AtDTDA: 19 You make me sore again [531/533]

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. . . .ah, the delcious smell of red herring. . . .

>From the invaluable against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com:

          Umeki Tsurigane
          Umeki is typically made with some combination of the 
          various kanji for "plum" (ume) and "tree" (ki), though 
          one has the ki being the character for "ghost/devil" and 
          one obscure reading that's entirely redundant, where ume 
          is "plant" (usually read ue). There is one where ume is the 
          kanji for "buried or embedded". Tsurigane, means a "temple 
          bell", which can stand alone or be followed by the grass kanji 
          to mean "bellflower" (lots of botanical stuff happening here, 
          if that means anything; hardly the only example in AtD). Given 
          the search for Shambhala going on, "Buried Temple Bell" 
          seems a likely translation, at least at this point; the botanical 
          meanings could perhaps emerge later.

          Or, another terrible name-pun? "You make [m]e sore again." 
          See another on P. 757

http://tinyurl.com/2fbnfv

That would be Al Mar-Faud? My wole model?

Umeki Tsurigane is that raritiy of rarities, a lady Quaternionist and 
Nipponese at that, enabling OBA to display his sense of English as 
spoken by the Japanese, or at  least as he absorbed from watching 
old Godzilla movies on the tube. He'll get that insurance adjustor 
story filled out in no time, don't you worry.

A georgeous item, this one, and apparently a yeoman drinker:

          . . . .knocking back boilermakers and their helpers at an 
          astonishing pace. A modest betting pool had already 
          developed over how long she might keep it up before 
          paralysis in some form set in.

But still and also a genius-level mathmatician, name-dropping a few professors 
that the pynchonwiki is kind enough to refer all back to earlier notes on some 
major scientists and mathematicians of the time, figures first mentioned near 
the novel's beginnings, when Prof Vanderjuice speaks to the chums. 

          "Galloping gasbags, but it's just capital to see you fellows again!" 
          the Professor greeted them. . . .

          . . . ."Well now, there's a student of Professor Gibbs whose work 
          really bears looking into, young De Forest, a regular wizard with 
          the electricity . . . along with a Japanese visitor, Mr Kimura. . . .
          pg. 29


The speech pattern—the  sound—of Professor Heino Vanderjuice points to:

          Professor Hubert Farnsworth is the oldest living member of The 
          Academy of Professors. He was born in 2841. He currently owns 
          the Planet Express delivery firm so as to fund his inventing. He also 
          lectures at Mars University on the mathematics of quantum neutrino 
          fields (he made up the name so no one would dare take it). He is 
          technically 160 years old but to avoid being picked up by the sunset 
          squad and taken to the near death star he says he is 150. Every 
          person who lives past 160 on earth is taken there and used as an 
          energy source in the same way people were in the film 'The Matrix' 
          He is Fry's great (x30) nephew and has a clone called Cubert

http://www.gotfuturama.com/Information/CharacterBios/farnsworth.dhtml

Prof. Vanderjuice 'sounds' like Prof. Farnsworth, much as Al Mar-Faud 
'sounds' like you-know who. The name 'Prof. Farnsworth' also points to
'the father of television":

http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/F/htmlF/farnsworthp/farnsworthp.htm

This collection of these 'sounds like' seems to point to TV, particularly De 
Forest:

          Professor Gibbs
          Josiah Williard Gibbs (1839-1903), American mathematical 
          physicist. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut. In 1854 
          he went to Yale and won prizes for excellence in Latin and 
          mathematics. He undertook research in engineering and 
          received his Ph.D in 1863, the first doctorate in engineering 
          to be conferred in the US. From 1866 to 1869 Gibbs studies 
          in Europe - first in Paris, then in Berlin and finally in Heidelberg. 
          He was professor at Yale from 1871 to 1903. He contributed 
          substantially to the study of thermodynamics, and his most 
          important work, On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous 
          Substances (1876 and 1878) and his "phase rule" established 
          him as a founder of physical chemistry. Gibbs' work on vector 
          analysis was also of major importance in pure mathematics. 
          Gibbs was one of the greatest American scientists in the 
          19th century. 

          De Forest
          Lee De Forest (1873-1961), American inventor. He was born in 
          Council Bluffs, Iowa and educated at Yale and Chicago. A 
          pioneer of radio, he introduced the grid into the therm-ionic valve, 
          and invented the audion (1907), feedback circuit (1912) and the 
          four-electrode valve. He involved in first news by radio (1916). 
          He also did much early work on sound reproduction and on 
          television. He patented over 300 inventions in wireless telegraphy, 
          radio, telephony, talking pictures, high-speed facsimile transmission, 
          television, radiotherapy, radar, etc. He was called, sometimes, 
          "the father of radio."

          Kimura
          He received his Ph.D degree in mathematics from Yale University 
          in 1896. (Dissertation: Studies on General Spherical Functions.) 
          He published a paper On the Nabla of Quaternions in The Annals 
          of Mathermatics, Vol 10, No. 1/6 (1895-1896). In 1912, he published 
          a paper called One-Waveness in Wireless Telegraphy; Pseudo-Impact 
          Excitation in Physical Review of May 1912. 

http://tinyurl.com/2q27ok

The Maxwell Equations appear to be the heart of the matter, harkening back 
to that old gang in Kinneret-Among-The-Pines °. There are two different 
versions of these equations, one for the vectorists, one for those Quizzical, 
queer Quaternioneers. Two different worlds, two different sets of space/time 
co-ordinants. Then, just as we turn the page, Ms. Tsurigane dissapears into 
an ever-shifting crowd.

°Berkeley, actually, John Nefastis and all that. . . .