Gravity's Rainbow Concordance 2.0.6

[JOHN M. KRAFFT]

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From: timware at crl.com (Tim Ware)
Subject:Gravity's Rainbow Concordance 2.0.6
Date: 22 Dec 1994 21:03:46 -0800
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Here's a slight update with a list of Slothrop's girls/stars, and some 
other odds and ends for additions.

******

Tim Ware's
Deeply Subjective & Continually Expanding

CONCORDANCE

to

GRAVITY'S RAINBOW

by

THOMAS PYNCHON

Version 2.0.6


	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!  Godel'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: "timware at crl.com"	


abreaction
48; the releasing of repressed emotions (as through psychoanalysis)
caused by trauma, e.g. bomb blasts; Abreaction of the Lord of the
Night, 139(See also ARF)

Achtfaden, Horst
451; "aerodynamics man" on Toiletship; aka "Wenk" (code name on S-
Gerat project - after State Prosecutor von Wenk in Der Mude Tod -
579); also worked at Electromechanishe Werke, Karlshagen (testing
station at Peenemunde 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 Casares, 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; "lies evidentially, but w're
certainly the truth clinically," 272; 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; Otyiyumbu Indeterminacy Relation, 700

America
"usual loud-mouthed American ass-banditry," 22; "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; "Pretty snazzy. . . .An Americanism."
195; "deciduous Americanism," 211; "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;
"the American Founding Fathers were masons," 587; Slothrop's thoughts
on returning to America, 623; "voices so hard and tough, so nasally
like the voices of an American chorus line," 635; 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; "The Americans say, 'There are no atheists in
foxholes." 704; "America was a gift from the invisible powers, a way
of returning," 722; "American Death has now come to occupy Europe,"
722; "yellow American deserts," 724; "These early Americans. . .were
a fascinating combination of crude poet and psychic cripple," 738

Andreas
See Orukambe, Andreas

angels
angel's-eye view, 54; snow angels, 57; "Destroying Angel," 93; "her
questing shoulders like wings," 97; "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 Lubeck 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 Sudwest," 328; "star-blotting Moslem angels," 341; "Angels and
sanctions," 355; "like the Archangels," 464; "the angel [the
Erdschweinhohlers] have hoped for," 672; "Angel Thanatz," 673;
"functions of Moslem angels," 705; "Angels Melchidael, Yahoel,
Anatiel, and the great Metatron," 734; "some angel. . .watching us at
our many perversities," 746; "under a sentence of death whose deep
beauty the angel has never been close to," 746; "angels at the
doorways," 750; "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 Swinemunde; 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; "born under the Crab," 154; "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; "It is shaped something like a crab.  That's
Cancer in Latin." 645; "the green edge of Aries," 681; "an astrologer
of the Hamburg School," 683; "The sun was in Leo," 694; "a double
Virgo for a son," 699; "early Virgo," 712, 727; "with a new axis. .
.what happens to astrology?" 753

ATS
17; Auxiliary Territorial Services, British civilian group helping
the war cause

Babington-Smith, Constance
726

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

Belaustegui
383; U-boat's positivist engineer; 613

Bianca
393; daughter of Greta Erdmann & Miklos Thanatz; "I think Bianca is
[Schlepzig's] child." 395; 457;  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; 672

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; 306; 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

Bland, Lyle Jr.
652; Lyle's son

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; discussed,
192-93

Blobadjian, Igor
353; party representative in the G Committee (WLA)

Bloth, Mindy
735-36; guide on elevator; "of Carbon City, Illinois"

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; "the operative," 72;
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; "Wired into the Slothropian Run-together they briefed her on."
196; futureless look, 208, 209; roulette wheel metaphor, 209; "A
rain-witch." 221; Other Order of Being, 222; disappears, 226; "on her
wheel," 257; "under the Wheel of Fortune," 277; 281-83; "a red tulip
between Slothrop's toes.  A reminder of Katje," 281; 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; "Shouldn't I be going all the
way in?" 662; "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; "the Prussian aristocrat," 402; "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; "one of the great
secret ikons of the Humility," 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, 299, 653; "an electrical
tidal wave," 665; bulbshine, 697; (See also Byron the Bulb)

Bummer, Emil ("Saure" [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

Calkins, Minnie
665; Mason who married screen-door salesman

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; Pokler "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; Karmic
Hammer, 644; Karmic wheel, 651; "he'll be left only with Cause and
Effect," 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) 

Charles
19; "the homosexual constable"

Cherrycoke, Ronald
125; psychometrist in Psi Section; 146; "undertakes. . .trips into
Nora Dodson-Truck's void, " 150; "in a Jesus Christ getup," 639

chess
"the profile of a 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 & Pokler playing, 576; knight, 602;
Tchitcherine, "the most maniacal, systemless chess player in Central
Asia," 611; "chess knights. . .invisible in the air," 655; Laufer
(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 Saure Bummer hangs out; 373; 435; 517; Springer
and Narrish 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
318; Herero comrade of Enzian's and brother of Maria; 518; dream of
Maria, 673; 728; 730

Christianity
John the Baptist, Nathan of Gaza, 14; Croix mystique, 16, 484;
"Methodist versions of Christ's kingdom," 82;"tormented by
missionaries into a fear of Christian sins," 99; "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; 153; bugs in the manger, 173-74; Grail, 275, 517; 281;
"Christian Europe was always. . .death and repression," 317; "Baby
Jesus Con Game," 318; "Christian sickness," 320; "self-conned as any
Christian," 321; "Pre-Christian oneness," 321; "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; Gnostic symbolism, 429;
"A4. . .as a baby Jesus, with endless committees of Herods out to
destroy it in infancy," 464; "Pre-Christian earth," 465; "stations of
the cross," 502; Jesus, 554-55; churchtops as rockets, 624; crosses,
625; "blithering odd bits of Gospel," 639; Jehovah's Witnesses, 681;
"closest thing in the Zone to an early Christian," 681; 693; "the
Cross," 694; "she feels the cross," 719; Judas Iscariot, 719;
Cathars, 732, 747; Templars, 737; Rosicrucians, 737; Gnostics, 727,
739, 747; Zundkreuz ("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"

Claude
253; "the assistant chef " who stands in for Slothrop to facilitate
his "escape" to Nice

color
18, 19, 22, 41, 58, 101,129, 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; 670; "monumental yellow
structure," 681; "blue-and-yellow patent wingtips," 691; 710; "their
auras are green," 715; 724; 745; 759 [Under construction]

comics/cartoon/fictional characters
comicbook fangs, 21; Sir Denis Nayland Smith, 83, 277-78, 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; Submariner, 752;
Jimmy Olson, 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;  "vines are beginning to grow back," 281; "Earth's gift for
genesis," 316; "lovable but scatterbrained Mother Nature," 324;
"sense all Earth like a baby," 358; Pokler 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; "failed Counterforce,"
713; "[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

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 Saugling ["The Gross
Suckling"], a servicemen's pub, 706-08

Cynthia
26; one of Slothrop's "girls"

Darlene
19; nurse at St. Veronica's hospital and lover of Slothrop; 114; 271

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;  "They would deny
him the pervisity of being in love with his death. . ." 143; "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; Frau Death, 625; "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; "Fathers are
carriers of the virus of Death, and sons are the infected," 723;
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, Empty Ones)

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

delta-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
delta-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

De Profundus, Nick
295; "company lounge lizard" and entrepreneur at Mittelwerk during US
occupation

Der Platz
686; German: "the place"; Saure's communal pad; 711; 745; 746

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

Djuro
732; Schwarzkommando

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; laudanum, 69; nitrous oxide,
78; 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,
683; "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; "hashish hush puppies," 649; morphine, 652, 686; "My
Doper's Cadenza," 685-86; "Opiates of the people," 701; "the Red
Doper," 719; "dope-perfume," 720; addiction, 722; "fresh coca
leaves," 740; "tonight they will shoot wine," 743; 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; morning-glory seeds, 746;
Thorazine, 753; (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; Pokler 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; "Pirate had dreamed these very words," 13;
"blinking through an overlay of dream," 29;  Pointsman's, 36-38;
"Silence comes in, sculptured by spoken dreams," 49; 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, 156-58; 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; "a dream of Atlantis, of the
Suggenthal," 269; "your biography now like any old bad dream," 277;
Slothrop's dream (?), 281-83; Slothrop's "Jamf/I" dream, 286-87, 623;
Enzian's "wet dream where he coupled with a slender white rocket,"
297; Enzian's of an "endless North," 327; "dreaming of food,
oblivion, alternate histories. . ." 336; Galina's, 341; Chu Piang's,
347; Evil Hour, 375; Slothrop's of Berkshire, 392; Alpdrucken
("Nightmare"), 394; Pokler's of rocket, 399-400; Kekule's dream of
1865, 410; Jung's "ancestral pool," 410;"unrecoverable dreams," 415;
Pokler'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
Zwolfkinder 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; "of assassinations, of plots against good and decent
men," 689; Dark Dream, 697; keying waves, 699; Beaver's, 708;
Gottfried's single dream, 721; "I dream of discovering the edge of
the World," 722; "dreams of rendezvous, of cosmic trapeze acts," 723;
the Rocket "must answer to a number of different shapes in the dreams
of those who touch it," 727; "dream-caressed," 730; "Strung Into the
Apollonian Dream," 754; Gottfried, 754; "human figure, dreaming of an
early evening in each great capital," 760
 
Drohne
487; "plastics connoisseur" at The Castle

Dromond
139; one of the seven original owners of The Book; killed "by German
artillery on Shellfire Corner"; 140

Dufay, Kim
744; daughter of Pete and Marjorie and schoolmate of Hogan Jr.

Dufay, Pete
744; marries Marjorie

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

Easterling
139; one of the seven original owners of The Book; "taken early in a
raid by the Luftwaffe"; 140

Ekori
730; Schwartzkommando who is wounded

Edelman, Steve
Tales of the Schwarzkommando, Collected by, 315; "Kabbalist
spokesman," 753; "a Hollywood business man. . .accused of Attempted
Mopery," 755

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (d. 1969)
23; American General in WWII and 34th U.S. president; 74

Eisenkrote
603; Iron Toad in the pissoir at Putzi's - "ultimate test of manhood
in the Zone"

El Nato
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/irreversibility
A4 as "mockery of. . .the reversible process," 139; Pointsman
"lapsing to isotropy," 142; reverse, 204; Maxwell's Demon, 239; "no
way backward now," 257; 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;
coprophilia & urolagnia as closed systems, 319; "entropies of. .
.mother nature," 324; painkillers without addiction, 348; cocaine &
the A4, 375; drifting away, 405; Clerk Maxwell, 411; "a system whose
only aim is to violate the Cycle," 412; serpent eating its tail, 413;
isotropy, 415; 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; "They've stopped the
inflow/outflow," 694; 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 protege 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; "he knows," 667; and the 00001, 724

Erdmann, Margherita (Greta)
364; German film actress; mother of Bianca; star of von Goll's
Alpdrucken; worked for von Goll in vaguely pornographic horror
movies; the "Anti-Dietrich," 394; real name not "Erdmann," 395; 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

Erdschweinhohle
315-16; underground communities of Hereros living in Germany; "a
dialectic of word made flesh," 321; 524-25; delegates, 538; 671; 672-
73

Esberg, Marine Captain
691; wins "all-expense, one-way trip for one to. . .Puke-a-hook-a-
look-i Island!" 

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; "trying to confirm the Lubeck
angel," 217; 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;
"street excrement," 46; cat shit, 51; Slothrop's toilet adventure,
64; "jellied textures of human shit," 79; "too much shit in these
streets," 135; preterite dung, 166; earth's excrement (coal tars),
166; "stained with genuine SS shit and piss," 211; Domina Nocturna,
234; "turds on the Bokhara rug," 246; "shit-eating grin," 253;
"feelings about blackness were tied to feelings about shit, and
feelings about shit were tied to feelings about putrefaction and
death," 276; Deutschmarks used as toilet paper, 284; "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; "oozing shit that burns like acid," 360; King
Kong taking a shit, 368; "pleasant anticipation," 405; baby Ilse's,
418; Pokler at ground zero, 426; Dora camp, 432; "pissing in the
center grooves of cobbled alleys," 434; "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;
"trying to take a quiet shit," 631; Mexico pissing on Mossmoon's
table, 636 (aka "Urinating Incident," 710); "ladylike turds," 639;
"prehistoric wastes," 639; "urolagnia jokes," 649; Byron down the
toilet, 652; "deep feelings about shit," 654; "Shit 'n' Shinola,"
687; "shit. . .is the color white folks are afraid of," 688; "put the
fuse out. . .right in the stream of piss," 689; rat turds, 692; They
interdict the toilet, 694; "Bad Shit," 713; "consecrated to shit,"
722;  "dark figure with a stream of luminescent piss," 739; "fields
of shit," 739; fart-driven siren ring, 740; "not one trickle of shit,
Liebchen?" 757; (See also Toiletship) 

Faffner, Hank
665; Masonic "engineer-on-the-scene"

Fahringer
403; (German: "traveller"); Zen fellow at Peenemunde with Achfaden
and Pokler; 454

fathers
"all those Papi-has-raped-me stories," 272; "Schwarzvater," 286;
American Founding Fathers, 587-88; "typical American teenager's own
Father," 674; "Father-conspiracy," 679; "Fathers are carriers of the
virus of Death, and sons are the infected," 723

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 Goll wants to make a
film about him

film/cinema references
"what Hollywood likes to call a 'cute meet'," 38; "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;
"couldn't even go to the movies," 402; 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; "Goebbels' private collection," 461; "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 - Pokler'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; "black and white
film images," 723; documentary style, 738; "subdebs just out the
movies," 741; sound editing, 745; Chase Music, 751; "a whole movie-
cue of witnesses," 755; "old fans who've always been at the movies,"
760; (See also actors, King Kong, movies, theatre, Ufa-
theatre)

fingernails
"ringing the snifter with his fingernail," 195; "cusp-flicks of
fingernails," 664; "corporate teeth and polished fingernails," 714;
toenail, 717; "sketched in clay with her long fingernail," 734

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")

Flebotomo, 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; 139; on the
Toiletship, 450; "sharp as foxes," 718

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; "Freudian
revenge against his mother," 89; 272; 276

Galina
339; worked for Tchitcherine in C. Asia; "connoisseuse of silences";
705

Gallaho Mews
217; alley in London where PISCES Twelfth House is located; "all-
night cinema, around the corner from," 542; Mexico's arrival, 632

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
"German and precise confidence," 25; the "Fuhrer-principle," 81; "ein
Volk, ein Fuhrer" ["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
Germans wasted their horses," 337; "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; "Bodine's laugh. . .has
grown more German," 742 

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

Goll, 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 Schuszstelle 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; "the young
scientist-surrogate will be going round and round with old Gravity,"
361; "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; "a wine rush is 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 Peenemunde converted into a testing station;
414; Greifswald, 681, 692

Gretchen
714; participates in "roasting" of Mexico

Grid
"a glittering map. . .ruled off into 576 squares," 55; "Dutch grid's
380 volts," 101; "to keep Grid Time synchronized with Greenwich Mean
Time," 133; "the Grid runs inching ever faster," 134; "back in
France's power grid," 190; 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; "a sin against the," 652;
"noticed a fall-off in revenues," 654; "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; 662

Groast, Dr. Rollo
34; works in ARF wing; 79; 85; 147; "assumed back into the Society
for Psychical Research," 273; with Greta, 474

Gross Suckling Conference
706; attended by Eventyr, Gwinhidwy, Mexico, Morituri - discuss
mandalas in relation to rocket firings

Grossli Chemical Corporation
250; became Psychochemie AG; spinoff from Sandoz; 284; 286

Grunt-Gobbinette, Sir Hannibal
716-17; at Krupp party

Grunton, Myron
74; worked for BBC; instrumental in creating Operation Black Wing;
works at White Visitation; 92; 112; 227; "again a full-time wireless
personality," 273

Gustav
See Schlabone, Gustav

Gwinhidwy, Thomas
52; at White Visitation; one of the keepers of The Book; "inside his
fluffy beard," 139; 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; 727

Hawasch
455; aerodynamics person on S-Gerat project

Henryk the Hare
730; Schwarzkommando traveling with Enzian; called "the Hare" because
"he can never get messages right"

Hereros
74; Ex-colonials from the Sudwest (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; washing-blue
"abortifacient," 519; St. Pauli (washing-blue connection), 525; 657;
"built in mandalic form like a Herero village," 725

Hexes-Stadt
718; German: "Witch City"

Hilbert-Spaess, Sammy
217; double agent; 540

Himmel and Holle
567; German: "Heaven und Hell"

Himmler-Spielsaal
194; gaming room at the Casino Hermann Goering; 202; 205; Slothrop
surprises Katje, 208; 285

Hirsch, Richard
156-58; old friend of Leni's about whom she dreams (?) and fantasizes
marrying

history
historied, 71; "[War] provides the raw material to be recorded into
history," 105; secular, 167; "is not woven by innocent hands," 277;
"the multitudes passed over by God and History," 297; "when there is
no more History," 303; 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; (See also Time)

Hoover, Herbert (d. 1964)
American President from 1929 to 1933 and head of the Food
Administration during WWII; 374; 565; 649

Hopper
256; U.S. MP in Nice outside Slothrop's door

humor
"winejelly" incident (aka "Disgusting English Candy Drill"), 116;
"show us your papers!," 442; Hopmann'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 Muller-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

Hupla, Apprentice
300; Olsch's apprentice at Mittelwerke

Ibarguengoitia
384; Argentinian contact in Zurich

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

Ick Regis Abbey
73; located near the White Visitation in Ick Regis; "its roof long
ago taken at the manic whim of Henry VIII"; 138

Icy Noctiluca
311; flares

IG Farben
163; Interessengemenschaft - a fellowship of interests -
chemical/synthetics company; 249;"octopus IG," 284; 286;  565;
Stickstoff Syndicate, 580; 587; 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
"Slowly then, a revelation through the nacreous film of his seed,
comes a message," 72; "a legend to be deciphered by lords of the
winter," 73; "conversion factor between information and lives," 105;
"a net of information," 165; "the only real medium of exchange," 258;
mixed-up messages: "how'd you like to get fixed up with a big oilman
tonight?" 243; "the sly hare who nests in the moon brought death
among men, instead of the Moon's true message," 322; "Maybe they're
not dots. . .maybe they're dashes." 515; "we are not to be spared the
ancient tragedy of lost messages," 520; "what he was really drawing
was the A4 rocket," 624; "Hey man gimme some skin, man!" 675; "Saves
you trouble later if you can get the Texts straight as soon as
they're spoken." 729; Henryk the Hare, 730; "their power now lay. .
.in information and expertise," 427; "The Mothers. . .exchange
information," 505; "Is there information for us?" 642; Mr.
Information, 644-45; "it's only," 650; A Nickel Saved, 664; "The text
of each issue of the magazine. . .yields many interesting messages,"
665; messages, 666; message in cigarette pack, 680-81; Khlaetsch's
cries for help, 683-84; "diversionary nuisance. . .or Decadent
Aristocracy," 698; messages to Geli about Tchicherine, 719 (See also
entropy)

interface
"Halfway out now from under the covers, she hangs, between two
worlds," 53; cortex as, 79, 141-42, 144, 166-68; "Outer Radiance,"
148, 150; assassination, 164; coal and steel, 166; and water bugs,
173; "floundering in the swamp between worlds," 217; interregnum,
294; "between one order of things and another," 302; "this transition
from silk to bare skin to suspender," 396; "the pure, the
informationless state of signal zero," 404; "the boundary layer,"
452; violet-bleeding, 484; words as, 100, 510; water-gasoline, 523;
"cusp between scientific theory and fact," 652; 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; "filing-edge," 735; "gold-brown
medium between you," 735; boundary layer, 736; "a piece of the
interface," 737; (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 Pokler polymer theory at
Technische Hochschule, 161; developed Imipolex G in 1939, 249; worked
for Psychochemie AG (Grossli Chemical Corp), a spinoff of Sandoz -
Zurich, 250; Jamf is dead, 261; details, 283-87; 387; grave of, 268;
developed Emulsion-J, 387; Jamf Olfabriken (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

Jello, James
698; friend of Pirate's; "that year's King of Bohemian clowns"

Jennifer
23; one of Slothrop's "girls"; 255; 271 (See also Slothrop's
girls/stars)

Johanna
408; one of Ilse's playmates at Dora

Joint, Dennis
272; representative from Shell Mex House at PISCES; 275; 277

Jung, Carl (d. 1961)
276; Swiss psychologist; "ancestral pool," 410

Justus
714; participates in "roasting" of Mexico

Kabbalists
"Tree o' Creation," 411; "the Real Text," 520; "the holy Text," 521;
"coal-tar Kabbalists," 590; Astarte and Lilith, 649; "kabbalist's
study in Lyons," 650; "Tree," 694;  "Rocket as Torah. . .its text is
theirs to permute. . .always unfolding," 727; "the Messiah gathering
in the fallen sparks," 737; "Tree of Life," 747; 749-53; Vessels,
757; (See also, Qlippoth)

Kamikaze
Morituri, 473; Bulbs' Kamikaze squads, 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

Kekule von Stradonitz, Friedrich August (d. 1896)
German chemist; switched from architecture to chemistry, 84; 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; 35th president of the U.S.; assassinated in 1963; 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"; Entluftung: "discharge fuel"; Zundung: "ignite";
Vorstufe: "first stage"; Hauptstufe: "main stage"); "in the sky over
the Alexanderplatz," 446; mandala in Marvy's green Ford, 560; Herero
interpretation, 563

Khlaetsch, Minne
683-84; "an astrologer of the Hamburg School" into whose apartment
Saure broke; her screams for help sounded like "Helicopter!" instead
of "Cute looking robber!" because of her inability to pronounce
umlauts.  Girlfriend of Wimpe.

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, Kathe (d. 1945)
578; German artist who did a series of sketches on death

Komical Kamikazes
690; Takeshi & Ichizo; 697; 738

Kot
German: "shit"

KPD
153; Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands: "German Communist Party";
(See also Luxemburg, Rosa; Pokler, Leni)

Krodobbly, Missus
741; "drinking her way through the Big Depression" and goes to site
of Dillinger murder

Krupp, Gustav (d. 1950)
166; aka Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach; German industrialist
and director of Krupp works; 285; 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

labyrinths
88; 143; 384; 428; 537; 672; 681

Lamplighter, Allen
139; buddy of Treacle's killed by a buzzbomb (V-1); one of the seven
original owner's of The Book; 140; 146

lawn sports
golf, 190; football, 194; croquet, 200

Le Froyd, Reg
73; inmate at White Visitation who in 1925 escaped and leaped into
the sea

Lerner, Sgt. Howard ("Slow")
641

Leunagasolin
523; "synthetic gasoline"; Moss Creature, Water Giant & Fungus
Pygmies (Pavel's hallucinations), 523

Lilli
408; one of Ilse's playmates at Dora

limericks
305-07; 311; 334-35

Lisaura
The girl whom the mythical Tannhauser (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 Tannhauser
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 Tannhauser has returned to the abode of Venus;
364; 393; Pope's staff, 470, 532; 533; (See also Tannhauserism)

Loaf, H.A.
14; Pirate has his fantasy

Lorraine and Judy
19; characters in a Slothrop story related by Tantivy to Bloat (See
also Slothrop's girs/stars)

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, Saure;
dope)

Luba
339; worked for Tchitcherine in C. Asia

Lubeck
151; civilian town which the RAF bombed on Palm Sunday, provoking
German rocket attacks on London; Leni grew up there, 162; angel, 217;
Lubeck Hitler Youth Glee Club, 736

Lucifer Amp
542; "verminous, hairy creature" that used to worked for SOE

Ludwig
553; kid who has lemming named "Ursula"; shadowing the
Schwarzkommando, 729; "a white glowworm in the mist," 733; with
Thanatz, 736

Luneburg Heath
Site of Blicero's last stand/final madness where the S-Gerat 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 Luneberg [misspelled]," 659; "the last stand in the," 666; "There
are. . .no windmills on the," 670; "Kingdom-of-the-Deathward," 673;
692; Tchitcherine "came into Luneburg last weekend," 719;
Schwarzkommando arrive to assemble 00001, 737; "The Heath grows green
and magenta in all directions," 749

Luxemburg, Rosa (d. 1919)
155; founded KPD with Karl Liebknecht (see p. 621).  Both were
murdered in 1919; 158

Luz
383; with Felipe on U-boat; also "Squalidozzi's girl"

Magda
365; Saure's sidekick; "picked up on first-degree mopery," 742

Malcolm
63; "very tall, skinny, extravagantly conked redhead Negro shoeshine
boy" in Roseland Ballroom; aka  "Red" and Malcolm X; 65; 67; 688

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; "fatal mandala," 691; 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)

Marjorie
22; a Wren Slothrop is dating; 25; 744; (See also Slothrop's
girls/stars)

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; 586; American Founding Fathers, 587-88; magic rituals/Masonic
Mysteries, 588; Masonic plots, 587; Ben Franklin, 663-64

masterbation
"masterbating under these conditions is exquisite torture," 35;
"jerking off into an Army flannel," 36; and message de-crypting, 71-
72; "he'll masterbate himself to sleep," 141; "Remember the time she
caught you masterbating into her glove?" 505; village idiots, 743;
"purposes of self-arousal," 758; "or reach between your own cold
legs," 760; (See also Kryptosam)

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; his map of bomb hits, 138; 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

Mieczislav
See Omuzire, Mieczislav

mindless pleasures
270; working title for Gravity's Rainbow; 681

Mittelwerke
283; German rocket factory at Nordhausen (next to Dora prison camp),
evacuated in February and March 1945; 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 Sudwest; Pokler working with,
402-04; accepted Hitler on basis of his "Demian-metaphysics," 403;
bodhisattva of Peenemunde, 403; was in Sudwest, lived with Ovatjimba
(aardvark) people, the poorest Hereros, 403; 1922 - in Sudwest with
Weissmann during siege of Foppl's villa, 408; after Peenemunde
bombing, 422; Mondaugen's Law, 509; Verein fur Raumschiffahrt, 582;
687

Monika
603; "Putzi's genial, cigar-smoking, matelasse-suited madame"

moon
"the halfmoon shines," 104; men on the, 132; "toy rockets to the
moon," 154; "the dead moon," 163; "blanched scar of moon," 195;
"moonlight reflected from the mirror," 195; "moongrained," 196;
astrologer's, 220; moonlight, 268; "as among craters of the pale
moon," 270; "the lunacy of her purple eyes," 271; true message to
Hereros, 322; Ilse and, 410; cycles, 414; "the moon that ruled her,"
415; "Have you given up so easily on the Moon?" 420; "Her round straw
hat a frail moon," 421; Lunar motion, 452; "buttocks rise like
moons," 466; 608; Katje "felt the moon in the soles of her feet,"
657; "brightening and darkening as if by itself," 692; "The moon has
risen," 720; moonlight, 721; "our new Deathkingdom," 723; 734

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 

Moritz
757; operating rocket motor panel for S-G 00000; 758

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, aka "Red Bitch of the High Seas"; had an affair
with Pirate in 1936, 35-36; 544; 698 

mothers
"Freudian revenge against his mother for trying to castrate him," 89;
"as he is known to his mother," 121; "Italian gin is a mother's
curse," 191; "Momworshiping molars," 211; "their joint Mother," 271;
Mutter (German for "mother" and what they call the female threads of
light-bulb sockets), 299, 653;"the policemen of the soul," 219;
"she'll call him Mama." 220; "Mommy, Mommy!  The War's over," 360;
"mother-violence," 380; Otto Gnahb's Mother Conspiracy, 505;
"Mother's Nipple," 707; "a blond image of your mother dead," 712;
"But sharper than a Mother's tears/Are the beatings Mutti gave to me.
. ." 736; Kreplach, 737(&10); "The mothers have been masculinized. .
." 747; [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; Wizard of Oz, 279,
596-97; Tarzan, 306; Zorro, 376; Martin Fierro, 385, 610; The Return
of Martin Fierro, 387; Alpdrucken ["Nightmare"], 394, 397, 429, 461,
472; Good Society, 395;Weisse Sandwuste 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 Mude 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; 584 

Muffage, Doctor
591; with Dr. Spontoon, out to castrate Slothrop

Mukuru
322; Hereros' "first ancestor, Adam"; breath of, 524; 562 

music
ukelele chords, 18; rallentando [gradually slackening in speed], 28;
Frank Bridge Variations, 59; harmonica, 62-63, 68, 256, 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; "an octave on B to be
exact--or H, in the German nomenclature--the notes of the rejecte
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; "so the silences dance in this quartet," 713; (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; 175-Stadt Chorale, 668; Stephen
Foster, 675; Spike Jones, 678; Harry James, 685; J.S. Bach, 685;
Josef Haydn, 712; Lubeck Hitler Youth Glee Club, 736; (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; "words are only an eye-twitch away from
the things they stand for," 100; "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 delta-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; "holy names of God," 734; "Names of Power," 734; (See
also Routinization of Charisma)

Narrisch, Klaus
456; German: "foolish, crazy"; worked with Achtfaden on S-Gerat; at
Peenemunde 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; (See also Potsdam Conference)

nihilism
"Cheap nihilism," 57; Malcolm "the Unthinkble Nihilist," 64;
"Nihilist tranposition," 72; "nihilistic--pleasure," 96; Nora Dotson-
Truck, "erotic nihilist," 149; Tchicherine "comes from Nihilist
stock," 338; (See also vacuum, void, zero)

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; 718

Norma
22; a Wren Slothrop is dating; 25

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

Okandio
730; Schwarzkommando who is wounded; 732

Olsch, Etzel
298; architect and disciple of Speer; his "deathwish," 300; 302; 411;
(See also Speer)

Ombindi, Joseph
319; of Hanover; leader of Empty Ones; 519; 673; 732

Omnopon, Andre
711; violist in Kazoo Quartet

Omuzire, Mieczislav
318; Schwarzkommando traveling with Enzian; head wound, 730, 731

Oneirine
166; (oneiric - "dreamlike"); intoxicant developed by Jamf--induces
time modulation, 389; Greta's addiction to, 463-64; 684; Pokler
singularity, 702; hauntings, 703

Operation Backfire
272; British rocket-scavenging effort based in Cuxhaven; 277; 526;
709 

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 (Sudwest) 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;
"now defunct," 276; 616 

Opposite, Ideas of the
50; Pavlov's, 87; yin yang, 88, 278; "The act of injuring and the act
of being injured are joined in the behavior of the whole injury," 88;
"every true god must be both organizer and destroyer," 99; "all sets
of 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 

Orutyene
730; Schwarzkommando who is killed; 732

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; Otyiyumbu Indeterminacy Relation,
700

Oururu
732; Schwarzkommando

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; 730; 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; "witch-paranoia," 95; "always someone behind him
being careful," 114; folk-consciousness, 130-31, 155; "seeking other
orders behind the visible" - Puritan reflex, 187; "a peculiar
structure that no one admitted to," 193; 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 Zurich, 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; Saure'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; "Olfabriken 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
and M, 737; I Ching, 746; (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 Book, 47, 75, 87-88,139, 140;  "the cortex of the brain as a
mosaic of tiny on/off elements," 55; "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; 396; death of, 752; (See also
Opposite, Ideas of the)

Peenemunde
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 Pokler 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; "the clear signature
of," 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

Plunkitt, Jed
665; member of Iowa chapter of Masons

Poehlmann
416; German rocket engineer

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; "They
would deny him the pervisity of being in love with his death. . ."
143; 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

Pokler, Franz
153; young German chemical engineer; father of Ilse; "cause-and-
effect man"; worked in paint factory; "Piscean," 154; 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
Zwolfkinder, 398; moved to Peenemunde 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-Gerat 00000, 431; puts wedding ring on dying woman at Dora, 433;
with Frieda the pig at Zwolfkinder and meets Slothrop, 575; 687 

Pokler, Ilse
154; daughter of Franz & Leni Pokler; 220; conceived, 397; shows up,
407, 417; Moon-house, 414; in Dora camp ("call them re-education
camps"), 408, 428; last visit to Zwolfkinder, 428; released?, 432; 
mapped on to Bianca, 576-77; she's okay, 610 

Pokler, Leni
153-60; married to Franz Pokler; affair with Sachsa; mother of Ilse;
active in K.P.D. (Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands: "German
Communist Party"); "grew up in Lubeck," 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 in August
1945.  Post-war Germany was divided up by the Allies represented by
U.S. President Harry Truman, British Deputy Prime Minister Clement
Attlee and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin; likened to a big
party/Hollywood premier, 380

Pox, DeCoverley
9; at Pirate's maisonette; with Slothrop at the Junior Anthenaeum, 21

Prentice, Capt. Geoffrey "Pirate"
42 years old in '45; dreaming, 3-4; 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; "by the time you get any
summary, the whole thing will have changed," 541; 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; "the multitudes who are
passed over by God and History," 299; "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, 460-61; 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; 138; 144; "the
freaks of," 146; "Blavatskian wing of," 269; 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, 232-36; ill, 273; dies of "massive E.coli
infection," 533; 631; "is now a member of the Counterforce," 715

Pumm
139; one of the seven original owners of The Book; killed in jeep
accident; 140

Purfle, Avery
594; in First International Runcible Spoon Fight; shipmate of
Bodine's

Puritans
Calvinist insanity, 57; Reflex, 187; Mysteries, 267; "WASPs in
buckled black," 281; "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; "all the gathered
fragments of the Vessels," 757; (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 Peenemunde," 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 Olsch
(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; Daguerreotype of, 725

Rapallo Treaty
166; agreement between Soviet Russia and Germany which contained
extensive trade agreements including the lifting of trade
restrictions between the two countries, thus allowing Krupp to sell
their steel machines to the Soviets. Germany's powerful right wing
was enraged at the recognition given the new Communist regime and on
June 24, 1922 Foreign Minister Walter Rathenau, who negotiated the
treaty on Germany's behalf, was shot and killed in the street; 338;
352 (See also Rathenau, Walter)

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; 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; (See also Rapallo Treaty) 

Ray
256; U.S. MP in Nice outside Slothrop's door

Rebecca
155; "Jewess" comrade of Leni's in KDP

Reed, Maurice ("Saxophone")
9; at Pirate's maisonette

religion
Chain of Being, 77; "every true god must be both organizer and
destroyer," 99; "God is creator and destroyer, sun and darkness, all
sets of opposites brought together," 100; "rocket-mysticism," 154;
"Judaized," 219; "ice-saints," 281; "There may be no gods, but there
is a pattern," 322; Chance = God, 323, 613; "breath of God," 454;
God's signature, 463; Manichaean, 631, 727; always about death, 701;
Pan, 720; Buddha, 733; "By all the holy names of God," 734; (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 Peenemunde, 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, 396, 406, 411, 464; farting buzzbombs, 21;
"explode first. . .then you hear them coming in," 23; "slender church
steeples," 29; "a piece of time neatly snipped out," 48; "a rocket
has suddenly struck," 59; V-1 and V-2, 86; "the sounds of V-1 and V-
2, one the reverse of the other," 144; premonitions in Psi section,
146; "rocket-mysticism," 154; 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; Pokler's dreams of,
399; leading to freedom of outerspace, 400; money v. dreams, 400;
Pokler as an extension of, 402; as fat Japanese arrow, 403; A3, 406;
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);
673; 706; "Rocket state-cosmology," 726;  "Rocket as Torah," 727; "an
evil Rocket for the World's suicide," 727; "it comes as the
Revealer," 728; Goebbels' "avenger," 747; origin of countdown, 753;
(See also Schwarzgerat)

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;
"You poor fucker." 741

Rohr
681; Jehovah's witness who is "Keeper of the Antenna" for Germans to
communicate with U-boats

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; Rue Rossini, 248, 253, 257

Rossokovski
501; left Peenemunde with White Russian Army; 504

Routinization/ Rationalization of Charisma
concept developed by Max Weber; Fuhrer-principle, 81; "scrubbed and
routinized fingers," 91; 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

Rozsavolgyi, Dr. Geza
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

Rudi
155; "La Boheme Student" comrade of Leni's in KPD; 156; 158

Sachsa, Peter
31; the "control" in Psi Section; lover of Leni Pokler; medium at
Rathenau seance, 163-65; killed in communist street action in 1930 in
Neukolln (Berlin) by Schutzmann Joche, a Nazi cop, 152, 219-20; 590

sadomasochism (S and M)
"Red Bitch of the High Seas. . .a lovely game." 36; "erotic cruelty
by the dollar," 65; Pointsman and the dogs ("the pretty victim
straining against her bonds"), 88; Blicero, Katje and Gottfried, 94-
99; "traditional masochist uniform," 97; Slothrop and Katje, 221-22; 
Pudding and Domina Nocturna, 232-36; "how else is there to react,
even in play?" 251; Schlepzig & Erdmann ("He played the Grand
Inquisitor who tortured me"), 395; between Slothrop and Erdmann, 396-
97; Pokler and Leni, 397; "All together now, all you masochists out
there," 415; Pokler and Ilse, 420; Erdmann ravaged by jackal men in
Alpdrucken, 461; Erdmann and Bianca, 466-67; Erdmann and Thanatz
("Every time the lash struck. . .there would come to her a single
vision"), 484;  "likes to have light bulbs screwed into his asshole,"
652; "helplessness at the end of a crack-of-the-whip," 652; "Her
masochism. . .is reassurance for her," 662; "really mean ass
imaginary Nazi playmates," 666; "pull long hair throatback. . .how
she loves it," 670; Katje's "fresh whip-marks," 670; "Thanatz,
haven't you loved the whip?" 671; "sexual abuse and torture," 690;
"another excuse for a whipping," 721; "the beatings Mutti gave me,"
736; "a pretty French maid begging to be whipped," 736; "a little S
and M never hurt anybody," 737; "if S and M could be established
universally, at the family level, the State would wither away," 737;
"gagging on whip-handles," 746; Gottfried ("His bare limbs in their
metal bondage"), 751

Salitieri, Poore, Nash, De Brutus and Short
652; pallbearers at Lyle Bland's funeral, along with Lyle Jr.

Sandra
685;  has "run away from the Kleinburgerstrasse" and staying at Der
Platz

Sanktwolke, Edouard
385; "veteran automotive jobber" who supplied transportation for von
Goll'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" (misspelled "Shicksal" in earlier
editions)

Schlabone, Gustav
366; composer buddy (and "unwelcome doping partner," 711) of Saure
Bummer; 621; 2nd violin at Krupp affair (aka "Captain Horror"), 711;
at Der Platz, 745

Schlepzig, Max
Franz Pokler putting up handbills for a movie starring, 165; name on
Slothrop's pass to get into Potsdam Conference, 377; actor in von
Goll films who whipped Erdmann ("the Reich's Sweethearts"), 395; 439;
461

Schnorp
332-36; Geli's friend who gives Slothrop balloon ride to Berlin

Schuszstelle 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 Luneburg Heath)

Schwarzgerat
252; aka S-Gerat 00000; "Document SG-1," 252; 292; for sale for .5M
francs by guy in Swinemunde who waits on Strand-Promenade until noon
daily; details, 517; 563; 611; firing on Luneburg Heath, 667; 706;
"00001, the second in its series," 724; 00001, 728; "SG-1," 736; "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 Sudwest, 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" (Zwolfkinder 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;
Godel'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; deltat, 159, 664; Cypridinae (glow
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 delta-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" ("A former self is a
fool, an insufferable ass"), 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 Zurich?; 261

serpent
"serpent coiled in the teacup," 139; serpent eating its tail, 413;
"The smooth-faced Custodian of the Night hovers behind neutral eyes
and smile, coiled and pale over the city, humming its hoarse
lullabies," 434-35; serpentine, 520; "the serpent face," 671; "the
buzzing serpent," 689; "steel penis with slotted serpent head," 694;
Serpent/Pan, 720-21; "beautiful Serpent, its coils in rainbow
lashings," 721; "perishable as the skin of a snake," 722; "serpent
coils that lash above the surface of the Earth in rainbow light," 726

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

Shell Mex House
251; "Where all the rocket intelligence is being gathered"; 272

Shirley
19; star on Slothrop's map

Shirley
599; pretty girl driving Red Cross Clubmobile that 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 

Siggi
157; old friend of Leni's, known as "the Troll"

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; Tyrone's brother; his Hawaiian shirt, 184, 201; 304; 682; 744

Slothrop, Hogan Jr.
744; son of Hogan Slothrop

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; his map, 18, 22-23; 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; "what has looked free or random, is discovered to've been
under some Control," 209; The Penis He Thought Was His Own, 216;
discovers German blueprint of A4, 242; Zootsuit Zanies, 251; escape
to Nice, 253; goes to Zurich, 257; goes to Geneva, 266; ancestors in
Berkshire, 268; gets Jamf Sandoz dossier, 268; arrives at Nordhausen,
281; "the Zone envelopes him," 281; Slothrop Paper Company, 285;
"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-Gerat-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 Swinemunde, 493; arrives at Peenemunde,
501; dissipation, 507, 509, 510; "better days are coming," 510;
Swinemunde, 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 Pokler, 575; "Leftenant," 607, 627; 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;"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; "a genuine, point-for-point microcosm," 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's girls/stars
Delores, 19; Alice, 19; Gladys, 19; Lorraine and Judy, 19; Darlene,
19; Katherine, 19; Shirley, 19; "a couple of Sallys," 19; 
"Carolines, Marias, Annes, Susans, Elizabeths, 19; Marjorie, 22, 25,
744; Norma, 22, 25; Allison, 23; Irene, 23; Jennifer, 23, 255, 271;
Angela, 271;  Cybele, 271; Lucy, 271; Jenny, Sally, Cybele,
Catherine, 271; 

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 

Smile, Murray
255; appears in Slothrop's dream as "next to you in basic, company
84"

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

Snodd, Mrs.
744

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 Goll, 511-14; 746

S.O.E.
5; Special Operations Executive; aka the "Firm," 12; 32; "no one has
ever left the Firm alive," 543; 620

Solange
603; "masseuse" at Putzi's (See Pokler, Leni)

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 Boheme, 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 Fuhrer'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; Pathetique, 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 a V-2 hit on
St. Veronica's, 138; 139; 140

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; Olsch
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

Sporri
455; aerodynamics person on S-Gerat project; ignores Khlaetsch's
cries for help, 684

Spree-Oder Canal
433; in the Russian sector of Berlin, where Slothrop & Margherita
stay; 457

Springer, Der
376; German: "chess knight"; aka von Goll; 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 Gemutlich ("good-natured"), 496; on Sodium
Amytal, 512, 514, 746; (See also Goll, 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 Goll 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; ssorrender, 230; "sibilant weave," 152;
tunnels, 299; double-integral sign, 300-01; "shape of lovers curled
asleep," 302; S-curve, 380;  double-summing, 411; Scatterbrained
Suicidekicks, 691; Sound Shadow, 695, 711; Sentimental Surrealist,
696; Subsequent Sin, 722; Spaceman Smile, 732; (See also chess,
Rossini)

St. Blaise, Group Capt. "Basher"
146; sees angel of death during RAF Lubeck strike, 151

St. Veronica's Hospital
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. Veronica Papers, 688

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; 587 

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

Tannhauserism
299; love of being taken under mountains; (See also Lisaura)

Tantivy
See Mucker-Maffick, Oliver "Tantivy"

Tarot
Judgment, 152; The Fool, 501, 724; Queen of Cups, 735; 738; 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, 338; 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 Erdschweinhohlers] have hoped for," 672; 736; "is
[Sado-anarchism's] leading theoretician in the Zone these days," 737 

Thanatz Alpdrucken, Reichssieger von
142; "champion Weimaraner for 1941" in Pointsman's dreams of chase

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; "not
without theatre," 743; "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; 285; "They extinguish. . .not remind," 438; no
physical locale, 251; "They would not be who or where They are
without a touch of Dante to Their notions of reprisal." 350; 
"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 Peenemunde; 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; penetrating the moment, 158; "slices of time
growing thinner," 159; "There is the moment, and its possibilities,"
159; 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; "herding us through time,"
724; "a presence, analogous to the Aether, flows through time," 726;
752; (See also delta-t, history)

Toiletship
448; aka Rucksichtslos; Swinemunde 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; "setting up
a practice," 273; "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; "the young witch," 734

Trotha, Gen. Lothar von
362; German who led wholesale slaughter of Hereros in Sudwest;
exhibit at Zwolfkinder, 422; 563

Trudi
365; Saure'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; "another Ufa
masterpiece, 155; 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; (See also Ludwig)

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; 712

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; "the
stone-blue lights of the Vacuum," 239; "State he is building in the
German vacuum," 337; "a stark circle of," 342; "vacuuming by above,"
380; "Victim in a Vacuum," 414-15; "all his vacuums," 432;"vacuum
hours," 584; "Is this how the Vacuum feels? 659; "the great Vacuum in
the sky," 697; "What if there is no Vacuum?" 697; "vacuum. .
.gleaming in the Void," 699; "it's vacuum inside and out," 723; "a
Vacuum in time," 726; "guns. . .like vacuum cleaners," 745; (See also
nihilism, Void, Zero)

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

Vanya
155; "slavic" comrade of Leni's in KPD; 156; 158

V.E. Day
9; Victory in Europe (May 8, 1945); 269; 276; 288; 628

Villard, Dumpster
65; buddy of Slothrop's who appears in "toilet adventure," 65; in
Slothrop's dream, 255

Vlasta
732; female CW (code word) operator with Enzian and Schwarzkommando

Void
"steps back into the void, 73; Nora's void, 150; "the silences here
are retreats of sound," 336; void, 578; "cessation of noise," 694;
sound-shadow, 695-96, 711; "vacuum. . .gleaming in the Void," 699;
"hearing the pauses instead of the notes," 713; (See also nihilism,
vacuum, Zero)

Wahmke, Dr.
403; German rocket scientist killed in explosion in 1934; "First
blood, first sacrifice."

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; "politics between wars demands symmetry," 350; 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 Zurich; 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 Zurich, 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; .45, 287; Nagant, 293, 514,
704; 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; M-1, 584; .38s, 586; Mauser, 693;
Hotchkiss, 697-98; (See also Cosmic Bomb, Rocket, Schwarzgerat)

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 myopic witch's eyes through the thick
lenses," 724; his Tarot, 746-49; 757; (See also Luneburg Heath)

Whappo
69; "Norwegian mulatto lad" in Toilet Adventure and Crutchfield's
"little pard"; 114

White Woman
374; 439; 658; (See also Death, Evil Hour)

White Visitation
34; former mental hospital located 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; 72-74; 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 chorus line at the Windmill," 22; "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; 304

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; "Absolute Comfort," 155; "as the
pure light of the zero comes nearer," 159; 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; Japanese Zeros
(fighter planes), 672, 690, 692; "zero indifference," 714 

Zhdaev, Major
502; captures Springer at Peenemunde; 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

zootsuits
Waxwing's, 246; Zoot Suit Riots of 1943, 249; Zootsuit Zanies
(Slothrop & Waxwing), 251; "zootsters," 385;  Bodine's "of
unbelievable proportions," 710; 711; zootster, 716

Zwitter
313; guidance expert; colleague of Glimpf

Zwolfkinder
398; German: "twelve children"; kids' park in Nikolaikirche in No.
Germany in Stettin; near Wismar & Lubeck (280 km from Peenemunde);
first visit of Franz & Ilse in '39, met every August for 6 years;
419-22; last visit, 428-30; Slothrop passes by, 575; "a children's
resort," 725; (See also Pokler, Franz)
Future categories:

words:
German:
wheels:
Technology:
accordians (within "music"):
Lang:
labyrinths: 428
missed messages: (Pokler lives, Sachsa dies; the hare) 243; 322; 515;
624, 675, 729; 730;
isomorphisms:

Rough patches: 470-72; 501

Slothrop costumer changes:

199 - Purple satin sheet
201 - uniform
210 - fake moustache
251 - Zootsuit Zanies
295 - Tchitcherine's boots
366 - Rocketman
377 - Max Schlepzig
567 - Plechazunga
688 - Fay Wray




























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