TFv01 CH 25 Tiny Storms (annotated)

Annotations for Tiny Storms, the twenty-fifth chapter of One Rainy Day In May.

## Page 622

**You reached for the secret too soon**

 from Shine on you crazy diamond

## Page 623

**Paisano hotel**

 (pasiano - peasant) - it really looks like from There Will Be Blood

## Page 624

**lucite**

Poly(methyl methacrylate)

**flakes of gold**

like in Only Revolution

## Page 625

**nematocysts**

a specialized cell in the tentacles of a
jellyfish, containing a barbed or venomous coiled thread that can be
projected in self-defense or to capture prey

## Page 626

**Greasewood**

Greasewood gallery Marfa TX

**Cosell**

Howard Cosell wass an American sports journalist, who was
widely known for his blustery, cocksure personality. Cosell said of
himself, "Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff

**Frazier, Foreman**

notorious boxers

## Page 627

**more than a posture**

Kirby is more than a cowboy caricature like Ozgur is more than a detective caricature?

## Page 628

**refractive index**

 of a material is a dimensionless number that describes how light propagates through that medium;

**conchoidal**

Conchoidal fracture describes the way that brittle materials break or fracture when they do not follow any natural planes of separation (Wikipedia)

**chatoyancy**

 cat's eye effect (Wikipedia)

**seated on her shoulder**

like a cat, a familiar;

## Page 630

**chryse planitia**

 - (Greek, "Golden Plain") is a smooth circular plain in the northern
equatorial region of Mars close to the Tharsis region to the west.
Chryse Planitia lies partially in the Lunae Palus quadrangle, partially
in the Oxia Palus quadrangle, partially in the Mare Acidalium
quadrangle (Wikipedia)

## Page 631

**Pickett's Charge**

an infantry assault ordered by Confederate
 Gen. Robert E. Lee against Maj. Gen. George G. Meade's Union positions
on Cemetery Ridge

## Page 633

**Willow Ruse**

in Clip 4 it is Willow Rue

**1962**

in Clip 4, the year Audra died was 1965

## Page 634

**even on his back**

echoes "Even in his feet"

## Page 635

**premonitions**

fear that with thunder comes a flash and destroys their antennas

**systemics**

 an initiative to study systems from a holistic point of view

## Page 636

**Ampex Quad**

video recording

## Page 638

**KIPS**

thousand instructions per second

**MIPS**

million instructions per second

**redw00d**

notice the zeros for o's. Redwood is character/creature from House of Leaves. Mark Z. Danielewski confirmed that Redwood will be a character in The Familiar

**brass-latched**

bowling bag v preview 3 had brass zippers, probably coincidence

**Wicca**

the religious cult of modern witchcraft, especially an
initiatory tradition founded in England in the mid 20th century and
claiming its origins in pre-Christian pagan religions

**Ren-Faire**

A Renaissance fair, faire, festival is an outdoor weekend
 gathering, usually held in the United States, open to the public and
typically commercial in nature, which emulates a historic period for the
 amusement of its guests

**Jaron Lanier**

 American computer philosophy writer, computer scientist, film
director and composer of classical music. A pioneer in the field of
virtual reality (a term he is credited with popularizing), Lanier and
Thomas G. Zimmerman left Atari in 1985 to found VPL Research, Inc., the
first company to sell VR goggles and gloves

## Page 639

**ecgonine**

alkaloid found naturally in coca leaves. It has a close structural relation to cocaine

## Page 643

Domingues - derives from the Roman "Dominicus", meaning "belonging to the lord god", from "dominus", lord or master

**qui vive**

alert, vigilant

## Page 644

**pallasite**

a meteorite consisting of roughly equal proportions of iron and olivine

**Symphyotrichum ericoides**

white asters

## Page 646

**Thanatos**

Death, god of death

**Thaumaturge**

wonderworker, thaumaturgy is "the use of magic for
nonreligious purposes; the art and science of 'wonder working;' using
magic to actually change things in the physical world."

**Islip**

town 1. in New York, 2. in Oxfordshire, England

**Artemis**

goddess of the hunt, wild animals, wilderness, childbirth, virginity and protector of young girls

**Pythia**

the name of any priestess throughout the history of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi

**Endoria**

hebrew name meaning fountain

**Redwood Shores**

part of Redwood City in California

## Page 647

**Cicada 3301**

 name given to an enigmatic organization that on three occasions has
posted a set of complex puzzles to recruit capable cryptanalysts from
the public

## Page 648

**Big data**

a broad term for data sets so large or complex that traditional data processing applications are inadequate

## Page 650

**Fort Myers**

city in Florida

**Canyon of Kings**

Kings Canyon National Park is a national park in the southern Sierra Nevada, east of Fresno, California

**cat claw**

 herb

**Dasylirion wheeleri**

dessert spoon, plant

**sotol**

drink made from Dasylirion wheeleri

## Page 652

**pan tolmaton**

alternative translation: all is to be ventured

## Page 654

**keep of oneself**

also mentioned by Astair on pg 245