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Aa/a328; anti-aircraft Abbasiyeh85; the slaughterhouse of, in Cairo, where Girgis the mountebank [charlatan] performs abdelawi82; a desert fruit; 85 abortion50; Esther and Slab debate on, 353-54; "I'm against it because of what it does to the abortionee." 357; "that lump that wasn't aborted," 358 Abstentionists472; non-participants in political life or in international affairs; 477 Achphenomenon277; In German, an Achphänomen might be translated as an "'ah!' experience"; as used here, perhaps an epiphany Adams, Henry (1838-1918)62; American historian and author of, among other books, The Education of Henry Adams, an autobiography which won the Pulitzer prize in 1919; Excerpts; [TRP's Entropy] A.E.F.99; American Expeditionary Force; 102 AF of L115; American Federation of Labor; See also Reuter, Walter Aghtina, Mrs.324; wife of Saturno Aghtina; 332 Aghtina, Saturno324; he and his wife lived in sewer during Siege of Malta and took care of Paola while Fausto and Elena were out; 332 Aïeul, P.63; "café waiter and amateur libertine" at Place Mohammed Ali in Alexandria AKA429; U.S. Navy: Attack Cargo Ship alcázar62; a Spanish fortress or palace Alden, John (1599?-1687)352; Pilgrim settler who came to America on the Mayflower and settled in Plymouth, Massachussetts Alexandria64; A port city of northern Egypt, where the Nile River flows into the Mediterranean Sea, on a strip of land between Lake Mareotis and the sea. Founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BC, it was the capital of ancient Egypt. Algeria18; a North African republic bounded on the west by Morocco, on the southwest by Western Sahara, Mauritania and Mali, on the southeast by Mali, on the east by Libya, northeast by Tunisia and on the north by the Mediterranean Sea. Gained independence from France, after a long struggle, in 1962. See also F.L.N. Alice70; the subdeb who is "the ruin of" Ralph MacBurgess; they have sex in Athenaeum Theatre in Lardwick-in-the Fen; "a ghost of," 76 Alligator Patrol39; 42-43; 153 alter kocker133; Yiddish: "old shitter": a disgusting old man Amiens395; city in Normandy on the Somme anarchist"anarchists, plotting to assassinate Sir Alistair Wren," 64; "Yusef was an anarchist," 66; "devotee of annihilation," 67; "a jaunty anarchist," 474; See alsonihilism andanti311; probably variant on "andante" to describe a musical performance instruction to play slowly Andrea Doria247; Italian battleship which shelled Fiume in 1920 after D'Annunzio declared war on Italy; See also Fiume Andreas240; Bondel male Mondaugen discovers being whipped by Foppl angels"voice of an angel," 15; Angel of Death, 29; "waggled his shoulderblades like wings," 52; "dissolute" angel, 58; "squeezing her shoulderblades together," 58; "shaped like the Angel's trumpet," 82; "The Lord's angel, Gebrail," 83; Angel Asrafil, 84; "the intense halo of a paraboloid reading light," 96; "an irritated young man with wings," 178; guardian angels, 183; "Poetry is not communication with angels," 318; recording angel, 338; "cabal of faceless angels," 348; guardian angels, 362; See also Angel Asrafil; Death; Gebrail Angel Asrafil82; sounds trumpet on Last Day (Moslem); 84; 85 Angelo180; guardia who keeps an eye on the Gaucho while he's pissing Angevine, Miss379; lived in Profane's old neighborhood Anglo Airlines362; flight booked to Cuba on for Esther's abortion Annexationists487; group in Italy that wants to annex Malta, in 1919 Annunziata, Sister Maria145; mentioned by Profane in talking with Fina about screwing Antarctic"headlong dive for the Pole," 184; "attempting the Pole in midwinter," 185; 192; "What sends the English into these terrible places?" 204; "I have been at the Pole." 205; "a dream of annihilation," 206; "Everyone has an Antarctic" says Hugh Godolphin, 241; "the cold tongue of a current from the Antarctic south," 266; "cold as Antarctica," 271; the moon's, 274; "Only by the merest happenstance did he escape the private logic of that ice world." 484 Anthroresearch Associates217; where Profane works; subsidiary of Yoyodyne, 284 Antonia82; daughter of Waldetar Aparicio, Luis (1934- )41; great Venezuelan-born shortstop for the Chicago White Sox. He was Rookie of the Year in 1956. (Odd that some kid in New York should know about him in January 1956, eh?) In 1959, White Sox owner Bill Veeck dreamed up a stunt whereby the diminutive Aparacio and his double-play partner, Nellie Fox, were abducted by a bunch of midgets posing as Martians who landed at Chicago's Comiskey Park in a helicopter. Aparacio was admitted to the baseball Hall of Fame in 1984. APCs449; little white (or pink) pills that contain aspirin, phenacetin and caffeine and are taken to reduce fever, relieve headache pain, etc. apocalypse"Ploy saw apocalypse," 11; "Perhaps in a matter of weeks [...] the whole world will be plunged into apocalypse" 192; holocaust, 194; "slow apocalypse," 316; "What Apocalypse?" 472; 474; See also Armageddon apocheir9; 35; the point farthest from the yo-yo hand; "apo" is Greek for "away," "off," "apart, or "from"; "cheir" is Greek for "hand". Get it? Apollo394; Greek god of youth, manly beauty, poetry, music and the wisdom of the Oracles apostrophe465; the addressing of an absent person or personified thing Aquilina451; shipfitter who has information on V.; [The victim in the Gallis Tower murder was named Aquilina.] Arab, the78; with a pistol wrestling w/Goodfellow on train, 81; 82 arête474; a sharp-crested ridge in rugged mountains Aristotle (384-322 BC)354; Greek philosopher Ark Royal429; a class of British aircraft carrier, each one called "Ark Royal" (It has always been a tradition of the British Navy to preserve the same name throughout the dynasty of ships of war) Armageddon461; In the book of Revelation in the Bible, the site of the final, conclusive battle between good and evil Armistice458; the armistice ending WWI, November 11, 1918; 459; 467; 480 Arno159; river on which Florence is situated; 188 arras215; a wall hanging or screen of tapestry; 239; 260 arrondissement394; an administrative district in some large French cities art"what Dadaists called a ready-made," 56; Catatonic Expressionism, 56, 296; "Cubist, Fauve and Surrealist cheese Danishes," 282; revolt against Catatonic Expressionism, 282; Cheese Danish #35, 282; Cheese Danish #41, 295; "leprous pointillism of orris root," 296; "technique for the sake of technique," 297; di Chirico's street, 303; di Chirico's Hebdomeros, 307; accidental, 348; Cheese Danish #56, 353; the Whitney, 415; National Gallery, 418; Dali's Last Supper, 418; "cubist moth," 451; objects, 486-87; See also Botticelli, Sandro; de Chirico, Giorgio Ash Wednesday308; first day of Lent which ends with Easter, 40 days later; 317 aspetti165: Italian: "be on the lookout" Astarte456; Astarte is also known as Astarat and Astoreth. She is an incarnation of Ishtar and Inanna. This Semitic Goddess was worshipped by the Syrians, Palestinians, Phoenicians, Egyptians and other Semitic Tribes. King Solomon built a Temple to her as Astoreth, near Jerusalem. Astarte was worshipped as many things — to the Egyptians, She was honored as a Goddess of War and tenacity; to the Semites, She was a Goddess of Love and Fertility. Among the Greeks She was transposed into the Goddess of Love Aphrodite. In the Bible, She is referred to as "the abomination" (from Spiral Goddess Grove website); figurehead on Mehemet's xebec, 492; See also Esther Harvitz (Esther = Astarte) Athenaeum Theatre70; in Lardwick-in-the-Fen, Yorkshire, where Ralph MacBurgess is busted auberge307; the Order of the Knights of St. John was divided into eight langues (nationalities), each having its own auberge (place of assembly). The original eight [Allemagne (Germany), Aragon (Spain), Auvergne, England, France, Italy, Provence and Portugal] were established in Vittoriosa. All were built by Cassar between 1571 and 1590; bombed, 319 Avalanche, Father312; Maltese priest who is the Bad Priest's counterpart; 341; with H. Stencil, 448; 482; possible Etymology avanti178; Italian: "Quick!"
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