TP: GR 'Concordance'
Jorn Barger
jorn at mcs.com
Thu Jun 9 12:49:30 CDT 1994
Here's a concordance for GR recently posted to rec.arts.books. It's
50k in length-- does this cause anyone problems?
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From: timware at crl.com (Tim Ware)
Here 'tis, faux. Please send reactions, additions, corrections, etc. to:
<timware at crl.com>
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Tim Ware's
Deeply Subjective & Eventually Accurate
CONCORDANCE
2
GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
BY
THOMAS PYNCHON
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. I also wanted to map the sucker--I know
I could really have used an index when I first read GR and kept
forgetting the context of the myriad characters or the meaning of the
numerous acronyms. And I knew that it would be a hard sell getting my
friends to read it and felt 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 ritual or weeding out process, kinda like
"I'm not gonna let just any asshole 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. Now 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, though I found myself pulled into the
complex web and as 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?" 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. I know there are other,
published, index/concordances around, but I am ignorant of their
contents as I wasn't even really that curious. This one is, I think,
the first e-text concordance--and it's absolutely free!
This is intended as an aid to the first-time reader, as well as
a way for repeaters to locate favorite passages, etc. I'm quite open
to other's suggestions. I see it as an ongoing project and look
forward to input.
Please forward any comments, additions, corrections, or
suggestions to: "timware at crl.com"
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Achtfaden, Horst
451; "aerodynamics man"; 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); 687
ACHTUNG
20; Allied Clearing House, Technical Units, No. Germany; (See also
Mucker-Maffick
Adenoid
Giant, 14; "the Adenoid," 754; (See also Zhlubb)
AEG
164; German Gen'l Electric Co.
AG
Aktiengesellschaft: "joint-stock company"
Alien Property Custodian
581; dispose of German property in US after WWI
ambiguities
Jamf, 261, 738; Tchicherine & Wimpe, 344; Schwarzkommando, 361-62;
Anubis, 493
Anubis
459; (Anubis: "death"); yacht full of affluent refugees from Lublin
regime (in Poland) going to Swinemunde, owned by Procalowska; aka
"white death ship"; only a probability, 493; sighted, 528; 706
ARF
75; Abreaction Research Facility - run by Pointsman at White
Visitation
Asch, Walter
152; present at seance w/Sachsa
Bad Karma
457; location of Spa (Kurhaus) where Margherita killed Jewish boys
Beaver, "Old," Jeremy
121; boyfriend of Jessica Swanlake; works for Operation Backfire; is
the War, 177
Belaustegui
383; U-boat's engineer; positivist; 613
Bianca
393; daughter of Greta Erdman & Miklos Thanatz; disappears, 480; going
overboard, 491; body discovered, 531; 576
black & white
white - 342, 398, 501, 506, 508, 519, 524, 549, 551; 579; bleaching
364; black - 350, 354; white=death, 372; white woman w/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; boneblack, 509; Egg, 510;
"black apes," 513; 650; 657; 666; 688; white albatross, 713; 722; 723;
741; death--a whitening, 750 [inversions: black=life;
white=death]
Bland, Lyle
284; "Uncle" Lyle to Slothrop; lived in Boston; involved w/Hugo
Stinnes; 580; specialized in psychological studies in T30s, 581;
becomes Mason, 587; journeying "underneath history," 589; leaves body,
591
Blicero, Capt.
94; Capt. Weissmann's SS name, 322; in Sudwest (pp. 98, 99) where he
had affair w/Enzian the Herero; at rocket site near Duindigt in
Holland - SchuBstelle3; 465; "his final madness" (Luneberg Heath),
485; creating his own space, moving "in mythical regions," 486; 658;
666; after the firing, 672; 721; deciding to sacrifice Gottfried, 724;
757
Blizna
424; in Poland; site of A4 testing in 1943; SS project run by Kammler
Bloat, Teddy
5; rooms w/Pirate; photographs Slothrop's map, 17; 181
Blobadjian, Igor
353; party representative in the G Committee (WLA)
Bodine, Seaman
369; Doper's Dream; was on the Destroyer John E. Badass docked in
Cuxhaven; 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; 741
Borges, Jorge Luis
264; Argentinian writer of fiction/fantasy
Borgesius, Katje (sounds like: "Gotcha")
92; was in Blicero's Hansel & Gretel game, p 96) w/Gottfried, spying
for allies; turned in Jews to keep the Germans from suspecting her;
quits the game, 107; escapes to Arnhem; Pirate takes her to White
Visitation, 105; later sent to French Riviera to entrap Slothrop
(Grigori grabs her - conditioned by film made of her secretly, 92;
"quits the game," 104; Pirate takes her to White Visitation, 106;
octopus incident, 185-89; "Meet me in my room," 191; futureless look,
208; connection with Slothrop, 209; disappears, 226; 533; discovers
film used w/Grigori, 533; w/Pirate again, 545; 620; 656; Golden
Bitch, 658; travelling w/Enzian, 729
Bounce, Hillary
240; works for Shell Int'l Petroleum; had dealings w/IG Farben in '32;
teaches Slothrop about propulsion at Casino; at de la Pelimpinpin's
party, 245
Brennschluss
6; German: "end of fuel"; end of rocket's climb when fuel is cut-off
and it gives way to gravity; 223; of the sun, 711
Brocken
329; mountain 20 mi NW of Mittelwerke, "plexus of German evil"; place
where God-shadows occur at sunrise, 330; 759
bulbs
at Rathenau seance, 165; 299; Weissman's soul, 427; sentient bulbs,
464; 506; 512; Byron the Bulb, 647, 745; Mutter: what Germans call
female threads of light bulb sockets, 653; 665; bulbshine, 697
Bummer, Emil ("Saure")
365; wheelerdealer in Berlin; 621; 641; "Ass-backwards," 683; "Der
Platz," 686; 745
Casino Hermann Goering
181; casino on French Riviera where Slothrop is sent; Himmler-
Spielsaal gaming room; 3 girls: Ghislaine, Francois & Yvonne, 183, 187
cause and effect
30; "junk cause-and-effect entirely, and strike off at some other
angle," 89; 161; and secular history, 167; [Leni not cause-and-effect
oriented/Franz is; Pointsman is/Mexico isn't]
Center
Holy-Center-Approaching (Zonal pasttime), 508; 509; fleeing the, 519;
Returning to the Center, 757; (See also Cycle of Return)
Cherrycoke, Ronald
146; psychometrist in Psi Section; "undertakes . . . trips into Nora
Dodson-Truck's void"; 639
chess
246; on Waxwing's card; 248; Wimpe's analogy, 344; chessboard of the
Zone, 376; Knight, 401; Weissman & Ilse playing, 408; metaphor, 417;
= War, 423; 472; the Castle, 486; 494; knight for bishop, 563;
Slothrop & Pokler playing, 576; knight, 602; Tchcherine, 611; 655;
666; 674; Laufer (chess bishop), 666, 683
Chicago Bar
435; where Saure Bummer hangs out
Chiclitz, Clayton "Bloody"
558; fat, bald w/hornrimmed glasses; American industrialist w/T-Force
scouting German engineering (esp. secret weaponry; owns a toy factory
in Nutley, NJ; he's running the fur operation, employing 30 kids whom
he eventually wants to take to Hollywood to be movie stars
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; "the city of the future where every soul is known, and there is
noplace to hide"
Control
30; illusion of, 30; Pointsman "must never lose control," 144; 209;
238; 277; 387; of Ilse, of love, 414; 415; "innocence and its many
uses" in a corporate State, 419; 539; 581
Cosmic Bomb
539; 544
croquet
200
Custodian of the Night
434; smooth-faced, neutral, coiled & pale (serpent-like)
Cuxhaven
On the north coast of Germany in the British sector
Cycle of Return
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 (celestrial cyclist), 509; serpentine, 520; 540; 560; Destiny,
576; wheels in the sky, 620; Cosmic windmill, 624; 627; windmill,
670; mandala, 152, 719; Serpent/Pan, 720-21; America, 722-23; 726;
garbage trucks, 757; (See also Center)
de la Nuit, Rev. Paul
81; house chaplain at White Visitation
de la Pelimpinpin, Raoul
244; throws big party where hollandaise is spiked with hashish & Italo
& Tamara have it out with tanks
De Profundus, Nick
295
death
30; Lord of the Night, 48-49; "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; 239; 296; 299; 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; 374; Evil Hour (white woman), 439;
culture of, 445; 453; Greta lying w/corpse, 483; North, 524; Angel,
328, 536; 539; 540; 578; 579; "northern journeys to final ice," 589;
northern Germany was territory of the dead in prehistoric times, 612;
616; 624; 628; Lilith, Queen of the Night, 649; Night of the Other,
649; and shit, 688; "the farther north, the plainer things grow," 692;
religion and, 701; the World before men It is our mission to promote
death), 720; Analysis and, 722; Deathkingdom, 723; weird death, 742;
deep beauty of, 746; Zhlubb's imagined, 756; whitening, 759;
Dillinger, John
516; killed at Biograph Theatre; 741
Dodson-Truck, Nora
145; lover of Carroll Eventyr; erotic nihilist; 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; 541; 639
Dog Vanya
78; dog in ARF wing undergoing conditioning experiments
Domina Nocturna
234; Katje's S&M character to satisfy Pudding so Pointsman can keep
funding
Dora
289; prison camp next to Mittelwerke, mostly foreign prisoners, 427;
175s (homosexual inmates), 665
DP
281; displaced person
Drohne
487; "plastics connoisseure" at The Castle
Durbin, Deanna
599; driver of Red Cross Clubmobile which is hijacked by Bodine
Dzabajev
390; Tchicherine's sidekick/driver; 564; posing as Frank Sinatra in
the Zone, 700; w/Slothrop, 742; Village Idiot Convention, 743
Edelman, Steve
Tales of the Schwarzkommando, Collected by, 315; "Kabbalist
spokesman," 753
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
A4 as "mockery of . . . the reversible process," 139; Pointsman
"lapsing to isotropy," 142; reverse, 204; Maxwell's Demon, 239; Clerk
Maxwell, 411; 257; management, 260; Rossini's music is "love without
payment of any kind," 274; 282; 302; painkillers w/o addiction, 348;
cocaine & the A4, 375; drifting away, 405; "a system whose only aim is
to violate the Cycle," 412; Morituri - "just keep moving," 479;
irreversible process, 519, 524, 589; potatoes used for rockets--no
food, 550, 640; Wm. Slothrop's pigs, 555; information, 642; haircut,
643; Karmic Hammer, 644; Floundering Four each gifted & flawed by the
gift, 675; icebox, 678; Great Irreversible, 745
Enzian, Oberst
100; named by Weissman/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
Tchicherine; Weissmann's Monster, 404; 499; search for the True Text,
525; w/Katje, 658; Suave Older Exotic, 662; and the 00001, 724
Erdman, Margherita (Greta)
364; German film actress; mother of Bianca; star of von Goll's
Alpdrucken; worked for von Goll is vaguely pornographic horror
movies; murdering Jewish children, 477-78; w/Max Schlepzig in Jugend
Herauf! ("upwards youth!"), 483
Erdschweinhohle
315; underground communities of Hereros living in Germany; delegates,
538
Evans, Jeremiah ("Merciful")
541; "well-known politcal informer from Pembroke"
Eventyr, Carroll
31; Medium at White Visitation in the Abbey in south England; lover of
Nora D-T; his story, 145; 238; 706; 715
Evil Hour
439; when the white woman comes out; white woman, 658
excrement
Slothrop's toilet adventure, 64; earth's excrement (coal tars), 166;
"Colonies are the outhouses of the European soul," 317; coprophilia &
urolagnia, 319; Outase (Herero for "shit"), 325; baby Ilse's, 418;
giant turds, 485; Bianca, 531; "Europe died meanly in its own wastes,"
616; Byron down the toilet, 652; 654; "shit . . . is the color white
folks are afraid of," 688; 721; 739; 757
Feel, Osbie
5; cultivates pharmaceutical plants on the roof of Pirate's
maisonette; doper at White Visitation -- "the house idiot-savant", 92;
533; Doper's Greed - film w/2 cowboys + midget, 534; stoned, 536; 620;
638
Feldspath, Roland
30; expert on control systems, guidance equations; spirit in seance;
wife: Selena; 238-39
Felipe
383; "difficult young poet" on U-boat; 612
Fibel, Bert
586; worked w/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; 687
Fickt es!
158; German: "fuck it"
Film/cartoon references
Katje, 92, 112; "medium shot," 142; Sachsa seance, 152; 229; 365;
Zorro, 376; Green Hornet, 376; 386; scoring, 398; 406-07; successive
stills, 407; 423; Good Ship Lollipop , 466; on the other side of the
camera, 494; cartoon-y, 498; 527-28; 542; 567; 577; Klein-Rogge,
Rudolph (actor - Pokler's favorite), 578; as Dr. Mabuse, 579;
Metropolis by Fritz Lang, 578; The Bride of Frankenstein, 591; Bugs
Bunny, 592; Rin-Tin-Tin, 614; Betty Davis & Margaret Dumont, 619; A
Day At The Races, 619; 637; 641; Dracula, 652; 663; Floundering Four,
674-80; WWII situation comedy, 692; documentary style, 738; chase
music, 751; Superman, 751; Phillip Marlowe, 752; Fritz Lang, Die Frau
in Mond, 753
Fitzmaurice House
215; Stephen Dodsun-Truck works there; 221; 228
Flebotomo, Cesar
184; manager of Casino Hermann Goering
Floundering Four, the
674-80; (1) Myrtle Miraculous - performs miracles; (2) Maximilian -
Negro w/natural rhythms ("all rhythms, up to and including the
cosmic"); (3) Marcel - "a mechanical chessplayer" ("exquisite 19th-
century brainwork"); (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
Galina
339; worked for Tchicherine in C. Asia; "connoisseuse of silences";
705
General Electric
448; connections w/Siemens, 565; Swope/Business Advisory Council, 581;
Joe Kennedy and, 682; 712
Germans
mania for subdividing, 391, 448; "connection between the German mind
and the rapid flashing of successive stills to counterfeit movement,"
407; dialectic, 440; analysis of pot, 442;
Geschwindig, Hansel
651; Weimar street urchen who steals Byron the Bulb from the
glassblower (German: "swift")
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
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
Gottfried
96; German: "God's peace"; 465; "the young pet and protege of Captain
Blicero," 484; "something was being planned" for, 485; 721; his
launch, 750
gravity
"Gravity's rainbow": parabola created by the rocket's trajectory; 538;
583; 584; 590; 639; 672; 700; 709; 723; 737; wine rush defying, 743;
758; 759
Grigori
51; aka Grischa; octopus conditioned by Pointsman to abduct Katje in
order to get at Slothrop; shown movie of Katje, 112; attacks Katje,
186; Waxwing sez it never happened, 248; octopus as metaphor, 611
Groast, Rollo
79; works in ARF wing; with Greta, 474
Gross Suckling Conference
706; attended by Eventyr, Gwinhidwy, Mexico, Morituri - discuss
mandalas
Gustav, (last name: Schlabone)
366; buddy of Saure Bummer; 621; 2d violin at Krupp affair (aka
"Captain Horror"), 711; at Der Platz, 745
Gwinhidwy, Thomas
169; at White Visitation; one of the keepers of The Book; 639; 706
Haftung, G.M.B.
496; "ulcerous impresario" aboard Gnahb's boat
Hand of Providence/God
26-27; "the great bright hand reaching out of the cloud," 29;
Invisible Hand, 30; "giving Slothrop the finger," 461; illustrated,
566; "There is a Hand . . .," 760
Harz, the
German: "resin"; mountain range famous for ancient spiritual rituals
and for canaries; 289; 313; 328
Hawasch
455; aerodynamics person on S-Gerat project
Hereros
153; ex-colonials from the Sudwest (South-West Africa) living in
Germany; in exile in Germany for 2 generations, 315; "Last pocket of
pre-Christian oneness," 321; village layed out like a mandala, 321;
Gondwanaland, 321; Ovatjimba (aardvark) people, 403; almost wiped out
by Germans in 1904, 452; Christian, Maria & Pavel, 518; washing-blue
"abortifacient," 519; St. Pauli (washing-blue connection), 525; 657;
Christian, 673; 728
Hieropons
152; sedative narcotic
Hilbert-Spaess, Sammy
217; double agent; 540
history
secular, 167; living underneath history, 589; rock's perspective, 612-
13; predestined shape of, 701
humor
"winejelly" incident, 116; "show us your papers!," 442; orgy on
Anubis, 467; Frau Gnahb's criticisms, 497; pinball machines run amuck,
583; "I say ...," 634; "helecopter!," 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; village in Mecklenberg taken over by army dogs
Ibarguengoitia
384; Argentinian contact in Zurich
Ichizo
See Komical Kamikazis
ICI
35; Imperial Chemicals; aka "Icy Eye"; Clive Mossmoon works there
doing polymer research; 712
Icy Noctiluca
311; flares
Idea of the Opposite
Pavlov's, 87; opposites brought together, 100; not one without the
other; preterite/elect; injurer/injured; open spaces v. city, 341;
343; fuel & oxidizer and agressor & victim as paired opposites, 403;
"we define each other," 495; counterforce in Zone, 536, 611, "double
minded in the massive presence of money," 712; pigs, 555; balance,
580; 610; 621; 721
IG Farben
163; Interessengemenschaft - a fellowship of interests - chemical
company; Stickstoff Syndicate, 580
Imipolex G
242; a new plastic, aromatic heterocyclic polymer, developed by Jamf
in '39 for IG Farben; used as insulation for rocket; details of
ownership, 250; 260; skinsuit at The Castle ("the material of the
future"),487; Imipolectique, 490; aromatic polyimide, 576;
characteristics of, 699; shroud of, 751; 754
Information
"a net of information," 165; "the only real medium of exchange," 258;
lost messages, 322, 520; "it's only," 650
interface
cortex as, 79, 144, 166-68; assassination, 164; coal and steel, 166;
water-gasoline, 523; 666; 668; 700; 729-30; 731
Jamf, Laszlo
48; the guy who conducted sexual conditioning experiments on "Infant
Tyrone" (see pg 84); taught Pokler polymer theory at Technische
Hochschule, 161; worked for Psychochemie AG (Grossli Chemical Corp), a
spinoff of Sandoz - Zurich; Jamf buried in Zurich; "never really
alive", 261; 387; Jamf Olfabriken (oil factory) Werke AG, 520;
"discoverer" of Oneirine, 522; hatred of covalent bond, 577; 623;
646; 655; "there never was a," 738
Joint, Dennis
272; representative from Shell Mex House at PISCES
Kabbalists
649; 749-53; (See also, Qlippoth)
Kammler, Maj-Gen
282; at Blizna, 424; decision to disburse testing and production
sites, 426; 464
Kekule von Stradonitz, Friedrich August
410; his "dream of 1865" which led to his revolutionizing chemistry
and making plastics possible; taught by Liebig at Univ. of Glessen,
411
Kenosha Kid
60-71, 696; Sodium Amytal hallucination of Slothrop's while being
probed at PISCES about American racial problems; colonel from Kenosha,
WI, 643; Old Kenosho, the loony radarman," 691
King Kong
179; Mitchell Prettyplace book about, 275; 664; 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
Komical Kamikazis
690; Takeshi & Ichizo; 697; 738
Kot
German: "shit"
Krypton, Albert
594; "corpsman striker of the U.S.S. John E. Badass "; doper buddy of
Bodine's
Kummersdorf
416; site of old Raketenflugplatz
Lerner, Sgt. Howard ("Slow")
641
Le Froyd, Reg
73; Inmate of White Visitation who in 1925 escaped and leaped into the
sea
Leunagasolin
523; "synthetic gasoline"; Moss Creature, Water Gian & Fungus Pygmies
(Pavel's hallucinations), 523
LSD
586; "a touch of acid"
Luba
339; worked for Tchicherine in C. Asia
Lubeck
151; civilian town which the RAF bombed on Palm Sunday, provoking
German rocket attacks on London
Lucifer Amp
542; "verminous, hairy creature" that used to work for SOE
Ludwig
553; kid who has lemming named "Ursula"; shadowing the Swartzkommando,
729; w/Thanatz, 736
Luz
383; w/Felipe on U-boat; also "Squalidozzi's girl"
Magda
365; Saure's sidekick; 742
Marcel
See Floundering Four
Masons
580; 587-88; 660; Masonic plots, 587; 630-31
Marvy, Maj. Duane
281; w/US Army Ordnance, Technical Intelligence; 286; 307; 331; 363;
Atomic Chili, 557; purchases cocaine from Bodine at Putzi's, 604;
castrated, 609;
Maximilian
See Floundering Four
McGonigle, Pvt. Paddy "Electro"
641; hand-pedals the twin-generator cranks for light bulb during THE
HAIRCUT
melanin
72; Encrypted message rec'd by Pirate which is de-crypted by rubbing
cum on it; melanin-encrypted message; Trefoil's talent, 147
meta-solutions
100; knocking over the chessboard; shooting the referee
Mexico, Roger
31; 30 years old; works with Pirate Prentiss in Psi Section; grows
bananas; the "anti-pointsman," 55; paranoia,124; at Whitsun by the
sea, 273; missing Jessica, 626; pissing on Mossmoon's table, 636; 706;
foam rubber phallus, 708; at Krupp party, 711
mindless pleasures
270; original title ofGravity's Rainbow; 681
Mittelwerke
283; German rocket factory at Nordhausen (next to Dora prison camp;
designed like a ladder w/Stollen (rung-tunnels), 299; control systems
work was done outside mountain in castles, farms etc, 313; tactical
sites elsewhere, 427; abandoned in T45, 432
Mondaugen, Kurt
161; electical engineer who went to Sudwest; 402-04; accepted Hitler
on basis of his "Demian-metaphysics"; bodhisattva of Peenemunde, 403;
was in Sudwest, lived with Ovatjimba (aardvark) people, the poorest
Hereros, 403; 1922 - in Sudwest w/Weissmann during siege of Foppl's
villa, 408; Mondaugen's Law, 509; Verein fur Raumschiffahrt, 582;
687
Moon
true message to Hereros, 322; Ilse and, 410; cycles, 414; 608; 657;
723
Morituri, Ensign
467; his story, 474; irony of radium/Hiroshima, 479-80; 672; 706
Moss Creature
523; hallucination of Pavel during Leunagasolin high
Mossmoon, Clive
35; works for ICI doing polymer research; husband of Scorpia; 22; 544;
615; 635
Mossmoon, Scorpia
35; had an affair with Pirate in 1936; wife of Clive; 544; 698
Mother Conspiracy
505; Otto Gnahb's theory about mothers
Mravenko
611; "one of the VIAM people"
Mucker-Maffick, Oliver "Tantivy"
18 ; shares office w/Slothrop at ACHTUNG; w/Slothrop at Casino;
disappears - death confirmed, 252; Slothrop's dream of his return, 551
Muffage, Doctor
591; w/Dr. Spontoon, out to castrate Slothrop
Mukuru
322; Hereros' "first ancestor, Adam"; breath of, 524; 562
music
Beethoven "never got further than statements of intention," 273;
Rossini's La Gazza Ladra ("love without payment of any kind"), 274;
Wagner, 324; symphony of the North, 327; Hugo Wolf, 419; Beethoven v.
Rossini, 440; H. Wolf/Wagner, 450; death of Webern, 494; Tristan und
Isolde , 505; Weill, 513; Guy Lombardo, 529; Gilbert & Sullivan, 538;
574; Offenbach, 584; 621; 622; rocket attack, 627; blues, 643; Spike
Jones, 678; Sinatra, 700; Haydn Kazoo Quartet, 711-12
Myrtle Miraculous
See Floundering Four
N.T.A.
339; New Turkic Alphabet imposed on Central Asia
naming
302; 321; act of, 322; 366; Nameless Thing, 341;German mania for
name-giving, separating namer from named, 391; 443; 464; 477;
"verbal, ranked and uniformed," 478; 589; 590; 668
Narrisch, Klaus
456; German: "foolish, crazy"; worked w/Achtfaden on S-Gerat; at
Peenemunde w/Slothrop et al, 495; "guidance man," 516; under
narcohypnosis - captured by Russians for his guidance knowledge, 563
Neubabelsberg
364; location of the Havel where Potsdam Conference was held
Nordhausen
240; location of central rocket works; given to Soviets per Yalta
Agreement; Americans crating out A4 rockets before Russians take over,
295; "dwellings in the north," 322
nouns as verbs
fingernailed; osmosed, 213; dopplering, 310; sneaky-peteing, 508
Ombindi, Joseph
319; of Hanover; leader of Empty Ones; 519; 732
Omnopon, Andre
711; violist in Kazoo Quartet
Oneirine
166; (oneiric - "dreamlike"; intoxicant developed by Jamf--induces
time modulation, 389; 463-64; 684; 702; Pokler singularity, 702
Operation Black Wing
74; demoralization scheme devised by DJ Myron Grunton inventing a
black army of ex-colonials from South-West Africans (Sudwest) (based
on the real Hereros) in Germany who've formed a secret army known as
Schwarzkommando; SHAEF arrangement; Slothrop undergoing "light
narcosis to help illuminate racial problems in his own county."--75;
616
Operation Backfire
272; British rocket-scavenging effort based in Cuxhaven; 526; 709
Orukambe, Andreas
325; w/Enzian, 518; 562; 657-58
OSS
268; Office of Strategic Services - U.S. (oss = bone)
Overbaby, Terence
151; St. Blaise's wingman; seance held for
paper
282; 315; 318; 340; 352; 355; 406; paper brain, 421; 426; 432; 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; 623; 632; 669; 728
parabola
209; 238; at Mittelwerke, 298; 372; 409; Ellipse of Uncertainty, 425,
427 436; inverted, 437; I-V-I trap, 443; Ellipse, 509; planet
Katspiel where sentient pinballs live, 584; paraboloid death mirror,
728; U, 755
paranoia
"seeking other orders behind the visible" - Puritan reflex, 187;
education at Harvard is a front, 193; Proverbs, 237, 241, 251, 262;
Paranoid Systems of History, 238; night voices in Hotel Nimbus in
Zurich, 255-56; 332; England/China/ India, 346; 355; 359; 364; 367;
374; 381; crossing solipsisms, 395; 400; 420; anti-paranoia, 434;
"They extinguish ... not remind," 438; Devil behind the mirror, 444;
446; 500; 518; 520; 521; 528; 539; 566; 572; the fate of
"truthseekers," 582; "simulated randomness," 586; Masonic plots, 587;
603; 616; 630-31; song, 657; "Paranoid for the Day," 691; Dark Dream,
697; "everything is connected," 703; the man and the white albatross,
712-13; "their pet, or death" (Byron's dilemma), 713; S & M, 737 [my
own paranoia in looking for connections in GR where none may
exist!]
Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich
8; "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; The Book, 87;
"extinction of a conditioned reflex," 84-85; "believed that the ideal
is the true mechanical explanation," 89; 90
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; British air raid in T43 ("beginning of the end"), 423
Pensiero, Pfc. Eddie
640-41; company barber; "connoisseure of shivers"
Perdoo, Floyd
270; SEZ WHO guy hired by Pointsman to check out Slothrop sexual
conquests
Pflaumbaum
159-60; "Jew" who owned the paint factory where Pokler worked briefly-
--tried to create patterned paint; 582
Phoebus
649; international lighb-bulb cartel headquartered in Switzerland, run
by Int'l GE, Osram and Associated Electrical Industries of Britain;
determines operational lives of bulbs; 745
Plasticman
206; comic book character; 331
Pointsman, Roger
37; Pavlovian at White Visitation; Slothrop's nemesis; sees Slothrop
as his ticket to the bigtime; "can only possess the zero and the one,"
55; the "Antimexico," 89; fantasizes winning Nobel Prize, 142; begins
to lose it at Whitsun by the sea, 273; working out of Twelfth House in
London, 533; 392; in disgrace, 615; ICI, 631; 644; 752
Poisson Distribution
54; how the bombs fall; Slothrop's sexual-encounter pattern, 55, 85
Pokler, Franz
153; young German chemical engineer; father of Ilse; "cause-and-effect
man"; worked in paint factory; put up fliers for Schlepzig's film,
160; then stumpled on rocket launching and meets Mondaugen, 161; came
to Nordhausen in '44; worked in Mittelwerke in factory run by SS;
conceiving Ilse, 397; moved to Peenemunde in T37, 404; sense of
drifting away, 405;Victim in a Vacuum, 414; imagined sex w/Ilse, 420;
unique destiny of, 423; moved to Blizna, 424; transferred to the Harz,
Mittelwerke in T44; quits the game, 430; special destiny to develop
plastic for propulsion section of S-Gerat 00000, 431; puts wedding
ring on dying woman at Dora, 433; w/Frieda the pig at Zwolfkinder,
575; 687
Pokler, Leni
153; married to Franz Pokler; affair w/Sachsa; mother of Ilse; active
in KPD; as "Solange" at Putzi's, 603
Pokler, Ilse
397; daughter of Franz & Leni Pokler; shows up, 407, 418; in Dora
camp, 408; 576; she's okay, 610
Porkyevitch, Dr.
51; in charge of Grigori the devilfish; after 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); powers got together to
divide Germany; like a big party/Hollywood premier, 380
Prentiss, Capt. Geoffrey "Pirate"
5; lives in maisonette in Chelsea; w/Special Operations Executive
(SOE), aka the "Firm"; works w/Teddy Bloat; brought Katje to White
Visitation,106; 274; 536; at Convention/Garden of double agents, 537;
going to Berlin, 619; can no longer live other's fantasies, 620; 637;
698
Preterite
110; Calvinist/Puritan doctrine of the Elect (the chosen) and the
Preterite (the passed-over, the damned); at Rathenau seance, 163; 548;
defining of opposites, 554; Judas, 555; 667; 668; "the glozing
neuters of the world," 677; (See also Hand of Providence/God)
Principle of Least Effort
32; Zipf's
Procalowski, Antoni & Stefania
460 (misspelled "Procalowska"); own the Anubis; 488; 529
Psi Section
76; paranormal branch of SOE
Pudding, Ernest, Old Brigadier
76; WWI vet in charge of the White Visitation (first mention: 48; and
Domina Nocturna, 234; dies of "massive E.coli infection," 533; 715
Putzi's
527; club of Dorum Road in Cuxhaven where Springer says Slothrop can
pick up his papers; 595; arrival at, 602
PWD
76; Political Warfare Division
PWE
76; Political Warfare Executive
Qlippoth
176; Shells of the Dead; 590; 661; 746; 748; 750
Qulan, Dzaqyp
340; Georgian Kirghiz who was Tchicherine's "faithful Kirghiz
companion"; father killed by Russians in 1916
Radnichny
353; impetuous and unstable practical joker in Weird Letter Assignment
rainbow
209; 369; 524; 626; 637; 721; 722; 726
Raketen-Stadt
296; Rocket City in the Mittelwerke; created by Olsch (under Speer)
"To Avoid Symmetry, Allow Complexity, Introduce Terror," 297; 660; and
"the Floundering Four," 674
ratchet
257; 282; 547; 607; 611; 681; "CATCH," 759
Rathenau, Walter
163; late foreign minister who was assassinated; prophet and architect
of cartelized state; seance of, 163-65; dealt the Rapallo Treaty
("elaborate piece of theatre" - 352) w/Tchicherine's father, 338; 581
religion
"every true god must be both organizer and destroyer," 99; Chance =
God, 323, 613; always about death, 701
Rilke
97; German philosopher/poet; "Want the change; O be inspired by the
Flame"; Tenth Elegy, 341; "Once, only once ...," 413; 516; 622; 644;
mustache, 711
Ripov, Nikolai
700; of Commissariat for Intelligence Activies; checks up on
Tchicherine; 703; 719
Rocket
239; Slothrop's discovery of blueprint, 242; 324; 359; cult of A4 (A
= "aggregate"), 391; Pokler's dreams of, 399; leading to freedom of
outerspace, 400; money v. dreams, 400; Pokler extension of, 402; as
fat Japanese arrow, 403; growing towards a predestined shape
(Shiksal), 416; A5, 416; mapped to face, 423; A4 test sites moved to
Blizna, Poland in T43 - 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; cartel, 566;
sign of, 624; 706; 727; "it comes as the Revealer," 728; Goebbel's
"avenger," 747; origin of countdown, 753; (See also Schwarzgerat)
Rocketman
366; comic dialogue, 371; 376; exists in nongeographical space, 379;
war cry="Hauptstufe" - "leaps broad highways in a single bound!," 380;
"Fickt nicht mit der Raketemensch!," 436; 512; 596
Rorschach Test
81; a "projective" test - given unstructured stimulus, the subject
imposes structure on it
Rossini
204; 253, 248, 273; his music: "love without payment of any kind,"
274; 684
Rossokovski
501; left Peenemunde w/White Russian Army
Routinization of Charisma
81; concept developed by Max Weber; 201; 325; N.T.A., 339; 416;
routinization of sex, 467-68; 508; 525; topiary, 535; "grim
rationalizing of the world," 588; 651; Keying Waves, 698; Hexes-Stadt
(you either become a bureaucrat or choose the world), 718; (See also
naming)
Rozhdestvenski, Admiral
349; doomed voyage of 1904 on Suvorov that killed Tchicherine's
father
Rozsavolgyi, Dr. Geza
79; Hungarian; works in ARF wing; violently anti-Soviet; at Twelfth
House, 632; son of Sandor the bulb salesman in Transylvania, 647; 692
Sachsa, Peter
31; the "control" in Psi Section; lover of Leni Pokler; medium at
Rathenau seance, 163-65; dies in communist street action in 1930 in
Neukolln by Schutzmann Joche, a Nazi cop, 220
Schadenfreude
526; German: "joy at another's misfortune"
Schlabone, Gustav
See Gustav
Schlepzig, Max
Franz Pokler putting up handbills for a movie of, 165; name on
Slothrop's pass to get into Potsdam Conference, 377; also: actor in
von Goll films who whipped Erdman ("the Reich's Sweethearts)," 395
Schnorp
332; Geli's friend who gives Slothrop balloon ride to Berlin
Schwarzgerat
252; aka S-Gerat; 00000; 292; for sale for .5M francs by guy in
Swinemunde who waits on Strand-Promenade until noon daily; details,
517; 563; 611; firing on Luneberg Heath, 667; 706; as womb, 750
Schwarzkommando
74-75; German: "blackcommand"; black rocket troops; 112; found out
about 1 week before VE Day 276; to create Nazi empire in black Africa,
Hitler trained troops in Sudwest; failure; now they're in Germany
working on rocket, 286; Slothrop runs into 2 dozen on train to
Nordhausen, 286; Herero rocket troops, assembling a rocket for one
last stand, 326; mandala is 5 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; 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; troubleshooter around the Cartel; worked for Sandoz
Science/Physics/Math
Poisson Distribution, 54-55; Monte Carlo Fallacy, 56; Murphy's Law,
275; Godel's Theorem, 275, 320; benzene, 412; aromatic Ring, 413;
collapse of wave function (branching), 524; image of chaos/molecules,
549; "the fork in the road America never took," 556; covalent v. Ionic
bonding, 577; C--H, Si--N, 580; Fourier analysis, 641; Ft, 159, 664;
Cypridinae (glows multishaded blue in the dark), 691; Otyiyumbu
Indeterminacy Relation, 700; "he's only real at the points of
decision" (aka collapse of wave function), 702; extreme sensitivity
to initial conditions, 729; 754
seance
30; 4-way entente: medium; control; spirit; survivor; Feldspath, 30;
Overbaby, 152; Rathenau, 163-67; "sensitive flames," 715
self-reference
Rorschach Test, 81; Pynchon (?), 207; GR Kultists (?), 275; swirling
fog of details, 326; GET IT?, 413; 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; "You will
want cause and effect," 663; testing the reader, 676; "this diffuse,
through 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 (TP?), 738; "I wanna go back north, to Humboldt
County," 740; "your correspondent," 755
Semyavin
258; local Waxwing rep in Zurich?
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), 711; 740; 749; 760
Shatsk
352; nose-fetishist in Weird Letter Assignments
Siemens-Schuchert
284; horizonal electrical trust put together by Stinnes; 565; 587; 725
Siemens, Wernher
649
Silvernail, Webley
79; works in ARF wing at White Visitation; in rat production number,
229; 533; 620
Slothrop, William
364; Tyrone's ancestor who came to US in 1630 on Arabella ; On
Preterition - published in England, burned in Boston, 555; returned to
England and died there missing USA, 556; his hymn, 760
Slothrop, Broderick
285; Tyrone's father; aka "Schwarzvater" (Jamf), 286; sold
experimental rights to Tyrone to Jamf for $5000 for Harvard education;
Paternal Peril, 674; 677
Slothrop, Nalline
360; Tyrone's mother; 674; letter to Joe Kennedy, 682; 711
Slothrop, Lt. Tyrone
18; aka "Schwartzknabe" (Jamf), 286; aka "Ian Scuffling" (Waxwing);
works at ACHTUNG; genealogy, 26; toilet adventure of T38-'39, 64,
688; getting paranoid, 114; The Penis He Thought Was His Own, 216;
escape to Nice, 253; goes to Zurich, 257; goes to Geneva, 266; gets
Jamf Sandoz dossier, 268; arrives at Nordhausen, 281; meet Geli
Tripping, 290; "what is this place doing to his brain?," 333; in
Berlin, 359; aka Rocketman (Raketemensch), 359; clue to his existence
("it'll be months" from the Potsdam Conf.), 381; nabbed by
Tchicherine, 383; back in Berlin, 433; hasn't been thinking about S-
Gerat-Jamf-Imipolex G for awhile - summer T45, 434; vulnerability to
"pretty little girls," 465; his drink: Irish whiskey & water, 463;
dreaming of Llandudno, 467; w/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; remembers, 530; dropped off at
Stralsund, 532; 549; "is he drifting?," 556; dissipating, 561; jumped
by Schwarzkommando, 562; Plechazunga ("Pig-Hero"), 567; being used by
Tchicherine, 612; discussed by Mossmoon & Scammony, 615; "out of it"
[quitting the game??], 622; "complete connectedness," 623; "feeling
natural," 626; 627; harmonica playing heard, 642; 658; adventures of
the Floundering Four, 674; wishy-washy, sniveling, 679; 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; 740; appearance on cover
of LP by "The Fool," 742; Uncle Tyrone, 744
Smaragd, Generaldirektor
164-166; Nazi w/IG Farben; at The Castle ("elderly man who used a
cane"); from Leverkusen; notorious spiritualist before the War--486
Snake
342; Tchicherine's horse (methodically homicidal; unpredictable);
Gretel's (Greta Erdmann's) co-star in Weisse Sandwuste von Neumexiko,
482
snowdrops
GIs
Snoxall's
32; Pub where Slothrop & Tantivy hung out
Sodium Amytal
55; used on Slothrop; induces "toilet"/Kenosha Kid episode; used on
von Goll, 511, 514
Solange
603; "masseuse" at Putzi's
SOE
5; Special Operations Executive; aka the "Firm," 12; "no one has ever
left the Firm alive," 543; 620
Spectro, Dr. Kevin
"neurologist and casual Pavlovian" at St. Veronica's. One of the
original seven owners of The Book, 47; killed in rocket hit on St.
Veronica's, 138
Speed, Harvey
270; SEZ WHO guy hired by Pointsman to check out Slothrop sexual
conquests
Speer, Albert
411; architect for Third Reich
SPOG
272; Special Projectiles Operations Group; Operation Backfire is part
of it; 595
Spontoon, Doctor
591; w/Dr. Muffage, out to castrate Slothrop; has a black spade on his
cheek
Sporri
455; aerodynamics people on S-Gerat project; 684
Spree-Oder Canal
433; in the Russian sector of Berlin, where Slothrop & Margherita stay
Springer, der
376; 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 Amytal, 511, 514; (See also von
Goll, Gerhard)
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; 613; 681
SS
206; 230; cheSS, 248; "sibilant weave," 152; 299, 300, 302, S-curve,
380; double-summing, 411; [many names w/"ss" in them]
St. Veronica
46; of the True Image for Colonic and Respiratory Diseases;
St. Veronica wiped Christ's forehead with her veil while he carried
the cross
St. Blaise, Group Capt. "Basher"
146; sees angel of death during RAF Lubeck strike, 151
St.-Just Grossout
540; blackman worked for Firm infiltrating Schwarzkommando (aka "Sam
Juiced")
Stinnes, Hugo
284; Wunderkind of European finance; codename "Schwindel" by Jamf;
worked w/Rathenau in German during WWI; blamed for the Inflation; 579
Sundial
472; cartoon character
Swanlake, Jessica
30; works at A.T.S.; girlfriend of Jeremy "Old Beaver", 121; wartime
affair w/Roger Mexico; 627; 631; 640; 707
Takeshi
See Komical Kamikazis
Tannhauserism
299; love of being taken under mountains
Tarot
Judgment, 152; The Fool, 501; 746-49
Tchicherine, Vaslav
290; Soviet intelligence officer; half-brother of Enzian; "mad
scavenger" who officially reports to the TsAGE (Central Aero &
Hydrodynamics Institute in Moscow) (1935-36); has need to annihilate
the Schwarzkommando and "his mythical half-brother Enzian" ; comes
from Nihilist stock, 337; stationed in Central Asia in "early Stalin
days," 338; "a raving snowman over the winter marshes" "a giant
supermolecule . . . so many open bonds available," 345; illumination
of, 611; 700; initiation into "bodyhood of steel," 702; "the Red
Doper," 719; meets Enzian, 734; stays w/Geli, 735
TDY
54; temporary duty
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre
539; Jesuit paleontologist and mystical philosopher
Thanatz, Miklos
461; husband of Greta Erdman; aka Karel; with Blicero, 464; "like
Miklos Thanatz reads whip-scars," 641; w/Pole who wants lightening to
hit him, 663; at Sachsa's seances, 668; kidnapped by anti-Lublinites,
669; sex w/Bianca, 670; taken by Schwarzkommando, 671; "he lost
Gottfried," 671; 736
theater
3; 326; 352; 521; 760
They
195; "two orders of being," 202; 219; no physical locale, 251; We-
system (anti-rational), 638; 694; (See also paranoia)
Thuringia
640; region of East Germany near the Czech border; Thuringian, 240
time
all at once,165; secular, 169; 193; "the clock ratcheting time
minutewise into their past," 193; future/past, 400; "the oneway flow
of European time," 724; Aether flows through time, 726; 752
Toiletship
448; aka Rucksichtslos; Swinemunde to Helgoland, 450
Tracy, Alfonso
582; owned the defective pinball machines
Treacle, Edwin
146; recent dreams of flight;153; in Psi Section
Trefoil, Gavin
147; can change the melanin content of his skin and change color
Tripping, Geli (pronounced: "Gaily")
290; lover of Tchitcherine; lives in Nordhausen; lover of Slothrop;
thinks she's a witch, 500; witch ritual, 717; w/Tchitcherine, 733-35
Trudi
365; Saure's sidekick; her boyfriend is Gustav, 366; 741
U-boat
383; hijacked by Argentinians who are exiled and want to set up a
boundryless state in Germany after the war (central gov't v. gaucho
anarchism)
u.s.w.
298; und so weiter (German: "and so on")
Ur-Heimat
486; "original homeland"
Ur-Markt
336; "ancient market"
Urstoff
465; "primitive material"
Utgarthaloki, Stefan & Frau
709; ex-member of management at the Krupp works in Cuxhaven -- own
house where Kazoo Quartet was held
V-2
supersonic rocket that you hear approaching after the blast (mockery
of reversible process - 138; premonitions in Psi Sect, 146; 223
Van der Groov, Franz
108; ancestor of Katje; went to Mauritius and, with other Dutch
settlors, wiped out Dodoes - considered them satanic because of their
ugliness; 620
von Goll, Gerhardt
112; German filmmaker; made Schwarzkommando movie about African rocket
troops (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;
Alpdruken featured lighting from top and bottom (Gnostic symbolism -
Cain & Abel [429]), 394; corridor metaphysics, 394; also made The Good
Society; 611; floor movie at Der Platz (New Dope), 745; (See also
der Springer)
von Trotha
362; German who led wholesale slaughter of Hereros in Sudwest; 422;
563
War
105; the real business of, 105; lives for information, 105; what it
really wants, 130; the guy who is WWII, 131; as world revolution, 165;
what war really is, 177; reconfigures time & space, 257; "opened up
things", 265; V-E Day, 270; 345; 349; 379; gradients of damage
(poorest sectors first), 423; 520; "sides?," 520; 628; 645
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; provides Slothrop the identity "Ian
Scuffling, English War Correspondent" when he goes to Zurich; 620
Weissmann, Capt.
152; "recently back from South-West Africa; 322; SS man, 417; 401; aka
Blicero; gray eminence, part salesman/part scientist; mentor of
Enziafalling out w/Enzian in T44; Tarot, 746-49
White Visitation
34; former mental hospital located in Ick Regis on the coast of
southern England; now part of SOE; location of PISCES (Psychological
Intelligence Schemes for Expediting Surrender; D-Wing still has
"loonies"; 533; 627
Wimpe, V-Mann
152; IG-man present at seance; the V-mann, 166; association
w/Tchicherine, 344; an organic chemist/creator of psychotropic drugs
(the jinni of the West), 345;464; 565; 684; Tchicherine's memory of,
701
winejelly incident
116
Wivern, Gen.
210; SHAEF; 592; 594
writing
description of St. Veronica's, 46; "swimming up from sleep," 119; "an
informer whose guilt will one day sicken into throat cancer," 150;
bugs in the manger, 174; "assassination," 164; "not produce ...
systems," 159; 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" ... convolutions until they finally meet at p.393; typo:
Isle, 414; Trudi up Slothrop's nose, 439; typo: airpseed, 454; "How I
Came to Love the People," 547; dead fly, 632; tropical hallucination,
634-35; typo: then, 732; bad writing, 733
Wuxtry-Wuxtry, Mickey
738; "world-renowned analyst" -- "There never was a Dr. Jamf"
Zero, the
85; in connection w/Slothrop's deconditioning, 85; betw waking &
sleeping,119; outer radiance, 147; Ideology of, 218; 223; 340; 345;
Enzian closest to, 404; 406; 421; Ground Zero, 424; 451; zeroing in,
521; 714
Zhdaev, Major
502; captures Springer at Peenemunde
Zhlubb, Richard M.
755; aka the "Adenoid"; night manager of Orpheus Theatre on Melrose
Blvd. in LA
Zone
281; Germany after VE Day; no frontiers--no subdivisions, 293;
interregnum - flow with it, 293; "No zones but the Zone" - Schnorp,
333; 359; and Destiny, 362; guilt becoming a commodity, 453; "endless
simulation" in, 489; A Cheapskate's Guide to the Zone, 559; 729
Zwitter
313; guidance expert; colleague of Glimpf
Zwolfkinder
398; German: "twelve children"; kids' park in Nikolaikirche in No.
Germany; near Wismar & Lubeck (280 km from Peenemunde); first visit of
Franz & Ilse in '39, met every August for 6 years; 575
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