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964 · Pre-Exhibition Fête

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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]

'''claret-colored''' 
A deep purplish red. Claret is also the name of a wine that is produced in the Bordeaux region of France and slang for 'blood'.[http://www.thefreedictionary.com/fuller's+earth]

'''fuller's earth or sawdust''' 
Fuller's earth is an absorbent clay that is used in talcum powder. Sawdust and chalk (talcum) are used by tennis players to keep their grip dry.
[http://www.usta.com/USTA/Global/Archive/News/Lessons/Lessons/444102_The_Final_Word_Chalking_Up.aspx]

==Page 965==

'''pigeon-toed''' 
having toes that point inward, like this: / \

'''shifted antigens''' 
An antigenic shift generally refers to the medical term that explains how two strains of the influenza virus join together to form a new subtype and, in turn, become more virile. The new subtype has a mixture of the antigens from the originals. An antigen is the substance that stimulates the immune system. [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/926623/antigenic-shift]

It's used here to refer to rumors about severe weather and the Quebec Junior Team. These rumors undergo an antigenic shift as they circulate around the locker room. They combine and are reconstituted as a new, more virile, rumor before being returned to the rumor's originator. 

'''the Csikszentmihalyi kid was doing a kind of piaffer''' 
A piaffer is a trot in place where the legs are lifted high. This type of trot is usually done by a horse, but it's part of the 'Csikszentmihalyi kid's' pre-game ritual to stretch his hip flexors. 

The name Csikszentmihalyi may be a humorous nod to the Hungarian psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi who is noted for his work in happiness and creativity. He is known as the world's leading researcher on positive psychology and proposed the concept of Flow. Flow is the mental state whereby a person is fully immersed and focused on an activity (such as Tennis). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihaly_Csikszentmihalyi] 

'''hip-flexors''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_flexor muscles] that move the hip

'''an ascot or a very fey tie''' 
An ascot is a scarf or tie with broad ends typically worn for formal occasions[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascot_tie]. If the tie very fey, it is excessively refined [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fey] or fancy to the point that it could be confused with an ascot.

'''invoking Camilla, goddess of speed and light step''' 
Camilla of Volsci, a heroine from Roman Mythology, found in Virgil's prose and ancient pottery paintings. Virgil claimed Camilla was so fast that she could run across the ocean without wetting her feet and across fields of grain without bending the grass. [http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Camilla_(mythology)] To 'invoke' is to petition for help with an incantation.[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/invoking]

As part of their pre-match ritual, the female players, Thode and Donni Stott, can be heard praying to or otherwise petitioning Camilla whose light footed speed may translate to success on the court.

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'''Frankenstein''' 
or, more correctly, Frankenstein's monster

'''Hal''' 
who is clearly not narrating anymore, unless he is speaking of himself in the third person

'''malleolus''' 
a bony lump on the side of the ankle

'''Joni Mitchell''' 
Joni Mitchell (born Roberta Joan Anderson in 1943) is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter and painter. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joni_Mitchell Wikipedia Entry].

'''occluded''' 
Closed off, shut in, or blocked off [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/occlude]

'''they all in here existed basically as Fourier Transforms of postures and little routines''' 

A Fourier transform is a mathematical operation that transforms one function into another. This type of transform is named in honour of Joseph Fourier. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Fourier] To exist basically as Fourier Transforms of postures and routines is to exist as an abstraction where a student is trained in postures and routines is transformed into tennis player capable of executing a variation of those postures and routines.

'''ingenuish''' 
in the manner of an innocent young woman

'''moribund''' 
nearing death or in a terminal decline [http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/moribund?view=uk]

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[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.M.P. - Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad]]

'''ciquatoxic''' 
an alternate or mispelling of 'ciguatoxic'. Reef fish can carry ciguatoxins, which cause ciguatera food poisoning [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciguatera] in humans who consume the contaminated fish. These toxins may be specific to certain reefs, are concentrated up the food chain and as such are more likely to be present in larger reef fish, and cannot be destroyed by cooking and freezing [http://www.livefoodfishtrade.org/definitions.htm]

'''P.O.''' 
philharmonic orchestra

'''R.C. clergy''' 
Roman Catholic priesthood

'''Jesuit seminary'''
Theological training for the Society of Jesus Roman Catholic religious order of clerks, known as Jesuits. Jesuits are known for for their missionary work, social justice and human rights. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Jesus]

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'''Sanger-Brown's ataxia''' 
another name for [http://www.whonamedit.com/synd.cfm/1672.html Marie's ataxia]

'''practicum''' 
the student-teaching portion of a teaching education

'''spiritually necrotic''' 
Necrosis usually refers to the localized death of cells within healthy tissue. To be spiritually necrotic is akin to having a dead spirit in an otherwise healthy body.

'''Jesuitical Endeavors''' 
An endeavor is a purposeful undertaking that requires boldness. Jesuitical endeavors are those undertaken as part of a Jesuit ministry.

'''Numero Uno''' 
Spanish for ''Number One'', used here as an expression to mean concern about only oneself.

'''ineluctable''' 
incapable of being avoided or changed

'''Apologia''' 
An Apologia is a defense of one's beliefs, religious or other. Here, Barry is out of his league in his ability to put up a good defense of the religious beliefs that may help get his brother out of his own spiritual funk.

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'''self-mimetic''' 
imitating one's self

'''...not that much unlike Alyosha and Ivan's conversations in the good old ''Brothers K''.''' 
''The Brother's Karamazov'' is a novel by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881). Ivan and Alyosha, main characters in the novel, are siblings. Alyosha has a faith in God that manifests in a love of mankind and Ivan is a rationalist who is burdened by his inability or unwillingness to believe in a God that could preside over an unjust world. In the novel the brothers, Ivan and Alyosha, discuss their opposing beliefs.

'''erudite''' 
scholarly

'''carcinogenic''' 
causing cancer

'''acerbity''' 
acidity

'''Ivan's Grand Inquisitor scenario''' 
Read this portion [http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/philosophy/existentialism/dostoevsky/grand.html here].

'''lumpen''' 
disenfrancished

'''solar plexus''' 
a complex of nerves in the abdomen

'''verminousness''' 
resembling vermin

'''mufti''' 
civilian dress - also a name for a type of Muslim scholar

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'''alms''' 
charity

'''silt''' 
very small grains of rock or sand

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'''fuliginous''' 
smoky or sooty

'''50° C''' 
122° Fahrenheit

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''''Do it to her!''' '''''Do it to her!'''''' 
a reference to George Orwell's 1984. Winston Smith shouts 'Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia!' under similar circumstances.

'''ham''' 
an actor who is bad by virtue of over-acting

972 · Final Chapter

==Page 972==

'''confiteor''' 
a prayer of confession of sins

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==Endnote 385==

'''gram-negative''' 
this refers to a bacterium that does not show up in a violet stain using Gram's method - so in other words, the implication is that the doctor suspects Gately has a particularly resistant strain of bacteria within his body that previous antibiotics given to him have been ineffective in eliminating.

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'''"...look down her shirt and spell ''attic''..."''' 
and thus saying, "A-T-T-I-C" or "a titty I see"

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'''vertical hold''' 
the control on a television that prevents the picture from rolling bottom to top

==Page 975==

'''Weejuns''' 
a type of shoe, see [http://www.bassweejuns.com/ here]

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'''Jack Daniels''' 
a famous brand of bourbon whiskey

==Page 977==

'''S&W''' 
Smith & Wesson

'''2500-IU ampule''' 
IUs are [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_unit international units], which converts to metric depending on the substance.

'''transvestals''' 
i.e., transvestites

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==Endnote 386==

'''Exocet''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exocet missile]

'''antagonists''' 
a drug that acts against an agonist, i.e., a drug that stimulates a certain receptor

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'''Linda McCartney''' 
Linda Louise, Lady McCartney (1941-1998) was an American photographer and wife of Beatle Paul McCartney (born 1943).

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==Endnote 387==

'''pentazocine''' 
a synethetic opioid painkiller

==Endnote 387a==

'''dysmenorrhea''' 
pre-menstrual syndrome and/or painful periods

'''hot shot''' 
an injection intended to kill

'''PX''' 
with a pharmaceutical as part of the name, it means it contains pentazocine

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'''ditty''' 
a little song

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'''"...the one about ultraviolence and sadism."''' 
Gately is thinking of Kubrick's [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/ A Clockwork Orange]

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736 · Joelle Cleans Her Room

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'''B.Y.P.''' 
maybe Berkshire Young Professionals?

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'''Pokie''' 
apparently a childhood nickname for Joelle

'''fifth wall''' 
usually a reference to the ceiling of a room

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'''futon''' 
being a couch that opens into a bed

'''amniotic''' 
taking place ''in utero''

'''greebles''' 
There is such a thing as a [http://www.reference.com/search?r=13&q=Greeble greeble], but probably not as Joelle means it. The real term, medically speaking, is "rheum."

"Greebles had been her [Joelle's] own mother's word for the little bits of sleepy goo you got in your eyes' corners." p. 738

'''basso''' 
having a very low voice

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'''Carefree''' 
a brand of sanitary pads

'''disdain''' 
dislike or hatred

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'''rancid''' 
rotten

'''oeuvre''' 
body of work

'''inbent''' 
directed inward

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'''Everclear''' 
a brand of pure grain alcohol

'''Shoats''' 
young pigs

'''Boosters''' 
members of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booster_%28sports%29 booster club]

'''H.S.''' 
high school

'''YardGuard''' 
a brand name of [http://www.yardguardmosquito.com/ insect repellent]

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'''Vittorio''' 
this would seem to be a museum name, but there is no museum by that name in the Boston area

'''herring''' 
i.e., a red herring — a distraction

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'''Legal Seafood''' 
perhaps [http://boston.citysearch.com/profile/40879464/boston_ma/legal_seafood.html this restaurant]

==Endnote 309==

'''boniface''' 
an innkeeper

==Page 743 (cont'd)==

'''grouper''' 
a family of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grouper fish] including sea basses

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'''obtruding''' 
pushing something forward without invitation

'''tri-faceted''' 
three-sided

'''Albertan champagne''' 
an oxymoron — champagne comes only from the Champagne region of France

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'''Clift''' 
Edward Montgomery Clift (1920-1966) was an American actor.

'''two meters''' 
about 6.6 feet

'''heliotropes''' 
plants that turn toward the sun

'''Candela''' 
From the SI: The candela is the luminous intensity, in a given direction, of a source that emits monochromatic radiation of frequency 540×1012 hertz and that has a radiant intensity in that direction of 1/683 watt per steradian.

'''freezing point of platinum''' 
If the melting point of platinum is 3214.9 ° F, then at any temperature below this, it will be solid, i.e., frozen.

'''Thomist''' 
ascribing to the philosophy of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquinas St. Thomas Aquinas]

'''''personalistes''''' 
perhaps a member of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-conformists_of_the_1930s non-conformist movement] in France in the 1930s

'''Sagan''' 
Carl Edward Sagan (1934-1996) was an American astronomer and host of a television show called ''Cosmos''.

'''Haplology''' 
the elimination of a syllable in a word when two consecutive, identical syllables occur, e.g., "probly" for "probably"

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''''the vapors'''' 
a euphemism for hysteria

'''Spielberg's old computer-enhanced celluloid things''' 
the ''Jurassic Park'' films

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'''Kahlua''' 
a coffee-flavored [http://www.kahlua.com/ liqueur]

'''blancmange''' 
a thick milk pudding

'''chickory''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicory plant] used for a coffee substitute in some places

'''thymus''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thymus bodily organ] that plays a role in immune function

747 · Marathe at Ennet House Continued

==Page 747==

'''subaltern''' 
a subordinate

'''"He had the great fatigue..."''' 
A less literal translation would be: "He was very tired..."

==Page 748==

'''"...to smack, to scag, and to H..."''' 
all the same thing, being street names for heroin

==Page 749==

'''bolt of death''' 
i.e., a deadbolt lock

'''Chit Chat Farms''' 
This is a real detox in Wernersville, Pa., about 70 miles northwest of Philadelphia.

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'''chez''' 
a French preposition meaning "at the home of"

==Page 751==

'''''comment-on-dit?''''' 
French: How do you say?

'''45 kph''' 
almost 28 miles per hour

'''''Caisse de Dépôt et Placement''''' 
French: Fund for Registration and Placement

751 · Joelle Continues to Clean

==Page 751==

'''katexia''' 
Just like when Joelle referred to CA newcomers as "catexic" on pg 707, there's no word "katexia" in any American dictionary, although Freud used "katexis" to refer to the process by means of which libido energy is tied or placed into the mental representation of a personality, idea, or thing." This would not seem to the connotation intended here.

==Page 752==

'''''Feeling Good''''' 
One of the key books on cognitive therapy for depression by David D. Burns, M.D., an American psychiatrist.

752 · Marathe Intake Continued

==Page 752==

'''volubly''' 
to speak readily

'''M./Mlle.''' 
French: Monsieur/Mademoiselle, i.e., Mr./Ms., used because of Steeply's disguise

'''restenotic''' 
refers to restenosis, or the re-narrowing of blood vessels after initial stenosis

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'''spire''' 
steeple

'''''manche à balai''''' 
French: broom handle

'''''chanteur-fou''''' 
French: crazy singer

'''calculus''' 
here meaning simply "calculation"

'''Lopate''' 
The name is perhaps taken from Philip Lopate (born 1943), an American film critic.

'''''transpercé''''' 
pierced through

==Page 754==

==Endnote 315==

'''malentendu''' 
mishearing

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'''P ------- , Luria''' 
''See'' [[#Perec|Perec, Luria]]

'''Papineau''' 
88; desolate region in extreme southwest Québec; fn.304/1058;

'''parabola''' 
"weird Taoist paraboloid logo" 265;

'''paranoia''' 
Fenton the paranoid-schizophrenic, 47; "Pemulis's poster of the paranoid king" 60; "dealers that stay around any length of time tend to be on the paranoid side" 75; "Nothing brings you together like a common enemy" 113; "It'll help your attitude to look for evidence of design" 113; "Accident? Random happenstance?" 114; Pemulis "fears the dealer's Brutus" 156; "They" 175; "the people to be most frightened of are the people who are most frightened" 204; paranoid king, 213; "Yes, I'm paranoid--but am I paranoid enough?" fn.211/1035;

'''Parias-Carbo, Alphonso''' 
363; Ennet House resident; 611; "the totally ununderstandable Cuban" 887;

'''Parrot, Annie''' 
279; Asst. Mgr. at Ennet House; Ass't Director at Ennet House, 434; to "go get certified in jet-engine maintenance at East Coast Aerotech on a Mass Rehab grant" 822;

'''Patch the Pony Who Says Nay to Strangers''' 
879; toy manufactured by ChildSearch.

'''Patty citizen type''' 
128; straight person (?)

'''p-dope''' 
131;

'''Pearson, Heath''' 
672; former ETA student; in Himself's films, 687; founder of the sub-14's Tunnel Club, 899; "former tow-truck shareholder" fn.209/1035;

'''Pei, I.M. (Ieoh Ming)''' 
184; Chinese-born American architect, b. 1917. Architect of the MIT Stratton Student Center, building W20, 84 Mass. Ave., which dates from the late 60's. The original student center, still standing near Ames St. and Memorial Drive, 142 Memorial Dr., is the Walker Memorial, building 50. This is the one with the columns.

'''Peckinpah, Sam''' 
185; American filmmaker parodied in Himself's''Fun with Teeth'', fn.24/987

'''Pemberton, Hugh''' 
fn.110; ETA student; 1009;

'''Pemulis, "Da"''' 
683; abusive father of Matty and Michael, who came over "on a boat from Louth in Lenster in 1989;

'''Pemulis, Matty (aka "Mad Matty")''' 
682; 23-year-old prostitute brother of Michael; described, 683; former crewmate of Poor Tony Krause, 691;

'''Pemulis, Michael Mathew''' 
40; student at ETA and Big Buddy; rooms w/Troeltsch & Schacht in subdorm B in the back north part of the second floor of West House (171); "reptilian" (according to Avril); 50; "One kid asks you to please commit a crime" 75; "has this way of looking warily from side to side" 95, 211; Big Buddy to Lord & Possalthwaite, 116; clean-urine sales (w/Axford), 151; about, 154; "Please commit a crime" 156; DMZ arrangements with "day-shift Ennet House kid at the booth who raises the portcullis" at ETA, 171; Tenuate (methedrine) spansules, 216, 329, fn.321/1065, fn.324/1068; considering dosing Wayne, 213; puking at Port Washington, 262; "physically 'drine dependent" 267; dosed tennis opponent at P.W., 281; PowerBook, 431; waiting to see Tavis, 509, 526; interrupting Avril & J. Wayne, 552; holding forth on annulation, 570-74; "He goes to the library and pores" 785; trying to cut down on places with 'N' in their name, 908; crawling into the ceiling at ETA, "Entrepôt-bound" 916; to Hal: "cut yourself off of it altogether, you die inside. You lose your mind" fn.321/1065; takes two Tenuate spansules before a tennis game, fn.324/1067; got out of urine-test by threatening to bust Avril and J. Wayne for "major-sport interlude" fn.324/1068; "how 17 can actually go into 56 way more than 3.294 times" fn.324/1069;

'''Pendleton''' 
921; doctor at St. Elizabeth's tending to Gately

'''Penn, Jeffrey Joseph ("J. J.")''' 
327; ETA student, "a high-ranked thirteen-year-old but not exactly the brightest log on the Yuletide fire"; roommate w/Ingersoll, 338; perhaps seriously injured, 452 (see p.341);

'''Penn, Michael H.''' 
333; 21-year-old brother of J.J. and "sworn foe" of Pemulis for calling him "Penisless";

'''Penn, Miles''' 
687; ETA student in Himself's films

'''Penn, W. (William)''' 
216; English Quaker colonizer in America, founded Pennsylvania in 1681.

'''''perdre son coeur''''' 
fn.304/1060; French: "lose his heart"

<div id="Perec">'''Perec, Mlle. Luria'''</div>
30; "of Lamartine, county of L'Islet, Québec; stenographer to Tine, Sr., and to DuPlessis, 92; with whom R. Tine is "smitten" 92, fn.156 (1030); 440; aka "Swiss" woman, 566, 598, 655, 726, 845, 971-2;

'''Perot, Ross''' 
382; elfin Texas businessman; presidential candidate in 1992 & 1996

'''personal-injury attorney''' 
''See'' [[E#Ewell|Ewell, Eldred K., Jr.]]

'''''Personnes Qui On Doit''''' 
92

'''Peterson, Sidney''' 
234;''The Lead Shoes''; 185; "Peterson-shaped directorial chair" 788;''The Cage'' in background of''Good-Looking Men...'', 911; 957; "1947 classic''The Cage'' " fn.24/986; "low-budget classic''The Cage'' , which is mostly about a peripatetic eyeball rolling around" fn.366/1077;

'''Peterson, "Sleepy T.P."''' 
115; ETA student; 330;

'''Pettijohn''' 
254; ETA teacher

'''P.G.O.A.T.''' 
Prettiest Girl Of All Time

'''Phelps and Phelps''' 
fn.304/1058; authors of''The Cults of the Unwavering I''

'''Phiely, R. Bill ("Touchy")''' 
510; "of California's Rolling Hills Academy"; infamous pediphile

'''Philips Andover Academy''' 
915; Gately made false MA driver's licenses for the rich kids there

'''Phob-Comp-Anon''' 
961; 12-Step splinter Ass't D.A. attends - codependency-issues

'''Phoenix House''' 
503; halfway house in Somerville MA; visited by Fortier, 727;

'''Picasso''', Pablo (1881-1973) 
798; "Seated Harlequin" print hanging in Quabbin Recovery Systems; Spanish artist.

'''Pillow-biter''' 
274; homosexual

'''Pine Street Inn''' 
434; "the biggest and foulest homeless shelter in all of Boston" where Gately works as a janitor

'''Pinker, Steven''' 
fn.24/987; debate w/Avril I. which was subject of Himself's''Union of Theoretical Grammarians in Cambridge''

'''pisser''' 
204; metro Boston for "really quite wonderful" pronounced PISS-ah

'''Plasmatron-7''' 
358; aka Bernard; "industrial-grunge post-punk" at Ennet House

'''Plate, Sylvia''' 
593; Gately's foggy memory of Sylvia Plath, an American writer (1932-1963) who committed suicide by sticking in her in an oven

'''Pointgravè''' 
975; colleague of Bobby C.'s; "had no real loyalties or membership in any community" fn.369/1078

'''Polep''' 
17; tennis player in Hal's age group

'''Poor Tony''' 
''See'' [[K#Krause|Krause, Tony]]

'''Port Washington Tennis Academy''' 
103; I.D. Day; where ETA-PW tennis tournament is held on Long Island; "the Xerox Inc. Of North American tennis academies" 217; "a fancy tri-domed system of permanent all-weather Lung" 258;

'''Posener''' 
fn.145/1027; Brandeis film critic

'''Possalthwaite''', Todd ("Postal-Weight") 
98; "the great lobber" at ETA; "endomorphic thirteen-year-old from Edina MN" 330; broken nose, 758; Minneapolis-developer father, fn.324/1068;

'''Post-Coital Vestibulitis''' 
928; rare neurological disorder that Yale's star power forward has

'''Poutrincourt, Mlle. Thierry T.''' 
309; ETA prorector who taught a class called "Separatism and Return: Québecois History from Frontenac Through the Age of Interdependence" in Québecois French; 523; described, 673, 675; suspects Helen Steeply is neither a "civilian soft-profiler nor even a female" 1052; "History of Canadian Unpleasantness" course, fn.304/1055;

'''Powell's'''''Peeping Tom'''''''' 
502; still-posters from in J.O. Incandenza's childhood bedroom in Sepulveda CA (1963)

'''Power-PC''' 
417; perhaps the BST Apple Mac computer with RISC processor

'''Presque Isle Maine''' 
571; near Loring A.F.B.

'''Pressburger''' or'''Prissburger, Dr.''' 
920; w/Gately and gorgeous R.N.

'''Pricket[t], Mrs. Miriam''' 
188; endowed-for-perpetuity at ETA; 229

'''Prince Q -------''' 
33

'''Prins, Diane''' 
fn. 92; Bernadette Longley's doubles partner; 311; 757;

'''prorector''' 
ETA post-graduates "who stay on for two years and serve as deLint's" assistants, 283; "teach one marginal class per term and serve as on-court assistants" fn.94;

'''Provident Nursing Home''' 
198; near Boston, MA; Hester Thrale works there, 601;

'''Psychosis''', <A NAME="#mpsych">Madame</A> 
170; (10/22/YDAU) hosting "Madame Psychosis Hour," M-F 0000h.-0100h., on M.I.T.'s semi-underground WYYY, FM-109, "Largest Whole Prime On The FM Band"; 181; main theme is film and film-cartridges, 185; "issue of enclosure" 189; "strangely empty" voice, 189; music, 190, 191; "Madame's Downer-Lit Hour," 191; 450; 589; inaugural year: YW, 591; 625; "used to read an Eve Arden beauty brochure all the time where [she] says: 'The importance of a mask is to increase your circulation'" 774; mother killed in a garbage disposal, 788; in Gately's dream "with wings and no underwear and asks if they knew him, the dead guy with the head" 934; in Himself's''Low-Temperature Physics'', fn.24/991; <A HREF="#jvd">''See also'''''van Dyne''', Joelle </A>

'''Public Garden''' 
427; Marathe's favorite off-duty place, in Boston MA; draining the pond in November, 621;

'''Puente, Tito''' 
22; Latin singer and bandleader (b. Ernesto Antonio Puente, Jr., Apr 20, 1923, NYC.)

'''Purity Supreme Market''' 
461; in Allston MA, where Gately shops for Ennet House

'''Purpleboy''' 
129; junkie in Boston

'''''pursuiva le bonheur''''' 
427; French: "pursuit of happiness"; "il ne faut plus qu'on pursuive le bonheur" 483;

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'''SAC''' 
63; Strategic Air Command

'''SACPOP''' 
324; Eschaton term. Literally: Strikes Against Civilian Populations. Figuratively: to go "postal."

'''Sagan, Carl''' 
745; (1934-1996) pop-astronomer of whom Orin does an impression

'''St. Columbkill Sunday Night Group''' 
209; 12-Step group; 856;

'''St. Elizabeth's Hospital''' 
209; in Boston, MA

'''St. Mel's Hospital''' 
86; where Ewell detoxed

'''St.-Simone, Kimberly''' 
38

'''samizdat''' 
91; Russian: "any sort of politically underground or beyond-the-pale press or the stuff published thereby" 1011; "the Entertainment" as, 490, 549; 658;

'''Sandoz Pharmaceuticals''' 
170; where LSD was first created;

'''San Simeon''' 
952; floor plans for, at Qal'at Si'man

'''Sarge''' 
860; "Ferocious Francis's own sponsor, the nearly dead guy they wheel to White Flag"

'''Saturday Night Lively''' 
555;

'''S.A.S.''' 
138; Substance Abuse Services

'''Saudi Minister of Home Entertainment''' 
33

'''Sawyer, Dean''' 
7; Dean of Admissions at Univ. of AZ, interviewing Hal

'''Schacht, Ted''' 
31; 50; ETA senior; rooms w/Pemulis & Troeltsch; Crohn's Disease, 103, 266, 633; tight with Mario and with Lyle, 263; "doesn't care all that much whether he wins anymore" 306; "thick and solid" 457;

'''Schtitt, Gerhardt''' 
52; 70-year-old Head Coach and Athletic Director at ETA; about, 79; "We Are What We Walk Between" 81; in love with a tree, 83; smokes pipe, 391; early supporter of J. Gentle, fn.169/1031; "Traversion is character" fn.234/1039; "self-transcendence through pain" 660; with Mario heading for Evangeline's Low-Temperature Confections, 701; listening to Wagner, 755;

'''Schwulst''' 
835; "a poseur like"

'''Scooter-Puppies''' 
207; what Boston Bikers refer to themselves as

'''Scorsese, Martin''' 
944; American film director (''Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, The Last Waltz, Raging Bull, The Last Temptation of Christ, Goodfellas, Casino, Kundun,'' etc.)

'''Seinfeld, Jerry''' 
834; American comedian and TV actor

'''Selwyn''' 
735; paranoid addict who raves about the "metal" people to Maranthe; 748

'''''senza errori''''' 
165; never-miss consistency; 675; (italian: "without errors")

'''Sergeant at Arms''' 
359; the well-dressed man outside the Boston AA meetings, in Gately's dream, yanked people out with a shepherd's staff; 463; 468;

'''sexism''' 
"high-pitched grunts that if girls could only hear what their own grunts sounded like they'd cut it out" [He''really'' writes that!]

'''Shantell''' 
37; lives with Wardine (sister?); daughter of black addict

'''Sharing and Caring''' 
546; NA group, St. E's

'''Shattuck Shelter for Homeless Males''' 
272; where Gately works as a janitor; 434; 709;

'''Shaw, Colonel''' 
223; "equestrian statue of" in Boston, draped in Québecois flag

'''Shaw, Tall Paul''' 
50; ETA student; sponsorship, 266;

'''Shed, The''' 
196; Unit #5 at Ennet House, where catatonics are "stored"

'''Sherman statutes''' 
411;

'''Sherman, W.T. (William Tecumseh)''' 
925; "with the ladies" (1820-1891) "American Union general. Appointed commander of all Union troops in the West (1864), he captured Atlanta (1864) and led a destructive March to the Sea, which effectively cut the Confederacy in two." (American Heritage Dictionary)

'''Shiny Prize Biting Shoats''' 
741; KY football team on which the first boy ever to approach Joelle in a male-female way played as a lineman ("half blind on Everclear punch"), 741;

'''Show, the''' 
53; pro-level sports, specif. the A.T.P. tour (111); 109; 111; "When you hit the Show is when you'll understand''primitive''" 243; 259; 263; 269;

'''Shuco-Mist Medical Pressure Systems''' 
198; near Boston, MA

'''Sidney or Stanley''' 
619; "hammered" security guy at Gately/Nuck altercation

'''Sierpinski gasket''' 
213; the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierpinski_triangle Sierpinski gasket] (aka Sierpinski triangle) is a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractals fractal] using equilateral triangles; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierpinski Waclaw Sierpinski] (1882-1969), Polish mathmetician

'''Silvie''' 
51

'''Sir Osis of Thuliver''' 
834; play on words: cirrhosis of the liver.

'''Siress, Erica''' 
514; young ETA student

'''Sixties Bob''' 
''See'' [[M#Monroe|Monroe, Bob]]

'''Skull''' 
208; Ennet House resident

'''Slobodan''' 
525; "barrel-chested Latvian" satellite pro (fn.221)

'''slope''' 
131; ethnic slur for an Asian person

'''Smith, Burt F.''' 
130; (not named) mugged by Poor Tony and left to die; Ennet House resident with no hands or feet, 274;

'''Smith, Stan''' 
110; Tennis pro whose cartridge Hal and his Buddies are viewing

'''Smothergill, Phillip T.''' 
229; "insufferable child actor"; 714; in Himself's''Low-Temperature Physics'', fn.24/991;

'''Snout''' 
582; rock band

'''Sol Hoopi Players''' 
583; Don Ho's back-up band

'''Sorkin, Whity''' 
131; addict buddy of C's in the days of his youth; scammed by Fackelmann, 886; "the migrainous bookie" 892; "terrible cranio-facial neuralgia" 913; arrives for Fackelmann's demise

'''''Sorrow and the Pity, The''''' 
835; Gately "wiggling his pinkie to indicate the world's smallest viola playing the theme from" (1971 documentary. 4+ hour long French film documenting French attitudes toward the German occupation in WWII and in particular their (the French's) complicity therewith.)

'''special attaché to the Saudi Minister''' 
33

'''Spider, The''' 
274; aka the Disease aka addiction/dependence

'''Spodek, Carol''' 
102; ETA student; 198; 636; Big Buddy to Kittenplan, 758;

'''sporting lint''' 
202; Boston street term for having no money

'''Spur, The''' 
154; "outlying district zoned for sprawl" where Pemulis is from (in Allston, MA); 180

'''Star''' 
896; aka MDMA, Ecstacy

'''Statue of Liberty''' 
"Libertine Statute, wearing some type of enormous adult-design diaper" 33; "other arm holds aloft a product [...] changed each 1 Jan." 367

'''Steenbok, Danielle''' 
208; Ennet House alumna & volunteer counselor; Gompert's counselor, 361; rumored to attend Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous, 462;

'''Steeply, M. Hugh (aka Helen)''' 
88; Unspecified Services field operative; described, 93; his "green sedan subsidized by a painful ad" 107 (see also p.327); "made his early career [...] conducting technical interviews" 108; aka "Helen" the journalist--story about heart-in-a-purse lady, 142; "Putative Curriculum Vitae" of Helen, 227; 317; "assigned to cultivate some of the Entertainment's alleged filmmaker's relatives and inner circles" 375; 1012; going to ETA as "Helen" fn.147/1028; "the ugliest supposedly female feet" 419; what America really wants, 423; 565; 622; at ETA, 627; his father, 638; H.H., 639; kid sister, 643; at Stice/Hal match, 652;

'''stelliform''' 
"sharp star of frond-shade" 165; "star's points" 187; Stelliform Cultism, 560; "perfectly round [...] radiating knives of light" 88; "gigantic asterisk shadows" 88; something Lenz talks about; "antihistorical American stelliformism" fn.304/1058; "stelliform offshoots" of''Le Assassins'' " fn.304/1060;

'''stemming''' 
203; metro Boston for panhandling

'''Steve's donuts''' 
129; junkie hangout in Enfield Squar[e], Boston

'''Stewart, Rod''' 
44; British rock singer ("Rod the Mod")

'''Stice, Ortho ("the Darkness")''' 
17; patriotic ETA student; big fan of Schtitt, 105; Big Buddy to Wagenknecht; 264; rooms w/Coyle, 394; conferring w/Lyle, 394; fn.185; crewcutted, 520; counterphobia, 550; parents (Mr. Stice and The Bride), 628;11/11/YDAU match w/Hal described, 652; forehead stuck to window, 865; 3 statisticians joke, 867; bed is on the ceiling, 942; bet Coyle "he could stand on his desk chair and lift it up at the same time" 943;

'''Stockhausen''' 
281; ETA student on "C" team, singing opera on the bus

'''Stokely-van Camp Corp.''' 
329; candded- and frozen vegetable conglomerate (?)

'''Store 24''' 
206; where McDade works

'''Stott, Donnie''' 
121; ETA student; Donni, 523, 965; "Valley-Map laugher" fn.324/1067;

'''Stove, Betty''' 
123; "Power-game tradition"; Dutch tennis player of the mid-70s, winner of numerous Grand Slam doubles titles playing with Wendy Turnbull.

'''Struck, James Albrecht Lockley, Jr.''' 
49; of Orinda, CA; ETA student and Big Buddy to Tallat-Kelpsa, Traub & Whale; Gopnik); pet tarantula, 519; wears braces, 638; studying Québec-separatist history, fn.304/1055; about his dissipated dad, fn.304/1058;

'''student engineer at WYYY''' 
82; 239; kidnapped, 622-26; 726-27;

'''Subject, The''' 
43; Orin's affectionate moniker for his partners in one-night stands; 566;

'''Subsidized Era''' 
151; when corporations sponsor a year, which year the sponsor may name, at the end of which year they sell the sponsorship to the highest bidder; chronology, 223 (first was B.S.2002 ['''note''': I left this 2002 thing in because I couldn't disprove it, but nor can I recall in the text where one can fix subsidized time to "regular" time. In fact when I did it I came up with a different year. I can't recall how I came up with my answer either. -SMR-]; "Subsidized Time," 234; 260; "a revenue-response to the heady costs of the U.S.'s Reconfigurative giveaway" 438; 439-42; fn.304/1057;

'''Sudbury Half-Measures Avail Us Nothing Group''' 
563; AA group whose Chair used to be a nuclear auditor for the Defense industry ("used tod wear a four-piece suit and the fourth piece was him")

'''Sunstrand Power & Light''' 
342; Himself's ad for, fn.24/986; "like being down at Sunstrand Plaza when they fired the transformers" fn.234/1042; "O.N.A.N.-Sunstrand waste-intensive fusion facility up in what used to be Montpelier"

'''Sutherland, Joan''' 
fn.324/1069; theme; (b. 1926, Australian operatic soprano)

'''Svelte Nail Co.''' 
540; "just east of Watertown on No. Harvard St." in Boston

'''Sweeny, Chip''' 
552; younger ETA student

'''Swinburne''', Algernon Charles. (1837-1909) 
fn.269/1047; British poet and critic who wrote musical, often erotic verse in which he attacked the conventions of Victorian morality. (American Heritage Dictionary)

'''Syrian Satellite Pro''' 
216; at ETA for "two paid weeks of corrective instruction"

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'''E., Tommy''' 
960; at AA/NA meeting with Mikey

'''E.M.P.H.H.''' 
''See'' [[#Enfield|Enfield Marine Public Health Hospital Complex]]

'''East Coast AeroTech''' 
602; where Gatlely's predecessor as male live-in Staff worked

'''eating cheese''' 
202; Boston street term for informing, squealing, narcing, ratting out

'''Echt, Tina''' 
381; ETA's youngest student (7 years old); background, 523-24

'''Eckwus''' 
''See'' [[R#Reese|Reese, Equus]]

'''Ecstasy of St. Teresa''' 
235; sculpture by Gianlorenzo Bernini; 238; 373; in''Pre-Nuptial Agreement of Heaven and Hell'', 742;

'''Egede or Egette''' 
891; ex-lover of Gately's: "sharp-nosed round-cheeked dead-eyed nurse with a weird Germanish accent [who] couldn't come close to coming unless he burned her with a cigarette" 891

'''egregulous''' 
272; unidentifiable word (typo?)

'''Eighties Bill''' 
"sartorially eccentric cranio-facial-pain-specialist" (not named), 721; upscale gambler who figured in Fackelmann's downfall, 926; son of Sixties Bob, 931; "Sorkin's personal migrainologist" 931;

'''Eisenstein''' 
232;

'''Elit[e] Diner''' 
354; White Flaggers' hang-out, nextdoor to Steve's Donuts in Enfield Center

'''Ellis, Bret Easton''' 
191; "ghastly" American novelist

'''Empire Waste Displacement''' 
121; catapults waste into the Great Convexity; 217; 241; 475

'''Endless Stem''' 
221; a section of the Charles River (?)

'''Enfield, MA''' 
about, 240-

<div id="Enfield">'''Enfield Marine VA Hospital Complex'''</div>
aka Enfield Marine Public Health Hospital complex (E.M.P.H.H.);
87; managed by U.S. Veteran's Administration, 137; "resembles seven moons orbiting a dead planet" 193;

'''Enfield Tennis Academy ("ETA")''' 
3; boarding school in Enfield, MA; layout, 51-52; 63; "hilltop shaved flat" 79; pre-Tavis motto: "Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est" 81; Tavis' new ETA motto: "The Man Who Knows His Limitations Has None" 81; "ritualistic [...] bitching and moaning" 111; "We're each deeply alone here" 112; 153; 6-term Entertainment Requirement, 188; philosophy of, 188; prorectors, 283; dawn drills, 452; blue, 508; inanimate objects on the move, 632, 671, 765; "a progression toward self-forgetting" 635; abundant tunnels, 666; Tunnel Club, 667, 899; brooms on the wall, 765; yearly November exhibition/fundraiser, 265, 852, 964, fn.321/1064; "Lots of the top players start the A.M. with a quick fit of crying" 864; Head Trainer before Loach suffered a terrible accident in the sauna, 971;

'''Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House''' 
137; founded in Boston by "Guy Who Didn't Even Use His First Name"; 193-98; described, 197; Dream Duty, 272, 785; "20+ bored crammed-together street-canny people" 596;

'''entrepôt''' 
216; "the incredibly potent stash now wrapped tight in Saran and stashed deep in the toe of an old sneaker that sits atop the aluminum strut between two panels in subdorm B's drop ceiling"; "Entrepôt-bound" 916; "Pemulis's entrepôt-yachting-cap" fn.5a/983; "This was way before the discovery of the ultimate entrepôt above the false ceiling in Subdorm B's male hallway" fn.324/1067;

'''Epps, Columbus''' 
38; brother of Delores Epps

'''Epps, Delores''' 
37; sister of Columbus Epps

'''Erdedy, Ken''' 
17; pothead; Ennet House resident, 209; "college-boy ad-exec" "a yuppy, an account executive at Viney and Veals Advertising" in late 20s, 360; at NA meeting, 503;

'''Eschaton''' 
154; tennis-court game based on CD-ROM nuclear-conflagration game (fn.53/997); "a Croatian-refugee transfer had brought [it] up from the Palmer Academy in Tampa" 284; 321-42; ESCHAX directory, 509;

'''''Ethan From''''' 
884; book Gately couldn't finish in 10th-grade English; 905; 906; 916

'''''étoiles''''' 
674; shooting star; fn.273

'''Euclid''' 
81;

<div id="Ewell">'''Ewell, Eldred K., Jr. ("Tiny")'''</div>
85; "elf-sized" personal-injury attorney from Watertown, MA (208); 177 (not named); "white-collar" resident at Ennet House; "I'm not''denying'' anything" 177; 205; "hypertensive flush and little white beard" 352; 362; Money-Stealers' Club, 810;

'''Experialism''' 
"the beginning of the Experialist migration in the subsidized Year of the Whopper" 93; "great pre-Experialist upheaval" 283; 385; "a tight and considerably tighter Experialist U.S. of A.,under Gentle" 391; 402-06; 1013;

'''Exposed Northerners''' 
834; Northern Exposure, late 80s/early 90s weird TV drama

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