AtDtDA23: This Extended Violation of Reality

[Mark Kohut]

Re: unnatural boom.....

It was also real then:
There was also a boom (and bust) in the later years of the 19th Century in America. 
hence the naming of The Gilded Age...and the crash of '93, (I believe---you can look it up)




----- Original Message ----
From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
To: Pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 10:30:08 AM
Subject: AtDtDA23: This Extended Violation of Reality

" ... for how could this last, this unnatural boom, this extended
violation of reality?" (AtD, Pt. III, p. 639)


Ramos gin fizzes

Invented in the 1880s by Henry C. Ramos, in his bar at Meyer's
Restaurant, this is one of New Orleans' most famous drinks. The secret
of its flavor and texture is orange flower water and egg whites....

http://www.gumbopages.com/food/beverages/ramos-gin-fizz.html


Tehuantepec

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


"this unnatural boom, this extended violation of reality"

Another paramorphic mirroring of the 21st/20th centuries; tech stock
boom/bust of ~2000.

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_615-643#Page_639

Cf. ...

As an era of certainty comes crashing down around their ears and an
unpredictable future commences,these folks are mostly just trying to
pursue their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it's
their lives that pursue them.

...  Contrary-to-the-fact occurrences occur. If it is not the world,
it is what the world might be with a minor adjustment or two.
According to some, this is one of the main purposes of fiction.

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


"'It's Baku with skeeters'"

Cf page 168: Baku.

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_615-643#Page_639

Baku, Azerbaijan's capital, is located on the southern shore of the
Apsheron peninsula of the Caspian Sea. The origin of the name, based
on the most widely known theory, comes from bad kube, meaning "city of
winds". Today's Baku is reallly three cities rolled into one: the old
town (885-1872), the boomtown (1872-1920) and the Soviet-built town
(1921-1991). The basis of Baku's economy is petroleum. Commercial
exploitation began in 1872, (Baku is where Nobel Brothers acquired
their wealth and the money for the Nobel Peace Prize), and by the
beginning of the 20th century the Baku oil field was the largest in
the world and Baku supplied half of the world's oil production. But
towards the end of the 20th century much of the land's petroleum had
been exhausted, and drilling had extended into the sea. Baku ranks as
one of the largest world centers for the production of oil industry
equipment....

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_149-170#Page_168


"'adios chingamadre'"

Spanish: goodbye, motherfucker.

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_615-643#Page_639


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