BBER Ch. 5 Same Old Satanic Pact

[Dave Monroe]

   "Same old satanic pact, only more of it.'" (BE, Ch. 5, p. 47)


"'Same old satanic pact'"

http://www.faust.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faust
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/faust.html

The Faust Myth in William Gaddis and Thomas Pynchon: Postmodern
Negotiations of Western Modernity

http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/5901/
http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Faust_Myth_in_William_Gaddis_and_Tho.html?id=Kz_HmAEACAAJ


"puffin a single over on Rikers"

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

"a single"

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=loosie [?]

a year in prison [?]

bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_5#Page_47


"Arabic Leet"

Leet (or "1337"), also known as eleet or leetspeak, is an alternative
alphabet for the English language that is used primarily on the
Internet. It uses various combinations of ASCII characters to replace
Latinate letters. For example, leet spellings of the word leet include
1337 and l33t; eleet may be spelled 31337 or 3l33t.

The term leet is derived from the word elite. The leet alphabet is a
specialized form of symbolic writing. Leet may also be considered a
substitution cipher, although many dialects or linguistic varieties
exist in different online communities. The term leet is also used as
an adjective to describe formidable prowess or accomplishment,
especially in the fields of online gaming and in its original usage,
computer hacking.

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


"'... using a qwerty keyboard to make characters that look like Arabic?'"

The Arabic chat alphabet, also known as Arabizi (Arabic: عربيزي
‘Arabizi), Arabish, Araby, (Arabic: عربي ‘Araby), or Franco-Arab, is
an alphabet used to communicate in the Arabic language over the
Internet or for sending messages via cellular phones when the actual
Arabic alphabet is unavailable for technical reasons. It is a
character encoding of Arabic to the Latin script and the Arabic
numerals. Users of this alphabet have developed some special notations
to transliterate some of the letters that do not exist in the basic
Latin script (ASCII).

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


"'cyber-space warfare without mercy'"

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


"'Time is what the Stones call on their side, yes it is.'" (pp. 47-8)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzcWwmwChVE

"Time Is on My Side" is a song written by Jerry Ragovoy (under the
pseudonym of Norman Meade). First recorded by jazz trombonist Kai
Winding and his Orchestra in 1963, it was covered (with additional
lyrics by Jimmy Norman) by both soul singer Irma Thomas and The
Rolling Stones in 1964.

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

"Time Is on My Side" is a song written by Jerry Ragovoy (under the
pseudonym of Norman Meade)and made famous by the Rolling Stones in
1964. The chorus: "Time is on my side, yes it is."

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"'Gulf War Two'"

Mitchell, Timothy.  Carbon Democracy:
   Political Power in the Age of Oil.  New York: Verso, 2011.

http://www.versobooks.com/books/1445-carbon-democracy


"fish in a barrel"

Prior to September 11, 2001, a barrel of oil cost approximately $20.
82. The month after, oil was down to $19. 04 per barrel.

http://www.ask.com/question/how-much-did-a-barrel-of-oil-cost-prior-to-sept-11-2001

September 13 Relative calm returns to world oil markets as U.S. retail
gasoline prices return to normal levels and Brent crude oil futures
fall back to $28.02 per barrel for October delivery after spiking to
above $31.00 in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. Also,
energy trading by Houston energy companies resumes and limited
commercial aviation starts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_world_oil_market_chronology
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