Chapter 10

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286/??? - Mazel tov.

Hebrew phrase meaning "Good luck"


291/??? - fakebooks

Books with sheet music, usually jazz standard repertoire. Wikipedia sez: "A fake book is a collection of musical lead sheets intended to help a performer quickly learn new songs. Each song in a fake book contains the melody line, basic chords, and lyrics - the minimal information needed by a musician to make an impromptu arrangement of a song, or 'fake it.'"[1]


292/318 - heading up for Lenox, Mass., for that jazz festival

This might refer to summer events at the Lenox School of Jazz in Lenox, MA, which existed 1957-1960.

From Pynchon's short story The Secret Integration:

Mr. McAfee was a bass player, but without his instrument. He'd been over in Lenox at some music festival. [1]


References

  1. Pynchon, Thomas, Slow Learner, Jonathan Cape, 1985, p. 170


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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