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Xaghriet Mewwija

332; the peninsula on the tip of which is Valletta; Xaghra is Maltese for "a large open plain"; Mewwija/Newwija = noun fem. inhabited, full. This word (mewwija) survives as a toponymic name of the hill (Xaghret Mewwija) upon which Valletta was built and in the name of a Maltese folk-tale is "sebgha trongiet mewwija" ("the seven inhabited citron trees"); Mewwija could mean "twisted" (from milwija) but the meaning "inhabited, full" fits in with the sense required by the tale as each of the seven citrons had a girl inside; Bad Priest active in, 340; "The inhabited plain; the peninsula whose tip is Valletta," 461; 462

xebec

456; a usually 3-masted Mediterranean sailing ship

Xemxi, Elena

306; Xemxi: Maltese adj. masc. meaning "sunny" (from: xemx = sun); mother of Paola and wife of Fausto M.; 309; 311; with the Bad Priest, 312-13, 341; mother killed, 319; killed, 341; 445

X.O.

13; executive officer; 219

Yahweh

399; God of the Jews whose name it is forbidden to pronounce; [MORE]

yardbirds

467; laborers on the docks

yellow

"yellow hair," 90; "distant yellow exhalation," 235; "yellow daggers of African sun" 239; "yellow skin" 259; "unhealthy yellow sand," 273; "the yellow road which led [...] to the Atlantic." 279; "nauseous yellow cloud" 398; "exhausted yellow light," 403; "hidden by yellow clouds," 405; "Fort St. Elmo, dirty yellow" 456

Youngblood, Tiger

425; "spud/coxswain" on Scaffold

yo-yo

"Benny Profane [...] human yo-yo," 9; "travelling up and down the east coast like a," 10; again, 21; "New Year's Eve party was to end all yo-yoing," 30; "The furthest point from the yo-yo hand is called [...] apocheir," 35; "decided to spend the day like a yo-yo, shuttling on the subway back and forth underneath 42nd Street," 37; "He's a yo-yo," 39; umbilical, 29, 34, 49, 217; "Rachel gets her yo-yo back," 213; "He was king of the subway. He must have been there all night, yo-yoing out to Brooklyn and back," 215; "Any sovereign or broken yo-yo must feel like this after a short time of lying inert," 217; "spiderwebs woven of yo-yo string: a net or a trap," 288; Whole Sick Crew's rules of yo-yoing, 302; "There are nine million yo-yos in this town." 303; "down to Havana and back. You'll be a yo-yo champion." 353; "In which the yo-yo string is revealed as a state of mind" 367; Fortune's, 367; "After a day of yo-yoing," 371; "Malta alone drew them, a clenched fist around a yo-yo string." 444

Yoyodyne

152; dyne: unit of force (227); "one of the biggest defense contractors on the East Coast" for whom Chiclitz works; story of, 226-27; 284;

Yusef

66; the factotum (person having many diverse activities or responsibilities); anarchist who works in hotels in Alexandria; loves balloons, 67

Zeitsuss, Mr.

43; boss of Alligator Patrol - sharkskin suits and horn-rims; 139

Zenobia the Copt

91; probably the girl seen by Gebrail in the Quarter Rossetti; Zenobia; Identity

Zeus

474; The chief of the Olympian gods of ancient Greece; the sky and weather god

Zionist

22; Zion is the name of the hill on which the city of Jerusalem stands, which hill is thus the symbol of the center of Jewish national life. A Zionist is one who believes in advancing the national state of Israel.

Zippo, Antoine

433; "captain of the second division head"; plays guitar on Route 66 in the Union Jack in Valletta