The online annotated Damascus Gate

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The online annotated Damascus Gate

Jorn Barger October 1999

NEW: Discuss this book (no spoilers, please): http://greenspun.com/com/DamascusGate/dgate.html

[NOTE: Notes that might count as spoilers I'm putting on a separate page [qv] with its own discussion board.]

This is an experiment in annotating a very difficult novel on the Web. Robert Stone's "Damascus Gate" should work especially well because it's grounded in a very complex, very real, very contemporary conflict-- and one that's already well-documented on the Web.

So far, I'm mostly limiting myself to questions I myself need to understand better, but all contributions are welcome.

Disclaimer: All points on the political spectrum will be linked here. Many are extremely extreme.

Techniques:

If the term is not too obscure, Google gives excellent results (usually 5-10 minutes per note, is all). For obscure terms, FAST gives the most thorough search (200 million pages).

Annotations:

front matter

Dedication: "For Candida": Candida Donadio, Stone's agent [qv]

Epigraph: Melville's Clarel

Chapter One etext

[Lucas's path] Lucas's path in chapter one

page three

Jerusalem 1992: An author's note in the paperback edition explains RS first visited Jerusalem in 1985, and thought of doing a book, returning in 1992 (after completing Outerbridge Reach) for a more extended tour.

Shoulder of Hinnom: the maps all say Valley of Hinnom. 'Shoulder' personifies the city

Church of the Dormition: "Next to it -- the building with the prominent bell tower -- is the Dormition Abbey, the traditional location of the dormition (the passing away) of Mary, mother of Jesus. just to the north is Zion Gate, leading into the Old City." background (the city asleep?)

muezzin:

Silwan:

Ottoman:

Nuseirat: place

Shin Bet: FAS report

Rafah:

Gaza City:

Haredim: "Jerusalem is regularly described as divided into haredim (fervently Orthodox Jews), hilonim (secular Jews), and Arabs" [source, more]

Hebrew University of Jerusalem: homepage

Dung Gate:

page four

Emer Refaim: major road heading SW from Jerusalem

Conde Nast: includes Traveler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Details, GQ, Vogue, Self, Glamour, and more recently Wired company profile, umbrella page

Rules for calculating Passover and Easter

Easter 1992 was April 19

Church of the Holy Sepulchre: pic and history

page five

Midrash: commentary; interpretation [cite] (technical meaning?)

Armenians: overview of Armenians in Jerusalem. Armenian Quarter is SW Jerusalem.

page six

souks: "traditional and colorful open-air markets known as shuks and souks" [cite]; "Within the souks are vendors that sell everything from carpet to fresh chickens. Walking the narrow alleyways is an education in the lifestyle of the Moroccan people." [cite]

Caravan Bar: fictional

intifada: "On December 8, 1987, an Israeli vehicle crashed into a crowd of Palestinians in a Gaza refugee camp, killing four. Palestinians were convinced the accident had been intentional... Within days, the whole of Gaza and the West Bank were in a state of rebellion... The demonstrations had become a national uprising known as the Intifada (the word means "shaking off")." [historical context]; encyclopedia entry

page seven

Mahler: RealAudio

Berdyayevian: Berdyayev, Nikolay Aleksandrovich (1874-1948), Soviet religious thinker and existentialist philosopher [source], more

page eight

hesychastic: mysticism page

majnoon: Urdu for insane, madly in love [source]. The romance of Layla and Majnun is a Persian classic [qv] that inspired Eric Clapton's Layla. Majnun's love shares the Sufi mystic's poetic madness.

page nine

Al-Jihar: fictional?

Hamas: "Hamas is the Arabic acronym for resistance movement. Specifically, it has come to mean the Palestinian resistance movement to Israeli occupation." Truth About (pro); Hamas.org; anti-terrorism page

page ten

Moloch: "Manessah also cultivated... the cult of Moloch, an Ammonite deity, whose worship was closely connected with astral divination... and whose ritual was characterized by parents' sacrificing their children by compelling them to pass through or into a furnace of fire. Excavations in Palestine have uncovered piles of ashes and the remains of infant skeletons in cemetaries around the altars, apparently pointing to the widespread practice of this sort of sacrifice." [source]

Tear Gas in the Rain: "When it's raining, the chemical agents hug close to the ground, taking longer to dissolve into the air. This compounds the tear gas' stinging power, its immobilizing effect." (Jeffrey St Clair on Seattle 1999)

page eleven

shebab: [example]

page twelve

Woody Allen: "Allen and Farrow, who were never married, ended their 13-year liaison in January 1992 after Farrow discovered nude pictures of her grown adopted daughter Soon-Yi Farrow Previn in Allen's apartment." [source] (text-time is April 1992)

Nazareth Habib: (no hits but DG)

page thirteen

sheruts: "Shared taxis, called Sheruts, are available from the airport to all destinations in Israel. Sheruts are about half the price of a private taxi, so they're a good deal, especially if you're going to a distant area such as Haifa, or Jerusalem." [source]; pic

Intercontinental Hotel:

St Mary Magdalen: pix by Garden of Gethsemane at foot of Mount of Olives behind Temple Mount.

page fourteen

Bureij camp:

Fink's: "Try steak or goulash at Fink's (entrees, $15-$50), long a hangout for politicians and journalists" [source] [article]

kippa: a skullcap worn by observant Jewish males [details]. also: yarmulke

page fifteen

tamarind juice: backgrounder

madrasahs: "Madrasah is an Arabic word which means "school"." [more]

Jerusalem poker: title of a book by Edward Whittemore, part of Jerusalem Quartet [useless Amazon page]

Jeremiah had recommended howling: "Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl." [source]; basics

page sixteen

International Children's Foundation:

UN Relief and Works Agency:

Israel Defense Forces:

page seventeen

Umayyad from Ayyubid: 634-750 Umayyad family rules Islam; 1168-1250 Ayyubid dynasty rules Egypt [source]

[map w/Berger's]

page eighteen

I'd like to order something cool: June Christy 1955 [info and RealAudio], bio

Chapter Two

page twentytwo

Ribat Al-Mansuri: (no hits but DG)

al-Husseini: possible reference?

Maigret en Vacances: erroneous for 1948's Les vacances de Maigret? [source] or a graphic novel???

page twentythree

the Kipling line: from "Mandalay" [full text]

Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,
Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst;
For the temple-bells are callin', and it's there that I would be--
By the old Moulmein Pagoda, looking lazy at the sea...

page twentyfour

Uncreated Light: "An Anthonite monk, St. Gregory took it upon himself to defend the holy Hesychasts of the Holy Mountain in their ways of praying and experiencing the presence of God the "uncreated light" that they contemplated." [source]

Gush Emunim: "In Israel Jewish fundamentalism includes Gush Emunim (the Bloc of the faithful), the Kach movement, and a wide array of subsidiary organizations whose adherents act, as per definition, under what they believe is a cosmic imperative to radically transform society through direct political action." [book about]

Chapter Three

page twentysix

payess: curly side locks of hair [cite]. also: payot, peyess

Jerusalem Report: homepage

page twentyseven

Raziel: "This angel's name means Wisdom, Oneness, Unity, Surrender, Purification, Inclusiveness and Synthesis. Raziel also means "Secret of God" and it is believed that this angel authored a great book containing all heavenly and earthly knowledge." [new age source]; ditto

Zachariah: prophet Islamic view; Michelangelo's image

eyelids of morning: from Job 41:18, describing the Leviathan "By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning." [source]

buchers: usually 'yeshiver bucher' -- a rabbinical college student [cite]

page twentyeight

naltrexone: alternative to methadone [details]; more

Burroughs: Wm S Burroughs

sleep cures:

IDF: Israel Defense Forces (p16 above)

page twentynine

alter kocker: Yiddish: "old shitter": a disgusting old man [cite]; old fart [cite]; a bitter, crotchety old man [cite]

page thirty

Homo ludens: Huizinga, Johan. "Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture" (1938) A classic study of play and games [cite]

mitzvot: plural of mitzvah -- a commandment; good deed [cite]. Moses Maimonides compiled a list of 613.

shwarma: or shawarma: meat sandwich on pita [recipe]

Rhapsody in Blue: RealAudio of Gershwin's own piano rendition

page thirtyone

New Orleans... De Kuff: fictional connection?

page thirtytwo

tantric Buddhism:

Book of the Dead:

kundalini yoga:

Meister Eckhart:

Jew for Jesus:

page thirtythree

Someone woke you:

Chapter Four

Tel Aviv: "Less than an hour's drive apart from each other, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv make a tale of two worlds. Jerusalem is political, religious, intolerant, indeed fanatic, 5,000 years old and built on rock. Tel Aviv, not yet 100 years old, is built on sand. Mostly secular and increasingly apolitical, people in Tel Aviv don't live for the sake of the past or the future, nor for some ideological purpose or collective goal. They live for life itself, in the spirit of individualism and the American now culture." [source]

page thirtyfour

Bukhara: or Bukhoro, Uzbekistan, Central Asia [map], Jews of Bukhara

Jewish drummers:

Smithie: Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts traditions

page thirtyfive

Lock N Lode: fictional?

Lod: Israeli city w/airport, 10 miles SE of Tel Aviv [encyc]

page thirtysix

the Arbat: Moscow pedestrian mall [source w/pix], more pix

Friends school: started by Quakers, there's zillions of them in the USA and worldwide. (Detroit is the only exact match for her city-list on p20.)

page thirtyseven

the Strip: Gaza Strip CIA Factbook

Spartacists: International Communist League Salon backgrounder

Hill of Evil Counsel: "the place where Judas held his last meeting with the Pharisees to finalize his covenant to betray Christ. In a twist of even greater irony it is also the site of the United Nations headquarters in Israel." [source]. Title of a book of novellas by Amos Oz [cite]

page thirtyeight

Ray Melker: suggesting given name 'Raymond' embellished as Raziel

Sidney Bechet: (1897-1959) clarinet and sax prodigy bio and samples; NPR bio

Chapter Five

page forty

KGB:

Fink's: see p14

Hiss:

Rosenbergs:

page fortyone

Masaryk: "Jan Masaryk, 1886-1948, became foreign minister of the Czech government-in-exile in London during WORLD WAR II. He kept that post after his government's return to Prague in 1945. His death, shortly after the Communist coup in 1948, was officially described as suicide by leaping from a window, although the exact circumstances have been subject to speculation ever since." [source]; info

Slansky: Jewish secretary general of the Czech Communist Party, Rudolf Slansky "A purge of "Titoists" took place in Bulgaria and in Albania. And in Czechoslovakia were show trials in which the secretary general of the Czech Communist Party, Rudolf Slansky, and ten others were given death sentences." [source]

Noel Field: "a troubled person who had had a complicated relationship with Eastern European and Soviet forces. It's true that he seems to have made some statements to communist interrogators in Hungary implicating Alger Hiss. But it also seems true that he made those statements while being tortured" [Salon interview w/Hiss's son]; bibliog; tidbits

Raoul Wallenberg: Swede who saved 30,000 to 100,000 Hungarian Jews in WW2, reportedly died in Russian captivity. [website]

Whittaker Chambers:

page fortytwo

Avram Lind, Yossi Zhidov: fictional

Jerusalem Syndrome: Stone interview, overview, recent article

page fortyfour

tzitzit: twisted threads on the four corners of a tallit description; pic and technical

Gush Shalom = Peace Now: pro-Palestinian peace organization homepage

Jabotinskyite: Ze'ev (Vladimir) Jabotinsky (1880-1940) far-right Russian Zionist bio, ditto

Israeli Human Rights Coalition: fictional? there's an Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories called B'tselem

settlers: boycott FAQ

page fortyfive

Rasta version: on the soundtrack for "The Harder They Come" performed by the Melodians, often performed by Jimmy Cliff lyrics

Psalm 137: "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion." versions

Willie Ludlum: fictional (?)

page fortysix

Al-Aksa Mosque: (also Al-Aqsa) map and site-tour; pix; timeline includes fire in 1968

page fortyseven

Hebrew University: see p3

raised in power: 1 Corinthians 15.35-44 [qv]

page fortyeight

Christian Zionists: historical

sauce l'ancienne: (no hits!?)

lard in Caesarea: kosher dietary laws forbid lard. Caesarea city info

page fortynine

charlotte russe: a cake with custard filling [qv]

page fifty

the month before: (so it's now May)

rillons, rillettes de Tours: cubes or strips of pork [cite]. Or: "Rillons are served just after the initial cooking. " [cite]

Richard Wilbur: American poet (b. 1921) [info and links], poems

page fiftyone

enrages: 'Les Enrages' were the students in the 1968 French demonstrations [cite]

cabrones: Spanish for old goats? or assholes?? [cite]. Usually derogatory, but sometimes an endearment [Deja thread], [another]. "Viva Mexico Cabrones!" is a common Web graffito.

Chapter Six

page fiftytwo

S.Y. Agnon: (1888-1970) tribute page

kaffiyeh: "A headdress worn by Arab men consisting of a square of cloth folded to form a triangle and held on by a cord." eg Yassir Arafat's [source]

page fiftythree

Civil Affairs:

Knesset:

page fiftyfour

Green Line:

The Winds of Talpiot:

Druse:

fedayeen:

page fiftyfive

khat: FAQ, pic

page fiftyseven

Florida Beach Club:

Ha'olam Hazeh:

Deir Yassein:

Yad Vashem:

page fiftyeight

Kabbala:

Mossad:

Chapter Seven

page sixty

Shabbat:

page sixtyone

Berklee College of Music:

Tassajara:

St Paul's School:

Pass Christian, Mississippi: homepage

Theravada:

sefirot:

Pico della Mirandola:

Teresa of Avila:

Philo:

Abulafia:

Adam Kadmon:

the Zohar: the most important book of the Cabbalistic movement [cite]

the sentence of diamonds: (no hits)

the Shekhinah: "The Shekhinah is defined, in traditional Jewish writings, as the "female aspect of God" or the "presence" of the infinite God in the world. She is introduced in the early rabbinical commentaries as the "immanence" or "indwelling" of the living God, whose role as the animating life force of the earth is to balance the transcendent deity." [source]

tikkun: "Tikkun Olam -- the `repairing of the world'; more precisely applies, in the view of Orthodox Jews, to a `repairing of matters' among Jews themselves" [cite]

Kali:

Matronit:

the dread designation of the moon: (no hits)

Jeshu:

Steps of Repentance:

mihrab:

page sixtytwo

kuf, zayin, reish, tzadi, tzaddik:

Church of St Vincent Ferrer:

page sixtythree

Sephardim: Sephardic Jews -- one of the branches of Jews that primarily originated in Spain and southern France [cite]

Jansenist solitary:

the monkey:

gilgulim:

Tevye-esque: lead character in 'Fiddler on the Roof' "Tevye, a religious Jew has personal conversations with God and lives by his traditions. In the movie he is repeatedly asked to bend tradition to permit his daughters to marry the men they love." [source]; "My dad has that sense of humor, that sparkle in his eye that Tevye always has." actor's perspective

hidalgos:

bring down cherubim:

Safed:

Ari, the Lion, Isaac Luria: Isaac Luria called 'Ari' or the Lion (1534- 1572) Kabbalist [encyc]

page sixtyfour

Torah:

Simeon bar Yochai:

Sabbatai: Sabbatai Zevi (1626-76) Jewish mystic and messiah backgrounder; great fan site includes mailing list

Moshiach: the Messiah [cite]

bubba meisses: Robert Alter writes "The Yiddish idiom for old wives' tales is bubbe meises, not bubbe meinses." (Changed by third printing of hardbound. But did the revision introduce a new typo or two???) [Salon] Jerusalem Post uses bubba meises. Chatboard uses bubbe meinses. Misspelling (?) meisses.

page sixtyfive

Mishnah: the codified core of the Oral Law [cite]

Gamara: Gemara: commentary on the Mishna [cite]

hatha yoga:

ayin:

Nishkala Shiva:

Boehme:

Hasidim:

page sixtysix

kavana:

dvekut: (no hits)

satapatha brahmana:

ouroboros:

bereshit:

page sixtyseven

Perugian: Perugia Italy homepage

Hermetic:

Nunc dimittis: "Canticle of Simeon. Nunc Dimittis is the prayer recited by Simeon at the presentation of Jesus at the temple. (Luke 2:29-31). This canticle has been used daily at Compline since the 4th century. 'NUNC dimittis servum tuum, Domine Secundum verbum tuum in pace:' NOW dismiss Thy servant, O Lord, in peace, according to Thy word..." [source]

page sixtyeight

theurgical: theurgy = "being a channel for divine energies, or holy magic" [source]

page sixtynine

take no thought:

getch: (Unix program 'get character' swamps other hits)

Chapter Eight

page seventy

Shepperton: Studios not online [cite]

Tolstoyan-Freudian-Socialist kibbutz: [Tolstoyan + kibbutz]

well-known New York novelist: (shall we picture Philip Roth?)

page seventyone

Art Students' League of New York:

Ecole des Beaux Arts:

page seventytwo

Ein Gedi:

sky pilot:

Masada:

page seventythree

Primitive Baptist: FAQ

Qumran and the Essenes:

Teacher of Righteousness:

Josephus's Jewish War:

page seventyfour

jihad:

ravens might have nourished Hagar: Alter says this should be Elijah, not Hagar [Salon]

Bedouin:

Ashanti:

Hisham's palace: pic and info

hotel and spa: tourist guide

page seventyfive

spritz-and-shvitz: shvitz = steambath [cite]

Eleazar and the Zealots:

Allenby Bridge: on the Jordanian border pic

Herod the Great:

plaid gillie's hat:

John Wayne:

page seventysix

tepidarium: "The warm room in a Roman bath. Cf: caldarium, frigidarium" [dict]

mischlings: Nazi term for mixed blood [cite]; "Mischlinge of the first degree--those with two Jewish grandparents; Mischlinge of the second degree--those with one Jewish grandparent." [cite]

spathas:

Eleazar's valedictory:

page seventyseven

cable car:

potash plant:

Sotsialist:

Chapter Nine

page seventyeight

jitney:

trophy experiences: (very rarely attested: Jan98; Mar99)

yekkes: "pronounced like "Mecca", is the colloquial name Ashkenazic Jews used for Jews from Germany, or Austria" [source] Alter: "The Israeli slang term for Jews of German origin is Yekkes, not tekkes." (Changed by third printing of hardbound, paperback) [Salon]

page seventynine

Cloisters:

Fort Tryon Park:

Jersey Palisades:

Yorkville:

page eighty

Morningside Heights:

smoker:

page eightytwo

King Cole Bar at the St Regis: CitySearch; Sidewalk

Belgian Resistance:

page eightythree

the religious person is always the bad guy:

page eightyfour

the Mount of Temptation: (Jebel Quruntul)

New Katamon:

Chapter Ten

page eightyseven

off-limits:

Second Temple:

Holy of Holies:

Bodrum:

Christ Pantocratus:

page eightyeight

Benedictine monk:

six shekels: about $1.50 [converter]

page ninety

jebel:

Satan was fishing for a deal:

Azazel: "in Jewish legend, demon or evil spirit; symbol of uncleanliness; in ancient rites of Yom Kippur sins of Jewish people were transferred to scapegoat who was sent into the wilderness to the evil spirit and thrown to its death; described in later rabbinic writings as fallen angel" [encyc]; more detail; eschatological analysis; coloring book image

page ninetyone

Islamorada, Florida:

Kfar Silber:

Chapter Eleven

page ninetythree

Kiev Institute:

Fran Landesman:

page ninetyfour

Leslie Uggams:

Dogberry's: (probably fictional)

Marian Harris:

Ruth Etting:

Anita O'Day:

Julie London:

Annie Ross:

Chaka Khan:

Miss Sarah Vaughan: fan site, links, MP3s

How Long Has This Been Going On? RealAudio, ditto, ditto, ditto

page ninetyfive

NGOnik:

page ninetysix

STUDY ARSE ME:

Jamaican phrase:

page ninetyseven

last week: p52 ch6 was mid-May

page ninetyeight

Lieber and Stoller: wrote many early hits of rock'n'roll, 'Is That All There Is?' was a 1969 change-of-pace; website

As Tears Go By:

But Not For Me: RealAudio, ditto, ditto

page ninetynine

tariq:

Chapter Twelve

page one hundred

to please the Russians:

Jimmy McHugh:

My Man:

J-Town:

page one hundred one

I sold it illegally:

order his pleasures: (rarely attested: "And the time comes to Pepys, as to all the merely respectable, when he must not only order his pleasures, but even clip his virtuous movements, to the public patter of the age." [source])

Cuban fighter bombers in Eritrea:

Baidoa:

page one hundred two

Count Basie's Lafayette:

Orion Cafe: probably fictional (swamped by Orion Center)

louche: "disreputable; shady [in French, lit. "cross-eyed," from the Latin for "blind in one eye"]" [dict]

page one hundred three

East Side Sufi underground: Cf. 'Sufi underground anarchist Hakim Bey'

page one hundred four

djellaba:

page one hundred five

The Mahdi:

page one hundred six

Kundry and Amfortas: Amfortas is the Fisher King Perceval links, Wagner's Parsifal synopsis

moldy fig: "The term "Moldy Fig" (sometimes "Mouldy Figge") appears for the first time in reference to the old school Jazz players in the Esquire letters column in a letter from a Navy man named Sam Platt." [source] Mao??

Chapter Thirteen

page one hundred seven

Bektashi:

page one hundred eight

American Friends Service Committee:

page one hundred nine

Ann Warren:

page one hundred ten

the Muslim manner:

page one hundred eleven

chillonim:

page one hundred twelve

Dan to Gilead:

light of the eye:

Chapter Fourteen

page one hundred fourteen

a few weeks later: June

Armenian Uniate:

page one hundred sixteen

Baruch Hashem:

Turkish slaughter:

page one hundred seventeen

Hundreds of years:

Ladino: "the traditional language of Sephardic Jews" [source], essay, essay

Yo no diga...:

Al-Ghazali:

saddhu:

Ein-Sof:

page one hundred eighteen

American Colony Hotel: homepage, history

tzaddik:

page one hundred ninetwen

International Control Commission:

Cu Chi:

Polish News Service:

Mobutu:

Chapter Fifteen

page one hundred twentyone

once been the Kingdom of Jordan:

page one hundred twentytwo

Christian ultra-Zionists: (no hits for ultra-Zionists of any stripe)

Ralph: (not Ray?)

page one hundred twentythree

bubkes:

in country: (common)

Zion Square:

page one hundred twentyfour

Rehavia:

santeria: overview; links

Kufic: "An early form of Arabic calligraphy in a square form usually used for decoration of monuments." [dict]; pic

Amman:

Waqf:

page one hundred twentyfive

Machaneh market:

Gnostic versions:

epigone: "an inferior imitator of a creative thinker or artist" [dict]

page one hundred twentysix

for Decca: company history

Ferrier: "Born in 1912, Kathleen Ferrier first established her reputation as a contralto in the Second World War, singing for factories and the forces. She remained popular after the war, until illness forced her early retirement in 1953, in which year she later died." [encyc], no samples, pic and info

Frankfurt School:

Charlie Chan:

page one hundred twentyseven

Otto Kruger:

el-Arif:

page one hundred twentyeight

Ulpans:

Hasmoneans:

Hillel:

Nachmanides:

Buber:

Heschel:

Moses de Leon:

Paulist Press translation: details, more Kabbala translations

mitnag: (no hits!?)

page one hundred thirty

primal accident:

partsufim:

shells:

page one hundred thirtyone

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon: "On December 2 1851, followers of French President Louis Bonaparte (Napoleon's nephew) broke up the Legislative Assembly and established a dictatorship. A year later, Louis Bonaparte proclaimed himself Emperor Napoleon III. Marx wrote The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon between December 1851 and February 1852. The "Eighteenth Brumaire" refers to November 9, 1799 in the French Revolutionary Calendar -- the day Napoleon Bonaparte made himself dictator by a coup d'etat. Marx concludes, in this work, that if a revolution is to survive, it must eliminate the bourgeois machinery of state: "All revolutions perfected this machine instead of breaking it." Lenin later wrote: "This conclusion is the chief and fundamental point in the Marxist theory of the State."" etext in HTML

Yeshu:

page one hundred thirtytwo

garment:

page one hundred thirtythree

Hayyim Vital:

Kotel:

tav:

Chapter Sixteen

page one hundred thirtyfour

Twelve Steps:

Cora:

Persephone:

page one hundred thirtyfive

Mingus: genius of jazz (1922-1979) simple fan page; elaborate official site

Pontiac Park:

resided in the heart:

wept upon:

given in place of bread:

second born:

tannaim:

Psalm 84:

Psalm 102:

page one hundred thirtysix

Jew-despising Eliot: book review

vesper sparrows: info

special providence:

We defy augury:

Chapter Seventeen

page one hundred thirtyseven

Shaul Petak:

Haldol: used to treat schizophrenia and other types of psychosis complex med encyc

temple of Dagon:

movie: 'Samson and Delilah' 1949 dir by Cecil B DeMille [IMDb]

page one hundred thirtyeight

undoubtedly displayed:

British Raj:

Levant:

Ismail Pasha:

Windermere:

Welsh bedspread: (no hits)

Highland cattle: "Hill farmers in the North West of Scotland bred Highland Cattle because they could withstand the climate: thick skins, double coat, spreading horns" [source w/pic] pitchfork.com, ag encyc

Peters's views of Jerusalem: (no hits?)

Holman Hunt's The Scapegoat: 130k pic

page one hundred thirtynine

broccoli pizza:

Drs:

page one hundred forty

wastes of Iraq:

astronaut:

page one hundred fortyone

Herod's Temple:

sleek showroom: cf

page one hundred fortytwo

extremists:

Romans 3:9:

page one hundred fortythree

Romans 9:3:

Galatians 10:4, 5, 6, and 7:

Daniel and Ezekial and Jeremiah:

Hebrews 8:12, 13, 14 and 21:

Jude, Thessalonians and Timothy:

International Council of Churches:

page one hundred fortyfour

Jabalia:

conventionalization: (common)

page one hundred fortyfive

Mrs Meir had said:

tzaddiks:

Chapter Eighteen

page one hundred fortysix

lithium carbonate: med encyc

prayer beads:

Dionysus the Monk:

page one hundred fortyseven

Logos:

minim:

Nazarenes:

minnut:

Isaac Newton:

Tariq al-Wad:

page one hundred fortyeight

Al-Kuds:

Monastery of the Flagellation:

plainsong: eg Gregorian chant info; RealAudio bits; au files

Regina Coeli:

Church of St Anne:

sefirot:

Serapis:

Apis and Osiris and Aesculapius:

page one hundred fifty

Van Eyck's Saint Ursula: van Eyck site; pix; no Ursula??? anon 14th C pic; Claude Lorrain's 17th C

a shrine named for a Spanish Dominican inquisitor:

apostatizing: (common: eg "Judas' apostatizing fulfilled Scripture")

Chapter Nineteen

page one hundred fiftyone

aliyah:

Ayin:

the Atara:

page one hundred fiftytwo

Austrian hospice:

Chapter Twenty

page one hundred fiftysix

old comrades:

pogroms:

Chapter Twentyone

page one hundred fiftynine

For weeks: July now?

proclamation:

page one hundred sixty

Sidney Lanier: 19th C poet born in Macon, Georgia links

through a glass, darkly:

page one hundred sixtyone

Hagar beheld:

El Roi:

page one hundred sixtytwo

French Catholic hospice:

page one hundred sixtyfour

mors osculi: "that death of lovers which proceeds from the supreme joy, called by the Cabalists mors osculi" [cite], kiss of death?

Chapter Twentytwo

page one hundred sixtysix

Meliselda: "Then Shabbetai Tzvi went up to the ark, took out a scroll and, after singing "Meliselda", an old Castilian erotic love song, proclaimed himself the messiah of Israel, fixing the date of the redemption for June 18th, 1666." [source]

hamsin:

La hija del Rey:

Ein Kerem:

page one hundred sixtyseven

poisoned Kool-Aid: "It is a popular misconception that 900 followers of cult leader Jim Jones committed suicide by drinking Grape Kool-Aid laced with cyanide at their commune in Jonestown Guyana in the late 1970's. This is not true. The followers of Jones actually drank cyanide laced Flavor-aid, a cheap imitation of Kool-Aid. The Flavor-aid flavor they consumed was grape. Therefore, Kool-Aid played no part in this tragedy." [Kool-Aid FAQ]; Jonestown fan site; 'drink the kool aid' as a figure of speech

page one hundred sixtyeight

gates of Nineveh:

Habakkuk:

Isaiah:

page one hundred sixtynine

Giordano Bruno:

Solomon Molkho:

magus:

So I have heard:

Pharaoh:

Dragon:

maggid:

page one hundred seventy

Richard Crashaw: (ca. 1613-1649) [cite] (poem not online!??)

Chapter Twentythree

page one hundred seventytwo

demiurge:

Nexus:

Operation Urgent Fury:

page one hundred seventythree:

indolence and perfectionism: (Stone himself?)

Afro-Caribbean religion:

schlag:

page one hundred seventyfour

Jacob Frank:

Shakti... Shiva:

Elisha ben Abouya:

First Power of God:

salvific:

page one hundred seventyfive

Wagner:

What was aforetimes?

page one hundred seventysix

Guardians of the Beauteous Gate:

Bearers of the Mark of Cain:

Lost-Found Black Oriental Children of Zion:

Silent Seekers of the Oak and Vine:

Most Chaste Athletes of the Holy Grail:

Peter the Hermit:

Elijah on Mount Carmel:

Boston Athenaeum:

Chapter Twentyfour

page one hundred seventy

Chapter Twentyfive

Chapter Twentysix

Chapter Twentyseven

Chapter Twentyeight

Chapter Twentynine

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