AtDtDA23: This Extended Violation of Reality

[James Kyllo]

Apparently there is no shortage of skeeters in Baku:

http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/lucky/theworld2002/1032153420/tpod.html

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> "'It's Baku with skeeters'"
>
> Cf page 168: Baku.
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> 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
>
>

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