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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Enoch Root (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Enoch Root (Enoch the Red) is a fictional character from Neal Stephenson's novels The Baroque Cycle and Cryptonomicon.
		The nature of Enoch Root in Stephenson's books may have more to do with legends about that Enoch's place in Jewish mysticism and the mythology of Freemasonry than strictly what is in the Bible.
		Root possesses an alchemical means of rejuvenation called by Leibniz the elixir vitae, which allows him to resurrect himself after he dies, and be present in novels set in the 17th, 18th, and 20th centuries.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Enoch-Root (1398 words)

	Enoch Summary
		ENOCH, or, in Hebrew, Ḥanokh (from a Hebrew root meaning "consecrate, initiate") was the son of Jared, according to biblical tradition; righteous antediluvian; and the subject of substantial hagiography in the Jewish and Christian traditions.
		Enoch receives these revelations first in nocturnal visions, and then in a heavenly journey lasting three hundred years, during which he dwells with angels and is instructed by them in hidden cosmological and historical knowledge.
		Because Enoch precedes the covenant of law (he is said to be uncircumcised and unobservant of the Sabbath), his faith and reward are of particular importance to Christianity in its polemic against Judaism and in its mission to the Gentiles.
	www.bookrags.com /Enoch (1916 words)

	Enoch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Enoch, a human in Judaism and some branches of Christianity who was taken away from God and became known as the angel Metatron.
		Enoch Root, a recurring character in Neal Stephenson's novels Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle.
		Enoch, from His Dark Materials, the brother of Baruch and became an angel known as Metatron.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Enoch (354 words)

	What's up with Enoch Root? Part III: The System of the World
		Enoch Root is very definitely exceptionally long lived, and probably not human.
		Perhaps Root is sent from the future by Societas Eruditorum to 'shepherd' (as commented on on the metaweb entry) the people (and hence their lineages) necessary to bring this change about.
		Root is an avatar of the omega point of human enlightenment.
	www.cafeaulait.org /systemoftheworld.html (2247 words)

	Enoch_Root - Thagodz Wiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		For example, Root sees Eliza in an observatory in The Hague, and shouts out a cryptic message that gets her to turn the telescope to the horizon, where she spots the sails of a French ship sailing in to abduct William of Orange.
		It is, however, also Dutch for "red" (in modern spelling, rood); Enoch's father was Dutch, and Enoch is sometimes known as "Enoch the Red" in keeping with the The Lord of the Rings naming convention for wizards.
		The nature of Enoch Root in Stephenson's books may have more to do with legends about that Enoch's place in Jewish mysticism and the mythology of Freemasonry than strictly what is in the Bible.
	www.thagodz.com /search/wiki/?title=Enoch_Root (516 words)

	What's up with Enoch Root? Part II: The Baroque Cycle: Quicksilver and The Confusion
		Root is not omniscient however, he is the hand of Stephenson, and knows not the future until he has written it himself.
		Enoch was facing toward the fire and the light [579] glinted weirdly in the dilated pupils of his eyes: a pair of red moons in the night.
		Enoch had goot a look as if he were trying to be patient—which was not the same as being patient.
	ibiblio.org /java/baroquecycle.html (3899 words)

	What's up with Enoch Root?
		Enoch carries a British passport, has Germanic and Dutch roots (pardon the pun) intermingled with Aussies and, as has been pointed out on your page, some kind of tie to Rudy's Germain family and yet, after the war he goes to work for the most highly secret branch of the American government.
		Root has to be seen to die (and does, at the very least as far as rural Swedish medicine circa 1943 is concerned), in order to assure Julieta of financial support.
		In the Pirke Rabbi Eliezer the invention of astronomy and arithmetic is laid to Enoch.
	www.cafeaulait.org /cryptonomicon.html (12812 words)

	Bambooweb: Enoch Root
		Enoch Root is a fictional character from Neal Stephenson's novels The Baroque Cycle and Cryptonomicon.
		Root is apparently ageless, being present in novels set in the 17th, 18th, and 20th centuries.
		Who and what Root is, is a mystery to both readers and his fellow characters.
	www.bambooweb.com /articles/e/n/Enoch_Root.html (179 words)

	CRYPTONOMICON - SPOILER - 14853.net
		Enoch Root says "But my Italian is heavily informed by the Latin that my father insisted that I learn.
		The Enoch Root that appears later is not the same man, but the same character (afterall, different people can become root on the same system, in succession).
		This is (sort of, perhaps) explained by Root to Randy in the prison, wherein he discusses the Societas Blahdeblah and explains the nature of recurrent archetypal characters, like the Trickster etc. Perhaps most telling is the description of recognising someone on the phone.
	14853.net /forums/index.php?showtopic=70 (1051 words)

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		For example, Root sees Eliza in an observatory in The Hague, and shouts out a cryptic message that gets her to turn the telescope to the horizon, where she spots the sails of a French ship sailing in to abduct William of Orange.
		It is, however, also Dutch for "red" (in modern spelling, rood); Enoch's father was Dutch, and Enoch is sometimes known as "Enoch the Red" in keeping with the The Lord of the Rings naming convention for wizards.
		Stephenson has stated in Q&A sessions at conferences that the personality of Enoch Root was drawn from meeting Richard Thieme.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Enoch_Root (521 words)

	Sigo con Enoch Root - 3 de septiembre de 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Empecemos por la "realista": Enoch Root finge su muerte, con la ayuda de sus amigos conspiradores, con el fin evitar el divorcio y dejar una pensión después de haberse casado con la chica finlandesa.
		El problema es que Enoch Root no parece tener una edad definida, parece tener poderes curativos y parece tener una cierta habilidad para estar en el sitio adecuado en el momento justo.
		Enoch Root fallece en la consulta del médico.
	www.pjorge.com /archivo/2002-09-03/22:12:36 (830 words)

	Sigo con Enoch Root - 3 de septiembre de 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Empecemos por la "realista": Enoch Root finge su muerte, con la ayuda de sus amigos conspiradores, con el fin evitar el divorcio y dejar una pensión después de haberse casado con la chica finlandesa.
		El problema es que Enoch Root no parece tener una edad definida, parece tener poderes curativos y parece tener una cierta habilidad para estar en el sitio adecuado en el momento justo.
		Poco antes, cuando Shaftoe llevaba a Root en coche, se decía: "Root entra en coma, murmurando algo sobre puros".
	www.pjorge.com:10140 /archivo/2002/9/3/22:12:36 (831 words)

	Catallarchy » Root Speculation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Further compounding matters is the fact that Root appears in Quicksilver, the prequel to Cryptonomicon, set in the 1700s, which would make Root at least 300 years old.
		Enoch appeared in the Old Testament as the grandfather of Noah and the father of Methuselah, who is said to be the oldest person who ever lived, at 969 years.
		Posit: Root is to NS’s Cycle as St. Germaine is to Eco’s “Foucault’s Pendulum.” Both serve as touchstones between inter-generational narratives, and are a lot of fun as red herrings, too (like all good mystical mysteries).
	catallarchy.net /blog/archives/2003/09/18/root-speculation (1626 words)

	Boing Boing: What's the deal with Enoch Root?
		Root appears to die midway through the book, in a scene set during WWII, only to reappear in modern times.
		Enoch's age is difficult to discern, and he does not seem to get older.
		When Detachment 2702 is in Italy, Enoch Root says that he can speak Italian but would sound like a "16th century alchemist" or something similar (don't have the book in front of me).
	www.boingboing.net /2002/11/27/whats_the_deal_with_.html (277 words)

	Unearned Luck
		As Arthur C. Clarke famously said, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." For example, Enoch demonstrates the "amazing" properties of phosphorous to members of the Royal Society; he is well versed in astronomy; and towards the end of the book he provides an "alchemical" drug which serves to relax Eliza's muscles during labor.
		18 And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech."
		The most obvious of this is Enoch's surname, Root, which is the name for the superuser, or administrator, on computers using UNIX or Linux operating systems.
	www.doombot.com /dan (1278 words)

	Barbelith Underground > Books, Criticism & Writing > System of the World (spoilers)
		He was an alchemist, Enoch von Hackleheber, who invented/discovered (and keeps using) the stuff Daniel gives to Newton to bring him back to life, no? Unless I totally missed the point of something...
		I think Root is a human alchemist, following in the footsteps of Solomon (who IS that Solomon BTW, Solomon the Wise, son of King David) who is probably the same Enoch mentioned in the Bible- I think the story will be revealed in subsequent books.
		Bobby Shaftoe is also saved by whatever Root keeps in his cigar case (when Root first finds him bleeding to death on a beach).
	www.barbelith.com /topic/22997 (2613 words)

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	ubiquit.us blog: "You see the fascinating thing about Ares is that he’s completely incompetent. [...] He’s wounded ...
		Rudy Hacklheber's family was friends with Enoch Root and there were so many connections he'd have to "write a whole fucking book" to explain them.
		In one weird scene, Enoch Root died in a hospital from Nazi gunfire.
		You'll probably want to reread the key passage in Cryptonomicon (that's a pun, see...it's the key passage in the way of a keystone, but also a key as in it decodes the book's message)...it's an amazing bit of writing concerning philosophy, geekiness, and mythology.
	www.ubiquit.us /blog/archives/2006/07/you_see_the_fascinat.html (1084 words)

	Quicksilver
		We open the story with Enoch Root on his search for Daniel Waterhouse; Watershouse long ago left behind the arguments and politics of England when he moved to the colonies.
		Settled comfortably with a wife and son of his own and trying to run a school, the last thing Daniel wants to do is get on a ship...that is, if he's lucky enough to make the crossing...
		Readers may also be very familiar with the Merlin-like Enoch Root.) Wilkins' book is all about codes...codes that people wrote between the lines of letters to pass messages secretly and other codes...and this masterwork seems to rule him.
	www.apenandfire.com /quicksilver.html (829 words)

	Barbelith Underground > Books, Criticism & Writing > Quicksilver - SPOILERS
		First reactions to anyone who's read Cryptonomicon: Enoch Root is an exceedingly long lived individual.
		For starters, when they are driving through Italy, Root says he knows some Italian, but he would probably sound like a sixteenth century alchemist.
		I'm staying with one of my original guesses about Enoch Root--that he stumbled on the Immortality Juice and quickly figured out (as does Leibnitz at the end) that, while it keeps you alive and healthy, it's no smart drug.
	www.barbelith.com /topic/14275 (2260 words)

	What’s up with Enoch Root? : tins ::: Rick Klau’s weblog
		850 back in 1945, Rudolf von Hackelheber (who saw Root die) is informed that Root is alive and well in the Philippines and doesn’t seem to be at all surprised.
		Others such as as Otto and Bischoff, who didn’t see Root die but who were informed of his death, are equally unsurprised.
		The details of why his death was faked escape me, but Stephenson’s dramatic “When Enoch Root dies, the only other people in the room are...” is really saying that these are the only people who can attest to his apparent death.
	www.rklau.com /tins/archives/2002/12/03/whats-up-with-enoch-root.php (403 words)

	RussellBeattie.com - I never finished SnowCrash
		in which a character named Enoch Root is searching for a character with the last name of Waterhouse in Boston in the early 1700s.
		Still he also notes parallels between Gandalf and Enoch Root; and as all good geeks know, Gandalf the Grey apparently dies in the first book of the
		He points out that in the Ethiopian Book Of Enoch, Enoch is the father of the famously long-lived Methuselah.
	www.russellbeattie.com /notebook/1001128.html (339 words)

	Amazon.fr : Quicksilver: Livres en anglais: Neal Stephenson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Stephenson's very long historical novel, the first volume of a projected trilogy, finds Enoch Root, the Wandering Jew/alchemist from 1999's Cryptonomicon, arriving in 1713 Boston to collect Daniel Waterhouse and take him back to Europe.
		Waterhouse, an experimenter in early computational systems and an old pal of Isaac Newton, is needed to mediate the fight for precedence between Newton and scientist and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, both of whom independently invented the calculus.
		Root believes Waterhouse, as a close friend to both mathematicians, has the ability to calm the neurotic Newton's nerves and make peace with Leibniz.
	www.amazon.fr /Quicksilver-Neal-Stephenson/dp/0380977427 (1140 words)

	Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomicon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Staring out from the shade of that hood is the supernaturally weird-looking (in that he has a red beard and grey hair) head of Enoch Root—a character who keeps bumping into Goto Dengo as he goes around Manila trying to carry out his duties.
		"Enoch Root, no one knows the sins of the world better than me. I have swum in those sins, drowned in them, burned in them, dug in them.
		Enoch Root looks mildly taken aback, as if the idea hadn’t really occurred to him before.
	newark.pardey.org /book/cryptonomicon/slide98.html (1270 words)

	AgBlog » Blog Archive » Enoch Root Lives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		There seems to have been a big controvery about the character of Enoch Root and his miraculous coming-back-to-life bit.
		After all, Shaftoe refused to take Root to the church when he was dying in the back seat, even though he demanded it, so that he could save himself.
		As he did nto not die but was transformed, that is taken away to heaven bodily as opposed to being taken away in spirit and leaving the body behind.
	agblog.com /entry/738 (546 words)

	Pejmanesque: SECOND BOOK REVIEW--CRYPTONOMICON
		It becomes quite clear how Enoch Root was brought back to life after dying from a gunshot wound, how he saved Amy Shaftoe's leg from being amputated, and the significance of the gold found in Golgotha and in the submarine.
		Rudolf von Hacklheber makes reference to his family's connections with Enoch Root.
		About the only person who really outclasses Randy in terms of intelligence and knowledge--and this is likely due to his possession of the Philosophic Mercury and resulting long life and wisdom--is Enoch Root.
	www.pejmanesque.com /archives/008454.html (1260 words)

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