AtDtDA23: The Duplicities of an Economic Order

[Mark Kohut]

P.S. Whle looking up literary references involving Gretchen,
I learned that Gunther in German is a word containing 
the German words for 'fight" + 'Army" etymologically....

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  "Gunther had shown up with a tall blonde beauty named Gretchen ..."
(AtDDtA, Pt. III, p. 640)


Gretchen

Gretchen, Grete/Grethe, Gretel
Forms of "Margarethe"; Gretchen and Gretel are diminutive forms of
Grete ("little/dear Grete").

http://german.about.com/library/blvornamen06.htm

The origin of the word "Margaret" is in Greek, from the word
margaríta, which means "pearl". The older roots exist in the Persian
for pearl, Morvarid; and also Sanskrit word for pearl, mandjari....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_(name)


"her native German"

cocktail = Cocktail {m}

http://www.dict.cc/?s=cocktail

cigarette = Zigarette {f}

http://www.dict.cc/?s=cigarette


"the restless Valkyrie"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valkyrie
http://www.marvel.com/universe/Valkyrie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valkyrie_%28Marvel_Comics%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Walk%C3%BCre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_20_Plot


"Mondragón semiautomatics"

A self-loading rifle designed and patented by Mexican General
Mondragón in 1896 — so it was only 10 years ago. It's magazine
capacity was of 8-round or 10-round box, or later 30-round drum (for
German service)....

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_615-643#Page_640

From Julian S. Hatcher, Hatcher's Notebook (Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole, 1962):

  "During the war of 1914-1918, the Germans used quite a few gas
operated rifles of the kind called the Mondragon, which had been
adopted by the Mexican Government in 1911...." (p. 157)

http://books.google.com/books?id=yESNUKSg5aMC

http://www.stackpolebooks.com/cgi-bin/StackpoleBooks.storefront/EN/product/0-8117-0795-4


Springfield

An American magazine-fed, bolt-action rifle.

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_615-643#Page_640
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1903_Springfield_rifle


Schnecken rigs

A possible anachronism, but it is hard to be sure. The German word
Schnecken in the small-arms context (Schneckenmagazin) refers to
what's called a "cylindrical magazine" in English. The best-known
weapon using this magazine is the Russian PP-19 Bison submachine gun,
but the Bison is based in part on Kalashnikov technology and hence
could not have been developed until after World War II. [...] The
Schnecken rig is definitely not the drum magazine used with the
American Thompson submachine gun in the 1920s.

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


"re-manifested as 'silver-mining machinery'"

Main Entry: man·i·fest
Pronunciation: \ˈma-nə-ˌfest\
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French or Latin; Anglo-French
manifeste, from Latin manifestus caught in the act, flagrant, obvious,
perhaps from manus + -festus (akin to Latin infestus hostile)
Date: 14th century
1 : readily perceived by the senses and especially by the sight
2 : easily understood or recognized by the mind : obvious

Main Entry: manifest
Function: transitive verb
Date: 14th century
: to make evident or certain by showing or displaying

Main Entry: manifest
Function: noun
Date: 1561
1 : manifestation, indication
2 : manifesto
3 : a list of passengers or an invoice of cargo for a vehicle (as a
ship or plane)

http://m-w.com/dictionary


"the duplicities of an economic order they might someday destroy"

Main Entry: du·plic·i·ty
Pronunciation: \du̇-ˈpli-sə-tē also dyu̇-\
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural du·plic·i·ties
Etymology: Middle English duplicite, from Middle French, from Late
Latin duplicitat-, duplicitas, from Latin duplex
Date: 15th century
1: contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action; especially
: the belying of one's true intentions by deceptive words or action
2: the quality or state of being double or twofold
3: the technically incorrect use of two or more distinct items (as
claims, charges, or defenses) in a single legal action

http://m-w.com/dictionary/duplicity

bilocation
143; the ability (said of certain Roman Catholic saints) to exist
simultaneously in two locations; "there are two distinct versions of
'Asia' out there" 249; Estrella, double of Stray Briggs, 393; Chums of
Chance and the Marching Academy Harmonica Band, 418-24; "enough to
divide a fellow into two" 464; two Agadirs, 521-22; Stupendica, 514;
Dally, 524; doubling, 564; multiple identities, 570; sawed-in-half
folks, 571-72; Principessa Spongiatosta, 583; Werfner/Renfrew, 683,
685; Orphic and Pythagorean religionns, 686; Lew Basright, 688, 690;
Auberon Halfcourt, 759; the fork in the road, 766; Frank Traverse,
924-925; 990; 1049-50 ...

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=B


anti-Porfiristas

Opponents of the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz, hence left wing.
Eventually, ten years later, to become the Mexican Revolution led by
Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata.

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_615-643#Page_640


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