AtDDtA23: Vaya con Dios, Pendejo

[Dave Monroe]

"'Fact of the matter,' Ewball growing gleeful with aggravation ..."
(AtD, Pt. III, p. 643)


"'these folks down here at least still have a chance--'"

Cf., e.g., ...

"Suppose the Slothropite heresy had had the time to consolidate and
prosper? Might there have been fewer crimes in the name of Jesus, and
more mercy in the name of Judas Iscariot? It seems to Tyrone Slothrop
that there might be a route back ..." (GR, Pt. II, p. 556)

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/3928/pns554.html

"Does Brittania, when she sleeps, dream?  Is America her dream? [...]
serving as a very Rubbish-Tip for subjunctive Hopes, for all that may
yet be true." (M&D, Ch. 34, p. 345)

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0405&msg=90546


"--one that the norteamericanos lost long ago. For you-all, it's way
too late anymore."

Cf., e.g., ...

"Could he have been the fork in the road America never took, the
singular point she jumped the wrong way from?" (GR, Pt. III, p. 556)

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/3928/pns554.html

"This is America, you live in it, you let it happen.  Let it unfurl."
(Lot 49, Ch. 6, p. 150)

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0108&msg=58984

"... how had it happened here, with chances once so good for
diversity?" (Lot 49, Ch. 3, p. 181)

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0405&msg=90546

"... unshaped freedom being rationalized into movement only in
straight lines and at right angles and a progressive reduction of
choices, until the final turn through the final gate that led to the
killing-floor."  (AtD, Pt. I, Ch. 2, p. 10)

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0701&msg=114381


Christers

Cf. ...

"... these little crosses, these red Christer pins, in their lapels
..."  (VL, Ch. 15, p. 339)

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0405&msg=90705

"'I'm like a damn Christer ...'" (AtD, Pt. II, p. 462)

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0707&msg=120345

"Jephthah runs this Christer road-ranch out on Cherry Creek ..." (AtD,
Pt. III, p. 466)

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0709&msg=121373


frontera

http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources/bordercrossings/frontera.html


drygulched

dry-gulch      /ˈdraɪˌgʌltʃ/
–verb (used with object) Informal.
1.	to ambush with the intent of killing or severely mauling: The
riders were dry-gulched by bandits.
2.	to betray by a sudden change of attitude or allegiance: The party
dry-gulched its chief candidate at the convention.
Also, drygulch.

[Origin: 1865–70]

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/dry%20gulch


"oily as the Pánuco River on a busy day"

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

"In 1910 the oil pools of Panuco and Topila were discovered in the
basin of the Rio Panuco, near Tampico ..." (p. 48)

http://books.google.com/books?id=DvbGIbfYORoC

Mauricio Magdaleno, Pánuco 137 (1933)

http://207.249.4.14/bibdigital/cdteatro/autores%20del%20CD/Magdaleno%20Mauricio/panuco%20137.htm


Krag-Jørgensens

The Krag-Jørgensen is a repeating bolt action rifle designed by the
Norwegians Ole Herman Johannes Krag and Erik Jørgensen in the late
19th century. It was adopted as a standard arm by Denmark, the United
States and Norway....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krag-J%C3%B8rgensen


"'Blam!  Blam!'"

Cf. ...

"Hey, man, well, she's a total blam blam" --David Bowie, "Suffragette
City" (1972)

http://www.teenagewildlife.com/Albums/ZS/SC.html

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

And see as well, e.g., ...

http://www.blam-blam.com/


Juárez

Ciudad Juárez, or simply Juárez, is a city in the Mexican state of
Chihuahua. It stands on the Rio Grande across the border from El Paso,
Texas. Juárez is the major port of entry and transportation center of
north central Mexico.

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_615-643#Page_643

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciudad_Ju%C3%A1rez

http://www.juarez.gob.mx/


"'Vaya con Dios, pendejo.'"

Spanish: Go with God, asshole.

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