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'''OAG'''<br />
458; Officer Administrating Government, in Malta; 471

'''OCS'''<br />
431; Officer Candidate School - school to become a military officer

'''octopus'''<br />
"smelled of fried octopus" 173; Ferrante's squid, 195; "fingers of god" 247; "stacked into a tentacle crawling along the sea" 270; "quadruply-amputated octopus" 390; tentacles, 397; "the feathery tentacles of a nostalgia" 475

<div id="odysseus"></div>'''Odysseus'''<br />
461; king of Ithaca and hero of Homer's ''Odyssey'', the great voyage tale of the ancient world. The ''Odyssey'' tells the tale of Odysseus' return home from the Trojan War. He encounters, among other things, a Cyclops (there are a number of one-eyed ones in ''V.'', including V. herself), the great witch Circe, Scylla and Charybdis (as difficult a navagation as the Hothouse and the Street), the Sirens, and the underworld (journeys to which are often undertaken in ''V. ''). He eventually gets back to Ithaca and his wife Penelope who has been fending off numerous suitors. ''See also'' [[C#charybdis|Charybdis]]; [[N#nausicaa|Nausicaä]]; [[S#scylla|Scylla]]

'''O'Leary, Peter'''<br />
139; clean-living old school chum of Geronimo's

'''OOD'''<br />
372; officer of the deck; 432; 442

'''Opéra;'''<br />
394; the Théâtre nationale de l'Opéra in Paris

'''Oran'''<br />
54; seaport in northern Algeria, under French rule from 1831 to 1962; it was a point of landing for a large part of the Allied forces during World War II.

<div id="orange"></div>'''Orange river'''<br />
231; forms the southern border of Südwest with South Africa; [[ Südwest|Map of Südwest]]

'''Orientalism'''<br />
412; a fascination in the arts and culture with things "oriental"

'''orris root'''<br />
296; fragrant rootstalk of any of several European irises used in perfume

'''Other Wall'''<br />
273; "the engineering design for a world [Mondaugen] knew with numb leeriness nothing could now keep from becoming reality [...] a design whose first fumbling sketches he thought must have been done the year after Jacob Marengo died [...]"

'''Outlandish Records'''<br />
124; the record company for which Roony is an executive; Sphere's contract with, 223

<div id="owlglass"></div>'''Owlglass, Rachel'''<br />
22; from the Five Towns on Long Island; alma mater: Bennington; 4'10" tall redhead; meets Benny for the [[Profane Meets Rachel|first time]], 23; loves her MG, 28-29; roommate of Esther and Paola (51); works in employment agency in New York, 29; "personnel girl at a downtown employment agency" 44 45; with Shoenmaker, 44-49; 127; working at Space/Time Agency , 216; meets Benny for the [[Profane Meets Rachel|second time]], 216; Jewish, 222; and Roony, 283; 288; 300; 349; 355; [[Chapter 13#field|"field-of-two"]], 368; "envelope of peace," 356, 368; at Idlewild airport, 363-64; [[Rachel Owlglass|Etymology]]

'''Owlglass, Stuyvesant'''<br />
22; Rachel's father; 358

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'''RAF'''<br />
''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="reuter"></div>'''Reuter, 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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'''Jacobean'''<br />
110; of, relating to, or characteristic of James (Latin: Jacobus) I of England (1566-1625) or his time; neo Jacobean, 297; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literature_in_English#Jacobean_literature Wikipedia on Jacobean literature...]

'''Janissaries'''<br />
465; a celebrated militia of the Ottoman Empire, raised by Orchan in 1330; for some centuries they compulsorily recruited from Christian subjects of the Sultan.

'''jarhead'''<br />
10; U.S. or English marine; 130; 429

'''Jarretière, Mlle.'''<br />
395; French: "garter"; stage name of [[L#melanie|Mélanie]]

'''JDs'''<br />
351; juvenile delinquents

'''Jesus Christ'''<br />
antichrist, 84; "stained-glass window portraying an early Christian martyr being devoured by wild beasts" 237, 275; "Like Jesus returning to earth, von Trotha is coming to deliver you." 240; the Redeemer, 271, 453; "Still one with the troglodytes who lived here 400 centuries before dear Christ's birth." 309; a Christ, 313; "Christ was her proper husband." 314; 316; tattoo of crucifixion on Bad Priest's head, 342; "Violent overthrow was a Christian phenomenon." 472; ''See also'' [[F#fairing|Fairing, Father]]; [[R#redeemer|Redeemer]]

'''JNs'''<br />
97; Curtiss JN was a biplane trainer built in 1916; better known as the "Jenny"

<div id="joan">'''Joan of Arc (c.1412-31)'''</div>
137; at the age of 17, this French patriot , clad in a white suit of armour and flying her own standard, forced the English to raise their siege against Orléans and retreat. Later, while attempting to beat back the Burgundians, she was captured by them and sold to the English. She was found guilty of heresy and sorcery by an ecclesiastical court and ordered burned at the stake. She recanted and was spared, but six days later she abjured and was burned at the stake in the market place of Rouen on May 30. She was instrumental in permanently halting the English ascendancy in France and, in 1920, was canonized.

'''Job'''<br />
224; in the Old Testament, a man whose faith was severely tested by Satan with God's permission. No matter what catastrophies beset poor Job, he would not curse God; founded line of schlemihls

'''John Bull'''<br />
469; café in Valletta where Maijstral is headed while being tailed by S. Stencil

'''Johnson, Samuel (1709-84)'''<br />
338; aka Dr. Johnson; an English writer and critic; "[[Three Meals Ahead|three meals ahead]]"

'''jolly jack tar'''<br />
16; slang for a sailor, whose hands and clothes, in the days of sailing, were tarred by the ship's cordage.

'''Jones, Patrolman Steve'''<br />
364; tall, skinny cop

<div id="jose"></div>'''José'''<br />
38; Kook's buddy who is one of the Puerto Rican kids on subway

'''Judaism/Jews'''<br />
Profane's mother, 19; Da Conho, 22-23; 25; United Jewish Appeal, 45; "the hook nose is traditionally the sign of the Jew," 45; noses, 47-48; Ptolemy Philopator, the Alexandrian Jews and the elephants, 77; Eigenvalue's "old schoolboy yarmulka" 97; "weak, Jewish psychopath" 126; 222; "half-Jewish and half-Italian [...] What a terribly amusing role" 224; "I don't hate Jewish people [...] only the things they do." 287; "Thousands of Jewish corpses," 295; "Nazi soap made from one of those six million Jews" 354; "trying to prove thirteen rabbis rule the world." 360 (see p. 451); "if known then he is Yahweh and we are all Jews," 399; ''See also'' [[M#mixolydian|Mixolydian, Fergus]]; [[S#shylock|Shylock]]

'''Judy'''<br />
320; mentioned in Maratt's poem

'''jumper'''<br />
14; a loose-fitting jacket

<div id="june"></div>'''June Disturbances'''<br />
52; in Valletta in 1919; 318; 448; background, 467; 478; 488-92

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'''RAF'''<br />
''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;

'''''Renassaince, 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="reuter"></div>'''Reuter, 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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'''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"

<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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<div id="echerze"></div>'''Echerze, Hanne'''<br />
88; stocky blond waitress at the bierhalle north of the Ezbekiyeh Garden; paranoid, 89

'''Eckstine, Billy'''<br />
440; American trumpeter and vocalist in the 1930s and 1940s

'''écouteur'''<br />
274; French: "listener"

<div id="education"></div>'''''Education, The'''''<br />
62; Henry Adams' autobiography , published privately in 1906; [[Henry Adams|Excerpts]]

<div id="eigenvalue"></div>'''Eigenvalue, Dudley, DDS'''<br />
55; office/residence on Park Avenue; metal dentures, 55 ("a vital piece of the
V.-jigsaw"), 152, 154, 155, 343 (taken from Bad Priest), 412; 127; "of the same Circle" as Chiclitz, 152; "psychoanalysis had usurped from the priesthood the role of father-confessor. Now, it seemed, the analyst in his turn was about to be deposed by...the dentist." 153;"Tell it to Eigenvalue." 223; "the soul-dentist" 226; psychodontist, 249; subcontractor of SHOCK's teeth, 285; Whole Sick Crew's dentist, 297; [[Eigenvalues|Pynchon-L eigenvalue thread...]]; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenvalue Wikipedia on Eigenvalues]

'''Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1890-1969)'''<br />
366; American general in WWII and 34th U.S. president. In 1942, he commanded the allied descent on French North Africa

'''Elena'''<br />
''See'' [[XYZ#xemxi|Xemxi, Elena]]

'''elephants'''<br />
"returning like the elephant to his graveyard, to lie down and soon become ivory in whose bulk slept, latent, exquisite shapes of chessmen, backscratchers, hollow open-work Chinese spheres nested one inside the other" 40; "syphilitic elephant" 69; "There are always elephants to be made drunk" 321; "an old folk tale, the king wants a place made of elephant tusks" 321; "There were elephants south of Mt. Ruwenzori." 321; "Jumbo the Elephant [...] French ticklers" 372; "I am pregnant with a baby elephant. You want to see its trunk?" 430;

'''Eleusis'''<br />
78; in Attica where religious rites in honor of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demeter Demeter] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceres_%28mythology%29 Ceres] were performed; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleusis Wikipedia]

'''Eliot, Thomas Stearns (T.S.) (1888-1965)'''<br />
307; American-born British poet, critic and dramatist; wrote ''The Waste Land'' (1922) and [[The Hollow Men|''The Hollow Men'']] (1925), among many other works; "On Ash Wednesday of '42 [...] Dnubietna wrote a 'satire' on [[Ash Wednesday|Eliot's poem]]" 308; 354; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._S._Eliot Wikipedia]

'''Elisa'''<br />
431; barmaid at Four Aces in the Gut

'''enfilade'''<br />
178; gunfire directed along the length of an enemy battle line, or an arrangement in opposite and parallel rows

<div id="entropy"></div>'''entropy'''<br />
"The party [...] unwound like a clock's mainspring [...] seeking some easing of its own tension, some equilibrium." 52; [[Chapter_2#schoenberg|Schoenberg's quartets]], 57; soul "dissolved away," 60; desert, 82-83; "visited by shadows of rhythm and decay," 160; "a world of neat hollow squares and snappy counter-marching had deteriorated into rout or mindlessness" 171; "Cesare's mournful singing soon dissipated in the seeming vastness of that street." 188; "what was the tag-end of an age if not that sort of imbalance, that tilt toward the more devious, the less forceful?" 199; one-way, 204; Foppl's villa, 235; "A taming [...] of the original heat with which he'd watched Vera Meroving" 246; keep moving, 262; "progress of appetite or evolution of indulgence," 273; "the Benguela current would never cease bringing sand to raise the harbor floor [...]" 274; progressive dissipation at Foppl's, 275-76; "makeup they'd not cleaned away clinging in blotches to pore-riddled cheeks" 276; hermetic, 277; perpetual motion, 282; "with Newtonian physics, pretty well assimilated and a lot of work in thermodynamics going on, man was looked on more as a heat-engine, about 40 per cent efficient" 284; one-way, 286; "a clear movement toward death or [...] non-humanity." 321; "the sun grows colder, the Hagiar Kim ruins progress towards dust, as do we, as does my little Hillman Minx," 337; "the tide is irresistible and irreversible" 405; "atoms collide, brain cells fatigue, economies collapse," 405; irreversible, 410; "politics of slow dying," 410; progression of Porcépic's score to dissonance, 413-14; "The characteristic stillness [...] of the rock. Inertia." 445; "Both the world and we, M. Stencil, began to die from the moment of birth." [or, as Mr. Dylan sez: "He not busy being born is busy dyin'"] 459; painting the Peri, 460; "Is old age a disease? [...] The body slows down, machines wear out, planets falter and loop, sun and stars gutter and smoke. Why say a disease? Only to bring it down to a size you can look at and feel comfortable." 461; "The disease would progress." 489; ''See also'' [[B#balloons|balloons]]; [[C#clocks|clocks]]; [[D#death|death]]; [[D#decadence|decadence]]; [[H#hothouse|hothouse]]; [[I#inanimate|inanimate]]; [[R#rock|rock]]

<div id="espionage"></div>'''espionage'''<br />
"it isn't espionage," 53; "quaint and romantic views about," 183; 198; S. Stencil in Malta, 465; spys, 475; 479; 481; ''See also'' [[D#della|Della Torre]]; [[S#skin|skin]]; [[S#surface|surface]]

'''Establishment, The'''<br />
156; what Evan Godolphin calls his family

'''Eucharist'''<br />
312; in the context of ''V.'', consecrated bread used in the sacrament

'''Eunice'''<br />
299; girl in kitchen at party in French Town, MA, who tries to seduce Sphere

'''Euroclydon'''<br />
322; north/northeast wind in Middle East mentioned in the Bible as having caused the shipwreck of St. Paul

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

'''Evelyn, Uncle'''<br />
72-73; Victoria's uncle, lived in Australia; wore a wideawake hat

'''Evening Colors'''<br />
385; at sundown all Navy personnel salute the flags "going down on dozens of fantails [an overhang of a ship shaped like a duck's bill]," 426

'''''Existential Sheriff'''''<br />
284; book, recommended by Pig, that Profane is reading at Anthroresearch; 286

'''Eyes of a New York Woman'''<br />
141; "a song of the Great Depression"; 214

'''Ezbekiyeh Garden'''<br />
83; in Cairo; scene of murder, 93

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