br />
201; Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli ("little barrel") was an Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance (''Quattrocento''). Less than a hundred years later, this movement, under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici, was characterized by Giorgio Vasari as a "golden age", a thought, suitably enough, he expressed at the head of his ''Vita'' of Botticelli. His posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th century; since then his work has been seen to represent the linear grace of Early Renaissance painting, and [[Birth of Venus|''The Birth of Venus'']] and ''Primavera'' rank now among the most familiar masterpieces of Florentine art; 212; ''See also'' [[#venus|Birth of Venus]]

'''Boulevard Haussmann'''<br />
394; in Paris

'''Brad'''<br />
58; frat on periphery of Whole Sick Crew with whom Esther flirts

'''Breguet'''<br />
97; French reconnaisance plane built in 1914 and used in World War I

'''Brennessel cabaret'''<br />
241; mentioned by Weissman to Mondaugen as being in Munich in Schwabing quarter

'''Brindisi'''<br />
75; Italian port city where Lepsius has been before turning up in Cairo

'''Bristol Fighters'''<br />
97; WWI British fighter plane

<div id="boc"></div>'''British Officers' Club (BOC)'''<br />
431

<div id="brody"></div>'''Brody'''<br />
128; a Brodie is a suicidal leap, named after Steve Brodie, an American newsboy who, in 1886, claimed to have jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge; 436

'''Brunelleschi, Filippo (1377-1446)'''<br />
201; Italian architect, goldsmith and sculptor. Main claim to fame is the dome of the Florence Cathedral (Duomo) erected between 1420 and 1461

'''Buffo, Beatrice'''<br />
11; barmaid at Sailor's Grave

'''Bung'''<br />
116; foreman of rat patrol in New York City sewers; 139

'''Butte'''<br />
412; in Paris

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<div id="cabron"></div>'''cabrón'''<br />
433; Spanish: lit. "he-goat"; fig. "bastard"

'''Caesar, Julius (100-44 BC)'''<br />
306; Roman general, statesman and writer; 322; 481; 482; 485

'''Café Phoenicia'''<br />
470; in Valletta

'''Cairo'''<br />
77; Capital of Egypt and a major port just south of the Nile Delta in the northeast corner of Africa

'''caitiff'''<br />
308; someone who is cowardly or despicable

'''Camaroon'''<br />
267; Republic located in west-central Africa. Under British and French control from WWI until 1960.

'''Campagna'''<br />
184; region in central Italy around Rome

'''Cannes'''<br />
186; French city southwest of Nice on the Cote d'Azur; 219

'''Cape Town'''<br />
241; capital of Union of South Africa and located on the southernmost tip of Africa

'''"Capo di minghe!"'''<br />
164; Italian (southern): "Dickhead!"; [[Chapter_7#minghe|Read more...]]

'''Caprivi, George Leo, Graf von (1831-99)'''<br />
239; German militaryman who succeeded Bismarck as imperial chancellor and Prussian prime minister

'''carabinieri'''<br />
205; a member of the Italian national police force

'''CARE'''<br />
305; Cooperative for American Relief to Everywhere; U.S. charitable organization

'''caries'''<br />
153; progressive destruction of bone or tooth, esp. tooth decay

'''Carruthers-Pillow'''<br />
458; S. Stencil's superior at Whitehall

'''Cassar'''<br />
446; shopowner in Valletta who knows possible whereabouts of glass eye; [[Etymologies#cassar|Etymology]]

'''catechumen'''<br />
123; one receiving instruction in the basic doctrines of Christianity before becoming a full member of the church

'''cause and effect'''<br />
306; 489

'''CCNY'''<br />
128; City College of New York

'''Celda Museo'''<br />
387; museum in Majorca

'''Cellini, Benvenuto (1500-71)'''<br />
159; Florentine goldsmith and sculptor expelled from Florence for dueling. Returned to Florence later in life and worked under patronage of Cosimo I de'Medici

<div id="center"></div>'''center'''<br />
dead center, 22, 44; center of "one of those queer lulls in the noise level of any room," 93; "center of her face," 109; center of town, 188, 207; "I wanted to stand in the dead center of the carousel," 205; "geographical center of the midtown employment agency belt." 213; "self-centered," 214; "a great wooden sun [...] in the very center," 239; "street's center-line," 244; "down the center-line of the skull," 268; "new ones bloom in the centres of old" 323; "Profane felt that [...] he'd come to dead center in Nueva York;" 368; of gravity, 390; "nine light years from rim to center," 394; of the seat, 394; "Itague stood in the center," 396; "a large pouf in the center of the room," 406; "center of the mob," 440; "center of the ceiling," 453; "circle centered at Xaghriet Mewwija," 462; "In the center was a cistern, its rim adorned with a dark sunburst of sewage." 469; ''See also'' [[#circles|circles]]

'''Cesare'''<br />
159; "seedy looking Calabrese" and Mantissa's "accomplice in crime"

'''C'est Magnifique'''<br />
438/486; 1953 popular song written by Cole Porter for his musical Can-Can; played by hot-jazz band in Metro, in Valletta

'''Chapman, Maj. Percy'''<br />
181; English Consul-General in Florence; 183; 188

'''Charisma'''<br />
51; member of Whole Sick Crew; 124; 224; 287; 295; 300;

'''Charivari, La'''<br />
407; French: "the loud music"; ''See also'' [[S#shivaree|shivaree]]

<div id="charybdis"></div>'''Charybdis'''<br />
432; In Greek legend, a monster, the whirlpool she formed and the rock cliff under which she lived, facing Scylla on the other side of the Straits of Messina; ''See also'' [[S#scylla|Scylla]]; [[S#straits|Straits of Messina]]

<div id="cher"></div>'''Cher Ballon'''<br />
157; French: "beloved balloon"; a bay (horse that's bay colored) Evan Godolphin bets on in Paris and wins 17,000 francs in 1899

'''Chester's Hillbilly Haven'''<br />
21; bar in Norfolk, VA

<div id="chiclitz"></div>'''Chiclitz, Clayton "Bloody"'''<br /> 55; the munitions king; 152; president of Yoyodyne, Inc., 226-27; Chiclitz also appears in Pynchon's [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=C#chiclitz ''Gravity's Rainbow'']. ''See also'' [[XYZ#yoyodyne|Yoyodyne]]

'''Chiclitz Toy Company'''<br />
227; outlet in Nutley, NJ, in late 1940s

'''chiffonnier'''<br />
399; French: "ragman"

'''Chobb, Nasty'''<br />
433; the baker; plays trumpet on Route 66 in the Union Jack in Valletta; in H.M.S. Ceylon cap, 443

'''Chopin, Frederic (1810-49)'''<br />
387; Polish composer and pianist

'''Christian, Abraham'''<br />
255; chief of Bondelswaartz Hottentots in Südwest, shot in Warmbad

'''Christian, Jacobus'''<br />
232; Bondelswaartz leader in Südwest

'''Cinderella liberty'''<br />
???/487; in the Navy, a liberty (shore leave) that ends at midnight of a given day

'''Cinoglossa'''<br />
444; homosexual, epileptic poet friend of Stencil's

<div id="circles"></div>'''circles'''<br />
"[the Church] formed along with uncle Evelyn the foci of her serene orbit" 72; "three jailbait [...] stood in front of the wheel of Fortune" 139; "[Chiclitz] and Eigenvalue were part of the same Circle." 152; "He belonged to that inner circle of deracinated seers" 160; "I wanted to stand in the dead center of the carousel" 205; "Foppl's own planetarium, a circular room with a great wooden sun" 239; "our Vheissus are no longer our own, or even confined to a circle of friends" 248; "as if Stencil's notion of an inner circle were correct after all" 297; "Fortune's wheel [...] the hub still held the spokes in place and the meeting place of the spokes still defined the hub" 338; "the children's wheel was dead-level, its own rim only that of the sea's horizon" 338-39; "a radius along with leather-winged Lucifer" 339; "an inner circle of enlisted men" 373; Sirius' "halo of plague, which is nine light-years from rim to center" 393-94; "the invisible circle centered at Xaghriet Mewwija with Lampedusa on the rim" 462; "Malta as a charmed circle, some stable domain of peace" 480; "if only to complete a circle begun in England eighteen years ago" 489; "Draw a line from Malta to Lampedusa. Call it a radius. Somewhere in that circle [...]" 492; ''See also'' [[#center|center]]; [[#clock|clock]]

<div id="clock"></div>'''clock'''<br />
"old clock," 34; "clock of a heart," 40; "turn-of-the-century clock" in Shoenmaker's office, 45-46, 96, 102; "an illuminated clock near Paola Maijstral's bed," 51-52; "unwound like a clock's mainspring," 52; "The train [...] ran on a different clock--its own, which no human could read" 77; "the simple clockwork of itself," 217; "We are [...] the lead weights of a fantastic clock, necessary [...] to keep an ordered sense of history and time prevailing against chaos" 233; "Inside were the delicately wrought wheels, springs, ratchets of a watch, wound by a gold key," 237; "The black oak clock above the fireplace ticked terribly loud in strange waves of silence," 244; "Cuckoo's in his clock with laryngitis," 261; "man as a clockwork automaton" 284; "aware of a clock ticking on the table," 294; "there was only the ticking of the clock," 295; "ticking time-bomb," 300; "I broke the electric alarm clock," 301; clockwise, 305; "Rachel's electric clock," 368; "glass eye in the shape of a clock," 388; "a traveling clock chimed seven" 392; "clock inside the Gare du Nord," 393; clock-tower, 426; "though the drunk's clock slows down, it doesn't stop" 438; "the clockwork figure," 454; "the travelling clock which always tells the wrong time and chimes in different keys" 454; clock-iris, 487; "as if it were marked by any old and overprecious clock which could be wound and set at will" 489; ''See also'' [[T#time|time]]

'''C.O.'''<br />
220; commanding officer

<div id="co"></div>'''C&O compartment'''<br />
[[file:chessie_cropped.jpg|225px|left]]
375; a cargo compartment from the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad; can be seen all over the central East Coast, distinctive for their truly weird logo, which is a vague blob in the shape of a cat, ostensibly named "Chessie."

'''cognates'''<br />
465; In the context of ''V.'', Spanish words that mean the same thing, or have the same derivation

'''coitus interruptus'''<br />
Paola & Profane, 19; Rowley-Bugge & Alice, 70; Profane & Lucille, 144; Italian couple H. Godolphin interrupts, 185; Rachel & Profane, 359; Pig & Paola, 370-71

'''Collecteurs Généraux'''<br />
132; worked the main sewer line which ran under Boulevard St. Michel

'''Colonna, Pompeo'''<br />
464; of the famous Roman family which included a pope (Martin V), several cardinals, generals, statesmen and noted scholars; sent by the Pope with 1200 men to relieve La Valette

'''Colonel Bogie'''<br />
325; Colonel Bogey was the fictitious eponym of the "Colonel Bogey March," composed by F. J. Ricketts (as Kenneth J. Alford) in 1914. The tune is featured in the score of the 1957 film ''The Bridge on the River Kwai''.

'''Comitato Patriottico'''<br />
472; one of three Mizzist "clubs" in Malta in 1919; 477

'''complexity/chaos'''<br />
The Situation as, 189; "Any minor accident: a break in the clouds, a castastrophic shivering at the first tentative blow to a shop window, the topology of an object of destruction (up a hill or down--it makes a difference)-
anything might swell a merely mischievous humor to suddenly apocalyptic rage." 477; "Who knows how many thousand accidents--a variation in the weather, the availability of a ship, the failure of a crop--brought all these people, with their separate dreams and worries, here to this island and arranged them into this alignment? Any Situation takes shape from events much lower than the merely human." 483; [[Henry Adams#1900|Education of Henry Adams]]

'''Conferment of Degrees law, 1915'''<br />
490;

'''coño'''<br />
135; Spanish: "pussy"

'''Constantinople'''<br />
462; Originally called Byzantium (c.660 BC - 330 AD), and since 1930 Istanbul, Constantinople was founded by Constantine I in AD 330, becoming the new capital of the Turkish Empire. Now the capital of Turkey, it is located on a thin strip of land (the Golden Horn) between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara.

<div id="contango"></div>'''Contango, LtJG Johnny'''<br />
431; "Scaffold's damage-control assistant" in Malta; 433

'''Convoy Escort Piers'''<br />
375; in Norfolk, VA, where Scaffold is docked; 376

<div id="cook"></div>'''Cook, Thomas (1808-1892) (& Son)'''<br />
71; published tour guides and conducted quick, cursory tours; 76; 77; 156; 184; 190; 204; 408;

'''cool'''<br />
"too cool. Too unemotional when he said 'I have a problem with my woman.'" 292; "As long as you were flop, everything was cool." 293; "the cool scene after the war" 299; "It will be cool." 301; "There is no tension or malaise to this silence; it's cool, secure." 324; "the only way clear of the cool/crazy flipflop was obviously slow, frustrating and hard work." 365; "keep cool but care" 366 (Sphere), 369 (SHROUD)

'''Coptic'''<br />
84; relating to a people who descended from the ancient Egyptians

'''corsair'''<br />
462; a pirate, esp. a privateer of the Barbary Coast

'''corvette'''<br />
304; highly maneuverable armed escort ship that is smaller than a destroyer

<div id="counterforce"></div>'''Counterforce/anti-paranoia'''<br />
"I like to see young people get together." 31; "a ready acceptance of miracles or visions," 200; "they seemed to give up external plans, theories and codes [...] to indulge in being simply and purely young," 201; "Inanimate money was to get animate warmth," 214; "life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and still stay sane." 321; "We cannot expect more of the bombs than of the wind." 322; "It is a universal sin among the false-animate and unimaginative to refuse to let well enough alone. Their compulsion to gather together [...] extends on past the threshold of sleep;" 323; "horror of isolation," 324; "no conscious plot/Drove us underground" 326; "accumulation of small accidents" 330; "towards peace and simplicity" as opposed to "exhausted intellectual searching" 309; "once the inadequacy of optimism is borne in on him by an inevitably hostile world, to retreat into abstractions" 310; ''See also'' [[P#paranoia|paranoia]]

'''coutourière'''<br />
166; fashionable custom-made women's clothes shop

'''Covess'''<br />
188; school chum of S. Stencil

'''CP'''<br />
100; custom of port

<div id="crimea"></div>'''Crimea'''<br />
459; a peninsula in the extreme southern Soviet Russia, bordered by the Black Sea to the east, south and west. The [[Balkan Intrigues#The Crimean War|Crimean War]] (1853-56) was Russia against Turkey, Britain and France. Russia was defeated and Turkey's independence thus guaranteed. (''The Charge of the Light Brigade'' and the nursing of Florence Nightingale occurred during this war.)

'''Crockett, Davy (1786-1836)'''<br />
219-20; American frontiersman and statesman; died fighting for Texas' independence from Mexico at the Alamo

'''Cromer, Lord Evelyn Baring (1841-1917)'''<br />
91; English consul-general in Egypt 1883-1907

'''Cuernacabrón'''<br />
179; Spanish: cuerna: "horns" + cabrón: "bastard" = "horny bastard"; The Gaucho's lieutenant; 202; 206

'''Cunard'''<br />
189; shipping line between Britain and America began in 1839

'''curvet'''<br />
262; when a horse makes a prancing leap such that for an instant all its legs are in the air

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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Bakunin Mikhail Bakunin] was one of the most influential anarchists of all time. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx Karl Marx] was a revolutionary socialist and founder of Marxism. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin Vladamir Lenin] or Vladamir Ulyanov was a celebrated leader in the Soviet Union and a major political figure in the 1905 Revolution.

415 - '''the Whitney'''<br />
In 1956, the Whitney Museum of American Art was located on 54th Street, behind the Museum of Modern Art.

415/461 - '''Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin''' <br />
Stencil is quoting the original "writing on the wall." In the book of Daniel, a mysterious, disembodied hand appears in the royal palace of King Belshazzar of Babylon, and writes the words "Mene mene tekel parsin (or upharsin, in another version) on the palace walls. The court was unable to decipher the meaning of the crypic phrase, although mene, tekel and parsin were all aramaic terms for currency. Daniel intepreted the phrase to mean that (mene) Babylon had been measured & found wanting, (tekel) a price would be paid and (parsin) Babylon apportioned by its neighbors. The historical record documents the conquest of the Bablyonian empire by the Persians; the Book of Daniel has King Belshazzar slain that night.

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_writing_on_the_wall The Writing on the Wall]

418 - '''Dalì's Last Supper'''<br />
''The Sacrament of the Last Supper'' (1955) was painted by Salvador Dalì (1903-1989). A gift of Chester Dale to the National Gallery of Art, it was first exhibited Easter weekend, 1956.

[https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.46590.html The Sacrament of the Last Supper]

418 - '''Be Bop A Lula'''<br />
Written by Gene Vincent, Donald Graves, and Bill "Sheriff Tex" Davis, "Be-Bop-a-Lula" was first recorded by Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps and released in June 1956.

423/469 '''Sahha''' <br />
Maltese: bye.

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<div id="Bakunin, Marx, Ulyanov"> ???/450 -- '''Bakunin, Marx, Ulyanov'''<br />

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Bakunin Mikhail Bakunin] was one of the most influential anarchists of all time. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx Karl Marx] was a revolutionary socialist and founder of Marxism. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin Vladamir Lenin] or Vladamir Ulyanov was a celebrated leader in the Soviet Union and a major political figure in the 1905 Revolution.

415 - '''the Whitney'''<br />
In 1956, the Whitney Museum of American Art was located on 54th Street, behind the Museum of Modern Art.

415/461 - '''Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin''' <br />
Stencil is quoting the original "writing on the wall." In the book of Daniel, a mysterious, disembodied hand appears in the royal palace of King Belshazzar of Babylon, and writes the words "Mene mene tekel parsin (or upharsin, in another version) on the palace walls. The court was unable to decipher the meaning of the crypic phrase, although mene, tekel and parsin were all aramaic terms for currency. Daniel intepreted the phrase to mean that (mene) Babylon had been measured & found wanting, (tekel) a price would be paid and (parsin) Babylon apportioned by its neighbors. The historical record documents the conquest of the Bablyonian empire by the Persians; the Book of Daniel has King Belshazzar slain that night.

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_writing_on_the_wall The Writing on the Wall]

418 - '''Dalì's Last Supper'''<br />
''The Sacrament of the Last Supper'' (1955) was painted by Salvador Dalì (1903-1989). A gift of Chester Dale to the National Gallery of Art, it was first exhibited Easter weekend, 1956.

[https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.46590.html The Sacrament of the Last Supper]

418 - '''Be Bop A Lula''<br />
Written by Gene Vincent, Donald Graves, and Bill "Sheriff Tex" Davis, "Be-Bop-a-Lula" was first recorded by Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps and released in June 1956.

423/469 '''Sahha''' <br />
Maltese: bye.

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<div id="spud coxswain">425/??? - '''spud coxswain'''</div>
A spud coxswain is the traditional title of a salad and vegetable chef onboard a naval vessel.

<div id="fo'c's''le">426/??? - '''streak for the fo'c's'le'''</div>
The forecastle is the forward part of a ship, often where crew quarters are located.

433, 434 - '''Route 66'''<br />
"(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66", by Bobby Troup, 1946. Nat King Cole's first recording of the tune was in 1946.

434 - '''Every Day I Have the Blues'''<br />
Twelve-bar blues first recorded by Aaron "Pinetop" Sparks and Milton Sparks in 1935.

438 - '''Sally and Sue, Don't Be Blue'''<br />
Lines from the "The Song of the Marines," (1937) words by Al Dubin, music by Harry Warren, sung by Dick Powell in the film ''The Singing Marine''.

438/472 - '''single up all lines'''<br>
See [[Chapter_1#singleup|pg. 11/3]].

439/488 - '''the Suez Crisis''' <br />
International incident following the closure to Israeli shipping and nationalization of the Suez Canal by the arab nationalist regime of Gamal Abdel Nassar. The British & French supported an Israeli invasion w/ a large task force of warships, aircraft & troops stationed at Cyprus and Malta. British commandos first landed in Egypt by parachute on November 5th, and WWII era LCM landing craft on November 6th. 16 British servicemen were killed & 96 wounded in the action.

440 - '''I Only Have Eyes for You'''<br />
Words by Al Dubin, music by Harry Warren, introduced by Dick Powell in 1934.

440 - '''I Apologize'''<br />
1931 song by Al Hoffman, Al Goodhart, and Ed Nelson. Billy Eckstine's version was released in 1951.

441 - '''Who's the little rodent/That's getting more than me?/F-U-C-K-E-Y Y-O-U-S-E'''<br />
Parody of the "Mickey Mouse March," words and music by Jimmie Dodd, and used as the theme song for the 1955-1959 television series, The Mickey Mouse Club.

<div id="fenice">444/493 - '''a monk long defrocked named Fenice'''</div>
La Fenice is one of the most famous opera houses in Venice. It was built in 1774 when the San Benedetto opera house burned down and the theatre company there needed a new home. Thus the new opera house was called "La Fenice" ("the Phoenix") as it rose from the ashes of the San Benedetto. It was the leading opera house in Venice. In 1836 it burned down and was rebuilt in 1837. On January 29, 1996, it again burned down. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Fenice Wikipedia]

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<div id="spud coxswain">425/??? - '''spud coxswain'''</div>
A spud coxswain is the traditional title of a salad and vegetable chef onboard a naval vessel.

<div id="fo'c's''le">426/??? - '''streak for the fo'c's'le'''</div>
The forecastle is the forward part of a ship, often where crew quarters are located.

434 - '''Every Day I Have the Blues'''<br />
Twelve-bar blues first recorded by Aaron "Pinetop" Sparks and Milton Sparks in 1935.

438 - '''Sally and Sue, Don't Be Blue'''<br />
Lines from the "The Song of the Marines," (1937) words by Al Dubin, music by Harry Warren, sung by Dick Powell in the film ''The Singing Marine''.

438/472 - '''single up all lines'''<br>
See [[Chapter_1#singleup|pg. 11/3]].

439/488 - '''the Suez Crisis''' <br />
International incident following the closure to Israeli shipping and nationalization of the Suez Canal by the arab nationalist regime of Gamal Abdel Nassar. The British & French supported an Israeli invasion w/ a large task force of warships, aircraft & troops stationed at Cyprus and Malta. British commandos first landed in Egypt by parachute on November 5th, and WWII era LCM landing craft on November 6th. 16 British servicemen were killed & 96 wounded in the action.

440 - '''I Only Have Eyes for You'''<br />
Words by Al Dubin, music by Harry Warren, introduced by Dick Powell in 1934.

440 - '''I Apologize'''<br />
1931 song by Al Hoffman, Al Goodhart, and Ed Nelson. Billy Eckstine's version was released in 1951.

441 - '''Who's the little rodent/That's getting more than me?/F-U-C-K-E-Y Y-O-U-S-E'''<br />
Parody of the "Mickey Mouse March," words and music by Jimmie Dodd, and used as the theme song for the 1955-1959 television series, The Mickey Mouse Club.

<div id="fenice">444/493 - '''a monk long defrocked named Fenice'''</div>
La Fenice is one of the most famous opera houses in Venice. It was built in 1774 when the San Benedetto opera house burned down and the theatre company there needed a new home. Thus the new opera house was called "La Fenice" ("the Phoenix") as it rose from the ashes of the San Benedetto. It was the leading opera house in Venice. In 1836 it burned down and was rebuilt in 1837. On January 29, 1996, it again burned down. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Fenice Wikipedia]

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<div id="spud coxswain">425/??? - '''spud coxswain'''</div>
A spud coxswain is the traditional title of a salad and vegetable chef onboard a naval vessel.

<div id="fo'c's''le">426/??? - '''streak for the fo'c's'le'''</div>
The forecastle is the forward part of a ship, often where crew quarters are located.

438 - '''Sally and Sue, Don't Be Blue'''<br />
Lines from the "The Song of the Marines," (1937) words by Al Dubin, music by Harry Warren, sung by Dick Powell in the film ''The Singing Marine''.

438/472 - '''single up all lines'''<br>
See [[Chapter_1#singleup|pg. 11/3]].

439/488 - '''the Suez Crisis''' <br />
International incident following the closure to Israeli shipping and nationalization of the Suez Canal by the arab nationalist regime of Gamal Abdel Nassar. The British & French supported an Israeli invasion w/ a large task force of warships, aircraft & troops stationed at Cyprus and Malta. British commandos first landed in Egypt by parachute on November 5th, and WWII era LCM landing craft on November 6th. 16 British servicemen were killed & 96 wounded in the action.

440 - '''I Only Have Eyes for You'''<br />
Words by Al Dubin, music by Harry Warren, introduced by Dick Powell in 1934.

440 - '''I Apologize'''<br />
1931 song by Al Hoffman, Al Goodhart, and Ed Nelson. Billy Eckstine's version was released in 1951.

441 - '''Who's the little rodent/That's getting more than me?/F-U-C-K-E-Y Y-O-U-S-E'''<br />
Parody of the "Mickey Mouse March," words and music by Jimmie Dodd, and used as the theme song for the 1955-1959 television series, The Mickey Mouse Club.

<div id="fenice">444/493 - '''a monk long defrocked named Fenice'''</div>
La Fenice is one of the most famous opera houses in Venice. It was built in 1774 when the San Benedetto opera house burned down and the theatre company there needed a new home. Thus the new opera house was called "La Fenice" ("the Phoenix") as it rose from the ashes of the San Benedetto. It was the leading opera house in Venice. In 1836 it burned down and was rebuilt in 1837. On January 29, 1996, it again burned down. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Fenice Wikipedia]

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<div id="spud coxswain">425/??? - '''spud coxswain'''</div>
A spud coxswain is the traditional title of a salad and vegetable chef onboard a naval vessel.

<div id="fo'c's''le">426/??? - '''streak for the fo'c's'le'''</div>
The forecastle is the forward part of a ship, often where crew quarters are located.

438 - '''Sally and Sue, Don't Be Blue'''<br />
Lines from the "The Song of the Marines," (1937) words by Al Dubin, music by Harry Warren, sung by Dick Powell in the film ''The Singing Marine''.

438/472 - '''single up all lines'''<br>
See [[Chapter_1#singleup|pg. 11/3]].

439/488 - '''the Suez Crisis''' <br />
International incident following the closure to Israeli shipping and nationalization of the Suez Canal by the arab nationalist regime of Gamal Abdel Nassar. The British & French supported an Israeli invasion w/ a large task force of warships, aircraft & troops stationed at Cyprus and Malta. British commandos first landed in Egypt by parachute on November 5th, and WWII era LCM landing craft on November 6th. 16 British servicemen were killed & 96 wounded in the action.

440 - '''I Apologize'''<br />
1931 song by Al Hoffman, Al Goodhart, and Ed Nelson. Billy Eckstine's version was released in 1951.

441 - '''Who's the little rodent/That's getting more than me?/F-U-C-K-E-Y Y-O-U-S-E'''<br />
Parody of the "Mickey Mouse March," words and music by Jimmie Dodd, and used as the theme song for the 1955-1959 television series, The Mickey Mouse Club.

<div id="fenice">444/493 - '''a monk long defrocked named Fenice'''</div>
La Fenice is one of the most famous opera houses in Venice. It was built in 1774 when the San Benedetto opera house burned down and the theatre company there needed a new home. Thus the new opera house was called "La Fenice" ("the Phoenix") as it rose from the ashes of the San Benedetto. It was the leading opera house in Venice. In 1836 it burned down and was rebuilt in 1837. On January 29, 1996, it again burned down. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Fenice Wikipedia]

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156/165 - '''entrechat deux''' <br />
Classical ballet term for a jump in which the individual switches the legs alternately forward and backward very quickly. "deux" means two crossings of the legs, or four kicks altogether. Prissy, energetic jump.

156/165 - '''Captain Hugh, F.R.G.S''' <br />
Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society.

157/166 - '''. . .author of ''The Renaissance''''' <br />
Walter Pater. Young Godolphin (Godot + Dolphin?) is among a literary elite, clearly evinced by his love of obscure in-jokes.

159/168 - '''Mazzini''' <br />
19th century politician & Italian nationalist who was instrumental in the creation of modern Italy from divided monarchies & states.

<div id="mantissa">159/168 - '''Signor Mantissa'''<br />
''Mantissa'' = Latin: "makeweight": something thrown onto a scale to bring the weight to a desired value; In mathematics: the decimal part of a logarithm; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantissa Wikipedia]

[[image:machiavelli.jpg|thumb|150px|Machiavelli by Santi di Tito|right]]<div id="machiavelli">160/169 - '''Like Machiavelli he was in exile'''<br />
In a famous letter to his friend Francesco Vettori, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli Machiavelli] described how he spent his days in exile:

:When evening comes, I return home [from work and from the local tavern] and go to my study. On the threshold I strip naked, taking off my muddy, sweaty workday clothes, and put on the robes of court and palace, and in this graver dress I enter the courts of the ancients and am welcomed by them, and there I taste the food that alone is mine, and for which I was born. And there I make bold to speak to them and ask the motives of their actions, and they, in their humanity reply to me. And for the space of four hours I forget the world, remember no vexation, fear poverty no more, tremble no more at death; I pass indeed into their world.

<div id="pessimism">From Pynchon's short story ''Entropy'':</div>

:His had always been a vigorous, Italian sort of pessimism: like Machiavelli, he allowed the forces of virtù and fortuna to be about 50/50; but the equations now introduced a random factor which pushed the odds to some unutterable and indeterminate ratio which he found himself afraid to calculate. <ref>Pynchon, Thomas, ''Slow Learner'', Jonathan Cape, 1985, pp. 87-88</ref>

<div id="minghe">164/174 - '''"Capo di minghe!"'''</div>
"Minghe" stands for "minchia" (a very common expression, like the American "shit"  and quite vulgar). "Minghe" is how "minchia" is spelled (pronounced) by southern Italians. "Minchia" means "dick", so "minghe morte" means "your dick is dead" (i.e, "impotent"), and "capo di minghe" means "dickhead", "dick-headed" &c. "Minghe" by itself would be like saying "shit" or any sort of profane exclamation."

From Pynchon's short story ''Entropy'' <ref>''Ibid.'', p. 96</ref>:

:"''Minghe morte''," said Duke. "I ''figured'' we were playing it a little slow," Krinkles said.

Also, Mingeborough is where the kids live in Pynchon's short story ''The Secret Integration.''

[[Image:botticelli-birth-venus.jpg|thumb|250px|"The Birth of Venus" by Botticelli|left]]164/175 - '''Birth of Venus''' <br />
The Botticelli referenced earlier, famously depicting the goddess Venus arising in full womanhood from the sea.

166/177 - '''the Fashoda crisis''' <br />
See Ch.3 - Fashoda

167/178 - '''Mahdists''' <br />
Islamic followers of Muhammed Ahmad, or "Al-Mahdi", a late 19th century religious & theocratic leader in Sudan. Ahmad organized local tribes in an attempt to create an Islamic state in Sudan, & eventually the world. The British organized an opposition & eventually crushed the movement at the battle of Omdurman in 1898.

167 - '''an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace'''<br />
In the Lutheran and Anglican catechisms, a definition of ''sacramentum'', something sacred.

171/183 - '''Khartoum''' <br />
Site of an 1884-1885 seige, in which rebeling Mahdists surrounded the colonial forces of General Gordon. When relief forces arrived, Gordon was defeated and his head displayed on a pike.

171/183 - '''General Gordon''' <br />
Charles George Gordan, veteran of British campaigns in China and Africa, and governor general of Sudan from 1874 to his death in 1885 at the hands of Mahdist insurrectionists.

175/187 - '''caviliere''' <br />
Italian: a knight, although the conotation here may be a "Knight of Labor," an important political or economic figure in a territory.

176/188 - '''Garibaldi''' <br />
Giuseppe Garibaldi, revolutionary leader of forces for Italian unification in the 19th century - an Italian insurrectionist hero. Earlier in his life, Garibaldi lived in Uruguay and fought against conservative forces in the civil war there. He was famous for his gaucho costume & red shirt that became a symbol for the unification movement in Italy. Some connection, here, with the Argentine gaucho?

179/191 - '''his lieutenant, Cuernacabron''' <br />
Spanish: "horn" + "bastard" = horny bastard?

<div id="morra">191/205 - '''a loud morra game'''</div>
From Pynchon's short story ''Entropy'' <ref>''ibid'', p. 96</ref>:
:"There was a two-handed, bilingual morra game on over by the icebox. Saul had filled several paper bags with water and was sitting on the fire escape, dropping them on passersby in the street. A fat government girl in a Bennington sweatshirt, recently engaged to an ensign attached to the Forrestal, came charging into the kitchen, head lowered, and butted Slab in the stomach. Figuring this was as good an excuse for a fight as any, Slab's buddies piled in. The morra players were nose-to-nose, screaming trois, sette at the top of their lungs."

From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morra_%28game%29 Wikipedia]:

:While there are many variations, most forms of morra can be played with two, three or more players. In the most popular version of Morra both players throw out a single hand each showing one or two fingers, and call out loud their guess at what the sum of all fingers shown will be. If one player guesses the sum, that play earns one point. The first player to reach three points wins the game.

[[image:Savonarola_title-page_TRP-bookplate.jpg|thumb|250px|''The Life and Times of Girolamo Savonarola''|left]]192 - '''the most wonderful festa this city has seen since Savonarola was burned'''<br />
Girolamo Savonarola was a precursor to the Christian Right, preaching a return to traditional values and railing 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.

In 2012, ''The Life and Times of Girolamo Savonarola'' by Professor Pasquale Villari, published in 1888, was offered on eBay WITH a "Thomas Ruggles Pynchon" bookplate! This may have been a source for Pynchon and in his library OR in his father's library (also TRP), although the former is more likely.
==References==
<references />

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'''baccalà'''<br />
379 (as plural, baccale); dried and salted cod fish

'''Bad Priest'''<br />
306; lives in an old villa past Sliema in Malta; children "assigned the Bad Priest no opposite number" 339; disassembly, 341-44; "girls he advised to become nuns [...] boys he told to find strength in  and be like  the rock of their island" 340; glass eye in the shape of a clock, 388; ''See also'' [[V#v|V.]]

<div id="baedeker"></div>'''Baedeker, Karl (1801-1859)'''<br />
64; the first Baedeker guidebook <ref>Baedeker, Karl, ''The Mediterranean'', published by Karl Baedeker, Leipzig, 1911:

:From ''Slow Learner'':

:"If [...] you believe that nothing is original, and that all writers 'borrow' from 'sources,' there still remains the question of credit lines or acknowledgements. It wasn't till 'Under the Rose' (1959) that I could bring myself, even indirectly, to credit guidebook eponym Karl Baedeker, whose guide to Egypt for 1899 was the major 'source' for the story.

:[...]

:"Loot the Baedeker I did, all the details of a time and place I had never been to, right down to the names of the diplomatic corps." (p.17)

:"[...] The old Baedeker trick again." (p.21)</ref> was published in 1839; Baedeker land, 70, 71; 74; 78; 89; Visitor's Guide, 159; 190; distrust of "South" 229 ("soiled South" - 75); Karl Baedeker of Leipzig, 408; 475; pencil-sharpener salesman who had seen every territory in the country and could give you interesting information on any city," 35

'''Bakunin, Mikhail (1814-1876)'''<br />
405; Russian anarchist who believed that communism, with its "withering away of the state," was an essential step toward anarchism

<div id="balloons"></div>'''balloons'''<br />
"on the fourth limb from the top there is a red balloon [golden-screwdriver dream]," 40; "a sturdy green balloon with a great Z printed on it [Fergus' way of indicating consciousness]" 56; "The sunburned face bobbed like a balloon," 65; "Up goes the balloon [slang: war, action, etc. had begun]," 67; Yusef's love of, 67; "A balloon-girl." 67; "Soon he was daydreaming again of balloons." 68; "So the balloon's gone up," 232; "the balloon had gone up", 308; "slow as a balloon," 329; "the most bouyant balloon-girl," 331; "fire-balloon," 335; "gay balloon-lungs," 343; V. "handed swords, balloons and colored handkerchiefs to Ugo Medichevole, a minor magician," 388; "The jolly, jolly balloon [...] Going up" 434; "leery like any Maltese of the Balloon's least bobbing," 448; 474; "Wasn't she the same balloon-girl who'd seduced him on a leather couch," 488; ''See also'' [[C#cher|Cher Ballon]]; [[H#hothouse|hothouse]]

'''Barkhausen, Heinrich Georg (1881-1956)'''<br />
230; German physicist who taught at Technische Hochschule in Dresden; discovered sferics during WWI

'''Bartholomew'''<br />
119; rat in Fairing's Parish

'''Basilisco'''<br />
379; cop in Profane's old neighborhood

'''Basilisk, Maynard'''<br />
419; "escapee from Devil's Island [...] on route to Vassa [...] to teach beekeeping" at party in Washington, DC

'''Batignolles, Le'''<br />
401; where Porcépic lives

'''Battista (1901-1973)'''<br />
353; Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar was president of Cuba 1940-44; 1952-59; he ruled as dictator until his overthrow by Fidel Castro in January 1959.

'''Bay of Biscay'''<br />
388; bay in the Mediterranean between France and Spain

'''Beatrice'''<br />
11; barmaid at Sailor's Grave; [[Etymologies#beatrice|Etymology]]

'''Belinda Sue'''<br />
130; subject of hillbilly tune; she ran off with an "itinerant propeller salesman"

'''Bella Gigogin, La'''<br />
477; song sung by rollickers in the street in Valletta

'''Bellevue'''<br />
362; psychiatric hospital in New York City; 364; 416

'''Ben-Gurion, David (1886-1973)'''<br />
225; prime minister of Israel 1949-53, 1955-63

'''Benguela Current'''<br />
266; brings wind and sand to harbor in Südwest; 274

'''Berg-Damaras'''<br />
245; Südwest tribe; they were serfs of the Hottentots and Hereros and lived in the mountainous regions

'''Bergomask, Oley'''<br />
217; of Anthroresearch Associates; 284

'''Beukes, Tim'''<br />
232; Bondelswaartz leader in Südwest during uprising of 1922

'''bierhalle'''<br />
88; north of the Ezbekiyeh Gardens in Cairo

<div id="big"></div>'''Big One, The'''<br />
226; "the century's master cabal"; ''See also'' [[P#paranoia|paranoia]]

'''Bight of Benin'''<br />
271; bay in Gulf of Guinea on west coast of Africa

[[image:birth_of_venus_sm.jpg|thumb|200px|right]]<div id="venus"></div>'''Birth of Venus'''<br />
178; Botticelli painting coveted by Mantissa; 209; 212; [[Birth of Venus]]

'''Bismarck, Otto (1815-1898)'''<br />
239; first chancellor of the German Empire 1871-90

'''Bizerte'''<br />
459; Tunisian port on the Mediterranean

'''Black Maria'''<br />
31; Navy slang for paddy wagon

'''Black Mass'''<br />
167; a sacrilegious mass in which the Devil, rather than God, is invoked, with various obscene rights; 394; 398; 401; 402; acolytes, 402; Host, 403; 413

'''bluejackets'''<br />
16; Navy enlisted men

'''Board of Inquiry'''<br />
191; looked into Godolphin/Vheissu matter; 197; 491

'''Bobbsey Twins, The'''<br />
436; Dahoud and Leroy Tongue ("the midget storekeeper") in Valletta, as cops

'''BOC'''<br />
''See'' [[#boc|British Officers' Club]]

<div id="bodine"></div>'''Bodine, Pig'''<br />
14; AWOL former shipmate of Profane's on USS Scaffold; voyeur, 17; looking for Paola, 129; 217; "The Green Door. One night Dolores, Veronica, Justine, Sharon, Cindy Lou, Geraldine and Irvine decide to hold an orgy." 218; wants Paola, 221; 283; Whole Sick Crew party, 287; 352; "life is the most precious possession you have." (see also p. 12), 361; attempted rape of Paola, 370; Pig also figures prominently in [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow'']; Pig's ancestor, [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ Fender-Belly Bodine], shows up in ''Mason & Dixon'', and, perhaps, his father or uncle, O.I.C. Bodine makes an appearance in [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_489-524#Page_517 ''Against the Day''].

'''Boeblich'''<br />
88; owner of bierhalle north of Ezbekiyeh Garden in Cairo

'''Bofors'''<br />
309; British anti-aircraft (a/a) guns; 317; 328-29

<div id="bondel"></div>'''Bondelschwaartz'''<br />
231; aka "Bondel" - rebel Hottentots in Südwest - led by Abraham Christian, their chief; [[Südwest#nama|Read on...]]</a>

<div id="bongo"></div>'''Bongo-Shaftsbury, Eric'''<br />
55; Egyptologist and father of H. Stencil's acquaintance; acts as Wrens' guide in Alexandria and environs; murdered Porpentine [[Porpentine's Murder|(did he?)]], 93-94; "A certain Porpentine, one of his father's colleagues, had been murdered in Egypt under the duello by Eric Bongo-Shaftsbury, the father of the man who owned this apartment." 63; aka "Hugh" (?), 74; "He saw a flicker of communication between [Bongo Shaftsbury and Lepsius]" 75; "Odd: neither Porpentine nor Bongo-Shaftsbury spoke. Each had bent a close eye on his own man, keeping expressionless." 75; "An electro-mechanical doll," 80; "Humanity is something to destroy." 81

'''Bongo-Shaftsbury, Hugh'''<br />
55; son of Eric; 74

'''Boone, Pat (b. 1934)'''<br />
19; "white-bread" American popstar in 50s. Made tunes by rockers (often black artists) palatable to white audiences; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Vincent Gene Vincent's] "Be Bop A Lula" is an example; 418; 420; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Boone Wikipedia]

'''Bop Kings'''<br />
144; street gang in New York City and rivals of the Playboys

'''BOQ'''<br />
269; Bachelor Officers' Quarters; 305

<div id="borgo"></div>'''Borgo'''<br />
464; According to Baedeker, one of the Three Cities "Opposite Valletta, on the three central creeks of the Grand Harbour [...] also called Vittoriosa since the great Turkish siege"; [[Map of Malta]]

'''Borgo di Greci'''<br />
175; street in Florence

'''Borracho'''<br />
202; member of Figli d'Machiavelli in Florence

<div id="botticelli"></div>'''Botticelli, Sandro (1444-1510)'''<br />
201; Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli ("little barrel") was an Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance (''Quattrocento''). Less than a hundred years later, this movement, under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici, was characterized by Giorgio Vasari as a "golden age", a thought, suitably enough, he expressed at the head of his ''Vita'' of Botticelli. His posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th century; since then his work has been seen to represent the linear grace of Early Renaissance painting, and [[Birth of Venus|''The Birth of Venus'']] and ''Primavera'' rank now among the most familiar masterpieces of Florentine art; 212; ''See also'' [[#venus|Birth of Venus]]

'''Boulevard Haussmann'''<br />
394; in Paris

'''Brad'''<br />
58; frat on periphery of Whole Sick Crew with whom Esther flirts

'''Breguet'''<br />
97; French reconnaisance plane built in 1914 and used in World War I

'''Brennessel cabaret'''<br />
241; mentioned by Weissman to Mondaugen as being in Munich in Schwabing quarter

'''Brindisi'''<br />
75; Italian port city where Lepsius has been before turning up in Cairo

'''Bristol Fighters'''<br />
97; WWI British fighter plane

<div id="boc"></div>'''British Officers' Club (BOC)'''<br />
431

<div id="brody"></div>'''Brody'''<br />
128; a Brodie is a suicidal leap, named after Steve Brodie, an American newsboy who, in 1886, claimed to have jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge; 436

'''Brunelleschi, Filippo (1377-1446)'''<br />
201; Italian architect, goldsmith and sculptor. Main claim to fame is the dome of the Florence Cathedral (Duomo) erected between 1420 and 1461

'''Buffo, Beatrice'''<br />
11; barmaid at Sailor's Grave

'''Bung'''<br />
116; foreman of rat patrol in New York City sewers; 139

'''Butte'''<br />
412; in Paris

==References==
<references />

==Alpha Index==
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<div id="field">368/407 - '''the field-of-two Rachel and Profane had set up'''</div>
:"A courageous scientific imagination was needed to realize that not the behavior of bodies, but the behavior of something between them, that is, the field, may be essential for ordering and understanding events." - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein Albert Einstein]

The social scientist Kurt Lewin is famous for the concept of field theory in human relations. "The most fundamental construct for Lewin is, of course,
that of "field". All behavior (including action, thinking, wishing, striving, valuing, achieving, etc.) is conceived of as a change of some state of a field in a given unit of time (dx/dt). In treating individual
psychology, the field with which the scientist must deal is the "life space" of the individual. [p.xi, Foreword, ''Field Theory of Social Science'', Kurt Lewin, Harper Torchbooks, 1951.]<br>
dt will resonate with all readers of ''Gravity's Rainbow'', of course.

<div id="radiation">377/418 - '''Hiroshima'''</div>
Hiroshima is the largest city on the Honshu island of Japan. It was the first city to be hit with a nuclear weapon. This occurred on August 6, 1945 at 8:15 am. The character Hiroshima tells Pig about radiation.

380 - '''you always hurt the one you love'''<br />
"You Always Hurt the One You Love", words by Allan Roberts, words by Doris Fisher, first recorded by the Mills Brothers in 1944.

385 - '''Bad boys rape our young girls behind victory garden walls (or "but Violet gives willingly").'''<br />
Vulgar mnemonic for colors encoding digits: Black (0), Brown (1), Red (2), Orange (3), Yellow (4), Green (5), Blue (6), Violet (7), Gray (8), White (9).

<div id="venusberg">379/420 - '''the Venusbergs'''</div>
Venusberg is the Germanic name for the underground abode of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_%28mythology%29 Venus], the goddess of love. Venus attained great prominence in the Middle Ages as the pagan, earthly power opposed to the spiritual power of the Church. The knight [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tannh%C3%A4user Tannhäuser] spent a year there worshipping Venus.

<div id="Profane appeared and hung his nose over the edge of the roof">???/433 - '''Profane appeared and hung his nose over the edge of the roof'''</div>

Profane looks just like Kilroy here. Later in the novel Kilroy will be described as a schlemiel (484) making a comparison between Kilroy and Profane.
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<div id="field">368/407 - '''the field-of-two Rachel and Profane had set up'''</div>
:"A courageous scientific imagination was needed to realize that not the behavior of bodies, but the behavior of something between them, that is, the field, may be essential for ordering and understanding events." - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein Albert Einstein]

The social scientist Kurt Lewin is famous for the concept of field theory in human relations. "The most fundamental construct for Lewin is, of course,
that of "field". All behavior (including action, thinking, wishing, striving, valuing, achieving, etc.) is conceived of as a change of some state of a field in a given unit of time (dx/dt). In treating individual
psychology, the field with which the scientist must deal is the "life space" of the individual. [p.xi, Foreword, ''Field Theory of Social Science'', Kurt Lewin, Harper Torchbooks, 1951.]<br>
dt will resonate with all readers of ''Gravity's Rainbow'', of course.

<div id="radiation">377/418 - '''Hiroshima'''</div>
Hiroshima is the largest city on the Honshu island of Japan. It was the first city to be hit with a nuclear weapon. This occurred on August 6, 1945 at 8:15 am. The character Hiroshima tells Pig about radiation.

380 - '''you always hurt the one you love'''</br />
"You Always Hurt the One You Love", words by Allan Roberts, words by Doris Fisher, first recorded by the Mills Brothers in 1944.

385 - '''Bad boys rape our young girls behind victory garden walls (or "but Violet gives willingly").'''<br />
Vulgar mnemonic for colors encoding digits: Black (0), Brown (1), Red (2), Orange (3), Yellow (4), Green (5), Blue (6), Violet (7), Gray (8), White (9).

<div id="venusberg">379/420 - '''the Venusbergs'''</div>
Venusberg is the Germanic name for the underground abode of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_%28mythology%29 Venus], the goddess of love. Venus attained great prominence in the Middle Ages as the pagan, earthly power opposed to the spiritual power of the Church. The knight [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tannh%C3%A4user Tannhäuser] spent a year there worshipping Venus.

<div id="Profane appeared and hung his nose over the edge of the roof">???/433 - '''Profane appeared and hung his nose over the edge of the roof'''</div>

Profane looks just like Kilroy here. Later in the novel Kilroy will be described as a schlemiel (484) making a comparison between Kilroy and Profane.
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<div id="field">368/407 - '''the field-of-two Rachel and Profane had set up'''</div>
:"A courageous scientific imagination was needed to realize that not the behavior of bodies, but the behavior of something between them, that is, the field, may be essential for ordering and understanding events." - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein Albert Einstein]

The social scientist Kurt Lewin is famous for the concept of field theory in human relations. "The most fundamental construct for Lewin is, of course,
that of "field". All behavior (including action, thinking, wishing, striving, valuing, achieving, etc.) is conceived of as a change of some state of a field in a given unit of time (dx/dt). In treating individual
psychology, the field with which the scientist must deal is the "life space" of the individual. [p.xi, Foreword, ''Field Theory of Social Science'', Kurt Lewin, Harper Torchbooks, 1951.]<br>
dt will resonate with all readers of ''Gravity's Rainbow'', of course.

<div id="radiation">377/418 - '''Hiroshima'''</div>
Hiroshima is the largest city on the Honshu island of Japan. It was the first city to be hit with a nuclear weapon. This occurred on August 6, 1945 at 8:15 am. The character Hiroshima tells Pig about radiation.

385 - '''Bad boys rape our young girls behind victory garden walls (or "but Violet gives willingly").'''<br />
Vulgar mnemonic for colors encoding digits: Black (0), Brown (1), Red (2), Orange (3), Yellow (4), Green (5), Blue (6), Violet (7), Gray (8), White (9).

<div id="venusberg">379/420 - '''the Venusbergs'''</div>
Venusberg is the Germanic name for the underground abode of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_%28mythology%29 Venus], the goddess of love. Venus attained great prominence in the Middle Ages as the pagan, earthly power opposed to the spiritual power of the Church. The knight [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tannh%C3%A4user Tannhäuser] spent a year there worshipping Venus.

<div id="Profane appeared and hung his nose over the edge of the roof">???/433 - '''Profane appeared and hung his nose over the edge of the roof'''</div>

Profane looks just like Kilroy here. Later in the novel Kilroy will be described as a schlemiel (484) making a comparison between Kilroy and Profane.
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<div id="Bakunin, Marx, Ulyanov"> ???/450 -- '''Bakunin, Marx, Ulyanov'''<br />

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Bakunin Mikhail Bakunin] was one of the most influential anarchists of all time. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx Karl Marx] was a revolutionary socialist and founder of Marxism. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin Vladamir Lenin] or Vladamir Ulyanov was a celebrated leader in the Soviet Union and a major political figure in the 1905 Revolution.

415/461 - '''Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin''' <br />
Stencil is quoting the original "writing on the wall." In the book of Daniel, a mysterious, disembodied hand appears in the royal palace of King Belshazzar of Babylon, and writes the words "Mene mene tekel parsin (or upharsin, in another version) on the palace walls. The court was unable to decipher the meaning of the crypic phrase, although mene, tekel and parsin were all aramaic terms for currency. Daniel intepreted the phrase to mean that (mene) Babylon had been measured & found wanting, (tekel) a price would be paid and (parsin) Babylon apportioned by its neighbors. The historical record documents the conquest of the Bablyonian empire by the Persians; the Book of Daniel has King Belshazzar slain that night.

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_writing_on_the_wall The Writing on the Wall]

418 - '''Dalì's Last Supper'''<br />
''The Sacrament of the Last Supper'' (1955) was painted by Salvador Dalì (1903-1989). A gift of Chester Dale to the National Gallery of Art, it was first exhibited Easter weekend, 1956.

[https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.46590.html The Sacrament of the Last Supper]

423/469 '''Sahha''' <br />
Maltese: bye.

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<div id="spud coxswain">425/??? - '''spud coxswain'''</div>
A spud coxswain is the traditional title of a salad and vegetable chef onboard a naval vessel.

<div id="fo'c's''le">426/??? - '''streak for the fo'c's'le'''</div>
The forecastle is the forward part of a ship, often where crew quarters are located.

438 - '''Sally and Sue, Don't Be Blue'''<br />
Lines from the "The Song of the Marines," (1937) words by Al Dubin, music by Harry Warren, sung by Dick Powell in the film ''The Singing Marine''.

438/472 - '''single up all lines'''<br>
See [[Chapter_1#singleup|pg. 11/3]].

439/488 - '''the Suez Crisis''' <br />
International incident following the closure to Israeli shipping and nationalization of the Suez Canal by the arab nationalist regime of Gamal Abdel Nassar. The British & French supported an Israeli invasion w/ a large task force of warships, aircraft & troops stationed at Cyprus and Malta. British commandos first landed in Egypt by parachute on November 5th, and WWII era LCM landing craft on November 6th. 16 British servicemen were killed & 96 wounded in the action.

441 - '''Who's the little rodent/That's getting more than me?/F-U-C-K-E-Y Y-O-U-S-E'''<br />
Parody of the "Mickey Mouse March," words and music by Jimmie Dodd, and used as the theme song for the 1955-1959 television series, The Mickey Mouse Club.

<div id="fenice">444/493 - '''a monk long defrocked named Fenice'''</div>
La Fenice is one of the most famous opera houses in Venice. It was built in 1774 when the San Benedetto opera house burned down and the theatre company there needed a new home. Thus the new opera house was called "La Fenice" ("the Phoenix") as it rose from the ashes of the San Benedetto. It was the leading opera house in Venice. In 1836 it burned down and was rebuilt in 1837. On January 29, 1996, it again burned down. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Fenice Wikipedia]

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<div id="spud coxswain">425/??? - '''spud coxswain'''</div>
A spud coxswain is the traditional title of a salad and vegetable chef onboard a naval vessel.

<div id="fo'c's''le">426/??? - '''streak for the fo'c's'le'''</div>
The forecastle is the forward part of a ship, often where crew quarters are located.

438/472 - '''single up all lines'''<br>
See [[Chapter_1#singleup|pg. 11/3]].

439/488 - '''the Suez Crisis''' <br />
International incident following the closure to Israeli shipping and nationalization of the Suez Canal by the arab nationalist regime of Gamal Abdel Nassar. The British & French supported an Israeli invasion w/ a large task force of warships, aircraft & troops stationed at Cyprus and Malta. British commandos first landed in Egypt by parachute on November 5th, and WWII era LCM landing craft on November 6th. 16 British servicemen were killed & 96 wounded in the action.

441 - '''Who's the little rodent/That's getting more than me?/F-U-C-K-E-Y Y-O-U-S-E'''<br />
Parody of the "Mickey Mouse March," words and music by Jimmie Dodd, and used as the theme song for the 1955-1959 television series, The Mickey Mouse Club.

<div id="fenice">444/493 - '''a monk long defrocked named Fenice'''</div>
La Fenice is one of the most famous opera houses in Venice. It was built in 1774 when the San Benedetto opera house burned down and the theatre company there needed a new home. Thus the new opera house was called "La Fenice" ("the Phoenix") as it rose from the ashes of the San Benedetto. It was the leading opera house in Venice. In 1836 it burned down and was rebuilt in 1837. On January 29, 1996, it again burned down. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Fenice Wikipedia]

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461/513 - '''The Great Siege'''<br />
[[Chapter_11#siege|See note at p. 318/351]]

469 - '''Chaire, Papá'''<br />
Chaire is Greek χαῖρε, used as a greeting. Papá literally means Popein Italian.

481 - '''the rocks called Cumin-seed and Peppercorn'''<br />
Comino, northwest of the main island, and Filfla, south of the main island

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461/513 - '''The Great Siege'''<br />
[[Chapter_11#siege|See note at p. 318/351]]

481 - '''the rocks called Cumin-seed and Peppercorn'''<br />
Comino, northwest of the main island, and Filfla, south of the main island

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461/513 - '''The Great Siege'''<br />
[[Chapter_11#siege|See note at p. 318/351]]

481 - '''the rocks called Cumin-seed and Peppercorn'''</div>
Comino, northwest of the main island, and Filfla, south of the main island

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<div id="baión rhythm">???/409 -- '''baión rhythm''' <br />

Brazilian rhythm originating from the native peoples in North East Brazil. Here's a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQju28_q9rs sample]

<div id="Le Soleil">393/437 -- '''Le Soleil''' <br />

Literally translates to "the Sun." This was a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Soleil_(French_newspaper) real newspaper] which ceased publication in 1915. The paper lost a large amount of readership after supporting Capt. Dreyfus in 1898. Pynchon may also be invoking Rimbaud's poem "Sun and Flesh" (as per his mention on ???/430).

<div id="l'Heuremaudit">394/437 -- '''l'Heuremaudit''' <br />

In French Mélanie's name means "Time of the damned" or "Cursed hour."

<div id="Porcépic">396/??? -- '''Porcépic''' <br />

In French, a porcupine.

399/444 - '''La Libre Parole. . .Captain Dreyfus''' <br />
La Libre Parole was an anti-semitic newspaper founded by Edouard Drumont in 1892. The captain in question was Afred Dreyfus. Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French Army, was accused and convicted of spying based on little evidence - a verdict highly influenced by anti-semitism. He was eventually exonerated after the actual spy was caught. The "Dreyfus Affair" was one of the major political dramas of the time and a rallying cry for forces fighting against antisemitism in France.

<div id="irredentist">414/460 -- '''Sgherraccio, a mad Irrendentist'''</div>
Sgherraccio is a member of a movement in Malta which sought to break away from British rule and join Italy; also, more generally, irredentists are members of a movement which seeks to break away from foreign rule and join its ethnically related unit. The word was coined in Italy from the phrase ''Italia irredenta'' ("unredeemed Italy"). This originally referred to Austro-Hungarian rule over mostly or partly Italian-inhabited territories such as Trentino and Trieste during the 19th and early 20th century. Sgherraccio, like [[F#ferrante|the Florentine Ferrante]], is a fierce Italian patriot. His name derives from the Italian phrase ''alla sgherra'' which means "cocked" as in a cocked hat, denoting arrogance, thus the metonym ''sgherro'' for a cocky person, i.e., a gangster or tough guy. The Italian suffix "-accio" denotes badness or ugliness and reinforces the gangster meaning. That Sgherraccio is a badass gangsta.

[http://italian.about.com/cs/grammar/ht/usesuffixes.htm Italian suffixes]

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italia_irredenta Italia Irredenta]

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229/247 - '''Kalkfontein South''' <br />
Site of present day Karasburg, Namibia, which still hosts a Kalkfontein Hotel.

229/247 - '''Windhoek''' <br />
Capital of Namibia, seat of German control during colonial period.

230/247 - '''Karl Baedeker''' <br />
Too late to be the publisher of the once Baedeker travel guides, a household name in the 19th century, upon which Pynchon relied heavily for names & details about colonial Africa in his short story "Under the Rose" as well as ''V.''

230/248 - '''spherics. . .H. Barkhausen''' <br />
Technically, a spheric is one descriptor for the sounds created by natural radio emisions from the earth or the atmosphere -- "whistlers" and "tweaks" being two other forms. The effect, as noted, was discovered by Heinrich Barkhausen (1881-1956), a German physicist who taught at Technische Hochschule in Dresden.

230/248 - '''. . . what had once been a German colony''' <br />
Namibia was formerly called South West Africa, and was originally a German colony. The territory was lost after WWI, and placed by the League of Nations under the authority of South Africa.

231/249 - '''Warmbad District''' <br />
An area roughly 50km south of Karasburg (in which resides our speaker) around the modern city of Warmbad. Considered to be the site of the beginning of the Great Resistance War when, in 1903, Jacobus Christian was shot resisting arrest by a German Military Detachment. The region was also the site of the 1922 uprising, sparked by locals refusal to turn over resistance leader Abraham Morris.

231/249 - '''Bondelswaartz''' <br />
The Bondelswarts Nama (sp?) were the first known settlers of the Warmbad area.
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231/249 - '''Abraham Morris has crossed the Orange''' <br />
Abraham Morris was cocommander to Jacob Marengo during the Great Resistance War of 1903-1909. He fled to South Africa during the war but returned to further the cause of resistance to the German colonial authorities. He crossed the Orange river into German territory on April 16, 1922

232/250 - '''Veldschoendragers and Witboois''' <br />
Rebelious tribes from Southwest Africa. The Witboois were some of the first to refuse to sign treaties w/ the German colonial authorities or allow encroachment on their land, resulting in ongoing skirmishes w/ German forces from 1893-1894.

Hendrik Witbooi (c. 1830 – 29 October 1905) was a king of the Namaqua people, a sub-tribe of the Khoikhoi. He is regarded as one of the national heroes of Namibia. After his death, General Lothar von Trotha (see below) felt his duty was done and asked for permission to return to Germany.

In ''V.'' the letters "V" and "W" often appear in proximity to each other: Veldschoendragers and Witboois, Van Wijk, Victoria Wren, Vergeltungswaffe, Volkswagen. Does anyone else see a pattern here?<br />

233/251 - '''. . . the days of Von Trotha''' <br />
General Lothar von Trotha, veteran of actions in East Africa and China, arrived in South West Africa in 1904 to put down the Herero resistance. After defeating the Herero forces, he drove (and accompanying women & children) into the Kalahari, where most died of starvation. The tactics he used to break the spirit of the remaining Herero--hangings, mass-extermination and detention in concentration camps--resemble those of the "Final Solution" of the 3rd Reich.

236/255 - '''Weissmann''' <br />

The same Lieutenant Weissmann appears in ''Gravity's Rainbow.'' See more here: http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_145-154

238/257 '''sjambok''' <br ?>

The sjambok or litupa is the official heavy leather whip of South Africa, sometimes seen as synonymous with apartheid but actually much older and still used outside the official judiciary. It is traditionally made from an adult hippopotamus (or rhinoceros) hide, but is also commonly made out of plastic.

239/258 '''schottische''' <br ?>
A Bohemian folk dance.

<div id="duse">239/258 - '''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)

242/261 - '''Schwabing Quarter''' <br />
Artistic district in Munich, stomping grounds for a young Hitler.

242/261 - '''Brennessel cabaret''' <br />
A nightclub in the Schwabing Quarter popular w/ early National Socialist figures.

242/261 - '''D'Annunzio . . . Kautsky's Independents''' <br />
A collection of German and Italian political buzzwords. Hitler, Mussolini and the National Socialists require no comment. ''D'Annuzio'' (1863-1938) was an artistic and political figure in Italy, influential in the rise of the Italian Fascist Movement. ''Fiume'' was an eastern European city/state, which gained its autonomy from Austria in 1779 and maintained this status until Fascists came to power in 1922 and agreed to annexation by Italy in 1924. ''Italia irredentia'' was a philosphical movement which advocated the expansion of Italy to its "natural borders" (in which Italian was spoken) including Malta as well as territory from France, Greece, Switzerland, as well as various eastern European nations. ''Kautsky's Independents'' were followers of German socialist leader (and marxist critic) Karl Joseph Kautsky (1854-1938).

242/262 - '''Someday we'll need you . . .''' <br />
Prefiguring the fate of Mondaugen as well as Franz Pokler in ''Gravity's Rainbow''.

245/264 - '''Vernichtungs Befehl''' <br />
Ordinarily spelled Vernichtungsbefehl, German: extermination order.

247/266 - '''the Japanese . . .bottled us up in Port Arthur''' <br />
Port Arthur was a deep water port and Russian naval base in Manchuria, at the time, one of the most heavilty fortified positions in the world. The Japanese laid seige to the port from August 1904 - January 1905, during the Russo-Japanese War. The seige resulted in the almost complete destruction of the Russian fleet and the surrender of the Russian forces there.

<div id="duse">248/267 - '''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.

249/270 - '''heterodont configuration''' <br />
Heterodont describes animals with more than one kind of tooth--humans, for instance have incisors as well as molars. Given the conversation, is Eigenvalue using this as a psychodontic description of Stencil's character?

<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).

269/292 - '''B.O.Q.''' <br />
Bachelor Officers' Quarters

269/292 - '''The Southern Cross''' <br />
A constellation visible in the southern hemisphere, formerly much valued by sailors.

278/302 - '''Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.'''<br />
The first proposition in Ludwig Wittgenstein's ''Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus'' (1921). Another reference to Wittgenstein is on p. 380.

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156/165 - '''entrechat deux''' <br />
Classical ballet term for a jump in which the individual switches the legs alternately forward and backward very quickly. "deux" means two crossings of the legs, or four kicks altogether. Prissy, energetic jump.

156/165 - '''Captain Hugh, F.R.G.S''' <br />
Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society.

157/166 - '''. . .author of ''The Renaissance''''' <br />
Walter Pater. Young Godolphin (Godot + Dolphin?) is among a literary elite, clearly evinced by his love of obscure in-jokes.

159/168 - '''Mazzini''' <br />
19th century politician & Italian nationalist who was instrumental in the creation of modern Italy from divided monarchies & states.

<div id="mantissa">159/168 - '''Signor Mantissa'''<br />
''Mantissa'' = Latin: "makeweight": something thrown onto a scale to bring the weight to a desired value; In mathematics: the decimal part of a logarithm; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantissa Wikipedia]

[[image:machiavelli.jpg|thumb|150px|Machiavelli by Santi di Tito|right]]<div id="machiavelli">160/169 - '''Like Machiavelli he was in exile'''<br />
In a famous letter to his friend Francesco Vettori, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli Machiavelli] described how he spent his days in exile:

:When evening comes, I return home [from work and from the local tavern] and go to my study. On the threshold I strip naked, taking off my muddy, sweaty workday clothes, and put on the robes of court and palace, and in this graver dress I enter the courts of the ancients and am welcomed by them, and there I taste the food that alone is mine, and for which I was born. And there I make bold to speak to them and ask the motives of their actions, and they, in their humanity reply to me. And for the space of four hours I forget the world, remember no vexation, fear poverty no more, tremble no more at death; I pass indeed into their world.

<div id="pessimism">From Pynchon's short story ''Entropy'':</div>

:His had always been a vigorous, Italian sort of pessimism: like Machiavelli, he allowed the forces of virtù and fortuna to be about 50/50; but the equations now introduced a random factor which pushed the odds to some unutterable and indeterminate ratio which he found himself afraid to calculate. <ref>Pynchon, Thomas, ''Slow Learner'', Jonathan Cape, 1985, pp. 87-88</ref>

<div id="minghe">164/174 - '''"Capo di minghe!"'''</div>
"Minghe" stands for "minchia" (a very common expression, like the American "shit"  and quite vulgar). "Minghe" is how "minchia" is spelled (pronounced) by southern Italians. "Minchia" means "dick", so "minghe morte" means "your dick is dead" (i.e, "impotent"), and "capo di minghe" means "dickhead", "dick-headed" &c. "Minghe" by itself would be like saying "shit" or any sort of profane exclamation."

From Pynchon's short story ''Entropy'' <ref>''Ibid.'', p. 96</ref>:

:"''Minghe morte''," said Duke. "I ''figured'' we were playing it a little slow," Krinkles said.

Also, Mingeborough is where the kids live in Pynchon's short story ''The Secret Integration.''

[[Image:botticelli-birth-venus.jpg|thumb|250px|"The Birth of Venus" by Botticelli|left]]164/175 - '''Birth of Venus''' <br />
The Botticelli referenced earlier, famously depicting the goddess Venus arising in full womanhood from the sea.

166/177 - '''the Fashoda crisis''' <br />
See Ch.3 - Fashoda

167/178 - '''Mahdists''' <br />
Islamic followers of Muhammed Ahmad, or "Al-Mahdi", a late 19th century religious & theocratic leader in Sudan. Ahmad organized local tribes in an attempt to create an Islamic state in Sudan, & eventually the world. The British organized an opposition & eventually crushed the movement at the battle of Omdurman in 1898.

171/183 - '''Khartoum''' <br />
Site of an 1884-1885 seige, in which rebeling Mahdists surrounded the colonial forces of General Gordon. When relief forces arrived, Gordon was defeated and his head displayed on a pike.

171/183 - '''General Gordon''' <br />
Charles George Gordan, veteran of British campaigns in China and Africa, and governor general of Sudan from 1874 to his death in 1885 at the hands of Mahdist insurrectionists.

175/187 - '''caviliere''' <br />
Italian: a knight, although the conotation here may be a "Knight of Labor," an important political or economic figure in a territory.

176/188 - '''Garibaldi''' <br />
Giuseppe Garibaldi, revolutionary leader of forces for Italian unification in the 19th century - an Italian insurrectionist hero. Earlier in his life, Garibaldi lived in Uruguay and fought against conservative forces in the civil war there. He was famous for his gaucho costume & red shirt that became a symbol for the unification movement in Italy. Some connection, here, with the Argentine gaucho?

179/191 - '''his lieutenant, Cuernacabron''' <br />
Spanish: "horn" + "bastard" = horny bastard?

<div id="morra">191/205 - '''a loud morra game'''</div>
From Pynchon's short story ''Entropy'' <ref>''ibid'', p. 96</ref>:
:"There was a two-handed, bilingual morra game on over by the icebox. Saul had filled several paper bags with water and was sitting on the fire escape, dropping them on passersby in the street. A fat government girl in a Bennington sweatshirt, recently engaged to an ensign attached to the Forrestal, came charging into the kitchen, head lowered, and butted Slab in the stomach. Figuring this was as good an excuse for a fight as any, Slab's buddies piled in. The morra players were nose-to-nose, screaming trois, sette at the top of their lungs."

From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morra_%28game%29 Wikipedia]:

:While there are many variations, most forms of morra can be played with two, three or more players. In the most popular version of Morra both players throw out a single hand each showing one or two fingers, and call out loud their guess at what the sum of all fingers shown will be. If one player guesses the sum, that play earns one point. The first player to reach three points wins the game.

[[image:Savonarola_title-page_TRP-bookplate.jpg|thumb|250px|''The Life and Times of Girolamo Savonarola''|left]]192 - '''the most wonderful festa this city has seen since Savonarola was burned'''<br />
Girolamo Savonarola was a precursor to the Christian Right, preaching a return to traditional values and railing 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.

In 2012, ''The Life and Times of Girolamo Savonarola'' by Professor Pasquale Villari, published in 1888, was offered on eBay WITH a "Thomas Ruggles Pynchon" bookplate! This may have been a source for Pynchon and in his library OR in his father's library (also TRP), although the former is more likely.
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Chapter 6

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Dgorsline: copy edit

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136/143 '''"Mierda. Mierda. Mierda."''' <br />
Shit. Shit. Shit.

136/143 '''Randolph Scott'''<br />
Stage & screen actor who played in many Westerns in the 1930s, 40s and 50s.

137/144 '''. . .ready to come in a flying machine''' <br />
Reference to the popular song "Come Josephine, In My Flying Machine (Up She Goes!)"  words by Alfred Bryan, music by Fred Fisher. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_Josephine_in_My_Flying_Machine Wikipedia], [http://www.metrolyrics.com/come-josephine-in-my-flying-machine-lyrics-maire-brennan.html Lyrics]. Clearly irresistible to Pynchon, in addition to the double ''entendre'' on "come."

138/142 '''The Feast of San' Ercole dei Rinoceronti''' <br />
The Feast of Saint Hercules of the Rhinoceros, a reference to the Central and South American Hercules beetle, ''Dynastes hercules'', in the subfamily Dynastinae (rhinoceros beetles). [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_beetle]

140/147 '''Sfacim'''<br />
Italian for semen, insulting or ironically affectionate name, like a**hole. [http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=219182 WordReference.com]

148/156 '''George Raft''' <br />
Screen actor and pop icon from the 1930s. Dapper dresser in the period gangster style. Pynchon's description of the padded shoulders seems to fit.

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Chapter 6

2021-02-20T17:44:00Z

Dgorsline: clarify taxonomy of D. hercules

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136/143 '''"Mierda. Mierda. Mierda."''' <br />
Shit. Shit. Shit.

136/143 '''Randolph Scott'''<br />
Stage & screen actor who played in many Westerns in the 1930s, 40s and 50s.

137/144 '''. . .ready to come in a flying machine''' <br />
Reference to the popular song "Come Josephine, In My Flying Machine (Up She Goes!)"  words by Alfred Bryan, music by Fred Fisher. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_Josephine_in_My_Flying_Machine Wikipedia], [http://www.metrolyrics.com/come-josephine-in-my-flying-machine-lyrics-maire-brennan.html Lyrics]. Clearly irresistible to Pynchon, in addition to the double ''entendre'' on "come."

138/142 '''The Feast of San' Ercole dei Rinoceronti''' <br />
The Feast of Saint Hercules of the Rhinoceros, a reference to the Central and South American Hercules beetle, ''Dynastes hercules'', in the subfamily Dynastinae (rhinoceros beetles). [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_beetle]

140/147 '''Sfacim'''<br />
Italian for semen, insulting or ironically affectionate name, like a**hole. [http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=219182 WordReference.com]

148/156 '''George Raft''' <br />
Screen Actor & pop icon from the 1930s. Dapper dresser in the period gangster style. Pynchons description of the padded shoulders seems to fit.

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