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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 />
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; a march, known as "vulgar song" by the Maltese (sung to the tune of "Bridge Over 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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<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

'''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 />
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; a march, known as "vulgar song" by the Maltese (sung to the tune of "Bridge Over 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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<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 1953 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

'''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 />
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; a march, known as "vulgar song" by the Maltese (sung to the tune of "Bridge Over 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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'''Pagano, Patsy'''<br />
31; "250-pound fire controlman" on USS Scaffold

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Pied-à-terre'''<br />
???/486; a small living unit typically located in a large city (typically an apartment or a condominium)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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