BEg2 chapter 19 chasing down a few refs

[Michael Bailey]

“that sniffing pure rose attar will turn your brain into red Jell-O.”

Sounds like an odor with abuse potential!

Attar of roses wafts through various poetic expressions none of which I can
spur-of-the-momentwise reference…

There was an exquisite story in Analog one time about how the phrase “we
are not amused” arose, in which the Turkish ambassador requested “otto of
roses” - maybe a Harry Turtledove?

But I digress. This, however, is slightly topical:
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/anecdotes-from-the-archive/stop-and-smell-the-attar-rose-oil-extraction-in-bulgaria-and-france/


(Just for grins & giggles -
Not necessarily Jabberin’

But - Jay Moskowitz - if he’s a private nose, it’s not on his (properly
verbose) LinkedIn page -
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jay-moskowitz-5745b83?challengeId=AQF_wTZsxE92LgAAAX8LQMMLFTBozddtn5kI_QBmJ2cu7284nGnMW4pqxt-YNPFdugPhky2WPpRMA39uEXBIVb7q_BTx6bmD6g&submissionId=0309b0dc-74c9-d416-534f-04bb833c5364

But it could be - he’s accomplished a lot - went to Cooper Union, wrote a
Basic compiler while in Army basic training…)



Here’s an Azrael sigil

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/756182593670146627/



Some long sentences (not long enough to be official Pynchonian Long
Sentences, but generously verbose) to pull into a verbal equivalent of
Speedwell’s air-sampling pump: “just do a grab, here” & take ‘em back to
the lab…

1) the Deseret pool -
“Overhead you can see soaring into the chlorine-scented mists a huge
segmented dome of some translucent early plastic, each piece concave and
teardrop-shaped, separated by bronze-colored cames—during the daytime,
whatever the sun’s angle, admitting the same verdigris light, its surface
at nightfall growing ever more remote and less visible, vanishing before
closing time into a wintry gray.”

Bronze-colored cames?
Joseph Tracy probably knows this, but i didn’t

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Came
“divider bar used between small pieces of glass”

Although in this case, maybe “large pieces of plastic”

Translucent early plastic - Pynchonian relish for old tech?

Verdigris -
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verdigris has nice color reference; Acetic
acid applied to copper is why the Statue of Liberty is somewhat verdigris
in hue.