¹ Cf. Pynchon, Thomas, The Crying of Lot 49. New York 1965; edition used for this paper: London 1996, p. 5; from here on, quotes from this novel will appear in the text in parentheses.
² Kermode in: Mendelson (1976), p. 162.
³ Kermode in: Mendelson (1976), p. 163.
⁴ Cf. Marshall McLuhan: the medium is the message.
⁵ Pynchon, Thomas, Slow learner. London 1984, p. 12.
⁶ Cf. Hagen in: Kittler/Tholen (1989), p. 149.
⁷ Cf. in great detail: Hagen in: Kittler/Tholen (1989), p. 139-149.
⁸ Cf. Hagen in: Stingelin/Scherer (1991), p. 243-273.
⁹ Poirier, Richard in: Levine/Leverenz (1976), p. 23.
¹⁰ Pynchon (1984), p. 18.
¹¹ Ickstadt, Heinz in: Weimann/Gumbrecht (1992), p. 274.
¹² Kittler, Friedrich A. in: Kamper/van Reijen (1987), p. 240.
¹³ Boyer, Paul S. et al (1990), p. 1019.
¹⁴ Boyer et al (1990), p. 1020.
¹⁵ Boyer et al (1990), p. 1019.
¹⁶ Pynchon, Thomas (1973), p. 840.
¹⁷ Kermode in: Mendelson (1976), p. 163.
¹⁸ Kermode in: Mendelson (1976), p. 163.
¹⁹ Kermode in: Mendelson (1976), p. 163.
²⁰ Kittler in: Kamper/van Reijen (1987), p. 245.
²¹ Pynchon (1984), p. 9.
²² Pynchon (1984), p. 18.
²³ Dunning, John (1976), p. 543. If the book wouldn't have been by hand all these information could have been found on a WWW-page with the title "The Shadow On The Air".
²⁴ Poirier in: Levine/Leverenz (1976), p. 22.
²⁵ Besides the name 'Boeing' is brought into The Crying of Lot 49 with the song, sung at the Yoyodyne stockholders' meeting. One of the lines goes "Boeing builds the Minuteman. etc." while other firms do other things or build other parts. ( p. 57).
²⁶ Cf. Ferretti, Vittorio: Dictionary of Electronics, Computing and Telecommunications. English-German. Berlin, New York, London 1992.
²⁷ Pynchon (1973), p. 258.
²⁸ My own translation of: "Wen kümmert's, wer spricht?", Michel Foucault: Was ist ein Autor? 1969, in: Foucault, M. (1988): Schriften zur Literatur. Frankfurt a. M., p. 31.