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

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Thanks, Bekah, for going way beyond the call of duty on this.

Re: Czolgosz  It's worth reading about him in Emma Goldman's very readable autobiography, Living My Life, via Amazon.com's look-inside feature.

Hopefully, I'll have something more pithy to add in a day or so.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Becky Alexander <bekker2 at mac.com>

>
>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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