BEER Ch. 4 DeepArcher

[Dave Monroe]

"'Like "departure," only you pronounce it DeepArcher?'" (BE, Ch. 4, p. 36)


Vyrva (p. 35)

?

http://wikimapia.org/11645420/Vyrva
http://wikimapia.org/12360593/Vyrva-Lake


The Deep Web.

The Deep Web (also called the Deepnet, the Invisible Web, the Undernet
or the hidden Web) is World Wide Web content that is not part of the
Surface Web, which is indexed by standard search engines. It should
not be confused with the dark Internet, the computers that can no
longer be reached via Internet, or with a Darknet distributed
filesharing network, which could be classified as a smaller part of
the Deep Web.

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

The disturbing world of the Deep Web, where contract killers and drug
dealers ply their trade on the internet

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2454735/The-disturbing-world-Deep-Web-contract-killers-drug-dealers-ply-trade-internet.html


"'what Bob Barker might call "right"'"

http://www.priceisright.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Barker#The_Price_Is_Right_.281972.E2.80.932007.29
http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_4#Page_35


Justin (p. 36)

Justin is an anglicized form of the Latin given name Justinus, a
derivative of Justus. Justinus was the name borne by various early
saints, notably a 2nd-century Christian apologist and a boy martyr of
the 3rd century (possibly spurious).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_%28name%29


DeepArcher

de·par·ture
noun \di-ˈpär-chər\

1 a (1) :  the act or an instance of departing (2) archaic :  death
b :  a setting out (as on a new course)
2 : divergence 2 <a departure from tradition>

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/departure

Clinamen (pronounced /klaɪˈneɪmɛn/, plural clinamina, derived from
clīnāre, to incline) is the Latin name Lucretius gave to the
unpredictable swerve of atoms, in order to defend the atomistic
doctrine of Epicurus.

[...]

The term has been taken up by Harold Bloom to describe the
inclinations of writers to "swerve" from the influence of their
predecessors; it is the first of his "Ratios of Revision" as described
in The Anxiety of Influence.

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

"At the center of the web of internet-related intrigue is a program
titled DeepArcher, both a pun on 'departure' as well as perhaps an
allusion to Aristotle’s archer analogy in his Nicomachean Ethics that
likened the search for a good life to the quest of an archer to hit
the bull’s eye. All of Pynchon’s characters miss the mark to varying
degrees, but the fact that they keep trying to the end gives all his
work its poignancy."

http://bigthink.com/Picture-This/has-reality-finally-caught-up-to-thomas-pynchon

"If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own
sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then,
have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a
mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we
must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is."  --Book I,
1094.a18

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aristotle#Nicomachean_Ethics_.28c._325_BC.29


"'Weed thing.'"

On the writing of Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon reportedly told Siegel,
"I was so fucked up while I was writing it . . . that now I go back
over some of those sequences and I can't figure out what I could have
meant."

http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/bio/influences.html


VC

Venture Capitalist. Someone who has money to support new companies or projects.

http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_4#Page_35


"'Professionally D and D'"

"done and done"?

http://www.ddo.com/‎
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_&_Dragons
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