AtDDtA1: Ray Ipsow

[Dave Monroe]

"'Boys, I'd like you to meet Ray Ipsow, without whom
I'd still be back in Outer Indianoplace, waiting for
some interurban that never comes.'" (AtD, Pt. I, Ch.
3, p. 29)


Ray Ipsow

In Latin re ipso means "the thing itself." "To the
thing itself" was the motto and rallying cry of the
investigational method known as phenomenology
developed by Edmund Husserl. As the phrase indicates,
it is a plea against abstraction--a theme of GR--- and
for reality 'itself'.

[Cf. "'I'll keep an eye on him'" (p. 30)?]

Outer Indianoplace

Derogatory nickname for Indianapolis. 

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_26-56#Page_29

Indianoplace
 
n. Generally regarded as derogatory name for
Indianapolis, Indiana. Comes from the evident lack of
anything to do other than get drunk and watch sports
and the appearant resistance of many of its
inhabitants to allow culture, change, or diversity
into the mix.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Indianoplace

And anything strike yr fancy here, Ya Sam?  Anyone?

http://wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=ray+ipsow

Let me know.  But phenomenology, that seems a bit of a
stretch, and that's coming from me ...


Interurban

An interurban, also called a radial railway in parts
of Canada, is a streetcar line running between urban
areas or from urban to rural areas. The term was
mostly used in North America. The lines were mainly
electrified in an era when steam railroads had not yet
adopted electricity to any large degree.

The first interurbans were constructed in the 1880s,
but most were constructed between 1900 and 1908, with
few being constructed after that point. From
approximately the end of the First World War the
industry was in decline, accelerated by the growth of
the private automobile; the Great Depression of the
1930s drove most into closure. Only a couple survived
beyond the 1960s....

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


 
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