AtDDtA(16): "Turkish Corner"

[Dave Monroe]

"While the Inconvenience was in New York, Lindsay had heard rumors of
a 'Turkish Corner' that really was supposed, in some not strictly
metaphorical way, to provide 'an escape nook to the Orient.' ..."
(AtD, Pt. III, p. 431)


"Turkish Corner"

The coin turquois or Turkish corner was an interior decorating fad
(second half of 19th century). Well-to-do householders had the English
furniture removed from a space and put in low tables, divans,
cushions, ceiling hangings, nargilehs and so forth.

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_429-459#Page_431

... though this is the ONLY hit I get for "coin turquois," so ...


"in some not strictly metaphorical way"

Cf. ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleportation

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Transporter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_teleportation

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=498

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=516

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=822

http://scifipedia.scifi.com/index.php/Matter_Transmission

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transporter_%28Star_Trek%29

http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/features/specials/article/6379.html

http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/library/technology/article/70285.html

http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=/netahtml/PTO/search-adv.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&p=1&S1=20060071122.PGNR.&OS=DN/20060071122&RS=DN/20060071122


"horrible high-bourgeois New York"

Vs. ...?  "High-bourgeois," I mean, not "New York" ...


"a Bactrian camel"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bactrian_camel

I suppose keeping an eye out any imagery suggesting two-ness would be
a good idea. For example, in the first paragraph on page 431, we get
the image of a Bactrian camel – fitting not only because that's the
variety found in the Asian desert, but also interesting in that it's
the two-humped variety.

http://chumpsofchoice.blogspot.com/2007/04/subdesertine-adventures.html


"'After a brief visit to Chinatown to inhale some fumes, you mean'"

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2040

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_English_Opium-Eater


"'Translation of the body, sort of lateral resurrection, if you like'"

Main Entry: trans·la·tion
Pronunciation: \tran(t)s-ˈlā-shən, tranz-\
Function: noun
Date: 14th century

1: an act, process, or instance of translating: as a: a rendering from
one language into another; also : the product of such a rendering b: a
change to a different substance, form, or appearance : conversion c
(1): a transformation of coordinates in which the new axes are
parallel to the old ones (2): uniform motion of a body in a straight
line ...

http://mw1.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/translation

There are two main types (methods) of MT (matter transmission). The
first is by recording and then breaking down (or destroying or
converting to energy) the body or object in the transmission booth &
then transmitting the information/converted body or object to a
receiving station & then reconstructing or recreating the original
body or object. In some uses of this method there is no visible or
solid receiving station....

[...]

The other method of MT is the door/gate method where you walk through
some kind of electronic screen in which there is no actual distance
between the entrance electronic screen and the exit electronic screen.
This method works somewhat like the actual Electron Tunneling effect
in science.

http://scifipedia.scifi.com/index.php/Matter_Transmission

metaphorical way and lateral resurrection
Cf. page 418, where metaphor and lateral are also used in quick succession.

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_429-459#Page_431

   "Other Units of the Chums of Chance meanwhile chose lateral
solutions, sidestepping the crisis by passing into metaphorical
identities ...." (AtD, Pt. II, p.418)

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0708&msg=120859


"'windows lighted and dark"

"For now we see through a glass, darkly" --1 Cor 13:12

http://www.bartleby.com/108/46/13.html#S22

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/k/kjv/kjv-idx?type=DIV2&byte=5111026

http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=Kjv1Cor.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=13&division=div1