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  • <div id="rose">63/61 - '''murdered in Egypt under the duello'''<br /> ...Rose'' (which he repurposed for ''V.'') why Porpentine is murdered "under the duello". He had violated "a tradition in espionage where everything was tac
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  • A spud coxswain is the traditional title of a salad and vegetable chef onboard a naval vessel. <div id="fo'c's''le">426/??? - '''streak for the fo'c's'le'''</div>
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  • ...ly for names & details about colonial Africa in his short story "Under the Rose" as well as ''V.'' ...arth or the atmosphere -- "whistlers" and "tweaks" being two other forms. The effect, as noted, was discovered by Heinrich Barkhausen (1881-1956), a Germ
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  • | followed_by = [http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''The Crying of Lot 49''] ...e quest of an aging traveller named Herbert Stencil to identify and locate the mysterious entity he knows only as "V.".
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    ...h in &#151; and be like &#151; the rock of their island" 340; glass eye in the shape of a clock, 388; ''See also'' [[V#v|V.]] 64; the first Baedeker guidebook <ref>Baedeker, Karl, ''The Mediterranean'', published by Karl Baedeker, Leipzig, 1911:
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  • ...gh some laborious dialogue, until he delivers what has come to be taken as the novel's motto: "Keep cool, but care." (''V.''; 366) To whom does he speak? ...Sphere Monk in the subtext. If for Gertrude Stein, "a rose is a rose is a rose"; for Pynchon, a Sphere is a Sphere.
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