atdtda: 31 - pg 870

[Bekah]

a few brief annotations for AtD page 870

870.9  riva -   shore - harbor-walk

870.17    Mestre bridge -  the bridge to Mestre properly known as  
Ponte della Libertà (Freedom Bridge).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponte_della_Libertà
http://www.exodus.co.uk/assets/images/trips/maps/trips/lsg.jpg

870.17- 19  "...Cyprian felt the sadness peculiar to the  
contemplation of recent time unrecapturable."  (oh madelines -  "In  
Search Of Lost Time" and all that - to the last book "The Past  
Recaptured"  - but Cyrpian's time remembered is not that long ago.)

870.19-20    "Anything earlier, childhood, adolescence, they were  
done with, and he could get by without any of that - what he wanted  
back was  last week, the week before. "

**** 870.17- 20  What a really lovely paragraph.

870. 23  Neo-Uskok http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uskoks
See Pynchon-l  and search  Uskoks for posts from Mark Kohut (Jan -  
698-99,  Jan 22,  Mar 30 - 814-819),   Michael Bailey (Jan 23 688-689  
and Jan 25)  and Paul Nightingale (March - 814-819)

Basically:    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uskoks
And from that trusty-dusty 1911 encyclopedia:   http://www. 
1911encyclopedia.org/Uskoks

Personally,  I'd say that in 1908 Neo-Uskoks would be nationalist  
Croatians with a taste for intrigue type activity - perhaps  
associated with water.    Cyprian would not want to offend these  
guys.  In "Black Lamb and Grey  Falcon"  Rebecca West really outlines  
the ancient memories and desire for revenge.  See also Balkan Ghosts  
by Robert Kaplan (if you dare) for a good overview of the tenacity of  
old grievances.   But Cyprian's grievances in AtD are recent but  
added to the old which Vlado's family apparently has plenty of.

870.26 gibanica  -  a little Serbian pastry goodie -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibanica

870.27  Cakavstina  -   Chakavian dialect of Croatian
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chakavian_dialect

870. 39   Mavrovlachi of Croatia   "Vlado's own";     the Morlachs,  
aka the Mavrovlachi ("Black Vlachs"), were a population of Vlach  
shepherds that lived in the Dinaric Alps (western Balkans in modern  
use), constantly migrating in search for better pastures for their  
sheep flocks. They were probably a blend of Romanized indigenous  
peoples and Roman colonists.
The adjective "black" is used here with the meaning of "northern",  
this metaphor probably deriving from the Turkic practice of naming  
cardinal directions after colours.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morlachs
http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=M

*** the color black keeps coming up


Bekah



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