Annotations to
Carpenter's Gothic
Chapter 7 
by Steven Moore except as [noted]

Carpenter's Gothic
index
annotations for chapter
1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 5 . 6 . 7

Abbreviated References
A. Gaddis’ Books
CG: Carpenter’s Gothic. 1985. New York: Penguin, 1999.
FHO: A Frolic of His Own. New York: Poseidon, 1994.
JR: J R. 1975. New York: Penguin, 1993.
R: The Recognitions. 1955. New York: Penguin, 1993.
B. Gaddis’s Sources
EB: Encyclopædia Britannica. 14^th ed., 1929.
ODQ: The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 1^st ed., 6^th impression (London: Oxford University Press, 1949). Gaddis owned this particular impression, given to him by Ormande de Kay in Paris in 1950.
Plato: The Dialogues of Plato. Translated by Benjamin Jowett. New York: Random House, 1937. 2 vols.

256.20] rimpijays: apparently a mangled version of “rinpoche,” a Tibetan lama (or, more broadly, any Buddhist monk).  

261.18] martyr for the blood of the church: from Tertullian: see 187.16, 224.4.