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[Dave Monroe]

inherent vice

Hidden defect (or the very nature) of a good or property which of
itself is the cause of (or contributes to) its deterioration, damage,
or wastage. Such characteristics or defects make the item an
unacceptable risk to a carrier or insurer. If the characteristic or
defect is not visible, and if the carrier or the insurer has not been
warned of it, neither of them may be liable for any claim arising
solely out of the inherent vice.

http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/inherent-vice.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inherent_Vice

Cf. ...

Original Sin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_sin
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11312a.htm


Entropy

The concept of Entropy first emerges in Pynchon's published writing in
his short story "Entropy" (1958 or '59). Callisto, a prophet of
impending doom, dictates aloud the tale of his own discovery of the
entropic end of culture ...

http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/entropy/index.html
http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/slowlearner/entropy.html

And see as well, e.g., ...

http://www.philjohn.com/papers/pjkd_ga09.html

Schachterle, Lance.  "Information Entropy in Pynchon's Fiction."
   Configurations, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Spring 1996): 185-214.

http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/configurations/v004/4.2schachterle.html

Vanderbeke, Dirk. " N Tropes for Entropy in Pynchon's Early Works."
   Pynchon Notes 46–49 (2000–2001): 35–59.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_6750/is_46-49/ai_n28819966/
http://www.ham.muohio.edu/~krafftjm/pncumbib.html#V


Gravity

["Gravity's Rainbow" - what is it?] "violated gravity somehow" 65;
"sigh of gravity" 296; "Gravity's grey eminence" 302; "the young
scientist-surrogate will be going round and round with old Gravity"
361; "she wants to lose her gravity" 538; "always at the mercy of"
584; "To find that gravity [...] is really something eerie" 590; "I am
Gravity" 639; "generations of gravities" 672; "Center of Gravity" 700;
"nothing but his asshole between Gravity and Roger" 709; "Gravity
rules" 723; "modest preview of gravitational collapse" 737; "a wine
rush is defying" 743; "gravity feed" 758; "Gravity dies away briefly"
759

http://www.thomaspynchon.com/gravitys-rainbow/alpha/g.html

E.g., ...

Brennschluss

http://www.viswiki.com/en/Brennschluss
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Brennschluss
http://marekshemanski.com/glossary/brennschluss.html

6; German: "end of burning"; end of rocket's ascent when fuel is
cut-off and it gives way to gravity; "a ritual of love" 222-23;
"Rocket's. . .feminine counterpart" 223; 239; "The moving vehicle is
frozen, in space, to become architecture, and timeless. It was never
launched. It will never fall" 301; "for every firing site" 302; "of
the Sun" (Sound-Shadow), 711; 759

http://www.thomaspynchon.com/gravitys-rainbow/alpha/b.html


Preterite

Calvinist/Puritan doctrine of the Elect (the chosen) and the Preterite
(the passed-over, the damned); "second sheep" 3; "a new preterition
abroad in England" 15; Dodoes, 108-11; "But if [the Dutch settlors]
were chosen to come to Mauritius, why had they also been chosen to
fail, and leave? Is that a choosing, or is it a passing over? Are they
Elect, or are they Preterite, and doomed as Dodoes?" 110; "men you
have seen on foot and smileless in the cities but forgot" 136; at
Rathenau seance, 163; coal-tars as preterite dung, 166; "his poor
sheep" 233; "the multitudes who are passed over by God and History"
299; "In preterite line they have pointed her here" 316; "Elite and
Preterite, we move through a cosmic design of darkness and light" 495;
"they dissolve now into the swarm. . .of this dancing Preterition"
548; "The successful loner was only the other part of it: the last
piece to the jigsaw puzzle, whose shape had already been created by
the Preterite" 554; Judas, 555; On Preterition, 555; "in their slick
persistence and our preterition" 590; "rubbers yellow with preterite
seed, Kleenex wadded to brain shapes hiding preterite snot, preterite
tears" 626; 667; 668; "the glozing neuters of the world" 677; "the
Humility, among the gray and preterite souls" 742;

http://www.thomaspynchon.com/gravitys-rainbow/alpha/p-q.html#preterite


Death

http://www.thomaspynchon.com/gravitys-rainbow/extra/death.html

U.s.w., et soforthiam ...