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136/142 '''"Mierda.  Mierda.  Mierda."''' <br />
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136/143 '''"Mierda.  Mierda.  Mierda."''' <br />
Shit. Shit. Shit.
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Shit. Shit. Shit.
  
136/142 '''Randolph Scott'''
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136/143 '''Randolph Scott'''<br />
Stage & screen actor who played in many Westerns in the 30's, 40's and 50's.
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Stage & screen actor who played in many Westerns in the 1930s, 40s and 50s.
  
137/143 '''. . .ready to come in a flying machine''' <br />
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137/144 '''. . .ready to come in a flying machine''' <br />
Reference to popular song
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Reference to the popular song "Come Josephine, In My Flying Machine (Up She Goes!)" &#151; 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."
  
''come Josephine in my flying machine saying''<br />
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138/142 '''The Feast of San' Ercole dei Rinoceronti''' <br />
''up she goes''
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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]
  
clearly irresistable to Pynchon, in addition to the double entendre on "come".
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140/147 '''Sfacim'''<br />
 
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140/146 '''Sfacim'''
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Italian for semen, insulting or ironically affectionate name, like a**hole.  [http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=219182 WordReference.com]  
 
Italian for semen, insulting or ironically affectionate name, like a**hole.  [http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=219182 WordReference.com]  
  
148/154 '''George Raft''' <br />
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148/156 '''George Raft''' <br />
Screen Actor & pop icon from the 30's.  Dapper dresser in the period gangster style. Pynchons description of the padded shoulders seems to fit.
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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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136/143 "Mierda. Mierda. Mierda."
Shit. Shit. Shit.

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

137/144 . . .ready to come in a flying machine
Reference to the popular song "Come Josephine, In My Flying Machine (Up She Goes!)" — words by Alfred Bryan, music by Fred Fisher. Wikipedia, Lyrics. Clearly irresistible to Pynchon, in addition to the double entendre on "come."

138/142 The Feast of San' Ercole dei Rinoceronti
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). [1]

140/147 Sfacim
Italian for semen, insulting or ironically affectionate name, like a**hole. WordReference.com

148/156 George Raft
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.


Chapter 1
In which Benny Profane, a schlemihl and human yo-yo, gets to an apocheir
9/1
Chapter 2
The Whole Sick Crew
44/39
Chapter 3
In which Stencil, a quick-change artist, does eight impersonations
61/59
Chapter 4
In which Esther gets a nose job
95/97
Chapter 5
In which Stencil nearly goes West with an alligator
111/115
Chapter 6
In which Profane returns to street level
134/141
Chapter 7
She hangs on the western wall
152/161
Chapter 8
In which Rachel gets her yo-yo back, Roony sings a song, and Stencil calls on Bloody Chiclitz
213/229
Chapter 9
Mondaugen's story
229/247
Chapter 10
In which various sets of young people get together
280/305
Chapter 11
Confessions of Fausto Maijstral
304/333
Chapter 12
In which things are not so amusing
347/385
Chapter 13
In which the yo-yo string is revealed as a state of mind
367/407
Chapter 14
V. in love
393/437
Chapter 15
Sahha
415/461
Chapter 16
Valletta
424/471
Epilogue, 1919
456/507
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