Gravity's Rainbow Concordance 2.0.4
Tim Ware
well as a few "essential" tidbits. Although this thing continues to
evolve, it does seem to be stabilizing somewhat.
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Tim Ware's
Deeply Subjective & Continually Expanding
CONCORDANCE
to
GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
by
THOMAS PYNCHON
Version 2.0.4
When I first read Gravity's Rainbow, although mightily
impressed, I felt I had only scratched the surface. I decided to re-
read it in order to more deeply explore what seemed like a richly
textured, magical new world. On that first read, I could have really
used an index to aid me in keeping track of the myriad characters and
acronyms. I also wanted my friends to read it, and I knew that an
index might make their first pass a bit less daunting and
overwhelming.
I found that the second read was the charmer, making the first
one seem like an initiation or weeding out process, kinda like "I'm
not gonna let just anyone read me." It reminded me of those random-
dot stereograms where an image first appears to be merely an
interesting pattern but, with prolonged viewing, suddenly and
dramatically opens out into an amazing 3-D "world." Of course, I
look forward to many more visits. No wonder there are no dog-eared
copies in used bookstores!
The tracking of the various names, themes, techniques, u.s.w.,
actually enhanced the reading, as I found myself pulled into the
complex web and paranoid as any of the connection-seeking characters.
Tracking words like "paper," "shadows," "bulb" or "black/ white," I
felt like hapless Oedipa spying ever more postal horns, and at some
point even thought "Am I being had?" [Well, yes...and no] I didn't
even try to list them all in this concordance. I also took a very
liberal view of "entropy," "routinization of charisma," and other
concepts. There're many ways to skin this cat.
So here's my map of the planet GR. It is based upon my own
explorations and intuitions. It's the first e-text concordance of
GR, and it's absolutely free! Gšdel's Theorem dictates that is shall
always remain incomplete.
I make no pretenses to rationalizing this fantastically
charismatic text. This is merely intended as an aid to the first-
time reader, as well as a way for repeaters to locate favorite
passages, etc. I'm open to suggestions and comments. I see it as an
ongoing project and look forward to input.
The page numbers refer to the original Viking editions (1973),
paperback and hardback, and to the Penguin edition (1987).
Please forward any comments, additions, corrections, or
suggestions to: "tim...@crl.com"
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abreaction
48; the releasing of repressed emotions (as through psychoanalysis)
caused by trauma, e.g. bomb blasts; (See also ARF)
Achtfaden, Horst
451; "aerodynamics man" on Toiletship; aka "Wenk" (code name on S-
GerŠt project - after State Prosecutor von Wenk in Der Mude Tod -
579); also worked at Electromechanishe Werke, Karlshagen (testing
station at PeenemŸnde which the Schwarzkommando commandeered); 563;
586; 687
ACHTUNG
20; Allied Clearing House, Technical Units, No. Germany;(See also
Mucker-Maffick)
actors/directors
Betty Grable, 9; W. C. Fields, 12; Cary Grant, 13, 240, 292, 294,
661, 684; George Formby, 18; Dennis Morgan, 32; Fay Wray, 57, 179,
275; Bela Lugosi, 106, 557; G. W. Pabst, 112; Ernst Lubitsch, 112;
Fritz Lang, 112, 159, 578, 753; Greta Garbo, 127, 476; Noel Coward
(Amer. playwright), 134; Walt Disney, 135, 680; Van Johnson, 182;
Rudolph Valentino, 182; Bing Crosby,184; Groucho Marx, 210, 246, 278,
386, 619; James Cagney, 222, 599, 684; Tom Mix, 245; Shirley Temple,
24, 246, 304, 466, 493; Bob Steele, 247, 385; 386; Johnny Mack Brown,
247; Errol Flynn, 248, 381; Sydney Greenstreet, 253; John Wayne, 256;
Spencer Tracy, 266; Rita Hayworth, 274, 449; Laurel and Hardy, 375,
583; Don Ameche, 381; Oliver Hardy, 381; Mickey Rooney, 382; Carmine
Miranda, 383, 664; Mickey Mouse, 392; Marlene Dietrich, 393; Brigette
Helm, 393-94; Asta Nielsen, 415; Carol Lombard, 445; Henry Fonda,
448; Clark Gable, 516, 577; William (Dick) Powell, 516, 622; Basil
Rathbone, 534; S.Z. ("Cuddles") Sakall, 534; Cecil B. DeMille, 559;
Henry Wilcoxon, 559; Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, 561; Audie Murphy,
563; Rudolph Klein-Rogge, 578; Bridgette Helm, 578; Bernhardt
Goetzke, 579; James Mason, 592; Deanna Durbin, 599; Rin-Tin-Tin, 614;
Betty Davis & Margaret Dumont, 619; Douglas Fairbanks, 637; William
Bendix, 684; Sam Jaffe, 684; Arthur Kennedy, 684; Carl Denham, 689;
Margaret O'Brien, 690; Bengt Ekerot, 755; Maria Casar s, 755
Adenoid
Giant, 14; "the Adenoid," 754; (See also Zhlubb)
AEG
164; German Gen'l Electric Co., founded by Emil Rathenau, father of
Walter
AG
520; Aktiengesellschaft: "joint-stock company"
Alien Property Custodian
581; dispose of German property in US after WWI
ambiguities
"perhaps the girls aren't even real," 19; "that octopus didn't
[really happen]", 248; Tantivy's reported death ("maybe the whole
story was a lie"), 252; Jamf, 261, 738; Slothrop would "edit, switch
names, insert fantasies into the yarns he spun for Tantivy," 302;
"the New Uncertainty," 303; Tchitcherine & Wimpe, 344;
Schwarzkommando, 361-62; the "Ellipse of Uncertainty," 425, 427;
"Slothrop will think he sees [Bianca]," 491; Anubis, 493; "the
lemming may not even exist," 554; "Of course it happened. Of course
it didn't happen." 667
America
"Shit, money, and the Word, the three American truths," 28;
Slothrop's Sodium Amytal "trip," 60-70; "the westwardman," 67;
"versed in American politics," 77; "intricate needs of the Anglo-
American Empire," 129; "Harvard's there for other reasons," 193;
"American West. . .those virgin sunsets to penetrate and to foul,"
214; "American voices. . .high pitched and without mercy," 256; "a
little American enlightenment," 359; "the sound of an American work
detail," 360; "the young barbarians coming in to murder the Last
European," 440; "American Food and Drug people took the cocaine out
of Coca Cola," 452; "Gomera was the last piece of land Columbus
touched before America," 453; "the fork in the road America never
took," 556; American industrialists, 558; Bland's "meathooks well
into the American day-to-day since 1919," 581; "U.S.A. is a gigantic
Masonic plot," 587; Slothrop's thoughts on returning to America, 623;
U.S. may have been one of Ben Franklin's "cosmic forms of practical
jokesterism," 664; "typical American teenager's own Father," 674;
Nalline's letter to Joe Kennedy," 682; "American Mysteries," 683;
"Shit 'n' Shinola" episode, 687-88; "America was a gift from the
invisible powers, a way of returning," 722; "American Death has now
come to occupy Europe," 722
Andreas
See Orukambe, Andreas
angels
angel's-eye view, 54; snow angels, 57; "Destroying Angel," 93;
"windmill known as 'The Angel'," 106, 536; starlings on radar, 112;
"the Angels sing new songs," 134; "mock-angel singing, 135; "days of
angelic visit," 145; Basher St. Blaise's angel, 146, 151-52 (aka
LŸbeck angel, 214, 217); "as the Angel swooped in," 164; "hark the
herald angels," 177; "Jeremy will take her like the Angel itself,"
177; "the Angel who tried to destroy us in SŸdwest," 328; "star-
blotting Moslem angels," 341; "Angels and sanctions," 355; "like the
Archangels," 464; "the angel [the Erdschweinhšhlers] have hoped for,"
672; "functions of Moslem angels," 705; "a bright angel of death,"
760
Anubis
459; In Egyptian religion, Anubis was a god with the head of a jackal
and the body of a man. He led the dead to the abode of Osiris to be
judged. The Anubis is a yacht full of affluent Polish refugees from
Lublin regime (See page 34) headed for SwinemŸnde; owned by
Procalowski; aka "white death ship"; only a probability, 493;
sighted, 528; Slothrop boards, 529; 663; "As long as the Anubis kept
moving, there was no need to choose," 667; 668; 706
Apache
Falkman and His Apache Band, 32; One Apache, 70; "Secret Service's
notion of an Apache," 244; Apache sideburns, 254; "Waxwing's apache
lieutenants," 638
ARF
75; Abreaction Research Facility - run by Pointsman at White
Visitation
Asch, Walter
152; present at seance with Sachsa
astrology
"next you'll be consulting horoscopes," 33; PISCES, 34; "a mud
zodiac," 79; the ruler of my Sign, 108; "Walter Asch ('Taurus'),"
152; "earth-sign belligerence," 154; "Piscean husband," 154; "two
goldfish are making a Pisces sign," 174; "the astrologer's Moon,"
220; "The great cusp-green equinox and turning, dreaming fishes to
young ram," 236; Twelfth House, 274; "13th sign of the Zodiac," 302;
"winged rider, red Sagittarius," 343; "Pluto is in my sign now," 415;
"her Neptune is afflicted," 463; "full of the Sagittarian fire," 483;
"pre-Piscean fugue," 533; "Piscean depths," 579; "the green edge of
Aries," 681; "The sun was in Leo," 694; "a double Virgo for a son,"
699; "early Virgo," 712
ATS
17; Auxiliary Territorial Services, British civilian group helping
the war cause
Bad Karma
457; location of Spa (Kurhaus) where Margherita Erdmann killed Jewish
boys
Badass, U.S.S. John E.
388-89; US destroyer on which Seaman Bodine is stationed; Runcible
Spoon Contest, 594; 623
Beaver, "Old" Jeremy the
36; 121; boyfriend of Jessica Swanlake; works for Operation Backfire
in Cuxhaven; is the War, 177; meets Mexico at Gross Suckling
Conference, 709
Bel‡ustegui
383; U-boat's positivist engineer; 613
Bianca
393; daughter of Greta Erdmann & Miklos Thanatz; disappears, 480;
mapped on to Gottfried, 484, 672; going overboard, 491; "a clever
child," 494; body discovered, 531; mapped on to Ilse, 576-77; "her
dead flesh," 576
Birdbury, Pharmacist
595; dope dealer at the old Krupp works where Badass is docked
black & white
"Dominus Blicero," 30; white - 342, 398, 501, 506, 508, 519, 524,
549, 551; 579; bleaching 364; black - 350, 354; "feelings about
blackness tied to feelings about shit," 276; white=death, 372; white
woman with ring of keys, 374; Caligari gloves - bone white, 385;
Slothrop's sodium amytal dreams, 390; 392; "we live. . .beneath the
black mud," 483; "A white land," 486; 488; black polymer costume,
488; baseball, 508; boneblack, 509; Egg, 510; "black apes," 513; 650;
657; 666; 688; white albatross, 713; 722; 723; 741; death--a
whitening, 750 [inversion: black=life; white=death] [Under
Construction]
Bladdery, St. John
594; English Commando in First International Runcible Spoon Fight
Bland, Buddy
591; Lyle's son; 652
Bland, Lyle
284; "Uncle" Lyle to Slothrop; lived in Boston; involved with Hugo
Stinnes; and the Masons, 580; specialized in psychological studies in
'30s, 581; becomes Mason, 587; journeying "underneath history," 589;
leaves body, 591; "his last transmural journey," 630
Bleagh, Dr.
91; "and his young nurse Ivy"; performs lobotomies at White
Visitation
Blicero, Capt.
See Weissmann
Blizna
424; in Poland; site of A4 testing in 1943; SS project run by Kammler
Bloat, Teddy
5; rooms with Pirate and friend of Tantivy; microfilms Slothrop's map
(then gives film to Mexico who takes it to Pointsman), 17; 34; 181;
gives Slothrop a crab to distract the octopus, 186-87
Blobadjian, Igor
353; party representative in the G Committee (WLA)
Bodine, Seaman
369; Doper's Dream; was on the Destroyer John E. Badass docked in
Cuxhaven; spikes coffee on Badass with Oneirine, 389; First Int'l
Runcible Spoon Fight, 394; "specializes in supporting roles," 684; My
Doper's Cadenza, 685; foam-rubber phalluses, 708; Krupp, 711;
"surprise roast," 714; beginning. . .to let Slothrop go," 741-42
BOQ
6; bachelor officers' quarters
Borges, Jorge Luis (d. 1986)
264; Argentinian writer of fiction/fantasy; dedicated poem to G. I.
Portales, 383
Borgesius, Katje (rhymes with "Gotcha")
her message in cylinder delivered by rocket, 20; 92; was in Blicero's
Hansel & Gretel game with Gottfried in the house "west of Duindigt
racecourse," 94-99, 101-04; "some background in mathematics," 97;
spying for allies, 104-05; turned in Jews to keep the Germans from
suspecting her, 97, 105; quits the game, 107; Pirate takes her to
White Visitation, 106; secretly filmed, 92-113; meta-solutions:
knocking over the chessboard, shooting the referee, 102; "quits the
game," 104; octopus incident, 185-89; "Meet me in my room," 191; with
Slothrop in her room, 194-98; escapes to Arnhem, 195; futureless
look, 208, 209; roulette wheel metaphor, 209; Other Order of Being,
222; disappears, 226; "on her wheel," 257; "under the Wheel of
Fortune," 277; discovers film used with Grigori, 533; with Pirate
again ("she has lost her surface"), 545; her little brother Louis,
546; going to Nordhausen, 620; "she's not of our moment, our time, at
all," 656; Golden Bitch, 658; Principle of Maximizing Risk, 659; "her
masochism," 662; travelling with Enzian, 729
Borgesius, Louis
546; Katje's little brother
Bounce, Hillary
240; works for Shell Int'l Petroleum; had dealings with IG Farben in
'32; teaches Slothrop about propulsion at Casino; at de la
Perlimpinpin's party, 245; 253
Braun, Wernher von (d. 1977)
German rocket engineer who came to the U.S. after the war; "Nature
does not know extinction," 1; arm in a cast in the Harz, 237;
"They've already rounded up von Braun," 273; Geli's owl, 291; "how
close Wernher von Braun's birthday is to the Spring Equinox," 361,
588; "a palace revolt against," 416; "I couldn't go with von Braun,
not to the Americans," 456
Brennschluss
6; German: "end of fuel"; end of rocket's climb when fuel is cut-off
and it gives way to gravity; "a ritual of love," 222-23; "Rocket's. .
.feminine counterpart," 223; 239; "for every firing site," 302; of
the sun, 711; 759
Brocken
329; mountain 20 miles NW of Mittelwerke in the Harz Mountains;
"plexus of German evil"; place where God-shadows occur at sunrise,
330; specter, 759
bulbs
at Rathenau seance, 165; "staring bulb," 194; "a bare bulb will
hollow out a region of light," 299; dream of bulb/Weissmann, 426-27;
Weissmann's soul, 427; sentient bulbs, 464; 506; Mutter: what Germans
call female threads of light bulb sockets, 653; "an electrical tidal
wave," 665; bulbshine, 697; (See also Byron the Bulb)
Bummer, Emil ("SŠure" [German: acid])
365; 434-43; papyromancy, 442, 641; wheelerdealer in Berlin; no
stomping on bugs, 621; "Ass-backwards," 683; "Der Platz," 686;
"optimum hashpipe design," 745
Burgundians
159; wiped out by Attila the Hun (as depicted in Fritz Lang's Die
Nibelungen); in what is now Eastern France; 578-79
Byron the Bulb
647-55; "Someday he will know everything, and be just as impotent as
before," 654; "electrical tidal wave," 665; screwed into Gustav's
kazoo hashpipe, 745
Casino Hermann Goering
181; casino on French Riviera where Slothrop is sent; Himmler-
Spielsaal gaming room; 3 girls: Ghislaine, Francois & Yvonne, 183,
187; 491; 656; 659; (See also Forbidden Wing)
cause and effect
30; "junk cause-and-effect entirely, and strike off at some other
angle," 89; Pškler "the cause-and-effect man," 159; "Parallel, not
series. Metaphor. Signs and symptoms. Mapping on to different
coordinate systems." 159; 161; and secular history, 167; 752
Center
"hidden centers," 302; "imaginary centers," 302; and the Hereros,
319; "centripedal movement," 440; Holy-Center-Approaching (Zonal
pastime), 508; 509; fleeing the, 519; "holy center," 590; Returning
to the Center, 757; (See also Cycle of Return, mandala)
Cherrycoke, Ronald
125; psychometrist in Psi Section; 146; "undertakes. . .trips into
Nora Dodson-Truck's void, " 150; "in a Jesus Christ getup," 639
chess
knight, 12; "raggedy pawns," 173; on Waxwing's card, 248; Wimpe's
analogy, 344; chessboard of the Zone, 376; Knight, 401; 405;
Weissmann & Ilse playing, 408; "present a pawn, withdraw the queen,"
417; "that board and pieces and patterns. . .did come clear for him,"
421; "the flesh of pieces moved in darkness and winter across the
marshes and mountain chains of the board," 422; moving rookwise, 472;
the Castle, 486; chessboard, 494; knight for bishop, 563; Slothrop &
Pškler playing, 576; knight, 602; Tchitcherine, "the most maniacal,
systemless chess player in Central Asia," 611; "chess knights. .
.invisible in the air," 655; LŠufer (chess bishop), 666, 683; "Your
objective is not the King--there is no King--but momentary targets
such as the Radiant Hour," 674; mechanical chess-player, 675; [Check
out: Borges' "The Game of Chess" in Dreamtigers (1964)]
Chicago Bar
367; Berlin bar where SŠure Bummer hangs out; 373; 435; 517; Springer
and NŠrrish ambushed, 527; 739
Chiclitz, Clayton "Bloody"
558-62; fat, bald with hornrimmed glasses; American industrialist
with T-Force scouting German engineering (esp. secret weaponry); owns
a toy factory in Nutley, NJ; he's running a fur operation, employing
30 kids whom he eventually wants to take to Hollywood to be movie
stars
Chilkes, Maudie
78; works at PISCES; 141; seduces Pointsman, 168-69
Christian
518; Herero comrade of Enzian's and brother of Maria; dream of Maria,
673; 728
Christianity
John the Baptist, Nathan of Gaza, 14; Croix mystique, 16, 484;
"ancient sun-wheel [of] the early Christians," 100; must stem
"Satanic intervention" of dodoes," 110; "Conversion of the Dodoes,"
110-11; compline (7th and last of the canonical hours), 129; "the
real king" and baby Jesus, 131; bugs in the manger, 173-74;
"Christian Europe was always. . .death and repression," 317; "pierced
Jesus," 324; "Did you ever. . .see a man that. . .must be Jesus
Christ?" 325; Martin Fierro's return to Christian society, 387; "In
the name of the cathode, the anode, and the holy grid," 404;
"stations of the cross," 502; churchtops as rockets, 624; crosses,
625; "blithering odd bits of Gospel," 639; Jesus, 554-55; Jehovah's
Witnesses, 681; 693; "the Cross," 694; "she feels the cross," 719;
ZŸndkreuz ("Ignition-Cross"), 751; (See also religion)
Chu Piang
339; "Chinese factotum in the red dzurt," 346; addicted to "the tears
of the poppy," 347
CIA
163; Chemical Instrumentality for the Abnormal; Committee on
Idiopathic Archetypes, 625; Committee on Incandescent Anomalies, 650;
Commissariat for Intelligence Activities, 700
City Dactylic
566; (dactylic: pertaining to a finger); "the city of the future
where every soul is known, and there is noplace to hide"
color
18, 19, 22, 41, 58, 129, 131, 133, 134, 166, 199, 223, 244, 372, 373,
379, 421; "sweating yellow migrations," 446; 459, 500, 503, 507, 532,
536, 544, 548, 551, 566, 568, 560; "monumental yellow structure,"
681; "blue-and-yellow patent wingtips," 691; 710; "their auras are
green," 715; 745, 759 [Under construction]
comics/cartoon/fictional characters
comicbook fangs, 21; Sir Denis Nayland Smith, 83, 277, 592, 631, 751;
Hop Harrigan, Tank Tinker, 117; Dumbo, 135; Plasticman, 206, 314,
331, 752; Rocketman, 366, 376, 379, 436, 512, 596; Captain Midnight
Show, 375; Green Hornet, 376; "the only beings who can violate their
space are safely caught and paralyzed in comic books," 379; Sundial,
472; Wilhelm Busch (cartoonist), 501; Porky Pig, 545; Bugs Bunny,
592; Porky Pig tattoo, 638, 711; Robin Hood, 664; Mary Marvel, Wonder
Woman, 676; Crime Does Not Pay, 709; Superman, 751; The Lone Ranger &
Tonto, 752; Philip Marlowe, 752; (See also Plasticman)
compline
134; seventh and last of the canonical hours
Control
30; illusion of, 30; Pointsman "must never lose control," 144; 209;
Cybernetic tradition, 238; 277; 387; of Ilse, of love, 414; 415;
"innocence and its many uses" in a corporate State, 419; critical
mass of means of control being connected, 539; 581; (See also
Routinization/Rationalization of Charisma, They)
Cosmic Bomb
167; aka Atomic Bomb; 539; 544; "Miss Enola Gay's atomic clit," 588;
Hiroshima, 693-94
Counterforce
"it is not often Death is told so clearly to fuck off," 10; "a nova
of heart that will. . .change us forever to the very forgotten roots
of who we are," 134; redemption ("the way home"), 134-35; "love,
dreams, the spirit," 177; "love that can even make the oppression
seem a failure," 219; "the living green, against the dead white,"
268; "Earth's gift for genesis," 316; "lovable but scatterbrained
Mother Nature," 324; "sense all Earth like a baby," 358; Pškler
giving away his gold ring, 433; "the one great centripedal movement
of the World," 440; "Murphy's Law, where the salvation could be,"
471; "luminous breast of sky," 501; "Somewhere, among the wastes of
the World, is the key that will bring us back, restore us to our
Earth and to our freedom," 525; "Dialectically. . .some counterforce
would have had to arise," 536; "Next time you come across a logging
operation. . ." 553; "provisions active for balancing things out,"
580; randomness, 586; "There is a counterforce in the Zone," 611; "we
must. . .look. . .to the silence around us, to the passage of the
next rock [and] its aeons of history under the long and female
persistence of water and air," 612-13; The Counterforce, 617; "We
piss on Their rational arrangements," 639; "counterforce traveling
song," 639; "Byron's "Guerilla Strike Force," 649; "Love," 650;
"there is a key, among the wastes of the World," 667; "if the
Counterforce knew better what those categories concealed, they might
be in a better position to disarm, de-penis and dismantle the Man,"
712; "[Pudding] is now a member of the Counterforce," 715; "an
overpeaking of life so clamorous and mad, such a green corona about
Earth's body," 720; "spokesman for the Counterforce," 738
croquet
200
Crutchfield (Crouchfield)
67; character in Kenosha Kid episode; "the only westward man"; 114
Custodian of the Night
434; smooth-faced, neutral, coiled & pale (serpent-like)
Cuxhaven
A small German town on the North Sea (in the British sector of the
Zone); Operation Backfire based there, 272; test range, 277;
Destroyer Badass docked there, 370; 372; Putzi's located there, 526-
27; Slothrop traveling to, 567; Der Grob SŠugling ["The Gross
Suckling"], a servicemen's pub, 706-08
Darlene
19; nurse at St. Veronica's hospital and lover of Slothrop; 114; 271
de la Nuit, Rev. Dr. Paul
56; house chaplain at White Visitation; 81; 149
de la Perlimpinpin, Raoul
243; throws big party where hollandaise is spiked with hashish &
Italo & Tamara have it out with tanks
De Profundus, Nick
295; "company lounge lizard" and entrepreneur at Mittelwerk during US
occupation
death
"the continuity of our spiritual existence after death," 1; "Death is
a debt to nature due," 26; Dominus Blicero, 30; most frequent word at
seances, 32; "Death's antechamber," 40; "invulnerable Death," 40;
Lord of the Night, 48-49; "try to tickle me," 60; "time and space on
their side have no meaning, all is together," 153; "the dead are as
real as the living," 153; "The real movement is. . .from death to
death-transfigured." 166; "Death the impersonator," 167; culture of,
176; "rationalized forms of death," 230; 239; "feelings about shit
tied to putrefaction and death," 276; 296; "everyone is in complete
agreement about Death," 299; "ancient rune that stands for the yew
tree, or Death," 302; "Christian Europe was always death," 317;
tribal v. Christian, 318; "[suicide] embraces all the Deviations in
one single act," 319; "North is Death's region," 322; Bleicherode =
"death," 322; blicker = bleached, 322; Death = bleaching, blankness,
322; Angel of Death, 151, 328; Evil Hour (white woman), 374, 439;
culture of, 445; 453; Greta lying with corpse, 483; North, 524;
Angel, 328; "we die only because They want us to," 539; 540; 578; in
German films, 579; "northern journeys to final ice," 589; northern
Germany was territory of the dead in prehistoric times, 612; "In this
latest War, death was. . .a collaborator," 616; "traffic from the
Other Side," 624; "tuneless whistling of busy Death," 628; Lilith,
Queen of the Night, 649; Night of the Other, 649; and shit, 688; "the
farther north, the plainer things grow," 692; religion and, 701; the
World before men ("It is our mission to promote death"), 720;
Analysis and, 722; Deathkingdom, 723; "the object of life is to. .
.die a weird death," 742; deep beauty of, 746; Zhlubb's imagined,
756; whitening, 759; "bright angel of death," 760; (See also angels)
Æ-t
an increment of time as marked on a graph; "never quite to the zero,"
28; Leni applying it to being in the moment, 159; "words. . .only Æ-
t from the things they stand for," 510; rate of change at a cusp,
664; "the delta-t itself," 754; "last thin pages of fluttering
closed," 759; "the last delta-t," 760
Der Platz
686; German: "the place"; SŠure's communal pad; 711; 745
Dillinger, John (d. 1934)
368-69; American gangster; "As B/4," 436; killed at Biograph Theatre
in Chicago, 516; bloody shirt, 741
Disgusting English Candy Drill
116
Dodson-Truck, Nora
145-50; wife of Sir Stephen D-T, lover of Carroll Eventyr; "erotic
nihilist," 149; Ideology of the Zero, 218; maps on to Leni?, 218;
"her real identity is. . .the Force of Gravity," 639
Dodson-Truck, Sir Stephen
206; tutored Slothrop on rocket stuff and technical German at Casino;
husband of Nora D-T; disappears from Casino after Slothrop gets him
drunk playing "Prince" and he confesses, 211; at Fitzmaurice House,
228; "Nature of Freedom" drill, 541; at Pirate's, 639
Dog Vanya
78; dog in ARF wing undergoing conditioning experiments
Domina Nocturna
234; Katje's S&M character who satisfies Pudding so that Pointsman
can keep funding
dope
cultivating pharmaceutical plants on Pirate's rooftop, 5; Slothrop on
Sodium Amytal, 60-71; "gage" smoke, 62; Amanita muscaria, 93, 112,
533, 748; Benzedrine, 142, 686; Hieropons, 152, 683; "the latest
drugs inside the many little table drawers," 152; Oneirine, 166, 463-
64; "Where the poppy, and cannibis and coca grow full and green, and
not to the colors and style of death, as do ergot and agaric," 317;
Pervitin, 328, 522; "German dope in amazing profusion, Wimpe the
jinni of the West holding them up," 345; opium, 346-47, 602;
"inelastic Need," 346; "the tears of the poppy," 347; Oneirine, 348;
Methoneirine, 348; killing pain without addiction, 348; "certain
drugs. . .make things amazingly clear," 352; marijuana ("vapor
blossoms resinous and summery"), 365; "The Doper's Dream," 369;
hashish, 370, 390, 434, 652; "the Green Hershey Bar," 370; cocaine,
375, 452, 463, 481, 517, 594, 595, 599, 604, 621, 622; "time
modulation particular to Oneirine," 389; ephedrine (for nasal
congestion), 405; kif, 437, 625; "A little something from Morocco,"
438; papyromancy, 442; Gustav and Bummer's analysis of the hashish,
442; hashish, 493, 652; Springer on Sodium Amytal, 511-14, 746;
sniffing Leunagasolin, 523-24; Osbie "chewing spices, smoking
reefers, and shooting cocaine," 536; Killer Weed campaign, 581;
"Greetings, gate, need an opiate?" 594; Codeine, 594; herb smokers,
638; "amphetamine enthusiast," 640; "all of those snowy-white
crystals," 646; morphine, 652, 686; "My Doper's Cadenza," 685-86;
"the Red Doper," 719; addiction, 722; Kazoo hashpipe, 745; New Dope -
"a brand new kind of dope that [renders you] incapable of ever
telling anybody what it's like [or] where to get any," 745; "optimum
hashpipe design," 745; (See also LSD, Sodium Amytal)
Dora
289; prison camp next to Mittelwerke, mostly foreign prisoners; "When
the Americans liberated Dora," 296; "they call them re-education
camps," 408; Ilse and Leni, 428; 430; Pškler goes into, 432-33; 175s
(homosexual inmates), 665
DP
281; displaced person
dreams/dreaming
Pirate's, 3; "rosy as a bunch of Dutch peasants dreaming of their
certain resurrection," 5; Pointsman's, 36-38; Jessica's, 53; of
peacetime, 58; Mrs. Quoad's, 119; the Empire's "dreamless version of
the real," 129; "the children are away dreaming, but the Empire has
no place for dreams," 135; Pointsman's, 137-38; Pointsman's of the
Minotaur, 142; Nora Dodson-Truck's dreams of flight, 146; Treacle's
dreams of flight, 146; Leni's, 155-56; Leni's dream of flight, 159;
"you go from dream to dream inside me," 177; Stalin's pathological,
189; Slothrop dreaming in German, 240; Slothrop's dream of old pals
while in Nice, 255; Slothrop's "Jamf/I" dream, 286-87, 623; Enzian's
of an "endless North," 327; Galina's, 341; Chu Piang's, 347; Evil
Hour, 375; Slothrop's of Berkshire, 392; Alpdrucken ("Nightmare"),
394; Pškler's of rocket, 399-400; KekulŽ's dream of 1865, 410; Jung's
"ancestral pool," 410; Pškler's of bulb as Weissmann, 426-27; "City
of Elves producing toy moon-rockets," 431; Slothrop's transmutation
dream, 446-47; "ships we can dream across terrible rapids," 462;
Slothrop dreaming of Llandudno, 468; oneiric (dreamlike), 475; summer
before the War, 475; of battles survived, 490; "Givin' all m'dreams
away," 522; Slothrop's of Tantivy, 551-52; "your saddest dreams,"
577; Slothrop's of Zwšlfkinder and Bianca, 609; "Solange" dreaming of
Ilse, 610; Slothrop's of Bette Davis and Margaret Dumont, 619;
Pirate's of windmills, 620; Mexico's of Jessica (in the song), 627;
Christian's of Maria, 673; Dark Dream, 697; keying waves, 699;
Beaver's, 708; Gottfried's single dream, 721; Gottfried, 754; "human
figure, dreaming of an early evening in each great capital," 760
Drohne
487; "plastics connoisseur" at The Castle
Dzabajev
390; "teenage Kazazh dope fiend with pimples and a permanently surly
look" who is Tchitcherine's sidekick/driver; 564; posing as Frank
Sinatra in the Zone, 700; 705; with Slothrop, 742; Village Idiot
Convention, 743
Edelman, Steve
Tales of the Schwarzkommando, Collected by, 315; "Kabbalist
spokesman," 753; "a Hollywood business man. . .accused of Attempted
Mopery," 755
Eisenkršte
603; Iron Toad in the pissoir at Putzi's - "ultimate test of manhood
in the Zone"
El „ato
383; guitarist on U-boat; 612
Empty Ones
316; "Otukungurua"; faction of Hereros who want negative birthrate
("tribal v. Christian death"), 318; aka "Revolutionaries of the
Zero," 317
entropy/closed systems
A4 as "mockery of. . .the reversible process," 139; Pointsman
"lapsing to isotropy," 142; reverse, 204; Maxwell's Demon, 239;
coprophilia & urolagnia as closed systems, 319; Clerk Maxwell, 411;
Entropy Management, 260; fear of open system, 264; Rossini's music is
"love without payment of any kind," 274; orangutan "clockwork runs
down," 282; "Their several entropies," 302; "entropies of. . .mother
nature," 324; painkillers without addiction, 348; cocaine & the A4,
375; drifting away, 405; "a system whose only aim is to violate the
Cycle," 412; serpent eating its tail, 413; Anubis orgy as closed
system, 467; "inside his own cock," 470; Morituri - "just keep
moving," 479; irreversible process, 519, 524, 589; potatoes used for
rockets--no food, 550, 640; Wm. Slothrop's pigs, 555; messages, 624;
information, 642; haircut, 643; Karmic Hammer, 644; bulb-life
problem, 654; Floundering Four each gifted & flawed by the gift, 675;
icebox, 678; Great Irreversible, 745
Enzian, Oberst
100; (German: "gentian" - a flowering herb); named by
Weissmann/Blicero after a color in the Rilke poem ("mountainside
gentian of Nordic colors"); meets Slothrop on top of train to
Nordhausen and pushes Marvy off the train, 288; Illumination of, 297;
of Bleicherode, 315; aka Nguarorerue ("one who has been proven"),
316; aka Otyikondo ("halfbreed"), 316; half-brother of Tchitcherine;
Weissmann's protŽgŽ and "Monster," 404; estrangement between
"monster" Enzian and Weissmann, 426; 499; "on into some other
paranoid terror," 522; search for the True Text, 525; with Katje,
658; Suave Older Exotic, 662; and the 00001, 724
Erdmann, Margherita (Greta)
364; German film actress; mother of Bianca; star of von Gšll's
Alpdrucken; worked for von Gšll in vaguely pornographic horror
movies; the "Anti-Dietrich," 394; in Berlin with Slothrop, 433; feels
abandoned by Slothrop when he returns, 443; married to Thanatz, 46;
murdering Jewish children, 477-78; aka Gretel, 482; with Max
Schlepzig in Jugend Herauf! ("Youth Arise!"), 483; with Blicero and
Thanatz on the Heath, 485-88; mapped on to Katje, 486; 672
Erdschweinhšhle
315-16; underground communities of Hereros living in Germany; "a
dialectic of word made flesh," 321; 524-25; delegates, 538; 671; 672-
73
Evans, Jeremiah ("Merciful")
541; "well-known political informer from Pembroke"
Eventyr, Carroll
31; medium at White Visitation in the Abbey in south England; lover
of Nora D-T; 33; his story, 145; maps on to Sachsa?, 238; 706;
recruited Pudding into the Counterforce, 715
Evil Hour
439; when the white woman comes out; white woman, 658
excrement
"shit, money and the Word," 28; Pointsman's foot in toilet bowl, 42;
Slothrop's toilet adventure, 64; preterite dung, 166; earth's
excrement (coal tars), 166; Domina Nocturna, 234; "feelings about
blackness were tied to feelings about shit, and feelings about shit
were tied to feelings about putrefaction and death," 276; "naughty
bathroom moment," 296; "Colonies are the outhouses of the European
soul. . .where a fellow can. . .enjoy the smell of his own shit."
317; coprophilia & urolagnia, 319; Outase (one of the many Herero
words for "shit"), 325; King Kong taking a shit, 368; "pleasant
anticipation," 405; baby Ilse's, 418; Pškler at ground zero, 426;
Dora camp, 432; "diamonds in the shit of smugglers," 438; turd-shaped
monoliths, 451; giant turds, 485; Bianca, 531; 535; "Europe died
meanly in its own wastes," 616; Mexico pissing on Mossmoon's table,
636; "ladylike turds," 639; "prehistoric wastes," 639; "urolagnia
jokes," 649; Byron down the toilet, 652; "deep feeling about shit,"
654; "Shit 'n' Shinola," 687; "shit. . .is the color white folks are
afraid of," 688; "Listening to the Toilet," 694; "Bad Shit," 713;
"consecrated to shit," 722; 631; 739; 757; (See also Toiletship)
Fahringer
403; (German: "traveller"); Zen fellow at PeenemŸnde with Achfaden
and Pškler; 454
Feel, Osbie
5; cultivates pharmaceutical plants on the roof of Pirate's
maisonette; doper at White Visitation -- "the house idiot-savant,"
92; with Pirate, 111-12; 533; Doper's Greed - film with 2 cowboys +
midget, 534; stoned, 536; in Marseilles, 620; Porky Pig tattoo, 638
Feldspath, Roland
30; expert on control systems, guidance equations; spirit in seance;
238-39
Feldspath, Selena
30; surviving wife of Roland; 31
Felipe
383; "difficult young poet" on U-boat; 612
Fibel, Bert
453-54; worked with Achtfaden; worked for Siemens when it was part of
Stinnes trust; kept an eye on infant Tyrone while working for GE in
Pittsfield, MA; fixed defective pinball machines, 586-87; 687
Fickt es!
158; German: "fuck it"
Fierro, Martin
386-87; gaucho hero of Argentinian legend; von Gšll wants to make a
film about him
film/cinema references
"horror-movie devilfish," 51; Fay Wray look, 57; Katje, 92, 112;
paranoia in movie theatres, 114; Hollywood, 135; "medium shot," 142;
Sachsa seance, 152; special effects, 159; "this wardrobe here's
mostly props," 195; soundtrack, 255; "from a German camera angle,"
229; Zootsuit Zanies, 251; "Wild West movie," 338; "Nazi movie
villain," 360; extras, 374; "Leaps broad highways in a single
bound!"--380; camera angle (opening of Fierro film), 386;
"paracinematic lives," 388; soundtrack, 398; filming gauges on rocket
flights, 406-07; successive stills, 407; "the moving images of a
daughter," 422; 423; Ilse "has persisted beyond her cinema mother,
beyond film's end," 429; "cue calls for the titanic sets of her
dreams," 446; "watching Allied footage for what could be pulled and
worked into newsreels to make the Axis look good," 473; faces "very
smooth, film-star polished," 477; "filthy movies are showing in the
boiler room," 490; on the other side of the camera, 494; cartoon-y,
498; "gobbles Pervitin like popcorn at the movies," 522; "film and
calculus, both pornographies of flight," 523; "this ain't the fuckin'
movies," 527; "not yet," 527-28; "a government newsreel, FROM CLOAK
AND DAGGER TO CROAK AND STAGGER," 542; "My dream is to bring all
these kids. . .out to Hollywood," 559; Klein-Rogge, Rudolph (actor -
Pškler's favorite), 578; "frames per century," 612; "a bad cinema
spring," 628; 637; 641; Floundering Four, 674-80; "Yes, it is a
movie! Another WWII situation comedy," 692; "Their Movieola viewer,"
694; "as nasal and debonair as a movie star," 697; "moves image to
image," 721; documentary style, 738; "subdebs just out the movies,"
741; Chase Music, 751; "old fans who've always been at the movies,"
760; (See also actors, King Kong, movies, theatre, Ufa-
theatre)
Firm, the
See SOE
Fitzmaurice House
76; Foreign Office Political Intelligence Dept. located there;
Stephen Dodson-Truck works there, 215; 221; 228
Flamp, Constance
714-717; at Krupp party (aka "Commando Connie")
Fleb—tomo, Cesar
184; manager of Casino Hermann Goering
Floundering Four, the
674-80; (1) Myrtle Miraculous - performs miracles--"love is the only
miracle that's beyond her"; (2) Maximilian - Negro with natural
rhythms ("all rhythms, up to and including the cosmic")--"never. .
.go any further into danger than its dapperness"; (3) Marcel - "a
mechanical chessplayer" ("exquisite 19th-century brainwork")--"much
too literal with humans"; (4) Slothrop. Each is gifted and flawed by
his gift. Mission: rescue the Radiant Hour.
Forbidden Wing
205; the Himmler-Spielsaal room at Casino H. Goering; "breath of
Forbidden Wing," 285
Foxes
47; Spectro's generic term for any patient; 53; 58; 138; on the
Toiletship, 450
fox-trot
182; a ballroom dance in duple time with alternating slow and quick
steps; (See also songs/compositions)
Freud, Sigmund (d. 1939)
16; Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis; 272; 276
Galina
339; worked for Tchitcherine in C. Asia; "connoisseuse of silences";
705
General Electric
Project Hermes people from, 287; interlocks, 332; 448; connections
with Siemens, 565; Swope/Business Advisory Council, 581; 654; Joe
Kennedy and, 682; 712
Germans
Confidence, 25; the "FŸhrer-principle, 81; "ein Volk, ein FŸhrer
["one people, one leader"], 131; and Control, 238; Slothrop's
dreaming in German, 240; "German-scientist mind," 268; humor, 309;
"a wistful German thing with his upper lip," 333; "the same German
impulse..." 361; "improvisation from a German?"--372; New German
Architecture, 372; mania for subdividing, 391, 448; "unpatriotic to
say that a German ruler could also be a madman," 394; Demian-
metaphysics, 403; "connection between the German mind and the rapid
flashing of successive stills to counterfeit movement," 407;
dialectic, 440; analysis of pot, 442; "simple-minded German symphonic
arc," 443; "you all think the world's against you," 445; movies, 474;
Schadenfreude [joy at another's misfortune], 526, 745
Geschwindig, Hansel
651; (German: "swift") - Weimar street urchin who steals Byron the
Bulb from the glassblower
Glimpf, Prof.
309; Professor of Mathematics of the Technische Hochschule,
Darmstadt; Scientific Advisor to the Allied Military Government
Gloaming, Milton
31; friend of Roger Mexico; word-counting project in Psi Section of
SOE, developing vocabulary of curves, 32; 629; "just back from a
jaunt through the Zone," 630; 638
Gloob, Lady Mnemosyne
716; at Krupp party
Gloucester
52; Pointsman's springer spaniel
Gnahb, Otto
492; aka "the silent Otto"; son of Frau Gnahb
Gnahb, Frau
492; "Queen of the coastal trade" runs black market along Baltic
coast; 602; 623
Gobbitch, Bartley
9; at Pirate's maisonette
Gšll, Gerhardt von
112; German filmmaker; "on the Strand-Promenade," 294; made movie
about African rocket troops called Schwarzkommando, 112-13; thinks he
brought them into being, 388; 385 - aka Der Springer - film
director turned marketeer; Martin Fierro, 385; used "Emulsion J"
which made the outer layer of skin translucent, 387; Alpdrucken
featured lighting from top and bottom (Gnostic symbolism - Cain &
Abel [429]), 394; corridor metaphysics, 394; no-show at Putzi's, 610;
also made The Good Society; 611; "his corporate octopus wrapping
every last negotiable item in the Zone," 611; floor movie at Der
Platz (New Dope), 745; 750; (See also Der Springer)
Gongue, Jean-Claude
246; "notorious white slaver of Marseilles" at de la Perlimpinpin
party
Gottfried
94-99; "ranked with his battery near Schu§stelle 3," 95; with Katje
and Blicero, 101-04; German: "God's peace," 465; "the young pet and
protege of Captain Blicero," 484; mapped on to Bianca, 484, 672;
"something was being planned" for, 485; and Thanatz, 670-71; 721; his
launch, 750
Graham, "Micro"
295; gives secret tours of the Mittelwerk during US occupation
gravity
"sigh of gravity," 296; "Gravity's grey eminence," 302; "she wants to
lose her gravity," 538; "always at the mercy of," 584; "To find that
gravity. . .is really something eerie," 590; "I am Gravity," 639;
"generations of gravities," 672; "Center of Gravity," 700; "nothing
but his asshole between Gravity and Roger," 709; "Gravity rules,"
723; "modest preview of gravitational collapse," 737; wine rush
defying, 743; "gravity feed," 758; "Gravity dies away briefly," 759;
["Gravity's rainbow": parabola created by the rocket's trajectory]
Greifswalder Oie
404; small island at PeenemŸnde converted into a testing station; 414
Grid
"Dutch grid's 380 volts," 101; "to keep Grid Time synchronized with
Greenwich Mean Time," 133; "the Grid runs inching ever faster," 134;
400; ego as grid, 404; "the holy grid," 404; the Iron Toad "hooked up
to the European Grid," 604; Byron's "many agents in the Grid," 649;
"when folklore comes flickering in from other parts of the Grid,"
650; "the Grid is wide open, all messages can be heard," 655; "the
Grid's big function in this System is iceboxery," 678; "along the
grooves of the Raketen-Stadt's street-grid," 674; (See also chess)
Grigori
51; aka Grischa; octopus conditioned by Pointsman to abduct Katje in
order to get at Slothrop; "unconditioned response to prey is very
reliable," 52; shown movie of Katje, 112; attacks Katje, 186; Waxwing
sez it never happened, 248; 533; octopus as metaphor, 611
Groast, Dr. Rollo
34; works in ARF wing; 79; 85; 147; with Greta, 474
Gross Suckling Conference
706; attended by Eventyr, Gwinhidwy, Mexico, Morituri - discuss
mandalas in relation to rocket firings
Grunt-Gobbinette, Sir Hannibal
716; at Krupp party
Grunton, Myron
74; worked for BBC; instrumental in creating Operation Black Wing;
works at White Visitation; 92; 112; 227
Gustav
See Schlabone, Gustav
Gwinhidwy, Thomas
52; at White Visitation; one of the keepers of The Book; 169; at
Pirate's, singing, 639; 706
Haftung, G.M.B.
496; "ulcerous impresario" aboard Gnahb's boat
Hand of Providence/God
"the powdery wipe of Nothing's hand," 24; 25; on Constant Slothrop's
tombstone, 26-27; "the great bright hand reaching out of the cloud,"
29; Invisible Hand, 30; "the hand of a terrible croupier," 209;
"giving Slothrop the finger," 461; illustrated, 566; "the loud
guillotine of Flanders run. . .by no visible hands," 616; "Hand of
Glory," 750; "There is a Hand ," 760; (See also Puritans)
Happyville
644-46; starring Skippy and Mr. Information; 655
Harz, the
100; Mountain range in central Germany famous for ancient spiritual
rituals and for canaries; 289; 313; 328
Hawasch
455; aerodynamics person on S-GerŠt project
Hereros
74; Ex-colonials from the SŸdwest (South-West Africa) living in
Germany; "your dark, secret children," 75; "Ndjambi Karunga" = god or
fucking, 100; 153; in exile in Germany for 2 generations, 315; "Last
pocket of pre-Christian oneness," 321; "the village built like a
mandala," 321; Gondwanaland, 321; Ovatjimba (aardvark) people, 403;
almost wiped out by Germans in 1904, 452; Christian, Maria & Pavel,
518; washing-blue "abortifacient," 519; St. Pauli (washing-blue
connection), 525; 657; Christian and Maria, 673; Christian, 728
Hexes-Stadt
718; German: "Witch City"
Hilbert-Spaess, Sammy
217; double agent; 540
Himmel and Hšlle
567; German: "Heaven und Hell"
history
"[War] provides the raw material to be recorded into history," 105;
secular, 167; "is not woven by innocent hands," 277; 342; "some
dialectic is still operating in History," 540; living underneath
history, 589; rock's perspective ("Sentient Rocksters"), 612-13;
"historical structure," 624; "prehistoric wastes. . .transmuted to
the very substance of History," 639; "Pensiero is an agent of
History," 643; Karmic Hammer, 644; predestined shape of, 701; "Theory
of History," 704; "historied hands," 718; centrifugal, 737
Hoover, Herbert (d. 1964)
American President from 1929 to 1933 and head of the Food
Administration during WWII; 374; 565; 649
humor
"winejelly" incident (aka "Disgusting English Candy Drill"), 116;
"show us your papers!," 442; Hšpmann's and Kreuss' prank on
Toiletship, 451; "Super Animals In My Crack," 466; orgy on Anubis,
467; Frau Gnahb's criticisms, 497; Springer's Sodium Amytal-induced
outbursts, 512, 514 and 746; "How I Came to Love the People," 547;
pinball machines run amuck, 583-84; Miss MŸller-Hochleben, 633; "I
say. . .," 634; "helicopter!," 683; "Ass Backwards," 683; "It's an
old saying among my people," 709; Kazoo Quartet, 711-12; discharge
dumplings, u.s.w., 715; bad pun, 746
Hund-Stadt
614; German: "Dog-City"; village in Mecklenberg taken over by army
dogs after the war
IbargŸengoitia
384; Argentinian contact in ZŸrich
Ichizo
See Komical Kamikazes
ICI
35; Imperial Chemical Industries, aka "Icy Eye"; an English company
of which IG Farben gained a controlling share; Clive Mossmoon works
there doing polymer research; 248; 250; Gloaming works for in '36,
630; "has cartel arrangements with Farben," 712
Icy Noctiluca
311; flares
IG Farben
163; Interessengemenschaft - a fellowship of interests -
chemical/synthetics company; 249; 565; Stickstoff Syndicate, 580;
590; 630-31; 647
Imipolex G
242; a new plastic, aromatic heterocyclic polymer, developed by Jamf
in '39 for IG Farben; used as insulation for rocket; details, 249-50;
"the company albatross," 261; "a fat file on," 283; "its smell
haunting Slothrop," 286; skinsuit at The Castle ("the material of the
future"), 487; Imipolectique, 490; aromatic polyimide, 576;
characteristics of, 699; shroud of, 751; 754
information
"conversion factor between information and lives," 105; "a net of
information," 165; "the only real medium of exchange," 258; lost
messages, 322, 520; "their power now lay. . .in information and
expertise," 427; "Is there information for us?" 642; Mr. Information,
644-45; "it's only," 650
interface
cortex as, 79, 141-42, 144, 166-68; "Outer Radiance," 148, 150;
assassination, 164; coal and steel, 166; and water bugs, 173;
interregnum, 294; "between one order of things and another," 302;
"the pure, the informationless state of signal zero," 404; "the
boundary layer," 452; violet-bleeding, 484; words as, 100, 510;
water-gasoline, 523; delta-t at the cusp, 664; "between the visible
Lager ["camp head"] and the invisible SS," 666; "a meeting surface
for two worlds," 668; "Outside and Inside interpiercing one another,"
681; time zones, 696; "with What lies just beneath," 700; "glass
surface-tension between the two levels," 729-30; "ride the
interface," 731; (See also Zone)
Italo
246; at de la Perlimpinpin party; 261; [Name is perhaps a tip-of-the-
hat to Italo Calvino, Italian writer of fiction/fantasy]
Jamf, Laszlo
48; conducted sexual conditioning experiments on "Infant Tyrone" (see
pg 84); developed Kryptosam, 71; taught Pškler polymer theory at
Technische Hochschule, 161; developed Imipolex G in 1939, 249; worked
for Psychochemie AG (Grossli Chemical Corp), a spinoff of Sandoz -
ZŸrich, 250; Jamf is dead, 261; details, 283-87; 387; grave of, 268;
developed Emulsion-J, 387; Jamf …lfabriken (oil factory) Werke AG,
520; "discoverer" of Oneirine, 522; hatred of covalent bond, 577;
"move beyond life, toward the inorganic," 580; moved to America, 580;
early patents, 581; 623; 646; 655; "there never was a," 738
Janet, Pierre (d. 1947)
49, 88; French psychologist
Joint, Dennis
272; representative from Shell Mex House at PISCES; 275; 277
Jung, Carl (d. 1961)
276; Swiss psychologist; "ancestral pool," 410
Kabbalists
Gnostic symbolism, 429; Grail, 517; "the Real Text," 520; "the holy
Text," 521; 649; 650; 749-53; (See also, Qlippoth)
Kamikaze
Morituri, 473; 649; fallen cherry blossoms, 672; The Wisdom of the
Great Kamikaze Pilots, 680; "the slogan of a Kamikaze unit," 696;
(See also Kommical Kamikazes)
Kammler, Maj-Gen
282; at Blizna, 424; decision to disburse testing and production
sites, 426; 464
Katje
See Borgesius, Katje
Katspiel
584-85; fictional planetoid inhabited by sentient pinballs
KekulŽ von Stradonitz, Friedrich August (d. 1896)
84; German chemist; his "dream of 1865" which led to his
revolutionizing chemistry and making plastics possible, 410-11;
taught by Liebig at Univ. of Glessen, 411
Kennedy, John F. ("Jack") (d. 1963)
65; former American President from 1960-63; 682; 688
Kenosha
Kenosha Kid (Sodium Amytal hallucination of Slothrop's while being
probed at PISCES about American racial problems), 60-71, 114, 696-97;
colonel from Kenosha, WI, 643; Kenosha, WI, 645; "Old Kenosho the
loony radarman," 691; Kenosha Kid and the Sentimental Surrealist, 696
Kerl
German: "fellow"
KEZVH
illustrated, 361; 5 positions of the launching switch for the A4
(Klar: "clear"; EntlŸftung: "discharge fuel"; ZŸndung: "ignite";
Vorstufe: "first stage"; Hauptstufe: "main stage"); "in the sky over
the Alexanderplatz," 446; mandala in Marvy's green Ford, 560; Herero
interpretation, 563
King Kong
Fay Wray look, 57; 179; eyes of, 247; Mitchell Prettyplace book
about, 275; "the Fist of the Ape," 277; "orangutan on wheels," 282;
taking a shit, 368; "on the tit with no motor skills," 578; "that
sacrificial ape," 664; "a gigantic black ape," 688; Carl Denham,
Director of, 689
Kirghiz
338; people living in Baku in Central Asia in 7 Rivers County
Kirghiz Light
357; 500; 508; 510; 566; 611; 649; 706
Kollwitz, KŠthe (d. 1945)
578; German artist who did a series of sketches on death
Komical Kamikazes
690; Takeshi & Ichizo; 697; 738
Kot
German: "shit"
Krupp, Gustav von Bohlen und Halbach (d. 1950)
166; German industrialist and director of Krupp works; 520; Krupp
works in Essen, 521; 654; Krupp works in Cuxhaven, 709; Krupp
"wingding," 709-17
Krypton, Albert
594; "corpsman striker of the U.S.S. John E. Badass"; doper buddy of
Bodine's
Kryptosam
71; used to encrypt messages; de-crypted by rubbing cum on it
Kummersdorf
416; site of old Raketenflugplatz
Lamplighter, Allen
146; buddy of Treacle's killed by a buzzbomb (V-1)
Lerner, Sgt. Howard ("Slow")
641
Le Froyd, Reg
73; inmate at White Visitation who in 1925 escaped and leaped into
the sea
Leunagasolin
523; "synthetic gasoline"; Moss Creature, Water Giant & Fungus
Pygmies (Pavel's hallucinations), 523
limericks
305-07; 311; 334-35
Lisaura
The girl whom the mythical TannhŠuser (the Minnesinger: "minstrel")
cheated on by living underground for a year with Venus (aka Frau
Holda). After a year he returns, satiated, and goes to the Pope to
seek absolution. The Pope says there's as much chance for TannhŠuser
being forgiven as there is for the Pope's staff blooming. The Pope's
staff miraculously blooms three days later, but not before Lisaura
has died of grief and TannhŠuser has returned to the abode of Venus;
364; 393; Pope's staff, 470, 532; 533; (See also TannhŠuserism)
Loaf, H.A.
14; Pirate has his fantasy
LSD
"Sandoz (where. . .Dr. Hofman made his. . .discovery)," 250; "You
interested in some L.S.D.?" - 260; "Micro" Graham, 295; Devil behind
the mirror, 444; "a touch of acid," 586; (See also Bummer, SŠure,
dope)
Luba
339; worked for Tchitcherine in C. Asia
LŸbeck
151; civilian town which the RAF bombed on Palm Sunday, provoking
German rocket attacks on London; Leni grew up there, 162
Lucifer Amp
542; "verminous, hairy creature" that used to worked for SOE
Ludwig
553; kid who has lemming named "Ursula"; shadowing the
Schwarzkommando, 729; with Thanatz, 736
LŸneburg Heath
Site of Blicero's last stand/final madness where the S-GerŠt 00000 is
fired; Argentinians' goal to set up a small estancia [Sp: a large
estate, esp. a cattle ranch], 388, 390; Thanatz & Greda move there,
486; Slothrop tells Enzian about the Heath, 562; Mexico drives
through "the burnt-purple rolling of," 626; Blicero "got as far as
the LŸneberg [misspelled]," 659; "the last stand in the," 666; "There
are. . .no windmills on the," 670; "Kingdom-of-the-Deathward," 673;
Tchitcherine "came into LŸneburg last weekend," 719; Schwarzkommando
arrive to assemble 00001, 737; "The Heath grows green and magenta in
all directions," 749
Luz
383; with Felipe on U-boat; also "Squalidozzi's girl"
Magda
365; SŠure's sidekick; "picked up on first-degree mopery," 742
mandala
"the ancient sun-wheel from which. . .the swastika was broken," 100;
"full mandalas came to bloom," 152; Herero villages built like
mandalas, 321; mandala-like Schwarzkommando insignia, illustrated,
361; Schwarzkommando, 560; four fins of the Rocket, 563; "other
fourfold expressions," 624; discussed at Gross Suckling Conference,
706-07; "the cross the man has made on his own circle of earth," 719
Marcel
See Floundering Four
Maria
519; Christian's sister and Pavel's husband; in Christian's dream,
673; (See also Christian, Pavel)
Marvy, Maj. Duane
281; with US Army Ordnance and leader of Marvy's Mothers, "the
meanest-ass technical intelligence team in this whole fuckin' Zone";
pushed off train by Enzian while "headed for Mittelwerke," 288; 307;
331; 363; 502; Atomic Chili, 557, 559; 564-66; purchases cocaine from
Bodine at Putzi's, 604; castrated, 609
Masons
emblems, 27; "Eye at the top of the pyramid," 484; and Lyle Bland,
580; founding Fathers, 587-88; magic rituals/Masonic Mysteries, 588;
Masonic plots, 587; Ben Franklin, 663-64
Maximilian
See Floundering Four
McGonigle, Pvt. Paddy "Electro"
641; hand-pedals the twin-generator cranks for light bulb during THE
HAIRCUT
Mexico, Roger
31; 30 years old; works with Pirate Prentice in Psi Section;
Mysterious Microfilm Drill, 32; "provisional wartime friend of
Pirate's," 35; meets Jessica, 38-39; the "Antipointsman," 55;
paranoia, 124; takes Jessica to see Hansel and Gretel, 174; by the
sea on White Sunday, 273; missing Jessica, 626; Gloaming tells him
about the Slothrop/IG Farben/Pointsman plot, 630-31; realizes Jessica
is working for Pointsman, 631; pissing on Mossmoon's table, 636; 706;
foam rubber phallus, 708; at Krupp party, 711
Michele
243-45; friend of Slothrop's who seduces Hillary Bounce so Slothrop
can use his teletype machine
mindless pleasures
270; working title for Gravity's Rainbow; 681
Mittelwerke
283; German rocket factory at Nordhausen (next to Dora prison camp);
designed like a ladder with Stollen (rung-tunnels), 299; control
systems work was done outside mountain in castles, farms etc, 313;
tactical sites elsewhere, 427; abandoned in '45, 432
MMPI
21; Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory--a psychological
test; 81; 90
Mondaugen, Kurt
161; electrical engineer who went to SŸdwest; Pškler working with,
402-04; accepted Hitler on basis of his "Demian-metaphysics," 403;
bodhisattva of PeenemŸnde, 403; was in SŸdwest, lived with Ovatjimba
(aardvark) people, the poorest Hereros, 403; 1922 - in SŸdwest with
Weissmann during siege of Foppl's villa, 408; after PeenemŸnde
bombing, 422; Mondaugen's Law, 509; Verein fŸr Raumschiffahrt, 582;
687
Monika
603; "Putzi's genial, cigar-smoking, matelassŽ-suited madame"
moon
"the halfmoon shines," 104; men on the, 132; "the dead moon," 163;
"blanched scar of moon," 195; astrologer's, 220; moonlight, 268; "as
among craters of the pale moon," 270; true message to Hereros, 322;
Ilse and, 410; cycles, 414; "Have you given up so easily on the
Moon?" 420; "Her round straw hat a frail moon," 421; Lunar motion,
452; rising like moons, 466; 608; Katje "felt the moon in the soles
of her feet," 657; "The moon has risen," 720; moonlight, 721; "our
new Deathkingdom," 723
mopery
742; 755; Slang: a trivial, imaginary violation of law (also seen
defined as: act of moping; vagrancy, dawdling)
Morituri, Ensign
462; "of the Japanese Imperial Navy," "ex-liaison man from Berlin";
was in kamikaze training; 467; his story, 474; irony of
radium/Hiroshima, 479-80; 672; 706
Moss Creature
523; hallucination of Pavel's during Leunagasolin high
Mossmoon, Clive
35; works for ICI doing polymer research; husband of Scorpia; 22;
544; 615; 635
Mossmoon, Scorpia
35; wife of Clive; had an affair with Pirate in 1936, 35-36; 544; 698
mothers
Otto Gnahb's Mother Conspiracy, 505; "the policemen of the soul,"
219; "mother-violence," 380; "Mother's Nipple," 707; [check out
Marvy's Mothers, too]
movies
Going My Way, 38; White Zombie, 106; Son of Frankenstein, 106, 536;
Freaks, 106, 534; Flying Down to Rio, 106; Dumbo, 106, 135; Meet Me
in St. Louis, 252; Die Nibelungen, 159; Die Frau im Mond ["The Girl
in the Moon"],159, 753; Frankenstein, 246; The Return of Jackie
Slade, 247; King Kong, 247, 275; Fu Manchu, 278; Tarzan, 306; Zorro,
376; Martin Fierro, 385, 610; The Return of Martin Fierro, 387;
AlpdrŸcken ["Nightmare"], 394, 397, 429, 461, 472; Good Society,
395;Weisse SandwŸste Neumexiko ["White Desert of New Mexico"], 482;
Jugend Herauf! ["Youth Arise!"], 482; Lucky Pierre Runs Amok, 497;
Dr. Mabuse der Spieler ["the Gambler"], 500, 579; Metropolis, 578;
Der MŸde Tod ["The Tired Death"], 516, 579; Doper's Greed, 534; The
Bride of Frankenstein, 591; A Day At The Races, 619; A Tree Grows in
Brooklyn, 641; Dracula, 652; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 712; New Dope
(movie under rug in Der Platz), 745; (See also actors, King Kong)
Mravenko
611; "one of the VIAM people"
Mucker-Maffick, Oliver "Tantivy"
18; shares office with Slothrop at ACHTUNG; with Slothrop at Casino,
181; Ballad of, 191; "There hasn't been a word," 209; disappears -
death confirmed, 252; Slothrop's dream of his return, 551
Muffage, Doctor
591; with Dr. Spontoon, out to castrate Slothrop
Mukuru
322; Hereros' "first ancestor, Adam"; breath of, 524; 562
music
rallentando [gradually slackening in speed], 28; Frank Bridge
Variations, 59; harmonica, 62-63, 68, 384, 562, 593, 622, 642, 643,
693, 736, 742, 754, 756; "weeping at an E-major chord modulating to a
G-sharp minor," 78; "adds an overtone to the game, which changes the
timbre," 96; the War's evensong, 130-36; VI b Group, 164; Kazoo band,
225; Beethoven "never got further than statements of intention," 273;
La Gazza Ladra ("love without payment of any kind"), 274; "windy
strings and reed sections," 398; "planting swing notes precisely into
the groove," 471; Locrian mode, 434; Beethoven v. Rossini, 440-41;
death of Webern, 494; "comical bassoon solos," 528; Wittmaier
harpsichord, 533; kazoos, 538, 594, 745; "The Row is enlightenment,"
621; rocket attack ("thirds smooth as distant wind"), 627; blues,
643; oboe players, 708; (See also fox-trot, musicians/
composers, Rossini, songs/ compositions)
musicians/composers
Sandy MacPherson, 13; George Formby, 18; Falkman and His Apache Band,
32; Charlie ("Yardbird") Parker, 63; Primo Scala's Accordian Band,
115; Roland Peachey and His Orchestra, 121; Thomas Tallis, Henry
Purcell, Heinrich Suso, 129; Ernesto Lecuona, 169; Carl Orff, 237,
441; Benny Goodman, 225; Juan d'Arienzo, 267; Der Bingle (B. Crosby),
320; Richard Wagner, 324, 450; Andrews Sisters, 382; Frank Sinatra,
390, 700; Hugo Wolf, 419, 450; Ludwig von Beethoven, 440, 685; Anton
Webern, 440, 494; Irving Berlin, 442; Horst Wessel, 443; Kurt Weill,
513; Gene Krupa, 513; Guy Lombardo, 529; Gilbert & Sullivan, 538;
Jacques Offenbach, 584; Sandy McPherson, 592; Spohr, Rossini,
Spontini, 622; Diamond Lil, 657; Stephen Foster, 675; Spike Jones,
678; Harry James, 685; J.S. Bach, 685; Josef Haydn, 712; (See also
Rossini)
Myrtle Miraculous
See Floundering Four
NAAFI
35; Navy, Army, Air Forces Institute; civilian support of war effort
with entertainment, food, etc.
naming
"snare them in words," 99; "stuffed paper illusions. . .between him
and this truth," 234; "fear of having a soul captured. . .by a name,"
302; "Can his name. . .break their power?" 321; act of, 322; 366;
Nameless Thing, 341; "How alphabetic the nature of molecules," 355;
German mania for name-giving, separating namer from named, 391; 443;
"those names are not magic," 464; "verbal, ranked and uniformed,"
478; "words. . .only Æ-t from the things they stand for," 510;
"worded over," 589; "secret Function whose name. . .cannot be
spoken," 590; "a screen of words between himself and the numinous,"
668; (See also Routinization of Charisma)
NŠrrisch, Klaus
456; German: "foolish, crazy"; worked with Achtfaden on S-GerŠt; at
PeenemŸnde with Slothrop et al., 495; "guidance man," 516; under
narcohypnosis - captured by Russians for his guidance knowledge, 563
Neubabelsberg
364; location of the Havel in Berlin where Potsdam Conference was
held
Nipple, Lloyd
374; from Slothrop's childhood
Nordhausen
240; location of central rocket works in central Germany; given to
Soviets per Yalta Agreement; Americans crating out A4 rockets before
Russians take over, 295; "dwellings in the north," 322
Nosepicker, Neil
83; Book of 50,000 Insults
nouns as verbs
fingernailed; osmosed, 213; palimsested, 266; dopplering, 310;
sneaky-peteing, 508; gangstering, 518
N.T.A.
339; New Turkic Alphabet; written language imposed on Central Asia by
Russians; 341; Cyrillic NTA, 354; plenary session, 355; "first
Central Asian fuck you signs," 355; (See also naming,
Routinization/Rationalization of Charisma)
Oie
See Greifswalder Oie
…lsch, Etzel
298; architect and disciple of Speer; 302; 411; (See also Speer)
Ombindi, Joseph
319; of Hanover; leader of Empty Ones; 519; 673; 732
Omnopon, AndrŽ
711; violist in Kazoo Quartet
Oneirine
166; (oneiric - "dreamlike"); intoxicant developed by Jamf--induces
time modulation, 389; Greta's addiction to, 463-64; 684; Pškler
singularity, 702; hauntings, 703
Operation Black Wing
"the Firm's latest mania," 34; demoralization scheme devised by DJ
Myron Grunton who invented a black army of ex-colonials from South-
West Africa (SŸdwest) in Germany who've formed a secret army known as
Schwarzkommando; SHAEF arrangement, 74; Slothrop undergoing "light
narcosis to help illuminate racial problems in his own country."--75;
616
Operation Backfire
272; British rocket-scavenging effort based in Cuxhaven; 526; 709
Opposite, Ideas of the
50; Pavlov's, 87; not one without the other; preterite/elect;
injurer/injured; opposites brought together, 100; "symmetrical
opposites," 144; open spaces v. city, 341; "explorer and edge of the
wave-green world," 343; fuel & oxidizer and aggressor & victim as
paired opposites, 403; "we define each other," 495; counterforce in
Zone, 536, 611, "double minded in the massive presence of money,"
712; "Everything in the Creation has its equal and opposite
counterpart," 555; balance, 580; 610; 621; 721; (See also
Counterforce, Pavlov)
Orukambe, Andreas
325; with Enzian, 518; 562; in tap-dance number for Katje, 657-58
Osmo, Lord Blatherard
14-16; occupied Novi Pazar desk at Foreign Office; pharynx once
blocked by the Adenoid
OSS
268; Office of Strategic Services - U.S. (oss = bone)
Otyiyumbu, Jan
638; Schwarzkommando liaison man
Overbaby, Terence
151; St. Blaise's wingman; Eventyr held a seance to reach him
paper
"Death's antechamber where all the paperwork's done," 40; money as
"desperate paper whispering down the corporate lattice," 75; "paper
secrets," 282; a number "only derived on paper," 315; "newly invented
paperwork," 318; "paper existences," 340; "Rapallo Treaty. . .that
weird piece of paper," 352; "print just goes marching on," 355;
"among the paper," 406; "paper brain," 421; "the paper has piled too
thick," 426; paper cancer (Inflation), 435; papyromancy: "ability to
prophesize through contemplating the way people roll reefers," 442;
"show us your papers!" 442; murderous typewriters, 453; pencil as
weapon, 510; trees/paper, 552; printer union ("the Word made
printer's ink"), 571; "the only real fucking is done on paper," 616;
"why does he have this obsession with getting papers?" 623; "the shed
skin of a beast at large," 632; "paper grasp," 669; "foolish as
shields of paper," 728 (See also Routinization/Rationalization
of Charisma)
parabola
"the final arch," 4; bow-shaped curve in plotting frequencies of
words, 32; "bell-curves of farewell," 51; "between the two points. .
.it lives an entire life," 209; "they. . .move forever under it,"
209; "the great airless arc," 223; "one of the Last Parabolas," 238;
at Mittelwerke, 298; New German Architecture, 372; as organizing
principle, 409; Ellipse of Uncertainty, 425, 427 436; inverted, 437;
I-V-I trap, 443; Ellipse, 509; "the planetoid Katspiel of veryvery
elliptical orbit, 584; paraboloid death mirror, 728; U, 755; "follow
the bouncing ball," 760
paranoia/connectedness
Croix mystique, 16, 484; "operational paranoia," 25; "classic
paranoiac," 32; "great swamp of paranoia," 33; Earth's prime
meridian, 72; Slothrop's stars and rocket hits coincide (4.5-day mean
lag time), 85-86; "always someone behind him being careful," 114;
"seeking other orders behind the visible" - Puritan reflex, 187;
education at Harvard is a front, 193; Proverbs for Paranoids, 237,
241, 251, 262; Paranoid Systems of History, 238; monster in the sky,
241; Slothrop hears quotation marks, 241; night voices in Hotel
Nimbus in ZŸrich, 255-56; "playing the patterns," 257; 332; new
higher-dimensional maps of the world, 321; "there is a pattern. .
.the act of naming obeys the pattern," 322; England/China/ India,
346; I Ching, 378; 381; crossing solipsisms, 395; "They're all in on
it together," 400; anti-paranoia, 434; SŠure's "ability to prophesy
through contemplating the way people roll reefers," 442; Devil behind
the mirror, 444; "Die Slothrop," 446; "each plot carries its
signature," 464; Thanatz reads whipscars like Gypsy reads palms, 484;
500; 518; "…lfabriken Werke AG is not really a ruin at all," 520;
"what incalculable plot," 521; "on into some other paranoid terror,"
522; 528; critical mass of means of control being connected, 539;
"Rocket-cartel," 566; "Radio-Control-Implanted-In-The-Head-At-Birth,"
542; perfecting "methods of immobility," 572; the fate of
"truthseekers," 582; "simulated randomness," 586; Masonic plots, 587;
"Kute Korrespondences," 590; "Everything is some kind of plot, man."
(Bodine), 603; "novice paranoid," 638; "creative paranoia," 638;
Pensiero reading shivers, 641; Katje as "the allegorical figure of
paranoia," 657; paranoia song, 657; "plexiglass maps of the webs we
maintain across the Zone," 660; "Father-conspiracy," 679; "Paranoid
for the Day," 691; Dark Dream, 697; "Everything is connected," 703;
the man and the white albatross, 712-13; "their pet, or death"
(Byron's dilemma), 713; S & M, 737; (See also They) [Also, Reader's
paranoia in looking for connections in GR]
Pavel
519; assistant to Enzian; husband of Maria who is Christian's sister;
talked into aborting their pregnancy by Ombindi; high on gasoline
fumes, 523-24; in tap-dance routine with Andreas, 657; (See also
Leunagasolin)
Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich (d. 1936)
35; Russian physiologist; "ideas of the opposite"--the brain
distinguishing between pleasure and pain, light from dark, u.s.w.,
48-49; confuse ideas of the opposite by sending subject into
"transmarginal" phases: (1) equivalent phase - all stimuli have same
response; (2) paradoxical phase - weak stimulus=strong response -
vice versa; (3) ultraparadoxical phase - confuse ideas of opposite,
37; "the cortex of the brain as a mosaic of tiny on/off elements,"
55; The Book, 75, 87; "extinction of a conditioned reflex," 84-85;
"believed that the ideal is the true mechanical explanation," 89;
cause of obsessions and paranoid delusions, 49; Janet, 88;
Pointsman's dream, 137-38; ideas of the opposite, 144; "English
Pavlovian jokes," 168; 294; death of, 752; (See also Opposite,
Ideas of the)
PeenemŸnde
224; mouth of Peene River where rockets are launched; taken by
Soviets in Spring '45, 273; island of Greifswalder Oie where rockets
were fired, 404, 414; British air raid in '43 ("beginning of the
end"), 423
Penelope
See Swanlake, Nancy
Pensiero, Pfc. Eddie
640-41; company barber; "connoisseur of shivers"
Perdoo, Floyd
270; SEZ WHO American hired by Pointsman to check out Slothrop's
sexual conquests; (See also SEZ WHO, Speed, Harvey)
Pflaumbaum
159-60; "Jewish wolf" who owned the paint factory where Pškler worked
briefly--tried to create patterned paint; running Glitherius
subsidiary in Berlin, 582
Phoebus
649; international light-bulb cartel headquartered in Switzerland,
run by Int'l GE, Osram and Associated Electrical Industries of
Britain; determines operational lives of bulbs; 745
Pirate
See Prentice, Pirate
PISCES
34; Psychological Intelligence Schemes for Expediting Surrender,
housed in The White Visitation; "devoted to psychological warfare,"
35; (See also White Visitation)
Plasticman
206; comic book character; 314; 331; 752
Plechazunga
567; German 10th Century Pig-Hero who saved "a coastal town near
Wismar" from the Vikings; Slothrop as, 568-69
Pointsman, Dr. Edward W. A. ("Ned")
37; Pavlovian at White Visitation; Slothrop's nemesis; sees Slothrop
as his ticket to a Nobel Prize; chasing dogs [shades of King Kong!],
42; pedophilia, 50-51; "can only possess the zero and the one," 55;
the "Antimexico," 89; fantasizes winning Nobel Prize, 142; begins to
lose it by the sea on Whitsun ("White Sunday"), 273; working out of
Twelfth House in London, 533; "losing his grip," 592; in disgrace,
615; and ICI, 631; confronted by Mexico in Mossmoon's office, 636;
"the pointsman," 644; no Stockholm, 752; "one who never Made His
Move," 752
Poisson Distribution
54; a probability density function reflected in where the bombs hit
London and the locations of Slothrop's (fantasized?) sexual-
encounters, 55, 85-86; and babies born during the blitz, 173
Pškler, Franz
153; young German chemical engineer; father of Ilse; "cause-and-
effect man"; worked in paint factory; put up fliers for Schlepzig's
film, 160; then stumbled on rocket launching and meets Mondaugen,
161; came to Nordhausen in '44 and worked in Mittelwerke in factory
run by SS, 283; conceiving Ilse, 397; in Zwšlfkinder, 398; moved to
PeenemŸnde in '37, 404; sense of drifting away, 405; brooding about
Leni, 405; Victim in a Vacuum, 414; "grim phoenix," 415; imagined sex
with Ilse, 420; unique destiny of, 423; moved to Blizna, 424;
transferred to the Harz, Mittelwerke in '44, 426; dream dialogues
with bulb/Weissmann, 426-27; quits the game, 430; hoping Dora
prisoners (and Ilse) will be set free, 431; "special destiny" to
develop a plastic fairing for the propulsion section of S-GerŠt
00000, 431; puts wedding ring on dying woman at Dora, 433; with
Frieda the pig at Zwšlfkinder and meets Slothrop, 575; 687
Pškler, Ilse
154; daughter of Franz & Leni Pškler; 220; conceived, 397; shows up,
407, 417; Moon-house, 414; in Dora camp ("call them re-education
camps"), 408, 428; last visit to Zwšlfkinder, 428; released?, 432;
mapped on to Bianca, 576-77; she's okay, 610
Pškler, Leni
153-60; married to Franz Pškler; affair with Sachsa; mother of Ilse;
active in KPD (Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands: "German Communist
Party"); "grew up in LŸbeck," 162; Sachsa's "refuge from society,"
219; Nazi sex slave, 408; separated from Ilse, 417; as "Solange" at
Putzi's, 603; dreaming of Ilse, 610
Porkyevitch, Dr.
51; works at ARF; in charge of conditioning Grigori the devilfish;
worked with Pavlov, 75; after octopus attack, 187
Portales, Graciela Imago
383; the "urban idiot of Buenos Aires"; loved by the literati
(including Borges); 613
Potsdam Conference
370; held in Neubabelsberg (old movie capital) near Berlin; powers
got together to divide Germany; like a big party/Hollywood premier,
380
Pox, DeCoverley
9; at Pirate's maisonette; with Slothrop at the Junior Anthenaeum, 21
Prentice, Capt. Geoffrey "Pirate"
dreaming, 3; 5; lives in maisonette in Chelsea; with Special
Operations Executive (SOE), aka the "Firm"; works with Teddy Bloat;
message from Katje by V-2, 11; "getting inside the fantasies of
others," 11-16; "homeopathic doses of peace," 16; feels Mexico is
being used by Them, 35; affair with Scorpia Mossmoon, 35-36, 638;
decodes message from rocket using his semen, 71-72; brought Katje to
White Visitation, 106; 274; 536; at Convention/Garden of double
agents, 537; with Katje at double-agent convention, 545-48; "I can
repeat patterns," 546; How I Came to Love the People, 547; going to
Berlin, 619; can no longer live other's fantasies, 620; visited by
Mexico, 637; 657; and James Jello, 698
Preterite
Calvinist/Puritan doctrine of the Elect (the chosen) and the
Preterite (the passed-over, the damned); second sheep, 3; 110; at
Rathenau seance, 163; preterite dung, 166; Elite and Preterite, we
move through a cosmic design of darkness and light," 495; "they
dissolve now into the swarm. . .of this dancing Preterition," 548;
defining of opposites, 554; Judas, 555; On Preterition, 555; 667;
668; "the glozing neuters of the world," 677 (See also Hand of
Providence/God, Puritans)
Prettyplace, Mitchell
113; "noted film critic"; book about King Kong, 275
Principle of Least Effort
32; Zipf's
Procalowska, Stefania
395; wife of Antoni, 460; 481; 530
Procalowski, Antoni
460; owns the Anubis; in storm, 488; 529-30; "down-out-of-the-sky-in-
a-machine," 672
Psi Section
40; paranormal branch of SOE; 54; 76; 80; 91; 128; "the freaks of,"
146; 276
Pudding, Ernest, Old Brigadier
46; 80-ish WWI vet in charge of the White Visitation; "senile little
surprise," 48; "old delusions-of-grandeur himself," 52; background,
76; Things That Can Happen in European Politics, 77, 275; "Pudding's
Gourd Surprise," 80; doesn't like Pointsman's plans for Slothrop, 83-
84; and Domina Nocturna, 234; ill, 273; dies of "massive E.coli
infection," 533; 631; "is now a member of the Counterforce," 715
Purfle, Avery
594; in First International Runcible Spoon Fight; shipmate of
Bodine's
Puritans
Calvinist insanity, 57; Reflex, 187; Mysteries, 267; "Providence's
little pal," 379; "glozing neuters of the world," 510, 677; "second
Sheep," 555; hopes for the Word, 571; and money, 652; Wm. Slothrop's
hymn, 760; (See: Hand of Providence, Preterite)
Putzi's
527; club on Dorum Road in Cuxhaven where Springer says Slothrop can
pick up his papers; 595; 598; arrival at, 602
PWD
76; Political Warfare Division
PWE
76; Political Warfare Executive; 628
Quartertone, Margaret
146; studied by Psi section; produces voices on discs without
speaking
Qlippoth
176; Shells of the Dead; 590; 661; 746; 748; 750; (See also
Kabbalists)
Qulan, Dzaqyp
340; Georgian Kirghiz who was Tchitcherine's "faithful Kirghiz
companion"; father killed by Russians in 1916; 508
Quoad, Mrs.
115; "Disgusting English Candy Drill"; checked out by Speed & Perdoo,
271
Radnichny
353; impetuous and unstable practical joker in Weird Letter
Assignment
rainbow
the rising sun striking the rocket's exhaust, 6; "his rainbowed
Valkyrie over PeenemŸnde," 151; "the rainbow edges of what is almost
on him," 203; "a rainbow-striped dirndl skirt," 208; "they move
forever under it. . .as if it were the Rainbow," 209; "wild as a
rainbow," 369; "the rainbow edge of the sound," 488; "It's a long
rainbow," 524; "Slothrop sees a very thick rainbow," 626; "rainbow of
sentinel ladies," 637; "beautiful Serpent, its coils in rainbow
lashings," 721; "the great rainbow plumes," 722; "serpent coils that
lash above the surface of the Earth in rainbow light," 726
Raketen-Stadt
296; German: "Rocket-City"; created in the Mittelwerke by Ernst …lsch
(under Speer) "To Avoid Symmetry, Allow Complexity, Introduce
Terror," 297; "plexiglass maps of the webs we maintain across the
Zone," 660; and "the Floundering Four," 674
Rapier, Father
538; Jesuit preaching at double-agent convention/garden
ratchet
"wordless ratcheting cue," 51; "off on a. . .ratchet of rooms," 257;
"a ratcheting noise," 282; "dragging himself up the ratchet's teeth,"
547; "ratcheting like a phone number being dialed," 607; "Bicycle
riders ratcheted by," 611; "The nonstop revue crosses its stage. .
.in an endless ratchet," 681; "CATCH," 759
Rathenau, Walter (d. 1922)
163; late German foreign minister who was assassinated; "prophet and
architect of cartelized state," 164; seance of, 163-65; during WWI
"was ramrodding the whole economy," 284; dealt the Rapallo Treaty
("elaborate piece of theatre" - 352) with Tchitcherine's father, 338;
581; 590
Reed, Maurice ("Saxophone")
9; at Pirate's maisonette
religion
"every true god must be both organizer and destroyer," 99; "There
may be no gods, but there is a pattern," 322; Chance = God, 323, 613;
God's signature, 463; always about death, 701; (See also Puritans,
Christianity, Hand of Providence/God)
Return, Cycle of
"Nature does not know extinction, all it knows is transformation," 1;
"Death is a debt to nature due," 26; "no cycles, no returns," 318; to
the Center (Hereros), 319; 412; serpent eating its tail, 413;
Slothrop's transmutation dream about Greta, 447; Bicycle Rider in the
Sky, 501; trees growing through cracks at PeenemŸnde, 502; Slothrop's
Rider (celestial cyclist), 509; serpentine, 520; "restore us to our
Earth and to our freedom," 525; "To affirm Their mortality is to
affirm Return," 540; 560; Destiny, 576; wheels in the sky, 620;
Cosmic windmill, 624; 627; "prehistoric wastes. . .transmuted to the
very substance of History," 639; windmill, 670; Serpent/Pan, 720-21;
America, 722-23; 726; garbage trucks, 757; (See also Counterforce,
Center, mandala)
Rilke, Rainer Maria (d. 1926)
97-99; German philosopher/poet; "Want the change; O be inspired by
the Flame"; Duino Elegies, 99; "mountainside gentian of Nordic
colors," 101; Tenth Elegy, 341; "Once, only once. . .," 413; 516; "To
the rushing water speak, I am," 622; "poem about the Leid-Stadt"
["Pain-City"], 644; mustache, 711
Ripov, Nikolai
700; of Commissariat for Intelligence Activities; checks up on
Tchitcherine; 703; 719
Rocket
incoming mail, 6; A4, 8; farting buzzbombs, 21; "explode first. .
.then you hear them coming in," 23; "a piece of time neatly snipped
out," 48; "a rocket has suddenly struck," 59; "the sounds of V-1 and
V-2, one the reverse of the other," 144; premonitions in Psi section,
146; "Der Phau ("the peacock"), 223; "terrible passage reduced. . .to
bourgeois terms," 239; Slothrop's discovery of blueprint, 242; and
manhood, 324; "hidden inside the summer Zone, the Rocket is waiting,"
359; 5 launching switch positions, 361; cult of A4 (A: "aggregate"),
391; Pškler's dreams of, 399; leading to freedom of outerspace, 400;
money v. dreams, 400; Pškler as an extension of, 402; as fat Japanese
arrow, 403; growing towards a predestined shape (Schicksal), 416; A5,
416; mapped on to face, 423; A4 test sites moved to Blizna, Poland in
'43 - Sarnaki is Ground Zero, 424; problem rockets--"reluctant
virgins," 426; 10K pounds sterling, 438; "half bullet, half arrow,"
453; charisma of, 464; Rocket Noon, 500; fins=mandala, 563 (illus.
624); 706; "Rocket as Torah," 727; "it comes as the Revealer," 728;
Goebbels' "avenger," 747; origin of countdown, 753; (See also
SchwarzgerŠt)
Rocketman (aka Raketemensch)
366; a comic book character from the '40s; comic-book dialogue, 371;
376; exists in nongeographical space ("Providence's little pal"),
379; war cry: "Hauptstufe" - "leaps broad highways in a single
bound!," 380; "Fickt nicht mit der Raketemensch!," 436; 512; 596
Rorschach Test
81; a "projective" test - given unstructured stimulus, the subject
imposes structure on it
Roseland Ballroom
63; in Boston--where Slothrop drops his harmonica down the toilet in
the men's room while vomiting; 623; 688
Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio (d. 1868)
204; 253, 248, 273; his music: "love without payment of any kind,"
274; 376; 622; 684
Rossokovski
501; left PeenemŸnde with White Russian Army; 504
Routinization/ Rationalization of Charisma
concept developed by Max Weber; FŸhrer-principle, 81; 201; "the
Rocket's terrible passage reduced. . .to bougeois terms," 239; "dusty
Dracularity, the West's ancient curse," 263; 324; 325; N.T.A., 339;
writing down ajtys, 357; 416; A4's charisma, 464; routinization of
sex, 467-68; "verbal, ranked and uniformed," 478; 508; 525; topiary,
535; "grim rationalizing of the world," 588; "vague excitement at
break in routine," 651; keying waves, 698; Hexes-Stadt (you either
become a bureaucrat or choose the world), 718; "the only enterprise
is administrating," 718; [Attempting to impose order on GR]; (See
also control, naming, Rorschach Test)
Rozhdestvenski, Admiral
349-51; commanded a fleet of 42 Russian men-o'-war during Russo-
Japanese War in 1904; Tchitcherine's father, on the Suvorov, was
killed; 452
R—zsavšlgyi, Dr. GŽza
79; Hungarian; works in ARF wing; violently anti-Soviet, 273; at
Twelfth House, 632-35; son of Sandor the bulb salesman in
Transylvania, 647; 692
Sachsa, Peter
31; the "control" in Psi Section; lover of Leni Pškler; medium at
Rathenau seance, 163-65; killed in communist street action in 1930 in
Neukšlln (Berlin) by Schutzmann Jšche, a Nazi cop, 152, 219-20
Sanktwolke, Edouard
385; "veteran automotive jobber" who supplied transportation for von
Gšll's and Waxwing's "travelling business conference"
Schadenfreude
526; German: "joy at another's misfortune"; 745
Scheveningen
97; coastal town in Holland, just north of The Hague; 102; 104; 105;
535
Schicksal
416; German: "fate, destiny"
Schlabone, Gustav
366; composer buddy (and "unwelcome doping partner," 711) of SŠure
Bummer; 621; 2nd violin at Krupp affair (aka "Captain Horror"), 711;
at Der Platz, 745
Schlepzig, Max
Franz Pškler putting up handbills for a movie starring, 165; name on
Slothrop's pass to get into Potsdam Conference, 377; actor in von
Gšll films who whipped Erdmann ("the Reich's Sweethearts"), 395; 439
Schnorp
332-36; Geli's friend who gives Slothrop balloon ride to Berlin
Schu§stelle 3
95; German: "firing site"; in Holland on the North Sea coast, near
The Hague; moved, 104; the allies were after it, 105; "why did
[Katje] leave?" 107; (See also LŸneburg Heath)
SchwarzgerŠt
252; aka S-GerŠt 00000; 292; for sale for .5M francs by guy in
SwinemŸnde who waits on Strand-Promenade until noon daily; details,
517; 563; 611; firing on LŸneburg Heath, 667; 706; "00001, the second
in its series," 724; "the assembly of the 00001 is occurring also in
a geographical way, a Diaspora running backwards," 737; as womb, 750;
(See also Rocket)
Schwarzkommando
74-75; German: "blackcommand"; black rocket troops; 112; found out
about a week before V.E. Day 276; Slothrop runs into two dozen on
train to Nordhausen, 286;Hitler's failed plan to create Nazi empire
in black Africa, training troops in SŸdwest, 287; "They have a plan.
. .I think it's rockets," 288; "we're DPs like everybody else," 288;
Herero rocket troops assembling a rocket for one last stand, 326; "it
is their time, their space," 326; their mandala is the five positions
of the launching switch for A4, 361; digging up A4 in Berlin, 361;
"mba-kayere" (I am passed over), 362; why they seek the Rocket, 362,
563; growing away from SS and their power becoming information and
expertise, 427; in their own space, 519; mandala (KEZVH), 560;
Herero village arranged like a mandala, 563; must be stopped before
they fire the Rocket, 565; "they have their rocket all assembled at
last," 673; the trek to the firing site of the 00001, 726; 12
children at a "children's resort" (Zwšlfkinder means "12 children" in
German--GET IT?), 725
Schweitar, Mario
260, 268; troubleshooter around the Cartel; worked for Sandoz
science/physics/math
"bell-curves of farewell," 51; Poisson Distribution, 54-55; Monte
Carlo Fallacy, 56; power series, 94, 590; Murphy's Law, 275, 471;
Gšdel's Theorem, 275, 320, 654-55; dopplering, 310; Heisenberg
Uncertainty Principle, 348; cloud chamber, 385; singularities, big
bang, Russian mathematician Friedmann, 396; graphs, 399-400; benzene,
412; aromatic Ring, 413; Gauss curve, 508, 521; collapse of wave
function (branching), 524; image of chaos/molecules, 549; covalent v.
ionic bonding, 577; C--H, Si--N, 580; Chebychev's Theorem, 638;
Fourier analysis, 641; Æt, 159, 664; Cypridinae (glows multishaded
blue in the dark), 691; Otyiyumbu Indeterminacy Relation, 700; "he's
only real at the points of decision" (collapse of wave function),
702; extreme sensitivity to initial conditions, 729; (See also Æ-t,
Poisson Distribution)
Scuffling, Ian
See Slothrop, Tyrone
seance
29-30; 4-way entente: medium; control; spirit; survivor; Feldspath,
30; Overbaby, 152; Rathenau, 163-67; "other fourfold expressions,"
624; "sensitive flames," 715; Brigadier Pudding, 715
self-reference
Rorschach Test, 81; "We are never told why," 107; "Parallel, not
series. . .mapping on to different coordinate systems," 159; "Nobody
ever said a day has to be juggled into any kind of sense at day's
end," 204; Pynchon (?), 207; GR Kultists (?), 275; "edit, switch
names, insert," 302; swirling fog of details, 326; Mickey Rooney will
repress his ever having seen Slothrop, 382; GET IT?, 413; little
girls, 463; Text picked to pieces, 520; "the real Text persisted,"
520; "artful ambiguities," 535; "yesyes" taunting, 582; "check out
Ishmael Reed," 587; Kute Korrespondences, 590; Mexico imagines
meeting Jessica again in another novel (?), 627; "There is no need to
bring in blood or violence here," 655; foreshadowing of Pynchon's
Slow Learner introduction regarding himself, 660; "You will want
cause and effect," 663; testing the reader, 676; "this diffuse,
though rewarding, work," 680; taunting the reader, 695; "nothing so
loathsome as a sentimental surrealist," 696; "its text. . .always
unfolding," 727; "heh, heh, in his chroniclers too," 738; Spokesman
for Counterforce, 738; "There ought to be a punchline," 738; "Do you
want to put this part in?" 739; "I wanna go back north, to Humboldt
County," 740; "your correspondent," 755; "(haven't we?)," 760
Semyavin
258; local Waxwing rep in ZŸrich?; 261
SEZ WHO
270; Slothropian Episodic Zone, Weekly Historical Observations
shadows
316; God-shadows, 330; 332; 333; 336; 342; 359; 363; 397; 405;
darkness at the edges of things, 446; 458; 482; 500; 510; 524; 536;
539; 543; 561; Pointsman's corner, 633; Slothrop as "shadow-child,"
677; stars as shadows of the creator's bones and ducts, 699; "sound-
shadow" (when the roaring of the sun stops), 695, 711; 740; 749; 760
SHAEF
17; Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force
Shatsk
352; nose-fetishist in Weird Letter Assignments
Shirley
599; pretty girl driving Red Cross Clubmobile which is hijacked
Siemens-Schuchert
284; horizonal electrical trust put together by Stinnes; 565; 587;
646; 647; 725; (See also Stinnes)
Siemens, Wernher (d. 1892)
649; German electrical engineer; one of the discoverers of the self-
acting dynamo
Sigmund
457; with Greta Erdmann, 474-78; 480
Silvernail, Webley
79; works in ARF wing at White Visitation; audiovisual guy; shows
Katje film to Grigori, 113; in rat production number, 229; named
"Twelfth House," 274; 533; 620
Slothrop, Broderick
285; Tyrone's father; aka "Schwarzvater" (Jamf), 286; Tyrone's dream
about, 392; sold experimental rights to Tyrone to Jamf for $5000 for
Harvard education, 444; hated FDR, 373; Paternal Peril, 674; 677; 682
Slothrop, Constant (d. 1766)
26; ancestor of Tyrone; tombstone depicts Hand of God coming out of a
cloud
Slothrop, Mrs. Elizabeth
27; wife of Isaiah
Slothrop, Frederick (d. 1933)
27; Tyrone's grandfather
Slothrop, Hogan
29; 682; Tyrone's brother; his Hawaiian shirt, 184, 201
Slothrop, Lt. Isaiah (d. 1812)
27; ancestor of Tyrone
Slothrop, Nalline
18; Tyrone's mother; 116; 360; 499; 674; letter to Joe Kennedy, 682;
712
Slothrop, Lt. Tyrone
18; looked at rocket-bomb disasters for ACHTUNG, 19; reassigned to
PWE, 21; "how he got into investigating V-bomb incidents," 24; "a
rocket with his name written on it," 25; aka "Schwartzknabe" (per
Jamf), 286; aka "Ian Scuffling" (per Waxwing), 256; rockets and
hardons, 26; genealogy, 26; discussed, 48-49; toilet adventure of
'38-'39, 64, 623, 688; "different people thought they had discovered
different things," 85; getting paranoid, 114; in Katje's hotel room,
194-98; clothes stolen, 199-200; connection with Katje, 209; The
Penis He Thought Was His Own, 216; discovers German blueprint of A4,
242; Zootsuit Zanies, 251; escape to Nice, 253; goes to ZŸrich, 257;
goes to Geneva, 266; ancestors in Berkshire, 268; gets Jamf Sandoz
dossier, 268; arrives at Nordhausen, 281; "the Zone envelopes him,"
281; "I've been sold to IG Farben like a side of beef," 286; meets
Geli Tripping, 290; "what is this place doing to his brain?"--333; in
Berlin, 359; aka Rocketman (Raketemensch), 359; meets Greta, 364;
clue to his existence ("it'll be months" from the Potsdam Conf.),
381; nabbed by Tchitcherine, 383; Blackwords, 391; back in Berlin,
433; hasn't been thinking about S-GerŠt-Jamf-Imipolex G for awhile -
summer '45, 434; "Die, Slothrop," 446; transmutation dream, 446;
boards Anubis, 460; vulnerability to "pretty little girls," 465; his
drink: Irish whiskey & water, 463; dreaming of Llandudno, 468; with
Bianca, 469; "inside his own cock," 470; further dissipation of, 490;
overboard, 491; arrives in SwinemŸnde, 493; arrives at PeenemŸnde,
501; dissipation, 507, 509, 510; "better days are coming," 510;
SwinemŸnde, 526; gets hashish from Anubis, 529-32; remembers, 530;
dropped off at Stralsund, 532; 549; "is he drifting?," 556;
dissipating, 561; jumped by Schwarzkommando, 562; Plechazunga ("Pig-
Hero"), 567; meets Pškler, 575; being used by Tchitcherine, 612;
discussed by Mossmoon & Scammony, 615; "out of it" [quitting the
game??], 622; "'Jamf' and 'I' dream," 286, 623; "complete
connectedness," 623; "feeling natural," 626; "Leftenant," 607, 627;
"another rocket-creature," 629; surveillance of (Sparte
["department"] IV), 630-31; harmonica playing heard, 642; 658;
adventures of the Floundering Four, 674; wishy-washy, sniveling, 679;
has to find Squalidozzi, 681; the dissipation of, 682; bomb in
transvestite toilet, 690; reading about Hiroshima, 694; "Scattered
all over the Zone," 712; "his time's assembly," 738; "Slothrop qua
Slothrop," 738; "being one of the few who can still see Slothrop as
any sort of integral creature at all," 740; appearance on cover of LP
by "The Fool," 742; Uncle Tyrone, 744
Slothrop, Variable
27; son of Constant
Slothrop, William
21; Tyrone's first American ancestor; 27; 364; came to US in 1630 on
Arabella, 554; On Preterition - published in England, burned in
Boston, 555; returned to England and died there missing USA, 556;
his hymn, 760
Smaragd, Generaldirektor
164-66; (German: "Emerald"); Nazi with IG Farben; at The Castle
("elderly man who used a cane"); from Leverkusen; notorious
spiritualist before the War, 486
Snake
342-43; Tchitcherine's horse (methodically homicidal; unpredictable);
Gretel's (Greta Erdmann's) co-star in Weisse Sandwuste von Neumexiko,
482
Snipe and Shaft
19; Slothrop's and Tantivy's watering hole; 21
snowdrops
247; Slang for GI military police in WWII; 601
Snoxall's
32; place where seances are held; 33; 37; 238
Sodium Amytal
61; truth serum; used on Slothrop; induces "toilet"/Kenosha Kid
episode; used on von Gšll, 511-14; 746
Solange
603; "masseuse" at Putzi's (See Pškler, Leni)
S.O.E.
5; Special Operations Executive; aka the "Firm," 12; "no one has ever
left the Firm alive," 543; 620
songs/compositions
"Osbie's Banana Song," 8; "Colder Than the Nipple..." 11; "Fella
That's Havin' Other People's Fantasies," 12; "The Changing of the
Guard," 13; "Novi Pazar," 14-15; "Johnny Doughboy Found a Rose in
Ireland," 18; "Silent Night," 19; "Dancing in the Dark," 36; "Frank
Bridge Variations", 59; "Snap--to, Slothrop!" 61-62; "Let's Swing!
62; "Cherokee," 63-64; "Red River Valley," 68; "Would You Rather Be a
Colonel with an Eagle on Your Shoulder, or a Private with a Chicken
on Your Knee?" 80; Erwartung ("expectation"), 101; "Middle Dutch
Tune," 108; "There, I Said It Again," 121; "My Darlin' Lola," 128;
"15th Century German macronic," 129; "Giovinezza," 132; Rigoletto,
132; La Boh me, 132; "Siboney," 169; "Diadem," 169; "Aberystwyth,"
171; "Peppermint Face in the Sky," 174; "Hark, the Herald Angels
Sing," 177; "The Englishman's Very Shy (Fox-Trot)," 182-83; "The
Ballad of Tantivy Mucker-Maffick," 191-92; "You Can Do a Lot of
Things at the Seaside That You Can't Do in Town," 192; "Too Soon to
Know (Fox-Trot)," 195-96; "The World Over There," 203; The Barber of
Seville, 204; L'Inutil Precauzione, 204; Rossini tarantella, 204;
"Vulgar Song," 213; "Lady of Spain," 214; "The Penis He Thought Was
His Own," 216-17, 302; "School Days," 222; "Come, Josephine, in My
Flying Machine," 222; "There'll Be a HOT TIME in the Old Town
Tonight!" 223; "Pavlovia (Beguine)," 229-30; "Pudding's Song," 231;
Orff tune, 237; "Mister Debonair," 244; "Julia (Fox-Trot)," 245;
"Loonies on Leave!" 259; William Tell Overture, 262; La Gazza Ladra,
273, 440; "Displaced Person's Song," 283; "Rocket, Sock-it Town,"
289; Geli's balalaika tune, 289-90; "Mittelwerke Express," 310; "Go-
round Number Three," 314; "Sold on Suicide," 320; "symphony of the
North," 327; Madame Butterfly, 351; Kirghiz singing duel, 356-57;
"The Aqyn's Song," 357-59; Der Meistersinger, 361; "The Doper's
Dream," 368; "Jubilee Jim," 378; "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree,"
382; "Victim in a Vacuum!" 414; "Gaudeamus igitur" [Latin:
"therefore, let us rejoice"] 432; "A little something from Morocco,"
438; Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, 440; Tancredi, 441; "God Bless
America," 443; "This Is the Army, Mister Jones," 443; "Buffalo
Bayou," 449-50; "Welcome Aboard!" 462; "Sea Chanty," 497; Tristan und
Isolde, 505; Wozzeck, 465; "On the Good Ship Lollipop," 466; "Animal
Crackers in My Soup," 466; "Chattanooga Choo Choo," 468; The Merry
Widow, 477; Secrets of Suzanne, 477; "Bright Days (for the Black
Market) (Fox-Trot)," 495, 585; "Desoxyephedrine Daddy," 522; "Running
Between the Raindrops," 529; "Doper's Greed," 534; "She Wants to Lose
Her Gravity," 538; "Kilkenny to Kew," 541; "Dancing the Bad Dream
Away," 548; "San Antonio Rose," 559; "Needle in a Haystack," 561-62;
Laterne, Laterne, Sonne, Mond und Stern [Lantern, Lantern, Sun, Moon
and Star], 567; "A Pig is a Jolly Companion," 575; "Mouth-tripping
Time!" 593; La Forza del Destino, 595; "The Eagle of Tooting," 619-
20; "In the Shadows Let Me Come and Sing to You," 622; "The
Superhighways of July (Jessica's Tune)," 627; "Puke-a-hook-a-look-i
Island," 635, 692; "It Isn't a Resistance, It's a War," 640; "Byron-
the-Bulb's Song," 648; "Paranoia," 657; "Glozing Neuters' Song," 677;
"I'm a Degenerate," 668; "Just a Loser," 671; "Right in the FŸhrer's
Face," 678; "My Prelude to a Kiss," 685; "Tenement Symphony," 685;
"My Doper's Cadenza," 685-86; "Button Up Your Overcoat," 691; "White
Man Welcome," 692; PathŽtique, 702; Haydn's "Kazoo" Quartet in G-Flat
Minor, Op. 76, 711; "You Should See Me Dance the Polka," 712; "Roger
Mexico's Song," 740; William Slothrop's hymn, 760
Spectro, Dr. Kevin
46; "neurologist and casual Pavlovian" at St. Veronica's; "One of
the original seven owners of The Book," 47; killed in rocket hit on
St. Veronica's, 138
Speed, Harvey
270; SEZ WHO Englishman hired by Pointsman to check out Slothrop's
sexual conquests; (See also Perdoo, Floyd)
Speer, Albert (d. 1981)
Architect for theThird Reich; "Albert Speer Touch," 298; …lsch
designing Nordhausen factory, 411; and Toiletship, 448; "alabaster
open-air stadium with giant cement birds," 687
SPOG
272; Special Projectiles Operations Group of which Operation Backfire
is a part; 595; 601
Spontoon, Doctor
591; with Dr. Muffage, out to castrate Slothrop; has a black spade on
his cheek
Spšrri
455; aerodynamics person on S-GerŠt project; 684
Spree-Oder Canal
433; in the Russian sector of Berlin, where Slothrop & Margherita
stay; 457
Springer, Der
376; German: "chess knight"; aka von Gšll; the "Knight who leaps
perpetually across the chessboard of the Zone"; white plastic chess
knight (his symbol), 436; "white knight of the black market," 492;
described, 494; aka Herr GemŸtlich ("good-natured"), 496; on Sodium
Amytal, 512, 514, 746; (See also Gšll, Gerhardt von)
Sprue, Amy
329-30; Tyrone's ancestor who was a "genuine Salem Witch"
Squalidozzi, Francisco
263; Argentine exile, paranoid about Peronists; hijacked German U-
Boat in Mar de Plata; his group (incl. Graciela Portales) seeking
political exile in Germany after the War; want open spaces--no
fences; meets von Gšll in abandoned harmonica factory, 384; ploughman
of the deep, 447; 613; 681
ss
3-sigma, 40, 523, 635, 709; "S'd against the S of himself," 198; "Old
Norse rune for S," 206; ssšrrender, 230; "sibilant weave," 152;
tunnels, 299; double-integral sign, 300; "shape of lovers curled
asleep," 302; S-curve, 380; double-summing, 411; Scatterbrained
Suicidekicks, 691; Sound Shadow, 695; Sentimental Surrealist, 696;
(See also chess, Rossini)
St. Blaise, Group Capt. "Basher"
146; sees angel of death during RAF LŸbeck strike, 151
St. Veronica
46; of the True Image for Colonic and Respiratory Diseases;
St. Veronica wiped Christ's forehead with her veil while he carried
the cross
St.-Just Grossout
540; blackman worked for Firm infiltrating Schwarzkommando (aka "Sam
Juiced")
Stick, Joaquin
9; at Pirate's maisonette
Stinnes, Hugo
284-86; Wunderkind of European finance; codename "Schwindel" by Jamf;
worked with Rathenau in German during WWI; blamed for the Inflation;
579
Stuggles, Constable
73; tried to stop LeFroyd from jumping off cliff; 74
Sundial
472; cartoon character
Swanlake, Jessica
30; "young rosy girl in the uniform of an ATS private" who has
wartime affair with Roger Mexico; at Snoxall's seance, 30-34; meets
Mexico, 38-39; Fay Wray look, 57; girlfriend of Jeremy "Old Beaver",
121; 627; working for Pointsman, 631; 640; hardened toward Mexico,
708-09
Swanlake, Nancy
174-77; Jessica's sister; late husband was Keith; kids: Penelope
(also p.277), Claire, Elizabeth
Takeshi
See Komical Kamikazes
Tamara
247; at de la Perlimpinpin party; 261
TannhŠuserism
299; love of being taken under mountains; (See also Lisaura)
Tantivy
See Mucker-Maffick, Oliver "Tantivy"
Tarot
Judgment, 152; The Fool, 501; 724; 742; 746-49
Tchitcherine, Vaslav
290; Soviet intelligence officer; half-brother of Enzian; "mad
scavenger" who officially reports to the TsAGE (Central Aero &
Hydrodynamics Institute in Moscow) (1935-36); has need to annihilate
the Schwarzkommando and "his mythical half-brother Enzian"; comes
from Nihilist stock, 337; stationed in Central Asia in "early Stalin
days," 338; "a raving snowman over the winter marshes" "a giant
supermolecule. . .so many open bonds available," 345; story of his
father, 350-52; 499; Kirghiz Light, 508, 510; "fear would always keep
him from going all the way in," 566; illumination of, 611; 700;
initiation into "bodyhood of steel," 702; "her graying steel
barbarian," 718; "the Red Doper," 719; meets Enzian, 734; stays with
Geli, 735; (See also Kirghiz Light)
TDY
54; temporary duty
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre (d. 1955)
539; Jesuit paleontologist and mystical philosopher
Telangiecstasis, Spyros ("Spider")
389; Radarman 2nd Class on Badass
Thanatz, Miklos
461; [Greek god Thanatos (Death)]; husband of Greta Erdmann; aka
Karel; with Blicero, 464; reading whip scars, 484, 641; "he may have
seen the actual firing," 562; with Pole who wants lightening to hit
him, 663; 663-73; at homosexual community ("175-Stadt"), 666-67; at
Sachsa's seances, 668; kidnapped by anti-Lublinites, 669; sex with
Bianca, 670; taken by Schwarzkommando, 671; "he lost Gottfried," 671;
"the angel [the Erdschweinhšhlers] have hoped for," 672; 736; "is
[Sado-anarchism's] leading theoretician in the Zone these days," 737
theatre
"it's all theatre," 3; "you're in the wrong theatre of operations,"
201; "every occupation town in the Theatre," 247; "tears which are
not all theatre," 302; "Perhaps it's theater," 326; "elaborate piece
of theatre," 352; street-theatre, 399; "Mediterranean theatre," 438;
"this War. . .was all theatre," 521; "all become theatre," 722;
"above the roof of this old theatre," 760
They
25; "They" conversation (Major-General), 33; "(They?)," 72; "the War
needs to divide. . .does not want a folk-consciousness," 130; "death-
by-government," 176; 177; 195; "two orders of being," 202; "Mothers
work for Them!" 219; "They extinguish. . .not remind," 438; no
physical locale, 251; "innocence and its many uses," 419; keeping
Earth "for the numb and joyless hardons of. . .human elite," 521;
"They need our terror for Their survival," 539; "necktie or cock,"
637; "Creative paranoia means developing at least as thorough a We-
system as a They-system," 638; "They will come and shut off the water
first," 694; 697; "Their mission in this world is Bad Shit," 712; "It
is our mission to promote death. . .holding down the green uprising."
720; "submission and dominance are resources it needs for its very
survival," 737; (See also paranoia)
Theil, Dr.
423; killed in British air-raid on PeenemŸnde; 427
Throsp, Corydon
5; erected maisonette where Pirate and Bloat live; cultivated
pharmaceutical plants on the roof
Throwster, Aaron
82; colleague of Pointsman's; "ARF's resident neurosurgeon," 113;
146; 227
Thuringia
640; region of East Germany near the Czech border where the Harz is
located; Thuringian, 240; sands, 306
T.I.
20; Technical Intelligence wing of English army
time
"Grid Time," 133; all at once,165; secular, 169; "the clock
ratcheting time minutewise into their past," 193; war reconfiguring,
257; "time-modulation peculiar to Oneirine," 389; future/past, 400;
"no serial time over there; events all there in the same eternal
moment," 624; "the oneway flow of European time," 724; Aether flows
through time, 726; 752; (See also history)
Toiletship
448; aka RŸcksichtslos; SwinemŸnde to Helgoland, 450
Tracy, Alfonso
582-83; owned the defective pinball machines; Great Pinball
Difficulty, 581
Treacle, Edwin
85; 92; "most Freudian of psychic researchers" in Psi Section of
White Visitation; 146; recent dreams of flight, 146; 153; "I'll show
you a giant ape," 276
Trefoil, Gavin
33; can change the melanin content of his skin and change color;
124;147; 276
tripos
31; a final honors exam at Cambridge university, originally in
mathematics
Tripping, Geli (pronounced: "Gaily")
290; lover of Tchitcherine; lives in Nordhausen; lover of Slothrop;
"pretty young witch straddling an A4," 293; 494; thinks she's a
witch, 500; witch ritual, 717; "the World-choosing sort," 718; with
Tchitcherine, 733-35
Trotha, Gen. Lothar von
362; German who led wholesale slaughter of Hereros in SŸdwest;
exhibit at Zwšlfkinder, 422; 563
Trudi
365; SŠure's sidekick; her boyfriend is Gustav, 366; 684-85; Bodine
spending more time with, 741
Twelfth House
274; new PISCES branch office on Gallaho Mews in London; so named by
Webley Silvernail because Pisces is the 12th House in the Zodiac;
Pointsman transferred there, 533
typographical errors
"at here at" should be "as here at," 32; "Isle" should be "Ilse,"
414; "airpseed" should be "airspeed," 454; "elctro-decor" should be
"electro-decor," 518; "is is" should be "it is," 715; "then" should
be "than," 732
U-boat
383; submarine; hijacked by Argentinians who are exiled and want to
set up a boundaryless state in Germany after the war (central gov't
v. gaucho anarchism)
Ufa-theatre
98; movie theatre on Friedrichstrasse in Berlin; 397; Morituri, 474;
Ufa film, 753
Ur-Heimat
486; "original homeland"
Ur-Markt
336; "ancient market"
Urstoff
465; "primitive material"
Ursula
553; lemming which is the pet of Ludwig; 729
u.s.w.
298; und so weiter (German: "and so on")
Utgarthaloki, Stefan & Frau
709; ex-member of management at the Krupp works in Cuxhaven -- own
house where Krupp party was held
V.E. Day
9; Victory in Europe (May 8, 1945); 269; 276; 288; 628
vacuum
"fraternity-boy reflex in a vacuum," 22; "if they can see through to
your vacuum," 50; "run not by any lust. . .but by vacuum," 149;
Nora's void, 150; "the stone-blue lights of the Vacuum," 239; "a
stark circle of," 342; "vacuuming by above," 380; "Victim in a
Vacuum," 414-15; "all his vacuums," 432; void, 578; "Is this how the
Vacuum feels? 659; "the great Vacuum in the sky," 697; "What if there
is no Vacuum? 697
Van der Groov, Franz
108; ancestor of Katje; went to Mauritius and, with other Dutch
settlers, wiped out Dodoes -considered them satanic because of their
ugliness; 545; still haunting Pirate, 620; cosmic windmill, 624
Villard, Dumpster
65; buddy of Slothrop's who appears in "toilet adventure," 65; in
Slothrop's dream, 255
War
the real business of, 105; lives for information, 105; what it really
wants, 130-34; the guy who is WWII, 131; as world revolution, 165;
what war really is, 177; reconfigures time & space, 257; "opened up
things", 265: recklessness is "magnificent, but it's not war," 345;
349; 379; gradients of damage (poorest sectors first), 423; "the
Real Text," 520; "all theatre," 521; "sides?," 520; 628; "the real
War is always there," 645; (See also V.E. Day)
Waxwing, Blodgett
246; specialist in phonying documents; his calling card has a cheSS
knight and his address is on the Rue RoSSini in ZŸrich; escapee from
the stockade Caserne Martier in Paris; meets Slothrop at Raoul's
party, wearing a zoot suit; Zootsuit Zanies, 251; provides Slothrop
the identity "Ian Scuffling, English War Correspondent" when he goes
to ZŸrich, 256; 620
Wayne, Corporal
11; drives Pirate to bomb hit
weapons
Mark III Stens, 20, 107; Schwarzlose, 106; Mendoza, 107, 637; Mexican
Mauser, 107; haakbus, 108; snaphaan, 111; Nagant, 293, 514; Amatol
charges, 312; .45 automatic, 312; tommygun, 369; Suomi submachine
gun, 377, 513; Degtyarov, 377, 511; US Army .45, 495, 558; Luger,
505, 530, 576; Molotov cocktail, 511; carbines, 518; Schmeisser, 527;
Colt, 560; Mauser, 693; Hotchkiss, 697-98; (See also Cosmic Bomb,
Rocket, SchwarzgerŠt)
Weber, Max (d. 1920)
325; German sociologist and economist; 464; (See also
Routinization/Rationalization of Charisma)
Weissmann, Captain/Major/Lieutent [sic]
German: "white man"; aka Blicero, aka Dominus Blicero, aka Capt.
Blicero; Dominus Blicero, 30; with Katje and Gottfried, 94-99, 101-
04; finding Enzian, 99-101; "mirror-metaphysics," 101; "recently back
from South-West Africa," 152; "took [Dominus Blicero] as his SS code
name," 322; "part salesman, part scientist," 401; "balding,
scholarly," 404; "brought [Ilse] from Stettin. . .played chess," 408;
"Lieutent," 417; "gray eminence," 401; estrangement from Enzian, 427;
"his final madness," 485; creating his own space, moving "in mythical
regions," 486; writing about Katje, 642; "last letters from Holland,"
658; writing from The Hague about Katje," 662; "the Zone's worst
specter," 666; eye reflecting windmill, 670; 672; 721; deciding to
sacrifice Gottfried, 724; his Tarot, 746-49; 757; (See also LŸneburg
Heath)
Whappo
69; "Norwegian mulatto lad" in Toilet Adventure and Crutchfield's
"little pard"; 114
White Visitation
34; former mental hospital located in the Abbey in the fictional town
of Ick Regis on the coast of southern England; now part of SOE;
location of PISCES; D-Wing still has "loonies"; "devoted to
psychological warfare," 35; "they're all wild talents--clairvoyants
and mad magicians," 40; 72; 533; 627
Wimpe, V-Mann
152; [V: Verbindungsmann - "contact man"]; IG-man present at seance;
the V-mann, 166; association with Tchitcherine, 344; an organic
chemist/creator of psychotropic drugs (the "jinni of the West"), 345;
turns Greta on to Oneirine, 464; 566; was boyfriend of Minnie (who
yelled "helicopter!"), 684; Tchitcherine's memory of, 701
windmill
"the old Windmill," 39; "the windmill known as 'The Angel'," 106,
536; "exegeses of windmills," 620; "Van der Groov's cosmic windmill,"
624; "a muddy brown almost black eyeball reflecting a windmill," 670;
"windmill silhouettes," 672
Wivern, Gen.
210; SHAEF, 237; 242; 592; 594
Wrens
23; Women's Royal Naval Service - British civilian support group of
war effort
writing
description of St. Veronica's, 46; "swimming up from sleep," 119; "an
informer whose guilt will one day sicken into throat cancer," 150;
"not produce. . .systems," 159; "assassination," 164; bugs in the
manger, 173-74; Westward expansion: penetrate and foul virgin
sunsets, 214; "no difference between behavior of a god and the
operations of pure chance," 323; Rocket, 324; "what heads and tails
went jingling inside the dark pockets of that indeterminacy?"--344;
Will of God Theory, 362; "smiles breaking like kind dawns," 378;
"This is how they meet" (p.365) until they finally meet at p.393;
Trudi up Slothrop's nose, 439; "How I Came to Love the People," 547;
dead fly, 632; tropical hallucination, 634-35; bad writing, 733
Wuxtry-Wuxtry, Mickey
738; "world-renowned analyst" -- "There never was a Dr. Jamf"
Yellow James
295; operates sandwich wagon at Mittelwerk during US occupation
Zero, the
"try to bring events to Absolute Zero," 3; "a silent extinction
beyond the zero, 85; in connection with Slothrop's deconditioning,
85; between waking & sleeping, 119; Ideology of, 218; 223; Final
Zero, 319-20; 340; 345; Enzian closest to, 404; "signal zero," 404;
406; 421; Ground Zero, 424; 451; zeroing in, 521; 714
Zhdaev, Major
502; captures Springer at PeenemŸnde; 511-14
Zhlubb, Richard M.
755; aka the "Adenoid"; night manager of Orpheus Theatre on Melrose
Blvd. in LA
Zone
281; occupied Germany after VE Day; no frontiers--no subdivisions,
293; interregnum - flow with it, 293; "No zones but the Zone," 333;
359; and Destiny, 362; guilt becoming a commodity, 453; "endless
simulation" in, 489; "British G-5 occupy their own space and Zone,"
519; A Cheapskate's Guide to the Zone, 559; "one more overlay on,"
620; 729
Zwitter
313; guidance expert; colleague of Glimpf
Zwšlfkinder
398; German: "twelve children"; kids' park in Nikolaikirche in No.
Germany in Stettin; near Wismar & LŸbeck (280 km from PeenemŸnde);
first visit of Franz & Ilse in '39, met every August for 6 years;
419-22; last visit, 428-30; Slothrop passes by, 575; (See also
Pškler, Franz)
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