ATDTDA: (35) Part 1 - such as it is

Sat Jul 5 19:11:33 CDT 2008

Hi all,
Since it appears there is no movement on "ATD: (35)" I'm going to  
send what I've found on the Pynchon-Wiki,  and a bit from elsewhere,   
for pages 976 - 1000.   It's not too bad on the Mexican Revolution  
(although that's really complex)   and I'm not up to doing that in  
addition to my own Ludlow,  counter-Earth, Chumboys-in-love and  
moving pictures sections.   (There is a bit of new stuff here, though.)

I'll take on pages  1000-1007  as the first section of (36)  -  but  
still called (35)  - more completely because they go with those  
chapters very nicely.   Then I'll pick (36) up tomorrow because I'm  
(very hopefully)  leaving on a jet plane to see my family in the  
great northland in two weeks or so and for two weeks or so - and then  
I'm back in school.

PLEASE!!!!  Feel free to comment in any way you choose.   :-)

AtD - pages 976-999  late 1912-1913

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_976-999

http://chumpsofchoice.blogspot.com/2007/10/what-i-tell-you-three- 
times-is-true.html

The   *** s    are where I've inserted some stuff not on either of  
the above pages.

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Page 976 -

***  Stray and Ewball going to Denver to see Ewball's wealthy  
parents, Moline and (some name) Senior, "elder," Oust,  for whom   
Mayva works.

"... the coalfield troubles in southern Colorado..."

The United Mine Workers called a stike in Colorado's coalfields north  
of Denver in 1910 winning a 10 percent wage increase for ten thousand  
Colorado miners. The union's real target was the larger southern  
coalfield. A state-wide coal strike was called in September 1913 and  
lasted 14 months resulted in the Ludlow Massacre of April 20, 1914,  
in which 20 people were killed.      *** (SEE  "ATD  (36)" coming)

***    Stray's been collecting ways to help people with medical  
stuff  "... began in the days of the Madero revolution..."   (she  
will use these supplies in the days to come)

"... the Madero revolution..."

in 1910, out of Mexico, led by Madera.  Ramifications felt in El  
Paso, where a Senate Committee investigated in 1912 and found  
Standard Oil partly responsible.
Relevant?--a Mormon settlement was investigated as part of the  
investigation.
The Madero (Mexican) Revolution was brought on by, among other  
factors, tremendous disagreement among the Mexican people over the  
dictatorship of President Porfirio Diaz. Madero was one of the  
strongest believers that Diaz should renounce his power and not seek  
re-election in 1910. He was jailed by Diaz but was able to escape on  
October 4, 1910, to the US. In San Antonio, Texas, he issued his Plan  
of San Luis Potosi proclaiming the 1910 election null and void and  
called for an armed revolution on November 20, 1910 against the  
"illegitimate" presidency of Diaz. Madero also promised agrarian land  
reforms to attract Mexico's peasants to his cause. The revolution  
spread, the Maderista troops, with Pancho Villa in the North and  
Emiliano Zapata in the South, defeated the army of Diaz within six  
months, and Diaz resigned on May 25, 1911. Francisco Madero was  
elected President on October 1, 1911 and assumed power on November 6.

http://www.mexconnect.com/MEX/austin/revolution.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_I._Madero  (better)

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Page 977
cross-gable
Two perpendicular gable roofs; pic and more

***  Moline Oust (Ewball's mother) styles herself after Baby Doe  
Tabor,  the Leadville madam (the Ousts had been living in Leadville).
***  http://www.babydoetabor.com/

*** Stray plays on the Steinway :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steinway_&_Sons

"I'm Going..Salome"
Stanley Murphy, lyricist, written before 1909.
"I'm going to get myself a black Salome"
Composer: Wynn, Ed 1886-1966 Lyrics: Big Bill Jefferson a railroad  
man (first line of text) Contributors: Murphy, Stanley 1875-1919  
Publication Date: 1908 For voice and piano. Cover ill.: African  
American man watching a belly dancer. Photo of Ed. Wynn.

http://tinyurl.com/5maqr8

majolica
A particular type of white colour glaze for earthenware ceramics that  
was known for its ability to mimic (poorly) historically expensive  
porcelain. Its name comes from the practice of importing it into  
Europe through the ports of the Balearic island Majorca from the Mid- 
east.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majolica

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Page 978

'Tá bien, no te preocupes, m'hija
Spanish: It's all right, don't trouble yourself, my dear.

Galluses
a pair of suspenders for trousers. "Braces" in British English.

Czolgosz
Leon Frank Czolgosz (January 24, 1873 – October 29, 1901) was the  
assassin of U.S. President William McKinley. In the last few years of  
his short life he was heavily influenced by anarchists like Emma  
Goldman and Alexander Berkman.

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

President McKinley
  William McKinley, Jr. (January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901) was  
the 25th President of the United States. from Wikipedia McKinley as  
president placed the US on the gold standard (remember Dally and the  
poster for bimetallism).

One thousand Fast Lake Navigation, 158 Fast Express, and 206  
Automobile Inverts
http://www.filbert.com/stamplistopedia/us_inverts/default.htm

Also, an interesting little online tidbit which references this stamp  
with the inverted center to which this page refers.

These misprinted ("alternate") stamps, associated with Anarchism, and  
the philatelically-named Jenny Invert with her similar association to  
the Anarchist collective at Yz-le-Bans, inevitably call to mind the  
subtly altered stamps of the anarchist (or at any rate anti- 
government) Trystero in Lot 49, postage in an alternative,  
underground communication system. We have, then, the theme of  
underground, alternative communication introduced again (the first  
time in AtD is with the London gas pipes).  Another philatelically- 
named female character is Penny Black.

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php? 
title=ATD_976-999#Page_978

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Page 979
"Mark Hanna's miserable stooge..."
Mark Hanna (September 24, 1837–February 15, 1904), born Marcus Alonzo  
Hanna, was an industrialist and Republican politician from Ohio. He  
rose to fame as the campaign manager of the successful Republican  
Presidential candidate William McKinley in the U.S. Presidential  
election of 1896, in what is considered the forerunner of the modern  
political campaign, and subsequently became one of the most powerful  
members of the U.S. Senate. From Wikipedia. Obviously, the stooge  
refers to McKinley. Strongly suggestive of a parallel to Karl Rove  
and his miserable stooge.

***  Very funny scene here with Ewball stepping on his father's head -

***  "... language unfit for the sensitive reader..."  either TPR is  
having a small fit of the intrusive narrator/author or he's mimicking  
the literature of the day - I'd say the latter but this is not a  
Chums part and I'm not sure the western genre lit did that.   ?

***  Mayva adds the ring of a Remington .22 round to the melee.   
(she'd run out of B.B.s)  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BB_gun#History

henriettia
A fine diagonal twilled (ribbed) dress fabric made with silk warp  
(vertical threads) and fine worsted (firm-textured) weft (horizontal  
threads), which makes it resemble Cashmere cloth.  Characteristics:  
Originally consisted of worsted filling and silk warp. Today, it can  
be found in a variety of blends. It has excellent drapability. It's  
weight and quality vary with fibres, however, when created with silk  
and wool it is lustrous and soft. Uses: Dress goods. Textile Dictionary

"Œdipal spectacle"   (refers to Ewball stepping on his father's head.)
 From the myth of Oedipus Rex, about a returning son killing his  
father, rendered infamous through Freud's interpretation of its  
significance to men and rendered famous by the Sophocles plays in the  
5th century B.C.

And perhaps a Pynchon in-joke of sorts. The protagonist of Lot 49 is  
Oedipa Maas (it has been suggested: "More Oedipal"), also in trouble  
over stamps; in fact "Lot 49" refers to the auction lot of Trystero- 
altered stamps in the collection of Pierce Inverarity (it has been  
suggested: "Inverse Rarity"), for whose estate Oedipa is executor. A  
few pages from here the issue of alternate communication forms will  
be introduced; these references to the issues in Lot 49 could serve  
to alert the experienced reader of Pynchon to their importance in  
AtD.     http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php? 
title=ATD_976-999#Page_978

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Page 981
"... the one with the destiny..."
Do we learn anything about this odd Oust child? (Presumably Ewball?).  
No, this one is apparently a little child when Ewball is a grownup.  
Maybe a child born with a caul? It would not take much of a prophet  
to say that such a child has a destiny.

*** Some child born in the early 1900s, lived in Denver for at least  
awhile - money from mining - goes on to become ___________?

tintypes
A cheap, common and durable form of black and white photographic  
image where a sensitised collodion is poured upon a thin sheet of  
soot blackened tin, exposed and developed. Often hand-coloured. The  
most notable practitioners and teachers of the process in the US are  
Mark Osterman and France Scully Osterman.

***  These were used a lot prior to the US Civil War - I have a photo  
of one from my family on my web-site  - great-great uncle Paul  
Mikkelson in Civil War regalia.

http://homepage.mac.com/bekker2/familyg/Mpaulsonslattun.html    
(scroll down a bit)

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