AtDtDA23: It was Stray, All Right

[Dave Monroe]

   "It was Stray, all right." (AtD, Pt. III, p 644)


"E.P.T."

El Paso , Texas


"a newer Mauser type of model"

Cf. ...

"the same-model Mauser" (AtD, Pt. II, p. 377)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauser_C96
http://www.mauserwaffen.de/1898.191.0.html?&L=1
http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0707&msg=120437
http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0707&msg=120439

"Fate does not speak. She carries a Mauser and from time to time
indicates our proper path." (AtD, Pt. III, p. 635)

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0711&msg=123040

"a drunken soldier in a wideawake hat who carried a Mauser" (V., p. 262)

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/v/alpha/w.html
http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=W


"now it's all timing, quick in quick out, for gosh sakes they're
always on the telephone, Frank, they've even got the wireless
telegraph"

Cf. ...

http://www.nyse.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Stock_Exchange


"'Bet you an ice-cream cone'"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_cream_cone
http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/IceCream/IceCreamCone.htm


"old Geronimo"

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