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Waldetar

77; conductor of train that runs between Alexandria and Cairo; born in Portugal

Walden Pond

350; pond in northeast Massachussetts where the American essayist and poet Henry David Thoreau (1817-62) lived and worked; 352

war

"Wars begin in August," 301

Warmbad

229; city near the southern border of Südwest; 232; [MAP]

Waterberg

257; town in Südwest about 100 miles north of Windhoek; site of decisive battle in August 1904 between Germans and Hereros; [MORE]; [MAP]

wedge

flying, 16; "a triangular wedge of septum," 108; "force a wedge into the Triple Alliance," 196; "that silly wedge of German earth," 259; "Wedged under a fallen beam," 341; "wedged her way into the kitchen," 355; See also V.; v-shapes; Wedge, Duke

Wedge, Duke

27; "pimpled bravo from the Chelsea district" who is bunkmate of Profane's

Weissmann, Lieutenant

236; at Foppl's villa; in drag, 260; decodes sferics, 277-78

Wernher

89; bartender at bierhalle north of Ezbekiyeh Garden

Westside flophouse

222; Crew's name for Winsome's and Mafia's apartment

White Goddess, The

61; book on mythology by Robert Graves, published in 1948; [V. and The Goddess]

Whitehall

53; Britain's center for government in London. Eponymically named for Whitehall Palace which was located there but burned down in the late 17th century; 458; 469; 470; 473; "Whitehall's inscrutable purposes," 486; "every city Whitehall has called me to" 487

White Nile

67; aka Bahr-el-Abiad, flows from Victoria Nyanza (Lake Victoria) and is joined at Khartoum by the Blue Nile, aka Bahr el-Azrek, which has its source in the Abssynian Mountains

Whole Sick Crew, The

35; "a crowd of disaffected": Raoul, Slab, Melvin, Fergus, Rachel, Esther, Winsome, Pig, Profane, Charisma, Fu, Mafia; centered at pad of Raoul, Slab and Melvin; wooing Profane, 225; all talk, 297-98; rollicking, 302; 347; 353; assessed by Winsome, 360-61; at Idlewild airport, 362-64; party busted, 364-65; "Crew does not live, it experiences" 380; Rollicking Boys (Stencil & Profane), 415

Why Our X.O. Is Queer

219; one of Pig's porno radio productions while with Task Force 60 in the Mediterranean

wideawake hat

AKA "Quaker Hat" - worn between @1720 - 1817; Victoria Wren's uncle from Australia with wideawake hat, 72; "God wore a wideawake hat" 73; the Gaucho in, 161; "a drunken soldier in a wideawake hat who carried a Mauser" 262

Wigglesworth, Brenda

452; American WASP in Valletta who attended Beaver College, with whom Profane dallies; "I am the twentieth century," 454; See also tourism

Wijk, Willem van

229; minor extremity of the administration in Windhoek in 1922; dead, 279

Windhoek

229; capital of Südwest; 235; [MAP]

Winsome, Gouveneur ("Roony") (b. 1923)

123; "an intellectual" who owns Outlandish Records; 150; 217; wants Paola, 223; 283; 348; crisis of the spirit, 359 62; 416

Winthrop, Matilda

281; runs rooming house in Harlem where Ruby-Paola lives; 291; 300; 349

Witboois

232; "homicidally disposed"; One of the five tribes of Orlams who crossed the Orange into Südwest from South Africa in the early 19th century. They were originally known as the Khowesin or Queen Bees under Kido Witbooi, but later became known as the Witboois, led by Hendrik Witbooi.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef Johann (1889-1951)

380; Austrian-born British philosopher whose highly influential works dealt with mathematics and with language. He served with the Austrian army in WWI and was taken prisoner on the Italian front in 1918; "The world is all that the case is," 278; song, 288-89; See also Tractatus; [Wittgenstein Website]

Wobbly

355; Wobbly is slang for a member of the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.), a former international labor organization favoring socialism and the abolition of the wage system; See also Hill, Joe

Wren, Mildred (b. 1888)

68; V's sister; "myopic and stocky," 71; 80; 166

Wren, Sir Alastair

64; Victoria's widowed father; 166; 388; ["Under The Rose"]

Wren, Victoria (b. 1880)