ATDTDA (38) Pink Tabs, 4, 18, 78, 84

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The flashbacks continue. . .

4: Miles trips over the picnic basket:
"Perhaps its familiarity," Randolph suggested plainitivly, 
"rendered it temporarily invisible to you."
Miles will prove to be a bit "Potteresque", comfortable in 
conversation with Pugnax and well in touch with his intuitive side.

18: Penny Black, an obvious philatilic reference. Remember that stamps 
play a similar role in Against the Day as they do in Crying of Lot 49.

78: "Almost makes you think, if there's a Philosopher's 
Stone, there might not also be—"

A Sorcerer's Stone? An Idiot's Stone? Voledemort? 

Ritual reluctance at its finest, the mad bomber and the photographer talkin' 
alchemical shop, rendering magical themes explicit by attempting to conceal 
their words.

84: "Look. These aren't real stamps here," Veikko said. 

They are the sorts of artifacts that Pierce Inverarity collected,
the fake postage of underground mail systems, the 
communication links for anarchists. In CoL49, Oedipa
is perfectly middle-class and insulated. She is an outsider
looking in via a collection of Cinderellas and forgeries.

Veikko and Webb are insiders, looking to get out.

And note that "Minneskort"—memory card—reference.

When you Traverse the Web, you blow up the old stories,
the generally accepted explanations. Traversing the Webb 
enables exposure of old stories on a constant basis, they 
cannot be shaken off any longer:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar