A.E.F.
American Expeditionary Forces, the American army sent to Europe in World War I. Duffey claims that before joining the army in 1917 he drove ambulances with Hemingway in Italy and E. E. Cummings in France. The narrator doubts even his brief presence in an American army camp and suggests that he borrowed some of these experiences from Sebastian Hilton, while allowing that he lived borrowed scenes fully [MTM B2:72].MTM B2:72
A.M.
Loy Larkin, in a letter to Finnegan from Cambeltown, New South Wales, dated Thursday, February 11, 1943, set a rendezvous time of 7:45 A.M. for the next day, acknowledging Finnegan might find it decadent to wake so early [A:27].A:27
Aansen, Swede
One of the resident regulars at the Old Wooden Ship, in the town where Finnegan first met Seaworthy, the Devil, and Anastasia [D:215-216]. Aansen belongs to a group of five men called Swede, none of whom is Swedish: their origins are Norse, Danish, Icelandic, German, and Orcadian. The passage does not assign a particular origin to Aansen [D:217].D:215-216; D:217
Aaron
Former owner of the marbles in Phoebe Anne Ankerson’s suitcase, which Finnegan steals. Her label says Aaron is too old for them and that they are to be given to Harold Michael; some are agates [D:171-172].D:171-172
Aaron, Avril
One of the women living at the Old Wooden Ship who are called “salt water widows,” most of them married to seamen [D:221].D:221
Aaron, Casper Stone
One of the Princes of the Ekklesia at the conclave in Babylonia Bagascia. First called in Conrad Stone Hackenschmidt’s armed roll call, he votes for the straw man, speaking surlily as though under compulsion [MB:566–567].MB:566–567
Ab Salom
Name by which Teresa Piccone Stranahan identifies Absalom Stein when she recounts the company’s earlier lives aboard the Argo. She calls him Ab-Salom, the Father of Peace, and says that he was a ship’s chandler and provisioner on the Euxine who joined the voyage to look after his investments [MTM B7:233-234]. See Stein, Absalom.MTM B7:233-234
Abbott, Catherine Stone
One of the Princes of the Ekklesia at the conclave in Babylonia Bagascia. Called after Casper Stone Aaron in Conrad Stone Hackenschmidt’s armed roll call, she votes for the straw man [MB:566–567].MB:566–567
Abd Aliah of the Sea
Abd-Aliah of the Sea, former owner of the Argo and father of a famously beautiful daughter with a tail. He sold the ship to Sindbad of El-Basrah [MTM B13:404].MTM B13:404
Abdo, Adrian
Actor playing the title role in Goat Boy at the Castle Theatre when Casey, acting on a bet, walks uninvited onto the stage. Casey reads seven names from a Greater Chicago telephone directory and provokes an ecstatic ovation; afterward nobody remembers why the crowd reacted so strongly [PG:543].PG:543
Abdo, James
James Gate Abdo, one of the Princes of the Ekklesia at the Last Conclave in Babylonia Bagascia [MB:561] [MB:566-567]. He votes “Ego eligo effigiem” for the straw-man after Conrad Stone Hackenschmidt orders that response while covering the assembled Princes with a Browning Automatic Rifle. Six dissenters vote for Joseph Cardinal Hedayat and are killed; the straw-man is elected and burned [MB:567-568]. Abdo’s vote belongs to this coerced ceremony intended to terminate the Church [MB:567-568].MB:561; MB:566-567; MB:567-568
Abomination of Desolation
Prophetic phrase that Mr. X applies to 'the world that God so loved, becoming trivial and narrow.' In his letter to Absalom Stein, X predicts that they will see this desolation and immediately rebukes Stein for having read Teilhard without laughing [A:265] [A:266].A:265; A:266
Absalom (Son of King David)
Biblical son of King David. His supposed appearance in Finnegan’s discussion of dynastic succession remains unverified; the passage previously cited concerns Absalom Stein [MTM B5:169].MTM B5:169
Absinthe
Ingredient in the “Green Ladies” drunk in the Quarter during the appearance of the Royal Pop People. Margaret Stone describes the drink to Mary Virginia as “like Peppermint Schnapps, except with absinthe instead of the schnapps” [MTM B11:309].MTM B11:309
Absolute Minimum
Finnegan's reserve against going completely broke. His last hundred-dollar bill is Miguel; reaching that reserve tells him he must find work. Earlier bills included Jose-Ramires, Hernandez, Aloysius, and Gottfried von Guggenheim [D:19]. The narrator calls this the economic law of the cushion and the absolute minimum [D:20].D:19; D:20
Academy (U.S. Military)
The United States Military Academy at West Point, to which Private Gregory says he gained an appointment about a year after deserting and changing his identity in 1907. After more than a century as a sergeant, he passed for a man of twenty, cultivated political patrons, and entered the Academy. He was later commissioned and became an army historian and archivist [A:77] [A:78].A:77; A:78
Acastus
Acastus of Iolcus, who with his unnamed wife subjects Peleus to what Melchisedech Duffey calls a “badger-game.” In his commentary in “Promontory Goats,” Duffey identifies Peleus as Casey’s primordial Argo role [PG:534-535]. Hilary Hilton and Mary Jean occupy the corresponding positions in Casey’s twentieth-century life, though Duffey says their game is played in reverse. He suggests that Casey may have sought death at Hilary’s hands and received a more painful derision instead. Duffey admits that he does not know what either Hilton wanted from Casey and wonders whether the original game was also reversed [PG:536].PG:534-535; PG:536
Acme Pump Company
Words cast on iron pump handles, among the household inscriptions Duffey remembers from his childhood. He gathers these particulars through close observation and by appropriating other people’s memories [MTM B1:16-17].MTM B1:16-17
Acme Royal Top, The
Earlier erroneous heading, which inserted Royal into the carriage’s name. See Acme Top, The.Acme Top, The
Horse-drawn carriage named “The Acme Top” in a Royal Pop Historian’s account of the memories preserved in a Decatur Street flagstone. He lists it with the Acme Open, the Southern Beauty, and other old vehicles during a nostalgic address at Duffey’s place [MTM B11:329].MTM B11:329
Acorns
Food eaten by Gautier, the goat-man, and his goats during their wandering life in New Jersey. The narrator associates this part of Gautier's diet with his old-world stock [A:196] [A:197].A:196; A:197
Action
Finnegan’s term for what his paintings of the thirteen murdered cardinals portray. When Biloxi Brannagan exclaims over their passion, Finnegan contrasts acting with passively undergoing and insists that action does not require exterior motion. The exchange takes place aboard the Argo, where the paintings cover the bulkheads of the Bread and Wine Room [MTM B13:452-453]. His explanation breaks off after “Action is...” when Brannagan interrupts him [MTM B13:453].MTM B13:452-453; MTM B13:453
Actium
Site of the naval battle of 31 BC. In the history spoken by the talking oak in its wheel, the Argo had been the Anthony Ship at Actium and had been shamed there [MTM B13:404].MTM B13:404
Adam
Finnegan's counterpart 'in a variant account' of creation. In the opening scene Finnegan is the first man, drinking the first beer; when he raises his eyes from his drink, the Garden is gone and he is in the World. Both he and Adam are said to be 'a little more than half Italian and a little more than half Irish' [A:1].A:1
Adelphos
Word X says Anastasia used for Finnegan. He explains it as meaning cousin as well as brother in Old Greek, and takes it as evidence of their kinship through the ancestor he identifies as the Devil [D:279].D:279
Aden
Market in Biloxi Brannagan’s stories where a shrewd trader can supposedly make a fortune in Circassian slave-girl futures. Finnegan is willing to credit this part of his account [D:206].D:206
Admiror audiens
Duffey's Latin reply to Mr. X's description of the nested black, gray, and brown boxes. Duffey gives his own loose translation, 'I am surprised to hear it,' then asks whether he has seen the box before. Mr. X says he has brought it from Chicago after stealing it from Casey [A:136].A:136
Adrian the Dutchman
One of the figures aboard the Navicula Petri in Henry's dream, named beside Hildebrand among apostles and figures from the history of the Church [A:44] [A:45]. The epithet probably identifies Pope Adrian VI, Adriaan Florensz of Utrecht, whose pontificate lasted from 1522 to 1523. This is an identification inferred from the epithet; the passage does not give his papal number.A:44; A:45
Adriatic Sea
Sea on which Ragusa lies. Duffey tells a New Orleans hull dealer that the Argo’s keel was laid at Ragusa and its timbers came from the Dinaric Alps; he qualifies the whole encounter as symbolically rather than ordinarily accurate [MTM B13:412].MTM B13:412
Adversaries
Formidable opponents of the Argonauts, including the Evil Prince, the Purple Prince, the Mocking Prince, and the Laughing Prince. The narrator credits them with mystery, personality, and courage, and allows that they sometimes defeat and kill great Ship Masters. The Laughing Prince of Tartary may be the strongest and trickiest; reports call him the Prince of the Third Way, claimed by neither God nor the Devil [MTM B13:437].MTM B13:437
Adversary
The Devil as opponent of Duffey and the fiefdoms of Invisible Neustria [MTM B8:245-246]. The group is said to have known him before his thousand-year imprisonment [MTM B7:236]. In Cleo Mahoney’s account of the sixth possible future, the Adversary and the Patriarch are the only persons left in the world, and the Adversary presses him to sign a covenant that would unmake everyone else [MTM B10:294] [MTM B10:296].MTM B8:245-246; MTM B7:236; MTM B10:294; MTM B10:296
Aeetes
King of Colchis and father of Medea in Greek myth. Rosemary Riorden tells Finnegan in Sydney that he will be loved by Aeetes’ daughter in several forms, including Rosemary herself, as part of his renewed Argonautic story [A:88-89].A:88-89
Aegean Sea
Sea whose islands enter Finnegan’s account of creation: a shattered electrum cup becomes the islands, and the first five-island group comprises Andros, Tinos, Paros, Amargos, and Naxos [A:35]. Anastasia locates the mermaids’ original home in the Cyclades, with an early extension to the Dodecanese and Kos; the survivors have largely retreated to Naxos and nearby rocks [D:35-36]. Naxos is her own home, and she claims descent from its fishtail people [D:115].A:35; D:35-36; D:115
Aerie (geographical)
High refuge to which Sergeant Santee climbs for the night in Don Lewis’s account of Willy Jones Island. Casper takes an opposite crest, while Lewis remains in the valley with Yokipoki’s body [D:46].D:46
Aerie (poetic)
Symbol of a bright, solitary, high home mentioned in Hans Schultz's unwritten poem ("Bright is my Aerie. / Aloft and alone.") [A:210].A:210
Aeson
Father of Jason in Greek myth. Rosemary Riorden tells Finnegan that he is the son of “Aeson a demiurge,” although he believes his father’s name was Giulio and regards him as a slob. She makes this identification while explaining his Argonautic life in Sydney [A:88-89].A:88-89
Affidavit
Document declaring the Aussies superior to the Yanks at drinking and everything else, with obscenities spelled out. Tom Shire inspires it and an unnamed “scribe of genius” writes it. Finnegan, drunk and believing he is signing a roster for beer chits, signs without reading. The narrator says an Aussie non-commissioned officers’ club still keeps it after Shire and Freddy Castle have passed beyond its members’ memory [A:13].A:13
Afghan border
Setting of military actions in Biloxi Brannagan’s stories. Finnegan does not know enough about these actions, Australian irregulars, or service in the Empire’s forces to test Brannagan’s account [D:206].D:206
Africa
Continent on the Brunhilde’s route from Port of Spain to Freetown, Sierra Leone [D:85]. The African Hump is associated with inward, deathlike dreams; Finnegan experiences apprehension on the crossing [D:80] [D:90]. In Freetown Joseph, a Haussa diamond smuggler, calls his people “the Jews of Africa” and proposes a partnership; Brannagan later recognizes Finnegan’s diamond as Sierra Leonean [D:93-94] [D:207]. Don Barnaby explicitly says that Madame Le Mourcheor’s Old Original Juju Joy Pills are made in New Orleans, not Africa [D:249].D:85; D:80; D:90; D:93-94; D:207; D:249
African Hump
Destination in the chapter-six epigraph’s imagined geography of sea-dreams: sailors traveling from Port of Spain are said to suffer dreams of deathlike introspection. The epigraph is attributed to Ian McIfreann’s Psychologia Nugarum [D:80-81]. Its image recurs as apprehension enters Finnegan’s dreams [D:90].D:80-81; D:90
African-Extravaganza
Duffey’s derisive name for claims of extreme human antiquity in the African fossil evidence discussed with a Pattenite. He calls the claims fraudulent and likens the “African Extravaganza” to a pop-rock hymn, yet accepts evidence from elsewhere for a human antiquity greater than the Fundamentalers allow [MTM B9:282-283].MTM B9:282-283
Afrikaans
Language Joseph knows, unlike “proper Dutch,” which he says he still needs to learn for his diamond business. He makes the distinction while describing his linguistic qualifications to Finnegan [D:94].D:94
Agadir
Port in the Brunhilde’s itinerary after Arrecife on Lanzarote and Ifni, and before Magadar, Safti, Mazagan, Casablanca, and Rabat [D:101].D:101
Agape (Love)
Hot purple flower in the image of underground New Orleans sunshine bursting through broken pavement. With Philos and Eros, Agape gives the decade’s warmth the form of flowering love; the narrator calls it the theme flower of the hundred-and-twenty-month late summertime shared by Duffey and Letitia [MTM B7:211].MTM B7:211
Age of giants
Patrick Stranahan’s name for the period of spiritual greatness he believes has just ended in the Church, giving way to an “age of pygmies” [A:109-110].A:109-110
Age of pygmies
Patrick Stranahan’s name for the diminished age he believes is beginning in the Church after its “age of giants.” He calls the arrival of the common Hell and attacks secular liberalism in the Church; Father McGuigan protests that he has gone too far [A:109-110].A:109-110
Ageing
Age is unstable across the cycle. Private Gregory says he never seems to age and changes identities to conceal his longevity; an army doctor’s interest forces another escape [A:77-78]. Finnegan recalls a young hobo who became forty years older overnight, while Saxon Seaworthy appears to age forty years in three seconds at the sight of Papa Devil [D:14] [D:22]. In Don Lewis’s Big House story, the inhabitants remain unaged by killing and consuming visitors; without a visitor for a year they age one year [D:48]. Members of the other recension are said to deepen rather than age [D:161-162]. Duffey looks younger than he did twenty years earlier [MTM B8:261-262], and Stein later describes his progressive rejuvenation, which Duffey had thought no one had mentioned aloud [MTM B11:317].A:77-78; D:14; D:22; D:48; D:161-162; MTM B8:261-262; MTM B11:317
Agency, Royal Imperial Dominion Detective
Employer of Shamus McGregor (Marie Monaghan's uncle 'Shaw'), who worked as a night watchman for the agency [A:28].A:28
Aghri Dagh
Name that Zabotski says the mountain bore before an Armenian king renamed it Ararat. His account questions whether the king correctly identified the biblical mountain. The gloss “Mountain” in the passage belongs to Ararat, not to Aghri Dagh [MTM B9:280-281].MTM B9:280-281
Ahriman
The evil spirit of Zoroastrian tradition. In the epigraph attributed to Arpad Arutinov’s The Back-Door of History, “the children of Ahriman” return like primordial monsters or frightening mutations. The passage places them among its claims about overlapping species, mingled spirit and flesh, and demonic possession [D:26].D:26
Aion
Jung’s work invoked in the Postscript for the Ego, Self, Shadow, Anima, and Animus. Lafferty counts these as five persons within the human person and uses the account to introduce his claim that inner multiplicity can sometimes become physically visible [PS:477].PS:477
Air
Medium from which Finnegan says he learned Doppio di Pinne's name: “I read it in the air.” He also knows that Dopey was killed; Joe Cross asks whether he read that in the air too [D:63]. A fuller counterpart appears in The Elliptical Grave, where the Pioneer Reventlo Expedition in Calabria seeks human origins and mutations by excavating earth, haunted air, and the higher noosphere. Joseph Abramswell invents air excavation, startling hidden presences into activity and using detection and amplification equipment. The air yields human and animal ghosts, particularly recent ones, and still more ghost plants; reconstructed trees supply landscape history. Joseph calls haunted air “recording air”: its records repeatedly lose clarity and need amplification. He admits that he does not understand their survival in the wind, but describes immaterial pens and baffles and anomalously cohesive clumps. Joseph and Dorothy Blue-Ice also extract the outlines of grumpus fish. Jeffery Wind instead leads the uncertain work of excavating the noosphere, chiefly from a tethered balloon. Cecelia Calca infers a thirty-meter limit for haunted-air ghosts from her own inability to rise higher. She identifies the Invisible Man, whom Jeffery meets in his balloon, as a more tenuous ghost, but the narrator questions that classification. Later, Jeffery experiments with recycling air, and Anabella conjectures that their cocoons are made of air. The book also shows a Phoenix leaking air in Fritz Otto's projected film and gives a verse about shoveling air. (The Elliptical Grave, PDF pp. 26, 42-44, 47, 50, 56, 73, 79, 85).D:63
Akroreia
One of the three Oreads whom Finnegan meets in dreams on the mountain at Naxos, with Anemotrephes and Oreibates. They call Anastasia their sister, warn Finnegan to flee after the coming night’s events, and forbid him to join their climb. When he recognizes their kinship with the teras, Akroreia sadly asks how he knew; Oreibates calls it their “destitution and destruction.” The sisters push Finnegan from the dream-mountain [D:136-139].D:136-139
Al-Raschid, Haroun
Abbasid caliph who ruled from 786 to 809. Anastasia uses his reign as a marker in her mermaid history, saying that mermaids had reached the Persian Gulf by his time [D:35]. In Lafferty's Sindbad, the Thirteenth Voyage, Harun al-Rashid is a recurring Golden Boy or Boy-Caliph, associated with Baghdad Mirage, masks, magic, and cruel practical jokes. Reports of his deaths and rebirths conflict in chronology. Redcrown Charnel, his father in a previous Kentauron Mikron life, receives a coded message announcing his rebirth on Gaea-Earth. Harun appears about eleven, though described as fifty in his present life. Citizen Heifritz says he ruled for three days twenty-seven years earlier, in Moslem year 164, before his sons Al-Amin and Mamun made him Caliph-Emeritus. The current action also has him install Al-Amin as caliph. These are the novel's accounts, not historical chronology. Harun builds towers by magic; Mamun calls him the chief creator of the present Baghdad Mirage, and Essindibad's ship suggests that he could have begun its creation before birth. Legends link his strong hands to Hercules-like snake strangling and to killing his own twin. He can escape recognition, although his many masks also paradoxically leave him recognizable to everyone. John Thunderson resembles him, calls him a friend, reports his boyish “Ifrit treble,” and receives a promise of a vizierate contingent on Harun remaining caliph. Harun claims invisibility and friendship with devils, with a foot in Earth, heaven, and hell. His delightful aura later turns to revulsion when his mask falls. Spy Alexander describes him as a potentially good creature of God who actually serves evil as Satan's recurrent pawn. Harun collects Christian blood for Al-Amin's installation, mocks and repudiates Al-Amin, calls Mamun his only son, and seeks Al-Amin's corpse for further jokes. He wears green clown motley and a dog mask in Dog Country, where victims protest his permanent transformation of humans into dogs. Harun himself insists that a caliph's bones are holy. Near the Fountain of Life-Bubbles, a murdered man's widow pours a dog-attracting essence over him, and savage dogs kill him. In his final seconds he receives two surrogate ninety-year dogs' lives. The Dog Magician extracts his still-living, transparent heart and gives it to Scheherazade, identified as his widow as well as Al-Amin's. Its apparent goldfish identifies itself as a bottled, miniaturized golden whale; Scheherazade has it installed beside her own heart. The Dog Magician thinks this is Harun's seventh and last life, and explains his bodies as contraptions inhabited by devils. He and the Dog Surgeon later record the death and burial in the Royal Archives. (Sindbad, the Thirteenth Voyage, PDF pp. 10-11, 16, 20, 27, 34-36, 38-40, 46, 66, 70, 73, 117, 120, 128, 133, 136, 138-142).D:35
Alabama
One of three possible settings, with Louisiana and Mississippi, for the rural scenes in the first chamber of Elroy Redheart’s four-chambered heart artwork. Its fields, working people, and young dancers also contain the disturbing scene of the dead Jill of Hearts [MTM B7:221].MTM B7:221
Alaric
Gothic leader of about AD 395-410, named by Mr. X among kings and heroes whose followers await their awakening from enchanted sleep. X uses their legends as a comparison for the Devil's imprisonment [MTM B6:204-205]. Alaric is central to Lafferty's The Fall of Rome. That book places his birth in 376, as a Roman and a member of the Balthi, while qualifying the tradition of his birth on Peuce island and its fulfillment of a Gothic prophecy. His father's name Alareidar comes from a doubtful source; his father dies in a horse accident, and his mother's fate has conflicting accounts. Raised by male tutors and his older cousin Stairnon, later his wife and formative oracle, Alaric grows into a “boy giant” with a powerful capacity for learning. Athaulf, Sarus, and Singerich are his close kindred, though their precise family relationships remain uncertain. Their affinities diverge: Athaulf remains Gothic, Sarus commits himself to Rome, and Singerich becomes Greek. Alaric attends the Imperial School, hears Theodosius and Stilicho, and recognizes in Stilicho the equal who will be his ally, enemy, and eventual friend. He excels at transporting armies and aspires to become Master General, while Stairnon insists on his Gothic kingship. The book follows his command in the costly battle of Frigidus in 394; his approach to, negotiations with, and withdrawal from Constantinople in 395; his appointment as Master General of Illyricum and elevation as Gothic king in 397; and his Italian campaign beginning late in 401 and ending in defeat in 403. He then sincerely pledges himself to the Empire and helps maintain its eastern peace until 408. Secretly summoned to the Italian border by the generals' council, especially Sarus, he is drawn into the conflict after Stilicho's murder. The narrative places his first siege of Rome in 409, acknowledges uncertainty over siege details, and subsequently has him secure Attalus's elevation as emperor. Negotiations at Ravenna collapse after Sarus attacks under a truce. Under pressure from Stairnon, Athaulf, and the Gothic elders, Alaric abandons his Roman allegiance before taking Rome in 410. The narrator calls this a werewolf-like change: the Empire has become a cruel joke to Alaric, and he would replace it. The ensuing events enter an explicitly legendary register. A tempest destroys the Goths' fleet; Alaric dies of fever three months after taking Rome; and his burial beneath the diverted River Busento is a legend whose literal truth the narrator doubts. (The Fall of Rome, PDF pp. 32-35, 38, 40, 51, 60, 62, 101, 114, 120, 143-144, 176-177, 221, 232, 246, 251, 272, 278, 287, 300, 302, 304-305, 308-310).MTM B6:204-205
Alaric's Sword
Relic listed among the Argo Masters' recoveries [MTM B13:422]. In The Fall of Rome, a related Alaric sword is a broken-hafted, nearly rusted-through blade brought from Shade Island, a Gothic cemetery in the Danube. In Alaric's reported encounter, a towering ancestral figure who speaks with the authority of the dead gives him the sword and says that no other man can wield it. Useless in battle, it becomes an impressive talisman and recognized symbol of authority, held by Alaric when the Goths raise him as king. The narrator preserves uncertainty: Stairnon and Athaulf might have contrived the encounter, and the old Goths either recognized the sword's signs or came to believe that they did. (The Fall of Rome, PDF pp. 99, 101-104).MTM B13:422
Alarm (Clock)
Hans Schultz’s alarm clock, pictured as a chrome-colored dragon with an “ivory grin.” It gives a clattering roar until he throttles it; when he releases the lever it can only go “tunkle tunkle” [A:16-17].A:16-17
Alarm (Mind-Alarm)
Nonphysical alarm that Charlotte Garfield believes she triggered while robbing a walk-in vault containing Aga Gonof’s stash. She claims a small share of the stash is hers [MTM B3:84] [MTM B3:86]. The alarm detects her temporary name Mullens but not her appearance [MTM B3:93]. After Gloria and Manolo are murdered, Letitia says the killers acquired the Mullens name and hotel from this alarm but never knew their target was a little girl or midget [MTM B3:97].MTM B3:84; MTM B3:86; MTM B3:93; MTM B3:97
Albanians
People whom others claim are related to the Transylvanians, according to Countess Margaret. She lists them with Slavs, Greeks, Armenians, and Goths, then rejects all these proposed origins while asserting Transylvanian separateness [MTM B8:255].MTM B8:255
Albertus Magnus (Albert the Great) (c. 1200--1280)
German Dominican, bishop, philosopher, and natural investigator; teacher of Thomas Aquinas and commentator on Aristotle. His studies included zoology in De animalibus, and the breadth of his learning earned him the title Doctor universalis. He was canonized and declared a Doctor of the Church in 1931. John William Schultz insists that fourth-graders should already have mastered the catechism and should be studying Aquinas and Albert [A:208-209].A:208-209
Albion of the White Cliffs
Britain or England under an ancient literary name. In Henry Salvatore’s dream, Albion of the White Cliffs is one of the shattered masts of the Navicula Petri, alongside Moscovy and Gaul. The dream’s account describes Albion’s apostasy as foretold in the Apocalypse [A:44-45].A:44-45
Alcohol
Recurring element of the characters’ social life and Finnegan’s dependence. While cleaning bars and washing dishes he drinks during breaks and in the evenings [D:19]. The narrator later calls him the most addicted of the four friends on Basse-Terre, though Johnny Duckwalk can drink more [D:236]. At the Old Wooden Ship, John Indelecio and John Jereboam bear the nicknames Little Alcohol and Big Alcohol [D:215].D:19; D:236; D:215
Alcove
Storage nook Duffey builds for the hundred bushels of barley bought to supply the Big Pot. The barley fills the alcove six feet deep [A:133].A:133
Alexander the Great
Historical ruler used as a chronological marker in Anastasia’s account of mermaids. She says that they had reached the Red Sea by his time, though how they arrived is unknown [D:34-35].D:34-35
Alexandrian
Earlier heading that misspelled the proposed vehicle model. See Ford Alexandrine.Ali
Boy in Don Lewis’s Big House tale. Its inhabitants stay young by killing visitors and eating their organs. Ali brings two ta’a nuts, plants one before entering, and keeps the other in his pocket, which prevents the household from killing him. He snaps his fingers to bring morning; the planted nut has become a tree with a branch at his window, and he climbs down to escape. The household consequently ages a year [D:48-49].D:48-49
Alice
Town named by Demetrio among the places he visited in his youth, in his account of having traveled throughout the world and the United States [D:58].D:58
Alkies
Captain Guiterrez’s term for the Dirty Fivers as heavy drinkers. At the Buffalo Bar he calls them “a bunch of Alkies,” including himself when he is with them [A:66].A:66
Allentown
Town on the Pittsburgh bus route described to Finnegan. The bus goes through Allentown and Reading rather than Philadelphia [D:170].D:170
Alligator Calls
Animal-call instruments Giulio Solli whittles from tupelo-gum for Finnegan to blow while they drift through the Cajun swamps. The set calls alligators, panthers, devil-fish, swamp boas, hairy men, and white sharks; Finnegan says he never knew what would answer from the water or trees [MTM B5:174].MTM B5:174
Alligator Tail Soup
Alligator-tail stew mixed into Duffey’s barley soup among the changing ingredients of the Big Pot [A:134].A:134
Almonds
Food Finnegan eats while wandering Tangier during the hunt that ends in Don Lewis’s death [D:103-105]. Almond also appears among the skin-color comparisons applied to the island women pursued by Don Barnaby and Johnny Duckwalk [D:236].D:103-105; D:236
Aloysia, Linus
Linus Aloysia, one of Duffey’s musical friends during the Chicago years. He is named in a group spanning opera, ragtime, Chicago hot music, and string bands, with composers, players, and stagers among them; the passage does not assign an individual specialty to him [MTM B3:99].MTM B3:99
Aloysius (Currency)
One of the hundred-dollar bills Finnegan has named and kept as the reserve at the bottom of an adventure. Aloysius is listed among the predecessors of Miguel [D:19].D:19
Aloysius McGivern Basket Weaver
Regular patron at the Old Wooden Ship tavern; receives a stipend from his affluent ("red-dog rich") family to stay away and avoid causing them embarrassment, with the condition that they won't return him to a sanitarium [D:225]; known for complaining about being compelled into basket weaving ("'The Devil finds work for idle hands to do,' they say... Why the devil don't they put the Devil to basket weaving...?") [D:225]; one of the diverse group of fifty regulars at the tavern [D:216].D:225; D:216
Aloysius, Brother
Unverified identification. The supplied citations do not establish a Brother Aloysius, his alleged mathematical blessing, his clothing, his journey to Rome, or his connection with Finnegan.Aloysius, Linus
Earlier heading that misspelled the musician’s surname. See Aloysia, Linus.Alpha (Plan)
Earlier phase of Casey Szymansky’s plan to become world leader. He tells Letitia that Alpha will become past history when he mounts the white horse and begins Beta, first taking Chicago, then America, then the world [MTM B4:117].MTM B4:117
Alpha Centauri
One of the stars whose right ascension Hans learns to calculate under Professor Kirol von Weinsberg-Valeni. The Professor treats such calculations as only the childhood of astronomy [A:211] [A:214].A:211; A:214
Alpine
One of the racial categories, alongside Mediterranean, that the narrator says anthropologists impose on the Cajuns. The passage mocks these classifications and insists on the Cajuns as a people apart [A:123].A:123
Altar stone
Consecrated stone used as a portable altar for Mass. In Ignacio’s story, the eighth-century Benedictine Joseph of Maintz packs one into the chamber he fires to the moon, with bread, wine, grape cuttings, and wheat for continued celebration of Mass. His books include the Missal, Scriptures, writings of Augustine and Jerome, and Pliny’s Natural History [A:271]. The stone belongs to the tradition of consecrated altars containing saints’ relics; Aquinas explains the stone altar as signifying Christ and his stone tomb.A:271
Alternate reality
The alternative present that the closing directions in More Than Melchisedech ask the reader to approach from another side. Enniscorthy Sweeny compares an event to a solid object viewed from past, present, alternative present, and future: no view is to cancel the others [MTM B13:467]. “Great Day in the Morning” offers a different disturbance of shared reality when Duffy sees other people pass through walls that still bruise and bloody him; he wonders whether his own subjectivity is at fault [GD:498].MTM B13:467; GD:498
Amargos
Amargos is the form in Archipelago; Amorgos is used in The Devil Is Dead. See Amorgos.Amateur Drunks
Finnegan’s name for the drinkers who “blossom at receptions.” At Vincent and Theresa’s wedding reception in May 1946, he says he becomes an amateur himself for the occasion, “for sheer love of it,” then performs his familiar antics among the guests [A:95] [A:113].A:95; A:113
Amazons
Mythical warrior women; featured in Casey Szymansky's second erotic dream world fantasy, alongside female gladiators, Cretan girl bull-fighters, and circus girl acrobats [A:157].A:157
Ambulance Driver
Wartime occupation Duffey claims to have held with Hemingway in Italy and Cummings in France before joining the American army. The narrator questions Duffey’s service and suggests he may have borrowed experiences from Sebastian Hilton, whom the account identifies as an ambulance driver in both countries [MTM B2:72].MTM B2:72
America
Destination reached by St. Brandon in the Argo’s legendary history [MTM B13:404], and by some of Anastasia Grandmother’s emigrant granddaughters [D:125]. Anastasia’s mermaid account denies New World varieties [D:35]. Finnegan tells Brannagan that he has known beer served in pitchers only as an Australian custom [D:199]. Widow Waldo is said to have been Miss America [MTM B9:275].MTM B13:404; D:125; D:35; D:199; MTM B9:275
American (Nationality)
Nationality of Santee, Casper, and Lorrigan, the three soldiers in Don Lewis’s account of the disappearance on Willy Jones Island [D:44]. In Tangier it is Don Lewis, not Finnegan, whose Spanish sounds like an American imitating an Arab; Lewis also offers five hundred dollars American for a hiding place [D:107]. Manuel is separately described as South American [D:145].D:44; D:107; D:145
American Balzac
Title Casey imagines earning in his fourth dream world, the literary one. He will write ten thousand words daily and become so great that Balzac will eventually be called the French Szymansky [A:157-158].A:157-158
American Blood and Thunder (Old)
The sensational Western and crime romances that survive in the Harlow House library after Gautier’s goats have eaten the books they are allowed. The narrator lists “Old Wild West,” “Train Robber,” “Buffalo Hunter and Indian Scalper,” and “Bank Robber and Brigand” as descriptions of the surviving reading matter. Gautier, the goat-man, loves these books in both paper and hard covers [A:196-198].A:196-198
American Colonel (elderly)
Missing elderly officer whose fingerprints match those of the apparently twenty-year-old Australian Private Gregory. Gregory offers the discovery as the reason the authorities detained and questioned him after his latest change of identity [A:78-79].A:78-79
American counterpart
Unnamed American counterpart of the Australian brigadier whom a raiding party embarrasses during the Tania episode. Unaware of the scheme, he demands an explanation and then goes through the jungle seeking someone to blame [A:54]. The later account attributes a further layer of the trick to Stein [A:55].A:54; A:55
American Fig
Zabotski’s name for the sycamore he compares to Bryan Blackstone. He curses Blackstone’s tree to wither so that it will await its owner on the blessed shore, but expressly denies that he can command a man to die [MTM B9:270].MTM B9:270
American History
Subject that John William Schultz would have children read through on the second night of his five-evening preparatory curriculum before serious education begins [A:209]. In Duffey’s first high-school year, American History is one of the subjects at which Sebastian Hilton leads the class [MTM B1:25].A:209; MTM B1:25
American Journalism
Field that Casey says Stein, Gabrielovitch, and Duffey have disgraced in his Crock attack on the newly launched Bark. He denounces their politics and qualifications in an extended polemic against the rival Catholic magazine [A:128-130].A:128-130
American Mediterranean
Casey’s name for the Great Lakes in his high-school notebook. He praises their shores and hinterland over the European Mediterranean and makes Chicago the center of the world [A:166].A:166
American style cabaret
Cabaret that Falo and Nauti are building on Luzon after the war. They declare it open when Vincent and Finnegan arrive, using a large box as a table and two smaller boxes as chairs while construction continues [A:63-64].A:63-64
American Values ('Reaffirmation of')
Rehabilitation class Casey must attend three times weekly after four weeks in the stockade and demotion from sergeant. Its teacher is Stein the Red, whose influence Casey resents [A:50].A:50
Amnesia
Finnegan describes memory loss when moving between his upper and lower lives; Seaworthy answers that all their kind indulge in amnesia [D:11]. Finnegan claims its advantages when refusing to recognize Papa-D [D:15], while Anastasia challenges him with “Which will it be, amnesia or me?” [D:16]. The narrator recalls the gaps in his Green Islands identity and his personification of Amnesia as an old companion [D:50] [D:75]. Duffey’s Sea of the Seven Lost Years connects by a hidden strait with the Sea of Amnesia [MTM B13:406]. A counterpart in Fourth Mansions concerns Freddy Foley's disputed memory and identity during confinement in “the Bug.” Doctor Decker says that he was found wandering and amnesiac, identified as Julius Smith, and needs to recover his past as part of his cure. Foley denies that Smith is his name and accuses the authorities of hiding him under it. Richard Bencher reports that the official record instead says Foley insisted that he was Julius Smith and did not know or remember Fred Foley. Foley calls the record wrong and alleges “dirty work.” (Fourth Mansions, PDF pp. 161, 183, 186-187).D:11; D:15; D:16; D:50; D:75; MTM B13:406
Amnesia's Woods
Image for Finnegan’s gaps in memory. As he wonders whether he belongs to the “other human race,” the narrative recalls his passage through Amnesia’s woods and his meeting with Amnesia in the clearing [D:50].D:50
Amoral Hypnosis
Don Barnaby’s name for the condition induced by Madame Le Mourcheor’s Joy Pill, in which sleep becomes temporary death, then a transported and detached existence. He claims to move among distant places and many lives within the garden where he took the pill [D:250-251].D:250-251
Amorality
The Laughing Prince’s supposed freedom from moral allegiance. The narrator first calls total amorality impossible, then describes the Prince’s closed world of television images and hallucinations as the first massive instance of it. The desert and figures in which Duffey is murdered are called amoral, though his death in that unreal scene is real [MTM B13:438] [MTM B13:441-442].MTM B13:438; MTM B13:441-442
Amorgos
Island named in Finnegan’s account of the original Aegean five-island group [A:35]. In Anastasia’s mermaid history, surviving mermaids inhabit Naxos and the rocks between it and Amorgos [D:35-36].A:35; D:35-36
Amos
Prophet quoted in the narrator’s introduction to Casey’s problem of evil: “Shall there be evil in a city which the Lord hath not done?” The wording comes from Amos 3:6 and is presented as a puzzle before Casey declares evil the only problem in the world [A:154].A:154
Amoy
Sick parakeet visiting Ward Fourteen, whose stories Ignatius Ti expands from a few words of Tagalog-Parakeet. In Ti’s account, Amoy was once a red-winged blackbird trained by thieves, then a jewel thief in Karachi. After marrying an uncommon magpie of the common species, he withheld a blue diamond intended for her. His master Ali ben Taife, also called Lord Peter Petrof, County von Vinger, Sinhor Dedos, and Mr. Fingers, cut his throat to recover it. Amoy died and became a fish before becoming a parakeet [A:79-81]. A sadistic medico poisons him, and an official order calls for his death. He continues visiting friends, tries to be cheerful despite genuine persecution, and may be the ward’s best-balanced resident [A:81-82]. He later dies in terrible agony [A:88].A:79-81; A:81-82; A:88
Amphora of rum
Quantity of rum Finnegan and Anastasia take past a cigar factory to the ruins and old walls above an unnamed harbor. The narrator places the episode possibly at Paraiso, Campeche, or another stop; it is not the later visit to Naxos [D:67-68].D:67-68
Amraphel
One of the Three Slant-Faced Men whom Duffey recognizes by names printed in the comic strip Flame Man. The narrative identifies Amraphel as king of Shinar or Upper Babylonia and groups him with Arioch and Thadal as opposite kings or anti-magi without magic. It further identifies them as followers of Chodorlahomor, king of Elam, while noting that this detail is absent from the strip [MTM B7:227-228].MTM B7:227-228
Amusement park rides
Amusement parks are among the crowded places Herman Hercules says he needs for his well-being. His list includes arenas, opera houses, circuses, fairs, music halls, and other places that remain alive with people [MB:585].MB:585
Amyl acetate
One of Askandanakandrian’s seven “sovereigns,” the small set of substances he says can rehabilitate distressed merchandise ranging from fish to furniture [A:257]. Amyl acetates have a banana-like odor and are associated with the commercial name banana oil.A:257
Anachronism
Term Finnegan mistakenly applies to the redundancy he hears in “saltcellar.” When Doll questions “anachronism,” he corrects himself to “that other thing” meaning saying the same thing twice, then derives cellar from saliere and sal [D:189]. Duffey calls the arrival of his own cremated ashes while he is still alive an anachronism; Dotty replies that Duffey himself is one [MTM B6:203].D:189; MTM B6:203
Anamnesis
Recollection, the principal function Teresa Piccone attributes to the Argo talismans. She describes them as gold filigree laid over pieces of the Talking Oak Dordogne, with gold from the Great Fleece. Their function is less to create the companions than to awaken them and restore their remembering, enabling them to recognize one another after renewed birth and sleep. Their reunion prefigures the Resurrection [MTM B5:178-179].MTM B5:178-179
Anas Paludosa
Duck species named by Biloxi Brannagan in his account of handling diamonds larger than ducks’ eggs. When Finnegan suggests the ducks must be small, Brannagan answers that they are large for their kind [D:207].D:207
Anastasia
Name Finnegan interprets as “the resurrection” when Anastasia Demetriades restores his respectability with an electric shaver and tends his wounds [D:16]. On Naxos, she and her grandmother share the name: Anastasia Gyiagyia is the grandmother, and Anastasia Engone is the visiting granddaughter, Demetriades herself [D:125-126].D:16; D:125-126
Anastasia Demetriades
See Demetriades, Anastasia, the name she gives Finnegan when he asks who she is [D:16].D:16
Anastasia Engone
Anastasia Demetriades under the designation “Anastasia Engone,” glossed as granddaughter during her visit to Anastasia Gyiagyia on Naxos [D:125-126]. She is the granddaughter who jokes that the morning when Prometheus brought fire was cold [D:127].D:125-126; D:127
Anastasia Grandmother (Gyiagyia)
Anastasia Demetriades' grandmother on the mountain road of Naxos. Black-haired and black-eyed, she immediately recognizes her granddaughter but pretends otherwise as a game. She speaks only Romaic and lives alone in a diminished house with fire-damaged rooms boarded off. Though poor, she remains vital and pretty, and was once prettier than her granddaughter [D:125-126]. She cooks the kid Finnegan and Anastasia buy and prepare. At dinner, she jokes that her granddaughter was too little to remember the morning of Prometheus [D:126-127]. She calls Finnegan one of the violent ones of the other blood, says that she shares it, and that her granddaughter has a little of it [D:128].D:125-126; D:126-127; D:128
Anatolia
Origin of the Seabach when it approaches the blind side of Naxos with six men aboard [D:135]. Earlier, Finnegan includes Anatolia among the directions from which Anastasia's awaited boat might come; she declines his help watching [D:131]. Turkish Anatolia is also the source of the turbaned, laughing marble Christ in Duffey's collection [MTM B3:104].D:135; D:131; MTM B3:104
Ancient World
The books' varied accounts of prehistory, classical antiquity and the medieval centuries, often given by speakers with conflicting histories. Captain Sammy Guiterrez calls the West old and the East young, dismissing Chinese and Irish claims as “toy history” [A:66]. Zabotski speculates that a thousand years of supposed dark ages might have originated in a sick boy's chronicle in 1348 [MTM B9:281-282]. A Pattenite challenges the Olduvai evidence, and Duffey calls it fraudulent while accepting other evidence for human antiquity beyond the Pattenite's allowance [MTM B9:282-283]. Zabotski describes the Pristine World as real, essential and intuitively inhabited. It occupies the ordinary Molasses World's space differently, excludes duplicated and invalid persons and situations, and lets him live years within an ordinary day or two [MTM B9:277] [MTM B9:279]. The Royal Pop Historians claim new ways of recovering history from stone patinas and transparencies, maintain that they were present at ancient events, and announce the obliteration of history's former subject matter [MTM B11:323-325]. Duffey examines their goatskin proclamation with violet light and finds older writing beneath it, including a Fourth Gospel with marginal pagona shorthand [MTM B11:326-327]. Hugh de Turenne announces the Black Sea's obliteration at Himself's command, partly to erase the memory of his imprisonment and undermine Colchis and the Fleece [MTM B11:336]. Cyrus Roundhead reduces Rome to an Etruscan neighborhood, calls the Etruscans a pop people, and says the Macedonians invented heroic Greece, Athens and its romances. He describes Jerusalem as a failed modern property venture and asserts that most Jews were and remain in Babylon. These are the Royal Pop revisionists' assertions within the conflict, not a settled history shared by all the characters [MTM B11:337]. Other accounts supply different foundations. Behind Duffey's twentieth-century childhoods stands his more real life of thousands of years as the Boy King, with dromedary-hide tents, flocks, pastures and silver rivers [MTM B1:17]. The opening applies the phrase “without father, without mother” to Duffey with explicit uncertainty about its fit [MTM B1:6]. His childhood also includes invisible giants commanded to ring a bell [MTM B1:15]. Ignacio Ti's story places Joseph of Maintz, Bishop Turpin and Charlemagne in an eighth-century “noon-time of the World”; Joseph takes Augustine's writings, among other books, to the moon [A:271]. An epigraph attributed to G. K. Chesterton's The Everlasting Man presents the Creator's personal appearance in the Roman Empire as a unique claim [MTM B5:176]. Absalom Stein's notes call 946-1946 the Devil's imprisonment and the empire of Neustria or Christendom [MTM B6:185]. Henri Salvatore's unsent letter says Otto I first bolted the door at Aachen in 946 and transferred the prisoner that year to the Crimean Chersonese [MTM B5:180]. X's account calls the peninsula Tauric or Euxine Chersonese, dates the transfer 946 or 947, and says its names Phylake and Carcer meant Prison for more than a thousand years before the actual imprisonment [MTM B6:204]. Henri is identified as the former Euphemus, later Emperor Henry of Neustria and now emperor of Invisible Neustria [MTM B8:245]. Ancient geography also enters poems, journeys and arguments. Hans imagines a southern voyage farther than Ulysses went and beyond Ophir, to which the men of Solomon and Hiram made their three-year voyage [A:16]. Finnegan calls the Aegean the original Pentanesia, naming Andros, Tinos, Paros and Amargos, with Hans supplying Naxos. In the same island reverie Finn invokes Strabo's sense of islands, St. Paul and Xavier's greater archipelagos [A:35]. The Argo's later history includes carrying St. Paul [MTM B13:404]. The Fin-Iason poem proposes climbing Sinai to recover what Moses forgot and asks whether the burning bush is at Hebron or Hest [A:171]. Its next page separates Argonauts mired in Friesian bogs from the conjecture that Illyrian fleets vanished in Illyrian fogs [A:172]. Casey's notebook records claims that the Romanies founded and named Rome and that Hinnegan's Milesians were in Ireland before the Flood [A:164-165]. San Simeon's forgotten ancient name is Babylon, and its rulers are the mad Balbo dynasty [MB:558]. Rosemary Riorden tells Finn that he and his friends began in Illyria: he is the son of the demiurge Aeson although he believes his father to be Giulio, and his companions include Orpheus, Peleus, Euphemus and Meleager. She forecasts his later company with the Dioscuri and the love of Aeetes' daughter in several forms, including her own, and says he will find the Fleece without knowing what he has found [A:89]. Teresa's later catalogue names Finnegan as Iason, Hans as Orpheus and subsequently Faust, Vincent as Meleager, Henry as Euphemus, Casey as Peleus, Dotty as Medea, Marie as Eurydice, Mary Virginia as Laonome, herself as Atalanta, Mary Catherine as Antigone and Stein as Ab-Salom. She calls their Colchis voyage the prototype of quests, says they passed the Devil's future Chersonese prison, and insists that they still hide the Golden Fleece from him [MTM B7:234]. Duffey's commentary traces Casey from Peleus through Kasmir Gorshok and Prince Casimir to his modern identity. His Peleus is Achilles' father and the victim of Acastus of Iolcus and his wife's badger game [PG:534-536]. Dotty says the Argo voyages continue as the company's other life [MTM B5:180]. The ship's logs make the finding of the Fleece of Colchis one of its early triumphs, though other quests were equally or more important [MTM B13:421]. Gorshok later makes the fleshless Duffey a mask, scarf and gauntlets from the Fleece's combings [MTM B13:443]. Patrick Stranahan's ancient standards include Livy as history and the advice to read Augustine once in youth [A:109]. He polemically compares contemporary opponents to Sadducees who reject resurrection [A:110]. He calls St. Patrick Roman rather than Irish, his own wife Monica returned, Dante a rimester and Petrarch a sonnet writer, and prefers the anonymity he associates with better medieval artists [A:111]. Patricia Solli calls her father Giulio literally antediluvian and reports that an important man called him the Monster Forgotten [A:174-175]. Duffey recognizes Finnegan as the son of the Monster Giulio, whom he himself knew [MTM B5:174]. In an uncertain ocean dream, Marie calls herself Demeter and Persephone and explains a Demeter-Pontos grouping as a precursor of the pietà form [D:91-92]. Finn's story of Galen's lunar measurements uses a giant goat-sucker passing behind the moon [D:132]. A chapter epigraph attributed in the novel to Galen describes daemons begetting Tityroi or Satyroi and renewing their race, including a night's procreation with thirteen women at Calchedon. The narrator follows it by asking about Galen's teacher Satyrus and the source of his information [D:160-161]. Ewaglouwshkoul, the Neanderthal Eve, is awakened from the ice by the magus Duffey. She guesses she was her tribe's last woman, but allows that males and other bands may have survived; she says her people invented ships and seamen [MTM B13:399-401]. The Laughing Prince of Tartary claims enmity with both God and the Devil, although reports question his independence. Duffey eventually recognizes him as the Giggling Prince [MTM B13:437-438] [MTM B13:441]. An unlabeled speaker in “Promontory Goats” recalls Justinian's skull giving judgments to chieftains through a snake emerging from its right eye-socket for yes and left for no, then uses the image to disown the judgments his own body may make after death [PG:545]. Teresa explains the talismans as Argo gold filigree over Talking Oak Dordogne, with the gold derived from the Fleece. Their work is Anamnesis or Recollection, awakening the company to recognition, and their reunion prefigures Resurrection [MTM B5:178-179]. Henri describes Paradise and the completed quest as an already possessed foundation from which the world must be rebuilt [MTM B5:179-180]. The Devil Is Dead locates the Terrestrial Paradise in the Antilles [D:234]; its narrator connects the Haggada's wormy forbidden fruit with a possible hint in Augustine [D:264]. Angela's father exploits the Caribbean's true and false passages in his Master Map and half-map trade [D:260-261].A:66; MTM B9:281-282; MTM B9:282-283; MTM B9:277; MTM B9:279; MTM B11:323-325; MTM B11:326-327; MTM B11:336; MTM B11:337; MTM B1:17; MTM B1:6; MTM B1:15; A:271; MTM B5:176; MTM B6:185; MTM B5:180; MTM B6:204; MTM B8:245; A:16; A:35; MTM B13:404; A:171; A:172; A:164-165; MB:558; A:89; MTM B7:234; PG:534-536; MTM B13:421; MTM B13:443; A:109; A:110; A:111; A:174-175; MTM B5:174; D:91-92; D:132; D:160-161; MTM B13:399-401; MTM B13:437-438; MTM B13:441; PG:545; MTM B5:178-179; MTM B5:179-180; D:234; D:264; D:260-261
Andaman Sea
Sea included in the catalogue of waters sailed by the Argo and remembered by Melchisedech Duffey [MTM B13:406].MTM B13:406
Andros
Island Finnegan names in the Aegean Pentanesia, the original five-island cluster in his account of archipelago origins. He also names Tinos, Paros, and Amargos; Hans supplies the forgotten fifth name, Naxos [A:35].A:35
Anegada Passage
One of the seven true passages through the Antilles in Angela Cosquin's account of her father's treasure-map trade. She contrasts these with seven false or shoal passages, where a logical ship ought to have gone down [D:260].D:260
Anemotrephes
One of the three Oreads Finnegan encounters in his Naxos mountain dreams, with Akroreia and Oreibates. They call Anastasia their sister and warn him to leave after the coming night's events [D:137]. Anemotrephes denies being a teras, while her sisters' answers concede the affinity; Anastasia later confirms that they share it a little. The three push Finnegan off the dream mountain [D:139].D:137; D:139
Angela Cosquin
Barmaid and factotum at Joseph Chastaigne's establishment on Basse-Terre, called the Imperial or Royal Bar and nicknamed Sloppy Joe's [D:235] [D:258] [D:266]. Angela is beautiful in an old island fashion, dazzlingly dressed, musical and talkative; her ancestry includes French, Carib, English, noble and enslaved forebears. She can carry two hundred pounds on her head and launch a six-man boat alone [D:259]. She says that her stories are true, unlike those of the four topers. Her father was a skilled cartographer and antiquarian whose decorative maps developed into a trade in fabricated pirate treasure maps and supporting papers; Angela retains some for sale [D:259-261]. She denies the nearby St. Marc and Sangre del Cristo wrecks, but the narrator reveals that she knows them well and dives among their real treasure. After attracting suspicion by spending old coins and wearing diamonds, she returns her loot and deposits her own money in a submerged copper box marked “Angela Cosquin sa Caisse.” Every month Johnny Duckwalk steals the sovereign she has just added [D:262-263]. Her seven accurate maps of Finnegan's hidden stashes, marked S X S and robado por C F, alarm him; he infers that she has read his mind, and she says she will keep the maps as a memory. She is the first to call him Count Finnegan [D:263]. She deplores Barnaby's and Le Marin's departures and predicts that those who leave never return [D:265-266]. She offers Finnegan two ships full of gold and everything else if he stays. They promise to protect the poor, and he sits on her strong knees to say goodbye. He never returns [D:268].D:235; D:258; D:266; D:259; D:259-261; D:262-263; D:263; D:265-266; D:268
Angels
Lazarus Reilly offers newcomers lodging, credit and loans at the Old Wooden Ship lest he slight an angel in disguise. The narrator identifies Soft-Talk Susie Kutz as the only actual angel among the regulars; her favorable reports help the tavern prosper [D:216]. In the debate about the Ark, Fundamentalers ask whether angels guard it in the Armenian mountains. Zabotski says that angels guard things beyond human reach, including wooden castles even if they are not the Ark [MTM B9:280-281].D:216; MTM B9:280-281
Anger
Seaworthy's response to the Texas beer served after his and Finnegan's awakening: “There should be a punishment to fit the crime” [D:12]. The narrator also describes Papa Devil as often on the edge of anger, making him someone to fear [D:87].D:12; D:87
Angry League For Style In The Universe, The Unbelievers'
The Unbelievers' Angry League For Style In The Universe, whose members hate The Resurrection of Count Finnegan although none has seen it [MB:554]. At the close of How Many Miles to Babylon, the League condemns the happy ending and its supposed lack of true style, calling it “shameful corn” [MB:598-599].MB:554; MB:598-599
Anima
In Jung's terminology, the feminine aspect of the male psyche. The Postscript names Anima and Animus as opposing twins alongside Ego, Self and Shadow in its account of Jung's Aion, using this plurality to discuss the several persons within a person [PS:477].PS:477
Animal Form
Finnegan tells the Capuchin that an old animal is taking him over, linking this to his new memories of the Devil's kindred and different blood [D:119]. Later the narrator describes him as feral, a living gargoyle and an ape-cat while he climbs buildings, attacks a man and escapes with Seaworthy's treasure. The passage says he becomes a man again after the escape, while leaving the precise nature of the transformation elusive [D:162] [D:164-165]. A local legend calls the climber an ape or monstrous man [D:162]. Joe Cross compares Dopey's scream to that of a terrified animal [D:64], and Doll repeats someone else's description of Finnegan as a hooked-nosed ape during a night of rough amusement [D:173].D:119; D:162; D:164-165; D:64; D:173
Animality
Quality whose denigration Finnegan challenges in his visionary account of the older people. He calls them brothers of the great animals and asks how animality became “a dirty thing” [D:212-213]. Duffey uses the word adversely in a different context, listing animality among the degradations the Devil will bring and have mistaken for holy poverty [MTM B6:194].D:212-213; MTM B6:194
Animated Marvels
Duffey's extraordinary company of talismanic creations, called Animated Marvels, magnificent animations and splendid animations. At the Rounders' Club they have “Unreality Fringes,” a smokey halo, yet are real; their extravagant conversations cannot later be recalled [MTM B5:158-161]. Duffey says he literally helped form twelve people in his present life, with an additional uncounted creation and others of mixed status, while conceding that he did not do everything [MTM B5:151]. The talismans are described as small engraved flat gold sticks distributed during his hidden years, including one for Giulio's unborn child; Letitia's rib-shaped talisman makes her a bonus outside the twelve [MTM B4:120-121] [MTM B3:90] [MTM B3:93]. Duffey had begun giving talismans away as a child [MTM B1:18]. He says that he put more than ordinary Teras blood into his creations [MTM B5:170]. Dotty's letter gives another account: through Finnegan they share a Teras intellectual stratum between conscious and unconscious thought, an elusive power expressed in his paintings and their conversations [MTM B6:189]. Their origin remains contested. Marie Monaghan Schultz says Duffey collected their forgotten souls, gave them settings and sparkle, and displayed them, rather than making them; she invokes his Razzle Daz comic strip [MTM B5:159]. Stein's Diminishing Theory alternates groups making Melchisedechs and Melchisedechs making groups, each somewhat smaller than its predecessor [MTM B4:121]. In his notebook Stein believes on one day that the company and Duffey's earlier acquaintances made Duffey; on other days he believes Duffey evoked them from clay. They love him despite his unlovely qualities [MTM B10:304]. Teresa describes talismans of Argo gold filigree and Talking Oak Dordogne, their principal work being recollection and awakening rather than creation; reunion prefigures Resurrection [MTM B5:178-179]. Patrick Plunket likewise distinguishes Duffey's animated clays and quick-earths from the reality they became, and says he only woke them [MTM B12:390-391]. The dung, blood and lightning in the Muck of Animation produce a later dozen, which Duffey calls better than his first dozen [MTM B12:394]. The formal list names Finnegan/John Solli, son of Monster Giulio; Hans/John Schultz; Henri Salvatore; Vincent Stranahan; Casey Szymansky; Dotty Yekouris; Mary Monaghan Schultz; Mary Virginia Schaeffer; Teresa Piccone; Absalom Stein; and Mr. X. Although called twelve, the enumeration supplies eleven names [MTM B5:161-162]. Mary Catherine Carruthers is already recognized as one of the creations in the preceding scene [MTM B5:158]. Teresa later supplies the Argonaut identities: Finnegan is Iason/Jason; Hans Orpheus and later Faust; Henry Euphemus; Vincent Meleager; Casey Peleus; Dotty Medea; Marie Eurydice; Mary Virginia Laonome; Teresa Atalanta; Mary Catherine Antigone; and Stein Ab-Salom. She withholds Margaret Stone's identity and does not identify X [MTM B7:234]. Duffey calls Finnegan the original Finn McCool and places his Marvels in the intersecting Argo Legend and Finnegan Cycle [MTM B5:169]. He also describes Casey as the medieval Prince Casimir and his own twentieth-century creation [PG:536]. The Countess is said to be someone's animation, but whose remains unclear [MTM B7:215]. Henri describes their condition as Quest Completed, Fleece found and Grail Abundant, with rebuilding the world still to do [MTM B5:179-180]. The narrative says the Splendid Animations have sailed, are sailing and will continue to sail on Argo [MTM B10:300]. Most are Argo Masters, probably nearly as old as Duffey, forming an interdependent living corporation; Teresa's role is probably animating, while Duffey's is creative. Brannagan belongs to this larger circle [MTM B13:446]. Their Land, also called the Archipelago or Greater Archipelago, is a scattered recuperative island concentrated in Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans. It offers the ship water, provisions, healing and virtues; the temporal relations remain uncorrelated [MTM B13:448]. Related groups should be distinguished. Cyrus Roundhead's Royal Pop company resembles Duffey's creations but goes further in a treacherous direction; its presence produces the Geometry of Shining Space [MTM B11:321]. Its young performers supply the Horse Opera's splendor before the slaughter [MTM B11:333]. Roundhead's claim that the final persons have no human chromosomes, blood, hormones or mental processes describes his own group and recruits [MTM B11:350]. The shining bodies that move through matter and apparently time belong to the Casey Machine's broader description of the splendid moment [CM:511]. The Devil is Dead offers parallels through the other human race, Non-people, Teras, double blood and Other Flesh [D:50] [D:121] [D:139] [D:209] [D:237] [D:285]; its attributed Overlark passage connects Neanderthal inheritance with imagination and ghostliness [D:270-272]. These parallels do not establish that every such figure is one of Duffey's twelve. Papa Devil I and II are grandchildren of the Devil through Ifreann; Doll resists X's account of primordial control and insists that people can act against it [D:278-279] [D:285] [D:292]. Herman, his primary Cardinal Erculo, and the remembered Saul are other long-lived figures, without being identified there as Duffey's creations [MB:584-585].MTM B5:158-161; MTM B5:151; MTM B4:120-121; MTM B3:90; MTM B3:93; MTM B1:18; MTM B5:170; MTM B6:189; MTM B5:159; MTM B4:121; MTM B10:304; MTM B5:178-179; MTM B12:390-391; MTM B12:394; MTM B5:161-162; MTM B5:158; MTM B7:234; MTM B5:169; PG:536; MTM B7:215; MTM B5:179-180; MTM B10:300; MTM B13:446; MTM B13:448; MTM B11:321; MTM B11:333; MTM B11:350; CM:511; D:50; D:121; D:139; D:209; D:237; D:285; D:270-272; D:278-279; D:292; MB:584-585
Animosity
Efram Gate Gratz's declared attitude at the Last Conclave, where the leaders of the institution now called the Crowd assemble to dismantle it. He proclaims “total animosity” and vows to bury Peter and prevent the institution's return [MB:561].MB:561
Animus
In Jung's terminology, the masculine aspect of the female psyche. The Postscript names Animus and Anima as opposing twins alongside Ego, Self and Shadow in its account of Jung's Aion, using this plurality to discuss the several persons within a person [PS:477].PS:477
Anne
Radio broadcaster for the Japanese from Java during the Pacific war. Her intimate voice, homesickness-inducing songs and understanding of the soldiers give her an advantage that Stein's Anopheles Network cannot match in some respects. She signs off, “This is your best enemy, Anne, Good Night” [A:46].A:46
Annina
Sister of Dominic Vinobianco, whom Casey records thinking about constantly in his notebook at St. Bonaventure's boarding school [A:161-162] [A:166]. She is later named Annina Vinobianco among the girls he goes out with [A:168].A:161-162; A:166; A:168
Annunciation Church of Sydney, Australia
Church where John Gottfried Schultz (Hans) and Marie Anna Monaghan marry on Monday, February 15, 1943. Because Hans lacks army permission, the marriage is to remain secret for a while; twenty or thirty attendees are all Marie's relatives [A:31].A:31
Anopheles Network
Small G.I. radio station Stein establishes as part of his Special Service duties during the Pacific war. It occupies one of his two pyramidal tents. Casey writes squibs for its broadcasts, which also feature comic sponsors, records, volunteer speakers and jokes read by Stein [A:46].A:46
Antagonist
Papa Devil warns that their clever antagonist may turn the Naxos trap into a double ambush [D:123]. Finnegan later believes he has killed his principal prey at the Pirate Hotel, but Seaworthy’s sour laugh shows that he has escaped again [D:231]. In the town of the final rendezvous Finnegan senses his old antagonist’s presence. The left-footed tracker is also there, with his employer; the tracker is not simply another name for the antagonist [D:275].D:123; D:231; D:275
Antarctica
Casey’s fifth imaginary world, that of the explorer, requires a cartographic error that makes Earth fifty percent larger and melon-shaped. In it Antarctica is an ice ring around a southern sea and sunny continent, probably Atlantis after continental dispersal. Casey imagines taking modern techniques there and bringing its Higher Ethic home [A:158].A:158
Antebellum period
A period before a war. In the account of superimposed Brunhilde voyages, X says that some incidents attributed to Finnegan in the first decade of the “second antebellum period” actually happened to Giulio Solli in the decade before World War I, and that Finnegan remembers them filially. The commentator immediately cautions that X cannot be depended upon [MTM B6:187].MTM B6:187
Antecedent Worlds
Nine discarded but still animated and populated worlds in a fancy Mary Virginia Schaeffer records in her Duffey Book. She explicitly says that the idea of divine false starts has no authority in Scripture or revelation, though legends support it. Our world is the tenth and might itself be discarded. She speculates that Duffey has wandered in from one of the earlier worlds, whose different conditions explain his circular continuity and lack of parents [MTM B10:291-292].MTM B10:291-292
Antediluvian
Patti Solli’s description of her father Giulio, whose antiquity embarrasses her. She insists that she means the word literally: he was “from before the beginning,” and Finnegan and she look a little that way too [A:174].A:174
Anthony (Saint)
Saint invoked when the narrator compares the beautiful, treacherous women in Casey’s second imaginary world to St. Anthony’s temptations [A:157], an allusion to Anthony the Abbot’s legendary struggle. An Anthony also appears beside Francis among the saints aboard the Navicula Petri in Henry’s dream, though that passage does not specify which Anthony [A:45].A:157; A:45
Anthony Ship
Former name of Argo at Actium, where the ship was shamed, according to the history told by the talking oak in its wheel [MTM B13:404].MTM B13:404
Anthropomorphic Colts (Strong Experience of)
Phrase that rises half-consciously in Duffey’s mind during the Great Day upheaval. As façades and whole buildings topple, the noisy, airish activity outside seems like a clattering experience of anthropomorphic colts. Duffey then exclaims over the phrase itself [MTM B11:311].MTM B11:311
Anti-Christus
Title Casey publicly claims as Casey of the Zodiac [MTM B12:382]. Mary Catherine says that his followers hail the Antichrist role as the highest human status, while she is unsure how fully Casey believes it himself [MTM B12:377]. Hilary Hilton equates him with Rolo Danovitz, the Antichrist of a quasi-fictional cycle [MTM B12:378]. Casey’s projection of his face and voice over television programs has helped make him known as Anti-Christus [MTM B12:380]. Teresa quotes a latter-day prophecy that ghostly Duffey will carry Prince Casimir on Argo to the coast nearest Armageddon, where he will reign for a while as Anti-Christ [MTM B12:388]. Finnegan likewise foretells Argo’s transport of Antichrist to Megiddo, while Duffey and the other Masters seek to prevent his coming aboard [MTM B13:453-454]. Duffey’s later commentary allows that Casey may instead be one of the false, premature antichrists [PG:535].MTM B12:382; MTM B12:377; MTM B12:378; MTM B12:380; MTM B12:388; MTM B13:453-454; PG:535
Anti-Corn-Law League
British organization founded in 1839 to campaign for repeal of the Corn Laws, which were repealed in 1846. Its encyclopedia article runs into the defective ANTICHRIST entry that gives Casey’s birth details: after “His manifestation as the Antichrist was,” the text switches to the League’s founding and purpose [PG:528-529].PG:528-529
Anti-Prize
The Sword and Scabbard of Saint Sécaire, a peril to the world that Argo’s Masters want to lose rather than recover. They lose it three times; on the last occasion they weld sword to scabbard with molten fillers and bury it deep in the Nine Mile Depth. Four hundred years later Cyril and Cyrus Dimbeau accidentally recover it while taking bathysphere core samples [MTM B13:422].MTM B13:422
Antichrist
Eschatological role claimed by Casey, who calls himself Casey of the Zodiac, the Anti-Christus [MTM B12:382]. Finnegan foretells Argo carrying Antichrist to the Plains of Megiddo [MTM B13:453]; Duffey’s commentary nevertheless leaves open whether Casey is the final Antichrist or a premature, false one [PG:535].MTM B12:382; MTM B13:453; PG:535
ANTICHRIST (encyclopedia entry)
Defective entry in about one percent of copies of the A-C volume of a cheap Chicago encyclopedia, reported by Silas and Maud Whiterice. It identifies the Antichrist as Kasmir (Casey) W. Szymansky, born in Chicago on October 7, 1921, to pawnbroker and antique dealer Gabriel Szymansky and Miriam Lessing, then runs into the Anti-Corn-Law League article. The commentators call it a hoax, wonder whether Casey or his printery colleagues inserted it, and confirm the biographical particulars [PG:528-529].PG:528-529
Antilles
Island region in which the narrator locates the Terrestrial Paradise at precisely sixteen degrees north and sixty-one degrees, forty-four minutes, forty-two seconds west [D:234]. The following scene identifies the setting as Basse-Terre [D:235-236]. Angela Cosquin describes her father’s maps of seven true and seven false passages through the Antilles [D:260]. The narrator also uses the region to measure Johnny Duckwalk’s drinking: fewer than a dozen men in all the Antilles can outdrink him [D:236].D:234; D:235-236; D:260; D:236
Antipodal Ghost
Finnegan’s phrase for Mr. X after a disguised-voice telephone warning that he must flee. Asked by Brannagan who called, Finnegan says “My antipodal ghost” and explains that they are alike but a world apart [D:209].D:209
Antipodes
The far southern world in Hans’s thoughts about Australia, a place beyond the voyages of Ulysses and the men of Solomon and Hiram, to which old legends are relegated and where griffins and dragons seem naturally at home [A:16]. Theresa Piccone teasingly asks Vincent for a fuller account of “the Rover Boys at the Antipodes” in her letter [A:49].A:16; A:49
Antiquarian
One of Angela Cosquin’s father’s occupations, alongside cartography. His skill with old scripts, seals, inks, papers, parchment and documents helps him make convincing maps and supporting records for an increasingly fraudulent treasure-map trade [D:259-261].D:259-261
Antique Dealer
Gabriel Szymansky’s occupation on the rich-street side of his business. His two shops face different streets and connect through a passage beneath the alley: antique dealer to the rich, pawnbroker to the poor. He prospers but lets Casey think him poor [A:160].A:160
Anvils
Objects among the household “iron words” Duffey remembers and appropriates from other minds. The anvils bear the names S.R. & Co. or Peter Wright [MTM B1:17].MTM B1:17
Apathy (Goat)
One of the goats that understands Finnegan, named with Hermione, Cecille and Diocletian as the smartest of Gautier’s flock [A:199-200]. Gautier and his goats now live year-round in New Jersey and frequent the Barrens [A:196-197].A:199-200; A:196-197
Ape
One of the animal semblances assigned to Tityroi or Satyrs in the chapter epigraph attributed to Galen [D:160-161]. Finnegan becomes a feral climber, living gargoyle and ape-cat during the Pirate Hotel raid; the narration says he could not have performed the escape as a man and becomes a man again afterward. The climber also gives rise to a local ape or monstrous-man legend [D:162] [D:164-165]. Doll later echoes someone else’s description of him as a hooked-nosed ape [D:173]. A related treatment appears in Lafferty’s Serpent’s Egg. Its Axel’s Apes, also called Smithy, Golden and Blue-Eyed Apes, are the Unfallen People of Second Eden in Ethiopia. Their gargoyle faces connect them with the novel’s legends of cathedral builders; adult height averages just over two meters, and a later passage raises a possible affinity with the old Titans. Ansel Grindstone interprets their human chromosome count as proof that they are men. A separate speaker reports that the boy Axel’s X-rays show a human skeleton beneath his fleshy hump, face and feet. The explicit human/ape/mechanical-hybrid speculation chiefly concerns the Dolophonoi-Assassins, with all three species proposed as their possible components. The Apes are extraordinary smiths, stoneworkers and mathematicians, and speak slowly and thoughtfully. They possess bi-location or trans-location, exceptional strength, animal and bird communication, and the ability to smell and appraise metal deposits as far as two hundred kilometers away. The experimental child Axel’s intelligence is off the scale. The group appears somewhat childish to humans and computers, enjoys meditation, puzzles and animal stories, and has a weakness for wine, including the mushroom wine of its underground taverns. The narrator says the Apes are afraid of nothing and incapable of anger. Their refusal to give testimony is specifically a refusal to testify about human origins, not a general refusal of self-description. The novel’s legends connect the Unfallen People with an Ape Bridge, which Axel Grindstone believes should be called the Angel Bridge, and with teaching smithcraft to the Romanies. Ansel proposes that God has not yet fully activated them. Their discovery by the human Axel Grindstone leads raiders to Second Eden. The reigning sleepy one calls the raiders unwitting divine agents and directs the Apes to go with them. Five hundred are taken away and sold to zoos and institutions; the newborn Axel goes to the Lynn-Randal experiment in America. About a hundred of the dispersed Apes are consumed by lightning within five minutes, which the narrator says is God taking them to himself. The infant’s father, Alpha, follows, gathers companions from American zoos and founds Apes’ Alley in limestone caverns near the experiment. The community has shops, smithies, a mint, clubs, a silent-film theater and meditation halls, with old gas wells supplying light and power. Alpha and Satrap Saint Ledger are close friends. Inneall says that her own circulating blood is partly human and partly Axel’s, secretly taken from the two boys while they slept. The caverns are eventually closed, and a giant hand extinguishes the holy fire as a voice imposes three nights and days of Holy Sleep. The expected worldwide awakening is to begin when Axel wakes at midnight cockcrow, but he is stabbed in the throat in the instant before he can awaken the others. His friends place him in an ocean-floor cenotaph. Sebastian Lazar later suggests treating him and the other murdered children as Leaders Asleep who may return. The sea-louse epilog calls their condition an undead coma and says neither the Apes nor the Whales were promised succession to humanity, while also boasting of its own ability to outdo Inneall’s lies. (Serpent's Egg, PDF pp. 13, 17, 21-23, 25, 27-32, 52, 54-61, 77-78, 152-153, 157-158, 171, 176).D:160-161; D:162; D:164-165; D:173
Ape-cat
Narratorial name for the form Finnegan takes when climbing, attacking and escaping the Pirate Hotel. The passage says that as a man he could not have done it; only as the ape-cat could he accomplish the raid, and afterward he becomes a man again [D:164-165].D:164-165
APO Oceans
Humorous name for the waters separating Casey’s overseas army service from home, using APO, Army Post Office. At a Crock stockholders’ meeting a stranger presents a new signed proxy from Casey, still “across the APO Oceans”; it supersedes the earlier proxy Casey gave Duffey before going overseas [MTM B4:144].MTM B4:144
Apocalypse
The Book of Revelation, named in the account of Henry Salvatore’s Navicula Petri dream. Among the shattered masts is Albion of the White Cliffs, whose apostasy the narration says is foretold in the Apocalypse [A:45].A:45
Apocryphal
Status of some Finnegan adventures that the narrator says cannot be separated from the canonical accounts. His travels invite questions about simultaneous worlds and people; his friends remember different versions, and both Finnegan and X are unreliable tellers [A:187].A:187
Apollo
Greek god of music and prophecy, one of the identities assigned to Hans Schultz alongside Dr. Faustus and Aquinas Redevivus [A:39]. Hans’s dream of climbing an iron ladder toward the sun culminates in the statement that he was Apollo [A:62]. The narrator later again calls Hans Faust and Apollo while describing Casey’s place among the Dirty Five; it says Casey comes close to Hans in compassion [A:169].A:39; A:62; A:169
Apollonius of Rhodes (c. 3rd century BC)
Hellenistic Greek poet of the third century BCE, author of the Argonautica, a four-book epic in hexameters about Jason and the Argonauts’ expedition for the Golden Fleece. His learned Alexandrian poem draws on Homeric epic and other earlier accounts of the voyage. Ancient biographical traditions associate him with Rhodes and the headship of the Alexandrian Library, though the details and chronology of his career are uncertain.Apopka
One of the Florida towns through which Finnegan, Doll and X drive in the evenings, along with Orlando, Kissimee, Pine Castle and sometimes Daytona, passing through citrus and scrub [D:183].D:183
Apostasy
Renunciation of religious faith, represented in Henry’s Navicula Petri dream by a shattered mast named Albion of the White Cliffs. The narration says Albion’s apostasy is foretold in the Apocalypse [A:45].A:45
Apostate
The narrator’s description of W., one of four initialled figures whose episodes affect the Pelican and Bark circle. W. and Y. are omitted from the chronicle for reasons of space, and the narrator says little has been missed by omitting W. [A:132].A:132
Apostle to the greater Archipelagos
Finnegan’s title for Francis Xavier in his meditation on ocean islands as constellations that prefigure the skies [A:35]. Xavier was a Jesuit missionary whose work extended from India through the Maluku islands to Japan.A:35
Apostles
Christ’s apostles, present among the saintly crew of Henry’s Navicula Petri dream [A:45]. Salvation Sally imagines the Apostles accepting rest and kindness from flippant unbelievers, as she has received from Hans and Marie [A:8]. In a letter, Show Boat repeats Papa Piccone’s Italian legend of an unnamed tippling apostle, perhaps Thomas, Bartholomew or Jude, who finishes wine left in cups and wineskins but nevertheless converts tens of thousands [A:262]. Dotty calls Jude the patron of printers and little magazines; Finnegan supplies his association with impossible causes [A:115].A:45; A:8; A:262; A:115
Apostolo, Evelyn
Member of Duffey’s bookish and literary North Chicago circle, listed with Tony Apostolo. The narrator calls 1925-1935 its golden age, followed by an electrum age of mixed gold and silver lasting until about 1946 [MTM B3:98].MTM B3:98
Apostolo, Tony
Reporter among Duffey’s literary Chicago friends [MTM B3:98]. Tony’s extravagant partisan opinions are frequently opposed by Rollo McSorley. He challenges the story that the Depression began with the 1929 stock-market crash, appealing to his own work for the International News Service at the time [MTM B4:122]. He bets one hundred dollars against Rollo that Duffey can move a mule by magic, points out nearby street-department mules, and calls a photographer to record the test; Rollo and Elena O’Higgins call their own photographers [MTM B4:129-130].MTM B3:98; MTM B4:122; MTM B4:129-130
Apostolus Potator Incognitus, Sanctus
Show Boat’s Latin title for the unknown drinking apostle of Papa Piccone’s Italian legend, approximately “Holy Apostle, Unknown Drinker.” In her letter to Dotty she says she prays to him, using Sanctus Apostolus Potator Incognitus, while defending Finnegan despite his failings [A:262].A:262
Apparition (Feast of the)
Marie Monaghan’s name for the feast on the day she becomes engaged to Hans. She calls it the second Thursday in February [A:28]; the marriage date places this in 1943, making the engagement February11 [A:31].A:28; A:31
Apparition (Ghostly manifestation)
Papa Devil’s silent arrival on ruined walls is likened to a spook; the narrator leaves the port uncertain, perhaps Paraiso or Campeche [D:67-70]. In a later possible future, Casey appears as the Apparition, Man of Mystery and Antichristus aboard Argo, his glory made of tampered-with light [MTM B13:462].D:67-70; MTM B13:462
Apparitions
One of the phenomena Royce Rollins attributes to his supposed Neanderthal aliens in The Return of the Neanderthal: The Alien Within. The chapter epigraph presents this through Charles O. A. Harrington’s hostile review in Science for Today, which reports Rollins’s claim that apparitions, fetches, second sight and related manifestations are normal aspects of the species [D:240-242].D:240-242
Apple Butter
One of the foods Duffey buys when provisioning his first St. Louis establishment, later Rounders’: a five-gallon jar, alongside pigs’ feet, spiced sausage, cheese, bread, potatoes and drink [MTM B2:41].MTM B2:41
Aquilae congregabunt dumque In nostram memoriam quotiescumque
Latin couplet announced as the company’s motto in the poem opening Stranahan’s chapter: “Aquilae congregabunt dumque / In nostram memoriam quotiescumque” [A:91]. It associates gathering eagles with remembrance. Henry’s dream ship bears the different, related inscription Ubicumque fuerit corpus illic congregabuntur et aquilas, which the narration calls an echo of the Dirty Five’s high motto [A:44]. The imagery recalls the Gospel’s gathering eagles, while the remembrance language suggests the Latin Eucharistic formula.A:91; A:44
Aquinas in a T Shirt
Finnegan’s caption for Hans Schultz among the Seven Pillars of Righteousness in his illustrated masthead for the Bark [A:121-122]. It combines Hans’s Thomistic identity with an ordinary T-shirt.A:121-122
Aquinas Redevivus
“Aquinas revived,” one of the learned identities assigned to Hans Schultz alongside Apollo and Dr. Faustus in the account of the Dirty Five’s earlier lives [A:39].A:39
Aquinas, Thomas
Dominican philosopher and theologian, born about 1225 and died 1274, author of the Summa Theologiae and Summa Contra Gentiles. His theology brings Aristotelian reasoning into conversation with Christian revelation; the Summa Theologiae includes the Five Ways concerning God’s existence and extensive treatments of ethics, law and sacraments. Canonized in 1323 and declared a Doctor of the Church in 1567, he has been repeatedly commended by the Church as a model of theological and philosophical inquiry. In the novels, the Answer incorporates material from Aquinas alongside Augustine and Pope Benedict [MTM B4:114]. John William Schultz urges that Aquinas and Albert be taught to fourth-graders [A:208-209]. The narrator’s notes on time quote Thomas’s distinction between eternity as an instantaneous whole and time as the measure of change [MTM B13:468-469]. The chapter epigraph attributed to Carmody Overlark calls him the angelic ox and imagines his massive back-brain [D:271-272]. Another epigraph attributes to his Summa Contra Gentiles a defense of divine knowledge of singulars [D:43].MTM B4:114; A:208-209; MTM B13:468-469; D:271-272; D:43
Arabic
Language Joseph says he learned while working as a caravan boy, alongside several others [D:94]. Finnegan has studied an O’Leary book of colloquial Arabic during the Atlantic crossing, but people in Tangier, especially Arabs, cannot recognize the language when he speaks it [D:104].D:94; D:104
Arabs
Among the people Finnegan encounters in Tangier. They fail to understand his book-learned Arabic, but a little Arab boy shares his finger-count game, pledges lifelong friendship and organizes runners to keep him informed [D:104].D:104
Arachnia
Earlier heading misread the word arachnid. See Arachnid.Arachnid
During his display of miscellaneous learning in Orlando’s Marine Room, Finnegan asks Doll how many legs an arachnid has [D:190].D:190
Arafura Sea
Sea between Australia and New Guinea, included with the Timor and Savu seas in the catalogue of waters sailed by Argo and remembered by Duffey [MTM B13:406].MTM B13:406
Aragh
One of the names the Malay boy gives his canoe, glossing it as “the direction,” alongside Aral and Bumi. These names lead Finnegan to recognize the canoe as Argo [A:89].A:89
Aral
Name the Malay boy gives his canoe, glossed as “hindrance.” He also names it Bumi and Aragh, and Finnegan recognizes the Ship Argo in it [A:89].A:89
Aransas Pass
One of Brunhilde’s nightly coastal ports, listed after Port O’Conner and before Corpus; the ship next anchors off Padre Island for a beach party and fish fry [D:34].D:34
Ararat (Mt.)
Mountain in eastern Turkey traditionally associated with Noah’s Ark. A Cummings-clan Fundamentaler treats belief in the Ark’s survival, snowbound and guarded by angels in Armenia, as a test of faith. Zabotski accepts angelic guardians but questions the identification of the biblical country and mountain; Duffey thinks the wooden remains may be castles [MTM B9:280-281]. Zabotski later calls the structures on Ararat discarded models and his own flood-going contraption the original [MTM B9:287]. Askandanakandrian identifies Mt. Ararat in his “own Armenia” as the present secluded center of the other blood [A:258].MTM B9:280-281; MTM B9:287; A:258
Arbuthnot
One of the aliases X lists for Gregory McColum Papadiabolous, the Irish Papadiabolous II. His other surnames include Noonan, Flaherty, Christy, Clarenden, Cobbett, Malory and Ingraham; both he and his Asiatic twin use variants of John with Gregory [D:285]. The name may allude to John Arbuthnot (1667-1735), the Scottish physician and literary friend of Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope.D:285
Arca
Spanish word for a chest. In Angela Cosquin’s account, her father marks his fabricated land-treasure maps with a baul or arca beneath crossed pickaxe and shovel. Brands such as T, K and BP suggest Teach, Kidd and Bartolomo Portuguese to credulous buyers [D:259-260].D:259-260
Arcades
Passageways among the shops and bars on the street floor of Sydney’s Plaza, where Finnegan and his companions gather [A:3]. Arcades are also among the amenities of the newly appearing Bayougoula Park in New Orleans [MTM B11:331-332].A:3; MTM B11:331-332
Arcadia
Greek region idealized in pastoral literature. Don Barnaby says Madame Le Mourcheor uses honey from bees in the meadows around Megapolis in “Arcady” for her Juju Joy Pills [D:248-249].D:248-249
Arcadian motif
An old pattern of pastoral symbolism Duffey thinks he recognizes in the landscape of the Presence. Patrick Plunket corrects his habit of treating it as contrived art: it is real, and their ascent is of the invisible, interior mountain [MTM B12:390].MTM B12:390
Archangel Statues
Three spread-winged archangels on the south front of St. Malachy’s Church in Chicago. Duffey sees the stone as quivering with wings; each side of the church also bears nine large-winged angels [MTM B3:87].MTM B3:87
Archbishop
Church official to whom Bascom Bagby reports supposed heresies in New Orleans parishes during a visit [MTM B7:227]. Henry Salvatore visits a bishop and an archbishop while arranging entry into the seminary in Louisiana [A:124-125].MTM B7:227; A:124-125
Archipelago
Scattered homeland of the Animated Marvels, also called the Greater Archipelago, with much of its population in Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans. It supplies Argo with provisions, healing and virtues; many of its people are Argo Masters, though their relations across time and place remain incompletely understood [MTM B13:448]. The poem opening Stranahan’s chapter describes the Fivers themselves as islands in a weird Archipelago, discovering valleys and skerries in sky-lands [A:91]. Finnegan tells creation stories of island groups formed from a broken electrum cup, a shattered bronze bowl and a mat torn by sea turtles; Hans observes that archipelago originally meant a great sea rather than its islands [A:35-36].MTM B13:448; A:91; A:35-36
Archipelago (The Greater)
Another name for the Land of the Animated Marvels, the scattered recuperative island whose people chiefly live in Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans and provide for Argo [MTM B13:448]. Finnegan also calls Francis Xavier the Apostle to the greater Archipelagos, imagining ocean islands as constellations that prefigure the skies [A:35].MTM B13:448; A:35
Archipelagoes
Island groups whose origins Finnegan describes through creation legends: an electrum cup broken into the Aegean islands, a bronze bowl shattered into the long islands off Malaya, and a woven mat torn by sea turtles into the green islands, with Guinea retaining its stitched center. He says each began as a five-island cluster or pentanesia, and calls Xavier the Apostle to the greater Archipelagos [A:35].A:35
Architects of all the new realms
X’s description of the influential notables who gather in Crimea to adore the released Devil and receive their status in the new order. His account includes clergy, political advisers, intellectuals and artists [MTM B6:204-205]. The narrative dates the release to the last Saturday of May 1946, while also questioning whether such releases recur [MTM B5:184].MTM B6:204-205; MTM B5:184
Archive, Leonard
One of three hospitable men living by a Louisiana swamp landing, with Oliver Greenflag and Harry A. “Honeybucket” Kincaid. He welcomes Duffey and Brannagan and promises anything the travelers need [MTM B13:416-417]. Archive explains that varying voltages, frequencies and electrodes lets them collect fish, animals, plants, chemicals, minerals, salts, alcohols, petroleums and sugars from water. Selective polarization and differences of potential provide power, and he says they have given these techniques to the world [MTM B13:418]. He claims frequency modulation and broadcasting can also draw feelings, weather, notions, ideas, emotions and people. After Honeybucket summons three young women, Archive asks them whether they want anything beyond the pleasure of the men’s company [MTM B13:419].MTM B13:416-417; MTM B13:418; MTM B13:419
Archivist
Army-history occupation in which Private Gregory says he spent years after admission to the U.S. Military Academy and his eventual commission. He sought obscurity but became a leading expert and teacher, drawing on his centuries of personal experience [A:77-78].A:77-78
Ardor
Passion, especially sexual passion, in Hillary Hilton’s joke that cold snow acting on Casey’s ardor produced a lasting coolness toward him. Hilton tells Finnegan that he caught Casey with Mary Jean, dragged him naked from bed into the snowy road, and left him there [A:251-252].A:251-252
“Arena del Mar”
One of the nine projected volumes into which Endymeon Ellenbogen says he has classified his poetry. The poems are uncollected and unpublished, though he recites them readily [A:237].A:237
Argo
The ancient Quest Ship around which the company’s overlapping lives and legends gather. The Dirty Five are identified as Iason/Finnegan, Orpheus/Hans, Meleager/Vincent, Peleus/Casey and Euphemus/Henry [A:38-39]. Teresa’s later account adds Hans’s Faust identity, Marie/Eurydice, Dotty/Medea, Mary Virginia/Laonome, Teresa/Atalanta, Mary Catherine/Antigone and Stein/Ab-Salom. She calls their voyage older than Greek myth, invokes Homer as witness to their antiquity, and says their quest was the prototype of all quests; they sailed to Colchis and still possess the Golden Fleece [MTM B7:233-234]. Casey calls the Five’s transport Argo “for this night at least” near the Talaud Islands [A:63], and the poem opening Stranahan’s chapter recalls sailing the ship anciently called Argo [A:91]. Its identities include the Navicula Petri or Peter Ship, which Henry dreams as a galleon-like vessel of pennants, saints and shattered masts, then recognizes as the Argo whose quest has been sanctified [A:44-46]. Henry’s dream supplies the name and Finnegan’s storm-battered masthead for the magazine Bark, also spelled Barque [A:121] [A:128]; Hans likewise calls the remembered ship the Bark [MTM B5:178]. The talking oak in its wheel recounts appearances as the Anthony Ship at Actium, the flagship of Abd-Aliah of the Sea and then Sindbad’s ship; as St. Brandon’s Land of Behest, the Salle du Roi of Robert of Namur, Willy Jones’s Flying Serpent and Dana Coscuin’s Catherine. It has carried St. Paul, Godfrey of the Gate, Mark Twain and Judas, and has repeatedly come into infidel ownership [MTM B13:404-405]. As Brunhilde it belongs to Saxon Seaworthy and carries Finnegan among dangerous associates [D:21] [D:30]; Seaworthy is identified with Sindbad when commissioning the lounge paintings [D:59]. X calls Finnegan’s disputed ship Delay, World or Argo, while the narrator questions both its registration and the reliability of the voyage’s accounts, including Seaworthy’s threat to have Finnegan killed [A:187]. Argo is a Hope Ship and, in its primary sense, a show boat. It goes where other ships cannot, carries dangerous passengers and cargo, opens dark lands and ports, breaks conspiracies, and brings joy, grace and entertainment [MTM B13:400] [MTM B13:405]. It is above all a Quest Ship: the Golden Fleece is an early triumph, and its later recoveries include the Holy Cross. The Sword and Scabbard of Saint Sécaire are an anti-prize that its Masters have repeatedly tried to lose; the most recent discovery is made by the Dimbeau brothers against the Masters’ wishes [MTM B13:421-422]. In another account it delivers the Peter-Bell to the mooring rock north of San Simeon [MB:577-578]. Duffey and Brannagan also root out future evils before they can flow into the present; their most complete successes erase the evils so thoroughly that the achievements cannot be remembered [MTM B13:416] [MTM B13:420-421]. It knows seas, islands, shores and promontories, including migrating islands and seas. An old log even claims a voyage on the moon’s Mare Nectaris [MTM B13:405-406]. The Sea of the Seven Lost Years has scattered shores and channels amid other waters; Duffey’s years on it are not consecutive [MTM B13:406]. The ship also sails outside the cosmos and within minds and persons [MTM B13:437]. It ordinarily moves smoothly and rapidly against wind and waves [MTM B13:402]. A voyage is a cycle or dynasty of adventures, interrupted by hiatus, mutation or a death of the ship, not simply one trip between ports. Argo Twelve is already active when Duffey names his balloon, and the later adventure cycle is called the climactic Fourteenth Voyage [MTM B2:64] [MTM B13:410-412]. Duffey describes its log as a dating clock covering nine thousand past years and sixty-seven future years, with some later futures recorded in a different, elusive ledger. The talking oak can announce an artifact’s date, though it sometimes gives geographical bearings instead [MTM B13:411]. Argo’s dimensions and fittings vary: she has as many masts as a voyage needs, sometimes funnels and engines, innumerable decks and unfamiliar rooms, animal stalls, unknown families, shops and cottage industries, yet can fit a small boat slip. Some suppose the present vessel is only the boat of a greater Ship. It retains the talking-oak wheel, Noah’s broken molar in a plank, the Special Dove’s cote, grist mills, log books and a lantern that shines around headlands and corners [MTM B13:403-404]. Duffey recounts rediscovering her as an old hull in New Orleans, built at Ragusa of Dinaric oak with unusual spring and able to regain her fittings by remembering them; the account is expressly called symbolically rather than ordinarily accurate [MTM B13:412]. She can be frozen solid in blue ice and released for sailing [MTM B13:398-402]. A later account shows constant emergency repairs and poor ordinary seaworthiness, while declaring that she cannot sink forever [MB:590]. The Masters form an interdependent society, including Duffey, Brannagan, Casey, Finnegan, Henry and others of the Animated Marvels [MTM B13:446]. Melchisedech is an extraordinary pilot [MTM B13:402]; X is admitted as a servitor with half shares, rather than a full Master [MTM B13:434-435]. The mechanical, ghostlike seamen are materialized residues or place tokens of absent travelers; arriving Masters don their own effigies. Effigies of respected companions also exist, and Casey mars those of Finnegan and two companions. The ship carries more coffins than there are Masters [MTM B13:415-416] [MTM B13:449-450]. After Duffey’s killing, his bones are laid in one; God comes aboard and tells him that his duties do not require flesh. Gorshok supplies the golden mask, scarf and gauntlets with which Duffey resumes sailing [MTM B13:443-444]. Other passengers include the rescued Neo-Neanderthal Eva and the returning Monsignor X, who brings the flayed skin attributed to Cardinal Artemis [MTM B13:400-407] [MTM B13:451-452]. Coryphaena fish play a salute when a present or future Pope rides aboard [MTM B13:450-451]. The Sindbad Lounge contains Finnegan’s oceanic paintings, made in his youth when the ship was Brunhilde [MTM B13:404]; their commission and prophetic grave scenes are recounted in the earlier cruise [D:59-61] [D:85-86]. The Bread and Wine Room hosts meaningful gatherings and later bears his thirteen Deaths of the Cardinals paintings directly on its bulkheads [MTM B13:403] [MTM B13:452]. The chart room preserves moral instruction even during evil ownership [MTM B13:437]. The scattered Land of the Animated Marvels, or Greater Archipelago, is a recuperative island for Argo, supplying water, provisions, healing and virtues, although its relation to the ship across time and place remains unresolved [MTM B13:448]. Teresa identifies the birth talismans as pieces of Argo’s gold filigree over talking oak, their gold from the Fleece and their function anamnesis or recollection; Hans describes the people as stranded on a mundane shore awaiting their return [MTM B5:178-179]. Finnegan foretells that Argo will carry Antichrist to Megiddo [MTM B13:453]. Duffey, Brannagan and Gorshok nevertheless try to prevent the mysterious passenger’s entry, seeking detectives’ advice and installing alarms, firedrakes and Gunboat Smith as guards [MTM B13:454-458]. An entourage, altered sea, magnetic wind and growing disturbance surround the ship; the winds now carry her instead of opposing her [MTM B13:459-460]. Her mirrors shatter into cubistic reflections, and the Man of Mystery emerges from below decks as Peleus, Gorshok, Prince Casimir, Casey and Antichristus. Argo lands him at Habonim by the Plains of Megiddo [MTM B13:461-462]. These events are increasingly marked as a probable but unsettled future. The ship disappears while Duffey, Brannagan and Gunboat fade out of that world; rediscovering her becomes their next task, and the whole coming of Antichrist subsequently recedes with the scene [MTM B13:451] [MTM B13:460] [MTM B13:463] [MTM B13:468]. The Brunhilde itinerary includes Freeport, Palacios, Port O’Conner, Aransas Pass and Corpus, then an anchorage off Padre Island [D:34]; Port Isabel and Brownsville [D:55]; Mexican coastal anchorages, with one episode uncertainly placed at Paraiso or Campeche [D:59] [D:67]; Campeche, Progreso, Cozumel, Ciudad Chetumal, Belize, Puerto Barrios, La Ceiba, Trujillo, Cabo Gracias a Dios, Blue Fields, Limon and San Cristobal [D:81]; Portobello, Manana, Cartagena, Santa Maria, Willemsted, Caracas, Cumana and Port of Spain [D:85]; Cayenne, Belem, Sao Luis, Camocim, Fortaleza and Natal [D:86]; Freetown [D:89]; Bissau, Bathurst, Dakar, St. Louis, Memrhar, Port Etienne, Villa Cisneros, Las Palmas and Grand Canary [D:96]; Arrecife on Lanzarote, Ifni, Agadir, Magadar, Safti, Mazagan, Casablanca, Rabat and Tangier [D:101]; Palermo, Messina, Zakinthos and Naxos [D:114-115]. Argo’s later or differently ordered journeys include Biloxi [MTM B13:408] and Habonim [MTM B13:462].A:38-39; MTM B7:233-234; A:63; A:91; A:44-46; A:121; A:128; MTM B5:178; MTM B13:404-405; D:21; D:30; D:59; A:187; MTM B13:400; MTM B13:405; MTM B13:421-422; MB:577-578; MTM B13:416; MTM B13:420-421; MTM B13:405-406; MTM B13:406; MTM B13:437; MTM B13:402; MTM B2:64; MTM B13:410-412; MTM B13:411; MTM B13:403-404; MTM B13:412; MTM B13:398-402; MB:590; MTM B13:446; MTM B13:434-435; MTM B13:415-416; MTM B13:449-450; MTM B13:443-444; MTM B13:400-407; MTM B13:451-452; MTM B13:450-451; MTM B13:404; D:59-61; D:85-86; MTM B13:403; MTM B13:452; MTM B13:448; MTM B5:178-179; MTM B13:453; MTM B13:454-458; MTM B13:459-460; MTM B13:461-462; MTM B13:451; MTM B13:460; MTM B13:463; MTM B13:468; D:34; D:55; D:67; D:81; D:85; D:86; D:89; D:96; D:101; D:114-115; MTM B13:408; MTM B13:462
Argo Company (Teresa's account)
Teresa Piccone Stranahan’s account of the old company awakened by Duffey. She says he assembled and awakened them rather than created them, causing them to be born again to oppose the newly loosed Devil. She explicitly denies that they were the first crew, pilots or voyagers, although they sailed on the first ship, the Argo, identified with the Ark, and added its sails and rudder [MTM B7:233-234]. Her identifications are Finnegan as Iason, later Jason; Hans as Orpheus and later Faust; Henry as Euphemus; Vincent as Meleager; Casey as Peleus; Dotty as Medea; Marie as Eurydice; Mary Virginia as Laonome; Teresa herself as Atalanta; and Mary Catherine as Antigone. Duffey is the original Melchisedech, but his Argonaut name was something else. Stein is Ab-Salom, Father of Peace, a Euxine ship’s chandler who joined to protect his investments. Teresa says Henry learned to walk on water from his ocean-father, rejects Dotty’s evil reputation, and substitutes Marie’s journey to Australia and motherhood of its peoples for Eurydice’s descent to the underworld. Gabrielovitch, Zabotski and Salvation Sally may belong to an older company; Teresa does not know about X, and knows Margaret’s company but refuses to disclose it [MTM B7:234].MTM B7:233-234; MTM B7:234
Argo Twelve
Duffey’s first name for his custom-made, hydrogen-filled silk-bag balloon during his early St. Louis years, the period beginning in 1915 [MTM B2:38] [MTM B2:63-64]. He takes friends including Bagby, Mary Louise, Charley Murray and Beth Keegan on ascents. A powerful misty visitor tells him Argo Twelve is already active, so he renames the balloon Argo Twelve and Half [MTM B2:64].MTM B2:38; MTM B2:63-64; MTM B2:64
Argo Twelve and Half
Duffey’s revised name for his balloon after a misty person of great power tells him the actual Argo Twelve is currently active and its name unavailable. The visitor permits the balloon sometimes to serve as a pinnace or ship’s boat for Argo’s Twelfth Voyage [MTM B2:64]. The same page also calls it Argo Twelve and a Half.MTM B2:64
Argonauts
The people of Argo, including its interdependent society of Masters such as Duffey, Brannagan and Casey [MTM B13:446] [MTM B13:454]. The narrator portrays them as commando experts against evil, able to distinguish right from wrong apart from a short interlude at Wien, with guidance preserved in the chart room even during evil ownership of the ship [MTM B13:437]. In his Notes on the Finnegan Cycle, Absalom Stein says that everyone must first have existed in legend before living in life [MB:549-550].MTM B13:446; MTM B13:454; MTM B13:437; MB:549-550
Ariadne
Daughter of King Minos of Crete in Greek myth, associated with her abandonment by Theseus on Naxos. The novel calls Naxos the home of Ariadne and white wine, as well as the home of Anastasia Demetriades [D:115].D:115
Arioch
One of the Three Slant-Faced Men whose names Duffey finds in Flame Man, with Amraphel and Thadal. The narration identifies him as king of Ellasar, Pontus or Lower Babylonia and describes the three as crooked kings or anti-magi who have no magic [MTM B7:227].MTM B7:227
Aristotle (384--322 BC)
Greek philosopher (384-322 BCE), student of Plato, tutor of Alexander and founder of the Lyceum in Athens. His works range across logic, ethics, politics, biology and metaphysics; his systematic treatment of inference helped establish logic as a discipline. The Nicomachean Ethics and Politics examine human flourishing and political life. Known to medieval scholars as the Philosopher, he profoundly influenced later philosophy and Christian theology. Casey’s school notebook mocks an attributed statement about lynx urine and signets [A:162] [A:165]. The narrator of The Devil Is Dead treats the Unities of Aristotle, alongside Plutarch’s Heroics, as conventions from which Finnegan’s shadow life is freed [D:161].A:162; A:165; D:161
Ark (Noah's)
Noah’s biblical vessel. In Casey’s school notebook, Hinnegan claims the Milesians were in Ireland before the Flood; Casey retorts that knowledge of this would require Noah to have taken two Irishmen aboard the Ark [A:162] [A:164-165]. Fundamentalers ask Zabotski and Duffey whether the Ark survives in Armenia under angelic guard. Their debate distinguishes belief in the Ark from the disputed identification of Ararat and from Duffey’s suggestion that the wooden remains were castles [MTM B9:280-281].A:162; A:164-165; MTM B9:280-281
Ark-advocate
Participant in the Fundamentalers’ discussion who insists that one wooden structure in Ararat’s snow is the true Ark. He says people have entered it and brought objects back as proof [MTM B9:283].MTM B9:283
Armageddon (Plains of Megiddo)
In Finnegan’s prophecy, the destination to which Argo will carry the Antichrist for the last battle [MTM B13:453]. The culminating voyage reaches the seaport of Habonim, said to serve the Plains of Megiddo; the emerging Antichrist recognizes Casey as Prince Casimir [MTM B13:462]. These events belong to a shimmering possible future, and that future recedes again [MTM B13:451] [MTM B13:463] [MTM B13:468].MTM B13:453; MTM B13:462; MTM B13:451; MTM B13:463; MTM B13:468
Armenia
Country and older regional name invoked in the debate about the Ark. A Fundamentaler locates the Ark in Armenia’s high mountains, while Zabotski questions whether the present place names identify the biblical country and mountain correctly [MTM B9:280-281]. Askandan calls Mount Ararat in his “own Armenia” the secluded center of the other blood [A:258]. These are the speakers’ identifications; Mount Ararat lies in modern Turkey, not in the present Republic of Armenia.MTM B9:280-281; A:258
Armenian
Ethnic designation applied to Askandanakandrian, or Asking Dan, the ancient comic dealer in distressed or “nervous” merchandise, associated with Chicago [A:256-258]. Margaret Stone is described as his niece and as embodying many ethnic lineages at once [MTM B7:212].A:256-258; MTM B7:212
Armstrong's
Name on cheese presses in the catalogue of household inscriptions remembered and appropriated by Melchisedech Duffey. Many of these “iron words” are stolen from other people’s minds; the surrounding memories range across Iowa, St. Louis and Boston [MTM B1:17].MTM B1:17
Arracht
Irish word meaning a spectre or monster. In the account of the Dirty Five’s earlier lives, Finnegan is called Dionysus or Ulysses but also a Terras or Arracht [A:39].A:39
Arrecife
Port city on Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. Brunhilde calls there after Grand Canary and before Ifni, on the African coast [D:96] [D:101].D:96; D:101
Arson
Casey jokingly offers arson and mayhem as pleasanter topics than Absalom Stein [A:67]. Henry’s subsequent “No arson, no mayhem” praises Sammy’s successful confidence trick after the boy obtains money and whisky; it is a comment on that performance, not a general account of the Dirty Five’s conduct [A:68].A:67; A:68
Art Bijou (Duffey's Walk-In)
Duffey’s New Orleans art business, established in the Pelican Press building after his move south in May 1946. The building also contains his pawn shop and the press’s common workroom [MTM B5:184] [MTM B6:190]. The related establishment includes a second-hand book and antique business; the press premises initially have cots and a cook stove for living quarters [A:116] [A:143]. Letitia’s affectionate catalogue joins the Art Bijou, bookstore, pawn shop, press, institute and soup kitchen [MTM B7:211]. Duffey conceives the Bijou as a flexible fortress defending the arts, while his creative stasis allows him to move back and forth through the years [MTM B6:199]. The painting The Resurrection of Count Finnegan arrives around the middle of the 1950s [MB:550]. Stein views it [MB:551]; Hilary Hilton buys it for twenty thousand dollars but leaves it hanging in the Bijou, visiting it at least annually [MB:553]. It remains on the walls for at least thirty years [MB:554]. Duffey also contemplates his own ashes on a table in the Bijou [MTM B1:6].MTM B5:184; MTM B6:190; A:116; A:143; MTM B7:211; MTM B6:199; MB:550; MB:551; MB:553; MB:554; MTM B1:6
Art Dealer
Profession represented by buyers seeking Finnegan’s pictures [A:182]. A reputable dealer gives Finnegan van Ghi a standing commission for as many pictures as he can paint [A:191]. Duffey sees art dealing, together with pawnbroking, as his own vocation and a means of rebuilding the world [MTM B6:199].A:182; A:191; MTM B6:199
Art-and-Elegance Shop
Lily Koch’s Chicago shop, where Duffey encounters Lily and her sister Letitia. Lily identifies Letitia as her partner in the establishment [MTM B3:90-91].MTM B3:90-91
Artaguette Park
Park beside Sarkis Popotov’s residence in the changed New Orleans landscape. Margaret reports that Sarkis had lived beside buildings for forty years but can no longer remember what they were; now Artaguette Park occupies the neighboring space. The others tell him it will soon seem familiar [MTM B11:309].MTM B11:309
Artemis (Diana)
Greek goddess of the hunt, identified with the Roman Diana, whose imagery also associates her with the moon. The chapter “DIANA ARTEMIS” places Finnegan and Anastasia on Naxos [D:130]. By moonlight, Anastasia’s head resembles Diana’s [D:132]. The narrator specifies the light-bringing Artemis, comparing her head with a painted-marble image at Messene in Asclepius’s sanctuary, said to have been seen by Pausanias, and with a little cypress-wood Artemis on a temple step at Delos [D:133].D:130; D:132; D:133
Artemis, Carlos Cardinal
Carlos Cardinal Artemis of Santa Cruz, one of the thirteen Cardinals pursued by John Mogul’s Track and Total. His designated double is Gilberto Levine y O’Brien of Rio [MB:579]. After Cardinal Ti’s death, Mogul’s next predicted killing is Artemis’s flaying [MB:583]. The account describes an arranged accident in Portugal: a cork-cutting machine, which the Cardinal has come to bless, strips off his skin; he dies shortly afterward [MB:591]. The identity of the victim and surviving double remains uncertain. Gilberto has copied Artemis’s natural skin markings with tattoos, adding personal marks. Monsignor X shows Duffey a purportedly cardinal’s skin aboard Argo, but neither can determine whose skin it is [MTM B13:451-452]. Separately, Finnegan has radiation-imprinted a masterwork on the inside of Artemis’s skin while he was alive and unaware. The account asks whether this picture is now inside the trophy skin cherished by Mogul or inside the living Gilberto’s skin [MB:591].MB:579; MB:583; MB:591; MTM B13:451-452
Arthur (King)
Legendary British king. X includes Arthur among figures such as Barbarossa, Alaric, Brian Boru and the Cid who await awakening or release from an enchanted trance-sleep [MTM B6:204-205].MTM B6:204-205
Artillery
In Casey’s ninth proposed world, a workers’ revolution uses artillery in streets and parks to overthrow skyscrapers and factory smokestacks [A:160].A:160
Artist
Finnegan is explicitly identified as a painter [D:37], and paints the voyages of Sindbad on Brunhilde’s barroom panels [D:59] [D:62]. Demetrio, the cantina proprietor, is himself an artist who makes Finnegan a belt and gives each of the two girls a silver ring [D:59]. Angela Cosquin’s father is praised as an exquisite artist and meticulous mapmaker [D:259]. X has also worked as a stage magician and Escape Artist under the name Great X-Capo [D:276].D:37; D:59; D:62; D:259; D:276
Artist's tie
Tie, accompanied by a beret, that Duffey wears “for the trade” after opening a second-hand bookstore, art and antique shop, and hock-shop in New Orleans [A:143].A:143
Artistic Degradation
One of the seven heads of the modern enemy named by Bascom Bagby [MTM B5:169].MTM B5:169
Arutinov, Arpad
Name credited as the author of The Back-Door of History in the epigraph to the second chapter of The Devil Is Dead. The passage attacks abstraction and describes the intermingling of human and inhuman blood [D:26].D:26
Ascend into the city
Duffey’s command to Finnegan after joining him in the burial cave: “Ascend into the city. There are doings that only you can do.” Their surrounding exchange combines lament, biblical prayer and calls to rise and act [MTM B12:374-375].MTM B12:374-375
Ascendere
Italian verb meaning to ascend or go up, sung by Finnegan in the fragment beginning “Vecchia zimarra senti” [A:31]. The song is Colline’s farewell to his coat in Puccini’s La Bohème. Finnegan sings during the Australian Bay Hotel picnic: because the hotel forbids a lawn bonfire, the company gathers around a plate of burning charcoal [A:29-31].A:31; A:29-31
Asclepius
Greek god of medicine and healing. The narrator compares Anastasia’s head with an image of Diana Artemis said to have been seen by Pausanias in Asclepius’s sanctuary at Messene: a little statue of painted marble with a natural expression [D:133].D:133
Ashes
Duffey’s ashes exist alongside his surviving bones. After the slant-faced killers strip his flesh, the slack-faced men burn the flesh and viscera and place the ashes in a cigar canister formerly owned by a King of Spain. X takes custody, intending to return them to a living Duffey [MTM B13:442]. X shows them to Duffey in another encounter [MTM B6:203], and they stand on his table in the New Orleans Art Bijou [MTM B1:6]. They flame when Teresa touches them [MTM B7:233]. Their coexistence with Duffey alive exemplifies his disrupted sequence of death and life [MTM B13:445]. Fresh human ashes are also used for the test at the Decatur Street Opera House. They burn human hands and distinguish the participants by the resulting flames; these ashes are not identified as Duffey’s [MTM B11:347-348].MTM B13:442; MTM B6:203; MTM B1:6; MTM B7:233; MTM B13:445; MTM B11:347-348
Asia
The continental setting invoked when X calls Smyrna-born Papadiabolous I Asiatic [D:285]. Smyrna is modern İzmir on the Anatolian peninsula in Turkey. In Seaworthy’s dream of an Indian city, a wheel repeatedly falls from a cart carrying corpses; he calls this a defect of small Asian carts [D:72]. Duffey’s familiarity with Asian deserts helps him recognize that the Laughing Prince’s amoral desert is artificial [MTM B13:439].D:285; D:72; MTM B13:439
Asiatic
X’s description of Papadiabolous I, Gregory McIfreann, who was born in Smyrna. His twin, Papadiabolous II, was born in Cork and is called an Irishman. The distinction in this account turns on their different birthplaces, not an independently established difference in ancestry [D:285].D:285
Asimov, Isaac
Science-fiction writer and biochemist (1920-1992). The first chapter’s epigraph is credited to Asimov and imagines a groomed, well-dressed Neanderthal passing unnoticed on Fifth Avenue [D:9]. It introduces the question of ancient identities beneath ordinary appearances. During Finnegan’s transport about the other blood, Asimov is named with Mendel, Morgan, Galton and Painter in a rhetorical challenge about primordial ancestors reappearing after a thousand generations [D:214].D:9; D:214
Askandanakandrian
Askandan, or Asking Dan, the ancient comic Armenian dealer in distressed merchandise in Chicago and uncle of Margaret Stone [MTM B7:212]. He joins Finnegan and Hilary Hilton at dinner, bargaining over green fish sticks and unusable soap base. His habitual “I was just asking,” together with his name, explains the nickname [A:256]. He describes himself as a specialist in rehabilitating nervous merchandise and weevily grain, then tells Finnegan that a man he has crossed will have him followed and murdered [A:257]. After Finnegan names that man, Askandan says he knows him and knows about the other blood, whose secluded center he locates at Mount Ararat. He affirms that Finnegan is a Teras and has a soul. The narrator calls him a reader of souls and master of dialects and roles [A:258]. He joins Finnegan’s plot against Casey. When Casey finds himself naked on the road, Asking Dan offers a zoot suit, pointed shoes and an enormous hat, finally selling them on a promise of payment the next morning. Finnegan has bought the old suit for nine dollars to supply the stunt [A:258-261].MTM B7:212; A:256; A:257; A:258; A:258-261
Asking Dan
Nickname of Askandanakandrian, the little old dealer in distressed merchandise. It comes from his habitual “I was just asking” and the sound of his name [A:256]. He supplies the naked Casey with a zoot suit, pointed shoes and a large hat on credit [A:259-261]. See Askandanakandrian.A:256; A:259-261
Aspects (1)
In the passage attributed to Bascom Bagby’s Letters After I Am Dead, beings or manifestations inhabiting Iron Meadows. Bagby says that some aspects of the Argo Legend occupy one such meadow, unknown to either Duffey or God [MTM B5:177].MTM B5:177
Aspects (2)
Alternative persons or manifestations of a self. Doctor Saul Rafelson’s notes propose that Duffey’s other selves may be projections, captured independent people, or living images split off from him. Rafelson speculates that Duffey’s twelve independent creations express twelve aspects of him and explicitly distinguishes them from his shadows [MTM B4:146-147]. On Naxos, after Finnegan confesses his fear of the animal or other kindred within him, the Capuchin absolves his present person “in all its aspects” [D:119-120].MTM B4:146-147; D:119-120
Aspirins
Tablets mentioned in Dotty’s letter complaining to Marie about Salvation Sally’s arrival in New Orleans. Dotty says she has had the flu and has been taking aspirins; Belonki now wants her to try his joy pills [A:147].A:147
Ass
Donkey, in Joe’s comparison of Dopey’s second scream to that of an ass seized by a lion. Joe is recounting Dopey’s disappearance after Papa Devil entered the cabin [D:64].D:64
Assassins of Jebel Shammar
Self-described sect whose members, according to Margaret Stone, threaten to kill her for preaching the Real Presence at night. They brandish knives and claim that their jealous Djinn is the only nocturnal Real Presence. Margaret answers with sweet talk and a claim that New Orleans is a truce city. She doubts whether such a sect exists: the three local Arabs attend Tulane and may merely be teasing her. She fears the Slant-Faced Men much more [MTM B7:225].MTM B7:225
Assignment
The leftfooted man’s mission to kill Finnegan. In Florida, Finnegan tells Doll that this pursuer does not belong to the latest trouble or the people X has been discussing: he is on “an earlier assignment” [D:182-183].D:182-183
Astute Florentine father
Allusion to Niccolò Machiavelli. Niccolo Crotolus says he takes his first name from this Florentine “father,” whom he resembles in mind, and invokes the discussion of a prince’s faithfulness. He applies the distinction between appearing faithful and actually obeying to his employer’s contradictory instructions about a killing [A:279]. The passage echoes chapter XVIII of The Prince.A:279
Atalanta
Swift-footed huntress of Greek mythology. Teresa Piccone names Atalanta as one of her identities while recounting the ancient Argo company, adding that it is only a small part of who she is [MTM B7:234].MTM B7:234
Atheistic Communism
One of the seven contemporary heads of the enemy named by Bascom Bagby [MTM B5:169]. A later epigraph, credited to Pius XI’s Atheistic Communism, calls it an imminent danger [MTM B5:177]. The source is the encyclical Divini Redemptoris, dated 19 March 1937, whose third paragraph identifies bolshevistic and atheistic Communism in these terms.MTM B5:169; MTM B5:177
Athens
Greek city whose historical existence Cyrus Roundhead denies in a Royal Pop historical discourse. He calls Athens a Macedonian invention designed to supply a prestigious culture and past. John the Greek objects that he comes from there and lived there until thirteen [MTM B11:337].MTM B11:337
Atlantic Ocean
Ocean crossed eastward by Brunhilde from Natal, Brazil, on January 18 to Freetown, Sierra Leone, on January 26. The narrator calls westward travel easier; Papa Devil enlarges this into a story of ancient Atlantic crossings whose eastward returns were almost impossible [D:89]. Anastasia’s account of mermaids denies that true mermaids live in the Atlantic, distinguishing northern sea-cows from them [D:34-35]. During the Atlantic crossing, Finnegan’s uncertain waking dream with Marie concerns immortality and her identification with Demeter and Persephone. Although they should be aboard ship in mid-ocean, the scene places them on a jungle beach [D:91-92].D:89; D:34-35; D:91-92
Atlantic Port
Landing Finnegan had expected at the end of the obscure return from his interrupted round-the-world voyage. Instead, he is paid off in San Francisco. He explains that he worked below in the engine room and passed free time with drink and old comic magazines, uncertain whether he had actually circumnavigated the globe [A:145].A:145
Atlantic States
Eastern American states traversed by Gautier the goat-man and his herd over forty years. By the time Finnegan meets him, he remains in New Jersey throughout the year because age makes travel harder [A:196].A:196
Atlantis
Legendary lost island or continent. In Casey’s fifth imagined world, Antarctica is an ice ring surrounding a warm southern sea and continent, which he supposes to be Atlantis after continental migration. He dreams of exchanging modern techniques for its Higher Ethic [A:158].A:158
Atlas
Reference book of maps supplied with the dictionary, Bible, missal and Rule of St. Benedict in Casey’s six-boy chamber at St. Martin’s Hall, St. Bonaventure’s boarding school [A:161-162].A:161-162
Attic
Two distinct upper rooms in Duffey’s early life. His childhood domain in a large town house is an attic room; the Prisoner John Window is in a little closet or cell opening off it [MTM B1:12]. Later, Lily leads eight young people away from an unwanted formal dance to a soundproof attic billiard room, where they play pool, music and informal dances and share food and drink [MTM B1:33].MTM B1:12; MTM B1:33
Attic Ephebic Inscriptions
Inscriptions invoked by X when Argo’s talking oak challenges his right to board. X claims that the initial X stands for Xenoi in Attic ephebic inscriptions; the oak supplies the meaning “Strangers.” This is his argument for being present in Inscription, since he admits no other scriptural or inscriptional credentials. Duffey eventually admits him as a servitor with half shares, not as a Master Argonaut [MTM B13:435].MTM B13:435
Attila the Hun
Fifth-century king of the Huns. The epigraph attributed to Carmody Overlark’s Studies in the Imagination includes fifth-century representations of Attila among its examples of a Neanderthal-type head and enlarged back-brain. Overlark associates this type with ghostliness and imagination [D:270-272].D:270-272
Attorney
Profession Manuel claims for himself. He says that he is fairly rich and a lawyer among his own people but travels in poverty to infiltrate the apparatus turning men into devils. His stated mission serves himself and an otherwise ineffective society in a country south of Mexico [D:56-57].D:56-57
Auditorium
The Pelican group’s auditorium begins in a warehouse and loft next to the print shop, acquired when Duffey, Dotty and Stein put Henry’s work into action [A:126]. In the later Duffey buildings it is the principal and largest room, used for the Royal Pop meeting [MTM B11:327]. A different auditorium, at Ursuline Academy, is the venue for Seven Roads, announced at the Ghost Coffee Shop and later shown in performance with Duffey playing his own role [MTM B10:293] [MTM B12:366].A:126; MTM B11:327; MTM B10:293; MTM B12:366
Aura
An apprehended presence or emanation. Marie Courtois, like Papa Devil, has an aura of great power that makes Finnegan feel his signature for the ship might mortgage his soul [D:32]. When Papa-D enters the club early in the story, Finnegan recalls the aura although he cannot clearly remember the person [D:15]. Later the Descalced priest says Papa’s aura exceeds the ordinary evils a priest encounters [D:70].D:32; D:15; D:70
Auriferous cargo
Gold-bearing freight, the object of the coastwise quest in the poem opening “Stranahan, Who Is Meleager.” Its speaker remembers sailing with the companions on the ship anciently called Argo [A:91].A:91
Aurignacian people
People associated with the Aurignacian culture of the early Upper Paleolithic. The epigraph credited to Carmody Overlark’s Studies in the Imagination includes Aurignacian and Grimaldi types in its imagined back-brain lineage, associating that lineage with ghostliness and imagination [D:270-272].D:270-272
Aurora, Sister Mary (Rittenhouse)
One of the ecclesial or “vineyard” people in Duffey and Letitia’s Chicago golden-age circle [MTM B3:99].MTM B3:99
Aussie
Colloquial Australian identification. Biloxi Brannagan calls himself an Australian while recalling his life as an awkward seaman and his courtship of Gertrude [D:203].D:203
Aussie Brigadier
Australian officer targeted by the disastrous raid Casey induces Stein and the American officers to arrange. Stein has been deceived into believing that Tania, actually Tommy Trouncer performing as a woman, is being kept by the brigadier [A:51-54]. The brigadier initially says that an unauthorized woman’s presence would merit punishment, then becomes furious when he realizes he is the accused man. He summons the island personnel to explain the intrusion; the resulting scandal damages Stein, Colonel Laycheck and the three majors [A:54].A:51-54; A:54
Aussie non-com club
Australian noncommissioned officers’ club that preserves Finnegan’s humiliating affidavit on the inferiority of Yanks at drinking and almost everything else. Tom Shire inspires the document; the intoxicated Finnegan signs it at the wet canteen believing he is signing an outfit roster to obtain beer chits. Later club members are too young to have known Shire and Freddy Castle but still cherish the affidavit [A:11-13].A:11-13
Aussie Private
The young Australian identity adopted by Private Gregory after escaping his long American officer career. In 1907 he had abandoned his century-long sergeancy, made himself about twenty, and obtained an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy. Years later, unable to appear convincingly older, he escaped again as an Australian private. Investigators matched this young private’s fingerprints to those of the vanished elderly American colonel and kept him under observation [A:78-79].A:78-79
Austin, Blessed
Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430), called Blessed Austin and an old Argo Master by the narrator. In discussing the strange and inadequate sustenance of the futures, the narrator quotes his image of being served the sun and moon while hungering for God [MTM B13:447]. The wording comes from Confessions, Book III, chapter 6, where Augustine contrasts created things and deceptive imaginings with the divine truth he seeks.MTM B13:447
Australia
Country of origin named for Marie Monaghan, Hans’s wife [MTM B5:158], and by Biloxi Brannagan in his own account [D:203]. At the Brannagans’ kitchen garden, Finnegan says he has known beer served in pitchers only as an Australian custom [D:199]. Teresa’s Argo account identifies Marie as Eurydice, who went to the down-under world of Australia instead of the underworld [MTM B7:234]. Salvation Sally is first encountered in the Australian episode, and Dotty later recalls that Stein knew her in Australia before she came to New Orleans [A:8-9] [A:147].MTM B5:158; D:203; D:199; MTM B7:234; A:8-9; A:147
Australian custom
Serving beer in a pitcher, which Finnegan says he has known only in Australia. He makes the remark at the Brannagans’ home; Gertrude corrects his assumption that he has found a beer garden, explaining that it is their kitchen garden and her husband is drinking his breakfast [D:199].D:199
Australian Wine
The narrator compares Australian air and sunset with Australian wine: it may be better or worse than northern wine, but it is different [A:30].A:30
Austria
One of the countries in which Ifreann Noonan Columkill Gregorovitch lives after fleeing the Krakow region, according to X’s family history [D:278-280]. X identifies Ifreann as the father of both Papadiabolous I and II [D:285]. His account connects the departure with Krakow’s return to Austrian rule [D:280]. Historically, the Free City of Krakow lasted from 1815 to 1846 and was then incorporated into the Habsburg monarchy.D:278-280; D:285; D:280
Austrian Manner
The narrator’s description of the way Carmelo Mendoza rolls his r’s while speaking [MTM B12:369].MTM B12:369
Auto Ball Bearing
Name inscribed on grindstones in Duffey’s catalogue of remembered household “iron words.” Many such memories are appropriated from other people’s minds; the surrounding account ranges across Iowa, St. Louis and Boston [MTM B1:17].MTM B1:17
Automatic Members
Status promised on the Rounders’ Club sign: patrons automatically become members of the Famous Steeplechase Club, among the establishment’s many advertised attractions [MTM B2:49].MTM B2:49
Automobile
Transport used throughout the narratives. X’s eight-colored car carries him, Finnegan and Doll; Finnegan calls it a celestial omnibus and a purring panther [D:179]. Earlier Finnegan hot-wires George Brubaker’s car, compels the girl with him to drive, tells her to pose as Mrs. George Brubaker, and claims temporary possession under a “Lien of Extreme Need” [D:167-169]. When X warns him to leave Biloxi, Brannagan offers Gertrude’s car and she arranges the title [D:209]. Philip Manford’s overland automobile carries Duffey’s party on St. Louis outings [MTM B2:58].D:179; D:167-169; D:209; MTM B2:58
Aventine hill
One of Rome’s seven hills. In Marie Courtois’s dreamlike discourse, it is the site of the thirteenth station in the old Roman Way of the Cross and of an earlier Demeter-and-Pontos grouping. She connects this Pietà image with the earth as mother and her own lap [D:91-92].D:91-92
Avoca
Town in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, one of seven places disputing the honor of being Duffey’s birthplace in one of his possible childhoods [MTM B1:7].MTM B1:7
Avram
One of the Chicago Stone cousins living near Duffey’s bookstore. Margaret says that Hugo Stone was an invented name used by several boys, sometimes Nathan or Avram but most often the twins Myron and Efram. Duffey rejects her explanation and insists that Hugo was the same person as Absalom Stein [MTM B4:112].MTM B4:112
B. Flat, Benny
Name Dotty gives successively to several suitors associated with the Jazz Magazine. The narrator explains their differing descriptions by the fact that they are different young men, all nice and swinging [MTM B7:212].MTM B7:212
Babel theory
Professor Kirol von Weinsberg-Valeni’s literal belief that the divergence of languages occurred at Babel in historical time. He tells Hans that this position caused his expulsion from a dozen academies and learned societies in Christian countries [A:213].A:213
Babel, Tower of
Biblical tower whose language division Professor Kirol von Weinsberg-Valeni accepts literally. He describes the event to Hans as a catastrophic umlaut shift with vowel breaking and the shattering of sonants, applying philological terminology to the birth of dialects [A:213].A:213
Babylon
Ancient city invoked by Absalom Stein when he challenges Duffey’s right to enter Jewish historical experience: he asks whether Duffey was in the desert, followed the Pillar and Cloud, and was in Babylon [A:131]. In How Many Miles to Babylon, the name also belongs to the small country San Simeon; the narrator says nobody remembers why it bears that ancient name [MB:558]. How Many Miles to Babylon is the title of the supplementary narrative [MB:548].A:131; MB:558; MB:548
Babylonia Bagascia
Town hosting the declared Last Conclave, whose assembled Gates and Stones intend to dismantle the Ekklesia. It was once mistress of the world under another name, but its former holy element is now hidden or in flight [MB:561]. At the Voltaire Festival on the night before the Conclave, Hiram III is strangled with the entrails of Paul the Eleventh [MB:563-565].MB:561; MB:563-565
Babylonia Oceania
Oceanic Babylon, the former name of the Mooring-Stone land. As the submerged country rises, John Giwa blesses it and changes its name to Babylonia Sancta, Holy Babylon [MB:597].MB:597
Babylonia Sancta
Holy Babylon, the name John Giwa gives the newly risen Mooring-Stone land, formerly Babylonia Oceania or Oceanic Babylon. Its emergence combines volcanic activity with an effusion of grace in the account, and the conclave there elects Finnegan Pope [MB:597].MB:597
Back-Brain
In the epigraph attributed to Carmody Overlark’s Studies in the Imagination, an enlarged basal region of the skull associated with unconscious and subliminal activity, psychical phenomena, parapsychology and ghostliness. Overlark claims that the Neanderthal back-brain was six times the modern size and invokes Plato’s broad head, Homer’s bust and Aquinas’s massive back-brain as later examples [D:270-271]. His speculative lineage also includes Grimaldi and Aurignacian types and connects this anatomy with imagination [D:272].D:270-271; D:272
Baconian Turgidity
A Francis Bacon allusion in Finnegan’s rejected outline of an ordinary human life: Wordsworthian intimations at the beginning, Baconian turgidity in the middle, and Bierceian irony at the end. He asks why he should follow that pattern and declares that he is not constituted that way [D:237].D:237
Badger Game
A staged compromising encounter used for extortion. Charlotte Mullens recalls that her mother Gloria involved her, while still a child, in such schemes against male callers, fetching witnesses and threatening imprisonment to extract payment [MTM B3:87]. In Past Graduate, Duffey says that Acastus of Iolcus used a badger game against Peleus and discusses Hilary and Mary Jean’s attempted reverse badger game against Casey. He suggests that the old Acastus incident may itself have been the reverse variety [PG:535-536].MTM B3:87; PG:535-536
Bagby, Bascom
Duffey’s St. Louis friend and business associate, later his brother-in-law through marriage to Mary Louise [MTM B2:62] [MTM B2:73]. A cabinetmaker with a shop next to Duffey’s premises, Bagby proposes that they work together [MTM B2:46]. He also fights professionally and introduces Duffey to boxing managers [MTM B2:50]. He is a humorously rough-looking man with beetling brows and belly, a “baroque” or flawed pearl, and a slob whose shanty mind contains the accumulated life of whole nations [MTM B2:43] [MTM B2:61-62]. He frequents Chestnut Street fleshpots and fights brutally, at times leaving others or himself for dead. His violent political, economic and religious opinions include condemnation of most local clergy as Judas Priests; he attends Mass across town at St. Malachy’s, which he considers nearest to the true faith [MTM B2:62-63]. He composes and whistles the Gadarene Swine Song [MTM B2:48]. Duffey calls him his dark object, uncleansed stables and another part of himself [MTM B2:73] [MTM B5:155]. His weekly letters offer Duffey intelligence and compassion, even during Duffey’s seven hidden years [MTM B4:145]. After Duffey and Letitia attend his St. Louis funeral, letters continue arriving every Monday for many years, by a means the narrative leaves mysterious [MTM B8:237]. Later letters discuss life outside ordinary time and give Duffey advice from beyond death [MTM B8:248] [MTM B10:302].MTM B2:62; MTM B2:73; MTM B2:46; MTM B2:50; MTM B2:43; MTM B2:61-62; MTM B2:62-63; MTM B2:48; MTM B5:155; MTM B4:145; MTM B8:237; MTM B8:248; MTM B10:302
Bagby, Mary Louise (Byrne)
Duffey’s sister, almost certainly his stepsister, two years older than he is [MTM B2:54]. She bears the surname Byrne from the kindred or supposed kindred who raised her. Red-haired and blue-eyed, with large strong hands and swinging shoulders, she is described as his anima made animate and the flame-red part of his soul. The narrative calls her intelligent, proud, friendly and ghostly, and associates her strength with the royal bovine or sacred cow of chthonic goddesses [MTM B2:55]. Duffey has appropriated much of her St. Louis experience into his own childhood [MTM B1:16] [MTM B2:54]. She says that her own attributes and talismans arrange coincidences, including his meeting with Bagby and the old horse barn, and that she created Beth Keegan, though creating persons is less easy for her than for Duffey [MTM B2:61]. She likes Bagby despite his failings and eventually marries him [MTM B2:63] [MTM B2:73]. After Letitia’s death she flies from St. Louis to the wake in New Orleans [MTM B8:254]. In Duffey’s final St. Louis visit she is called Dame Bagby, weighty and ponderous but still merry. She is present at his death and anticipates their reunion [MTM B12:384-385] [MTM B12:388].MTM B2:54; MTM B2:55; MTM B1:16; MTM B2:61; MTM B2:63; MTM B2:73; MTM B8:254; MTM B12:384-385; MTM B12:388
Bagby, Mary Louise (née Byrne)
Earlier heading treated Byrne as a demonstrated birth surname, although the novel says it came from those who raised her. See Bagby, Mary Louise (Byrne).Baghdad
City in Iraq. The epigraph attributed to Moisha El-Gazma calls Bassorah the port of Baghdad and questions whether Bassorah could have been a port or even a town [D:53]. In the narrator’s account of Hans Schultz’s encounter with Cosmopolis, New York exceeds the combined imaginative promise of Baghdad, Paris, Heidelberg and Lyonesse [A:224]. The Bassorah epigraph also opens Sindbad, the Thirteenth Voyage, whose Baghdad is an elaborate, internally conflicting magical city. In Sindbad, Baghdad is a mirage or cloud city built in a single night, its name meaning the Last City Built by Magic in Old Kentauron. Essindibad’s account places it on the east bank of the Tigris, the seventh city on a site previously occupied by Babel, Gade, Babylon, Burj Aqarquf, Seleucia and Cispon. Its thousand gates lead to a thousand suburbs, each with a fair, circus and trade bazaar; a hundred suburbs have slave markets, and each has numerous theatres and nightclubs. Central Baghdad reserves such large communal entertainments to its Grand Bazaar, Grand Fair and Grand Circus. Its roof-gardens, salons and musical clubs coexist with high-altitude dives and subterranean meeting places in cellars, cisterns and sewers, which Harun is rumored to frequent. Its citizens are said to love novelties. Much of the city’s original magic has become substantial, though breaks in its surfaces expose depths and even blue sky below. Trams and taxis are anachronistic survivals, and a partly credible railroad runs almost to Constantinople; the citizen who describes it doubts the Boy-Caliph’s complete belief in his own creation. An inserted Kerney quotation describes square brick-and-bitumen walls with twenty-five brass gates per side, parenthetically suggesting two hundred and fifty instead; an adjacent Arabian Nights quotation evokes the City of Brass. The narrator describes bedrock under Baghdad and an artificial electrum sky, which Al-Amin later removes. Mamun, however, says that its stones and splendor are illusions: beneath Lady Narkos’s narcotic enchantment lie mud, poor bricks, wattle, oversized mud palaces and sand-and-pebble roads continually sinking into mud. Harun, in Mamun’s account, is its principal maker of illusion. Named places include Blacksmith Street, Cork and Bottle Street, the botanical gardens and their weeping olive groves, the High Place of the Hanging Gibbets, the Royal Archives, the hundred-door main treasury and the Fountain of Life-Bubbles. The bubbles can give a condemned person a full and pleasant ninety-year life in ten seconds, and uneasy observers call them Devil’s Gifts. Scheherazade calls Baghdad a weak place in Gaea-Earth, where the imprisoned devils of other worlds can emerge through thin earth or rivers. She regards its magic as black and tainted; Blue Moon disagrees about the taint. Lady Narkos inhabits narcotic cookies, smoke and powders, while size-changing Ifrits move through the city. Rival spies dispute the nature and location of the gates of hell, including the supposed main underground gates near Baghdad. Dragons carry swallowed demons out of confinement, accounting in the Spy-Bird’s report for their fire-breathing, and deliver them to spacecraft. Harun defends these devils as his friends in the Three Worlds; his delightful aura briefly reverses into horror. He also claims that the citizens he transformed into dogs can never be changed back. Citizen Heifritz says that Harun’s sons moved the capital to Merv and left Baghdad an innocuous ornament housing their Caliph-Emeritus father. The novel calls its present Moslem Year 191 and Christian Year 813, the Year of Three Caliphs. Al-Amin’s brief reign brings public works, irrigation and navigation projects, musicians’ guild recognition, a performing-arts institution, slave-freeing laws, public distribution of treasury wealth and removal of the artificial sky. His sanitation programme targets foul sewers and a stranded whale whose odor reaches Baghdad. Mamun succeeds after killing him in their duel and bears the Mark of Cain at his throat. He defends the continuing need for Narkos’s illusions, orders the construction of spacecraft to pursue the escaping devils, and welcomes the prospect of their occupying themselves in Carouse Town east of Baghdad. Scheherazade’s account of that town mixes events already happening with her anticipated fiction. She later imprisons Mamun in a bottle; their negotiated arrangement allows time for rule, marriage, entertainment and soldierly carousing, leaving three hours of daily confinement. This negotiated account differs from Mamun’s opening claim that he leaves his cell for only one hour a day. (Sindbad, the Thirteenth Voyage, PDF pp. 5, 10, 22-25, 27, 29, 56, 65, 76-78, 84-89, 112, 116-117, 120, 126-128, 132-133, 136, 138, 142-148).D:53; A:224
Bagpipes
One of the instruments played by Gautier the goat-man, who is described as collateral with Pan. He also plays the syrinx, making ghost music in the wastelands and swamps [A:197].A:197
Bags (Skin)
Containers, alternatively jars, in which Gautier the goat-man stores strips of dried goat meat chopped fine with melted fat and honey [A:197].A:197
Bahr El Ghazal
Region now in South Sudan, called Sudan in the novel. A freestanding, life-size tufa statue from Bahr El Ghazal depicts a Black Christ with a cattle herder’s crooked rod [MTM B3:104].MTM B3:104
Baile
One of the beaches named in Finnegan’s opening boat poem, alongside Clarence and Mona. The poem promises to drive a boat through wind and cloud to these destinations [A:171].A:171
Bait
Lure for fish. Oliver Greenflag explains that the bait for Puff Fish is a frequency and that frequency itself would have to be altered to make the fish unavailable [MTM B13:418-419]. Honeybucket Kincaid operates the apparatus that can attract them [MTM B13:420].MTM B13:418-419; MTM B13:420
Bait Box
Metaphor for Sebastian Hilton’s repertoire of calculated come-ons that lure bullies into attacking him. His apparent weakness, tears and simpering conceal his ability to defeat them [MTM B1:22].MTM B1:22
Bait Bucket
Duffey’s metaphor for the frequency that attracts Puff Fish. He enters the Main Frequency Modulator while Biloxi prevents interference, then declares that he has abolished the frequency in past, present and future. He insists that the apparatus still works perfectly; it is the possibility of attracting Puff Fish that he has destroyed [MTM B13:420].MTM B13:420
Bait House
The pleasant, shady building where Finnegan and Doll Delancy drink beer after fishing in Florida. It is long and low, with whitewashed rafters and water moving beneath and sometimes through its floor planks. Photographs of unnamed notable anglers and their catches form a comic caste hierarchy on its walls. There a man from Minneapolis tells Finnegan that a left-footed man has been asking for him [D:182].D:182
Bakelite
Synthetic resin named in Casey’s high-school notebook XVI, which says that it is made from “formaldehide and gum arabic” [A:163]. That is the notebook’s formulation; Bakelite is actually a phenol-formaldehyde resin.A:163
Balbo VII, Gaetan
Earlier heading shortened the printed name Gaetano to Gaetan. See Balbo VII, Gaetano.Balbo VII, Gaetano
The heir expected to become San Simeon’s Mad King Gaetano VII. In the Balbo dynasty a prince leaves home at nineteen and returns at thirty-nine as Mad King, allowing his father to become Mad King Emeritus and his grandfather to die. Gaetano VII instead becomes a high churchman at thirty-nine and does not return. His father must continue as Mad King and his grandfather cannot obtain the relief of death [MB:558-559].MB:558-559
Bali
Earlier heading obscured the fact that the cited voyage catalogue names a sea. See Bali Sea.Bali Sea
The Bali Sea, included in the catalogue of seas sailed by the Argo [MTM B13:406].MTM B13:406
Balinese Room, The
Historic Galveston nightclub on a pier. Dutch Duquesne boasts of earning a hundred dollars a night in tips as a waiter at the Balinese Room, or possibly another swank place at the end of a pier. Mary, who works the clubs, exposes him as a kitchen boy who cleans fish and opens oysters [D:221].D:221
Balkans
Region of southeastern Europe, printed “Balkins” in Casey’s editorial attack on The Bark. He accuses the magazine of supporting clerical-reactionary elements in Poland, Hungary and the Balkans [A:130].A:130
Bally Alley
Place where Finnegan proposes a midnight stroll, only for Herman Hercules to warn that their enemies are there too. Hercules recommends the concealed harbor express, a route under buildings and through sewers, cisterns and piers, to reach the Argo [MB:587].MB:587
Balm
Ointment the Devil reportedly uses on the galls left by his neck, wrist and ankle shackles. In Zabotski’s radio news, the newly released Devil buys ten kilograms of balm from a nearby pharmacy [MTM B6:191].MTM B6:191
Baltimore
City where Joe Cross once worked in a raw bar [D:40]. Finnegan and Doll Delancy check the heavy suitcase through to Baltimore by bus, but leave the bus at Philadelphia, cross town by taxi and complete their own journey by train [D:171-172]. Separately, Charlotte Mullens says that she saw the Devil at the Royal Rogues and Graceful Swindlers Convention in Baltimore [MTM B7:217].D:40; D:171-172; MTM B7:217
Baltimore bus
Bus boarded by Doll Delancy and Finnegan in Newark, with the heavy suitcase checked through to Baltimore. They leave the bus at Philadelphia and continue to Baltimore by train, leaving the luggage to complete the bus journey [D:169] [D:171-172].D:169; D:171-172
Balzac, Honoré de
French novelist whom Casey Szymansky intends to surpass as the American Balzac, making Balzac in turn the French Szymansky [A:158]. Gautier the goat-man reads Les Contes Drolatiques to his goats and says that Balzac appeals to goats and to the goat in man [A:198].A:158; A:198
Bam (palm wine)
Palm wine drunk by Finnegan and Joseph, the Haussa boy, in Freetown; the available edition prints its name as “barn.” Finnegan becomes drunk, while Joseph remains unaffected. Joseph proposes moving on to gin and then discussing business [D:93]. Their subsequent conversation leads to the diamond-smuggling arrangement [D:94-95].D:93; D:94-95
Banana Nose
Finnegan’s conspicuous nose, described as banana-shaped when he first studies his reflection [A:1] and as a bugle nose in his comic-mask face [A:6]. In the painting of his future Count persona, the same banana nose has acquired nobility and distinction [MTM B12:368].A:1; A:6; MTM B12:368
Banana-nosed brat
Dotty Yekouris’s name for Finnegan as she watches him join Vincent, Hans and Casey after their difficult conversation. Her affection is mixed with frustration at his failure to understand what she offers him [A:93].A:93
Bananas only
The only food Falo and Nauti can offer Finnegan and Vincent at their newly opened cabaret. They charge a peso a dozen because they have no change, although the bananas cost them nothing. Boxes serve as table and chairs, with chunks of wood providing additional seats [A:64-65].A:64-65
Bandicoot Enterprises Limited
Company whose president is Bandicoot Blackstone. In the accelerating family succession, he says that he will remain chairman of the various boards while his son John, as First Executive, runs the businesses [MTM B9:287-288].MTM B9:287-288
Bandits
The supposed thieves of a bottle of Finnegan’s rum while he sleeps near the buffalo’s capital. The narrator offers bandits as the explanation only because the alternative would be to believe that the buffalo stole it [A:206].A:206
Bandolier
Part of Casey’s elaborate military costume for his planned appearance as the Leader. He is belted and bandoliered in a scarlet tunic and shako when Letitia intercepts him [MTM B4:117].MTM B4:117
Bands
Musical ensembles include the three bands playing military and inspirational music for the Leader’s promised appearance in Henry Horner Park [MTM B4:116-117], and the Rounders’ String Band, in which Duffey takes over the banjo [MTM B2:51-52]. String, horn and flute bands also appear in the narrator’s catalogue of popular arts damaged by the new degradation of culture [MTM B6:207].MTM B4:116-117; MTM B2:51-52; MTM B6:207
Bands (Rubber)
Rubber bands binding the paper in Finnegan’s chrysus suitcase. The thirty-six thousand pieces are packed in bundles of one hundred, arranged three bundles by six and stacked twenty bundles deep [D:166].D:166
Bang-heads
The sophisticated headaches suggested by the drinks depicted in the third room of Elroy Redheart’s miniature artwork. Glinty hints evoke the drinks, while hot artificial colors and cheap plastic figures express the artificial sins and feverish opulence of the scenes [MTM B7:223].MTM B7:223
Banjo
Instrument Duffey takes up in the Rounders’ String Band and continues playing throughout his life [MTM B2:51-52]. He carries a banjo and straw hat to the Duffeys’ puppet shows, using local mice as living performers and ending the show with tunes [MTM B4:134]. When asked whether a banjo suits his role as a Patriarch, he offers to play his recorder flute instead [MTM B9:266].MTM B2:51-52; MTM B4:134; MTM B9:266
Bank
Financial institution invoked in several episodes. Saxon Seaworthy proposes finding a bank after he and Finnegan recover enough over drinks, promising to buy Finn shoes when he has funds [D:10]; he later cites his bank balance as evidence of his philosophical success [D:82]. Finnegan makes a close-out bank call before leaving his New York portraitist career [A:193]. Hans visits banks among his business errands [A:97], and Adrian Hilton is identified as a banker [MTM B4:123]. Duffey must discover the location and number of the bank’s safety-deposit box so that Charlotte can recover the Gonof stash [MTM B3:84-86]. Mike Melchiades tells Duffey that, after his wife leaves, he empties their joint account and refuses her a withdrawal despite knowing that she supplied much of the money [MTM B4:142-143].D:10; D:82; A:193; A:97; MTM B4:123; MTM B3:84-86; MTM B4:142-143
Bank Building
Building containing the safety-deposit box, described as a walk-in, holding the Gonof stash sought by Charlotte Mullens. Duffey first recovers the key’s form and later the bank and box details during the episode Charlotte calls a psychosomatic trance [MTM B3:84-86].MTM B3:84-86
Bank Robber and Brigand
One of the adventure subjects listed among Gautier’s surviving books at Harlow House. His goats have eaten much of the library, leaving the old American “Blood and Thunder” romances he loves [A:198].A:198
Bannon, Terry
One of the Forty Scribbling Seamen who succeed Terry Cork in supplying The Plimsoll Line for The Bark and work for the Seaman’s Paper during their intervals ashore. The other named Terrys are Anderson, Jamil and Renier; the collective name also belongs to a song composed by Dotty [MTM B7:213].MTM B7:213
Bantry
Town in County Cork, Ireland, where Finnegan says he once spent a day and a half unloading cargo. He offers this brief visit as a rebuttal when Doll says that he has never been in Ireland [D:192].D:192
Baptism
The sacramental rite and several less literal uses of its language. Finnegan teases Theresa that the baptismal salt flamed against her brimstone nature and that the font cracked; she replies that any of a dozen witches could have cracked it [A:108]. In their uncertain alternate life, Theresa remembers baptizing Chiara, Rafaello and Theresa Anna in a known parish church; Archipelago explicitly calls them her children by Finnegan, distinct from her children by Vincent [A:203-204]. A later More Than Melchisedech passage gives the same three names to Theresa and Vincent’s younger children [MTM B12:385]. X says that Katie Noonan’s son was baptized Columkill and received the surname Gregorovitch through his adoptive father [D:279]. The talking oak in the Argo’s wheel claims to have been baptized in the spirit and to be speaking in tongues [MTM B13:460].A:108; A:203-204; MTM B12:385; D:279; MTM B13:460
Baptist
John the Baptist appears among the sacred figures aboard the Navicula Petri in Henry’s dream, alongside the Apostles, Stephen, Paul, Linus, Clement and Cletus [A:45]. Separately, George Koran’s account of the Majesty’s speaking itinerary includes a Baptist audience in Waco [MTM B8:244].A:45; MTM B8:244
Baptist's Head
Relic included among the Argo Masters’ discoveries: John the Baptist’s head remains in good flesh, with uncut, growing hair and beard each more than a hundred feet long [MTM B13:421-422].MTM B13:421-422
Bar
Drinking establishments recur throughout the narratives. Finnegan and Seaworthy wait outside a bar opposite a graveyard, then enter for beer [D:10] [D:12]. Anastasia works at the adjoining club and later tends the tiny four-stool bar on the Brunhilde [D:13] [D:16] [D:22]. The Cadillac Bar is dingy outside but rich within and favored by Texans [D:58]; Finnegan’s friends nickname a clean Antillean establishment Sloppy Joe’s although its actual name is uncertain between Imperial Bar and Royal [D:235]. Finnegan has frequented New Orleans oyster bars [D:40], meets Francine in a Chicago bar [A:181], and provokes near-riots with his dog-housebreaking product in Buffalo taverns [A:189-190]. The Dirty Five drink with Captain Guiterrez at the Buffalo Bar [A:66]. Duffey’s youthful enterprise includes a whisky bar operated by John Rattigan [MTM B1:27], and his later Rounders’ premises also sell whisky [MTM B2:44]. Kate’s Neanderthal Bar in Biloxi interests Eva as a place to meet her own people [MTM B13:407]. In Trinali’s poem, the Brimstone Combo plays at a saloon on Beelzebub and Hell-Raiser Streets near Iniquity Square [A:235].D:10; D:12; D:13; D:16; D:22; D:58; D:235; D:40; A:181; A:189-190; A:66; MTM B1:27; MTM B2:44; MTM B13:407; A:235
BAR (Browning Automatic Rifle)
Browning Automatic Rifle. Conrad Stone Hackenschmidt uses a BAR to coerce the Conclave into voting for a straw-man and kills Stockton Stone Crocker when he votes for Cardinal Hedayat instead [MB:567]. BAR fire is heard during the Naxos violence, and the boy guiding Finnegan warns that the men aboard the Brunhilde have such weapons and could shoot his head off if he approaches [D:143-145].MB:567; D:143-145
Bar-boys
The Cadillac Bar staff, dressed in white jackets among chrome and crystal furnishings. Most of the customers there are Texans [D:58].D:58
Bar-fly
One of the kinds of acquaintances Finnegan recruits, along with show-girls, to populate his Manhattan art exhibition as Gregory van Ghi. He coaches them in arty remarks so that the show will appear well attended [A:191].A:191
Barataria Bay
Louisiana coastal bay where the young Henry Salvatore spends weeks trapping muskrats. The novel prints the name Baratarria Bay [A:124].A:124
Barbara
Saint Barbara, appearing with Catherine as a pair of sea-urchin-like figures aboard the Navicula Petri in Henry’s dream [A:45]. In her traditional martyr legend, her wealthy pagan father Dioscorus confines her in a tower; she rejects marriage, receives Christian baptism, refuses to abandon her faith under torture and is beheaded by her father, who is then killed by lightning. The tradition also recounts miraculous aid during her suffering. Venerated among the Fourteen Holy Helpers, she is invoked against lightning and sudden death and as patron of artillerymen, miners and others exposed to explosive danger. Her art commonly includes a tower, sometimes with three windows, and her customary feast is December 4. Her life lacks secure early historical documentation, though veneration is attested from the seventh century. Her feast was removed from the General Roman Calendar in 1969, while devotion to her continued.A:45
Barbarians
Trinali Peterson’s derisive name for people who dine under electric light. Her insistence on candlelight also masks the fact that her own electricity has been cut off for nonpayment [A:228]. The More Than Melchisedech narrator uses a separate comic ethnic contrast at the wedding, describing distinguished Irish and Italian guests together with a sprinkling of people of barbarian races [MTM B5:183].A:228; MTM B5:183
Barbarossa
Frederick I, the Holy Roman Emperor. Mr. X includes Barbarossa among the leaders supposedly sleeping in enchantment or imprisonment while their subjects await their return [MTM B6:204-205]. Duffey claims to have attended Kings’ Conclaves with him, Solomon, Saul, Ptolemy, Chandragupta, Nebuchadnezzar, Hsien, Stephen of Hungary and Conrad the Second [MTM B5:166].MTM B6:204-205; MTM B5:166
Barbary Ape
One of the waterfront establishments in Melchisedech’s catalogue of memories aboard the Argo. It is listed near the Fanged Fish, Octopus Joe’s, the Sulu Ritz and other places of maritime hospitality [MTM B13:407].MTM B13:407
Barbary Flames
Flames in which the speaker proposes to scorch himself in the travel poem opening Finnegan’s chapter: “And get myself scorched in the Barbary flames” [A:171-172].A:171-172
Barbuda
Island Ignacio calls good for nothing in this world. In his account it belongs to a group of five Leeward islands including St. Kitts, prompting Finnegan’s theory that each five-island group has a rogue island. Finnegan, not Ignacio, responds “Barbuda, my brother!” [A:272].A:272
Barbuda Island
See Barbuda: the island Ignacio identifies as the useless member of his five-island Leeward group [A:272].A:272
Barge
A Pattenite Fundamentaler’s name for Noah’s vessel while comparing his faction’s chronology with Zabotski’s Pristine History of the World. He places its flotation and the Floodtide Catastrophes about 2800 BC, while noting that Zabotski does not quite call it Noah’s barge [MTM B9:278]. Barges also carry paper in the H and H H Magazine editor’s promised continuation of the Zabotski-house account [MTM B9:288]. Finnegan says he has worked on river barge-trains [A:99].MTM B9:278; MTM B9:288; A:99
Bargirl
Anastasia Demetriades, who seeks the bartender’s berth and then opens the bar aboard the Brunhilde [D:16] [D:22]. An unnamed bargirl serves Finnegan and Seaworthy Texas beer at the first bar they enter; it is the only beer cold enough to be available, although Seaworthy dislikes it [D:12].D:16; D:22; D:12
Bark, The
Journal printed by the Pelican Press in New Orleans as the fellowship’s work of rebuilding the world. Paid printing subsidizes a publication intended to reach roughly twenty-five thousand people who influence public opinion [A:118]. Henry proposes the name from his dream of an endangered boat, and Finnegan draws that boat for the masthead. Its Seven Pillars of Righteousness are Henry, Duffey, Stein, Dotty, Hans, Gabrielovitch, and Finnegan [A:121–122]. Casey attacks the journal and its personnel in The Crock, including a complaint about the ship’s rigging [A:128–131].Dotty and Mary Virginia largely run the journal after Mary leaves her father’s trucking firm; Duffey contributes to both it and the separate Investigator [A:143]. After Dotty disappears, Letitia becomes editor, loses some paying print accounts, and keeps The Bark going with private funds [MTM B8:238–239]. In “Great Day in the Morning” it is scheduled for Thursday or whenever it appears, and Duffey’s earlier article has anticipated the disastrous new condition [GD:490] [GD:492–493].
A:118; A:121–122; A:128–131; A:143; MTM B8:238–239; GD:490; GD:492–493
Barkers' Mallet
Hochstapler’s own small mallet or gavel, used by the Wool-Hat to kill him over less than three hundred dollars. The killer says he meant only to strike him and receives a year and a day. Hochstapler is Betty’s father [A:217].A:217
Barley
Grain Duffey buys for the Big Pot: a hundred bushels, filling a storage alcove six feet deep [A:133]. The opening creation conceit says barley and hops were made on the third day, so beer is already available [A:1]; Toohey’s, Tooth’s and K.B. Lager are named on the next page [A:2].A:133; A:1; A:2
Barley and hops
Beer ingredients already available in Archipelago’s opening creation conceit because, the narrator says, barley and hops were made on the third day [A:1].A:1
Barley soup
Soup served from Duffey’s Big Pot, which he intends to keep boiling forever and which the narrator says has already boiled for at least a quarter-century. He begins with water and barley and offers bowls to the poor at a cent apiece [A:133]. Additions include donated salt and onions, rough fish, seasonal produce from Henry’s Cajun cousins, X’s dead horse, an occasional bony old cow, game, alligator-tail stew, potatoes, greens, turnips, nine kinds of fish, leeks and garlic. Finnegan and Dotty once contribute seventy pounds of honey from four bee trees; Regal brewery supplies a keg of beer weekly. The operation reaches about three hundred meals daily, with someone on duty around the clock [A:134].A:133; A:134
Barm
Yeast foam from fermenting malt liquor. Mr. X tells Doll that, after Finnegan’s crisis and a briefing, their instructions will work in him like a barrel of barm, and they will meet him again the following year. The fighting binge follows this prediction [D:190-191].D:190-191
Barmaid
Dotty Yekouris worked as a barmaid before the war, with Finnegan as her customer [A:96]; Casey’s hostile editorial calls her the Beautiful Barmaid and ridicules the supposed limits of her drink repertoire [A:129]. Anastasia Demetriades becomes bargirl aboard the Brunhilde [D:16] [D:22], while an unnamed bargirl serves Finnegan and Seaworthy Texas beer in the opening bar [D:12]. Soft-Talk Susie Kutz tends the Old Wooden Ship’s bar and is, the narrator says, its sole actual angel unaware, submitting kindly exaggerated reports to the Lord [D:216].A:96; A:129; D:16; D:22; D:12; D:216
Barn
Finnegan and Howland stay in an abandoned barn during their northward travels; Howland chants his five-gophers song as they lie in a hay loft [A:179]. Duffey buys a rickety horse barn or livery stable on Walnut Street in St. Louis [MTM B2:40], provides beds, food, drink and horseshoe pitching there, and eventually develops it into the Rounders’ Club [MTM B2:47] [MTM B2:49]. Giulio receives hospitality and a talisman there [MTM B2:42-43] [MTM B2:47]. In Finnegan’s playful account of Greek astronomy, a barn is one imagined measure of the sun’s or moon’s size [D:132].A:179; MTM B2:40; MTM B2:47; MTM B2:49; MTM B2:42-43; D:132
Barn Owl (Giant)
Finnegan’s comparison for the buffalo seen from the front in their ancestral city. He comically insists on a precise species distinction, though no listener is present. The narrator tentatively locates the ancestral city in Frio County [A:205-206].A:205-206
Barnaby, Don (Duke of Moule)
One of Finnegan’s three companions in the Basse-Terre terrestrial Paradise, with Charles Le Marin and Johnny Duckwalk [D:233-236]. Duke of Moule is only his nickname. He and Duckwalk chase the island girls while Finnegan and Le Marin do so less enthusiastically [D:236]. His arrival seems to Finnegan like a third presence gradually coalescing around him and Le Marin, but the narrator calls this an impression [D:258-259]. He reminds Finnegan of another Don, apparently Don Lewis, yet is larger, rougher and fearless; Finnegan regards him as a lecher, a fugitive for homicide and a genuine poet who might have ghostly extensions [D:249]. He tells the extravagant story of Madame Le Mourcheor’s Juju Joy Pills and the many lives he experiences in her garden [D:248-252]. A voice other than his twice speaks from his hammock while his even breathing continues: first asking Finnegan to repay Anastasia fifty dollars, then pleading for rescue after three years dead in the sand [D:238] [D:256]. He slips into memories of the Brunhilde and Manuel, then denies that he was there [D:253] [D:265]. Restless, he leaves Paradise promising to return; Angela says he will not, and reports his claim that he has not been the other Don for several years [D:265].D:233-236; D:236; D:258-259; D:249; D:248-252; D:238; D:256; D:253; D:265
Barnacle (Holy)
The Holy Barnacle and the Pearl Beyond Price, one of the announced topics of the Society for Creative History, also called the Royal Pop Historians. Margaret Stone reports the program and decides to attend lest the group discard something she wants to preserve [MTM B11:307].MTM B11:307
Barnacle Remover (Dr. Stein's)
Dr. Stein’s Barnacle Remover, one of the drinks Absalom Stein mixes at the Bay Hotel picnic with gin and ice. His other inventions are the Flying Steinmetz, Steinheim Stinger, Stein Zombie, Stein Collins, Ein-Stein and Stein Julip [A:29-30].A:29-30
Barnacles
Image of accreted material obscuring history in the Royal Pop Historians’ opening speech. The speaker claims that misplaced times and incidents can be recovered from barrows or from beneath the cement of barnacles, freed from their incrustations and revised as events still happening in the present [MTM B11:323-324].MTM B11:323-324
Barnard
One of the twenty Stone boys whom Margaret Stone identifies as first cousins in four families, all living within three blocks of Duffey’s former Chicago bookstore [MTM B4:112].MTM B4:112
Barney
Commercial fisherman and resident regular at the Old Wooden Ship [D:215-216]. He, Shrimp Boat Gordon and Tom inspect the sea and sky and smell the air each morning, each asking what the others think; more often than not they declare the day unsuitable for fishing and remain to drink [D:220].D:215-216; D:220
Baron
Title Finnegan assigns to Gottfried von Guggenheim, one of the named hundred-dollar bills he keeps as the financial cushion beneath his adventures. The sequence also includes Aloysius, Hernandez, Jose-Ramires and the current Miguel [D:19-20].D:19-20
Baroque
Description of Bascom Bagby as a flawed pearl, combining extraordinary mental depth and scope with slovenliness and turbulent habits [MTM B2:62]. In the transformed world, Cyrus Roundhead says that the people of the thunder dimension woke to consciousness when the world was already in its baroque phase [MTM B11:350].MTM B2:62; MTM B11:350
Barracaded
The source’s spelling of barricaded in Trinali Peterson’s account of resisting eviction. She had burned her stock of driftwood after the heat was cut off; while barricaded inside, she received food from Lupido in a basket lowered from her window [A:229].A:229
Barracks
Tom Shire and Freddy Castle’s military quarters, with a wet canteen. Their elaborate hoax makes Finnegan and Vincent believe Americans are barred: they disguise the two in winter tunics and digger hats, cut Vincent’s hair, rehearse an Australian accent and take them over back fences. At the canteen, orderly sergeant Bushmaster recognizes and welcomes them, nearly spoiling the joke [A:10-12].A:10-12
Barracuda Bar (Biddy's)
Biddy’s Barracuda Bar, one of the waterfront establishments in Melchisedech’s catalogue of memories aboard the Argo, alongside the Fanged Fish, Salty Dog’s Shack-Up House and many others [MTM B13:407].MTM B13:407
Barrel House
A kind of drinking establishment in the narrator’s account of New Orleans nightlife continuing into daylight: a party can go straight from Breakfast at Brennan’s to a barrel house or night club and find entertainment [MTM B7:219].MTM B7:219
Barrels of Wine
Three barrels, with additional jugs, that Papa Piccone plans to provide for Vincent and Theresa’s wedding reception. Maurine tells Monica that he refuses to let people remember a shortage two thousand years later, as at Cana [A:105].A:105
Barrens
Part of the wild New Jersey back country where Finnegan meets Gautier the goat-man. The narrator describes low mountains, high seas, hard sands, soft rocks and unusually isolated inhabitants [A:193-194]. Gautier and his goats often occupy the abandoned Harlow House; although many Barrens shacks are haunted, the narrator explicitly leaves that house’s haunting uncertain, and Finnegan never visits it [A:196-197].A:193-194; A:196-197
Barrier
Finnegan’s name for the division he feels between himself and humanity, despite the affection of his friends; he says he touched his father only briefly and years after his father’s death [D:90]. Duffey encounters a barrier to a valid future on the normal track of time [MTM B10:290]. On Dumaine Street he later meets the sign “The Future Begins Right Here,” solid to him though others pass through it; calling on his giants and his qualified lordship of time, he breaks through the barrier and figurative breakers into clear water, jumping a year ahead while the world also advances [MTM B12:358].D:90; MTM B10:290; MTM B12:358
Barroom
The Brunhilde’s small bar, where Anastasia serves drinks until Papa Devil orders it closed [D:22]. Seaworthy commissions Finnegan to paint its panels with the Voyages of Sindbad [D:59-60]. Anastasia becomes the dead wife of the fourth voyage and Marie the wife of the seventh; Papa Devil is proposed as the man-eating ogre and William Gerecke as the Old Man of the Sea [D:61-62]. Unable to draw Papa Devil’s apparent face convincingly, Finnegan discovers that it is a living mask and paints the concealed face; the picture later matches the face of the dead man whom the others cannot identify [D:62-63]. After remembering the burial, he paints the buried man’s face together with another [D:77]. The later explanation distinguishes the dead Papadiabolous painted atop another corpse from a separate dead figure with the current Papa Devil’s true face; their meanings are understood by different observers [D:85-86].D:22; D:59-60; D:61-62; D:62-63; D:77; D:85-86
Bartender
See Barmaid, for Dotty Yekouris, Anastasia Demetriades, the unnamed woman serving Texas beer, and Soft-Talk Susie Kutz [A:96] [D:12] [D:16] [D:22] [D:216].A:96; D:12; D:16; D:22; D:216
Bartholomew
One of three possible names, with Thomas and Jude, for the tippling Apostle in the old Italian legend Show Boat says her father remembers imperfectly. The Apostle finishes leftover wine, bottles of wine are found changed to water, and he nevertheless converts tens of thousands. Show Boat uses the tale to defend Finnegan in a letter to Dotty [A:262].A:262
Bartolomo
Bartolomo Portuguese, one of the old pirates whom Angela Cosquin says customers might imagine behind initials on her father’s fabricated treasure maps. BP on a depicted treasure chest suggests his name, as T suggests Teach and K suggests Kidd [D:259-260].D:259-260
Basal bulge
Feature of the Neanderthal-type head in the chapter-eighteen epigraph attributed to Carmody Overlark’s Studies in the Imagination. The epigraph links a large back-brain with ghostliness and imagination [D:270-272].D:270-272
Baseline
Sebastian Hilton’s image for the danger of being with Duffey: the three slant-faced pursuers can use the two targets as a baseline and triangulate on them. He says two of their rare kind together register too strongly on the hunters’ receptors, yet insists that they will continue to associate despite the danger [MTM B1:36].MTM B1:36
Bashfulness
Mr. X’s stated reason for staying away from his wife in Milano. A promised week’s absence first becomes three weeks; fear of her irony delays him further, events send him abroad, and his youthful shyness returns so strongly that he fears he can never face her again, though he loves her and hears that she waits faithfully [A:140-141].A:140-141
Basic
Reduced enlisted status held by Casey Szymansky and Hans Schultz. After four weeks in the stockade, Casey attends rehabilitation classes three times a week and works as a basic during the rest of his time [A:50]. Hans loses his sergeant’s rank for marrying without permission; the later account explicitly calls him a basic in the battery where he had been staff sergeant [A:50] [A:58].A:50; A:58
Basil
One of Henry Salvatore’s older cousins who follow his lead, with Sebastian, Fabian and Adrian; Peter, a younger cousin, also follows him [A:123].A:123
Basin Street
Nickname of George Becaud, an Old Wooden Ship regular [D:216]. An orchestral bull-fiddle player, he knows Shot Gun Schaeffer’s story and uses his large instrument case to pretend he is a professional killer owed the five thousand dollars Schaeffer received by mistake [D:223].D:216; D:223
Basket
Trinali Peterson lowers a basket from her window so Lupido can supply food while she is barricaded against eviction. She compares herself with St. Paul, then clarifies that Paul escaped in a basket [A:229], as in Acts 9:25. Hillary Hilton separately expands the eggs-in-several-baskets metaphor into his trading philosophy: eggs and baskets may be rotated, sold or given away with one another [A:255].A:229; A:255
Basket Weaver
Nickname of Aloysius McGivern, a resident regular at the Old Wooden Ship [D:216]. His wealthy family pays him to remain there peacefully without embarrassing them and promises not to send him to a sanitarium again. He especially resents the compulsory basket weaving there and asks why the Devil, concerned with idle hands, is not made to do it himself [D:225].D:216; D:225
Basque
Language Casey Szymansky speaks intuitively with a shepherd on a mountaintop in a night dream, although he has never seen or heard it. Such dreams realize his ambition to know all languages [A:159].A:159
Bassa Accompaniment
Earlier heading altered the printed phrase basso accompanamento. See Basso accompanamento.Basse-Terre
The Basse-Terre of Finnegan’s terrestrial Paradise in the Antilles, distinguished by the narrator from Basseterre on St. Kitts, which Finnegan originally meant to visit. The narrative gives precise coordinates while Finnegan himself remains confused about the names [D:234-235]. His friends’ Sloppy Joe’s is actually named either the Imperial Bar or the Royal [D:235]. The narrator’s requirements for paradise include French-speaking Black islanders and English-speaking Frenchmen [D:237]. Finnegan later learns that a leftfooted man has hired a local friend to kill him; he pays more for protection, supplies clothes that turn up on a murdered lookalike, and begins rationalizing his departure [D:267]. In Archipelago he cites Basse Terre among the pleasure resorts he has sacrificed to help Casey [A:252].D:234-235; D:235; D:237; D:267; A:252
Basseterre
Capital on St. Kitts, the Basseterre Finnegan meant to reach before arriving instead at the other Basse-Terre [D:235]. In Angela Cosquin’s account of her father’s treasure-map business, the passage between Basseterre and Nevis is one of seven false or shoal passages where wrecks accumulated, or would have if ships had followed his imaginative logic [D:260].D:235; D:260
Basso accompanamento
Giulio the Monster’s howled bass part in Hi, Ho! The Gadarene Swine! Sebastian, Countess Margaret, Letitia and Melchisedech sing the ballad in four voices; Giulio cannot sing and howls along [MTM B3:107].MTM B3:107
Bassorah
Port of Sindbad’s stories. The Moisha El-Gazma epigraph calls it Baghdad’s folkloric port, then contradicts ordinary geography by describing a scorched rock slab in mud shallows and imagining it as an ancient launch pad for space fleets [D:53]. In the Argo’s history as told by the talking oak, Abd-Aliah of the Sea sells the ship to Sindbad of El-Basrah; much later it becomes the Brunhilde, whose Sindbad Lounge Finnegan paints [MTM B13:404]. Marie says Seaworthy has sailed from more Bassorahs than Sindbad would understand, as she imagines herself his final-voyage wife [D:61-62].D:53; MTM B13:404; D:61-62
Bastos
Tagalog word for rude or impolite, used in Amoy’s angry protest “Hindi bastos. Pinakamabuti” when Ti calls the magpie he loved common. Ti freely renders the protest as a denial that she was common and calls her an uncommon member of the common species [A:80]. Hindi is the Tagalog negative, meaning no or not; pinakamabuti means best.A:80
Bat
Bat wings carry the deformed counterparts of the bright arts from the Devil’s reopened pit in the narrator’s account; Duffey repeats the image while describing the Company of One Thousand and its corruption of the world [MTM B6:207-208]. A separate baseball bat appears in Vincent’s Theory of the Uncreated Creation: newly created batters could already be in slumps without having seen a bat [A:57].MTM B6:207-208; A:57
Batangas
Philippine place from which an uncle of one of the cabaret girls is expected to bring a piano on Saturday, if he can obtain a cart. Nauti then identifies herself as the player, saying Falo lacks the talent [A:64-65]. Batangas names both a province and its capital city; the dialogue does not specify which is meant.A:64-65
Bath
Service advertised by Duffey at his new St. Louis establishment [MTM B2:41]. He heats water for Giulio in a horse trough, and Giulio removes his clothes and scapulars and bathes with relief [MTM B2:42-43]. Finnegan takes a bath after renting a room on the morning of his encounter with Seaworthy [D:17].MTM B2:41; MTM B2:42-43; D:17
Bathildes
One of the women’s names assigned to the bottles drunk by Finnegan and his three friends in Paradise. In the day’s alphabetical progression, Bathildes follows Agatha and precedes Clotilda [D:243].D:243
Bathurst
West African port, now Banjul in The Gambia, visited by the Brunhilde after Bissau and before Dakar as it moves north from February 1 [D:96].D:96
Bathysphere
Submersible used by the French brothers Cyril and Cyrus Dimbeau at Nine Mile Depth. Their hundred-meter seabed cores strike the Sword and Scabbard of Saint Sécaire, which they bring into the vessel with grapples and raise to their attending boat [MTM B13:422]. After the brothers begin drawing the sword, Duffey and Brannagan reseal it, drop it back to its former hiding place and cast a Forgetfulness Mesh. They leave the bathysphere party sampling ocean fleas at middle depths, unable to remember the sword [MTM B13:423-424].MTM B13:422; MTM B13:423-424
Batters
Baseball players already in slumps despite never having seen a bat, one of Vincent’s examples of an apparent past created with the world in his Theory of the Uncreated Creation [A:57].A:57
Battling Siki
Boxer whom Finnegan names, with Harry Wills, when describing his own style after his fighting binge. Finnegan says he fights somewhat like Siki [D:192].D:192
Baul
Treasure-chest emblem, also called an arca, drawn below a crossed pickaxe and shovel on the maps fabricated by Angela Cosquin’s father. Initials such as T, K or BP suggest old pirates [D:259-260]. Angela’s separate seven maps of Finnegan’s buried stashes use the maleta, or suitcase, instead of the baul [D:263].D:259-260; D:263
Bavaria
Professor Kirol von Weinsberg-Valeni’s approximate birthplace: the narrator places his birth around 1860 in Bavaria, but allows a slightly different place and time [A:211].A:211
Bavarian Club
St. Louis drinking and singing club visited by Duffey and Bagby on the first night of Duffey’s new business. Costumed young women give patrons rides on their backs, and Duffey befriends Helen [MTM B2:47]. Later outings identify her as Helen Platner [MTM B2:58].MTM B2:47; MTM B2:58
Baxter
Baxter Blackstone, Bryan Blackstone’s young son, nicknamed Bandicoot by the neighborhood boys. He begs Zabotski not to kill his father and fears the family will starve if he dies [MTM B9:271].MTM B9:271
Bay Hotel
Site of the group picnic where a double table is placed on the terrace, the company plays softball on the lawn, swims, drinks Stein’s invented gin mixtures and eats large seafood platters. The party includes Hans and Marie, Finnegan, Loy, Tom Shire, Freddy Castle, Virginia, Dorothy and Stein; Casey refuses to attend with Stein and leaves with one of the new girls [A:29-30].A:29-30
Bay Rum
Nickname of Benny Boerum, one of the resident regulars at the Old Wooden Ship [D:216]. The narrator groups him with Raviola and Saddle Sore as unkempt and uncouth, supposedly falling below the other residents’ standards [D:224].D:216; D:224
Bayougoula Park
Park suddenly present beside Duffey’s buildings in the transformed New Orleans of the Fifth Contingency. It replaces buildings Zabotski half-remembers owning, although Stein finds records giving the park a history of more than a century [MTM B11:331]. Zabotski continues to suspect he owns its land [MTM B11:333]. After Duffey returns from that contingency, the park is gone and some of Zabotski’s buildings stand there again [MTM B12:356].MTM B11:331; MTM B11:333; MTM B12:356
Bazaar (Parish)
Parish bazaaring, included among the everyday popular arts that the narrator says lose their style and vitality after the Devil’s release [MTM B6:207-208].MTM B6:207-208
Beacon Club
One of the remembered waterfront establishments in Melchisedech’s catalogue aboard the Argo [MTM B13:407].MTM B13:407
Beak
The Pelican magazine is figured as a bony bird with an empty beak, surviving on scant nourishment [A:132]. In the seventh future outlined by Cleo Mahoney, an ominous bird carries in its beak the pennant “Whatever can go wrong will go wrong” [MTM B10:296-297]. Buzzards’ sharp beaks tear at Duffey in his post-fall suffering [MTM B12:393].A:132; MTM B10:296-297; MTM B12:393
Beans
One of San Simeon’s crops, contrasted with the gold that accounts for its exceptional wealth [MB:558]. In Adrian Hilton’s banking analogy, a comic-strip detective stops people eating poisoned beans by shooting them; Adrian compares that destructive rescue with the bank moratorium [MTM B4:123].MB:558; MTM B4:123
Beanstalk (Giant of the)
The Giant of the Beanstalk, one of Henry Salvatore’s mythic identities in the narrator’s catalogue, alongside Friar Tuck and Pantegruel [A:39].A:39
Bear
Mabel, the trained bear who walks with Hans and Betty Hochstapler and assists their comic hypnosis act, acting as an audience volunteer and imitating animals [A:216] [A:219]. Elena Angelino claims a bear great-grandfather, and Professor Kirol says he knew the ancestral couple and confirms her story [A:218]. Eva is released from the ice wearing a blond female cave-bear skin [MTM B13:399]; the crew later kills cave bears for grease to soften frozen lines and for a replacement cloak [MTM B13:402]. In his transport concerning the older people, Finnegan calls them kin to the cave bear and other great animals [D:212-213].A:216; A:219; A:218; MTM B13:399; MTM B13:402; D:212-213
Beard
Duffey’s full, pointed beard is part of Casey’s description of him [A:42], and accompanies his arrival from Chicago [A:97]. As a young proprietor he has a growing red or sorrel beard [MTM B2:41]; later the narrative contrasts his red beard with Bagby’s black whiskers [MTM B2:61], and in New Orleans he keeps it white and bright for his art-dealing persona [A:143]. Giulio’s beard hosts possums in the comic Gadarene Swine ballad [MTM B3:107]. The Baptist’s preserved head has a still-growing beard exceeding a hundred feet [MTM B13:422]. Gautier’s resemblance to an aged Pan includes a dirty-white beard and gray tangled hair [A:194]. Joe Cross’s youthful face is encircled by a red beard on the voyage [D:100].A:42; A:97; MTM B2:41; MTM B2:61; A:143; MTM B3:107; MTM B13:422; A:194; D:100
Bearings
Latitude-and-longitude coordinates that the Argo’s talking oak sometimes gives when asked to date an artifact, even when they appear unrelated to the object [MTM B13:411]. Lost bearings also describe the Argonauts’ temporary confusion on waking from their hectic lives [MTM B13:398]. The narrator gives the terrestrial Paradise’s location as 61° 44′ 42″ W, 16° N [D:234].MTM B13:411; MTM B13:398; D:234
Beast
Animal and bestial imagery includes the lions and leopards eating Nimrod Flesh Plant at Zabotski Flats [MTM B12:362], Papa Devil’s claim that he was once a tiger and will regain his stripes [D:122], and Finnegan, Vincent and Stein as the metaphorical hyenas sabotaging Show Boat’s preaching [MTM B7:231-232]. The white shark waiting for Finnegan above his underwater cave is a preternatural sea predator [MB:555]. In “Promontory Goats,” the Sonnet to Pained Victory invokes beasts and scapegoats carrying burdens [PG:529]; later, human celebrants stage the saying about wild beasts devouring entrails in holy places [MB:565].MTM B12:362; D:122; MTM B7:231-232; MB:555; PG:529; MB:565
Beatific Vision
In Catholic theology, the direct vision of God in heavenly glory. Professor Kirol compares Heaven to a tapestry whose face is the Beatific Vision, while embodied observers see only its tangled reverse; he tells Hans that they already inhabit the spiritual universe without yet perceiving it fully [A:214]. The account of Hell in “Promontory Goats” imagines portions possessing natural happiness while lacking the happiness of the Beatific Vision [PG:532].A:214; PG:532
Beatitudes
Happiness associated with the terrestrial Paradise, though the narrator warns that snakes remain and eventually drive the friends out [D:235]. The fourth contingency for Duffey, the Argo’s Fourteenth Voyage within the Seven Lost or Golden Years, concerns ongoing beatitudes and the promise of Final Beatitude, with the completed quest’s great moment abiding [MTM B10:300].D:235; MTM B10:300
Beautiful Barmaid (Dotty the)
Casey’s epithet for Dotty Yekouris in his hostile editorial about the Pelican Press group. He professes affection for her beauty while belittling her skills as barmaid and journalist and regretting her investment in the venture [A:129].A:129
Becaud, George (Basin Street)
George Becaud, called Basin Street, is a regular at the Old Wooden Ship [D:216]. He plays bull fiddle in an orchestra and carries it in a large case. Knowing Shot Gun Schaeffer’s story about a mistaken five-thousand-dollar payment, he pretends the case holds an 800-gauge shotgun that could decapitate a bull elephant, then claims the money was meant for one of his own jobs. He repeats the intimidating joke nightly, sending Schaeffer scurrying upstairs to lock himself in; the narrator emphasizes Becaud’s sinister appearance and Schaeffer’s terror [D:223-224].D:216; D:223-224
Bed
Duffey buys three cheap iron beds and mattresses when fitting out his St. Louis establishment [MTM B2:40-41]. Finnegan seldom sleeps in beds, although he does sleep in his rented room after meeting Seaworthy [D:18-19]. Marie Courtois lies across a hotel bed in catalepsy [D:112], and X speaks from bed while Finnegan sits by the window [D:157]. Aboard the Brunhilde, Finnegan shares a cabin with Don Lewis and Joe Cross [D:31]; an envelope hidden above a balk can be seen from his bunk [D:50]. Joe says Dopey previously occupied that bunk and describes the frightening circumstances of his disappearance [D:63-64]; Finnegan later feels Dopey’s presence there [D:78]. Casey’s school furnishings include a black-blanketed bed [A:161], while Finnegan sets up a cot behind the print shop during his stay with Casey [A:183].MTM B2:40-41; D:18-19; D:112; D:157; D:31; D:50; D:63-64; D:78; A:161; A:183
Bed Pan
In Ignatius Ti’s warning against turning one’s back on a corpse, a falling bed pan is one of the accidents a frightened ward boy may attribute to the dead man [A:85-86].A:85-86
Bee Tree
Honey source raided by Finnegan and Dotty, who bring seventy pounds from four bee trees to sweeten Duffey’s soup [A:134]. Gautier the goat-man taps a score of bee trees along his route every year [A:197].A:134; A:197
Beebee Town
One of seven Iowa communities said to dispute the honor of being Duffey’s birthplace, within the account of one of his possible childhoods [MTM B1:7].MTM B1:7
Beef
Served in many varieties at the Harvesters’ Dinner in Chicago’s Colony Club [MTM B3:94]. Zabotski also has two heavy steers barbecued whole for Duffey’s supposed four-thousandth birthday party [MTM B8:257-258].MTM B3:94; MTM B8:257-258
Beer
The Sydney beers Toohey’s, Tooth’s and K. B. Lager remind Finnegan of Paradise [A:2]. Beer drives the wet-canteen hoax played on Finnegan and Vincent [A:11-14], followed by Hans Schultz’s victorious contest with Joe Bushmaster [A:15-23]. Patrick Stranahan’s recommended four brews are American, Danish, Bohemian and Guiness [A:110]. Gautier makes corn beer [A:196], while the Regal brewery sends Duffey a weekly keg for his soup [A:134]. Finnegan orders two glasses when he believes he has met his father again [A:244]. With Seaworthy he drinks Texas beer because nothing else is cold [D:12]; he drinks between bar-cleaning jobs [D:19] and with Doll at the bait house [D:182]. Biloxi Brannagan drinks beer from a pitcher in his kitchen garden [D:199], where Finnegan finds his long retirement spent drinking and watching ships [D:201].A:2; A:11-14; A:15-23; A:110; A:196; A:134; A:244; D:12; D:19; D:182; D:199; D:201
Beer Chit
Supposed authorization to buy beer at the Australian wet canteen. As part of Tom Shire and Freddy Castle’s hoax, Sergeant Bushmaster tells Finnegan to sign for beer chits; the document actually insults American drinking prowess. The bartender explains that no chit is required, only sixpence [A:13-14].A:13-14
Beer Garden
Finnegan’s mistaken identification of Biloxi Brannagan’s private kitchen garden. Seeking cover from pursuers, he vaults its fence and joins Brannagan at a table; Gertrude serves a pitcher of beer before correcting his assumption that the place is open for business [D:198-199]. Brannagan later claims to have spent thirty-five years sitting by the sea, ten in an old chair and twenty-five in its replacement [D:204].D:198-199; D:204
Beetles (Sexton)
Sexton beetles in an as-yet-unlocated Paean passage, described in the original glossary as consuming dead flesh so that it cannot remain to remember. The supplied Archipelago edition does not contain the cited poem.Beetling Belly
Bascom Bagby’s conspicuous belly, paired with his beetling brows when he arrives for a shave and haircut at young Duffey’s establishment [MTM B2:43].MTM B2:43
Beetling Brows
Bascom Bagby’s projecting brows, paired with his beetling belly at his first visit to Duffey’s establishment [MTM B2:43].MTM B2:43
Bells
Young Melchisedech summons a giant hand to help ring a church bell [MTM B1:14-15]; Bagby suggests a service bell linking Duffey’s shop with his own cabinet work [MTM B2:46]. Tower bells toll in Casey’s imagined Fortress Major [A:157]. Naxos has animal, boat, buoy and farmyard dinner bells [D:131]. Off San Simeon, the Sea-Bell, Martyr-Bell and Peter-Bell summon a hidden assembly despite official efforts to silence them [MB:560]. Hackenschmidt orders all bells broken and melted lest they awaken the supposedly dead Church [MB:568]. The novel’s prophecy attributed to Nostradamus calls Finnegan the Pope of Bells and Bay [MB:598].MTM B1:14-15; MTM B2:46; A:157; D:131; MB:560; MB:568; MB:598
BEMs (Bug-Eyed Monsters)
Bug-eyed monsters, a pulp science-fiction term. Bagby says the Slant-Faced Men receive the same comic treatment as BEMs and HLPs in pulp-magazine letter columns, although he and the others know the Slant-Faced Men are real and dangerous [MTM B7:225].MTM B7:225
Bench (Park)
The park-bench sleeper device, one of four basic practical-joke formulas for the dog-housebreaking product Finnegan sells in Buffalo. Its variant is the bus-waiter trap [A:189-190].A:189-190
Benedictine
Religious affiliation of Joseph of Maintz in Ignacio’s story of an eighth-century priest who shoots himself to the moon to escape worldly temptations without committing suicide. Ignacio attributes the tale to Turpin of Rheims and professes belief in it [A:271].A:271
Benediction
Church service at which Casey served one winter evening before seeing rich parishioners enter the monsignor’s study. The meeting actually concerned fundraising, but Casey imagined a higher religion reserved for the wealthy. This fed the esoteric dream-world whose library he had begun with material from a magazine advertisement [A:158-159].A:158-159
Beneficient
One side of the opposition Papa Devil gives Finnegan when asked to explain the plot: monsters and men, Policia y Ladrones, the Beneficient and the Maleficent [D:120].D:120
Benevolent Shark at Maule
Waterfront establishment at Maule remembered in Melchisedech’s catalogue aboard the Argo, alongside the Fanged Fish at Ogopo and other seafaring haunts [MTM B13:407].MTM B13:407
Benignity
Don Barnaby’s “bedamned benignity” during his experience with Madame Le Mourcheor’s Juju Joy Pill. Pitying the supposedly miserable John Sourwine, or Sour John, he tries to bring him across the street for a pill so that they can share the pleasure [D:249-251].D:249-251
Benning, Martin
Soldier in Ward Fourteen whom the Sergeant considers sound except on a few points [A:75]. Benning demands proof of Green’s theory that God sustains the universe from moment to moment; George Buckram, rather than Benning, then asks whether Green is God [A:76]. Benning leaves the ward after a few weeks, before the Sergeant’s departure [A:88].A:75; A:76; A:88
Bera
B-flat trumpet player in the Brimstone Combo in Trinali’s poem about the old saloon at Beelzebub and Hell-Raiser Streets [A:235]. His name echoes Bera, king of Sodom in Genesis 14:2; the combo’s other names also adapt names of kings and places from that chapter.A:235
Beret
Part of Duffey’s art-dealer appearance in New Orleans: he keeps a bright white beard and adds an artist’s tie and beret while running his second-hand book, art and antique shops [A:143].A:143
Bergen (Swede)
One of five men called Swede at the Old Wooden Ship, although the group consists of a Norwegian, a Dane, an Icelander, a German and an Orkneyman, with no Swede among them [D:215] [D:217]. Unlike his seafaring companions, Bergen has sailed only once and was so seasick that he vowed never to leave land again. His wife also refuses to sail after childhood seasickness. For twenty years each has written asking the other to cross the Atlantic; the narrator says they will remain apart unless someone builds a bridge [D:217].D:215; D:217
Bering Sea
One of the seas named in the catalogue of the Argo’s voyages and Melchisedech’s maritime memories [MTM B13:406].MTM B13:406
Berlitz
Language manuals on Duffey’s shelves, available to Casey in his pursuit of every language. The list also includes Thimms, Hugos, Marlboroughs, Cortina, Langenscheidt and Metoula [A:159].A:159
Berny Cacciatore
See Cacciatore, Berny.Berry Jelly
One of Gautier the goat-man’s homemade provisions, alongside berry wine, corn beer and potato whisky [A:196-197].A:196-197
Berry Wine
Drink made by Gautier the goat-man alongside his berry jelly, corn beer and other provisions [A:196].A:196
Best enemy
Anne’s affectionate phrase in her sign-off from the Japanese radio station in Java. Her intimate voice and homesick songs give her broadcasts an appeal that Stein’s Anopheles Network cannot match [A:46].A:46
Betelgeuse
One of the stars whose right ascension Hans learns to calculate for a given date while studying with Professor Kirol von Weinsberg-Valeni [A:214].A:214
Beth Keegan
See Keegan, Beth.Betrayal of Giotto
Giotto painting cited by Van Ghi in Finnegan’s story about accidentally painting a devil. Van Ghi claims that the same sinister figure recurs in the backgrounds of the Betrayal and other artworks, and tells Finnegan he has drawn the Joker instead of the Queen [D:255].D:255
Better Life League
Organization that recognizes Zabotski as an Entrance Person, although he thinks little of the organization. Duffey’s account nevertheless says its classification of Zabotski is correct [MTM B9:268].MTM B9:268
Bevo
Anheuser-Busch’s non-alcoholic near beer. In the novel it is sold with snacks and sweets by vendors at the Chicago park gathering where ten-year-old Casey’s planned appearance as the Leader is thwarted by Letitia [MTM B4:118].MTM B4:118
Bible
Biblical quotations frame several episodes: Genesis 14:18 on Melchisedech’s bread and wine opens Book Two [MTM B2:38], and Hebrews 7:9-10 on Levi paying tithes through Abraham opens Book Seven [MTM B7:210]. Genesis 6:4 supplies the giants epigraph [D:212], and excerpts from Numbers 13-14 introduce Angela Cosquin’s chapter [D:258]. Duffey’s expectation that he has no end invokes scriptural Melchisedech [MTM B10:290], recalling Hebrews 7:3. A Bible is among the books supplied in Casey’s schoolroom, although its translation is unspecified [A:161-162]. The cited passages do not establish that all these Bibles and quotations are Douay-Rheims; some wording differs from that translation.MTM B2:38; MTM B7:210; D:212; D:258; MTM B10:290; A:161-162
Bible (Douay-Rheims)
Earlier heading assigned the Douay-Rheims translation to passages and a school Bible whose translation is not established. See Bible.Bicycle riding
One of the popular arts said to lose its style and vitality in the widespread degradation following the Devil’s release [MTM B6:207].MTM B6:207
Biddy's Barracuda Bar
Waterfront establishment in Duffey’s catalogue of maritime memories aboard the Argo [MTM B13:407].MTM B13:407
Bierceian Irony
Finnegan’s phrase for an ironic ending in the manner of Ambrose Bierce. In his supposed life after death, he questions why his existence should follow a human literary pattern of Wordsworthian beginning, Baconian middle and Bierceian end; he insists that he has reached something, but not the end [D:237].D:237
Big Bird
The giant huracan or hurricane bird said to nest in San Simeon’s limestone crags. The narrative offers alternative accounts of one repeatedly flying bird or several newly hatched birds, and says its twisting flights tear away pieces of the country that form at least thirteen Antillean islands [MB:557-558].MB:557-558
Big Boy
Unlocated expression attributed in the original glossary to Josephine McSorely’s Underground Eagle material. The cited Casey Machine page does not contain it.Big Fat-Head
One of the familiar valley names Don Lewis lists when recounting how three American soldiers became lost on Willy Jones Island after pursuing and killing Yokipoki. Big Fat-Head is paired with Little Fat-Head; the valley where they are stranded is one they do not recognize [D:44-46].D:44-46
Big House
House on Willy Jones Island in one of Don Lewis’s supposedly happy island stories. Its inhabitants kill first-night visitors and make broth from their organs to preserve their own youth; a year without a visitor makes everyone a year older [D:48]. Ali carries one protective ta’a nut and plants another before entering. When the inhabitants come to kill him, he brings morning by snapping his fingers, finds the planted nut grown into a tree reaching his window, and climbs down to escape. That year the household ages [D:48-49].D:48; D:48-49
Big Pot
Zabotski’s huge glass-lined experimental crock, given to Duffey [A:132]. Duffey sets the thousand-gallon vessel over gas burners and establishes his continuing barley-soup service [A:133]. In the later account, razzers and jazzers mock the Big Pot; three medical students apparently plant the human bones they then fish out, and their Cannibal Duffey sign is generally received as a joke [MTM B6:197].A:132; A:133; MTM B6:197
Big Red Barn on Pristine Cove
The neighbors’ name for Zabotski and Waldo’s floating boat palace on Lake Borgne, shared with many children and animals [MTM B10:290]. After floating out of Dumaine Street, it lies at Zabotski’s lake lot on a small kedge anchor [MTM B9:287].MTM B10:290; MTM B9:287
Big Swede Swanson
One of the five regulars called Swede at the Old Wooden Ship [D:215]. The group contains no actual Swede, though the passage does not assign Swanson a particular nationality [D:217].D:215; D:217
Big Triangle
Region containing the undersea nest of the young Saucerite who joins the Argo near the Mooring-Stone. He studies among human children, takes classmates to his nest, and talks with the passengers and the fleshless Melchisedech [MB:591-592].MB:591-592
Bill (Buffalo Chips) Dugan
Bill Buffalo Chips Dugan, one of the Old Wooden Ship’s regulars [D:215]. The bar is in Galveston [MTM B13:458]. He belongs to the closely associated group of Russ, Smokehouse, Bob and Charleyhorse Heckel. Dugan and Smokehouse exploit their employer’s confusion by sharing one garage job on alternate days and splitting the wage. Both Dotty Danvers and Dotty Hulme have been married to Dugan [D:220].D:215; MTM B13:458; D:220
Bill Collectors
Dotty’s persecutors during the Pelican group’s lean period. Their pursuit appears in a comic parallel with the ideological enemies shooting at Stein, Gabby and Duffey [A:132].A:132
Bill O'Shivaree
Client defended by Patrick Stranahan. Father McGuigan asks whether O’Shivaree will hang, and Stranahan replies that he will not unless Stranahan loses the case [MTM B5:169].MTM B5:169
Billiard Balls
Beth Keegan’s joke when Duffey and Mary Louise discuss her as an ivory doll or artifact: she says he could become rich by cutting her into billiard balls [MTM B2:57].MTM B2:57
Billiousness
Finnegan’s term for the unpleasant character he attributes to ballads in a letter to Dotty. It completes his comic catalogue of supposed defects in musical forms, including fugue, opera, pop, waltz, hillbilly, swing and downbeat [A:263-264].A:263-264
Bilocation
Being in two places at once. The narrator considers this as a possible explanation of Finnegan and Theresa’s otherwise impossible twelve years together, citing saints and ecstatics but contrasting their brief episodes with the couple’s long interval [A:202]. Later, when Pope Paul the Eleventh suggests that Finnegan has the gift, Finnegan replies that the greatest devils have it too and denies being either saint or devil [MB:598].A:202; MB:598
Biloxi
Mississippi port where Brannagan and Gertrude live. Marie’s story explains Brannagan’s nickname by his having gone ashore there and never caught his ship again [A:25]. Finnegan finds refuge with the couple after eluding pursuers [D:198-201]. The Argo sails against winds and currents to Biloxi [MTM B13:402] and docks there amid preparations for celebration [MTM B13:408].A:25; D:198-201; MTM B13:402; MTM B13:408
Biloxi Girl
Marie’s Aunt Gertrude in the comic story Hans hears in his mind while waiting for Marie. Gertrude lets Brannagan mistake an old piling for his ship’s mast, so he believes he need not hurry back aboard [A:25].A:25
Bimini
Point of departure for the luxury yacht carrying the shadow-men Bolo Manolo, Douglas McAfee and Lloyd Cardigan-Pembroke toward the Mooring-Stone [MB:594].MB:594
Binnacle
Housing for a ship’s compass. Anastasia’s signaling lantern, made with reflecting mirrors rather than a projector, is enclosed in a binnacle-like case from an old boat [D:131]. The name also belongs to a Sydney bar [A:19].D:131; A:19
Binnacle (Bar)
Sydney bar visited during the preparations for Hans Schultz’s beer-drinking contest. Stein joins the group there and hears about the coming event; Marie joins them later at the Harbor House [A:19].A:19
Bird of Paradise
In Ignatius Ti’s freely translated account of Amoy’s former life as a jewel-stealing blackbird, Birds of Paradise are dismissed as poor judges of gems [A:80]. Duffey later tells Beth Keegan a dream in which he creates Paradise Birds from clay, but rough men shoot them down and they become clay pigeons again; Beth interprets the dream as doubt about his powers and creations [MTM B2:67].A:80; MTM B2:67
Birds
The narrative gives Black Papua an extravagant abundance of birds among its caves and cliffs [A:36]. Melchisedech can turn stones into birds [MTM B1:18]. Hillary Hilton includes tropical birds among the distressed merchandise he trades [A:254-255]. In Finnegan’s painting, an apparent smaller bird is really a bird-cry written in a speech balloon; its message predicts the meat to come into Duffey’s pot [MTM B6:196]. A rowdy bird carries the ominous pennant in Cleo’s seventh contingency [MTM B10:297]. Trinali’s poem calls the birds over the Dead Sea Devil Birds [A:235-236], while the frozen world around the Argo contains motionless birds suspended in the air [MTM B13:398].A:36; MTM B1:18; A:254-255; MTM B6:196; MTM B10:297; A:235-236; MTM B13:398
Birsha
Diatonic-harp player in the Brimstone Combo in Trinali’s poem about the saloon at Beelzebub and Hell-Raiser Streets [A:235].A:235
Bissau
Port in Guinea-Bissau, first named stop on the Brunhilde’s northward coastal itinerary beginning on February 1 [D:96].D:96
Bjonk (Swede)
Swede Bjonk, one of the Old Wooden Ship’s resident regulars [D:215]. The five men called Swede are collectively Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, German and Orkney-born, with no actual Swede among them; Bjonk’s individual nationality is not specified [D:217].D:215; D:217
Black Papua
The narrative’s name for the densely wooded Papua landscape reached by the returning soldiers: closely spaced creeks, steep bluffs, thorny growth, ravines, waterfalls, deep pools and miles of caves. Within an exaggeratedly crowded square mile it places three small language communities and a possible fourth whose existence is doubtful [A:36]. Its ensuing account presents the region as full of ghosts and its people as nightly visitors to the dead [A:37].A:36; A:37
Black Rooster
One of the varieties of joy pills Don Barnaby names before praising Madame Le Mourcheor’s preparation [D:248-249].D:248-249
Black Sea
Sea on whose shore Teresa locates Colchis and the Devil’s preordained prison in her account of the Argo voyage [MTM B7:233-235]. Henri’s letter names the Crimean peninsula as the prison site [MTM B5:180], while Stein dates the imprisonment and release to 946-1946 [MTM B6:185]. In the Royal Pop history, Margaret announces the sea’s obliteration [MTM B11:308], Zabotski asks about its disasters [MTM B11:333], and Hugh de Turenne explains the destruction as an attack on the Devil’s former prison and Colchis’s support for the Argo and Fleece [MTM B11:336]. Duffey’s account of finding the Argo says that a Black Sea-built hull would have been cedar; her actual oak is from the Dinaric Alps and her keel was laid at Ragusa [MTM B13:412]. The ship’s mysterious bell-bearer later supplies Black Sea ship-biscuit to the people at the Mooring-Stone [MB:578].MTM B7:233-235; MTM B5:180; MTM B6:185; MTM B11:308; MTM B11:333; MTM B11:336; MTM B13:412; MB:578
Black-blanketed bed
Bed provided for each boy in the six-boy rooms of St. Martin’s Hall at Casey’s boarding school, St. Bonaventure’s [A:161].A:161
Blackbirds
With crows, birds that come from the nearby woods to Trinali’s driftwood graveyard and taunt the seabirds [A:233]. Finnegan’s scattered shipmates in Tangier are compared to a flock of blackbirds while he tries to watch them on the day of the hunt [D:103].A:233; D:103
Blackmail
Duffey says that blackmail began Casey’s political change, but that Casey now believes the ideology; Mary Catherine says he receives a subsidy and will turn the Crock into a vehicle for its propaganda [A:98]. Duffey himself rejects a portfolio man’s attempt to use compromising photographs to gain control of his magazine, insisting that Letitia knows his past and that confessed guilt is forgiven [MTM B4:140].A:98; MTM B4:140
Blackstone, Bandicoot
Baxter Blackstone, Bryan’s son, nicknamed Bandicoot by the neighborhood boys. At five he begs Zabotski not to kill his father and fears having to work in the mines or starve [MTM B9:271]. On what Duffey experiences as the next morning, Bandicoot is starting high school, the dead sycamore has long been removed, and Bryan complains of the withers of middle age; a neighbor says eight years have passed [MTM B9:276]. Later Bandicoot is president of Bandicoot Enterprises Limited and reports that his father is dying after a long life. He will remain chairman while his own son John runs the businesses [MTM B9:288].MTM B9:271; MTM B9:276; MTM B9:288
Blackstone, Bryan
Zabotski’s neighbor, two doors away but with their properties adjoining at the back. During their dispute over Zabotski’s building, Zabotski predicts Bryan’s decline and death within five days while denying any power or intention to kill him [MTM B9:269-270]. He does command Bryan’s sycamore to wither [MTM B9:270]. What appears to Duffey as the next morning comes eight years later: Bandicoot reports that the tree died and was cut down and that Bryan has the withers of middle age [MTM B9:276]. Later, Bryan is dying after a long life, while Zabotski remarks that he lasted only five days [MTM B9:288].MTM B9:269-270; MTM B9:270; MTM B9:276; MTM B9:288
Blade-thin slit
Narrow opening between sixth-floor curtains through which Finnegan, perched on exterior stone ornamentation, watches Seaworthy, Gerecke, Wirt, Gonof and seven other Devils at their meeting [D:163].D:163
Blaireau, The
French ship among the treasure-laden wrecks shown on Angela Cosquin’s father’s master map. Customers choose ships and even new locations for the fabricated treasure maps he sells to confidence men [D:261]. The name means badger in French.D:261
Blanket
Anastasia brings a blanket and shawl from her grandmother’s for the Naxos vigil [D:131], and Finnegan later awakens alone on the blanket [D:140]. Papa Devil spreads blankets for the beach supper on Padre Island [D:40]. Casey’s school bedding includes black blankets [A:161]. Duffey uses horse blankets around Giulio’s makeshift bath and on his bed [MTM B2:42]. Dotty offers X the sofa but says he will not need a blanket that night [A:136].D:131; D:140; D:40; A:161; MTM B2:42; A:136
Blarney's
One of the Sydney pubs visited by the four Dirty Fivers, Marie, Tom Shire and Freddy Castle after Hans defeats Bushmaster in the drinking contest [A:23].A:23
Blatt-brained
Duffey’s derisive description of the idea of traveling backward in time. He and Brannagan say their voyages move forward or sideways and distinguish changing possible futures from altering an already completed past [MTM B13:413].MTM B13:413
Blessed Austin
Saint Augustine of Hippo, called an old Argo Master in the narrator’s account of the strange sustenance offered by the futures. The quoted image of sun and moon served as dishes while the speaker hungers for God comes from Augustine’s Confessions, Book III, chapter 6 [MTM B13:447].MTM B13:447
Blessed Margaret Herself
Margaret Stone as named in Duffey’s proposed Argo pennant: This Ship is Salted by Blessed Margaret Herself. The promise answers Margaret’s challenge that the masters may have lost their savor; Duffey says she and her companions reassure and replenish them [MTM B13:447].MTM B13:447
Blessed Virgin
In the meditation on Marie’s green eyes, the Archipelago narrative says that early Flemish Annunciations give the Blessed Virgin red hair and green eyes [A:24]. The later discussion of holy wealth cites the Marian litany’s titles Tower of Ivory and House of Gold as literal holy and joyous wealth, rather than mere allegory [MTM B4:125].A:24; MTM B4:125
Blevins, Father
Chaplain quoted in Letitia’s Oh Murder! scrapbook, which Duffey reads in distress. Blevins boasts of sexual activity with students, including children, presents it as education he would make compulsory, rejects the concept of wrong, and dismisses his bishop’s authority to object [MTM B8:251]. The surrounding satirical clippings attack deliberately lowered literacy and pornography in teaching, ideological standards for judging wars, dehumanization and murder of opponents, selective recognition of Christ in others, and a priests’ senate leader’s claims of supremacy over diocesan authorities [MTM B8:251-252].MTM B8:251; MTM B8:251-252
Blind Man
Joe Cross’s comparison for Papa Devil entering the cabin where Dopey disappears: he seems blind yet knows exactly where he is going, and his manner strikes Joe as chillingly insane [D:64].D:64
Blind Side
The side of Naxos opposite the harbor, approached by the Seabach from Anatolia [D:135]. It arrives after dark and signals once; after midnight five men land, while the young sixth crewman takes the boat around for a diversionary attack from the sea [D:136].D:135; D:136
Blinding flash
The sudden idea that rescues Finnegan’s dog-housebreaking-product business: market it to practical jokers rather than housewives, turning its immediate effect on dogs into a source of disruptive pranks [A:189-190].A:189-190
Blindness
Among the ailments the Boy King Melchisedech helps cure by placing his golden hands on the affected parts, enabling the physician to effect the cure [MTM B1:18]. Henri later calls Duffey’s St. Louis week a stay in Damascus with an opportunity for blindness and recovery, while saying he has noticed neither occurring [MTM B5:184]. This recalls Saul’s loss and restoration of sight in Acts 9.MTM B1:18; MTM B5:184
Blister Beetles
Among the creatures afflicting Duffey after his fall into the dung heap, with horse leeches, latrine snakes, scorpions, midges and crab cooties [MTM B12:392-393].MTM B12:392-393
Bloke
One of the Seabach raiders, identified by the doggerel crew roster and his greasy digger hat [D:135]. He goes ashore with the Black, Clerk, Hack and Haberdasher while the young Buck keeps the boat [D:136]. After the raid he lies dead on the Naxos cobbles, his bloodstained hat beside him [D:147].D:135; D:136; D:147
Blood
Bodily blood, ancestry and violent imagery recur throughout the cycle. Finnegan wakes in a dump with his own dried blood in his hair [A:177], while the Captain metaphorically smells blood as he breaks the amnesiac Sergeant [A:74]. Sebastian Hilton sheds other boys’ blood in calculated fights [MTM B1:23]; Melchisedech keeps jars of blood, and Charles Hart says he once did likewise [MTM B1:18]. The Brunhilde’s peculiar people are described as full of old black blood [D:50]. Anastasia Grandmother claims the other blood for herself and a little for her granddaughter [D:128]. Papa Devil places himself, Anastasia and Finnegan among the Non-people and calls Dopey a seaman of strange blood [D:121]. Brannagan says he and Finnegan each have a little double blood, in differing recensions [D:209-210]; Finnegan later calls all four Paradise friends people of double blood [D:237]. Casey calls the Dirty Five brothers who are not blood relatives [A:154]. X’s genealogy makes the earlier Ifreann a son of the Devil [D:278], and attributes the Devil’s dark power to Papadiabolous I [D:286]. Duffey explains the Pelican’s Christ symbolism through the traditional belief that it feeds its young with its blood [A:121]. After Dopey vanishes, Papa Devil dismisses the remaining dribble as bug blood [D:64]. Don Lewis’s body has only a trickle at the mouth [D:110], and the dead Bloke’s hat is bloodied [D:147]. Finnegan escapes through broken glass with cuts to face and hands [D:165-166]. Marie boasts of the pleasure of blood on her hands [D:92], and Patrick Stranahan’s crossroads image has fresh, old and placental blood running down its signpost [MTM B5:164].A:177; A:74; MTM B1:23; MTM B1:18; D:50; D:128; D:121; D:209-210; D:237; A:154; D:278; D:286; A:121; D:64; D:110; D:147; D:165-166; D:92; MTM B5:164
Blood Roar
The crowd’s bloodthirsty roar when Zabotski fails the ashes test at the Opera House: the ashes burst into flame on his hands, exposing him as stubbornly human to the supposedly bright people, who drag him away [MTM B11:347].MTM B11:347
Blood Snakes
Creatures that dart toward the scent of Duffey’s blood while he suffers in the dung heap after his fall [MTM B12:392-393].MTM B12:392-393
Blood-of-Martyrs Grass
Herba Cruor Martyrum, the grass with extraordinarily long roots and a red tinge in its green that had grown only on Vatican Hill. It is destroyed there with blowtorches after the Last Conclave [MB:570]. Later an ancestral dolphin tells the approaching shadow-men that the grass has returned, rising through the water to cover the Mooring-Stone with red-flecked green. Its return accompanies warming water and rising land [MB:594-595].MB:570; MB:594-595
Bloody Idyl of Anastasia
The Anastasia narrative also told by X, whose Grecian enchantment is set against the unreliability of both X and Finnegan. The passage questions the separation of canonical and apocryphal adventures and reports X’s claim that Finnegan imagined much of the strange voyage [A:187].A:187
Bloody Mary
Cocktail Casey says Dotty cannot distinguish from a Screwdriver in his hostile editorial about the Bark group [A:129]. Dotty is particularly angered by the false insult to her professional mixing skills; she has attended bartenders’ school [A:131].A:129; A:131
Bloody Mulligans
People said to have lived in the Chosky Bottoms, within Finnegan’s catalogue of the place’s spooks and tall tales. The Bottoms are associated with a man-killing panther, swamp ghost, masked riders, giant coons and fish, and enormous bull snakes; Finnegan treats the name as something that can belong to many mysterious places [D:274].D:274
Blooper Fish
Fish requested by Duffey at the futuristic Louisiana canal landing. Honeybucket Kincaid adjusts electrical frequencies to summon fourteen-pound Blooper Fish, selects one and places it in the eviscerator. Duffey expects fourteen pounds of head steak from it [MTM B13:416-417].MTM B13:416-417
Blow Brass
One of the fashionable Fleshpot Row establishments Shirley Israel praises over Duffey’s preferred places, saying that these are where the real people go [MTM B4:126].MTM B4:126
Blow Fish Ball Room, Harold's
Waterfront establishment in Melchisedech’s catalogue of remembered haunts aboard the Argo [MTM B13:407].MTM B13:407
Blow-mouths
Mary Lightfoot’s name for the clamorous troublemakers whom she says must be allowed to grow among the good until the final harvest. Countess Margaret then reminds the company that an enemy sowed them; both remarks adapt the wheat-and-weeds parable [MTM B4:130].MTM B4:130
Blue
Other uses include the sky-blue Mediterranean scenes Finnegan paints [D:114], the blue mountain and haze on Naxos [D:127], the blue-dream sea of Paradise [D:233], and the blue deep water beyond green shallows [D:37]. Blue Fields is a port of call [D:81]. Blue-birds appear in the verse about Li Tai Po [A:222], and Mary Catherine serves blue cheese [A:247]. Finnegan remembers blue sparks from Anastasia’s hair [D:207-208]; Eva’s veins and eyelids are sky blue within the ice [MTM B13:398]. Gautier likes blue-jowled romances [A:198]. Chris McAbney is called a blue-nosed sinner [D:31], Teresa Piccone a blue-moon person [MTM B5:163], and Finnegan, mistaking another city for New Orleans, says the people are getting bluer [A:270].D:114; D:127; D:233; D:37; D:81; A:222; A:247; D:207-208; MTM B13:398; A:198; D:31; MTM B5:163; A:270
Blue Book (Official)
Casey’s imaginary record of his own future sporting greatness, supposedly issued in 2001 for his eightieth birthday. His mother finds the notebooks, mocks the Official Blue Book language and tears them up [A:157].A:157
Blue Cheese
One of the foods Mary Catherine Carruthers sets out for Finnegan when he visits her in Chicago, with beer, pigs’ feet and small smoked sausages [A:247].A:247
Blue Diamond
Almond-sized gem that Amoy swallows intending it as a gift for his pregnant magpie wife, in Ignatius Ti’s freely translated story of Amoy’s earlier life as a blackbird thief in Karachi [A:80]. Amoy cannot bring himself to surrender the diamond even when his master Ali ben Taife, also Lord Peter Petrof, cuts his throat to obtain it. Amoy becomes a fish; the master dies a year later and becomes a donkey hauling rocks in the diamond’s mine [A:81].A:80; A:81
Blue Eyes
Hans seems to read minds with his blue eyes [A:5]; Mary Jean has black hair and blue eyes [A:168].A:5; A:168
Blue Fields
Port of call listed between Cabo Gracias a Dios and Limon on the Brunhilde’s southward coastal itinerary [D:81]. The location and name identify it most plausibly with Bluefields, Nicaragua.D:81
Blue-birds
Birds that fly like darts when Li Tai Po plays his flute in the novel’s verse narrative about him [A:221-222].A:221-222
Blue-jowled romances
Gautier’s favored American adventure reading in the Harlow House library: blood-and-thunder tales of the Wild West, train robbers, buffalo hunters, Indian scalpers, bank robbers and brigands [A:198]. After reading French works aloud to his goats, he turns to these American books silently once the goats sleep [A:199].A:198; A:199
Blue-moon person
Description of Teresa Piccone as a person encountered only once in a lifetime. The surrounding passage exaggerates the danger of looking too long at her brilliant beauty [MTM B5:163].MTM B5:163
Blue-nosed sinner
The narrator’s description of Chris McAbney, a hostile Brunhilde crewman. Anastasia mocks his Scottish identity with her “Scotch and shoder” pun, while the narrator calls him the worst kind of sinner [D:31].D:31
Bob
Resident regular at the Old Wooden Ship [D:215–216]. With Russ and Charleyhorse Heckel, he seeks out men willing to buy drinks for everyone and steers them to the tavern. The three also rob customers outside after they have finished spending but still have money [D:220].D:215–216; D:220
Boerum, Benny (Bay Rum)
Benny Boerum, nicknamed Bay Rum, is one of the resident regulars at the Old Wooden Ship [D:216]. The narrator groups him with Raviola and Saddle Sore as unkempt and uncouth exceptions to the establishment’s supposedly high standards [D:224].D:216; D:224
Boethius (c. 480--524/525 AD)
Roman philosopher, Christian theologian and senator, apparently intended by the printed “Boëthus” in the narrator’s list of people with seven hidden years, beside Caesar, Diocletian, Carl the Great, Wellington, Lincoln, Sam Houston, George Barrow and Hans Schultz [MTM B2:72]. The proposed seven-year parallel belongs to the novel’s account of Duffey’s missing years. Boethius wrote The Consolation of Philosophy in prison before his execution. Its prose-and-verse dialogue with personified Philosophy draws on ancient philosophy and became influential in medieval thought; its relationship to Christianity is debated, since it makes no explicit Christian appeal. His Latin translations and commentaries transmitted Aristotelian logic, and his mathematical writings supplied material for the quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and music. Dates are approximate: standard accounts often give about 480 to 524, while other scholarship argues for about 475-477 to 526. The short notes on time in More Than Melchisedech also attribute to Boethius the distinction between the flowing instant that produces time and the abiding instant that produces eternity [MTM B13:469].MTM B2:72; MTM B13:469
Bogovitch, I.N.C.G.P.
Inscription on the old gravestone that Finnegan shows Doll and X in the cemetery across from the club [D:275-277]. X interprets Bogovitch as “son of God,” a euphemism for Chortovitch, “son of the Devil,” and reconstructs the earlier occupant’s name as Ifreann Noonan Columkill Gregorovitch Papadiabolous Chortovitch [D:277-278]. This is the old Ifreann, father of the two later Papadiabolous brothers, not simply another name for Papadiabolous I [D:285-286]. The grave is also Gregory McIfreann’s, the son whom X calls Papadiabolous I [D:284-285]. Finnegan’s earlier burial account explains the shared grave: he and Seaworthy place a new corpse above the bones of an older occupant [D:76].D:275-277; D:277-278; D:285-286; D:284-285; D:76
Bogs
Part of the wild New Jersey country through which Finnegan wanders before meeting Gautier the goat-man. The description begins with bogs and bog-men, then names the Barrens, mountains, and sea [A:193-194].A:193-194
Bohemian
A Bohemian brew is one of the four beers Patrick Stranahan considers sufficient, with an American, a Danish and Guinness [A:110]. Bohemian is also one strain of the Angelino clan, whose members are described as predominantly Italian and German, with Mexican and Irish Tinker ancestry too [A:218]. In the account of the artistic and political patrons who might support Finnegan, he can be a Bohemian with Bohemians as readily as a drinker among drinkers [A:184].A:110; A:218; A:184
Bohemians
In Sally’s argument with Marie, Bohemia supplies the disputed heresy that Sally says Marie does not understand; she asks who the true heretics are [A:8]. In a different sense, the Bohemes are the unconventional artistic circle Hans enters in New York: James Fitzjames and Trinali Peterson are the two Bohemes who dine with him, and he subsequently accompanies the wider group [A:225-226] [A:236].A:8; A:225-226; A:236
Boil
Honeybucket Kincaid lets the water, described as boiling with fish activity, settle for ten seconds between electrically summoning the gar and summoning Blooper Fish [MTM B13:417]. Doll Delancy jokingly wishes to boil Finnegan in oil when he proposes painting her instead of continuing their boisterous evening [D:173].MTM B13:417; D:173
Bolo Manolo
Named as the double of Ignatius Cardinal Ti of Manila in Track and Total’s list of thirteen shadow-men [MB:578-579]. He travels from Bimini with Douglas McAfee and Lloyd Cardigan-Pembroke on a luxury yacht, speaks to the dolphin about the vanished Blood-of-Martyrs Grass, and reaches Mooring-Stone with the gathering shadow-men [MB:594-595]. The later passage inconsistently calls Lloyd, previously paired with Cardinal Lloyd Spencer, the double of the dead Ti [MB:579] [MB:594].MB:578-579; MB:594-595; MB:579; MB:594
Bologna
Finnegan’s comparison for an inside-out tiger, a huge mass of bologna encased in its own intestinal membrane. He says it would resemble Papa Devil, who replies that he is speaking of himself and intends to become a tiger again [D:122].D:122
Bolshevestic and Atheistic Communism
The danger named in an epigraph attributed to Pius XI’s Atheistic Communism, which sets modern revolution within the continuing struggle between good and evil after the Fall [MTM B5:177]. The passage comes from sections 2-3 of the 1937 encyclical Divini Redemptoris; the novel’s “Bolshevestic” differs from the official English “bolshevistic.”MTM B5:177
Bond
The restraints Don Lewis ties around the wrists and ankles of the dead Yokipoki before burying him. Awakened by noises, Don imagines the corpse cutting its bonds with the buried butcher knife; the disturbance and apparent attack prove to be rats [D:46-47].D:46-47
Bone
Hans’s joking argument contrasts supposedly scarce ancient fingers with commonly found jawbones, brainpans and pelvises [A:4-5]. Finnegan feels terror melt his bones at Papa Devil’s presence [D:15], and feels an electric shock from Anastasia’s bones [D:20]. He identifies shapes by touch among the older remains in the grave where he and Seaworthy bury a new corpse [D:76]. X says the Papadiabolous brothers have indistinguishable skeletons and facial bones despite their differing fleshed appearances [D:286]. Duffey’s killers strip his bones and separately burn his flesh to ashes. X and Casey recover both, and the bones are placed aboard the Argo. God subsequently confirms that Duffey may continue as a Master without flesh [MTM B13:442-443].A:4-5; D:15; D:20; D:76; D:286; MTM B13:442-443
Bone-Bleached World
The exclamation of an imagined future professor who recognizes an Australian femur found in Turkestan thirty thousand years later. The narrator uses the fancy to exaggerate Tom Shire and Freddy Castle’s unmistakably Australian appearance [A:5].A:5
Bone-meal
One of the products John Mogul says his murder business makes from victims’ bodies when practicable, alongside soap and essential oils. He describes himself as a knacker and euthanasiast, and specifies bone-meal for farmers [MB:573].MB:573
Bones
Hans, not Finnegan, jokes that prehistoric fingers are harder to find than jawbones, brainpans and pelvises [A:4-5]. Trinali imagines the driftwood shore as an elephants’ graveyard, with larger pieces becoming the bones of mammoths, behemoths and Leviathan; these are images for timber, not excavated animal remains [A:232]. Finnegan feels Anastasia’s bones like an electric shock [D:20], handles an older skeleton while digging the grave for the first Papa Devil [D:76], and later hears X explain that the Papadiabolous twins have the same skeletal and facial-bone structure [D:286]. X brings living Duffey his own future ashes in an urn [MTM B6:203]. In the later account of their recovery, X and Casey identify Duffey’s bones and ashes separately; X keeps the ashes, and both men carry the bones to the Argo [MTM B13:442-443].A:4-5; A:232; D:20; D:76; D:286; MTM B6:203; MTM B13:442-443
Bonfire
In Ignacio’s account of Joseph of Maintz, the eighth-century priest fires himself to the moon and promises a bonfire every full moon as proof that he still lives; the fires continue for ninety years [A:271]. At the Bay Hotel picnic the management forbids a lawn bonfire, so a waitress lights charcoal briquettes on a broad trencher-plate for the party’s singing [A:29-31].A:271; A:29-31
Bong
The sound or action of Dotty ringing a bell to draw people to Duffey’s great soup crock. A small kettle nearby receives contributions [A:133].A:133
Bonifacients, True
The narrator’s name for the seven original trustees and directors of the Bark: Henri Salvatore, Melchisedech Duffey, Absalom Stein, Dotty Yekouris, Hans Schultz, Draja Gabrielovitch and John Solli (Finnegan). They are also the Seven Pillars of Righteousness; later deaths require replacements [MTM B7:214].MTM B7:214
Bonner, Calvin
One of the sporty friends in Duffey and Letitia’s North Chicago golden-age circle, listed beside golfers Mike and Peggy Conner and tennis players Peter and Jenny Reid [MTM B3:98-99].MTM B3:98-99
Booby-hatch
Private Gregory’s disparaging name for the army psychiatric ward in which he is already confined. He fears years of observation after authorities link his young Australian identity to the fingerprints and papers of a vanished elderly American colonel [A:79].A:79
Boodle
X’s term for the suitcase money. After retrieving it from the locker and leaving a decoy, he divides it among three bags: Finnegan’s sturdy cowhide bag gets the heaviest share, Doll’s chic overnight bag a smaller share, and X keeps the nondescript travel bag [D:178-180].D:178-180
Booger
One of the Teras types Duffey lists with Gargoyles, Neanderthals, Vagaries and Variants. He says everyone has some variant blood and that he put more than usual into his own creations [MTM B5:169-170].MTM B5:169-170
Boogerme
Earlier heading truncated the source word boogermen. See Boogermen.Boogermen
The source reads “boogermen”: frightening figures into which Finnegan asks how his ancient people, once the inventors of childhood, have been transformed in others’ judgment [D:213].D:213
Book Clubs
Mary Catherine Carruthers tells Finnegan that she belongs to three book clubs, among the cultural and social pursuits she has taken up while living alone and unable to get over Casey. She describes herself as improving her mind [A:249].A:249
Book Dealers
Duffey and John Rattigan buy and sell about a hundred books a week, new as well as used, during their boarding-school trading days. Sebastian Hilton is their best book customer [MTM B1:25].MTM B1:25
Book of Life
Finnegan invokes the biblical register of the saved when he asks Duffey to strike out diners who refuse his gifts of oysters at the Broadway Oyster House. Duffey plays along and says he has done so [MTM B5:172-174]. The image of erasing a name recalls Revelation 3:5.MTM B5:172-174
Book Store
Duffey adds a book and art business to Gabriel Szymansky’s Chicago shops, and prepares to live with Letitia above the new bookstore [MTM B3:81-82] [MTM B3:91-92]. Casey later prints the last of his early Crock magazines in its back room [A:168]. Mary Catherine Carruthers is among the young visitors associated with the store [MTM B3:99]. In New Orleans Duffey again runs a secondhand bookstore, together with art, antique and pawn businesses [A:143].MTM B3:81-82; MTM B3:91-92; A:168; MTM B3:99; A:143
Bookies
The bookmakers taking bets on Hans Schultz’s beer-drinking contest with Joe Bushmaster. The early odds favor Bushmaster eight to five; as Hans establishes a lead, betting shifts to him [A:18] [A:21].A:18; A:21
Booklet (Instruction)
Zabotski’s description of a rock drawing and accompanying writing that he believes to be the oldest building manual. He has obtained several copies, thinks it explains a great barn or castle, and uses it for the contraption in his yard. He identifies the undeciphered language as Hazh-Khazh and says he must decipher it while building [MTM B9:272].MTM B9:272
“Books Abroad”
A section of the Crock written by Polly Polyglot, the pen name of Mary Frances Rattigan [A:41].A:41
Boondocks
Marie’s term for the extreme backcountry where her uncle Shakes Pearson supposedly writes tobacco-contest verses on bark with oak-ball juice because paper is unavailable [A:25]. Henry Salvatore’s later parish offers a parallel image of remoteness: it lies so deep in the swamps that he numbers muskrats among his parishioners [MTM B7:214].A:25; MTM B7:214
Boots
Don Lewis removes Yokipoki’s boots before burial so that the dead man may rest comfortably [D:46]. Finnegan and Doll wear rubber boots and swimsuits during their shallow-lake fishing holiday [D:181]. Tommy Cow-Town Borger and Jake-Leg Lewis retain cowboy boots, spurs, chaps and gauntlets although their work is aboard cattle boats [D:222]. Related shoe references show Seaworthy promising new footwear to the ragged Finnegan, whose feet have been bleeding, and Finnegan subsequently buying shoes [D:10-11] [D:17].D:46; D:181; D:222; D:10-11; D:17
Boots and Boot-jacks
Ingredients in one of Shakes Pearson’s unfinished tobacco-contest limericks, along with old sacks. In Marie’s tale he repeatedly leaves off writing to get whisky, and squirrels eat the bark on which he writes [A:25-26].A:25-26
Borg (Surname)
One of the Angelino clan’s family names, listed with Obermeyer, Viskochil, Trevino and Larrigan [A:218].A:218
Borger, Tommy (Cow Town)
Tommy Borger, nicknamed Cow Town, is a resident regular of the Old Wooden Ship [D:216]. With Jake-Leg Lewis he is a saltwater cowboy who rides cattle boats rather than horses. The two keep wearing boots, spurs, chaps and gauntlets through the long intervals between increasingly rare cattle voyages [D:222].D:216; D:222
Borgne (Lake)
Lake on whose Pristine Cove Zabotski and Wife Waldo establish their enormous house [MTM B9:267]. Zabotski calls it open-mouthed because it leads into the Gulf [MTM B9:289]. His two-hundred-acre property, Zabotski Flats, is about two-thirds freshwater and one-third salt meadows, with the boat-castle anchored there [MTM B12:362].MTM B9:267; MTM B9:289; MTM B12:362
Boston
One of the cities where Duffey lives with relatives in the Iowa-based version of his childhood, alongside Dubuque, Sioux City, Council Bluffs, Omaha, Kansas City, St. Louis and Chicago. He later often claims to come from Boston [MTM B1:7] [MTM B1:9]. PFC Timothy Lorrigan is from Boston [D:44], as is Emmet Collins, Cardinal Merry’s double [MB:579]. Casey says infiltrates come from Boston to heckle Duffey at communion breakfasts [A:42-43]. Finnegan’s puzzlement at being called a Yankee includes his lack of the supposed Bostonian speech affliction [A:273].MTM B1:7; MTM B1:9; D:44; MB:579; A:42-43; A:273
Boston Irish
The narrator describes Duffey’s arresting voice as Boston Irish with a slight admixture of stage Yiddish during the St. Louis reunion [A:97].A:97
Bostonian affliction
An unspecified supposed fault of Boston speech that the narrator says Finnegan lacks, among the reasons he is puzzled by Ignacio calling him a Yankee [A:273].A:273
Bottle
Finnegan credits Italians with inventing the bottle and the fork for extracting olives; Vincent prefers an Irish claim [A:5]. Before the Brunhilde sails, Finnegan figuratively hides in a bottle to escape a real threat to his life [D:27]. Empty beer bottles become gasoline lamps in the army camp [A:39]. Other bottles hold Black Label at the Buffalo Bar [A:66], or the Canadian whisky Duffey carries to Chicago during Prohibition [MTM B3:77]. On Naxos, Finnegan and Anastasia buy a wineskin and propose leaving it in a forked bush on the mountain [D:126]. Finnegan later takes gin uphill as protection against forebodings, carries the bottle through the disaster and Anastasia’s death, and cannot bring himself to discard it [D:130] [D:148]. In Paradise, fifty cents buys a bottle [D:235]. The four friends name successive bottles Agatha, Bathildes, Clotilda, Delphina, Etheldreda, Faustina, Georgina and Hildegarde, eventually opening Idabel before sleeping [D:243] [D:256]. Ignatius Ti says a falling pill bottle near a corpse can make a frightened attendant blame the dead man [A:85-86]. Show Boat’s story of an unidentified tippling Apostle describes wine bottles mysteriously replaced with water [A:262]. An epigraph credited to Belloc’s “Heroic Poem in Praise of Wine” imagines bottling God the Father in a flask [MTM B5:176].A:5; D:27; A:39; A:66; MTM B3:77; D:126; D:130; D:148; D:235; D:243; D:256; A:85-86; A:262; MTM B5:176
Bottomless Unconscious
In the narrator’s fantastic account of Black Papua, the Papuans are the Well of the World: other peoples and places exist within their bottomless unconscious and depend on its continued support [A:37].A:37
Boulders
Henry and Casey sit on two boulders after swimming in a waterfall pool in the New Guinea jungle, continuing their conversation about Duffey [A:42].A:42
Boule, Dan
Daniel Jean Boule, also spelled Boulle, is named as the double of Henri Cardinal Salvatore of New Orleans. Henri quotes a prophetic account in which this double travels up the Mexican coast by tramp steamer after the Cardinal’s death; Henri instead proposes to survive and travel as the double of his dead cousin Dan [MTM B12:387-388]. The Mooring-Stone narrative names Boulle among the thirteen doubles and describes that steamer journey to the conclave [MB:579] [MB:592-593] [MB:596].MTM B12:387-388; MB:579; MB:592-593; MB:596
Boundary
Finnegan describes his personal boundaries as indefinite when Dopey’s face persists in his shaving mirror [D:188]. Elsewhere he laments a barrier between himself and human beings despite their friendship and love [D:90]. In the Great Day Contingency, the abolition of boundaries threatens individuality itself and results in the obliteration of persons [MTM B10:298].D:188; D:90; MTM B10:298
Bounty Hunters
After killing the thirteen principal Cardinals in hiding, Track and Total offers bounties for their surviving doubles. The shadow-men converge on the waters around Mooring-Stone, where hunters operate on land and sea [MB:589-590]. The hunters try to close their trap after the Argo and other vessels enter, but changing shoals wreck their attack [MB:595].MB:589-590; MB:595
Bow
Each diner on Zabotski’s ark has a small bow and arrows for attacking the dangerous creatures in the slumgullion. One child has trained midget octopuses to shoot back, with lethal poisoned arrows of their own [MTM B12:364-365]. In the epigraph credited to Hiram Hunt’s The Death of the Species, the taut bow represents a balance between competing elements of humanity; destroying either wood or string destroys the whole [D:283-284].MTM B12:364-365; D:283-284
Bownee
One of Gautier’s seven youngest goat kids, listed with Luin, Mairt, Keadin, Ordin, Haoine and Sahirn. The goat-man gives this group hebdomadal, or weekly, names; Luin is subsequently glossed as Monday [A:194-195].A:194-195
Box
Boxes serve as objects, receptacles and metaphors across the cycle. The roadhouse music box plays “Seems Like Old Times” and “It’s a Great Big World” [A:99]. Falo and Nauti furnish their new cabaret with one large box as a table and two small ones as chairs [A:64]; Captain Sammy borrows a shoeshine box without its owners noticing, earns money and returns it [A:67]. Askandan keeps his foul, sticky soap base in a boxcar [A:256]. Childhood Duffey knows which households keep box-elder or elm in their wood boxes [MTM B1:17]. Sebastian Hilton’s bait box is figurative, his collection of tricks for provoking bullies into fights [MTM B1:22]. X brings Duffey nested black, gray and brown boxes. The brown one holds the Crock’s infiltrate cards, which X admits stealing; Duffey introduces an apparently real version of X’s old disappearing-red-box trick, then replaces it with roses [MTM B6:201-203]. X also brings the cigar container or urn holding Duffey’s own ashes [MTM B6:185] [MTM B6:203]. The safety-deposit box sought by Charlotte and Duffey is the Chicago stash associated with Aga Gonof, and Charlotte later calls it a walk-in [MTM B3:84-86]. Duffey notices the theft of his box of war medals during the coming-leader affair [MTM B4:115-116]. The bony Duffey regains flesh and a working voice box on voyages that fall earlier than his death [MTM B13:444]. Stein has requested burial in a plain pine box with a lighted cigar [GD:493]. Mail is supposedly waiting for Finnegan in a call box [D:267]. Advertisements in the Crock give box numbers for ordering consecrated hosts or stolen dead bodies [PG:524] [PG:546]. Angela Cosquin has a copper cash box inscribed “Angela Cosquin sa Caisse” and keeps it with the sunken treasure ships, adding a saved sovereign each month [D:262].A:99; A:64; A:67; A:256; MTM B1:17; MTM B1:22; MTM B6:201-203; MTM B6:185; MTM B6:203; MTM B3:84-86; MTM B4:115-116; MTM B13:444; GD:493; D:267; PG:524; PG:546; D:262
Box Car
Freight car holding Asking Dan’s eighty-three thousand pounds of unscented soap base. The substance becomes sticky and foul-smelling when wet; Hillary Hilton offers twenty cents per hundred pounds, but Dan refuses to sell [A:256].A:256
Box-elder wood
One household’s firewood, contrasted with another’s elm, in the account of young Duffey’s extraordinarily detailed awareness of other homes. The narrator says such knowledge combines observation and memory with theft from other minds [MTM B1:17].MTM B1:17
Boxer
The Stranahans are a sporting family of amateur boxers, and old boxers are among Patrick’s visitors [A:103-104]. Finnegan has boxed and habitually carried his left low to draw fire [D:172]. His extravagant fighting reminiscences include Harry Greb, Joe Gans and Tom Sharky, followed by comparisons with Harry Wills and Battling Siki [D:191-192]. Bascom Bagby fights professional bouts, and introduces young Duffey to a preliminary contest with Dandy Dan Dillard [MTM B2:50]. Berny Cacciatore is a boxing and sports historian among the Royal Pop Historians [MTM B11:322].A:103-104; D:172; D:191-192; MTM B2:50; MTM B11:322
Boy (Anastasia's cousin)
Anastasia’s young cousin on Naxos. He intercepts the noisy Finnegan descending the mountain after the shooting, tells him Anastasia has instructed him to hide, and warns that hunters mean to kill him [D:144]. He reports the armed men, the dead in the streets, and the danger to Finnegan, the big man and the South American; he later identifies his relationship to Anastasia, says she is dead, and describes the sunken smaller boat and Manuel’s search for Papa Devil [D:145-146].D:144; D:145-146
Boy (Malayan)
The unnamed Malayan boy who guides the Sergeant, Finnegan, through the shifting journey after his ward experience. He says the Sergeant has spent long enough in the Green Islands and must grow up, brings him to Sydney, and directs him to the Plaza Hotel while he visits the Malayan and Indonesian Club [A:88]. Later, back in the islands, they travel by canoe. The boy supplies the names Aral, Bumi and Aragh, which the Sergeant takes to mean the Argo; they dive into extraordinarily wet water by the coral reefs [A:89].A:88; A:89
Boy King, The
Melchisedech Duffey’s primordial childhood identity. The narrator calls the Boy King’s thousands of years the solid basis of Duffey’s other lives, and his tents, flocks, rivers and groves more real than the landscapes of his later childhood [MTM B1:17]. The golden-handed king feeds visitors with bread and wine, summons visible and invisible giants to release waters or overthrow rival kings, helps physicians cure the sick, and turns stones into birds. Usually concealed by an “urchin disguise,” he distributes replenishing talismans that confer gifts and help create the Duffey Nation [MTM B1:18]. As an eight-year-old he commands a giant to ring a church bell [MTM B1:15]. His later displays include golden sparks and gold coins [MTM B2:38] [MTM B5:167]. In a dream he calls himself the Boy King or Boy Magician and makes clay Paradise Birds; their destruction leads Beth to interpret the dream as doubt in his powers and creations [MTM B2:67].MTM B1:17; MTM B1:18; MTM B1:15; MTM B2:38; MTM B5:167; MTM B2:67
Boy Magician
Duffey’s name for himself, alongside Boy King, in a dream he relates to Beth. He makes clay birds, turns them to living gold and sends them flying as Paradise Birds. When rough men shoot them down, they fall as clay pigeons. Beth interprets the dream as doubt in his powers and creations [MTM B2:67].MTM B2:67
Brace of steins
A pair of beer steins, in the mock Australian request Tom Shire coaches Finnegan to use at the wet canteen: “Hoy soy, dyg, me moit and oi need a broice of stoins.” It forms part of the attempt to pass as Australians [A:12].A:12
Bracelets
Golden bracelets and jangles in Finnegan’s song for Elena, whose sound he compares to the Tambuls of Spain as she tends his battered face [A:274].A:274
Brain
Brain and mind imagery ranges from anatomy to psychic power and damaged identity. Hans’s comic argument about ancient forks cites surviving jawbones, brain pans and pelvises rather than fingers [A:5]. An epigraph credited to Carmody Overlark’s Studies in the Imagination contrasts the modern forebrain with a supposedly greater Neanderthal back-brain, associates the latter with unconscious and ghostly powers, and adduces Plato, Homer and Aquinas among its examples [D:270-272]. The narrator’s fantastic account of Papua similarly makes other peoples dependent on the Papuans’ bottomless unconscious [A:37]. Sulem distinguishes the tujuan, or personal directions, supposedly located under a brain lobe, in the liver or in the diaphragm, from the semangat, or soul; he places both in the diaphragm himself [A:60]. In Don Lewis’s Big House tale, the inhabitants consume visitors’ brains and other organs [D:48]. Duffey enters Lily Koch’s mind, where she recognizes him and invites a reciprocal intimacy of minds [MTM B1:29]. Newton Prescott may require brain surgery if writing and burning his journal fails to free him from compulsive memories [CM:503]. Stein explains his supposed soul exchange with Casey as a trade of interior goblins, kabouters, that share their former owners’ secrets [PG:537-538]. In the Great Day, Stein’s once plentiful brains have metaphorically evaporated [GD:493]. Finnegan’s resurrected brain retains his old identity despite the new assignment and modified identity he receives [MB:554]. Duffey’s returning life appears to him as life in the past, an effect of the Argo’s ambiguous relation to time [MTM B13:445]. Hillary Hilton deals figuratively in distressed brains [A:255]. Seaworthy’s shovel spills part of the first Papa Devil’s brain [D:75]. Finnegan resumes using his human brain after the ape-cat escape [D:165], and describes his own indefinite boundaries after seeing Dopey in his mirror [D:188]. Brannagan calls the world’s selective idiocy an epidemic spread by a man-sized germ [D:202].A:5; D:270-272; A:37; A:60; D:48; MTM B1:29; CM:503; PG:537-538; GD:493; MB:554; MTM B13:445; A:255; D:75; D:165; D:188; D:202
Brain Damage
Biloxi Brannagan’s diagnosis of the world’s selective idiocy. He describes a recurring infection carried by a man-sized germ and calls the parasite “the alien within” [D:202-203].D:202-203
Brambles
The brambles on the sheer Naxos mountainside through which Finnegan makes his hazardous descent, and the bushes he bursts through while fleeing downhill after the shots [D:141] [D:144].D:141; D:144
Branch
The Frio is named as a river branch in Finnegan’s confused account of his travels [A:202]. In Don Lewis’s tale a ta’a nut tree grows a branch to Ali’s window and enables his escape from the Big House [D:49]; old gnarled branches are among the features of the Naxos mountaintop [D:132]. Margaret Stone uses branch for the Stein side of the family [MTM B4:112], while Charlotte Garfield says she and Duffey belong to closely related branches of the old people [MTM B8:260]. The child hero proposes a forked peach branch for reading an object’s history, and Duffey has such a red-peach dowser’s stick [MTM B11:326]. In their shared prayer Duffey responds to Finnegan’s shaken-earth verse with “Heal its branches, for it quakes” [MTM B12:375].A:202; D:49; D:132; MTM B4:112; MTM B8:260; MTM B11:326; MTM B12:375
Brannagan, Gertrude
Biloxi Brannagan’s hospitable wife. Finnegan meets her at their Biloxi house, mistaking the private kitchen garden for a beer garden, and she adopts him on sight [D:199-200]. A full-built, dark, slightly Frenchy woman of forty-five, give or take fifteen years, she is described as a fortress and “Living Gothic” [D:200]. She supplies rice ribby, huckleberry and greenberry wine, perry, pecan pancakes, roast pork and turtle chowder [D:208], and arranges the transfer of Finnegan’s impounded car in exchange for her nearly worthless one [D:209]. Finnegan kisses her goodbye once, then four or five times more [D:210]. Duffey recalls her expansive kisses to both himself and Biloxi [MTM B13:410].D:199-200; D:200; D:208; D:209; D:210; MTM B13:410
Brannagan, John Joseph Biloxi
John Joseph is Biloxi Brannagan’s proper given name, as Gertrude reveals while speaking to Finnegan [D:201].D:201
Brass
Metal used for the bright stops and frets of the Coryphaena fishes’ shell horns [MTM B13:450], and for the stop-keys and filigree of Duffey’s handmade recorder [MTM B6:190]. Brass is also part of the figurative alloy of Betty Hochstapler’s heart, along with vanadium steel, phosphor bronze and a warmer glowing metal [A:216]. Duffey initially mistakes the nail holding the Royal Pop Historians’ parchment for brass or bronze; it is copper-iron, of old Macedonian workmanship [MTM B11:313].MTM B13:450; MTM B6:190; A:216; MTM B11:313
Brave
Finnegan speaks “bravely” when making his rehearsed request for brews to Sergeant Bushmaster [A:13]. The Old Wooden Ship’s fifty regulars are called a brave company [D:216]. X says brave men blanch at “flogging a dead horse,” his figure for pursuing an unfashionable conspiracy inquiry [A:139]. A darker related word appears when ladies send their bravos to take gruesome souvenirs from the severed head of Paul the Eleventh [MB:562].A:13; D:216; A:139; MB:562
Brawler
Henry Salvatore calls himself a lecher, drunkard, glutton and brawler [A:38]. Duffey arrives from Chicago as a “high-sounding brawler,” amid the company’s pre-wedding gatherings [A:97]. Bagby brawls throughout St. Louis, including vicious fights in which he has left a man for dead and been left for dead himself [MTM B2:62].A:38; A:97; MTM B2:62
Brazil
Brazil is the western end of the Atlantic crossing discussed aboard the Brunhilde. After sailing from Natal to Freetown, the narrator says a ship should go from Africa to Brazil, where westward drift assists it; Papadiabolous claims many earlier peoples made that westward passage and that returning was much harder [D:89]. X includes Brazil among countries where Irish teachers could give English an Irish accent [D:279]. It is also the surname of Cicero Brazil among Duffey’s Chicago acquaintances [MTM B3:99].D:89; D:279; MTM B3:99
Brazil, Cicero
One of the college and university people in Duffey’s Chicago circle during its golden age [MTM B3:99].MTM B3:99
Bread
Bread and wine introduce Melchisedech in the Genesis 14:18 epigraph to Book Two [MTM B2:38]. Young Duffey stocks ten loaves of black bread for his new establishment [MTM B2:41]. Among his Seven Christs is a wheat-and-rye Danish bread head, baked and varnished, which the narrator connects with Corpus Christi loaves [MTM B3:103]. In Ignacio’s moon-voyage story Father Joseph packs bread and wine, wheat and grape cuttings for celebrating Mass [A:271]. The Bohemes eat tough fish with old bread from Lupido’s, and Trinali claims she could feed a multitude [A:234]. Finnegan unloads bread and other provisions at Anastasia’s grandmother’s house [D:126]. Duffey orders pond-scum bread at the extraordinary marine restaurant [MTM B13:417]. Gautier, by contrast, does not bother with bread but boils wheat and eats it with milk and honey [A:197].MTM B2:38; MTM B2:41; MTM B3:103; A:271; A:234; D:126; MTM B13:417; A:197
Bread and Wine Room
An intimate room aboard the Argo where meaningful gatherings take place [MTM B13:403]. It later houses the recovered Lord’s Table from the Cenaculum in Jerusalem [MTM B13:422]. Its name recalls the bread and wine of the Melchisedech epigraph [MTM B2:38]. Duffey also has an earlier small Bread and Wine Room at his St. Louis establishment, where he dines with friends [MTM B2:58].MTM B13:403; MTM B13:422; MTM B2:38; MTM B2:58
Breakwater
The Naxos breakwater has a cafe where Finnegan breakfasts with Anastasia and Papadiabolous after confession and Mass [D:120]. Later, someone tells Finnegan that Anastasia fell from the breakwater when shot and was already dead when pulled from the water [D:147].D:120; D:147
Breathing
Finnegan hears Marie Courtois’s ecstatic breathing through her hotel-room door before finding her in a cataleptic rapture [D:112]. In the island hammocks, a voice from the sleeping Don Barnaby asks Finnegan to repay Anastasia fifty dollars, and later says it has been dead in the sand for three years; Barnaby’s vigorous, regular breathing is uninterrupted on both occasions [D:238] [D:256]. On the Argo all breathing stops immediately before the Great One appears, then resumes at a different pace [MTM B13:461-462].D:112; D:238; D:256; MTM B13:461-462
Breeze
A breeze and a bloom are among the narrator’s comic requirements for an earthly paradise [D:237]. At the bar Finnegan and his companions call Sloppy Joe’s, a light blue breeze ruffles golden air [D:235]. In New Orleans the new breeze of the coming Splendor carries putridity and the smell of change [MTM B11:313]; after the Opera House killings, it blows beneath a jeweled sky, described as new and unlegacied [MTM B11:351].D:237; D:235; MTM B11:313; MTM B11:351
Brewery horses
Edward Ranwick’s disparaging comparison for the sturdy girls of the Bavarian Club. The narrator rejects it, calling them powerful but trim; Helen Platner is one of the girls with whom Duffey is friendly [MTM B2:58].MTM B2:58
Brews
Finnegan asks Sergeant Bushmaster for a “clutch of brews” while trying to pass as an Australian [A:13]. Patrick Stranahan’s compressed philosophy allows four brews: an American, a Danish, a Bohemian and Guinness [A:110].A:13; A:110
Brhzhlozh
The intuitive music-writing machine credited with the Bear Ballet at the Decatur Street Opera House. Mary Virginia says Brhzhlozh is only a machine, and Cyrus Roundhead agrees; he explains that the splendid people rejected even keeping a few unmutated humans as composers [MTM B11:349-350]. The machine’s music accompanies the cruel spectacle of bears, net wielders and human victims.MTM B11:349-350
Bride
Theresa Piccone, Show Boat, is Vincent Stranahan’s bride; Finnegan sits on her lap at their wedding reception [A:113]. The earlier Bride and Bridegroom remark in the Lotus Eaters belongs to Marie Monaghan’s engagement celebration with Hans Schultz [A:28-29].A:113; A:28-29
Bridegroom
Vincent Stranahan is the bridegroom at his wedding to Theresa Piccone, Show Boat [A:113]. In the earlier Lotus Eaters scene, Marie Monaghan speaks of Bride and Bridegroom while celebrating her engagement to Hans Schultz [A:28-29].A:113; A:28-29
Bridge
Duffey emerges from the Sea of Lost Years onto the Mississippi shore below Eads Bridge in St. Louis [MTM B13:465]. In Chicago he identifies himself with the Pont du Sable Traffic Trestle, whose supposedly ornamental support is knocked out; its loss carries weight for him [MTM B3:104-105]. Theresa compares the performer Maria Tornabuoni’s overhang to a Renaissance bridge [A:49], while Hillary Hilton buys an actual bridge in Grundy County with Finnegan accompanying him [A:254]. Hugh Stranahan’s friends play bridge, the card game [A:104]. In Finnegan’s uncertain dream-conversation with Marie Courtois, crossing a bridge figures death and immortality; Marie insists it has only one shore, a belief Finnegan later recalls as she dies [D:91-92] [D:157]. Another dream-bridge takes him from the Naxos mountaintop to a higher, internally lit, translucent mountain, where he pursues the Oreads [D:138].MTM B13:465; MTM B3:104-105; A:49; A:254; A:104; D:91-92; D:157; D:138
Bridge-playing
Hugh Stranahan’s bridge-playing friends form one of the many circles of visitors to Patrick and Monica’s house [A:104].A:104
Brig
One of the vessels in Terry Cork’s comic verse about Dotty: her face launches tugs, tramps, a brig, a coracle and the Bark [MTM B7:214].MTM B7:214
Brigadier
The unnamed Australian brigadier falsely implicated in the Tania hoax. The conspirators tell Stein that the officer has smuggled a woman onto the island for sexual purposes; Tania is actually Tommy Trouncer in costume [A:51]. Casey urges Stein to enlist officers for a raid and a charge of moral turpitude. The brigadier first thinks an unauthorized woman must be punished, then becomes furious on learning that he is the accused [A:53-54]. Stein’s general access to unusual colonels and brigadiers is mentioned earlier [A:19].A:51; A:53-54; A:19
Brigand
Brigands belong to the Old American Blood and Thunder adventure material Gautier loves in the Harlow House library, alongside train robbers, buffalo hunters, Indian scalpers and bank robbers [A:198].A:198
Bright Spot
Dotty’s name for the few remaining sources of good in a world filling with spiritual trash: she says they are mostly themselves, and Duffey agrees that the world still contains many good people. Bagby’s death immediately follows this exchange [MTM B7:236].MTM B7:236
Brilliant young man with a stutter, The
The unnamed brilliant man whom the Argo Masters encounter at Weinsburg on the Nechar River. His mind is compared to a burning sphere, and his frustrated fury makes him a dangerous overturner. Duffey says “Ephphatha,” opening his lips and tongue and curing his stutter [MTM B13:430]. The man objects that he never asked for the cure: frustration supplies the anger needed for his destructive mission. Duffey refuses to restore it and leaves with Brannagan. Casey lingers, and the narrator pointedly asks why anyone would give the man his stutter back [MTM B13:431].MTM B13:430; MTM B13:431
Brimstone
Sulfur, associated with diabolic fire. Finnegan tells Theresa Piccone that her baptismal salt flamed on contact with real brimstone and that the font cracked; she answers his witchcraft teasing in kind [A:108]. Brimstone is among the boiling materials used to seal Saint Sécaire’s sword inside its scabbard [MTM B13:422]. Doll’s “Diabolique” calls for salting the buried Devil with sulphur [D:293].A:108; MTM B13:422; D:293
Brimstone Combo
The band in Trinali’s poem about an old saloon by Beelzebub and Hell-Raiser Streets near Iniquity Square. Birsha plays diatonic harp, Shinar a nine-stringed kithara, Bera a B-flat trumpet, Zoar drums, and Schemember a ram’s horn. The Seven Just Men visit nightly for toddies [A:235]. The names adapt Genesis 14: Bera, Birsha and Shemeber are kings, whereas Shinar is a land and Zoar a city.A:235
Briquettes (Charcoal)
Charcoal briquettes in a two-foot trencher-plate supplied and lit by the hotel waitress when a lawn bonfire is forbidden. The picnic party sits around the small fire singing childhood camp songs [A:30-31].A:30-31
Brisbane, Gilbert
One of the artists whose work Duffey sells and whose creative ideas contribute to the Rebuilding Thesis. He appears in the roster with Rita Tinder and Crystal O’Boyle [MTM B6:198-199].MTM B6:198-199
British
Seaworthy claims that a Hindu belief in India as Purgatory has been interpreted as a criticism of life under British rule [D:72]. The Naxos raiders carry Enfield rifles of old British issue [D:136]. The narrator distinguishes the British Basseterre from the French Basse-Terre while stressing Finnegan’s confusion about which island he has reached [D:235].D:72; D:136; D:235
Brokebolt, Paul Cardinal
Paul Cardinal Brokenbolt of Freemantle, Australia, whose double is Cecil Octavian of England [MB:579]. The name is printed Brokebolt in the “Deaths of the Cardinals” painting list [MTM B13:452]. He is among the thirteen primaries killed in the Track and Total campaign; his burial stone recalls the Lord walking by the Sea of Galilee and seeing two brothers [MB:588-589].MB:579; MTM B13:452; MB:588-589
Brokenbolt, Cecil Octavian
Earlier heading attached the primary’s surname to his double. See Octavian, Cecil (of England).Brood
A collective word for offspring or creations. X says the perversity in Katie Noonan’s family brood cannot, in his view, be explained by the kind man who adopted Ifreann [D:279]. In the talisman discussion, Duffey is credited with a brood of beautiful, bumptious people whose creation is compared with biological parenthood [MTM B5:165].D:279; MTM B5:165
Brook
Finnegan and Howland wade several brooks or creeks flowing west or southwest during their early northward wanderings toward Chicago [A:178-179].A:178-179
Brooms (Family)
One of the four so-called families, alongside the Darts, Oakleys and Leakys, attacked by a Pattenite in the debate with Duffey. The speaker claims their fossil discoveries support one another circularly and that rift faults invalidate the evidence’s original location [MTM B9:282-283]. The name likely alludes to Robert Broom, the South African palaeontologist associated with important hominin finds. The family grouping and attack are the speaker’s polemic.MTM B9:282-283
Brotherhood
The Dirty Five form a mystic brotherhood, compared with the secret societies of the Papuan men around them; its members are Henry, Hans, Vincent, Casey and Finnegan [A:38-39]. The word is used ironically for the psychiatric professionals who cannot appreciate Howell’s humor [A:82-83]. In the Argo episode, the unrecognized Casey Gorshok warns Duffey and Brannagan that failure to recognize a fellow Master could break the Brotherhood [MTM B13:425-426].A:38-39; A:82-83; MTM B13:425-426
Brown Box
The Crock’s archive of cards on infiltrators, brought by X from Chicago inside a gray box nested in a black one. Duffey recognizes the archive as the Crock’s property, and X admits stealing it [MTM B6:201-203]. Most cards are in Duffey’s hand; others are by X and fellow contributors. X adds an unnaturally large orange-red card that nevertheless fits inside the small box [MTM B6:203].MTM B6:201-203; MTM B6:203
Brown Stone Statues of Sjahrir
The brown stone statues in Brannagan’s extraordinary stories, said to be people petrified upright by Seti darts dipped in quick-acting juices. Finnegan is willing to accept this, alongside tales of trading Circassian slave-girl futures at Aden and of Prester John in Madagascar, while remaining uncertain how far to trust Brannagan [D:206].D:206
Brown, Father (Code Name)
One of the expert advisers summoned by the Argo Masters, under a name borrowed from G. K. Chesterton’s priest-detective. The narrative allows that such advisers may be fictional persons or actual persons under disguises [MTM B13:455]. Father Brown warns that the hardest intruder to exclude is already inside, then recommends a trusted English bulldog to detect the familiar turning strange and wrong. Duffey accordingly brings Gunboat Smith aboard [MTM B13:457-458].MTM B13:455; MTM B13:457-458
Browne's Prelude
The music whose first eight bars Finnegan plays softly on his harmonica while urging X to continue the graveyard history [D:285]. The group is at the shared grave of Ifreann and Gregory McIfreann, whom X identifies as Papadiabolous I [D:284-285].D:285; D:284-285
Brownie
A helpful supernatural being, traditionally an elf that works at night. Charley Murray asks whether brownies make Duffey’s otherwise impossible magic props. The narrator calls the term vague but potentially apt for the very large helpers involved, then identifies them as ebony faber-giants working under Duffey’s orders [MTM B1:21].MTM B1:21
Brownsville
The port visited by the Brunhilde the day after Port Isabel. Seaworthy has associates at each stop [D:55].D:55
Brubaker, George
The Newark resident whose unlocked car Finnegan takes while fleeing New York with Doll Delancy. From the car’s papers Finn supplies Doll with the identity Mrs. George Brubaker and says he may briefly have to be George himself [D:167-168]. After returning the car to Brubaker’s house, Finn leaves a note signed Roving Magistrate Number Sixteen, admonishing him for leaving it unlocked and ordering him to Room 101 of the Epimetheos Building. Finn does not know whether that building exists [D:169]. He later guesses that the borrowed glasses he wears also belong to Brubaker [D:170].D:167-168; D:169; D:170
Brubaker, Mrs. George
The identity Finnegan assigns Doll Delancy while she drives George Brubaker’s stolen car from New York toward its owner’s Newark address [D:167-168]. Half asleep, Finn believes they are stopped and hears her tell a questioner with a flashlight that she is Mrs. George Brubaker and is driving home [D:169].D:167-168; D:169
Brunhilde
Saxon X. Seaworthy’s ship, formerly a millionaire’s steam yacht and now a diesel vessel. The narrator calls her a rakish, welcoming old ship despite the killers and cutthroats she carries [D:21] [D:55]. Captain Orestes Gonof commands a crew including Harry Scott, Don Lewis, Joe Cross, Art Emery and Chris McAbney; Finnegan is also carried as a crewman, under John Solli [D:30] [D:39]. Anastasia Demetriades opens the ship’s small bar [D:22]. Manuel first appears as a stowaway and self-described spy; Papa Devil obtains papers that make him a crew member [D:54-55] [D:59]. Finnegan decorates the bar with Sindbad-voyage panels and works out the living face concealed beneath Papa Devil’s assumed appearance [D:59] [D:62]. Anastasia calls the Brunhilde a plague ship that infects wherever it touches [D:69]. Finnegan, rather than Anastasia explicitly speaking of herself, comes to understand that the water-witch’s true form resembles the ship [D:31]. Joe Cross reports Dopey’s screams and unexplained disappearance from a cabin after Papa Devil enters [D:64]; Papa later leaves open whether he or Finnegan killed Dopey, or whether the double was absorbed into Finn [D:121-122]. Don Lewis is murdered by Marie Courtois ashore at Tangier, and Finnegan buries him in sand [D:110-114]. Later Finn says Marie is dying aboard after Joe Cross shot her during the Naxos battle [D:157]. The coastwise voyage calls at Freeport, Palacios, Port O’Conner, Aransas Pass, Corpus and Padre Island, then Port Isabel and Brownsville [D:34] [D:55]. It continues down Mexico and Central America through Campeche, Progreso, Cozumel, Ciudad Chetumal, Belize, Puerto Barrios, La Ceiba, Trujillo, Cabo Gracias a Dios, Blue Fields, Limon and San Cristobal [D:81]. South American stops include Cayenne, Belem, Sao Luis, Camocim, Fortaleza and Natal [D:86]. Leaving Natal on January 18, the ship reaches Freetown on January 26 [D:89], then goes by Bissau, Bathurst, Dakar, St. Louis, Memrhar, Port Etienne, Villa Cisneros and Las Palmas to the Grand Canary [D:96]. It proceeds through Arrecife on Lanzarote, Ifni, Agadir, Magadar, Safti, Mazagan, Casablanca, Rabat and Tangier [D:101], and onward through Palermo, Messina and Zakinthos to Naxos [D:114-115]. The Argo’s later history explicitly recalls the Brunhilde as a name the ship bore under evil owners, with Finnegan’s paintings still in the Sindbad Lounge [MTM B13:404]. Stein’s notes pose further questions about its place in the sequence of Argo and Barque and the overlap of Finnegan’s experience with Giulio’s [MB:549-550]. Those notes say Finn did not die in the early cabin encounter, while recording his hazy memory of Papa Devil bending over to kill him before his first boarding [MB:548].D:21; D:55; D:30; D:39; D:22; D:54-55; D:59; D:62; D:69; D:31; D:64; D:121-122; D:110-114; D:157; D:34; D:81; D:86; D:89; D:96; D:101; D:114-115; MTM B13:404; MB:549-550; MB:548
Brunissende
The heroine named in the Occitan romance Jaufre and Brunissende. Hans meets a poor scholar asking for a quarter to buy it; Hans funds the purchase but buys Les Cents Novelles Nouvelles for himself, and the two read together in a New York park [A:224]. The medieval Jaufre, the sole surviving Arthurian romance in Occitan, follows its knight through combats and courtly trials toward union with Brunissende, lady of Montbrun. Their courtship and eventual marriage combine the Arthurian quest with the culture of southern French romance. Its treatment of chivalry includes comic and critical elements as well as idealized love.A:224
Brush
Brush and bushes provide cover and uncertain boundaries. Finnegan and Anastasia walk through dunes and brush at Padre Island [D:34] [D:38]; at a stop uncertainly identified as Paraiso, Campeche or another port, luxuriant growth over the old walls shelters lizards, snakes and birds [D:67-68]. At Tangier, Finn follows his companions into the weeds and sparse shanties [D:104], then buries Don Lewis in cleaner sand beneath aromatic bushes [D:110]. On Naxos, wine is left in a bush fork [D:126], Oreads emerge from bushes in Finn’s dream [D:137], and Finn and Manuel hide in a thicket after the battle [D:148]. Duffey deliberately chooses thorn hedges in the Delectable Place and discovers a dangerous-looking mechanical lever in the thicket despite Patrick’s warning [MTM B12:391]. The suit-selling Old Dan emerges from bushes, appearing to the naked young customer as perhaps a man or a gnome [A:259]. Ghosts haunt the Barrens and brush in Gautier’s account [A:197], and Elena Musquiz finds the exhausted Finnegan in scrub brush after his buffalo vigil [A:206].D:34; D:38; D:67-68; D:104; D:110; D:126; D:137; D:148; MTM B12:391; A:259; A:197; A:206
Buffalo (American Bison)
The old buffalo bulls of an ancestral city, believed to lie in Frio County just above the fork of two creeks. Finnegan recognizes their distinctive smell and real dung but sees through them, as they seem to see through him, in the altered vision associated with his drinking and life-travel [A:205]. Most of the herd has gone north for summer, leaving sore-footed elders to guard the Capital. Finn sleeps within their circle and feels kinship with their ancient remnant stock; the next morning Elena Musquiz rescues him from the scrub [A:206].A:205; A:206
Buffalo Bar
The bar on Luzon where the Dirty Five drink with their friend Captain Guiterrez, nicknamed Sammy, a young-looking Tagalog officer [A:63] [A:66].A:63; A:66
Buffalo Hunter and Indian Scalper
One of the adventure subjects listed among Gautier’s old American “Blood and Thunder” romances, the books left after his goats have thinned the Harlow House library [A:198].A:198
Buffoon
According to Hans, Stein understood and helped devise the practical joke played on him, enjoying the part of the buffoon [A:55]. After shooting Stockton Stone Crocker, Hackenschmidt says Sic simper zannionibus, glossed in the text as “thus ever to buffoons or zanies” [MB:567].A:55; MB:567
Bug
Finnegan tells the Muses who visit him in a dream, “Go away, girls, you bug me” [A:181]. In Joe Cross’s account of Dopey’s disappearance, Papa Devil dismisses the blood in the cabin as “Bug blood, I guess” [D:64].A:181; D:64
Bugger
Don Lewis calls the apparent Japanese soldier whom his patrol pursues “the little bugger” [D:44]. In his account of confronting Castleman, Le Marin substitutes “You’re a bugger and a Turk” for the words he actually used [D:245-246].D:44; D:245-246
Buggernosed
Doll Delancy calls Finnegan and X “loop-eared, buggernosed bums” while challenging their dismissal of ordinary people’s power to save themselves [D:291-292].D:291-292
Buggy
Buggies appear in the comic account of Cajun antiquity [A:124] and among Duffey’s private vehicles for outings with Mary Louise and Beth [MTM B2:58]. The Royal Pop History catalogue includes Johnson’s Jump-Seat Buggy [MTM B11:329]. An old horse that pulled a buggy around the French Quarter becomes the first large animal put into the Pot [MTM B6:196]. Tommy Katt calls his vehicle a “buggy” when he helps the wounded Finnegan escape [D:232].A:124; MTM B2:58; MTM B11:329; MTM B6:196; D:232
Bugle Nose
Finnegan’s face is described as a comic mask with a bugle nose [A:6]. Papa Devil calls attention to it [D:23], Anastasia calls Finnegan “buglenosed” [D:24], and Dopey’s writing asks why “bugle nose” is not dead [D:78]. Dotty’s related phrase is “banana-nosed brat” [A:93].A:6; D:23; D:24; D:78; A:93
Building
Buildings include the Plaza and its many bars [A:3] [A:88]; the Cat Castle, Patrick Stranahan’s family home [A:102]; the warehouse and loft adjoining the New Orleans print shop, fitted out for a library, institute, auditorium, and living quarters [A:126]; the Federal Buildings where Finnegan might obtain mural commissions [A:184]; and the abandoned Harlow House, sometimes occupied by the goat-man and his goats [A:197]. In The Devil Is Dead, Don Lewis seeks protection at the consulate and at a paid hiding place in Tangier [D:106-108]. Finnegan climbs six stories up a Gothic hotel [D:162], invents an appointment at the possibly nonexistent Epimetheos Building [D:169], drinks at the shady bait house [D:182], and attacks the Pirate Hotel [D:231]. The Old Wooden Ship is a four-story, unpainted, pungent building on a garlic block, with a raked-shell sidewalk, many doors, interior and exterior stairs, loose slat shutters, and a swaying, creaking motion [D:215]. Zabotski’s boat palace on Pristine Cove is called the Big Red Barn [MTM B10:290].A:3; A:88; A:102; A:126; A:184; A:197; D:106-108; D:162; D:169; D:182; D:231; D:215; MTM B10:290
Bulfinch's Mythology
The mythology book from which Duffey says he knows the Argo, when Teresa asks whether he remembers sailing on the ship [MTM B12:386].MTM B12:386
Bull
Finnegan is compared to a yearling bull [A:1], and Count Finnegan in the painting retains the strength and speed of a yearling bullock [MTM B12:368] [MB:551]. Mary Louise is figured as the royal bovine or sacred cow [MTM B2:55]. Casey’s imagined women include Cretan girl bull-fighters [A:157], and his school notebook defines a Free Martin as a sterile heifer born twin to a bull calf [A:164]. The Cretan Bull Drama at the Decatur Street Opera House combines athletic displays with the killing of human victims [MTM B11:349]. Bull snakes occur at the Nursery and in the lore of Chosky Bottoms [A:208] [D:274]. Basin Street Becaud plays a bull fiddle and pretends its case holds a shotgun capable of decapitating a bull elephant [D:223]. The bull-sinew bowstring figures the tension between the elements composing humanity [D:283].A:1; MTM B12:368; MB:551; MTM B2:55; A:157; A:164; MTM B11:349; A:208; D:274; D:223; D:283
Bull snakes
Snakes among the wildlife along Hans’s mile-long running route through the Nursery [A:208]. Eighteen-foot bull snakes are also part of the lore of Chosky Bottoms [D:274].A:208; D:274
Bull-fighters (Cretan Girl)
Women in Casey Szymansky’s second imaginary world, an erotic fantasy populated by figures from history and legend [A:157].A:157
Bulldog (English)
Father Brown recommends an English bulldog to detect the moment when something familiar becomes strange and wrong, as protection against the Man of Mystery. Duffey chooses Gunboat Smith, whom he trusts despite Kasmir Gorshok’s objections [MTM B13:458].MTM B13:458
Bulldog Courage
Courage attributed to Joe Bushmaster’s forebears by his supporters during the drinking contest. Finnegan jokes that some of those forebears were bulldogs [A:23].A:23
Bully Boys
The Slant Faced Men appear as the Laughing Prince’s bully boys in Duffey’s desert hallucination [MTM B13:440].MTM B13:440
Bum
Finnegan tells Hillary Hilton that the Shaman diagnosed him as a “natural born bum,” and Hilton agrees [A:255]. Giulio Solli, Finnegan’s father, is called a poor bum and is recalled as a dock worker [A:244]. Vincent’s parable of two bums in a gutter ridicules refusing a remedy because it has been tried before [A:57]. Finnegan gives a pursuing beggar his pocket change while escaping with the suitcase [D:166]. See Bumi for the canoe’s name.A:255; A:244; A:57; D:166
Bumi
One of the names of the canoe in the Malayan boy’s account, glossed by him as “of the world.” Its other names are Aral and Aragh, and the Sergeant recognizes it as the Argo [A:89].A:89
Bunk
Finnegan occupies the bunk from which Dopey disappeared and shares the cabin with Don Lewis and Joe Cross [D:31] [D:64]. He senses Dopey’s dead but lingering presence there [D:78]. The edge of Dopey’s envelope is visible behind an upper balk only to someone lying in Finnegan’s bunk [D:50-51] [D:78].D:31; D:64; D:78; D:50-51
Buonorroti
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564), named “Buonorroti” by Papa Piccone alongside Sancho and Cellini. Patrick Stranahan replies that such artists should have remained anonymous like their medieval predecessors [A:111]. See Michaelangelo.A:111
Buoys
Some buoys along the Naxos shipways carry bells that clang as they roll with the waves [D:131].D:131
Burden
In Bascom Bagby’s commentary from Purgatory, prayers supposedly offered for the Poor Souls often transfer the petitioners’ own burdens to them. These arrive on caravans of laden scapegoats. Casey cares for the exhausted animals and repairs their injuries [PG:546].PG:546
Bureau (Weather)
The weather bureau, or “some bureau anyhow,” provides Casey’s analogy for testing political phrases by sending up balloons to see which way the wind blows. He then replaces the balloon comparison with an echo-cave analogy [A:185].A:185
Burgandy, Horatio
One of the scientifically inclined people in Duffey and Letitia’s Chicago circle, listed together with Mildred Burgandy [MTM B3:98-99].MTM B3:98-99
Burgandy, Mildred
One of the scientifically inclined people in Duffey and Letitia’s Chicago circle, listed together with Horatio Burgandy [MTM B3:98-99].MTM B3:98-99
Burglars
John (Little Alcohol) Indelecio and John (Big Alcohol) Jereboam, among the Old Wooden Ship’s characters, work as burglars: Little Alcohol climbs to high windows, while Big Alcohol handles drilling and prying [D:218]. X describes Papadiabolous II, also known as Noonan, as a gentleman burglar before he entered police work [D:285-287].D:218; D:285-287
Burglary (Upper-story)
Finnegan has recently committed several upper-story burglaries to obtain evidence, rather than money, before he perches like a living gargoyle on a Gothic hotel [D:162].D:162
Burial
Finnegan helps Saxon Seaworthy bury Papadiabolous I in an already occupied grave [D:75-76] [D:84] [D:153]. X later identifies the older occupant as their father, called Ifreann, buried in 1930 [D:285] [D:288]; the stone is inscribed I.N.C.G.P. Bogovitch [D:277]. The ground has split since the second burial [D:293]. Finnegan buries Don Lewis in clean sand near Tangier [D:110-111], recalling Don’s account of burying Yokipoki in mud [D:46]. Anastasia receives a lavish funeral, which X thinks Seaworthy arranged [D:157].D:75-76; D:84; D:153; D:285; D:288; D:277; D:293; D:110-111; D:46; D:157
Burlesque
Papa Piccone defends the Star and Garter’s shows as burlesque in the original sense, despite threats to close the theatre unless it drops the designation [A:48]. Finnegan’s cigar-store Indian carvings also have a touch of burlesque [A:183], and Anastasia can appear as a “burlesque of the pretty” [D:20]. Piccone’s account of Oscar Oliver Omygosh turns on the failure of a stage caricature when its original appears in person [MTM B5:168]. Burlesque is also among the popular arts described as being systematically degraded [MTM B6:207]. These uses connect theatrical entertainment with comic distortion.A:48; A:183; D:20; MTM B5:168; MTM B6:207
Burning Bush
Image X applies to Absalom Stein in a letter: Stein has seen the burning bush and must now wander forty years in the desert. X follows it with an appeal for intelligence and serenity [A:265-266].A:265-266
Burr Oak
Unverified comparison. The earlier glossary says Duffey likens his voice to a burr-oak branch scratching a wooden wall, but a supporting passage has not been located.Burro
Finnegan and Anastasia rent the donkey Papapaleologus for their visit to her grandmother on Naxos [D:124-125].D:124-125
Bursar
In Bagby’s account, Duffey acts as North American Bursar of the World-Wide Argonauts Argo Balloon Club, collecting subscriptions intended for a nonexistent headquarters in Geneva [MTM B2:63].MTM B2:63
Burton
Richard Francis Burton, translator of the Arabian Nights. The introduction invokes his warning to keep the Nights under lock and key before warning of its own narrative precipices [D:7]. See Burton, Sir Richard Francis (1821--1890).D:7
Burton, Sir Richard Francis (1821--1890)
English explorer, soldier, linguist, diplomat, and translator (1821-1890). The introduction to The Devil Is Dead invokes “Old Burton” and his warning that subscribers should keep their copies of the Nights under lock and key [D:7]. His Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, privately published under the Kama Shastra Society imprint from 1885, is unexpurgated, uses deliberately archaic language, and carries extensive notes on customs and sexuality. It also draws heavily on John Payne’s earlier English translation. Burton’s other publishing ventures included the Kama Sutra and The Perfumed Garden. He visited Mecca in disguise in 1853, explored East Africa with John Hanning Speke, and held consular appointments including Fernando Po, Damascus, and Trieste. He died in Trieste.D:7
Bush
X tells Absalom Stein that he has seen the burning bush and must wander forty years in the desert [A:265-266]. Other settings include the scrub brush where Elena Musquiz rescues Finnegan [A:206], the haunted brush near the Harlow House [A:197], and the bushes from which the suit-selling, gnome-like stranger emerges [A:259]. Finnegan and Anastasia walk through dunes and brush [D:38]; on Naxos they leave wine in the fork of a bush [D:126], Oreads emerge from bushes in Finnegan’s dream [D:137], and Finnegan and Manuel later hide in a thicket [D:148]. Aromatic bushes cover the place Finnegan chooses for Don Lewis’s grave [D:110]. Duffey deliberately leaves the green way to enter thorn hedges in the Delectable Place [MTM B12:391-392]. See Brush.A:265-266; A:206; A:197; A:259; D:38; D:126; D:137; D:148; D:110; MTM B12:391-392
Bushmaster, Joe
Australian sergeant on orderly duty at the wet canteen, described as larger and fiercer-looking than a gorilla [A:12]. He joins the joke played on Finnegan and Vincent, including the fictitious beer-chit requirement [A:13-14], but stops the torment because he dislikes seeing innocents suffer [A:14]. Calling himself the world’s heavyweight drinking champion, he agrees to face Hans Schultz [A:15]; Jimmy Hansen advertises him as the “Lion of the South” [A:19]. His confidence gives way to worry and panic as Hans drinks steadily ahead of him [A:20-21]. He finally fails to finish a glass after four hours and twenty minutes [A:23].A:12; A:13-14; A:14; A:15; A:19; A:20-21; A:23
Busker (Street)
Finnegan plays the concertina in bars and streets during the Ignacio and Elena episode. Ignacio thinks it undignified for a Yankee to play in the streets. Elena accompanies the instrument she sold him, and later Finnegan refuses to play for rude visitors [A:272-273]. The passage describes street performance but does not establish that busking was his youthful occupation.A:272-273
Bust
The Ambrosian bust of Homer appears in the chapter-opening discussion of supposedly Neanderthal features and capacities [D:270-271].D:270-271
Buster
Unverified term. The earlier glossary attributes “Buster” to Casey and Seaworthy as a name for Finnegan; neither claimed use has been located.Busybody
Unverified attribution. No supporting passage has been located for Casey calling Duffey a busybody because of his interference.Butcher
In Don Lewis’s story, Yokipoki has a double-edged butcher knife, which Don uses while digging his grave [D:46]. Don imagines that the dead man is cutting his bonds and attacking him with it, then discovers rats at the body [D:47]. A butcher also buys Homer Hochheimer’s purple cow in Marie’s anecdote [A:24].D:46; D:47; A:24
Butler
Surname of Buttercup Butler, the perennial senior who serves as room captain in Casey’s chamber at St. Bonaventure’s [A:161-162]. See Butler, Buttercup.A:161-162
Butler, Buttercup
Perennial senior and room captain in Casey Szymansky’s six-boy chamber at St. Bonaventure’s. Smallest of the boys, he looks like an owl, has some wit, and gives little help with lessons [A:161-162].A:161-162
Butterfly
X’s conspicuous eight-toned car is called a “butterfly.” He argues that its very conspicuousness will confound pursuers, then admits Doll is right that he simply fell in love with it [D:179-180]. Butterflies gather at the old wood graveyard [A:233]. Gloria Mullens calls her supposedly dead husband a grasshopper and a butterfly, describing his improvident character rather than a literal transformation [MTM B3:79].D:179-180; A:233; MTM B3:79
Buzzards
Buzzards attack Duffey with “knifie beaks” after he falls into the dung heap [MTM B12:392-393]. Casey’s attack on the Bark remarks that “even buzzards sometimes gag,” referring to Finnegan’s departure [A:128-129]. Zabotski compares the strange episode hanging over the town to a fancy-Dan buzzard with peacock feathers [MTM B11:306-307].MTM B12:392-393; A:128-129; MTM B11:306-307
Byrne, Mary Louise
See Bagby, Mary Louise (Byrne).Byzantine Empire/style
Unverified composite entry. The earlier glossary connects Byzantine history and iconoclasm with Professor Kirol and compares Anastasia’s story to a Byzantine puzzle. Supporting passages for these connections have not been located.Cabala
The Jewish mystical tradition also called Kabbalah. The novels use “cabalistic” more loosely for mysterious signs: Finnegan invents meaningless markings on a lead weight [D:164], and teasingly tells Theresa that witches have marks on their fingernails which appear on Fridays [A:107-108]. These passages do not identify particular symbols from Jewish mysticism.D:164; A:107-108
Cabalistic Markings
Meaningless signs invented by Finnegan and marked on the lead weight he uses to break a window during his attack on the meeting in the Gothic hotel [D:162-164].D:162-164
Cabbage
One of the foods served at the Colony Club’s Harvesters’ Dinner, alongside kale and sauerkraut [MTM B3:94].MTM B3:94
Cabby
Joe Sorrell, who drives Finnegan and Anastasia across to the bay side to visit the Brunhilde [D:21].D:21
Cabin
Finnegan shares a cabin on the Brunhilde with Don Lewis and Joe Cross [D:31]. In Joe’s account, Papa Devil enters while Dopey is alone in the bunk; Joe hears two screams, then a third cut short. When he enters, only Papa Devil and a little blood remain, although Dopey could not have escaped [D:64]. Finnegan later senses Dopey’s dead presence there [D:78].D:31; D:64; D:78
Cabinet head
An unnamed minister imagined as losing sleep over Seaworthy and Papa Devil’s conspicuous company while they dine on the Grand Canary [D:99-100].D:99-100
Cabinet Maker
One of Duffey’s natural crafts, alongside carpentry and joinery [MTM B1:21]. Bagby also has a cabinet shop adjoining Duffey’s premises; both buildings are made of fine walnut [MTM B2:46].MTM B1:21; MTM B2:46
Cable exercises
Part of Hans Schultz’s physical training, drawn from mail-order muscle builders as he strives to match his father John William’s strength [A:208].A:208
Cables
The giant spider’s web in Hans’s climbing dream has cable-like threads eight inches thick [A:61]. Duffey climbs through hidden cables and struts above a stage to investigate the Majesty [MTM B8:240]. In the Great Day’s disordered streets, severed electrical feeders leave wires dangling and sparking above a dead child [GD:488].A:61; MTM B8:240; GD:488
Cabo Gracias a Dios
Cape on the Caribbean coast at the Honduras-Nicaragua boundary. Cabo Gracias a Dios appears among the Brunhilde’s stops, after Trujillo and before Blue Fields [D:81].D:81
Cabo Rojo
One of the seven false or shoal passages through the Antilles in Angela Cosquin’s account of her father’s shipwreck maps. Her list also names Jardines Banks, Vieques, St. Barthelemy, the Basseterre-Nevis passage, the Basse-Terre-Marie Galante passage, and the Grenadines [D:259-260].D:259-260
Cabriolar
One of the Spanish “goatish verbs” offered by Gautier in his discussion of Finnegan’s “cut capers” pun; it names the capering side of the joke, paired with capar [A:196] [A:199].A:196; A:199
Cabron
Spanish for a male goat, given as cabron by Gautier in his explanation of Finnegan’s goat pun [A:196] [A:199]. The usual Spanish spelling is cabrón.A:196; A:199
Cacciatore, Berny
Writer for the Sporting News Sheet and companion of Gabrielovitch and Bulo Belonki on their early-morning rounds of the bars [A:126]. He tells the Pelican group that Finnegan boxed before the war under the name Solli and was good at it, a fact even Dotty had not known [A:127]. He is later described as the finest historian of boxing and other sports [MTM B11:322].A:126; A:127; MTM B11:322
Cactus kingdom
The noon-day devils’ offer to Finnegan in the heat of the chaparral. He sees that their promised kingdom is only the cactus country already available to him [A:205].A:205
Cadensus, Catherine
Described as the prettiest girl staying at the Old Wooden Ship. She goes about with Vivian Gilligan, Ouida Garrard, and Mercedes Morrero; the four draw admiring attention in the bar. Finnegan comes increasingly often to see Catherine, although he stays to look at Mercedes [D:224].D:224
Cades
Biblical Kadesh, named in Melchisedech’s psalm exchange with Finnegan: “The Lord shakes the desert of Cades” [MTM B12:375]. The passage corresponds to Psalm 29:8, numbered Psalm 28:8 in the Douay-Rheims Bible.MTM B12:375
Cai
One of the places where summer is eternal in the verse opening the Finnegan chapter of Archipelago [A:171].A:171
Cain
Son of Adam and Eve, introduced before his brother Abel in Genesis 4. During his Transport, Finnegan asks whether Cain belonged to his own older people and links the question to the facial mark or protuberance “like another nose” [D:212-213].D:212-213
Cajun
The south-Louisiana people whose history includes the settlement of Acadian exiles. Henry Salvatore is explicitly identified as Cajun [A:123]. His cousins send seasonal produce for Duffey’s soup by intercoastal-canal boatmen [A:134]. Ouida Garrard is also Cajun [D:224], and Cajun French is one ingredient of Finnegan’s speech [A:6]. A Cajun riverman receives the talisman from which Henri Salvatore is said to originate [MTM B5:152]; “Henri” is pronounced “Onree” in the Cajun fashion [MTM B6:195]. In “Great Day in the Morning,” Duffy supposes that drunken Cajuns must have assembled the disorderly newspaper [GD:486].A:123; A:134; D:224; A:6; MTM B5:152; MTM B6:195; GD:486
Cajun French
One of the elements of Finnegan’s mixed New Orleans dialect. The narrator describes it as a “shapeless drift of Cajun French come to town” [A:6].A:6
Cake
Finnegan and Doll have coffee and cakes at the station before leaving Newark [D:169-170]. Doll also brings cakes to the graveyard picnic; when X calls them devil’s food, she corrects him that they are gingerbread [D:277] [D:284]. The Widow Waldo brings freshly made cakes with coffee [MTM B6:196]. Duffey’s first talisman goes to an Italian pushcart seller of little cakes when Duffey is no more than three [MTM B1:18]. Lily orders a sixty-four-inch-square cake, about three feet high and nine hundred pounds, for the birthday she declares Duffey’s four-thousandth [MTM B8:257]. In the Majesty’s speech, hatred is “both the cake and the frosting on the cake” [MTM B8:242].D:169-170; D:277; D:284; MTM B6:196; MTM B1:18; MTM B8:257; MTM B8:242
Calf
Finnegan’s psalm prayer makes Lebanon skip like a calf [MTM B12:375], corresponding to Psalm 29:6. Casey’s notebook defines a Free Martin as a sterile heifer born twin to a bull calf [A:164]. Dotty compares Finnegan to a wandering calf her family eventually butchered [A:95-96]. Loy writes that her father killed the fatted calf for his returning prodigal daughter [A:27].MTM B12:375; A:164; A:95-96; A:27
California
The location of an unpublished Man from Uncle manuscript mentioned by Rick Norwood in the publisher’s back matter to Archipelago [A:285]. The name also occurs in California Street [MTM B1:25], California Fruit chewing gum [MTM B1:26], and California Bucking Rolls [MTM B2:45-46]. These names alone do not place Duffey’s school or establish where the products were made.A:285; MTM B1:25; MTM B1:26; MTM B2:45-46
California Bucking Rolls
One explanation offered for the padded leather straps found in Duffey’s former livery stable: fittings that can be added to an ordinary saddle to make it suitable for breaking horses [MTM B2:45-46].MTM B2:45-46
California Fruit Chewing Gum
One of the goods sold during the boys’ secret nighttime sales at school, alongside drinks, sweets, and pigs’ feet [MTM B1:25-26].MTM B1:25-26
California Street
Street named in the account of Duffey and his friends returning to school after ten at night. The narrator immediately qualifies it as whatever street, in whatever town, provided the scene that year [MTM B1:25].MTM B1:25
Call box
The supposed place where unforwarded letters await Finnegan, one of the reasons he offers himself for leaving Paradise [D:267].D:267
Callagy
One of the leaders who try to rally the old-line people against the Royal Pop People, alongside Fitzherbert, Chastellain, Faucher, Panebianco, Cassady, and Loubet. The leaders either join the new people or perish, but the text does not specify which fate belongs to Callagy [MTM B11:335].MTM B11:335
Calumet, Alice
One of the pleasant, competent, interesting, but “slippery” people in Duffey’s Chicago circle, printed as “Alive Calumet” in that list [MTM B3:100]. With Olivia Hallahan, Shirley Israel, and Josephine McSorley, Alice hisses at Demetrio Glauch when he rejects their entertainment and leaves [MTM B4:127].MTM B3:100; MTM B4:127
Calumet, John
Member of Duffey’s Chicago circle, listed with Alice Calumet among its “slippery” people [MTM B3:100] [MTM B4:127]. He stays at the supper after Demetrio Glauch leaves; the Calumets belong to the group that later seeks to keep Duffey close and use his magic [MTM B4:127] [MTM B4:137].MTM B3:100; MTM B4:127; MTM B4:137
Calumets
John and Alice Calumet belong to the social circle that seeks to keep Duffey close and exploit his supposed magic, while promoting the reputation of salons allegedly superior to his [MTM B4:127] [MTM B4:137].MTM B4:127; MTM B4:137
Calvados, Dry Gulch
Earlier heading that reversed letters in the surname. See Cavaldos, Dry Gulch.Cambeltown
New South Wales location named in the heading of Loy Larkin’s letter to Finnegan, dated Thursday, February 11, 1943 [A:27].A:27
Camel
Honeybucket owns a camel left over from an unsuccessful amusement-park ride; it eats weeds behind the Old Wooden Ship. He claims to have twenty milk camels and a plankton-feed business, with camels the first animals willing to eat the feed, but the narrator explains that he has never tried the scheme or even seen plankton [D:219]. Camel-hair tents belong to Duffey’s remote childhood memories, and his Boy King realm includes silk from camel, ass, ewe, and gazelle [MTM B1:6] [MTM B1:17]. Piccone calls camels natural burlesques that cannot be burlesqued further [MTM B5:167].D:219; MTM B1:6; MTM B1:17; MTM B5:167
Campeche
A stop on the Brunhilde’s voyage down the Mexican coast [D:81]. Campeche, Paraiso, or another stop may be the setting of The Unaccountable Corpse, and either may also be where Don Lewis had a seaman knifed and left behind to divert suspicion from himself [D:67] [D:105]. In the geography of San Simeon, Campeche is one of five more powerful neighboring countries to which San Simeon pays gold tribute [MB:559].D:81; D:67; D:105; MB:559
Campeche Bank
The Campeche Banks mark the far reach of the intermittent and sometimes ghostly shoal waters north of San Simeon, more than a hundred kilometers from its north coast [MB:559]. After two bells arrive at the mooring rock, the people install about a hundred more along the coast and shoals as far as “Campche Bank” and Perez Island [MB:577-578].MB:559; MB:577-578
Campfire songs
Childhood songs sung by the picnic party at the Bay Hotel around a charcoal-filled trencher: “Clementine,” “Ivan Scravinski Scravar,” “Red Wing,” “Casey Jones,” “Camp Town Race Track,” “Rye Whisky,” “Trail of the Lonesome Pine,” “I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now,” “Frankie and Johnny,” “Stardust,” “Waltzing Matilda,” and “There’s a Long Long Trail A-Winding” [A:29-31].A:29-31
Cana
Site of the wedding at which Jesus turns water into wine in John 2:1-11. Maurine tells Mamma Monica that Papa Piccone is supplying three barrels and additional jugs for the reception because he refuses to be remembered for running out of wine as the hosts at Cana were [A:105].A:105
Canada
Source of the liquor that, in Charlotte Mullens’s account, Aga Gonof’s boats bring to Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland [MTM B3:83-84].MTM B3:83-84
Canal
Henry’s cousins send produce from Cajun country for Duffey’s soup by the intercoastal-canal boatmen [A:134]. In a separate anatomical usage, “linkage patterns of Volkman canals” appear among the purported tests establishing Duffey’s great age in an excerpt from The Eighteenth Book of Strange Encounters [MTM B8:250].A:134; MTM B8:250
Canary (bird)
Hans’s stage command makes Mabel the bear imitate a canary by squealing and flapping her legs like wings [A:219]. Le Marin compares the disappearance of the Sarcophagus crew to a cat reporting an empty canary cage, with the incriminating signs still visible, suggesting that the predator’s own account reveals the answer [D:245].A:219; D:245
Canary (Grand)
Island where the Brunhilde party stops for two days [D:96]. At its luxurious night restaurant, Papa Devil dons a monocle and resembles Count von Baummenbauch; other distinguished diners stare at Seaworthy’s party [D:99-100]. Finnegan’s brandy drinking there is recalled in Archipelago [A:188]. Absalom Stein later says he watched the party dine there in “death-like glitter” but could not cross the room to them [MB:549-550]. Don Lewis tells Finnegan that the world is on fire and that they have been lighting the fuses [D:99].D:96; D:99-100; A:188; MB:549-550; D:99
Candlelight
Lupido favors candlelight in his cafe and gives Trinali his candle stubs; she also steals the long candles [A:228]. Duffey’s formal balloon dinner is held by candlelight high above the city in the “late-ish darkness” [MTM B2:65].A:228; MTM B2:65
Candles
Candlelight or kerosene lamps illuminate Duffey’s school-store sales from ten-thirty to midnight and help Charley Murray’s magic tricks [MTM B1:26]. In Finnegan’s night-dune imaginary, people have candle-lit pumpkin heads [D:50]. Trinali uses candles after her electricity is cut off, receiving stubs and stealing longer candles from Lupido’s cafe [A:228]. Four thousand candles are lit on the cake for Duffey’s birthday [MTM B8:257]. Duffey blows out the candles at the end of his balloon dinner before descending [MTM B2:65-66].MTM B1:26; D:50; A:228; MTM B8:257; MTM B2:65-66
Candy
Sold nightly with sandwiches in Duffey’s school store, whose larger stock includes drinks and pigs’ feet [MTM B1:26]. In Elroy Redheart’s miniature art tableau, an opened candy box beside a dead girl contains her removed heart as an oversized red chocolate; a Jill of Hearts card is pinned beside the scene [MTM B7:221].MTM B1:26; MTM B7:221
Canned Goods (Doubtful)
Uncertain merchandise used by Hillary Hilton as a comparison in discussing distressed stock. He would rather deal in distressed cigars than doubtful canned goods; distressed eggs are worse still [A:253].A:253
Cannibal
Finnegan’s response to Hans’s hints about unfamiliar meat invokes the cannibal story he attributes to Melville and calls partly phony [A:58]. Hans objects that “cannibal” is too common and says that initiates use “necrophagists”; the exchange leaves the nature of their meal uncertain [A:59].A:58; A:59
Cannibal Duffey's Irish Restaurant
Garish sign painted on the Big Pot by three medical-student jazzers, tightly enough to remain bright almost forever. The same men are suspected of planting the human bones they fish out of the stew; the sign is generally taken in good humor [MTM B6:197].MTM B6:197
Cannibalism
One of the activities an unnamed mother predicts people will seek out through the Casey Machine. Rejecting her daughter’s hope that users will choose the best of others’ lives, she expects scandal, cruelty, and knowledge useful for personal ruin [CM:505].CM:505
Cannon, Orville
See Howland, Orville Cannon.Canoe
Vessel from which the Sergeant and the Malayan boy dive among the islands. The boy names it Aral, Bumi, and Aragh, glossing these as “hindrance,” “of the world,” and “the direction”; the Sergeant then recognizes it as the Ship Argo [A:89].A:89
Canonical
Used for the established account of Finnegan’s adventures, which the narrator says cannot be separated from their apocrypha [A:187]. Duffey’s possible deaths in different times prompt the question whether there is a canonical impediment to dying twice [MTM B12:361]. The narrative’s “canonical ratio” is one corrupt priest in twelve, one devil-serving nun in twelve, and one lay participant in the abomination in twelve [MTM B8:245].A:187; MTM B12:361; MTM B8:245
Cant (Riming)
Rhyming patter invoked in Finnegan’s “Antipodal Ode to Loy Larkin”: “And cut your teeth on riming cant” [A:32].A:32
Cantina
Drinking place on the corner near the Mogul’s quarters, from which several of his guards return after a late drink, according to X [MB:573].MB:573
Cap (Hat)
Finnegan wears an oversized digger hat while pretending to be Australian and later regrets giving it up [A:13] [A:15]. Sammy leaves his cap on a table while Finnegan prepares to distract him [A:67]. In Bagby’s image of the seven-headed enemy, one head wears a red stocking cap [MTM B5:169].A:13; A:15; A:67; MTM B5:169
Cape (Clothing)
Duffey imagines Absalom Stein in a purple cape with scarlet lining, although Stein actually wears an unfigured sports shirt [MTM B5:161]. Monsignor X returns secretly to the Argo in red robes and a red-piped cape [MTM B13:451]. At the graveyard meeting, X wears his old magician’s cloak, full of pockets and concealed drops, from his career as X-Capo [D:276].MTM B5:161; MTM B13:451; D:276
Cape (Geographical)
Coastal headland. The Cape of Delgan appears in a travel poem as a place where gold lies unclaimed on the ground [A:172]. “The Horn” appears in Finnegan’s joke about Hans and Marie swimming by the long route when the canal would be shorter [A:30].A:172; A:30
Cape buffalo
Comparison for Henry Salvatore’s strength during his years as a merchant seaman: his apparent fat is deceptive, and he has never been beaten in a fight [A:124].A:124
Capella
Unverified reference. The earlier glossary identifies Capella as a star by which Gomez sails, but the cited passage does not establish this.Capers
Dancing and playing tricks, in Finnegan’s explanation of his joke about Castrador-Capros, who “cut capers.” He offers fare delle capriole and castrare becchi as the two senses, while the goat-man criticizes the pun’s language [A:199].A:199
Capital (Buffalo)
The buffalo herd’s center, guarded in high summer by old bulls while the rest of the herd has moved hundreds of miles north. Finnegan sleeps within their circle [A:206].A:206
Capital (City)
New York is Patrick Stranahan’s “Capital (as it were)” in his list of gracious American cities [A:110]. Separately, X’s newly purchased car bears a D.C. plate [D:177].A:110; D:177
Capital (Financial)
Casey mistakes his prosperous father Gabriel Szymansky for a poor man because Gabriel bargains tightly and is stingy; Gabriel runs adjoining antique and pawn shops [A:160]. Casey later inherits money from his father’s estate, spends much of it, keeps careful accounts, and never runs out [A:168].A:160; A:168
Capital (Goat)
Earlier mislabel for the buffalo herd’s capital. See Capital (Buffalo) [A:206].A:206
Capitalism
Unverified attribution. No passage has been located for the earlier glossary’s claim that Papadiabolous practices State Capitalism.Capo, X- (alias)
X-Capo, Mr. X’s former stage name as a magician and escape artist. His many-pocketed cloak at the graveyard is the same one he used in that career [D:276]. See Great X-Capo, The.D:276
Capote
Unverified entry. The earlier glossary combines a cape or cloak with a person called El Capote, but neither intended source reference has been established.Capricorn
Zodiac sign singled out by an absurd new traffic signal during the Great Day: “Capricorns should not cross any streets today.” Another signal permanently forbids Leos to cross [GD:488].GD:488
Captain
Several figures bear the title. Captain Guiterrez, nicknamed Sammy, is a youthful-looking Tagalog friend of the Dirty Fivers; he borrows a shoeshine box without its owners’ knowledge to earn more drinking money, and joins the singing and night in the horse pasture [A:66-69]. Orestes Gonof is the “forgotten captain” of the Brunhilde, imagined as an ancient Phoenician at the Grand Canary dinner [D:100]. An unnamed army captain cruelly interrogates the amnesiac Sergeant until he breaks; the Sergeant then promises to find and torment him in Hell [A:73-74]. The haberdasher is acting captain and pilot of the Seabach [D:135], and the fleshless Melchisedech is pilot and captain aboard the Argo [MB:591-592].A:66-69; D:100; A:73-74; D:135; MB:591-592
Captain Cook (Bar)
Pub visited by the four Dirty Fivers, Marie, Tom, and Freddy after Hans defeats Bushmaster in the drinking contest. Their crawl continues to Blarney’s, the Dutchman’s, and the Commodore before they take Hans home to bed [A:23].A:23
Captain Justice
One of three comic strips in which Dotty Yekouris has seen the Slant-Faced Men, alongside Flame Man and The White Avenger. Dotty says she could find them comic if she did not know they were real; Margaret Stone stresses that they actually kill people [MTM B7:225].MTM B7:225
Capuchin priest, The
Young Greek Capuchin whom Finnegan finds on Naxos on Passion Sunday to hear his confession before Mass. Finnegan initially assumes he is Italian; the priest speaks Italian but reproaches Solli for not knowing better Greek [D:118-119]. When Finnegan describes another person or kindred within him and doubts that he is human, the priest accepts that such another kindred exists and assumes salvation is available to it. He absolves Finnegan’s present person “in all its aspects” [D:119-120].D:118-119; D:119-120
Caravan boy
One of Joseph’s former occupations. He tells Finnegan that his caravan journeys taught him Arabic and French [D:93-94].D:93-94
Carbine
A short, light rifle. The narrator describes Nick the Rattle’s weapon during the beach shooting as “greater than a carbine and less than a rifle” [A:282].A:282
Carbon balances
One of the apparent records of the earth’s age in Vincent’s speculation that the universe might have been created ten minutes ago. Carbon balances, partly exhausted atomic clocks, and ancient sediments would then have been created with it [A:56].A:56
Carbon Fourteen
Gertrude Brannagan’s comparison for the phrase “Argo Fourteen,” which sounds to her like a cosmic dating method such as Carbon Fourteen. Duffey replies that the Argo really is a dating clock, with logs extending far into the past and partly into the future [MTM B13:410-411].MTM B13:410-411
Card sharps
Art (One Shot) Yodel and Art (Two Shot) Welch, unsuccessful card sharps and tricksters at the Old Wooden Ship who are repeatedly beaten by more skillful sharpies [D:221]. The earlier resident list gives the first name as Ant (One Shot) Yoder [D:216].D:221; D:216
Card-carrying Communist
Casey’s accusation against Absalom Stein in the Crock attack on the Bark: he calls Stein a card-carrying Communist under the name Hugo Stone [A:128-129].A:128-129
Cardigan-Pembroke, Lloyd
Welsh pig butcher of Tywyn listed as the double of David Cardinal Lloyd Spencer of Cardiff [MB:579]. He travels from Bimini with Bolo Manolo and Douglas McAfee on a luxury yacht to the Mooring-Stone gathering [MB:594-595], and is among the thirteen who assemble for the conclave that elects Finnegan [MB:596-597]. A later sentence inconsistently calls him the double of Cardinal Ti, whose double in the earlier list is Bolo Manolo [MB:579] [MB:594].MB:579; MB:594-595; MB:596-597; MB:594
Cardinal
A prince of the Church. Manuel is described as a man accustomed to dining with cardinals and ministers of state [D:100]. In X's account of the Devil's release from imprisonment in the Crimea, Catholic cardinals are disproportionately represented among the spectators; several prostrate themselves before the Devil [MTM B6:205-206].In Book Thirteen, X brings Duffey a flayed skin said to be Cardinal Artemis's. Its markings cannot securely distinguish Artemis from his double, Gilberto [MTM B13:451-452]. Finnegan paints thirteen executions or murders in the Deaths of the Cardinals series on the bulkheads of the Argo's Bread and Wine Room; Salvatore, one of the subjects, is an Argo Master [MTM B13:452]. Finnegan subsequently says that the thirteen supposed doubles include one surviving holy man, whose presence preserves the line [MTM B13:453].
In How Many Miles to Babylon, John Mogul's Track and Total hunts the thirteen cardinals and their doubles [MB:578-580]. The list names Hedayat, Brokenbolt, Ti, Merry, Leviathan, Artemis, Lloyd Spencer, Salvatore, Gregorio, Doki, Gabrailovitch, Erculo, and Runosake; some names differ in spelling or form from the Book Thirteen list. Roughly five hundred abdicated cardinals are also still alive. Mogul solicits methods of murder through a public contest, to which the hunted cardinals and their doubles themselves contribute [MB:579-580].
D:100; MTM B6:205-206; MTM B13:451-452; MTM B13:452; MTM B13:453; MB:578-580; MB:579-580
Cardines
Latin “hinges,” from cardo, a hinge or pivot. One of the names grouped with “Gates,” “Swingers,” and “Stones” for the Princes of the Crowd at the Last Conclave in Babylonia Bagascia [MB:561].MB:561
Cards
Finnegan compares the construction of his ode to Loy to building a house of cards [A:32]. Vincent plays solitaire with a pack whose missing four of clubs and six of diamonds are replaced by labeled paper slips [A:65]. George Koran’s press card is rejected with a death threat by the Slant-Faced Men [MTM B8:240]. The brown box brought by X contains index cards on suspected infiltrates, including annotations by Duffey and X [A:137] [MTM B6:202-203]. Elroy Redheart’s artwork includes a Jill of Hearts card daggered to a wall beside a dead girl and a Queen of Hearts card pinned into a woman’s own removed heart [MTM B7:221] [MTM B7:224]. A beach fortune-card weighing machine gives Anastasia’s weight as 130 pounds [D:20].A:32; A:65; MTM B8:240; A:137; MTM B6:202-203; MTM B7:221; MTM B7:224; D:20
Care (Perpetual)
Perpetual maintenance promised for every Casey Machine site after Newton Prescott obtains its designation as a shrine. Perpetual Guardian Payments are to go to a responsible group, which he identifies as his own [CM:503] [CM:513].CM:503; CM:513
Cargo
The Stranahan chapter’s opening verse describes a quest for “auriferous cargo” aboard Argo [A:91], and the Argo’s logs emphasize the finding of the Golden Fleece among its early quests [MTM B13:421]. Another voyage poem has the Dutchman carrying cargo from the Gulf of Oman to Cutch [A:172]. Anastasia says Seaworthy transports unusual cargoes worldwide, often people [D:55]. Le Marin describes Castleman’s theft of both recorded and unmanifested cargo from the Sarcophagus, observing that illegal cargo is easiest to seize [D:243-244]. Finnegan recalls helping unload a cargo during a brief stay at Bantry [D:192].A:91; MTM B13:421; A:172; D:55; D:243-244; D:192
Carib Indian
Indigenous people of the Lesser Antilles, also known as Kalinago. Carib ancestry forms part of Angela Cosquin’s island heritage, alongside French and English ancestry and forebears who were noblemen or slaves [D:259].D:259
Caribbean
Conflagrations, insurrections, and slaughters in this region lead Finnegan to plan to intercept the Brunhilde there. Before he can leave, he learns that the ship is already in his own port and that Seaworthy has anticipated him [D:230].D:230
Carl the Great (Charlemagne, c. 748--814, King of the Franks, Holy Roman Emperor)
See Charlemagne.Carlson-Shipman Press
Carlson-Shipman Press, named as publisher of Royce Rollins’s The Return of the Neanderthal, subtitled The Alien Within, in Charles O.A. Harrington’s review for Science for Today [D:240-242].D:240-242
Carnality
Charlotte Mullens says she always has much carnality to confess, and the narrator remarks on the pleasure and carnality accompanying her presence [MTM B3:87] [MTM B3:84]. In the Devil’s speech, hatred is described as the whole catalogue of carnalities, the ultimate lust, and the perfect perversion [MTM B8:242].MTM B3:87; MTM B3:84; MTM B8:242
Carnival
Small traveling show that Hans and Professor Kirol join at Wisconsin Rapids. The Professor owns some equipment, rents or leases additional equipment and acts as needed, and performs as a mind reader, hypnotist, magician, and answer man [A:215-216]. Betty Hochstapler and the multiethnic Angelino family belong to the carnival world [A:216-218]. Hans spends five or six years there, travels several continents, learns fortune-telling and Deep Romany, reads minds, performs strongman feats including the Donkey Walk, develops hypnotism, and reads hundreds of books [A:218-220].A:215-216; A:216-218; A:218-220
Carnival Business
Professor Kirol says the carnival business makes it possible to hire a performer of almost any nationality, providing the native speaker required for his method of learning a language [A:213].A:213
Carnivals
Traveling shows in which Hans spends five or six formative years [A:218]. Finnegan has also worked with a carnival for six weeks, attending to horses with shovel and pitchfork [A:220]. Carnivals appear among the lively arts said to be undergoing deliberate degradation after the Devil’s release [MTM B6:207].A:218; A:220; MTM B6:207
Carpathia
Region where X says he has seen Sebastian Hilton and the Countess, hoping that they can improve the situation there [MTM B6:201]. The name apparently alludes to the Carpathian region of Central and Eastern Europe; no precise locality is specified.MTM B6:201
Carpenter
One of Duffey’s natural crafts, alongside joinery and cabinetmaking [MTM B1:21]. Duffey and Bagby each claim to be the best carpenter, joiner, and cabinet man in St. Louis [MTM B2:46]. Duffey hires four fast carpenters to shorten a cafe table’s legs during the Vienna argument [MTM B13:433]; his own establishment contains rooms of his characteristic “intrepid and inexact carpentry,” including more than he remembers making [MTM B11:321]. Parts of the Seabach really have been cobbled together by drunken Irish carpenters from Hogan’s alley [D:135].MTM B1:21; MTM B2:46; MTM B13:433; MTM B11:321; D:135
Carpet (on the)
Called before superiors for reprimand. Casey is “on the carpet” before Colonel Laycheck and Majors Meyerhofer, Twicherby, and Terwilliger after challenging Stein’s lectures; Laycheck threatens punishment and forbids further interference [A:47].A:47
Carrados, Max
Name used by one of the experts consulted by Duffey, Biloxi Brannagan and Kasmir Gorshok about keeping the Antichrist off the Argo. The group includes fictional detectives and actual persons concealed under fictional names [MTM B13:454–455]. The person using the name Max Carrados, the Blind Detective, advises counting entries and exits, checking everyone, including oneself, and sounding the alarm when an arrival has no matching departure [MTM B13:456].MTM B13:454–455; MTM B13:456
Carrion birds
Joseph says that even carrion birds would refuse the bodies of the evil people with whom Finnegan travels. Joseph then adds that he knows what those people are [D:95].D:95
Carrozza
Italian for a carriage. Finnegan, answering X’s literal-minded response to “crate,” includes carrozza among extravagant names for their eight-toned automobile, his “celestial omnibus” and “purring panther” [D:179].D:179
Carruthers, Johnny (Johnny)
Chicago friend and schoolmate of Casey Szymansky, sharing his chamber at St. Bonaventure’s boarding school [A:161-162]. Mary Catherine Carruthers is his sister [A:168].A:161-162; A:168
Carruthers, Mary Catherine
Johnny Carruthers’s sister and Casey Szymansky’s repeatedly engaged but never married sweetheart [A:168] [MTM B8:261]. One of Duffey’s true talisman-created people, she frequents his Chicago bookstore from childhood [MTM B3:99]. His conduct with her on the bookstore sofa is photographed for later blackmail; the narrator censures it, although she reassures him and declares her love [MTM B4:111] [MTM B4:139] [MTM B8:261]. She joins the St. Louis reunion and remains an affectionate friend of Finnegan, who later visits her in Chicago and hears of her continuing attachment to Casey [A:97] [A:247-249]. On a later visit to New Orleans, she is about forty or fifty, having made substantial money working for Hilary Hilton. Though she seems the least of Duffey’s Splendid Animations, they are close, she calms his worries, and he senses her entanglement in his future [MTM B8:261-262]. Duffey especially enjoys her company at his final Chicago party before his death [MTM B12:383].A:168; MTM B8:261; MTM B3:99; MTM B4:111; MTM B4:139; A:97; A:247-249; MTM B8:261-262; MTM B12:383
Carson-Shipman Press
Earlier heading omitted the letter l from Carlson. See Carlson-Shipman Press.Cart
Duffey gives his first talisman to an Italian cake seller with a hokey-pokey pushcart [MTM B1:18]. In Ignatius Ti’s story, Lord Peter or Ali hen Taife becomes a donkey hauling a rock cart at the diamond mine [A:81]. Seaworthy dreams of carrying an unwanted corpse through an Indian city on a faulty cart; people repeatedly prevent him from abandoning it [D:72-73]. Gautier owns three small carts, each drawn by four goats [A:196]. Ramires and Elena Musquiz take the exhausted Finnegan to D’Hannis in their cart [A:203] [A:206]. Nauti expects her uncle to bring a piano from Batangas if he can obtain a cart [A:64-65]. A Royal Pop reminiscence names the Fulton Road Cart and Hallock’s Grocery Cart among old horse vehicles [MTM B11:329].MTM B1:18; A:81; D:72-73; A:196; A:203; A:206; A:64-65; MTM B11:329
Cart (Hokey-pokey pushcart)
Pushcart from which an Italian man sells little cakes. Duffey, no more than three years old, gives this man the first talisman he gives away [MTM B1:18].MTM B1:18
Cartagena
Colombian port on the Caribbean coast, included in the Brunhilde’s itinerary after Portobello and Manana and before Santa Maria [D:85].D:85
Cartographer
Angela Cosquin’s father, also an antiquarian, artist, and imitator. He first makes decorative antique-style maps on old leather, vellum, and parchment, then supplies confidence men with invented land-treasure and shipwreck-treasure maps, complete with archaic writing and purported affidavits [D:259-260].D:259-260
Cartoonist-style
Finnegan’s description of what others take for birds or butterflies beside the mouths of figures in prehistoric rock paintings. He calls them speech-and-song balloons written both inside and outside, in an original language richer and more complex than modern speech [MTM B6:193].MTM B6:193
Carvings
Finnegan’s low-round wall carvings remain in his burial cave on the Marianao Coast [MTM B12:371-374]. His scrimshaw pieces are offered to Duffey and would be recognized by seamen as Count Finnegan’s work [MTM B5:173]. He also carves four life-size cigar-store figures and sells them for a hundred dollars each [A:183]. The Devil’s gravestone bears the inscription I.N.C.G.P. Bogovitch [D:277]. In the thorn enclosure, Duffey admires the gnarled fruitwood carving of a lever handle before turning it and falling [MTM B12:392].MTM B12:371-374; MTM B5:173; A:183; D:277; MTM B12:392
Casa del Oro
“House of Gold,” one of the Spanish treasure ships represented on Angela Cosquin’s father’s master map of real or imaginary wrecks. Its name belongs to the group she compares with the litany of the Blessed Virgin [D:260-261].D:260-261
Casetta
Italian diminutive meaning a little house. X offers casetta, alongside cesto, paniera, and scatola, when he takes Finnegan’s word “crate” literally rather than as a nickname for their eight-toned car [D:179].D:179
Casey Machine
An “Achronological Eaves-Dropping Machine,” encountered in coin parlors, tea rooms, and bars, through which users gain access to other people’s lives and thoughts. Newton Prescott recounts its history in a journal intended to treat his compulsion to forget it [CM:503-504]. Josephine McSorely’s account traces its origin to a gathering that performs its own Particular Judgment; Casey supplies the impulse of invasive curiosity but denies the machine’s existence and tries to withdraw his contribution [CM:506-507]. Prescott credits Casey, his own electronics, and the promoters together. He gives the devices charges collected after clinical death and, for added effect, dead people’s eyes [CM:507-509].The machine develops within the wider Casey Condition. According to Prescott, everyone can read the minds, bodies, memories, and unconscious lives of the living, the dead, and the unborn, because all time is simultaneously accessible. The physical machines become unnecessary, though their trade remains profitable [CM:510-512]. The initial demand is largely for sexual exposure, slander, and blackmailing knowledge. But others find that fuller knowledge increases their love for people. Their appeal to grace and good will disputes Prescott’s assumption that degradation must prevail [CM:505] [CM:511-512].
The Condition occupies an abiding moment which, Prescott says, can remain eternal although people enter and leave it. Anticipating collective forgetfulness, he arranges perpetual federal payments and has a memory capsule implanted in his brain [CM:512-513]. The mania is forgotten; its emotional and historical contents are said to enter the earth’s forces. Prescott has the capsule removed and can no longer understand most of his own journal, though the money continues to arrive [CM:514-515].
The Addenda complicate this account. Prescott identifies himself as a ghostly fragment of Casey’s personality, moving through time as Casey’s eyes and ears. He describes a subscription device that hooks wealthy listeners and claims that Casey transfers his guilt to him. These are Prescott’s assertions, including his suspicion that the transfer has deceived God [CM:515-516].
CM:503-504; CM:506-507; CM:507-509; CM:510-512; CM:505; CM:511-512; CM:512-513; CM:514-515; CM:515-516
Casey the Crock
Kasmir Gorshok, the ninth-century scholar and necromancer named as an earlier identity of Casey Szymansky [A:39]. Duffey’s commentary distinguishes this earlier medieval role from Casey’s later role as Prince Casimir [PG:534-535]. See Crock (4) (Casey the).A:39; PG:534-535
Casimir (Prince)
Prince Casimir of Poland, identified in Duffey’s commentary as Casey’s later medieval identity and as Saint Casimir [PG:534-536]. Teresa quotes a prophecy that Duffey will carry Prince Casimir on the Argo to the coast nearest Armageddon to reign for a time as Antichrist [MTM B12:388]. The later voyage presents Casey, Gorshok, Peleus, and Prince Casimir as the same Antichristus at Habonim, while the growing shimmer marks the future’s uncertainty [MTM B13:454] [MTM B13:462]. Duffey’s commentary also allows that Casey may instead be a false or premature antichrist [PG:535].PG:534-536; MTM B12:388; MTM B13:454; MTM B13:462; PG:535
Casper, Robert
Corporal from Gobey in Morgan County, Tennessee, one of three American soldiers missing on Pulau Petir or Willy Jones Island on October 1, 1944 in Don Lewis’s story [D:44]. He twice outflanks the elusive Japanese soldier, then goes with Sergeant Santee to kill the wounded man [D:44-45]. Lost and quarrelling afterward, Casper sleeps on one ridge while Santee takes another and the third soldier remains below [D:46]. Don reports conflicting rumors that the other two were killed or returned separately with implausible stories; he does not know their fate [D:48].D:44; D:44-45; D:46; D:48
Caspian Sea
Inland sea onto which the Argo must make a difficult passage in order to investigate reports about the Laughing Prince in Tartary [MTM B13:438].MTM B13:438
Cassady
One of the surnames given for leaders of the old-line humans’ resistance to the Royal Pop People. The leaders as a group fail because some defect and others die; the passage assigns no particular fate to Cassady [MTM B11:335].MTM B11:335
Cassandra
Trojan prophetess whose warnings are not believed. In a letter to Absalom Stein, X calls himself and Stein “Cassandras in pants”: their revelations provoke ridicule, though X says the leaders of the mockery know they are true [A:265-266].A:265-266
Cassino
Robber Cassino, played by Falo, Nauti, Vincent, and Finnegan with a pack whose missing four of clubs and six of diamonds are replaced by labeled paper. Falo always wins and attributes her advantage to having known the same cards since childhood [A:65].A:65
Castagnetta
Niccolo Crotolo says that castagnetta, meaning a little chestnut, is the newer word for a castanet, replacing the old word Crotolo which he gives as his family name [A:279].A:279
Caster (Mold)
One of Duffey’s practical skills, alongside metal spinning and wood turning, used while making props for Charley Murray’s magic acts at boarding school [MTM B1:21].MTM B1:21
Castitas
Chastity. An epigraph attributed to St. Francis de Sales identifies it with honesty and integrity, opposed to corruption. The narrator then calls a peculiar chastity of mind necessary to the highest intelligence, and says Duffey’s school friends retain these definitions even when Duffey himself falls into corruption [MTM B1:27].MTM B1:27
Castle, Freddy
Australian soldier and companion of Tom Shire, smaller than Tom and with a rusty tinge. The narrator jokes that both men would remain unmistakably Australian in desert dress or even as ancient bones [A:5]. They befriend Finnegan, Vincent, Hans, and their party at the races, win their bets, drink beer, and dine together; Freddy contributes “Fingers were made before forks” [A:3-5]. Back at the barracks, he and Tom stage a hoax: they dress Finnegan and Vincent in hot winter tunics and digger hats, exaggerate the danger of entering the wet canteen, and enlist Sergeant Bushmaster in the joke when Freddy’s signal saves it from exposure [A:7] [A:10-14]. Freddy and Tom officiate at the subsequent drinking contest between Hans and Bushmaster, then join the pub crawl and later the Bay Hotel picnic and softball game [A:15] [A:20] [A:23] [A:29]. Finnegan later counts Freddy among those friendly to him in his normal life, while lamenting a barrier between himself and humanity [D:90].A:5; A:3-5; A:7; A:10-14; A:15; A:20; A:23; A:29; D:90
Castleman
“The last of the grand pirates,” still active in Charles Le Marin’s story. Le Marin says Castleman began as a rumrunner in the twenties and then preyed on rumrunners [D:242-243]. He infiltrates the Sarcophagus with dockside replacements indistinguishable from the departing crew, seizes its recorded and unrecorded cargo, and has the captain and remaining loyal men thrown overboard bound and weighted. The ship is left to furnish the familiar mystery of a perfectly ordered, apparently deserted vessel [D:244-245]. Le Marin’s own role becomes ambiguous when he claims to be his replacement and to have helped the takeover. He says he later insults the large, dangerous Castleman in a stateside bar, then leaves him alone rather than pushing his courage further; Castleman no longer uses that name. Johnny Duckwalk challenges the whole story as a version of the Mary Celeste tale [D:245-246].D:242-243; D:244-245; D:245-246
Castrador-Capros
Joker and dancer invented for Finnegan’s goat pun: he is called Castrador-Capros because he “cut capers.” Gautier finds the joke wanting, although several older goats appreciate it [A:199].A:199
Castrare becchi
Italian for castrating male goats, one of the meanings Finnegan invokes in his “cut capers” pun, alongside dancing and playing tricks [A:199].A:199
Casual bottle of pills
In ward boy Ignatius Ti’s story, an ordinary bottle of pills falling near a dead man can seem to have been thrown by the corpse. It illustrates the fear aroused by the familiar body after death [A:85-86].A:85-86
Cat
Finnegan’s quiet climb through a window is compared to a cat’s [D:164]. The old woman associated with Patrick Stranahan’s Cat Castle kept eight or nine cats, not the legendary fifty [A:102]. Don Barnaby’s tall tale includes black-cat urine among the ingredients of Juju Joy Pills, with a cat afflicted by glanders in the particular recipe he describes [D:248-249]. X’s family account says Ifreann killed cats and tried to kill the children [D:280]. Biloxi Brannagan says he has watched the Deer Horn Ship on Cat Island without visiting it [D:204]. Cats also figure among the imagined carriers of contagious killing in the story-writing competition [MB:580].D:164; A:102; D:248-249; D:280; D:204; MB:580
Cat Woman
Old woman who leaves the Cat Castle to her lawyer, Patrick Stranahan. The narrator says that she was old and cranky rather than exceptionally eccentric, and kept eight or nine cats, not fifty [A:102].A:102
Cat-calls
Mocking responses to the revelations of X and Absalom Stein, whom X calls “Cassandras in pants” in his letter. X says the leaders of the ridicule know the revelations are true [A:265-266].A:265-266
Catastrophe (Cosmic)
Biloxi Brannagan expects a cosmic catastrophe to sink the continents while leaving the islands secure; a cosmic student counters that the islands would follow the continents down [D:203]. Separately, the effect of Shirley Israel’s new drink on the company is compared to a natural catastrophe during the quarrel over moving a mule [MTM B4:130].D:203; MTM B4:130
Catbirds
Birds rising from the low bushes along Hans’s running course through John William Schultz’s nursery [A:208]. Beth Keegan says a catbird in a draft corner of Duffey’s fireplace chimney is singing that the year is almost over; its song prompts her distress at the passing of youth [MTM B2:59].A:208; MTM B2:59
Catch-phrases
Set expressions in which Sally often speaks. The narrator contrasts their familiar wording with the electric directness of Sally herself [A:8].A:8
Catch-words
Slogans on which people metaphorically graze like sheep before going to slaughter, in X’s pessimistic reply to Doll about the people’s ability to save themselves [D:290].D:290
Catedratico
Spanish for a professor. One of the professional categories, with abogado and medico, in the Spanish-speaking town that Finnegan initially mistakes for a transformed New Orleans. His friend Ignacio is an abogado [A:269].A:269
Catfish (Mad)
One of the fantastical murder devices proposed in the story-writing competition: mad catfish pour from every water to pursue the designated victim in a relentless frenzy [MB:580-581].MB:580-581
Catfish (Mississippi)
Anastasia says that some giant Mississippi catfish have human eyes but no further resemblance to true mermaids [D:34-35]. The narrator also jokingly includes in Finnegan’s mixed speech a mud-cat dialect unintelligible to other catfish [A:6].D:34-35; A:6
Catherine (Saint)
Saint seen beside Barbara aboard the Navicula Petri in Henry’s dream; both look like sea-urchins. The passage names her only Catherine, so identification with Alexandria or Siena remains uncertain [A:44-45]. Catherine of Siena lived in 1347-1380. The martyr legend belongs instead to Catherine of Alexandria: a learned noblewoman traditionally placed in the early fourth century, who defends Christianity before the emperor’s philosophers and converts them, survives the miraculous breaking of the wheel intended for her execution, and is beheaded. Traditions also associate her with the conversion of the empress and with the Fourteen Holy Helpers. Her book and wheel mark her learning and martyrdom; she is commemorated on November 25 in Catholic and Greek usage. The details of her life are historically uncertain, and her Roman-calendar observance, removed in 1969, was restored in 2002 as an optional memorial.A:44-45
Catherine, The
Name of the Argo when Dana Coscuin takes her around the Horn [MTM B13:405]. In Half a Sky, the ship is first La Catalina, encountered repeatedly at Guayaquil. Before buying her, Dana places a splinter of his murdered wife Catherine Dembinska’s skull aboard, joining ship and bride in a ghostly marriage. Valiente Tirana supplies the additional money for purchase and refitting. Dana outfits her with nine brass cannon, a crew including Damisa and Serafino, blue and green sails, and a ghost-green hull; her new name is painted Catherine Dembinska. Sailing against the Humboldt current, she is haunted by the stowaway Ifreann Chortovitch, whose malign influence, theft, and murder provoke an unsuccessful search and a priest’s prayers at Tocopillo. Following a wise woman’s advice, Dana baits Ifreann into the hold; Dana, Damisa, Serafino, and Osborne eventually throw him overboard. Later the crew remember incompatible mundane versions of these events. The near-invisible Catherine breaks the sea-siege of Valparaiso, destroying the revolutionary gunships and altering history and memory. On the voyage around the Horn she damages Ifreann’s pursuing ironclad Brami Piekielne, the Gates of Hell, and escapes to repair at Bahia Blanca. In early 1854 she reaches Basse-Terre. During the earthquake, Angelene, briefly the messenger who orders Dana to Carloforte, then tells him to bury the ship at the shoal called the Grave of Catarina Dama Binación. Dana describes the ship as his wife’s body during her purgatorial stay. With Jack Galopade he deliberately floods her; Catherine’s spirit departs as the ship explodes, and the vessel is destroyed in the encounter with Ifreann’s ship. (Half a Sky, PDF pp. 102, 105-108, 110-111, 116, 120, 122-124, 134, 138-139, 146, 151-153, 184, 198-199, 201-203).MTM B13:405
Catholic Center Party of America
Duffey’s political party, of which Casey says he is the sole member: “He is the Party.” Casey, d’Allesandro, Mary Frances, and Demetrio Glauch are prospective recruits rather than enrolled members [A:42].A:42
Catholic Church
The Church is central to the characters’ religious and political disputes. Casey describes Duffey’s one-man Catholic Center Party and his index of supposed infiltrators in Catholic lay groups [A:42-43]. Henry fears a Secular-Liberal Religion working from inside the Church but containing no Catholic element [A:125]. Casey attacks the Bark’s claim to be a Catholic publication, emphasizing its lack of ecclesiastical sanction [A:128]. Duffey visits Chicago’s stone, angel-covered St. Malachy’s, whose ruddy turrets catch the morning sun [MTM B3:87-88]. X’s family story invokes the parish records of St. Elmo near Krakow and says landed Catholic families employed Irish governesses for religious teaching and manners [D:279]. In X’s account of the Devil’s release, Catholic clergy are among the gathered notables and some cardinals worship the released Devil [MTM B6:204-206]. Duffey also reports X’s unreliable claim that Finnegan was secretly made a papal count [MTM B12:367]. The Peter-Bell is said to have belonged to one of Rome’s many St. Peter’s churches [MB:578]; later Finnegan is elected and crowned Pope Finnegan I in the Argo conclave [MB:597].A:42-43; A:125; A:128; MTM B3:87-88; D:279; MTM B6:204-206; MTM B12:367; MB:578; MB:597
Catholic Publication
Description claimed by the Bark and challenged by Casey, who calls it neo-Centrist and anti-Communist and says it has no ecclesiastical sanction [A:128].A:128
Cattle
Cattle boats are among the vessels on which Henry sails [A:124]; Tommy Cow-Town Borger and Jake-Leg Lewis are similarly called salt-water cowboys because their work is on cattle boats [D:222]. Trinali imagines a piece of driftwood as a former tree shading Georgia cattle [A:233], and Demetrio lists cattlemen among his bar’s customers [D:58]. Cattle graze among the strange fruits at Zabotski Flats [MTM B12:363]. Honeybucket claims cattle can be induced to eat plankton, though the narrator says he has never tried his scheme [D:219]. A Sudanese Christ statue carries a cattle herder’s crooked rod [MTM B3:104]. Mary Louise is described as a royal bovine or sacred cow [MTM B2:55]. The Pyramid Lord calls monkeys, humans, alligators, and whales his people’s cattle, a claim of dominion rather than an inventory of domestic animals [MB:593]. Cow bells sound around the Naxos landing [D:131]. In Anastasia’s mermaid account, the creatures the Norse called mermaids are instead sea-cows [D:34-35].A:124; D:222; A:233; D:58; MTM B12:363; D:219; MTM B3:104; MTM B2:55; MB:593; D:131; D:34-35
Cattle Boats
Vessels among those on which Henry Salvatore signs out from New Orleans, Port Arthur, and Galveston during his seagoing youth [A:124].A:124
Caucasian
Racial category invoked in the narrator’s comic complaint that anthropologists classify Cajuns under broad types, then as Alpine or Mediterranean, rather than recognizing them as a distinct people. The passage proceeds into deliberately impossible claims about Cajun blood, heads, language, and antiquity [A:123-124].A:123-124
Cauldron (Pit or)
Image of extinction in Absalom Stein’s account of forgotten people. He fears that people hanging by their fingernails at the rim of oblivion will fall into a pit or cauldron and cease ever to have existed unless someone remembers them [MTM B11:315].MTM B11:315
Cauliflowers (Prince of the)
“Prince of the Cauliflowers,” title given to Bello Belonki of the Sporting News among Dotty’s journalistic circle [MTM B7:213].MTM B7:213
Causeway
Road by which Finnegan rides a produce truck onto the island and into the city for his final confrontation. He senses his antagonist there and considers it likely that his old ship is in port [D:275].D:275
Cavaldos, Dry Gulch
Frequent visitor to the Old Wooden Ship, called “Dry Gulch Cavaldos” in the text, who comes in twenty times a day. He is distinguished from the fifty regulars who live there [D:216].D:216
Cave
Gautier and his goats winter in a cave [A:194]; caves also run like spongework through the hollow cliffs of Black Papua [A:36-37]. In Finnegan’s primordial transport, caves are places of ancestral worship and of refuge after defeat [D:213-214]. Anastasia says mermaids live in water-level caves on rocky islands [D:34-35]. Finnegan dreams of sitting with an old teras in a cave or at the foot of a cliff [D:140], while Don Barnaby claims to visit caves in the middle of the earth during his joy-pill experience [D:251]. Finnegan’s sea-burial cave on the Marianao Coast is depicted in The Resurrection of Count Finnegan and is later visited by Duffey [MTM B12:371-374] [MB:550-551]. The cave or room beneath Mooring-Rock, reached from the well shaft, becomes the Room of the Conclave [MB:577] [MB:596]. Casey also uses an echo cave as a metaphor for political slogans amplified by apparently independent voices [A:185-186].A:194; A:36-37; D:213-214; D:34-35; D:140; D:251; MTM B12:371-374; MB:550-551; MB:577; MB:596; A:185-186
Cave Bear
Prehistoric bear, Ursus spelaeus. During his primordial transport, Finnegan speaks of his people’s brotherhood with the cave bear, giant stag, bison, and woolly rhinoceros [D:213]. Eva emerges from the ice wrapped in the blond skin of a female cave-bear [MTM B13:399-400].D:213; MTM B13:399-400
Cave Bear (Female)
Animal whose blond skin wraps Eva when Duffey and his simian helpers free her from the ice [MTM B13:399-400]. See Cave Bear.MTM B13:399-400
Cavendish
Family name under which Charlotte and the Mullens household are known as show people at Chicago’s Colony Club. Manolo is excepted because he is apparently a newly acquired son [MTM B3:93].MTM B3:93
Cavern Spirits
Beings included with demiurges, angelics, pure intellects, and monsters in the narrator’s comparison: the extraordinary conversations of Duffey’s splendid animations, like theirs, cannot be recalled afterward [MTM B5:160-161].MTM B5:160-161
Caverns (Vast)
Vast caverns of the Papuans’ “under-persons,” the unconscious in which the narrator says all other peoples and lands subsist. The Kiriwinans understand that their existence depends on being maintained there [A:37].A:37
Cayene
Earlier heading omitted a letter from the port’s name. See Cayenne.Cayenne
Cayenne, the French Guianan port visited by the Brunhilde before Belem, Sao Luis, Camocim, Fortaleza, and Natal on the outward voyage [D:86].D:86
Cayman
Island destination named with Kingston and Moule in the opening voyage stanza of Finnegan’s chapter [A:171].A:171
CC624
Star designation in the list of positions Hans learns to calculate under the Professor’s instruction [A:214]. The supplied page prints “CC624”; it does not identify the star further.A:214
Cecil
Name Le Marin says a Nigerian acquaintance gave his moustache, in the joke arising from Hildegarde Katt’s description of her husband Tommy [D:229].D:229
Cedar
Wood Duffey says would have been used for the Argo had she been built in a Black Sea port at that remote date. In his account she was instead built at Ragusa from Dinaric oak; he qualifies the account as symbolically rather than ordinarily accurate [MTM B13:412].MTM B13:412
Ceiling
Bagby’s and Duffey’s adjoining St. Louis buildings have walnut ceilings as well as walnut walls, rafters, and other woodwork [MTM B2:46]. A noose hangs from the ceiling of the vacant fourth room in Elroy Redheart’s heart artwork [MTM B7:224]. Finnegan recalls drifting through the Cajun swamps with Giulio under a ceiling of fronds only three feet above their flatboat [MTM B5:174].MTM B2:46; MTM B7:224; MTM B5:174
Celeste, Marie
“Marie Celeste,” Johnny Duckwalk’s name for the derelict-ship story he accuses Le Marin of recycling. Le Marin insists on the form “Mary Celeste” and denies the resemblance [D:246].D:246
Cell (attic)
Little closet or cell off the main attic room in the large town house where Duffey lives with pretended kindred. It contains the peaked fourth-floor Prisoner John Window, from which he sees the three slant-faced boys [MTM B1:12].MTM B1:12
Cellini
Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571), Florentine goldsmith, sculptor, and autobiographer. Papa Piccone names him with Buonorroti and Sancho in answer to Patrick Stranahan’s dismissal of later artists; Patrick replies that such craftsmen were good but should have remained anonymous [A:111]. Cellini’s works include the bronze Perseus with the Head of Medusa in Florence and the gold Saliera made for Francis I. His Autobiography, composed late in his life and partly dictated, offers a vivid, self-dramatizing account of Renaissance craftsmanship, patronage, quarrels, and his own exploits.A:111
Celluloid Cuffs
Cuffs or gauntlets Lily Koch snaps on as her merchant’s trademark at her Saturday art sales. After the noon closing and departure of the customers, she unsnaps them until the next sale [MTM B1:28-29].MTM B1:28-29
Cenacle
The Upper Room associated with the Last Supper. The Argo’s recovered Lord’s Table is said to have come from the Cenaculum in Jerusalem and to rest in her Bread and Wine Room [MTM B13:422]. “Cenacle” also names the supper room at Randal’s where Duffey’s party watches the television over-picture of Casey [MTM B12:380].MTM B13:422; MTM B12:380
Cenotaphs (Cretan)
Cretan tomb-monuments from which, the narrator says, statuettes of Anastasia have been excavated. The claim accompanies her resemblance to a ship’s carved figurehead and the question of what she really is [D:32].D:32
Centaur
Centaurus, partly visible and labeled at the right edge of the celestial ship illustration on the cover of the supplied More Than Melchisedech PDF [MTM:1].MTM:1
Centrist
Political position Casey attributes to Duffey, sole member of the Catholic Center Party of America [A:42]. Henry Salvatore, in conversation with his father, declares “We are the Centrists” and says they stand in the middle and build the world around themselves [A:125].A:42; A:125
Centrists (Neo-)
Term in Casey’s hostile description of the Bark as a neo-Centrist Catholic publication; he questions whether its hyphenated label has any meaning [A:128]. Stein had proposed the long title Neo-Centrist Review of Evolvate Socio-Geopolitical Motifs in a Disintegrating World for the magazine [A:121].A:128; A:121
Centuries
Historical periods repeatedly mixed with uncertain memories, symbolic history, and long lives. The Capuchin dates Sicilian Naxos to the seventh century before Christ [D:119]; Casey’s Kasmir Gorshok identity is placed in the ninth century [A:39]; Anastasia says Norse sea-cows were taken as mermaids as late as the tenth [D:35]. Lawrence tells Henry that he cannot restore the thirteenth century, only the sixteenth [A:125]. Scanlon assigns different colors to sixteenth- and eighteenth-century seas [A:234], and Angela’s father imitates sixteenth-, seventeenth-, and eighteenth-century handwriting on his treasure maps [D:260]. The postscript describes Ellis’s Mermaid Series as a revival of seventeenth-century drama [PS:476]. X is described as a mid-nineteenth-century north Italian type [MTM B6:200], and his family account discusses Irish governesses and obscure people of a century earlier [D:279-280]. Duffey remembers three overlapping twentieth-century childhoods [MTM B1:6] and later interprets the Presence through twentieth-century Jungian imagery, which Plunket rebukes as mistaking reality for art [MTM B12:390]. The young Casey invents a Blue Book for 2001 [A:157]. Private Gregory, not Duffey, recalls centuries at sea [A:77]. The narrator pictures Pan as old for twenty-odd centuries [A:194]; Marie Courtois has a beauty forbidden for centuries [D:37]. A passage attributed to Galen says Daemons must return each century to renew their descendants [D:160-161]. Finnegan blames centuries of altered sky-color on smoke [D:127]. The Argo has logbooks of voyages lasting centuries and extraordinarily long-lived pilots [MTM B13:405]; X’s history makes the Devil’s imprisonment similarly span centuries [MTM B6:204-205]. Beth Keegan’s theatrical walk is extravagantly compared with something unseen for thirty centuries, since Tarshish fell [MTM B2:57].D:119; A:39; D:35; A:125; A:234; D:260; PS:476; MTM B6:200; D:279-280; MTM B1:6; MTM B12:390; A:157; A:77; A:194; D:37; D:160-161; D:127; MTM B13:405; MTM B6:204-205; MTM B2:57
Cephalic Index
Term in Casey’s school notebook: he says one adds three to the skull index to obtain the cephalic index, then jokes that there are more living roundheads than dead ones and threatens an unnamed living example [A:162-163].A:162-163
Cepheids
Pulsating variable stars. Professor Kirol places the noonday devil among the Cepheids in his account of time, space, and eternity [A:215].A:215
Ceram Sea
Indonesian sea, also called the Seram Sea, between Seram and northwestern New Guinea. It is among the many seas sailed by the Argo and remembered by Melchisedech [MTM B13:406].MTM B13:406
Cerebral Athleticism
Professor Kirol’s term for rapid calculation, large additions, squaring, extracting roots, and prodigious memory. He distinguishes these feats from thought, while insisting that a developed memory is an indispensable tool for a thinking person [A:212].A:212
Ceremonies, The
Ritual proceedings of the Conclave at Babylonia Bagascia. After offerings to the assembled cults, Conrad Stone Hackenschmidt conducts the roll call and coerced election of a straw-man, which Monsignor X burns. The delegates then make their avowals and denials [MB:565-568].MB:565-568
Ceremony
In Finnegan’s story, a Jesuit gives his Devil painting a short-form exorcism, while saying that it is unnecessary to waste ceremony on the Devil [D:255]. The kindred’s farewell to fifteen-year-old Duffey after he finishes high school is a hand-washing ceremony, concluded with a gift of one hundred dollars [MTM B2:38]. Howland ceremoniously uncorks and replaces Finnegan’s bottle while posing as his valet for Casey [A:182]. The Conclave at Babylonia Bagascia has its own offerings, straw-man election and burning, and avowals and denials [MB:565-568].D:255; MTM B2:38; A:182; MB:565-568
Certainty
Finnegan asserts that Papa Devil is dead finally, after the deaths of the original and the surrogate [D:150]. He recalls Anastasia’s promise that they will be together again, first professing certainty and then doubting that his own people possess that promise [D:149]. Seaworthy keeps Finnegan as confirmation of his sanity after the man he believes he killed appears alive; X later explains the confusion as a substitution of twins [D:86] [D:289]. A passage attributed to Belloc lists public certainty among the communal supports lost through the Reformation’s isolation of the soul [MTM B5:176]. Finnegan’s conviction that he is the only person in the world persists [A:205]; elsewhere the narrator jokes that certainty of hostile intent develops when someone repeatedly shoots at you [D:197].D:150; D:149; D:86; D:289; MTM B5:176; A:205; D:197
Cerulean saltcellar
One of Finnegan’s extravagant self-descriptions during his St. Patrick’s Day logorrhea. He calls himself a perfectly spherical “saitcaster,” the grandfather of the saltshakers, and the cerulean saltcellar [D:189].D:189
Chaff-cup
Term equated with “glume” in Casey’s school notebook, beside the observation that the beard of wheat is called the awn [A:164].A:164
Chain
Asking Dan says Casey’s new zoot suit needs a jangle chain, which he promises to supply later [A:261]. Truck drivers carry lengths of chain as weapons in Casey’s imagined revolution [A:160]. Finnegan wears Heliogabalus on a neck chain with his Miraculous Medal [A:61]. Zabotski pulls a boat-whistle chain as his ark floats away [MTM B9:287]. A fictional murder-contest proposal describes an exponentially spreading chain reaction of animals driven to attack one victim [MB:580-581].A:261; A:160; A:61; MTM B9:287; MB:580-581
Chains
Lengths of chain arm the truck drivers in Casey’s imagined revolution [A:160]. Asking Dan promises Casey a jangle chain to complete his zoot-suit outfit [A:261]. See Chain.A:160; A:261
Chair
Three huge easy chairs fill much of the Brunhilde’s small bar [D:22]. Finnegan and Anastasia watch the town from a giant’s chair, an eight-foot-wide dished and backed slab among old ruins; the stop may be Paraiso or Campeche [D:67-70]. Finnegan drinks all night in a chair by X’s window [D:157], and slumps in an easy chair while entertaining Casey with lies and Howland’s valet routine [A:182]. Patrick Stranahan shoots his pistol from an easy chair [A:104]; each boy in St. Martin’s six-boy rooms has his own chair [A:161]. Bagby offers Duffey a barber chair [MTM B2:43]. Shot Gun Schaeffer barricades his door with a chair to escape Basin Street’s intimidation [D:223]. At the Voltaire Festival, Voltaire is awakened and seated to watch the spectacle [MB:563]. Casey descends from his Curile Chair in the Zodiac to attend Duffey’s party [MTM B12:383]. Gertrude says Biloxi has occupied the same chair for thirty years [MTM B13:409]; in his own earlier account he gives twenty-five years in that chair and ten in its predecessor [D:204].D:22; D:67-70; D:157; A:182; A:104; A:161; MTM B2:43; D:223; MB:563; MTM B12:383; MTM B13:409; D:204
Chaldee
Older term for Biblical Aramaic. The name Argo appears on the ship in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and Chaldee letters [MB:577]. Anastasia imagines that the waves write Chaldee on the sand; Finnegan claims that all clairvoyants can read it and that its message frightens him [D:38]. The narrator of “The Casey Machine” sees a warning as handwriting on the wall in archaic Babylonian or Chaldee [CM:512].MB:577; D:38; CM:512
Chalice
Liturgical cup. The discussion of holy wealth asks whether it is God’s vanity or joy to be touched only by the gold of the gold-lined chalice [MTM B4:125]. Ignatius Cardinal Ti’s grave bears the words “My chalice indeed you shall drink” [MB:588-589]. The Argo’s recovered treasures include the Holy Grail from Glastonbury, separately from the Lord’s Table from the Jerusalem Cenaculum [MTM B13:422].MTM B4:125; MB:588-589; MTM B13:422
Chalk
Casey’s school notebook says putty is made of chalk and linseed oil [A:164]. In Promantia, the visionary mathematician uses chalk to demonstrate equations implying a changed universe before graduate students [PG:542].A:164; PG:542
Chamber
St. Martin’s Hall at St. Bonaventure’s has six-boy chambers, which give The Chambers its name and chamber-pot masthead [A:167]. In Ignacio’s tale, Joseph of Maintz fashions a spherical passenger chamber for his moon rocket [A:271]. Finnegan’s comic letter imagines a gas-chamber sentence had he demanded a jury [A:264]. His story of an analyst’s dissection leads to a chamber where the scattered remains glow with a possible diffused essence, complicating the analyst’s conclusion that the man was merely an empty jug wrapped in primordial straw [MTM B5:181-182]. Elroy Redheart’s ceramic heart has four dog-house-sized chambers filled with miniature scenes [MTM B7:221]. A sea-cave burial crypt appears in The Resurrection of Count Finnegan [MB:550].A:167; A:271; A:264; MTM B5:181-182; MTM B7:221; MB:550
Chamber Pot
The Crock’s unchanging cover depicts an old and ornate chamber pot, engraved by d’Allesandro during his middle Chicago period [A:40]. Its school-paper predecessor, The Chambers, has hand-drawn mastheads showing a row of chamber pots in imitation of the Towers silhouette [A:167].A:40; A:167
Chamberings
Archaic term for wanton or sexual conduct. In Finnegan’s “Antipodal Ode” to Loy, the lovers say they have not indulged in chamberings as worldly people do [A:32].A:32
Chambers, The (school paper)
Manuscript paper produced by boys in St. Martin’s Hall at St. Bonaventure’s. Audifax O’Hanlon draws each masthead individually as a row of chamber pots whose silhouette imitates the towers on Gregory Hall’s Towers. The name comes from St. Martin’s six-boy rooms [A:167].A:167
Chameleon
Image of changeable appearance and identity. Casey’s second imaginary world is an erotic, incoherent chameleon life [A:157]. To Finnegan, Anastasia seems a chameleon who changes whenever he looks at her [D:13]. In Don Barnaby’s joy-pill story, he marries a chameleon-like woman whose names and appearances vary while he recognizes her as the same person [D:250].A:157; D:13; D:250
Chameleon life
Casey’s second imaginary world, an erotic fantasy begun before he is eight. Its changing company includes queens, nymphs, Amazons, gladiators, bull-fighters, and acrobats drawn from history and legend [A:157].A:157
Chamonix
Place named by Finnegan with St. Zermatto and Guebwiller in his argument about prehistoric rock paintings. He says supposed butterfly images are actually speech-and-song balloons in an original complex language. Duffey challenges him and calls the painters Neanderthals [MTM B6:193].MTM B6:193
Champion
Joe Bushmaster, the Lion of the South, holds the heavyweight beer-drinking championship until Hans Schultz, the Milwaukee Seidel, defeats him [A:17] [A:19] [A:23]. The narrator jokes that a woman in a contestant’s corner once brought down a former champion [A:19]. Johnny Duckwalk is an old champion drinker whom fewer than a hundred men in the world can outdrink [D:236]. Casey’s childhood record books make his imagined sporting self the greatest running back, gaining sixteen and a fraction yards per carry [A:156-157]. Herman Hercules, not Finnegan, says he was the ninety-nine-pound wrestling champion for many years [MB:585].A:17; A:19; A:23; D:236; A:156-157; MB:585
Chance
Finnegan doubts Hans’s chances against Bushmaster, although Hans confidently agrees to bet [A:17]. Dotty’s hopes for a life with Finnegan are described as still having every chance even as the narrator suggests their failure [A:93-94]. Colonel Laycheck offers Casey a chance to retreat from challenging Stein [A:47]. The amnesiac sergeant asks for a chance to regain reliable memory of his name [A:71-74]. Duffey says he gave Casey’s father a talisman in a chance encounter [MTM B5:151]. Don Lewis briefly thinks he may escape because he has accounted for every man on the Brunhilde; an unexpected killer immediately destroys that hope [D:109]. Finnegan calls to the graveyard dead because he wants to give them a chance to rise [D:284]. Stein hopes to save forgotten people by remembering their faces [MTM B11:315-316]. The seventh contingency of the girls’ play promises the beatific vision with only one chance in a hundred billion of failure, then introduces a contrary omen [MTM B10:296-297].A:17; A:93-94; A:47; A:71-74; MTM B5:151; D:109; D:284; MTM B11:315-316; MTM B10:296-297
Changeling
In folklore, a fairy child substituted for a stolen human child. The narrator calls Finnegan a changeling of the other or double blood [A:39]. Patricia Solli says that, despite their shared childhood, he seems a changeling to her [A:175]; The Devil Is Dead repeats her speech [D:18-19]. Seaworthy speaks of changelings like himself and Finnegan coming late to understanding their nature [D:11].A:39; A:175; D:18-19; D:11
Channel (Irish)
New Orleans neighborhood from which Patricia Solli says her family came, distinguishing it from the French Quarter [A:175].A:175
Channel (Shipping)
The Brunhilde reaches the channel as its voyage begins; its lurch accompanies the narrator’s turning wheel of fortune [D:28]. In Zabotski’s flood story, a reporter describes the flooded channel outside his house, humorously called Dumaine Street, as sufficient to carry an ocean-going ship away in a good rain [MTM B9:289].D:28; MTM B9:289
Channels of communication
Signals and communication arrangements X proposes before he, Doll, and Finnegan scatter and later meet beside Ifreann’s grave. X offers to arrange the plan, though he says they will also know the time and place intuitively [D:186].D:186
Chant
Howland chants his five-gophers jingle to a hoedown tune while he and Finnegan lie in a hayloft [A:179]. Beth Keegan, now Beth Erlenbaum, greets Duffey’s St. Louis visit with a chant beginning “Kerowl, kerowl!” [MTM B5:154].A:179; MTM B5:154
Chaos
Askandanakandrian says nervous-merchandise dealers try to bring confusion out of chaos, because less complexity invites competition and more is intolerable [A:256-257]. The narrator of Promantia posits a dozen false chaoses before true chaos, a dozen false creations before real creation, and twenty false falls before the falls of angels and humanity [PG:530].A:256-257; PG:530
Chaparral
Texas brush country where Finnegan spends about 105 hours, from Tuesday evening until Sunday morning, somewhere in Medina or Frio County, probably northeast of the Frio branch. The interval includes delirium, noonday devils, and portions of the twelve-year life he shares with Theresa in another, perhaps valid, existence [A:202-205].A:202-205
Chapel (Our Lady of the Dolphins)
Chapel of Christian mermaids on a small island between Patmos and Lipsos, according to Anastasia’s account of mermaid history. She places the community in the second century and says the chapel still stands in poor condition [D:35-36].D:35-36
Character Defect
Finnegan’s explanation to Doll for his behavior: he has a character defect and is a slob. The exchange follows his suggestion that they fight a few rounds without trying for a knockout, and Doll’s reply that she always fights for one [D:193].D:193
Charisma
Show Boat jokingly claims special charisma as the source of her knowledge that the serpent of Eden is the many-armed hydra still active in the world [A:263]. Charisma is also among the fashionable words embellishing the Devil’s public speech, concealing no change in its underlying message [MTM B8:243].A:263; MTM B8:243
Charity
Marie tells Sally that charity is a Latin word for love [A:9]. Duffey’s charity is imperfect but has gained some ground from his natural state [MTM B4:110]. Deeds of kindness and charity join the Law and worship of God among the three requirements for preserving the world [MTM B7:228]. Art as Charity belongs to the synthesis Duffey seeks and recognizes in Teresa [MTM B7:229]. It is Duffey whose charity prevents his phoning Casey at a quarter past three in the morning about the stolen box; X urges the immediate call [A:137].A:9; MTM B4:110; MTM B7:228; MTM B7:229; A:137
Charlemagne
Charles or Carl the Great (birth year disputed, traditionally 742 or 747/748; died 814), king of the Franks from 768 and Lombards from 774, crowned emperor by Pope Leo III in 800. His Carolingian empire covered much of western and central Europe, with Aachen a major seat of rule, and revived western Roman imperial authority. His government used royal envoys, the missi dominici, to supervise justice and promoted legal and monetary reform, including new weights and coinage. His patronage of scholars such as Alcuin supported schools, Latin learning, the copying of classical works, Carolingian minuscule, and church and liturgical reform. These political and cultural legacies underlie the later epithet Father of Europe; the designation Holy Roman Emperor is retrospective. In Ignacio’s tale, Archbishop Turpin, a peer of Charlemagne, records Joseph of Maintz’s journey to the moon [A:271]. The Iron Crown of Charlemagne is among the treasures recovered by the Argo [MTM B13:422].A:271; MTM B13:422
Charles (Uncle)
Charles Salvatore, one of Henry Salvatore’s closest uncles, named with Alphonse, Fulgence, George, and Matthew [A:122].A:122
Charnel house
One destination on the blood-covered crossroads sign in Patrick Stranahan’s ominous account of the postwar world, alongside nowhere, easy house, and crossbar hotel [MTM B5:164].MTM B5:164
Charon's (boat)
Papadiabolous II’s image of death as the alternative to escaping Naxos in his own boat. He tells Finnegan and Anastasia that none of the three will return to the Brunhilde: they will leave in his vessel or Charon’s. His boat is the Seabach, pronounced Shouakh and also called the Hawk [D:121-122].D:121-122
Chart
Duffey studies Zabotski’s charts, schematics, and projections while pondering their contradictory sense of historical progress [MTM B9:273]. The Argo’s chart room contains instructions for locating a second log book, although Duffey cannot reliably find the instructions or even the room [MTM B13:411].MTM B9:273; MTM B13:411
Chart Room
The Argo’s chart room contains instructions for finding the alternate log of dislocated futures, but Duffey cannot always find the directions or even the room [MTM B13:411]. In a separate scene concerning the Brunhilde, X asks Finnegan what tracings he made in its chart room as part of an interrogation that exposes Finnegan’s failure to gather the evidence X expects [D:188-189].MTM B13:411; D:188-189
Charter (carnival acts)
To hire or engage performers: Professor Kirol sometimes charters acts and forms combinations when assembling his carnival [A:215].A:215
Charter (of Acts)
Earlier heading treated the verb charter as the title of a document. See Charter (carnival acts).Chartres Street
Street tentatively identified as the location of Duffey’s current establishment in New Orleans. The narrator immediately qualifies the location as Chartres Street or whatever street it was [MTM B11:310].MTM B11:310
Chase, The
The pursuit in a saying Endymeon attributes to the Arabs: days spent in the chase do not count against the length of life. He uses this analogy to claim that translation does not exhaust an author’s allotted creative talent [A:237].A:237
Chasm
Bottomless fissure in Duffey’s central apocalyptic dream, swallowing towns and people, especially the young. His magic fails to arrest it, but he crosses to the other side and says a veil now separates him from others. The giants’ hands he summons appear severed and manacled, then become a child’s mittens joined by their drawstring. Beth interprets the dream as his coming seven-year absence [MTM B2:68-69].MTM B2:68-69
Chastaigne, Joseph
Proprietor of the Imperial Bar or Royal on Basse-Terre, jokingly called Sloppy Joe’s by Finnegan and his three companions. The place is fastidious, green-fronted, breezy, and scented with rum and lime; the narrator likens its faint tinkling to both ice in a glass and the music of the spheres [D:235]. After Finnegan’s companions leave, Chastaigne sees the same restlessness in him and predicts that he too will leave within a month, on the next boat. He and Angela Cosquin are Finnegan’s remaining close friends there [D:266].D:235; D:266
Chastellain
One of the named would-be leaders of the non-splendid, old-line humans resisting the Royal Pop transformation. Their leadership fails as some join the splendid people and others die disintegrating into trash; Chastellain’s individual fate is not specified [MTM B11:335].MTM B11:335
Chastity
Virtue praised in a passage attributed to St. Francis de Sales as the lily among virtues and as integrity opposed to corruption. The narrator connects chastity of mind with the highest intelligence and says Duffey sometimes fails in practice but never redefines corruption as virtue [MTM B1:27]. Duffey condemns a war on chastity alongside wars on poverty and obedience [MTM B6:193]. In Promantia’s account of Casey’s past lives, Prince Casimir’s lifelong vow of chastity frustrates his father’s succession plans [PG:536].MTM B1:27; MTM B6:193; PG:536
Chattering (little idiot)
Corporal Robert Casper’s instruction in Don Lewis’s patrol story: keep the apparently Japanese soldier talking while Casper gets behind him. The fugitive repeatedly eludes their attempts to surround him [D:44-45].D:44-45
Cheap-Shot Artist, The (also Old Clootie)
The Devil as the Cheap-Shot Artist and father of all cheap-shot artists. X identifies him as the power behind Finnegan and Dotty’s reported deaths [MTM B8:238]. Soon afterward Duffey encounters him as the Majesty at a meeting of the New Catholic Press Guild and calls him Old Clootie [MTM B8:239-243]. Entering the Devil’s mind, Duffey hears him glory in cheap shots, hatred, slander, destruction, and the negation of creation [MTM B8:242]. Clootie is a Scots name associated with the Devil. Duffey later uses it to unsettle the adversary in their struggle over his creative powers [MTM B10:303-304].MTM B8:238; MTM B8:239-243; MTM B8:242; MTM B10:303-304
Checkbook
Gertrude Brannagan proposes to fetch her checkbook to help Eva obtain Kate’s Neanderthal after the men’s magically manufactured money proves impractical [MTM B13:415]. Sebastian Hilton pays Lily Koch a hundred dollars in cash for a statuette because he has left his checkbook at school [MTM B1:28-29].MTM B13:415; MTM B1:28-29
Cheek
Finnegan reports having a Z cut into his cheek after his jukebox quarrel [A:264]. Duffey lightly nicks Bagby’s cheek while shaving him, to keep his new acquaintance from getting too far ahead in their verbal contest [MTM B2:45].A:264; MTM B2:45
Cheese
Duffey eats cheese with black bread and beer at the Dublin [MTM B2:39], then buys ten pounds as stock for his own establishment [MTM B2:41]. Mary Catherine serves blue cheese to Finnegan [A:247], and Letitia includes cheese in the meal she sets out for Giulio [MTM B3:106]. The Harvesters’ Dinner at the Colony Club also includes cheeses [MTM B3:94]. “Cheese Factory” is among the words on milk-can covers that young Duffey remembers or obtains from other minds [MTM B1:17]. Gautier eats a pound of cheese daily and makes two pounds to barter [A:196]. Honeybucket calls his proposed plankton-and-livestock venture the Ancient Syrian Cheese Company, although the narrator reveals that he has not tried the plan and does not know what plankton looks like [D:219].MTM B2:39; MTM B2:41; A:247; MTM B3:106; MTM B3:94; MTM B1:17; A:196; D:219
Cheese Factory
Words on milk-can covers among the iron-lettered household inscriptions that young Duffey knows by observation or by borrowing other people’s memories [MTM B1:17].MTM B1:17
Chef (from Martinique)
Unnamed chef from Martinique at Howland Jerome Howland’s luxurious Club Royal in Chicago [A:246].A:246
Chef (High)
Olga Sanchez’s unnamed husband, described as a beautiful Mexican man, who becomes high chef of the Rounders’ Club main dining room [MTM B2:74].MTM B2:74
Chemical Unbalance
One of the possible explanations Elena lists while asking Finnegan why he drinks. He answers her whole series with nine yesses and a no, then attributes his drinking to its pleasure and his excess to an evil streak; he does not identify which proposed reason he rejects [A:274].A:274
Chemicals
Among the materials Leonard Archive says the settlement can selectively draw from water through varied electrical voltages, frequencies, and electrode arrangements. His list also includes fish, crustaceans, animals, plants, minerals, salts, alcohols, petroleum, and sugars. Honeybucket Kincaid demonstrates the equipment while preparing the visitors’ meal [MTM B13:417-418].MTM B13:417-418
Chemist
Zabotski’s former occupation. He is a retired chemist and experimenter who supplies Duffey with the large glass-lined distillation pot that becomes the communal soup crock [A:132-133] [MTM B6:195]. The later description calls him a smelly man in a smelly trade, then specifies that his offensiveness is to the eye rather than the nose [MTM B11:306].A:132-133; MTM B6:195; MTM B11:306
Cherry bomb
Simile for the heart bursting as Duffey wrestles Morpheus, panics at extinction, and collapses toward the single-celled remnant of their diminishing world [GD:500].GD:500
Cherson
Name X says the Goths used for the Crimean peninsula, the Tauric or Euxine Chersonese, in his account of the Devil’s imprisonment [MTM B6:204]. See Chersonese (Euxine/Tauric).MTM B6:204
Chersonese (Euxine/Tauric)
Crimean peninsula in the accounts of the Devil’s thousand-year imprisonment. X calls it the Tauric or Euxine Chersonese and says Christians brought the prisoner from Aachen in 946 or 947, delivered him first to Muslim authorities, and then to devil-worshipping guards. In his account it was divided between Kiev and Tmutarakan and had been called the Prison, Phylake or Carcer, long before this confinement [MTM B6:204-205]. Henri’s account dates the transfer from Aachen to 946 [MTM B5:180]. Teresa says the ancient Argo sailed past the Devil’s preordained prison on its way to Colchis [MTM B7:234].MTM B6:204-205; MTM B5:180; MTM B7:234
Chest
Patrick Stranahan, not Henry, has the chest and shoulders of a heavyweight wrestler [A:102]. The thunder colt tears open the chest of Deutero-Finnegan, the Finnegan effigy, in the Opera House spectacle [MTM B11:351]. Duffey sees the Devil’s tetragrammaton cut into Sebastian Hilton’s chest in a transport, but on examining the body finds plague sores forming the same design, not knife wounds [MTM B7:226]. In the container sense, Papa Devil brings an ice chest to the Padre Island beach party [D:34] [D:40]; treasure chests marked with suggestive pirates’ initials feature on Angela’s father’s forged maps [D:259-260].A:102; MTM B11:351; MTM B7:226; D:34; D:40; D:259-260
Chestnut
Color of Dotty’s memorable hair [A:105-106], and one of the color terms used for the women Johnny Duckwalk and Don Barnaby pursue on Basse-Terre [D:236]. Chestnut Street names the St. Louis district of fleshpots frequented by Bagby [MTM B2:62].A:105-106; D:236; MTM B2:62
Chestnut Street
St. Louis street whose fleshpots Bagby frequents. The same portrait describes his brawling throughout the city [MTM B2:62].MTM B2:62
Chewing Tobacco
Product advertised by the company sponsoring the limerick contest in Marie’s Shakes Pearson story. Her uncle repeatedly begins tobacco verses on bark, only to abandon them for whisky and find them eaten by squirrels when he returns [A:25].A:25
Chiang
Chiang Kai-shek, the Chinese Nationalist leader. In his polemic against the Bark, Casey condemns its support for Chiang and calls him discredited and possibly the most evil man alive [A:130].A:130
Chiara
One of the three children, with Rafaello and Theresa Anna, whom Theresa remembers from her twelve-year other life with Finnegan. She has Masses said for them while uncertain whether that life was a dream; the narrator explicitly distinguishes these children from those she has with Vincent [A:203-204]. A later account names Chiara, Rafaello, and Theresa Anna as Vincent and Teresa Stranahan’s three younger children, born many years after their older ones [MTM B12:385].A:203-204; MTM B12:385
Chicago
Major home and working city for Duffey and his circle. One account includes Chicago among the cities where he lived with kindred between five and twelve; his 1925 return is a night-train journey from Omaha [MTM B1:7] [MTM B3:77]. He joins Gabriel Szymansky’s business, adding books and art to its paired antique and pawn shops [MTM B3:81-82]. North Chicago’s golden age lasts from 1925 to 1935, followed by an electrum age to about 1946; its circle includes the Kochs, Hiltons, Szymanskys, artists such as Groben, and the young Carruthers, Rattigan, and Stones [MTM B3:98-99]. The city is the setting of the Leader’s appearance and the portfolio blackmail against Duffey [MTM B4:116] [MTM B4:139]. The Crock belongs to this Chicago world, which also lies behind Duffey’s warning about Hugo Stone and Stein [A:40-41]. Finnegan plans to visit Casey there [A:120], receives Chicago friends’ mail at Palermo [D:114-115], and returns to the city during his later human-life interval [D:272]. Duffey leaves Chicago for St. Louis in 1946 and does not return from that trip [MTM B5:149]; later he and X do visit Chicago by traveling backward in time after their Cuban search for Finnegan [MTM B12:376]. Margaret Stone recalls her Chicago childhood through her father’s unread Cook County history [MTM B11:308].MTM B1:7; MTM B3:77; MTM B3:81-82; MTM B3:98-99; MTM B4:116; MTM B4:139; A:40-41; A:120; D:114-115; D:272; MTM B5:149; MTM B12:376; MTM B11:308
Chicago Herald and Examiner
Newspaper publishing Elena O’Higgins’s modest November 14 report on the mule transported thirty feet through the air beneath the Pont du Sable Traffic Trestle. Its photograph shows the airborne mule without giant hands, and its witnesses disagree about the means of transport [MTM B4:132].MTM B4:132
Chicago style jazz
Jazz style favored in the Crock’s short survey of new recordings [A:41].A:41
Chicago Tribune
Newspaper publishing Tony Apostolo’s November 14 report on the transported mule. It includes accounts from numerous witnesses and all three photographs exchanged among the reporters, including the image showing giant hands. The witnesses offer conflicting explanations, though most describe giant hands lifting the mule [MTM B4:132-133].MTM B4:132-133
Chicago-Hot Jazz
Music Rollo McSorley says can still be heard only on Fleshpot Row. The narrator mocks his musical judgment, concedes some truth to the location claim, and describes the row’s version as emphasizing the style’s faults [MTM B4:126].MTM B4:126
Chicle
Crop grown in the fictional country San Simeon, listed with henequen among the industries that do not account for its exceptional wealth, which lies in its possession of gold [MB:558].MB:558
Child-Hero, The
One of the Royal Pop People whom Duffey meets in New Orleans. Although his designation sounds like a type, the narrator insists that he and the other named figures are unique, enduring persons [MTM B11:322]. He disparages Duffey’s historical apparatus and questions the reality of the classical past [MTM B11:326-327]. In the new morning park he affirms its reality, identifies his people as newly awakened children of the thunder and mountain, and justifies the destruction of those judged insufficiently splendid [MTM B11:331-334]. Salvation Sally reports that she and the Child Hero clear a building’s third floor of its inhabitants [MTM B11:338]. He joins the dinner at Girardeau’s and then performs in the Cretan Bull Drama at the Decatur Street Opera House, where Zabotski is killed [MTM B11:344] [MTM B11:349].MTM B11:322; MTM B11:326-327; MTM B11:331-334; MTM B11:338; MTM B11:344; MTM B11:349
Childhood (in deep fimbul-winter)
Finnegan’s image of his people’s primordial life in the deep fimbul-winter. In his ancestral outcry, he says they invented the inventions of childhood and asks how they have since been cast as monsters [D:213].D:213
Childhood of astronomy
The narrator’s name for the elementary knowledge Hans gains by learning to calculate the positions of familiar stars. The Professor’s theories about the universe follow this practical lesson [A:214].A:214
Childhood of the soul
The Professor’s term for the present limits of human perception. He argues that sight reveals only the reverse of Heaven’s tapestry: people already inhabit the spiritual universe and eternity, but cannot yet perceive them fully [A:214].A:214
Childrens' Gin Fund
Mock charitable fund to which Dotty says Marie should give her money instead of paying Salvation Sally’s passage to America. The suggestion appears in Dotty’s comic letter complaining about Sally’s arrival [A:147].A:147
China Lobby
Political alignment Casey attributes to the Bark in his hostile review. He calls the magazine straight China Lobby and attacks its support for Chiang and opposition to the Communist movement in China [A:130].A:130
China Shop
Mary Louise’s comparison for Bagby’s eagerness to buy anything, after he pays a thousand dollars for Elroy Redheart’s chambered-heart artwork: a kid in a China Shop [MTM B7:224].MTM B7:224
China Straits
Straits traversed by the returning voyagers after skirting the d’Entrecasteau Islands and Trobriands in Archipelago [A:36]. Biloxi Brannagan has not only sailed through them but dived there for old wrecks [D:203].A:36; D:203
Chinese girl (Angela Ching)
See Ching, Angela.Chinese period
Hans’s name for the phase in which Chinese ballads and Heine’s influence mingle with a Rhineland sadness, German roofs, Chinese houses, river junks, and love. His unpublished Li Tai Po ballad introduces the account [A:221-223].A:221-223
Chinese style
The manner in which Hans proposes to decorate his flat. Jimmy suggests rugs on the walls and a red-and-black color scheme [A:229].A:229
Ching-Ling Charley's Doss House
One of the fictitious sponsors advertised on Stein’s G.I. radio station, the Anopheles Network, housed in one of his two tents. The spoof promises genteel surroundings and an atmosphere one can cut with a knife [A:46].A:46
Ching, Angela
Slim Chinese girl among Duffey’s ladies who gather at his Rounders’ Club in St. Louis and kiss him goodbye before his departure [MTM B2:70].MTM B2:70
Chiodo
Italian for nail, used in Theresa’s saying to Finnegan that a chiodo in the heart never killed. She speaks of loving Finnegan while expecting happiness with Vincent [A:107].A:107
Chipmunks
One of Finnegan’s first guesses about the small animals around him as he wakes before dawn. He gradually recognizes rats, his own dried blood, and the foul dump in which he has slept [A:177].A:177
Chith
Destination beyond mountains in the voyage poem opening Finnegan’s chapter, whose subtitle identifies him with Iason and the Other People: he will go over the mountains to Chith [A:171].A:171
Chiv
Knife word that Casey’s notebook identifies as Romani, using the term Gypsy in its list of language facts [A:164].A:164
Chloros
Greek color word for a pale or yellowish green. Hans considers and rejects it as a description of Marie’s green eyes, reasoning that nobody would have eyes of that shade [A:24].A:24
Chocolate
Among the provisions Finnegan unloads at Anastasia Grandmother’s house on Naxos [D:126]. Casey includes a chocolate soldier among the eminent figures who echo the propagandists’ chosen language [A:185-186]. Chocolate is also one of the color terms for the Basse-Terre women pursued by Don Barnaby and Johnny Duckwalk [D:236]. In Elroy Redheart’s chambered-heart artwork, a dead girl’s own red chocolate heart lies among the candies beside her, removed from her opened breast [MTM B7:221].D:126; A:185-186; D:236; MTM B7:221
Chocolate Soldier
One of the ostensibly independent eminent figures who echo the phrases of Casey’s propagandists. Casey lists him with a physicist, wit, widow, educator, and statesman [A:185-186].A:185-186
Chodorlahomor
King of Elam or Susiana, described in Duffey’s narrative as ruler of a Devildom east of the Tigris and leader of the three crooked kings Amraphel, Arioch, and Thadal. Duffey recognizes those three names in the Flame Man comic strip as the Slant-Faced Men, the magicless anti-magi; their allegiance to Chodorlahomor is supplied outside the strip. Duffey remembers blessing Abraham after his victory over the four kings [MTM B7:227-228].MTM B7:227-228
Chok-chok-chok-kachoom
One of the animal sounds in the immense rhapsody heard the night before Zabotski, Wife Waldo, children, and animals depart in his giant ark-like contraption [MTM B9:285].MTM B9:285
Chort
Devil-name in Zabotski’s account of Slavic folk-comic tales and the Devil’s release from an underground prison [MTM B6:191]. In X’s family history, Chortovitch means son of the Devil and has been euphemized on a gravestone to Bogovitch, son of God [D:277].MTM B6:191; D:277
Chortovitch, Ifreann Noonan Columkill Gregorovitch Papadiabolous
The elder Devil whose history X reconstructs from the neglected grave marked I.N.C.G.P. Bogovitch, which Finnegan locates. X interprets Bogovitch as a euphemism for Chortovitch, son of the Devil [D:276-278]. In his account the man is born near Krakow in 1830 to the Irish governess Katie Noonan, is baptized Columkill, and receives Gregorovitch from his adopter Gregory. X believes the father was literally the Devil, as the parish record reportedly says, while admitting the alternative that Gregory fathered him; Katie affectionately calls him Ifreann [D:278-279]. X describes him as a murderer, participant in the Paris Commune, disciple of Kropotkin, and old-line communist who sires twins at seventy, simultaneously but to different mothers on different continents and in different centuries [D:280-281]. X says a document conferring dangerous power is buried with the father [D:290].D:276-278; D:278-279; D:280-281; D:290
Chorus
Refrain or collective voice: the cicadas surrounding Finnegan and Anastasia on the Naxos mountaintop [D:132]; the Gadarene Swine Song sung by Sebastian, Countess Margaret, Letitia, and Duffey, with Giulio Solli howling its basso accompaniment [MTM B3:107]; and the short counter-ode preceding Duffey’s curtain speech in Cleo Mahoney’s play [MTM B10:297].D:132; MTM B3:107; MTM B10:297
Chosen (the)
The privileged company invoked by the poem opening Stranahan’s chapter, whose speaker chooses the life of the Fiver, grappling ghosts and cozening coneys with his companions [A:91].A:91
Chosky Bottoms, The
Elusive local bottoms discussed by Finnegan and his country friends after a night with coon dogs. They disagree whether they have just been there; Old Pop Potter treats the name as a general spook place always beyond the next ridge. Its legends include a man-killing panther, swamp ghost, masked riders, a Northern Platoon lost in quicksand, ancestral coons and fish, Bloody Mulligans, and eighteen-foot bull snakes. Finnegan compares its elusive character with the St. Kitts he hopes to find, rather than placing the bottoms near that island [D:273-274].D:273-274
Christ-heads (Danish-bread)
The Danish-bread Christ is one of the Seven Christs Duffey brings back from his lost years: a head shaped from mixed wheat and rye dough, baked and varnished. The narrator says such heads are baked in parts of Denmark for Corpus Christi, and marvels at this particular example’s artistic power and preservation [MTM B3:103].MTM B3:103
Christian Chinese
Description of Ignatius Ti, the ward boy who translates the parakeet Amoy’s stories. His family has lived in the islands for centuries [A:79].A:79
Christian mermaids
Mermaids who, according to Anastasia’s account, lived on a small island between Patmos and Lipsos in the second century. Their chapel of Our Lady of the Dolphins still survives in poor condition [D:34-35].D:34-35
Christmas
One of the four annual occasions on which Finnegan writes to Dotty while in the army [A:176]. Mary Catherine’s Irish whisky has remained unopened since Christmas when she brings it out for Finnegan [A:249]. The Brunhilde party spends eight or nine days at Port of Spain over Christmas and New Year’s [D:85]. Duffey remembers spending a Christmas vacation at Sebastian Hilton’s wealthy Chicago home [MTM B3:81].A:176; A:249; D:85; MTM B3:81
Christopher (brother of Henry)
One of Henry Francis Salvatore’s brothers, alongside Eustace, Hilaire, Joseph, Louis, Mark, and Simeon [A:122].A:122
Christopher (Saint)
Earlier heading that treated an island name as an account of the saint. See St. Kitts (St. Christopher).Christopher Columbus (c. 1451--1506)
Italian navigator (1451-1506) whose four Spanish-sponsored Atlantic voyages began in 1492 as a search for a westward route to Asia. His Caribbean landfalls inaugurated sustained European contact and colonization, with extensive transfers of organisms, goods, and people known as the Columbian Exchange. His colonial government and the enslavement of Indigenous people belong to the contested legacy of those voyages. In The Devil Is Dead, discovery by Columbus is one of the narrator’s playful requirements for an island paradise [D:237]; Ignacio similarly calls St. Christopher holy as a Columbus landfall [A:272].D:237; A:272
Chromatic Beauty
Beauty coupled with the continuity of evil in Casey’s childhood theory of personalized temptations. His erotic imaginary world contains treacherous, beautiful women from history and legend, compared with St. Anthony’s temptations [A:157].A:157
Chrome
Part of the rich interior of the outwardly dingy Cadillac Bar, where white-jacketed bar-boys preside amid chrome and crystal [D:58]. In Elroy Redheart’s chambered-heart artwork, chrome babes, cars, and domiciles furnish the affluent half of the second red room [MTM B7:222].D:58; MTM B7:222
Chrome babes
Figures among the brash, affluent scenes in the second red room of Elroy Redheart’s chambered-heart artwork, alongside chrome cars and chrome domiciles [MTM B7:222].MTM B7:222
Chromosomes
In the turbaned speaker’s account of the Royal Pop Historians’ techniques, an ancestral cicada had two more chromosomes and, coincidentally, two more notes in its song than modern descendants. He claims both the old song and the missing chromosomes can be recovered, the latter duplicated by advanced techniques [MTM B11:323-325].MTM B11:323-325
Chronicker, S.J., Thomas J.
Jesuit contributor to the Crock, whose article in the issue described in Archipelago is on Diabolism in the World Today [A:41]. Listed as Thomas Chroniker S.J. among the ecclesial or vineyard people of Duffey’s Chicago golden age [MTM B3:99], and as Thos. J. Chronicker, S.J. among the magazine’s contributors during Duffey’s wartime editorship [MTM B4:138].A:41; MTM B3:99; MTM B4:138
Chrysostom (Papadiabolous I alias)
Alias of Gregory McIfreann Papadiabolous, the Asiatic twin or Papadiabolous I born in Smyrna, according to X. His other names include Sanditen, Protagoras, and Hochstruwelpieter-Goltz. X distinguishes him from the Irish twin Gregory McColum, Papadiabolous II, whose aliases include Noonan and Flaherty [D:285].D:285
Chrysostom (Saint)
St. John Chrysostom, whom Finnegan tentatively names, with Jerome as an alternative, when discussing Le Marin’s theory of an island Terrestrial Paradise. Finnegan thinks such authorities sought Paradise in the Near East, not in Le Marin’s Antilles [D:234].D:234
Chthonic Goddesses
The goddesses invoked in the portrait of Mary Louise Byrne’s strength and bovine quality. The narrator presents her as the royal bovine or sacred cow through which such goddesses pass, as well as an embodied part of Duffey’s own soul [MTM B2:55].MTM B2:55
Church (building/institution)
Both a religious institution and a place of worship. Sally calls churches traps in her argument with Hans and Marie [A:8]. Particular buildings include Sydney’s Annunciation Church, where Hans and Marie marry [A:31]; the unnamed small Naxos church where Finnegan receives confession and attends Mass [D:119-120]; and the unnamed church opposite his encounter with Tommy Katt [D:232]. Duffey visits the winged stone church of St. Malachy in Chicago while seeking his future wife [MTM B3:87-88]. Teresa’s and the Stranahans’ shared parish hosts her wedding to Vincent [MTM B5:183]; in her memories of another life or dream she also knows the church where her children with Finnegan were baptized [A:204]. X locates Ifreann Columkill’s baptismal record, naming the Devil as his father, at St. Elmo’s near Krakow [D:279]. A priest from St. Katherine’s blesses the communal pot [A:133] [MTM B6:195]. St. Michael’s is being unstructured on the Great Day [GD:496], while Elena describes St. Cristina’s Chicago parish using Casey’s substituted music for special liturgy [PG:525]. In How Many Miles to Babylon, Hackenschmidt declares the Thing dead after a ritual destroying the Ekklesia’s straw-man Peter [MB:568].A:8; A:31; D:119-120; D:232; MTM B3:87-88; MTM B5:183; A:204; D:279; A:133; MTM B6:195; GD:496; PG:525; MB:568
Church of St. Elmo
Parish nearest Krakow in X’s reconstructed family history. He says its record names the Devil as father of Katie Noonan’s child, who is baptized Columkill [D:279].D:279
Church of St. Katherine
Church supplying the priest whom Duffey brings to bless the great communal soup pot [A:133] [MTM B6:195].A:133; MTM B6:195
Church of St. Malachy
Chicago stone church two blocks north of Duffey’s hotel, with three spread-winged archangels on its south front and nine large angels on each east and west side. Its ruddy, winged turrets catch the morning sun while Duffey searches the arriving worshippers for his moth, his future wife [MTM B3:87-88]. Letitia makes arrangements there for their wedding [MTM B3:92]; they visit it while preparing their home and marriage [MTM B3:96], and the subsequent account confirms that they marry [MTM B3:98].MTM B3:87-88; MTM B3:92; MTM B3:96; MTM B3:98
Church of St. Michael
Church being dismantled through faith in the Great Day episode. After leaving the Pelican, Duffey visits its damaged stone Michael at what was the entrance; the statue says that the living water has gone and that no Mass or even morning remains [GD:496].GD:496
Church of St. Philomena
Earlier heading that misclassified the school as a church. See St. Philomena's.Church of the Annunciation (Sydney)
Sydney church where John Gottfried Schultz, called Hans, marries Marie Anna Monaghan on Monday, February 15, 1943. Hans lacks army permission, so the wedding is temporarily secret and none of their friends attends; twenty or thirty of Marie’s relatives are present [A:31].A:31
Churchy people
The ecclesial or vineyard members of Duffey’s Chicago golden-age circle: Thomas Chroniker S.J.; Tim and Gale Tuthill; Sister Mary Cornelia (Sullivan) Foster and Alma Ruch; Dan and Nan Donovan; Sister Mary Aurora (Rittenhouse); Martin and Katherine Redwine; Frantz and Elaine St. Clair. The narrator says these vineyard workers keep the world turning [MTM B3:99].MTM B3:99
Churn
Household vessel bearing the iron-lettered names Sturgis, Curtis Improved, or Star Barrel in Duffey’s remembered or mind-borrowed childhood observations [MTM B1:17]. The narrator later compares the ten-year-old Casey, after his attempted debut as world Leader, to a churn in which butter of a particular flavor is forming [MTM B4:118].MTM B1:17; MTM B4:118
Churning Creek
Descriptive phrase, not a stated place-name, for the creek Henry and Casey climb up to before swimming in a deep hole below a waterfall [A:42].A:42
Cicadas
Insects whose chorus surrounds Finnegan and Anastasia on the moonlit Naxos mountaintop while their donkey grazes below [D:132]. A turbaned Royal Pop Historians speaker claims that an ancestral cicada had two additional chromosomes and, coincidentally, two extra notes in its song, both accessible to their reconstruction techniques [MTM B11:324-325].D:132; MTM B11:324-325
Cid, The
One of the enchanted or trance-sleeping leaders X lists, with Barbarossa, Alaric, Brian Boru, and Arthur, whose subjects await their awakening or release. X contrasts their sleep with the Devil’s wakefulness in prison [MTM B6:204-205].MTM B6:204-205
Cigar
A recurrent character prop. Stein smokes while typing beneath his publisher’s placard [A:120]; in the Great Day episode he wishes to be buried with a lit cigar and claims his lengthening stogie is made of faith-tobacco [GD:493-494]. Le Marin includes a still-smoking cigar in the standard derelict-ship story he applies to the Sarcophagus [D:243]. The dead hack from the Seabach has a mauled cigar in his mouth [D:135] [D:147]. Hillary Hilton trades in distressed cigars [A:253]. After buying his St. Louis premises, Duffey smokes half a cigar and later gives it to Giulio [MTM B2:40] [MTM B2:42]; he accidentally knocks Charley Murray’s cigar from the balloon before releasing its hydrogen [MTM B2:66]. X smokes one of the Mogul’s cigars while awaiting him in his apartment [MB:570].A:120; GD:493-494; D:243; D:135; D:147; A:253; MTM B2:40; MTM B2:42; MTM B2:66; MB:570
Cigar Store Christ
One of Duffey’s Seven Christs, a St. Kitts statue resembling a cigar-store Indian. Its right-hand fingers form a cup or cone for cigars; it has the conventional coloring and a bare head, but Christ’s face. The narrator says its Black artist knew the face without recognizing its owner [MTM B3:103].MTM B3:103
Cigar Store Indian
Four life-size figures Finnegan carves while staying with Casey, doing novelty work for money. The narrator praises their authenticity, humor, and burlesque touch. A rich man buys them for a hundred dollars each. Years later Hillary Hilton owns one, which he refuses to sell because of his love for Finnegan; the other three are untraced [A:183].A:183
Cincinnati
One of the gracious American cities Patrick Stranahan recommends knowing [A:110]. In Finnegan’s confused rhapsody of places and times, some of the bars he seems to be visiting are, he thinks, really in Cincinnati [A:200].A:110; A:200
Cinders
What remains of Chicago in Casey’s ninth imaginary world, a revolutionary fantasy in which workers topple buildings and start a fire greater than the original Chicago fire [A:160].A:160
Circle
A grouping of companions or a pattern of association. The soldiers pass their last bottle around a circle in the grass [A:69]; Patrick Stranahan’s household welcomes Monica’s and the daughters’ many social circles [A:104]. The account How Many Miles to Babylon is attributed to a member of Finnegan’s old outer circle [MTM B12:368], while Charlotte says Casey’s Antichrist title carries little prestige with the real inner-circle people [MTM B12:379]. Bagby’s letters after death describe circles differentiated by intensity and transfiguration rather than by inner and outer position [MTM B8:248-249]. Stein notes the stir caused by the Devil’s release in esoteric circles, while varying his opinion of whether that released figure is the Devil or a decoy [MTM B10:291].A:69; A:104; MTM B12:368; MTM B12:379; MTM B8:248-249; MTM B10:291
Circuit
Green’s metaphor for a contingent universe held in existence by God’s continual pressure on a momentary-contact switch, in the Ward Fourteen conversation [A:76]. In the performing sense, X says he played the circuits as the Great X-Capo [A:137]. Duffey visits his circuit of midwestern cities for a year or more after the missing years, starting and selling three businesses [MTM B3:77]. Anastasia says Seaworthy and his company make circuits to check their apparatus and men in different towns, calling the business deep and murderous [D:39].A:76; A:137; MTM B3:77; D:39
Circuits (Great X-Capo played)
Performance circuits X says he toured as the Great X-Capo. He invokes that stage career to explain his ease in opening a locked box [A:137].A:137
Circus
A source of images and performances: circus girl acrobats populate Casey’s erotic dream world [A:157]; Professor Kirol has performed in European and American circuses [A:215-216]; and Marie Courtois’s strength and excitement are compared with a circus woman and a circus [D:37]. Monica calls Finnegan’s behavior with Mary Schaeffer either a scandal or a circus [A:105]. Circuses also figure among the popular arts the narrator says are deliberately degraded after the Devil’s release [MTM B6:207].A:157; A:215-216; D:37; A:105; MTM B6:207
Circus Girl Acrobats
Among the women from history, legend, and performance who populate Casey’s childhood erotic imaginary world, described as treacherous and beautiful temptations [A:157].A:157
Cistern hand-pump
Water pump at Duffey’s newly purchased St. Louis horse barn, working after a little priming [MTM B2:41]. He uses it while preparing a bath for his first customer, before arranging a city water supply [MTM B2:42].MTM B2:41; MTM B2:42
Cisterns, Deep
Ancestral depths invoked in Finnegan’s litany about his primordial people. His question about the earth’s deep cisterns stands between questions about making blood from elemental materials and remembering childhood’s blue ice [D:213].D:213
Citadel of sanity
Finnegan’s description of the Brannagans’ hospitable home. His thanksgiving for this refuge follows praise of Gertrude’s extravagant cooking and the joke that her southern kitchen has escaped fried chicken and cornbread [D:208].D:208
Citizen
A political or civic identity: X says Ifreann claimed Krakow citizenship throughout his life, although he left below citizenship age [D:280]. Carmelo’s travel papers make Duffey the Irish Free State citizen Mike Duffey for the Cuban journey [MTM B12:369]. Widow Waldo reports that the state inspector relies on pressure from neighbors and fellow citizens against the part of Zabotski’s structure on his own lot [MTM B9:274]. An excerpt attributed to Leo XIII’s The Condition of Labor speaks of industrious, modest men winning their fellow citizens’ sympathy [MTM B5:176].D:280; MTM B12:369; MTM B9:274; MTM B5:176
City Commission
Municipal body to which a reporter says Zabotski complained about flooding on Dumaine Street, severe enough to float an ocean-going ship past his house. Zabotski concedes that the remark sounds like his own and that sufficient rain could carry his giant contraption to Lake Borgne [MTM B9:289].MTM B9:289
City Hall
Chicago municipal building visited by Duffey and Letitia while preparing their home and marriage, in a round of visits also including St. Malachy’s, an insurer, a bank, and a lawyer [MTM B3:96].MTM B3:96
Civil litigation
One of the popular arts the narrator includes in the sweeping loss of style and class following the Devil’s release [MTM B6:207].MTM B6:207
Civil War, American
American conflict of 1861-1865, beginning with the bombardment of Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861. Lee’s April 9, 1865 surrender at Appomattox was a decisive ending, though other Confederate surrenders followed. The novel associates Prisoner John’s twenty-year captivity in an attic cell with Civil War days [MTM B1:13]. Private Gregory says he lost his papers during the war and used that loss to reduce his recorded age [A:77].MTM B1:13; A:77
Civilized person
Trinali’s joking name for herself when she insists that only barbarians dine by electric light. Her electricity has been cut off for nonpayment, so she brings candles and would rather nobody else use electricity either [A:228].A:228
Claim check
Ticket X steals from Doll’s bag while she shops, enabling him to retrieve the suitcase of money from its locker. He substitutes the matching suitcase packed with banded newspaper pieces and lays a trail for the pursuers to find that decoy [D:178].D:178
Clancys (Family)
One of the families an older relative names among Duffey’s kin in an account of his childhood among Iowa farms and towns and several cities. Duffey disputes the genealogy, suggesting that she remembers his twin instead [MTM B1:7-8].MTM B1:7-8
Clang-for-service bell
Bell Bagby proposes for Duffey’s establishment, so customers can call him back while he works in Bagby’s adjoining cabinet shop. A boarded doorway between the buildings can be reopened for that arrangement [MTM B2:46].MTM B2:46
Clarence
Place whose beaches appear with those of Mona and Baile in the projected voyage of the poem opening Finnegan’s chapter [A:171].A:171
Clarence (Sulphur-Bottom Sullivan)
Baptismal name of Sulphur-Bottom Sullivan, and the only name his parents used for him. The narrator calls the nickname’s origin remarkable but declines to tell it [D:217].D:217
Clarenden
Alias X assigns to Gregory McColum Papadiabolous, the Irish twin or Papadiabolous II. His other listed names are Noonan, Flaherty, Christy, Cobbett, Malory, Ingraham, and Arbuthnot [D:285].D:285
Clarity
Lucidity that can be revealing or deceptive. Finnegan calls his conviction that he is the world’s only person full clarity during his chaparral ordeal [A:205]; after burying Don Lewis, a little clarity makes him recognize that Papa Devil was not the killer [D:112]. Hans asks Marie to turn his incoherent but revealing insights into clarity [MTM B6:186]. The magus recovers his identity as Melchisedech as his clarity increases [MTM B13:402], yet the poisoned spring later makes him see unreal things with deceptive clarity before he gains the special perception of dying [MTM B13:441]. “To Trinali with Clarity” is a projected ode-title in Trinali’s fantasy of a significant early death [A:232].A:205; D:112; MTM B6:186; MTM B13:402; MTM B13:441; A:232
Claxton, John
Artist whose slate-slab paintings Duffey adds to his New Orleans art-dealing stock [MTM B6:199].MTM B6:199
Cleavage
Rock property mentioned in Casey’s notebook claim that rocks can be left- or right-handed according to their formation and type of cleavage [A:164].A:164
Clement
Clement of Rome, recognizable among Linus and Cletus aboard the sacred ship in Henry’s vision [A:45]. One of the Apostolic Fathers and traditionally the fourth bishop of Rome, he led the Roman church in the late first century; chronological lists variously give about 88-97 or 92-99. Early church tradition connects him with the Apostles, and one tradition makes Peter his consecrator. His First Letter to the Corinthians, usually placed around 96, seeks to resolve a dispute within that church and is a very early Christian witness to communal unity and order. Later tradition relates his exile and martyrdom by drowning with an anchor; these are hagiographical reports rather than securely established biographical details. His Roman Catholic feast is November 23.A:45
Clement (Hal)
Author of Left of Africa, listed as number 1 in Manuscript Press’s Lost Manuscripts series in the publisher’s notice at the end of this edition of Archipelago; Archipelago itself is number 2 [A:286].A:286
Cleopatra
One of the exalted names Hilary Hilton says reincarnation claimants choose. He uses the analogy to ridicule Casey’s claim of exchanging souls with the Devil; he does not say Casey claims to have been Cleopatra [PG:531].PG:531
Cleveland Bays
Horses drawing Sebastian Hilton’s hired carriage for the school dance, praised by the narrator as unsurpassed in style. The liveried driver, post-boy’s horn, and circuitous ride with the girls briefly relieve the boys’ dread of formal pairing [MTM B1:32].MTM B1:32
Cliff people
People Hans reaches by climbing the apparently inaccessible cliffs of the island. He eats with them and learns their language; their food includes taro, goop, cuscus or coconut possum, birds, and meat whose peculiar taste prompts his teasing hints of cannibalism [A:58]. Finnegan is afraid to meet them, and the narrator explains that they look exactly like him: great noses, chinlessness, a deceptive shambling gait, and sudden speed and strength. Whatever remnant they represent, Finnegan belongs to it too [A:59].A:58; A:59
Climax
A culmination whose possibility the narratives repeatedly question. The noises at Yokipoki’s grave build to a climax before Finnegan discovers the rats [D:47]. Doll demands a climax to the conflict with the older people, but X insists their method is endless gnawing and undermining, not climaxes [D:292]. Finnegan’s response to Dotty resembles the culmination of longing and also sheer terror [A:92]; even the final shooting is denied the name of crisis because it changes nobody’s attitude [A:282]. Other uses include the jungle raid’s climax [A:54], Endymeon’s search for a climactic line for his fourth stanza [A:238], the ironic description of America’s entry into the world war as a climax of political unease [MTM B4:138], and the Thunder Colt Game as the opera’s climax piece [MTM B11:350].D:47; D:292; A:92; A:282; A:54; A:238; MTM B4:138; MTM B11:350
Climbing
A recurrent practical skill and dream action. Jungle roots can serve as ladders [A:36], and Hans climbs cliffs to reach the cliff people [A:58]; his ascents through arrows and pistol fire, up an immense iron ladder, and into a giant spider’s web are explicitly dreams [A:61]. At school Rattigan climbs like a monkey, Sebastian like a squirrel, Duffey competently with giant hands available for support, and Charley Murray in terror [MTM B1:25]. Duffey also escapes his attic by a vine-covered rope [MTM B1:13] and, drawing on his rigging experience, climbs above the stage to inspect the Majesty’s apparent height [MTM B8:240]. Finnegan scales six stories of a Gothic hotel using its ornamentation; his recent upper-story burglaries have sought evidence rather than profit [D:162]. Little Alcohol handles climbing and high windows for his burglary partnership [D:218].A:36; A:58; A:61; MTM B1:25; MTM B1:13; MTM B8:240; D:162; D:218
Clio
Greek Muse of History. In Finnegan’s dream she carries a trumpet and clepsydra, joining the other muses in an investiture he resists because accepting it means lifelong work [A:181]. The narrator later quotes a prediction attributed to Nostradamus in which the new Pope redirects Clio’s road, applying it to Pope Finnegan I [MB:598].A:181; MB:598
Clock (Argo as dating)
One of the Argo’s functions according to Duffey. An artifact touched to the talking oak in its wheel elicits its year of origin in the appropriate era and annals. When confused, the wood instead calls out coordinates that may have no relation to the object. The log also records the last nine thousand years and the next sixty-seven, though interpreting it requires interior illumination and later futures belong to another log [MTM B13:411].MTM B13:411
Clootie, Old
Scots name for the Devil, associated with cloven hooves. Duffey uses its familiar, belittling tone toward the Majesty while exploring the giant’s trashy mind at the New Catholic Press Guild assembly [MTM B8:239-243]. He uses it again while accusing the devil confronting him in the closed place of being unable to create; that figure alternates between claiming authority and speaking as an agent for a client [MTM B10:303].MTM B8:239-243; MTM B10:303
Clothes
Garments repeatedly used to mark role and identity. The well-fitted clothes of the opening Asimov epigraph disguise a hypothetical Neanderthal, while Seaworthy first appears shabby [D:9]. Finnegan buys a satchel, clothes and shoes with Seaworthy’s money [D:17], and later looks like a Montenegran prince in evening dress [D:100]. For the swim to Paros, he and Manuel tow their clothes and shoes in leather sacks tied to floats [D:151]. On Basse-Terre he gives old clothes to a friend without understanding the plan; a similar-looking seaman is then found murdered in them [D:267]. Other appearances include the Bavarian Club girls’ peasant costumes [MTM B2:47], Elena’s refusal to undress while playing concertina [A:273], the hired Cuban sleeper’s work clothes beside his nude body [MTM B12:373], and old travel clothes beside Count Finnegan in his painting [MB:551]. On the Great Day, clothed Duffey is treated as conspicuous and improper to look at [GD:496].D:9; D:17; D:100; D:151; D:267; MTM B2:47; A:273; MTM B12:373; MB:551; GD:496
Clotilda
Third of the women’s names assigned to the four companions’ daily bottles in Paradise, after Agatha and Bathildes. On the unusually heavy drinking night described, they have continued through Clotilda, Delphina, Etheldreda, Faustina and Georgina to Hildegarde [D:243].D:243
Cloudburst
Sudden storm announced by Bandicoot as it arrives. Its flood carries Zabotski’s ark, its human passengers and its animals along the street toward Lake Borgne [MTM B9:287].MTM B9:287
Cloudy Mountains
Mountains in New Guinea whose peaks Biloxi Brannagan has climbed and whose streams and dips he has panned for gold, part of the catalogue showing his travels exceeding Finnegan’s [D:203].D:203
Clown
A recurring comic role, image and insult. Howland plays at being Finnegan’s valet [A:182]; the Seabach’s black crewman has clownish moments beneath his undersized pearl-gray derby [D:135]; and X arrives looking both happy and wistful [A:136] [MTM B6:200]. The Fleshpot Row comedian’s tortured face forms a clown’s flesh mask [MTM B4:127], while nightclub comedian Otto Glotglutz is reduced to tears by Hiram III’s retort [MB:564]. Trinali makes clown figures from cork and raffia [A:228], and Finnegan’s verse dismisses Omar as a clown [A:276]. Finnegan applies the insult to Don Barnaby while wondering whether he is the other man he remembers [D:249], and sees through X’s performance as a comical drunk [D:174]. The narrator finally calls Pope Finnegan I a big-nosed clown as well as a wanderer and master artist [MB:598].A:182; D:135; A:136; MTM B6:200; MTM B4:127; MB:564; A:228; A:276; D:249; D:174; MB:598
Club
Social, professional and entertainment associations recur throughout the books. Duffey’s Rounders’ Club combines restaurant, bar, residence, transport hire and games, with automatic Steeplechase Club membership for patrons [MTM B2:49]; he joins, or in another version founds, the World-Wide Argonauts Argo Balloon Club [MTM B2:63]. The Sydney Plaza houses seamen’s and other clubs [A:3], Stein lectures to service clubs [A:19], a Malayan boy names an Indonesian Club [A:88], and Maurine jokingly calls her family’s men the Rod and Gun Club [A:103]. The Pelican has an unofficial Glee Club [MTM B7:226]; Mary Catherine belongs to three book clubs [A:249]; and Kirol works in nightclub entertainment [A:216]. Finnegan drinks with Seaworthy and meets Papa Devil in a club [D:13-15], takes Doll to a supper club [D:173], and later seeks X and Doll in the club opposite the graveyard [D:275]. Named establishments include the Bavarian Club [MTM B2:47], Chicago’s Colony Club [MTM B3:93], and the Beacon Club in Duffey’s waterfront catalogue [MTM B13:407]. Charlotte calls the circle of extraordinary acquaintances her Prodigious Peoples’ Club [MTM B8:260].MTM B2:49; MTM B2:63; A:3; A:19; A:88; A:103; MTM B7:226; A:249; A:216; D:13-15; D:173; D:275; MTM B2:47; MTM B3:93; MTM B13:407; MTM B8:260
Club Royal
Howland Jerome Howland’s plush establishment, catering to patrons whose hard childhoods have fostered an appetite for conspicuous luxury. It serves Danish beer and Hungarian Tokay, employs a chef from Martinique, and has an orchestra playing old classic jazz [A:246].A:246
Coach Horses (Big)
Horses in the childhood livery stable recalled by Duffey, one of them distinguished by a notched ear. The detail belongs to his unusually persistent memory of ordinary surroundings [MTM B1:16].MTM B1:16
Coachman
Liveried driver of Sebastian Hilton’s hired carriage for the school dance, praised for having as much style as the carriage and its Cleveland Bays [MTM B1:32].MTM B1:32
Coal (Black)
A color comparison and a fuel. The narrator calls the Council Bluffs park squirrels coal black and claims they occur nowhere else; this is the novel’s assertion [MTM B1:9]. Finnegan also lists coal among fuels whose different hazes obscure the sky’s true color [D:127]. Charcoal briquettes, a distinct fuel, appear during the soldiers’ island routine [A:31].MTM B1:9; D:127; A:31
Coast Guard Cutters
Vessels sent against the mysterious bell-ringers near San Simeon. Newly appearing shoals block the cutters; fog then frustrates men approaching in shallow-draft rowboats. The Sea Bell’s ship moves through deep water that shoals as soon as it passes [MB:560].MB:560
Cobber
Australian informal term for a friend. Finnegan uses it in his exaggerated imitation of an Australian while trying to pass as an Aussie in the drinking-club episode [A:13].A:13
Cobbett
William Cobbett (1763-1835), the radical journalist and historical writer whose works Patrick Stranahan places with Livy as a sufficient reading of history [A:109]. Separately, Cobbett is one of the aliases X lists for Gregory McColum Papadiabolous, the Irish twin or Papadiabolous II [D:285].A:109; D:285
Cobbles
Paving stones. The warning that even the cobbles have ears belongs to the joke about disguising the visiting Americans as Australians [A:11]. At the Royal Pop History meeting, the turbaned speaker claims ironstone cobbles succeeded slates and shales in Decatur Street’s layered record [MTM B11:329]. Near the Naxos landing, six dead men, including the Seabach crew and Joe Cross, lie on wet cobbles [D:147].A:11; MTM B11:329; D:147
Cocktail Parties
Part of Casey’s offered career for Finnegan as a celebrated proletarian painter: wealthy patrons, cocktail parties and house visits in exchange for occasional manifestos [A:183-184].A:183-184
Coconut
Image of the world as something Finnegan means to crack open, with or without Seaworthy’s help [D:18-19]. In Count Finnegan’s commentary, a Lever Brothers coconut plantation supplies a punning measure of Casey’s nuttiness [PG:544].D:18-19; PG:544
Coconut Possum
Animal heard squawking above Henry and Casey as they descend through the jungle [A:44]. Coconut possum is also among the meats Hans eats with the cliff people [A:58].A:44; A:58
Code
Secret notation or a rule of conduct. The Seabach’s log includes cryptic numerical jottings [D:135]; X claims he can break any code in the papers Finnegan might have examined [D:188], asks a telephone contact about a missing code book, and supplies whistle signals for his companions [D:184]. Count Finnegan and Cardinal Hedayat receive coded assignments in the eschatological drama [MB:554], while coded bells communicate with dolphins and porpoises [MB:575]. Charlotte says Casey violates the confidence man’s code by exploiting the helpless [MTM B12:379]. In Casey’s political attack on the Bark, free elections are called unguided elections in code [A:130]; Trinali’s code forbids deliberately planning the picturesque early death she imagines [A:232].D:135; D:188; D:184; MB:554; MB:575; MTM B12:379; A:130; A:232
Coffee House (by the harbor)
Harborside coffee house visited by Hans Schultz and Marie Monaghan after the day’s outings. They linger over coffee laced with brandy, talking about peoples, religion and marriage [A:7].A:7
Coffee House (Ghost)
The Ghost Coffee Shop, a New Orleans café run by Anthony Ghost, whose father came from the Netherlands. Its customers include dock workers, seamen, night people and schoolchildren, among them the Ursuline students discussing Seven Roads with Duffey [MTM B10:293]. A preceding account of literal ghosts gathering for one hour before and after dawn is explicitly retracted by the narrator, except for the existence of Count Finnegan’s painting of ghostly customers [MTM B10:292].MTM B10:293; MTM B10:292
Coffee making and consumption
A frequent accompaniment to conversation and ordinary hospitality. Hans and Marie linger over brandy-laced coffee while Hans credits Clement VIII with giving the drink Christian sanction [A:7]. Finnegan, Anastasia, Marie, Papa Devil and Joe Cross have coffee ashore at a small establishment [D:67], and Doll includes it in the graveyard picnic [D:284]. Duffey discusses Seven Roads with the schoolgirls at the Ghost Coffee Shop [MTM B10:293]. Coffee becomes uncanny when Charlotte serves it without cups on the Great Day [GD:484], while the still-warm coffee on the supposedly derelict Sarcophagus belongs to Castleman’s false report as related by Le Marin [D:245]. A man Don Lewis asks for help dismisses five hundred dollars as insufficient coffee money [D:108]. Coffee bushes belong to Duffey’s remembered domain as the Boy King [MTM B1:17], and coffee making is included among the everyday arts said to be degraded after the Devil’s release [MTM B6:207].A:7; D:67; D:284; MTM B10:293; GD:484; D:245; D:108; MTM B1:17; MTM B6:207
Coffin
Container for death, survival and jokes about both. Le Marin says the Sarcophagus was coffin-shaped [D:244]. Finnegan reports burying Papa Devil without a coffin on top of another man [D:153]. The Argo carries more coffins than would be needed for all its Masters [MTM B13:449]; Duffey’s stripped bones rest in one until God tells him to resume his work [MTM B13:443]. Zabotski supplies an unused coffin for Letitia, who had admired its class [MTM B8:253]. Show Boat jokingly hopes Dotty’s funeral will be their next reunion and says Dotty should look pretty in a coffin [A:262-263]. Trinali’s ode about herself in her coffin is buried with her [A:240].D:244; D:153; MTM B13:449; MTM B13:443; MTM B8:253; A:262-263; A:240
Cognomen
Finnegan’s word for the name by which he introduces himself to Seaworthy while unable to remember his proper name [D:11]. X later describes the many names accumulated by the Papadiabolous twins [D:285].D:11; D:285
Cognoscenti
One of X’s overlapping names for the floating intellectual world, together with intelligentsia and gnostics. He says this group was disproportionately represented among the invited witnesses at the Devil’s release [MTM B6:205].MTM B6:205
Coil
The snake coiled in Justinian’s skull in a “Promontory Goats” monologue supplies the image for judgments attributed to a snake rather than to the dead speaker himself [PG:545]. The Sidewinder, Nick, is likewise described as coiling laterally and striking as he falls wounded in the final shooting [A:282].PG:545; A:282
Coin parlor
One of the Kasmir Street businesses where, according to Newton Prescott, every coin parlor once had at least one Casey Machine, an achronological eavesdropping device [CM:503].CM:503
Coin-bending
Strongman feat in Hans Schultz’s carnival repertoire. The account says it requires angry determination and disregard for pain, comparing it with bending horseshoes and specially tempered steel bars [A:219].A:219
Colchis
Black Sea kingdom associated with the Argonauts’ quest for the Golden Fleece. The Argo sails under its flag [MTM B12:386], and its logs record the finding of the Fleece as a major early triumph [MTM B13:421]. Combings from that Fleece furnish Duffey’s golden mask, scarf and gauntlets after his reduction to bones [MTM B13:443]. In the Royal Pop Historians’ account, destroying the Black Sea is intended both to erase the Devil’s prison and to weaken Colchis as a base of the Argo forces [MTM B11:336-337].MTM B12:386; MTM B13:421; MTM B13:443; MTM B11:336-337
Colfax, Jenny
One of the theatrical friends in Duffey and Letitia’s Chicago circle, named together with Duke Colfax [MTM B3:99].MTM B3:99
Collagen contractility
One item in the elaborate physiological list used by The Eighteenth Book of Strange Encounters to claim that Duffey is more than four thousand years old, despite the apparent fifty-five-year age of his body. The fictional report groups it with Howship’s lacunar frequency, thrombocyte-shaped remnants and other tests, then quotes Duffey’s explanation that a person may be older than his body [MTM B8:250].MTM B8:250
Collins, Emmet (Emma)
Emma Collins, a young woman, celebrated impersonator and protégée of X, who appears as Emmet Collins of Boston, the double of Cardinal Merry of Cork [MB:579] [MB:598]. She talks her way past the bounty-men by pretending to inspect their operation for Track and Total [MB:595-596]. Her extraordinary laughter after Pope Finnegan laments the lack of women’s roles exposes the disguise, and John Giwa demands X’s explanation [MB:597-598].MB:579; MB:598; MB:595-596; MB:597-598
Colmar
Alsatian city in modern France where Duffey experiences a restaurant scene borrowed from Sebastian Hilton’s memory shortly before his thirteenth birthday. He eats soupe aux grenouilles and Tournedos au Poivre Vert at the Rotisserie Schillinger; the narrator only conjectures that he is staying at the Hotel du Champ de Mars. The account notes that Colmar was not formally French at that remembered time, though it calls the place France [MTM B1:35].MTM B1:35
Colonial
A historical style and a form of collective life. Angela says her father could imitate the old handwriting of Englishmen, Spaniards, Frenchmen and Colonials on his forged maps [D:260]. Brannagan orders a volvox colonial as fruit in the future settlement [MTM B13:418]. A separate grotesque catalogue of proposed murders imagines rapidly spreading colonial microbes [MB:581].D:260; MTM B13:418; MB:581
Colony Club, The
Chicago club whose sunlit rooms, gaming, loaded sideboards, abundant beef dinners and Canadian whisky embody its splendid vulgarity and fast money [MTM B3:93]. Duffey visits with Lily and Letitia Koch; the Mullens group, except the newly arrived Manolo, is known there as the Cavendishes. Charlotte describes her stolen fortune and the mind-alarm that has exposed the disposable Mullens name [MTM B3:93]. Sebastian joins the Harvesters’ Dinner and discusses Duffey’s coming marriage; the Girl Countess later plays bridge with Charlotte, Gloria and Lily [MTM B3:94-95].MTM B3:93; MTM B3:94-95
Color
A pervasive means of describing bodies, atmosphere and art. Anastasia’s olive complexion shifts between green and gold, and her eyes between black and purple [D:32]; Marie’s coloring is vividly red-blond [D:57], Seaworthy recovers his granite color after turning ashen [D:15], and Papa Devil has a ghoulish purple hue [D:30]. Angela appears in dazzling color [D:259]. Finnegan explains differences in sky color through fuel smoke [D:127], while X’s eight-toned car surrounds him with a seeming rainbow [D:178-179]. Duffey has sorrel hair and fire-blue eyes [MTM B1:6]; Beth Keegan has black hair and ivory skin [MTM B2:56]; and the frozen woman’s veins, eyelids and flesh between the toes are sky blue [MTM B13:398]. The Finnegan effigy’s destruction releases scarlet, crimson, sulphur, saffron and flame-colored blood, converging on garish orange [MTM B11:351].D:32; D:57; D:15; D:30; D:259; D:127; D:178-179; MTM B1:6; MTM B2:56; MTM B13:398; MTM B11:351
Columkill
Baptismal name of Katie Noonan’s son, called Ifreann by his mother and given the patronym Gregorovitch after Gregory, his adoptive father. X reports that the parish register lists the Devil as father and favors that explanation, while acknowledging Gregory as another possibility [D:279].D:279
Combat Books (Special)
Books from which Sebastian Hilton knows fighting tricks. He uses them while theatrically provoking and humiliating larger schoolboys, casting them as bullies before the witnesses [MTM B1:23].MTM B1:23
Combat Buffalos
Amphibious armed vehicles in the war-invasion half of Elroy Redheart’s second red room, emerging from landing craft with combat alligators amid artificial thunder and lightning [MTM B7:222].MTM B7:222
Combings, Golden
Threads taken from the Great Golden Fleece of Colchis and made by Casey Gorshok into a mask, scarf and gauntlets for Duffey’s exposed bones. They enable his continued appearance as an Argo Master after God instructs him to resume service despite being dead [MTM B13:443].MTM B13:443
Combo
A small performing ensemble. Examples include Duffey’s Rounders’ String Band [MTM B2:52], the Monumental Jazz musicians at Good Guy’s [MTM B7:220], and the combo that plays The King Shall Ride and the Gadarene Swine Song during Duffey’s reunion with his creations at Rounders’ [MTM B5:158]. Kirol forms combos as part of his changing carnival arrangements [A:215]. The Brimstone Combo belongs to Trinali’s poem about a saloon in the imagined groves of Gomorrah [A:235].MTM B2:52; MTM B7:220; MTM B5:158; A:215; A:235
Comedian
See Clown.Comedy
A mode ranging from comic entertainment to the shape of human and sacred events. X compares Finnegan’s narrow escapes from his pursuers to an old comedy [D:177]. Musical comedy, nightclub comedy and two-reel comedy making figure among the popular arts said to be trashed after the Devil’s release [MTM B6:207-209]. Showboat regards Duffey as her maker and scenarist in the human comedy [MTM B5:181]. Goldfarb’s Alley is the family television comedy interrupted by Duffey’s projected confrontation with Casey [MTM B12:380]. Pope Finnegan calls the conclave an Eschatological Comedy, joking that its sole defect is the absence of women’s roles, immediately before Emma Collins’s disguise is exposed [MB:597-598].D:177; MTM B6:207-209; MTM B5:181; MTM B12:380; MB:597-598
Comic Books
Alternative to a newspaper proposed by the young newspaper worker whom Duffey confronts on the Great Day. Since everything is new, the worker argues, there can be no news; old comic-book reruns may replace the paper [GD:487].GD:487
Comic Magazines
Finnegan recalls reading an abundant collection of old comic magazines, with a bottle for company, while off duty from an engine-room job on an unnamed ship. He expected an Atlantic port but disembarked in San Francisco [A:145]. Beth Keegan also draws much of her playful dialogue from comic magazines rather than plays [MTM B2:60].A:145; MTM B2:60
Comic Mask
Finnegan’s description of his face after identifying himself with the boy in the lost-face story. He says he has a comic mask for a face, a monicker for a name and only a shadow’s shadow, expressing his sense of being a changeling without a secure identity [A:56].A:56
Comic Monsters
Bagby’s description of the Slant-Faced Men’s treatment in pulp-magazine letter departments, where they are made into comic monsters like BEMs and HLPs. Dotty identifies three comic strips using them; she would find them funny if she did not know they were real [MTM B7:225].MTM B7:225
Commission
A sales fee, an artistic order or a public body. Duffey and Rattigan sell fellow pupils’ goods on commission, largely as an accommodation [MTM B1:26]. Trinali earns five dollars in rent credit for finding Hans as a tenant [A:227], while Finnegan receives a dealer’s standing order for all the Orange Period paintings he can produce [A:191]. Honeybucket faces the Corporation Commission over his proposed stock issue [D:218]. A reporter asks Zabotski about his complaint to the City Commission concerning street flooding [MTM B9:289].MTM B1:26; A:227; A:191; D:218; MTM B9:289
Commission Salesman
Finnegan’s first white-collar employment, selling a dog-housebreaking preparation door to door in Buffalo. He initially sells only two or three bottles a day, earning seventy-five cents per bottle, while McGregor supplies exhausting demonstrations [A:189]. He becomes successful by marketing the preparation to practical jokers, selling three thousand bottles in a week before retiring from the business [A:190].A:189; A:190
Committee
Collective machinery for social action, sometimes satirical. The Moral Sanctions Committee for the Removal of Eye-Sores and Abominations confronts Zabotski about his growing structure [MTM B9:276-277]. The Union Sheet’s fellows seem to appear only in committees [MTM B7:213]. Manuel instead calls himself a committee of one, charged with infiltrating the apparatus that makes devils, because he trusts only his own incorruptibility [D:56].MTM B9:276-277; MTM B7:213; D:56
Commodore (Bar)
Sydney drinking place visited while Hans rapidly trains for the beer contest, and revisited on the celebratory pub crawl after he defeats Bushmaster [A:18] [A:23].A:18; A:23
Common Law (Obscure bit)
Finnegan’s claimed legal justification for temporarily appropriating George Brubaker’s car: the Lien of Extreme Need. He invokes it after the girl driving him realizes the car may not be his [D:168].D:168
Common Sense
The narrator’s joking explanation for Stein’s quick mastery of the Dominion Rules for beer-drinking contests: little in them supposedly falls outside common law and common sense [A:19].A:19
Communications Shack
The Sarcophagus’s radio shack, seized first when the replacement dock rats take over the ship in Le Marin’s account. Finnegan makes it an analogy for the world’s takeover, saying its communications shack was also captured first [D:244].D:244
Communism
Atheistic Communism is one of the seven contemporary heads Bagby assigns to the old enemy [MTM B5:169]. In Show Boat’s letter, Vincent argues that their circle talks too much about Communism while neglecting the secular-liberal threat [A:263]. Casey’s editorial attacks the Bark for identifying China’s supposedly progressive forces with Western Communism [A:130].MTM B5:169; A:263; A:130
Communist
Political label with unstable personal associations. Casey calls Stein, under the name Hugo Stone, a card-carrying Communist [A:129]. More Than Melchisedech preserves conflicting accounts of whether Stein and Hugo are the same person; Casey says he heard of Stein’s Chicago Communist identity but knew him only later in the army [MTM B4:112]. X describes Ifreann as an old-line Communist and gives the movement a fiercely hostile characterization [D:281]. Duffey’s Hungarian tavern-sign Christ comes from the brief Communist period of Béla Kun, but the picture itself shows a hearty Christ drinking beer, not Christ identified as a Communist [MTM B3:103].A:129; MTM B4:112; D:281; MTM B3:103
Communist Thing
Henry’s father Lawrence calls Communism one shell in the old Antagonist’s shell game and warns that it may be a diversion. Henry answers that, among the many holes admitting water to the boat, it is presently one of the largest [A:125-126].A:125-126
Community Buildings
City-park buildings among the venues for Duffey and Letitia’s children’s puppet shows. Their other sites include fire stations, lodge halls, children’s homes, hospitals, libraries, auditoriums and schools; Letitia makes and manipulates the puppets and supplies their voices [MTM B4:133].MTM B4:133
Companion
A fellow participant whose identity may itself be uncertain. Vincent is Finnegan’s companion at the opening of Archipelago [A:1]. Teresa describes taking an Oread’s part with two other Oreads, and Finnegan’s ghostly participation in her marriage to Vincent [MTM B6:188]. Papa Devil calls Dopey Finnegan’s fetch or double [D:121]; a leftfooted killer and an unnamed companion follow Finnegan after his departure [D:193]. On the Argo, the newly recognized old companion of Duffey and Brannagan is Kasmir Gorshok [MTM B13:426]. The ship carries effigies of respected companions as well as Masters [MTM B13:449]. Count Finnegan arrives with Gilberto Levine and O’Brien and Herman Hercules; the text leaves open whether these are doubles of dead cardinals or the cardinals disguised as their own doubles [MTM B13:450-453].A:1; MTM B6:188; D:121; D:193; MTM B13:426; MTM B13:449; MTM B13:450-453
Company
A group of associates or a business concern. The Devil is Dead announces Papadiabolous and his company [D:6], and the Brunhilde’s company includes the Devil [D:31]. The Old Wooden Ship’s resident community is called the Company of Fifty [D:215-216] [D:225]; Duffey names the Devil’s invited adherents the Company of One Thousand [MTM B6:208]. Artists contribute to Duffey and his company’s rebuilding project [MTM B6:199]. Commercial examples include the Acme and Rock Island names on remembered pump handles [MTM B1:17], the chewing-tobacco firm in Marie’s Shakes Pearson anecdote [A:25], Duffey and Letitia’s insurer [MTM B3:96], and the consortium buying Duffey’s school businesses [MTM B2:38]. Honeybucket calls his untried plankton enterprise the Ancient Syrian Cheese Company [D:218-219]. The edition’s copyright page also calls its publisher a Hachette UK company [D:296].D:6; D:31; D:215-216; D:225; MTM B6:208; MTM B6:199; MTM B1:17; A:25; MTM B3:96; MTM B2:38; D:218-219; D:296
Company of Fifty, The
The resident regulars of the Old Wooden Ship, whose roster ought to number fifty although the narrator admits forgetting one. They include McGivern, four women called Dotty, the five so-called Swedes and many other individual characters. Frequent visitors such as Finnegan, Le Marin and Dry Gulch Cavaldos are explicitly distinguished from these residents [D:215-216]. Finnegan immerses himself in the company for reassurance in the reality of humanity; the account admits that Susie Kutz’s favorable reports color its portrayal [D:225].D:215-216; D:225
Company of One Thousand
Duffey’s name for the permitted witnesses to the Devil’s release near Yalta, whom he regards as adherents transformed by the encounter [MTM B6:208]. X says exactly one thousand people held permits and that his own, issued under an old assumed identity, was number 982 [MTM B6:204-205].MTM B6:208; MTM B6:204-205
Compass
The Argo’s compass needle bends toward something below decks as the hidden Man of Mystery’s presence asserts itself; an effigy seaman attributes the distortion to personal magnetism [MTM B13:461]. After the Antichrist reaches the Plains of Megiddo, every compass needle in the world points there as the world’s new center [MTM B13:462].MTM B13:461; MTM B13:462
Compassion
Concern for another’s suffering, sometimes ambiguous or perilously excessive. Seaworthy professes it for Finnegan’s bleeding feet [D:11], and Manuel claims Marie has it for him [D:56]. Charley Murray feels it for the larger boys Sebastian intends to defeat [MTM B1:22]. Papa Piccone’s compassionate acceptance of a mouse instead of a dinosaur may be directed toward the mouse or toward embarrassed Duffey [MTM B5:170]. Casey nearly equals Hans in compassion but conceals it better [A:169]; the “Promontory Goats” introduction suspects his extreme compassion, especially the wish to redeem the Devil, has become sinful [PG:518]. Kasmir Gorshok’s pity for body lice motivates the creation of artificial people as hosts [PG:535]. A modest coffee place is called compassionate [D:67], while the speculative Goat Contingency leads its perpetual debt-payers toward the hell named The End of Compassion [MTM B10:299].D:11; D:56; MTM B1:22; MTM B5:170; A:169; PG:518; PG:535; D:67; MTM B10:299
Compulsion
An overriding urge. Finnegan leaves Dotty under a compulsion to seek without finding [A:176]. Duffey feels compelled to find his future wife in Chicago before knowing who she is [MTM B3:82]; the sought moth is finally identified with Letitia [MTM B3:80] [MTM B3:90]. Cleo’s explanation of the Goat Contingency describes compulsively trading the worthy for the worthless [MTM B10:295]; Casey’s pursuit of the Devil’s redemption is already an obsession in his schooldays [PG:518].A:176; MTM B3:82; MTM B3:80; MTM B3:90; MTM B10:295; PG:518
Computer
A device invoked in Duffey’s proposed test of Cardinal Artemis’s flayed skin against the marked skin of the sleeping Gilberto. He suggests flaying the sleeper and running both skins through their computer; the passage does not show the proposal carried out. X and Duffey remain uncertain which man is the original and which the double [MTM B13:451-452].MTM B13:451-452
Con man
A swindler or trickster. Henry toasts Sammy as a con man after Sammy borrows the distracted shoeshine boys’ box to earn whisky money, with Finnegan supplying the musical distraction [A:67-68]. Angela’s father supplies confidence men with fabricated treasure maps and matching half-maps designed for elaborate swindles [D:260-261].A:67-68; D:260-261
Conceit
Vanity or an imagined construction. Amoy the parakeet is conceited enough to call himself beautiful despite the narrator’s contrary judgment [A:79]. Finnegan attributes conceit to the fugue in his letter about music’s unkindness [A:263]. Elwin Elkheart dismisses the Argo and divine interventions as Duffey’s conceits [MTM B13:402]. Anastasia reports that Marie regards the category of lady as a bourgeois conceit, while insisting on her own claim to it [D:33].A:79; A:263; MTM B13:402; D:33
Concentration
Duffey’s intense mental concentration, or prayer, before seven exhausted mice arrive to perform in the puppet show at Gurdon S. Hubbard Elementary School. The teacher opens the doors and Letitia plays banjo during the wait [MTM B4:136].MTM B4:136
Concertina
Instrument Finnegan plays in bars and streets, provoking Ignacio’s objection to his lack of dignity [A:272]. Theresa says playing it has spread her fingers, along with her work with puppets and tricks [A:108].A:272; A:108
Conch
Shell whose intricate shape supplies a comparison for Trinali’s chosen driftwood, destined to become a carved lamp [A:233]. In Count Finnegan’s commentary, the shape of a conch can move Casey to tears, illustrating the sensitivity that remains alongside his dangerous commitments [PG:544].A:233; PG:544
Conches
Creatures in Bayougoula Park’s suddenly present fountain, alongside turtles, frogs, whistling blue fish, carp, oysters and dangerous alligators [MTM B11:331].MTM B11:331
Conclave
An assembly, royal, personal or ecclesiastical. Duffey claims attendance at Kings’ Conclaves with Solomon, Saul, Ptolemy, Chandragupta, Nebuchadnezzar, Hsien, Barbarossa, Stephen of Hungary and Conrad II [MTM B5:166]. He suspects his talismanic creations of arranging their St. Louis gathering independently of him [MTM B5:150-152]. Cardinal Henri reads a prophetic reference to the future conclave and rejects its assumption that he will already be dead, proposing to attend as his double’s double [MTM B12:387-388]. In More Than Melchisedech’s later events, the supposed Last Conclave at Babylonia Bagascia assembles to dismantle the Ekklesia, with Monsignor X as servitor [MB:561] [MB:566] [MB:569]. X later serves the thirteen at Mooring-Stone, where the ostensibly surviving doubles include true cardinals and elect Pope Finnegan I [MB:596-598].MTM B5:166; MTM B5:150-152; MTM B12:387-388; MB:561; MB:566; MB:569; MB:596-598
Concordia
Concordia, one of the institutions where Duffey takes courses during the summer of 1915, alongside St. Louis University, Washington University, a pharmacy school, and a music school. The novel does not give its full institutional name [MTM B2:49].MTM B2:49
Concordia University
Earlier heading supplied University, which the novel does not give. See Concordia.Concrete (Ready-mix)
Tim Stranahan’s ready-mix business, in which he offers Finnegan a job. Dotty jokes that the work may consist of modeling concrete overcoats, prompting Finnegan to doubt Tim’s fondness for him [A:100].A:100
Condensors
Devices in which Newton Prescott claims to have trapped more than two hundred postmortem electrical discharges, each occurring about thirty minutes after clinical death. In Josephine McSorely’s purported report, he proposes using one charge in every Casey Machine and interprets part of the data as coming from beyond death [CM:507].CM:507
Confederate
The ringleader boy’s supposed helper in finding the Sleeping Man’s cave on the Marianao Coast. He demands two additional gold pieces from Duffey for this confederate, then returns with a cave containing a plainly recent Cuban stand-in instead of Finnegan [MTM B12:373].MTM B12:373
Conference
A private consultation or a formal political meeting. Finnegan, Vincent, Tom and Freddy withdraw to confer when Bushmaster nearly spoils the Australian-disguise hoax [A:12]. Sammy and Finnegan confer before their shoeshine con [A:67]. In X’s account of the Devil’s imprisonment, the principals of the Yalta Conference consult the prisoner daily or hourly [MTM B6:204].A:12; A:67; MTM B6:204
Confession
Finnegan confesses his drinking, sins and fear of an alien kindred within him to the Capuchin on Naxos; the priest first rejects ordinary blame-shifting, then accepts the possibility of another kindred and grants absolution [D:119]. Duffey tells his blackmailer that the genuinely guilty acts in the compromising photographs have already been confessed and absolved [MTM B4:140]. Charlotte, anticipating danger in her current theft, tells Duffey she needs confession for exploiting widows and orphans, carnality and badger games before they enter St. Malachy’s [MTM B3:87].D:119; MTM B4:140; MTM B3:87
Confidence and gamine friends
Duffey and Letitia’s Chicago associates described as the better grade of confidence people: Charlotte Garfield, Gideon Sedgewick, Mary Regina Toast, Ralph Kirby, Ira and Rebecca Spain, Victor Ryan, Homer and Evangeline Durban, and Fred and Helen Batavia [MTM B3:99].MTM B3:99
Confidence people
Swindlers represented among the roughly five hundred confidence people and thieves attending the Royal Rogues’ and Graceful Swindlers’ Ninth Annual Convention and Confidence-Men’s Congress at the Royal Orleans Hotel. Charlotte attends as a visitor [MTM B7:216]. Anastasia tells Manuel that spies and confidence men ordinarily pass themselves off as traveling salesmen [D:55].MTM B7:216; D:55
Confirmation Name
According to Casey, Melchisedech is Duffey’s confirmation name, taken when he was confirmed at forty; his given name in that account is Michael [A:42].A:42
Confraternity of the Ribbers
The community of practical jokers to whom Finnegan endears himself with his Buffalo dog-preparation trick, even while he and McGregor are banned from taverns. Their enthusiasm leads him to sell the product as a joke device [A:190].A:190
Confusion
Uncertainty about identity, memory and events. The apparently simple facts of Finnegan’s life are said to contain amazing confusion, as others remember them differently [A:174]. Finnegan recalls burying Papadiabolous through a mental blind, while X questions how that dead man could have sailed again [D:153]. Zabotski’s Moral Sanction visitors remember both yesterday and eight years ago as the time of their earlier complaint [MTM B9:277]. The changed New Orleans morning contains a pleasant confusion of new arrivals and an unpleasant confusion of displaced creatures [MTM B11:314]. Askandan defines his trade as bringing confusion out of chaos, between excessive simplicity and intolerable disorder [A:257].A:174; D:153; MTM B9:277; MTM B11:314; A:257
Conger, Herbert
One of the sporty people in Duffey and Letitia’s Chicago circle [MTM B3:99].MTM B3:99
Conglomerate of driftwood
The mass of cast-up wood on the rough shore that Trinali calls the Elephants’ Graveyard. Her imagery makes its largest pieces the bones of mammoths, behemoths and Leviathan [A:232].A:232
Congress
A public or professional assembly. Bagby proposes that the U.S. Congress imitate Teras councils by including living and dead members [MTM B5:165]. Charlotte attends a Confidence-Men’s Congress in New Orleans [MTM B7:216], and George Koran lists the Student Repudiation Congress among the Majesty’s engagements [MTM B8:243]. A team from the Consenting Adults’ World Congress participates in the grotesque consumption of Paul XI’s remains during the Voltaire Festival [MB:565].MTM B5:165; MTM B7:216; MTM B8:243; MB:565
Congruence
A fitting together of events or patterns. Duffey anticipates a seemingly impossible convergence of his creations [MTM B5:150-151] and tells a distressed woman, whom he sends back toward reconciliation, not to wonder too much about the congruence of events [MTM B4:144]. In “Promontory Goats,” molecular congruencies figure among the physical traces a speaker believes invading spirits can read in the brain, while the mind itself remains inaccessible [PG:539].MTM B5:150-151; MTM B4:144; PG:539
Conjurer's trick
Image for Anastasia’s extraordinary presence as she cleans and shaves Finnegan at the bar. Reality seems too pale a word for someone both fleshly and translucent; the narration calls her a conjurer’s trick, but not a cheap one [D:13].D:13
Conner, Mike
Golfer named with Peggy Conner among Duffey and Letitia’s Chicago sporty friends [MTM B3:99]. Both later attend Hilary Hilton’s gathering for Duffey [MTM B12:383].MTM B3:99; MTM B12:383
Conner, Peggy
One of Duffey’s Chicago friends, named with Mike Conner among the golfers [MTM B3:99]. She and Mike also attend Hilary Hilton’s later party [MTM B12:383]. See also Munster, Peggy.MTM B3:99; MTM B12:383
Consanguinity
Blood kinship linking the goat-man’s seven youngest kids, three sets of twins and one single birth from four young sister goats. Their affection and family relationship accompany their shared ambition to climb the fallen sycamore [A:194].A:194
Conscience
Moral unease or restraint. Finnegan’s troubled conscience accompanies the dreams in which he resists the muses [A:181]. The purported Underground Eagle report says Casey repeatedly washes his hands and conscience of the Casey Machine affair, while another participant predicts he will nevertheless buy one [CM:507]. Johnny Duckwalk, seemingly without conscience, is unexpectedly seized by repentance and resolves to confess his theft [D:264]. Hans Schultz creates a consensus of conscience in an unnamed field of business where it had almost vanished [MTM B8:247].A:181; CM:507; D:264; MTM B8:247
Consensus
Shared judgment or participation, which the books repeatedly distinguish from secure truth. Letitia calls apparently objective reality a consensus of private projections [MTM B3:96]; Zabotski’s neighbors unanimously find him quarrelsome, while the narrator insists they are all mistaken [MTM B9:269]. Hans creates a consensus of conscience in business [MTM B8:247]. X says the Liberal Consensus is prominent at the Devil’s release [MTM B6:205], and the later world’s consensus hatreds surround Hiram III after he refuses to abolish his nation [MB:563]. “Promontory Goats” describes groups in Hell choosing increasingly cruel shared tortures [PG:532-533]. Finnegan’s resurrection painting produces agreement among his friends that he is alive [MB:550]. Brannagan says withdrawing from the shimmering future can help break the consensus that makes it likely [MTM B13:470].MTM B3:96; MTM B9:269; MTM B8:247; MTM B6:205; MB:563; PG:532-533; MB:550; MTM B13:470
Consenting Adults' World Congress
Group whose winning team of fifty devours Paul XI’s entrails in a basilica after they have been used to strangle Hiram III during the Voltaire Festival [MB:565].MB:565
Conservatism (universe is inherently)
In a recurring vision, a great mathematician explains that the universe is inherently conservative: complete alterations occur only at intervals and require grave reason. His lecture connects a new alteration to the appearance of a chicken-hearted devil [PG:542].PG:542
Consignment
A shipment of goods awaiting realization or sale. Joseph the Haussa diamond smuggler seeks a trustworthy partner and says realizing on a consignment can take years [D:94]. Hillary Hilton’s distressed-goods ventures include spoiled bananas and consignments of wormy sesame seed [A:254]. Eva uses the word figuratively for the tall stories she must prepare if she takes over the Neanderthal [MTM B13:408].D:94; A:254; MTM B13:408
Consort, Passionate
Mary Louise Byrne’s description of herself in relation to Duffey. She calls herself both his sister “in some respect” and his passionate consort, while referring to another shared life that they keep below the threshold [MTM B2:60].MTM B2:60
Consortium
A group acting together. Duffey sells his boarding-school businesses to a consortium of other boys [MTM B2:38]. Beth Keegan and a consortium of friends contrive her dazzling voice, walk and theatrical persona; the narration extends this performance into the imagery of an invented woman or living statue [MTM B2:57].MTM B2:38; MTM B2:57
Conspiracies
Secret plots that, in Papa Devil’s account, succeed partly by persuading people that no conspiracies exist [D:87]. The Loosed Devil repeats this instruction to his followers [MTM B8:242]. X describes pursuing the Conspiracy despite ridicule and reports a disputed encounter with the Devil [A:139-140]; Dotty mocks the investigators’ credulity when they accept a clipping announcing X’s death [A:141]. Breaking up secret plots and conspiracies is among the Argo’s purposes [MTM B13:405].D:87; MTM B8:242; A:139-140; A:141; MTM B13:405
Conspiracy, The
The hostile movement X says he pursues beyond its apparent defeat [A:139]. In his account, Ifreann joined it when its evil was still undiluted by nonsense or Slavic imperialism [D:281]. By the later graveyard encounter, X says Seaworthy’s group has declined to its fringes, though it can still obtain funds [D:289].A:139; D:281; D:289
Conspirators, Alien
X’s designation for the group containing the original Papadiabolous, whom he calls its biggest member. He describes the group as well financed and unusually free to act, with Seaworthy as executive officer [D:155].D:155
Constant Gnawing
X’s description of the long struggle of the “other people”: gradual undercutting and inflaming rather than a final climax. Doll disputes his prediction and insists that the conflict must be brought to an end [D:292].D:292
Constantine, Saint
Constantine the Great, Roman emperor from 306 to 337 and the first Christian emperor, recognized as a saint in the Eastern Church. Henry recognizes Constantine among the figures aboard the Navicula Petri in his dream [A:45]. With Licinius he issued the Edict of Milan in 313, granting religious liberty. He summoned the Council of Nicaea in 325, which affirmed the Son’s full divinity, and founded the new imperial capital Constantinople on the site of Byzantium, dedicated in 330.A:45
Constellations of the Oceans
Finnegan’s poetic description of ocean islands as constellations that prefigure the skies, spoken to Hans while reflecting on Xavier and the great archipelagos [A:35].A:35
Constitution
The American constitutional document whose authority the Bark supports. In Casey’s hostile Crock editorial, the magazine is criticized for placing undue value on a document he regards as worthy but transitory, parts of which might survive in future constitutions [A:128] [A:130].A:128; A:130
Constitutionalist
Casey’s label for the Bark’s domestic political position in his hostile Crock editorial, where he criticizes its attachment to the Constitution [A:128] [A:130].A:128; A:130
Construction Job
A building project on which Finnegan spends a week with Hans in a shack, probably in the summer of 1950. Hans’s off-hours recollections supply much of the account of his early life [A:207].A:207
Contact
A connection through which people exchange information or gain access. Manuel hopes Marie may become his contact in his investigation of the devils [D:56]. Papa says Don Lewis contacted him from a distance but did not recognize him on arrival [D:120]. X cites contacts who reported Papadiabolous I’s surprise, after death, at learning he had a twin [D:286]. Finnegan parks outside a police station because X says this will make pursuers pause to develop contacts inside [D:198]. X later makes contact with John Mogul of Track and Total [MB:570]. The word also describes Duffey and Bagby’s many affinities [MTM B5:154], and the glancing contact of Casey and Stein from which the Kasmir-Stein combination sparks [MTM B5:183].D:56; D:120; D:286; D:198; MB:570; MTM B5:154; MTM B5:183
Contadino
Italian for a farmer or peasant. The term describes Giulio Solli when Finnegan realizes that Mary McCracken must have loved the old man to have married him [A:245].A:245
Containment Policy
Casey’s proposed way of holding the Thing in check. He questions whether containment can work, but doubts it can be defeated in any other way; he contrasts this patient struggle with Henry’s attempt to settle everything in one stroke [A:155].A:155
Contemplation
Duffey’s examination of the urn containing his own ashes while he eats and drinks with X at his New Orleans art shop [MTM B1:6].MTM B1:6
Contes Drolatiques, Les
Balzac’s French stories, a favorite of Gautier the goat-man, who reads them aloud to his goats. He calls the book filthy and Gothic, doubts whether he should read it to the young goats, but says Balzac appeals to goats and to the goat in man [A:196] [A:198].A:196; A:198
Context
The frame in which an identity or event makes sense. Finnegan’s shipboard dreams ask whether his discontinuous lives and the “other human race” can belong to one person [D:91]; letters from old friends seem addressed to another Finnegan in another context [D:115], and his memory of bending over Papa Devil seems detached from its context [D:83]. Father McGuigan accuses Patrick Stranahan of using a false context and unlawful metaphor when he discusses creating people; Duffey answers that his own creations are literal [MTM B5:166]. Duffey’s commentary examines Casey in Argo, medieval, secular and eschatological contexts [PG:534-535]. Rebeka discusses transformation activators in dreams [MTM B10:294]; the Seven Lost Years provide the context of the Argo’s fourteenth voyage and Duffey’s anomalous returns to ordinary life [MTM B10:300] [MTM B13:445]. Stein’s later account similarly places Finnegan between several worlds [MB:548-549].D:91; D:115; D:83; MTM B5:166; PG:534-535; MTM B10:294; MTM B10:300; MTM B13:445; MB:548-549
Continent, Southern
The sunny land beyond an Antarctic ice ring in Casey’s fifth imaginary world. His fantasy requires a larger, melon-shaped earth; he imagines the southern continent as a possible Atlantis, to which he would carry modern techniques and from which he would bring back the Higher Ethic [A:158].A:158
Continental Shelf
Undersea location of the Green Castles in Trinali’s fanciful account of a piece of driftwood’s travels [A:232-233].A:232-233
Contingency
A possible or conditionally realized world. Rafelson describes Duffey’s contingent creations approaching a fulfillment that could make them real retrospectively [MTM B4:146-147]; Patrick Stranahan describes talismanic creation through equations with as many as thirty billion interdependent integers [MTM B5:165-166]. Seven prominent alternatives are presented for Duffey: the Great Day’s dissolution of boundaries; the doubtful Goat Contingency involving Casey’s attempted soul trade and cosmic debt; the Petrine spy story; the Argo’s fourteenth voyage; the Thunder Colt world presentation; confrontation with the Loosed Devil; and a garden encounter with God [MTM B10:298-301]. These alternatives are not all mutually exclusive, and the Argo voyage is said to be certain. Cleo’s theatrical forecast of the seventh contingency introduces a rowdy bird carrying a warning that anything that can go wrong will [MTM B10:296-297]. Stein’s account of Finnegan likewise involves several worlds and disputed deaths [MB:548-549].MTM B4:146-147; MTM B5:165-166; MTM B10:298-301; MTM B10:296-297; MB:548-549
Contingent
In Casey’s discussion with Duffey, contingent philosophy includes problems Casey says can be expressed only mathematically. Duffey disagrees, maintaining that every problem can be stated in straightforward words [MTM B5:150].MTM B5:150
Continuous-Flow Federal Funding
One of the continuing subsidies Newton Prescott seeks for the Casey Machine. Alongside Counter-Flow and Impacted Entertainment Area funding, he argues for public payments because pay-per-use machines favor the rich. He obtains guarantees in perpetuity and funding for his own group to provide perpetual care for each machine site as a shrine [CM:503] [CM:512-513].CM:503; CM:512-513
Contract
A formal agreement, ranging from Duffey’s purchase of a St. Louis horse barn, with contract, bill of sale and deed [MTM B2:40], to the murder contracts against thirteen cardinals. The Final Conclave gives Track and Total the job [MB:569]. Its head John Mogul has distributed the targets among separate contractors; X asks for the entire job, but Mogul offers successive assignments conditional on performance, followed by proposed verbal agreements [MB:571-573].MTM B2:40; MB:569; MB:571-573
Contradiction, Principle of Non-
The philosophical principle which an epigraph attributed to Ignace Wolff says is thwarted by bodies; the same passage declares bodies to negate the principle of sufficient reason. It is credited to Gedanken von Leibern [D:67].D:67
Contraption
Zabotski’s enormous construction, intruding from his property onto his neighbors’ land [MTM B9:270-271]. Widow Waldo identifies its overlapping prototypes as ship, castle, anti-time machine and the old woman’s shoe [MTM B9:275]. It carries Waldo, children and animals away in the cloudburst, reaching Lake Borgne [MTM B9:287], and is later called a floating boat palace [MTM B10:290]. The watertight boat reappears when Duffey returns from the Fifth Contingency [MTM B12:356].MTM B9:270-271; MTM B9:275; MTM B9:287; MTM B10:290; MTM B12:356
Convention
A professional gathering, as in the Royal Rogues’ and Graceful Swindlers’ Ninth Annual Convention and Confidence-Men’s Congress, attended by Charlotte at the Royal Orleans Hotel [MTM B7:216], or the Society for Creative History’s New Orleans meeting [MTM B11:307]. The word also denotes the conventions of ordinary life: after his first death, Finnegan feels freed from the narrative constraints described as Aristotle’s Unities and Plutarch’s Heroics [D:161].MTM B7:216; MTM B11:307; D:161
Conversation of ordinance
The gunfire Finnegan hears while still descending the hill on Naxos: rifles, BARs, fifty-caliber machine guns, and a heavier report that might be a forty-five-millimeter weapon. Not knowing what is happening below makes this “conversation” maddening [D:143-144].D:143-144
Coogan, Kester
Artist whose work Duffey offers for sale early in his New Orleans enterprise, among the artists whose ideas contribute to his rebuilding project [MTM B6:199].MTM B6:199
Coon Dogs
Hunting dogs with which Finnegan and his country friends have spent the night before their early-morning conversation about his coming graveyard meeting [D:273].D:273
Coon Hunting
One of the popular arts of everyday life said to lose its class and style in the massive degradation of the arts following the Devil’s release [MTM B6:207].MTM B6:207
Coons
Raccoons among the creatures around Hans’s childhood nursery grounds [A:208]. In Finnegan’s account of the elusive Chosky Bottoms, the grandfather of all big coons belongs to that legendary place. After a hunt, Finnegan has shot a boar coon estimated at sixty pounds and boasts it would be small where he comes from; his companions reject the boast [D:274].A:208; D:274
Cooperative, The
A term in the Crock article title “The Consumer, the Cooperative, and the Coefficient of Cost Constancy,” identified as written in Duffey’s style among the magazine’s largely Duffey-written contents [A:41].A:41
Copenhagen
One end of the range of ports in which Henry Salvatore is said to have sampled the vices of a merchant seaman, “from Copenhagen to Aruba” [A:124].A:124
Copper Box (Angela Cosquin sa Caisse)
Angela’s personal savings box, inscribed “Angela Cosquin sa Caisse,” meaning Angela Cosquin, her cash box. After returning salvaged treasure to the St. Marc and San gre del Cristo wrecks, she places her own money in this copper box and hides it beside the hoard. She subsequently adds one saved gold sovereign each month [D:262].D:262
Copper-iron nail
The large, sharp nail of old Macedonian workmanship fastening the Royal Pop People’s parchment notice to Duffey’s door. He initially thinks it brass or bronze, then identifies it as copper-iron [MTM B11:312-313].MTM B11:312-313
Coq Bleu
One of the nightspots visited by Hans and his bohemian friends during the evening that ends with the group dispersing at dawn [A:239].A:239
Coracle
A small rounded boat. A coracle appears on one side of the red-gold coin Biloxi Brannagan produces to identify himself aboard the Argo; the other side bears the Celtic Cross of Christ, and the coin carries the name Naomh Brandon [MTM B13:425].MTM B13:425
Coracle Boat
See Coracle.Coral
Reef-forming material produced by hard corals’ calcium-carbonate skeletons. Hans describes islands passed on the journey to Luzon as coral and limestone [A:62]. Finnegan’s Sergeant goes out from coral reefs with the Malayan boy before their underwater journey [A:89]. Coral beaches form the invasion setting in the second chamber of Elroy Redheart’s art construction, with combat buffalos, alligators and other amphibious vehicles emerging from landing craft [MTM B7:221-222].A:62; A:89; MTM B7:221-222
Coral Sea
One of the seas included in the catalogue of the Argo’s voyages, remembered by Melchisedech as seas he too has sailed [MTM B13:406].MTM B13:406
Cord
A string fastens Phoebe Anne Ankerson’s ownership tag just inside the handle of the suitcase stolen by Finnegan and Doll [D:172]. Dangling cords also accompany the brain removed in Finnegan’s tale of an analyst who dissects a person without locating his essence [MTM B5:181-182].D:172; MTM B5:181-182
Coriander Seeds
Seeds Amoy is said to have stolen during his previous life as a blackbird, after millet and rice and before his work for jewel thieves, in Ignatius Ti’s expansive translation of the bird’s story [A:80].A:80
Cork (Material)
Material Trinali uses with bottles and raffia to make dolls, marionette figures, Mexicans, donkeys, clowns and prizefighters [A:228]. She dyes corks eight standard colors in a dishpan, building her stock while making the dishes taste strange [A:229]. A bottle cork also ends her wine poem as an image of the difficulty of keeping the god imprisoned in the bottle [A:231-232].A:228; A:229; A:231-232
Cork (Terrance Cardinal Merry of)
Cardinal of Cork named Terrence Cardinal Merry in the list of John Mogul’s targets and their doubles. His listed double is Emmet Collins of Boston [MB:579], later revealed as the young woman and impersonator Emma Collins, a protégée of X [MB:598].MB:579; MB:598
Cork-cutting Machine
Machine in Portugal that is set running after Cardinal Artemis blesses it, seizes him and removes his skin in one piece; the victim dies almost immediately. The account leaves unresolved the related confusion between Artemis and his double Gilberto, and between their skins [MB:591].MB:591
Cork, Ireland
Irish city in which Loy says there is a Duffey’s tavern [A:2], and one of the places Marie has considered looking for a husband [A:7]. X identifies Cork as the birthplace of Gregory McColum, Papadiabolous II, contrasting him with his Smyrna-born twin Gregory McIfreann, Papadiabolous I [D:285].A:2; A:7; D:285
Cork, Terry
Seaman and journalist, one of the Forty Scribbling Seamen celebrated in Dotty’s song. He writes “The Plimsoll Line” for the Bark and about half the Seaman’s Paper during his stays of a few months in town. Other Terrys, including Anderson, Jamil, Renier and Bannon, take over when he leaves [MTM B7:213].MTM B7:213
Corn Beer
Drink made by Gautier the goat-man, alongside berry wine and potato whisky [A:196-197].A:196-197
“Corn Country Cantos”
One of the nine projected volumes into which Endymeon Ellenbogen says he has classified his still uncollected and unpublished poems [A:237].A:237
Corn-dog making
One of the minor arts said to lose class and style during the degradation of everyday life associated with the Devil’s release [MTM B6:207-208].MTM B6:207-208
Cornelia, Sister Mary Foster
Earlier heading misplaced the given and family names and omitted Sullivan. See Foster, Sister Mary Cornelia (Sullivan).Corpse (Unaccountable)
The male body Seaworthy cannot dispose of in his dream of an Indian city. Attempts to bury it, abandon it in the gutter or push it through windows fail; it finally grapples with him and asks who will bury him [D:72-73]. Finnegan subsequently recognizes a real burial behind the dream and recalls helping Seaworthy dig the grave after Seaworthy struck the still-moving victim with a shovel [D:74-75].D:72-73; D:74-75
Corpus Christi Day
Feast for which, according to the novel, Christ-head loaves are baked in parts of Denmark. Duffey’s Danish-bread Christ, made of wheat and rye flour, baked and varnished, is one of the extraordinary Christs in his collection [MTM B3:103].MTM B3:103
Corpusculization
One of the jargon-like words spoken by the satirical holy figure of the demiurge Teilhard during the Great Day service, with McLuhan and McGonigal beside him and the Unfaithful Assembled responding [GD:497].GD:497
Corriander Seeds
Corriander is the spelling printed in the novel. See Coriander Seeds.Corridor
Passages whose doors Duffey orders opened at Hubbard Elementary School so mice can reach the puppet show; the teacher has the doors opened [MTM B4:135-136]. Metaphorical gusty corridors also describe the Gadarene Swine Song as Bagby plays it on a horn at Good Guy’s [MTM B7:220].MTM B4:135-136; MTM B7:220
Corruption
The opposite of integrity in the chastity passage introducing Duffey’s schoolboy circle. Duffey sometimes suffers corruption but never redefines it as a virtue [MTM B1:27]. He later warns Casey that infiltrators intend to corrupt the Crock [A:40]. Finnegan considers a corpse as a possible dream symbol of violation or corruption before recognizing its literal referent [D:74]. Showboat recognizes coordinated crowd corruption through the three-spot device [MTM B7:231]. In the Resurrection painting, Finnegan’s flesh undergoes corruption and transfiguration simultaneously [MB:551].MTM B1:27; A:40; D:74; MTM B7:231; MB:551
Cortina
Name associated with the language-learning manuals on Duffey’s shelves, which help Casey pursue his ambition to learn all languages [A:159]. Cortina published self-study language courses, including Spanish in Twenty Lessons.A:159
Coryphaena Fish (dolphin fish)
Horn-playing fish that raise their heads above the waves after Finnegan, Gilberto and Herman Hercules board the Argo. Their shell horns have bright brass stops and frets; the music signals that a present or future pope is aboard [MTM B13:450-451]. When the three disembark at the Ringing Rocks, the fish remain beside that shore [MTM B13:453]. Coryphaena is also the zoological name of the dolphinfish genus, given supernatural behavior here.MTM B13:450-451; MTM B13:453
Coscuin, Dana
Voyager who takes the Argo around the Horn while the ship bears the name Catherine [MTM B13:405].MTM B13:405
Cosenza (or Consenza)
Cosenza is a city in Calabria. The claimed connection making it Papa Devil’s place of origin remains unverified. The cited scene concerns Anastasia’s burial and Marie’s dying [D:157]; X’s later account gives Smyrna and Cork as the birthplaces of the two Papadiabolous figures [D:285].D:157; D:285
Cosmic Balancing
Unverified headword for the proposed idea that a good creature requires an evil counterpart. The supplied passage is Private Gregory’s account of changing identities and his long military service, and does not state this theory [A:77].A:77
Cosmic Entity
Unverified designation supposedly applied by X to Papadiabolous. The supplied passage instead presents Finnegan confronting Papa Devil over Don Lewis’s body and contains no such description by X [D:111].D:111
Cosmic shift
Unverified phrase allegedly describing Casey’s role as a point man. The supplied passage concerns the Argo company’s failed recognition of X, and does not contain Casey’s alleged claim or Brannagan’s dismissal in favor of paganism [MTM B13:434].MTM B13:434
Cosmos
The universe, figured as the web in which the suns are caught in the possible confrontation between Duffey and the Devil [MTM B10:301]. Green claims to demonstrate its dependence on him by dimming Ward Fourteen’s lights, while Gregory points out that the compressor explains the effect [A:76]. Rafelson speaks of human relations to the exocosmos in his account of Duffey [MTM B4:148]. In the Great Day ending, Morpheus claims the whole cosmos was the dream of a single-celled creature and is collapsing back into that origin [GD:500]. The Promantia’s related image is of ships and oceans of middle space [D:6].MTM B10:301; A:76; MTM B4:148; GD:500; D:6
Cosquin, Angela
Barmaid and factotum of Finnegan’s island Paradise, employed by Joseph Chastaigne at the Imperial Bar, or whatever its name may be [D:258-259] [D:266]. Angela is vividly dressed, musical, talkative and remarkably strong: she carries two hundred pounds on her head and can launch a six-man boat alone. Her ancestry includes French, Carib and English forebears, noblemen and slaves [D:259]. Her father, a cartographer and antiquarian, becomes a maker of convincing false treasure maps for confidence men [D:259-261]. The nearby St. Marc and San gre del Cristo wrecks are real, despite her denial; she dives to their treasure, returns what she has brought up when its use attracts suspicion, and hides her own savings beside it in an inscribed copper box, adding a sovereign monthly [D:262]. Johnny Duckwalk secretly steals each added sovereign [D:263]. Angela herself draws accurate maps of Finnegan’s seven land-buried stashes, marked S X S and robado por C F, and refuses to sell them. She first calls him Count Finnegan [D:263]. When he leaves, she offers him the wrecks’ gold, embraces him, and joins his pledge to protect the poor; he promises to return but never does [D:268]. Archipelago recalls Angela and the wrecks [A:188], and Finnegan later recognizes Elena as both herself and Angela [A:278].D:258-259; D:266; D:259; D:259-261; D:262; D:263; D:268; A:188; A:278
Costerman's Whaler's Inn
Costerman’s Whalers’ Inn, one of the waterfront establishments recalled in Melchisedech’s catalogue of maritime places aboard the Argo [MTM B13:407].MTM B13:407
Cotillion dancing
One of the lively arts of ordinary life said to lose class and style during the degradation following the Devil’s release [MTM B6:207].MTM B6:207
Count Finnegan
Finnegan’s title, first given him by Angela Cosquin in her account of the seven hidden treasures [D:263] and used at their farewell [D:268]. He describes his scrimshaw pieces as recognizable to seamen as Count Finnegan’s work [MTM B5:173]. Duffey says X reports that Finnegan was secretly named a papal count, while acknowledging X’s unreliability [MTM B12:367]. A Latin scroll identifies the risen figure in Finnegan’s Resurrection painting as the Papal Count [MB:551]. He is the central figure of the Petrine spy-story contingency [MTM B10:300] and the listed double of Joseph Cardinal Hedayat [MB:579].D:263; D:268; MTM B5:173; MTM B12:367; MB:551; MTM B10:300; MB:579
Count of Monte Cristo
One of the compelling French tales Gautier the goat-man reads to his goats during winter evenings, alongside Tartarin of Tarascon and Gil Blas [A:198].A:198
Count von Vinger
Earlier heading normalized the source’s printed County to Count. See County von Vinger.Counterfeit Creature
The false replacements in Le Marin’s story of the Sarcophagus: dock rats are signed on in place of vanished seamen and look exactly like them. Le Marin says he too was replaced, yet continues the tale in the first person. Finnegan compares the takeover to a world in which every person has been supplanted [D:244].D:244
Counterpart Funds
Payments of Current and Future Contingency kinds sought by Newton Prescott to offset the Casey Machine’s greater availability to rich users than to poor ones. He reports obtaining continuing guarantees [CM:513].CM:513
Countess (Girl Countess), The
Sebastian Hilton’s companion, introduced to Duffey at the Colony Club as the Girl Countess. Duffey recognizes her from his earlier reading of Sebastian’s mind. She is playing bridge as Lily Koch’s partner against Charlotte and Gloria Mullens [MTM B3:95]. See Countess Margaret, The (Margaret Hochfelsen).MTM B3:95
Countess Margaret, The (Margaret Hochfelsen)
Margaret Hochfelsen, the “ever-young countess,” is Sebastian Hilton’s companion and a friend of Duffey and Letitia in their Chicago golden age [MTM B3:98]. When Sebastian introduces the Girl Countess, Duffey recognizes her from his earlier reading of Sebastian’s mind [MTM B3:95]. Letitia claims to have projected her into the Chicago scene; the narrator later calls her an Animation without settling who made her [MTM B3:96] [MTM B7:215].She identifies Giulio as a Teras and promises to help the son who has inherited his difficult nature [MTM B3:107]. She and Sebastian marry after decades together; he is killed a month later [MTM B7:216].
After Letitia’s funeral in New Orleans, the Countess invites Duffey to marry her and live in Transylvania. She claims that nineteen long generations of her family are still alive and that enormous wolves serve and protect them. Duffey repeatedly challenges her stories; he postpones her proposal for fifty years, and she promises to ask again [MTM B8:254-256].
The later narrative links her with the Royal Pop People through its warning that she will become one of them and grow younger [MTM B12:383]. This shifting identity should be distinguished from the role of the Countess played by Becky Stein in Seven Roads [MTM B12:352].
MTM B3:98; MTM B3:95; MTM B3:96; MTM B7:215; MTM B3:107; MTM B7:216; MTM B8:254-256; MTM B12:383; MTM B12:352
County von Vinger
Alias, printed “County von Vinger,” of Ali ben Taife, also called Lord Peter Petrof and, in Rio, Sinhor Dedos or Mr. Fingers. In Ignatius Ti’s account, this thief-master kills Amoy when the bird refuses to surrender a swallowed blue diamond [A:81].A:81
Courage
Bushmaster’s backers praise his bulldog courage during the losing beer contest, prompting Finnegan’s joke about his forebears [A:23]. X calls pursuit of the supposedly defeated Conspiracy the most courageous act, yet admits he cannot face his ironic wife after his long absence [A:139-141]. Duffey retains strong personal courage despite his other failings [MTM B4:110]. Le Marin, emboldened when he encounters Castleman in a bar, then leaves the dangerous man alone rather than let courage carry him too far [D:245-246].A:23; A:139-141; MTM B4:110; D:245-246
Courier fonts
Unverified claim that Casey preferred Courier type for the Crock. The supplied page concerns Duffey’s encounter with a distressed woman and the magazine’s stockholders, with no typeface preference stated [MTM B4:144].MTM B4:144
Courtois, Marie (aka the Golden Ogress)
Seaworthy’s seagoing secretary on the Brunhilde. Finnegan first remembers her as the Golden Ogress who collected his information for the ship’s register; her beauty and aura of power make the transaction feel like a mortgage on his soul [D:32]. Golden-skinned, red-haired, exceptionally strong and about a foot taller than the small Anastasia, she revels in her physical power on the beach and in the surf [D:33] [D:37]. Anastasia denounces her as evil, calls her brainless and skylla in their quarrelling, and accuses her of madness; Marie answers with political diagnoses of Anastasia. Despite this, the cabin-mates are described as good friends whose feud sharpens their wits [D:33] [D:69-70]. In a possibly waking ocean dream Marie identifies herself with Demeter and Persephone and claims earthly reincarnation is the only immortality; Finnegan rejects her claim [D:91-92]. She kills Don Lewis by throttling him and breaking his neck, then describes the act with ecstatic delight. Finnegan and Joe Cross plan retaliation, but Papa Devil intervenes [D:110-113]. Manuel says she insisted on Anastasia’s killing [D:148]. Finnegan later reports that Marie shot Anastasia and was herself shot by Joe, who was then shot in turn. He perceives her dying aboard the Brunhilde, enjoying it and expecting a favored place beyond death [D:157].D:32; D:33; D:37; D:69-70; D:91-92; D:110-113; D:148; D:157
Courtship (Romantic)
One of the popular arts said to lose class and style in the degradation of everyday life following the Devil’s release [MTM B6:207].MTM B6:207
Covenant
A binding pact, appearing in opposed forms. In the sixth contingency the Adversary presses Duffey to accept a fatally defective covenant; the dramatic forecast warns that acceptance would unmake everyone [MTM B10:296] [MTM B10:301]. Finnegan later describes the saving Covenant as an intrusion that has changed time, space and the form of everything, and that the killers seek to extinguish [MB:587]. An ancestral dolphin knows this Pact and accepts that it was made with humans rather than dolphins, although hostile humans will try to nullify it [MB:594].MTM B10:296; MTM B10:301; MB:587; MB:594
Covenanter
Unverified epithet allegedly applied to Henry by Papa Devil. The cited page concerns Aunt Gertrude’s cooking and X’s coded telephone call to Finnegan, and does not contain that exchange [D:208].D:208
Covenanters
Unverified designation supposedly applied to sour members of the Brunhilde crew. The supplied passage is Finnegan and Seaworthy’s conversation on the sidewalk before their voyage, and contains no such designation [D:11].D:11
Cow (Sacred)
Image applied to Mary Louise Byrne: her strength and bovine quality are described as royal and sacred, a phase through which the narrative says all chthonic goddesses pass [MTM B2:55].MTM B2:55
Cow County Roundup
Unverified title of a supposed rodeo publication to which a friend of Gregory contributes. The supplied passage is Gregory’s account of his non-aging and military service, and contains no such publication or contributor [A:77].A:77
Coward (self-described)
Don Lewis’s evasive self-characterization in his story of the three vanished soldiers: one was a coward, and he will not identify which was himself [D:44]. His later slip identifies him with the reluctant PFC Lorrigan, who hung back from the killing [D:45]. The narrator says he has twice proclaimed his cowardice, while stressing the dangerous resistance and covert communications he has organized aboard the Brunhilde [D:105].D:44; D:45; D:105
Cowboys
Tommy Cow-Town Borger and Jake-Leg Lewis, the salt-water cowboys who ride cattle boats rather than horses. As live cattle shipments become rare, they spend long intervals between voyages, still wearing boots, spurs, chaps and gauntlets [D:222].D:222
Cowboys (Mexican)
Unverified entry. The earlier glossary gives Vaqueros and cites Archipelago, page 176. That page concerns Finnegan and Dotty, and no supporting Mexican-cowboy passage has been located in the supplied texts.Cowles Buggy Whip, The
One of the whips recalled by the turbaned Royal Pop historian while giving a Decatur Street flagstone a voice for its memories of horse traffic [MTM B11:329].MTM B11:329
Cows
Animals in the phrase heard during Duffey’s dream, “the years that the cows have eaten.” Beth Keegan associates it with seven sheaves of grain and expects a seven-year absence [MTM B2:68-69]. The imagery suggests a blend of Pharaoh’s cows and grain in Genesis 41:26-27 with the consumed years of Joel 2:25. A “honey old cow” sometimes supplies Duffey’s soup kitchen [A:134]; cowbells mingle with sheep bells during Finnegan and Anastasia’s Naxos vigil [D:131].MTM B2:68-69; A:134; D:131
Crab cooties
Parasites among the creatures attacking Duffey in the dung heap after he turns the forbidden handle and falls from the Presence’s green meadows. He finally recognizes that the Presence remains with him even there [MTM B12:392-393].MTM B12:392-393
Crabbing
One of the lively arts of everyday life said to lose class and style in the massive degradation following the Devil’s release [MTM B6:207].MTM B6:207
Crack
A sound, opening or fracture used in several scenes. Papa Devil’s threat over Don Lewis’s grave bursts like thunder [D:110]; Le Marin asks Finnegan to crack another bottle [D:243]. Finnegan jokingly says Theresa’s baptism cracked the font, and she counters that any of several witches might have done it [A:108]. Bagby likens Duffey to a sidewalk crack treated as a fetish mark by fates and principalities [MTM B10:302]. The nearly closed door between Finnegan and Dotty figures their dwindling relationship [A:106-107]. Casey imagines Henry aging into a priest whose thunder has cracks, a prospect Finnegan rejects [A:155]. A crack in Eva’s ice pillar frees her jaw to speak [MTM B13:399].D:110; D:243; A:108; MTM B10:302; A:106-107; A:155; MTM B13:399
Crackerjacks
Boxed snack from which Aunt Mary Ellen Hart says Duffey obtained his first talisman. She cannot explain its subsequent growth or the origin of the similar talismans he makes [MTM B1:18].MTM B1:18
Crafts
Duffey excels at crafts, especially carpentry and machining, before quickly learning art techniques and bronze casting [MTM B2:53]. Gautier the goat-man is likewise called a master of all crafts, with tools, a loom and a wheel, making nets, seines, lines and traps [A:196].MTM B2:53; A:196
Crags
The limestone heights of central San Simeon where the hurricane bird nests before flying over the Ocean of Mexico. Accounts differ on whether there is one recurrent bird or several newly hatched each year [MB:557-558].MB:557-558
Crane, Leander
One of the theatrical people in Duffey’s Chicago circle [MTM B3:99].MTM B3:99
Crankiness
One possible explanation for the inner kabouters or manifest goblins. Absalom Stein says he and Casey exchanged one each, and argues that the effects support their being distinct immaterial persons rather than merely traits [PG:537-538].PG:537-538
Crash year
The future year Duffey visits when Mary Virginia and the others perceive him as a ghost already dead for months. He withdraws from that year and puts it back into the future, returning to the task of writing his Bark review [MTM B12:360-361].MTM B12:360-361
Creation (First)
The measure of the old-fashioned rebuilding urged in Henri Salvatore’s letter to Duffey: construction should begin from the original foundation and be as old as the first Creation, while its wine and vessels remain new [MTM B5:179-180].MTM B5:179-180
Creature (Single-celled)
The origin and last remnant of the cosmos in Morpheus’s account of a diminishing dream. He says one cell imagined a second self and dreamed the worlds; as the dream contracts, he and Duffey wrestle over which will be the surviving cell [GD:500].GD:500
Credit
Lazarus Reilly extends beer credit and other help to guests at the Old Wooden Ship [D:216]. Duffey admits that his credit, like his lodging facilities, is limited when welcoming the Royal Pop People [MTM B11:312]. Trinali receives five dollars of rent credit for finding Hans’s apartment [A:227]. In the sense of belief, Brannagan credits only diamonds he has personally held [D:207], while the Devil loses credit through premature predictions of complete victory [MTM B8:245-246].D:216; MTM B11:312; A:227; D:207; MTM B8:245-246
Creed
A body of belief. Casey reports Duffey’s charge that the new liberal permits only a creed secretly devoted to ancient tyranny [A:42]. The hostile review of Royce Rollins’s The Return of the Neanderthal calls that fictional book an insane creed [D:240].A:42; D:240
Creek
Finnegan and Howland wade westward- or southwestward-flowing creeks, then camp in a creek bend to cook rabbits and fish [A:178]. Henry and Casey climb to a churning creek and swim in its waterfall-cut pool [A:42]. Finnegan fishes intermingling streams and creeks in Gautier’s New Jersey swamp camp [A:195-196]. In New Guinea, closely spaced foamy creeks and steep bluffs illustrate Casey’s scenic-density idea [A:36].A:178; A:42; A:195-196; A:36
Creepers
Trailing growth from aromatic bushes above the clean sand in which Finnegan digs Don Lewis’s grave [D:110]. Earlier, rocks and creepers are personified as keeping out of Papa Devil’s way when he descends from the ruined wall where Finnegan and Anastasia watch the port [D:70].D:110; D:70
Creighton
One possible school in the deliberately variable account of Duffey’s boarding-school years. The narrator suggests Creighton in Omaha, recalls a high school as well as a college there, and says his single remembered experience in fact took place at two or more schools [MTM B1:24].MTM B1:24
Cremated
Reduced to ashes, as Duffey describes his own remains when X returns the cigar urn to him [MTM B6:203]. The later account distinguishes the slant-faced killers who strip the flesh from his bones from the slack-faced men who burn that flesh and put its perpetually hot ashes in a canister formerly belonging to the King of Spain [MTM B13:442].MTM B6:203; MTM B13:442
Crescent
One of the seven Iowa places competing as Duffey’s birthplace in one of his possible childhoods [MTM B1:7].MTM B1:7
Cretan Bull
Bull in the Cretan Bull Drama staged at the Decatur Street Opera House. Young performers leap over its horns, while human victims, including Zabotski, are given to the bulls to kill [MTM B11:349].MTM B11:349
Crete
One of the places Finnegan guesses might send the boat Anastasia awaits during the Naxos vigil; she does not confirm the guess [D:131]. Anastasia’s description evokes statuettes from Cretan cenotaphs [D:32], and her mermaid history says early Cretan mermaids were captives from Naxos, not a separate variety [D:35]. Casey’s erotic dream-world includes Cretan girl bullfighters [A:157]. Beth Keegan is compared with living ivory statuary, Etruscan and Cretan in its ancient freshness [MTM B2:60].D:131; D:32; D:35; A:157; MTM B2:60
Crime
The Professor tells Hans that anyone who tolerates dullness commits a crime, in his sermon on thought and the life of the mind [A:212]. Seaworthy similarly exaggerates his displeasure at being served Texas beer into a crime deserving punishment and penitence; the beer is the only kind available cold [D:12].A:212; D:12
Crimea
The Black Sea peninsula where the narrative places the Devil’s deep, iron-doored prison. He is released on the last Saturday of May 1946, though the narrator also raises the possibility of a recurring release in 1846 [MTM B5:180] [MTM B5:184]. Duffey hears the release treated comically on the radio [MTM B6:190]. X’s claimed eyewitness account names the Tauric and Euxine Chersonese and alleges that the Yalta Conference principals consulted the imprisoned Devil [MTM B6:204].MTM B5:180; MTM B5:184; MTM B6:190; MTM B6:204
Crimean dungeon
The Devil’s thousand-year prison, dated 946-1946 in Absalom Stein’s Notes on the Finnegan Cycle [MTM B6:185]. The narrative places the release in May 1946 but also asks whether it recurs from a release a century earlier [MTM B5:184].MTM B6:185; MTM B5:184
Crimson Blood
One of the colors in the richly mingled blood spilled when the thunder colt kills the Deutero-Finnegan effigy at the Decatur Street Opera House [MTM B11:351].MTM B11:351
Crissie Verse
Crissie Cristofero’s prophetic couplets across the seven scenes of the poster for Cleo Mahoney’s Seven Roads. The girls discuss each contingency through its verse, although Crissie does not necessarily understand her own prophecy [MTM B10:293-296]. Becky Stein later calls her bitter couplet about Margaret Stone’s altered funeral liturgy a Crissie verse [MTM B12:354].MTM B10:293-296; MTM B12:354
Cristobal Colon
Christopher Columbus, named Cristobal Colon by Ignacio, who calls St. Kitts or St. Christopher one of his landfalls [A:272]. In The Devil is Dead, discovery by Columbus is one of the narrator’s playful requirements for the island Paradise reached at Basse-Terre [D:235] [D:237].A:272; D:235; D:237
Cristofero, Crissie
Ursuline Academy student, painter, and author of the prophetic couplets on the seven-scene poster for Cleo Mahoney’s Seven Roads. When rain nearly destroys her original water-soluble painting, she struggles to reconstruct it in oils [MTM B10:293]. Rebeka Stein calls her a sibyl or pythoness, observing that Crissie does not understand her own prophetic verses [MTM B10:295]. She later asks Duffey to perform magic during the play’s intermission [MTM B12:354].MTM B10:293; MTM B10:295; MTM B12:354
Cro Magnon man
Prehistoric humanity invoked in Casey’s school notebook, which speculates about Cro-Magnon skin color using a racial slur [A:162-163]. The Devil is Dead’s chapter-opening speculation describes Cro-Magnon man emerging from violent absorption of a kindred people, outwardly dominant but carrying a deep recessive inheritance [D:283].A:162-163; D:283
Crock (2) (Zabotski's Pot)
Zabotski’s thousand-gallon, glass-lined vessel, formerly used for distillation experiments. Duffey turns it into the continually boiling soup pot for the poor, with a wall temporarily removed to bring it indoors and a priest blessing it [A:132-133]. More Than Melchisedech makes the Great Pot part of the project of rebuilding the world [MTM B6:195].A:132-133; MTM B6:195
Crock (3) (old butter-crock)
Nostalgic object in Endymeon Ellenbogen’s catalogue of kinds of popular songs he writes, alongside remembered mothers and bee trees [A:237-238].A:237-238
Crock (4) (Casey the)
Casey the Crock is Kasmir Gorshok, Casey Szymansky’s medieval manifestation as a ninth-century scholar and necromancer; his Argonaut identity is Peleus [A:39] [PG:534-535]. Archipelago’s Chapter Six is titled “Casey the Crock, or the Losing of Peleus” [A:151].A:39; PG:534-535; A:151
Crock (5) (pottery)
The pot image behind the Crock magazine’s name: its cover carries d’Allesandro’s elaborate engraving of an old chamber pot, below a black Gothic title [A:40-41]. The connection is a visual pun; the passage does not state a separate etymology for the magazine’s name.A:40-41
Crock, The
Casey Szymansky’s magazine, published in successive college versions and later on the small press in Duffey’s Chicago bookstore [MTM B4:119]. Duffey runs it after Casey joins the army in 1942, attracting talented contributors and resisting the peculiar people’s efforts to take it over [MTM B4:138]. In Archipelago, his letter describes blackmail, assault and a warning about Casey’s stock; Casey identifies Stein as the threatened infiltrator [A:39-40]. In More Than Melchisedech, a group gains control through a new proxy from Casey. About a year later Casey returns, confirms the changed orientation, resumes the editorship and permanently excludes Duffey [MTM B4:144-145]. Casey associates his change with a soul exchange, which Stein later describes as an exchange of their older souls [MTM B4:145] [MTM B5:169]. Duffey’s admirers remember the earlier Crock as an intelligent, humorous cult sheet [MTM B5:158]. The Archipelago issue is a twenty-page tabloid with d’Allesandro’s chamber-pot engraving, a black Gothic title and the subscript Formerly the C of S [A:40-41]. Its contents include Schrade’s sonnet, Ethyl Ellenberger’s ode, Demetrio Glauch’s ballad, and articles by Thos. J. Chronicker, S.J., Christopher Tompkinson and Tom (Big Bear) Rogers. Mary Frances Rattigan writes “Books Abroad” as Polly Polyglot. Duffey supplies most of the issue; “Moles at the Grass Roots,” Fables in Fabianism, and The Consumer, the Cooperative, and the Coefficient of Cost Constancy are described as being in his style. Regular sections include “Urbe et Orbe,” “Judgement Day” reviews, recording notes favoring Chicago jazz, and a pro-and-con letters forum. Four Groben woodcuts and On the John musings with a shadowed Thinker drawing complete the description [A:41]. After the Bark appears, Casey uses the Crock to attack its editors and aims; the publications address the same influential readership [A:128-130]. Later Show Boat reports that Casey’s creditors have taken his press and building but cannot use the Crock’s name, and that he is again at odds with the group [A:262-263].MTM B4:119; MTM B4:138; A:39-40; MTM B4:144-145; MTM B4:145; MTM B5:169; MTM B5:158; A:40-41; A:41; A:128-130; A:262-263
Crocked
Drunk: Theresa warns Finnegan against getting crocked before supper [A:108], while Elena later deplores his habitual drunkenness [A:274]. Trinali and Jimmy are crocked within an hour of drinking with Hans [A:226]. Duffey retains his small-scale magic whether crocked or uncrocked [MTM B5:170]. Finnegan also calls himself the Irish crock during his St. Patrick’s celebrations [D:189].A:108; A:274; A:226; MTM B5:170; D:189
Cromwell, Oliver (1599--1658)
Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), Parliamentary commander in the British Civil Wars and Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland from 1653 until his death. His military victories and Puritan reforms were followed by a constitutionally powerful executive and broader toleration of many Protestant faiths; his Irish campaign included the massacres at Drogheda and Wexford. The glossary’s literary connection remains unverified: the supplied pages concern Papa Piccone’s Oscar Oliver Omygosh story and the Argo’s visit to Oliver Greenflag and his companions [MTM B5:167-168] [MTM B13:417-418].MTM B5:167-168; MTM B13:417-418
Cronies
Seaworthy’s close associates William Gerecke and Peter Wirt share his and Papa Devil’s mystery. They enter the bar with those two and Captain Gonof while Finnegan and Anastasia are dismissed [D:30]. Seaworthy’s cronies visit offices in foreign ports [D:103] and wait with the old netman aboard the Brunhilde during the Naxos ambush, experienced fighters despite their inconspicuousness [D:136]. X later asks what Finnegan learned from Seaworthy and his cronies [D:188]. Elsewhere, Patrick Stranahan’s visitors include K.C.s and cronies [A:104], and Finnegan’s port-town friends report his heavy drinking before the Brunhilde sails [D:27].D:30; D:103; D:136; D:188; A:104; D:27
Crook
Doll calls Finnegan a crook after receiving a fifty-dollar note during their escape in a borrowed-by-force car [D:168]. The related adjective describes the three kings identified with the Slant-Faced Men [MTM B7:227], the Professor’s path of false knowledge [A:212], and the Devil’s preference for crooked lines and a tongue able to enter hidden recesses [MTM B8:242].D:168; MTM B7:227; A:212; MTM B8:242
Crooked Tongue
The Devil’s own image for deceit’s reach: in the speech Duffey overhears within his mind, the Devil recommends a crooked tongue because it can penetrate recesses inaccessible to a straight one [MTM B8:242].MTM B8:242
Crooked Way
The Professor associates the crooked way with the one forbidden tree, the pseudodendron of false knowledge [A:212]. In X’s account of the Devil’s release, the Devil proposes to preach a scenic, crooked way alongside defamation and destruction [MTM B6:206].A:212; MTM B6:206
Crooks (Family)
One of the families listed by an older relative as Duffey’s extensive kindred. Duffey disputes the account and the authenticity of those supposed relatives [MTM B1:7].MTM B1:7
Cross (Celtic)
The Celtic Cross of Christ on one side of Biloxi Brannagan’s red-gold identity coin, with a coracle on the reverse and the name Naomh Brandon. He produces it during the Argo company’s attempt to recognize a visitor [MTM B13:425].MTM B13:425
Cross (Greek)
One of the devices on the Navicula Petri in Henry’s dream, alongside a lamb, fish and six-pointed star [A:44].A:44
Cross (Holy)
Relic said in the Argo’s quest history to have been recovered by the Argo Masters exactly a century after Saladin dragged it away at his horse’s tail [MTM B13:421].MTM B13:421
Cross (Iron)
One of the decorations Casey wears in his youthful appearance as the Leader, before Letitia intercepts him on the way to mount the white horse [MTM B4:117].MTM B4:117
Cross (Red)
Organization invoked by a witness trying to explain the obscure international ARGO group with which Duffey supposedly worked from a ship during his seven missing years [MTM B2:72].MTM B2:72
Cross (St. Andrew's)
One of the types of cross turned into a spinning, fire-lettered torture device in the grotesque resurgence of crucifixion described amid the world’s murder entertainments [MB:582].MB:582
Cross (St. Peter's)
One of the types of cross turned into a spinning, fire-lettered torture device in the grotesque resurgence of crucifixion described amid the world’s murder entertainments [MB:582].MB:582
Cross Purposes
The conflict of intentions Finnegan wants to avoid with Anastasia, warning that he may have to play his own hand and is frightened by his vision of her dead [D:70].D:70
Cross-index
X’s secret reference system for those present at the Devil’s release, including extra names because many attendees use aliases. He offers to bring the list if the Bark will publish it, but Dotty refuses [MTM B6:206].MTM B6:206
Cross, Joe
Brunhilde crewman, cabin-mate of Finnegan and Don Lewis, and initially one of the narrator’s good people: compromised but a true prince. He has burr-short red hair and later a red beard around his youthful face [D:30-31] [D:100]. At the beach he breaks water and whistles at Finnegan and Anastasia like a comic fish [D:38]. Experience in a Baltimore raw bar equips him to help prepare the seafood supper [D:40]. During the Mexican landing he accompanies Manuel, Papa Devil, Finnegan and the women but remains with the oar boat [D:57]. Don’s covert arrangements bring Joe aboard as part of a loose resistance [D:105], yet Joe’s closeness to Marie makes Don doubt him [D:106]. In Tangier on the day Don is killed, the usually friendly Joe is armed and hostile to Finnegan [D:101-102]. After discovering Marie’s guilt, Finnegan trusts Joe again; they set out to kill her, but Papa Devil disarms Joe and stops them [D:113]. Joe is later found dead on the Naxos landing with Papa Devil and five olive-shirted raiders [D:147]. Manuel says Joe tried to play both sides, opposed Anastasia’s killing, and was murdered aboard ship before his body was dragged ashore [D:148]. Finnegan later reports the shooting sequence: Marie killed Anastasia, Joe shot Marie, and Joe was himself shot [D:157].D:30-31; D:100; D:38; D:40; D:57; D:105; D:106; D:101-102; D:113; D:147; D:148; D:157
Cross, St. John of
See St. John of the Cross.Crossroads
Duffey’s early independence after completing high school at fifteen is called a crossroads of life [MTM B2:38]. At the St. Louis gathering, Patrick Stranahan imagines a crossroads sign pointing toward nowhere, the easy house, the crossbar hotel and the charnel house, with old, fresh and placental blood running down it: an ominous crux in the discussion of the Devil’s release [MTM B5:164].MTM B2:38; MTM B5:164
Crotalus, Niccolo (aka Nick the Rattle)
Earlier heading substituted the snake genus Crotalus for the character’s name. See Niccolo Crotolus (Nick the Rattle, The Sidewinder).Crow
Bird image used for Salvation Sally’s clattering voice [A:8-9] and in Dotty’s description of Sally as a crow [A:147]. The Brunhilde is called an old crow of a ship [D:21], and Morris Poor insults Countess Margaret as a skinny crow during the mule episode [MTM B4:131]. Actual crows gather at the driftwood graveyard [A:233] and in clouds around Hans’s childhood nursery grounds [A:208].A:8-9; A:147; D:21; MTM B4:131; A:233; A:208
Crowd, The
Name for the Ekklesia or Assembly whose leaders declare its dismantling at the Last Conclave [MB:561]. In ordinary uses, Finnegan arranges acquaintances as the apparent audience for his art show [A:191], calls Casey the soft-headed member of their circle [A:185], and joins the onlookers ordered away from the Naxos dead [D:147]. Don Lewis wonders whether a crowd will protect him or make killing him easier [D:106]. A Pattenite polemicist attacks the infidelity crowd’s use of antiquity evidence [MTM B9:283], while Tony Apostolo calls Duffey’s reporter-filled party a pressy crowd [MTM B4:130].MB:561; A:191; A:185; D:147; D:106; MTM B9:283; MTM B4:130
Crown
The King’s Crown of Salem is one face of Duffey’s gold identity coin [MTM B13:425]. X brings the Triple Crown, or a double of it, to the Mooring-Rock conclave [MB:596]; a dead man wearing that crown also appears in Crissie’s third-contingency verse [MTM B10:295]. Casey’s Leader regalia includes the Crown of St. Stephen among its decorations [MTM B4:117]. In Finnegan’s ode to Loy Larkin, her pinkish hair is a tipsy crown [A:32].MTM B13:425; MB:596; MTM B10:295; MTM B4:117; A:32
Crown of St. Stephen
One of the decorations in Casey’s assorted regalia when he plans to appear as the Leader on the white horse. Letitia intercepts him before his planned entrance [MTM B4:117]. See also King Stephen of Hungary.MTM B4:117
Cruikshank, Rosemary Gate
A Gate among the Princes of the Crowd at the Last Conclave. Immediately after Stockton Stone Crocker is shot for voting for Cardinal Hedayat, Rosemary votes for the effigy or Straw-Man as the armed Hackenschmidt commands [MB:567].MB:567
Cruise
Dotty calls her funded journey to visit Finnegan in Havana a cruise [A:277]. The Brunhilde’s earlier voyage is recalled through Finnegan’s disputed deaths at several of its stopping points in Stein’s opening account in How Many Miles to Babylon [MB:548].A:277; MB:548
Crusader Godfrey of the Gate
One of the notable passengers named in the Argo’s history, alongside St. Paul and Mark Twain [MTM B13:404].MTM B13:404
Crushed Louse
The quipping publisher’s expression for the nitty-gritty in The Answer, specifically the announced time and place of the Leader’s coming appearance in Henry Horner Park [MTM B4:116].MTM B4:116
Crust (Earth's)
Sulem says that the crust of the world is thin even for people who possess a tujuan, and fears that Finnegan, who lacks one, may step through it and fall forever [A:60].A:60
Crutches
X’s metaphor for the support of the Church in his letter to Absalom Stein. The women have that support; X says he has it only a little and Stein not at all, so they must “hobble without that crutch” [A:265-266].A:265-266
Crypt (Burial)
In The Resurrection of Count Finnegan, the burial crypt appears as an ocean cave beneath a rock shelf [MB:550]. In the third contingency outlined in Book X, a dead man elected to high office is ordered out of his crypt by a powerful voice [MTM B10:295].MB:550; MTM B10:295
Crystal
The Cadillac Bar is furnished with chrome and crystal [D:58]. In Trinali’s ode, a crystal wineglass resembles the transparent sphere of Fifth Heaven [A:231]. A Royal Pop speaker describes crystals as records of events in different temporal directions, and crystal balls as spheres tuned to the direction usually called the future [MTM B11:330].D:58; A:231; MTM B11:330
Crystal Palace
One of the places where Finnegan washes dishes while waiting to sail from the unnamed Texas seaport [D:10] [D:11] [D:19].D:10; D:11; D:19
Cuba
Setting of Finnegan's last encounter with Dotty and Niccolo in Archipelago. At the opening of the final chapter he mistakes Havana for a transformed New Orleans; the telephone booth contains a Havana directory [A:269]. Dotty travels there after receiving a lawyer's letter, and she and Niccolo exchange shots on the beach, wounding Finnegan as well as one another [A:277] [A:281-282].In More Than Melchisedech, Dotty's departure to meet Finnegan is recalled with Cuba given as a possible destination [MTM B8:237]. The Petrine Spy Story contingency locates their deaths on the Marianao Coast and treats those deaths as part of a larger masquerade [MTM B10:300]. Duffey later travels to Havana with Carmelo Mendoza, whom he discovers to be X, to investigate Finnegan's disappearance; Horace Pie joins them [MTM B12:367] [MTM B12:371]. They find the sea cave shown in The Resurrection of Count Finnegan. Duffey enters its previous day and meets Finnegan there [MTM B12:374].
A:269; A:277; A:281-282; MTM B8:237; MTM B10:300; MTM B12:367; MTM B12:371; MTM B12:374
Cuban Boat
The boat Duffey and Carmelo Mendoza take from New Orleans to Cuba to investigate Finnegan’s reported death. They travel as working seamen under the names Mike Duffey and Karl Metz [MTM B12:367] [MTM B12:369].MTM B12:367; MTM B12:369
Cuban Man (Portly)
The man whom boys present to Duffey, X, and Horace Pie as the “Sleeping Man” in a Cuban coastal cave. He lies naked on a rock shelf beside his clothes, but is an impostor rather than Finnegan [MTM B12:372] [MTM B12:373].MTM B12:372; MTM B12:373
Cubist
Jimmy defines an Orthoclast as a Cubist who paints things along their supposed natural cleavages to show matter inside out [A:230]. On the Argo, shattered mirrors divide each viewer into many reflections, and the world itself subsequently appears cubistic [MTM B13:461].A:230; MTM B13:461
Cubits
Measures invoked when the narrator considers the uncertain dimensions of the Argo. He gives their range as nine to thirty-nine inches and mentions differing dimensions in the Vulgate, Septuagint, and Hebrew accounts [MTM B13:403].MTM B13:403
Cuckoos
Ignatius Ti’s term for the inmates of Ward Fourteen while telling them about midnight, ghosts, and the dead [A:75] [A:85] [A:86].A:75; A:85; A:86
Cucumbers
Henri Salvatore tells Duffey to go to New Orleans and grow superior cucumbers in an asphalt garden for the Greater Glory [MTM B5:184]. Finnegan boasts that he can ask in Russian for cucumbers instead of an unwanted dish [D:190].MTM B5:184; D:190
Cudgel
Duffey reports that the people trying to take over the Crock have cudgelled him, breaking his nose and right hand [A:40].A:40
Cult
The Crock is a “cult sheet” among Duffey’s special people [MTM B5:158]. Mary Catherine calls Casey a cult figure earning more than thirty thousand dollars a week, while Elwin K. Elkheart dismisses belief in the Argo as the latest cult [MTM B12:377] [MTM B13:402]. In a review quoted in The Devil Is Dead, Charles O. A. Harrington warns that the theory of prehistoric human returnees might start a cult [D:242]. The word also appears in the “cultist edifices” contrasted with the Plaza and in the mistaken cultic identification of Finnegan’s Heliogabalus amulet [A:3] [A:61]. In “Promontory Goats,” Margaret Stone describes a childhood cultus of serving an hour for a soul in Purgatory; Bascom Bagby describes prayers for the Poor Souls arriving instead as further burdens for them [PG:540] [PG:541] [PG:546].MTM B5:158; MTM B12:377; MTM B13:402; D:242; A:3; A:61; PG:540; PG:541; PG:546
Culture
Finnegan is willing to accept Brannagan’s tale of Prester John living amid a static culture in Madagascar [D:206]. Cyrus Roundhead claims that the Macedonians invented the history and arts of ancient Greece to give themselves a culture [MTM B11:337]. The “maize culture” of San Simeon means cultivation of maize [MB:557].D:206; MTM B11:337; MB:557
Cultus (Goat)
Unverified entry. The earlier glossary attributes a goat cultus to Biloxi Brannagan and cites Archipelago, page 25. That page does not support the attribution. The separate reference to a “different cultus” concerns Finnegan’s amulet Heliogabalus [A:61].A:61
Cumana
Cumaná, a city in Venezuela. A port on the Brunhilde’s itinerary, listed after Willemsted and Caracas and before Port of Spain [D:85].D:85
cummings (1894--1962), e. e.
Earlier heading placed the initials after the life dates and used inconsistent name capitalization. See Cummings, E. E. (1894–1962).Cummings, E. E. (1894–1962)
Edward Estlin Cummings (1894–1962), American poet, painter, and playwright, known for experiments with poetic form and language. His collections include Tulips and Chimneys (1923) and 95 Poems (1958). Duffey claims to have driven ambulances with him in France, but the narrator questions Duffey’s account and suggests that he may have lived scenes taken from Sebastian Hilton’s mind [MTM B2:72].MTM B2:72
Cup
Finnegan’s island-creation story makes the Aegean islands fragments of a smashed electrum cup [A:35]. He uses a cup of water to baptize his Heliogabalus amulet, and later sings of glory drowned in a cup [A:61] [A:276]. The notebook calls the wheat’s chaff-cup the glume [A:164]. Marie Courtois first finds Finnegan “in his cups”; Mrs. Mullens supplies paper cups for drinking Duffey’s whisky [D:32] [MTM B3:78]. On the Great Day, Duffy discovers that Charlotte’s customers, including himself, are drinking coffee without cups [GD:484].A:35; A:61; A:276; A:164; D:32; MTM B3:78; GD:484
Cups and Wineskins
The vessels whose remaining wine is secretly drunk by the tippling Apostle in the story Show Boat repeats from her father. He cannot remember whether the Apostle was Thomas, Bartholomew, or Jude [A:262].A:262
Cur dogs
As the Royal Pop party destroys the supposed pseudo-persons, the victims come to resemble “cur dogs and sick spirits.” Mary Virginia cannot tell whether some are dogs, snakes, or people, and questions their destruction [MTM B11:338].MTM B11:338
Curator
Conrad Stone Hackenschmidt’s designation for Monsignor X, the sole attendant serving the 666 Princes at the Last Conclave [MB:566].MB:566
Cures
The Boy King places his golden hands on blind or lame patients so that a physician can cure them [MTM B1:18]. Duffey objects to proposed “cures” of Holy Poverty, distinguishing poverty from the degradations wrongly called by its name [MTM B6:194]. Finnegan cures Mary Catherine’s hiccups by standing on her stomach [A:113] [A:248]. Don Barnaby seeks a joy-pill dispenser for his hangover [D:249]. At Weinsburg, Duffey cures a brilliant young man’s stuttering, despite the man’s wish to retain the affliction as a source of anger [MTM B13:430-431].MTM B1:18; MTM B6:194; A:113; A:248; D:249; MTM B13:430-431
Curia (Roman)
“Reactionary Members of the Curia” are among the targets of the Devil’s public speech as “The Majesty,” alongside Pharisees, Legalists, Rigidists, and Insensate Hierarchies [MTM B8:243].MTM B8:243
Curiosity
Finnegan explores the older burial beneath the grave he is digging out of curiosity; later he wonders why Papa Devil shows none about Finnegan’s knowledge of his true face [D:76] [D:86]. X briefly asks Doll for her life story, and elsewhere admits his persistent curiosity about his own and Finnegan’s origins [D:183] [A:265-266]. Duffey’s “disoriented curiosities” draw him toward making images even in the Presence [MTM B12:390-391]. John Mogul says that unsatisfied curiosity about X’s purposes eats him up [MB:573]. A curious goat is the lone witness near Don Lewis’s body; “curious” also means strange in the description of the gothic hotel Finnegan climbs [D:110] [D:162].D:76; D:86; D:183; A:265-266; MTM B12:390-391; MB:573; D:110; D:162
Current
Duffey says the current favored his eight-thousand-mile swim when he emerges at St. Louis [MTM B13:470]. Papadiabolous describes winds and currents carrying peoples westward across the Atlantic and making the return difficult [D:89]. A cold current chills Finnegan as he recalls the corpse he buried [D:76]. Electrical current occurs in the notebook’s definition of power factor and in Finnegan’s later display of knowledge [A:163] [D:190].MTM B13:470; D:89; D:76; A:163; D:190
Curse
An epigraph attributed to Belloc asks whether anyone is under a curse forbidding morning ale [A:16]. The Brannagan home is said to escape the “curse” of southern fried chicken and corn bread [D:208]. Zabotski commands Blackstone’s sycamore to wither, while denying that he can command a man’s death [MTM B9:270]. The apparently ageless soldier calls the doctor investigating his age “cursed” [A:78].A:16; D:208; MTM B9:270; A:78
Curtain
Night falls over the closed bars like a curtain [A:10]. Patric associates a rising theatre curtain with renewed hope for a worthy play [A:110]. A manuscript descendant of the Crock circulates behind the Iron Curtain [A:168]. Duffey borrows Charley Murray’s “Lace Curtain Irish elegance,” and Widow Waldo hangs actual lace curtains in Zabotski’s contraption [MTM B1:26] [MTM B9:278]. At the Decatur Street Opera House, lightning and thunder destroy the stage curtain instead of raising it [MTM B11:349].A:10; A:110; A:168; MTM B1:26; MTM B9:278; MTM B11:349
Curtis Improved
One of the names in iron lettering on churns remembered by the young Duffey, whose recollections include details taken from other people’s minds [MTM B1:17].MTM B1:17
Curvature of block
The bend in the block that makes Zabotski’s and Bryan Blackstone’s properties adjoin at the rear, although Homer Hoose’s house lies between theirs along the street [MTM B9:269].MTM B9:269
Cuscus
A marsupial, also called the coconut possum, eaten by the cliff people whom Hans visits [A:58]. Sulem describes a person’s tujuan as directions written on vellum made from its skin and rolled into a tiny packet [A:60].A:58; A:60
Custodian of the Ashes
The role X claims when he and Kasmir Gorshok recover Duffey’s remains at Gur’yev in Tartary. X intends to return the ashes to Duffey when he meets him alive again [MTM B13:442].MTM B13:442
Cutch
Destination of a Dutchman’s cargo in the voyage poem opening the Finnegan chapter; the Dutchman sails from the Gulf of Oman [A:172].A:172
Cutie-pie
Unverified entry. The earlier glossary attributes “Cutie-pie” to Gregory McIfreann Papadiabolous as a name for Nick the Rattle, but the cited page describes the shooting of Nick, Dotty, and Finnegan without that expression [A:282].A:282
Cutter
Coast guard vessels sent against the ringing Sea-Bell. Newly appearing shoals keep them from reaching it [MB:560].MB:560
Cyclone Cellar
The bar run by Cyclone Samenoff where Anna Louise sings and buys exclusive rights to one of Endymeon Ellenbogen’s songs [A:237-238].A:237-238
Cyclones (Sky-high)
The whirlwinds surrounding Duffey after his fall into the dung heap. Their lightning and thunder become an occasion for his recognition that he remains in the Presence [MTM B12:392-393].MTM B12:392-393
Cyclops
“Land of the Cyclops” is the title of Chapter Eight of Archipelago [A:189]. Its Texas episode calls the state the dread land of a race of one-eyed or squint-eyed tall men [A:201].A:189; A:201
Cygnus
Unverified entry. The earlier glossary says that Finnegan uses Cygnus as a direction marker, but its citation concerns Henri’s instructions to Duffey and the journey to New Orleans [MTM B5:184].MTM B5:184
Cypress
Trinali collects cypress knees in a tidewater swamp for her craftwork [A:229] [A:236]. Hans earlier sees her figuratively as made of driftwood, with cypress knees of her own [A:234]. Anastasia’s head is compared to that of a small cypress-wood Diana Artemis at Delos [D:133].A:229; A:236; A:234; D:133
d'Alesandro
Engraver in Duffey’s Chicago circle, called d’Allesandro in Archipelago and d’Alesandro in More Than Melchisedech. His chamber-pot illustration supplies the Crock cover, and Casey names him among Duffey’s four prospective recruits to the Catholic Center Party of America [A:40] [A:42]. He attends the gathering where Morris Poor challenges Duffey’s sanity and contributes engravings to the Crock under Duffey [MTM B4:128] [MTM B4:138]. A commentator of the same name in “Promontory Goats” identifies himself as a leading mathematician and describes Casey’s mathematical jokes in his classroom; the passage does not establish that this is the engraver [PG:526].A:40; A:42; MTM B4:128; MTM B4:138; PG:526
d'Allesandro
Spelling used in Archipelago for the engraver. See d'Alesandro.Daemon(s)
In an epigraph attributed to Galen’s Techne Iatrike, daemons possibly from worlds beyond the moon beget Tityroi or Satyroi on earthly women. Their children are fertile, but the next generation is sterile, so the daemons must return each century to renew the race. The epigraph also reports a daemon fathering children on thirteen women in one night at Calchedon in Bithyni [D:160-161]. Finnegan calls the spirit that guides his painting a daemon or devil and describes painting the spirit itself [D:253].D:160-161; D:253
Dago
An ethnic slur used for Finnegan in Doppio di Pinne’s note and in the description of his brother Jake’s contempt for him [D:51] [A:174]. Finnegan uses it when recalling his first impression of Theresa Piccone’s photograph and when wrongly assuming a Greek Capuchin must be Italian [A:108] [D:118]. Giulio calls the son who receives Duffey’s talisman “the dago son” [MTM B3:107]. Hecklers use the slur against Showboat during her street preaching [MTM B7:231].D:51; A:174; A:108; D:118; MTM B3:107; MTM B7:231
Dago house-wife
An unnamed St. Louis housewife known to the group. The narrator says that Mary sometimes drinks coffee with her in her kitchen; Dotty asks why anyone should doubt it [A:148].A:148
Dakar
A Senegalese port visited by the Brunhilde on its northward voyage after Freetown. The itinerary places Dakar between Bathurst and St. Louis [D:95-96].D:95-96
Dakota
The Stranahans arrange annual pheasant-hunting trips to Dakota with Hans and Henry, along with trips for Gulf marlin and Minnesota deer, “God and circumstances permitting” [A:103].A:103
Dali, Salvador
Salvador Dalí (1904-1989), Spanish surrealist painter. Duffey recognizes landscapes by Dalí, Doré, and Hieronymus Bosch within the Devil’s mind [MTM B8:241]. Clarence Schrade later says that Casey’s drawings burlesque the hellscapes of Dalí, Doré, Bosch, and Finnegan [PG:522]. Dalí studied at the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid and was finally expelled in 1926. His paintings combine precise technique with dream imagery, as in The Persistence of Memory (1931). Influenced by Freud, he developed the paranoiac-critical method to explore unstable perceptions and double images. He also worked in sculpture, film, and writing, collaborating with Luis Buñuel and Alfred Hitchcock, and developed photographic projects with Philippe Halsman. The surrealists attempted to expel him in 1934; the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation dates his expulsion to 1939. He lived in the United States during the Second World War and returned to Spain in 1948. King Juan Carlos I made him Marquis of Dalí de Púbol in 1982. After Gala’s death in 1982 he moved to Púbol. Following a fire there in 1984, he moved to the Galatea Tower in Figueres, where he remained until his death.MTM B8:241; PG:522
Dallas
City on the Devil's speaking itinerary. George Koran reports that “The Majesty” will give five talks there to “fleece the sheepy rich” [MTM B8:243] [MTM B8:244].MTM B8:243; MTM B8:244
Damascus
Henri Salvatore calls St. Louis Duffey’s Damascus: a place where he has had the opportunity for blindness and recovery before going on to his life’s work in New Orleans [MTM B5:184].MTM B5:184
Dame Bagby
Henri Cardinal Salvatore’s name for Duffey’s sister Mary Louise, earlier called Mary Louise Byrne and married to Bascom Bagby [MTM B2:55] [MTM B5:155]. The Cardinal reports her wish to bury Duffey in the family plot near Bagby in St. Louis; the narrator also calls her Dame Bagby [MTM B12:384-385].MTM B2:55; MTM B5:155; MTM B12:384-385
Dane
See Danish-bread Christ, one of the seven Christ images Duffey collects during his lost years [MTM B3:103].MTM B3:103
Danish Beer
One of Patrick Stranahan’s four sufficient brews, alongside an American beer, a Bohemian beer, and Guinness [A:110]. Finnegan and his companions also drink Danish beer on Basse-Terre, where it costs more than the island rum [D:236].A:110; D:236
Danish-bread Christ
One of the Seven Christs Duffey assembles after his lost years: a Christ-head formed from mixed wheat and rye dough, baked and varnished. The narrator connects it with Danish Corpus Christi breadmaking [MTM B3:103].MTM B3:103
Danovitz, Rolo
The spoiled-brat Antichrist of a contemporary cycle of quasi-fiction, whom Hilary Hilton identifies with Casey Szymansky in conversation with Duffey. Hilton says he spent several million dollars establishing Casey’s identity and believes Casey demands sacrifices from others while falsely claiming to sacrifice himself. These are Hilton’s assertions [MTM B12:378].MTM B12:378
Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), Italian poet and author of the Divine Comedy, whose three parts, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso, recount a journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven. Virgil and Beatrice guide Dante, and Bernard of Clairvaux becomes his final guide. His other works include the Vita nuova and Monarchia. Hans says that Finnegan will quote Dante until his listener’s ears fall off [A:9]. Finnegan proposes to “pull a Dante” by painting his enemies dead and rotten, comparing this with placing enemies in Hell [D:61]. Patrick Stranahan dismisses Dante as a “rimester” when Papa Piccone objects to his omission from Patrick’s approved poets [A:111].A:9; D:61; A:111
Danvers, Dotty
A regular at the Old Wooden Ship [D:215]. Like Dotty Hulme, she has been married to Buffalo Chips Dugan; like Little Dotty Nesbitt, she has married one of two brothers in Sugarland, Texas. These overlapping marriages help explain why people confuse the women [D:220].D:215; D:220
Darkness
Finnegan weeps in the dark from weariness and loneliness [A:179]. A scriptural excerpt in More Than Melchisedech names the “shapers of darkness” among the powers opposed to human beings [MTM B5:175]. In the television apparition of Casey’s head, its rolled-back eyes can see only its interior darkness [MTM B12:381-382]. The authorial speaker in the Postscript also describes darkness and despondency when another agency appears to write with his hand [PS:475].A:179; MTM B5:175; MTM B12:381-382; PS:475
Darnley, Robert
A local historical scholar associated with Dillard, present among the historians crowding Duffey’s premises during the Royal Pop episode [MTM B11:322].MTM B11:322
Darts
One of four family names invoked by a Pattenite in his attack on the claimed evidence for early humanity in Africa, alongside Brooms, Oakleys, and Leakys [MTM B9:283].MTM B9:283
Darwin, Charles
Charles Darwin, English naturalist, invoked in the badge “Darwin or Death” worn by an armed Orthodoxer who challenges Zabotski’s account of origins [MTM B9:286].MTM B9:286
Day Star
A primordial point of reference in Henri Salvatore’s letter to Duffey: the wine and bottles in which they will share were already new when the Day Star was made [MTM B5:179-180].MTM B5:179-180
Daytona
An occasional destination on the drives taken by Finnegan, Doll, and X from their Florida lake retreat [D:181] [D:183].D:181; D:183
Dead Man
Anastasia asks Finnegan to paint her dead so that she can see how she looks [D:61]. Later, the Argo sails with the bones of the “merry dead man,” Melchisedech Duffey, at the helm [MTM B13:444].D:61; MTM B13:444
Dead Sea
The imagined setting of Trinali’s poem “To Trinali in the Old Wood Graveyard on the Dead Sea.” It associates the driftwood shore with Lot, Gomorrah, salt, fire, and divine wrath, and ends with the burning Dead Sea and its Devil Birds [A:235-236].A:235-236
Death
A recurrent, often non-final condition in the Argo narratives. The Promantia says that dying is not always serious the first time and introduces people unwilling to stay dead [D:6]. Private Gregory describes successive lives, while his fellow patient the sergeant claims to live several simultaneously [A:79]; Duffey remembers three childhoods occupying the same years [MTM B1:6]. In the psychiatric ward, Green, who identifies himself as God, says that the universe depends on God's momentary attention and would vanish if He nodded; Gregory points out that Green's demonstration coincides with the compressor dimming the lights [A:76]. The postscript calls Argo's apparent endings a continuing surge of multiplicities, rather than actual endings [PS:479]. Ignatius Ti explains midnight as the hour when people choose to die in company and a hole opens in the veil through which old ghosts can return. His account includes hospital pranks with supposed corpses, his people's practice of seating corpses at wakes and burials, and a murdered husband who returns to his wife's bed. The narration then lets loose ghosts into the ward [A:85-87]. An epigraph attributed to Ignace Wolff makes bodies the obstacle to non-contradiction and sufficient reason [D:67]. Seaworthy's dream expresses the embarrassment and inescapable stickiness of possessing a corpse [D:72]. Papa Devil's living disguise and dead face are different: Finnegan paints the concealed face before others see it on the corpse [D:63] [D:86] [D:146]. Duffey's dying is a prolonged sequence. Cardinal Salvatore speaks of his friends' worn-out mortal coils and of Duffey's departure to a greater thing [MTM B12:385]. His seizure and sudden leave-taking occur among friends [MTM B12:388]. His garden vision is explicitly an anteroom, with the last second still unfinished [MTM B12:389]. After he turns the forbidden handle, he falls into a dung heap, crying that he is falling forever; as much as fifty seconds of his last moment may still remain. He eventually recognizes God's presence in the torment and whirlwind too [MTM B12:392-393]. Earlier he tells X that remaining within two weeks of death deepens his piety [MTM B12:376]. In “The Casey Machine,” a pastor tells a sinner that everyone will know everything, with edification and joy for the saved and fiery regret for the damned. Whether complete knowledge follows particular or general judgment is uncertain, but eternity has no time differential [CM:504]. The printed quotation attributed to the Baltimore Catechism describes the just rising glorious and immortal, shining like the sun, swift as thought, able to penetrate matter, beautiful, painless and changeless, while the damned also rise to eternal punishment. The narrator's fascination with undead, dead and resurrected bodies develops alongside the Casey Condition [CM:511]. Bagby's letters describe a purgatorial life free of the tyrannies of hours and places: hard but not torturous work, ample leisure, no sleep, stronger passions disciplined again and again, and refining relationships with kindred, aliens, angels and the damned. His letters expressly question whether any damnation is irrevocable. Particularity and knowledge grow; Earth-hours are appointments for contemplating Earth. He criticizes neglected mathematical, economic and theological fields, describes thatched huts and circles of increasing intensity, and distinguishes contentment from a growing, kinetic, mustard-seed happiness [MTM B8:248-249]. Cardinal Salvatore locates him on Purgatory's north slope [MTM B12:384]. The Ghost Coffee Shop initially appears as a refuge for spirits purging the horror of haunting, but the narrator immediately retracts this account, except for Finnegan's picture, and identifies Anthony Ghost's ordinary coffee shop [MTM B10:292-293]. Hell receives several qualified accounts. In “Promontory Goats,” it was once pleasant and isolated, and some parts still provide natural happiness without the Beatific Vision. Most inhabitants join groups whose consensual pleasures become ever more extreme torture. They can withdraw but choose the pleasure of tormenting others even at the cost of their own agony. The same passage calls substitution for such souls irrational yet a greater sacrifice [PG:532-533]. The sinner Lorenzo, rather than an authoritative narrator, welcomes endless wallowing and gloating despite his pastor's warning [CM:504-505]. Clarence Schrade describes Casey's drawing of the Iron Meadows of Hell [PG:522-523], while the prose following Casey's poem identifies the troll beneath the bridge as the Devil [PG:523]. Finnegan associates the dying Marie Courtois with Persephone's recurrent visits to Hell [D:157]. Professor Kirol von Weinsberg-Valeni says that Heaven, Hell and Purgatory are already here, the visible universe being the reverse of Heaven's tapestry [A:211] [A:214]. Duffey's claim that Heaven contains traitors, sycophants and socialists belongs to his comic argument about salvation and jazz [A:117]. The Terrestrial Paradise is offered as an attainable earthly place, with exact coordinates in the Antilles [D:6] [D:234]; Archipelago also says Finnegan knew its location [A:188]. Duffey's apparent inability to end coexists with his deaths. The narrative and Stein's notes distinguish his ending from an end to his existence and fear disintegration into several strands [MTM B10:290-291]. His own ashes sit before him in an old royal urn [MTM B1:6]. One account says he is killed, stripped of flesh and cremated at Our'yev [MTM B13:436]; the fuller account has the slant-faced killers strip his flesh in the amoral desert, followed by slack-faced burners, before his bones and ashes appear in Gur'yev. His spirit lingers, and X takes custody of the ashes in a cigar canister formerly belonging to the King of Spain [MTM B13:442]. After three days in an Argo coffin, his bones answer God and resume duty as Pilot and Master [MTM B13:443]. He sails as a merry skeleton, yet can regain his former flesh in adventures falling earlier than the Laughing Prince episode, while the ashes persist [MTM B13:444]. Pseudo-Melchisedech subsequently tells him that he has lived the lost years seven times and died seven deaths; three led to Hell and four did not [MTM B13:465]. Finnegan's death quest is named through his fleece, thanato rather than mallion. Stein's account juxtaposes reports of his deaths in the Philippines, on the Brunhilde, at Tangier, Naxos, Galveston and the Marianao Coast with evidence of survival and Finnegan's differing recollections [MB:548]. A seaman resembling him is actually killed in his discarded clothes [D:267]. He remembers Papa Devil killing him during one of several incompatible first encounters [D:83]. After Anastasia's death he says he is dead too; X answers that he has undergone such a death and continued on a lesser level [D:156]. The narrator calls this Finnegan's first death and subsequent existence a shadow life [D:158]; Finnegan later finds entertainment in this life after death in Paradise [D:237]. Doll's poem predicts that he will soon be dead as the Devil [D:294]. Finnegan's belief that X had died is a separate matter: X admits fabricating and circulating the obituary as a joke [D:152-153]. Accounts of Casey also remain plural. X writes that he was dead and lives again [A:266]. Tony Apostolo reports his belief that he is the world's scapegoat [PG:525-526]; Hilary Hilton reads a divine sign making him the instrument of many people's salvation and damnation [PG:531-532]. John Schultz believes Casey died to escape his overwhelming followers, then reports the stolen body and the resurrection plaque beside the open grave [PG:541-543]. Bagby places Casey with him in Purgatory and denies that he is in Hell, while admitting the slight possibility that his visitor is a pseudo or effigy [PG:546]. Stein attributes Casey's wish to substitute for a damned soul largely to genuine compassion and describes their supposed soul exchange as a trade of kabouters [PG:537-538]. The original Papadiabolous is killed by Seaworthy and buried with Finnegan's help on top of an earlier occupant [D:75-76]. Seaworthy believes the man has returned, but Finnegan knows that the new Papadiabolous is another person [D:83-85]. X identifies the surrogate as the Irish policeman Noonan or Flaherty [D:154-155]. His death at Naxos reveals his true face; Finnegan then declares both the original and surrogate finally dead, a claim about these men rather than the extinction of every Devil [D:146] [D:150]. Anastasia is shot and falls from the breakwater [D:147]. Finnegan identifies Marie as her killer and Joe Cross as Marie's subsequent shooter; X thinks Seaworthy arranged Anastasia's lavish funeral [D:157]. Don Lewis bears the mark of death, is hunted through Tangier and killed by Marie, whose strength breaks his neck; Finnegan buries him in clean sand [D:100] [D:105-113]. Deaths of worlds and institutions extend the motif. The Great Day contingency unstructures things and obliterates boundaries and persons [MTM B10:298-299]. Its closing dream belongs to Duffey and Morpheus, not the grieving Finnegan: waking and sleeping become impossible, the cosmos diminishes, and a single creature swallows itself before Morpheus calls the apparent end a beginning [GD:500-501]. Cleo's fifth future includes replacement of humanity and slaughter [MTM B10:296]. Hugh de Turenne reports the Black Sea's obliteration and the intended erasure of its memory [MTM B11:336]. Mary Virginia reports Dominican preachers predicting the world's end that week [MTM B11:310]. Hackenschmidt declares the Ekklesia dead, orders the bells destroyed lest they awaken it, and commissions the killing of the thirteen absent princes [MB:568-569]. John Mogul's suggestion that dead men cast no shadows is explicitly contradicted by the narrator: history and the surviving doubles refute it [MB:588]. The grave marked I.N.C.G.P. Bogovitch becomes the watched rendezvous of Finnegan, X and Doll [D:275-277]. It contains the earlier remains and Papadiabolous; Doll drops her poem through the ground's recurrent split to the bottom [D:76] [D:293-294]. Niccolo Crotolo explains two kinds of assassination contract: the piccola vendetta kills a victim possibly in grace, while the more expensive grande aims at death in a state of damnation. He says Finnegan's employer finally specified only the piccola [A:279-280].D:6; A:79; MTM B1:6; A:76; PS:479; A:85-87; D:67; D:72; D:63; D:86; D:146; MTM B12:385; MTM B12:388; MTM B12:389; MTM B12:392-393; MTM B12:376; CM:504; CM:511; MTM B8:248-249; MTM B12:384; MTM B10:292-293; PG:532-533; CM:504-505; PG:522-523; PG:523; D:157; A:211; A:214; A:117; D:234; A:188; MTM B10:290-291; MTM B13:436; MTM B13:442; MTM B13:443; MTM B13:444; MTM B13:465; MB:548; D:267; D:83; D:156; D:158; D:237; D:294; D:152-153; A:266; PG:525-526; PG:531-532; PG:541-543; PG:546; PG:537-538; D:75-76; D:83-85; D:154-155; D:150; D:147; D:100; D:105-113; MTM B10:298-299; GD:500-501; MTM B10:296; MTM B11:336; MTM B11:310; MB:568-569; MB:588; D:275-277; D:76; D:293-294; A:279-280
Decadence
A condition of decline invoked in contrasting settings. X reports representatives of the decadent and goatish arts at the Devil's release in the Crimea [MTM B6:205]. Le Marin calls the Old Wooden Ship's people decadent, fragmented and episodical; Finnegan nevertheless chooses their humanity over the strong patterns of his former companions [D:215].MTM B6:205; D:215
Decatur Street
Street in the changing New Orleans of the Royal Pop episode. The narrator says it now exists where Magazine Street, or perhaps Peters Street, had been, although residents do not remember it; the Decatur Street Opera House likewise has newly acquired its apparent history [MTM B11:346]. A turbaned speaker claims that an old flagstone has survived successive road surfaces and remembers horses, carriages, streetcars, automobiles, and every two-legged and four-legged walker [MTM B11:329-330]. Its remembered whips include the Cowles Buggy Whip, Jacksonville Drover, S.R. and Co's Australian, Western Mule Skinner, Milford Quirt, Hodson's Superior Horse Whip, San Antonio, Fancy, Never-Break Dog Whip and Elko, accompanied by wagoners' curses, rattling whipple trees and chains [MTM B11:329]. The opera house gives its name to the Thunder Colt Complex, or Presentation of the World [MTM B10:300].MTM B11:346; MTM B11:329-330; MTM B11:329; MTM B10:300
Decatur Street Opera House
Opera house in New Orleans whose advertisement appears in Teresa Showboat Piccone Stranahan's edition of Show-Bill. Dotty says it does not exist; Teresa calls this its first appearance and explains that it supplies a needed place for eschatological dramas [MTM B7:230]. It gives its name to the Thunder Colt Complex, the Presentation of the World [MTM B10:300]. Later it stands as a memorable old opera house despite residents' inability to remember it [MTM B11:346]. Its curtain is destroyed by lightning and simultaneous thunder instead of rising, an effect unique in the town. The Cretan Bull Drama is accompanied by the Bull Waltz [MTM B11:349]. The Fire-Drake Frolic follows, with Fritz's Fandango in Three Flames; the climax is the Thunder Colt Game, orchestrated to Thunder Torus music [MTM B11:350].MTM B7:230; MTM B10:300; MTM B11:346; MTM B11:349; MTM B11:350
Deer
Deer hunting is among the lively arts said to have been corrupted after the Devil's release [MTM B6:207]. Finnegan recalls that other fathers made swamp-deer calls for their sons, whereas Giulio made calls for panthers, alligators and stranger creatures [MTM B5:174]. The goat-man kills a deer once a year [A:197]. In his transport concerning his people's ancestry, Finnegan calls the giant stag one of their animal brothers [D:212-213]. Brannagan includes Deer Island among the islands visible from his chair [D:204].MTM B6:207; MTM B5:174; A:197; D:212-213; D:204
Deer Island
Island off Biloxi, Mississippi; one of four islands Brannagan says he can see from his chair [D:204].D:204
Delancy, Doll
Dolores Delancy, called Doll; Finnegan’s companion after the Brunhilde voyage [D:171]. He meets her in New York during his flight with Seaworthy’s money. She says she is locked out, freezing, and starving, and denies that she is hustling. He makes her drive a stolen car to Newark under the name Mrs. George Brubaker [D:166-169]. She helps him manage the suitcase and evade pursuit on the journey to Baltimore [D:169-172]. She has a broad face and bright gray eyes, and the narrator compares her placidity to a sleeping volcano. She says she has walked out of an unbearable former life [D:173]. She welcomes X into their company, calling him “the cutest little man,” and travels south with him and Finnegan [D:174] [D:178]. She receives a share of the stolen money; in the Florida lake country the three discuss their identities and plot Seaworthy’s murder [D:180]. She catches fish by hand, goes drinking with Finnegan, and repeatedly tries to tell the two men her story, but neither listens [D:181-184]. X suspects that her hearing is poor [D:185-186]. When they separate, she leaves in the little Road Runner [D:193]. At their later graveyard meeting, Doll hears X’s account of the Devil’s family [D:275-279]. Against X and Finnegan, she insists that ordinary people can help save the world, that the conflict must have a climax, and that she has long been engaged in saving the world herself. She also questions whether her first meeting with Finnegan was accidental [D:290-292]. She drops her poem Diabolique into the split in the grave [D:293]. In More Than Melchisedech, Dotty Yekouris reports X’s identification of Doll with herself and describes Doll as resembling her “with the brains knocked out.” This is a reported identification across Finnegan’s worlds [MTM B6:188-189].D:171; D:166-169; D:169-172; D:173; D:174; D:178; D:180; D:181-184; D:185-186; D:193; D:275-279; D:290-292; D:293; MTM B6:188-189
Delay
One of the names X gives the ship on which Finnegan sailed, alongside World and Argo. X also says Finnegan imagined most of the voyage’s details [A:187].A:187
Delos
Greek island. In the narrator's comparison of Anastasia to Diana Artemis, a small cypress-wood image of that goddess is said to have stood on a temple step at Delos [D:133].D:133
Delphina
One of the women's names assigned to the daily bottles drunk by Finnegan, Charles Le Marin, Don Barnaby and Johnny Duckwalk in Paradise. Delphina follows Clotilda and precedes Etheldreda in their alphabetical sequence [D:236] [D:243].D:236; D:243
Delta
Appears in two separate contexts. Three young men saw the hands off the tower clock on the Great Delta Insurance Company Building during the Great Day [GD:483]. X uses the word in a cryptic telephone message to Finnegan: the goats are staked near the delta while hunters wait for the tiger [D:208].GD:483; D:208
Deluge
Noah's Flood. Hinnegan claims that the Milesians were in Ireland before it; the schoolboy narrator answers that knowing this would require Noah to have brought two Irishmen aboard the ark [A:164-165].A:164-165
Demeter
Greek goddess of agriculture. In one of Finnegan's uncertain waking dreams, Marie Courtois says she is both Demeter and Demeter's daughter Persephone, returning from Hell to Earth in her own reincarnation [D:91]. Marie also links the pietà form and the thirteenth Station of the Cross to a supposed earlier group of Demeter and Pontos on the Aventine [D:92].D:91; D:92
Demetriades, Anastasia
Barmaid at the club visited by Finnegan and Seaworthy, and later aboard the Brunhilde. She washes and shaves Finnegan, tells him they have met before, and prompts his exclamation “Anastasia, the resurrection!” [D:13] [D:16] [D:22]. Small and wiry, with a changing appearance, she has an olive and gold complexion sometimes touched with sea-green; her eyes appear black or purple [D:20] [D:32]. Her speech reaches Finnegan’s mind before its sound begins [D:20]. The narrative calls her a water-witch and associates her true form with the ship [D:31]. She is of a mermaid family of Naxos, though the Demetriades have produced no fishtail for six generations. A powerful swimmer, she supplies the account of mermaid appearance, habitation, history, and decline; the account describes mermaids as close-cropped and boyish, and Anastasia herself is boyish in figure [D:34-37]. She and Marie Courtois share a cabin, feud, and remain friends despite Anastasia’s jealousy. Anastasia calls Marie “skylla” and puts “crotin oil” in her martini; Finnegan calls Anastasia “Little Miss Resurrection” [D:33]. Her jealousy intensifies when Finnegan admires Marie at the Padre Island beach party [D:34] [D:37-38]. Anastasia notices the waves’ apparent writing but explicitly says she cannot read Chaldee; Finnegan claims that he can [D:38]. She identifies Papadiabolous as Papa Devil and says he seems nicer than on an earlier visit [D:23-24]. She brings Finnegan’s luggage aboard for the departure [D:27]. Walking inland with him on Padre Island, she suspects Don Lewis is one kind of spy and herself another, and warns that Seaworthy and the Devil own the ship’s people [D:38-40]. Later she calls the Brunhilde a plague ship, admits she deliberately joined its dangerous business, and calls Finnegan her brother [D:69-70]. Finnegan paints her dead as the wife of Sindbad’s fourth voyage, having first seen her death in his imagination [D:61-62]. On Naxos she visits her grandmother with Finnegan and takes him to a mountain vigil, bringing a reflecting lantern with which she intends to signal a boat [D:124-127] [D:131]. When he wakes before dawn, she has gone [D:140-141]. He subsequently sees her body laid on a sofa, still smiling; she has been shot once and pulled dead from the water below the breakwater. An Orthodox priest has given her the last rites and asks about her Roman rosary, which Finnegan says he gave her [D:147]. Finnegan later says Marie shot her, and X thinks Seaworthy arranged her lavish funeral [D:157]. Finnegan recalls her promise that they will be together again, then doubts whether his people have that promise [D:149]. A voice coming from the sleeping Don Barnaby says it owed Anastasia fifty dollars when it died; the narration specifies that the voice is not Barnaby’s [D:238].D:13; D:16; D:22; D:20; D:32; D:31; D:34-37; D:33; D:34; D:37-38; D:38; D:23-24; D:27; D:38-40; D:69-70; D:61-62; D:124-127; D:131; D:140-141; D:147; D:157; D:149; D:238
Demetrio
Proprietor of a fly-specked Mexican bar visited by Finnegan, Marie Courtois and Anastasia after they leave the Cadillac Bar [D:57-58]. A gray-headed old bandit, he claims wide worldly experience through travel to Alice, Eagle Pass, Uvalde, Beeville, San Angelo, Weiniar and Port Isabel, and work milking goats, keeping bees and in a pickle factory. His lined face resembles both an old Roman and an old Aztec, like a face on a coin [D:58]. Finnegan makes a fine portrait in ink on a poster; the following page calls it Demetrio's own head hanging behind the bar, although the portrait sentence itself names Manuel [D:58-59]. Demetrio gives Finnegan a belt and each girl a silver ring, all his own handiwork [D:59].D:57-58; D:58; D:58-59; D:59
Demetrio Glauch
Literary friend in Duffey's North Chicago golden age [MTM B3:98]. He rejects Fleshpot Row and is mocked by the women at supper; Duffey's initial refusal to leave with him creates lasting doubt between them [MTM B4:126-127]. He is present when Morris Poor challenges Duffey's sanity and magical powers at Duffey's place [MTM B4:128]. He contributes to The Crock, appearing in a contributor list alongside Hermione Groben [MTM B4:138]; an issue described in Archipelago contains his ballad, without a supplied title [A:41]. His signed introduction frames the assessment and collection of Casey's work in “Promontory Goats” [PG:519]. In a later commentary he says Casey's associates stole the body and recalls a Crock advertisement offering dead bodies for special rites [PG:546].MTM B3:98; MTM B4:126-127; MTM B4:128; MTM B4:138; A:41; PG:519; PG:546
Demiurge(s)
Creative beings or powers. The narrator allows as one authentic perspective that God creates through demiurges, giants and magi, without making that the sole account of creation [MTM B3:76-77]. Rosemary Riorden tells Finnegan that his father is Aeson, a demiurge, although he knows him as Giulio [A:89]. During the Great Day, a satiric transfiguration at St. Michael's puts the demiurge Teilhard on the altar with McLuhan and McGonigal, blessing the Unfaithful Assembled [GD:497]. In Duffey's television over-picture during Goldfarb's Alley, four black giants of demiurgic appearance carry Casey as a head-only person [MTM B12:381].MTM B3:76-77; A:89; GD:497; MTM B12:381
Demons
Hilary Hilton says Casey professes to sacrifice himself for humanity and especially demons, whom he calls the most unfortunate and abused creatures; Hilton simultaneously denies that Casey has ever actually sacrificed himself [MTM B12:378]. The epigraph attributed to Galen in The Devil Is Dead describes daemons begetting Tityroi or Satyroi on earthly women. Those satyr offspring, rather than the daemons, are the race with the stated generational fertility limits [D:160-161].MTM B12:378; D:160-161
Dempster's Three-Spring Handy Wagon
Vehicle in the turbaned Royal Pop speaker's catalogue of memories supposedly held by a Decatur Street flagstone. Despite being called a wagon, it carried swells and dudes to the opera [MTM B11:329].MTM B11:329
Den
Shelter or lair in several figurative uses. John Mogul recites a verse about eleven fuzzy cubs hiding in a den, representing his remaining primary targets; the next beheading is aimed at Ignatius Cardinal Ti [MB:578]. Finnegan's perch on a hotel merlon is described as a gargoyle's den or nest [D:162]. In Paradise he calls the place a den and vows to stay, though Sloppy Joe predicts his departure [D:266].MB:578; D:162; D:266
Denmark
Denmark is associated with the Danish-bread Christ among Duffey's Seven Christs: the narrator says that some parts of the country bake Christ-heads for Corpus Christi Day [MTM B3:103]. Finnegan and his three companions also drink good Danish beer in Basse-Terre, at a higher price than the local rum [D:236].MTM B3:103; D:236
DePolis
Cook aboard the Brunhilde, also written De Polis. At the Padre Island beach party he leaves the cooking to the others, disliking both beach parties and anyone else cooking [D:34] [D:40]. Anastasia later watches him put garlic in the stew while Manuel prays, joking that both are gainfully employed because prayer and garlic can change the world [D:68].D:34; D:40; D:68
Derringer
One of the weapons Doll suggests assigning by lot when she, X and Finnegan discuss dispersing, alongside a rifle and a pop pistol [D:185].D:185
Descalced
Barefoot religious priest who accompanies Papa Devil up the old walls at a Mexican stop, possibly Paraiso or Campeche [D:67] [D:70]. Both move noiselessly, the priest having the natural advantage of bare feet. He calls the Devil's aura exceptionally evil but also says that each has been having fun with the other and that he is less naive than he seems [D:70-71]. Finnegan and Anastasia give him the last drink; he blesses them with his eyes and walks down to the boat with them [D:71].D:67; D:70; D:70-71; D:71
Desert
The desert of Cades appears in Melchisedech's line during his exchange of psalm-prayers with Finnegan [MTM B12:374-375]. In Tartary, Duffey encounters an imperfect, hallucinatory desert superimposed on industrial and agricultural country, with unnatural heat, intense thirst, misplaced plants and rocks, and badly realized skeletons [MTM B13:439]. He drinks the Laughing Prince's poisoned spring; the slant-faced killers strip the flesh from his bones before the poison kills him. The amoral desert then fades and his remains appear at Gur'yev [MTM B13:440-442]. The opening poem of the Finnegan chapter in Archipelago places a burning desert at Yenbo and Lith [A:171].MTM B12:374-375; MTM B13:439; MTM B13:440-442; A:171
Deutero-Finnegan
Stein's name for a young painter resembling Finnegan in appearance and painting. Although accepted as splendid and noetic, he voluntarily puts his hands into the human ashes at the Decatur Street Opera House, where they kindle flame [MTM B11:347]. The Thunder Colt kills this Finnegan effigy during the presentation [MTM B11:351]. After returning from the Fifth Contingency, Duffey identifies the dead painter as Jacob Soule and realizes that he has brought this death back with him [MTM B12:355].MTM B11:347; MTM B11:351; MTM B12:355
Devil (Papadiabolous I; The Devil Himself; Ifreann Noonan Columkill Gregorovitch Papadiabolous Chortovitch; Bogovitch; Son of the Devil; brother of Gregory McColum/Papadiabolous II; Gregory McIfreann Papadiabolous; Sanditen; Chrysostom; Protagoras; Hochstruwelpieter-Goltz)
This inherited heading combines the elder Ifreann with his son Gregory McIfreann. See Ifreann Noonan Columkill Gregorovitch for the father. See Papadiabolous (I) (Gregory McIfreann Papadiabolous, Papadiabolous I) for the Asiatic son killed by Seaworthy. See Papadiabolous (II) (Gregory McColum Papadiabolous, Papadiabolous II, Papa Devil, Papa D, Noonan) for the Irish son who impersonates his murdered brother. These are three distinct people in X’s account [D:277-281] [D:285-289].D:277-281; D:285-289
Devil (Papadiabolous II; Gregory McColum Papadiabolous; Noonan; Flaherty; Christy; Clarenden; Cobbett; Malory; Ingraham; John Gregory; N; the Irish cop; The Tiger)
Gregory McColum Papadiabolous, the Irish son in X's genealogy, born in Cork to the same father as Gregory McIfreann, Papadiabolous I. X calls them twins while specifying different mothers and birthplaces. His aliases include Noonan, Flaherty, Christy, Clarenden, Cobbett, Malory, Ingraham and Arbuthnot; John Gregory can designate either brother [D:285]. X knows him as N, the undercover Irish cop [D:287]. He is a large and powerful man, comparatively good, whose earlier work as gentleman burglar, contrabandist, swindler and forger equips him for police work. The brothers share build, coloring and skull structure, but their natural fleshed faces differ [D:285-286]. He assumes his murdered brother's place the next morning and carries the impersonation through the voyage [D:288-289]. The frightening presence in the club is already this apparent return from death [D:15]; later Finnegan challenges the mask and asks how he can deceive long-standing associates so completely [D:87-88]. Papa answers questions with evasions, calling himself lamb-like when accused of killing Dopey [D:89]. He initially suspects Finnegan of Don Lewis's murder, but recognizes that Finnegan lacks the necessary strength [D:110-111]. At Naxos he is shot repeatedly and bludgeoned, his pockets emptied or cut out and his shoes removed. Finnegan recognizes the true face [D:146]. X identifies that face as Noonan or Flaherty and calls him an extraordinary mimic and a valuable ally [D:154-155]. X later attributes the killing to Seaworthy, who failed to recognize the unmasked man as his shipboard Papa Devil [D:289].D:285; D:287; D:285-286; D:288-289; D:15; D:87-88; D:89; D:110-111; D:146; D:154-155; D:289
Devil's Tetragrammaton
The design Duffey reports seeing cut onto Sebastian Hilton’s chest by the Three Slant-Faced Men in a transport or detached experience. When Duffey later examines Sebastian’s body, he finds that Sebastian died of plague and that the same design is formed by plague sores, not knife cuts. Duffey uses the discrepancy while discussing the Slant-Faced Men’s winders and the records they play [MTM B7:226].MTM B7:226
Diabolicus II, Papa
Unattested variant heading in the earlier glossary. See Papadiabolous (II) (Gregory McColum Papadiabolous, Papadiabolous II, Papa Devil, Papa D, Noonan) for the Irish policeman Gregory McColum [D:285].D:285
Diana Artemis
Diana, equated with the Greek Artemis, goddess of the hunt and associated with the moon. The narrator calls Diana Artemis a bringer of light when comparing Anastasia's head with a painted marble image reportedly seen by Pausanius at Messene in the sanctuary of Asclepius, or with a cypress-wood image on a temple step at Delos [D:133].D:133
Dillard, Dandy Dan Dillard
Prizefighter who faces Duffey in the third preliminary bout on a Monday night bill, a four-round contest [MTM B2:50]. Duffey experiences it as an unmerciful beating equivalent to four hours of Hell, yet learns that he won the first three rounds widely and was well ahead in the fourth. The fight is stopped because Dillard is out on his feet and in danger, while Duffey is unmarked; Duffey's memory of being beaten then fades. Dillard is left a livid hulk. The experience draws Duffey into boxing, particularly promotion, which he takes up within six months [MTM B2:51].MTM B2:50; MTM B2:51
Dimbeau, Cyril
French scientist who, with his brother Cyrus, recovers the Sword and Scabbard of Saint Sécaire from beneath the seabed at the Nine Mile Depth [MTM B13:422]. He dismisses Duffey and Brannagan as extinct sea creatures and encourages testing Duffey’s warning about the sword. When Cyrus draws it an inch and ten assistants fall into deep sleep, Cyril urges him to draw it completely, despite Duffey’s warning that this would end the world [MTM B13:423]. Brannagan seals the sword in its scabbard again; Duffey drops it back into the sea. Brannagan’s Forgetfulness Mesh leaves the bathysphere party unable to remember the episode [MTM B13:424].MTM B13:422; MTM B13:423; MTM B13:424
Dimbeau, Cyrus
French scientist who, with his brother Cyril, recovers the Sword and Scabbard of Saint Sécaire from beneath the seabed at the Nine Mile Depth [MTM B13:422]. Ignoring Duffey’s warning, he draws the sword one inch from its scabbard, and the ten assistants restraining Duffey and Brannagan fall into deep sleep. Cyril urges him to draw it completely, although Duffey has warned that this would end the world [MTM B13:423]. Brannagan seals the sword in its scabbard again, and Duffey drops it back into the sea. Cyrus proposes recovering it once more, but Brannagan’s Forgetfulness Mesh prevents the bathysphere party from remembering the episode [MTM B13:424].MTM B13:422; MTM B13:423; MTM B13:424
Dinah Joyce
One of the college and university people in Duffey's North Chicago golden-age circle, listed with David Joyce [MTM B3:99].MTM B3:99
Diocletian
Roman emperor, reigning AD 284-305. The narrator lists him among people whose lives supposedly include seven hidden or dark years, alongside Caesar, Boëthus and others [MTM B2:72]. Diocletian is also one of Gautier's goats, counted among the clever animals that understand Finnegan when he talks to them [A:196] [A:199-200].MTM B2:72; A:196; A:199-200
Dionysus
Greek god of wine and ecstatic intoxication, one of the mythological identities assigned to Finnegan alongside Ulysses and the Terras or Arracht identity [A:39]. Finnegan's early description compares his loose strength and frightening speed to Dionysus before puffiness from indulgence; the lightness and grace in the same sentence belong to the separate Mercury comparison [A:6].A:39; A:6
Dirty Five, The
Mystic brotherhood of Henry F. Salvatore, also Euphemus; John G. Schultz, Hans or Orpheus; Vincent J. Stranahan, Meleager; Kasmir W. Szymansky, Casey or Peleus; and John A. Solli, Finnegan or Iason. The narration gives them earlier lives and multiple mythological identities, describes their shared knowledge and ambitions, and says amnesia separates them from earlier greatness [A:38-39]. Henry is the fifth member and the fat Frenchman who refuses the Australian furlough; Casey is called the fourth [A:18] [A:38]. Casey's interest in languages leads to his acceptance by John Schultz and entry into the group [A:159]. Loy's letter asks for the Dirty Fiver whom she and Margaret have not met, meaning Casey [A:27]. Casey later tells Finnegan private dreams he would not tell the others [A:161]. Hans, Henry and Finnegan solemnly shake hands after their companions fall asleep, as though forming a mystic trio within the Five [A:69]. It is Dotty who enjoys her introduction to the order during the St. Louis visit [A:176]. A banner in Henry's dream echoes the group's high motto, Ubicumque fuerit corpus illic congregabuntur et aquilas, concerning the eagles gathering at the body [A:44]. The poem opening Vincent's chapter remembers their sea-kingdom and sailing the ship anciently called Argo [A:91]. Finnegan later belongs with Le Marin, Don Barnaby and Johnny Duckwalk to a dark counterpart of the Dirty Five [A:188]. In More Than Melchisedech, Duffey describes his wider set of Animated Marvels as involving both human and Teras elements [MTM B5:169-170].A:38-39; A:18; A:38; A:159; A:27; A:161; A:69; A:176; A:44; A:91; A:188; MTM B5:169-170
Disembodied Brain
Name Aga Gonof reportedly uses for Charlotte Garfield, according to Charlotte's account to Duffey [MTM B3:84].MTM B3:84
Doekvalk (aka Johnny Duckwalk)
Spelling of Johnny Duckwalk’s name on his ship’s papers. See Duckwalk, Johnny (aka Doekvalk).Doki, Joseph Cardinal
Cardinal of Douala, one of the thirteen men listed by X as John Mogul's contracted assassination targets [MB:571]. His double is John Giwa of Anecho [MB:579]. When Giwa arrives at Mooring-Rock, Doki is expressly described as dead [MB:596].MB:571; MB:579; MB:596
Dolphin (talking)
An ancestral dolphin who accompanies the yacht carrying Bolo Manolo, Douglas McAfee and Lloyd Cardigan-Pembroke toward Mooring-Stone. The men communicate with him using coded apparatus lowered overboard. He knows the Covenant and says dolphins expected it to be made with them but accepted its being made with humans instead. His fellows are towing their own bell, said to be the world's largest, toward the mooring place [MB:594]. He corrects Manolo's belief that Blood-of-Martyrs Grass is extinct, reporting its new growth on the stone and the rising water temperature and land. He then arranges the Dolphin Bell, whose underwater sound the men feel an hour later [MB:595].MB:594; MB:595
Don Juan
Figure in Hans Schultz's account of dark doubles. He says Don Juan arranged for a shoddy double to suffer Hell in his place, but was himself the shoddy double of a more elegant sinner and was trapped into suffering for that man [MTM B6:186].MTM B6:186
Don Lewis
Crewman aboard the Brunhilde, sharing quarters with Finnegan and Joe Cross; dark, handsome and called the ship's most handsome man [D:30-31]. His campfire story strongly identifies him with PFC Timothy Lorrigan of Boston, although he initially withholds which of three missing soldiers he was and then tries to retract his revealing first-person slip [D:44-45]. He tells how he buried the man he calls Yokipoki, mistook rats disturbing the body for a return from death, and subsequently became a furtive man under another name [D:43-48]. The narrative calls him a coward playing a daring game: he secretly organizes resistance aboard the ship, helps bring in Joe Cross, Manuel, Anastasia and Finnegan, and helps arrange the apparent resurrection of the Devil without understanding every part of it [D:105]. He is hunted through Tangier and killed by Marie Courtois, whose strength enables her to throttle him and break his neck. Finnegan finds the robbed body at the bottom of the tell and buries it in clean sand under creepers [D:105-113]. Don Barnaby, a different later companion, disconcertingly seems to carry some of Don Lewis's memories [D:265].D:30-31; D:44-45; D:43-48; D:105; D:105-113; D:265
Don Vincent de Ollos
One of the earlier identities assigned to Vincent Stranahan, listed with Mercurius and Austin [A:39].A:39
Donovan, Dan / Nan
Dan and Nan Donovan, counted among the ecclesial or churchy people in Duffey's North Chicago golden-age circle [MTM B3:99]. Both are listed among the company at Duffey's establishment when Morris Poor challenges his magical powers, leading to the demonstration with the airborne mule [MTM B4:128-132].MTM B3:99; MTM B4:128-132
Donovan, Dry Dennis
Marie Monaghan's uncle Dry Dennis Donovan, called Dryden because he is always dry [A:28].A:28
Doofey
Mr. X's name for Melchisedech Duffey, used during his introductory telephone call and their conversations about the boxes and the conspiracy [A:135-136] [A:139]. X also uses it when presenting the boxes and urn in More Than Melchisedech [MTM B6:201].A:135-136; A:139; MTM B6:201
Doppio di Pinne (Dopey the Seaman; Finnegan's fetch)
Seaman known as Dopey, intended to replace Finnegan by assuming his papers and person after Finnegan's death, but apparently killed instead [D:51]. He occupies Finnegan's bunk for the preceding two days [D:63]. Joe Cross reports Papa Devil entering the cabin, Dopey's screams ending abruptly, and the room then containing only Papa and a small dribble of blood, with no possible exit for Dopey [D:64]. Finnegan and Dopey resemble one another in size, shape and coloring, especially when seen sideways [D:65]. Dopey's writings express both ambition and fear that he, rather than Finnegan, will be trapped and killed; Finnegan continues to feel his invisible presence in the bunk [D:78]. Papa Devil calls him Finnegan's double or fetch but denies killing him, even suggesting that Finnegan may be Dopey [D:89]. Papa later says that Dopey shares the strange blood, is a sometime killer, and was summoned by Seaworthy to kill Papadiabolous; Seaworthy mistook Finnegan for him. Papa leaves open whether he or Finnegan killed Dopey, or whether the fetch was absorbed into Finnegan [D:121-122]. Finnegan subsequently shaves Dopey's face in his mirror; the dazed face says it is not dead [D:187]. Patricia also tells Dotty that Dopey is her brother and the same person as Finnegan, who sometimes became Doppio in childhood [A:174]. Finnegan later thinks of his fetch as having died in his place, either aboard the Brunhilde at Papadiabolous's hands or later on Galveston Island in Seaworthy's trap [A:278].D:51; D:63; D:64; D:65; D:78; D:89; D:121-122; D:187; A:174; A:278
Dordogne the Talking Oak
The Talking Oak associated with the Argo. A piece in the ship's wheel recounts the ship's history when questioned [MTM B13:404]. Teresa Piccone says the talismans were pieces of the Argo's gold filigree laid over pieces of Dordogne, with the gold coming from the Great Fleece. She explains their function as awakening and recollection, restoring the company to knowledge of themselves and one another [MTM B5:178-179]. When the Masters pretend not to recognize X, he asks them to consult the talking oak in the wheel, confident that the ship will know him [MTM B13:434].MTM B13:404; MTM B5:178-179; MTM B13:434
Dorn, Enos
One of the sporty people in Duffey's North Chicago golden-age circle [MTM B3:99]. He is also among the old friends attending Duffey's later party with Casey of the Zodiac [MTM B12:383].MTM B3:99; MTM B12:383
Dorotea
Name used for Dotty, Dorothy Yekouris, when Elena writes to her by interpreting Finnegan's song of desolation, the empty island and his longing for her arrival [A:275-276]. The eleventh chapter of Archipelago is titled “Crotolo or Dorotea” [A:269]; Crotolo belongs to the family name claimed by the killer Niccolo, rather than being another name for Dotty [A:279]. In More Than Melchisedech, a Cuban informant calls the woman who had the sleeping Finnegan placed in a sea-door tomb La Dorotea. He says she remained three weeks, died from the effects of a gunshot wound, and was buried in the San Francisco cemetery because her medallion identified her with the Third Order of St. Francis [MTM B12:372].A:275-276; A:269; A:279; MTM B12:372
Dorothy
Red-headed town girl present with Virginia at the picnic held at the Bay Hotel [A:29].A:29
Dotty
Nickname of Dorothy Mary Yekouris, Finnegan's beloved from New Orleans [A:92] [A:95]. She is also addressed as Dot by Patricia, Finnegan's sister, in the passage excerpted as an epigraph in The Devil Is Dead [A:174-175] [D:18-19]. She works with Duffey on the Pelican Press papers and The Bark [MTM B7:212] [MTM B7:215].A:92; A:95; A:174-175; D:18-19; MTM B7:212; MTM B7:215
Doucet, Therese
Casting director of Seven Roads, the girls' play about the Patriarch Melchisedech's seven possible futures. She accepts Duffey for the role when he offers to play Melchisedech; Cleo Mahoney supplies the script as its playwright [MTM B9:265]. Therese is among the Ursuline Academy girls whom Duffey meets at the Ghost Coffee Shop before the planned performance in the school auditorium [MTM B10:293].MTM B9:265; MTM B10:293
Drexel, Monica
Sometimes Charley Murray's girl, one of the two Monicas at Duffey's farewell supper at Meinkmuellers. The other is Charley's sister Monica Murray. Duffey confuses them because their names and appearances are alike, apparently giving a talisman first to the wrong Monica before the other recognizes it as hers [MTM B2:69]. A girl called Monica also accompanies Charley at Beth Keegan's balloon dinner party [MTM B2:65].MTM B2:69; MTM B2:65
Duckhunter, Crissie
George Duckhunter's wife in “The Casey Machine.” She calls the machines unspeakably vile and wants George and Newton Prescott to stop dealing with them even if they return [CM:503]. Distressed by their continuing wealth, she wishes they could shut off the money and become poor and honest; George replies that they were never either [CM:504].CM:503; CM:504
Duckhunter, George
Crissie Duckhunter's husband and an associate of Newton Prescott in “The Casey Machine.” He calls the machines gold mines and argues that if their vileness cannot be stopped, money can at least be made from it [CM:503]. He says that he and Crissie were never poor or honest, that he cannot shut off the continuing millions, and that they are being paid as guardians of some kind. He cannot clearly remember the circumstances and believes Crissie and Prescott suffer the same gaps [CM:504].CM:503; CM:504
Duckwalk, Johnny (aka Doekvalk)
Johnny Duckwalk, whose ship's papers spell the name Doekvalk. He is one of the four companions in Basse-Terre Paradise with Finnegan, Le Marin and Don Barnaby, and a champion drinker [D:236]. The narrator calls him a prince of a fellow and excuses his daytime sleep by his activity at night [D:238]. He accuses Le Marin of passing off a counterfeit Marie Celeste story [D:246]. He also has a mean streak: each month he steals the gold sovereign Angela Cosquin has just deposited underwater, leaving the other treasure alone [D:263]. His subsequent sickness of repentance makes him leave Paradise to confess a previously unnoticed appropriation of money and serve an expected six to ten years. He later writes from prison urging the others to leave the island [D:264-265]. The confessed offence is not identified as his thefts from Angela. He belongs with Finnegan, Le Marin and Don Barnaby to the dark counterpart of the Dirty Five [A:188].D:236; D:238; D:246; D:263; D:264-265; A:188
Duffey, Letitia (Koch)
Melchisedech Duffey's wife, Lily Koch's younger sister and the daughter of August and Elinore Koch [MTM B3:92] [MTM B3:98]. Duffey recognizes his sought-for joyful moth, tinea letitia, in her. She is Lily's partner at Koch's Galleries, retaining her half-interest after marriage; she has already anticipated their home and made its arrangements before Duffey recognizes her [MTM B3:91-92]. Charlotte calls her partly Duffey's creation through the rib-shaped talisman, a bonus outside his twelve prime creations [MTM B3:93]. Letitia also claims creative power herself, telling Lily that she projected the Countess into Chicago and treating reality as subjective projections [MTM B3:96]. She has abundant hair between blonde, scarlet and walnut, a ruddy complexion, a high-comedy look, sea-green-to-blue eyes and a full-bodied build; she is taller than Duffey [MTM B3:92]. Her fine scanning eye and haunting voice make her reading compelling, and her recorded time-and-temperature advertisements move listeners [MTM B4:114]. Her prescience helps her understand the Mullens murders and Charlotte's escape [MTM B3:97-98]. She and Duffey are central figures and, in a sense, co-creators of the North Chicago golden age [MTM B3:98]. The narrator says that they design their neighborhood, events, life scenarios and people, and calls Letitia one of Duffey’s creations, with an even stronger gift for creating people and their surroundings [MTM B3:100]. In New Orleans she arrives with their best possessions and enough cash to sustain their work [MTM B6:198]. The narrator describes her later beauty as proto-legendary, her welcome and affection illuminating the establishments [MTM B7:211]. After Dotty's disappearance she edits The Bark, maintaining it from private funds while other Pelican Press accounts decline [MTM B8:238-239]. Her sudden death leaves Duffey distraught; after protesting to a burning bush, he grudgingly accepts its explanation [MTM B8:253]. Though the death had been foreknown for years, its suddenness overwhelms him [MTM B8:254].MTM B3:92; MTM B3:98; MTM B3:91-92; MTM B3:93; MTM B3:96; MTM B4:114; MTM B3:97-98; MTM B3:100; MTM B6:198; MTM B7:211; MTM B8:238-239; MTM B8:253; MTM B8:254
Duffey, Melchisedech
Identity and appearance. Magus, art dealer, writer and one of the Masters of the Argo. He identifies himself as the Boy King and King of Salem [MTM B1:15] [MTM B5:166] [MTM B13:402]. He has sorrel hair, fire-blue eyes, a solid but not oversized body, and a mouth that may begin grinning before his eyes. He habitually bangs his hands together and addresses people and even his own clay creatures with promises of immediate action [MTM B1:6]. He begins growing a beard at fifteen to look older [MTM B2:38]; in New Orleans he keeps it white and bright and wears an artist’s tie and beret for his trade [A:143]. His voice is Boston Irish with a touch of stage Yiddish. Archipelago calls him a patriarch without seed, a prophet without honor and a high-sounding brawler whose apparently universal knowledge is shared by others in the company [A:97]. The later narrator describes his uncertain age, wilfulness and spaciousness, and the unexplained restraints upon him [MTM B11:312]. His names include Michael, according to a relative whose account he disputes; Mikey; Melky; Mike Duffey on his seaman’s papers; and Melchisedech Himself [MTM B1:7] [MTM B1:9] [MTM B1:30] [MTM B12:369] [MTM B13:402]. Casey gives another modern account: Michael is his given name, and Melchisedech his confirmation name, received when confirmed at forty [A:42]. In the postscript Duffey signs himself the fifty-ninth King of Salem and says that he has always known of fifty-eight predecessors [PS:478]. He also passes through cycles of renewed youth; Stein accuses him of whitening his hair and beard to conceal their return to black [MTM B11:317-319].
Childhoods and kindred. Duffey remembers simultaneous twentieth-century childhoods in Iowa, St. Louis and Boston, behind which stands an older, continuing life as the Boy King [MTM B1:6-7] [MTM B1:15-18]. Seven Iowa places dispute his birthplace: Minden, Underwood, Beebee Town, Neola, Crescent, Avoca and Union Township. A relative says that his mother died when he was five, that he lived with kindred until twelve, and that he then entered boarding schools. These kindred include the Duffeys, Kellys, Byrnes, McGuires, Crooks, Bagbys, Haleys, Healeys, Haydens, Kanes, Whites, Hughes, Kennedys, Thompsons and Clancys. Duffey disputes both this genealogy and the name Michael, claiming to have been born without parents when already five years old [MTM B1:7-8]. One proposed explanation of the overlapping childhoods is his appropriation of his brother’s and sister’s experiences. The St. Louis childhood is associated particularly with the sister’s life, and an analyst concludes that Duffey was himself a girl during part of his childhood [MTM B1:15-16]. These explanations do not cancel the narrative’s account of the ancient Boy King, whose tents, flocks, gardens and powers are presented as more substantial than his modern surroundings [MTM B1:17-18].
Schooling and formation. Sent to boarding school at twelve, he spends four high-school years in more than one institution. The uncertain locations include Creighton, Loras, Rockhurst and a boys’ school near St. Louis University; the narrator says that at least two of these places are involved [MTM B1:20] [MTM B1:24]. Charley Murray, John Rattigan and Sebastian Hilton are his principal companions. A skilled carpenter, machinist and maker of molds and patterns, he makes Murray’s conjuring props, using his giants when ordinary tools cannot suffice [MTM B1:21-23]. He trades with Rattigan and appropriates his business judgment, Murray’s good nature and honesty, and Sebastian’s intelligence and taste [MTM B1:25-26]. An older priest accepts his account of being a magus and warns him against pride. Lily Koch’s art sales, and his reading of her mind and Sebastian’s, establish his lifelong vocation as an art expert [MTM B1:28-29].
Powers and their limits. His gifts include producing gold, entering other minds, moving within time, commanding invisible giants and forming persons through talismans; the last is initially called his greatest gift [MTM B1:5]. He appropriates the perceptions and memories of other children, sometimes knowing households he has never visited [MTM B1:16-17]. At Lake Manawa he believes that good divers return from the water as evil replacements; his mental effort to keep one underwater ends in a drowning, described as his first killing [MTM B1:8-9]. As Boy King he can remain invisible beneath an urchin disguise, summon giants, heal and animate birds [MTM B1:18]. His gold appears as sparks or coins as well as bars and engraved objects [MTM B1:5] [MTM B2:38-39]. His first major loss is the facility for making money, which never fully returns. This coincides with damage to the Pont du Sable Traffic Trestle, a bridge whose failing supports become an image of his own losses; he nevertheless retains substantial wealth [MTM B4:109-110]. The gifts can diminish, be forgotten or fail to achieve what he expects. His encounter with the art giants teaches him that he will more often recognize great art than make it [MTM B2:54]. His prescience and his belief that he causes persons to exist are closely connected; he later loses the effective bestowal of talismans for a period of his life [MTM B4:120]. In another episode he returns to yesterday to meet Finnegan in the burial cave [MTM B12:374].
St. Louis. At fifteen, on the last day of May 1915, Duffey sets out on his own after selling his school businesses [MTM B2:38]. He establishes the Rounders’ Club, with food, drink, lodging, transport, music, games and imported goods, and studies at several institutions while finding more hours of activity than an ordinary day permits [MTM B2:49]. Charley Murray becomes half-owner and his business partner [MTM B2:53]. Duffey boxes, wins seven of his first nine fights, and turns to promoting fights; he also becomes the band’s banjo player [MTM B2:50-54]. Bascom Bagby is his friend, business associate and quasi-brother. Mary Louise says that Bagby shares their person; Duffey later calls him his dark object [MTM B2:61-62] [MTM B2:73]. Mary Louise Byrne is Duffey’s sister or stepsister, and their relationship includes an erotic attachment. She introduces Beth Keegan as a substitute beloved [MTM B2:54-56]. When Duffey returns from his lost years, Mary Louise has married Bagby [MTM B2:73]. Duffey joins, or in another version founds, the World-Wide Argonauts Argo Balloon Club. His balloon becomes the Argo Twelve and a Half after a powerful visitor explains that the actual twelfth voyage is still active and the balloon may serve as its pinnace. Bagby later reports ghostly excursions in it, which Duffey accepts [MTM B2:63-64] [MTM B2:66].
Marriage, Chicago and performance. A compelling moth-call brings Duffey from Omaha to Chicago in 1925. Charlotte Garfield, an adult confidence woman with a child’s appearance, helps him find the woman who will become his wife; he uses his mind-reading powers to assist her search for Aga Gonof’s hidden stash [MTM B3:77-80] [MTM B3:84] [MTM B3:88-89]. Duffey marries Letitia Koch, Lily Koch’s sister, whose formation involved the special rib-shaped talisman he had given Lily in their schooldays [MTM B1:29-30] [MTM B3:90-93]. Their rooms and shops become the heart of a near-north-side Chicago golden age. They design its people, settings and events together, with Letitia said to possess the gift even more strongly [MTM B3:100]. His Priceless Item Room houses seven representations of Christ collected and sent home during the lost years, joined by an eighth brought by August Koch [MTM B3:103-104]. Duffey and Letitia give puppet shows: Letitia works made puppets, while Duffey calls out local mice and directs them as costumed actors, accompanying the performances with his banjo [MTM B4:133-134]. His supposedly last public magic act, dated November 13, 1935, is the transport of a mule through the air; witnesses and photographs offer conflicting accounts of the giant hands involved [MTM B4:127-132]. Dr. Morris Poor challenges his powers and calls him insane [MTM B4:128]. Dr. Saul Rafelson analyzes him without declaring him cured. Rafelson’s catalogue includes divine or golden childhood, mastery of giants, kingship, successive and parallel lives, inner monsters and shadows, the power to confer life, and the belief that the world depends on him. The doctor nevertheless acknowledges extraordinary facts about Duffey and the persons said to be his creations [MTM B4:146-147].
Casey and the Crock. Duffey is a part-time partner of Casey’s father and a principal influence on Casey’s education. Casey learns more from his bookshelves than at school, and learns Yiddish, Hebrew and Irish from him. Before entering the army, Casey moves his college Crock to a little press in the back room of Duffey’s bookstore [A:156] [A:159] [A:167-168]. The narrator calls Duffey closer to Casey than Casey’s father, though he seems to shrug off Casey’s later hostile editorial [A:131]. Duffey edits the Crock while Casey serves in the army; after its takeover and Casey’s return he is excluded from it [MTM B4:138] [MTM B4:145]. The attempted takeover exposes compromising photographs of his conduct with adult women and with girls from the age of eight or ten. He disputes some appearances, calls one photograph an entrapment, and says that guilty acts have been confessed and absolved; he refuses the blackmailers’ demand for control [MTM B4:139-141]. In his wartime letter to Casey he reports that the pressure temporarily drove his wife away and left him with a broken nose and right hand, and warns Casey against gambling any stock [A:40]. The Chicago double Mike Melchiades, whose marriage suffers from acts he denies committing, insists that Duffey is only his spinoff. Duffey suspects that this may be true, and helps the double’s wife return to him while knowing that Letitia is leaving their own home for a time [MTM B4:141-144]. Casey describes Duffey as the sole member of the Catholic Center Party of America, a Centrist who favors small government and opposes what he sees as collectivist infiltration; his index lists several thousand alleged infiltrators in Catholic lay groups [A:42-43]. He writes most of the issue described in Archipelago, including material identifiable as his in “Moles at the Grass Roots,” “Fables in Fabianism” and “The Consumer, the Cooperative, and the Coefficient of Cost Constancy.” That issue also contains the “Urbe et Orbe” notes, the “Judgement Day” review section, recording reviews favoring Chicago jazz and a readers’ letter forum [A:41]. His Razzle Daz comic strip uses Finnegan, Hans and Show Boat among its models [MTM B5:159]. Casey’s Answer is printed on Duffey’s press, but Duffey is initially unaware of its authorship and publication [MTM B4:113-118].
New Orleans, commerce and charity. He comes to New Orleans to put Henry’s ideas into practice. Commercial printing is to support the crusading journal, with work on it continuing after the paid working day. Mrs. Duffey sells their Chicago home and household goods and brings eighteen hundred of his books; the narrator says that he commits all he has [A:117-119]. In New Orleans Duffey helps establish the Pelican Press to publish the Bark, operates the Walk-In Art Bijou and a pawnshop, and makes and plays recorder flutes [MTM B6:190] [MTM B6:199] [MTM B7:211]. With Stein and Gabrielovitch he starts the Investigator; he writes for both journals and sells books, antiques and works by the Studios and Pirates’ Alley painters. His safe holds cash, valuable art, including authentic Van Ghis, and the Infiltrates file [A:143]. He supplies the cards on which X adds information to that file [A:137]. A poem in The Devil Is Dead is attributed to Melchisedech Duffy’s The Alien Awakens [D:197]. He insists upon a flophouse and turns Zabotski’s thousand-gallon crock into a soup service, installing gas burners, obtaining a blessing from St. Katherine’s and raising money for barley; Dotty pays the gas and water bills. Archipelago gives an initial cost of one cent a bowl, eventually about three hundred meals daily with continuous staffing, and a retrospective duration of at least a quarter-century [A:126] [A:132-134]. More Than Melchisedech instead describes growth from six recipients to about six hundred after a week and then several thousand. Medical students’ apparent planting of human bones gives the pot its name, Cannibal Duffey’s Irish Restaurant [MTM B6:197]. About the mid-1950s his Bijou receives The Resurrection of Count Finnegan, with Finnegan and Joseph Hedayat pictured decades ahead and looking identical. He sells it to Hilary Hilton for twenty thousand dollars and continues displaying it at Hilton’s request [MB:550-554].
The talismanic company. Duffey maintains that he literally helped form twelve persons, with others outside or partly within that count [MTM B5:150-151]. Henri Salvatore summons him to St. Louis for the last Saturday in May, promising the assignment for the rest of his life. There he encounters the brilliant company whose members know his Crock more readily than his kingship [MTM B5:152] [MTM B5:157-158]. The list announced as twelve names Finnegan (John Solli), Hans (John) Schultz, Henri Salvatore, Vincent Stranahan, Casey Szymansky, Dotty Yekouris, Mary Monaghan Schultz, Mary Virginia Schaeffer, Teresa Piccone, Absalom Stein and Mr. X: eleven names. Mary Catherine Carruthers is separately identified as another of the creations [MTM B5:158] [MTM B5:161-162]. Finnegan and Teresa are its two central creations [MTM B5:157] [MTM B5:162]; the narrator distinguishes Finnegan as the greatest from Teresa as the finest [MTM B5:182]. Duffey says he put unusual amounts of Teras blood into his people; Finnegan’s claim to be hollow troubles him [MTM B5:170-172].
Creation, awakening and faith. The talismans are associated with the Argo’s gold filigree, the Talking Oak and the Golden Fleece [MTM B5:178]. Marie says that Duffey collects the companions and gives them settings and sparkle rather than making them; he disputes her account [MTM B5:159]. Teresa tells Duffey that he awakened the company rather than created it, calling its members back into bodies to oppose the released Devil [MTM B7:233-234]. Stein sometimes reverses the dependence entirely, proposing that they made Duffey into the magus who thinks he made them [MTM B10:304]. The Argo Masters are also described as an interdependent society whose members act upon one another [MTM B13:446]. Duffey nevertheless insists to the Devil that he can perform primary creation [MTM B10:303]. His artistic work includes perhaps ten thousand figures in clay and baked bread dough [MTM B7:228-229]. In his commentary on Casey he recalls Peleus as a good, brave companion on the Argo, and offers another explanation of his twentieth-century Animations: they serve much the same purpose as Gorshok’s artificial hosts for body lice. His creatures doubt the account, and he says he has forgotten any other purpose [PG:534-536]. A separately unlabelled passage among Casey’s collected writings proposes that Duffey’s talismans implanted the remembered ancient lives as educational devices [PG:545]. He seeks to join art, law, divine worship, kindness and charity in daily life [MTM B7:228-229]. He rejects ordinary mediocrity while insisting upon humility [A:143]. His subordination to Henry is nevertheless described as a punishment for pride: he must serve one of his own satellites [MTM B8:245]. X calls him a “toy patriarch,” fitted for crusading rather than secret work, who must find one greater than Melchisedech [A:265-266].
The Seven Lost Years. Duffey disappears for seven years and returns in 1923, wandering among his old cities before returning to St. Louis. Eleven primary talisman children are born during his absence [MTM B2:71-74]. His claims of wartime army and ambulance service are uncertain; the narrator suggests that some experiences may have been taken from Sebastian Hilton, while witnesses also recall Duffey working with an organization named ARGO [MTM B2:72-73]. The Argo travels behind this interval, but its seven years need not follow consecutively in ordinary time [MTM B2:71] [MTM B13:406]. Absalom Stein's account places his death in Neustria and says that X later returns his ashes in a Spanish king’s old receptacle [MTM B6:185]. Duffey can keep these ashes beside him while alive in New Orleans [MTM B1:6]. His account of his ancient life explicitly rejects reincarnation, though he allows that his bodily history may include successive bodies or the renovation of one body [MTM B8:250]. He later remembers his modern lifetime as a sixty-year leave from the Holy Ship, beginning with his landing in 1923; he hopes to repeat it, while Cardinal Henri warns that repeated returns delay his arrival at the other shore [MTM B12:387].
Contingencies and rival explanations. Stein considers both identification with the biblical Melchisedech and an unusual sharing of the ancient king’s memories; he also calls Duffey the man who does not have an ending. Mary Virginia conjectures that Duffey comes from a discarded creation. These are the speakers’ proposed explanations [MTM B10:291-292]. The same Stein passage alternately treats the released Devil as a minor decoy and as the Devil himself [MTM B10:291]. Seven principal contingencies confront Duffey when his life overruns the present and fractures [MTM B10:298-301]. He refuses to represent mankind in his meeting with the Devil, rejects the Devil’s demand for his services and faces the claimed mortgage upon his soul and body [MTM B10:301-303]. The seventh contingency presents an encounter with the invisible God and a possibility of personal disaster [MTM B10:301].
Bereavement and continuing bonds. Bagby’s weekly letters continue for many years after his funeral, describing an existence outside ordinary time; Duffey rereads and savors them throughout each week [MTM B8:237] [MTM B8:248-249]. When Letitia dies suddenly, Duffey first refuses to accept it, then speaks privately with a burning Elephant Ear bush and grudgingly accepts the divine will [MTM B8:253-254]. Countess Margaret proposes marriage and a long life in Transylvania, and Lily offers marriage and renewed companionship. He postpones the Countess’s offer and tells Lily that he needs everyone [MTM B8:254-257].
Later journeys and trials. In his account for House and Home Happenings, Duffey describes studying time with Zabotski and visiting the Pristine World for three or five years, returning in two days [MTM B9:267] [MTM B9:272-273] [MTM B9:284]. Duffey answers the ritual summons of the Royal Pop People, written on parchment in squid ink and nailed to his door [MTM B11:311-313]. In the fifth contingency he is seduced by the splendid people, abandons suffering friends, and only belatedly tears himself free by reversing his movement through time. Bagby condemns his pride and cowardice and demands that he recover his strength in the wilderness [MTM B12:353] [MTM B12:356-357]. After returning from the fifth contingency he fears that he has damaged time and discovers that Margaret Stone’s death has entered his own world [MTM B12:354]. In the crash year Mary Virginia takes him for a ghost; his withdrawal returns that year to the future [MTM B12:361]. He contributes magic to the intermission of the girls’ play and later travels with Carmelo Mendoza. Horace Pie's reference to Mr. Eggs alerts him that the disguised companion is X, though he subsequently claims that he always knows his own handiwork [MTM B12:366] [MTM B12:369-372]. At Hilary Hilton’s farewell party he compels Casey’s presence by projecting Adam Scanlon’s portrait of his head onto television [MTM B12:380-383]. At the end of Book Twelve, he turns the forbidden handle, falls from the green country with shattered bones into a dung heap, where vermin, dung rats, buzzards and blood snakes attack him, and discovers that God remains present in the tempest [MTM B12:392-393]. From the dung, broken objects and his own blood he joyfully begins making another company of Animated Marvels, aided by lightning. He chooses to sail again while keeping this work as his eventual delight; the last minute of his life is still unfinished [MTM B12:394-395].
Death and the Argo. The three slant-faced attackers have stalked him since he was about six; a kit-fox helps him survive a childhood knifing. After the Crock assault he kills one of them, but their number is repeatedly restored [MTM B1:12] [MTM B1:19-20] [MTM B5:150] [MTM B7:225-227]. He identifies his priesthood with an obscure oriental rite that permits marriage [MTM B13:413-414]. As an Argo Master, Duffey cures a brilliant young man’s stutter at Weinsburg on the Nechar [MTM B13:430]. Three slant-faced killers strip the flesh from his bones and kill him; three slack-faced attendants burn the stripped flesh, sinew and viscera. His bones and ashes appear in Gur’yev, where X and Kasmir Gorshok recover them. X keeps the ashes, and the bones are taken aboard the Argo [MTM B13:442-443]. God tells him that his duties do not require a fleshed body. Casey makes a golden mask, scarf and gauntlets from the Fleece, and Duffey resumes his work as pilot [MTM B13:443-444]. When he moves into earlier portions of his life, he has flesh again while the ashes remain: the text calls this the Ambiguity of the Flesh. His Chicago and New Orleans lives consequently take on the character of incursions into the past [MTM B13:444-446]. With Brannagan and Gorshok he also tries to prevent the Antichrist from boarding the ship, holding that harmful prophecies must be resisted [MTM B13:454]. In the shimmering future their resistance fails: Casey appears as the Antichristus, the ship takes him to Habonim, and Duffey, Brannagan and Gunboat Smith remain undeceived but strongly affected. They fade out of that future without knowing whether another attempt is possible; Duffey has regained flesh [MTM B13:461-463]. His “Promontory Goats” commentary likewise foresees disputing Casey yet giving him passage against his will. He says that he has returned from the future and beyond death but is forbidden to disclose more [PG:537]. In How Many Miles to Babylon, the fleshless, golden-masked pilot carries Finnegan, Gilberto Levine-and-O’Brien and Herman Hercules toward Mooring-Stone, and later addresses the conclave that elects Finnegan pope [MB:589-590] [MB:597].
Returns and the appended story. At twenty-three Duffey comes ashore from the Sea of Lost Years and meets a young double who tells him he has lived the lost years seven times and died seven different deaths, three ending in damnation. Duffey suggests that God employs magi to explore possible endings; the double disputes this and, after Duffey has left, admits uncertainty about whether he serves God or the Devil [MTM B13:465-466]. Another return places Duffey in St. Louis in 1923, where the child Teresa offers to give him a valid birth in the future, believing that one demonstrably real life will establish the reality of the others [MTM B13:470-473]. In the appended “Great Day in the Morning,” spelled Duffy, he encounters a world losing its containers and distinctions. Its catastrophe enacts the conditions of his own bitterly comic Bark article from a year before. Horrified that the world has taken the joke seriously, he appeals to laughter and considers another article to undo the result [GD:491-493]. He insists upon a substantial universe, talks with the damaged statue of St. Michael, and wrestles with Morpheus as they shrink into a self-swallowing single cell. Morpheus calls this a return to the beginning; the final verses then enact obliteration [GD:481-501]. Lafferty’s postscript describes these apparent endings as cross-sections of continuing lives on multiple tracks [PS:479-480]. Finnegan also names him among the friends of his normal life in The Devil Is Dead [D:90].
MTM B1:15; MTM B5:166; MTM B13:402; MTM B1:6; MTM B2:38; A:143; A:97; MTM B11:312; MTM B1:7; MTM B1:9; MTM B1:30; MTM B12:369; A:42; PS:478; MTM B11:317-319; MTM B1:6-7; MTM B1:15-18; MTM B1:7-8; MTM B1:15-16; MTM B1:17-18; MTM B1:20; MTM B1:24; MTM B1:21-23; MTM B1:25-26; MTM B1:28-29; MTM B1:5; MTM B1:16-17; MTM B1:8-9; MTM B1:18; MTM B2:38-39; MTM B4:109-110; MTM B2:54; MTM B4:120; MTM B12:374; MTM B2:49; MTM B2:53; MTM B2:50-54; MTM B2:61-62; MTM B2:73; MTM B2:54-56; MTM B2:63-64; MTM B2:66; MTM B3:77-80; MTM B3:84; MTM B3:88-89; MTM B1:29-30; MTM B3:90-93; MTM B3:100; MTM B3:103-104; MTM B4:133-134; MTM B4:127-132; MTM B4:128; MTM B4:146-147; A:156; A:159; A:167-168; A:131; MTM B4:138; MTM B4:145; MTM B4:139-141; A:40; MTM B4:141-144; A:42-43; A:41; MTM B5:159; MTM B4:113-118; A:117-119; MTM B6:190; MTM B6:199; MTM B7:211; A:137; D:197; A:126; A:132-134; MTM B6:197; MB:550-554; MTM B5:150-151; MTM B5:152; MTM B5:157-158; MTM B5:158; MTM B5:161-162; MTM B5:157; MTM B5:162; MTM B5:182; MTM B5:170-172; MTM B5:178; MTM B7:233-234; MTM B10:304; MTM B13:446; MTM B10:303; MTM B7:228-229; PG:534-536; PG:545; MTM B8:245; A:265-266; MTM B2:71-74; MTM B2:72-73; MTM B2:71; MTM B13:406; MTM B6:185; MTM B8:250; MTM B12:387; MTM B10:291-292; MTM B10:291; MTM B10:298-301; MTM B10:301-303; MTM B10:301; MTM B8:237; MTM B8:248-249; MTM B8:253-254; MTM B8:254-257; MTM B9:267; MTM B9:272-273; MTM B9:284; MTM B11:311-313; MTM B12:353; MTM B12:356-357; MTM B12:354; MTM B12:361; MTM B12:366; MTM B12:369-372; MTM B12:380-383; MTM B12:392-393; MTM B12:394-395; MTM B1:12; MTM B1:19-20; MTM B5:150; MTM B7:225-227; MTM B13:413-414; MTM B13:430; MTM B13:442-443; MTM B13:443-444; MTM B13:444-446; MTM B13:454; MTM B13:461-463; PG:537; MB:589-590; MB:597; MTM B13:465-466; MTM B13:470-473; GD:491-493; GD:481-501; PS:479-480; D:90
Dugan, Delbert
Name into which John Rattigan is said to turn for a year or so during Duffey's boarding-school years, as Sebastian Hilton turns into Martin Troyat, preserving the group of four boys. Duffey and Charley Murray remain together throughout; Sebastian returns for the final year after attending school in Europe [MTM B1:24].MTM B1:24
Duke and Jenny Colfax
Theatrical people listed together among Duffey's North Chicago golden-age friends [MTM B3:99].MTM B3:99
Duke Colfax
Theatrical person listed with Jenny Colfax among Duffey's North Chicago golden-age friends [MTM B3:99]. See also Duke and Jenny Colfax.MTM B3:99
Duke of Moule, The (Don Barnaby)
Don Barnaby, duke by nickname, one of Finnegan's three companions in the Basse-Terre Paradise with Charles Le Marin and Johnny Duckwalk [D:236]. A voice unlike his own comes from him while he sleeps, asking Finnegan to repay Anastasia fifty dollars owed at death [D:238]. He tells the company a story beginning with the varieties of joy pills [D:248]. After Duckwalk leaves, Barnaby also departs, promising to return, though Angela doubts him. He seems to carry Don Lewis's memories while being someone else; Angela reports his claim that he has not been that other Don for several years [D:265]. He belongs to the dark counterpart of the Dirty Five [A:188].D:236; D:238; D:248; D:265; A:188
Dürer, Albrecht (1471--1528)
German Renaissance painter, printmaker and theorist whose work brought Northern European detail into dialogue with Italian concerns for proportion and perspective. His Apocalypse is a woodcut series; Melencolia I is an engraving. His theoretical publications treat measurement and geometry, fortification and human proportion. Patrick Stranahan includes Dürer with Watteau and Hogarth in his deliberately restricted list of painters worth owning, saying that one minor original and a dozen good copies are enough for an honest man's budget [A:109].A:109
Dutch Duquesne
A snapping-turtle-looking member of the Old Wooden Ship circle. He says he makes a hundred dollars nightly in tips as a waiter at the Balinese Room or another fashionable pier establishment, then loses the money at games. Mary, who works at the clubs, says he is actually a kitchen boy cleaning fish and shucking oysters, receives no tips and never has or loses more than five dollars [D:221].D:221
Dutch Eckel (Little)
See Eckel, Little Dutch [D:221] [MTM B13:458].D:221; MTM B13:458
Dutchman
Name used for Hans Schultz by Marie Monaghan when he quotes verse [A:9]. James or Jimmy Fitzjames also calls him Dutch and Dutchman, beginning with a request for a quarter to buy a book in New York [A:224-225].A:9; A:224-225
Eabhraioch
Address used by Duffey to Zabotski during their bantering exchange in what Duffey calls the holy language: "Have a care, Eabhraioch" [MTM B11:320]. It apparently represents Irish Eabhrach, a Hebrew or Jew, though the novel's spelling differs from that dictionary form.MTM B11:320
Eads bridge (St. Louis)
Bridge across the Mississippi at St. Louis. Duffey, in what the narrator calls his fifth or sixth youth, walks from the river shore below it onto a low boat that is the Argo in disguise [MTM B2:71]. His eventual return from the Sea of Lost Years brings him to a pier below the bridge in 1923 [MTM B13:470], where the fishing boy identifies himself as ten-year-old Philip Stranahan [MTM B13:471]. The bridge marks both embarkation and return in Duffey's changing chronology.MTM B2:71; MTM B13:470; MTM B13:471
Earth
World whose history and workings receive several competing accounts. In Duffey's account of Zabotski and the Fundamentalers, Zabotski's shortened Pristine History resembles their chronology [MTM B9:278-280]. Zabotski says the Pristine and Everyday-or-Molasses worlds occupy the same space, but the Pristine World proceeds faster and excludes duplicate or non-valid people and situations [MTM B9:279]. Newton Prescott, speaking for an electronic community of minds, claims that earthly magnetism binds Earth to something beyond the solar system and contains buried memories and mysteries [CM:510]. Absalom Stein's notes date the Devil's release from his Crimean dungeon to 1946, ending a supposed thousand-year good era [MTM B6:185]. Hans Schultz invokes Coriolis as the great Earth force while explaining the direction of Australian horse races [A:4].MTM B9:278-280; MTM B9:279; CM:510; MTM B6:185; A:4
Earth Creature
Teresa Piccone Stranahan's earthly aspect: the narrator imagines green moss growing in the corners of her eyes because she is an Earth Creature. The same passage gives her star-sparkle all over because she is also a Heavenly creature [MTM B5:180].MTM B5:180
Earth Hours
Appointments outside time described in one of Bascom Bagby's Letters After I Am Dead. During them the dead contemplate Earth and review its happenings with greater maturity and attention to particulars [MTM B8:248-249].MTM B8:248-249
Earthly one
The Terrestrial Paradise to which Finnegan and his friends travel, distinguished from the Heavenly Paradise. Its surviving snakes foreshadow their expulsion; the place is identified with Basse-Terre [D:234-235].D:234-235
East
Direction taken by the Argo when its sea begins to change: unusually, it runs eastward with the wind and waves [MTM B13:459]. Other uses place Chodorlahomor's Elam or Susiana east of the Tigris [MTM B7:228], describe the Ohio River joining the Mississippi from the east [MTM B2:65], and locate the recovery of Duffey's bones and ashes at Gur'yev, called the East Mouth of the Ural [MTM B13:442].MTM B13:459; MTM B7:228; MTM B2:65; MTM B13:442
East (the)
See East for directional uses, including the Ohio River's approach to the Mississippi [MTM B2:65]. For X's account of the Devil's Crimean prison, see Euxine Chersonese [MTM B6:204].MTM B2:65; MTM B6:204
East China Sea
Sea off eastern China, west of Japan's Kyushu and Ryukyu islands. It is among the many seas the narrator says Duffey and the Argo have sailed [MTM B13:406].MTM B13:406
East Coast (Adriatic)
Eastern Adriatic shore associated with Illyria. In a letter to Marie, Hans remembers the Argo sailing westward from Illyria repeatedly, though sometimes the Hadriaticus has no far shore and sometimes its western shore is not Italy [MTM B6:186].MTM B6:186
East Mouth of the River Ural
Location assigned to Our'yev in a summary that says Duffey was killed there, stripped of his flesh and cremated [MTM B13:436]. The fuller account places the killing and burning in the Prince's amoral desert. When that setting fades, the bones and smoking flesh-ashes appear in a street in Gur'yev at the East Mouth of the Ural, where X and Kasmir Gorshok identify them. The ashes are in a cigar canister once owned by the King of Spain; X takes custody of them [MTM B13:442].MTM B13:436; MTM B13:442
Easter
Christian feast celebrating Christ's resurrection. X makes his peace with the Church each Easter, only to become agnostic again by midsummer and atheist by autumn [A:138]. On Passion Sunday at Naxos, Finnegan seeks confession as part of making his Easter Duty [D:118-119].A:138; D:118-119
Easter Duty
Catholic obligation of annual Communion, ordinarily fulfilled during the Easter season, associated with the separate obligation of yearly confession. Finnegan explicitly wants to make his Easter Duty on Passion Sunday at Naxos. His inadequate Greek makes finding a confessor difficult, but a Greek Capuchin who speaks Italian hears him [D:118-119].D:118-119
Eating and Drinking
Ordinary activities made exceptional for Finnegan and Anastasia Demetriades by their setting outside her grandmother's little farmhouse, on a blue mountain slope of Naxos [D:124-127].D:124-127
Eckel, Little Dutch
Engineer at a Texas City refinery and a regular resident of the Old Wooden Ship [D:216], in Galveston, Texas [MTM B13:458]. He stays because its people housed him when he was poor. Called the prince of the place, he spends more money there than any other patron [D:221].D:216; MTM B13:458; D:221
Ecstatics
People whom the narrator, alongside several saints, credits with brief bilocation. Their few minutes of being in two places at once are contrasted with the twelve-year difficulty posed by Finnegan's and Theresa's overlapping histories [A:202].A:202
Ectocarpus (Hashed) Collins
Cocktail requested by Duffey from Honeybucket Kincaid, along with pond-scum bread and sea-lice soup [MTM B13:417]. Kincaid's apparatus uses frequencies to gather organisms and substances from water; it collects ectocarpus and alcohol for the drinks [MTM B13:418]. The name refers to Ectocarpus, a genus of filamentous brown algae.MTM B13:417; MTM B13:418
Eden
Garden of the first human pair in Genesis 2-3. The narrator's worm-in-the-apple discussion invokes Eden and original sin [D:264]. The Basse-Terre Paradise is also called Eden when Don Barnaby becomes restless and leaves it [D:265].D:264; D:265
Edgewater, Bernice
One of the money-and-commerce people, or simply rich people, in Duffey's North Chicago golden-age circle. She is listed with Julian Edgewater [MTM B3:100].MTM B3:100
Edgewater, Julian
One of the money-and-commerce people, or simply rich people, in Duffey's North Chicago golden-age circle. He is listed with Bernice Edgewater [MTM B3:100].MTM B3:100
Edith Summerfield
Member of St. Louis high society and, with Cyrus Summerfield, a commentator on it for both the Globe and the Post Dispatch. The young couple are full of glitter, and Edith is described as a sort of cousin to Beth Keegan. They attend Beth's formal dinner in Duffey's balloon gondola two miles high [MTM B2:65] and give the event elegant treatment in the press [MTM B2:66].MTM B2:65; MTM B2:66
Editor
Role taken by Duffey when Casey joins the army in April 1942 and leaves The Crock in his care [MTM B4:138]. Dotty Yekouris edits The Bark [MTM B7:213], which she runs with Duffey, Absalom Stein and Mary Virginia Schaeffer [MTM B7:215]. Letitia Duffey becomes its new editor after the disappearances from their circle [MTM B8:238].MTM B4:138; MTM B7:213; MTM B7:215; MTM B8:238
Edward Cardinal Leviathan
Cardinal of Edinburgh named among John Mogul's contracted targets [MB:571]. His double or shadow-man is Douglas McAfee of London [MB:579].MB:571; MB:579
Edward Ranwick
Art-school acquaintance of Duffey in St. Louis, one of the young men who accompanies him, Mary Louise Byrne and Beth Keegan on outings. At the Bavarian Club he compares the sturdy blond girls to brewery horses. His own work attracts some attention at the art school, but Duffey calls it skinny art and finds something lacking [MTM B2:58].MTM B2:58
Effigy
Representation that can take a person's place. The Argo's effigies work as seamen while their Masters are absent; a returning Master dons his effigy, and the Argonauts' creative alterations to absent companions' effigies help form their personalities [MTM B13:449]. In the forced Ekklesia election, the Straw-Man is elected Cap-Stone and then burned, producing red smoke, bloody rain and a stream of blood [MB:567-568]. X distinguishes the Devil's former effigy flesh from the real flesh released from imprisonment [MTM B6:205]. In Letitia's scrapbook, an unidentified speaker calls political opponents effigies to justify even their literal killing [MTM B8:251-252].MTM B13:449; MB:567-568; MTM B6:205; MTM B8:251-252
Effigy Seamen
Working substitutes for absent Argo Masters. Duffey initially considers three monkey-like or wraithlike seamen of his own shaping, but there are many more aboard [MTM B13:402-403] [MTM B13:405]. They are subsequently explained as materialized, programmed memories or place tokens left by the old crewmen, including Duffey and Biloxi Brannagan, to preserve their places and perform useful work [MTM B13:415-416]. Returning Masters don their effigies, and the Argonauts' alterations to absent companions' effigies help build their personalities [MTM B13:449].MTM B13:402-403; MTM B13:405; MTM B13:415-416; MTM B13:449
Efram
One of the twenty Stone boys in four families of first cousins living near Duffey's Chicago bookstore, and Myron's twin. Margaret Stone says she is their first cousin once removed and Absalom Stein their second cousin. In her account, Hugo is a joke name used by several boys, most often the twins together, whom Duffey mistakes for one fast-moving child; she denies that Absalom visited the shop. Duffey insists instead that Hugo was Absalom, a person he himself made [MTM B4:112].MTM B4:112
Egg
Container or image of emergence in several episodes. The children at Widow Waldo's orphanage say their green-clay animals come from green-clay eggs and can have life breathed into them [MTM B9:285]. In the Thunder Colt Game, a colt still within its egg is fed a human victim; lightning breaks the egg and awakens consciousness, followed by thunder awakening its thunder dimension. Cyrus Roundhead calls the colt's awakening a symbol of the Royal Pop People's own emergence into consciousness [MTM B11:350]. In an earlier comic image, the tangled account of Duffey's borrowed girlhood quacks, lays an addled egg and expires under an analyst's scrutiny [MTM B1:16]; Mary Louise Byrne is later identified as his sister-person [MTM B2:55].MTM B9:285; MTM B11:350; MTM B1:16; MTM B2:55
Ego
One of the terms the More Than Melchisedech Postscript draws from C. G. Jung's Aion, alongside Self, Shadow, Anima and Animus. The Postscript counts these as five persons within a person and extends the idea into physically visible multiplicity [PS:477].PS:477
Egypt
Ancient kingdom invoked by Duffey when he calls himself and Mary Louise a royal family. He says Egypt's kings married their sisters, while adding that he has never been sure Mary Louise is his real sister [MTM B2:55].MTM B2:55
Eighteenth Book of Strange Encounters, The
Purported source of a mock medical report arguing that New Orleans art dealer Melchisedech Duffey is more than four thousand years old. Its impressive list of indices and tests is said to give that age consistently, although his nonessential body material seems only fifty-five years old. Duffey suggests either that he has carried his essential pattern through several bodies or that one body has been repeatedly renovated, and rejects the label reincarnation. The extract is attributed to the editors of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Books of Strange Encounters [MTM B8:250].MTM B8:250
Ekklesia
The Assembly or Crowd, the ancient ecclesiastical institution whose termination is declared at the supposedly last Conclave in Babylonia Bagascia. Its Princes, styled Gates or Stones, intend to dismantle it [MB:561-562]. Paul the Eleventh, its Cap-Stone, has been decapitated before the Conclave, and the destruction of his still-speaking head is treated as the institution's end [MB:562-563]. The coerced election and burning of a Straw-Man Cap-Stone is meant to complete that suppression [MB:567-568]. The story nevertheless culminates in another conclave at Mooring Rock and the election of Pope Finnegan the First [MB:597-598].MB:561-562; MB:562-563; MB:567-568; MB:597-598
El Quds
Arabic name for Jerusalem, meaning the holy place. In Cyrus Roundhead's revision of history, El Quds is instead one of several ruined cities near an abortive Turkish real-estate project supposedly named Jerusalem; he denies that a real Jerusalem ever existed [MTM B11:337].MTM B11:337
El-Nahr, Kantara fok
Writer whom X credits with the eight-thousand-page novel El-Kamar. According to X, Kantara fok El-Nahr begins the tenth page from its end with the declaration that he will begin his story; X says the writer is a slow starter, not a humorist, and adopts the same declaration for his own account [D:284].D:284
Elagabalus (Heliogabalus)
Roman emperor, born Varius Avitus Bassianus around 203-204 and ruling from 218 to 222. A young priest of the Syrian deity Elagabal, he promoted that cult at Rome, became notorious in hostile accounts of his religious and personal conduct, and was killed by the Praetorian Guard. In Archipelago, Finnegan names Sulem's reptilian protective figure Heliogabalus, baptizes it, and wears it beside his Miraculous Medal, joking that he has made the old Roman a Christian [A:61].A:61
Elam
Kingdom called Elam or Susiana, a Devildom east of the Tigris, in the account identifying the Three Slant-Faced Men. Their ruler is Chodorlahomor; the three crooked kings Amraphel, Arioch and Thadal are his followers [MTM B7:227-228]. Duffey recalls Abraham opposing the four kings with 318 men and himself blessing Abraham [MTM B7:228].MTM B7:227-228; MTM B7:228
Electrum
Alloy of gold and silver, occurring naturally and also made artificially. The mixture supplies the image for Duffey's North Chicago electrum age, following the pure golden years of 1925-1935 and lasting until about 1946 [MTM B3:98]. Finnegan also tells a creation legend in which a broken electrum cup becomes the white, gold and silver islands of the Aegean [A:35].MTM B3:98; A:35
Electrum age
The mixed gold-and-silver phase of Duffey and Letitia's North Chicago golden age, running from the end of the pure gold years in 1935 until about 1946. It has some minor disasters, unlike the preceding 1925-1935 golden period [MTM B3:98].MTM B3:98
Eleemosynary Institutions (State Inspector of)
State official who writes and telephones Widow Waldo about Zabotski's large structure. Waldo tells Zabotski it must be removed from the grounds of the Golden Childrens Home and Haven Orphanage; the part on his own lot may be beyond the state's power to remove, though neighbors are pressing him about it [MTM B9:274].MTM B9:274
Elegant Riverboat Deck
Games area at Duffey's Rounders' Club in St. Louis. The club's advertisement names the deck and lists racquets, whist, poker and horseshoes; it also offers tuxedos for hire [MTM B2:49]. A picture of Severed Giant Hands hangs above the doorway leading to the deck [MTM B5:156].MTM B2:49; MTM B5:156
Elena (Girl who wrote to Dotty Yekouris)
Girl who, with the lawyer Ignacio, writes to Dotty Yekouris that Finnegan is coming apart and invites her to join him, possibly in Cuba [MTM B8:237-238]. In Archipelago Elena sells Finnegan his concertina, accompanies him, and summons Ignacio after a fight [A:273]. She tends Finnegan's injuries and translates his songs of loneliness into a letter to Dotty or Dorotea [A:274-276]. Looking over his drawings, Finnegan later recognizes Elena as both herself and Angela Cosquin [A:278].MTM B8:237-238; A:273; A:274-276; A:278
Elena O'Higgins
Journalist and member of Duffey's North Chicago bookish circle [MTM B3:98], among the women he loves [MTM B4:111]. She calls a photographer to witness the mule-moving challenge [MTM B4:130] and writes the measured Chicago Herald and Examiner report on November 14, following the feat of November 13, 1935. Her report acknowledges conflicting testimony; its photograph shows the airborne mule without visible giant hands [MTM B4:127] [MTM B4:132]. She attends Duffey's later party with Casey [MTM B12:383]. Her commentary on Casey objects to his sale of consecrated hosts and recounts his destruction and replacement of sacred organ music [PG:524-525].MTM B3:98; MTM B4:111; MTM B4:130; MTM B4:127; MTM B4:132; MTM B12:383; PG:524-525
Elkheart, Elwin K.
Secretary-General of WSMA, an affiliate of WSMAASRTFM. In a quoted skeptical statement, he refuses belief in either Divine Intervention or a ship sailing under its patent, and calls the Argo and such interventions conceits of Duffey the mountebank [MTM B13:402].MTM B13:402
Elko
Whip named in the turbaned speaker's nostalgic catalogue at the Royal Pop gathering. He imagines a Decatur Street stone remembering its sound along with the Cowles Buggy Whip, Jacksonville Drover and other whips of the carriage era [MTM B11:329].MTM B11:329
Ellasar
Kingdom of Arioch in the novel's identification of the Three Slant-Faced Men with three crooked kings. The narration gives Ellasar, Pontus or Lower Babylonia as alternative designations [MTM B7:227].MTM B7:227
Ellenberger, Ethyl
One of the young girls who begins visiting Duffey's Chicago bookstore at eight or nine. She and Mary Frances Rattigan usually come together; Duffey wrestles with them on the old black sofa, in an episode whose assurances of hearty fun are qualified by the narrator's warnings [MTM B4:111]. Ethyl contributes to The Crock [MTM B4:138], including an ode in the issue described in Archipelago [A:41]. At Duffey's later party she attends with her husband John Ryan [MTM B12:383].MTM B4:111; MTM B4:138; A:41; MTM B12:383
Ellenbogen, Elmer Eggleton / Endymeon
The character says he legally changed his former first name Elmer. See Ellenbogen, Endymeon.Ellenbogen, Endymeon
Endymeon Ellenbogen, a member of Hans Schultz's New York Bohemian circle, introduced at Lupido's as a genius [A:236]. His former name is Elmer Eggleton Ellenbogen; he says he legally changed his first name and spent much of his inheritance subsidizing three published novels, Dawn Country, Shenandoah Saga and The Man from Minneapolis. His unpublished poems are planned as nine collections, including “Sonnets and Succotash.” He claims translations of the Greek Anthology, the Spanish Golden Book, Horace and Petrarch, and plans the Elder Edda once he learns Icelandic, maintaining that translation does not diminish one's creative gift [A:237]. He earns small sums writing popular songs and playing piano; Sally and Helen are types of songs in his catalogue, rather than identified song titles [A:238]. He also tells of carving a marble group of nereids too large to remove through his room's doors or windows, then cutting it up and distributing the figures. The previous sculptor left a book on teleportation [A:239].A:236; A:237; A:238; A:239
Ellis, Havelock
English physician, writer and early sex researcher (1859-1939), known for Studies in the Psychology of Sex, including his work with John Addington Symonds on homosexuality, and for advocacy of sex education and women's rights. In the More Than Melchisedech Postscript he matters especially as the proponent of what it calls the Law of Intellectual Constancy: the idea that apparently ordinary people possess powers comparable to celebrated geniuses [PS:476]. The Postscript treats this as a basis for its account of universal genius and overflowing, multiple personality [PS:477].PS:476; PS:477
Elmer Eggleton Ellenbogen
Former full name of Endymeon Ellenbogen. He introduces himself as Elmer Eggleton Ellenbogen, then explains that he legally changed his first name [A:236-237]. See Ellenbogen, Elmer Eggleton / Endymeon.A:236-237
Elysian Field Avenue
Elysian Field Avenue, one of the New Orleans streets through which ghosts supposedly slip after a night's haunting. The narrator immediately retracts this account as a lie, except for Finnegan's painting of the ghosts in the bar; the next page gives the ordinary history of Anthony Ghost's coffee shop [MTM B10:292-293].MTM B10:292-293
Embulking pellets
Imaginary murder device discussed in the Murder Contest associated with John Mogul's killings: pellets placed in food supposedly make the victim grow exponentially until exploding [MB:582-583].MB:582-583
Emery paper (Blue)
Abrasive paper used as the image for Patrick Stranahan's rough face, which is likened to blue emery paper [A:102].A:102
Emery, Art
Crewman of the Brunhilde, hostile to Finnegan after his joke on Art's name and prettiness. At the ship's bar gathering, Art goes to inform on the company [D:22]. He is listed among the five crewmen [D:30] and grouped by the narrator with Harry Scott and Chris McAbney as the wrong sort of people; this later passage assigns the first day's informing to Chris [D:31]. Anastasia calls Art the Devil's former catamount, now rejected [D:68]. Much later Finnegan sees him on a street corner and knocks him flat in sudden hatred, learning that the Brunhilde has reached port [D:230].D:22; D:30; D:31; D:68; D:230
Emily (Henry Salvatore's aunt)
Emily is one of Henry Francis Salvatore’s two aunts in the neighborhood of his Morgan City family; the other is Marietta [A:122-123].A:122-123
Emperor
Imperial title used in several different contexts. A proud former fire horse, dressed for the appearance of the leader in Henry Horner Park, holds its head like a Roman Emperor. The same episode describes a German Blue Max among missing decorations as bearing the old Emperor Maximilian's seal [MTM B4:116]. Finnegan is shriven on the feast of St. Henry Emperor while preparing for a possible death [A:277].MTM B4:116; A:277
Emperor Henry (of Neustria)
Imperial identity of Henri Salvatore, once the Argonaut Euphemus, later Emperor Henry of Neustria, and now ruler of Invisible Neustria. After the Devil's release, his small personal fiefdoms are set against the Devil and avert or postpone the world's destruction for decades; Duffey is made subordinate to this creation of his own [MTM B8:245]. Mary Virginia Schaeffer was his betrothed before he gave her up for God [MTM B7:214]. The name Neustria recalls the western kingdom of the Franks, transformed here into an invisible realm.MTM B8:245; MTM B7:214
Empire (Roman)
Historical setting invoked in the passage attributed to G. K. Chesterton's The Everlasting Man: the Creator's entry into the ordinary life of the Roman Empire is presented as the startling uniqueness of the Incarnation [MTM B5:176]. Herman Hercules also remembers Rome in the imperial centuries as one of the crowded cities whose spectacles drew long-lived people like himself [MB:585].MTM B5:176; MB:585
Enac (sons of)
Biblical giants, the sons of Anak or Enac, reported by the scouts in Canaan. The Numbers epigraph to the Angela Cosquin chapter combines the sight of these giants with the people's fearful weeping and the counter-exhortation that the inhabitants can be eaten like bread [D:258].D:258
End of Compassion, The
Name of the lower, more painful hell in the Goat Contingency contemplated by Duffey: compassionate scapegoats such as Casey would bear the world's accumulated debts forever after trading away everything. The narration calls this a very doubtful possible outcome, while leaving Casey's attempted soul-trade with the Devil uncertain [MTM B10:299].MTM B10:299
End of Time
A problem raised by Duffey’s approaching end and his identification with the biblical Melchisedech, who has “neither beginning of days nor end of life” in the passage heading Book Six [MTM B6:185]. Duffey takes the Ursuline girls’ seven-arrowed sign to signify either his own death or the end of time itself. Cleo Mahoney’s play asks what becomes of a man who cannot end when his life or the world reaches its end [MTM B9:264] [MTM B9:265]. At the beginning of Book Ten, the narrator distinguishes Duffey’s impending ending from the possible end of the world. Duffey can no longer enter a valid future along the normal track. The passage connects this obstruction with the Seven Lost Years and his distrust of the seven futures offered him [MTM B10:290].MTM B6:185; MTM B9:264; MTM B9:265; MTM B10:290
Endoderm
In biology, the innermost embryonic germ layer. The narrative instead uses the word for the inside of Cardinal Artemis's skin, where Finnegan secretly imprints a great painting by radiation. After the Cardinal's flaying, Finnegan is uncertain whether the painted skin belongs to the trophy held by Mogul or is being worn by the double Gilberto Levine-and-O'Brien [MB:591].MB:591
Engineer
Unnamed professional who tells Duffey that the support knocked out from the Pont du Sable Traffic Trestle is ornamental, not weight-bearing [MTM B3:104-105]. The narrator adds that it had carried weight for Duffey himself, preserving the bridge's personal significance [MTM B3:105].MTM B3:104-105; MTM B3:105
England
Country named in the Argo's remembered history: King Richard of England recaptures the ship from the Saracens, and Robert of Namur later sails it as the Salle du Roi for another English king [MTM B13:404]. Cecil Octavian, double of Cardinal Brokenbolt, is from England [MB:579]. The English Bulldog chosen to help guard the Argo is Gunboat Smith, recruited at the Old Wooden Ship in Galveston, Texas [MTM B13:458].MTM B13:404; MB:579; MTM B13:458
English
Nationality or ancestry in Ralph Rolfe's English paternal descent [MTM B13:427], and a breed designation in the English Bulldog Gunboat Smith, recruited to protect the Argo [MTM B13:458]. In the Martyr-Bell's story, English raiders attack Ste. Genevieve in 1594 [MB:576]. The codenamed Father Brown also invokes Old English when explaining that drench could mean drown [MTM B13:457].MTM B13:427; MTM B13:458; MB:576; MTM B13:457
Englishman
English raiders are the persecutors in the Martyr-Bell's origin story. In 1594 they murder thirty-nine Christians on Ste. Genevieve who refuse to renounce their faith; their ship, the Lord Cramner, is then wrecked and its crew drowned. Cannon recovered from it are made into the bell, which rings for four hundred years whenever Englishmen or other enemies of the faith approach [MB:576].MB:576
Enniscorthy and Mary Sweeny
Musical friends in Duffey's North Chicago golden-age circle. The musical group ranges across opera, ragtime, Chicago-hot music and string bands, and includes composers, players and stagers [MTM B3:99]. The later party list names Enniscorthy and Mary Margaret Sweeny [MTM B12:383].MTM B3:99; MTM B12:383
Enniscorthy Sweeny
Musical friend of Duffey's Chicago circle [MTM B3:99], also called Ennis and described as ruddy-faced and a near-genius. After an apparent ending of More Than Melchisedech, the narrative quotes his comparison of an event to a box viewed from four sides: past, present, alternative present and future. Each perspective belongs to the event and should be retained when another view appears; the quotation introduces the turn toward an alternate ending [MTM B13:467].MTM B3:99; MTM B13:467
Entrance Person
Designation the Better Life League gives Zabotski. In his written account, Duffey affirms that the League is right about this: Zabotski is a strong and peculiar Entrance Person, although Zabotski himself thinks little of the League [MTM B9:268].MTM B9:268
Entrepreneur
Role exemplified by Duffey's interconnected businesses. He buys and refits a St. Louis livery stable as a residence, shop, lodging house, bar and entertainment establishment [MTM B2:40-41], developed into Rounders' Club [MTM B2:49]. He also promotes his own boxing bills [MTM B2:51]. In New Orleans his Walk-In Art Bijou [MTM B1:6] and pawn shop share the building where he helps found and fit out the Pelican Press to publish The Bark and other work. The narrative connects this practical labor with rebuilding the world [MTM B6:190].MTM B2:40-41; MTM B2:49; MTM B2:51; MTM B1:6; MTM B6:190
Envy
One element in Stein's overflowing look at the company, mixed with amusement, compassion, contempt and proprietorship [A:30]. Finnegan is also described as the envy of men on the street while walking with Anastasia and Marie Courtois [D:57-58]. Lily Koch jokingly envies those whose way of life lets them commit murders [MTM B3:97].A:30; D:57-58; MTM B3:97
Ephphatha
Aramaic command meaning be opened, spoken by Jesus in Mark 7:34. Duffey uses it to release the stutter of a brilliant but unnamed young man at Weinsburg on the Nechar [MTM B13:430]. The man protests that frustration fuels the destructive work he wants to accomplish; Duffey refuses to restore the impediment. Casey lingers behind, and the narration raises the possibility of someone giving the stutter back without confirming that it happens [MTM B13:431].MTM B13:430; MTM B13:431
Ephrata (Chicago)
Biblical-sounding designation attached to Mary Catherine Carruthers in the list of Duffey's Animated Marvels: "But Thou, Chicago Ephrata, out of Thee shall come" [MTM B5:183]. It adapts Micah 5:2's prophecy of a ruler coming from Bethlehem Ephrata, substituting Chicago and leaving the sentence unfinished.MTM B5:183
Epic
Heroic literary form invoked in three different registers. A pre-pre-Homeric epic passage appears among the underlayers of the old goatskin parchment Duffey examines [MTM B11:327]. Finnegan's order of a hundred oysters prompts the question of which epic hero ate such a meal [MTM B5:172], followed by Duffey's recollection of Fingal or Finn McCool eating oysters larger than wagon wheels [MTM B5:173-174]. Marie also calls her uncle Shakes Pearson's repeatedly interrupted tobacco-contest limericks an epic, as squirrels eat the bark he writes on [A:25-26].MTM B11:327; MTM B5:172; MTM B5:173-174; A:25-26
Epirus
Ancient region on the northwestern side of the Greek world. Cyrus Roundhead incorporates it into his invented geography of Greece as one of five concentric rings around Hellas, alongside Aetolia, Thessaly, Macedonia and Thrace [MTM B11:337].MTM B11:337
Episodes of the Argo
Lafferty collection listed as a 1990 title in the bibliography at the front of The Devil Is Dead [D:4]. Published by United Mythologies Press, the chapbook contains Argo material, including part of the conclusion of the More Than Melchisedech sequence.D:4
Epistle (Third, to the Kids in St. Louis)
Writing attributed to Margaret Stone, excerpted among the documents surrounding the St. Louis gathering. Margaret describes her extraordinary body heat, private flight and command over tempests, then contrasts her weak hands with the responsibility for caring for the world for one hour out of every twenty-four [MTM B5:177-178].MTM B5:177-178
Erculo, Martino Cardinal
Cardinal of Milan, paired with the double Herman Hercules in the list of the thirteen cardinals pursued by John Mogul [MB:579]. Hercules calls Erculo his primary, though later narration leaves uncertain whether the supposed double might be the Cardinal in disguise [MB:584] [MB:588].MB:579; MB:584; MB:588
Eros
Greek word for love, especially passionate or sexual love. Eros is one of the metaphorical flowers, with Philos and Agape, bursting through New Orleans's broken pavement in the underground sunshine. The flowers are red, yellow and purple; the passage specifically assigns hot purple to Agape [MTM B7:211].MTM B7:211
Error
In the passage attributed to E. I. Watkin's The Catholic Center, Catholicism's exclusion of religious error follows from its claim to include the whole of religious truth [MTM B5:177]. Mary Virginia Schaeffer uses a different image in her Duffey Book: nine supposedly discarded but still living worlds would be anthologies of errors, failures and imperfect conceptions. She presents this as a fancy based on legends, not scriptural authority, and wonders whether Duffey came from one of them [MTM B10:291-292].MTM B5:177; MTM B10:291-292
Euphemus
Henri Salvatore's Argonaut identity. Henri himself asks whether he was Euphemus for nothing when Teresa summons him to explain the company's past [MTM B7:232]. Teresa identifies Henry as Euphemus and says that his ocean-father taught him to walk on water, though he seldom does so now [MTM B7:234].MTM B7:232; MTM B7:234
Euxine Chersonese
Name that X says the Romans used for the peninsula otherwise called the Tauric Chersonese, Krym, or Crimea. In his account the Devil was imprisoned there in 946 or 947 [MTM B6:204]. Stein's notes give the dungeon's millennium as 946-1946 and date the Devil's release to 1946 [MTM B6:185].MTM B6:204; MTM B6:185
Evil
Casey calls the Problem of Evil the only problem in the world and doubts that any of his companions' ways of confronting it will work [A:154]. Demetrio Glauch describes his particular lifelong obsession as the possible final redemption of the Devil [PG:518-519]. Evil also appears in the displaced spirits after the neighborhood's destruction [MTM B11:314], the former owners of the Brunhilde [MTM B13:404], and the Argonauts' continuing struggle, complicated by the Laughing Prince's claimed Third Way [MTM B13:437]. Duffey calls the cured stutterer an evil genius turned good or complacent [MTM B13:431]. Bagby's posthumous letter, by contrast, denies that passions themselves are evil, comparing ungoverned passions to unbroken horses [MTM B8:248]. Duffey's meeting with the Loosed Devil belongs to the sixth proposed contingency of the world [MTM B10:301-302].A:154; PG:518-519; MTM B11:314; MTM B13:404; MTM B13:437; MTM B13:431; MTM B8:248; MTM B10:301-302
Evil Eye
An unconfirmed attribution of a malevolent gaze to Casey Szymansky.Evil Prince
One of the princely adversaries named with the Purple Prince, Mocking Prince, and Laughing Prince. The narrative stresses the adversaries' courage, force of personality, and ability to defeat or kill Argo Masters; it singles out the Laughing Prince of Tartary as possibly the strongest and trickiest [MTM B13:437].MTM B13:437
Evil Spirit
Evil spirits are among the displaced beings haunting the sites of the neighborhood's destruction, deprived of their places and forms [MTM B11:314]. During the effort to bar the Man of Mystery from the Argo, the expert called Professor Van Dusen warns that blind spirits can enter through blind fireplaces and then assume almost any form; he recommends guarding each fireplace with a firedrake [MTM B13:455-456].MTM B11:314; MTM B13:455-456
Ewaglouwshkoul (Eva)
The woman Duffey and the Argo’s crew release from the ice after forty thousand years. She identifies herself as Ewaglouwshkoul; Duffey calls her Little Eva, and she accepts “Neanderthal Eve” as a possible nickname. She says she is not the first woman of her tribe but perhaps the last, and hopes to find surviving men of her own people and have children [MTM B13:399-401]. The narration later calls her a Neo-Neanderthal [MTM B13:407]. She asks to be taken to Biloxi, where Duffey is already bound, and plans to acquire a waterfront establishment to meet seamen of her blood. Her father ran the Old Stone Ship in her ancient world [MTM B13:401]. She wants to buy Kate’s Neanderthal Bar and rename it Eva’s Neanderthal Bar [MTM B13:407]. When she needs a $14,000 down payment, Duffey produces gold pieces and Brannagan produces banknotes with identical serial numbers. Gertrude offers to fetch her checkbook and arrange matters [MTM B13:414-415].MTM B13:399-401; MTM B13:407; MTM B13:414-415
Ewe
One of the animals supplying the Boy King Melchisedech's milk. The account first calls the product of camel, ass, ewe, gazelle, cow, and Indian buffalo his silk, then explains that it was milk in actuality [MTM B1:17-18].MTM B1:17-18
Exocosmos
The surrounding world with which Zabotski has what Duffey calls non-mutual arrangements. The immediate example is the Better Life League, which recognizes Zabotski as an Entrance Person although Zabotski thinks little of the League [MTM B9:268].MTM B9:268
Exorcism
A religious rite seeking liberation from demonic power. In Finnegan's account of painting a devil, Father Le Faye, S.J., performs a short exorcism and orders the painting burned and its ashes swept away [D:254-255].D:254-255
Exorcist
Father Le Faye, S.J., is described as an exorcist of some fame in Finnegan's account. He arrives without being summoned, recognizes the devil in Finnegan's painting, performs a short exorcism, and directs that the picture be burned [D:254-255].D:254-255
Exotic
One of the exuberant adjectives applied to Dotty Yekouris in a description borrowed from a nursery plant catalogue, which the narrator still judges inadequate to her [MTM B7:213].MTM B7:213
Expedition
A Cummings-clan member of the Fundamentalers tells Zabotski that his group has three expeditions searching the mountains of Armenia for Noah's Ark. Zabotski claims that the true High Armenia cannot be securely identified with the modern country or the mountain now called Ararat [MTM B9:280].MTM B9:280
Experience
Casey's erotic experiences in the second of his twelve imaginary worlds, begun before he was eight. They involve women from history and legend, including queens, nymphs, amazons, gladiators, bullfighters, and acrobats, and lead to his theory of personalized temptations [A:156-157].A:156-157
Experiment
In Elena O'Higgins's commentary, Casey is criticized for publishing an advertisement in the Crock offering supposedly genuine consecrated hosts for a dollar each, postpaid, for fun, experiment, or special rites. The advertisement claims that a defrocked priest supplies them and that prodigies sometimes occur; Elena says it ran in at least three issues but does not know the response [PG:524].PG:524
Expert
Duffey becomes an art expert by ransacking the minds of Sebastian Hilton, Lily Koch, and adult customers at Lily's sales [MTM B1:29]. As a stamp and postmark expert and dealer, he examines the otherwhere stamps on Bagby's extraordinary letters [MTM B7:219]. Later the Argo Masters consult experts in detection to prevent the Man of Mystery from boarding; some are fictional, some are real persons behind disguises, and the names Philo Vance, Father Brown, Doctor Thorndyke, Max Carrados, and Professor Van Dusen may be code names [MTM B13:454-455].MTM B1:29; MTM B7:219; MTM B13:454-455
Explanation
Duffey seeks to understand the seven-arrowed sign and the school play that appear to predict his possible endings. He consults Stein, who jokes, and then seeks the absent Zabotski [MTM B9:264-266]. Zabotski explains the extraordinary fertility of his Lake Borgne flats as God's blessing on a just man chosen for a special role [MTM B12:362].MTM B9:264-266; MTM B12:362
Explorer
Casey's role in his fifth imaginary world. He supposes that the Earth is half again as large as generally believed, with elongated poles and an Antarctic ring of ice surrounding a sunny southern continent, probably a migrated Atlantis. As its explorer he would carry modern techniques there and bring a Higher Ethic back [A:158].A:158
Extinction
Melchisedech's panic while wrestling Morpheus as the dreamed cosmos contracts toward a single surviving cell; the narrator distinguishes it from the lesser fear of damnation [GD:500]. Earlier, Stein fears that forgotten people will pass into oblivion, becoming people who never existed, unless someone remembers them; he imagines them bawling against extinction [MTM B11:315].GD:500; MTM B11:315
Extradigitalism
Having extra digits, or polydactyly. John Mogul has five fingers and one thumb on each hand, a condition said to be common in his family. He raises all twelve digits to indicate that twelve men remain under his killing contracts [MB:574].MB:574
Extravaganza
The show Duffey, Letitia, and Lily see at Morgenstein's Comedy Music Box on Randolph Street, after supper at Lily's. On leaving, they hear the news of the Mullens double murder [MTM B3:97].MTM B3:97
Eye
Duffey has fire-blue eyes [MTM B1:6]; Letitia's are described as between sea-green and Melchisedech blue [MTM B3:92]. The woman whom Duffey releases from the ice has blue eyes and identifies herself as Ewaglouwshkoul, Little Eva or the Neanderthal Eve [MTM B13:399-400]. In his later bony form Melchisedech has no eyes, although some faculty of sensing remains and is impeded by his golden mask [MTM B13:444].MTM B1:6; MTM B3:92; MTM B13:399-400; MTM B13:444
Eye-Sores
The Moral Sanctions Committee for the Removal of Eye-Sores and Abominations objects to Zabotski's ever-growing backyard construction. Its spokeswoman complains that eight years have passed since his supposed promise to act; Zabotski replies that he promised not to act and that people fail to listen closely [MTM B9:276].MTM B9:276
Eyebrows
Bascom Bagby has beetling brows when he first visits Duffey's premises for a shave and haircut [MTM B2:43]. Each of Patrick Stranahan's eyebrows is said to contain more hair than most men have on their heads [A:102].MTM B2:43; A:102
Eyelids
The eyes of the head-only image of Casey Szymansky are sewn open, forcing it to look despite its refusal. Duffey animates the image from Adam Scanlon's hostile painting and projects it into the Goldfarb's Alley comedy broadcast, where four giants carry the head and the spectacle terrifies performers and viewers [MTM B12:381].MTM B12:381
Ezekiel
Hebrew prophet active in the early sixth century BC. The novel calls Blessed Ezekiel a very early Argo Master and invokes his promise of opened graves and return to the land, from Ezekiel 37:12, while considering futures that must yield up past and present [MTM B13:447].MTM B13:447
Face, Finnegan's
Earlier heading named only Finnegan although the verified catalogue also treats the faces of other characters. See Faces.Faces
Finnegan's first reflected face has a banana nose, restless cheek and temple muscles, a moving mouth, and reddened eyes [A:1]. His apparent grace gives way at close range to a gargoyle's comic mask and bugle nose [A:6]; washing cannot remove the grotesqueness of his face [D:13]. At Las Palmas he looks like a Montenegran prince, noble of nose [D:100]. On Naxos his gargoyle head contrasts with Anastasia's Diana-like head [D:133]. The later painting of Count Finnegan gives the banana nose nobility and distinction, while preserving humor, pain, and torture in the eyes [MB:551]. Joe Cross finds Finnegan disturbingly like Dopey when glimpsed from the side, though less alike face-on [D:65]. While shaving, Finnegan sees and shaves Dopey's distinct face in the mirror; after he smashes the glass, Dopey remains visible in a fragment, his eyes closed in torturous sleep [D:187-188]. Other faces form a related catalogue. Saxon Seaworthy's lined, granite face has a depth that the word dull cannot encompass [D:11]. It turns ashen and ancient when Papa Devil arrives, then regains its controlled expression [D:15]; it is tired granite during Don Lewis's story [D:43] and stony-faced during Seaworthy's own dream account [D:72]. Papa Devil has a purplish complexion and a reddish fringe around his nearly bald head [D:23], becoming more ghoulish after an admitted killing [D:30]. Finnegan discovers that the purple pumpkin-like head conceals another face and paints what lies beneath [D:62-63]. He paints this face again in a death scene [D:86], challenges Papa Devil about his living mask [D:88], and later recognizes the slain man on Naxos by that reconstructed face [D:146]. His sketch enables X to identify the impersonator as an Irish policeman called Noonan or Flaherty [D:154]. Earlier, Papa Devil speaks through a distorted face while threatening to bury Finnegan beside Don Lewis [D:111]. Anastasia appears transparent, translucent, and transcendent [D:13]; her face is comical in direct view but beautiful in memory or anticipation, with an olive complexion shifting between green and gold [D:32]. Finnegan praises her green complexion while she is seasick [D:28]. Her head is compared with statues of Diana Artemis at Messene and Delos [D:133]. Marie Courtois's beauty is described through her golden coloring, red-gold hair, strength, and stately form [D:37]. Don Lewis has a fevered handsomeness [D:100] and later tries unsuccessfully to hide his identity beneath a hood [D:102]. Demetrio's lined face recalls both an old Roman and an Aztec, like a face on an ancient coin; the following account of Finnegan's ink portrait on the back of a poster calls the sitter Manuel [D:58]. On the same page the street-food seller who joins Finnegan's joke has a face like laughing leather [D:58]. The old teras in Finnegan's sleep has a face of gloomy granite [D:140]. The man from whom Don Lewis seeks concealment twists his face in apparent spasm, then reveals that he is laughing at the small payment offered [D:107-108]. Brannagan has the clear eyes and powerful forearms of an old seaman [MTM B13:409]. In Don Lewis's story the man later called Yokipoki, probably not his real name, first appears as a ragged little man [D:44] [D:46].A:1; A:6; D:13; D:100; D:133; MB:551; D:65; D:187-188; D:11; D:15; D:43; D:72; D:23; D:30; D:62-63; D:86; D:88; D:146; D:154; D:111; D:32; D:28; D:37; D:102; D:58; D:140; D:107-108; MTM B13:409; D:44; D:46
Faggots
Bundles of sticks used as fuel. On Naxos, Finnegan includes them among the fuels whose smoke, he says, gives different lands and islands their distinctive skies; he imagines electric, solar, or atomic heat restoring an older sky color [D:127].D:127
Falo
One of the two girls building an American-style cabaret in the jungle on Luzon when Vincent and Finnegan arrive [A:63-64]. Falo and Nauti offer Four Feathers and Five Roses whisky; Falo brings water and firmly refuses Vincent's attempt to take her by the waist [A:64]. The cabaret has bananas to eat. Falo repeatedly wins Robber Cassino because she has used the same old cards since childhood and knows them all [A:65]. Both girls say goodbye one time, explaining that goodbye all the time would mean their guests were never coming back [A:66].A:63-64; A:64; A:65; A:66
Falsario
Spanish for forger or counterfeiter. Finnegan supplies the word when Papa Devil, ostensibly seeking a notary on the Mexican side of the port, cannot make his actual need understood. They are promptly directed to a forger, where Papa Devil and Manuel dismiss Finnegan and the two women [D:57].D:57
Falsetto Chorus
An unconfirmed chorus associated in the earlier glossary with a plaint and the phrase Triumphant grew a taint.Family
The novels give family histories alongside more uncertain kinships and claims of shared or magically created personality. Patrick J. Stranahan, a successful attorney, and Monica Murry Stranahan have four sons, Philip, Hugh, Timothy Navisius, and Vincent J., and two daughters, Norma and Maurine [A:94]. The Koch family comprises August and Elinore and their daughters Lily and Letitia, who marries Duffey [MTM B3:98]. Letitia's hair mingles blonde, scarlet, and walnut tones; she is ruddy, full-bodied, and comical in expression, with eyes between sea-green and Melchisedech blue. She is younger than Lily and taller than Duffey [MTM B3:92]. Mary Virginia Schaeffer belongs to the family owning Red Dog Motor Freight, which serves Galveston, Houston, Morgan City, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Shreveport, Port Arthur, Orange, and Beaumont [MTM B6:198]. Lawrence Salvatore and Mary Genevieve Hebert are parents of Henry Francis, Christopher, Eustace, Hilaire, Joseph, Louis, Mark, Simeon, Angela, Lucy, and Rita. Nearby uncles include Alphonse, Charles, Fulgence, George, and Matthew Salvatore, and Anthony, Edward, Gregory, Julien, and Nicole Hebert; nearby aunts are Emily and Marietta [A:122-123]. Henry is the fat, mean, precociously learned boy whom Lawrence finds already educated early in his thirteenth year [A:123]; his Argonaut identity is Euphemus [A:38]. Mary Louise Byrne is called Duffey's sister and, with some uncertainty, his stepsister [MTM B2:54-55]. Their erotic attachment is described through patriarchal sister-wife imagery, while Mary Louise is also presented as an exteriorized part of Duffey's personality [MTM B2:55-56]. She later marries Bascom Bagby, making him Duffey's brother-in-law [MTM B5:155]. Bagby is also taken for Duffey's brother and described as part of their shared person. His black hair and whiskers and swarthy skin contrast with Duffey's coloring, while their large hands, swinging shoulders, and stride resemble one another [MTM B2:61]. Duffey's wife in Chicago is Letitia [MTM B3:98]. The Angelino clan is described as mainly Italian and German, with Bohemian, Mexican, Irish Tinker, and Romany ancestry. Elena Angelino, who works with trained bears, insists that her great-grandfather was a bear; the Professor says that he knew him and agrees [A:218]. Giulio Solli and Mary McCracken are Finnegan's parents [A:244-245]. The military roll gives his name as John A. Solli [A:71]. His brother Giacomo, called Jake, drives taxis, and his sister Patricia is an acrobatic dancer. Patricia also calls Doppio di Pinne her brother and the same person as Finnegan, while admitting that the family never understood the alternation [A:174]. Finnegan's later meeting with the shabby, sorrowful Giulio takes place after his father's death and ends in a recognition of paternal love [A:244-245]. Anastasia Demetriades has two uncles who run a restaurant, where she has worked as cashier [D:40]. She and Finnegan visit the family farm on Naxos, where her grandmother Anastasia, called Gyiagyia, remains after hardship has emptied the household [D:124-126]. In X's account, Katie Noonan bears Ifreann Noonan Columkill Gregorovitch near Krakow in 1830. X believes his father to be the Devil and cites the parish register, while acknowledging but rejecting Gregory, Katie's employer and the child's adoptive father, as a possible biological father [D:278-279]. Ifreann later fathers the twins Gregory McIfreann, Papadiabolous I, born in Smyrna, and Gregory McColum, Papadiabolous II, born in Cork, to different mothers at the turn of the century [D:281] [D:285]. X explains that names in this family move among parents, children, and grandchildren, with Papadiabolous and Chortovitch recurring as auxiliary names [D:278].A:94; MTM B3:98; MTM B3:92; MTM B6:198; A:122-123; A:123; A:38; MTM B2:54-55; MTM B2:55-56; MTM B5:155; MTM B2:61; A:218; A:244-245; A:71; A:174; D:40; D:124-126; D:278-279; D:281; D:285; D:278
Fancy, The
One of the whips named by a speaker at the Royal Pop gathering while describing the memories preserved in a Decatur Street stone. It appears alongside the Milford Quirt, San Antonio, Never-Break Dog Whip, and Elko in a nostalgic catalogue of vanished street traffic [MTM B11:329].MTM B11:329
Fandango in Three Flames
Fritz's music accompanying the Fire-Drake Frolic during the opera presentation, in which further human victims are killed [MTM B11:350].MTM B11:350
Fanged Fish, The (bar)
Waterfront establishment at Ogopo in Duffey's catalogue of remembered ports and drinking places, named with the Benevolent Shark at Maule [MTM B13:407].MTM B13:407
Fare delle capriole
Italian phrase for performing capers or leaps. Finnegan uses it while explaining a goat joke: to cut capers can mean dancing and playing tricks, while his other gloss, castrare becchi, makes it mean castrating he-goats. The goat-man criticizes the pun and discusses related French and Spanish forms [A:199].A:199
Farer
A traveler in Vincent Stranahan's poem written on the back of an insurance policy: a Farer will find a Theresa. The poem turns from roaming to life in the town on the river [A:92].A:92
Farmer
Farmers appear in Hans Schultz's comic hypnotism act, where fat farmers become bathing beauties [A:219], and in Howland's jingle, where a farmer ploughs up the five gophers' house [A:179]. Marie Monahan's story about her uncle Shakes Pearson includes a proposed limerick about an old tobacco-growing farmer; the farmer is a figure in the verse, while Shakes is the trembling, whisky-drinking author [A:25].A:219; A:179; A:25
Farmer's Canopy-Top Surrey, the
Earlier heading changed the source’s plural possessive Farmers’ to singular Farmer’s. See Farmers’ Canopy-Top Surrey.Farmer's Daughter, The (club)
One of the places on Chicago's Fleshpot Row that Shirley Israel recommends to Duffey as the haunts of all the real people. Her list includes Herm's, Curley Q, Seven Steps Down, Blow Brass, and Dung Heap [MTM B4:126].MTM B4:126
Farmers’ Canopy-Top Surrey
Horse vehicle in the nostalgic catalogue recited by the Royal Pop lecturer who describes the memories of a Decatur Street stone. The Farmers' Canopy-Top Surrey is listed with the Fulton Road Cart, Imperial Carriage, and other vehicles that once passed over the stone [MTM B11:329].MTM B11:329
Farmhouse
A farmhouse on the uphill road to Anastasia's grandmother on Naxos. Finnegan, Anastasia, and their donkey receive water at its well; the woman invites them to sit with Kathisate, but they have no time to stay [D:124]. The donkey is named Papapaleologus [D:125].D:124; D:125
Farrell, Father
Father Walter Farrell, co-author with Martin J. Healy of My Way of Life, the Summa Simplified for Everyone. A passage credited to Farrel and Healy in the novel's collection of documents concerns the choices of heaven and hell made from moment to moment [MTM B5:177]. In the later part of Archipelago, Finnegan reads Father Farrell's books on the Summa and St. John of the Cross while attending Mass and preparing for possible death [A:277].MTM B5:177; A:277
Fascist
An accusation used by several speakers. In Letitia's scrapbook Father Blevins calls his bishop a clerical-fascist and denies his right to have views [MTM B8:251]. Rollo McSorley spits the word at Tony Apostolo when they bet on Duffey's power to move a mule [MTM B4:129]. Marie Courtois attributes neo-fascistic indoctrination to Anastasia [D:33]. Casey's Crock attack calls Gabrielovitch a poisoner of the Fascist persuasion [A:129], and Casey tells Stein to denounce the Australian brigadier as a fascist fink [A:54]. Finnegan reports being called fascist, fink, scab, and fruit by the music patrons whom he has provoked with a silent jukebox record [A:264].MTM B8:251; MTM B4:129; D:33; A:129; A:54; A:264
Fascist Fink
The accusation Casey tells Stein to make against the Australian brigadier, during the scheme exploiting Stein's mistaken belief that Tania, the stage persona of lance corporal Tommy Trouncer, is a woman whom the brigadier has brought onto the island [A:51-53]. Casey urges Stein to say that the brigadier had him beaten for his views and that a raid will expose moral turpitude. The raid produces an international military scandal and damages Stein and his American officer allies [A:54].A:51-53; A:54
Father (Duffey's)
Duffey denies having a father when Bagby says that he believes he knew him [MTM B2:43]. The opening account applies the biblical description of Melchisedech as without father, mother, or genealogy to Duffey, while acknowledging confusion over how those specifications fit him [MTM B1:6].MTM B2:43; MTM B1:6
Father (Finnegan's)
Giulio Solli, the Monster, who calls himself a Teras. He tells Duffey that he held Duffey's talisman to his wife's belly and placed it in the hands of his Italian son at birth [MTM B3:107]; the talisman had been given to Giulio in St. Louis [MTM B4:120]. Duffey identifies Finnegan as Giulio's son and says Giulio has been dead for at least ten years, while Bagby insists that he has recently met him [MTM B5:165]. In Archipelago, Finnegan meets his shabby, sorrowful father after death and takes him for beer near the station. Giulio has a scraggly moustache, root-like hands, and a deepening silence. Finnegan attacks him as a failed dockworker and old peasant, then recognizes, when Giulio weeps and leaves, that his father loved the family and did everything he could [A:244-245]. The Devil Is Dead returns to this encounter and Finnegan's realization that Giulio belonged to a monstrous apparatus and died as the Monster Forgotten [D:228-229].MTM B3:107; MTM B4:120; MTM B5:165; A:244-245; D:228-229
Father (Henri Salvatore's)
Lawrence Salvatore, father of Henry Francis Salvatore [A:122]. Tired of disputes with Henry's teachers, he examines the boy and discovers that he is already educated; this happens early in Henry's thirteenth year [A:123]. After the war, Lawrence questions his son's haste to enter seminary and discusses Henry's fear for the Church [A:124-125].A:122; A:123; A:124-125
Father (Theresa Piccone's)
Gaetano Piccone, called Papa Piccone, father of Theresa Antoinette Piccone and proprietor of the Star and Garter Theatre [A:94] [MTM B5:163]. He is flamboyant, enjoys gambling, and flourishes hundred-dollar bills [A:95]. He claims to have accidentally made his unsuccessful burlesque character Oliver Oscar Omygosh into a real man; Bagby remembers the man but disputes Papa's claim to have created him [MTM B5:167-168]. Teresa is Beth Keegan's goddaughter [MTM B5:162]. Patrick Stranahan has represented Papa in disputes; the two become friends and argumentative companions, drinking whisky at the Stranahans' and wine at the Piccones'. Papa secretly burlesques Patrick onstage as Hallohan J. O'Hoolihan [A:104]. Before Theresa's wedding, Monica reports Papa's plan to replace the organist with accordion playing in the aisles, which Maurine calls a joke. Maurine instead anticipates his bringing three barrels of wine and jugs to the reception so that, unlike the hosts at Cana, he will not be remembered for running out [A:105].A:94; MTM B5:163; A:95; MTM B5:167-168; MTM B5:162; A:104; A:105
Father Baumgartner
Priest involved in Hans Schultz's schooling at St. Joseph's in St. Gallen, Wisconsin [A:207-208]. John William Schultz quarrels with him over the elementary curriculum and demands Greek, Aquinas, and Albert for the children. Father Baumgartner replies that Hans is only nine, that he himself does not know Greek, and that English literacy should come first [A:208-209].A:207-208; A:208-209
Father of Lies
The Devil, whose reputation makes X unsure how to interpret his statements about which people belong to his party [A:139]. In the account of the Fiefdoms' struggle, the claim that morals have entirely disappeared is named as one of the Father of Lies' falsehoods; the narrator insists that morality continues to resist assault [MTM B8:246].A:139; MTM B8:246
Father Time
The personification of time, conventionally an old man with a scythe. The goat-man resembles Father Time because he carries a scythe, but he uses it practically to cut wild grass and store winter fodder for his goats [A:194]. His name is Gautier [A:196].A:194; A:196
Fatted Calf
In her letter to Finnegan, Loy Larkin says that Papa neglected her garden but killed the fatted calf for his returning prodigal daughter [A:27]. The phrase adapts the celebration of the returning son in Luke 15:23-24.A:27
Faulte des Boemes
The fault or heresy of the Bohemians, from Villon's “Ballade des menus propos.” Marie Monaghan quotes the line in the novel's spelling, "Je congois le faulte des Boemes," in an in-person fashion. Salvation Sally claims the gift of tongues, interprets the phrase as the heresy of Bohemia, and asks who the heretics really are [A:8]. The glossary to Pierre Jannet's edition of Villon identifies the allusion with the followers of Jan Hus and Jerome of Prague.A:8
Faust
Legendary figure who bargains away his soul to the Devil. Hans Schultz is identified with Dr. Faustus, Apollo, and Aquinas Redevivus [A:39], and later described as simultaneously Faust and Apollo [A:169]. In Teresa Piccone's account of the Argonauts, Hans is Orpheus and is manifested at a later time as Faust [MTM B7:234]. Private Gregory uses Faust's moment of decision as the model for his theory of possessed men: an obscure beginning, a hiatus and bargain, then power and acclaim won by the devils within them [A:84].A:39; A:169; MTM B7:234; A:84
Faustina
The sixth in the sequence of ladies' names given to the daily bottles shared by Finnegan, Charles Le Marin, Don Barnaby, and Johnny Duckwalk in their Basse-Terre paradise [D:235-236]. Faustina follows Etheldreda and precedes Georgina; on this unusually heavy drinking day the Four reach Hildegarde, the eighth bottle [D:243].D:235-236; D:243
Feast of the Apparition
The feast Marie Monaghan names when announcing her engagement to Hans Schultz at the Lotus Eaters in Sydney. She calls the day the second Thursday of February and says she will never forget it [A:27-28]. In the story's 1943 chronology this is February 11, matching the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, which commemorates the first apparition there.A:27-28
February 11, 1943
Date of Loy Larkin's letter to Finnegan from Cambeltown, New South Wales, inviting him and his friends to meet her and Margaret the following morning [A:27].A:27
February 15, 1943
Wedding date of John Gottfried Schultz, called Hans, and Marie Anna Monaghan at Annunciation Church in Sydney, Australia. Hans has no army permission to marry, so the wedding is kept secret for a while; the twenty or thirty guests are all Marie's relatives [A:31].A:31
February 18th, 1943
Date Hans Schultz and the other boys returning from the Australian furlough report to the Troop Movement Office and are sent back to New Guinea [A:31]. Henry Salvatore had refused that furlough and had stayed behind [A:38].A:31; A:38
Federal Agrandisement
Casey Szymansky's explanation of the subject of Duffey's political analogies. Duffey objects that liberals who once wanted minimal government now want maximal government, a Leviathan that consumes the other whales [A:42].A:42
Federal Buildings (New)
Potential sites for Finnegan's murals in Casey's proposal for gaining money and commissions through liberal political patronage. Party sanction would bring commissions worth thousands of dollars, including work in new federal buildings [A:183-184].A:183-184
Federal Funding (Continuous-Flow)
Federal support obtained by Newton Prescott for the Casey Machine. Arguing that paid access favors the rich, he seeks Continuous-Flow Funding, Compensatory Counter-Flow Payments, and Impacted Entertainment Area Funding. He also secures shrine status for each machine's site, with Perpetual Care paid through Perpetual Guardian Payments to his own group; several forms of payment are guaranteed in perpetuity [CM:503] [CM:513]. His underlying concern is to preserve something of the machine against anticipated forgetting [CM:512-513].CM:503; CM:513; CM:512-513
Fetch
A double or wraith. Duffey has shadows, fetches, and doubles, described as often fleshed, or at least believed by him to be so [MTM B4:141]. The Postscript describes the Irish hero-giant Fingal accompanied by nine black-cloaked doubles while he wears white [PS:478]. Doppio di Pinne, called Dopey, is Finnegan's double. Papadiabolous II questions whether Dopey ever lived and whether Finnegan killed him [D:89]. He later says that Dopey was a seaman and sometime killer of the strange blood, whom Seaworthy summoned to kill Papadiabolous, but remains unsure how close the duality was [D:121]. He offers the further possibility that Dopey disappeared and was absorbed into Finnegan [D:122]. Archipelago calls Dopey Finnegan's fetch who died in his place, either in the Brunhilde's cabin at Papadiabolous's hands or later in Seaworthy's Galveston trap [A:278]. The fictional review of Royce Rollins's The Return of the Neanderthal: The Alien Within attributes to Rollins the theory that doubles and fetches are ordinary manifestations of his interior aliens [D:240-242].MTM B4:141; PS:478; D:89; D:121; D:122; A:278; D:240-242
Fetish
A term associated with marks, symbolic objects, and rituals. Seaworthy bears a scar or tattoo inside his left wrist and claims to see the same mark beneath Finnegan's skin [D:10]. Finnegan perceives another, less literal mark in Seaworthy, indicating to him that the man has killed [D:16-17]. After the Naxos shooting, Finnegan's wrist seems to star like cracked glass and bleed beneath the skin before becoming the mark [D:145]. X later calls it the sign of the octopus; Finnegan dates it to the shooting and wonders whether he too belongs to the alien flesh, a category X still questions [D:156]. Bagby calls Duffey a fetish mark that fates and principalities touch or avoid in choosing their courses [MTM B10:302]. Rebeka Stein calls the absurd or incongruous device that triggers a dreamlike transformation a fetish transformation activator, exemplified by the potholes leading to alternate futures in Cleo Mahoney's play [MTM B10:293-294]. At the Final Conclave, Stone Hackenschmidt calls burning the Straw-Man Cap-Stone a fetish-ritual that has got out of hand when it produces enormous quantities of blood [MB:568].D:10; D:16-17; D:145; D:156; MTM B10:302; MTM B10:293-294; MB:568
Fetish mark
Bagby's description of Duffey in a letter: like a sidewalk crack or roadside post, he is something that fates and principalities touch or avoid and perhaps use to determine their courses. Bagby insists that being such a fetish is not lowly, since even the grand powers cannot ignore him [MTM B10:302].MTM B10:302
Fetish transformation activator
Rebeka Stein's name for the usually ridiculous or incongruous object that activates a transformation in a dream or detached experience. She praises the potholes in Cleo Mahoney's Seven Roads: stepping into one would bring Duffey into one of seven alternate scenes or futures, sometimes without his noticing the transition [MTM B10:293-294].MTM B10:293-294
Fetish-ritual
Stone Hackenschmidt's name for burning the Straw-Man Cap-Stone at the Final Conclave. The effigy, soaked in a lamb's blood, produces red smoke, blood-red rain, and a flood far beyond what ten thousand lambs could supply; Hackenschmidt remarks that the fetish-ritual has got out of hand [MB:568].MB:568
Fiddlers' Greens
Duffey's name for the green places of amusement he hopes suit their green years. He asks whether the clubs are Fiddlers' Greens or Thelemes; Shirley Israel dismisses those as old-fashioned beside the fashionable establishments of Fleshpot Row [MTM B4:126].MTM B4:126
Field, Elysian
Earlier inverted heading omitted Avenue; the source uses singular Field. See Elysian Field Avenue.Fiery Furnace
The ordeal of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in Daniel 3. In his longer, unsent letter to Duffey, Henri Salvatore credits Margaret Stone with reminding them to remain aflame, then adds the nightly self-examination question, "Did I spend sufficient time in the Fiery Furnace today?" [MTM B5:179-180].MTM B5:179-180
Fifth Avenue (New York)
Manhattan street invoked in the opening epigraph attributed to Asimov: a shaved, neatly dressed Neanderthal could probably walk along New York's Fifth Avenue without attracting much notice [D:9].D:9
Fifth Heaven
Heavenly sphere used in Trinali Peterson's wine-glass poem. The half-globe of crystal resembles the transparent sphere of Fifth Heaven; its fragile stem supports that heaven's dome, and the wine holds the mystery of death and resurrection [A:231].A:231
Fifty (Company of)
The resident regulars of the Old Wooden Ship tavern. The narrator lists forty-nine names and cries that one has been forgotten from the company of fifty [D:215-216]. Finnegan immerses himself in their company to recover assurance of humanity's reality [D:225]. The forgotten regular, Hildegarde Katt, is remembered in the following chapter [D:229].D:215-216; D:225; D:229
Figs
Fruit in the Boy King Duffey's groves, described as more real than Iowa's apple trees or Missouri's plum and peach trees [MTM B1:17]. Zabotski calls the sycamore the American Fig and uses it as a disparaging comparison for Bryan Blackstone [MTM B9:270]. The description of Naxos includes figs alongside olives, lemons, grapes, and honey [D:125]. In Ti's account of Amoy's earlier life as a bird working for thieves, Amoy steals figs and olives after progressing through millet, rice, coriander, and dates [A:80].MTM B1:17; MTM B9:270; D:125; A:80
Figures
Representations, puppets, and persons treated as constructed figures. In Elroy Redheart's third red room, most figures are cheap Hong Kong plastic castings resembling Cracker Jack prizes; their arranged scenes depict feverish wealth, a hectic man, and a beautiful young woman [MTM B7:223]. The woman is shown giggling and sticking pins into the heart she holds in her hands [MTM B7:224]. Charlotte Mullens says she chooses empty, pliable flesh-and-blood people, usually actors, and makes them compliant figures and extensions of her aura. Duffey wonders whether her sister and son are projections or ventriloquist's figures; Charlotte insists that her method contains nothing beyond nature [MTM B3:83]. Other figures include the laughing, turbaned Christ from Turkish Anatolia, described as carved a thousand years earlier and freshly repainted within fifty years [MTM B3:104]; Teilhard's demiurgic apparition on St. Michael's altar, with McLuhan and McGonigal beside him [GD:497]; and Casey as a cult figure whom Mary Catherine Carruthers says earns more than thirty thousand dollars a week [MTM B12:377]. Theresa Piccone writes that she works a ventriloquist's figures and that dummies prefer that name [A:49]. Trinali Peterson makes figures from discarded bottles, corks, and raffia, including Dresden figures, marionettes, Mexicans, donkeys, clowns, and prize-fighters [A:228].MTM B7:223; MTM B7:224; MTM B3:83; MTM B3:104; GD:497; MTM B12:377; A:49; A:228
Filicudi
One of the Aeolian Islands off Sicily. In Anastasia's account of mermaid history, medieval mermaids lived off Sicily, especially around Salina and Filicudi [D:34-35].D:34-35
Final Beatitude
The strong promise associated with the Fourteenth Voyage of the Argo, the fourth of the seven contingent futures. This voyage concerns ongoing beatitudes, the completed quest, and the enduring finding of the Golden Fleece; unlike the other contingencies, it is said to be certain to happen [MTM B10:300].MTM B10:300
Final Conclave
The declared last assembly of the Ekklesia, or Crowd, held in Babylonia Bagascia to confirm the institution's dismantling [MB:561-563]. Paul XI, the Cap-Stone, is decapitated the day before it opens; the final evening's entertainment is the Voltaire Festival [MB:562-565]. Monsignor X serves the assembly. Hackenschmidt threatens to kill him for failing to anticipate a demand for a submachine gun, but X denies that he will be killed and produces a BAR instead [MB:566-567].MB:561-563; MB:562-565; MB:566-567
Fingal the Hero
Irish hero-giant invoked when Duffey meets Finnegan. Duffey recalls Fingal, or Finn McCool in another version, eating a hundred oysters each larger than a wagon wheel, and wonders whether the young man is an incognito hero or giant [MTM B5:173-174]. The Postscript describes Fingal in white sheep-wool attended by nine doubles in black sheep-wool [PS:478].MTM B5:173-174; PS:478
Finn McCool
Fionn mac Cumhaill, legendary leader of the Fianna, whose adventures are set in a third-century heroic age. Duffey calls Finnegan the original Finn McCool [MTM B5:169], and recalls the hero, also named Fingal in another version, eating a hundred oysters larger than wagon wheels [MTM B5:173-174]. Absalom Stein's notes report that Lafferty rejects a Joycean derivation of Finnegan and associates him with earlier Irish legend, implying identities with Finn McCool, Fingal, and Cú Chulainn [MB:549-550].MTM B5:169; MTM B5:173-174; MB:549-550
Finnegan (John A. Solli)
Giovanni, or John, A. Solli, called Finnegan, born June 1, 1919, in New Orleans to Giulio Solli and Mary McCracken; his brother is Giacomo and his sister Patricia [A:173] [MTM B3:76]. Vincent explains Finnegan as his nickname [A:2]. Beyond the birth and family facts, the narrator warns that accounts of his life disagree [A:174-175]. Finnegan is dark and lean, with a long banana nose, restless facial muscles, and a mouth continually in motion [A:1]. His movement suggests extraordinary grace, strength, and speed, while his face is a gargoyle's comic mask and his speech an unmatched mixture of New Orleans, waterfront Irish, Italian, and Cajun elements [A:6]. He is a painter, seaman, and wanderer [A:175] [D:114], a former steeplejack and accomplished burglar who conducts upper-story break-ins to obtain evidence [D:162], and a former boxer [D:172-173]. He works a nine-hour shift on the New Orleans docks before moving into the Pelican Press print shop [A:116]. He also markets smuggled diamonds for Joseph, whom he meets in Freetown, sending him drafts over the following years [D:93-95]. He belongs to the Dirty Five with Vincent Stranahan, Hans Schultz, Henry Salvatore, and Casey Szymansky, brought together in the army [A:38-39] [MTM B5:171]. He is Iason in their Argonaut identities [A:39]. In Duffey's account of his twelve talismanic creations, Finnegan is the central creation and the salt of their lives [MTM B5:161] [MTM B5:174]. Giulio, who calls himself a Teras, describes giving Duffey's talisman to his son at birth [MTM B3:107]. Finnegan repeatedly experiences amnesia when passing between his upper and lower lives, sometimes losing months of memory and even his name [D:11-12] [D:18] [D:50]. He wonders what connects his successive returns from oblivion and whether he belongs to another human race [D:91]. His sense of alienness alternates with recognition of kinship, especially with Anastasia [D:20]. At confession he describes memories of belonging to the Devil's kindred and an old animal rising within him; the priest absolves his whole person, in all its aspects [D:119-120]. Anastasia's grandmother places him among the violent people of the other blood [D:128]; Anastasia calls both herself and him teras and says they try to make amends [D:139]. Papadiabolous II includes the three of them among the Non-people [D:121]. These identities do not settle all the competing accounts of Finnegan's existence. His clairvoyance includes perceiving Seaworthy's killer's mark, claiming to read the waves' Chaldee writing, and reading the concealed contents of Dopey's letter [D:16-17] [D:38] [D:50-51]. He reconstructs and paints Papadiabolous II's true face before seeing it exposed in death [D:63]. He speaks effective Spanish and Italian and can imitate almost any voice [D:57] [D:114]. He uses a knife in his attack on Gerecke and is an excellent rifle shot [D:164-165] [D:197]. Finnegan paints the Brunhilde's barroom with scenes of Sindbad's voyages, including the ship's people as the dead; he tells Anastasia that when he paints them dead, they are dead [D:59] [D:61]. He works on a large Yellow Period painting while helping Duffey establish the Pelican Press in New Orleans [MTM B6:190]. In Manhattan, under the name Gregory van Ghi, he successfully sells Orange Period paintings and obtains a standing dealer's commission [A:191]. His account of studying under Van Ghi in Florence is challenged by Patricia, who says Van Ghi is an invented name; the narrator of his Florence devil-painting tale also denies its stated circumstances [A:175] [D:252-256]. The painting The Resurrection of Count Finnegan arrives at Duffey's New Orleans gallery after reports of Finnegan's death. It shows a much older Finnegan rising from a sea cave and repairing his decayed flesh; his banana nose has gained nobility, while his humor, pain, and physical energy remain recognizable [MB:550-551]. Its other half depicts Joseph Cardinal Hedayat of Antioch, aged into an appearance identical to the pictured Finnegan, though the two men do not yet look identical in ordinary life [MB:552]. Hilton purchases the painting for twenty thousand dollars and leaves it displayed in Duffey's gallery [MB:553]. Later, Finnegan paints the thirteen Deaths of the Cardinals on the Argo's Bread and Wine Room bulkheads. The narrator celebrates their power while raising the problem of whether Hedayat, his accomplished painter-double, could have made them [MTM B13:452]. Finnegan sails on the Brunhilde as a crewman and shares a cabin with Don Lewis and Joe Cross, both counted among his friends [D:27] [D:30-31]. He resists claims that Seaworthy and the Devil own him [D:40]. He has helped Seaworthy bury the man whom X later identifies as Papadiabolous I, Gregory McIfreann [D:75-76] [D:153] [D:285]. The apparently resurrected Papa frightens him, but he needles and challenges him [D:22] [D:30]. He later understands that the Papa he knows is a replacement and ally: X identifies the dead man's face as the Irish policeman Noonan or Flaherty, and subsequently explains that he is Gregory McColum, Papadiabolous II [D:113] [D:154] [D:285-286]. Anastasia is his beloved companion and declares herself his sister in a sense he does not yet understand [D:20] [D:69]. Finnegan is initially drawn to Marie Courtois's beauty and strength [D:37], but recoils from her ecstatic admission of killing Don Lewis. He and Joe Cross attempt to return and kill her, until Papa intervenes [D:112-113]. Finnegan buries Don Lewis in the sand near Tangier [D:110-112] [A:188]. At Naxos he rushes down the mountain after hearing gunfire, only to find Papadiabolous II and Anastasia already dead [D:140-147]. He escapes into hiding with Manuel [D:148-149]. With Mr. X, an acquaintance from both his lives, he tries to understand what happened [D:152-154]. Anastasia's loss becomes his first death in the narrative's figurative sense, and he dedicates the remaining shadow of his life to robbing and killing Seaworthy [D:156-158]. In New York he climbs into the conspirators' meeting, kills Gerecke while intending to kill Seaworthy, and steals their immensely valuable suitcase [D:162-166]. He escapes with Doll Delancy, who becomes his companion; Mr. X subsequently joins them in Baltimore and takes charge of their protection [D:167] [D:171-174] [D:177]. Finnegan later immerses himself in the Old Wooden Ship's Company of Fifty to recover assurance of humanity's reality [D:225]. Before leaving that town, he attacks the Pirate Hotel, kills two guards and another person, but hears Seaworthy's laugh behind him [D:231]. He reaches the Basse-Terre paradise with Le Marin, Don Barnaby, and Johnny Duckwalk [D:233-236]. Eventually he returns for a watched graveyard rendezvous with Doll and X, calling Seaworthy his odd uncle as he approaches their final confrontation [D:275-276]. Finnegan's deaths remain disputed. Stein records incompatible accounts of his death or survival in the Philippines, the Brunhilde, Tangier, Naxos, Galveston, and the Marianao Coast near Havana, and believes he is still alive [MB:548-550]. In Cuba he is called the Sleeping Man; witnesses disagree about whether he has already left his sea-cave tomb [MTM B12:370-372]. He later appears on the Argo, where he and Biloxi Brannagan exchange banter and where he is explicitly named as Hedayat's double; Herman Hercules is the double of Erculo [MTM B13:453]. The list of pursued doubles confirms those pairings [MB:579]. At the conclave on the Mooring-Rock, at least one of the supposed doubles is believed to be a surviving true cardinal, preserving the succession [MB:596]. Finnegan abstains while the other twelve vote for him, and X crowns him Pope Finnegan the First [MB:597]. The closing words about the day the Devil is dead belong to Doll's poem Diabolique, which also foretells Finnegan's approaching death [D:293-294].A:173; MTM B3:76; A:2; A:174-175; A:1; A:6; A:175; D:114; D:162; D:172-173; A:116; D:93-95; A:38-39; MTM B5:171; A:39; MTM B5:161; MTM B5:174; MTM B3:107; D:11-12; D:18; D:50; D:91; D:20; D:119-120; D:128; D:139; D:121; D:16-17; D:38; D:50-51; D:63; D:57; D:164-165; D:197; D:59; D:61; MTM B6:190; A:191; D:252-256; MB:550-551; MB:552; MB:553; MTM B13:452; D:27; D:30-31; D:40; D:75-76; D:153; D:285; D:22; D:30; D:113; D:154; D:285-286; D:69; D:37; D:112-113; D:110-112; A:188; D:140-147; D:148-149; D:152-154; D:156-158; D:162-166; D:167; D:171-174; D:177; D:225; D:231; D:233-236; D:275-276; MB:548-550; MTM B12:370-372; MTM B13:453; MB:579; MB:596; MB:597; D:293-294
Finnegan Cycle
Body of legend studied by Absalom Stein, who says he has not determined its exact relation to the Argo legend [MTM B6:188]. His uncertainty is repeated as the opening epigraph of “How Many Miles to Babylon” [MB:550].MTM B6:188; MB:550
Finnegan Diamonds
Diamonds marketed by Finnegan through his partnership with Joseph the Haussa. He leaves Freetown with a sack of stones and sends Joseph drafts as he sells them over the following years [D:94-95]. Hillary Hilton says he has handled Finnegan diamonds [A:255]. Duffey later tells the Devil that he already wears them and that all Finnegan’s friends do likewise [MTM B10:303].D:94-95; A:255; MTM B10:303
Finnegan O'Hannigan McGillicuddy
Name Finnegan gives Howland Jerome Howland during his wanderings. When Howland doubts it, Finnegan admits that he has just invented most of it, though everyone calls him Finnegan [A:178].A:178
Finnegan Production
Finnegan's proposed intervention to have Hillary Hilton reclaim his wife Mary Jean and displace Casey Szymansky, giving the friends another chance to straighten Casey out [A:252]. Finnegan promises that his part in the production will be funny and require a couple of gadgets [A:253].A:252; A:253
Finnegan Visitation
Teresa Piccone Stranahan’s phrase in a private letter for an experience of Finnegan’s ghostly presence. She says he inhabits his friends, and reports that Stein mistook his first such experience, on Passion Sunday afternoon in 1948, for a visitation at Finnegan’s death [MTM B6:188].MTM B6:188
Finnerty, Vincent
Member of the rich money-and-commerce circle around Duffey and Letitia during Chicago's golden age [MTM B3:100]. He is one of the people described as mentalists about money who foresee the 1929 financial collapse [MTM B4:110].MTM B3:100; MTM B4:110
Fire
Fire appears as practical heat, destructive force, and sacred sign. Finnegan tells of an open fire in the north woods beside which a young hobo aged overnight [D:14]. Papa Devil builds a beach campfire after the Padre Island meal; its flickering light later picks out the cliffs of Seaworthy's granite-like face [D:34] [D:40] [D:48]. Finnegan and Howland make a pit fire to cook rabbits [A:178], while the Australian picnic party sings around charcoal briquettes in a large plate supplied by a hotel girl [A:31]. Hans says he painted carnival pictures of Zippo the Fire-Eater [A:230]. Finnegan tells Doll that his kind set people on fire when they dislike them [D:182], and later broods on burning cities and the possibility of hellfire consuming the earth [D:256]. After his attack on Gerecke, he escapes down iron fire-ladders [D:165]. A noble white horse intended for Casey's Leader rally had been bought from a fire department giving up its horses [MTM B4:117]. Henri Salvatore's letter credits Margaret Stone with the injunction to remain aflame [MTM B5:179-180]. At the Opera House, Margaret produces holy-ghost fire about her tongue, ignites human ashes in her mouth, and pours orange flame over herself without apparent burning [MTM B11:348]. The Fire-Drake Frolic kills further human victims to Fritz's Fandango in Three Flames [MTM B11:350]. After Duffey is killed, three slack-faced men burn his flesh, sinews, and viscera into perpetually hot ashes, leaving his bones separate [MTM B13:442]. The Straw-Man Cap-Stone is burned in the stove at the Final Conclave, producing extraordinary blood and red smoke [MB:568].D:14; D:34; D:40; D:48; A:178; A:31; A:230; D:182; D:256; D:165; MTM B4:117; MTM B5:179-180; MTM B11:348; MTM B11:350; MTM B13:442; MB:568
Fire Drake Frolic, The
A sequence in the Decatur Street Opera House's blood entertainment, in which further human victims are killed to the accompaniment of Fritz's Fandango in Three Flames [MTM B11:350].MTM B11:350
Fire Drakes
See Firedrakes.Fire-Eater (Zippo the)
Zippo the Fire-Eater, a carnival performer whose picture Hans Schultz includes among the many act pictures he says he painted for carnivals [A:230].A:230
Firedrakes
Fabulous creatures appearing among the discarded remnants of the old world. Margaret Stone reports that a half-man, half-fire-drake bites a woman; when examined, it is only rubber, though the woman is diagnosed with infectious draconitis [MTM B11:309]. The Pop Historians' safari also attacks a building in which human remnants, morphic dragons, and papier-mâché fire-lizards have barricaded themselves [MTM B11:338]. Kasmir Gorshok says he can summon firedrakes to the Argo. The Professor recommends a firedrake at each fireplace, since blind spirits may enter through such neglected openings, to help exclude the Man of Mystery [MTM B13:456]. After the security arrangements are made, the firedrakes patrol constantly [MTM B13:458].MTM B11:309; MTM B11:338; MTM B13:456; MTM B13:458
Firenze
Florence, Italy, the setting of Finnegan's story about studying painting under Van Ghi [D:252]. In his tale, he paints a devil whom Father Le Faye recognizes and exorcises, and whom Van Ghi calls an old repeater appearing in many works of art; both advise burning the picture [D:253-255]. The narrator then says Finnegan did paint a devil, but not under the circumstances he has just described [D:256].D:252; D:253-255; D:256
Firm, The
The Stranahan family law firm, proposed as a place where Vincent could learn law alongside extension courses instead of attending college [A:103]. His father Patrick is a successful attorney [A:94].A:103; A:94
First Day (Creation)
The creation imagery of Archipelago's opening: the fresh morning evokes the making of the world, while beer is available because barley and hops have already been made on the third day. Finnegan, cast as the first man, drinks the first beer [A:1].A:1
First Day (Finnegan)
First day of Finnegan's fighting binge, when he says he won thirteen consecutive fights before losing one [D:191-192]. He separately describes the railroad man who broke his nose and disproved his boast that he could take two punches to give one; the passage does not identify that man as the opponent in the first loss [D:192].D:191-192; D:192
First Death of Finnegan
The death named by the narrator after Anastasia’s killing and Finnegan’s vow to devote his remaining “shadow life” to hunting Seaworthy [D:157-158]. The narrator distinguishes it from a later physical death on another island, while saying that this first death has a finality of its own [D:158]. The following chapter describes the shadow life as freeing Finnegan from the unities and the heroic conventions [D:161]. Doll later recalls his saying that their adventures are what he does after he is dead [D:173].D:157-158; D:158; D:161; D:173
First Executive
Title under which Bandicoot Blackstone says his son John will run the family businesses while Bandicoot remains chairman of their boards. This succession is discussed while Bryan Blackstone is dying and expected not to survive the day [MTM B9:288].MTM B9:288
First Peter 5, 8-9
Biblical exhortation to vigilance against the Devil, pictured as a prowling lion, and to resistance in faith. A version of its opening appears among More Than Melchisedech's collected documents, pointedly credited to "Dotty O'Toole. Sonnet" [MTM B5:175].MTM B5:175
First Speaker, The
The first lecturer at the Royal Pop Historians' sessions in Duffey's buildings. He speaks in a voice compared to a thunder colt's and defines the present as the all-embracing moment [MTM B11:323]. His gaudy turban carries a sparkling gem or eye that makes his visible face seem false. He presents history as everything in that moment, subject to the historians' continuing reconstruction and revision [MTM B11:324].MTM B11:323; MTM B11:324
Firster
Term associated with Peter in the earlier glossary’s account of the “Paean.” The earlier glossary cites the opening “Paean” of Archipelago, page ix. That preliminary page is absent from the supplied copy, so the reading remains unverified.Fish
Fish furnish meals, marvelous sea life, and figurative language. Rough fish are continually added to the Big Pot [MTM B6:196]. In futuristic Louisiana, Honeybucket Kincaid's tuned electrodes gather nine-pound alligator gar and fourteen-pound Blooper Fish for Biloxi and Duffey's meal [MTM B13:416-417]. Whistling blue fish occupy Bayougoula Park's uncanny fountain [MTM B11:331]. Duffey worries that Casey Gorshok's devil-fish mascot will recover the last scrap of the dangerous logic paper [MTM B13:430]. The Fanged Fish is a remembered waterfront establishment at Ogopo [MTM B13:407]. The Argo knows migrating seas that travel with their fish [MTM B13:405]; its talking oak recalls St. Brandon's encounter with the great fish Jascoyne [MTM B13:404]. Coryphaena Fish rise above the waves blowing shell horns after Finnegan and his companions board, a salute associated with a present or future pope aboard the Argo [MTM B13:450-451]. Sea creatures are said to enjoy the sunken bells of ships and cities [MB:575]. Henri Salvatore says some Argo mariners have fishy flesh [MTM B12:386]. Mary Louise calls Bagby's inexplicable letters as fishy as the Gascinade River [MTM B7:219]. Eva fears that paying for her bar with old fifty-dollar gold pieces will look fishy [MTM B13:414]. In his commentary on Casey, Finnegan calls him fishy as the Grand Banks and says he attracts weak-fish opinions [PG:543-544].MTM B6:196; MTM B13:416-417; MTM B11:331; MTM B13:430; MTM B13:407; MTM B13:405; MTM B13:404; MTM B13:450-451; MB:575; MTM B12:386; MTM B7:219; MTM B13:414; PG:543-544
Fish Market
Maurine Stranahan's teasing name for her family's Club Room, where mounted fish and gun cases display the male Stranahans' sporting interests. She also calls the men the Rod and Gun Club and says her live-bait fishing shows up their fly fishing [A:103].A:103
Fish Spears
Two- and three-tined implements that Hans Schultz cites while disputing the saying that fingers were made before forks. He distinguishes ancient fish spears from untined stabbers used as eating forks; his claim that utensils predate fingers is part of the conversation's conceit [A:4].A:4
Fishtail people
The mermaid people from whom Anastasia Demetriades claims descent on Naxos [D:115]. In her account the fishtail is disappearing: most surviving mermaids are now two-footed, and her own family has produced no fishtail for six generations [D:36].D:115; D:36
Fishy
Mary Louise Bagby's description of the unexplained correspondence between Bagby and Duffey: "as fishy as the Gascinade River." She objects that Bagby never writes letters; he answers that these belong to another context outside daily time [MTM B7:219].MTM B7:219
Fitzjames, James
Young scholar Hans Schultz meets among New York's secondhand bookshops. Fitzjames begs a quarter for Jaufre and Brunissende; Hans buys him the book, follows him to a park to read, and shares giant bagels and a quart of beer [A:224]. Fitzjames says he sleeps in friends' hallways and on their sofas, calls himself his circle's most intelligent and least charming member, and describes the group as the new leaven [A:225]. He remarks that fish and old bread are the food of poverty [A:234]. He and Hans are the only Romans at Trinali Peterson's burial and find the service inadequate [A:240].A:224; A:225; A:234; A:240
Five Dollar Gold Piece
Gold coin Duffey produces by snapping his fingers and gives to Gretchen Sisler beside a park [MTM B2:38-39]. Later he rubs his hands together and pours seven United States five-dollar gold pieces onto a library table. Patrick Stranahan observes that they were minted about ten years earlier and suggests that Duffey could have carried them beforehand; Duffey insists that he performs magic rather than tricks [MTM B5:167].MTM B2:38-39; MTM B5:167
Five Foot Shelf
Absalom Stein's five-foot shelf of old humor magazines, from which he reads jokes on the Anopheles Network, his G.I. radio station [A:46].A:46
Five Roses
One of the mild whiskies offered at Falo and Nauti's newly opening jungle cabaret on Luzon. Finnegan and Vincent are its first customers, and Falo brings water to accompany the Five Roses [A:63-64].A:63-64
Flagship of Abd-Aliah
An identity of the Argo in the history told by the talking oak in its wheel. After serving as the Anthony Ship at Actium, it becomes Abd-Aliah of the Sea's flagship and carries his beautiful daughter, who has a tail. Abd-Aliah later sells it to Sindbad of El-Basrah [MTM B13:404].MTM B13:404
Flaherty
Alias of Gregory McColum Papadiabolous II, the Irish cop who also uses Noonan and takes his brother Papadiabolous I's place [D:285] [D:289]. X recognizes him from Finnegan's sketch as the valuable ally killed on the Naxos landing [D:154]. Finnegan has already found his shot and bludgeoned body there [D:146].D:285; D:289; D:154; D:146
Flame Man (comic strip)
Comic strip in which Dotty Yekouris says the Slant-Faced Men have appeared [MTM B7:225]. Duffey later finds their names, Amraphel, Arioch, and Thadal, given almost casually in the strip, where the three are depicted as stooges [MTM B7:227].MTM B7:225; MTM B7:227
Flap-jacking
One of the minor popular arts listed among the lively practices of daily life that are endangered, degraded, or disappear during the massive trashing of the arts after the Devil's release [MTM B6:207-208].MTM B6:207-208
Flash girl
Fashionable female companion in Casey Szymansky's tenth imagined world, the world of money, prestige, and social standing. He wants a flash car and a flash girl, choosing whichever of Evelyn, Mary Jean, or Mary Carruthers grows up prettiest [A:160].A:160
Flat
An editorial description of Finnegan's living quarters in the old print shop taken over for the Pelican Press: cots and a cook stove stand at the back of a cluttered shop-like building [A:116]. The separate phrase "fell flat" describes Duffey stumbling over Crissie Cristofero's future sign on Dumaine Street [MTM B12:358].A:116; MTM B12:358
Flats, Jackass
One of the regions named in Don Lewis's tale of three American soldiers lost on Willy Jones Island after Santee and Casper kill the elusive man called Yokipoki. Despite its name, Jackass Flats is the most precipitous country the narrator has seen [D:44-46].D:44-46
Flaying of Cardinal Artemis
One of the thirteen paintings in the Deaths of the Cardinals series on the Argo's Bread and Wine Room bulkheads, showing Cardinal Artemis's execution. It is singled out among the surpassing works attributed to Count Finnegan, although the narrator also raises the possibility of his painter-double Cardinal Hedayat [MTM B13:452].MTM B13:452
Fleece Itself
The Great Golden Fleece of Colchis, whose combings Casey Gorshok makes into a golden mask, neck scarf, and gauntlets for the fleshless Melchisedech Duffey [MTM B13:443]. Despite their sacred material and their maker's mastery, the garments sometimes impair Duffey's sensing, touch, and impulses [MTM B13:444].MTM B13:443; MTM B13:444
Fleece, Golden
The Golden Fleece of Colchis, object of Jason and the Argonauts' quest. Stranahan's poem recalls the friends sailing the ancient Argo in pursuit of golden cargo [A:91], and Rosemary tells the Sergeant that he will find the fleece without recognizing his success [A:89]. The Argo's logs record the fleece's discovery as a brilliant early triumph [MTM B13:421]. Its finding abides forever in the Fourteenth Voyage's "Quest Accomplished" motif [MTM B10:300]. Threads combed from it protect a magus on an icy cliff from freezing, falling, and death [MTM B13:397-399]; later Casey makes its golden fabric into Duffey's mask, scarf, and gauntlets [MTM B13:443].A:91; A:89; MTM B13:421; MTM B10:300; MTM B13:397-399; MTM B13:443
Flesh Weed Eater
An agency of destruction named by the child hero among the Royal Pop People. Even the flesh weed eater cannot dispose of certain bright, strong, crookedly talented human weeds; those must be destroyed by thunder colts [MTM B11:334-335].MTM B11:334-335
Flesh Weeds
The child hero's contemptuous term for the human remnants whom the Royal Pop People are eager to eliminate while determining who qualifies as a thunder person [MTM B11:334].MTM B11:334
Fleshpot Row
Chicago entertainment row including Herm's, Curley Q, Seven Steps Down, Blow Brass, The Farmer's Daughter, and Dung Heap, frequented by Duffey and his circle. Rollo McSorley recommends it as the remaining home of Chicago-Hot Jazz, while the narrator confirms the music but condemns its worst tendencies. Letitia and Demetrio object to the establishments' atmosphere [MTM B4:125-126].MTM B4:125-126
Fleshpots
Places of indulgence: Bagby frequents the fleshpots of Chestnut Street [MTM B2:62]. Rollo and Josephine McSorley urge Duffey toward gaudy establishments on Randolph Street, defending fleshpots if they serve Irish stew; Letitia finds their atmosphere stifling [MTM B4:125].MTM B2:62; MTM B4:125
Flies
Duffey pictures a few perceptive people as flies who notice when the molasses trapping them hardens into amber, while most recognize only that something is wrong [MTM B9:268]. In his commentary on Casey's possible eschatological role, he calls premature antichrists flies buzzing about the Lord of the Flies [PG:534-535].MTM B9:268; PG:534-535
Flintskin
Insult aimed at Duffey by the leader of three young men after Duffey knocks them down. The speaker couples "old flintskin" with "old muleskin" and "old camelskin," continuing the Great Day encounter's imagery of old skins that must be discarded [GD:482-483].GD:482-483
Floating palaces
Hillary Hilton's description of three garbage scows that he says he has refurbished and sold to an Arabian Gulf potentate [A:255].A:255
Floating restaurant
Unidentified restaurant supposedly associated with John Mogul; the proposed reference at Archipelago, page 122, does not establish this establishment or ownership.Flood
The biblical deluge of Genesis 6-9. In Casey's school notes, Hinnegan places the Milesians in Ireland before it, prompting Casey's joke about Noah carrying two Irishmen on the ark [A:164-165]. Jimmy Hansen calls the Bushmaster-Schultz drinking contest the greatest event since the flood dried [A:19]. A Pattenite reader dates the Floodtide Catastrophes, sudden mountain formation, and Noah's flotation to about 2800 BC in Zabotski's Pristine History of the World, comparing this with Fundamentaler chronology [MTM B9:278]. Zabotski says mountains rose beneath the ark and insists that his own approaching flood will be the original, earlier floods merely practice [MTM B9:281] [MTM B9:287].A:164-165; A:19; MTM B9:278; MTM B9:281; MTM B9:287
Floodtide Catastrophes
Catastrophes dated to about 2800 BC in Zabotski's Pristine History of the World, according to a Pattenite reader who finds its chronology nearly identical to that of the Fundamentalers. The same cluster includes the instantaneous rise of the Alpine-Himalayan System and the flotation of Noah's barge. Zabotski calls the agreement possibly accidental [MTM B9:278].MTM B9:278
Flores Sea
One of the seas in the catalogue of waters sailed by the Argo and Melchisedech Duffey, listed between the Java and Bali seas [MTM B13:406].MTM B13:406
Florida
State where Finnegan, Doll, and X stay in lake country, fish, and drink at a shady bait house [D:180-182]. They drive to Orlando, Kissimee, Pine Castle, Apopka, and sometimes Daytona [D:183]. Finnegan later reports that the leftfooted killer has been asking for him in Winter Garden [D:193]. In Le Marin's sea story, Florida is where he comes ashore after hiding for three days aboard the seized Sarcophagus [D:245].D:180-182; D:183; D:193; D:245
Flour
Wheat and rye flour form the Danish-bread Christ-head in Duffey's art collection; the narrative associates such loaves with Corpus Christi Day in Denmark [MTM B3:103]. Flour is also among the provisions Finnegan unloads from Papapaleologus's panniers at Anastasia Grandmother's house [D:126].MTM B3:103; D:126
Flower Growing
One of the popular arts listed among the lively practices degraded by the deformed counterparts that emerge after the Devil's release [MTM B6:207].MTM B6:207
Flowers
The underground sunshine of New Orleans bursts through gaps in the pavement like exploding red, yellow, and purple flowers named Philos, Eros, and Agape. Hot purple Agape is the theme flower of the hundred-and-twenty-month late summer shared by Duffey and Letitia [MTM B7:211]. Earlier, the chubby young woman at St. Malachy's takes a red rose; she is subsequently identified as Letitia Koch [MTM B3:88-91].MTM B7:211; MTM B3:88-91
Flute (Magic)
The Magic Flute, one of the celebrated objects in the catalogue of the Argo's discoveries, alongside the Ring of the Nebelungs and the Philosopher's Stone [MTM B13:421-422].MTM B13:421-422
Flute (Recorder)
Old-style recorder flute Duffey builds from walnut and Philippine mahogany, with brass stop-keys and filigree, while helping establish the Pelican Press [MTM B6:190]. Letitia prefers it to his banjo because he cannot sing while playing it [MTM B7:226]. After her death, he plays the flute through a difficult hour of paperwork [MTM B8:254]. He also performs on recorder and banjo during the intermission of Seven Roads at the Ursuline Academy [MTM B12:366].MTM B6:190; MTM B7:226; MTM B8:254; MTM B12:366
Flute bands
Musical ensembles named among the popular arts whose style and vitality are degraded in the massive trashing of the arts [MTM B6:207]. Duffey had hoped to form a flute band as an occasional alternative to his neighborhood string band [MTM B6:190].MTM B6:207; MTM B6:190
Fly Fishing
One of the popular arts included among the lively practices being degraded in the trashing of the arts [MTM B6:207].MTM B6:207
Flying mule
Mule Duffey transports by summoned giant hands at the Pont du Sable Traffic Trestle on November 13, 1935, after Morris Poor and Rollo McSorley challenge him [MTM B4:127] [MTM B4:130-132]. The largest of three mules moves thirty feet across a half-street to a traffic island. Witnesses and newspaper photographs offer varying accounts, though the narrator affirms that giant hands performed the feat [MTM B4:131-133]. The initial claim that this is Duffey's last public magic is immediately corrected by recalling his puppet shows with Letitia [MTM B4:133].MTM B4:127; MTM B4:130-132; MTM B4:131-133; MTM B4:133
Flying Rings
Apparatus used with the turning pole in Hans Schultz's agility training. His physical education also includes twice-daily runs on the mile-long track through his father John William's nursery at St. Gallen [A:208].A:208
Flying Serpent
Name of the Argo when Willy Jones sails it in the Moluccas, according to the ship's history told by the talking oak [MTM B13:404-405].MTM B13:404-405
Flying Steinmetz
One of Absalom Stein's self-named mixed drinks at the Bay Hotel picnic. He prepares the assortment with Gilbeys gin and ice, though no separate recipe for the Flying Steinmetz is supplied [A:29-30].A:29-30
Foetus (Quick)
One of the "quick foetuses" cast into the Moloch Furnace during the festival at Babylonia Bagascia. It speaks from the furnace, identifies itself as Little Hugh of Lincoln, and is met with laughter [MB:566]. Foetus is a British spelling of fetus.MB:566
Fog-Horn Symphony
Ninth title in Endymeon Ellenbogen's proposed nine-volume classification of his poetry, which he says remains uncollected and unpublished [A:237].A:237
Fogazzaro
False name Biloxi Brannagan gives when Finnegan first joins him and Gertrude in their kitchen garden. Finnegan immediately disbelieves it, and Gertrude corrects Biloxi aloud before he supplies Brannagan [D:199].D:199
Font (Holy Water)
The chipped holy-water font on the wall is one of Finnegan's intensely remembered details of his uncertain twelve-year life with Theresa [A:204]. In an earlier exchange, he teases her that the baptismal font cracked when she was baptized; she answers that any of a dozen witches might have cracked it [A:108].A:204; A:108
Fonts (Printing)
The old and damaged printing fonts Stein notices in a supposed newspaper clipping about X. Dotty identifies the obsolete printing as the Pelican Press's own work and concludes that X printed the clipping there before sending it back to entertain them [A:142].A:142
Foolish Colts
Duffey's comparison for most of the world, which stands in an imagined middle ground although, in his account of Casey's ideological conversion, there is no position between the sides. The discussion concerns Casey's Party commitments and the intended use of the Crock as a Liberal Catholic vehicle for propaganda [A:98].A:98
Foot-painter
Profession of Marie Monaghan's uncle Shoeless Veronese van Rijn. She says he works in watercolors, oils, and charcoal with his feet, travels with carnivals, and may be the world's finest foot-painter [A:28].A:28
Football
Sport in Casey's imagined record books, where he becomes a phenomenal running back while also playing professional baseball [A:156]. Tom "Big Bear" Rogers contributes “The Floating Screen: The Next Important Development in Football” to the Crock [A:41]. Howland has played neither high-school football nor basketball because he never attended high school [A:180]. Football and six-man football appear in the catalogue of threatened popular arts [MTM B6:207]. Zabotski explains his Pristine World by compressing a football game from three hours of clock time to one hour of whistle time, twelve minutes with the ball in play, and roughly three minutes of essential action [MTM B9:279].A:156; A:41; A:180; MTM B6:207; MTM B9:279
Foraminifera Julep
Earlier heading normalized the printed spelling Julip to Julep. See Foraminifera Julip.Foraminifera Julip
Drink Biloxi Brannagan orders from Honeybucket Kincaid in futuristic rural Louisiana, printed as "Foraminifera Julip" [MTM B13:416-418]. Kincaid prepares the drinks using the scene's frequency-based gathering of substances from water, including alcohol; the text supplies no complete recipe [MTM B13:418].MTM B13:416-418; MTM B13:418
Forca, Freddy Tin-Horn
One of the fifty resident regulars at the Old Wooden Ship, listed between Tippio and Sulphur-Bottom Sullivan [D:215-216]. The narrator declines to tell his story but says Tin-Horn describes the kind of sport he is [D:218]. The nickname suggests a pretentious gambler, without establishing his stakes or any particular exploit.D:215-216; D:218
Ford Alexandrine
The proposed “Ford Alexandrine,” whose next-year model is suggested as a classy chassis for the Casey Machine. The suggestion occurs among advice from the machine’s promoters without an individual speaker being named [CM:508-509].CM:508-509
Forebears
Ancestors. Angela Cosquin's mixed island ancestry includes French, Carib, and English people, with both noblemen and slaves among her forebears [D:259]. During the drinking contest, Bushmaster's supporters praise the bulldog courage of his forebears, prompting Finnegan's pun that some of them are bulldogs [A:23].D:259; A:23
Forebrain
The seat of ordinary human consciousness in the fictional cranial theory quoted from Carmody Overlark's Studies in the Imagination. The epigraph contrasts modern humans' developed forebrains with Neanderthals' allegedly larger back-brains, assigning the latter unconscious and paranormal powers [D:270-271]. It credits the other people with humanity's imagination and ghostliness while the modern contribution is forebrain consciousness [D:272].D:270-271; D:272
Forgery
Papadiabolous II practices forgery before entering police work, according to X [D:286]. X himself sends notes in Papadiabolous's handwriting to keep the gang believing he lives and to lure Seaworthy into his trap [D:289]. Gilberto Levine-and-O'Brien fears that marks on the skin he wears are imitations of his own; he refuses Finnegan's offer to inspect them [MB:590-591]. Beth Keegan uses forgery figuratively when interpreting Duffey's dream, suggesting that people he treats as artistic creations may prove false [MTM B2:67-68]. A Royal Pop lecturer likewise calls planchette and ouija dull forgeries of genuine talking tables [MTM B11:330].D:286; D:289; MB:590-591; MTM B2:67-68; MTM B11:330
Forgetfulness Mesh
Brannagan's means of erasing the scientists' memory after he and Duffey defeat their attempt to draw the Sword of Saint Sécaire. Brannagan rewelds sword and scabbard with hot flux; Duffey then pretends to drop them accidentally, returning them to Nine Mile Depth. The Forgetfulness Mesh prevents the Dimbeau brothers and their fellow scientist from recalling the episode and trying again [MTM B13:423-424].MTM B13:423-424
Fork
Duffey's dowser's fork, cut from a red peach tree, detects bloodshed and murder in an object's history; for the particular parchment under investigation he instead chooses violet light [MTM B11:326]. At dinner, Hans jokingly argues that forks precede fingers because ancient fish spears and untined eating stabbers survive while fingers do not [A:4-5]. Finnegan claims Italians invented forks to retrieve olives from bottles [A:5], and elsewhere says he used shovel and pitchfork in his carnival duties with horses [A:220].MTM B11:326; A:4-5; A:5; A:220
Forma rotunda et globosa
Latin for "round and ball-shaped form," used in Finnegan's phrase in forma rotunda et globosa for Nada Patkaniowska as Brynhilde, the Northern Valkyrie [A:193]. Her imposing physique and habit of carrying Finnegan on her shoulder supply the joke [A:192].A:193; A:192
Formaldehyde
Substance Casey calls "formaldehide" in item XVI of his school notebook, where he claims that Bakelite is made from it and gum arabic [A:163]. His formula is inaccurate: Bakelite is a phenol-formaldehyde resin.A:163
Formerly the C of S
Subscript beneath the black Gothic title of the Crock, marking its earlier identity as the C of S and its clandestine beginnings [A:41].A:41
Formulas, All the
Casey Szymansky and Hinnegan's ambitious notebook project: they have begun a book in which they intend to write every formula in the world [A:163].A:163
Fornicational Intercourse
Father Blevins's phrase in a clipping preserved in Letitia's scrapbook. He claims that college girls need firsthand sexual experience as part of total education, boasts that he supplies it as an expert, and says he makes participation as compulsory as he can [MTM B8:251].MTM B8:251
Fortress Christianity
Casey's third imagined world, with a religious setting though the narrator questions its religious substance. In the Fortress Minor version he belongs to a clever, courageous persecuted minority in the early Roman Empire or Recusancy England, amid secret names, priest rooms, prisons, and torture. Fortress Major places the faithful in a besieged city, with enemies climbing like giant spiders and tower bells tolling. His attachment to persecuted-minority identity later contributes to his joining the Party [A:157].A:157
Fortress Major
The besieged-city form of Casey's Fortress Christianity fantasy: all the faithful are inside, enemies swarm the walls like giant spiders, and the tower bells toll for hours [A:157].A:157
Fortress Minor
The early Roman or Recusancy England version of Casey's Fortress Christianity fantasy, featuring a persecuted minority's secret movements and names, priest rooms, prisons, and torture [A:157].A:157
Foster, Sister Mary Cornelia (Sullivan)
Sister Mary Cornelia (Sullivan) Foster, named among the ecclesial or vineyard people in Duffey and Letitia’s Chicago circle [MTM B3:99].MTM B3:99
Four Feathers
One of the mild whiskies offered, alongside Five Roses, at Falo and Nauti's jungle cabaret [A:64].A:64
Four Waters of Paradise
Waters of the future paradise on which Finnegan says he may next sail aboard the Argo. While bound for the Ringing Rocks and Mooring Stone refuge, he says he may never set foot on the ship again until that voyage [MTM B13:453].MTM B13:453
Fourth Pleistocene Ice Age
Vincent's ice-age reference in his speculation that the universe might have been created ten minutes ago with its apparent past already installed: fossils, sediments, partly run-down atomic clocks, and an earth already partway down the slope from the fourth Pleistocene ice age [A:56]. Modern stratigraphy dates the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary to about 11,700 years ago; the quoted fourth ice age is not itself a formal epoch.A:56
Fox fire
The glow produced by luminous fungi in decaying wood. Henry and Casey encounter fox-fire in the jungle, where dead wood and rotten leaves glow like coals [A:42]. Duffey later imagines a secular world's impoverishment through swamps lacking fox fire and other brilliant natural phenomena [MTM B13:460].A:42; MTM B13:460
Fox Hunting
Charley Murray plays fox-hunting tunes on the post-boy's horn during the carriage ride with Duffey, Sebastian Hilton, Rattigan, Lily Koch, and three other girls [MTM B1:31-32]. The phrase also describes Finnegan's savage attack on Seaworthy's group before sailing for the island paradise: he kills two guards, climbs the Pirate Hotel, strikes down his supposed principal target, and escapes wounded under fire. Seaworthy's laugh reveals that he has again survived [D:231] [D:233-235].MTM B1:31-32; D:231; D:233-235
Francine
Woman described as a pretty, dark girl Finnegan dates after meeting her in a Chicago bar. She arranges to obtain a kitchen job for Howland at her hotel and says she may marry him if he proves steady [A:181-182]. She and Howland remain close to Finnegan, who often stays with the Howlands in later years [A:182]. When Howland runs the luxurious Club Royal, Francine worries about their spending and hopes to draw him away gradually; she promises that Finnegan will always have a room with them [A:246-247]. He includes her among the friends whose faces he sketches [A:278].A:181-182; A:182; A:246-247; A:278
Francis
Name shared by distinct figures. Francis O'Brien is among the women who kiss Duffey goodbye at the Rounders' Club [MTM B2:70]. A quotation on chastity attributed to St. Francis de Sales opens section 5 of Book One [MTM B1:27]. Henry sees a Francis, alongside Anthony and other saints, aboard the dream ship Navicula Petri [A:44-45]. In the Cuban account, La Dorotea's Third Order of St. Francis medallion explains her burial in the San Francisco cemetery [MTM B12:372].MTM B2:70; MTM B1:27; A:44-45; MTM B12:372
Freddy Castle
Australian soldier who, with Tom Shire, befriends the visiting Americans at the racetrack. Freddy is smaller than the large, fair Tom, has a rusty tinge, and is presented as unmistakably Australian [A:4-5]. When Finnegan and Vincent phone the barracks for help finding late beer, Freddy's rusty voice joins Tom's elaborate instructions [A:10]. The two Australians disguise them in unsuitable winter tunics and hats for a supposed forbidden visit to the wet canteen; Freddy signals Bushmaster to maintain the hoax [A:11-12]. Freddy and Tom judge the Hans-Bushmaster drinking contest [A:20], join the subsequent pub crawl [A:23], and attend the Bay Hotel picnic [A:29]. Finnegan later sketches Freddy's face among those of his friends [A:278].A:4-5; A:10; A:11-12; A:20; A:23; A:29; A:278
Free Martin
Free Martin is the two-word form used in Casey’s notebook. See Freemartin.Freemartin
Casey's spelling of freemartin, a sterile female calf associated with being a male calf's twin. In item XXIV of his notebook he records that heifers born twin to bulls are nearly always sterile and credits Hinnegan with teaching him about farm matters [A:164].A:164
Freetown
Sierra Leone port reached by the Brunhilde on January 26 after leaving Natal on January 18 [D:89]. Finnegan resumes drinking there and meets Joseph, a Haussa diamond smuggler seeking a reliable overseas partner [D:93-94]. He leaves with a heavy sack of stones and subsequently markets diamonds from it and two further sacks, sending drafts to Freetown [D:95]. On Naxos, he recalls having sinned since Freetown and seeks confession for his Easter Duty [D:118]. Don Barnaby also names Freetown among the places visited within his extraordinary joy-pill garden experience [D:251].D:89; D:93-94; D:95; D:118; D:251
Freezing Rain
Weather during Finnegan's escape with Seaworthy's stolen suitcase: the freezing rain turns to noisy sleet while he seeks shelter and encounters the girl who will accompany him [D:166].D:166
Freight train
Vincent's proposed escape on the night before his wedding: he asks Finnegan to catch a freight train and go away with him. Finnegan answers that Vincent can leave while he stays to marry Show Boat [A:111].A:111
French Szymansky
Imagined future designation for Balzac in Casey's youthful literary fantasy: Casey would become an American Balzac so much greater that Balzac would be remembered as the French Szymansky [A:157-158].A:157-158
Frenchman (Dead)
Dead Frenchman, one of the varieties of joy pill Don Barnaby lists alongside Haiti hoodoo, High Harry, Deep Romany, and Black Rooster [D:248].D:248
Frenchman, Fat
Henri Salvatore, the Fat Frenchman from the Swamps, one of Duffey's twelve talismanic creations [MTM B5:161]. His swamps are Louisiana's [MTM B13:416], and he is also the Emperor Henry of Neustria, charged with rebuilding the world [MTM B5:183]. He belongs to the Seven Pillars of Righteousness, the original trustees and directors of the Bark [MTM B7:214].MTM B5:161; MTM B13:416; MTM B5:183; MTM B7:214
Freud, Sigmund
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Vienna-based neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis. Beth Keegan declares herself Freudian and asks Duffey and the others for dreams to interpret [MTM B2:66-68].MTM B2:66-68
Freudian
Pertaining to Freud's psychoanalysis. Beth Keegan adopts the label and reads Duffey's dream of Paradise Birds becoming clay pigeons as doubt about his powers and creations [MTM B2:66-68]. Finnegan finds equal sagacity in Freudian literature and Gypsy Dream Books, then discovers that his corpse memory is literal rather than a symbolic dream [D:74]. The narrator jokes that Freud did not know underwater swimming as a trigger for recalled dreams or suppressed incidents, linking Finnegan's diving to his recollection [D:71].MTM B2:66-68; D:74; D:71
Friar Tuck
Companion of Robin Hood in the legendary tradition; one of Henry Salvatore's mythological identities, alongside Pantegruel and the Giant of the Beanstalk [A:39].A:39
Friday
One of the Answer's three publication days, with Monday and Wednesday [MTM B4:113]. Its Friday issue announces the Leader's appearance that evening at Henry Horner Park [MTM B4:116]. Pelican Press's Jazz Magazine also comes out on Fridays [MTM B7:212]. Finnegan teases Theresa Piccone that a witch's cabalistic fingernail marks appear only on Fridays; she answers that she will wear gloves [A:108]. In Private Gregory's account of early anti-Christian horror stories, Christ's tomb is sealed Friday night before his Sunday resurrection [A:85].MTM B4:113; MTM B4:116; MTM B7:212; A:108; A:85
Frieda
One of the women living at the Old Wooden Ship who are called “salt water widows.” She appears in the roster of its resident regulars [D:216] [D:221].D:216; D:221
Friesian
Relating to Friesland or its people and language; also spelled Frisian. In item XX of Casey's notebook, Dutch Friesian is called the language nearest English, illustrated by a rhyme about good butter and good cheese [A:164]. The poem opening Finnegan's chapter worries that the Argonauts tore their sheets and became mired in Friesian bogs; it offers an imagined question, not a settled account of their voyage [A:171-172].A:164; A:171-172
Frogs
Bull frogs inhabit the tumbling, noisy fountain in Bayougoula Park [MTM B11:331]. While staying with the goat-man Gautier in a New Jersey swamp, Finnegan borrows his spot lantern after dark and spears a sackful of frogs [A:195-196].MTM B11:331; A:195-196
Fundamentalers
Advocates of a short biblical chronology who visit Zabotski and Duffey to discuss their histories. The visitors include Pattenite and Hatch adherents, a follower of the Rev. Patrick O’Connell, and a Cummings-clan member [MTM B9:277] [MTM B9:278] [MTM B9:280]. A Pattenite finds Zabotski’s chronology close to theirs: first life between 20,000 and 10,000 BC, the sixth-day creation of land, animals, and man between 10,000 and 2,800 BC, and the Floodtide Catastrophes about 2,800 BC [MTM B9:278]. Zabotski calls them half correct but insists that their time scale must be understood in relation to the Pristine World; similar dates do not establish agreement about how history works [MTM B9:274] [MTM B9:279] [MTM B9:280]. The Cummings-clan visitor treats the Ark’s survival in High Armenia, guarded by angels, as a test of faith and reports three expeditions searching for it [MTM B9:280]. The visitors finally declare that Duffey and Zabotski are against them because they do not share their teachings [MTM B9:284]. Later news reports nineteen unarmed Fundamentalers killed in a “shootout” with Orthodoxer police [MTM B9:288].MTM B9:277; MTM B9:278; MTM B9:280; MTM B9:274; MTM B9:279; MTM B9:284; MTM B9:288
Fundamentalist Drunkards
Group provided with special Stones among the enlarged representation of the Ekklesia, whose Princes assemble for its Last Conclave in Babylonia Bagascia [MB:561-562].MB:561-562
Furtive Man
Recurring designation for hidden and endangered people. On Padre Island, Don Lewis sees a furtive man and tells of another, Yokipoki, whom he buried on Willy Jones Island; after that experience Lewis himself became furtive [D:43-48]. Having returned under a different name and no longer feeling his own master, he asks whether such singular people are forgotten by God [D:48]. The narrator includes Finnegan among the furtive men and recalls the man who swam out to the Brunhilde [D:41] [D:50]. The swimmer proves to be Manuel, a stowaway and self-described spy. Finnegan suspects a prior acquaintance between Manuel and Papa Devil after seeing a fleeting exchange between them [D:54].D:43-48; D:48; D:41; D:50; D:54
Gabrielovitch, Draja
Journalist who works for all the Pelican Press sheets, including the Bark, and also for the Slavic-language press, work the narrator says will get him killed [MTM B7:212]. He is one of the Seven Pillars of Righteousness, the Bark's founding trustees and directors, with Henri Salvatore, Melchisedech Duffey, Absalom Stein, Dotty Yekouris, Hans Schultz, and John Solli [MTM B7:214].MTM B7:212; MTM B7:214
Gadarene Swine
Bagby's name for the monster Giulio, embodied in the cruel, comic Gadarene Swine Song that he whistles after him. Bagby predicts that Giulio will be pursued until he drowns, though Duffey calls him a good man [MTM B2:48]. Giulio later adopts the name when describing the devil that afflicts him, consumes his soul, and returns with seven worse devils after being driven out [MTM B3:106]. The name evokes the Gospel accounts in Matthew 8, Mark 5, and Luke 8 in which expelled demons enter swine that rush into the water and drown.MTM B2:48; MTM B3:106
Gadgets
A couple of unspecified devices Finnegan proposes adding to his plan with Hilary Hilton. The intended production is explicit: Hilton is to expel Casey again and reclaim Mary Jean, giving Casey's friends another chance to straighten him out [A:252-253].A:252-253
Gaetano I--VI (Mad Kings)
The first six Gaetanos of San Simeon's Balbo dynasty follow a recurring succession: at thirty-nine the prince goes mad and returns as Mad King, his father becomes Mad King Emeritus, and his grandfather dies [MB:558-559]. Gaetano VI orders that no bells be rung along the North Coast, on pain of death [MB:560].MB:558-559; MB:560
Gaetano Polytech
School in Balbo City attended by the eleven-year-old Saucerite who visits the Argo. He hopes to go to the University of Miami the following season if he can obtain a chess scholarship [MB:592].MB:592
Gaetano VII (Mad King)
The prince expected to become San Simeon's seventh Mad King. At thirty-nine, instead of following his predecessors into madness and returning home, he becomes a high churchman and stays away. His father consequently remains the reigning Mad King, while his grandfather, the Mad King Emeritus, cannot be relieved and die [MB:559].MB:559
Galapagos Islands
The supposed source of turtles for Aunt Gertrude's chowder: Brannagan says he has them specially flown in from Galapagos. The narrator immediately calls this a lie and identifies local fishermen as their actual source [D:208].D:208
Galen
Greek physician of the Roman imperial period, traditionally dated 129 to about 216 CE. Finnegan credits him with estimating the moon's size by a goat-sucker's supposed flight behind it, an extravagant account of twelve wingbeats and a moon as large as a ship [D:132]. Chapter Eleven of The Devil Is Dead opens with a passage attributed to Galen's Techne Iatrike about Daemons begetting satyrs on women; the narrator then pointedly notes that Galen's teacher was named Satyrus [D:160-161].D:132; D:160-161
Galensprach
Earlier heading omitted a letter from the form printed in the source. See Galgensprach.Galgensprach
Galgensprach in the source: X's term for a final grand opportunity to speak. Describing his perilous clandestine life, he expects to die suddenly, anonymously, and without even that last moment [A:138-139].A:138-139
Galilean
One of Margaret Stone's overlapping identities: the narrator calls her a Galilean and a close kinswoman of Jesus Christ as part of an extravagant genealogy in which she is all ethnics in one [MTM B7:212].MTM B7:212
Galilee, Sea of
The Gospel setting invoked in Cardinal Brokenbolt's epitaph: the Lord walking by the Sea of Galilee sees two brothers [MB:589]. The wording recalls Matthew 4:18, the calling of Simon Peter and Andrew.MB:589
Gall bladder
An ingredient Don Barnaby says Madame Le Mourcheor omits from her Juju Joy Pills. He claims that an alligator, being reptilian, has no gall bladder [D:249]. This is part of his extravagant account, not accurate anatomy: alligators do have gallbladders.D:249
Galleon
The form partly resembled by Navicula Petri, the boat Henry Salvatore sees in his dream: it looks like a galleon, yet is quite other [A:44].A:44
Galley
The ship's kitchen where Casey works while the other Dirty Five sleep on deck during the memorable Talaud Islands voyage. After midnight he joins them and names their ship Argo for that night [A:63]. On Duffey's later Argo, some of his mysterious, partly self-created seamen serve in the galley [MTM B13:402-403].A:63; MTM B13:402-403
Galley Slave
Playful description of Casey Szymansky, who works in the galley while his companions sleep on deck. After midnight, the galley slave comes up and declares the vessel to be the ship named Argo, for that night at least [A:63].A:63
Galveston
Texas port from which Henry Salvatore signs onto cotton boats, cattle boats, tankers, and sulphur boats [A:124]. Mary Virginia Schaeffer is from Galveston [MTM B5:157], and it is included in the birthplaces of the six companions listed after the first five talismanic people [MTM B3:76]. Her family's Red Dog Motor Freight runs from Galveston and Houston toward Morgan City and New Orleans, with other stops in Louisiana and Texas. Joe Smith begins there the triptych of Dotty O'Toole that Finnegan later completes [MTM B6:198]. The Old Wooden Ship Tavern in Galveston is where Gunboat Smith serves as Bulldog-in-Residence before joining the Argo [MTM B13:458].A:124; MTM B5:157; MTM B3:76; MTM B6:198; MTM B13:458
Galveston Island
Site of one disputed death of Finnegan. Stein says that Finnegan did not die at Saxon X Seaworthy's hand on Galveston Island, although Doll Delancy found a body on West Beach and swore it was his [MB:548]. Archipelago offers Galveston as one possible place where Doppio di Pinne died in Finnegan's stead; the alternative is the Brunhilde's cabin, at Papadiabolous's hands [A:278].MB:548; A:278
Game warden
Royal official in Duffey's dream as the Boy King. Summoned to stop men shooting his newly made Birds of Paradise, the warden finds that the fallen birds have become clay pigeons. He nevertheless shoots and kills the men, then threatens to shoot Duffey with his next arrows if called out on another clay-pigeon chase [MTM B2:67].MTM B2:67
Games
Recreations, deceptions, performances, and contests recur across the cycle. The Rounders' Club advertises games on its Elegant Riverboat Deck, with racquets, whist, poker, and horseshoes [MTM B2:49]. Duffey and his school friends play Kelly pool and rotation in a private house's attic billiard room while escaping a formal dance [MTM B1:32-33]. Charlotte Mullens begins with solitaire, plays two-handed cards with Duffey, and then includes Gloria in three-handed games with kisses for stakes [MTM B3:78]. Charlotte and Gloria, also called the Cavendishes, live by card-sharping and play bridge against Lily Koch and the Girl Countess [MTM B3:95]. Charlotte hears that Sebastian Hilton is rich and fancies himself a gamer, making him an attractive target [MTM B3:94]. Charlotte describes her and Gloria's sexual blackmail schemes while walking with Duffey toward St. Malachy's Church [MTM B3:87]. A compromising photograph of Duffey with Shirley Israel is described as a badger-game entrapment [MTM B4:139-140]. Duffey calls Hilary Hilton and Mary Jean's treatment of Casey a reverse badger game: Casey may have sought death at Hilary's hands but received painful derision [PG:536]. Margaret Stone likens Charlotte's moral peril to Nine Dollar Dog, a game whose outcome becomes unalterable nine plays before its end [MTM B7:217]. The Thunder Colt Game is the climax of the Decatur Street Opera House's bloody performance, accompanied by Thunder Torus music; the colt kills a Finnegan effigy and Margaret Stone [MTM B11:349-351]. In a cosmic contest, Duffey wrestles Morpheus over which will remain as the last dreaming cell, and the narrator calls cosmic wrestling the game of timeless Greek gods [GD:500]. Zabotski compares the Pristine World to the essential action of a football game, stripped of repetition and empty time [MTM B9:279]. A young Saucerite hopes to obtain a chess scholarship to the University of Miami [MB:592]. Game of Hearts is among the titles Dotty gives for the Open Heart Novels [MTM B7:224].MTM B2:49; MTM B1:32-33; MTM B3:78; MTM B3:95; MTM B3:94; MTM B3:87; MTM B4:139-140; PG:536; MTM B7:217; MTM B11:349-351; GD:500; MTM B9:279; MB:592; MTM B7:224
Gannet
Bird that has remained on the Brunhilde's main stack for days. Papa Devil identifies it as a gannet, and Finnegan reports Manuel's interpretation that someone else will die. Papa replies that Manuel knows of another coming death, but that a bird did not tell him [D:120].D:120
Gans, Joe
American boxer, 1874-1910. During his fighting binge, Finnegan boasts that he went ninety rounds with Joe Gans and challenges local men to a fast twenty rounds [D:191].D:191
Gaping Nothingness
Phrase in X's angry letter to Absalom Stein. After describing the world's coming desolation as its becoming trivial and narrow, X invokes everlasting phoniness and gaping nothingness upon Stein for reading the Teilhard bogus without laughing, and urges him to renounce this prostitution of the mind [A:265-266].A:265-266
Gar
Alligator gar, a large freshwater fish. In the Louisiana swamps, Honeybucket Kincaid adjusts voltage and frequency and uses underwater electrodes to summon the nine-pound gar from about a mile around. From perhaps three thousand he selects one for Brannagan's meal, eviscerates it, takes three pounds of tender flank meat requested for grilling, and puts the gar into a high-frequency oven [MTM B13:416-417].MTM B13:416-417
Gar-fish
Francine's comparison for Finnegan's drinking: she asks whether he still drinks like a gar-fish. He says his friends have stopped asking; she refuses to join that silence [A:247].A:247
Garbage Scow
Vessel from which X says he was once dropped, trussed and weighted, during his clandestine adventures [A:138]. Hilary Hilton also boasts of refurbishing three garbage scows and selling them to an Arabian Gulf potentate, transformed into floating palaces [A:255].A:138; A:255
Garden
A place of remembered belonging as well as an ordinary cultivated space. At Archipelago's opening, Finnegan looks up from his beer to find that the Garden has vanished and he is in the World [A:1]. Later he likens the Green Islands to the Garden, but the Malayan boy insists that they are not it and that he must go home [A:88]. The companions sleeping in high grass at the jungle's edge offer a related pastoral image [A:69]. Show Boat, in her letter to Dotty, identifies the Garden's serpent with the many-armed political monster she and Vincent oppose [A:262-263]. In the seventh contingency, Duffey converses wordlessly with the invisible God in an afternoon garden, where an offered solution still carries a possible personal disaster [MTM B10:301]. Other gardens have concrete settings. Loy Larkin complains that the garden she planted in November is all weeds [A:27]. Young Duffey escapes the slant-faced boys through the squash and corn rows at his aunt's house [MTM B1:12-13]. He envisages his old stable yard as a beer garden, courtyard cafe, and open-air market [MTM B2:47]. Henri sends him to New Orleans to grow cucumbers for the Greater Glory in an asphalt garden [MTM B5:184]. The priest at St. Malachy's has a rose garden [MTM B3:87]. Duffey and Brannagan meet in the latter's private beer garden in Biloxi [MTM B13:408-409]. Joseph invites Finnegan to drink gin in a garden at Freetown [D:93]. Don Barnaby describes Madame Le Mourcheor's small interior garden expanding, after his joy pill, into a boundless world of changing people, marriage, and family [D:249-250].A:1; A:88; A:69; A:262-263; MTM B10:301; A:27; MTM B1:12-13; MTM B2:47; MTM B5:184; MTM B3:87; MTM B13:408-409; D:93; D:249-250
Garfield, Charlotte
Adult confidence woman who continues to look like a nine-year-old girl, moving between a child's manner and an experienced woman's voice. Duffey meets her on the night train from Omaha to Chicago in 1925. Calling herself Charlotte Mullens, she plays cards with him and Gloria, with kisses as stakes [MTM B3:77-78]. She claims to be thirty-eight, older than her father and older than her mother, and rejects Gloria's suggestion that Duffey is a father image: he is her sweetheart. Gloria's role shifts from mother to sister; Charlotte identifies the third member of their party, Manolo, as her son [MTM B3:80-81]. She later explains that she recruits pliable flesh-and-blood people, usually actors, and makes them compliant figures of her own aura [MTM B3:83]. Charlotte is a strong psychic who reads Duffey's mind and communicates with him out of physical presence [MTM B3:81] [MTM B3:83-84]. She enlists his help to find Aga Gonof's hidden stash, claiming a small share through her former husband's dealings and proposing to take the remainder as interest. Duffey obtains the key pattern; Charlotte has the key made. In a shared experience she calls a psychosomatic trance, Duffey seizes the coded location and she arranges the information into the bank and deposit-box numbers. She says she has used such trances in mentalist acts [MTM B3:84-86]. She promises to find Duffey's elusive 'moth' in return, directs him to St. Malachy's, and knows the identity of the woman he will marry, Letitia Koch [MTM B3:86-88] [MTM B3:91]. While walking to the church for confession, she describes blackmail schemes conducted with Gloria and exploiting her own childish appearance [MTM B3:87-88]. At the Colony Club, where the troupe is known as the Cavendishes, Charlotte announces that she has stolen and reburied the loot and is now a millionaire. A mental alarm has compromised the disposable name Mullens [MTM B3:93]. The troupe also earns its living through cardsharping [MTM B3:95]. Gloria and Manolo are murdered at their hotel, echoing their deaths in Duffey's trance. Letitia says Charlotte escaped to her prepared hiding place; Charlotte had named St. Angela Orba Orphanage, where two sisters know she is an adult [MTM B3:85-86] [MTM B3:97]. As Charlotte Garfield she later attends the Royal Rogues' and Graceful Swindlers' convention at New Orleans's Royal Orleans Hotel [MTM B7:216]. She now claims to be about two hundred years old, admits her earlier age was a lie, and says her Mendacious Midget Doll bears her true age. Margaret Stone calls her Midge and Baby Face while warning that her chosen game may already have decided her fate [MTM B7:217]. Calling herself Charlotte Carrollton, she advertises for a new professional family under the name Darnley. Separately from recruiting actors, she claims she can bear full-grown nineteen-year-old sons, but declines to explain how. She says she changes families every three or four years, proposes a Patriarch and Angelic Child confidence scheme with Duffey, and eventually engages the Darnleys [MTM B8:259-261]. She remains an old associate of Duffey, criticizes Casey's exploitation of vulnerable people, and says she herself has a foot in several worlds [MTM B12:379-380]. Charlotte Garfield and her son Michael attend Hilary Hilton's party at Randal's [MTM B12:380] [MTM B12:383].MTM B3:77-78; MTM B3:80-81; MTM B3:83; MTM B3:81; MTM B3:83-84; MTM B3:84-86; MTM B3:86-88; MTM B3:91; MTM B3:87-88; MTM B3:93; MTM B3:95; MTM B3:85-86; MTM B3:97; MTM B7:216; MTM B7:217; MTM B8:259-261; MTM B12:379-380; MTM B12:380; MTM B12:383
Gargoyles
A recurrent grotesque image associated with Finnegan: his face is a comic mask with a bugle nose [A:6], and he calls himself a gargoyle while Anastasia recalls a story about one with a good heart [D:39]. During his pursuit of Seaworthy he perches six stories above the street like a living gargoyle [D:162]. The four senior gargoyles he observes are Seaworthy, Gerecke, Wirt, and Orestes Gonof [D:163]. Duffey also includes Gargoyles among the Teras variants whose blood he puts in unusually large amounts into his creations [MTM B5:169-170]. A Chesterton epigraph imagines monsters as gargoyles belonging to a definite cathedral, whose architecture and consecration the writer affirms [MTM B5:177].A:6; D:39; D:162; D:163; MTM B5:169-170; MTM B5:177
Garlic
De Polis puts garlic into the Brunhilde's stew as Anastasia jokes that prayer and garlic can change the world's nature [D:68]. Theresa Piccone reports cooking three days of specialties at Monica Stranahan's house and leaving a lingering garlic smell. Monica compares garlic to sin and adapts the Gospel warning of woe to whoever brings it [A:48]. The Old Wooden Ship also stands at the end of a garlic block [D:215].D:68; A:48; D:215
Garlic block
Pungent neighborhood description for the block whose last building is the Old Wooden Ship [D:215]. The tavern is explicitly placed in Galveston in More Than Melchisedech [MTM B13:458].D:215; MTM B13:458
Garment, Seamless
The Seamless Garment of Christ, listed among the Argo Masters' findings alongside such relics and treasures as Roland's Horn and the Holy Shroud [MTM B13:422].MTM B13:422
Garnets
Stones singled out by the Royal Pop lecturer, with spars and other imperfect crystals, as especially good at recording events in every direction. Hard prismatic crystals are said to focus more particularly on the direction ordinarily called the future [MTM B11:330].MTM B11:330
Garrard, Ouida (Cotton-Picker)
Cotton Picker, a Cajun woman among the resident regulars of the Old Wooden Ship [D:216], the tavern later explicitly located in Galveston [MTM B13:458]. She goes around with Catherine Cadensus, Vivian Gilligan, and Mercedes Morrero, a quartet the narrator calls exceptionally pretty. She enjoys strangers taking her dancing and riding and makes them feel welcome [D:224].D:216; MTM B13:458; D:224
Gas
Fuel for the burners under Duffey's enormous soup crock [A:133] [MTM B6:195]. At his St. Louis horse-barn business he has gas lighting with replaceable mantles, a gas cook stove, and plans for a gas heater to supply hot water [MTM B2:40-42]. Gas lighting is cut off at night in the boys' school rooms, so his after-curfew store operates by candles or kerosene [MTM B1:26]. Hydrogen lifts Duffey's balloon [MTM B2:63]. Charley Murray proposes compressed-gas or kerosene lights, but Duffey favors electric lighting after reading of fatal explosions on other balloons [MTM B2:64-65]. After the candle-lit dinner aloft, he extinguishes the candles and knocks Murray's cigar overboard before opening a gate valve to release hydrogen and descend [MTM B2:66]. Separately, Finnegan jokes that a jury trial for his disturbance would have sent him to the gas chamber [A:264].A:133; MTM B6:195; MTM B2:40-42; MTM B1:26; MTM B2:63; MTM B2:64-65; MTM B2:66; A:264
Gas Chamber
The punishment Finnegan imagines he would have received if he had asked for a jury trial after being arrested for disturbing the peace. He writes that the judge would have imposed ten years if empowered to do so, then escalates the joke to the gas chamber [A:264].A:264
Gascinade River
Spelling used in Mary Louise's remark that Bagby's supposedly unwritten letters are as fishy as the Gascinade River [MTM B7:219]. It apparently points to Missouri's Gasconade River, though whether the variant spelling is deliberate is uncertain.MTM B7:219
Gasoline
Fuel in the Dirty Five's improvised lanterns, beer bottles fitted with tightly twisted rag wicks [A:39]. Duffey also equips his balloon with a gasoline engine and propeller, but these affect its speed by only about five miles an hour [MTM B2:64].A:39; MTM B2:64
Gate of Hell
Earlier singular heading referred to the plural portae inferi in the cited banner. See Gates of Hell.Gate Valve
Valve Duffey opens to release hydrogen and bring his balloon down after the dinner party aloft. Before opening it he blows out the candles and knocks Charley Murray's cigar overboard [MTM B2:66].MTM B2:66
Gates of Hell
The gates of hell, portae inferi, in the banner Portae inferi non prevalebunt on Navicula Petri in Henry Salvatore's dream. It forms a sequence with Tu es Petrus and tibi dabo claves regni [A:44], echoing Matthew 16:18-19 and the promise that the gates of hell will not prevail against the Church.A:44
Gates of Labor / Media / Pentecostals / Roarers / Teilhardians / Gays / Hot Brains / Levelers
Constituencies assigned new Princes, Gates, or Stones in the attempt to give the Ekklesia a sufficiently broad base to survive. The list includes Labor, Media, Pentecostals, Roarers, Teilhardians, Gays, Hot Brains, and Levelers. Media groups receive thirteen Stones and Labor sixteen. Instrumentalists have separate representatives, including five Gates for electric guitarists [MB:561-562].MB:561-562
Gates, The
Popular title, alongside Stones, for the Princes of the Ekklesia, explained through Cardines, hinges or swingers [MB:561]. Six hundred sixty-six attend the Last Conclave in Babylonia Bagascia, with thirteen Princes absent [MB:566]. Under Hackenschmidt's armed coercion, six hundred sixty vote for the Straw-Man and six for Joseph Cardinal Hedayat; the six dissenting votes are then counted for the effigy [MB:567]. Before the conclave, several Gates break open the decapitated Paul the Eleventh's skull and take his brains to fry with onions and eat [MB:562-563].MB:561; MB:566; MB:567; MB:562-563
Gautier (Goat-man)
An old French goat-herder whom Finnegan meets in New Jersey's back country. He lives with about forty goats in barns, shacks, caves, and summer camps, mowing grass for their winter feed [A:194-195]. He came from southern France in 1908 with six goats, was driven out of New York with them, and after decades of travel now remains in Jersey. His name Gautier is derisively pronounced Goat-Ear because of his goats and hairy ears; he prefers goat-man [A:196]. He is a self-sufficient, one-man Gypsy camp with three carts, each drawn by four goats, tools including a loom and wheel, and skill in making nets, seines, lines, and traps. He eats and trades goat cheese, makes berry jelly and wine, corn beer and potato whisky [A:196-197], and eats boiled wheat with milk and honey, acorns, and dried goat meat chopped with fat and honey for storage [A:197]. His syrinx and bagpipes account for much of the supposed ghost music of the swamps. He sometimes occupies Harlow House and may himself account for its ghost, though whether the house is truly haunted remains uncertain. The claim that ghosts can be seen without fear is made about goats [A:197]. At Harlow House he reads French books aloud to the goats, including Balzac's Contes Drolatiques, Stendhal, Daudet's Tartarin, Lesage's Gil Blas, and Dumas's Count of Monte Cristo. After they sleep, he reads Old American Blood and Thunder romances privately [A:198-199]. Finnegan first gains the goats' friendship by helping Luin, the one youngster unable to join the others climbing a fallen sycamore. The seven youngest have weekday names: Bownee, Luin, Mairt, Keadin, Ordin, Haoine, and Sahirn [A:194-195]. Finnegan's fancy that Gautier resembles an aged Pan remains a fancy [A:194]. He finds the goat-man a spoofer and a little wild, enjoys staying about a week, but refuses the offered inheritance and leaves [A:199-200].A:194-195; A:196; A:196-197; A:197; A:198-199; A:194; A:199-200
Gawk, Golden
X's mocking image of intellectual idol-worship in his letter rebuking Stein for taking Teilhard seriously. He tells Stein to renounce the adoration of the golden gawk [A:266]. The phrase may recall the golden calf of Exodus 32, but that particular allusion is not explicit.A:266
Gayety
Gaiety in Finnegan's “Antipodal Ode to Loy Larkin”: he praises the joy she has drawn from life alongside the southern roil and rant [A:32].A:32
Gays
One of the constituencies represented by Gates in the expanded Ekklesia before the Last Conclave at Babylonia Bagascia [MB:562] [MB:566].MB:562; MB:566
Gazelle
One of the animals furnishing the Boy King Melchisedech with what is called silk but is identified as milk in actuality, along with the camel, ass, ewe, cow, and India buffalo. This belongs to the more genuine childhood behind his temporal lives [MTM B1:17-18].MTM B1:17-18
Gdansk
Baltic port near the mouth of the Vistula, where the disguised Kasmir Gorshok joins Duffey and Brannagan aboard the Argo. They initially fail to recognize him; his identification reveals Casey Szymansky, a true Argo Master [MTM B13:424-426].MTM B13:424-426
Gedanken von Leibern
Gedanken von Leibern, the work credited to Ignace Wolff beneath the epigraph to Chapter Five, The Unaccountable Corpse, of The Devil is Dead. The passage makes bodies the exception to non-contradiction and denies sufficient reason for their existence [D:67].D:67
Gedanken von Liebern
Earlier heading reversed letters in the source’s title Gedanken von Leibern. See Gedanken von Leibern.Gelding
Castrated male horse. While planning his sea-stallion paintings, Finnegan imagines a stallion’s lunging gallop as a breaker and declares a sea gelding impossible [D:60].D:60
Gems
Jewels in several literal and figurative settings. Ignatius Ti's account of Amoy's former life as a thieving bird includes a swallowed blue diamond, star sapphires, and opals [A:80-81]. Hilary Hilton says he has traded Finnegan diamonds [A:255], while Duffey says Finnegan and Joseph distribute diamonds to Finnegan's friends [MTM B10:303]. Primary documents are compared to treasures of gold and gems brought into daylight [MTM B6:185]. The Royal Pop lecturer wears a turban with a sparkling gem or eye [MTM B11:324]; he says two dozen cheap gems inside the Decatur Street Opera House preserve its complete history [MTM B11:328].A:80-81; A:255; MTM B10:303; MTM B6:185; MTM B11:324; MTM B11:328
Gene pool
In conversation with Gertrude Brannagan about Eva, Duffey says that every few centuries another of her people is released from cold storage to contribute to the gene pool. He predicts no disturbance until their proportion reaches about one in ten thousand and qualifies their supposed unfallen state as a popular legend they themselves believe [MTM B13:410].MTM B13:410
General Judgment
The final judgment of humanity. In the theological discussion surrounding the Casey Machine, a soggy sinner asks whether everyone will know all human thoughts and deeds after the Particular or General Judgment. His pastor says everyone will know, but is unsure at which judgment full knowledge arrives; he distinguishes the saved person’s joy from the damned person’s suffering [CM:504].CM:504
Genesis
First book of the Bible. In the discussion of Casey and evil, the narrator invokes Genesis for the human heart’s evil from youth, an allusion to Genesis 8:21 [A:154]. Creation and the Flood also shape the Fundamentalers’ chronology when they compare it with Zabotski’s Pristine History [MTM B9:278-280].A:154; MTM B9:278-280
Genesis 14:18
The verse about Melchisedech, king of Salem, bringing out bread and wine supplies the epigraph to Book Two, “Late Boyhood of a Magus” [MTM B2:38]. It links Duffey’s name to the biblical king and priest and introduces the bread-and-wine imagery associated with him.MTM B2:38
Genesis 6:4
The verse about giants, divine sons, human daughters, and ancient men of renown is the epigraph to Chapter Fourteen, Company of Fifty, of The Devil is Dead. Finnegan immediately answers with the mighty men of the present and asks why his remembered short, stooped earth-people have been remembered as giants [D:212].D:212
Geni in the Bottle
Image in Trinali’s wine-making poem. After describing wine as a divine birth and resurrection, she identifies the Geni in the Bottle with a God imprisoned by the dry desert people who hate that God [A:231].A:231
Genius
Intellectual or creative power in several registers. Letitia’s question about the block’s confounded geniuses points to Casey, whose genius is then directly affirmed [MTM B4:115] [MTM B4:118]. His television projections depend on both electronic genius and psychic magnitude [MTM B12:380]. Brannagan calls Finnegan an impelled genius [MTM B13:453], and Enniscorthy Sweeny is called a near-genius [MTM B13:467]. The Balbo dynasty retains its genius even as its members become mad [MB:558]. Duffey tells the cured stutterer that removing his frustration turns an evil genius into a good or at least complacent one [MTM B13:431]. The postscript’s argument about Havelock Ellis leads to the assertion that all humanity consists of glowing geniuses [PS:477].MTM B4:115; MTM B4:118; MTM B12:380; MTM B13:453; MTM B13:467; MB:558; MTM B13:431; PS:477
Gentleman burglar
One of the former occupations X attributes to Papadiabolous II, Gregory McColum Papadiabolous, who also uses the name Noonan. Before police work he was a gentleman burglar, contrabandist, swindler, and forger; X says that training later proved useful [D:285-286].D:285-286
Gentleman Rounder
Magazine for which Absalom Stein has agreed to write reviews after returning from the Devildom. His daughter Becky describes its contempt for ordinary people and worries over his new sense of superiority [MTM B12:355]. Separately, Duffey's Rounders' Club advertises itself to the Gentlemen Rounders of the World [MTM B2:49].MTM B12:355; MTM B2:49
Gentlemen
A recurring form of address and social description. John Rattigan calls time on the boys' school sales with 'Time, gentlemen,' and Lily Koch uses the corresponding address to ladies and gentlemen [MTM B1:27] [MTM B1:29]. Duffey advertises a quality gentlemen's bar and club; eight shabby drinking gentlemen soon occupy a loafers' bench [MTM B2:41] [MTM B2:44]. Bagby's tall tale fills the former horse-barn flophouse with five hundred and fifty men sleeping on hooks [MTM B2:44-45]. Finnegan remembers Buffalo's droll gentlemen and ladies [A:191]. In the Louisiana swamps, Duffey and Brannagan meet three hospitable gentlemen: Leonard Archive, Oliver Greenflag, and Harry A. Honeybucket Kincaid [MTM B13:417].MTM B1:27; MTM B1:29; MTM B2:41; MTM B2:44; MTM B2:44-45; A:191; MTM B13:417
Geography
Something exceeded by Finnegan’s account of Chosky Bottoms, a general spook-place always over the next ridge, and by his similarly flexible use of St. Kitts [D:274]. Margaret Stone reports that the Black Sea has been obliterated and that the Royal Pop People call this the end of the old geography [MTM B11:308].D:274; MTM B11:308
Geometry
Subject that John William Schultz says may be deferred, along with algebra, in his proposal to compress elementary schooling into a week's evenings before real education begins [A:208-209]. During the Royal Pop gathering, the Geometry of Shining Space names the calculation through which the visitors' presence expands Duffey's buildings [MTM B11:321]. Geometry and the art of words are then said to have changed to suit the new conditions [MTM B11:323].A:208-209; MTM B11:321; MTM B11:323
Gerecke, William
One of Saxon Seaworthy's two cronies, with Peter Wirt, in the Brunhilde's ruling circle [D:30]. Finnegan senses in him the same disturbing power associated with Seaworthy, Papa Devil, and the other peculiar people [D:50]. After the deaths of both Papadiabolouses, X names Gerecke among the four remaining rulers [D:155]. At the later meeting Finnegan spies upon, Gerecke is one of four senior gargoyles and is described as wiry as a spider [D:163]. Finnegan intends to stab Seaworthy, but kills Gerecke in the dark instead [D:164-165].D:30; D:50; D:155; D:163; D:164-165
German
Language and background associated with Hans Schultz and his German father John William, who teaches him German and Latin [A:208]. Hans receives a German letter from his father [A:39]; Casey learns German and Polish from his own father [A:156] [A:159]. X travels as the supposed West German Karl Metz and is later said to be one-quarter German through his mother's family [MTM B12:369] [MTM B12:371-372]. German lunches belong to Duffey and his school friends' outings [MTM B1:25]. The Bavarian Club has Germanish blonde entertainers, including Helen Platner [MTM B2:58], and German women attend St. Malachy's in Chicago [MTM B3:88]. Duffey's stolen medal stock includes what he calls the German Blue Max [MTM B4:115-116]. Hilary Hilton trades German clay [A:255]. Hackenschmidt addresses the conclave in a bright German-silver voice [MB:567].A:208; A:39; A:156; A:159; MTM B12:369; MTM B12:371-372; MTM B1:25; MTM B2:58; MTM B3:88; MTM B4:115-116; A:255; MB:567
German clay
Commodity Hilary Hilton includes in his wide-ranging trade, alongside such goods as uncased Swiss movements, tropical birds, and private libraries [A:255].A:255
Germanies, The
Designation for German lands: Conrad Stone Hackenschmidt comes from Weinsburg in the Germanies [MB:566], while Duffey includes Conrad the Second of the Germanies among the kings whose conclaves he remembers attending [MTM B5:166].MB:566; MTM B5:166
Ghost
An apparition, double, surviving presence, or figure of estrangement. Finnegan feels like a defective ghost searching for his misplaced soul [A:56]; he later calls X his antipodal ghost [D:209]. Private Gregory identifies ghosts with devils in the psychiatric ward's storytelling [A:84-87]. Gautier's pipes account for ghost music in the swamps, and he may himself be the supposed ghost of Harlow House; the claim of seeing ghosts concerns his goats [A:197]. Archipelago's fantastical account of Black Papua includes a nightly ghost life and a waterfall that disappears after the morning rain [A:36-37]. Mary Louise Byrne is apparition-like, and Beth Keegan's living-statue quality prompts the observation that such stories are ghost stories [MTM B2:55] [MTM B2:57]. Teresa describes Finnegan's ghostly visits and inhabiting of people [MTM B6:188]; accounts of his reported deaths leave his survival disputed [MB:548-549]. Mary Virginia encounters Duffey as a ghost after his death in the crash year, while young Teresa sees him in an alternate ending and suggests he can be a young ghost [MTM B12:359-361] [MTM B13:472-473]. Other uses retain their narrative qualifications. Le Marin tells a disputed story of the deserted Sarcophagus and his own disappearance [D:243-246]. Soldiers unable to silence the Sea-Bell and Martyr-Bell near San Simeon call them ghost bells [MB:560] [MB:576]. The apparent supernatural clientele of the Ghost Bar is immediately retracted in favor of Anthony Ghost's coffee shop, though Finnegan's painting remains [MTM B10:292-293]. The epigraph credited to Carmody Overlark connects ghostliness with the other people's inherited mental powers [D:270-272]. In the postscript, Lafferty calls his continuing work A Ghost Story and links the phrase to everyone's capacity to split into ghostly aspects; high spirits can make such multiplicity visible [PS:475] [PS:477-478].A:56; D:209; A:84-87; A:197; A:36-37; MTM B2:55; MTM B2:57; MTM B6:188; MB:548-549; MTM B12:359-361; MTM B13:472-473; D:243-246; MB:560; MB:576; MTM B10:292-293; D:270-272; PS:475; PS:477-478
Ghost Bar
Name used in the initially supernatural description of the Ghost Coffee Shop in New Orleans. Ghosts supposedly meet before and after dawn to exchange haunting stories, with a Finnegan painting of their gathering on the wall. The narrator then retracts the whole account except the painting and substitutes the account of Anthony Ghost's ordinary clientele [MTM B10:292-293].MTM B10:292-293
Ghost Coffee Shop, The
New Orleans coffee shop run by Anthony Ghost, whose father came from the Netherlands. Its morning customers include dock workers, seamen, wandering Quarter people, night people compared to ghosts, and schoolchildren. Ursuline Academy day students come for breakfast after early mass at the Cathedral. Duffey, a customer for thirty years, talks there with Crissie Cristofero, Therese Doucet, and Cleo Mahoney about Seven Roads; Rebeka Stein sometimes joins the girls [MTM B10:293]. The preceding account of literal ghosts is retracted, but the large Finnegan painting of their gathering remains [MTM B10:292].MTM B10:293; MTM B10:292
Ghost, Anthony
Proprietor of the Ghost Coffee Shop in New Orleans, whose father came from the Netherlands. His customers include dock workers, seamen, night people and schoolchildren; Duffey has been coming there for thirty years [MTM B10:293]. During the discussion of Seven Roads and the potholes that lead into alternate futures, Anthony tells Duffey that he will step into a pothole if one is nearby [MTM B10:294].MTM B10:293; MTM B10:294
Ghostliness
The books' recurring uncertainty about apparitions, doubles, bodily identity, and the division between living and dead. The postscript calls Lafferty's continuing work A Ghost Story because people can split into aspects without knowing which is the self and which the ghost [PS:475]. It treats visible multiplicity as common but commonly suppressed in memory, illustrating the idea with Fingal's nine black-cloaked fetches accompanying his white-cloaked self and an alleged beheaded double of Charles I [PS:477-478]. These are the postscript's accounts. Mary Virginia calls ghosts the essence of ambiguity while addressing Duffey, whom she says has been dead for months; he fades from her view and withdraws from the crash year [MTM B12:359-361]. The psychiatric-ward stories distinguish several explanations. Private Gregory identifies ghosts with devils and calls possession hypnotism by an immortal will, with great men serving as inhabited shells [A:84-85]. Howell locates the horror in the familiar dead returning and says Irish wake stories temper it with humor. Gregory attributes early fears of revenants to anti-Christian stories of the risen Christ [A:85]. Ignatius Ti explains midnight as a temporary opening in the veil through which the dead may return; he describes fear of corpses and drunken medical pranksters, then tells of a wife who unknowingly sleeps beside her murdered husband's ghost. After his departure, the narrator allows loose ghosts into the ward and the boys' thoughts [A:85-87]. Finnegan's ghostliness includes his sense of being a defective ghost seeking a soul [A:56] and of looking out from a stranger's body [A:92]. Vincent calls Theresa a literal ghost and compares her with Finnegan [A:112]. Teresa later writes that Finnegan inhabits Vincent and herself, that a visitation frightened Stein, and that person and ghost can coexist. She claims the same talent and identifies herself as Anemotrephes in a detached experience rather than a dream [MTM B6:188]. Dotty calls Finnegan her ghost-lover, explicitly distinguishes this from Teresa's intimacy with him, and says Teresa and Finnegan were never lovers [MTM B6:188-189]. Stein's accounts question the repeated reports of Finnegan's death [MTM B6:187] [MB:548-549]. Sally and Duffey see a young painter as a possible younger ghost or fetch of him [MTM B11:333]. After Anastasia's death, Finnegan says he too is dead; he later calls X his antipodal ghost [D:156] [D:209]. Dopey leaves a presence Finnegan senses in his bunk [D:64] [D:78]. Papadiabolous II offers the possibility that Dopey was Finnegan's fetch and was absorbed into him; he describes himself as the close double of another [D:121-122]. The apparent return of the buried Papa Devil terrifies Seaworthy [D:84], but X's later account distinguishes two Papadiabolouses [D:285-286]. Finnegan's dream encounters with the Oreads and an old Teras belong to the same uncertain border of person, kindred, and apparition [D:137-140]. Le Marin's tale of the deserted Sarcophagus instead explains the disappearing crew through doubles, piracy, and murder, and is challenged as a recycled Mary Celeste story [D:243-246]. Duffey's alternate ending places him beyond ordinary sight until five-year-old Teresa Piccone recognizes a ghost who has either died or not yet been born. She also reports talking to Vincent, dead before her birth. She proposes keeping in touch by playing ghost, suggests that Duffey can be young again, and offers to give him a future birth [MTM B13:472-473]. Mary Louise Byrne's resemblance to an apparition and Beth Keegan's living-statue effect offer other personal forms of ghostliness [MTM B2:55-57]. Newton Prescott describes himself as Casey's orange-gloved ghostly splinter, subject to shifting years and retained as Casey's eyes and ears. The apartment viewers glimpse his hands, while the rental lady sees and speaks with him; he connects her ability to the Casey Machine [CM:515-516]. The Argo's mechanical crew are expressly place tokens or materialized residues of absent sailors, rather than wraiths or effigies [MTM B13:415]. Places and events also carry uncertain ghostliness. Archipelago gives Black Papua a nightly life among the dead [A:37]. Gautier makes the swamp's ghost music; the haunting of Harlow House remains uncertain, and apparent ghost-seeing belongs to his goats [A:197]. Chosky Bottoms is a movable spook-place [D:274]. The supernatural description of New Orleans ghosts arriving along Ste. Ann, Dumaine, St. Philip, Ursulines, Decatur, Chartres, Bourbon, Frenchman, and Elysian Field is retracted in favor of Anthony Ghost's coffee shop and ordinary night people; the Finnegan painting survives the retraction [MTM B10:292-293]. The Royal Pop upheaval dislodges evil spirits and uncreations [MTM B11:314], while Duffey and Stein discuss phenomena that unhappen and become unremembered [MTM B11:339-340]. The Thinking Machine proposes guarding blind fireplaces against blind spirits [MTM B13:455-456]. Casey's school notebook identifies human attackers behind one alleged poltergeist encounter without treating that explanation as disproof of all poltergeists [A:164]. Corporeal remains keep these questions concrete. The Devil is Dead announces people unwilling to stay dead [D:6]. Its first remembered encounter stands across from the graveyard, while Finnegan later recalls first meeting Seaworthy inside it and helping put Papa Devil over an older burial [D:10] [D:75-76]. The later graveyard rendezvous with X and Doll locates the grave marked I.N.C.G.P. Bogovitch [D:275-277]. X takes custody of Duffey's ashes, expecting to return them to him alive [MTM B13:442]. Demetrio Glauch reports a Crock advertisement selling dead bodies as emptied temples [PG:546]; John Mogul describes his own killing business as the work of a knacker and euthanasiast [MB:572-573]. These uses of bodies accompany the ghost theme without themselves proving an apparition.PS:475; PS:477-478; MTM B12:359-361; A:84-85; A:85; A:85-87; A:56; A:92; A:112; MTM B6:188; MTM B6:188-189; MTM B6:187; MB:548-549; MTM B11:333; D:156; D:209; D:64; D:78; D:121-122; D:84; D:285-286; D:137-140; D:243-246; MTM B13:472-473; MTM B2:55-57; CM:515-516; MTM B13:415; A:37; A:197; D:274; MTM B10:292-293; MTM B11:314; MTM B11:339-340; MTM B13:455-456; A:164; D:6; D:10; D:75-76; D:275-277; MTM B13:442; PG:546; MB:572-573
Ghostly Thing
Unlocated phrase in the working glossary, associated there with a paean sung by Sergeant Murphy's subjects. Its source and proposed connection with the Holy Ghost remain unverified.Giant Hands
The hands of Duffey's giants, which can be visible although their owners are invisible. As a boy he commands a giant hand to pull a church bell rope, and three companions see it [MTM B1:15]. His giants break rocks and release springs and rivers; their hands also make exceptionally intricate conjuring props [MTM B1:18] [MTM B1:21]. Moving a mountain is a hypothetical possibility when Morris Poor challenges him [MTM B4:129]. Giant hands then lift a mule across a traffic island, seen by some witnesses and sensed by all. The photographs differ: one shows the airborne mule without hands, another shows hands with possible double-exposure blurs [MTM B4:131-132]. In Duffey's dream the hands arrive severed at the forearms, bloodied, powerless, and manacled; they then resolve into a little boy's mittens joined by a drawstring [MTM B2:68]. A picture of Severed Giant Hands hangs above the doorway to the Rounders' Club's Elegant Riverboat Deck. Before his own creations, Duffey feels comparably deprived of creative power [MTM B5:156].MTM B1:15; MTM B1:18; MTM B1:21; MTM B4:129; MTM B4:131-132; MTM B2:68; MTM B5:156
Giant(s)
Duffey commands visible and invisible giants to perform miracles, including breaking rocks, releasing water, ringing a bell, and lifting a mule [MTM B1:5] [MTM B1:15] [MTM B1:18] [MTM B4:131-132]. His ebony or faber-giants help manufacture difficult props; more external art giants guide him toward works by others that surpass excellence [MTM B1:21] [MTM B2:54]. Dandy Dan Dillard seems to rout the giants during Duffey's apparent beating, but Duffey discovers that he has won the fight unmarked and that Dan is the injured fighter [MTM B2:51]. Four black demiurgic giants carry Casey's head-only person in Duffey's television projection from an Adam Scanlon painting; the head is explicitly not shown as severed [MTM B12:381]. Other uses differ in kind. Genesis 6:4 supplies the giants epigraph [D:212]; Patrick Stranahan laments the Church's closed age of giants [A:110]. Papa is called a giant [D:110], while the Majesty is an evil, illusory giant whose mind Duffey enters [MTM B8:241] [MTM B8:243]. A little boy's account makes the Wiper-Person a cloud-high giant who erases clouds and memories [CM:513]. Henry's mythological identities include the Giant of the Beanstalk [A:39]; Marie is the Golden Giantess [D:33]. Giant creatures include the spider in Hans's climbing dream [A:61], squid in Trinali's fanciful account of driftwood [A:233], and the stag in Finnegan's transport into ancestral memory [D:213]. Finnegan's island-creation story invokes great sea turtles [A:35], and San Simeon's legends include the giant huracan bird [MB:557-558].MTM B1:5; MTM B1:15; MTM B1:18; MTM B4:131-132; MTM B1:21; MTM B2:54; MTM B2:51; MTM B12:381; D:212; A:110; D:110; MTM B8:241; MTM B8:243; CM:513; A:39; D:33; A:61; A:233; D:213; A:35; MB:557-558
Giwa, John
John Giwa of Anecho, the thirteenth double or shadow-man and the replacement for dead Cardinal Doki of Douala. He flies to Marseille, cuts twelve fingers and thumbs from John Mogul's hands, skewers Mogul's tongue, then travels through Miami and parachutes onto Mooring Rock to join the other twelve conclave members. The narrator calls him violent and holy. He says their inner revelation assures them that at least one member is a true cardinal, enough for the conclave's legitimacy [MB:596]. He blesses the risen land as Babylonia Sancta and asks the dead Melchisedech to speak living words. X calls the vote and crowns Finnegan; Giwa greets him with “Reign in grace, Pope Finnegan the First” [MB:597]. When the impersonator of Cardinal Mercy is revealed as a woman, Giwa demands an explanation from X [MB:598].MB:596; MB:597; MB:598
Glauch, Demetrio
Writer and contributor to the Crock under Duffey; a wartime issue includes his ballad [A:41] [MTM B4:138]. Casey names him among Duffey's prospects for the Catholic Center Party of America [A:42]. He denounces the Curley Q and the establishments of Fleshpot Row on Randolph Street as a stifling bawdy house and leaves. Duffey's reluctance to leave with him creates lasting disappointment between them [MTM B4:125-127]. He is present when Morris Poor challenges Duffey's magic and later attends Hilary Hilton's party [MTM B4:128] [MTM B12:383]. Glauch signs the opening assessment of Casey in “Promontory Goats,” dated All Souls Day, Chicago, 1984 [PG:518-519]. In a later commentary he reports that Casey's own supporters or associates have stolen the body, recalling a Crock advertisement for corpses [PG:546].A:41; MTM B4:138; A:42; MTM B4:125-127; MTM B4:128; MTM B12:383; PG:518-519; PG:546
Globigerina glacé
Fantastical salad ordered by Duffey during the Argo Masters' visit to Honeybucket Kincaid's swamp establishment. He also orders chlamydomonas with kelp syrup, pond-scum bread, sea-lice soup, and a Hashed-Ectocarpus Collins [MTM B13:417]. The name borrows Globigerina, a real genus of foraminifera. Kincaid's electrical equipment selects and prepares the fish in this meal, but the text does not specify how the salad is made [MTM B13:417].MTM B13:417
Glotglutz, Otto
Nightclub comedian nicknamed Glotzie and described as a sick comedian. Hiram III's unexpected answering quip reduces him to tears, while shocked onlookers cry “Shame! Shame!” [MB:564].MB:564
God
The characters’ accounts of God range from comic claims to questions about creation, salvation, and the fate of particular people. In Ward Fourteen, Green says that God sustains the universe from moment to moment, identifies himself as God, and demonstrates his power by dimming the lights; Gregory points out that a compressor has just been switched on [A:76]. Sulem says that God has forgotten to give Finnegan a tujuan, or direction in life [A:60]. Askandan, by contrast, assures Finnegan that he has a soul and that God is in him [A:258].Patrick Stranahan says their faith forbids them to regard anyone as doomed [A:102]. Henry answers the practical problem of rebuilding the world by saying that God gave them each other [A:126]. The account of Finnegan and Theresa’s uncertain twelve years together ends in gratitude for the richness of that life [A:204]. Don Lewis asks whether God knows the singulars who seem to have been forgotten [D:48].
The seventh contingency brings Duffey into a garden with the Invisible God, who affirms the uniqueness of every person [MTM B10:301] [MTM B12:389]. Later, God comes aboard the Argo and tells Duffey’s bones that death has not released him from his work as pilot and master [MTM B13:443].
Other references include the discussion of holy wealth and holy poverty [MTM B4:125], Theresa’s blessing of the wine [A:108], and Seaworthy’s comic threat of divine punishment for bad beer [D:12]. X’s explanation of “Bogovitch” as “son of God” describes a euphemism on a gravestone, not a literal statement of the buried Devil’s divine parentage [D:277-278].
A:76; A:60; A:258; A:102; A:126; A:204; D:48; MTM B10:301; MTM B12:389; MTM B13:443; MTM B4:125; A:108; D:12; D:277-278
God's spy (Zophiel)
Unverified heading in the working glossary for a supposed speculation by Duffey about a divine spy or faculty called Zophiel. No supporting passage has been located in the three core books.Goldbeater, Clement
Name credited with an Enniscorthy Chronicle passage used as the epigraph to Chapter Ten, “Down with the Dead Men,” in The Devil Is Dead. Its children play at being the Other Kind of People while remaining indistinguishable from ordinary people, introducing the chapter's uncertainty over identity [D:143].D:143
Goldchild, Harry
Wealthy benefactor who had the Golden Children's Home and Haven Orphanage built and endowed several decades before the Zabotski episode. The narrator calls him a bloated plutocrat [MTM B9:280].MTM B9:280
Golden Children's Home and Haven Orphanage
Orphanage behind Zabotski's building site, founded and endowed decades earlier by Harry Goldchild and distinguished by a golden roof [MTM B9:271] [MTM B9:280]. His expanding contraption encroaches on its grounds, and the state inspector orders that part removed [MTM B9:274]. Widow Waldo serves the orphans, who assemble green-clay animals capable of moving, though the early ones fall apart [MTM B9:275]. Children carry these animals into the contraption; Waldo, children, and animals depart with Zabotski during the flood, and his craft subsequently reaches his lot on Lake Borgne [MTM B9:284] [MTM B9:287].MTM B9:271; MTM B9:280; MTM B9:274; MTM B9:275; MTM B9:284; MTM B9:287
Golden Ogress, The (Marie Courtois)
Finnegan's name for Marie Courtois, Seaworthy's seagoing secretary, whom he first remembers as the Golden Ogress in an apparent dream while she collects his details for the ship's register [D:32]. She is also the Golden Giantess, a formidable red-gold-haired woman whose strength and beauty are described in primordial terms. Anastasia, her roommate, alternates rivalry and quarrelling with friendship; she calls Marie “la giganta dorada” when Marie rows with exceptional power [D:33] [D:37] [D:57]. In an ocean dream of uncertain bodily reality, Marie identifies herself as both Demeter and Persephone, annually returning from Hell. She argues with Finnegan about immortality, boasts of blood on her hands, and encloses him in her hair in an ambiguously presented seduction [D:91-92]. Finnegan later recognizes her as Don Lewis's murderer; she revels in the killing, and the narration attributes her ability to do it to her extraordinary strength [D:112-113].D:32; D:33; D:37; D:57; D:91-92; D:112-113
Goldfarb's Alley
Suppertime family television comedy playing at Randal's during Hilary Hilton's gathering for Duffey and his old friends. Duffey superimposes an animated version of Adam Scanlon's painting: four black giants carry Casey as a screaming head-only person, explicitly not a severed head [MTM B12:380-381]. Viewers initially mistake the violence for the show's usual comedy, then react with terror or rush into the streets to rescue their cult hero. Even the comedy's pictured characters flee the screen [MTM B12:381].MTM B12:380-381; MTM B12:381
Golgi bodies
Cellular organelles associated with processing and sorting proteins and lipids. A passage attributed to the Eighteenth Book of Strange Encounters includes secretion of Golgi bodies around the lipid vesicule among the alleged tests proving Duffey more than four thousand years old, although his body's material is said to be only fifty-five years old [MTM B8:250]. The real biological term is incorporated into the fictional report's extravagant catalogue of age measurements.MTM B8:250
Gompertz function analogies
One of the alleged age measurements in the Eighteenth Book of Strange Encounters report that Duffey is more than four thousand years old. It appears beside Howship's lacunar frequency and numerous other technical-sounding measurements [MTM B8:250]. The phrase borrows Gompertz's name from mathematical work on human mortality, but the fictional report gives no procedure or explanation of its supposed analogies.MTM B8:250
Gonof, Aga
Father of Orestes Gonof. Charlotte says he owns boats carrying liquor from Canada to Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland, and that one of her husbands dealt with him. He has deposited the stash she seeks; she claims five percent belongs to her and proposes taking the rest as interest. Duffey says it did not rightfully belong to either her or the depositor, who is about to leave confinement [MTM B3:83-84]. Duffey mentally reconstructs the safety-deposit key, and Charlotte goes to have it made [MTM B3:84].MTM B3:83-84; MTM B3:84
Gonof, Orestes (Captain Gonof)
Captain of the Brunhilde and a member of Seaworthy's inner circle, though he can seem an almost forgotten figure [D:30] [D:100]. He takes part in the pursuit of Don Lewis in Tangier, but Don thinks he is not following seriously [D:108]. His reaction on approaching a Greek island is said to reveal his origin [D:115]. After both the true and false Papadiabolous have died, he joins Seaworthy, Gerecke, and Wirt in the ruling four. X calls him exceptionally shrewd and evil; Finnegan says Gonof means thief and is not Greek [D:155]. At the later meeting watched by Finnegan, he is the largest and most menacing of the four senior gargoyles [D:163].D:30; D:100; D:108; D:115; D:155; D:163
Good Guy's, The
New Orleans jazz club visited by Duffey, Bagby, Mary Louise, and Salvation Sally. Duffey ranks its music alongside the Rounders' Club's. Its band plays Monumental Jazz, prompting his reflections on classical jazz's aging and diminished inventiveness. Bagby takes a horn and plays the Gadarene Swine Song, and the band joins in [MTM B7:220].MTM B7:220
Gordon, Harold (Shrimp Boat)
Harold “Shrimp Boat” Gordon, a regular at the Old Wooden Ship in Galveston [D:215] [MTM B13:458]. He, Tom, and Barney are commercial fishermen who seldom fish: after assessing sea, sky, and weather, they often decide to stay at the Ship and drink [D:220].D:215; MTM B13:458; D:220
Gorgios
The Sergeant's term for non-Romanies or outsiders, humorously defined as everyone outside the Dirty Five. He says the group taught the Jojos Polish, which the Jojos thought was English and the Gorgios mistook for a Malayan dialect [A:73].A:73
Gospel
The Christian good news. Henry Salvatore says that the poor need the Gospel preached to them and condemns mouths unable to name Holy Poverty [A:125]. Margaret Stone's urgent street preaching concerns the Resurrection and Real Presence, including people on Dauphin Street at midnight [A:144]. Duffey examines a palimpsest containing a first-century copy, or possible original, of the Fourth Gospel, with notes in pagona shorthand; the child-hero then calls it the original [MTM B11:327]. The Fourth Gospel is John, conventionally dated in its final form to about AD 90-100. Tony Apostolo imagines an angel bringing a Fifth Gospel as a hypothetical news story he would already have covered, not an actual new gospel or angelic visitation [PG:525].A:125; A:144; MTM B11:327; PG:525
Gothic
A word used across architectural, typographical, literary, and historical imagery. The Crock's title is printed in black Gothic [A:41]. Gautier calls Balzac's Les Contes Drolatiques Gothic when defending his readings to the goats [A:198]. Finnegan climbs a Gothic hotel and appears as its living gargoyle; Gertrude Brannagan's ample, curly, parapetted appearance becomes Living Gothic [D:162] [D:200]. Countess Margaret mentions, then rejects, the theory that her people are a fragment of a migrating Gothic nation [MTM B8:255]. Duffey's ordeal unfolds under a Gothic sky that he recognizes as a Finnegan sky [MTM B12:393]. An unlabelled speaker in “Promontory Goats” remembers Justinian's skull amid an empire disappearing into Gothic fog [PG:545]. Historically, Gothic names a medieval architectural style prominent from the twelfth through sixteenth centuries and a later literary tradition of terror and the uncanny flourishing in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.A:41; A:198; D:162; D:200; MTM B8:255; MTM B12:393; PG:545
Goths
Germanic people associated with the invasions of Roman territories in late antiquity. In X's account of the Devil's Crimean imprisonment, the Goths supposedly call the peninsula Cherson [MTM B6:204]. Countess Margaret also mentions and rejects the idea that her people broke off from a migrating Gothic nation [MTM B8:255].MTM B6:204; MTM B8:255
Gourd
Container from which the Sergeant and a Malayan boy drink jungle juice during his noon-dream of leaving the psychiatric ward and revisiting old companions [A:88] [A:90].A:88; A:90
Governess
Katie Noonan's occupation in a landed Polish household. X says that Irish governesses commonly taught English to such families and were valued for lower wages, Catholic instruction, and manners. Katie worked in Gregory's home, left some months before the birth of Ifreann Columkill, and returned several weeks afterward [D:279].D:279
Governor
In Sulem’s explanation, the liver is the governor of the body and one proposed location of the tujuan, the direction assigned to a life; he distinguishes this from the semangat or soul [A:60]. The governor of San Simeon’s northern province receives Mad King Gaetano VI’s prohibition of bell-ringing and sends forces against the newly sounding Sea-Bell [MB:560].A:60; MB:560
Goyim
Term for Gentiles or non-Jews. Stein welcomes the appearance of noble noses among the goyim [A:127]. Thadal, one of the Three Slant-Faced Men identified as crooked kings, is called King of the Nations or of the Goyim [MTM B7:227].A:127; MTM B7:227
Grace
Divine favor or a state opposed to damnation, with other uses as charm and delight. Finnegan’s return to drink at Freetown on January 26 is a fall from grace, accompanied by his joke about falling from a woman named Grace [D:93]. Casey says his own fall from grace preceded his doubt [A:153]. Grace and pleasure belong to Finnegan and Theresa’s other life or dream [A:204]; Elena later asks whether he is dangerously fallen from grace [A:274]. Niccolo distinguishes killing a victim in a possible state of grace from killing to secure damnation [A:280]. Duffey says he has walked in grace three days out of four throughout his life [MTM B12:390]. Margaret Stone invokes grace for the unwilling souls of the masked hecklers [MTM B7:232]; later, her promise that none of her acquaintances will be lost raises the disputed question of the Devil’s salvation [MTM B13:447]. In separate uses, Lily Koch calls part of New Orleans’s architectural mixture Place de Grace French [MTM B7:215], and Grace Plunkett is named with Jerome among Duffey’s university friends [MTM B3:99].D:93; A:153; A:204; A:274; A:280; MTM B12:390; MTM B7:232; MTM B13:447; MTM B7:215; MTM B3:99
Gradual
Liturgical text heard at Vincent and Theresa’s wedding Mass. Vincent finds its images of a fruitful wife and children like olive plants comical and points them out to Theresa, called Show Boat [A:113].A:113
Graduate
Duffey promises to return next year when Maurine Stranahan graduates; she is then finishing eleventh grade [A:100]. In the narrator’s recurring vision, graduate students watch a composite great mathematician demonstrate changes to the universe [PG:542].A:100; PG:542
Grail, Holy
The Sancgreal, an object of medieval Arthurian romance whose literary tradition begins in the late twelfth century. In the Argo’s legendary quest history, the Masters recover the Holy Grail that had been stolen from Glastonbury [MTM B13:422].MTM B13:422
Grain
Millet and rice stolen by Amoy in Ignatius Ti’s account of the bird’s earlier life [A:80], and weevily grain that Askandanakandrian claims special skill in rehabilitating [A:257]. Beth interprets Duffey’s lost years as seven sheaves of grain [MTM B2:69]. Poisonous fruit and grain form an image of the dangerously pleasurable harvests of his New Orleans golden age [MTM B7:210]. X recommends taking his information on Infiltrates with a grain of salt [A:137], while Casey’s notebook praises the taller grain of the Great Lakes region in his imaginative comparison with the Mediterranean [A:166].A:80; A:257; MTM B2:69; MTM B7:210; A:137; A:166
Grand Banks
Fishing grounds off Newfoundland, used in the narrator’s description of Casey as fishy as the Grand Banks themselves [PG:544].PG:544
Grand Canary
Gran Canaria, one of the Canary Islands, where the Brunhilde party stays two days [D:96]. Finnegan reads reports of upheavals following the ship’s recent ports of call, and Don Lewis tells him that they have been setting those fires [D:98-99]. At a luxurious dinner Papa Devil completes his resemblance to Count von Baummenbauch by inserting a monocle; the glittering company includes Don Lewis already marked for death [D:99-100]. Archipelago recalls Finnegan drinking brandy there and learning about mermaids from one of them [A:188].D:96; D:98-99; D:99-100; A:188
Grand Concourse
Approach feeding the newly present Decatur Street in the Royal Pop People’s altered New Orleans. A thousand horse carriages pass through it on their way to the opera without crowding [MTM B11:346].MTM B11:346
Grand Manner
Earlier glossary label for Marie Courtois’s sumptuous dress on the Mexican shore. The source describes her as dressed in the “high manner,” drawing the crowd’s admiration [D:57].D:57
Grandes, Los
Seaworthy and his associates Wirt and Gerecke, the powerful conspirators aboard the Brunhilde [D:109]. They go ashore with two seamen at a port whose identity is uncertain [D:67]. Anastasia watches Chris McAbney fill his pipe while he waits for them [D:68]. Don Lewis fears that they may arrange his murder through local men; he also lists Captain Gonof separately among possible killers [D:106] [D:109].D:109; D:67; D:68; D:106
Grandfather
Ancestry is literal, invented and unstable. Sulem makes the small protective amulet called the Grandfather of Finnegan [A:59-61]. Elena Angelino says her great-grandfather was a bear, a claim supported by the Professor but doubted by Hans [A:218]. X considers a manifestation of the Devil his own grandfather and the great-grandfather of Finnegan and Anastasia [D:279]; he also describes family names passing between generations, even from grandson to grandfather [D:278]. In Cuba, he speaks in the manner of his German maternal grandfather [MTM B12:372]. Philip Stranahan mistakes the older and younger appearances of Duffey for grandfather and grandson; Duffey says they are one [MTM B13:473]. San Simeon’s dynastic cycle requires the prince’s grandfather, the previous Mad King Emeritus, to die when the generations advance, but Gaetano’s failure to return delays the succession [MB:559]. Finnegan drunkenly styles himself grandfather of all the saltshakers [D:189].A:59-61; A:218; D:279; D:278; MTM B12:372; MTM B13:473; MB:559; D:189
Grandfather of Finnegan
Very small protective amulet carved by Sulem, who believes Finnegan lacks the direction or tujuan needed to guide his life and hopes to trick the ruin awaiting him. It resembles a lizard and a toad, with steady eyes and loathsome integrity. Finnegan baptizes it Heliogabalus and wears it on a chain with his Miraculous Medal. The narrator says it stays with him to the end and is then mistaken for an object of another cult [A:59-61].A:59-61
Grandson
In X’s account of the Gregorovitch family’s confusing names, a father may even be named for his grandson [D:278].D:278
Granite
Recurring image for Saxon Seaworthy’s aged, hard face: old granite, temporarily ashen at Papa Devil’s appearance, tired by the campfire, then relaxed and lit like old cliffs [D:11] [D:15] [D:22] [D:43] [D:48]. Finnegan later calls him a granite-faced fox [D:158] [D:165]. The old teras in Finnegan’s dream also has a gloomy granite face [D:140]. In Trinali’s poem, granite mountains are remnants of a statue’s fingers from an older world [A:227].D:11; D:15; D:22; D:43; D:48; D:158; D:165; D:140; A:227
Grape Cuttings
In Ignacio’s account of Joseph of Maintz’s journey to the moon, grape cuttings accompany wheat, bread, wine, books and an altar stone so that the priest can continue celebrating Mass [A:271].A:271
Grapes
Fruit grown on Naxos [D:125]. Trinali’s wine-making poem specifies a quart of water for every quart of grapes [A:231]. Duffey wishes Charlotte Garfield sons like clusters of green grapes around an old arbor [MTM B8:260].D:125; A:231; MTM B8:260
Grapevines
Among the authentic possessions of Melchisedech’s ancient life as the Boy King, set against the less substantial childhoods of his modern life [MTM B1:17].MTM B1:17
Grass
Gautier cuts wild grass for his goats’ winter fodder; at their swamp camp Finnegan catches fish among grass roots standing in water [A:194-195]. The Dirty Five and Sammy sleep in high grass after riding the white horses [A:68-69], and Papapaleologus grazes below Finnegan and Anastasia on Naxos [D:132]. The word also appears in the Crock article title “Moles at the Grass Roots” [A:41] and in the comparison of Finnegan’s attack on the Pirate Hotel to a tiger entering a grass-hut village [D:231]. Grass greens Duffey’s remembered ancient country [MTM B1:6]; reed grass feeds the great beasts at Zabotski Flats [MTM B12:362]. The Argo appears to sail through a sea of grass along a weed-grown Louisiana canal [MTM B13:416]. Blood-of-Martyrs Grass reappears on the rising Mooring-Stone after its supposed extinction [MB:595].A:194-195; A:68-69; D:132; A:41; D:231; MTM B1:6; MTM B12:362; MTM B13:416; MB:595
“Grass Roots (Moles at the)”
“Moles at the Grass Roots,” an article in the Crock described as written in Duffey’s style [A:41].A:41
Grasshoppers
An ancient grasshopper and its virus illustrate the Royal Pop History speaker’s claim that recorded stone patinas can reconstruct the past in minute detail. The speaker says the virus can be analyzed and prescribed for, though medication cannot yet be sent back to the insect [MTM B11:325].MTM B11:325
Gratz, Efram
Efram Gate Gratz, one of the Princes of the Crowd at the Last Conclave. He voices their total animosity toward the Ekklesia, saying they have come to bury Peter and intend to kill him, desecrate his grave and prevent a recurrence of the institution [MB:561].MB:561
Grave
Burial places recur as sites of confused identity and return. The Promantia distinguishes an unnamed man buried twice in two graves from another who died twice [D:6]. Finnegan offers to deepen Seaworthy’s grave and helps bury Papa Devil atop an older body [D:75-76] [D:153]. The headstone later reads I.N.C.G.P. Bogovitch [D:277]; the grave holds Ifreann Noonan Columkill and Gregory McIfreann [D:284]. X explains that Seaworthy killed Papadiabolous I while reopening his father’s grave for valuable information [D:288]. He calls the sought document a key, plans to recover it [D:290], and Doll drops her Diabolique verses through the split that has persisted since the second burial [D:293]. Finnegan plans to paint Anastasia among the dead in a common grave [D:61], and later buries Don Lewis in a shallow sandy grave [D:111]. Gregory describes possession as hypnotism from beyond the grave [A:84]. A grave without a stone appears among the closing obliterative verses of the Great Day [GD:501].D:6; D:75-76; D:153; D:277; D:284; D:288; D:290; D:293; D:61; D:111; A:84; GD:501
Grave Register
Burial register that X believes incomplete for earlier years while searching for the Devil’s grave. Despite inspecting more than two hundred graves, he needs Finnegan to lead him to the neglected marker [D:276].D:276
Graveyard
The burial ground across the boulevard from the bar where Finnegan sits with Seaworthy [D:10]. Finnegan recalls meeting him there at night during Papa Devil’s burial [D:75-76]. He later returns to the club and crosses to meet Doll and X in the graveyard, where he identifies the Devil’s grave [D:275-277]. X’s remark that doubles do not grow even on graveyard yews belongs to his earlier explanation of the apparent resurrection [D:154]. Trinali calls her driftwood beach the Elephants’ Graveyard [A:232] and makes it the setting of To Trinali in the Old Wood Graveyard on the Dead Sea [A:235]. At the Great Day newspaper office, a staff member suggests that their undated publication might be a graveyard-shift paper [GD:487].D:10; D:75-76; D:275-277; D:154; A:232; A:235; GD:487
Gravity
Figurative attraction and weight: Henri Salvatore is the center of gravity of any room he enters [MTM B5:161]; Duffey’s immense but light-moving creations seem to have come from other gravities and worlds [MTM B5:156-157]; and a Texas town draws the wandering Finnegan into its vortex [A:201].MTM B5:161; MTM B5:156-157; A:201
Gray
A recurring color: gray in Brannagan’s sandy hair [D:199], Doll’s eyes [D:173], Mary Virginia’s hair [MTM B11:318], the Naxos raider’s derby [D:147], and the St. Louis squirrels of Duffey’s childhood [MTM B1:17]. X’s nested containers include a gray box [A:136]. Bagby’s mental St. Louis consists of black, white and gray sketches [MTM B2:62]; Count Finnegan’s Ghost Bar painting uses ghost grays [MTM B10:292]; and the terrible sky above the fallen Duffey is gray-orange [MTM B12:393]. The Argo’s moral landscape distinguishes good gray from bad gray [MTM B13:437]. Hans’s meditation on Marie’s green eyes rejects the claim that vair denotes gray [A:24].D:199; D:173; MTM B11:318; D:147; MTM B1:17; A:136; MTM B2:62; MTM B10:292; MTM B12:393; MTM B13:437; A:24
Gray Box
Container inside the black box X brings to Duffey; inside it is a brown box. The nested boxes have been stolen from Casey and belong to the Crock [A:136].A:136
Great Day Contingency, The
The first of seven possible futures singled out in Book X from an indefinite number of contingencies. It abolishes boundaries and thereby persons. Duffey first imagined it as a joke, but the world’s misplaced faith makes his invention a trap for its inventor. Its theme is the clock stopped at “twelf” and the snake swallowing itself [MTM B10:298-299]. The seven alternatives are not all mutually exclusive. The Great Day is distinct from the fifth, the Thunder Colt Complex or Decatur Street Opera House Presentation [MTM B10:300-301].The appended story “Great Day in the Morning” develops the same premise. Melchisedech, spelled Duffy in that story, finds his bitterly comic article being fulfilled as an emancipation from walls, clothes, skins, minds, and personal distinction. He calls for laughter to undo the disaster, but Mary Virginia and Salvation Sally reject it as incompatible with the new condition [GD:492-495]. The inhabitants merge into fleshy spheres while the sun remains suspended in its dawning [GD:496] [GD:498-499]. Duffy and Morpheus finally contract into a single-celled creature swallowing itself. Morpheus calls this a repeated beginning; the narrator points to an inaccessible hint of another outcome in Duffy’s old article and still finds persons and verses left to dispose of [GD:500-501].
MTM B10:298-299; MTM B10:300-301; GD:492-495; GD:496; GD:498-499; GD:500-501
“Great Day Rime”
Verses of the Great Day that seem to hang everywhere in the air, both tongueless and soundless. Their nameless day interrupts the ordinary weekly sequence in Duffey’s thoughts as he reaches the Pelican Press [GD:490].GD:490
Great Delta Insurance Company Building, The
Building whose tower clock is mutilated at the onset of the Great Day. Three young men saw both clock hands down to stubs; one falls and dies while descending. Duffey interprets the handless clock as a foretold sign of the turning-over and stopped time, while resisting the conclusion that the Great Thing has arrived [GD:483].GD:483
Great Devil Himself
The ultimate Devil, whose relation to the Devil-Released-From-Prison remains disputed. Stein sometimes regards the released devil as a minor decoy permitting the Devil Himself to work unnoticed, but on other days believes they are the same [MTM B10:291]. Margaret Stone says the devil she has met is covered by her promise of salvation but is not the Great Devil Himself, whom she has not known; Duffey counters that prevailing opinion identifies him as the Great Devil [MTM B13:447].MTM B10:291; MTM B13:447
Great Horse Carriages of the Past
Catalogue evoked by the Royal Pop History speaker from the memories of a Decatur Street flagstone: Acme Top and Acme Open, Southern Beauty, Fulton Road Cart, Livery Special, Farmers’ Canopy-Top Surrey, Johnson’s Jump-Seat Buggy, Imperial Carriage, Dempster’s Three-Spring Handy Wagon, Drexel’s Eight-Horse Dray, Pontiac’s Special Milk Wagon, Hallock’s Grocery Cart, Sears Famous and Road Runner [MTM B11:329]. The nostalgic display is undercut by the Countess’s admission that the new people are stealing human memories and claiming them as their own [MTM B11:329].MTM B11:329
Great Lakes
The American Mediterranean in item XXXIX of Casey’s school notebook. He imagines their surrounding regions as more abundant counterparts of Africa, Greece, Spain, Illyria and Italy, with Chicago at the center [A:166].A:166
Great Mogul Diamond
Famous Indian diamond discovered in the seventeenth century. It is among the prizes found in the Argo’s legendary history [MTM B13:422].MTM B13:422
Great Pot Itself
The thousand-gallon, glass-lined pot supplied by Zabotski for Duffey’s free soup project. Blessed by a priest from St. Katherine’s, it is to boil forever, receiving meat, fish and vegetables from people or secretly from God. Duffey fears that a lack of true Holy Poverty leaves nobody willing to receive its slumgullion, imperiling the project of rebuilding the world [MTM B6:194-195].MTM B6:194-195
Great Ship Itself
The larger Argo of earlier times. One opinion holds that the present, smaller Argo is only its ship’s boat or pinnacle, although the present vessel retains the great ship’s relics and identifications [MTM B13:403].MTM B13:403
Great X-Capo, The
X’s former stage name as a magician and escape artist. He recalls being billed by this name on the circuits while boasting that he can open small locks with mittens on [A:137]. He later brings his old magician’s cloak to the graveyard meeting [D:276].A:137; D:276
Greater Archipelago (The)
The Land of the Animated Marvels, also called the Archipelago: a scattered recuperative island for the Argo whose people live chiefly in Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans. They provide provisions, healing and virtues, and some are themselves Argo Masters. Its relation to the ship in time and space remains imperfectly understood [MTM B13:448].MTM B13:448
Greater Chicago Phone Directory
Directory Casey brings uninvited onto the Castle Theatre stage during Goat Boy. Reading seven names from it in an ecstatic voice creates an overwhelming audience response and wins his bet, demonstrating his power to spellbind crowds [PG:543].PG:543
Greater Neustria
Stein’s name for the thousand-year domain of Christendom into which he imagines Hitler raiding backward from the future. His Notes on the Finnegan Cycle link this Neustria or Latter Neustria with the Devil’s imprisonment from 946 to 1946 [MTM B6:185]. The name adapts historical Neustria, the western Frankish kingdom of the Merovingian period, to a much broader fictional chronology.MTM B6:185
Greatheart, Mona
Artist among Duffey’s Chicago friends, listed with Cassius Greatheart in the golden-age circle of 1925-1935 and its later electrum phase to about 1946 [MTM B3:98]. She repeatedly models the visiting Monster Giulio in clay [MTM B3:106]. Duffey includes her among the women he loves [MTM B4:111], and compromising photographs later show him playing the funny lover with her [MTM B4:139].MTM B3:98; MTM B3:106; MTM B4:111; MTM B4:139
Greb, Harry
American boxer (1894-1926). During his fighting binge, Finnegan boasts that he has beaten Harry Greb and therefore can beat the local challengers [D:191].D:191
Greece
Region in which the Brunhilde’s voyage brings Finnegan into the familiar world of his companions. At Zakinthos, Seaworthy and Gonof’s Greek origins emerge; at Naxos, the party reaches Anastasia’s home and the island associated with Ariadne [D:115]. Ancient and modern Greece mingle in Finnegan and Anastasia’s moonlit conversation, including their extravagant story of a bird flying behind the moon [D:132].On Naxos, Finnegan confesses to a Greek Capuchin who speaks Italian [D:118-119]. After Anastasia’s death, an Orthodox priest says that he gave her the last rites [D:147-148]. Greece also appears among the countries where Ifreann lived, according to X’s reconstruction of his life [D:280]. See also Greek.
D:115; D:132; D:118-119; D:147-148; D:280
Greece (Ancient)
Ancient cultural world invoked both playfully and polemically. Finnegan’s Naxos conversation leads to the narrator’s joke that the Greeks invented the moon [D:132], and Cosmopolis is called a Greek idea as the ship enters Greek waters [D:115]. Cyrus Roundhead, in his campaign to erase human history, claims that Greece consisted of Hellas and five concentric rings and that Macedonians invented heroic Greece and an imaginary Athens; John the Greek challenges him from personal memory [MTM B11:337].D:132; D:115; MTM B11:337
Greek
Language and cultural inheritance invoked in several distinct settings. Hans’s father demands Greek instruction for the fourth-grade pupils, but the priest replies that he does not know the language [A:209]. Hans himself puzzles over Greek words for the color of Marie’s eyes [A:24].Finnegan’s Romaic is inadequate for confession on Naxos. The Greek Capuchin reproaches him for knowing too little Greek and argues that Italians should have retained it as their language [D:118-119]. Finnegan later has trouble following the Orthodox priest’s remarks after Anastasia’s death [D:147-148]. X explains Anastasia’s use of adelphos through what he calls its Old Greek sense of cousin as well as brother [D:279].
Other uses include the Greek Cross among the devices on Henry’s dream ship [A:44], the Greek name of a successor to Casey’s Crock [A:168], Teresa’s remarks about Greek performers at the Star and Garter [MTM B6:188], the qualified suggestion of Greek ancestry in Margaret Stone’s portrait [MTM B11:310], and Morpheus among the Greek gods in “Great Day in the Morning” [GD:500]. See also Greece.
A:209; A:24; D:118-119; D:147-148; D:279; A:44; A:168; MTM B6:188; MTM B11:310; GD:500
Greek Anthology
Collection of Greek epigrams transmitted through successive compilations, notably the Palatine manuscript of the tenth century and Maximus Planudes’s related anthology around 1300. Endymeon Ellenbogen boasts that he has translated the Greek Anthology among his other works [A:237].A:237
Greek Cross
One of the symbolic devices on the Navicula Petri in Henry’s dream, alongside the Lamb, Fish and Six-Pointed Star [A:44].A:44
Greek Island
Naxos, where Finnegan and Anastasia eat outdoors at Anastasia Grandmother’s mountain farm, discussing the island’s blue haze and the changing colors of skies [D:125] [D:127].D:125; D:127
Greek, John the
Owner of John the Greek’s Famous French Restaurant. At the Royal Pop History sessions in New Orleans, he challenges Cyrus Roundhead’s denial of Athens by saying that he lived there until he was thirteen [MTM B11:336-337]. His remembered life directly resists the attempt to abolish human history.MTM B11:336-337
Greely Pack Saddles
Pack saddles named by one drinker as the explanation for the padded leather straps in Duffey’s old horse barn. He says the former livery proprietor rented these superior saddles with horses and mules for excursions into the hills and woods. Another drinker gives a different explanation for the straps [MTM B2:45].MTM B2:45
Green
Color used for eyes, complexions, landscapes, money, and changing life. Hans’s meditation on Marie’s green eyes connects Greek color terms, Romany, French, sacred images, and witches [A:24]. Anastasia has a sea-green touch in her complexion [D:20], and Finnegan also teases her about turning green with seasickness [D:28]. Sebastian Hilton’s complexion is pale greenish [MTM B1:22].Finnegan describes islands as green and fiber-colored in his account of their creation [A:35]. Trinali speaks of the Green Castles and the Green Death in her stories of driftwood [A:233], and of the Green Groves of Gomorrah in a poem [A:235].
Green also belongs to Seaworthy’s money [D:18], Hillary Hilton’s stock of paint [A:250], the Green Mule drink [MTM B4:132], and the stain of money in a young admirer’s ideal of the rich beach bum [MTM B5:173]. Widow Waldo describes the children’s green-clay animals [MTM B9:275]. A Royal Pop Historian uses “green dust of life” in an account of making history [MTM B11:324]. The green bay tree appears on the Pope’s shield in the closing verses of “How Many Miles to Babylon” [MB:598]. See also Green (Private).
A:24; D:20; D:28; MTM B1:22; A:35; A:233; A:235; D:18; A:250; MTM B4:132; MTM B5:173; MTM B9:275; MTM B11:324; MB:598
Green (Private)
Talkative soldier in Ward Fourteen. In the Sergeant’s assessment, Green is mistaken on fewer than six points, which nevertheless hold together logically [A:75-76]. He says the contingent universe depends on God’s moment-by-moment attention and identifies himself as God. When the lights dim as promised, Gregory points out that a ward-boy has started the compressor; Green replies that he created both and can use them [A:76-77]. He prompts Gregory’s account of his troubles [A:78] and has left the ward by the later scene [A:88].A:75-76; A:76-77; A:78; A:88
Green Bay Tree
Heraldic tree on Pope Finnegan’s shield in the novel’s verse attributed to Nostradamus [MB:598]. The wording recalls Psalm37:35 in the King James Bible, where a flourishing green bay tree pictures the wicked in power; that possible scriptural echo sits uneasily beside the poem’s joyful welcome of Finnegan.MB:598
Green Castles
Underwater places beneath the Continental Shelf visited by Trinali’s stogy log, which she nevertheless judges uninspired. This is the first log she describes, before the more promising convoluted piece [A:232-233].A:232-233
Green Death
The death into which Trinali says a convoluted piece of driftwood descended before returning as a talkative, reminiscent ghost. In her fanciful account, the log has learned from its sea encounters and will become a leering lamp under her tools [A:233].A:233
Green Eye Shade
John Rattigan’s trademark at the boys’ boarding-school sales. He wears it even though their candlelit or kerosene-lit room is too dim to require one, and removes it last when undressing for bed [MTM B1:26-27]. Lily Koch instead uses snap-on celluloid cuffs or gauntlets as her merchant’s trademark [MTM B1:29].MTM B1:26-27; MTM B1:29
“Green Islands”
Title of Chapter Two of Archipelago. Finnegan recounts a creation legend in which a woven mat falls into the sea, turtles tear it into pieces, and these root themselves as green and fiber-colored islands, with Guinea at the stitched center [A:35]. Later, a Malayan boy tells the Sergeant that he has been in the Green Islands long enough and must go home; this visit proves to be part of the Sergeant’s noonday dream in the ward [A:88-90].A:35; A:88-90
Green Ladies
Drinks Margaret Stone says everyone in the New Orleans Quarter has been drinking all week: like peppermint schnapps, except that absinthe replaces the schnapps. Mary Virginia asks about them while questioning Margaret’s account of the city’s extraordinary overnight changes [MTM B11:309].MTM B11:309
Green Mule, The
Rollo McSorley’s name for the potent new drink Shirley Israel serves at Duffey’s party [MTM B4:129-130]. In his facetious Daily News account, titled “I was kicked by a flying mule,” he blames the Green Mule for his condition and admits losing his bet and failing to beat the man he challenged. The narrative instead shows Sebastian Hilton knocking down Rollo and Morris Poor while Duffey moves the actual mule through the air [MTM B4:131-132].MTM B4:129-130; MTM B4:131-132
Green Tree
Bar visited by Hans Schultz, Vincent, Finnegan, Tom Shire, Freddy Castle and the newly arrived Casey while Hans prepares for his beer-drinking contest with Joe Bushmaster [A:17-18].A:17-18
Green-clay animals
Animals the children of the Golden Childrens Home and Haven Orphanage prepare for Zabotski’s vessel. Early examples fall apart after running about [MTM B9:275]. The children carry later ones aboard while they kick and move weakly [MTM B9:284]. Duffey suggests baking them to hold their heads and legs together, but the children say that would kill them: they come from green-clay eggs and can still be breathed into. Before the voyage, their hooting and bellowing become a great rhapsody of living animal sounds [MTM B9:285].MTM B9:275; MTM B9:284; MTM B9:285
Greenberry Wine
One of the drinks Aunt Gertrude has in her lavishly hospitable household, alongside huckleberry wine and perry, during Finnegan’s stay with the Brannagans [D:208].D:208
Greenery
Vegetation ranging from everyday shade to transformed landscapes. It cuts the glare outside the bar Finnegan and his friends call Sloppy Joe’s [D:235]; appears in bales beside Duffey’s premises as vanished buildings give way to something newly forming [MTM B11:313-314]; and grows tall and lush on Zabotski Flats [MTM B12:362]. Hans’s unwritten aerie poem has golden-touched greenery [A:210], while the speaker of Duffey’s The Alien Awakens seeks greenery beyond the smouldering plain as an escape from horror [D:196-197].D:235; MTM B11:313-314; MTM B12:362; A:210; D:196-197
Greenflag, Oliver
One of the three hospitable men who receive Duffey and Biloxi Brannagan in the Louisiana water country, with Leonard Archive and Harry A. “Honeybucket” Kincaid [MTM B13:417]. Honeybucket operates their frequency apparatus, and Leonard explains its ability to gather organisms and materials from water [MTM B13:417-418]. Greenflag acknowledges that Puff Fish present a moral problem and individual vileness, but doubts that access can be prevented once frequency modulation and braiding are understood. He compares the signals to dippers that can draw any desired thing from water, land or sky [MTM B13:418-419].MTM B13:417; MTM B13:417-418; MTM B13:418-419
Gregorian chant
The reported reference to Gregorian chant in Don Barnaby’s garden vision has not been located. The cited passage describes changing identities, sleep, travel and the effects of Madame Le Mourcheor’s pill, without the alleged list of musical and theological figures [D:250-252].D:250-252
Gregorio (Nicholas Cardinal)
Cardinal of Messina, named among the thirteen men targeted by John Mogul’s assassination contracts. His double is Arnoldo Rugutini of New York City [MB:571] [MB:578-579].MB:571; MB:578-579
Gregorovitch
Patronym given to Katie Noonan’s son Columkill from Gregory, the man who adopts him. X gives the son’s fuller name as Ifreann Noonan Columkill Gregorovitch Papadiabolous Chortovitch, dates his birth near Krakow to 1830, and argues that his natural father was the Devil [D:278-279].D:278-279
Gregory (adopter of Columkill)
Man in the landed Polish household where Katie Noonan serves as governess. He adopts her son Columkill, who receives the patronym Gregorovitch. X calls Gregory kind and acknowledges, but rejects, the possibility that he was also the boy’s natural father [D:279].D:279
Gregory (Private)
Large, handsome soldier in Ward Fourteen, with a purplish, pumpkin-shaped skull. He says that he never ages and must periodically change identity [A:77] [A:84]. His account stretches through centuries at sea and earlier irregular service to more than a hundred continuous years as a U.S. Army sergeant. Lost papers during the Indian War and Civil War let him reduce his recorded age [A:77]. In 1907, he says, he went AWOL, presented himself as twenty, cultivated political patrons and obtained a Military Academy appointment. He became an Army History specialist, archivist and teacher, remaining an officer for nearly forty years. When an army doctor proposed studying his failure to age, he escaped again [A:78]. As a young Australian private, he was detained after his fingerprints matched those of the vanished American colonel. His unpublished study of subversion within military intelligence also angered the people it exposed [A:79]. He describes possession as the hypnotic action of immortal wills and says influential men may be shells inhabited by devils [A:84-85]. Claiming personal recollection of Roman times, he explains how enemies of early Christianity made the resurrected Christ a frightening figure for children; these are anti-Christian stories about Christ, rather than stories about the Antichrist [A:85]. He remains in the ward after the Sergeant leaves, fearing confinement forever [A:90]. Finnegan later identifies him with Papadiabolis the Devil, while Dotty’s unmailed letter calls him one of the Papadiabouloi without specifying which [A:278] [MTM B6:188-189].A:77; A:84; A:78; A:79; A:84-85; A:85; A:90; A:278; MTM B6:188-189
Gregory Hall
Residential hall at St. Bonaventure’s whose boys dominate the school paper, The Towers. Its high towers appear on the masthead; the rival manuscript Chambers answers them with drawings of chamber pots [A:167].A:167
Gregory McColum Papadiabolous II
See Papadiabolous (II) (Gregory McColum Papadiabolous, Papadiabolous II, Papa Devil, Papa D, Noonan). X gives Gregory McColum as the Irish brother’s name [D:285].D:285
Gregory McIfreann Papadiabolous I
See Papadiabolous (I) (Gregory McIfreann Papadiabolous, Papadiabolous I). X gives Gregory McIfreann as the Asiatic brother’s name [D:285].D:285
Gregory van Ghi
See Van Ghi. Gregory van Ghi is the artist’s name Finnegan has printed on his cards in New York [A:191].A:191
Gregory, John
Name either Papadiabolous brother may use. X explains that Gregory McIfreann and Gregory McColum both adopt forms of John as a working first name, including Ivan, Sean, Jan, Ian, Jean, Giovanni, Juan, Johannes and Giannes. This practice complicates his effort to disentangle their identities [D:285].D:285
Gremium Matris
Latin for the mother’s lap or bosom. In an ocean dream whose bodily reality Finnegan cannot determine, Marie Courtois identifies herself with Demeter and Persephone [D:91]. She lays Finnegan’s head in her lap, binds him there with her hair, and equates the gremium matris with both her lap and the Earth. Her discourse connects this grouping with the Pietà; the maternal image carries a threatening element through the binding and her pleasure in bloodshed [D:92].D:91; D:92
Grenade man
Unnamed older enemy waiting on the shore above the fissured cave to complete an earlier attempt to murder the reawakened Count Finnegan. He has known Finnegan for more than thirty years; two riflemen offshore and an old enemy shark also wait for the Count [MB:554-555]. The man throws three grenades, then a depth charge, and slips into the water after it. The riflemen shoot at a man, or men, flung up by the explosion, while the narrative leaves open Finnegan’s possible escape beneath the shark and launch. The scene is on the Mariano Coast near Havana [MB:556-557].MB:554-555; MB:556-557
Grenadines
Caribbean island group. In Angela’s account of her father’s forged shipwreck-treasure maps, the Grenadines are one of seven false or shoal passages through the Antilles where he imagines wrecks would accumulate [D:260].D:260
Grenouilles, soupe aux
Frog soup, eaten in Duffey’s vividly appropriated memory of Colmar in Alsace just before his thirteenth birthday. He orders in polished French at the Rotisserie Schillinger and also eats Tournedos au Poivre Vert. The scene was stolen from Sebastian Hilton’s mind, but its detailed flavors become part of Duffey’s own memory [MTM B1:35].MTM B1:35
Gretchen Sisler
See Sisler, Gretchen. She introduces herself to Duffey by this name when he gives her a gold coin [MTM B2:39].MTM B2:39
Grimaldi
One of the early human types invoked in the novel’s accounts of the “other people.” Harrington’s review reports the suggestion that the supposed Neanderthal returnees might instead be Grimaldi [D:242]. Overlark’s epigraph includes Grimaldi among the types said to possess the enlarged back-brain [D:272].D:242; D:272
Grimm's Law
The Germanic consonant shift formulated by Jacob Grimm in 1822, describing systematic changes from Proto-Indo-European stops to their Proto-Germanic counterparts. In item XIII of his school notebook, Casey applies the name to a compressed list of correspondences: Latin K or hard C with German or English H, F with B, P with F, and Greek G with Russian ZH or German or English K [A:163]. These are Casey’s notebook formulations; the historical law describes changes from the languages’ common ancestor.A:163
Grindstones
Household tools bearing such iron-lettered names as Schofields and Auto Ball Bearing. Their names belong to the store of noticed objects and words the young Duffey appropriates, often from other people’s minds [MTM B1:17].MTM B1:17
Grip Machine
Strength-testing device at the Fun House out on the Lake. In her Third Epistle to the Kids in St. Louis, Margaret Stone says she can grip only thirty-seven pounds, compared with Dotty Yekouris’s hundred and ninety. She contrasts her physically weak hands with the extraordinary gifts and an hour’s daily care of the world entrusted to them [MTM B5:178].MTM B5:178
Grisly (Most)
Howell’s description of the dead man as the familiar become horrible. A corpse returning to life is, for him, the supreme ghost-story terror, requiring humor to make it bearable, as in Irish wake stories [A:85].A:85
Groben, Hierome
Artist in Duffey’s Chicago circle, named among the golden-age friends [MTM B3:98]. He makes Doré-like engravings of the visiting Monster Giulio [MTM B3:106] and supplies four woodcuts to The Crock [A:41]. He is present when Morris Poor challenges Duffey’s powers [MTM B4:128], and later appears as Groben of Chicago among the artists associated with Duffey’s rebuilding of the world [MTM B6:198].MTM B3:98; MTM B3:106; A:41; MTM B4:128; MTM B6:198
Groll's Trolls
Name for people whom Eva regards as the inferior rivals of her own people in running waterfront establishments. She claims that her people served better food and drink, played better music, and told better stories; she nevertheless calls all the groups cousins [MTM B13:408].MTM B13:408
Grouse
Birds among the small creatures along the mile-long track through the nursery where Hans Schultz runs morning and evening [A:208].A:208
Groves
The Boy King’s groves of figs, dates, olives, apricots, and pomegranates belong to the childhood presented as more real than Melchisedech’s American childhood [MTM B1:17]. Trinali’s poem asks what became of the “Green Groves of Gomorrah” and imagines their trees surviving, salted and fire-marked, in the Elephants’ Graveyard [A:235].MTM B1:17; A:235
Grubby
The Professor calls the pursuit of What rather than Why the “grubby thing” confused with learning [A:220]. Duffey thinks of Hugo Stone as Absalom Stein’s “grubby pupa form” [MTM B5:160]. Zabotski calls sycamore fruit “grubby and trashy” while comparing Bryan Blackstone to the tree [MTM B9:270].A:220; MTM B5:160; MTM B9:270
Grundy County
County in Illinois where Hillary Hilton buys a bridge while Finnegan accompanies him on his salvage business. Hilton plans to cut it up for a profit [A:253-254]. The identification follows the Chicago setting of this episode [A:246] [A:249].A:253-254; A:246; A:249
Guadeloupe
Basse-Terre is an island within the Guadeloupe archipelago, rather than an alternative name for the entire archipelago. Basse-Terre in the Antilles is the earthly “Paradise” shared by Finnegan, Charles Le Marin, Don Barnaby, and Johnny Duckwalk [D:233] [D:235-237]. The narrator distinguishes it from Basseterre on St. Kitts, presents a French-speaking island society and a volcano named Soufriere, and describes their rum drinking, hammocks, swimming, fishing, poker, and seafaring stories. The haven remains vulnerable to the “snakes” that eventually drive them out [D:235-237]. In a separate account of treasure maps, Barnaby lists the Guadelupe passage among seven true passages through the Antilles [D:260].D:233; D:235-237; D:260
Guadeloupe, Antilles (aka Basse-Terre)
Earlier heading that treated Guadeloupe and Basse-Terre as interchangeable names. See Guadeloupe.Guaiacum
One of the substances Duffey suggests when asked to identify the odor of the clipping announcing X’s death. Dotty identifies the smell as rosin and recognizes that X printed the clipping himself [A:142].A:142
Guanche
Member of the indigenous people of Tenerife in the Canary Islands. The waiter serving brandy on Grand Canary is described as “a Guanche from before the time of Spain” [D:99-101].D:99-101
Guardian (Perpetual)
The “Perpetual Guardian Payments” obtained for the responsible group maintaining every Casey Machine site as a shrine. They are intended to provide Perpetual Care and continue indefinitely [CM:513].CM:513
Guardians
Keepers and defenders in several contexts. George Duckhunter says his group is paid as “high priced guardians,” though he no longer clearly remembers the arrangement [CM:504]. X describes Devil worshippers guarding the Devil’s Crimean prison [MTM B6:204]. Zabotski affirms that angels guard the Ark and other things inaccessible to human guardians [MTM B9:280-281]. The armed Orthodoxers who threaten him are ironically called “guardians of pure science” [MTM B9:286]. A letter to Stein assigns the remaining defense against Principalities and Powers to jokers after the “proper defenders” have fallen asleep [A:266]. Finnegan kills two guards during his attack on the Pirate Hotel [D:231]; John Mogul also employs guards [MB:573].CM:504; MTM B6:204; MTM B9:280-281; MTM B9:286; A:266; D:231; MB:573
Guebwiller
Town in France, named among the places whose prehistoric paintings Finnegan discusses with Duffey. Finnegan maintains that apparent birds and butterflies are speech-and-song balloons in the original complex language; Duffey objects that the Neanderthal painters had neither speech nor writing [MTM B6:193].MTM B6:193
Guest Speaker
The advertised speaker at the New Catholic Press Guild meeting, called “The Most Important Person in the World” and later “The Majesty.” Duffey recognizes the Devil behind the grand claims and theatrical presentation [MTM B8:239-241].MTM B8:239-241
Guilt
Finnegan considers guilt as one possible explanation of Seaworthy’s dream corpse, then concludes that the corpse was literally a corpse [D:74]. Seaworthy describes himself as guilty of “shattering drunkenness” [D:11]. The verse opening “Biloxi Brannagan” mourns the “guiltless slain” [D:196]. Vincent’s theory of a recently created world includes memories of “debts and guilts” for events that never happened [A:57]. Duffey rejects photographic blackmail because he has confessed his actual sins and been absolved [MTM B4:140]. “Oh Let the Devil Go” describes guilt as “an over-flow” in its vision of the Devil’s suffering [PG:521].D:74; D:11; D:196; A:57; MTM B4:140; PG:521
Guiness
The spelling Guiness appears in the supplied text. See Guinness.Guinness
Guinness, the Irish beer associated with St. James’s Gate Brewery in Dublin, which Arthur Guinness leased in 1759. One of the four brews Patrick Stranahan includes in his compact rule of life, alongside an American, a Danish, and a Bohemian brew [A:110]. The text spells the name “Guiness.”A:110
Guitar
Salvation Sally carries a hymn-strumming guitar with a collecting cup attached [A:8]. Dotty doubts that Stein’s tuning can remove its twang and imagines Sally and Mary Virginia leaving only blond hairs and a piece of guitar string after a quarrel [A:147]. The instrument is later said to share Sally’s Australian accent [MTM B7:214]. The narrator contrasts the supposed gloom of guitar music with the banjo [MTM B2:52]. In Elena O’Higgins’s account, Casey replaces a sacred organ score with music for kazoo, peewee guitar, and musical saw [PG:525]. Electric guitarists have five Gates of their own in the enlarged Ekklesia [MB:562].A:8; A:147; MTM B7:214; MTM B2:52; PG:525; MB:562
Guiterrez, Sammy (Captain)
Tagalog captain called Sammy, met on Luzon [A:63], a friend of the Dirty Five who appears thirteen although about twenty-three. He calls the men “hairy old men” [A:66]. He admires Absalom Stein and teaches at the reopened school where Stein is also teaching. With Finnegan distracting the shoe-shine boys on a mouth organ, Sammy borrows their box without permission, earns four pesos from four shines, returns the box, and buys more whisky [A:67-68]. He joins the men’s walk to the field of white horses, an expedition numbered among the Argonauts’ heroic labors [A:68]. The episode continues on the next page: Sammy hums little songs and is the first of the six men to fall asleep in the grass [A:69].A:63; A:66; A:67-68; A:68; A:69
Gulf
Used for several waters and their adjoining regions. Anastasia places mermaids in the Persian Gulf in her account of their former range [D:35]. Hillary Hilton boasts of selling refitted garbage scows to an Arabian Gulf potentate [A:255]. A projected account of Zabotski’s house places it on Lake Borgne where it opens into the Gulf of Mexico [MTM B9:288].The Gulf also enters the characters’ ordinary surroundings: Gertrude is described as a gulf-state lady, and her home with Brannagan is full of gulf winds [D:200-201]. Gulf southerlies are among the winds in the account of ballooning from St. Louis [MTM B2:65]. The Stranahans plan annual expeditions after gulf marlin [A:103].
D:35; A:255; MTM B9:288; D:200-201; MTM B2:65; A:103
Gulf Coast Lady
Gertrude Brannagan is described as a “gulf-state lady,” full-built, dark, and pretty, whose presence makes Finnegan feel safe. Her age is given as forty-five, with fifteen years allowed in either direction [D:200].D:200
Gulf of Mexico
The editor’s note locates Zabotski’s enormous house on the coast of Lake Borgne where the lake opens into the Gulf of Mexico [MTM B9:288].MTM B9:288
Gulf of Oman
Point of departure in the verse about the Dutchman who still sails from the Gulf of Oman carrying a cargo to Cutch [A:172].A:172
Gullab Coast
Coast named by Don Barnaby among the places where Madame Le Mourcheor’s Juju Joy Pills are not made. He says that they come from New Orleans [D:249]. The supplied page spells the name “Gullab”; its geographical identification remains uncertain.D:249
Gullah Coast
Earlier glossary spelling of Gullab Coast. See Gullab Coast [D:249].D:249
Gulls of Ship Island
Birds that join the sandpipers of Horn Island in making a glad noise as the Argo enters Biloxi to dock [MTM B13:408].MTM B13:408
Gum Arabic
Listed with formaldehyde in Casey’s purported recipe for Bakelite, item XVI in the notebook extracts [A:163].A:163
Gumbo-head
Casey’s self-description in his contrast between “feet of clay” and a “gumbo-head.” He immediately insists that he is almost the cleverest of the group and explains his apparent stupidity as the effect of having seen the odds against their endeavors [A:155-156].A:155-156
Gums (Lesser)
The unnamed lesser gum among Askandanakandrian’s seven sovereign substances for rehabilitating nervous merchandise. He also includes the gum among the four he would choose if forced to reduce his supply [A:257].A:257
Gun
Firearms appear as weapons, contraband, and occasions for grim jokes. Manuel describes a force running guns and men in his country, which he says lies south of Mexico [D:56]. The Naxos attack includes rifles, BARs, machine guns, and the larger weapon aboard the Brunhilde [D:143] [D:146].Sebastian “Shot Gun” Schaeffer’s nickname actually comes from a drink he invented. He is mistaken for a killer, and George “Basin Street” Becaud later frightens him by claiming that his bass case holds an enormous shotgun [D:222-223].
The young discoverer of Perverse Logic fires at Casey Gorshok, but the Argo men have already withdrawn from that time and place [MTM B13:428-429]. Air-guns and blow-guns occur among the proposed murder devices in John Mogul’s contest [MB:580]. The Stranahan family’s “Rod and Gun Club” is Maurine’s nickname for its hunters and fishermen [A:103].
D:56; D:143; D:146; D:222-223; MTM B13:428-429; MB:580; A:103
Gun cases
Cases in the Stranahan Club Room, which also contains a simulated fireplace serving as a sandbagged pistol range [A:103].A:103
Gur'yev
Guryev, now Atyrau in Kazakhstan. Town described as standing at the east mouth of the Ural River in Tartary. After Duffey’s killing, his bones and smoking ashes appear in an unbusy street there. X and Kasmir Gorshok independently arrive at the same place and identify both as Duffey’s remains [MTM B13:442].MTM B13:442
Gusher
A newspaper reporter calls the expected heavy rain a “gusher” while asking whether it will float Zabotski’s construction down Dumaine Street to Lake Borgne [MTM B9:289]. The Laughing Prince’s poisoned spring is also a gusher, defying hydraulic laws [MTM B13:441]. The proposed murder by swarming animals describes a victim’s viscera gushing out [MB:580-581].MTM B9:289; MTM B13:441; MB:580-581
Gusty Joy
A quality attributed in the earlier glossary to the Boy King Melchisedech; the phrase and its cited occurrence remain unlocated.Guts
Margaret Stone reports that the Sardinian Red Fisters threaten to wear her guts as scarves [MTM B7:225]. In How Many Miles to Babylon?, the entrails of Paul XI are used to strangle Hiram III and are then eaten in a further spectacle [MB:564-565].MTM B7:225; MB:564-565
Gutter
In Seaworthy’s dream, he tries dumping the corpse into a gutter but is forced to retrieve it [D:73]. Vincent’s story of two bums in a gutter mocks the refusal to try a good idea because it has been tried before [A:57]. Wooden crossings over mud gutters are among the details of other children’s lives appropriated by Melchisedech [MTM B1:16].D:73; A:57; MTM B1:16
H Sound (Latin)
The sound that Casey’s notebook says corresponds in German or English to Latin K or hard C. Casey includes the correspondence in his summary of Grimm’s law [A:163].A:163
Habib
Form of address exchanged by Finnegan and an unnamed boy in Tangier. The boy is one of the runners who keep Finnegan informed and directs him to the bottom of the tell, where Don Lewis lies dead [D:104] [D:109].D:104; D:109
Habitation
The nursery track where Hans runs is the summer habitation of rabbits, coneys, ground squirrels, bull snakes, and many other small creatures [A:208]. X says that he has neither habitation nor name and expects to die without papers on his body [A:138].A:208; A:138
Habonim
Landing place of the Argo where the hilly “Plains of Megiddo” begin. The ship brings the figure identified as Peleus, Kasmir Gorshok, Prince Casimir, and Casey Szymansky, now manifested as the Antichrist, to rule from there for his appointed period [MTM B13:462].MTM B13:462
Hackenschmidt of Weinsburg, Conrad Stone
Conrad Stone Hackenschmidt of Weinsburg in the Germanies leads the final Conclave of the Ekklesia in Babylonia Bagascia [MB:566]. With a Browning Automatic Rifle supplied by Monsignor X, he orders each prince to vote Ego eligo effigiem for the Straw-Man. He shoots Stockton Stone Crocker for voting for Joseph Cardinal Hedayat; six dissenting votes are ultimately recounted for the effigy [MB:567]. He orders X to burn the effigy and then the six bodies, announces the dissolution of their princely offices, and demands the destruction of all bells [MB:568]. He declares the thirteen absent princes dead, commissions Track and Total to kill them, and tries unsuccessfully to dispose of X [MB:568-569].MB:566; MB:567; MB:568; MB:568-569
Hacksaw
Tools used by three young men to cut both hands of the Great Delta Insurance Company tower clock down to stubs. One falls to his death while climbing down afterward [GD:483].GD:483
Hadriaticus
Latin form associated with the Adriatic Sea. John Schultz, writing to Marie as a former Orpheus, recalls the Argo crossing the Hadriaticus westward from Illyria. Sometimes it had no far shore; sometimes the western shore was not Italy [MTM B6:186].MTM B6:186
Haggada
The narrator cites the Haggada for the claim that the forbidden fruit was wormy, adding that St. Augustine seems to refer to the same detail. The worm in the fruit becomes the figure for the disquiet that breaks up the companions’ earthly paradise, beginning with Johnny Duckwalk’s decision to confess his theft and accept imprisonment [D:264].D:264
Hair
Duffey has sorrel hair, a color shared by his kit-fox totem; Mary Louise Byrne’s hair is still redder [MTM B1:6] [MTM B1:19] [MTM B2:40] [MTM B2:55]. Among the churchgoers whom Duffey watches is a chubby young woman with blonde hair beneath a black veil [MTM B3:88]. Dotty has chestnut hair [A:106]. Brannagan’s hair is sandy with a token touch of patriarchal gray [MTM B13:409]; Mary Virginia has gray hairs in the halo framing her face [MTM B11:318]. Patrick Stranahan has abundant body hair and exceptionally hairy eyebrows; it is his face that resembles blue emery paper [A:102]. The hairs on the giant spider’s toes are thicker than most trees [A:62].MTM B1:6; MTM B1:19; MTM B2:40; MTM B2:55; MTM B3:88; A:106; MTM B13:409; MTM B11:318; A:102; A:62
Haiti hoodoo joy pills
One of the varieties of joy pill listed by Don Barnaby, alongside High Harry, Deep Romany, Dead Frenchman, and Black Rooster. He distinguishes these from Madame Le Mourcheor’s Old Original Juju Joy Pills, whose efficacy he praises [D:248-249].D:248-249
Hal Clement
Author of Left of Africa, listed as the first book in Manuscript Press’s “Lost Manuscripts” series. In the publisher’s afterword to Archipelago, Rick Norwood says he obtained publication rights to an unpublished Hal Clement manuscript [A:285-286].A:285-286
Half-maps
Artificially aged portions of treasure maps made by Angela Cosquin’s father. Confidence men sell matching halves to distant victims, then collect further payments while bringing the owners together [D:261].D:261
Half-Master
Designation of X aboard the Argo. After Duffey’s death, Brannagan and Casey Gorshok continue their work as Argo Masters with “the Half-Master X”; Duffey subsequently resumes his duties in skeletal form [MTM B13:443].MTM B13:443
Hallahan, Larry
Larry and Olivia Hallahan belong to the “slippery people” of the Duffeys’ Chicago circle [MTM B3:100]. They remain at supper with Duffey after Demetrio Glauch leaves in disgust [MTM B4:127]. The Hallahans later belong to the salon group that wants to retain Duffey and exploit his magic [MTM B4:137].MTM B3:100; MTM B4:127; MTM B4:137
Hallahan, Olivia
One of the “slippery people” of the Duffeys’ Chicago circle, named with Larry Hallahan [MTM B3:100]. Olivia joins the women who hiss at Demetrio Glauch like she-adders when he leaves their supper; she remains to finish the meal with Duffey and the others [MTM B4:127].MTM B3:100; MTM B4:127
Hallock's Grocery Cart
Horse-drawn vehicle named in the Royal Pop lecturer’s account of the memories preserved by a flagstone in Decatur Street [MTM B11:328-329].MTM B11:328-329
Hallways
Long corridors in the house of Lily Koch’s kindred through which she leads the eight young people away from the formal dance to the attic billiard room [MTM B1:31-33].MTM B1:31-33
Halo (Smokey)
The “unreality fringe” or smoky halo surrounding Duffey’s magnificent animations at the Rounders’ Club, including Hans, Marie, Henri, Dotty, Mary Virginia, and Absalom. The narration insists that these people are real despite the fringe [MTM B5:158].MTM B5:158
Ham (Inspired)
The theatrical exuberance of the mice Duffey summons to act in his puppet shows. The narrator calls their acting “inspired ham”; the living mice speak their roles and perform beside Letitia’s inanimate puppets [MTM B4:134].MTM B4:134
Hammer
A young man uses a hammer to smash the glass of Melchisedech Duffy’s watch with exaggerated gentleness [GD:481]. Small drop-hammers also form part of Zabotski’s brass-smelting equipment [MTM B6:192].GD:481; MTM B6:192
Hammerschmidt's Gym (St. Louis)
St. Louis gymnasium where Bagby brings the young Duffey to work out before boxing managers and promoters. They arrange his preliminary bout against Dandy Dan Dillard [MTM B2:50]. The episode belongs to the summer of 1915, when Duffey is approaching sixteen in this account of his youth [MTM B2:38] [MTM B2:49].MTM B2:50; MTM B2:38; MTM B2:49
Hammock
The four companions keep hammocks near their favorite bar at Basse-Terre, in a secluded spot where they spend weeks together [D:236]. Finnegan twice hears another man’s voice from Don Barnaby’s hammock while Barnaby continues sleeping. One asks him to repay fifty dollars owed to Anastasia; the other says that he has been dead in the sand for three years and begs to be released [D:238] [D:256].D:236; D:238; D:256
Hammonton, New Jersey
Home of Phoebe Anne Ankerson, as recorded on the tag inside the suitcase stolen by Finnegan. The tag gives Hammonton as the return address after her visit to Minnie MacMasters [D:172].D:172
Hamper
Doll Delaney brings a hamper of food, drink, ice, and red roses to her graveyard meeting with Finnegan and X on the day of the Indianapolis race [D:276]. X asks for devil’s food cake, but Doll corrects him: it is gingerbread [D:277]. The picnic also includes wine, sandwiches, coffee, and cakes; they return the remnants and papers to the hamper [D:284].D:276; D:277; D:284
Hand (Invisible Giant)
The hand summoned by eight-year-old Melchisedech to help ring the church bell when he is too light to move it alone. The giant is invisible, but its hand is visible to the other boys [MTM B1:14-15].MTM B1:14-15
Hand (Right/Left)
The intended reference for this heading has not been established.Hand-washing money
Money Duffey receives when his “false kindred” rid themselves of responsibility for him. He still has some during boarding school, along with profits from his ventures with Rattigan [MTM B1:24]. At the end of school, a further hundred dollars is described as the final act of the hand-washing ceremony [MTM B2:38].MTM B1:24; MTM B2:38
Handbook of Treasons
Work credited to Miles O’Connel in the collection of documents inserted into Book Five. Its quoted passage identifies the “spiritual army of evil in high stations” with the devils of the word-mills and says that some of those stations are within the Church [MTM B5:175-176].MTM B5:175-176
Hands (Severed Giant)
Image in Duffey’s dream of a spreading chasm. His summoned giants’ hands arrive severed at the forearms, powerless and manacled; they then become a little boy’s mittens joined by their drawstring [MTM B2:68]. A painting of the Severed Giant Hands hangs above the doorway to the Elegant Riverboat Deck at the Rounders’ Club. In its presence, Duffey feels deprived of creative power by the independence and superiority of his own creations [MTM B5:156].MTM B2:68; MTM B5:156
Handsomeness (Fevered)
Description of Don Lewis at the party’s formal dinner on Grand Canary. The narrator says he already bears the mark of death and will be the featured figure in the next act of the masque [D:100].D:100
Hannigan (or Hanlon or O'Hanlon)
Possible surnames of Casey’s farm-boy schoolmate whom he now calls Hinnegan. Casey admits that knowing Finnegan has caused him to reconstruct the boy’s name and memory so that they rhyme [A:162].A:162
Hans
See Schultz, John G.Hanschen
Name used for Hans Schultz by Marie Monaghan. Salvation Sally asks what Marie calls him and adopts “Hanschen” in saying goodnight [A:9].A:9
Harbor express
Hidden route to the wharfs used by Count Finnegan and his companion in the role of Herman Hercules to evade their pursuers. The crawl-way passes through cellars, connecting tunnels, storm sewers, electrical conduits, heat ducts, and thieves’ catacombs [MB:587]. The next page leaves the companion’s precise identity, including his possible role as Cardinal Erculo in his double’s disguise, uncertain [MB:588].MB:587; MB:588
Harbor House
Tavern where Hans Schultz and Joe Bushmaster compete in beer drinking under Dominion Rules [A:15] [A:19]. After Hans wins, the company buys a round for everyone in the house [A:23].A:15; A:19; A:23
Hard C sound (Latin)
Casey’s notebook says that a Latin K or hard C becomes H in German or English, as part of its summary of Grimm’s law [A:163].A:163
Hard Stuff
The earlier glossary associates this phrase with Teresa Piccone’s comments on Finnegan’s drinking, but the passage has not been located.Harlow House
An old house on an abandoned farm in the New Jersey Barrens, where Gautier the goat-man often stays with his goats. The house may be haunted, but Gautier knows no ghost there except himself. His syrinx and bagpipe playing accounts for much of the ghost music in the surrounding wasteland. Finnegan knows the house through Gautier’s descriptions and never sees it himself [A:196-197].A:196-197
Harmonica (Pocket)
Instrument Finnegan plays during the graveyard meeting with X and Doll. His tunes comment on X’s narrative: “Arise, ye Saints, Arise,” Browne’s Prelude, “Oh what was your name in the States?,” “A policeman’s life is not a happy one,” and “Wake the town and tell the people” [D:284-285] [D:287].D:284-285; D:287
Harpies
Margaret Stone calls Duffey’s visiting women “harpies” in her parody of the Gadarene Swine Song: “The harpies came from Illinois.” Her verses follow Mary Catherine Carruthers’s departure and the news that no more visitors from the North are expected for the moment [MTM B8:262].MTM B8:262
Harrington, Charles O.A.
Named reviewer in the epigraph to chapter sixteen, “Liar’s Paradise.” His review in Science for Today attacks Royce Rollins’s The Return of the Neanderthal, subtitled The Alien Within, while outlining its theory of surviving Neanderthals and hidden bloodlines. He dismisses Rollins as a crank but warns that similarly outlandish notions have founded cults [D:240-242].D:240-242
Harrison County, Iowa
One of the three Iowa counties offered as the birthplace of Melchisedech in the account of one of his childhoods, alongside Shelby and Pottawattamie. Seven towns or townships dispute the honor [MTM B1:7].MTM B1:7
Hart, Charles
One of Duffey’s “pretended uncles.” When Mary Ellen Hart worries about the jars of blood Duffey keeps, Charles says he used to keep blood too, since it attracts weasels, and insists that there is no harm in the boy [MTM B1:18].MTM B1:18
Hart, Mary Ellen
One of Duffey’s “pretended kindred,” called Aunt Mary Ellen Hart. She says his first talisman came from a box of crackerjacks, that it has grown since then, and that he makes others like it. She also tells Charles that the boy keeps jars of blood [MTM B1:18].MTM B1:18
Harvest (The)
Salvation Sally announces that “The harvest is at hand” while preaching the Second Coming [A:8]. Mary Lightfoot applies the image to the end of the world, when the “blow-mouths” will be separated from the good and burned; Countess Margaret recalls the enemy who sowed them [MTM B4:130].A:8; MTM B4:130
Harvesters' Dinner
Abundant meal served to Duffey’s party at the Colony Club in Chicago. Charlotte says that either her sister or one of Duffey’s ladies has ordered it. Roasting ears are central, followed by beef, potatoes, bread, cabbage, kale, sauerkraut, cheeses, sausages, and hot biscuits; the food keeps arriving [MTM B3:93-94]. Sebastian joins the table, and the meal belongs to the gathering of Duffey, the Koch sisters, and the Mullens/Cavendish party [MTM B3:93-95].MTM B3:93-94; MTM B3:93-95
Hash
A kilo of hash is given to every person in Babylonia Bagascia among the offerings and entertainments preceding the final Conclave. The narrator calls the custom “Hash and Circuses” [MB:566].MB:566
Hash-Bashers
One of the constituencies given special Stones in the enlarged Ekklesia, alongside Trippers, Dippers, Mushroomers, old-time Drunkards, and Fundamentalist Drunkards [MB:562].MB:562
Hashed-Ectocarpus Collins
Cocktail ordered by Duffey from Honeybucket Kincaid during the Argo’s visit to a future Louisiana swamp settlement. Honeybucket gathers its ingredients from the water by manipulating electrical frequencies [MTM B13:416-418].MTM B13:416-418
Haste
Joseph needs a partner who will not spoil a diamond deal through haste or nervousness. He warns Finnegan that realizing the value of a consignment may take years [D:94].D:94
Hat
Duffey associates a flat straw hat with banjo playing [MTM B2:52]. Beth Keegan puts on her extraordinary beauty as casually as a funny hat [MTM B2:57]. Casey wears a shako for his planned appearance as the Leader [MTM B4:117]. His later appearance as the initially unrecognized Kasmir Gorshok includes a black hat and ear locks [MTM B13:425-426].MTM B2:52; MTM B2:57; MTM B4:117; MTM B13:425-426
Hat (Pearl-gray derby)
The small pearl-gray derby worn by the black crewman of the Seabach. It is too small for him. He wears it into battle on Naxos and dies laughing [D:135] [D:147].D:135; D:147
Hat (Wool-Hat)
The customer who kills Betty’s father Hochstapler with the swindler’s own barkers’ mallet or gavel during a dispute over less than three hundred dollars. He claims he meant only to hit him and receives a sentence of a year and a day [A:217].A:217
Hatch follower
One of the Fundamentalers who questions Zabotski, asking whether his reference to the present year as 200,000 AD was a joke. Zabotski responds that the date is a riddle and challenges the certainty of ordinary chronology [MTM B9:281].MTM B9:281
Hatchet
Small hatchets are laid beside every diner’s plate on Zabotski’s ark for cutting tough rhinoceros and behemoth steaks [MTM B12:364]. Duffey attends the meal with Zabotski, Wife Waldo, and the children [MTM B12:363-364].MTM B12:364; MTM B12:363-364
Haussa boy, Joseph
Haussa diamond smuggler whom Finnegan befriends in Freetown. He is described as coming from Nigeria or the Gold Coast, with experience as a caravan boy and seaman. They drink palm wine called barn, then gin [D:93]. Joseph speaks English, Arabic, Ful, French, and Afrikaans and intends to learn proper Dutch for his trade. He recruits Finnegan as a trustworthy partner for foreign marketing [D:94]. He warns him about his evil shipmates, then supplies a heavy leather sack of diamonds; Finnegan markets from this and two later sacks and sends drafts to Freetown [D:95]. Duffey later says that their partnership continues and supplies Finnegan’s friends with diamonds [MTM B10:303].D:93; D:94; D:95; MTM B10:303
Havana
Destination of Duffey’s first journey in search of Finnegan’s reported death. From Havana he intends to investigate the nearby Marianao Coast. His companion is the detective Carmelo Mendoza, subsequently exposed as Mr. X using another disguise [MTM B12:367] [MTM B12:369-371].MTM B12:367; MTM B12:369-371
Haven (Golden Childrens Home and Haven Orphanage)
Orphanage behind Zabotski’s property. The children enjoy his growing construction, but Widow Waldo brings the state inspector’s demand that he remove the part encroaching on its grounds [MTM B9:271] [MTM B9:274]. Its golden roof and the endowment from Harry Goldchild are described by the narrator [MTM B9:280]. The children bring their animate green-clay animals aboard the construction [MTM B9:284].MTM B9:271; MTM B9:274; MTM B9:280; MTM B9:284
Haven (in the Shoals)
The refuge in the hewn cave of the Mooring Stone, among the Belling Shoals or Ringing Rocks. Finnegan, Gilberto Levine and O’Brien, and Herman Hercules leave the Argo there to join thirteen supposed doubles of murdered princes. Finnegan says that one of the thirteen is a surviving holy man rather than a shadow, so the line will remain unbroken before Armageddon [MTM B13:453].MTM B13:453
Hawk (bird)
Anastasia says that hawks nest just out of sight in the sky and appear suddenly when they swoop down. She gives this teasing answer when Finnegan asks where the expected boat, the Hawk, will come from [D:131].D:131
Hawk (boat/ship)
Papa Devil’s small boat, called Shouakh and spelled Seabach. Finnegan says the name means hawk; Papa says that the boat is not fast but appears suddenly [D:122]. He hopes to use it in the Naxos operation but fears a counter-ambush by their clever antagonist [D:123]. Anastasia must signal the arriving boat from a narrow glen after moonset, while Finnegan remains uncertain where it will come from [D:127] [D:131]. It appears as the Hawk upon the Sea in his sonnet [D:134]. The vessel arrives from Anatolia, and the account of the battle says that the smaller boat is sinking after its attack [D:135] [D:146].D:122; D:123; D:127; D:131; D:134; D:135; D:146
Hay field
According to X’s family history, Ifreann Noonan Columkill Gregorovitch Papadiabolous Chortovitch was born in a hay field near Krakow, perhaps nearer Skawine, in the year of Restored Salvation 1830 [D:278].D:278
Hayden, Mary Irene (Schultz)
Hans Schultz’s mother, Mary Irene Hayden, married to John William Schultz; Hans is their only child, born at St. Gallen, Wisconsin [A:207]. She has known Professor Kirol for years and views his influence with some doubt. She tells Hans that she first heard “phoney” from the Professor, applied to himself, and calls him a noble but compromised example of the old kind [A:211].A:207; A:211
Haydens (Family)
One of the family names in the older relative’s list of Duffey’s kin. The list belongs to the disputed account of his childhood between five and twelve; Duffey says the supposed relatives may instead belong to his twin [MTM B1:7].MTM B1:7
Hayloft
Place where Howland chants his jingle about five gophers while he and Finnegan lie up for the night during their journey toward Chicago [A:179].A:179
Hazh-Khazh
Language in which Zabotski believes the instructions for his great construction are written. Duffey points out that Hazh-Khazh has never been deciphered; Zabotski says he must decipher it as he builds [MTM B9:272].MTM B9:272
Head
Duffey’s television projection shows Casey as a horrifying head-only person carried by four black giants; the narration explicitly says the head is not shown as severed [MTM B12:381]. In How Many Miles to Babylon?, the severed head of Paul XI is displayed on a pike at the Spanish Stairs and continues speaking under torture [MB:562].MTM B12:381; MB:562
Head (Casey's Projected)
Image of Casey as a livid, grimacing, cursing head-only person, carried by four black giants over the television picture of Goldfarb’s Alley. Duffey animates it from a painting Adam Scanlon made of Casey without Casey’s knowledge. The eyes are sewn open, preventing the image from refusing to see [MTM B12:381].MTM B12:381
Head (Papa Devil's)
Papa Devil’s visible head is compared to a great purple pumpkin. Finnegan cannot draw it convincingly because it is the living face of someone else; he reconstructs the wearer’s true face and paints that instead [D:62]. The painting anticipates the face he recognizes on the dead Papa Devil after the Naxos battle [D:86] [D:146]. X’s later account distinguishes this man as Papadiabolous II [D:285].D:62; D:86; D:146; D:285
Head (Putiphar's Wife's)
Portrait commission from Adrian Shapiro for his wife Mercedes, recast in the narration as Putiphar and his wife. Mercedes’s advances make Finnegan play Joseph: he leaves with his coat but abandons his paints and soon takes to the road again [A:193].A:193
Healeys (Family)
One of the family names in the older relative’s account of Duffey’s many kin during his disputed childhood. Duffey suggests that the relative is remembering his twin instead [MTM B1:7].MTM B1:7
Hearn, Lafcadio (1850--1904)
Writer invoked in Casey’s hostile review of The Bark: he dismisses its New Orleans sketches as work of a kind Lafcadio Hearn had done better in the previous century [A:131]. Hearn (1850-1904) is also known for his writing about Japan, including Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904).A:131
Heaven
Heaven is described by Professor Kirol von Weinsberg-Valeni as continuing, explosive growth rather than a static state; his tapestry analogy places Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory within the same universe, whose true face human beings cannot yet see [A:211] [A:213-214]. When Duffey loses his wealth, the narrator jokes that the camel and needle’s-eye problem has been solved: Duffey had wondered how he would get to Heaven without imagining that he might cease to be rich [MTM B4:109].A:211; A:213-214; MTM B4:109
Heavenly Twins (newspapers)
Bagby’s nickname for the St. Louis Post Dispatch and the St. Louis Globe, to which he sends flamboyant battle statements publicizing his boxing [MTM B2:50].MTM B2:50
Heavyweight championship
Beer-drinking title at stake in the proposed Harbor House contest between Hans and Joe Bushmaster; Finnegan calls it the world heavyweight championship [A:17].A:17
Hebdomadal names
The set of names Gautier gives his seven youngest goat kids: Bownee, Luin, Mairt, Keadin, Ordin, Haoine, and Sahirn. The narrator calls these “hebdomadal names”; Luin is subsequently glossed as Monday [A:194-195].A:194-195
Hebert, Emily
Earlier heading supplied the surname Hebert, which the family passage does not establish. See Emily (Henry Salvatore's aunt).Hebert, Julien
One of Henry Francis Salvatore’s nearby Hebert uncles in the Morgan City family account [A:122-123].A:122-123
Hebert, Mary Genevieve
Mother of Henry Francis Salvatore, whose father is Lawrence Salvatore. Their large family belongs to the Morgan City, Louisiana account of Henry’s upbringing [A:122-123].A:122-123
Hebert, Nicole
One of Henry Francis Salvatore’s nearby Hebert uncles in the Morgan City family account [A:122-123].A:122-123
Hebrew
One of the scripts in which the Argo’s name is painted when it brings the Peter-Bell to the mooring rock, alongside Latin, Greek, and Chaldee [MB:577]. Duffey proposes playing Hebrew melodies on his recorder-flute for the Ursuline play [MTM B9:266]. Book Six also opens with a passage about Melchisedech attributed in the novel to “Paul. Hebrews.” [MTM B6:185].MB:577; MTM B9:266; MTM B6:185
Hebron
One of the possible locations of the burning bush in Finnegan’s poem: he will climb Sinai and see whether the bush is “at Hebron or Hest,” and whether it is burning [A:171].A:171
Heckel, Charley horse
Regular at the Old Wooden Ship bar [D:215]. With Russ and Bob, Charley horse Heckel steers promising big spenders toward the bar; the narrator groups these three with Smokehouse and Bill Dugan as five men cut from the same side of the animal [D:220].D:215; D:220
Hedayat, Joseph Cardinal
Cardinal of Antioch and the primary of Count Finnegan, his double. In the Resurrection of Count Finnegan painting, their older forms are identical even though their contemporary appearances differ; Mr. X knows Joseph, and the widely traveled Joseph later visits the picture at Duffey’s Art Bijou [MB:552-553]. Hilary Hilton calls Hedayat the likeliest next Pope and reports a prediction that Finnegan will assume the crown under Hedayat’s identity, then be known as Peter the Second [MTM B12:378-379]. At the final Conclave, Hackenschmidt declares the prophecies about Hedayat void and commissions Track and Total to kill the thirteen absent princes; Hedayat heads X’s list of the targets [MB:568-571]. He is the last of the thirteen primaries reported killed, impaled upside down in the event called “Last Gate Swings” [MB:589]. This death appears in the Deaths of the Cardinals series attributed to Count Finnegan aboard the Argo; the narrative also raises the possibility of the accomplished amateur painter Hedayat’s participation [MTM B13:452-453].MB:552-553; MTM B12:378-379; MB:568-571; MB:589; MTM B13:452-453
Hedges (Thorn)
Thorn hedges in the Delectable Place. Duffey wants to cut through them; Patrick Plunket explains that they lie outside the direct route and have to be deliberately sought out by going the long way around. Duffey nevertheless favors the indirect route, while Plunket warns that its danger is real [MTM B12:391].MTM B12:391
Heine, Heinrich (1797--1856)
German poet and writer whose Buch der Lieder (1827) brought lasting fame to his lyric poetry. Born in Düsseldorf in 1797, he moved to Paris in 1831 amid censorship of his work and died there in 1856. His writing joins Romantic lyricism to political criticism and satire. In Archipelago, Heine’s ballads strongly shape Hans’s “Chinese period,” mingling Rhineland sadness with Chinese imagery [A:223].A:223
Hercules, Herman
Listed as the double of Martino Cardinal Erculo of Milan [MB:579]. In his conversation with Finnegan, he calls Erculo his primary, recalls his career as a wrestler, and describes himself as one of the long-timers [MB:584-585]. The narration later suggests that the man speaking as Hercules is Erculo in disguise, then leaves the masqueraders’ exact identities unresolved [MB:588].MB:579; MB:584-585; MB:588
Higgenbotham, Horace
Marie Monaghan’s supposed Uncle Horace, invoked in Hans’s imagined exchange with her. When Hans disputes attribution of the Lotus Eaters’ perpetual afternoon to Horace, Marie specifies “my uncle Horace Higgenbotham” [A:16].A:16
High Master
Rank held by Count Finnegan as an accredited Astronaut of the Argo; it licenses his effigy’s presence among the ship’s absent Masters [MTM B13:449].MTM B13:449
High Order of the Dirty Five
Name given to the Dirty Five fellowship of which Henry Salvatore is a member [A:124].A:124
High Period (Trinali's)
Trinali Peterson’s name for her newly mature artistic phase. She says her style matured within the preceding eleven days and calls herself in her High Period [A:232]. She later dies from lilac dye, though the account leaves the manner of ingestion uncertain [A:239-240].A:232; A:239-240
High Rider (of this Horse)
Title in the signs advertising the Leader’s appearance beside the equestrian statue in Henry Horner Park: the horse’s High Rider will become Leader of the World and perhaps an Angel out of Heaven. Casey arrives in elaborate regalia, but Letitia intercepts him before he can mount the white horse [MTM B4:116-117].MTM B4:116-117
High-school dance
Junior-year dance to which Maurine Stranahan wants Finnegan to take her. When he doubts he will be admitted, she proposes telling the sister that he is a junior from St. Philomena’s; she also wants permission to tell the other girls they are engaged [A:100-101].A:100-101
Hildebrand, Saint
Hildebrand, Pope Gregory VII (1073-1085), appears among the seamen aboard the Navicula Petri in Henry’s dream [A:44-45]. A leading reformer of the medieval Church, he opposed simony and enforced clerical celibacy. His resistance to lay investiture brought him into conflict with Henry IV, whom he excommunicated in 1076. Henry sought and received absolution at Canossa in 1077, but the conflict resumed. After Henry’s occupation of Rome and the violent intervention of Gregory’s Norman allies, Gregory withdrew to Salerno, where he died in 1085. His reported last words were “I have loved justice and hated iniquity, therefore I die in exile.” He was later canonized.A:44-45
Hildegarde
Liquor bottle named by Finnegan and his companions during their Basse-Terre beach storytelling. Their daily bottles receive women’s names: Hildegarde follows Agatha, Bathildes, Clotilda, Delphina, Etheldreda, Faustina, and Georgina [D:243]. She is half gone after Le Marin’s story and one-quarter full after Don Barnaby’s [D:248] [D:252]. When Finnegan’s story ends she is empty, and the four open Idabel for a final gulp before sleeping [D:256].D:243; D:248; D:252; D:256
Hildegarde Katt
Wife of Tommy Katt, the tough policeman. At the Old Wooden Ship, she tells Finnegan that her husband is the cop with the little moustache named Tommy, prompting Finnegan and Le Marin to pretend that Tommy is the moustache’s name [D:229-230].D:229-230
Hill boy
The kind of island boy distinguished from Hans’s friend Sulem, who is specifically a shore boy rather than a hill boy [A:59].A:59
Hill-billies
The narrator’s term for inhabitants of New Jersey’s wild back country, described as more remote than people in Tennessee or Arkansas. Finnegan meets Gautier the goat-man in this landscape [A:193-194].A:193-194
Hilton, Adrian
Banker and older brother of Sebastian Hilton, one of the moneyed members of Duffey’s Chicago circle [MTM B3:100] [MTM B4:123]. In the Depression debate, he argues that vested interests deliberately caused the crisis through the March 1933 bank moratorium. He alleges that objecting bankers were murdered and names his father as one; Rollo McSorley claims the father was killed by a jealous husband, and the two men fight until Duffey and others separate them [MTM B4:123-124].MTM B3:100; MTM B4:123; MTM B4:123-124
Hilton, Hilary
Wealthy businessman, Sebastian Hilton’s nephew and Mary Catherine Carruthers’s employer; his wife is Mary Jean [MTM B12:377-378]. Having known Casey since childhood, he identifies him as the Antichrist and says he seeks others’ sacrifice rather than money. He believes Casey fears measuring himself against Finnegan or Bishop Salvatore, and reports investigators’ findings that Finnegan is alive and awakening [MTM B12:378]. Hilary arranges a party for Duffey and about a hundred friends to tempt the uninvited Casey to appear, and watches Duffey’s televised projection of Casey’s head [MTM B12:379-381]. He buys the Resurrection of Count Finnegan from Duffey for $20,000 and leaves it in the Walk-In Art Bijou, where he returns to contemplate it [MB:553].MTM B12:377-378; MTM B12:378; MTM B12:379-381; MB:553
Hilton, Sebastian
Duffey’s wealthy boarding-school friend, younger and slighter than he, pale and greenish in complexion but a fast, ruthless boxer, runner, and schemer. Duffey recognizes his intellectual superiority; Sebastian excels at the school subjects and understands the talismans more fully than Duffey himself [MTM B1:22-25]. He has traveled in France and Italy and claims an affair with a young countess; Duffey’s mental exploration confirms that a twelve-year-old countess exists [MTM B1:31]. Duffey gives him a talisman to pass to someone else, and Sebastian predicts it will work only partly [MTM B1:35]. He recognizes the three slant-faced pursuers and warns that his association with Duffey lets them triangulate on both targets [MTM B1:36]. He later drives ambulances in France and Italy; Duffey may have borrowed those experiences from his mind [MTM B2:72]. Sebastian attends the Colony Club dinner and belongs to the Chicago golden-age circle; Adrian is his older brother, and Hilary his nephew [MTM B3:94] [MTM B3:98-100] [MTM B12:378]. Duffey predicts his early death despite the family’s assurances of good health [MTM B3:102]. On his final New Orleans visit Sebastian anticipates their next meeting in the Kingdom. He marries Countess Margaret a month after returning to Chicago and is killed one month later [MTM B7:216].MTM B1:22-25; MTM B1:31; MTM B1:35; MTM B1:36; MTM B2:72; MTM B3:94; MTM B3:98-100; MTM B12:378; MTM B3:102; MTM B7:216
Hind
English venturer among the treasure ships on Angela Cosquin’s father’s master map. Angela describes this map as the source of commissioned treasure maps and forged supporting documents for confidence men [D:261].D:261
Hindi
Language of Seaworthy’s dream in which he pushes an unaccountable corpse through an Indian city and cannot get rid of it. The people return it with the words “Ye tumhara hi kasur hai,” rendered in his account as “It’s your own fault” [D:72-73].D:72-73
Hindi names (gems)
Names of gems that Amoy knows only in Arabic or Hindi, beyond Ignatius Ti’s ability to translate. In Ti’s expansive account of Amoy’s former life as a red-winged blackbird, the stolen gems are brought to his jewel-thief master [A:80-81].A:80-81
Hindrance (Aral)
The Malay boy’s gloss for Aral, one of the names of the canoe from which he and the Sergeant dive. The boy also calls it Bumi, “of the world,” and Aragh, “the direction”; the Sergeant consequently recognizes it as the Ship Argo [A:89].A:89
Hinnegan
Casey’s farm-boy school roommate, who teaches him the musical saw and joins him in compiling a book of formulas [A:162-163]. Their room is supervised by the perennial senior Buttercup Butler. Casey tells Finnegan that the boy’s real name may have been Hannigan, Hanlon, or O’Hanlon; since knowing Finnegan, he has reconstructed the roommate as Hinnegan to rhyme with him [A:162].A:162-163; A:162
Hiram (King of Tyre)
King of Tyre, conventionally placed in the tenth century BC. The biblical account associates him with Solomon’s building projects and maritime expeditions to Ophir. In Hans’s reverie about the far southern land, the men of Solomon and Hiram have spent three years on the trip to Ophir, yet Hans imagines his own destination farther away still [A:16].A:16
Hiram Hunt
Attributed author of The Death of the Species, the Chapter Nineteen epigraph. It describes humanity as a tense union of two inherited elements, compares their balance to bow and string, and warns that a victory of either element would destroy the whole [D:283-284].D:283-284
Hiram III (King of St. Kobarid)
Ruler of St. Kobarid in the Julian Alps, called the last king because he refuses the World Consensus General’s order to abolish his nation [MB:563-564]. At the Voltaire Festival in Babylonia Bagascia, fifty senior youths strangle him with the entrails of Paul the Eleventh. The killing takes two and a half or three hours, after which his body is surrendered to dismemberers and souvenir seekers [MB:564-565].MB:563-564; MB:564-565
Hiram Walker
Liquor in Finnegan’s heavily stocked shoulder-bag when he leaves the Texas bars on foot during his search for the old Moonlight Cavalry [A:202].A:202
Hitler, Adolf (1889--1945)
Austrian-born Nazi leader and dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945. His regime invaded Poland in 1939, beginning the Second World War in Europe, and carried out the Holocaust and other mass murders. Hitler died by suicide in Berlin in 1945. In Absalom Stein’s Notes on the Finnegan Cycle, Hitler is fantastically described as a raider from the future into Greater Neustria [MTM B6:185]. Tony Apostolo also jokes that even a living Hitler would be an unoriginal news story, claiming seven previous reporter encounters with seven Hitlers [PG:525].MTM B6:185; PG:525
Hoax
Duffey wonders whether the Royal Pop People’s demand for hospitality is a “howling hoax” [MTM B11:312]. Casey later claims that his childhood Leader-and-white-horse episode was only a hoax, but the narrator rejects that explanation: Letitia saw that he meant it seriously [MTM B4:118].MTM B11:312; MTM B4:118
Hobo
Young man with whom Finnegan says he talked all night beside a fire in the north woods. At dawn the man appeared about forty years older; Finnegan fled, then heard his terrible wailing after he saw his aged reflection in a pool [D:14].D:14
Hochfelsen, Margaret (Countess)
See Countess Margaret, The (Margaret Hochfelsen).Hochheimer, Homer
Marie Monaghan’s supposed Uncle Homer in her conversation inside Hans’s mind. She says his color-blindness led him to mistake a purple cow for a black one and sell it cheaply to a butcher, who then made a million pounds from it [A:24].A:24
Hochstapler
Nickname given by the Professor and others to Betty’s father, glossed in the novel as a high-class swindler. A victim called a wool-hat kills him with his own barker’s mallet or gavel over less than three hundred dollars, claiming he meant only to hit him; the killer receives a year and a day [A:217].A:217
Hochstapler, Betty
Carnival acrobat and balancer, sixteen when Hans is fourteen, described as an unbreakable blonde doll. She first enjoys humiliating Hans but wants him as her sweetheart and prospective husband. Hans, embarrassed and feeling too young, encourages Angelo Angelino to marry her instead [A:216-217]. She admires her swindler father Hochstapler and is troubled by her inability to discover crookedness in Hans; even before marrying Angelo she has family connections with the Angelinos [A:217].A:216-217; A:217
Hock shop
Duffey’s pawnshop, part of the same establishment as his Walk-In Art Bijou, other businesses, and living quarters in New Orleans [MTM B11:311].MTM B11:311
Hodson's Superior Horse Whip
One of the whips named by the Royal Pop lecturer in his account of memories preserved by an old Decatur Street flagstone. The list evokes the sounds of horse traffic and its drivers [MTM B11:328-329].MTM B11:328-329
Hoe-down dancing
One of the everyday lively arts listed among those massively debased after the Devil’s release. The narrator places it beside cotillion dancing in the long inventory of threatened activities [MTM B6:207].MTM B6:207
Hogan's Alley
Place invoked in the description of the shabby Seabach: the boat looks as though drunken Irish carpenters from Hogan’s alley cobbled it together, and the narrator adds that parts of it actually were [D:135].D:135
Hogarth
William Hogarth (1697-1764), painter and engraver known for narrative series satirizing contemporary life, including A Harlot’s Progress and A Rake’s Progress. Patrick Stranahan names him with Watteau and Durer as one of the few acceptable sources of pictures in his restrictive rule of culture [A:109].A:109
Hokey-pokey pushcart
Cart from which an Italian man sells small cakes. Duffey gives the man his first talisman when he is no more than three years old; the memory resurfaces when Mr. X comes to New Orleans [MTM B1:18] [MTM B6:200].MTM B1:18; MTM B6:200
Hold him! (command)
Order shouted by the hammer-carrying young man to his two larger companions. They pinion Melchisedech Duffy while the first man carefully smashes his watch glass [GD:481].GD:481
Holland Gin
Drink Joseph contrasts with the palm wine he and Finnegan share in Freetown. He says Finnegan would be drinking whisky or Holland gin with his shipmates in the hotel bar if he were not a fellow low-lifer [D:93].D:93
Holland, Cyril
One of the people of a scientific bent in Duffey’s Chicago golden-age circle, listed beside Catherine Quick [MTM B3:99].MTM B3:99
Hollow cliffs
Part of the densely packed Black Papua landscape, threaded with dozens of miles of sponge-like caves and described with extravagant numbers of lizards and birds [A:36-37].A:36-37
Holly
Scent to which the lingering odor of the burned Elephant Ear bush is compared. After Letitia’s death, Duffey speaks with the flaming bush and grudgingly accepts its explanation; the fire then subsides, leaving an odor “something like holly” [MTM B8:253].MTM B8:253
Holy Apostle the tippler
Apostle invoked by Show Boat in her letter to Dotty as Sanctus Apostolus Potator Incognitus. She reports Papa’s supposed old Italian legend of an apostle who finishes leftover wine, yet remains a successful evangelist; Papa cannot remember whether he was Thomas, Bartholomew, or Jude [A:262].A:262
Holy Argo
Sacred designation of the Argo. Count Finnegan predicts that the Holy Argo will carry Antichrist to the Plains of Megiddo while the unbroken line still has a reigning representative. Duffey, Brannagan, and Gorshok then seek means of preventing Antichrist from coming aboard [MTM B13:453-454]. Duffey also calls it the Holy Ship when recalling the high gestes preceding his shore leave and present lifetime [MTM B12:370] [MTM B12:387].MTM B13:453-454; MTM B12:370; MTM B12:387
Holy Ghost
The Holy Ghost appears in Duffey’s bitter joke to Becky Stein that even the Holy Ghost has bad days, after she attacks the changed funeral Mass [MTM B12:354]. At the Mooring Rock Conclave, the narrator credits the Holy Ghost with revealing that Paul the Eleventh secretly appointed Finnegan a Cardinal [MB:598]. John Giwa also says the Holy Ghost would confirm the election made by even a lone surviving Cardinal [MB:596].MTM B12:354; MB:598; MB:596
Holy Grail (Sancgreal)
The Sancgreal, said to have been stolen from Glastonbury and recovered among the treasures of the Argo voyages [MTM B13:422].MTM B13:422
Holy Missal
Book carried by Joseph of Maintz in the spherical chamber of his moon-launching device, alongside Scripture and other works, in Ignacio’s story of the Benedictine priest’s lunar voyage [A:271].A:271
Holy Poverty
Spiritual poverty distinguished from squalor or deprivation. The narrator says it sacrifices good things, including money, rather than treating wealth itself as evil; both Holy Poverty and Holy Wealth are acknowledged [MTM B4:125]. Duffey tells Finnegan and Zabotski that the Devil can defame poverty and substitute degradation for it but cannot give true Holy Poverty. He links giving to willing receivers and to asking in good faith [MTM B6:194]. The Big Pot’s first six customers come from curiosity, and none is described as poor enough to belong to Holy Poverty [MTM B6:195].MTM B4:125; MTM B6:194; MTM B6:195
Holy Slumgullion
Duffey’s name for the food offered from the Big Pot. The plan is to keep it boiling indefinitely for poor people; its first six diners take soup from curiosity rather than poverty. Duffey worries that the pot might stay full because no one asks for its Holy Slumgullion [MTM B6:194-195].MTM B6:194-195
Holy Water Font
Small chipped font on the bedroom wall in Finnegan’s intensely detailed memory of the twelve years he lived with Theresa. The account leaves the time and ontological status of that shared life uncertain [A:204].A:204
Holy Wealth
Wealth acknowledged by the narrator as capable of holiness, alongside Holy Poverty. In the passage defending the joy of money, Holy Poverty is meaningful because it sacrifices good things, and the narrator distinguishes both holy states from their unholy counterparts [MTM B4:125].MTM B4:125
Home Town
Finnegan’s native New Orleans, whose mixed speech still cannot fully account for his peculiar dialect [A:6]. In his later disordered wanderings, he reaches the wheel-shaped city where he was born but cannot find his friends or control his movements through it [A:200].A:6; A:200
Homer
Traditional name attached to the ancient Greek Iliad and Odyssey, conventionally dated to the late eighth or early seventh century BC. Homer’s identity and biography are uncertain; blindness belongs to the ancient tradition about him. The poems developed through oral performance, although their transition into written texts remains disputed. The Iliad centers on Achilles’ anger during the Trojan War, and the Odyssey on Odysseus’s return home. In the novel, Teresa claims that even Homer considered the Argonauts unaccountably ancient, insisting that her companions belong to fact older than Greek myth [MTM B7:233-234].MTM B7:233-234
Homer Hoose
Dumaine Street neighbor of Zabotski. Zabotski’s building lies between Duffey’s and Hoose’s; Hoose in turn lies between Zabotski and Bryan Blackstone. Zabotski says Hoose has not looked out his back window for a long time and is unaware of the giant contraption under construction [MTM B9:268-271].MTM B9:268-271
Homicide
Charge for which Patrick Stranahan says he defended the seaman Doppio di Pinne in St. Louis [A:111]. Finnegan believes Don Barnaby has fled to his island refuge because of homicide [D:249]. In X’s account, Ifreann killed a man at fifteen and escaped the Krakow region after this punishable murder of his sixteenth year [D:280].A:111; D:249; D:280
Hondo
Texas town on Finnegan’s wandering route: after Uvalde on Monday, he passes through Sabinal, D’Hannis, and Hondo on Tuesday, then returns to D’Hannis seeking his old outfit, the Moonlight Cavalry [A:202].A:202
Honey
Seventy pounds brought back by Finnegan and Dotty after raiding four bee trees on a country frolic, then dumped into the Big Pot, appreciably changing the soup’s taste [A:134].A:134
Honey Tree
Imagined setting in Hans’s hypnosis act with Mabel the bear: he tells her she has robbed a honey tree and is covered with bees, prompting a genuine fear reaction [A:219]. Honey-tree raiding also appears among the everyday arts the narrator says were debased after the Devil’s release [MTM B6:207].A:219; MTM B6:207
Honeybucket
See Kincaid, Harry A. (Honeybucket).Honolulu
City associated with Niku Kazuko, double of Cardinal Runosake of Kobe. The list first calls him probably of Honolulu; the later account calls him of Honolulu without qualification [MB:579] [MB:592].MB:579; MB:592
Hoodoo Joy Pills (Haiti)
A variety of joy pill named by Don Barnaby, alongside High Harry, Deep Romany, Dead Frenchman, and Black Rooster pills. He distinguishes these from Madame Le Mourcheor's Old Original Juju Joy Pills. [D:248-249]D:248-249
Hooks
A boat hook is used against Duffey by one of the three slant-faced stevedores in his dream or trance. He later recognizes the remembered violence of the cruel hooked thing. [MTM B3:85] [MTM B3:98] Hooks and leather straps in the horse barn also supply the premise of Bagby's tall tale about suspending sleepers from the rafters. [MTM B2:44-45]MTM B3:85; MTM B3:98; MTM B2:44-45
Hooligan, Clement
Earlier heading attached Clement to the preceding person’s surname in a list. See Temple, Clement.Hooligan, Mary Carmel
One of the money-and-commerce people, or rich people, of the Chicago golden age. [MTM B3:100] She later attends the crowded farewell party for Duffey at Randal's. [MTM B12:383]MTM B3:100; MTM B12:383
Hoosier Hannah
Unresolved name previously associated with Casey and Ozark witches; a supporting passage has not been located.Hope Ship
A name for the Argo in its role as a source of hope for unfortunates: its coming is one of their promises. [MTM B13:405]MTM B13:405
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65--8 BC)
Roman lyric poet, satirist, and critic, born in 65 BC and dead in 8 BC. His works include the Odes, Epodes, and Epistles; his adaptations of Greek poetic forms and treatments of moderation, life's brevity, and carpe diem belong to Augustan Latin literature. In Argo, Endymeon Ellenbogen boasts of translating Horace. [A:237] Marie's apparent quotation of the poet instead refers to her uncle Horace Higgenbotham. [A:16]A:237; A:16
Horace Pie
A gnarled, cheerful Scottish seaman whom Duffey meets at sea. He previously sailed with Duffey on a long voyage, met him again on several shores, and knew Finnegan. [MTM B12:370] He joins Duffey and X in Cuba to search for the sea-level tomb of the Sleeping Man; after several false leads they find Finnegan's empty tomb. [MTM B12:372-374]MTM B12:370; MTM B12:372-374
Horn (Post-boy's)
Horn sounded on Sebastian Hilton's hired carriage during the first compulsory dance outing. Charley Murray plays rousing fox-hunting tunes on the outward journey; Duffey blows it vigorously on the return ride. [MTM B1:32] [MTM B1:34]MTM B1:32; MTM B1:34
Horn bands
One of the popular lively arts whose genuine forms are being displaced by deformed counterparts after the Devil's release. [MTM B6:207]MTM B6:207
Hornblower
Unresolved entry: the claimed reference to Finnegan as a hornblower has not been located.Horned toad
Unresolved entry: the claimed comparison of Anastasia to a horned toad has not been located.Horned turtles
Unresolved entry: no supporting passage has been located for horned turtles inhabiting Purgatory's banks.Horner (Henry) Park
Chicago park with a large equestrian statue, announced in the Answer newsletter as the place where the Leader, Casey Szymansky, will appear. [MTM B4:116] Letitia intercepts Casey on his way to the appearance. [MTM B4:117]MTM B4:116; MTM B4:117
Horse Carriages
Vehicles offered for hire on the Rounders' Club sign, alongside automobiles. [MTM B2:49]MTM B2:49
Horse collars
Pieces of harness among the old junk in the horse barn that becomes Duffey's establishment. [MTM B2:41]MTM B2:41
Horse Opera
A spectacular entertainment in which the Hoyden, the Countess, and their companions perform. They connect its display with the destruction of the remaining old human stronghold. [MTM B11:333] The Countess and Child Hero take part in a bullfight sequence, presented as a Cretan Bull Drama, in which human participants are mutilated and killed. [MTM B11:348-349]MTM B11:333; MTM B11:348-349
Horse shoes
Old horseshoes are among the horse barn's junk, and pitching horseshoes becomes an advertised entertainment at Duffey's establishment and the Rounders' Club. [MTM B2:41] [MTM B2:43] [MTM B2:49] Duffey drives steel stakes between paving slabs, and the men bring dirt and manure from the stable yard to make pitching pits; customers establish two additional courses on the first night. [MTM B2:46-47]MTM B2:41; MTM B2:43; MTM B2:49; MTM B2:46-47
Horseflesh
Meat from a freshly dead old horse, supplied by X for the Big Pot and used for more than a week without telling its American customers. [A:134]A:134
Horses
The Rounders' Club keeps fine horses, red-and-gold harness, and carriages in a divided-off part of its central room. [MTM B2:49] Duffey's premises had been a horse barn; the narrative attributes the decline of downtown St. Louis horses to streetcars and automobiles. [MTM B2:40] Pack horses had been rented by an earlier proprietor. [MTM B2:45] Cleveland Bays draw Sebastian Hilton's hired carriage. [MTM B1:32] At the announced appearance of the Leader in Henry Horner Park, a white former fire horse, dressed in gold lamé and cherished by its neighborhood, waits beside the equestrian statue. [MTM B4:116]MTM B2:49; MTM B2:40; MTM B2:45; MTM B1:32; MTM B4:116
Hosiery
Unresolved entry: the claimed episode involving Finnegan as a silk-hosiery drummer has not been located.Hot Stuff
The familiar, friendly name street boys call Margaret Stone. She notes the irony that most do not know her body temperature is 111 degrees, although a few medical students have heard of her case. [MTM B5:177-178]MTM B5:177-178
Hotel du Champ de Mars
The probable hotel in a Colmar, Alsace, childhood scene that Duffey has taken from Sebastian Hilton's memory. The scene gives its address as 2, Avenue de la Marna and places a meal of soupe aux grenouilles at the Rotisserie Schillinger shortly before the boy's thirteenth birthday. [MTM B1:35]MTM B1:35
House and Home Happenings Magazine
Magazine presenting Duffey's account of the origin of the Zabotski House on Lake Borgne, its House of the Uncertain Interval. The introduction proposes a two-part feature, hoping to describe the house itself in the next issue. [MTM B9:267] An editor's note acknowledges how strange and rambling this history is for a mainly pop-architectural publication; there the title appears as House and Home Happening Magazine. [MTM B9:273]MTM B9:267; MTM B9:273
House of Gold
A title of the Blessed Virgin Mary from the Litany, invoked together with Tower of Ivory as an image of real, holy, and joyous wealth. [MTM B4:125]MTM B4:125
House of Israel
The group to whose children Duffey jokingly claims his puppet shows are restricted when a public-school teacher invites him. She answers that 63 percent of her pupils are of the House of Israel and that he, a flaming Irishman, has the distinction backwards. [MTM B4:135]MTM B4:135
House of Ten Thousand Duty-Free Bargains
An advertised description of Duffey's Rounders' Club. He adds imported goods and art to its ten thousand bargains as the establishment prospers. [MTM B2:49]MTM B2:49
Houseboat
Zabotski's large floating boat-castle on Lake Borgne, described as an ark filled with children, animals, homemade music, and conversation. [MTM B12:362-364]MTM B12:362-364
Howard Stone Ostwald
See Ostwald, Howard Stone.Howell
A talkative soldier in Ward Fourteen, considered moderately sane by the Sergeant. He claims to have catalogued all one thousand subjects of conversation. [A:75] [A:77] An unexplained twitch in his left hand leads the doctors to classify his trouble as mental; his humor worsens their judgment. Following the Captain's advice to deny the hand nothing, Howell pulls three hairs from the Captain's moustache. [A:82-83] In the ward's debate over ghost stories, he defines them as horror stories and discusses the terror of a corpse returning to life. [A:84-85]A:75; A:77; A:82-83; A:84-85
Howland, Carter Miller
One of Howland Jerome Howland's seven brothers, sons of John Commodore Howland. Howland says their father chose names from old families he hated, perhaps to irritate them. [A:178]A:178
Howland, Cooper Stone
One of Howland Jerome Howland's seven brothers, sons of John Commodore Howland. Howland says their father chose names from old families he hated, perhaps to irritate them. [A:178]A:178
Howland, Francine
A pretty, dark girl whom Finnegan dates after meeting her in a Chicago bar. He introduces Howland to her, and she plans to obtain a kitchen job for him at her hotel and, if she can settle him, to marry him. [A:181-182] She becomes Howland's wife and remains close to Finnegan; the Howlands always keep a room for him, and she candidly criticizes their expensive way of life. [A:246-247]A:181-182; A:246-247
Howland, Gilbert Finnegan
The son of Howland Jerome and Francine Howland, described as carrying on the family's tradition of triple names. [A:246-247]A:246-247
Howland, Harper Scott
Harper Scott Howland, one of Howland Jerome Howland's brothers. Their father gave the boys names from old families whom he disliked, apparently to irritate those families [A:178].A:178
Howland, Howland Jerome
Son of John Commodore Howland and traveling companion of Finnegan on the journey north to Chicago. He catches rabbits for their meals; Finnegan helps him improve his reading and teaches him to print. [A:178-180] At eighteen he admires Finnegan intensely, meets Francine through him, and plays the comic part of Finnegan's valet during a visit to Casey. Francine and Howland become lasting friends and hosts to Finnegan. [A:181-182] Later Howland runs Chicago's luxurious Club Royal, is married to Francine, and has a son, Gilbert Finnegan Howland. [A:246-247]A:178-180; A:181-182; A:246-247
Howland, John Commodore
Father of Howland Jerome Howland and his seven named brothers. According to Howland, his father chose their names from old families he hated; Howland guesses that the purpose was to irritate those families. [A:178]A:178
Howland, Lansdown Filmore
One of Howland Jerome Howland's seven brothers, sons of John Commodore Howland. Howland says their father chose names from old families he hated, perhaps to irritate them. [A:178]A:178
Howland, Mansville Burgess
One of Howland Jerome Howland's seven brothers, sons of John Commodore Howland. Howland says their father chose names from old families he hated, perhaps to irritate them. [A:178]A:178
Howland, Orville Cannon
One of Howland Jerome Howland's seven brothers, sons of John Commodore Howland. Howland says their father chose names from old families he hated, perhaps to irritate them. [A:178]A:178
Howland, Otis Hunter
One of Howland Jerome Howland's seven brothers, sons of John Commodore Howland. Howland says their father chose names from old families he hated, perhaps to irritate them. [A:178]A:178
Howlands, The
Howland Jerome and Francine Howland and their family, with whom Finnegan often stays in Chicago. [A:182] [A:246-247] In The Devil Is Dead he includes the Howlands among those who are friendly to him in his normal life, while lamenting his own inability to make human contact. [D:90]A:182; A:246-247; D:90
Howship's lacunar frequency
One of the technical measures invoked in the fictional Eighteenth Book of Strange Encounters as evidence that Duffey is more than four thousand years old. [MTM B8:250]MTM B8:250
Hoyden, The (archetype)
A young Royal Pop Person whose individual identity the narrative distinguishes from a mere type. [MTM B11:322] In Bayougoula Park she challenges Mary Virginia's doubts about the new people's reality and insists that mountains and thunder test a place's authenticity. [MTM B11:331-334] She joins the dinner at Girardeau's and performs in the Horse Opera's Thunder Colt Game, helping feed a living human into a colt's egg. [MTM B11:345] [MTM B11:348-350] In the subsequent play frame, Cleo Mahoney plays the Hoyden in the Fifth Road episode. [MTM B12:352]MTM B11:322; MTM B11:331-334; MTM B11:345; MTM B11:348-350; MTM B12:352
Hsien
One of the rulers with whom Duffey claims to have sat in kings' conclaves, alongside Solomon, Saul, Ptolemy, Chandragupta, Nebuchadnezzar, Barbarossa, and others. [MTM B5:166]MTM B5:166
Hubbard (Gurdon S.) Elementary School
A brand-new public school on Chicago's north side where a lively teacher persuades the Duffeys to perform. Its cleanliness frustrates Duffey's mouse act because there are no mice in the building to summon. [MTM B4:135]MTM B4:135
Hubbard Street
Street whose tea rooms commonly had Casey Machines, according to Newton Prescott's account. [CM:503]CM:503
Hubbard's
A name on axe heads in Duffey's remembered catalogue of household iron words, many of them appropriated from other minds during his childhood. [MTM B1:17]MTM B1:17
Hugh de Turenne
A humanities scholar associated with Xavier in New Orleans who attends the Royal Pop historical sessions in Duffey's establishment. [MTM B11:322] As a speaker he declares that the Black Sea has been obliterated at Himself's wish, along with its memories, and that Athens, Jerusalem, and Rome never existed. He links the destruction of Colchis to an attack on the Argo and the Fleece. [MTM B11:336]MTM B11:322; MTM B11:336
Hugh Stranahan
One of Patrick Stranahan's four sons, brother of Philip, Timothy, and Vincent. [A:102] His bridge-playing friends visit the family's Cat Castle home, and he offers Finnegan work as a salesman. [A:104] [A:100]A:102; A:104; A:100
Hugh Thatcher (the Yellow Kid)
Artist called the Yellow Kid, among the world-makers whose work Duffey sells and whose ideas contribute to his project of rebuilding the world. [MTM B6:198-199]MTM B6:198-199
Hughes (Family)
One of the family names in an older relative's account of Duffey's many kindred during his childhood. The account places him with cousins between the ages of five and twelve, in Iowa and several cities, but Duffey disputes the claimed relations. [MTM B1:7]MTM B1:7
Hugo (Victor)
French writer Victor Hugo (1802-1885), named in the Postscript among celebrated people used to illustrate Havelock Ellis's belief in the equal potential of apparently ordinary people. [PS:476]PS:476
Hugo Stone
The camera-carrying boy who frequented Duffey's Chicago bookstore from about eight or nine years old. Duffey identifies him with Absalom Stein, but Margaret Stone says Hugo was a joke identity shared by Stone cousins, especially the twins Myron and Efram; Casey denies knowing Stein in Chicago, although he fought Hugo twice and lost. [MTM B4:111-113] Duffey attributes compromising photographs of his conduct with Mary Frances Rattigan, Mary Catherine Carruthers, Mary Jean, and Ethyl Ellenberger to Hugo; the blackmailer calls Hugo a clever relative who saved material for future use. [MTM B4:139] Stein later says he traded Casey the old soul of Hugo Stone the Chicago red, and X calls Stein the infamous Chicago communist. [MTM B5:169] [MTM B6:202]MTM B4:111-113; MTM B4:139; MTM B5:169; MTM B6:202
Hugos
One of the names attached to self-teaching language manuals on Duffey's bookstore shelves, among the resources available to Casey in his attempt to learn every language. [A:159]A:159
Hull
Duffey recounts finding the lost Argo again through a New Orleans hull dealer: the old oak hull floats lightly, though it does not resemble the Argo at first sight. He explains that it can recover its fittings by remembering them. The account is explicitly said to be symbolically accurate rather than accurate by ordinary standards. [MTM B13:412]MTM B13:412
Hulme, Dotty
One of the Dottys associated with the Old Wooden Ship. She and Dotty Danvers have each been married to Buffalo Chips Dugan. She also previously married one of the two Sugarland, Texas, brothers to whom Dotty Danvers and Little Dotty Nesbitt were married. [D:220-221]D:220-221
Human
A contested category throughout the cycle. Finnegan doubts his own human identity and hears of another human race; the fictional review of Royce Rollins's book identifies that other race as Neanderthals, while reporting a later qualification that they might be another early species. [D:90-91] [D:240-242] Finnegan seeks reassurance in humanity among the Company of Fifty. [D:225] Professor Kirol describes humanity as contingent but endowed with hope of becoming fully real. [A:211-212] Hilary Hilton disputes Casey's advertised sacrifices for humanity, and the Royal Pop People treat old humans as weeds to be destroyed. [MTM B12:378] [MTM B11:331-334]D:90-91; D:240-242; D:225; A:211-212; MTM B12:378; MTM B11:331-334
Humility
A lesson that a piece of driftwood has learned from looking an oyster in the eye, in Trinali's fanciful account of the wood she selects to turn into a lamp. [A:232-233]A:232-233
Humphrey Speckle
Artist among the people whose work Duffey sells and whose creative ideas help his project of rebuilding the world. [MTM B6:198-199]MTM B6:198-199
Hungary
The source of a tavern-sign Christ in Duffey's collection, described as coming from the time of Béla Kun and Hungary's brief first communist period. The novel contrasts hostility to Christ imagery with the hearty image of Christ drinking beer from a mug decorated with spinning worlds. [MTM B3:103]MTM B3:103
Hunters
Bounty hunters pursuing the thirteen shadow-men after Track and Total puts prices on their heads. [MB:589] They surround the approaches to Mooring-Stone but are frustrated and killed by the rapidly changing shoals while the fugitives reach the refuge. [MB:595]MB:589; MB:595
Huracan
The hurricane bird of San Simeon: a giant storm bird said to carry away pieces of that country in its twisting flight, forming at least thirteen Antillean islands. [MB:557-558] See Hurricane birds (huracan).MB:557-558
Hurricane birds (huracan)
Giant storm birds nesting in the limestone crags of San Simeon and spreading destruction over the Ocean of Mexico. Some accounts make them one bird that flies again and again; others make them half a dozen newly hatched birds each year. Their twisting flight carries away pieces of San Simeon and drops them into water or onto land; at least thirteen Antillean islands are said to have formed this way. [MB:557-558]MB:557-558
Husband
Among the husbands named in Duffey's circle are Bascom Bagby, husband of his sister Mary Louise, and Erlenbaum, husband of Beth. [MTM B5:155-156] Gloria Mullens describes a recently dead husband involved in liquor shipments; Charlotte says she had a husband associated with Aga Gonof, without making Gonof himself that husband. [MTM B3:79] [MTM B3:84]MTM B5:155-156; MTM B3:79; MTM B3:84
Hussar sabre
One of the weapons Casey wears in his Leader regalia, together with his father's Knights of Columbus Fourth Degree sword. [MTM B4:117]MTM B4:117
Huxley the Bulldog
The slogan Huxley the Bulldog forever appears on the badge of a Vigilante Orthodoxer who threatens to shoot Zabotski while defending scientific orthodoxy. [MTM B9:286]MTM B9:286
Hydra
An image for the many-armed adversary. In a letter to Dotty, Show Boat identifies the Serpent of the Garden with an eight-armed hydra after reporting Vincent's warning about Communism and secular liberalism as limbs of one octopus. [A:263] Casey separately pictures Hans fighting his internal dragon and passing hydra-heads each morning. [A:155]A:263; A:155
Hydrogen
The lifting gas for Duffey's custom silk-bag balloon, renamed the Argo Twelve and Half. Venting it makes the balloon descend; the narrative explains the danger of flames when the gas is released around the gondola. [MTM B2:63-65] After the airborne dinner, Duffey extinguishes the candles, knocks Charley Murray's cigar overboard, and opens the gate valve to descend. [MTM B2:66]MTM B2:63-65; MTM B2:66
Hygrometer
An instrument whose falling reading Mary Virginia mentions, together with the barometer, when she senses another wind from the north. The exchange immediately precedes Charlotte Garfield's return from Chicago. [MTM B8:258]MTM B8:258
Hymn books
Among the books the goats are permitted to eat as they weed the looted library at Harlow House, along with devotional works and novels of bad vintage. [A:198]A:198
Hypnotism
The Leader's magnetic hold on the public is described as hypnotic. [MTM B4:115] Casey's later ability to superimpose his idealized face and eerie voice on television programs is attributed to combined electronic genius and psychic power, though that passage does not call the technique hypnotism. [MTM B12:380]MTM B4:115; MTM B12:380
Hypocrisy
Januarius O'Higgins accuses Casey of hypocrisy when Casey disclaims the Casey Machine, predicting that he will buy one through an intermediary as soon as it is available. The exchange appears in Josephine McSorely's Underground Eagle report. [CM:507]CM:507
Iason
Jason, leader of the Argonauts in Greek myth, and the Argo identity assigned to Finnegan, John A. Solli. [A:39] [A:171] Teresa says Finnegan is Iason himself and gives Jason as the later Roman form. [MTM B7:234] Henry Salvatore is explicitly assigned Euphemus rather than Iason. [A:149] See Jason.A:39; A:171; MTM B7:234; A:149
Iatrikê (Technê)
The Art of Medicine by Galen (AD 129-c. 216), cited as Techne Iatrike beneath the epigraph to Chapter Eleven of The Devil Is Dead. The epigraph describes Tityroi or Satyrs as offspring of daemons and earthly women, says their line requires periodic renewal, and claims that one daemon begot children on thirteen women at Calchedon in a single night. [D:160-161] The attribution of this particular passage to the historical work remains unverified.D:160-161
Ibsen, Henrik (1828--1906)
Norwegian playwright (1828-1906) central to modern drama, known for social criticism, realistic dramatic form, and psychological conflict. His plays include A Doll's House (1879), Ghosts (1881), and Hedda Gabler (1890). In Casey's notebook, reading Ibsen directly proves more illuminating than Shaw's Quintessence of Ibsenism. [A:166] The Postscript names him in its account of Havelock Ellis's belief in ordinary people's equal creative potential. [PS:476]A:166; PS:476
Icelandic
Language Endymeon Ellenbogen intends to learn before translating the Elder Edda; Hans answers that he already knows it [A:236-237].A:236-237
Ichor
In Greek mythology, the fluid that takes the place of blood in the gods. Anastasia is described as "flesh and ichor" and as "transparent, translucent, transcendent," giving her an otherworldly aspect [D:13].D:13
Idabel
Bottle named by the Four during their sojourn in Basse-Terre. It follows Hildegarde: the four companions finish Idabel in a single gulp apiece and fall asleep. Earlier bottles include Agatha, Bathildes, Clotilda, Delphina, Etheldreda, Faustina, and Georgina [D:243] [D:256].D:243; D:256
Ideas
August Koch offers inherited European ideas as a dowry, and Duffey proposes reducing and locking them away [MTM B3:101]. Duffey goes to New Orleans to put Henry’s ideas into effect [A:117] and begins his schoolteaching with his own "good ideas" [MTM B1:11]. Casey’s ideas about his machine are treated in its account of joint invention and in Hilary Hilton’s hostile assessment of Casey [CM:507] [PG:531]. The proposed "idea magazine" is the Crock [MTM B4:138-140]. Pop History connects ideas about history with mass hypnotism and group amnesia [MTM B11:307]. Anastasia jokes that Finnegan can teach her Plato and develop her ideas [D:124]; Seaworthy says that a very evil man "gets ideas" [D:81].MTM B3:101; A:117; MTM B1:11; CM:507; PG:531; MTM B4:138-140; MTM B11:307; D:124; D:81
Ifni
Former Spanish enclave on Morocco’s Atlantic coast, occupied by Spain in 1934 and returned to Morocco in 1969. The Brunhilde party visits Ifni after Arrecife on Lanzarote and before Agadir [D:101].D:101
Ifreann Noonan Columkill Gregorovitch
The elder Papadiabolous in Mr. X’s account, whose grave bears the initials I.N.C.G.P. and the euphemistic surname Bogovitch. X says he was born near Krakow in 1830 to Katie Noonan, an Irish governess, and to the Devil, allegedly named as father in St. Elmo parish records; Gregory adopted him, accounting for Gregorovitch; X considers but rejects Gregory’s possible biological paternity [D:277-279]. X calls Ifreann Irish for "Devil," although its ordinary meaning is "hell." His story describes a large, brutal child with exceptional mentality but no intelligence, who killed cats, tried to kill children, and fled after killing a man at fifteen. X places his later travels in Austria, Russia, Greece, Smyrna, London, Ireland, Milano, Sicily, and America, and makes him a forty-year-old participant in the Paris Commune and disciple of Kropotkin [D:280-281]. At seventy he allegedly fathered two simultaneous sons by different mothers: Gregory McIfreann, Papadiabolous I, in Smyrna, and Gregory McColum, Papadiabolous II, in Cork, on opposite sides of the century’s boundary [D:285-286]. He died at a hundred in 1930. His son Gregory McIfreann was later buried above him, in the grave Finnegan helped Seaworthy deepen [D:288]. His full family name in X’s account is Ifreann Noonan Columkill Gregorovitch Papadiabolous Chortovitch [D:278]. X also says he called himself a citizen of Krakow [D:280]. In The Flame Is Green, Ifreann Chortovitch is Dana Coscuin’s great antagonist and Catherine Dembinska’s feared acquaintance from childhood. Catherine repeats the 1830 birth and demonic paternity, reporting that he looked twelve at birth and murdered children; another witness says he looked twelve at two. Reports of his death are accompanied by a were-cat explanation of repeated lives (The Flame Is Green, PDF pp. 189, 210-211, 248). Huge, purple-complexioned, imposing and potentially handsome, he deals in bodies rather than love, threatens Catherine and says he can trace her. His heartiness and vitality exert a disturbing attraction. In one of his Paris houses, an orgy projects the men’s private hells; Charley Oceaan breaks the illusions, and the four companions drink Ifreann into stupor. Catherine and Charley remove documents afterward (The Flame Is Green, PDF pp. 187-190, 203-209). Following Catherine’s murder and the discovery of Ifreann’s signed message, Dana tracks his animal stench and staggering stride, then runs him through with a rapier and takes him for dead (The Flame Is Green, PDF pp. 254-257). In Half a Sky, attacks on Dana’s companions follow their Amsterdam meeting, casting doubt on Ifreann’s death. He reappears to claim the Porte d’Enfer estate and Dana’s rock house, while witnesses debate his bodily and ghostly manifestations. Dana suspects that his four flunkies are zombie-like projections; O’Boyle is one of these agents. Ifreann later explains that he lay wounded for three days and delirious in a Krakow pest-house for six months, projecting that delirium onto Dana. He boasts of having fulfilled his earlier promises of violence and means to kill Dana while he is out of grace (Half a Sky, PDF pp. 22-23, 38-40, 53-58, 62-64, 84-86). He shoots Dana’s thumb during the cliff ambush with O’Boyle (Half a Sky, PDF pp. 90-93). Hidden aboard the Catherine, he corrupts food and thoughts, induces sleep, starts fires and levitates objects; one man is killed. Lured by putrid pork and drugged rum, he becomes a monstrous glutton. Dana stabs him, the company throws him overboard, and he changes through marine forms before swimming away as a man. He returns weakened in Santiago, then recovers enough to assault Dana with visions of a destroyed world (Half a Sky, PDF pp. 111-112, 120-122, 127-132). Kemper’s broader theory of the Devil Unchained asks whether Ifreann is their own projection; Dana rejects this (Half a Sky, PDF pp. 134-136). Ifreann commands the ironclad Brami Piekielne, glossed as Gates of Hell. Dana damages it off the Horn and escapes; Dana uses Kemper’s dead-man sight, while Ifreann has only his own night-eyes. The Lord of the Flies is Ifreann’s uncle (Half a Sky, PDF pp. 143-144, 146, 150-153, 160). Ifreann torments Dana with the claim that the child’s bones in his chest are Catherine’s son by Ifreann’s violation of her after death; Dana’s inspection finds no confirming demonic bone (Half a Sky, PDF pp. 191-193). In the final collision of their ships, the Catherine and Gates of Hell explode, and Dana and Jack Galopade pursue Ifreann into the sea. His final death is not narrated (Half a Sky, PDF pp. 197, 202-204).D:277-279; D:280-281; D:285-286; D:288; D:278; D:280
Ignace Wolff
Name to which The Devil Is Dead attributes an epigraph from Gedanken von Leibern. It says that bodies thwart non-contradiction, negate the principle of sufficient reason, and have no sufficient reason [D:67].D:67
Ignacio
Lawyer who helps Finnegan in the Spanish-speaking town where Finnegan is unsure of his surroundings. He says the authorities know of Finnegan’s activities and remain friendly, recounts Joseph of Maintz’s moon-rocket story, and discusses the possibility of going to St. Kitts [A:269-272]. Elena calls him after Finnegan’s fight, and he has already contacted Finnegan’s friends [A:273]. Letters from Ignacio and Elena tell Dotty Yekouris that Finnegan is "coming apart" [MTM B8:237].A:269-272; A:273; MTM B8:237
Ignatius Cardinal Ti
Cardinal of Manila and one of the thirteen Princes of the Ekklesia in Flight targeted by John Mogul. The list of doubles pairs him with Bolo Manolo [MB:579]. He is among the eleven surviving princes who enter Mogul’s contest [MB:580]; his death is reported before the verse commanding that the next victim be flayed [MB:583]. His epitaph is "My chalice indeed you shall drink" [MB:589]. A later passage instead calls Lloyd Cardigan-Pembroke, the pig butcher of Tywyn, the double of the dead Cardinal Ti [MB:594].MB:579; MB:580; MB:583; MB:589; MB:594
Illo tempore---
Part of Mr. X’s opening "In illo tempore" for the story of the Devil’s grave. The phrase functions as a Latin once-upon-a-time formula: X also begins in French and then resumes "Once upon a time" in English [D:284-285].D:284-285
Illumination (Interior)
Interior understanding that Duffey says is needed to interpret the Argo’s log, whose record extends nine thousand years backward and sixty-seven years forward [MTM B13:411].MTM B13:411
Illyria
Ancient region of the Balkan Peninsula along the Adriatic. Gabrielovitch places Ragusa, now Dubrovnik, in Illyria and explains argosy through Ragosy, a fleet from Ragusa [A:127]. John Schultz’s letter associates the Argo’s westward voyages with Illyria and the Adriatic, allowing variant routes [MTM B6:186]. Finnegan’s travel poem wonders whether Illyrian fleets were lost in Illyrian fogs [A:172].A:127; MTM B6:186; A:172
Illyrian
Adjective for the fleets and fogs in Finnegan’s travel poem: he wonders whether all the Illyrian fleets were lost in Illyrian fogs [A:172].A:172
Imazu
One of the names Mr. X gives during a telephone call involving the "Y" code book. The passage does not identify its bearer or explain its significance [D:184].D:184
Immortality
Private Gregory calls the will immortal while explaining possession as hypnotism from beyond the grave [A:84]. Marie Courtois claims that the recurring earthly return of beings like herself, Demeter and her own Persephone, is the only immortality; Finnegan answers that she is wrong, although the proof is not there [D:91].A:84; D:91
Imperial Bar
Possible name of the Basse-Terre establishment the companions call Sloppy Joe’s; Finnegan is unsure whether its real name is the Imperial or the Royal [D:235]. Its proprietor is Joseph Chastaigne, and Angela Cosquin works there [D:266].D:235; D:266
Imperial Carriage
One of the vehicles named by the turbaned Pop Historian as he evokes the memories supposedly held by a Decatur Street flagstone [MTM B11:329].MTM B11:329
Imperial Quart
Beer measure described in Archipelago as thirty-nine ounces, with a "jolt at the end." Finnegan, Vincent, Freddy, and Tom progress to it after steins [A:14]. In a separate contest, Joe Bushmaster downs his sixth imperial quart in one gulp, winning even Hans Schultz’s admiration [A:22].A:14; A:22
In Absentia, O Absentia!
Label for Giovanni, Finnegan’s place among the Seven Pillars of Righteousness on the Bark masthead drawing that Finnegan supplies [A:121-122].A:121-122
In hoc signo vincet
Latin motto on a pennant of the Navicula Petri in Henry Salvatore’s dream [A:44]. Its vincet means "he will conquer"; it recalls the traditional In hoc signo vinces, "In this sign you will conquer," associated with Constantine’s vision before the battle of 312.A:44
In Petto
Italian for "in secret," literally "in the breast." Paul XI names Finnegan a cardinal in petto after Finnegan paints his portrait, a week before the pope is murdered [MB:598]. The unreliable Mr. X also claims that a deceased pope made Finnegan a Papal Count in petto [MTM B12:367].MB:598; MTM B12:367
Incarnation
The Creator’s visit to his own creation, discussed in an epigraph attributed to G. K. Chesterton’s The Everlasting Man [MTM B5:176]. A different idea, reincarnation, appears in Marie Courtois’s claim that she returns every year as both Demeter and her own Persephone [D:91].MTM B5:176; D:91
Incendiarism
Deliberate fire-setting. In Charles O. A. Harrington’s hostile review of Royce Rollins’s The Return of the Neanderthal, Rollins is accused of attributing revolutionary movements, incendiarism, and massacres to alien beings within humanity [D:240-242].D:240-242
Incense
The mesquite coals of the Padre Island fish fry give off a weedy smell with a touch of incense [D:34]. Incense bushes belong to the Boy King Melchisedech’s remembered domain [MTM B1:17]. Incense is burned during the offerings at the opening of the Princes’ Conclave in Babylonia Bagascia [MB:565-566].D:34; MTM B1:17; MB:565-566
Incubus
Evil spirit said to lie upon sleepers. Planning the Sinbad panels, Finnegan says that William Gerecke, his Old Man of the Sea, "looks like an incubus" [D:62].D:62
Indelecio, John
John "Little Alcohol" Indelecio, a regular at the Old Wooden Ship, is the climbing and high-window specialist in a burglary partnership with John "Big Alcohol" Jereboam. The pair undertake jobs only when deeply in debt to Lazarus Reilly [D:215] [D:218].D:215; D:218
India
Recurring setting of Seaworthy’s dreams, which he calls the land of his unconscious. He describes a gray, colorless dream of an unidentified Indian city where he cannot dispose of a male corpse and a cart wheel repeatedly comes off. He also claims that a Hindu sect regards India as Purgatory and its members as already dead [D:72-73]. Finnegan recalls and interprets this conversation while swimming underwater; he decides the corpse is literal and the Indian setting may stand for a Western one [D:71] [D:74]. The Boy King has milk from India buffalo [MTM B1:17-18], and the hybrid Kasmir-Stein is described as a remote jewel of India [MTM B5:183].D:72-73; D:71; D:74; MTM B1:17-18; MTM B5:183
Indian Scalper
A figure of the sensational American adventure literature preserved in the Harlow House library, including the listed Buffalo Hunter and Indian Scalper. These are among the old goat-man’s favorite books [A:197-198].A:197-198
Indian War
Unspecified conflict during which Private Gregory says his papers were lost. He says losses during this war and the Civil War each allowed him to subtract decades from his recorded age, concealing his failure to age during a long U.S. Army career [A:77].A:77
Indian-colored
Description of the cigar-store Christ from St. Kitts among Duffey’s collected Christ images. A Black island artist uses the cigar-store Indian convention, including a hand shaped to hold cigars, but gives the bare-headed figure Christ’s face [MTM B3:103].MTM B3:103
Indianapolis race
The Indianapolis 500 automobile race, first held in 1911. Finnegan brings a portable radio to follow the race during his graveyard meeting with Doll Delaney and Mr. X; they choose the day because other cemetery visitors will make them less conspicuous [D:276].D:276
Indians (Cigar Store)
Four life-size wooden figures carved by Finnegan during his approximately three-week stay with Casey in Chicago, combining authenticity, humor, and burlesque. He sells them for a hundred dollars each; Hillary Hilton later keeps one for his love of Finnegan and will not sell it [A:183]. In Not to Mention Camels, a slightly larger-than-life Finnegan cigar-store Indian is described as "woodenly vital" and holds cigars that prove real. The same novel reports a disputed claim that Gregory van Ghi was Finnegan’s disciple, while noting that van Ghi was older. It also gives Count Finnegan a role in shaping the Narrow Corner: Anastasia recounts its prophetic frightfulness, and he projects it back through his visualization.A:183
Indies
The Indies are a projected destination in Finnegan’s travel poem [A:173], and Ignacio describes St. Kitts as an unusually interesting island among them [A:272]. Teresa quotes a prophecy that Duffey’s Argo will carry Count Finnegan to an obscure place in the Indies to be elected and crowned [MTM B12:388]. A painting of the risen Count associates his altered flesh with the uncoffined dead of poor people in the West Indies [MB:551].A:173; A:272; MTM B12:388; MB:551
Indigestion
Unverified association with Peter Wirt. The cited passage calls him a man with "the mind of a wolverine," but gives him no digestive complaint [D:163].D:163
Indulgence
Finnegan’s distant appearance is compared to Dionysus before he became "puffy with indulgence" [A:6]. Seaworthy says that all their sort indulge in amnesia, and Finnegan thinks this is an indulgence he should abandon [D:11-12]. Lily Koch jokes that she envies people whose lifestyles permit them to indulge in murder [MTM B3:97].A:6; D:11-12; MTM B3:97
Indult
Ecclesiastical permission for an exception to Church law. The phrase "at the drop of an indult" describes how readily Duffey, the Bark’s theology reviewer, could name the hundred leading theologians [MTM B6:208].MTM B6:208
Industrial-Agricultural country
The underlying landscape in Tartary over which a false desert is sometimes superimposed. Duffey notices incorrectly made rocks and plants, suspicious skeletal remains, and fierce heat that does not move the sand or vegetation [MTM B13:439].MTM B13:439
Ineffable Name
God’s name understood as unutterable or not to be spoken. No specific occurrence or identifiable allusion has been located in the three novels.Inertia
An unlocated label originally attached to the Great Day’s transformations. The cited episode shows apparently absent coffee cups collapsing, but does not discuss inertia [GD:485].GD:485
Infidels (New)
The New Infidels have ruled Tartary for several generations when the Argo is sent to investigate the Laughing Prince. Tartary is no longer even an official name [MTM B13:438].MTM B13:438
Infiltrates
Plotters or diabolists said to penetrate the People, the State, and the Church, recorded on index cards in the brown box Mr. X steals from Casey [MTM B6:203]. Casey says Duffey has indexed several thousand in laymen’s groups and would have them "up by the thumbs" if he could [A:42-43]. X supplements the file but warns that his information, like all information on the Infiltrates, should be taken with a grain of salt [A:136-137]. Duffey later keeps the file in his walk-in safe [A:143]. In a separate episode Manuel plans to infiltrate the apparatus that turns men into devils [D:56].MTM B6:203; A:42-43; A:136-137; A:143; D:56
Information
Mr. X collects secret information, supplements the Infiltrates file, and warns that it requires skepticism [MTM B6:200] [A:137]. He withholds accusations for which he lacks independent corroboration and says his supposed Devil informant knows only disconnected glimpses of the future [A:139-140]. Duffey’s later account again warns that X cannot be depended upon [MB:549]. X also displays knowledge of Mogul’s assassination contracts [MB:570-571]. Marie Courtois obtains Finnegan’s details for the ship’s register; Anastasia tells him Marie needs more information [D:21] [D:32]. The Naxos raiders rely on inadequate maps and a girl’s childhood memories [D:136], while X later questions Finnegan unsuccessfully about intelligence he might have gathered aboard the Brunhilde [D:188]. Angela Cosquin’s maps suggest she has obtained the locations of Finnegan’s hidden treasure from his mind [D:263]. The narrator gives supposedly exact coordinates for Paradise [D:234]. X says a document buried with the elder Devil contains dangerously valuable information, motivating Seaworthy’s grave-opening and X’s own proposed search [D:288] [D:290].MTM B6:200; A:137; A:139-140; MB:549; MB:570-571; D:21; D:32; D:136; D:188; D:263; D:234; D:288; D:290
Infra-red cookers (Directional)
A proposed assassination device among the submissions to John Mogul’s murder contest. The fictional proposal imagines a directional cooker heating a victim’s internal organs without leaving an external mark [MB:581].MB:581
Infra-red rays
Part of the extravagant description of Teresa Piccone as a blue-light phenomenon: looking too long at her supposedly gives the viewer welders’ eye-burns [MTM B5:163].MTM B5:163
Ingraham
One of the aliases Mr. X assigns to Gregory McColum Papadiabolous, the Irish-born Papadiabolous II, also called Noonan and described as a son of Ifreann [D:285].D:285
Inhabited World (Oikoumene)
An unlocated term originally associated with the Argo’s voyages. The cited passage says that the ship knows all the world’s seas and islands, but does not name the Oikoumene or say that it sails beyond the inhabited world [MTM B13:405].MTM B13:405
Ink
Duffey uses squid ink kept in a bowl for official writing and uses it to answer the Royal Pop People’s invitation [MTM B11:312-313]. Finnegan draws Manuel in ink on the back of a poster during the visit to Demetrio’s bar [D:58].MTM B11:312-313; D:58
Inkling
Casey’s impression that rich men might practice a secret higher religion, prompted by seeing them enter the monsignor’s study after Benediction. The meeting is actually for a fundraising drive, and Casey never finds the imagined higher religion [A:158-159].A:158-159
Inn
Casey drinks in a College Inn instead of attending a lecture during his irregular college years, 1938-1942 [A:167]. After swimming from Naxos to Paros, Finnegan sits at an inn for three days before Mr. X arrives [D:151-152]. Costerman’s Whalers’ Inn is among the waterfront establishments Duffey remembers [MTM B13:407].A:167; D:151-152; MTM B13:407
“Interior Garden, The” (story)
Don Barnaby’s account of the courtyard at Madame Le Mourcheor’s establishment after he takes one of her joy pills. The apparently small garden expands to contain whole worlds; he experiences a marriage and children whose names and appearances continually change while their identities persist [D:249-250].D:249-250
Investigator, The
Publication started by Absalom Stein, Melchisedech Duffey, and Gabrielovitch. It is printed at the Pelican Press but is separate from The Bark; the three men’s outside incomes help make it independent. Duffey writes for both journals [A:143].A:143
Iolcus
Ancient Thessalian city associated with Jason. Rosemary Riorden addresses the amnesiac Sergeant as Aeson’s son and tells him that he will never return in the flesh to Iolcus [A:89]. Gabrielovitch later identifies Ragusa in Illyria as the original Iolcus, within the novel’s shifting account of the Argosy and its voyagers [A:127].A:89; A:127
Ionian Sea
Sea between southeastern Italy and western Greece; included among the many seas sailed by the Argo and remembered by Melchisedech Duffey [MTM B13:406].MTM B13:406
Iowa
Midwestern American state associated with one of Duffey’s three competing childhoods. An older relative places him with cousins in Iowa towns and on farms from ages five to twelve. Harrison, Shelby, and Pottawattamie are alternative counties of origin, while Minden, Underwood, Beebee Town, Neola, Crescent, Avoca, and Union Township dispute his birthplace [MTM B1:7]. The Iowa memories include the Lake Manawa encounter in which he holds a threatening man underwater by mental force, the substituted fat altar boy at the bell rope, and the farm episode with the sorrel kit fox [MTM B1:8-9] [MTM B1:14-15] [MTM B1:19-20]. Iowa’s red squirrels, apple trees, and wheat and cornfields contrast with his other childhood landscapes and the more convincing memories of the Boy King [MTM B1:17]. Neola, Iowa, was also R. A. Lafferty’s birthplace [D:295].MTM B1:7; MTM B1:8-9; MTM B1:14-15; MTM B1:19-20; MTM B1:17; D:295
Ireland
A source of family identity, names, and stories, often treated with irony. Patrick Stranahan belongs to the “Little-Irish Rich” of St. Louis [A:102]. It is Captain Guiterrez, speaking to Vincent, who calls Irish claims of Milesian antiquity “toy history” [A:66]. Finnegan bears an Irish nickname [D:122], while his family history combines the Solli and McCracken names and his sister locates their childhood in the Irish Channel [A:173-175]. When Doll disputes his knowledge of Ireland, he claims a day and a half in Bantry unloading cargo [D:192].X’s account makes Katie Noonan the Irish mother of Ifreann and places the birth of Gregory McColum, Papadiabolous II, in Cork [D:279] [D:285]. On the Cuban journey, Duffey’s seaman’s papers identify him as “Mike Duffey,” a citizen of the Irish Free State [MTM B12:369]. In the Argo’s legendary history, St. Brandon sails her from Ireland to America [MTM B13:404].
A:102; A:66; D:122; A:173-175; D:192; D:279; D:285; MTM B12:369; MTM B13:404
Irish
Irish identities, manners, and speech recur throughout the novels. Duffey acquires Lace Curtain Irish elegance from Charley Murray and recalls the memorable-face saying when he meets Bagby [MTM B1:26] [MTM B2:43]. A teacher calls Duffey a flaming Irishman, Stein calls him a filthy Irishman, and Patrick Plunket calls him a snake-bit and lame-brained Irishman [MTM B4:135] [GD:493] [MTM B12:391-392]. His Mike Duffey papers identify him as an Irish Free State citizen; in Cuba, he can pass for any Irishman [MTM B12:369] [MTM B12:372]. Irish women attend St. Malachy’s; Irish and Italian guests attend the Stranahan-Piccone wedding; Duffey’s company dines at Girardeau’s Irish Restaurant [MTM B3:88] [MTM B5:183] [MTM B11:315] [MTM B11:318]. Plunket is called an Irish saint, magician, and medical doctor [MTM B12:389]. Patrick Stranahan is lace-curtain and grand-piano Irish rich, and Marie Monaghan belongs to old Irish Monaghan, Larkin, and Murphey families [A:102] [A:7]. Vincent credits the Irish with the bottle; Finnegan’s mixed speech includes waterfront Irish, and Howell discusses Irish wakes’ mixture of horror and humor [A:5-6] [A:85]. A Naxos boy calls Finnegan an Italian with an Irish name. Papadiabolous II identifies Seabach as an Irish nickname, and X identifies that dead double with the Irish policeman called Noonan or Flaherty [D:145] [D:122] [D:154]. X says Ifreann’s mother was the Irish governess Katie Noonan and attributes Irish accents in parts of Poland, Brazil, Italy, and Spain to such governesses and nuns [D:278-279]. He glosses Ifreann as Devil, although the Irish word means hell. X’s own Cork identity is Gregory McColum [D:285]. Finnegan drunkenly claims a brief visit to Bantry, Mary Catherine brings out Irish whisky, and Patti places the Solli family in New Orleans’ Irish Channel rather than the Quarter [D:192] [A:249] [A:175].MTM B1:26; MTM B2:43; MTM B4:135; GD:493; MTM B12:391-392; MTM B12:369; MTM B12:372; MTM B3:88; MTM B5:183; MTM B11:315; MTM B11:318; MTM B12:389; A:102; A:7; A:5-6; A:85; D:145; D:122; D:154; D:278-279; D:285; D:192; A:249; A:175
Irish Channel
New Orleans neighborhood in which Patti Solli says her family grew up, contradicting Finnegan’s account of being raised in the heart of the Quarter [A:175].A:175
Irish saint and magician (Patrick Plunket)
Patrick Plunket, called a great Irish saint, magician, and medical doctor, serves as Duffey’s mentor in the seventh contingency. This is a dying vision, still short of death and finality [MTM B12:389]. Plunket insists that the landscape Duffey mistakes for artistic animation is real, identifies the Invisible Mountain as an interior ascent in intensity, and explains that they are in the Presence and walking with Permanence Itself [MTM B12:390-391].MTM B12:389; MTM B12:390-391
Iron Curtain
Name for the political division between Soviet-dominated eastern Europe and the West after World War II. In the discussion of imitations of Casey’s Crock, a Tucalul is said to exist behind the iron curtain [A:168].A:168
Iron Ladder
Sky-hung ladder in Hans Schultz’s exhilarating climbing dream. It rises thousands of feet through clouds and past golden eagles toward the sun; the ascent brings a sense of perfection and achievement, and the dream associates Hans with Apollo [A:61-62].A:61-62
Iron Meadows
Places inhabited by Aspects in an epigraph attributed to Bascom Bagby’s Letters After I Am Dead. It says that some aspects of the Argo Legend dwell in one such meadow, unknown to both God and Duffey [MTM B5:177].MTM B5:177
Iscamyl Acetate
Iscamyl Acetate is the novel’s printed form, apparently referring to isoamyl acetate or banana oil. See Isoamyl acetate.Isle of Bliss
The paradise Finnegan’s unwritten verse says he found, almost on Naxos Isle. The poem joins this remembered bliss to the hope of walking there again and to the presence or absence of dead friends [D:117-118].D:117-118
Isles of Greece, the
Opening refrain of the verse attributed to the Unwritten poems of Finnegan, the epigraph to the Anastasia Demetriades chapter of The Devil Is Dead. It celebrates Anastasia and a briefly attained peace, then locates an Isle of Bliss almost on Naxos and imagines returning there; its closing lines remember friends, including the dead [D:117-118].D:117-118
Isoamyl acetate
Casey Szymansky’s high-school notebook identifies a substance printed as Iscamyl Acetate as Banana Oil [A:162-163]. It apparently refers to isoamyl acetate, a compound also known as banana oil.A:162-163
Israel, Shirley
Member of the Chicago circle around the McSorleys, Calumets, and Hallahans. Her near-north-side salon is rumored to outdo the Duffeys’ in wit and information, and the group wants to retain Duffey because of his magic [MTM B4:137]. A compromising photograph of Duffey with Shirley forms part of the blackmail portfolio; the narrator calls the scene an entrapment and a badger-game trick [MTM B4:139-140]. Shirley disparages Duffey’s bars as old-fashioned, hisses at Demetrio Glauch, and serves drinks fortified with an additive. Rollo’s later report of the Green Mule appears to refer to these drinks [MTM B4:126-127] [MTM B4:129] [MTM B4:132].MTM B4:137; MTM B4:139-140; MTM B4:126-127; MTM B4:129; MTM B4:132
Italians
Italian people and identities recur in Duffey’s and Finnegan’s stories. Duffey gives his first talisman to an Italian confectioner; Piccone of the Star and Garter offers work to Mary Louise and Beth; Italian women, including a girl whose beauty elevates Duffey’s soul, attend St. Malachy’s [MTM B1:18] [MTM B2:58] [MTM B3:88]. Sebastian Hilton has traveled in Italy and is fancifully said to order parts for his better world from there [MTM B1:22] [MTM B1:25]. Duffey claims ambulance service in Italy with Hemingway, though his war memories may be borrowed, and witnesses place him there with the Argo [MTM B2:72]. Teresa Piccone’s Italian features and her enormous Italian meals are described; the cooking episode jokes that Italian vegetables are imported even in Italy and compares O’Conner’s and Peterson’s Italian restaurants [MTM B5:171] [MTM B7:230]. Irish and Italian guests attend the Stranahan-Piccone wedding. Margaret Stone is described as Italian and Jewish, with possible Greek and Pre-Adamite elements [MTM B5:183] [MTM B11:310]. Finnegan identifies his ancestry as Italian, speaks Italian with Palermo idlers, thinks the finger-count game Italian, and is called an Italian with an Irish name [D:93] [D:114] [D:104] [D:145]. A Greek Capuchin speaks Italian and chides Solli for inadequate Greek, arguing from southern Italy’s Greek ancestry [D:118-119]. Manuel plans to inform the Pope in Rome, while X attributes Irish-accented English in parts of Italy to Irish nuns and governesses [D:150-151] [D:279].MTM B1:18; MTM B2:58; MTM B3:88; MTM B1:22; MTM B1:25; MTM B2:72; MTM B5:171; MTM B7:230; MTM B5:183; MTM B11:310; D:93; D:114; D:104; D:145; D:118-119; D:150-151; D:279
Italy
Country associated with several competing memories and fictional journeys. Sebastian Hilton travels there and is fancifully said to obtain parts for his better world from Italy [MTM B1:22] [MTM B1:25]. Duffey claims Italian ambulance service with Hemingway, though these memories may be borrowed; witnesses also place him there with the Argo [MTM B2:72]. Teresa’s cooking episode jokes about imported Italian vegetables, and Babylonia Bagascia, the site of the Last Conclave, is placed in Italy [MTM B7:230] [MB:570]. The Ionian Sea lies between Italy and Greece and appears in the Argo’s itinerary [MTM B13:406]. Finnegan claims Italian ancestry and speaks Italian in Palermo; the Naxos Capuchin explains southern Italy through Greek ancestry [D:93] [D:114] [D:118-119]. X recounts Ifreann’s life in Milano and Sicily, offers an Irish-governess explanation for Irish-accented English in parts of Italy, and has himself belonged to the Party there under another name [D:279-280] [A:137-138]. Patti contradicts Finnegan’s account of Italian art schooling: she says his only visit was two days in Naples between ships the previous year [A:175].MTM B1:22; MTM B1:25; MTM B2:72; MTM B7:230; MB:570; MTM B13:406; D:93; D:114; D:118-119; D:279-280; A:137-138; A:175
Jackass Flats
Name of one of the precipitous places remembered in Don Lewis’s account of being lost with Santee and Casper on Willy Jones Island, after the killing of the small man called Yokipoki. Despite knowing many named valleys, they cannot identify the valley they have entered [D:44-46].D:44-46
Jacko (young)
Youthful persona in Shakes Pearson’s unfinished first-person limerick about making chewing tobacco from old sacks, boots, and boot-jacks. Shakes is Marie Monaghan’s uncle [A:25-26].A:25-26
Jacksonville Drover, The (whip)
Whip named alongside the Cowles Buggy Whip by the turbaned speaker at a Royal Pop History gathering. It belongs to his catalogue of precisely remembered objects from the former world [MTM B11:329].MTM B11:329
Jake (Leg) Lewis
Resident regular of the Old Wooden Ship and, with Tommy (Cow Town) Borger, a salt-water cowboy who works aboard cattle boats. He wears cowboy gear, including boots, spurs, chaps, and gauntlets, though these cowboys use no horses and live through long gaps between voyages [D:216] [D:222].D:216; D:222
Janeway, Celeste Lynne
Earlier heading inverted Janeway as though it were her surname. See Lynne, Janeway Celeste.Jangle chain
Long hanging chain associated with a zoot suit, typically looping from the waistband to a trouser pocket. The Armenian merchant Askandan, also called Asking Dan, promises to find one for Casey after selling him a zoot suit, pointed shoes, and a monstrous hat on credit [A:258] [A:260-261].A:258; A:260-261
Januarius O'Higgins
Literary friend named with Elena O’Higgins among Duffey’s Chicago company of the golden years [MTM B3:98]. In Josephine McSorley’s report on the Casey Machine, Januarius calls Casey a hypocrite and predicts that Casey will secretly buy one of the machines himself [CM:506-507].MTM B3:98; CM:506-507
January
Month of Hans Schultz’s birth on January 2, 1915 [A:207] [MTM B3:76]. Finnegan stops drinking at New Year’s in Port of Spain and resumes on January 26 at Freetown, the date he describes as his fall from grace [D:85] [D:93].A:207; MTM B3:76; D:85; D:93
Japan
Country identified with Xavier Cardinal Runosake of Kobe, whom X names among the thirteen contracted assassination targets [MB:571].MB:571
Japan Sea
Sea between Japan and mainland Asia, also called the Sea of Japan or East Sea. It is included among the many seas sailed by the Argo and remembered by Duffey [MTM B13:406].MTM B13:406
Japanese soldier
Ragged little man who seems to be a Japanese soldier in Don Lewis’s account of October 1, 1944, on Pulau Petir or Willy Jones Island. The pursuing Americans are Charles Santee, Robert Casper, and Timothy Lorrigan; Don Lewis says he was one of them while withholding a firm identification. The small man beckons, twice evades capture by apparent disappearance, is wounded by Santee, and is finally killed by Santee and Casper [D:44-45]. Lewis later calls him Yokipoki, probably not his real name [D:46].D:44-45; D:46
Jargon
Term in Finnegan’s letter to Dotty contrasting the unkindness expressed in jazz with that expressed in jargon. The letter attacks the moral and emotional character of several musical forms [A:263].A:263
Jars
Gautier carries dried goat meat mixed with melted fat and honey in jars or skin bags [A:197]. Duffey stocks his new establishment with five-gallon jars of pigs’ feet, spiced Polish sausage, and apple butter [MTM B2:41]. As a child, Duffey also keeps jars of blood; Charles Hart says he used to do the same and remarks that blood attracts weasels [MTM B1:18].A:197; MTM B2:41; MTM B1:18
Jascoyne
Great fish encountered by St. Brandon in the Argo’s legendary history. The ship is said to have been called Land of Behest when he sailed her from Ireland to America [MTM B13:404].MTM B13:404
Jason
Leader of the Argonauts in the quest for the Golden Fleece, identified with Finnegan, John A. Solli, under the spelling Iason [A:39]. Solli’s birth year is 1919 [MTM B3:76]. In the classical tradition Jason is Aeson’s son, deprived of his inheritance by Pelias; the one-sandal prophecy leads Pelias to send him after the Fleece. Hera supports his voyage. In Apollonius’s Argonautica, Jason becomes leader with Heracles’ endorsement. He is Hypsipyle’s lover on Lemnos, but Heracles must spur the company to resume its journey; Apollodorus records their children. The voyagers undergo island mysteries, defeat the Earthborn with Heracles, and mistakenly fight their former hosts at night, when Jason kills Cyzicus. Heracles is later left behind in Mysia. Jason joins the fighting against the Bebrycians; the sons of Boreas drive off Phineus’s Harpies, and Phineus advises the passage of the Clashing Rocks. Tiphys steers, Euphemus releases the dove, and Athena helps the ship through. In Colchis, Medea’s divinely induced love and magical aid enable Jason to yoke the fire-breathing bulls, plough the field, sow the dragon’s teeth, and defeat the earthborn warriors. She subdues the Fleece’s guardian, and they escape together. In Apollonius, Jason kills Apsyrtus in a plot devised with Medea, and Circe purifies the pair. Their marriage among the Phaeacians prevents Medea’s surrender. In Libya Jason receives the goddesses’ riddle and Peleus interprets it, leading to the company’s portage of the ship. Medea defeats Talos, and Jason interprets Euphemus’s dream of the clod that becomes Thera. Apollodorus continues the story after the return: Medea contrives Pelias’s death, Acastus expels the couple, and Jason’s later marriage at Corinth provokes Medea’s revenge. His story combines leadership and resourcefulness with dependence on companions, divine aid, and Medea.A:39; MTM B3:76
Java
Place from which Anne broadcasts for the Japanese to Allied troops during the war [A:46]. Brannagan later tells Finnegan that he has lived in Java’s interior [D:203].A:46; D:203
Java Sea
One of the seas sailed by the Argo, whose name recalls Duffey’s own voyages [MTM B13:406].MTM B13:406
Jaw bones
Remains invoked in Hans’s comic argument that forks predate fingers: he claims that old jaw bones, brain pans, and pelvises are found, whereas equally old fingers are not [A:5].A:5
Jazz
Music that Finnegan dislikes, particularly in New Orleans; he objects to printing a jazz magazine and later tells Dotty that jazz can express more unkindness than jargon [A:115] [A:117-118] [A:263]. The Crock’s record reviews favor Chicago-style jazz, while Pelican Press plans its jazz paper for Fridays [A:41] [A:118]. Bulo Belonki is associated with the Jazz Sheet, and Howland’s Club Royal has an orchestra playing old classic jazz [A:126] [A:246]. At Good Guy’s, Monumental Jazz prompts Duffey’s reflection that classical jazz is growing old and playing its own funeral [MTM B7:220].A:115; A:117-118; A:263; A:41; A:118; A:126; A:246; MTM B7:220
Jazz Magazine
Friday publication printed by the Pelican Press to help finance The Bark [A:118] [MTM B7:212]. Several successive suitors of Dotty Yekouris are connected with the magazine, and she calls each of them Benny B. Flat [MTM B7:212-213].A:118; MTM B7:212; MTM B7:212-213
Jazz Sheet
Pelican Press publication associated with Bulo Belonki [A:126]. After Letitia becomes editor of The Bark, she gives the Jazz Sheet and the other publications printed for money less attention [MTM B8:238].A:126; MTM B8:238
Jazzers
Jokers around Duffey’s Big Pot who fish conspicuously human bones from it and paint a sign calling it Cannibal Duffey’s Irish Restaurant. The three are medical students, and there are strong grounds for suspecting that they put the bones in themselves; the episode is taken in good humor [MTM B6:197].MTM B6:197
Jean, Mary
Earlier heading treated Jean as a surname; the novel uses Mary Jean and leaves her premarital surname unspecified. See Mary Jean.Jeannie
One of the women living at the Old Wooden Ship called salt-water widows, most of whom are married to seamen [D:221].D:221
Jebbies
Informal name for Jesuits in Finnegan’s story of painting a devil. An unnamed anticlerical friend uses it when Father Le Faye, S.J., arrives; Le Faye then exorcises the picture and orders it burned [D:254-255].D:254-255
Jebel Shammar sect
Supposed sect whose three knife-flashing assassins threaten Margaret Stone for preaching the Real Presence at night, claiming nighttime presence belongs to their jealous Djinn. Margaret doubts the sect exists and suspects the men, who attend Tulane, are merely joking [MTM B7:225].MTM B7:225
Jebus
Biblical name for Jerusalem, identified with it in Judges 19:10. Cyrus Roundhead’s false history instead treats Jebus as one of several separate ruined cities near the site of an imaginary Jerusalem; he calls it a Jewish city [MTM B11:337].MTM B11:337
Jereboam (John, Big Alcohol)
John (Big Alcohol) Jereboam, an Old Wooden Ship regular and burglary partner of John (Little Alcohol) Indelecio. While Little Alcohol climbs to high windows, Big Alcohol handles the drill, saw, chisel, and pry-bar. They work mainly when heavily indebted to Lazarus Reilly [D:215] [D:218].D:215; D:218
Jerome (Saint)
Church Father and Doctor of the Church, born about 347 and dead in 419 or 420, known for biblical translation and revision underlying the Latin Vulgate, scriptural commentaries, and ascetic writings. His scholarship and spiritual teaching became influential in Western Christianity. In Ignacio’s story of Joseph of Maintz’s lunar journey, Joseph takes Jerome’s writings in his projectile [A:271]. Finnegan, answering Le Marin, names Jerome and John Chrysostom as possible authorities for an insular Paradise, while observing that they did not locate it in the Caribbean [D:234].A:271; D:234
Jersey
New Jersey. Gautier the goat-man, after years of roaming the Atlantic states, remains there throughout the year [A:196]. Trinali asks Hans to take him to two Jersey locations for driftwood and cypress knees [A:229]. Phoebe Anne Ankerson’s suitcase tag gives her home as Hammonton, New Jersey [D:172].A:196; A:229; D:172
Jersey Shore
New Jersey’s coastal region. After abandoning his Manhattan career as Gregory van Ghi, Finnegan takes a taxi to the Jersey Shore, buys socks and a small hand grip, and sets out on the road again [A:191-193].A:191-193
Jerusalem
City discussed in sharply different accounts. A Book Eight epigraph attributed to Josephus says that Melchizedech, its righteous priest-king and first temple builder, changed its name from Salem to Jerusalem [MTM B8:237]. Cyrus Roundhead’s false history denies that Jerusalem ever existed: he calls the name a failed Turkish real-estate promotion near supposedly separate ruins named Jebus, Solyma, Hiero-Solyma, Aelia Capitolina, Uris Lem, and El Quds [MTM B11:337].MTM B8:237; MTM B11:337
Jesus
Salvation Sally announces the Second Coming to Hans and Marie [A:8]. Sister Mary Sabina invokes Jesus, Mary, and Joseph when the young Duffey begins reorganizing her class [MTM B1:12]. A contrasting use occurs in Letitia’s scrapbook: a speaker rejects the Historical Christ, claims to see an a-Historical Christ in outcasts and criminals, and denies him in the man next door [MTM B8:251-252]. See also Jesus Christ.A:8; MTM B1:12; MTM B8:251-252
Jesus Barabbas
The Barabbas released in place of Jesus in the Gospel trial narrative; Jesus Barabbas is a manuscript variant of his name in Matthew 27:16-17. John Schultz’s letter to Marie contrasts this revolutionary with Christ, whom he calls a defender and maker of the law, and says the Jesus People follow Barabbas [MTM B6:186].MTM B6:186
Jesus Christ
Christ is evoked in Duffey’s explanation of the pelican as a symbol of his blood, when the friends debate a name for their magazine [A:121]. Sister Mary Sabina invokes Jesus, Mary, and Joseph as the young Duffey takes charge of his class [MTM B1:12]. In a letter to Marie, John Schultz contrasts Jesus Christ with Jesus Barabbas as part of his argument about dark companions and doubles [MTM B6:186]. See also Jesus.A:121; MTM B1:12; MTM B6:186
Jesus People
People whom John Schultz accuses, in a letter to Marie, of following the revolutionary Jesus Barabbas while presenting themselves as followers of Christ. The contrast introduces his discussion of dark followers and correspondences [MTM B6:186]. The name probably alludes to the Jesus People movement, which combined evangelical Christianity with elements of the American counterculture in the late 1960s and 1970s.MTM B6:186
Jew
Jewish identity appears in the verse accompanying a letter signed S. and, more substantially, in the portrayal of Absalom Stein [A:119]. Casey’s hostile Crock editorial calls Stein, writing as Hugo Stone, a Communist Jew and an antisemite; Stein later describes himself as a neo-Jew [A:128-131]. Kasmir Gorshok’s mixed disguise includes a black hat and ear locks like an old Jew [MTM B13:425-426]. On the Great Day, Duffey answers Stein’s Irish insult with a Jewish one; the exchange briefly seems to preserve their former friendship before Duffey discovers Stein’s lost intelligence [GD:493].A:119; A:128-131; MTM B13:425-426; GD:493
Jew bread
Bread supplied by Absalom Stein among the Argo’s sea stores, alongside sea biscuit from Hans and Marie Schultz and Purgatorial Loaf from Bagby. The passage explains that some of the ship’s indispensable stores are intangible [MTM B13:446].MTM B13:446
Jewel thieves
Jewel thieves in Karachi who, in Ignatius Ti’s freely translated account of Amoy’s former lives, employ Amoy while he is a red-winged blackbird to steal gems from shops [A:80].A:80
Jewelry
Mercedes wears gold jangles at her neck, ears, fingers, wrists, and ankles [D:224]. Finnegan buys small pieces of jewelry for Anastasia in Tangier [D:103-104]. Asking Dan classes furs and jewelry as pseudo-nervous merchandise, sold by peddlers who pretend it is stolen [A:257]. Seen through Duffey’s eyes, Absalom Stein gives the impression of wearing splendid jewelry although he wears none [MTM B5:160].D:224; D:103-104; A:257; MTM B5:160
Jewels
In Ignatius Ti’s story of Amoy’s life as a bird, Amoy steals and swallows a blue diamond as large as an almond, star sapphires, and lesser opals [A:80]. In Finnegan’s dream of following the Oreads, trees look like jewels on a mountain that is translucent like ice [D:138].A:80; D:138
Jewess (Nefarious)
Rollo McSorley’s disparaging description of the woman who served the Green Mule drink in his account of the party; the preceding scene identifies the drink-maker as Shirley Israel [MTM B4:129] [MTM B4:132].MTM B4:129; MTM B4:132
Jewish
The novels apply Jewish identifications and associations in several distinct ways. Duffey’s Boston Irish voice includes a touch of stage Yiddish [A:97]. Casey’s hostile article calls Absalom Stein, also Hugo Stone, a Communist Jew [A:128-129]. Margaret Stone is described as Italian and Jewish [A:143-144]; her account of the Stone family lists twenty male first cousins and disputes Duffey’s identification of Hugo with Absalom [MTM B4:112].A:97; A:128-129; A:143-144; MTM B4:112
Jewish mother (unnamed)
An alleged reference to Absalom Stein’s unnamed mother that has not been located in the cited passages.Jewishness (Lurid)
The narration, following Duffey’s view of the enlarged and overwhelming Absalom Stein in St. Louis, describes his wealthy and lurid Jewishness as a theatrical type last comparably expressed on the Elizabethan stage [MTM B5:160].MTM B5:160
Jewry
Jewish people collectively. In Mr. X’s account of the Devil’s release in Crimea, Jewish leaders are among several groups he claims were disproportionately represented; Catholic clergy and the liberal intelligentsia are also singled out [MTM B6:204-205]. The narration dates the release to the last Saturday of May 1946, while also questioning whether it had occurred in 1846 [MTM B5:184].MTM B6:204-205; MTM B5:184
Jews of Africa
Joseph’s name for the Haussa people in his account of their mercantile background. He says his father was a merchant and identifies his own trade as diamond smuggling [D:94].D:94
Jill of Hearts
Card identifying the dead young girl on a sofa in the first chamber of Elroy Redheart’s four-chambered heart artwork. The card is daggered to the wall; the girl’s removed red chocolate heart lies among the candy beside her [MTM B7:221].MTM B7:221
Jim Hogan
One of the theatrical people in Duffey’s Chicago circle, listed with Rosemary Hogan [MTM B3:99].MTM B3:99
Jingle
Short verse or song. In Marie’s story, her uncle Shakes Pearson enters a chewing-tobacco jingle contest requiring a limerick [A:25]. Howland chants a five-stanza gopher jingle to a hoe-down tune while he and Finnegan lie in a hayloft on their journey toward Chicago [A:179].A:25; A:179
Joan of Arc
French saint and national heroine (1412-1431), born to a peasant family. Her reported visions led her to support Charles VII and the French campaign against the English during the Hundred Years’ War. Condemned for heresy, she was burned at Rouen at nineteen; the condemnation was later annulled, and she was canonized in 1920. Hilary Hilton names her, alongside Caesar, Napoleon, Cleopatra, the Queen of Sheba, and Marie Antoinette, among the exalted predecessors claimed by would-be reincarnations when he attacks Casey’s claims of soul trading [PG:531].PG:531
Job enrichment
The newspaper assistant’s term for a new arrangement in which everyone is equally an editor, titles are abandoned, and employees do whatever work they feel like doing or none at all. He explains it to the protesting Duffey after the paper and building have lost their names [GD:487].GD:487
Jockey (Racing mules)
One of the past occupations claimed by Herman Hercules, who describes himself as Cardinal Erculo’s exact double and says his jobs have kept him near crowds and spectacles [MB:585-586].MB:585-586
Joe
A name occurring in several unrelated contexts: the Polish phrase “Jak sie masz, Joe” taught to islanders by the Dirty Five [A:73]; cabdriver Joe Sorrell [D:21]; Brunhilde crewman Joe Cross [D:30]; boxer Joe Gans, whom Finnegan extravagantly claims to have fought for ninety rounds [D:191]; and Joseph Chastaigne, called Sloppy Joe, whose bar Finnegan and his friends nickname Sloppy Joe’s [D:235] [D:266].A:73; D:21; D:30; D:191; D:235; D:266
John (Apostle)
One of the twelve apostles, traditionally associated with the Fourth Gospel. A layer of the Pop People’s parchment is identified as a first-century copy, perhaps the original, of that Gospel; the hoyden asserts that its writer belonged to their group [MTM B11:327].MTM B11:327
John of the Cross, Saint
See St. John of the Cross.John the Greek
Owner of John the Greek’s Famous French Restaurant. During a Pop-History meeting at Duffey’s establishment in New Orleans, he challenges Cyrus Roundhead’s claim that Athens never existed: John came from Athens and lived there until he was thirteen. Roundhead answers that the Macedonians invented Athens and its culture [MTM B11:336-337].MTM B11:336-337
Johnson's Jump-Seat Buggy, the
A horse-drawn vehicle in the turbaned Pop speaker’s catalogue of carriages remembered by a flagstone in Decatur Street. It appears with the Acme Top, Acme Open, Fulton Road Cart, and other vehicles during the meeting hosted by Duffey [MTM B11:329]. A jump seat is a folding or movable auxiliary seat.MTM B11:329
Joint account
Bank account shared by Mike Melchiades and his wife. He tells Duffey that he withdrew its entire balance, a little over three hundred dollars, immediately after she left, and refused her request to withdraw twenty dollars [MTM B4:142-143].MTM B4:142-143
Joker
A practical joker. Finnegan markets his dog-housebreaking preparation to pranksters in Buffalo [A:189-190]. Ignatius Ti describes medicos posing as corpses to frighten ward boys; Ti’s friend is the ward boy who retaliates against such a prank [A:85-87]. Mr. X calls both himself and Stein born jokers [A:265-266]. Van Ghi tells Finnegan, after the painting of a devil, that he has drawn the Joker instead of the Queen [D:255]. Duffey calls Bagby a joker even in death when his weekly letters continue arriving [MTM B8:237].A:189-190; A:85-87; A:265-266; D:255; MTM B8:237
Joker-camp
Finnegan’s term for the place where he says he was held for a while and then evicted, during his postwar confusion about his identity and home [A:93]. The term is not formally explained; his earlier hospitalization for amnesia suggests a psychiatric setting [A:73].A:93; A:73
Jokers
Pranksters, especially the medicos who impersonate corpses and grab new ward boys in Ignatius Ti’s hospital story [A:85-86]. Finnegan also calls his former place of confinement a joker-camp [A:93].A:85-86; A:93
Jonah
Biblical figure swallowed by a great fish for three days and nights. Doctor Saul Rafelson deliberately reverses this image in his notes on Duffey: the world spending three days in Jonah’s belly illustrates a topological inversion in which a person contains the world [MTM B4:146-147].MTM B4:146-147
Jones (Willy) Island
Also called Pulau Petir. In Don Lewis’s account, three American soldiers disappear there on October 1, 1944; he claims to be one of them without saying which [D:44]. The episode includes the shooting of the apparent Japanese soldier called Yokipoki and his burial in mud by Lewis [D:45-46]. Lewis sets his further story of the Big House on the same island: its inhabitants live indefinitely by making broth from visitors’ organs [D:48]. A later reference to a furtive man buried in the island’s mud recalls the earlier burial [D:50].D:44; D:45-46; D:48; D:50
Jones, Willy
Mariner who sailed the Argo under the name Flying Serpent in the Moluccas, according to the ship’s talking-oak history [MTM B13:404-405]. Willy Jones Island bears the same name, but the island passage does not identify its namesake [D:44].MTM B13:404-405; D:44
Joseph
Several distinct people share this name.Joseph the Haussa is the traveler and diamond smuggler Finnegan meets in Freetown on January 26. He recruits Finnegan to market stones abroad [D:93-95].
The biblical Joseph is alluded to when Finnegan declines to interpret Seaworthy’s dream, saying, “I am not Joseph” [D:73]. Saint Joseph is invoked with Jesus and Mary by Sister Mary Sabina [MTM B1:12]. A Joseph Salvatore is also listed among Henry’s brothers [A:122].
D:93-95; D:73; MTM B1:12; A:122
Joseph of Maintz
Holy Benedictine priest in Ignacio’s story, which he attributes to Archbishop Turpin of Rheims. In the eighth century Joseph makes a great copper-and-iron tube, lines it with glass, loads it with powder and a chamber, and shoots himself to the moon to escape the world’s temptations. He takes a Missal, Scriptures, Augustine, Jerome, Pliny’s Natural History, bread, wine, an altar stone, grape cuttings, and wheat. His monthly bonfires supposedly show that he lives there for ninety years [A:271].A:271
Josephus
Jewish historian Flavius Josephus (c.37-c.100 CE). The Book Eight epigraph quotes his account of Melchizedek as the Righteous King, a Canaanite prince who first served as priest of God, built a temple, and renamed Salem Jerusalem [MTM B8:237]. The passage corresponds to The Jewish War, 6.10.1; the epigraph labels its source Jerusalem and Rome.MTM B8:237
Joss (Pinkish)
Finnegan compares Loy Larkin’s hair to a pinkish joss fitting her like a tipsy crown in his “Antipodal Ode” [A:32]. A joss is an image of a Chinese deity; the poem does not specify an incense stick or explain the comparison further.A:32
Journal
A Journal is one of the preliminary ideas, with an Institute and a Pot, proposed by those to whom Henry Salvatore delegates rebuilding the world, including Duffey [MTM B6:195]. Newton Prescott writes a private journal as therapy for his compulsion to forget, with instructions to burn it afterward [CM:503].MTM B6:195; CM:503
Journey
Casey’s school notebook records the maxim “Happiness is a journey, not a destination” [A:162-163]. Duffey’s excursion into the Fifth Contingency is also described as a visit to the bright devildom, from which he fears he has brought destructive changes back to ordinary life [MTM B12:354-355].A:162-163; MTM B12:354-355
Joy
Finnegan’s poem to Loy Larkin recalls “urchin joy” [A:32]. At Vincent’s wedding, the narrative says Mass should be heard with joy and recalls Theresa’s smile at prayer and after communion [A:113]. In More Than Melchisedech, joy in money is called primordial and not wholly evil; the discussion connects sacred wealth, the gold-lined chalice, and the sacrifice of good things in holy poverty [MTM B4:124-125]. Duffey’s “joyful labor” at the end of Book Twelve is the making of new Animated Marvels from dung, blood, discarded objects, and lightning [MTM B12:394]. Don Barnaby recounts the lives and pleasures he experienced after taking Madame Le Mourcheor’s Juju Joy Pill [D:248-251]. Doll wishes Finnegan and X “a joyous death” before turning to her own work of saving the world [D:292]. “Promontory Goats” describes the damned’s “joyous gloating” over one another’s torture, even while enduring torture themselves [PG:533].A:32; A:113; MTM B4:124-125; MTM B12:394; D:248-251; D:292; PG:533
Joy Pills
Pills discussed in Don Barnaby’s fantastic account of curing a hangover. He distinguishes Haiti hoodoo, High Harry from Jamaica, Deep Romany, Dead Frenchman, and Black Rooster varieties [D:248]. Madame Le Mourcheor’s Old Original Juju Joy Pills, made in New Orleans, supposedly give him years of life, marriage, family, and travel within an apparently boundless garden, although fewer than fifteen minutes pass outside it [D:249-251].D:248; D:249-251
Joy Pills (Madame Le Mourcheor's Old Original)
See Joy Pills. Don Barnaby names Madame Le Mourcheor’s Old Original Juju Joy Pills as the exceptional variety made in New Orleans [D:249].D:249
Joyce, David / Dinah
David and Dinah Joyce are listed among the college and university people in Duffey’s Chicago circle [MTM B3:99].MTM B3:99
Judas
Judas Iscariot, the apostle who betrayed Jesus. His name appears in Vincent’s exclamation “Judas priest” [A:11] and in Bagby’s label Judas Priests for clergy he regards as unorthodox [MTM B2:62-63]. In the Argo’s fantastic history, Saint Brandon carries the traitor Judas aboard the Land of Behest [MTM B13:404]; Casey later says the ship ferries him across a narrow strait for one night each year [MTM B13:426]. Casey also links the Judas Prophecy, without explaining it, to the prediction that Antichrist will sail on the Argo [MTM B13:454].A:11; MTM B2:62-63; MTM B13:404; MTM B13:426; MTM B13:454
Judas Priestism
One of the Enemy’s seven contemporary heads named by Bascom Bagby, together with Dialectic Materialism, Artistic Degradation, Secular Liberalism, Panaceic Pentecostalism, Murderous Molochism, and Atheistic Communism [MTM B5:169].MTM B5:169
Judas Priests
Bagby’s term for clergy whom he believes have lost orthodoxy [MTM B2:62-63]. George Koran, a Picayune reporter, tells Duffey that eight such priests respond with snickers when he exclaims “Judas Priest!” at the New Catholic Press Guild’s meeting [MTM B8:239-240].MTM B2:62-63; MTM B8:239-240
Judas Prophecy
A prophecy that Casey tentatively connects with the prediction that Antichrist will sail on the Argo to Megiddo. The three Argo Masters discuss how to prevent the foretold passenger from boarding, but the Judas Prophecy itself is not explained [MTM B13:454].MTM B13:454
Judas Traitor
The traitor Judas, carried by Saint Brandon aboard the Land of Behest, a former name of the Argo, in the ship’s account of Brandon’s voyage from Ireland to America [MTM B13:404].MTM B13:404
Jude (Saint)
Saint Jude, one of the apostles. Dotty jokingly calls him the patron of printers and little magazines and the only apostle who was a printer; Finnegan answers that he is the advocate of impossible causes [A:115]. He is one of three possible identities, with Thomas and Bartholomew, for Papa Piccone’s tippler apostle in the Italian legend retold by Show Boat [A:262]. Finding his tomb is included among the Argo’s discoveries [MTM B13:422].A:115; A:262; MTM B13:422
“Judgement Day”
Title of the Crock’s serious review section [A:41]. The narration also says that no one, including Duffey, will fully understand his seven hidden years until the afternoon of judgment day [MTM B2:73].A:41; MTM B2:73
Judges (Drinking Contest)
Tom Shire and Freddy Castle, officials in the Hans Schultz versus Joe Bushmaster beer-drinking contest. Bushmaster proposes them because both sides trust them [A:15]. Stein instructs them to distinguish actual spillage from condensation on the glasses [A:20].A:15; A:20
Jug
The tippling jug accompanies Li Po Tai in the poem of the Chinese sage and fisher maid [A:222]. Maurine says Papa Piccone will provide three barrels of wine and a bunch of jugs for the wedding reception [A:105]. The future is imagined as emerging from a jug of smoky glass or rock crystal whose curvature distorts the forms seen inside it [MTM B10:297].A:222; A:105; MTM B10:297
Juggling
One of the popular arts included in the narrative’s account of the deliberate degradation of everyday arts by deformed counterparts after the Devil’s release [MTM B6:207-208]. Duffey also juggles names and numbers while alternating between sleep and waking before his encounter with Charlotte Mullens in a strange wasteland [MTM B3:85].MTM B6:207-208; MTM B3:85
Juice
Used for drink, vitality, and animating power. Vincent imagines Finnegan created with a hangover from jungle juice that was never drunk [A:57]. Torpedo Juice is one of the Anopheles Network’s comic products [A:46], and Hans is powerful when “the juice” is in him [A:68]. The young Duffey calls the lightning in his talisman sticks “fire and juice” [MTM B1:11]. The word returns in the mingled fluids released when the thunder colt destroys the Finnegan effigy [MTM B11:351].A:57; A:46; A:68; MTM B1:11; MTM B11:351
Juju Joy Fabrique
Don Barnaby’s term for the manufacture of joy pills. He likens Madame Le Mourcheor’s reforms to spring entering its musty halls: she supposedly discards tainted additives and returns to special sawdust, honey, and black-cat urine [D:248-249].D:248-249
Juju Joy Pills (Madame Le Mourcheor's Old Original)
See Joy Pills. Don Barnaby names Madame Le Mourcheor’s Old Original Juju Joy Pills as the exceptional variety made in New Orleans [D:249].D:249
Julep Stein
Earlier heading reversed the drink’s name and changed its printed spelling. See Stein Julip.Julien Hebert
One of Henry Salvatore’s maternal uncles, listed with the other Hebert uncles in the account of Henry’s family [A:122-123].A:122-123
Juliette
A romantic comparison applied to Theresa Piccone, described as half Juliette and half urchin as Patrick Stranahan considers Vincent’s approaching marriage [A:104]. The likely allusion is to Juliet Capulet of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, although the novel does not identify the play here.A:104
Jumps (Three big)
Judley Peacock's explanation, quoted in Tony Apostolo's Chicago Tribune report, of how the mule reached the traffic island: one jump over the fence and two more to the island. Peacock concedes that he initially thought the huge man had lifted the mule, but rejects that explanation [MTM B4:132-133].MTM B4:132-133
June
Month of Giovanni A. Solli's (Finnegan's) birth, June 1, 1919 [A:173] [MTM B3:76]. In his verse, sea birds return to Dutch Harbor in June [A:171]. Charlotte Garfield visits New Orleans in June wearing her extravagant fur stole [MTM B8:258].A:173; MTM B3:76; A:171; MTM B8:258
Jung Hotel
New Orleans hotel where Finnegan, Henry, Duffey, Dotty, and Mary Schaeffer check in on a Sunday evening after leaving Vincent Stranahan's wedding reception. Dotty jokes that they are all Jungian archetypes [A:114-115]. More Than Melchisedech dates their departure to the last Saturday of May 1946 [MTM B5:184].A:114-115; MTM B5:184
Jungle
The soldiers' tropical surroundings. Henry says that he is better in the jungle than in town, and he and Casey walk into it to swim [A:38] [A:42]. Later islands have less dense jungle and occasional meadows [A:50]. The audience excuses its enthusiasm for Tania by saying that it has been in the jungle too long [A:53]. The companions cross jungle and fields, find horses, and sleep in a pasture on its edge [A:68-69]. Finnegan and Marie Courtois appear on a jungle-crowded beach although they should be aboard the Brunhilde in mid-Atlantic [D:92]. The steep jungle Duffey climbs is a metaphorical landscape inside the Majesty's mind [MTM B8:241].A:38; A:42; A:50; A:53; A:68-69; D:92; MTM B8:241
Jungle juice
Liquor in Vincent's thought experiment about a newly created world: Finnegan could be created with a built-in hangover although neither the previous night's jungle juice nor that night had existed [A:57]. The Sergeant and the Malayan boy drink it from a gourd during their visionary travels; the text explicitly says that they are no longer in the ward or even on that island [A:88].A:57; A:88
Junk pile
Pile of old equipment in Duffey's establishment. Bagby points out padded leather straps and spins a joke about the former proprietor using them to hang sleeping lodgers from hooks. Other drinkers offer rival practical explanations: straps for Greely Pack Saddles or California Bucking Rolls [MTM B2:44-45].MTM B2:44-45
Justice Department agents
Officials whom Mr. X visits, along with congressmen, at midnight, speaking in low, confidential earnestness [A:137].A:137
Justin
Person whom Mary Virginia credits with news that the Jazz Museum has enough new material to take a week to see and hear [MTM B11:310].MTM B11:310
Justinian
Byzantine emperor Justinian I (482-565), remembered for his codification of Roman law. In an unlabeled first-person fragment in “Promontory Goats,” Justinian's skull houses a snake oracle: the snake emerges through the right eye socket for yes and the left for no, giving judgments to chieftains [PG:545].PG:545
Juvenilia
Designation attached to Casey's early verse pamphlet, Ballads of Kasmir Szymanski, privately printed by The Crock, Chicago. Finnegan reads it and praises Casey's earlier poetry [A:153].A:153
K. B. Lager
Beer named with Toohey's and Tooth's in the opening pub sequence, where they are described as the same beers the boys had in Paradise [A:2].A:2
K.C.s
Unexpanded initials for one group among the many guests and acquaintances who visit Patrick Stranahan's sociable household [A:104].A:104
Kabouter
In Absalom Stein's explanation, an interior goblin, crankiness, complex, fixation, or psychological stumbling-stool. Stein says that he and Casey traded one kabouter each, rather than whole souls; each consequently knows some of the other's private secrets. Stein regards the kabouters as immaterial persons, while acknowledging the alternative description as crankinesses [PG:537-538].PG:537-538
Kalevala
Finnish epic compiled by Elias Lönnrot, published in an initial form in 1835 and an expanded form in 1849. Brannagan promises Finnegan that the part of his proposed theory, the Procession of the Epics, concerning the Kalevala will make his hair stand on end [D:210].D:210
Kandarsky
Composer of the Painted Thunder Suite, part of the prelude music at the Decatur Street Opera House [MTM B11:348]. The name may echo the painter Vasily Kandinsky (1866-1944), though the passage makes no explicit identification.MTM B11:348
Kandi
Place named among the destinations of eternal summer in Finnegan's verse, alongside Roi, Rangoon, Kuri, and Cai [A:171].A:171
Kangaroo
Animal imitated by Mabel the bear in Hans's hypnotic stage act: at his command, she bounces about the stage like a kangaroo [A:219].A:219
Kansas City
Missouri city included in one disputed account of Duffey's childhood with kindred between the ages of five and twelve [MTM B1:7]. Rockhurst is one possible location of his composite boarding-school education [MTM B1:24]; the actual school was chartered in 1910 and opened classes in 1914. Critics of Duffey's chronology claim that he was still at school in Omaha or Kansas City when he supposedly ran his St. Louis business, but Mary Louise and Bagby defend those business years [MTM B2:71]. Kansas City is also among the cities he revisits after returning in 1923 [MTM B2:73].MTM B1:7; MTM B1:24; MTM B2:71; MTM B2:73
Kaoline affiliate
Secret material among Askandanakandrian's seven sovereign aids for rehabilitating nervous merchandise. He lists it with an acid, lye, formaldehyde, ammonia, amyl acetate, and an unnamed lesser gum; when reducing his choices to four, he calls the corresponding material clay [A:257].A:257
Kapteyn's Star
One of the stars used in Professor Kirol von Weinsberg-Valeni's astronomical instruction. He can give a star's right ascension for any date, and teaches Hans to do so for frequently requested stars, including Kapteyn's Star, Alpha Centauri, Procyon, CC624, Rigel, Vega, and Betelgeuse [A:211] [A:214].A:211; A:214
Kara Sea
Arctic sea off Russia, named among the many seas sailed by Melchisedech and the Argo [MTM B13:406].MTM B13:406
Karachi
City where Amoy, in Ti's freely translated story of his earlier life as a red-winged blackbird, joins jewel thieves after reaching his majority and steals gems from shops [A:80].A:80
Karkik Kariki
Short form of To Karkik Kariki, one of the clandestine student publications descended from Casey's Crocks. Its later continuation adds repeated allusions to an attributed ancient Greek sexual trait; the narrator expressly distinguishes such developments from Casey's original intentions [A:167-168].A:167-168
Karl Marx Stadt
Name used for Chemnitz in East Germany from 1953 to 1990. The novel places an Argo episode there near the upper Mulde: Duffey, Brannagan, and Gorshok confront Ralph Rolfe over his dangerous new logic, tentatively called I wake up forgetting, and destroy its written formulation [MTM B13:427-428].MTM B13:427-428
Kasimir, Prince
Prince Casimir of Poland, identified in Duffey's account as an earlier manifestation of Casey Szymansky and as Saint Casimir. Duffey describes his aid to the poor, a vow of chastity frustrating King Casimir IV's succession plans, and an apparent death at twenty-three that is really a withdrawal from the world [PG:536]. The historical saint lived from 1458 to 1484 and died at twenty-five, so Duffey's age and designation of the period as the High Middle Ages belong to the novel's account. In a prophecy read aloud by Teresa, Prince Casimir is the second of three listed cargoes that a ghostly Duffey will carry on the Argo; he will be landed near Armageddon to reign temporarily as Anti-Christ. Duffey says he has no knowledge of these predicted acts [MTM B12:388].PG:536; MTM B12:388
Kasmir-Stein (Der)
Hybrid identity or essence produced by the contact between Casey Szymansky and Absalom Stein after their exchange of an old soul. The narrator calls it an ancient, remote jewel of India and says that it is neither Casey nor Stein, but an abiding spark struck from their contact [MTM B5:183].MTM B5:183
Kate's Neanderthal Bar
Waterfront bar in Biloxi that Duffey thinks is almost always for sale. Eva wants to buy it, rename it Eva's Neanderthal Bar, and attract others of her Neo-Neanderthal kind [MTM B13:407]. She asks for a $14,000 down payment. Duffey produces 280 fifty-dollar gold pieces, but Eva questions their plausible use; Brannagan's replacement banknotes all have the same serial number. Gertrude finally offers to fetch her checkbook and arrange matters herself [MTM B13:414-415].MTM B13:407; MTM B13:414-415
Kathisate
Greek invitation to sit down, offered by the woman at a farmhouse when Finnegan and Anastasia stop for water on their way to Anastasia's grandmother. They have no time to stay [D:124].D:124
Katie
Waitress at the Lotus Eaters who keeps Hans and Marie's glasses filled during their apparently timeless conversation. Marie tells Katie that she is engaged, and Katie replies that even a blind woman could see it [A:28-29].A:28-29
Katt, Tommy
Tough policeman, husband of Hildegarde Katt, in the port town of the Old Wooden Ship [D:229-230]. He encounters Finnegan after the assault on Art Emery. After Finnegan's violent attack on the Pirate Hotel, Katt sees the apparent werecat become the bleeding Finnegan and drives him to the dock in time to escape by boat [D:230-232].D:229-230; D:230-232
Kava sunan ka?
Question Joseph, described as a Haussa man, asks Finnegan in Freetown. Finnegan understands it as asking his name and replies that he is Finnegan [D:93]. Joseph then identifies his trade as diamond smuggling [D:94].D:93; D:94
Kazuko, Niku
Double of the dead Xavier Cardinal Runosake of Kobe. The initial list calls Niku Kazuko probably of Honolulu; the later passenger account simply calls him of Honolulu [MB:579] [MB:592].MB:579; MB:592
Kea
Greek island. In Brannagan's account, shops on Kea, Siros, and Tinos sell mermaids' hair from Naxos, while an ancient reluctance prevents its sale on Naxos itself [D:207].D:207
Keadin
One of the goat-man's seven youngest kids, listed fourth among Bownee, Luin, Mairt, Keadin, Ordin, Haoine, and Sahirn. The goat-man gives these kids names for the days of the week [A:194]; Keadin appears to represent Irish Céadaoin, Wednesday.A:194
Keegan, Beth
Elizabeth Keegan, later Beth Erlenbaum, Mary Louise Byrne's close friend and the teasing handmaid she introduces to Duffey. Beth kisses him at their first meeting and says she will keep him. Small, black-haired, and ivory-skinned, with tiny feet and waist and lavish curves, she strikes him as an impossible living ivory statue, cold and strong to the touch. Her costume, voice, and walk are theatrical performances, and her laughter exposes the joke without ending his infatuation or confusion [MTM B2:56-57]. She attends college with Mary Louise and joins Duffey's youthful St. Louis outings [MTM B2:58]. Her mock love-making draws on plays and comic magazines; the narrative likens her to Etruscan and Cretan statuary [MTM B2:60]. After Duffey's return, she is married, has two daughters, and writes and performs comic skits at the Star and Garter. She is godmother to Piccone's infant daughter. The narrator calls Beth ordinary, but says Duffey never realizes this [MTM B2:74]. Later she and her husband join Duffey and the Bagbys at Rounders'; she describes his Animated Marvels as brighter, more colorful versions of him multiplied ten or eleven times [MTM B5:154-155].MTM B2:56-57; MTM B2:58; MTM B2:60; MTM B2:74; MTM B5:154-155
Keel
Structural backbone along the bottom of a vessel. Duffey says the Argo's keel was laid at Ragusa, now Dubrovnik, and that her hull was built of oak from the Dinaric Alps, including pieces of a talking oak. The surrounding account explicitly claims symbolic rather than ordinary historical accuracy [MTM B13:412].MTM B13:412
Kelly pool
Rotation-style pocket-billiards game. Duffey and seven companions play it and rotation in the soundproof attic billiard room after escaping a formal school dance [MTM B1:33]. Finnegan also invites an agitated Papa Devil to a game in Tangier, but Papa Devil is in no mood for it [D:103].MTM B1:33; D:103
Kelly's Steak House
St. Louis restaurant frequented during Duffey's youthful social life with Mary Louise Byrne, Beth Keegan, Charley Murray, Edward Ranwick, and Philip Manford. Its adjoining music bar is a later-night destination [MTM B2:58-59]. Kelly's is also a stop on the farewell round before Duffey's Seven Lost Years [MTM B2:69].MTM B2:58-59; MTM B2:69
Kellys (Family)
Family named among Duffey's alleged relatives in one account of his childhood. Duffey disputes the older relative's account and the authenticity of this extensive kindred [MTM B1:7].MTM B1:7
Kelp syrup
Accompaniment Duffey requests for a chlamydomonas, a green alga, served as the fruit course of his extraordinary meal with Leonard Archive, Oliver Greenflag, and Harry A. Kincaid. The visit occurs during an Argo expedition into a future Louisiana swamp [MTM B13:416-417].MTM B13:416-417
Kenealy, Cletus
One of Duffey's musical friends during the North Chicago golden age of 1925-1935. The group encompasses opera, ragtime, Chicago-hot music, and string bands, without assigning Kenealy an individual specialty [MTM B3:98-99]. He also attends Duffey's late gathering of old friends [MTM B12:383].MTM B3:98-99; MTM B12:383
Kennedys (Family)
Family included in the older relative's list of Duffey's kindred in one version of his childhood, an account whose authenticity Duffey contests [MTM B1:7].MTM B1:7
Kephos Stone
Name linking Absalom Stein to Kephos in Cleo Mahoney’s play about Melchisedech. Duffey recognizes Stein as “Kephos of the blooming nose” and seeks his advice; the narrator connects Kephos with stone and Stein [MTM B9:265-266].MTM B9:265-266
Kerosene lamp
Light used, along with candles, for Duffey and Rattigan's late-night school sales after the gas is shut off [MTM B1:26]. Charley Murray later proposes kerosene or compressed-gas lighting for Duffey's balloon, the Argo Twelve and a Half. Duffey wins the argument for electric lighting by citing explosions on balloons using other lights [MTM B2:64-65].MTM B1:26; MTM B2:64-65
Kerygmies
Word in the verse fragment, 'Before (in catch-words and kerygmies) / Falsetto Chorus raised its plaint.' The glossary's proposed location, A:9, does not match the available text; the primary-source location remains unverified.Kettle (contributions)
Small kettle for contributions to Duffey's perpetual soup crock. Dotty rings a bell to attract people, and late-night roisterers sometimes put in four bits or a dollar for a bowl [A:133-134].A:133-134
Kettle drums
Equipment named with barbells in the mail-order physical training by which John William Schultz seeks to make his son John, or Hans, as strong as himself [A:208].A:208
Key (grave key)
Powerful information in a document buried with Ifreann, father of the two Papadiabolous brothers, in the grave where Papadiabolous I is later also buried. According to Mr. X, the father was buried in 1930; Seaworthy subsequently killed Papadiabolous I while they were reopening that grave to seek the information [D:285] [D:288]. X calls the document a key and plans to retrieve it so that no single possessor has its dangerous advantage. He expects Seaworthy to intercept him that night [D:290].D:285; D:288; D:290
Key (latch-key)
Figurative key to Hell in the narrator's description of Marie Courtois aboard ship, before identifying her as Seaworthy's seagoing secretary. It marks the sinister side of a woman who remains an attractive companion [D:32].D:32
Key (safety deposit box key)
Key to the safe-deposit box holding Aga Gonof's stash. Duffey obtains its mental image, reads its stock number and the code for its notches, kerfs, and dips with his inner eye, and writes down the information. Charlotte Mullens goes to have the key made while they still await the box's location and number [MTM B3:84].MTM B3:84
Keyboard (played by time-table)
Casey's metaphor for the common direction of propagandistic public voices. He tells Finnegan that phrases first coined within his movement are echoed on schedule by apparently independent cultural and public figures, all played by the same keyboard [A:185-186].A:185-186
Khamis Mushait
City in southwestern Saudi Arabia. Margaret Stone tells her purported Jebel Shammar enemies that New Orleans is a truce city like Khamis Mushait, though she suspects that the three alleged sect members are Tulane students joking with her [MTM B7:225].MTM B7:225
Khanate of the Golden Horde
Mongol successor state of the thirteenth to early sixteenth centuries, ending in 1502. In Mr. X's anachronistic account of the Devil's imprisonment in 946 or 947, Tmutarakan is an advance host of the Golden Horde and shares the Crimean peninsula with the Kingdom of Kiev [MTM B6:204].MTM B6:204
Kiboshes
Amenities or stalls in the suddenly present Bayougoula Park, listed alongside gazebos, kiosks, taverns, and tabernacles [MTM B11:331-332]. Margaret Stone buys crackers at one of the kiboshes to feed a dying dragon [MTM B11:334]. The word may play on 'kiosks,' but the structures' form is not specified.MTM B11:331-332; MTM B11:334
Kid (little)
A term applied to different people. A colonel calls Sergeant Finnegan a kid when dismissing a captain's complaint that Finnegan has threatened to meet him in Hell [A:74]. Mr. X's letter calls the women 'kids' and says that they have the Church and are justified [A:265]. In the separate 'Great Day' episode, Margaret Stone pushes down an outside wall and kills a little kid on the sidewalk [GD:493].A:74; A:265; GD:493
Kidd (Captain Kidd)
Pirate whose name gives supposed authenticity to treasure maps forged by Angela Cosquin's father [D:259-260]. Charlotte Mullens boasts that she has stolen and reburied more loot than Kidd or Blackbeard ever saw [MTM B3:93].D:259-260; MTM B3:93
Kidneys
Organs used in the life-preserving broth in Don Lewis's Big House story; the daughter threatens to feast on Ali's kidneys [D:48-49]. One of the three slant-faced killers eats Duffey's kidneys after they strip the flesh from his bones. Although the poisoned-spring scene is unreal, the narrative explicitly calls his death real [MTM B13:441-442]. Among the murder-contest proposals in 'More Than Melchisedech,' fictional directional infra-red cookers would destroy a victim's kidneys or other organs without an outer mark [MB:581].D:48-49; MTM B13:441-442; MB:581
Kiev (Kingdom of)
Kyivan Rus', the medieval state centered on Kyiv, conventionally dated from the late ninth century to the Mongol conquest in the thirteenth. Mr. X says that the Kingdom of Kiev shared the Crimean peninsula with Tmutarakan when the Devil was imprisoned there in 946 or 947 [MTM B6:204]. This territorial account belongs to his narrative of the imprisonment.MTM B6:204
Killers (hired)
Men who pursue Don Lewis in Tangier under Seaworthy's threat. Don considers Art, Harry, Papa Devil, and even other shipmates as possible killers, but Marie Courtois kills him [D:106] [D:112-113]. Doppio di Pinne, called Dopey, belongs to the related plot to substitute a double for Finnegan. An early account describes him as killed in Finnegan's place [D:51], but his body is not found; later accounts leave his disappearance, possible killing, and possible absorption into Finnegan unresolved [D:64] [D:121-122]. These passages do not establish him as one of Don Lewis's pursuers.D:106; D:112-113; D:51; D:64; D:121-122
Kincaid, Harry A. (Honeybucket)
Old Wooden Ship patron, called Harold A. (Honeybucket) Kincaid in its roster and Harry A. Kincaid in his anecdote. He seeks to sell seventy-five billion dollars of stock for electrically harvesting plankton as livestock feed; the narrator reveals that he has never tried it and knows nothing of plankton's appearance. His one real camel remains behind the Ship after a failed amusement ride [D:216] [D:218-219]. In futuristic Louisiana, Harry joins Leonard Archive and Oliver Greenflag in entertaining Duffey and Brannagan. Their frequency technology gathers food, drink, chemicals, and creatures from the water; Honeybucket operates the dials and electrodes for gar and Blooper Fish, makes Foraminifera Julips, and summons three twenty-one-year-old women in a rowboat [MTM B13:417-419]. Archive credits laziness for their discoveries, while Greenflag calls Puff Fish a moral problem. Duffey destroys the Puff Fish frequency himself; Honeybucket thinks the equipment can be repaired, then cannot recall what the missing frequency attracted [MTM B13:420-421].D:216; D:218-219; MTM B13:417-419; MTM B13:420-421
Kinetic Intuition Indicators
Instruments screening people entering the Decatur Street Opera House during the Great Day events. They flag about twelve people in a thousand for a further test in which washing in human ashes produces flames if the subject is human [MTM B11:346-347]. The same passage also calls an instrument a 'Kinetic Intention Indicator.'MTM B11:346-347
King
Royal title recurring in several forms. Duffey is the magical Boy King, with a childhood lasting thousands of years, and the King of Salem [MTM B1:15] [MTM B1:17] [MTM B5:166]. His later recollections repeat both the ancient kingship and his disguised kingship in Iowa [MTM B13:464] [MTM B13:469]. Genesis supplies the priest-king of Salem, and Hebrews the titles King of Justice and King of Peace [MTM B2:38] [MTM B6:185]. Other kings include the Balbo Mad Kings Gaetano I-VI of San Simeon, whose expected successor Gaetano VII becomes a churchman instead [MB:558-559]; King Casimir IV, father of the prince identified with Casey in Duffey's commentary [PG:536]; the former royal owner of Duffey's Spanish ash receptacle [MTM B1:6] [MTM B13:442]; King Richard of England, said to have recaptured the Argo, and the other English king for whom Robert of Namur sailed it [MTM B13:404]. Amraphel of Shinar, Arioch of Ellasar, and Thadal of the Nations follow Chodorlahomor of Elam [MTM B7:227-228]. Henri Salvatore's letter says that all are kings in the Kingdom and invokes the holy Leper King [MTM B5:179-180].MTM B1:15; MTM B1:17; MTM B5:166; MTM B13:464; MTM B13:469; MTM B2:38; MTM B6:185; MB:558-559; PG:536; MTM B1:6; MTM B13:442; MTM B13:404; MTM B7:227-228; MTM B5:179-180
King of Justice
Biblical title of Melchisedech in the Hebrews epigraph. It gives the meaning of his name as King of Justice, before explaining his further title, King of Salem, as King of Peace [MTM B6:185].MTM B6:185
King of Peace
Title explained in the Hebrews epigraph as the meaning of Melchisedech's kingship of Salem [MTM B6:185]. Salem is traditionally identified with Jerusalem.MTM B6:185
King of Salem
Title of the biblical Melchisedech in the Genesis epigraph [MTM B2:38]. Duffey claims it together with his identities as Magus and Boy King, joining kingship to his ministry of bread and wine [MTM B5:166]. He signs a letter to Absalom Stein as the fifty-ninth king of the dynasty and, when questioned, says that he does not know why he wrote it but is sure he had fifty-eight predecessors [PS:478].MTM B2:38; MTM B5:166; PS:478
King Stephen of Hungary
Saint Stephen I of Hungary (c. 975-1038). Duffey names him and Conrad the Second of the Germanies as the newest rulers attending the Kings' Conclaves while he still took part [MTM B5:166].MTM B5:166
King's Cross
District on Finnegan and Vincent's pub-visiting route, followed by Darlinghurst and the descent to Down-Town [A:2].A:2
King's Ship
One name, alongside Gold Ship and Shimmering Ship, for what the narrator calls an almost universal boys' dream. Such dreams are presented as simultaneous happenings with a basis in reality [MTM B13:436].MTM B13:436
Kingdom Come
An idiom for fatal destruction in the account of balloonists blown up while using non-electric lights; Duffey's Argo Twelve and a Half instead uses electric lights [MTM B2:64-65]. The phrase also names the divine kingdom demanded in the 'Sonnet to Obdurate God,' whose speaker insists that God hasten and clarify it [PG:533-534].MTM B2:64-65; PG:533-534
Kingdom of Colchis
Ancient region on the eastern Black Sea, associated in Greek myth with Medea and the Golden Fleece. Henri Cardinal Salvatore says that the Argo sails under the Kingdom of Colchis's flag when discussing the ship's continuing voyages and the intermittent memory its people retain ashore [MTM B12:386].MTM B12:386
Kingdom of God
The divine Kingdom anticipated beyond ordinary mortal life. Sebastian tells Duffey that their next meeting will be in the Kingdom, rather than in unsanctified flesh [MTM B7:216]. After Finnegan refuses a last drink with his intended executioner, saying that he will drink it new, Niccolo wonders whether drink is available in the Kingdom [A:279].MTM B7:216; A:279
Kingdoms
Duffey tells Casey that those trying to corrupt the Crock have offered him the world's riches and all its kingdoms, likening their offer to Satan's [A:39-40]. During a solemn three-way handshake with Henry and Finnegan, Hans quotes the line 'where three men stand together are kingdoms less by three' [A:69].A:39-40; A:69
Kings' Conclaves
Conclaves that Duffey claims to have attended as the Boy King and King of Salem. He names Solomon, Saul, Ptolemy, Chandragupta, Nebuchadnezzar, Hsien, and Barbarossa, then calls Stephen of Hungary and Conrad the Second of the Germanies the newest attendees he remembers [MTM B5:166]. The claim occurs while Charley Murray questions how much Duffey has been drinking.MTM B5:166
Kipling, Rudyard (1865--1936)
British journalist, poet, and novelist (1865-1936), author of The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and 'If-' (1910), and winner of the 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature. August Koch invokes Kipling's devil asking 'Is it art?' while discussing Duffey's Seven Christs [MTM B3:103]. The allusion is to 'The Conundrum of the Workshops' (1890), with its recurring devil's challenge to human creation.MTM B3:103
Kiriwinans
Island people who, in Archipelago's account, help build the Papuans' lodges. The narrator says that they understand their dependence on the Papuans' vast unconscious and would vanish if the Papuans ceased to sustain them there [A:37].A:37
Kirol Cardinal Gabrailovitch
Cardinal of Zagreb, the second of the thirteen Princes in Hiding killed in John Mogul's campaign [MB:578]. His double is Mihail Majic of Trieste, who later reaches Mooring-Stone after a fifty-mile swim [MB:579] [MB:595]. Finnegan's series depicting the deaths of thirteen cardinals includes the 'Hanging of Cardinal Gabrailovitch' [MTM B13:452].MB:578; MB:579; MB:595; MTM B13:452
Kirol von Weinsberg-Valeni, Professor
Professor and carnival operator, described as the smartest man in the world and the last man who knew everything. The narrative places his birth about 1860 in Bavaria but immediately allows a different place or time; in spring 1930 he is about seventy, give or take a decade [A:211]. He knew Hans Schultz’s parents before their marriage and separately paid for their passages to America. Irene calls him a phoney of an older, nobler school and reports his maxim that dignity belongs to middling minds [A:211-212]. Hans leaves home with him in a truck resembling a medicine-show wagon, and they travel to Wisconsin Rapids to join the carnival. He teaches rapid calculation and prodigious memory as tools he calls Cerebral Athleticism, insisting that they are not thought itself. He condemns chosen dullness and urges a Sabbath for the mind, calling humanity morning dew but also manna [A:212]. His teachings include the trees of knowledge, an expanding Heaven, the Tree of Language and a literal Babel account, and rapid astronomical calculations. He says a properly equipped learner requires at least a month to learn a language [A:213]. He describes material and spiritual reality as aspects of one universe, the visible cosmos as the reverse of Heaven’s tapestry, and re-entrant time as an approach to eternity [A:212-215]. Admitting that he is a charlatan, he says he has returned to the Church and that the Father’s House has room even for charlatans [A:215]. He rents and leases carnival equipment and performs as a mind-reader, memory expert, hypnotist, magician, and answer man. He retains strength but has lost much agility and endurance [A:215-216]. He claims to have known Elena Angelino’s great-grandparents and insists that her great-grandfather was a bear [A:218]. His teaching distinguishes learning that asks why from information that asks what. By the spring of 1935 or 1936, when Hans leaves, he is visibly slowing down [A:220]. His carnival circle includes Betty Hochstapler, Angelo Angelino, and the performing bear Mabel [A:216-219].A:211; A:211-212; A:212; A:213; A:212-215; A:215; A:215-216; A:218; A:220; A:216-219
Kissimee
Kissimmee, the central Florida city, spelled 'Kissimee' in the novel. Finnegan, Doll Delancy, and X include it among their evening drives through the citrus and scrub, along with Orlando, Pine Castle, Apopka, and sometimes Daytona [D:183].D:183
Kit (how-to-build-it kit)
Zabotski's construction instructions, copied from an ancient rock-drawing whose language he believes is Hazh-Khazh. He deciphers the writing while building, initially unsure whether the result is a barn or castle [MTM B9:272]. The accompanying scenario specifies six younger people in three married couples; Widow Waldo insists the contraption is a ship, castle, anti-time machine, and shoe [MTM B9:275]. In the separate 'Great Day' account, kits supply an unspecified substitute for vehicle wheels [GD:489].MTM B9:272; MTM B9:275; GD:489
Kit (love-as-catch-word kit)
Phrase in the verse fragment 'Nor used the love-as-catch-word kit / A multitude of sins to cover.' The glossary's proposed location, A:9, does not match the available text; the primary-source location remains unverified.Kit-fox
A small North American fox and Duffey's totem animal. When Duffey is about eleven, a sorrel-haired, grinning fox resembling him warns him of the three slant-faced boys. It attacks one low while Duffey bowls him over, enabling escape from the ambush; Duffey is badly knifed and nearly bleeds to death. The narrator calls the fox providential [MTM B1:19-20].MTM B1:19-20
Kithara (nine-stringed)
Nine-stringed instrument played by Shinar in the Brimstone Combo, in Trinali's poem about the old saloon near Iniquity Square [A:235].A:235
Kithara Shinar
Earlier heading joined the instrument to the name of its player, Shinar. See Kithara (nine-stringed).Kitty (card game)
Earlier heading confused the collection of tips after a musical performance with a card game. See Kitty (tip collection).Kitty (tip collection)
Collection for tips after Falo and Nauti's music at their café: they say they will pass the kitty after playing. The same scene also includes card play, but 'kitty' here refers to the collection [A:65].A:65
Kiunker (Georgia)
Printed variant of the car’s name. See Klunker (car).Klunker (car)
The older second car with a Georgia license plate, acquired so that X, Doll, and Finnegan can escape in two directions if necessary [D:184]. Finnegan leaves in it before dawn after X’s briefing, followed half an hour later by a leftfooted killer and his companion [D:193]. The book calls it both Klunker and Kiunker. After his pursuers repeatedly shoot at him, Finnegan drives it into a ditch and fires back, then continues in the damaged car. In the next town he parks it at the police station to delay pursuit before finding refuge with Brannagan and Gertrude [D:197-199].D:184; D:193; D:197-199
Knacker
A dealer in animal carcasses or worn-out livestock. John Mogul applies the word to his business of killing unwanted people, likening their disposal to rendering carcasses into useful materials [MB:573].MB:573
Knees
The word links several images. Casey recites a line attributed to Belloc about hacking horses at the knees [A:160]. Trinali seeks cypress knees as craft materials, and Hans later sees her as made of driftwood with cypress knees [A:229] [A:234]. Endymeon Ellenbogen complains figuratively that wolves have eaten his legs up to the knees while describing his failure to make money from popular songs [A:237].A:160; A:229; A:234; A:237
Knife
Weapon appearing in several episodes. Casey's school notebook calls chiv a Romany word for knife [A:162] [A:164]. Ignatius Ti tells of a ward attendant using a flip-knife to frighten a medico pretending to be dead, then of a woman who unknowingly sleeps with the ghost of her knife-murdered husband [A:86-87]. A clipping apparently reporting X's death mentions an old knife blade in the shoulder; Dotty calls the report an antic [A:141]. Finnegan says that a hostile bistro crowd cut a Z in his cheek with switchblades [A:263-264]. The three slant-faced boys carry knives and nearly kill young Duffey; their later counterparts strip the flesh from his bones in the unreal desert scene, causing a death explicitly described as real [MTM B1:12] [MTM B1:19-20] [MTM B13:441-442]. George Koran reports a knife-brandishing guard at the New Catholic Press Guild meeting [MTM B8:239-240]. A knife hilt protrudes between the shoulders of the dead man identified as Cardinal Runosake at Mogul's door [MB:574].A:162; A:164; A:86-87; A:141; A:263-264; MTM B1:12; MTM B1:19-20; MTM B13:441-442; MTM B8:239-240; MB:574
Knights of Columbus
Catholic fraternal organization founded in 1882. During his would-be appearance as the world-conquering Leader, Casey wears his father's Knights of Columbus Fourth Degree sword with his other regalia [MTM B4:117].MTM B4:117
Knistjanses (Swede)
Old Wooden Ship regular listed as Swede Knistjanses [D:215]. He belongs to the five men called Swedes although none is Swedish: collectively they are Norse, Danish, Icelandic, German, and from the Orkneys. The text does not assign those origins individually [D:217].D:215; D:217
Knobs (stone)
Stone features called merlons on a small Gothic-style hotel. Finnegan, likened to a living gargoyle, perches on one after climbing six stories up the ornamented exterior [D:162].D:162
Knockers (olive)
Playful name for children in Vincent and Show Boat's response to their wedding Mass's Gradual, which compares children around the table to young olive plants [A:113].A:113
Knowledge (false)
The pseudodendron of false knowledge and the crooked way, the one forbidden tree in Professor Kirol von Weinsberg-Valeni's account to Hans. He contrasts it with the many trees of fruitful knowledge [A:211-212].A:211-212
Knowledge (of achievement and arriving)
One form of fruitful knowledge in Professor Kirol von Weinsberg-Valeni's teaching to Hans about the many trees of knowledge: achievement and arriving [A:211-212].A:211-212
Knowledge (of awakening and growing)
One form of fruitful knowledge in Professor Kirol von Weinsberg-Valeni's teaching to Hans about the many trees of knowledge: awakening and growing [A:211-212].A:211-212
Knowledge (of expanding and seeing)
One form of fruitful knowledge in Professor Kirol von Weinsberg-Valeni's teaching to Hans about the many trees of knowledge: expanding and seeing [A:211-212].A:211-212
Knowledge (of love and realization)
One form of fruitful knowledge in Professor Kirol von Weinsberg-Valeni's teaching to Hans about the many trees of knowledge: love and realization [A:211-212].A:211-212
Knowledge (Tree of)
Professor Kirol von Weinsberg-Valeni tells Hans that all the trees were trees of knowledge: love and realization, achievement and arriving, awakening and growing, expanding and seeing and unfolding. Only the pseudodendron of false knowledge and the crooked way was forbidden. His image leads into continuing growth from caterpillars through butterflies to stars [A:211-213].A:211-213
Kobe
Japanese port city associated with Xavier Cardinal Runosake, one of Mogul's thirteen contracted targets [MB:571]. Mogul learns that Runosake has just escaped a Buddhist compound in Kobe; shortly afterward a dying man identified as the cardinal appears at Mogul's Marseille door, and the targets remaining number twelve [MB:572-574].MB:571; MB:572-574
Koch, August
Father of Lily and Letitia Koch and husband of Elinore. A neat, imposing, muscular man of integrity and financial competence, he favors the European custom of dowry; Duffey limits the provision for his own marriage to a quarter of August's intended amount, drawing only interest for twenty-five years [MTM B3:101]. August separately offers a million-dollar dowry for a suitable husband for Lily and asks Duffey to help find one [MTM B3:102]. He gives Duffey an additional Christ artwork to stand with the Seven Christs and owns an Argo-named yacht on Lake Michigan [MTM B3:103-104]. Around the beginning of the fourth quarter of 1929 he stores more than twenty tons of gold, valued in the narrative at about twelve million dollars, at the Duffeys' place [MTM B4:110].MTM B3:101; MTM B3:102; MTM B3:103-104; MTM B4:110
Koch, Elinore
Wife of August Koch and mother of Lily and Letitia, one of the family circle in Duffey's Chicago golden age [MTM B3:98]. Duffey falls in love with his mother-in-law at first sight when she welcomes him with outstretched arms and an enormous kiss, a gesture shared by all three Koch women. The narrator praises her style and calls such affection good luck [MTM B3:101]. Duffey continues to love all three Koch ladies [MTM B4:110].MTM B3:98; MTM B3:101; MTM B4:110
Koch, Letitia
Wife of Melchisedech Duffey, younger sister of Lily Koch, and daughter of August and Elinore. Duffey's rib-shaped talisman, entrusted to Lily in childhood, is associated with Letitia's formation and their eventual meeting [MTM B1:30] [MTM B3:90-91] [MTM B3:101]. Initially described as chubby, with smiling eyes and a dazzling soul, she has cascades of hair between blonde, scarlet, and walnut, a ruddy complexion, a high-comedy expression, and eyes between sea-green and Melchisedech blue. She is taller than Duffey and helps move their belongings into their Chicago home above the bookstore; their marriage opens the golden age beginning in 1925 [MTM B3:91-92] [MTM B3:98]. Her beautiful, haunting voice is used in radio advertisements, and she intercepts Casey's appearance as the world-conquering Leader [MTM B4:114] [MTM B4:117]. Duffey says she can read his mind. During the portfolio blackmail, she goes away on a purportedly necessary trip, returning without examining or expressing interest in the pictures [MTM B4:140] [MTM B4:144-145]. In New Orleans the narrator describes her as transfigured into proto-legendary beauty [MTM B7:211]. After Dotty's disappearance she edits The Bark, supports it from private funds, and attends the New Catholic Press Guild meeting with Duffey and Mary Virginia [MTM B8:238-239]. Her death is sudden; at Margaret Stone's insistence her eyes remain open, seeming to follow everyone at the old-fashioned wake in her home [MTM B8:253-254].MTM B1:30; MTM B3:90-91; MTM B3:101; MTM B3:91-92; MTM B3:98; MTM B4:114; MTM B4:117; MTM B4:140; MTM B4:144-145; MTM B7:211; MTM B8:238-239; MTM B8:253-254
Koch, Lily
Lily Koch, Letitia's sister and August and Elinore's daughter, is Letitia's partner in Koch's Galleries [MTM B3:92] [MTM B3:98]. As a schoolgirl merchant at St. Mary Major's, she combines boarding and day attendance, with wealthy kindred across the road. She holds private Wednesday sales and public Saturday sales, obtains whisky through Duffey, and sells art, including Sebastian Hilton's hundred-dollar statuette [MTM B1:28-29]. Her merchant trademark is a pair of celluloid cuffs or gauntlets. She and Duffey communicate within her mind, and she kisses him after recognizing his talisman as magi-made. Already 'finished' herself and expecting no children, she undertakes to use it for Letitia [MTM B1:29-30]. Years later the rib-shaped talisman is still displayed in the gallery as effectively priceless; Lily brings Duffey and Letitia together [MTM B3:90-91]. August says she and Sebastian had been engaged 'in a sort of way' [MTM B3:102]. She belongs to the Chicago golden-age circle [MTM B3:98]. After Letitia's death she flies to New Orleans and stays several weeks [MTM B8:254] [MTM B8:256]. She proposes to Duffey, says her old million-dollar dowry has tripled, and explains that Letitia asked her to care for him. By an unexplained calculation she declares it his four-thousandth birthday and arranges the enormous cake and party [MTM B8:257].MTM B3:92; MTM B3:98; MTM B1:28-29; MTM B1:29-30; MTM B3:90-91; MTM B3:102; MTM B8:254; MTM B8:256; MTM B8:257
Koch's Galleries
Chicago art galleries run by Lily Koch and her sister Letitia, who keeps her half-interest after marrying Duffey [MTM B3:92]. The galleries stand two blocks from the Duffeys' establishment, down its prosperous street rather than the poorer street on its other side [MTM B3:100].MTM B3:92; MTM B3:100
Kofeinik (Rose Ivanova's)
Rose Ivanova's restaurant in an unnamed, bustling trucking town encountered during Duffey's Tartary expedition. Its sign claims that truck drivers' presence proves it is the best. Duffey emerges from the Laughing Prince's desert scenes, eats a hearty meal, and drinks eleven glasses of water. Nobody in the town has heard of the Prince. As Duffey leaves for the newspaper office, the town vanishes and the desert returns [MTM B13:438-440].MTM B13:438-440
Kopolatry
Unexplained mystical term in Marie Courtois's conversation with Finnegan on a jungle-crowded beach, although they should be aboard the Brunhilde in mid-Atlantic. With his head in her lap and her hair wound around him, she discusses kopolatry beside the gremium matris, identified with the Earth and her lap. Earth worship or fertility symbolism is a possible contextual reading; the word's precise meaning and derivation remain uncertain [D:92].D:92
Koran, George
Reporter for the New Orleans Picayune whom Duffey meets at the New Catholic Press Guild address by 'The Majesty,' the released Devil [MTM B8:240]. He lists the speaker's enormous itinerary among financiers, publishers, politicians, labor leaders, historians, and a Student Repudiation Congress [MTM B8:243]. The next day's engagements include an early communion breakfast in Oklahoma City, Waco Baptists, Dallas, Cow Town, San Antonio, and Houston [MTM B8:244].MTM B8:240; MTM B8:243; MTM B8:244
Korsakoff, Sergei (1854--1900)
Russian psychiatrist Sergei Korsakoff, also transliterated Sergey Korsakov (1854-1900), whose studies of alcoholic polyneuritis and memory disturbance gave his name to Korsakoff's syndrome. The syndrome involves severe memory impairment associated with thiamine deficiency, commonly in severe alcohol use disorder. In Archipelago, Finnegan tells a Travelers' Aid worker that his trouble is 'Korsakofs Psychosis' [A:244].A:244
Korsakofs Psychosis
Finnegan's name for his memory trouble when speaking to the Travelers' Aid woman. He declines a doctor, saying doctors do not understand the condition and ascribe it to drinking; he compares himself with his father's strange behavior [A:244].A:244
Kos
Greek island in the Dodecanese. In Anastasia's account of mermaids, its mermaid beaches were already documented by the beginning of Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty, conventionally dated about 1550-1295 BCE. This documentation belongs to the novel's mermaid lore [D:34-35].D:34-35
Krakow
Polish city associated with Ifreann Noonan Columkill Gregorovitch's birth in 1830, near Krakow or Skawine, in X's account [D:278]. X places St. Elmo's parish near Krakow and says Ifreann claimed lifelong citizenship of the Republic of Krakow after fleeing the region at about fifteen [D:279-280]. The historical Free City existed from 1815 to 1846; X's statement that it existed only in that one year is inaccurate [D:280].D:278; D:279-280; D:280
Kraut
Epithet repeatedly applied to Hans. The narrator first calls him merry-looking and powerful [A:5]. Before their drinking contest Bushmaster boasts of having beaten krauts, and during it he calls Hans an American kraut [A:15] [A:22]. Another description makes this 'kraut-head' simultaneously Faust and Apollo [A:169].A:5; A:15; A:22; A:169
Kreb's Cycle Consonance
One of the supposed age-measuring criteria in the fictional Eighteenth Book of Strange Encounters, written by the editors of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Books. Along with birefringence flow index and Howship's lacunar frequency, it is said to indicate that Duffey is over four thousand years old, despite a body appearing about fifty-five [MTM B8:250].MTM B8:250
Kristine
Woman in Johnny Duckwalk's barroom story, set uncertainly in Lisbon or Stockholm. She offers money to have her supposedly insured husband killed with an axe. Duckwalk and his shipmate Mike Merganser discover that each was being set up as the other's victim; Kristine admits she wanted their rolls of money [D:246-247].D:246-247
Kropotkin, Peter
Russian anarchist thinker Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921), author of The Conquest of Bread (1892) and Mutual Aid (1902), who emphasized cooperative social life and opposed state compulsion. X says that Ifreann Gregorovitch became an ironic disciple after his involvement in the Paris Commune; he contrasts the supposedly crooked saint Kropotkin with the honest devil Ifreann [D:280]. This Ifreann is the father of Papadiabolous I, not Papadiabolous I himself [D:285].D:280; D:285
Krym
X's Russian name for Crimea in his account of the Devil's prison. He dates the imprisonment to 946 or 947 and describes a prison dug beneath the Crimean Mountains [MTM B6:204]. Absalom Stein dates the release after a thousand years to 1946 [MTM B6:185].MTM B6:204; MTM B6:185
Kumanek
One of the godfather or sponsor titles used while the narrator questions Duffey's relationship to his talismanic children, especially Casey: Pate, Kumanek, Nonos, Nasho, Athair Baiste, Sponsor, Padrino, Godfather. The passage asks whether his role exceeds ordinary sponsorship and resembles that of a creating sorcerer [MTM B4:119].MTM B4:119
Kuri
Place-name in Finnegan's verse, grouped with Roi, Rangoon, Kandi, and Cai as places where summer is eternal [A:171].A:171
Kutz (Soft-Talk Susie)
Soft-Talk Susie Kutz, barmaid at the Old Wooden Ship and an angel unaware. Her reports to the Lord make the patrons seem a little better than they are and help account for their unexpected prosperity; the narrative distinguishes regulars from the more casual visitors Finnegan and Le Marin [D:216]. Some later accounts of the patrons are said to derive from her blessed reports, whose relation to truth the narrator leaves playfully open [D:225].D:216; D:225
Kymatic patterns
Electrical patterns in the brain, contrasted with akymatic patterns, in Casey Szymansky's discussion of spirits reading brain activity. He distinguishes verbal, subliminal, electrical, and chemical indications from access to the immaterial mind, and says the spirits must use physical means [PG:539-540].PG:539-540
L'Ouverture, Toussaint
Haitian revolutionary leader Toussaint Louverture (c. 1743-1803). Carmody Overlark's fictional Studies in the Imagination includes him in a catalogue of supposed Neanderthal-like 'pumpkin heads,' alongside Plato, Homer, Aquinas, Rabelais, Luther, Christopher Smart, Rasputin, and Steinmetz. Overlark associates this imagined type with criminals, religious innovators, leaders, poets, and inventors [D:270-272].D:270-272
La Barque
French words meaning 'the boat' in the caption to Henry's dream of a storm on a lake. As wind and waves grow more convincing, he recognizes the biblical wording and prefers the Vulgate's Latin to the French [A:45]. The allusion is Luke 8:23, where the sleeping Jesus' boat takes in water during a squall.A:45
La Paz
Place-name in the poem by Finnegan that Dotty discovers: 'I ought to go visit La Paz and Lierre / And make them acquainted with me' [A:173].A:173
Ladies' Bar
One of the Plaza's forty-eight bars; the narrator jokes that the Ladies' Bar has never known man [A:3].A:3
Lafitte, Jean
Pirate and privateer Jean Lafitte, probably born in the early 1780s, whose men and supplies helped Andrew Jackson's defense of New Orleans in 1815; the details of his death are uncertain. In Casey's imagined revolutionary uprising, torpedoes carrying sawed-off shotguns take the role of Jean Lafitte's pirates among the rising workers [A:160].A:160
Lake Borgne
Lake in the New Orleans region where the House, Home and Happenings article locates Zabotski and Widow Waldo's dwelling on Pristine Cove [MTM B9:267]. Zabotski tells a reporter he plans to move his great structure there and describes the lake as opening into the Gulf [MTM B9:289]. During the flood the contraption reaches Lake Borgne and rides on a small kedge anchor [MTM B9:287]. The later Zabotski Flats comprise two hundred lakeside acres, two-thirds sweet meadow and one-third salt meadow, extraordinarily lush in contrast to neighboring land; Zabotski attributes the improvement to God's favor [MTM B12:362].MTM B9:267; MTM B9:289; MTM B9:287; MTM B12:362
Lamb
An emblem on Henry's dream ship Navicula Petri, among the Greek Cross, Fish, and Six-Pointed Star [A:44]. In Christian symbolism the lamb represents Christ, the Lamb of God.A:44
Land of Behest
One of the Argo's former names. In its narrated history St. Brandon sails it from Ireland to America, encounters the great fish Jascoyne, and carries Judas, who is said not to be its most hellish passenger [MTM B13:404]. Brandon is the voyager St. Brendan of Clonfert, traditionally dated c. 484-577; the American voyage here belongs to the ship's legendary history.MTM B13:404
Land of the Cyclops
Texas in the narrative of Finnegan's bewildered wandering: a dread country of tall, one-eyed or squint-eyed men where he despairs of seeing home and friends again [A:201]. The comparison evokes Odysseus's encounter with the Cyclopes in Book 9 of the Odyssey.A:201
Land of the Lotus Eaters
The Lotus Eaters tavern, where Hans and Marie arrange a date and where he waits for her [A:16] [A:25]. Its clock is painted and its calendar permanently reads the thirty-first of spring. Katie keeps their glasses filled; inside it remains afternoon even when they finally emerge into a late night outside [A:29]. Its name recalls the Odyssey's Lotus-eaters, while 'always afternoon' closely echoes Tennyson's The Lotos-Eaters. Marie jokingly attributes the saying to her uncle Horace Higgenbotham [A:16].A:16; A:25; A:29
Langenscheidt
German language-learning publisher founded by Gustav Langenscheidt in Berlin in 1856. Its manuals are among the books Casey uses at Duffey's, alongside Thimms, Hugos, Marlboroughs, Berlitz, Cortina, and the German-written Metoula manuals [A:159].A:159
Laonome
Mary Virginia's ancient name in Teresa Showboat's account of the companions' Argonaut identities: 'Mary Virginia is Laonome' [MTM B7:234]. Mary Virginia recalls fragments of that life and says she hated the name then and still does; her own reply prints the variant 'Laonone' [MTM B7:235].MTM B7:234; MTM B7:235
Larkin, Loy
Red-haired stewardess whom Finnegan and Vincent meet with Margaret in a city lounge; she claims to have a man in every major port [A:2]. The narrator calls her a pink cloud [A:6], and Finnegan addresses his “Antipodal Ode to Loy Larkin,” celebrating her in Sydney Town [A:32]. Her letter to John Solli, headed Cambeltown, New South Wales, Thursday February 11, 1943, invites the friends to meet the train at 7:45 a.m. for a picnic. It includes Hans, Marie, Vincent, and the as-yet-unmet Casey; she and Margaret profess love for the friends, while Loy complains that her November garden is all weeds and says her father killed the fatted calf for her return [A:27]. Much later Finnegan sketches her again as a pink cloud [A:278].A:2; A:6; A:32; A:27; A:278
Larkins
Loy Larkin's family, named by Marie Monaghan with the Murpheys among the old Irish families in Australia. Marie gives her own Monaghan family a residence of 156 years, then adds that the Larkins and Murpheys are old families too [A:7].A:7
Larrigan
One surname in the worldwide Angelino clan, listed beside Obermeyer, Viskochil, Borg, and Trevino [A:218].A:218
Last Judgement
In Christian teaching, the final judgment of humanity at Christ's return, distinguished from the particular judgment at death. In 'The Casey Machine,' a soggy sinner asks his pastor whether everyone will know all other people's thoughts and deeds after the General or Particular Judgment. The pastor says this knowledge brings joy to the saved and suffering to the damned; the sinner perversely anticipates enjoying everyone else's shame [CM:504].CM:504
Last Night of Her Life, The (perfume)
Perfume Margaret Stone wears before the visit to the Decatur Street Opera House [MTM B11:346]. Its name anticipates her death there at the hands of the thunder colt [MTM B11:351].MTM B11:346; MTM B11:351
Last Rally, the
The gathering summoned by bells rung by a few opponents of the destruction of the world's central institution, the Ekklesia. The narrative immediately locates Finnegan's return to the Argo in the Third Year of the Bells [MTM B13:450].MTM B13:450
Lateral line remainder of the post-auditory placodes
An alleged anatomical age-marker listed in the fictional Eighteenth Book of Strange Encounters among the tests said to show Duffey is over four thousand years old, even though his present body appears about fifty-five [MTM B8:250].MTM B8:250
Latin
Language of education, scriptural echoes, and inscriptions throughout the books. Latin is among the subjects at Duffey's boarding school, where Sebastian excels; Charlotte says 'Sum etiam erudita ipse,' glossed as 'I'm educated myself' [MTM B1:25] [MTM B3:80]. Finnegan begins with a Latin creation formula, and Vincent wishes he could render his two-men-in-a-bar beginning in Latin [A:2]. It is Marie who tells Sally that charity is a Latin word for love [A:9]. Henry's Navicula Petri dream carries the mottoes 'Ih hoc signo vincet,' 'Nisi esses sollicitus,' 'Ubicumque fuerit corpus illic congregabuntur et aquilas,' 'Tu es Petrus,' 'Portae inferi non praevalebunt,' and 'tibi dabo claves regni'; the second is crossed out and replaced with 'If you can't be careful, be good' [A:44]. The storm is narrated in Latin before a French caption appears [A:45]. Casey's notebook gives supposed Latin-to-Germanic sound correspondences, including K to H, F to B, and P to F [A:163]. Hans learns Latin from his father John William [A:208]. The noon-day devils address Finnegan with 'Dic ut lapides isti panes fiant' [A:205]. A Latin scroll identifies the risen Count in Finnegan's self-portrait, and the Argo bringing the Peter-Bell displays its name in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and Chaldee letters [MB:551] [MB:577].MTM B1:25; MTM B3:80; A:2; A:9; A:44; A:45; A:163; A:208; A:205; MB:551; MB:577
Laughing Prince of Tartary
A formidable adversary within the group called Evil Prince, Purple Prince, Mocking Prince, and Laughing Prince; the Laughing Prince of Tartary may be the strongest and trickiest of them. Reportedly the Prince of the Third Way, he claims allegiance to neither God nor the Devil and says both have rejected him [MTM B13:437-438]. Reports connect him with the dialectic pit, concealed partisanship, total amorality, and an odd laugh. Nobody has seen his eyes behind his black-lensed glasses. His precise realm is uncertain despite the name Tartary. He boasts that his only cooling spring is poisoned [MTM B13:438]. The Argo's investigators include X, Casey Gorshok, Biloxi Brannagan, and Duffey. Casey meets him only through séances, Brannagan searches the shores, and Duffey enters an industrial-agricultural country overlaid by a false desert [MTM B13:438-439]. After temporary escapes into ordinary surroundings, Duffey succumbs to the desert's thirst and drinks from the spring [MTM B13:440-441]. The Prince giggles, and Duffey calls him the Giggling Prince. His immense psychic mentality is contrasted with limited intelligence; his black lenses conceal tiny televisions through which, with his own hallucinations, he experiences the world [MTM B13:441-442]. The water paralyzes Duffey, but the three slant-faced killers actually kill him by cutting away his flesh; a separate trio of slack-faced men burns the remains. When the desert fades, X and Casey recover Duffey's bones and ashes in Gur'yev. The Prince's final fate is unstated [MTM B13:441-442].MTM B13:437-438; MTM B13:438; MTM B13:438-439; MTM B13:440-441; MTM B13:441-442
Law, The
One of the three necessities for preserving and rebuilding the world, with worship of God and deeds of kindness and charity. Duffey greatly respects The Law and has a working respect for ordinary laws [MTM B7:228]. The narrative treats Law and worship as congruent under the name Faith, then seeks a synthesis of art as Law, worship, kindness, charity, and creation [MTM B7:229].MTM B7:228; MTM B7:229
Lawrence Salvatore
Father of Henry Francis Salvatore and husband of Mary Genevieve Hebert, in Henry's Louisiana family [A:122]. Tired of disputes over Henry's schooling, Lawrence examines him, discovers that he is already educated despite considering him the dullest of his boys, and gives him freedom early in his thirteenth year [A:123]. Later he questions Henry's haste to enter the seminary and discusses his reasons and the Church's dangers with him [A:125].A:122; A:123; A:125
Laycheck, Colonel
Colonel who, with Majors Meyerhofer, Twicherby, and Terwilliger, reprimands Casey for questioning Stein during an authorized discussion period. None of these officers is a line officer. Laycheck forbids criticism of Stein, threatens a disloyalty charge and ten years, and admits writing Stein's speeches [A:47]. After Casey persuades Stein to prompt a raid on the Australian brigadier through the false Tania story, the scandal brings down Laycheck's star 'like lightning' [A:54].A:47; A:54
Lazarus
The poor man in the parable of the rich man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31). Duffey jokingly claims that Dives could have been saved if he had requested a mint julep or Tom Collins rather than water, calling this the test that he failed [A:117].A:117
Lazarus Reilly
Proprietor of the Old Wooden Ship. Taking to heart the warning about entertaining angels unawares, he gives newcomers a room, bed, beer credit, and money rather than risk slighting an angel. He says he has much to make up for. The narrator identifies the barmaid Soft-Talk Susie Kutz as the actual angel among the company [D:216]. The hospitality allusion is Hebrews 13:2.D:216
Le Faye, Father
Jesuit and exorcist in Finnegan's account of painting a devil in Florence. He arrives unexpectedly after an overnight train journey, goes directly to the covered picture, recognizes the devil, performs a short exorcism, and orders the painting burned and its ashes swept out [D:254-255]. Van Ghi then identifies the figure as an old repeater in Bruegel, Giotto, El Greco, Notre Dame stonework, Etruscan vases, and Aztec statuettes, and advises Finnegan to paint without inspiration, saying he has drawn the Joker instead of the Queen [D:255].D:254-255; D:255
Le Marin, Charles
French seaman and companion of Finnegan [D:232]. He joins Finnegan, Johnny Duckwalk, and Don Barnaby in their earthly Paradise at Basse-Terre [D:235-237]. His Sarcophagus story alleges that Castleman's men gradually replaced the crew with doubles, including his own replacement at Fort-de-France; he shifts into speaking as one of the raiders, yet says Castleman doubted whether the switch on him had worked. He escapes with valuable contraband and later confronts Castleman [D:243-246]. He eventually leaves Paradise for the sea, saying stomach trouble will not improve until he has a ship beneath him [D:266].D:232; D:235-237; D:243-246; D:266
Leader, The
Casey Szymansky's first bid for universal power, when he is ten. His Answer proclaims the Leader in a sensational lead article [MTM B4:114]. Medals disappear from Duffey's shop, where he sells residue from Gabriel's former pawn shop [MTM B4:115-116]. An appearance at 7 p.m. beside Henry Horner Park's equestrian statue draws about a hundred thousand people and three bands; a magnificent retired white fire horse waits to be mounted [MTM B4:116-117]. Casey approaches in a scarlet tunic, shako, boots, spurs, belts and bandolier, wearing a hussar sabre and his father's Knights of Columbus sword. His decorations include the Croix de la Legion D'honneur, Croix de Guerre, Medal of Honor, Navy Medal of Honor, Iron Cross, Order of the Golden Fleece medallion, Crown of St. Stephen, Star of the Ninth Fusiliers, and Chicago lodge medals. He says mounting the horse will initiate Plan Beta, taking Chicago, America, and the world [MTM B4:117]. 'Aunt Letitia' intercepts him and makes him pack away the regalia; they go to admire the horse and bands as spectators. The Leader never appears and the Answer ceases. Casey later calls the venture a hoax, but Letitia knows he intended it seriously [MTM B4:117-118].MTM B4:114; MTM B4:115-116; MTM B4:116-117; MTM B4:117; MTM B4:117-118
Leakley, Nelly
Resident regular at the Old Wooden Ship [D:215]. She is one of the women called salt water widows, whose husbands are seamen [D:221].D:215; D:221
Learning
A recurring practical and spiritual activity. Duffey's school circle is said to live in enterprise, diligence, happiness, learning, and purity [MTM B1:27]. Bagby teaches Duffey to delegate in business, and the two learn to select winds while ballooning [MTM B2:46] [MTM B2:64]. The document collection pairs a warning attributed to Dotty O'Toole's sonnet with Paul's counsel in Philippians 4:4-9 to practice what has been learned [MTM B5:175]. From beyond death Bagby questions whether contentment is something he is meant to learn, while affirming his growing happiness [MTM B8:249]. Duffey rapidly learns and recites his part in Cleo Mahoney's play [MTM B9:265]. In his commentary Stein says exchanging kabouters with Casey has made each privy to the other's secrets [PG:537-538].MTM B1:27; MTM B2:46; MTM B2:64; MTM B5:175; MTM B8:249; MTM B9:265; PG:537-538
Leaven
Image opposed to the lump in Cleo Mahoney's Seven Roads epigraph: 'Be you either lump or leaven' [MTM B10:290]. In 'Great Day,' Duffey rebukes his transformed companions as the lump rather than the leaven, accuses them of failing him, and leaves [GD:495].MTM B10:290; GD:495
Lecturing
One of Special Service Sergeant Absalom Stein's activities. The narrator describes his lectures as plausible and the listeners as uninformed; Casey's questions expose problems, after which the question period is abolished and Casey is reprimanded [A:46-47].A:46-47
Left Lectionary League, The
Organization honored with sacrifices of goats among the broad assortment of offerings at the Conclave in Babylonia Bagascia [MB:565-566].MB:565-566
Left-handed
Finnegan's teasing description of Australian table manners. Tom Shire explains that Australians keep the knife in the right hand and fork in the left, while Americans transfer the fork after cutting [A:4]. In a separate notebook entry Casey describes left- and right-handed rocks according to formation and cleavage [A:164].A:4; A:164
Leftfooted killer
Unidentified pursuer asking for Finnegan in Florida. Finnegan says that the man wants to kill him on an earlier assignment, unrelated to the latest trouble [D:182-183]. After another inquiry in Winter Garden, the killer and a companion follow Finnegan, who has departed in the Georgia Kiunker; they do not ride in his car [D:193]. Under repeated fire, Finnegan ditches the Klunker and disables the pursuing car, then wounds both men as they flee [D:197].D:182-183; D:193; D:197
Legends of the Persian Gulf
Work credited to Moisha El-Gazma in the epigraph to 'The Wives of Sindbad.' Its account imagines Bassorah as a fire-scarred rock slab in muddy shallows, perhaps once a launching pad for space fleets, and invokes a missing Night about Sindbads trading between worlds [D:53].D:53
Legion
The Pop Countess's answer both to Duffey's question about the number of her people and to Stein's question about the name of her society and principality [MTM B11:319]. It echoes Mark 5:9 and Luke 8:30, where the possessing spirit or possessed man answers Jesus with the name Legion because the demons are many.MTM B11:319
Leonardo da Vinci (1452--1519)
Italian Renaissance artist and investigator of anatomy, engineering, mechanics, and flight, whose paintings include The Last Supper and Mona Lisa. Jimmy Fitzjames says a newly discovered Leonardo would bring a hundred thousand dollars and claims Adam Scanlon is better [A:230]. The narrator calls Scanlon possibly as good as Leonardo and likens their habit of painting while talking to an audience; it is the narrator, not Scanlon, who calls Adam the better talker [A:233-234]. Casey's notebook XXXII attributes to Leonardo a question about rivers becoming deeper and clearer after a great pestilence, then mocks it as an example of a great man's silliness [A:165].A:230; A:233-234; A:165
Les Cent Nouvelles nouvelles
The fifteenth-century French collection Les Cent Nouvelles nouvelles, or One Hundred New Tales, here printed as 'Les Cents Novelles Nouvelles.' Hans buys it at a New York secondhand bookstall after giving a young scholar a quarter for Jaufre and Brunissende [A:224]. The scholar introduces himself as James Fitzjames on the following page [A:225].A:224; A:225
Les Cents Novelle Nouvelles
Earlier heading differed from both the standard title and the novel’s printed Les Cents Novelles Nouvelles. See Les Cent Nouvelles nouvelles.Les Contes Drolatiques
Ribald tales by Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), first published in collections between 1832 and 1837. A favorite of Gautier the goat-man, who reads French books aloud to his goats on winter nights in the Harlow House library; he says that Balzac appeals to goats and to the goat in man [A:196-198].A:196-198
Lessing, Miriam
Mother of Casey Szymansky and wife of Gabriel Szymansky, the pawnbroker and antique dealer. Casey is their only child, born in Chicago on October 7, 1921 [A:153-154].A:153-154
Letters After I am Dead
Work attributed to Bascom Bagby in an epigraph. It proposes Iron Meadows inhabited by Aspects and says some aspects of the Argo Legend dwell in a meadow unknown to both God and Duffey [MTM B5:177].MTM B5:177
Levant
The eastern Mediterranean region. Professor Kirol von Weinsberg-Valeni is said to know all the tongues of Europe and the Levant, as well as the world's important languages [A:213].A:213
Leviathan
Biblical sea monster, notably in Job 41, Psalm 74:14 and Isaiah 27:1. Casey reports Duffey's political analogy: liberals formerly wanted Leviathan only a little larger than the other whales, but now want it to devour them [A:42]. In Trinali Peterson's image for the Elephants' Graveyard, the largest driftwood becomes the bones of Leviathan, older than elephants, mammoths and behemoths [A:232]. Leviathans graze in the salt-water portions of Zabotski Flats, and leviathan steak appears in the children's grace at Zabotski's floating dinner table alongside hippopotamus, rhinoceros, behemoth, alligator, buffalo, elephant and green turtle [MTM B12:362-363].A:42; A:232; MTM B12:362-363
Leviathan, Edward Cardinal
Cardinal of Edinburgh, one of the thirteen primaries on John Mogul's list. His double is Douglas McAfee of London [MB:579].MB:579
Levin
An archaic word for lightning. In the 'Ici Parle Isolde' section of Casey's youthful ballad, the levin 'dances fire' beneath grumbling clouds [A:152-153].A:152-153
Levine y O'Brien, Gilberto
Rio double of Carlos Cardinal Artemis of Santa Cruz [MB:579]. After the thirteen primaries have been killed, Gilberto, Finnegan and Herman Hercules travel aboard the Argo; all thirteen shadows are still alive at this stage [MB:589]. Their masked, skeletal pilot is Melchisedech [MB:590]. Gilberto fears that the identifying marks he made on his own skin may have been forged, and refuses Finnegan's offer to inspect them. This uncertainty is separate from Finnegan's secret masterpiece imprinted inside Artemis's skin: the narrative leaves open whether that painting is inside Gilberto's present skin or the flayed trophy possessed by John Mogul [MB:590-591].MB:579; MB:589; MB:590; MB:590-591
Levites
Members of the Israelite tribe of Levi, assigned to assist the priesthood in Numbers 3:6-10. In the Rounders' Club farewell scene, the narrator includes 'priests and Levites' among the city's people who come to honor Duffey [MTM B2:70].MTM B2:70
Lewis, Don (Timothy Lorrigan)
Brunhilde crewman, dark and exceptionally handsome, who shares a cabin with Finnegan and Joe Cross and belongs to the narrative's 'good people' [D:30-31]. His campfire story identifies him indirectly as PFC Timothy Lorrigan: with Sergeant Charles Santee and Corporal Robert Casper he disappeared from patrol on Pulau Petir, or Willy Jones Island, on October 1, 1944. After the other two kill the elusive man called Yokipoki, Lorrigan buries him; apparently resurrected movement proves to be rats at the body [D:44-47]. Despite calling himself a coward, Don secretly organizes resistance aboard the Brunhilde, brings Joe, Manuel, Anastasia and Finnegan into the affair, communicates toward the Devil's resurrection without understanding a critical part of it, and tips the balance so Finnegan lives and Dopey dies [D:105]. Hunted in Tangier, he finds Seaworthy at the consulate and cannot buy refuge from the man who hides fugitives [D:106-108]. Marie Courtois kills him by throttling him and breaking his neck. Finnegan finds him in a weed patch, laments how little he knew his friend, and buries him in clean sand beneath aromatic creepers [D:109-110] [D:112-113]. Later an unidentified dead man's voice comes from the sleeping Don Barnaby's hammock and asks Finnegan to repay Anastasia fifty dollars; the episode suggests a return of Don Lewis without naming the voice [D:238].D:30-31; D:44-47; D:105; D:106-108; D:109-110; D:112-113; D:238
Lewis, Jake (Jake-Leg)
Old Wooden Ship associate and salt-water cowboy. Jake-Leg Lewis and Tommy Cow-Town Borger ride cattle boats, not horses, but always wear boots, spurs, chaps and gauntlets; dwindling live-cattle shipments leave long intervals between voyages [D:215-216] [D:222]. His nickname may allude to 'Jake leg,' the gait impairment caused by adulterated Jamaica ginger consumed during Prohibition, though the novel does not explain his nickname or diagnose him.D:215-216; D:222
Li Tai Po
Chinese poet of the Tang period (701-762), also known as Li Po. In Hans Schultz's unpublished ballad he sings while playing the flute, turns youthful heartbreak into songs of kings and working people, drinks, and joins a fisher maid in her boat. After telling her he loved her in another form long ago, he tumbles into the water and drowns [A:221-223].A:221-223
Liberal Catholic
The description Casey plans to give the Crock as a vehicle for 'Their' handouts and quotations, according to Mary Catherine Carruthers. She regards his continued membership in the Church as making him more valuable to his new associates [A:98].A:98
Liberals
A recurrent target of the characters' political and religious polemic. Casey reports Duffey's accusation that collectivists have appropriated the name, reversed liberal preferences from minimal to maximal government, and allowed only one creed of thought; Casey himself remarks that Duffey's analogies are difficult [A:42]. Henry Salvatore describes a Secular-Liberal Religion working inside the Church, and Patrick Stranahan denounces secular-liberal influence as an internal parasite [A:125] [A:110]. Bascom Bagby names Secular Liberalism among seven heads of the enemy, with Dialectic Materialism, Artistic Degradation, Judas Priestism, Panaceic Pentecostalism, Murderous Molochism and Atheistic Communism [MTM B5:169]. X's account of the Devil's Crimean release describes the Liberal Consensus and the intelligentsia as disproportionately represented among the attendees [MTM B6:204-205].A:42; A:125; A:110; MTM B5:169; MTM B6:204-205
Lien of Extreme Need
Finnegan's purported common-law justification for possessing a commandeered car 'for a while.' He offers the phrase when the girl driving it suspects that neither the money he gives her nor the car is honestly his [D:168].D:168
Life
Duffey's overlapping lives organize the narrative introduced as a magus's daily life. He remembers three contemporaneous childhoods and an older, continuing existence; the Boy King's life is presented as more substantial than its later shadows [MTM B1:5-6] [MTM B1:17]. His analyst interprets part of his childhood as a girl's life, while his mind-piracy lets him appropriate other people's experiences, including Sebastian's youthful countess affair [MTM B1:16] [MTM B1:31]. The narrator jokes about Sebastian's apparently short-lived appearance, treats education as an ultimate passion, and makes art expertise a lifelong Duffey vocation [MTM B1:22] [MTM B1:29] [MTM B1:34]. A watershed dream anticipates Duffey's departure; his seven hidden years are compared with supposed gaps in famous lives and yield seven Christ artworks and remembered loves he cannot revisit [MTM B2:68] [MTM B2:72] [MTM B3:103] [MTM B4:110]. Zabotski says years in the Pristine World can fill a day or two in the Molasses World [MTM B9:279]. Duffey recalls coming ashore in 1923 into a young life he can choose again; the long-lived Argo pilots owe extraordinary service, and the Sea of the Seven Lost Years joins nonconsecutive times and shores [MTM B12:370] [MTM B13:405-406]. His death, ashes and living flesh coexist; returning through an earlier shore restores the life ahead of him. Later he emerges aged twenty-three after seven variant lives and deaths, yet even the reality of his lives is questioned in his conversation with little Teresa [MTM B13:445] [MTM B13:465] [MTM B13:472]. Related treatments include Hilary Hilton's accusation that Casey flees life and reality, the Casey Machines' invasive experiences across death, and Finnegan's painting of his own aged resurrection [PG:531] [CM:507-509] [MB:551]. In 'Great Day,' remaining persons and verses must be disposed of before the world's conclusion; in 'How Many Miles to Babylon,' the Covenant is called the world's life-line [GD:501] [MB:594].MTM B1:5-6; MTM B1:17; MTM B1:16; MTM B1:31; MTM B1:22; MTM B1:29; MTM B1:34; MTM B2:68; MTM B2:72; MTM B3:103; MTM B4:110; MTM B9:279; MTM B12:370; MTM B13:405-406; MTM B13:445; MTM B13:465; MTM B13:472; PG:531; CM:507-509; MB:551; GD:501; MB:594
Lightfoot, Mary
One of Duffey's Chicago friends, listed with the college and university people, and wife of Isaac Lightfoot [MTM B3:99] [MTM B4:130]. A peacemaker during the argument about moving the mule, she urges Duffey to let the 'blow-mouths' grow until the final harvest separates them from good people [MTM B4:130]. She appears with Duffey in a compromisingly presented photograph [MTM B4:139]. Both Lightfoots attend the great farewell gathering at which Duffey sees his old friends for the last time in normal flesh [MTM B12:383].MTM B3:99; MTM B4:130; MTM B4:139; MTM B12:383
Lilith
Lilith, the woman created alongside Adam in the Alphabet of Ben Sira's alternative-wife tradition. In Hans's reflections on Marie's eyes, 'Lillith who was before Eve' is called a witch and therefore green-eyed, giving green-eyed women primogeniture [A:24].A:24
Lillith
Lillith is the spelling printed in the novel for Lilith. See Lilith.Limit
The first item in the good column of the Pythagorean table described in Casey's biography, opposed to the unlimited in the evil column [A:154]. Aristotle's Metaphysics 986a likewise places limit and unlimited in opposing columns aligned with good and bad.A:154
Lincoln, Abraham (1809--1865)
Sixteenth president of the United States (1809-1865), who led the Union during the Civil War, issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, and articulated the war's democratic purpose in the Gettysburg Address. The narrator includes Lincoln among historical figures supposedly possessing seven hidden or dark years, as a parallel for Duffey's missing years [MTM B2:72].MTM B2:72
Lines in Her Duffey Book (by Mary Virginia Schaeffer)
Mary Virginia Schaeffer's speculative account of Duffey as a visitor from one of nine discarded worlds preceding the present tenth world. She expressly admits that the idea has no scriptural or revelatory authority. In her conjecture those worlds remain inhabited, and Duffey's genius, lack of parents and endless circular life derive from another world's conditions. She anticipates his collision with this world and his scattering into seven voyages [MTM B10:291-292].MTM B10:291-292
Lines Written in Margin of Perrone's Praelectiones Theologicae
Margaret Stone's note asking whether Duffey, pulled back after reaching his own edge of time, has drawn his companions back within the same fabric of time. The preceding year feels to her as though it has been lived several times; Salvation Sally reports the same sensation [MTM B10:291].MTM B10:291
Lingo
Finnegan's speech includes Little Italy dialects unintelligible in the next street [A:6]. Anastasia's sarcastic account of Marie Courtois says she 'tosses the lingo' [D:33]. In the account of Duffey's animated creations, sorcerers call their smoky halo the 'unreality fringe' [MTM B5:158].A:6; D:33; MTM B5:158
Linus
St. Peter's immediate successor as bishop of Rome. The Vatican lists his pontificate as 68-79, although early chronologies differ. Irenaeus says the apostles entrusted the episcopate to Linus and identifies him with the Linus of 2 Timothy 4:21. His traditional martyrdom is historically uncertain; he is named in the Roman Canon, and his feast is September 23. In Henry's dream, Linus, Clement and Cletus are among the crew of the Navicula Petri, whose sailors may be dolls or living people [A:44-45].A:44-45
Lion of the South
Jimmy Hansen's announced title for Joe Bushmaster in the world championship beer-drinking contest against Hans Schultz, the Milwaukee Seidel [A:19].A:19
Lisbon
City that may still be looking at its bay in Finnegan's travel poem, which begins 'I'll drive me a boat'; Dotty finds the verses among Finnegan's papers [A:171-173]. Johnny Duckwalk cannot remember whether he met Kristine in Lisbon or Stockholm [D:246].A:171-173; D:246
Little Alcohol (John Indelecio)
John Indelecio, a burglar and regular at the Old Wooden Ship [D:215]. He does the climbing and high-window work, while his partner John (Big Alcohol) Jereboam handles drills, saws, chisels and pry-bars. They work only when deeply in debt to Lazarus Reilly [D:218].D:215; D:218
Little Daisey Pancake Turners
One thousand gross of pancake turners peddled by Hillary Hilton and Finnegan, along with four carloads of acid, before planned dealings in a bridge and distressed cigars [A:253].A:253
Little Dotty Nesbitt
Old Wooden Ship regular [D:215], one of four Dottys whose identities and marriages Finnegan finds confusing: Nesbitt, Danvers, Peisson and Hulme. Little Dotty and Dotty Danvers married two brothers in Sugarland, Texas; one of those brothers had also married Dotty Hulme [D:220]. Little Dotty's first husband and an earlier husband of Dotty Danvers had the same name, which does not by itself establish that they were the same man [D:221].D:215; D:220; D:221
Little Dutch Eckel
Engineer at a Texas City refinery who still lives at the Old Wooden Ship because its people let him stay when he was poor. Now the 'prince of the place,' he spends more there than anyone else [D:221].D:221
Little Fat-Head
One of the familiar valleys Don Lewis names while recalling how he, Santee, and Casper became lost after Yokipoki’s killing. He says that they knew these named valleys, but did not recognize the valley they were in [D:45-46].D:45-46
Little Italy
A source of the mixed dialects in Finnegan's speech: his 'Little Italy lingos' are unintelligible in the next street [A:6].A:6
Little Joker Canyon
One of the familiar valleys in Don Lewis’s account of the patrol on Willy Jones Island. The soldiers know its name, but cannot identify the valley in which they become lost after Yokipoki’s killing [D:45-46].D:45-46
“Little Looking Glass”
The title Finnegan recalls, tentatively as Specchietto, from an Italian reader. A boy lends his face to the figure in his little mirror; the mirror boy also borrows his shadow and name and never gives them back. The original boy remains invisible in a dark corner. Finnegan identifies himself with him, reduced to a comic mask, a monicker and the shadow of a shadow [A:55-56].A:55-56
Little Miss Resurrection
Finnegan's name for Anastasia Demetriades. After she washes and shaves him and treats his injuries, he associates her name with resurrection and his restored respectability [D:16]. He later addresses her as 'Little Miss Resurrection' while reminding her to love her enemies [D:33].D:16; D:33
Little Oyster Bar, The
Establishment called the Little Oyster where Finnegan wins eight hundred dollars at dice during an interval when the world seems newly interesting to him [D:20].D:20
Little Road Crawler
Car Finnegan wants to buy. Doll proposes adding it to the Celestial Omnibus and Georgia Kiunker, then drawing lots for the three cars and scattering in different directions [D:185]. The later departure scene calls Doll's car the Road Runner; the passage does not establish that this is a separate fourth vehicle [D:193].D:185; D:193
Living Gothic
The architectural metaphor applied to Gertrude Brannagan, a style to which Finnegan is partial. About forty-five, with fifteen years' leeway either way, she is full-built, pretty, dark and 'frenchy,' with curly hair and a smile; the narrator likens her volutes and parapets to a fortress [D:200].D:200
Livy (Titus Livius) (64/59 BC--17 AD)
Roman historian, born in 64 or 59 BCE and traditionally dated to 17 CE at his death, though 12 CE is another proposed date. His Ab Urbe Condita traces Rome from its legendary foundation to 9 BCE; thirty-five of its 142 books survive complete. Its treatment of civic and personal virtue helped shape later readings of Roman history, including Renaissance literature and political thought. Patrick Stranahan considers Livy sufficient for Latin and, with Cobbett, history [A:109].A:109
Lloyd-Spencer, David Cardinal
Cardinal of Cardiff, one of the targets named in John Mogul's thirteen-man assassination contract [MB:571]. The primary-double list pairs him with 'Llyod CardiganPembroke of Tywyn' [MB:579], although the later narrative calls Lloyd Cardigan-Pembroke the double of Cardinal Ti, an inconsistency in the text [MB:594].MB:571; MB:579; MB:594
Locke, John (1632--1704)
English philosopher and physician (1632-1704), a major exponent of empiricism and liberal political thought. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding makes experience central to knowledge; Two Treatises of Government develops natural rights, consent and the limits of political authority. These works became central to Enlightenment philosophy and later democratic thought. In notebook XXXIV, the schoolboy Casey admits that a supposed howler in Locke ceased to look like one after he read further and understood it better [A:166].A:166
Logorrhea
Excessive use of words. Sergeant Kelly regards Howell in Ward Fourteen as moderately sane apart from his logorrhea; the narrator adds that Howell talks a lot [A:75-76]. Finnegan also gets logorrhea when he is drinking and celebrating St. Patrick's Day [D:189].A:75-76; D:189
Lost Years (The Seven
Duffey's seven years aboard the Argo, beginning when he boards the disguised ship below the Eads Bridge in St. Louis during his fifth or sixth youth. The years are not consecutive: land adventures are excluded from the count and do not reduce his lifespan [MTM B2:71] [MTM B13:406]. They mix past, present and future in intervals held apart from ordinary time, sometimes revisitable without fracturing reality [MTM B10:298]. In their own context they are the Seven Golden Years; the Fourteenth Voyage belongs to them and is certain to occur, without excluding other contingencies [MTM B10:300]. Duffey obtains the Seven Christs in these years and remembers women he says he cannot revisit [MTM B3:103] [MTM B4:110]. During the hidden years, before Casey's conception, he gives Gabriel Szymansky Casey's talisman; other talismans are bestowed during or possibly before them [MTM B4:120-121]. Bagby somehow sends weekly letters throughout Duffey's absence, and later compares Duffey's fractured, adolescent state with his condition during the Lost Years [MTM B4:145] [MTM B10:302]. When the seven-arrowed sign blocks an ordinary future, Duffey can proceed only through their unusual context [MTM B10:290]. The Sea of the Seven Lost Years has scattered channels and shores and connects to the Sea of Amnesia by a hidden strait [MTM B13:406]. Later Duffey can re-enter from shores at different ages, become young aboard ship and leave through an earlier shore with his long life still ahead [MTM B13:445].MTM B2:71; MTM B13:406; MTM B10:298; MTM B10:300; MTM B3:103; MTM B4:110; MTM B4:120-121; MTM B4:145; MTM B10:302; MTM B10:290; MTM B13:445
Love
Affection, desire, family attachment and compassion recur in overlapping forms. Duffey and Lily Koch love each other, though Lily directs him toward her sister Letitia [MTM B1:30] [MTM B3:90]. Duffey declares love for Gretchen Sisler, almost nine, while he is almost sixteen; Evelyn London calls him her boy and her love [MTM B2:39-40]. He feels sudden, frightening love for Mary Louise Byrne, called his sister, consort and an exteriorized part of himself; their actual kinship remains uncertain. Beth Keegan declares love at their first meeting, Mary Louise says their whole circle loves one another, and Beth calls Charley Murray her second love [MTM B2:55-56] [MTM B2:60] [MTM B2:67]. Duffey also declares love for nine-year-old Charlotte Mullens [MTM B3:78]. Letitia tells Duffey that he already loves her as they arrange their marriage; August Koch's concern for Lily expresses a father's love [MTM B3:91-92] [MTM B3:102]. Duffey's affections extend to Letitia, Lily, Elinore Koch, women in St. Louis and the unrevisitable loves of his hidden years [MTM B4:110]. Patrick Stranahan and Duffey love Teresa Piccone [MTM B5:163]. The narrator describes Hans as loving everyone, with a particular affection for Trinali Peterson [A:224]; Finnegan's resolve to avenge Anastasia follows the loss of the person he loves best [D:157-158]. Paul’s exhortation to dwell on things loved and honored appears among the guiding documents [MTM B5:175]. In the Casey commentaries, Demetrio Glauch questions whether extreme compassion for the Devil has become sinful; Hilary Hilton reluctantly obeys the sign that Casey must be loved and describes Casey's love of farce. Finnegan affirms Casey's genuine compassion for vulnerable creatures and natural beauty while lamenting its misdirection toward a powerful monster [PG:518-519] [PG:531-532] [PG:543-544].MTM B1:30; MTM B3:90; MTM B2:39-40; MTM B2:55-56; MTM B2:60; MTM B2:67; MTM B3:78; MTM B3:91-92; MTM B3:102; MTM B4:110; MTM B5:163; A:224; D:157-158; MTM B5:175; PG:518-519; PG:531-532; PG:543-544
Loyalty
The Fiefdoms maintain an uneven loyalty in the struggle against the world's enemy, while Absalom Stein is absolutely loyal to ordered, structured arts [MTM B8:246]. X compares the Devil's awaiting servants with the loyal subjects of enchanted kings who expect their return [MTM B6:205]. Gautier's seven youngest goat kids share loyalty to the ideal of climbing a fallen sycamore [A:194]. Colonel Laycheck threatens to charge Casey with disloyalty and impose ten years if he continues opposing Stein's instruction [A:47]. X also speculates that Ifreann Gregorovitch may have felt loyalty to the Krakow region, despite his rebellion against authority and opportunistic appeals to patriotism [D:280].MTM B8:246; MTM B6:205; A:194; A:47; D:280
Lsuno College
New Orleans institution where Danny Degas is a history professor [MTM B11:322]. The name points to LSUNO, Louisiana State University in New Orleans, the institution subsequently known as the University of New Orleans.MTM B11:322
Luin
Luin, or Monday, one of Gautier's seven youngest goat kids. She alone cannot climb the fallen sycamore until Finnegan gives her a boost, and the others acknowledge his help [A:194-196].A:194-196
Luluway
Joseph's correction of Finnegan's 'lulus' as the plural for diamonds. Joseph says Finnegan will learn the word and must develop his own smuggling technique rather than copy another man's [D:95].D:95
Lupido
Cafe proprietor who favors candlelight. He gives Trinali Peterson stubs after burning the candles only partway down, and she steals longer candles from him. He also supplies her with old bread and leftover wine [A:228]. When her landlord cuts off the heat and she barricades herself in her room to resist eviction, she lowers a basket from the window and Lupido feeds her through it. Her 'old moustache' is Lupido himself, not a name for the bread [A:229].A:228; A:229
Luther, Martin
German theologian (1483-1546) and leading figure of the Protestant Reformation. In the fictional epigraph from Carmody Overlark's Studies in the imagination, Luther appears with Plato, Homer, Aquinas, Rabelais, Smart, Rasputin, Toussaint L'Ouverture and Steinmetz among people alleged to have a Neanderthal-type head. The passage associates its low brow and enlarged back-brain with unusual imagination, spiritual gifts and criminality [D:270-272].D:270-272
Luzon
The largest Philippine island. After the Second World War, the Dirty Five wait there for a ship home with no duties, expecting to leave in about a month; Hans reproaches Finnegan for his red eyes [A:63]. They drink with Captain Sammy Guiterrez at the Buffalo Bar [A:66]. Hans knows of two white horses nearby and subsequently rides the stallion as part of the group's Argonautic play [A:68].A:63; A:66; A:68
Lynne, Janeway Celeste
Janeway Celeste Lynne, one of three twenty-one-year-old cousins who arrive by rowboat in waterlogged rural Louisiana during the Argo’s visit, only two and a half minutes after Honeybucket Kincaid activates his frequency apparatus [MTM B13:416-419]. She says that an extraordinary tide seemed to catch their boat and propel it along. Duffey points out that they came against the ocean tide and attributes their movement to Honeybucket Kincaid’s frequency modulation. Introducing herself as Janeway, she names her cousins Candy Sue Pirogue and Etta Mae Mansion to the company, which includes Leonard Archive, Duffey and Biloxi Brannagan [MTM B13:416-419].MTM B13:416-419
Lynx
Animal in a quotation Casey attributes to Aristotle in notebook XXXIII: the lynx supposedly hides its urine because people use it for purposes including signets. Casey calls this one of Aristotle's better observations [A:165-166]. A closely corresponding ancient account occurs in Theophrastus's On Stones, section28, where lyngourion used for seals is connected with concealed animal urine; this is a historical belief about a supposed stone, not established lynx biology.A:165-166
Lyonesse
Legendary lost land off Cornwall. During Hans Schultz’s New York period, the narrator describes the city as more than Baghdad, Paris, Heidelberg, and Lyonesse [A:224].A:224
M
See Melchisedech Duffey.Machiavelli, Niccolò (1469--1527)
Italian political writer, author of The Prince (1532). Machiavelli is among the writers whose ideas Casey mixes into The Answer; the narration places his contributions among the newspaper’s worse borrowings [MTM B4:114] [MTM B4:118].MTM B4:114; MTM B4:118
Madame Le Mourcheor
Maker of Old Original Juju Joy Pills in New Orleans. Don Barnaby praises her recipe of frankincense-tree sawdust, honey from the meadows around Megapolis in Arcady, and a black cat with glanders. He says she omits the fanciful additives used by other makers, including a red-eyed goat’s stomach stone and a swamp dragon’s blood [D:249].D:249
Mae (Old Wooden Ship)
One of the women living at the Old Wooden Ship who are called “salt water widows.” She is also named in its roster of resident regulars [D:216] [D:221].D:216; D:221
Mae, Etta
Earlier incomplete heading, which treated Mae as the surname. See Mansion, Etta Mae.Magellan, Ferdinand (c. 1480--1521)
Portuguese navigator whose Spanish expedition of 1519–1522 made the first circumnavigation of the globe. Magellan died in the Philippines in 1521, before the voyage was completed. Dotty invokes him when she teases Finnegan for not knowing whether he has been around the world; Finnegan replies that Magellan was in command and he was not [A:145].A:145
Magic Lantern
Anastasia’s assembly of reflecting mirrors and a lantern, housed in an old boat’s binnacle case. Explicitly distinguished from a projector, it accompanies her and Finnegan’s nighttime vigil [D:131].D:131
Magkaano ito?
Finnegan’s Tagalog question about the price of liquor at Falo and Nauti’s unfinished cabaret. Nauti answers that it costs a peso a bottle because they are the first customers [A:64].A:64
Magnesite
Material that Casey’s seventh high-school notebook entry says is used chiefly to make refractory bricks for furnace linings [A:162-163].A:162-163
Magnifica
Admiring Spanish exclamation directed at Marie Courtois by a man ashore on the Mexican side. When Anastasia tells him that Marie can carry a man on her shoulders, he answers “Interesante” [D:57].D:57
Magpie
Bird loved and married by Amoy during his supposed life as a red-winged blackbird and jewel thief. Ignatius Ti calls her a common magpie, but Amoy protests and Ti interprets his words as meaning an uncommon individual of the common species [A:80].A:80
Magus
Magician or sorcerer, the role of Melchisedech Duffey. The opening describes his many mantles of magic and foretells their loss; his strongest gift is manufacturing persons, or marking unfinished human clay with his fabricator’s mark [MTM B1:5]. He summons an invisible giant’s hand to ring a bell [MTM B1:15], and his school confessor accepts his vocation while warning him against pride [MTM B1:28]. Casey is named one of his creations [MTM B4:118]. Duffey defends his powers against Doctor Morris Poor [MTM B4:128], though Margaret Stone calls him a “moth-eaten sorcerer” [MTM B4:112]. He produces a living mouse after offering, without certainty that he can do so, to produce a dinosaur [MTM B5:170]. The Loosed Devil seeks his creative services; Duffey asserts that he actually creates and refuses compulsion [MTM B10:302-303]. Later the magus recognizes himself as Melchisedech, King of Salem, called Duffey in latter-day contexts [MTM B13:402].MTM B1:5; MTM B1:15; MTM B1:28; MTM B4:118; MTM B4:128; MTM B4:112; MTM B5:170; MTM B10:302-303; MTM B13:402
Mahoney, Cleo
Ursuline Academy student and playwright of Seven Roads. She is among the girls who explain the painted sign “The Future Begins Right Here,” gives Duffey the script, and describes its problem: what happens when Melchisedech, who cannot have an ending, reaches the end of the world [MTM B9:264-265]. At the Ghost Coffee Shop she calls the roads seven scenarios or variant futures, selected through encounters with particular potholes [MTM B10:293]. She describes the play as a study of frustrations [MTM B10:297]. Later she supplies revised lines that strengthen its Fifth Road, in which she plays the Hoyden [MTM B12:352].MTM B9:264-265; MTM B10:293; MTM B10:297; MTM B12:352
Main Frequency Modulator
First frequency modulator, linked to all the others. Duffey dives head-first into it while Biloxi Brannagan prevents interference. Lightning and a stench follow; Duffey emerges with his clothing and body hair burned off. He says he has abolished the Puff Fish frequency in past, present, and future without breaking the apparatus [MTM B13:420].MTM B13:420
Mainland
Main body of land, opposed to an island. In her dispute with Hans and Marie about religious authority, Salvation Sally invokes island dwellers; Hans supplies their insistence that their island is the mainland, and Sally suggests the analogy may apply to her Catholic listeners [A:8].A:8
Majesty, The
Title prescribed for the Devil at the New Catholic Press Guild meeting. The introducer calls the being an androgyne beyond grammar and directs that it be adored by snickering [MTM B8:239-240]. Its human appearance conceals a giant whose mind Duffey enters [MTM B8:240-241]. That mind declares its aim of undoing Creation through hatred, conspiracy, slander, disorder, and final nullity [MTM B8:242]. “Holding More Meaningful Liturgical Services” disguises its promised “Devouring of Entrails in the Holy Places.” Duffey finds that the public speech and the interior speech convey the same message beneath different vocabulary [MTM B8:243].MTM B8:239-240; MTM B8:240-241; MTM B8:242; MTM B8:243
Maker Man
Teresa Piccone Stranahan’s name for Duffey in a private letter. She says he lacks firsthand knowledge of the experiences she describes, instead raiding other people’s minds and pretending to have known their contents already: “That Maker Man, he just doesn’t have it” [MTM B6:188].MTM B6:188
Malaki ibon
“Big bird,” the self-description of the small parakeet Amoy in the narrative’s Tagalog-Parakeet language [A:79].A:79
Malay boy
Boy who enters the hospital ward, calls the amnesiac Sergeant by name, and tells him it is time to go home. The pair then find themselves in Sydney, where the boy leaves him at the Plaza Hotel to visit old friends [A:88]. Back in the islands, they dive from a canoe named Aral, Bumi, and Aragh, which the Sergeant recognizes as the Argo [A:89].A:88; A:89
Malay boy (2)
Uncertain entry. The cited Tangier episode describes a little Arab boy who organizes runners for Finnegan, but does not identify a Malay boy among them [D:104].D:104
Malaya
Region off which, in Finnegan’s account of island origins, a bronze bowl broke into long pieces that became islands [A:35].A:35
Malayan dialect
What the outsiders called Gorgios mistake for the speech taught to islanders called Jojos. Finnegan explains that the Dirty Five taught them Polish while the Jojos themselves believed it was English [A:73].A:73
Maleficent
The harmful or evil side in Papa Devil’s formula for the struggle: the old game of monsters and men, policemen and thieves, the Beneficient and the Maleficent [D:120].D:120
Maliit ibon
“Little bird,” the name the parakeet Amoy angrily rejects with “hindi, hindi.” The narration glosses his reply as “no, no, no” [A:79].A:79
Malmo
Malmö, the Swedish city. The poem opening Finnegan’s chapter says that Malmo is crisp in the fall [A:171-172].A:171-172
Malory
One of the surnames used by Gregory McColum Papadiabolous, the Irish Papa Devil or Papadiabolous II, according to X [D:285].D:285
Mamma Monica
Narrator’s designation for Monica Stranahan as she asks Maurine to help with Vincent and Theresa’s wedding arrangements [A:104-105].A:104-105
Mammon
Wealth personified as an object of worship. At Babylonia Bagascia, the Unilateral Workers’ League receives a money offering and enthrones its Mammon statue during the ceremonies outside Conclave Hall [MB:566].MB:566
Man from Minneapolis, The
One of Endymeon Ellenbogen’s three published novels, financed through subsidy presses. Endymeon claims that his novels have been solid successes with the people who count, while wondering whether he can afford further such successes [A:237].A:237
Man of Mystery
Code name for the Antichrist whom the three Argo Masters try to keep from boarding their ship [MTM B13:454] [MTM B13:456]. He is subsequently manifested as Kasmir Gorshok, Prince Casimir, Casey Szymansky, and Peleus, within a future whose shimmering marks its lack of absolute finality [MTM B13:454] [MTM B13:462].MTM B13:454; MTM B13:456; MTM B13:462
Man-killing panther
Panther in Finnegan’s catalogue of the terrors of the Chosky Bottoms, a legendary spook place said to be just beyond the next ridge [D:274].D:274
Man-sized germ
Biloxi Brannagan’s image for the agent of the world’s recurring “brain damage.” He calls it a parasite, “the alien within,” and fears it will destroy both its host and itself [D:202-203].D:202-203
Mandarin picture (Adam Scanlon might sell)
Adam Scanlon painting recommended by Jimmy when Hans proposes furnishing his flat in the Chinese style. Jimmy jokes that Scanlon might accept a thousand dollars, then discusses a price nearer fifteen. Hans answers that for a thousand dollars he would paint a Mandarin himself [A:229-230].A:229-230
Manford, Philip
Young man from the school of music who accompanies Duffey on outings with Mary Louise and Beth Keegan in St. Louis. They sometimes use Manford’s Overland automobile for rides, dinner, and theatre visits [MTM B2:58].MTM B2:58
Manila
City to which the group travels by truck after supper on New Year’s Eve. Just after midnight they begin boarding the ship for home [A:70].A:70
Manolo
Charlotte Mullens’s son, who accompanies her and Gloria Mullens to Duffey’s north-side Chicago hotel [MTM B3:81]. When Duffey suggests that her son and sister are projections or ventriloquist’s figures, Charlotte explains that she uses pliable flesh-and-blood people to make compliant figures [MTM B3:83]. In Duffey’s nocturnal vision, she commands Manolo and Gloria to stop the stevedore attacking him [MTM B3:85]. Manolo and Gloria are later found tortured and murdered in the hotel; Letitia says the killers sought information the pair did not possess [MTM B3:97].MTM B3:81; MTM B3:83; MTM B3:85; MTM B3:97
Mansion, Etta Mae
Etta Mae Mansion, cousin of Janeway Celeste Lynne and Candy Sue Pirogue. The three twenty-one-year-old women arrive by rowboat after Honeybucket Kincaid activates frequencies intended to attract them [MTM B13:419].MTM B13:419
Mansions (in Father's House)
John 14:2 allusion in the Professor’s account of Heaven and his own return to the Church. He assures Hans that the Father’s House has mansions even for charlatans [A:214-215].A:214-215
Mansville Burgess Howland
Brother named by Howland Jerome Howland when he tells Finnegan about his father, John Commodore Howland, and his seven brothers. Their father gave them names from old families he disliked, apparently to irritate those families [A:178].A:178
Mantles of magic
Duffey’s initial abundance of magical gifts, most of which he is expected to lose. The opening enumerates his production of gold, invasion of minds, limited movement through time, command of invisible giants, and fabrication of persons [MTM B1:5].MTM B1:5
Manuel
Stowaway and self-declared spy aboard the Brunhilde [D:54]. He comes from farther south than Mexico and seeks the source of a power turning men into devils; he fears that Papa Devil will kill him [D:56]. After the Naxos fighting, he is alive and crying when Finnegan meets him. The two leave the dead behind and hide together on the mountain [D:146-148].D:54; D:56; D:146-148
Map of the City and its environs
Map obtained by Dotty when she reaches the city where Finnegan is staying. Ignacio traces the routes of Finnegan’s daily walks, and Dotty buys a pistol before setting out to find him [A:281]. The setting is Havana, identified by the lawyer’s letter that brings her there; Ignacio has already told Finnegan that he is not in New Orleans [A:276-277].A:281; A:276-277
Maps (Angela Cosquin's Father)
Maps hand-drawn by Angela Cosquin’s cartographer father on old leather, vellum, and parchment. According to Angela, he first made decorative showpieces, then supplied confidence men with purported treasure maps and old affidavits. Treasure-chest marks such as T, K, and BP suggested Teach, Kidd, and Bartolomo Portuguese [D:259-260]. He also invented shipwreck maps, placing wrecks where he thought ships ought logically to founder among the Antilles’ passages. His master map showed fifty or more real or imaginary wrecks [D:260]. Named ships include Mary Jane, Red Fox, Halcon, Loutre, Jabali, Moonraker, Estrella del Mar, Torre del Marifi, Virgen la mas Benigna, Casa del Oro, Golden Mastiff, Indiaman, Hind, Crane, Blaireau, Megčre, and Renard Volante. Buyers could choose a wreck and even move its location before commissioning supporting papers [D:261].D:259-260; D:260; D:261
Maravillosa
Admiring Spanish exclamation spoken about Marie Courtois by a man ashore on the Mexican side, paired with “Magnifica” [D:57].D:57
Marbles
Sack in Phoebe Anne Ankerson’s suitcase, which Finnegan and Doll have stolen. Its label says the marbles once belonged to Aaron and are intended for Harold Michael; some are agates [D:172].D:172
March
Month of the Brunhilde’s arrival at Naxos, dated March 14, Passion Sunday [D:115]. At Finnegan and Anastasia’s later vigil, the March night is expected to turn chilly, and the moon lacks a week of being full [D:132].D:115; D:132
March 4th
Date in Trinali Peterson’s poem title “To Trinali at Dawn on March 4th.” She says she wrote it on the previous Monday, March 4, and that it symbolizes all March 4ths from the beginning [A:226].A:226
March 6, 1933
Date on which banker Adrian Hilton says the Depression began. He attributes it to the bank moratorium of March 6-9, 1933, in his polemical account of banking and political power [MTM B4:123].MTM B4:123
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106--43 BC)
Uncertain identification. The cited Archipelago passage refers to Cicero as a destination for buying cigars [A:253]; the cited More Than Melchisedech passage names Cicero Brazil among Duffey’s academic acquaintances [MTM B3:99]. Neither passage identifies the Roman orator.A:253; MTM B3:99
Mare Nectaris
Lunar sea that the Argo is said, in one of its old logs, to have sailed [MTM B13:406].MTM B13:406
Margie
Familiar form of Margaret Murphey’s name in Loy Larkin’s letter to Finnegan. Loy reports Margie’s love, and Margaret adds “Me too” beneath Loy’s signature [A:27].A:27
Margie la Maga
Theresa Piccone’s name for herself as a magician. She mentions it to Finnegan while explaining that puppetry, concertina playing, and tricks have shaped her fingers [A:108].A:108
Marianao Coast
Coast a few miles from Havana where X says Finnegan and Dotty were killed in a futuristic episode, while refusing to say their deaths were final [MTM B8:238]. Duffey later travels there to investigate Finnegan’s disappearance, guided in part by The Resurrection of Count Finnegan, a painting of his apparent grave and emergence from an ocean cave [MTM B12:367-368].MTM B8:238; MTM B12:367-368
Marie Celeste
Johnny Duckwalk’s mistaken name for the derelict ship when he accuses Le Marin of recycling its story. Le Marin, calling himself a purist, corrects it to Mary Celeste [D:246].D:246
Marietta (Aunt)
One of Henry Salvatore’s two aunts living in his family’s neighborhood, the other being Emily [A:122-123].A:122-123
Marin, Le
Charles Le Marin, one of Finnegan’s companions with Don Barnaby and Johnny Duckwalk in a society described as a dark counterpart to the Dirty Five [A:188] [D:233]. He tells how Castleman’s men infiltrated the Sarcophagus, replacing crewmen with lookalikes at successive ports. His account leaves his own replacement uncertain; he survives the later killing of the loyal crew by hiding and eventually swimming ashore [D:244-246].A:188; D:233; D:244-246
Marine Room
Orlando bar where Finnegan and Doll Delancy trade jokes about his knowledge, drinking, and supposed lack of brains [D:190].D:190
Mark (of Cain)
Biblical mark associated with Cain in Genesis 4:15. In his transport upon shadowy history, Finnegan asks whether Cain belonged to his people and which people bear the mark, describing a lower facial projection like another nose [D:212-213].D:212-213
Mark (Salvatore)
One of Henry Francis Salvatore’s seven brothers, in the family of Lawrence Salvatore and Mary Genevieve Hebert of Morgan City, Louisiana [A:122].A:122
Mark McClatchy
See McClatchy, Mark.Market Street
Uncertain location. The cited account places Duffey’s newly purchased St. Louis building on Walnut Street, not Market Street [MTM B2:40].MTM B2:40
Marks (Cabalistic, on fingernails)
Witch-signs that Finnegan jokingly says appear on the moons of Theresa Piccone’s fingernails only on Fridays. She replies that she will wear gloves [A:108].A:108
Marks (Cabalistic, on lead weight)
Meaningless cabalistic-looking designs invented by Finnegan and marked on the lead weight he throws through a hotel window during his attack on Seaworthy’s gathering [D:163-164].D:163-164
Marks (Finishing marks on Sulem's statues)
Finishing details Sulem proposes that his uncles add after Hans has roughed out wooden figures with lathes and power saws. The marks would help the machine-made objects seem primitive. Hans refuses the production scheme [A:59].A:59
Marks (on wrists of Finnegan/Seaworthy)
Scar or tattoo inside Seaworthy’s left wrist. He claims to see the same mark beneath Finnegan’s skin, although Finnegan denies having it [D:10]. After the Naxos shooting, X notices an octopus mark on Finnegan’s wrist; Finnegan says it appeared at the shooting and now has that shape [D:156].D:10; D:156
Mars
Planet to which Hans compares the barren surface of islands passed on the way to Luzon. He jokingly cites people who have visited both places before explaining his account of the birds’ nests harvested there [A:62].A:62
Marshal of the Opera
Official who tries to persuade both the Finnegan Image and Margaret Stone to withdraw their demonstrations of humanity at the Decatur Street Opera House. He calls their flames false and their acts pranks; both refuse [MTM B11:348-349].MTM B11:348-349
Martinique
Origin of the chef at Howland Jerome Howland’s Club Royal in Chicago [A:246]. Angela Cosquin also names Martinique among what she calls the seven true passages through the Antilles when describing her father’s shipwreck maps [D:260].A:246; D:260
Martyr-Bell
Second of the summoning bells, brought by Count Finnegan on a raft to a mooring-rock in the shoals north of San Simeon, two days after the Sea-Bell began to sound [MB:575]. It comes from Ste. Genevieve, where the narrative says English raiders killed thirty-nine Christians in 1594. After the raiders’ ship Lord Cramner was wrecked, its salvaged bronze cannon were cast into a bell that rang by itself when enemies of the faith approached [MB:576].MB:575; MB:576
Marx, Karl (1818--1883)
Political writer and, with Friedrich Engels, author of The Communist Manifesto (1848). After reading the New Testament, Stein ranks it alongside Marx and Freud among important books, within his claim that all great books were written by Jews [A:69]. Karl Marx also appears in the place-name Karl Marx Stadt, where the Argo Masters interrupt Ralph Rolfe’s new system of logic [MTM B13:427].A:69; MTM B13:427
Mary (Old Wooden Ship)
Resident of the Old Wooden Ship, listed among its regulars and the women called “salt water widows” [D:216] [D:221]. She works at the clubs and disputes Dutch Duquesne’s boasts about his job and tips, saying that he is a kitchen boy who cleans fish and shucks oysters [D:221].D:216; D:221
Mary Jean
Mary Jean, a girl Casey has known since childhood, who marries Hillary Hilton and becomes involved with Casey while he is at college [A:168-169]. Mary Catherine later reports that Mary Jean has married Casey, while considering the union invalid because Mary Jean’s first marriage was in the Church [A:248]. Hillary says he gave Mary Jean the house in their settlement and Casey moved in [A:251-252]. Later More Than Melchisedech passages again call Mary Jean Hilton’s wife and pair the two together [MTM B12:378] [MTM B12:383].A:168-169; A:248; A:251-252; MTM B12:378; MTM B12:383
Mas de azul?
“Bluer?” Ignacio’s Spanish repetition of Finnegan’s remark that the people have become bluer. Finnegan still believes himself in New Orleans, though Ignacio later tells him that he is elsewhere [A:270] [A:276].A:270; A:276
Mass
The Catholic liturgy recurring throughout the cycle. Hans and Marie stop for Mass at St. Marys after talking all night [A:9-10]. Duffey attends at St. Malachy’s in Chicago, where he first sees his future wife [MTM B3:87-88]. Monica reports that Papa Piccone plans accordion music at Vincent and Theresa’s wedding Mass, but Maurine says they are teasing her [A:104-105]. Ramires and Elena Musquiz find Finnegan on their way to Mass in D’Hannis [A:203]. In his later days in Havana, he rises early to attend Mass before his daily walks [A:276-277].A:9-10; MTM B3:87-88; A:104-105; A:203; A:276-277
Mass of the Holy Precursor Melchisedech
Mass said over Duffey’s bones aboard the Argo by Biloxi Brannagan in his person of St. Brandon. The narration assigns it to April 31 under the old calendar [MTM B13:443].MTM B13:443
Mast-Head (Bark/Barque depiction)
Finnegan’s drawing of the endangered little boat Henry has dreamed, used as the masthead of The Bark [A:121-122]. In his attack in The Crock, Casey says the barque is wrongly shown as square-rigged rather than composite-rigged and declares it “not Seaworthy” [A:128].A:121-122; A:128
Mast-Head (Towers school paper)
Image of Gregory Hall’s towers on The Towers, the St. Bonaventure school paper dominated by boys from that hall. The rival Chambers uses Audifax O’Hanlon’s drawings of chamber pots with similar silhouettes [A:167].A:167
Master Map
Angela Cosquin’s father’s most elaborate map, showing fifty or more real or imaginary sunken ships. It hangs in his study and attracts confidence men who commission supposed treasure maps from it [D:260]. Named wrecks include Mary Jane, Red Fox, Halcon, Loutre, Jabali, Moonraker, Estrella del Mar, Torre del Marifi, Virgen la mas Benigna, Casa del Oro, Golden Mastiff, Indiaman, Hind, Crane, Blaireau, Megčre, and Renard Volante. Buyers may choose a different location for a wreck as well as supporting papers [D:261].D:260; D:261
Master of the Ship
Office among the masters of the Argo. Duffey says the man he is to collect at Biloxi has waited thirty years and is himself a Master of the Ship [MTM B13:401]. The man is Biloxi Brannagan, whose wife confirms the long wait [MTM B13:409].MTM B13:401; MTM B13:409
Masters of the Argo
Members of the Argo’s interdependent company, including Duffey, Biloxi Brannagan, and Kasmir Gorshok. Each plays a particular role in the others’ lives [MTM B13:446] [MTM B13:454]. An amnestic mechanism normally prevents them remembering the ship while ashore [MTM B12:386]. Absent sailors leave working residues aboard; returning Masters absorb their effigies, which then become part of them [MTM B13:415] [MTM B13:449]. Their recoveries include the Lord’s Table, Sancgreal, Holy Shroud, Ring of the Nebelungs, Philosopher’s Stone, tomb of St. Jude, Northwest Passage, Roland’s Horn, Alaric’s Sword, Aaron’s Rod, Seamless Garment, Baptist’s Head, Magic Flute, Great Mogul Diamond, Iron Crown, and Lost Dutchman Mine. They deliberately lose the perilous Sword and Scabbard of Saint Sécaire three times [MTM B13:422]. They intervene against Ralph Rolfe’s perverse logic, though Casey lets one crucial scrap of writing escape, and they cure a young man of stuttering at Weinsburg [MTM B13:427] [MTM B13:430].MTM B13:446; MTM B13:454; MTM B12:386; MTM B13:415; MTM B13:449; MTM B13:422; MTM B13:427; MTM B13:430
Mastodon
Uncertain entry. The supplied citation does not contain the asserted “Paean to Archipelago” comparison with the mastodont [A:9].A:9
Mat (woven)
In Finnegan’s island-creation story, a woven mat falls into the ocean and is torn apart by great sea turtles. The pieces put down roots as green, fiber-colored islands; Guinea is the stitched center left by the turtles, its stitching forming the mountainous spine [A:35].A:35
Mathematics
For the schoolboy Casey, almost the whole of thought. His notebook’s entry XXXVII dismisses Johnny Carruthers’s Physics without Mathematics as a head without brains and declares that people who dislike mathematics dislike thinking [A:166].A:166
Matthew
Evangelist who appears in a parenthetical exchange with Luke. Matthew quotes the prohibition against putting new wine into old bottles and directs the reader to 9:17; Duffey tells the two evangelists to settle their dispute with boxing gloves [GD:500].GD:500
Matthew (Salvatore)
One of Henry Francis Salvatore’s nearby uncles, listed among the Salvatore relatives [A:122].A:122
Maugham, Somerset (1874--1965)
Writer of Of Human Bondage (1915) and The Razor’s Edge (1944). In the publisher’s closing note, Rick Norwood recalls a Have Gun-Will Travel episode in which Paladin says he is reading a privately circulated Maugham manuscript. This mention belongs to the publisher’s paratext, not Lafferty’s narrative [A:285].A:285
Maurine (Stranahan)
Member of the Stranahan household who discusses the wedding arrangements with Monica and expects to try on the bridesmaid’s dress [A:104-105]. At the reception she is among the women with whom Finnegan romps [A:113].A:104-105; A:113
May (Month)
Month of Vincent and Theresa’s wedding, scheduled for the last Saturday of May 1946 [A:95]. The poem opening Finnegan’s chapter sends dragons back to Yushu in May [A:171]. During his later Chicago visit, Finnegan can narrow the current month only to the interval between May and November [A:246].A:95; A:171; A:246
Mayfield's Meadow
Meadow where the young Duffey hides for a couple of hours after escaping his aunt’s house to avoid three slant-faced boys who intend to kill him [MTM B1:12-13].MTM B1:12-13
Mazagan
Stop on the Brunhilde’s itinerary between Safti and Casablanca [D:101].D:101
McAbney, Chris
Scottish crewman aboard the Brunhilde, disliked by Anastasia and grouped by the narrator with Harry Scott and Art Emery among the wrong sort of people. He reports to Papa Devil on the day Finnegan first comes aboard [D:30-31]. At a later departure, he does not sail with them, and Finnegan hears he is dead [D:71].D:30-31; D:71
McAfee, Douglas
London double of Edward Cardinal Leviathan of Edinburgh, one of the shadow-men pursued by John Mogul’s organization [MB:578-579]. He comes from Bimini toward the Mooring-Stone in a luxury yacht with Bolo Manolo and Lloyd Cardigan-Pembroke [MB:594].MB:578-579; MB:594
McClatchy, Mark
Scientifically inclined member of Duffey’s Chicago circle [MTM B3:99]. Stein names him among the scientific friends he consults about whether spirits can read minds, a discussion that distinguishes the mind from the physical and verbal activity of the brain [PG:539].MTM B3:99; PG:539
McDearmott, Wimbish A.
Name attached to the Panegyrica epigraph at the opening of chapter twelve of The Devil Is Dead. The passage places the sciences of God and man above the science of things and calls John of the Cross an experimental investigator through mysticism [D:176].D:176
McDearmott, Wimbush A.
Earlier misspelling. See McDearmott, Wimbish A. [D:176].D:176
McFadden, young
Server at McFadden’s North End Tavern. At Duffey’s request he brings a seventy-two-ounce pitcher of beer and fresh glasses; Duffey also orders onions for himself and Mike Melchiades [MTM B4:141-142].MTM B4:141-142
McGeehan, Audery
Musical friend in Duffey’s Chicago circle, listed with Newbold McGeehan among composers, performers, and stagers whose work ranges from opera to ragtime and string-band music [MTM B3:99].MTM B3:99
McGeehan, Newbold
One of Duffey’s musical friends, named with Audery McGeehan in the list of composers, players and stagers. The preceding names are Enniscorthy and Mary Sweeny; Newbold is not a Sweeny [MTM B3:99].MTM B3:99
McGonigal
Figure appearing at the left hand of the demiurge Teilhard on the altar at St. Michael’s, with McLuhan at the right. All three are transfigured with light while the assembled worshippers call for three tents [GD:497].GD:497
McGuigan, Father
Priest who conducts Vincent and Teresa’s wedding in the parish church shared by the Piccones and Stranahans [MTM B5:183]. He joins the men’s discussions of creation and magic [MTM B5:163], rejects their account of human person-making as unlawful metaphor [MTM B5:166], and tries to divert Bagby’s attack on causes the narration says he supports [MTM B5:169]. Monica reports his acceptance of Papa Piccone’s proposed accordion music for the wedding, but Maurine says the story is a joke [A:105]. He permits Theresa to have Masses said for the three children of her other life with Finnegan, though he does not understand her account [A:204].MTM B5:183; MTM B5:163; MTM B5:166; MTM B5:169; A:105; A:204
McGuire's
House whose Philadelphia-made chamber pot, with scrolled porcelain lettering, Duffey can visualize although he has never entered it. The recollection belongs to his appropriation of things noticed in other people’s minds [MTM B1:17].MTM B1:17
McIfreann, Ian
Named author of Psychologia Nugarum in the epigraph to Chapter Six of The Devil Is Dead. The passage argues that dreams have a topography, with particular dreams recurring among voyagers in particular sea passages, and asks what will happen in the sectors of space [D:80-81].D:80-81
McMasters, Timothy
Artist whose work Duffey sells early in his New Orleans venture and whose ideas contribute to the company’s proposed rebuilding of the world [MTM B6:199].MTM B6:199
McSorley, Josephine
Literary member of Duffey’s Chicago circle, listed with Rollo McSorley [MTM B3:98]. The pair urge Duffey toward Fleshpot Row, and Josephine joins the hostile response when Demetrio Glauch rejects the company [MTM B4:125] [MTM B4:127]. In “The Casey Machine,” her report in the Underground Eagle declares the machine born from the group’s Particular Judgment, even while recording Casey’s denial that it has been invented [CM:506].MTM B3:98; MTM B4:125; MTM B4:127; CM:506
McSorley, Rollo
Newspaperman in Duffey’s Chicago circle, listed with Josephine McSorley [MTM B3:98]. He opposes Tony Apostolo’s opinions [MTM B4:122], encourages Morris Poor’s challenge to Duffey, and bets a hundred dollars against Duffey moving a mule by magic [MTM B4:129]. During the demonstration, Sebastian Hilton strikes and fells both challengers, so they miss the feat. Rollo’s Daily News report, “I was kicked by a flying mule,” ruefully acknowledges the lost bet [MTM B4:131-132]. He later accompanies the group attempting to blackmail Duffey into admitting their ideas to The Crock [MTM B4:140-141].MTM B3:98; MTM B4:122; MTM B4:129; MTM B4:131-132; MTM B4:140-141
Medea
Identity Teresa Piccone assigns to Dotty Yekouris in the Argo company. Teresa calls her Medea the vile sorceress but immediately says that the vile name and reputation are a mistake [MTM B7:234].MTM B7:234
Medicos
Medical men who, in Ignatius Ti’s account, drunkenly pretend to be corpses in a dark supply room so that they can rise and seize new ward boys [A:85-86].A:85-86
Medina County
Texas county named, alternatively with Frio County, as the setting of Finnegan’s 105 hours in the chaparral, from Tuesday sundown to Sunday morning. The narrator suggests that he remained northeast of the Frio branch [A:202]. The ancestral city of the buffalo is conjecturally placed across the line in Frio County, with the narrator remarking that no such city is recorded in Medina County [A:205].A:202; A:205
Mediterranean Sea
Sea traversed in the Brunhilde’s last three weeks before the catastrophe, along a route described through the North African littoral, the Mediterranean, Sicily, and Greece. Finnegan later paints scenes from this journey [D:114].D:114
Megapolis (in Arcady)
Place in Arcady whose surrounding meadows supply the bees’ honey used in Madame Le Mourcheor’s Old Original Juju Joy Pills, according to Don Barnaby’s account [D:249].D:249
Megčre (Ship on Master Map)
One of the French treasure ships on the master map used by Angela Cosquin’s father to supply fabricated treasure maps and supporting documents to confidence men. Angela describes all the vessels as treasure-laden and sunk [D:261].D:261
Mehitabel
The alley cat in Don Marquis’s archy and mehitabel. Anastasia Demetriades insists to Finnegan that she is a lady, “even if of the Mehitabel variety,” while disparaging her cabinmate Marie Courtois [D:33].D:33
Meinkmueller's French Restaurant
St. Louis restaurant styled French where Duffey and Bagby celebrate his business success with zwiebelsuppe, rinderbraten, walnuts, brandy, and cigars [MTM B2:47]. Duffey later takes Mary Louise Byrne and Beth Keegan there with such companions as Charley Murray, Edward Ranwick, or Philip Manford [MTM B2:58]. Before his seven hidden years, the company gathers there and is joined by Monica Drexel and Monica Murray, who somehow know he is leaving [MTM B2:69].MTM B2:47; MTM B2:58; MTM B2:69
Melchiades, Mike
Poor Chicago double of Duffey, found in McFadden’s North End Tavern, about forty, with short sandy-orange hair, tired fire-blue eyes, and hands continually weaving and clapping [MTM B4:141]. His voice resembles Duffey’s. Both men describe themselves as half shaded over; Mike calls Duffey a devil and insists that he himself is the tornado of which Duffey is a spinoff. He says witnesses attribute a devil’s misconduct to him, and his wife believes them [MTM B4:142]. After she leaves, he withdraws their joint savings of just over three hundred dollars, refuses her twenty dollars despite her tears, and admits this action was wrong. He asks Duffey to send her home if he sees her. Duffey suspects that Mike’s tornado claim may indeed be true, at least sometimes [MTM B4:143].MTM B4:141; MTM B4:142; MTM B4:143
Melchisedech
Biblical king of Salem and priest of God Most High who blesses Abraham; Hebrews 7 treats his continuing priesthood as a figure for Christ’s. Casey says Duffey took Melchisedech as his confirmation name at forty [A:42]. Teresa calls Duffey the original Melchisedech [MTM B7:234], and the magus later remembers himself as Melchisedech Himself, King of Salem, sometimes named Duffey in latter-day contexts [MTM B13:402]. In Cleo Mahoney’s Seven Roads, Duffey plays this priest, whom she describes as having neither father nor end [MTM B9:265]. Duffey also signs a letter to Stein as the fifty-ninth king of the dynasty and says he remembers having fifty-eight predecessors [PS:478].A:42; MTM B7:234; MTM B13:402; MTM B9:265; PS:478
Melchisedech Duffey
See Duffey, Melchisedech.Melchisedech Duffey Proprietor
Closing wording of the red-lettered sign Duffey paints on a horse-stall board for his new St. Louis establishment. It advertises ten thousand reduced-price items, food and lodging, drinks, grooming, baths, entertainment, and a gentlemen’s bar and club [MTM B2:41].MTM B2:41
Melchisedech Paradoxes, The
Paradoxes of Duffey’s being that the Invisible God compares with Zeno’s during Duffey’s seventh contingency, a dying vision of walking in a garden. God immediately adds that every person is equally unique and surrounded by wonderful paradoxes [MTM B12:389].MTM B12:389
Melchisedech Prime
Name for Duffey considered apart from the experiences he appropriates from others. The narrator distinguishes a slightly bovine element in the tangled, largely sister-derived St. Louis childhood from what belonged to Melchisedech Prime [MTM B1:16].MTM B1:16
Melchisedech-in-St.-Louis
Duffey in his early St. Louis years of flourishing enterprises, the owner of a “multitudinous, golden-touch world.” The narrator says this world ended after most of two years [MTM B2:66], as dreams announce his departure for seven hidden years [MTM B2:68-69].MTM B2:66; MTM B2:68-69
Meleager
Vincent Stranahan’s ancient counterpart [A:39]. Rosemary includes Meleager among the Sergeant’s legendary companions in the Sydney episode [A:89], and Teresa explicitly identifies Vincent with him [MTM B7:234]. In Apollonius’s Argonautica 1.190-201, Meleager is the young son of Oeneus from Calydon, accompanied by his uncles Laocoon and Iphiclus. The poet says that with another year’s growth only Heracles would have surpassed him. During the mistaken night battle with the Doliones, he kills Itomeneus and Artaceus (1.1046-1048). At Colchis he rises with the other volunteers willing to face Aeetes’ trial if Jason cannot undertake it, although his beard has not yet begun to grow (3.504-522). The poem describes other episodes collectively: the Argonauts seek initiation at the island of Electra (1.910-921), fight the Earthborn giants (1.989-1011), guard and celebrate Jason and Medea’s wedding (4.1121-1169), and carry their ship across Libya for twelve days and nights (4.1380-1392). These passages give Meleager no separate exploit. In Apollodorus’s Library 1.8.2-3, his mother Althaea saves the burning brand on which his life depends. He kills the Calydonian boar and gives its hide to Atalanta, who first wounded it. When Althaea’s brothers take the prize from her, he kills them; his mother burns the brand in grief, causing his death. Apollodorus also records a different account in which he dies fighting the Curetes.A:39; A:89; MTM B7:234
Melk (Crissie verse)
Short form of Melchisedech used in a Crissie verse quoted by Cleo Mahoney while explaining the seventh possible outcome of Seven Roads [MTM B10:296].MTM B10:296
Melk (Nickname for Melchisedech Duffey)
Earlier heading generalized a short form attested in the quoted Crissie verse. See Melk (Crissie verse).Melky (Nickname used by associates for Duffey)
Familiar form of Duffey’s name used by Charley Murray [MTM B1:21], Evelyn London [MTM B2:40], Mary Louise Byrne [MTM B2:56] [MTM B7:218], Beth Keegan [MTM B2:59], Lily Koch [MTM B3:90], and Absalom Stein [MTM B9:266]. Duffey’s aunt also uses it during his childhood [MTM B1:13].MTM B1:21; MTM B2:40; MTM B2:56; MTM B7:218; MTM B2:59; MTM B3:90; MTM B9:266; MTM B1:13
Melville, Herman (1819--1891)
American novelist and poet, author of Moby-Dick (1851). Finnegan invokes him while accusing Hans of telling phony cannibal stories, calling Melville the last person who could tell one with a clean heart and then conceding that he too was somewhat phony [A:58]. Melville’s literary standing revived in the twentieth century.A:58
Members of the Famous Steeplechase Club (Patrons of Rounders' Club)
Status promised to patrons of Duffey’s Rounders’ Club by its sign: customers automatically become members of the Famous Steeplechase Club [MTM B2:49].MTM B2:49
Memories (Duffey's/Bagby's 'exterior state' letters)
Bagby’s weekly letters to Duffey, written with intelligence and compassion on lined tablet paper. They sustained Duffey during the seven hidden years and the Chicago crisis, seeming part of his introspection while remaining external objects [MTM B4:145]. They appear on his table every Monday before ordinary delivery, bearing almost familiar but otherwhere stamps and postmarks. Bagby calls them letters of another context outside daily time; their unconscious-to-unconscious origin is suggested rather than established [MTM B7:218-219]. They continue for many years after his funeral, despite Duffey’s initial explanation that Bagby had arranged advance mailing [MTM B8:237].MTM B4:145; MTM B7:218-219; MTM B8:237
Memrhar
Stop on the Brunhilde’s northward coastal itinerary after Dakar and St. Louis and before Port Etienne [D:96].D:96
Mendacious Midget Doll
Charlotte’s doll, which she says displays her real age, now about two hundred years, more effectively than the Dorian Gray picture in Duffey’s art bijou. She mentions it when Margaret Stone taunts her about something that reveals her true age [MTM B7:217].MTM B7:217
Mendacious Midget Doll (Margaret Stone's nickname for Charlotte Garfield)
Earlier heading that mistook Charlotte’s doll for a nickname applied to Charlotte. See Mendacious Midget Doll.Mendel
Gregor Mendel (1822-1884), the researcher whose plant experiments founded genetics. During his Transport, Finnegan asks whether Mendel and other authorities could be wrong, since an angry primordial appears again after a thousand generations [D:214].D:214
Mendoza, Carmelo
Private detective and disguise of Mr. X, accompanying Duffey’s investigation of Finnegan’s possible death. He first asks what Finnegan was a count of; Duffey supplies the possibility “Count of nothing” [MTM B12:367]. Small, lively, pale-haired and pale-eyed, with Austrian-sounding rolled r’s, he looks happy and wistful. Teresa Stranahan recommends him as a superb companion versed in high trickery, though only a so-so detective. He obtains seaman’s papers naming Duffey as Mike Duffey of the Irish Free State and himself as Karl Metz of West Germany; they sail as working seamen for six days and nights [MTM B12:369]. He asks Duffey for the life history behind his surface life [MTM B12:370]. Horace Pie’s “Mr. Eggs” clue exposes him as X, the dealer of doubtful information [MTM B12:371]. He asks about Duffey’s gold-coining power and joins Duffey and Pie in offering coins to witnesses along the Marianao coast [MTM B12:372].MTM B12:367; MTM B12:369; MTM B12:370; MTM B12:371; MTM B12:372
Merchant Marine papers
Documents Finnegan says are in order when discussing work with Duffey. They would let him ship out of New Orleans; he also considers returning to river barges or tending bar with Dotty, who has saved for a place of her own [A:99].A:99
Mercurius
Mercury, the Roman counterpart of Hermes. The narrator lists Mercurius, Don Vincent de Ollos, and Austin as identities of Vincent Stranahan [A:39]. Earlier the narrator compares Finnegan’s distant appearance to young Mercury’s lightness and grace, alongside Dionysus’s strength before indulgence [A:6].A:39; A:6
Meredith, George
English novelist and poet (1828-1909) whose verse supplies the epigraph to “Promontory Goats”: “You with shelly horns, rams! / And promontory goats!” [PG:517]. The lines come from “Phoebus with Admetus.”PG:517
Merhione, Sister Mary
Topless nun interviewed at her bar in a clipping in Letitia’s scrapbook. The report ironically calls her gentle and forgiving while quoting her denunciation of objectors as prurient. She says the work lets her feel the human heart and sells fifty-cent reprints of her article “Topless Before God” from Paralplegic Church Today [MTM B8:251-252].MTM B8:251-252
Merlin the wizard
Wizard invoked in the description of Seaworthy’s striking appearance at dinner: the narrator says Seaworthy could have been Merlin if wizardry paid as well as his own line of work [D:100].D:100
Mermaid's hair
Naxos’s least-known export in Brannagan’s account, sold from there in shops on Siros, Tinos, and Kea but not on Naxos itself [D:207]. Finnegan recalls handling the short-cropped black hair with lavender lights, which gave off blue sparks when its owner combed it [D:208].D:207; D:208
Mermaids
Sea people described chiefly through Anastasia Demetriades’s account. She calls them close-cropped, boyish, island Greek in feature, and air-breathing even when fishtailed [D:34]. She says they live in island caves rather than underwater palaces, dismisses Norse blond mermaids as sea-cows, and traces their decline after the high Middle Ages [D:35]. She belongs to a Naxian mermaid family that has produced no fishtail for six generations; she estimates that most surviving mermaids now have two feet [D:36]. Archipelago separately says that Finnegan drank on the Grand Canary and learned about mermaids from one of them [A:188].D:34; D:35; D:36; A:188
Meropen
Word that Casey’s notebook entry XXII says the Romanies use for both life and death, without confusion because of its manner of use [A:164].A:164
Merry de Val, Cardinal
Cardinal named among the thirteen men whose executions or murders appear in the “Deaths of the Cardinals” paintings attributed to Finnegan on the bulkheads of the Argo’s Bread and Wine Room [MTM B13:452].MTM B13:452
Merry Monk
Nickname for Henry or Henri Salvatore, one of Duffey’s talismanic creations [MTM B5:171]. He becomes “Henry the Merry Monk” when he leaves to study for the secular priesthood [MTM B6:195]. Finnegan uses the name in the Seven Pillars of Righteousness caption beneath the Bark drawing [A:121] and in a letter to Theresa [A:146]. Casey’s hostile editorial insists that Henry is neither merry nor a monk [A:128].MTM B5:171; MTM B6:195; A:121; A:146; A:128
Mesa Negra
Provenance given for a hard-stone Staghorn Christ in the collection discussed by Duffey and August Koch: a man impaled on a giant stag’s antlers in a crucifixion posture, said to have been carved nine thousand years before Christ’s birth [MTM B3:104].MTM B3:104
Message blurbs (Bird/butterfly shapes on cave paintings)
Finnegan’s name for apparent birds and butterflies in cave paintings and in his own canvas. He says they are speech-and-song balloons in an original complex language, with writing on both the inside and outside, rather than the Pleistocene lepidoptera that specialists imagine [MTM B6:193].MTM B6:193
Messene
Greek place invoked in the comparison of Anastasia’s head to Diana Artemis. The narrator describes the image seen by Pausanias in its sanctuary of Asclepius as painted marble with a natural expression; a separate cypress-wood image belongs to Delos [D:133].D:133
Messina
Sicilian place on the Brunhilde’s route after Palermo and before Zakinthos [D:114-115]. The Capuchin speaks of it as the home of Finnegan’s people and says Sicilian Naxos was sixty miles away [D:119]. In “More than One,” Nicholas Cardinal Gregorio is identified as of Messina [MB:571].D:114-115; D:119; MB:571
Messina's
One of Margaret Stone’s dawn-coffee haunts in New Orleans, along with Anthony Ghost’s. She says the Sardinian Red Fisters who threaten to kill her are always there and spare her to hear the next morning’s shaggy-duck joke [MTM B7:225].MTM B7:225
Metanephrio
Term in “lobation of Metanephrio,” one of the purported age tests in the quoted Eighteenth Book of Strange Encounters. Its editors claim this and numerous other measurements establish Duffey as more than four thousand years old [MTM B8:250].MTM B8:250
Metanoia
Greek term for a change of mind or heart, repentance or regret. In “The Great Day,” Duffey remembers a prophecy that the metanoia would arrive grotesquely and not wholly holy, while refusing to accept the handless clock as the promised turning [GD:483].GD:483
Metoula manuals
Small German-language manuals among the language-learning books on Duffey’s shelves, named in the account of Casey’s ambition to learn every language [A:159].A:159
Metz, Karl
West German identity on the seaman’s papers used by Carmelo Mendoza, who proves to be Mr. X, while sailing with Duffey to Cuba to investigate Finnegan [MTM B12:369]. Horace Pie’s recognition of him as Mr. Eggs leads Duffey to recognize the disguise [MTM B12:371].MTM B12:369; MTM B12:371
Mexican-Prisoner-Story Dealers
One class of confidence men for whom Angela Cosquin’s father makes maps and half-maps [D:260-261].D:260-261
Mexico
Escape destination Vincent proposes to Finnegan while frightened of marrying Theresa [A:112]. Manuel denies that Mexico is his country, saying he comes from farther south [D:56]. Later, finding Spanish everywhere, the confused Finnegan wonders whether New Orleans has been ceded to Mexico [A:269]; the supposed New Orleans is actually Havana [A:276].A:112; D:56; A:269; A:276
Mexico City
One corner, with New Orleans, Havana, and Tegucigalpa, of an imperfect square used to give San Simeon’s rough position. The intersection of its diagonals lies just off San Simeon’s north shore [MB:558].MB:558
Miami
University destination hoped for by the eleven-year-old Saucerite, who says he will attend the University of Miami next season if he obtains a chess scholarship [MB:592].MB:592
Mice
Live performers in Duffey and Letitia’s puppet shows, summoned from walls and floor spaces, dressed by Letitia in tiny token costumes, and able to speak or relay voices in an explicitly magical performance [MTM B4:134-135]. At the new Hubbard school, seven exhausted mice arrive after Duffey prays; a zoology teacher identifies them as Central American. Paper oxygen masks revive them before the show [MTM B4:136]. Duffey also pours a living mouse from his hands [MTM B5:170]. In the Argo voyage, Ralph Rolfe says mice ate his writing paper [MTM B13:427-428]. In Duffey’s altered childhood encounter, Philip Stranahan describes young Teresa Piccone carrying pet mice in her pockets [MTM B13:471].MTM B4:134-135; MTM B4:136; MTM B5:170; MTM B13:427-428; MTM B13:471
Michael
Name claimed for Duffey by an older relative or pretended relative; Duffey replies that she probably remembers his twin [MTM B1:7]. Casey separately says Michael is Duffey’s given name, with Melchisedech acquired at confirmation [A:42]. In “The Great Day,” Michael instead names the speaking statue of Saint Michael, whom Duffey addresses as Mike [GD:496].MTM B1:7; A:42; GD:496
Michael, Harold
Intended recipient of a little sack of marbles in Phoebe Anne Ankerson’s stolen suitcase. The label says they belonged to Aaron, who has outgrown them, and include some agates [D:172].D:172
Michael, Saint (talking statue)
Speaking stone statue in the former entry of Saint Michael’s during the Great Day. As people unstructure the church, he tells Duffey that its living water has gone and no Mass or even morning remains [GD:496]. With one eye gouged out, broken toes, and a dull stone sword, he wishes for a blade-sharpener so he can fight the destroyers. Duffey leaves him crying stone tears [GD:497].GD:496; GD:497
Michaelangelo
Michaelangelo is the spelling used in the supplied text and earlier heading. See Michelangelo.Michaels, Mary Anne
Pupil at Saint Mary Major’s who threatens to demand that her mother take her home rather than endure the formal dance arrangements [MTM B1:32-33]. She joins the four boys and four girls who follow Lily Koch to the attic billiard room, where they eat, play pool, and dance informally; she becomes especially friendly with Charley Murray [MTM B1:33].MTM B1:32-33; MTM B1:33
Michelangelo
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet. Stein claims that the artist’s own nose was flattened in youth and that his resulting de-emphasis of noses shaped conventional depictions, unlike the noble noses of archangels in earlier imagery [A:127]. His works include David, the Pietà, and the Sistine Chapel ceiling; he also worked on Saint Peter’s Basilica and its dome.A:127
Middle Ages
Period repeatedly invoked in the company’s arguments, legends, and disputed histories. Patrick Stranahan dismisses Dante as a rimester, Petrarch as a sonnet writer, and famous Renaissance artists as craftsmen who should have stayed anonymous like their medieval betters [A:111]. Lawrence Salvatore tells Henry that he can bring back the sixteenth century but not the thirteenth [A:125]. Ignacio tells of Joseph of Maintz, a Benedictine priest in the eighth century, launching himself to the moon with a Missal, Scripture, Augustine, Jerome, and Pliny, in a story supposedly chronicled by Turpin of Rheims [A:271]. Henry’s unsent letter says Otto I imprisoned the Devil at Aachen in 946 and transferred him to the Euxine Chersonese later that year [MTM B5:180]. X gives the date as 946 or 947, describes delivery through Mohammedans to Devil worshippers, says the peninsula had already been called the Prison for over a thousand years, and compares the captive Devil with enchanted or imprisoned Barbarossa, Alaric, Brian Boru, the Cid, and Arthur [MTM B6:204-205]. Zabotski conjectures that a thousand-year Dark Age may be a delirious invention of a boy chronicler during the plague of 1348 [MTM B9:281-282]. Duffey’s account gives Casey two medieval forms: compassionate ninth-century sorcerer Kasmir Gorshok, who makes artificial people to shelter body lice, and Prince or Saint Casimir, defender of the poor, who defies Casimir IV through chastity and supposedly dies at twenty-three, actually withdrawing from the world [PG:535-536]. Henry is identified as the Emperor Henry of Neustria [MTM B5:183], while Duffey proposes his medieval recorder-flute as an instrument suitable to a patriarch [MTM B9:266].A:111; A:125; A:271; MTM B5:180; MTM B6:204-205; MTM B9:281-282; PG:535-536; MTM B5:183; MTM B9:266
Midge (Charlotte Garfield nickname)
Name Margaret Stone uses for Charlotte while telling her that her chosen game offers no warning or last-minute escape [MTM B7:217].MTM B7:217
Mihailović, Draža (1893--1946)
Yugoslav Serb general and Chetnik leader during World War II, initially supported by the Allies before their preference shifted to Tito’s Partisans. He was tried and executed by the Yugoslav authorities in 1946. Casey’s hostile Crock editorial calls him a traitor and condemns Gabrielovitch for defending him in the Slavic-language press and attacking Tito [A:129].A:129
Mike (Duffey's alias)
See Mike Duffey (Alias). This is the given name on Duffey’s Irish Free State seaman’s papers for the Cuban journey [MTM B12:369].MTM B12:369
Mike Duffey (Alias)
Identity on the seaman’s papers Carmelo Mendoza obtains for Duffey’s voyage to Cuba. They identify him as an Irish Free State citizen, and he travels as a working seaman [MTM B12:369].MTM B12:369
Miles O'Connel
Name credited with Handbook of Treasons, an excerpt denouncing the spiritual army of evil in high stations, especially the word-mills and stations within the Church [MTM B5:175-176].MTM B5:175-176
Milesians
Legendary ancestors invoked in claims about Ireland’s antiquity. Sammy Guiterrez calls Vincent’s tracing the Irish back to the Milesians “toy history” [A:66]. Casey’s notebook says Hinnegan puts them in Ireland before the Flood; Casey answers that knowledge of this would require Noah to have brought two Irishmen on the ark, provoking Hinnegan’s anger [A:164-165].A:66; A:164-165
Milford Quirt, The
Whip named by the turbaned opening speaker at the Royal Pop Historians’ gathering among the objects supposedly remembered by an old Decatur Street flagstone [MTM B11:329].MTM B11:329
Military and Thalassocratic Adventure
The narrator’s phrase for the military and sea campaign omitted from the account as the Dirty Five’s battery moves beyond New Guinea to another Dutch island [A:50].A:50
Milky Way
Unverified reference. The cited page describes “milky ears of corn” during Finnegan and Howland’s journey, but does not mention the Milky Way [A:179].A:179
Million dollars
Threshold in Hilary Hilton’s prep-school pact: each of four boys must make a million dollars before thirty or kill himself. Hilton says he succeeded, one boy killed himself, and the other two evaded the pledge [A:254]. Askandan says he would not cross Finnegan’s enemy for a million dollars; Finnegan answers that the sum was slightly larger, with the narrator questioning his truthfulness [A:258]. August Koch offers a million-dollar dowry for Lily [MTM B3:102].A:254; A:258; MTM B3:102
Mind-power
Faculty Brannagan invokes after producing 140 hundred-dollar bills by rubbing his hands. Eva objects that they share one serial number; he says making distinct numbers by mind-power would take a week with rests, because the faculty has limits [MTM B13:415].MTM B13:415
Mind-reader
One of Professor Kirol von Weinsberg-Valeni’s performance roles, alongside memory and information expert, hypnotist, nightclub magician, and answer man. He has worked in circuses, music halls, and vaudeville theatres around the world [A:215-216].A:215-216
Minden
Iowa town in Pottawattamie County, one of seven places disputing the honor of Duffey’s birthplace in the account of one of his possible childhoods [MTM B1:7].MTM B1:7
Minnesota deer
Game in proposed annual hunting and fishing expeditions arranged by the Stranahan men with Hans and Henry, alongside gulf marlin and Dakota pheasant. The arrangements remain conditional on God and circumstances [A:103].A:103
Mint Julip (Drink)
Cocktail in Duffey’s comic gloss on the rich man and Lazarus: he says Dives could have been saved by asking for a Mint Julip or Tom Collins instead of water, calling this the failed test of the parable [A:117].A:117
Minute hand (of watch)
Watch part removed by the leader of three young men restraining Duffey. The man says the watch may still mark hours but minutes no longer matter in the Great Day; Duffey disputes the men’s originality and their identification of the event [GD:482].GD:482
Miraculous Medal
Devotional medal already on the chain around Finnegan’s neck when he adds the Heliogabalus figure after baptizing it [A:61].A:61
Miriam (Szymansky's wife)
Wife of Gabriel Szymansky, belonging to the Chicago circle around Duffey and Letitia [MTM B3:98]. A garbled encyclopedia entry quoted by Silas and Maud Whiterice identifies her as Miriam Lessing, mother of Kasmir or Casey Szymansky [PG:528].MTM B3:98; PG:528
Missal
Liturgical book among the furnished books in the six-boy chambers of Saint Martin’s Hall at Saint Bonaventure’s, alongside dictionary, Bible, Rule of Saint Benedict, and atlas [A:161-162]. Ignacio’s story also puts a Holy Missal among Joseph of Maintz’s books and supplies for his lunar journey [A:271].A:161-162; A:271
Missouri
The Missouri River is one source of local river winds in the narrator’s explanation of Duffey’s ballooning from St. Louis: it enters the Mississippi from the west above the city [MTM B2:65]. St. Louis is explicitly placed in the state of Missouri elsewhere in the account [MTM B2:40].MTM B2:65; MTM B2:40
Mistakes? He never made any mistakes (Phrase)
Dotty’s defense of her father’s printing-business judgment, immediately after saying he went broke on thirteen magazines and repeatedly left the family without food. When Duffey asks whether Papa learned from mistakes, she insists he made none and played every deal correctly [A:119].A:119
Mixed company
Narratorial description of a varied gathering at Duffey’s where Morris Poor challenges his sanity and magical powers [MTM B4:128]. The phrase also describes the influential argumentative company at a Viennese café during the Argo voyage [MTM B13:433].MTM B4:128; MTM B13:433
Mixed drinks (Served at Club Royal)
Drinks priced at a dollar and a quarter at Howland Jerome Howland’s plush Club Royal in Chicago, whose newly prosperous customers enjoy being overcharged for luxuries [A:246].A:246
Mocking Bird (Dawn chorus participant)
Bird in the narrator’s account of the dawn chorus as Finnegan wakes in a dump: an unnamed bird calls before the mocking bird, which in turn stirs before the lark [A:177].A:177
Mocking Prince, the (Adversary)
One of the Argonauts’ most shattering adversaries, listed with the Evil Prince, the Purple Prince, and the Laughing Prince of Tartary [MTM B13:437].MTM B13:437
Mogul, John
Head of Track and Total, usually called the Mogul although John Mogul is his actual name. X confronts him at his Marseille apartment over contracts to kill thirteen genuine Cardinals in flight or hiding, and Mogul describes his control over the separate contracts and his preference for dispassionate killers [MB:571-573] [MB:579]. He subsequently tracks their doubles as well [MB:578-579]. He extends six digits on one hand and five on the other to count eleven surviving targets [MB:578]. Later John Giwa, Cardinal Doki’s double, breaks in on him in Marseille, severs twelve digits from his hands, skewers his tongue, and carries the severed fingers and thumbs to the conclave in the underground room of Mooring Rock, where they writhe as if swearing vengeance [MB:596-597].MB:571-573; MB:579; MB:578-579; MB:578; MB:596-597
Mohammed (c. 570--632 AD)
Arab prophet and founder of Islam, regarded by Muslims as the final prophet. The revelations received by him were collected as the Qur’an, the central source of Muslim faith and practice. In Lawrence Salvatore’s argument with Henry, Mohammed’s time is recalled as an occasion when people thought the world would be lost; Henry answers that half was lost [A:125].A:125
Molasses Time
See Molasses World (Zabotski's term). This index heading refers to time in that world; Book Nine calls the world itself the “Everyday-or-Molasses World” [MTM B9:279].MTM B9:279
Molasses World (Zabotski's term)
Zabotski’s name for the slow everyday world, also called the “Everyday-or-Molasses World.” He says that it occupies the same space as the Pristine World, but in a different way [MTM B9:277] [MTM B9:279]. Duffey compares the apparent distance of the past with a distorting medium in which people themselves are immersed; Zabotski identifies that medium as molasses [MTM B9:272] [MTM B9:273]. The contrast concerns the content of experience as well as its duration: Zabotski says that he can live overflowing years in the Pristine World during a day or two here [MTM B9:279]. Duffey subsequently reports such a journey himself, spending three or five years there and returning in two days [MTM B9:284]. See Pristine World.MTM B9:277; MTM B9:279; MTM B9:272; MTM B9:273; MTM B9:284
“Moles at the Grass Roots” (Article)
Article in the Crock identified by its style as Duffey’s work; the narrator says most of that issue was written by Duffey [A:41].A:41
Moloch (Deity)
Recipient of the child offerings cast into the Moloch Furnace during the Babylonia Bagascia festivities before the conclave. The victims include children, babies, infants, and living foetuses [MB:566]. The name recalls the biblical Molek or Molech, to whom offering children is forbidden in Leviticus 18:21 and 20:2-5.MB:566
Moloch Furnace (Place)
Furnace into which a dozen children, infants, and living foetuses are cast as offerings to Moloch and his Molochites during the festivities preceding the Babylonia Bagascia conclave. One foetus speaks from the furnace, identifying himself as Little Hugh of Lincoln, and the crowd laughs [MB:566].MB:566
Molochites
Moloch’s associates, named with him as recipients of the children and foetuses cast into the Moloch Furnace at Babylonia Bagascia [MB:566].MB:566
Molucca Sea (Sailed by Argo)
Sea sailed by the Argo, listed with the Ceram Sea and Banda Sea [MTM B13:406].MTM B13:406
Moluccas (Islands)
Indonesian island group also known as the Spice Islands, where Willy Jones sailed the ship when she was named the Flying Serpent [MTM B13:405].MTM B13:405
Mona (Location/Passage)
Passage Angela Cosquin names among the seven true passages through the Antilles [D:260]. Mona also appears among the beaches in the opening poem of Finnegan’s chapter, “I’ll drive me a boat” [A:171].D:260; A:171
Monaghan, Marie Schultz
Australian wife of Hans Schultz, named Marie Anna Monaghan at their secret marriage in Sydney’s Annunciation Church on February 15, 1943. Hans lacked army permission, so the guests were her relatives rather than their friends; they honeymooned on an uncle’s farm [A:31]. Chubby, roguish, tart-talking, red-haired, freckled, and green-eyed, she habitually brushes her hair back with her hand. Hans admires her classical proportions and calls her “at least eternal” in a poem [A:6] [A:24-25]. Her claim to 156 years in Sydney refers to the Monaghan family [A:7]. Theresa tells Vincent that a letter from Marie has disclosed a secret, apparently the marriage [A:49]. Hans and Marie settle in St. Louis, with Mary Catherine staying in their apartment [A:97]. Dotty’s affectionately exasperated letter blames Marie for funding Salvation Sally’s journey to America [A:147-148]. At the Rounders’ gathering Marie disputes Duffey’s claim to have made them, arguing that he collected their forgotten souls and gave them setting and sparkle; he disagrees [MTM B5:158-159]. The list of his twelve talismanic creations calls her Mary Monaghan Schultz [MTM B5:161]. She insists she has recently been on the Argo, explaining her refreshed waking [MTM B12:387]; Hans and Marie supply the ship with sea biscuit [MTM B13:446].A:31; A:6; A:24-25; A:7; A:49; A:97; A:147-148; MTM B5:158-159; MTM B5:161; MTM B12:387; MTM B13:446
Monday (Day)
Recurring publication and correspondence day: the first Answer arrives on Monday morning, with issues scheduled for Monday, Wednesday, and Friday [MTM B4:113]; Bagby’s unexplained letters appear on Duffey’s table every Monday and continue after his death [MTM B7:219] [MTM B8:237]; the Pelican Press publishes the Seamen’s Paper on Mondays [GD:490]. Duffey also returns from the Fifth Contingency to a Monday he has already lived [MTM B12:356].MTM B4:113; MTM B7:219; MTM B8:237; GD:490; MTM B12:356
Monday (Luin) (Goat)
Luin, or Monday, is one of the goat-man’s seven youngest kids, named for the days of the week. Unable to make the leap into the old sycamore’s crotch, she receives a boost from Finnegan, winning him the friendship of all seven [A:194-195].A:194-195
Money (Medium)
Finnegan’s source of money puzzles Mary Catherine; X claims in his letter to Absalom that he knows it and is deeply involved, but postpones the story [A:248] [A:266]. Hilary Hilton reports a pact requiring four schoolboys to make a million dollars by thirty or kill themselves [A:254]. When Askandan says he would not cross Finnegan’s enemy for a million dollars, Finnegan claims a slightly larger sum, but the narrator questions his truthfulness [A:258]. His stolen suitcase is called the world’s most valuable, without a stated amount [A:188]. Duffey funds the perpetual soup crock with $15 collected from the gang, $45 from Zabotski, and $40 from panhandling [A:133]. At Basse-Terre the narrator calls money necessary for Paradise, especially for the undeserving, as the four friends recline in hammocks [D:236]. Duffey’s facility for making money is the first of his talents to diminish and the least missed [MTM B4:109]. Casey inherits money from his father’s estate [MTM B4:119]. The Depression weakens the joy of money, though the narrator says that joy is not entirely evil [MTM B4:124].A:248; A:266; A:254; A:258; A:188; A:133; D:236; MTM B4:109; MTM B4:119; MTM B4:124
Monica (Charley Murray's girlfriend)
Monica Drexel is sometimes Charley Murray’s girlfriend and joins the farewell company at Meinkmuellers with his sister Monica Murray, whom she resembles. Duffey initially gives a talisman to the wrong Monica; the other recognizes it as intended for her, but the passage does not name which receives it [MTM B2:69]. A girl named only Monica accompanies Charley to the balloon dinner [MTM B2:65]. The later list of talismanic creations identifies Vincent as the son of Monica Murray Stranahan, making Monica Murray the likelier intended recipient [MTM B5:161].MTM B2:69; MTM B2:65; MTM B5:161
Monroney, Moira
One of the three red-haired girls the Sergeant meets at Sydney’s Plaza Hotel with Rosemary Riorden and Minnie McGinty. They drink and become friendly with his party [A:88].A:88
Monster Giulio
Giulio Solli, a Teras and father of John Solli, or Finnegan [MTM B3:107] [MTM B5:161]. He is the first customer at Duffey’s St. Louis establishment: dark, powerful, unusually put together, with very wide feet and rough rivermans-blue clothing. A riverboat, ocean-ship, and dock worker, he asks for food, a bath, and lodging, pays a silver dollar, and bathes in a horse trough [MTM B2:41-43]. Duffey gives him a talisman for an unborn son; Bagby then identifies him with the Gadarene Swine and sings of his pursuit and threatened drowning, while Duffey calls him good [MTM B2:47-48]. Later Giulio says he applied the talisman to his wife’s belly and placed it in his son’s hands at birth [MTM B3:107]. Among Duffey’s Chicago friends [MTM B3:99], he is modeled by Mona Greatheart and engraved in Doré-like style by Groben. Countess Margaret says a relative of his inhabited her childhood castle and imagines one in every Transylvanian castle cellar; she distinguishes Teras from Troll [MTM B3:106-107]. Duffey says Giulio has been dead at least ten years, but Bagby reports a recent meeting and says Teras councils include both living and dead [MTM B5:165].MTM B3:107; MTM B5:161; MTM B2:41-43; MTM B2:47-48; MTM B3:99; MTM B3:106-107; MTM B5:165
Monsters
Overlapping names, images, and rival accounts of unusual beings, rather than a single settled classification. The Devil Is Dead invites the reader to arrange its devils, monsters, corpses, and revenants, while Papa Devil calls the plot the old game of monsters and men [D:6] [D:120]. Finnegan calls himself a gargoyle, and the narrator later depicts him as a living gargoyle perched on a hotel; Anastasia identifies both herself and Finnegan as teras or drakon, with her Oread sisters sharing the condition [D:39] [D:139] [D:162]. His resemblance to the Cliff People includes great noses, chinlessness, a shambling gait, and sudden strength and speed [A:59]. Anastasia’s grandmother claims the other blood for herself and partly for her granddaughter, while Brannagan says he and Finnegan carry it in varying recensions, containing the conflict within themselves [D:128] [D:209-210]. In confession Finnegan fears the old animal and Devil’s kindred within him; the priest acknowledges another kindred but assumes salvation includes it [D:119-120]. Other accounts are more hostile. An epigraph credited to Saint Brendon describes unredeemable, long-lived creatures, usually evil but sometimes indifferent or helpful, and always untrustworthy [D:130]. Another, credited to Galen, makes Tityroi or Satyroi the animal-like, human-looking offspring of Daemons and women, with destructive passions and differing fertility in successive generations [D:160-161]. The Asimov epigraph suggests a groomed Neanderthal could pass unnoticed [D:9]. A hostile review of Royce Rollins’s The Return of the Neanderthal reports his theory of surviving elites and hidden ancestry erupting into destructive primordials, with apparitions, doubles, and second sight as ordinary powers of that species [D:240-241]. The epigraph credited to Carmody Overlark links pumpkin heads, bulbous noses, a basal brain bulge, unusual imagination, and ghostliness; these are the book’s attributed speculations [D:270-272]. Finnegan’s Transport gives the older people their own grievance: displaced by newcomers, some hid in the conquerors’ blood and reemerge for vengeance [D:213-214]. He finally declares himself renegade against their destructive purpose, while Doll disputes his and X’s claim that ordinary people cannot save themselves [D:292]. X himself remains unsure that alien flesh exists, though he speaks of a race crossing the races [D:156]. Giulio Solli, the Monster Forgotten, is Finnegan’s father; Stein’s account questions how much of the son’s experience is filial memory supplied through X [MTM B6:187]. Duffey’s first St. Louis customer, Giulio is dark, powerful, oddly assembled, wide-footed, and dressed in rivermans-blue, working on riverboats, ocean ships, and docks [MTM B2:41-43]. He receives a talisman for an unborn son and later describes giving it to his “dago son”; he explicitly confirms that he is a Teras [MTM B2:47] [MTM B3:107]. Bagby reports Giulio’s participation in councils attended by living and dead despite Duffey’s statement that he has long been dead [MTM B5:165]. Finnegan’s parentage is explicit at their later meeting [MTM B5:174]. Papa Devil’s huge purple appearance and noiseless movement are repeatedly emphasized [D:30] [D:70]. Seaworthy calls him the very Devil [D:83], but X distinguishes the original alien conspirator from the Irish policeman Noonan or Flaherty who impersonated him; both have died by the Naxos aftermath [D:146] [D:154-155]. Private Gregory, the purple pumpkin-headed storyteller who looks ghostly in the ward, is identified by Finnegan as Papadiabolous, without specifying which member of the family [A:84-85] [A:278]. Marie Courtois is Finnegan’s Golden Ogress and a primordial figure of immense strength [D:32] [D:37]. Anastasia proposes painting Marie as an ogress; Marie assents, but Finn actually paints the women as Sindbad’s wives and proposes Papa Devil for the man-eating ogre [D:62]. The Loosed Devil meets Duffey to demand his creative service, while speaking of a client and leaving his precise rank uncertain [MTM B10:302-304]. Henry’s unsent letter dates the Devil’s imprisonment to 946; X’s account gives 946 or 947, a Crimean prison, and a recent postwar release, describing the prisoner as misshapen, slant-faced, and printing distorted letters [MTM B5:180] [MTM B6:204-206]. The preaching figure attacks order through defamation, hatred, crooked lines, excess words, and the intended negation of creation [MTM B8:242]. Countess Margaret claims that her horse-sized family wolves frighten the Devil [MTM B8:256]. In Episodes of the Argo, a song accuses him of choosing evil, wasting innocents, and poisoning springs, yet asks to suffer in his place; the accompanying sermon calls him the troll beneath the bridge, and another fragment says he knows the past fully but the future only in fragments [PG:521] [PG:523] [PG:526]. Margaret Stone claims her promise against final loss covers the devil she knows, but she and Duffey disagree whether he is the Great Devil [MTM B13:447]. Show Boat’s letter reports Casey’s financial debt to Seven Devils and his refusal to let them inhabit him again [A:262]. Duffey’s invisible giants can perform physical work, including ringing a massive bell with a visible hand; his talismans create or activate persons, with Finnegan called his greatest masterpiece [MTM B1:5] [MTM B1:15] [MTM B1:18] [MTM B5:182]. Four dark giants of demiurgic appearance also hold Casey’s head in the terrifying televised animation Duffey makes from Scanlon’s painting [MTM B12:381]. Uncreations and broken effigies hiss at Duffey after losing their houses and bodies [MTM B11:314]; the Pop historians later attack pseudo-people, human remnants, morphic dragons, and papier-mâché fire lizards, while Mary Virginia questions the victims’ supposed unreality [MTM B11:338]. Morpheus argues that sleep and waking are illusions, says the cosmos is a single cell’s dwindling dream, and wrestles Duffey for the remaining identity [GD:499-500]. Related prodigies include the still-speaking and weeping head of Paul XI, the Cap-Stone, which is silenced when his brains are removed [MB:562-563], and the devil in Finnegan’s painting, exorcised before its destruction in his story of studying under Van Ghi [D:255].D:6; D:120; D:39; D:139; D:162; A:59; D:128; D:209-210; D:119-120; D:130; D:160-161; D:9; D:240-241; D:270-272; D:213-214; D:292; D:156; MTM B6:187; MTM B2:41-43; MTM B2:47; MTM B3:107; MTM B5:165; MTM B5:174; D:30; D:70; D:83; D:146; D:154-155; A:84-85; A:278; D:32; D:37; D:62; MTM B10:302-304; MTM B5:180; MTM B6:204-206; MTM B8:242; MTM B8:256; PG:521; PG:523; PG:526; MTM B13:447; A:262; MTM B1:5; MTM B1:15; MTM B1:18; MTM B5:182; MTM B12:381; MTM B11:314; MTM B11:338; GD:499-500; MB:562-563; D:255
Moon (Celestial body)
A crescent moon is among the devices on the pennants of the Navicula Petri in Henry Salvatore's dream [A:44]. Ignacio tells of Joseph of Maintz shooting himself to the moon and living there for ninety years, lighting a bonfire at each full moon to show that he is alive [A:271]. During Finnegan and Anastasia's vigil on Naxos, they discuss birds flying behind the moon; the narrator adds that the Greeks invented it [D:132].A:44; A:271; D:132
Moon (game)
Game Casey Szymansky plays around the clock in college back rooms [A:167].A:167
Moonlight Cavalry (Finnegan's old outfit)
Finnegan’s former army outfit. When he seeks it in D’Hannis, locals say it has not been there for seven or eight years and none of its boys has returned; some now live in San Antonio. He had maneuvered in this neighborhood during his early army days [A:202].A:202
Moonraker (Ship on Master Map)
One of the ships represented on the Master Map associated with Angela Cosquin’s father and its treasure-fraud history [D:261].D:261
Mooring Rock, the (Location)
Mooring rock in the shoals north of San Simeon, initially described as six hundred by three hundred yards. Its rock-hewn fresh-water well, high natural palisade, and imported soil support hidden gardens and about fifty permanent residents, while several hundred visitors, including millionaires and fisher folk, share its secret. Two tramp steamers call there [MB:575-576]. Count Finnegan brings the Martyr-Bell, and the Argo later brings the Peter-Bell [MB:575] [MB:577-578]. A hewn room reached from the well-shaft becomes the site of the conclave [MB:577] [MB:596]. The later upheaval describes Mooring Rock as three square kilometers, a changed scale, and raises it a hundred meters above the surrounding land; Giwa blesses it as Mooring-Stone and renames Oceanic Babylon Holy Babylon [MB:597]. In the earlier narrative, Count Finnegan names its surroundings the Belling Shoals and Ringing Rocks; its cave receives thirteen apparent doubles of dead princes. He says one will actually be a dead holy man still alive, preserving the line until the last battle [MTM B13:453].MB:575-576; MB:575; MB:577-578; MB:577; MB:596; MB:597; MTM B13:453
Mooring Stone, the (Location)
Name used for Mooring Rock, including in Giwa’s blessing. See Mooring Rock, the (Location).Moral Sanctions Committee for the Removal of Eye-Sores and Abominations, The
Committee that confronts Zabotski about his growing contraption. A woman claims that eight years earlier he promised to act against the eyesore “on the morrow”; he corrects her that he promised not to act. Members then remember both yesterday and eight years ago as the time of their previous complaint, which Zabotski explains through Pristine History and their slower historical context [MTM B9:276-277].MTM B9:276-277
Morphē
Greek morphē, form or shape. Morpheus claims that it and his own name are really the same word, arguing that shape is known only in sleep and that a waking world would be formless [GD:499].GD:499
Morpheus
Sleep god who confronts Duffey during the Great Day. He calls sleep and waking illusions, connects his name with morphē, or shape, and maintains that shape exists only in sleep [GD:499]. He says the cosmos began as a single cell’s dream and is shrinking back into it. He and Duffey wrestle for the illusion of being the remaining cell, finally becoming a creature swallowing itself; Morpheus calls this another beginning [GD:500-501].GD:499; GD:500-501
Morro Castle (Implied location)
Unverified identification of a Havana fortress with the vicinity of Finnegan’s burial cave. The supplied citations do not mention Morro Castle; the source locates the burial on the Marianao coast without naming this fortress [MTM B5:174].MTM B5:174
Morrow Hanna (Port)
Port at which one of the Sarcophagus crew supposedly jumps ship and is replaced by an indistinguishable dock rat in Le Marin’s account of the vessel’s infiltration. It is listed between Buxton and Port of Spain [D:244].D:244
Mosca, Count (Character)
Count Mosca of Stendhal’s The Charterhouse of Parma, called Count Mosco in Archipelago. The older goats enjoy the intrigues of him, Gina Pietranera, and Fabrizio while the goat-man reads aloud; the younger goats fall asleep [A:198].A:198
Moscovy
Muscovy or Russia, named Third Rome in Henry Salvatore’s dream of the Navicula Petri. It appears among the ship’s shattered and fallen masts, with Albion and Gaul; other masts still totter [A:45].A:45
Moses
Biblical leader commissioned to bring the Israelites out of Egypt and given the tablets of the law on Mount Sinai (Exodus 3:10-12; 31:18). Margaret Stone invokes Luke 16:31, saying that those who disbelieve Moses and the Prophets will not believe one risen from the dead, as part of her urgent street preaching [A:144].A:144
Moth wings
Wings Duffey listens for after returning from his lost years. He asks Beth whether moth wings can be heard across three or four hundred miles [MTM B2:74-75]. In Omaha the summons acquires direction and draws him to Chicago, where the moth proves to be Letitia Koch [MTM B3:77] [MTM B3:90-91].MTM B2:74-75; MTM B3:77; MTM B3:90-91
Moths
Images surrounding Duffey’s call to and recognition of Letitia Koch. A moth call draws him from Omaha to Chicago [MTM B3:77]; Charlotte takes him to St. Malachy’s, where he meets the woman without recognizing her [MTM B3:87-89]. At the Koch shop he names the evoking, seeking, and joyful moths as Tinea evocata, Tinea indagatio, and Tinea letitia. Lily instead calls Letitia a butterfly transformed into Psyche herself [MTM B3:90-91].MTM B3:77; MTM B3:87-89; MTM B3:90-91
Mottled Tree (Synonym for Sycamore)
Sycamore owned by Bryan Blackstone, whom Zabotski compares to its mottled trunk and trashy fruit. Zabotski curses the tree to die by tomorrow, explaining that he can command a tree’s death but not a man’s [MTM B9:270]. When Duffey returns, it is gone: Bandicoot says it died and was cut down long ago, revealing the years that have slipped through Duffey’s apparent overnight interval [MTM B9:276].MTM B9:270; MTM B9:276
Mountain-Building for Fun and Profit (History topic)
Topic on the program of the Society for Creative History or Royal Pop Historians, among the titles Margaret Stone recites when announcing her intention to attend [MTM B11:307].MTM B11:307
Mountains of the Moon (Possible location)
Unverified reference; no supporting passage has been identified for this place-name.Mouse
Young living mouse Duffey pours from his hands onto the table after offering to produce a dinosaur and other creatures. Papa Piccone accepts the mouse proposal, and the company laughs; Patrick Stranahan asks whether Duffey calls that a dinosaur [MTM B5:170].MTM B5:170
Mrs. George Brubaker's house (Location)
The Brubaker house in Newark, outside which Finnegan and Doll leave George Brubaker’s stolen car. Doll has used Mrs. George Brubaker’s identity when questioned en route; Finnegan leaves a note warning George about unlocked cars and signs it Roving Magistrate Number Sixteen [D:169].D:169
Mt. Ararat (Mountain/Location)
Mountain in eastern Turkey traditionally associated with Noah’s Ark, although Genesis 8:4 names the mountains of Ararat rather than a single peak. Askandan claims it as the secluded center of the other blood in his own Armenia [A:258]. In the Fundamentalers’ discussion Duffey argues that wooden remains in its snow are old castles rather than vessels; a questioner invokes angelic guards as evidence for the Ark, while Zabotski says angels guard whatever becomes remote from human sight [MTM B9:281].A:258; MTM B9:281
Muck of Animation (Duffey's term for creative material)
Duffey’s name for the dung he molds into new Animated Marvels while half-buried in a storm-struck dungheap. He uses his own blood as integument, selects broken glass and metal as talismans, and welcomes lightning as the power for infusing the forms [MTM B12:394].MTM B12:394
Muk Muk Sea (Location)
Sea in Turkestan from which Hugh de Turenne says most Black Sea Sturgeon actually come. He uses the claim to explain the surviving commercial label while insisting that the Black Sea itself never existed [MTM B11:336].MTM B11:336
Mullens, Charlotte (Alias/Persona)
Persona of Charlotte Garfield, the confidence woman who appears as a nine-year-old on Duffey’s train to Chicago, plays cards, and drinks whisky with him and her supposed mother Gloria [MTM B3:78-79]. She claims to be thirty-eight and calls Gloria her sister and Manolo her son, but later explains that she makes compliant figures from pliable people, often actors [MTM B3:80-83]. She and Duffey communicate psychically: he finds the key and location of Aga Gonof’s hidden funds, she enters his experience as a psychosomatic trance, and she helps him find Letitia, his moth [MTM B3:84-87]. Gloria and Manolo die in the trance and are later found tortured and murdered in the hotel; Letitia says Charlotte escaped with the millions [MTM B3:85-86] [MTM B3:97]. Charlotte later attends the confidence-men’s convention in New Orleans as Garfield, still looking nine and wearing cowgirl attire. Her Mendacious Midget Doll reveals an age near two hundred, and she admits lying about her age [MTM B7:216-217]. Later she uses Carrollton and advertises for a new family willing to take the name Darnley [MTM B8:259].MTM B3:78-79; MTM B3:80-83; MTM B3:84-87; MTM B3:85-86; MTM B3:97; MTM B7:216-217; MTM B8:259
Mullens, Gloria (Traveler/Con artist)
Charlotte Mullens’s companion on the Chicago train, posing as her mother. She shares food, cards, and whisky with Duffey and tells a story of destitution after her husband’s death [MTM B3:78-79]. Charlotte calls her a sister, then explains that she shapes pliable people into family roles [MTM B3:80-83]. Gloria assists Charlotte’s compromising-and-blackmailing confidence game [MTM B3:87]. She and Manolo are killed in Duffey’s trance and later found tortured with crushed skulls in the Chicago hotel; Letitia says the killers sought information they did not possess and Charlotte had already escaped [MTM B3:85-86] [MTM B3:97].MTM B3:78-79; MTM B3:80-83; MTM B3:87; MTM B3:85-86; MTM B3:97
Mullens, Manolo (Son of Charlotte Mullens/Garfield)
Companion of Charlotte and Gloria Mullens, introduced by Charlotte as her son and accompanying them and Duffey to a Chicago hotel [MTM B3:80-81]. Charlotte later says she forms such family figures from pliable flesh-and-blood people [MTM B3:83]. She orders Manolo and Gloria to divert the attacking stevedore in Duffey’s trance, where they die; the pair are later reported tortured and murdered in the hotel [MTM B3:85-86] [MTM B3:97].MTM B3:80-81; MTM B3:83; MTM B3:85-86; MTM B3:97
Munster, Peggy
Artist named among Duffey’s associates in building and inventing worlds and scenes [MTM B6:198]. Duffey recognizes landscapes associated with her work while entering the mind of “The Majesty” [MTM B8:241]. She is not identified here with Peggy Conner, who appears with Mike Conner among the golfers [MTM B3:99].MTM B6:198; MTM B8:241; MTM B3:99
Murphy, Margaret
Australian stewardess, also called Margie, who meets Finnegan and Vincent with Loy Larkin in Sydney [A:2] [A:5-6]. She looks like a little girl dressed as an adult [A:5]. Loy’s February 11, 1943 letter plans a picnic and says Margie loves Finnegan too; Margaret adds her own signature, spelled Murphey [A:27].A:2; A:5-6; A:5; A:27
Murray, Charley
St. Louis friend of Duffey, about two years his senior, met at boarding school. A collector of magic sets and trick books, Charley asks Duffey to build props and accidentally discovers his real magic and giant helpers. He has already attended school with Sebastian Hilton [MTM B1:21-22]. He climbs the school walls in terror after their outings and performs tricks during the boys’ clandestine sales; Mary Anne Michaels becomes friendly with him at the informal attic gathering [MTM B1:25-26] [MTM B1:33]. Later a St. Louis University day student, he performs at Rounders’ and buys half the club, enabling Duffey’s travels [MTM B2:53]. He manages it at the 1946 gathering [MTM B5:162]. Duffey gives him a talisman to pass to his sister’s unborn child; Vincent is identified as Monica Murray Stranahan’s son and one of the talismanic creations [MTM B1:35] [MTM B4:120] [MTM B5:161]. By Duffey’s late St. Louis visit Charley has died and left his half-interest to nephew Vincent [MTM B12:385].MTM B1:21-22; MTM B1:25-26; MTM B1:33; MTM B2:53; MTM B5:162; MTM B1:35; MTM B4:120; MTM B5:161; MTM B12:385
Murray, Monica Stranahan
Sister of Charley Murray, wife of Patrick Stranahan, and mother of Vincent [MTM B5:161-163]. She comes to Rounders’ with Charley, Patrick, and Papa Piccone; Duffey remembers the serenity she gave him and still feels it [MTM B5:162-163]. Earlier, two look-alike Monicas, Murray and Drexel, attend Duffey’s farewell; he gives a talisman to the wrong one before the other claims it, without identifying either woman in that exchange [MTM B2:69]. Other passages make Vincent a talismanic creation and Charley the intermediary for his sister’s unborn child [MTM B4:120] [MTM B5:161]. She outlives Patrick and Charley and is present at Duffey’s late St. Louis visit [MTM B12:385].MTM B5:161-163; MTM B5:162-163; MTM B2:69; MTM B4:120; MTM B5:161; MTM B12:385
Murry
Variant spelling of Monica Stranahan’s maiden name in Vincent’s birth account [A:94]. See Murray, Monica Stranahan.A:94
Mutant Coyotes
Unverified creature reference. The cited Transport passage concerns primordials hidden in human blood and their recurrent war, but mentions no coyotes [D:214].D:214
N (code name for Gregory Noonan McColum)
X’s code designation for Gregory McColum, the Irish twin of Papadiabolous I and the man known as Noonan or Papadiabolous II. According to X, he entered police work at twenty-five and worked undercover for decades: he was N as his colleague was X [D:285-287]. He impersonated his dead twin and was killed by Seaworthy on Naxos, where Seaworthy failed to recognize the dead man as his recent companion [D:289].D:285-287; D:289
Name forgetting
Recurrent loss of names and identity in Finnegan’s story. The soldier detained while the Dirty Five are boarding for home cannot say which of their surnames is his: all seem part of him, and he hopes to identify himself by joining the others and seeing who is missing [A:71-72]. The narrative later explicitly recalls Finnegan’s weeks in the Green Islands without his name or personality [D:50]. He also forgets helping Seaworthy bury a still-moving corpse; his drinking to oblivion follows, rather than explains, the burial [D:75].A:71-72; D:50; D:75
Nattkarlet
One of the first three Crocks, Casey Szymansky’s clandestine college magazines, alongside the Night Charley and the Nocnik. They begin during his college years, 1938-1942, with a precedent in the schoolboy Chambers and its chamber-pot mastheads [A:167]. Casey starts a Crock at each of his seven colleges but usually loses control within two or three weeks; the narrator distinguishes his humorous work from the more salacious successors [A:168].A:167; A:168
Natural Method
Part of the mock advertising slogan for Uncle Joe Tompkinson’s Torpedo Juice, promising an explosive personality by the Natural Method. The imaginary sponsor is heard on Stein’s G.I. radio station, the Anopheles Network [A:46].A:46
Nauti
Girl who, with Falo, builds an American-style cabaret shack in the Luzon jungle after the war has ended. Vincent and Finnegan become its first customers [A:63-64]. Nauti calls Finnegan a tao-bunduk, an older mountain creature rather than a man; quotes a peso a bottle for the whisky; and offers to teach him Tagalog [A:64]. She plays harp and expects her uncle in Batangas to bring a piano, which she will play. The four play Robber Cassino with a damaged pack supplemented by paper substitutes, and Falo wins [A:65].A:63-64; A:64; A:65
Naxos
Island of the Cyclades in the Greek Aegean, the ancestral home in Anastasia’s account of her mermaid family [D:35-36]. The Brunhilde reaches it on March 14, Passion Sunday; the narrative calls it the home of Ariadne and white wine [D:115]. It describes a mountainous island twelve miles square, producing figs, olives, lemons, grapes, honey, white wine and emery, with the Demetriades farm and Anastasia Grandmother up the mountain road [D:125]. Finnegan is said elsewhere to have touched eternity there [A:188]. After the shooting at the landing, he finds Papadiabolous, Joe Cross and five unfamiliar men in olive shirts dead in the street, while another man remains dead aboard the sinking smaller boat. Anastasia has been shot and recovered from the water [D:146-147]. X later explains that Seaworthy killed Noonan, Papadiabolous II, there without recognizing the impersonator [D:289].D:35-36; D:115; D:125; A:188; D:146-147; D:289
Neanderthal Conspiracy / Teras Species
Interlocking accounts of an older, partly concealed people, their survival within humanity, and a struggle over humanity’s future. These are delivered through competing characters, visions, narration and attributed writings, rather than one consistently settled taxonomy. Duffey says his creations contain unusually large amounts of Teras blood, naming Gargoyles, Neanderthals, Boogers, Vagaries and Variants [MTM B5:170]. Giulio Solli identifies himself as a Teras; Finnegan is his son [MTM B3:107] [MTM B5:174]. The Brunhilde company is described as the other human race, and Finnegan wonders whether he belongs to it. His accompanying pumpkin-head vision shows their crew extinguishing the lights inside other people [D:50]. Later the narration makes him a member of both human races [D:114]. He confesses a felt kinship with old animals and the Devil; the priest replies that salvation extends to that other kindred [D:119]. Anastasia Grandmother claims the other blood for herself and a little for her granddaughter [D:128]. In Finnegan’s mountain dreams, the Oreads call him a teras or drakon and deny him ascent; he resists, then detects their own kinship. Anastasia confirms that she, Finnegan and her Oread sisters are of this kind, while insisting that some must help people [D:138-139]. A hostile review of Royce Rollins’s The Return of the Neanderthal: The Alien Within presents its author as a crank. His thesis claims that Neanderthals survived their apparent replacement fifty thousand years ago, either isolated or hidden in the human bloodstream; authentic primordials might reappear through prodigious siring, and their return would destroy their successors. The account associates them with ghosts, fetches and second sight [D:240-241]. An epigraph attributed to Carmody Overlark proposes a larger brain with a reduced forebrain and enlarged back-brain, connecting this arrangement with unconscious and ghostly powers. Its physiognomy includes bulbous noses, pumpkin heads and a basal bulge; modern examples are said to include criminals or exceptional seers, poets, humorists and inventors [D:270-272]. These are the novel’s attributed theories. In a Transport, Finnegan experiences the grievances of the people before the people: dispossession, persecution and a contemplated revenge against the later arrivals, themselves called aliens. The older people have survived as the Aliens Within, leaving those of double blood to wonder whether they must protect humanity from their own kind [D:213-214]. Brannagan and Finnegan discuss multiple recensions of that blood and the conflict within themselves [D:209-210]. Finnegan recognizes his paradise companions Le Marin, the Duke, Barnaby and Duckwalk as people of double blood [D:237]. An epigraph attributed to Hiram Hunt proposes interbreeding, cannibal absorption and tension between the older stock and a mutation, warning that destroying either element destroys both [D:283-284]. X offers a different genealogical emphasis, connecting his family and the twin Papa Devils with a purported Devil-father and a secret counter-subversive history [D:278-281] [D:285-289]. Papa calls the struggle the game of monsters and men, or Policia y Ladrones, a partially related-species conflict whose dialogue is written in blood [D:120-121]. He compares the conspirators’ concealment with the Devil’s success in persuading people that he does not exist [D:87]. Finnegan calls himself a gargoyle, later sits as a living hotel gargoyle, and observes Seaworthy’s gathering as a coven [D:39] [D:162-163]. Great noses recur: Brannagan suggests Finnegan’s conceals his chinlessness [D:202], and an unnamed stranger’s nose exceeds his [D:177]. Eventually Finnegan declares himself renegade against those who would roast and eat the human world and so destroy themselves. X still distrusts ordinary humans; Doll objects to both old gargoyles’ dismissal of them [D:290-292].MTM B5:170; MTM B3:107; MTM B5:174; D:50; D:114; D:119; D:128; D:138-139; D:240-241; D:270-272; D:213-214; D:209-210; D:237; D:283-284; D:278-281; D:285-289; D:120-121; D:87; D:39; D:162-163; D:202; D:177; D:290-292
Neo-Centrist
Label in Stein’s proposed title for the magazine that becomes the Bark [A:121]. Casey later attacks the journal in the Crock as a self-described neo-Centrist, anti-Communist Catholic publication without ecclesiastical sanction, while mockingly questioning whether the term means anything [A:128].A:121; A:128
Neo-Centrist Review of Evolvate Socio-Geopolitical Motifs in a Disintegrating World
Absalom Stein’s proposed title for the journal eventually called the Bark, with the subtitle Thesis and Antithesis. Several colleagues object to its length. Henry proposes Bark from his dream of a little boat, and Finnegan’s supporting vote settles the choice [A:121].A:121
Neo-Jew
Absalom Stein’s self-description. He imagines a group of neo-Jews but says he may be its only member; Duffey asks whether this would mean becoming Christian [A:131]. Stein insists that his grandfather left the Temple, whereas he himself has never personally entered or left it: the Church would have to come to him there, and his genes will not let him join it. The narrator says he remains the only one of exactly his kind [A:132].A:131; A:132
Neo-Neanderthals
People exemplified by Eva, whom the narration explicitly calls a Neo-Neanderthal. It attributes their verbal dexterity, easy command of languages and ability to read words from minds to their unusually shaped heads and the resulting emphasis in their brains. Eva hopes to buy Kate’s Neanderthal Bar in Biloxi as a gathering place for her kind [MTM B13:407].MTM B13:407
Nervous fish
Askandan’s expression for fish requiring rehabilitation as merchandise. His discussion concerns spoiled food, including turning fish, and he claims that his seven chemical sovereigns can rescue everything from nervous fish to nervous furniture [A:256-257].A:256-257
Nervous furniture
The inanimate end of Askandan’s range of nervous merchandise: he says his seven sovereigns will serve for rescuing nervous fish through nervous furniture, whether the goods are organic or inorganic [A:257].A:257
Nervous man
The narrator’s punning description of Askandan: although both he and Hillary Hilton speak of distressed and nervous merchandise, Askandan is more a nervous man and Hilton more a distressed one [A:256].A:256
Nervous merchandise
Askandanakandrian’s term for troubled stock, organic or inorganic, which he claims to rehabilitate with seven sovereigns: an acid, lye, formaldehyde, ammonia, a secret kaoline affiliate, amyl acetate and an unnamed lesser gum. He says they can rescue fish or furniture; forced to keep only four, he would choose acid, base, clay and gum. Soft fruits, wilted lettuce, turning meat and fish, and rancid oils need processing; furs and jewelry belong to a pseudo-nervous category and may be sold through peddlers pretending they are stolen. He also boasts of his ability to handle weevily grain [A:257]. Both he and Hilton use nervous and distressed for their merchandise [A:256].A:257; A:256
Nesbitt, Little Dotty
Regular at the Old Wooden Ship [D:215]. She is one of four Dottys frequently confused because of their overlapping marital histories. Little Dotty and Dotty Danvers have been married to two brothers in Sugarland, Texas, one previously married to Dotty Hulme; Danvers also married a man with the same name as Little Dotty’s first husband [D:220-221].D:215; D:220-221
Nests for birds'-nest soup
Edible nests made from swiftlet saliva. Hans gives a fanciful account while the soldiers pass the Talaud Islands en route to Luzon: he claims these barren islands are the sole source, and that the birds build nests from regurgitated fish and limestone for Chinese soup [A:62-63].A:62-63
Neustria
Name of the western Frankish kingdom in the Merovingian period, broadly the part of modern France west of the Meuse and north of the Loire. In Absalom Stein’s Notes on the Finnegan Cycle, Neustria or Latter Neustria instead names the thousand-year empire of Christendom from 946 to 1946. Stein describes Hitler as a man of or from the future raiding backwards into that thousand-year province, Greater Neustria [MTM B6:185].MTM B6:185
Never-Break Dog Whip, The
One of the whips named by the turbaned speaker at the Royal Pop Historians’ gathering, as he imagines the memories stored in an old Decatur Street flagstone [MTM B11:329].MTM B11:329
Nevis
Caribbean island invoked in Angela Cosquin’s story of her father’s forged shipwreck-treasure maps. She includes the pass between Basseterre and Nevis among seven supposed false or shoal passages of the Antilles where wrecks accumulated, or logically ought to have accumulated [D:260].D:260
New Catholic Press Guild
New, already powerful organization described by the narrator as somewhat suspect. Duffey, Letitia and Mary Virginia attend its paradoxically secret yet heavily advertised meeting. Two-thirds of its members also belong to the older Catholic Press Association; the other third, the narrator says, have come out from under rocks. Its supposedly supremely important guest speaker is the figure Duffey recognizes as Old Clootie [MTM B8:239].MTM B8:239
New Day Dawner
The only drink offered at the Stumble-Bum on the Great Day. After Duffey unsuccessfully orders a sazerac, salty dog and old fashioned, the barkeep insists that everyone drinks the New Day Dawner. Duffey leaves [GD:498].GD:498
New Heaven
Adam Scanlon’s phrase for the High Renaissance sky in his symbolic seascape, set over an Old Abyss: a sea he assigns to the Low Middle Ages after the Empire’s death. He also claims to have suggested the absence of the Argo, a meaning even Hans has not understood [A:234]. The phrase recalls the new heaven of Revelation 21:1, though Adam does not cite the verse.A:234
New Jersey
State reached through the tunnel on Finnegan and Doll Delancy’s flight from New York; he offers to release and pay her there if she wants to stop driving for him [D:167]. In another wandering, he crosses to the Jersey Shore, then meets the goat-man in the state’s remote back country, described as bogs, Barrens, low mountains and beaches [A:193-194]. The goat-man’s stories include the possibly haunted Harlow House on an abandoned farm; Finnegan never sees it himself [A:197]. Trinali asks Hans to take her to two places in Jersey for driftwood and cypress knees [A:229].D:167; A:193-194; A:197; A:229
New Men, Valley of the
Name asserted by the older people in Finnegan’s Transport: they were a Valley, and its name was Valley of the New Men, despite their later classification as the old people. The grievance is that they have now been denied every valley [D:213].D:213
New Orleans
Louisiana city central to the company’s lives and publishing work. Giovanni (John) A. Solli, Finnegan, is born there on June 1, 1919, to Giulio Solli and Mary McCracken [A:173]. His sister says the family came from Irish Channel, despite his stories of a Quarter childhood; his only art teachers, she says, were school sisters and drunken painters in Pirates’ Alley [A:175]. His extraordinary dialect combines New Orleans OI sounds, waterfront Irish, Little Italy speech, Cajun French and more peculiar ingredients [A:6]. His familiarity with oyster bars there contributes to his seafood expertise [D:40]. Dotty comes from New Orleans for the St. Louis wedding [A:95]. After it, Finnegan, Henry, Duffey, Dotty and Mary Schaeffer drive south, check into the Jung Hotel, and begin the print-shop project [A:114-116]. The Pelican Press and its magazine occupy the Quarter [A:142]. During a later disordered return, Finnegan experiences his birthplace as a city built like a wheel [A:200]. Still later, he believes he is in New Orleans although everything has become Spanish-speaking, he cannot find his old haunts, and a man tells him the boat to New Orleans has already left [A:269-270]. New Orleans friends send mail that reaches him at Palermo [D:114-115], and Don Barnaby places Madame Le Mourcheor’s Juju Joy Pill manufacture in the city [D:249].A:173; A:175; A:6; D:40; A:95; A:114-116; A:142; A:200; A:269-270; D:114-115; D:249
New South Wales
Australian state associated with Marie Monaghan’s country childhood, compared with Hans’s Wisconsin childhood as they talk through the night [A:9-10]. Loy Larkin’s letter to John Solli, also signed by Margaret Murphey, is headed Cambeltown, New South Wales, February 11, 1943 [A:27].A:9-10; A:27
New Splendor
Coffee-powder brand poured into the urn at the newly fashionable breakfast place. Duffey has never heard of New Splendor and is uncertain whether he likes it, though he finds many of its new tastes pleasant; it echoes the establishment’s commands to be splendid [MTM B11:316].MTM B11:316
New Testament
Christian scriptural collection read straight through by Absalom Stein. He calls it important enough to rank with Marx and Freud, but rough-hewn and more primitive than the Old Testament despite the sophisticated world into which Christ was born. He remains interested but full of reservations [A:69-70].A:69-70
New World
The American side of the contrast in Anastasia’s account of mermaids. Her taxonomy allows no New World varieties: even giant Mississippi catfish, despite human-looking eyes, fall short of mermaids. She also denies true mermaids in the Atlantic, distinguishing them from northern sea-cows [D:35].D:35
New Year's
Holiday spent by the Brunhilde at Port of Spain, where the ship stays eight or nine days over Christmas and New Year’s. Finnegan stops drinking on New Year’s and lasts until January 26 at Freetown, Sierra Leone, almost completing his first dry January [D:85].D:85
New Year's Eve
The night the soldiers truck into Manila after supper and begin boarding the homeward ship just after midnight [A:70]. The ensuing identity crisis leaves one of the Dirty Five behind in hospital [A:71-73].A:70; A:71-73
New York
City from which Finnegan flees with the stolen suitcase and Doll Delancy. Doll says she has no friends there, and he puts her at the wheel of an appropriated car headed through the tunnel to New Jersey [D:166-167]. Loy mentions a Duffey’s in New York [A:2]. Finnegan later establishes himself in Manhattan as Gregory van Ghi, lodging at the Waldorf with McGregor, renting a Village studio and an uptown showroom [A:191]. Hans meets James Fitzjames and Trinali Peterson there and rents a three-room apartment with their help [A:225-227].D:166-167; A:2; A:191; A:225-227
New Young Royal Pop girls
Duffey’s name for the young Pop women, including the hoyden and young countess, who dispute the reality and history of his city. They insist that a real place needs mountains and thunder, and that mountains are recent. Mary Virginia recognizes them as performers in that evening’s Horse Opera, whose advertised spectacle celebrates the destruction of an old human stronghold [MTM B11:333].MTM B11:333
Niccolo Crotolus (Nick the Rattle, The Sidewinder)
Old left-footed professional killer, a large shapeless man whose pocketful of loose objects rattles as he walks [A:278-279]. The narrator offers a possible link between Crotolus, Nick the Rattle, and the Sidewinder; Niccolo instead claims Crotolo is his family name, meaning castanet, inherited from Zingaro dancers and musicians. He compares himself with his namesake the Florentine political thinker and debates ignoring his employer’s repeatedly reversed telegrams because a canceled job pays only half [A:279]. His police contact, whose bribe would also be halved if the job were canceled, encourages him to disregard the latest delay [A:279]. The employer specifies the piccola vendetta, killing the victim while possibly in grace rather than ensuring damnation; Niccolo has become fond of Finnegan and believes him ready [A:280]. Dotty finds Niccolo’s car, slashes its tires, tracks him to the beach, and shoots first [A:281-282]. Gut-shot but still able to fire left-handed, he uses a weapon described as greater than a carbine and less than a rifle. In three exchanges Dotty fires three shots and Niccolo fires six, hitting both Finnegan and Dotty each time; none of the nine shots misses [A:282]. The last page closes the narrative without establishing Niccolo’s death or resolving the three wounded characters’ fates [A:283].A:278-279; A:279; A:280; A:281-282; A:282; A:283
Nick the Rattle
Nickname of Niccolo Crotolus, associated with the loose objects rattling in his pockets and his lumbering movements. The narrator also connects the name with the Sidewinder; Niccolo gives a different explanation of his family name [A:278-279]. See Niccolo Crotolus.A:278-279
Nicolette
Heroine evoked in Hans’s reflection on Marie Monaghan’s green eyes. He remembers a fragment about Nicolette’s eyes of vair and yellow hair, insists vair was green, and rejects scholars’ gray interpretation [A:24]. The name and eye description recall the medieval romance Aucassin and Nicolette; the color is Hans’s reading, not an uncontested translation.A:24
Nie dobrze
Polish reply glossed in the dialogue as “not real well.” The amnesiac soldier says it when officers test whether his knowledge of Polish will identify him; he explains that all the Dirty Five enjoyed exchanging dialects [A:73].A:73
Nietzsche, Friedrich (1844--1900)
German philosopher and cultural critic (1844-1900), known for challenges to inherited religion and morality, the will to power, the Übermensch, and the death of God. His major works include Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883-1885) and Beyond Good and Evil (1886); his thought influenced existentialist and postmodern philosophy. In the novel, Nietzsche is among the sources mixed into the inflammatory journal The Answer, whose blend of insight and foolishness alarms Duffey [MTM B4:114].MTM B4:114
Night Charley
One of the first three clandestine Crock magazines Casey starts during his college years, 1938-1942, alongside Nattkarlet and Nocnik [A:167]. Its later circulated form is called definitely salacious, a departure from Casey’s own humor and intentions [A:168].A:167; A:168
Night club comedy
One of the lively arts the narration says are deliberately degraded after the Devil’s release [MTM B6:207]. In the later My Heart Leaps Up world, Otto Glotglutz is called a sick night-club comedian; Hiram III’s retort reduces him to tears and scandalizes the audience [MB:564].MTM B6:207; MB:564
Night thoughts
Fearful nocturnal thoughts in Finnegan’s sonnet on the Naxos mountain, alongside a Hawk on the sea and Oreads on the summit. Anastasia is still beside him: when he asks for pencil and paper to preserve the sonnet, she tells him to sleep [D:134]. The expression also recalls Edward Young’s The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, published in parts in 1742-1745, though a deliberate allusion is not explicit.D:134
Night Watch, The
Rembrandt’s 1642 painting of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq’s militia company. In Finnegan’s story about painting a devil, Van Ghi says the same minor demonic figure recurs in the background of The Night Watch and other works. This is the alleged old repeater whose painted likeness the Jesuit orders burned [D:255].D:255
Nights, the (Arabian Nights)
The Thousand and One Nights, or Alf Laylah wa-Laylah, a developing collection of tales drawing on Middle Eastern and Asian storytelling traditions and recorded in Arabic during the Middle Ages. The introduction to The Devil Is Dead says old Burton urged his subscribers to keep their copies locked away, comparing the present book’s hazards with those literary precipices [D:7]. During Finnegan’s winning week at the Little Oyster, Anastasia is described as a girl straight out of the Arabian Nights [D:20].D:7; D:20
Nimrod Flesh Plant
Rare vegetation growing abundantly on Zabotski Flats. The apparently grass-eating lions and leopards are actually grazing on the Nimrod Flesh Plant [MTM B12:362].MTM B12:362
Nine Dollar Dog
Game Margaret Stone uses as an analogy when Charlotte Garfield asks whether she can beat the rap at the end. Margaret says its outcome is fixed nine plays before the finish, with no subsequent chance to change it and no warning that those last plays have begun. Charlotte nevertheless chose the game [MTM B7:217].MTM B7:217
Nine Man Free-Style Midget Wrestler Melee
Wrestling event at the old Decatur Street Arena in New Orleans in which Finnegan recalls seeing Herman Hercules. Hercules says it was before he became champion [MB:585].MB:585
Nine Mile Depth
Named ocean depth in which the Argo Masters deliberately hide the Sword and Scabbard of Saint Sécaire. They first weld sword and sheath together with molten fillers, bury them a hundred meters into mud and lime ooze, and charge the sea’s creatures to leave them lost. After four hundred years, Cyril and Cyrus Dimbeau recover them during bathysphere coring, contrary to the Masters’ wishes: the object is an anti-prize and danger to the world [MTM B13:422].MTM B13:422
Nineveh
Ancient Assyrian city, a substantial settlement by about 3000 BC and sacked in 612 BC. In Jonah 3 its people repent after Jonah’s warning. Seaworthy invokes that repentance to condemn the Texas beer served to him and Finnegan, saying that Nineveh did penance for less [D:12].D:12
Nisi esses sollicitus
Unfinished Latin clause, roughly “if you were not anxious,” written in Finnegan’s looping left-handed script on a pennant of Henry’s dream ship Navicula Petri. The Latin is scratched out and replaced in English by “If you can’t be careful, be good” [A:44].A:44
Noah
Biblical builder of the ark, obedient to God’s command to preserve his household and animal life through the Flood, and recipient of the subsequent covenant. Casey tells Hinnegan that knowledge of the Milesians before the Flood would require Noah to have taken two Irishmen aboard along with the other animals [A:164]. In Not to Mention Camels, Noah Zontik, called the Umbrella, is Pilgrim Dusmano’s professional protector, a good but crafty man whose work includes shielding the guilty and thwarting their pursuers. God commissions him as Pilgrim’s powerful friend and surety, responsible for following even if Pilgrim goes to hell; Noah regards Pilgrim as his millstone and finds the assignment strangely familiar. He comes to love his difficult charge, suspecting that someone has ordered even that love (Not to Mention Camels, PDF pp. 36-38). He confronts Pilgrim about Hut’s murder (Not to Mention Camels, PDF pp. 48-49). A Lord Temporal and Spiritual, he nevertheless joins Pilgrim’s cult while regarding Pilgrim as utterly wrong and the enterprise as madness. He believes his commission predates the world; he protects Evenhand as well, seeking to save both men’s lives and souls, and vows to follow when Pilgrim says that both protections must fail (Not to Mention Camels, PDF pp. 100-103). In the novel’s discussions of derivative worlds, Noah initially regards Pilgrim as a projection of one shallow person; he later revises this to many people and doubts Pilgrim’s account of other worlds, while remaining committed to his commission (Not to Mention Camels, PDF pp. 31-32) (Not to Mention Camels, PDF pp. 122-123). He challenges the militia’s warrant when they come for Pilgrim, and is taken with the others (Not to Mention Camels, PDF pp. 134-136). After Pilgrim is torn apart by horses, Noah volunteers to follow his charge and is killed in the same fashion (Not to Mention Camels, PDF pp. 139-141). The later offer of a powerful friend beyond death belongs to another protector, Og Scath, addressing Polder Dossman, rather than to Noah addressing Pilgrim (Not to Mention Camels, PDF pp. 244-245).A:164
Nocnik
Polish for “chamber pot”; one of the first three Crocks, with Nattkarlet and Night Charley, begun during Casey’s college years, 1938-1942. These are clandestine student magazines; the narrator distinguishes Casey’s high country humor from the later publications’ obscenity [A:167-168].A:167-168
Nolan, Fisher
Theatrical member of Duffey’s Chicago circle, listed together with the other Nolan among the theatrical people [MTM B3:99].MTM B3:99
Nolan, John
Theatrical member of Duffey’s Chicago circle, listed together with the other Nolan among the theatrical people [MTM B3:99].MTM B3:99
Non-people
Category Papa Devil, the impersonating Noonan, applies to himself, Anastasia and Finnegan. When Finnegan objects that people do not literally have ghostly doubles, Papa suggests that non-people may, and includes all three of them. He connects Dopey’s duality with Finnegan to their strange blood, while admitting uncertainty about its closeness [D:120-121].D:120-121
Non-Romanies
The Gorgios, described as the disorganized part of the world outside the Dirty Five [A:73].A:73
Nookonos
Unexplained term in the demiurge Teilhard’s blessing of the Unfaithful Assembled. It occurs with peduncle, neo-anthropocentrism and corpusculization in a scene where Teilhard, flanked by McLuhan and McGonigal, appears transfigured on the altar and the congregation proposes three tents [GD:497].GD:497
Noon-day devils
Devils encountered during Finnegan’s sickness and delirium in the Texas chaparral, especially after his Southern Comfort and Old Crow have run out. Speaking a little Latin and much Greek, they tempt him with stones and a cactus kingdom; he says he cannot change the stones and already possesses the kingdom for as long as he wishes [A:204-205].A:204-205
Noonan, Gregory McColum Papadiabolous
See Papadiabolous (II) (Gregory McColum Papadiabolous, Papadiabolous II, Papa Devil, Papa D, Noonan). Gregory McColum is the Irish cop Noonan who takes his murdered brother’s place [D:285-289].D:285-289
Noonan, Ifreann Noonan Columkill Gregorovitch Papadiabolous
See Ifreann Noonan Columkill Gregorovitch. This is the elder Ifreann, father of Papadiabolous I and II, whose grave is marked I.N.C.G.P. Bogovitch [D:277-281] [D:285-288].D:277-281; D:285-288
Noonan, Katie
Irish governess employed by the Gregory family in Poland, mother of the elder Ifreann and thus grandmother of the two Papadiabolous brothers. X calls her a good, placid girl, says she left the household months before the birth and returned weeks afterward, and recounts the claim that the Devil fathered her child. Her heart breaks over her son’s monstrosity [D:278-280]. X says she used Ifreann affectionately and glosses it as Devil [D:279]. Catherine Dembinska gives a different naming account in The Flame Is Green: Katie insists that the Devil be recorded as father on the certificate for her son, born in a hayfield between Skawine and Krakow in 1830. Asked for a name, she exclaims “Och Ifreann,” glossed there as “Aw hell!”, and the words become his name. Catherine maintains that he has no Polish blood and recalls childhood testimony about his murders. Dana declines certainty about Ifreann’s half-Irish ancestry and jokes that Catherine’s telling sounds Irish (The Flame Is Green, PDF pp. 210-211).D:278-280; D:279
Noosphere
The sphere of collective human thought. In Teilhard de Chardin’s account, its formation links increasing complexity with heightened consciousness and a collective human organism, within a spiritual understanding of evolution and its ultimate convergence. The Majesty’s spoken address uses noosphere and socialization as fashionable garnish. Its targets are Pharisees, Legalists, Rigidists, members of the Curia and hierarchies; the word noosphere is not itself listed as a target [MTM B8:243].MTM B8:243
Norman Shipman
Bookish or literary member of Duffey’s Chicago circle [MTM B3:98].MTM B3:98
Norse
One of the five men collectively called the Swedes is Norse; the others are a Dane, an Icelander, a German and a man from Orkney, so none is Swedish [D:217]. In Anastasia’s account of sea-women, the Norse netted blond, mammalian, vertically tailed sea-cows in the tenth century [D:35]. An unnamed Norse hero’s longing for towering oceans requiring constant uphill sailing supplies a comparison for Finnegan’s dissatisfaction [D:18].D:217; D:35; D:18
North
Direction recurring in Finnegan’s journeys and the company’s comparisons. Finnegan is usually already in the North when autumn brings the urge to migrate [D:10], and in an early wandering walks north through meadows with Howland [A:178]. Australian air and sunset are contrasted with those of the North [A:30]; Hans invokes differing motion north and south of the equator in his own explanation [A:4]. Casey notes that Venice lies farther north than Vladivostock [A:163]. The buffalo herd has drifted north for summer, leaving old bulls behind [A:206]; Hans’s St. Gallen is placed in Wisconsin’s Northern Wilderness [A:207]. The Paradise of the later voyage is assigned latitude sixteen degrees north [D:234].D:10; A:178; A:30; A:4; A:163; A:206; A:207; D:234
North African littoral
North African coastal route followed by the Brunhilde after Tangier, then onward to Sicily and Greece [D:114]. Earlier, after Lanzarote in the Canaries, the ship calls at Ifni, Agadir, Magadar, Safti, Mazagan, Casablanca and Rabat before reaching Tangier [D:101].D:114; D:101
North American Bursar
Duffey’s claimed office in the Argo Balloon Club, according to Bagby’s account: he collects three thousand dollars each from twenty-three sportsmen, pays six thousand for an old balloon, and is left holding the remaining funds because the supposed Geneva headquarters has never existed [MTM B2:63].MTM B2:63
North Coast
Poorest region of the independent nation of San Simeon, a rough coast of rocks, dry swamps and dangerous shoals near the Campeche Banks [MB:559]. There the forbidden Sea Bell of Saint Peter the Martyr sounds, summoning the Hidden Church; difficult terrain and water make the gathering hard for the police to stop [MB:560].MB:559; MB:560
Northern Platoon
Platoon said to have been swallowed by quicksand in the Chosky Bottoms, one of the area’s old stories. The conversation does not place Finnegan in that unit or identify its war [D:274].D:274
Northern Valkyrie
Finnegan’s epithet for Nada Patkaniowska, the tall, golden-haired, three-hundred-pound dowager who carries him on her shoulder. He calls her Brynhilde in rounded, spherical form, remembers voyaging on her when she was the Ship, and wonders whether she is also the Argo [A:192-193].A:192-193
Northwestern
One of the seven colleges Casey attends between autumn 1938 and spring 1942; Notre Dame is another institution in the list. He starts one or more of the Crocks at each of the seven [A:167-168].A:167-168
Norwegian Seamen's Club
One of the special clubs on the upper floors of the Plaza building visited by Finnegan and his companions in Sydney [A:3].A:3
Nose, Finnegan's
Finnegan’s conspicuous banana nose appears from his first look in the bar mirror and recurs in the prewar Dotty scene [A:1] [A:174]. Other descriptions call it a bugle nose [A:6] [D:23-24]; its prominence helps support his oversized digger hat [A:13]. Stein’s ears are compared with it [A:29]. Vincent introduces the nose as Finnegan when meeting Nauti [A:64]. Dotty uses banana-nosed brat and little banana-nose [A:93] [A:95], while the narrator calls him a banana-nosed river-rat [A:169]. Finnegan accuses his dead father of giving him the nose despite lacking one like it himself [A:245], and Hilton uses bugle-nose [A:250]. Dopey’s letter identifies him as the bugle-nosed dago with the Irish moniker [D:51]. Finnegan tells Anastasia his gargoyle nose is real and will not come off [D:39]. Doll reports a pursuer’s description of him as a hooked-nosed ape [D:173]. X says he is saved by a nose when kidnappers expecting Finnegan’s unmistakable feature are about to seize another man with an even bigger nose [D:177-178]. A railroad man later breaks it in a fight [D:192].A:1; A:174; A:6; D:23-24; A:13; A:29; A:64; A:93; A:95; A:169; A:245; A:250; D:51; D:39; D:173; D:177-178; D:192
Nostradamus (Michel de Nostredame) (1503--1566)
Michel de Nostredame, French physician and astrologer, 1503-1566, known for the enigmatic quatrains of Les Prophéties, first published in 1555. In “The Great Day,” Duffey interprets the tower clock whose hands have been sawn off as a murky Nostradamus prediction of the turning-over, though he resists accepting that the Great Thing has arrived [GD:483]. More Than Melchisedech concludes by attributing to Nostradamus a prediction made 430 years earlier that fits Pope Finnegan: the Pope of Bells and Bay, with a Green Bay Tree, staff, paint-box, rose and conspicuous holy nose. This is the narrative’s attribution, not an authenticated historical quatrain [MB:598-599].GD:483; MB:598-599
Nostrodomo-type prophecies
Prophecies Mr. X exchanges with Jesuit experts: he hears theirs and returns some of his own. The narrator’s form Nostrodomo-type appears to evoke Nostradamus [A:137].A:137
Notary Public
The office Papa Devil says he is seeking ashore on the Mexican side. Finnegan recognizes that he needs more than a notary and supplies un falsario, a forger; Papa and Manuel then dismiss Finnegan and the two girls so they can conduct the business [D:57].D:57
Noted with Interest
Heading Gabby uses on the bulletin board for a clipping asserting that people with large noses are passionate. His own prominent nose makes the interest personal [A:127].A:127
Nothing people
Cyrus Roundhead’s name for the people cleared from a building during the Royal Pop Historians’ murderous expedition. He claims both people and building are unreal, and threatens Mary Virginia with replacement among the victims if she will not finish them. Their resistance makes her question the alleged lack of reality and the destruction of people whose only fault seems to be unimportance [MTM B11:337-338].MTM B11:337-338
Notre Dame (1)
One of the seven colleges Casey attends between autumn 1938 and spring 1942. He begins one or more of the Crocks at each college [A:167-168].A:167-168
Notre Dame (2)
Paris cathedral whose principal medieval construction extended from 1163 to 1345. Van Ghi says that the old repeater devil represented in Finnegan’s painting also appears on Notre Dame in stone, among many appearances in artworks [D:255].D:255
November
Month in which the Brunhilde sails, on Friday November 7 in an unspecified year [D:27]. The narrator later notes that Finnegan has associated closely with Anastasia since early November, although his Romaic is still insufficient for confession [D:118].D:27; D:118
Nueve y uno
Spanish for “nine and one.” Finnegan answers Elena’s list of possible troubles with this phrase, expanding it as nine yesses and a no: he accepts the troubles but says he drinks because drinking is good, and excessively because of his own evil streak [A:274].A:274
Numbers
Biblical book named as the source of the chapter-seventeen epigraph in The Devil Is Dead. The excerpt brings together the giants descended from Enac, the people’s fear, and the assurance that their enemies can be overcome [D:258].D:258
Nursery Plant catalog
Source of the extravagant adjectives applied to Dotty, including floriferous, succulent, hardy and disease-resistant. Even the plant catalogue’s vocabulary, the narrator says, cannot adequately describe her [MTM B7:213].MTM B7:213
O quam beata Civitas!
“O how blessed a city!” Latin exclamation in Finnegan’s “Antipodal Ode to Loy Larkin,” following his description of Loy’s pinkish hair as a tipsy crown lending grace to Sydney Town [A:32].A:32
O'Boyle, Crystal (the untraditional glass goblet lady)
Artist called the untraditional glass goblet lady, one of the artists whose work Duffey sells as part of the company’s project of rebuilding the world through art [MTM B6:198-199].MTM B6:198-199
O'Brien, Francis
One of Duffey’s ladies who comes to his Rounders’ Club in St. Louis and kisses him goodbye on his farewell evening. His departure is announced as a seven-year assignment [MTM B2:69-70].MTM B2:69-70
O'Brien, Gilberto Levine y
Gilberto Levine y O’Brien of Rio, the double or shadow of Carlos Cardinal Artemis of Santa Cruz [MB:579]. He sails toward Mooring-Stone aboard the Argo with Count Finnegan and Herman Hercules after their primaries have died [MB:589-590]. Finnegan asks to inspect the marks Gilberto made to identify his skin. Gilberto fears that their nearly identical appearance may conceal forgery, yet refuses inspection and prefers to leave the matter doubtful [MB:590-591]. Artemis had been flayed, and the narrative explicitly leaves uncertain which skin belonged to which man. Finnegan’s secret painting on the inside of the Cardinal’s skin could now be with Gilberto or on John Mogul’s trophy [MB:591].MB:579; MB:589-590; MB:590-591; MB:591
O'Brien's Polynesian Palace (bar)
Waterfront establishment in Duffey’s catalogue of remembered places. Eva seems to follow his thoughts, then asks about buying Kate’s Neanderthal Bar [MTM B13:407].MTM B13:407
O'Connel, Miles
Attributed author of Handbook of Treasons, quoted on the devils of the word-mills as a spiritual army of evil in high stations, sometimes within the Church itself [MTM B5:175-176].MTM B5:175-176
O'Conner, Gabriella
Young grade-school girl, one of Duffey’s ladies who comes to the Rounders’ Club in St. Louis and kisses him goodbye during his farewell evening [MTM B2:70].MTM B2:70
O'Dwyer, Edith
Schoolgirl acquaintance of Duffey, one of four girls joining him, Charley Murray, Sebastian and Rattigan at the formal dance. Lily Koch leads all eight to the soundproof attic billiard room, where they eat, play pool and dance informally. Edith talks with Duffey while Lily teases that he is really her boy [MTM B1:32-33].MTM B1:32-33
O'Gnive
Name credited beneath the epigraph about being strangers at home and exiles in Erin, introducing Chapter Two, section 9 of Archipelago [A:55].A:55
O'Higgins, Elena
Journalist in Duffey’s North Chicago literary circle during its golden age of 1925-1935 [MTM B3:98]. She proposes a feature on Giulio for the Chicago Herald and Examiner [MTM B3:106]. Present when Morris Poor challenges Duffey’s powers, she calls a photographer for the mule demonstration [MTM B4:128] [MTM B4:130]. Her November 14 report is modest and attempts factual description: witnesses agree the mule traveled thirty feet through the air, though their explanations differ. The photograph accompanying her piece shows the airborne mule without giant hands [MTM B4:132]. She later attends the party at Randal’s where Duffey projects Casey’s grotesque head on television [MTM B12:380-381] [MTM B12:383]. In her surviving commentary on Casey, she condemns his Crock advertisement offering consecrated hosts for experiments, describes the fragment of sacred organ music she salvaged before he burned the larger work, and deplores his replacement scoring for kazoo, peewee guitar and musical saw [PG:524-525].MTM B3:98; MTM B3:106; MTM B4:128; MTM B4:130; MTM B4:132; MTM B12:380-381; MTM B12:383; PG:524-525
O'Higgins, Januarius
Bookish or literary member of Duffey’s Chicago golden-age circle [MTM B3:98]. Josephine McSorely’s Underground Eagle report places him at the Casey Machine discussion: he calls Casey a hypocrite and predicts he will buy a machine through a middleman despite his disavowals. Casey’s curse and Evelyn Apostolo’s embrace of hell follow Januarius’s challenge [CM:507]. The account’s narrator claims to possess the only remembered copy of that newspaper issue and subsequently names Januarius among the opportunistic promoters who helped develop the machine’s market [CM:507-508].MTM B3:98; CM:507; CM:507-508
O'Hoolihan, Hallohan J.
Papa Piccone’s stock comic impersonation of Patrick Stranahan at the Star and Garter. Patrick imitates Piccone with hands, voice and motion, but does not know that Piccone’s reciprocal imitation has put him onstage for years as Hallohan J. O’Hoolihan. When Show Boat calls Patrick by that name, he understands only half the joke [A:104].A:104
Oatmeal, John Bently
Potter named among the artists whose work Duffey sells during the New Orleans rebuilding project. The narrator says the Renaissance of Pottery began with him, and includes these artists’ ideas among contributions to the company’s Rebuilding Thesis [MTM B6:198-199].MTM B6:198-199
Octavian, Cecil (of England)
English double or shadow-man of Paul Cardinal Brokenbolt of Freemantle, Australia [MB:579]. After his primary’s death, he travels along the Mexican coast in a tramp steamer with Niku Kazuko and Daniel Jean Boulle; they pose as archaeologists to elude killers and acquire the company of the stone Pyramid Lord [MB:592-594]. He is among the thirteen assembled in the underground Room of the Conclave at Mooring-Rock for the conclave that elects Finnegan the First [MB:596-597].MB:579; MB:592-594; MB:596-597
Octopus Joe's (bar)
Waterfront establishment in Duffey’s catalogue of remembered places. Eva seems to follow his thoughts, then asks about buying Kate’s Neanderthal Bar [MTM B13:407].MTM B13:407
Oh Boy bird
Unidentified jungle bird whose call sounds like Donald Duck saying “Oh Boy.” It is heard as Casey and Henry descend to the bivouac after swimming; the narrator says they never learned its proper name [A:44].A:44
OI sounds
Sounds the narrator says occur more often in some New Orleans blocks than in Brooklyn. They are one ingredient in Finnegan’s extraordinary composite dialect, together with waterfront Irish, Little Italy speech, Cajun French, mud-cat language and an element peculiar to himself. His voice sounds almost magical at a distance but grotesque when understood [A:6].A:6
Old American Blood and Thunder
American adventure books remaining in the looted library at Harlow House, as described by Gautier the goat-man: Old Wild West, Train Robber, Buffalo Hunter, Indian Scalper, Bank Robber and Brigand, the “blue-jowled romances” he loves [A:198]. He reads these silently after the goats are asleep; the French books are the ones he reads aloud to them on winter nights [A:199].A:198; A:199
Old Clootie
Familiar name Duffey uses for his adversary, calling the Majesty Clootie during the latter’s address [MTM B8:243]. In the closed place associated with the Sixth Contingency, the adversary first claims to be the Devil’s agent, then reveals himself as the Majesty. Duffey’s use of Clootie disconcerts him because the name suits a minor devil, not His Majesty. The passage nevertheless leaves open whether this is the Devil himself or a lesser devil using the claim as a tactic [MTM B10:302-304].MTM B8:243; MTM B10:302-304
Old Country
France, the homeland of Gautier the goat-man, who came from southern France in 1908 with six goats [A:196]. His surviving French books include Balzac’s Contes Drolatiques, Stendhal, Tartarin of Tarascon, Gil Blas and The Count of Monte Cristo. He reads them aloud to the goats on winter nights, recalling the speech of their shared Old Country [A:198-199].A:196; A:198-199
Old Crow
Brand of bourbon whiskey drunk by Finnegan. An inch remains in his bottle when he wakes in a foul dump after his “shipwreck” [A:177]. He carries more, with Southern Comfort and other liquors, in his shoulder-bag while walking in Texas [A:202]. The noon-day devils trouble him particularly after the Southern Comfort and Old Crow are gone [A:205].A:177; A:202; A:205
Old Dogs Lying in the Sun
Pomodorus’s epigram, quoted by Newton Prescott: “Old dogs, lying in the sun, are one form of history.” Prescott places it beside residual magnetism and the idea that the earth retains impressions of its history [CM:510].CM:510
Old French
Language in which Gautier says the pun about cutting capers works better. Finnegan’s joke combines dancing or tricks with castrating a goat; Gautier then discusses Italian capra and capro and Spanish goat-related words [A:199].A:199
Old Kind of People
People whom the Royal Pop Historians regard as obsolete. Margaret Stone reports their term “People of the Old Kind” and their claim that such people will not understand Pop History [MTM B11:308]. The townspeople’s description of Zabotski as almost the last of his kind appears just before this [MTM B11:307].MTM B11:308; MTM B11:307
Old Man of the Sea
Figure from the Sindbad adventures whom Finnegan intends William Gerecke to represent in the Brunhilde murals, because Gerecke looks like an incubus [D:62].D:62
Old Original Juju Joy Pills
New Orleans pills described in Don Barnaby’s extravagant account of a cure for a terrible hangover. His general recipe is sawdust, honey and cat urine; Madame Le Mourcheor’s special version uses Arabian frankincense wood, honey from bees near Megapolis in Arcady, and a black cat with glanders. He attributes the result to simpler, purer ingredients [D:248-249]. One pill makes an interior garden expand to contain the world and other worlds. He marries a wife whose appearance changes and acquires children whose names, appearances and number vary while their identities persist [D:250]. Sleep transports him between places and periods, and he later encounters Sour John in this boundless garden. John rejects the offered pill, says only fifteen minutes have passed, and returns him to his bunk under a strap until sailing [D:251-252]. Three years later Barnaby has not returned to his family, though he vows to do so and bring back the secrets, alive or dead [D:252].D:248-249; D:250; D:251-252; D:252
Old Pop Potter
Man cited by Finnegan in the conversation about Chosky Bottoms. His saying places the spook country in the next valley or among the people next door, illustrating how neighbors become the subjects of ghost stories [D:274].D:274
Old Stone Ship
Waterfront establishment run by Eva Ewaglouwshkoul’s father in her ancient world. After forty thousand years in the ice, Eva asks Duffey to take her to Biloxi, where she plans to acquire a saloon or hotel and wait for a seaman of her own blood. Her father’s Old Stone Ship supplies a precedent for that plan; the text does not place his establishment in Biloxi [MTM B13:401].MTM B13:401
Old Testament
Biblical setting Cleo Mahoney assigns to the Melchisedech of her play, a role she asks Duffey to take. She identifies the character as “Melchisedech of the Old Testament” while insisting that Duffey is particularly suited to portray him [MTM B9:265].MTM B9:265
Old Wooden Ship
Tavern in Galveston, Texas, an unpainted, pungent building whose four stories, numerous doors, loose shutters and swaying creak make it resemble a ship. Lazarus Reilly’s company includes some fifty regulars, among whom Finnegan and Le Marin wait while murderers lurk outside [D:214-216]. Francis Paradise’s account helps draw Le Marin toward the Paradise voyage [D:233]. Much later, following Father Brown’s advice to use an English bulldog against the Man of Mystery, Melchisedech recruits Gunboat Smith, the tavern’s Bulldog-in-Residence, for the Argo [MTM B13:458].D:214-216; D:233; MTM B13:458
Olga Sanchez
Employee of Duffey’s Rounders’ Club in St. Louis, noted for her “torchy shoulders” [MTM B2:49]. On first hearing “The King Shall Ride,” immediately Duffey’s favorite tune, she carries him on her shoulders; afterward either Olga or Lucille repeats the celebration [MTM B2:52]. At his farewell Olga carries him through the rooms and into the street [MTM B2:70]. When he returns after the hidden years, she welcomes him lovingly; she has married the club’s beautiful Mexican high chef [MTM B2:74]. Duffey still counts her among the women he loves [MTM B4:110], and she caresses him when the Animations arrive at Rounders’ [MTM B5:159].MTM B2:49; MTM B2:52; MTM B2:70; MTM B2:74; MTM B4:110; MTM B5:159
Oliver Oscar Omygosh
Burlesque figure Papa Piccone claims to have created for the Star and Garter. Piccone calls him a hopeless botch: a wrong-colored putty nose, swollen red eyes, an unshapely real rump, size fifteen shoes, falls and a stuttering “O-O-O.” A man identifying himself with the character complains backstage; the supposed putty nose bleeds when Piccone strikes it [MTM B5:167-168]. Piccone says the 1939 St. Louis telephone book lists Oscar Oliver Omygosh. Bascom Bagby, rather than Piccone, supplies the nearby O-O-O What Fun Novelty Store and describes the man’s real glandular troubles, dizzy spells, pain, melancholy, stumbling and tears. Bagby denies that Piccone made him; Piccone insists that he did, accidentally [MTM B5:168].MTM B5:167-168; MTM B5:168
Ongoing Quest Adventure
Cleo Mahoney’s interpretation of the fourth contingency: repeated successful quests become addictive. Their goodness acquires something poisonous through endless success, provoking revenge and the death of some questers. Momentum keeps them from admitting death even when shown their bones and ashes; they retreat a little into the past and live again, leaving the problem unsolved [MTM B10:295]. Cleo calls the pursuit of excellence a broken record, but Rebeka Stein enthusiastically disagrees [MTM B10:296].MTM B10:295; MTM B10:296
Onree
Cajun pronunciation of Henri, distinguished from the English pronunciation of Henry, in the discussion of Henri Salvatore’s name [MTM B6:195].MTM B6:195
Orba, St. Angela (Orphanage)
Chicago orphanage named by Charlotte Garfield during Duffey’s psychosomatic trance. She says two sisters there know who she is, while the others mistake her for a little girl; she wants commitment papers and love, and proposes that Duffey adopt her. She subsequently insists that the experience was a trance rather than a dream [MTM B3:86].MTM B3:86
Oreibates
One of the three Oreads Finnegan meets in his dreams on the mountain at Naxos, with Anemotrephes and Akroreia. They call Anastasia their sister. Finnegan sees the mark of the polypus on Oreibates’s wrist, though the girls deny having such marks [D:137]. When he recognizes their kinship with the teras, Oreibates laments their condition and says they try to climb toward the light. The three push him off the mountain; Anastasia subsequently confirms their kinship with herself and Finnegan [D:139].D:137; D:139
Original Argo crew (aka Animated Marvels)
Earlier heading called this the original crew, contrary to Teresa’s explicit statement that it was not the first. See Argo Company (Teresa's account).Orpheus
Thracian singer and Argonaut identified with John G. Hans in the Argo books [A:38] [A:89] [A:207]. Trinali’s poem asks whether Hans has forgotten that identity [A:227]. Hans himself writes to Marie that he was Orpheus and is traveling again on the Argo [MTM B6:186]. Teresa identifies Hans as Orpheus and later Faust, and Marie as Eurydice, while giving Eurydice a deliberately different journey to Australia [MTM B7:234]. In Apollonius’s Argonautica, Book 1, Orpheus is Calliope’s son, whose music moves trees and rocks; Jason accepts him on Cheiron’s advice. His cosmogonic song settles a quarrel, his lyre sets the departing rowers’ rhythm, and he sings to Artemis. He directs the visit for secret initiation on Electra’s island and, after Cyzicus’s death, orders an armed dance whose noise covers the people’s lament during the rites of Rhea. In Book 2 his lyre accompanies the celebration of Polydeuces after the Bebrycian fighting; he directs worship of Apollo at dawn and dedicates a lyre at Sthenelus’s tomb. In Book 4 his playing overcomes the Sirens, although Butes leaps into the sea and requires Aphrodite’s rescue. He provides wedding music for Jason and Medea, appeals to the Libyan nymphs for water, and recommends the propitiatory offering of Apollo’s tripod. In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Books 10-11, his attempt to bring Eurydice back from the dead fails when he looks behind him. Maenads later kill him; his severed head and lyre continue their lament as they travel down the Hebrus to Lesbos. His shade is reunited with Eurydice.A:38; A:89; A:207; A:227; MTM B6:186; MTM B7:234
Orthodoxer
A member of the party that defends the established scientific chronology and account of origins against Zabotski. Armed Orthodoxers accuse him of rejecting their time scale, associating with Fundamentalers, and substituting false history for the accepted account. Their badges proclaim “Darwin or Death,” “Herbert Spencer Forever,” and “Huxley the Bulldog forever!” [MTM B9:286]. Earlier, they burn a “Clear Bright Flame of Science” on Zabotski’s lawn; Duffey’s account associates such burnings with punishments ranging from horse-whipping to hanging, drawing, and quartering [MTM B9:284]. The armed party threatens to shoot Zabotski, who obscures their sight with darkness or clouds and climbs aboard his contraption [MTM B9:286]. Later news reports that Orthodoxer police have killed nineteen unarmed Fundamentalers in a “shootout” [MTM B9:288]. See also Vigilante Orthodoxers.MTM B9:286; MTM B9:284; MTM B9:288
Ostwald, Howard Stone
One of the Big Stones, Princes of the Ekklesia, at the last Conclave in Babylonia Bagascia. Responding to Efram Gate Gratz’s attack on Peter and his grave, Ostwald says they intended the building to fall when they removed the capstone. He wants every building to fall because buildings divide people [MB:561].MB:561
Otto I (of the Germanies)
Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, born in 912 and dead in 973. In Henri Salvatore’s longer, unsent letter, Otto quietly bolts the door on the Devil at Aachen in 946; the Devil is then transferred to a firmer prison at the Euxine Chersonese in the Crimea [MTM B5:180].MTM B5:180
Ouspensky, P.D.
Pyotr Demianovich Ouspensky (1878-1947), Russian philosophical and esoteric writer, author of Tertium Organum. The Book Eleven epigraph credits him with questions about the real becoming phenomenal, creation and uncreation [MTM B11:306]. The passage occurs in Tertium Organum, Chapter XXII, within Ouspensky’s quotation of Max Müller; the novel prints the title as Tertium Organus. Duffey later wonders how Ouspensky would account for the grotesque transformation of the world [MTM B11:341]. Jon Nelson’s essay “1974 From the Thunder Colt’s Mouth” argues for extensive Ouspensky influence on Not to Mention Camels and reads the Thunder Colt episode as a parody of Tertium Organum.MTM B11:306; MTM B11:341
Overlark, Carmody
Author to whom The Devil Is Dead attributes the epigraph from Studies in the Imagination. Its speculative account links Neanderthal brains, the unconscious, ghostliness and imaginative power, then extends its back-brain type to Grimaldi, Aurignacian and related early humans [D:270-272]. In Fourth Mansions, Overlark is Special Assistant to the Secretary of State. According to Michael Fountain, the former Charles became Carmody about two years earlier for numerological reasons; he had been a wealthy party contributor and brilliant amateur. Foley notices his resemblance to the historical Khar-ibn-Mod and the ancient mask of Kir-ha-Mod; Bagley treats his archaic ears as a repeater sign. The identity explanations differ: Bagley proposes recurring men, O’Claire a recurring shape of mind, and Oriel a replacement of the former Charles (PDF pp. 4, 23-25, 30-31, 44-46, 64-66, 127-129). The Harvesters prompt Foley’s investigation. Overlark resists their mental attack and can enter dreams about himself (PDF pp. 8-10, 123). Confronting Foley, he claims his group lives repeatedly by choice in a nonaging state, seeks heightened experience, allows no interference and descends from ancient sea-born gods. He calls his tribe the Intelligentsia. Foley considers him mad and rejects a straightforward account of literal reincarnation, suspecting a wraith working through a borrowed human body. Overlark is formidable, direct and cruel, enjoying secrets, fear and his subordinates’ suffering, yet betrays fear himself (PDF pp. 147-160). His slight body has remarkable musculature, fine fishlike skin and strange eyes and complexion. Foley watches him submerge his head and upper body in brackish water for about fifteen minutes; the water and fish display impossible behavior, and he emerges refreshed. Overlark claims a sea origin, admits eating live rats and appears to be testing Foley as a recruit. He threatens confinement on grounds of madness or a fabricated murder charge; Foley is subsequently taken to an institution (PDF pp. 149, 155-161).D:270-272
P.F.C. Timothy Lorrigan
Boston private first class, one of the three Americans in Don Lewis’s story who disappear on October 1, 1944, on Pulau Petir, called Willy Jones Island. The others are Sergeant Charles Santee of Orange, Texas, and Corporal Robert Casper of Gobey, Tennessee [D:44]. Lorrigan lags behind when the others go to kill a little man apparently taken for a Japanese soldier. Don Lewis slips into the first person while describing this reluctance, then refuses to confirm which soldier he was [D:45]. He later calls the little man Yokipoki, explicitly warning that this probably was not his real name [D:46].D:44; D:45; D:46
Padre Island
Desolate island off the Texas coast where most of the Brunhilde company go ashore for a beach party and fish fry. Their preceding ports include Freeport, Palacios, Port O’Conner, Aransas Pass and Corpus. They dig a pit, burn mesquite to aromatic coals, and swim in the Gulf [D:34]. Supper includes barbecued and fried pork, boiled and fried shrimp, red snapper and pompano. Papa Devil compounds drinks until Anastasia takes over; DePolis dislikes the beach cooking, while Joe Cross, Anastasia and Finnegan contribute their expertise [D:40]. Don Lewis tells his campfire story afterward [D:43].D:34; D:40; D:43
Pal
Friend or companion; an English word borrowed from Romani words for brother or comrade. Casey lists pal among words of Romani origin, but the knife gloss in his sentence belongs to chiv [A:164].A:164
Palacios
Port visited by the Brunhilde during its coastwise passage through Texas ports, before the company’s Padre Island beach party [D:34].D:34
Panebianco, Marie Caterina
Marie Caterina Panebianco, mother of Theresa Antoinette Piccone, called Show Boat. Theresa’s father is Gaetano Piccone, proprietor of the Star and Garter [A:94].A:94
Panther calls
One of the animal calls Giulio made for his son Finnegan during trips to the Cajun swamps. He whittled them from tupelo-gum wood, along with alligator, devil-fish, swamp-boa, hairy-man and white-shark calls. Finnegan recalls never knowing what he might summon from the water or trees [MTM B5:174].MTM B5:174
Papa (Loy Larkin's Father)
Loy Larkin’s father. In her letter from Cambeltown, New South Wales, dated February 11, 1943, Loy says he neglected the garden she planted in November but killed the fatted calf for his returning prodigal daughter the day before [A:27].A:27
Papa Papadiabolous (Ifreann Noonan Columkill Gregorovitch Papadiabolous Chortovitch)
See Ifreann Noonan Columkill Gregorovitch. This is the elder Ifreann, father of Papadiabolous I and II, whose grave is marked I.N.C.G.P. Bogovitch [D:277-281] [D:285-288].D:277-281; D:285-288
Papa-D
Familiar shortening of Papa Devil’s name, used by the bargirl when his appearance startles Seaworthy and Finnegan [D:15], and by Finnegan himself as Papa D [D:30]. The man accompanying the Brunhilde is the impersonating Papadiabolous II, Gregory McColum, whom X later identifies as the Irish cop Noonan [D:285] [D:287-289].D:15; D:30; D:285; D:287-289
Papadiabolous (I) (Gregory McIfreann Papadiabolous, Papadiabolous I)
The Asiatic Papadiabolous, Gregory McIfreann, whom X describes as a son of the elder Ifreann and the quasi-twin of Gregory McColum, Papadiabolous II. In X’s account the brothers were conceived together and born on the same night at the turn of the century, in Smyrna and Cork, to different mothers. Gregory McIfreann uses Sanditen, Chrysostom, Protagoras and Hochstruwelpieter-Goltz; both brothers use forms of John and may be called John Gregory [D:285].X portrays him as a purposeful evil revolutionary with extraordinary physical and diabolical power, trained in the conspiracy. He names Seaworthy, Genof, Wirt, Gerecke, Wedekind, Askadrian, Sanditen and Sorensen among his associates, some reputedly his half-brothers. While the father lives, the son is crown prince [D:285-286]. After the father’s burial in 1930, he heads an unstable regency until Seaworthy is selected to murder him. X reconstructs a shooting during the opening of their father’s grave, while admitting uncertainty about several details [D:288].
Finnegan remembers Seaworthy striking the still-moving body with a shovel, then helping him deepen the old grave and bury the new corpse above earlier remains [D:75-76]. X identifies the grave marked I.N.C.G.P. Bogovitch as the father’s [D:277-278]. He says Papadiabolous II takes his murdered brother’s place the following morning, creating Seaworthy’s apparent encounter with a man returned from death [D:288-289].
D:285; D:285-286; D:288; D:75-76; D:277-278; D:288-289
Papadiabolous (II) (Gregory McColum Papadiabolous, Papadiabolous II, Papa Devil, Papa D, Noonan)
Gregory McColum Papadiabolous, the Irish quasi-twin, born in Cork at the turn of the century. X says he and the Smyrna-born Gregory McIfreann share their father, the elder Ifreann, but have different mothers and were conceived together and born on the same night. Both use forms of John; II’s other names include Noonan, Flaherty, Christy, Clarenden, Cobbett, Malory, Ingraham and Arbuthnot [D:285]. Identical in build, coloring and skull shape, the brothers differ in their fleshed faces. X calls II comparatively good despite youthful work as gentleman burglar, contrabandist, swindler and forger. Excluded from the family’s revolutionary training, he enters police work at twenty-five and becomes the undercover N, keeping track of his kin [D:286-287]. His extraordinary mimicry and access to police stations around the world serve his hatred of the gang [D:154-155]. After Seaworthy kills I while opening their father’s grave, II assumes his brother’s place the next morning and deceives the associates for months [D:288-289]. His club appearance terrifies Seaworthy and Finnegan [D:15]; Anastasia notices that Papa has become nicer [D:24]. In the impersonation he is a huge, heavy man with a high purplish complexion, expensive purple shirts and a reddish fringe around a bald pate. His red-eyed glare supports his claim to authority aboard the Brunhilde [D:22-23]. He carries the unconscious Finnegan aboard and appears unaffected by seasickness [D:28-29]. At Padre Island he mixes drinks and becomes unusually gay and florid [D:40]; the narrator says he never sleeps [D:51]. He often sights his rifle on distant men and cultivates a reputation as a great shot, though seldom firing [D:54]. He obtains forged papers for Manuel [D:57] [D:59]. Joe Cross suspects him of killing Doppio di Pinne, whose screams end after Papa enters the cabin and whose body cannot be found [D:64]. When Finnegan confronts him about the buried predecessor and the mimicry, Papa evades him and suggests that Dopey may instead have been Finnegan’s double [D:87-89]. He says Don Lewis contacted him at a distance without recognizing the substitution, and describes his own small Hawk boat, Seabach [D:120] [D:122]. Killed on Naxos, he lies shot repeatedly and bludgeoned, with pockets emptied or cut out, an unfamiliar olive shirt shredded, and shoes removed. Finnegan recognizes the face beneath the impersonation [D:146]; his sketch lets X identify Noonan [D:154]. According to X, Seaworthy kills II without recognizing him as the man who has been masquerading as I, and the surviving gang continues to think Papa Devil is alive [D:289].D:285; D:286-287; D:154-155; D:288-289; D:15; D:24; D:22-23; D:28-29; D:40; D:51; D:54; D:57; D:59; D:64; D:87-89; D:120; D:122; D:146; D:154; D:289
Papapaleologus
Donkey accompanying Finnegan and Anastasia on Naxos. The narrator jokingly presents him as a lineal descendant of the last Roman emperors of the East [D:125]. He understands Anastasia Grandmother’s Romaic perfectly and carries the supplies up to her house [D:126]; later he grazes in the narrow glen beneath the pair on the mountain [D:132].D:125; D:126; D:132
Paradise
The Earthly Paradise found by Finnegan and his three companions, Charles Le Marin, Don Barnaby and Johnny Duckwalk, at Basse-Terre in the Antilles. The narrator gives its coordinates as 61°44′42″ west and 16° north and distinguishes it from the Heavenly Paradise intended by St. Francis [D:234-236]. Its playful requirements include freedom from frost, breeze and bloom, a weekly ship, French-speaking black people and English-speaking Frenchmen, centuries of history, a Lost Dauphin legend, a volcano named Soufriere, discovery by Columbus, those three friends and a little money [D:237]. Their haven eventually fails through its remaining snakes [D:235]. The grave marked I.N.C.G.P. Bogovitch belongs to the elder Ifreann, father of Papadiabolous I and II, whose identity X unfolds there; it is not the grave of a single man identifiable as both father and I [D:277-281] [D:285-288].D:234-236; D:237; D:235; D:277-281; D:285-288
Paradise Birds
Clay birds Duffey makes in a just-before-morning dream as the Boy King or Boy Magician. He gives them the color of living gold, releases them, and sees further brilliant colors appear in flight. Rough men shoot them down; the falling clay lets them claim they were only clay pigeons, always in season. The game warden nevertheless kills the men but angrily warns Duffey against another such chase. Beth reads the dream as doubt about his powers and creations [MTM B2:67].MTM B2:67
Paraiso
Mexican coastal stop off which the Brunhilde anchors while Finnegan sketches on deck for the planned Sindbad murals in the barroom [D:59]. The later Unaccountable Corpse episode may occur at Paraiso, Campeche or another stop; the narrator explicitly leaves the location uncertain [D:67].D:59; D:67
Parakeet (Amoy)
Amoy, the talking parakeet in the ward. He calls himself a big and beautiful bird, though the narrator denies both claims. Ward boy Ignatius Ti translates his compressed Tagalog-Parakeet into expansive tales of previous lives, including life as a jewel-stealing red-winged blackbird and as a fish [A:79-81]. A sadistic medico poisons him to watch him suffer; though gravely ill, he clings to life. An official order to kill the stinking bird drives him into the trees by day and back to his friends at night. The narrator calls him possibly the best-balanced inhabitant of the ward: his persecution and unpopularity are real, and he tries to remain cheerful [A:81-82].A:79-81; A:81-82
Parakeet Tagalog
Compressed language of Amoy the parakeet, called Tagalog-Parakeet by the narrator. Three or four words commonly expand into many paragraphs in Ignatius Ti’s translations [A:79].A:79
Parallel Lives
One of the fantasy types, together with Successive Lives, listed by Doctor Saul Rafelson in his notes on Duffey. Rafelson also insists that Duffey can make such fantasies happen, considering several possible explanations for his other persons and selves [MTM B4:146].MTM B4:146
Paramaribo
Port from which the Sarcophagus sails in Le Marin’s story. He says Castleman infiltrated it before departure, then replaced crewmen with lookalikes at successive ports; the supposedly untouched cargo was partly stolen [D:244].D:244
Paris
City Patrick Stranahan includes, with Dublin, London and Rome, among the journeys he thinks a Christian man should make for his soul’s sake [A:110]. X later reports seeing Levi van Wei there and relays his interest in obtaining more Finnegan pieces [MTM B6:201].A:110; MTM B6:201
Paros
Aegean island Finnegan includes in his account of the original five-island cluster or Pentanesia [A:35]. After the Naxos massacre, Finnegan and Manuel swim there, the distance being guessed at seven miles. They tow their clothes, shoes and Finnegan’s bag of stones on floats, rest on shore, hide until dawn and check that the Brunhilde has not followed. At breakfast in Paros town they divide their $720 equally. Finnegan’s unexplained roll may have been left by Anastasia. Manuel leaves for Rome to tell the Pope of the evil men [D:151].A:35; D:151
Parousia Himself
Christ of the Second Coming, the third cargo in a prophecy Teresa quotes from an unnamed latter-day prophetic book. It describes ghostly, bony Melchisedech Duffey and a crew of wraiths carrying Count Finnegan to election and coronation in the Indies, Prince Casimir to his reign as Antichrist near Armageddon, and finally the Parousia Himself on the Argo’s last voyage [MTM B12:388].MTM B12:388
Party of One
Duffey’s expression for solitary membership, used when Absalom Stein calls himself a neo-Jew and wishes he could find others to form a group [A:131]. Earlier, Casey describes Duffey as the sole member of the Catholic Center Party of America and explicitly calls this a party of one [A:42].A:131; A:42
Party, the
Political Party joined by Casey Szymansky, whose imagined role in Fortress Christianity as a persecuted minority helps draw him into it [A:157]. Margaret Stone has also belonged to the Party before joining the Church and the Bark circle [A:143].A:157; A:143
Pascha nostrum immolatus est Christus
Latin words from 1 Corinthians 5:7, rendered by Duffey as “Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.” He exclaims the fuller phrase beginning Etenim when he and August Koch place the eighth Christ with the seven others in his Priceless Item Room [MTM B3:103].MTM B3:103
Passagoule
Earlier heading omitted two letters from the place name printed in the poem. See Passamagoule.Passamagoule
Place printed as Passamagoule in the opening poem of the Finnegan chapter, paired with Castres among the speaker’s imagined destinations [A:171].A:171
Passion Sunday
Day identified as March 14 when the Brunhilde reaches Naxos [D:115]. Finnegan seeks his Easter Duty confession from a young Greek Capuchin who speaks Italian [D:118]. After confession and Mass he breakfasts with Anastasia and the impersonating Papa Devil at a breakwater cafe [D:120]. In Teresa Piccone Stranahan’s private letter, Stein’s first Finnegan Visitation occurs on the afternoon of Passion Sunday, 1948, and frightens him as an apparent death visitation [MTM B6:188].D:115; D:118; D:120; MTM B6:188
Paterson, Trinali
Earlier misspelling of the surname. See Trinali Peterson.Patkaniowska, Nada
Magnificent, hilarious dowager who likes to be escorted by Finnegan in his role as the painter van Ghi. Six feet two inches tall, three hundred pounds and abundantly golden-haired, she replaces her boa-constrictor shoulder-piece with Finnegan seated on her right shoulder in her raised arm [A:192]. Noticing that he has grown fat, Finnegan recalls her heavier breathing after carrying him upstairs. He calls her Brynhilde, the Northern Valkyrie, in forma rotunda et globosa, says he voyaged on her as the Ship and wonders whether she is also the Argo [A:193].A:192; A:193
Patmos
Island used as a landmark in Anastasia’s mermaid history: she places Christian mermaids in the second century on an unnamed small island between Patmos and Lipsos. Their chapel was dedicated to Our Lady of the Dolphins and, she says, still exists in poor condition [D:34-35].D:34-35
Patriarch
Margaret Stone invokes “the Patriarch” who could not find enough righteous people to avert destruction while explaining her urgent street preaching [A:144]. The allusion is to Abraham’s plea for Sodom in Genesis 18:23-33; Margaret’s version begins with seventy, whereas the biblical negotiation begins with fifty and ends with ten. Separately, Cleo Mahoney calls Duffey the “Patriarch Melchisedech” while explaining the seven contingent futures in her play: he cannot end, yet cannot continue in his accustomed way [MTM B10:293].A:144; MTM B10:293
Patricia
Patricia Solli, also called Patti and Patrish, sister of Giovanni/Finnegan and Giacomo/Jake, daughter of Giulio Solli and Mary McCracken [A:173-174]. An acrobatic dancer of striking, weirdly comic beauty, she shares Finnegan’s sudden, almost inhumanly lithe movements. She is often with him and asks Dotty about his absences. She also identifies Doppio di Pinne as the same brother in another state [A:174]. Her family recollections contradict his: their father was a poor dockworker, literally antediluvian; Finnegan had spent only two days in Italy between ships and had invented van Ghi. She says she partly raised him, though he remained a stranger to her, and insists that he is incapable of wrongdoing despite appearances [A:174-175].A:173-174; A:174; A:174-175
Patrick
Saint Patrick, one of the saints Henry recognizes aboard the dream ship Navicula Petri, near Thomas, Hildebrand and Adrian the Dutchman [A:44-45]. A fifth-century bishop and missionary from Roman Britain, he is honored as Ireland’s patron and apostle. His Confessio recounts capture at about sixteen, six years of slavery and sheep-tending in Ireland, escape, return to his family and a visionary call to return as a missionary. He describes thousands of baptisms, the ordination of clergy and the growth of Christian and monastic life. His other surviving work, the letter against the soldiers of Coroticus, condemns the killing and enslavement of baptized converts. These writings are early firsthand evidence of Irish Christianity. The commonly given dates 432 for his return and 461 for his death are uncertain; his feast is March 17. Later traditions include the shamrock explanation of the Trinity and the banishment of snakes. Tírechán’s Collectanea lists Magonus and Succetus among four names for him; these should not be treated as a securely documented birth name “Magonus Sucatus.”A:44-45
Patrick J. Stranahan
Successful St. Louis attorney and former magistrate, husband of Monica and father of Philip, Hugh, Timothy Navisius, Vincent, Norma and Maurine. Archipelago spells Monica’s maiden name Murry; More Than Melchisedech uses Murray [A:94] [MTM B5:161]. Patrick is large, hairy, muscular and paunchy, with a blue-emery-paper face, enormously hairy eyebrows and a rumble even when silent. Fey and discerning, he lives in the Cat Castle and is “Little-Irish Rich,” of the lace-curtain and grand-piano kind [A:102]. He is an excellent easy-chair pistol shot and an old lawyer-friend of Papa Piccone; the two imitate one another, Piccone turning Patrick into the stage character Hallohan J. O’Hoolihan. Patrick calls Show Boat “the Urchin” [A:104]. He expounds his compact philosophy of reading, art, travel, drink and religion in late conversation with Piccone, Father McGuigan and Charley Murry [A:109-110]. He is the father of one of Duffey’s Animated Marvels, Vincent, rather than one of that listed twelve himself [MTM B5:161-162]. Patrick is dead by Duffey’s late visit to the Cat Castle [MTM B12:385].A:94; MTM B5:161; A:102; A:104; A:109-110; MTM B5:161-162; MTM B12:385
Paul
Saint Paul, the first-century apostle whose missionary journeys and letters shaped Christianity’s teaching about salvation, grace and the Church. His birth is uncertain, often estimated near the beginning of the century; ancient traditions place his martyrdom at Rome under Nero, approximately AD 64-68. Finnegan says he never saw an Ocean Island [A:35], and Henry recognizes him with Stephen and the Baptist aboard Navicula Petri [A:44-45]. Finnegan’s comparison of Anastasia to Diana humorously recasts Paul’s opposition to Demetrios as criticism of the silversmith’s oversized, pasty statue heads [D:133]. Book Six quotes Hebrews on Melchisedech under the traditional attribution “Paul. Hebrews.” [MTM B6:185]. Hebrews itself is anonymous, and its Pauline authorship is not accepted by the modern scholarly consensus. The Majesty, boasting of his own gibberish, recalls Paul’s contrary teaching that God is not its god [MTM B8:243].A:35; A:44-45; D:133; MTM B6:185; MTM B8:243
Pausanias
Pausanias, the Greek traveler and author of the ten-book Description of Greece, approximately AD 115-180. His account of sites, monuments, local history and religious practices preserves eyewitness evidence of ancient Greece. Hans, wondering about Marie’s green eyes, recalls that the statues were still painted when “Pausanes” saw them and asks what color words he might have used [A:24]. In The Devil Is Dead, Finnegan compares Anastasia’s head to the small Diana Artemis that “Pausanius” saw in the sanctuary of Asclepius at Messene [D:133]. The classical passage is Description of Greece 4.31.10, which lists Artemis Bringer of Light among the sanctuary’s statues; the small size, paint and natural expression belong to Lafferty’s description.A:24; D:133
Pausanius
Pausanius and Pausanes are the forms used in the novels for the Greek traveler Pausanias. See Pausanias.Pearson, Shakes
Marie Monaghan’s whiskey-shaking poet uncle in her comic family story to Hans. Shakes enters a chewing-tobacco jingle competition, but repeatedly leaves his unfinished limericks for more pop-skull whiskey. Because he writes on bark with oak-ball juice, squirrels eat each attempt [A:25-26]. Marie says he kills himself, leaving Miriam, after whom she says she is named, a note urging her to do something about the squirrels. When Hans asks why they spared that note, Marie says it frightened them away. His further question about Australian squirrels exposes the story’s deliberate absurdity; she says wallabies would require explanation and cannot read [A:26-27].A:25-26; A:26-27
Peleus
The Argonaut identity of Kasmir W. Szymansky, Casey [A:39] [PG:535]. In his commentary, Duffey remembers Peleus as a good, brave crewman whose heroism remains largely hidden: called the great hero of Thessaly, yet indecisive and buffeted by accidents. In Duffey’s account he accidentally kills his half-brother Phocus and father-in-law Eurytion and is trapped by Acastus of Iolcus and his wife. The heroism concealed in Peleus appears openly in his son Achilles [PG:534-535].A:39; PG:535; PG:534-535
Pelican
Dotty’s proposed name for the New Orleans magazine. Duffey explains its liturgical symbolism through the belief that a pelican feeds its young with its own blood, an image of Christ’s blood, and through its place as Louisiana’s symbol. Finnegan backs Henry’s proposal Bark, settling the choice [A:121]. The Holy Pelican also appears on the ornate door of the Pelican Press, bronzed by Finnegan and so vivid that Duffey wants to throw it a fish [MTM B12:359].A:121; MTM B12:359
Pelican Land
Casey’s mocking designation for the Louisiana home of the Pelican Press in his Crock editorial attacking the newly launched Bark: the new magazine comes “From Pelican Land and off the Pelican Press” [A:128]. The surrounding magazine venture is based in New Orleans [A:142].A:128; A:142
Pelican Press
New Orleans printing and publishing operation associated with the Bark. Its old, worn fonts allow Dotty to identify the press used for Mr. X’s fabricated clipping about his own death: she says he printed it there and added the reverse before leaving [A:141-142]. The independently financed Investigator is also printed there [A:143]. After Dotty disappears, the people at the press keep expecting her return. Letitia becomes editor, loses some of its paying publication accounts and keeps the Bark afloat with private funds [MTM B8:238-239]. In “The Great Day,” Duffey seeks refuge in the old Quarter building he started with Finnegan and Dotty. Its schedule is the seamen’s paper on Monday, union sheet Tuesday, Sporting News Wednesday, jazz paper Friday, and the Bark Thursday or whenever it appears. Mary Virginia Schaeffer, Salvation Sally and Margaret Stone are there when he arrives [GD:490].A:141-142; A:143; MTM B8:238-239; GD:490
Penelope
Nickname Dotty reports in her letter to Marie. Immediately after complaining that Finnegan has not written, she says the boys call her Penelope and that her own suitors keep her spirits up [A:147-148]. The joke likens her waiting to that of Odysseus’s wife in Homer; Archipelago elsewhere identifies Finnegan with Ulysses [A:39].A:147-148; A:39
Pentanesia
Five-island cluster in Finnegan’s account of the original archipelagos. His Aegean list is Andros, Tinos, Paros and Amargos, with Hans supplying the forgotten Naxos; Finnegan insists that five is the magic number [A:35-36]. Later Ignacio calls the Leewards a group of five little islands. Finnegan says every pentanesia has a rogue island, and Ignacio nominates Barbuda as useless, a judgment Finnegan first questions and then accepts [A:272].A:35-36; A:272
Pentecost Morning
The original Pentecost as invoked by Margaret Stone to justify the urgency of street preaching. She says it was not easy then and contrasts that first urgency with the complacency of people for whom Christianity came two thousand years earlier [A:144].A:144
Pentecost Sunday
Day Margaret Stone names for her own recent Pentecost: it came to her one year before the conversation in which she explains her urgent street preaching [A:144]. The preceding account describes her leaving the Party and joining the Church [A:143].A:144; A:143
People of the Book
Phrase in Marie Monaghan’s playful comparison of Arabs and Americans over coffee with Hans. She calls both “Peoples of the Book” despite irreligious intellectuals, then compares their distrust of alcohol, plainsmen, thugs and slum children [A:7].A:7
People of the Nose
Comic grouping that includes Gabby Gabrielovitch and Finnegan. Gabby’s nose is likened to the craggy trans-Adriatic coast and a Montenegrin shepherd’s crozier [A:127]; Finnegan’s is introduced as a banana nose [A:1].A:127; A:1
Peso
Currency in the Philippine episodes. Nauti charges a peso for a bottle of Four Feathers or Five Roses whiskey, and the girls charge a peso for a dozen bananas because they have no change [A:64-65]. The soldiers scrape together two pesos for one bottle of Black Label [A:66]. Sammy Guiterrez then temporarily steals a shoeshine box while Finnegan distracts its owners with music and earns four pesos for four shines; the money buys more whiskey, including a final bottle for two pesos [A:67-68].A:64-65; A:66; A:67-68
Peter (1)
Saint Peter, apostle and a leading figure of the early Church, regarded in Catholic tradition as the first Bishop of Rome and first pope. Christian tradition places his martyrdom in Rome during Nero’s persecution. The inherited glossary associates him with the line “A firster Peter for a rock” in the Paean; that preliminary text is absent from the available Archipelago PDF, so the quotation and its locator remain unverified.Peter (Salvatore Cousin)
Henry Salvatore’s younger cousin, part of the extended family around Morgan City, Louisiana. The nearby relatives comprise thirteen families. Peter follows Henry in everything, along with the older cousins Basil, Sebastian, Fabian and Adrian [A:122-123].A:122-123
Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) (1304--1374)
Francesco Petrarca, Petrarch (1304-1374), Italian poet, scholar and leading early humanist. His recovery of Cicero’s letters contributed to the revival of classical learning. His Canzoniere, or Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, comprises 366 poems in several forms, especially sonnets, much of it centered on Laura; its intense self-examination and poetic forms strongly influenced European lyric poetry. Endymeon Ellenbogen boasts to Hans that he has translated Petrarch [A:236-237]. When Anastasia tells Finnegan to sleep instead of writing down his sonnet, he asks what would have happened if Laura had refused Petrarch paper and pencil [D:133-134].A:236-237; D:133-134
Petrof, Lord Peter
Alias of Ali ben Taife, the jewel-thief master whom Amoy serves in Karachi in Ignatius Ti’s story [A:80-81].A:80-81
Petrus, Tu es
Latin for “You are Peter,” from Matthew 16:18. It appears on a banner of Navicula Petri, Henry’s dream ship [A:44].A:44
Pharisees
Father McGuigan calls Patrick Stranahan a Pharisee of the Right and says such people are no different from the Sadducees of the Left; Patrick replies that the Sadducees denied the resurrection [A:110]. The Devil’s mouth-spoken address to Duffey attacks Pharisees alongside Legalists, Rigidists and the Reactionary Curia; his accompanying mental address is essentially the same speech [MTM B8:243].A:110; MTM B8:243
Philip Stranahan
Vincent Stranahan’s older brother, ten years old when Duffey emerges from the Mississippi beneath the Eads Bridge in St. Louis in 1923. Philip is fishing from the pier. He is the eldest of Philip, Hugh, Timothy and Vincent, and has the eyes Duffey remembers in the adult Vincent. In this altered past, however, Philip says the baby Vincent was born on April 5, 1921, and died on April 10. Philip is in fifth grade, Teresa Piccone in first; he invites Duffey to the Cat Castle [MTM B13:470-471]. On Duffey’s return to the pier, Philip protests that it is afternoon when Duffey sings about morning [MTM B13:473].MTM B13:470-471; MTM B13:473
Philology
The study Papa Piccone recommends to policemen and colonels during a dispute over the sign advertising his theater as burlesque. In Show Boat’s letter, Papa is a purist who means the word in its original sense; suggesting that the authorities take a short philology course only worsens the dispute [A:48].A:48
Phoenecian, old
Old Phoenician, spelled “old Phoenecian” in the text: the language Casey dreams of speaking fluently with an exceptionally odd traveler during the seventh of his twelve hidden worlds [A:159].A:159
Piccone, Papa (Gaetano)
Gaetano Piccone, proprietor of the Star and Garter theater, husband of Marie Caterina Panebianco and father of Theresa, Show Boat [A:94]. Flamboyant and fond of gambling, he likes to display hundred-dollar bills [A:95]. Show Boat’s letter describes his quarrel with authorities over the original meaning of burlesque [A:48]. An old friend and agreeable argumentative opponent of Patrick Stranahan, he can talk until sunrise; each imitates the other, and Papa turns Patrick into Hallohan J. O’Hoolihan onstage [A:104]. For Vincent and Theresa’s wedding he proposes playing accordion in the church aisles instead of hiring an organist, but Maurine says he is kidding. His wine preparations comprise three barrels and a collection of jugs: he intends to avoid the shortage at Cana [A:105]. He joins Charley Murray’s older family party at the Rounders’ Club [MTM B5:162]. He claims to have made a fictional man who became real, named Oliver Oscar Omygosh in his account and Oscar Oliver Omygosh in the ensuing recollection. Bagby remembers the novelty-shop proprietor but rejects Papa’s claim to have created him [MTM B5:167-168]. Papa is dead by Duffey’s late visit to the Cat Castle [MTM B12:385].A:94; A:95; A:48; A:104; A:105; MTM B5:162; MTM B5:167-168; MTM B12:385
Piccone, Teresa (Theresa Antoinette Piccone, Show Boat, Showboat, Teresa Piccone Stranahan, Margie la Maga, La Maga-La Strega)
Theresa Antoinette Piccone, also called Teresa or Show Boat, is born in St. Louis on October 15, 1923, to Gaetano “Papa” Piccone, owner of the Star and Garter, and Marie Caterina Panebianco [A:94]. She is Beth Keegan’s goddaughter [MTM B5:162]. She marries Vincent Stranahan on the last Saturday of May 1946 [A:95] [A:113]. Patrick Stranahan calls her the Urchin [A:104]. Her shifting expressions make her difficult to describe; Duffey encounters her as a person of dazzling presence and great kindness [MTM B5:162-163] [MTM B5:180-181].She and Finnegan are the two central figures among Duffey’s creations [MTM B5:162]. She later disputes the language of creation: Duffey awakened their ancient selves and brought about their rebirth [MTM B7:233]. She identifies herself as Atalanta, only one part of her identity [MTM B7:234], and describes their talismans as pieces of the Holy Argo [MTM B5:179]. Before the assembled friends, she washes her hands, face, and hair in flame drawn from Duffey’s ashes [MTM B7:232-233].
On a New Orleans visit, she writes and sets an entire issue of the Bark, then produces a Show-Bill with an advertisement for the newly appearing Decatur Street Opera House. She also cooks elaborate Italian meals that her friends find difficult to eat [MTM B7:229-230]. Her street-preaching with Margaret Stone is disrupted by disguised hecklers, who prove to be Finnegan, Vincent, and Stein. Once she recognizes them, she turns the crowd against them [MTM B7:231-232].
Her intimacy with Finnegan crosses ordinary identities and time. He writes to her of a love only the two of them understand [A:146]; she describes his ghostly visits in a private letter [MTM B6:188]. He calls her a witch while she calls herself a magician and clairvoyante [A:108], and later, while studying his portraits, he identifies her with Anastasia [A:278]. In Archipelago, Chiara, Rafaello, and Theresa Anna belong to her uncertain twelve-year life with Finnegan; the text says her children with Vincent at that time have different names [A:204]. More Than Melchisedech later gives the same three names to her younger children with Vincent [MTM B12:385].
She writes to Dotty about Casey, Vincent, and the ordination she has attended [A:262-263]. She recommends Carmelo Mendoza to Duffey as a companion for his journeys [MTM B12:369]. After Duffey deeds her his half of the Rounders’ Club, she runs it with Vincent, who has inherited Charley Murray’s half [MTM B12:385]. She discusses the amnesia surrounding the Argo and recites a prophecy of its final cargoes [MTM B12:386] [MTM B12:388]. Near the end, a five-year-old Teresa recognizes the ghostly Duffey and speaks with him about Vincent’s uncertain life and their possible births [MTM B13:472].
A:94; MTM B5:162; A:95; A:113; A:104; MTM B5:162-163; MTM B5:180-181; MTM B7:233; MTM B7:234; MTM B5:179; MTM B7:232-233; MTM B7:229-230; MTM B7:231-232; A:146; MTM B6:188; A:108; A:278; A:204; MTM B12:385; A:262-263; MTM B12:369; MTM B12:386; MTM B12:388; MTM B13:472
Pig-Sticker
Duffey’s preferred name for the projected New Orleans magazine, which he considers direct and inclusive of its aims. Henry proposes Bark, and Finnegan’s support settles that choice [A:121].A:121
Pillar
The “Pillar and the Cloud” invoked by Absalom Stein when asking Duffey whether he had been in Egypt, the desert and Babylon with the Jews. Duffey then asks why Stein is a neo-Jew rather than a Christian [A:131]. The biblical background is the Lord’s guidance of Israel by a pillar of cloud by day and fire by night in Exodus 13:21-22.A:131
Pinne, Doppio di (Dopey the Seaman)
Seaman called Dopey, whose identity overlaps Finnegan’s. Patti calls Doppio di Pinne the same brother in another state [A:174]. Joe Cross notes the same size, shape and coloring, especially an alarming resemblance in peripheral vision; Finnegan, who remembers only having Dopey pointed out to him, sees little facial resemblance [D:65]. Dopey occupied Finnegan’s bunk on the Brunhilde. Joe reports that Papadiabolous entered the cabin and shut the door; three screams followed, but Joe found only Papa and a little blood. No body was produced. The account does not establish a locked door or an unambiguous killing [D:63-64]. Finnegan sometimes feels another presence in the bunk [D:64] [D:78]. A letter hidden behind an upper balk reveals Dopey’s bargain, hopes of wealth and power, the intended replacement of Finnegan, impatience that the “bugle nose” is still alive and fear that Dopey himself will die trapped [D:50-51] [D:78]. Papa first suspects that Finnegan killed Dopey or is Dopey with an altered nose [D:89]. Later he calls Dopey a fetch, ghost or absorbed double and admits uncertainty about who, if anyone, killed him. He describes Dopey as of the strange blood, a sometime killer brought by Seaworthy to kill Papadiabolous [D:121-122]. X’s later account links the intended victim to the old Papadiabolous and explains Seaworthy’s mistake of Finnegan for the hired killer [D:153]. While shaving, Finnegan sees Dopey in the mirror: the same coloring but coarser follicles and a different skin texture, dazed and afraid of the razor. Dopey says he is not dead and guesses he is there. After Finnegan smashes the mirror, its fragments still show Dopey with his eyes closed in tortured sleep [D:187-188].A:174; D:65; D:63-64; D:64; D:78; D:50-51; D:89; D:121-122; D:153; D:187-188
Pirates' Alley
New Orleans location where, according to Patricia Solli, Finnegan received his art instruction from drunken painters, apart from grade-school teaching by sisters [A:175]. Duffey also sells magazines there and around its studios [A:143]. Mary Virginia mentions the new painters around Pirates’ Alley among the attractions distracting Duffey from the Populist History [MTM B11:310].A:175; A:143; MTM B11:310
Pirogue, Candy Sue
One of three twenty-one-year-old women drawn by Honeybucket Kincaid’s frequency modulation to the dock where Duffey and Biloxi Brannagan are visiting. She arrives in a rowboat with Janeway Celeste Lynne, who introduces her as a cousin, and Etta Mae Mansion [MTM B13:419]. Candy Sue asks for Puff Fish despite finding them disgusting. After Duffey removes their frequency and existence, she can no longer remember their name [MTM B13:420–421].MTM B13:419; MTM B13:420–421
Plato (427--347 BC)
Greek philosopher, approximately 428/427-348/347 BC, a pupil of Socrates, founder of the Academy at Athens and teacher of Aristotle. His dramatic dialogues examine knowledge, ethics and politics; the Republic presents rule by philosophers, and his theory of Forms concerns intelligible, unchanging realities. His portrayal of Socrates is influential but is not a verbatim record of the historical man. Anastasia jokes that she and Finnegan could give Plato lessons: he was not very platonic, whereas they develop their own ideas [D:124]. The fictional Carmody Overlark lists broad-headed Plato among supposed Neanderthals in an epigraph from Studies in the Imagination [D:271].D:124; D:271
Plaza Hotel
Vast Sydney building described as the city’s center and a place where shimmering people pass pleasurable hours. It contains forty-eight bars, railway and tram stations, shops, arcades and clubs. Finnegan and Vincent arrive with Loy and Margaret, and Hans and Marie join them; Margie is Margaret, not an additional visitor [A:2-3]. During the Sergeant’s strange passage out of the hospital ward and island setting, he returns to Sydney and drinks gin there with Tom Shire and Freddy Castle [A:88].A:2-3; A:88
Pleistocene Ice Age, fourth
Stage of geological history in Vincent Stranahan’s Theory of the Uncreated Creation. He asks whether the earth could have been created ten minutes earlier, already descending from a fourth Pleistocene ice age and supplied with fossils, vestiges, carbon balances, atomic clocks and sediments suggesting fifteen hundred million years. This is his thought experiment about created evidence of age [A:56].A:56
Pliny the Elder (Gaius Plinius Secundus) (23/24--79 AD)
Gaius Plinius Secundus, approximately AD 23/24-79, Roman author, naturalist and naval commander. His Natural History is an encyclopedic account of the natural world and human knowledge. His nephew’s account describes him commanding the fleet at Misenum, taking ships to rescue people during the eruption of Vesuvius and dying at Stabiae. In Ignacio’s fanciful history of a cannon-fired lunar journey, Father Joseph Maintz takes Pliny’s Natural History along with the Bible, a missal, Augustine and Jerome [A:271].A:271
Poland
Country invoked in Casey’s hostile Crock editorial: he accuses the Bark of supporting clerical-reactionary elements and Gabrielovitch of opposing what Casey calls a rational Polish-Russian settlement [A:129-130]. X’s account places the birth of Ifreann Noonan Columkill Gregorovitch in a hayfield near Krakow [D:278-279]. Duffey’s Argonaut commentary identifies Prince Casimir with Poland [PG:536]. In Duffey’s encounter with Kasmir Gorshok, the stranger’s face resembles a map of Poland with its changing, lopsided outlines [MTM B13:425-426].A:129-130; D:278-279; PG:536; MTM B13:425-426
Polish
Language that the Sergeant says the Dirty Five taught the Jojos, who thought they were learning English while the Gorgios took it for Malay [A:73]. Casey is willing to learn Polish from his father, and the account of his hidden worlds says his father knew it [A:156] [A:159]. The adjective also occurs in Casey’s attack on Gabrielovitch’s support of the London Polish government [A:129], X’s account of Katie Noonan as a governess with a landed Polish family [D:279], and the description of Zabotski’s large Polish hands [MTM B11:343].A:73; A:156; A:159; A:129; D:279; MTM B11:343
Polly Polyglot (Mary Frances Rattigan)
Mary Frances Rattigan’s pen name for “Books Abroad” in the Crock during Duffey’s wartime editorship [A:41]. Under that name she supplies translations for the magazine [MTM B4:138].A:41; MTM B4:138
Pop skull whisky
Whiskey drunk by Shakes Pearson, Marie Monaghan’s uncle in her comic family story. She describes him drinking and continually shaking [A:25].A:25
Pope, Alexander (1688--1744)
Alexander Pope (1688-1744), English poet noted for heroic couplets and satire, including The Rape of the Lock and The Dunciad. An Essay on Criticism treats poetry and critical judgment; An Essay on Man examines humanity, morality and the order of the world. During the account of Casey’s problem of evil, Archipelago quotes the master passion growing “Like Aaron’s serpent” and swallowing the rest [A:154], from An Essay on Man, Epistle II, lines 121-122.A:154
Popotov, Sarkis
Russian resident of New Orleans whose account Margaret Stone quotes during the Royal Pop History episode. He has lived in the same place for forty years, but cannot remember the buildings that stood next door before the appearance of Artaguette Park. The park looks unfamiliar, though tourists assure him it will look familiar by the next day [MTM B11:309].MTM B11:309
Populus tremuloides
Aspen name used by X when comparing his trembling with trees and recalling his young wife. He calls Populus tremuloides the aspen of his own land and contrasts it with Populus grandidentata, using American and European labels [A:140-141]. His botanical comparison mixes the names: P. tremuloides and P. grandidentata are both native to North America, while the European or Eurasian aspen is P. tremula.A:140-141
Porpoise
Animal in Trinali’s account of driftwood in the Old Wood Graveyard: it has learned to leap like a dolphin and plunge like a porpoise [A:233]. Anastasia compares mermaids to porpoises because they must surface to breathe air [D:34]. The concluding account of bells says creatures from plankton to porpoises enjoy submerged bells and their signals [MB:575].A:233; D:34; MB:575
Port Said
Port named by Loy Larkin as a location of a Duffey’s Tavern, along with Cork and New York [A:2].A:2
Portae inferi non prevalebunt
“The gates of hell shall not prevail,” words from Matthew 16:18 on one of the banners of Henry’s dream ship Navicula Petri [A:44]. The novel spells the last word prevalebunt; the standard Latin biblical form is praevalebunt.A:44
Possession
Private Gregory’s proposed perfect ghost story: possession as hypnotism from beyond the grave by an immortal will. He identifies ghosts with devils and claims that powerful leaders can become shells inhabited by devils through a bargain for power. In his account, such possessed men do much of the world’s running [A:84-85].A:84-85
Pot, The
One college version of Casey Szymansky’s student Crocks, whose related names include Nattkarlet, Night Charley and Nocnik. At successive colleges he loses control of the papers within two or three weeks. The Pot subsequently circulates in a foul form; the account distinguishes this deterioration from Casey’s original, nonfilthy humor [A:167-168].A:167-168
Potator Incognitus, Sanctus Apostolus
“Holy Apostle, Unknown Drinker,” the playful invocation Show Boat uses in her letter to Dotty while defending Finnegan. Papa Piccone has told her an Italian legend of a tippling apostle, either Thomas, Bartholomew or Jude, who finished the abandoned wine yet converted tens of thousands; Papa cannot remember which apostle it was [A:262].A:262
Power Factor
Electrical term in entry XIV of Casey Szymansky’s high-school notebook. He defines it as the cosine of the phase-lag angle between voltage and current in an alternating-current circuit [A:162-163].A:162-163
Prague
City Vincent proposes visiting with Finnegan while trying to escape his approaching marriage: with his three thousand dollars and mustering-out money, they could sail to Venice and Prague. Finnegan answers with a joke about the sea-coast of Bohemia [A:112].A:112
Preadamite
Speculative element in the narrator’s description of Margaret Stone’s ancestry: she is Italian and Jewish, with “possibly a little” Preadamite in her [A:144].A:144
Prescott, Newton
Electronics repairman and designer who narrates “The Casey Machine.” He writes his journal as therapy for a compulsion to forget the events surrounding the machine [CM:503]. In Josephine McSorely’s account, he credits Casey with the impetus for the device, proposes giving its initially mental operation physical components, and describes using electrical discharges from the dead [CM:506–507]. In the addenda, Prescott doubts that he exists as an independent person and calls himself a minor aspect of Casey. He recalls Casey saying that he gave a splinter of his personality a ghostly body and the name Newton Prescott, to remain his eyes and ears after death [CM:515].CM:503; CM:506–507; CM:515
Presence
Hypnotic stage quality, paired with “the Mystic,” that Hans cannot develop during his apprenticeship with Professor Kirol. Although below the Professor’s class as a performer, Hans genuinely hypnotizes people in cases where the Professor sometimes fakes it; the narrator jokes that the real thing must serve when the counterfeit is beyond one’s ability [A:219].A:219
Priestism, Judas
One of the seven contemporary heads Bascom Bagby assigns to the old enemy. His full list is Dialectic Materialism, Artistic Degradation, Judas Priestism, Secular Liberalism, Panaceic Pentecostalism, Murderous Molochism and Atheistic Communism [MTM B5:169].MTM B5:169
Prince Casimir
Casey Szymansky’s medieval identity in Duffey’s Argonaut commentary: Prince and Saint Casimir of Poland, defender of the poor who thwarts the mighty and whose apparent death is a withdrawal from the world [PG:536]. Teresa also quotes a prophecy that the ghostly Duffey will carry Prince Casimir aboard the Argo to reign as Antichrist near Armageddon [MTM B12:388]. During the later voyage, the passenger is explicitly revealed as Peleus, Kasmir Gorshok, Prince Casimir, Casey and Antichristus, and is landed at Habonim near the Plains of Megiddo [MTM B13:462]. Duffey, Brannagan and Gunboat then leave this future, admitting they failed to prevent it this time and wondering about another chance [MTM B13:463].PG:536; MTM B12:388; MTM B13:462; MTM B13:463
Pristine Time
See Pristine World. This index heading refers to time in the Pristine World, whose chronology Zabotski distinguishes from that of the everyday world [MTM B9:279] [MTM B9:280].MTM B9:279; MTM B9:280
Pristine World
The world that Zabotski visits during absences of a day or two which contain years of experience [MTM B9:269] [MTM B9:271]. He calls it “the real and essential world,” occupying the same space as the Everyday-or-Molasses World without occupying it in the same way. In his account, it excludes duplicated and non-valid persons and situations, while adding much that ordinary history lacks [MTM B9:279]. He compares it to a film of a football game reduced from three hours of clock time to a few minutes containing the game’s complete essence. Its brevity therefore accompanies an abundance of experience: he can live overflowing years there during a day or two in the Molasses World [MTM B9:279]. Zabotski says he remains imperfectly accelerated for it and returns here to rest and see friends [MTM B9:277]. Duffey’s narrative confirms his own visit of three or five years, followed by a return in two days [MTM B9:284]. Zabotski’s Pristine History of the World approaches the Fundamentalers’ chronology by a different method, excluding duplication and non-validity rather than simply adopting their dates [MTM B9:279] [MTM B9:280].MTM B9:269; MTM B9:271; MTM B9:279; MTM B9:277; MTM B9:284; MTM B9:280
Prosody, Latin
Subject of Henry Salvatore’s seminary verse assignment, which ends Deus tam dilexit mundum! His instructor marks him down with the joke that Latin is not Italian enough to have italics and therefore cannot use them [A:149].A:149
Protagoras
Name used by Gregory McIfreann Papadiabolous, the Asiatic brother or Papadiabolous I, in X’s account of the brothers’ aliases [D:285]. It is also the name of Protagoras of Abdera, the Greek Sophist, approximately 490-420 BC.D:285
Psychosis, Korsakof's
Finnegan’s own name for his condition when the Travelers’ Aid woman questions his confusion and memory loss in a railway station. He calls it “Korsakofs Psychosis,” declines a doctor, and says doctors blame drinking, as they did with his father [A:243-244]. Korsakoff syndrome is a severe memory disorder associated with thiamine deficiency and often chronic alcohol misuse; the novel’s identification remains Finnegan’s self-report.A:243-244
Pula
Tagalog word for red or redness. Amoy says it after Ignatius Ti describes an earlier bird incarnation as a crow or blackbird; Ti freely expands the reply into the statement that Amoy was a red-winged blackbird [A:80].A:80
Purgatory
Afterlife realm appearing in several different voices. The narrator’s fantastic account of Black Papua says its inhabitants die nightly, visit Purgatory and return shaken with instructions from the dead [A:37]. Professor Kirol places Purgatory, Hell and Heaven within the spiritual universe already surrounding us [A:214]. Show Boat wishes Vincent a long afternoon in Purgatory when he challenges her use of “inordinate” in the tale of the tippling apostle [A:262]. Cardinal Salvatore locates the dead Bascom Bagby on Purgatory’s north slope [MTM B12:384]; Bagby’s posthumous letters describe work, strengthened passions and complex relationships outside ordinary time [MTM B8:248-249]. Patrick describes a particularly shabby, dank, mud-colored section where persistent makers compulsively form things over and over [MTM B12:391]. Bagby’s commentary places Casey among the Poor Souls, repairing the exhausted scapegoats that bring them further burdens from the living [PG:546].A:37; A:214; A:262; MTM B12:384; MTM B8:248-249; MTM B12:391; PG:546
Purple Prince
One of the adversaries of the Argo Masters, named with the Evil Prince, the Mocking Prince and the Laughing Prince. The narrative calls this group among the most formidable of the Masters’ opponents, while suggesting that the Laughing Prince of Tartary may be the most powerful and trickiest of them [MTM B13:437].MTM B13:437
Putiphar
Biblical name the narrator gives Adrian Shapiro, the wealthy, well-connected husband of Mercedes. Finnegan is commissioned to paint Mercedes and sees an opening into a dazzling circle. Her playfulness casts him as a goatish Joseph: he departs with his coat but leaves his paints of many colors, fearing ridicule rather than imprisonment and welcoming an excuse to return to the road [A:193].A:193
Putty
Material whose recipe Casey records in entry XVII of his high-school notebook: chalk and linseed oil [A:162] [A:164].A:162; A:164
Pygmies
Patrick Stranahan’s belittling contrast to giants when he tells Father McGuigan that the Church’s age of giants has ended and an age of pygmies is beginning [A:110]. The inherited glossary also records “They never knew the race of pygmies” from the Paean, concerning the early Argonauts; that preliminary text is absent from the available Archipelago edition, so the quotation remains unverified.A:110
Pythagoras
Greek thinker from Samos, approximately 570-490 BC, who established a religious way of life in southern Italy associated with the transmigration of souls and an ordered, harmonious cosmos. Later tradition emphasizes mathematics and the theorem bearing his name, but a proof by Pythagoras himself is not securely attested. In the discussion of Casey’s problem of evil, the narrator attributes to him a catalogue dividing qualities into good and evil, then calls it incomplete [A:154]. This echoes the Pythagorean table of opposites reported by Aristotle, Metaphysics I.5; the novel reverses the traditional positions of odd and even.A:154
Pythagoras (c. 570--c. 495 BC)
Earlier heading supplied an approximate death date differing from the date used in the checked account. See Pythagoras.Quantum law
The narrator’s term for the threshold needed to ring an old rope-operated church bell in an Iowa town during one of Duffey’s childhoods: an insufficient pull produces no movement. A fat altar boy normally supplies the necessary weight. When that boy has pneumonia, eight-year-old Duffey, weighing sixty-three pounds, takes his place [MTM B1:14]. Duffey commands an invisible giant to help; the giant’s hand itself is visible to the other boys and successfully pulls the rope [MTM B1:15].MTM B1:14; MTM B1:15
Quarter
New Orleans neighborhood in which Finnegan and Dotty revisit friends, carouse, talk and visit her former workplace while avoiding the noisier jazz haunts Finnegan dislikes [A:115]. He knows everyone there and claims to have grown up in its heart, while Patti places their home in Irish Channel [A:175]. During his later confusion, it becomes a spinning, gin-soaked city of altered street names and apparently part-animal people, mixing remembered and future places from other cities [A:200-201]. Margaret Stone reports that people in the Quarter have been drinking Green Ladies during the transformations surrounding the Pop History meetings: like peppermint schnapps, but with absinthe replacing the schnapps [MTM B11:309].A:115; A:175; A:200-201; MTM B11:309
Queen (Virgin Queen)
Protective figure in the Tristram-and-Isolde ballad opening the Casey chapter of Archipelago. Isolde dreams of standing before a pit, guarded by the Virgin Queen’s watchful hands [A:151]. Later she recalls them as holy hands and asks to return, yet finally feels drawn toward the pit and Tristram’s distant island despite the storm [A:152].A:151; A:152
Quest Accomplished motif
The Fourteenth Voyage of the Argo, presented among the alternatives of Duffey’s world, is the “Quest Accomplished” motif: the fleece has been found, the moment of finding endures, and continuing beatitudes promise Final Beatitude [MTM B10:300]. The opening poem of Vincent’s chapter likewise makes the Dirty Five sailors on the ancient Argo in search of golden cargo [A:91].MTM B10:300; A:91
Questions 382, 383 (Baltimore Catechism)
Questions quoted as numbers 382 and 383 in the Casey Machine epigraph. The just rise glorious and immortal; its explanation describes bodies shining like the sun, swift as thought, able to penetrate matter, beautiful and free of pain or change. The damned also rise but receive eternal punishment. The following narration applies bodily splendor and penetration of time to the Casey condition [CM:511]. The same basic questions are numbered 418 and 419 in the consulted Baltimore Catechism text.CM:511
Quick, Catherine
One of Duffey’s Chicago friends of a scientific bent [MTM B3:99] and one of the adult women he loves [MTM B4:111]. She appears among the women with whom photographs show him playing the funny lover in the blackmail portfolio associated with Hugo Stone [MTM B4:139]. In Proud & Glorious, Stein names her among the scientific friends he has consulted about brain-reading and mind-reading [PG:539].MTM B3:99; MTM B4:111; MTM B4:139; PG:539
Quintessence of Ibsenism
George Bernard Shaw’s The Quintessence of Ibsenism, read by Casey in high school. His notebook uses it to illustrate his rule to read originals: books about Shaw did not explain Shaw to him, and Shaw’s book did not explain Ibsen, so he had to read each author directly [A:166].A:166
Quirt, The Milford
Whip in the turbaned Pop History speaker’s nostalgic list. A specially enduring flagstone on Decatur Street remembers its snap and swish along with those of other whips and the traffic of horses, carriages, streetcars and automobiles [MTM B11:329].MTM B11:329
Quo vadis, filia mea?
“Where are you going, my daughter?” The old church-tower bells ask this in the Tristram-and-Isolde ballad, as Isolde fears the storm and the voyage toward the island [A:151-152]. It may echo Peter’s question to Christ, “Lord, where are you going?”, in the apocryphal Acts of Peter 35, where Christ’s answer turns Peter back toward Rome and martyrdom.A:151-152
R.C.s
Abbreviation for Roman Catholics. Salvation Sally guesses Marie and Hans are R.C.s from their flippancy about the Second Coming, though they alone have contributed to her cup. She calls established churches traps and theirs the deepest. Marie speaks the French sentence about Rome's power; Sally answers that she knows that power, adding that she knows Bohemia's heresy too [A:8].A:8
Rabat
Moroccan city on the Atlantic coast, called at by the Brunhilde after Casablanca and before Tangier on its northward voyage [D:101].D:101
Rabbit raising
One of the small arts and activities the narrator says were trashed during the cultural decline following the Devil's release [MTM B6:207]. The catalogue concludes that these activities have lost their class and style [MTM B6:208].MTM B6:207; MTM B6:208
Racquets
Game advertised on the sign of Duffey's Rounders' Club in St. Louis, an establishment for gentlemen rounders offering racquets, whist, poker, horseshoes and other amusements [MTM B2:49]. Charley Murray subsequently becomes its half owner [MTM B2:53].MTM B2:49; MTM B2:53
Rafelson, Doctor Saul
Chicago analyst whom Duffey and Letitia call Doctor Raffles. He never releases Duffey as cured and considers a cure impossible. He catalogues Duffey's fantasies: Child of God, Child of Gold, Master of Ebony Slaves, Master of Giants, Riding King, Boy King, Miracle Worker, immense age, successive and parallel lives, a many-layered self, the monster within, living shadows, conferring power, making people, the company of elites, conferring talismans and lives, and saving the world by his intervention. Rafelson calls these ordinary fantasies of unhealthy boys' minds; Duffey's extraordinary quality is making them happen. He has seen weaker examples in two other patients [MTM B4:146]. He considers psychic projections, captured real people and independent split images as explanations. Two freestanding images he analyzes have healthy, intelligent, substantial bodies; one donates blood. These images are distinct from Duffey's twelve creations, which Rafelson interprets as aspects of monumental egomania. He acknowledges Duffey's magic and entertains the possibility of a topological inversion placing the world within Duffey. The twelve are contingent: if they attain congruent fulfillment they will always have existed, with a past supplied by preternatural plot construction; otherwise they will never have existed [MTM B4:147]. He warns that three embodied unrealities might murder Duffey and have already tried. He believes Duffey's phenomena bear on overlapping persons, creator and created, shared reality and the meaning of matter, but refuses to pursue the implications because they frighten him [MTM B4:148].MTM B4:146; MTM B4:147; MTM B4:148
Raft racing
One of the activities the narrator says were trashed during the cultural decline following the Devil's release; it appears among minor arts and recreations said to have lost their class and style [MTM B6:207-208].MTM B6:207-208
Rag music
Music played on two victrolas, one cylinder and one disc, in the soundproof attic billiard room at the house of Lily Koch's relatives during the first compulsory school dance. Duffey, Charley Murray, John Rattigan, Sebastian Hilton, Lily, Mary Anne Michaels, Sedalia Schoefeld and Edith O'Dwyer dance there away from the formal gathering [MTM B1:33]. A player piano supplies rag music during Beth Keegan's balloon dinner party; a serving man pumps it, and Beth takes over while the after-dinner wine is served. The Black Midnight Rag accompanies Duffey's descent [MTM B2:65-66].MTM B1:33; MTM B2:65-66
Ragosa, the
Earlier heading altered the source’s printed Ragosy to Ragosa. See Ragosy, the.Ragosy, the
The source's spelling is Ragosy. Gabby Gabrielovitch tells Stein that the Argosy is really the Ragosy, a fleet out of Ragusa in Illyria, and that Ragusa was the original Iolcus [A:127]. This is Gabby's account of the Argonaut tradition.A:127
Ragusa
Historical Latin name of Dubrovnik. Gabby Gabrielovitch identifies Ragusa as a city of Illyria, the original Iolcus and the home of the fleet he calls the Ragosy, underlying the name Argosy [A:127]. His Iolcus identification belongs to the novel's account of the Argonaut tradition.A:127
Raleigh, Sir Walter
English courtier, explorer and colonial promoter, born in the early 1550s and executed under James I in 1618. Favored by Elizabeth I, he sponsored the Roanoke colonial expeditions and published The Discovery of Guiana in 1596. Dotty recalls the thought that whoever knows only land knows only half the world and is only half a person; she cannot remember whether Raleigh wrote it or Finnegan said it [A:280].A:280
Ramires
Elena Musquiz's husband, who recognizes Finnegan after seven years when they find him near D'Hannis following his 105-hour ordeal in the chaparral [A:203]. Elena carries Finnegan to their cart; the couple, traveling to Sunday Mass, bring him to help [A:203] [A:206].A:203; A:206
Randwick
The novel's spelling of Randwick racecourse in Sydney, now Royal Randwick. Finnegan initially takes Ranwick for a bar. He remarks that the horses run clockwise, or backwards, and Hans offers a comic explanation involving the Coriolis effect [A:3-4]. Finnegan, Vincent, Hans, Marie and the stewardesses Loy and Margaret go there, meet Australian soldiers Tom Shire and Freddy Castle, win bets, drink beer and watch the ponies from the infield. The course is the best the boys have seen, with perhaps twenty thousand spectators [A:2-4].A:3-4; A:2-4
Rang-Dang-Doo
Valley in Don Lewis's story of three servicemen, Sergeant Santee, Corporal Casper and PFC Lorrigan, who kill an apparent Japanese soldier they call Yokipoki and become lost. Lewis admits being one of the three but withholds which [D:44]. The surrounding maze includes Cotton-Picker Valley, Pepper-Belly Valley, Hound Dog, Horse Collar, Dog-Dirt Draw, Jackass Flats, Little Joker Canyon, Aching Back, Slit Trench, Sore-Head Gulch, Little Fat-Head and Big Fat-Head [D:45-46].D:44; D:45-46
Rangoon
Former English name of Yangon, Myanmar. The poem opening Finnegan's chapter places Rangoon among Roi, Kandi, Kuri and Cai in an imagined region of eternal summer [A:171].A:171
Ranwick
Ranwick is the spelling used in the novel for the Sydney racecourse. See Randwick.Ranwick, Edward
Art-school acquaintance in Duffey's St. Louis circle. Duffey's outings with Mary Louise Byrne and Beth Keegan include one of Charley Murray, Edward or Philip Manford, the music-school student. They sometimes ride in Duffey's carriage and sometimes in Manford's Overland automobile. At the Bavarian Club Edward compares the strong blonde hostesses to brewery horses, a likeness the narrator disputes. Edward already has a reputation at art school, but Duffey dismisses his work as skinny art [MTM B2:58].MTM B2:58
Rasputin, Grigori
Russian religious figure Grigori Rasputin (1869-1916), named among the broad-headed visionaries in the fictional Carmody Overlark's Studies in the Imagination epigraph. The passage speculates about a back-brain type, supposed Neanderthal traits, criminality, religious pathfinding, prophecy, poetry and invention [D:270-272]. Its remark attributed to Santana concerns mystics' ugly faces generally, rather than making an individual judgment about Rasputin [D:271].D:270-272; D:271
Rat
Finnegan recognizes rats by their smell when he wakes bloody in a foul dump; the surrounding language of shipwreck and Odysseus is figurative [A:177]. In Don Lewis's story, large rats make the sounds and movements in Yokipoki's grave that Lewis initially takes for the dead soldier's return [D:47]. The river rats at Demetrio's bar are human patrons described by that slang term [D:58].A:177; D:47; D:58
Rat-leaf palm
Two palms under which X and Finnegan take cover after Finnegan notices the glint of a rifle scope during their graveyard conversation with Doll Delaney [D:291]. They are visiting the grave marked I.N.C.G.P. Bogovitch [D:277].D:291; D:277
Rattigan, John
Chicago boarding-school friend of Duffey, Charley Murray and Sebastian Hilton, about two years older than Duffey, with a witty look and a calculating grin. A resourceful trader, he knows wholesalers and clandestinely sells sundries, candy, fruit, tobacco, gadgets and new and used books [MTM B1:22]. Refused a talisman, he copies Duffey's and tricks him into holding the copy; Duffey thinks he understands only half the process. In another school-year identity he is Delbert Dugan [MTM B1:23-24]. He climbs walls like a monkey and sells a hundred books a week, sharing the business with Duffey [MTM B1:25]. Their merchandise sales run three nights weekly after curfew by candle or kerosene light. Rattigan wears a green eyeshade; Duffey pirates his mind and thinking fingers and eyes to learn money's worth [MTM B1:26]. Though himself thirteen, Rattigan admits only students sixteen or older to his whisky bar, charging ten cents for watered whisky and clearing seven. Curiously modest, he undresses in darkness and removes his eyeshade last [MTM B1:27]. He knows girls but not “girls,” in the narrator's distinction [MTM B1:31], and becomes very friendly with Sedalia Schoefeld at the attic dance [MTM B1:33]. Duffey later remembers him among school friends who knew him as a disguised king [MTM B13:464].MTM B1:22; MTM B1:23-24; MTM B1:25; MTM B1:26; MTM B1:27; MTM B1:31; MTM B1:33; MTM B13:464
Rattigan, Mary Frances (Polly Polyglot)
Translator who contributes to the Crock's “Books Abroad” material under the name Polly Polyglot while Duffey runs the magazine during Casey's army service [A:41] [MTM B4:138]. The narrator calls her one of the quasi-creatures of a talisman that only half worked [MTM B3:99]. As a girl of eight or nine, she visits Duffey's Chicago bookstore and is involved, often with Ethyl Ellenberger, in his funny-uncle wrestling on the old black leather sofa. The narration explicitly questions its harmlessness when he is alone with Mary Frances [MTM B4:111]; compromising photographs of such encounters appear in the later portfolio [MTM B4:139]. She is subsequently listed as Mary Frances Rattigan (Gompers) among the gathering at Pelican Press [MTM B12:383].A:41; MTM B4:138; MTM B3:99; MTM B4:111; MTM B4:139; MTM B12:383
Rattle-snakes
During his 105 hours in the chaparral Finnegan may have visited the rattlesnakes' ancestral city; the narration leaves the experience uncertain and allows that he may have seen more than was there [A:203-205]. The following buffalo episode, rather than the rattlesnake city, is located in Frio County [A:205]. The sidewinder, Crotalus cerastes, also supplies a possible explanation learned by Niccolo Crotolus's employers for his nickname Nick the Rattle; he offers a family-name and castanet explanation himself [A:279].A:203-205; A:205; A:279
Ravel, Alexi
Tenant in Zabotski's apartment building near Duffey's own place. After Duffey returns from the Fifth Contingency to an ordinary Monday he has already lived, Ravel confronts him about a dream in which Duffey abandoned him to die [MTM B12:354-356]. Duffey recognizes the neglected, unsplendid bit of trash as Ravel in mortal agony and feels ashamed. Ravel rejects the excuse that it was only a dream, spits in disgust and goes back inside [MTM B12:356].MTM B12:354-356; MTM B12:356
Ravenna
City in northeastern Italy. In the poem opening Finnegan's chapter, the speaker reports being told Ravenna is sweet in spring [A:171-172].A:171-172
Raviola Joe aka Giuseppe Gabrielangelo
Giuseppe Gabrielangelo, nicknamed Raviola Joe, one of the Company of Fifty associated with Galveston's Old Wooden Ship [D:216]. With Saddle-Sore Sandy and Bay-Rum Johnny he is described as unkempt and uncouth beside the establishment's otherwise high standards [D:224].D:216; D:224
Razzle Daz
Duffey's comic strip in the Crock, whose characters include Finnegan, Hans and Show Boat. Marie praises inclusion in it as the summit of splendor but disputes Duffey's account of creating their souls: she says he collects them from old junk stories and provides a new setting and sparkle, while he insists that he made them. Dotty threatens to change the danger awaiting her [MTM B5:159]. Finnegan is John Solli, Hans is John Schultz and Show Boat is Teresa Piccone [MTM B5:161].MTM B5:159; MTM B5:161
Reading
Pennsylvania city on the Pittsburgh bus route from Newark, via Allentown. Finnegan sends Doll Delancy to buy tickets for both Pittsburgh and Baltimore [D:169-170]. She explains that the Pittsburgh bus goes through Reading rather than Philadelphia; they ultimately take the Baltimore bus and get off in Philadelphia [D:170-171].D:169-170; D:170-171
Real Presence
Doctrine Margaret Stone proclaims on Dauphin Street at midnight, defending the urgency of preaching to people whose only home is the nighttime street [A:144]. She later reports that men claiming to be assassins of the Jebel Shammar sect threaten her unless she stops preaching it at night, when they claim their jealous Djinn is the only Real Presence. Margaret doubts the sect exists: the three men attend Tulane and may be joking [MTM B7:225].A:144; MTM B7:225
Rebeka Stein
Absalom Stein's daughter, sent to Ursuline Academy at her mother's insistence for a narrower education after her earlier education had become too broad [MTM B9:264-266]. She joins Crissie Cristofero, Therese Doucet and Cleo Mahoney at the Ghost Coffee Shop to discuss Seven Roads with Duffey [MTM B10:293]. Fifteen years old, she has known him all her life. She interprets the play's potholes as appropriately ridiculous, incongruous dream-transformation activators dredged from Cleo's unconscious and warns Duffey where he steps [MTM B10:294]. She calls Crissie a sibyl or pythoness for producing prophetic couplets without understanding them [MTM B10:295]. Against the complaint that the ongoing quest is a broken record, Rebeka insists its repeated excellence cannot be excessive [MTM B10:296]. After the seventh contingency she wishes Crissie understood her own verses, which would make their work easier [MTM B10:297].MTM B9:264-266; MTM B10:293; MTM B10:294; MTM B10:295; MTM B10:296; MTM B10:297
Red Crow
Erroneous heading for Old Crow. The bottle with an inch remaining when Finnegan wakes in the dump and the whisky in his Texas shoulder-bag are both explicitly called Old Crow [A:177] [A:202]. See Old Crow.A:177; A:202
Red Decade
The narrator's name for the 1930s, when an aggressive ideological element is said to be especially strong in Chicago while extending across cities and persons. It is one deadly head of the old monster. This follows the account of Shirley Israel's salon circle trying to use Duffey and of the trashy campaign that savages him; the narrator also places most university and newspaper people under the red influence [MTM B4:137]. A later passage describes the mass emergence of deformed counterparts to the bright arts after the Devil's release [MTM B6:207].MTM B4:137; MTM B6:207
Red Dog Motor Freight Line
Schaeffer-family trucking business for which Henry Salvatore drives after leaving the sea; through that work he meets Mary Virginia Schaeffer [A:124]. Its routes run from Galveston and Houston to Morgan City and New Orleans and also cover Baton Rouge, Shreveport, Port Arthur, Orange and Beaumont. Mary Virginia transfers to its New Orleans terminal and works both for the company and with Dotty on the Bark and other projects [MTM B6:198].A:124; MTM B6:198
Red Fisters
Sardinians who, Margaret Stone says, threaten to wear her guts as scarves. Yet she meets them over dawn coffee at Messina's or Anthony Ghost's, tells them a shaggy-duck joke and hears that they let her live to tell the next one despite calling her a Whore of Rome. She finds the silent Slant-Faced Men much more frightening [MTM B7:225].MTM B7:225
Red Fox
One of the ships on Angela Cosquin's father's master map of fifty or more real or imaginary treasure wrecks. Prospective buyers could select a ship and even alter its location before commissioning a forged treasure map and supporting papers [D:260-261].D:260-261
Red Ridge
Words on axe heads in Duffey's childhood catalogue of iron inscriptions, alongside Hubbard's and Jamestown. He appropriates many such household details from other people's minds and loves the stolen words [MTM B1:17].MTM B1:17
Red River
River north of the Cajun country in the narrator's deliberately extravagant account: people south of it were already speaking Cajun, driving buggies, raising rice, attending Mass, trapping muskrats and drinking poor wine and beer before Rome was built [A:124].A:124
Red Rooster
Erroneous heading for Black Rooster, one of Don Barnaby's named varieties of joy pills, alongside Haiti hoodoo, High Harry, Deep Romany and Dead Frenchman [D:248]. See Black Rooster.D:248
Red Sea
Sea in Anastasia Demetriades's account of mermaid history. Mermaids whose ancestral home was the Cyclades had reached the Red Sea by Alexander's time, by an unknown route; later, after their medieval peak, they disappeared from both the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf [D:34-36].D:34-36
“Red Sky in the Morning”
Poem in the collection of Kasmir Szymansky's work, following Demetrio Glauch's introductory assessment. Its speaker rejects rescuing the “nobly lost,” fears the blade and severed head, and accuses God of failing to recognize certain shades of red [PG:519-520]. The preceding discussion of Casey's faults, failures and elective affinities is Glauch's introduction, not an essay by Casey [PG:518-519].PG:519-520; PG:518-519
Red-headed women
Loy says camel drivers in one port rejected her and Margaret because they considered red-headed women witches; Vincent agrees with the label [A:2]. Loy Larkin and Margaret Murphy are red-headed Sydney companions [A:2] [A:5-6], as are Marie [A:24] and the later picnic companions Virginia and Dorothy [A:29]. In Hans's meditation on Marie's appearance, the narration also describes the Virgin in early Flemish Annunciations as red-headed and green-eyed [A:24].A:2; A:5-6; A:24; A:29
Redfox, Margery
Member of Duffey's Chicago golden-age circle, listed among its slippery people as Marjory Redfox [MTM B3:100]. Under the spelling Margery, she joins the salon supper but, unlike the other named women, does not hiss at Demetrio when he leaves [MTM B4:127]. She attends Morris Poor's challenge to Duffey's powers and asks where the nearest mule can be found for a demonstration [MTM B4:128-129].MTM B3:100; MTM B4:127; MTM B4:128-129
Redheart, Elroy
Artist of a four-chambered red-heart autobiographical construction in porcelain or ceramic. Duffey has displayed it several times; Hennessy has it when Bagby sees it. Redheart sells some miniature paintings and statuettes out of it when hungry and makes replacements, so it changes somewhat [MTM B7:221]. Its scenes move from rural youth and a dead Jill of Hearts to opulence and war, with a mutilated, bone-thin Jack of Hearts [MTM B7:221-222]. The later Jack and a beautiful, adventurous woman inhabit a more feverish world. Hot artificial colors signify artificial sins, while cheap Hong Kong plastic figures and prismatic reflections deliberately represent cheapness without careless workmanship [MTM B7:223]. The woman finally pins her Queen of Hearts card to her extracted heart; the fourth chamber is vacant and offers an optional noose. Bagby pays Hennessy one thousand dollars and has the work sent directly to St. Louis [MTM B7:224].MTM B7:221; MTM B7:221-222; MTM B7:223; MTM B7:224
Redwine, Katherine
Named with Martin Redwine among the ecclesial or vineyard people of Duffey's Chicago golden age, the group the narrator credits with keeping the world turning [MTM B3:98-99].MTM B3:98-99
Redwine, Martin
Named with Katherine Redwine among the ecclesial or vineyard people of Duffey's Chicago golden age, the group the narrator credits with keeping the world turning [MTM B3:98-99].MTM B3:98-99
Regal brewery
Brewery that sends Duffey a keg of beer every week. Added to his continually simmering charitable soup, it changes the flavor for a while [A:133-134].A:133-134
Regnum Dei auferetur
“The kingdom of God will be taken away,” the opening line of Henry Salvatore's seminary assignment in Latin prosody. The poem continues over the next page and ends Deus tam dilexit mundum; his instructor marks it down with a joke that Latin cannot have italics because it is not Italian enough [A:148-149].A:148-149
Reid, Jenny
Tennis player listed with Peter Reid among the sporty people in Duffey's Chicago golden-age circle [MTM B3:98-99]. She is also among the adult women whom the narrator says Duffey loved [MTM B4:111].MTM B3:98-99; MTM B4:111
Reid, Peter
Tennis player listed with Jenny Reid among the sporty people in Duffey's Chicago golden-age circle [MTM B3:98-99].MTM B3:98-99
Reilly, Lazarus
Proprietor of Galveston's Old Wooden Ship, whose Company of Fifty regulars live at the establishment [MTM B13:458]. Having taken the lesson about entertaining angels unaware to heart, he refuses no newcomer and gives rooms, beds, beer credit and small loans, hoping not to slight a disguised angel. Enough guests eventually pay some of the time to sustain the others. The narrator reveals that barmaid Soft-Talk Susie Kutz really is an angel unaware, whose favorably shaded reports help the Ship prosper [D:215-216].MTM B13:458; D:215-216
Remember It
Memory-jog capsule implanted in Newton Prescott's brain and tuned to preserve the whole idea of the Casey Machine [CM:503] [CM:512]. He anticipates people stepping out of the revelatory Moment and forgetting it. Even under specific, directed amnesia, he expects the implant to bring him nearer remembering than anyone else, rather than guarantee perfect recall [CM:513].CM:503; CM:512; CM:513
Renard Volante
“Flying Fox,” one of the French venturer ships on Angela Cosquin's father's master map of fifty or more real or imaginary treasure wrecks. Buyers choose wrecks and locations from the master map to commission detailed fraudulent treasure maps [D:260-261].D:260-261
Repertoire theatre
One of the popular arts the narrator says were trashed after the Devil's release, in a broad loss of class and style [MTM B6:207-208].MTM B6:207-208
Requiem
Prayer for eternal rest and perpetual light for the dead. Don Lewis abbreviates it to “Requiem” and “lux perpetua and all that” after removing Yokipoki's boots, gagging him, binding his wrists and ankles, bandaging his eyes and burying him in the valley mud. He then drinks to the dead man and calls it Christian burial [D:46].D:46
Resurrection
Return from death, literal or figurative in several distinct passages. Finnegan calls Anastasia the resurrection after she washes him, treats his wounds and restores his respectability with an electric shaver [D:16]; he later teases her as Little Miss Resurrection [D:33]. Mr. X, not Saxon X. Seaworthy, tells Finnegan that deaths are easier to explain than resurrections while they discuss the buried Papadiabolous and his apparent return; their conversation identifies the substitute as the Irish policeman Noonan or Flaherty [D:153-154]. Patrick Stranahan invokes the Sadducees' disbelief against their supposed modern counterparts [A:110]. Trinali's wine poem calls the making of wine the birth of a god, Resurrection and Life [A:231]. Enemies gather to prevent Count Finnegan's emergence from his sea cave after word of his Resurrection reaches them [MTM B12:374]. John Mogul places on Cardinal Gabrailovitch's monument the words about becoming a witness of His resurrection; the same epitaph is repeated in the list of murdered cardinals [MB:578] [MB:589].D:16; D:33; D:153-154; A:110; A:231; MTM B12:374; MB:578; MB:589
Resurrection of Count Finnegan, The
Twelve-by-eight-foot, sea-sounding painting by John Solli (Finnegan), received at Duffey's New Orleans art bijou in the mid-1950s and initially taken for a magnificent joke [MB:550]. A Latin scroll identifies the half-risen figure in the ocean-cave crypt as Papal Count Finnegan. He stands partly in dark-green water and partly in bright-green air, replacing a long strip of fallen flesh and preparing to mend other decay. He looks thirty years older than Finnegan at his reported death, which this account places two or three years before the painting's arrival. His banana nose has become noble, his artist's hands more intricate, his eyes combine humor and torment, and his strength, speed and apparently moving mouth remain recognizable. His flesh shows simultaneous transfiguration and corruption, a sea change of the uncoffined dead; a possible winding sheet hangs in tatters and old traveling clothes await him [MB:551]. The cave-roof fissure also divides the composition from the Annunciation of Joseph Cardinal Hedayat of Antioch in a Syrian or Lebanese scene. The aged Hedayat and Finnegan are identical in appearance despite their younger selves' differences [MB:552]. Duffey sells it to Hilary Hilton for twenty thousand dollars, but Hilton leaves it in the bijou for its possible role in the foretold events [MB:553]. It hangs there at least thirty years [MB:554]. Duffey later uses it as a clue with Carmelo Mendoza; a description attributed to the fictional How Many Miles to Babylon is quoted in the account [MTM B12:367-369].MB:550; MB:551; MB:552; MB:553; MB:554; MTM B12:367-369
Retiarius
Roman gladiator or net-man armed with a net and trident. The image describes Saxon X. Seaworthy's trapping tactics: Papa Devil fears his Hawk will be caught by a waiting retiarius [D:123], and the old net-man waits aboard the Brunhilde with Gerecke and Wirt during the Naxos raid [D:136]. Later Finnegan's own trap fails while Seaworthy, explicitly named as the old net-man, has already cast a net around him [D:230].D:123; D:136; D:230
Return of the Neanderthal, The
Fictional book by Royce Rollins, subtitled The Alien Within, presented through Charles O. A. Harrington's hostile review in Science for Today [D:240-242]. Its thesis is that defeated Neanderthals survive both as isolated elites and within human bloodlines, periodically producing primordials bent on destroying humanity. It attributes apparitions, doubles, second sight and related powers to them [D:241]. Rollins nevertheless appeals to returnees of good will to resist their destructive fellows and allows in an appendix that they might be Grimaldi or another ancient people rather than Neanderthals [D:242].D:240-242; D:241; D:242
Revision and/or correction of history
The Royal Pop Historians' project in Duffey's Fifth Contingency [MTM B12:354]: alter people, places and remembered history while presenting the imposed result as what always existed. Margaret describes vanished buildings replaced by apparently ancient parks whose former sites people can no longer recall [MTM B11:307-310]. The lecturers claim that all history is present now and available for reconstruction and revision [MTM B11:324-325]. Hugh de Turenne announces the Black Sea's destruction to expunge Himself's imprisonment and weaken Colchis, the Argo and the Fleece; he and Cyrus Roundhead deny that the sea, Athens, Rome or Jerusalem ever existed. Their historical sessions alternate with violent hunts for human remnants [MTM B11:336-337].MTM B12:354; MTM B11:307-310; MTM B11:324-325; MTM B11:336-337
Rhine
River where Finnegan's verse imagines a hut on a rock, among several prospective homes. Dotty finds the stanza among his worn papers; the narration describes it as marked through but later questions whether the marks really indicate cancellation [A:173].A:173
Rhineland Reverie
One of the nine proposed volumes under which Endymeon Ellenbogen classifies his uncollected, unpublished poetry, which he says he nevertheless recites without invitation [A:237].A:237
Rhinelander
Wisconsin town used to locate Hans Schultz's childhood home: St. Gallen lies in the northern lake country beyond Rhinelander and not far from Eagle River [A:207].A:207
Rhodes
Island Finnegan names among several possible origins of the Hawk while he and Anastasia keep their Naxos vigil; she declines to specify where the boat will come from [D:131]. In Anastasia's mermaid history, Rhodes has had no authentic sighting for more than three hundred years, part of a retreat toward the Cyclades [D:35-36].D:131; D:35-36
Rice ribby
Dish Aunt Gertrude Brannagan prepares during Finnegan's stay in Biloxi. The narrator celebrates her extravagant cooking by saying the whole world gapes in amazement when she makes rice ribby [D:201] [D:208].D:201; D:208
Richard of England (Richard I 'Lionheart,'1157-1199)
Richard I, the Lionheart (1157-1199), king of England from 1189. In the Argo's legendary history, told by the talking oak in its wheel, King Richard recaptures the ship from the Saracens [MTM B13:404].MTM B13:404
Rico, Ron
Earlier heading inverted a rum brand as though it were a person’s name. See Ron Rico.Rifle shooting
One of the minor arts the narrator says were trashed, losing class and style, during the cultural decline after the Devil's release [MTM B6:207-208].MTM B6:207-208
Riflemen (Two)
Two unnamed riflemen in a boat initially three hundred yards off the rocky shore near Count Finnegan's sea cave [MB:555]. After the shore assassin drops a depth charge and falls into the water, the boat closes to under fifty yards. The riflemen riddle a man thrown upward by the water, then another man or the same man again. The narration leaves their victims unidentified and allows that Finnegan escapes beneath the shark and boat, leaving two enemies dead [MB:556-557]. The action is on Cuba's Mariano Coast near Havana [MB:557].MB:555; MB:556-557; MB:557
Rink skating
One of the minor arts the narrator says were trashed, losing class and style, during the cultural decline after the Devil's release [MTM B6:207-208].MTM B6:207-208
Riorden, Rosemary
Red-haired girl the unnamed Sergeant meets with Moira Monroney and Minnie McGinty at Sydney's Plaza in his hospital daydream [A:88-90]. He sits on her lap. She identifies him as Aeson's son, despite his belief that his father was Giulio; names Orpheus, Peleus, Euphemus and Meleager as his companions; and foretells the Dioscuri, dragon's teeth, Aeetes' daughter in many forms, an unrecognized finding of the fleece and no bodily return to Iolcus. She says she is one form of Aeetes' daughter [A:89]. At Oswald Lane she carries him on her shoulders to save him from sticking to the pavement in a fog, linking her name to the protective herb [A:89]. Later Stein remembers her Illyrian claim; X insists he was not that Sergeant, while Stein says he was so to some extent [A:127].A:88-90; A:89; A:127
Rita
Sister of Henry Francis Salvatore, with Angela and Lucy. Their parents are Lawrence Salvatore and Mary Genevieve Hebert, in the family account centered on Henry's Morgan City, Louisiana, birthplace [A:122].A:122
Rittenhouse, Sister Mary Aurora
Sister Mary Aurora (Rittenhouse), listed among the ecclesial or vineyard people in Duffey's Chicago golden age. The narrator credits those workers with keeping the world turning and calls everyone else parasites upon their labor [MTM B3:98-99].MTM B3:98-99
Ritz
Bar in Finnegan's travel poem: its speaker will pass St. Vince in a sloop, shine at the Ritz, drink like a sailor, dine like a prince and sleep on the sand at St. Kitts [A:172].A:172
River Itself
The Mississippi at St. Louis, where Duffey emerges from the Sea of Lost Years below the Eads Bridge as a happy twenty-three-year-old [MTM B13:465]. In the return dated 1923, he again swims ashore below that bridge from the Sea of the Seven Lost Years and encounters a young Stranahan on a small fishing pier [MTM B13:470].MTM B13:465; MTM B13:470
Riviera
One of the places Finnegan says he could be while studying to become a playboy, along with Basse Terre, St. Kitts and Tahiti. He invokes those lost pleasures as his personal sacrifice in coming to persuade Hilary Hilton to take Mary Jean back and dislodge Casey, allowing another attempt to straighten Casey out [A:252].A:252
Road Songs
Title under which verses are attributed to Finnegan in More Than Melchisedech. A stanza about Clio's erroneous history opens Book Eleven [MTM B11:306]; further verses accompany that book's destruction and suffering [MTM B11:331] [MTM B11:341-342]. A stanza assigning distinctive qualities to New Orleans, Havana, Chicago and St. Louis is credited to Count Finnegan's Road Songs in Book Twelve [MTM B12:384].MTM B11:306; MTM B11:331; MTM B11:341-342; MTM B12:384
Robber Cassino
Card game Falo, Nauti, Finnegan and Vincent all know and play together. Their worn deck lacks the four of clubs and six of diamonds, replaced by written slips, with English added to the four of clubs. Falo always wins because she has known the individual cards since childhood and hopes the same advantage will work in poker [A:65].A:65
Robinson, Edwin A.
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935), American poet whose “Two Men” supplies Book Five's epigraph: its speaker cannot escape thinking about Melchisedech and Ukalegon. The novel follows the quotation with Skalsky's assertion that Ukalegon was a woman and the negation of Melchisedech. Robinson's original poem spells the names “Melchizedek” and “Ucalegon.” [MTM B5:149]MTM B5:149
Roc
Giant bird in the Sindbad panels Finnegan paints for the Brunhilde's barroom. He cannot reconcile its extraordinary size with plausible flight. Anastasia advises him to make Sindbad very small; Finnegan instead wants the bird to express “Evil with grace and balance,” taking Papa Devil's disturbing perfection as his model. [D:59-60]D:59-60
Rock Island Pump Company
Name in iron on pump handles, among the household words the young Melchisedech Duffey appropriates through observation, memory, and theft from other minds. [MTM B1:17]MTM B1:17
Rocking the Crock
Expression linking two disturbances: Sergeant Bushmaster accuses his opponent of twice knocking the crock with an elbow during the beer contest; in a letter to Casey, Duffey says enemies are “rocking the Crock” by trying to corrupt the magazine, threatening and beating him when he refuses. [A:20] [A:39-40]A:20; A:39-40
Rogers, Tom (Big Bear)
Sports writer whose article “The Floating Screen - The Next Important Development in Football” appears in Casey Szymansky's Crock. [A:41] Tom “Big Bear” Rogers also belongs to the sporty set of Duffey's Chicago golden years. [MTM B3:99]A:41; MTM B3:99
Roland's Horn
Roland's legendary olifant or horn, sounded in The Song of Roland; among the notable objects recovered by the Argo Masters. [MTM B13:422]MTM B13:422
Rolfe, Ralph
Young Englishman encountered by Duffey, Brannagan, and Casey Gorshok at Karl Marx Stadt. A new Perverse Logic comes to him in sleep and, as he puts it, employs him; he writes it on tiny scraps left after mice eat his paper, before the system leaves his mind. He expects it to overturn the world. [MTM B13:427-428] The Masters seize the scraps and withdraw from that time and place as Rolfe fires at Gorshok's temple. Gorshok destroys the papers only under repeated pressure; one last piece flutters overboard, and Duffey fears Gorshok's devil-fish may retrieve it. The mission's completeness remains in doubt as Duffey's memory of it fades. [MTM B13:429-430]MTM B13:427-428; MTM B13:429-430
Rollins, Royce
Author of The Return of the Neanderthal: The Alien Within, a book reviewed within The Devil Is Dead by Charles O. A. Harrington in Science for Today. Harrington calls Rollins an unacademic crank and attacks his thesis as an insane creed; these judgments belong to the hostile reviewer. [D:240-242]D:240-242
Romaic
Modern Greek, the language spoken by Anastasia's grandmother on Naxos. Papapaleologus the donkey understands her perfectly, Anastasia almost entirely, and Finnegan only about half. [D:126] Finnegan also finds his Romaic inadequate for confession to the young Capuchin priest. [D:118]D:126; D:118
Roman
A shifting cultural and religious descriptor. Demetrio's lined face looks simultaneously like an old Roman's and an old Aztec's. [D:58] Anastasia is not Roman Catholic, although she carries the Roman rosary Finnegan gave her. [D:147] In his discussion of names, Monica, and Augustine, Patrick Stranahan identifies himself as the Roman Patrick rather than the Irish one. [A:111]D:58; D:147; A:111
Roman Way of the Cross
The Way of the Cross as invoked in Marie Courtois's mystical talk with Finnegan. Its thirteenth station depicts Christ taken down and received by his mother. Marie associates its Pietà form with an old station on Rome's Aventine Hill and an earlier grouping of Demeter and Pontos; she links the gremium matris, the mother's lap, with Earth and her own lap. These pagan connections form part of Marie's earthy, seductive exposition. [D:92]D:92
Romanies
The Romani people, called Gypsies in Casey's school notebook. In entry XXII Casey says that they claim to have founded Rome and that their name derives from it. He also says they use one word for yesterday and tomorrow, one for beginning and ending, and Meropen for both life and death; he connects English “pal,” “chiv,” and “stir” with their speech, giving stiropen for prison. These are claims within Casey's notebook. [A:162-164]A:162-164
Rome
City Manuel intends to visit after Naxos, to warn the Pope that evil men are abroad. [D:151] Patrick Stranahan lists Rome with Dublin, London, and Paris among the destinations a Christian man ought to reach on a journey for his soul's salvation. [A:110] In Duffey's scrapbook, the unnamed president of the Popular Revolutionary Priests' Senate says that even the Pope of Rome could enter his door, provided he crawled. [MTM B8:252]D:151; A:110; MTM B8:252
Ron Rico
Ron Rico, the novel's spelling of the rum brand Ronrico. Finnegan carries a bottle in his heavy shoulder-bag, along with Southern Comfort, Old Crow, Hiram Walker, Don Q and other drinks, when he leaves D'Hannis on foot for the chaparral [A:202-203].A:202-203
Roof observatory
Observatory on the roof of Chicago's Colony Club, where Sebastian Hilton joins Duffey and Letitia after the Harvesters' Dinner and shares their sense of oneness. [MTM B3:94]MTM B3:94
Room of the Conclave, The
Subterranean chamber below sea level in the mooring rock north of San Simeon, reached from its hewn well-shaft and remembered by Count Finnegan as large enough for fifty people. [MB:577] Its unexplained name dates from its carving four hundred years earlier. Here the thirteen apparent doubles of the Princes assemble; Giwa insists that at least one is actually a surviving Cardinal. Monsignor X serves the conclave, and the golden-masked Melchisedech speaks. Count Finnegan abstains while the other twelve vote for him; X crowns him Pope Finnegan the First as the land rises from the sea. [MB:596-597]MB:577; MB:596-597
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1882--1945)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), thirty-second U.S. president, in office from 1933 to 1945. His New Deal enlarged federal economic and social activity during the Depression; he later led the United States in World War II and helped organize the Allied coalition and plans for the United Nations. In More Than Melchisedech, the journal The Answer mixes material from the old and new Roosevelts with other thinkers, then disparages Roosevelt and Hoover while proclaiming its own Leader. [MTM B4:114-115]MTM B4:114-115
Rosa Ivanova's Kofeinik
Earlier misspelling of Rose as Rosa. See Kofeinik (Rose Ivanova's).Rosin
Material Mr. X carries in his pockets and uses in a handkerchief to disguise his telephone voice. [A:135] [A:142] Dotty Yekouris recognizes its smell on the supposed newspaper report of his death, identifies the clipping as a product of the Pelican Press, and exposes his hoax. [A:142]A:135; A:142
Rounders' Club
St. Louis restaurant, bar, and residential club founded by Duffey, with Charley Murray becoming half-owner. Its attractions include hired carriages and automobiles, an Elegant Riverboat Deck, hired tuxedos, the Rounders' String Band, automatic membership in the Famous Steeplechase Club, a House of Ten Thousand Duty-Free Bargains, and games including racquets, whist, poker, and horseshoes. [MTM B2:49] [MTM B2:53] Dining spaces include the Golden Buffet and Bread and Wine Room. [MTM B2:58] After the seven hidden years Duffey returns to St. Louis, but declines to resume active management; Murray has prospered at the club, where Olga Sanchez still works. [MTM B2:73-74] Patrick Stranahan is a former patron. [MTM B5:154] In 1946 Duffey, the Bagbys, and the Erlenbaums gather there with Hans Schultz, Marie Monaghan, Henri Salvatore, Dotty Yekouris, Mary Virginia Schaeffer, and Absalom Stein, recognized as Duffey's creations; Murray remains acting manager. [MTM B5:149] [MTM B5:156-158] [MTM B5:162] Late in Duffey's life he deeds his half-interest to Teresa Showboat Piccone Stranahan; Murray has left his half to Vincent Stranahan, and the couple run the club. [MTM B12:385]MTM B2:49; MTM B2:53; MTM B2:58; MTM B2:73-74; MTM B5:154; MTM B5:149; MTM B5:156-158; MTM B5:162; MTM B12:385
Rounders' String Band
Musical group at Duffey's Rounders' Club in St. Louis, advertised for every evening except Tuesday. [MTM B2:49] Duffey takes over its banjo after demonstrating unexpected skill with an instrument he has never held; drinking men from the loafers' bench substitute when he is busy. The band earns an award as the city's third best string band. Its repertoire includes “Rock Island Rag,” “Cincinnati Zoo Rag,” “Missouri Valley Shuffle,” “Gadarene Swine Song” (adapted from Bagby's tune), “Whistle Stop Jump,” “Morgan County Fair Strut,” “The King Shall Ride,” “Show Boat Shuffle,” “Honeysuckle Hop,” “River Road,” “Gloria! Gloria!,” “Sawdust Trail Drag,” and “Startime Trolley Car.” [MTM B2:51-52]MTM B2:49; MTM B2:51-52
Roundhead, Cyrus
Royal Pop Historian in New Orleans, introduced as a forthcoming speaker and later wearing a monocle with additional lenses. After Hugh de Turenne announces the Black Sea's destruction, Roundhead offers pseudo-explanations that the sea and the cities Rome, Athens, and Jerusalem never existed. [MTM B11:327] [MTM B11:336-337] He directs hunts against supposed unreal people and the deflation of their buildings, insisting that the important must eliminate the unimportant. [MTM B11:338] At Girardeau's dinner he describes the selective recording and destruction of humanity, distinguishes the splendid people's minds and persons from their temporary bodies, and denounces human guilt, introspection, and lack of kinetic intuition. [MTM B11:344-346] At the Decatur Street Opera House he participates in the elimination of human remnants; afterward, from the loge, he envies the depth, intensity, and legacy his own species lacks. [MTM B11:349-351]MTM B11:327; MTM B11:336-337; MTM B11:338; MTM B11:344-346; MTM B11:349-351
Roving Magistrate Number Sixteen
Signature Finnegan uses on his note to George Brubaker after taking Brubaker's unlocked car in New York under the supposed “Lien of Extreme Need.” He leaves the car in Newark, warns its owner about leaving it unlocked, and directs him to Room 101 of the Epimetheos Building. [D:167-169]D:167-169
Royal Malarky of Salem
Comic Crown and Image on the figurative counterfeit coins Lily Koch finds in Duffey and Letitia, whom she otherwise calls treasures made of pure gold. Her metaphor challenges their shared belief in subjective creation while affirming her love for them. [MTM B3:96]MTM B3:96
Royal Pop History
New Orleans meeting of the Royal Pop People, also called the Society for Creative History. Margaret Stone intends to attend because they may discard something she wants to preserve. [MTM B11:307] The Countess says the session will continue until certain remnants are rooted out, while Absalom Stein worries about forgotten people being erased from existence. [MTM B11:315] The meeting develops into historical revision and destructive excursions against the remaining humans. [MTM B11:336-338]MTM B11:307; MTM B11:315; MTM B11:336-338
Royal Pop People
The splendid, newly awakened people of New Orleans in the Fifth Contingency, associated with enhanced intuition and the thunder dimensions. They organize the Royal Pop History meeting and reject human identity; Roundhead regards their similar bodies as temporary dwellings for an essentially different species. [MTM B11:307] [MTM B11:315] [MTM B11:345-346] The Countess and Child Hero belong to this company, as do Cyrus Roundhead and apparently Hugh de Turenne, described as a genuine member of its inner historians. [MTM B11:334] [MTM B11:336] Their revision of history extends to erasing places, memories, and human populations, with recent recruits joining extermination hunts. Roundhead nonetheless longs for the depth and inherited glory they lack. [MTM B11:336-338] [MTM B11:351]MTM B11:307; MTM B11:315; MTM B11:345-346; MTM B11:334; MTM B11:336; MTM B11:336-338; MTM B11:351
Royal Rogues' And Graceful Swindlers' Ninth Annual Convention and Confidence-Men's Congress
Convention at the Royal Orleans Hotel, with about five hundred confidence people and thieves attending and expert seminars on specialized subjects. Charlotte Garfield comes for the event and visits Duffey's circle in cowgirl boots and a seven-and-a-half-gallon hat, with little between. [MTM B7:216]MTM B7:216
Rubbing alcohol
Liquid used for the fevered Sergeant's rubdown in the hospital ward. His daydream of swimming underwater with a Malay boy ends in the recognition that the remarkable wetness belongs to rubbing alcohol, not seawater. The Sergeant has been noon-dreaming rather than sleeping. [A:89-90]A:89-90
Ruch, Alma
Member of the ecclesial or vineyard group among Duffey's Chicago friends. The narrator credits these churchly workers with keeping the world turning while others live upon their labor. [MTM B3:99]MTM B3:99
Rugutini, Arnoldo
New Yorker listed as the double of Nicholas Cardinal Gregorio of Messina. [MB:579] He reaches Mooring-Stone by army helicopter after the bounty hunters believe they have closed its approaches; the narrator remarks that Arnoldo has connections for such things. He is among the thirteen apparent double-men who assemble for the conclave. [MB:595-596]MB:579; MB:595-596
Rule of St. Benedict
Benedict of Nursia's monastic rule, composed after 529, with a prologue and seventy-three chapters governing communal life under an abbot: prayer, reading, manual work, silence, meals, and the reception of new members. It became central to Western monasticism, with observance standardized across the Carolingian empire in the early ninth century, and remains a guide for Benedictine communities. At St. Bonaventure's boarding school it is supplied, alongside a Dictionary, Bible, Missal, and Atlas, in the six-boy chambers of St. Martin's Hall where Casey lives. [A:161-162]A:161-162
Rum
Island drink enjoyed by Finnegan, Charles Le Marin, Don Barnaby, and Johnny Duckwalk in their Basse-Terre paradise, alongside beer and gin. Danish beer costs more than the local rum. [D:236] Finnegan can obtain a bottle for fifty cents, and the air of their favorite bar, nicknamed Sloppy Joe's but properly the Imperial Bar or Royal, smells of good rum and lime. [D:235]D:236; D:235
Runosake, Xavier Cardinal
Cardinal of Kobe, Japan, and one of the thirteen Princes targeted by John Mogul's Track and Total contracts. [MB:571] Mogul chooses him for X's apparently impossible delivery wager while Runosake has just escaped a Buddhist compound in Kobe. [MB:572] Minutes later a man recognized as Runosake staggers into Mogul's Marseille apartment and falls dead, with a knife hilt between his shoulders; he is the first of the contracted Cardinals reported dead. His double is Niku Kazuko, probably of Honolulu. [MB:574] [MB:579]MB:571; MB:572; MB:574; MB:579
Ruskin, John (1819--1900)
English writer, art critic, and social reformer (1819-1900), author of Modern Painters and The Stones of Venice. His studies of Gothic architecture and connection of artistic workmanship with social well-being influenced William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement. In a letter to Dotty, Finnegan tentatively attributes to “Ruskin (or was it Erskine?)” the claim that music cannot say an unkind thing, then argues at length that music can be vindictive, sneaky, derisive, or mean. [A:263]A:263
Russ
Regular at the Old Wooden Ship, identified elsewhere as a Galveston tavern. [D:215] [MTM B13:458] Russ, Bob, and Charleyhorse Heckel are steerers who bring generous drink-buyers to the bar, and rollers who rob men in the camel-lot afterward. With Smokehouse and Bill “Buffalo Chips” Dugan, they are described as five men cut from the same side of the animal. [D:220]D:215; MTM B13:458; D:220
Russian
Language and literature in several characters' judgments. Casey's school notebook calls Russian fiction the world's best, comparing it to German music, but names no source for that judgment. Its linguistic entry says a Greek G is likely to become Russian ZH and labels this part of Grimm's law. [A:162-163] Separately, Patrick Stranahan calls the old Russian novelists supreme while objecting that reading them consumes days of a limited life. [A:109]A:162-163; A:109
Rusty Harpoon, The
Waterfront establishment in Duffey's catalogue of remembered seaside places. [MTM B13:407]MTM B13:407
S. J.
Abbreviation of Societas Jesu, the Society of Jesus or Jesuits. Jesuit masters approve the boys' Sunday sales at Duffey's boarding school; his school companions include Charley Murray, John Rattigan, and Sebastian Hilton, although the account combines more than one school and substitutes other boys during part of the interval. [MTM B1:24] [MTM B1:28]MTM B1:24; MTM B1:28
S.R. & Co.
Iron inscription on anvils, paired with “Peter Wright,” in the young Duffey's catalogue of household names appropriated through observation, memory, and other people's minds. [MTM B1:17]MTM B1:17
Sabbath of the mind
Professor Kirol von Weinsberg-Valeni's name for the mental respite necessary for thought. He tells Hans not to become absorbed in the world's furniture, but to remember humanity's position always at the beginning: fragile as morning dew, yet also manna, a contingent species whose hoped-for realization has a purpose. [A:212]A:212
Sabina, Sister Mary
Nun teaching five-year-old Duffey on his first day at school. His precocious proposals make her pray aloud that there might not be another smart child that year; she nevertheless lets him divide the class into mixed groups of four under responsible leaders. She asks Jesus, Mary, and Joseph to remember at her last agony how cheerfully she bore such trials. [MTM B1:11-12]MTM B1:11-12
Sabinal
Town in Uvalde County, Texas, on Finnegan's itinerary before his strange interval in the chaparral. He is in Uvalde on Monday, then Sabinal, D'Hannis, and Hondo on Tuesday, returning to D'Hannis to look for his old cavalry outfit. [A:202]A:202
Sacraments
Religious observances to which Henry Salvatore returns while the other four members of the Dirty Five are on furlough in Australia in 1943. Henry stays in the jungle, believing himself safer there; after their reunion the narrator says they will live together in all ways for a while. [A:31] [A:38]A:31; A:38
Sadducees of the Left
Father McGuigan's label for the churchly Left in his quarrel with Patrick Stranahan: he says it differs no more from Patrick's Right than Sadducees do from Pharisees. Patrick rejects the tidy alignment but insists on the distinction, accusing modern counterparts of the Sadducees, including McGuigan, of denying the Resurrection. [A:110]A:110
Safti
Name printed in the Brunhilde's coastal itinerary between Magadar and Mazagan, before Casablanca, Rabat, and Tangier; apparently Safi, the Moroccan Atlantic port. [D:101]D:101
Sahirn
One of Gautier's seven youngest goats, a group of three twin pairs and a single kid born to four sisters. Sahirn ends the hebdomadal list Bownee, Luin, Mairt, Keadin, Ordin, Haoine, and Sahirn, apparently representing Saturday (compare Irish Dé Sathairn). [A:194-195] The goat-man is named Gautier, though neighbors mock him as Goat-Ear. [A:196]A:194-195; A:196
Salem
City of the biblical Melchisedech, priest of God Most High; Hebrews interprets his name as righteous king and his kingship of Salem as kingship of peace. The Genesis 14:18 epigraph to Book Two recalls his offering of bread and wine. [MTM B2:38] Lily Koch playfully invokes the “Royal Malarky of Salem” in her metaphor about Duffey and Letitia. [MTM B3:96] Absalom Stein alternates between regarding Duffey as the ancient King of Salem himself and regarding him as a man who shares that patron saint's memories through unusual accord. [MTM B10:291]MTM B2:38; MTM B3:96; MTM B10:291
Salina
Island off Sicily named with Filicudi in the narrator's fanciful history of mermaids, who are said to have lived there in the Middle Ages. [D:35]D:35
Sally, Salvation (Sally)
Australian street preacher first met by Hans Schultz and Marie Monaghan in a harbor coffee house during the Sydney furlough. She preaches the Second Coming, strums hymns on her guitar, and collects donations in a cup suspended from it. She accepts coffee but rejects brandy, distrusts churches, and claims the gift of tongues. Her appearance and voice are odd and her speech full of catchphrases, yet the narrator calls her electric and authentic. She accepts Marie's offer of a room after insisting on love rather than charity; the three make lasting commitments to one another. Years later Hans finds that an ordinary-looking letter cannot convey her extraordinary Australian voice. [A:7-9] [A:31]Marie pays her passage to America, and Sally joins the New Orleans undertaking to rebuild the world. [A:147] [MTM B6:198] Dotty's letter calls her a crow and bushwhacker and jokingly complains that Margaret failed to drown her; it is Dotty who calls Marie a filthy Irishman for sending Sally. Mary Virginia insists on keeping her, and Sally has given her remaining money to people less fortunate. [A:147] Her later portrait includes an aggressive bony face and a pewter heart; she cites Chesterfield for leaving good reading for good company. [MTM B7:218]
In the Fifth Contingency she joins the Royal Pop extermination hunts with Margaret and Mary Virginia, reporting that she and the Child Hero have cleared a building's third floor. [MTM B11:336-338] In “The Great Day” she is at the Pelican Press, drinking tea without a cup and sharing the new nakedness. She rejects Duffey's proposal that laughter might save the world, declares salvation outside time impossible, and repeatedly urges him to remove his clothes. [GD:490-492] [GD:496]
A:7-9; A:31; A:147; MTM B6:198; MTM B7:218; MTM B11:336-338; GD:490-492; GD:496
Salvatore, Henry Francis (Henri)
Member of the Dirty Five, born in Morgan City, Louisiana, on December 8, 1920, to Lawrence Salvatore and Mary Genevieve Hebert [A:122]. Before the army he works at sea and drives trucks, including for the Schaeffer family’s Red Dog Motor Freight Line, where he meets Mary Virginia. He joins the army on his twenty-first birthday [A:124]. Mary Virginia had been his betrothed; he gives her up for God [MTM B7:214].After the war he enters seminary and sets his friends to work rebuilding the world. His dream of an endangered boat inspires the journal The Bark, which he names; Finnegan draws its masthead [A:121] [A:124–126]. He is one of its seven founding trustees and directors. After seminary he serves a parish deep in the swamps [MTM B7:214].
Later, as Henri Cardinal Salvatore of New Orleans, he joins the gathering in St. Louis during Duffey’s last days [MTM B12:384–387].
A:122; A:124; MTM B7:214; A:121; A:124–126; MTM B12:384–387
Sammy (Saddle Sore) Sanders
Resident regular at the Old Wooden Ship tavern in Galveston. [D:215-216] [MTM B13:458]D:215-216; MTM B13:458
San Angelo
Texas city included in Demetrio's boast about the places he visited in his youth, before returning to run his own bar. [D:58]D:58
San Antonio
Texas city where, Finnegan is told, some of the men from his old Moonlight Cavalry outfit still live; people in D'Hannis urge him to seek them there. [A:202] Patrick Stranahan includes it among the gracious American cities. [A:110] George Koran names it as a planned stop later that day on the Devil's busy lecture tour. [MTM B8:244]A:202; A:110; MTM B8:244
San Carlo, Pedro
Person with whom Duffey associates in New Orleans as part of a circle engaged in building or inventing worlds, moments, situations, and scenes. He is listed among artists and other creators, without a particular art or occupation specified. [MTM B6:198]MTM B6:198
San Cristobal
Port named after Limon and before Portobello on the Brunhilde's Caribbean itinerary. [D:81] [D:85] Here Finnegan and Saxon Seaworthy get extravagantly drunk on rum for a night and day, possibly two nights and days, around December 9 or 10. After exhausting the town's drinking places they form their own drinking club in a garden Seaworthy buys for a thousand American dollars. [D:82]D:81; D:85; D:82
San Francisco
City where Finnegan is paid off at the end of his obscure voyage around the world. He has been working in the engine room and expects an Atlantic port, so he is surprised to find himself in San Francisco. [A:145] Patrick Stranahan includes the city among the gracious American cities. [A:110]A:145; A:110
San Francisco cemetery
Cemetery in the Cuban city where La Dorotea is reported buried. An informant tells Duffey, X, and Horace Pie that she died about three weeks after having the Sleeping Man placed in his sea-door tomb, having never recovered her strength after a gunshot wound. Her medallion identified her as belonging to the Third Order of St. Francis and explains her burial in this cemetery on the other side of the city. [MTM B12:372]MTM B12:372
San gre del Cristo
Sunken treasure ship shown with the St. Marc on Angela Cosquin's father's map, near Basse-Terre. Angela calls the paired wrecks a fabrication to misdirect her friends, but the narrator says they really lie no more than three hundred yards away, loaded with gold. Angela dives to their hoard and eventually uses the wrecks as safekeeping for her own money. [D:261-262]D:261-262
Sanchez, Olga
Woman of the “torchy shoulders” who works at Duffey's Rounders' Club in St. Louis and mixes drinks at its main bar. [MTM B2:49] [MTM B2:59] She and Lucille Sisler are devoted partisans of Duffey; when “The King Shall Ride” is played, Olga or Lucille carries him around the main room on her shoulders. [MTM B2:52] Olga still works there when he returns after seven years away, greeting him as her love, boy, and prince while noticing that he is not quite all back. She has married a handsome Mexican man who has become head chef of the club's main dining room. [MTM B2:73-74]MTM B2:49; MTM B2:59; MTM B2:52; MTM B2:73-74
Sanctimonious Sam
One of the extraordinary Pop People whom Duffey recognizes among the crowds filling his businesses. Although his name sounds like a type, the narrator insists that he, the Child-Hero, the Hoyden, and the Countess are unique, everlasting, omnipresent people, with only one of each. [MTM B11:322]MTM B11:322
Sanders, Sammy (Saddle Sore)
See Sammy (Saddle Sore) Sanders, resident regular at the Old Wooden Ship tavern in Galveston. [D:215-216] [MTM B13:458]D:215-216; MTM B13:458
Santa Claus
Unverified cross-reference to Papadiabolous (II) (Gregory McColum Papadiabolous, Papadiabolous II, Papa Devil, Papa D, Noonan). The identification of him as Santa Claus has not been located in the available texts.Santa Maria
Port named between Cartagena and Willemsted on the Brunhilde's itinerary. [D:85] Also the Italian invocation “Holy Mary,” used by Dotty Yekouris when she laments that Finnegan has been in Arcadia and asks why everyone cannot be there. [A:176]D:85; A:176
Santana
Name cited in the epigraph attributed to Carmody Overlark's Studies in the Imagination. Santana is credited with wondering why mystics of beautiful, singing thought were facially ugly; the allusion's personal identity remains unverified. [D:271-272]D:271-272
Santee, Charles
American sergeant from Orange, Texas, one of the three soldiers in Don Lewis's account of a patrol that disappears on October 1, 1944, on Pulau Petir, also called Willy Jones Island. The other two are Corporal Robert Casper and PFC Timothy Lorrigan. Don Lewis claims to have been one of them but withholds which one. [D:44] Santee shoots and wounds the elusive little man called Yokipoki; he and Casper later go ahead and kill him while Lorrigan hangs back. The soldiers lose their way among the island's valleys; after a quarrel Santee and Casper sleep on separate heights while Don Lewis stays below. [D:45-46] Their eventual fates remain uncertain: Don Lewis reports hearing both that the other two were killed and that they returned separately with incredible stories. [D:48]D:44; D:45-46; D:48
Santo Spirito!
Italian invocation meaning “Holy Spirit!” It punctuates the narrative's loving evocation of Theresa making bread by hand in the house of her impossible twelve-year life with Finnegan. [A:204]A:204
Sao Luis
São Luís, a Brazilian coastal city, named between Belem and Camocim among the Brunhilde's ports before its Atlantic crossing. [D:86]D:86
Sarcophagus
Coffin-shaped ship in Charles Le Marin's account of a supposed mysterious derelict. He claims to have been one of the seamen who disappeared and were never seen again. [D:243-244] In his story Castleman infiltrates the ship before it leaves Paramaribo, then replaces successive crewmen in port with lookalike dock rats. Le Marin says that he too was replaced and never knew what happened to himself, but subsequently narrates the takeover from among the infiltrators. [D:244] Castleman arrives in the Tercel Hawk, transfers the captain and loyal crew to it, and has them bound, weighted, and drowned. Le Marin hides, then swims ashore in Florida three days later. Castleman reports the Sarcophagus found inexplicably deserted, concealing his theft of its cargo. Whether the switch of Le Marin was ever completed remains doubtful, even to Castleman. Johnny Duckwalk challenges the tale as a version of the Mary Celeste story. [D:245-246]D:243-244; D:244; D:245-246
Sardinia
Island from which the Red Fisters in Margaret Stone's New Orleans account come. She says they threaten to wear her guts as scarves, but also share dawn coffee with her at Messina's or Anthony Ghost's and claim to spare her in order to hear the next morning's shaggy-duck joke. She fears the humorless Slant-Faced Men more. [MTM B7:225]MTM B7:225
Satan
Devil invoked by Duffey as a comparison in his letter to Casey: people trying to take over the Crock offer him wealth, distribution, and the world's kingdoms, as Satan once offered riches. These offers would make the journal an organ of the infiltrates. [A:39-40] In Show Boat's later letter to Dotty, Casey says that the Seven Devils have found him swept and garnished and want to return. He has refused them, although they hold his debts and have taken his press and building; they cannot use the Crock's name. [A:262]A:39-40; A:262
Saturday
Weekday apparently represented by Sahirn, last in Gautier's hebdomadal list of seven goat-kids; compare Irish Dé Sathairn. [A:194-195] The last Saturday of May 1946 is the announced date of Vincent and Theresa's wedding in Archipelago. [A:95] Bagby's funeral is also on a Saturday; Duffey and Letitia return to New Orleans on the following Monday. [MTM B8:237]A:194-195; A:95; MTM B8:237
Satyrus
Historical medical teacher of Galen. After an epigraph attributed to Galen describes the daemon-begotten Tityroi or Satyroi, the narrator asks where Satyrus obtained his name and where Galen obtained his information. The juxtaposition invites a connection between the teacher and the mythical race without asserting that Satyrus was nonhuman. [D:160-161]D:160-161
Saucerite (from the Big Triangle)
An eleven-year-old visitor from the Big Triangle who joins the Argo shortly before the Mooring-Stone conclave. He attends Gaetano Polytech in Balbo City, takes human classmates to his undersea nest in his saucer, and hopes to obtain a chess scholarship to the University of Miami. Herman Hercules calls him “little owl-eyes.” The visitor says that he is real although fingers can pass through him. He calls Earth the “World of the Covenant” and thinks that its inhabitants probably carry “super-seed,” while finding their attainments uneven. He intends to report on the conclave for a small press network [MB:591-592].MB:591-592
Saul, King
The biblical king named by Duffey among the rulers with whom he claims to have attended royal conclaves [MTM B5:166].MTM B5:166
Saul, King (reigned c. 1047--1007 BC)
Earlier heading with unverified reign dates. See Saul, King.Savu Sea
One of the many seas sailed by the Argo [MTM B13:406].MTM B13:406
Sazarac
Drink named in Casey Szymansky's attack on the Bark. He jokes that Dotty's talents as a barmaid extend only “from the Absinthe Frappe to the Sazarac,” a range of four blocks [A:128-129]. Duffey orders a sazarac at the Stumble-Bum on the Great Day, but the bar no longer serves it [GD:498].A:128-129; GD:498
Scanlon, Adam
Painter associated with Hans Schultz, James Fitzjames, Trinali Peterson, and Francis Schraffenberger. At the driftwood shore he paints seascapes and explains a High Renaissance sky above a sea of the Low Middle Ages, with the Argo suggested by its absence. He likes to talk to an audience while painting. His friends compare him to Leonardo, and Finnegan later calls him an accomplished professional of comparable ability [A:230] [A:233-234] [A:236]. The narrative places Scanlon and Finnegan among the two greatest American artists [MTM B6:199]. Duffey uses Scanlon's painting of Casey, made without Casey's knowledge, for the terrifying televised apparition of Casey's head; Scanlon disliked Casey but was Finnegan's friend [MTM B12:381].A:230; A:233-234; A:236; MTM B6:199; MTM B12:381
Schaeffer
Surname of Mary Virginia Schaeffer, whom Henry Salvatore meets while driving for her family's Red Dog Motor Freight Line [A:124]. Also the surname of Sebastian “Shot Gun” Schaeffer, named for a drink he invented [D:222].A:124; D:222
Schaeffer family
Owners of the Red Dog Motor Freight Line, for which Henry Salvatore drives when he meets Mary Virginia Schaeffer [A:124]. The line connects Galveston and Houston with Morgan City and New Orleans, also covering Baton Rouge, Shreveport, Port Arthur, Orange, and Beaumont. Mary Virginia transfers to its New Orleans terminal while working with Dotty on the Bark [MTM B6:198].A:124; MTM B6:198
Schaeffer, Mary Virginia
Mary Virginia Schaeffer, also called Mary Schaeffer or Mary V., is Henry Salvatore’s former fiancée. Archipelago calls her Henry’s girl from Morgan City, Louisiana, and one of the sweetest persons in the world [A:97]; More Than Melchisedech also identifies her with Galveston [MTM B5:157]. Dotty calls her the Saccharine Kid, partly affectionately and partly jealously. Henry gives her up for God while doubting that God is good enough for her; the narrator calls her a bonus beyond price and a valuable working ornament [MTM B7:214]. She attends the St. Louis gathering for Vincent and Teresa’s wedding in May 1946 [MTM B5:171]. She drives with Mary Catherine, Finnegan, Henry, and Duffey through the Illinois towns [A:98], then takes Finnegan, Henry, Duffey, and Dotty to New Orleans in her Ford after the wedding [A:114]. Finnegan includes her among the friends of his ordinary life [D:90]. Her family owns Red Dog Motor Freight, serving Galveston, Houston, Morgan City, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Shreveport, Port Arthur, Orange, and Beaumont. More Than Melchisedech describes her transferring herself to the New Orleans terminal and working both for the firm and with Dotty on the Bark [MTM B6:198]; Archipelago says she leaves her father’s firm to work with Dotty [A:143]. She helps run the Bark, although she is not one of its designated Seven Pillars of Righteousness [MTM B7:214-215]. One of Duffey’s Animated Marvels, she is the gentle figure who recognizes him at Rounders’ Club [MTM B5:156-157]. Teresa identifies her ancient self as Laonome and describes Duffey as the awakener, rather than the maker, of the old Argo company [MTM B7:233-234]. Mary Virginia remembers fragments and says she hates her ancient name, printed as Laonone in her reply [MTM B7:235]. Stein alternatively proposes that she and the others helped make Duffey what he is, while admitting that on other days he believes Duffey made them [MTM B10:304]. She plays the piano while the group develops the song about Bagby’s liver [MTM B7:226]. Duffey asks her to record The Majesty’s speech so that its recorded, remembered, and inward versions can be compared [MTM B8:241]. After Letitia’s death she says the Glorious Mysteries of the rosary with neighbors and people from the Seaman’s Paper, Jazz Sheet, and Sporting News [MTM B8:253]. Her own reflections in her Duffey Book suggest that he comes from one of the discarded worlds [MTM B10:291-292]. She worries about his wandering, warns that he may not return from a doomsday walk, and recognizes him as a magus [MTM B10:304-305]. In the Royal Pop History episode, her beauty has deepened over decades, while her kindness has acquired a vacant quality. She reports the Dominicans’ warning that the world will end that week [MTM B11:310]. She jokes that she once created more history herself [MTM B11:307]. Seeing broken things that resemble forgotten friends, she questions their destruction; the young Pop countess calls her “the Mary Virginia” and warns that such questions could make her a target. Gray hairs appear in the halo around her face [MTM B11:318]. She nevertheless joins Margaret Stone and Salvation Sally in the exterminating hunts [MTM B11:336-337]. While destroying a half-grown boy, she asks why unimportant people must be destroyed [MTM B11:338]. Later she carries a child she has killed, horrified that its body remains flesh and blood. She refuses to surrender it as trash; Margaret takes it and secretly arranges its burial [MTM B11:342] [MTM B11:344]. When Duffey visits a year ahead of his own time, she greets him at the Pelican Press with affection, exasperation, and a gently burning look. The narrator calls her open, intelligent, kind, and complex [MTM B12:359]. She tells him he has been dead for months and asks why he has not found peace. When he withdraws from that future, she is again demanding his overdue review column [MTM B12:361]. In “Great Day in the Morning,” she joins the Pelican people’s experiments in living without ordinary containment. Laughter collapses her unsupported coffee and burns her [GD:490-491]. She hands Duffey the old Bark containing his Great Day article, treating his satire as fulfilled prediction and calling laughter a blasphemy [GD:492]. The narrator finds her alone sufficiently well formed to go unclothed. She proposes abandoning print for wordless song, faith-painting, and other Great Day communication [GD:494], and looks forward to everyone shedding their skin [GD:495].A:97; MTM B5:157; MTM B7:214; MTM B5:171; A:98; A:114; D:90; MTM B6:198; A:143; MTM B7:214-215; MTM B5:156-157; MTM B7:233-234; MTM B7:235; MTM B10:304; MTM B7:226; MTM B8:241; MTM B8:253; MTM B10:291-292; MTM B10:304-305; MTM B11:310; MTM B11:307; MTM B11:318; MTM B11:336-337; MTM B11:338; MTM B11:342; MTM B11:344; MTM B12:359; MTM B12:361; GD:490-491; GD:492; GD:494; GD:495
Schaeffer, Sebastian (Shot Gun)
Regular at the Old Wooden Ship tavern in Galveston; nickname derived from a drink he invented, not from weaponry [D:222]; mistaken for a hitman by a beautiful lady who pays him $5000 after seeing a "distinguished looking gentleman with his head pretty well-blown off" in a mansion she drove him to [D:222-223]; subsequently hounded for the money by George (Basin Street) Becaud, who claimed the job was his [D:223]; spent terrified hours locked in his room [D:224].D:222; D:222-223; D:223; D:224
Schofields
One of the names on grindstones in Duffey's remembered childhood world. It occurs among the household “iron words,” many appropriated from other people's minds [MTM B1:17].MTM B1:17
Schotts
St. Louis restaurant where Duffey and his friends eat before going to the theatre. It is also among the places visited during the farewell celebrations before his seven-year absence [MTM B2:58] [MTM B2:69].MTM B2:58; MTM B2:69
Schrade (Crock poet)
Author identified only as Schrade whose sonnet is included in a twenty-page issue of the Crock [A:41]. The passage does not supply the first name Cyrus. Schrade, Clarence is separately named among Duffey’s literary friends [MTM B3:98], but the two references are not explicitly joined.A:41; MTM B3:98
Schrade, Clarence
One of the Duffeys' bookish and literary friends in the North Chicago golden age [MTM B3:98]. As art editor of the Crock, he refuses Casey's drawings, though Casey slips some into the magazine while Schrade is in hospital. His commentary on Casey's verse, music, and drawings calls attention to the strange force of the badly drawn hellscapes [PG:522].MTM B3:98; PG:522
Schrade, Cyrus
Earlier heading supplied the unsupported first name Cyrus. See Schrade (Crock poet).Schraffenberger, Francis
Companion of Hans Schultz, James Fitzjames, Adam Scanlon, and Trinali Peterson on their driftwood expedition. He explains the butterflies' attraction to salt and sulphur, catches a fish for the group's lunch, and declares that no sane man willingly enters a swamp while Trinali cuts cypress knees [A:233-234] [A:236].A:233-234; A:236
Schultz, Cecilia
One of Hans and Marie Schultz's daughters-in-law. She is listed among those probably present during the continuing farewell conversation with Duffey, whose setting shifts among Rounders' Club, Cabramatta Castle, and other St. Louis houses [MTM B12:385].MTM B12:385
Schultz, John G. (Hans, Who was Orpheus, Aquinas in a T Shirt, John Schultz y Hayden, John Gottfried Schultz, Dutchman, Hanschen, Milwaukee Seidel)
John Gottfried Schultz, called Hans, is one of the Dirty Five and their Orpheus [A:38]. He is the only child of John William Schultz and Mary Irene Hayden, born January 2, 1915, at St. Gallen, Wisconsin, in the lake country beyond Rhinelander near Eagle River. Called John until half grown, he remembers his childhood country as a place of splendid sunlight. His father, a nurseryman and the strongest man in St. Gallen, teaches him German, Latin, horticulture, physical strength, and morality. Hans does not rebel against this last education, though his morality is less fierce than his father’s. He attends St. Joseph’s by pony or on foot. His father quarrels with the nuns and Father Baumgartner, demanding Greek, Aquinas, and Albert in the fourth grade [A:207-209]. At fourteen, according to the narrator, Hans leaves for his Wanderjahr with his father’s old friend, Professor Kirol von Weinsberg-Valeni. The departure is placed in early spring 1930, a date that does not fit the stated age and birth date. The Professor is presented as the last man who knew everything before knowledge multiplied beyond one mind [A:210-211]. They travel in a truck like an old medicine-show wagon. Kirol teaches rapid calculation and prodigious memory as cerebral athleticism, distinct from thought; he discusses the trees of knowledge, the Tree of Language, and his literal belief in Babel [A:212-213]. Hans learns to calculate the right ascension of likely requested stars, including Alpha Centauri, Procyon, CC624, Kapteyn’s Star, Rigel, Vega, and Betelgeuse. Kirol describes the visible universe as the reverse of Heaven’s tapestry and insists that they are already within eternity [A:214]. Hans spends five or six years with the carnival, traveling several continents, learning fortune-telling or dukkerin and Deep Romany, reading minds, answering unasked questions, and taking the platform to answer any question in the world. He is the sorcerer’s apprentice, still fifty years behind his master. His strongman feats include lifting a horse in a harness, supporting the Donkey Walk across his stomach, and bending coins, horseshoes, and bars [A:218-219]. He is a genuine hypnotist, though without Kirol’s commanding theatrical presence, and performs with Betty Hochstapler and Mabel the bear. Betty’s swindler father had been killed by a wool-hat with his own little mallet [A:217] [A:219]. Hans leaves in the spring of 1935 or 1936, fearing that he will inherit the carnival apparatus, and goes to Bohemia as a way of life rather than a country [A:220-221]. With several thousand dollars saved, he joins a New York circle of young artists in a period both joyful and sad. He gives the scholarly panhandler James Fitzjames money for Jaufre and Brunissende, buys Les Cents Novelles Nouvelles for himself, and shares bagels and beer with him. Fitzjames calls him Dutchman; they then collect Trinali Peterson uptown [A:224-226]. Hans rents a three-room apartment for forty-five dollars a month. To Trinali, ten unencumbered dollars would make him rich [A:227] [A:229]. At Lupido’s he meets Endymeon Ellenbogen, formerly Elmer Eggleton Ellenbogen, who praises him as a good listener [A:236-237]. After Trinali’s death, Hans questions whether the companions were real even in their sudden youth. This Bohemia probably lasts only one spring and summer; it is followed by four, five, or six hidden years, depending on the recension, in which he acquires resources that later allow him to obtain money from a distance [A:240-241]. He enters the Army in the spring of 1941 or 1942 [A:241], serving in the same battery as Vincent, Casey, Henry, and Finnegan [MTM B5:171]. In Sydney he wins the Dominion Rules beer-drinking contest against Joe Bushmaster at the Harbor House. Jimmy Hansen bills him as the Milwaukee Seidel, opposite Bushmaster’s Lion of the South; Absalom Stein presides [A:15] [A:19-23]. Hans attributes his prospects to a pure heart and crafty mind [A:17]. He marries Marie Anna Monaghan at the Annunciation Church in Sydney on February 15, 1943, without Army permission [A:31]. He is reduced from staff sergeant to basic for the marriage, but remains exuberantly happy. In New Guinea he climbs to the cliff people, eats with them, and learns their speech. Finnegan dismisses such reports as liars’ tales; the narrator both calls Hans a liar in those days and affirms the encounters [A:58]. The shore boy Sulem teaches him to distinguish tujuan, life’s direction or orders, from semangat, the soul, and says Finnegan has the latter but lacks the former [A:59-60]. Hans hears Marie’s talk in his mind as well as in her presence [A:16] [A:25]. He writes her a love poem; she protests that it makes her old and answers with stories about her uncle Shakes Pearson. Shakes is a figure in her story, not another listener at their table [A:25-26]. Hans’s unpublished ballad of Li Tai Po belongs to his Chinese period, in which Heine is a strong influence. The simultaneous flute-playing and singing is Li Tai Po’s feat inside that ballad [A:221-223]. Salvation Sally joins Hans and Marie at the coffee house, and the three make lasting commitments to one another. She learns the familiar name Hanschen. Years later Hans marvels at hearing her distinctive speech through a letter whose written words look ordinary [A:8-9]. Henry calls Hans a scholar [A:43]. After the war, Hans and Marie settle in St. Louis, where Hans pursues building business during the wedding gathering of May 1946 [A:97] [MTM B5:171]. Hans becomes one of the original Seven Pillars of Righteousness, the Bark’s trustees and directors. Finnegan labels his masthead portrait Aquinas in a T Shirt [A:121-122] [MTM B7:214]. In a hostile Crock article, Casey calls him Acquinas in a T shirt, remembers his dinner jacket and highball, and reports that the contractor has put his own money and other people’s money, without their knowledge, into the project. These are Casey’s allegations [A:128-129]. Hans hoped to make enough money in three or five years and then turn to other pursuits, but becomes trapped by his success, with his wealth in heavy equipment, developing property, and futuristic paper. Finnegan answers his letters; Marie does not understand his discontent or envy of Finnegan [A:146]. Later the narrator says Hans cannot keep himself divested of money, but has restored a consensus of conscience in one field of business [MTM B8:247]. Finnegan’s absence takes a savor from Hans’s life, more strongly felt than Vincent’s corresponding loss [A:187]. Hans’s early history is largely drawn from his talks with Finnegan during a week on a construction job, probably in summer 1950; their conversations also return to the carnival and the talent of his New York friends [A:207] [A:220] [A:236]. In Duffey’s view Hans is one of his Animated Marvels: a huge, loud, vividly colored holy ox like Aquinas, a mythological thunderhead [MTM B5:158-161]. The narrator calls him big-brained and big-hearted, apparently open yet hard to know [MTM B5:182]. Marie disputes Duffey’s claim of creation, saying that he collects them and supplies their settings; Duffey insists that he makes them [MTM B5:159]. Hans describes the Argonauts as exiles on a mundane shore, awaiting their return to the Argo. In a letter to Marie he remembers sailing as Orpheus, and Teresa identifies him both as Orpheus and as a later manifestation of Faust [MTM B5:178] [MTM B6:186] [MTM B7:234]. Stein reports that Hans experienced a rapport with one of the Brunhilde incidents, without identifying that incident [MTM B6:188]. At Duffey’s last St. Louis gathering, Hans and Marie’s Cabramatta Castle is one of several possible settings for the continuing conversation. Their daughter-in-law Cecilia is probably among those present [MTM B12:385]. Hans believes he has lately sailed on the Argo; Marie says she knows she has. Duffey counts Hans among the five good friends who have helped rebuild the world [MTM B12:387-388]. Hans and Marie supply the ship with sea biscuit [MTM B13:446]. The inherited heading’s form John Schultz y Hayden has not been located in the supplied texts.A:38; A:207-209; A:210-211; A:212-213; A:214; A:218-219; A:217; A:219; A:220-221; A:224-226; A:227; A:229; A:236-237; A:240-241; A:241; MTM B5:171; A:15; A:19-23; A:17; A:31; A:58; A:59-60; A:16; A:25; A:25-26; A:221-223; A:8-9; A:43; A:97; A:121-122; MTM B7:214; A:128-129; A:146; MTM B8:247; A:187; A:207; A:220; A:236; MTM B5:158-161; MTM B5:182; MTM B5:159; MTM B5:178; MTM B6:186; MTM B7:234; MTM B6:188; MTM B12:385; MTM B12:387-388; MTM B13:446
Schultz, John William
Father of Hans Schultz, a nurseryman in St. Gallen, WI [A:208]; strongest man there; provided Hans intensive education in German, Latin, horticulture, physical culture (dynamic tension, cable exercisers, bar bells, kettle drums, turning pole, flying rings, mile run) [A:208]; quarreled with nuns and Father Baumgartner at St. Joseph's school over the curriculum, advocating for Greek and Aquinas in 4th grade ("'This that you teach, it is little stuff. It is for children,' John William said." "'Well, John is only nine years old.'" "'They should know these things already. Some of them they should know before they are born.'") [A:208-209]. John William had himself traveled with Professor Kirol and wanted Hans to do the same. Before their marriage, John William and Irene had separately come to America from different countries at Kirol’s expense [A:211].A:208; A:208-209; A:211
Schultz, Marie Monaghan
Marie Anna Monaghan, Australian wife of Hans Schultz. She describes the Monaghans as an old Irish family established in Sydney for 156 years; to Hans's friends she appears chubby, roguish, tart-talking, and given to brushing her hair from her eyes with the back of her hand [A:6-7]. She and Hans marry secretly at Sydney's Annunciation Church on 15 February 1943 because he lacks army permission; they later settle in St. Louis [A:31] [A:97]. Hans calls her queenly and imagines her speaking in his mind; she calls him Hanschen [A:9] [A:16]. One of Duffey's Animated Marvels, she disputes his account of creating them: he collects them and gives them their settings, she says, while he insists that he makes them [MTM B5:159]. Teresa addresses her with the former Argo company [MTM B7:233]. Marie says she has recently been aboard the ship and wakes refreshed because of it; she and Hans supply its sea biscuit [MTM B12:387] [MTM B13:446].A:6-7; A:31; A:97; A:9; A:16; MTM B5:159; MTM B7:233; MTM B12:387; MTM B13:446
Schultz, Mr.
Form of address used by Salvation Sally for Hans Schultz before she learns that Marie calls him Hanschen [A:9].A:9
Sciocco
The “maiden name” of the current lead goat Mephistopheles, who is called a dope and is not respected by his flock. The name suggests foolishness in Italian [A:200].A:200
Scott, Elvira
Arty friend of the Duffeys during their Chicago golden age [MTM B3:98].MTM B3:98
Scott, Harper
Earlier heading that omitted the surname Howland. See Howland, Harper Scott.Scott, Harry
Crewman of the Brunhilde, described as neat and classified among the people who do not belong [D:31]. Anastasia observes him scrubbing his T-shirts and says that what he wants to scrub out is not on the shirts [D:68]. He scatters into Tangier with the rest of the company during the hunt for Don Lewis; Don believes that Harry would kill him if ordered [D:103] [D:106].D:31; D:68; D:103; D:106
Scott, Mordecai
Arty friend of the Duffeys during their Chicago golden age [MTM B3:98].MTM B3:98
Seaworthy, Saxon X. (Sindbad, The Old Fox)
Eccentric millionaire and owner of the Brunhilde, whom Finnegan first encounters in the narrative as a shabby, unshaven man with the shakes, claiming to be a true eccentric [D:9]. They are sitting outside a bar across from a graveyard; neither initially remembers how he arrived there. Seaworthy has a scar or tattoo inside his left wrist and says that Finnegan has the same mark below the skin. Much older than Finnegan, he has a deeply lined, granite-like face whose apparent dullness has a bottomless depth. He speaks of their shared amnesia as a characteristic of changelings, then remembers his name [D:10-12]. He gives Finnegan a hundred dollars, which Finnegan understands as payment for some service, though he does not know whether past or future. When Papa Devil enters the club, Seaworthy suddenly looks so old that the bargirl says he has aged forty years in three seconds; he quickly regains his composure. He later gives Finnegan another hundred dollars and promises their voyage once unexpected business is settled [D:13-17]. Finnegan also perceives a killer's mark on him, distinct from the wrist mark [D:16-17]. Seaworthy proposes a voyage around the world, and Finnegan and Anastasia are entered on the papers of his diesel yacht Brunhilde [D:11] [D:21]. He is associated with Papa Devil, William Gerecke, and Peter Wirt; Anastasia says that these men control the captain and crew [D:24] [D:30] [D:40]. He conducts mysterious business in coastal ports. According to Anastasia, he owns many ships, undertakes illegitimate work, and profits from transporting people as cargo [D:34] [D:55]. His Greek origin, initially suggested by her remark that his X does not stand for Xavier, is explicitly confirmed by the narrator [D:55] [D:115]. He commissions Finnegan to paint the ship's barroom with the voyages of Sindbad. The narrator identifies Seaworthy with Sindbad and stresses the murkiness behind the supposedly upstanding adventurer [D:59]. Seaworthy recounts a gray, Hindi-speaking dream set in India, where he cannot dispose of an unaccountable corpse that eventually asks who will bury him. The narrator confirms that he has dreamed it for three nights and already understands it [D:72-73] [D:77]. It prompts Finnegan to remember their actual first meeting in the graveyard: Seaworthy was burying a man who stirred again, and silenced him with a shovel blow that broke his skull. Finnegan helped deepen the grave, broke into an older burial, and handled its bones; Seaworthy stood over him with the shovel raised but did not strike. They buried the new corpse above the old one [D:74-76]. Finnegan later confirms that the newly buried man was Papadiabolous. Seaworthy is certain that he killed him, yet cannot account for his apparent return to life. Finnegan knows that the man now accompanying them is a different Papadiabolous, a distinction Seaworthy does not understand [D:82] [D:84-85]. X's later account identifies Seaworthy as a halfbrother of the two Papadiabolous brothers and a leader of the mutiny against Papadiabolous I. X reconstructs the killing as a scheme to open their father's grave for valuable information: Seaworthy shot Papadiabolous I with a small-caliber weapon during the digging, before Finnegan's intervention. X acknowledges uncertainty about parts of this reconstruction [D:286-289]. He also attributes the killing of Papadiabolous II on Naxos to Seaworthy, who still failed to understand the substitution. In X's account Seaworthy is a materialist who keeps Finnegan as a witness to the first killing and a reassurance of his own sanity. X lures him back to the grave with forged notes in Papadiabolous's handwriting and predicts that he will die in the trap that night; this is a prediction, disputed by Finnegan [D:289-291]. Years after the voyage, Finnegan tracks the old fox to a gathering in another island city. Seaworthy now has pherea, neck protuberances described as a sign of aging in his species. Finnegan attacks with both Seaworthy's throat and the group's treasury as his targets, but kills Gerecke instead, hearing Seaworthy laugh as he escapes [D:162-165]. The description of Seaworthy as smarter than the Devil belongs here to the narrator; Finnegan later makes the same comparison to X, while X calls Seaworthy smart and able to feign incapacity [D:165] [D:288-290]. Archipelago reports his oath to have Finnegan killed while expressly warning of improbabilities and incompatible versions in these travel accounts [A:187]. When Finnegan later draws his face, he thinks of Seaworthy as an enemy who will have him killed, then asks whether even this prevents their friendship [A:278]. For comparison, Lafferty's Sindbad, The Thirteenth Voyage develops competing claims to the Sindbad identity. Master Mariner and Master Spy Essindibad Copperbottom, a citizen of Kentauron Mikron, calls himself the original Sindbad; his rival John Scarlatti Thunderson concedes that Essindibad possessed the identity by birth and inheritance before John replaced him through trickery. Essindibad says that his thirteen voyages, including the present one, were diplomatic or espionage adventures on seven planets, whose coded logs accidentally reached Earth as fantastic stories. His wife is Grand-Dame Of-The-Seven-Musics Goodlife Tumblehome, whom he says accompanied four previous voyages, dying and returning on two of them. He instructed spies for the Kentauron Foreign Office, including the later Citizen Heifritz. His present mission begins with a commission to find the reborn Harun and bring him back to Kentauron (Sindbad, The Thirteenth Voyage, PDF viewer pp. 6-7, 10-14, 28-29, 74). John, from Chicago's North Side, uses open-ended analytics to build an Almost-Anything machine and travels to the Baghdad he calls the Arabian Middle Ages, adopting the espionage name Ali ben Raad. Buried alive beside his apparently dead bride Blue Moon, he discovers that she is a mechanical woman who can be revived by winding her mechanism; she subsequently explains that she is a spirit inhabiting it. He describes this as an improved version of Sindbad's Fourth Voyage. He also creates an alternative Kentauron past for himself, including a prior marriage to Grand-Dame Tumblehome, which Essindibad does not remember. Blue Moon invokes a purported Arabian proverb making Sea-Weed growing at the body's shouka, or bifurcation, the proof of the true Sindbad. She removes Essindibad's Sea-Weed and implants it on John, who then claims the identity (Sindbad, The Thirteenth Voyage, PDF viewer pp. 7, 61-74). The competing accounts make this criterion unstable. Essindibad calls John false; Scheherazade inspects John's genuine Sea-Weed but calls it an implant and him a forgery. Blue Moon insists that the transplant makes John genuine and that Essindibad cannot regrow it. Scheherazade says that she originally wrote voyages of Slattery the Sailor, named for Joe Slattery of Galveston, and that oral storytellers changed the name to Sindbad. It is Essindibad, commenting on John's account, who says that John's drivel reflects facts upon which Scheherazade builds stories (Sindbad, The Thirteenth Voyage, PDF viewer pp. 78, 82-86). Caliph Al-Amin commissions Essindibad to inspect and protect hell's iron doors, invoking the Sea-Weed criterion although Essindibad has already lost his growth. A hostile False Ship subsequently tests him, declares him false, and identifies the approaching John as true. Essindibad and his wife survive their captivity aboard that ship; Scheherazade, John, and Blue Moon help defeat their captors, and the party inspects the doors before returning to Baghdad. Mamun's later denunciation of a false Sindbad attacks Al-Amin's commissioned traveler, Essindibad, rather than naming John (Sindbad, The Thirteenth Voyage, PDF viewer pp. 90-110, 118-119). Finally, Essindibad's wife imprisons him in a bottle. His closing journal reports Sea-Weed growing on him again, which he takes as proof that he has regained the identity and John has lost it. His opening account claims a happy retirement on Kentauron, but the closing journal leaves his escape precarious: corrosive fish food is making a hole in the bottle, and he may escape or die. The renewed Sea-Weed does not by itself establish a completed happy ending (Sindbad, The Thirteenth Voyage, PDF viewer pp. 6-7, 149-155).D:9; D:10-12; D:13-17; D:16-17; D:11; D:21; D:24; D:30; D:40; D:34; D:55; D:115; D:59; D:72-73; D:77; D:74-76; D:82; D:84-85; D:286-289; D:289-291; D:162-165; D:165; D:288-290; A:187; A:278
Sécaire, St.
Saint named in the Sword and Scabbard of Saint Sécaire, the dangerous anti-prize whose recovery the Argo Masters must undo [MTM B13:422-424].MTM B13:422-424
Sedalia Schoefeld
Student at St. Mary Majors who proposes making herself vomit to escape a formal dance. Instead she joins Lily Koch and the others in the house's attic billiard room, where she becomes friendly with John Rattigan [MTM B1:32-33].MTM B1:32-33
Sedgewick, Gideon
One of the Duffeys' “confidence and gamine friends” in the North Chicago golden age [MTM B3:99].MTM B3:99
Seelenfresser
Unverified term. The earlier glossary attributes Seelenfresser, glossed as soul-eater, to a conversation involving Finnegan and Teufel. That term and conversation have not been located in the supplied novels.Seeress
Unverified role. The earlier glossary identifies Doll Delancy as a seeress predicting Anastasia’s death by water, but the prophecy and attribution have not been established.Self
The integrity of the person, threatened in Duffey's understanding when a shadow or double is threatened with destruction. The narrative calls the destruction of a shadow “a mortal wounding of the Self” [MTM B4:141].MTM B4:141
Semangat
Sulem's name for the soul, which he distinguishes from tujuan, the direction or life assignment nearly everyone receives. He says that everybody has a soul or semangat; Finnegan's missing faculty is his tujuan, not his semangat. Sulem places the soul in the diaphragm [A:60].A:60
Seminary
The training Henry Salvatore undertakes in preparing for the priesthood. He must first spend at least a year in minor seminary before entering the major seminary in New Orleans [A:125]. While he is studying, others carry on the Bark; his Latin prosody assignment appears near the close of his section [A:143] [A:149]. He is nicknamed the Merry Monk, but is later assigned to a church deep in the Louisiana swamps [MTM B7:214].A:125; A:143; A:149; MTM B7:214
Senescals
Earlier misspelling of seneschals. See Seneschals.Seneschals
Attendants of the Boy King Melchisedech. One asks why the boy cannot look at the sun-squirrels he has made, and he replies that he had not expected them to become so bright [MTM B5:157].MTM B5:157
Senior Youth World Congress
Organization supplying fifty selected senior youths to garrote King Hiram III with the entrails of Paul the Eleventh during the Voltaire Festival at Babylonia Bagascia [MB:564].MB:564
Serpent (1)
One of the devices Henry sees on the flags and pennants of the Navicula Petri in his dream, listed with a Woman and a Crescent Moon [A:44].A:44
Serpent (2)
Snakes occur as creatures, figures of speech, and images in Finnegan's travels. The Chosky Bottoms are said to harbor eighteen-foot bull snakes [D:274]; the killers closing on Don Lewis in Tangier are compared to snakes entering a burrow [D:106]; and small snakes inhabit the Naxos ruins [D:68]. The narrative's earthly Paradise still has snakes, which eventually drive Finnegan and his companions out [D:235]. Finnegan's sonnet imagines an ancient sacred snake biting the world [D:133]. The Flying Serpent is a name of the Argo when Willy Jones sails her in the Moluccas [MTM B13:405].D:274; D:106; D:68; D:235; D:133; MTM B13:405
Serpent of the Garden
Show Boat identifies the Serpent of the Garden with an eight-armed hydra or water monster whose tentacles include Communism and secular liberalism. She claims “special charisma” for the identification in her letter to Dotty [A:262-263].A:262-263
Seti darts
Weapon used to petrify men into brown stone statues of Sjahrir, according to Brannagan's tall tales [D:206].D:206
Seven Devils
Devils recur in groups of seven. Show Boat reports Casey's claim that seven devils want to return to him and have seized his press and building for his debts [A:262]. Seven devils more evil than the four senior conspirators attend the meeting Finnegan attacks [D:163]. Giulio says that whenever he ejects his “poor guy's devil,” it returns with seven worse devils [MTM B3:106].A:262; D:163; MTM B3:106
Seven Golden Years
Alternate name for the Seven Lost Years, used within their own pretertemporal context by those experiencing them [MTM B10:300].MTM B10:300
Seven Just Men
Righteous drinkers who visit the saloon at Beelzebub and Hell-Raiser Streets in Trinali Peterson's poem about herself, Lot, and Lot's wife. The Brimstone Combo plays there, and the Seven Just Men come for a nightly toddy [A:235].A:235
Seven Lost Years
The seven years of Duffey's disappearance from St. Louis, lived aboard the Argo in nonconsecutive time. Intervening land adventures do not count toward either the seven years or the years of his life [MTM B2:71]. The Sea of the Seven Lost Years has scattered channels and shores, some apparently inland; Duffey continues to encounter stray days from it [MTM B13:406]. He can reenter it from shores corresponding to different ages of his life, becoming young again on leaving shore [MTM B13:445]. Within their own context these are the Seven Golden Years [MTM B10:300]. Duffey collects seven representations of Christ during the lost years and sends them back to himself [MTM B3:103-104]. The talisman given to Gabriel Szymansky for his future son belongs to the hidden years; the Wisconsin, Morgan City, New Orleans, Galveston, Chicago, and Australian gifts are placed in those years or possibly earlier [MTM B4:120-121].MTM B2:71; MTM B13:406; MTM B13:445; MTM B10:300; MTM B3:103-104; MTM B4:120-121
Seven Pillars of Righteousness
Finnegan's name for the seven figures beneath his charcoal drawing for the Bark masthead: Henry, “The Merry Monk”; Duffey, “Thou art Forever”; Stein, “Absalom to Omega”; Dotty, “The Beautiful Barmaid”; Hans, “Aquinas in a T Shirt”; Gabrielovitch, “Don't Know It in Croat”; and Giovanni, Finnegan himself, “In Absentia” [A:121-122]. They are the founding trustees and directors of the Bark [MTM B7:214].A:121-122; MTM B7:214
Seven Roads
Play by Cleo Mahoney, presented in the Ursuline Academy auditorium. Its seven roads are possible futures for the Patriarch Melchisedech, entered through encounters with seven special potholes in the city; the choices and their order are accidental [MTM B10:293]. Duffey plays his own part, performs real magic at the interval, and plays his banjo and recorder flute [MTM B12:366].MTM B10:293; MTM B12:366
Seven Steps Down
One of the establishments on Chicago's Fleshpot Row praised by Shirley Israel. Rollo McSorley says the row is the only place still offering real Chicago-Hot Jazz [MTM B4:126].MTM B4:126
Seventy
The number of righteous people Margaret Stone says the Patriarch could not find, even as the required number was reduced. Her street preaching turns the episode into an urgent fear that one more convert may be needed that night to keep the world from destruction [A:144].A:144
Seventy-Five Miles
Approximate distance into the outback from Sydney to the farm of one of Marie Monaghan's uncles, where she and Hans spend several days after their secret wedding [A:31].A:31
Severed Giant Hands
Picture hanging over the doorway leading to the Elegant Riverboat Deck at Rounders' Club; an old dream/fantasy of Duffey's (from his dream of the chasm [MTM B2:68]) related to his perceived loss of creative power when near his own powerful "Animated Marvel" creations [MTM B5:156].MTM B2:68; MTM B5:156
Sexton-beetles
Unverified reference to beetles in the preliminary “Paean” of Archipelago. The supplied copy lacks the required preliminary page, and the earlier glossary’s quotation and identification with Nicrophorus remain unchecked.SFM (Slant-Faced Men)
See Slant faced boys (Three).Shadow
In Finnegan’s phrase “shadow life,” the existence remaining to him after his first death. The narrator describes it as release from the unities and the heroic conventions [D:158] [D:161]. See First Death of Finnegan and Shadow life.D:158; D:161
Shadow life
Finnegan's existence after the first death described at Naxos, distinguished from the later physical death on another island. He vows to devote the shadow life left to him to hunting Seaworthy and his associates [D:157-158]. The narrative says this existence relaxes conventions, particularly the Unities of Aristotle and the Heroics of Plutarch [D:161].D:157-158; D:161
Shadows
Doubles or fetches whose relation to their originals varies. Papa Devil identifies Dopey as Finnegan's double, but admits uncertainty about the closeness of their duality; the possibility of ghostly absorption arises in Finnegan's objection [D:121]. Duffey believes that his shadows may become flesh, and visits one in Chicago [MTM B4:141]. Doctor Rafelson distinguishes these shadows from the twelve young people Duffey believes he has made [MTM B4:147]. The thirteen doubles hunted by John Mogul belong to the faithful Cardinals in hiding, who are distinguished from the abdicated Cardinals [MB:578-579].D:121; MTM B4:141; MTM B4:147; MB:578-579
Shagbarks
Shagbark hickories (Carya ovata), trees with loose, peeling bark. They appear in one of the “Unwritten poems of Hans Schultz,” whose speaker describes a private aerie shared with God, Germanus, and Gabriel [A:210].A:210
Shakes Pearson
Marie Monaghan's uncle, introduced in a joke on Shakespeare's name. She says he was called Shakes because he shook from drinking pop-skull whisky. Trying to win a chewing-tobacco jingle contest, he writes limericks on bark with oak-ball juice, but squirrels eat them whenever he leaves for more drink [A:25]. According to Marie, he eventually kills himself, leaving a note asking Miriam to do something about the squirrels. Her claim that she alone understands the affair is met by Hans's question about why the squirrels spared that last note [A:26].A:25; A:26
Shakespeare
English playwright (1564-1616). Marie Monaghan invokes Shakespeare when Hans complains that she will neither scan nor rhyme, then turns the name into a joke about her uncle Shakes Pearson [A:25]. The narration invokes Shakespeare's “Africa and golden joys” while discussing the primordial joy of money [MTM B4:124].A:25; MTM B4:124
Shaman
Finnegan's term for the person who analyzed him and, in plain language, diagnosed him as a “natural born bum” [A:255].A:255
Shamus McGregor
One of Marie Monaghan's uncles, introduced as “Shaw” in her series of jokes about literary names. She says they call him Shamus because he is a night watchman for the Royal Imperial Dominion Detective Agency [A:28].A:28
Shandygaff (1)
A mixture of ale or beer and ginger beer. In the “Antipodal Ode of Finnegan to Loy Larkin,” Loy is said to have drunk it from her mother [A:32].A:32
Shandygaff (2)
Drink with which Hans proposes to “spar” for quickness before the drinking contest, before moving to porter for strength [A:18].A:18
Sharion
The name used by Finnegan when he quotes Psalm 29:6 during his exchange of scriptural lines with Duffey: “Sharion like a young buffalo” [MTM B12:375]. It corresponds to Sirion, the Phoenician name for Mount Hermon.MTM B12:375
Sharivaries
One of the popular social activities listed among the lively arts of daily life said to have been spoiled after the Devil's release [MTM B6:207].MTM B6:207
Shaw, George Bernard (1856--1950)
Irish playwright, critic, and Fabian pamphleteer, author of Pygmalion, Man and Superman, and Saint Joan; recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1925, awarded in 1926. Marie's “Shaw” is a joke about her uncle Shamus McGregor [A:28]. Casey's notebook uses Shaw and The Quintessence of Ibsenism to argue for reading original works instead of accounts of them [A:166]. Shaw is among the writers contributing to the ideological mixture in The Answer [MTM B4:114]. The Postscript names him among famous people whom Havelock Ellis regarded as no more innately able than obscure people [PS:476].A:28; A:166; MTM B4:114; PS:476
Sheehan, Elmo
One of the “slippery people” in the Duffeys' Chicago circle [MTM B3:100]. He defends Chicago-hot jazz as “our kind of worthlessness” and is among the Fleshpot Row company from which Duffey eventually withdraws [MTM B4:126-127]. He accompanies Rollo McSorley among the portfolio man's supporters during the attempt to blackmail Duffey into admitting their group to the Crock [MTM B4:140].MTM B3:100; MTM B4:126-127; MTM B4:140
Sheleno
The Romany term glossed as “Gypsy green” in Hans's reflections on the color of Marie Monaghan's eyes. It is compared with Greek and French color words as he wonders whether her green eyes have classical precedents [A:24].A:24
Shenandoah Saga
One of Endymeon Ellenbogen's three published novels, issued through a subsidy press at his expense [A:237].A:237
Shire, Tom
Australian soldier whom Finnegan, Vincent, and Hans befriend in Sydney in 1943. Initially large and fair, he and Freddy Castle are said to be unmistakably Australian. Tom explains Australian knife-and-fork habits [A:4-5]. He and Freddy disguise Finnegan and Vincent in winter tunics and digger hats to enter a wet canteen; Tom gives Vincent a disastrous haircut and inspires the anti-Yank affidavit Finnegan signs [A:11] [A:13]. Tom and Freddy are the trusted judges of the Schultz-Bushmaster drinking contest and join the later pub crawl [A:15] [A:20] [A:23]. When the Sergeant revisits Sydney and meets them at the Plaza Hotel, Tom is small and dark instead of large and fair, although otherwise unchanged [A:88]. Finnegan includes him among the familiar people of his normal life and later sketches his face [D:90] [A:278].A:4-5; A:11; A:13; A:15; A:20; A:23; A:88; D:90; A:278
Shirley Israel
One of the “slippery people” in the Duffeys' Chicago circle [MTM B3:100]. She promotes Fleshpot Row and joins the hissing when Demetrio Glauch, then Duffey, leave in disgust [MTM B4:126-127]. Her increasingly potent mixed drink inflames the party that challenges Duffey to move a mule by magic [MTM B4:129-130]. Her salon is reputed to rival the Duffeys', and her circle wants to exploit Duffey's magic [MTM B4:137]. A compromising photograph of her with Duffey is used in the blackmail attempt against him; the narrative calls the encounter an entrapment or badger-game trick [MTM B4:139-140].MTM B3:100; MTM B4:126-127; MTM B4:129-130; MTM B4:137; MTM B4:139-140
Show-Bill
Weekly show-business paper printed by the Pelican Press on Friday mornings. The Star and Garter in St. Louis advertises in it until the theatre closes. Teresa produces an issue herself containing an advertisement for the Decatur Street Opera House, whose existence Dotty initially denies [MTM B7:230].MTM B7:230
Shrake, Jessica (Princess of Porcelain)
Earlier heading that misspelled the artist’s surname. See Shrike, Jessica (Princess of Porcelain).Shrike, Jessica (Princess of Porcelain)
Artist listed among those whose work Duffey sells in New Orleans, called “that princess of porcelain” [MTM B6:198-199].MTM B6:198-199
Silas Whiterice
See Whiterice, Silas.Sindbad
Voyager of the Nights with whom Saxon X. Seaworthy is identified. Finnegan paints scenes of Sindbad's voyages in the Brunhilde barroom; the narration hints at a darker Sindbad behind the familiar story [D:53] [D:59]. Anastasia becomes the dead wife of the fourth voyage and Marie Courtois the wife of the seventh, who expects a happy ending. Marie says Seaworthy has traveled, traded, and suffered shipwrecks on a still greater scale [D:61-62]. The talking oak aboard the Argo says that Abd-Aliah of the Sea sold the ship to Sindbad of El-Basrah [MTM B13:404].D:53; D:59; D:61-62; MTM B13:404
Sindbad Lounge
Drinking bar aboard the Argo, decorated to suggest sunlit underwater space filled with fish and golden sands. Its oceanic paintings were made by Count Finnegan when the ship was called the Brunhilde, long after Sindbad's ownership [MTM B13:404].MTM B13:404
Singulars
Particular beings considered individually. Don Lewis applies the term to furtive men like himself and asks whether they have been forgotten “behind God's back”: “Does God have knowledge of singulars?” [D:48].D:48
Sinhor Dedos
Rio alias of Amoy's master Ali hen Taife, also called Lord Peter Petrof and Count von Vinger. Ignatius Ti's story glosses it as “Mr. Fingers.” The master takes the gems Amoy steals and finally cuts the bird's throat to recover a blue diamond it cannot disgorge [A:81].A:81
Sirnuka
People among whom men bear children, according to Biloxi Brannagan’s account. He claims to have witnessed the births; Finnegan gives this story little credit [D:206-207].D:206-207
Siros
Island where, according to Brannagan, small shops sell mermaids' hair brought from Naxos; he names Tinos and Kea as other outlets [D:207].D:207
Sisler, Gretchen
A sturdy girl, almost nine, who recognizes Duffey's magic in St. Louis and calls herself his fan. She suggests that he make a gold coin rather than sparks, takes the five-dollar piece he produces, and says her mother has just lost her restaurant job. She promises to ensure that they meet again [MTM B2:39]. She later kisses him goodbye with the other visitors at Rounders' Club [MTM B2:70]. In the Chicago years he still loves her and visits St. Louis, while she writes to remind him that she is no longer so young [MTM B4:110].MTM B2:39; MTM B2:70; MTM B4:110
Sisler, Lucille
Mother of Gretchen Sisler. After losing a restaurant job, she goes to work at Duffey's Rounders' Club in St. Louis. Though only twenty-eight, she is jokingly called his mother-in-law because Gretchen claims him as hers [MTM B2:39] [MTM B2:49]. Gretchen arranges Lucille's work and dates with Duffey, but the encounters end with Duffey and the daughter together on the family sofa [MTM B3:78]. Lucille and Olga Sanchez take turns carrying Duffey on their shoulders when “The King Shall Ride” is played, and both are his devoted partisans [MTM B2:52].MTM B2:39; MTM B2:49; MTM B3:78; MTM B2:52
Sister Mary Aurora (Rittenhouse)
One of the ecclesial or “vineyard” people in the Duffeys' Chicago golden-age circle [MTM B3:99].MTM B3:99
Sister Mary Cornelia (Sullivan)
One of the ecclesial or “vineyard” people in the Duffeys' Chicago golden-age circle [MTM B3:99].MTM B3:99
Sister Mary Merhione
A nun interviewed in the topless bar where she works, in a clipping preserved in the scrapbook Duffey reads. She defends her work in a “gentle and forgiving voice” and sells reprints of her article “Topless Before God” from Paralplegic Church Today [MTM B8:252].MTM B8:252
Sister Mary Sabina
See Sabina, Sister Mary.Sister Marys
Unverified nickname. The earlier glossary attributes Sister Marys to Marie Monaghan as a name for Hans Schultz’s eyes; the cited passage does not establish that usage.Situation Bit
Phrase attributed to the preliminary “Paean” of Archipelago in the earlier glossary. The required preliminary page is absent from the supplied copy; both the wording and the proposed connection with situational ethics remain unverified.Sjahrir
Name attached to the brown stone statues which, in Brannagan's account, are people petrified by Seti darts and the preparations in which they are dipped [D:206].D:206
Skalsky
Authority cited at the opening of Book Five for the claim that Ukalegon was a woman and in every way the negation of Melchisedech [MTM B5:149].MTM B5:149
Skawine
Place near Krakow, Poland, mentioned in X's account of Ifreann Noonan Columkill Gregorovitch Papadiabolous Chortovitch's birth in 1830. X places the birth in a hayfield near Krakow, possibly nearer Skawine [D:278].D:278
Skinny Art
Duffey's dismissive description of Edward Ranwick's work. Ranwick has already gained a reputation at art school, but his art leaves Duffey unimpressed [MTM B2:58].MTM B2:58
Skinny Countess
Description Charlotte Garfield uses for Sebastian Hilton’s companion at the Colony Club, naming her as one of the psychics present [MTM B3:93]. See Countess Margaret, The (Margaret Hochfelsen).MTM B3:93
Skylla
Greek word used by Anastasia as an insult for Marie Courtois. Anastasia tells Finnegan that she cannot say directly what Marie really is, but that the Greek word is skylla [D:33]. The modern Greek skýla means a female dog and is also an insult for a woman.D:33
Slainthe
Irish toast meaning “health,” used by Finnegan when drinking with Casey and Henry after their return through the jungle to the bivouac. He then takes another drink as Solli the Italian and says “salute” [A:44].A:44
Slant faced boys (Three)
Recurring enemies of Duffey, first seen when he is about six. Two years older and larger than he is, they have slack mouths, slanted faces, and knives. They come to the house with the Prisoner John Window intending to kill him, and return to wait for him inside it [MTM B1:12-13]. Duffey later supposes that they caused the house fire by overturning a lamp [MTM B1:14]. At about eleven he escapes their ambush in a timothy field with help from his kit-fox, but is badly knifed and nearly bleeds to death [MTM B1:19-20]. He sees them again on his school roof after they nearly kill Sebastian Hilton [MTM B1:36]. Mary Louise says they are Bagby's principal brawling opponents [MTM B2:62]. Bagby later says that he and Duffey have each killed one, yet three, or many groups of three, remain. Dotty Yekouris reports their appearance in Flame Man, White Avenger, and Captain Justice [MTM B7:225]. Flame Man supplies their names, Amraphel, Arioch, and Thadal; the narrative identifies them as three crooked kings and followers of Chodorlahomor [MTM B7:227-228]. Duffey reports seeing them kill Sebastian and carve the Devil's tetragrammaton on his chest in a detached experience, but his subsequent inspection finds that Sebastian died of plague and that the corresponding marks are sores, not knife cuts [MTM B7:226]. When they threaten Margaret Stone and her singing companions with switchblades at the Majesty's assembly, Quarter rowdies remove the winders from their backs and they collapse with racing gears and stuttering sprockets [MTM B8:244]. Duffey later sees them as the Laughing Prince's bully boys in the desert sequence [MTM B13:440].MTM B1:12-13; MTM B1:14; MTM B1:19-20; MTM B1:36; MTM B2:62; MTM B7:225; MTM B7:227-228; MTM B7:226; MTM B8:244; MTM B13:440
Slant-Faced Men (SFM)
See Slant faced boys (Three).Slavic language press
Press described in Casey's polemic against The Bark. Casey accuses Gabrielovitch of filling it with comments favorable to Draja Mihailovitch and attacks on Tito and the “major Slavic ally” [A:129].A:129
Slick, Sherman
Sherman Slick, one of the friends of scientific bent in Duffey and Letitia’s North Chicago circle. The roster lists him immediately before Silas and Maud Whiterice [MTM B3:99].MTM B3:99
Slit Trench
One of the named valleys in Don Lewis's account of the wartime pursuit involving PFC Lorrigan, Sergeant Santee, and Casper. They know these valleys but become lost in a different, unrecognized one [D:45-46].D:45-46
Sloe gin
Liqueur made with sloes, the fruit of the blackthorn. In his high-school notebook Casey says that drinking it marks one as an adolescent; he and Hinnegan have moved on to whisky and hot water [A:165].A:165
Sloppy Joe's
Finnegan and his three companions' joking name for the Imperial Bar, or Royal, at Basse-Terre in their Terrestrial Paradise. The establishment is clean and even fastidious; the friends are Charles Le Marin, Don Barnaby, and Johnny Duckwalk [D:235-236].D:235-236
Slurry
Unverified name. The earlier glossary proposes that Slurry is a misprint for Lucille Sisler, Gretchen’s mother. No passage establishes that identification.Smith, Gunboat
English bulldog whom Duffey trusts to detect the familiar turning strange. Following Father Brown's advice, Duffey brings him from the Old Wooden Ship Tavern in Galveston, where he is Bulldog-in-Residence, to help protect the Argo from the Man of Mystery. Gunboat and Kasmir Gorshok growl at one another [MTM B13:458]. After their failure to stop the future unfolding around the Antichrist, Gunboat speaks about returning and trying again. Rebuked by Brannagan for talking, he gives a final growl and fades out after Brannagan [MTM B13:463].MTM B13:458; MTM B13:463
Smith, Joe
Vagabond painter who begins the Dotty O'Toole triptych in Galveston; Finnegan later finishes it. Smith's work has a disturbing excellence, but he never completes anything, and leaves more than a dozen unfinished masterpieces with art dealer Duffey [MTM B6:198].MTM B6:198
Smokehouse
Regular at the Old Wooden Ship tavern, grouped with Russ, Bill “Buffalo Chips” Dugan, Bob, and Charleyhorse Heckel [D:215] [D:220]. Smokehouse and Bill work at the same garage. Because the proprietor confuses them, one quits and they thereafter work alternate days under one job and split the pay. This halves their earnings but doubles their time off [D:220].D:215; D:220
Smooch
Kissing sound in Beth Keegan's playful “telephone operator's kiss”: “Smooch, smooch, smooch, your three minutes are up, please” [MTM B2:60].MTM B2:60
Smyrna
One of the places where Ifreann Gregorovitch lives in X's account [D:280]. X also identifies it as the birthplace of Gregory McIfreann Papadiabolous I, the Asiatic of the two sons he calls twins [D:285].D:280; D:285
Socrates
Athenian philosopher, conventionally dated about 469-399 BC, remembered for examining ethical questions through conversation and exposing unrecognized ignorance. He left no writings; Plato, Xenophon, and Aristophanes provide differing portraits of him. Tried on charges involving impiety and corruption of the young, he was executed by drinking hemlock. His life and death became enduring models of philosophical inquiry. In Archipelago, Captain Sammy compares the serious, dedicated, kindly Absalom Stein with his idea of Socrates, while Casey rejects Sammy's admiration for Stein [A:67].A:67
Socrates (470--399 BC)
Earlier heading gave an approximate birth year as an exact date. See Socrates.Solli y Gordonasco, Signor
Name Gertrude Brannagan uses when calling Finnegan to a telephone call. After he takes it, the caller sounds like a man speaking from a badly ventilated grave. Finnegan recognizes X [D:208].D:208
Solli, Giulio (The Monster Forgotten, Monster Giulio)
Giulio Solli, father of Giovanni (John) A. Solli, or Finnegan, Giacomo (Jake), and Patricia (Patti); his wife is Mary McCracken [A:173]. Dark, powerful, and carelessly put together, he is the monster who becomes Duffey's first customer. He works on riverboats, ocean ships, and docks [MTM B2:41-43]. Bagby knows him as a troubled visitor who appears about once a year. Giulio asks Duffey for something to help an unborn son and receives a talisman; Bagby associates him with the Gadarene Swine and their song [MTM B2:47-48]. Giulio says a poor man's devil afflicts him and returns with seven worse devils whenever expelled [MTM B3:106]. The Countess identifies him as a Teras, and he agrees. He reports holding the talisman to his wife's belly and placing it in his Italian son's hands at birth [MTM B3:107]. The account of Duffey's talismans says Giulio alone understood from the beginning to apply it at conception and during gestation, then give it to the special son at birth [MTM B4:120-121]. Finnegan is explicitly identified as Monster Giulio's son [MTM B5:161]. Finnegan recalls swamp journeys with him and the extraordinary animal calls he whittled from tupelo-gum: calls for panthers, alligators, devil-fish, swamp-boas, hairy men, and white sharks [MTM B5:174]. Patricia derides Giulio as a poor dock worker and literally antediluvian, reporting that someone called him the Monster Forgotten [A:174-175]. Years after Giulio's death, Finnegan sees him shabby and sad at a railway station and takes him to a beer place. He reproaches his father's work, drinking, poverty, and marriage, then tells him how difficult things became after his death. Giulio silently cries and leaves. Finnegan at last understands that his father loved them and did all he could, while the family derided and possibly killed him [A:244-245]. In The Devil Is Dead, Finnegan reflects that Giulio belonged to a monstrous apparatus and died as the Monster Forgotten [D:229].A:173; MTM B2:41-43; MTM B2:47-48; MTM B3:106; MTM B3:107; MTM B4:120-121; MTM B5:161; MTM B5:174; A:174-175; A:244-245; D:229
Solli, Jake
Giacomo Solli, Finnegan's brother, who has become Jake, a smooth-talking Irishman driving taxis and steering tourists. The narrative says he cares little for his Italian brother except to borrow money and make jokes about him [A:174].A:174
Solli, John A.
See Finnegan (John A. Solli).Solli, Patricia aka Patti, Patrish (Patrish)
Sister of Finnegan and Giacomo (Jake) Solli [A:173]. An acrobatic dancer with striking, weird, comical beauty, she moves with sudden strength like Finnegan's and is often with him. Her intimacy with Doppio di Pinne unsettles Dotty; Patti calls him her brother too and says he is the same person as Finnegan [A:174]. Her accounts of their childhood contradict Finnegan's. She calls their father a poor dock worker and literally antediluvian [A:174]. Only a year older than Finnegan, she says she partly raised him but always felt him a stranger or changeling. She defends him as incapable of wrongdoing and says they came from Irish Channel, despite his claim to a Quarter upbringing [A:175]. Finnegan includes his sister Patty among those friendly to him in his normal life [D:90].A:173; A:174; A:175; D:90
Solomon
Biblical king of Israel, traditionally placed in the tenth century BC, noted for wisdom and wealth and for building the Temple in Jerusalem. First Kings also connects his later conduct with the coming division of his kingdom. In Archipelago, the men of Solomon and Hiram take three years on the journey to Ophir [A:16]. Duffey claims to have sat with Solomon in Kings' conclaves [MTM B5:166]. Bagby invokes Solomon when asking how to choose between good jazz and good conversation [MTM B7:220].A:16; MTM B5:166; MTM B7:220
Solomon Islands
Earlier heading confused a sea with the Solomon Islands. See Solomon Sea.Solomon Sea
The Solomon Sea appears among the seas the Argo has sailed. The list recalls voyages made by Melchisedech [MTM B13:406].MTM B13:406
Son of God
X's translation of Bogovitch, the surname carved on the Devil's gravestone. X explains it as a euphemism replacing Chortovitch, “son of the Devil” [D:277-278].D:277-278
Son of the Devil
X's translation of Chortovitch. He says that this name has been softened on the Devil's gravestone to Bogovitch, which he translates as “son of God” [D:277-278].D:277-278
“Sonnets and Succotash”
One of the nine projected volumes under which Endymeon Ellenbogen has classified his poetry. He says the poetry remains uncollected and unpublished [A:237].A:237
Sore-Head Gulch
One of the named valleys in Don Lewis's account of the wartime pursuit involving PFC Lorrigan, Sergeant Santee, and Casper. They know these valleys but become lost in a different, unrecognized one [D:45-46].D:45-46
Sorensen
One of Papadiabolous I's revolutionary associates in X's account. X says that several members of this group are rumored to be Papadiabolous's half-brothers, without specifying which ones [D:286].D:286
Sorrell, Joe
Cab driver who takes Finnegan and Anastasia to the dock where the Brunhilde is berthed [D:21]. He joins them for a drink aboard [D:22]. Papa Devil orders all three off the ship, and Sorrell drives them away [D:23].D:21; D:22; D:23
Soufriere
Name required for a volcano in the narrator's list of conditions for a Terrestrial Paradise: among its history, climate, ships, and friends, the place must have “a volcano named Soufriere” [D:237]. The preceding account locates the friends at Basse-Terre while emphasizing Finnegan's confusion between it and Basseterre on St. Kitts [D:235].D:237; D:235
Soule, Jacob (Deutero-Finnegan, Finnegan Image)
Young painter whom Stein calls Deutero-Finnegan. He resembles Finnegan slightly, leaves pictures on consignment with Duffey, and paints work resembling Finnegan's orange period. During the Fifth Contingency he momentarily seems to be Finnegan himself and speaks of Dotty, who disappeared before Soule arrived [MTM B11:343]. Named Jacob Soule, he joins Duffey's party at Girardeau's [MTM B11:344]. Though accepted as splendid and noetic, he voluntarily puts his hands into the testing ashes outside the Opera House. They burn with a yellow, then orange flame; he refuses the Marshal's invitation to withdraw and insists on being human even if he must die for it [MTM B11:347-348]. The thunder colt kills him in the arena, where Margaret Stone remarks on the orange color of his blood before the colt kills her too [MTM B11:351]. After Duffey returns, Soule is dead in the ordinary setting as well, one of at least two deaths brought back from the splendid Devildom [MTM B12:355].MTM B11:343; MTM B11:344; MTM B11:347-348; MTM B11:351; MTM B12:355
Sour John
See Sourwine, John (Sour John).Sourwine, John (Sour John)
John Sourwine, called Sour John, is one of the resident regulars at the Old Wooden Ship [D:215-216], celebrated for his storytelling [D:221]. In Don Barnaby's account of the Juju Joy Pill, Barnaby considers Sour John the world's unhappiest man and tries to share his new happiness with him [D:251]. Sour John refuses the pill, preferring a hangover to Barnaby's condition. He takes Barnaby to the ship, straps him into his bunk, and stays until the ship sails [D:252].D:215-216; D:221; D:251; D:252
South Americans
In Marie Monaghan's comparison of national drinking habits, South Americans drink coffee, like Arabs and Yanks, while English, Chinese, Russians, and good Aussies favor tea [A:7].A:7
South China Sea
One of the many seas sailed by the Argo [MTM B13:406].MTM B13:406
Southern Beauty
Horse-drawn vehicle named by the Royal Pop speaker while describing memories supposedly preserved by an old Decatur Street flagstone [MTM B11:329].MTM B11:329
Southern Comfort
Whiskey liqueur among the bottles in Finnegan's shoulder-bag when he leaves D'Hannis on foot [A:202]. In the brush that evening he “comforted himself with Southern Comfort,” beginning the unreconstructable 105-hour interval [A:203]. The noon-day devils appear particularly after it and his Old Crow have run out [A:205].A:202; A:203; A:205
Southern Nature's Solitary Boast
“Our Southern Nature's Solitary Boast,” an epithet for Marie Monaghan in the narrative celebration of Duffey's animated creations [MTM B5:183].MTM B5:183
Spain
One of the countries where X says an Irish accent in English could result from instruction by Irish nuns or governesses [D:279]. A King of Spain formerly owned the cigar canister into which the slack-faced attendants put Duffey's ashes after his death in the Laughing Prince episode [MTM B13:442].D:279; MTM B13:442
Spain, Ira and Rebecca
Ira and Rebecca Spain, included among the Duffeys' “confidence and gamine friends” in the Chicago period and described with that group as the better grade of confidence people [MTM B3:99].MTM B3:99
Spanish Golden Book
Title of a work Endymeon Ellenbogen says he has translated, alongside the Greek Anthology, Horace, and Petrarch [A:237].A:237
Spanish Prisoner Trick
Confidence trick in which a supposedly wealthy prisoner needs advance money to secure release and promises the helper a reward. Charlotte Garfield tells Duffey that the Devil Released from Prison is an old con of this kind, a grossly magnified Spanish Prisoner Trick; she reports an enormous take in 1946 [MTM B8:260].MTM B8:260
Spanish Stairs
The Spanish Steps in Rome. In My-Heart-Disconsolate, the severed head of the Cap-Stone Paul the Eleventh is displayed there on a pike before the Last Conclave; it continues to speak while being mutilated by its tormentors [MB:561-562].MB:561-562
Spanish-Trunk Swindlers
One class of confidence men who, in Angela Cosquin's account, come from around the world to commission her father's forged treasure maps. His master map shows real and imagined sunken ships; customers choose a ship and location and buy detailed maps and supporting documents [D:259-261].D:259-261
Spartan
The narrative's description of the life led by the group around the Pelican Press. Gabrielovitch does not adopt their Spartan life: because The Bark pays nothing and he likes money, he takes paying work elsewhere [A:126].A:126
Speaking Oak of Dodona
Source of the piece of wood Finnegan tells a fellow traveler he stole from the prow of a ship he once sailed. Asked whether the wood bears writing, he answers, “Not all the time,” and identifies it as part of the Speaking Oak of Dodona [A:244].A:244
Special Dove
Prodigious dove with a wingspan exceeding ten feet. Its cote survives aboard the Argo among the relics and identifying objects of the Great Ship [MTM B13:403-404].MTM B13:403-404
Special Service Press
Absalom Stein's answer when Jimmy Hansen asks whether he too is press, during their meeting at the Binnacle. Stein agrees to cover the Hans Schultz-Joe Bushmaster drinking championship [A:19].A:19
Special Services
Military service with which Sergeant Absalom Stein is associated. He lectures at service clubs and writes for army publications [A:19]. His duties include providing troops with interests and entertainment, and he establishes the small G.I. radio station called the Anopheles Network [A:46].A:19; A:46
Sphere
Casey's high-school notebook gives the volume of a sphere as its diameter cubed, multiplied by pi and divided by six: V = πd³/6. Casey adds that he was the only one who knew it that day [A:163].A:163
Spider
William Gerecke is described as “wiry as a spider” [D:163]. In Hans's climbing dreams, a giant spider waits in a web inside an immense cave shaft. Its red eyes resemble locomotive headlights and its movement shakes the web with thunder [A:61]. Hans attacks with a Roman sword, which seems oddly late for a creature associated in the narration with an older Greek or Hindu myth [A:62].D:163; A:61; A:62
Spider's web
Web Hans climbs in a dream to reach a giant spider in a cave shaft. Its threads are cables eight inches thick; before he reaches the web's center, the bottom of the shaft has dwindled to a point and disappeared [A:61].A:61
Spink
One word in X's coded telephone sequence, between Vlissinger and Tineo. The recipient evidently has trouble with the codebook, and X says Y has one [D:184].D:184
Splendid Animations
Name for Duffey's living, talismanic creations, including Finnegan, Hans, Henry, Vincent, Casey, Dotty, Marie Monaghan, Mary Virginia, Teresa Piccone, Absalom Stein, Mr. X, and Mary Catherine Carruthers [MTM B5:161-162] [MTM B8:261]. Mary Catherine has seemed the least of them, despite her closeness to Duffey [MTM B8:261]. The Fourth Contingency says that all have sailed, are sailing, and will continue to sail on the Argo, even when they believe themselves engaged elsewhere [MTM B10:300]. Patrick Plunket challenges Duffey's account of making them, saying he only woke them [MTM B12:391]. The Countess Margaret is separately described as an Animation of someone whose identity remains unclear [MTM B7:215].MTM B5:161-162; MTM B8:261; MTM B10:300; MTM B12:391; MTM B7:215
Splendid People
Name claimed by the supposedly new, noetic species in Duffey's Fifth Contingency. Cyrus Roundhead declares that they are the splendid, final persons and denies that they were ever human [MTM B11:345] [MTM B11:350]. Their presentation at the Decatur Street Opera House includes the slaughter of human victims [MTM B11:349-351]. Duffey returns from his time among these people with a jaundiced view of his city [MTM B12:355-356].MTM B11:345; MTM B11:350; MTM B11:349-351; MTM B12:355-356
Splitting Image
Term from popular lore invoked by Dr. Saul Rafelson for living images that may have split off from Duffey into independent existence. He treats this as one possibility alongside psychic projections or real people drawn into Duffey's orbit [MTM B4:146]. Rafelson says he has examined two flesh-and-blood images, and distinguishes the twelve young people Duffey believes he made from his “shadows” [MTM B4:147].MTM B4:146; MTM B4:147
Sponsor
One of the godparent terms used when the narrative asks whether Duffey's relation to talismanic Casey is more than ordinary sponsorship. It compares that relation with non-species sponsors such as fairy godmothers, without settling whether these are equivalent to a sorcerer's relation to his creatures [MTM B4:119]. Duffey had given Casey's father a talisman before Casey's conception or birth [MTM B4:120].MTM B4:119; MTM B4:120
Spook place
A haunted or uncanny place, the sense Finnegan reports Old Pop Potter giving to Chosky Bottoms. Such a place is always just over the next ridge or in the next river valley: home to the man-killing panther, swamp ghost, masked riders, giant coons and fish, Bloody Mulligans, eighteen-foot bull snakes, and the story of the Northern Platoon lost in quicksand [D:274].D:274
Sporting News
Wednesday sporting paper printed on the Pelican Press, one of the paying jobs supporting The Bark [A:118] [MTM B7:212]. Bello Belonki is associated with it in More Than Melchisedech [MTM B7:213]. Archipelago instead names Berny Cacciatore in connection with the sporting news sheet [A:126].A:118; MTM B7:212; MTM B7:213; A:126
Sporting News Sheet
Description of the Pelican Press sporting paper. See Sporting News.Sports
Newspaper department that Jimmy Hansen says should cover the Bushmaster-Schultz drinking contest. A novice crime reporter, he explains that Sports is almost always unavailable so early in the day [A:18].A:18
Square mile
Measure illustrating the extraordinary density of Black Papua. Casey invents the phrase "Coefficient of Scenic Density," and the narration describes a square mile with over fifty waterfalls, eighteen hundred feet of elevation change, pools less than ten yards across and three times as deep, and dozens of miles of caves. Its deliberately extravagant abundance includes a thousand kinds of lizards, a million kinds of birds, and three dozen families speaking three languages, with a fourth tribe possibly still undiscovered [A:36].A:36
Squid
Animal used by Margaret Stone to characterize Stein, whom the narration calls neither fish nor flesh: she says he is some sort of squid [A:132]. Squids also appear in the shore song Finnegan sings to Elena; she understands their curling as relaxing for the night [A:276].A:132; A:276
Squirrels
In Marie Monaghan's story of Shakes Pearson, squirrels repeatedly eat his poems, written on bark with oak-ball juice; his last note asks Miriam to do something about them [A:25-26]. Asked whether Australia has squirrels, Marie answers, "Not that I know of," and admits that calling them wallabies would have complicated her story [A:27]. At the dump Finnegan briefly guesses that the unseen small animals might be squirrels, before recognizing rats by their smell [A:177]. Duffey's childhood narration describes coal-black squirrels in the Council Bluffs park, claiming that they occur nowhere else, and contrasts Iowa's red squirrels and St. Louis's gray ones with Boston, where people supposedly do not know what a squirrel is [MTM B1:9] [MTM B1:17].A:25-26; A:27; A:177; MTM B1:9; MTM B1:17
St. Angela Orba Orphanage
Chicago refuge Charlotte Garfield uses when she needs to go to ground. She says that all but two of the sisters think she is a little girl; the two who know what she is provide commitment papers and love [MTM B3:86].MTM B3:86
St. Anthony
Anthony the Abbot (251-356), an Egyptian ascetic. The narration compares the beautiful, treacherous temptations of this saint with the amazons, female gladiators, Cretan girl bullfighters, and circus acrobats in Casey Szymansky's second imaginary world, adding that they might even be the same girls [A:157].A:157
St. Augustine
North African bishop and Latin Church Father (354-430). Casey invokes the "early Augustine" when challenging Finnegan's attempt to dissociate himself from his sins; the quoted belief that another kind of being sinned within him is a former belief, not Augustine's mature doctrine of original sin [A:154]. Patrick Stranahan recommends reading Augustine once in youth for background [A:109]. In Ignacio's story, Joseph of Maintz carries Augustine's writings in his moon-bound chamber alongside Scripture, the Missal, Jerome, and Pliny [A:271]. The narrator of The Devil Is Dead, rather than Papa Devil, says Augustine seems to refer to the worm in the forbidden fruit [D:264]. Notes near the end of More Than Melchisedech attribute to him the statement that eddying thoughts have no part in the saints' vision of the world [MTM B13:469]. The Confessions (397-400) recount his life and conversion in a sustained address to God. The City of God (413-426) interprets human history through the conflicting loves of God and self. His treatment of original sin, grace, free will and the Church profoundly influenced Western theology. He adapted Neoplatonic philosophy to Christian thought and is venerated as a Doctor of the Church. The former belief invoked by Casey comes from Confessions V.10.18, where Augustine rejects his earlier excuse for sin. The later note appears to echo Summa theologiae I.10.3, which cites Augustine on the saints’ unchanging vision of the Word; the supplied novel reads “world.”A:154; A:109; A:271; D:264; MTM B13:469
St. Barthelemy
Name in Angela's list of seven false or shoal passages through the Antilles, places where wrecks piled up or should have piled up [D:260].D:260
St. Benedict of Nursia (c.480--547)
Author of the Rule of St. Benedict, one of the books on the shelves of Casey’s room at St. Bonaventure’s [A:162]. Benedict (c.480-547) came from Norcia in Umbria. After living as a hermit at Subiaco, he organized monastic communities and settled at Monte Cassino in 529. His Rule joined common prayer, sacred reading, manual work, obedience and care for others in a disciplined communal life. Its moderation and capacity for local adaptation helped it spread; it became the prevailing monastic rule in much of medieval Western Europe. Benedictine monasteries subsequently supported learning, manuscript copying, agriculture, hospitality and missionary work. Benedict is venerated as the Father of Western Monasticism, though he did not found a centralized Benedictine order. Paul VI proclaimed him patron of Europe in 1964.A:162
St. Brandon
Irish voyager saint, generally known as Brendan (traditionally c. 484-c. 577). The Devil Is Dead attributes an epigraph about unredeemable creatures and long sublunar lives to "Saint Brendon, Trachtas" [D:130]. The Argo's history says he sailed her as the Land of Behest from Ireland to America, encountered the great fish Jascoyne, and carried Judas [MTM B13:404]. Brannagan declares that he was and still is St. Brandon of Ireland [MTM B13:413].D:130; MTM B13:404; MTM B13:413
St. Christopher
Name Ignacio gives for St. Kitts. He calls it a landfall of Cristobal Colon and one of five little Leeward Islands, while Finnegan has his own imagined paradise in mind [A:272]. Finnegan later considers going to St. Kitts but admits that the name is loosely applied, at least by himself, to several islands [D:273-274]. See also St. Kitts (St. Christopher).A:272; D:273-274
St. Christopher (3rd century? AD)
Ignacio identifies the island of St. Kitts as St. Christopher [A:272]. The saint’s story supplies background to that name, rather than a biography narrated in the novel. Christopher is a legendary martyr and patron of travelers. In the Golden Legend, the giant Reprobus seeks the greatest lord: first a king, then the Devil whom the king fears, and finally Christ, whose cross frightens the Devil. A hermit teaches him the faith and proposes that he serve Christ by carrying travelers across a dangerous river. One child becomes so heavy during the crossing that Christopher fears drowning. The child reveals himself as Christ and explains that the giant has carried the world and its creator. The name Christopher means Christ-bearer. The legend continues with his preaching, conversions, miraculous survival of tortures and eventual beheading. Accounts place his martyrdom under different rulers, including Decius or Maximinus; the narrative is not secure historical biography. In Western art he commonly carries the Christ Child across water with a staff. His commemoration was removed from the general Roman calendar in 1969, but he remained in the Roman Martyrology and continued to be venerated. Travelers’ medals and prayers reflect that continuing devotion.A:272
St. Cristina's Church
Chicago parish where, according to Elena O'Higgins, a substitute for Casey Szymansky's destroyed sacred organ music is performed on kazoo, peewee guitar, and musical saw. She calls it a parish working to be the city's trendiest [PG:525].PG:525
St. Elmo
Parish that X calls the nearest to Krakow. He claims to have inspected a record there listing "The Devil" as the father of Ifreann Noonan Columkill Gregorovitch [D:279].D:279
St. Francis de Sales
Catholic writer (1567-1622) and bishop of Geneva from 1602. Finnegan reads his description of Paradise while Le Marin reads over his shoulder and claims to know the place [D:233]. The narration observes that the saint intended Heavenly Paradise, while the two men understood it as terrestrial; Finnegan reaches the wrong Basseterre and thus Paradise by accident [D:235]. A passage on chastity, beginning with its comparison to a lily among virtues, is also attributed to him [MTM B1:27].D:233; D:235; MTM B1:27
St. Gallen, Wisconsin
Wisconsin birthplace of John Gottfried Schultz (Hans), born January 2, 1915, to John William Schultz and Mary Irene Hayden. Hans remembers it as a place of splendid sunlight and larger summer [A:207]. His father operated a nursery there, and Hans attended St. Joseph's school [A:208].A:207; A:208
St. Henry II
Finnegan is shriven on the feast of “St. Henry Emperor” in preparation for possible death, and thereafter drinks only a little wine [A:277]. Henry II (c.973-1024) became king of Germany in 1002 and was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 1014. He strengthened royal authority through the Church, founded and endowed the diocese of Bamberg in 1007, and supported monastic and ecclesiastical reform. His use of bishops as royal officers complicates an unqualified portrayal of him as a defender of ecclesiastical independence. His marriage to Cunigunde was childless; their supposed mutual vow of chastity belongs to disputed later tradition. Pope Eugene III canonized Henry in 1146, and Cunigunde was canonized in 1200. His feast falls on July 15 in the older Roman calendar, as retained in the 1962 missal, and on July 13 in the modern calendar. Catholic devotion presents the couple as examples of holiness within royal and married life.A:277
St. Henry II (972--1024)
Earlier heading gave a disputed birth year as exact; the checked account uses c.973. See St. Henry II.St. John Chrysostom
Church Father (c. 347-407). Finnegan suggests to Le Marin that Chrysostom, or failing him Jerome, might support the idea of Terrestrial Paradise as an island surrounded by four rivers, although such authorities looked in the Near East [D:234].D:234
St. John of the Cross
Spanish Carmelite mystic and poet (1542-1591), born Juan de Yepes. Finnegan reads him alongside Father Farrell’s books on the Summa during his late Havana days of Mass, beach walks, sketching and books, recognizing the fleece itself in his reading [A:277]. A chapter epigraph attributed to Wimbish A. McDearmott’s Panegyrica calls John de Yepes an exemplary scientist of Divinity whose direct experimental method is mysticism [D:176]. John helped Teresa of Avila reform the Carmelites and suffered opposition and imprisonment. His works include The Ascent of Mount Carmel, The Dark Night, The Spiritual Canticle and The Living Flame of Love, exploring purification, detachment and union with God through poetry and prose commentary. He was canonized in 1726 and declared a Doctor of the Church in 1926. In Heaven, Duffey identifies John and Teresa with sixteenth-century Spanish elements in what he thinks is mystical symbolism; Plunket insists that the place is real [MTM B12:390].A:277; D:176; MTM B12:390
St. Joseph's
School in St. Gallen, Wisconsin, attended by Hans Schultz, who rode a pony or walked or ran there. His father John William quarreled with the nuns and Father Baumgartner because he thought the teaching too easy for his son [A:208].A:208
St. Jude
Saint whom Dotty Yekouris jokingly claims as patron of printers and little magazines and the only apostle who was a printer. When Finnegan calls him the advocate of impossible causes, she answers, "Same thing" [A:115]. Finding his tomb appears among the Argo Masters' discoveries [MTM B13:422]. Christian tradition identifies Jude Thaddaeus, one of the Twelve, with the Thaddaeus named in Matthew and Mark and Judas son of James in Luke and Acts. The New Testament letter attributed to Jude warns against corrupt teachers and urges fidelity. Traditions of his later preaching range through Judea, Samaria, Syria and Mesopotamia, often linking him with Simon the Zealot; accounts of his martyrdom differ, placing it around AD65 in Persia or Syria. He is invoked as patron of desperate or impossible causes. One devotional explanation associates his former neglect with confusion between his name and Judas Iscariot’s; this is a tradition, not an established account of the patronage’s origin. Devotional literature also recounts Bridget of Sweden’s vision directing her to invoke him. His attributes include a club or axe, an image of Christ associated with the Edessa legend, and a flame representing Pentecost. Modern shrines have helped spread this devotion.A:115; MTM B13:422
St. Katherine's
Church from which Duffey obtains a priest to bless his continuously boiling crock of barley soup at the Pelican in New Orleans [A:133]. During the later New Orleans episode, Mary Virginia mentions two Dominicans giving a hellfire mission at "Ste. Katherine's" and predicting that their world will end that week [MTM B11:310].A:133; MTM B11:310
St. Kitts (St. Christopher)
Island name associated in Finnegan's mind with an intended paradise. Ignacio identifies St. Kitts as St. Christopher, a landfall of Columbus in the Leewards, which Ignacio therefore calls a holy island [A:272]. Finnegan later considers going there, while admitting that he loosely applies the name to several islands [D:273-274]. Duffey owns a cigar-store Christ from St. Kitts, adapted by an island artist from the cigar-store Indian form, with fingers shaped to hold cigars [MTM B3:103].A:272; D:273-274; MTM B3:103
St. Kobarid
Small kingdom in the Julian Alps, ruled by Hiram III and described as the last nation not yet abolished. Winter snow delays armed abolition there [MB:563]. Hiram is killed at the Voltaire Festival in Babylonia Bagascia, garroted by a youth team using Paul the Eleventh's entrails [MB:564].MB:563; MB:564
St. Louis
Birthplace of Vincent Stranahan, on April 5, 1921, and Theresa Antoinette Piccone, on October 15, 1923. Her father owns the Star and Garter [A:94]. Their wedding, planned for the last Saturday of May 1946, brings the Dirty Five and their friends together in the city [A:95]. Hans and Marie have decided to live there [A:97]; Patrick Stranahan and his family occupy the Cat Castle [A:102].St. Louis also belongs to one of Duffey’s competing childhoods, whose memories may have been taken from a sister-person. Pecans and gray squirrels are among its remembered details [MTM B1:16-17]. As a young man he buys a former livery stable on Walnut Street and begins his business [MTM B2:40-41]. The account of these early business years is disputed within the narrative; a later account has him leave from below the Eads Bridge aboard the disguised Argo for the Seven Lost Years [MTM B2:71].
At the later reunion Duffey still has business interests, partners, a sister, and a share of the Rounders’ Club in the city [MTM B5:152]. Patrick has defended Doppio di Pinne there for homicide [A:111], and Bagby reports a recent visit by Giulio [MTM B5:164]. Bagby’s own funeral takes place in St. Louis, after which his weekly letters continue to arrive in New Orleans [MTM B8:237].
A:94; A:95; A:97; A:102; MTM B1:16-17; MTM B2:40-41; MTM B2:71; MTM B5:152; A:111; MTM B5:164; MTM B8:237
St. Louis Globe
One of the two St. Louis newspapers Bagby calls the "Heavenly Twins," to which he sends his flamboyant boxing battle statements [MTM B2:50]. Cyrus and Edith Summerfield are society commentators in both this newspaper and its counterpart [MTM B2:65].MTM B2:50; MTM B2:65
St. Louis IX (1214--1270)
Louis IX (1214-1270), king of France from 1226, is the namesake of St. Louis, Missouri. That city is the place where Melchisedech recalls boarding the disguised Argo below Eads Bridge [MTM B13:406]; the king’s life is historical background to the place-name. Louis strengthened royal justice and arbitration, restrained abuses by officials, and helped develop the royal court into specialized institutions, including the Parlement. His 1254 reforms prohibited bribery and regulated punishment, while his moral legislation restricted blasphemy, gambling and interest-bearing loans. He founded or supported hospitals, religious houses and the college of Robert de Sorbon. The Sainte-Chapelle housed the Crown of Thorns and other Passion relics he acquired. Biographical tradition remembers him hearing grievances beneath an oak at Vincennes, feeding the poor and washing their feet; Joinville describes his daily attendance at a Requiem Mass and a sung Mass. Louis led the Seventh Crusade in 1248, was captured in Egypt in 1250, and remained in the eastern Mediterranean after his release until 1254. His second expedition, the Eighth Crusade, ended with his death from illness near Tunis in 1270. Catholic devotion presents him as a model of Christian kingship, but an unqualified portrait of benevolent rule overlooks his coercive religious policies, including the requirement that Jews wear a distinguishing badge. Boniface VIII canonized him in 1297; his feast is August 25.MTM B13:406
St. Louis Murrays
Family to which Charley Murray belongs. His membership explains why he has money during his school years with Duffey and the other boys [MTM B1:24].MTM B1:24
St. Louis Post Dispatch
One of the two St. Louis newspapers Bagby calls the "Heavenly Twins," to which he sends his flamboyant boxing battle statements [MTM B2:50]. Cyrus and Edith Summerfield are society commentators in both this newspaper and its counterpart [MTM B2:65].MTM B2:50; MTM B2:65
St. Louis University
University where Duffey takes courses from the Jesuits in the summer of 1915 [MTM B2:49]. Charley Murray attends as a day student; although he shares none of Duffey's classes, they see much of each other [MTM B2:53].MTM B2:49; MTM B2:53
St. Lucia
Name in Angela Cosquin's list of seven true passages through the Antilles, spelled "Ste. Lucia" in her account of her father's treasure maps [D:260].D:260
St. Malachy's Church (1)
Little stone church two blocks north of Duffey's Chicago hotel, which he visits with Charlotte. Its south front has three spread-winged archangels and each of its east and west sides has nine large angels; to Duffey the stone seems alive with wings [MTM B3:87]. Letitia says she has already arranged most of their wedding there, scheduled for the day after tomorrow [MTM B3:92]. They visit the church during their preparations [MTM B3:96], and their marriage is subsequently recorded [MTM B3:98].MTM B3:87; MTM B3:92; MTM B3:96; MTM B3:98
St. Malachy's Church (2)
St. Louis church where Bascom Bagby attends Mass, traveling across town because he believes it comes nearest to preserving the true faith amid the clergy's loss of orthodoxy [MTM B2:63].MTM B2:63
St. Marc
One of two treasure ships near Angela Cosquin's island, represented on her father's maps as lying one atop the other with the San gre del Cristo. Angela calls the story a fabrication, but the narrator says both ships are real, within three hundred yards of her, and extraordinarily full of gold. She dives to the wrecks and later uses them to safeguard her own money [D:262].D:262
St. Martin's
Hall at St. Bonaventure's boarding school where Casey lives in six-boy chambers, each furnished with beds, lockers, desks, and a communal table [A:161]. The hall's boys produce the manuscript Chambers in rivalry with Gregory Hall's Towers; Audifax O'Hanlon draws chamber pots on its mastheads. These school papers underlie Casey's later Crock ventures [A:167].A:161; A:167
St. Mary Major's
Girls' boarding and day school where Lily Koch is both a boarder with a private room and, when she wishes, a day student living with wealthy kindred across the road. She holds private Wednesday-night sales in her schoolroom and public Saturday sales at their mansion [MTM B1:28]. Twenty-five girls from the school are to be escorted by twenty-five boys from Duffey's school to a compulsory dance at the mansion [MTM B1:31].MTM B1:28; MTM B1:31
St. Marys
Church where Hans and Marie stop for Mass as morning light begins, after talking through the night and walking in the rain during their Sydney stay [A:10].A:10
St. Michael
Saint whom Papa Devil names with God as responsible for worrying about whether the Devil can be killed [D:87]. On the Great Day, Duffey talks with the damaged stone statue of St. Michael at the church in New Orleans. Duffey asks where an oasis can be found; Michael replies that the living water has left this place. One of the statue's eyes has been gouged out [GD:496].D:87; GD:496
St. Michael's
New Orleans church Duffey visits at dawn on the Great Day. People are "unstructuring" it through faith, and most of the building has fallen. Duffey speaks with the stone St. Michael in the former entry; the statue says the living water has gone and no oasis remains. Its eye has been gouged out, perhaps by an ordinary hammer and chisel, perhaps by their faith equivalents [GD:496].GD:496
St. Paul
New Testament apostle whom Finnegan says never saw an Ocean Island [A:35]. The narration of The Devil Is Dead comically recasts his quarrel with Demetrios over Diana as a dispute over the silversmith's poor workmanship [D:133]. Trinali compares the basket in which Lupido lowers food to her with Paul's basket escape; Hans prompts her to explain that Lupido and Paul were not contemporaries [A:229]. Passages attributed to Paul's Philippians 4:4-9 and Ephesians 6:12-13 are among the original documents inserted into Duffey's story [MTM B5:175]. The Devil contrasts Paul's God with himself as the god of gibberish [MTM B8:243]. The Argo's history names Paul among those she has carried [MTM B13:404].A:35; D:133; A:229; MTM B5:175; MTM B8:243; MTM B13:404
St. Petersburg
City where X says Papadiabolous I was present on November 7, 1917, aged about eighteen and serving his practical revolutionary apprenticeship [D:286].D:286
St. Philomena
The name occurs through St. Philomena's, the school Maurine would claim Finnegan attended to get him admitted to a high-school dance [A:101]. Philomena is venerated as a young virgin martyr, but her dates and biography are not established by ancient testimony. Her nineteenth-century devotion followed the discovery of remains in Rome’s Catacomb of Priscilla in 1802. Reordering the tomb’s three inscribed tiles produced the name Filumena. The identification of the remains, the possible reuse of the tiles, and the supposed evidence of martyrdom have all been disputed; the vessel found in the tomb cannot simply be described as proven martyr’s blood. In the later devotional narrative associated with Sister Maria Luisa di Gesù’s claimed revelations, Philomena is a Greek king’s daughter who vows virginity, rejects Diocletian, survives scourging, arrows and attempted drowning through heavenly aid, and is finally beheaded at thirteen. These are elements of her legend. The relics were taken to Mugnano in 1805. Reported cures, including Pauline Jaricot’s in 1835, spread the devotion, and Gregory XVI authorized a local liturgical cult in 1837. August 11 became her traditional feast day. A 1961 liturgical decree removed her feast from calendars; this did not forbid private devotion. Devotees continue to invoke her as a wonder-worker and patron of children, young people and the sick.A:101
St. Philomena (c.291--304)
Earlier heading supplied life dates that are not established by ancient testimony. See St. Philomena.St. Philomena's
School named in Maurine Stranahan's proposed excuse for bringing Finnegan to her junior-year high-school dance. Maurine invites him and says that, if challenged by the sister, she will present him as a junior from St. Philomena's and explain his age by calling him 'retarded.' She also wants to tell the other girls that they are engaged [A:100] [A:101].A:100; A:101
St. Sécaire
Saint named in the Sword and Scabbard of Saint Sécaire, an anti-prize the Argo Masters deliberately lost three times. At its final concealment they sealed sword and scabbard with molten metals and brimstone, buried them deep in the Nine Mile Depth, and charged the ocean's creatures to keep them lost. Four hundred years later, Cyril and Cyrus Dimbeau recover them in a bathysphere on the morning Duffey and Brannagan go to sea [MTM B13:422].MTM B13:422
St. Stephen
Saint named in Casey’s crown decoration. See Crown of St. Stephen; for the Hungarian ruler, see King Stephen of Hungary.St. Vincent
Name in Angela Cosquin's list of seven true passages through the Antilles [D:260]. The voyage poem opening Finnegan's chapter imagines sliding a sloop through a pass at "St. Vince," followed by shining at the Ritz and sleeping on the sand at St. Kitts [A:172].D:260; A:172
St. Zermatto
Place Finnegan names, with Chamonix and Guebwiller, in a dispute over prehistoric rock paintings. He says shapes interpreted as birds and butterflies are actually elaborate speech balloons in an original complex language, and includes himself among the Neanderthal artists. Duffey disputes their capacity for speech and writing [MTM B6:193].MTM B6:193
Staghorn Christ
One of Duffey's seven exceptional Christ figures, from Mesa Negra. The narration dates the hard-stone carving nine thousand years before Christ's birth and identifies its figure, impaled on a giant stag's antlers in a crucified posture, as Christ [MTM B3:104].MTM B3:104
Star and Garter, The
St. Louis burlesque theater owned and run by Gaetano "Papa" Piccone, father of Show Boat [A:94]. His stock character Hallohan J. O'Hoolihan caricatures Patrick Stranahan [A:104]. Duffey devotes an evening a week to the theater during his St. Louis period [MTM B2:50]; he and friends take Mary Louise Byrne and Beth Keegan there, and the two women sometimes join the skits [MTM B2:58]. Beth later works there, writing skits and playing comic roles [MTM B2:74]. Two of its acrobats attend Duffey's farewell at the Rounders' Club [MTM B2:70]. Piccone recounts creating at least one new character weekly for over thirty years, including Oliver Oscar Omygosh, whom he claims to have brought into actual existence, though Bagby disputes the claim [MTM B5:167-168].A:94; A:104; MTM B2:50; MTM B2:58; MTM B2:74; MTM B2:70; MTM B5:167-168
Star Barrel
Inscription on churns among the household "iron words" in Duffey's childhood memories. Some of these memories come from observation and some from other minds; the passage does not single out Star Barrel as one kind or the other [MTM B1:17].MTM B1:17
Star of the Ninth Fusiliers
One of the numerous decorations Casey wears in his scarlet Leader regalia when Letitia intercepts him before he can mount the white horse [MTM B4:117].MTM B4:117
States (the States)
The United States. Finnegan compares clockwise Australian horse racing with the counterclockwise racing he knows "in the States" [A:3]. A bargirl contrasts beer from the states with the Texas beer she serves [D:12]. At Palermo, Finnegan receives his first mail since leaving the States, including letters from New Orleans, St. Louis, and Chicago [D:114-115]. When he is hunted in Basse-Terre, he begins considering a return [D:267].A:3; D:12; D:114-115; D:267
Station Hospital
Military hospital to which the amnesiac Sergeant is returned after the Captain's interrogation breaks him. The Sergeant threatens to remember the Captain's name and find him even in Hell; after being taken back to the hospital and sleeping, he feels better [A:74].A:74
Ste. Ann Street
New Orleans street included in the narrator's picture of ghosts converging on a coffee shop before dawn. The narrator immediately retracts the story, retaining only Finnegan's painting of gathering ghosts; the next page explains that the real establishment is named for its proprietor Anthony Ghost [MTM B10:292-293].MTM B10:292-293
Ste. Genevieve
Island associated with the Martyr-Bell. The narrative says English raiders on the Lord Cramner killed thirty-nine Christians there in 1594 for refusing to abjure their faith. After the ship wrecked nearby, islanders recovered bronze cannon and cast the bell, which rang for four hundred years when enemies approached [MB:576]. Islanders later intercept Count Finnegan and instruct him to take it south to the mooring rock, where it is to summon good people rather than warn enemies away [MB:576-577].MB:576; MB:576-577
Stein Collins
One of the drinks Absalom Stein makes from gin and ice during the Bay Hotel picnic [A:29-30].A:29-30
Stein Julip
The Stein Julip, one of the fancifully named gin drinks Absalom Stein mixes with ice and bottles of Gilbeys during the group’s Bay Hotel picnic [A:29-30]. Its recipe is not given.A:29-30
Stein the Red
Name applied to Absalom Stein in the narration of Casey's compulsory "Reaffirmation of American Values" course after his stockade term and reduction in rank [A:50].A:50
Stein Zombie
One of Absalom Stein's gin drinks at the Bay Hotel picnic. Finnegan jokes that its name is descriptive of its great originator [A:29-30].A:29-30
Stein, Absalom
American Special Service sergeant, publisher, and member of the Argo company, also called A. Stein, Kephos, and Ab-Salom. He comes from Chicago; his identification with Hugo Stone is disputed within the books [A:19] [MTM B5:158] [MTM B9:266] [MTM B7:234]. Duffey remembers Hugo Stone as a boy who visited his Chicago bookstore and insists that Hugo became Absalom. Margaret Stone disputes this, saying that Hugo was a joke name used by several of her cousins and that Absalom’s branch always used Stein. She names twenty Stone boys in four families: David, Hershel, Jacob, Samuel, Max, Nathan, Avram, Yosef, Stuart, Isaac, Myron, Efram, Barnard, Sidney, Joel, Robert, Milton, another David, another Nathan, and another Robert. She says that Absalom was their second cousin and lived six miles north; Myron and Efram, twins, most often played Hugo. Casey denies knowing Absalom before their army service in New Guinea about 1943, although Duffey remembers Casey’s clashes and two lost fistfights with Hugo [MTM B4:111-113]. The Dirty Five know Stein as a sergeant who lectures in service clubs and writes for army publications. He appoints himself master of ceremonies for Hans’s beer-drinking contest and quickly masters its Dominion Rules [A:19-20]. At the seaside picnic he mixes the Flying Steinmetz, Steinheim Stinger, Stein Zombie, Stein Collins, Ein-Stein, Stein Julip, and Dr. Stein’s Barnacle Remover [A:29-30]. He establishes the Anopheles Network, a small army radio station, and provides entertainment for the troops; Casey writes squibs for it despite hating him [A:46]. Sammy, who teaches alongside him, calls him serious, dedicated, and kind, comparing him to his idea of Socrates [A:67]. Casey identifies Stein with the former Hugo Stone whom the Crock’s warning letter calls an infiltrator [A:40]. When Casey challenges his lectures, Colonel Laycheck admits writing Stein’s speeches and threatens Casey with punishment [A:47]. Stein subsequently teaches the rehabilitation course Casey must attend [A:50]. The Dirty Five and their Australian allies try to overthrow Stein and his patrons by exploiting his apparent love for Tommy Trouncer in the role of Tania. Tommy beats him, and Casey puts him to bed and treats his injuries before reviving the scheme. The resulting raid temporarily lowers Stein’s standing and brings down Laycheck and the three majors [A:51-54]. A later account from Hans reverses the apparent deception: Stein knew Tommy’s identity, helped invent the joke, and saw how to turn it against the officers, though he underestimated Tommy’s blows [A:55]. Duffey says that Stein was born into the Party and is showing signs of leaving it; this reverses Casey’s movement in the opposite direction [A:98]. At the Pelican Press, Stein appears at the typewriter with a publisher’s placard. His arrival helps precipitate Finnegan’s departure, although Stein understands and wishes to help him [A:120]. He is one of the Bark’s seven founding directors and the Seven Pillars of Righteousness, appearing on Finnegan’s masthead as ‘Absalom to Omega. Oh, the big O’ [A:121] [MTM B7:214-215]. His one-shot Bite burlesques the Bark with vinegar and kindness [MTM B6:198]. He later joins Duffey and Gabrielovitch in starting the independent Investigator and writes for both publications [A:143] [MTM B11:315]. He is a large, owl-faced young man with horn-rimmed glasses and a cigar [A:120]. At the St. Louis gathering Duffey finds him overwhelming, larger than life, and apparently splendidly jeweled although he wears no jewelry; the estimate of size is explicitly Duffey’s [MTM B5:160]. Stein wishes for a more imposing nose and expounds the importance of noble noses [A:127]. His big hands, brains, heart, and gall support an elegant war of interlocking promotions: he remains loyal to the ordered arts and restores form where it has been abandoned [MTM B8:246]. Margaret Stone is his kindred [A:143]. His daughter Rebeka, or Becky, attends Ursuline at his wife’s suggestion, so that her education may become narrower rather than excessively broad. Rebeka takes part in Seven Roads and has known Duffey throughout her fifteen years [MTM B9:266] [MTM B10:294]. After Duffey returns from the Fifth Contingency, Becky grieves for Aunt Margaret, killed by a horse; the narration explains that Margaret is a sort of aunt to her [MTM B12:354]. The novels keep several accounts of Stein’s origins in play. Duffey regards him as one of the high twelve talismanic creations but admits past uncertainty about this [MTM B5:158-160]. Teresa identifies him as Ab-Salom, Father of Peace, a chandler and provisioner on the Euxine who joined the Argo to protect his investments. In her account Duffey awakens the old company into new bodies rather than creating it from nothing [MTM B7:233-234]. When X denies that Stein could know Rosemary Riorden’s words, Stein answers that to some extent he was that sergeant and that members of the old company partake of one another, though amnesia seals the connection [A:127-128]. Stein’s Notes in a Motley Notebook alternates between accepting Duffey’s ancient identity and explaining it as unusual accord with a patron saint. It similarly alternates between treating the released Devil as the Devil himself and as a decoy [MTM B10:291]. In another passage Stein reverses the creation story, imagining that he and the others made Duffey, their beloved moth-eaten magus, before admitting that on other days he believes Duffey made or awakened them [MTM B10:304]. The narrator later allows Duffey some creative role while placing the Marvels among an ancient, interdependent company of Argo Masters; Stein’s precise function in their mutual life remains a question. He supplies the ship with Jew bread [MTM B13:446]. His attributed writings include Notes on the Finnegan Cycle [MTM B6:185], Notes on the Argo Legend and Further Notes on the Finnegan Cycle [MTM B6:187-188], Notes in a Motley Notebook [MTM B10:291] [MTM B10:304], Notes on the Argo Cycle [MTM B11:330-331], and Notes on the Argo Legend [MTM B11:341]. His account of Finnegan distinguishes reports, apparent deaths, and uncertain identities, and admits uncertainty about the relation of the Argo Legend to the Finnegan Cycle [MTM B6:187-188]. Stein calls himself a neo-Jew, perhaps the only one, and refuses Duffey’s suggestion that a gentile could join him [A:131]. Mary Virginia reports his maxim that everything can be described in two words [MTM B11:308]. In the Pop History episode he tries to remember people threatened with oblivion, believing that his recollection might save them, but cannot yet recover their faces [MTM B11:315-316]. He investigates courthouse records, tax rolls, and directories, and questions the supposed antiquity of a newly appeared park [MTM B11:320] [MTM B11:331]. He insists on scientific methods without submitting to accepted scientific content, and questions whether the strange events are happening at all [MTM B11:339]. His teasing account of the Morning People has a demiurge put them to sleep on a mountain, then accidentally awaken them with the reserved tone of thunder; the child hero recognizes elements of it as true [MTM B11:334]. Stein withdraws with Duffey and Zabotski to examine the events from his apartment [MTM B11:335]. Later he tells Cyrus Roundhead that he mostly likes the Pop Historians’ effect but has reservations [MTM B11:344]. After the return from the Fifth Contingency, Becky worries that her father now regards the truly aware as a separate, superior species and is writing for Gentleman Rounder [MTM B12:355]. In the future year Duffey visits, Stein appears splendid and noetic, afflicted with the overweening superbity Becky identified. He roars with laughter on seeing Duffey, who is treated there as a ghost [MTM B12:360-361]. When Duffey returns to his own present and asks what was so funny, Stein is taken aback; Duffey then gives a laugh rivaled only by Stein’s [MTM B12:362]. In the Great Day episode, Duffey first greets him as an old friend of kindred intelligence, then discovers that he is clothed only in smoke and a cigar and has lost his brains. Stein declares brains useful only during the transition and now a handicap; faith and freedom are what matter. His growing cigar, made of faith-tobacco, is to replace his name. The narrator describes his later obesity and his old habit of straight-faced kidding, while leaving him a distant possibility of hope [GD:493-494]. Accounts of the soul trade differ. Stein says that he exchanged an old soul, Hugo Stone the Chicago red, for an old soul of Casey’s, leaving Casey with his later muddled one; Casey is now red and Stein ironically white as dirty Gary snow [MTM B5:169]. Hans’s letter to Marie says that Casey compassionately agreed to go to Hell for Stein and that Stein acquired Casey’s brains and talents while Casey diminished [MTM B6:186]. Stein’s own later commentary says that they exchanged kabouters, interior goblins or fixations, which made each privy to the other’s secrets without greatly changing their relative quantities of goodness and sleaze. He recognizes compassion in Casey’s desire to suffer for another, professes affection for him, and offers to use his access to powerful people to help [PG:537-538]. X’s letter, rather than Stein’s own declaration, tells him that he has seen the burning bush, must wander forty years in the desert, and must remain intelligent and serene [A:265-266]. After a separate letter in which Duffey calls himself the fifty-ninth King of Salem, Stein wonders about his own dynastic number and the possibility of rapport with previous or future bearers of a dynastic identity [PS:478-479].A:19; MTM B5:158; MTM B9:266; MTM B7:234; MTM B4:111-113; A:19-20; A:29-30; A:46; A:67; A:40; A:47; A:50; A:51-54; A:55; A:98; A:120; A:121; MTM B7:214-215; MTM B6:198; A:143; MTM B11:315; MTM B5:160; A:127; MTM B8:246; MTM B10:294; MTM B12:354; MTM B5:158-160; MTM B7:233-234; A:127-128; MTM B10:291; MTM B10:304; MTM B13:446; MTM B6:185; MTM B6:187-188; MTM B11:330-331; MTM B11:341; A:131; MTM B11:308; MTM B11:315-316; MTM B11:320; MTM B11:331; MTM B11:339; MTM B11:334; MTM B11:335; MTM B11:344; MTM B12:355; MTM B12:360-361; MTM B12:362; GD:493-494; MTM B5:169; MTM B6:186; PG:537-538; A:265-266; PS:478-479
Stein, Rebeka (Becky)
Absalom Stein's daughter, sent to Ursuline at her mother's suggestion for a narrower education [MTM B9:266]. A fifteen-year-old Jew who has known Duffey all her life, she joins the schoolgirls at the Ghost Coffee Shop and discusses the potholes as symbolic activators in Seven Roads [MTM B10:293-294]. She plays the Countess in the expanded Fifth Road and read Duffey's lines at the rehearsal he missed [MTM B12:352]. She welcomes his name "Thunder Colt" for the play's animal [MTM B12:353]. Margaret Stone's death by a reportedly rabid horse devastates her; she satirizes the changed funeral Mass in a verse of her own [MTM B12:354].MTM B9:266; MTM B10:293-294; MTM B12:352; MTM B12:353; MTM B12:354
Steinheim Stinger
One of the drinks Absalom Stein makes from gin and ice during the Bay Hotel picnic [A:29-30].A:29-30
Steinmetz
Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865-1923), electrical engineer and mathematician. An epigraph attributed to Carmody Overlark includes him among exceptional modern people with supposedly Neanderthal-type heads, described as pumpkin-shaped with bulbous noses and a basal bulge [D:271-272].D:271-272
Stendhal
Stendhal, the French novelist Henri Beyle (1783-1842), author of The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma. The goat-man's younger kids fall asleep during his readings, but the older goats delight in the intrigues of Gina Pietranera, Fabrizio, and Count Mosco, identifying the work as The Charterhouse of Parma [A:198].A:198
Stendhall
Stendhall is the novel’s spelling of the French novelist’s name. See Stendhal.Stephen
First Christian martyr or Protomartyr, traditionally a deacon of the Jerusalem church, whose preaching, vision, and death by stoning are recounted in Acts 6-7. He appears with Paul and John the Baptist among the saints aboard Henry's dreamed Navicula Petri; the figures may be dolls or living sailors [A:45]. The Stephens associated with Casey's crown decoration and Duffey's royal conclaves are Stephen of Hungary, a different figure [MTM B4:117] [MTM B5:166].A:45; MTM B4:117; MTM B5:166
Stephen, Saint (died c. 34 AD)
Earlier heading with an uncertain traditional death date. See Stephen.Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850--1894)
Scottish novelist, essayist, and travel writer (1850-1894), author of Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Kidnapped. Rick Norwood's publisher's note at the back of Archipelago mentions Stevenson's sequel to Kidnapped in its discussion of overlooked and unpublished books [A:285]. The sequel is Catriona, also published as David Balfour.A:285
Stiropen
Word Casey's school notebook gives as Romany for prison, in a note that also calls English "stir" a Romany word [A:164].A:164
Stockton Stone Crocker
Prince of the Ekklesia who votes for Joseph Cardinal Hedayat of Antioch despite Hackenschmidt's order to elect the straw effigy. As the other princes draw away, Conrad Stone Hackenschmidt kills him with a Browning Automatic Rifle [MB:567].MB:567
Stone-cutters
One of Patrick Stranahan's dismissive labels for artists, alongside bronze-casters, scratchers, and egg-white mixers. Answering Papa Piccone's invocation of Buonorroti, Sancho, and Cellini, he concedes that they were good but says they should have remained anonymous and that their names clutter the mind [A:111].A:111
Stone, Cooper
See Howland, Cooper Stone [A:178].A:178
Stone, David
Name shared by two of the twenty Stone boys Margaret enumerates as first cousins in four Chicago families. She says all lived within three blocks of Duffey's old bookstore [MTM B4:112].MTM B4:112
Stone, Howard
See Ostwald, Howard Stone.Stone, Hugo
Contested identity associated with Absalom Stein. Duffey recalls a camera-carrying boy who frequented his Chicago bookstore, addressed him as "Duffey, baby," and later became Stein; Margaret says Hugo was a joke name used by several Stone cousins, most often the twins Myron and Efram [MTM B4:111-112]. Duffey insists that he made Hugo, while Casey denies knowing Stein before their army service despite having twice lost fights with Hugo in the bookstore [MTM B4:112-113]. Duffey later attributes compromising photographs of himself with young girls to Hugo; his blackmailer calls Hugo a clever kinsman who accumulated useful material [MTM B4:139]. During the war, a letter from Duffey warns Casey about a torpedo formerly called Hugo Stone, whom Casey identifies as Stein [A:40]. Casey's later editorial accuses Stein, under that name, of being a card-carrying Communist [A:129].MTM B4:111-112; MTM B4:112-113; MTM B4:139; A:40; A:129
Stone, Margaret
Chicago member of the Bark circle and kinswoman of Absalom Stein, formerly in the Party and subsequently a Catholic. The narration attributes that conversion's possibility to intricate ethnic reasons and describes her as small, intense, Italian and Jewish, perhaps partly Preadamite, with a large musical voice and no complacence [A:143-144]. She preaches the Real Presence on Dauphin Street at midnight, driven by the urgency of her own recent Pentecost and the fear that she may be responsible for finding the one further soul who will save the world [A:144]. X calls her "Margaret the bonfire" in a letter to Stein [A:266]. Duffey knew her as a young bookstore visitor; she was a cousin, not the sister she sometimes claimed to be, of Hugo Stone [MTM B3:99]. Her sharp hearing produces the puzzling report that Bagby asked what his own letter said, though the narration raises the possibility of a misunderstanding [MTM B7:219]. She sings a Gadarene Swine verse about Duffey [MTM B10:305]. In the Fifth Contingency she attends the Pop History sessions with Mary Virginia and Sally, and the women join the hunts against old humans [MTM B11:336]. The Thunder Colt kills her after she jokes about the blood of Deutero-Finnegan; her laugh is all it cannot reach [MTM B11:351]. In the returned world Becky mourns her death by a reportedly rabid horse [MTM B12:354]. In the separate Great Day account she is at the Pelican Press and pushes down a wall, killing a child in the street while crying for freedom [GD:490] [GD:493].A:143-144; A:144; A:266; MTM B3:99; MTM B7:219; MTM B10:305; MTM B11:336; MTM B11:351; MTM B12:354; GD:490; GD:493
Stone, Myron
One of the Stone cousins in Margaret's account, twin brother of Efram. She says that the pair most often impersonated "Hugo Stone" in Duffey's bookstore, making him think one child could move extraordinarily fast and enabling easier theft [MTM B4:112].MTM B4:112
Strabo (c. 64 BC--c. 24 AD)
Greek geographer and author of the Geographica, an account of the ancient inhabited world including Europe, Asia, and Africa. Finnegan says Strabo had a sense of islands but never saw an Ocean Island, contrasting him with Xavier's knowledge of the greater archipelagos [A:35].A:35
Stranahan, Hugh
Second of the four Stranahan sons, brother of Philip, Timothy, and Vincent. He offers Finnegan work as a salesman [A:100]. His bridge-playing friends belong to the lively company at the Stranahan house [A:104]. Philip confirms the brothers' birth order in the 1923 encounter with Duffey [MTM B13:471].A:100; A:104; MTM B13:471
Stranahan, Maurine
Vincent Stranahan's youngest sister, fifteen and younger-looking during the 1946 wedding visit, described as chubby, freckled, pretty, and lively [A:95] [A:100-101]. She wants Finnegan to escort her to her junior dance and proposes presenting him as a student from St. Philomena's, while borrowing a stage ring from Show Boat to pretend they are engaged. She gives him a piggyback ride and jokingly urges him to marry her [A:101]. She calls the men of her sporting family the Rod and Gun Club and their room the Fish Market, and outdoes their fly-fishing with live bait [A:103]. She is among Finnegan's friends with whom he romps at the wedding reception [A:113].A:95; A:100-101; A:101; A:103; A:113
Stranahan, Monica (Murry)
Wife of Patrick J. Stranahan and mother of Philip, Hugh, Timothy Navisius, Vincent, Norma, and Maurine [A:94]. She is Charley Murray's sister [MTM B5:162]. During Vincent and Theresa's wedding preparations she worries about the open invitation, Papa Piccone's threatened accordion performance at Mass, Finnegan's behavior, and whether Maurine is meant to be a bridesmaid [A:105]. Finnegan sits on her lap at the reception [A:113]. She attends the Rounders' Club gathering with Patrick, Charley, Papa Piccone, and Theresa [MTM B5:162].A:94; MTM B5:162; A:105; A:113
Stranahan, Norma
Daughter of Patrick and Monica Stranahan and sister of Vincent [A:94]. Before the wedding, Monica remarks that Finnegan sits on her lap and on Norma's [A:105].A:94; A:105
Stranahan, Patrick J.
Successful St. Louis lawyer, former magistrate, husband of Monica, and father of Philip, Hugh, Timothy, Vincent, Norma, and Maurine [A:94] [A:102]. He is a large, hairy, rumbling man with a busy stomach, wrestler's shoulders, a blue-emery-paper face, and heavy eyebrows. His wealth is described as lace-curtain and grand-piano Irish richness; the Cat Castle, his large three-story home, was left to him by the elderly Cat Woman, a legal client [A:102]. Called fey, he sees Finnegan as living several lives and perhaps being alien, on a dark road but capable of a happy death [A:102]. He and Papa Piccone imitate one another; Piccone's stage caricature is Hallohan J. O'Hoolihan, which Patrick does not fully recognize as himself. The two friends drink and argue through long evenings [A:104]. Patrick advocates a deliberately limited cultural education, a philosophy short enough for one sheet, select travel and food and drink, and denounces what he sees as the passing of the Church's giants [A:109-110]. He tells Finnegan that Doppio di Pinne, whom he defended for homicide, is the same man despite little physical resemblance and incompatible locations [A:111]. Duffey recalls having given Patrick a gift [MTM B5:154]. At the Rounders' gathering with Monica and Piccone [MTM B5:162], Patrick describes creation as reciprocal: he accepts Duffey's part in making Vincent and others but says he himself consciously helped create Duffey. Father McGuigan objects to the language, while Duffey insists that his own magical creations are literal [MTM B5:165-166].A:94; A:102; A:104; A:109-110; A:111; MTM B5:154; MTM B5:162; MTM B5:165-166
Stranahan, Philip
Oldest of the four Stranahan brothers, whose poker-playing friends visit the family house [A:104]. In the 1923 shore scene Duffey meets him fishing below the Eads Bridge; Philip says he is ten and that Vincent died five days after his birth in April 1921, contradicting Duffey's memories of Vincent's adulthood. He identifies Teresa Piccone as a comical first-grader and invites Duffey to the Cat Castle [MTM B13:470-471]. After Duffey reappears as a young man, Philip mistakes him for the earlier visitor's grandson, about fifty years younger. Duffey then sees a touch of unreality in Philip and boasts that his own ghost is more solid [MTM B13:473].A:104; MTM B13:470-471; MTM B13:473
Stranahan, Theresa Picone (Show Boat)
Earlier married-name heading, with Piccone misspelled. See Piccone, Teresa (Theresa Antoinette Piccone, Show Boat, Showboat, Teresa Piccone Stranahan, Margie la Maga, La Maga-La Strega).Stranahan's Theory of the Uncreated Creation
Vincent's proposal that creation might have occurred only ten minutes ago with all appearances of prior history built in: redshift, expansion, fossils, partly run-down atomic clocks, memories, old resentments, printed books, sports results, and even Finnegan's hangover [A:56-57]. He refuses Casey's objection that the idea is old, arguing that priority does not disprove it. He names it Stranahan's Theory of the Uncreated Creation and mentions a Shadow and Substance motif that he declines to explain [A:57].A:56-57; A:57
Straw Man
See StrawPeter (Straw Man) [MB:567-568].MB:567-568
StrawPeter (Straw Man)
Straw effigy elected Cap-Stone or Top-Peter of the Ekklesia under Hackenschmidt's armed coercion. Six hundred sixty princes vote for it; the six dissenting votes for Hedayat are forcibly counted for it as well [MB:567]. At Hackenschmidt's order Monsignor X burns it. Red smoke fills the hall and chimney, blood-red rain falls inside and out, and blood floods from the stove in quantities far exceeding the lamb's blood used to soak the effigy [MB:568].MB:567; MB:568
Street Arab
Narrator's epithet for Margaret Stone, part of a description that combines several ethnic and spiritual kinships [MTM B7:212].MTM B7:212
Strix Maximus
Owl name Finnegan explicitly excludes when comparing a buffalo's front view to a giant barn owl. He specifies Strix Pythaules, not Strix Maximus, and chuckles at his own exactitude [A:205-206].A:205-206
Strix Pythaules
Owl name Finnegan chooses for the giant-barn-owl appearance of a buffalo seen from the front, distinguishing it from Strix Maximus with amused precision [A:205-206].A:205-206
Sturgis
Inscription on churns among the household "iron words" Duffey remembers from childhood. The surrounding account mixes observation with memories taken from other minds [MTM B1:17].MTM B1:17
Subiaco Hall
Hall whose bell tower Casey's school notebook says has a poltergeist. Casey and Hinnegan investigate at midnight without a light on a bet; someone sacks their heads and beats them. Casey insists the attackers were not a poltergeist but that the assault does not disprove one's existence [A:164].A:164
Successive Lives
One of the recurrent fantasies listed by Doctor Saul Rafelson in his notes on Duffey. Rafelson nevertheless accepts that Duffey makes his fantasies happen in the external world [MTM B4:146].MTM B4:146
Sudan
Country named as the source of Duffey's African Christ from Bahr El Ghazal, one of his Seven Christs: a freestanding, life-sized tufa statue of a tall man holding a cattle herder's crooked rod [MTM B3:104].MTM B3:104
Sugar Cane Schaeffer
Nickname for Mary Virginia Schaeffer in the gathering before breakfast at Brennan's [MTM B7:218].MTM B7:218
Sugarland, Texas
Texas town associated with two brothers formerly married to Dotty Danvers and Little Dotty Nesbitt [D:220].D:220
Suitcase (the chrysus)
Heavy, shabby suitcase, also called the chrysus or thesaurus, which Finnegan seizes after killing William Gerecke in his attempt on Seaworthy [D:165]. It contains 36,000 pieces of paper, each 2.5 by 6.125 inches, bundled in hundreds, arranged three bundles lengthwise and six across, and stacked twenty bundles high; it weighs eighty pounds. Finnegan guesses it is the world's most valuable suitcase [D:166]. Doll retrieves it from a locker and checks it through to Baltimore, though they leave the bus at Philadelphia [D:171]. She later tells X that it contains a million dollars [D:174]. X takes the claim check from her bag, retrieves the suitcase, and plants a similar one containing 36,000 newspaper pieces as a decoy [D:178]. Brannagan compares its great value with that of his own sea-bag, then fears Gertrude will spread word that it contains over half a million dollars [D:204-205]. Archipelago also alludes to Finnegan's theft of the world's most valuable suitcase [A:188].D:165; D:166; D:171; D:174; D:178; D:204-205; A:188
Sulem
Shore boy and friend of Hans Schultz in the Green Islands who carves heavy black wood. He proposes that Hans rough out a hundred carvings daily with power tools, with his uncles finishing them and girls selling them. Hans rejects the mass-production scheme, but permits rasps, files, and saws [A:59]. Sulem explains tujuan as a person's direction or orders for life and semangat as the soul. He says that tai leaves reveal a person's aura, and that Finnegan lacks both aura and tujuan, though everyone has a semangat [A:60]. To protect Finnegan from ruin he carves a small Grandfather amulet, saying that he and his uncles must dream its appearance. The result resembles a lizard and toad; Finnegan baptizes it Heliogabalus and wears it with his Miraculous Medal [A:60-61].A:59; A:60; A:60-61
Sullivan, Sulphur-Bottom
Resident regular at the Old Wooden Ship in Galveston, Texas, baptized Clarence and always called Clarence by his parents. The narrator calls the origin of his Sulphur-Bottom nickname remarkable but leaves the story untold [D:215-217]. The tavern’s city is explicit in the later Argo account [MTM B13:458].D:215-217; MTM B13:458
Sulphur boats
One of the kinds of vessel on which Henry Salvatore signs out from New Orleans, Port Arthur, and Galveston, alongside cotton boats, cattle boats, and tankers [A:124].A:124
Sulu Ritz
Waterfront place named in Duffey's catalogue of remembered establishments [MTM B13:407].MTM B13:407
Sulu Sea Five Star Whisky
Whisky served with stewed oysters to the first people emerging from the ocean, in Duffey's fanciful account of the origin of waterfront establishments and sea stories [MTM B13:407].MTM B13:407
Suma
Spelling used for the Summa of Thomas Aquinas when Finnegan reads Father Farrell's books on it, along with St. John of the Cross, during his penitential beach walks [A:277]. The likely reference is Walter Farrell's four-volume A Companion to the Summa.A:277
Summerfield, Cyrus
Cyrus Summerfield, one of a glittering young couple in St. Louis high society who also comment on that society for the Globe and the Post Dispatch. Cyrus and Edith accept Beth Keegan’s invitation to a formal dinner in a balloon gondola two miles high; Edith is described as a sort of cousin of Beth [MTM B2:65].MTM B2:65
Summerfield, Edith
Edith Summerfield, one of a glittering young couple in St. Louis high society who also comment on that society for the Globe and the Post Dispatch. Cyrus and Edith accept Beth Keegan’s invitation to a formal dinner in a balloon gondola two miles high; Edith is described as a sort of cousin of Beth [MTM B2:65].MTM B2:65
Sun-Drake
Name invoked by Duffey in his delight at the seemingly bright noontime of his life with Letitia: he says it would be wonderful even to be dead in such light, though he speaks a couple of hours after midnight [MTM B7:211].MTM B7:211
Sunday
Day apparently represented by Bownee, first in the goat-man's sequence of seven hebdomadally named kids [A:194]. The Brunhilde reaches Naxos on Passion Sunday, March 14 [D:115]. Elena Musquiz finds and rescues Finnegan in the scrub brush very early on a Sunday morning [A:206].A:194; D:115; A:206
Superundate
Word in Casey Szymansky's school notebook discussion of surround. Casey says that surround is a short doublet of superundate, meaning to be completely covered as with waves, rather than a relative of round. On that reading he argues that a lake, rather than an island, is a body of land completely surrounded by water [A:165].A:165
Surabaja
Place in Java whose rope-jumping children instantly know the fuzzy-cubs verse as John Mogul recites it, just as children in West Chicago know it in their own tongue [MB:578].MB:578
Surround
Word in Casey Szymansky's school notebook discussion of surround. Casey says that surround is a short doublet of superundate, meaning to be completely covered as with waves, rather than a relative of round. On that reading he argues that a lake, rather than an island, is a body of land completely surrounded by water [A:165].A:165
Susiana
Name equated with Elam in the account of Chodorlahomor's realm, described as a Devildom east of the Tigris. Duffey recalls Abraham confronting the four kings with only 318 men and says he blessed Abraham [MTM B7:228].MTM B7:228
Swanson, Big Swede
Resident regular at the Old Wooden Ship in Galveston, Texas and one of its five so-called Swedes. The narrator says none of the five is actually Swedish, but does not assign their individual nationalities [D:215-217]. The tavern’s city is explicit in the later Argo account [MTM B13:458].D:215-217; MTM B13:458
Swede Aansen
Resident regular at the Old Wooden Ship in Galveston, Texas and one of its five so-called Swedes. The narrator says none of the five is actually Swedish, but does not assign their individual nationalities [D:215-217]. The tavern’s city is explicit in the later Argo account [MTM B13:458].D:215-217; MTM B13:458
Swede Bergen
Resident regular at the Old Wooden Ship in Galveston, Texas, one of five men called Swedes though none is actually Swedish. Unlike the other four, Bergen sailed only once: he was so seasick that he swore never to leave land. His wife also refuses to cross the Atlantic because of childhood seasickness; for twenty years each has written begging the other to cross [D:215-217]. The tavern’s city is explicit in the later Argo account [MTM B13:458].D:215-217; MTM B13:458
Swede Bjonk
Resident regular at the Old Wooden Ship in Galveston, Texas and one of its five so-called Swedes. The narrator says none of the five is actually Swedish, but does not assign their individual nationalities [D:215-217]. The tavern’s city is explicit in the later Argo account [MTM B13:458].D:215-217; MTM B13:458
Swede Knistjanses
Resident regular at the Old Wooden Ship in Galveston, Texas and one of its five so-called Swedes. The narrator says none of the five is actually Swedish, but does not assign their individual nationalities [D:215-217]. The tavern’s city is explicit in the later Argo account [MTM B13:458].D:215-217; MTM B13:458
Sweeny, Enniscorthy
Musical friend of the Duffeys during their Chicago golden age, named with Mary Sweeny among their composers, players, and stagers. [MTM B3:99] An editorial interruption before an alternate conclusion calls him ruddy-faced and a near-genius. It quotes his comparison of an event to a box whose past, present, alternative present, and future are different, equally valid views: accepting one must not cancel another. [MTM B13:467]He is the protagonist of “The Three Armageddons of Enniscorthy Sweeny,” the second part of Apocalypses, which gives his dates as 1894-1984. Widely recognized even by strangers, he has a famously difficult-to-describe, ruddy, peeling face and a Midwestern Irish voice. His apparent age and size resist ordinary comparison, and his handling of time makes his records impossible to arrange securely in sequence. The same box-and-event passage appears in this portrait. Within the novel's alternative twentieth century, Doctor Henry Devonian's November 1910 formulae make Sweeny the unique answer to the Particular Equation, the individual on whom the era's reality depends (Apocalypses, PDF pp. 199, 201, 203-205, 219-221, 233, 236-243).
His portrait balances genius against “spacious bungler.” A genuine genius on the flute and exceptionally gifted on other instruments, he reaches near-genius or occasional unquestionable genius in cartooning, drama, opera, film, art, and competitive sport despite supposedly lacking the necessary killer instinct. He is also an excellent craftsman and stone carver. His journalism is often vivid but defective: he sometimes omits results rather than impose an outcome, and insists on recording everything because things have not truly happened until written down. His many businesses flourish under his animating presence and sell brilliantly, but buyers discover shambles once that presence departs; he nevertheless has ready money from childhood. His apparent failures as a prophet are entangled with conflicting versions of events and his disregard for ordinary sequence (Apocalypses, PDF pp. 205-219, 372).
His works include the Tyrrhene Triptych, comprising Armageddon I, II, and III; the play The Great Depression; essays such as “On the Construction of the World”; the novel Secret Agents Six; and the late farce My Name is Sweeny and I'm in Trouble, in which a younger actor plays the Sweeny who represents Everyman. Sweeny calls his catastrophic works scapegoats intended to carry horrors away from the world. Their effects are dangerous nonetheless: the narrative reports suicides after performances of Armageddon III and the spread of enormous horror-for-its-own-sake cults. Whether his fictions produce the wars or might prevent them remains disputed, even as their influence and his involvement become overwhelming (Apocalypses, PDF pp. 214-216, 265, 320-324, 340-341, 356, 375-378).
His wife is Mary Margaret McGronsky Sweeny. He brings about her extraordinary beauty and then her preeminence as an opera singer before he wins her, after five dangerous years; their subsequent marriage lasts in almost perfect amity for another sixty-five years. Other early episodes show the extent and instability of his influence. His mother's dated account records President Harold Standpipe crediting the seven-year-old Ennis with his rise to office. A boyhood wish is fulfilled when Sweeny knocks out the reigning heavyweight champion amid startling changes of apparent size and injury. At twelve he preaches at St. Malachy's, performs poltergeistic feats, and makes the clock run backward through a day before the retreat master removes him from the pulpit (Apocalypses, PDF pp. 207-211, 221-231).
Alistar Grogg, Wimbish McDearmott, and Elton Quartermas infer from the Devonian equations that killing Sweeny might prevent catastrophe. Grogg dies before his first intended attack but continues the pursuit as a ghost. Sweeny hires six detectives to protect him from these three and from the opposing Friends-of-the-Catastrophes, code-named Marshals Mosco, Tosco, and Rosco, who insist that he continue producing his desolating visions. He regards the mathematicians as friends trying to save the world and the marshals as friendly enemies. The protectors and threats eventually live with him, thirteen persons in the Royal Assassins-and-Detectives Club, also called by Mary Margaret the Old Mens' Menagerie (Apocalypses, PDF pp. 233-245, 319-324, 338, 357-358).
Detective Branagan counters Grogg's psychic infestation by bringing his bones into Sweeny's home, the safe center of the psychic storm, and making a portable locket containing bone shavings, spirit essence, and charms. Sweeny's gift for illusion also diverts an assassination onto Ellis Swinton. The thirteen Drayman's Alley murders over forty years all substitute victims for Sweeny; each dead face acquires his likeness, although Flanagan cannot establish who makes the resemblance permanent. An invisible spiked collar initially tortures Sweeny when he resists the marshals. Later it is put on another person during repair, and Sweeny feigns its effects while the unknown substitute suffers (Apocalypses, PDF pp. 322-323, 334-340, 345-346, 350-357).
Near the end, one explicitly possibly subjective account gives nearly a thousand consecutive days of maximum length, prolonging 1983 and echoing Sweeny's “The Three-Year-Long Year.” He withdraws into a hollow tree, calling himself the scapegoat and an impediment to the final resolution. Comfortable there and spending much time in prayer and prophetic gestures, he resists Mary Margaret's appeals to come down. He has long engraved 1984 on his own tombstone and predicts death when Achilles catches the rabbit in his version of Zeno's paradox. When Ultimate Armageddon arrives and 1984 is finally allowed to begin, people burn his tree: seven dark spirits sink into the ground, and a golden spirit flies away whistling music from his old Prohibition, A Farce. This is the recorded end of the “old and almost forgotten prestidigitator” (Apocalypses, PDF pp. 372-383).
MTM B3:99; MTM B13:467
Sweeny, Mary
Musical friend of the Duffeys during their Chicago golden age [MTM B3:99].MTM B3:99
Sweeny, Newbold
Earlier heading attached Newbold to the preceding surname Sweeny in a list. See McGeehan, Newbold.Swiss movements
Uncased Swiss watch mechanisms among the goods Hillary Hilton says he buys and sells [A:255].A:255
Sword and Scabbard of Saint Sécaire
Dangerous anti-prize that the Argo Masters repeatedly hide. They weld sword and scabbard together with iron, lead, brimstone, and babbet metal, then bury them a hundred meters into the ooze of Nine Mile Depth, where they remain four hundred years until Cyril and Cyrus Dimbeau recover them by bathysphere [MTM B13:422]. Duffey warns that drawing the sword an inch will put two-thirds of humanity into a fatal sleep unless it is resheathed, while drawing it completely will end the world. The scientists experiment and ten assistants fall asleep [MTM B13:423]. Brannagan reseals the sword with the molten flux; Duffey drops it back to its old hiding place, and Brannagan covers the party with the Forgetfulness Mesh [MTM B13:424].MTM B13:422; MTM B13:423; MTM B13:424
Sydney
Australian city where the wartime friends socialize with Marie Monaghan, Salvation Sally, Tom Shire, Freddy Castle, and their circle [A:3] [A:8-14]. Hans Schultz and Marie marry secretly in its Annunciation Church on 15 February 1943 before the soldiers return to New Guinea [A:31]. Sydney also appears in the Sergeant's uncanny journey out of the hospital ward: he visits the Plaza Hotel and drinks with Tom and Freddy, though Tom's appearance has changed [A:88].A:3; A:8-14; A:31; A:88
Sydney Town
Phrase in the “Antipodal Ode of Finnegan to Loy Larkin,” where Loy's hair lends grace to Sydney Town [A:32]. In an introspective exchange aboard the Brunhilde, Finnegan recalls one beginning of his world as walking through Sydney with Vincent Stranahan during the war years [D:91].A:32; D:91
Syman, Casey
Name of Casey's imagined great athlete in the record books he writes as a boy. His mother mocks the name and the projected special edition for his eightieth birthday in 2001, then tears up the records [A:156-157].A:156-157
Syrinx
Panpipe possessed by Gautier the goat-man, who is described as collateral with Pan. He plays several syrinxes as well as bagpipes, producing much of the ghost music of the wasteland and swamps [A:197].A:197
Szymansky, French
Earlier inverted heading obscured that this is Casey’s imagined label for Balzac. See French Szymansky.Szymansky, Gabriel
Chicago pawnbroker and antique dealer, husband of Miriam Lessing and father of Kasmir W. (Casey) Szymansky [A:153-154]. His rich-street antique shop and poor-street pawnshop stand back to back, connected beneath an alley; he is wealthy but his stinginess leads Casey to suppose the family poor [A:160]. Father and son have a natural antipathy, though Casey learns Polish and German from him [A:156]. Duffey joins Gabriel's business, adding book and art shops; Gabriel owns the building where the Duffeys live [MTM B3:81-82] [MTM B4:118]. Before Casey's birth Duffey gives Gabriel a talisman for him, during the hidden years [MTM B4:120]. Duffey later sells medals left from Gabriel's pawnshop [MTM B4:115]. Casey inherits enough from his father's estate never to run out of money [A:168]; the division of partnership property between Casey and Duffey causes friction despite legally sound papers [MTM B5:149].A:153-154; A:160; A:156; MTM B3:81-82; MTM B4:118; MTM B4:120; MTM B4:115; A:168; MTM B5:149
Szymansky, Kasmir W. (Casey)
Kasmir W. Szymansky, called Casey, born in Chicago on October 7, 1921, the only child of Gabriel Szymansky, a pawnbroker and antique dealer, and Miriam Lessing [A:153-154]. One of the Dirty Five, he is identified with Peleus among the Argonauts and with the ninth-century scholar and necromancer Kasmir Gorshok, Casey the Crock [A:38-39].Archipelago presents his life as he tells it to Finnegan, adjusted by Finnegan’s knowledge of him [A:153]. The problem of evil is his overriding concern [A:154]. His twelve childhood dream worlds concern sports, erotic adventures, fortress religion, literature, exploration, a secret higher ethic, languages, art, revolution, worldly success, sadistic fantasies, and revenge. He recounts these dreams to Finnegan; they are imagined lives and ambitions, not twelve separately established universes [A:156-161]. His invented athlete is named Casey Syman [A:156-157].
Duffey tells Casey that he helped form him through a talisman given to Gabriel before Casey’s birth. Casey remembers holding the object from birth until six months old and confirms that it is solid gold [MTM B5:151]. For other roles and related accounts, see Crock (4) (Casey the), Prince Casimir, Zodiac, Casey of the, and Casey Machine.
A:153-154; A:38-39; A:153; A:154; A:156-161; A:156-157; MTM B5:151
T Shirt, Aquinas in a
Caption for Hans Schultz in Finnegan's charcoal masthead of the Bark: Hans is Aquinas in a T Shirt, one of the Seven Pillars of Righteousness listed beneath the endangered boat [A:121-122].A:121-122
T. (initial)
Letter Angela Cosquin says her father puts on the chest symbol in forged treasure maps, beside alternatives K and BP. Buyers can be led to think the initials refer to Teach, Kidd, or Bartolomo Portuguese, while believing they discovered the connection themselves [D:260].D:260
Ta'a nuts
Protective nuts in Don Lewis's Willy Jones Island story. Ali takes two before entering the Big House, whose residents prolong their lives by eating visitors' organs; he plants one outside and keeps the other in his pocket [D:48]. The retained nut prevents his killing. After he barricades his room and snaps his fingers three times to make morning, the planted nut has become a tree with a branch at his window, allowing his escape [D:49]. Anastasia says that of course they all carry such nuts [D:49].D:48; D:49
Tagalog
Language Finnegan tries to speak to Falo and Nauti at their newly opened cabaret, asking about price and then asking their names again because these are the only two sentences he knows. Hans and Casey can speak it [A:64]. Captain Guiterrez is separately described as a Tagalog [A:66].A:64; A:66
tai leaves
Leaves Sulem says are chewed to gain second sight: the seer perceives a person's aura and through it the direction of the tujuan. Sulem says Finnegan has neither aura nor tujuan [A:60].A:60
Táin, The
Irish epic Táin Bó Cúailnge, a version of which survives in the Yellow Book of Lecan. Absalom Stein connects Finnegan with that book and supposes him identical with both Fingal and Cú Chulainn, declaring him capable of being all of them [MTM B6:187-188].MTM B6:187-188
Taine
Name of the source from which the narration calls Finnegan of the Two Lives a story and character, as he feels alien to himself while meeting Dotty at the St. Louis station [A:92]. Stein later associates Finnegan with the Yellow Book of Lecan and the Táin Bó Cúailinge, proposing identities with Fingal and Cú Chulainn [MTM B6:187-188].A:92; MTM B6:187-188
Talaud Islands
Islands at four degrees north passed by the Dirty Five on their voyage to Luzon after the war. Hans tells them that Chinese birds'-nest soup comes from these coral and limestone islands and gives an account of seabirds building nests from regurgitated fish and limestone [A:62-63]. During the remembered beautiful night offshore, Casey calls their vessel the Argo, for that night at least [A:63].A:62-63; A:63
Talisman
Object through which Duffey helps form or awaken a person. One recipient describes a talisman as a flat, engraved gold stick about an inch wide and eight inches long, bearing the designated person’s being, encounters and destiny. The narrator says that a child usually absorbs it after holding it for days. Duffey bestows twelve primary talismans, though not every talisman belongs to that group [MTM B4:120]. His childhood talisman sticks receive lightning during his contest with the clouds [MTM B1:10-11].
At about three years old he gives his first talisman to an Italian confectioner with a pushcart, to bring about the first member of the Duffey Nation [MTM B1:18-19]. Other gifts go to Charley Murray and Sebastian Hilton [MTM B1:35], to Giulio Solli for an unborn son [MTM B2:47], and to Gabriel Szymansky for Casey. Charley’s is intended for his sister’s child [MTM B4:120]. Casey remembers holding his own from birth until six months old and confirms that it is solid gold [MTM B5:151]. A separate, rib-shaped talisman passes through Lily Koch to her sister Letitia, Duffey’s future wife; Letitia is explicitly additional to the twelve primary creations [MTM B1:29-30] [MTM B3:90-93].
John Rattigan, refused a talisman, makes a convincing copy and tricks Duffey into holding it. Duffey warns that, if it works, it will work wrongly [MTM B1:23-24]. Dr. Rafelson calls Duffey’s claims fantasies but also acknowledges evidence that his creations may become persons with real histories [MTM B4:146-147]. The account of how these objects work therefore includes disagreements among Duffey, his recipients and his interpreters.
MTM B4:120; MTM B1:10-11; MTM B1:18-19; MTM B1:35; MTM B2:47; MTM B5:151; MTM B1:29-30; MTM B3:90-93; MTM B1:23-24; MTM B4:146-147
Talking dolphin
Ancestral dolphin who communicates with Bolo Manolo, Douglas McAfee, and Lloyd Cardigan-Pembroke through a coded apparatus lowered from their yacht. It knows the Testament, Pact, and Covenant and says the dolphins expected to receive the Pact as the most intelligent and obedient creatures but accepted humanity's selection. Other dolphins are towing their bell, said to be the world's largest, toward Mooring-Stone; Lloyd tells it to ring [MB:594].MB:594
Talking Oak of Dodona, The
Talking wood set into the Argo's wheel among its relics, which recounts the ship's history when questioned [MTM B13:403-404]. When X asks it to recognize him, it says it does not know him and questions whether he appears in Scripture or Inscription [MTM B13:434-435]. Archipelago names the Speaking Oak of Dodona in Finnegan's account of a piece he stole from a ship's prow [A:244].MTM B13:403-404; MTM B13:434-435; A:244
Talking Oak of Dordona, The
Earlier heading misspelled Dodona as Dordona. See Talking Oak of Dodona, The.Tall Tree
Destination toward which Vincent and Finnegan start after their visit to Falo and Nauti's makeshift cabaret [A:66].A:66
Taller star than Vega
Phrase attributed to the “Paean” in the earlier glossary. The earlier glossary cites the opening “Paean” of Archipelago, page ix. That preliminary page is absent from the supplied copy, so the reading remains unverified.Tampa Reefers
Distressed lot of 300,000 dried, flaking, unbranded and unwrapped cigars that Hilary Hilton plans to buy in Cicero. He proposes a light coat of tar and new wrapping, branding, and boxing, then a four-cent selling price. He estimates a cent and a half profit per cigar [A:253].A:253
Tangier
Place where Stein says Finnegan did not die with Don Lewis, despite two bodies at the bottom of the tell. This is one of the apparently incompatible deaths examined in Stein's notes on the Finnegan cycle [MTM B6:187-188].MTM B6:187-188
Tania
Female stage persona of Tommy Trouncer, a tow-headed Australian lance corporal with a double voice. His comrades dress him as a woman to audition for the Coconut Grove show, and the short-sighted Stein falls in love, believing their story that a brigadier has brought Tania to the island for sexual purposes [A:51]. Stein wants to rescue her and share a better, cleaner world with her; Casey recruits Tommy into a larger plot against Stein and his superiors [A:52]. Hans later says that Stein recognized the impersonation from the outset, originated the gag, and used it to bring down the colonel and majors. The narrator leaves a final doubt about whether the other Dirty Fivers really remained unaware [A:55].A:51; A:52; A:55
Tankersley (moustache)
Name of a moustache worn by an Englishman known to Le Marin, mentioned in Le Marin's conversation with Finnegan and Hildegarde Katt about the name of Tommy Katt's moustache [D:229].D:229
tao-bunduk
Term Nauti uses for Finnegan, glossed in her speech as a mountain creature and an older creature. She tells Vincent that his friend is something other than a man, one of the beings found in stories [A:64].A:64
Tarkington, Dorothy
Young woman in Duffey's St. Louis circle, among the friends who swim in summer, sled in winter, and tour and celebrate together through the seasons [MTM B2:60].MTM B2:60
Tartarin of Tarascon
Alphonse Daudet's 1872 novel. In the goat-man's account of the Harlow House library, it is one of the French books loved by his goats and read aloud to them, along with Gil Blas and The Count of Monte Cristo [A:197-198].A:197-198
Tartary
Region visited by the Argo Masters while investigating the Laughing Prince. The narrative says it has been under the New Infidels for generations and that Tartary is no longer an official name; inhabitants profess to know no prince except the First Secretary of the Oblast [MTM B13:438]. At Our'yev, at the east mouth of the Ural, Duffey is killed, stripped of flesh, and the flesh cremated [MTM B13:436].MTM B13:438; MTM B13:436
Tasmania
Distant sea island named in Finnegan's rhapsody about defeated primordial aliens. Some, he says, retreated to remote places such as Tasmania, while others hid in the bloodlines of their conquerors and continued the struggle from within [D:214].D:214
Tattoo
Scar or tattoo on the inside of Seaworthy's left wrist. He claims Finnegan bears the same mark below the skin, though Finnegan denies having it [D:10]. Later Finnegan recognizes on Seaworthy a mark that is not actually a mark and is not merely the wrist marking, something his clairvoyance has revealed on other people [D:16].D:10; D:16
Tauric Chersonese
Name X gives as the Greek name of Crimea in his account of the Devil's imprisonment. X distinguishes a Roman Euxine Chersonese and Gothic Cherson, says the imprisonment began in 946 or 947, and describes the peninsula as then divided between Kiev and Tmutarakan, which he calls an advance host of the Golden Horde [MTM B6:204]. His account continues with the Devil's release after a thousand years [MTM B6:205-206].MTM B6:204; MTM B6:205-206
Teach, Edward
Pirate Edward Teach, called Blackbeard (c. 1680-1718). Angela Cosquin explains that the letter T on her father's forged treasure maps could subtly suggest Teach to a credulous buyer [D:260].D:260
Techne Iatrike
Galen's Art of Medicine, cited as the source of the Chapter Eleven epigraph in The Devil Is Dead. The epigraph describes Tityroi or Satyroi as children of daemons and human women, outwardly close to humans but hostile to them; it says only the first generation is fertile, requiring periodic renewed begetting by daemons [D:160-161]. Galen lived in 129-c. 216 AD.D:160-161
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre
French Jesuit priest and paleontologist (1881-1955) who brought evolutionary science into his religious vision. His posthumously published The Phenomenon of Man presents human evolution toward Omega. In “Great Day in the Morning,” a satirical transfiguration at St. Michael's casts Teilhard as a holy demiurge, flanked by McLuhan and McGonigal, blessing the Unfaithful Assembled with a string of technical-sounding words [GD:497].GD:497
Teleportation (book on)
Book left by the former sculptor occupant of Endymeon Ellenbogen's room. Endymeon buys the already-present marble block and carves nereids from it, then discovers that neither block nor finished group could fit through the doors or windows. He cuts the sculpture apart to remove it; the teleportation book is the final clue in his story [A:239].A:239
Telescope making and lens grinding
Minor arts included in the narrative's catalogue of practices stripped of style and class during the great trashing of the arts [MTM B6:207-208].MTM B6:207-208
Temple (of the Jews)
Stein's figure for the Jewish religious inheritance in his exchange with Duffey. When Duffey urges him toward the Church if he has left the Temple, Stein says that his grandfather left it, that he himself has never personally been in it, and that he will stand within it and require the Church to come to him there. He nevertheless says his genes prevent him from joining [A:131-132].A:131-132
Temple, Clement
One of the money-and-commerce people in the Duffeys’ Chicago circle, listed with Irene Temple. Their relationship is not specified [MTM B3:100].MTM B3:100
Ten minutes ago (theory)
Vincent Stranahan's Theory of the Uncreated Creation: the universe might have begun ten minutes ago with redshift, fossils, carbon balances, partly run-down atomic clocks, historical records, memories, and even dreams already built in. Casey objects that the idea is not new; Vincent insists that prior invention does not disprove it. Finnegan counters that the world may not yet have begun at all [A:56-57].A:56-57
Ten thousand items at reduced prices!
Sign Duffey paints in red on a board from a horse stall for his converted livery-stable establishment in St. Louis. It advertises food and lodging, convivial whisky, wine and beer, shaves, haircuts and baths, continuous entertainment, and a gentlemen's bar and club under his proprietorship. The narrator remarks on his perfect lettering and the thousands of assorted items in the stable [MTM B2:41].MTM B2:41
Tent
Small tent Gautier sets on a grassy spine in a New Jersey swamp. He spreads another pallet for Finnegan, and only the seven smallest goat kids are allowed to sleep inside with them [A:193-196].A:193-196
Tent shows
Popular art included in the narrative's catalogue of practices stripped of style and class in the trashing of the arts [MTM B6:207-208].MTM B6:207-208
Teras
Term the Countess applies to Giulio Solli instead of Troll, which Giulio himself confirms [MTM B3:107]. Finnegan believes himself half Human and half Teras, but the later narration says that only narrow vision makes them essentially different: they are among the intermingled peoples of God [MTM B5:181].MTM B3:107; MTM B5:181
Terrestrial Paradise
Earthly Paradise given exact bearings in the novel: 61 degrees, 44 minutes, 42 seconds west and exactly 16 degrees north [D:234], fulfilling the promise in the Promantia [D:6]. Reading St. Francis de Sales prompts Finnegan to seek it; Le Marin offers to guide him, and they go with Don Barnaby and Johnny Duckwalk [D:233]. The narration identifies the place as Basse-Terre in the Antilles, distinguishing it from Basseterre on St. Kitts, where Finnegan had intended to go. He reaches the earthly Paradise by accident, although St. Francis meant the heavenly one; snakes ultimately drive the company away [D:235]. Archipelago says Finnegan knows its exact location [A:188], while he later describes St. Kitts as a paradise he may or may not have visited [A:272].D:234; D:6; D:233; D:235; A:188; A:272
Terry Anderson
One of the Forty Scribbling Seamen using the name Terry who wrote for the Seaman's Paper [MTM B7:213].MTM B7:213
Terry Bannon
One of the Forty Scribbling Seamen using the name Terry who wrote for the Seaman's Paper [MTM B7:213].MTM B7:213
Terry Cork
One of the Forty Scribbling Seamen. He writes The Plimsoll Line for the Bark and about half the Seaman's Paper when in town; another Terry takes over when he leaves [MTM B7:213]. His four-line tribute to Dotty asks whether hers was the face that launched a dozen tugs and assorted other boats, and the form that drove Frenchtown wild and darkened the Quarter [MTM B7:214].MTM B7:213; MTM B7:214
Terry Jamil
One of the Forty Scribbling Seamen using the name Terry who wrote for the Seaman's Paper [MTM B7:213].MTM B7:213
Terry Renier
One of the Forty Scribbling Seamen using the name Terry who wrote for the Seaman's Paper [MTM B7:213].MTM B7:213
Tertium Organum
Form of the title Tertium Organum printed in the Book Eleven epigraph and attributed to P. D. Ouspensky. It asks how reality becomes phenomenal and how a created world can be uncreated [MTM B11:306]. The corresponding passage occurs in Chapter XXII of Ouspensky's book within his quotation of Max Müller's discussion of Vedanta.MTM B11:306
Tertium Organus
Tertium Organus is the form printed in the novel; the book’s published title is Tertium Organum. See Tertium Organum.Terwilliger, Major
One of the three livid majors, with Meyerhofer and Twicherby, present when Colonel Laycheck threatens Casey for challenging Stein's lectures. None is a line officer [A:47].A:47
Tetteraglots
Plural form of the word Angela Cosquin uses for her father, whom she calls a tetteraglot from childhood, a speaker of four languages. She links this to his expertise in archaic spelling and handwriting when fabricating old treasure maps [D:260].D:260
Texas beer
Only cold drink available when Finnegan and Seaworthy enter the newly opened bar after sitting across from the graveyard. Seaworthy condemns the beer in mock-biblical language, saying they asked for a drink in Christ's name and were given this [D:10] [D:12].D:10; D:12
Thadal
King of the Nations or Goyim, one of the Three Slant-Faced Men whose names Duffey discovers in the Flame Man comic strip. With Amraphel and Arioch he is called a crooked king and an anti-magus without magic [MTM B7:227]. The narration identifies the three as followers of Chodorlahomor of Elam or Susiana, a connection not given in the strip [MTM B7:228].MTM B7:227; MTM B7:228
Thalassocratic Adventure
Phrase for the wartime military and sea campaign that the narration leaves outside its account. Its little iron insects have been eating up bird-shaped New Guinea before the company moves four hundred miles beyond the Vogelkop to a small Dutch island [A:50].A:50
Thanatos
Name Stein gives Finnegan's sought-for fleece, contrasting thanatos with mallion in his account of Finnegan's repeated search for death without finding it [MTM B6:187-188].MTM B6:187-188
Thatcher, Hugh (the Yellow Kid)
Artist known as the Yellow Kid whose work Duffey sells during the New Orleans rebuilding project, among the local and distant artists contributing to that effort [MTM B6:198-199].MTM B6:198-199
The Analyst and the Essence of Man
Theme connecting analysis of Duffey with the difficulty of locating a person's essence. An unnamed analyst concludes that Duffey was physically, mentally, and psychically a girl for several childhood years; Duffey pays and leaves, while the surrounding narration describes his appropriation of other minds [MTM B1:16]. Doctor Saul Rafelson accepts that Duffey's fantasies become external realities, examines two of his independent images, and recognizes his sorcery and possible world-inversion; he ultimately refuses to follow the implications further because he is frightened [MTM B4:146-148]. Finnegan tells Duffey of a powerful analyst who dissects a person and finds no centralized essence, only an empty jug and its wrappings. Yet the scattered parts glow, suggesting essence diffused through them; the analyst dies before investigating further. The narration applies this to Finnegan's essence, which cannot be bottled in one place [MTM B5:181-182].MTM B1:16; MTM B4:146-148; MTM B5:181-182
The Answer
Newsletter sent to about three hundred prominent Chicago citizens near the end of 1931, issued on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. It covers economics, ethics, government, education, religion, and militarism with a startling, quippy style [MTM B4:113]. Its mixture of Augustine, Aquinas, Pope Benedict, Nietzsche, Shaw, the Webbs, Machiavelli, and both Roosevelts alarms Duffey, who finds much of it intelligent but fears its appeal to followers. The second issue expands from four to sixteen pages and proclaims that the Leader has been found [MTM B4:114]. Friday's issue announces the Appearance in Henry Horner Park [MTM B4:116]. Ten-year-old Casey secretly prints it on Duffey's press. Letitia intercepts the costumed Leader, prevents Casey's promised ascent to power, and takes him to enjoy the park festivities without his regalia. The paper does not reappear; Casey later calls it a hoax, but Letitia knew his intention was serious [MTM B4:117-118].MTM B4:113; MTM B4:114; MTM B4:116; MTM B4:117-118
The Appearance
Rally announced by The Answer for seven o'clock on Friday evening at Henry Horner Park, where the Leader is to mount a decorated white horse. About a hundred thousand people and three bands assemble, but Letitia intercepts the Leader, ten-year-old Casey Szymansky, and makes him remove his costume and medals before they join the crowd [MTM B4:116-118].MTM B4:116-118
The Argosy
Name Gabrielovitch connects with the Ragosy, a fleet from Ragusa in Illyria. He identifies Ragusa as the original Iolcus, adding a philological claim to the company's Argo legend; Stein agrees about sailing from Illyria, provoking X to challenge his access to that memory [A:127].A:127
The Assembly
Gloss of Ekklesia, also rendered the Crowd, the roughly two-thousand-year-old institution whose termination is declared at the Last Conclave in Babylonia Bagascia. Its princes assemble with the intention of dismantling its structure [MB:561].MB:561
The Back-Door of History
Work attributed to Arpad Arutinov as the source of the epigraph to Chapter Two, Mermaid and Ogress, in The Devil Is Dead. The passage rejects rigid distinctions between persons and species, describes bloodlines and ghost and flesh mingling, imagines devils whose removal would kill their hosts, and presents the children of Ahriman as returning ancient monsters or mutations [D:26]. These claims frame the chapter's interest in mixed and hidden identities.D:26
The Baltimore Catechism
Catechism quoted in Newton Prescott's journal in “The Casey Machine,” in a passage numbered 382-383 that contrasts the glorious immortal bodies of the just with the punishment of the damned. Its account of bodily radiance, swiftness, beauty, freedom from pain and ability to penetrate matter prompts Prescott's speculation that such powers are already available in a single splendid moment [CM:503] [CM:511].CM:503; CM:511
The Broadway Oyster House
St. Louis seafood restaurant where Duffey meets the big-nosed John Solli, Finnegan, who orders one hundred oysters and shares them with Duffey and other diners. The meal evokes Fingal or Finn McCool eating a hundred enormous oysters. Finnegan shows Duffey his paintings and scrimshaw, identifies himself as Van Ghi and Count Finnegan, and explains that a first-class beach bum needs the aura of a fortune. The conversation reveals his parentage as the son of the Monster Giulio and his plan to wander for seven years before being buried on the Marianao Coast of Cuba [MTM B5:172-174].MTM B5:172-174
The Cadillac Bar
Bar visited on the Mexican side by Finnegan, Anastasia, and Marie Courtois. The narration describes it as dingy outside and rich within, with mostly Texan customers and white-jacketed bar-boys amid chrome and crystal. The three drink and mellow there [D:57-58].D:57-58
The Colossal Noisearama
Entertainment event in the Babylonia Bagascia sequence where Hiram III and several sheriffs capture part of the amplification system. Hiram yodels loudly during a solemn Rock Movement, breaking up the performance and becoming marked for death [MB:564].MB:564
The Comedy Music Box
Morgenstein's entertainment venue on Randolph Street in Chicago, where Duffey, Letitia, and Lily attend an extravaganza after supper. On leaving, they buy a midnight newspaper and learn that Gloria and Manolo Mullens have been tortured and murdered, while Charlotte is missing [MTM B3:97].MTM B3:97
The Indiaman
English venturer named by Angela Cosquin among the supposedly treasure-laden sunken ships in her father's map lore, alongside the Golden Mastiff, Hind, and Crane [D:261].D:261
Thompson, Francis
English poet addressed by Casey Szymansky in the poem titled “To Francis Thompson” [PG:523].PG:523
Thorndyke, Doctor
Code name for one of the detectives consulted by Argo Masters; advised always noticing the frame of a problem or picture closely and suggested the answer might lie within the frame's material itself, requiring minute examination of the ship plank by plank [MTM B13:456].MTM B13:456
Three Apparitions (Teilhard, McLuhan and McGonigal)
Satirical transfiguration at St. Michael's during the Great Day: the demiurge Teilhard appears on the altar with McLuhan at his right and McGonigal at his left, all transfigured with light. They bless the Unfaithful Assembled with a sequence of technical-sounding terms [GD:497].GD:497
Three monkey-like wraith-like creatures
Seamen seen on the Argo's ice-sheeted rigging; wraiths or of lighter flesh, they climbed the frozen cliffs "like ascending lightning" carrying ice axes, cheerful and ready for assignment [MTM B13:398].MTM B13:398
Three young toughs
Three large, drunken young men who accost Melchisedech Duffy before dawn on the Great Day. Two pinion him while the first grips his wrist, carefully smashes the watch glass and removes every shard, then breaks off its minute hand. He says the Great Day no longer requires such precision in time [GD:481-482].GD:481-482
Thrombocyte-shaped remnants
One of the elaborate bodily tests cited by The Eighteenth Book of Strange Encounters for its claim that the New Orleans art dealer Melchisedech Duffey is more than four thousand years old [MTM B8:250].MTM B8:250
Thunder Colt Complex, The
Name for the fifth of the seven possible contingencies confronting Duffey, also called the Decatur Street Opera House Presentation of the World. Its ending of humanity accompanies the beginning of another species [MTM B10:300-301].MTM B10:300-301
Thunder Colt Game, The
Climactic performance at the Decatur Street Opera House, called the Thunder Colt Game in the text and orchestrated to Thunder Torus music. A human is thrust alive into the great egg and eaten by the still-unconscious colt; lightning then breaks the egg and awakens it. Its ensuing rampage kills Deutero-Finnegan, also called the Finnegan effigy, and Margaret Stone [MTM B11:350-351].MTM B11:350-351
Thunder Colt Games, The
Earlier heading changed the source’s singular Game to Games. See Thunder Colt Game, The.Thunder Colt, The actual
Totem animal of the Royal Pop Persons, whose awakening Cyrus Roundhead presents as a symbol of their own. It devours a human inside its egg, then hatches when lightning strikes during the Thunder Colt Game at the Decatur Street Opera House [MTM B11:350]. It kills Deutero-Finnegan, the Finnegan effigy, and Margaret Stone [MTM B11:351].MTM B11:350; MTM B11:351
Thunder Harps, The
A self-designation used by the Pop Countess for the Royal Pop Persons [MTM B11:316].MTM B11:316
Thunder Torus music
Music accompanying the Thunder Colt Game at the Decatur Street Opera House. Its stark music picks up tempo as the colt hatches and runs riot [MTM B11:350], then crashes to an end after Margaret Stone is killed [MTM B11:351].MTM B11:350; MTM B11:351
Thurneysen, Rudolf
Swiss scholar Rudolf Thurneysen (1857-1940), author of Die irische Helden- und Königsage. Absalom Stein recommends the work while considering Finnegan's possible identities as Fingal and Cú Chulainn [MTM B6:187-188].MTM B6:187-188
Thursday
Day on which Duffey initially supposes Bagby wrote and mailed the letter received after his Saturday funeral. More letters subsequently arrive, unsettling that explanation [MTM B8:237]. Thursday is also the usual publication day of the Bark, though it appears on Thursday or whenever and sometimes skips a week [GD:490].MTM B8:237; GD:490
Ti, Ignatius
Christian Chinese ward boy whose family has lived in the islands for centuries. He translates the parakeet Amoy's stories [A:79]. Ti explains midnight as the hour when souls cross and returning ghosts can slip through a hole in the veil. He warns against turning one's back on corpses and describes medicos pretending to be dead to frighten ward boys [A:85-86]. His predecessor countered such tricks with a blow to the throat and a displayed knife, remarking that even a pig has its throat cut. Ti also tells of a murdered husband whose ghost returns to bed with his wife before she learns of his death [A:86-87]. More Than Melchisedech names Ignatius Cardinal Ti of Manila among the Princes in Hiding targeted by John Mogul and lists Bolo Manolo as his double [MB:578-579]. A later passage instead calls Lloyd Cardigan-Pembroke the double of the dead Cardinal Ti [MB:594]. The identity of the ward boy with the cardinal is not established in these passages.A:79; A:85-86; A:86-87; MB:578-579; MB:594
Tibeau, George (Tippio)
George Tibeau, called Tippio, a regular at the Old Wooden Ship bar [D:215]. In a tavern tale he repeatedly tries to fool a fortune-telling penny scale, but after changing clothes with a bum loses the money needed to leave town [D:217-218].D:215; D:217-218
Tide-water (blood type)
Narratorial hyperbole in the discussion of Cajun identity: after listing supposed racial classifications and blood types, the narration says many Cajuns have tide-water instead of blood and no heads at all [A:123].A:123
Tiger (Papa Devil)
Tiger imagery attached to Papa Devil on Naxos: he says he was once a tiger and intends to regrow his lost stripes after dark [D:122]. When his corpse is found shot, bludgeoned, stripped of its shoes, with pockets turned out or cut away and its olive shirt shredded, the narration says he briefly regained his stripes before death [D:146]. Finnegan's later feral condition is distinguished from Papa's tiger, resembling instead another cat, an ape, or a climbing grotesquerie [D:162]. X identifies the Papa Finnegan knew as Papadiabolous II, Gregory McColum, the Irish undercover policeman [D:285] [D:287].D:122; D:146; D:162; D:285; D:287
Tigger
Earlier heading used Tigger, a form not found in the cited passages. See Tiger (Papa Devil).Timeless (scent)
Scent worn by the Pop Countess, whose youthful appearance leaves her actual age uncertain [MTM B11:316-317].MTM B11:316-317
Tin-Horn Forca, Freddy
Regular at the Old Wooden Ship bar [D:215]. The narrator declines to tell his story, saying that he is called Tin-Horn because that is the kind of sport he is [D:218].D:215; D:218
Tinder, Rita
Artist whose work Duffey sells during the New Orleans rebuilding project, among the local and distant artists contributing to it [MTM B6:198-199].MTM B6:198-199
Tinos
Aegean island named in Finnegan's account of a primordial five-island group. His creation story makes the Aegean islands fragments of an electrum cup [A:35]. Brannagan says mermaids' hair from Naxos can be bought in shops on Siros, Tinos, and Kea, although an ancient reluctance prevents its sale on Naxos itself [D:207].A:35; D:207
Tippio, George Tibeau
See Tibeau, George (Tippio).Tito, Josip Broz (1892--1980)
Yugoslav communist leader Josip Broz Tito (1892-1980), who led the Partisans during World War II and later became president of Yugoslavia. His break with the Soviet Union in 1948 was followed by a leading role in founding the Non-Aligned Movement in 1961. In Casey's polemic against Gabby, Tito is called their noble ally, while Gabby is accused of attacking him and supporting Draja Mihailovitch [A:129].A:129
Titoists
Followers of the Yugoslav communist leader Tito. The narration states that the Titoists shot at Gabrielovitch, Gabby, during the group's years of publishing and political conflict [A:132].A:132
Tityroi
Beings described as Satyrs in the chapter-eleven epigraph, which the novel attributes to Galen’s Techne Iatrike. In that account, Daemons beget them on human women; only the first generation is fertile, so the race requires repeated Daemonic renewal [D:160-161].D:160-161
Tmutarakan, Principality of
Principality in X's account of the Devil's imprisonment. X calls it an advance host of the Khanate of the Golden Horde and says it shared the Crimean peninsula with the Kingdom of Kiev when the Devil was imprisoned in 946 or 947 [MTM B6:204].MTM B6:204
To Karkik Kariki
One of the continuations or imitations of Casey's clandestine student Crock magazines. The narration says that its Greek name is accompanied by repeated references to an attributed ancient Greek trait, unlike the humor Casey himself intended [A:167-168].A:167-168
To Weigh
Meaning Finnegan assigns to the common root of the Greek and English uses of talent, adding tolerant to the same etymological family. He makes the remark during Askandan's challenge about the parable of the talents and how Finnegan will answer the Master for their use [A:258].A:258
Toast, Mary Regina
One of the confidence and gamine friends in Duffey's Chicago circle during its golden age [MTM B3:99].MTM B3:99
Togetherness (concept)
Ideal Casey mocks as the seculars' only god and urges Christian men to keep in perspective. The narration recalls this saying when he is irritated that the others have read his mail before him [A:38].A:38
Tolerant
Word Finnegan connects etymologically with talent and the meaning to weigh, in his conversation with Askandan about the parable of the talents [A:258].A:258
Tom
Regular at the Old Wooden Ship bar [D:215].D:215
Tom Collins (drink)
Drink Duffey jokingly says Dives should have requested from Lazarus instead of water, together with the alternative of a cool Mint Julip. Duffey claims that this was the failed test of the parable, during his New Orleans discussion with Finnegan about jazz and salvation [A:117]. The underlying story is the rich man and Lazarus in Luke 16:19-31.A:117
Tommy (moustache)
Name jokingly attached to the moustache of Hildegarde Katt's husband. When she identifies him as the cop with the little moustache named Tommy, Finnegan treats Tommy as the moustache's name and persists in the joke after she corrects him [D:229]. The next page names the man Tommy Katt and calls him the toughest cop in town [D:230].D:229; D:230
Tommy Trouncer
See Trouncer, Tommy [A:51-53].A:51-53
Tompkinson, Christopher
Author of "The Mythology of Liberalism," an article published in the Crock magazine [A:41].A:41
Tone-Control Artist
Painter in Jimmy Fitzjames's account of artistic categories, ranked above a Primitive, who in turn outranks an Orthoclast. Jimmy says the Tone-Controller considers colors as musical equivalents and orchestrates hues into vibrations perceptible only to the more intense observers [A:230-231].A:230-231
Tone-Control painting
Painting described by Jimmy Fitzjames as arranging colors according to their musical equivalents. He claims that ambient vibrations are its whole effect, so it can be enjoyed with one's back turned and its visual aspect ignored [A:230-231].A:230-231
Tongues, gift of
Ability Salvation Sally claims during her Sydney conversation with Marie Monaghan and Hans. After Marie quotes French verse about Rome and Bohemia, Sally invokes her gift of tongues and answers its religious challenge [A:8].A:8
Tooth's (beer)
Beer named with Toohey's and K. B. Lager in Finnegan and Vincent's opening pub sequence in Sydney, after Finnegan finds the Garden replaced by the World [A:1-2].A:1-2
Top Sergeant
Rank Show Boat says Finnegan held in his army outfit, in a letter to Dotty defending him and calling him the outfit's best man [A:262].A:262
Top-Peter
Title paired with Cap-Stone of the Ekklesia. At the Final Conclave, Conrad Stone Hackenschmidt forces the election of the Straw-Man to this role [MB:567], then orders Monsignor X to burn the effigy [MB:568].MB:567; MB:568
Tornabuoni, Maria
Italian girl from New Orleans seeking stripping work at the Star and Garter in St. Louis. Show Boat describes her in a letter to Vincent, says the penniless girl is staying with the Piccones and taking small parts, and jokes that her Renaissance name suits her Renaissance figure [A:48-49].A:48-49
Torpedo (person)
Duffey's term in his warning letter for the smooth-talking, jug-eared man assigned to target Casey, who once used the name Hugo Stone. Henry asks Casey whether Stein is this torpedo, and Casey confirms that he is [A:40].A:40
Torre del Marifi
Spanish treasure ship among the real or imaginary wrecks on the master map made by Angela Cosquin's father. Angela lists it with Estrella del Mar, Virgen la mas Benigna, and Casa del Oro, comparing the names to a litany of the Blessed Virgin [D:260-261].D:260-261
Trachtas
Work named in the Chapter Nine epigraph and attributed there to Saint Brendon. The passage describes unredeemable species denied eternal life but given long sublunar lives as flesh, returning ghosts, or continuing legend; some are helpful, yet none are to be trusted [D:130].D:130
Track and Total
Contract-killing firm hired after the Final Conclave to hunt and kill the thirteen Princes in Hiding [MB:569]. Its chief, John Mogul, also tracks their doubles and organizes a lavishly rewarded contest for colorful murder suggestions [MB:578-579].MB:569; MB:578-579
Traffic Trestle, Pont du Sable
Chicago bridge Duffey visits before dawn on the morning he wakes knowing he has lost his golden touch. A heavy truck has knocked out an underpinning during the night, weakening the structure [MTM B4:109].MTM B4:109
Tramp steaming
Popular art of travel included in the narration's catalogue of pursuits stripped of style and class during the great trashing of the arts [MTM B6:207].MTM B6:207
Trams
Sydney transport vehicles whose brightness belongs to the fresh morning of the opening creation conceit; the narration says trams were made on the fifth day [A:2]. Finnegan and Vincent later take a tram following Tom and Freddy's elaborate directions to meet them near their barracks [A:10].A:2; A:10
Transport (of Finnegan)
Visionary state that comes over Finnegan as he speaks of shadowy history and identifies with a primordial people. His speech asks how earth's earlier inhabitants became aliens and monsters, describes their ancient life among animals, and claims that defeated people hid within the victors' bloodstream, periodically returning to war [D:212-214]. The transport fades into vague rhapsody and leaves him weak; he returns to awareness with Le Marin in the Old Wooden Ship [D:214].D:212-214; D:214
Transylvania
Region in Countess Margaret Hochfelsen's extravagant invitation to Duffey. She claims nineteen long-lived generations of her family still live there, that its extent reaches Colchis, and that wolves larger than horses serve her family and frighten the Devil. She asks Duffey to marry her and share centuries of life there; he repeatedly challenges her geography and tall tales [MTM B8:255-256].MTM B8:255-256
Trashman's Girl-a-Rama
Establishment where Duffey, Dotty, Mary Virginia Schaeffer, Margaret Stone, Bagby, and their companions gather in the Slant-Faced Men discussion. Dotty's line about Bagby's liver becomes a song, with Mary Virginia at the piano, Duffey on a house banjo, and the unofficial Pelican Glee Club joining in [MTM B7:225-227]. The narrator says more songs have been born there than anywhere else on the block [MTM B7:226].MTM B7:225-227; MTM B7:226
Traveler's Aid
Railroad-station assistance desk, printed Travelers’ Aid, where a confused Finnegan asks a woman to read his ticket and tell him his destination. It is only an old race-track ticket showing that he was in Hot Springs seven weeks earlier [A:243]. When she asks what is wrong, Finnegan answers Korsakofs Psychosis and refuses her offer to take him to a doctor [A:244].A:243; A:244
Traveler's Saloon
Saloon visited by Duffey and his school friends Rattigan, Murray, and Hilton. Traveler serves sensible twelve- and thirteen-year-old boys small glasses of whisky for five cents; Rattigan also buys a quart twice a week to resell in mixtures to schoolmates [MTM B1:25]. The boarding-school episode deliberately blends several possible cities rather than fixing one location [MTM B1:24-25].MTM B1:25; MTM B1:24-25
Trevino (family name)
One of the surnames within the Angelino clan, alongside Obermeyer, Viskochil, Borg, and Larrigan. The narration describes a family mostly Italian, then German, with Bohemian, Mexican, and Irish Tinker ancestry and cousins around the world [A:218].A:218
Trifles
Used by a complaining magus for the seemingly trivial payments received for losing major magical powers [MTM B1:5].MTM B1:5
Trinali Cocktail
Mixture of Trinali's old wine and Hans's new wine, which Trinali calls a dialectic and a synthesis. She elaborates its interplay as water and vinegar, sun and bacteria, then invokes old wine in new bottles and new wine in old bottles as a scriptural contradiction [A:231].A:231
Trinali Peterson
Young poet and maker of dolls and novelties in Hans Schultz’s New York Bohemian circle, during the spring and summer after he leaves the carnival in 1935 or 1936 [A:220-221] [A:240]. Hans meets James Fitzjames among the secondhand bookstores; they walk uptown and pick up Trinali [A:224-225]. Her mother named her Mary Jane. She adopts the Gypsy name Trinali and writes hundreds of pages about herself: “Ode to Trinali,” “Trinali at Sundown,” “To Trinali in a Red Dress,” “To Trinali at Dawn on March 4th,” and the taxi-composed “Ode to Trinali on the Way to the Village” [A:226]. She is slight, immature in figure, and just short of beauty, with rusty black hair she insists is red. Her electricity has been cut off; she obtains bread, wine, and candle ends from Lupido, steals longer candles, and makes figures from bottles, corks, and raffia [A:228]. She also makes lamps and toys, dyes corks in the dishpan used for dishes, and works with driftwood and cypress knees. She admits that her creations tend to look alike [A:229]. Hans sees her metaphorically as driftwood with cypress knees, rough, sea-stained, and remarkably convoluted [A:234]. She mixes old and new wine into the Trinali Cocktail and writes about wine as a bottled god [A:231-232]. At twenty she calls “To Trinali in a Rainstorm” her greatest ode and says her style has matured in the preceding eleven days. She romanticizes dying young but denies having a plan, imagining future works called “To Trinali on the Brink” or “To Trinali with Clarity” [A:232]. She dies from the luminescent lilac dye used on corks, either through the unwashed dishpan or, in Adam Scanlon’s account, from coloring added to wine. She is buried on September 1 with “To Trinali in Her Coffin with Her Red Hair Loose About Her.” The nondenominational service seems chilly and inadequate to Hans and Fitzjames [A:239-240].A:220-221; A:240; A:224-225; A:226; A:228; A:229; A:234; A:231-232; A:232; A:239-240
Triple Crown
Papal crown, or at least a double of it, that Monsignor X brings to the conclave inside Mooring-Rock [MB:596]. After twelve members vote for John Finnegan Solli and Finnegan abstains, X places it on his head and John Giwa hails him as Pope Finnegan the First [MB:597].MB:596; MB:597
Triple O
Bagby's nickname for Oscar Oliver Omygosh, a painful, melancholy novelty-shop owner near the Star and Garter. Papa Piccone claims that this man materialized from a badly made burlesque character of his own invention. Bagby remembers the man but disputes that Piccone created him; Piccone insists he did [MTM B5:168].MTM B5:168
Triple-decade vast
Phrase denoting thirty years, attributed to the “Paean” in the earlier glossary. The earlier glossary cites the opening “Paean” of Archipelago, page ix. That preliminary page is absent from the supplied copy, so the reading remains unverified.Triple-stall
Tommy Trouncer's boast that he can pull a double-stall or triple-stall and keep Stein on a loose hook during the Tania deception. He makes it before the tryst that ends with his beating Stein and ruining the conspirators' plan [A:53].A:53
Triumphant (state/concept)
Word attributed to the “Paean” in the earlier glossary. The earlier glossary cites the opening “Paean” of Archipelago, page ix. That preliminary page is absent from the supplied copy, so the reading remains unverified.Trobriands
Islands skirted with the d'Entrecasteau group on the boys' voyage from the south back to their New Guinea bay, by way of the China Straits [A:36].A:36
Troll
Creature type the Countess Margaret distinguishes from Giulio Solli: she says he is a Teras rather than a Troll, and Giulio confirms her classification [MTM B3:107].MTM B3:107
Troop Movement Office
Office to which Hans and the other boys on Australian furlough report on Thursday, February 18, 1943, before being sent back to New Guinea [A:31]. Henry had stayed behind and was not part of the furlough party [A:38].A:31; A:38
Trouncer, Tommy
Tow-headed Australian lance corporal with a double voice and a talent for impersonation. Dressed as Tania, he auditions for Stein's Coconut Grove show and becomes the object of Stein's infatuation [A:51]. Tommy calls himself the best in the world as Casey enlists him and another Australian in the Dirty Five's scheme to discredit Stein and his superiors [A:52]. After starring in the show, Tommy loses his temper during a tryst and beats Stein against trees and into a slough, disrupting the encounter, though he says Stein still has not recognized the deception [A:53]. Hans’s later account says Stein knew who Tommy was and had devised the gag himself, though he had not expected Tommy to hit so hard [A:55].A:51; A:52; A:53; A:55
Trout (river fish)
The earlier glossary associates trout with Hans Schultz's St. Gallen childhood and the St. Croix River, but this association remains unverified in the supplied text. Its former citation, A:225, concerns Hans's New York companions.Troyat, Martin
Name replacing Sebastian Hilton for a year or so in the composite account of Duffey's boarding-school quartet, while John Rattigan similarly becomes Delbert Dugan. The narration says the changes preserve the group of four; Sebastian reappears in the final school year after an interval in Europe [MTM B1:24].MTM B1:24
Tshowax
Witch Casey says he conjured at five, the summer before he started school, by reciting a formula from a story at midnight. He says she still visits when she comes to Chicago [PG:524].PG:524
Tuba mirum spargans sonam
Tuba mirum spargans sonam is the printed variant in Archipelago; the standard liturgical line is Tuba mirum spargens sonum. See Tuba mirum spargens sonum.Tuba mirum spargens sonum
The Dies irae line normally given as Tuba mirum spargens sonum, about the trumpet spreading its wondrous sound. The novel prints Tuba mirum spargans sonam. In Duffey’s joke about jazz and salvation, Finnegan may rise from his coffin when the funeral sequence reaches this line and urge the player to blow that horn, though Duffey advises against waiting until death [A:117-118].A:117-118
Tucalul
Clandestine Crock imitation said by the narration to circulate behind the Iron Curtain, in the account of Casey's student magazines and their later continuations [A:167-168].A:167-168
Tufa stone
Stone used for the freestanding, life-sized Black Christ from Bahr El Ghazal in the Sudan, one of Duffey's Seven Christs. The figure holds a cattle herder's crooked rod [MTM B3:104].MTM B3:104
tujuan
Sulem's term for a person's direction or allotted life, distinct from the soul, which he calls semangat. He describes it as orders written on cuscus-skin vellum, rolled small and placed somewhere within the body. Chewing tai leaves allows him to see an aura and understand the tujuan, but he says Finnegan has neither. Sulem thinks this lack leaves Finnegan vulnerable to ruin and makes a grandfather for him as possible protection [A:60].A:60
Tupelo-gum tree
Type of wood from which Giulio Solli whittled intricate animal calls (panther, alligator, etc.) for his son Finnegan [MTM B5:174].MTM B5:174
Turban
Headwear of the laughing Christ from Turkish Anatolia, one of Duffey's Seven Christs. The figure is carved from reused monumental marble [MTM B3:104].MTM B3:104
Turkestan
Distant location in the narrator's exaggeration of Tom Shire and Freddy Castle's unmistakably Australian appearance. Even a femur found in Turkestan thirty thousand years later, the narrator suggests, would still be recognized as Australian [A:5].A:5
Turpin of Rheims, Archbishop
Archbishop in the Charlemagne legends, invoked as the last prelate and general comparable to Henri Salvatore [MTM B5:183]. The legendary figure grew around a historical archbishop of Reims, traditionally dated to about 800 at death; the chronicle once credited to him is a later work now known as the Pseudo-Turpin.MTM B5:183
Tuthill, Tim and Gale
Members of the ecclesial/vineyard/churchy circle associated with Duffey in Chicago during the Golden Age [MTM B3:99].MTM B3:99
Twain, Mark (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835--1910)
American author and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), known as Mark Twain, author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884, with U.S. publication in 1885). The Argo's fantastic history lists him among its passengers [MTM B13:404]. Rick Norwood's publisher's note in the supplied Archipelago edition also mentions Twain's unfinished Tom Sawyer and the Indians [A:285].MTM B13:404; A:285
Tweed, John
Student d'Alesandro calls his most brilliant, who has become world-famous by the time d'Alesandro asks him about a classroom joke involving Casey's altered equations. Tweed calls it a pair of mathematical puns in a kind of dialect and doubts they can be put into words [PG:526].PG:526
Twicherby, Major
One of the three livid majors, with Meyerhofer and Terwilliger, present when Colonel Laycheck threatens Casey over his challenges to Stein's lectures. None is a line officer [A:47].A:47
Two Lives, Finnegan of the
Narrative designation for Finnegan as a story and character out of the Taine. Meeting Dotty at the St. Louis train station, he feels like a stranger inside his own body, watching and feeling through the confused Finnegan person he inhabits, whose identity he is not ready to accept as his own [A:92].A:92
Two-headed eagle
Living eagle conjured from sparks by Kasmir Gorshok. One head supplies half a coin, and the other supplies Kasmir's name; the completed coin bears the eagle on one side and a Crock or Pot on the other. The narration calls it an eagle of Poland, and Kasmir releases it to restore the endangered creatures' number to nine [MTM B13:426].MTM B13:426
Tywyn
Town in Gwynedd, Wales, home of Lloyd Cardigan-Pembroke. The list of cardinal doubles pairs him with David Cardinal Lloyd Spencer [MB:579]. The later account calls him a pig butcher of Tywyn but then identifies him as the double of the dead Cardinal Ti, an unresolved inconsistency [MB:594].MB:579; MB:594
U.S. Army
Military organization that brings the Dirty Five together in the same battery: Vincent Stranahan, John Schultz or Hans, Kasmir Szymansky or Casey, Henri Salvatore, and John Solli or Finnegan [MTM B5:171]. Casey joins in April 1942 and asks Duffey to run the Crock during his service [MTM B4:138]. He insists that he first knew Absalom Stein in New Guinea around 1943, although Duffey remembers their earlier Chicago connection [MTM B4:112]. Private Gregory claims over a century of continuous service as a sergeant before changing identity in 1907, with missing records from the Indian Wars and Civil War. He then obtains an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy [A:77-78]. Don Lewis says he was one of three American soldiers who disappeared on Willy Jones Island: Sergeant Charles Santee, Corporal Robert Casper, or PFC Timothy Lorrigan. He refuses to say which [D:44].MTM B5:171; MTM B4:138; MTM B4:112; A:77-78; D:44
U.S. Mail
Postal service that delivers the first issue of the Answer to prominent Chicago citizens, including Duffey, on a Monday morning. The newsletter is scheduled for Monday, Wednesday, and Friday publication [MTM B4:113].MTM B4:113
Ukalegon
Name paired with Melchisedech in Book Five's epigraph, attributed to Edwin Arlington Robinson's “Two Men.” The following commentary says Skalsky considers Ukalegon a woman and, in every way, Melchisedech's negation [MTM B5:149]. The classical Ucalegon is a Trojan elder in the Iliad; in the Aeneid, his house catches fire during Troy's destruction.MTM B5:149
Ulysses
Greek mythological wanderer, also called Odysseus, whose identity the narrator associates with Finnegan, alongside Dionysus, Terras, and Arracht [A:39]. Finnegan waking battered and shoeless is likened to Odysseus washed ashore, beginning another day as Ulysses [A:177]. Hans imagines the Australian south as farther than Ulysses traveled [A:16]; Finnegan's difficult annual visits to Dotty are likewise treated as Ulysses keeping appointments [A:145]. A related Ulyssean wanderer is Roadstrum in Lafferty's Space Chantey, whose relationship to Finnegan is a literary comparison. His hornet spacecraft takes him through Odyssey-like episodes: the pleasure-induced lassitude of Lotophage, giants on Lamos explicitly called Laestrygons, man-eating shepherds on Polyphemia, the witch Aeaea's transformation of him and his companions into animals, and the deadly song of Sireneca. On Sireneca a crewman recalls the old remedy of waxed ears and a captain bound to the mast. Their fall into the Vortex brings extreme aging and death, reversed by a device installed by Hondstarfer; a later underworld episode brings them before Tiresias on Hellpepper Planet. Roadstrum returns after twenty years to Big Tulsa on World, his son Little Tele-Max, and his wife Penny. Tele-Max recalls the older story of shooting an arrow through twelve holes and killing the suitors. Roadstrum then kills Penny's suitors, but this homecoming parodies marital fidelity: Penny and the suitors have partied through his absence, and she later recounts her intimacies with them. Roadstrum's forked tongue gives him persuasive, deceptive eloquence, recalling Ulysses' cunning speech. His eventual rejection of a peaceful ending and departure with a new crew extend the wandering pattern (Space Chantey, PDF viewer pp. 8-15, 30-35, 80-92, 126-132, 161-165, 176-188, 217-222, 225-238).A:39; A:177; A:16; A:145
Un-Duffeying a Duffey
Casey Szymansky's phrase in the Crock for undoing what he considers Duffey's harm and influence. Casey declares it harder than unsaying a lie or proverbially unscrambling an egg [A:130].A:130
Unaccountable Corpse
Corpse Saxon Seaworthy dreams he is trying to dispose of in an unidentified Indian city, in a gray dream where its face repeatedly disappears [D:72-73]. Seaworthy asks Finnegan whether he has ever tried to dispose of an unaccountable corpse. Finnegan later understands the dream as connected to the actual corpse he helped Seaworthy bury when they first met: Seaworthy had struck its reviving body with a shovel in a graveyard [D:74-75].D:72-73; D:74-75
Uncle Joe Tompkinson's Torpedo Juice
Pseudo-sponsor of Absalom Stein's Anopheles Network G.I. radio station, advertised as providing “Explosive Personality by the Natural Method” [A:46].A:46
Uncollectable Art Collection
Narrator's name for Duffey's imaginary collection of living works of art. Charlotte Mullens asleep in her beauty would be one of its supreme pieces, alongside the ivory figurine Beth Keegan and others yet to appear [MTM B3:89]. Beth is elsewhere described as a laughing, living ivory statue, fashioned by herself and friends, with Duffey perhaps her final creator [MTM B2:57] [MTM B2:60].MTM B3:89; MTM B2:57; MTM B2:60
Uncreated Creation
Vincent Stranahan's theory that creation might have occurred only ten minutes ago with its apparent past already built in: red shift, momentum, partly spent life, expanded matter, fossils, vestiges, an earth halfway down from the fourth Pleistocene ice age, carbon balances, partly run-down atomic clocks, sediments indicating fifteen hundred million years, and insects and tumbleweeds at their present development [A:56]. Human memories and dreams would likewise have been supplied without the remembered events ever occurring. Vincent calls it Stranahan's Theory of the Uncreated Creation and hints at a further Shadow and Substance motif he refuses to explain [A:57].A:56; A:57
Underground Eagle
Newspaper in which Josephine McSorely publishes her account of the Casey Machine's origin, beginning “Oh salving hatred, Oh revivifying derision, Oh nourishing slander!” [CM:506].CM:506
Underthing people
Narrative term for the other human race Finnegan senses in Seaworthy, the Devil, Gerecke, Peter Wirt, Marie, and even Anastasia: peculiar people with old black blood and disturbing strength. He wonders whether he belongs among them while still doubting their existence [D:50].D:50
Underwood
One of seven Iowa locations claiming to be Duffey's birthplace during one of his possible childhoods, with Minden, Beebee Town, Neola, Crescent, Avoca, and Union Township [MTM B1:7].MTM B1:7
Union Sheet
Tuesday newspaper printed by Dotty and Duffey's Pelican Press [MTM B7:212]. Its half-dozen associated men are always seen in committees [MTM B7:213]. Letitia pays it less attention after becoming editor of the Bark [MTM B8:238].MTM B7:212; MTM B7:213; MTM B8:238
Union Township
One of seven Iowa locations (along with Minden, Underwood, Beebee Town, Neola, Crescent, Avoca) suggested as a possible birthplace for Melchisedech Duffey during one of his contested childhoods, though not properly a city itself [MTM B1:7].MTM B1:7
United States
Nation containing the American settings of The Devil Is Dead. Finnegan first meets Seaworthy in a Texas seaport, later returning to the same town's Old Wooden Ship and its Company of Fifty [D:10-12] [D:215] [D:225]. More Than Melchisedech identifies the Old Wooden Ship Tavern as being in Galveston, Texas [MTM B13:458]. The Brunhilde calls at Freeport, Palacios, Port O'Conner, Aransas Pass, Corpus, Port Isabel, and Brownsville, and anchors off Padre Island [D:34] [D:55]. Demetrio recalls travels to Alice, Eagle Pass, Uvalde, Beeville, San Angelo, Weiniar, and Port Isabel [D:58]. Finnegan and Doll escape New York through Newark and Philadelphia to Baltimore; Pittsburgh is an alternative bus destination for which they buy tickets [D:167-172]. Their southern journey reaches the Florida lake country and Orlando [D:180] [D:190]. Finnegan later stays in Biloxi and is warned away from New Orleans [D:201] [D:209-210]. During another interval he visits friends in New Orleans, St. Louis, and Chicago [D:272].D:10-12; D:215; D:225; MTM B13:458; D:34; D:55; D:58; D:167-172; D:180; D:190; D:201; D:209-210; D:272
United States Five Dollar Gold Pieces
Coins Duffey produces while rubbing his hands together: seven appear before Patrick Stranahan and the others at the 1946 gathering. Patrick identifies them as United States five-dollar gold pieces minted about ten years earlier and suggests Duffey could have been carrying them [MTM B5:167] [MTM B5:171]. As a boy, Duffey also produces one for Gretchen Sisler in an unnamed city [MTM B2:38-39].MTM B5:167; MTM B5:171; MTM B2:38-39
Unities of Aristotle
Dramatic conventions of action, time, and place later associated with Aristotle. The narrator invokes the Unities of Aristotle and Heroics of Plutarch as accidental constraints of the mainstream world, from which Finnegan's shadow life after death is free [D:161].D:161
Universal rule (re:rogue islands)
Finnegan's assertion that every pentanesia, or five-island group, has a rogue island. Ignacio answers that he had not known it was a universal rule but agrees that Barbuda is good for nothing [A:272]. The earlier creation story presents five as the original number of islands in each archipelago, with the Aegean as an example [A:35].A:272; A:35
University of Chicago
One of several colleges and universities (including Notre Dame, DePaul, Northwestern, Marquette) attended intermittently by Kasmir Szymansky (Casey) [MTM B4:119].MTM B4:119
Unreality Fringe
Smoky halo surrounding Duffey's magnificent animations, called the unreality fringe in the language of sorcerers. The narrator twice insists that these people are nevertheless real [MTM B5:158].MTM B5:158
Urals, wine of the
Wine mixed with goats' milk in the drink Finnegan shares with Askandanakandrian while receiving his advice about distressed merchandise and life [A:256].A:256
“Urbe et Orbe”
Section of the Crock containing the month's notes on Chicago and the world [A:41]. Its title plays on the papal blessing Urbi et Orbi, “to the city and to the world.”A:41
Urchin (1)
Patrick Stranahan's habitual nickname for his future daughter-in-law Show Boat. The narrator describes her as half Juliette and half urchin [A:104]. X also calls her the Urchin in his letter listing people who must pass through the passion [A:266-267].A:104; A:266-267
Urchin (2)
Name Finnegan uses for Anastasia Demetriades when she asks if she is beautiful. She asks whether she is a beautiful urchin, and he agrees [D:38]. Later she reminds him that he calls her both an urchin and a tramp [D:70].D:38; D:70
Urchin disguise
Narrative name for the body Duffey wears while concealing his person and powers as the Boy King, whose powers include invisibility [MTM B1:18].MTM B1:18
Ursine
Bear-like strain or quality; Elena Angelino, who handled trained bears for the carnival, insisted her great-grandfather was a bear (a belief the Professor shared), contrasted with the wilder Romany strain also present in the Angelino family [A:218].A:218
Ursuline Academy
New Orleans girls' school whose students prepare the Seven Roads sign as an advertisement and prop for their play [MTM B9:264]. The students include painter Crissie Cristofero, playwright Cleo Mahoney, and casting director Therese Doucet; some day girls breakfast at the Ghost Coffee Shop after early Mass at the Cathedral [MTM B10:293]. The academy's auditorium hosts Seven Roads, with Duffey acting himself and performing magic and music during the interval [MTM B12:366].MTM B9:264; MTM B10:293; MTM B12:366
Uvalde
Texas town Finnegan visits on a Monday during his chaparral wandering, before Sabinal, D'Hannis, and Hondo. He remembers earlier army maneuvers in the neighborhood [A:202]. Uvalde also appears in Demetrio's list of youthful travels [D:58].A:202; D:58
Vagaries
One of the kinds Duffey names with Gargoyles, Neanderthals, Boogers, and Variants when discussing the Teras element in his creations. He says everyone has some variant blood, but he has put more than usual into his creations [MTM B5:170].MTM B5:170
Vair
In Hans Schultz’s reflections on Marie’s green eyes, the color of Nicolette’s eyes in a remembered French song, contrasted with Romany sheleno. Hans imagines vair degenerating into vert with the French soul and rejects its interpretation as gray [A:24]. This is the passage’s poetic philology: historically vair derives from Latin varius and can describe gray-blue eyes, while vert derives separately from viridis.A:24
Valley of the New Men
The valley-name claimed by Finnegan for his ancestral people, the “people before the people,” in his account of their prehistoric life and displacement. He insists that theirs is the Valley of the New Men, “not of the old” [D:212-213].D:212-213
Valleys (Pepper-Belly, etc.)
The named valleys and draws on Willy Jones Island, also called Pulau Petir, in Don Lewis’s account of the pursuit of Yokipoki. Santee and Casper kill the little man; the three soldiers then discover they are lost, and Don Lewis later buries him [D:44-46]. Their familiar landscape includes Cotton-Picker Valley, Pepper-Belly Valley, Hound Dog, Horse Collar, Dog-Dirt Draw, Rang-Dang-Doo, Jackass Flats, Little Joker Canyon, Aching Back, Slit Trench, Sore-Head Gulch, Little Fat-Head, and Big Fat-Head. Jackass Flats is described, despite its name, as exceptionally precipitous. They know these valleys but cannot identify the one they have entered [D:45-46].D:44-46; D:45-46
Van Dusen, Augustus S.F.X.
Name used by one of the experts consulted by Duffey, Biloxi Brannagan and Kasmir Gorshok to prevent the Antichrist from boarding the Argo. The experts include fictional persons and actual persons under fictional names; Van Dusen is also called the Thinking Machine [MTM B13:454–455]. He warns that fireplaces can provide entrances overlooked in a locked-room problem, and recommends stationing a firedrake at each fireplace, guarding the other entrances and checking that the intruder has no ally already aboard [MTM B13:455–456].MTM B13:454–455; MTM B13:455–456
Van Ghi
Gregory van Ghi is an artist’s identity explicitly used by Finnegan, although Finnegan also tells a conflicting story of studying under a great master Van Ghi in Florence. Patricia says that Van Ghi is a name her brother invented [A:175]. Dotty recognizes the signed Van Ghi paintings in Finnegan’s possession as his own work and does not dispute his claim that their painter is the greatest traditionalist-modernist-experimentalist [A:176]. In New York he has Gregory van Ghi cards printed, rents a Village studio, and successfully sells his Orange Period paintings; the narrator calls Finnegan the man underneath the constructed persona [A:191-192]. He tells Duffey outright that he is Van Ghi when consigning paintings to him, and later speaks of knowing Scanlon “when I was Van Ghi” [MTM B5:173] [A:236].In the Florence account, Van Ghi teaches him the painter’s trade. After Finnegan paints a devil, Father LeFaye calls the master an old mountebank. Van Ghi identifies the depicted devil as an old repeater appearing in The Night Watch, Bruegel’s paintings, Giotto’s Betrayal, the “Burial” of Count Ortega, El Grecos, Notre Dame stonework, Etruscan vases, and Aztec statuettes. He agrees that the picture should be burned and advises painting without inspiration [D:252-255]. The supplied edition prints Van GM repeatedly on D:255.
A:175; A:176; A:191-192; MTM B5:173; A:236; D:252-255
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853--1890)
Dutch Post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890), known for expressive color and dynamic brushwork. His paintings include The Starry Night and Sunflowers. Commercial success was limited during his lifetime, though critical interest was growing by 1890; his work later influenced Fauvism and Expressionism. The specific allusion to him in the Argo novels remains unidentified.Vanadium steel
A merciless streak in the narrator’s metaphorical alloy of Betty Hochstapler’s heart, alongside brass, extremely resilient phosphor bronze, and a warmer metal that often glows cherry red [A:216].A:216
Vance, Philo
Code name of one of the experts consulted by Duffey, Biloxi Brannagan and Kasmir Gorshok about keeping the Antichrist off the Argo. The experts include fictional detectives and actual persons using fictional names [MTM B13:454–455]. After invoking music, African violets and games, Vance reduces his advice to “Get a dog.” Father Brown recommends an English bulldog, and Duffey brings Gunboat Smith aboard [MTM B13:457–458].MTM B13:454–455; MTM B13:457–458
Vanity
Patrick Stranahan’s assessment of scholarship beyond the little Latin and Law he considers sufficient [A:109].A:109
Vast caverns
The spaces in the Papuans’ “bottomless unconscious” in the novel’s mythic account of them as the Well of the World. Other peoples and lands are entities maintained in these caverns of their under-persons; the Kiriwinans and other neighboring peoples are said to understand that their existence depends on the Papuans [A:37].A:37
Vaudeville
Theatrical entertainment among the forms in which Professor Kirol von Weinsberg-Valeni works. As a mind-reader, memory and information expert, and hypnotist, he has appeared in circuses, music halls, and vaudeville theatres around the world; he is also a nightclub magician and, chiefly, an answer man [A:215-216].A:215-216
Vecchia zimarra senti
“Old coat, listen,” the opening of Colline’s Act IV aria in Puccini’s La Bohème. Finnegan sings it during the gathering around a charcoal-filled trencher outside the Australian hotel, which has forbidden a bonfire [A:31].A:31
Vega
One of the stars whose movements Hans learns to calculate under Professor Kirol von Weinsberg-Valeni [A:214]. The earlier glossary also connected Vega with the Paean’s comparison of stellar heights; that reference remains unverified because the Paean is absent from the available source copy.A:214
Veil
The partition between the living and the dead in Ignatius Ti’s account: a hole opens at midnight as souls cross, allowing nimble old dead to return. The narrative subsequently describes loose ghosts entering the psycho ward through that hole [A:86-87].A:86-87
Velikovsky, Immanuel (1895--1979)
Russian-born American author and independent scholar (1895-1979), whose Worlds in Collision (1950) proposed catastrophic celestial events in human history. The popular book met strong scientific rejection. A hostile review of Royce Rollins’s The Return of the Neanderthal invokes Velikovsky disparagingly [D:240]. Duffey later names him with Braden, Cayce, and Otto while wondering about possible events becoming real through human insistence [MTM B11:340].D:240; MTM B11:340
Vellum
Cuscus-skin writing material in Sulem’s account of the tujuan, a person’s divinely given directions for life. The writing is rolled as small as a pebble and placed inside the body, variously located in the brain, liver, or diaphragm [A:60].A:60
Vendetta, grande
The “great revenge” in Niccolo Crotolus’s account of assassination: killing someone almost certainly outside a state of grace. He says it cost several times more than the piccola, since the advertised outcome included damnation, and claims that his family delivered what it was paid for [A:280].A:280
Vendetta, piccola
The “little revenge” in Niccolo Crotolus’s account of assassination: killing someone probably or possibly in a state of grace, sometimes after allowing a chance to attain it. It ensures death, not necessarily damnation. Crotolus says his employer has specified only the piccola for Finnegan, whom he has grown fond of following [A:279-280].A:279-280
Venice
Italian city to which Vincent Stranahan proposes sailing with Finnegan, along with Prague, while considering flight before his wedding. His three thousand dollars are in addition to his mustering-out money [A:112].A:112
Ventriloquist
Performer at the Star and Garter whose act Theresa “Show Boat” Piccone joins. She operates his figures and also brings men, usually soldiers, from the audience to sit on her lap while she supplies their voices [A:49].A:49
Vernal ecstasy
Phrase attributed to Absalom Stein by an Australian informant describing his attraction to the perfumed Tommy Trouncer in the guise of Tania. Stein is said to want to make Tommy a good woman and live with her in a better, cleaner world [A:52].A:52
Verne, Jules
French novelist (1828-1905) and a pioneer of science fiction. Marie Monaghan uses his name as a nickname for her purported Dutch uncle, the barefoot carnival painter Shoeless Veronese van Rijn [A:28].A:28
Veronese van Rijn, Shoeless
Marie Monaghan’s purported Dutch uncle, nicknamed Jules Verne, a carnival foot-painter who works in watercolors, oils, and charcoal and goes barefoot. Hans questions the pronunciation involved in the Shoeless/Jules nickname [A:28].A:28
vert
French for green. Hans’s reflection on Marie’s eyes treats it as a degeneration of the older poetic vair [A:24]. The words actually have separate Latin origins: vert from viridis, vair from varius.A:24
Vestige
The narrator’s description of the buffalo with whom Finnegan feels an affinity in their ancestral capital. They are said to be older than the earth’s other cattle, as his own strain is older than its proper people [A:206].A:206
Vettura
Italian for a carriage or automobile. Finnegan uses it, with faeton, drozhe, and carrozza, to praise Mr. X’s extraordinary multicolored vehicle [D:179].D:179
Vices
The unspecified activities in which Henry Salvatore is said to have dabbled, from Copenhagen to Aruba, during his seafaring life as a rake before his trucking work and army service [A:124].A:124
Vickers, Little Eva
Resident of the Old Wooden Ship, named in its roster of regulars and among the women called “salt water widows” [D:216] [D:221].D:216; D:221
Vienna (Wien)
City on the Danube, called Wien in the text, where Duffey and Brannagan join a group debating whether it is better to do right for the wrong reason or wrong for the right reason. Casey leaves the discussion to look at buildings and pastry shops [MTM B13:432].MTM B13:432
Vigilante Orthodoxers
The armed Orthodoxers who confront Zabotski and threaten to shoot him for rejecting their chronology and account of origins. He covers their sight with darkness or clouds and reaches his contraption [MTM B9:286]. See Orthodoxer.MTM B9:286
Vincent J. Stranahan (Vincent, Austin, Meleager)
One of the Dirty Five, born in St. Louis on 5 April 1921 to Patrick J. and Monica (Murry) Stranahan; More Than Melchisedech spells his mother’s maiden name Murray [A:94] [MTM B5:161]. The opening presents Vincent as born in the World beside Finnegan, who is of the other world; the later roll of the five nevertheless associates them all with Wonder and identifies Vincent with Meleager, Mercurius, Don Vincent de Ollos, and Austin [A:2] [A:39]. The narrator describes his crooked eyebrows and mobile mouth, and Hans remembers his recitations of “Corrymeela” and “Downfall of the Gael” [A:5] [A:9]. He belongs to a sporting family of amateur boxers and footballers [A:103]. He marries Theresa “Show Boat” Piccone after the war; More Than Melchisedech places their wedding on the Saturday of the last week of May 1946 [A:113] [MTM B5:171].Finnegan names him among friends of his normal life and later recalls long visits with him [D:90] [D:273]. Vincent and Teresa visit New Orleans with two children. With Finnegan and Absalom Stein, he becomes one of the three disguised “hyenas” heckling Showboat during her street mission with Margaret Stone; the women turn the crowd against the hecklers [MTM B7:229] [MTM B7:231-232].
A:94; MTM B5:161; A:2; A:39; A:5; A:9; A:103; A:113; MTM B5:171; D:90; D:273; MTM B7:229; MTM B7:231-232
Vinobianco, Dominic
One of Casey Szymansky’s roommates at St. Bonaventure’s boarding school, with Johnny Carruthers, Hinnegan, Germany Metzger, and a senior assigned to their room. Dominic comes from Elgin [A:161-162].A:161-162
Violet
Resident of the Old Wooden Ship tavern and boarding house, named among its “salt water widows,” women married to seamen [D:216] [D:221].D:216; D:221
Virgen la mas Benigna
“Virgin most Benign,” one of the Spanish ship names on the master treasure map described by Angela Cosquin. Her father supplies aged maps and supporting papers for confidence schemes; customers can choose a purported sunken treasure ship and even relocate it on the map [D:261].D:261
Virgil (70--19 BC)
Publius Vergilius Maro (70-19 BC), Roman poet of the age of Augustus, author of the pastoral Eclogues, the agricultural Georgics, and the Aeneid. Ancient biographical tradition describes his education in rhetoric and philosophy. The Aeneid follows the Trojan Aeneas toward Italy, connecting the Homeric past with Rome’s destiny and Augustus. Its treatment of duty, piety, and empire includes both Roman glory and the suffering involved in achieving it. A school text since antiquity, it became a central work of later European literature; Dante made Virgil his guide through Hell and Purgatory. Patrick Stranahan invokes the Georgics as his standard of poetry, declaring that there has been no real poetry since [A:109].A:109
Virgin
The Blessed Virgin, invoked in Hans Schultz’s reflections on Marie’s green eyes. The passage describes her as red-haired and green-eyed in early Flemish Annunciations, then turns to witches and Lilith in its fanciful genealogy of green-eyed women [A:24].A:24
Virginia
One of the red-haired town girls at the Bay Hotel picnic in Australia, with Dorothy, Tom Shire, Freddy Castle, and members of the Dirty Five. Casey declines to attend because Stein is there [A:29].A:29
Virginia Dare White and Red
White and red wines in Finnegan’s heavy shoulder bag when, after being refused further service in the bars around D’Hannis, he sets out into the Texas chaparral. The list gives three or four bottles of each [A:202].A:202
Virtual miracle
What Duffey says is required, with prayer and fasting, to bring mice to the new, mouse-free Gurdon S. Hubbard Elementary School. After the doors are opened and he concentrates or prays, seven exhausted mice arrive and perform in the puppet show; a teacher identifies them as Central American mice [MTM B4:135-136].MTM B4:135-136
Virtue
A quality Casey’s hostile Crock editorial says the Bark finds in Chiang’s refusal to cooperate with the “futuristic elements” in his country [A:128-130]. Elsewhere the narrator discusses Duffey’s retained but increasingly scruffy virtue, distinguishing his continuing honesty and courage from the complications of his affections [MTM B3:77] [MTM B4:109-110].A:128-130; MTM B3:77; MTM B4:109-110
Viskochil
One of the surnames of the extended Angelino carnival clan, with Obermeyer, Borg, Trevino, and Larrigan. The narrator describes the clan collectively as largely Italian and German, with Bohemian, Mexican, and Irish Tinker ancestry; the passage does not assign an ethnicity to each surname [A:218].A:218
Vocation
A calling that Henry Salvatore recognizes in his dream of the endangered Navicula Petri, which he understands to be the sanctified form of the Argo. Before waking he knows that the vocation has come to him whether he accepts it or not [A:44-46]. Later, lying in a pasture, he offers to give things up if God will take them in exchange [A:69]. Finnegan compares his unwanted artistic gift to Henry’s vocation: it frightens him, and he says that he has not accepted it and will try to escape it [A:99].A:44-46; A:69; A:99
Vogelkop
The Bird’s Head peninsula at the western end of New Guinea. The soldiers leave it behind on their transfer to a Dutch island four hundred miles farther on [A:50].A:50
Voice roles
The intelligible speaking parts of the live mice in the Duffeys’ puppet shows. The narrator leaves open whether the mice themselves speak, which would be first-degree magic, or whether Melchisedech’s or Letitia’s voices speak through them, second- or third-degree magic. Their correctly timed actions are called first-degree magic [MTM B4:134].MTM B4:134
Voila!
French “there it is” or “there you are,” used by Trinali Peterson as she announces the Trinali Cocktail. She mixes her old wine with Hans’s new wine and invokes a dialectical synthesis achieved by putting old and new wines into the scripturally wrong bottles [A:231].A:231
Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) (1694--1778)
François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher, known for Candide (1759), religious toleration, and campaigns against injustice and fanaticism.In More Than Melchisedech, a grotesque fictional Voltaire is kept in a senile stasis and awakened for a festival celebrating his three-hundredth birthday. The authorities call him the Father of Reason and stage the killing of Hiram III with the entrails of Paul XI as the fulfillment of a wish they attribute to him. He watches delightedly before being allowed to sleep again [MB:563-565].
MB:563-565
Volvox colonial
A preparation of colonial green algae that Biloxi Brannagan requests as the fruit course of his meal. His other choices include desmid salad with ulothrix, spirogyra bread, hydrodictyon soup, and a Foraminifera Julip [MTM B13:418].MTM B13:418
Volvoxa
Aquatic material that Honeybucket Kincaid gathers with ectocarpus by manipulating frequencies while preparing Duffey and Brannagan’s food and drinks. The narrative says the two can arrive together and then be separated [MTM B13:418].MTM B13:418
Vomiting
Sedalia Schoefeld’s proposed trick for escaping the formal dance: she says she can vomit at will and will pretend to be ill. Lily Koch first asks to be splashed so that she too can leave, then leads the group to the attic billiard room instead [MTM B1:33].MTM B1:33
Von Vinger, County
An alias of Ali ben Taife, also called Lord Peter Petrof and Sinhor Dedos or Mr. Fingers. In Ignatius Ti’s account, he employs Amoy as a jewel-stealing red-winged blackbird, then cuts the bird’s throat to recover a blue diamond it will not regurgitate [A:80-81].A:80-81
Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor
The subject of the Brunhilde barroom panels Finnegan paints for Saxon Seaworthy, whom the narrative identifies with a morally dubious Sindbad [D:59]. Anastasia requests the dead wife of the fourth voyage; Marie claims the happy-ever-after wife of the seventh. Finnegan paints those roles and proposes Papa Devil as a man-eating ogre and Gerecke as the Old Man of the Sea [D:60-62]. His difficulty portraying Papa Devil leads him to recognize that the apparent face is not the Devil’s own [D:62].D:59; D:60-62; D:62
Vulgate
The Latin Bible translation Henry Salvatore prefers to the French. During his dream of the storm-tossed Navicula Petri, a Latin account of the storm is followed by French, prompting him to tell the dream that he has already recognized the passage [A:44-45].A:44-45
Waldo
Earlier heading omitted Waldo’s surname, Waldorf. See Waldorf, Waldo.Waldo, Wife of Zabotski
Zabotski’s wife, still called the Widow Waldo, resident with him in the extraordinary house on Pristine Cove, Lake Borgne. The magazine account describes them as gracious hosts surrounded by children, strange animals, and an atmosphere of “top speed without hurry” [MTM B9:267]. Formerly Miss America, she married the promoted strongman Waldo Waldorf; after his murder by a jealous rival she devoted herself to orphans. She cooks for Duffey and Zabotski during construction and insists that many children accompany the vessel [MTM B9:275]. She relays the state inspector’s order to remove the part encroaching on the Golden Childrens Home and Haven Orphanage grounds [MTM B9:274]. She feeds the visiting Fundamentalers, joking that there is almost no limit to the food she can take from the orphans’ mouths [MTM B9:280].Duffey visits her and Zabotski in their floating boat palace, already shared with many children and animals [MTM B10:290]. During a later dinner she says Zabotski has announced their departure daily for nine years, urges him to rest his injured tongue, and explains their large steak meals [MTM B12:363].
MTM B9:267; MTM B9:275; MTM B9:274; MTM B9:280; MTM B10:290; MTM B12:363
Waldorf, Waldo
Waldo Waldorf, deceased husband of the Widow Waldo. He was Mr. Body Beautiful of the West North Central States, including Illinois; their marriage was a publicity stunt devised by promoters. His killing by a jealous rival preceded his widow’s dedication to orphans [MTM B9:275].MTM B9:275
Walnut Street
Downtown St. Louis street where Duffey buys the empty horse barn that becomes his establishment [MTM B2:40]. Bagby’s cabinet shop occupies the adjoining building; Bagby says both were made from the walnut grove felled before the street was laid out and named [MTM B2:46].MTM B2:40; MTM B2:46
Wandering Jew
Howell’s comparison for Private Gregory’s account of never aging and periodically changing identity. Howell calls “The Wandering Jew, are there Others?” his six-hundred-and-twenty-third subject of conversation, out of the thousand he claims to have catalogued [A:77].A:77
Ward Fourteen
The hospital ward occupied by the Sergeant, Private Gregory, Howell, George Buckram, Martin Benning, and Green. The Sergeant considers it a possible test of whether its inmates differ from other people, wonders about their kinship with “gooney birds,” and concludes that they are confined through misunderstanding [A:75].A:75
Warneke, Fanny
One of the arty friends in the Duffeys’ North Chicago golden age of 1925-1935 [MTM B3:98].MTM B3:98
Washington University
One of the institutions at which Duffey takes courses in the summer of 1915, alongside St. Louis University, Concordia, a pharmacy school, and a music school. He calculates twenty-eight hours of activity per day before sleep, already knowing tricks with time [MTM B2:49].MTM B2:49
Watson (Dr. John H. Watson)
Earlier heading identified an unspecified Watson with Sherlock Holmes’s companion without supporting evidence. See Watson (unidentified allusion).Watson (unidentified allusion)
A surname in Duffey’s list of unconventional scientific investigators, with O’Connell, Field, and Spraggett, during the discussion of strange events and possible changes of human species [MTM B11:339]. Lyall Watson, author of Supernature, is a plausible identification, but the passage supplies no first name; it does not establish Sherlock Holmes’s companion.MTM B11:339
Watteau
One of the painters Patrick Stranahan names with Durer and Hogarth in his account of sufficient culture. He says one minor original and a dozen good copies are all an honest man can afford [A:109].A:109
Waves of the Future
Absalom Stein’s expression for forces from the future breaking backward into the past. His Notes on the Finnegan Cycle treats Hitler as one such raider and argues that the future’s evil and cheapness should encourage resistance [MTM B6:185].MTM B6:185
“Way Back in the Hills”
Tune Finnegan plays on his mouth organ to occupy the shoe-shine boys while Captain Sammy borrows their box for a money-making trick. It follows “A-Rang-Dang-Doo” and precedes “The Wreck of the Old Ninety-Seven” and “The Wabash Cannon Ball” [A:67].A:67
Weaver, Rufus
One of the musical friends in the Duffeys’ North Chicago golden age. The group collectively includes operatic, ragtime, Chicago-hots, and string-band composers, players, and stagers; Weaver’s individual specialty is not given [MTM B3:98-99].MTM B3:98-99
Webbs, The
Probably Sidney and Beatrice Webb, the Fabian social thinkers. The Webbs appear with Nietzsche, Shaw, Machiavelli, and both Roosevelts among the sources mixed into the Answer, a journal that Duffey reads with mingled admiration and alarm [MTM B4:114].MTM B4:114
Wedekind
One of the associates of Papadiabolous I named by X, alongside Seaworthy, Genof, Wirt, Gerecke, Askadrian, Sanditen, and Sorensen. X says several of this group were rumored to be Papadiabolous’s illegitimate half-brothers, without specifying which [D:286].D:286
Weinar
Earlier heading altered the printed place-name; identification with Weimar remains unestablished. See Weiniar.Weiniar
A place Demetrio includes in the travels of his youth, with Alice, Eagle Pass, Uvalde, Beeville, San Angelo, and Port Isabel. The supplied text actually prints Weiniar [D:58].D:58
Weinsberg-Valeni, Kirol von
See Kirol von Weinsberg-Valeni, Professor.Welch, Art (Two Shot)
Art “Two Shot” Welch, resident of the Old Wooden Ship and a card sharp and trickster paired with Art “One Shot” Yodel. The narrator says the pair are repeatedly outwitted by better sharpers [D:216] [D:221]. The earlier resident list calls his partner Ant “One Shot” Yoder [D:216].D:216; D:221
Well of the World
The narrator’s name for the Papuans in the novel’s mythic cosmology. Their bottomless unconscious contains the other peoples and lands, which survive only while maintained in its caverns. The Kiriwinans and neighboring peoples are said to understand this dependence, while more distant peoples do not [A:37].A:37
Wellington (Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of)
Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington, included by the narrator among people said to have seven hidden or dark years in their lives. The list provides a precedent for Duffey’s missing years and also names Caesar, Diocletian, Boëthus, Carl the Great, Lincoln, Sam Houston, George Barrow, and Hans Schultz [MTM B2:72].MTM B2:72
West
The direction Finnegan travels after leaving the goat-people. He walks chiefly in the hours before dawn and later remembers the summer as continually foggy, though the narrator allows that the fog may not have been physical [A:200].A:200
West Beach
Place on Galveston Island where Doll Delancy finds a body she swears is Finnegan’s. Stein reports her identification while doubting that Finnegan died at Seaworthy’s hand [MB:548].MB:548
West Kansas
The comparison used to convey Black Papua’s densely crowded landscape: an equal square mile of West Kansas is imagined as open enough to count fence posts a mile away, with nothing larger between [A:37].A:37
Whammo
Ignatius Ti’s word for the delayed impact of his ghost story. He defends its quiet climax by saying that the after-effect hits the listener “Whammo” [A:87].A:87
Where Three Men Stand Together Are Kingdoms Less By Three
The line Hans quotes during his solemn three-way handshake with Henry and Finnegan after the group’s drinking excursion in Luzon. The narrative likens the gesture to the formation of a mystic trio within the Dirty Five; the group later sleeps in the pasture near the two white horses [A:68-69].A:68-69
“Whistle Stop Jump”
One of the tunes in the Rounders’ String Band’s St. Louis repertoire, remembered among its sweet old songs. Duffey plays banjo in the group and associates that instrument with the flat straw hat [MTM B2:52].MTM B2:52
White Avenger
One of three comic strips in which Dotty says the Slant-Faced Men have appeared, with Flame Man and Captain Justice. She would find them funny if she did not know they were real [MTM B7:225].MTM B7:225
White Horse(s)
The two horses in a Luzon field to which Hans leads the drinking party after a brief fight with other soldiers and a walk through the jungle. He runs down the larger white horse, catches it by the mane, and rides it through low branches in the darkness. The narrator counts this capture among the Argonauts’ appointed heroic labors [A:68].A:68
White wine
One of the drinks Patrick Stranahan considers sufficient for a settled life, with one red wine, one whisky, one brandy, one rum, and four brews [A:110]. The narrator also says white wine is made on Naxos [D:125]. Finnegan and Anastasia bring wine among their provisions for Anastasia Grandmother, although that list does not specify its color [D:126].A:110; D:125; D:126
Whiteduck, Dorcas
One of the artists or makers Duffey associates with during the New Orleans rebuilding project. The group is described as building or inventing worlds, moments, situations, or scenes; Whiteduck’s individual medium is not specified [MTM B6:198].MTM B6:198
Whiterice, Maud
One of the friends of scientific bent in the Duffeys’ North Chicago golden age, listed with Silas Whiterice [MTM B3:98-99]. She and Silas attend Duffey’s later Chicago reunion, where her name is spelled Maude [MTM B12:383]. Their joint commentary discusses the strange encyclopedia entry identifying Casey Szymansky as the Antichrist; they call it a hoax while affirming the accuracy of its birth details [PG:528-529].MTM B3:98-99; MTM B12:383; PG:528-529
Whiterice, Sherman
Earlier heading combined Sherman Slick’s given name with the surname of the following Silas and Maud Whiterice. See Slick, Sherman.Whiterice, Silas
One of the friends of scientific bent in the Duffeys’ North Chicago golden age, listed with Maud Whiterice [MTM B3:98-99]. Both attend Duffey’s later Chicago reunion [MTM B12:383]. Their joint commentary describes a variant encyclopedia entry naming Casey Szymansky as the Antichrist; they call the insertion a hoax but affirm its account of his birth [PG:528-529].MTM B3:98-99; MTM B12:383; PG:528-529
Whites
One of the family names given by an older relative or pretended relative who disputes Duffey’s lack of kindred in the account of his possible Iowa childhood. Duffey questions whether she is remembering his twin instead [MTM B1:7].MTM B1:7
“Who Is Iason, but Who Is Also of the Other People”
Subtitle attached to “Finnegan” in the heading of Chapter Seven [A:171].A:171
“Who Is Meleager”
Part of the Chapter Four heading, “Stranahan, Who Is Meleager” [A:91].A:91
Widow Waldo
See Waldo, Wife of Zabotski [MTM B9:267] [MTM B9:275].MTM B9:267; MTM B9:275
Widow wooing
One of the minor arts of everyday life that the narrator says lost style and was trashed during the cultural decline after the Devil’s release [MTM B6:207-208].MTM B6:207-208
Wild Beasts Devouring Entrails in the Holy Places
An “old saying” in the narrative that supplies the theme for a second grotesque presentation at the Voltaire Festival. After Hiram III’s murder, fifty members of the Consenting Adults’ World Congress eat the entrails of Paul XI in a large holy place, struggling with their toughness and gamey taste [MB:565].MB:565
Wild onion hunting
One of the minor arts whose cultural destruction is lamented after the Devil’s release. It appears in the narrator’s catalogue and is repeated in Duffey’s protest that hardly a joy has survived [MTM B6:208-209].MTM B6:208-209
Wild Turkey
Birds among the creatures along the mile-long track through John William Schultz’s nursery at St. Gallen. Hans runs the meander every morning and evening during his physical education [A:208].A:208
William Count of Poitou
Named in item V of Casey Szymansky’s school notebook as the figure to whom poetry in the mother tongue can be traced. Casey tentatively attributes this statement to Belloc, or to another writer he read around the same time [A:163].A:163
Willy Jones Island
Island also called Pulau Petir where, in Don Lewis’s account, he and two other American soldiers disappear on 1 October 1944. Santee and Casper kill Yokipoki; Don Lewis buries him, is subsequently taken into a peculiar custody, and returns under another name, no longer his own man [D:44-48]. He also tells the island’s story of the Big House, whose inhabitants live on broth made from murdered visitors’ organs [D:48-49]. The narrative connects Yokipoki’s burial with Don Lewis’s becoming a furtive man [D:50].D:44-48; D:48-49; D:50
Windward Passage
One of the seven true passages through the Antilles in Angela Cosquin’s account of her father’s forged shipwreck maps. She contrasts these with seven false or shoal passages: Jardines Banks, Cabo Rojo, Vieques, St. Barthelemy, the Basseterre-Nevis pass, the Basse-Terre-Marie Galante pass, and the Grenadines. This is Angela’s explanation of where her father placed plausible wrecks on his maps. [D:260]D:260
Wine making
A traditional craft included in the narrator’s catalogue of activities condemned or “trashed” during cultural decline. [MTM B6:207-208] Trinali Peterson mixes her old wine with Hans’s new wine to make the “Trinali Cocktail.” Her accompanying poem gives a grape, water, and sugar recipe with optional brandy and six months’ gestation, mentions a thirteen-day potato wine, and presents winemaking as the birth and imprisonment of a god. [A:231]MTM B6:207-208; A:231
Wine of the Urals
Wine associated with the drink Finnegan shares with Askandan after Hillary Hilton leaves. The passage says that Finnegan imbibes knowledge and “a drink made of goats’ milk and a wine of the Urals”; it does not establish that the wine itself is made from milk. [A:256]A:256
Winter Garden
Place where, according to Finnegan, the leftfooted killer had been asking for him the previous day. Finnegan reports this while X briefs him on the continuing pursuit. [D:193]D:193
Wiper, The (giant)
A “cloud-high giant” described to Newton Prescott by a little boy. The Wiper uses a rag to erase part of a cloud and, with it, part of something in people’s heads. Prescott accepts the boy’s intuitive account of this personification of forgetting and subsequently notices drawings of the Wiper on walls and sidewalks. [CM:503] [CM:513-514]CM:503; CM:513-514
Wirt, Peter
One of Saxon Seaworthy’s two cronies aboard the Brunhilde, with William Gerecke, sharing the mystery surrounding Seaworthy and the Devil. [D:30] Anastasia includes him among the powerful men who own the captain and crew; Finnegan senses a strong, earthy power in him at the beach gathering. [D:40] [D:50] Wirt goes ashore with Seaworthy and Gerecke and later waits with them aboard the ship at Naxos, an experienced combatant rather than a nonentity. [D:57] [D:136] X names him among the four rulers after the two Papadiabolouses die. [D:155] At the subsequent meeting he has the “mind of a wolverine.” [D:163] Papadiabolous I’s associates include Wirt; several of that group are rumored to be illegitimate half brothers, without identifying which ones. [D:286]D:30; D:40; D:50; D:57; D:136; D:155; D:163; D:286
Wisconsin
The state of Hans Schultz’s childhood. During Hans and Marie’s exchange of childhood memories, the narrator observes that Wisconsin and New South Wales are very much alike in summer. [A:10] Hans’s birthplace, St. Gallen, is described as Northern Wilderness lake country beyond Rhinelander and near Eagle River. He remembers its splendid sunlight and calls it the land of the larger summer. [A:207]A:10; A:207
Wisconsin Rapids
Town reached by Hans Schultz and Professor Kirol von Weinsberg-Valeni after an eighty-mile drive from St. Gallen in a truck resembling an old medicine-show wagon. The Professor lectures Hans on the journey; they meet the rest of the carnival at Wisconsin Rapids. [A:212] [A:215]A:212; A:215
Wisdom of Finnegan
The source Hans names for the reversed maxim “If you can’t be careful, be good.” He is correcting Salvation Sally, who has offered the conventional wording; Marie Monaghan is also present. [A:9]A:9
Wolf hunting
One of the traditional activities included in the narrator’s catalogue of pursuits condemned or “trashed” during cultural decline. [MTM B6:207-208]MTM B6:207-208
Wolff, Ignace
Name credited with the epigraph to Chapter Five, “The Unaccountable Corpse,” from a work styled Gedanken von Leibern (Thoughts on Bodies). The epigraph says that bodies thwart non-contradiction and negate the principle of sufficient reason: “There is not sufficient reason for bodies.” [D:67]D:67
Wooden Ship (Old Wooden Ship)
A Sydney pub visited by Finnegan, Vincent, Hans, Casey, Tom, and Freddy, after the Commodore and before the Green Tree, during the preparations for Hans’s drinking contest. Marie joins them later at the Harbor House. [A:17-19] The Old Wooden Ship in The Devil Is Dead is a four-story, unpainted, pungent tavern at the end of a garlic block, with raked shells for a sidewalk, many doors and stairs, loose shutters, and a ship-like creaking sway. Finnegan and Le Marin frequent it alongside its Company of Fifty resident regulars. Proprietor Lazarus Reilly supplies accommodation, credit, and loans and refuses nobody lest an applicant be an angel in disguise; barmaid Soft-Talk Susie Kutz is called an “angel unaware.” [D:215-216] [D:225] A camel lives in the weed patch behind it. [D:219] Finnegan’s journey to Paradise begins there after his reading of St. Francis de Sales. [D:233] More Than Melchisedech explicitly locates the Old Wooden Ship Tavern, where Gunboat Smith is Bulldog-in-Residence, in Galveston, Texas. [MTM B13:458]A:17-19; D:215-216; D:225; D:219; D:233; MTM B13:458
Wordless Repartee Between Melchisedech Duffey and the Invisible God, The
The seventh of Duffey’s possible contingencies: a silent exchange with the invisible God in a garden one afternoon. Everything and a solution to all problems are promised. A failure would have to be sought out through stubbornness and confusion; its disaster might affect only Duffey, or return him to a beginning. The text leaves unclear whether he can choose between the contingencies. [MTM B10:301]MTM B10:301
Wordsworthian Intimations of a Beginning
The beginning of a life pattern Finnegan wishes to escape after his death: “Wordsworthian Intimations of a Beginning, Baconian Turgidity in the Middle, and Bierceian Irony at the End.” [D:237] The opening phrase alludes to William Wordsworth’s “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood.”D:237
Workman
The workman in “Great Day in the Morning” who rebukes Melchisedech Duffy for asking what has happened to vehicle wheels, calling him a “roundskin” and “roundheel.” Nearby, workmen and owners are replacing wheels with an indistinct device from kits. [GD:489]GD:489
World (1) (the World)
The World into which Finnegan looks with new-made eyes after the Garden disappears, doubting he will find a place there. Vincent, in this opening account, was born in it and belongs there. [A:1-2] Later the Dirty Five, including Vincent, are described as belonging in their fleeting moments to the Wonder rather than the World; the difference between these accounts is left standing. [A:39] Vincent argues that the world might have been created ten minutes ago with its fossils and vestiges already in place, and later declares that the present world exists for an elite of one, himself. These are Vincent’s arguments, not settled narration. [A:56] [A:58]A:1-2; A:39; A:56; A:58
World (2)
One of the names X gives for the ship on which Finnegan sailed, alongside Delay and Argo. X’s report is an account of the ship’s uncertain identity, not a verified registry name. [A:187]A:187
World Consensus
The authority whose order to abolish St. Kobarid is defied by King Hiram III, leaving it the world’s last unabolished nation in the fictional account. The passage does not specify what kind of organization the World Consensus is. [MB:563]MB:563
World Labor Czar (Poot Plambert)
Title of Poot Plambert, voted the World’s Most Beloved Man of the Year. King Hiram III refuses to contribute to the worldwide cash benefice for him. [MB:564]MB:564
World of Record, The
Dotty Yekouris’s name for the place where people wake, sleep, and wake again while their rich other life of the Argo Voyages continues in reserved places. Her statement insists that the voyages are ongoing rather than merely events of many centuries ago. [MTM B5:180]MTM B5:180
World-Wide Argonauts Argo Balloon Club
Club of rich sportsmen which Duffey joins or, in another version, founds. Its entrance fee is $3,000. Bagby later claims Duffey collected that sum from each of twenty-three members as North American Bursar; the Geneva headquarters to which he was supposed to remit it never existed. Duffey spends $6,000 on a large custom silk balloon using hydrogen and sandbag ballast. [MTM B2:63-64] He first calls it The Argo Twelve, then changes the name to The Argo Twelve and Half after a powerful misty visitor tells him that Argo Twelve is already active and that his balloon may serve as its pinnace. [MTM B2:64]MTM B2:63-64; MTM B2:64
Wright, Peter
Name on anvils among the household and trade words young Duffey encounters during his mind-piracy. [MTM B1:17]MTM B1:17
X
Mr. X, the former magician and escape artist called the Great X-Capo, is an elusive associate of Finnegan and Duffey [A:137] [D:152]. More Than Melchisedech introduces him as an ally or counter-ally, a shabby, wistful clown of a north Italian type, apparently about Duffey’s age [MTM B6:200]. Duffey tells him that he is one of the people Duffey made [MTM B1:6]. The narrator of Archipelago says that almost all his information is true, but that he cannot evaluate it and is drawn to the excitement of the game. His convictions change: he has joined the Party sincerely, yet makes peace with the Church at Easter, becomes agnostic by midsummer, and atheist by fall [A:138]. In Archipelago he calls Duffey at three in the morning, disguising his voice with a rosin-impregnated handkerchief or by talking through his hat. He then arrives with nested black, gray, and brown boxes, the last containing the Crock’s intelligence files, which he has stolen from Casey [A:135-136]. He says Casey has ceased properly using the information. X has memorized and annotated it, and spends about two hours writing more cards. He boasts that he opens such locks with mittens on. He visits congressmen and Justice Department agents at midnight, receives tips from Dutch importers and Bucharest rivermen, exchanges Nostrodomo-type prophecies with Jesuit experts, and has been a Party member under different names in France and Italy [A:137-138]. More Than Melchisedech gives another account of this first New Orleans visit: Letitia opens the door to the shy visitor and embraces him, while Duffey is slow to understand who is expected [MTM B6:200]. X brings both the nested boxes and a canister containing Duffey’s own ashes. His old red-box trick becomes the occasion for a real intervention by Duffey [MTM B6:201-203]. Most of the index cards were written by Duffey, with others by X and further contributors. X has added an orange-red card, apparently three times the others’ size yet fitting the box, for the newly released Devil. He claims to have witnessed the release in the Crimea under one of his assumed identities [MTM B6:203-205]. X says that the glassy eye, or oculum vitreum, sometimes reveals that a powerful man receiving his secret information is himself in the Conspiracy. He carries a dagger blade in his shoulder and a pellet in his neck, and recounts escaping after being bound, weighted, and dropped from a garbage scow [A:138]. He calls pursuing the Conspiracy a courageous instance of flogging a dead horse, and credits the Devil with inventing that discouraging phrase. His account of a nocturnal visitor who might have been the Devil remains uncertain; he admits it could have been a hoax. In another sense and another life, he says, he did know the Devil and dug him up [A:139-140]. He has a wife in Milano whom he loves but has not seen for years. Danger and intervening circumstances first delay his return; then fear of her irony and his renewed shyness keep him away [A:140-141]. He sends his New Orleans friends a false clipping describing his own murder, including the identifying blade and pellet. Dotty recognizes both his rosin and the Pelican Press’s worn type, and he later returns sheepishly [A:141-142]. In Paros he admits the trick to Finnegan, whom he knows in both his lives, and proposes pooling their knowledge of Papadiabolous. He acknowledges that he missed the burial but says he may tell the story later as an eyewitness [D:151-153]. He joins Finnegan and Doll Delancy during their night out in Baltimore, seeming a comical little drunk, though Finnegan realizes he is sober [D:172-174]. He helps them leave as pursuers mistake another large-nosed man for Finnegan. X has lifted the suitcase claim check from Doll’s bag, retrieved the chrysus, and substituted a similar suitcase containing thirty-six thousand pieces of cut newspaper [D:177-178]. The original case contains thirty-six thousand pieces of currency [D:166] [D:185]. He buys an eight-toned car with a D.C. plate, the hurtling rainbow or Celestial Omnibus. He explains its conspicuousness through a sequence of butterfly and klunker counter-plans, but admits Doll is right: he chose it because he liked it, and the explanation is rationale [D:177] [D:179-180]. He divides the money among three bags, giving Finnegan the heaviest and Doll the smallest [D:180]. In Florida he makes frequent long-distance calls and speaks a coded sequence beginning with Xochilmileo. That passage does not clearly establish the word as his own alias [D:183-184]. Doll proposes their eventual separation in three vehicles; X arranges signals, briefing, and a rendezvous a year, a day, and some odd weeks later beside Ifreann’s grave. He warns that he will select, arrange, and fictionalize details when telling their story [D:185-186]. After Finnegan’s crisis he gives the lengthy briefing, then leaves in the Celestial Omnibus [D:193]. Later he calls Finnegan in Biloxi with a disguised voice, warning him to leave and avoid his old haunts [D:208-209]. At the graveyard rendezvous X still needs Finnegan to locate the grave. He explains its I.N.C.G.P. Bogovitch inscription as a softened form of Chortovitch, distinguishing the elder Ifreann Noonan Columkill Gregorovitch Papadiabolous Chortovitch from his sons [D:275-278]. X believes that the Devil who fathered Ifreann was also his own grandfather and Finnegan’s and Anastasia’s great-grandfather. He admits the alternative that Gregory, Ifreann’s adoptive father, was his biological father, though he rejects it [D:279]. His account distinguishes the quasi-twins born to different mothers: Papadiabolous I, Gregory McIfreann, and Papadiabolous II, Gregory McColum, the undercover policeman he knew as Noonan or N. X is unsure even whom he himself now serves [D:285-287]. X says the elder Ifreann was buried in 1930, that Seaworthy killed Papadiabolous I while reopening that father’s grave, and that II assumed his brother’s place; several details are explicitly conjectural [D:288-289]. He has forged taunting notes in Papadiabolous’s handwriting to bring Seaworthy back. He intends to reopen the grave for a key document and trap Seaworthy there, while warning that Finnegan may not survive his own encounter [D:289-291]. X regards ordinary people as incapable sheep and expects resistance to come from a minority of the older race. Doll challenges this contempt and insists that people can act to save themselves [D:290] [D:292]. In Duffey’s later travels X appears as Carmelo Mendoza and Karl Metz, with Mr. Eggs as another form of his name. Horace Pie recognizes him before Duffey does; X supplies information about Finnegan’s submerged resting place near Cuba’s Marianao coast [MTM B12:371]. With Kasmir Gorshok he finds and identifies Duffey’s remains in Gur’yev. He keeps the ashes, anticipating a chance to return them to Duffey alive, while the bones are carried aboard the Argo. He is explicitly its Half-Master [MTM B13:442-443]. As Monsignor X he serves the Final Conclave in How Many Miles to Babylon, including putting the straw effigy and six bodies into the stove [MB:566] [MB:568]. When Hackenschmidt orders his death, X produces a submachine gun and leaves. He declares that he will sometimes work for the former princes, sometimes for the thirteen absent princes, and sometimes for their contracted killers, Track and Total: nothing less than a triple agent would suit him. He also promises to ornament the story across its disordered tenses. Here his vaudeville name is printed Great Ex-Capo [MB:569].A:137; D:152; MTM B6:200; MTM B1:6; A:138; A:135-136; A:137-138; MTM B6:201-203; MTM B6:203-205; A:139-140; A:140-141; A:141-142; D:151-153; D:172-174; D:177-178; D:166; D:185; D:177; D:179-180; D:180; D:183-184; D:185-186; D:193; D:208-209; D:275-278; D:279; D:285-287; D:288-289; D:289-291; D:290; D:292; MTM B12:371; MTM B13:442-443; MB:566; MB:568; MB:569
X-Capo, The Great
See Great X-Capo, The [A:137] [D:276].A:137; D:276
Xavier (St. Xavier)
St. Francis Xavier (1506-1552), the Jesuit missionary to India, the Indonesian archipelago, and Japan. Finnegan hails him as apostle to the greater Archipelagos and imagines his recognition of a miracle: after the world’s end was reached, there was still an ocean full of islands. [A:35] Xavier also appears among the saints on Henry’s dream-ship Navicula Petri. [A:45]A:35; A:45
Xenoi
The word the talking oak translates as “Strangers” when X asks to join the Argo. X claims that Attic ephebic inscriptions use X for Xenoi, answering the oak’s demand that every passenger be found in Scripture or Inscription. The oak’s translation reinforces its claim not to know him. The speaking piece of oak is in the ship’s wheel. [MTM B13:434-435]MTM B13:434-435
Xochilmileo
Word X uses at the beginning of a coded telephone exchange. It is followed by Vinschoten, Vlissinger, Spink, Tineo, Abo, Imazu, Ligueria, Sheboygan, Absecon, Xariia, Oquawka, and Neffs, and by a question about the listener’s code book. The passage does not establish that “Xochilmileo” is X’s own alias or explain its meaning. [D:184]D:184
Yalta Conference
The historical conference of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin at Yalta in the Crimea, February 4-11, 1945. In X’s fictional account, notables had visited the neighborhood for years to consult the imprisoned Devil and learn when he would be released; X further claims that the conference itself depended on daily or hourly consultations with him. [MTM B6:204]MTM B6:204
Yanks
Colloquial name for Americans, used variously in jokes, rivalry, and mistaken expectations. Tom Shire and Freddy Castle pretend that Finnegan and Vincent need disguises to enter an Australian wet canteen. Sergeant Bushmaster actually greets the “Yanks” hospitably, although he later taunts their drinking capacity and suggests goats’ milk. [A:11-15] Finnegan is induced to sign an anti-Yank affidavit conceding Australian superiority at beer drinking, calling Americans wet behind the ears, and adding explicit obscenities. [A:13] Bushmaster calls Hans a “red-eyed Yankee” during their drinking contest. [A:22] Marie thinks of Americans and Arabs as similarly close “Peoples of the Book”; this is her comparison. [A:7] In Cuba, Ignacio is surprised that Finnegan is a Yankee because he lacks Ignacio’s expected New England traits. Visiting American tourists speak pidgin Spanish to Finnegan as though he were a barefoot Latino. [A:273]A:11-15; A:13; A:22; A:7; A:273
Yekouris (family name)
Family name of Dorothy Mary (“Dotty”) Yekouris. [A:95] In The Devil Is Dead, Finnegan includes her among the friends of his normal life while talking to another self across a table. Despite knowing these people, he feels a barrier between himself and humankind. [D:90]A:95; D:90
Yekouris, Dorothy (Dotty)
Dorothy Mary Yekouris, usually Dotty, a New Orleans printer’s daughter raised in the trade who also takes up bartending when printing does not provide a living. She comes to St. Louis for Vincent and Show Boat’s wedding in the last week of May 1946, staying with Show Boat. She and Finnegan love each other, but his wandering and conviction of irretrievable loss keep them apart; the narrator says no sharp word will pass between them. [A:95] [A:106] [MTM B5:171] She has attended bartenders’ school and is particularly angered when Casey’s hostile editorial questions her ability to distinguish drinks. [A:129] [A:131] More Than Melchisedech also makes her a member of the Poison Pen Society. [MTM B5:183] Dotty and Duffey establish The Bark at the Pelican Press in New Orleans. She is one of its original seven trustees and directors, the Seven Pillars of Righteousness; Finnegan’s masthead calls her “The Beautiful Barmaid.” She, Duffey, Stein, and Mary Virginia do the actual work of running the paper. [A:121-122] [MTM B6:198] [MTM B7:214-215] Dotty’s immense journalistic talent is acknowledged by both Stein and Duffey; under her editorship the paper outdoes its diabolical rivals in liveliness, intelligence, printing, writers, and features. The press also issues seamen’s, union, sporting, and jazz papers to support its work. [MTM B7:212-213] Her many suitors include men associated with these papers, but the narrator says she loves only Finnegan. Called a “beautiful bonus forever,” she is extravagantly described through a borrowed nursery catalogue’s flower and fruit adjectives, ending “hardy and disease-resistant.” She is the New Orleans native whom Stein calls a gracious French lady who turns out to be Lithuanian. It is Dotty who calls Mary Virginia the “Saccharine Kid,” partly affectionately and partly jealously. [MTM B7:212-214] Dotty belongs among Duffey’s Animated Marvels. During the argument over whether Duffey created or merely collected these people, she warns him that changing them would be at his peril: they like themselves and him as they are. [MTM B5:159] She is credited with Pelican Pellets, including a limerick about Duffey’s inventions, and with a statement that the Argo Voyages continue as their rich other life beyond the “World of Record.” The wedding gathering identifies her among the people of the Argo Legend and the original crew. [MTM B5:171] [MTM B5:177] [MTM B5:180] [MTM B5:183] Her New Orleans circle includes Duffey, Mary Virginia, Margaret Stone, Salvation Sally, Stein, Zabotski, and X. She jokes that X should be given milk and put out as an unaffordable pet, then welcomes him; later she firmly refuses to publish his list of those present at the Devil’s release. [A:136] [MTM B6:195-198] [MTM B6:206] [MTM B7:212-215] In Archipelago, a Havana lawyer’s letter prompts Dotty’s voyage to Finnegan; she mentions earlier letters and money from Finnegan himself. After arrival, Ignacio maps Finnegan’s walks and explains the danger. Dotty buys a pistol, tracks the left-footed Nick the Rattle, disables his car, and shoots him. Nick returns fire on her and Finnegan; the book leaves the three exchanging unfailing shots, with both lovers repeatedly wounded. [A:277] [A:280-282] More Than Melchisedech instead emphasizes letters from Ignacio and Elena and says Finnegan did not write to her directly. Dotty leaves, does not return, and no solid news follows. X reports both lovers slain near Havana but will not swear that their deaths are final and still feels their presences. These accounts preserve uncertainty about their ultimate fate. [MTM B8:237-238]A:95; A:106; MTM B5:171; A:129; A:131; MTM B5:183; A:121-122; MTM B6:198; MTM B7:214-215; MTM B7:212-213; MTM B7:212-214; MTM B5:159; MTM B5:177; MTM B5:180; A:136; MTM B6:195-198; MTM B6:206; MTM B7:212-215; A:277; A:280-282; MTM B8:237-238
Yellow Sea
Sea between mainland China and the Korean Peninsula, included among the many seas sailed by the Argo and remembered by Melchisedech. [MTM B13:406]MTM B13:406
Yenbo
Place paired with Lith in the opening poem of the chapter “Finnegan: Who Is Iason, but Who Is Also of the Other People”: “The Desert is burning at Yenbo and Lith.” [A:171]A:171
Yiddish
Language invoked in several character descriptions and verbal performances. Duffey’s voice is Boston Irish with a touch of stage Yiddish. [A:97] Hans’s mother Irene, recalling Professor Kirol, says that “phoney” is Yiddish rather than English or German and once carried more humor and less shoddiness; this is her etymological claim. [A:211] In the graveyard, X boasts that although his listeners hear his explanation of the Papadiabolous family, watchers reading his lips through binoculars see mouth movements telling humorous Yiddish stories. [D:278]A:97; A:211; D:278
Yoder, Ant (One Shot)
Resident regular at the Old Wooden Ship, listed as Ant (One Shot) Yoder in its Company of Fifty. [D:215-216] The later account calls Art (One Shot) Yodel the partner of Art (Two Shot) Welch: they are unsuccessful card sharps and tricksters, often outwitted by better sharpies. The matching nickname and partner suggest a textual name variant, which should not be silently regularized. [D:221]D:215-216; D:221
Yokipoki
Name Don Lewis gives, while admitting it is probably not the real one, to the ragged man who seems to be a Japanese soldier on Pulau Petir or Willy Jones Island on October 1, 1944. The patrol consists of Sergeant Charles Santee, Corporal Robert Casper, and PFC Timothy Lorrigan. Lewis initially withholds which soldier he was, but his later correction of “I” to Lorrigan strongly identifies him with the private. [D:44-46] The little man repeatedly disappears when encircled and reappears hundreds of yards farther away. Santee wounds him; after a long pursuit, Santee and Casper kill him while Lorrigan hangs back. Lost and quarrelling, the three soldiers separate for the night. [D:44-46] Lewis remains in the valley and uses his short shovel and the dead man’s double-edged butcher knife to dig a grave. He removes Yokipoki’s boots, gags him, binds wrists and ankles, bandages his eyes, covers him with mud, says “Requiem” and “lux perpetua,” and drinks to him as a Christian burial. Later squealing and movement in the grave terrify Lewis, who imagines the dead man cutting his bonds with the buried knife; after an attack on his ankle, he recognizes rats at the corpse. [D:46-47]D:44-46; D:46-47
Z'drovie
Casey Szymansky’s toast when he, Henry, and Finnegan share a drink in their jungle bivouac. Henry answers with “Sante,” and Finnegan with Irish “Slainthe” and Italian “salute.” [A:44] Casey’s spelling resembles Slavic health toasts, particularly Polish na zdrowie; the novel does not explicitly label its language.A:44
Zabotski (Zab)
Zabotski, often Zab, is an experimenter, artist, prophet, historian, and probably wealthy landlord, formerly a chemist. Abrasive and loud, he looks smelly without smelling bad; he carries tenants more generously than his detractors. [MTM B11:306] He supplies the glass-lined thousand-gallon crock for Duffey’s Big Pot and courts the Widow Waldo, who becomes Wife Waldo. [MTM B6:195] [MTM B6:197] [MTM B9:285] He lives on Dumaine Street between Duffey and Homer Hoose before moving with her to his floating home on Lake Borgne. His claim to be gentle coexists with quarrelsome behavior and his neighbors’ complaints. [MTM B9:267-269] He builds an enormous backyard contraption from an ancient illustrated instruction text he thinks is in Hazh-Khazh, initially guessing it is a barn or castle. After talking with the Fundamentalers, he recognizes the ark’s manual and purpose. [MTM B9:272] [MTM B9:284] He calls himself an artist and prophet before a historian and writes Pristine History of the World. His Pristine World occupies the same space as the slow Everyday-or-Molasses World but excludes duplication and invalidity, allowing years of experience within ordinary days. He and Duffey debate these accounts of time, origins, and history with the Fundamentalers; Duffey then makes a Pristine journey himself. [MTM B9:277-284] Zabotski curses Blackstone’s sycamore and predicts Blackstone’s death while denying that he can cause a man’s death. The apparent next morning brings a missing tree and an older Bandicoot, who says it died and was cut down years ago. Blackstone’s later death completes Zabotski’s “five days” against a much longer family chronology. [MTM B9:269-270] [MTM B9:276] [MTM B9:288] In one account at the Decatur Street Opera House, bulls kill him during the Cretan Bull Drama; he gives a last bellow after death and earns the Ugly Ovation. The narrator, rather than Zabotski, says he makes a good show. [MTM B11:349] In the later boat-castle visit, he instead reports surviving an attempted lynching near the Opera House with help from poor neighbors, although his tongue is mangled. He is living with Wife Waldo and fifty-two children. These divergent outcomes remain part of the narrative. [MTM B12:362-364]MTM B11:306; MTM B6:195; MTM B6:197; MTM B9:285; MTM B9:267-269; MTM B9:272; MTM B9:284; MTM B9:277-284; MTM B9:269-270; MTM B9:276; MTM B9:288; MTM B11:349; MTM B12:362-364
Zabotski Flats
About two hundred acres bought by Zabotski on Lake Borgne, where his boat-castle rides at a kedge anchor. Two-thirds are sweet meadows and one-third salt, extraordinarily lush though neighboring land is sparse. Zabotski attributes the transformation to God’s blessing. [MTM B12:362] Lions and leopards eat the abundant Nimrod Flesh Plant; hippopotami and leviathan graze in the salt meadows, whales visit the deeper water, and water buffaloes use both portions. Zebras, asses, cattle, sheep, goats, rabbits, coneys, and smaller game occupy the sweet-water parts. [MTM B12:362-363]MTM B12:362; MTM B12:362-363
Zabotski Folly (Zabotsky House, Zabotski Happening)
The giant, outlandish structure Zabotski builds in his Dumaine Street backyard, intruding onto Duffey’s, Hoose’s, Blackstone’s, and the orphanage’s land. [MTM B9:268-271] He works from ancient rock drawings and writing he thinks is in Hazh-Khazh, at first unable to tell whether he is constructing a barn, castle, or something else. Waldo identifies its overlapping prototypes as ship, castle, anti-time machine, and the old woman’s shoe. Zabotski eventually recognizes the ark’s instruction manual. [MTM B9:272-275] [MTM B9:284] With Wife Waldo, children, and strange animals aboard, it floats away in a sudden flood toward the Shoal Street Viaduct. Zabotski insists this will be the original Flood and says they can travel on water, air, or space; the structure comes to rest at anchor on his Lake Borgne property, near Pristine Cove. [MTM B9:267] [MTM B9:285-287] The magazine House and Home Happenings introduces a projected two-part feature, publishing Duffey’s “myth of origin” and promising the architectural description later. Its rapidity blurs fast photographs and changes a reporter’s experience of elapsed time. [MTM B9:267] [MTM B9:288] At Duffey’s later visit, the ark houses fifty-two unrelated children whom Zabotski praises as exceptionally capable, along with many animals; its surrounding meadows support hippopotami, leviathan, buffaloes, zebras, lions, and leopards. [MTM B12:362-364]MTM B9:268-271; MTM B9:272-275; MTM B9:284; MTM B9:267; MTM B9:285-287; MTM B9:288; MTM B12:362-364
Zabotsky House
See Zabotski Folly (Zabotsky House, Zabotski Happening), the structure introduced in House and Home Happenings Magazine. [MTM B9:267]MTM B9:267
Zack
Australian slang for a sixpence. The Sydney wet-canteen barman tells Finnegan that a zack, not a supposed beer chit, is all he needs to buy a beer. [A:14]A:14
Zakinthos
Greek stop reached by the Brunhilde after Messina. The narrator places it within Anastasia’s sphere. Finnegan initially feels alien while his companions are at home, then suddenly feels himself one of the oldest and most other people: it is a region where duality is strongest. [D:115]D:115
Zauberkonzert
Composition attributed to Andreyev by the expert codenamed Philo Vance, who says that one answer to the Man of Mystery problem lies in its eighth movement. He then broadens the claim absurdly to the eighth movement of anything, African violets, cribbage, and checkers, finally advising Duffey to get a dog. [MTM B13:457]MTM B13:457
Zauberlehrling
“Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” the carnival nickname Betty tells Hans Schultz he has acquired while studying with Professor Kirol von Weinsberg-Valeni. [A:217] It recalls Goethe’s poem “Der Zauberlehrling,” in which an apprentice’s borrowed magic escapes his control.A:217
Zeno Paradoxes
The philosophical paradoxes of Zeno of Elea, a fifth-century BC thinker, concerning such problems as plurality, motion, and divisibility. During Duffey’s garden encounter, the Invisible God says, without words, that the Melchisedech Paradoxes are at least as wonderful as Zeno’s and that every person is uniquely surrounded by paradoxes. [MTM B12:389]MTM B12:389
Zero Growth lobby
One of the lobbies represented among the new Princes, Gates, and Stones in the attempted broadening of the Ekklesia before its Last Conclave. The passage gives no detailed program for this lobby. [MB:561-562]MB:561-562
Ziggarat
Name the hoyden gives the one low mountain supposedly present before the multiplication of mountains. In her mythic account it served as the Mountain of the Commandments, was rolled from country to country, and prefigured Ararat. [MTM B11:333-334]MTM B11:333-334
Zingaro (Gitano)
Italian zingaro and Spanish gitano, terms traditionally rendered “Gypsy.” Niccolo Crotolus uses them for his family’s claimed background as dancers and musicians. He says that Crotolo is their family name and an old word for a castanet; this is his explanation, offered against the narrator’s alternative nickname derivation. [A:278-279]A:278-279
Zippo the Fire-Eater
Carnival fire-eater whose image Hans Schultz says he painted, along with Edgar the Seal and other acts, for carnival advertising. Hans recalls spectators saying the performances were not as good as his pictures. [A:230]A:230
Zoar
The big African drummer in the Brimstone Combo in Trinali’s poem about the Green Groves of Gomorrah and the saloon at Beelzebub and Hell-Raiser Streets. [A:235] His name recalls the biblical Zoar, the town to which Lot escapes from Sodom in Genesis 19.A:235
Zodiac, Casey of the
Identity of Casey Szymansky, also Kasmir Gorshok and Casey of the Crock, explicitly recognized as a true Argo Master. [MTM B13:426] Duffey earlier reports Casey’s offer to exchange souls with the Devil and suffer in his place, while Stein claims a lesser trade of old souls between himself and Casey. [MTM B5:169] Hilary Hilton later identifies Casey as Antichrist; Casey himself announces “I am Casey of the Zodiac, the Anti-Christus.” [MTM B12:378] [MTM B12:382] Casey has projected his idealized face and voice over television programs, building his cult. The grotesque head shown at Hilton’s party, however, is projected by Duffey from an Adam Scanlon painting. Casey denounces it as a fraud before finally yielding to Duffey’s demand to meet. [MTM B12:380-382]MTM B13:426; MTM B5:169; MTM B12:378; MTM B12:382; MTM B12:380-382
Zombie devil
The figure invoked when the narrator calls the Argo’s mechanical crewmen “as robotic as the zombie devil himself, only not cute.” The crewmen are place tokens or materialized residues of Argonauts who have sailed before and will return, including Duffey and Brannagan during their absences. The passage does not name this “zombie devil.” [MTM B13:415]MTM B13:415
Zoot suit
An exaggerated suit style associated with the 1940s. In Askandan’s sales pitch, the outdated zoot suit he offers a naked Casey is rare and will supposedly fit anyone because nobody can tell whether it fits. In fact it is painfully too small. Finnegan bought it for nine dollars for the prank; Askandan demands sixty-five and then seventy-five dollars before selling it with pointed shoes and a monstrous hat on credit. Casey’s predicament finally makes him laugh. [A:260-261]A:260-261
Zuqar
Place where “The Sea is on Fire” in the opening poem of Finnegan’s chapter. The adjacent burning-desert line concerns Yenbo and Lith, not Zuqar. [A:171] A plausible geographical referent is Zukur or Zugar, the volcanic island in the southern Red Sea’s Zukur-Hanish group; the poem does not explicitly establish the identification.A:171