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Cryptonomicon

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Cryptonomicon	label	Cryptonomicon
Cryptonomicon	page	Cryptonomicon
Cryptonomicon	comment	Published in 1999, Cryptonomicon is a 1,000+ page Sci-Fi/Historical novel by Neal Stephenson following three independent yet interrelated story arcs, two of which are set during the Second World War and the third during the first years of the twenty-first century. Although it deals with some pretty deep, philosophical themes, the novel itself never comes off as dry or preachy, largely due to Stephenson's unique style of narration. Equal parts profound and profane, Cryptonomicon tells the story of multiple generations within the Waterhouse and Shaftoe families, as well as their attempts to unravel the secrets of a vast conspiracy affecting history and society.The Heroes: Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse: A young mathematician/cryptographer serving as an officer in the U.S. Navy as a part of Detachment 2702, a secret paramilitary organization created for the purpose of keeping the Axis Powers ignorant of the fact that the Allies have broken the Enigma cypher. He's prone to drifting off on tangents that are as profound as they are eccentric. His best friend is Alan Turing. Bobby Shaftoe: Marine Raider responsible for putting Waterhouse and company's plans into action. A headstrong and irreverent Warrior Poet, his appetite for adventure comes at the cost of his physical and mental health. Randall Lawrence Waterhouse: A geek with a love of mathematics and computer science. He's involved in an attempt to create a "Data Haven", where information may be freely exchanged without government interference. He is the grandson of Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse. Goto Dengo: A Japanese mining engineer who is sent to New Guinea. His viewpoint largely serves as a tour of just how horrible the Pacific Theater actually was.The novel was the first installment set in a shared universe used by several of Stephenson's later works, including The Baroque Cycle, REAMDE and Fall, or Dodge in Hell, which feature ancestors or descendants of the main characters.
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Cryptonomicon / int_15448489	type	Ancient Tradition
Cryptonomicon / int_15448489	comment	Ancient Tradition: Societas Eruditorum.
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Cryptonomicon / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
Cryptonomicon / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Enoch Root.
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Cryptonomicon / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Cryptonomicon / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: The eponymous Cryptonomicon, which is a centuries-old, ever-growing compendium of cryptology, gets mentioned several times.
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Cryptonomicon / int_19da8a03	type	Incurable Cough of Death
Cryptonomicon / int_19da8a03	comment	Incurable Cough of Death: Lawrence's mom died from what the book implies was polio. It was at least the kind of disease that puts one in an iron lung or leaves the infected with a permanent limp. This is confirmed much later in the book, when Lawrence arrives on Qwlghm. "Mrs. Qrtt...notices his slightly asymmetrical walk and manages to ferret out that he had a spot of polio at one point."
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Cryptonomicon / int_1a74b900	type	World of Badass
Cryptonomicon / int_1a74b900	comment	World of Badass: The narration posits that any organism living on Earth after billions of years of evolution is a "nightmarishly lethal, memetically programmed death-machine". (Even nerds like Lawrence.)
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Cryptonomicon / int_1c6ded94	type	Wicked Cultured
Cryptonomicon / int_1c6ded94	comment	Wicked Cultured: At one point we meet Herman Goring, who is a terrible person... but has great taste in art.
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Cryptonomicon / int_1cf08d1d	type	Hollywood Encryption
Cryptonomicon / int_1cf08d1d	comment	Hollywood Encryption: Thoroughly averted. Bruce Schneier served as a consultant, and the book also draws on stuff you can find on actual textbooks.
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Cryptonomicon / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Cryptonomicon / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: An entire family of them, the Comstocks.
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Cryptonomicon / int_20860a0e	type	Punch-Clock Villain
Cryptonomicon / int_20860a0e	comment	Punch-Clock Villain: Goto Dengo is appalled at the brutality of his fellow soldiers, particularly after the New Guinea affair, but can't protest it lest he be shot for being a traitor or insulting somebody's honor. He saves a handful of workers when the Japanese Army is sealing Golgotha—permanently—and killing everyone who worked on it, converts to Christianity after he meets Douglas MacArthur, and helps rebuild Japan after they surrender.
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Cryptonomicon / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Cryptonomicon / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Quite a few minor details turn out to be important.
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Cryptonomicon / int_24668f2e	type	Ocean Madness
Cryptonomicon / int_24668f2e	comment	Ocean Madness: Goto, having learned to swim in flooded mineshafts and caves, an Okinawan, who grew up by the sea, and a man from Tokyo who can't swim but is strong enough to stay afloat until he learns to swim all manage to swim several miles from open sea to New Guinea after their troop transport is sunk while many other survivors are killed by drowning, injuries from the wreck, the elements, or sharks.
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Cryptonomicon / int_25bc8511	type	Generation Xerox
Cryptonomicon / int_25bc8511	comment	Generation Xerox: Bloodlines throughout this book and continued into The Baroque Cycle all share similar personality quirks and stories. The Shaftoes are headstrong, tough and irreverent types whose adventures often bring them into the worlds of war, politics and intrigue. Jack is a swashbuckling rogue, Bobby is a badass soldier and Amy is a headstrong Action Girl. The Waterhouses are all very intelligent thinkers who flourish on the periphery of an important academic or technological movement and help make practical applications of the ideas and discoveries of their intellectual superiors. Daniel is a natural philosopher who aids his friend Isaac Newton and other members of the Royal Society. Lawrence is a cryptographer and early computing pioneer who helps his friend Alan Turing. Randy is Chief Technology Officer at the innovative tech company started by his friend, the brilliant Avi Halaby.
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Cryptonomicon / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Cryptonomicon / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag/Continuity Nod: In Rudy and Alan's dialogue about Leibniz, Rudy refers to an attempt by Leibniz to catalog everything that exists, and Alan exasperatedly comments that since no one but Rudy seems to have heard of this attempt, it can be assumed that he failed. This attempt was a sizable chunk of the plot of The Baroque Cycle, thus being a rare continuity nod forward in time (in the real world). Alternatively, it's foreshadowing something that's already happened in a book that hadn't been written yet. While the two of them are in Italy on a Detachment 2702 mission, Bobby Shaftoe asks Enoch Root if he can talk to the locals. He responds in the negative, saying that his Italian and Latin are a bit muddled, and he would probably come across sounding like "a seventeenth century alchemist or something." The Solomonic Gold, which so much of the plot of The Baroque Cycle revolves around, ends up on a German submarine sunk in the Philippines toward the end of WW-II, and then recovered by Douglas MacArthur Shaftoe, who has no idea of its history or significance. When explaining why he chose Bobby and Enoch's location as a place to flee to with Angelo, Rudy explains that he has "certain old family connections" with Enoch, adding that It's a Long Story and he would have to write a whole book.* Eight books, in fact, although they were originally published in three volumes. He is implied to know a lot more about Enoch than he is letting on, including the fact that he can come Back from the Dead.
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Cryptonomicon / int_2740531a	type	She Cleans Up Nicely
Cryptonomicon / int_2740531a	comment	She Cleans Up Nicely: Discussed and zigzagged. Randy is awed by Action Girl Amy Shaftoe's changed appearance at a ballroom dance, but he admits that, unlike in the movies, she's not as well-dressed or as good a dancer as the ballroom regulars. When he later sees her in a nicer dress at the airport, he feels like he's been hit with a poleaxe.
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Cryptonomicon / int_2b706ca	type	More Dakka
Cryptonomicon / int_2b706ca	comment	More Dakka: A Vickers machine gun is described in loving detail.
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Cryptonomicon / int_2be271c7	type	Hollywood Hacking
Cryptonomicon / int_2be271c7	comment	Hollywood Hacking: Averted to some degree; Randy goes through an elaborate (and elaborately-described) attempt to anonymize his Internet traffic in order to hack a computer, only to realize that he's spent a lot of time ensuring that the computer is pretty much unhackable, and that the only way to make the changes he needs to make is to log in with his actual user account—so after all of the work he's put into making the attack untraceable, he has to enter his own user name. He briefly contemplates leaking his username and password via an anonymous forum post, but realizes that the timing would only make it even more suspicious.
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Cryptonomicon / int_2d4d16d9	type	I Know You Know I Know
Cryptonomicon / int_2d4d16d9	comment	I Know You Know I Know: The purpose of Detachment 2702. Lawrence spends a lot of time thinking about this kind of thing.
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Cryptonomicon / int_318d4432	type	Tropical Island Adventure
Cryptonomicon / int_318d4432	comment	Kinakuta is a small Southeast Asian island nation somewhere between Indonesia and the Philippines which seems to be a riff on Brunei or Sarawak.
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Cryptonomicon / int_355007c3	type	Brilliant, but Lazy
Cryptonomicon / int_355007c3	comment	Brilliant, but Lazy: Lawrence drops out of college and into the Navy because he's not interested enough in most of his schoolwork to maintain passing grades.
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Cryptonomicon / int_3573371e	type	Dinner and a Show
Cryptonomicon / int_3573371e	comment	Dinner and a Show: Randy is first introduced at a fancy restaurant being pushed over the edge by his girlfriend's friends into picking an academic fistfight.
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Cryptonomicon / int_39ed1c8a	type	Conspiracy Theorist
Cryptonomicon / int_39ed1c8a	comment	Conspiracy Theorist: Lawrence Waterhouse briefly muses on the possibility that the world is actually ruled by a cabal of elderly women who influence world events by controlling how often world leaders get laid. We're mostly sure that he's just being his normal cloudcuckoolander self. Mostly.
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Cryptonomicon / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
Cryptonomicon / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: Both Avi and Douglas MacArthur Shaftoe come across like this. Of course, it all turn out to be justified when the when it turns out that a ruthless corporate executive and his Filipino mob partners are gunning for the collective heads of Epiphyte(2) corp.
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Cryptonomicon / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Cryptonomicon / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: The lengthy piece of erotica concerning antique furniture and black stockings. Reading the piece isn't much more enlightening. Really, its only function is to be memorable so that the reader doesn't forget about Van Eck phreaking. Earl Comstock's fall (or possibly push) off a ski lift in Colorado in 1975 also counts. We never see it, but we know it was richly deserved.
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Cryptonomicon / int_3ccec16c	type	Instructional Dialogue
Cryptonomicon / int_3ccec16c	comment	Instructional Dialogue: A little more subtle than in Anathem, but still very much present.
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Cryptonomicon / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Cryptonomicon / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: Douglas MacArthur thoroughly exploits Japan's dedication to "honor" during the war, brazenly blowing up targets that only Japan should know about, because MacArthur knows that no Japanese higher-up will willingly admit that their military codes have been broken.
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Cryptonomicon / int_4849f1d	type	Coincidence Magnet
Cryptonomicon / int_4849f1d	comment	Coincidence Magnet: Bobby Shaftoe. The giant Nip-eating lizards of Guadalcanal that saved his life. Being interviewed by Lieutenant Ronald Reagan (while drugged with morphine). Detachment 2702 missions (such as "Negroes of the Caribbean"). His friendship with Bischoff (a German submarine commander—Shaftoe is an American marine. All of this during WWII). And of course the really, really weird and accidental meet up between General MacArthur, Bobby Shaftoe, and Goto Dengo in the ladies' room in the middle of a battle in the Philippines. It starts to have an effect on him.
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Cryptonomicon / int_4ad1816a	type	Everyone Knows Morse
Cryptonomicon / int_4ad1816a	comment	Everyone Knows Morse: Unusual variant: Randy uses Morse to view and enter data on his laptop when he's in prison and being monitored, using the spacebar for input and a keylock LED for output.
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Cryptonomicon / int_4eaa9b84	type	Author Tract
Cryptonomicon / int_4eaa9b84	comment	Author Tract: To almost Ayn Randian levels in some places, but most notable when Enoch Root becomes his mouthpiece.
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Cryptonomicon / int_500696c6	type	Seinfeldian Conversation
Cryptonomicon / int_500696c6	comment	Seinfeldian Conversation: The Waterhouses are especially prone to this.
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Cryptonomicon / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
Cryptonomicon / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: When your cast includes hackers, gun enthusiasts, and Vietnam veterans ... pretty much everyone. Avi insists that Randy use a 4,096-bit key to encrypt certain corporate documents. A key that size would take a battery of then-modern supercomputers thousands of years to brute-force. Comstock brings a crack team of photographers and stenographers equipped with a wide array of recording equipment and stimulants every time he briefs Waterhouse. He needs them all (see Blah, Blah, Blah above).
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Cryptonomicon / int_538cd85a	type	Strong Girl, Smart Guy
Cryptonomicon / int_538cd85a	comment	Strong Girl, Smart Guy: Amy Shaftoe is an Action Girl from a long line of adventurers. Randy Waterhouse is a bookish tech genius. They get into a relationship.
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Cryptonomicon / int_5aa8d3d8	type	Friendly Enemy
Cryptonomicon / int_5aa8d3d8	comment	Friendly Enemy: Waterhouse is overjoyed to learn that his opposite number for the Axis nations is none other than his old college buddy Rudolph von Hacklheber. Waterhouse works with Turing, and Turing was Rudy's boyfriend at the time.
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Cryptonomicon / int_5fb4ac87	type	Nazi Gold
Cryptonomicon / int_5fb4ac87	comment	Nazi Gold: Well, Yamashita's gold—the Pacific War equivalent—is a big connection between the plot lines.
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Cryptonomicon / int_61066d95	type	Fictional Counterpart
Cryptonomicon / int_61066d95	comment	Fictional Counterpart: The in-universe Cryptonomicon is basically an annotated version of Military Cryptanalysis. William F. Friedman (the author of Military Cryptanalysis) is credited, in-universe, with the original compilation of the Cryptonomicon. The Holocaust Education and Avoidance Pod's firearms manufacturing guide is P. A. Luty's Expedient Homemade Firearms with the serial numbers filed off.
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Cryptonomicon / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
Cryptonomicon / int_61b8f9e2	comment	Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Both Lawrence Waterhouse and Shaftoe. Also Douglas MacArthur, who is so weird Shaftoe can't quite tell if he's hallucinating whenever the General is around. Avi to a lesser degree.
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Cryptonomicon / int_61cd6e2b	type	Color-Coded Wizardry
Cryptonomicon / int_61cd6e2b	comment	Color-Coded Wizardry: Enoch Root is also known as Enoch the Red, and Randy compares him to a The Lord of the Rings wizard.
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Cryptonomicon / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
Cryptonomicon / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: Subtle enough that it initially seems like bad writing. Stephenson has said that no one batting an eye at Enoch Root appearing at Shaftoe's funeral after having dramatically died in Sweden the previous winter is a hint that Cryptonomicon might be sci-fi after all. It's a hook for his next book, The Baroque Cycle, which also features Enoch Root—and takes place at the turn of the 18th century.
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Cryptonomicon / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
Cryptonomicon / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: There are quite a few similarities between Stephenson and Randy, including their intellectual pedigree.
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Cryptonomicon / int_71c42298	type	Super-Detailed Fight Narration
Cryptonomicon / int_71c42298	comment	Super-Detailed Fight Narration
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Cryptonomicon / int_756dbd0b	type	Hard on Soft Science
Cryptonomicon / int_756dbd0b	comment	Hard on Soft Science: Although really more like "Hard on Liberal Arts Academia". Pretty much anybody who has a graduate degree and isn't a scientist or working in the private sector is a Jerkass who has no comprehension of the "real" world, notably Dr. G.E.B. Kivistik and Randy's ex, Charlene. Balanced somewhat in that these people, unlike most of the hard scientists, have genuine social skills, and averted in Enoch Root, who has a mathematical background but also a strong philosophical one.
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Cryptonomicon / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
Cryptonomicon / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: Goto Dengo's whole ordeal, from when Americans attack until he meets up with his fellow Nipponese again. I mean, first the bombs, then the flaming oil everywhere, then the whole nearly-dying-of-thirst-and-exhaustion thing, then the sharks, then the other sharks, then the sharp coral, then the poisonous snake, then the cannibals, then an Australian patrol, then a death sentence for surrendering to the enemy...and then it gets even worse.
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Cryptonomicon / int_78f6bb9b	type	Translation: "Yes"
Cryptonomicon / int_78f6bb9b	comment	Translation: "Yes": Several of the Qwghlmian-English parts. Bonus points for bringing in information theory: the Qwghlmian language's information density is so high, it's difficult to transmit clearly over a radio channel.
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Cryptonomicon / int_79b16b48	type	Japanese Ranguage
Cryptonomicon / int_79b16b48	comment	Japanese Ranguage: Upon arriving in Kinakuta, Randy meets a Nipponese businessman named Ferdinand Goto (one of Goto Dengo's younger relatives), who has the unlikely-sounding transliteration of "Goto Furudenendu" on his business card. A normal transliteration would be closer to "Goto Ferudinando".
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Cryptonomicon / int_7b23aecb	type	Bayonet Ya
Cryptonomicon / int_7b23aecb	comment	Bayonet Ya: The Nipponese Army loves their banzai charges and their typical method of prisoner execution is to stab them repeatedly with a bayonet. They find out the hard way that bayonet charges are only good at killing unarmed natives, and when the war turns, end up being mowed down by mass fire from American and Australian troops.
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Cryptonomicon / int_7f1be21	type	Functional Addict
Cryptonomicon / int_7f1be21	comment	Functional Addict: Bobby Shaftoe is addicted to morphine for part of the book. He's still plenty good at his job.
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Cryptonomicon / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Cryptonomicon / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Randy is about to erase some incriminating evidence from a computer that the Feds are trying to seize when someone else, thinking that they're foiling the Feds, hits the building with an electromagnetic pulse, frying all the electronics in it and shutting down Randy's erasure of the data. They're quite pleased with themselves, and when Randy tells them that they also fried his laptop, they tell him not to worry—the EMP wouldn't damage the data stored on his hard drive. They don't realize that the same applies to the servers that the Feds are seizing.
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Cryptonomicon / int_82accf22	type	Gainax Ending
Cryptonomicon / int_82accf22	comment	Gainax Ending: Stephenson is famous for these. Cryptonomicon is no exception.
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Cryptonomicon / int_83b44e80	type	Straight Gay
Cryptonomicon / int_83b44e80	comment	Straight Gay: Alan Turing.
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Cryptonomicon / int_87629455	type	No Communities Were Harmed
Cryptonomicon / int_87629455	comment	No Communities Were Harmed: Between Qwghlm and Kinakuta, almost half the story takes place in fictional locations. Qwghlm is a small, rustic island northwest of Great Britain with a language and culture that parody Welsh. Kinakuta is an island between the Philippines and Borneo ruled by a Sultan with very IT-friendly policies.
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Cryptonomicon / int_8b6e8d7	type	Anachronic Order
Cryptonomicon / int_8b6e8d7	comment	Anachronic Order: Not only does the novel interweave storylines set in WWII with ones set in the then-modern late 90s, the individual storylines sometimes bounce around in the timeline.
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Cryptonomicon / int_8d83bed9	type	The Vietnam Vet
Cryptonomicon / int_8d83bed9	comment	The Vietnam Vet: Douglas MacArthur Shaftoe.
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Cryptonomicon / int_8fd7af48	type	Sir Swears-a-Lot
Cryptonomicon / int_8fd7af48	comment	Sir Swears-a-Lot: Doug Shaftoe.
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Cryptonomicon / int_93f27743	type	Metafictional Title
Cryptonomicon / int_93f27743	comment	Metafictional Title: In-Universe, the Cryptonomicon is a comprehensive study of cryptography, both for making and breaking codes.
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Cryptonomicon / int_945b15da	type	PassiveAggressiveCombat
Cryptonomicon / int_945b15da	comment	Passive Aggressive Combat: When Randy refuses to shave his beard, Charlene launches into an in-depth study on the psychology behind men's beards. When Amy discovers it, she asks if that was the way she and Randy fought.
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Cryptonomicon / int_978937d6	type	Brand X
Cryptonomicon / int_978937d6	comment	Brand X: Randy's computer runs a very famous Finnish UNIX-like OS called Finux. The boot loader is called "FILO". A more obscure one is the "Secret Admirers" mailing list. (The Cypherpunks actually debated changing the name of their mailing list to Secret Admirers because some of them thought it was a clever name.)
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Cryptonomicon / int_9adeadc	type	Bandaged Face
Cryptonomicon / int_9adeadc	comment	Bandaged Face
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Cryptonomicon / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Cryptonomicon / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: After Enoch's death, Rudy stays with the body while Bobby takes the others away for coffee to help them all calm down. Not long after this, Bobby spots Rudy furtively leaving the doctor's office, accompanied by someone covered in a blanket. He doesn't think any more about this, but a Genre Savvy reader may well suspect that it's more significant than it appears. Sure enough, Enoch later turns up alive and well.
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Cryptonomicon / int_9dadfaee	type	Fetish
Cryptonomicon / int_9dadfaee	comment	Fetish: Tom Howard's chapter-long dissertation on hosiery/furniture fetishism. It's not clear whether it's sincere or not.
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Cryptonomicon / int_a07f7cd0	type	Obfuscated Interface
Cryptonomicon / int_a07f7cd0	comment	Obfuscated Interface: Randy intentionally obfuscates his computer's interface with lots of random pop-up windows in order to prevent the baddies who are spying on him from figuring out what he's doing. And what's worse, he wasn't even looking at the screen. The computer told him secret information by blinking Morse code through the capslock lights.
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Cryptonomicon / int_a9eb984b	type	Warrior Poet
Cryptonomicon / int_a9eb984b	comment	Warrior Poet: Bobby Shaftoe and Goto Dengo. Bonding over poetry is how they first meet.
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Cryptonomicon / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Cryptonomicon / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: At one point, Bobby Shaftoe flips the bird to what he thinks is a mannequin of Douglas MacArthur that Japanese planes are shooting at during an air raid. Then the 'mannequin' swivels it's head and looks right at him...
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Cryptonomicon / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Cryptonomicon / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: A fair number of the cast get in several good ones; most notably, this is Douglas MacArthur's general mode of communication with troops who have failed him in some way.
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Cryptonomicon / int_b0485a20	type	Ditzy Genius
Cryptonomicon / int_b0485a20	comment	Ditzy Genius: Lawrence Waterhouse, exemplified when he takes a Navy intelligence test. When given a mathematical word problem, he thinks the simplified assumptions are a trick and fills reams of scratch paper working out the answer without them. In the process he proves a new theorem, but the Navy sticks him in the band because the results of his intelligence test show he's too stupid for anything else.
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Cryptonomicon / int_b89d9f13	type	Assimilation Plot
Cryptonomicon / int_b89d9f13	comment	Assimilation Plot: The ultimate goal of Loeb's Hive Mind project. Ultimately fails because, apart from believing that individuality is an illusion, none of its supporters can agree on anything.
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Cryptonomicon / int_ba8b13ad	type	Catch-22 Dilemma
Cryptonomicon / int_ba8b13ad	comment	Catch-22 Dilemma: Late in the book, Lawrence Waterhouse is dispatched to Australia, where he isn't known, and he needs to present his security clearance to the guards in order to gain entrance to the codebreaking facility there. However, he has a security clearance so high that it is itself classified, which he can't present to the guards because they're not cleared to know it even exists. He can't contact his superiors to clear this problem up until he gets into the facility.
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Cryptonomicon / int_bb094e0a	type	Cool Ship
Cryptonomicon / int_bb094e0a	comment	Cool Ship: V-Million.
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Cryptonomicon / int_bb0f336e	type	Mad Mathematician
Cryptonomicon / int_bb0f336e	comment	Mad Mathematician: Though they're harmlessly eccentric, Lawrence Waterhouse and most of his progeny are this to at least some extent.
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Cryptonomicon / int_bbf11c0	type	Genius Bruiser
Cryptonomicon / int_bbf11c0	comment	Genius Bruiser: For all his martial prowess, Bobby Shaftoe is clearly pretty intelligent himself.
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Cryptonomicon / int_bda3d97b	type	It's a Long Story
Cryptonomicon / int_bda3d97b	comment	When explaining why he chose Bobby and Enoch's location as a place to flee to with Angelo, Rudy explains that he has "certain old family connections" with Enoch, adding that It's a Long Story and he would have to write a whole book.* Eight books, in fact, although they were originally published in three volumes. He is implied to know a lot more about Enoch than he is letting on, including the fact that he can come Back from the Dead.
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Cryptonomicon / int_c24d8c78	type	Pink Mist
Cryptonomicon / int_c24d8c78	comment	Pink Mist: The fate of the unfortunate Lieutenant Ethridge.
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Cryptonomicon / int_c3c6b8db	type	Powerful People Are Subs
Cryptonomicon / int_c3c6b8db	comment	Powerful People Are Subs: An extremely wealthy character known only as "The Dentist" opposes the protagonists because he is a submissive under the control of his Filipino dominatrix wife, who in turn takes orders from conspirators opposing the protagonists' attempt to recover gold stolen by Those Wacky Nazis and create an Internet data haven.
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Cryptonomicon / int_c45c9fcd	type	Ass Shove
Cryptonomicon / int_c45c9fcd	comment	Ass Shove: Upon learning of his niece's impending engagement to Enoch, Otto Kivistik produces a ring from out of his anus for him to give to Julieta. This is explained by Uncle Otto being a jewel smuggler who keeps a small container "down there" for just such an occasion.
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Cryptonomicon / int_c676a2f8	type	Blah, Blah, Blah
Cryptonomicon / int_c676a2f8	comment	Comstock brings a crack team of photographers and stenographers equipped with a wide array of recording equipment and stimulants every time he briefs Waterhouse. He needs them all (see Blah, Blah, Blah above).
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Cryptonomicon / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Cryptonomicon / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Randy compares everyone to characters and races from The Lord of the Rings. He's a dwarf, Enoch is Gandalf, Loeb is Gollum, etc. Gunter Enoch Bobby Kivistik.
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Cryptonomicon / int_c78e289b	type	Chandler's Law
Cryptonomicon / int_c78e289b	comment	Chandler's Law: Near the climax, Andrew Loeb shows up and tries to kill Randy and Co. He does this even after getting his leg blown off by a mine.
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Cryptonomicon / int_c852ac43	type	Mars and Venus Gender Contrast
Cryptonomicon / int_c852ac43	comment	Mars and Venus Gender Contrast: Played completely straight. John Grey's trope-naming book even gets a Shout-Out, or even a Take That! - Randy dismissively describes it as a book ,where once you've heard the title, you don't really need to read the text.
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Cryptonomicon / int_ca7ec334	type	Two Lines, No Waiting
Cryptonomicon / int_ca7ec334	comment	Two Lines, No Waiting: One set during WWII, the other during the final years of the twentieth century.
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Cryptonomicon / int_caa28b82	type	Cloudcuckoolander
Cryptonomicon / int_caa28b82	comment	Cloudcuckoolander: Lawrence Waterhouse is absolutely brilliant, but he's not really all there, interpreting events (like Pearl Harbor, while in the middle of it) rather...differently.
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Cryptonomicon / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
Cryptonomicon / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: Bobby Shaftoe blows himself up with a large and ship-like bunker of Japanese soldiers. More accurately, he decides to blow them up, and, already fatally wounded, joins them. Averted in that whenever Japanese soldiers try this, they die.
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Cryptonomicon / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Cryptonomicon / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Randy warns his girlfriend and her friends early in the book about a minor scandal that erupts around the "War As Text" conference.
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Cryptonomicon / int_d148b019	type	Mundane Made Awesome
Cryptonomicon / int_d148b019	comment	Mundane Made Awesome: Cap'n Crunch cereal. Breakfast has never been so pornographic. Also, the Penthouse letter.
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Cryptonomicon / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
Cryptonomicon / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: In the lead to the final scene, security in the jungle is provided by Doug Shaftoe's "interesting and well-travelled friends". The inference is that these are former special forces operators and scarily professional individuals.
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Cryptonomicon / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Cryptonomicon / int_dae5c997	comment	The Shaftoes are headstrong, tough and irreverent types whose adventures often bring them into the worlds of war, politics and intrigue. Jack is a swashbuckling rogue, Bobby is a badass soldier and Amy is a headstrong Action Girl.
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Cryptonomicon / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Cryptonomicon / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: We first meet Goto Dengo very close to the start of the book—he's Bobby Shaftoe's friend. He taught Bobby about haiku, sushi, and "chop-socky" (judo); Bobby taught him how to throw a baseball farther than about three feet. As Shaftoe's boat is leaving the port in China, Goto Dengo throws an inactive grenade in thanks and as a joke, and that's the last we see of him for over 400 pages. He eventually turns out to be the person who designed and built Golgotha.
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Cryptonomicon / int_de15a322	type	Tangled Family Tree
Cryptonomicon / int_de15a322	comment	Tangled Family Tree: The Shaftoes. Lampshaded when Amy states that, while she could try to explain her actual relation to her "cousin" M.A.note Marcus Aurelius. Yes, after the Roman Emperor, Randy would "start shifting around and heaving great big sighs before [she] got more than half way through". The Altamiras even more so. Of course, they're eventually connected through Bobby, Glory, and Douglas MacArthur Shaftoe... which only makes everything even more complicated.
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Cryptonomicon / int_e386dc9	type	Staying Alive
Cryptonomicon / int_e386dc9	comment	Staying Alive: Enoch Root.
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Cryptonomicon / int_e5d8460d	type	Unexplained Recovery
Cryptonomicon / int_e5d8460d	comment	Unexplained Recovery: Enoch Root is unceremoniously shot to death in Sweden mid-book and given a rather dramatic funeral, but suddenly reappears talking to Goto Dengo in Manila towards the climax and eventually shows up in the jail cell next to Randy... sixty years later.
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Cryptonomicon / int_ea6f361f	type	You Are Number 6
Cryptonomicon / int_ea6f361f	comment	You Are Number 6: Loeb insists on being referred to as RIST 9E03. No one outside of his immediate circle of followers calls him this.
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Cryptonomicon / int_ead7e42e	type	Walking Armory
Cryptonomicon / int_ead7e42e	comment	Walking Armory: In Egypt, Bobby Shaftoe has half a dozen weapons hidden on his person; knives, pistols, derringers, etc, in addition to the much more obvious Tommy Gun. At one point, he's on a transport and trying to get comfortable so he can get some sleep. To do so, he has to deal with: "the teeny revolver in his waistband", "the Marine Raider stiletto holstered invisibly between his shoulder blades", "a standard-issue Colt semiautomatic" on one side, "his own six-shooter from home" on the other, "the various ammo clips, speed loaders, and maintenance supplies that go with them", "the V-44 'Gung Ho'...knife, strapped to the outside of his lower leg", and "the derringer that he keeps on the other leg for balance". The only things he doesn't move "are the grenades in his front pockets". This happens a line after Shaftoe has rolled his eyes at how unstable and paranoid a pair of SAS pilots must be for carrying sub-machine guns inside the cockpit.
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Cryptonomicon / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Cryptonomicon / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Earl Comstock and then some. He steals ideas from Waterhouse that would have made him millions, and uses the NSA as his own private codebreakers. His son, whom we don't see much of, is apparently worse.
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Cryptonomicon / int_ee0c2c3c	type	Fictional Country
Cryptonomicon / int_ee0c2c3c	comment	Fictional Country: Kinakuta is a small Southeast Asian island nation somewhere between Indonesia and the Philippines which seems to be a riff on Brunei or Sarawak. Qwghlm is an archipelago off the coast of Scotland. The language's orthography parodies Welsh, but it is apparently a language isolate so difficult to understand that Qwghlmians serve as the British version of Navajo code talkers.
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Cryptonomicon / int_f1d3f0c9	type	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
Cryptonomicon / int_f1d3f0c9	comment	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: The academic conference that ultimately ruins Randy and Charlene's relationship, as well as Charlene's lengthy article on beards. Similarly, the Japanese Army, when it has to come up with terms to save face: "retrograde maneuver" (i.e., "retreat") comes up repeatedly.
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Cryptonomicon / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
Cryptonomicon / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: Stephenson's depiction of the Second World War, particularly the Pacific theater, is incredibly brutal. Gets really depressing once you realize it's a case of Shown Their Work; the Japanese, in their Imperial phase, were really not nice people.
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Cryptonomicon / int_f1d7b320	type	Crazy Survivalist
Cryptonomicon / int_f1d7b320	comment	Crazy Survivalist: Andrew Loeb. Averted with Tom Howard, who is an enthusiastic user and collector of automatic weapons but is fairly mentally stable beyond a...quirk or two the book gets into.
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Cryptonomicon / int_f56d2c81	type	Everyone Is Armed
Cryptonomicon / int_f56d2c81	comment	Everyone Is Armed: Including the nerds.
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Cryptonomicon / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Cryptonomicon / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Despite its harrowing origin, Bobby Shaftoe's obsession with giant, Nip-eating lizards turns into one of these, culminating with a moment where he sees a Chinese dragon on Douglas MacArthur's bathrobe and freaks out.
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Cryptonomicon / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Cryptonomicon / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: In an early chapter, in the modern time line, Randy's arguing with an annoying Dr. G.E.B. Kivistik. Much later in the book, in the World War II timeline, a Ms. Julieta Kivistik is pregnant, but can't be sure whether GÃ¼nter, Enoch, or Bobby is the father.
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